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The Dagda From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Daghda) Jump to: navigation, search The Dagda Member of the Tuatha Dé Danann Gundestrup C.jpg Abode Brú na Bóinne Weapons Club Battles Magh Tuiredh The Dagda (Proto-Celtic: *Dagodeiwos, Old Irish: Dag Dia, Modern Irish: Daghdha) is an important god of Irish mythology. The Dagda is a father-figure (he is also known as Eochaid(h) Ollathair, or "All-father") and a protector of the tribe. In some texts his father is Elatha, in others his mother is Ethniu. Other texts say that his mother is Danu; while others yet place him as the father of Danu, perhaps due to her association with Brigit, daughter of the Dagda. The Dagda's siblings include the gods Ogma and Lir. Tales depict the Dagda as a figure of immense power, armed with a magic club and associated with a cauldron. The club was supposed to be able to kill nine men with one blow; but with the handle he could return the slain to life. The cauldron was known as the Undry and was said to be bottomless, from which no man left unsatisfied. Uaithne, also known as "the Four Angled Music", was a richly ornamented magic harp made of oak which, when the Dagda played it, put the seasons in their correct order; other accounts tell of it being used to command the order of battle. He possessed two pigs, one of which was always growing whilst the other was always roasting, and ever-laden fruit trees. The Dagda was a High King of the Tuatha Dé Danann after his predecessor Nuada was injured in battle. The Tuatha Dé Danann are the race of supernatural beings who conquered the Fomorians, who inhabited Ireland previously, prior to the coming of the Milesians. His lover was Boann and his daughter was Breg. Prior to the battle with the Fomorians, he coupled with the goddess of war, the Mórrígan, on Samhain in exchange for a plan of battle.[1] Despite his great power and prestige, the Dagda is sometimes depicted as oafish and crude, even comical, wearing a short, rough tunic that barely covers his rump, dragging his great penis on the ground.[1] Such features are thought to be the additions of Christian redactors for comedic purposes. Tellingly, the Middle Irish language Coir Anmann (The Fitness of Names) paints a less clownish picture: "He was a beautiful god of the heathens, for the Tuatha Dé Danann worshipped him: for he was an earth-god to them because of the greatness of his (magical) power."[2] The Dagda had an affair with Bóand, wife of Elcmar. In order to hide their affair, Dagda made the sun stand still for nine months; therefore their son, Aengus, was conceived, gestated and born in one day. He, along with Bóand, helped Aengus search for his love.[3] Whilst Aengus was away the Dagda shared out his land among his children, but Aengus returned to discover that nothing had been saved for him. Under the guidance of Lugh Aengus later tricked his father out of his home at the Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange). Aengus was instructed to ask his father if he could live in the Brú for láa ogus oidhche "(a) day and (a) night", which in Irish is ambiguous, and could refer to either "a day and a night", or "day and night", which means for all time, and so Aengus took possession of the Brú permanently. In The Wooing of Étaín, on the other hand, Aengus uses the same ploy to trick Elcmar out of Brú na Bóinne, with the Dagda's connivance.[3] The Dagda was also the father of Bodb Dearg, Cermait, Midir, Aine, and Brigit. He was the brother or father of Oghma, who is probably related to the Gaulish god Ogmios; Ogmios, depicted as an old man with a club, is one of the closest Gaulish parallels to the Dagda. Another Gaulish god who may be related to the Dagda is Sucellus, the striker, depicted with a hammer and cup. He is credited with a seventy or eighty-year reign (depending on source) over the Tuatha Dé Danann, before dying at the Brú na Bóinne, finally succumbing to a wound inflicted by Cethlenn during the second battle of Magh Tuiredh.[4] The name Dagda may ultimately be derived from the Proto-Indo-European *Dhagho-deiwos "shining divinity", the first element being cognate with the English word "day", and possibly a byword for a deification of a notion such as "splendour". This etymology would tie in well with Dagda's mythic association with the sun and the earth, with kingship and excellence in general. *Dhago-deiwos would have been inherited into Proto-Celtic as *Dago-deiwos, thereby punning with the Proto-Celtic word *dago-s "good". Preceded by High King of Ireland AFM 1830–1750 BC FFE 1407–1337 BC Succeeded by See also[edit] Further reading[edit]

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Data definition language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Data Definition Language) Jump to: navigation, search A data definition language or data description language (DDL) is a syntax similar to a computer programming language for defining data structures, especially database schemas. The data definition language concept and name was first introduced in relation to the Codasyl database model, where the schema of the database was written in a language syntax describing the records, fields, and sets of the user data model.[1] Later it was used to refer to a subset of Structured Query Language (SQL) for creating tables and constraints. SQL-92 introduced a schema manipulation language and schema information tables to query schemas. These information tables were specified as SQL/Schemata in SQL:2003. The term DDL is also used in a generic sense to refer to any formal language for describing data or information structures. Many data description languages use a declarative syntax to define fields and data types. SQL, however, uses a collection of imperative verbs whose effect is to modify the schema of the database by adding, changing, or deleting definitions of tables or other objects. These statements can be freely mixed with other SQL statements, so the DDL is not truly a separate language. CREATE statements[edit] Create - To make a new database, table, index, or stored procedure. A CREATE statement in SQL creates an object in a relational database management system (RDBMS). In the SQL 1992 specification, the types of objects that can be created are schemas, tables, views, domains, character sets, collations, translations, and assertions. Many implementations extend the syntax to allow creation of additional objects, such as indexes and user profiles. Some systems (such as PostgreSQL) allow CREATE, and other DDL commands, inside a transaction and thus they may be rolled back. CREATE TABLE statement[edit] A commonly used CREATE command is the CREATE TABLE command. The typical usage is: CREATE TABLE [table name] ( [column definitions] ) [table parameters]. column definitions: A comma-separated list consisting of any of the following • Column definition: [column name] [data type] {NULL | NOT NULL} {column options} • Primary key definition: PRIMARY KEY ( [comma separated column list] ) • Constraints: {CONSTRAINT} [constraint definition] • RDBMS specific functionality For example, the command to create a table named employees with a few sample columns would be: CREATE TABLE employees ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, first_name VARCHAR(50) NULL, last_name VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL, fname VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, dateofbirth DATE NULL Note that some forms of CREATE TABLE DDL may incorporate DML (data manipulation language)-like constructs as well, such as the CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) syntax of SQL.[2] DROP statements[edit] Drop - To destroy an existing database, table, index, or view. A DROP statement in SQL removes an object from a relational database management system (RDBMS). The types of objects that can be dropped depends on which RDBMS is being used, but most support the dropping of tables, users, and databases. Some systems (such as PostgreSQL) allow DROP and other DDL commands to occur inside of a transaction and thus be rolled back. The typical usage is simply: DROP objecttype objectname. For example, the command to drop a table named employees would be: DROP employees; The DROP statement is distinct from the DELETE and TRUNCATE statements, in that DELETE and TRUNCATE do not remove the table itself. For example, a DELETE statement might delete some (or all) data from a table while leaving the table itself in the database, whereas a DROP statement would remove the entire table from the database. ALTER statements[edit] Alter - To modify an existing database object. An ALTER statement in SQL changes the properties of an object inside of a relational database management system (RDBMS). The types of objects that can be altered depends on which RDBMS is being used. The typical usage is: ALTER objecttype objectname parameters. For example, the command to add (then remove) a column named bubbles for an existing table named sink would be: Referential integrity statements[edit] Finally, another kind of DDL sentence in SQL is one used to define referential integrity relationships, usually implemented as primary key and foreign key tags in some columns of the tables. These two statements can be included inside a CREATE TABLE or an ALTER TABLE sentence. Other languages[edit] See also[edit] 1. ^ Olle, T. William (1978). The Codasyl Approach to Data Base Management. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-99579-7.  2. ^ Allen, Grant (2010). The Definitive Guide to SQLite. Apresspod. Mike Owens (2 ed.). Apress. p. 368. ISBN 9781430232254. Retrieved 2012-10-02. "The create table statement has a special syntax for creating tables from select statements. [...]: [...] create table foods2 as select * from foods; [...] Many other databases refer to this approach as CTAS, which statnds for Create Table As Select, and that phrase is not uncommon among SQLite users."  External links[edit]

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Deep ocean water From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Deep Ocean Water (DOW) is the name for cold, salty water found deep below the surface of Earth's oceans. Ocean water differs in temperature and salinity, with warm, relatively non-salty water found at the surface, and very cold salty water found deeper below the surface layer. Deep ocean water makes up about 90% of the volume of the oceans. Deep ocean water has a very low temperature, typically from 0 °C (32 °F) to 3 °C (37 °F), and a salinity of about 3.5% (35 psu).[1] In specialized locations such as the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii NELHA ocean water is pumped to the surface from approximately 3000 feet deep for applications in research, commercial and pre-commercial activities. DOW is typically used to describe ocean water at sub-thermal depths sufficient to provide a measurable difference in water temperature. When deep ocean water is brought to the surface, it can be used for a variety of things. Its most useful property is its temperature. At the surface of the Earth, most water and air is well above 3 °C. The difference in temperature is indicative of a difference in energy. Where there is an energy gradient, skillful application of science and engineering can harness that energy for productive use by humans. Assuming the source of deep ocean water is environmentally friendly and replenished by natural mechanisms, it forms a more innovative basis for cleaner energy than current fossil-fuel-derived energy. The simplest use of cold water is simply for air conditioning: using the cold water itself to cool air saves the energy that would be used by the compressors for traditional refrigeration. Another use could be to replace expensive desalination plants. When cold water passes through a pipe surrounded by humid air, condensation results. The condensate is pure water, suitable for humans to drink or for crop irrigation. Finally, via a technology called Ocean thermal energy conversion, the temperature difference can be turned into electricity. 1. ^ "Temperature of Ocean Water". UCAR. Retrieved 2012-09-05.  See also[edit]

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Jacob Arvey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Jacob M. Arvey (November 3, 1895 – August 25, 1977) was an influential Chicago political leader from the Depression era until the mid-1950s. He may be best known for his efforts to end corruption in the Chicago Democratic organization, and for promoting the candidacies of liberal Democratic politicians such as Adlai Stevenson and Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois. He was known as "Jake" and "Jack" at different times in his career. Early life and political career[edit] Arvey was the son of Israel and Bertha (née Eisenberg) Arvey, poor Jewish immigrants from Russia. He grew up in Chicago's 24th political ward in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the city's West Side. Arvey never attended college, but did study law, served as a clerk in a Chicago law firm, and eventually passed the Illinois bar exam and became an attorney. On June 11, 1916 he married Edith Freeman; they would remain married until his death in 1977. They had three children: Erwin, Helen and Howard Arvey. In 1923 Arvey was elected to the Chicago city council from his native 24th ward. Known as "Jake" Arvey, he was the third-ranking member of the powerful political machine led by Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly. A superb political organizer, his organization consistently turned out the largest Democratic majorities (often nine-to-one) of any ward in Chicago, thus enhancing his influence and reputation among the city's Democrats. Reflecting on the qualifications he required for someone to serve in his organization, Arvey once commented that "Every man had to belong to a church, a lodge, some other group. He had to be active in the Elks, Masons, K of C, places where he could spread the word about the Democratic Party ... if an apartment was vacant and you moved in, the precinct captain was there to welcome you. He'd get the electricity turned on, perhaps get milk for your children; he'd help with your tax problems. Our organization is geared to the masses, our candidates depend on the precinct captain and our captains are trained to go into the home and make personal contact with the voter." During World War II Arvey temporarily left his political career to serve as a colonel in the U.S. Army; he was the judge advocate of the 33rd Infantry Division, Illinois' National Guard unit, in the Pacific theater of the war.[citation needed] Leader of the organization[edit] When Arvey returned from the war in 1945 he was appointed commissioner of the Chicago Park District, and served until 1967. From 1946 to 1950 was also the Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party.[citation needed] Now known as "Colonel" or "Jack" Arvey, he found that the Chicago Democratic organization was in trouble due to numerous scandals and charges of corruption. To improve the organization's reputation and its electoral chances, Arvey began promoting the candidacies of reformers and liberals; he also made a serious effort to clean up the city's politics. He forced Chicago Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, his former boss and mentor, to resign as mayor when a voter revolt appeared; Arvey instead promoted and helped elect as mayor a prominent businessman, Martin Kennelly.[citation needed] In 1948, Arvey had the Chicago Democratic organization nominate Adlai Stevenson II, grandson of U.S Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, for Governor of Illinois and Paul Douglas, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, for U.S. Senator. Both men were well-educated liberals whom Arvey felt would improve the image of the party and attract many independents and moderate Republicans.[citation needed] To improve their chances of winning Arvey joined with several other prominent Democrats, such as Florida Senator Claude Pepper and New Jersey party leader Frank Hague, to try and prevent incumbent President Harry S. Truman from winning the Democratic presidential nomination. Truman was trailing the GOP presidential candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, in the polls, and Arvey feared that Truman would lose by a wide margin in Illinois and drag Stevenson and Douglas to defeat with him. Arvey and his allies promoted the candidacy of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the plan failed when Eisenhower refused to run (in 1952 he revealed that he was a Republican and won the GOP nomination). Arvey reluctantly agreed to support Truman for the nomination. However, in a major upset Truman won Illinois – and the election – by a narrow margin. Both Stevenson and Douglas won their respective elections by landslide margins – Stevenson defeated his GOP opponent, incumbent Governor Dwight Green, by 572,000 votes.[citation needed] During his years as governor Stevenson formed an effective working partnership with Arvey. Stevenson agreed to appoint qualified Democratic Party loyalists and workers to lesser positions in the state government; in return Arvey agreed to support Stevenson's efforts to reform the state government, and in particular to end corruption in the Illinois state police by removing hiring practices from political considerations. Political decline[edit] Arvey's political influence greatly declined after 1950. The Democratic ticket he had assembled was marred by scandal and the Democrats lost the crucial office of Sheriff. Arvey then resigned under pressure from the county chairmanship, although he remained active in politics.[1] From 1950 to 1972 Arvey was a member of the Democratic National Committee for Illinois, a prominent if not powerful role..[2] Arvey played a role in securing the 1952 Democratic presidential nomination for Stevenson. However, as a presidential candidate Stevenson increasingly ignored Arvey and other professional Democratic politicians in favor of reformers and liberals in the party.[citation needed] In 1955, Richard J. Daley, an Arvey protégé, was elected Mayor of Chicago. He allowed Arvey to retain his positions on the Park District Board and the Democratic National Committee, but Arvey's influence was limited. Jacob Arvey died of heart failure in Chicago's Weiss Memorial Hospital on August 25, 1977, aged 81 and was buried in Chicago. He was survived by his wife and their three children. • [1] An obituary article written after Arvey's death in 1977. • [2] An account of Arvey's political career from The Political Graveyard website.

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Jet Ski From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Kawasaki JS300) Jump to: navigation, search European Personal Watercraft Championship in Crikvenica Jet Ski is the brand name of a personal watercraft manufactured by Kawasaki.[1] It was the "first commercially successful" personal watercraft in America, having been released in 1972.[1] The term is sometimes used to refer to any type of personal watercraft. Common noun[edit] Though the proper noun "Jet Ski" is a registered trademark of Kawasaki, the common noun "jet ski" refers to small recreational watercraft.[2] The Oxford English Dictionary records the term in use in 1961 to describe the aquatic motorbike, and in 1948 to designate a jet-propelled aircraft equipped with skis.[3] 1. ^ a b Josephson, Paul R. (2007). Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine. JHU Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780801886416. Retrieved 2012-08-24.  2. ^ "jet ski". Merriam Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2013-05-04.  3. ^ "jet ski". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 2013-05-04.  External links[edit]

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Marie Antoinette (2006 film) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Marie-Antoinette (2006 film)) Jump to: navigation, search Marie Antoinette Marie-Antoinette poster.jpg Directed by Sofia Coppola Produced by Sofia Coppola Ross Katz Written by Sofia Coppola Based on Marie Antoinette: The Journey  by Antonia Fraser Starring Kirsten Dunst Jason Schwartzman Judy Davis Rip Torn Rose Byrne Cinematography Lance Acord Editing by Sarah Flack Studio American Zoetrope Distributed by Columbia Pictures Release dates • May 24, 2006 (2006-05-24) (France) • October 20, 2006 (2006-10-20) (United States) Running time 127 minutes Country United States Language English French (occasionally) Budget $40 million Box office $60,917,189 Marie Antoinette is a 2006 historical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It is very loosely based on the life of the Queen in the years leading up to the French Revolution. It won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. It was released in the United States on October 20, 2006, by Columbia Pictures. The film has since gained a cult following. Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna Habsburg (Kirsten Dunst) is the beautiful, charming, and naive princess of Austria, and the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa's (Marianne Faithfull) sixteen children. In 1768, she is selected by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI of France (Jason Schwartzman), therefore sealing an alliance between the two rival countries. Marie Antoinette travels to France, relinquishing all connections with her home country, including her pet Pug "Mops", and meets the King Louis XV of France (Rip Torn) and her future husband, Louis Auguste. The two arrive at the palace of Versailles, which was built by the King's grandfather, and are married and are encouraged to produce an heir to the throne as soon as possible, but the next day it is reported that "nothing happened" on their wedding night. As time passes, Marie Antoinette begins to find life at the court of Versailles stifling. Her husband's courtiers disdain her as a foreigner, and constantly blame her for not having produced a heir. The French court is rife with gossip, and Marie Antoinette consistently ruffles feathers by defying its ritualistic formality. Marie Antoinette also refuses to meet with Jeanne Bécu, Madame du Barry (Asia Argento), who is the mistress of Louis XV. Over the years, Maria Theresa continues to write to her daughter, giving advice on how to impress and seduce the Dauphin. Unfortunately, Marie's attempts to have sex with her husband fail and the marriage remains fruitless. Marie then spends most of her time buying shoes, dresses, jewelry, luxurious pastries, and gambling. Then, the King catches smallpox; he orders du Barry to leave Versailles, and he later dies. Now his grandson and granddaughter-in-law are rulers of France, but they pray to God for help. Louis and Marie are crowned king and queen of France. Marie Antoinette's brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (Danny Huston) comes to visit, counseling her against her constant parties and associations; advice that she ignores. Joseph then meets Louis XVI at the Royal Zoo and explains to him the "mechanics" of sexual intercourse in terms of "key-making", as one of the King's favorite hobbies is locksmithing. That night, the King and Marie Antoinette have sex for the first time, and on December 18, 1778, Marie Antoinette gives birth to a daughter, Princess Marie Thérèse of France. As the baby princess grows up, Marie Antoinette spends much of her time at the Petit Trianon, a small chateau on the grounds of Versailles. It is also at this time that she begins an affair with Axel von Fersen (Jamie Dornan). As France's financial crisis worsens, food shortages and riots become commonplace. Marie Antoinette's image with her subjects has completely deteriorated by this point: her luxurious lifestyle and seeming indifference to the struggles of the masses earn her the title Madame Déficit. Beginning to mature, she focuses less on her social life and more on her family, and makes what she considers to be some significant financial adjustments. A few months after her mother's death on November 29, 1780, Marie Antoinette gives birth to a son, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France on October 22, 1781. She also gives birth to another son, Louis XVII of France on March 27, 1785, and another daughter, Princess Sophie of France on July 9, 1786, who unfortunately dies on June 19, 1787, a month shy of her 1st birthday. As the French Revolution begins to erupt rapidly, the royal family resolves to stay in France, unlike much of the nobility. Angry rioting Parisians force the family to leave Versailles for Paris. The film ends with the royal family's transfer to Tuileries Palace. The last image is a shot of Marie Antoinette's bedroom, destroyed by angry rioters. The production was given unprecedented access to the Palace of Versailles.[1] The movie takes the same sympathetic view of Marie Antoinette's life as was presented in Fraser's biography. Coppola has stated that the style for shooting was heavily influenced by the films of Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, and Miloš Forman, Coppola was also influenced by Lisztomania by Ken Russell.[citation needed] While the action happens in Versailles (including the Queen's Petit Trianon and the Hameau de la Reine) and the Paris Opera (which was built after the death of the real Marie Antoinette), some scenes were also shot in Vaux-le-Vicomte, Château de Chantilly, Hôtel de Soubise and at the Belvedere in Vienna. Milena Canonero and six assistant designers created the gowns, hats, suits and prop costume pieces. Ten rental houses were also employed, and the wardrobe unit had seven transport drivers. Shoes were made by Manolo Blahnik and Pompei, and hundreds of wigs and hair pieces were made by Rocchetti & Rocchetti. As revealed in the "Making of" documentary on the DVD, the look of Count von Fersen was influenced by 1980s rock star Adam Ant. Ladurée made the pastries for the film; its famous macarons are featured in a scene between Marie-Antoinette and Ambassador Mercy.[2] The film's soundtrack contains New Wave and post-punk bands New Order, Gang of Four, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants, The Strokes, Dustin O'Halloran and The Radio Dept. Some scenes utilize period music by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Antonio Vivaldi and François Couperin. The soundtrack also includes songs by electronic musicians Squarepusher and Aphex Twin. In several 2006 interviews, Coppola suggests that her highly stylized interpretation was intentionally very modern in order to humanize the historical figures involved. She admitted taking great artistic liberties with the source material, and said that the film does not focus simply on historical facts – "It is not a lesson of history. It is an interpretation documented, but carried by my desire for covering the subject differently." Perhaps because of this unusual approach, the film was booed at early screenings at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival (see below). Reception in USA[edit] People magazine's movie critic, Leah Rozen, wrote in her wrap-up of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival that, "The absence of political context, however, upset most critics of Marie Antoinette, director Sofia Coppola's featherweight follow-up to Lost in Translation. Her historical biopic plays like a pop video, with Kirsten Dunst as the doomed 18th century French queen acting like a teenage flibbertigibbet intent on being the leader of the cool kids' club."[3] American film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four. He states that, "every criticism I have read of this film would alter its fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of an instructional film. This is Sofia Coppola's third film centering on the loneliness of being female and surrounded by a world that knows how to use you but not how to value and understand you." [4] On the Rotten Tomatoes website, which compiles mostly North American reviews, the film has been given a rating average of 55% based on contributing critics giving it positive reviews; the site's consensus states "Lavish imagery and a daring soundtrack set this film apart from most period dramas; in fact, style completely takes precedence over plot and character development in Coppola's vision of the doomed queen."[5] The Metacritic site lists the film as having received "mainly positive" reviews with 65% of critics contributing such reviews. Reception in France[edit] The film's critical reception in France was generally positive. It has an aggregate score of 4/5 on the French cinema site AlloCiné, based on 21 reviews from professional critics.[6] Critics who gave the film positive reviews included Danielle Attali of Le Journal du Dimanche, who praised it as "a true wonder, with stunning colors, sensations, emotions, intelligence".[6] François Vey of Le Parisien found it to be "funny, upbeat, impertinent" and "in a word, iconoclastic".[6] Philippe Paumier of the French edition of Rolling Stone said that, "Transformed into a sanctuary for the senses, the microcosm of power becomes this moving drama of first emotions and Marie Antoinette, the most delicate of looks on adolescence".[6] Among negative critical reviews, Jean-Luc Douin of Le Monde described Marie Antoinette as "kitsch and roc(k)oco" which "deliberately displays its anachronisms", and additionally as a "sensory film" that was "dreamt by a Miss California" and "orchestrated around the Du Barry or Madame de Polignac playground gossip".[7] Alex Masson of Score thought the film had a script "which is often forgotten to the corruption of becoming a special issue of Vogue devoted to scenes of Versailles".[6] French historians took issue with the film's loose portrayal of real historical events and figures. In the newspaper Le Figaro, historian Jean Tulard called the film "Versailles in Hollywood sauce", saying that it "dazzles" with a "deployment of wigs, fans and pastries, a symphony of colors" which "all [mask] some gross errors and voluntary anachronisms".[8] In the magazine L'Internaute, Évelyne Lever, a historian and authority on Marie Antoinette, described the film as "far from historical reality". She wrote that the film's characterization of Marie Antoinette lacked historical authenticity and psychological development: "In reality she did not spend her time eating pastries and drinking champagne! [...] In the movie Marie Antoinette is the same from 15 to 33 years". She also expressed the view that "better historical films" including Barry Lyndon and The Madness of King George succeeded because their directors were "steeped in the culture of the time they evoked".[9] Box office[edit] In the United States and Canada, the film opened with $5,361,050 in just 859 theaters, with $6,241 per theater.[10] Nevertheless, the film quickly faded, grossing $15 million in Northern America, and has grossed around $61 million worldwide, making it one of the few underperformers for distributor Columbia that year.[10] The film made over $7 million in France, where the film is set, but fared less well in the United Kingdom, where it took only $1,727,858 at the box office, while the film's biggest international market was Japan, where it made a total of $15,735,433.[11] Nominations and awards[edit] Academy Awards record 1. Best Costume Design, Milena Canonero DVD release[edit] The Region 1 DVD version of the movie was released on February 13, 2007. Special features on the disc included a "making of" featurette, two deleted scenes and a brief parody segment of MTV Cribs, featuring Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI of France. The Region 2 DVD version, including the same special features, was released on February 26, 2007. No commentary was available for the DVD. In France, the double-disc edition included additional special features: Sofia Coppola's first short movie, Lick the Star, and a BBC documentary film on Marie Antoinette. A collector's edition boxset, entitled "Coffret Royal", was also released in France, and included the double-disc edition of the movie, Antonia Fraser's biography, photographs and a fan. The Japanese edition was released on July 19. This two-disc edition included the same extra features as the North American release, though it also included the American, European and Japanese theatrical trailers and Japanese TV spots. A limited-edition special Japanese boxed set contained the two disc DVD set, a jewellery box, a Swarovski high-heeled shoe brooch, a hand mirror, and a lace handkerchief. See also[edit] External links[edit]

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Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Preobrazhenskoe cemetery) Jump to: navigation, search General view from Preobrazhensky Val Preobrazhenka Cemetery (Russian: Преображенка, Преображенское кладбище, English: Transfiguration Cemetery) is a cemetery in the eastern part of Moscow long associated with Old Believers. It was inaugurated by a Fedoseevtsy merchant in 1777 as a plague quarantine disguising the Bespopovtsy monastery. At that time the territory of the cemetery was located outside Moscow, but near its border. The cemetery soon became the spiritual and administrative center of all the Fedoseevtsy in Russia (just like the Rogozhskoe cemetery became an administrative and cultural centre for most Popovtsy Old Believers). The cloister consisted of two equal square areas, a monastery for men and a nunnery for women, separated by a road to the cemetery. Construction work was in progress throughout the 1790s and the first decade of the 19th century. At that time, the monastery asylum was home to 1,500 people, while the chapels were attended by as many as 10,000 Old Believers. Every church within the monastery was styled a chapel; like other Bespopovtsy, the Fedoseevtsy reject priesthood, and so even their largest temples are called chapels rather than churches, since they have no altar. The area was surrounded by brick walls with decorative pseudo-gothic towers. Fedoseevtsy chapel In the mid-19th century the "male" part of the monastery was confiscated from the Fedoseevtsy by the imperial administration to be transformed into the monastery of the Edinovertsy, the only legal denomination of Old Believers in Imperial Russia. The cloister, which came to be known as the St Nicholas Monastery of the Edinovertsy, boasted the largest collection of Old Believer literature (the Khludov bequest) and as many as 1,300 ancient icons. After the October Revolution the St. Nicholas Monastery was occupied by the Obnovlentsy, while the icons and the books were taken to the State Historical Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery. Later the monastery was divided between the Pomortsy Old Believers and the nearby parish of the official Russian Orthodox Church. The orthodox parish took a church above the gates with surrounding quarters, a bell-tower and a western part of the temple. The eastern part of the temple and several utilities in the western part of the territory belong to Pomortsy. The two parts of a single temple are currently separated by a thick brick wall, and compartments are occupied by different denominations. The women's part of Preobrazhenka avoided such a dissension, and still belongs to the Fedoseevtsy. The cemetery is also noted as a place where the first Eternal flame in Moscow was kindled in order to commemorate the WWII dead. External links[edit] Coordinates: 55°47′30″N 37°43′03″E / 55.79167°N 37.71750°E / 55.79167; 37.71750

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Stjepan Radić From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Stjepan Radic) Jump to: navigation, search Stjepan Radić Stjepan Radić (2).jpg President of the Croatian People's Peasant Party In office 28 December 1904 – 8 August 1928 Leader of the Opposition In office 1 January 1921 – 6 November 1924 Leader of the Opposition In office 1 February 1927 – 8 August 1928 Personal details Born Stjepan Radić 11 June 1871 Desno Trebarjevo Died 8 August 1928(1928-08-08) (aged 57) Resting place Mirogoj cemetery Nationality Croat Political party Croatian Peasant Party Religion Roman Catholic Stjepan Radić (11 June 1871 – 8 August 1928) was a Croatian politician and the founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (Hrvatska pučka seljačka stranka) in 1905. Radić is credited with galvanizing the peasantry of Croatia into a viable political force. Throughout his entire career, he was opposed to the union and, later, Serb hegemony in the first Yugoslavia and became an important political figure in that country. He was shot in parliament by the Serbian radical politician Puniša Račić. Radić died several weeks later from a serious stomach wound at the age of 57.[1] This assassination further alienated the Croats and the Serbs. Early life[edit] Stjepan Radić was born in Desno Trebarjevo, Martinska Ves near Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within Austria-Hungary. After being expelled from his gymnasium in Zagreb, he finished at the Higher Real Gymnasium in Karlovac. In 1888 Radić travelled to Đakovo where he met with bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer to request help for a trip to the Russian Empire.[2] Strossmayer recommended Radić to Metropolitan Mihailo of Belgrade who referred him to a Russian teacher in Kiev. Radić travelled to Kiev and was allowed to stay at the city's Monastery of the Caves where he remained for six weeks before returning to Croatia.[2] In September 1891 he enrolled in law at the University of Zagreb.[3] He was selected as a representative of the student body at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Sisak in 1893. After criticizing the ban of Croatia Károly Khuen-Héderváry during the ceremony and referring to him as a "Magyar hussar", Radić was sentenced to four months in prison which he served in Petrinja.[3] He was among a group of students who set fire to the Hungarian tricolour on October 16, 1895 during the visit of Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb. Lead up to the first Yugoslavia[edit] After World War I he had opposed merging Croatia with the Kingdom of Serbia without guarantees for Croatian autonomy. Radić was selected as a member of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. On November 24, 1918 he famously urged delegates attending a session that would decide the country's political future not to "rush like drunken geese into fog". He was the lone member of the National Council's central committee to vote against sending a delegation to Belgrade to negotiate with the Kingdom of Serbia.[4] On November 26, he was removed from the central committee.[4] Under pressure from the Great powers (British Empire, France, United States), as well as honouring the secret deals that were struck between the Entente and the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was established and two representatives of Radić's party (by then named the Croatian Common-people Peasant Party) were appointed to the Provisional Representation which served as a parliament until elections for the Constituent could be held. The party's representatives, however, decided not to take their seats. On 8 March 1919 the central committee passed a resolution penned by Radić that declared "Croatian citizens do not recognize the so called Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under the Karađorđević dynasty because this kingdom was proclaimed other than by the Croatian Sabor and without any mandate of the Croatian People." The full statement was included in a Memorandum which was translated into French and sent abroad to be addressed to the Paris Peace Conference.[5] This act provoked a decision by the government to arrest Radić along with several other party members. He was to be held some 11 months until February 1920, just before the first parliamentary elections of the Kingdom of SHS, which were held in November. The result of the November was 230,590 votes, which equaled to 50 seats in the parliament out of 419. On November 8, before the first sitting of parliament, Radić held a massive rally in front of 100,000 people in Zagreb. Stjepan Radić and the CCPP held an extraordinary meeting, in which a motion was put forward and voted on that the party will not be part of parliamentary discussions before matters are first resolved with Serbia on the matters of governance, the most sticking issues being the minorisation of the Croatian people and the overt powers of the King with the central government in Belgrade. The party was subsequently renamed to the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, highlighting the party's official stance. On November 11, ban of Croatia Matko Laginja was dismissed by the cabinet of Milenko Radomar Vesnić for allowing the rally to take place. The new Constitution[edit] On 12 December 1920, the Parliament of SHS had their first sitting, without the representatives of CPP (50 representatives) and the Croatian Party of Rights (2 representatives). On the 28th of June 1921, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Vidovdanski ustav, or Vidovdan Constitution)was made law after a vote of 223 representatives out of the present 285, the total number representatives in the parliament being 419, which is only 53.2% of the possible votes, or if looked at the number of present representatives it is a more impressive 78.24%. The representatives turnout and subsequent vote is quite poor considering that it was a constitutive parliament, which was supposed to have created the new constitution. In the next parliamentary elections, which were held in March 1923, the stance of Stjepan Radić and the CPP against the central government managed to turn into extra votes. The results of the election were, 70 seats or 473.733 votes, which represented the majority of the Croatian vote in Northern and Southern parts of Croatia, as well as the Croatian votes in Bosnia, as well as Herzegovina. Again imprisoned[edit] Radić still held on to the idea of an independent Croatia, and kept the party out of parliament in protest. This in effect afforded Serbian prime minister Nikola Pašić the opportunity to consolidate power and strengthen his Serb-dominated government. Returning from an unsanctioned overseas trip in 1923 in which Stjepan Radić visited England (for 5 months), Austria (5 months) and the Soviet Union (2 months). upon his return in 1924, Radić was arrested in Zagreb and sentenced for associating with Soviet Communists and imprisoned. The trip was used for the purpose of internationalising the plight of Croatians in the Kingdom of SHS. After his release, Stjepan Radić soon reentered politics, but this was not without problems. On 23 December, the Serb dominated central government declared that the political party CRPP was in contravention of the Internal security law of 1921 in the infamous Obznana declaration, and this was confirmed by King Alexander on 1 January 1924, thus arresting the CRPP executive on 2 January 1925, and finally arresting Stjepan Radić on 5 January. After the parliamentary elections in February 1925, the CRPP even with its whole executive team behind bars, and with only Stjepan Radić at its helm, CRPP managed to win 67 parliamentary with at total of 532,872 votes. Even though the vote count was higher than the previous election, the gerrymandering by the central government ensured that CRPP received less parliamentary seats. In order to increase his negotiating power the CRPP entered into a coalition with the Independent Democratic party (Samostalna Demokratska Stranka), Slovenian People's Party (Slovenska Ljudska Stranka) and the Yugoslav Muslim Organization (Jugoslavenska Muslimanska Organizacija). Return to the parliament[edit] Immediately after the parliamentary elections in March 1925, the CRPP changed the party name to Croatian Peasant Party (Hrvatska seljačka stranka). With the backing of the coalition partners, the CPP made an agreement with the major conservative Serbian party - the People's Radical Party (Narodna radikalna stranka), in which a powersharing arrangement was struck, as well as a deal to release the CPP executive from jail. The CPP had to make certain concessions like recognising the central government and the rule of the monarch, as well as the Vidovdan constitution in front of the full parliament on 27 March 1925. Stjepan Radić was made the Minister for Education, whereas other CPP party members obtained ministerial posts: Pavle Radić, dr. Nikola Nikić, dr. Benjamin Šuperina and dr. Ivan Krajač. This powersharing arrangement was cut short after the passing away of the president of the Peoples Radical Party, Nikola Pašić, on 10 December 1926. Radić soon resigned his ministerial post in 1926 and returned to the opposition, and in 1927 entered into a coalition with Svetozar Pribićević, president of the Independent Democratic Party, a leading party of the Serbs in Croatia. The Peasant-Democrat coalition had a real chance to end the Radicals' long-time stranglehold control of the Parliament. Previously they had long been opponents, but the Democrats became disillusioned with the Belgrade bureaucracy and restored good relations with the Peasant Party with which they were allies in the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. With this arrangement, Stjepan Radić managed to obtain a parliamentary majority in 1928. However, he was not able to form a government. The Peasant-Democrat coalition was opposed by some of the Croatian elite, like Ivo Andrić, who even regarded the followers of the CPP as "...fools following a blind dog..." (the blind dog being Stjepan Radić). In his elder days, Radić was nearly blind.[6] Assassination in the parliament[edit] With the power of the Radical Party now weakened, and the Peasant-Democratic coalition not being able to form a government, the environment in the parliament had become increasingly unstable, contentious and provocational on ethnic lines. Provocations and accusations flew on both sides, in one such session Radić answered one of the provocations with the following: "Our Serbian friends are always reminding us of the price they paid in the war. I would like to invite them to tabulate the costs, so we may square accounts and be on our way.".[citation needed] Death threats and threats of violent beatings were made against Stjepan Radić in parliament, without any intervention by the president of the Assembly (Parliamentary speaker). On the morning of 20 June 1928, Radić was warned of the danger of an assassination attempt against him and was begged to stay away from the Assembly for that day. He replied that he was like a soldier in war, in the trenches and as such it was his duty to go but he nevertheless promised not to utter a single word. In the Assembly, Puniša Račić, a member of People's Radical Party from Montenegro, got up and made a provocative speech which produced a stormy reaction from the opposition but Radić himself stayed completely silent. Finally, Ivan Pernar shouted, "thou plundered beys" (referring to accusations of corruption related to him). Puniša Račić made his way to the speaker podium facing the Croats. He put his hand in his pocket, where he held the revolver, and faced the president Ninko Perić and told him: "I ask of you, Mr. president, to sanction Pernar. If you fail to stop me, I shall punish him myself!" After that threat shouting started in the room. But Račić continued his threats: "Whoever tries to stand between me and Pernar will be killed!" At that moment Puniša Račić took out his parabellum[disambiguation needed]. Minister Vujičić, sitting at the bench behind Račić, grabbed his hand in order to stop him. At the same time, minister Kujundžić came to his aid, but Račić, however, being very strong, broke himself free. At exactly 11:25 AM shots were fired - Pernar was hit 1 cm above the heart. When he collapsed, Račić took aim at Stjepan Radić. Dr. Đuro Basariček noticed this and leaped to help him. Račić, however, turned his way and shot him, bullet entering his loins and exiting around his scapula. Basariček fainted immediately. Ivan Granđa ran in front of Stjepan Radić and Račić shot him in the arm. As soon as he was down, Račić aimed, peacefully, at Stjepan Radić, and shot him in the chest. At that point Pavle Radić jumped towards Račić, who didn't get confused, but remarked: "Ha! I've been looking for you!" and shot him 1 cm below the heart. It was believed Račić would shoot Svetozar Pribičević, sitting next to Stjepan Radić, next, but Račić instead peacefully left the room through the ministers' chambers. The whole assassination was over in less than a minute. It was one of the first assassinations in a government building in history.[7] Radić was left for dead and indeed had such a serious stomach wound (he was also a diabetic) that he died several weeks later at the age of 57. His funeral was officiated by archbishop Antun Bauer of Zagreb. His burial was massively attended and his death was seen as causing a permanent rift in Croat-Serb relations in the old Yugoslavia. Assassination in Belgrade What exactly happened to Puniša Račić is still contested. One version (conservative) states that he was sentenced to 20 years of house arrest and later pardoned by the Serb authorities while another (communist) contends that he was sentenced to 20 years of hard labour and freed by the invading Nazis in WWII. He led a usual life during the Nazi occupation of Serbia and was captured and killed by Communist partisans in 1945 or 1946. Following the political crisis triggered by the shooting, in January 1929, King Aleksandar Karađorđević abolished the constitution, dissolved parliament, and declared a royal dictatorship, changing the country into the first Yugoslavia and oppressing national sentiments. Radić is buried in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb. Radić's violent death turned him into a martyr and he was turned into an icon of political struggle for the peasantry and the working class, as well as an icon of Croatian patriots. The iconography of Stjepan Radić was later used not only by his successor Vladko Maček, but also by other political options in Croatia: right wing or left wing. The Ustaše used the death of Stjepan Radić as proof of Serbian hegemony, and as an excuse for their treatment of Serbs, however many leading CPP figures were imprisoned or killed by the Ustashe to whome they were political opponents. The Partisans on the other hand, used this as a recruiting point with CPP members who were disillusioned with the Independent State of Croatia, and latter had one brigade named after Antun and Stjepan Radić in 1943. The image of Stjepan Radić was used extensively during the Croatian Spring movement in the early 1970s. There are many folk groups, clubs, primary and secondary schools which bear the name of Stjepan Radić. Many Croatian cities have streets, squares in his name and statues of Stjepan Radić are common. His portrait is depicted on the obverse of the Croatian 200 kuna banknote, issued in 1993 and 2002.[8] In 1997, a poll in Croatian weekly Nacional named Stjepan Radić as the most admired Croatian historic personality. Assembly seats Preceded by Member of Croatian Parliament for Ludbreg 1908 – 1918 Succeeded by Parliament abandoned Party political offices Preceded by Post established President of the Croatian People's Peasant Party 1904 - 1928 Succeeded by Vladko Maček 1. ^ Norman M. Naimark, Yugoslavia and its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 105, 127 2. ^ a b Ivo Očak, Stjepan Radić i Rusija, Zavod za hrvatsku povijest, Vol 25, Zagreb, 1992. 3. ^ a b Branka Boban, Mladi Stjepan Radić o Srbima u Hrvatskoj i odnosima Hrvata i Srba, Radovi Zavod za hrvatsku povijest, Vol 28, Zagreb, 1995. 4. ^ a b Zlatko Matijević, Narodno vijeće Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba u Zagrebu, Hrvatski institut za povijest. 5. ^ Zlatko Matijević, Prilozi za političku biografiju dr. Ljudevita Kežmana: od “Memoranduma” za Mirovnu konferenciju u Parizu do odlaska u Sjedinjene Američke Države (1919.-1922.), Časopis za suvremenu povijest, God. 38., br. 3., 757.-778. (2006) 6. ^ CROATIA AND THE CROATIANS – Retrieved on 13 January 2011. 7. ^ Zvonimir Kulundžić: Atentat na Stjepana Radića (The assassination of Stjepan Radić) 8. ^ Croatian National Bank. Features of Kuna Banknotes: 200 kuna (1993 issue) & 200 kuna (2002 issue). – Retrieved on 30 March 2009. External links[edit]

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Triangulated irregular network From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A triangulated irregular network (TIN) is a digital data structure used in a geographic information system (GIS) for the representation of a surface. A TIN is a vector-based representation of the physical land surface or sea bottom, made up of irregularly distributed nodes and lines with three-dimensional coordinates (x, y, and z) that are arranged in a network of nonoverlapping triangles. TINs are often derived from the elevation data of a rasterized digital elevation model (DEM). An advantage of using a TIN over a raster DEM in mapping and analysis is that the points of a TIN are distributed variably based on an algorithm that determines which points are most necessary to an accurate representation of the terrain. Data input is therefore flexible and fewer points need to be stored than in a raster DEM, with regularly distributed points. A TIN may be less suited than a raster DEM for certain kinds of GIS applications, such as analysis of a surface's slope and aspect. TINs were first invented by Phil Mellor whilst studying Sociology at University of Edinburgh.[year needed][citation needed] TIN overlaid with contour lines A TIN comprises a triangular network of vertices, known as mass points, with associated coordinates in three dimensions connected by edges to form a triangular tessellation. Three-dimensional visualizations are readily created by rendering of the triangular facets. In regions where there is little variation in surface height, the points may be widely spaced whereas in areas of more intense variation in height the point density is increased. A TIN is typically based on a Delaunay triangulation, but its utility will be limited by the selection of input data points: well-chosen points will be located so as to capture significant changes in surface form, such as topographical summits, breaks of slope, ridges, valley floors, pits, and cols. Although usually associated with three-dimensional data (x, y, and z) and topography, TINs are also useful for the description and analysis of general horizontal (x and y) distributions and relationships. The first triangulated irregular network program for GIS was written by W. Randolph Franklin, under the direction of David Douglas and Thomas Peucker (Poiker), at Simon Fraser University in 1973.[1] 1. ^ "Research – Triangulated Irregular Network". Retrieved 2007-07-26.

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Take the 2-minute tour × It can be on fitness, sports or just plain daily life. Everything I hear and know about ectomorphs is: • They struggle to gain weight (be it fat or muscle) and they tend to lose the gains easily. • They have small bones, putting them on the "weak side" of the spectrum and at a higher risk of ostheoporosis. • They tend to have low fat levels, so it's harder for their body to regulate its temperature. So it seems that people with that body type (including me) "lost the game" in the gene pool and are screwed for life. Can anybody shine a light on me and tell me if there's any good thing of being like this?! :( share|improve this question Struggling to gain fat can be an advantage no? Many diseases are linked to obesity. –  Mew Oct 3 '12 at 0:47 You can have little fat on your body, and very high cholesterol levels. Clogged coronary arteries will kill you a lot quicker than a "pooch." –  Grohlier Jan 7 '13 at 0:14 add comment 3 Answers Ectomorphs automatically win when it comes to long distance running and rock climbing, as well as any other sport where being light is an advantage. Being unable to gain weight easily means strength gains are almost entirely without a matching weight gain. That's great if you want to keep your own weight low while getting stronger. Also, a lot of designers only make clothes for ectomorphs, if you're fashion conscious that's an advantage too. share|improve this answer +1: there are absolutley badass sports that smaller athletes excel at. Distance running, cycling (especially up steep hills), rock climbing. You don't have to be built like a powerlifter to do ALL sports (although some level of strength training is usually beneficial). –  DavidR Oct 4 '12 at 17:36 add comment Chris made a very good comment on your question. I have the same body structure like yours is. I found some advantages of being an ectomorph. 1. You can eat whatever you want; till it's just a matter of increasing fat on your body due to your eating habbits. 2. You will never have to struggle to lose weiht. 3. You have fewer chances of getting affected by those problems that mostly arise due to obesity. (As It's said). Also you can gain weight if you are consuming proper nutritions. Gaining weight is not mission impossible. Hope that makes sense. Accept yourself as you are. share|improve this answer add comment Because the english wikipedia is pested by bad references (mostly third class fitness sites that oversimplify the whole thing) I will cite from the German Wikipedia (with translation by me). Diese Idee ist heute medizinisch widerlegt. Das Konzept taucht heute fast ausschließlich im Fitness-Bereich auf, um ein dem Körpertyp angepasstes Trainingsprogramm zu erstellen. Die Begriffe und umsomehr die dahinterstehende Theorie sind aus heutiger Sicht mehr als fragwürdig; wissenschaftlich relevant sind sie nicht. This idea is medically refuted nowadays. The concept only comes up with fitness relation to create a training program customized to the body type. The term and even more the theory behind it are more than questionable from a present-day perspective; they are not scientifically relevant. In der Humanbiologie allerdings werden die Körperbautypen zur Beschreibung des individuellen morphologisch-anatomischen Aufbaus eines Menschen genutzt. Die Bestimmung des Typs erfolgt dabei über die Messung der Breite der großen Gelenke (z.B. Knie) und Einsetzung in eine Formel. In human biology, however, these body types are used to describe the individual morpologic-anatomic structure of an individual. The typing is done by measuring the size of the big joints (eg knee) and inserting them into a formula. So, as Moses commented, these types are still in use. Die Einschätzung nach Körperbautyp wird insbesondere in der Sportmedizin angewandt, um ein angepasstes Trainingsprogramm zu erstellen. These classifications by body type are used especially in sports medicine to create a personal training plan. But however: Die heute gebräuchlichste Form der Somatotypbestimmung geht auf Heart und Carter A Modified Somatype Method von 1967 zurück [...] The method used today dates back to Heart and Carters A Modified Somatype Method from 1967 [...] [link included by me] Although I had to completely rewrite my answer, my main point is still valid. But I have to modify it a bit: What most of the fitness sites tell you is still crap. They give you a checklist and you have to check for certain features, and then they put you inside one class and make you believe that you have all of those features that are tied with it, this a bad oversimplification in my eyes. Which features are measured today? Körperhöhe, Körpergewicht, Hautdickenmessung an vier Punkten, zwei Umfangsmessungen an Extremitäten und zwei Knochenbreitenbestimmungen. Height, weight, skin thickness at four points, two circumference measurements on limbs, two bone width measurements. And the most significant part is that there are not only the three extreme types but far more: Die meisten Menschen [weisen] Merkmale aller drei Typen auf. Man unterscheidet in der Sheldonschen Typologie etwa achtzig Untergruppen. Die Fettanspeicherung, der Muskelaufbau und der Skelettbau sind dabei eng korreliert. Most people show signs of all three types. Sheldons typologie know around eighty subgroups. Fat-storing, muscle development and skeletal structure correlate closely. So what can you learn from this? You are probably not an extreme type, but even if you are a complete ectomorph by the definition of sports medicine, you wont gather muscle mass as fast as other people but you will excel in endurance activity. share|improve this answer You'll need to make it more substantial than that. :) –  Dave Liepmann Oct 3 '12 at 19:03 @DaveLiepmann I guess you were talking about this question here in your comment in the other question, right? I already edited the NYtimes stuff in. Maybe I'll find another paper on somatotypes, too. –  Baarn Oct 3 '12 at 19:11 I was...I guess I got a little mixed up. :) This is better than the first version. +1 –  Dave Liepmann Oct 3 '12 at 21:43 -1. You are confusing physiology and psychology. The general principle of body types (endo-, ecto-, and mesomorph) is universally accepted. The "theory" and "quackery" come from the late Dr. Sheldon's attempt to correlate somatotypes with human temperament and intelligence. It is the attempt to bridge somatotypes with psychology that is considered quackery, not somatotypes themselves. –  Moses Oct 4 '12 at 19:36 @Moses you were right, I have completely revamped the answer. –  Baarn Oct 4 '12 at 20:32 add comment Your Answer

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or Connect New Posts  All Forums: Posts by festerfeet That is spooky, I posted a comment to this thread a few minutes ago and it hasn't appeared, does anyone else find the forum doesn't like iPad very much? Anyway, I wanted to express my sympathy to all of you in the US, you seem to get very expensive restrictive contracts from the national telco companies. But then I am amazed that a country with your population only has four major players, this is the spiritual home of capitalism and the land of the free, isn't it? What is good to see is Apple trying to get some of the IOS 6 features on older machines, I assume they are are being discerning to ensure that user experience is not downgraded to much. (although I expect there will be at least a few posts saying that Applebis holding back features just to encourage sales of new product!) I know what the benchmarks say but I put my new iPad next a 2 last week and we ran a few a few apps and the new iPad just beat the 2 every time. There wasn't much difference but enough to notice, they are both 32 Gb. The weight is noticeable when weighing one in each hand but not a problem in day to day use. Genuine question, is it probable that Apple will have had time to include the smaller Sim into its new iPhone?   Or, was it Apples intention to use this Sim no matter whether it was ratified as a standard? I couldn't agree more, there is a reason why smartphones and iPads have become popular and that is because they have been made both useful and interesting by how they can now be used.   Things have changed so much in the last 4 years. So true, as a consumer it is frustrating, I can only imagine how difficult it must be for a developer to get their programme found by enough people. Yep, they usually get that right but I would like to see an update to Pages and Numbers (Keynote is still very good). It has been a few years (three?) since a proper update. Office 2011 is a resource hog (especially Excel) it doesn't have all the features of the windows version but there just isn't a competitive office suite that is elegant, stable, and feature rich as well as compatible. It is about time Apple pulled their finger out and showed MS how it should be... Got to agree with you here, some of the changes with Lion were really useful, some less so but like you I would like to see a bit more speed.   Well a lot more would be even better. I wonder how many of the first generation Fires are being used regularly after only 6 months from anecdotal evidence, not as many as Amazon would have hoped.   So who will buy them this time around? A lot of people bought these as gifts and the recipients concluded they either didn't need or want a tablet, it didn't have the right OS or ecosystem on it, or it just wasn't an iPad!   For prospective customers they may still not want a tablet, they are still on the... Seems to me (not being any kind of expert in American law) that Posner is using the wrong platform at the wrong time for the wrong message.   He may well have an interest in patent litigation, which is why he requested a case of this nature in the first place but having sat through two years of this, he seems to be using it as a springboard to get himself heard for an agenda that is separate to the case he just dismissed.   Whatever his intention in speaking to... New Posts  All Forums:

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Take the 2-minute tour × What is the complete code (C#, pseudo, does not matter) for calculating the resulting segment (or its absence) for the intersection of the segment and the cylinder? The segment is defined by Vector3(x,y,z) as Start andVector3(x,y,z) as End. The cylinder is defined by the same parameters plus floating-point value as Radius. share|improve this question You don't tell us what you've tried and what the specific problem is. –  Byte56 Apr 11 '12 at 15:19 Hm, it's generally a bad practice to ask for code. Pseudocode is fine, because it's just that vague as not to be copy-pasted somewhere. By pseudocode I understand any human readable crap though. Hence my answer. –  teodron Apr 11 '12 at 15:57 add comment 2 Answers up vote 1 down vote accepted Mathematical explanation with readable symbols and LaTeX format - great for 1st or 2nd year undergrad students or skilled high-school people. Well, if you need to understand the maths behind it rather than copy-pasting some code that might not be the good one (it's not clear whether it will work or not judging from the SO code). Here are the steps: • It's easier to find the intersection points if the cylinder is aligned with the Z axis of your Oxyz frame. Let v = normalize(Cylinder.End - Cylinder.Start) Compute w = cross(v, vec3(0,0,1)). If w's not the null vector, you have to perform a T transform for both Cylinder and Segment to align the scene with the oZ axis: T = Rotation(w, arccos(dot(v,z)) ) x Translation( - Cylinder.Start) Use this transform to find the coordinates of the transformed Cylinder and Segment: Cylinder2 = T x Cylinder1, Segment2 = T x Segment1. For simplicity, I'll call the results Cylinder and Segment. • Since the Cylinder is aligned with the Z axis, the equation of a point that lies on its surface is x^2 + y^2 = r^2, there's no constraint on the z component. Let the equation of your segment be (x0 + t(x1-x0), y0 + t(y1-y0), z0 + t(z1-z0)) where Segment.Start(x0,y0,z0) and Segment.End(x1,y1,z1). For simplicity, let's forget about v, w and all those letters that were used until now and call x1-x0 = u, y1-y0 = v, z1-z0 = w. That means that a POINT on the segment is written as vec3(x0+tu, y0+tv, z0+tw), where t should be in the [0,1] interval! Remember the condition for a POINT to also lie ON the SURFACE of the Cylinder? Now we get: -- (x0+tu)^2 + (y0 + tv)^2 = r^2 which is equivalent to -- (u^2 + v^2)t^2 + 2(u x0 + v y0)t + x0^2 + y0^2 - r^2 = 0. Let A = (u^2 +v^2), B= 2(u x0 + v y0)t, C= x0^2 + y0^2 -r^2. You end up with a quadratic equation. Delta = B^2 - 4AC. • Discussion: If Delta <0 you have no intersection. If Delta = 0, the segment is tangent to the cylinder. If Delta > 0, you solving for t gives you t1 and t2. Plug t1 and t2 in the POINT ON SEGMENT equation and get your P1 and P2 points that are CANDIDATES. Remember, t1 and t2 must be between [0 and 1] in order for P1 and P2 to be points on your segment. If one of them is outside [0,1], it means your segment has an endpoint inside the cylinder. If both t1,t2 are outside [0,1], the supporting LINE of the segment intersects the cylinder, but not your segment. One last checkup, P1.z and P2.z should be between 0 and Cylinder.End.Z, because you work with finite cylinders. Wrap-up: you have to plug in your t1, t2 values in the INITIAL SEGMENT equation to recover the intersection points. That's it, I don't have the time to sum it up in a C# snippet, but I hope you understand what to do. share|improve this answer Excellent explanation. –  AgentFire Apr 12 '12 at 5:33 ... but really bad formatting –  bummzack Apr 12 '12 at 7:58 Ok, ok, I'll do it in LaTeX. Can't find how to add LaTeX directly here, so it's going to be mathbin instead. Hope it will help.. somehow. –  teodron Apr 12 '12 at 9:18 It did help me. –  AgentFire Apr 12 '12 at 11:20 You can now check the updated version with decently written equations and symbols. Good luck! –  teodron Apr 12 '12 at 11:31 add comment You may find what you're looking for with this question from SO. The last answer seems to fit your request, remember to up-vote that if it helped you. share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × So, I just got my first song using the harp, and I've totally forgotten how the song went. I thought, no big deal, there's always a reminder somewhere. After digging around for a while, and even returning to the spot I learned it, I really just can't figure out how to do it. Thanks! share|improve this question +1 Excellent question. I'm sure you're not the only one which was confused by this. It's a very unusual system. –  Wipqozn Dec 3 '11 at 23:36 add comment 2 Answers up vote 15 down vote accepted There are actually no songs for you to select on the harp. You just play the harp in certain places. The only difference between initiating one song or another is where you play the harp. I understand the confusion as all other zelda games with instruments had specific patterns you had to play to activate the song. (Which is a better way of doing it IMHO) share|improve this answer So all I do is pull out the Harp where I need it and swing around for a bit? –  PearsonArtPhoto Dec 3 '11 at 22:31 @Pearsonartphoto: Pretty much. It's more about keeping rhythm with the beat than memorizing notes. –  Jeff Mercado Dec 3 '11 at 22:33 “Which is a better way of doing it” – totally agree with that. Now the harp just sounds the same, and the actual melody comes from somewhere else (or Fi). This is especially weird with the Goddess Melody where there is actually harp play in the music… –  poke Dec 4 '11 at 2:20 I just don't understand, what beat? –  PearsonArtPhoto Dec 4 '11 at 2:43 @ElLoco You should ask your own question for this as it is a separate problem. –  Ronan Forman Feb 5 '12 at 21:02 show 1 more comment Okay, I've figured it out, in large part to Ronan's answer. There are basically 2 types of places that you play songs. The first is where blessed butterflies appear. Basically try to follow the beat as given by the movement of the wii mote, it should be close enough after a second or two. The second is in places where you have to specifically play a song. Some kind of a pulsating circle will show up. Try to move the wii remote to the rhythm of the beat. While there are technically songs, it really doesn't affect much how you play. All it will do is allow you to play the harp in the right spot, with the right tempo coming from the pulsating circle. If you are playing a song somewhere that just doesn't seem to work, and isn't one of the two above items, it's probably because it won't work, period. Keep looking for a better place to play, etc. share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × In my single player world, I landed my airship (pchan3's mod) to kill a few endermen, instead, I got killed by some mobs and lost a bunch of stuff. My spaceship is still out there (and probably my loot too). Is there a tool/mod with which I can process my world to find the location of the airship (and the dropped items) ? share|improve this question add comment 3 Answers up vote 11 down vote accepted Another tip for the future for vanilla players who still use F3: When you die, do not respawn. Instead quit to the main menu. Now open up a different world and hit F3. Now quit that different world, and go back to your main world. You'll still be dead, but now you'll be able to see your coordinates. Hit F2 to take a screenshot and you can then respawn and run to the coordinates that you've screenshotted. Note that the items you've dropped will not despawn until they're in a loaded chunk for five minutes (cumulatively). So, if you're a LONG way away, take some time to gear up properly; you don't need to hurry until you're close enough that those chunks are loaded again. share|improve this answer One little addition - when you're at death-cam, the despawn-timer is still ticking, so try not to make a pause at that moment; check your coordinates and respawn ASAP. Moreover, timer doesn't reset when the chunk is unloaded, it's just paused. –  Olegs Jeremejevs Jan 5 '12 at 13:18 add comment This is a tip for the future. I've noticed, that you are OK with playing non-vanilla, so I recommend you to install the Rei's Minimap. It's an awesome map mod, with all kinds of useful utilities, including the automatic death point logging (don't forget to turn it on) - it will put a cross on the place, where you died the last time. However, these crosses accumulate pretty fast, so try to remember to delete them from the map, if you don't need them anymore. Otherwise, some day you will run a couple of thousands of blocks just for nothing. share|improve this answer yeah I stopped playing at 1.7 . Just bringing myself up to speed on the new stuff. airship lets me travel faster without feeling guilty about using fly mod :) –  Midhat Dec 22 '11 at 16:11 add comment You should be able to look around your world using an map editing tool such as MCEdit to find your airship and items. share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer

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Voo Dat: A Southern Conjurer Explains How the Saints Were Helped by VoodooS The Indianapolis Colts were favored to win yesterdays Super Bowl everywhere from Vegas to the White House. But one woman wasn't buying it: Lisa Johnson has enough experience with voodoo to know that the Saints were unbeatable. Johnson is a for-hire expert in all your voodoo needs. She considers herself a messenger with a touch of medicine woman, and she's been advising and protecting NFL players for years. Her grandfather was a full-on voodoo priest, and her older brother is the NFL single-season yardage record-holder Eric Dickerson. ("Eric Dickerson wore 29," she explained to us. "9 + 2 is 11. Eric was born on 9/2." 11 again. Lisa's birthday: 11/11.) Johnson told us her grandfather would "drink potions and "concoct stuff" to protect Dickerson, explaining his exceptional rookie season, and she's used her knowledge of voodoo to help members of the Indianapolis Colts, including Joseph Addai and Marshall Faulk, for years. Johnson (pictured with Cleveland Browns running back Jamal Lewis) says she can protect players from harm and even change the outcome of games. But she's only one woman. The Colts were up against every single "Southern root doctor, voodoo priest, and conjurer" in the Bayou last night. Johnson knew the Saints were getting special help when she watched the NFC Championship against the Vikings two weeks ago: quarterback Brett Favre took a beating, playing terribly after a whole season of the best football of his long career. "I guarantee you," she said, "when he got up at the end of the game, he felt like an old man." The conjurers went to work on the Colts the week before the game. "It's so easy because a lotta people don't realize that those people down South, those southern conjurers, take pictures of the opposing players from the internet." Players' height, weight, and birthdays are easily available for any would-be psychics, voodoo priests, and mediums. The most important thing is if a target's eyes are visible in the photo. The eyes are the key to an effective curse. "When you have your cards read, and you want to change something in your life, they tell you, bring me a picture where the eyes are visible." From midnight to 5 a.m.—"the witching hour"—the conjurers "burn candles, sage and tobacco" Chicken feet were used to curse opposing players and protect the Saints. By the time the game started, Johnson knew the Colts couldn't win, so she limited her own interventions to protecting them from injury. "My thing is to make sure people don't get hurt," she said. She told us that she was sure Drew Brees and Reggie Bush were under protection. The game itself was no surprise. "They started off good," she said of the Colts, "but look what happened. Those Southern Conjurers went to work, and everything that could go wrong for the Colts did go wrong." (We note that her client Joseph Addai had his best performance in years in the first half, only to be shut down in the second.) "You can believe in it or not," Johnson said. "But they believe in it. And that makes it real."

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In media appearances, Russell Crowe has all the charm and grace of a beached sperm whale. He stormed out of an interview with the BBC after the host suggested he gave English hero Robin Hood an Irish accent. Here is the audio: The interviewer asks: Lawson: "The accent you've given him, there are hints to me of Irish but what were you thinking of in those terms?" Crowe: "You've got dead ears mate. You've seriously got dead ears if you think that's an Irish accent." Lawson: "Hints of—" Crowe: "Bollocks. I'm a little dumbfounded you could possibly find any Irish in that character. That's kind of ridiculous. It's your show. Whatever." Then Crowe says, "Fuck me," which is a good way to get people to see your new movie. Anyway, we have no idea how to tell the difference between an Irish or an English accent. It all sounds like Captain Picard to us. We'll let the YouTube comments on a clip from Robin Hood speak for themselves: Why Did Russell Crowe Give Robin Hood an Irish accent?S

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Why Did Anne Hathaway Run Out of a Restaurant Crying on Her Birthday?S And why are birthdays such polarizing affairs? Did Jessica Simpson buy her own engagement ring? Did Britney's insanity make her parents fall back in love? Tuesday gossip is a toddler who keeps asking, "Why?" • What happened to pretty Anne Hathaway at her fancy birthday dinner? She was with her boyfriend and parents at Tocqueville when "Everyone got pretty quiet. She left crying, and then her boyfriend followed her, but her parents remained." Anne's publicist denies it (she stepped out for "a phone call") but an onlooker heard her dad say, "Let not talk about it tonight, it's her birthday." Like Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day, adult birthdays are polarizing: Either everyone claps merrily, or someone runs out of the room crying. That said, between stories like this one and her last trainwreck relationship, are you starting to get the feeling that pretty Annie is a bit of a drama magnet? [P6] • Why Did Anne Hathaway Run Out of a Restaurant Crying on Her Birthday?Taylor Swift tells Allure she has "a phobia about being in the wrong relationship." Does this girl ever talk about anything besides her love life? [Allure, Us] • After eight years of separation, Britney Spears' parents appear to be back together. Did Brit's insanity bring them back together? Jamie Lynn's baby? Or is getting over all that why they can now reunite? [Us] • John Travolta and Kelly Preston are preparing for a silent Scientology birth: "The couple will follow the church's guidelines during delivery. No music, no talking and no screaming will be allowed during the pains of labor. Also their new son cannot be prodded for medical tests or spoken to for the first seven days of his life. You don't want to do anything that will haunt them for the rest of their lives." Last time Kelly gave birth, she begged for an epidural after thirteen hours of labor, but didn't get it. (Apparently there was a traffic jam.) Scientology beard-wives: Long-suffering. [Popeater] • Yesterday we ogled Jessica Simpson's ruby engagement ring. Now, speculation that Jess bought it for herself. Fiance Eric Johnson is unemployed, and though he "made a little money in the NFL and is from a wealthy family," a "friend" suspects he didn't have the cash. Then again, if he's marrying Jessica, it's not like he needs to save his pennies for anything else. [Popeater] • Speaking of weddings, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have finally set a date. Early December. [Radar] • Sometimes being Tom Cruise sounds fun: He rented a Dubai go-kart dome and raced around with 75 friends. Other times, being Tom Cruise sounds like an extended montage of painful, closeted longing: Possible object of flirtation Jeremy Renner was at the go-kart party, too. [P6] • Mike Tyson wants to be a restaurateur. Ear tartare for all! [P6] • The director of Lindsay Lohan's Linda Lovelace biopic is working on a "plan B." What a bummer for him, if the only thing that comes of this mess is one junkie photoshoot. [Radar] • Why Did Anne Hathaway Run Out of a Restaurant Crying on Her Birthday?Rihanna got a new hairdo. It's long, but still red. Now she looks less like Raggedy Ann and more like the Little Mermaid. [DailyMail, image via Getty] • Leeza Gibbons got engaged. Man, it's been a long time since I've heard that name. [People] • Janet Jackson and Oprah are feuding over Oprah's interview with Michael's kids. Miss Janet thinks Oprah took advantage of the kids. Also, the interviewed air back-to-back with a show Oprah did about 200 men who were sexually molested. Awkward! [NationalEnquirer] • Shut up, Speidi. [ET]

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Al Qaida Plants Its Flag In Libya Vice's man in Libya noticed that a flag flying above the courthouse in Bengahzi, the cradle of the now victorious Libyan revolution, belongs to Al Qaida. That doesn't mean the Islamists have won or anything—Al Qaida flags actually pop up a lot in that part of the world. But it's not encouraging! When reporter Sherif Elhelwa started taking photographs, a courthouse guard approached him and said, "Whomever speaks ill of this flag, we will cut off his tongue. I recommend that you don't publish these. You will bring trouble to yourself." Later, though, the same guard tried to argue that it wasn't the Al Qaida flag, which features "There is no God but Allah" in Arabic and a full yellow moon: The guard claimed repeatedly that there is no al Qaeda in Libya, and that the flag flying atop the courthouse is "dark black," while the al Qaeda flag is charcoal black. Obviously! And the yellow in the courthouse flag is maize, while everyone knows Al Qaida uses lemon.

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ggFTW ( -   Game Discussion ( -   -   How do you sell your games? ( Mega 11-23-2012 05:04 PM How do you sell your games? I have never sold a game I have bought, and really need money to get some newer ones. So I was wondering how do people here sell their games? I've been told many times to stay away from Gamestop lol (and I doubt it's because of their crappy employees) I probably have at least 100 or more games ranging from Sega Saturn/N64 all the way up to Wii/PS3/DS. I'm thinking about putting a lot of (at least) the GameCube ones that are hardly worth anything in my parent's next yard sale for like $5~$10 a piece, but how should I go about selling older games like Pokemon Stadium 1 / 2, Glover, Super Mario 64, etc? LauraMix 11-23-2012 05:46 PM Some retro games have some value to it so I would strongly recommend to do some Research on them, as for Modern games I would look (forgive me for saying this) in Gamestop website for Trade Deals that you can the High values in Store credit for future use. If you want. P.S: I believe Gamestop won't accept GameCube games anymore. R 11-23-2012 05:59 PM Don't ever sell games to retailers, they won't give you much. I wouldn't do yard sales if you aren't sure how much the games are worth - you might have some gems among them and not be aware of it. Only do it if you know the worth. Selling online (amazon's my personal choice) would probably get you the most out of your games. Amazon's really easy to use, and you can also (usually) use it as a reference to current prices. A few months ago I sold 30 or so games and got near $600 total. But it really depends on what you have. Games like the .hack series can sell for a good amount. RoflKnife 11-23-2012 06:12 PM Step 1: Ebay the game Step 2: Sell for relative price Step 3: PROFIT (maybe) If you have stuff from the Sega Saturn, maybe you have some really high priced stuff like Radiant Silvergun, Suikoden II, blah blah... JoyDivision 11-24-2012 07:48 AM I usually sell on ebay or glyde. Amazon usually takes a lot more in seller's fees. You could think about trading in at best buy if they have a promo on for 50% on your trade-in. Its usually limited to newer games (like from 2012) though. Tardar 11-24-2012 08:29 AM Ebay and/or Amazon. So long as the game is in really good condition and if you've deleted your save files (if applicable), then you can get pretty darn close to retail*. * - current retail, not retail when you bought it Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.2 Copyright ©2000 - 2014, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

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Oh God, the Digital Photo Frames Are Taking Over For the love of Jeebus, why are there "digital photo frames" (read: LCD panels) embedded into a pencil cup?! Perhaps it's because they've gained consciousness and want to rule the world. As though that glowing monstrosity sitting on your desk wasn't enough already, this tool of Satan gives you a 1.5-inch, 128x128 screen that can display an entire megabyte (!!!) worth of photos. What next? Digital photo frames on my speakers?! On my phone?! On my digital photo frame?! But if this is your thing, by all means shell out another $23 and support the digi-frame invasion. And laugh if you want, but when you're running down a dark alley shouting "PILLS HERE," you'll regret not taking me seriously. [Memory Cup via Coolest Gadgets]

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Heat From Crowded Metro Stations to Be Harnessed By New Apartments Above-GroundS Underground metro stations are inhumanely warm come sun or rain, so it makes sense for builders of a new housing estate in Paris to want to draw from that energy, harnessing it for 17 apartments' heating systems above-ground. It's not just heat from the trains which can be used for generating heating "upstairs"—according to Planet Ark, each passenger expels 100W of energy down there on the platforms. Even in the morning crush, that's a heck of a lot of energy, which can be routed up from the metro station into the building through an existing staircase—meaning the structural design of the station won't have to be altered, only heat exchangers and pipes added. It's expected to be finished by next year, so if any Parisian readers are looking for new accommodation near the Pompidou museum, hit up the relevant real estate agency. [Planet Ark via Inhabitat]

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Rockoon Soars 40km in the Sky, But Has Further to Go if it Wants to Reach the MoonS No, I'm not trying to say "raccoon" through a candy-filled mouth. That's really what Romania is calling their rocket-balloon, which is an entry in Google's Lunar X competition, to be the first vessel to send a robot to the moon. If successful, the Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association team (ARCA) wins $30 million, but the robot must take photos of the lunar surface and send them back to the team as proof. They've been working on the weather balloon-lookalike design since 2008, and after several disastrous attempts when all the balloon lines got tangled (and when the balloon skin actually broke), it was third time the charm last Friday when they managed to send the helium-filled balloon 40km into the sky. The last 27km of that distance was achieved using just 30 seconds of the rocket-power, but to get to the moon they must use an even larger rocket, weighing 30x as much as the first one. Those 40km have the dubious honor of being the "highest altitude reached by a flying object designed and built entirely in Romania." Nonetheless, ARCA still has just over four years to reach the moon, which is when Google's competition deadline closes. 21 other teams are battling it out for the $30m prize, but ARCA looks set for success with this rocket-balloon launch platform, considering the technology has been around for decades—since 1949, in actual fact. [ARCA via New Scientist]

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Why Does This Phone Have a License Plate? Spoiler: I don't know. But it looks like the Vigor isn't the only phone HTC has in the pipeline. This is HTC Holiday, and it has a California license plate. And a 4.5-inch qHD screen. According to word on the street, there'll be a 1.2GHz processor whizzing away inside, so won't be quite as powerful as that rumored Vigor. A possible 8-megapixel camera on the back, and 1.3-megapixel on the front have also been suggested for this AT&T-bound behemoth. [XDA Developers forum via SlashGear]

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9 Ways to Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill As the average webpage/image/file on the internet has grown, most folks' monthly allowance for mobile bandwidth has gotten smaller. (Exceptions: Sprint users and those grandfathered into an unlimited plan.) Today, it's extremely easy to use a gigabyte of data in a month. The quantity will just keep rising—and with it, the potential for massive monthly bills. So what are the best ways to put the brakes on the neediest data hogs? Here are the nine most effective changes you can make to get the of your daily data usage. Connect to Wi-Fi Whenever Possible Duh. This is obvious. Common sense. Idiots already do this. But for the sake of posterity, being connected to Wi-Fi as much as you can is the quickest way to remedy your data consumption problem. If the places you frequent most—home, work, friends' places, bus stops, train stations, bars, cafes—have open connections, you should hop on those. They're the places you'll inevitably pull your phone out at and finding those networks is something you should be conscious of at all times. 9 Ways to Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill Ignore the Idiot Box Also a mildly obvious idea, but streaming video is the number one culprit when it comes to encroaching on your monthly data allotment. A five-minute YouTube video sucks up 5-10 megabytes. A single 22-minute TV episode on Netflix takes away 100 megabytes (at least). Movies, even more. Simply put, don't do it unless you're on wi-fi. And if you must, don't make a habit of it. 9 Ways to Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill Listen Locally Yes, the average music file can be smaller than the average video file of the same length. But you probably listen to music while you're out of the house much more frequently than you watch videos, so it can be more of a data suck if you're not careful. If you stream something like Pandora or Spotify on your drive to work every day, an hour of music will eat up 50-70 megabytes of data (and that's not even at the best audio quality). Here's the solution: Unlike streaming video, you can cache music to your phone if you pay for a streaming music service. Save a few albums to your phone before you leave the house, and listen to those while you're out. Plus, then, you don't have to deal with the hassle of dead zones and music cutting out. Be Antisocial Many of us have been trained to be constantly checking our social networks. Every so often, we run through our Facebook, our Twitter, our Instagram, our Tumblr, etc., etc. What seems like a fairly lightweight activity can actually consume 5-10 megabytes of data each time you check into one of those services (especially if you're clicking links and photos). Do that a few times a day over 3G for a month, and you could be wasting a couple of gigs of data on this alone. Instead of going full bore with these when you're not on wi-fi, maybe pick one or two essential social networks that you have to check frequently. 9 Ways to Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill Read It Later When you come across a link that isn't essential reading right that second, bookmark it or favorite it for later (that could be a few megabytes saved right there). Same goes for photos, though these are somewhat unavoidable on Facebook and Tumblr. This nearly halved the amount of data I was using with each run through a social network. 9 Ways to Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill Lose the Extra Page Weight If you frequently fire up your web browser on the go, consider keeping an app like Opera Mini handy. To keep file sizes low, Opera Mini will render and compress pages on its servers before sending it over to your phone. Whereas a fully rendered page in Safari will consume 2-3 megabytes, the average Opera Mini page only weighs in at 200-300 kilobytes. Sharing Is Not Caring It's great to be able to share your photos on those social networks you spend all your time checking, but does every goddam thing you eat need to be uploaded in real time? Instead of furiously rushing to get your duckfaced mug up on your wall, just wait until you get home (or at least onto a wi-fi network), before you start uploading media. The average Instagram/Twitter upload consumes around 200kb of data. Sending a photo to a friend over iMessage can use up 0.5-1.5 megabytes. Videos can use up tens of megabytes. If you can help it, snap now, and upload later. Trust Your Natural Sense of Direction According to Verizon, turn-by-turn navigation uses an average of 5 megabytes of data for every hour it's operational. Most of us don't need turn-by-turn navigation for our daily routines, but some of us (especially in a city like LA), are addicted to it for everything else. If you're really desperate to cut down on data usage, relying on an emailed or printed list of directions could save you a 100 megabytes of data in a month—not insane, but helpful nonetheless. Pull Your Email, Don't Push This is really for the most desperate of people. Email probably won't suck up thaaaaaaat much data for people, and for those of you who do receive lots and lots of email, you probably can't afford to ignore it. But still, you can opt to fetch your email manually instead of having it automatically pushed to your phone, which can save a couple hundred kilobytes here and there. If it's the end of the month and you're on the brink of going over your limit, the few megabytes you potentially save here could make the difference.

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$110 Says All the New Kindles Are Coming Next WeekS Out With the Old When bargain hounds opened their Amazon Deal of the Day email this morning, they were met with a bargain basement Kindle DX. Amazon's black sheep 10-inch e-ink tablet is $110 off today, a 29% discount. It's the kind of deal you offer when you want to clear out inventory, fast. The DX isn't competitive in an iPad world. It never has been. But you know what would be? A 10-inch Kindle Fire. You know, like the one that's been rumored for months. Consider the context: The DX has long been neglected, ignored even, by Amazon. And rightly so. First introduced in 2009, the DX has gotten a single, largely meaningless update since. It's received no promotional support, despite Amazon's obviously healthy marketing budget. Any relevance it had was severely hampered by the introduction of the iPad, and was obliterated when Apple decided to get into the textbook business. So clearly Amazon's trying to unload a product it doesn't want to support any more. In fact, it hasn't supported the DX in two years. So why clear them out now? Because all those 10-inch Kindle DX boxes are taking up valuable shelf space, especially when there are 10-inch LCD models coming in to replace it. And it's not just the DX. Every single Lightning Deal today is Kindle-related: cases, speaker docks, sleeves. Sixteen deals in all, a waterfall of discounts. It's a fire sale, if you'll pardon the pun. All of those accessories will presumably still be compatible with an updated 7-inch Kindle Fire, sure. But Amazon won't need nearly as many of them if its market is split between two sizes. A Brighter Future If it were just the DX and the accessory bonanza, you could chalk it all up to (still a very compelling) coincidence. But it's not. Want to buy a Kindle Touch today? Sorry, you're out of luck. There's an 8-9 day shipping wait on the model with special offers, and you can only get the $140 ad-free version through third party vendors. A Kindle Touch 3G, then? Sorry, that's currently unavailable. $110 Says All the New Kindles Are Coming Next Week Amazon's done making the previous generation of Kindle Touch. Plain and simple. Those assembly lines stopped rolling some time ago. Except unlike the Kindle DX there's still enough Kindle Touch demand to let them die off naturally. As they should! Amazon's been such a pioneer in the ereader space that it's unusual to think of it as behind the curve, but that's exactly the position it's been in ever since the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight cropped up five months ago. Nearly half a year is a very, very long time for Amazon to cede the front-lit ereader space. Too long, especially considering rumors of a front-lit Kindle Touch started bubbling up in May. Remember: This is how Amazon—and any other company with supply chain efficiencies dialed down to a science—releases new products. Kindle 2 showed up as sold out the morning of July 28, 2010. That same afternoon, Amazon introduced Kindle 3 to the world. There's zero chance Amazon outs its most heavily anticipated product in a year on a summer Friday. But there's also no way it stays out of stock of some of its most popular products for more than a few days. Which means we're going to see new Kindles of every stripe next week. Timing Is Everything And even if all the signs weren't pointing to a massive Kindle refresh soon, the timing would still make sense. Wait much longer, and all your press attention gets swallowed up by September's iPhone Jamboree. But more importantly, remember who the Kindle and Kindle Fire are ideal tools for: students. Specifically, college kids who may not have enough disposable income for an iPad but want to put as many textbooks (or, for English majors, free public domain Emily Bronte ebooks) on a tablet or ereader as possible to save backpack space and beer money. Fall semester, depending on where you go, starts late August or early September. And the Kindles you'll be bringing back to school with you won't be last year's models. A DX giveaway putting that mammoth out to pasture. Some sold-out Kindle Touches making way for a much-needed technological catch-up. The new Kindles are coming next week; all of them will be front-lit, and one of them will be a bigger Kindle Fire. Just remember that didn't hear it from some analyst. Amazon as good as told you itself. Update: Frankthepirate notes in the discussions below that he last week received an offer for "40% off select Kindles and Kindle accessories with my Amazon Visa card," another sure sign that Amazon's trying to clear out as much inventory as possible short of actually giving it away.

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Harman Kardon&#39;s Iconic Soundsticks Go WirelessS Ever since they first arrived in 2001, Harman Kardon's soundsticks always stuck a harmonious chord in balancing price, looks and performance. Designed by Jonny Ive himself, the first Soundsticks were inducted into MoMA's permanent collection. And now, they've gone wireless. For the most part, the speakers are the same: 10 watts in each satellite and 20 watts going into the subwoofer. But now it has Bluetooth baked in, and though that may not offer quite the same audio fidelity as a wired connection, it does mean a cleaner appearance for those more concerned with aesthetics. But that convenience comes at an added cost. Instead of the $200 pricetag of the Soundsticks III (which can be had even cheaper on the street), expect to pay $230. [Harman Kardon]

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Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make BoozeS Sometimes you just don't have the right resources to make a decent drink. But if you get enough sober, thirsty minds focused on the problem, humans can find some pretty creative ways to come up with alcohol. Did you really think something like a lack of grapes or a shortage of barley could keep mankind from getting its swerve on? No way. We're way too clever for that. Here's the proof. It's Friday afternoon, you've made it through the long week, and it's time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo's weekly booze column. A cocktail shaker full of innovation, science, and alcohol. So how did you brew this "beer"? Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze You wouldn't think that this particular vegetable would be good for making booze, but carrots are at least a little bit sweet. Sweetness = sugar, and sugar is what yeast can devour to make into alcohol. According to this recipe, carrots are peeled, chopped, and then boiled until they're mush. Sugar is added (which is almost cheating), as is yeast. The result: Carrot wine. It's less alcoholic than grape wine, but it still comes in sweet or dry varieties. Thirsty, wabbit? Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze Maple Sap The same tree goo that makes syrup can make spirits. First, tap some holes into the right maple tree at the right time in spring. As the temperatures fluctuate between night and day, a sugary sap oozes out from the trees. Where there's sugar, there's some human trying to make booze out of it. The Vermont Spirits distillery's Vermont Gold Vodka is a fine example. It's made from 100 percent maple sap, which is then fermented and triple-distilled. The result was lightly sweet, quite smooth, and made me think of pancakes. I could have polished off a case of it. Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze Sour Apples If you read Michael Pollan's book, The Botany of Desire, then this one will be familiar to you. All our illusions of Johnny Appleseed planting sweet, delicious apples are lies. Lies, I tell you! Most of the apples Johnny planeted were sour enough to pucker your kisser, but they had one very appealing attribute: They made excellent booze. The apples' juice fermented into a tasty cider, and industrious frontiersmen distilled it down into a spirit known as applejack. A few companies still make it. I'm personally partial to Cornelius Applejack—each bottle is made from over 60 pounds of Hudson Valley apples, then aged in bourbon barrels at Harvest Spirits' New York distillery. Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze Moldy Fruit & Ketchup Get ready to supress your gag reflex. As we learned in our visit to San Quentin, prisoners just have to work with what's available. Inmates stash the fruit they get at meals and toss it into a plastic garbage bag. By some accounts, they let it start to rot. Then they sweeten it with whatever they can get their hands on—sugar, drink mixes, even ketchup. Yeah, ketchup. Because the prisoners have no direct access to yeast, they just toss in a few slices of bread and hope for the best. After many days of fermenting, you end up with pruno, a.k.a. prison wine. Some guys take the pruno and distill it into lightning, which can be as high as 160-proof. Both beverages are extremely dangerous. Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze Hey, milk's kinda sweet, right? Sure! Once again, where there's sweet, there's sugar—and the potential to make alcohol. Another product from Vermont Spirits distillery is the very delicious Vermont White. Milk sugar is extracted from milk and then used to make a sweet, fermented liquid. It's then triple-distilled and filtered through charcoal. The result was remarkably smooth and had just a hint of sweetness. Highly recommended. Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze Cactus Desert Flora How do you wet your whistle when you live in a dry ass desert? Make booze from cactus desert flora, of course. The maguey plant, which grows even in very arid parts of Mexico, has a sweet heart. The juice inside was first fermented to make a milky drink called pulque. Craving a higher octane experience, folks began roasting and then grinding these hearts to make a mash which could then be fermented and distilled. The result? That smoky spirit known as mezcal. The maguey's cousin, the blue agave, has an even sweeter heart, and it can be used to distill most tequilas worth drinking. (Update: The maguey and agave plants, while partial to the desert, are not in fact cacti.) Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze Potatoes? They aren't even sweet! As the Russians can tell you, it doesn't matter—they're chock full of starch. There is an enzymatic conversion of starches to sugars during the mashing process, which provides plenty of food for the yeasties. It's then fermented and distilled. Most vodkas you find are grain, but a good potato vodka like Chopin, from Poland, is extremely smooth. It's quite nice, if you go for vodkas. Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze Y'know what Asia has a lot of? Rice. So, naturally, people there have found all sorts of ways to ferment and distill it. The most popular way to sip it in the West is in the form of sake, a rice wine that can be very sweet or very dry. In Indonesia they have brem, a Balinese rice wine that looks, tastes, and smells like alcoholic soy sauce. It is disgusting. Once the rice becomes wine, it can be distilled into many different forms. When I visited Indonesia, some locals got me to try arak, a Balinese rot-gut moonshine that was literally poured from a gas can. There is very little that I remember from that night. Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze As long as we're digging things out of the ground and getting drunk off of them, let's try some beets. These root veggies are very high in sugar and there are recipes all over the internet for beet wine. Now, to be fair, every recipe I've seen calls for a lot of added sugar, which probably is mostly responsible for the fermentation. But the beets add a nice, earthy flavor, not to mention that distinctive tongue-staining color. Dwight Schrute approves. Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze This is a golden oldie. As our opportunistic ancient ancestors learned, some bees can make a hive out of a hole in a tree. Rainwater could then flood the bees' hives, making a sweet soup. If enough wild yeast could blow in there, it would start the fermentation process. Say a few thirsty humans stumbled upon these vacated nests and drank some of the sweet fluid inside. Then, presto! Suddenly your 14th great-grandfather started to look a little more attractive to a local lady. One thing led to another, and eventually, that's how you got here. Today, mead (a.k.a. honey wine) can be produced in a controlled environment, like a Brooklyn closet—here's how to make it. Carrot Image credit: Shutterstock/vlahuta Maple Sap Image credit: Shutterstock/Rick Parsons Apple Image credit: Shutterstock/goran cakmazovic Moldy Fruit Image credit: Shutterstock/CCat82 Milk Image credit: Shutterstock/Alexander Chaikin Cactus Image credit: Shutterstock/a9photo Potatoes Image credit: Shutterstock/Wiktory Rice Image credit: Shutterstock/Elena Elisseeva Beets Image credit: Shutterstock/vesna cvorovic Honey Image credit: Shutterstock/StudioSmart

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Judge Rules That Samsung Did Not Willfully Infringe on Apple&#39;s Patents Because the court system is an inescapable never ending maze of appeals and paperwork, a ruling doesn't seem to mark the end of anything. Even when the court said Samsung had to pay a billion dollars to Apple back in August, it can rule something differently tomorrow. Or at least, tweak and overturn something. Tonight, Judge Lucy Koh ruled that Samsung's infringement of the Apple patents were not 'willful' which means Samsung might be able to get a coupon on the billion it owes Apple. Maybe. When you're talking about getting blown out for a billi I guess every zero counts. Though the Judge overturned the jury's ruling about willful infringement, she denied Samsung's request for a new trial (which was a total long shot anyway) and the court will still have to make a decision on Samsung's request for adjustments to the damages awards (Samsung obviously wants it reduced). FOSS Patents says that Judge Koh also denied Apple any damages enhancements for willful infringement, "which could have resulted in a tripling of parts of the award." Yikes. Looks like Samsung is a little happier today. [FOSS Patents, The Verge]

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Take the 2-minute tour × How can I create a smoothing effect like this?: enter image description here It's clearer in his hairs and face. share|improve this question Look through the painting style plugins. It's basically blurring or smudging but likely done via a plugin. –  DA01 Jan 11 '13 at 16:25 Is there any such plugin / script-fu ? –  Shanth Jan 12 '13 at 6:42 This seems to be done with Oil Painting Effect in Photoshop With Pixel Bender. Is there a way to do this in GIMP.link –  Shanth Jan 14 '13 at 11:39 If you google "GIMP Oil Painting" there are several results, a few of which mention plugins. –  DA01 Jan 14 '13 at 15:17 add comment 1 Answer Got it :) its done with G'MIC plugin for GIMP . 'G'MIC => Enhancement => (Anisotropic) Smoothing' This filter could do a similar job with several iterations, a big tensor and gradient smoothness and big amplitude. share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer

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optparse-applicative-0.4.1: Utilities and combinators for parsing command line options Safe HaskellSafe-Infered This module contains an arrow interface for option parsers, which allows to define and combine parsers using the arrow notation and arrow combinators. The arrow syntax is particularly useful to create parsers of nested structures, or records where the order of fields is different from the order in which the parsers should be applied. For example, an arguments parser often needs to be applied last, and that makes it inconvenient to use it for a field which is not the last one in a record. Using the arrow syntax and the functions in this module, one can write, e.g.: data Options = Options { optArgs :: [String] , optVerbose :: Bool } opts :: Parser Options opts = runA $ proc () -> do verbose <- asA (switch (short 'v')) -< () args <- asA (arguments str idm) -< () returnA -< Options args verbose Parser arrows, created out of regular Parser values using the asA function, are arrows taking () as argument and returning the parsed value. newtype A f a b Source For any Applicative functor f, A f is the Arrow instance associated to f. The A constructor can be used to convert a value of type f (a -> b) into an arrow. unA :: f (a -> b) Applicative f => Arrow (A f)  Applicative f => Category (A f)  asA :: Applicative f => f a -> A f () aSource Convert a value of type f a into an arrow taking () as argument. Applied to a value of type Parser, it turns it into an arrow that can be used inside an arrow command, or passed to arrow combinators. runA :: Applicative f => A f () a -> f aSource Convert an arrow back to an applicative value. This function can be used to return a result of type Parser from an arrow command. type ParserA = A ParserSource The type of arrows associated to the applicative Parser functor.

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Take the 2-minute tour × I've read that filtering requires two kegs. I've only got one corny keg but I'd like to filter my brew with a canister or plate filter. Do I risk overly oxidizing the beer if I were to filter from a keg into a carboy, then siphon the carboy back into the keg for force carbonation and serving? Thanks, Matt share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer up vote 2 down vote accepted You won't necessarily pick up more oxygen, if you purge both the keg, carboy and filter with CO2. Purging will minimize the exposure to oxygen. But you'd need 3 transfers: 1. rack from the carboy to the keg (only the keg will handle pressure.) 2. from the keg, through the filter, to the carboy. 3. finally, rack from the carboy to the keg again. With this many rackings, I'd be more concerned with contamination than any ingress of oxygen. If you can ferment in the keg, then you could in principle save one racking and filter directly from the keg to the carboy, and then transfer back to the keg (after cleaning it.) If you can filter without requiring CO2 pressure in the carboy, you can then filter directly from the carboy to the keg. For example, you may be able to use gravity feed to provide the necessary pressure, although you may need as much as 10-15 feet height difference to get 5-7 psi needed to get a slow flow through the filter. Alternatively, wait with the filter until you get more kegs and for the time being use finings, such as gelatine, which have almost as good affect. Add these to the carboy a few days before racking and the beer will be substantially clearer. share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer

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io9’s March Movie Madness Second Round: Blade Runner vs. GhostbustersS Let the io9 March Movie Madness tournament rage on. Last week, underdog Galaxy Quest trampled blockbuster mega-smash Avatar. But will it live on to fight again? Polls are open now — vote for the greatest science fiction movie ever made! There some serious heat in the io9 movie tournament this week. Blade Runner Vs. Ghostbusters promises to be an all out blood bath. Same goes for Akira Vs. Alien. Here is the schedule for voting for the rest of the tournament. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back had the most votes last week with 4,641 votes. Which gives some credence to the speculation that the final will be Blade Runner Vs. Empire. That is, if Blade Runner can beat the beloved Ghostbusters today. There are eight match-ups today, and there will be eight more match ups on Wednesday. So if you're looking for Wall-E Vs. Terminator, that showdown is on Wednesday the 23rd. Here is the schedule for voting for the rest of the tournament. Remember, you decide who moves on to the next round. So vote! Monday, March 21 TODAY and Wednesday, March 23: Second Round Friday, March 25: Sweet Sixteen Monday, March 28: Elite Eight Wednesday, March 30: Final Four Friday, April 1: Final Four Monday, April 4: Championship VOTE RIGHT NOW For the movie you WANT to win. Polling ends tonight at 11 PM. 1. Blade Runner Vs. 9. Ghostbusters 1. E.T. Vs. 8. Serenity 2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Vs. 7. The Matrix 2. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Vs. 7. District 9 3. Metropolis (1927) Vs. 11. Jurassic Park 4. Alien Vs. 5. Akira 4. Inception Vs. 5. Planet of the Apes (1968) 6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Vs. 14. Galaxy Quest

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Mysterious &quot;white nose syndrome&quot; is demolishing bat populations in the NortheastS It's been just five years since the deadly fungus was first identified in a small population of New York bats. In that time, "white nose syndrome" has spread to 16 states and four Canadian provinces. Once infected, afflicted bats have been known to behave erratically, flying far from their nests, never to be seen again, making it difficult to identify the true impact of the disease. Now, scientists have learned that the situation is far worse than they once thought. Yesterday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a report that puts the death toll at an estimated 5.7—6.7 million bats — five to six times higher than a less rigorous count conducted in 2009. The spread of the devastating disease is only expected to continue. If a cure cannot be found, or the bats are unable to adapt, the consequences, say researchers, could be disastrous. "We're watching a potential extinction event on the order of what we experienced with bison and passenger pigeons for this group of mammals," said Bat Conservation International's Mylea Bayless in an interview with The Washington Post. She continues: The difference is we may be seeing the regional extinction of multiple species... Unlike some of the extinction events or population depletion events we've seen in the past, we're looking at a whole group of animals here, not just one species. We don't know what that means, but it could be catastrophic. Apart from the loss of species diversity, another major consequence could emerge in the form of rising food prices. Over the course of one summer, a single colony of brown bats can consume enough adult cucumber beetles to prevent the laying of 33-million corn-ravaging rootworm larvae. If bat populations continue to drop, then their prey — including insect populations that feed on commercial crops — stand to experience population booms. So where do conservationists go from here? According to the press release issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "numerous research projects to support and assess management recommendations" and improve our understanding of the dynamics of the disease are already under way. One such study even found a potential link between the fungus ravaging North American bat populations, and a similar infection that European bats have managed to survive. With any luck, studies like this will provide insights on how to best proceed. Read more at The Washington Post and MSNBC. Photo By Ryan von Linden, NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation, via AP

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The Audience Effect explains how fans can screw up a franchiseS Ever wonder what it would be like to have a bunch of people staring at you while you try to do your job? Scientists have, and they've come to some interesting conclusions. Fans usually catch all the screw ups of any given show. But perhaps the screw ups are there because of the fans. How well would you do your job if a large group of people sat there and watched you do it? Some of you are actors or announcers, and so would reply, "Very well, thank you," but to be fair, you have probably had practice doing your job. The effect of a large group of people watching, especially watching the unprepared, has been studied since the 1930s. Psychologists wondered how an audience that did nothing but passively watch would cause people to act. They found that an audience pushed behavior to extremes. Those who were asked to do simple jobs, or jobs that they had done so often that they could perform them confidently, did even better with an audience watching. They were more focused, and had more of an incentive not to screw up. If a person were asked to do something difficult or unfamiliar, they tripped all over themselves. People who might have done something competently, if more slowly, were making mistakes and second-guessing themselves. Pressure only works when the subject is able to get results. When a show, book, or movie acquires a fan following, it's not long before there's a fan exodus. Fans say it isn't as good as it once was, or that it has gone in the wrong direction. There are explanations for this. A medium is likely to attract the most amount of attention when it's at its best. But, although the creators and actors aren't being watched while they work, the knowledge that thousands are people are scrutinizing every detail of their work has to do a number on their heads. As a fandom grows larger, and fans grow more passionate, do creators - who are constantly working on new problems - get the jitters? Let me know what you think. And if you're interested in some fandoms that crashed and burned, check out our latest show, which is all about fandom scandals. We examine lawsuits, slash fiction, and what it means to come out as Slytherin. Via Simply Psychology.

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The questionable nutritional value of eating a human placenta Placenta - it's not just for shampoo anymore. There is a rising belief that eating a human placenta after child birth provides a nutritional benefit for the mother and possibly curbs postpartum depression. Those brave enough to eat a placenta use a variety of methods to consume the organ. But are there any real health benefits to this gustatory practice? Warning: An image of a human placenta and an instructional video for preparing a human placenta follows. The questionable nutritional value of eating a human placentaS Why Other Mammals Eat Their Placentas The placenta is a temporary protective organ that serves as a conduit between the mother and her developing young. The child is fed is through the placenta via the mother's blood supply, as waste from the young exits to the mother for disposal. The placenta follows the newborn as it exits the mother, leaving in the moments after childbirth. In the wild, land dwelling mammals often consume the placenta. They also lap up the amniotic fluid as it flows out of the mother. The amniotic fluid consists of proteins, urea, and assorted fats, but we have yet to see a rush of new parents to drink amniotic fluid smoothies. Mammalian consumption of the placenta is likely performed as it removes the lingering presence of blood in order to ward off predators, with one study showing placentophagy to provide an increase in natural opioids in rats. The precedence of placentophagy in the wild leads some soon-to-be parents to wonder if they should be eating placenta after childbirth. The practice of human placentophagy brings with it claims that the act reduces post-partum depression and imparts a further connection between the mother and child. Both of these benefits could be the psychological result of a placebo effect. More concrete benefits have been proposed as well, with placentophagy replenishing iron, aiding in lactation, and giving the mother a rush of stress relieving hormones, like corticotropin-releasing hormone. The amount of corticotropin-releasing hormone created by the placenta increases dramatically prior to birth, leading proponents to believe the birthed placenta still contains a high concentration of this hormone. While the placenta itself may be of nutritional benefit, do these benefits exist in a placenta prepared for human consumption? Cooking Up Some Placenta A typical placenta, when disconnected from the umbilical cord, is a deep red mass roughly 8 to 10 inches long, an inch or so thick, and weighing about a pound. Imagine a piece of raw flesh about size of a nice piece of prime rib, but filled with fibrous tissue that is rather tough to chew through. While see land dwelling mammals consume the placenta raw, humans that partake in the placenta consume it in a variety of forms - prepared as a lasagna, ground up in a smoothie, or in pill form. Cooking the placenta in any form could degrade the proteins within, decreasing the nutritive quality of the organ by imparting heat as well combined with a natural degradation of the organ over time as it exists without a nutrient supply. Small molecule hormones are often rather small, however, and difficult to rip apart at temperatures used for food preparation. Grinding the placenta into a powder for use in pills often involves boiling and drying of the flesh as well. For optimal benefit, eating the placenta in the hours after it passes through the mother would be necessary. However, obtaining the placenta in a timely fashion is a chore in itself, as hospitals are often reticent to release the placenta and it can be difficult to grab it in the chaos that follows birth. While psychological benefits are difficult, if not impossible, to quantify, the nutritional benefits could be ascertained. A clinical study of nutrients within prepared placenta, in cooked or pill form, is necessary before definitive nutritional benefits can be established. In the meantime, if you are looking for optimal nutritional value from the placenta, it is best to consume it as wild animals do — raw. Top image by one tiny spark/flickr. Image courtesy of sarindam7/PD.

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OK, we'll admit that the metric system is the way to go when you're, say, plotting orbital trajectories for the Mars Climate Orbiter and other science-heavy stuff. But when you're talking about the power output of an internal combustion engine, we want to hear galloping hooves, dammit! None of this kilowatt nonsense. Here we see what happens when the Toyota RAV V6 gets marketed using the wrong kind of unit of measurement in Mad Max Land. We're giving extra points for the nice "Oh, What a Feeling" jump at the end.

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Marx And Engels Slashfic: It Exists, Oh YesS Because what if Marx and Engels had actually been...more than just fellow Dialectical Materialists? Y'know that saying, if something exists, there's a porn of it? Take that, double it, add the occasional William Howard Taft RPF and it's also true for fanfic. And as any reader of the genre knows, the creativity is incredible. The historical accuracy, now... The following is the recently discovered discarded first draft of Friedrich Engels' preface to the 1885 draft of Marx's Das Kapital. After Marx's death in 1883, Engels worked on compiling and editing the remaining manuscript, drawing on his experience of co-operating with Marx. The document presented here was found among a selection of Engels papers which passed to a distant relative after Engels' death in London in 1895. While the authenticity of said document has been questioned by some, it is presented here in the hope of shedding new light on the character of so important and influential a historical partnership. Karl Marx and I began working together in 1844. We shared similar ideas – what would later become known as dialectal materialism – and we didn't annoy each other too much. Eventually, we even got to like each other. I'm afraid to say that we wrote much of the Communist Manifesto while drunk. Not paralytically drunk, I hasten to add, merely merry. About as drunk as I am now, I'd say. Drunk enough to be honest. We used to meet in a nice little pub just round the corner from the meeting place of the Communist League. The meetings were more often stressful than not and it would often take a good three or four pints before Karl calmed down enough to stop ranting and start writing. His rants, while entertaining, generally contained more in the way of personal insults than political theory. We always said that history is the story of people. Suffice to say that our writing partnership had its share of history. Only occasionally did it dissolve into violence, but I'm sure you can imagine the tensions involved in ironing out a mutually acceptable position on the nature of revolution. And, of course, the eternal dilemma of who was going to pay the bar bill at the end of the night. It usually ended up being me, but I didn't particularly mind. Aside from the fact that I tended to be more solvent, the sheer wonder of seeing that brilliant mind at work was ample compensation for a few shillings. Karl was often the inspiration of our partnership, with gleaming flights of genius - wait, I'm waxing effulgent about the man, and that's just not what I'm supposed to be doing. A lot of the time he behaved like an absolute idiot. He learned tact over the years, and I like to give myself a small part of the credit for that; however, while we were working together, tempers could run high. I didn't mind. He never looked as good as he did with that spark in his eye. Well, Karl was never exactly handsome in any sense of the word, but somehow, whenever he got fired up, he just had an aura that was utterly irresistible. I would have done anything for him when he got stuck in to an argument, raising his voice, gesturing vehemently, truly passionate about his point of view… Is that wrong of me? I don't think it is. He wrote a lot. I think that's fairly evident from the size of this book, but it's an important enough facet of his existence that it bears stating. The man wrote a huge amount of polemic, rhetoric and discourse. Huge amount. Ridiculous amount. And so much of it means something. So much of it is right. I always envied his confidence. I had to find a way to back my beliefs up, a correlation in science, a reference, a... something. I had to find someone else who agreed. Often enough that was Karl himself, but I never felt it could work like that. He was probably a more reliable source than many, but since I knew him, that just wasn't allowed. He was my friend. How could he be the source of a political movement? How could he be the author of a philosophy? How could he? How could I? He wrote a lot, it is true, but much of it was only comprehensible to those educated in political theory. He had an instinctive understanding of the most difficult of abstract concepts. He was... brilliant. One of the greatest minds of our time. He will be sorely missed. Sorely, sorely missed. I will miss him. He just didn't realise, some of the time, that not everyone was as intelligent or as educated as him. That the proletariat, the men he wrote for, would not follow his erudition. He looked at me, so bemused, when I toned down his language, when I inserted explanations, when I laid my hand on his knee... He was married, you know. Whole bunch of children. Most of them died. I don't mean to sound heartless, but I didn't exactly see much of them. I went back home to my father, worked for him, worked at a boring job with boring people, all so I could send money to Karl to support him and Jenny and the children. Jenny was a sweet girl. Very hard to hate. I managed, now and again, but most of the time I just couldn't. Which is, of course, a good thing. He loved her. Of course. It was remarkable, the way they stayed loving through such hardship and poverty. The bastard. I loved him. I loved him, and I took care of him, and her, and his children, and he never loved me back. Does that make it any less worthy? Does that make me any less of a lover? But I digress. This book is a remarkable work, intelligent, insightful and influential. In this book you will find the perfect symmetry of the communist existence, inspiration for a more satisfying way of life. Failing that, you could always use it as a paper-weight. It's a big book, isn't it? I told you he wrote a lot. If you're reading this a hundred years from now, it's either because it's a set text in a Communist Utopia, or at least the proletariat are educated. Which is always a start. Karl used to have a lot of problems with that. Because, face it, he was bourgeois. I am as well, but I never managed to shout quite as loudly as he did. Part of him, I think, was peculiarly at peace with living in a slum. As though in some way he finally felt like he belonged. Of course, that didn't mean he couldn't have washed a bit more often than he did. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, although obviously we didn't believe in God. Opium of the masses, and all that. I must be coming across as bitter, here. Of course I'm bitter! I loved the man, and what did I get out of that? He didn't love me, and it's not called Engelsism, is it? Of course, if I hadn't been so bitter, we might not have spent so much of our time talking about politics, and people a hundred years from now might still be living in poverty. It's probably a good thing that he didn't love me... I can't... oh fuck, this is no preface at all. I need another drink. The text ends at this point. No further drafts of this "alternative" preface have so far come to light. Obviously, the events described in the document may not have occurred quite as they are presented, and it would be unwise to encourage further speculation as to the nature of the relationship between Marx and Engels until more evidence can be produced. Nevertheless, it presents an intriguing new angle for biographical researchers to pursue. Hopefully, with the discovery of further documents, fact will finally triumph over fiction. One can only hope!

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Where Are All The Female Mentor Characters? Think of 30 Rock, first season, third episode. Jack the-Great-and-Powerful Donaghy is setting up Liz No-I-Don't-Need-Any-of-Your-Help-Especially-Not-with-Dating-which-I-Don't-Have-Time-for-because-I'm-All-About-My-Career-Thanks-a-Lot Lemon with his friend from out of town. Jack catches her in the hall and tells her the name of the fancy restaurant where he's set up the blind date. A pause. He takes in her typically casual attire [i.e. unglamorous sweatshirt and jeans]. "What are you going to wear?" he asks (as though he doesn't know). Exasperated with his overbearing behavior, Liz insists "I don't have time to change." Jack shakes his head gravely, "That won't do." He hands her cash and tells her to go to a women's clothing store during her lunch break. Liz grudgingly accepts and turns up looking elegant for a change. My first thought on seeing this sequence of events was, "He was right to do that (albeit their work relationship –- as per sit-com logic –- isn't spectacularly appropriate)." Then my second thought was, "It's kind of sad that Liz needs a man to mentor her, especially when it comes to her appearance and dating. Couldn't they have written her a female mentor?" Jack Donaghy is obviously a gleaming showcase for Alec Baldwin, but it got me thinking, where are all the female mentor characters? What? You say you can name countless examples? Allow me to complicate things. In all of the films, shows, and books I can think of, the woman's mentor is normally a male, either gay or a potential love-interest. If a woman happens to give the heroine some mentoring, it's limited to certain advice-giving incidents, which are often questionable and sometimes destructive. The Devil Wears Prada and Miss Congeniality provide adorable and hilarious examples of the gay male mentor. These guys get the heroine into glamorous clothing and force her to stop whining about how unfair their life is. Dangerous Liaisons, in contrast, has the wickedest pair of faux-mentors (older female and male) that a young impressionable girl could ever have. In Gigi, the far less sinister incarnation Aunt Alicia gives her niece lessons on how to be a dazzling courtesan, but the film makes it evident that all of her advice is superficial and useless. Though he's neither her gay pal nor a potential love interest, George Clooney schools Anna Kendrick on how to do business in Up in the Air. The film makes it plain early on that there is zero romantic tension between George and Anna's characters so if the point was that gender is irrelevant when it comes to what he has to teach her, then point taken. Then again, couldn't they have just as easily given George a male coworker and given Anna as a foil to Vera Farmiga, George's parallel female exec and love-interest? Since Vera turns out to be hiding a relationship-ending secret, then never really gets the opportunity to explain herself and soften the unfortunate implications, the filmmakers set up George as a model for Anna to follow if she wants to succeed, whether they intended to or not. On Mad Men, though Joan (dear Joan) does try to give Peggy advice from time to time, Don is her model for success. Liz Lemon may not try to model herself on Jack Donaghy, but as the series progresses and he actively tries to mentor her (usually against her will), she relies more and more on his particular problem-solving methods. Also, though it pains me to say it, there's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Again, he's not gay or a love-interest (Buffy/Giles ‘shippers forgive me), but Giles is Buffy's Watcher and main source of guidance. Her mother Joyce is loving, but either oblivious to the dangers Buffy faces or simply not there. Potential female mentoring figures –- her psychology professor Maggie Walsh and Gwendolyn Post (maybe the only female Watcher ever) –- turn out to be evil. Literature isn't much more encouraging. In Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything, four young women try to make it in New York during the 1950s and much heartbreak –- personal and professional –- ensues. More importantly, there isn't a female mentor in sight. The only potential one, Caroline's boss Miss Farrow, is the grandmother of Miranda Priestly. To be fair, the men don't particularly try to mentor any of the women (other types of relationship are on their minds), but the one possible female mentor is a shining example of everything Caroline doesn't want to become. Even in Jane Austen's novels the mentoring female figures aren't really around when they're needed (if they exist at all) or they're somehow neglectful. Rather, it's the natural good sense of the protagonist that ends up saving her. That, and a good hard metaphorical slap in the face from a male character. Elizabeth Bennet doesn't exactly listen to her aunt or her sister's cautions about Wickham –- it's the confrontation with Mr. Darcy that sets her right. Emma Woodhouse listens to no one –- until Mr. Knightley scolds her for being selfish and cruel. It's not that I think a man isn't an appropriate mentor for a woman. I'm certainly not suggesting that women collectively hate each other. And I'm not accusing Jane Austen or anyone elseof trying to push an agenda,* but this seems to be a dominant pattern in storytelling. I'd say it's the result of a combination of factors. First there's the strength of the Pygmalion myth (and its Broadway cousin), wherein a man creates his ideal woman and falls in love with her, the modern riff being the gay stylist who enables the woman to get the man of her dreams. Second, the heroine often needs to be parentless/lacking a mentor in order for the story to unfold (or the conflict has to be with the parenting figure). If the statistics of film, television, and literature held true in the real world, the percentage of orphans would be astronomical. Although female mentors might not be plentiful, heroines sometimes get help from best friend/sister figures, whether it's the wisecracking Dorothy to Lorelei's dumb blonde in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Mameha and Sayuri in Memoirs of a Geisha. What's more, the males are hardly perfect. Don Draper is not the poster boy for contentment and Prof. Henry Higgins is not Prince-Charming-in-a-Cardigan. Fitzwilliam Darcy (yes I'm going to criticize him) is cold and insensitive. More than that, many of these males need their female counterparts to give them a good reality check. Peggy is often there to remind Don he's not nearly as clever or successful as he thinks. Eliza Doolittle is probably the first and only female to stand up to Higgins. Darcy needs Elizabeth to accuse him of being less than a gentleman in order to properly thaw out. All this notwithstanding: more female mentors please. There seems to be a shortage. *I don't think I'd accuse Jane Austen of anything ever.

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LeAnn Rimes Wants Revenge Against the Evil Dentist Who Jacked Up Her FaceS Having just recently recovered from some unpleasant oral surgery (wisdom tooth went rogue and murdered neighboring tooth, which then became evil dead zombie tooth), I wholly feel LeAnn Rimes in her quest for dental justice. Rimes claims that a negligent dentist botched her veneers, leaving her in terrible pain and requiring nine root canals "and bone grafting." So she's taking that dude to TOOTH COURT. Dun-DUN. I would also like to sue the English language for forcing me to think about the phrase "bone grafting." [TMZ] LeAnn Rimes Wants Revenge Against the Evil Dentist Who Jacked Up Her Face Would you like to know how Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner make their Hollywood marriage work? Mainly by loving each other, it looks like. He kept his arm tenderly around her back. She beamed as he told her "I love you" from the stage, and when the show was over, gently reminded him to take his jacket. For Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, the British Academy Film Awards in London on Feb. 10 was another successful date night – and a rare grown-ups' weekend getaway, with their three kids staying home with Garner's sister. Well, almost: "He's just like a child!" Garner lovingly joked to a friend as she tugged her still-schmoozing husband–who won the night's two biggest honors for his film Argo – toward the exit. Could an Oscar for Best Picture be his next stop? "This is a second act for me," he said in his London acceptance speech. "I am so grateful and proud." As he told PEOPLE recently, "I am very lucky. I have to knock on wood about my life." (Also a very special Rambaldi device. You know, for the bedroom.) [People] Today in actual lolz that would have bee loud enough to scare the cat if my boyfriend would let me get one (BOOOOOO), apparently somebody made a penis-measuring app called the "Chubby Checker," and now ACTUAL CHUBBY CHECKER IS MAD ABOUT IT: Chubby Checker is throbbing with anger ... telling TMZ he's suing the people behind a "Chubby Checker" schlong measurement app because, "I don't want people to go around calling me a penis." Chubby (the singer) just called in to "TMZ Live" to explain why he declared legal war on Hewlett-Packard and Palm for releasing the app — telling us, "They're selling a penis package named Chubby Checker ... I'm upset about that." As we previously reported, Chubby wants a judge to force the companies to shut down the app ASAP, claiming he owns the "Chubby Checker" trademark. Pro tip: If you want me to read your e-mail, give it a subject line like "Chubby Checker: 'I Don't Want People to Call Me a Penis.'" That shit is like blogger catnip. NOT THAT I KNOW WHAT CATNIP SMELLS LIKE, BOYFRIEND. [TMZ] • Ugh. Anthony Anderson says he would "DEFINITELY" play Christopher Dorner in a movie. [TMZ] • Kris Humphries is being divorced by his own divorce lawyer. [TMZ] • Tom Cruise's libel lawsuit is getting hella messy. [Radar] • Also he sold his condo. [Us] • Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander pleads guilty to sexually assaulting a woman he pretended to hire as a model. [Radar] • Here's Jennifer Lawrence not wanting to have her picture taken. Quick! Take her picture! [JustJared] • Here is a heartwarming family portrait of Courtney Stodden and her doting father. [FrownTown] • What? Why is Kris Kross showing up in my news feed? What's going on? Who's the president? [MTV] • Oh well. It must be a sign. VALENTINE'S DAY KRIS KROSS DANCE PARTY. (This is something I will never ever ever do again.)

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Take the 2-minute tour × In Vayigash, Rabenu Bahya (also the Zohar) comments and says that the reason we had Asara Haruge Malchut because the brothers sold Yosef. However, Reuven didn't sell Yosef, so why should the corresponding Rabbi be punished for his actions? share|improve this question Were you trying to ask a new question? –  Alex Jan 1 '12 at 3:22 @Alex yes because I realized that my question was based on a wrong idea. –  Hacham Gabriel Jan 1 '12 at 3:24 related: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/9547/… –  Menachem Jan 1 '12 at 23:12 add comment 4 Answers up vote 7 down vote accepted Me'am Loez says (citing Zohar Chadash, Eichah) that R. Eliezer is counted among these ten Sages. He was arrested and nearly sentenced to death, but was miraculously spared (Avodah Zarah 16b-17a); he thus corresponds to Reuven, who played a part in the whole drama but wasn't actually involved in the sale. share|improve this answer So I guess my question HAD validity. –  Hacham Gabriel Jan 1 '12 at 3:22 Ashrecha WeAshre Helkecha –  Hacham Gabriel Jan 2 '12 at 1:18 Is this true? Can I verify this in historical stack exchange. –  Jim Thio Mar 1 '12 at 10:01 It's not really Asara HARUGEI Malchut, then –  AEML Dec 23 '12 at 20:19 add comment Maybe because he wasn't active enough in trying to stop them. Source: speculation. share|improve this answer He didn't know. He thought they threw him in the pit. After that he left. –  Hacham Gabriel Jan 1 '12 at 3:09 @HachamGabriel He left Yosef in their hands. Maybe he should have been more careful. –  Double AA Jan 1 '12 at 3:12 @Okay I just realized the Asara Haruge Malchut is only because Yosef didn't forgive them...Not becasue they sold him. This question is caput. –  Hacham Gabriel Jan 1 '12 at 3:17 @HachamGabriel, where do you see that Yosef didn't forgive them? –  Alex Jan 1 '12 at 3:22 @HachamGabriel Can you please then EDIT these sources into the question? –  Double AA Jan 1 '12 at 3:44 show 7 more comments The Torah Sheleima mentioned in this answer, while addressing another issue (why Reuven was also fined for the sale) says that Reuven was there when they threw Yosef in the pit, which lead to the sale. He is therefore also liable. It doesn't say it there, but not only was Reuven there, but it was his idea to throw Yosef into the pit. share|improve this answer add comment I have heard that the 10th martyr is in place of, kavayachol, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, who acquiesced to the beit din shel matah and did not reveal the truth to Yakov. share|improve this answer Indeed, I once read (don't recall the source) that R. Akiva corresponds to Hashem, since he was a descendant of gerim and thus not of any of the brothers. –  Alex Jun 19 '12 at 4:16 add comment Your Answer

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Time To Rock Your Balls OffS Japanese pop, rather Jpop, is pigeonholed as cute, ear saccharine. That might not exactly be fair. But there's no arguing, sometimes Jpop needs more guitars. More awesome hair. Sometimes it needs more metal. Sometimes Jpop needs more Marty Friedman. Marty Friedman (above, center) is a great, great guitarist who is perhaps best known for his ten year tenture in Megadeth, playing on albums like Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction. While in Megadeth, Friedman toured Japan throughout the 1990s and fell in love with the pop of the era, namely Namie Amuro and Ayumi Hamasaki. "In Jpop, there's a lot of hetauma," Friedman said in a TV interview back in 2010. "I love hetauma." Hetauma means that something might look crude or poor at first glance, but it is actually much deeper. Friedman became so entranced with Jpop that 90 percent of the music he was listening to was Japanese pop. After ten years in Megadeth, he left the band, looking for something different and saying that Megadeth did one type of sound (and did it well), but it was like eating sushi everyday. That something different was Japan (where he really could eat sushi everyday). In 2003, Friedman moved to Shinjuku, where he's resided since. He's collaborated with some of the country's biggest popstars, such as Pokémon queen Shoko Nakagawa. While in Tokyo, he's also contributed songs to Japanese games such Konami's Guitar Freaks and DrumMania games as well as a (shitty) Sonic game—Friedman's work was top flight. Next month, as website Anime News Network pointed out, Friedman is releasing his second Tokyo Jukebox album, which features his guitar arrangements of Jpop tunes like AKB48's Aitakatta (sample here) and Toire no Kamisama (sample here). Note: Toire no Kamisama isn't traditional sugary girl group Jpop, and follows in tradition of the talented female Japanese singer songwriters of the early 1970s. Friedman's first Tokyo Jukebox featured his take on SMAP, among other Japanese artists. Friedman isn't the first Western rocker to record his versions of Japanese pop. In 2009, Andrew W.K. released a Gundam Rock album (sample here ), which is all kinds of badass. Marty Friedman's Tokyo Jukebox 2 will be released on September 14 in Japan, just in time for the Tokyo Game Show. Check it out. (Top photo: Jim Cooper, Wally Santana, Koji Sasahara, Lionel Cironneau | AP)

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When you think about it, the Angry Birds are like the collectible guns of a first-person shooter. Once you unlock them, each type does something different. So, if the titular avians of Rovio's ubiquitous mobile hit are weapons in their own war, the upcoming Angry Birds Space will be increasing their arsenal with a few all-new squawkers. Seen in the video above, the freshly revealed Ice Bird's the newest kind of feathered fury coming to ABS. I fell off the Angry Birds bandwagon when a firmware update wiped all my old save data, but the idea of experimenting with new mechanics like this might be enough to draw me back in the new game.

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What It Could Be Like To Play Games On PS4S Yesterday, Sony dropped a massive FAQ full of PS4 tidbits and details. While it's certainly interesting, it's also very long. You might not have the time or energy to read it all. So based on this FAQ, we thought we'd try a little thought experiment: let's zip ahead to November 16, the day after the PlayStation 4 launches, and try to figure out what it'll be like to play Sony's next console. It's Saturday morning. You wake up, stretch your legs. Put on some coffee. Oatmeal. You think about going for a run and maybe getting something productive done, but then it hits you... you have a PlayStation 4. So you walk over to your television. You look at your shiny new gaming console, which you decided to put next to your Xbox 360 and PS3, because none of the games you've bought over the past 5-6 years will work on this new beast. It looks good. Sleek. You turn on the machine. Your controller is already charged, because unlike the PS3, the PS4 can power up your DualShock overnight. The latest system update finished downloading while you were asleep. You didn't have to connect to the Internet to play any games, but the day-one system update enables a lot of features, like online multiplayer and Remote Play, so you figured you'd just get it over with. The suspend/resume feature isn't working yet, but at least you can leave your PS4 in stand-by for charging and downloading. Eventually, you'll be able to put games in sleep mode and just pick up where you left off, like you can on the Vita or 3DS. You put in a game. Maybe Killzone or Knack. Definitely not Watch Dogs or DriveClub. They're delayed until next year. Let's say... Knack. (Here's a full list of all the PS4 games you can get at launch.) There's a little graphical flourish... some music. You've gotta install the game, and you can't use an external device, so you put it on the PS4's built-in 500 GB hard drive. You can't decline the installation. It's mandatory. (Sony hasn't yet told us just how long it'll take—or how much of each game you'll have to install before you can start playing. We'll keep you updated when they let us know.) You can't play music on the system while you wait—or at all, unless you subscribe to Sony's Music Unlimited program—so you use a pair of iPod speakers instead. You start playing the game. It looks good. Immediately, things feel different. More... next-gen. You can stream gameplay on platforms like Twitch and Ustream (but you can't share it to YouTube yet). You can press the Share button on your controller to export the last 15 minutes of gameplay, which is automatically recorded as you play. You can trim that video right on your console. Just to see what the online services are like, you pop in Killzone and set it up. You register for a PlayStation Plus membership so you can play the game online, where you can now have up to 2,000 friends. (Don't kid yourself: you'll never have that many friends.) You toggle your online account to display your real name and Facebook photo, so people don't have to remember your PSN handle, xxsephirothgoku4000. As you play online, you use the mono headset that came with the system. You can't use wireless stereo headsets—at least not yet. You can't send your PS3-playing friends any voice messages, so you send them text messages, bragging that you have a PS4 and they don't. The DualShock 4 feels pretty good in your hands. It's got a touchpad that could either be awesome or a major distraction, depending what developers do with it. There's a light sensor on the back that can interact with your games, too. So... once Knack is ready, you start playing it on your TV for a while. Just for kicks, you pull out your Vita and test out Remote Play, which allows you to play PS4 games on the portable machine. It works well, so long as both systems are on the same WiFi network. You can watch football while playing PS4 games in your lap. And that's your day-one PS4 experience. This whole scenario is, of course, contingent upon the system working as advertised. If there are problems we don't know about yet—like, say, the PS4 catching on fire whenever you turn it on—then November 16 might turn out a whole lot differently. As details of how Xbox One will work at launch become more concrete, we'll run this thought experiment for Microsoft's console as well.

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Loudtalks Gives Your Android, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile Phone Push-to-Talk Android/BlackBerry/WinMo: If you're headed on a road trip with friends or moving around town in a large group, Loudtalks is a mobile app that will turn your phone into more of a walkie-talkie so you can speak to the others in your party instantly, without having to call them first. Loudtalks works with Android phones, Blackberry devices, Windows Mobile phones (note: not WP7 phones,) and Windows computers. The lite version of the service is free, and allows you to create public channels for up to 100 people to join into on their computers or mobile phones. You can also map specific hardware keys on your phone to engage push-to-talk, so you can easily chime in on the conversation. The developers behind Loudtalks also offer a paid enterprise-size service if you need to host the solution yourself or want total control over who logs in and how many channels there are. The lite version is still in beta, and while free doesn't let you control who enters a channel, or give you control over who's in one. You can, however, control whether everyone in the channel or only you can speak. Loudtalks | via Addictive Tips

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SaveUp Encourages You to Save Money and Pay Down Debt with Chances for Big Prizes SaveUp is a different kind of rewards program: Instead of encouraging you to spend money to rack up points, the program credits you for each smart financial action you make. Credits give you sweepstakes entries or instant games for big prizes. It's very easy to earn credits on SaveUp, since every time you pay down debt, save for retirement, or add money to your savings account, you get rewarded. (SaveUp monitors your linked accounts to issue credits. The site's security page might alleviate any concerns you have about linking your accounts). Watching financial education videos and participating in challenges also earn you credits. The types of prizes you could play for range in value from $100 to $2 million. Prizes include a Kindle Fire, a Toyota Prius, and $50,000 debt payoff (oddly enough, all games cost the same 10 credits). If you like entering contests or scratch-off lotto games, you'll like SaveUp. You're limited to playing three times a day, though (this levels the playing field for all SaveUp members and encourages you to come back). Update: Get 100 bonus credits when you sign up via the link below. SaveUp | via PT Money

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Blizzard Video Game Company Hacked, Change Your Battle.Net Passwords Now If you play video games such as World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft, you'll want to change your Battle.Net passwords right now—Blizzard, maker of said games, has had a security breach. The 2012 hacking spree continues, following, LinkedIn, and a whole host of other companies that are getting their servers breached and data stolen. You know the drill: it's time to go change your Battle.Net passwords, and any other passwords that were similar to it. If you've followed our security advice thus far, you're using strong, different passwords for every account, using a password manager like LastPass to keep them all straight, and changing your Blizzard password is all you need to do. If you're using the same password everywhere, however, you'll need to change it everywhere so hackers don't get access to those accounts too. We've put together a guide on auditing and updating your passwords, so now would be a great time to do that, not to mention go through some of the other security procedures we recommend in the wake of this week's Amazon and Apple compromise. Blizzard says no sign of financial data was compromised, and what was stolen probably isn't enough to get someone into your account—it mainly included email addresses, the answer to security questions, and mobile authenticators. However, it's better to be safe than sorry. Hit the link to read more. Important Security Update | Blizzard

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Practice Good Posture for Better Memory Retention Having excellent posture can lead to a lot of great benefits, like lowering your stress level, but it can also affect how well you learn and remember new things. Inspired by a language-learning tip from our friends at io9, we did a bit of research and found that having great posture can make way for more efficient learning and increased memory retention. The Brainscape blog explains that when you're learning something, you're also taking in different factors that can affect how well you remember it: According to a study conducted at Florida State University, researchers found out that "congruent body posture" significantly improved access to and retention of autobiographical memories in both young and adult people (Dijkstra, 2005). Therefore, we can say that posture is in some way affecting our ability to recall specific types of memories. But how so? The suggestion seems to be that when you remember something you are also reminded of the "state" of learning, a concept that not only includes posture but also emotions and surrounding environment. Bad posture can therefore be a hindrance to effective learning merely because we later interpret it as an "incongruent" positioning of the body. They later go on to explain that learning efficiently requires a mix of physical and mental improvements, so better posture isn't necessarily the number one answer to increased memory retention, but it can certainly play a significant role in how well you learn new things. Take a look at our guide on how to ergonomically optimize your workspace for ways to improve your posture. Update: It appears the interpretation of the cited study was incorrect, and it didn't actually show any evidence regarding a relationship between posture and memory retention, as stated above. That said, keeping good posture is still a good idea, since it can help prevent repetitive stress injuries—so keep up that good posture anyway. Sorry for the misinformation. Getting It Straight: Posture and its Influence on Learning and Memory | Brainscape Photo by Joe Loong.

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Current-Users archive IDN hostname resolution in NetBSD So, I'm thinking about naming a host something that includes an upper-ASCII character. In looking into IDN, and how that works in bind, I was able to add the hostname's A record into my local nameserver (running stock bind on a NetBSD 5.1_RC1 machine). Interestingly, this seems to work just fine from my mac. I can ping the hostname, and it resolves, and ping behaves as expected. I find that I can't use host(1) (or nslookup(1) for that matter) to resolve it, though. It's worse on my NetBSD machines. Both 5.1_RC1 machines and 5.99.29 machines, if i try to host, or ping, or anything the name (I've set my LANG environment variable to en_US.UTF-8), I simply get name resolution failures. Is the resolver in NetBSD able to resolve IDN in a relatively transparent way? Are there hoops that need to be jumped through? And, while I'm asking the question, is there any known issues/ resolutions with setting a NetBSD machines local hostname to an UTF-8, or Latin-1 even, name? - Chris Home | Main Index | Thread Index | Old Index

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Subject: NOT a GNU question (Help with dt) To: None <> From: Edward Wolpert <> List: macbsd-general Date: 09/12/1994 21:17:41 This is not now, or in any way, a GNU comment. (Surprise) I'm having trouble with the dt on an se/30 with an external monitor. Using the July 30 dt code, I rebuild it. The binary included wanted whereas I have .12.0 The make built dt fine, but the delta(?) stage didn't go so well. I can only assume that was for backups. Ah well, the glitch... I can type about three lines with only my internal monitor attached, which is how I rebuilt the dt. It died if I tried to run it with only the internal attached. I re-attached my external (640x480,exced color card) and tried to run it... I was able to modify my .cshrc (root) to auto-magically start dt. It died, same messages: grfmmap(85):addr 10000000 grfummap(85):dev a00 addr0 grfunlock(85):dev 0 flag 3 lockpid -1 <Core dumpped, made a mess on my nice clean floor> The questions are as follows: 1) How can I get dt working on my se/30? (Seems simple, and yes, I've done the mknod... actually it was already done, eh?) 2) I've read (README) it may not work on two monitor systems, and non- 640x480 monitors... Is this true? Am I SOL? 3) Anyone want to sell a MacII? ;-) 4) Currently, NetBSD is running on a Sun3 system, I've been told. Is it running in good shape? (No weird adb probs, so normal UNIX should be fine, open arch, so X should be fine too.) If so, anyone want to sell a Sun3? ;-) ;-) [For those who don't know, Sun3 is running a m68k chip set like the mac.] I'm in the processing of getting a Sun3, and would like to know more info on netbsd for it, could those in the know send me info on where the faq is for this? Thanks for your help... Edward Wolpert --------------------------- -------------------- | System Administrator | "No, sorry, there's | Systems Programmer | nothing to be | Graduate Chemistry Student | done about it." home page

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Subject: tseng et4000 registers memory map? To: None <> From: Todd Whitesel <> List: port-atari Date: 09/18/1999 08:32:57 [ please cc: me as I am not on port-atari ] I have started on a generic version of pci_tseng.c and friends, but the card still isn't displaying anything and I am beginning to suspect that it is because I can't find a good description of how the card's 16 meg PCI address space is laid out. The atari code is full of mempory mapping and hardcoded numbers, and is very confusing to read. So far my best guess is that the VGA IO shows up at 0003c0-0003df or thereabouts, and the text screen shows up at 0a0000. This would all be inside the 16 meg region specified by PCI configuration register 0x10 for the card. Many hours of web searching, reading atari and xfree86 source, and so on haven't enlightened me any. Does anyone have a databook that could reveal the necessary offsets? Todd Whitesel toddpw @

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Subject: Re: vnode locking procedure change to suport stacked fs's. To: None <> From: Phil Nelson <> List: tech-kern Date: 06/01/1999 12:52:38 >...along these lines... is it possible for vnodes which are still >referenced to actually be on the free list? If not, then I'd like >to nuke the free list completely, and pool_put() vnodes when they're >no longer used (so that free vnode pool pages can be reclaimed if Could this possibly be related to the "free vnode isn't" panic we're seeing on the pc532? Phil Nelson (Home machine) (Work)

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Take the 2-minute tour × For any positive integer $n$ the map $p:S^1\to S^1$, defined by $p(z)=z^n$ is a covering map. I think it's easy, but as I'm a really beginner I'm struggling to prove it. By the way, what kind of operation is that $z^n$? share|improve this question Consider $S^1$ as $\{z\in \Bbb C:|z|=1\}$ –  Dominik Dec 10 '12 at 20:50 add comment 1 Answer up vote 4 down vote accepted I'm in a rush, but here's a hint: EDIT: Now that I have more time, let me see if I can explain this better. Let's begin by thinking of the circle as a paramaterized curve. In particular, let's consider parameterizing $S^1$ as $\gamma(t)=e^{2\pi it}$ for $t=[0,1]$. The curve $\gamma$ can be thought of as traversing the unit circle once, counterclockwise. While this parameterization will not really make any of our work any easier, it will at least make it clear that the statement is true. Ok, so note then that if $f:z\mapsto z^n$ is the $n^{\text{th}}$ power map, then we can get a handle of what $f$ does to $S^1$ by seeing how the map $f\circ \gamma$ works--for ease of notation let's call $f\circ\gamma=h$. Now, just unraveling this, we see that, by definition, $h$ is a parameterization of $S^1$ given by $h:[0,1]\to S^1:t\mapsto e^{2\pi i n t}$. Now, the important thing to notice about $h$, is that while $\gamma$ traversed $S^1$ once, we've (in essence) "sped up" so that in our allotted time of $[0,1]$ we actually round the circle $n$ times. In particular, we see that we round the circle once in the interval $[0,\frac{1}{n}]$, again in the interval $[\frac{1}{n},\frac{2}{n}]$, and in general, once in the interval $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ with $m\in\{0,n-1\}$. Moreover, if we restrict to open subsets of each of these intervals, our map is a homeomorphism onto its image. Thus, we see that, at least intuitively, $h$ does cover $S^1$ "$n$-times". Now, let's see what happens if we pick a point $p_0\in S^1$ and start looking at neighborhoods around it, and in particular, how about we consider $1\in S^1$. Now, while there are tons of neighborhoods, it makes sense to, if we are going to prove that $f$ is a covering map, restrict our attention to neighborhoods of $p_0=e^{\frac{\pi i}{3}}$ that "come" from $f$, or in our case $h$. In particular, we note that $p_0=h\left(\frac{1}{12n}\right)$. So, a good way to pick a neighborhood of $p_0$ would be to look at the image under $f$ of a neighborhood of $\frac{1}{12n}$--let's say we look at $\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$. Now, this is all valid since we know that on open subsets of each of our subintervals $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ the map $h$ is a homeomorphism so that $U=h\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$ really is a neighborhood of $p_0$ Now, that we have a very nice neighborhood of $p_0$, let's try to verify the conditions on $f$ that make it a covering map. Let's look at $f^{-1}(U)$. Well, let's actually being by looking at $h^{-1}(U)$, because this is easy to get a handle on. Namely, we know that $h$ just wraps around $S^1$ $n$-times and it will covering $U$ precisely during the time intervals in each interval $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ that "act like" $\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$. It is not hard to see that each of these subintervals are just going to be of the form $\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ for $m\in\{0,\cdots,n-1\}$. So, now that we have a handle on what $h^{-1}(U)$ looks like, we can easily deal with $f^{-1}(U)$ by just "pushing forward" by $\gamma$. Namely, $f^{-1}(U)$ will just be the union of the sets $\gamma\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ for each $m\in\{0,\cdots,n-1\}$ (where on the circle are these regions?). Moreover, it's clear that each of these intervals are disjoint, because $\gamma$ acts (except for the endpoints, which we aren't worrying about) injectively. Thus, we see that $f^{-1}(U)$ is a disjoint union of $n$ open subsets $\gamma\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ of $S^1$. Moreover, since the action of $f$ on each of these subsets is just $h$ on the intervals $\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ we know that $f$ restricted to each of these maps is a homeomorphism. Thus, we see that the covering map condition is at least at the point $p_0$. Now, I went into way too much detail, and I'm sure you got the point half-way through, but I hope that was able to help, and I hope you can generalize this to prove that $f$ is a covering map! share|improve this answer Thank you for your answer! –  user42912 Dec 17 '12 at 5:45 add comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × Possible Duplicate: Prove: $\int_{0}^{\infty} \sin (x^2) dx$ converges. What test do I use to show that the following integral converges? $$ \int_0^\infty \sin (x^2) \; dx$$ share|improve this question add comment marked as duplicate by sdcvvc, Stefan Hansen, Davide Giraudo, Michael Greinecker, rschwieb Jan 17 '13 at 11:58 3 Answers up vote 10 down vote accepted We deal with the integral from (say) $1$ to $\infty$. In principle we should look at $\int_1^M \sin(x^2)\,dx$, then let $M\to\infty$. Use integration by parts. Let $f(x)=\frac{1}{x}$ and $g'(x)=x\sin(x^2)$. Then $f'(x)=-\frac{1}{x^2}$ and we can take $g(x)=-\frac{1}{2}\cos x^2$. We end up with $$\int_1^M\sin(x^2)\,dx=\left. -\frac{1}{2x}\cos(x^2)\right|_1^M -\int_1^M \frac{1}{2x^2}\cos(x^2)\,dx.$$ Now let $M\to \infty$. Note that the remaining integral behaves nicely as $M\to\infty$, since $\int_1^\infty \frac{dx}{x^2}$ converges, and $|\cos(x^2)|$ is bounded. share|improve this answer Should we be worried that when $M \to \infty \ \cos(M^2)$ is undefined? –  Alex Jan 15 '13 at 21:18 @Alex we have $\cos (M^2)/M$ at the denominator. –  Santosh Linkha Jan 15 '13 at 21:21 Not for this argument. For the first part (the evaluation), at the top we get $-\frac{1}{2M}\cos(M^2)$. Since $\cos$ wiggles between $-1$ and $1$, the $\frac{1}{2M}$ kills it. For the integral part, it is just Comparison Test, again using $|\cos(x^2)|\le 1$. –  André Nicolas Jan 15 '13 at 21:23 @AndréNicolas: of course! I confused it with something completely different: mathoverflow.net/questions/24579/convergence-of-a-series –  Alex Jan 15 '13 at 21:31 @AndréNicolas This argument seems to generalize well to $\int_0^{\infty} \sin(x^{\alpha})dx$ and $\int_0^{\infty} \cos(x^{\alpha})dx$ with $|\alpha|\gt 1$. Can we say anything about $\int_0^{\infty} \cos(f(x))dx$ with $f(x)$ a polynomial? (This would include the Airy function $Ai(x)$, right?) –  AndrewG Jan 16 '13 at 3:52 show 1 more comment Lots of information here: See especially the section Evaluation. @rlgordonma & @experimentX I just see the french like their Fresnel so much, their wikipedia page actually has a section on convergence as well as derivations of the final value: share|improve this answer I should point out to the OP to pay special attention to the nice illustration of the integration contour used to evaluate the integral, which shows why the integral converges. –  Ron Gordon Jan 15 '13 at 21:02 isn't there any easy method (something like comparison) just to show that is converges? I don't have to evaluate it. Also this is not complex analysis ... i guess there must be something nice and easy. –  Santosh Linkha Jan 15 '13 at 21:06 looks like the the french version is same as the other answer. Nice +1 to everyone –  Santosh Linkha Jan 15 '13 at 21:16 add comment Consider the triangle $\Delta$ with vertices at $(0,0), (T,0), (T,T)$ in the complex plane. Since $\exp(iz^2)$ is entire, we have $$\int_{\Delta} \exp(iz^2) dz = 0$$ Further, the integral on the side perpendicular to the $X$ axis, as $T \to \infty$ is 0, since $$\lim_{T \to \infty} \left \vert \int_{T}^{T+iT} \exp(iz^2) dz \right \vert \leq \lim_{T \to \infty} \int_{T}^{T+iT} \left \vert \exp(iz^2) \right \vert \vert dz \vert = \lim_{T \to \infty} \int_0^T \exp(-2Tx) dx\\ = \lim_{T \to \infty} \dfrac{1-\exp(-2T^2)}{2T} = 0$$ Hence, the integral along the $X$ axis equals the integral along the hypotenuse i.e. $$\int_{0}^T \exp(iz^2) dz = \int_{0}^{T+iT} \exp(iz^2) dz$$ Setting $z= (1+i)w$, we get that $$\int_{0}^{T+iT} \exp(iz^2) dz = \int_0^T \exp(i(1+i)^2 w^2) (1+i) dw = (1+i) \int_0^T \exp(-2w^2) dw$$ Hence, $$\lim_{T \to \infty}\int_{0}^{T} \exp(iz^2) dz = (1+i) \dfrac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2\sqrt{2}}$$ Now, note that $$\int_0^{\infty} \sin(x^2) dx = \text{Imag} \left( \int_0^{\infty} e^{ix^2} dx\right)=\dfrac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2\sqrt{2}}$$ share|improve this answer add comment

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Take the 2-minute tour × I am thinking about smooth vector fields on some (open set of an) euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$. I know that the integral curves of a general vector field $X$ are not defined for every time $t\in \mathbb{R}$. A simple example is given by $X=x^2 \partial _x$ on $\mathbb{R}$, whose integral curve emanating at $t=0$ from some $x_0 >0$ is given by $\gamma(t) = \frac{x_0}{1-tx_0}$. This curve is defined only on $]-\infty , \frac{1}{x_0}[$; moreover as $t$ ranges in that set we have $\gamma (t)\in ]0,+\infty[$. I would like to see an example of a vector field $X \in \mathfrak{X}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ such that the integral curve emanating at $t=0$ from some point $p$ is defined only for bounded times $t\in]-T,T[$ $ \ $ (with $T<+\infty$) and also remains bounded "in space", i.e. there exist a compact $K\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ such that $\gamma (t) \in K, \ \ \forall t \in ]-T,T[$. Can anyone provide some example or hint to build one? Edit from comments: it has been pointed out that, by the Escape Lemma, such a vector field cannot exist, because if the maximal domain is not the whole $\mathbb{R}$, then the curves are forced to "escape" any compact set. So let me slightly modify my question: in the above notations, let $T=+\infty$, so that the maximal domain is $\mathbb{R}$ and the integral curves can a priori be bounded. The first example I can think of is the following: consider $X=x\partial _y -y\partial _x \in \mathfrak{X}(\mathbb{R}^2)$ and $p=(1,0)$. Then the integral curve starting at $p$ is just $S^1$ and $X$ can be pictured as its tangent counter-clockwise unit vector field. This would answer my question, but this is not what I was really looking for, because this curve is not simple (it's periodic indeed), so it's defined for every time and bounded, but let me say in a quite trivial way. So what I'm actually looking for is this: a vector field $X$ that at some point has a simple integral curve (i.e. injective as a map $\gamma : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}^n$) which is bounded in a compact set $K$ (and so globally defined, by the Escape Lemma). Is this possible? (maybe there is another result I don't know which proves this cannot be the case). share|improve this question Maybe I'm forgetting (it's been years since I took manifolds), but isn't this exactly what the Escape Lemma says cannot happen? Concretely, that if the maximal domain of an integral curve is not all of $\mathbb{R}$, then it must escape to infinity (i.e. it cannot lie in any compact set). –  Matt Jan 23 '13 at 17:30 @Matt : you are right! I didn't know this lemma, thank you. I've edited my question accordingly. –  Lor Jan 23 '13 at 19:13 add comment 2 Answers up vote 2 down vote accepted How about a vector field in the plane with a stable limit cycle? $$ \frac{dr}{dt} = r(1-r) \\ \frac{d \theta}{dt} = r $$ If I'm not mistaken, this is a continuous vector field with an unstable singularity at the origin such that any initial condition in the punctured disk $\{1 > r > 0\}$ tends toward the periodic orbit $\{r = 1\}$. share|improve this answer This is what I was looking for, so I tried to carry out the computations. It turns out (if I'm still able to solve ODEs) that the integral curve starting from $(r_0,\theta _0)$ is given by $r(t)=\frac{r_0 e^t }{1-r_0 +r_0 e^t }$ and $\theta (t)= \theta _0 + ln (1-r_0 +r_0 e^t)$. So this is a complete vector field with integral curves bounded in the unit ball and tending towards the special orbits in $0$ and $S^1$ as $t \to -\infty$ or $+\infty$. Thank you very much! –  Lor Jan 31 '13 at 11:58 add comment How about this flow in $\mathbb{R}^3$: $$\begin{align} \dot{x} &= -\beta y + 2zx\\ \dot{y} &= \beta x + 2zy\\ \dot{z} &= 4 - x^2 - y^2 + z^2 \end{align} $$ If one embed $\mathbb{R}^3$ into $S^3 \subset \mathbb{R}^4 \sim \mathbb{C}^2$ through the mapping: $$\begin{align} (x,y,z) &\to (X,Y,Z,W) = (\frac{x}{1+r^2/4},\frac{y}{1+r^4/4},\frac{z}{1+r^2/4},\frac{1-r^2/4}{1+r^2/4})\\ &\to (U,V) = (X+iY, Z+iW) \end{align} $$ the above flow can be rewritten as: $$\begin{align} \dot{U} &= i\beta U\\ \dot{V} &= -4 i V \end{align} $$ This flow is a rotation in $U$ direction with speed $\beta$ and $V$ direction with speed $-4$. If $\beta$ is irrational and $|U|, |V| \ne 0$, the flow line will not repeat and fill the surface of a torus. This flow in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is possible because of the famous Hopf fibration of $S^3$ by $S^2$. If you want to have a feeling how the torus are nested, the wiki page of Hopf fibration is a possible start. share|improve this answer This example is really nice, thank you! Let me see if I get the geometry of this. The integral curves starting from $(U_0,V_0)$ are given by $(U(t),V(t))=(U_0 e^{i\beta t},V_0 e^{-i4t})$, so they live on a torus in $S^3$. If I take $|U|=|V|=1$, isn't this the canonical Heegaard surface of genus 1 for $S^3$? –  Lor Jan 31 '13 at 12:53 Do you mean $|U| = |V| = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$? It is clearly a torus and acted as a Heegaard surface of genius 1. I don't know whether it is the canonical one you referred to. I've only heard of their names but never studied them. –  achille hui Jan 31 '13 at 13:26 sure, I was thinking about unit vectors, but I haven't written it properly. Anyway this is what I mean with "canonical Heegaard surface of genus 1 for $S^3$", so I'm really happy with this example, thanks again! –  Lor Jan 31 '13 at 14:07 add comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × When I insert the following integration command in wolframalpha: Hypergeometric2F1[1, 2/3, 5/3, -2*y^-4*(2*10^14)^(3/4)]* BesselI[2, x*y*Sqrt[2*pi]],{x,0,0.25},{y,0,Infinity}) I get the following numerical result 6.68805 However, inserting the same command in Mathematica as follows: I get the following output (no result) enter image description here Am I doing something wrong in Mathematica? Does the wolframalpha site has extended functionality compared to Mathematica (in the above concept). Thanks in advance PS: I suppose that wolfralpha translates int() as NIntegrate in the specific case. share|improve this question My eyes got pain, plz Latex :-) –  B. S. May 16 '13 at 15:37 To anyone thinking about editing this: Please do not merely substitute plaintext with LaTeX. This question is asking about outputs of Mathematica and WolframAlpha and it will do answerers no good to have only the pretty LaTeX without having something they too can put into these programs to replicate the error. –  Eric Stucky May 16 '13 at 15:50 @Eric: This is why I have expressed my question in this form. Thank you for your kind comment. And of course I am very sorry for my big and ugly expression, yet, this is what I am looking for. –  dioxen May 16 '13 at 15:51 What happens if you use $int$ in both cases? My guess is that the code uses different algorithms and branches within those algorithm. You can certainly use integrate in both cases, but I do not believe you can use nintegrate in WA. –  Amzoti May 16 '13 at 16:48 Eric is correct that it doesn't make a lot of sense to input this as LaTeX. I think it does make sense to type it in as code, however. This is very easily accomplished by simply indenting your code block four spaces, as I've done in my edit. –  Mark McClure May 17 '13 at 15:37 add comment 1 Answer up vote 5 down vote accepted I think the apparent answer to your problem is that you entered in Mathematica: NIntegrate[pi^2 ... blah ] ... and in Mathematica, Pi is the exact real number $\pi$ = 3.1415 ... but pi is just a name like cat or mouse. Capital letters matter. Wolfram Alpha is more flexible about such things, perhaps because it needs to be. This explains why you would get the message about your expression not being numerical, because it contains a pi (or a cat or a dog). share|improve this answer Indeed, if you replace pi by Pi, Mathematica 8 spits out the numerical answer. –  MathJJ May 16 '13 at 17:38 Thank you wolfies, the answer is simple and the result indeed derived. Until now, mathematica translated pi as Pi for simpler expressions. –  dioxen May 16 '13 at 21:07 add comment Your Answer

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When submitting a question that contains invalid domain, please update the error message to correctly address the : Code Sample (single quote). There is 'Blockquote' and 'Code Sample' - but NO: 'code block' share|improve this question "wrapping it in a code sample" would make even less sense. Better wording might be "...or wrapping it as a code sample". –  Shadow Wizard Oct 21 '12 at 9:52 They both mean the same thing really. –  BoltClock's a Unicorn Oct 21 '12 at 10:07 @BoltClock'saUnicorn Yes, they do, but for clarity - They need to match each other by name. –  Saariko Oct 21 '12 at 11:27 add comment You must log in to answer this question. Browse other questions tagged .

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« ... Then the other shoe drops on roster-churn Tuesday | Main | An insider's view of the Soliai-Dolphins negotiations » Dolphins close but not quite there in the red zone I was watching Monday Night Countdown on ESPN the other evening when Trent Dilfer and Steve Young began talking about Sam Bradford and his struggles in the red zone. And, of course, I brought the conversation home to South Florida. To Chad Henne. To the Miami Dolphins' offense. And to their red zone problems so far this season. "You don't make your money in between the 20s," Dilfer said of playing QB. "You make your money from the 20 in against pressure." Young, a Hall of Famer, agreed. "The easiest thing to do is go between the 20s [but] inside the 20s is graduate work," he said. " .. you got to realize that for a lot of players that's the final step for them -- how to put it in the end zone. Because nobody is really ever open in the red zone. It's not just against the blitz but also zone. "A lot of times young quarterbacks will say, 'Read the defense, do a nice job, drop the ball down, and kick a field goal.' And after about 16 field goals in a row you realize that's not the job. You have to throw somebody open." Again, they were talking about Sam Bradford. But it all applies to Henne and his play so far in 2011. He's had relatively high success moving the team up and down the field between the 20s. But inside the 20s, the Dolphins are ranked No. 31 in the NFL with an unacceptable 60 percent scoring percentage. Henne has to learn to throw receivers open. He has to learn to make precise, accurate throws and make them with anticipation -- something he's struggled to do at times. Against the Texans, Henne completed 3 of 8 passes inside the opponent 20 yard line for 16 yards and 1 TD. Not very good. So there is that. But ... Miami's struggles in the red zone are not all Henne's doing. Not by a long shot. The Dolphins have struggled the first two games to rush the ball when it counts most. That is very frustrating. And Dolphins' receivers haven't exactly helped Henne, either. No. 1 receiver Brandon Marshall has had two opportunities in the end zone that have hurt his team because he had two drops of potential touchdowns -- one against New England and one against Houston. One of those at first to me seemed like a late throw by Henne. I said as much on the live blog. But I was wrong. Looking at the throw in the following series of screen shots sent to me by reader Justin Reader, it is obvious Henne threw an amazing pass to Marshall from the 16 yard line in the fourth quarter on Sunday. Miami was trailing 16-10 at the time. Matched against former Dolphins DB Jason Allen, Marshall is in man-to-man coverage: Marshall drop 1 Marshall beats Allen (no surprise) and the ball is in the air with about eight yards to spare between the players and the end line. Marshall drop 2 Ball's almost there. Five yards to spare between players and the end line. Allen is watching helplessly. Marshall drop 3 Marshall's got it. The ball is in his grasp. Now he must hold on and get both feet in bounds. He's got about four yards to work with. Marshall drop 4 Still looking good. He's got three yards to secure the ball and get his feet in bounds. Allen? Helpless. Marshall drop 5 This is now looking like a TD. Just hold on, Brandon Marshall! Marshall drop 6 Whoops! Ball is no longer in Marshall's grasp. He basically flipped it away as he was trying to secure it. Marshall drop 7 Yup, this is not going well. Now we have to hope Allen doesn't catch the rebound for an interception. Marshall drop 8 Incomplete pass. Marshall had it in his grasp. He would have had room to tap his feet in. It could have, should have been a touchdown that put the Dolphins ahead 17-16. Instead Dan Carpenter had to kick a 34-yard field goal to make the score, 16-13 in Houston's favor. Marshall completes this catch, the game changes. The mood changes. Momentum shifts. Miami's red zone results change. Instead, I'm writing about the team's red zone problems. Bottom line: Somebody's got to make a play. Miami's playmakers have got to make a play. If they don't, we shouldn't call them playmakers any more. TrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Dolphins close but not quite there in the red zone: DKM, did you watch the game against philly and the game against the giants? Braford did not look like a Frachize QB. I'm not saying he won't become one but he's not there yet. I actually think he regressed when they brought in mcdaniels to be the OC. He took the team close to playoffs last year because of their schedule and the fact that NFC west is like a BCS league instead of NFL. I realize that fantasy points don't matter...but Henne is ranked 7th on the QB list with 45 pts. just behind Rodgers & Fitzpatrick. But ahead of Vick, Rivers, Sanchez, Ryan, Flacco. Point being, statistically Henne is having a pretty good year. But in reality, he still sucks in the red zone when it matters. Craig I agree. I don't think Bradford looks any better than henne right now and neither are frachize QBs right now. Marshall has been making Henne look bad for 2 years now. Blown routes, drops, dirty looks, not getting open. Marshall is a playmaker? Yeah right. More like whiner, crybaby, diva that cannot live up to the hype. I will take a 40 y.o. Terrell Owens right now over this POS. Chad Henne outta grab him by the facemask the next drop pass or dirty look he gets. And Chad, do it on national tv. Marshall is garbage. Jeez do you see the receivers Bradford throwing too. No one! TE No one! O line! Worst than Dolphins! I wouldnt take Bradford over Henne right now, but he will be a pro bowler is 4th season. MArk my words! NJ fins, you hit the nail on the head. Our Alfa receiver shows spirts of a low tier #1 WR, But most of the time shows he is at best a good to average #2. I think he can be a real good #1, but he needs to follow the game plan, or work on hand signals with his QB if he is breaking routes. After the Cleveland game they should fly straight to San Diego and get ready for the Chargers, and no time off, keep them in the film room until they all know there jobs.Can't do it, time to find a coach who will demand that they get there head out of there.... and see the sun. Bill The Dolphins look like a bunch of individuals not a team. No one on either side of the ball elevates anyone else. Henne's obviously trying but he may be more of a B than an A. Thought JT would be the defensive glue, and he may help down the road but not yet. Have generally been a Sparano backer but am starting to waiver. DKM, I think Bradford is a franchise QB also. And some of the things you said are true. Bradford has a far better line than we do, but our receivers are better, our TE is about the same, and our running back here are worse than there. the point is, Bradford also has red zone issues. And it is more the talent around him that makes that difficult. It is the same story with Henne is what most are saying. the point is, there is not reason to doubt Henne can be a franchise guy, but the pieces around him would not allow God himself to be a franchise QB here in Miami. Who cares about Sam Bradford. QB is not our problem. When you can't punch the ball in from the 5 with 4 plays, your alpha receiver drops TD passes, and your placekicker screws the pooch on a couple of chip shots, it doesn't matter what your QB does between the 20's or anywhere else. This team is not prepared to compete. Is Sparano really calling plays now? Does anybody know this for a fact? Dog help us... What's Marty Schottenheimer doing? I don't care how old he is. At least we'd get IN TO the playoffs. Here's a nightmare...you want to talk about Cowboy castoffs? Let's go get Norv for HC after he gets canned this year. That'll be another 3 years lost from my life. go fins. Boulder, totally agree. Neither is a 'franchise' QB at this point. DKM, respectfully you're simply buying into the media hype on Bradford and nothing else at this point. I like the kid and I think he has a chance to be good but he's not there yet and to simply annoint him that is foolish. You mention 'Bradford had better numbers in his rookie year than Henne had in his 4th'. Huh? How is that evern possible? Henne hasn't even played 4 years yet. This is technically his 4th year, although he did sit on the bench his rookie year, so I'm not sure what you would have liked him to have done that season. Games played Henne is just reaching the two year mark. So your boy Bradford is only about 14 starts or so behind him....just so we're talking about things accurately. DKM, go back and look at Bradford's numbers closely last year and compare them to Henne's. Really not a huge difference. Certainly not enough to CLEARLY say one guy is franchise, the other guy is not. A reminder, both teams finished 7-9 last year and both teams are 0-2 this year. Bradford's numbers are exactly the same as Henne's...They are both 0-2. Craig M, I meant his third year jeez I would think your smart enough to realize this. Anytime a rookie QB stats are comparable to a 3rd year player at QB thats a problem. I dont care about media hype I like to form my own opinions because I know and love football thank you very much! What are we? The team that rebuilds with old has-been players from Dallas. Come on Ross grown some. Get rid of TS and Ireland and we're ready for some football. Henne is obviously good enough to start in the NFL or he would have been gone after last year. I see good energy between him & Daboll on the sidelines...unlike old father time who stayed up in the booth. ...but, there is a difference between good enough to start in the NFL & being an alpha leader who brings out the best in those he leads. Brady does it, so does Rodgers. Their god given leadership abilities inspire others to give 110%. IMO, Henne cannot inspire to that degree and therefore will never ascend to the upper level of QB play needed to carry a team deep into the playoffs. Sorry guys, its my opinion and I'm sticking to it. Like Ive been telling everyone on here Henne just a servicable guy. the element of surprise allows for an average team to play spoiler or create an upset and makes good teams unbeatable. right now no one is expecting miami to be really good, that would be a surprise, so would better tackling, better play from the recievers and all around better defense. right now miami needs the element of surprise in the form of unexpected play calling and formations. it wasn't a big surprise that brady ran the hurry-up, but it was a big surprise that they practically used it the whole game as they also did with the triple tightend set. this wasn't expected and therefore made a good team(the pats) unbeatable. the fins playing up to their ability would be a big enough surprise in istelf but that's currently NOT an option, so we must resign ourselves to the fact that we are an average team that needs trickery to pull off the upset. maybe after we master the more complex issues like a successful hurry-up, using players correctly to exploit their talent, our version of the triple tightend set(which other teams are already starting to impliment)just maybe after that we can work on the basics like tackling and coverages. nonetheless the exploitation of a successful gadget used unpresedently will reap rewards as did the pats in game 1. DB, the end zone fade is a depth/timing/spot play. Henne's fade pass was awful in NE, and to boot it was thrown to flatline. Posted by: Poizen | September 21, 2011 at 09:16 AM Poizen, 4-5 goaline fades/jump balls in that game. 3-4 to Marshall. 2 of em in a row that sailed out of bounds. Stop focusing on the 1 to Hartline, which also sailed out of bounds. Kris, with that said, of course Marshall deserves some criticism! Sometimes he plays like Ginn, dropping the game winner on Monday night vs. the Colts. I felt the same way watching Marshall drop that ball. He gets payed big money to make those catches. Aside from that drop, I think he has played well though. He had the drop on the goalline vs. NE but he was also blanketed on the play. He & Henne had a miscommunication on another goaline play where henne threw in & Marshall expected out & almost got picked. Realistically, it's a new offense, 1st game, those are to be expected. I don't know which picture of Henne you're referring to. I actually tried to convince people to not buy into the ravings of how good practices were & how they looked in preseason. You see all the jumping ship & discontent now? None of this should surprise anyone with 2 eyes & a fully functional brain. Coaching & managerial incompetence coupled with a roster with 48 mediocre players & 5 very good players equals a sub .500 record. We're right on schedule! I see the Browns are 2.5 half point favourites this week. That sounds about right to me. The 'Phins should continue to be under-dogs until they show something different. However, I'm going out on a limb and saying they will win the game this week. First time I have picked them all year. I'm expecting a different team to show up Sunday. I think this truly is a MUST win game. Lose this one and I don't believe there is any hope they can save their season. I'm optimistic they will be better as a road team and that Daboll will know how to attack the Cleveland defence. Call me a fool for thinking this but I just can't believe this team will go out and lay an egg every single week. henne is a pro bowler on belichicks team RIGHT NOW as is Marshall....its all about the coaching and the schemes...Marshall would be the beast he is supposed to be in NE...fire the coach...talent is there....motivation from sparano is not....he is not a leader would be nice to continue to be pleasntly surprised by d thomas.....a breath of fresh air hard running and a nice burst....like i said the talent on this team is much better than its collective performance week in and week out,,,, COACH NEEDS TO GO djrob...with all due respect there is no way Henne is a pro bowler on the Pats. He cannot make the reads that Brady can...and as we established this morning, he cannot make the throws needed (or the calls) in the red zone. Henne is a middle of the pack, average QB who may get a bit more effective in the correct system, but not "pro bowl" better. I'm coming to that realization also. I belive that day is coming. This team can't continue to be mediocre and expect things to remain the same. Nobody can say at the end of Sparano's time that he wasn't given every opportunity. The results just aren't there and that means change. Yes, BM sometimes drops catchable balls. On the bright side, he wasn't dropping many passes in the corner of the end zone last year. Progress! Yeah Marshall droped that catch..But what about the other drop that hit him in his hands..He's a QB and team killer.He seems to have a mental block. What about the fade they threw him in the endzone..Why run a quick stop and go with a WR thats 6'4..He dosen't have the ablity to get out quickly after the stop? im just saying that Jeff Fisher, Rex Ryan even Chan Gailey would have the O playing much differently than Sparano has these guys playing...you cannot argue that Sanchez has better tools than Henne...he throws two picks a game and no one says boo up here because he is put in position to recover both by the staff and the Dee....Once you lose the locker room and JT has to roust the team out of real practice BS, its over...hate to say it cuz i couldnt wait fo rhte opener i was bullish on this team, but they seem to have mailed it in already....cant tackle, cant catch...then you cant win games guys, go read crowders comments on the ss joe rose blog if you haven't yet. How many times do we have to hear/read those agonizing words "Henne has to learn to...."For crying-out-loud!Checkdown Chad has been a starter long enough that inexperience can no longer be an excuse for incompetence.Sure BM drops too many passes(perhaps he should be docked for each drop),but Henne is more to blame for the lack of scoring.And another thing that infuriates me--the Fins passed on several opportunities to upgrade the TE position,but again failed miserably to help this offense.Would someone please call Palmer's agent? henne is beyong horrible Bottom line this team cannot win in this division when you look up and see Belicheck, and Ryan leading better teams against us. Brady and Sanchez are also both leaps and bounds ahead of Henne, say what you will of Sanchez but he has total control of that offense the guys respect him and he is a leader. I wish Pennington never fell into our lap 3 years ago Sparano wouldn't he here now and we'd be markedly better team now. That year screwed us. Everyone drank too much kool aid and now here's the hangover. Folks season over, hope that some young guys can get playing time and get better because entire staff is gone by 2012. 3-13 is a clear possibility, we are a bottom 5 organization. Truth sucks and hurts but it is what it is and the truth is this team doesn't believe in it's coach and most of the guys play without heart. New attitude needs to be brought to Miami. Sorry, you can't blame Henne for dropped TD passes or missed FGs and that was the difference in the Houston loss. You also can't pin DT's fumble on Henne. Too many mistakes across the entire team for Henne to overcome by himself. Zero accountability and poor coaching are to blame. Pointing the finger anywhere else is just a diversion. This team has the talent to win but doesn't. That's a coaching issue, pure and simple. Its almost like the Dolphins don't have any redzone plays. They think their playbook works between the goal lines all the time. When are you going to get it through your head this team has no MANAGEMENT worth mentioning. Heck, didn't they take a day off instead of working on their red zone offense? They always talk about the HUMP but never do anything about the HUMP. A HUMP to me means SPENDING the money to get someone to help us get over the HUMP. I have an assignment for you and your crack staff. How many times has Marshall been targeted in the redzone? Should be easy to figure out. Sparano keeps stats on everything including how many times a player needs to take dump. Mando: "Tony, how many times has Marshall been targeted in the redzone"? Tony: "We haven't had the chance because he's plus two on the taking a dump numbers". I might be wrong but I don't remember that many times Marshall was even targeted in the redzone. If I am correct then why isn't our best WR being targeted in the redzone? If I am wrong then its been some quiet targets. @I'm Chaos So who do we blame besides Henne? Is it your position everyone is to blame EXCEPT Henne? Are you Jeff Ireland?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! If we were 2-0 you would be thanking Henne. So why is it if we're 0-2 Henne is not the blame? @Finsfan Ralph Exactly!!! How many times must we hear how Henne needs to grow? How many games must we hear how Henne needs to make those throws? How many YEARS must we hear Henne needs to prove himself? Too many times, games and years for Henne to get his stuff right. Yet, here we are AGAIN going over the exact same stuff we've been going over for the last 4 years. Joe Rose: "What do you see as the biggest problems, from general manager to coach and on down"? Its the truth Mando. Its the truth... Back @ Tony Suckrano You can blame Henne for the things he's responsible for. But you can't blame him for things that I mentioned. Once he lets go of a pass somebody has to catch it, once he hands off someone has to carry it without fumbling. Once he drives the team within FG position, somebody has to kick the field goal. Are you saying all of those responsible for those things are off the hook because they're not the QB? I'll never agree. EVERYONE has to do their job. And right now, they aren't. Now account for the pass that was perfect that Brandon Marshall flat out drops and he's 4 of 8 for 32 yards and 2 TD's. That's excellent. Amazing how 1 dropped pass from the supposed best WR on the team takes the QB from Excellent to not very good. what is henne like 5 and 25 on 3rd downs.?. u ain't winning chit with those #'s. The ball was a little overthrown. Look how far away from Allen the ball is in the 1st picture. Does it really need to be thrown that far, at the very limit of Marshall's reach? Granted it's "catchable" but Henne didn't help Marshall much and the OL probably didn't help Henne much. All around poor teamwork that falls on Sparano's shoulder. It's a domino effect with all fingers pointing to the ring leader, Sparano. We will be in the running for a new head coach this year as I just don't believe this team will do any better than 9 and 7 and could do as bad as 6 and 10. Niether one of these results would ensure Sparano keeps his job. I honestly think the phish should turn over every rock in looking for a new head coach rather than just signing Cowher or Fischer because they have big names. Different sport but great example of a leader is Joe Maddon of the Tampa Bay Rays. Maddon was by no means a big name signing by the team but they evaluated him and decided he would be the right man for the job. He coaches a small market team in a division with two of the biggest spending teams in the MLB. Every year Maddon brings his 56 million dollar roster up against Red Sox and the Yankees. These teams triple the amount of money spent by the Rays on talent. How can the rays win in this division? His players don't make errors play good defense and he knows which pitcher to put in against which hitter. He knows his teams strengths and other teams weaknesses. His players believe in him and it shows on the field. Rather than sign another big name FO and coach Ross god help him should actually dig deep and find the right man for the job not the big name for the job. Who the hell was Shula when he got to Miami? Who the hell was Shula when he left Miami? A hall fame winningest coach in the NFL. Think smart not big. I like the no huddle but when the quarterback completes only 12 of 30 passes hard to run it consistently. Hi guys Been reading but not posting a lot...I agree with CraigM a lot...these red zone problems are COACHING issues....ive been saying it a while...the team is collectively very very good....but the coaching is poor...I really think Sparano is limited...he has shown that as he hasnt been able to even sort out the Oline of which he is an expert ( supposedly). I reckon he is a ra ra guy and not much else...basic drills...basic practices....says a few obscure things etc... He is not getting the BEST out of this group at all....its COACHING.!!!! Don't forget that Clyde Gates dropped that pass going across the middle around the 15-yd line that would've easily gone for a first down if not all the way to the end zone - can't anyone make a catch on this team when it counts? Plain and simple Henne was forced to play it too safe until this year and is timid on the fade routes. He waits a split second too long out of fear the receiver won't be open, and he leads them too much out of fear of the interception. Despite this obvious weakness, he looks much better and showing toughness by standing in there time and time again after getting drilled due to another missed block. If there is a young QB available next year who is a clear long term upgrade then we should take him. I applaud Ireland for not succumbing to pressure to overpay a washed up veteran who may get us to 500 at best. How bad would Hasselback or Mcnabb look behind this blocking. The TE has developed into the #1 weapon for most teams, but we have to keep ours in to help the worst RT in the league. God decision to tap the Cowboys rejects hall of fame on that one and hand him the starting job Sparano/Ireland. Please move Carey back to tackle and play somebody , anybody else at guard. Carey wasn't great at tackle, but clearly better than Columbo. And he sucks as a guard. « 1 2 3 The comments to this entry are closed.

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Happ has been in the big leagues since 2008, but there's a possibility all of that could change this year. Following the acquisitions of R.A. Dickey, Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle, Happ has not only lost his starting job, but perhaps also his spot on the 25-man roster. It will be an odd feeling for the 30-year-old southpaw, who enters Spring Training with no guarantees on what the future may have in store. "Once we traded for R.A [Dickey], I called J.A. immediately, and he understood," general manager Alex Anthopoulos said. "He wants to start like anybody else. He was excited to potentially be a starter on this team. Right now, he's the sixth starter, but he knows things can change fast. "I can't assure him he will be on the team, and that's just being honest. I'd rather have the uncomfortable conversation immediately so no one has been lied to, no one has been misled." Happ was the centerpiece of a multiplayer deal with Houston prior to last year's non-waiver Trade Deadline. At the time of the deal, it wasn't exactly certain where Happ would be slotted into the rotation, but there was no question that he remained part of Toronto's future. That's no longer quite as certain, and in some ways, Happ has become a victim of his contractual status. Happ has an option remaining on his contract and is a strong candidate to begin the year with Triple-A Buffalo. It could be a nightmare scenario for Happ, but it's a perfect one for the Blue Jays. If and when someone in Toronto's rotation gets hurt, the club will be able to immediately turn to a proven pitcher to help fill the void. It's the type of luxury the organization hasn't had in years. "The one thing I did tell J.A. is that I'm almost 100 percent certain that we won't go through the season with just five starters," Anthopoulos said. "We'll definitely need somebody else, so he has to continue to do his part. "The hope is that everyone stays healthy, everyone has a great camp and we have some tough decisions to make. But based on past experiences, things will change -- I'm sure -- when we get into camp." There still is a chance that Happ could crack the Opening Day roster as a reliever, but that, too, appears to be an uphill battle. Toronto is expected to carry two left-handed relievers in the bullpen. One of those jobs will go to Darren Oliver, while Happ will compete against Brett Cecil and Aaron Loup for the final spot. In other circumstances, Happ might be considered the favorite, but once again, contractual status is expected to play a role. Cecil is out of options and would need to pass through waivers in order to be sent to the Minor Leagues. That could be enough to secure Cecil a spot after making a transition from starting to relieving last year. Happ, meanwhile, just has to pass through optional waivers before joining Buffalo. In other words, Toronto could pull Happ off waivers if another team put a claim in without running the risk of losing his services. On the surface, that may appear difficult, but in reality, it's a mere formality and not one that is expected to cause Anthopoulos any troubles if that's the route he decides to take. "I don't think in the history of the game anybody has ever been claimed on optional waivers," Anthopoulos said. "It doesn't mean a club can't, it's just something I haven't seen done and everyone needs to do it. "It's basically a way to block someone from sending the player down, and you'd probably have wars going back and forth if that happened. It's pretty standard and it doesn't really impact anything. I've never seen players get claimed, but it doesn't mean they can't be." Happ was unavailable to comment on his current situation, but according to Anthopoulos, Happ took the news relatively well. There has been no trade demand and the two sides recently avoided arbitration by signing a one-year, $3.8 million contract. That's a lot of money to earn in the Minors, but a worthy investment for Toronto to make. Last year, injuries forced the club to use 12 starting pitchers, and while a similar fate hopefully will be avoided this season, there is still a need for precautions. Happ represents the first wave of defense, and he will be joined by the likes of rookie Chad Jenkins, Minor League free agent Justin Germano and right-hander Brad Lincoln, who was recently informed he'll begin Spring Training as a starter. It's a suitable amount of depth to have and should help the Blue Jays survive the rigors of a 162-game schedule. Happ might not know exactly what will happen this year, but the fact that he's at least somewhat understanding is music to Anthopoulos' ears. "J.A.'s a pro," Anthopoulos said. "Obviously he's not happy about it in the sense that he wants to be a starter -- he's always wanted to be a starter. He told me he was excited about the team, being a part of it, being a part of the rotation. That's where his heart lies. "I believe J.A. has the ability to do all of those things, but right now, with the trades we made and adding a guy like R.A., we're not going to turn down the opportunity to get a Cy Young winner. If that changes things for the start -- if that means he's in the bullpen or he's optioned, however things work out in Spring Training -- then so be it."

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Vodafone's $10 billion German takeover   @AlannaPetroff June 24, 2013: 7:09 AM ET vodafone telecom store Vodafone is paying a total of 7.7 billion euros to buy Germany's Kabel Deutschland. Vodafone is set to take over Germany's leading cable operator for $10.1 billion. Both Vodafone (VOD) and Kabel Deutschland issued statements saying they were happy with the all-cash deal. The U.K.-based telecom giant is offering 87 euros for each Kabel Deutschland share, for a total of 7.7 billion euros. This seems to end the short-lived battle between Liberty Global (LBTYA, Fortune 500) and Vodafone; both companies had been pursuing Kabel Deutschland. Vodafone says the purchase will allow it to continue growing in the German market and cross-sell Kabel Deutschland TV and broadband services to its existing customers. Vodafone is one of the world's largest mobile communications companies with a market capitalization of roughly $132 billion. Kabel Deutschland, which bills itself as Germany's largest cable operator, provides services to over 8.5 million households. To top of page Join the Conversation CNNMoney Sponsors

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Neeson, Ribisi join MacFarlane’s western comedy Liam Neeson and Giovani Ribisi are the latest actors to saddle up for Seth MacFarlane’s western comedy “A Million Ways to Die”. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on Neeson (“Taken”), saying he’ll be playing an outlaw in the “Blazing Saddles”-like film. A Million Ways to Die follows a cowardly sheep farmer (MacFarlane) who chickens out of a gunfight and sees his girlfriend (Amanda Seyfried) leave him for another man. When a mysterious woman (Charlize Theron) rides into town, she helps him find his courage. But when her outlaw husband arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test. Neeson would play Theron’s outlaw husband. Deadline says Ribisi (“Gangster Squad”) has also joined the cast, playing a character Jonah Hill was originally set to play.

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1UP Network: 1UP | GameVideos | MyCheats | GameTab Mass Effect 3 SuperGuide Medal of Honor for Xbox 360. Also available on PS3 PC Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre: Shooter Release Date: Oct 12, 2010 ESRB Rating: Mature 1UP'S Medal of Honor Game Page SuperGuide Help Medal of Honor Walkthrough and Strategy Wiki SuperGuide Jan 4, 2011 SuperGuide description goes here. 09: Neptune's Net Oct 12, 2010 You're almost weaponless, save for your combat knife, and still woozy from the crash. Bring up your HUD and make your way to Mother. There aren't any enemies for some time, so you don't have to worry about being shot at. However, your night vision optics are messed up; switch them on and everything goes green, but with an annoying flicker. Medal of Honor Walkthrough and Strategy SuperGuide You'll see a lot of this when you use your NVG's. Yes, it's annoying, so keep 'em off until you absolutely need them. Follow the path (there's only one way to go) until you see some light in a tiny alcove. There's a bad guy here, but his back is to you. Sneak up on him and perform a melee attack. Pick up his weapons, but stick with the silenced pistol. Medal of Honor Walkthrough and Strategy SuperGuide A little further down the path, there's an enemy fighter standing guard. Just like the other guy, his back should be to you, so stay crouched and knife him. Stealth is key during this S.E.R.E. mission. Just past this point are two more guys, again facing away from you. Keep your knife out and approach carefully. You should be able to shank both of them without trouble, as long as you turn toward your second victim fast enough after killing the first. If your NVG's give you trouble, switch them off. Medal of Honor Walkthrough and Strategy SuperGuide Stay low and shank these fools. Make your way along a small rock path hanging from the cliff face (it's to the left of where the two guys were standing) and stay low. 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There are about seven tangos here, all spread out and on different elevations. You should still have the element of surprise, so stay away from the campfire.  Take them out one-by-one, but if things go south, stay behind cover and pick them off. Your night vision should also be miraculously fixed, so switch it on if you need to. Use silenced weapons only during this part. Continue following Mother, and listen to his instructions. Don't fire unless he gives the OK. When you do have to kill a target, make sure it's a kill shot. There's going to be some fighting up ahead, and even with your NVG's, it'll be hard to make out your targets. Bring up the HUD to give you an advantage. Just like in the first few missions, your NVG's can make things blend into the environment. Watch for movement in the trees. When you and Mother split up, prepare yourself for a fight. Switch off your NVG's and move left up the path. Stay in cover and kill as many as you can. 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5,347pages on this wiki Redirected from Kumo Kumogakure (雲隠れの里, Kumogakure no Sato; Literally meaning "Village Hidden by Clouds") is the hidden village of the Land of Lightning and was founded by the First Raikage. As one of the Five Great Shinobi Countries, Kumogakure has a Kage as its leader known as the Raikage. Thus far there have been four Raikage, the most recent being A. The village is located in a range of tall mountains, and is literally hidden in the clouds. The Raikage works in a large blue structure built into the tallest mountain. Most shinobi of this village seem to have a natural affinity for Lightning Release nature transformation. Nintaijutsu, and kenjutsu are also promoted as preferred fighting styles in this village.[1] The standard attire for the shinobi from this village consists of a long, grey top which gathers just at the waist to give a sash-like appearance, with a matching coloured bottom. Over this they wear white, one-strapped flak jackets and arm as well as shin-guards. Previous Wars Kumogakure Symbol Symbol of Kumogakure. Kumogakure was founded by the First Raikage. At some point, the First Hokage distributed the tailed beasts to the Five Great Shinobi Countries as peace offerings to ensure balance amongst the nations. During the First Shinobi World War, Kumogakure tried to form an alliance with Konohagakure. During a peace treaty ceremony between the Second Raikage and the Second Hokage, the Gold and Silver Brothers staged a coup d'etat. The Hokage was badly injured and the brothers became the most reviled criminals in Kumogakure's history. It is unclear what happened after the failed coup, but a group of Kumogakure ninja known as the Kinkaku Force were responsible for the Second Hokage's death. The First Shinobi War ended with an armistice treaty, but only after all of the Five Great Nations had been seriously damaged. In addition, it was shown in a flashback in the anime that a platoon of Kumo shinobi was decimated by Crystal Release users approximately ten years prior to the start of the series.[2] Taming the Tailed Beasts Hachibi subduing team Kumogakure ninja restraining the Eight-Tails. During the reign of the Third Raikage, some 30 years before the Fourth Shinobi World War, the village was plagued by the berserk attacks of the Eight-Tails, due to its host not being able to control its power. The Third Raikage led special teams to combat and re-seal the Eight-Tails in the Kohaku no Jōhei. Many of the shinobi who participated lost their lives. As they could not dispose of such a valuable war deterrent, the village was forced to look for a more suitable jinchūriki. In time the village would come to select Killer B as the beast's host, and the Eight-Tails' rampages were brought to an end. Kumogakure has had two tailed beasts in its possession: the Two-Tails, sealed within Yugito Nii, and the Eight-Tails, sealed within Killer B. Both are very skilled with their tailed beasts, so much so that B is regarded as one of only four ninja who can completely control a tailed beast. Because of the military potential Yugito and B pose, Kumogakure value both highly. Covert Activities Kumo captures Kushina Kushina Uzumaki being kidnapped. At some point before Madara took control of the Nine-Tails, the Gold and Silver Brothers were assigned to capture it.[3] Despite times of peace, Kumogakure has not demilitarised and in fact constantly sought to have an edge on the other ninja villages, even going so far as to kidnap Kushina Uzumaki both for her unique chakra, and in order to gain control of the Nine-Tails, though their attempt to do so was thwarted by Minato Namikaze.[4][5] Nine years before the start of the series, after the end of another conflict between Kumogakure and Konohagakure, the villages decided to formally end their constant fighting. The Head Ninja of Kumogakure was sent to Konoha to sign a peace treaty. While there, the Head Ninja tried to kidnap Hinata Hyūga so as to gain the Byakugan revealing the true intentions and the treaty to be nothing more than a means to an end. He was killed by her father, Hiashi, but Kumogakure, claiming to have no knowledge of the Head Ninja's motives, demanded Hiashi's body in compensation as per the treaty. They received the body of Hiashi's twin brother, Hizashi, instead, with the latter's cursed seal sealing his Byakugan upon his death foiling Kumogakure's attempt to gain the dōjutsu. To date, no other village has made so many attempts at stealing other techniques as noted by the Third Tsuchikage who stated that during a time when the five nations were at peace, Kumogakure was relentless in their efforts to amass power and techniques — an act which he noted provoked others to employ the Akatsuki.[6] Fourth Shinobi World War Allied Shinobi Forces The Allied Shinobi Forces' headquarters in Kumogakure. After Akatsuki captures Yugito and appears to capture B, the Raikage is so outraged by the loss of both that he convenes a Kage Summit to deal with the criminal organisation. At the meeting, the Raikage voices his distrust for the other villages, claiming that only Kumogakure has never employed Akatsuki or had an Akatsuki representative, even though his constant bid for power was what cause the others nations to employed Akatsuki in the first place. For these reasons, when the Shinobi Alliance is formed, the Raikage was selected by Mifune to lead the other villages in fighting Akatsuki during the Fourth Shinobi World War. Along with the fact that Kumogakure is the strongest of the five villages (due to Konoha's weakened strength from the near-consecutive invasions of the village), Kumogakure has the most influence and the most prepared for war. The other ninja villages agree to have B (having only pretended to be captured) and Naruto Uzumaki sheltered from Akatsuki by Kumogakure; however, they were unaware that Kisame Hoshigaki faked his own death at the hands of Killer B and the Fourth Raikage, and he has been spying on them during the villages' meeting about military strategies while hiding inside Samehada that came with B. The village has also provided a safe location to hide B and Naruto Uzumaki from Akatsuki. Kumogakure then became the location where the Alliance would gather their forces for battle. An entire military settlement was now at the base of one of the mountains which held a massive camp filled with shinobi of all five great nations, as well as Samurai from the Land of Iron. Shortly before the war, Darui is appointed commander of the First Division. In an effort to send that the Allied Shinobi Forces plummeting into confusion, Madara Uchiha had the Ten-Tails destroy the HQ located in Kumogakure with a Tailed Beast Ball. This presumably also caused extensive damage to the village itself.[7] • The second fanbook gives Kumogakure a population size of three out of five stars, a military strength of four out of five stars, and an economic strength of five out of five stars. It has the highest total of the five main shinobi villages, possessing the greatest economic strength and only rivalled in military strength by Iwagakure. • Several shinobi of the village have names that are based on letters of the Roman alphabet, such as "A", "B" and "C" for example. Also, several shinobi have names based on adjectives reflecting their personality, including Omoi (thought), Samui (cold), and Darui (dull) for example. • Additionally, several shinobi have tattoos of kanji upon their shoulders reflecting some individual characteristic like their techniques, name or seal, including Darui, Kinkaku and B for example. • In real life, the Kumogakure school is a ninjutsu school dating back to the sixteenth century. • Several of the village's techniques have a pun of being an English name that has been given kanji that somewhat matches the Japanese pronunciation. • The name of the village, as well as its kanji, is the Japanese word for "disappearance". See Also 1. Second Fanbook page 120 2. Naruto: Shippuden episode 97 3. Naruto chapter 529, page 3 4. Naruto chapter 498, page 14 5. Naruto chapter 542, page 12 6. Naruto chapter 458, page 11 7. 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There are significant reasons why a ban on “downer” cows should not be followed by a ban on downer sows, says a veterinary expert with the National Pork Board. On May 20, the USDA announced a proposed rule to ban non-ambulatory cattle from slaughter, following an April 22 petition from the American Meat Institute, the National Meat Association and the National Milk Producers Federation. Paul Sundberg, DVM, vice president of Science and Technology with the National Pork Board, says that downer cows are truly a species apart from downer sows. The downer cattle issue that led to the largest beef recall in U.S. history wasn't really about animal handling or welfare, despite apparent abuse in a California beef packing plant. The real issue stemmed from a food safety concern because downer cows are associated with mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). While BSE affects very few cows, pigs don't become infected with BSE at all, he explains. Pigs become fatigued from overexertion, turning them into downers when they are not given proper rest. However, the cause is not due to disease, but rather to a buildup of lactic acid in the muscle. It's the same scenario that occurs in humans who run a race and feel tightness in their muscles. “What we are trying to help everybody understand is that if a fatigued pig can't walk, it is not a food safety risk,” Sundberg says. And he says the pork industry is stressing to USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) that meat plant inspectors must uniformly apply a policy that differentiates between a fatigued pig that can't walk and a cow that can't walk. When that fatigued pig is given proper rest, it can recover and still be processed for consumption, Sundberg says. “It's a natural process that pigs must go through in order to recover.” Producer Education The need for education extends to pork producers, too. “Producers may not understand fatigued pigs either, because they may not see them. If they are able to get them on the truck and haul them to slaughter, they get their sales ticket and they go home,” Sundberg says. But a pig may not show signs of fatigue until it gets further into the packing plant. The Pork Board is preparing an educational report on what producers can do to help avoid that condition. “If a producer has a pig that gets away and has to be chased four times down the alleyway before it gets loaded onto a truck, it is probably at risk for being a fatigued pig when it gets to the packing plant,” Sundberg states. Proper sorting and handling of pigs throughout the loading process can help reduce the incidence of fatigued pigs. Truckers can do their part by providing appropriate bedding or sand, according to weather conditions, to keep pigs from slipping and moving around during transportation. Early Detection Producers should try to identify pigs early that are suffering from this metabolic condition. Once identified, segregate and provide proper rest. Sundberg suggests the best management is to cool these pigs down with either air and/or water. “Remember, a pig doesn't sweat, so misting water on a pig can help it cool down, and within a couple of hours the pig should be back on its feet and obviously recovering.” Genetics or other factors may contribute to this condition, too. If a pig is lethargic for more than two hours and does not show any signs of alertness, it should be euthanized. Pending Legislation Since 2003, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) have proposed legislation to ban the slaughter and processing of all non-ambulatory livestock (including pigs), says Jennifer Greiner, DVM, director of Science and Technology for the National Pork Producers Council. Following the California case involving downer cattle being processed at the Westland Packing Co., Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sponsored a bill that essentially says sick livestock cannot be allowed to enter the food chain.

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[an error occurred while processing this directive] BBC News watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 09:49 GMT 10:49 UK Q&A: Face transplant decision Isabelle Dinoire Isabelle Dinoire doesn't regret her decision to have the operation An ethics committee at the Royal Free Hospital has given the go-ahead for the world's first full face transplant. But what does this decision mean? What has been decided? Mr Peter Butler, a surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London, approached the ethics committee at his hospital to seek permission to carry out the world's first face transplant. Gaining approval from an ethics panel is essential for scientists wishing to carry out any research involving humans. The panel has been considering whether the surgery and drugs used afterwards to prevent rejection of the tissue are safe, and whether the patient would be able to cope with any psychological impacts of such a procedure. By giving Mr Butler the go-ahead, they have deemed the operation to be safe and ethical. Does this mean something will happen straight away? Mr Butler said he expected an operation to take place within "a year". He has identified about 30 possible patients who will be assessed to see if they fit the selection criteria. His team will then choose the final four patients, from the UK or Ireland, who will receive face transplants. What will happen during the operation? During the surgery, one team will remove skin grafts and any other reconstructive surgery from the face of the patient. A second team will detach the face from the donor, removing the skin, underlying fat and eight different blood vessels, four arteries and four veins. What has happened so far? Last November, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire was the first person to receive a partial face transplant after she was mauled by her dog. A team of medics, from Amiens in France, transplanted a section of a nose, lips and chin from a donor who was brain dead. In April, Li Guoxing, 30, underwent the 14-hour operation in Xijing hospital, central China, to receive a new upper lip, cheek and nose. Are their risks involved with the procedure? Medically, the procedure does carry risk. In the short term, clots could form in the donated tissue, and, in the longer term, the immunosuppressants may fail. The risks of rejection are relatively high. Senior surgeons estimate one in 10 patients could suffer rejection within six weeks. Up to half could suffer chronic rejection after a year. What are the ethical arguments against face transplants? The psychological effects, both on the patient and on the donor's family, are a major concern. And the recipient would have to come to terms with the fact that they do not look the way they did before. What would the donor look like? face transplant graphic Step one: Skin and muscle tissue, eight different blood vessels, four arteries and four veins cut away from donor's face Step two: Blood vessels and nerves from face section connected to recipient using microvascular surgery 'My face transplant saved me' 17 Oct 06 |  Health Q&A: Face transplant 16 Dec 05 |  Health Chinese face op man 'doing well' 17 Apr 06 |  Asia-Pacific The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Has China's housing bubble burst? How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit Americas Africa Europe Middle East South Asia Asia Pacific

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Page last updated at 13:15 GMT, Thursday, 13 August 2009 14:15 UK 'Mutant' crab saved from the pot Freddie's left claw is positioned 180 degrees in the wrong direction A mutant crab, caught off the Dorset coast, has been saved from the cooking pot because it has two right claws. Freddie, thought to be 10 years old, was caught in a lobster pot off Durlston Head. But because of its distinctive features it was given to Weymouth Sea Life Park where it could live for up to 50 years. Aquarist Roland Hogbent, from the sea life facility, said the left claw had mutated from birth 180 degrees the wrong way. 'Genetic fluke' He also said it was rare the crustacean had survived in the wild because it would not have been able to defend itself. Mr Hogbent said that male crabs sometimes "fight to the death" with their claws. He said: "I expect it's a genetic fluke. It's left arm is positioned 180 degrees in the wrong direction so it appears it has two right claws. "It's not that rare for it to happen but very rare for the animal to survive, usually a hindrance like this usually means it wouldn't survive that long in the wild." Print Sponsor Giant '50-year-old' crabs found 02 Jul 08 |  England Three-clawed 'mutant' crab caught 02 Aug 06 |  Cornwall Lucky crab saved from sushi fate 08 Sep 05 |  Dorset The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Has China's housing bubble burst? How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit BBC navigation Americas Africa Europe Middle East South Asia Asia Pacific

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[an error occurred while processing this directive] BBC News watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Friday, 25 May 2007, 19:05 GMT 20:05 UK Death pool supervision criticised Adrian Miles Adrian Miles was left paralysed after a rugby tackle A swimming pool where a rugby player drowned was not being supervised properly by lifeguards and managers, an inquest jury has ruled. Adrian Miles, 48, was using the pool to recover from a spinal injury he had suffered after a tackle at a charity match 15 months before his death. He was found at the bottom of the University of Wolverhampton's Walsall campus pool on 27 July last year. The inquest jury recorded a narrative verdict on Friday. They said the lifeguards had not been supervising the pool properly and their managers had not communicated clear safety instructions. 'Not paying attention' Mr Miles' wife, Ann, is now planning legal action against the university. She said: "Adrian was a remarkable man and a wonderful husband, father and friend. "Nothing can ever bring him back. We, as a family, are pleased that these findings have been made if only so that a tragedy of this nature can never happen again." The inquest heard the spinal injury Mr Miles suffered while playing for Walsall Rugby Club had caused him to be paralysed from the neck down. He had astounded doctors with the extent of his recovery after being told by some medical staff he would always be confined to a wheelchair. The five day hearing was told Mr Miles started swimming to build up his strength and used a snorkel to help him in the water. Other swimmers said the lifeguards did not appear to be paying attention. One had his back to the water and was talking to a woman. The University of Wolverhampton and the lifeguards on duty have expressed their sympathies to Mr Miles' family. Adrian Miles had been paralysed after a rugby accident Inquest into player's pool death 21 May 07 |  West Midlands Inquiry into swimmer's pool death 05 Sep 06 |  West Midlands Has China's housing bubble burst? How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit Americas Africa Europe Middle East South Asia Asia Pacific

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Woman, fearing apocalypse, tries to halt collider A woman appeals to the highest court in Germany to get the Large Hadron Collider stopped. The court decides she has no proof of any impending doom. Sooner or later, it will all end. Hopefully, this will be before the "Singularity" folks fulfill their metallic dreams. A woman in Germany, however, fears the end really is very nigh indeed. So, according to the Telegraph, she went to her country's most exalted court to get its judges to understand just how nigh our final breaths are. The court didn't disclose her name, nor is there any evidence that she was wearing a sandwich board during her appeal. Her fears, though, surround the Large Hadron Collider, situated beneath the border of France and Switzerland. This troubling and troubled experiment seems to have enjoyed more stops and starts than your average New York traffic light. The Large Hadron Collider. A fearsome sight. (Credit: Cc Image Editor/Flickr) Some find the essence of searching for the God particle an excessively ambitious pursuit for mere mortals. Especially European ones who make YouTube videos. Others are concerned that if a baguette dropped by a bird can halt this scientific wonder, then what catastrophe might some more nefarious animals achieve. One collider physicist has reportedly been arrested on terrorism charges. The woman seemed to believe that she had a chance of stopping the collider because Germany is a member of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that is heading up the experiment. But what seems clear is that the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe had deaf ears to the woman's pleas for the Earth's salvation. It declared that the worried plaintiff was "unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about." Of course her account might have seemed incoherent. She's frightened. I fear, too, that her nightmares of humanity being sucked into a vast black hole might have accessed new dimensions since the case was decided. You see, Agence France-Presse reports that by the first few days of April, the collider will be wound up to hitherto unprecedented levels of power. 7.0 TeV (teraelectronvolts), for those who are excited by such things. Oh, world. It was good to know you. Especially on sunny days. Tech to make part of your St. Paddy's Day festivities Play Video Member Comments

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U.N. declaration could have extreme consequences The Oklahoman Editorial Published: June 11, 2012 When James Anaya, United Nations special rapporteur for the rights of indigenous people, visited Oklahoma last month to take testimony from American Indian tribal officials, we questioned the point of the whole exercise. Anaya was supposedly interested in how the United States aligns with the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But as we noted at the time, there are few places where tribal citizens are more embedded in the broader culture than Oklahoma. Now, it appears we have an answer. During a recent appearance in Catoosa, American Indian activist and legal scholar Walter Echo-Hawk declared the U.N. declaration “would restore the rights of indigenous people taken away by colonialism.” Echo-Hawk went so far as to claim the U.N. declaration may “change the course of history” and would have to be implemented through “advocacy, litigation, legislation and changes in social policy.” Those statements bring to mind the debate over “reparations” for slavery. In both cases, you have people who never personally experienced a particular historical injustice demanding that other people who never personally committed the injustice pony up cash even though neither one was an actual victim or perpetrator. | | Trending Now Around the web 1. 1 2. 2 Class 5A girls: Collinsville falls to Carl Albert 3. 3 Police add mine resistant military vehicles to fleets around Oklahoma 4. 4 Houston dad shoots, kills boy found inside daughter’s bedroom 5. 5 Dachshund Left at Shelter with Heartbreaking Note Will Reunite with Owners + show more

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CBS2-Header-Logo WFAN 1010WINS WCBS tiny WLNYLogo Sandy’s Economic Impact Already Being Felt Hurricane Sandy Clean-Up on Huntington, Long Island Oct. 30, 2102 (credit: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) From our newsroom to your inbox weekday mornings at 9AM. Sign Up Superstorm Sandy NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – In addition to the physical damage caused by what was Hurricane Sandy, the economic impact of the storm will also likely be felt for months to come, experts warned. “Each day, the city generates upwards of $2 billion in economic activity. Some of that will be recovered later on but a portion of that is lost permanently, about $100,000 million to $200,000 million a day and that will result in probably $3 million to $5 million a day in lost tax revenues for the city,” New York City Comptroller John Liu told WCBS 880. Across the entire East Coast, tens of thousands of businesses could be without power for the remainder of the week, possibly longer. SUPERSTORM SANDY: Power Outages | Road & Tunnel Closures | Sandy Claims Lives | Submit Your Pictures |Sandy In Photos | Viewer Pics |  Videos | WATCH: CBS 2 | LISTEN:1010 WINS | WCBS 880 But with a disaster such as Sandy, there is often a rebuilding boom that provides construction jobs which in turn can help stimulate the economy. “Thus far, our office has approved about $23 million of emergency contracts so that the city can help keep people safe as well as start to clear out from the storm,” Liu told WCBS 880 on Tuesday afternoon. Some experts said the long-term impact on the whole may not be too bad. “Assuming that major infrastructure is not damaged, I think the economic impact ultimately will be very small, much like [after Hurricane] Irene,” Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi told CBS News. The New York Stock Exchange will reopen Wednesday, after being shuttered for two straight days. This was the first time the trading floor was closed on consecutive days due to weather since 1888. “People can’t get to work, there’s lost output because of that. Of course there’s a lot of physical damage and that costs a lot of money. But then the insurance money comes in, generally there’s some government aid and the rebuilding begins. So when it’s all said and done a few months down the road, the economic consequences are small or hard to measure,” Zandi told CBS News. President Obama has already signed disaster declarations for New York and New Jersey, which will free up federal dollars to assist in the recovery effort.

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"Have arm, will travel" is Rodney Tafoya's motto. During the week, Mr. Tafoya works as a vice president of a Bank of the West branch in Albuquerque, N.M. On weekends and during vacations, he travels the country as a pitcher for amateur baseball teams in need of one. Rodney Tafoya practices pitching at the Fort Marcy Ball Field in Santa Fe. Jen Judge for The Wall Street Journal At 49, Mr. Tafoya would be considered a dinosaur in most professional sports circles. "I can still throw an 86-mile-per-hour fastball," he says. He is often called on to pitch during games for teams in the affiliated 25-and-over Men's Senior Baseball League and 18-and-over Men's Adult Baseball League. This season he also played for the Taos Blizzards, who are part of the Pecos League, an independent baseball league. Rodney Tafoya, age 49, is a vice president of the Albuquerque, N.M., branch of Bank of the West who pitches for amateur baseball teams, such as the Albuquerque Athletics, on weekends and during vacations. Jen Judge for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Tafoya pitched for Newman University in Wichita, Kan., on a baseball scholarship. When he didn't get drafted by a Major League Baseball team after his senior year season in 1986, he left school to play in the Mexican minor leagues. He returned to Newman in 1988, and a year later he graduated and signed with the Boise Hawks, a Single-A minor-league team. An elbow injury in 1990 forced Mr. Tafoya into retirement from the game and he took a job as a management trainee at a bank in Eugene, Ore. "I thought my pitching career was finished, but a customer of the bank brought in his kid and we started playing catch outside and the pain in my elbow was gone. I thought maybe I could start over," says Mr. Tafoya. In 1993, he started playing for the Eugene Rockies in the Men's Senior Baseball League. In 2007, he joined Bank of West and started playing for a Men's Adult Baseball League. "The 18-and-over league is more competitive," says Mr. Tafoya. "It's a faster game. A lot of the players are in college and come home for the summer and play on this league." Mr. Tafoya, who lives in Santa Fe, N.M., says he uses all of his 4½ weeks of paid vacation for baseball. In the offseason, he keeps his pitching arm in shape by playing in tournaments in the Caribbean. "I try to pitch one game a week if I can," he says. During a game, Mr. Tafoya says his goal is to pitch all nine innings of a game, which he estimates is about 90 minutes on the mound. "I let pain dictate how many innings I throw," he says. The Workout Mr. Tafoya logs at least 25 miles of cardio a week. Monday through Friday, he walks 5 miles at a brisk pace at 5:30 a.m. with his girlfriend. "We found that walks were a nice way to spend time together during the week," he says. He starts Saturday and Sunday with a 10-to-12-mile brisk walk. Three days a week he runs 3 miles on the treadmill. On Wednesdays, he does speed work, running five 20-yard sprints, five 30-yard sprints and five 50-yard sprints. He uses dumbbells to strengthen his arms and shoulders. Jen Judge for The Wall Street Journal Sometimes Mr. Tafoya will wear a 50-pound backpack and climb some of the peaks in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range near Santa Fe. "My latest climb was Nambe Lake, where I climbed in 5 feet of snow to an elevation of over 11,000 feet," he says. "This workout does wonders for my push-off leg on the mound and for my core. It's core strength that supplies the velocity of a pitch." He keeps his arm in shape with a conditioning routine that involves 15 to 20 minutes of long-toss throws at a maximum of 350 feet one day a week. On Sundays, he spends 10 minutes before a game doing long-toss throws of about 300 feet. (A long-toss workout for pitchers involves throwing a ball over certain distances, which extends the arm muscles in a way that promotes strength and health.) The repeated throwing puts wear and tear on Mr. Tafoya's rotator cuff, shoulder and elbow, so he pays close attention to strengthening the muscles around those joints. Two to three days a week he does a strength routine such as lateral and front raises as well as bent-over reverse dumbbell flies using tubing and 1-pound weights. He also does core exercises on a stability ball. The Diet Mr. Tafoya's protein-rich diet includes poached eggs with toast and yogurt and a vegetable and fruit juice he makes in the morning. He regularly brings lunch to work, often a salad topped with tuna or chicken. Dinner is often chicken, turkey, sardines or tuna with a salad. He keeps almonds on hand for snacking. He has two protein drinks a day, but no alcohol or soda. To reduce muscle inflammation, Mr. Tafoya takes three to six caplets of fish oil daily and adds fresh pineapple and ginger root to his juices. He also has an amino acid drink twice a day and takes a glutamine supplement twice a day. Inside Baseball: A Guide to AntiInflammatory Foods to Help Sore Muscles A massage and a hot bath aren't the only ways to relieve sore muscles after a hard workout. What you eat also can help ease the pain. "Certain foods can help decrease muscle inflammation and will have long-term benefits," says Jessica Crandall, a Denver dietitian and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Ms. Crandall says a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, lean proteins, whole grains and fruits and vegetables is ideal for muscle recovery. "Foods work on a cellular level, so you might not notice a difference in the first hour after eating them," Ms. Crandall says. Salmon, tuna and sardines are high in omega 3-fatty acids, she says. Antioxidant-rich foods such as beans, berries, pomegranates and nuts also help reduce cellular inflammation. "Studies have also shown that herbs such as cinnamon, turmeric and even green tea help promote healthy cells and decrease inflammation," she says. Eating protein is important, as it will assist with muscle repair, says Ms. Crandall. "Cutting out or cutting back processed refined grains, salt and trans fats and saturated fats will also help, as these things increase inflammation," she says. Drinking plenty of water also helps to "lubricate your joints and may decrease joint pain," says Ms. Crandall. "After a hard workout most people reach for a protein shake or a bar," says Jae Berman, a San Francisco sports dietitian, "but the best way to help the body recover is to give it the nutrients it needs from a plate of real food." Write to Jen Murphy at workout@wsj.com

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More Americans are eating lunch at their desks or even forgoing it altogether. Is passing up a proper midday break bad for one's health? Chris Cunningham, professor of Industrial-Organizational and Occupational Health Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, offers one view. John S. Dykes Brain Drain The attention it takes people to focus at work drains them of psychological, social and material reserves, says Dr. Cunningham, leading to stress and lower productivity. "Taking a lunch break away from the desk lets people separate themselves from the source of that drain," he says. "And that offers the opportunity to build back some of those resources in the middle of the day—rather than just at the end when work is over." There is no hard data on how much of a break the body needs to fully recover its resources, says Dr. Cunningham. He believes it's person-specific; some might need 10 minutes, while others might need an hour. Gravitate to Green With so much research showing that parking in a chair all day puts a drag on productivity, mood and physical health, Dr. Cunningham suggests ditching the desk at least once at midday to do something energizing: "At least go for a walk down the hall." If possible, he says, use the full break to switch focus to something uplifting—instead of, say, online shopping, reading email or running to the bank. "I wouldn't call that a resource-replenishing moment," he says. Dr. Cunningham cites psychologist William James's 19th-century concept of passive attention, which suggests that people can restock their inner resources by focusing on something that fascinates them and draws them in, seemingly without effort. The easiest way to replenish, research shows: Interact with nature. "Just changing your environment relieves you of the need to decide what you want to attend to, and that in itself poses a sort of relief," says Dr. Cunningham. A Buddy Boost Studies have also shown that connecting to colleagues socially throughout the day can be very energizing. "If you're a service rep or a call-center employee, I could understand why you wouldn't want to take a social lunch," says Dr. Cunningham, "but for some of us, it's different enough from what we've been spending our day doing, and we get a lot out of it." He is a fan of going out with co-workers for lunch frequently—and not talking about work. "That is a resource-replenishing activity," he says. The only downside: "You can't write that lunch off your taxes." Enjoy Eating In a recent exploratory study, Dr. Cunningham asked medical residents to rate the degree to which they found each of their daily activities to be stressful, resource-straining and resource-replenishing. "Eating during work hours was the one activity that was rated only as replenishing, and tremendously valuable to them," he says. Nutritionists have long asserted that eating small amounts throughout the day helps maintain a level metabolism. And most people have experienced the sluggishness that follows a heavy midday meal. "It's certainly not advised to have a Thanksgiving feast for lunch," says Dr. Cunningham. "Then again, you should give yourself a chance to be fascinated with the world around you—and enjoying your food can do that."

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James Gandolfini as Albert and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Eva in 'Enough Said.' Fox Searchlight I can't say enough about the way "Enough Said" keeps its scintillating sense of humor as it grows deeper and more affecting. Nicole Holofcener's romantic comedy, in national release beginning this weekend, stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini as Eva and Albert, middle-age divorcees with kids who chance to meet when they're both facing the prospect of empty nests, and emptier lives. At first the story's tone suggests cheerful sitcom; these two ostensible adults conduct their courtship with all the suave sophistication of middle-schoolers. Yet the undertones have undertones in this beautiful movie, which drills into layers of loneliness, neediness and self-doubt. The setup is beguilingly simple. Eva, a masseuse, is falling in love with the charmingly eccentric Albert, who runs a small television-history archive. At the same time, she's hearing horror stories from a pop-poet client about the client's ex-husband. (The poet, Marianne, is played to narcissistic perfection by Catherine Keener.) Eventually Eva realizes what we may already have guessed, or know from the trailer—that the man Marianne abhors is the same one Eva adores. Who, then, is this Albert person? Is he Mister Right-Despite-Some-Quirks, or Mister Couldn't-Be-Wronger? Marianne is too prejudiced to be a credible reporter, but Eva is too insecure to credit the evidence of her heart. Watch a clip from the film "Enough Said." A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband. Starring James Gandolfini, Toni Collette, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. (Photo/Video: Fox Searchlight) "Enough Said" stakes a claim on our hearts before the first frame lights up the screen; it's the next-to-last film Mr. Gandolfini made before he died. To make matters simultaneously worse (for our sense of loss) and better (for the film), his performance is marvelous—centered, relaxed and so grounded in genial humanity that we quickly switch from watching a beloved actor who has left us to rooting for a character who deserves the best life can give him. Ms. Louis-Dreyfus is equally endearing, and this is ultimately Eva's film, since she's the one stuck in a sort of amatory "Rashomon"; it's painfully funny to watch her figure out which version of Albert is closer to the truth. Pain is a significant part of "Enough Said," while funny is the film's mode at almost any given moment. Just as Ms. Holofcener did three years ago in "Please Give," she has packed a small world of intriguing people into a short running time—this one is three minutes longer than the previous one, which clocked in at 90 minutes on the button—and she's given every one of them lovely lines to toss off as grace notes. (After conducting an anxious search of Albert's bathroom for clues to his personality, Eva asks him why he has so many toothbrushes. "I don't know," he replies, amused and slightly defensive, "they're my friends.") The excellent cast includes Tracey Fairaway as Eva's daughter, Ellen; Tavi Gevenson as Ellen's friend, Chloe; and Toni Collette and Ben Falcone as Sarah and Will, a couple struggling with two relationships at the same time—their own and the one with their fractious housekeeper. WSJ film critic Joe Morgenstern can't say enough about the way "Enough Said" keeps its sense of humor as it grows deeper and more affecting. He joins Lunch Break with a review of the film, which is the next-to-last film James Gandolfini made before he died. (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures) But oh, the pain of it all for Eva and Albert. Some of it is situational, and more or less general—the yearning for intimacy; the perplexity of sex; the mystery of personality at any age, but especially in middle-age, when new relationships may seem as impossible as they are desirable. Much of it, though, is specific to the conflicts and doubts that hold the heroine in thrall. If love is blind, conflicted love is deaf and dumb. Eva is so needy that she projects her neediness on the blithely manipulative Marianne, who will never lack for company. She keeps listening to Marianne's stories about Albert, even though they're poisoning her relationship with the man she thinks she loves. Yet the most potent poison of the piece is fear—Eva's fear of growing old (she jokes about knitting, but continues to knit); of being alone, of not knowing enough, or feeling clearly enough, to trust herself with her own precious fate. She can't find the words to express the depths of her fear; that's understandable. Yet the movie expresses it for her, and entirely in the language of romantic comedy. That's remarkable. 'Inequality for All' Watch a clip from film "Inequality for All," a documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. (Photo/Video: RADiUS-TWC) Jacob Kornbluth's lively documentary is both a polemic and a teaching tool. It's based on "Aftershock," a book, first published in 2010, by Robert B. Reich. Mr. Reich was, most notably, labor secretary under Bill Clinton, and is currently a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. As the film's instructor-host, talking straight to the camera or in a lecture-hall setting, he's consistently engaging and occasionally passionate about the widening gap between America's rich and poor. (The template here clearly derives from Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth.") As the film's star, he's extremely personable, as well as winningly self-ironic, and not only about his short stature, which he addresses with a sprinkling of polished jokes. Looking back on those Clinton years, he asserts that "we didn't do enough, we didn't really alter the underlying trend" of income inequality, and faults himself for growing predictable on the subject: "I became a true pain in the ass. People would roll their eyes." Robert Reich RADiUS-TWC For those conversant with his views, predictable may seem an understatement. Mr. Reich uses his platform to argue, as he has been doing over years and decades, for tighter regulation of the financial sector and, with Warren Buffett showing up in support, for higher taxes on the rich. "We need to replace trickle-down economics with middle-out economics," he contends. "The most pro-business thing you can do is help middle-class people thrive." For wider audiences, though, Mr. Kornbluth's documentary argues eloquently for such unassailable goals as investment in education and infrastructure, and complements Mr. Reich's exposition with compelling interviews of middle-class Americans who don't understand what's happening to them. "How can we not have money?" asks one young woman who, with her family, lives hand-to-mouth, even though she's got a regular job. And with less of a political charge than its host's presence might suggest, the film puts what's been happening—the housing bubble, the 2008 crash, soaring health costs, stagnant salaries, the parallel emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements ("You've got a lot of people who feel the game is stacked against them")—in the context of a globalized economy and a host of technological revolutions that offer hope along with frightening dislocation. "I'm still a cockeyed optimist," Mr. Reich says. "That's why I teach." 'Don Jon' Watch a clip from the film "Don Jon." A New Jersey guy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness with his potential true love (Scarlett Johansson). (Photo/Video: Relativity Media) "You like movies?" an alluring Scarlett Johansson asks in a startlingly effective TV spot for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's debut as writer-director-star. (She asks it in the movie too.) Put me down as a definite yes. I not only like movies, and Ms. Johansson, but I like Mr. Gordon-Levitt a lot as an actor, and I wish him only the best in his future work as a filmmaker. There is, however, the matter of this particular movie, an overheated disquisition on the pleasures and limitations of masturbation. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson Relativity Media The script is shrewd enough in its attitude toward porn (addictive, but empty calories), and its hero's devotion to porn. (Unlike the original Don Juan, Mr. Gordon-Levitt's Jon, a New Jersey guy dubbed Don Jon by his buddies, would rather go it alone.) But the ethnic tropes and accents are almost as cringeworthy as Jon's repetitive liaisons with his laptop computer. (Ms. Johansson's speech patterns are the delightful exception; who knew she could do Jersey with the casual aplomb of Streisand doing Brooklyn?) Enough gets to be enough long before the movie sets Jon on a journey that leads to Ms. Johansson's flesh-and-blood beauty, Barbara, and after some twists and turns, to him finding mutuality in sex and love. 'Friends With Money' (2006) 'Friends With Money' Of the four women in Nicole Holofcener's third feature film, only Frances McDormand's Jane is flamingly angry; she's the most vivid character in the group. Not that the others don't have interesting problems, or that they aren't played with panache: Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack could bring panache to a reading of the stock tables. The movie, set on the affluent West Side of Los Angeles, is a series of acute observations in search of drama, while Jane, a precariously married woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, is her own drama queen. 'Manufactured Landscapes' (2006) 'Manufactured Landscapes' Inspired by the work of the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal's landmark documentary depicts some aspects of the human enterprise described by the term globalization. The film starts with an eight-minute tracking shot down one aisle of a Chinese factory the size of a small town. Then it follows Mr. Burtynsky on a tour of industrial Asia in order to show the scale of man's activities, including China's Three Gorges Dam, and the impact they're having on our planet. I thought I had some sense of that impact until I saw this astonishing film. 'Looper' (2012) Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a young time-traveling assassin named Joe in Rian Johnson's remarkably elegant sci-fi adventure. The actor doesn't quite look like himself, thanks to prosthetic adjustments of his familiar features, though the explanation for that is soon apparent. And the character, confronting himself in a mirror, checks to see if his hairline is receding; it's a nice little joke with the same explanation in the intricate story, which is set mainly in 2044, and also features Bruce Willis. Don't worry about the plot's logic, just see the film next time you can. Write to Joe Morgenstern at joe.morgenstern@wsj.com

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Q: Does the mortgage-interest deduction apply to your second home as well as to your primary residence? S.R.M., New York City A: Yes, at least for 2012. But nobody knows what will happen to this and many other major tax laws after this year. It seems clear that Congress won't eliminate the entire mortgage-interest deduction, no matter what happens in the November elections. But it's too soon to know whether lawmakers will impose significant new limits on the mortgage-interest deduction, including changing the rules for second homes. Here are the basics: The mortgage-interest deduction is available only to homeowners who itemize their deductions on their federal income-tax return. The general rule is that home mortgage interest is "any interest you pay on a loan secured by your home (main home or a second home)," the Internal Revenue Service says in Publication 936, available on the IRS website (www.irs.gov). A home includes "a house, condominium, cooperative, mobile home, house trailer, boat or similar property that has sleeping, cooking and toilet facilities," the IRS publication says. Homeowners typically can deduct mortgage interest they pay on mortgage debt of as much as $1 million, according to the National Association of Realtors. (The limit is $500,000 if you're married and filing separately.) Interest on up to $100,000 of debt on home-equity loans or lines of credit also typically qualifies for the deduction. (The limit is half that amount if you're married and filing separately.) As with so many tax laws, there are many additional wrinkles and complexities, such as a home that a taxpayer rents out to someone else. Those are subjects for another day. If you're interested, read the IRS publication—and you may also need to check with a reliable tax pro. Write to Tom Herman at tom.herman@wsj.com

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Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy; Google (Glass) DEAR GOOGLE GOOG -1.51% Google Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $1189.06 -18.24 -1.51% March 13, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2.32M AFTER HOURS $1185.00 -4.06 -0.34% March 13, 2014 5:50 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 21,441 P/E Ratio 32.54 Market Cap $405.71 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $1,250,730 03/13/14 Google's EU Settlement Still S... 03/13/14 Hospital Okays Google Glass in... 03/13/14 HEARD ON THE STREET: Ciena Off... More quote details and news » GLASS WEARER, Congratulations! You're one of the privileged few who've scored a pair of Google Glass, the futuristic eyewear that puts a tiny, voice-controlled, Wi-Fi-enabled computer on your face. It's the most anticipated gadget since the iPad, iPhone or iAnything, really. And the best part? You members of Google's "Explorer Program"—mostly app developers and supernerds—will be testing Glass in the wild months before the general public will get to wear it, fingers crossed, at the end of the year. Share your #techmanners What are your do's and don'ts of social media etiquette? Share your etiquette tips with us on Twitter using #techmanners or in the comments section. Soon you'll be able to view emails, text messages and maps on a translucent screen hovering in the upper-right corner of your peripheral vision. Breaking news alerts will appear right before your eyes. You'll snap photos just by saying, "OK Glass, take a picture." In other words, you'll be able to perform tasks everyone else has to do with their grubby hands and filthy smartphones—what Neanderthals! Interactive: How Do These Glasses Work? Google says there will be thousands of you Explorers wearing Glass around town over the next few months. I'm jealous, even though it looks dorky. (Just go to the "White Men Wearing Google Glass" Tumblr for proof.) I've spent some time with Glass here and there, mostly asking Explorer pals if I can try theirs, and every time, I almost cried when I had to give it back. Related Video I'm looking forward to the day when Glass is so ubiquitous that wearing one doesn't make you look like a cyborg. But, at the moment, I'm a little concerned. New technology has a way of bringing out our rude and annoying side—just think of the guy who walked into you while composing a text or the woman in line at the dry cleaner who was shouting into her cellphone. And because Glass is a wearable device that calls attention to itself, you early ambassadors have to be on extremely good behavior. I'd hate for you to squander any goodwill toward Glass before the rest of us have a go at it. Here are some basic rules of etiquette for you—and future Glass wearers—to keep in mind: Four Inappropriate Uses for Google Glass Yes, it's fun to wear a voice-enabled computer on your face. Just remember that we can hear your every command Always remember: You have a camera on your head. And there's no way for others to tell whether that camera is on or off. Sure, people might notice the tiny screen near your eye sparkling when they look closely. But that could be anything from a text message to an episode of "Parks and Recreation." Naturally, people are going to be spooked out about whether or not you're recording them. How do you assuage their fears? Don't say, "Well, there are probably cameras recording you right now that you don't know about," or "It'd be easier for me to secretly snap a picture of you with my phone." That all may be true, but still—you have a camera on your head. It's practically a third eye. People have every right to feel uncomfortable. Acknowledge that. Tell them that it was a mistake for Google not to put a red light indicating that a photo or video is being taken, and that you hope there will be one in future iterations (even though evil folk may find a way to somehow disable the light). Be courteous and take the device off in locker rooms, public bathrooms, business meetings, movie theaters and anywhere else where wielding a camera would be improper or offensive. But, you ask, won't that be difficult when Glass is outfitted with prescription lenses one day? Good question. Let's hope Google or a third-party company invents some sort of artful lens cap for the camera. Self-Driving Cars After Google Glass: Cars will drive themselves one day. Goodbye, road rage; hello, highway flirting. Here, Dan Neil's guide to road manners. Use voice commands only when you need to. One day, Glass might become as ubiquitous as mobile phones and it won't be that weird to hear the phrase "OK Glass"—which lets the eyewear know to listen for a command—before a request for a weather update or the Mandarin translation of "Two beers, please." But ask yourself: Can I do whatever I'm about to do with Glass more politely by using my smartphone? It's OK to ask Glass for directions or to quickly respond to a text while walking alone down the street. But if you find yourself dictating long emails or using Glass to tweet whenever you think of something funny, that's just overkill. Don't use Google Glass to make phone calls in public. Yes, it's basically the equivalent of a Bluetooth headset. Yes, people talk on Bluetooth headsets all the time. But it's still annoying. Give it a rest sometimes. You know how that guy with the Bluetooth headset became Bluetooth Headset Guy, the most grating tech villain in existence today? It's because he never took his headset off. (And, yeah, talking loudly to thin air didn't help either.) I know, this slightly defeats the purpose of having a heads-up display and camera that's always at the ready. But for most of your day, try to go for the normal-human look. Also, it's annoying to talk to someone who keeps glancing up and to the right every 10 seconds. Turn Glass off when there's someone in front of you. Don't be creepy. All it's going to take is for one Glass wearer to record or photograph someone or something that shouldn't have been filmed to ruin Glass for everyone. Let's not incite lawmakers or angry mobs. Stick to photographing kittens, consenting friends and those totally amazing pancakes from your favorite brunch spot, OK? Let people try it on. You'll probably get sick of people asking you if they can have a go with it, but be gracious. Once people see how Glass is essentially a glorified hands-free headset/wearable camera, they'll get on board. If enough of us embrace your new headgear, that will chip away at Glass's social stigma—which is the only way something this crazy-seeming will be accepted en masse. Happy, uh, Glass-ing? Let's hope you don't ruin modern society and the tenuous rules of tech etiquette as we know them! Your pal, —Mr. Sintumuang is the editor of A Brief History of Gadget Phobia Other technologies that were predicted to bring an end to civil society

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In "The Sanctity of Life, Even in a Test Tube" (Houses of Worship, April 19) Robert P. George questions the contributions of in vitro fertilization pioneer Robert Edwards. While paying lip service to the millions of people who would not have been born without Edwards's work, the piece focuses on a series of "moral" complaints about IVF. Most of these come from the religious view that microscopic fertilized eggs share the same status as children and adults and should enjoy the same constitutional and legal rights—that is, have legal "personhood." How would Mr. George reckon the fact that most fertilized eggs never develop into a child? In nature and in IVF, the majority of embryos stop developing through no fault of anyone. If one adopted his view and legislated personhood rights for embryos (as half of the country has considered), any action associated with an embryo failing to develop could mean the loss of a doctor's license or even jail. It would mean, in all likelihood, the end of IVF. To conclude as Mr. George does that such an outcome would be acceptable because "We are not 'in charge,'" obviously proves too much. Whole swaths of medical practice could be outlawed on that basis. Mr. George claims that Edwards's "legacy is irredeemably darkened by the vast number of embryonic human beings destroyed in the development and practice of IVF." But what about the millions of parents who would not have their beloved children were it not for Edwards's work? For them, his legacy is inspiring and bright. Lee Rubin Collins Alice D. Domar Resolve: The National Infertility Association McLean, Va.

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Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it. Vincent Connare Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer. The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: "Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, 'We don't serve your type.'" On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare. The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web. The mission: "to eradicate this font" and the "evil of typographical ignorance." "If you love it, you don't know much about typography," Mr. Connare says. But, he adds, "if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby." Love It or Hate It Vincent Connare Below, a sampling of groups and products that cheer, jeer or just document the proliferation of the font. Typefaces convey meaning, typographers say. Helvetica is an industry standard, plain and reliable. Times New Roman is classic. Depending on your point of view, Comic Sans is fun, breezy, silly or vulgar and lazy. It can be "analogous to showing up for a black-tie event in a clown costume," warns the Ban Comic Sans movement's manifesto. The font's original name was Comic Book, but Mr. Connare thought that didn't sound like a font name. He used Sans (short for sans-serif) because most of the lettering, except for the uppercase I, doesn't have serifs, the small features at the end of strokes. Mr. Connare, 48 years old, now works at Dalton Maag, a typography studio in London, and finds his favorite creation -- a sophisticated typeface called Magpie -- eclipsed by Comic Sans. He cringes at the most improbable manifestations of his Frankenstein's monster font and rarely uses it himself, but he says he tries to be polite when he meets people excited to be in the presence of the creator. Googling himself, he once found a Black Sabbath band fan site that used Comic Sans. The site's creators even credited him. "You can't regulate bad taste," he says. Still, he is tickled by -- and trades on -- his reputation. A picture signed by Mickey Mouse that was sent to Mr. Connare to thank him after Disney used the font in ads hangs in his house. His wife, Sue Rider, introduces him at parties as the father of Comic Sans. A friend of his claims to know someone who broke up with her boyfriend in a letter written in Comic Sans to soften the blow. But there certainly hasn't been much money in it for Mr. Connare since Microsoft owns the font. A beach towel using the typeface in Australia. Vincent Connare Of course, there would be no movement to ban Comic Sans if it weren't so popular. "We've been using that font for years," says Peter Phyo, a manager at O'Neals' restaurant across the street from Lincoln Center in Manhattan. "That is just the procedure. I wouldn't know the exact reasoning. It also looks nice on the menu." Mr. Phyo says he hasn't had any complaints. The proliferation of Comic Sans is something of a fluke. In 1994, Mr. Connare was working on a team at Microsoft creating software that consumers eventually would use on home PCs. His designer's sensibilities were shocked, he says, when, one afternoon, he opened a test version of a program called Microsoft Bob for children and new computer users. The welcome screen showed a cartoon dog named Rover speaking in a text bubble. The message appeared in the ever-so-sedate Times New Roman font. Mr. Connare says he pulled out the two comic books he had in his office, "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Watchmen," and got to work, inspired by the lettering and using his mouse to draw on a computer screen. Within a week, he had designed his legacy. A product manager recognized the font's appeal and included it as a standard typeface in the operating system for Microsoft Windows. As home computers became widespread, Comic Sans took on a goofy life of its own. Out to crush that goofy life is Ban Comic Sans, whose weapons include disapproving stickers, to be slapped on inappropriate uses of the font wherever they are found. The 'Ban Comic Sans' group slaps its stickers on uses of the ubiquitous font, such as a retirement-benefits document. Ban Comic Sans was conceived in the fall of 1999, when Holly Sliger was a senior at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, studying typography and graphic design. Designing a museum gallery guide for a children's hands-on artifact exhibit, Ms. Sliger says she was horrified when her bosses told her to use Comic Sans. She told them it was a clich&eacute;, and printed out a list of other typefaces she thought better suited the project. They insisted on Comic Sans. "It was like hell for me," she says. "It was everywhere, like an epidemic." In the midst of the project, she met her future husband, Dave Combs, at synagogue one Saturday. He was a recent college graduate working as a graphic designer, and she knew he would sympathize. "This is horrible," he remembers saying. She says, "That's when I knew he's the guy I would marry." The couple did wed a year later and continued to gripe about the font. A banner in Comic Sans typeface at Teatro Valencia in Spain. Vincent Connare Mr. Connare says he first realized that the tide had turned against Comic Sans in January 2003, while studying for his master's degree in type design at the University of Reading in Berkshire, England. He got an email from Mr. Combs asking for permission to use his photo for stickers, T-shirts and coffee mugs to promote "typography awareness" for the movement to ban Comic Sans that he and his wife had founded. Busy and distracted, Mr. Connare said OK. "It sounded a bit silly," he says. He didn't think it would amount to much. But the Combses had global ambitions. A map hangs in their daughter's bedroom, marked with little red flags to show the dozens of locations around the world from which people have requested their stickers. "They're like parking tickets," Mr. Combs says. As the movement grew, Mr. Connare's image became the logo for Comic Sans bashing. Mr. Connare eventually, in February 2004, asked the Combses to stop using his picture, and they did. Today, Mr. Connare sometimes speaks at Internet conferences, using 41-page PowerPoint presentations written in you-know-what. He talks with the Combses about creating an "I Love/I Hate Comic Sans" picture book together. The font has become so popular that it's approaching retro chic. Design shop Veer is selling a T-shirt with a picture of human heart on it made entirely of tiny Comic Sans characters. Veer's text: "Love it, love to hate it, or hate that you love it." Write to Emily Steel at

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Subskrybuj Polish Wyszukaj dowolne słowo, na przykład tittybong: When you do something, such as a fart or a bad joke and all your friends just sit there for 4 or more seconds saying nothing. There was an awkward silence when Mitt shit himself and it smelt like a cat defecated on tuna. dodane przez theburningchicken październik 29, 2013 2 2 the silence in a conversation when all other parties feel that someone else should be talking, yet no one does. Usually happens directly after a weird comment is made or between two partners on a date. After John made that dead baby joke, there was an awkward silence. dodane przez Confused Desi grudzień 09, 2006 411 62 when a conversation between humans die because they run of subjects worth talking or something inappropriate has been been said which makes the person or people too embarrassed to talk. Example 1 Tim:your gay Dog:.......(awkward silence) dodane przez bottletopman maj 07, 2009 168 58 what you hear when u tell your girlfreind your gay.... When i finally told her, there was this weird awkward silence dodane przez Johnny Hush czerwiec 28, 2006 173 101 an awkward silence is a moment when everything suddenly goes quiet and it feels awkward. Some people say that for every awkward silence, there is a gay baby born. Wow there was just an awkward silence for this means a gay baby was born. dodane przez I AM IRON MAN. październik 07, 2009 119 71 when somethingh awkward happens and then its silent Me: ... dodane przez wvlkjvs WjbkdwBKJBDBKJ grudzień 24, 2011 33 9 A long period of time in which no one speaks because something has been said that either 1.) ended the conversation 2.) something odd, morbid, surprising, ect. has been said 3.) inturupted the converation resulting in loss of topic. Usually followed by small talk. 1.) My class was having a discussion on the book We're reading, and when the teacher didn't have anything to say, John yelled out, "Awkward Silence...!" 2.) When John told Jake to f*** off, there was a long awkward silence between the two of us. 3.) I was talking to John, and when his friend called him into the other room, their was an awkward silence between my other friend because we didn't know what to talk about. dodane przez hoplesslyinlove listopad 29, 2010 32 13 This was Awkward Silence: dodane przez johnny pseudo styczeń 19, 2011 26 16

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Skip to content Celtics’ Avery Bradley sprains ankle, could miss some time Jan 21, 2014, 11:22 PM EDT Los Angeles Lakers v Boston Celtics Getty Images There haven’t been a lot of bright spots in the Celtics’ season, Avery Bradley has been one of them — healthy in his fourth NBA season he has broken out to average 14.8 points a game, shoot 36.5 percent from three and as always be a pesky, impressive defender on the perimeter. But now he could be lost for a stretch, too. Bradley limped off the court early in the second quarter, went straight to the locker room and did not return to the game Tuesday in the Celtics’ loss to the Heat, as reported by A. Sherrod Blakely at There was no word officially on how long he’ll be out, but there is this. With Jerryd Bayless is also injured, expect to see a lot of Phil Pressey behind Rajon Rondo. Vander Blue isn’t the answer, he’s a gunner who can fill in for a while as a warm body. Which right now Boston could use. Featured video How much can Andrew Bynum help Pacers? Top 10 NBA Player Searches 1. D. Williams (10024) 2. B. Lopez (5201) 3. A. Bargnani (4996) 4. J. Calderon (4919) 5. E. Gordon (4438) 1. N. Batum (4333) 2. J. Crawford (4241) 3. E. Bledsoe (4213) 4. K. Bryant (3908) 5. S. Curry (3666)

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Take the 2-minute tour × I am totally organised. I keep a file of everything, I monitor my activities, keep my expenses analytically, process my todo list and my projects with different types of gtd. I have an above average IQ in Cattell scale, a university degree, many years of work experience, I speak two languages and continuously creating personal projects. I am a social person and have no fights in a company of 100+ people that I work. Why am I using binoculars to see success ? Why don't I have a chance to make some money and live by myself with some living quality ? I might have great expectations of myself but I should do. I have read hundreds of stories of people that were succeeded in their lives by owing nothing, no university degree, no money, no family. Why ? share|improve this question I think the down-voter felt your question might come across as too subjective –  Joshua Areogun Jul 25 '13 at 11:53 Maybe it's a lack of interpersonal skills? Also, you can't deny the existence of luck. –  Raystafarian Jul 25 '13 at 14:38 I like to think of luck as strategic preparation –  Joshua Areogun Jul 25 '13 at 17:29 Have you acquired a good personal network? Does economy in the place where you stay allow to get the success you are aiming to? Are you sure to know which kind of success you are aiming to? (I don't mean to be harsh, it's just a reflection about "external" factors) –  laika Jul 26 '13 at 17:47 you have everything but lack just one thing; the "asshole" character –  flow Jan 13 at 20:52 show 5 more comments 14 Answers up vote 12 down vote accepted Steven Covey likens efficiency is climbing a ladder as fast as you can, but views effectiveness as making sure it's leaning against the right wall. You're obviously efficient - you're organised, intelligent, skilled and experienced. But are you effective? Are you applying your talents in the right direction? Your previous questions suggest that you take on a lot of projects. That's fine, but it does suggest that you lack focus on a single over-riding vision. What do you really want to achieve? In your question, you seem to define success in financial and material terms. I can understand that: who doesn't want more cash and a bigger house? On the other hand, material success is almost always a by-products of another kind of success. This success that I'm talking about happens when several things work together: • You're doing the few things you love to do above all else • You're using your strongest talents • You're working it in a supportive environment • You're making a real positive difference in other people's lives • You're being rewarded for doing it I suggest you go back through all your current projects and pick out the areas that meet these criteria. Then, where you can, focus on these areas. Make them grow. Recruit others to help you. Pour all your energy into them. Unfortunately, I can't promise success, and I'm sure you'll have false starts and failures along the way. Nevertheless, you're sure to enjoy the journey, and this will give you the best chance of achieving your potential, and in doing so, reaping the appropriate rewards. I wish you success. share|improve this answer "You're doing the few things you love to do above all else": no, but I have to make some money... –  RobDel Jul 26 '13 at 19:06 @RobertoDelgazzo So you do not understand, what Karmii said, is when you will do few things you love above all else you will be doing money out of those things, a lot of them... Not the other way around. –  Mateusz Jul 27 '13 at 1:08 Making money out of hobbies needs a lot of experience and work. You have to somehow pay the bills - how can you make some money tomorrow by playing guitar? Not waiting for an answer, I am sure you couldn't. –  RobDel Jul 27 '13 at 5:42 A long as you define success in pure financial terms you'll miss true fulfillment. For example, in the long term giving up a good night's sleep won't bring fulfillment - it'll just make you ill. –  Kramii Jul 29 '13 at 3:52 They say it takes around 7 years to master something. If you pick a new thing that you think will get you your success, do a few weeks on it, then give up and start on something new, you're not going to succeed. +1 to Kramii for the Focus factor, you need to decide what you want to do, how you will measure your success, and then stick to it. I'm sure @Mateusz wasn't suggesting playing guitar would get you rich tomorrow; following a passion takes time, but is more rewarding in the long run. What is success to you? –  CLockeWork Jul 29 '13 at 9:50 show 2 more comments The answer to your question is simple but requires a "different" type of hardwork. First Some Background Success, or more specifically, succeeding on a relative scale requires doing what other people in your "boat" (e.g coworkers, friends, equally educated/privileged people) aren't doing. Lifehacker had an article a while back on how most people live in a more average manner than they actually realise. We all keep a 9-5, laze about on free weekends and go at our expected paces. However, you're one of the lucky ones i.e you have discovered that hunger for more, a higher life if you will. This takes vision and a whole lot of intellectual hardwork and dedication. Thinking is the hardest work there is You want a better life? well you have to work differently. Do have an idea or a vision that you'd like to see fulfilled in the world? Something you want to change perhaps? That's a starting point. This post might seem trite but what I'm referring to is much more strategic than merely chasing your dreams half-cocked, you need to put things on paper. You need to read outside your field ... way outside your field. In summary, wanna change your success level? start thinking harder than your peers Cheers :) share|improve this answer Your reply is really good but seems a little too philosophical for me. Thinking might be the way to achieve success, but that's only a general idea. –  RobDel Jul 25 '13 at 12:19 Well, to give a more scientific response will take pages and links but like I said at the start of my answer, the solution is simple but requires you to apply your hardworking nature in a different way. –  Joshua Areogun Jul 25 '13 at 12:21 I got that, but it seems that the connection of my question to this stackexchange is productivity. That means that I believe that I am doing everything related to thinking, organising, planning and I wonder why nothing works to achieve success. –  RobDel Jul 25 '13 at 12:29 I can only give "generalist" advice because I have no knowledge of your job, skills, or goals. So my answers will tend to have a philosophical ring to them. –  Joshua Areogun Jul 25 '13 at 12:47 Well, your case is much more straight forward than I thought. Have any startup ideas? you're a developer with management experience (that's founder material). Now is the time to invest in your/a startup. it's only logical - Spock –  Joshua Areogun Jul 25 '13 at 13:09 show 5 more comments Those factors you mention in your question may have no relevance to being successful. An IQ of 141 doesn't make you good ad making money, or a successful entrepreneur. It just says you scored 141 on a test. Similarly, everyone in my industry has a university degree - it is not a differentiator. When I hire, I see degree on a CV/resume as simply an indication that the candidate can learn. So what do you call successful? Is it having a better job than the guy next to you? Is it calm? Is it raising a healthy happy family? Focus on the goal and you will have an indication of where you need to steer your efforts. For example - if you are an employee, you will earn an employee salary, getting raises with promotion if you work hard, but your income is never going to match an owner of a large successful business. So if you want a step change, you could find something you can do or sell in the market and start your own business. Find the difference. share|improve this answer You got a point here. Actually I am trying to build a road in my mind that by following it I will be driven to success. We don't have many lives to live, so making the right choices is the only way to succeed in the future. I am trying to guess the right movements that will lead me to what I want to achieve. I am not looking into something extremely hard. –  RobDel Jul 25 '13 at 12:36 You cannot future-proof your activities. You can try and predict, but really try and prepare for eventualities by getting better in your chosen areas, being open to new ideas and working hard. –  Rory Alsop Jul 25 '13 at 12:48 I am working hard but I don't see any change. Is planning, being productive and organised finally something to do with success or is it only luck ? –  RobDel Jul 25 '13 at 12:55 Everything helps. Member, most people plan, are productive and organised. What are you doing different? –  Rory Alsop Jul 25 '13 at 13:29 Maybe you are trying to think too deeply then, if successful people in your company seem less organised than you, maybe you are good at the wrong things. –  Rory Alsop Jul 25 '13 at 16:39 show 2 more comments Summarizing what I've read in tons of productivity books, the single most important factor in someone's success is grit. Not IQ, not money, not education, not experience. Your final position in life is proportional to how much discomfort you're willing to put yourself through to get what you want. Many of us aren't working minimum wage jobs because we forced ourselves through school and college. However, most of us fall into the trap of optimistic denial. We studied out of fear that we can't do anything with a minimum wage job. But we're fine living in the middle class, with a good car, good house, good spouse and kids, and a job where we give more than we get (but at least we get something). You've identified that you do have a problem - you're not making money. But do you have the grit to do something about it? Are you willing to spend a few hours every night looking at how to make money? Are you willing to quit your job? Can you face the pressure from family and friends telling you that you're an idiot for giving up a 'safe' job to follow your dreams (assuming you've calculated things to be ok)? Are you willing to stop eating out and stop going on vacations to save up to start a business? Another secret of success I personally follow is spending 40% of my income on investments and 2.5-10% on charity. If you invest simply by putting your money in some unit trust, that's good enough. You have some money stockpiled. Business opportunities are about timing; there will be a time when gold prices plummet or an unknown, high potential company starts selling stocks for cheap or when you'll find some good land for cheap. If you have no money, you can't take advantage of these easy opportunities. Charity kicks in by giving you more contacts, who don't try to screw you over. It's there as a reminder that your target of having lots of money is not to buy things that give you better social status. The goal is to get better social status (or just feel better) by helping people. Most people don't donate anything; you instantly put yourself in the top 10% of philanthropists by donating just a tiny amount with a modest salary. share|improve this answer This is a great piece of advice. I know all that - I haven't thought that one of charity which sounds good. I am not earning too much to give 50% on charities and investments. Don't forget we are passing through recession and we don't have many chances. But for most of what you're saying, you are probably right. –  RobDel Jul 27 '13 at 5:40 @RobertoDelgazzo Work towards it gradually. It's not really that you don't have the money for it, but because you're spending a little more than needed on the quality of your house, car, furniture, etc. You can't really cut down on those yet, but as you get raises and finish paying off loans, you should look into investing before spending on yourself. –  Muz Jul 27 '13 at 15:32 "almost" true. I have no loans, no raises in 3 yrs of work but I spend a little more for good quality of goods. –  RobDel Jul 27 '13 at 16:29 add comment "Why don't I have a chance to make some money" You are making some money. Your company is paying you a salary. If you think it is not enough for your expectations, you can always search for a better paid job. It is up to you. "and live by myself with some living quality?" You are living with some living quality. You probably have clean water, electricity, health services available to you and other kinds of commodities at your hand. Keep in mind that most people in the planet are living with much less than you are. Value what you have. Focus on improving what you feel that needs to be improved. share|improve this answer Yeah, but I am trying very hard for something better and I am getting nowhere. I see fool people with less experience & less education that make lots of money and live in nice houses... I am not looking into being a millionaire, just having something more than the surface... –  RobDel Jul 25 '13 at 10:57 @Roberto By "trying very hard", you mean that you're intensively looking for a better paid job without success? –  Daniel Daranas Jul 25 '13 at 11:48 looking for a better paid job, looking for other sources of income, looking for ways to create something unique and sell (a business)... –  RobDel Jul 25 '13 at 12:31 @RobertoDelgazzo Then set your priorities and focus on the strategy you choose. You won't have an abstract success - you first need to try something specific, and then see how it works out. –  Daniel Daranas Jul 25 '13 at 15:05 add comment No matter what your qualifications are, no one is entitled to anything. Anything that you get has some degree of luck, good qualifications only increase the probability of success but don't guarantee it. Think about it like this, Harvard rejects about 1000 applicants with PERFECT SAT scores. These "rejects" are more than qualified to attend Harvard, however Harvard only has about 2000 openings so it's inevitable that qualified people must be rejected. These are people that worked hard their entire life and did everything right with a dream to go to Harvard, and yet they still didn't get in. Many of them probably ask the same questions as you do. If they got in then it would be someone else asking the same thing. There is a good talk about this by Barry Schwartz at Swarthmore. share|improve this answer As a MIT & Harvard 'non admit' with superb SAT scores myself (they don't use the word 'reject'), the people who do get accepted are more interesting. Many of them do have good grades, but what stands out is what they do with their childhood/teenage years, the personality exhibited in their entrance essays. A lot of accepted people have some charity work in their extracurricular activities, but they don't note this in statistics. Apparently, those are a better indicator of survivability at Harvard. –  Muz Jul 26 '13 at 22:13 Good point! +1 A lot of people believe that life can be 'engineered', but there are always things that happen by chance. Both success and disaster may appear at any moment without you having any say in it. –  THelper Jul 29 '13 at 13:02 add comment It's really simple. Work smart, not hard. Most people work "hard" all their lives, rare individuals actually work smart. share|improve this answer how do you work smart ? –  RobDel Jul 26 '13 at 19:00 Check out the book "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss. It may give you some ideas. Or better yet, read its synopsis on Wikipedia. –  Gruber Jul 27 '13 at 20:45 @Gruber thanks for mentioning the synopsis! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_4-Hour_Workweek I always wanted to read the book but didn't get around to it. –  w00t Jul 30 '13 at 21:08 add comment You applied for a job, they told you what they would pay you and you said, "Yes." When was the last time you asked someone for money? This takes many forms. I'm not talking about begging. 1. A pay raise or bigger bonus. 2. Volunteer for a charity and get involved in a fund drive. 3. Sell something on ebay, the classified section of your newspaper or put a sign out in front of your house. If you don't ask, you rarely get. In the modern world we can lose touch with the basics of commerce: Find, evaluate, ask for money, be willing to say No, negotiate, repeat. share|improve this answer add comment And I am going to add the upopular truth that to get ahead in any organization you have to play the organization politics game. No exceptions for being a geek or for working in a small company (some of the worst politics are in small companies.) This doesn't mean you have to be the stereotypical snake who steals other people's work and sabotages anyone in his way. You can play politics effectively without being nasty. I'd suggest you do some reading of books on organizational politics to learn how to position yourself to get those promotions. share|improve this answer this is a HUGE TRUTH. Thanks for mentioning I will check them out. –  RobDel Jul 30 '13 at 17:36 add comment I think most answers given here are quite good, but I especially like the answer by Krammii (focus on your strong points and what you love, not solely on making a lot of money) and the one by cspirou (life cannot be 'manufactured', a lot of things are outside of your control and for somethings you just need a portion of good luck). However, there is one thing that is missing in all these answers, which is: expectations kill joy! For example, if somebody has seen an incredible good movie and recommends you to go and watch it, chances are you are going to like it but nothing more than that. If on the other hand, you discovered the very same movie yourself by chance you'd probably thought it was an incredibly good movie. The point I'm trying to make is if you expect something to happen, then you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Either it happens just like you thought and you will feel content about it but nothing more than that, or it doesn't happen and you are disappointed. Much more joy comes from the unexpected good things that happen to you. If you learn to take life as it is, you'll find yourself being much happier. This isn't to say that you shouldn't set goals and try to go forward. By all means set goals, set them high but realistically, try to achieve them, but it is often the path to your goal that will make you happy, not reaching the goal itself. share|improve this answer add comment It has already been mentioned, but luck is very important. Not exactly the common meaning of luck, something that is outside of your control, but luck in the way Richard Wiseman explains it Wiseman studied lucky people to see if luck really existed and he basically found the main differences between lucky and unlucky people. Lucky people step out of their comfort zone, or probably don't have that concept at all, this leads to serendipity and lucky chances (have you heard the old saying that it is not your friends that get you job offers, but your friends's friends? It is based on the same principle) Unlucky people rarely go with people they don't know, or places or events they don't already know they'll like, this means they are always doing the same things with the same people. Lucky people rarely say no to any invitation, they meet people that have nothing to do with them, they go to places and events that are not within their likes, and so meet people of all kinds and professions, thus leading to lucky people moving, and changing jobs more frequently, and unlucky people calling them "lucky" because they get chances they don't get. It is a very broad summary of Wiseman's findings, of course, but I guess you get the picture. share|improve this answer add comment Most important of all, you should focus on solving people's issues. You can be really good at something that solves needs which aren't people's problems. A big part of it is looking at our species' current state and trying to better things. share|improve this answer add comment I think you should find the answer of"Why do those other people, less capable than myself succeed more than I do" first and then seek the the answer for your original question. share|improve this answer add comment You made yourself ready. Now use your readiness • You ARE successful. If you cam manage yourself and have many interesting things to do, you can do what you want and you have wishes to fulfil. 99% people don't have this. You are strong. And this strength is your own win. You have the level with which you can overturn the Earth. • The main task of our life is to find what are you to do in it. Do you want somebody else to solve it instead of you? Do you want to deprive yourself of the sense of your own life? • If the problem is only money, you should think about your surroundings. Are you sure you are using your strength in the correct country? Company? Society? Project? Maybe you are afraid of changing something yourself and are waiting for somebody to change your life instead, as a payment for you being so excellent? Such things happen in fairy tales only. share|improve this answer Even though you are right in a way, you know what I mean. Check a random article elitedaily.com/news/business/… for people that didn't have a college degree. I am questioning myself: "What did they have that don't?" - not in a narcissistic manner ("I am the one best/perfect/unmistakable person in the world") but just wondering for a reply. –  RobDel Jan 16 at 16:05 @RobDel Sorry, but if we let alone people who had simply stolen their money, the people who win were those, who did what they desired to. It seems, that you have prepared yourself excellently and continue to prepare yourself. But what about to start something you really love? And don't forget, that 99% of people who follow their dreams, ARE successful, but aren't rich. Had you invented something that millions of people want to use? Or several very rich people/companies? Or some nice joke, for which 10 millions will pay a dollar? –  Gangnus Jan 16 at 16:31 Some extremely talented or even genial people work hard all they life and don't become rich at all. (but notice, they were in their life much more happy than 99% of millionaires could even imagine.) Don't believe in the crowd fallacy of the "American Dream"! It is a whip for the weaker people, you don't belong to them. –  Gangnus Jan 16 at 16:35 nowadays you see people become millionaires after creating an iphone application, with very little knowledge of programming - a useless application, very easy to program. They did not solve a real life big problem, they did not follow their passion until they die working day and night. They simply made the right choices, either accidentally or by intelligence. I can understand accidents, but the part of intelligence and right-choices is what I search for. –  RobDel Jan 16 at 16:53 People have succeeded with no money, with no university degree, living in villages in degraded country areas around the world and with no "smart idea" in mind. The question is simple, what am I doing wrong ? –  RobDel Jan 16 at 17:00 show 1 more comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × In Test Driven Development, how do I make code bound to an ORM testable? I am using a Micro-ORM (PetaPoco) and I have several methods that interact with the database like: I want to know how to write a test for these methods. I searched YouTube for videos on writing a test for DAL, but I didn't find any. I want to know which method or class is testable and how to write a test before writing the code itself. share|improve this question possible duplicate of Unit testing - Database coupled app –  gnat Aug 31 '12 at 9:38 @gnat: the question is similar, but not identical, since this is more specific to the existence of an ORM in this project. –  Doc Brown Aug 31 '12 at 13:10 add comment 3 Answers up vote 8 down vote accepted Unit testing the code relying on your DAL should be straight-forward: use the repository pattern to decouple your business layer from your ORM. Provide your POCOs by an abstract repository, then you can either provide a "real" repository in production (which uses your ORM), or a mock repository for testing purposes which delivers just test-data POCOs without any DB access. Using an ORM which works with POCOs here has the advantage that you can easily create that objects in memory, without the need to rely on the ORM. A different question is how to automatically test methods like "AddCustomer", assumed that this method contains only database or ORM related code. Having a short look into the PetaPoco documentation and source code, it seems to support just one database with in-memory capabilities: SqlLite. So I guess you could set up a lightweight SqlLite instance for your testdata and write your tests against this. Theoretically, you could do this also with a full-blown relational DB system like Oracle or MS SQL server, but that option is often too slow and needs too much administrative overhead to be practical. If you want trying this route anyway, I suggest you have a look at DBUnit.NET, which supports this approach. Whatever you will do, it may be a good idea to separate those two cases in your code: write (1) code pulling the needed objects from your DB into memory, and (2) separate code for doing the business logic, without any DB access. Surely you will need (3) code that manages (1) and (2)to make them work together, but (1) and (2) could be tested then more easily in isolation. share|improve this answer add comment Look into Mock Objects and Dependency Injection. Mock objects are a useful way to write unit tests for objects that act as mediators. Instead of calling the real domain objects, the tested object calls a mock domain object that merely asserts that the correct methods were called, with the expected parameters, in the correct order. Dependency injection allows you to test a class in isolation, for example image a class with 5 private members, these objects are initilised in the constructor. Now unit testing of this class and its methods will also be running code concerned with other objects, this defeats the purpose of unit testing. Dependency injection allows the caller to pass in the 5 initialized objects and the constructor simply assigns them to the private members for example. This means I can pass in MockDB for example when unit testing, but for production code, pass in the real concrete DB object. share|improve this answer add comment I've used PetaPoco in an application and what I ended up doing was just abstracting an interface for the Database object which just exposed the methods that I actually use (since there are 100s of them and I only actually needed 10-15). This allowed me to provide mock implementations of that interface in unit tests and in my DI container I simply bound the Database object to the IDatabase interface. I wouldn't bother implementing the repository pattern, abstracting an IDatabase interface will essentially become a generic repository anyway. The resulting annoyance with this led me to create my own Micro-ORM (MicroLite) which is designed to allow ease of testing which you can find on GitHub and NuGet (note: at present it only supports MsSql). share|improve this answer +1. I guess for many cases that is a better approach than my sugestion to use SqlLite for testing purposes, though I see 2 drawbacks: you have to change the original PetaPoco code, and I guess you could not test if the SQL strings work correctly (at least not when you did not implement an SQL parser in your mock Database), –  Doc Brown Aug 31 '12 at 15:57 Yeah it allows your test to be a proper "unit" test, if you're relying on an sqllite database in a specific configuration it's more of an integration test. One of the other things we did with PetaPoco was ONLY use the sql class for queries which I also amended the code for so that it implemented equality properly. We then used static classes to return pre-defined queries which allowed us to test against specific queries or return particular results if we did multiple calls in the same method. (this is something I made sure that MicroLite did properly OOTB). –  Trevor Pilley Aug 31 '12 at 16:43 add comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × We have a large website running that offers a JsonRpc web service. For offline demonstration purposes, I want to realize a portable, locally running webserver with a minimalistic feature replication of the live webservice, and bundle this together with Html files which do Ajax requests to it. This local server executable should have as little dependencies as possible. It's going to be run and presented by non-devs on non-dev Windows machines, so I would prefer having a simple executable plus the service code. The language would need to be .NET, PHP or Java. I'll need a small database behind which probably will be Sqlite. It's important to say that, for reasons I won't get into here, we cannot use the original web service code, but we have to rewrite it new for the local demo server. This is why I want to put minimal effort in the local server tech. An installer for distribution is not mandatory, it's okay to have a zip file with an executable in it which starts up the local webserver. What would you recommend realizing these requirements? share|improve this question I use XAMPP Lite for demos, running it in a USB drive. –  Yannis Rizos Sep 7 '12 at 10:36 Do you know what version of IE they're likely to have (non-devs on no-dev Windows machines to me means no firefox/chrome, but you would know better) One option could be to use HTML5 storage / offline cache (use static HTML files for your ajax requests) but past experience is it'll be a few more years before you can count on the IE on non-dev's desks supporting this. –  Foon Sep 7 '12 at 11:58 Having them install Firefox or Chrome wouldn't be a problem. But what I definitely need is some kind of server - because there's some Flash with "hard coded" json requests, where I'm only able to configure the server address. –  derFunk Sep 7 '12 at 15:02 add comment 6 Answers Jetty is a good choice if you can package your files as a WAR. --From Jetty's website share|improve this answer add comment If you want to go the .NET route, a few lines of code is all it takes to spin up a Self-Hosted Web API instance. It can be run in a console app, or with a few more lines of code it can be installed as a Windows Service. share|improve this answer This is a great find I'll look into further, thanks! –  derFunk Sep 11 '12 at 8:10 add comment up vote 1 down vote accepted Thanks for all your suggestions! Finally I decided to go with the Mongoose stand-alone webserver which supports all kind of cgi plugins, including PHP. It's easily configurable and deployable and just fits my needs. On my research I also found the UltiDev Web Server Pro, which was on the short list if I'd decided to go with .NET. Seems to be a nice product, but havn't worked with it yet, maybe it comes in handy for anyone who reads this. The reason to go with PHP was that it requires a lot smaller footprint than .NET would have needed - in terms of files in the file system. I can put everything I need on the server side into one PHP file, no need for DLLs and other dependencies. share|improve this answer add comment Tomcat is a great stand-alone web server for Java apps. It's small, fast, and the reference implementation for the Java Servlet Specification. I don't know enough about PHP and .NET to suggest small web servers servers that are especially friendly to those technologies. share|improve this answer add comment Then you want a self-contained binary. That means you really want to write your code using a web service library that can be compiled into your program. Now you just need to decide which one! You could use node.js, but that requires node + some javascript codefiles to be deployed. However, as you already have html files you only have to deploy a directory with an batch file to run it all. Node is a good choice if you want to emulate a client too as it can come with a heap of nice javascript libs such as express. You could write it in .NET but you'd have to be careful of using the .NET runtime that goes with the server you're running it on - you do not want a huge .NET framework download, nor do you want to have to deploy all the windows updates for it (but you do want to deploy all the security updates, obviously). You could write it in C++ using Windows Web Services or gSoap (nice and fast too) and deploy just a single .exe, but I've never seen one deployed with all html and resources compiled into a single exe - its possible though, serve these files from inside the exe resource block. SQLite is an excellent choice BTW. share|improve this answer add comment If you're fine with it being PHP and only being on Windows, I can definitely recommend Server2Go (http://www.server2go-web.de/). It let's you run a full WAMP stack, with options to, for example, keep changes to the DB over time or reset it each time the application is run, plus auto loading a browser if you want. share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × I really like google golang but could some one explain what the rationale is for the implementors having left out a basic data structure such as sets from the standard library? share|improve this question The language is actually called Go, not golang –  jozefg Nov 28 '12 at 2:44 But "golang" is more searchable –  Matt May 29 '13 at 19:27 Way more searchable. Googling "go set" returns images of a wooden board with black and white pieces. –  Doug Richardson Feb 10 at 5:55 add comment 1 Answer up vote 10 down vote accepted One potential reason for this omission is that it's really easy to model sets with a map. To be honest I think it's a bit of an oversight too, however looking at Perl, the story's exactly the same. In Perl you get lists and hashtables, in Go you get arrays, slices, and maps. In Perl you'd generally use a hashtable for any and all problems relating to a set, the same is applicable to Go. to imitate a set ints in Go, we define a map: set := make(map[int]bool) To add something is as easy as: i := valueToAdd() set[i] = true Deleting something is just delete(set, i) And the potential awkwardness of this construct is easily abstracted away: type IntSet struct { set map[int]bool func (set *IntSet) Add(i int) bool { _, found := set.set[i] set.set[i] = true return !found //False if it existed already And delete and get can be defined similarly, I have the complete implementation here . The major disatvantage here is the fact that go doesn't have generics. However it is possible to do this with interface{} in which case you'd have cast the results of get. share|improve this answer I've seen comments by Go authors suggestion that generics are a hoped-for feature, there being a hurdle in the way of needing to work out what the best idomatic pattern should be before committing to extending the language. –  Rick-777 Apr 16 '13 at 17:49 Here's my slightly-revised version with Contains and Size methods: play.golang.org/p/tDdutH672- –  Rick-777 Apr 16 '13 at 18:07 Instead of map[int]bool one can use map[int]struct{} instead. I prefer the last. –  pepper_chico Dec 11 '13 at 2:26 map[int]struct{} .. The struct{} takes 0 bytes. –  Boopathi Rajaa Dec 13 '13 at 4:34 github.com/fatih/set is an implementation of my based on maps and empty structs. It's thread safe and has a simple api. –  Fatih Arslan Jan 11 at 23:50 show 1 more comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × I've been working for a contractor who brings in some good projects, but they are all fixed-price and often fixed-time. As a result he always has me making a quote over loose requirements, which never fails to bring a lot of tension due to feature creep. He claims he'd never get a contract if he couldn't agree on a price with his clients first, but as far as I'm concerned I don't wanna go through another project under these terms. Is there any argument I could make to have him pay me by the hour, or should I just suck less at estimating ? share|improve this question add comment 9 Answers up vote 8 down vote accepted The problem here is not the fixed price of project - it's the loose requirements. If you can pressure him to give you a more firmly defined spec, your time estimation will get better. share|improve this answer I doubt his ability to do proper requirements gathering, but sound advice indeed. –  julien Dec 23 '10 at 22:43 @julien - Try asking them to be involved in the process of negotiating the spec with the actual CUSTOMER. That way you can do some of the requirements gathering yourself - this way everyone benefits, because any time spent on specs will compensate with less time required for the actual coding . –  Jas Dec 23 '10 at 23:07 the trick is to make him carry the risk of underestimation. Bill him hourly, if the estimate is under its his problem. –  karmajunkie Dec 24 '10 at 0:21 @Martin - What is the solution then, agile? There is a reasonable number of research papers showing that total cost of project implementation with agile ends up about 10-20% higher when compared to proper waterfall. –  Jas Dec 24 '10 at 16:26 @Martin - No, I don't "like" waterfall per se, I was just pointing out to evidence that agile isn't the silver bullet which is how it's being sold by it's proponents. –  Jas Dec 25 '10 at 15:45 show 8 more comments I refuse to work on a fixed-bid project, for most of the reasons you listed. It ain't just you — fixed-bid work is antithetical to an agile process (which is also the way I work.) If the contractor you work for insists on bidding out his projects as fixed-bid, then let him take on the risk. If you're good at what you do, there are plenty of other places to go work. Basically everyone sucks at estimating. Unless you've done a project that was substantially similar at least a couple of times, you're not estimating, you're guessing. also, he's wrong about not getting a contract without a fixed bid. If he can't, the problem isn't the fixed-bid vs hourly, its the salesman. I've worked for a roster of clients on an hourly basis. The key is to give them frequent communications about what you're doing and what its costing them, and make them understand that the tradeoffs are budget vs features— you can hit a budget, but they have to give on features sometimes. share|improve this answer And here is option #2 ! –  julien Dec 28 '10 at 12:23 add comment When working alone you really can't win in a fixed-price + fixed-time project. You have no ability to increase capacity apart from working late nights and weekends. In my experience "loose requirements" based estimates only become larger and larger when you add detail, never smaller. Keep asking for details until you feel safe. Discussions about high level requirements and what's included and what's not are easily won when push comes to shove, client is usually drawing the short end of the stick here. Your business relationship may suffer though. Sad thing about this construct is that everything you build tends to be the lowest possible quality needed to satisfy the high level requirements. (yeah so you can logon with a password, you never said you wanted a separate logon for each user...) With fixed-price I would just waterfall, big-design-upfront, the thing. Have the contractor sign based on a full detail stack of papers, then build. To improve your estimates you could just double or triple whatever you think you need, this might be more realistic but may price you out of the market. Scrum's velocity tracking may prove to be useful to get a grip on your own estimates and how they pan out compared to actual time needed. Unless you want to speculate on the fixed-price looking for a healthy profit I would really prefer to just get payed by the hour. This keeps risk at the contractors side. Estimates are a guess not a promise. share|improve this answer add comment This is one of the major reasons for the emergence of the agile movement. Using the Scrum + XP combination is one way to present a fair alternative to this relatively common - fixed time or fixed price with variable requirements situation. share|improve this answer add comment Could you just ask if you could be paid by the hour? All my consulting contracts were hourly wage, no matter what the terms with the client were. Alternately, firm up the requirements yourself and present that to the client as part of the agreement. That way, you get to bill additional for feature creep. Any contract that says you'll get paid $X for an amount of work the client gets to increase more or less arbitrarily is a disaster waiting to happen. share|improve this answer I like the first suggestion, KISS. –  julien Dec 23 '10 at 22:45 I must add I'm not sure how he'll react to that though. I suspect he's already agreed on a price by the time he's asking for an estimate, and just pressuring me to fit in that budget. But this would be kind of ideal, as he'd then be solely be responsible for dealing with his client's feature creep. –  julien Dec 23 '10 at 22:56 @julien: If he's running the business, he can accept most of the risk. –  David Thornley Dec 28 '10 at 17:19 add comment If you can show that what you did falls under the "loose requirements" under any (preferably your) interpretation then any clarification becomes a change request, subject to new estimates and new effort and new payments. Then it falls over your client's shoulder the responsibility to come up with crispier requirements. share|improve this answer add comment I have no problem working either fixed price or on an hourly basis - assuming the price is right. Based on a set of requrements, however loosely defined, come up with an hourly estimate and state the assumptions you make in order to achieve that estimate. Then also make a fixed price estimate, that is scaled up from the hourly figure by a factor depending on the vagueness of the requirements, likelyhood of change, prior experience with the technology, prior experience with the client etc. Therefore, if the everything is pretty straight forward then my quote for fixed price is typically 50% more than then hourly. If there are more and more unknowns, then a fixed price may be as much as 2 and a half times the hourly estimate. However, and fixed price quote is backed up with a very clear statement of work. The aim is to make a good profit out of doing fixed price by delivering well under the estimate and pocketing the extra profit. share|improve this answer add comment Here's what I have done in the past. I have written up a VERY rigorous spec that I deliver with my time/cost projection, and I have made all stakeholders in the project physically sign it. I require that before I'll work on a fixed-price fixed-time project. If it's a big enough project and spec-writing is enough work, I'll actually charge for that time too. How to sell that is: Yes, there are competitors out there who will shake your hand and start coding. The difference is, in a few months you'll have a finished product from us, whereas from them you'll only have grief. You wouldn't start building a house without a complete blueprint put together by a professional, would you? Be suspicious of anybody who will start building a software project without similar certainty up front. share|improve this answer add comment Assuming you're the full time employee of this contractor. Show him how much money he's losing by not accounting for scope-creep. If the contractor is sub-contracting you, tell him you can only work by the hour, and be honest with why. (That is, the requirements are not well defined, you might not be paid for all of the work you might end up doing. Also you might save the contractor money if it goes faster than expected.) share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer

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Take the 2-minute tour × As a programmer, do you see any professional or other advantage in using your real name in online discourse, versus an invented handle? I've always gone by a single username and had my real name displayed whenever possible, for a few reasons: • My interests online are almost exclusively professional and aboveboard. • It constructs a search-friendly public log of all of my work, everywhere. • If someone wants to contact me, there are many ways to do it. • My portfolio of work is all tied to me personally. Possible cons to full disclosure include: • If you feel like becoming involved in something untoward, it could be harder. • The psychopath who inherits your project can more easily find out where you live. • You might be spammed by people who are not worth the precious time that could be better spent writing more of the brilliant software you're famous for. • Your portfolio of work is all tied to you personally. It seems, anyway, that a vast majority of StackOverflow users go by invented handles rather than real names. Notable exceptions include the best-known users, who are typically well established in the industry. But how could we ever become legendary rockstar programmers if we didn't get our names out there? Discuss. share|improve this question This question is off-topic: questions on Programmers.SE must relate to software development and programmer-related issues. –  user8 Oct 3 '10 at 3:08 @Mark Trapp - Software developers frequently contribute to sites such as StackOverflow, and may contribute to open-source sites, using either real names or handles. –  fennec Oct 3 '10 at 3:10 @Mark Trapp: This is a programmer-related issue. As a culture, we are responsible for the creation of the Internet and were among its first users. Technical discourse about programming is carried out almost exclusively online. How should programmers maintain a professional online presence? –  Jon Purdy Oct 3 '10 at 3:15 Related: stackoverflow.com/questions/2446438/… –  sylvanaar Oct 31 '11 at 13:37 add comment closed as off topic by Thomas Owens Oct 23 '12 at 14:48 14 Answers up vote 105 down vote accepted The biggest thing I can think of is both an advantage and a disadvantage: everything you put online under your real name will follow you. This is good when you are posting good, constructive things. It's bad when you post a picture of you from that night or when you say something offensive or just plain stupid. I find that using my real name helps keep me in check -- I think more about what I say and how I say it. But it has on occasion been inconvenient when using my name invited personal attacks for various reasons. All in all, my approach is to use my real name when dealing with professional-ish stuff and to use a handle for personal interests and things I might not want to be as easily searchable. share|improve this answer +1 Anna's response is exactly what I'd have said. Cheers! –  Christian Oct 3 '10 at 12:24 +1 Same sentiment here. I use my real name for professional-style postings so that I can be found and it keeps me in line with what I say and how I say it. Coming onto a site like this with a made up name and spewing embarrassing remarks seems a total waste of time to me. Too many other things in life besides trolling. –  Todd Williamson Oct 4 '10 at 13:56 +1 After all. If you stay professional (mostly), then you have a huge distributed CV all over the internet –  Lukas Eder Jan 13 '11 at 19:23 +0 cause i dont want to break the 69 vote (yeah i'm that immature). I tend to be 'trolled', disliked, liked, found controversial and really would like to be left alone. Which is why i use an alias. –  acidzombie24 Jul 6 '11 at 7:01 add comment Two big down-sides for me: • The name I use to sign checks isn't unique. Even in the mid-90's, I was already getting email from people who'd seen my name on a newsgroup somewhere and assumed I was someone else. My name isn't even terribly common - but The Internet is a pretty big namespace... • It increases the temptation to self-promote. I've seen this a lot - folks go job hunting, change their online IDs to reflect the name they're putting on resumes, and their whole act changes. You might consider this a good thing, encouraging a professional attitude and such... But I have little desire to interact with people who are constantly in "interview-mode", and even less desire to spend time there myself. Your online identity is what you produce, not what you name it. Getting hung up on a name is as silly as getting hung up on an avatar photo... Which, incidentally, do not usually correspond to the "real names" they're attached to. share|improve this answer Another great point about self-promotion. I enjoy the ability to goof off and be myself online under my real name without fear of professional ramifications. Not that I do anything wacky in the first place. Nothing that gets on record, at least... –  Jon Purdy Oct 3 '10 at 3:48 add comment I see more disadvantages than advantages, which is why I generally don't use my name online. • Stalking: I've never had a stalker (we're talking, creepy phone-calling, stealing your mail, hacking your e-mail kind of stalking), but it's happened to both of my siblings and is more common than you think. • Dumb Stupidity: it's going to happen, I will say something stupid. In the ideal case, it won't be intentional. But with so many eyes, writings can be mis-interpreted. A perfectly normal and acceptable opinion now, may not be in a few years and writing on the internet is eternal. • Not-Dumb Stupidity: There are times, where if you look through my SO question history, I will have brain farted and asked a ridiculously stupid question that I already knew the answer to. I reserve the right to do that without the potential for persecution from my peers. The only upside I can see is building a positive reputation, which can have great ramifications, but I'm an average nobody software developer. So that doesn't really apply to me. It might to you. share|improve this answer "There are no stupid questions" - every teacher, lecturer, and employer that I've ever had. –  Kirk Broadhurst Oct 3 '10 at 11:32 "Just stupid people asking them" - everyone else in the class. –  Shog9 Oct 3 '10 at 20:00 add comment SnOrfus is right, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. When you post something online, it suffers from the following drawbacks: • Your online statements will probably last forever. If you formulate something undiplomatically, it will haunt you for the rest of your life. Or if you write something that is just plain wrong, the internet will help everybody to remember this mistake, forever. This is especially a problem for younger people. • Your opinions are available for the whole world to see, even if you intended them only for a specific audience. For example, if you publish an article on this site in which you discus a stupid habit of your manager, not necessarily to attack him, you don't want him to know it is your post. Or if you write an article on how much you hate programming language X, a future employer that is ready to offer you a programming job in that language might change his mind after reading it, even if you are really prepared to embrace the language in order to get the job. • There is often too little context so it can very easily be misinterpreted. For example: the prehistory of a certain statement is often not available for the reader; irony that is mistaken for serious-mindedness; your future employer will read all the mistakes you've made when you were a mere beginner without realizing it was written 10 years ago and you've morphed into a different person in the meanwhile; etc... As a happy medium, I chose to use my surname and the initials of my family name. This way, my pseudonym sounds more personal while still preserving my privacy. share|improve this answer add comment Obviously putting stuff online under your real name can give you some sort of profile, and I've recently had people at work recognise my name on StackOverflow. I don't see this as particularly good or bad. A benefit of having high visibility online is that people can more easily contact or find out about me. Google and there are relevant results: I get calls from recruiters who find me on LinkedIn, and someone with a non-work related opportunity actually googled me, found where I worked and then called reception to speak to me. Maybe some people would find that annoying, but it hasn't annoyed me yet - instead I've had a few good outcomes from it. I personally like the fact that someone can google me and see what I am up to - at least, the things that I put into the public sphere. share|improve this answer add comment I do my professional things under my real name and always have even back to the days of newsgroups. I also use an email address that clearly is related to my business: gregcons.com is Gregory Consulting. My Twitter handle is gregcons because KateGregory was taken. I've been doing this since before there was a World Wide Web at all and recommend it. I definitely find significant advantages to having a consistent professional profile. You think before you write - it's going to stick around forever under your real name. People can check you out and confirm that you are capable. I find no shame in the possibility that someone will see I didn't know everything at some point in the past. If anything it shows I was always learning. That said, I do some personal things under a pseudonym. FlyerTalk for example. If I'm going to post about getting away with something, I'd rather the airlines weren't able to look up my record and investigate it. And on the stalker front, we often post rather specific travel plans on FT and I don't really want those associated with my real name. The creepiest correspondence I have ever received was a paper letter that came to my house from someone in a nearby jail who was reading my Visual C++ programming books and wanted to stop by and meet me when he got out. I realize that doesn't set a very high bar for creepy especially since he never wrote again. Perhaps that's why using my real name online doesn't worry me. For over twenty years it has brought me nothing but good. share|improve this answer "gregcons" made me think "greg cons people" as in "con-artist." ...Something to think about. –  Ben Jan 6 '11 at 17:35 add comment If you're using your real name for publishing smart, objective, funny, creative, constructive, useful, interesting content on the internet using your real name, gosh, then you will have an awesome, persistent CV in the cloud as we'd say today (or in the mainframe, as this funny chap calls it). If you're using your real name for utter crap, stupidity, boring, wrong, destructive, racist, neanderthal, unfair, illegal stuff, well, then you will still have that CV in the cloud. Might not be as awesome, though. EDIT: See how I'm subtly advertising myself as being smart, objective, funny, creative... ;-) share|improve this answer add comment Another way to view this question is what name do you consider to be your identity. For example, my full legal name would be "John Brock King II" while most people call me JB and there are several nicknames I have had over the years, some stemming from various interpretations of JB like James Brown, James Bond, Jim Bean, etc. while others have other stories behind their origin like Boogus or Funkmeister. I choose to identify with my name as JB rather than John as this is what I was called growing up and my name is similar to my fathers except I have a II at the end of mine. "John King" can be a rather common name as there is a CNN correspondent with that name among others. I'm often asked for my date of birth at the doctor's office and pharmacies because my name matches so much. Even "JB King" can still match some stuff like a shipwreck so it isn't totally unique unto myself. Some people are known by part of their name and others like to create their own identities. After all, what are the odds Lady Gaga would actually change her last name to Gaga? I'm thinking slim to none but maybe that's just me. I do consider J.B. King to be my real name though for legal matters it isn't always adequate. share|improve this answer You bring up a very good point. The notion of professional versus personal life is very much an issue of identity. In a world where you can be anyone, how do you want to be known? –  Jon Purdy Oct 3 '10 at 3:28 add comment Hmm, this question got me thinking here.. I always use my invented name. why? • Seperation between personal and Work. I find this very very important! (I do have my real name on the internet, but ONLY on a social network. (Hyves, And that account is also locked if your not my friend.) (I am thinking about putting my real name on stackoverflow) • If you do become famous, you can enjoy all of those benefits/downsides even with a invented name. people will just know you by that name. • As snorfus pointed out, stupidity is something I am good at. :) Mostly because I am only just began programming (3 years) • Isn't internet all about privacy? :) share|improve this answer add comment This one is a little more complex than what you feel about something - it's not whether you think it's untoward that's relevant, it's what everybody else thinks. For instance I might not think that attending a political rally in support of voting reform is untoward, but others may. On the other hand, many people might not think being actively involved in an evangelical church is untoward, but it may, if I knew nothing else about them, negatively impact my opinion. Despite all this, I think there's value in being honest, both online and offline, and I think knowing that what you say online can be tracked back to you offline can have a civilising influence. share|improve this answer add comment I use my real name for any sites where content is publicly posted that I wouldn't mind a potential employer seeing (because they will), for example my StackOverflow answers or my technical blog. I use a pseudonym for sites where I'd prefer it not to become part of my meta-resume. Not necessarily that I am embarrassed about anything I post under it, just that I don't want it to float the top of a Google search on my name and crowd out things that help my chances for a job. For example, I use a pseudonym any political discussion sites, or my personal blog. share|improve this answer add comment My name is not unique, it's pretty much a 'John Smith' type name, so using that to search uniquely for me is pretty useless. However, my alias is unique (and I hope to keep it that way, 7 years and going strong), and given enough tech savvy, you can work out who I am anyway (not that that would get you very far, as my name is a dime a dozen). However, I like to think of my alias as a pointer to my real self. Before facebook, there was no pointer to this real me (apart from FB, no website holds my real name attached to my alias). I like to think that my alias is my name (and in several computer-related circles, it is) because it's unique in a world of johnsmithery. share|improve this answer Exactly this. In the years since I made the concious decision to use my real name online, two more prominent Paul Butchers have appeared. If you choose a sensible unique alias, it's easier to maintain your personal brand. –  Paul Butcher Jan 6 '11 at 10:35 @PaulButcher except when you find that one site you haven't signed up to where your "unique alias" is already taken (I tried to sign up to reddit, my username was already taken) sigh. –  glasnt Jan 10 '11 at 22:43 add comment One advantage to using my real name: A high school friend was able to get back in touch because I made enough apparently interesting posts on a language forum to put me in several of the top 10 google results for my name. share|improve this answer Glad to hear it! –  Jon Purdy Oct 3 '10 at 3:54 add comment I'm not sure what my real name is anymore. Seriously: there are people I know mainly in real life, who I rarely talk to online, who still know me as TRiG. (They'd know my real name too, usually.) And there are people I know mainly or exclusively online who'd still know my real name. The two identities blur together, especially since the nickname TRiG is in fact derived from my initials. Edit to add: You could find my online postings across a lot of forums very easily if you found a case-sensitive search engine. share|improve this answer add comment

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Take the 2-minute tour × Does participating in Webinars and Seminars about software development and programming improve a developer's programming level? Please note that I'm asking this question about developers, not managers. Because in many webinars and seminars, there are highly general views about future technologies which can be useful for manager to decide ahead about future tools their team should use. share|improve this question The key is whether it uses Visio, or an equivalent. If so, it's useless. It has been simplified beyond being useful a programmer and is only suitable for management. :) –  psr Aug 3 '11 at 19:46 add comment closed as not constructive by gnat, Matthieu, Jim G., Mark Trapp, Dynamic Sep 20 '12 at 10:27 1 Answer As always, the answer is "it depends." It's easy to wind up wasting time on some seminar about a topic too simplistic or too foreign to your current work. For instance, a seminar aimed at learning to program in Fortran may be a waste of your time if you are a web developer and really want to continue that route. This can be a problem since you only have a fixed number of hours in a day. The time could be better spent reading books/blogs on more relevant technology. That being said, I believe that relevant, high-quality Webinars/Seminars are quite valuable. I've gained a lot from watching some on S.O.L.I.D. that were posted online a few months ago. Seeing others in the same community tackle similar problems I have faced really opened my eyes to new and better solutions. Essentially, it depends on the specific webinar/seminar in question. I've watched some that were totally wastes of time, and I've seen others which were very enlightening. share|improve this answer "I've gained a lot from watching some on S.O.L.I.D. that were posted online a few months ago. " -- Any chance for some links? –  Ominus Feb 7 '12 at 16:25 add comment

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All the Young Bankers Why does Germany have an engineering shortage while U.S. engineers are forced into "sales"? If our engineers didn't go into sales, they'd be unemployed. It also puzzles me how, in 2008, German industry, with an ever higher euro, keeps outcompeting the U.S. in sales abroad. The Germans are actually looking for more than half a million skilled workers, including 100,000 engineers. So at a Chicago Chinatown restaurant on a Wednesday night, I asked my friend D., who's in industrial sales, "Why, with the euro so high, do the Germans put so much more effort into manufacturing?" "Aw!" he said. "The Germans aren't doing much. The only reason they're ahead of us is that we're just doing nothing. I mean, we aren't developing any new products--while the Germans, occasionally they try something. It's all the bean counters. The financial people." The guys who run U.S. business, D. explained, aren't interested in engineering, in developing new products. All we develop are new and more complex financial instruments. By coincidence, I went up to Boston that week and saw friends from law school. Their kids now graduate from places like Harvard and Yale. I asked their kids what they planned to do. "I'm going into finance." "I'm going into finance." "I'm going into finance." Later K., at her 60th birthday party, told me one daughter was in a prestigious law school, but guess what her second daughter was doing. "She's going into finance." "How did you know?" They're at Morgan Stanley. They're at Goldman Sachs. After Teach for America, they go to work for Chase. You may have noticed that plenty of these young hedge-fund managers are kicking in to the party of the left. In fact, being from Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Princeton, they really are on the left, such as it is. But do they all have to work at Morgan Stanley? When I came back from Boston last month, I groaned about this to a lawyer friend, whose daughter, he said, now does "wealth management" for a bank. "You only have to have $150 million," he added, before you can be one of her clients. I've read that at Yale, 40 percent of graduating seniors go to grad school, 30 percent go off to foundations, and 30 percent go off to business, primarily investment banking--as an analyst, say, at Goldman Sachs. So, of those who blow off law or med school, half the kids go off to manage wealth while the other half end up begging them to turn it over to their foundations. Either way, it's a career in "wealth management." It's these under-30 wonder kids that Democratic Party leaders are already having to hit up for money. Of course, there should be campaign-finance reform, but the problem isn't solved simply by saying, "I won't take their money." The bigger problem is that these young plutocrat-to-be liberals from Teach for America already have so much clout in shaping the political message of the left. One day, all we may care about is who heads the Fed. Indeed, under the very nice Ben Bernanke, the Fed has seized broad new authority for regulating the whole economy, to make sure that no one in the financial sector ever gets to fail. That's the new social contract: In Tribeca, at least, no kid will ever lose his (or her) first (or second) condo. Of course, I like the young banker kids more than the old right-wing ones. But the kids who manage people's wealth aren't going to lead us into a new Age of Jackson or a second coming of the New Deal. Whose Democratic Party is it, anyway? Should the party belong to a Yalie who was in Teach for America before joining Morgan Stanley, or to a kid with a GED working in a mall? Now, the global banks headed by our best and brightest are moving in to do the same bean-counting on the Germans, too. But thanks to their labor laws, the Germans still have a few built-in checks on the growing power of these banks. (See Robert Kuttner's "Continental Drift" on page 23.) German corporations are engineered internally to give a "voice" to workers who have skills. Their corporate model may be doomed, but at least that's not yet clear. Indeed, in the past month, Horst Kohler, the president of Germany, called out the global banking system as a "monster." Fritz Müntefering, the former vice chancellor, called the bankers "locusts." Over here, this faint echo from our own Age of Jackson now sounds so uncouth to our ears. You need to be logged in to comment.

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Why an iPod Touch costs more than the sum of its parts? We've all read those blogs that "reveal" the parts cost of a fill-in-the-blank, Kindle, iPod, or Palm Pre. If you ask me, this simplistic, by-the-numbers gambit overlooks most of the costs of bringing a product to market. First and foremost, products, all products, are priced to what the market will pay. I don't care if it's a 16-ounce bottle of Poland Spring water, Coldplay concert tickets, or a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, retail prices are determined by what the market will pay. And luxury products have higher profit margins than mass market stuff. Oh really? But the mindless rash of blogs that purport to add up the parts costs, for example $39.51 for the display, $15.96 for 8 gigabytes of flash memory, $15.41 for components, and $12.39 for the 3-megapixel camera, to calculate the cost of anything are hugely misleading. The writer merely subtracts the parts cost from the retail price and concludes the difference is the "profit." 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Ten years ago it looked like stereo's days were numbered--the two new multichannel formats, SACD and DVD-Audio, were on track to be the next big things. Funny, it didn't work out that way. I cover the subject in detail in my "Whatever happened to 5.1-channel music?" article that appeared in the July issue of Stereophile magazine. Obviously, 5.1-channel sound makes sense for movies and home theater, mostly because 5.1 was an outgrowth of theatrical film-sound technologies stretching all the way back to the 1950s. Every attempt to bring surround music into the home without video has flopped, big time. Are you old enough to remember the rise and fall of quadraphonic in the 1970s? What was needed was a surround format that didn't require music lovers to invest in new playback gear. Surely such a format would prove the viability of music surround...wouldn't it?… Read more Sound vs. picture: What's a better investment? A good friend of mine is still fuming over picking HD-DVD over Blu-ray. He's held the grudge so long he just recently dumped the player and even some of the discs and bought a Blu-ray player. I know another guy who's steamed that his $2,000 6-year-old receiver doesn't have HDMI switching, so to get Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio he plays his Blu-ray over the receiver's 5.1 channel analog inputs. Fine, but the receiver doesn't do any sort of bass management over its analog inputs. The sound isn't so hot. Do you know anybody who bought a plasma TV in 1999 for around $10,000 who still uses it as their primary display? I don't, but I'd bet most of those buyers are on their second or third display by now.… Read more What's so great about high-end audio? It's the hi-fi's job to produce the sound of music encoded in a recording. Does how well or how accurately it produces the sound affect musical enjoyment? I'm not so sure about measurements; they just define distortion levels, power rating, and frequency response, but they don't have all that much to do with good sound. Good sound is much harder to nail down; we like what we like. You know good sound when you hear it. Studio recordings rarely sound "live," or even realistic. How could they? Chances are the band never played the entire tune together "live" in the studio. Their music was patched together from bits and pieces, overdubbed, pitch corrected, rhythm corrected, EQ-ed, dynamically compressed, and processed in a gazillion ways. Of course, a lot of that also goes into modern "concert" recordings. So what constitutes a good sounding recording is pretty impossible to define. Play it back over a great system and what do you hear? Does it get your blood pumping? So the question really is, does the music fully engage the listener? Sometimes, the better the hi-fi, the more music the listener hears, the more they like the music. Why that is? I don't know. … Read more How big are Howard Stern's ratings? Stern loves to count the 20 million Sirius XM subscribers as listeners, and his rabid fan base believes him! Come on, that's a huge stretch, even for the former "King of all Media." Intentionally equating potential audience with actual listeners is classic Stern BS. The former King never made another movie or wrote another book. He's the King of Satellite Radio, and he works for a company that NEVER posted a profit during his reign (it continues to post losses every quarter). Sirius XM stock has been lingering around thirty-three cents a share for the past month or so. I'm just waiting for Stern to advise his buddy, Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin, to boost profitability by eliminating all of the other channels. Stern is the big draw, so why waste resources with all those other channels? I wonder how fast the 20 million number would plummet. Before the Sirius XM merger "Daily News" writer David Hinckley reported that "Arbitron has released its first-ever ratings for XM and Sirius, covering April-June 2007, and they show that in an average week, 1,225,000 listeners at some point heard Stern." That's the TOTAL for the week, so at any given moment, Stern has maybe a few hundred thousand listeners. Anyway you look at it, that's a sorry ratings number for the former terrestrial radio god. Arbitron also said that one other satellite channel--XM's "Top 20 on 20" - topped a million during that April-June 2007 ratings period. Since Sirius XM doesn't release its internal ratings, we don't have any way to verify Stern's claims, or other satellite radio shows' numbers. On today's show Stern admitted that, yes, he has fewer listeners than he did when he was on terrestrial radio, but wouldn't go so far as to say lots of terrestrial radio personalities have far more listeners than he does now.… Read more Face it: The best stuff is expensive Here at CNET we write about all sorts of gadgets and toys, but I've noticed that when I write about high-end gear I get the biggest reaction. I like hearing about stuff I can't afford, like the recent road test of the $80,000 Jaguar XFR. The big sedan can hit 162 mph, can stop from 150 in 6 seconds, and it's a ball to drive fast. Funny, the road tester never mentioned fuel economy. There you go, people don't buy $80,000 cars for their practicality, they buy them to be seen in and for how well they perform. High-end audio isn't so different, but it's more private. High-end buyers' families and friends are the only ones who'll ever get to be bowled over by the sound and looks of their spectacular audio systems. So while you've probably heard of Jaguar, chances are you're less familiar with high-end audio brands. I'm here to help raise awareness of quality audio. I write about the world's best audio gear for "Home Entertainment" magazine, and I recently had the pleasure of testing the Burmester 032 integrated stereo amplifier ($22,495) and B25 speakers ($11,995/pair). Burmester is based in Berlin, Germany. The company builds the sort of hi-fis a Jaguar owner would buy. The 032 amplifier's sculptured metalwork is drop-dead gorgeous. The amplifier's front and sides are covered by machined heat sinks. They provide optimal cooling for the stereo 240-watt-per-channel amplifier's output transistors, eliminating the need for noisy fans. Burmester components, fully decked out in chrome, are a startling sight to behold. … Read more Poll: Are concert ticket prices too high? Let's face it: Musicians' income from CDs and downloads is on the wane, so they have to make a buck where they can. Ticket prices for local venues in New York City can be pretty steep. Small jazz clubs can easily run $30, plus a two-drink minimum. Steve Knopper's "High Ticket Prices Could Hurt Concert Business" article in Rolling Stone at least pointed to relative "bargains" among the big summer tours. Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen's shows have ticket prices under $100; Dave Matthews Band's seats go for $32 to $75; Pearl … Read more Sirius XM sticks it to subscribers How's the Sirius XM satellite radio monopoly working out for subscribers? Not so well. Now that Sirius XM is the only game in town, it's nudging up fees for subscribers. Nice! Could the subscriber losses be attributed to recent price hikes? The … Read more Can hi-fis ever sound like real music? Audiophiles are on a quest; we're always lusting after the perfect fill-in-the-blank (speaker, amplifier, turntable, CD player, etc). Catch is, perfect gear wouldn't automatically make every recording sound life-like. At that point the gear wouldn't have a sound per-se; the recordings' sound would be laid bare. I wrote "How high do you want your fi?" for the April 2009 issue of Stereophile magazine, and I'm still getting a wide range of feedback about that piece from readers and friends. I'm defining a "perfect" hi-fi as one that's indistinguishable from the sound of live instruments. No hi-fi has ever fully recreated the sound of a symphony orchestra, jazz group, or rock 'n' roll band. Solo instruments fare better, i.e. guitars, flutes, and vocals; you can almost get a glimpse of their sounds over the best high-end systems. But a drum kit? Piano? No way! Audio components are far from perfect, so it's no surprise their sounds aren't 100 percent convincing. As imperfect as the gear is, the recordings themselves are even further away from documenting the sound of vocals and instruments. The age-old analog/digital divide is the least of it. The musicians do their thing, and then the microphones, their positions relative to the instruments, the skill and imagination of the engineer/producer/mastering team's use of equalization, compression, processing, etc., create the sound we hear. Pop or rock music is rarely played by the complete band, with vocals, live in the studio. Out-of-tune singers and players are pitch-corrected, drummers' off-kilter rhythms are tweaked, there's not a lot of there there to reproduce. Most recordings are so heavily processed they could never sound real.… Read more Do major record labels have a future? Record stores are fading fast, the big labels--EMI, Sony/BMG, Universal, and Warner--are on their last legs, and commercial radio stations rarely play new music. The big music retail chains: Tower, Virgin, and HMV are all gone. People still listen to music, it's how they hear it and find it that's changed. Oh, and they don't want to pay for it. The Beatles didn't get a big, fat advance when they signed a record contract. They hooked up with EMI to make records; the band couldn't do it by themselves. Luckily for the Beatles, they had a terrific producer, George Martin, who encouraged John, Paul, George, and Ringo to keep growing. Without Martin the Beatles might have been just a minor footnote. He set the scene and created the right environment for the Beatles to bloom. The artist/producer relationship is crucial, and back in the day, the great labels--Motown, Stax, Electra, Atlantic, Columbia, Blue Note, and Warner Brothers--had the best producers. The labels promoted the music and got it on the radio. Nowadays, any 12-year-old could make a record in his or her bedroom, put it up on a site,and sell it. Up-and-coming local bands do the same--but without the input and direction from the right producer, the band won't tap its full potential. … Read more

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Prescient Precedent New technologies always lend themselves to personal and artistic expression and a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives 1840-1860, illustrates how technology and the artistic impulse have gone hand in hand for well over 100 years. The invention of the calotype in 1941 not only allowed photographers to use readily available fine writing paper to make multiple prints, but also made photography more accessible to a broader population. The particular qualities of the paper negative (softening of details and ethereal light and shadow) lent themselves perfectly to the picturesque tendencies of the time

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Ted Pedersen > WordNet-Similarity > WordNet::Similarity::GlossFinder Annotate this POD New  6 Open  2 View/Report Bugs Module Version: 2.04   Source   WordNet::Similarity::GlossFinder - module to implement gloss finding methods for WordNet::Similarity measures of semantic relatedness (specifically, lesk and vector) use WordNet::QueryData; my $wn = WordNet::QueryData->new; defined $wn or die "Construction of WordNet::QueryData failed"; use WordNet::Similarity::GlossFinder; my $obj = WordNet::Similarity::GlossFinder->new ($wn); my ($err, $errString) = $obj->getError (); $err and die $errString; my $wps1 = 'england#n#1'; my $wps2 = 'winston_churchill#n#1'; # get the glosses of these two synsets, since we are not using a # configuation file to specify relations, we will only get the # immediate glosses of the two wps entries. The default weight and # relation appear in $weight and $relation - these can be modified # via a configuration file. my ($wps1gloss, $wps2gloss, $weight, $relation ) = $obj -> getSuperGlosses ($wps1, $wps2); print "$wps1gloss->[0]\n"; print "$wps2gloss->[0]\n"; print "$weight->[0]\n"; print "$relation->[0]\n"; This class is derived from (i.e., is a sub-class of) WordNet::Similarity. Two of the measures of similarity, provided in this package, viz. WordNet::Similarity::lesk and WordNet::Similarity::vector deal with WordNet glosses. This module provides methods for easy access to the required glosses. This module inherits all the methods of WordNet::Similarity. Additionally, the following methods are also defined. Public methods Specifies the parts of speech that measures derived from this module support (namely, nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs). parameters: none returns: true Overrides method of same name in WordNet::Similarity. Prints module-specific configuration options to the trace string (if tracing is on). GlossFinder supports module specific options: relation, stop and stem. Parameters: none Returns: nothing Overrides the configure method in WordNet::Similarity. This method loads various data files, such as the stop words and relations. Parameters: $file -- path of the configuration file. Returns: nothing $self->getSuperGlosses($wps1, $wps2) This method returns a list of large blocks of concatenated glosses (super-gloss) for each specified synset. A super-gloss is the block of text formed by concatenating the glosses of a synset with glosses of synsets related to it in WordNet. "Related" synsets are identified by specific relations specified in the "relations" file. If no relations file was specified in the configuration, only the gloss of that synset is returned. Parameters: wps1 and wps2 -- two synsets. Returns: List of superglosses for both synsets (2-D array). Private Methods This method loads relations from a relation file. Parameters: none Returns: nothing Many of the methods in this module can work with either offsets or wps strings internally. There are several interesting consequences of each mode. 1. An offset is not a unique identifier for a synset, but neither is a wps string. An offset only indicates a byte offset in one of the WordNet data files (data.noun, data.verb, etc. on Unix-like systems). An offset along with a part of speech, however, does uniquely identify a synset. A word#pos#sense string, on the other hand, is the opposite extreme. A word#pos#sense string is an identifier for a unique word sense. A synset can have several word senses in it (i.e., a synset is a set of word senses that are synonymous). The synset {beer_mug#n#1, stein#n#1} has two word senses. The wps strings 'beer_mug#n#1' and 'stein#n#1' can both be used to refer to the synset. For simplicity, we usually just use the first wps string when referring to the synset. N.B., the wps representation was developed by WordNet::QueryData. 2. Early versions of WordNet::Similarity::* used offsets internally for finding paths, hypernym trees, subsumers, etc. The module WordNet::QueryData that is used by Similarity, however, accepts only wps strings as input to its querySense method, which is used to find hypernyms. We have found that it is more efficient (faster) to use wps strings internally. Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth tpederse at d.umn.edu Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City sidd at cs.utah.edu WordNet::Similarity(3) WordNet::Similarity::vector(3) WordNet::Similarity::lesk(3) Copyright (c) 2005, Ted Pedersen and Siddharth Patwardhan The Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. syntax highlighting:

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Seeking Alpha Seeking Alpha Portfolio App for iPad Profile| Send Message| (467)   The title of this article may seem to be a statement of the obvious. Cash and cash equivalents are accounted for as assets on a company's balance sheet. Yet a surprising number of investors appear to view Apple's (AAPL) massive cash hoard as a negative for the stock. Recently, hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors jumped on this bandwagon. He told CNBC that several other stocks, such as Qualcomm (QCOM) and Google (GOOG) were now preferable to Apple, because of Apple's "financial policy". Cooperman's preference for Qualcomm over Apple seems particularly odd, as Qualcomm faces as much competitive pressure as Apple, or more, but trades at a higher valuation by most metrics. Like Apple, Qualcomm currently enjoys a dominant position in high-end smartphones, but is under threat from competitors: for Qualcomm, these include Intel (INTC), Nvidia (NVDA), and Samsung (OTC:SSNLF). Qualcomm's competitors are well-financed, and Intel and Samsung enjoy potentially massive economies of scale. Like Apple, Qualcomm may be able to maintain earnings growth if it innovates more rapidly than the competition, but it faces three credible competitors, where Apple faces just one. So what could justify picking Qualcomm over Apple? Cooperman was apparently dismayed that Apple did not issue a special dividend last month, as many other cash-rich companies did. Cooperman's fund still holds some Apple stock, but has cut back on its position. However, Apple's failure to issue a special dividend hardly seems like a good reason to scale back positions in Apple at the same time that the stock price has fallen by more than 25%. Indeed, as of a year ago (when Cooperman was more bullish), Apple had not returned any cash to shareholders in over fifteen years! This March, the company announced a regular dividend and a modest $10 billion stock repurchase plan. Apple estimated that it would return $45 billion to shareholders over the course of three years. While this is less than the company will earn this year alone, it is hardly a pittance. With Apple finally showing some willingness to return cash to shareholders, and the company trading at its lowest P/E valuation in more than a decade (aside from a very brief period in the depths of the 2008-2009 recession), doubling down on Apple seems more appropriate than taking money off the table right now. By contrast, Cooperman's decision to take money off the table implies that Apple's cash is a liability. Cooperman was bullish on Apple when the stock was trading between $600 and $650. If Apple had paid a $50 special dividend, Cooperman would presumably still like the stock at the adjusted price range of $550-$600. In that scenario, the company would have less cash on hand but trade at a higher price; the only way that valuation would make sense is if Apple's cash is a liability rather than an asset! This valuation of Apple's cash as a liability is irrational, but it should not come as a total shock to investors. Last year, famed NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran raised the possibility that Apple could be punished by investors for holding as much cash as it does. Due to investors' naivete, worries about management wasting the money on frivolous acquisitions, or the missed opportunity for enjoying the tax benefits of leverage, holding too much cash could damage Apple's stock price. While Damodaran believed last March that this was not yet happening, it is hard to deny that investors are now discounting Apple's cash. Apple's single-digit P/E excluding cash hardly seems warranted for a company that has shown strong earnings growth for many years, and is likely (at a minimum) to grow earnings at a low double digit or high single digit rate for the next few years. I agree with those investors who want Apple to deploy its cash more aggressively. I think that Apple shares are so deeply undervalued at this time that it could even make sense to pay a higher tax rate in order to repatriate cash to the U.S. and execute a significant buyback (reducing the share count by more than 10%). In other words, Apple would be worth more if it were committed to returning all excess cash to shareholders. However, I see Apple's conservative cash policy as a missed opportunity rather than a black mark against the company. When Apple finally moves to return cash more aggressively, it should propel the stock higher, because the current "discount on cash" will evaporate. As a long-term investor, I am happy to wait for this share appreciation, insofar as Apple's long-term prospects seem very good compared to the stock's valuation. It is ironic that investors are starting to discount Apple's cash at roughly the same time that the company has begun returning cash to shareholders. While Steve Jobs was in charge at Apple, it was plausible that money would continue to pile up on Apple's balance sheet as retained earnings. Jobs ruled the company with an iron fist, and didn't seem to have any interest in catering to shareholder wishes. Yet Jobs produced such incredible growth that there was no possibility of a real shareholder revolt. Today, with Tim Cook at the helm, there is little reason to believe that Apple will hold on to its cash indefinitely. In all likelihood, management and the Board are waiting to see if the U.S. government manages to pass some sort of corporate tax reform. It would be foolish for Apple to spend a significant amount on taxes in order to repatriate cash when it is possible that corporate tax rates will be lowered as part of the debt ceiling/sequester debate over the next few months. As a result, Apple's cash should just be seen as what it is: an asset. Source: Apple's Cash Hoard Is An Asset, Not A Liability

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