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"Hephaistos," said Poseidon, "if Ares goes away without paying his damages, I will pay you myself." So Hephaistos answered, "In this case I cannot and must not refuse you."
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Thus sang the bard, and both Odysseus and the seafaring Phaeacians were charmed as they heard him.
Then Alkinoos told Laodamas and Halios to dance alone, for there was no one to compete with them. So they took a red ball which Polybos had made for them, and one of them bent himself backwards and threw it up towards the clouds, while the other jumped from off the ground and caught it with ease before it came down again. When they had done throwing the ball straight up into the air they began to dance, and at the same time kept on throwing it backwards and forwards to one another, while all the young men in the ring applauded and made a great stamping with their feet. Then Odysseus said:
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I am sure they could, at a charge. What I am not sure is the outcome of the pattern change; are you going to lower the balmoral line to the bottom of the peak? or are you removing the peak and moving the balmoral line up? That SC pair's balmoral line is very very shallow and the only reason it works is the downward pointing peak to balance and give some depth to the shallow horizontal line.
Style preference. William I looks better to me... Much more classic.
How would the leather or construction be indestructible during winter?
By that logic, my $10 leather gloves from Home Depot must have very high quality as they survived more water and mud than any of my shoes. p.s., JL leather is much softer wearing than EG or G&G IME, but that could be due to variations in construction. I dont think they opt to use any lower quality leather but it just happens that my black pair feels is more wrinkle prone and less lustrous than my other SC or other high-end shoes. I did not make myself clear. Aside from...
Sun bleaching will like a very long time and could potentially dry up the leather... The easiest solution is to darken the lighter color shoe to match the darker color one.Acquired patina or time induced antiquing will make shoes turn lighter in color.What you have described is faux antiquing or applied patina.
Looks interesting but the leather quality is not high IME especially for black ones. And for some reason they don't take polish well.
Its definitely not; no one gives a damn.
Gawd even your sneakers are black...
I think their next shipment from SC is early March.Delays are inevitable given their LSBH store remodeling and personnel changes.I hope SC can do decent at Wingtip SF and Mr Car can visit SF more frequently than just an annual trip to LA.
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Turbo vs Naturally aspirated
By chillingrsx on 8/27/2013 12:19:57 PM , Rating: 2
I don't believe this is true with turbo have better gas mileage than the non turbo. If you look at the Acura RDX, it was the coolest thing ever when it first came out. A turbo 4 bangers CUV. It didn't do so well. So what did Honda do, switch it up a v6 and it's selling like hot cakes. I know because I own one. I did test drove the turbo and boy it was day and night difference. The v6 is more refine. Guess what, the v6 still have better gas mileage.
RE: Turbo vs Naturally aspirated
By Pneumothorax on 8/27/2013 1:16:04 PM , Rating: 2
Yup, many of these forced-induction direct injection 4-bangers have great EPA numbers on paper, but in RL barely get 1-2MPG better than their V6 forebears. They also add a ton of complexity with the addition of turbos/HPFP along with worse NVH.
RE: Turbo vs Naturally aspirated
By lagomorpha on 8/27/2013 1:50:09 PM , Rating: 2
A lot of the reduced efficiency comes from forced-induction engines requiring lower compression ratios. It wouldn't be a problem if GM had not killed off Saab's variable compression ratio research just before it was ready for production.
RE: Turbo vs Naturally aspirated
By Jeffk464 on 8/27/2013 6:53:21 PM , Rating: 2
You sure, I think you can put a 6psi turbo on any factory engine. When you start getting into 12psi turbos the engine has to be designed all the way around for the turbo. I'm pretty sure ecoboost engines are lightly boosted, don't know what they will do for the Z a 12psi turbo would be a lot more fun.
RE: Turbo vs Naturally aspirated
By UnauthorisedAccess on 8/27/2013 9:30:22 PM , Rating: 2
It has a lot to do with the engines compression. Secondly, you need to have the injectors/fuel pump able to supply the increase in fuel and thirdly the ECU mapped accordingly.
You cannot just bolt on a turbo running 6 PSI and have a bunch of extra horsepower without risk. Some engines this might be possible if you start using a higher octane fuel, though some engines the ECU might not cope with the change.
If you've got a high compression engine (11:1 etc) then you'll be riding the fine line of detonation even with low PSI.
In my experience and imho, you either by an engine that is turbo or you leave it NA. Don't turbo an NA engine unless you're doing a full house rebuild.
RE: Turbo vs Naturally aspirated
By lagomorpha on 8/28/2013 8:17:39 AM , Rating: 2
It really depends on the engine. If you've got something that's already pretty solidly built and has pretty big injectors but has a high compression ratio (for example a Hayabusa engine) then you can usually get away with just installing a thicker headgasket to reduce the compression ratio and you can use a turbo without knocking. On the other hand if you feel like installing a turbo in a Hayabusa you might consider seeing a psychologist.
RE: Turbo vs Naturally aspirated
By 91TTZ on 8/28/2013 5:08:24 PM , Rating: 2
I agree with you. The turbo engines usually have several subtle differences to increase reliability. Differences between the NA Z engine and the TT engine:
1. The TT has a lower compression ratio.
2. The NA Z has stainless steel exhaust valves while the TT version has inconel exhaust valves to withstand the higher exhaust temperature
3. The turbo version has different pistons with holes on the bottom for oil squirters to cool the bottom of the pistons
4. The oil squirters are different.
5. The fuel pump is larger to flow more fuel. This isn't on the engine but you'll need it.
6. The ECU is different and uses fuel maps that go beyond vacuum-0 psi.
RE: Turbo vs Naturally aspirated
By Jeffk464 on 8/27/2013 1:38:33 PM , Rating: 2
It really depends how you drive, if you have a lead foot they do about the same but if you drive more mileage the turbo does better. When you are just humming along the turbo isn't really spooled up where a V8 always has the drag of a huge engine.
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What are some recommended ways of dealing with namespace heavy xml documents without having to rely on the browser?
Background: I am handling wsdl/soap documents from Web Services with ajax. It is very frustrating when something like doc.getElementsByTagName("xs:complexType") behaves differently on a mobile cordova app in a tablet, and a chrome browser on the desktop. On some of the devices you have to strip the prefix, and on others you must include it. Another example of a problem is getElementsByTagNameNS on older browsers.
JQuery out of the box seems to make you use the prefix in the selectors as opposed to the actual namespace. This is a bit of a pain, because it is very common for the documents to use multiple prefixes for the same namespace.
Dojox.xml would require me to bring an entire framework to use alongside my existing JQuery code just to handle xml.
I am currently dealing with these issues on a case-by-case basis, but I am wondering if there is a better way.
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If you're stripping prefixes, you're almost certainly doing something wrong, but since you've not posted any code, it's hard to say what. Please show how you are loading and using the wsdl/soap in the Chrome browser. – Alohci Oct 4 '12 at 8:17
I am only stripping the prefix on browsers that have a broken getElementsByTagName() method that won't find the tag if i put the prefix in. Everything works fine in desktop chrome without the prefix stripped. The point was, I am trying to find good ways to parse and walk xml in js without the browser's "help". A library that eluded my searches before was xml for <script>, so I am looking into that now. – insipid Oct 4 '12 at 13:01
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I have several UITextViews that contain numbers between one and three digits. I'd like these views to expand and shrink as the number becomes larger or smaller. At the moment the text is shrinking and the TextViews size remains the same.
I'd preferable like to do this using the xib file (I'm very surprised this isn't a meagre check box) but a coded answer would be great if this isn't possible.
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Did you check NSString -sizeWithFont: ? It must be somewhere at top search results when you are looking for iOs NSString size. – A-Live Oct 24 '12 at 20:30
I'll try that search, I've been searching for expandable UITextView and wrap TextView round text and so on. I assumed this would be a property of the UITextView and not the String within it. Thanks – Deco Oct 24 '12 at 20:31
AFAIK there's no such property of the text view, you can find the reference docs of UITextView at developer.apple.com to see everything at one place. What I tried to tell you is that you can check the text size when the delegate text-changed event is fired, then when you have the text size you can change the textView frame as you see it needed. – A-Live Oct 25 '12 at 10:13
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I'd recommend using the contentSize property of the UITextView:
self.textView.frame = CGRectMake(self.textView.frame.origin.x, self.textView.frame.origin.y, self.textView.contentSize.width, self.textView.contentSize.height);
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I threw this in to my viewDidLoad method but I'm getting a sigabrt runtime error. for(UITextView *statPanel in statPanels) { statPanel.frame = CGRectMake(statPanel.frame.origin.x, statPanel.frame.origin.y, statPanel.contentSize.width, statPanel.contentSize.height); } – Deco Oct 24 '12 at 21:15
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I added a file to the index with:
git add somefile.txt
I then got the SHA1 for this file with:
git hash-object somefile.txt
I now have a SHA1 and I would like to retrieve the filename of the object in the index using the SHA1.
git show 5a5bf28dcd7944991944cc5076c7525439830122
This command returns the file contents but not the name of the file.
How do I get the full filename and path back from the SHA1?
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There's no such direct mapping in git as the name of the file is part of the tree object that contains the file, not of the blob object that is the file's contents.
It's not a usual operation to want to retrieve a file name from a SHA1 hash so perhaps you could expand on a real world use case for it?
If you're looking at current files (i.e. the HEAD commit) you can try the following.
git ls-tree -r HEAD | grep <SHA1>
If you want to find the contents in previous commits you'll need to do something more like this.
git rev-list <commit-list> | xargs -n1 -iX sh -c "git ls-tree -r X | grep <SHA1> && echo X"
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Thanks for that. I didn't know you could do that – Jonathan Jan 20 '09 at 9:01
If you don't know what to put in for <commit-list>, --all will search across all branches in the repository. – EoghanM Sep 15 '11 at 13:53
My version of git ls-tree only accepts 1 revision as argument (git v1.7.4.4). I adapted yours to for rev in $(git rev-list --all); do git ls-tree -r $rev | grep $SHA; done | uniq – dboehmer Nov 1 '11 at 19:06
@halo: I'm fairly sure everyone's ls-tree takes a single revision argument, that's why I used -n1 with xargs. – Charles Bailey Nov 1 '11 at 21:59
@CharlesBailey: Ah, never knew about the -n option. Seems to be very useful. Thanks for the hint! However the command as listed above didn't work for me. Don't know why but luckily solved my problem in the meantime. – dboehmer Nov 2 '11 at 9:14
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The following shell script is heavily based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/git-which-commit-has-this-blob and the answer provided by Aristotle Pagaltzis.
# go over all trees
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if [ "$hash" == "$obj_hash" ]; then
echo $f
if $f ; then break; fi
if $f; then break; fi
I'm sure someone could beautify this script but it does work. The idea is to look at all trees commited and search for your specific hash.
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Commit the file and note the sha1 hash of the commit object. After that use
git ls-tree <commit-sha1>
and you will get the names of the files with the hashes.
Check the manual pages for more options.
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Good answer IMO! – Rob Oct 29 '09 at 23:24
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git rev-list <commit-list> won't include any commits which were for example removed by rebase -i and now are referenced only by reflog, so if blob is not found by command above you should check also reflog ie like this:
git reflog --all | cut -d\ -f1 | xargs -n1 -iX sh -c "git ls-tree -r X | grep <BLOB_SHA> && echo X"
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Star Trek...
By ChristopherO on 10/7/2009 2:20:06 PM , Rating: 3
I read stories like this, and I laugh that all the contributing physicists to Star Trek are asked, "How would we solve this problem?" They usually get it right, and some number of years later we figure out how to solve the engineering challenges for the solutions they daydreamed about decades ago. In most sci-fi the sub-light drive systems are basically the same thing as the VASIMR using plasma for propulsion. (Assuming a few hundred years of progress, and a lot of dramatic license)
Still, what I find more humbling is how much we don't know that we constantly discover. There's always a better way of doing something. A lot of progress has been made *in space*, but I'm wondering what sort of limits we have for improving traditional chemical boosters. Besides the concept of a space elevator, getting away from Earth is just as costly as it has ever been. We can do more interesting things once we get away from here, but getting away is always the biggest problem. Certainly there are some cheaper boosters for small payloads (space ship one, etc), but we seem stuck in the same rut of paying a lot of money for anything large.
RE: Star Trek...
By kattanna on 10/7/2009 3:39:44 PM , Rating: 2
in star trek, our VASIMR engines were being powered by multi GW Fusion reactors, instead of lowly 200Kw levels.
thats some serious orders of magnitude difference. who knows.. if we can get such engines up to such power levels, they might just be strong enough to take something into orbit as well.
RE: Star Trek...
By jeff834 on 10/7/2009 9:49:00 PM , Rating: 2
Antimatter not fusion.
RE: Star Trek...
By acer905 on 10/8/2009 12:18:00 AM , Rating: 3
Actually, only the warp core uses an antimatter reaction, the impulse engines use their own fusion reactors to generate the electrical needs for the fusion rockets to function
Additionally, it has been assumed that the first vessels to travel at warp speed (i.e. The Phoenix) used fusion reactors to produce the energy needed, but it was abandoned when M/Am was finally perfected and was found to be more efficient
RE: Star Trek...
By lightfoot on 10/8/2009 5:46:26 PM , Rating: 2
Spoken as though it were fact.
The sign of a true Trek geek. :)
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Boeuf Bourguignonne Recipe
Preparation Time10 MinCooking Time2 Hr 0 Min
Ready In2 Hr 10 MinDifficulty LevelMedium
Health IndexAverageServings4
MethodMain Ingredient
Vegetable oil - 4 x 15 ml spoons/4 tablespoons
Topside of beef - 1.25 kg/2 1/2 lb, trimmed of fat and cut into cubes
Streaky bacon100 Gram
Flour - 2 x 15 ml spoons/2 tablespoons
Red wine250 Milliliter
Beef Stock250 Milliliter
Bay leaves2
Garlic1 Clove (5gm)
Dried mixed herbs - pinch
Brandy - 3 x 15 ml spoons/3 tablespoons
Salt To Taste
Ground black pepper1
Small pickling onions- 12, peeled
Parsley - freshly chopped, to garnish
1. Preheat an oven moderately to (160°C/325°F or Gas Mark 3)
2. In a pan, heat 3 x 15 ml spoons/3 tablespoons oil and fry beef briskly until browned on all sides.
3. Drain and transfer to an ovenproof casserole dish.
4. Into the pan fry adding bacon until crisp and golden brown, then stir in the flour and fry for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
5. Simmer stirring in the wine, stock, bay leaves, garlic and herbs gently.
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I am working on completely redeveloped website and sales system and have come up against this Max_connections issue surprisingly quickly.
I posted this question: Closing/Pooling MySQL ODBC connections Recently, but have since tried a few other things, still drawing a blank, but have more detail to offer...
I have a built a pretty complex sales process, and in creating an invoice I seem to be leaving 7 "processes" running each time. I have counted the number of times the data connection is used during the process of creating an invoice, and it is 7-9 depending on a few conditional values, so effectively the data connections are not closing at all.
To try to speed up coding, I have made a couple of functions which handle my database connectivity, so I will post these below.
Firstly, my connection string is:
"DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver}; SERVER=mysql.dc-servers.com; DATABASE=jamieha_admin; UID=USERID; PASSWORD=pWD; OPTION=3;pooled=true;Max Pool Size=100"
The functions which I am using to open and close and do stuff with the database are as follows:
Function connectionString(sql As String, closeConnection As String) As OdbcConnection
Dim DBConnection As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("dbConnNew").ConnectionString
'this is getting the connection string from web.config file.
Dim oConnection As OdbcConnection = New OdbcConnection(DBConnection) 'call data connection
connectionString = New OdbcConnection(DBConnection)
If closeConnection <> "close" Then _
connectionString.Open() ' open data connection
End Function
This function gives me a OdbcConnection Connection String Object, which I can then use with:
Function openDatabase(sql As String) As OdbcCommand
openDatabase = New OdbcCommand(sql, connectionString(sql, ""))
End Function
This function creates a useable data object when called doing something like:
Dim stockLevel As OdbcCommand = openDatabase("SQL STATEMENT HERE")
Dim objDataReader As OdbcDataReader = stockLevel.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
'=== DO STUFF WITH objDataReader ==='
Having read up trying to ensure data connections were closing properly and so on I read that adding (CommandBehavior.CloseConnection) should ensure that the connection is closed when no longer used, but this doesn't seem to be happening, so I have created a separate "closeCOnnection" function, which looks like:
Function closeConn()
If connectionString("", "", "close") IsNot Nothing AndAlso connectionString("", "close").State = ConnectionState.Open Then
connectionString("", "close").Close()
connectionString("", "close").Dispose()
End If
End Function
This is called after every use of the openDatabase function and also within the functions I have created for insert/update and delete, which look like this:
Function insertData(InsertSql As String)
Dim dataInsert = openDatabase(InsertSql, "new")
End Function
I am not sure whether making all these functions is making my life easier or harder, but I was trying to reduce the code in each file where data acceess is required, but I'm not convinced it has.
However, it has made it clear where and when I am opening and closing the database (or at least trying to)
The processes are not being closed though. If I run my sale process through 3 or 4 times in quick succession, with these 7 processes still being live and added to, I get the max_connections issue.
Not completely understanding how database connections work, I am afraid I am at a loss with this and hence having to ask you... again!!
Can anyone tell me:
a) Is my connection string correct, is there a better connection available for MySQL?
b) Using this method, creating a ODBCConnection Object, is it possible to close it within a function like this?
c) Why is (CommandBehavior.CloseConnection) not closing the connection (this problem arose before I tried closing the connection manually)
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Added the VB.NET tag – Bueller Jan 9 '12 at 17:31
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Unfortunately the issues you are having come from your design and a mishandling of references to connections.
But don't worry. It's not difficult to fix. :-)
In VB.Net you always need to access data in the following pattern:
1. Create a connection.
2. Create a command which uses the connection (including adding any parameter values).
3. Open the connection.
4. Execute the command.
5. Close the connection.
There are variations of this, such as looping over rows before closing the connection, but generally this is how it works. In order to ensure that the connection is closed, VB.Net provides Try/Finally blocks and Using statements. You need to use one of these to make sure the connections are closed.
I'll show you what I mean by rewriting your methods in the proper manner.
Firstly, wrap your connection-creation code into a function.
Function GetConnection() As OdbcConnection
GetConnection = New OdbcConnection(DBConnection)
End Function
Secondly, write a function to create your command. (openDatabase is the wrong name, so I have changed it to CreateCommand).
Function CreateCommand(sql As String, connection As OdbcConnection) As OdbcCommand
CreateCommand = New OdbcCommand(sql, connection)
End Function
Now when you wish to execute a query or a statement in the database, you can follow this pattern:
Dim connection As OdbcConnection = GetConnection()
Dim stockLevel As OdbcCommand = CreateCommand("SQL STATEMENT HERE", connection)
Dim objDataReader As OdbcDataReader = stockLevel.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
End Try
Using the Try/Finally block means that the connection will always be closed correctly, even when an Exception causes the code to return before you expect it to.
An alternative shorthand is the Using statement (which effectively does exactly the same thing as the Dispose in a Finally block):
Dim connection As OdbcConnection = GetConnection()
Using connection
Dim objDataReader As OdbcDataReader = stockLevel.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
End Using
And if you want to wrap your InsertData function in a command, you can do it like this:
Dim connection As OdbcConnection = GetConnection()
Dim stockLevel As OdbcCommand = CreateCommand(InsertSql, connection)
Using connection
Dim result As Integer = stockLevel.ExecuteNonQuery()
End Using
I suspect that the first time you tried this, you were leaving your connections open without ever closing them. I also assume (from what you wrote) that you added the closeConn method to sort that out. Unfortunately, every time you call connectionString you are actually creating and opening a new connection, which you then call Close or Dispose on. The initial connection is never closed.
Hope that helps.
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Whoops! Forgot to add the opening of the connection in my first edit. Updated now. – Richard Jan 9 '12 at 21:38
Not by my computer now, on my phone, but that looks exactly what I was trying to achieve!! Thanks, I'll try it out later and report back! :) – Jamie Hartnoll Jan 9 '12 at 22:27
OK, so far so good. Couple of questions: Firstly; When you need to connect to the database several times during the course of a script, would you open the connection at the top using connection and then close right at the end end using or would you open and close specifically each time it's required? Second, does end using ALWAYS close the connection? – Jamie Hartnoll Jan 10 '12 at 10:19
I only usually answer for votes (hint ;-)), but as you asked so nicely... When you use a connection pool you are actually doing the work of creating connections up-front, and grabbing a connection from the pool is very lightweight. So the best thing to do is to open and close again as soon as you can. The Using statement always calls the Dispose method on the resources passed to it, even when an exception occurs. Calling Dispose on a connection automatically closes it. – Richard Jan 10 '12 at 11:29
Brilliant. Voted up and accepted! Thanks so much, that was exactly the answer I was looking for! It's all working now and only one process can be seen at any time! :D – Jamie Hartnoll Jan 10 '12 at 12:00
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While downloading Fedora Linux, they offer two options for download that I don't know the difference to: x86 and i386. So what'sthe difference between them?
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In what context? – Kaleb Pederson Jan 27 '10 at 6:04
I downloaded fedora12, and it said 1386. I am aware of both i386 and x86. Now it made me wonder if both were same. – X10nD Jan 27 '10 at 6:12
Hurry!! The motherboards are approaching, I must have an answer. /s – Charlie Salts Jan 27 '10 at 6:36
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i386 is just one the first model in the x86 familly of processors, and instructions sets.
For more informations, you might want to take a look at :
Quoting the second page :
The term x86 refers to a family of instruction set architectures[1] based on the Intel 8086. The term is derived from the fact that many early processors that are backward compatible with the 8086 also had names ending in "86".
And, quoting the first one :
The Intel 80386, also known as the i386, or just 386,[1] was a 32-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1985. [...]
As the original implementation of the 32-bit extensions to the 8086 architecture, the 80386 instruction set, programming model, and binary encodings are still the common denominator for all 32-bit x86 processors.
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so in short x86 is the same as i386 – X10nD Jan 27 '10 at 6:15
Only in the same sense that a skyscraper is an Empire State Building. One is an architecture and the other is an exemplification of that architecture. Do you understand the difference? – Jens Sep 6 '11 at 14:30
Actually the 8086 was the first in the series, as shown in the quotation. – tripleee Nov 26 '12 at 21:09
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80386/i386 was the first 32-bit Intel processor. When it was introduced, lot of compilers started using i386 as a flag to turn code-generation for it, a name for various temporary files, and architecture denominations in file names. 80386 was succeeded by 486, 586 (aka Pentium) and the rest of the x86 architecture CPUs. But the i386 stuck around as a label and is used as an alias to x86 (just like amd is used as an alias to x64 architecture, even though there are Intel x64 processors as well).
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I still remember having the i386 directory for WIndows NT 4 lying around on smoe hard disk to install Windows without having to find the CD :-). Back in the time when Windows supported MIPS and Alpha ;-) – Јοеу Jan 27 '10 at 6:21
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It's just another synonym for the same architecture. It's not entirely accurate but the 80386 is the original implementation of the 32-bit x86 instruction set and the common denominator for all following CPUs of that arch.
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80386 (i386) was the first implementation of the 32-bit x86 architecture (x86-32). There were also the 16-bit 80186 and 80286 (x86-16) before it. :-) – Franci Penov Jan 27 '10 at 6:11
@Fra: Argh, thanks. Still too early here ;-) – Јοеу Jan 27 '10 at 6:19
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i386 is more specific than x86, but yes, they're approximately the same.
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After last week’s cliffhanger, I was itching to find out what would happen to Shu now that he’s joined the Undertakers. Will he actually join them and forget about Makoto asked him to do? Or will he join with the pretenses to betray them all? Either way, things are about to get interesting! The episode starts off with Shu, Gai and Inori all returning to their headquarters, though Shu looks less than pleased about the whole idea. Once there, Gai asks about Kenji and his second-in-command says that he shows no signs of waking up, though they’re unsure of whether or not it’s because of the stress of having his Void used. Gai looks quite tired and irritated by this, but continues by introducing Shu to everyone again. He informs them all that since Shu has the Void Genome, all of their missions will be orchestrated around Shu’s abilities. Someone then asks him what their next step is and Gai tells them that they will be infiltrating the Leucocyte. He then brings up several hundred strategies based on patterns of what could or could not happen before instructing everyone to memorize all of them if they plan on joining them in the battle. One member pipes up and asks what happens if they don’t memorize everything and Gai simply states that they won’t have a place in the operation if they won’t take the time to seriously dedicate themselves to the plan. His second-in-command then addresses the worry of fatigue for the troops, but Gai rounds on him and is quite angry. He shouts at him, saying that he’d rather they be tired in the field than be fighting with their eyes blurry and glazed over from sleep. His second hand then backs off and leaves Gai to his business.
Meanwhile, Shu is scanning the room and notices a young girl in the balcony, happily chatting with another member. He seems surprised (as was I) to see someone so young as a member of the Undertakers. Shu’s attention is quickly drawn back to the matters at hand by Gai, who summons Ayase over to them. At first, Ayase is nervous but quickly becomes flabbergasted and possibly insulted when Gai asks her to train Shu for a mock battle. She finally relents when Gai tells her that she’s the only one he trusts to train Shu. Gai then tells Shu that he needs to pass the mock battle in order to become an official member of Undertaker, so he shouldn’t take the task lightly. Then, as quick as he was to give out orders, Gai leaves for his room to come up with a plan. Ayase then approaches Shu and tells him to get ready, but Shu tells her that he doesn’t want to make her feel obligated to train him since she’s in a wheel chair. She smiles and tells him that he’s sweet, but she can handle herself. When she holds out her hand, Shu grasps it, but is shocked when Ayase uses her wheelchair to knock his knees out from under him and slam him to the ground. She then angrily tells him that just because she’s in a wheelchair doesn’t mean that she can’t fight on her own. Shu apologizes and is ushered away to get changed, but as he leaves, we see the receiver that Makoto had given him lying on the ground. Uh oh! Some time later, we see Shu all dressed in the Undertakers’ uniform – and looking quite dashing, if I may say so – and meets Ayase in the hallway. He’s shocked to see her writing things in a notebook with the receiver he was given (apparently it also functions as a pen) and he tried to get it back from her. Instead of just giving it to him, Ayase makes a deal with Shu. If he can pass the mock battle in three days, he’ll get his pen back. If he doesn’t pass it, she gets to keep it. Unfortunately, Shu has no other option but to agree to her terms.
Su is then summoned to a small room where he meets Arugo Tsukishima, a second-year at a local high school. Apparently the boy is incredibly skilled at hand-to-hand combat and tosses a knife at Shu. Shu hesitantly asks if the blade is real and Arugo laughs, saying there would be no point in training with one that wasn’t real. He then tells Shu to come at him like he’s going in for the kill, but Shu promptly faints when Arugo charges at him. We then see a montage of Shu’s training, all of which highly amused me. When he’s running, Tsumugi scolds him for being so out of shape and Shu counters with the excuse that he’s into more cultural things than sports. He eventually becomes more accustomed to fighting, which is a good thing, since by the time the montage is done, all three days have passed and his mock battle is in the morning! As Shu wanders around the halls, he spots Inori sitting in a room overlooking the city, quietly singing to herself. He approaches her and comments on how it’s similar to how they first met. Inori doesn’t say anything, but Shu continues on about how he’s glad that he met her and that they’ll make a good team. As he reaches for her hand, she pulls her hand away and puts some distance between them. Shu is confused when Inori tells him that she’s not his friend and he shouldn’t get close to her. He asks her what she meant when she said that she was his and that they’ll be together forever. You can see his heart break when Inori says that Gai was the one who told her to say those things and she only did because she’s loyal to Gai. Shu tries to ask what she means by that and tells her that they can run away together, but Inori says that she can’t ever leave Gai’s side because he’s the one who gave her her name when she lost her memories. She then stands up and leaves, telling Shu not to get close to her. Shu sadly leaves the room and sees Inori entering Gai’s room. Upset, he runs down the hall towards his room but accidentally bumps into Ayase, knocking her out of her wheelchair. She shouts at him for not looking where he’s going, but quickly calms down when she notices how upset he is.
She asks him if he saw Inori and Gai and when Shu says yes, she tells him that everyone’s noticed them spending the night together like that two or three times a month, but no one wants to say anything. Shu asks her how she can stand it when she likes Gai, but she quickly denies any feelings for Gai other than respect. After a quick encouraging conversation, Ayase tells Shu that she doesn’t need help climbing into her wheelchair, but she’d like him to leave her alone since she doesn’t look very graceful doing it. Shu agrees and tells her good night before heading down the hallway. While Shu heads to his room, we see Gai and Inori together, but they’re not doing what everyone probably thinks they are. Gai looks like he’s getting a blood transfusion – for what reason, we don’t know yet – and he says that Inori looks just like “her”. Inori asks him if that bothers him and he says no. The next day, Gai and the young girl Shu saw when he first entered the Funeral Parlor head out to scout out an area to launch their attack and Shu gets ready for his mock battle. He’s facing Ayase, who is piloting her Endlave, and the whole goal of the mock battle is for Shu to get past her Endlave and safely into the building behind her without taking any hits. She warns him that even though they’re just using paintballs, they’re still hard enough to stun someone if hit. The battle begins and though Shu runs away at first, he spots Arugo and remembers that Arugo still has the ability to produce a Void. Ditching his paintball gun, he summons Arugo’s Void, which is a rod that surrounds the enemy in darknes. Using this, Shu is able to get to the car safely and wins the mock battle. Shu apologizes for cheating, but Ayase says that it’s alright because he just used what skills he has that makes him unique. After that, everyone congratulates him and welcomes him into the Undertakers; Ayase makes sure to hold up her end of the deal and gives Shu back his pen as well. The celebration is short lived as Tsumugi rushes in and informs everyone that the area Gai was scouting out was hit by a missile!
Opinions: As always, there was a good balance of plot, action and something to intrigue the viewer. I’m really curious about why Gai appears to need blood transfusions and how he’s able to tell what sort of Void people will be able to produce. Of course, there’s the ever-lasting mystery of Inori and her origin, though now I want to know who she looks like. Seeing Shu finally become part of the Undertakers was incredibly gratifying, but I wonder if he’ll turn on them and give Makoto the information he asked for or if he’ll betray Makoto. And of course, why does Gai want to take over that building so badly? Is there some sort of importance to it? Either way, it looks like we’ll have to wait until the next episode to find out what happens to Gai!
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• FlareKnight
This was quite the episode. First it feels like Shu’s ability to trust others is broken down even further with Inori saying it was all orders. Of course hard to tell since she could have been ordered to say they were orders. Or it could be a mixed truth. Regardless if Shu had that pen they would have all been in trouble. Before that chat with Ayase he definitely would have used it.
I really liked Ayase’s character in this one. Went from simply the pilot who has a thing for Gai to a more full character. May have been teasing a bit much when Shu saw Inori go with Gai, but could just be payback from those two fooling around during the shooting training. In the end she didn’t blow up at him and helped give him the motivation to do what he could during that mock battle. At least during that moment she became one person he could accept and get along with. A long road to friendship, but I liked that scene.
The situation with Gai is full of mystery. Certainly doesn’t appear to be a good thing if he needs transfusions like that. And the identity of the girl that Inori looks like has to be key.
It was nice when Shu won and was accepted. People respond to actions and the more Shu proves himself the more people will appreciate him. Certainly seemed more likely as well that he wouldn’t use the pen since it’d betray those people who finally seemed to accept him.
In terms of why Gai wants to capture the building so badly I think it goes like this: The Leucocyte seems to be a weapon considering Tsugumi said it was fired at point delta. Looking at the insane damage to the area I can understand why Gai’s group would want to secure it or at least make sure their enemies can’t use it. It looked more like some kind of attack satellite from the image.
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It definitely was a pretty action-packed episode! I feel terrible for Shu; he finally found someone he could believe in and it may or may not have been a facade created by Gai’s orders. I don’t think that it’s completely has to do with Gai though. In episode 4, when Shu was arrested by GHQ, Inori was talking to Funnell and asking why she felt so cold before commenting on how Shu would probably know why. Coupled with the fact that she disobeyed Gai’s orders to rescue Shu, I think she does have some sort of feelings for him, even if she doesn’t understand them herself. Though it may not be romantic in any way, she definitely has strong feelings towards him.
I loved Ayase’s character! She’s sassy, witty and head-strong. The fact that even while she’s in a wheelchair, she can take someone down is awesome. I do think she was teasing Shu a bit too much, but I agree with what you said. It was probably payback for Shu trying to take it easy on her at first. It definitely feels like there could be a strong friendship between them, but we’ll have to wait and see how that goes. And you’re right; it was probably a good thing that Ayase had the pen with her when Shu saw Gai and Inori because he probably would have seriously contemplated using it right then and there.
As for Gai, I really want to find out what’s going on with him. He’s obviously not well, but he continues to push himself – and his team – daily. Inori is still a complete mystery, but maybe once we figure out who this girl she looks like is, we’ll have more of a clue as to who she is and where she came from.
The Leucocyte did look like a satellite instead of a building. 8|a I can see why Gai would want that under his control instead of letting GHQ have it, especially after seeing how much damage it can cause! I hope that we’ll find out what it’s all about in the next episode. And that Gai is okay!
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MOBILE, Ala., July 9 (UPI) -- Scuba divers say they've discovered an ancient forest of Bald Cypress trees preserved underwater in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Alabama.
The forest, covered by ocean sediments and preserved in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50,000 years, was likely exposed by 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Ben Raines, one of the first divers to explore the forest, told The forest of well-preserved trees covers an area of a half square mile off the coast of Mobile, Ala., at a depth of about 60 feet.
The trees could contain thousands of years of climate history for the region in their growth rings and reveal secrets about the climate of the Gulf of Mexico thousands of years ago, during a period known as the Wisconsin Glacial period, when sea levels were much lower than they are today, Grant Harley at the University of Southern Mississippi said.
Bald Cypress trees can live 1,000 years, he said.
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Chinese folk religion (traditional Chinese: or ; simplified Chinese: 中国民间宗教 or 中国民间信仰; pinyin: Zhōngguó mínjiān zōngjiào or Zhōngguó mínjiān xìnyăng) or Shenism (pinyin: Shénjiào, 神教),[1][2][3] which is a term of considerable debate, are labels used to describe the collection of ethnic religious traditions which have historically comprised the predominant belief system in China and among Han Chinese ethnic groups up to the present day. Shenism describes Chinese mythology and includes the worship of shens (神, shén; "deities", "spirits", "awarenesses", "consciousnesses", "archetypes") which can be nature deities, Taizu or clan deities, city deities, national deities, cultural heroes and demigods, dragons and ancestors. "Shenism" as a term was first published by A. J. A Elliot in 1955.[4]
Despite being suppressed during the last two centuries of the history of China, from the Taiping Movement to the Cultural Revolution, it is currently experiencing a modern revival in both Mainland China and Taiwan.[8][9] Various forms have received support by the Government of the People's Republic of China, such as Mazuism in Southern China (officially about 160 million Chinese are Mazuists),[10] Huangdi worship,[11][12] Black Dragon worship in Shaanxi,[13][14][15] and Caishen worship.[16]
Chinese folk religion holds aspects of ancestral belief systems such as animism and shamanism,[17][18] which include the veneration of (and communication with) ancestors, and energetic streams such as Qi, but also physical phenomena such as the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, the Heaven, and various stars, as well as communication with animals, such as Auspices from birds. Related practices have been held by the Chinese people for over three thousand years (such as written in Oracle bone scripts), and alongside Buddhism, Taoism, and various other religions for the past two thousand years. Even in ancient China, religion emphasized documentation and was quite bureaucratic in nature.[19]
Rituals, devotional worship, myths sacred reenactment, festivals and various other practices associated with different folk gods and goddesses form an important part of Chinese culture and Chinese spiritual world concepts today. The veneration of secondary gods does not conflict with an individual's chosen religion, but is accepted as a complementary adjunct, particularly to Taoism. Some mythical figures in folk culture have been integrated into Chinese Buddhism, as in the case of Miao Shan. She is generally thought to have influenced the beliefs about the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This Bodhisattva originally was based upon the Indian counterpart Avalokiteśvara. Androgynous in India, this Bodhisattva over centuries became a female figure in China and Japan. Guanyin is one of the most popular Bodhisattva to which people pray.
There are many public-domain folk religion texts such as Journeys to the Underworld distributed in temples (often without charge) or sold in gods material shops or vegetarian shops. Temples for Shenist worship are different from Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries, being administered by local managers, associations and worship communities.
Communal ceremony at the Grand Temple of Shennong-Yandi in Suizhou, Hubei.
The Chinese Deities (Gods and goddesses)
There are hundreds of Chinese Deities (local gods and goddesses) as well as demigods. After apotheosis, historical figures noted for their bravery or virtue are also venerated and honored as ancestral "saints", xians, or heightened to the status of shens, deities. Song Dynasty registered them.[20] Deities reflect the Chinese imperial bureaucracy, and exemplify many characteristics of human officials, such as their fallibility.[7] The following list represents some commonly worshipped deities.
Places of worship
Organizational religions
There are also many controversial folk religious movements known as secret religions (zh:中国秘密宗教) with different names.[21][22]
Societal impact
Scholars have studied how Chinese folk religion-inspired society, elastic and polytheistic in spirit, provided the groundwork for the development of dynamic grassroots Chinese-style pre-modern capitalism in Song Dynasty China and modern capitalism in contemporary Taiwan.[23][24][25][26] Chinese folk religion with its ritual economy is also a key in the contemporary economic development in rural Mainland China.[27][28]
With around 400 million adherents Chinese folk religion is one of the major religions in the world, comprising about 6% of world population.[29][30] In China more than 30% of the population adheres to Shenism or Taoism. In Taiwan, Shenism is highly institutionalised under the label and the institutions of "Taoism", which is adhered by 33% of the population.[citation needed]
In Singapore about 8.5% of the total population is Taoist, and 10% of the Chinese Singaporeans identify as Taoists.[31] In Malaysia, 10.6% of Chinese Malaysians are Shenists-Taoists, corresponding to 3% of the whole country population. In Indonesia, Taosu Agung Kusumo, leader of the Majelis Agama Tao Indonesia, claims there are 5 million Taoist followers in the country as of 2009.[32]
Images of Shenist temples, altars, deity depictions, and practices
Paper prayers, candles and offerings on a Taiwanese altar
A city god statue inside a miao
Historical depiction of the archaic twin deities Fuxi and Nüwa
A typical miao altar
A temple to Guandi in Linyi, Shandong.
Colossus of god Xuan Wu in Taiwan
Altar to Guandi in a restaurant of Beijing
People worshipping the city god of Suzhou inside the City God Temple of Suzhou, Jiangsu
Clothed statues of Mazu (Goddess of the Seas)
Altar inside the City God Temple of Shanghai with Taoist priests performing ritual
See also
Further reading
1. ^ "Reinventing Chinese Syncretic Religion: Shenism". 2007-02-23. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
3. ^ "Religious Diversity in Singapore". 2001-09-11. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
4. ^
5. ^ Religion. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica.
12. ^ Compatriots across the strait honor their ancestry
15. ^ "Miraculous response: doing popular religion in contemporary China". Retrieved 2011-11-20.
17. ^ "Animism". OMF. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
18. ^ Barend ter Haar. "Shamanism in China: bibliography by Barend ter Haar". Retrieved 2011-11-20.
19. ^ Poo, Mu-chou. "Roots of a Religion of Personal Welfare." In Search of Personal Welfare. A View of Ancient Chinese Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. pg. 17-29.
20. ^ 在线阅读
21. ^ 吃齋與清代民間宗教的發展機制
22. ^ 據大陸學者劉子揚對第一歷史檔案館所藏清代檔案進行統計，教派名目多達一0七種;根據中國在2004年出版的《中國會道門史料集成》的統計，中國內地自晚清以來近百年間的會道門(含秘密宗教與秘密會黨)有4,542種，其中會908種；道1601種；門366種；教368種；堂388種；壇295種，社152種；學14種；雜450種。清代的秘密宗教.docx
23. ^ Council of Foreign Relations. Symposium on Religion and the Future of China: Religion, Civil Society, and Economic Life. June 11, 2008.
24. ^ Hill Gates - Robert P. Weller. Hegemony of Chinese Folk Ideologies. Sage Publications, 1987.
25. ^ Gordon Redding. The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism. Walter de Grutyer, 1990.
26. ^ Hill Gates. China's motor: one thousand years of petty-capitalism. Cornell University, 1996.
27. ^ Mayfair Mei-hui Yang (Director of Asian Studies, University of Sydney, Australia). Ritual Economy and Rural Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. University of California Press. Retrieved 31st July 2011.
28. ^ Pui-lam Law. The Revival of Folk Religion and Gender Relationships in Rural China. Hong Kong Polytechnic University Press. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
29. ^ "Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents". Retrieved 2011-11-20.
30. ^ "How Now Tao". Retrieved 2011-11-20.
31. ^ CIA World Factbook - Singapore
32. ^ "Tao, Taoism Religion". Retrieved 2011-11-20.
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Forbes, for example, came up with its own rosy figures this spring, disputing the ones Selig provided under oath to a Congressional committee, before which he was pilloried and, essentially, branded a flat-out liar. The esteemed Jesse Ventura, erstwhile XFL shill and governor of Minnesota-home of one of the teams the commissioner reportedly planned to eliminate—sat next to Selig, smirking and sniping at him. Unlike the overseers of other sports, baseball commissioners have become figures of fun.
Ironically, the players' association does not dispute Selig's figures that show a combined $232 million loss for major league teams in 2001. "However," says Gene Orza, one of the union's associate general counsels, "the conclusions we reach are quite different." (Neither Orza nor the union's executive director, Donald Fehr, would consent to speak about Selig or the ongoing negotiations.) It is also true that, historically, annual losses in baseball have been beside the point because owners could always unload their franchises for huge profits. But now?
"The bigger fool theory!" Selig cries out. "Gone. Gone. There are just no buyers. Nobody." Softly now, almost a whisper: "Nobody."
The recent sale of the Red Sox for $660 million appeared to contradict baseball's tales of woe, but, in fact, approximately $320 million of the purchase price went for 80% of NESN, the New England Sports Network. Thus, at a time when the NFL sold an expansion franchise—in fact, just a piece of paper—to Houston for $700 million, one of the two or three most hallowed franchises in baseball effectively cost $340 million, including ownership of a sacred stadium on prime Boston real estate.
Cable television has been, it seems, the poisonous ingredient that has so fouled fair competition and led to a situation in which the richest team has local operating revenues 22 times larger than the poorest. Another more pertinent example: The Yankees make almost twice as much money from radio as the Brewers—which remain in the Selig family, now run by Bud's daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb—make from TV.
For the first time, as labor negotiations intensify, public perception seems to have shifted, and there is no longer the glib tendency to cry "a plague on both your houses." More and more neutral observers are accepting Seng's pessimism. John Moag, a Baltimore investment banker who specializes in sports franchises, last year offered a "positive outlook" for baseball. Now? Because of the looming labor impasse, he says, "Baseball owners are at the bottom. The curve is very, very bad, because the sport's economic structure is flawed. If there's a strike, values will plummet." Moag points out that as recently as 1994, NFL and MLB franchises were essentially selling for the same amounts. Since then, football franchises have come to double baseball franchises in value. Estimates of major league baseball debt run upward of $3 billion—credit lines primarily arranged by Selig, as sure as once he could get you GMAC financing for your new Oldsmobile.
"In a nutshell," Moag writes in his formal report on baseball, "the failings of baseball are escalating player costs and the fact that only a small minority of franchises can afford to lure and/or retain the best players." Sandy Alderson was the brilliant general manager who built championship teams in Oakland a decade ago. He left to become a vice president on Park Avenue because he wearied of the futility of discovering and showcasing players who would then be U-Hauled away by the richer teams. "In the old days the Yankees had access to everybody on the Kansas City roster," Alderson says, with only a touch of hyperbole. "Now they have access to everybody on every roster."
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The players' association is the night nurse that stands in the way of the game's ingesting all these nostrums. And the players' association never loses. This time, though, at least the owners are presenting a fairly united front. "Yeah, we're closer together now," says Stan Kasten, the Braves' president, "but that's only because everybody's desperate, and it's gotten like something out of Kafka."
But if the dismal financial circumstances have created a climate in which the owners will at last get on the same Kafkaesque page, it has then been Bud Selig—talking, kibitzing, cajoling, commiserating—who has brought his company in misery together. He is of them, he has been with them in the arena—in the trenches, everyone says melodramatically—and so the owners have put their trust in their nondescript colleague who has been belittled as Bud Light and Kenesaw Molehill Landis. Make no mistake: Bud Selig holds the scepter. "I have more authority than any other commissioner ever did," he crows, "and I can count. I have the votes to do what I want to do."
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I have a WinForms application and a Panel Control. The panel control has a VScrollBar control for vertical scrolling. Everything works fine except right now I have my VScrollBar maximum value set to 100. The problem is, I need the Maximum property to be about 4 billion, however, since Maximum is only an Integer, I can't set it to the proper value. So, my question is, how do I get around this? I know there are text editors and file viewers that claim to view more then 4 gigs of data, so how would a scrollbar in an application like that work?
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A scrollbar is a GUI control. Innately, the number of steps it can display is limited to the number of vertical pixels on your screen. Therefore, you could consider setting the maximum value to anything above that to be simply for developer convenience, to make the math easier.
How do applications deal with scrollbars? In theory, you'd want to parse the file first, to find out how many lines are in the file, and use that as your logical maximum. In reality, reading 4 GB of data when the file is opened would kill performance, so that wouldn't work.
If I were implementing this, I would set the scrollbar maximum is set to a large value, say 10,000. When the scrollbar is used, the scrollbar value is divided by 10,000 to get a percentage, and the editor shows that section of the file.
Don't think of things in terms of scrolling down so many lines. Instead, think of it as jumping to that percentage offset of the file, reading the data there, and displaying that.
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Well, you could just set Maximum to int.MaxValue and scale the retrieved value to your real maximum value. This should be enough precision to avoid loading too much data.
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You use a percentage. There is no need to set it to the same as the number of lines.
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This is a good idea except when on my Scroll handler, I am getting ScrollEventArgs that has a property called NewValue which is an int. So if it returns to me 58, for example, meaning 58%, how do I know how far down to scroll? 58% is a large chunk of data when your talking about a total of 4 gigs. – icemanind Jun 29 '11 at 17:47
If you set maximum to int.MaxValue and minimum to int.MinValue you should be pretty close. – Alex Peck Jun 29 '11 at 18:00
Also consider that unless you have 1 byte of data per line, you will have a lot less than 4 billion lines, even for 4 gigs of data. – Mike Caron Jun 29 '11 at 18:07
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I completely own up to being late a few times during my last few months with the company, however prior to moving to New York, I lived in NV and never had issues with being late to work. Most of the times that I was late to work in NY were due to lack of knowledge of the transit systems. I was put on a final warning and given 6 months before my slate was wiped clean. after 4 months of not being late, I had a complete accident and had the wrong schedule in my phone and showed up unknowingly late and once I was told that I came in at the wrong time, I immediately went to my managers so we could discuss my situation. They fired me on the spot. I was denied unemployment but am wondering if I should appeal their decision?
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Answered . Unless you had a contract, you were an at-will employee and therefore could be fired for any reason or no reason so long as it was not an unconstitutional reason such as based on race, gender, religion, etc. There is no harm in appealing.
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Answered . Appeal the unemployment decision? Yes, if you have the option of an appeal you should take it.
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Answered . You should always appeal, you never know what might happen. That said, there is a good chance multiple latenesses will be considered a for cause termination. Employers need employees to be on time.
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mohammed morsi. this is central cairo. that is live look after friday prayers, right before sundown. this is when we see frankly a lot of action in the streets of egypt. in reese days the demonstrations turned violent, even deadly. tanks deployed to the presidential palace late yesterday. defiant president morsi spoke to his nation calling for a national dialogue but he refused to bend on his controversial decree. stephen hayes, senior writer, "weekly standard", fox news contributor watching with us here. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: we wait to see what happened here. seven people were shot in the street the other day. the ultimate question for me trying to figure out what the army will do. they're the ultimate arbiters of power still today in you get, whether under mubarak or under morsi. if they do what morsi says, then he wins. but if they don't, what happens then? >> well, i think that's right. you're pointing to the exact locust of power in egypt depresident morsi having the backing of the muslim brother hood of the what he did was very having having move w
constitution. there are signs of trouble. the mohammed morsi's brother food is coming out, and they are mobilizing 120,000 troops during the different ways. supporters of the president say they are just defending the gains of the revolution, bill. bill: you know, who is going to win? i think everybody is watching that from around the world, including right where you are in cairo, and which way this vote will go. what is your sense after talking to people there, greg? >> reporter: most analysts we've heard from, we've seen say that president mohammed morsi constitution should pass maybe by a big margin. his muslim brotherhood party is just too well organized. they are involved in a strenuous get out the vote effort and some say there could be fraud involved with the vote. voting is going on at egyptian embassies around the world. muslim brotherhood operatives we are told busy there too helping at that vote. there could be another factor behind this constitution going forward, the folks here are just tired. it has been nearly two years since we were first here seeing the beg
it is calm in cairo, but yesterday we saw protests for and against egyptian president mohammed morsi, and the planned referendum about that controversial constitution. voting is set to begin on saturday. due to a shortage of judges used to monitor the polling some of them have called this document an insult, so they are boycotting it. it's extended to a second saturday december 22nd. the opposition to morsi which has branded this coons taougs islamist and none inclusive will boycott it. they said they wanted to participate today in a national unity meeting which had been called for by the military. that has been called off today, apparently mohammed morsi didn't want it, bill. bill: what is the expected outcome of this vote, greg, read twaep between the lines. >> all indication is that mohammed morsi wants to push it forward because he thinks he can win. his muslim brotherhood party and allies won the majority of votes in the last elections here. they have the best grass roots effort, they had the best ground game, and the opposition is divided. they are split between their tactics,
is ignoring the islamic power grab in egypt. the new constitution pushed through by mohamed morsi gives himself sweeping powers. lieutenant colonel ralph peters, thank you for coming here. the white house said they discussed a broad range of issues. i don't know what that means but you say they are down playing this for a reason. why is that? >> the white house is very, very embarrassed. it's got a bad case of strategic add. it took its eye off the ball in libya and took its eye off the ball in egypt, figuring everything was fine. it's at sea, a sea of sand on syria. but specifically in egypt, the administration want quiet and wants to focus on its domestic agenda. so it's giving a pass to president morsi who is turning into a dictator who is ramming through a constitution that while it does not specify sharia law as the ruling factor nonetheless has various clauses that take the country toward sharia law over the coming years. i think they are embarrassed. we can't change egypt. but we give them well over $1 billion in aid a year and we can play on the margins. bill: many people think
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them. gregg: and to egypt now. president mohamed morsi is reportedly putting a second decree forth. he's putting his newly-approved constitution into effect. voters approving the islamist-backed constitutions by what an election official calls a nearly two to one margin. protesters have broken out over the constitution since it was passed by the islamist-controlled legislature. opposition members say it does not protect the rights of egyptians for the rest of the year which ousted former form e president hosni mubarak. patti ann: well, a top syrian general has reportedly switched sides to join the opposition. the military police leader made the announcement in a video. dozens of officers have defected since the crisis evolved last march, but this is one of the most senior. could it be a turning point? joining us now, navy captain chuck nash. thanks for being with us. how significant is this defection? >> well, i think it just shows that the tower's crumbling around assad, and it's certainly not good for him, and it's going to make those who are supporting him question his staying power
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I'm looking for the Fourier transformation of the (constant) uniform B-Spline $$N_0(x) = \begin{cases}1 & 0 \leqslant x < 1 \\ 0 & otherwise \end{cases}$$
If $N_0(x)$ would also attain value $1$ when $x=1$ (i.e. the $<$ would be $\leqslant$), it would just be a shifted version of the rectangular function R(x), which has (if I'm not mistaken) the following Fourier transform ($T=1$ and shifted $1/2$ to the right):
$$\hat{R}(\omega) = e^{-\tfrac{i\omega}{2}}\, \frac{\sin(\omega/2)}{\omega/2}$$
However, I'm not sure if this is helpful in finding $\hat{N_0}(\omega)$, the Fourier transform of $N_0(x)$...
Once I know $\hat{N_0}(\omega)$, it is easy to find the Fourier transforms of higher order uniform B-Splines, since they are (or can be) defined using convolution. Of course, the Fourier transform of a convolution is just a multiplication of the two Fourier transformed functions, therefore:
$$\hat{N_k}(\omega) = \left( \hat{N_0}(\omega) \right)^{k+1}$$
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Since the Fourier transform is defined through an integral, the condition $f=g$ almost everywhere implies $\hat{f} = \hat{g}$. So in this case the Fourier transform of $N_0$ is indeed the same as that of $R$, and your formula is correct, assuming you use the convention $\hat{f}(\omega) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty f(x) e^{-i\omega x} \, dx$ for the Fourier transform.
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Thanks. Somewhere I found stated that $\hat{N_0}(\omega)=\dfrac{1-e^{-i \omega}}{i \omega}$. I'm not quite sure whether this is the same as the function I found -- I'll take a more detailed look at a later time and update my post / add a comment. – Ailurus Oct 21 '12 at 20:11
Yes, that is the same, using the identity $\sin z = \frac{e^{iz} - e^{-iz}}{2i}$ with $z = \omega/2$. – Lukas Geyer Oct 21 '12 at 20:27
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I'm having a problem with the jQuery hide() and show() methods. Below is a snippet from a project I'm currently working on. This code comes from a multi-page form which is loaded in it's entirety, then jQuery is used to show and hide the various pages. I should metion that this technique works in every broswer except IE7.
//Hide all pages of the form
$("#client_form div[id*='client']").hide();
//Show just the first page
$("#client_form div#client1").show();
The issue is not that the hide() fails but that the subsequent show() doesn't bring the desired page back. I've tried using different methods like slideUp() and slideDown(), I've tried doing css("display","none"), various other ways to perform the hide/show.
I've also tried chaining methods, doing callbacks from hide to then show. Nothing seems to work properly in IE7.
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Have you tried just using the id(s) of the DIVs? Since they are unique to the page, you shouldn't need to make them relative to the form.
Note the chaining so it doesn't need to retraverse the DOM, but simply filters the elements that it has already found.
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Performance question -- is having the .filter('#client1') going to be faster or slower than just doing $('#client1')? I'd think being able to let jQuery use getElementById would be fastest. (and no, downvote wasn't me, I got hit too) – Parrots Jan 12 '10 at 21:22
Filter will simply look through the array of elements to see if one of them matches the selector. It should be much faster than going back through the entire DOM. – tvanfosson Jan 12 '10 at 21:23
OK, cool, thanks, always wondered that. – Parrots Jan 12 '10 at 21:23
Thanks so much for this, your solution proved ideal and IE7 is now behaving itself. – Neil Albrock Jan 12 '10 at 22:17
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What about just:
Not sure that's it, but give it a shot? IDs should be unique so no need for the hierarchical selectors.
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have you tried adding a class to all the divs you are trying to hide, and hiding that class. Also change your show selector to use $("#client1") instead of that huge selector.
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Have you done a simple test to make sure that your second jQuery is returning the correct object(s), if it's returning anything at all? eg:
alert($("#client_form div#client1").length);
alert($("#client_form div#client1").get(0).innerHTML);
alert($("#client_form div#client1").eq(0).text());
This would be the first place I would start - you'd then know whether you had a problem with the show() method, or the behaviour of the jQuery selector.
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Care to comment on the downvote? My intention was to point him towards some checks to do which would help him work out the answer himself - the above code was not intended to be an answer in of itself. Fair enough that as it's not an answer as such, it doesn't get a vote up, but a down vote? – Graza Jan 12 '10 at 21:26
Drive-by downvoter, I suspect. Normally I'd avoid alerts but seeing as it's IE7 that may be better than debugging, though, with IE8 I'd probably fire up the developer tools. – tvanfosson Jan 12 '10 at 21:32
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You might also try running your final HTML markup through a validator to see if there are any errors. IE7 is more strict than most other browsers.
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You put your finger right on it - the "mental model of femininity".
It's about being aware that one has such models. Everyone does - it's part of the way humans build models to abstract and generalize; this is why it's possible to get up, get breakfast, and head to work while thinking hard about a problem: we can default a lot of actions to automatic responses and get along pretty well. It's only if something isn't as we assume (shower breaks, no eggs in the fridge, someone slams on the brakes in front of you) that we get in trouble.
Assuming that someone likes flowers is really not that a big deal. But assuming that they're not good at math, or that they represent every person that fits into a given group, or that they're comfortable with the same behavior or language, or any number of other things is a very big one. Not taking into account that you have a model, and that if you don't think about it, it will get used, will result in it being used to make a lot of default assumptions, some benign, some not.
As the public representatives of Perlmonks, we need to try to present the best face we can - because people who see us are humans too, and just as likely to form opinions about groups as anyone else. If we thoughtlessly use language that says "I'm not thinking about this group as a whole lot of different individuals who happen to share a common, easily-identifiable characteristic, but as all the same", then people observing us start building mental models that say, "the Perlmonks folks don't care about/don't like people who are X" (female, who don't speak English well).
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Good points.
I would like to reiterate that Jung explains at great length, the Anima and Animus, and how it is part of our psychic development as living beings. When we sey "feminine", we mean Anima, and so too with masculine and Animus. Hence, the assumed masculinity and femininity are not like any other group assumption, they are part and parcel of the human race.
Hence, in this case, i see no problem with the assumption. Though i would likely be agitated about any other grouping.
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Time for rest and recuperation is interrupted when an emergency is called at the logging camp…
Whilst the heroes of our story rest on the banks of the Tourondel River, training and sharing tall stories of their exploits, an alarm sounds not far from where they were resting. The heroes rush through the forest in order to lend aid. They soon find themselves in a large clearing in the forest where the Kassen Woodcutters Guild had gouged out a part of the forest as part of their lumber operations.
In the clearing they find that the encampment is built on a slight slope, with piles of logs at the top of the rise ready to be transported to the river. Normally held down with large chains, the heroes are confronted by a scene of devastation where a number of the larger logs had broken free, and tumbled down the hill. The logs took no mercy, and crushed everything in their path including the operations cabin situated in the centre of the camp, a number of tents belonging to the workers, and a supply of reagents used in breaking down lumber. The later of which had started to smoulder and was in danger of catching fire.
The heroes immediately split up. Kal and Sam ran to the crushed cabin and found a number of injured workers trapped under the debris. Nell and Zevan moved to the remaining logs to ensure they were secure and to see if there was any evidence of tampering. Meanwhile Eve climbed a nearby tree in order to better assess the situation.
What happened to cause this incident? And why was Guild Master Colbin Vetnar more concerned with getting the area cleared up, and the men back to work than saving the lives of his injured workers?
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Reviews for Life and Death
Cody chapter 1 . 8/14/2012
I really like your poem because it kind of like an anime that I know and love kingdom harts it's a really good anime and I love your poem.
author gone chapter 1 . 7/5/2004
I LOVED IT! Beautiful...
goddess-sovereignty chapter 1 . 12/31/2003
The last one doesn't rhyme
Would you write a poem fic (like a song fic) so it!
Dorysblue chapter 1 . 12/29/2003
oh! i wuv elvish poems! :D they are so deep! and yours is no exception! its great, but i don't really know what a wayside is. lol, but other than my small knowledge of grammer, *or ...words..* its a great poem! make more! lol make a dwarfen poem! haha jk and i like the last line, it makes sense even today! :0 lol :D thank you for putting me on your favorites list! well i really liked your poem so guess what..!
Paper Crane chapter 1 . 12/28/2003
*smiles* Very nice. I liked it.
ElvishWitch15 chapter 1 . 12/28/2003
That was a really really great poem! Have u written anymore since? well keep it up and submit any more that u have!
Cordelia Potter chapter 1 . 12/28/2003
this poem was good... not! mine are soo much better. yourz is ok but you need to work on lines and stuff like how many sillables u put in
each line! when u fix it it will all be good.
cya later!
- Cordelia Buffy Greenleaf Potter -
well at least u wrote about elvez.. since their the coolest.. so ur poem wasn't bad.
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More than 200 years ago, Edward Jenner performed an experiment that laid the foundation for the eradication of smallpox and transformed humankind's fight against disease. Smallpox afflicted humankind as no other disease had done; its persistence and diffusion were without parallel. The disease brought down at least three empires. Generations watched helplessly as their children succumbed to the disease or were disfigured or blinded by it. Attempts were made to contain smallpox by isolating its sufferers and, later, by using variolation with varying degrees of success. However, the definitive solution was not found until Jenner's work was done at the end of the 18th century. Milkmaids who had developed cowpox from contact with cow udders informed Jenner that they were protected from the human form of the disease; he listened to their folk wisdom and raised it to the status of scientific fact. Jenner did not discover vaccination, but he was the first to demonstrate that this technique offered a reliable defense against smallpox. It was also a reliable defense against other illnesses, such as poliomyelitis, measles, and neonatal tetanus, although this was not known in Jenner's lifetime.
Smallpox has been one of humankind's greatest scourges since time immemorial. Even illnesses as terrible as the plague, cholera, and yellow fever have not had such a universal and persistent impact. Smallpox is believed to have appeared at the time of the first agricultural settlements in northeastern Africa, around 10 000 BC. It probably spread from Africa to India by means of Egyptian merchants in the last millennium BC. The earliest evidence of skin lesions resembling those of smallpox is found on the faces of mummies from the time of the 18th and 20th Egyptian Dynasties (1570 to 1085 BC) and in the well-preserved mummy of Ramses V, who died as a young man in 1157 BC.
The first recorded smallpox epidemic occurred in 1350 BC during the Egyptian-Hittite war. The illness was passed to the Hittite population by Egyptian prisoners and affected soldiers and civilians alike. The Hittite King Suppiluliumas I and his heir, Arnuwandas, were victims; their civilization fell into sharp decline.
During the epidemic in Athens in 430 BC, Thucydides noted that those who survived the disease were later immune to it. These observations were reiterated by Rhazes (Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi), to whom we owe the first medical description of smallpox, De variolis et morbillis commentarius, which was written in about AD 910. Rhazes also noted that the illness was transmitted from person to person. His explanation of why survivors of smallpox do not develop the disease a second time is the first theory of acquired immunity.
The symptoms of smallpox&emdash;or the speckled monster, as it was known in 18th-century England&emdash;appeared suddenly and included high fever, chills or rigors, cephalalgia, characteristic dorsal-lumbar pain, myalgias, and prostration. Nausea and vomiting were also common. After 2 to 4 days, the fever relented and a rash appeared on the face and inside the eyes; the rash would subsequently cover the whole body. These maculopapular skin lesions evolved into vesicles and pustules and finally dried into scabs that fell off after 3 or 4 weeks. This sequence of events was characteristic for variola major.
Other clinical forms of the disease existed. Persons with fulminating smallpox (purpura variolosa) had mucocutaneous hemorrhages that preceded the appearance of the characteristic skin lesions. In malignant smallpox, the rash had a slow evolution characterized by pseudocropping, subconjunctival hemorrhages, and death when lesions on the face and limbs were confluent. In benign smallpox, the evolution of the rash differed from that of the malignant variety; this form was also less extensive (19, 20). Modified smallpox (varioloid) occurred in persons who were partially protected by vaccination and was usually benign. Variola sine eruptione was smallpox without a rash and occurred predominantly in vaccinated persons. Variola minor (alastrim, Kaffir-pox) was a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent strain of the virus and was endemic in Africa and South America.
The case-fatality rate associated with smallpox varied between 20% and 60% and left most survivors with disfiguring scars. Many persons went blind as a result of corneal infection. The case-fatality rate in the infant population was even higher; among children younger than 5 years of age in the 18th century, 80% of those in London and 98% of those in Berlin who developed the disease died. The case-fatality rate also varied according to the nature of the attack-it ranged from almost 100% in fulminating smallpox to 0.5% to 2% in variola minor. The ravages of smallpox were apparent in 18th-century Europe, with case-fatality rates ranging from 20 to 400 per 100 000 per year, and it is said that smallpox was responsible for 10% of deaths in Europe during that century. The incidence rate varied greatly, but during epidemics it was as high as 37.5% in Boston in 1752, 43.1% in Hastings in 1730 and 1731, and 92.7% in Chester in 1775. In Copenhagen between 1750 and 1800, the annual incidence rate ranged from 875 to 1750 per 100 000; in London between 1685 and 1801, it ranged from 313 to 2355 per 100 000; and in Sweden between 1774 and 1798, it ranged from 341 to 1024 per 100 000. The incidence rate was so high that the disease was regarded as universal or almost universal, and many authorities believed that everyone would eventually develop it. As recently as 30 years ago, smallpox was endemic in 31 countries, between 10 and 15 million persons developed smallpox yearly, and more than 2 million persons died of smallpox each year.
The Era of Vaccination
Vaccination done by using pustule fluid spread rapidly. By 1800, it had reached most European countries and about 100 000 persons had been vaccinated worldwide. In July of that year, only 2 years after the publication of Jenner's "Inquiry," Benjamin Waterhouse, professor of the "Theory and Practice of Physic" at Harvard Medical School, vaccinated his 5-year-old son and six servants with vaccine from England. These were the first vaccinations done in the United States. The practice soon spread from Boston to Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore.
President Thomas Jefferson had 18 members of his family, some of their neighbors, and the last Mohican vaccinated. In December 1801, Chief Little Turtle and several of his warriors were vaccinated while on a visit to Washington, D.C., after Jefferson explained that "the Great Spirit had made a gift to the white men in showing them how to preserve themselves from the smallpox". The President himself vaccinated many persons. Waterhouse received great support from Jefferson, who appointed him Vaccine Agent in the National Vaccine Institute, an organization set up to establish vaccination in the United States.
King Charles IV of Spain sent vaccine from Spain to his dominions in North and South America and Asia through the Expedición de la Vacuna (the Balmis-Salvany Expedition) in 1803 through 1806; this was the first official program of mass vaccination overseas. The vaccine was maintained during the voyage by sequentially vaccinating, arm-to-arm, 22 susceptible orphan children brought along specifically to constitute a living chain. Before the expedition left Spain, a report by one of the king's physicians declared smallpox to be the "first and principal cause of the depopulation of America." The governor of the Council of the Indies noted that depopulation would mean a decrease in income from taxes that the Spanish received from the colonies and in commerce and farming. The economic benefits of such a mission would, in his view, justify paying for it from the royal treasury.
The impact of Jenner's work was so great that, in 1805, Napoleon himself insisted that all his troops who had not had smallpox should be vaccinated with the "Jennerian vaccine." He ordered the vaccination of French civilians 1 year later. The first smallpox vaccination law was passed in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1807; vaccination was declared obligatory in Bavaria in the same year and in Denmark in 1810.
The extraordinary value of vaccination was also acknowledged in England. In 1802, the British Parliament granted Jenner the sum of P10 000, which was worth $44 150 in 1802 and more than half a million dollars in today's currency. Five years later, parliament awarded him P20 000 more. Jenner received honors from the universities of Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge, and numerous scientific societies made him an honorary member. However, he was never knighted. In 1803, the Royal Jennerian Institute was founded to provide lymph for vaccination; Jenner was its first president. Jenner's prestige was so great that Napoleon released English prisoners after his mediation. In 1813, Napoleon was reluctant to pardon Captain Millman, a relative of Jenner's who had fallen captive. When told who had made the request for the soldier's release, Napoleon exclaimed, "Ah, c'est Jenner, je ne puis rien refuser à Jenner!" [Ah, it is Jenner, I cannot refuse Jenner anything!]. The Emperor of Austria and the King of Spain also freed English prisoners after Jenner intervened.
Jenner's work represented the first scientific attempt to control an infectious illness by the deliberate use of vaccination. Strictly speaking, he did not discover vaccination but was the first person to confer scientific status on the procedure and was the instigator of its popularization. Jenner had been trained in the scientific method by Hunter and, in his studies on vaccination, was able to confirm his hypotheses by means of experimentation and observation. Jenner's experiments on the transmission of cowpox from human to human (not from cows to humans) were extraordinarily important because they meant that prophylaxis could be given even in the absence of the natural illness. His great merit, indeed his genius, lay in the fact that he performed exceptional experimental work on the basis of popular beliefs in the England of his times. Jenner demonstrated that the folk medicine tradition could be scientifically verified. Jenner's work established the practice of vaccination, although the term would not become widely accepted until it was adopted by Pasteur 80 years later.
Jenner himself showed that he was aware of the far-reaching consequences of his work when he stated that the universal application of the vaccine would lead to the eradication of smallpox. In 1802, he wrote " it now becomes too manifest to admit of controversy, that the annihilation of the small pox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of his practice". In 1806, Thomas Jefferson congratulated Jenner: "Future generations," he wrote, "will know by history only that the loathsome smallpox existed and by you has been extirpated". Both of Jefferson's predictions proved to be true; less than 200 years after the vaccination of James Phipps, the penultimate act of the smallpox drama was played out in a small Somali village called Merka. Ali Maow Maalin, a cook, developed the characteristic smallpox rash on 26 October 1977 and was the last person to acquire the illness as a result of direct contact with another human being. The final act was the official declaration that the illness had been wiped off the face of the earth. This occurred on 8 May 1980, when the 33rd Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) accepted the Final Report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.
The Deadline
In 1978, injudicious manipulation of the smallpox virus in the Medical School of the University of Birmingham led to the death of Janet Parker, a medical photographer, and the subsequent suicide of Professor Henry S. Bedson, head of the Department of Medical Microbiology. This episode emphasized the need for close supervision of smallpox virus stocks in laboratories.
The epilogue in the history of smallpox will be the destruction of all strains of smallpox virus presently stored in the high-security facilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and at the Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow. The virus has thus far gained two reprieves; its sentence was initially postponed to 31 December 1993 and later to 30 June 1995. In both instances, its destruction was delayed because of lack of consensus among the members of the WHO's executive board. The two main arguments against destruction of the virus are that it will eliminate the possibility of future studies on the virus and that destruction of the virus in the two known repositories may not guarantee complete eradication. The main arguments for destruction are that escape of the virus from the laboratories would be a serious risk because an increasing proportion of the global population lacks immunity to the disease and that the sequence information and the availability of cloned DNA fragments of the full genome of several strains of the virus will allow most scientific questions about the properties of the viral genes and proteins to be resolved. Finally, the decision to eradicate smallpox was a collective decision of the world community made on the basis of public health considerations; all possible measures should be taken to ensure that smallpox does not again afflict mankind.
The 97th session of the WHO's executive board that met in Geneva in January 1996 recommended to the 49th World Health Assembly that the last stocks of smallpox virus be destroyed. There have also been proposals to retain 500 000 doses of smallpox vaccine and to keep the Lister Elstree strain of vaccinia virus as seed virus stock of the smallpox vaccine. The destruction would affect all stocks of smallpox virus, including variola minor, clinical specimens, and other material containing infectious smallpox virus or viral genomic DNA. Genomic DNA of the smallpox virus should be destroyed in all laboratories holding such material. The current deadline for variola virus is 31 June 1999. This would represent the first deliberate elimination of a biological species from this planet but also the extinction of an old enemy that humankind will not miss.
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Governor signs NM unemployment program revision
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A measure to shore up New Mexico's unemployment compensation program was signed into law on Wednesday by Gov. Susana Martinez.
A new system will be implemented in 2015 for automatically setting the tax rates paid by about 45,000 businesses to finance the state-run program that provides benefits to unemployed workers. Taxes will remain unchanged for employers through next year.
"There is no other bill that will so positively, effectively and quickly help business like this one does," said Terri Cole, CEO of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. "The bill insures long-term fund solvency, avoids massive and arbitrary increases, and eliminates political interference."
In the past, the Legislature and governors have often dictated the range of rates that would be paid by employers - reducing the charges when the unemployment fund was flush with cash during good economic times and later raising tax rates when the fund started to run out of money.
There was a balance of $30 million in the unemployment fund as of Tuesday, and it's estimated that should reach about $142 million by the end of 2014.
The fund had a balance of more than $500 million several years ago but that was drained after the economy soured and payments increased for unemployment benefits. Unemployment has since leveled off in the state. The jobless rate was 6.8 percent in February, down from 7 percent a year ago.
Martinez said the new rate-setting system will provide more fairness for business owners.
Rates vary for businesses, depending on their employment history. The new system will require businesses to pay a higher tax rate if they have a heavy turnover in their workforce and unemployment claims exceed the employer's payments into the fund.
Currently, businesses with the worst unemployment experience hit a maximum contribution rate and other businesses end up subsidizing them by paying more to keep the program solvent.
In 2011, Martinez used her line-item veto power to reject a $128 million tax increase on business that the Legislature approved to improve the unemployment program's finances. The state Supreme Court later invalidated the governor's action, but lawmakers and Martinez agreed last year to a smaller increase for employers to keep the fund solvent while an advisory group considered possible changes in the rate-setting system.
The latest plan for shoring up the unemployment fund passed the House and Senate this year with strong bipartisan support.
"Politicians in Santa Fe shouldn't be using an unfair and arbitrary rate structure to change costs on businesses year after year,' the governor said in a statement. "That's not predictable, and it's far too political. With these reforms, we are taking the politics out of the management of the unemployment fund and making it a true insurance system that is more predictable and fair for New Mexico small businesses."
Also signed into law Wednesday were measures to:
- Increase the civil penalties for fraudulently causing the overpayment of unemployment benefits.
- Allow the state Game Commission to suspend or revoke someone's hunting or fishing privileges for longer than three years, which is the current limit. Supporters say the tougher penalties will help crack down on poachers who shoot elk and other big game for the heads and antlers, leaving the meat to rot.
- Permit the serving of wine and beer to guests at a bed-and-breakfast. Owners and operators will be able to buy a low-cost liquor license for serving limited amounts of wine and beer with food.
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They can graduate, but that doesn't mean they'll stay as ninja. Kakashi failed every team they had him examine before Team 7, so there must have been at least one team that was failed by their assigned jōnin leader, meaning they were sent back to the Academy. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:58, April 3, 2013 (UTC)
I know that. I think I said something like that in so many words. I'm just saying that there is an inaccuracy in the page as it mentions only 27 students being in the Academy but there being a Squad 10 and 3 People per squad (minus the Sensei as I know some people count them and stuff) means that there are 30 Students and not the aformentioned 27 as the page says. 3X10=30 or in a longer format 3 People X 10 Squads= 30 Students. so yeah. sorry for the confusion (although it happens a lot on here by the way people word things and understand/misunderstand whats being said to them. not meaning to be rude or call you out or anything but I'm pretty sure that you have noticed the same stuff happening all over the place here.) and just a question where did you get the thought of me saying "why are there Squads 7,8, and 10 what happened to the others?" (talk) 03:30, April 4, 2013 (UTC)
sorry for the IP address Signature I forgot that I wasn't Signed in at the time but I'm just typing this so that you know its me and not some bot or something. Lordofninjas1 (talk) 03:32, April 4, 2013 (UTC)
There was only 9 teams because if you remember team 9, Gai's team, was still active so that number was skipped. That means that there was 27 graduates and not 30. ( (talk) 18:32, May 7, 2013 (UTC))
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Next chapter, as promised, though if I don't get more reviews, my muse might go back to Jamaica... she likes to know when she's being appreciated! *hint hint*
"This is it," Cat said, eyeing the dark, stone mansion with more than a little trepidation, then glancing downwards as shards of glass crunched under her feet. She looked for the source and realized that the giant picture window above the mansion's front door was little more than a frame.
"What happened here?" Theo said, unconsciously echoing her thoughts.
"Let's find out," she suggested, and sliding her fingers into Theo's hand, proceeded to walk up the front walk towards the broken doors. Theo's grip tightened as they got closer, and Cat agreed; in the pre-dawn light, the Victorian mansion was extremely forbiding.
Spreading her heightened senses out to their extreme limit, she gently pushed one of the doors aside, wincing at the loud creaking sound it made as it's hinges protested the slight movement as Cat made a wide enough crack for them to slip through.
It was even darker inside the mansion, dark enough that Cat had to squint to look around for a lightswitch, and she sighed in frustration just as Theo's free hand found it and the quiet click was accompanied by... nothing. The lights didn't respond. "No power," Theo said matter-of-factly. "Come on."
He pulled her forward, apparently able to see where he was going, then stopped cold. By then, Cat's eyes had adjusted to the lack of light and she could see it, too: a large pile of black-clad bodies.
"SWAT?" she muttered, for the soldiers did bear a marked resemblance to the ones they'd seen not so long ago. She let go of Theo's hand and moved forward cautiously, grabbing one body by the shoulder and pulling it onto it's back, searching for dogtags. "Not SWAT," she said, finding none. "Something else."
"What do we do?" Theo asked, sounding slightly nauseated.
Cat thought for a moment, surveying the damaged foyer. "Well, the only bodies here are the attackers- at least, that's what I guess they are. Maybe this means that the Xavier guy got away."
"Will he come back, do you think?" Theo asked.
"Probably," Cat shrugged, and stood, grabbing the body by the shoulder strap on it's uniform. "Let's clean this place up a bit for him, huh?"
"Yeah," Theo said, dropping his backpack. "You want me to dig a hole?"
"No. Let's just get them out of the mansion, let Xavier decide what to do with them. Put the weapons in a separate pile, though." She found a butterfly knife in one of the guy's jacket pockets. "I'm keeping this."
"Yeah, this is mine," Theo said, waving a military-issue compass he'd found in another guy's pocket.
Clean-up went by in no time- with her powers, Cat could easily lift two or three bodies at the same time, and Theo worked with stoic determination. They eventually had close to twenty bodies, all the black-clad soldiers, lined up neatly on the front lawn, and a respectable pile of weapons in the foyer.
"Well, that was fun," Theo said, winded as he wiped blood off his arms with a paper towel he'd found in the kitchen. "Are we finished?"
She nodded, eyes on the books that lined the living room wall. "Think so."
There was a rustle of plastic as Theo dropped his paper towel in a trash can, and then less than a second's pause before he wrapped his arms around her waist from behind. She leaned gratefully against him, glad of the reminder that she wasn't alone. "You're tired," she commented, sensing it in the slight tremble in his frame.
Feeling him shrug against her back was a sensation unto itself, for Theo was a lot stronger in the flesh than he looked from afar. "It's been a long day. Night," he corrected himself, for the sun was now shining brightly through the windows.
"Yeah." Now that she thought about it, she was nearly as exhausted as he was, more from the emotional roller-coaster the night had been than from the physical exertions, and she had to slap Theo's hand, which was idly stroking her stomach, simply because she was too tired to follow up on what her instincts wanted her to do. "Do you think we can get on the couch without letting go?" she asked wistfully, eyeing the plush leather with longing.
He laughed, pulled her towards it until the side of her leg brushed against it, and then deftly fell sideways so that they did, indeed, end up horizontal on the couch. She squirmed around until she could rest her head on his chest, and that was all she could manage to do before she fell asleep.
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I had one of those removed when I was in college. About the same size as yours, just lower on my neck, almost parallel with my shoulders. You're lucky...your arms won't pull on your scar. I had to have my scar resected a year later because the surgeon wasn't happy with how it healed because any movement of my arms pulled it slightly apart. I wish I still had the pictures of mine, but they were taken on a Polaroid (who the hell knows why, it was less than ten years ago). Mine never bothered me but my mom thought I looked like a hunchback so she made me go to the surgeon.
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Jim Nolan: Tea party a third party?
October 26, 2013
Who has defined the tea party as being a faction of the Republican Party? Its actions have harmed the GOP. The tea partyers are running primary opponents against what they consider Republicans interested in actually governing (moderates, not radicals) and that does not seem a very smart maneuver to help their “party” since a challenge divides time and money from the general election as well as splits their party’s loyalty.
The tea party is demonstrating an actual disdain for Republicans and has a much different philosophy and ideology from the more storied GOP. The tea party is a third party kidnapping a major party and repeatedly dividing the country as well as its adopted party. Why are old-line Republicans of Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan allowing this?
Let the tea party run as a third party, radical as it is, and see how many actually get elected without the robe of the Republican Party.
Jim Nolan
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Larry Levis
(1946 - 1996 / California / United States)
Blue Stone
Someday, when you are twenty-four and walking through
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Let me go with you a little way,
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And when you turn and enter a bar full of young men
and women, and your laughter rises,
Like the stones of a path up a mountain,
To say that no one has died,
I promise I will not follow.
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Stormqueen! by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Shrug. Same Darkover story, different setting. I could write the plot out on the back of a cocktail napkin, and then MZB does her usual trick of filling up the extra 300 pages with navel lint.
I have such a hard time writing Darkover reviews, because I hit the fourth sentence and there's nothing more to say. I read these with the hope of there being redeeming features, and then nada. Boring. At this point I think I'm artificially inflating these by a star when there's NOT an egregious instance of sexism every other page.
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Daniel Matheson A feminist with Twilight on her favorite books list. Alright.
Grace Twilight on her GOOD books list, I think you'll find. Jane Eyre is a favorite, Twilight I thought was an effective example of that sort of YA fiction I enjoyed it for what it was, but "favorite" is about six steps too far. I reread Te Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, I don't reread Twilight.
It's not a bad thing to note sexism when it shows up, by the way. I don't like Edward because he's creepy and controlling. I don't like Darkover because the the women feel wrong and false, and are frequently wedged into gender roles which seem kind of nuts when you consider this is a series about spacefaring humans who then settled a planet and inexplicably went RIGHT back to throwback gender roles.
I like books that explain those societal quirks, like in The Handmaid's Tale. I am not a fan of books where it's taken as a given, and Darkover in particular feels terribly dated and very specifically tied to the era in which it was written.
Pern has throwback gender roles, but also has an explanation and eventually an enlightenment. I have a very, very hard time reading future-speculative fiction and encountering female characters who seem less equal than women are today. Why the backtracking? What happened? I guess an argument can be made (and has been made) that those strict gender roles are "natural" and that the past few centuries of women's emancipation is a temporary quirk, but... I don't really buy that without one hell of an explanation. I don't think we'll "naturally" revert to men exclusively holding leadership positions and women being aides, and that's why it's so weird to read about feudal societies in the supposed future.
Longer response than I suppose you're looking for, but there you go.
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diptyque candle
You buy this gorgeous candle as one half of a set—one is "masculine," the other is "feminine"—sort of an arty-candle version of the yin/yang bumper sticker eternally affixed to the car of the progressive American suburbanite like—well—white on rice.
The "masculine" is not all tobacco-leather—mosquito spray, the reflexive eau de "male" so many fragrance companies gravitate toward. It is prettier. Which in my opinion is more masculine: It smells pretty and it's got pink designs all over it, so the burner of said candle would have to be fairly secure in his manliness to get up the nerve. (It's called Eros to sex it up a little bit.)
Rose, the girl one, is delicately stunning in the vein of the beloved Diptyque scent Baies. Yin/yangishly, you cannot have one without the other—they only come together.
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Several types of connectors for car audio systems are used.
ISO 10487[edit]
ISO 10487 connector in car, fits into head unit
Power (A)[edit]
• Pin 2 is optional; used for phone mute
• Pin 6 is optional; used for vehicle instrument illumination
Loudspeaker (B)[edit]
Miscellaneous (C)[edit]
The connector C is optional. Some times, it appears as one 20-pin connector, often red in colour, or it may be divided into three separate connectors which may be hooked together, in which case C1 is usually yellow, C2 is usually green which C3 is usually blue in colour. The contact spacing is narrower than the other connectors, so the C connector is sometimes referred to as mini-ISO.
C1 (external amplifier)
1) line out left rear 4) line out left front
2) line out right rear 5) line out right front
C2 (remote control)
7) receive data 10) +12V switched (out)
9) chassis ground 12) remote control ground
8) transmit data 11) remote control in
C3 (CD changer)
15) +12v permanent (out) 18) audio ground
14) data out 17) data ground 20) audio right
Navigation (D)[edit]
From 2000 and onwards, manufacturers, such as BMW, Citroen, Ford, Mercedes Benz, Peugeot, Volkswagen, Rover, Audi, Seat, Opel and Škoda have sometimes started using a 40 pin connector instead, called the Quadlock (or Fakra, after the manufacturer). The Quadlock connector consists of a block of 16 flat pins analogous to the two main ISO 10487 connectors. While the physical contact pins are the same, the pin allocation is not entirely the same, and the connector housing is not compatible. In addition to the 16 pins, like ISO 10487, there are minor connectors for optional equipment. They fit within the frame of the main connector, and has coding so that they cannot be interchanged. Minor connector B has 12 pins for audio output signals. Minor connector C has 12 pins for various audio sources such as CD-changers, MP3 players.
Quadlock A
1) right rear + 5) right rear - 9) I-bus (BMW) 13) antenna (out)
2) right front + 6) right front - 10) phone mute 14) illumination
3) left front + 7) left front - 11) tel on 15) 12V battery
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I am working on handling LogOutRequest from a replying party on the STS side. I can parse LogoutRequest, delete the cookie and generate a LogoutResponse. The problem is where to send the LogoutResponse, I did not find the information about reply url. Any ideas?
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SingleLogoutService information is defined as part of the SAML 2.0 metadata that partners would exchange during setup. That would tell you where the Single Logout handlers are, and for which binding. I don't believe this information is typically populated in the logout request messages themselves.
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This is a simple asp.net app demo, there is no metadata exchange. What is the scenario in real life? How does SAML 2.0 iDP know where to redirect after signout? – Mug Developer Jul 18 '11 at 23:22
An IDP should know what SP's the user has logged into, and then upon receiving a logout request send logout requests & receive responses from all said SP's. Again, it would know which URL's to send the request to based on partner configuration info. – Scott T. Jul 19 '11 at 5:50
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Usually you get that info in the Issuer element of the request.
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Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages her own lobster business, and the railroad has just trashed a shipment, killing them off before they could ever be properly boiled to death for someone's dinner. Jane commissions her lawyer (and potential romantic partner) George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to take on the railroad and its nefarious owner, Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs). Thus, the battle between the unjustly treated...more
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Ergonomics and style are the two factors that most influenced the design of the Fusion backpack. French designer Jérôme Olivet created this knapsack to be both functional and stylish. That sounds like a simple task, but many backpacks seem to prioritize either form or function. This creates fashionable bags that damage backs and eyesores that are ergonomic.
The Fusion backpack is designed to be less rigid, flowing with the curves of your body. It has a very minimalist design, with the zipper secreted on the inside of the bag, not the outer portion. Olivet was obviously thinking of urbanites when he created this concept as it is big enough to hold a 15" MacBook Pro. The simple design of the Fusion backpack means that it should be relatively easy to put into production.
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• harold33272 harold33272 Jul 10, 2012 1:44 PM Flag
Question on the dividend after the split
Is it possible or likely that KO will increase the dividend after the split? In other words, if the stock is trading at $40 a share immediately following the split, is the current yield of 2.60% going to remain status quo?
Thanks in advance.
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• The dividend is a percentage based on the price of the stock. So, if it splits at $80 a share(round number to make it easy) it will earn the current 2.60% dividend on the split price of $40, but you will have two. The split will do nothing to affect the dividend. The affect it will have is purely psychological for the stock. People are more likely to buy a $40 stock than an $80 stock.
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Giant Zometool sculpture
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics
What is the largest geometric structure you have ever made? This giant Zometool construction contains 50,000 parts and is five meters in diameter.
As this detail image shows, Zometool is a plastic construction set with hubs and struts that provide lengths and angles for making mathematical models. The effect of elegant smooth curves results from many short straight pieces.
The sculpture was made at the Bridges Math/Art conference in Banff. Over a hundred people worked together to execute this beautiful design by Chris Kling, in memorial to him. At The Museum of Mathematics, we support this sort of hands-on building experience to convey mathematical principles in a fun, engaging manner.
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… and you gotta love the geodesic turban in the front row!
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What is every one looking at? Were they not informed that they were about to snap the picture?! :) …and the lady scratching her head! Awesome! Too bad it’s probably all over the Internet by now. :)
Great job on the sculpture though, it is definitely cool!
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Documents necessary to file Labor application ( L.C.A.) ?
Asked about 1 year ago - Fremont, CA
one company filed my L . C . A . . So , I want to know what documents are necessary to file L . C . A . ? I am on 1 right now . The company filed ( L . C . A ) is from Atlanta , CA .
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The company is from Atlanta,GA.
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1. Giacomo Jacques Behar
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Answered . This question needs to be answered by the Company's immigration lawyer.
I hope the "Company"'s principals will not be foolish enough to want to file an LCA and an ensuing H-1B petition on their own, without the expert guidance of a competent immigration lawyer. They will most likely be wasting their money and time.
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Answered . The application does not require any documentation that must be submitted with it. You may have to verify the company's existence prior to filing and have to establish the basis for the wage stated on the application. The company's lawyer should be able to assist.
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Answered . LCA is filed by the company after notice posting requirements and maintaining a public access file. You should not concern yourself with these requirements. On or before your first day of work, the company should provide you with a certified copy of the LCA. Your part is to ensure you are in the correct category and are paid the prevailing or actual wage which ever is higher.
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Answered . I agree with Attorney Behar.
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Clark Howard: Flood insurance
Updated: 4/18/2013 12:14 pm
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The weather patterns around the U.S. have been crazy in the last several months!
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I can tell you is you need to be prepared for potential problems. And one of the things that people overlook is the possibility of a flood.
In fact, a lot of people, until they experience it, have no idea that your homeowners policy does not cover you for a flood.
We live in an area by a creek and it's considered an extremely low risk area for a flood.
But we buy flood insurance.
You buy it from floodsmart.gov. and, here's the thing, if you're in an area that has a very high flood risk, your lender is going to require that you buy flood insurance.
If you are deemed at an area at low risk or no risk at all you probably aren't going to be required to, but you should consider buying it.
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• Is Now The Time To Double Down In REIT Town? [View article]
Seriously? Why can't you can like it at $50 and LOVE IT at $40?
I own several companies that I would snap up more shares like a pit bull with a hamburger if their PPS fell 20%, and I would consider myself VERY fortunate to be able to do so...
Value is value.
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Brad also said he thought there could be better entry points ahead, and he was correct.
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• Ignore The 'Beat': Problems Continue At Thompson Creek [View article]
Ok Vince, this is a decent article, but we do need to dance here a little. While I do not take issue with your facts, I do with some of your conclusions and your overall tone. You sound like one of those that were hoping not so long ago TC would prove itself to be one of those rare quick 5 baggers, or even more so (and I must admit, so was I!). The new reality of the TC situation is a bit more pedestrian. TC will make money, TC will deleverage their balance sheet and TC’s stock will rise, not sharply as many had hoped for (and some still do) but rather gradually over the next 3 to 4 years. We won’t have a $15 stock next year. We very well might get that (or even higher) in 4 years. That’s the new reality. And I am okay with that, slow growth is not as sexy as fast, but it’s still a fantastic return on my capital.
First, concerning molybdenum production. TC remains one of the lowest pure moly producers in the world. And it is soon to be one of the lowest copper producers in the world too, thanks to Mt Milligan.
The issues (suspended striping etc.) concerning the moly properties are well known and are baked into the current pps. The quarter was good probably thanks in part to Bingham Canyon, and they did need it! Moly is now trading below nominal costs of production for most producers, and while it can get worse it is unlikely to continue indefinitely.
The gold, while shiny, is really just being used to offset the costs of mining copper. in reality. TC is also at the mercy of a large number of macro-economic forces, including metals supply, metals demand, global economic health, Chinese politics, the lovely Fed QE tapering, currency fluctuations and more. That’s the bad news. The good news is that TC is one of the lowest cost metals producers, and can make money in this environment and worse, while many mining companies are currently operating at or below breakeven status with current metals pricing, and are subject to additional geopolitical pressures that TC is not, on top of that. It’s nice that TC made some money on their moly operations, and hopefully they can continue to do so, but the real “beat” is that Mt Milligan remains on schedule to begin commissioning this month, with commercial production starting in Q-4. Metals pricing will not remain depressed forever, and while they may go lower, TC will be equipped come 2014 to ride it out far better than many of their peers can. Let’s look at a couple of other points.
Slide one – You said, “Gross annual profit comes to $220 million, down from $240 million”. Ok, a 10% slides is nothing to be happy about but neither is it the end of the world. Once Mt Milligan is up and running, it will be generating big cash flow numbers, even down to (the unlikely) prices of $2.25/lb cu and $900/oz. au which still allows TC to service its debt. Again, metals markets, and the world economy will not be down forever.
Slide two – showing basically how metals pricing has tumbled in the last 15 months. You said “the trend is terrifying for Thompson Creek”. Really? Terrifying? That’s some serious use of hyperbole there. First of all, this is not news, anyone investing in the mining industry, or even paying attention to the news knows this. Metals pricing is at, or nearing a cyclical bottom for a number of fairly obvious macro-economic reasons that I touched on above. TC has transformed itself from a one trick pony to a very low cost diversified metals producer, for the next 20 or 30 years, albeit at a cost. If they had not done so, they might well be “terrified” right now, as I am sure a number of junior gold miners and single, high cost metal producers actually are.
Let’s go to slide three and four. Here we agree, capital cost expenditures have risen modestly. (I myself wonder what kind of permanent residences they are building for $40 to $50 million dollars – a 5 star hotel?). I wonder if some of the cost increase projections may be baked in assessment of the weak Canadian dollar right now and I would hardly describe it as “adding insult to injury”. It is simply, just business. Quite frankly, TC picked one of the worst possible time periods in recent history to undertake a new greenfield project as big as Mt Milligan. However, many Jr Miners are looking at that project enviously, wishing they had the foresight to so as well. Because, now, most of them could not even contemplate starting such a project in today’s terrible metals environment. And if they could, it would cost them more dearly. TC at least had the foresight and conviction to start the project and see it through, a project that ensured the company’s very survival. And that’s not hyperbole.
I am not happy either about the projected decline in their cash cushion, but that is something that bears monitoring, not worrying about. I do not see them needing to go back to the capital markets at this time, or in the near future. The more troubling information to me is the possible pit wall instability or movement at the TC named mine. Let’s hope they are just being proactive here, and this does not develop into anything more. As we saw at Bingham Canyon, anything can happen anywhere.
As far as new funding needed. If the cost over runs were to be more significant than “modest”, if one of their moly properties were to experience a shut down, if Mt Milligan ran off the tracks and we had a significant delay, then we will have problems with funding and a real reason to worry instead of just being vigilant. As far as declining commodity pricing, that is the business that TC is in. It comes with the territory. It also swings both ways. Modest upticks in the price of (soon to be) any one of three metals could give TC a nice booster shot for that particular quarter. And a recovering worldwide economy in 2014, 2015 and 2016 is likely to provide some of that impetus.
TC is really a play on using the cash flow of Mt Milligan to deleverage its balance sheet while waiting for better times, which will eventually come. In the meantime, you can pick up a nice asset for well under half of book, which if you’re a value investor is a happy occurrence.
The downside is backed in, as are the primary issues that the moly franchise part of the company faces. We did not discuss the fact that there is always the possibility TC could be bought out. If so, it should sell for over book value. Right now, BV is estimated a between $8 and $9 per share, depending how you want to crunch the numbers. But that figures only a 22 year mine life at the Mt Milligan property. If you go back and read over the 2nd NI-43-101 report, you might also come to the conclusion there are cards on the table that are still face down regarding that number.
One final thought. While management has been visionary, they have done an average job of executing the plan. During the EOY fiscal meeting, their stock option comp plan was voted down for that very reason. Suffice to say they were not happy. Some astute analysis might lead one to think that they don’t have a huge vested interest in seeing this stock “pop”, as it were, until they can vote their gravy train back in. Political? Sure. Does it happen all the time? Absolutely!
In conclusion, your statement “The success of Thompson Creek will, for the most part, come down to execution at Mt. Milligan” is the real takeaway here. TC can actually withstand lower metal prices. Although no wants to see that happen. And again the real “beat” this quarter was not moly production figures, but the fact that Mt Milligan remains on schedule to start commercial production in the rapidly approaching fourth quarter.
Aug 8 03:06 AM | 9 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Thompson Creek Appears Destined To Fail [View article]
Let me respond here. My intent is to be civil, even though Obviously our viewpoints are completely incongruent.
I am making an assumption that the figures that TC has made available in the past (over and over, consistently) concerning probable output of the Mt Milligan mine and operational costs will give TC enough cash flow in 2014 to meet all of it's financial obligations, with a (growing) pile cash left over in the bank. Even at today's metals prices. Even assuming up to a 20% or more long term deterioration in today's metals prices.
Therefore, barring the sort of "black swan" type of event which could befall any company, at any time, I see no need for them to do a dilutive stock offering, or an ill advised debt restructuring. and even if the ceased all operations at Mt Milligan today, TC would be over a year or more away from any sort of court ordered restructuring. (However, in such a scenario the lawsuits would start the very next day, lol.)
Apparently, you hold the opposite view. Yet you refuse to back it up with anything but vague dissertations. I enjoyed your discussion on all in cash costs. It was not the best, but definitely one of the better ones I have read. But that discussion has zero bearing on if TC Metals Co can pay its bills or not. And that is really the only pertinent discussion here. If they can, they will be solvent and none of your possible scenarios are even on the table Bob. However, if they cannot, then one or more the grimmer financial events you describe could or will occur. If they have the cash to pay their bills, they WILL pay them. They will NOT withhold money.
so, in spite of you saying cash flow is not the point, but in reality, cash flow is the ONLY point. And not just for TC, but for most other companies as well, both public and private.
You may be upset that TC is not giving you what you consider to be more current numbers, or firm 2014 guidance right now. That's your right to be upset and to take it out on them by assuming the worst possible case scenarios, as others have recently done. However, it's also TC's right to release such guidance at the time of their choosing, and not when investors feel they should. I follow more than one company, as do you. So I'm sure you know while uncommon, this is not unusual. Now if you really believe that TC is withholding information to be disingenuous or to conceal some kind of non reported shortfall, so be it. But the numbers just don't support that sort of a supposition.
You said "I can only say there are strong indications that failure is coming" and you say by failure you mean insolvency, which is a VERY serious charge to levy against a company. And yet, the ONLY two things you can offer up in support of your statement is the fact the share price is doing poorly and one out of about 5 or 6 analysts has put forth something of a worst case scenario for TC.
You also said "My article is intended to be based on facts, actionable"........tho... provoking....."
Bob, out of those three things, only one is true. Your article is NOT based on facts, in fact you refuse to consider the existing facts as they are and instead want new "facts" from the company. Your article is not actionable because you chose to lay out a highly improbable scenario for TC and admit it's basically your opinion, and you do not back it up with any hard data. However, based on all your comments, it does certainly seem to that you have met your goal of being "thought provoking"!
Again, if you believe that TC is going to go insolvent, then show your work. There is more than enough data available for you to do that.
Otherwise, just admit it's just your opinion, and it is based on your emotions coupled with a disappointing share price and an offbeat analyst report. Because based on what you just told me, that appears to be the case.
No one will deny the share price performance has been terrible. That is the possible subject of another, very long article. TC's main problem currently is that the share price has become decoupled from the fundamental prospects of the company, which is not surprising given past management's penchant for disappointing shareholders.
And it's going to take more than a quarter for that trust to be regained. I happen to believe that Perron is going about it the correct way. We shall see. I will also say that right now TC should be viewed as a speculative stock, and a longer term hold, and not as a slam dunk or as a short term trade as a number of previous articles (which you alluded to) painted it as.
Maybe the tables have turned, and TC will just to endure the opposite for a while, until investor trust is regained through execution.
But Bob, it is highly, highly unlikely that TC even comes close to insolvency, barring a world wide global economic meltdown next year. In which case I suspect that we would all have greater things to worry about than the share price of TC.
Dec 18 01:17 AM | 8 Likes Like |Link to Comment
If we are going to have a greater buying opportunity in REITs, you won't have to wait 6 months. Less than a year, and far more likely less than 6 months. "Taper Panic". That is not to day you might not get MORE than one buying opportunity.
Waiting a little while seems prudent, waiting a year or two may not be.
Aug 19 08:01 AM | 8 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Why The 'Mean Reversion' Focus Can Be A Costly Blunder [View article]
Lots of great comments here, some that will take me quite a while to digest, I must admit. Also, probably lots of irrelevance as well. Maybe we should go back to basics 101 for a minute?
A few observations from a layman.
A stock is worth what people are willing to pay for it, in the purest sense, how much are they willing to pay to get a piece of the future revenue generated by that company who's stock they are buying. (As an aside, in the purest sense therefore, buying any stock that does not offer a dividend could be seen as speculation, not investing - but that's another book).
A stock's profits are generated by the company, which in turn produces "something", (real or virtual, it does not matter). This company is worth whatever it can produce, plus some future multiple which is then priced into the stock. How much money the company can make is predicated on many variables, the demand for it's product, (which may be artificially induced, or based on reality - the water VS soda argument) the product class (necessity VS luxury), the product's sector, other global economic factors (the ability to purchase the product, the size of the market etc) and of course the cost of producing and delivering the product.
However several other factors IN ADDITION to profits now also affect the price paid for the stock of a company as much if not more. The demand (popularity) of the actual stock itself (too much money chasing too few shares IE. Tesla). The availability of alternative options similar to that company (BOA, C, WF, etc) the liquidity, ease, and safety of trading in that company's stock (listed on NYSE, SSE, of KASE?), the ability of the investor to purchase the stock (availability of discretionary investor funds) and last but not least the media coverage of both the company and the stock.
In a perfect world, investors are focused on the companies profits, and the ability of that company to both keep producing, and to grow those profits into the future, as well as return some of those profits to investors (by way of dividends, share buybacks and share appreciation). And nothing else.
However, being in an increasingly interrelated world, I would argue that the advent of near instantaneous global communications (facilitated by among other avenues,the internet) has made those other factors as important, if not (much) more important in some cases, as profits in determining the price paid for a particular stock. Many would argue that by not actively trying to discount for those other factors you are not really investing, but simply either speculating or gambling instead. Others would say you are merely factoring in the total value of the company and the stock and investing in a more comprehensive way.
I am not trying to make an argument for or against either position. I am merely saying I don't think we can even have this discussion without framing all the parameters first. Just talking about revenues or profits in the historical sense is ignoring a host of other factors driving markets and stock prices these days. As one example, no one can deny there is a global ("safety") premium attached to buying stocks of U.S. companies, stocks of companies that operate primarily in the U.S., as well as stocks of companies that operate in historically "open market" countries. And that this particular premium has been growing for a number of years.
That is but one factor out of many peripheral ones that need to be considered when looking at the price of stocks versus their actual or relative value compared to historical perspectives.
How can you discuss profit margin, revenues, or PE in the modern environment without factoring in some of the most important of outside variables that are exerting a significant distorting influence on stock prices?
Feb 20 10:29 AM | 7 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Thompson Creek Appears Destined To Fail [View article]
Bob, thanks for the replies. With all due respect, at the risk of harping on the points I've made though, you have made my argument for me.
You said your article is about TC Metals. So are my comment's and the comments of ultra and the others responding to you. We are focusing on Mt Milligan as it is the cash cow of the company, that is all. We all understand corporate overhead, all in costs, etc. None of us are are looking at Mt Milligan as a stand alone entity. We are focusing on is though, because currently the rest of the company without Mt Milligan can stand on it's own. The new debt, the new operational overhead, and the new cash flow are all due to Mt Milligan. Believe me when I say we are all on the same page in regards to that.
You also keep referring to TD Securities report. Bob, as you point out, there are numerous reports on TC. For what it's worth, I happen to have about a half dozen of the most current ones. The TD report is an outlier, and more respected institutions have a much more realistic outlook on TC Metals than TD does.
I am not sure why TD is about two and a half dollars (500%) lower than the consensus average projection of the other reports, but it is. If anything, that makes me suspicious of TD's methods or motives..
And please note that I said realistic. No analyst is painting a rosy picture here. Neither am I. They all recognize that serious execution has to take place, and the bottom cannot fall out of the copper or gold market (bottom falling out being about 25-30% lower prices for a protracted period of time, as I mentioned earlier).
The reason you are getting so much flack on here is that you picked an outlier opinion on which to expound upon, and did not do your diligence to see if this opinion, TD's opinion, was actually based on facts or even realistic or probable scenarios. I assume you did this just for the purpose of writing an article. Having read some of your past comments and articles, I highly doubt you would ever be so lax in your research if you were personally considering TC for your own investment.
TC Metals is not insolvent, it is not even close to insolvency. If Mt Milligan did not produce a dime (and they have already sent the first shipment of concentrate out fyi) they should be able to survive for at least 3/4's of a year on cash in the bank and the cash flow from their other three molybdenum properties. As a minimum. But MT Milligan is producing, and by the beginning of 2015 will be on a run rate to produce $350 - $525 million dollars of gross revenue per year, depending on the direction of copper and gold pricing.
I like most of what you've written that Ive read. You're pretty sharp, you just happened to not do your full research on this one, and this stock happens the followed by a few dozen people that pretty much know it inside and out. Probably even a better that at least of the analysts that are supposed to be covering this company, from what I've read in their reports.
Anyway Bob, enough on this. You should have enough page views now to get a little Christmas bonus. I'm sure that we'll talk again at some point.
Merry Christmas Bob and a Happy New year to you and yours. And do yourself a favor, go and pick up 2k or 3k shares of TC at these prices and just tuck it away for 3 or 4 years or so. It won't cost very much to do so right now. (Just look it as a lottery ticket money.)
I have a pretty good idea that you'll be glad that you did....
Dec 18 11:46 PM | 7 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Thompson Creek Appears Destined To Fail [View article]
Reading your bio, I would agree, TC would be a bad fit for your investment philosophy.
But is TC a bad investment? Stock wise, really, who knows?
But will TC become insolvent, and go out of business, as you claim above?
You give a very thorough discussion of all in cost for miners above, which is appreciated. It is a good way to compare different miners and to look at overall ROI. It's great for a theoretical discussion. But it;s terrible if you are looking at cash flow, bank balances, credit lines and solvency.
As far as your assertion that Thompson Creek will fail, what exactly does that mean? Fail by going out of business, right? Ubnable to pay the bills. C;losing the doors.
Since that appears to be what you mean Bob, then please lay out the numbers - show us how you arrived at this. Show us your math, so to speak. Because all you have given us so far is your opinion on what could happen, absent any actual facts, and a nice theoretical discussion on miners valuations.
We will keep this all on a cash basis, since cash is what TC needs to spend to generate the cash flow to pay creditors, stay in business, and possibly refinance debt at more favorable terms.
Cash. The rest is a nice exercise and will affect share price - but how many dollars will come in, and how many dollars will go out?
That is the bottom line, right?
Tell me please at current metals pricing, what is your revenue projection for MT Milligan at, say, 50% of total capacity and at 75% of total capacity? Do you believe that TC will not even achieve a 75% run rate with Mt Milligan after 18 months (which is December 2014) even though that is the industry average.
What do you make of the CEO's assurances that Mt Milligan is "ahead of schedule" and "will be cash flow positive by mid year" 2014?
So we'll take those numbers. Then we'll run them against current and projected cash burn. For the operational "costs" of Mt Milligan we'll use the same figure the company has used for about 2 years without modification I believe it is $280 million. We'll assume that is all cash costs. Many people believe that is a high number but we'll leave it be for now.
Then add in the net revenue from he moly operations. Again at current costs. And again, that information is readily available in TC's reports.
Add in existing cash, from last quarter, plus guidance for revenue and costs for Q4 2013 and lets see where we start from.
To be conservative, you'll need to run those revenue projections over for 10%, 20% and even 30% lower copper and gold prices.
To be fair, 30% lower copper would require a much lower global economic forecast than we presently have for next year. While there is significant supply projected to come on the market projections indicate most of it will not be hitting until Mid 2015 or early 2016.
For moly, we can assume the price will not drop much more than 10%. We are already below cost for most non by product moly mining operations, demand, while stagnant now, is much more likely to increase than decrease from here, and again, although there is a substantial amount of moly production that is going to hit the market, the bulk of it is projected to be in 2015, ramping up to 2016 and beyond.
As far as gold, we know most gold miners have an all in cost of between $1000 and $1200, and we know demand from China and India (according to reports) is expected to increase. What we don't know is how soon money printing will cause inflation to hit (probably NOT in 2014) or what effect the Fed's tapering will have on gold prices. Being as gold has a large emotional component and little industrial use, it is a very unpredictable commodity.
FYI, consensus metal pricing forecasts from multiple sources show moly and copper flat to slightly up in 2014, and gold lower early in the year but finishing up 2014 flat or slightly higher than EOY 2013. It is possible that metals pricing could increase, but we'll ignore that for the time being.
So, if you want to be taken seriously go ahead and run the numbers
and let's see in what quarter next year, and at what metals pricing TC actually DOES run out of cash. (Hint- it is impossible in Q-1).
I would do it, but, it's not my article and I am not the one claiming (without backing it up with any actual facts) that a company is going to go out of business. This is your article, and your credibility at stake, I realize that SA probably chose the headline and not you, but you gave them the vehicle to put it on.
Yes, you will need to assume that the projections that are available from TC, as well as the guidance that is available is accurate, but so you would for any company. We also won't look at the notes due in 4 years as part of this, because best case they have enough cash flow to pay it all off, or they pay some of it off and refinance the rest, or they are, as you believe, insolvent well before that time.
Bob - you are an analytical guy, let''s look at all the facts and see just how, when and even IF, under what scenario TC actually runs out of cold hard cash and taps out it's credit facilities, and has to shut the doors as insolvent.
I believe that you are going to be surprised with just how bad everything has to be before TC is threatened with insolvency.
I am sorry if this sounds harsh, I don't mean it to be, but you cannot just go posting your opinion as fact without backing it up with actual calculations, dates and figures, and expect to be taken seriously.
I look forward to seeing your calculations and actual conclusions.
Please also let us know from what report or presentation you are pulling the company's projections and balances from.
Dec 17 07:18 PM | 7 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Yahoo faces uproar over partial e-mail outage [View news story]
Since Marissa took over Yahoo, the Yahoo email, message boards and news format have all gotten terrible. Not to mention there is no semblance of customer support. If I had wanted a lousy imitation of gmail I would have gone with hotmail. All the good features that made Yahoo distinct and likable are nearly gone. Nice job Marissa....
Dec 11 08:26 PM | 6 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Short Seller Targets Herbalife's China Operations [View article]
I am not getting into whether HLF is a good short or not. (I don't care.)
Or whether it is a good investment or not. (I don't own it, I don't care.)
Or whether or not it makes good products or not. (My common sense and business experience tells me they are probably good products that are being oversold.)
Nor do I know whether or not the company is executing very well, or poorly (I am not going to do all that research for a company I don't own.)
I am also not affiliated with HLF, have never worked for HLF, and (to my recollection) have never even purchased a product from a HLF distributor.
This is what I can tell you. By legal and practical definition, (again, based on what I know without taking a detailed look at their compensation plan) HLF is NOT a pyramid scheme. That is really a pretty easy idea for anyone that has ANY business background at all, and ANYONE with ANY experience at all with a multilevel marketing company should be able to tell you in 10 minutes or so (Be it the Amway, or Tupperware, or Avon or Primerica, etc. etc. etc.).
Now, HLF may be considered by some people that are not financially literate to be a "socially defined" pyramid company, because let's face it, much of the population does not understand the difference and considers virtually any organization that uses multi-level marketing to be a defacto "pyramid scheme".
(Note - Let me emphasize again I am not saying that ANY of these companies represent a good business opportunity, or sell great products at fair prices. That is another, much more detailed and much, much longer conversation to have. Also, there are ethics involved that I am not going to delve into. I am just looking at the allegation of legality.)
I am saying is that these types of companies, which DOES include HLF, do NOT meet the legal definition of a "pyramid scheme", at least within the U.S.
As for China, I am not up on Chinese law, and cannot tell you what is legal in China.
Chinese laws may be different.
But a company like HLF with such a high (and let's face it, controversial) profile has to have a team of lawyers to vet their distribution operations, recruiting, sales and compensation tactics so as to NOT run afoul of any legal issues, wherever they operate, in China or Moldova.
For William Ackman to say that HLF is a "pyramid scheme", and make these allegations in such a public manner, really makes me wonder "why"?
Why is he doing that?
I would think a businessman and investor with his experience and credentials MOST certainly should know the difference, even if the average Joe on the street does not.
(Whether he LIKES HLF's business model or not, is of course a different matter entirely.)
So why would he come out and make public allegations he cannot prove?
The only reasons I can think of myself for someone to do such a thing is for personal gain or for some sort of emotionally charged revenge factor. Can anyone else think of other reasons?
While I have no idea if any of that is the case or not, again, I find this entire campaign of his against HLF to be very odd, almost bordering on the bizarre.
(Although not as bizarre as what comes out of Washington on a regular basis these days, lol.)
It would seem like this would provide a great opportunity to trade this stock as the allegations and counter allegations fly back and forth.
However, that type of trading is above my personal risk tolerance level.
If it's not above yours, good luck, don't get caught up in the rhetoric, and be very careful.
Mar 12 05:44 PM | 5 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• The Misfortunes Of The Big 4 In China [View article]
Agree. Chinese companies are just too risky to invest capital into. To paraphrase a famous line from Forest Gump, they are like a box of chocolates, you never know just what you're really getting.
You certainly cannot trust the Chinese government's massaged figures. (They don't even know what their own "real" figures are, as the process is 10X more political in China than in the U.S., and there are no such things as "checks and balances", or even the trappings thereof.
If you can't trust the government to regulate the companies, and you can't trust the auditors to be truthful, why would you invest a dime?
The big four got off far, far too easy here imho.
Jan 28 05:20 PM | 5 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Gevo Is On The Wrong Side Of The Fence [View article]
It is happening on the 16th, it was just announced.
Also, the author fails to take into account that GEVO is setting itself up to be a player in the "green" specialty chemical building block market and has partnerships with both Coke and Ford. Also it's main product isobutanol is a much better product for blending into gasoline than ethanol is, and they are likely to make significant revenues there. Gasoline will not become cheap enough to cease to blended with a bio energy product, and other factors such as environmental concerns, renewability and political concerns will fully support blending.
As a stand alone biofuel product producer, the author is correct about GEVO. In fact, he is correct about the entire biofuel industry. However, the story has shifted, GEVO is making a admirable transition, it has the IP and facilities to become a force in these two industries. (FYI, the reason current "cost of goods" is so hih right now is a matter of economies of scale, NOT the technology. Scale is correctable, technology rarely is.)
GEVO will not go bankrupt as the author suggests.
This is another erroneous SA article written from headlines with little in the way of substantive facts to back it up.
However it should be noted that GEVO's suitability as an investment retains it's highly speculative nature, even more so after this necessary dilution.
I retain a small, speculative position in GEVO for the long term possibilities which it's IP and processes represent.
Dec 12 01:14 PM | 5 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Taseko Mines: Target Price Of $2 Without New Prosperity And $7 With New Prosperity [View article]
TGB represents an amazing opportunity now, own the stock as a call on Prosperity with virtually now downside if it does not go through.
I don't see how TGB can pull of the development of Prosperity with the current management team though, as badly as the have stumbled through both the Gibraltar upgrade and the previous Prosperity approval process.
TGB will have to have new management, or be sold, in order to unlock it's true potential value.
However, that is no reason to not buy the stock now pending approval.
Chances of approval may be 50-50. Both sides have made their points, and it appears TGB 1) Did a much better job of both pre-empting the opposition argument as well as marshaling local support this time 2) Have more than adequately answered the environmetal smokescreen thrown up by the First Nations Environmental lobbyists and 3) Actually have a sympathetic federal as well as local government this time.
On the other hand The First Nations 1) Dislike (hate is not too strong of a word) TGB management for trying to strong arm them with the rule of law the first time instead of giving in to their extortionist demands that First Nations actually own the land rights as squatters and TGB's mineral rights are meaningless 2) Have once again put up a good smokescreen by manipulating the far left wing environmentalist lobby into rabidly going to war for them.
This might be a good made for TV movie were it not for the sad reality that the Canadian government has knuckled under to the demands of a minority group much to the detriment of ALL of it's citizens and made a mess of land ownership rights and the rule of law in Canada in regards to contested lands.
Sep 12 05:28 PM | 5 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• Solazyme Announces U.S. Commercial Production of Renewable™ Algal Oils at Iowa Facilities [View article]
This is the very beginning of a new era. Ground floor. This technology will prove to be as disruptive to particular industries over time (specialty oils and lubricants, certain oil based chemical industries, the prepackaged food industry, and eventually, possibly even certain fuels as well) as the internet was to communications.
Very excited for this company and it's prospects five and ten years (or even more) down the road as they refine their processes and build on their patents here.
Jan 30 06:05 PM | 4 Likes Like |Link to Comment
• David Slays Goliath: Vringo Awarded Billion-Dollar Victory Over Google [View article]
You all just may want to hold onto your shares for awhile......
"(Maxim's) Tinker said. "To date, only a handful (of patents) have been acted upon. VRNG has the in-house expertise to sue internationally, unlike most US patent companies who have a "US only" strategy which is subject to potential Government involvement given the backlash against patent trolls."
Lots of potential revenue. International courts and judges less tolerant of the delaying tactics that are par for the course in the U.S An unfavorable view of infringement in Europe.. It all adds up to lots more revenue for VRNG down the road...
Jan 29 01:25 PM | 4 Likes Like |Link to Comment
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The Trans-Caucasus Conflict: Bush Poked the Bear Once Too Often
We are witnessing a major power play by Russia just like the world watched a major power play by the US when Bush invaded Iraq. In both cases lies surround the invasion. In both cases, a bully nation threatens a smaller nation and the bully may go unpunished, but in the long run may suffer.
But I don’t want to draw too much parallel between Bush’s war of aggression against Iraq and Putin’s war of aggression against Georgia. There is actually another parallel that may have more relevance: Russia did to Georgia what Iraq did to Kuwait. Iraq and Russia used a minor, long-smoldering border dispute as an excuse for an invasion. It is another example of a bully picking on a weak neighbor when it thinks there is no authority to stop it. Iraq miscalculated when it invaded Kuwait. So far it does not look like Russia miscalculated, but the long term effects may make them regret their actions. But for now, China doesn’t care and the US has no military resources to spare thanks to the Bush/McCain Iraq Quagmire, and Bush’s stupid and arrogant foreign policy has alienated most of our allies, leaving us more isolated than Russia these days. Russia, in essence, chose its timing perfectly for this invasion.
But there is another way in which the Russian invasion of Georgia is more like Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait rather than the Bush invasion of Iraq. It comes down to a particular concept of “defense,” one that follows closely that of the early Roman Empire where each perceived threat was dealt with through aggression and invasion.
Having no natural borders, Russia is doing what it always did in “defense.” From Tsarist times through the Communist creation of the Warsaw Pact, to Russia’s disastrous invasion of Afghanistan, Russia has always seen aggression as the best defense. The current situation is nothing different except the Caucasus are arguably the only natural boundary Russia has. However, historically the Caucasus served almost as much as a corridor of invasion as it did a boundary. In ancient times invaders from the Steppes came through the Caucasus regularly. In Medieval times the Khazars and Arabs fought back and forth across the Caucasus. And the trans-Caucasus region, including the Northern regions of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and North Ossetia, as well as the Southern regions of South Ossetia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, has been a collection of flash points among incipient nationalist interests as well as between nationalist interests and Empire. The analogy with the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Balkans prior to WW I is also apt.
The current conflict is also a continuation of the Cold War, even if the ideological underpinnings are gone. Post-WW II two superpowers emerged: the Russian Empire (then called the Soviet Union) and America. The economic conflict over capitalism vs. communism in many ways was not the primary reason for this conflict. The real conflict was which would emerge the dominant force in post-War Europe. This conflict dominated first European, then World politics for nearly 50 years. Then the collapse of the Soviet Union seemed decisive, but really it seems it did not end the Russia/US conflict over dominance. The expansion of NATO into formerly Warsaw Pact nations was a deliberate, and largely smart, expression of US victory in the Cold War. And Russia was powerless to prevent it. Bush’s stupid missile “defense” shield, which has little practical value in modern conflicts, was a further expression of dominance over Russia, and perhaps the point where a slowly weakening US may have started going too far in poking the Bear. At the same time Georgia itself was looking more and more to the West rather than to Russia. The current Georgian government is a pro-West government. Mikhail Saakashvili came to power after Georgian elections were declared rigged after final results failed to match exit polls. The fact that Bush backed this analysis was deeply cynical and ironic since Bush’s own elections included similar discrepancies between final tallies and exit polls. The same Bush administration denigrated exit polls when they showed he might have lost but embraced exit polls when it brought a pro-West regime to Russia’s neighbor, Georgia. To my mind the exit polls may have contained the truth in both cases, but Bush’s stand was hypocritical. One of Mikhail Saakashvili’s promises was Georgia joining NATO.
The combination of this expansion of NATO, a pro-West government next door to Russia’s most volatile region, and Bush’s posturing over a missile “defense” shield all are likely to be seen as direct threats to Russian security, particularly given the problems surrounding the Caucasus. Putin has been trying to reassert Russian control in the area for years now. Georgia’s escalation of the conflict with Ossetia, which was not very different than Russia’s own actions in Chechnya, was an easy excuse for Putin to use to finally show whose the boss of the Caucasus.
Russia intends to be just as much a boss of the region as it was during the Cold War. It wants to reassert its dominance, whether by direct control or dominant influence, on all the former Soviet Republics it can, particularly if natural resources are at stake. The invasion of Georgia is part of that reassertion of Soviet era dominance. Russia intends to take Ossetia into its direct control and to force a regime change on Georgia to produce a more compliant neighbor and to head off Western influence in the region.
The US doctrine that emerged from the Cold War, formulated by the elected Bush and Clinton, was that bully nations could no longer invade weak nations without consequences. That was the basis of our first Gulf War with Iraq and our involvement in the Balkans. This new policy also marked a high point in US respect and dominance worldwide. The current, unelected Bush deviated from that course, turning us into a bully nation when he lied to invade Iraq in the second Gulf War. At that point we lost both the practical ability and the moral authority to stand up to Russia when it chose to bully Georgia into line. There are no immediate consequences for Russia. They can keep saying they have declared a ceasefire while they send in more and more planes and tanks. They can blame Georgia even as they violate their own promises even as they make them. Russia, in the short term, will get away with this and Bush is left feebly scolding them while Putin just laughs.
Will this backfire on Russia? Probably in the long run it will. I believe Russia has interfered with its own interests by backing a separatist regime, thus encouraging the Balkanization of the Caucasus. This is precisely what Russia does NOT want to encourage. Georgia’s conflict with South Ossetia almost precisely matches Russia’s conflicts with Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. The Ossetians have a record of some loyalty with Russia, but not in all cases. North Ossetia has been something of a potential flashpoint for Russia and it seems to me encouraging nationalism in South Ossetia is unlikely to be good for Russian stability in North Ossetia, Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. It is quite likely that Russia is unleashing more trouble than they are solving. It is perhaps ironic that Bush has rendered the US powerless against Russian aggression, leaving tiny break away republics to be the probable source of payback against Russia’s aggression against Georgia. And let’s not forget that those same breakaway republics have been targets of al-Qaeda interest. This is another case where stupidity on the part of the superpowers is likely to benefit al-Qaeda. This is where the US and Russia have both failed. The US and Soviet proxy war in Afghanistan produced al-Qaeda. Russian aggression in Chechnya and Dagestan in particular as well as a US presence in the Persian Gulf (mainly bases in Saudi Arabia) fed al-Qaeda recruitment and expansion. Now American aggression against Iraq and, I predict, Russian aggression in the Caucasus, further feeds the growth of al-Qaeda. Way to go, Bush and Putin. Way to enable your enemies.
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In addition to everything mole has outlined, I wonder how much of this is also for the same reason we invaded Granada in 1983.
At the time, we were reeling from both post-Vietnam traumatic syndrome and the fiasco in the desert of Iran. The invasion of a tiny island (about the size of Martha's Vineyard) was ostensibly to replace a hateful government; in fact, the government was only responding to U.S. restrictions (oh yes, and talking with Fidel Castro). The real reason for the invasion was to make Americans "proud" of our military prowess ('cause we could beat up on the really, really little guy).
Today, Russia is still feeling the effects of a disastrous ten-year invasion of Afghanistan, followed by the collapse of their economy (not to mention their entire governmental structure). With Putin firmly in de facto command, might there be a similar desire to resurrect a feeling of military superiority?
Just a thought.
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I really think this is the
I really think this is the start of a new Cold War. Let's hope it doesn't lead to a Hot War. I predict insurgencies like that are in Iraq & Afghanistan will start to show up in the provinces of Georgia. And by the way, the Russian economy is much better off than ours right now. In fact, in the New York Times this past weekend, large Real Estate companies are going over to Russia and selling properties in Hamptons.
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But interestingly...
Interestingly this time around Russia and the US have more equivalent economic and political systems. Russia is much more like the US that it was as the Soviet Union, while under Bush the US has moved more towards the corruption, cronyism and restrictions on freedoms that the Soviets were known for. I don't think our paths have crossed, but we have become largely the same in these ways. So this time the rivalry is strictly practical, not ideological.
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Excellent, interesting analysis
Thanks, mole.
I've had the feeling that this might not benefit Russia in the long run, no matter how much it bolsters their self-image in the short run, but I couldn't think what the mechanics of that backfire might be. I read an incisive observation: that Russia is still doing their empire-building 19th-century style, through the acquisition of territory, whereas the countries most likely to be the successful empires of the 21st century are doing it through economic power: China and India, with Brazil maybe following up.
Good point about how their lack of natural borders makes the Russians insecure about territory. In fact, a general sense of insecurity and inferiority has always informed Russian foreign policy. If you've never read it, I highly recommend "The Russians" by Hedrick Smith for its look at the Russian psychology and how it informs their politics. Even though it was written during the Soviet era, its insights are just as valid today.
I work with two Georgians, both of whom have immediate family still in Tbilisi. They are helpless in this situation, and distraught. Very painful to see.
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I haven't yet had a chance to talk to my Russian friends. Would be interestnig to hear their take. They don't like Putin and remember the threat of having to serve in Chechnya, but they also do have a certain amount of Russian chauvenism when it comes to ethnic minorities from the old Soviet Union.
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I'm preparing for a debate (just between friends) on evolution (I'm in support), and one of the points I plan to bring up is the Chromosome 2 evidence. I'm now trying to predict their potential rebuttals. The common statement I've seen is that since the apes have 48 chromosomes and humans have 46, then there are two possibilities: either we "lost" a chromosome, which would be fatal, or there was fusion. This, I believe, was an actual prediction prior to the answer of Chromosome 2 being identified. But couldn't there have been a third possibility - that the apes gained a pair of chromosomes, perhaps thru splitting of some kind? This seems reasonable to me due to the other claim that we didn't evolve from apes but that we share a common ancestor, and so the ape lineage could have acquired the extra chromosome after the split. (Note I'm a total biology noob, so if this doesn't even make sense, then please tell me.) I understand that this isn't the way it turned out, that Chr 2 looks exactly as we would expect from fusion, but prior to this discovery, couldn't the apes gaining a chromosome have been a possible reason? TIA.
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does this help? biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5558/chromosome-2-fusion What else might you need? – shigeta Jan 20 at 11:02
BTW splitting happens too. – shigeta Jan 20 at 17:11
shigeta, i saw that article and read it before I posted this question. That page doesn't seem to answer my question directly - specifically, WAS IT PREDICTED or was it simply taken as evidence once it was discovered? So ideally, someone could provide a reference to a paper or article that was published that says "we predict that...two chromosomes will appear fused", and which was subsequently confirmed by a later paper or article. I've heard it was about 30 years, but I have no valid source. – Michael Bray Jan 21 at 2:03
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I guess part of the question is...what exactly are you bring up Chromosome 2 as evidence of, exactly? It's evidence of that chromosomal rearrangements are possible, but that isn't terribly helpful to you, so I'm not sure why you are bringing it up.
I think the fusion is a rebuttal to a claim that the disparate # of chromosome is a problem for the claims of common ancestry between humans and other apes, but if they don't mention it, I'm not sure why you would need to use that particular fact.
Have you consulted talkorigin's 29 evidences of macroevolution? Lots of good stuff there.
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It is useful, IF it was predicted. This is one of the main differentiators between valuable theories and useless theories, and hence this is why I'm asking the question. Creation, even if it allows fusion, doesn't predict it. Given that apes have 48 and humans have 46, the "prediction" from creation would be "that's just the way god made it" and say nothing about fusion. But evolution's prediction would be that we would see fusion (or other effects) and that's why it is useful. – Michael Bray Jan 22 at 2:27
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The pitfalls of local government--is it this bad all over the world?
I'll start off by being frank. The local government in my country is an absolute joke; the entire system is a semi-functional, corrupt and debt ridden mess, and I'm wondering, is there something in the local system or culture ruining things, or is this a more global issue?
Unlike the national elections, where people tend to have at least a passable grasp of the people involved and issues at hand, the local elections go by the public with complete apathy.
Local newspapers are relic of the past, and the more centralized modern media (mostly television and internet) simply aren't interested in every day local matters (for no fault of their own). Therefore, your average citizen hasn't a clue who's doing what in city hall, has no real knowledge of the candidates past their names (and sometimes not even that), and is accordingly apathetic. Its hard to keep up to date when the information isn't within easy reach.
Major cities whose leadership occasionally make the news, and settlements so small that everyone knows everyone don't suffer from this problem, but most municipalities are between those two extremes. Most people simply haven't got a clue what their local government is doing.
This of course leads to the whole thing working about as well as you expect. Local governing bodies tend to fall into debts, are more or less unaccountable for their failures, and are notoriously corrupt.
I'm honestly starting to think that the whole mess ought to be removed and replaced by civil servants. Those can be more easily held accountable for doing a poor job (especially plunging into debt), and are more easily removed if corruption is suspect.
Are things this bad with local government all over the world, or is just like this in my country? Is there a realistic fix, or would it just be better to uproot the whole system and start over with something perhaps a little less democratic?
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• Oct 5 2013: I havern't noticed local government being so bad. But local government has similiar problems to national government , but different objectives.
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Oct 5 2013: Nadav, Thing area little clearer to me now at 70 than they were at 20 - 40. Upon reflection I recall a mid sized city where we left keys in cars, doors and windows unlocked, sat on the porch at night and talked with neighbors as they passed on their evening walks. The Mayor stopped and talked to everyone and had real concern ... his office door was always open and he knew you by your first name. Your teacher also taught your parents and if you screwed up would call them in a heartbeat. If you saw the principal you were in deep smelly stuff ... I heard of the superintendent but never saw him ... once on the playground we heard the guy walking with the principal was a school board member .... we stared in awe. There were three churches we all went to one of them.
Times change. we would never leave keys in cars or unlocked doors and windows. You don't know your neighbors. Less than half go to church. Teachers, Principals, and Superintendent have little decision making power and being a school board member is more like a punishment than a honor and distinction.
The power that mayors and leaders once had are now at state and federal level. We live in a world of entitlements, policies, laws, and rules that makes it hard if not impossible for local leaders to "manage" their areas of responsibility.
It is getting harder to find a "honest person" to run for office .... so we get egos and megalomania.
In my youth families all lived within 50 miles or so. Many of our "leaders" today are transplants and feel no responsibility to the community. Further there is little accountability. The elected official has only two goals 1) get elected and 2) get reelected. Everything else is BS.
As bad as that picture is the real problem is us. We do not know the issues, the people, or understand the Constitution. We allow this to happen. This is the apathy generation. Its not the system ... its us.
I wish you well. Bob.
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Oct 4 2013: i would say a local government is just a smaller version of the government, and it functions even less sometimes, simply because of the economies of scale. in a big government, you might find one or two experts, that actually knows something. or they can afford some. in a local government this number can be one tenth, thus expected to be zero. and no money either.
paradoxically it would help if the size of the local entity was reduced, to the level when people all know each other. everything over 100 participants becomes abstract and self serving.
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Oct 4 2013: '... perhaps a little less democratic?'
On the contrary! And the problems you rightly describe here are rooted in the fact, that 'Most people simply haven't got a clue what their local government is doing.'
It is not a natural law, that 'governing bodies ... , are more or less unaccountable for their failures'. This is what happens if a ruling class is gradually misusing its power.
And that 'the local elections go by the public with complete apathy' is nothing but as sign of resignation of the people, who have been forced out of the continues process of decision making.
Most of the problems you describe are tackled by the concept of 'direct democracy', as it is put to practice in Switzerland, in which all citizens are an integrative part of the active process of policy all the time and not just given a passive maturity any other 4 years or so...
Corruption hates publicity and can only be reduced if you bring back the people in the active process in the making of democracy. Anything else is doomed to fail, sooner or later.
• Oct 4 2013: Direct democracy doesn't scale well with size, but for a smaller settlement, it may actually work. Major cities may be the exception, but they get enough attention to make the representative system work.
So we're left with two extremes, either get rid of the whole local democracy mess and replace them with civil servants instead, or go straight to direct democracy...
Shame that it'll never happen. The current system is pretty well entrenched, nothing short of a national initiative will budge it, and the national government already has enough issues without going head to head with the local ones.
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Oct 4 2013: Actually, direct democracy scales pretty successfully in size, as it is naturally capable to follow the usual division and subdivision of 'regular' governmental structures, beginning at local levels all the way up to the federal government. The reason for this is, that direct democracy does not exclude political representatives, yet ensures for immediate 'feedback loops' and accountability at all times.
Public opinion polls play a vital role in direct democracy. Its not degraded to a rare option, its the norm.
Direct democracy is no extreme and it only appears as such for those who are not used to this intensity level of public participation and influence, or to those who don't wish this influence to interfere with their very own particular interests. The latter could be seen as the famous 1% of each society, whereas the remaining 99% would only need to get used to it.
Active, direct democracy can be learned by the people. Of course it would take some time for them for the concept to sink in. This would be normal for any transitional phase, as 'apathy' is nothing one get rid of over night. Yet any environment shapes the behavior of the people who happen to life in it. And if this environment is encouraging, so will become most of the people in it. Simple psychology, thats all.
'Shame that it'll never happen.'
You got to lend me your crystal ball from time to time, as it seems to do a lot of convincing out of thin air ... :o)
For societies, nothing is ever set in stone! Period. And our history is full of examples. Good ones and bad ones, but there never was a continuation of stagnation for all times.
We have the tools, we have the brains and it will be only on us to decide when enough is enough.
There is a lot of inertia within 'the people', which is exactly what makes them that powerful once they get into motion! And through all ages, this has always been the nightmares of any ruling class.
We are about to see many changes pretty soon.
• Oct 4 2013: I don't know about the rest of the world, by in my country, the process of replacing the local government has zero momentum.
Everyone's more concerned with Iran, the Palestinian negotiations, the Arab spring, the economy, trying to get the orthodox to enlist... Its just not in the public consciousness at the moment.
The current system of local government is here to stay for the foreseeable future, poor though it is.
Nothing is set in stone in a long enough time frame, but you can usually tell when things are about to start moving, and they're currently showing no sign of doing so.
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Oct 5 2013: The momentum determines the tides of change. Regarding this matter your and your country's tide tables seems to be out of sync. Not a nice situation to be in, I'd agree. Just keep repeating.
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Oct 4 2013: Pretty much. Some towns have hired city managers which can be a little better in governance,but...
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Oct 4 2013: What was your take on this talk http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_barber_why_mayors_should_rule_the_world.html, which offers the opposite perspective?
• Oct 4 2013: It sounds from this talk that mayors function better simply because the problems they deal with are simpler. Being under less media scrutiny probably helps with their approval rating as compared to the national government.
The moment the cities turn more independent, they'll just start acting like national governments on a smaller scale--they currently only avoid those more difficult national issues because its out of their pay grade. It won't solve a thing.
I suppose it'd make the cities run better, but something would come along and take advantage of the power vacuum left by the disappearance of the national government. Transnational corporations seem like the most likely candidates, and I'd rather not have one of those own me.
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I would love to see her paired with Uryuu, but I don't think the timeline matches up (since Aizen hasn't left yet)
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I've been reading this story and got really confused. How can she be alive but not alive? Is she like a substitute soul reaper or something else. Please explain.
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Girls put up with a lot of hate and discrimination because boys decide that girls can't do a thing when we know that we are able to be strong and independent. We don't just lay around and let them do whatever they want to us because we can very well beat it into their heads. Sometimes I really hate guys and I'm so glad none of the guys in my family are sexist like that. No offence to all you guys out there that realize that girls aren't weak, and I'm sorry for this rant. I just really hate things like this.
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Parents were lied to by a council-run crematorium about what had happened to the remains of their babies.
21:04, UK, Wednesday 30 April 2014
Hundreds of bereaved parents are facing a "lifetime of uncertainty" about what happened to their baby's remains.
Parents of still and newborn babies who had died were lied to by staff at the council-run Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh and told there were no ashes to scatter.
However, in what the head of a inquiry into the practices there called a "great tragedy", it transpired the remains had been buried or scattered for decades without the knowledge of families.
Former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini on Wednesday presented a 600-page report into what went on at the Mortonhall Crematorium between 1967 and 2011 and what happened to the remains of 253 babies.
The report said: "The outcome of this investigation will cause more pain and distress for most of the parents of the 253 babies who are the subject of this investigation.
Bereaved mother Dorothy Maitland
It added: "The great tragedy of these events over many years is that many parents will now be left with a lifetime of uncertainty about their baby's final resting place."
When the scandal erupted in December 2012, Edinburgh Council informed families that their infants' ashes had actually been buried in a garden of remembrance at the crematorium.
However, the report found the only baby remains that were definitely in the garden were those of the non-viable foetuses buried together in 2013.
The report made 22 recommendations including that Edinburgh Council should review the way the crematorium is managed and ensure a tougher system of inspection.
Bereaved father Gary McDougall
Dorothy Maitland, Operations Manager of the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS), is among parents who were lied to.
Following the death of her daughter Kaelen she was told there were no ashes to hand over.
It was 26 years later that she was told that Kaelen's ashes had been scattered at Mortonhall without her knowledge.
She told Sky News: "You're grieving for your baby. You're grieving for the fact you've let her down, because especially as a mother you should make things right for your children."
Gary McDougall's son Fraser died at birth and was cremated at Mortonhall.
Since discovering that ashes existed 18 months ago he has been given three different versions about what was done with them.
Mr McDougall told Sky News: "They gave us a piece of paper saying they'd been interred.
"We were then told that the ashes were scattered, and then we were told they were laid in the rose garden. Who do you believe?
"Three different versions of what they’ve done. Again, more lies."
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Update via R3 works perfect ! Thanks for the update again Dean.
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So? Use filezilla.
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Thanks dean for the latest update... Appreciate it a lot.
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Very sweet app you have here Dean. Appreciate the support, time and effort given to this.
Just thought I would report a small thing.
The progress bar for copying sometimes does not appear. Seems to happen more so on the bigger games like +20Gb. It seems if it takes a while to verify then it does not appear.
Also, are the different font built in for when you press SELECT + R3 and when I push SELECT + R3 in the game select menu nothing seems to change...
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Progress bar is auto-disabled when 'verifying' takes more than 30 seconds. It then shows "ELAPSED" time and not "REMAINING". It is not a bug.
Yes, the fonts are PS3 built-in fonts.
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Thanks for the reply Dean. Is there any reason why it is auto disabled after 30secs? I personally like seeing how much time is left rather than elapsed time. (Though I am not complaining as I am happy to have the great app that we do )
Hmmm - what exactly should I see happen when I press SELECT + R3 at the game select screen as the game names etc do not seem to change font... I assume that is what is meant to happen? Or am I doing something silly?
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It could be your Anti-virus. I know with AVG it'll do this because of the Linkscanner being on' Just a thought.
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For your reference Dean I just found out by accident what was causing this error! I noticed that there was a PS3_GAME directory in the root of my USB drive that I had not put there... after deleting it the "select x" function worked ok with no more "Error occurred while moving game to new location!" error message.
So obviously multiMAN creates this directory on a "select x" launch and then deletes it on exiting the game... it looks like for some reason this directory was not cleaned up on exit at some point and it caused this problem/error msg.
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In game display modes 1 and 3 you can get the font changed. Switch to them with [L1].
Well if you deleted the PS3_GAME folder - you deleted your game.
multIMAN "moves" your black-screen-game to the root of the USB and later when you launch it, it tries to move it back. In your case for some reason it can't move it back (probably because you changed something). When such error occurs you have to move it back to your games folder yourself.
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Just like the original xbox, do you think you could implement a PS3-to-PS3 FTP, via Ethernet Cable/crossover cable. That would be absolutely FANTASTIC if it were possible to transfer from one ps3 to another via internalized ftp.
Thanks for this, it's absolutely amazing.
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:36:43AM +1000, Andrew van der Stock wrote:
> Greg,
> The only bit of code that is relatively awful as it relates to IBM's
> original decisions in 1980 or thereabouts is the bit that takes a card from
Allowing memory mapping of the framebuffer is no big deal. Requiring that
the host system allow *arbitrary memory mappings* in order to allow this
to succeed -- that's a big deal. It totally destroys the Unix security
Worse, because the device registers are mapped, too, and many of these
devices can DMA to/from arbitrary addresses, even if the kernel provided
a framebuffer handle this approach would *still* leave you totally hosed.
The problem with what the XFree86 architecture puts in userland as
opposed to the kernel is that it guarantees that you can't have X and
have any meaningful kind of security at the same time. Bear in mind
that on most _modern_ Unix systems, there's an effort to ensure that
even a rogue process running as root can be prevented from doing lasting
damage to the system; XFree sidesteps all of that.
Contrary to what's been said earlier in this thread, there *have* been
reasonable interfaces between the kernel and X server implemented in
X11 in the past, with reasonable performance and without the security
problems of the XFree86 approach; the most obvious example is probably
what DEC did in Ultrix and, I believe, in OSF/1. I realize that the
incredible variety of hardware that XFree86 supports makes this difficult
if not downright impractical, but it's silly to pretend that it's never
been done.
People will complain about this so long as they'd like to have X and
reasonable security at the same time. It's really not right to yell at
them for wanting that (though the way some of them have expressed their
desire in this thread isn't exactly great, either).
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Edition: U.S. / Global
By Richard Flaste; Richard Flaste is Science and Health Editor of The New York Times.
Published: October 9, 1988
A FATHER I KNOW TELLS of one unsettling moment when he was sure he would never understand the teen-age mind. The mind in question was that of his own teen-ager, a 15-year-old blonde possessed of considerable charm and an aggressive reticence. The pivotal moment was this effort at conversation:
''So, how was your day at school?'' ''Good.'' ''Was it more than just good? I mean, did anything actually happen that was interesting?'' ''No, it was just good.'' ''What about the bio test? Didn't you have a test?'' (The answer this time came with a gleam of irritation in her eyes.) ''I told you, everything was good.''
He backed away, feeling foolish, sorry he had tried, sorry he'd stirred her pique. What could possibly be going on in her mind? And he wondered about himself, too, as he slipped away into a friendlier room. Was he actually afraid of her? Later, having thought about that scene many times, he concluded that he had in fact been frightened, but not so much of her - after all, they had their good times, and she did seem to love and respect him at least every now and then. Rather it was the condition of adolescence that scared him. On occasions like that abortive effort at conversation he wasn't just confronting a teen-ager who might or might not be in the mood to talk to him but also everything he had ever heard about adolescence, the Sturm, the Drang and the plain old orneriness of it. That flash of annoyance in her eyes was all that was necessary to evoke an image of those infamous raging hormones boiling inside a pubescent caldron.
The burden was a heavy one to take into a small inquiry about a person's day. It was an unnecessary burden, too. For, although most of us aren't aware of it, the concept of adolescence as a period of angry, dard turmoil has largely been overthrown, and along with it the idea that kids need to be tormented and perverse to make the storm-tossed transition to adulthood. That concept is being replaced by a new psychology of adolescence, a growing body of work that reflects a vigorous attempt to find out what life is genuinely like for normal teen-agers, and which reveals that delight plays as large a role among most adolescents as misery does.
A substantial number of psychotherapists and personality theorists still believe that adolescence is a trial by fire, as do many writers of juvenile fiction. But what is now the mainstream of psychological research dismisses this emphasis on turmoil as balderdash. It is a misguided emphasis, many researchers say, which grew out of the overwrought imaginations of romanticists ranging from the Freuds (mostly Anna) to Goethe (particularly, ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'').
In the 1970's, I wrote regularly about child-development issues for this newspaper, and I accepted the idea that any teen-ager was necessarily a little mad. To a large extent this notion was promoted by the psychoanalytic literature, but it was embraced by many of us as a handy way to explain hard times with our teen-agers. We could say that noxious behavior such as naked aggression was normal, and so we didn't have to worry. We reassured ourselves constantly, usually with a knowing laugh about the craziness of teen-agers. But I did not believe it completely. Why should only this age group carry the label of madness? Coming back to the question now, I am struck by how different the mood among many psychologists and psychiatrists is. By and large, they are more determined to draw an empirical and detailed picture of the varied and complex adolescent experience.
Some researchers have surveyed thousands of teen-agers to learn what they believe about themselves and their families. Others have given youngsters beepers to carry around, so that when they are signaled they will report their moods at that moment. And still others have worked with families, asking parents, teen-agers and their siblings to take batteries of tests.
AMONG THE most influential of this cadre of researchers is Dr. Daniel Offer of the University of Chicago, a psychiatrist who believes that the widespread idea that the teen years are unavoidably insane has mischaracterized the lives of millions of people. Moreover, he contends that the emphasis on turmoil has created the expectation of Sturm and Drang for every teen-ager, thereby masking the serious emotional difficulties of a significant minority of adolescents who need professional help. Dr. Offer was moved to declare a ''Defense of Adolescents'' in The Journal of the American Medical Association, and he made a presentation along the same lines to the convention of the American Psychiatric Association last May.
Dr. Offer's team was among the earliest to plumb the day-to-day feelings of large numbers of teen-agers. Their first explorations, in the 1960's, began to reveal that, incredible as it might have seemed, most teen-agers were happy most of the time. After years of confirmatory work, he confidently told the psychiatrists' convention that ''the vast majority of adolescents are well-adjusted, get along well with their peers and their parents, adjust well to the mores and values of their social environment and cope well with their internal and external worlds.'' Dr. Offer recalled in a recent interview that this message disturbed some of his colleagues, because they didn't believe that teen-agers' responses to questions could be trusted.
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Current MobyGoal: On our way to 3,500 documented Amiga games!
Alien Logic (DOS)
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Alien Logic Credits
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Graphics / ArtworkGeorge Barr, Gene Hirsh, Sharon Stambaugh, Miles Teves
MusicEric Berge, Jonathan Stone
SoundJonathan Stone
ProducerDaniel Cermak, David Kalish
Engine DesignAndrew Leker
Engine ScriptingJonathan Stone
DesignAndrew Leker, Jeff Moser, Kevin Stein, Jonathan Stone
Original Creature ArtworkMiles Teves
Cover ArtMiles Teves
ColorizationSteve Fisher, Amy Leker Kalish
Rule BookAndrew Leker, Jeff Moser, Kevin Stein
DialogueAndrew Leker, Jeff Moser
Sound DriversFred Ford
Multimedia IntroductionJoe Coleman
Associate ProducersWilliam G. Dunn, André Vrignaud
Story Editing and DocumentationAndré Vrignaud
Documentation ManagerEileen Matsumi
DocumentationAl Brown, Jonathan Kromrey, Mark Whisler
Test SupervisorGlen A. Cureton
Product TestersRichard Donnelly, Cyrus G. Harris, Michael Higgins, Sean O'Brien, Steven Okano
Bug System SupportAnnette Grove, Rose Ramos
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Special Thanks ToFred Ford, Amy Leker Kalish, Paul Reiche III, Mark Wallace
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Welcome to the United Nations. It's your world.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Readout of Secretary-General's meetings at Mozambique's National Assembly
Maputo, Mozambique, 20 May 2013
The Secretary-General met today with the President of the National Assembly of Mozambique, Veronica Nataniel Macamo Dhlovo. He congratulated her as the first woman to hold the post. He also said he was encouraged by the number of women in parliament.
The Secretary-General and Ms. Macamo discussed some of the main challenges Mozambique faces and exchanged views on how best the United Nations can support in addressing them.
The Vice-Presidents, Chairs of key parliamentary commissions and parliamentary opposition leaders also attended the meeting.
The Secretary-General commended the efforts of the National Assembly to promote social cohesion and political dialogue, which have helped to strengthen peace in Mozambique.
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HOME > Chowhound > San Diego >
Need recommendations for family-friendly but good steakhouse for special birthday
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Hi Chowhounds - my family and I relocated to SD almost four years ago from NYC. My husband is going to turn 40 in a few months and I wanted to take him out for that special occasion, but I know he will want to go with our young children (1 and 4). So this is what the criteria is:
1. Good steaks
2. Please have creamed spinach as a side dish option
3. Good place for kids, i.e. kids' menu and high chairs - we went to Donovan's once and while they were very nice, it was obviously not good for kids.
4. Can accommodate a good-sized group (possibly 8 adults, 7 kids)
We don't get out much, so your feedback is hugely appreciated.
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1. I'm going to say reserve the "back room" of Cowboy Star, but I would call ahead about the creamed spinach. Since you'd have to reserve the back room I'm pretty sure they can make some creamed spinach for you
1. Pretty tall order due to the kids. I'll second Cowboy Star, whose steaks are NYC diner-worthy. They do have a back room that should work, but 7 kids wouldn't work in the main dining room.
If you are nearer North County than Downtown, you might consider Red Tracton's across from the racetrack. They are old school, a bit retro, and have some dining areas that are set apart from the main restuarant and would be semi-private and ok for kids.
Creamed spinach would have to be a special request at both places and may or may not be accomodated. They have creamed spinach at the Palm and Morton's; but you're probably not posting here to get rec's to chain joints like those.
1. You might want to give Eddie V's in La Jolla a call. They have several spaces that can closed off. When I ate there, there was a couple of large groups celebrating birthdays and one group had several children. They have spinach but it was sauteed with parm cheese but wasn't creamed.
1. Ruth's Chris. Filet mignon,
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Wes Palmer
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Why Watch? A young man convinced that his house is haunted approaches a businessman with a bizarre set of associates who claim they can get rid of any spirits that might be hanging around (and ruining his property value). This short from Wes Palmer and Zach Bokhour gets a lot of mileage from its dialogue and the delivery, particularly from the dynamic crafted by the lead actors, Evan Sibley and Andrew Krupa. One is masking his desperation with a stinky cologne of pride, the other is all but bored with the situation even when he has everything to gain. The camera work is also slick for an indie operation, and it blends with the score nicely to create a ghost story atmosphere where the unease stems from everywhere except the supernatural. There are some cobwebs that most likely come from a limited budget (McDonald’s for dinner?), but overall, it’s a very cool, highly effective ten minutes of tension. What will it cost? Around 10 minutes. Skip Work. Watch More Short Films.
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I lost that very viewfinder off my Bessa-L into the Rhein (I think it was when a passing bicyclist bumped me), so I can confirm that the concern is realistic! The tape seems like an easy and robust solution, and I'll put it into action next time I use the 21mm.
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Can you get fuller lips from a tube?
Lip Plumpers: Do They Work?
Treatment Plumpers continued...
"These won't give you an Angelina Jolie mouth," Farris says. "You have to be born with that. But they might have some therapeutic benefits."
At the very least, she says, many of the lip-conditioning plumpers contain ingredients that help lips retain moisture.
"That hydration alone can improve lines and wrinkles and may give you a bit more fullness," Farris says.
They may also contain hyaluronic acids, which increase lip volume by pulling moisture from the environment or trapping water that would otherwise evaporate from the skin.
The Scrubbing Effect
Makeup artists sometimes prep lips for lipstick by rubbing a wet, nubby washcloth across the mouth.
Lip exfoliators are a convenient update on this old trick. Sold by themselves or with either cosmetic or therapeutic lip plumpers, these exfoliators use gentle ingredients like sugar or poppy seeds or mild acid exfoliants to buff away dry skin. That gentle scrubbing amplifies the natural color of lips and provides a smooth, crease-free surface so that the application of a plumping lip gloss creates an even more heightened illusion of voluptuous lips.
The bottom line, says Farris, is lip plumpers may slightly enhance your lips.
"Women need to be realistic in what they can expect from these products," Friedman says. In other words, these products won't enlarge your lips the way a $400 injection of a filler will.
Farris suggests choosing a plumper with SPF since your lips also need sun protection.
"Our lips are always exposed to the environment," she says, "but we generally don't think about protecting them."
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
I Was Recently Reading About It
Why? When? Where? How?
Congratulations..!! We passed the college and,
Congratulations..!! We are the earning crowd now.
These days the word we hear a lot, yes of course apart from "work" is "Investment". We have already bought most of the reasonable things, and also few of those unreasonable things we wanted. These days almost everyone has at least 25% of their salary left in the bank account at the month end. Its great if you have more then 25%, not so great if you have it much much more. Maybe then you don't understand the point of earning money. But still no issues. Its your money.
Lets comeback to the actual topic: Investment. We are particularly naive to this field. Too much influenced by the western culture. No responsibilities, lot of money, and far too many ways to spend it and have fun. In the following paragraphs i'll discus about all the new things you can do with your money, as in Investment.
Investment is not always putting your money in share market. It is a general term, its any thing where you put your money. No keeping it in safe is not an investment.
Why do we need investment?
Believe me, if you start counting there is a hell lot of reasons. I have listed few of them:
1. Too much money: Yes, for people who earn far too much, thus save far too much. Lets just say, save far too much.
2. Higher Studies: Yes, this is my reason, one and only reason and far too expensive one.
3. Retirement Funds: But why? We just joined, retirement is too far away.
1. Because time flies and retirement is always too far away till the time you have 5 years more to go.
2. Because eventually you will have too many responsibilities to fulfill then to save for retirement funds.
3. Because you don't realize the power of compounding.
4. Emergency Fund: I know most of the companies provides Medical insurance, Life insurance, accidental insurance for their employees. Its nice because it covers most of the emergencies when we need money on shorter notice. Its great if yours is one of them. If not, go ahead, get one of those insurances ( no, I am not taking about a new company ) for yourself. Its always a good idea to set aside a fund to cover up unexpected expenses. Reasons include:
1. Because the rates of interest in personal loans are too high.
2. Because who knows maybe you'll have to travel abroad.
3. Because you job is not as secure as you think.
5. A house: Yes most of the people, including me wants to buy a house eventually.
6. Vacations/ Luxuries/ Car: These are the short term investment goals, but then again requires an adequate amount of money.
7. More options/ Choices: Maybe you'll decide to open a new start up.
Maybe all the reasons above wont apply to you but then too it would have helped to understand about the essence of money.
Why? When? Where? How?
I am glad you have decided to read further.
The best answer to when to invest is. ASAP. Yes, as soon as possible. Money flies. Its common tendency to spend more when you have more money in your bank account. Few days earlier I noticed that the amount of money I am spending on Coffee these days is lot more then the amount I used to spend on food back in college. After all its your money. The more you sooner you start saving, the more easy it will be to save when you have lots of responsibilities.
Why? When? Where? How?
The point of investment is getting the maximum return from the amount of money with the involvement of minimum risk.
Now here comes the interesting part. Once decided that we want to invest, also figured out that we want to start investing right from our January pay cheque. Where to put the money is the biggest decision.
In my opinion there is no single correct answer. It depends on your requirements. In today's world there are a lot of options for us to put our money in. I wont go into the technicalities as it would be a what we say an over head transfer for most. I'll go through the basic details of the products and how the kind of investment product vary with our requirements and how long we want the money to be invested.
We need our money back in generally three time frames.
1. Short term : That is upto 3 years,
2. Mid term : Upto 5 years,
3. Long term : More then 5 years.
There are basically two thumb rules:
1. High risk, High gain : This is pretty obvious. You'll have to choose your portfolio ( the investment products you want to put your money in ).
2. Diversification : As its commonly said, never put all you eggs in one basket. Its never a good idea to risk all your money on one.
Depending on when do we need that money, how much risk you are willing to take, money can be invested in different kind of investment products. We can take more risk when we are younger then when we are older. As you grow up move towards a non riskier portfolio.
Young age --> More risk taking capabilities --> More equity funds.
Older --> Decrease risk taking capabilities --> Debts/ Bonds.
The case with long and short term investment is opposite. When we invest for short term, the amount of return on a particular sum of money is not significant and the main motive towards investment is to save the sum from getting spent. Also when invested for short term, the return on a higher risk portfolio is not much different from the low risk portfolio so its always good to take the minimum risk way. Fixed deposits, bonds are some of the low risk investment products. No saving account doesn't count. It gives 4%, even inflation is higher.
The scenario is different when we go for long term investment. We can very well have a some equities in our portfolios, these equities may not perform good in the short run, due to market correction, inflation and a lot of other reasons but in a longer run, an average portfolio consisting of equities gives around 15% p.a of return that is much higher then what debt securities, that is FDs and bonds, will offer.
Why? When? Where? How?
Congratulations..!! of course to me, I have convinced you to at least give a thought about investment and saving, and to you, this is the decision you are never going to regret.
How part is no such big of a deal if you have figured out the above three points. Its more or less a decision similar to of paying by cash or card, you have already decided the product, you have negotiated the cost and just payment is remaining.
There are a number of ways to invest. I have listed few of them and again I wont go into the technicalities:
1. Fixed Deposits/ Recurring Deposits/ PPFs : More or less this is similar to US treasury funds. Lowest risk, and lowest returns.
2. Metals/ ETFs: This is about investment in Gold, Silver and other precious metals and commodities. There are two ways of investing in these:
1. Physical form: Where you purchase them in physical form, as in gold/silver coins etc.
2. ETFs: Electronically Traded Funds where the above commodities are sold in paper form. The good thing about this form is that it is liquid money, we don't have to bother about their safety and can be easily converted into liquid money.
3. Real Estate : Buy land. They are not making more of it. By far this guarantee the best return but then this is not liquid money ( the money you can convert in cash in a short time ) and also getting into Real Estate requires a lot of initial investment, down payment and lots of paper work hassle.
4. Mutual Funds : Investing in Mutual Funds is similar to investing in multiple equities ( shares ) or say multiple investment product at the same time + hiring an investment manager who will do research and invest your money. Is this the best way?
1. Yes, if you don't want to learn finance and want to give all your saving in a person hands who says he know how to invest, and also when you want to give a part of your return as a fees.
2. No, for all other reasons.
5. SIP ( Systematic Investment Plan ) : This is just a way to invest in Mutual Fund, but a very popular one. It is investing a fixed amount every month on a particular date.
1. Pros: Since it is regular investment over a period of time it averages out the market movement and corrections. When the market is low we can get more units of the same product because the product will cost less at low times. Better return then debt funds.
2. Cons: Again the above, you cant decide when to invest, you don't exactly know where your money is invested.
6. Direct Investment: This is the way to directly expose your money to the investment products without any middleman involved.
1. Pros: Returns are completely yours. Research is yours. You completely know where your money is.
2. Cons: The losses are also yours. I have never mentioned in the above statements that all these information will give you a control on your losses.
I wont suggest anyone to go for this method unless and until they are ready to spend some time to learn the fundamental rules of finance, but believe me, no one is as smart as you are, there are a number of ways of analyzing the stock market. Value investment ( Warren Buffet's ), Fundamental analysis, Technical Analysis are few of the popular ones.
I would also like to add few more points:
1. Out of the twelve months saving, put one month's saving into different kind of insurance plan. Its necessary.
2. Always remember to reinvest the interest and dividends, this will enable you to enjoy the power of compounding in few years.
3. Take account of the inflation.
4. Divide your investment on monthly/ quarterly basis.
Happy Investing.
PS: Spending is equally important, One reason to save money is to enjoy it. Life as a miser today and as as a king tomorrow doesn't work. Tomorrow never comes. I read somewhere that if you don't spend 20% of your earning on the things you want, you don't understand the point of earning at the first place.
1. Hi Aman,
Thank you for a very informative post. Can you suggest me a few sources from where I can understand the basics of investment and tax-saving better? I have just graduated from college and want to improve my understanding of the subject.
1. Hi,
I am extremely sorry that it took me so long to reply.
If you want to learn finance inside out I would recommend reading "Options, Futures and other Derivatives" by JC Hull but I don't think you will be that much interested in it.
What you are interested in is, smart investment. A way to help your money grow. For the course of this answer i'll assume you are from India.
I will not repeat what I said in the post above as to decide what kind of investor you are ( Short term/ Long term ) and the risk taking potential. That depends on individual basic and you can figure out on your own.
For learning about the current investment scenarios in India there are a couple of websites I refer to one of them being
This will more or less help you identify which places to put your money in, once you are through with the decision making process.
Quora is a big source of this knowledge too.
Another website I will suggest you is this is a website that will not only teach you how to save money but also how to spend your hard earned money in ways that will make you satisfied and happy.
Thanks a lot,
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3. I have just started my job. Whatever i read in the articles, i found for saving and investment, i can go for PPF and term plan and some medical insurance and also i can invest in shares. Is this a good idea?
My father is telling me to have a endowment plan where i need to pay 30k half-yearly. I found on internet, its not a good choice. But, he is concerned about return, which is pretty good. How can i convince in normal terms (not economic terms) that its not good idea.
4. Hi Vivek,
Its great that you are thinking about investment right from the start of your career, you'll soon realize the power of compounding.
You have mentioned very diverse fields of investments above and its awesome that you have done your homework in researching about them. A normal investor's portfolio is a mixture of the above all.
See, investment is all about saving your money for future so as I mentioned the most important aspect is when do you need this money back. So if you need the money after a short period of time go for Fixed Deposits/Bonds as there is no risk involved, but when you're planning for long term you can take risks and invest some money in shares and derivatives ( these are a whole lot of other things like options, futures etc derived from a particular share ).
Term plan and Medical Insurance plan are Insurance, I am glad you thought about it. Its very important to get insured. Medical insurance you should get as early as possible but cross check with your company as most of the companies do offer sufficient medical cover.
For term plan, what I suggest people is to wait till they get married but it depends. The whole point of insurance is that if something happens to you, someone who is dependent on you, can survive. What I feel that in most of the cases, there is no such dependency on us till we get married or have kids. Another thing is that most of the good term plans available in the market are for a period of 25 to 30 years so if you take a term plan right away it will finish off when you're around 50 year old. Plan that finish date around the time when you think you're done with your responsibilities or when you think you would have saved enough that your family can survive.
As far as endowment plan is concerned, I don't have much idea about them but you can convince your father saying that you are planning for a real long term or maybe you can invest 10 thousand a month for an year or two or let the return on investment decide.
Thanks a lot,
Aman Raj
5. Thanks for your valuable siggestions :)
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DEADPOOL Test Footage Leaks Online
DEADPOOL Test Footage Leaks Online
Comic-Con may be over, but that isn’t going to stop the comic book movie news train from rolling in, and today we have a crazy one for you. Literally, this guy’s freakin’ nuts. Last night, the internet got a brief glimpse at something magical as someone leaked onto the world the test footage that was created for Fox’s long-gestating Deadpool film. How do we know it was legitimate? Twenty minutes after it was posted, it was gone thanks to a copyright claim from the studio itself.
The mostly CGI sequence features Deadpool in full costume with Ryan Reynolds doing his voice. It opens with the Merc with a Mouth sitting atop a freeway while listening to some music and smashes the fourth wall to smithereens to address us directly. When he notices an SUV of bad guys, he hops down through the sunroof and begins taking them out in his very Deadpool way. The fight within the SUV is filled with an even mix of action and humor, such as our hero commenting on the van’s rich Corinthian leather and getting repeatedly hit in the head like a cartoon character.
Eventually, the out-of-control SUV catches the attention of a man on a motorcycle in front of it that turns and begins opening fire on the tumbling vehicle. Suddenly, the sequence goes into ultra slo-mo as Deadpool sees the man, holds up a piece of paper that can’t be made out in the video and, in one swift motion, relieves the motorcyclist from his head.
Once the van finishes rolling, Deadpool opens the window, does a quick gag with the severed head (still in its motorcycle helmet) and the title card pops up. It’s as great as it sounds as we have a feeling this leak’s going to spark a highly refreshed interest by audiences in the film. With any luck, it could be the thing that pushes Fox over the edge to finally make the damn thing.
Update: Footage got pulled, so I hope you caught it while you could!
Update 2: Blur Studios uploaded a HD version of the test footage to their official website.
Update 3: For unknown reasons (but most likely at the request of Fox), the HD version has been removed.
Did you get a chance to see the Deadpool test footage? Let us know in the comments below!
1. X-MAN 2281 says:
First of all, I want to thank those that provided watchable links. Secondly, that was HI-FUCKING-LARIOUS AND BADASS. They nailed Deadpool’s smartass, bizarre, funny humor perfectly. And they even included the fourth wall-breaking ! ……..A couple of people said this could be a video game. Well, no, because Deadpool already had a video game released in 2013. (which I recommend. Cable, Wolverine, Domino, Rogue, and Psylocke even appeared in it !) ……..Others have said this could make up for the shitty depiction of Wade in “X-Men Origins : Wolverine”. I agree. Even Hugh Jackman said that they could have done a better job with Deadpool ! ………. I also agree with others in making it R-rated. PG-13 does NOT fit Deadpool at all. Hopefully, when this does get made, Fox will get people involved who are actual fans of the character and the comics, not people who are just in it for the payday and insist on making idiotic changes and ruining everything. Just, for fuck sake, keep it the hell away from Bryan Singer. I could make a 50-100 page essay on everything he has screwed up with the X-Films.
2. Gary Williams says:
I laughed. I cried. I wet myself.
3. George says:
Join the FB group called we want a Deadpool movie. Let the suits at Fox know what’s up.
4. If I was able to make a Deadpool movie the MPAA would give it an NC-17 rating lol.
5. saw it loved it can’t wait for it .
6. fireforge74 says:
It was part-near perfect! This needs to happen ASAP!
7. Ryan says:
it awesomely Deadpool and needs to be done…. Deadpool in movie form needs to be saved.
8. Brianna says:
I saw it and loved it.I would totally forgive Fox for the mess they made of Origin’s Deadpool…….well ok I wouldnt but I might forget about it for a moment while watching this movie.Ryan is perfect for this part.In every movie he has been in he has had a smartass mouth and a personality that fits Deadpool perfectly.Fox make this movie and make it right.Otherwise……..
9. wolfmoonsshadow says:
Deadpool movie is a an awesome idea. But Nolan North has to be the voice. Hasn’t Ryan Reynolds screwed deadpool over enough?
• Shane says:
No because he was perfect as Wade Wilson. It’s not like he wrote and directed the movie dude.
10. jurjen74 says:
This one works fine
11. Ryan Fisher says:
FOX TAKE MY MONEY!!! I saw the whole thing and it was freakin amazing!!! Had a total fanboy moment!!
12. It looks like it could be all cg so it could be a video game but either way massive boner. Love Ryan Reynolds. Origins and Green Lantern sucked for other reason. He is the perfect Deadpool. Wolverine just fucked every thing up.
13. S says:
OMG. This is freakin’ amazeballs! I’ll pay so much money to see this.
14. Erik Elle says:
Saw it, loved it, fox is retarded if they keep sitting on this. A full length Deadpool movie just might help us forgive the atrocity that was x-men origins.
15. j says:
This is going to be the first (good) R-rated Marvel movie.
16. JimmyDoo says:
That footage was amazing! I could forgive Green Lantern if they would release a Ryan Reynolds Deadpool movie…
17. Anthony says:
Caught it, loved it, shut up and take my money.
18. Tom says:
maybe when guardians kills it this week, and they see that a kick ass superhero movie with a sense of humor can do well it’ll get them making this. But it must be R rated.
19. Anonymous says:
It’s still up
20. losingmyself says:
It physically hurts me that this movie doesn’t exist…yet there are 3 Riddick movies in existence.
21. autifon says:
Soooo.. if you missed it, that’s a shame, but maybe you can check out this instead: *wink wink, nudge nudge*
22. Andy Daniel says:
Ugh! I missed it!
23. Loved it! The tone was perfect. I’ve been dying for an R rated Deadpool movie for years. Hopefully this will light a fire under someone’s ass at FOX.
24. Loved it! The tone was perfect. I’ve been dying for an R rated Deadpool movie for years. Hopefully this will light a fight under someone’s ass at FOX.
25. Jm5150 says:
Looks like video game footage, not movie footage
26. Steven says:
This was amazing Fox get your shit together and make this already of give it to someone who will
27. Saeed says:
I wouldn’t consider myself a huge Deadpool fan, but that movie would look fun as all hell!
28. Shayde says:
A hoot and a half… and probably the best thing Reynolds will ever be in. Bonus.. He’s MASKED!
29. ryan says:
Broooo, Deadpool isn’t a mutant.
30. Saralyn says:
That was bad ass!
31. This footage was FANTASTIC! Blur Studio and Fox should have made it. They still should! It makes no sense what so ever that this movie isn’t in production.
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At his recent press conference, President Obama, in response to a question, said “You know, as you know, Mark, we can’t attribute any particular weather event to climate change. What we do know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even ten years ago.” That is a flat out lie. The temperature of the Earth has been cooling for at least sixteen years.
The devastation that Hurricane Sandy wrought defies the imagination, particularly for those on the East Coast where so much destruction was inflicted. It mirrored 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and it is only natural for people to believe there has been an increase in hurricanes striking the U.S. homeland, but there hasn’t.
Despite 2009’s “Climategate” that revealed that global warming is a hoax, many still believe it exists. In a letter to Fred Upton, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on November 11th, meteorologists and climatologists joined to warn that “Global warming that has not actually occurred can scarcely have contributed much to vast destruction wrought by Sandy.”
Dr. Bill Gray, the nation’s expert on hurricanes, was joined by Dr. Willie Soon, Prof. Fred Singer, and Lord Christopher Monckton, a science advisor to Britain’s former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to say that “Hurricane Sandy was a freak storm, not the type of extreme weather event that climate scientists have said will become more frequent and more severe if we fail to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.”
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In all the decades back to 1961, the 100-year average remained intact with major hurricanes ranging from as few per decade as four and as many as seven. Not a single decade varied from this.
In the decades since the 1980s when alarmists began warning of a major increase in the overall temperature of the Earth, claiming it would trigger major weather events like hurricanes, nothing changed. In the decades in which carbon dioxide emissions were said to be the cause, the average remained the same.
Taylor examined the preceding 50 years before “the alleged human-induced global warming crisis.” He spelled out the data from 1951 to 1920 that reveals that the 100-year average was unchanged.
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In the first two years of this current decade “exactly zero major hurricanes struck the United States.”
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Simpler Days by Geckofly Simpler Days by Geckofly
It took me all day to just let the fact that Discord got turned to stone sink in. So I drew some young Trollshipping to make me stop crying over the lost of a great villain...that is unless they'll bring him back as a villain in future episode and I'm still holding onto that hope even though its super unlikely, about as unlikely as Hasbro making a Discord toy.
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Artgirl513 Featured By Owner Jul 3, 2012
Well John said that he had just finished voicing a character at a comic con Q&A so maybe Discord will come back in season 3, I hope!
bloodsuckingmonster3 Featured By Owner Jan 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist
I read fanfics to keep his memory alive, that and watch his ep a billion times, still makes me whimper at the end, every single time... :iconcryforeverplz:
lonelynightrain Featured By Owner Sep 28, 2011 Hobbyist Writer
Awww what a lovely moment between Celestia and Discord as children!
I love the fct that you added some sparkles, and some rings in the background. It really does set the fact that Tai and Discord were really once close friends!
I hope that you have a great and blessed day!
May the Lord keep you and your family safe!
DeepC Featured By Owner Sep 28, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist
Alas, poor villain.
While he was incredibly nasty towards the Mane Six, I can certainly say that he is certainly worth pitying for. I could almost cry for him, especially with a face of absolute terror while he was being turned back to stone.
Though I also find it despicable when people portray Princess Celestia as a tyrant.
Cryssy-miu Featured By Owner Sep 26, 2011
This is precious. I have a Discord and Celestia (and baby Luna) piece in my gallery, but there's something about this - maybe it's the colors - that makes it so much sweeter than mine. I too believe they were once friends before...well, he lived up to his name.
I was heartbroken and in shock when he went back into stone. He did NOT deserve that. It was beyond unfair and such a cruel punishment for just a bit of playfulness. Okay...sure, he loved making the mane six loathe each other, but he IS the spirit of chaos and disharmony. He could have been worse. I never saw him try to physically harm ANYPONY.
Just...make their houses float and turn the road to soap and silly wacky things. But I don't see him as evil; he's mean and mischievous and takes pranks far, but he ain't evil.
And I miss him. : (
SilverLiqueur Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
I really, really had my hopes set that Discord would be allowed to hang around for the rest of the season. I definitely wasn't prepared for the look of sheer horror on his face when he turned back into stone...that was downright heartbreaking.
cruelfeline Featured By Owner Sep 24, 2011
Man, I am with you there. I'm still not over the fact that they sentenced him to full body paralysis for the rest of eternal life as far as we know. Far too harsh, IMHO.
Currently depending on what I hope will be amazing fandom work to get me through the rest of my life :D.
Geckofly Featured By Owner Sep 24, 2011 Student Digital Artist
I'm not sure, but I think I was the only person who literally cried like a baby when Discord was turn to stone again....and yeah full body paralysis is a pretty harsh punishment for turning dirt road to soap, flipping house upside down and messing with reality a bit.
cruelfeline Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
My friend, you were not the only person. I was right there with you; I can't remember the last time I felt so hollow.
I understand that what the ponies did, they did out of self-preservation. Ponies cannot live in such a state of chaos; they're simply not the sort of creature that can manage that.
But demonizing him for what he did... I never viewed him as a classically "evil" character. He was the personification of chaos, essentially a force of nature. Calling him "evil" is like calling the embodiment of a hurricane "evil." Is it destructive and difficult to live with? Yes. But that is simply its nature and not some sort of active desire to do malice.
Was he malicious towards the ponies? Yes, but they were also trying to seal him. Heck, their kind had sealed him in essentially his own head for thousands of years. If I were him, I'd want serious revenge, and the fact that he didn't just maim everything he saw sort of says something, I think. In the end, he was just content with entertaining himself, which I think paints his true nature as less evil and really more chaotic neutral than anything else. He didn't go out to find and destroy Celestia; he didn't kill anypony. He just sort of... let his nature take its course.
And his complete lack of consideration for anypony but himself? Who's to say that doesn't just stem from lack of companionship? If he never had a friend or companion (and I think it's fairly safe to say he did not), then he probably doesn't even understand the concept beyond what's needed to be able to mock it. And why would he? He's the spirit of chaos, not of getting-along.
I was hoping that they'd do something along the lines of giving him his own realm where he could do as he pleased. Really, the only reason the ponies hated it so much was because they had to live in it 24/7. If he had a place to entertain himself away from ponies, I'd say it's a fair bet they'd be okay with it, maybe even want to visit. Pinkie Pie would certainly go over from time to time just for the chocolate rain.
So don't worry; you weren't the only one disappointed. I was pretty much horrified that they sentenced him to such a fate for what we can infer is eternity for just... being what he was.
Specter-Von-Baren Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
While I always try to see the good in people, I think you're being too much of an apologist for this. Look at how much Discord was delighted in tearing apart the friendship of our main characters. Just because a person doesn't kill people doesn't mean they aren't causing harm to others for their own pleasure. At the root of it, most evil can be boiled down to selfishness. Take when Pinkie was laughing at the funny things Discord was doing or how she loved the chocolate rain, Discord could have attempted to simply convince her that his kind of world is the best world, and if he wanted kindness then he wouldn't have been so angry with how Fluttershy acted. When we saw him near the end he was sitting on a throne alone, he was only interested in the amusement that the chaos was bringing him. Discord only saw everything as a toy for himself to play with, objects with no worth outside of the entertainment they gave him. He isn't the kind of person that even accepts friendship as something real.
I'm not saying it would be impossible to redeem him but I don't think as he is now or then that he was someone that just needed a friend in order to be good. If Discord were to be redeemed then it would first require an effort on his part, he would have to see other people as having worth outside of what they can do for him. And since even Celestia and Luna are no match for him, there is no equal that could, by the fact that he couldn't use them like a toy, force him to reevaluate himself and how he treats others.
In fanon I'm all for coming up with interesting experiences and reasons for why he is the way he is but canonically, he isn't that kind of person.
cruelfeline Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
I'm not sure I would take how he treated the Mane 6 as a standard for his general demeanor towards everything else. Remember that the only context he saw them in was as agents of Celestia sent specifically to destroy/imprison/punish him. I thought it only natural for him to act particularly nasty towards them: from a survival standpoint, they were essentially coming for his life. Their friendship was the weapon they were going to use against him, or at least the major source of power for the actual physical weapons they were going to use. Destroying the friendship of the Mane 6 was the equivalent of ensuring his own life was saved (hence why he was so confident he was safe from the EoH when he thought they weren't friends anymore). Finding glee in that sort of thing is not something I would be particularly surprised at. Finding joy in causing pain in your enemies, particularly enemies who are going to entrap you, fully conscious, in rock, is not necessarily something I would use as a hallmark of evil and cruelty.
A better judge of redeemability, in my opinion, would be precisely what amuses him. Is it the actual suffering of ponies, or is it simply everything being random and chaotic? If it is the former, then redeemability takes a sharp nosedive, and I would be fine with categorizing him as a classically evil, unsympathetic villain with no hope for any other way of being. If, however, the source of enjoyment is the chaos, and the misery and suffering is a side effect that he simply does not care about... well, then I feel like I have to ask why that is. Is it because he legitimately does not think ponies are worth anything? Does he not like them? Did they wrong him in some way? I have no idea, and save maybe for Lauren Faust and the rest of the crew, no one really does. It's one of the reasons I'm sad to see him go: no further backstory given. Boo :P
If he doesn't care because he just doesn't deem ponies worthy of anything... well, he's an almost completely omnipotent creature who can reality warp better than that universe's sun goddess. Him thinking ponies weren't particularly important would be the rough equivalent of us thinking that mice aren't particularly important. And, well.. most people don't think they're all that magnificent. Does that make them evil? To mice, maybe. But I guess that's neither here nor there. My point is, if he never had any reason to think well of ponies, why should he? For all we know, he never had any reason to associate ponies with any sort of positive feeling, and so he saw nothing wrong with throwing them to the wayside when it came for his own amusement. As far as that being morally abhorrent: the natural order of things tends towards strong creatures gaining victory over weaker creatures. Anything beyond that is always connected to some sort of gain. Social living allows for protection and collaboration. Friendship is only “useful” because of the good feelings it gives someone. If it didn't, I doubt we'd bother with it at all, because there would be no positive reinforcement from it. Why doesn't he see that? Again, I have no idea. We have no backstory. One can assume that it is because he's some sort of entity of pure evil, or one could assume it's because he was bullied as a half... cub... foal... thing. Or maybe because he didn't get to go to Disney World or something :D. The point is, we have no idea if he could be made friendly or not, because the episodes ended too quickly and didn't explore that direction.
The only reasons I think it might be possible is that, beyond suffering caused by chaos, he didn't go around purposefully forcing pain on anyone. He wasn't sadistic with anyone, as far as we know, except the Mane 6. Yes, we may have just not seen it, but most of what we did see was... just nonsensical stuff happening with ponies being miserable because nonsense isn't compatible with their way of life. If he went around and inflicted everypony's worst nightmare on them... well, that would be different. Heck, I don't think he even really went after Celestia, which I thought he'd do right after defeating the Mane 6.
So I guess what my point is in this wall 'o text is that we don't really have enough information to make a completely sure judgment either way. I judge my way because... well, because that's just how I take things. And because the idea of a permanent And I Must Scream trope freaks me out :P. But that's just me, and I'm sure fandom will come up with a thousand more interpretations!
Specter-Von-Baren Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
Except he never had to destroy their friendship, he never even had to deal with them to begin with. He HAD the Elements of Harmony. If he had just kept the five necklaces and tiara in some far off place or perhaps put them in some sort of paradoxical dimension, then he would never have to worry about anything. But instead gave them a riddle and when they clearly went off track he didn't just let them go about it hopelessly, he directly interfered with them and turned them against each other. And even if your enemy is going to do something bad to you, how you react to that is indicative of your own character. Discord saw that they were people that cared about each other and by that token had empathy for other people but he didn't say anything about how what they were going to do was wrong and horrible.
I don't think Discord is a hardcore evil villain. But the thing to remember is that just because a villain's villainy doesn't stem from something obvious like hate and is instead more akin to not caring, doesn't mean it's any less bad. I remember something that broadened my view on this, a book called 'Out of the Silent Planet'. I won't go into great detail but the revelation came when someone described the character of the two villains, one of them I had seen as more of an evil person as he was willing to kill the lives of alien beings and the destruction of other planet's ecosystems if it meant humanity would expand. He had acted rather cruel before in the story. Meanwhile the other villain had been much more calm minded but his main goal was to increase his wealth. The person describing them referred to the former as a "bent man" while he called the later a "broken" man. The former was bent because he was cruel but the source of his goals could still be routed in some more "noble" purpose, the later was broken because he was a man that simply didn't care about anything but himself. I'm butchering this though, you should really just read the book.
But what I'm getting at, is that casual cruelty can be just as evil, or in some cases, more evil than active cruelty, I'd love to bring in my favorite example for this but it could make this conversation (Which I'm having a lot of fun having with you by the way) a bit too serious as it deals with some very big names. Discord doesn't go looking to be completely cruel to people but at the same, if he causes it or finds that he can do it, then he will find joy in it nonetheless.
Again, I don't see Discord as an un-redeemable villain, nor do I think he's all that evil but I do believe he himself knows that the things he does are wrong and can cause others pain. Like I said before, the problem for redeeming him is that he's simply too powerful for anyone to do anything about other than use the Elements of Harmony which have a mind of their own when it comes to what they do to their target.
I agree that we have no idea what his whole backstory is, which makes excellent fodder for fiction, comics, and art but I try to take a middle ground on these kinds of things and simply say that I don't know, and try my best to bring up the points for and against things but never get stuck in being on one side of the issue but always pointing to what facts we do have.
And indeed. The fact that he didn't go after Celestia and Luna is something that lends credit to him not being a true hardcore evil person (Then again, for all we know he already did and he turned Celestia pink and Luna invisible).
I'd like to ask you if I could publish our conversation here onto DA. I'd love to see if it could generate responses so we could get more opinions in here and get more analyses on this because I'm a sucker for talking in depth about things that most people just shrug at.
cruelfeline Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
Oh, please publish away! I love to see fandom responses to these sorts of things.
Wait, C.S. Lewis wrote science fiction? Dang, now I have another book I need to read...
I don't disagree that Discord performed actions that could be deemed evil by the pony populace; obviously, he did, and that was why the entire conflict existed. My main issues with the conclusion presented in the episode are:
1. "Chaos" is synonymous with "evil" and thus must be entirely contained. In my view, chaos and order, discord and harmony, are natural dichotomies that exist within the world in a state of constant, shifting balance. Neither can exist without the other (for if we didn't have chaos, how would we differentiate order from it; what would it even mean to have order, if one could not have chaos?), and both need to be balanced for life as we know it to flourish. If we have too much chaos we get... well, what we got for most of the ep (though I maintain that exploding chocolate milk was fantastic). If we have too much order? Boredom, stagnation, dullness. What is life without some surprises, some unplanned experiences? I can say the same for harmony and disharmony. Obviously pure disharmony is also not life-compatible, but what would pure harmony give us? Constant happiness, constant contentment, no conflict whatsoever: what would be the point of doing anything? Much of the actions people and ponies perform are done to gain happiness and contentment, or to diminish pain and unhappiness. If one was constantly just content, what would that mean? What would be the point? You could just sit there and not do anything and be happy about it, and that would be your life, because you would have absolutely no motive to search out anything different. Heck, what Discord did to the Mane 6's friendship was awful, but wasn't their friendship stronger for it in the end? Didn't the disharmony he caused allow them to earn something that they would not have earned if their friendship hadn't been threatened? Sure, without him, they would have been happy as friends, but the new conviction and strength of bond earned through the trials he set in motion are certainly not worthless. Traits like bravery, perseverance, courage, compassion, and many others are much less meaningful if there is no adversity to constantly test, shape, and strengthen them. While Discord's role in nature may not be pleasant, and thus might be categorized as “evil” by ponies or humans, it serves a natural purpose and allows for personal growth that would otherwise have no motivation for occurring.
Do I believe that he should just be let loose to do whatever he wants? Of course not. Do I think that he should have somehow been incorporated into the world of Equestria instead of being imprisoned again? Yes. Frankly, I'm tired of so many children's shows painting the world in such stark black and white, with one side being “pure good” and the other “pure evil.” I always wish they'd show that some unpleasantness is a part of life, a necessary part, and that just because something may not be our idea of a good time, it is still a part of the world and should not be violently done away with.
2. The punishment was far too harsh. While this is somewhat connected to the fact that I don't like disorder being automatically evil, it also simply involves the fact that imprisoning a sapient creature in stone for what we essentially believe will be eternity while said creature is fully conscious is an idea that is utterly terrifying and abhorrent to me. Have you ever heard of locked-in syndrome? It is a medical condition that involves full body paralysis but leaves the sufferer completely conscious the whole time. Essentially, being trapped in your own body, which is what I think we can safely say Discord was sentenced to. For what? Yes, he caused misery, but that misery was a side effect of him acting out his nature. Was his casual cruelty awful? Sure. Does it warrant trapping him in an “And I Must Scream” situation for eternity? Him, a creature that is naturally born to create entropy and activity wherever it goes? To me, his sentence would fall under cruel and unusual punishment, particularly for someone whose entire purpose is to cause chaos. I was honestly shocked that the show did not make a bigger deal out of it and sort of brushed it off as an acceptable way of handling the situation. I'd feel differently if his imprisonment worked like Twilight's petrification by the cockatrice, involving her feeling as if she'd been asleep and simply losing that time, but he makes it fairly clear that he was conscious the entire time. Again, this is why I don't begrudge him any sort of revenge-related cruelty. I know this is a kids' show, but I was fairly surprised he hadn't simply gone mad from being alone in his own head for eons.
I would have been less bothered by it if the Mane 6 had tried some alternative, some form of reasoning before hitting him with the Friendship Cannon. Perhaps it would not have worked, but trying would have at least sent a message of allowing a chance for redemption before streamrolling your way through. Or heck, they could have struck a deal with him: he gets some random zone in Equestria to do what he likes with, they get the rest. I don't know, something. He didn't have to turn all saccharine or anything (indeed, that would have been ridiculous), but somehow showing that chaos on its own is a valid part of the universe would have been a welcome message for me. Perhaps him recognizing friendship as a powerful force would have altered his demeanor somewhat and allowed him to stay free. You say that he seems incapable of understanding something like friendship. Perhaps he is, but did they even try? Did they try to offer some form of truce before taking him out? I can understand that our heroines were fighting for their lives and for the normalcy of their world, but at the same time, I feel that emphasizing the importance of offering companionship and understanding to everyone, even to those who don't seem to deserve it, would be a worthwhile message. Sure, it may not have changed anything in him, but at the same time, it might have. It might have given him respect at least for our Mane 6. Heck, maybe it might have made him realize he was lonely and given him a reason to spare ponies some misery (wouldn't what appears to be a fairly social creature be lonely if its association with chaos made everyone hate and fear it?). I don't know; I just think it could have been done differently and been more poignant as a result.
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1. Though chaos is a necessary element of the world, what Discord wanted was just pure chaos with absolutely no order. Just because something is an inherent trait of the way the world works doesn't mean that if a problem arises from that trait that you shouldn't do something about it. The thing is though that the show already showed a level of maturity with Nightmare Moon. Nightmare Moon was a villain and the queen of the night but once she was purified she was Luna, the princess of the night. It showed that just because the night had been the bad guy that time didn't mean that it was inherently evil. But the idea that anyone can be reasoned with or that they are always just a victim of circumstance is just as close minded as those that see the world in black and white. There are people that could have been good people if they had had better circumstances or been raised right but there are also those that just want to see the world burn, or in this case, see it turn into candy... delicious delicious candy.
2. What makes you think Discord is conscious while sealed in stone? He never said anything that implied he was aware of what was going on when he was in stone and it seemed that at least some time had passed between him being released and him starting to cause chaos. Maybe he was aware but there's nothing that says that IS what happened.
Except it's obvious that Discord didn't simply want some out of the way zone. Remember my analogy of how Discord probably views the world as full of toys for him to play with? Well think of it this way, when humans want to build some new structure somewhere, do they say, "Wait... there's an ant colony in this area, we'll have to build elsewhere."? Or what about in war? When one side has a superior upper hand, do they listen to their enemy saying that if they call of the war then they will get 70% of the spoils while they just get 30%? No. Can you see Discord settling for something like that?
I do agree that there should be villains with sympathetic back stories and that get redeemed or are shown a hug instead of a fist but at the same time I believe that some villains should in fact not be sympathetic because there are actually people that are like that.
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We have several multi-module projects which are depending on each other. So something like this:
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They have separate source control repository, and lets say, that submodules inside messaging and othercomponent are using bundles from the submodules of framework. All of the projects are OSGI based multi-module maven projects. All of them have a server part, and a single sourced GUI part (Eclipse RAP+RCP). So this ends up in a three step maven based build for all of these multi-module projects (since Tycho builds cannot be mixed with plain old Maven Builds):
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And finally there is an end product multi-module maven project (lets call it ourproduct), which uses messaging, framework and othercomponent. The project ourproduct has different version number than the other three, which are having a common version number.
We build the whole thing with Jenkins, and the jobs trigger each other depending on the dependency tree. The company decided to use snapshots to get more direct and fast feedback between the 3 framework project developers and the ourproduct developers. This can be a nice idea, however there is a big problem.
If during the building chain something is broken, than the snapshot repository contains snapshots of messaging, framework and othercomponent, which cannot work together. This way the developers of ourproduct have to wait for a working snapshot set (otherwise they cannot even compile some time). An other problem is that during the build the set of snapshots are also not consistent.
For the messaging, framework and othercomponent there is a definite end job in Jenkins. If that finishes, then the set of snapshots must be working, so the ourproduct team could use it. So i would need to COLLECT somehow the snapshots created by the build chain, and deploy them only if the whole build chain was successful.
• Is there any existing possibility to do this?
My idea was to simply change the jobs to make only install only and not deploy. Then at the end I could look for the built snapshots in the local maven repo, and deploy them by a script.
• There is some Staging Concept for Maven (maybe only with Nexus pro). Does it say anything about snapshots?
Any idea is welcome. However i cannot change the fact of using snapshots. So there is no use in convincing me to use releases and no snapshots.
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Not sure about the deploy part, but the Jenkins Copy Artifact Plugin may help to collect matching "good" build results. – oberlies May 24 '13 at 8:24
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I have found a nice workaround. Steps to take:
1. The build steps have to deploy to a temp folder instead of the normal target repository using the altDeploymentRepository parameter (see http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-mojo.html)
mvn deploy -DaltDeploymentRepository=stagingFolder::default::file:///c:/mytempfolder
2. Run any number of build steps with this setting, and the artifacts are collected in the folder. You can even resume the builds without problem. You can overwrite artifacts (i do not recommend it however)
3. You have to run the following command after completing all build steps (see http://mojo.codehaus.org/wagon-maven-plugin/copy-mojo.html). This uploads all artifacts which were collected temporarly in the folder:
mvn org.codehaus.mojo:wagon-maven-plugin:copy -Dwagon.source=file:///c:/mytempfolder -Dwagon.target=http://somerepository.com/repositories/snapshots -Dwagon.targetId=idreferredinsettingsxmltogetauthorization
Important Note
The wagon goal should be run in a folder, where there is no pom file (so it must be run without project). Otherwise there is a weird error with the fromDir parameter.
Known Limitations
1. The build steps should run using the same local repository, since if the steps need the artifacts produced by other artifacts, they can find it in the local repository.
2. This solution does not read the POM to get the repository to which the artifacts should be uploaded. This is wired today into the wagon command. But I can live with it now :)
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You don't need to share the same local Maven repository if you add the file repository you deployed to as repository, e.g. via the settings.xml. – oberlies May 28 '13 at 13:59
Yeah, but it can happen, that you want to do the whole thing with dynamic temp folder name, and in this case editing the settings.xml on the fly is pain in the ass. – Gábor Lipták May 28 '13 at 14:07
Jenkins allows to collect artifacts of other builds (if they mark these in their project configuration). Your integration tests could use that construct to collect required from the snapshots builds and only upload a set of bundles to Nexus once integration tests are completed. You might start by inspecting the manifests from the OSGI bundles.I suggest to use jar-signing as a staging-marker, because it is easy in forensic analysis by devops.
btw Nexus Pro has a staging concept.
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Thanks for the answer. Right now I am completely happy with my solution ;) – Gábor Lipták Jan 21 '14 at 7:54
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PS4 Still Sitting Comfortably Atop GameStop Bestsellers Chart
PS4 Still Sitting Comfortably Atop GameStop Bestsellers Chart
Even after Microsoft banished its DRM plans for Xbox One, Sony’s PS4 is still ruling GameStop’s bestsellers chart following its overwhelmingly positive E3 press conference.
Not only is the console number 1 on the chart, a PS4 Call of Duty: Ghosts bundle sits at number 2, while Gran Turismo 6 sits in 3rd place, and Xbox One fourth. Yet that’s not all, go further down the list and you’ll see two more PS4 bundles in the top ten, along with DualShock 4.
Xbox One appears only once on the top ten list, a troubling sign if you’re Microsoft.
There’s yet some good news for gargantuan company, however, as Xbox One is currently number 1 on Amazon US, however PS4 has two SKUS in the top ten, and Sony’s The Last of Us sits in second place after dominating the charts leading up to, and upon its release.
These charts change in a blink, so by the time you look the order may have shifted, but it’s amazing to see how PS4 has stood its ground even after all the backpedaling from Microsoft, and goes to show the strength of the PlayStation brand.
Have you preordered a next generation console? If so, which one did you put down money for?
About Ernice Gilbert
• Admin
Why would this stop me from getting Xbox.
If I were to listen to majority then I’d probably play COD, and listen to JB, and read Twilight books.
PS always sold most. I bought the PS3 ended up selling it, the games are just simply boring.
• the human
shut up already. people like you needs to throw yourself off a bridge. how can you say you dont listen to “majority” if your currently owning an item that 1 you either saw on tv 2 heard from a friend or 3 saw on the internet. drop your carcass somewhere
• RiftDisruptor .
Ok… but you are no gamer.
I sort of agree with admin why would stop me from getting the Xbox one? I too owned a playstation 3 but the only good games released for sony’s PS consoles to me were Ratchet and clank, crash bandicoot based games and Spyro based games (the older Spyro was better) but Xbox had so many more exciting exclusives I
(Continued from before as it stopped me from typing ) Xbox also gave birth to a new love for me and that love was HALO.. Now I played Infamous and god of war but they did not interest me too much and I found them all round bad plays but that’s my opinion and I stand by it and kudos for your opinion of it as well but all in all ill be getting me an XBOX One and plugged my Xbox 360 into it via it HDMI port :) and maybe my windows 8 PC when I get around to getting myself one :)
• ernicegilbert
You’re being silly. PlayStation has the most amazing exclusives on any console. The Uncharted series, The Last of Us, God of War, Gran Turismo, Killzone, Metal Gear Solid (most have been exclusive to the platform), Resistance, Ratchet and Clank, LittleBigPlanet, Journey, Unfinished Swan, Tearaway, Killzone, InFamous and there are a great amount of new IPs incoming.
I just don’t see where you’re coming from at all.
• Batman
Ernie pretty much won that debate. Anyway, get whatever you like. That’s the benefit from having a brain to make your own informed decisions, I just simply don’t trust a company or politician that continuously changes their stance and policies. I’m not spending $500 for uncertainty. Also, never heard you can plug in your Xbox 360 into the Xbox One.
• Guest
It has an HDMI input, so you can, but it’d mostly be pointless as you’d have to have both consoles on, which is a waste of electricity.
I’d have to agree with the Microsoft fanboys above, though. If I wanted to play Left 4 Dead, Gears, Mass Effect, or Oblivion, you needed a 360 (at least initially. ME never came to PS3 and Oblivion took an additional year). For my PS3 I own four or so games I would consider to be fantastic exclusives. Journey, Tokyo Jungle, Last of Us, Heavy Rain and soon, hopefully, Beyond: Two Souls (still need to check out Ni No Kuni). Infamous never appealed to me because of games like Prototype (which was cross platform). Resistance and Killzone have always been a bore, as far as I’m concerned (there’s a reason those games don’t have near the following Halo, Gears, CoD, or Battlefield have… They aren’t that great). While Last of Us is easily one of my favorite games to date, I really don’t understand the love for the Uncharted Series. I found a lot of the dialogue and writing to be cringe-worthy. GTA 4 looked like ass on PS3 as did both Fallouts. Also, Skyrim was unplayable… While I’m still undecided on which console I’ll get, these are the issues I had with my PS3.
• Devon Humpert
PS4 has 3 SKU’s in the top 10 in the US by the way, not 2. Standard Edition, BF4 bundle and Watchdogs Bundle. Not to mention the “Launch Edition” PS4 is already sold out while the Day One Edition of the Xbox One is still available.
• Guest
Oh, and XBL absolutely crushes PSN… and it should, as you have to pay for it. Just saying– Sony has a lot of ground to cover there if they’re going to ask that we start paying for PSN.
• Matt Blattner
not getting into the heat of the discussion but want to comment on the PSN getting crushed. Ive never had a problem playing anything online and have had a PS3 since a few months after launch. ill admit there store is slow as crap which is annoying but i also paid $50 this year for PS+ and have gotten over $300 worth of stuff for like $20 in the past 2 months….XBL cant compare to that. but again its as youve said, its personal preference!
• bstar
you said xbox has more exciting exclusives but only named halo . . .
• Ravenlore
Why would anything stop people from buying anything… IF you want to be independent there is the SHIELD, Ouya, or Game Stick.
And that Story about you owning a PS3… well CSB. (cool story Bro) What games?? And how are they any different than those ONLY on Xbox 360? Only difference is that there are a lot more Exclusive games from First and Second party developers on PS3. Not to mention Indie.
So I guess I do not understand why you felt the need to BABBLE about such nonsense in the first place, as again you as everyone has the right to buy what ever they want.
• Ravenlore
… sounds sort of like Admin made a different account. WOW Microsoft PR determent in full effect. . . . “SO Many more exclusives… Halo” . . WTF. First YES halo is a great game… but it is not the best FPS and there are SOO many.
…anyway no one is swaying anyone in any direction….
• myquietroom
You will have to start paying for it..thats been announced for a while now..
• myquietroom
Ive been an xbox ‘fanboy’ for the last 6 years. Never been interested in the PS3..until the last of us was im itching to play it. Alas..since all of the reveals and horrible choices by Microsoft I’ve preordered the PS4 and literally cant f’ing wait for it. It looks superior in every way in my opinion. Ive never cared that much about the tv side of the consoles and as long as ps4 can play netflix and keep releasing amazing exclusives they will destroy microsoft.
• Øystein Hjelle Melle
Is it wrong to not want the retarded xbox fanboys on my team in the “console wars”? I don’t want my online fps to be filled with screaming 14 year olds..
• randy
Stop being a blind fanboy as there are NO exclusive spiro or crash bandiccot games on ps3. You are just being ignorant. Do you know that the best game of the gen was releaseds on ps3? (the last of us).
• Scott Buch
You will have to pay for both on next gen. About time too, i was sick of missing out on exclusives because sony didn’t have the cash.
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Incandescence is the emission of light (visible electromagnetic radiation) from a hot body as a result of its temperature.[1] The term derives from the Latin verb incandescere, to glow white.[2]
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In practice, virtually all solid or liquid substances start to glow around 798 K (525 °C), with a very dull red color, when no chemical reactions take place that produce light as a result of an exothermic process. This limit is called the Draper point. The incandescence does not vanish below that temperature, but it is too weak in the visible spectrum to be perceivable.
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The word incandescent is also used figuratively to describe a person who is so angry that they are imagined to glow or burn red hot or white hot.[4]
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1. ^ Dionysius Lardner (1833). Treatise on Heat. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. "The state in which a heated body, naturally incapable of emitting light, becomes luminous, is called a state of incandescence."
4. ^ Example 1:'...the stadium positively crackled with the incandescent anger of anguished supporters.' Mark Wilson, 'Rangers 1 Unirea 4', Daily Mail, 21 October 2009 [1]. Example 2: '...there's something very funny about incandescent anger.' Mark Fisher, 'Jerry has a cross to bear', The Scotsman, 5 March 2006 [2].
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How To Apologize For Standing Someone Up
By: Russell Deza
Break Studios Contributing Writer
Hopefully you won’t need to know how to apologize for standing someone up, but there may come a day when you need to apologize. Standing someone up can cause hard feelings. When you apologize, you want to repair the damage it may have caused in your relationship.
1. Apologize promptlyContact the person that you stood up as soon as possible. They may be angry or concerned and be anxious to hear from you.
2. Be honest. Explain the reason that you didn’t show. Even if it sounds lame like a lame reason, tell her if you lost track of time or got cold feet. If you were delayed at work or got in an accident then you should have called. If you didn’t, explain what happened honestly.
3. Take responsibility. Don’t blame it on your coworkers or your friend or traffic that you should have anticipated. Accept the blame for your actions that resulted in standing someone up.
4. Keep it simple. Rambling on about every detail of what happened sounds defensive and the other person may think you are making it up as you go along. Simply apologize. Acknowledge that she may be angry or worried. Say you regret what happened.
5. Reassure her that you will be more reliable. When you apologize, let her know that you intend to show up in the future and if there should be a crisis that you will be in touch right away.
6. Ask for forgiveness. After standing someone up, apologize and then ask if they will forgive you and ask what you can do to make amends.
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What do you think this poem is about?
The rain is comming down hard
on my window
and its cool to touch
frozen like icicals
My fingers seize up
My eyes glisten in the
as i step onto the pavement
My shadow is barely there
Goosbumps arise on my skin
My face goes pale and fair
The night is so cool
and the rain has stoped its
Haunting me, following
i hide in the shadows
and hug myself to keep
me warm
Scared but my eyes are
wide shut.
I can hear footsteps behind
me, but their so faint
I take a chance and look
to see whos is eager to be
my mate.
A silky black coat
perky pink ears
Sativa my cat, i havnt seen
her for years.
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[Verse 1: Dizzy Wright]
I saw death in the human
Looking into your eyes wondering what you're abusing
Humble to abusive confuse it what you're pursuin'
Cause' I don't know what you doin' and you don't know what
You losin'
We all got it, we all got to feel ??? We all got to deal
With it as a friend, as a fan I was supportin' I just never wanted
You to lose sight of what was important
I blame myself for a hell of a job
Now them drugs got you questionin' God
I'm heart brokin' cause' I didn't even notice I was always on my grind
And you was slowly losing focus wish you would've been more
I'm still praying shit tryin' to help
But only you can find God in yourself
Time is running out and man I'm trying to find you some help
So glorify your situation and put time in yourself
Cause' you don't want that love
My nigga put that down
You don't need that shit
I don't believe this shit
Can't be believin' you if you believin' this
This from the heart they ain't teaching me shit
We all got problems, we all need change bro
Handle shit different, but we all in the same boat
Escape your fears, tryna' take what ain't yours
My nigga you don't want that love, you don't want that love
Attention ain't everything
Honestly half of the time it's envy
You look for it you gon' find but it ain't gon' be the
Attention that you thought you was gettin'
Bad decisions in a matter of minutes push you to the limits
Be mad that you did it, are you kiddin'
Play trippy, start trippin'
Then you a dream into a mission just to miss it
Cold world
Supposedly overlooked it
But I'mma keep it G I ain't never been with the mushin'
You either talk about it or you learn to keep it pushin' but
Don't blame me for your mother fucking bullshit
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An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google
An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google
• A pure form of communication that is unsullied by cultural context;
• Broad adoption by as many as 10,000 speakers
• Independent (yet mostly compatible) dialects that not only bring additional choice for speakers also foster healthy competition and innovation
We expect even more communication between people in the coming year and are therefore focusing our investments in languages that are created based on constructed language principles. To that end, we are changing the spoken and written language of this nation to make it consistent with the form of speech already supported by the Language Creation Society. Specifically, we are supporting the Esperanto and Klingon languages, and will consider adding support for other high-quality constructed languages in the future. Though English plays an important role in speech today, as our goal is to enable open innovation, its further use as a form of communication in this country will be prohibited and our resources directed towards languages that are untainted by real-world usage.
These changes will occur in the next couple months but we are announcing them now to give citizens using other languages an opportunity to translate the libraries of the world into Esperanto.
Dankon, nedankinde!
• Do not forget that before English, French used to be the international language, and before that Latin, or Ancient if you consider the whole galaxy according to the Stargate canon. And the next one will probably be Chinese. Things evolve.
Oh, and, people don't have to pay royalties to speak and write English, unlike H.264.
• Via publika letero estus pli frapa se vi skribus ĝin en Esperanto.
Mi ŝatus uzi Esperanton pli ofte en la ĉiutaga vivo. Bonŝance mi povas:
* Uzi la esperantlingvan fasadon de Vizaĝlibro.
* Interparoli kun esperantlingvanoj tie.
* Uzi plurajn esperantlingvajn programojn ĉe Linukso.
* Uzi la esperantlingvan variaĵon de Farjovulpo.
* Aŭskulti aktualajn sondosierojn.
* ktp
La sola okazo en kiu mi ne povas esti tute en esperantlingva medio ĉe mia komputilo estas, kiam mi uzas viajn programojn kaj operaciumon.
Dankon pro la atenton.
• Finally, some passion from Microsoft!
• Bad attempt to make a joke. Or may be you know, that M$ plans to file some patents on English language usage? For example they can ban using the word "windows" without paying a fee ;)
• Anyone and everyone that can't enjoy this magnificent letter must be banned from the Internet for life, so the rest of us can freely wander around, speaking Ido.
• I only wonder what does the economic power of China have to say.
I'm not that worried about some small companies, who still think they're great.
• Since you work for Microsoft, by default you are always wrong.
• I detect a bit of sour grapes here, given Microsoft's repeated failures to establish its own standards in these areas.
Tell me, Mr. Sneath, what success has Microsoft had recently? I don't mean PR gimmicks like Surface or OEM Windows N+1, I mean sound, hard, commercial successes with new products? Heck, even Office revenue is going down.
• Well said, but though it is easy to point fingers at others, those living in glass houses should be cautious and should not throw stones at others.
• ..lame. There are many more important issues challenging the world today. I will not waste any further time on this "issue".
• Superb !!!!!! Sometimes humor speaks more than 2000 word article. :)
• Haha, the Google hate at Microsoft has reached record levels.
• The whole world can see how we 'benefit' from Microsoft's own set of webstandards in IE6, and now you mock Google for going their own way?? You hypocrit!!
This is why people hate Microsoft...
• Brain washed idiot.
• Microsoft has no right to preach about Google dropping support to a Microsoft close sourced product.
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Smashing Pumpkins
The son of a jazz guitarist, Billy Corgan grew up in a Chicago suburb, leaving home at the age of 19 to move to Florida with his fledgling goth metal band, the Marked. After the band failed down South, he returned to Chicago around 1988, where he began working at a used-record store. At the shop he met James Iha (guitar), a graphic arts student at Loyola University, and the two began collaborating, performing, and recording songs with a drum machine. Corgan met D'Arcy Wretzky at a club show; after arguing about the merits of the Dan Reed Network, the two became friends and she joined the group as a bassist. Soon, the bandmembers, who named themselves Smashing Pumpkins, had gained a dedicated local following, which included the head of a local club who booked them to open for Jane's Addiction. Before the pivotal concert, the band hired Jimmy Chamberlin, a former jazz musician, as their full-time drummer.
In 1990, Smashing Pumpkins released their debut single, "I Am One," on the local Chicago label Limited Potential. The single quickly sold out, and in December the band released "Tristessa" on Sub Pop. By this point, Smashing Pumpkins had become the subject of a hot bidding war, and the group latched on to a clever way to move to a major label without losing indie credibility. They signed to Virgin Records, yet it was decided that the group's debut would be released on the Virgin subsidiary Caroline, and then the band would move to the majors. The strategy worked; Gish, a majestic mix of Black Sabbath and dream pop produced by Butch Vig, became a huge college and modern rock hit upon its spring 1991 release. While it earned a large audience, many indie rock fans began to snipe at Smashing Pumpkins, accusing them of being careerists. Such criticism did the Pumpkins no harm and they embarked on an extensive supporting tour for Gish, which lasted over a year and included opening slots for Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam. During the Gish tour, tensions between bandmembers began to escalate, as Iha and D'Arcy, who had been lovers, went through a messy breakup, Chamberlin became addicted to drugs and alcohol, and Corgan entered a heavy depression. These tensions hadn't been resolved by the time the group entered the studio with Vig to record its second album.
Early in 1997, once the Pumpkins left the road, Iha and D'Arcy launched Scratchie Records, a subsidiary of Mercury Records. In the spring, Smashing Pumpkins recorded two songs for the soundtrack of Batman & Robin. Iha's solo debut, Let It Come Down, appeared in early 1998; Adore, the new Smashing Pumpkins LP, followed a few months later to disappointing sales and reviews. Chamberlin returned to the group and D'Arcy exited prior to the early-2000 release of MACHINA: The Machines of God. Several months later, Corgan announced his intentions to dissolve the band before the year was out. With former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur replacing D'Arcy, the band launched its farewell tour in 2000. Fans received one last treat when Corgan and company worked feverishly to finish off tracks that were left over from the MACHINA sessions. Surprisingly, Virgin Records balked at the idea of releasing the 25-track set so close to the release of their previous album, so the band put the entire album (going by the official title of Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music) on the Internet for fans to download for free. On December 2 of the same year, the Pumpkins played a mammoth final show at Chicago's Metro (also the venue at which the group played its first show back in 1988) before officially calling it quits.
But the former members of the band didn't wait long before carrying on with other projects -- Corgan spent the summer of 2001 playing guitar with New Order on select concert dates, and later in the year unveiled his new band, Zwan, including Chamberlin on drums (as well as former Chavez guitarist Matt Sweeney and bassist David "Skullfisher" Pajo). The other two former Pumpkins, Iha and Auf der Maur, began putting together an alt-rock supergroup dubbed the Virgins. The same year, a pair of postmortem Pumpkins collections were issued for the holiday season -- a double-disc collection and a DVD both called Greatest Hits. Corgan released his first solo album, The Future Embrace, in 2005, and on the day it came out, he took out a full-page ad in The Chicago Tribune to announce that Smashing Pumpkins were reuniting. He hadn't informed any of his past bandmates, and only Chamberlin went along. Zeitgeist, a heavier album than any past Pumpkins album, was released in 2007.
Smashing Pumpkins promoted the album heavily well into 2008, but at the end of the year, Corgan announced that the group would no longer record albums, and would instead only issue singles. It wasn't the only change in the band. Corgan announced the departure of Chamberlin in March 2009, making him the last remaining original member of the band that by then consisted of guitarist Jeff Schroeder, bassist Nicole Fiorentino, and drummer Mike Byrne. Once the dust settled, Corgan followed through on his promise to issue only short-form releases, putting out the track "A Song for a Son" in December of 2009. Scattered songs from the band's Teargarden by Kaleidyscope concept were released over the next two years as free downloads, with physical collections of the tracks released in 2010 by way of the EP box sets Songs for a Sailor and The Solstice Bare. In 2012, Corgan decided to take a break from the single-centric concept and released Oceania. Ostensibly Smashing Pumpkins' eighth studio album, Oceania is also part of the 44-track Teargarden concept. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato, Rovi
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I love this song :) it brings back nostalga
Disarm is my favorite song of all time
Disarm me with a smile....wha t I choose is my voice, what is a boy suppose to do....
They don't make music like this anymore. Disarm, Cupid de loc, and Today are my favorite Smashing Pumpkins songs in that order.
This song is dedicated to all the women of the world. :)
I love this song follow me ^.^ ♥❤✌☺⭐♥❤
i just got the joke of Melon Collie
I just smashed pumpkins on Halloween.
I'm 20 and this is alternative music
The Smashing Pumpkins are and will always be my favorite band. I'm 27 and I still remember very clearly being in 5th grade and being OBSESSED with them. And yet I never got to see them play live =(
Oh well, at least I have their music to listen to forever!!
Love this album
Love this F$/:#% song
My fav band, got the heart tattooed to prove it. Music was so different and billy made it worth while to listen to with that sweet voice of his. By far the best 90s band. I wish they would re-tour, or get back together for a show I could see. In my 28 years of life, I couldn't see much more making my life complete.
claricentp91 7
ahh the soundtrack to my late 90s
shawnnavuz71 1
Acoustic is better
Smashing Pumpkins just makes me happy.
Music was so amazing 20 years ago. I'd rather listen to Billy Corgan puking into a toilet, than anything that's on the radio today...
Love them.
I can't stand Corgan's singing, but I have to admit his song writing and guitar are pretty bad a**.
@chrisin8019 , You're entitled to your opinion, but why so much rage. Did you get dumped with Bullet with Butterfly Wings playing in the background or what?
Yeah...uou kill yourselvez for hating Smashing Pumpkins :-),lol
This IS BEAUTIFUL. "god is dead..just like me"-nuff said.
and god is empty, just like me
People telling people to kill themselves bc they didnt like your precious band should be ashamed of yourselves!! You are no heroes for being disgusting bullies. Grow up and get a clue that not everyone has to like the same things as you. Btw I like this song but some of these comments are truly sick and you really should be banned from here until you can act remotely human and mature!
Well if you don't you could boomitalida your way through. Bye
chrisin8019 has too many cc's in her/his octane
chrisin8019 is a lonely woman who needs a boyfriend.
Add me please (Follow) where whale wars?
i cant get enough of this song, smashing pumpkins is so beast
Top 5 favorites songs
This is a great song
Haven't heard this in a while
This freaked me out! This isn't fake. Apparently if you copy and paste this on ten comments you will have the best day of your life tomorrow. You will either get kissed or asked out. If you brake the chain you will see a dead girl in your room tonight. In the next 53 minutes someone will say I love you or I'm sorry.
great album
Billy Corgan is one if my favorite trusts! Anyone who hates on him is especially crazy!
This is one of my favorite songs
Still today one of my TIMELESS FAVORITES...
I grew up listening to this band, they're still rad
Halloween has passed
I was born to listen to all of these hardcore songs
One of my fav songs by them
melissamak00 7
Being a teenager in the 90's, this song makes me feel nostalgic.
O love my station!!!! (~_~)
Good a** song
If u don't like the Smashing Pumpkins ur crazy
ashleyshel76 5
Chrisin8019, how about you kill yourself for hating on smashing pumpkins every chance you get
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