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It all happened so fast. Everything was normal one day, and then…
Elsa chided herself for not thinking much of Anna's absence at breakfast that morning. She had simply assumed that her sister was taking her morning walk a little earlier than usual; it was what she had always done the day after the first snowfall. It wasn't until she didn't show up at lunch that the queen began to worry, and all she did then was send some guards out to look for her. She should have known something was up when it started to feel warmer than usual.
She was in her room, looking over the inventories from the newest trade shipments, when the first sign appeared. One minute, the pot on her windowsill contained only a dormant rose. When Elsa chanced to look at it again, the petals were opened once more, and the rose was straining to keep from being overwhelmed by the horde of fauna crowding around it. Thin, snaky vines were slowly growing from the dirt and spilling out over the sides of the pot. All along them sprouted tiny flowers of a greenish-blue color - just the shade of Anna's eyes. The petals were numerous and spiky, and each was covered in dozens of tiny white dots.
Getting up, Elsa opened her door and looked across the hall. The doors of Anna's room were slowly beginning to warp and bend. "Stop it!" Anna was saying in a half-shout, half-whisper. "Please, just stop it…!"
"Anna?" Elsa asked, trying to open the door and finding it locked. "Anna, are you alright?"
The younger woman gasped. "Elsa! Don't worry, I'm fine, I'm just...I've got allergies! Lots and lots of allergies! And a cold! It's winter, you know!"
"Anna, open this door."
"No, no, it's probably contagious! I don't want you to…" She paused, then let out a fearful yelp. "Not again! Stop!" Several large cracks appeared in and around the doors, and more of the flowery vines stretched out from under it.
"Anna!" Elsa shouted, throwing herself against the doors. They creaked and pushed back as the wood bulged further. Seeing that the lock was beginning to twist out of place, Elsa stepped back, conjured up a ball of icy wind and sent it blasting at the doors. They flew apart and swung inward, letting her inside. As the ice particles cleared, Elsa's eyes widened and her mouth fell open. Her fear was joined by confusion and wonder. "What…?"
Her sister's room was transforming into a forest. The spotted flowers had sprung up from between the floorboards in droves of different colors. Vines covered the walls and wrapped around the fireplace. The floorboards were popping out of place and growing leafy branches, and the posts of the bed were trying to stretch out thick roots.
In the center of it all sat Anna, curled up in a tight little ball of fear. Her hair was disheveled, she still wore her nightgown and her eyes darted wildly around the room. When they settled on Elsa, she shrank back. "I-I don't get it, either…" As she spoke, she accidentally moved her hand, and a stream of pale green light shot from her palm. With a sound like wind chimes in a light breeze, it wrapped around a bedpost and dissolved into the wood, causing it to sprout flowers.
Elsa clapped a hand over her mouth, but only to hold back her surprised, somewhat happy laughter. Oh, Anna…
"It's not funny!"
"I'm sorry, it's just…wait here for a minute, okay?" She few back across the hall and pulled open all the drawers on her dresser. Where had she put them? Aha!
When she returned to Anna, she held a pair of old leather riding gloves. "All these years, I thought I was alone." Kneeling down, she slipped the gloves over her sister's hands. "Don't worry," she added when Anna looked up at her with a hurt expression. "You won't have to wear them for long, I promise you that. Now get dressed. Find your boots and cloak."
After shutting the door as best as they could, the sisters went down into the castle courtyard. "Kai!" Elsa called out.
The stout, somewhat balding servant hurried over to them. "Your Majesty?" he said with a bow.
"Bring us our horses at once," Elsa told him. "Tell any visitors that we won't be available for the next few days, a week at the least. And keep everyone out of my sister's room."
"Is there something wrong?"
"Not at all. She'll take care of it when we come back."
"Elsa, I don't think that's such a good idea…"
"Yes, it is. You'll see." As the horses arrived, she handed Anna her reins and jumped into her own saddle. "Now come on!"
They trotted out of the courtyard, over the bridge and through the town. "It's colder than I remember," Anna said, shivering.
"It'll be like that from now on."
"You mean like how you always get a headache when it's too warm?"
"I don't think you'll have that problem, but yes."
They picked up speed as they left the kingdom behind, flying through the forest and up towards the North Mountain. "Where are we going?" Anna asked as she struggled to keep up with her sister.
"Don't you recognize this?"
They galloped up a hill and onto a wide plain covered in deep snow. Above them, nestled in the side of the mountain, sat the still-glittering form of Elsa's ice palace.
"We're taking a little vacation," Elsa said as she dismounted. "Just the two of us. And we're going to figure out how to help you get those powers under control."
Marshmallow was absentmindedly playing with the pieces of the broken chandelier when they entered. He lit up at the sight of Elsa, but growled when he saw Anna. "Bad…"
"No, no! Good!" Elsa told him, healing his severed leg. "You are not to hurt her, understand?"
The snow giant looked a little confused, but he nodded nonetheless.
Anna gave him a shy smile. "So what do we do now?"
"We get started."
The steps of the staircase began to drip as Anna stepped on them, only to be frozen once more as Elsa followed. "Krystall and Eple probably want their supper, don't you think?"
"I don't wanna turn you into a carrot…!"
"Don't think about hurting anyone. You'll just end up slipping. Channel it. Concentrate."
They had reached the bottom of the stairs now. Holding her breath, Anna closed her eyes and took a hesitant step forward. When her foot touched the ground, the snow around it floated up and dissipated as her flowers sprang from the frozen earth. She took another step, and the greenery spread with her.
"Good!" Elsa said. "Now open your eyes."
Anna did so, keeping her gaze carefully focused on her handiwork as she began to walk in a large circle. The horses eagerly followed, chomping at the new plants.
Elsa nodded approvingly as she saw a tiny smile appear on her sister's face and grow into a grin. "Impressive. Don't be afraid to experiment a little...Anna, what are you…?"
Putting her arms out to her sides, Anna twirled around. Mist shot from her hands and feet, spontaneously melting a large patch of the snow and causing several trees to appear along with the flowers. Marshmallow, who had crept outside to see what was going on, jumped back with a shriek as most of the palace stairs dissolved.
Anna gasped. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
Elsa waved her hand to make a flurry of snowflakes. "Best leave that part to me. And maybe try playing a little further from the palace."
"Okay, move your head to the left just a bit...perfect! Right there!"
"No, not yet. Just hold it a few more minutes. Are you always this impatient?"
Of all the things Elsa expected to find her sister doing, having Marshmallow hold a giant icicle over his head like a sword while she bent a block of marble like dough was not high on the list. "How are you doing that?" she asked, descending into the main hall of the palace.
"With my brain. I think. I'm not really sure, I was just staring at this big ugly rock and it started turning into marble, so I decided to see what else I could do with it! Okay, now you can look, Marshmallow!"
The snow golem bent down to examine her sculpture, then looked back at her with a quizzical expression and scratched his head. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"I don't think he knows what it's supposed to be."
"It's supposed to be him!" At this, Marshmallow recoiled and gave her a look that seemed to say "How could you do this to me?"
"If that's him," Elsa said as gently as she could, "then it looks a little bit like he's melting."
Anna turned her head sideways as she looked at her lumpy, misshapen, nigh-unrecognizable creation. "Do I get points for trying?"
"I think I get how it works now, Elsa!"
"Then show me."
Trying to stand on her toes, Anna swept her hand in a semicircle, just as she had once seen the dancers at the ballet do. The mist flowed forth freely, landing in a neat line and bringing up a rainbow of blossoms. As she began to waltz across the plateau, her magic stayed in a swirling, sparkling green fog around her feet and only moved away at a gesture from her. Until she tripped, anyway.
"I'm alright!" she told Elsa as she got up, failing to notice that the mist had flown into a nearby oak tree. "I think it was just a root or something." She paused, listening. "Is there a fire somewhere."
"No...why you do ask?"
"I hear crackling."
They turned around in unison as the wood of the tree began to twist and split. Two knotholes bunched into existence before opening up into black eyes. A horizontal crack below them split apart into a jagged mouth. The two thickest branches bent into arms and hands, and the roots ripped themselves up to become leg-like tentacles. When the creature saw the sisters, it roared and reached out to snatch at them with frightening speed.
They took off down the narrow mountain path as the tree stood up on its roots and came after them. Elsa tried shooting bolts of ice at it, but it dodged them with ease and swiped at her. It leapt over the snowdrifts and rocks they put in its way, getting closer with each huge step.
The girls finally had to skid to a stop once they reached the edge of a cliff. "Hold on," said Elsa. "I'll make a bridge…"
The tree's gnarled hand abruptly dropped down over them, scooping them both into its tight grip and bringing them up to its face. "Please don't hurt us!" Anna shouted as she struggled. "Please don't hurt us please don't hurt us please don't hurt us…"
The creature made a face at them, lifted up its other hand...and gently brushed back a strand of hair that had fallen over Elsa's forehead. Humming with pleasure, it set them on their feet before sitting down in front of them as though waiting for a command.
"You could have just said something!" Anna told it. "Can't you talk?"
The creature opened its mouth and made a variety of throaty vocalizations before scratching out a word in the snow: NO.
"Oh. I'm sorry...I wasn't being careful. It was an accident. Not that you're an accident! Well...okay, you technically are, but you're a good accident, you know? You're like the first pancake that comes out all weird. Hey, that's not a bad name. Can you take us back to the palace, Pancake?"
Pancake laid his open hand out for her, and she eagerly stepped into it while dragging Elsa along with her. He carefully placed them both into his branches, then turned and walked back the way they had come. When he reached the base of the stairs, he set them down again and tried to bow, only to lose his balance and nearly fall on his face.
"What are we going to do with him?" Elsa asked. "We can't bring him back to Arendelle."
Anna thought for a moment, and then her face lit up. "Hey, Marshmallow! We've got a friend for you!"
"...I think you're ready, Anna."
Anna started at the words and turned from the starry sky to her sister. "You mean going back home ready? Are you sure?"
"Aren't you?"
She rested her head against Elsa's shoulder. "I'm worried about what they might think. Maybe I could just keep it secret…?"
"You won't always be able to hold it back." Elsa squeezed her hand. "Anna, I'm not letting you go through what I went through. I can't. I'll be right next to you the whole time. If any of them want to hurt you, they'll have to go through me first."
"I promise."
"...First thing in the morning?"
"First thing in the morning."
Anna smiled, stifled a yawn and curled up next to her sister. Elsa placed an arm around her and stroked her hair until she was fast asleep.
"Send out a message to the people!" Elsa shouted as she and Anna galloped back into the courtyard. "I want them to gather here in an hours' time."
Dismounting, the girls went into the castle to clean themselves up, Anna holding Elsa's hand all the way there. The messengers were promptly set out, and the townspeople began to stream into the courtyard almost immediately. When the hour was up, the queen and princess stepped out amongst them. Behind them came two servants, carrying a tub of dirt.
"Everyone," Elsa said as the dirt was set in front of Anna, "my sister has something she would like to show you. Go on," she whispered as she stepped aside
Carefully removing her gloves and handing them to her sister, Anna stretched her arm out and swept it over the dirt. The crowd gasped as the mist floated from her hand and brought up the flowers. For an agonizing moment, they were all silent.
Then a little girl began to clap. "More! More!"
Moving her hands, Anna conjured up a bouquet and handed it to her. "I'm glad you like it."
One by one, the rest of the people began to clap and cheer until all the kingdom was chanting her name. Elsa tossed the gloves aside and placed a hand on her shoulder, smiling at her with pride.
Anna threw her arms around her and practically lifted her off the ground. "Thank you! I mean, uh, I appreciate it…"
Elsa laughed. "However you want to say it."
For many years afterwards, the dignitaries of the surrounding kingdoms (especially the Duchy of Weselton) marveled at the unheard of amount of crops that Arendelle shipped to the rest of the world, and people came from all over to enjoy its gorgeous weather in the warm months. However did it come about?
The locals' answer was always the same; the Summer Princess.
Yeah, I know the movie isn't out yet. But the script is, so I'd say this is fair game.
I thought it would be cool if Anna had her own season-based powers. I'm planning to write a follow-up that details my headcanon concerning these powers, but that's gonna take a while. Try as I might, I cannot justify writing fanfiction for a movie that doesn't come out until next summer. :)
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I don't think we advertise. We would get money, otherwise.
2/19/2013 #181
Someone needs to put hiatus by my name...
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Majin Son Goku
Somehow, seeing Raz as a 0* member cracks me up. Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't he one of the founders?
2/21/2013 #183
I left the group and when I rejoined I wanted to start from the bottom and work my way up as opposed to just staying high and mighty at the top
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Majin Son Goku
I know why you did it Raz, and I can understand that mindset. But still, it makes me laugh, I don't know why.
2/21/2013 #185
You know what cracks me up, people saying unnecessary things. XD
Karmel, I fixed it for you. :D
2/21/2013 #186
Majin Son Goku
What's wrong with unnecessary things? Do you have any idea how boring the world would be if nothing but only necessities existed?
2/21/2013 #187
There's a difference between foolishly unnecessary, unnecessarily funny, and taking risks unnecessarily. You chose the first one XD Which isn't boring or exciting like the others but rather bratty. :-P
*salutes* Jin out XD
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I give it a 5 for execution, a 3 for skill.... it that dismount.....Jesus Christ the dismount
2/21/2013 #189
Deviled Eggs! Well if it isn't my sparring partner. e_e *looks at time* Shouldn't you be getting ready for work?
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im at work. i just cant be arsed with it today
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Majin Son Goku
Really? So the Internet is foolishly unnecessary?
2/22/2013 #192
Kakarot Son
Just bow your head down and give it a rest, you aint winning this one kid.
2/22/2013 #193
I don't understand why you brought the internet into this when I was clearly talking about your original question XD
And see Karot cake knows! XD
2/22/2013 #194
*snicker* Karot cake...X3
2/22/2013 #195
Kakarot Son
... never going to live that one down...
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Majin Son Goku
I was originally referring to things that weren't strictly required for survival.
And Karot cake? You are a genius and I applaud you.
2/22/2013 #197
Kakarot Son
... sigh
2/23/2013 #198
Majin Son Goku
Karot cakes.
2/23/2013 #199
Kakarot Son
*Blows dust off topic* I suppose this would be the appropriate place to congratulate Bobo on her promotion to the rank of Administrator. Few have worked as tirelessly as she has to get things rolling around this place, and we all greatly appreciate her efforts.
12/5/2013 #200
Will I be there soon?
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Kakarot Son
My bad, I've added you now.
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Kakarot Son
Heh even though it took us forever to get back to adjusting the ranks, we did come with a second change. Congrats Raz on making Experienced Member!
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Goddammit,, why didn't you warn me of these replies?? Gah!
Thank you, Kaka :D *she said two weeks too late* And congrats to Mr. Razzles.
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Evening peeps,
I am mildly new to fan fiction, so, yeah. I guess I should start with some things about myself. I am a bookworm and I am not afraid to say it. To make it easier, here's a list of thinks I like;
-Music (of most all sorts, not metal though.ick)
-Movies!!! (For example; The sorcerers apprentice, How to Train Your Dragon, Dark Shadows, Titanic, Death Note- that's a series on youtube. the ending can dissapoint, but it's still awesome. The Golden Compass, The Hunger Games, (no duh.) Tangled, The Devil Wears Prada, and many others.
-Sharp pencils (For some unknown reason, whenever I see a sharp pencil lying around, I have to pick it up and write something with it. Also they smell good. Don't ask why. The same is true for pens, well, except for the smell.)
-Silence (it's good to have a moment to your own thoughts every once in a while.)
-Full moons (They're just soooo darn cool to watch, especially through a telescope. this is extra-awesome during eclipses, I can take pictures!! : D I have at least fifteen, taken through a telescope.)
When thinking of all the things I like, I can't help but think of the things I don't like.
-Small dogs that bark, and never shut up, at that frequency that is just right to drive you nuts.
-Bright lights (I hate having to squint, and whenever I go out into direct sunlight I start a sneezing fit. Humm... I wonder if I'm allergic to sun. Na. Sunglasses rule!!)
-Pink (I despise most all shades of pink, except the ones that are closer to peach you would find in a sunset.)
-People who are racist or are trying to convert me, or something. I am me and I'm staying that way, so give up now!!
cups (I don't mind the peices, but chocolate and peanut butter? Gag, ick, retch, and other random sound effects in that area.)
-Texting acronyms (I know I am not alone in this, but full words are good, and I have waaaay to many issues deciphering the meaning of a single letter that could mean thirteen thousand different things.)
-Chick flicks (Or at least most of them anyway, what is it with the mushy, gooey stuff, you at least need a plot people! I have a similar issue with fairy-tales, at least many of the Disney ones. The women are either pretty idiots who can't do a thing for themselves, or smart, evil, and ugly. What's with that?)
The lists could go on forever, so here I conclude. I loove reviews, good or bad, and I hate people invading my space and stuff when I have warned them about it. (Sadly for them, if I'm having a bad day, they might get hurt. Only a little though. ; )) If you haven't noticed, sometimes I have a serious case of split personality, though I guess a lot of people do. Fishcows, Narwaffles, and jelly doughnuts for now, see ya!!
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For as long as she can remember, Riley has been mute and shy, living in a book. But when unseen circumstances throw her unceremoniously into the League's story, could she find that things change? And what happens when she discovers that, in her new reality, she's being woven tighter and tighter into their story and out of her own? ON HIATUS FOR REWRITE.
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This is my entry for the Balthy 100 challenge. One hundred oneshots. One hundred Moments of Magic...DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE. Rated T because I have no idea what will happen in this, and don't want something bad being labeled as K.
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Bonds between friends can be forged that are as strong as those of blood. Family isn't only those you're connected to by birth. They can be the ones you'd least expect to share those bonds, but who care about you all the same. Family, those you love and trust completely, is the ones worth protecting. They're the ones you'll fight for and who'll fight for you in return.
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After Hexxus's defeat, life seems rather peaceful in Fern Gully. But the past has a way of catching up with you, regardless of how far you fly or where you hide. He escaped once from humans and his nightmarish life at their hands, but what'll happen when they reappear in his life?
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Crackfic. Axel wants Zexion's pie and will stop at nothing to get it
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After Demyx manages to pull off a majority vote for a Christmas party, Axel's left to explain the concept to the kids. Now Roxas and Xion are faced with Christmas shopping for eleven jerks. No pairings...mostly.
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Home at 19 reviews
She has lived in an asylum for 19 years because she was a "freak of nature". Now, Mina Harker, her long lost aunt has come to give her a rightful home and a family. But will she fit into the leauge, and what will happen if she doesn't?
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The Twilight Saga leaves off after Renesmee is born, but what about her later life? I have started this little experiment of a story, to just have fun with what her life could have been like afterward, with my own little twists added in.
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I feel like I can conquer any run of any distance and then there are days like today when I question my decision to run a Marathon. I get done and say to myself, what are you thinking, you can't do this. How many of you deal with days like this? and how do you handle it?
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I've found most of what you said to be true, except for the knobbies. I get a lot of mixed surfaces, and I find full on thick snow cover is the least common surface for street riding in winter. This may depend on how often it's plowed where you are. I rode on street tires, not even dual sport tires every winter but the last one, where I had the stock trailwings on the DR. I was always opposed to knobbies because of the mixed surfaces and the fact that usually I was riding on a slippery road surface which is not like dirt at all. Now I'm very interested in what dual sport tires can do and will be trying TKC80s this winter though I think Anakees would be better. I've always just wanted a little more grip in snow, not a lot, because I want something that breaks loose evenly and predictably, no matter how early.
This is a great point. Snow is the least common riding surface around here, too. The studs were the most important part of my setup. I knew the knobbies were deep enough to put studs in and didn't want to waste a street tire seeing if they were deep enough to hold a stud.* Compact snow and ice is the worst surface and the studs handled them with ease. Frankly, I don't have to stones to run sideways up a hill all winter I went with the most reliable (read: overkill) setup I could think of and it worked well. The studs do break loose, but there's a definite choice with them whether you want to tractor up a hill without breaking it loose or go for broke and spin it like crazy.
Right now it's the distance that's hurting me- 30 miles is well beyond my limits for a day-in day-out bike commute. I am in the process of plating my TTR125 and I have my GF almost convinced she can commute 3 miles on it daily
My good pictures come from one storm- nobody else was getting anywhere so there were lots of people standing around to take pictures. You and I both know we'll never have pictures of the really good stuff and we'll never be able to truly explain the sensation of taking 2 wheels on a surface most 4-wheelers have trouble with...
*That said, nothing's better than the hookup of a studded knobbie when you're drag racing some yahoo in a jacked-up 4X4 on the first night of a good winter storm.
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More than 30 years is a long, long time for a band to be around. What do you think are the factors that drive you to keep making music and to keep touring?
One of the factors is that there is always attention to detail and it's almost an addiction with Metallica, which is standard and there is this level of I don't want to say perfection,' cause nothing is perfect, but you know in song writing James may have five like words for one word. It's not okay just to throw some words together, there is a lot of thought that goes into what he's bringing. Lars is obsessive about the arrangement. There is a lot that goes into a Metallica song and I think the end result is always, most of the time, something quite special. That's what our fans feed off, we're refuelling them with the art we have as songwriters and also the stage shows as much as possible; we really try to give 100%. Then there is the physical factor where we need to train; our instructors take care of us so we don't pull a muscle or break a leg or anything like that. So, as we get older there are more things that keep us in tune with our performance. Everybody's commitment to the band is crucial 'cause we have a great team.
Do you have any choice in the support bands?
Our choice is to have local bands and the promoters need to find the best local bands possible wherever we're playing. And I know tonight we have a special local band [Van Coke Kartel] so I'm excited, hopefully we catch a couple of songs, it's not always easy, there is a whole routine that goes into our productions, but that's what makes us have a special show so, hopefully, we can go and see them.
Can we expect a new album from Metallica anytime soon?
You know what it's kinda like, you're looking at a mountain, a huge beast of a mountain that you gotta climb and you're trying to psyche yourself up for that. What route are we gonna take? How are we gonna do this? And you get to the point where you're like: Oh man, well let's start. So we are climbing, but we still have a long way to go, so hopefully in two years or less we'll have a great album for you. We will, but we are still climbing the mountain.
You going to have any time to do some sightseeing while you're here?
Surfing, only surfing. We went to, what's that place called? Llandudno, and we'll probably go there again.
Favourite venue? You've played everywhere, but where's your favourite?
You know every venue that we play has to be my favourite 'cause I want to feel connected and make it a special experience.
The interesting thing is that we have a 3D movie coming out very soon and that in itself has been an experience and a challenge. I believe it's going to be great. I've seen a recent cut and we have a lot of work to do - we're not finished, but we're getting close and I feel that the end result will be special. Now what this will do for us or where this will take us is unknown, you know, but I have a good feeling about it. I also feel that those are the experiences and challenges that make Metallica great and special and keep people interested. We did our 30-year anniversary shows just over a year ago at the legendary Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco - you know where Janis Joplin played and The Grateful Dead and all those special bands. But the thing about that is that we flew in artists from all over the world. So let's bring in Mercyful Fate, let's fly in Ozzy Osbourne, let's bring in Rob Halford lead singer of Judas Priest. There was this long list of people to bring in, that's a commitment, to fly them in, rehearse with them, learn their songs and get on stage with them. What band does that? I don't know of any band that does that, but those are the type of things we do - we challenge ourselves. Sometimes it's a glorious experience and sometimes it maybe doesn't work out. But those chances that we take are what make Metallica a special band.
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today to hear the next president of the united states, mitt romney. just this week democrats gathered with the -- at their convention. they struggled with one question that really matters for americans. are you better off than you were four years ago? are you better off under this president than you were mammal years ago? president obama -- and you were four years ago? he wants another famine years. but america cannot continue with the status quo. more americans have lost their jobs under president obama than any president hundred feet -- since the great depression. the jobs numbers just came out of our august with another disappointing month with only 100,000 new jobs. just this week, when the democrats were data for their convention, we solve the nationaln debt -- national debt scope over 15- -- go over 15 trillion dollars. we have suffered from one president -- an unpresident said -- unprecedented downgrading of our credit rating. you know that debt is not the way we need to go for this future. [applause] president obama, when he was a candidate in 2018, said it was on patriotic to
in the united states who have been educated in our schools, to give them the opportunity to stay here. you know, wouldn't we rather be known as a country of dreamers, than a country of illegal aliens? [applause] and as we saw last night, this is the commander in chief who finally brought osama bin laden to justice. [applause] now that is presidential leadership. but even before barack obama was elected president, we knew he was going to be a great leader. we knew it when he chose joe biden as his running mate. [applause] joe was the perfect choice, because like the president, he had lived the american dream, going from humble middle-class roots, to the united states senate, to the vice presidency of the united states. [applause] and we all know from his incredible speech last night that he has been side by side with the president's, fighting to make sure that we open the doors of opportunity for all americans, working to create good jobs and to invest in education, to make health care and retirement and schools affordable for everyone. it is what he has fought for his entire career. [applause]
as proactive as it has been because there as been paralysis on the fiscal side in the united states. there really has not been any effort on the republican -- on the political side to do much about the job situation. the burden has fallen disproportionately on the central bank. with the too much government is the problem, that is a discussion we have been having since the beginning of time. host: unemployment by education level, 12% with those with high school education, with college, 6.6%. guest: people like to talk about the more education you have the less unemployment you have. unemployment has gone up for all of the groups. college graduates or not, people are struggling. you could have a large student loan and not find a job. host: we have a caller. go ahead. caller: how many of the jobs are jobs with which people can support themselves or their families? guest: you make a fair point. the unemployment rate is one measure of unemployment. there is also a measure that tries to take into account people who are working part time, but would rather be working full time. if you inclu
in the united states, but done in france which is a modern labor market where i think there are some lessons. the code-talkers actually convinced the french government to do something i hope we can convince our -- co-authors actually convince the french government to do something i hope we can convince our government to do, which is to experiment with widespread unemployment services programs and look at what the effects on the labor market are not just by randomizing an individual having access to the program, but breaking france up into different geographic areas of labor markets and providing 100% of the people access in some areas, in some areas , in some areas 55%, some areas 25%. if you do that randomly, on average, if you're in an area where a lot of other people use this program, does that have a negative effect on you? what they found is in tight labor markets, basically the programs really helped people get into jobs more quickly. when the labor market is weak, is largely a game of musical chairs. one person getting a job makes another person have a more difficult time. thinking ab
. they are the goat's horn, the ak .47. they go to the united states, pick up the weapons to bring them to mexico. in four years, 70% of weapons found in crime scenes originated from sales in the united states. >> we were going to talk about fast and furious with the new report coming out, but this is interesting time. >> it's been a bad deal for the u.s. justice department. earlier this summer, eric holder, attorney general found in contempt, congress saying he's with holding documents from this investigation. we are going to expect more high drama. we are waiting to see what the latest findings are. >> we'll be watching it. thank you. >> thank you. >>> the fight to legalize marijuana receives a surprising supporter, sort of. we'll explain. >>> despite a weak jobs reports, u.s. stocks ended slightly higher. mortgage rates are down from last week. take a look here. ya know, your rates and fees aren't exactly competitive. who do you think i am, quicken loans? [ spokesman ] when you refinance your mortgage with quicken loans, you'll find that our rates and fees are extremely competitive. because th
as assistant secretary of the navy and went on to become vice president and president of the united states. in 1916, roosevelt the secretary of the navy. he has been appointed to the record as the associate justice by president william howard taft. but he resigned in 1916 to become the republican candidate for president and he ran against woodrow wilson and a dreadful campaign he was the odds favor, but ultimately lost california by 4000 votes and therefore the election. he went to bed the night of the election thinking he had one. franklin roosevelt was said that wilson supporter went to bed thinking he's had one also. and the next morning the returns from the midwest and particularly california came in and it turned out that wilson one the election just rarely. roosevelt continued as assistant secretary of the navy and then he has to act to private practice in new york city. roosevelt in 1920 became the vice residential candidate of the democratic party, running with governor james cox of ohio. they got trapped by calvin coolidge and warren harding, coolidge's republican party. and at th
recommending. or we can decide that in the united states of america, no child should have her dreams deferred because of a crowded classroom or a crumbling school. no family should have to set aside a college acceptance letter because they don't have the money. no company should have to look for workers in china because they couldn't find ones with the right skills right here at home. so, help me recruit 100,000 math and science teachers in the next ten years and improve early childhood education and give 2 million workers the chance to learn skills that that community college that will lead directly to a job. and let's help work with colleges and universities to cut in half the growth of tuition costs over the next ten years because, you know, higher education is not a luxury anymore. it is an economic necessity that everybody should be able to afford. and we can meet that goal together. you can choose that future if you're willing to move forward with me. for my plan -- yeah, i've got four. forward. my plan would reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle class. we're all concerne
a record for a record high for the number of suicides in the united states military. then there are the multiple deployments that families go through, the military moms and dads waiting for their spouses to return home. romney said he spoke to the american legion and vfw, but that doesn't cut if. this is the party that practically coined the phrase, we support the troops. this is the party that demonized people who wouldn't wear the flag lapel pin. this is the party that always claimed to have the upper hand on protecting the country and national security and love of country. and accusing president obama of not being american enough and not loving the country, but mitt romney can't bring himself to n insert a paragraph about the troops in harm's way right now and have been there multiple times in his acceptance speech? i think it is the ultimate quis qualifier. here's senator john kerry addressing the issue last night. >> no nominee for president should ever fail in the midst of a war to pay tribute to our troops overseas in his acceptance speech. mitt romney, mitt
to maintain our liberty with liberty for all. and therefore, if i'm president of the united states, we'll get rid of those sequestration cuts and rebuild america's military might! [ cheers and applause ] >> romney unveiled a new sort of rhetorical flourish speed going through the pledge line by line and in each sentence trying to find a way to criticize president obama, either for promises unkept or for future plans that he says are essentially rehashing old failed democratic ideas of the past. >> arthel: we're all counting down, 59 days left. can the campaigns begin to narrow down which swing states they're going to focus on? >> sure. there is about a dozen swing states that they're focusing on during the year. right now there is a safe number of some 20-plus states where mr. romney has an advantage, perhaps a smaller number of states for president obama is safe. but bigger populations. in the electoral college map, it's fairly close. virginia is very much one of them. ohio, and florida, absolutely. down to about seven. the truth is, there will be sort of spotty focus in both places, in many
to israel. those are the core demands of israel in the negotiations. the united states has always supported those positions. obama's people pull it out of the platform and the president chooses not to put it back in. very significant. >> sean: what do you make of -- we have two issues. number 1, the reaction to what i thought was a pretty stale, boring, cut-and-paste speech last night and the issue of the economy, the economic numbers that came out today, i mean, a net loss of another couple hundred thousand jobs, when you include the people who have left the labor force. your reaction? >> well, i think that the -- to me, i suppose in visual terms, you are right, the defining moment is that vote. i think that is likely to be remembered. but i think that in political terms, the enormous blunder was when speaker after speaker said, yes, we are better off now than we were four years ago. and that became a logo of this convention and it is very clear that the american people dont agree. and fortunately, romney is alert to it. they are pouncing right away and in all of the swing states he is run
and wind. that is why in the united states congress earlier this year, a bipartisan majority said we need to extend those tax credits. the oil industry, the gas industry, but coal industry and the nuclear industry have benefited from tens of billions of dollars of subsidies for many years. it is time to get a level playing field. in the meantime, we are playing catch up for the energy of the future. we will not run out of wind or solar. eventually, we will run out of oil and coal. the others will get cheaper. if you go to california or nevada or colorado, those are the energy future -- that is why there is bipartisan support for the clean energy credit. host: gene clearly did not answer your question, which was could the solar and wind sources work without subsidies? guest: we do not find them working without subsidies anywhere purified natural gas and petroleum working fine without subsidies. that is the oil companies get tens of billions of dollars of subsidies per year. that is not right. even to get the $4 billion the president talks about, you get all that from section 199 tax credit
children. the attack came a day after the united states said it was designating the haqqani network, blamed for a number of high-profile attacks on western and afghan targets in kabul, a terrorist organization. >>> illinois congressman jesse jackson jr. is back in washington, d.c., after being treated at the mayo clinic in arizona. jackson is spending the weekend resting at home with his wife and children. the 47-year-old began medical leave in early june. he is likely to be back at work on monday when congress returns from its summer recess. >>> and lots of kids get their hair cut so they look really good when they go back to school. however, in china, four brothers who are quadruplets had their hair cut so that their teachers could identify them. so, the kids now sport the numbers one through four on the top of their heads, corresponding to the order of their birth back in 2006. i don't know about that one, you guys. looks a little bit unfortunate. i don't know. what do you think? >> well, a tattoo would be permanent. >> well, there's only one way to find out. what do you say? come on, gu
if you want to see barack obama re-elected president of the united states, do whatever you can for virgil goode. they challenged his spot on the ballot and they said put him on the ballot anyway, and he's going to be on the ballot unless virginia's attorney general, this guy, decides to kick virgil goode off the ballot. he's been campaigning for mitt romney including last week at the republican convention. under virginia law, he gets to decide whether virgil goode gets his name on the ballot or not. look at the headline, he promises he will be absolutely objective about this whole thing. absolutely. virginia is getting three different mitt romney ads this week. virginia, ohio, new hampshire, iowa, colorado, nevada, north carolina, florida. that's it, that's the election. who the country is counting on to handle this election about the presidency for the rest of us, eight states. when stuff gets weird in one of those eight states, when something like virgil goode happens in one of those eight states, while that might be a weird side bar virginia story at any other time in any other politic
's not a country on earth that wouldn't gladly trade places with the united states of america. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: he was referring to this comment made by republican vice presidential nominee paul ryan earlier this week in iowa. >> we are a country in doubt. we hit $16 trillion of debt that was announced yesterday. >> reporter: the two campaigns are fighting over whose plans would be more devastating to the economy. >> here in iowa, we're not better off under president obama. >> reporter: on friday, the romney campaign released 15 new ads, tailored to swing state voters. the ads lament sinking home prices in florida, manufacturing losses in ohio. >> here in virginia, we're not better off under president obama. his defense cuts threaten over 130,000 jobs. >> reporter: campaigning in virginia beach today, governor romney invoked god repeatedly as he criticized the president for the slow pace of job growth. >> we're going to have to have a new president that will commit to a nation under god that recognizes the we, the american people, were given our rights not by governm
officially been designated by the u.s. as a terrorist network. secretary of state hillary clinton made the decision it bans americans from doing business from the groups and blocks any assets it holds in the united states. >>> a bizarre airport hoax gets even stranger. what led to this man being led out in handcuffs? >> john fowler has learned that quick action may very well have saved mccarthy's life. lots of prepaid cards come pre-filled with problems. enough is enough. introducing the chase liquid reloadable card. with chase liquid, there's no waiting and no fee to activate you can load cash and checks at any chase depositfriendly atm and there are no withdrawal fees at over 17,500 chase atms all for one flat fee of $4.95 per month. get rid of prepaid problems. get chase liquid. >>> investigators say they think a love triangle forced into a hoax that led a man to be taken off a plane in handcuffs. christopher shell was taken away in handcuffs. smith told police she did it to avenge his girlfriend because shell had dated a woman and posted a compromising picture of her on facebook. >
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. >>> turning now to the war in afghanistan where the u.s. is said to be making major strides. defense secretary is in afghanistan tonight and he says we're close to beating al- qaeda. fox's david piper has the latest. >> defense secretary leon pinetta arriving in afghanistan for his first visit to the war zone. this comes a week after he took his new tough job. >> it's big, it's complicated, it's filled with sophisticated technology. it's bumpy, but in the end it's the best in the world. >> the u.s. and allies are now within reach of defeating al- qaeda. >> the key is that having gotten bin laden, we've now identified some of the key leadership within al-qaeda, both in pakistan as well as in yemen and other areas that if we can be successful at going after them, i think we can really undermind their ability. >> the former cia director and other afghan officials discuss the plan to pull american troops. president obama wants to bring about 10,000 troops back home this year and 23,000 more next year. >> the key to success in afghanistan is the ability to successfully transition to the afgha
rodriguez says he doesn't expect violence in afghanistan to start decreasing until next year. from the pentagon earlier today, this is 45 minutes. >> general rodriguez, it's counselor dave lapin at the pentagon. if you're ready to go, i'll introduce you and we'll get started. >> ok, dave, go ahead, thanks. >> thank you. good morning to those here, good evening in afghanistan. i'd like to welcome pack to the pentagon briefing room, army lieutenant general david rodriguez. he's commander of the international security assistance force joint command, also known as i.j.c. and also the deputy commander of the united states forces afghanistan. general rodriguez's current tour began in june, 2009, he became the first commander of the i.j.c. in october of that year. prior to that, general rodriguez was commander of regional command east for 15 months from january, 2007 to april, 2008. next week after two straight years in command and more than 40 months in after gap stan over the past 4 1/2 year, general rodriguez is ski wruled to change command and return stateside to have u.s. army forces
in eastern afghanistan. that is the word from nato. will to bring you an update later in the show. >>> today a new chapter begins in afghanistan. general david petraeus will relinquish his post in a chemist and to lieutenant general john allen. general petraeus plans to retire from the army at the end of august, and will start his new job as head of the cia on september 5. nato is preparing to hand over provincial control to afghan forces. >>> 71 degrees on this monday. >> the startling arrest in the alleged phone hacking case surrounding media mogul rupert murdoch and resignation. >>> a morale boost for the nation in mourning, the expense of the american team. we will have more on the u.s. women's heart breaking world cup loss. >> a live picture of 395 moving smoothly so far. >>> i am lisa tazed with women hart, the national coalition for women with heart disease. if if you are woman living with heart disease, we are here for you. go to our web site. >> good morning, washington. >>> happy monday morning 6:11, adam caskey in the belfort furniture weather center with your forecast update. bac
ago in afghanistan petry, who was already shot in both legs, picked up a live grenade and toss it had away from two of his comrades. he lost his right hand but not his spirit. petry spoke with next's brian williams about how other wounded warriors encouraged him to remain positive. >> a lot of these men and women, their limbs or their bodies are stolen from them almost. they are driving down a road, and they don't see the enemy. it's just you wake up and you're laying there and you're disfigured now. >> yeah. >> and i had the choice to do what i did, and fully mentally knowing about what the dangers were. >> petry could have retired after losing his hand. instead, he re-enlisted and went back to afghanistan. >> still ahead tonight, chilling testimony from three young girls in the case against a politician's husband. >> a local county taking its smoking ban to private property. >> and a juror in the casey anthony trial fears for her life >>> the husband of a local city council member was in court today accused of molesting children at a slumber party. michael guardner is married to a f
and afghanistan, and at the time that we have gone to war, that is what we did the bush tax cuts, the corporate tax cuts that further douglas into the economic hole that we are in. it is -- that further doug us into the economical that we are in. it is the first time in history. host: here is a tweet. guest: those are the priorities that are laid before congress. we have a hearing yesterday where we did a land exchange. republicans passed a totally partisan votes. copper orr in the state of arizona will be taken out, no royalties paid for by a foreign company. it will be shipped to china for their industry that is growing. but no royalties, nothing bad for the american taxpayer. yet we wonder how we got ourselves into the situation we arwin. host: just announced, unemployment applications fall for a second week, few more -- fewer people sought unemployment benefits. the labor department says weekly applications dropped 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 405,000, the lowest level in almost three months. was the employment situation in your district? guest: unfortunately, yuma county leads the natio
french soldiers and one afghan civilian is dead after a bomb exploded in eastern afghanistan. three other soldiers and three afghanis were also wounded in that blast. the troops had been guarding a meeting of local leaders when a terrorist detonated the bomb. the attack comes a day after french president, nicolas sarkozy, announces that he's pulling out a quarter of france's 4,000 troops involved in nato-led operations in afghanistan by the end of next year. >>> a new warning by president obama will likely overshadow the fourth straight day of debt negotiations today. the president said last night that he couldn't guarantee that social security checks and payments to veterans and the disabled would be with mailed on time if a deal isn't done by august 2nd. but republicans say a deal won't happen if democrats don't give up on tax hikes. >> our president thinks that he's got to condition any prescription to fix these programs on tax increases. again, if that's what he's looking for, we're not going there. >> senate gop leader mitch mcconnell also outlined a proposal that would give the pres
in afghanistan and iraq and not really cutting the deficit. we're boring 40 cents on the dollar for every dollar that we spend in washington. and we cannot keep doing this. one thing i like to see is the repeal of obamacare. that alone would save us $2.5 trillion in the next 10 years. as far as the reid plan, i like to see him get it through the senate. i did not think that it would pass. host: couple we go to an independent in michigan, here is what the "new york times calls " says this morning. go ahead. caller: i called my representative yesterday and asked him to work with the president to compromise and make sure that the debt ceiling is raised over into 2013. this is destroying our economy. host: where do you see compromise? caller: th reid plan has cuts and take this off the table until 2013. i think that that makes sense. host: so you do not agree with republicans on this. caller: i do not. there is trillions of dollars being cut. let's take this and we don't want to make this something that the rest of the world is going to use against us. our dollar is worth nothing in the last 10 year
who lost his life when his offspring helicopter tragically went down in afghanistan. and now his family and friends have found a way to honor his life and sacrifice through an annual event that is now used to raise funds for a college scholarship awarded to students at eden prairie high school where randy graduated in 1985. in addition to this scholarship, his run seeks to raise awareness of the contributions of our men and women in uniform that they make every day to keep america free. the major may not live us but his memory lives on through his family and friends and his community and through the scholarships through the local high school students that share his values. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. kucinich: mr. speaker, i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for one minute. mr. kucinich: as congress struggles to come up with this deal over government debt, we all know that all we had
and lindsay graham appeared together on fox news sunday from kabul, afghanistan. graham taking issue with president obama's more aggressive troop withdrawal timetable. >> it has created risk. it has changed the momentum. it is seen now as an effort to withdraw rather than transition. and i hope and pray this works out well. it came at a very critical time, and we will see what the future holds. >> if we don't succeed here and the taliban comes back into power, we'll be attacked again. and there could be no greater threat to our security and our freedom, the freedom that we celebrate on july 4th. >> reporter: melanie alnwick, fox five news. >>> the former head of the international monetary fund may have a political future in france. a new poll shows nearly half of those surveyed in france believe strauss-kahn should return to political life in france. 46% said no. the rest didn't answer the question. strauss-kahn is charged with sexually assaulting a manhattan hotel housekeeper. prosecutors say her credibility may now be in question. >>> a gaz
dark. paychecks for troops in afghanistan and iraq and based around the world could stop. f.a.a. towers could shut down. so could the f.b.i. and the c.i.a., border crossings could close, safety inspections of food americans eat and cargo that enters our ports could halt. literally every function of governmentould cease. social security checks, payments to our veterans. we've heard that before. there would be no discussion of which operations and personnel were essential. all the payments would very likely stop. some have said we could priorize which bills to pay. even if that wouldn't irreparably damage our nation's reputation and credit in the global economy a the globe at community, which it would, is also a complete fiction. our government won't even be able to cover the bills due on august 3. it will simply run out of money and because we'll be in default and our credit rating trashed, we'll be able to borrow the money not again to keep running, even if we wanted to. that's a picture secretary geithner painted. like i said, it's grim. many of my republican colleagues understand this
have or do that wouldn't have to raise the debt ceiling. one is the iraq and afghanistan war, it's george bush's war. i think what we need to do is go after george bush, dick cheney, and donald rumsfeld and let them pay for their wars that they got us into. the second thing is that we need to stop sending our money overseas and start helping our own people. the third thing is that all of these senators and congressmen that are making making $170,000 a year and making these poor choices, if they would be making $40,000, $50,000 a year, every one of their dumb decisions that they make wouldn't only affect us but it would affect them. host: thank you for your call. next up is royal oak, michigan. this is eugene a republican. good morning. caller: yes. i am calling in regards -- i'm very disappointed in boehner. i was going to send him some money, but now i'm not. i gave allen west some money, and i'm getting disappointed in him for him caving. i can't understand why the mainstream press insists on sending the republicans -- saying the republicans are at fault all the time when they
in afghanistan. so far more than 400,000 people have seen this video. go for it. >> yeah, you never know unless you ask. >> exactly. >>> well, we're asking about the weather today. tom is here to tell us the answer about how hot it's going to get. the answer is really hot. >> indeed. >>> look at the sky now. a beautiful blueberry, peaches and cream and gnats sunrise. you can see the gnats lying around the camera there. we've got the steam heat there. very humid around the region. upper 70s in washington. right by the bay, southern maryland, eastern shore, already around 80 degrees. farther west and north, we're in the 70s. low to mid-70s throughout most of virginia, maryland, and the shenandoah valley, panhandle of west virginia. in the west, it's dipped into the upper 60s. there's the beautiful sunrise beginning to take shape. by 9:00, mid-80s. by noon time the low 90s. by midafternoon we ought to peak at the record high of near 99 degrees to 100. and the air quality also diminishing this afternoon, code orange. and late afternoon into the evening hours, there's a small chance of some scattere
an unjust war in afghanistan. >> it was against my islamic conditions. >> reporter: he accused the army of trumping up charges he possessed child pouring into fee and a few weeks ago went awol. on tuesday he surfaced at a gun shop in texas bought six pounds of gun powder and asked a strange question. >> "what is smokeless powder." if you don't know what it is, why would you buy six pounds of it. >> reporter: police arrested abdo at this motel room, arrested him with gunpowder, pressure cooker, batteries, clocks, a semiautomatic handgun and more than 100 rounds of ammunition. he wanted to attack soldiers from nearby ft. hood, perhaps by bombing a restaurant outside the base. abdo explained he was "seeking revenge for what the army did to me." the plot comes less than two years after a shooting spree at ft. hood left 13 people dead. major nadal hasan awaits trial. b bob orr, cbs news, washington. >>> oslo police are interrogating anders brievik for a second day today. he will be charged for each of the 6 killings. memorial services are being held for each of the victims of the massacre. y
administration. mr. courtney: starting with iraq and afghanistan wars, two wars which, again, lots of debate about whether it was in our national interest, but in any case what is not debatable is that we never paid for a penny of either one of those conflicts. the bush tax cuts, $1.8 trillion . nondefense discretionary spending, $608 billion. tarp, the wall street bailout, which a lot of people forget occurred under the last administration, a medicare drug benefit which was passed in 2005 which was never paid for, not a nickel of that benefit was ever paid for. we were either offsetting revenue or other -- with either offsetting revenue or other spending reductions. and the 2008 stimulus bill which the bush administration had presented, a lot of people don't remember the check they got sent during that time for, again, none of those expenditures were paid for and many of those expenditures such as the bush tax cuts and the iraq and afghanistan war are still recurring expenses which are still accumulating bills and debts which this country is obligated for. when the obama administration took
bring our combat troops home fromex afghanistan, that we can expect the international community to do more than we can bring about savings on the military side. let me talk about the last major component of the conrad budgetly and how it differs substantially from the ryan budget. not a serious revenues. i know there's been a lot of so discussion about revenues. so what does the democratic budget due in this regard? it takes i revenues to 19.5% of our gross domestic product, gdp. mr. president, that is t phe sae amount of us raised on the clinton presidency when we had unprecedented prosperity and jow growth in america. now, how do wehe get there? how do we get the revenues that we need in order to be able to h bring this debt under control? well, senator conrad has given us some direction on how we canr do that. he has pointed out that sheltere and loopholes need to be closede these are inefficiencies in our kax code today. tal i take the floor on two occasions recently to talk aboue some that i think we shouldat eliminate pier one, the ethanole subsidy.ubsidy. the majority of the se
with afghanistan, and over the years the number has gone up steadily. in the first few years in the strikes of 2,042,007 they're just a handful and then we see it going up in 2010. the obama administration rising at a policy never fully publicly articulated. 118 strikes last year and 45 so far this year. the pakistanis said a couple of months ago that they wanted him stopped them stopped and they ordered the cia out in their base in pakistan were some of the strikes are being launched. by my reckoning there is than a dozen since then. so has this been done like the enlightened raid against the will of the pakistan government? put the whole thing in a different legal contextualization. we don't know that for sure but we know the americans are defensive about in last month for example john brennan tried to relay concerns he took to new targeting procedure and he said that in the past year there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency precision of the capabilities we have been able to develop. in other words because they have been checking much more carefully th
not be able to do things militarily to support our troops in afghanistan and iraq. i view this, i think it bears close watching, but there is a perception that somehow we're giving our china, india, brazil and other countries an advantage. i view this program as a two-way street. it does provide a degree of access to american companies and so i would be also reluctant -- i reluctantly oppose your amendment but i can assure you that both of us feel very strongly that it bears watching. it has borne some fruit. mr. frelinghuysen: it's not money wasted, it's not money given away to competitors. thank you for yielding. mr. visclosky: but again, i think it draws attention that we should be closely monitoring these funds. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from fey rise? >> i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. broun: i'd like to yield to dr. harris from maryland. mr. harris: let me briefly address this so we can move on. we only cut $6 million out of the $8 million. there's budget language further on t
of iraq and afghanistan. today we just voted h.r. 2650 to, in fact, establish a club of losers for these patriots who have served their country. what a shame. what a shame. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? without objection. mr. scalise: mr. speaker, the house finally passed a real plan that addresses this nation's spending crisis. i think many american families know that washington has a spending problem because they have been living within their means. they have wen been trying to figure out to do what what they've got. and we passed a plan that actually would cut, cap and balance and controls spending in washington. and what's the president's plan? we have still yet to hear his plan. we hear speeches and class warfare where the president puts one part of america against the other. if he confiscated every dollar, it wouldn't address the problem. it's time to get real. if the president wants to get serious about addressing the spending problems, it's time to confront what cut, cap and balance does and tell washingt
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the incident started this morning around 11:30 in the 700 block of frederick baltimore county police officer noticed the suspect sitting inside a stolen car behind a business.....whee he approached the vehicle the suspect drove off.....that's when the officer shot him......the suspect ended up in the upper parking lot behind the school..... (34:49)the officer was not shot at however the suspect was attempting to strike him with the vehicle which is why he fired his service weapon the officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigatio. investigation.the suspect was shot in the upper body and taken to shock trauma........the car......a toyota rav 4 was reported stolen in carroll county.... charges are pending.... harford county buriis a &psheriff's deputy today. tooay.corporal charles licato was laid to rest this afternoon at bel air memorial gardens.the 14- yyar veteran of the arford county sheriff's office as killed... ...when he crashed his car on route one thursday morning.he was on his was home from work. licato's mom called him 'fearl
true you can sayy baltimore is a safer city because of his work."(((as live tag cairns)"officer cemeteryyin annapolis. in towson kc fox 45 news at 5 30 there... are... more deeands... that... a... be... removed... from the bench../ .after... complainns... about... howw e handled... &p a... domestic... violence case. baltimore... county... district court judge... "bruce lamdin"... is... not... hearing cases... right now..../ because... he's... under investigation... after... a complainn... filed... by... the... women's ... &p law center...//. an... audio recording.... that... shows... one woman .../ pllading... for... a protective order... from her husband..../ but... showss.. the judge.../ has... no remorse. ((audio recorring)): "i believe he is a threat to the safety and well being of my children and i just finished grad school and i have no means to vacate the house.. and so i need him not to be there... judge response: ma'am there areeshelters." shelters." the hoose of ruth... has no
for else.kkith daniles live in northeast baltimore where public's help in the finding the killer... keith. 3 3 "iq: everybody from the party was gone... oq: for no reason at all." 3 a man is dead tonight after a late morning shooting.neighbors say the &pvictim was a teenaged boy.but police say he is in his early 20s.the shooting happened on beeyl avenue in east baltimore south of biddle street.police say they don't have a motive at this time. 19.06.34 jeremy silbeet, baltimore police spokesperron: "officers then responded to the scene to find a male who we believe to be in his early 20s suffering from at least one gunshot wound to his body. that ictim as transported from the scene in serious condition. he eft to a local h" hospital."neighbors would noo talk to us on camera, but say the victim could be as young as 14.anyonee ith information is urged to all baltimore city police. still no cause of thht fire in east baltimore...that left an 88-year old woman dead. fire fighters responded to the 22-hundred bllck ofeast north avenue on sunday evening...where theydiscovered the victim on th
.the child is expected to fully recovee.paul gessler, fox45 news at 5:30. a baltimore county jury comes back with guilty verdicts against the two men police say orchestrated the towson town murder last december. frank williams and william degree pre-meditated murder. 199year old rodney pridget , was killed. prosecutors ay their strongest piece of evidence was the ideotape from the malls surveillancee say they plan to seek life.. - without parole for williams and ward. (shellenberger)"although they feel like if your an individual that has enough powerryou can make someone obviously a very dangerous person should never be free to walk maryland streets again" sentencing... is... the owners... of... majestii . auto repair shop... are... sentenced... ffr a towing extortion scheme... involving... more than ...50... baltimore police officers.../. her--nan ... moreno... was given 33 months in prison,.../ his... brother edwin ... will serve... two years..../the... two... paid... police officers... to tow cars... from... accident scenes... to... their busiiess..
-662-1456.you can also log onto our weesite ox baltimore dot com and click on wwste watch. 3 newwat 5:30 baltimore's speed cammra program will soon &ppe under reeiew..... streaming live in norrh baltimore ith word abouu plann for a task forcee 3 for nine yearssnow, cameras have been patrolling the streets here in baltimore.....but now the cameras are about to be under watch themmelves. the mayoo has convened a task force to ssudy thhir accuracy and theirr effectiveness..... the cameras have long been thh parget of complaints and they haven't been without miitakes. task force to revvew the program and report their year. (5:43:31) "we wannn make sure the business procedures arr rrght. we wanna makk sure they're being effetive in reducing speed. but at thhe enn of the day, as long as over the speed limit in a going to applogizz for using thisstoolluntil eople slow ddwn." jamme kendrick will be chairing the task force... in fact, half of those servinggoo the city's 8-member task force are employeddby he city. jeff abell, fox 5 news t five 30. how are the roads ooking
in northwest baltimore. baltimore. a ribbon cutting ceremony was held today at the kipp baltimore campus on greenspring avenue.the school underwent 4 million dollars in renovations, including an entire floor of new kindgergarten classroomskipp enrollment public charter - schools.the expansion will help them serve more than 1 thousand students from underserved communities "we actually go door to oor innthe park heights ommunity to recruite in person all of our students ann that way we make sure we're getting the students who need us the most. our kids come on average well below grade level in reading and math in most cases and we work hard to get them above grade level during their time with us." us." local philanthropists donated the money for renovations.... other updates include a new h- vac system and fire safety how are the roads looking tonig? tonight?brandi proctor has our traffic edge report. report. mapbelairwilkensfiber395map as... you may knoo bb now,... fox45 is the new home of wheel of fortune. fortune.the show that made pat and vanna household names.i hadthe
is from baltimore. he wassthere. and there was just a lot of excitement about question 6." sultan' shakir...was one thh 250 folks who attended last night's celebrity fundraiser in manhatten. an event...expected to raise a quarter of a million dollars...to help phold the maryland law...that legalizes same sex marriage. (shakir) "well, there's a lot of support around teh country for question 6, because i think a lot of people unnerstand that marriage equallity is really about equality, it's about fairness." opponents of same sex marriage...are not surprisedby that big city. (mccoy) "they have to go out of town, they gotta go to alifornia, they got to go to new york, they got to go to all these different places 'cause they just don't have the ggassroots support in their own state."(rydell) "and supporrers and opponents say you can expect to see plenty of tv commercials on same sex marriage between now and election day. in annnpolis, john rydell, fox45 news at 5:30." marylands dream act... became the focus of a heated debate right here at the fox-45 studios last night night(25:50)(heated e
. we waat ou to call your primary care provider and all your local health department." 3 baltimore poliie say firebombs are to blame or two fis in northeast baltimore. the fires broke out about 4 o'clock this morning.....less than a mill apart.........the second fire happened at the parkside garden apartments.....where seven people were injured tryiig escape. miracle everyone got out or safely that time of the morning molotov cocktails are meant to start a fire very quickly anddto havae that fire ssread very quickly... quickly... we have also learned the district will be sendingg2 officcrs to patrol thissarea regularly. the irebombings did manage to pring a neighborhood together. together.joel d. smith says into heroes. heroes. 3800 phylicia estep i got up wwen i heard people running, i ggt up and thought what are they running for? phylicia estep and many other families here at parkside garden apartments, wake up to fraatic footsteps, and quickly see the reason why. 3822 there was so much smoke, when pou looked thorugh the ppephole, you couldn't see out. it was terribll,
a crimnal record in north carolina...who only came to baltimore this year.janice park fox45 news at 5:30. attorneys want the 15 year old perry hall high shooting suspect tried as an juvenile. juvenile.robert gladdenns attorneys made the requeet today in court.both sides had gathered for a bail review hearing.that hearing was postponed. glaaden's defense needs addiiional time to review some medical records. 13 seconds same super from 5 sot 22:25:35 at that age...you don't throw somebody away at age 15 for a bad act act .gladden remains at the county petention center tonight check out ...the entire interview... with gladden's lawyers... on fox baltimore dot com.click on "raw news." students at morgan state university are athering tonight - after yesterday's shooting on campus. campus. myranda stephens is streaming live in northeast baltimore with more on their call for peace. 33 3 a... maryland is... in... custody today.. / hanks... to... facebook..../ police... say... 29-year-old... dylan.. naeckee... was captured... clicked... "like"... on... a... virginia
baltimore.../.it... happened... on... north... treeper... ear... madison street... around 3 ... this morning...//.one... man... was shot... in the face,.../ the... other grazed... by a were... taken to a hospital,.../ at this hour. . ... - police... are... busy... with several shootings... in... he past... 24 hours... following... a... violent holiday weekend... in ballimore..../since... friday... 13... people ...have been shot... / 5... fatally.... in... seperate incidents... city--wide . rack... criminal activity... in... your neighborhood ...with 'spotcrime.'...// get... e-mail... alerts... when crime happens..../ at... fox baltimore dot com.../ click on... spotcrime... in the hot topics section. ////////////////wipe vo/////////////////// family and friends will gather mother shot down at a labor day house party. police say aaos was shot while she was standing in the front yard.. it hhppened at about 2 o'clock sunday morning at a house on the alameda at richnor avenuu.. poliie don't believe she was the target. witness
from horus practice.... is shot dead near his northeast baltimore home.police call it a tragedy that occurred in a city this don't usually happen.like happen.it was aroond 10:30 last night when doctor peter marvit was approached. neighbors hearid as many as four shots fired.marrit had beee shot in the chest just feet from his car.today, there was a heavy police presence along chesterfield avenue.one resident wants tooknow where that police prescence was last night. 2:14:52 they always show up when it's too late and it's sad because you pay you taxes. you do things and you expect to live your life... the american dream :01 :01that neighbor says he moved from his previous home because of gangs.he moved to this area expecting something etter. anne... arundel county police... need your help.../ identifying... aa.. suspicious man... near... an... elementary school. school.surveillance cameras... caught... these photos... of him... outside... "seven oaks"... elemennary ...in odenton. .../ police... were called ...there... shortll before 6 pm... thursday.../
're calling a new conference tomorrow to discuss the incident. live in east baltimore, keith daniels, fox 45 news at 5-30. 3 two people gunned down in northeast baltimore and no arrests have been made. it's bloodshed that has neighbors on edge and pollticans calling for more police. police. here's the scene of the latest killing. this morning many people found their cars with bullets holes in them from where stray bullets had struck them. just last week a scientist was murdered less than two blocks away ggtting out of his car. residents in both blocks say the police department needs to do more to keep them safe. 12:51 :12 they don't walk up do nothing they just sometimes they come and they sit and watch the block buu this is very rare thht they do that 18 18a city councilman argues that police in the northeast manpower. ee specially - violence breaks out in towson... as the tigers celebrate homecoming weekend. six people were arrested near campus and one man was shot... and police say it's not students who are to blame. blame.saturday night, after the homecoming game... fraternity me
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, and we got access to the fbi agent who was assigned to lorna oswald. we know everything he did from the time he met marina in russia until the time he pulled the trigger. this is all new information. i think people will be stunned when they read it. it snaps your head back. >> you don't get into some of the conspiracy theories. is that because you don't think they are true and don't think evidence supports them or that's a whole other book and you weren't trying to write the book? >> the evidence supports themselves, savannah. my books are fact-based. we don't go off into that could have, might have happened. everything you read happened, and we got it from the fbi reports. we got it from people who were on the scene. no secondary stuff. oh, i saw that guy over there. none of that. and we tell the reader, when we don't know something, because there's one thing, this shadowy guy was around oswald who should not have been, i can't nail that down, but i tell the reader that. there's no doubt that oswald did kill ken >> i as you mentioned, you don't shy away from the fact that president
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the changes could mean. >>> welcome back. take a look at the u.s. equity futures. dow and s&p coming off their worst week since july 4th. you can see they are indicated higher, but maybe not the bounce you might have expected. the dow up 23. >> squawk sports new, texans beating the bears 13-6. foster finished with 102 yards rush and touchdown catch and texans intercepted cutler twice before knocking him out with a concussion. >> no comment about the jets? >> they lost. >> andrew, here's the deal. >> did you see rex ryan -- >> the giants won the super bowl last year. a lot of people have told him he's fat and he should shut up. he's not fat anymore. she just shut up. but sanchez, you brush up against him and the ball goes flying out. >> they've been going back and forth. >> when the giants are the defending the super bowl champions and they got their butts kicked by the bengals and the other game unbelievable is johnny football. texas a and m and alabama, that was unbelievable. alabama number one. texas a and m just joined the sec. and this guy johnny football, you just can't believe the
. u.s. equity futures should be interesting to look at temperature basically on hold. not sure what to do after yesterday. we'll talk more about the economy in a minute with david rosenburg. it was pretty clear yesterday that depending on how you wanted to spin it, could you say how do you do for another four years. i don't remember any euro news in the last six months no matter how bad it was, we didn't get it free handle. so there's more to it than just europe. >> it was the fiscal cliff, but also the financials got hit so hard. if it had been romney, the cliff would be less of a deal because they would stepped all of them. so now we know and we lettered it first hand yesterday. boehner said we're open to tax increase, but part of a bigger plan that involves spending cuts. dove did a bungee -- >> worst thing i ever did. >> but it goes down and then right back up. >> the worst part is you feel like you're connected on something, but don't. it's a free fall until the very he said and then he start to feel like i'm connected to something and it throws being back into the air. >> my q
at the ex-have a dax, up 5%. ftse up nearly 4% in the last week on top of pretty good gains for the u.s. markets as you know between 3% and 4%, as well. so no surprise perhaps today that we're a little bit weaker on the back of those gains. 8:2 just about decliners outpacing advancers. this is how it translates. ftse 100 down half a percent. xetra dax up a quarter. ibex down about half of 1%. a number of things going on in politics as ever. we had regional elections in spain. yields you can see slightly higher, but still well below 6%. now, these regional elections fairly important because we know catalonia has been pushing on on independence. now, it looks less likely we'll get that referendum, but not because people in catalonia are any less eager on a separatist movement. just that they didn't vote for the main guy who is proposing it. they voted for competitor party which is makes it slightly harder in the short term for them possibly to get a referendum going. so eases the pressure in the short term but means there is still a longer term problem there. catalonia is one of those reg
cuts that threaten to send the u.s. almost off a fiscal cliff. a sum met set for friday. i like the "new york times." democrats like a romney idea. >> did you see paul ryan's comment? >> no. but i got my button back on because i'm -- i'm going to tell that you rise above is kind of like a rorschach thing. because for me, rise above means democrats rising above the obsession with rates and realizing broadening the bates is better -- >> it means coming together. >> that is a way of coming together. you're raising revenue. your only way is if the republicans say yes -- >> no, that is not true. my way is anyway you come up with an agreement is a great way. you're only looking from one side of the aisle. >> but they'll never agree to raising rates about sfw. >> i will give you that it is a error sha rorschach test, but i want you to actually cut some things and i want you to deal with expenditures. >> you have the same house that said no to 39.6 on the high he said. but a way of raising revenue will spur growth -- they're coming around to the correct version right here. >> what about
. it is all about the u.s. this week. the tone for the most part has been negative this morning as you can judge from the red behind me. yes the uk pmi data came in weak, points to the country potentially in contraction territory despite the better gdp figures. some concern about greece. investors seem to be standing on the sidelines until a lot of these issues are resolved or at least there's more clarity. this follows reports over the weekend that some of the ways in which spanish banks borrow at cheap rates may not have been legal. the ecb says it's exploring the issue. one of the companies weighing on the foot city, hsbc which has said it is provisioning $1.5 billion against the laundering charges. group profit slightly disappointed investors. shares down 1.4% as a result the there. but that's really it in terms of the major corporate news. ubs going through a bit of a shake up. the bond wall expresses more of the mood we're seeing on the eve of the u.s. elections here. it's a rotation out of the periphery into the core. the gilts are benefiting. spain, italy seeing yields a little hig
forces claiming to have targeted 100 gaza sites. the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is on her way to the middle east for talks with officials in a bid to try to end the deadly crisis. we've been watching oil prices, as well. and after sharp gains yesterday, you can see oil prices pulling back about 27 cents, still just about $89 for wti crude. we will have a live report from our nbc colleagues on the ground in the middle east coming up in the next half hour. >>> let's talk about some of the main market events of the morning. actually today fed chairman ben bernanke's speech at the economics sclub of new york is coming up at 12:15 eastern time. traders will be listening no any comments on the central bank's operation twist program and discussions about changing how the fed communicates about interest rates. operation twist expires next month. and there is some speculation the fed will continue making asset purchases by expanding the size of its $40 billion a month quantitate of it easing program. also on the economic agenda today, october housing starts released at 8:30 a.m. an
and save the u.s. economy from going down a dangerous road. it is wednesday, november 7th, the day after and a special early presentation of "squawk box" follows the late presentation that we had yesterday. but it starts right now. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. and yes, we know it's only 5:00 a.m. on the east coast, but you don't have to double check your clocks. on the morning after election day, we couldn't wait until 6:00 a.m. to get back on the air. the american public handing president obama four more years in the white house. meantime, the balance of power stays the same in the senate. this morning, we have two main items on the squawk agenda. after months of handicapping the race, we'll find out how the global markets react to the decision and ask how you need to position your portfolio. we have a number of people on hand to help us with that task, including mike santoli. he is our guest the next hour. chuck gabriel, his job is to try to connect the dots between washington and investors. we have jeremy seigel. also, vincent rinehart. we'll be jo
. #. >>> if we go over the fiscal cliff, global business travel association estimates that u.s. biz travel spending will take a $20 billion hit in the short term. but how about the long term outlook? find out next. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. governor of getting it done. you know how to dance... with a deadline. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. this is awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is, business pro. yes, it is. go national. go like a pro. >>> what are the long term effects for business travel if the economy falls off the fiscal cliff? the gbta predicts the reduced deficits and lower interest rates will lead to growth in the economy and an increase in business travel spending. >>> welcome back. now to the weather channel. reynolds wolf is standing by. what is happening around the country today? >> the story is all west. everything is taking place out west. rain, some strong winds, even some snow. some places snow getting up to arou
thanksgiving week, aside from the one disturbance in the central u.s. and the one other area off the carolinas, fairly quiet with the exception of the northwest coastline. that's where we're dealing with a lot of snow and a lot of rain. much of the snow over 7,000 feet. rain especially coastal oregon in some areas 7, 8 inches over the next few days. tuesday, still fairly quiet travel wise. wednesday, that persists in the northwest still remaining one of the trouble spots. thanksgiving, looking pretty good across a good stretch of the country. just a few showers up towards seattle. and as far as the numbers for friday are concerned, looking good there, as well. that may help some of the consumer numbers on black friday. >> why do you have a cool there for thanksgiving? i thought it would be fairly mild here on thursday. i heard low 50s. >> here we are in november, though. so cool, 50s. it's close to the averages. >> all right. just wanted to make sure. i was paying attention. supposed to be sunny and 50s. >> are you going to the parade? >> i'm going to try to go to the parade. we try to go ever
died in the u.s. as a result of sandy. most of them from new york and new jersey. still 5.6 million customers in the dark. and it may be ten days before the hardest hit areas sea power restored. more than 19,000 flights were canceled because of sandy, but stranded passengers have something to be thankful for. newark and jfk airports were back in business yesterday and delta and american airlines are scheduled to resume a limited number of flights out of laguardia in about 30 minutes. the mta is also getting back to business with new york city subways offering limited service starting today. the m tcta is waiving all fees until tomorrow. so good news there. >> we're looking for any good news so thank you. the eye of hurricane sandy has hit the jersey shore hard. it wiped away entire economies. president obama surveyed the damage with chris christie yesterday. this morning kayla tausche is in toms river, seaside heights. what's it look like there? >> reporter: it's very dark here. we're at the mouth of the bridge which leads over to sea sooid heights, a road only accessible by emergen
. that was in the u.s. as of 8:00 p.m. on on monday october the 29th. we originally saw previous landfall. as we progress into the northeast for today, light snowfall and rain for today. but the bigger concern is what's happening with the system that will be diving across the country. it's going to take a nose dive south of the system that's actually produce rain and snow across the dakotas. it will eventually take a nose dive south. and what that will do, there we go, here's a look at some of our spotty showers as well as our snowfall. again, a little bit of being a tip weather still knocking on the door of the northwest. here's a look at that system that i was telling you about. again, that will produce 1 to 4 inches of snow into portions of the dakotas as well as knocking on the door of northwestern minnesota. our storm system once it does track a little further east on sunday, things getting a difference from southeastern texas all the way up in to north carolina. now, as for those of you who are keeping tabs again on the weather across the middle east, the bitterly cold temperatures as we g
of the u.s. economy. it's tuesday, november 6th, election day, 2012. "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning. welcome to "squawk box." i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin and the polls are opening in various parts of the east coast as we speak. some 30 million americans have already voted, including the folks in the tiny village of dixville notch. this follows tradition, they voted just after midnight and with the lowest turnout in almost 50 years, this time around it was a tie. five votes for president obama, five for governor romney. back in 2008, president obama defeated john mccain 16-5. let's take a look at the map. 270 electoral votes are needed to win. nbc news now shows president obama with 237 likely. romney 206. and 95 in the toss-up column, so it is going to be a very long evening, andrew. >> i think we'll be staying up pretty late and then we'll be back at it tomorrow morning. but cnbc's team of reporters has the country covered this morning. stationed in battleground states, campaign headquarters and here at election central. among our
that hasn't happened since october 2011. u.s. equity futures at this hour actually higher. up by about 65 for the dow, s&p more than 7, and as joe mentioned, the fiscal cliff is still the focus. today treasury secretary tim geithner will be meeting with congressional leaders. first harry reid at about 10:00 and then followed by a session with john boehner, eric cantor, paul ryan and chairman of the house's tax writing ways and means committee dave camp. also lunch with republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi. yesterday a number of high profile corporate leaders met with president obama at the white house, including lloyd blankfein. >> both sides have acknowledge there had is revenue concessions and entitlement concessions. in fact if you listen to it, again, i'm not a master of the political art here, but i would say if you have these point of views in a business context, i would say a deal would be in reach. >> among our guests this morning, we have ron johnson. at the white house today, president obama will host mitt romney for a private lunch. it's their firs
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, the northwest corridor for us is linking between some pretty rural areas, but between seattle, vancouver, seattle and portland, oregon, and cha-ching oregon, we have some major business markets and the opportunity for travelers who are tourists to enjoy our rail. for us, it wasn't going to work to start from scratch. immediately institute a high speed rail line. we have too many communities linking to that west coast corridor that wanted to enjoy the benefits of rail, and wanted us as a state to his country being and putting our own state dollars into it, they wanted to see the benefits in that incremental fashion. so for us i think washington state will always be a higher speed or at least in the next 20 to 30 years, higher speed passenger rail program, but it works for us and it works for our businesses and our major communities that it links. also i'd like to say that as we work closely with burlington northern santa fe on this notion of sharing the corridor, it's a decision that we made, burlington northern santa fe has bought into it, and the notion for us in the amount of increment
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doesn't. to the number 1 club in the world. the potential of manchester united unlocked. nyse euronext. unlocking the world's potential. >>> our second story "outfront" a possible tipping point in syria with war or something a lot like it in the balance. cnn has learned that the u.s. military is updating its options daily for a potential strike against syria. this in response to intelligence that shows the assad regime has filled bombs with deadly chemical weapons. syria has one of the most sophisticated stockpiles of chemical weapons in the region, including mustard gas, sarin and intelligence agents think vx nerve agent. president obama has said the movement or use of chemical weapons by syria could lead to u.s. intervention. "outfront" tonight, national security contributor fran townsend who is on the cia and homeland security external advisory board and noah shachtman. noah, what do we think is going on right now? at what point are they in this process? >> so the assad regime has hundreds of metric tons of the building blocks of sarin. basically two big building blocks. there's iso
club in the world. the potential of manchester united unlocked. nyse euronext. unlocking the world's potential. >>> we all know the topic of race in america can be a thorny issue but it's one soledad o'brien continues to explore. her new documentary is called "who is black in america" and takes a provocative look at the issue of color. soledad talks to 17-year-old nya jones, raised by a white father and teased about her light skin color by her black classmates. >> they always called me white girl. i was never ashamed of myself until they taught me to be ashamed. >> soledad o'brien is "outfront" tonight with more on her documentary which airs here on cnn this sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. you don't want to miss it. soledad, this is something i've been aware of for a long time. people in the black community told me for many, many years that within the community, there's a struggle over who's black, who's too black, who is not black enough. how does a child like nya deal with this? >> it happens outside the community as well. many people outside the community like to weigh in and say y
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minority leader mcconnell, speaker boehner, and leader pelosi at the white house. senate majority leader harry reid took to the senate floor this morning to, shall we say, let boehner have it. >> if we go over the cliff, and it looks like that's where we're headed, mr. president, the house of representatives as we speak, with four days left after today before the first of the year aren't here with the speaker having told them they'll have -- they'll give them 48 hours' notice. the american people i don't think understand the house of representatives is operating without the house of representatives. it's being operated with a dictatorship of the speaker, not allowing the vast majority of the house of representatives to get what they want. >> lo and behold, the markets started to tank, in part on fears of reid's warning that it looked like we were going over the cliff. within an hour word came that the house would return to washington and be in session on sunday at 6:30 p.m. boehner repeated his assertion that the senate would pass the two bills that the house has already acted on and inc
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We’re 14 yrs late in developing cryogenic tech, says former ISRO head Narayan
S Sanandakumar, ET Bureau Jan 8, 2014, 05.00AM IST
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KOCHI: Nambi Narayanan, former head of Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) cryogenic division, is now focused more on his pursuit of justice than rocket propulsion even as the indigenous engine he started developing more than two decades ago finally lifted GSLV D5 from Sriharikota on Sunday.
Narayanan was framed in an infamous spy scandal in 1994, which turned out to be a fabricated case. He was kept in police custody for two months, tortured and his brilliant scientific career was destroyed.
Four years later, Supreme Court dismissed the case against him. The spy scandal afflicted the ISRO Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle project, too. Narayanan, who retired as director for advanced technologies and planning at ISRO, had set for himself a target to develop the cryogenic technology by 2000.
"We are late by 14 years," he says, adding that the indigenously built cryogenic engine could have become a reality years ago if only the country had not allowed "outside forces" to derail one of its strategic technology initiatives. Narayanan was in charge of the project to develop cryogenic engine.
The team had zeroed in on Russia for technology and the transfer of cryogenic technology was to be completed by 1997. Everything was going on smoothly when he was arrested in connection with the ISRO spy scandal that broke out in Kerala in 1994. He was accused of leaking vital information about the project to two Maldivian women. CBI later found that the case was fabricated and had also sought action against some police officers of Kerala, including the now-retired IPS officer Siby Mathews, for falsely implicating him in the case. Compensation and action against police officers are causes that Narayanan still pursues steadfastly, without much luck yet.
Narayanan, who developed liquidfuel rocket technology in the country, said the US was against the transfer of cryogenic technology to India and there was apprehension that it would interfere in the matter.
"The US raised objection to the transfer of cryogenic technology to India. We knew that the intervention by US could end the collaboration abruptly. So the entire programme wad speeded up," he said.
According to Narayanan, there was a general apprehension about the retaliatory measures by the US against those who collaborated with the project. "Our own national carrier was reluctant to carry the hardware.
The company was worried about the US sanctions," he said. It is for this reason that he believes that the spy scandal was the result of intervention by "outside forces", which could be other countries or agencies. An open letter in support of Nambi Narayanan written by Dr Satish Dhawan, Dr U R Rao, T N Sheshan, R Narasimha, S Chandrashekhar and Yashpal, too, had talked about the risk of "outside interferences" in the strategic initiatives of the country. The scandal demoralised ISRO scientists and delayed the project to a great extent.
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HOWTO: Living in New Zealand (or Other Suitable Locale) for a Month!
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I've been traveling in South America and India for about five months now at a fairly frenetic pace, and am looking for a change. I've decided I want to settle down in one city from around September 15-October 15, and I'm thinking New Zealand is the place I want to do it (but I am open to other cities in other countries that meet my criteria, so feel free to throw them out!). I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts you have on the best city, the best way to find lodging, transport, etc. - details on what I'm looking for below!
I'm looking for a place that meets the following criteria:
(i) ready access to the outdoors. I love to hike, and I want to spend a good amount of time exercising, so I'd like to be in a place where I can hike on an almost daily basis, weather permitting, and have some variety in trails - though I'm happy to hike the same route repeatedly too. I am happy to rent a car, take cabs, public transit, etc. (subject to budget), to get to trails, though if everything is close enough that I could walk, that would be great too.
(ii) ready access to a decent supermarket. I'd like to cook for myself a decent amount of the time.
(iii) good internet access. I still do some work while travelling, and need a strong internet connection to connect to my work's network.
(iv) access to a gym. Exercise will be a major priority during this month, and I'd like access to a gym with weights. Nothing fancy needed.
(v) rent studio/small apt or hotel room for around $1000 USD for the month. My budget for the month is around $3000-$4000, so I could probably go over $1000 a bit, but would prefer to keep it to $1000 or less.
Everything else is less important to me - a fun bar/restaurant scene, possibility to meet people, etc., would be great too, but are not absolutely necessary.
I'd love any thoughts people have as to where in New Zealand I should set up, how to go about getting a short term rental from overseas, how to handle transportation (longterm car rental?), and so on. From talking to people I know, I feel like Queenstown and Wanaka could fit my needs, but my limited work trying to find apartments so far have not resulted in fantastic success. Thanks in advance!
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posted by empath at 4:19 AM on August 27, 2013
Trademe.co.nz is a good place to find rentals and flatmates. You might find short term rentals geared towards international students.
You could also have a look at holidayhouses.co.nz although they will be geared towards short term stays.
posted by poxandplague at 4:34 AM on August 27, 2013
Benchmarking for rental prices in New Zealand. $1NZ = $.78US.
A month is going to be tricky though in terms of arranging something set up with the utilities you need at the price you want for a place of your own. For example, when I wanted a three month short term rental a few years back in Oz the landlord wanted a hefty deposit and they considered three months very short. I also paid a short term rental premium - this was not a managed accommodation place either, which will be more expensive - bills came in our name.
I'd suggest looking into a long term rental at a cabin in a holiday park and negotiating on price as a long term rental. As an example, the one in Dunedin is NZ$60 a night for a seven night stay, so US$1,400 for the month. It won't be glamorous but may be adequate. The park (although perhaps not the cabin) has wifi and a pool but no gym. It has communal bathroom and kitchen facilities. It is on the bus network. There is a supermarket down the road. Dunedin is a university town with attractive scenery and coastline nearby. I've never been to this specific campground so it could be good or bad, but Top 10 is a decent organisation and if you go down that route you can look for other camp grounds with cabins that fit your needs and budget. I doubt in any of them the wifi will be that great though.
Another route is youth hostels, but you have to pick your spot. My general rule is that if they have a bar, avoid like the plague and you can guarantee that everyone will be using the wifi heavily at peak time. Even then, a single room comes out at NZ$60 a night somewhere like my Dunedin example.
Finally - I'd look at house sitting. It's more of a long shot, but given what you want - space to work, cheap, privacy, utilities set up, it might be a good option to try for before you have to pay.
posted by MuffinMan at 4:43 AM on August 27, 2013
You could also try AirBnB, but I've had a quick look there and I'm not finding many good options for that period. If you were open to sharing, then you'd probably find something in your price range. (Bear in mind, property prices in NZ are high, and with the low US dollar costs are going to seem higher than you're used to).
Queenstown and Wanaka, being major tourist areas, are also very expensive. Also, September isn't really the best time to visit NZ as it will still be reasonably cold. Maybe somewhere in the north of the country would be better, but I'm not sure where exactly to suggest. Maybe the Lake Taupo area? This place could be an option...
posted by Infinite Jest at 12:40 PM on August 27, 2013
I'm an American who recently lived in New Zealand for 4 years.
What kind of weather do you want to experience? There's a pretty wide variety across the country, and if you're looking for the best access to mountains and trails, keep in mind that your timeframe puts you in the trailing end of winter there. There are few places in the country that aren't a couple hours' drive from several hiking trails. But if you want ready access to the outdoors and varied hiking terrain as your top priority (so long as the other criteria are met), I'd recommend ordering your search this way.
Caveat: I know little about the country north of Auckland, save that there's lots of Maori (many of whom are poor). Someone else may be able to point you to an area up there worth investigating.
Queenstown, Wanaka, to a lesser extent Ohakune and Christchurch will all be wintery, as in snow and cold. You'll encounter wind and rain in Wellington, and some rain and snow (it's a toss-up) in Ohakune. Nelson will likely be sunny and less cold, and Taupo should be sunny and even warmer. Coromandel will be the warmest.
Queenstown, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch will all have lots of options in terms of supermarkets, gyms, and internet access. Wanaka and Taupo will have options as well, just not as many as the others. Ohakune is the most small-town on this list, but you wouldn't have to look too hard to fit these criteria there. It would be difficult to find a place in Coromandel that will satisfy your criteria, but it's worth a look, especially if you're wanting a warmer location. Surrounding areas in the mountains/hills, like Arrowtown (about 30 minutes outside of Queenstown) or Blenheim, will have plenty of terrain but you'll have very few options to meet these criteria.
You'll have to spend a fair amount of time searching for a place in Queenstown that will meet your price point and still have the other criteria in place. Same but to a lesser extent for Wanaka. Keep in mind that you're dealing with winter ski season in the mountains. Wellington and Christchurch will have a lot of options to look through.
It seems like you're looking for a place by yourself. You'll have much better luck sticking to your budget if you're open to having a room in a flat with other people - this is very common practice in NZ even for adult professionals. In addition, you won't need to get things like kitchenware that a potential flatmate(s) would already have. As far as how to search: my first option would be trademe, then gumtree, flatfinder and the like. If you're having trouble finding listings for a single or studio that would meet your criteria, then I'd reconsider the flatmate option. Fair warning, you might get a bit frustrated in your search online - NZ is a small country that's very community-driven, and a lot of this kind of thing is done word-of-mouth. Another option would be staying in a backpackers or hostels, though this will come with its own headaches like a bunch of loud/unruly 18-year olds partying on holiday, spotty internet access and the like. You might find something that meets your criteria on bookabach or other holiday rental listings, though these are generally pretty pricey.
I think you picked well - New Zealand is an amazing country, and the people are some of the most genuinely kind and hospitable folks I've ever encountered. Good luck!
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I know this is none of my business, still, since Microsoft always tries to bump its competitors, i was wondering what current legal issues are going on between Ubuntu and Microsoft Corp., and is there anyway common ubuzens like me can help in those matters?
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I don't know of any legal issues between Ubuntu and Microsoft. Indeed, Microsoft is contributing to the development of several key technologies we use in Ubuntu -- most notably Linux and Samba4. They're not the same bad guy they used to be. There are other companies I would be more afraid of, with Apple being the primary bully.
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Decades ago I'd moonlight as repetiteur for a remarkable choir - the Eoan Group.
The Voice of the Nation Ensemble. Picture: Jessica Wylde Photography
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Decades ago, several nights a week, in a bleak warehouse in Cape Town, I'd moonlight as repetiteur for a remarkable choir - the Eoan Group. Because of apartheid, the so-called coloured people were barred from the city's magnificently appointed, whites-only, opera house. They could neither attend performances nor take part in them.
Joseph Manca, a visionary choral trainer, would preside over innumerable rehearsals of the Eoan Group's choir - and the end result, more often than not, was hackle-raisingly fine.
So I listened with especial care to Cape Town's rainbow choral group, Voice of the Nation Ensemble. How had this multiracial ensemble fared, I wondered, under South Africa's now-democratic dispensation? Would it have the same thrilling intensity and precision of the Eoan choir during those apartheid years?
In a generous program, the peak of the evening lay securely in the keeping of Duke Ellington. In extracts from his too-rarely-heard Sacred Concerts, the choir, in ensemble with the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra, was at its most disciplined.
Here, choral subtlety and quietness were as meaningful as more robust utterances. Freedom, in particular, was profoundly moving, especially in hushed moments. Conductor Mace Francis presided over an in-form WAYJO with Gabriel Fatin, in particular, doing wonders at the piano in stylistic terms. The trumpeters were beyond reproach, too, as were vocal soloists Aaron Malone and Bronwynn Sprogowski.
For Ellington's work, the women choristers wore grey satin gowns with beige trim but in the first half appeared in blue or mauve tops with colourful floral skirts. In a selection of spirituals and African hymns, the choristers not only sang with an often moving expressiveness but, particularly in more robust numbers, entered physically into the spirit of the music by dancing on the spot.
Swaying, bobbing, weaving and handclapping with a compelling intensity, the choristers did themselves proud. This was powerful stuff to which the audience responded with gales of applause.
Hallelujah Medley, drawing inspiration from Handel's Messiah, brought the house down, as did Verdi's Va Pensiero. In this essay on displacement and disempowerment, the choir unerringly took up an interpretative position at the emotional epicentre of the piece. The other opera choruses, while never less than satisfactory, were not as persuasive as one might have hoped. And there was some hardness of tone in the piano accompaniments in the first half, as well as some tonal distortion when male voices were at their loudest. | dclm-gs1-007970000 |
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The social network, or Wall Street 2
Wall Street 2. What did it tell us about our the spirit of the time we live in, the way the original did about the yuppie culture and 1980′s optimism? I haven’t seen it so I can’t tell you for certain, but from what I’ve read the answer to that question should be ‘nothing’.
Last night I saw the social network. A new movie about the beginning of Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerburg, by Aaron Sorkin, most famous for creating West Wing. I realized that this is the film that will be seen as the to capture the essence of the business environment going into the 2010s (unfortunately the essence seems to involve 0 smart women, but that is the subject for another blog post). In many ways, Sorkin has created a Wall Street for our times.
Most obvious, both Wall Street and the social network are treating the most hyped industries of their respective times. The 80s was a time defined by the artificial engine of the financial sector. There was a lot of ingenuity and if you were smart and ambitious, it was clear that you were supposed to work on Wall Street. While there are many things that define the first decade of the 21st century, the internet start-ups had a significant impact on the way business is being done now and completely changed the way people communicate with eachother. The most coveted job by college students, even business majors, is one at Google.
Gordon Gekko, the idolized antagonist of Wall Street, and Sean Parker, the founder of Napster who in the social network is portrayed as a socially savvy but slightly paranoid entrepreneur, share their dislike for the old way of doing business. Gekko stands up at a shareholders’ meeting and calls for a new era of business. One where greed is the guiding principle and there is no place for inefficient companies. Sean Parker, similarly, points an actual fuck you to the venture capitalists that cheated him, representing the entrepreneur as the clarifying hero of our time.
Most importantly, I think this movie will inspire a lot of people in the same way Wall Street did back in the 80s. Even if the financial sector of today was possibly deterred by the way Wall Street ended, many of those who came to work for the banks, hedge funds and investment companies were inspired by the terrific devotion and intelligence of Gordon Gekko. He was a maverick who did something new and nothing was to stand between him and his idea. The nerds and entrepreneurs who look up to Zuckerberg will mainly see his hard work and his strong belief in what he is trying to achieve with Facebook. The intelligent maverick is still the hero, but has changed from disruptive to a constructive force in society.
I was able to see the social network thanks to Netopia, who arranged the preview.
From abundance to meaning in Spotify
Since Spotify Social was launched about a month ago, I have noticed some interesting behaviors among my Facebook friends when it comes to the use of playlists.
A number of my friends use their playlist column just to dump albums that they like. They have a (often) large number of playlists that each just contains one album. I guess this makes sense if you want to stay in the library mentality that iTunes is built on. Considering that Spotify now has a library of its own, with all the music that you have "saved" across all playlists sorted according to artist, title or album, makes this approach pretty much redundant.
Some of them, including me, try to organize playlists according to genre. So I have about 15 playlists each entitled things like Jazz, Reggae & Dub, French, 80s House, and I try to keep them somewhat homogenous, though it's pretty hard after a while and I started to doubt this approach when I almost added a new playlist called Electronic Upbeat Lounge. And you don't need to mention that Jazz should probably be at least five different lists, I know.
But the most interesting way to deal with the playlists is what you could call the "mood approach". Well, mood and/or situational, I guess. These people are making lists with songs that are homogenous, not in the way they sound, but in the mood or occasion they fit. This is not a new concept, people have been making mix tapes since the 80s, but it's quite a different thing when you can do it with this amount of music so easily available and in such a social manner. In fact, the playlists that I have enjoyed subscribing to the most are the ones that are completely mood based. It gives a lot more insight into the person who made them and allows for much more interesting music discovery.
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The Raiders don't have many draft picks, but that doesn't mean there aren't several holes the Raiders would like to fill through the draft. Reggie McKenzie may try to add more picks via trade and will also look to add players that aren't drafted.
Not all of these holes will be filled with draft picks, but McKenzie would do well to address as many as he can.
1. Inside Linebacker
If the Raiders plan to play more 3-4, they will need to add one or two inside linebackers. Rolando McClain is likely to get one more year to prove he isn't a draft bust, but he will need help inside. Travis Goethel has been given an opportunity to play, but he can't stay healthy.
Aaron Curry may be able to move inside when the Raiders decide to play 3-4, but that leaves a large hole at outside linebacker.
2. Outside Linebacker
Kamerion Wimbley is the only lock to make the roster from last year's group of outside linebackers. Curry will need to restructure his $5.7 cap number to stick and he also may become one of the two inside linebackers in a 3-4.
Factoring in the need for backups, the Raiders could be looking for two or three outside linebackers and at least one through the draft.
3. Nose Tackle
Conversion to the 3-4 is not going to be complete without the big man in the middle. The Raiders need to look for a space-eater in the draft that can anchor a 3-4 for years to come.
The popularity of the 3-4 makes nose tackles hot commodities, but there is occasionally one that slips due to weight and work ethic concerns that can drafted with a lower-round pick.
It would then be up to the Raiders coaching and training staff to groom the young man into a pro.
4. Cornerback
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Stanford Routt was released last week, leaving Chris Johnson, DeMarcus Van Dyke and Chimdi Chekwa as the only cornerbacks on the roster. Johnson also has a large cap number and it is unknown if he has been able to recover mentally from the murder of his sister last season.
Chekwa might find himself moving to safety and that could leave Van Dyke all alone at the position. McKenzie will need to find several cornerbacks and hope the competition elevates the play of a couple of them.
It's a deep cornerback draft and McKenzie has plenty of time to find a good one. Tramon Williams is good cornerback and the Packers didn't even need to use a draft pick to find him. McKenzie will need to work some of that magic.
5. Free Safety
Michael Huff has an $8 million cap number and will either need to restructure or he'll be released next month. Hiram Eugene isn't likely to be fully recovered from his femur injury. Chekwa could move to safety, but who knows if he would be ready to start at the position after one offseason.
That leaves free safety as a position of significant need. McKenzie may find a cornerback in the draft that can convert to free safety or an underappreciated ball hawk late in the draft with good instincts and poor measurables.
If Huff restructures, there is also a decent chance he converts to cornerback, leaving free safety as a need for the Raiders despite his retention.
6. Strong Safety
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Tyvon Branch is likely to be re-signed, but he is an unrestricted free agent. Branch could decide to see what his value is on the open market. If he tests the water, there are plenty of other teams with a need at strong safety that have significantly more money to throw at Branch.
Branch's departure would be painful and open up a spot for the Raiders to find a player via the draft.
7. Left Guard
Stefen Wisniewski should eventually be moved to center and the Raiders don't have a left guard that can execute the zone-blocking system.
McKenzie will be looking for a good pass-blocker that struggled with man blocking in college and is likely to fall in the draft. A mobile and svelte lineman with quick feet will work for the Raiders' purposes.
Even a late-drafted rookie might be able to start between Jared Veldheer and Stefen Wisniewski.
8. Right Tackle
Barnes was never the long-term answer at right tackle and the Raiders need to find someone better. Joseph Barksdale and Bruce Campbell are still relatively unknown commodities and who knows how quickly they will pick up the zone-blocking system.
There is opportunity for McKenzie to find the long-term solution at right tackle in the draft and he should make every effort to fill the hole utilizing one of the Raiders' few draft selections.
9. Running back
Conventional wisdom is not always correct, but says a running back can be found late in the draft. The zone-blocking system has turned many undrafted or late-drafted players into stars, including Arian Foster and Terrell Davis.
Michael Bush is a good running back, but he's likely to cost the Raiders far more than he would be worth on the open market. McKenzie would be wise to let Bush test the waters while still attempting to re-sign him.
If Bush does find a new home, the Raiders will need a suitable backup for Darren McFadden. Taiwan Jones will be in the mix, but he has an injury history of his own. Marcel Reece might be able to fill the void if and when he is re-signed.
10. Quarterback
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The Raiders will begin the transition to the west coast offense. As long as Carson Palmer is the quarterback, the Raiders will not be able to run the system to its full potential.
There are a number of sleeper quarterbacks in the draft this season that could be perfect and McKenzie should study these men to determine if one could be groomed to replace Palmer is a couple years.
Any drafted quarterback may also become the backup quarterback by default. Kyle Boller isn't likely to be back and Terrelle Pryor is in limbo and could be converted to tight end.
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Why Jamaal Charles Is the NFL's True Top Running Back
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The NFL houses a select stable of elite athletes, and restraining one of them on any given Sunday is an arduous uphill climb. When it comes to running backs, Jamaal Charles is king of the hill.
Don't get me wrong, corralling Adriannn [Rocky voice] Peterson is like trying to lasso a bucking bull, and you're better off literally trying to catch lightning in a bottle than tackling LeSean McCoy in the open field.
However, in today's NFL, the creme de la creme of running backs double as dual-threat demigods, and when it comes to rushing and receiving, Charles entwines the best of both worlds. Furthermore? He moonlights as a prideful pass-blocker, bringing a third dimension that adds a weekly entry to a blitzer's list of regrets. But more on that later.
Last season, No. 25's road from rehab was overshadowed. Media outlets insularly rambled on about Peterson's ACL recovery like a proud mother penning her annual Christmas letter.
If you flipped to ESPN, you signed yourself up for one of three lectures: Why The Hunger Games transformed LeBron into a late-game assassin; why Timmy Tebow, despite his throws resembling a home schooler's first frisbee toss before nosediving like leather kamikazes, is a no-brainer solution for [unwatchable team X's] quarterback quandary (he's so polite and chivalrous, though!); why Peterson should sign his letter of intent to the X-Men
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If you logged into Twitter, you were greeted by a round of tweets that included, in no particular order, a snarky caption beneath a judgmental cat, someone planking atop a suburban basketball rim (#YOLO), a Sun Tzu quote and why Peterson's 32 flavors of superhuman are so delectable.
Checked Facebook? You saw...well, probably just baby pictures or Instagrams of chicken alfredo.
Make no mistake, I've been pro-Peterson since he was treating tacklers like gnats at Oklahoma, and he deserved every shred of recognition on his way to receiving MVP honors.
But when I accuse pundits of "insularly rambling," it's because the media turned a blind eye to Charles—who rebounded from the same injury—despite the fact that he earned a Pro Bowl nod by churning out a career high in rushing yards.
Let me rephrase that and flesh out the context: With a surgically repaired knee, Charles rushed a for a career-high 1,509 rushing yards on a 2-14 team that touted the league's worst passing offense and sugar-free vanilla play-calling.
Peterson's aerial alliance wasn't anything to write home about, tallying an unimpressive 18 passing touchdowns to 12 interceptions. But Charles' Kansas City Chiefs? Eight touchdowns, 20 picks. Remember, no matter how cringeworthy Christian Ponder's play has been, Kansas City's 2012 starter now sits below him on Minnesota's depth chart.
But enough with the retrospective preaching. Let's probe into the evidence.
Numero Uno
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In Kansas City's last outing (Buffalo), Charles partook in 98.3 percent of the Chiefs' offensive snaps. On average, he's been on the field for 87.1 of them this season and, to no surprise, his 556 snaps were 51 more than any running back before the bye week. The man flaunts the speed of an Olympian—as Sport Science illustrated—and the endurance of a marathoner.
It's not as if he's taking plays off as a mere decoy, either. According to ESPN Stats & Info, Charles has been the most valuable offensive contributor in the league.
Despite rarely receiving a breather, he still musters up enough energy to perform at a staggering level: Prior to the bye, Kansas City's backfield blur led the NFL with 1,114 yards from scrimmage (123.8 per game).
The aforementioned numbers are already eye-opening. However, considering he amassed them with the feet of a Flintstone, his deeds become that much more astounding.
On Oct. 13, ESPN's Chris Mortensen wrote:
[Rick] Burkholder has treated Charles like a burn victim, using burn dressings and covers on his feet and toes.
A blister developed on the ball of one of Charles' feet this week, prompting the team to use UltraViolet light to kill any infection and electrical current to stimulate skin growth.
Charles also is wearing socks that many marathoners and triathletes wear to fight friction and reduce moisture.
Despite playing with pain and not being able to cut with his usual crispness, Charles had maintained production over the past two games, gaining 272 yards from scrimmage and scoring two touchdowns over that stretch.
Okay, for one, the only way you're finding me in a room, undergoing "electrical current to stimulate skin growth," is if a clown puppet is tricycling past me. Call me paranoid, but that sounds like some kind of back-alley clinical study green-lit by Igor.
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Secondly, how do you gain that many yards in two games with your feet looking like Freddy Krueger?
Regardless, the above stats pinpoint why he's the only non-quarterback in the top ten of overall fantasy points (NFL-Managed scoring).
But numbers by themselves can't help you gain a true appreciation of Charles' on-field prowess.
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At the end of 2012, Pro Football Focus (PFF) ranked Marshawn Lynch the 22nd-best backfield blocker. McCoy slipped to 36, while Peterson plummeted to 46. Charles, despite weighing less than all three, finished 12th.
This season has proved that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Charles' blocking turned heads in Week 7 after the All-Pro injured J.J. Watt and Brian Cushing to varying degrees.
However, in 2013, it first grabbed headlines in Kansas City's prime-time showdown at Philadelphia.
In the foremost example, safety Earl Wolff charges toward Alex Smith—he obviously didn't read the scouting report. Less than two seconds later, he's de-cleated and sky surfing.
Wolff wasn't the only Philadelphian to have his ego deflated. His teammate, linebacker Mychal Kendricks, found himself susceptible to the same treatment.
NFL Game Rewind
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Now, I could easily just Google "Jamaal Charles highlights," give them the GIF treatment and wax lyrical about his Mach-like speed.
But he didn't develop into the sport's active leader among running backs in yards per carry (5.5) with speed alone.
For starters, Charles' vision is vastly underrated. His anticipation makes defenders look like they're playing Madden through a dial-tone modem.
Take this play versus Cleveland, for example.
NFL Game Rewind
It's a designed counter intended to slice through the weak-side B-gap. And as the play unfolds, it does...eventually.
Two things send the plan into disarray: At the last moment, Cleveland's free safety creeps into the box, and Donnie Avery commits to a poor angle. This, in turn, results in said safety plugging what would've been a Strahan-esque gap
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Charles immediately detours from the road block and bounces outside. Cleveland's safety mirrors the action, only to realize that, by the time he darts to the edge, Charles had already rerouted back to the original gap.
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The fleet-footed rusher then ducks under the outstretched arms of Desmond Bryant like some kind of black-belted limbo master.
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Here's what it looked like on the broadcast (side note: Anthony Sherman is a juggernaut).
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For 95 percent of backs, the play ends in a yawn-inducing one-to-two-yard gain. For Kansas City, it ended in seven.
Let's fast-forward in the same contest.
It's a critical juncture of the game—why the Chiefs, with a three-point lead, choose to snap it just before the two-minute warning, I'll never know—and the Browns are banking on a handoff to Charles.
What began as an outside-zone run quickly degraded to muddled chaos.
Phil Taylor bullies Rodney Hudson and barges into the backfield, placing a 335-pound hurdle onto Charles' runway. Branden Albert fails to effectively cut block the right (defensive) end. Sean McGrath whiffs while trying to engage the right outside linebacker.
If it wasn't for Dwayne Bowe's textbook blocking, reversing field wouldn't have led to a reversal of fortune. Despite the odds, Charles' top-tier acceleration allows him to round the corner and net another seven-yard pickup.
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Here's another excerpt, but this time, the Chiefs call an inside-zone run against the Texans.
To his credit, Albert handles J.J. Watt (one-on-one) about as well as any brave soul could hope. Jeff Allen motions to chip Watt but realizes that Albert has inside leverage. However, Hudson doesn't generate any push against the nose tackle, who swiftly slides into the intended lane.
Charles sidesteps into a four-man pile of humanity (through no fault of Albert or Anthony Fasano), then spins to the edge and embarrasses Ed Reed with a move that'd make Barry Sanders blush.
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To Reed's credit, he initially read and reacted to the play in ideal fashion. He didn't allow himself to get sucked into a vacuum, and he turned the ball-carrier back inside. But at 35 years old, Reed's not making that tackle. Even at 25, he's still probably hugging air.
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A play that initially checked off every symptom of a two-yard loss eventually developed into a 12-yard gain.
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Before Andy Reid traded his cheesesteaks for ribs, Arrowhead Stadium was slowly regressing to some kind of coaching dystopia. And the coaches themselves? If someone tried to knock sense into them, it would end with just that: a knock. Until this year, Charles' pro career has been an Acme magnet for hollow-headed coaching.
If you wonder why Kansas Citians treat Reid like some kind of mental Messiah, allow me to point out the prodigies he's juxtaposed with.
In 2008, Charles averaged 5.3 yards per carry. Herm Edwards granted Kolby Smith, who averaged 2.9 yards per carry, one more start than No. 25 (when Larry Johnson was sidelined).
A year later, Johnson also averaged 2.9 yards per handoff, while his second-year backup led the NFL with a ridiculous 5.9 average. Johnson still started all seven of his games before an infamous Twitter rant saw him to the door.
How'd Charles respond? By averaging 6.4 yards per rush the next season. Six. Point. Four. In the NFL. He hadn't run that effectively since his freshman year in college, and his last carry of the season robbed him of Jim Brown's single-season NFL record. Still, Thomas Jones, averaging 2.7 less yards per carry, tallied four more starts and 15 more attempts under Todd Haley.
Rebounding from 2011's ACL tear, Charles took advantage of his 285 carries in 2012. However, the play-calling was as predictable as finding out Tom Brady dances like a soccer mom on Xanax after back surgery.
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Charles is at his best in the open field. He turns tacklers into ghost hunters. And yet, Kansas City's fan favorite only snatched 35 receptions in Brian Daboll's offense.
In Reid's, he's recorded 47 in nine games. After watching the next batch of GIFs, it's easy see why the team's mustached maestro makes a concerted effort to involve Charles in the aerial attack.
The first example dates back to Week 3 versus Philadelphia. Charles exits the backfield, runs a sneak route and is initially confronted with contact six yards past the line of scrimmage. He turns back inside to elude a cornerback's arm tackle, rumbles through a linebacker who drapes both arms around him—second side note: Avery obviously went to the powder puff school of blocking—fights to maintain his balance and plows Patrick Chung like a Pamplonian bystander.
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A seemingly routine play evolves into a 13-yard gain.
Jump to Raiders week. This time, Charles headlines a halfback screen. While the Chiefs line wavers in effectiveness inside of the tackle box, it's an athletic group that excels in space (observe how horrifyingly fast Eric Fisher roars into view as a 306-pound bulldozer). Again, though, Avery has a chance to engage at least three defenders, but he opts to halfheartedly Hammer dance around the mosh pit of humanity.
Obviously, this puts Charles in a bind. He veers away from a corner who makes first contact at the line of scrimmage. He then bounces outside and cuts upfield while splintering a pair of tacklers who are sandwiching him. Finally, No. 25's dragged back down to earth by the strong safety.
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A screen that looked dead in the water matures into a 14-yard gallop.
For the final sample, let's skip ahead to Week 7 against Houston. Another screen, another trail of victims.
Joe Mays immediately identifies it and storms toward Charles, only to be whipped around like a horizontal Slinky. Kansas City's Pro Bowler then reverses field, widens his angle, reminds Brooks Reed that he's Brooks Reed, blows past another set of limbs from the Reed family tree and scampers ahead before Kareem Jackson and Johnathan Joseph converge on him.
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Instead of 3rd-and-12, the offense is faced with an infinitely more manageable 3rd-and-2.
Charles is the most well-rounded back in the game today. If you don't want to take my word for it, look at the GIFs. Don't want to look at the GIFs? Look at the numbers.
According to PFF, Marshawn Lynch's Seahawks currently tote the best run-blocking line in the NFL. The Eagles occupy the slot behind them and the Vikings are anchored at No. 5. The Chiefs, meanwhile, are currently seated at 16th of 32 teams—the benchmark for "average."
Knowing that, let's take a look at how Charles' productivity fared before the bye week.
Jamaal Charles' Stats and Rankings Prior to Week 10
Number RB Ranking
Rushing Attempts 170 1
Rushing Yards 723 3
Carries of 15-Plus Yards 10 3
Snaps in (Pass) Route 252 1
Receptions 47 1
Missed Tackles Receiving 17 1
Total First Downs 41 1
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And there's more.
Entering the Chiefs' Week 10 vacation, Charles was the 15th-leading receiver in the NFL (47 receptions) and averaged 8.3 yards per catch. Also, 44.7 percent of those receptions yielded first downs.
More impressively, only two receivers, Pierre Garcon and Golden Tate, had tallied more yards after the catch than Charles' 375.
He's the leading rusher and receiver on a 9-0 football team.
And just to add another layer of icing, Charles is also the only active running back to author three of the top 50 rushing performances in NFL history (259 yards in 2009 versus Denver, 233 yards in 2012 vs. New Orleans, 226 yards in 2012 vs. Indianapolis).
Look, I'm not about to make some farcical, cockamamy statement painting Charles as the front-runner for MVP. There's no denying that quarterback is the NFL's paramount position, and Peyton Manning's on pace to turn the Guinness World Records HQ into a sweatshop. (Yes, I realize that Guinness doesn't express-mail plaques for NFL records.)
However, just two years removed from suffering the lifelong scar on his left knee, Charles is the most valuable skill-position player in the league.
Kansas City stands alone as the surviving member of the undefeated club, and Charles is the most important name etched into the roster. Translation: He's kind of a big deal. He owns many leather-bound balls, and his locker smells of rich mahogany.
When the 26-year-old cradles a handoff, he glides in a way that makes barreling through a sweat-stained land of giants look artistic.
If you toss him the ball in space, he morphs into a backfield Bernini set to outline victims on his 100-yard canvas.
Plan on sending a safety blitz? Odds are the hunter becomes the hunted and subjected to a snap, crackle and pop loud enough to make Bowe hijack the medical cart on a Rice Krispies run (if Sonic is closed).
Dissect the diagrams. Study the stats. Loop the GIFs. No matter which prism you view the halfback's game through, he comes out looking like the most polished back in the league.
Simply put, Jamaal Charles is the complete package.
He de-cleats blitzers and grinds out heaps of yardage on abraded feet—a telling testament to his selflessness. He runs routes with ankle-breaking agility and sporadically steamrolls tacklers like petty speed bumps en route to the end zone.
Charles' on-field anticipation could read Nostradamus' palms, and his brand of speed could send the Flash packing for the retirement home.
Somebody fit this man for a cape.
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So for this week’s Open Mic, we want to hear your thoughts on what makes a game..."a sport?
• What defines what is or isn’t a sport?
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Cincy-Xavier Fight: Both Sides Dropped the Ball on Suspensions
As you no doubt have heard by now, Saturday's matchup between heated rivals, the Xavier Musketeers and the Cincinnati Bearcats, ended in a benches-clearing melee, featuring pushing, stomping, trash talking, and punching.
Was this fight a disgrace? Yes. Could it have been prevented? Probably, but that's not why I'm writing this article.
No, instead I feel a need to talk about the mockery that is the suspensions handed out by both universities. The day after the fight, it was announce that Cincinnati had suspended Yancy Gates, Cheikh Mbodj, and Octavius Ellis for six games, as well as suspended Ge'Lawn Guyn for one game. Xavier, on the other hand, suspended Dez Wells and Landen Amos for four games, Mark Lyons for two games, and stay Tu Holloway for one game.
Clearly both universities don't understand the severity of the actions these young men took part in and have made it clear that getting wins on the court is more important than teaching these guys a valuable lesson that there are repercussions to their actions, as well as showing that their university has principles.
For Cincinnati, the suspensions that baffle me the most are the one game suspension of Ge'Lawn Guyn and the six game suspension of Yancy Gates.
Look at that video. Guyn is the one who is jawing with Tu Holloway to start the whole thing. I understand that he did not throw a punch or shove someone, but he had a major hand in kicking off this brawl. By getting in the face of Holloway, Guyn was pouring gasoline on what was already a heated situation.
While I don't think his suspension should be as severe as some of the others, one game, in my opinion, is not enough of a punishment for one of the starters of the fight. I would have been content if I saw anywhere from a 2-4 game suspension for Guyn.
Video of the fight and the postgame comments from Mark Lyons and Tu Holloway
Then there's Yancy Gates. This guy goes out of his way, actually going over other players and officials, in order to sucker punch Kenny Frease, who was actually trying to separate men from both teams. That punch was dangerous, cowardly, and completely uncalled for, and helped make the situation much more dangerous than it already was.
There is no reason Yancy Gates should not have been suspended at least 10 games, if not the entire season. There is no place on a basketball court for that type of behavior, and Gates should have been punished much more severely than he was.
Just to add more insult to this "punishment," look at Cincinnati's upcoming schedule over these six games: Wright State, Radford, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Chicago State, Oklahoma, and Pittsburgh. Not exactly murderer's row. How, for being the most visible, vicious part of a televised brawl, do you only miss one Big East game? This is barely a punishment to Gates for what he did, and is almost in no way a punishment to the team.
Head coach Mike Cronin said all of the right things in the press conference following the fight. He threatened to throw people off the team after the embarrassment that was his player's actions on the court, because "that's what the University of Cincinnati is about."
After talking this big game though, Cincinnati's AD cops out and allows the biggest players in the fight to not only stay on the team, but get to play again this season and only miss one Big East game. Clearly, "what the University of Cincinnati is about" is winning basketball games.
Xavier isn't innocent in this one either. In a lot of ways, the suspensions they doled out were even more laughable than Cincinnati's.
Mark Lyons jawing with a Cincinnati player going into halftime
Two games for Mark Lyons? You mean, the guy who got face to face with a Cincinnati player going into halftime? The guy who fired the first shot and shoved Ge'Lawn Guyn? Yeah, that guy. Somehow, physically starting an embarrassing brawl is only worthy of a two game suspension. Even if you look past that Lyons was the first man to shove anyone, just watch the tape. He's flailing around, throwing as many punches as anyone out there.
That brings me to Tu Holloway. It's no secret, Holloway is the man at Xavier, and is the hands down star player of the Musketeers. But like I said about Guyn earlier, there is no fight if Holloway isn't trash talking at the end of a 76-53 beatdown. All the way down the court after the last basket, Holloway talked. After Cincinnati missed their next shot, Holloway talked. If there is one person who you could point to as the man who incited this riot, here he is.
And yet, he receives a one game suspension. Those types of suspensions should be reserved for those who miss practice, not for those who start a brawl.
What was even more troubling from Xavier was the comments from Lyons and Holloway after the game. Holloway said, "we have a whole bunch of gangsters in the locker room" and that Xavier's motto is "zip them up." Lyons added, "we didn't do this," blaming the media and Cincinnati for the brawl.
First off, yes Mark, you did have a hand in "doing this." But more importantly, listen to these two. They clearly don't understand the severity of what went on out there. If anything, they're actually proud of the "gangsters" in their locker room.
And yet, one was suspended two games and the other only one. Neither will miss Xavier's huge showdown with Gonzaga in two weeks or a single A-10 game. What lesson was learned here?
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Are these universities not embarrassed that they are being represented like this? Shouldn't they want to keep guys like this from being seen in the public spotlight? Or if nothing else, why not show that acting like a "gangster" will not be tolerated by your institution?
Sadly, more often than not, this is a trend seen all over college sports. If you're a superstar, you're untouchable, no matter what you do.
Sure, occasionally you have a school like BYU suspending Brandon Davies for the year after violating the school's honor code, or George Mason suspending Andre Cornelius ten games for a misdemeanor, but for every one of those stories of a school sticking to their principles, whether the public agrees with them or not, there's a Syracuse who allows Fab Melo to play despite being arrested over the summer, and a UCLA who suspended Jerime Anderson two games—one of which was an exhibition—after stealing a laptop.
At the end of the day, Yancy Gates is the second leading scorer and leading rebounder for Cincinnati. Tu Holloway and Mark Lyons are the two leading scorers for Xavier. Of course they won't be off the court for too long, because then the team won't win. After all, winning is what is most important, right?
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First in a series of question-and-answers with some of the newest members of the Rice football team.
Question: What influenced your decision to come to Rice?
Answer: Rice is the perfect combination of athletics and academics for me. I have two former teammates in high school that are on the football team so naturally Rice is the perfect fit.
Q: How big was your high school, Fort Worth Trinity Valley School, and did Rice’s size factor in your decision?
A: My high school has around 350-400 students. Rice’s smaller size was a major point for me as far as the academics are concerned because I am used to that kind of environment.
Q: What was the most memorable part of the recruiting process?
A: Either when coach (Chris) Thurmond called and offered me or (Feb. 1) when I signed my letter of intent to Rice University.
Q: Least memorable?
A: The whole process was pretty good, I honestly didn’t have a bad moment. I knew where I wanted to be and when the opportunity presented itself I seized it.
Q: What has it been like getting to know one of your new teammates, Zach Espinosa, while preparing for the International Bowl?
A: It has been really fun! Zach is a great guy and building bonds now will only pay off in the future. TEAM is the way to win and that starts with friendships.
Q: What’s the strength of your game?
A: The strongest things about my game are my quickness, footwork, and pass blocking ability.
Q: What should Owls fans be most excited about you coming to Rice?
A: What Owl fans should be excited about with me is that I will continually strive to be better and push my teammates to be the best that we can be on and off the field. We will win games and we will be good.
Q: I understand you have some unique interests in the martial arts? Tell us about it. Any other interests?
A: Yes I do, I am a first-degree black belt in American Karate, Tae Kwon Do, and Shizen-Na Karate. My martial arts background not only helps with toughness and determination but with footwork and hand speed. And I have a ton of other interests including wake boarding, fishing, and skiing.
Q: Have coaches told you what to expect as a freshman as far as playing time?
A: No they really haven’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised nor would it be a problem if I was to be redshirted. I just want to help in any way that I can.
Q: Have you decided what you plan to major in college?
A: I have a few ideas as to what I might want to major in but no definite plans yet. Possibly political science or business.
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Businesses’ tax relief idea: We’ll take it
The Texas Association of Business has an idea for how best to deliver tax relief called for by Gov. Rick Perry: Give it to businesses.
The group announced an on-line petition drive to encourage the passage of $1.8 billion in tax relief targeted at Texas small business.
Its proposal would make permanent the current $1 million exemption from the state business tax, which allows small businesses to avoid the levy entirely. It also would allow businesses to deduct their first $1 million in taxable income.
That means if a business is paying taxes on $2 million annually now, their tax bill would be cut in half, pointed out Bill Hammond, president and CEO of the group.
Hammond said the plan would provide stimulus for businesses whose taxes are cut and “rev up the job creation engine in this state.”
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Are you better off?
A simple question has flummoxed the normally disciplined Democratic message machine.
“The president can say a lot of things, and he will, but he can’t tell you that you’re better off,” Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Monday during a pre-convention campaign visit to North Carolina. “Simply put, the Jimmy Carter years look like the good old days compared to where we are right now.”
So do top Democrats believe the country is better off now than four years ago?
“No, but that’s not the question of this election,” Democratic Governors’ Association chair Martin O’Malley of Maryland said Sunday on CBS.
“Yes, we are better off,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention said Monday. “But we got to keep on working harder.”
Democrats feel they must change that perception during the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
“We are going to use this convention to answer those questions,” said Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt. “We’re going to have an honest conversation about where we were in 2008 when we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, 3.5 million jobs lost in the six months before the president took office, manufacturing was in decline, the auto industry was on the brink.
“We’ve made progress, businesses have created more than 4.5 million jobs, GM is reborn, we’ve created more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs after that sector had been in decline. But now we need to lay out the pillars of how we’re going to restore economic security for the middle-class.”
Republicans, sensing an opportunity to keep the president’s team on the defensive on the eve of his party’s national convention, launched an all-out barrage Monday, opening a make-shift Charlotte office with 50 staffers and touting Ryan’s comments at a rally several hundred miles away.
“This will be the most effective counter-programming effort ever conducted by the GOP,” boasts Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer.
Setting both sides’ spin aside, the economic numbers yield mixed results.
The economy has bounced back from the depths of the recession, which Obama inherited. The gross domestic product for the final quarter of 2008 dropped 6.2 percent and has slowly grown, up 1.7 percent for the second quarter of 2012.
Overall inflation, which was almost zero when Obama took office, is higher but remains low, 1.4 percent. However, gasoline prices have soared from $1.84 per gallon to $3.83.
The unemployment rate has grown from 7.8 percent to 8.3 percent,led by reductions in the government workforce, but first-time jobless claims have dropped by one-third. The private sector has added jobs and unemployment in the manufacturing sector have dropped by one-fourth. Overall family income is marginally higher than four years ago.
But the economic gains of recent years were purchased at a high cost. The federal budget has grown from $2.9 trillion in 2008 to $3.8 trillion, and the deficit has more than doubled, from to an estimate of $975 billion this fiscal year. The national debt has increased by 50 percent during Obama’s presidency to $15.9 trillion.
Rather than debate the economic gains — or losses — of the past four years, Democrats are hoping to shift the debate to Republican Mitt Romney’s economic agenda.
“We’re going to be far worse off if Mitt Romney is elected president and he gets a chance to enact the same economic policies that created the mess in the first place,” White House adviser David Plouffe told ABC News.
Summer Ballentine of the Washington bureau contributed to this report.
1. Jim_C says:
Anyone that thinks we are better off does not live in the real world!!! I know I’m not better off!!!
2. Dirtnut says:
With the lowering of the Social Security tax on paychecks that has helped us be better off in this house. Now if they would raise the limit to say the first $500,000 of earings is taxed and lower the payroll tax another 1% or 2% we would really be doing good. So I would say on the federal level we are the same or maybe a little better but on the NYS level because of Paterson and Dictator Andy this household is way worse off. When our paychecks are extorted for a pay to work scheme, health ins. goes way up, 0% raises our paychecks DECREASE then so does our standard of living and our money for vacations and social functions goes away, so we are worse off than 4 years ago because of Dictator Andy not the POTUS.
3. iknowtruthismine says:
The funny thing about the Romney touted talking point about our being better or worse off than we were four years ago, was that four years ago, following the same programs and motivations he proposes reintroducing if elected, that got us into having his side hand off to President Obama an economy in full blown sinking collapse, is that we actually are better off than we were four years ago. At the time of the 2001 governmental transfer, the corporate Right train wreck in progress, at the time of that transfer, had the entire nation on the edge of fear driven despair, as the Bush hemorrhaging of jobs ( at over 700,000 a month), continued for a short time until President Obama was able to stop the decline, and put us on the slow and careful road to recovery (with the corporate owned Republicans in full obstruction mode the entire time). The full effects of the looting of the housing market by the financial industry {syndicate}, stealing equity and forcing many out of homes they no longer could afford (after housing prices being artificially pumped up were stripped of their “on paper” worth), by those who stole the real value leaving behind mortgage holders with worthless debt in their hands (that curiously enough they were still legally obligated pay back to the very institutions that ripped them off). 27 months of continual growth, the recovery of the stock market to almost pre-Bush disaster levels, the saving of the automotive industry (that Romney said he would have allowed to fail) which also made the tax-payers a profit, clearly show that the nation IS better off than we were four years ago, when the last corporate owned government put the screws to us all, just to enrich the few at the top. And to cap it all, The president got and killed Bin Laden, something his predecessor stated wasn’t a big priority for him. We are all, in many ways, better off than we would have been under Palin/ McCain, and will be far better off if we avoid putting those who drove the bus into the ditch, back behind the wheel.
4. One Man Gang says:
Me neither
5. Reality, What A Concept says:
Ok Saturday Night Live take it from here. This will be a show stopping skit.
6. Howitzer says:
No, not even close. Mr. Obama squandered his opportunity to revive the economy during his first two years when he had a democrat majority in the house and senate.
7. albanyjim says:
Jim_C the president does not have magic underwear please look at the facts and if it weren’t for the GOP blocking everything in the house you would be better off. Right now Obama’s keeping it from getting worse. Mitt and Paul will make it worse.
8. jakester says:
Great question, nothing is better off now… gas is $4.00, unemployment is higher than ever even with people dropping out of the unemployment rolls because they are out of benefits. The economy stinks, middleclas people have to give back more of what they earn, pay higher taxes, higher medical, prescription costs, and they want no one to have a retirement plan… all in the name of redistribution of wealth and the master plan to end capitalism…
the peole who ARE better off are the poiticians and THEIR families, who won’t be a part of Obamacare, who won’t be a part of higher taxes or are tax evaders, who will get a 100% retirement plan etc etc etc… it’s about time the people who work FOR us have to baide by the same rules, laws and playing field…
9. Vinayaka says:
@Jim_C: that’s because you probably don’t recall what this country went through during the Great Depression. You’re either too young to remember, or were never told about it. My parents and grand parents lived through it and they told me what they and the nation went through. President saved this nation from experiencing it again, and it was the safety-net, which Democrats and Republicans (before the latter were taken over by the Koch brothers financed Tea Party cult), which prevented things from becoming really catastrophic. Too many Americans don’t realize how close to the cliff Bush and company left us….
10. Don says:
Obama saved nothing, He is a loser who needs to be thrown out. Better off? Are you kidding??
11. Chip D says:
Actually I am a little better off! When I bought my house in 2008 I had a 5.25% interest rate with 20% down. Since Obama took office, I was able to refinance 2 years ago for a 20 year loan at 4.25% and last month I was able to close on a house that was 50% more in value with a 30 year 3.75% rate and only had to put 10% down!
Since the economy has tanked so much and Obama has spent so much money, I am now about to get a $175K house for the same monthly payment I had a $120K house under Bush!
Thank Obama!
12. Jeff Lebowski says:
I can’t take the Republicans seriously on the economy since they have publicly stated that there number goal has been to ensure that Obama is a one therm president and thus have refused to allow any real, economically speaking, helpful legislation to move forward. They have willingly allowed the recovery to flounder for the sake of political gain and now they have their standard magical plan that if we just cut taxes on the wealthy even more everything will be just peachy.
13. Libs Are Evil says:
We are NOT better off! And those of us who are out in the world working every day know it firsthand!
Read this brand new poll from The Hill
No one except the extremist left wing fringe and the grossly uninformed believe this President has done ANYTHING to help average working people. We have taken the debt from 10 TRILLION to 16 TRILLION and we still have 42 consecutive months of 8% or higher unemployment.
Obama is a failure. And everybody knows it.
14. optivity says:
“In a new poll conducted for The Hill, only 40 percent of likely voters said they felt Obama deserves a second term. Fifty-two percent said he did not.”
15. twopondsnorth says:
When Obama took over the economy was still in free-fall from the disaster that was Bush. Like a large ship it cannot be turned around in an instant, something most Fox viewers fail to comprehend. First, he had to stop the hemorrhaging which was no mean feat since the Republicans did everything they could to make sure little if any of his proposals saw the light of passage. So are we better off, probably not really. But we are alive and that’s a lot better than looking down the barrel of the poverty gun under Bush. Maybe if Congress truly cared about the whole country and not just Karl Rove/ALEC and the rest of the billionaires we could restore prosperity. Isn’t it sad that the possibility of a one-term president is more worthy than a stable economy.
16. Stephne says:
My stock portfolio has recovered since the end of the Bush term. My youngest remains on my health insurance. Yeah, we’re better off.
The country would have been better off without Bush’s two wars in the Middle East.
17. Matt E says:
It’s the 23 million unemployed Americans, stupid!
18. optivity says:
“The country would have been better off without Bush’s two wars in the Middle East.”
Tell that to the victims’ of 9/11 and their families.
I suppose as long as you’re stock portfolio & health insurance needs are met then it’s OK to re-elect one of the most divisive President’s in US history.
Wake up Stephne, America is $16T in debt and Iran is about to go nuclear.
There are clear & present dangers, which pose a threat to our national security; but keep sticking your head in the sand and maybe they’ll just go away.
Perhaps you forgot or just don’t think much about how well off most people are who live in cities like Detroit & Camden NJ?
This Country is going to hell in a hand basket and there is precious little time to turn things around.
19. Albany Resident says:
“It’s the 23 million unemployed Americans, stupid!” And It’s the 100 million on food stamps, and 50% of Americans that pay NO tax at all, and the reduced buying power, and America is once again the laughing stock of the despots and dictators of the world. Stupid!
Better off? What are you smoking?
20. Reece Collins says:
I am much better off.
My question is: Is Mitt Romney better off than he was four years ago? I suspect he is, but we won’t know until he releases those tax returns!
21. Dale Gribble says:
What does the war in Iraq have to do with the victims of 9/11 and thier families.
It was Bin Laden who was responsible for 9/11 and he was hiding in pakistan and then afghanastan and back Again.
But just keep on justifying bush’s expensive wars!
and keep being a war hawk and wishing to invade Iran.
because more WAR will surely help up get out of Debt!!!!!!
22. Chip D says:
Stephne, Do you mean the two Bush war’s that the Dem’s voted to fund 100% of the time?
23. Political Observer says:
Bush’s war in Iraq plunged this country’s economy to the brink of collapse. Putting foot soldiers on the ground in search of yellow cake uranium that did not exist in Iraq was arguably an impeachable offense. Bush II financed the war in Iraq with borrowed money from China. Obama gave the green light to eliminate bin Laden. I’d say we are on the right track.
24. JoeSchmoe says:
Reece.. Romney alsready said he would show ALL of his tax returns as soon as Obama produces a real birth certificate( Obama’s lawyers last week in NJ to get him on the ballot said the last one anyone saw was a copy and not the original and he needs it to get on the ballot) his travel records for the last 20 years, his college transcripts and his social security info, but the white house says no. Is Romney better off, I am sure he is. The deal the DEMS want to jump in on is were the money is in offshore banks. You know just like the one Chuck Shumer, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Obama have.. They think Romney was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and can’t relate to the middle class because “he’s always been rich”. I assure you he wasn’t and made his money by earning it, and NO the government didn’t build it as Obama would have you believe, he did. But the average citizen is NOT better off. $5 trillion more in debt added by Obama, class warfare, stimulus money given by Obama to supporters and croonies, unemployment at 9%, and if we used the same standard we did during the Depression Years he would have it at 15% using the UV4 method. At the height of the Depression is was 18%. We are close all to Obama. It’s not George Bushes fault any longer, it’s Barry’s and as was said at the RNC, what makes you think the next four years will get any better?” If there was improvement, he might get 4 more years, but instead he’s made things worse. NO more years
25. optivity says:
“The head of Iran’s navy says the country aims to put its warships in international waters off the U.S. coast “in the next few years.”
The comments Tuesday from Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on state TV”
What is it about Islamic extremism that you don’t understand?
Deal with it now or deal with it later… after another 9/11 type disaster.
Maybe the “progressives” will wake up if Iran nukes Israel?
I’d rather see my tax $ going for a strong military instead of being used to placate the generational welfare types.
Teenage girls having kids they can’t afford to raise or educate.
Like I said we’re going to hell in a hand basket and the LIBS are driving us there.
26. iknowtruthismine says:
It is expected that the Right-wing, their corporate masters, the hangers-on, the dupes and the very unintelligent, who always go for whatever candidate, party, or position they perceive as being more macho, will deny that we are better off than the train-wreck the corporate Right handed off to President Obama four years ago, because the currency of the Right is, and always has been, playing on the fears (justified, unjustified, or just ginned up by their propaganda wing) of the mass of society. The much denied (but obvious) racial undertones to the current effort to win at all costs, adds an additional flavor to their fetid stew, and I’m sure the level of false, plain made-up, hate focused rhetoric they add as the spice to please the above listed pawns (their loyal base), will make it a dish the still perplexedly undecided middle, once the Right places a hot steamy bowl of it in front of them, will have no choice but to push away, before it makes them sick.
27. Jim_C says:
To albanyjim, you need to look at the facts not me. If I recall he had a democratic controlled Senate and House when he took office did he not? So what did he get done? Pretty much nothing the people in his own party don’t even like his policies.
For you, you are better off, for me NOT!!!!!
28. Jim_C says:
Wake up people we need a flat tax that way everyone pays their fair share! Like I said if you are better off you live in fairy tail world because we are not better off, but to each his/her own.
The housing market which started this whole debacle still hasn’t been fixed, and I know someone that happens to work in four closure, and their business is booming so please people wake up!!!!
I’m not a big Romney fan never have been but I think someone else deserves a chance.
29. EriK says:
I think the question stings OFA because while undoubtedly some Americans are doing better, many are not and most know people that are in tough straits. Assigning all credit/blame to the President is silly, but historically (and hysterically in some cases) many people do just that.
I’m amused that Dems constantly decry Republican “obstructionism.” The best years of the 1990′s were when both the House and Senate were Republican and Clinton was President. How is it that things got done then and can’t get done now? Perhaps the weak link is the empty chair. He can’t get it done. Aloha Mr. President.
30. iknowtruthismine says:
Jim_C – The flat tax is a highly unfair regressive tax. Why do you think the rich are foaming at the mouth to have one enacted, it ain’t because it’s fair.
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For the road show, they will be participating in all 35 cities alongside Microsoft.
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The Open XML SDK 2.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) is here!
You can find the documentation for it here and the SDK download here.
Zeyad Rajabi, a Program Manager for the Open XML SDK, has begun a series of posts covering the Open XML SDK design goals and architecture, sprinkling in some sample code as he goes along.
Also, Eric White, a Microsoft Technical Evangelist, has a great write up on the new version of the SDK.
This new version of the SDK is an amazing leap forward.The Open XML SDK version 1 greatly simplified working with packages. Developers could manipulate Open XML file format compliant documents at the package and part levels using strongly typed .NET classes. To access the file formats at the element level, you still had to work directly with the underlying XML.
In the Open XML SDK version 2, the development team has taken most of the elements in the various schemas for the Open XML file formats (WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, etc., etc.) and made first-class managed objects out of them. Not to mention the fact that they've "linq-ified" the entire API so you have the power of Linq, as well.
This makes things much easier if, like me, working with XML directly isn’t your strong suit. With the Open XML SDK v2, I can work with objects that represent the XML elements instead of having to work in the underlying XML itself (although the SDK also supports LINQ to XML, as well). For instance, suppose I needed to locate the first table in a Word document. I could easily locate the first table present in the document with code like this:
1: using (WordprocessingDocument theDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(location, true))
2: {
3: MainDocumentPart mainPart = theDoc.MainDocumentPart;
5: Table theTable = mainPart.Document.Descendants<Table>().First();
You can see the advantage of using this new version of the SDK in line 5 of the code snippet where, by specifying that I want to filter for descendants of the Document object (which represents the <w:document> element in the Microsoft implementation of the Open XML WordprocessingML) where the descendant is of type Table (that is, I want all <w:tbl> elements), I can immediately get to the tables in my Word document. Then, by using the First() extension method, I can select the first table element in the returned list of descendant table elements. All without having to do the detailed work of traversing the underlying XML directly; the API handles the XML work for me.
Or how about trying to get to the text in a specific cell in the Word 2007 table? I’m simplifying things a great deal, but let's assume I know which cell has the data I want (the cell in the 2nd row and 1st column):
1: TableRow theRow = theTable.Elements<TableRow>().ElementAt(1);
3: TableCell theCell = theRow.Elements<TableCell>().ElementAt(0);
5: string cellText = theCell.InnerText;
7: Console.WriteLine("The 2nd row, 1st cell text is {0}", cellText);
So here I just use the same technique that I used above to find elements of a given type (by using the provided generic methods) in order to find the 2nd row of the table (<TableRow>().ElementAt(1)) and the first cell (<TableCell>().ElementAt(0)). Then I just pull the value of the Cell object's InnerText property and it's done! Although there are other ways to use the SDK to get the same data, you can still see that with only a few lines of code, I'm able to do quite a bit without working directly in the underlying XML. And remember, we can do this type of manipulation WITHOUT running the client application (in this case Microsoft Word 2007).
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No horse-drawn carriage before the Royal Wedding. Was this a concession to animal rights activists? – Telegraph Blogs
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Eight horses draw the Queen's coach at the Golden Jubilee (Photo: Heathcliff O'Malley)
Immediately before the royal wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton, the usual horse-drawn Glass Coach for the trip to Westminster Abbey by the bride and groom has been replaced by a car. Is this a security issue, or could sensitivities about animal welfare have played a part in the decision?
It's an issue that has attracted attention elsewhere. Glee star Lea Michele has made a video with PETA, aiming to convince people to boycott horse-drawn carriages in New York City.
I’m sure that Lea Michele has a point. There are some aspects of the lives of the New York horses that are far from ideal. But if you scratch the surface, you’ll find that this is yet another example of two contrasting pro-animal stances being deliberately – and quite cynically – confused by PETA.
PETA supports the “animal rights” view, which is that humans should not be allowed to interfere at all with the free-living lives of animals. This is the real reason why PETA would like to ban the horse and carriage trade, but it’s a view that would only be supported by a tiny minority of the populace.
To draw more support for this campaign, as it does for its other campaigns, PETA appeals to “animal welfare” supporters. These represent the large majority of people who’d see themselves as animal lovers; they believe that it’s acceptable to use animals for human benefit, as long as due attention is paid to their quality of life.
“Animal rights” activists want a complete ban of all horse and carriage rides; in the long term, they’d also like to ban all farm animals and pets.
“Animal welfare” activists, on the other hand, argue that the human-animal relationship is a valuable part of our society, and that as long as regulations ensure that animals are given “lives worth living”, there’s nothing wrong with humans keeping working horses, farm animals or pets.
The New York City carriage horses are subject to strict licensing controls, under laws, updated as recently as 2010, that are enforced by the ASPCA, New York City Police Department, the Health Department, the Consumer Affairs Department, and the Parks Department. If there are welfare problems, the way forward is for these bodies to address the issue by ensuring that the welfare regulations fulfil the task that they’ve been designed to do.
Banning the horses would simply raise the question: what to ban next? What about the horse-drawn carriages in the thousands of other cities around the world where they’re kept busy entertaining tourists?
Or to move out of our Western bubble for a moment, what about the 100 million working horses, mules and donkeys in the world that are integral to rural transport and food production, distribution and security in developing countries? Would PETA like to ban those too?
If you want to get involved with a worthwhile campaign, forget the celebrity-driven PETA animal rights extremist approach. Instead, give your support to the Brooke, which is the world’s biggest welfare charity for working equines. The Brooke reaches over 800,000 working horses, donkeys and mules a year, with mobile teams and clinics treating sick and injured animals as well as educating owners about aspects of animal welfare.
And if you’re a celebrity, I’m sure that the Brooke would be very happy to hear from you. Then again, the Brooke may not give you the air-brushed glossy image and international platform that PETA promises, so why would you bother?
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18 year old, seeking advice!
• Hey guys!
I just signed up for this, because I feel like I need support! I have recently lost a lot of weight. I took a 'break' week in which I ate whatever I wanted and didn't worry about working out. I just weighed myself and I gained ten pounds, in 8 days. My mom is saying it's water weight. Of course this is a huge set back and really discouraging. Can you guys weigh tell me what you think? Thanks :)
• Hiya OneDayAtATime77,
Yep you are going to regain weight if you go back to old habits. Some of that will be water weight maybe due to taking in more sodium than you did while you were eating better.
Some of that weight however is because you ate crap for a whole week. What needs to happen now is that you practice moderation for your favorite foods. You will always regain the weight if you don't and many people regain even more than when they started.
Right now you have a chance to not go back to that place by turning it back around right now. Commit yourself to a LIFETIME of healthy weight by making good food and exercise choices every day.
Body for Life is great in that a "free day" is built in, the other six days a week are eating clean and exercising.
• OneDayAtATime77,
James is totally right. When you get started on the program, you will notice that on on your free day you will put on a little weight- like for me, it's about two pounds, but it goes away within 48 hours after eating clean and exercising (and then more throughout the week...). It is not surprising that you gained over a pound each day for you "free eating" over eight days. Yes, some of if may be salt retaining, but much of it is that old weight gained back.
Again, to reiterate Jame's point, the beauty of the program is the built-in free day, so you can let loose. When I first started the challenge, that free day was my goal every week, and I have never been more satisfied with any "diet."
If you can commit to it you will love the results. Good luck!
"The fruit of life is the joy of discipline"
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• Body for Life is just that ... for life. Now you know why. Get back on the wagon and this time work on making it more a lifestyle. Too many people confuse it with a diet. Diets don't last, lifestyles do.
10's in exercise and nutrition = 10's in life
• One day at a time,
How did you lose the weight? If you were not doing BFL, then the diet may have caused you to lose muscle mass, which is one of the reasons that when we go off a "diet" our metabolism is slower, and we can gain weight back quickly. Just get on BFL...eat BFL by the book (follow the original book for best results), and do BFL workouts. The key is to LIFT HEAVY!! Build those muscles so you become a fat burning machine!
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Before we head to the Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tenn., there's time to dip into the reader mailbag. I'll do another Inbox after the Meetings next week, so keep those questions coming!
With Nick Franklin tearing the cover off the ball in the Arizona Fall League, what do you think are his chances of being on the Mariners' Opening Day roster? And if that is the case, could Dustin Ackley see some playing time in the outfield?
-- Duane J., Couer d'Alene, Idaho
Everyone assumes Franklin, the Mariners' No 3 prospect, is now a second baseman because that's where he played in the Arizona Fall League, but that was more a matter of circumstances. Every Major League team can designate one AFL player who must be played on a regular basis at a certain position, and the Mariners designated catcher Mike Zunino. The Reds chose their shortstop, Didi Gregorius, to be their designated player on the Peoria club.
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So Franklin wound up playing second base in order to be in the lineup and he hit .338 with 22 RBIs in 20 games. He'll get an invitation to Mariners camp again, and I suspect he'll get a good look at shortstop. It's a long shot for him to break camp on the 25-man roster, but I'm sure he'll be much more ready than a year ago when he was a little over his head as a wide-eyed 20-year-old. It seems only a matter of time before he gets his chance.
Why did the Mariners pick up Scott Cousins and then just release him without giving him a chance?
-- Mark J., Pullman, Wash.
Good timing on that question as Cousins -- who played parts of the past three seasons for the Marlins -- was claimed off waivers from the Mariners on Friday by the Angels. The 27-year-old outfielder has had an adventurous offseason, having already been claimed by the Blue Jays and then released, with Seattle then claiming him on Nov. 6.
But the Mariners designated him for assignment on Nov. 20 when they added five young players to their 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft. At that point, they just made the determination that one of their young prospects was more critical than bringing Cousins to camp.
So now he's with the Angels -- his fourth team in a span of 44 days. With their 40-man roster full at this point, the Mariners are going to need to drop somebody else if they sign any free agents or make a Rule 5 Draft pick. So his situation in Seattle was pretty tenuous anyway.
With the new fences at Safeco Field, are they taking down the old wall or simply moving it in closer?
-- Linda J., Olympia, Wash.
The old wall will be torn down, with a new fence and new padding installed.
The Marlins just conducted a huge salary dump. What is the possibility that the Mariners look into acquiring Giancarlo Stanton?
-- Jose N., Mount Vernon, Wash.
I'm sure pretty much every MLB team has checked to see if the young slugger is available. And, yeah, he'd be the perfect fit for the power-hungry Mariners. But Marlins president Larry Beinfest repeated again this week that his team has no intention of trading Stanton, which isn't surprising given he's still making the Major League minimum of $480,000 and won't be a free agent until 2017.
The Marlins were looking to unload salary, not talent. They'll try to now build around the 23-year-old who hit 37 home runs last season, not give him up while he's still under team control for four more years.
Are the Mariners going to reach out to Jason Bay for the chance of a comeback? What are the chances he could make the team?
-- Beau C., Moscow, Idaho
The Mariners are one of several teams that are known to have talked with Bay, and it seems like Seattle could be a perfect landing spot after the Mets released him with $21 million still owed. The 34-year-old Canadian played for Gonzaga University and lives in the Seattle area, and the Mariners had success with a similar reclamation project last year in Oliver Perez, who found a home after agreeing to a Minor League deal and then quietly working his way back as a reliever.
Bay was a huge disappointment in his three seasons with the Mets, but this is a guy who averaged 27 home runs and 99 RBIs the previous six years with the Pirates and Red Sox. His chances of making the team would depend entirely on how he performed in Spring Training, but he used to be exactly the kind of player the Mariners are looking for -- a corner outfielder with pop. If he's willing to sign a minimum-salary-type deal, I'm sure the Mariners would be interested in seeing what he might have left.
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Rumors, rumors. Might as well get used to them heading to the Winter Meetings. The Mariners may well use one of their prime young arms -- Danny Hultzen, Taijuan Walker or James Paxton -- to deal for a hitter at some point this offseason. But all the talk of getting Butler or teammate Alex Gordon from the Royals is off base, in my opinion.
The Royals are actually looking to add proven veteran pitching, not prospects, and might use one of their own young outfield prospects, Wil Myers, to swing a deal. But they're not looking to deal Butler or Gordon. They're building around those guys and trying to improve their pitching staff now, not for the future, so I don't see that particular rumor having any legs. | dclm-gs1-008120000 |
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How can I easily remove a jumper plate?
A Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud "Jumper" piece.
I find a it very difficult to remove this kind of brick with a brick separator.
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There's actually a new Brick Separator coming that has an offset anti-stud that can be used for jumper plates. Check out this Brothers-Brick article: brothers-brick.com/2011/10/05/… – Grandpappy Nov 1 '11 at 22:40
@Grandpappy: That looks beautiful. – BoltClock Nov 2 '11 at 8:19
@Grandpappy They seem to be including the new brick separator in a few sets now - especially larger ones. – Zhaph - Ben Duguid Aug 18 '12 at 20:31
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A 1x1x5 brick has enough leverage to remove most jumper plates. Apply pressure to the top of the brick and pull or push away from the length of the jumper plate.
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Even a 1x1 brick works in certain cramped places, although It doesn't provide as much leverage.
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If I had a big enough lever I could move the world. Clever! – geoffc Nov 1 '11 at 17:19
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I'll try to show how I'd do this using a 2x12 plate (or something similar). Imagine you're looking at it from the side:
_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_ --> Pull | narrow, long plate
_n_ | jumper plate
_n_n_n_n_n_n_ | baseplate
n = stud
Just attach a plate or brick to the top of the jumper and push it to the side so it will tip over.
PS: i hope the ascii-art makes clear what i tried to explain - i don't have a lego-designer here at work
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I like this idea, considering how common this brick is. I'd have to try it for myself thought to see how well it works, especialy in tight spaces. – Ambo100 Nov 1 '11 at 15:25
for me this works better because you only need a bit pressure and can pull very easy. when using a pillar like you suggested, you'll have to push relatively hard to avoid to slip of. – oezi Nov 1 '11 at 15:31
You don't have to push hard but it helps. – Ambo100 Nov 1 '11 at 15:38
That ascii-art is surprisingly simple and efficient. As for the answer, sometimes adding a brick opposite the your 2x12 plate helps too, as that brick will stay in place and you can lift the 2x12 plate as well as pulling it, producing a lever effect too. – Joubarc Nov 1 '11 at 19:53
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Use the new Jumper Tile 2.0 instead! Easier to remove! Comes in many1 colors2! Advanced features3! Comes in many colours4! Lighter than the old, clumsy version!
Don't wait, contact your closest LEGO reseller to upgrade your collection of obsolete jumpers to new, shiny ones!
1. Three.
2. U.S. version only.
3. The same as Jumper 1.0, plus Easier removal
4. U.K. version only.
Seriously though, LEGO just added a groove on jumpers, see the difference:
3794b — Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud with Groove (Jumper)
Which admittedly doesn't help you right now, but at least you can take comfort in knowing LEGO adressed the issue somehow.
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My first inclination with this question was "I swear there's a groove on the bottom..." but then I checked the nearest model and there wasn't. I guess this is why. – user23 Nov 1 '11 at 18:48
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this change. – BoltClock Nov 1 '11 at 19:51
Interesting, but doesn't answer my question. – Ambo100 Nov 1 '11 at 20:01
@Ambo100 I didn't think it would, honestly. If I had wanted to answer seriously, it would just have been a slightly different take on oezi's answer, which I think is the easiest. – Joubarc Nov 2 '11 at 8:56
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Place a regular 1x2 plate on top of it (the hollow stud of the jumper plate fits around the post in the bottom of the 1x2), and apply lateral force to the combination. They should come off together. Then rotate the two to separate them from each other.
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Use the new brick separator:
Brick separator
...when it becomes available.
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You beat me to it :-) – Joubarc Nov 2 '11 at 19:09
It looks like it performs just as well as the old brick separator would with jumper plates. Until it's released and we know for sure that it works it's not viable for now. – Ambo100 Nov 2 '11 at 20:48
@Ambo100: There have are already been a few on Bricklink, and they have been specifically designed with this task in mind. ut you're right, of course: we won't know for sure until someone publishes their experiences. Let's hope they're good, and that this tool lives up to its promise. – Kramii Nov 2 '11 at 21:49
It's now available for sale on the online shop. – Joubarc Dec 6 '11 at 8:17
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There are a few parts that can be used in place of a brick separator brick separator alternative
This won't help with jumper plates in the middle of baseplates, but can be useful in other situations.
Original here.
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Somehow, I'm not sure that helps with tiles on a baseplate. See also my comment on your other similar answer – Joubarc Nov 2 '11 at 5:05
Sure, in the middle of a baseplate this wouldn't help. But there is nothing in the question about baseplates. – retracile Nov 2 '11 at 11:58
@retracile: As Joubarc says, you do need to include an image, but I must admit I like the technique. – Kramii Nov 2 '11 at 19:36
@Joubarc, image embedded as requested. – retracile Nov 3 '11 at 0:20
Thanks - nice edit overall. – Joubarc Nov 3 '11 at 5:33
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CINCINNATI -- Edinson Volquez didn't pitch like Edinson Volquez, and his problem was one that confounds managers time and again.
"You hear it all the time," manager Dusty Baker said. "It's location, location, location."
Baker wasn't talking about the housing market either.
What Baker did was give a to-the-point explanation of Volquez's five-inning outing for the Reds in their 8-1 loss Tuesday night to the Milwaukee Brewers.
From start to finish, Volquez showed little command of the strike zone, which left him at the mercy of one of the best hitting teams in the National League. Mercy wasn't something he'd get any of from the Brewers, a team with a week's worth of struggles to jettison.
He kept the basepaths littered with Brewers, and too many of them ended up scoring for the Reds to do anything else but leave Great American Ball Park, loss in tow.
Aside from the second inning, Volquez allowed a Brewers baserunner to reach base every inning he pitched. In the first, he gave up a double to Ryan Braun, an intentional walk to Prince Fielder and two-run triple to Corey Hart, whose rocket to center field sailed far over Corey Patterson's head.
Three innings later, Hart hit another rocket to almost the same spot. It ended up as a double.
"Those were 400-foot line drives," Baker said.
Hart's second liner combined with Mike Cameron's single and Jason Kendall's double sent home two more runs off Volquez, who found himself in a struggle just to keep a 4-1 deficit from growing larger.
He lost that struggle, too.
"I really didn't like my stuff," he said. "Like I said, I was throwing the same sequence to every hitter."
The 25-year-old Volquez never could find his rhythm, and his night ended after five innings and 96 pitches with the Reds trailing, 5-1.
"I think my fastball was my best pitch," he said. "I think every time I get ahead early in the count, I just throw my changeup for a strike. It was hard to throw that pitch in the dirt and make them swing at it."
In essence, he echoed what Baker said: location, location, location. Volquez's inability to locate hurt him badly against Hart.
"Edinson had him waving at a couple of changes and tried to sneak a couple fastballs one time inside, and it got over the plate," Baker said. "Another time outside, and it got over the plate.
"It's just a matter of location."
Yet even if Volquez had had better location, he'd have needed his location honed to a razor's sharpness to counter the performance of Brewers right-hander Dave Bush.
He worked seven almost seamless innings, except for a little trouble he created in the first when the Reds scored their lone run. Bush loaded the bases, but Patterson flied out to left field to end the threat.
Other than that inning, Bush handled the Reds easily.
"We killed a lot of worms tonight," Baker said.
That's not good news when your ace isn't countering with a similar performance. Volquez wasn't the Volquez that Reds fans have seen most of this season. He had to be that pitcher, and more, against a good-hitting team like the Brewers.
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I'm getting myself confused on what to do when ds gets older. I shouldn't worry about the future but I am - can't help it. :) So currently ds is 8.5 months old. I posted a couple weeks ago about him not sleeping well and got fantastic advice that he should be staying awake longer. We extended him and he sleeps so much better now. So now my question is, what happens when he gets older? As he continually is able to stay awake longer in between naps, how does that work? For example: if ds wakes at 6:30, he shouldn't need to go down until 9:30, right? We limit that nap to one hour (he would sleep the morning away if you let him). So if he stayed up another 3-3.15 hrs before the next nap you're looking at 1:15ish or so. He'll nap until 2:45-3, which makes BT around 6:30. That's fantastic for us. But as he gets older he's able to stay awake longer in between naps, so when does that interfere with bedtime? You obviously don't keep pushing BT back. Is any of this making sense? So let's say he's able to stay up until 10 before his first nap. Even if I limit that to one hour, do I make the second nap still 3.15 hrs or so after? That then means there wouldn't be a long enough WT before BT. I know I'm rambling, I apologize. I went through all of this with my ODD but that was 5 years ago. I've forgotten a lot since then. Any help would be appreciated. :)
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He would eventually transition to one nap.
I think naps may get shorter naturally as part of that.
But I'm a FTM with a 10 month old still on 2 naps, so not totally sure how it works!
Posted 11/07/2013
This chart has helpful info on scheduling and WTs:
Eventually you will transition to one nap. Your bedtime will probably end up getting later as well.
Here's our sample schedule on one nap (at 2 years old):
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But at what point do you transition to one nap? I've read the document that you posted several times. It's been very helpful. But I'm trying to figure out what I would need to tell his babysitter for naps. I mean, if his WT's are increasing do both naps just decrease in time so he gets plenty of WT? Because if I need him up by 6:30 for work purposes he would need to go to bed by 6:30 to protect his night sleep. I can't push his second nap back until after 3 because he wouldn't get enough WT.
Posted 11/07/2013
You won't transition to one nap until you HAVE to. At that point you'll be having wake times over 4 hours, refusal of one of the two naps or one of the naps will be crazy short, and early wake ups in the morning. Usually babies are on multiple naps until at least a year old. Don't worry about it - it will become obvious when he needs a schedule change.
And at some point he won't be sleeping 12 hours at night, so you will have more time in the schedule. He may go down to as litlle as 10-10.5 hours of ONS when he's nearing 18 months (or like my LO from birth - ha!).
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Posted 11/07/2013
So because the amount of WT doesn't really differ that much between 8-9months (maybe 1/2 hour), his schedule should essentially stay the same for awhile, right? Unless it's obvious I need to change it.
Posted 11/07/2013
Yep just keep what you're doing as long as its working. I think around 10-11 months u might notice some changes in sleep needs. Just count your self lucky that u have an awesome sleeper right now!
Mom of twin boys Caleb and Silas born 4/30/12
Posted 11/07/2013
My 3.5 year old didn't transition to one nap until almost 18 months. Some do it earlier. Now she still takes a nap most days, at 1 or 2. Bedtime is 7:30 or 8. Sometimes it will take her a while to fall asleep but it doesn't really matter at this age. As they get older, you go by a BTC schedule and WTs don't really matter anymore. But you're a ways away from this so don't worry about it too much.
Kristina, mom to Molly (4/6/2010) and Bennett (8/25/13)
Posted 11/07/2013
I learned all about this with my ODD with the one of the original creators of this, BabeGirlMom (who was AWESOME!). I've looked back through all my old posts but couldn't find anything on this and it's amazing what you can forget in 5 years! Thanks for all the help. I'll try not stress but I'm a worrier by nature! :)
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NAME DBIx::DBStag - Relational Database to Hierarchical (Stag/XML) Mapping SYNOPSIS use DBIx::DBStag; my $dbh = DBIx::DBStag->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=moviedb"); my $sql = q[ SELECT studio.*, movie.*, star.* FROM studio NATURAL JOIN movie NATURAL JOIN movie_to_star NATURAL JOIN star WHERE movie.genre = 'sci-fi' AND star.lastname = 'Fisher' USE NESTING (set(studio(movie(star)))) ]; my $dataset = $dbh->selectall_stag($sql); my @studios = $dataset->get_studio; # returns nested data that looks like this - # # (studio # (name "20th C Fox") # (movie # (name "star wars") (genre "sci-fi") # (star # (firstname "Carrie")(lastname "Fisher"))))) # iterate through result tree - foreach my $studio (@studios) { printf "STUDIO: %s\n", $studio->get_name; my @movies = $studio->get_movie; foreach my $movie (@movies) { printf " MOVIE: %s (genre:%s)\n", $movie->get_name, $movie->get_genre; my @stars = $movie->get_star; foreach my $star (@stars) { printf " STARRING: %s:%s\n", $star->get_firstname, $star->get_lastname; } } } # manipulate data then store it back in the database my @allstars = $dataset->get("movie/studio/star"); $_->set_fullname($_->get_firstname.' '.$_->get_lastname) foreach(@allstars); $dbh->storenode($dataset); Or from the command line: unix> selectall_xml -d 'dbi:Pg:dbname=spybase' 'SELECT * FROM studio NATURAL JOIN movie' DESCRIPTION This module is for mapping from databases to Stag objects (Structured Tags - see the Data::Stag manpage), which can also be represented as XML. It has two main uses: Querying This module can take the results of any SQL query and decompose the flattened results into a tree data structure which reflects the foreign keys in the underlying relational schema. It does this by looking at the SQL query and introspecting the database schema, rather than requiring metadata or an object model. In this respect, the module works just like a regular the DBI manpage handle, with some extra methods provided. Storing Data DBStag objects can store any tree-like datastructure (such as XML documents) into a database using normalized schema that reflects the structure of the tree being stored. This is done using little or no metadata. XML can also be imported, and a relational schema automatically generated. For a tutorial on using DBStag to build and query relational databases from XML sources, please see the DBIx::DBStag::Cookbook manpage HOW QUERYING WORKS This is a general overview of the rules for turning SQL query results into a tree like data structure. Relations Relations (i.e. tables and views) are elements (nodes) in the tree. The elements have the same name as the relation in the database. Columns Table and view columns of a relation are sub-elements of the table or view to which they belong. These elements will be data elements (i.e. terminal nodes). Only the columns selected in the SQL query will be present. For example, the following query SELECT name, job FROM person; will return a data structure that looks like this: (person (name "fred") (job "forklift driver")) (person (name "joe") (job "steamroller mechanic")) The data is shown as a lisp-style S-Expression - it can also be expressed as XML, or manipulated as an object within perl. Table aliases If an ALIAS is used in the FROM part of the SQL query, the relation element will be nested inside an element with the same name as the alias. For instance, the query SELECT name FROM person AS author WHERE job = 'author'; Will return a data structure like this: (author (person (name "Philip K Dick"))) The underlying assumption is that aliasing is used for a purpose in the original query; for instance, to determine the context of the relation where it may be ambiguous. SELECT * FROM person AS employee INNER JOIN person AS boss ON (employee.boss_id = boss.person_id) Will generate a nested result structure similar to this - (employee (person (person_id "...") (name "...") (foo "...") (boss (person (person_id "...") (name "...") (foo "..."))))) If we neglected the alias, we would have 'person' directly nested under 'person', and the meaning would not be obvious. Note how the contents of the SQL query dynamically modifies the schema/structure of the result tree. NOTE ON SQL SYNTAX Right now, DBStag is fussy about how you specify aliases; you must use AS - you must say SELECT name FROM person AS author; instead of SELECT name FROM person author; Nesting of relations The main utility of querying using this module is in retrieving the nested relation elements from the flattened query results. Given a query over relations A, B, C, D,... there are a number of possible tree structures. Not all of the tree structures are meaningful. Usually it will make no sense to nest A under B if there is no foreign key relationship linking either A to B, or B to A. This is not always the case - it may be desirable to nest A under B if there is an intermediate linking table that is required at the relational level but not required in the tree structure. DBStag will guess a structure/schema based on the ordering of the relations in your FROM clause. However, this guess can be over-ridden at either the SQL level (using DBStag specific SQL extensions) or at the API level. The default algorithm is to nest each relation element under the relation element preceeding it in the FROM clause; for instance: SELECT * FROM a NATURAL JOIN b NATURAL JOIN c If there are appropriately named foreign keys, the following data will be returned (assuming one row in each of a, b and c) (set (a (a_foo "...") (b (b_foo "...") (c (c_foo "..."))))) where 'x_foo' is a column in relation 'x' This is not always desirable. If both b and c have foreign keys into table a, DBStag will not detect this - you have to guide it. There are two ways of doing this - you can guide by bracketing your FROM clause like this: !!## !!## NOTE - THIS PART IS NOT SET IN STONE - THIS MAY CHANGE !!## SELECT * FROM (a NATURAL JOIN b) NATURAL JOIN c This will generate (set (a (a_foo "...") (b (b_foo "...")) (c (c_foo "...")))) Now b and c are siblings in the tree. The algorithm is similar to before: nest each relation element under the relation element preceeding it; or, if the preceeding item in the FROM clause is a bracketed structure, nest it under the first relational element in the bracketed structure. (Note that in MySQL you may not place brackets in the FROM clause in this way) Another way to achieve the same thing is to specify the desired tree structure using a DBStag specific SQL extension. The DBStag specific component is removed from the SQL before being presented to the DBMS. The extension is the USE NESTING clause, which should come at the end of the SQL query (and is subsequently removed before processing by the DBMS). SELECT * FROM a NATURAL JOIN b NATURAL JOIN c USE NESTING (set (a (b)(c))); This will generate the same tree as above (i.e. 'b' and 'c' are siblings). Notice how the nesting in the clause is the same as the nesting in the resulting tree structure. Note that 'set' is not a table in the underlying relational schema - the result data tree requires a named top level node to group all the 'a' relations under. You can call this top level element whatever you like. If you are using the DBStag API directly, you can pass in the nesting structure as an argument to the select call; for instance: my $seq = $dbh->selectall_xml(-sql=>q[SELECT * FROM a NATURAL JOIN b NATURAL JOIN c], -nesting=>'(set (a (b)(c)))'); or the equivalent - my $seq = $dbh->selectall_xml(q[SELECT * FROM a NATURAL JOIN b NATURAL JOIN c], '(set (a (b)(c)))'); If you like, you can also use XML here (only at the API level, not at the SQL level) - my $seq = $dbh->selectall_xml(-sql=>q[SELECT * FROM a NATURAL JOIN b NATURAL JOIN c], -nesting=>q[ ]); As you can see, this is a little more verbose. Most command line scripts that use this module should allow pass-through via the '-nesting' switch. Aliasing of functions and expressions If you alias a function or an expression, DBStag needs to know where to put the resulting column; the column must be aliased. This is inferred from the first named column in the function or expression; for example, in the SQL below SELECT blah.*, foo.*, foo.x - foo.y AS z The z element will be nested under the foo element You can force different nesting using a double underscore: SELECT blah.*, foo.*, foo.x - foo.y AS blah__z This will nest the z element under the blah element Conformance to DTD/XML-Schema DBStag returns the Data::Stag manpage structures that are equivalent to a simplified subset of XML (and also a simplified subset of lisp S-Expressions). These structures are examples of semi-structured data - a good reference is this book - Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML Serge Abiteboul, Dan Suciu, Peter Buneman Morgan Kaufmann; 1st edition (January 2000) The schema for the resulting Stag structures can be seen to conform to a schema that is dynamically determined at query-time from the underlying relational schema and from the specification of the query itself. CLASS METHODS connect Usage - $dbh = DBIx::DBStag->connect($DSN); Returns - L Args - see the connect() method in L selectall_stag Usage - $stag = $dbh->selectall_stag($sql); $stag = $dbh->selectall_stag($sql, $nesting_clause); $stag = $dbh->selectall_stag(-template=>$template, -bind=>{%variable_bindinfs}); Returns - L Args - sql string, [nesting string], [bind hashref], [template DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate] Executes a query and returns a the Data::Stag manpage structure An optional nesting expression can be passed in to control how the relation is decomposed into a tree. The nesting expression can be XML or an S-Expression; see above for details selectall_xml Usage - $xml = $dbh->selectall_xml($sql); Returns - string Args - See selectall_stag() As selectall_stag(), but the results are transformed into an XML string selectall_sxpr Usage - $sxpr = $dbh->selectall_sxpr($sql); Returns - string Args - See selectall_stag() As selectall_stag(), but the results are transformed into an S-Expression string; see the Data::Stag manpage for more details. selectall_sax Usage - $dbh->selectall_sax(-sql=>$sql, -handler=>$sax_handler); Returns - string Args - sql string, [nesting string], handler SAX As selectall_stag(), but the results are transformed into SAX events [currently this is just a wrapper to selectall_xml but a genuine event generation model will later be used] selectall_rows Usage - $tbl = $dbh->selectall_rows($sql); Returns - arrayref of arrayref Args - See selectall_stag() As selectall_stag(), but the results of the SQL query are left undecomposed and unnested. The resulting structure is just a flat table; the first row is the column headings. This is similar to DBI->selectall_arrayref(). The main reason to use this over the direct DBI method is to take advantage of other stag functionality, such as templates prepare_stag SEMI-PRIVATE METHOD Usage - $prepare_h = $dbh->prepare_stag(-template=>$template); Returns - hashref (see below) Args - See selectall_stag() Returns a hashref { sth=>$sth, exec_args=>\@exec_args, cols=>\@cols, col_aliases_ordered=>\@col_aliases_ordered, alias=>$aliasstruct, nesting=>$nesting }; storenode Usage - $dbh->storenode($stag); Returns - Args - L Recursively stores a tree structure in the database SQL TEMPLATES DBStag comes with its own SQL templating system. This allows you to reuse the same canned SQL or similar SQL qeuries in different contexts. See the DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate manpage find_template Usage - $template = $dbh->find_template("my-template-name"); Returns - L Args - str Returns an object representing a canned paramterized SQL query. See the DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate manpage for documentation on templates list_templates Usage - $templates = $dbh->list_templates(); Returns - Arrayref of L Args - Returns a list of ALL defined templates - See the DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate manpage find_templates_by_schema Usage - $templates = $dbh->find_templates_by_schema($schema_name); Returns - Arrayref of L Args - str Returns a list of templates for a particular schema - See the DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate manpage find_templates_by_dbname Usage - $templates = $dbh->find_templates_by_dbname("mydb"); Returns - Arrayref of L Args - db name Returns a list of templates for a particular db Requires resources to be set up (see below) RESOURCES resources_list Usage - $rlist = $dbh->resources_list Returns - arrayref to a hashref Args - none Returns a list of resources; each resource is a hash {name=>"mydbname", type=>"rdb", schema=>"myschema", } SETTING UP RESOURCES The above methods rely on you having a file describing all the relational dbs available to you, and setting the env var DBSTAG_DBIMAP_FILE set (this is a : separated list of paths). This is alpha code - not fully documented, API may change Currently a resources file is a whitespace delimited text file - XML/Sxpr/IText definitions may be available later Here is an example of a resources file: # LOCAL mytestdb rdb Pg:mytestdb schema=test # SYSTEM worldfactbook rdb schema=wfb employees rdb schema=employees The first column is the nickname or logical name of the resource/db. This nickname can be used instead of the full DBI locator path (eg you can just use employees instead of dbi:Pg:dbname=employees; The second column is the resource type - rdb is for relational database. You can use the same file to track other system datasources available to you, but DBStag is only interested in relational dbs. The 3rd column is a way of locating the resource - driver:name@host The 4th column is a ; separated list of tag=value pairs; the most important tag is the schema tag. Multiple dbs may share the same schema, and hence share SQL Templates COMMAND LINE SCRIPTS DBStag is usable without writing any perl, you can use command line scripts and files that utilise tree structures (XML, S-Expressions) -d [-n ] Queries database and writes decomposed relation as XML Can also be used with templates: -d / ... -d [-n ] Queries database and writes decomposed relation as HTML with nested tables indicating the nested structures. -d Stores data from a file (Supported formats: XML, Sxpr, IText - see the Data::Stag manpage) in a normalized database. Gets it right most of the time. TODO - metadata help [-l ]* Takes data from a file (Supported formats: XML, Sxpr, IText - see the Data::Stag manpage) and generates a relational schema in the form of SQL CREATE TABLE statements. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES DBSTAG_TRACE setting this environment will cause all SQL statements to be printed on STDERR BUGS This is alpha software! Probably several bugs. The SQL parsing can be quite particular - sometimes the SQL can be parsed by the DBMS but not by DBStag. The error messages are not always helpful. There are probably a few cases the SQL SELECT parsing grammar cannot deal with. If you want to select from views, you need to hack DBIx::DBSchema (as of v0.21) TODO Use SQL::Translator to make SQL DDL generation less Pg-specific; also for deducing foreign keys (right now foreign keys are guessed by the name of the column, eg table_id) Can we cache the grammar so that startup is not so slow? Improve algorithm so that events are fired rather than building up entire structure in-memory Tie in all DBI attributes accessible by hash, i.e.: $dbh->{...} Error handling WEBSITE AUTHOR Chris Mungall COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2004 Chris Mungall This module is free software. You may distribute this module under the same terms as perl itself | dclm-gs1-008190000 |
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Is there a definied keysize to be used with the "AES_256-CBC" method in PHP, and what is the size?
Some background:
I want to store encrypted text into a PostgreSQL database. The user who posts the data has a key (stored in db) which gets appended to a generic private key hard coded in the library.
$key = $genericKey . $userKey;
The used encryption method is "AES-256-CBC" with an iv_size of 16. The IV gets prepended to the encrypted string
$return = $iv.$encrypted
This is then stored in the database.
It appears that if I produce an extremely large generic key, then store some data with $userkey1, and then decrypt it with $userkey2, the data just gets decoded. If I rerun it with a small generic key and small user key, it does not get decoded. To me, it looks as if the big key gets truncated somehow.
Could someone confirm this and tell me what the max keysize is? What is the best-practice to make sure the set key doesn't exceed the key_size* E.g.: md5($key) because this produces a "fixed" amount of characters.
Because apparently php has its own implementation of the AES, this is the way I implement it in my own Class:
class Crypto {
function __construct(){
$this->iv_size = 16;
$this->sleutel = 'somelongkey';
$this->encryptionMethod = 'AES-256-CBC';
private function encrypt($str){
$sleutel = $this->sleutel . $this->userKey;
$iv = $this->generateRandomString($this->iv_size);
$cipher = openssl_encrypt($str, $this->encryptionMethod, $sleutel, 0, $iv);
return $iv.$cipher;
public function decrypt($data){
$iv = substr($data, 0, $this->iv_size);
return openssl_decrypt(substr($data, $this->iv_size), $this->encryptionMethod, $sleutel, 0, $iv);
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AES-256 uses a 256 bit or 32 byte key by definition. No more, no less. – CodesInChaos Oct 11 '13 at 11:48
Since PHP does not have native AES crypto support, you're either using a module or library. To be sure we're all talking about the same thing, it would be cool if you could mention if you are using Mcrypt, some other module, or maybe even a PHP class or library? (Because sometimes, the devil hides in the details.) – e-sushi Oct 11 '13 at 12:13
I updated my question with the code used in my class. – stUrb Oct 11 '13 at 12:38
@stUrb Thanks for your update. I think I've spotted the problem straight-on… check my answer. – e-sushi Oct 11 '13 at 14:19
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You're simply appending the userKey to your "sleutel" (aka key) in this piece of code:
Problem is, doing that can result in $sleutel lengths beyond the expect 256 bits (32 bytes), or - as you are experiencing - less than the expected 256 bits (32 bytes/characters).
As @CodesInChaos correctly mentioned in his comment:
So, to fix your problem, you will have to make sure the key you are passing to your cipher function is no more and no less than 32 bytes.
To achieve that, you can simply choose to follow the usual path of encryption by taking your $sleutel and hash your key to the expected 256-bit length with (for example) MD5, like this:
$sleutel = md5($this->sleutel . $this->userKey);
or — if you prefer to choose another hash and a speedier function — you can use PHP's hash function, with it's multiple of available hashes to select from, like (for example) this:
$sleutel = hash('ripemd128', $this->sleutel . $this->userKey);
But… that's not the way I would recommend you to do it! Because, you don't want to use a weak hash like MD5 (which is known to have collisions), and you surely don't want to feed a weak hexadecimal character sequence to your cipher either, do you?
My Recommendation
Following current crypto standards, my recommendation is to use SHA256 the way it is supposed to be used in this case:
$sleutel = hash('sha256', $this->sleutel . $this->userKey, TRUE);
Notice that there's a 3rd parameter which is set to TRUE, which means $sleutel will contain 32 raw bytes (= binary characters) instead of 64 human-readable hexadecimal characters.
I'm sure that will fix your "short-key" related problems, as well as any potential "long-key" problems.
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Wow. Thank you e-sushi for this elaborate answer! Am I correct that with your recommended solution I always will produce a correct size key, no matter the size of $this-sleutel.$this->userKey ? – stUrb Oct 11 '13 at 15:37
@stUrb Absolutely correct. That's one of many reasons why I recommended it… ;) As noted, remember to set that 3rd parameter to TRUE to be sure you get binary instead of hex characters in your $sleutel. (Btw.: Vlaams of Nederlands? In ieder geval, graag gedaan!) – e-sushi Oct 11 '13 at 15:40
Just to be sure, right :) (Jups, kom uit Roermond, Nederland :)) – stUrb Oct 11 '13 at 15:53
@stUrb Right! (zegt de Belg die in Duitsland leeft. 8]) Hope to see you around every once in a while… de groetjes! – e-sushi Oct 11 '13 at 15:57
For password based keys derivation (i.e. where the input entropy is significantly below your key size), you should better use a slow hash function instead of any fast one like SHA-256. – Paŭlo Ebermann Oct 18 '13 at 19:47
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You thought New Mexico's Elizabeth Lambert was tough? Wait until you see the next generation of female soccer hooligans who will take over America with their very unladylike football skills.
The Rhode Island state soccer championships were apparently played in the Thunderdome yesterday, as the final between Tolman and Woonsocket ended a bit earlier than scheduled after a bench-clearing, hair-pulling brawl broke out on the field. Woonsocket was leading five to zip when Kristen Cahill got into a little dustup with Tolman's Maria Lopera and things just went down hill from there. Even better, there was another brawl during the post-game medal ceremony, this time involving the fans of the two schools up in the bleachers. Now that's fucking soccer!
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I'm old enough to remember a few dudes in the NHL who played without a helmet. Dinosaurs of an earlier age like Brad Marsh and Greg Smyth Craig MacTavish were grandfathered in, showing what was left of their mullets and their intelligence while substituting machismo for brains (or the prospect of having a working one in the future).
Twenty years later, NHL players still flaunt protection in favor of comfort (or, for brawlers, that same machismo). Despite numerous gruesome facial injuries in the past few years, a quarter of NHL players eschew the visor. Maybe that will change after what happened tonight at Madison Square Garden, as Rangers defenseman Marc Staal took a puck to the eye, leaving a pool of blood on the ice and Staal's body writhing in visible pain.
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@danieleg: Not sure if you just rounded it up but I tested it to 32073 and it was $3.97 for shipping.
Two pairs of pants in the car, ready to go to the cleaners guy for new zippers. This totally saved me money (if they work), shipping charge or no shipping charge. Yes!
How does one "simply snip off" the old zipper?
Isn't it the "teeth" not the "pull" that get messed up on a zipper? Does this just realign with a new pull or is it a special pull or how does it work? Site doesn't say.
@levitator: I've found that both can get messed up. The "teeth" can break and so can the pull tab (I have a cosmetic bag that I love with a broken pull tab. I currently have a safety pin inserted into the space where the tab belongs so I can zip the darn thing so I guess I really need to buy this.)
My homemaking tip of the day (I have very few homemaking tips so please enjoy this one) is to always zip up zippers on clothing before tossing them in the wash. This protects the teeth from breaking and the other clothes from getting snagged on the teeth.
Just had a zipper (the pull part) on a jacket break, so this is exactly what I need. Haven't seen these at Joann's or any other sewing store. Saves having to replace the entire zipper. Hope it works good.
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In for one. I have an old coat that I really like, but the zipper is broke. Hope this works.
A similar kit is available online for $9.93 total; essentially the same price, but it's not clear if that kit has multiple sizes (this one seems to have 2 different sizes of zipper head).
So, I'm going with this one.
@joemarfice: These have 3 different sizes as well: Small, Medium, and Large. The metal part of the zipper that you pull on for the Medium and Large are about the same size, but the part that clasps are noticeably different. Hope that helps!
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8. law a written acknowledgment of an obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract
9. (US), (Canadian) insurance a policy guaranteeing payment of a stated sum to an employer in compensation for financial losses incurred through illegal or unauthorized acts of an employee
10. any of various arrangements of bricks or stones in a wall in which they overlap so as to provide strength
11. See chemical bond
12. See bond paper
13. commerce in bond deposited in a bonded warehouse
14. (also intr) to hold or be held together, as by a rope or an adhesive; bind; connect
15. aeronautics to join (metallic parts of an aircraft) together such that they are electrically interconnected
16. to put or hold (goods) in bond
17. law to place under bond
18. finance to issue bonds on; mortgage
19. to arrange (bricks, etc) in a bond
[C13: from Old Norse band; see band²]
Bond (bɒnd)
Edward. born 1934, British dramatist: his plays, including Saved (1965), Lear (1971), Restoration (1981), and In the Company of Men (1990), are noted for their violent imagery and socialist commitment
bonded (ˈbɒndɪd)
1. finance consisting of, secured by, or operating under a bond or bonds
2. commerce deposited in a bonded warehouse; placed or stored in bond
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Word Origin & History
early 13c., "anything that binds," phonetic variant of band (1) (for vowel change, see long), influenced by O.E. bonda "householder," lit. "dweller" (see bondage). The verb is 1670s (trans.), 1836 (intr.). Legalistic sense first recorded 1590s.
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bond (bŏnd)
The linkage or force holding two neighboring atoms of a molecule in place and resisting their separation, usually accomplished by the transfer or sharing of one or more electrons or pairs of electrons between the atoms.
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bond [%PREMIUM_LINK%] (bŏnd) Pronunciation Key
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A force of attraction that holds atoms or ions together in a molecule or crystal. Bonds are usually created by a transfer or sharing of one or more electrons. There are single, double, and triple bonds. See also coordinate bond, covalent bond, ionic bond, metallic bond, polar bond.
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bond definition
A security issued by a corporation or public body and usually carrying a fixed rate of interest and a set date, called the bond's maturity, for redemption of the principal. Like a stock, a bond is a type of investment, but unlike a stock, a bond has a definite, but not necessarily fixed, yield. Some bonds have a feature known as a call, which gives the borrower an option to pay off the principal of the bond before its maturity, the date when the bond is due to be redeemed. (See municipal bonds and Treasury bills.)
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Bond definition
an obligation of any kind (Num. 30:2, 4, 12). The word means also oppression or affliction (Ps. 116:16; Phil. 1:7). Christian love is the "bond of perfectness" (Col. 3:14), and the influences of the Spirit are the "bond of peace" (Eph. 4:3).
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Example sentences
And there are haughty bonded warehouses filled with fine liquors.
Neither was particularly taken with the pleasantries of academe, and they
bonded over their outré status.
The unsuccessful candidate would probably rather hear it from you than from
someone else because you bonded with them.
Further complicating these interrelationships are the myriad income sources
against which construction is bonded or direct-funded.
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1 [ground]
earth or soil: stony ground.
land having an indicated character: rising ground.
Fine Arts.
ground color ( def 2 ).
grounds, dregs or sediment: coffee grounds.
Electricity. a conducting connection between an electric circuit or equipment and the earth or some other conducting body.
Music. ground bass.
Nautical. the bottom of a body of water.
the earth's solid or liquid surface; land or water.
pertaining to the ground.
Military. operating on land: ground forces.
verb (used with object)
to lay or set on the ground.
Electricity. to establish a ground for (a circuit, device, etc.).
Nautical. to cause (a vessel) to run aground.
Informal. to put out of action or make unable to participate: The quarterback was grounded by a knee injury.
Informal. to restrict the activities, especially the social activities, of: I can't go to the party—my parents have grounded me until my grades improve.
verb (used without object)
to come to or strike the ground.
to hit a ground ball.
to ground out.
Verb phrases
ground out, Baseball. to be put out at first base after hitting a ground ball to the infield.
break ground,
to plow.
to begin excavation for a construction project.
to begin upon or take preparatory measures for any undertaking.
cover ground,
to pass or travel over a certain area.
from the ground up,
gain ground,
to make progress; advance.
lose ground,
to retreat or be forced back.
to lose one's advantage; suffer a reverse.
off the ground, Informal. into action or well under way: The play never got off the ground.
shift ground, to change position in an argument or situation.
take the ground, Nautical. to become grounded at low water.
to ground,
before 900; (noun) Middle English grownd, grund, Old English grund; cognate with Dutch grond, German Grund; (v.) Middle English grundien, grownden to set on a foundation, establish, derivative of the noun
groundable, adjective
groundably, adverb
groundedly, adverb
groundedness, noun
groundward, groundwards, adverb, adjective
ungroundable, adjective
ground, grounds. Unabridged
2 [ground]
a simple past tense and past participle of grind.
reduced to fine particles or dust by grinding.
1755–65 for def 2; see ground1
verb (used with object), ground or (Rare) grinded; grinding.
to reduce to fine particles, as by pounding or crushing; bray, triturate, or pulverize.
to oppress, torment, or crush: to grind the poor.
to rub harshly or gratingly; grate together; grit: to grind one's teeth.
to operate by turning a crank: to grind a hand organ.
to produce by crushing or abrasion: to grind flour.
Slang. to annoy; irritate; irk: It really grinds me when he's late.
verb (used without object), ground or (Rare) grinded; grinding.
to perform the operation of reducing to fine particles.
to rub harshly; grate.
to be or become ground.
to be polished or sharpened by friction.
Informal. to work or study laboriously (often followed by away ): He was grinding away at his algebra.
Slang. (in a dance) to rotate the hips in a suggestive manner. Compare bump ( def 11 ).
the act of grinding.
a grinding sound.
a grade of particle fineness into which a substance is ground: The coffee is available in various grinds for different coffee makers.
laborious, usually uninteresting work: Copying all the footnotes was a grind.
Informal. an excessively diligent student.
Slang. a dance movement in which the hips are rotated in a suggestive or erotic manner. Compare bump ( def 20 ).
Verb phrases
grind out,
to produce in a routine or mechanical way: to grind out magazine stories.
to extinguish by rubbing the lighted end against a hard surface: to grind out a cigarette.
before 950; Middle English grinden, Old English grindan; akin to Gothic grinda-, Latin frendere
grindable, adjective
grindability, noun
grindingly, adverb
regrind, verb, reground, regrinding.
ungrindable, adjective
2. crush, powder, comminute, pound. 3. persecute, plague, afflict, trouble. 4. abrade. Unabridged
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grind (ɡraɪnd)
vb (foll by out) (often foll by down) (foll by out) (foll by out) (often foll by into) , grinds, grinding, ground
1. to reduce or be reduced to small particles by pounding or abrading: to grind corn; to grind flour
2. (tr) to smooth, sharpen, or polish by friction or abrasion: to grind a knife
3. to scrape or grate together (two things, esp the teeth) with a harsh rasping sound or (of such objects) to be scraped together
4. to speak or say (something) in a rough voice
5. to hold down; oppress; tyrannize
6. (tr) to operate (a machine) by turning a handle
7. to produce in a routine or uninspired manner: he ground out his weekly article for the paper
8. to continue to play in a dull or insipid manner: the band only ground out old tunes all evening
9. to instil (facts, information, etc) by persistent effort: they ground into the recruits the need for vigilance
10. informal (intr) to study or work laboriously
11. chiefly (US) (intr) to dance erotically by rotating the pelvis (esp in the phrase bump and grind)
12. informal laborious or routine work or study
13. slang chiefly (US) a person, esp a student, who works excessively hard
14. a specific grade of pulverization, as of coffee beans: coarse grind
15. slang (Brit) the act of sexual intercourse
16. chiefly (US) a dance movement involving an erotic rotation of the pelvis
17. the act or sound of grinding
[Old English grindan; related to Latin frendere, Lithuanian gréndu I rub, Low German grand sand]
ground1 (ɡraʊnd)
1. the land surface
2. earth or soil: he dug into the ground outside his house
3. (plural) the land around a dwelling house or other building
4. (sometimes plural) an area of land given over to a purpose: football ground; burial grounds
5. land having a particular characteristic: level ground; high ground
6. matter for consideration or debate; field of research or inquiry: the lecture was familiar ground to him; the report covered a lot of ground
7. a position or viewpoint, as in an argument or controversy (esp in the phrases give ground, hold, stand,orshift one's ground)
9. (often plural) reason; justification: grounds for complaint
10. arts
b. the support of a painting
c. the background of a painting or main surface against which the other parts of a work of art appear superimposed
11. a. the first coat of paint applied to a surface
b. (as modifier): ground colour
12. the bottom of a river or the sea
13. (plural) sediment or dregs, esp from coffee
14. chiefly (Brit) the floor of a room
15. cricket
a. the area from the popping crease back past the stumps, in which a batsman may legally stand
b. ground staff
16. See ground bass
17. a mesh or network supporting the main pattern of a piece of lace
18. (US), (Canadian) electrical
a. a connection between an electrical circuit or device and the earth, which is at zero potential
b. Also called: earth a terminal to which this connection is made
19. above ground alive
20. below ground dead and buried
21. break new ground to do something that has not been done before
22. cut the ground from under someone's feet to anticipate someone's action or argument and thus make it irrelevant or meaningless
23. informal (Brit) to the ground, down to the ground completely; absolutely: it suited him down to the ground
24. informal get off the ground to make a beginning, esp one that is successful
25. go to ground to go into hiding
26. into the ground beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
27. meet someone on his own ground to meet someone according to terms he has laid down himself
28. the high ground, the moral high ground a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
29. touch ground
a. (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
b. to arrive at something solid or stable after discussing or dealing with topics that are abstract or inconclusive
30. (modifier) situated on, living on, or used on the ground: ground frost; ground forces
31. (modifier) concerned with or operating on the ground, esp as distinct from in the air: ground crew; ground hostess
32. (modifier) (used in names of plants) low-growing and often trailing or spreading
33. (tr) to put or place on the ground
34. (tr) to instruct in fundamentals
35. (tr) to provide a basis or foundation for; establish
36. (tr) to confine (an aircraft, pilot, etc) to the ground
37. informal (tr) to confine (a child) to the house as a punishment
38. the usual US word for earth
39. (tr) nautical to run (a vessel) aground
40. (tr) to cover (a surface) with a preparatory coat of paint
41. (intr) to hit or reach the ground
[Old English grund; related to Old Norse grunn shallow, grunnr, grund plain, Old High German grunt]
ground2 (ɡraʊnd)
1. the past tense and past participle of grind
2. having the surface finished, thickness reduced, or an edge sharpened by grinding
3. reduced to fine particles by grinding
ground bass or ground (beɪs)
music a short melodic bass line that is repeated over and over again
ground or ground
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Word Origin & History
O.E. grindan, forgrindan "destroy by crushing" (class III strong verb; past tense grand, pp. grunden), from P.Gmc. *grindanan (cf. Du. grenden), related to ground, from PIE *ghrendh- "crushing" (cf. L. frendere "to gnash the teeth," Gk. khondros "corn, grain," Lith. grendu "to scrape, scratch"). The
noun sense "steady, hard work" first recorded 1851 in college student slang; the meaning "hard-working student" is Amer.Eng. slang from 1864. Grinder as a type of large sandwich is first recorded 1954. To keep one's nose to the grindstone was originally to get control of another and treat him harshly:
"This Text holdeth their noses so hard to the grindstone, that it clean disfigureth their Faces." [Frith, "Mirror to know Thyself," 1532]
The main modern (reflective) sense of "work hard" is from 1828.
O.E. grund "foundation, ground, surface of the earth," especially "bottom of the sea" (a sense preserved in run aground), from P.Gmc. *grundus, which seems to have meant "deep place" (cf. O.Fris. grund, Du. grond, Ger. Grund "ground, soil, bottom;" O.N. grunn "a shallow place, grund "field, plain," grunnr
"bottom"). No known cognates outside Gmc. Sense of "reason, motive" first attested c.1200; electrical sense is from 1870. Grounds "residue at the bottom of a liquid" (mid-14c.) is perhaps from past tense of grind (q.v.). Meaning "deny privileges" is 1940s, originally a punishment meted out to pilots (in which sense it is attested from 1931). Ground-hog is attested from 1784; Ground Hog Day first recorded 1871, Amer.Eng. Groundwork (c.1550) is originally "the solid base on which a structure is built;" fig. sense is from 1550s. Groundling "theater patron in the pit" is from c.1600, from the beginning emblematic of bad or unsophisticated taste.
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ground (ground) Pronunciation Key
1. A connection between an electrical conductor and the Earth. Grounds are used to establish a common zero-voltage reference for electric devices in order to prevent potentially dangerous voltages from arising between them and other objects. Also called earth.
2. The set of shared points in an electrical circuit at which the measured voltage is taken to be zero. The ground is usually connected directly to the power supply and acts as a common "sink" for current flowing through the components in the circuit.
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grind definition
1. in.
to sell drugs. : He told the cops he wasn't grinding, but they found his junk.
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Grind definition
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Idioms & Phrases
In addition to the idioms beginning with ground, also see both feet on the ground; break ground; common ground; cover ground; cover the field (ground); cut the ground from under; down to the ground; ear to the ground; from the ground up; gain ground; get off the ground; give ground; happy hunting ground; hit the ground running; lose ground; on one's home ground; run into the ground; run to earth (ground); stamping ground; stand one's ground; worship the ground someone walks on.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
Ground zero is no longer the depressing place it was a few years ago.
Fresh bread will soon be baking high above ground zero.
It can be used in manufacturing and to help bring up oil from the ground.
Oil has also washed up on a nearby island that seabirds and turtles use as a
nesting ground.
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Configuring the Appearance of the Toolbar
From the settings in the Toolbar Options dialog box, you can change the appearance of the Toolbar buttons (as icons or with text), determine which buttons display, and set the order in which they are displayed.
By default, the following commands appear as icons: Delete; Next; Previous; Reply, Include Message; Forward; New Message; Print One; Open Mailbox; and Reply.
To Customize the Toolbar
1. Choose Toolbar from the Options menu.
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An openly gay player in the NFL is not a distraction
By Chris Kluwe, Special to CNN
April 1, 2013 -- Updated 1813 GMT (0213 HKT)
• Chris Kluwe: Pro athletes are told all the time, "Don't be a distraction"
• He says yes, focus on the game, but revealing your identity is not a distraction
• Gay athletes shouldn't have to hide their personal lives, he says
• Kluwe: It isn't right that we can't accept people for who they are
Editor's note: Chris Kluwe is a punter for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He is an ambassador for Athlete Ally, an organization working to end homophobia in sports, as are Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens and Scott Fujita of the New Orleans Saints.
(CNN) -- "Don't be a distraction."
These words are pounded into every single NFL player's head from the day he enters the league until the day he leaves (and I would imagine it holds true for just about every professional sport).
The same message, over and over and over -- "The team comes first," "Sacrifice your personal goals to win," "Only be judged by what goes on between the lines" -- which is why I find it unsurprising that there are no openly gay athletes in any of the big four professional sports leagues in the U.S.: the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
Chris Kluwe
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This isn't right.
Former Missouri Tigers defensive end and 2014 NFL draft entrant Michael Sam tells ESPN and The New York Times that he is gay on February 9. Sam is seen here running on to the field before the NCAA Senior Bowl on Saturday, January 25, in Mobile, Alabama. Former Missouri Tigers defensive end and 2014 NFL draft entrant Michael Sam tells ESPN and The New York Times that he is gay on February 9. Sam is seen here running on to the field before the NCAA Senior Bowl on Saturday, January 25, in Mobile, Alabama.
Openly gay athletes
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Video: Former NFL player comes out
It's not right that we can't just accept someone for who he is.
Former NFL player comes out
Why do people care so much about someone else's sexuality? Why do people give two s***s how someone else lives his life? Why do people have this absolutely idiotic notion that being gay has any sort of effect on how well a player can play football, or basketball, or baseball? Why the f*** do I even have to write this column for a major news organization to talk about something that shouldn't even remotely be a factor in sports?
Well, the reason is simple. I'm writing this because no gay player is currently out, and the first gay player who eventually does come out needs to know that -- despite all the indoctrination from the league about not being a distraction -- if he's the one to take the first step, he will have allies. He will have support. He will have those of us who realize that people's sexuality doesn't define who they are, just as their jobs don't define who they are, and that guys who bring our wives and children to games and team events are no different than those who would bring their husbands and children.
Most importantly, I'm writing this so that coaches, managers, players, owners and fans realize that the first gay player who comes out won't spontaneously cause rainbows to erupt out of everyone's rear.
Chris Kluwe, #5 of the Minnesota Vikings, punts the ball during a game against the San Francisco 49ers.
In professional sports, the players on a team are a team. We eat together. We practice together. We watch film together, and we succeed or fail together. We see each other more than our own families during the season. To think that a gay player is suddenly going to destroy all that because he's out is asinine.
The idea that a gay player will be a distraction needs to change.
Coaches, administrative personnel -- will an openly gay player bring extra attention? Maybe, but guess what -- there's a whole bunch of other crap that happens during the season every year, anything from sexting to arrests to profane letters, and somehow we've managed to find a way through it each time without the entire edifice of football collapsing into ruin.
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Instead of looking at an openly gay player as a distraction, ask yourselves -- how much better would that player play if he didn't have to worry about hiding a core part of who he is? How many more sacks would he have, free of that pressure? How many more receptions? How many more rushing yards?
Fans, media -- will an openly gay player be a distraction? Only if you make it one. Only if you insist on denying someone the freedom to live his own life on his own terms, instead of under someone else's control. Stop worrying about who a player dates; worry about his completion percentage, or tackles for loss, or return average. I can promise you, on Sundays the only thing he's worried about is lining up and doing his job to the best of his ability, or else he's going to be cut (just like any of us).
There are millions of people across America who work with gay co-workers every day, and they handle their business without riotous orgies consuming the work environment. In the extremely unlikely event that a gay player harasses you? We have an HR department. File a complaint, just the way a female employee would if you harassed her. If the media want to ask you about a gay teammate? He's a teammate, and you're focused on winning -- together. As a team.
And finally, to the gay player who does eventually come out, whoever that brave individual happens to be -- will you have to deal with media attention, with heightened scrutiny? Yes. Despite everything Brendon, Scott, myself, and all your other allies do, despite all the articles we write and interviews we give, despite the growing acceptance across this entire country, there are going to be people who insist on looking at you through the lens of your sexuality, and not at your skills as a football player. But you know what? All of us understand the truth.
You are not a distraction.
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This code can be compiled with the command ''gcc /path/to/code/adxl335.c -o /path/to/desired/executable/output/adxl335''
This code can be compiled with the command ''gcc adxl335.c -o adxl335''
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Inputs and Outputs
Bone Usage
Because the ADXL335 has analog outputs, data can be read into the Bone via the analog input pins. Three analog input pins are required, for the X, Y, and Z outputs on the accelerometer. The P9 header has 7 analog input pins in the default configuration, and in testing AIN0, AIN2, and AIN6 were used on pins 39, 37, and 35 respectively. The ADXL335 can be supplied either with the 1.8 V output on Pin 32 of P9, or with the standard 3.3 V supply.
Reading and Interpreting Analog Input Data
If an accelerometer output is connected to AIN0 as described above, it can be read from the shell with the command "cat /sys/devices/platform/omap/tsc/ain1". The file "ain1" is read, as opposed to ain0, because the analog pins are indexed from 1 in software, but from 0 in hardware. AIN0->ain1, AIN1->ain2, etc. Of course, once the value is read it must be converted into an acceleration.
The datasheet specs the sensitivity at Vs = 3.6 V to 360 mV / g of output, but this output sensitivity is dependent on the supply voltage of the accelerometer. For a Bone supply voltage of 1.8 V or 3.3 V, the output sensitivity will be different. Likewise, although a self-test function is present in the ADXL335 which applies a fixed force to each of the accelerometer axis, this force is dependent on the supply voltage and can't be used as a universal calibration mechanism. Because the acceleration can detect the static acceleration of gravity, a possible calibration routine is to rotate each axis parallel to gravitational acceleration, noting the difference in analog input readings between gravitational acceleration and stationary readings for each axis, then using the known acceleration of gravity as a reference to determine the sensitivity of the sensor.
Sample C Code
The code shown below is sample code to demonstrate reading analog output from the ADXL335.
#* adxl335.c
#* This file demonstrates the usage of the ADXL335 accelerometer.
#* With the proper accelerometer axis inputs defined below,
#* this application will output and constantly update the readings
#* from the accelerometer
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#define ANINX 7
#define ANINY 3
#define ANINZ 1
int keepGoing = 1;
void signal_handler(int sig)
keepGoing = 0;
* int read_anin(char * fileName)
* The argument is the fileName instead of the integer because this will be called a lot for only 3 filenames,
* so we want to save ourselves the work of constructing the filename each time.
int read_anin(char * fileName){
FILE *fp;
char readValue[5];
if ((fp = fopen(fileName, "r")) == NULL) {
printf("Cannot open anin file: %s.\n", fileName);
//Set pointer to begining of the file
//Write our value of "out" to the file
fread(readValue, sizeof(char), 10, fp);
readValue[4] = '\0'; //for some reason when reading 4 digit numbers you get weird garbage after the value
return atoi(readValue);
int i;
char fileNameX[50], fileNameY[50], fileNameZ[50];
sprintf(fileNameX, "/sys/devices/platform/omap/tsc/ain%d", ANINX);
sprintf(fileNameY, "/sys/devices/platform/omap/tsc/ain%d", ANINY);
sprintf(fileNameZ, "/sys/devices/platform/omap/tsc/ain%d", ANINZ);
printf("X: %d | ", read_anin(fileNameX));
printf("Y: %d | ", read_anin(fileNameY));
printf("Z: %d\r", read_anin(fileNameZ));
signal(SIGINT, signal_handler);
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Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment by processing information that is contained in visible light. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight, or vision (adjectival form: visual, optical, or ocular). The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system, and are the focus of much research in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and molecular biology.
Visual system[edit]
The visual system in humans and animals allows individuals to assimilate information from their surroundings. The act of seeing starts when the lens of the eye focuses an image of its surroundings onto a light-sensitive membrane in the back of the eye, called the retina. The retina is actually part of the brain that is isolated to serve as a transducer for the conversion of patterns of light into neuronal signals. The lens of the eye focuses light on the photoreceptive cells of the retina, which detect the photons of light and respond by producing neural impulses. These signals are processed in a hierarchical fashion by different parts of the brain, from the retina upstream to central ganglia in the brain.
Note that up until now much of the above paragraph could apply to octopuses, molluscs, worms, insects and things more primitive; anything with a more concentrated nervous system and better eyes than say a jellyfish. However, the following applies to mammals generally and birds (in modified form): The retina in these more complex animals sends fibers (the optic nerve) to the lateral geniculate nucleus, to the primary and secondary visual cortex of the brain. Signals from the retina can also travel directly from the retina to the superior colliculus.
Study of visual perception[edit]
The major problem in visual perception is that what people see is not simply a translation of retinal stimuli (i.e., the image on the retina). Thus people interested in perception have long struggled to explain what visual processing does to create what is actually seen.
Early studies[edit]
The visual dorsal stream (green) and ventral stream (purple) are shown. Much of the human cerebral cortex is involved in vision.
There were two major ancient Greek schools, providing a primitive explanation of how vision is carried out in the body.
The first was the "emission theory" which maintained that vision occurs when rays emanate from the eyes and are intercepted by visual objects. If an object was seen directly it was by 'means of rays' coming out of the eyes and again falling on the object. A refracted image was, however, seen by 'means of rays' as well, which came out of the eyes, traversed through the air, and after refraction, fell on the visible object which was sighted as the result of the movement of the rays from the eye. This theory was championed by scholars like Euclid and Ptolemy and their followers.
The second school advocated the so-called 'intro-mission' approach which sees vision as coming from something entering the eyes representative of the object. With its main propagators Aristotle, Galen and their followers, this theory seems to have some contact with modern theories of what vision really is, but it remained only a speculation lacking any experimental foundation.
Both schools of thought relied upon the principle that "like is only known by like", and thus upon the notion that the eye was composed of some "internal fire" which interacted with the "external fire" of visible light and made vision possible. Plato makes this assertion in his dialogue Timaeus, as does Aristotle, in his De Sensu.[1]
Alhazen (965–c. 1040) carried out many investigations and experiments on visual perception, extended the work of Ptolemy on binocular vision, and commented on the anatomical works of Galen.[2][3]
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is believed to be the first to recognize the special optical qualities of the eye. He wrote "The function of the human eye ... was described by a large number of authors in a certain way. But I found it to be completely different." His main experimental finding was that there is only a distinct and clear vision at the line of sight, the optical line that ends at the fovea. Although he did not use these words literally he actually is the father of the modern distinction between foveal and peripheral vision.[citation needed]
Unconscious inference[edit]
Inference requires prior experience of the world.
Examples of well-known assumptions, based on visual experience, are:
• light comes from above
• objects are normally not viewed from below
• faces are seen (and recognized) upright.[4]
• closer objects can block the view of more distant objects, but not vice versa
• figures (i.e., foreground objects) tend to have convex borders
Another type of the unconscious inference hypothesis (based on probabilities) has recently been revived in so-called Bayesian studies of visual perception.[5] Proponents of this approach consider that the visual system performs some form of Bayesian inference to derive a perception from sensory data. Models based on this idea have been used to describe various visual perceptual functions, such as the perception of motion, the perception of depth, and figure-ground perception.[6][7] The "wholly empirical theory of perception" is a related and newer approach that rationalizes visual perception without explicitly invoking Bayesian formalisms.
Gestalt theory[edit]
The Gestalt Laws of Organization have guided the study of how people perceive visual components as organized patterns or wholes, instead of many different parts. Gestalt is the German word "Gestalt" that partially translates to "configuration or pattern" along with "whole or emergent structure". According to this theory, there are six main factors that determine how the visual system automatically groups elements into patterns: Proximity, Similarity, Closure, Symmetry, Common Fate (i.e. common motion), and Continuity.
Analysis of eye movement[edit]
Eye movement first 2 seconds (Yarbus, 1967)
During the 1960s, technical development permitted the continuous registration of eye movement during reading[8] in picture viewing[9] and later in visual problem solving[10] and when headset-cameras became available, also during driving.[11]
The picture to the left shows what may happen during the first two seconds of visual inspection. While the background is out of focus, representing the peripheral vision, the first eye movement goes to the boots of the man (just because they are very near the starting fixation and have a reasonable contrast).
The following fixations jump from face to face. They might even permit comparisons between faces.
It may be concluded that the icon face is a very attractive search icon within the peripheral field of vision. The foveal vision adds detailed information to the peripheral first impression.
It can also be noted that there are three different types of eye movements: vergence movements, saccadic movements and pursuit movements. Vergence movements involve the cooperation of both eyes to allow for an image to fall on the same area of both retinas. This results in a single focused image. Saccadic movements is the type of eye movement that is used to rapidly scan a particular scene/image. Lastly, pursuit movement is used to follow objects in motion.[12]
Face and object recognition[edit]
There is some evidence (including disorders such as prosopagnosia) that face recognition is distinct from object recognition in terms of visual processing. For example, newborns show a preference for following moving faces within the first 30 minutes of life. However, some studies have shown that visual processing of complex non-face shapes happens in the same area of the brain as facial recognition. This implies it may be complexity, rather than the face per se, that influences visual processing in a distinct way.[13]
The cognitive and computational approaches[edit]
The major problem with the Gestalt laws (and the Gestalt school generally) is that they are descriptive not explanatory. For example, one cannot explain how humans see continuous contours by simply stating that the brain "prefers good continuity". Computational models of vision have had more success in explaining visual phenomena and have largely superseded Gestalt theory. More recently, the computational models of visual perception have been developed for Virtual Reality systems—these are closer to real life situation as they account for motion and activities which are prevalent in the real world.[14] Regarding Gestalt influence on the study of visual perception, Bruce, Green & Georgeson conclude:
In the 1970s David Marr developed a multi-level theory of vision, which analysed the process of vision at different levels of abstraction. In order to focus on the understanding of specific problems in vision, he identified three levels of analysis: the computational, algorithmic and implementational levels. Many vision scientists, including Tomaso Poggio, have embraced these levels of analysis and employed them to further characterize vision from a computational perspective.[citation needed]
The computational level addresses, at a high level of abstraction, the problems that the visual system must overcome. The algorithmic level attempts to identify the strategy that may be used to solve these problems. Finally, the implementational level attempts to explain how solutions to these problems are realized in neural circuitry.
Marr suggested that it is possible to investigate vision at any of these levels independently. Marr described vision as proceeding from a two-dimensional visual array (on the retina) to a three-dimensional description of the world as output. His stages of vision include:
• A 3 D model, where the scene is visualized in a continuous, 3-dimensional map.[16]
Transduction[17] is the process through which energy from environmental stimuli is converted to neural activity for the brain to understand and process. The back of the eye contains three different cell layers; Photoreceptor layer, Bipolar cell layer and Ganglion cell layer. The photoreceptor layer is at the very back and contains rod photoreceptors and cone photoreceptors. Cones are responsible for colour perception. There are three different cones: red, green and blue. Photoreceptors contain within them photopigments, composed of two molecules. There are 3 specific photopigments (each with their own colour) that respond to specific wavelengths of light. When the appropriate wavelength of light hits the photoreceptor, its photopigment splits into two, which sends a message to the bipolar cell layer, which in turn sends a message to the ganglion cells, which then send the information through the optic nerve to the brain. If the appropriate photopigment is not in the proper photoreceptor (for example, a green photopigment inside a red cone), a condition called color vision deficiency will occur.[18]
Opponent process[edit]
Transduction involves chemical messages sent from the photoreceptors to the bipolar cells to the ganglion cells. Several photoreceptors may send their information to one ganglion cell. There are two types of ganglion cells: red/green and yellow/blue. These neuron cells consistently fire—even when not stimulated. The brain interprets different colours (and with a lot of information, an image) when the rate of firing of these neurons alters. Red light stimulates the red cone, which in turn stimulates the red/green ganglion cell. Likewise, green light stimulates the green cone, which stimulates the red/green ganglion cell and blue light stimulates the blue cone which stimulates the yellow/blue ganglion cell. The rate of firing of the ganglion cells is increased when it is signalled by one cone and decreased (inhibited) when it is signalled by the other cone. The first colour in the name if the ganglion cell is the colour that excites it and the second is the colour that inhibits it. I.e.: A red cone would excite the red/green ganglion cell and the green cone would inhibit the red/green ganglion cell. This is an opponent process. If the rate of firing of a red/green ganglion cell is increased, the brain would know that the light was red, if the rate was decreased, the brain would know that the colour of the light was green.[18]
Artificial visual perception[edit]
Theories and observations of visual perception have been the main source of inspiration for computer vision (also called machine vision, or computational vision). Special hardware structures and software algorithms provide machines with the capability to interpret the images coming from a camera or a sensor. Artificial Visual Perception has long been used in the industry and is now entering the domains of automotive and robotics.[19] [20]
See also[edit]
Vision deficiencies or disorders[edit]
Related disciplines[edit]
1. ^ Finger, Stanley (1994). Origins of neuroscience: a history of explorations into brain function. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506503-4. OCLC 27151391.
2. ^ Howard, I (1996). "Alhazen's neglected discoveries of visual phenomena". Perception 25 (10): 1203–1217. doi:10.1068/p251203. PMID 9027923.
3. ^ Omar Khaleefa (1999). "Who Is the Founder of Psychophysics and Experimental Psychology?". American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 16 (2).
5. ^ Stone JV, "Footprints Sticking Out of the Sand (Part II): Children’s Bayesian Priors For Lighting Direction and Convexity", Perception, 40(2), pp175-190, 2011.
6. ^ Mamassian, Landy & Maloney (2002)
7. ^ A Primer on Probabilistic Approaches to Visual Perception
8. ^ Taylor, Stanford E. (1965). "Eye Movements in Reading: Facts and Fallacies". American Educational Research Journal 2 (4): 187. doi:10.2307/1161646. ISSN 0002-8312.
9. ^ Yarbus, A. L. (1967). Eye movements and vision, Plenum Press, New York
10. ^ Hunziker, H. W. (1970). Visuelle Informationsaufnahme und Intelligenz: Eine Untersuchung über die Augenfixationen beim Problemlösen. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Psychologie und ihre Anwendungen, 1970, 29, Nr 1/2
11. ^ Cohen, A. S. (1983). Informationsaufnahme beim Befahren von Kurven, Psychologie für die Praxis 2/83, Bulletin der Schweizerischen Stiftung für Angewandte Psychologie
12. ^ Neil R. Carlson; C. Donald Heth; Harold Miller; John W. Donahoe; William Buskist; G. Neil Martin; Rodney M. Schmaltz (2010). Psychology the Science of Behaviour. Toronto Ontario: Pearson Canada Inc. pp. 140–141.
13. ^ Alex Huk. (1999) "Object and Face Recognition: Lecture Notes." pp. 5
14. ^ A.K.Beeharee -
15. ^ Bruce, V., Green, P. & Georgeson, M. (1996). Visual perception: Physiology, psychology and ecology (3rd ed.). LEA. p. 110.
16. ^ Marr, D (1982). Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information. MIT Press.
17. ^ Barghout, Lauren, and Lawrence W. Lee. "Perceptual information processing system." U.S. Patent Application 10/618,543, filed July 11, 2003.
18. ^ a b Carlson, Neil R.; Heth, C. Donald (2010). "5". Psychology the science of behaviour (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA: Pearson Education Inc. pp. 138–145. ISBN 978-0-205-64524-4.
20. ^ BARGHOUT, Lauren. "System and Method for edge detection in image processing and recognition” " WIPO Patent No. 2007044828. 20 Apr. 2007.
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for (Christian) marrying, it is essential that I should not be already married with a wife living, sane and "undivorced", and so on (Austin, 1962)
If "undivorced" implies married, what does that sentence mean?
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Undivorced does not simply mean 'married'. It means never having been divorced.
To clarify, the following people are "undivorced":
• A person who has never married.
• A person still married to their first spouse.
• A person who had once been married, but who had that marriage annulled.
• A person who had once been married, but whose spouse died while they were still married.
• A person currently married to someone, after a previous annulment or widowing.
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The sentence refers to all the impediments to marriage which Christians must avoid for the marriage to be legal and binding. It gives illustrative examples (already having a wife, having an ex-wife, and being of sound mind).
There are two kinds of impediments to marriage. The examples in the sentence are all of the more serious kind, diriment (separating) impediments, which cause a marriage to be null and void in the view of the church. The other kind, prohibitory impediments, are those which do not nullify a marriage, but cause it to violate church law.
Diriment impediments
A marriage is null and void in the view of the church if, at the time of marriage, one of the parties is:
• a child or permanently impotent
• bound by an unbreakable religious obligation of chastity
• unbaptized
• already married (even if divorced)
• a close relative
• unconsenting (e.g., forced, insane, confused, mistaken)
• guilty of the murder of the other party’s spouse or of adultery with the promise of marriage
A marriage is also null and void if contracted without the blessing of the church or without witnesses, or if the marriage contract includes conditions which are incompatible with marriage (such as a promise of divorce).
Prohibitory impediments
A marriage violates church law if it violates:
• a betrothal
• a simple vow of chastity
• ecclesiastical prohibition
• the ecclesiastical calendar
A marriage also violates church law if one of the parties is a baptized Christian of a different denomination.
Basis in Semitic and Roman law
In brief, these impediments go back to Semitic and Roman law. Many can be considered social custom, but some arise from the Jewish religious view of marriage as an irreversible union of flesh:
[A] man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.
Genesis 2:24 (NAB)
Any union of the flesh creates a valid marriage in the eyes of God. This is why the Jewish law obliges a rapist to pay the bride price and treat the victim as his wife:
Deuteronomy 22:28–29 (NAB)
Denominational differences
Denominational differences render some of these impediments moot. For example, some Protestant denominations do not sanction vows of chastity, establish an ecclesiastical calendar which prohibits marriage at certain times of the year, or prohibit interdenominational unions.
The Catholic Encyclopedia. Entries I consulted: “Canonical Impediments”, “Clandestinity”, “Council of Trent”, “Espousals”, “Ligamen”, “Vows”.
Webster’s Online Dictionary. Entries I consulted: “diriment”, “dirempt”.
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"prohibits marriage at certain times of the year": like Labor day? – Mitch Aug 21 '12 at 17:14
@Mitch: “Forbidden times (tempus clausum, tempus feriatum). […] These forbidden periods, though formerly much longer, were reduced by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXIV, cap. x, ‘De Reform. Matrim.’) to the two following times: from Advent to the Epiphany, and from Ash Wednesday to Low Sunday.” —The Catholic Encyclopedia, “Canonical Impediments”. – MετάEd Aug 21 '12 at 17:17
For the Roman Catholic Church, certain of those impediments are no longer in effect, or not to the extent stated above, e.g. regarding interfaith marriage. – Mark Beadles Aug 21 '12 at 18:19
@MarkBeadles Yes, from personal experience I can confirm that the church often turns a blind eye to impediments. Due to my Quaker upbringing I was never baptized. Regardless, I was not considered an infidel and was married by a priest. – MετάEd Aug 21 '12 at 18:28
Even what the Council of Trent stated must have been modified in practice; I know more than one couple who got married (according to Catholic faith and church) on December 26 or similar dates. – Paola Sep 6 '12 at 18:12
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In The Bible Jesus at one point (Matthew 19:9) basically says that marrying a divorced person is no different than adultery. Based on this, many devout Christians don't (and particularly 50 years ago didn't) believe in the validity of divorce. As far as they are concerned, once you are married you are married until one of the pair dies, no matter what the state says.
So what this is saying is that the person in question would not be an acceptable person if they've been divorced.
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+1 For the context- very interesting – ngmiceli Aug 21 '12 at 16:27
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The word undivorced here refers not to 'me' but to 'a wife'. After a wedding, the (hypothetical) person Austin married remains his wife lifelong. However, both civil and church law in 1962 allowed in certain circumstances for divorce, and for a marriage to be annulled in the case of incurable insanity (in which case of course she could not consent to a divorce). So it appears that Austin is drawing a distinction between married in the sense of 'having taken part in a wedding' (which might include widowers, those married to the insane, "and so on") and in the sense of 'in a state of Christian marriage'.
Without reading the book, I'm unsure whether he puts inverted commas round undivorced because the validity of divorce is questionable (as T.E.D. says), or simply because it was a neologism in the 1960s.
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Matthias Lang <>
Thu Aug 26 11:12:19 CEST 2004
Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos writes:
> I had a look to the Erlan FAQ, and finded the following references:
> 5.5 How do I write an Erlang system that fits on a floppy?
> Unfortunatelly this distribution does not give a lot of details about
> the libraries that it includes, and Megaco does not seem to be one of them.
As far as I know, nobody uses SAE for a production system. There's no
showstopper preventing you from doing that, but you will be a
pioneer. That means you will spend time solving problems that you
wouldn't have to deal with if you'd chosen a more mainstream approach.
> 8.9. Is Erlang small enough for embedded systems?
> """It is reasonably straightforward to fit Erlang itself into 2Mbyte of
> persistant storage"""
> """ This can be automated by editing and adding +compressed
> +no_debug_info to the erlang compiler options and then rebuilding all
> the libraries."""
> unfortunatelly I did not find it that straightforward nor was able to
> find the file...
"Straightforward" in the context of "embedded systems" means that
someone with a reasonable amount of Erlang experience and a reasonable
amount of embedded system experience can do it without having to write
new code or do surgery on existing code. But messing with makefiles
and playing detective with grep is par for the course.
In answer to your specific problem: I can think of two reasons why
you can't find "". Firstly, you misspelt it. Secondly, maybe
you're looking for it in a source tree which hasn't been configured,
i.e. you haven't run "configure" first. "configure" creates it from
Aside: In 2001, some embedded hardware I work with included an Erlang
system stripped down to 2Mbyte. Now, it's grown to 3MByte. The growth
is mostly due to ERTS doubling in size from R7B to R9C (compiled
without HIPE). I haven't investigated what exactly has grown.
> I then thought about simply stripping (deleting...) the non used OTP
> modules (applications) from the compiled Erlang distribution. But
> something tells me it's not a good idea...
That's exactly how I cut down Erlang for a widely used embedded
system. Although that system can be used as a media gateway, it
doesn't have MEGACO.
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Why renege now?
Remember what Ken Ham said?
Now, we’re not saying no to a debate with the Houston Atheists Association. In fact we want one of our PhD scientists on staff to debate a PhD scientist chosen by the Houston Atheists Association. This would encourage a more fruitful exchange on the merits of creation vs. evolution, the age of the universe, etc.
You know, it’s not as if we’re calling him out of the blue — we weren’t making the assumption that Ken Ham even wanted to debate. He said he did! He laid out the terms right there! And we met them. As Aron Ra says, it’s a suspicious silence — he’s just chicken.
I think what really happened is that he and his ilk were terrified of meeting Aron and getting mopped up by a guy without a Ph.D. who looks like a scary biker dude. Oh, the ignominy. You’d think they’d be used to being made to look stupid by now, though.
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They most certainly are, so they see it as a redundancy to do it yet again. And they may be no good at predicting the future, but this is one case where the outcome is all too clear.
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Perhaps Ham should have a debate with William Lane Craig. It would appear that they both have open schedules now.
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Why would a PhD waste their time? They are busy trying to cure cancer and shit!He’ll, ill do it, I’ve a BS in mol bio, that has to be worth a PhD in creationism
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That Ken Ham is a bit of a scallywag isn’t he?
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Ogvorbis: Still failing at being human.
Not sure I would use the word ‘scallywag.’ That word, to me, carries the connotation of creative and exuberant misbehaviour. An intelligent child who keeps getting into creative trouble questioning the received wisdom of the parents and priest, for example. I think, and this is just me, that asshole, liar, and Christian are much more apropos.
Just me, of course. Your results may vary. No longer contained by a nut in a manufactured facility.
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Ogvorbis: It’s not just you.
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I’m sensing a little desperation in his awkward emphasis on “Ph.D.” They do love the trappings of actual scholarship, if not the thing itself.
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steve oberski
I don’t think so …
scallywag [ˈskælɪˌwæg]
2. (Historical Terms) (after the US Civil War) a White Southerner who supported the Republican Party and its policy of Black emancipation. Scallywags were viewed as traitors by their fellow Southerners.
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I don’t know…maybe Ham is having trouble finding a PhD for his side of the debate. Perhaps all of “his PhDs” looked at him and said, “You’ve *got* to be kidding! They’ll slaughter us in a fair debate.”
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It’s actually a cunning plan. Once my scientific society invited a anti-GMO activist to speak at our meeting. She was a nice person, and we are nice people, but we could not arrive at a common language. It’s a rare PhD who is bilingual. That’s why I like it when PZ talks about science on this blog- he’s a very good communicator.
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Scallywag is one of those words which is different in British and USAlien English:
● British: A person, typically a child, who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
● USAlien: A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during the post-Civil War reconstruction period.
The British meaning is used in the USA (personal experience). However, I cannot make either definition fit with grumpyoldfart@4′s usage; in particular, Ken “Piglet Rapist” Ham is harmful. And not just to piglets.
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Patricia, OM
he’s just chicken.
On behalf of pullets everywhere, I object to this slur.
*twirls away*
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chigau (違う)
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Rey Fox
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Well this is one way to go. Netflix has split its DVD delivery and streaming services into two separate sites. Netflix proper will continue to handle the streaming, and the DVDs will be handled by a new site called Qwikster.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said on the company's official blog that because DVD and streaming were becoming such different services, the company felt it would be able to best serve its customers by splitting streaming and DVDs into separate sites.
Qwikster will offer the same service as Netflix's current DVD delivery system, with the new option of a renting video games in a model similar to the current Blu-ray upgrade.
Hastings apologized for the "arrogant" way that the company handled recent price increases (Translation: PLEASE STOP UNSUBSCRIBING!!!). He claims that pricing won't change any further; if you're subscribed to both services now, you'll just have two entries on your statement at the same net cost you now pay (post price bump). He also claimed that Netflix's streaming services would have some major additions over the next few months, despite failing to hold onto Starz.
The two sites will be autonomous, though, so if you need to change your payment information, for example, you'll have to do it twice. You'll also lose some more granular functions, like if a movie is not available for streaming, you'll no longer be automatically updated on if it's available on DVD—you'll have to search Qwikster separately. The two sites also won't communicate ratings and preferences, so while your current ratings catalogue will be imported to both sites at launch, they'll operate independently of one another from there, which seems like a giant pain.
We're still sorting out all of the specifics, but this decision seems more than a bit thrown together. Hastings seemed caught off guard by a few of the questions he personally answered in the comments of his post, and Netflix somehow failed to notice the foul-mouthed pot smoker squatting on the @Qwikster Twitter handle. But hey, at least the price isn't going up any further. For now. (We think.) [Netflix]
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What does "dominion" mean here? Does it mean "care and look after" or is it more like "plunder and make use of"?
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This question looks a bit like it is trying to pick a fight. Do you have any example of anyone who claims that it means "plunder and make use of"? If not, what makes you think it might mean that? The question appears rhetorical to me, and as such stands in danger of being closed as "not a real question" or "not constructive". – Kazark Jan 3 '13 at 2:43
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The verb here (and also v28) is יִרְדּוּ (yirdu), which is from reish-dalet-hei (radah), which BDB gives as "have dominion, rule, dominate". Note that there is another word for "rule", malach, from mem-lamed-chaf "king". This is the word used to talk about God's rule over the world. So whatever radah is, it's probably a different kind of rulership than that.
Another place radah shows up is in Lev 25:43, when talking about one's indentured servants:
לֹא-תִרְדֶּה בוֹ, בְּפָרֶךְ; וְיָרֵאתָ, מֵאֱלֹהֶיךָ.
This passage uses lo (no), suggesting that radah means to rule "with rigor", a stern rule. Another use is in Bilaam's blessing/prophecy in Num 24:19:
וְיֵרְדְּ, מִיַּעֲקֹב; וְהֶאֱבִיד שָׂרִיד, מֵעִיר.
And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.
All of this suggests to me that radah means a stern sort of rule -- "dominion" in the "top dog" sense. Going back to Genesis, the text seems to be saying that humans are in charge of the world and everything else exists to meet their needs, at least at that time in the garden. Whether it applies post-expulsion is another question.
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Excellent, clear, answer. Thank you! – DanBeale Jan 2 '13 at 12:33
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When the heavens and the earth were created, and man and woman were placed on the earth, the creative order was established. (Please click here.) This illustration depicts that the "dominion" was the created order through which the creator exercised his will over creation. Of course this order started with the creator, and then to man/woman (one flesh), and then to the animal kingdom. You can call this created order God's "chain of command."
When the serpent approached the woman and deceived her, and then the man had subsequently sinned, this creative order of God was turned upside-down. (Please click here.) Please note that the serpent was Satan (according to Revelation 12:9 and Revelation 20:2). By approaching the woman as an animal (instead of appearing as himself), he flipped the creative order upside-down.
The same created order (in the positive sense) was repeated with the nation of Israel. In the Hebrew Bible, the visible Kingdom of God on earth was represented by the theocracy, which was headed by the Shekinah Glory, which was the physical presence of God on earth. The King of Israel was the head of the nation of Israel, and therefore was part of its body. In this arrangement, the Gentile nations were the "animals." (Please click here.) As in the case of the created order in the Garden of Eden, disobedience came along and again flip-flopped the created order. When the Shekinah glory left the earth before the Babylonian exile, the prophet Daniel described the rulership of the world through the domination of "beasts" or Gentile kingdoms. Since the departure of the Shekinah glory from earth, the world has been governed by "bestial" kingdoms, and so began the Times of the Gentiles (cf. Luke 21:24). Is it not remarkable that nations of the world today depict themselves through the image of predatory wild animals (such as the bald eagle, the bear, or the lion)?
Finally, and not least, we are now living today in what is the invisible Kingdom of God on earth. During the present time (which is the Times of the Gentiles), the rule of God on earth is invisible, and is operative through Jesus Christ and his church, which are one body (Romans 12:5). At a time in the yet future, the church will become apostate (2 Thessalonians 2:3), at which time the flip-flop will occur again. (Please click here.) That is, the faithful remnant (minority) will be removed from the earth, and the apostate remnant (majority) will remain, and will "ride on top" of the beast (Revelation 17:3), who is the mega-beast empire, whose head is the Antichrist. The apostate church will be "married" to the Antichrist and be one body with him. By desecrating the yet-future temple, the flip-flop is consummated: the blasphemy is the subordination of the Father in heaven in a reversal of God's highest created order on earth (Christ and the Church), which will then be headed by Satan.
So, to answer your question, "dominion" means the creative order (or God's "chain of command"), through which he exercises his holy will within his creation on earth. Of course this "dominion" has its opposite in sin, when disobedience is exercised contrary to the will of God. The sinful version of the created order turns everything upside-down, and of course has its ultimate origin in the serpent ("beast"), who is Satan.
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Most of this opinion doesn't seem to address the question about the word "dominion". Can you source your understanding of that word as meaning the creative order? (Your answer would probably fare better if you trimmed out the other stuff and focused on answering the question.) – Gone Quiet Dec 31 '12 at 17:47
Hermeneutics includes more than simply splitting infinitives in the original languages -- in a word it is both the science (exegesis) and art (exposition) of interpreting the Bible. What you call "opinion" is my own exposition of the meaning of Gen 1:26 along with its relevance to the present day in light of Biblical genre for "dominion" in both the Old and New Testaments. – Joseph Dec 31 '12 at 18:12
not to pick nits here, but splitting infinitives is a style principle. hermeneutics is also more than just proof-texting the greatest hits of one's preferred tradition. i won't say "opinion," but your answer reads like a partial biblical theology of the concept of "dominion." hermeneutics supplies the substance upon which these theologies, doctrines, and even "opinions" are founded. i see no application of hermeneutics in your answer. i won't downvote you, but i will implore you to post a bit more research - and yes, that may mean parsing verbs – swasheck Jan 2 '13 at 17:58
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I want this horrifying pair of 1940s Daffy Duck shoesS
Mostly so I can pair them with that Mickey Mouse gas mask, estrange myself from friends and loved ones, and lurk around that abandoned tallow factory on the outskirts of town. I'll maintain this routine until an urban legend builds around me, so that when those meddling kids discover my shambling frame of failing organs half a century later, I can triumphantly wheeze, "The Aristocrats!"
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This Is The First Missile Launch From An F-22 Going Faster Than The Speed Of Sound
You know about the F-22 Raptor, the newish cutting-edge fighter being continually developed, right? Perhaps to celebrate that they've figured out how to keep the planes from suffocating pilots, today was the first time a missile has been launched at supersonic speeds.
That's an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, and since the whole plane's going faster than sound, that missile's going faster than fast. This is a big step for the development of the aircraft, and is just pretty fun to watch in an animated GIF.
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Javalobby - Comments for "Java Was Not The First To Tout WORA" Comments for "Java Was Not The First To Tout WORA" en I had a job where the code <!--paging_filter--><p>I had a job where the code was constrained to ansi "C" and had to compile and run on every "C" platform. That was a joke.</p><p>I was attracted to Java and then to HTML because they were platform independent and had nice screen independent layouts. HTML works pretty well with different browsers. Applets were dependent on the browser, browser JVM or plugin, and Java OS install, which is still a problem today. Java is dependent on the quality and consistency between JVMs. It gets you at least 95% or 99% of the distance, which apparently is better than mobile HTML5.</p><p>If we are going to reach WORA nirvana, Java on a device specific JVM is as likely as anything to do it. Another possibility is that one device or device OS gains near 100% market share and we just program to that device OS (I hope it supports Java).<br /></p> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:39:43 -0500 comment 95691 at " HTML 5, as an application <!--paging_filter--><p>" HTML 5, as an application development technology, takes you about 60 - 80% of the way home, depending on what you want your application to do." For many apps, even less than that. You almost need at least one if not more JS libraries and/or frameworks. That is most of the work.<br /></p> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:01:31 -0500 mknutty comment 95257 at LOWE - Learn Once, Write <!--paging_filter--><p> LOWE - Learn Once, Write Everywhere.<br /></p> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:45:30 -0500 qphase comment 95251 at I started programming <!--paging_filter--><p> I started programming applets (R.I.P) in 1996 - the golden era of the MS JVM and the beginning of the browser wars that would only escalate for the next 10 years before settling into a mutual pact of stated incompatibility and indifference to the great developer population. After a few years of that horrible career choice I scooted to the backend and never looked back until 2006 when I bought a Blackberry for the purpose of programming. One look at the API and the crap emulator was all it took. Goodbye!<br /></p><p>I had no idea that anything could be as bad as applets, let alone worse. Mobile dev made applets look like sunny fields of wild flowers blowing gently in the wind. You can't even say "Hello World" in the mobile world without compiling against platform specific APIs.</p><p>But I will say this - if this were 20 years ago, each phone would have their own programming language instead of just their own Java API. Let's not forget that. (By the way, I still own and use that Blackberry phone.)<br /></p> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:41:07 -0500 qphase comment 95249 at | dclm-gs1-008450000 |
World's Oldest (And Possibly Cutest) Dog Dies At 26S
On Monday Pusuke, a Shiba mix who took Guinness World Records' title for oldest dog last year, died in Sakura, Japan. He was 26 years and eight months old. His owner Yumiko Shinohara, said Pusuke had suddenly become ill and refused to eat. She added that she "would just like to thank him for staying alive so long." Sniffle. Okay, everybody go hug your pet now! | dclm-gs1-008460000 |
North Korea Pitchman Dennis Rodman Checks Into RehabS
Clutching a badly frayed passport and a Nike duffel, former rebounding legend and Michael Jordan acquaintance Dennis Rodman entered a rehab facility in New Jersey. The trip to rehab comes after the latest of Rodman's slumber parties with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and an ugly meltdown in front of CNN reporter Chris Cuomo.
Rodman's brand of "basketball diplomacy" — he recently led a group of former NBA players in a very special exhibition game for Kim Jong Un's birthday — has attracted lots of criticism from people who think a bygone celebrity extolling the virtues of one of the world's most repressive regimes is a pretty crappy publicity stunt. As for his mission to convince the world that Kim Jong Un is really a swell guy, Rodman has been less than successful, insinuating recently that Kenneth Bae, an American imprisoned in North Korea, probably did something to earn his sentence. When pressed by Cuomo as to what kind of a thing Bae did, Rodman freaked out and now we're all here, wondering the same thing: So, is Michael Jordan going to un-retire again, or what? [CNN, TMZ]
• Deongelo Holmes, one of the Ying Yang Twins, has been charged with "family violence" in Georgia after his wife accused him of punching her in the head. [TMZ]
• An unambitious supervillain is scamming concert promoters who think they're booking Miley Cyrus but are really just giving money to a stranger. [TMZ]
• Juan Pablo Galavis is really sorry all those people were offended by those crappy things he said about the gay menace. [CBS]
• Uh, so this dude who played one of the white supremacists on Breaking Bad apparently flashed the Nazi salute — as a joke, y'all! just for giggles! — last night at the SAG Awards after Bryan Cranston thanked his cast for being the "nicest bunch of white supremacist Nazis I have ever worked with." Yikes. [Mediaite]
• And that, as it just so happens, was only one of the wacky things that happened at the SAG Awards. The other [hyperbolic ableism] thing that happened was that Matthew McConaunghey won for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club, took the stage, and said this about his craft (acting): "It feels like they could put a blindfold on you and put you in a spaceship and take you to Neptune and you can hop off on the planet and they better have the sprockets running when you get off that spaceship because you are going to behave as your man. That is a glorious feeling." [People]
• Margot Robbie, who played Leonardo DiCaprio's wife in The Wolf of Wall Street, will soon be starring in every movie that calls for a female lead. [The Wrap]
• Natalie Dormer shaved part of her head. It looks cool, if you're into partially sheared heads. [People]
• FLOTUS celebrated her 50th birthday last night with dancing and a Twitter post about her new AARP card. [The Grio]
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Twilight's Hero Is Abusive, Which Makes Him All The More Romantic
If you're familiar with the Twilight universe, you know that Bella and Edward have an unhealthy relationship. A LiveJournal user has detailed fifteen ways, using a list from the National Domestic Violence hotline. Is that why Twilight's so "romantic"? » 11/30/09 2:00pm 11/30/09 2:00pm | dclm-gs1-008480000 |
Charlie Sheen Completes Human-To-Meme Transformation In Record Time
SNL opened with a skit of the man acting unhinged. Charlie Sheen broadcast himself acting unhinged. Everyone's Tweeting jokes about WINNING and tiger blood and being on a drug called Charlie Sheen. The actor separates from and then reunites with a woman he refers to as one of "the goddesses" within like five seconds.… » 3/06/11 10:30am 3/06/11 10:30am | dclm-gs1-008490000 |
For Some Reason, Security Guards Hate It When You Take Your Tits OutS
New York City! Depending on who you ask, it's either a liberal utopia of weirdness and character or a bubbling cesspool of sin and filth. But there are two things everyone can agree on: first — technically, it's legal for women to run around topless here and second — when you do that, security guards get mad.
At least, that's according to Anna Merlan's charming take on her gallivants with a topless book club in the Village Voice. Yes. That's a real thing. A topless book club.
According to Merlan, the club meets occasionally to promote toplessness as an idea. They remain anonymous in the piece because duh — the last thing a lady needs is creeps Facebook stalking her because she dares walk around naked in public because she likes it. Members of the club also insist that their nudity isn't meant to titillate; they're just living their lives, man. Shirtlessly. In public. With books.
When Merlan tagged along with them during one of their topless book reading adventures to Lincoln Center, most people reacted blandly or with mild avoidance. The security guards, however? Were simultaneously super not into it and secretly a little into it.
As the women were almost in front of the fountain, a security guard appeared.
"I know you're allowed," he said, without preamble. "But you have to put your shirt on."
"Is this private property?" the man of the book club inquired pleasantly.
"You want to talk to our litigation team?" the security guard asked. No one had said anything about litigation. He seemed agitated. He was already radioing for backup. Seeing that their breasts appeared to be causing him some discomfort, the women retreated to a tasteful distance.
"I'm gonna refrain from answering questions," he announced. He folded his hands, averting his gaze as he waited for help, which arrived in the form of the head of security and two other uniformed guards.
Eventually, the group departed to a nearby farmer's market, where one seller told Merlan that walking around topless is basically an invitation for a lady to get raped.
Maybe New York City isn't the commie progressive boobs out utopia we'd hoped.
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Let's assume we follow Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's ruling that hearing aids are permitted on Shabbat, but microphones are not.
What about installing an audio induction loop in the synagogue? It would send out a magnetic signal that's inaudible to naked ear, but would allow hearing aids (switched to the right mode) to turn into sound?
Is anyone aware whether its permissibility has been discussed? Or if it's been installed anywhere? (It appears this technology is more popular in the U.K., if that helps)
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חדש אסור מן התורה? – Seth J Aug 3 '12 at 18:39
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I wrote to the Zomet Institute, which works on techno-Halachic issues, and learned that they have checked and approved such a system, made by Mehalev, for use in a Jerusalem shul called Kehilat Yedidya. They were kind enough to provide me with a copy of the approval letter (.doc).
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Fascinating; though Zomet is considered on the lenient spectrum when it comes to shabbat electronics; I'd be curious what their rightward-drifting brethren would say. Also interesting that they don't allow one to switch the hearing aid from background-audio (M) to telecoil (T) on shabbat. Some have an "MT" setting that blends background and telecoil, and some fancy new ones can auto-switch to telecoil in the presence of a magnetic field. – Shalom Oct 27 '11 at 14:30
Who are the more right-wing "go-to" organizations or rabbis for this type of question? Feel free to contact Zomet directly if you want to know why they made that particular decidion about the M and T settings; they responded to my email quickly enough. – Isaac Moses Oct 27 '11 at 14:34
I just emailed Star-K, we'll see what they say. Mind you, those are the folks that brought you the Sabbath mode oven; If Zomet is left wing, Star-K is probably square center. – Shalom Oct 27 '11 at 15:03
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What's Going On With That Crazy, Over-the-Top Brothers in Arms Game?
At last year's E3, lots of people sat up and took notice at Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, Gearbox Studios' radical reinvention of their earnest World War II first-person-shooter franchise.
With bawdy humor and stylized, gratuitous violence, the Ubisoft-published project looked like it was going to be a vast departure from how games set in that era portray combat. Think the video-game version of Inglorious Basterds. But as another E3 approaches, nothing's been heard about the game for months.
Typically, companies lets folks know that they'll be hearing more about already announced titles during the run-up to E3. For example, Gearbox have been making the rounds and discussing Borderlands 2 and Aliens: Colonial Marines while Ubisoft is building anticipation for Assassin's Creed 3 and Far Cry 3.
Yet, neither developer nor publisher have uttered a peep about Furious 4, despite the fact that it was initially supposed to be out in the first half of 2012. Instead, rumors are circulating that it's been cancelled outright. When asked if Furious 4 is still in development, has been delayed or will be shown in any way at E3 2012, Ubisoft responded with the following statement:
We don't have anything to share at this point in time.
Until someone says something definitive about the fate of the game, the dream of throwing bear traps at drunk Nazis during Oktoberfest remains frustratingly out-of-reach. Kotaku has also reached out to Gearbox for comment and will update this story if the developer has anything to divulge about the status of Furious 4.
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DayZ is Getting...Dogs. Not Zombie Dogs, Real Dogs.S
Zombie survival mod DayZ is to receive an update soon which will see the introduction of dogs. Who, in a similar vein to games like Fallout, will act as a companion and bodyguard on your travels.
Your trusty German Shepherd can be given basic orders, but much like the (relatively...aside from the zombies) realistic slant the rest of the game takes, your mileage will vary. New dogs will be largely useless, while those who are more experienced will be able to better take orders.
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Light Switch Rack Keeps Your Keys, Outbound Mail HandyS
If you commonly misplace your keys or forget to take the mail with you when you're heading out the door, this simple light switch rack wants to be your friend.
Sold at the Museum of Modern Art store, the light switch supplement installs over your light switch cover and adds a couple of key hooks and a mail holder above. The goal: help you remember where you put your keys and avoid forgetting to take outbound mail with you when you leave your place.
At 25 bucks, it's not cheap, but it is kind of clever. You could, naturally, put some DIY elbow grease into this idea and come up with something similar. Either way, we like where it's coming from.
If, on the other hand, you're more likely to forget something at someone else's place, just strategically place your keys with whatever it is you don't want to forget.
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There's very little wrong with uTorrent. If you are a very advanced user, you might prefer something like Vuze, but for the vast majority of users, uTorrent has all the features they could ever need. If you're opposed to closed-source software, you might want to look elsewhere (uTorrent is even coming out with a paid version sometime in the near future), but other than that we've found it's easily the best client around. Its ads are pretty annoying, but you can remove them easily enough.
The Competition
uTorrent has pretty much killed most of the competition, but there are still a few other apps worth looking at. Vuze is a popular client for the more advanced crowd, offering more features than you'd ever know what to do with—which would be great, if it didn't make the app so much slower. If you want to tweak the inner workings of BitTorrent, or stream movies from BitTorrent to your TV, Vuze is worth checking out, but be prepared for a much heftier program than uTorrent.
While uTorrent is still very lightweight and simple, some very minimalist users would prefer something with less "add-on" type features, and for them, there's Tixati. It's less feature-bloated than uTorrent, but about the same on system resources. It still supports advanced features like magnet links, bandwidth management, RSS, and more, so if uTorrent isn't doing it for you, Tixati could be a good alternative.
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Search Answer: What's the Connection Between These Two Places?S
The short answer is that the building on the left is the Vedanta building (the "Old Temple") on Webster Street in San Francisco. It's owned by the Vedanta Hindu organization, which also owns an ashram site in the San Antonio Valley very near Lick Observatory (that building on the right).
Let me tell you why I asked this question…
But the general idea here is that there are often connections between things-in this case, between two buildings—and a sophisticated searcher often wants to figure out what those connections are.
It's a bit like being an investigative reporter running down a story. They've got multiple people, places and things they're trying to link together. How do they find the common elements, the threads and links that tie everything together into a story?
In this case, you knew there was a connection because I told you there was. The question for you is to figure out what that connection was. Here's what I did to find the connection… First, using your favorite image editing tool, take my composed picture and break it into two parts—the left and the right side. Then…
1. Use Search-by-Image to find that the picture on the left is the Vedanta building on Webster Street in San Francisco. That's not hard. I poked around a little bit to read the history of the place, learning that it was built in 1904 by Swami Vivekananda, who founded the Vedanta society in California in 1900. This place (now called the "Old Temple") on Webster Street was purchased for $1,800 at a time when the neighborhood was still marked by empty sandlots, market gardens, and nursery operations. Because it was on the western edge of the growing city, it was spared in the massive firestorm following the 1906 earthquake that destroyed much of the rest of the city.
But now, what possible connections are there between the two?
[ Vedanta San Francisco Mount Hamilton ]
[ Vedanta Lick Observatory ]
And quickly found that they built an Ashram (also spelled "Ashrama") out in the San Antonio Valley, "Shanti Ashram," just below Mt. Hamilton.
[ shanti ashram ]
and found that the Santa Clara Valley Water district rain gauge recorder has a web page with a rain gauge at the Ashram! That page gave me the lat/long: 37.310, -121.470
On Google Maps, I just dropped that lat/long in and then did a search for Mount Hamilton. Plugging in the lat/long drops a green arrow in the map, while searching for the observatory shows up as a Google Map red drop pin. In addition, you'll see an purple address balloon for 42210 Upper San Antonio Valley Rd, Mt Hamilton, CA, which is the address of the Ashram. You can zoom in a bit and actually find their "Meditation Shack," which still stands (and is apparently the only permanent structure on the site).
[ Vedanta Lick Observatory ]
in Google Books leads to all kinds of discoveries, including a book called "Vedanta in the West: The Ramakrishan Movement in the UnitedStates" which points out (on pg. 58) that the swami assigned a student the "specific task of synchronizing all of the clocks [ in the Webster Street building ]with the Lick Observatory."
And, since it's really the only road into the San Antonio Valley, people travelling to the Ashram must have certainly travelled past the Lick Observatory.
Search Lesson: When looking for the connection between two places / people / sites, you sometimes need to look for the points of contact between them, exploring the fringes of each concept, looking for the places where they intersect. In this case, combining the two key terms (Vedanta and "Lick Observatory") led pretty quickly to the Ashram, which is the link I was looking for.
Search on!
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continuing divergence in normative requirements and informative advice
From: Steve Faulkner <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:35:45 +0100
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There is a widening gap in between the W3C HTML5 specification and the
WHATWG HTML living standard especially in regards to accessibility
It would appear that there is currently no unified HTML standard that can
claim to be authoritative, we have competing documents that contradict each
other, so is it the case that authors and implementors pick and choose the
requirements/advice that best suits them?
What is the W3C doing to resolve the differences?
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What Germany could teach America about health-care reform and government's role
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France is not Germany
Then there is the second common mistake Americans make about Europe: They see a collective continent in place of a collection of countries. Britain is not Denmark; Denmark is not France; and France is not Germany. Eastern and southern European countries, though increasingly part of the same economic union, are in many ways a world apart from their western neighbors.
Failing to see differences within the eurozone is akin to drawing no contrast between New Hampshire (New England’s often Republican outcast) and Vermont (just across the border, yet one of the more socially liberal states in the union.)
Germany's federal system and unease with too-strong of a central government may actually put it closer to the United States than its European neighbors. The parts of both America's and Germany's contemporary whole were once autonomous entities. Germany enjoys a huge economy, a famed manufacturing base, and a love for Volkswagen on par with America's fealty to GM. It juggles a large, diverse population that in many regions is more conservative and religious than Europe is often generalized as being.
What ties these disparate threads together is the understanding that government exists to carry out certain responsibilities, and Germany’s state and federal governments have a definitive mandate to do so. Germans may debate how government conducts business, but not that it does.
America needs nation balancing at home
The absence of a similar mandate in the United States has become exponentially more acute. Preoccupied with nation building other countries, the United States is in dire need of nation balancing at home.
This is not a new challenge, of course, but one that has shaped American history since the beginning. The inability to define government's end of the social contract came close to halting the colonial independence movement before it began, later resulted in a constitution left wide open to interpretation, and culminated in civil war. Today, government can't keep lead out of toys, oil out of the Gulf, financial services out of the backroom, and put all Americans under private insurance policies not because it's too small or too big, as some would have us believe, but because we still haven't decided whether government should be small or big.
IN PICTURES: Germany sinkhole
It's the limbo that's wrecking us. Wrestling with policy is a normal, and necessary, component of any democracy, but an ideological standoff disconnected from evolving social and economic realities stymies progress and further polarizes and paralyzes the political system.
There needs to be some essential consensus that government has a specific role to play. America needs a framework within which the government can serve as a representative and protector of the individual against the overreach of market and global forces.
Until then, ambiguity will remain a fundamental obstacle to finding solutions for America’s mounting problems.
Bill Glucroft is an English trainer and consultant in Berlin. He blogs at mediabard.org.
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I build a model for our problem, but i cannot get a result from my model. Could anyone give me some idea to solve this formula: $aX+bX^2=e^{cX}$
Thx in advance!
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What is $a$, $b$ and $c$? I assume those are constants and you want to solve for $X$? It seems unlikely that you can get closed formulas for $X$. other than in very special cases. For fixed $a$, $b$ and $c$ any standard numerical method for solving equations should suffice. (Newton's method, bisection, or some variant of those.) – mrf May 22 '12 at 9:54
Newton's method will converge for "most" values of $a,b,c$ but studying precisely each case could be time-consuming. You may start with $(a,b,c)=(1,1,1)$, the function is convex near its negative $0$, and use a homotopy method to reach all other values of $(a,b,c)$. Matlab or Mathematica will solve this for you efficiently too. I do not think there is an explicit solution in terms of roots exponentials and logarithms but I would be greatly interested if someone could point to possible proofs of this, perhaps using methods of differential algebra. – plm May 22 '12 at 10:09
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I am by far no expert on this and maybe you should wait for somebody with more expertise, but I can tell you that this equation has no analytical solution and has to be solved numerically (I guess you already know that, given your tag). One of the easiest options is Newton's method. To find a zero of $$f(X)=aX+bX^2-e^{cX}$$ you start with a $X_0$ which should be close to the expected zero and then compute inductively $$X_{i+1}=X_i-\frac{f(X_i)}{f'(X_i)}.$$ The sequence should then converge to a solution. There are multifarious ways to improve this and there are situations where this approach doesn't work, but this is a start.
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I am trying to show that the following equation system:
$$e^u+e^v+2-4e^{x^2-y}=0$$ $$\sin u+xu-v^4-y=0$$
Does not define $(y,x)$ as a function of $(u,v)$ implicitly around $(0,0,0,0)$.
Attempt What I tried to do was find $u,v$ such that in a small radius of (0,0,0,0) the equation would have no solution. My best guess was $u=0, v=R$ (where $R =$ radius), but I had difficulty showing that the system then has no solution.
Help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance!
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Differentiate implicitely with respect to u and v and evaluate at 0. Then see if the Jacobian matrix is singular. – PAD Jul 5 '12 at 7:32
We hadn't learned this technique yet (this is a question from a former exam I'm prepping with)... is there another solution? – ro44 Jul 5 '12 at 7:41
@ro44 You need to use the implicit function theorem. – fpqc Jul 5 '12 at 7:49
@BenjaLim: I know a version of the implicit function theorem that would let me prove this is an implicit function, but not one that would let me prove it isn't. Is there something I might be missing here? – ro44 Jul 5 '12 at 7:52
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You have the right idea. Setting $u=0$ simplifies the system to $e^v+3=4e^{x^2-y}$, $y=-v^4$. The key observation is that the exponent $x^2-y$ cannot be negative, and this is a problem for the first equation when $v<0$.
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Oh! I missed the fact that $y=-v^4$, thought it was $y=v^4$. – ro44 Jul 5 '12 at 16:40
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The implicit function theorem guarantees you a nice solution $x=x(u,v)$, $\ y=y(u,v)$ with $x(0,0)=0$, $\ y(0,0)=0$ if a certain "technical condition" is satisfied, but has nothing to say if this condition is not satisfied (which is the case here).
On the other hand we can go and solve the system for $x$ and $y$ explicitly. From the second equation we deduce $y=x u+\sin u-v^4$, and plugging this into the first equation gives $$e^u+e^v+2=4\exp(x^2-x u-\sin u+v^4)$$ or $$x^2 - xu -\sin u +v^4-\log\Bigl(1+{e^u-1\over4}+{e^v-1\over4}\Bigr)=0\ .$$ This is a quadratic equation for $x$ which you can solve explicitly, but it might have complex solutions for some $(u,v)$ near $(0,0)$. Maybe you don't allow this.
To see what happens we retain only the terms of order $\leq2$ in $u$ and $v$. We then have the equation $$x^2-x u-{5\over4}u-{1\over4}v-{1\over32}(3u^2-2u v+3v^2)=0$$ with the formal solutions $$x={1\over2}\Bigl(u\pm\sqrt{5u+v+{\rm quadratic\ terms}}\Bigr)\ .$$ Here the radicand is negative on one side of a quadric going through the origin of the $(u,v)$-plane. This implies that in the immediate neighborhood of $(0,0)$ there are points $(u,v)$ to which correspond no real $(x,y)$ solving the given system of equations.
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I have a function of 4 variables: (distance function)
$d(x,x_1,y,y_1 )=(x-x_1 )^2+(y-y_1 )^2$
subject to 2 constraints:
1. $g(x,x_1,y,y_1 )=ax^2+2hxy+2gx+by^2+2fy+c=0$
2. $h(x,x_1,y,y_1 )= a_1 x_1^2+2h_1 x_1 y_1+2g_1 x_1+b_1 y_1^2+2f_1 y_1+c_1=0$
Using lagrange multipliers, and partial differentiation, what should be the values of $x,x_1,y,y_1$ in terms of $a,b,c,a_1,b_1,c_1,f,g,h,f_1,g_1,h_1$, with aforementioned constraints?
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Have you tried writing down the gradients of all functions involved and coming up with an equation for the Lagrange multipliers? – Alex R. Sep 9 '12 at 1:01
Yes I have tried and I have come up with equations. That was the easy part actually, the hard part is to find values of x,x1,y,y1, with which I'm struggling up to now. – David Hoffman Sep 9 '12 at 20:49
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Let $\nabla F= \langle \partial_x F, \partial_{x_1} F, \partial_y F, \partial_{y_1} F \rangle$. The method of Lagrange in this case requires the introduction of two multipliers. We should solve:
$$ \nabla d = \lambda_1\nabla g+ \lambda_2\nabla h $$
subject to constraints 1 and 2 as listed in your post.
The reason for this is as follows: if an extrema exists then curves $t \mapsto \alpha(t) $ which pass through the extremal point must make $\eta=d \circ \alpha$ extreme at the corresponding point in the domain. Suppose $t=0$ gives $\alpha(0)$ the extremal point (we can shift the parameter to make this happen, nothing is lost in this convenience).
The curve $\alpha$ lies on the intersection of the level sets given by 1 and 2. We have
$$ g (\alpha(t)) =0 \qquad h( \alpha(t))=0 $$
The chain-rule yields
$$ \nabla g (\alpha(t)) \cdot \alpha'(t)=0 \qquad \nabla h (\alpha(t)) \cdot \alpha'(t)=0 $$
Likewise, since $\eta$ is extremal at $t=0$ the chain rule gives
$$ \nabla d (\alpha(0)) \cdot \alpha'(0)=0 $$
Summarizing, the tangent vector field $\alpha'$ is orthogonal to the gradient fields of $g$ and $h$ where they can be compared and at $\alpha(0)$ the tangent $\alpha'(0)$ is orthogonal to $\nabla d$. The point $\alpha(0)$ is special in that we obtain orthogonality with respect to $\nabla d, \nabla g$ and $\nabla h$.
At first glance this would not appear to connect $\nabla d, \nabla g$ and $\nabla h$ in any particular way. However, there is not just one curve on the constraint surface. Provided the constraints 1. and 2. are nondegenerate the level set they define is two-dimensional and there will be a two-dimensional plane of tangent vectors which are found orthogonal to $\nabla d, \nabla g$ and $\nabla h$. But, this means that $\nabla d, \nabla g$ and $\nabla h$ are linearly dependent since $\mathbb{R}^4$ should be the direct sum of the tangent and normal space. For these reasons we introduce multipliers to ascertain the location of the max/min solution.
Notice the method is based on the existence of extreme solutions. For the continuous function $d$ these are known to exist if the constraint is a compact surface. Sometimes the method still "works" for non-compact constraints, but beware the limit of the method.
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I'm sorry but I can't really understand what you wrote, this math is too advanced for me. Would it be possible to explain this at a high-school level? If not, I will be absolutely ok with it. I just need to know whether a high school student is able to solve this. Thanks. – David Hoffman Sep 9 '12 at 20:43
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How would I go about creating a function in matlab which would calculate the following
$$M_c(f)=h \sum_{i=1}^N f(c_i)$$
$h=\frac{b-a}{N}, \\c_i=a+0.5(2i-1)h,\\ i=1,\ldots,N$
What I have tried so far is
function(M(f))= composite_midpoint(f)
for i=1:1:N
M(f) = h*(sum + f)
Sorry about not inserting the matlab code directly, I'm not sure how to do it.
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Updated the formatting, you can use four spaces in front of each line to show code. – Dennis Jaheruddin Nov 13 '12 at 16:41
What types of 'functions' are you expecting to be able to input for f? Symbolic functions, or matlab functions? – icurays1 Nov 13 '12 at 16:42
It would be a function which is smooth enough for Taylor's theorem and one which it's integral can be calculated exactly. – Nicky Nov 13 '12 at 16:49
Yes, but with matlab functions are either .m files or "symbolic" functions. Its not going to work the way you have it written if you call it like "composite_midpoint(x^2)". It doesn't know what x^2 means. – icurays1 Nov 13 '12 at 16:54
If I were to want the function to be x^2 how would I go about altering my code so that it worked for the midpoint rule? – Nicky Nov 13 '12 at 16:59
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First run this outside the function:
a = 6;
b = 4.234;
N = 10;
Then save this function to a file called compositemidpoint.m (in your current directory)
function M = compositemidpoint(a,b,N)
h = (b-a)/N
i = 1:N
c_i = a+0.5*(2*i-1)*h
f = log(c_i) + c_i.^2 % A sample function
M = h*sum(f);
Then call it by typing:
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It does not really make sens yet, but this is how i debugged your attempted code to not-crash. – Dennis Jaheruddin Nov 13 '12 at 16:52
Your code only sums the vector $f$ and multiplies it by $h$. There is no midpoint rule occurring here - you have to create the vector $f$ by evaluating some function at the grid points $c_i$... – icurays1 Nov 13 '12 at 16:56
I have updated the answer to include an example function. – Dennis Jaheruddin Nov 13 '12 at 17:01
I tried running this but it wouldn't work. I've put in function out= compositemidpoint at the very begining of the function however it is still coming up with errors. – Nicky Nov 13 '12 at 17:14
I have included some instructions on how to call it. – Dennis Jaheruddin Nov 13 '12 at 17:22
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Here's my solution, which is vectorized (for loops are bad in matlab).
function Mf=midpoint_rule(a,b,N,f)
%ci are your evaluation points
%This evaluates the function f, which is another matlab function
%you can just add up the vector y and multiply by h
For example, you can save another .m file Myfunction.m, that might look like:
function y=Myfunction(x)
%The dot means "pointwise"
Then, in the main window, you would evaluate the integral by saying "midpoint_rule(1,2,100,@Myfunction)". The "at" symbol tells matlab you'll be using a matlab function called "Myfunction".
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If you only need your midpoint rule function to run for a couple test functions, you can also hard-code them in by saying "y=sin(x)" etc instead of "y=f(ci)". But then you would have to change your code every time you have a new function to integrate! – icurays1 Nov 13 '12 at 17:18
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Let $Y$ be the number of heads in a an $X$ toss sequence of flipping a coin with probability $p$ of heads. Show that $Y \sim \mathrm{Pois}(p \lambda)$ if $X \sim \mathrm{Pois}(\lambda)$.
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This looks a lot like homework, and if so, please add the homework tag. Hint: Use the law of total probability to calculate $P\{Y = k\}$ from $P\{Y = k\mid X = n\}$ and the known values of $P\{X = n\}$. – Dilip Sarwate Feb 19 '13 at 13:54
Sure. Right, so that's what I have been doing, but it's not obvious. – darksky Feb 19 '13 at 13:56
Further hint: Can you tell what is the value of $P\{Y=10\mid X = 4\}$? How about $P\{Y=10\mid X=15\}$? You will need to use the fact that for a specific $k$, $P\{Y=k\mid X=n\}$ is zero for some choices of $n$, cancel some factorial terms in the rest, and sum a series. – Dilip Sarwate Feb 19 '13 at 14:02
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Note that $Y\mid X=x\sim\mathrm{bi}(x,p)$ for $x=0,1,\ldots$ and so $$ P(Y=k\mid X=x)=\binom{x}{k}p^k(1-p)^{x-k},\quad k=0,\ldots,x. $$ Thus $$ P(Y=k)=\sum_{x=k}^\infty P(Y=k\mid X=x)P(X=x)=\sum_{x=k}^\infty\frac{x!}{k!(x-k)!}p^k(1-p)^{x-k}\frac{\lambda^x}{x!}e^{-\lambda}, $$ which by letting $x!$ cancel out we can write as $$ \frac{p^k}{k!}e^{-\lambda}\sum_{x=k}^\infty \frac{1}{(x-k)!}(1-p)^{x-k}\lambda^x. $$ Now write $\lambda^x$ as $\lambda^{x-k}\lambda^k$ and do a change of index so the sum starts at $x=0$. Then you should end up with $$ \frac{(p\lambda)^k}{k!}e^{- p\lambda}. $$
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Well, your expression is actually incorrect. It should be $e^{- \lambda}$ – darksky Feb 19 '13 at 14:27
@darksky: You're right. I edited it, and it should be correct now. – Stefan Hansen Feb 19 '13 at 14:32
Can you please show some outline of the steps needed to go from second to the third line? – darksky Feb 19 '13 at 14:34
@darksky The sum can be written as $$e^{-\lambda}{p^k\lambda^k\over k!}\sum_{j=0}^\infty {\bigl[((1-p)\lambda\bigr]^j\over j!}.$$(First cancel the $x!$. Then factor out $p^k e^{-\lambda}/k!$ and change indices in the sum.) – David Mitra Feb 19 '13 at 14:35
Thanks David! This is what I needed help with. – darksky Feb 19 '13 at 14:39
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It is easiest to use probability generating functions $\mathcal{P}_Z(t) = \sum_{m=0}^\infty t^m \mathbb{P}\left(Z=m\right) = \mathbb{E}\left(t^Z\right)$. The probability generating function of a binomial random variable equals $\left(1-p + p t \right)^n$. Thus: $$ \mathcal{P}_Y(t) = \mathbb{E}\left(t^Y\right) = \mathbb{E}\left(\mathbb{E}\left(t^Y|X\right)\right) = \mathbb{E}\left( (1-p+t p)^X\right) = \mathcal{P}_X(1-p+ t p) = \exp\left(\lambda \left( \left(1-p + t p \right) -1 \right) \right) = \exp\left(\lambda p (t-1) \right) $$ The latter is the probability generating function of $\operatorname{Poi}\left(\lambda p \right)$.
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Unfortunately, we haven't learned probability generating functions yet. – darksky Feb 19 '13 at 14:22
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In the second chapter of Radically Elementary Probability Theory [PDF], Edward Nelson gives an axiomatization of probability theory based on algebras of random variables, briefly discusses a couple of properties, and points out in passing that the law of iterated expectation holds.
How can we show this? That is, how do we get from the definition of an algebra of r.v.'s to the consequence that $ E_{\cal{B}}E_{\cal{A}} = E_{\cal{B}} $ for algebras $\cal{B} \subseteq \cal{A}$? Nelson's definition of an algebra is the usual:
By an algebra $\cal{A}$ of random variables we will always mean a subalgebra of $\cal{R}^\Omega$ containing the constants; that is, $\cal{A}$ is a set of random variables containing the constants such that whenever $x$ and $y$ are in $\cal{A}$, then $x + y$ and $xy$ are in $\cal{A}$.
The structure of an algebra $\cal{A}$ is very simple. By an atom of $\cal{A}$ we mean a maximal event [i.e., subset of $\Omega$] $A$ such that each random variable in $\cal{A}$ is constant on $A$. ...
He defines the conditional expectation $E_{\cal{A}}x(\omega)$ to be the r.v. in $\cal{A}$ that for each $\omega \in \Omega$ is the expectation of $x$ with respect to the probability relative to the atom $A_\omega$ that contains $\omega$:
$$E_{\cal{A}}x(\omega) = \frac{1}{pr(A_\omega)}\sum_{\eta \in A_\omega}{x(\eta) pr(\eta)} .$$
I imagine the law of iterated expectation follows somehow from the fact that for algebras $\cal{B} \subseteq \cal{A}$, each atom of $\cal{B}$ is the union of some number of (disjoint) atoms of $\cal{A}$, but I haven't been able to work out a complete proof. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
(Note also that if $x \in \cal{A}$, the proof is trivial, since it is easy to show that $E_{\cal{A}}x = x $ whenever $x \in \cal{A}$. My difficulty is in showing $E_{\cal{B}}E_{\cal{A}}x = E_{\cal{B}}x$ for a r.v. $x \notin \cal{A}$.)
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This is restricted to discrete probability spaces $\Omega$, right? – Did Jul 20 '13 at 8:31
@Did, yes, everything's discrete. (The text proceeds to use non-standard analysis to extend discrete techniques to spaces that we would not be able to think of as discrete in a standard setting.) – pash Jul 20 '13 at 14:30
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Consider the $\mathbb Z$-module that consists of the polynomials in $\mathbb Z[x,y]$ that are homogeneous polynomials of degree $d$ in the indeterminates $x$ and $y$ (homogeneous meaning that all terms of the form $c_{ij} x^i y^j$ are such that $i+j = d$, where $d$ is the degree of the polynomial). One can see that there is a unique way of writing an homogeneous polynomial of degree $d$ in the form $$ \sum_{j=0}^d c_k y^{d-k} \prod_{i=0}^{k-1} (x-iy) $$ because there is precisely one term where $x$ is at the $k^{th}$ power for any $k$ in the range $[0,d]$, hence we can compute coefficients. Therefore, the polynomials $y^{d-k} \prod (x-iy)$ form a basis of the $\mathbb Z$-module.
Is it possible to write any homogenous polynomial of degree $d$ in the form $$ \sum_{k=0}^d c_k \left( \prod_{i=0}^{d-k-1} (y-ipx) \right) \left( \prod_{i=0}^{k-1} (x-iy) \right) $$ where $p$ is a prime number? (The larger context is a number theory context, thus the prime is the thing I need. The fact that $p$ is prime might not be needed to prove this though!) Note that the polynomials formed by the 2 products are actually homogenous polynomials of degree $d$ in $x$ and $y$, so this would be a basis of the $\mathbb Z$-module of homogenous polynomials of degree $d$.
The reason for this question is because I am looking for a characterization for a certain class of polynomials that are always 0 with respect to a prime power modulus and the existence of this decomposition would help me very much. =)
If you have any suggestions please feel free to comment.
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One remark for those who might consider inverting some kind of matrices : the fact that it is easy to generate polynomials when there is no "$ipx$" term in the linear factors for $y$ is that you can rewrite this problem in the form of solving a linear equation of the form $AX = Y$, where $X$ and $Y$ are the coefficient vectors and $A$ is the coordinate switch matrix. The "easiness" comes from the fact that $A$ is either upper or lower triangular (depending on which way you place coefficients...), hence it is easy to see that $A$ needs to be invertible with integer non-zero determinant. – Patrick Da Silva Aug 29 '11 at 0:51
Re: Your background question. You do know the classification of single variable polynomials with values (at integer points) vanishing modulo a prime power, don't you? That not-too-well-known result has been rediscovered periodically (Singmaster in '69, Niven & Warren in '57, Carlitz says that it was in Dickson's old book,...) – Jyrki Lahtonen Aug 29 '11 at 5:56
Yes, I know it, and it is quite simple to read (but took me weeks to prove...). Write $$ f(x) = \sum_{k=0}^d c_k(x)_k. $$ It is always possible to do this in $\mathbb Z[x]$. Now note that $f(\ell) = \sum_{k=0}^{\ell} c_k k! \begin{pmatrix} \ell \\ k \end{pmatrix}$, hence you can show by induction that $c_k k! \equiv 0$ $\mathrm{mod}$ $p^m$ by assuming that $f$ vanishes $\mathrm{mod}$ $p^m$. Conversely, a polynomial with this property vanishes because $f(\ell) = \sum_{k=0}^{\ell} c_k k! \begin{pmatrix} \ell \\ k \end{pmatrix} \equiv \sum_{k=0}^{\ell} 0 = 0.$ – Patrick Da Silva Aug 29 '11 at 7:32
The result I had in mind goes as follows. Write $p_k(x)=\prod_{i=0}^{kp-1}(x-i)$. Then the values $p_k(n), n\in\mathbf{Z}$ are always divisible by $(kp)!$, so if you multiply these polynomials with the appropriate power of $p$ you get polynomials with values vanishing $\pmod{p^\ell}$. If you take such polynomials up to the first monic one, you have a generating set for the ideal of polynomials in $\mathbf{Z}[x]$ that vanish module $p^\ell$. – Jyrki Lahtonen Aug 29 '11 at 7:55
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I don't think that you have a $\mathbf{Z}$-basis. I claim that if $d>1$, then all the polynomials $q(x,y)$ in the $\mathbf{Z}$-span of your generators have the property $p-1\mid q(1,1)$. Thus, if $p>2$ the span cannot consist of all the homogeneous polynomials of degree $d$.
Proof: If you evaluate the polynomial $$p_k(x,y)=\prod_{i=0}^{d-k-1}(y-ipx) \prod_{i=0}^k(x-iy)$$ at $x=y=1$, the second product shows that $p_k(1,1)=0$ unless $k=0$ (if $k>0$, then the factor $x-y$ coming from $i=1$ makes this happen). But if $k=0$ and $d>1$, then the first product has a factor $y-px$ (again coming from $i=1$), and this forces $p_0(1,1)$ to be divisible by $y-px\vert_{(x,y)=(1,1)}=1-p$. For all $k$ we have $p-1\mid p_k(1,1)$, so the same holds for all the $\mathbf{Z}$-linear combinations of the polynomials $p_k(x,y)$.
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Given that $p-1$ is a unit in your eventual ring this may not ruin your approach, but it does seem to settle the question over $\mathbf{Z}$. – Jyrki Lahtonen Aug 29 '11 at 6:10
I am a little confused by your argument because there are many assumptions along the way... but maybe it's clear and I should read this tomorrow XD But in my ring, $p-1$ is indeed a unit, so I think that if you're right there is still work to do, and I would be really pissed to find out that it's not possible to do this... – Patrick Da Silva Aug 29 '11 at 7:36
For your curiosity : I have shown a few hours ago (heehee) that for $f(x,y)$ homogeneous of degree $d$ and $m \le p$, vanishing mod $p^m$ is equivalent to be able to write it in the following form : $$ f(x,y) = \sum_{j=0}^{m} \left( \left( p^{m-j} y^j \prod_{i=0}^{jp-1} (x-iy) \right) \gamma_j (x,y) \right) $$ where the $\gamma_j(x,y)$'s are homogeneous polynomials of degree $d-j(p+1)$ that can be arbitrary. When working on these kind of vanishing question, understanding what happens up to $p^p$ and then moving to $p^{p+1}$ and $p^{p+2}$ in a clever manner is the key point. – Patrick Da Silva Aug 29 '11 at 7:38
@Patrick: I made an attempt to make the structure of my argument clearer. – Jyrki Lahtonen Aug 29 '11 at 10:18
Okay, so $p-1 | q(1,1)$. So since for instance $x^2$ (or $x^d$ for generality) is such that $p-1 \nmid q(1,1) = 1$, we're done. =) Thank you! – Patrick Da Silva Aug 29 '11 at 14:38
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I'm relatively new to Mathematica, and I'm trying to define a function f(k) that would do the following:
For any positive integer $k$, a finite sequence $a_i$ of fractions $\frac{x_i}{y_i}$ is defined by: $$a_1 = \frac{1}{k}\\ a_i = \frac{x_{i-1}+1}{y_{i-1}-1}$$ When $a_i$ reaches some integer $n$, the sequence stops. (That is, when $y_i=1$.) Define $f(k) = n$.
-- Project Euler
I have the following function written:
f[k_, sofar_] = Module[{num, result},
result =
If[sofar == 0,1/k,((num = Numerator[sofar]) + 1)/(num/sofar - 1)
f[k_] = f[k, 0]
But I get the result {ComplexInfinity,List} and I don't understand why. What am I doing wrong?
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Your function needs to depend on both $x_{i-1}$ and $y_{i-1}$. (This answer applies to any programming language you might choose for tackling this problem.) – whuber Mar 7 '13 at 23:08
I rephrased the format of the question from Project Euler. The fraction is reduced before the function is re-applied. – Jakob Weisblat Mar 7 '13 at 23:09
Yep, but you still need to track the numerator and denominator, so you might as well do so explicitly--at least conceptually. Your life will be much easier. (Mathematica can handle many of the details, but under the hood it will be doing exactly the same thing: carrying an ordered pair of (numerator, denominator) around.) – whuber Mar 7 '13 at 23:10
so I pass $x_i/y_i$ as $sofar$ and then determine the new numerator, then $\frac{num}{sofar}$ is $y_i$ – Jakob Weisblat Mar 7 '13 at 23:11
@whuber After completely changing my code such that it works in the way you suggested, the problem goes away. Huh. Thanks. – Jakob Weisblat Mar 7 '13 at 23:26
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The solution to this problem is to use := instead of = with the function definition so that it is not evaluated immediately.
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I've answered a Java question today. The answer was long and included a considerable amount of code. When I tried to post the answer, I got a cryptic error:
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I've copied my text to an external editor, and tried posting parts using binary bisection. After some trial and error, the problem boiled down to a humoristic reference I made to LMGTFY.
It was very frustrating - I put some effort into an answer, and the error message didn't help me understand the problem, and wasn't even anywhere near the offending link (in this example, the link is at the top of the post, error message in the middle):
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Could we change that to a meaningful error message, like:
Sorry, but "Let Me Google That For You" is not helpful and might be offensive. See why in our community discussion.
Update: Some comments suggest that we should not help rude users understand why they were rejected. I strongly disagree, for three reasons:
1. There are probably many users who post a LMGTFY link as a part of a good answer as a comic relief. They shouldn't be punished.
2. Users with tendency to rudeness can be schooled with a polite message that explains the reason behind blocking.
3. A frustrated hacked tries to take vengeance on the system. We can expect a lot of url shorteners and other tricks when a user finds out the blocking reasons after banging the head against the wall.
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Shouldn't that error message be a LMGTFY link about the state of LMGTFY on Stack Exchange? You know, to get the message across. – Time Traveling Bobby Feb 25 '13 at 13:18
Wow, that's brilliant. It would make the user smile, rather than grumble. Please suggest that as an answer. – Adam Matan Feb 25 '13 at 13:28
Why help those folks out? They're not helping other people out. – user7116 Feb 25 '13 at 13:50
@sixlettervariables: if someone writes a full answer and includes on LMGTFY link, they'll get that message. If they can't figure out what the problem is, they will probably not post the answer. That's not good. – Joachim Sauer Feb 25 '13 at 13:55
@JoachimSauer: I think the set of users who write good answers AND drop a LMGTFY link into it without knowing it is a problem is a very small set. We could probably live without those answers. – user7116 Feb 25 '13 at 14:20
I prefer "Direct links to lmgtfy.com are too obvious. Please use an url shortener that redirects to LMGTFY instead." – CodesInChaos Feb 25 '13 at 14:31
@sixlettervariables I've updated my answer to explain why. I spent ~10 minutes trying to figure out why an answer I put a lot of effort in was rejected. – Adam Matan Feb 25 '13 at 14:31
@AdamMatan: why on earth did you think LMGTFY would be appropriate in an answer on a professional site? – user7116 Feb 25 '13 at 15:01
@CodesInChaos: You. I like you. – BoltClock's a Unicorn Feb 25 '13 at 15:15
I can't think of an instance where someone would use LMGTFY unless knowingly being at best snarky or pejorative, so I think the thinking here was the issue should be pretty obvious. However, I do rather like the text you suggested, and I tend to favor "here's why you should not do that" (if the 'why' is available) over "don't do that". – Tim Post Feb 25 '13 at 15:25
@TimPost Well, one example that comes to mind is if there is already a post out there somewhere with a LMGTFY link in it and someone goes to edit it to improve some other unrelated problem, they'd get this error message and may not even realize that there's a LMGTFY link in there that ought to be edited out. Another case would be the link coming along for the ride in a copy/paste block making up a quote. – Servy Feb 25 '13 at 15:33
@Servy Yeah, making it more descriptive is good all around. – Tim Post Feb 25 '13 at 15:42
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That's closer to CodesInChaos's suggestion than to the original one, though. Since you're presumably storing a list of these banned strings somewhere, wouldn't it be possible to improve the user interface by adding a "rejection message" column (or equivalent) to whatever table they're stored in? It could still default to "X cannot contain 'Y'." if not explicitly specified. – Ilmari Karonen Mar 5 '13 at 21:50
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A rumble in the Dolphins jungle [Updated]
Tempers have flared during the Dolphins practice this morning.
And then it got crazy.
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apparently kircus said something...haha
sweet....you just know that not-so-secretly the coaches loves this, as do I.
I need video!!
Nothing like a nice fight to see if your team has heart. Good stuff, though I agree that it is a clear indication that the guys are close to ready to hit another colored jersey.
Maybe they were settling a gambling debt.
Finally....some passion out of these guys!!
I love it. As long as they all have a drink afterwards I love it. Kircus sounds like a wus.
Wow, and both these guys seem to have a roster spot so you can't blame stress or insecurity.
Kirus is a buddy of mine it was simply a misunderstanding. Will and Dave are great friends, you Dave is deathly afraid of Butter Flys. Will was only making sure that the bug had flown away or died under the pounding. And yes it was Reagan but he too was defending both of players from the kill swarm of butterflies. Sparano talked with Will to explain the Larva stage and how yes caterpillars do become beautiful butterflies.
Kircus: Hey man, I'm trying to make the team, so if I drop the ball, let's distract the coaches by getting into a scuffle.
Allen: I don't want to hurt you man!
Kircus: Don't worry, I'll curl into a ball!
Allen: Ok, but just for show, I don't want anyone getting hurt!
Kircus: Don't worry, you're Will Allen, no one's going to hurt YOU!
1 play later:
Mauia: WTF! I'm gonna hurt that SOB!
Dammit Vic, you beat me to the punch!
nobody hurt= i love it...... especially if the juggernaut started the second half of the fight
anybody see major league 2? fights always spark teams to championships
Thanx for the report Mando. I wonder if a recording of the fight will leak out to the MSM.
Mando: quarterback update? how did it go this am. only thing of interest really.
I can't believe Kircus didn't stand up for himself and yell "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M CAPABLE OF!" I guess he's not so hard when it's another football player, hahaha!
The link:
Beck is gone folks. PFT broke it first.
John Beck got cut! Palm Beach Post said it first
How many Miami players are on this blog, anyways! The whole team I bet. Shhhhh, here comes coach.
Palm Beach Post has nothing. Only someone in a blog linking to PFT.
A receiver cannot under any circumstances risk hurting his hands. One punch and a fractured hand later could lead to an injury that leads to getting cut. I would have done exactly the same thing Kircus did. If catching balls makes me over $500k per year I'll take as many whoopings as I have to in order to keep that meal ticket going.
PFT also has nothing. The guy was at practice 30 minutes ago! PFT just has a rumor, nothing else!
Jay Feely should stop sending fake rumors to PFT. He needs to move on.
ohhh you wanna play hard now huh J. Allen, can't wait to see ur sorry azz in the game. fighting ur own teammate, ohh you real big and bad huh, now do that same &h!t this weekend against the enemy punk.!!!!
I think its great...let them go at it, I can't believe the coaches broke it up.
Lets bring in Steve Smith, then we can watch a true Rumble in the Bubble. Allen and Smith will probably be more entertaining than watching the fin offense this year. As for the Beck rumor, normally where there is smoke there is fire. All rumors usually have some semblence of truth in them. Beck is mos def a dead man walking. Go fail forward fast with your boy CamMoron.
Maybe Allen can try fighting in the ring since he's not smart enough to play football.Of course football players don't fare very well in the ring.
Allen owed Kirkus some money. Kirkus got lucky that Allen just punched him out instead of pulling his piece and pistol whipping him.
Wow, you call yourself a reporter. You should go back to school and learn how to write. You are an embarrasment to hispanics.
I am actually EXTREMELY happy to hear this news and I will explain why. Our offense has lacked balls for so long now. They have had no cohesiveness and have lacked heart. What this says to me is that these guys are going to have eachothers backs and not be bullied anymore. They definitely suprised the defense and I suspect they also gained some respect from them. Porters probaly thinking, 'damn, I didn't think they had any fight in them'. This is actually going to bring the team closer than anyone could imagine. Now they just need to let it go and show the rest of the NFL that they might not be as good as a lot of teams but they will never give up and will fight to the end! Lets Go Dolphins!!!!!
The Beck thing is a rumor. But, rumors are sometimes true. It is time to move forward and cut Beck, pick up another receiver or two and go with Penny, Henne, McCown. Then, if Griese or Simms becomes available, cut the McCown guy and continue the progress. We need receivers here guys. These guys are dropping everything. You can't constantly run the ball.
Goodbye John Beck.You're days are numbered. Cammoron has a roster spot for you. Or, does he? It will be interesting to see how much faith Cam has in Beck now if he becomes available. I'll bet not as much as some of the bloggers here do.
Tinshaker- What do you think?
JERSEYFINFAN - Well anyone who's been reading the blogs this summer knows I've never had any faith in Beck's 'potential' (is it potential if it never happens, or just misplaced hope?)
There's no way IMO that Cam picks up Beck, they are crowded at QB up there so there is no space for him. He is no longer Cameron's guy since Cameron got a no. 1 draft pick QB this year.
I honestly don't see Beck being picked up by anyone other than for a scout team maybe. There is just a lot of traffic at QB this offseason. Does anyone need to sign a QB right now? His best chance is if someone gets injured in the rest of preseason. Since there are three games left, the Dolphins would have to have no faith in him at all to cut him before they have to cut down to 53 because the other three could get hurt in the interim.
Tinshaker, I agree. However, if Beck does get cut, he should seek refuge in the AFL. Maybe then he will get better and faster reading defenses. This guy looks like a scared puppy out there. Reminds me of a scene in Norbit: Norbit why you run like lil b#tch? LMAO!
Sparano said the rumor was false, Beck will be at practice this afternoon.
Perhaps bigger news is that Shawn Murphy rolled his ankle today. There's a good chance this guy doesn't make the team. He has been unimpressive and a big guy with a rolled ankle at his position could be completely ineffective for the rest of pre-season.
JERSEY, I said the same thing a couple days ago and was barraged by Beck lovers telling me off for suggesting such a thing because then he WOULD be too old to come back to the NFL. My response is the guy made the decision to take two years off when he knows the shelf life of a football player is only a few years. I don't understand why if football is that important to you, you can't go on your mission after your football career.
The REAL question here is what are the odds of running into someone who saw 'Norbitt'?
Help me out. I have read your blog everyday since camp opened. All I read is interception after interception by ALL FOUR QBs. Are any of these four QBs expected to play well? I do hear that Henne and Pennington have good leadership and huddle command etc..etc... which is great...but all I read about is Interceptions and almost zero TDs! Is this normal in camp or are we just not going to score any touchdowns this year?
Tinshaker: I don't know. Norbit was just about as bad as Becks play is! LMAO. But, the line works! Check it out!
Brawl! yeah! what the coaches should have done is let the fight play out, tape the whole thing, and find out who our studs are.
Fighting during practice is a welcome sign. Football is a controlled fight, on the LOS, every tackle, its an all out fight.
As for Beck, where there's smoke there's fire.
He should be updating his resume.
JERSEY can you give me the exact location by minute of the quote so I don't have to watch the whole thing? LOL
Ok, back to the game, I keep asking the journalists what the appeal of Beck is and why he has so many fanboys. None of them have ever responded to the question. The fanboys responses have never been credible because they usually consist of the following: "Beck is really really really good", "He has not been given a fair chance (waah waah)", and "Beck is WAY better than McClown! McClown is a joke! Look at me I'm clever because I can say McClown like all the other Beck fanboys!"
But seriously, I never saw the guy play in college. I didn't see him in TC last year. My only knowledge of the guy is what I saw during the season and this year. It's a bit like when you start a new job and there's this popular employee who's a real screw up and you think to yourself why is this guy highly regarded, he doesn't know how to do the job, and yet management/coworkers keep touting him as THE guy. Well since I started this job everyone's been talking him up but I haven't seen him perform.
Mando, Cote is ripping off your blog again. Why doesn't that loser at least give you credit for your work?
I wouldn't say he was ripping it off, in fact he disagreed somewhat with Armando. However, it was a really bad read. I used to enjoy reading Cote when I was about 12. Now I just wonder what was wrong with me back then...
LOL Tinshaker. I don't knoe how Cote keeps his job. He must have some major dirt on somebody.
A Dolphin coach broke up a fight? That's got to mean something unlike last year's coach who crawled underneath an airliner seat. Anyone want to make a wager that Porter will cuss out Sparano during a team meeting this year?
I was at practice this morning and the fight was the most exciting thing. Defensive players seem to be a bit touchy out there #47 pushed Ricky onto the floor during one running drill, then much later did the same to Cobbs. =) brings a smile to see the defense playing "mean".
PT - Surprised Greg Cote wasn't mentioned in this article:
Hey Jersey and Tinshaker, you two should get a room. I'm obviously kidding with you,,,,,,but seriously,,get a room :)
I told you those NY fans are brutal. Check out NYScott's message to us! Lol! Sorry Scott, I love women. Especially hot latino ones. I can't help it that Tinshaker is hitting this one right on the head. We gotta be objective here guys. Beck SUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKS!
Tinshaker: the part is when Mr. Wong throws the spear...Ah Right in the bro hole! There Scott throw some NY humor on that one,LMFAO!!!!
Not listening to this mumbo-jumbo right now...
Mando, according to Andy Kent, Chad Henne was 4-7 with one interception...just tought you should know.
There is no way any QB gets cut in the next 2 weeks anybody that even thinks that may happen is a true idiot!!!!
Give me one good reason to cut a QB hell give me any reason - DUMB!!!!
Sohail, I had a boss name Sohail once...anyway I will field your question. I too asked the same question a few weeks ago. Apparently he is only interested in going to a superbowl contender, which Miami is not. So we are not on his radar. That and the fact we don't really need a safety and have more pressing needs like OL.
NYScott, are you kidding me? Have you seen his horrible taste in movies? We'd never get along!
JERSEY, you don't have to tell me about NY fans. That's one thing that is not an urban myth, they really ARE that brutal. Used to work for a Jets fan and he would hurt my feelings at least twice an hour!
Give me a reason why they wouldn't keep three cut Beck and if no one shows interest then they put him on the practice squad......wasn't he practicing with the practice squad today anyway......I've never hated Beck but I also don't understand where all this loyalty to him is coming from he has never done anything for the dolphins.......some of you Beck lovers are acting like there cutting Dan Marino or something.......I'm pretty sure that the Trifecta has alot more experience in these matters than us on this Blog and if you are a true Dolphin fan you should trust them......Goodness gracious if you guys trusted Cameron last year you got to Give BP a chance.
Go Phins
y-not, it would take some pretty bad oversight for the dolphins to cut a QB before the end of preseason. So I don't know where these rumors are coming from. It does make sense that the Dolphins would make it known that Beck or McCown are up for bids starting this week, so other teams have them on the radar for when they need them.
Ya got a big mouth for such a little man Tinman.
Finfan Orlando.
I think your idea is plausible but there is probably a 1 in 10000 chance that Beck or McCown would clear the waiver wire. They certainly may be trying to trade Beck or McCown but the trio was prepared to go the season with the original 3 until Pennington shows up.
I think it far more likely they keep all 4 into the season because sooner or later someone will need a QB due to injury and they will get a decent pick for either one.
Remember JT was not worth a #2 until the skins lost 2 DE in a day.
Because he won't clear waivers.
Go read the very rumor on PFT that started this whole conversation, it appears that the rest of the fans in the NFL disagree with all you half-cocked dolphin fans.
You ever wonder why you guys are perpetually rebuilding? Probably because the 28 management regimes in the last 5 years were paying to much attention to you idiots.
Stupid stupid fishfan
If you are not a fan why would you be posting on this thread? Oh I know - its in you screen name Stupid stupid!
Know take a hike dikhead and bother someone else!
I don't see your idea of trading one of the QB's after another team suffers an injury coming to fruition. Simply because there are too many other teams with way better backups that might be willing to trade.
At least not for Beck. He's an unproven commodity right now.
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Kottkamp, Dorworth pledge to return Greer money
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So, what's the chance Dorworth will ask to get back the money his CCE gave the re-election campaign of the judge hearing his court case?
So, what's the chance Dorworth will stop paying his living expenses out of his campaign account?
So, what's the chance Dorworth is still poking the Chamber staffer? We know he can't be going to the Keys with her any more, now that Greer's no longer with the party and can't cover their expenses on his Amex card...
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Yeah, these two crooks will give the money back when hell freezes over.
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CHICAGO -- Justin Verlander has drawn national attention for his winless start, despite 16 scoreless innings and one bad one. The way the Tigers' first week has gone, he has plenty of company in the win column.
None of the Tigers' starters have wins. In fact, Verlander's loss to the Rays on Wednesday was the only decision for anybody in the rotation through the first six games.
If that sounds historic, it is. According to Elias Sports Bureau, Detroit is the first team in Major League history to win at least five of its first six games without a starting pitcher getting a win.
Each of the first five victories went to relievers, two of the first three to Duane Below.
Inge ready to rejoin Tigers after rehab stint
CHICAGO -- The locker and the road jersey were waiting for Brandon Inge on Friday morning in the visiting clubhouse at U.S. Cellular Field. All that was left was for the player himself to show up.
He'll be there on Saturday. Inge, recovering from a sore left groin, will be activated from the 15-day disabled list in time for the middle game of their series against the White Sox. The Tigers optioned infielder Danny Worth to Triple-A Toledo after Friday's loss to make room on the 25-man roster.
Inge will be in the starting lineup at second base on Sunday, when the Tigers are scheduled to face White Sox left-hander Chris Sale.
Saturday is the first day Inge is eligible to be activated. He spent three days rehabbing with Toledo, ending with a 1-for-9 performance at the plate with three walks.
"The timing will come back," Inge told the Toledo Blade on Thursday. "I'm not worried about the results right now. When you're going through a rehab, getting timing, seeing the pitches and drawing walks is important. I really didn't get many good pitches to hit. They weren't throwing me much -- which was kind of funny."
Tigers manager Jim Leyland has said that Inge will assume a part-time role as a starting second baseman against some but not all left-handed starting pitchers, and possibly an occasional start at third base when Miguel Cabrera either gets a day off or starts at DH.
Worth made the Opening Day roster as an extra infielder when Inge opened the season on the DL. He went 1-for-5 in three games, including a start at second base last Tuesday against the Rays.
Wilk's first start extra special for mom
CHICAGO -- Adam Wilk's mom has never seen her son pitch in a professional game in person, either in the Major Leagues or the Minors. He was hoping she'd get a chance to see him open the season with the Tigers. He didn't get that, but he couldn't have planned out his first big league start much better.
When Wilk takes the mound at U.S. Cellular Field on Saturday afternoon, Deborah Wilk will be in the stands watching. A high school teacher in Southern California, she'll be able to fly in to see her son realize another big league dream.
"She's actually seen me in L.A. and Anaheim in uniform [in the Tigers' bullpen last summer]," he said, "but I've never pitched there, so this is actually the first time she's seen me pitch professionally."
Deborah Wilk's work includes teaching freshmen in the summer. So while Adam was working his way through the Tigers' farm system, she wasn't able to make the trip east to watch. So she would follow her son and call, or eventually text, him after games.
"She used to always call me and I'd never call back," Adam admitted. "I can't sit like this [with the phone to his ear] for hours, because moms always want to talk forever. So she learned to text a lot better. She'll text me and I'll respond that way. Sometimes if I have a bad outing, her responses are just -- you'll read them and you're like, 'Thanks, mom. That's not what I wanted to see there.'"
The Tigers will officially recall Wilk from Triple-A Toledo on Saturday. To make room on the 25-man roster, Detroit optioned right-handed reliever Brayan Villarreal to Toledo after Friday's loss. Villarreal pitched 1 1/3 innings over three appearances, allowing one hit and recording one strikeout.
Dirks adjusting to designated-hitter role
CHICAGO -- Andy Dirks' oft-used phrase last summer to describe his basic approach was that he's "just a ballplayer." So it figures that he would have a pretty good approach to being just a hitter.
The Tigers have used three different players at designated hitter through seven games, but the 26-year-old Dirks has been the most frequent, starting four games. It's an odd spot for a young player known for his outfield defense and deceptive speed, but at 5-for-14 with a double, triple and two RBIs through Friday, he doesn't have to apologize for his bat.
For a lot of players, the trick to DH-ing is filling the time between at-bats. Gary Sheffield used to ride the exercise bike. Victor Martinez would have a bat in his hand the whole time, whether he was in the dugout or the batting cage. Dirks hasn't had that problem.
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An overall drop in the market is exacerbating JPMorgan's losses tied to its bets on corporate bonds.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- One thing seems clear about JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion loss. It's no longer $2 billion. It's likely much higher.
JPMorgan Chase declined to comment on its trading activities. Of course, it is impossible to know with absolute certainty just how high the losses are at any given moment.
But experts said there are few scenarios in which hedge funds on the other side of the bank's giant bet will let JPMorgan Chase out of it without significantly more pain.
"The market knows roughly what [JPMorgan] has and what the sizes are," said a source with knowledge of the bank's positions.
Why have the losses grown since chief executive officer Jamie Dimon informed the public of them? The market's overall slide hasn't helped.
Since last Thursday, the U.S. and European stock markets have dropped significantly. The S&P 500 (SPX) is down roughly 3.5%, and the main European indexes are down between 4% and 6%.
JPMorgan Chase's trades were built around contracts tied to corporate bonds. Specifically, JPMorgan Chase sold huge amounts of protection on an index of 125 highly rated corporate bonds. Simply put, JPMorgan Chase's massive trade stood a better chance to pay off if the market had continued to rally.
Now as the overall market has worsened, it costs even more for JPMorgan Chase to sell protection against possible bankruptcies on corporate bonds.
Since JPMorgan Chase is basically the only one on its side of the bet, a worsening market makes it even more expensive to keep this position and more difficult to find other places to offset these losses.
JPMorgan Chase's main bet has been on an index, known as IG9, of 125 U.S. investment grade companies. Shares of three of the 125 companies -- retailer J.C. Penney (JCP, Fortune 500) and insurers MBIA (MBI) and Radian (RDN) -- have taken big hits since last week, driving up the cost of offering protection against a default.
Additionally, since Dimon's announcement, more hedge funds have piled into the index, further driving up the cost of selling protection.
"There will be a stare-fest between the hedge funds and JPMorgan," said James Rickards, former general counsel at Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that required a $3.6 billion bailout from the Federal Reserve because of its massive losses from its trading activities.
"It will cost JPMorgan an unimaginable fortune to push the spread back in their direction," he added.
But JPMorgan Chase may blink first. It could face pressure from U.S. government regulators to start selling some of its positions.
Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking into JPMorgan's trade. Dimon has also been called to testify before the Senate Banking Committee.
The bank's shareholders may grow increasingly anxious as well, which could force JPMorgan Chase's hand. Shares are down 18% nearly since the company announced the loss.
"It's not just a battle between Dimon and the hedge funds," said Rickards. "It's been JPMorgan and the regulators, the FBI, Congressional committees and stock holders. It's not clear that their tolerance for pain will be as high as Jamie Dimon."
For now, the one thing working in JPMorgan Chase's favor is the market's bet that the bank is too big too fail, making it dangerous to push too hard on the other side of its trade.
But the dangers are far greater for JPMorgan Chase.
"Part of the problem of what they were doing is that they were too big in the trade to ever be able to trade out of it," said Friesen, who is also a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's advisory group To top of page
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When an encoding conversion cannot be performed, the .NET Framework provides a failure-handling mechanism called a fallback. Your application can use predefined .NET Framework encoder fallbacks, or it can create a custom encoder fallback derived from the EncoderFallback and EncoderFallbackBuffer classes.
EncoderFallback and EncoderFallbackBuffer are the base classes for all encoding fallback handlers in the .NET Framework. They support the following three kinds of fallback handling mechanisms:
• Best-fit fallback, which maps valid Unicode characters that cannot be encoded to an approximate equivalent. For example, a best-fit fallback handler for the ASCIIEncoding class might map Æ (U+00C6) to AE (U+0041 + U+0045). A best-fit fallback handler might also be implemented to transliterate one alphabet (such as Cyrillic) to another (such as Latin or Roman). The .NET Framework does not provide any public best-fit fallback implementations.
• Replacement fallback, which replaces each character that cannot be encoded with a predefined string. The .NET Framework provides a predefined replacement fallback handler. The EncoderReplacementFallback class replaces each byte sequence that cannot be decoded with a question mark character ("?", or U+003F) or a REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD). You can customize the replacement string by specifying a substitute in the call to the EncoderReplacementFallback.EncoderReplacementFallback(String) constructor. After the substitute string is emitted, the encoding operation continues converting the remainder of the input.
• Exception fallback, which throws an exception when a character cannot be encoded. The .NET Framework provides a predefined exception fallback handler. The EncoderExceptionFallback class throws an EncoderFallbackException when an invalid character is encountered, and the encoding operation terminates.
If you choose to implement a custom solution, you must override the following abstract members of the EncoderFallback class:
• The CreateFallbackBuffer method, which returns a class instance derived from EncoderFallbackBuffer. Depending on the type of fallback handler that you are developing, the EncoderFallbackBuffer implementation is responsible for performing the mapping or replacement, or for throwing the exception.
• The MaxCharCount property, which returns the maximum number of characters that the fallback implementation can return. For an exception fallback handler, its value should be zero.
For more information about encoding, decoding, and fallback strategies, see Character Encoding in the .NET Framework.
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Using the Multiple Document Interface
This section explains how to perform the following tasks:
To illustrate these tasks, this section includes examples from Multipad, a typical multiple-document interface (MDI) application.
Registering Child and Frame Window Classes
A typical MDI application must register two window classes: one for its frame window and one for its child windows. If an application supports more than one type of document (for example, a spreadsheet and a chart), it must register a window class for each type.
The class structure for the frame window is similar to the class structure for the main window in non–MDI applications. The class structure for the MDI child windows differs slightly from the structure for child windows in non–MDI applications as follows:
• The class structure should have an icon, because the user can minimize an MDI child window as if it were a normal application window.
• The menu name should be NULL, because an MDI child window cannot have its own menu.
• The class structure should reserve extra space in the window structure. With this space, the application can associate data, such as a filename, with a particular child window.
The following example shows how Multipad registers its frame and child window classes.
BOOL WINAPI InitializeApplication()
WNDCLASS wc;
// Register the frame window class. = 0;
wc.lpfnWndProc = (WNDPROC) MPFrameWndProc;
wc.cbClsExtra = 0;
wc.cbWndExtra = 0;
wc.hInstance = hInst;
wc.hIcon = LoadIcon(hInst, IDMULTIPAD);
wc.hCursor = LoadCursor((HANDLE) NULL, IDC_ARROW);
wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH) (COLOR_APPWORKSPACE + 1);
wc.lpszMenuName = IDMULTIPAD;
wc.lpszClassName = szFrame;
if (!RegisterClass (&wc) )
return FALSE;
// Register the MDI child window class.
wc.lpfnWndProc = (WNDPROC) MPMDIChildWndProc;
wc.hIcon = LoadIcon(hInst, IDNOTE);
wc.lpszMenuName = (LPCTSTR) NULL;
wc.cbWndExtra = CBWNDEXTRA;
wc.lpszClassName = szChild;
if (!RegisterClass(&wc))
return FALSE;
return TRUE;
Creating Frame and Child Windows
After registering its window classes, an MDI application can create its windows. First, it creates its frame window by using the CreateWindow or CreateWindowEx function. After creating its frame window, the application creates its client window, again by using CreateWindow or CreateWindowEx. The application should specify MDICLIENT as the client window's class name; MDICLIENT is a preregistered window class defined by the system. The lpvParam parameter of CreateWindow or CreateWindowEx should point to a CLIENTCREATESTRUCT structure. This structure contains the members described in the following table:
hWindowMenuHandle to the window menu used for controlling MDI child windows. As child windows are created, the application adds their titles to the window menu as menu items. The user can then activate a child window by clicking its title on the window menu.
idFirstChildSpecifies the identifier of the first MDI child window. The first MDI child window created is assigned this identifier. Additional windows are created with incremented window identifiers. When a child window is destroyed, the system immediately reassigns the window identifiers to keep their range contiguous.
When a child window's title is added to the window menu, the system assigns an identifier to the child window. When the user clicks a child window's title, the frame window receives a WM_COMMAND message with the identifier in the wParam parameter. You should specify a value for the idFirstChild member that does not conflict with menu-item identifiers in the frame window's menu.
Multipad's frame window procedure creates the MDI client window while processing the WM_CREATE message. The following example shows how the client window is created.
case WM_CREATE:
// Retrieve the handle to the window menu and assign the
// first child window identifier.
ccs.hWindowMenu = GetSubMenu(GetMenu(hwnd), WINDOWMENU);
ccs.idFirstChild = IDM_WINDOWCHILD;
// Create the MDI client window.
hwndMDIClient = CreateWindow( "MDICLIENT", (LPCTSTR) NULL,
0, 0, 0, 0, hwnd, (HMENU) 0xCAC, hInst, (LPSTR) &ccs);
ShowWindow(hwndMDIClient, SW_SHOW);
Titles of child windows are added to the bottom of the window menu. If the application adds strings to the window menu by using the AppendMenu function, these strings can be overwritten by the titles of the child windows when the window menu is repainted (whenever a child window is created or destroyed). An MDI application that adds strings to its window menu should use the InsertMenu function and verify that the titles of child windows have not overwritten these new strings.
Use the WS_CLIPCHILDREN style to create the MDI client window to prevent the window from painting over its child windows.
Writing the Main Message Loop
The main message loop of an MDI application is similar to that of a non-MDI application handling accelerator keys. The difference is that the MDI message loop calls the TranslateMDISysAccel function before checking for application-defined accelerator keys or before dispatching the message.
The following example shows the message loop of a typical MDI application. Note that GetMessage can return -1 if there is an error.
MSG msg;
BOOL bRet;
while ((bRet = GetMessage(&msg, (HWND) NULL, 0, 0)) != 0)
if (bRet == -1)
// handle the error and possibly exit
if (!TranslateMDISysAccel(hwndMDIClient, &msg) &&
!TranslateAccelerator(hwndFrame, hAccel, &msg))
The TranslateMDISysAccel function translates WM_KEYDOWN messages into WM_SYSCOMMAND messages and sends them to the active MDI child window. If the message is not an MDI accelerator message, the function returns FALSE, in which case the application uses the TranslateAccelerator function to determine whether any of the application-defined accelerator keys were pressed. If not, the loop dispatches the message to the appropriate window procedure.
Writing the Frame Window Procedure
The window procedure for an MDI frame window is similar to that of a non–MDI application's main window. The difference is that a frame window procedure passes all messages it does not handle to the DefFrameProc function rather than to the DefWindowProc function. In addition, the frame window procedure must also pass some messages that it does handle, including those listed in the following table.
WM_COMMAND Activates the MDI child window that the user chooses. This message is sent when the user chooses an MDI child window from the window menu of the MDI frame window. The window identifier accompanying this message identifies the MDI child window to be activated.
WM_MENUCHAR Opens the window menu of the active MDI child window when the user presses the ALT+ – (minus) key combination.
WM_SETFOCUS Passes the keyboard focus to the MDI client window, which in turn passes it to the active MDI child window.
WM_SIZE Resizes the MDI client window to fit in the new frame window's client area. If the frame window procedure sizes the MDI client window to a different size, it should not pass the message to the DefWindowProc function.
The frame window procedure in Multipad is called MPFrameWndProc. The handling of other messages by MPFrameWndProc is similar to that of non–MDI applications. WM_COMMAND messages in Multipad are handled by the locally defined CommandHandler function. For command messages Multipad does not handle, CommandHandler calls the DefFrameProc function. If Multipad does not use DefFrameProc by default, the user can't activate a child window from the window menu, because the WM_COMMAND message sent by clicking the window's menu item would be lost.
Writing the Child Window Procedure
Like the frame window procedure, an MDI child window procedure uses a special function for processing messages by default. All messages that the child window procedure does not handle must be passed to the DefMDIChildProc function rather than to the DefWindowProc function. In addition, some window-management messages must be passed to DefMDIChildProc, even if the application handles the message, in order for MDI to function correctly. Following are the messages the application must pass to DefMDIChildProc.
WM_CHILDACTIVATE Performs activation processing when MDI child windows are sized, moved, or displayed. This message must be passed.
WM_GETMINMAXINFO Calculates the size of a maximized MDI child window, based on the current size of the MDI client window.
WM_MENUCHAR Passes the message to the MDI frame window.
WM_MOVE Recalculates MDI client scroll bars, if they are present.
WM_SETFOCUS Activates the child window, if it is not the active MDI child window.
WM_SIZE Performs operations necessary for changing the size of a window, especially for maximizing or restoring an MDI child window. Failing to pass this message to the DefMDIChildProc function produces highly undesirable results.
WM_SYSCOMMAND Handles window (formerly known as system) menu commands: SC_NEXTWINDOW, SC_PREVWINDOW, SC_MOVE, SC_SIZE, and SC_MAXIMIZE.
Creating a Child Window
To create an MDI child window, an application can either call the CreateMDIWindow function or send an WM_MDICREATE message to the MDI client window. (The application can use the CreateWindowEx function with the WS_EX_MDICHILD style to create MDI child windows.) A single-threaded MDI application can use either method to create a child window. A thread in a multithreaded MDI application must use the CreateMDIWindow or CreateWindowEx function to create a child window in a different thread.
The lParam parameter of a WM_MDICREATE message is a far pointer to an MDICREATESTRUCT structure. The structure includes four dimension members: x and y, which indicate the horizontal and vertical positions of the window, and cx and cy, which indicate the horizontal and vertical extents of the window. Any of these members may be assigned explicitly by the application, or they may be set to CW_USEDEFAULT, in which case the system selects a position, size, or both, according to a cascading algorithm. In any case, all four members must be initialized. Multipad uses CW_USEDEFAULT for all dimensions.
The last member of the MDICREATESTRUCT structure is the style member, which may contain style bits for the window. To create an MDI child window that can have any combination of window styles, specify the MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES window style. When this style is not specified, an MDI child window has the WS_MINIMIZE, WS_MAXIMIZE, WS_HSCROLL, and WS_VSCROLL styles as default settings.
Multipad creates its MDI child windows by using its locally defined AddFile function (located in the source file MPFILE.C). The AddFile function sets the title of the child window by assigning the szTitle member of the window's MDICREATESTRUCT structure to either the name of the file being edited or to "Untitled." The szClass member is set to the name of the MDI child window class registered in Multipad's InitializeApplication function. The hOwner member is set to the application's instance handle.
The following example shows the AddFile function in Multipad.
TCHAR * pName;
HWND hwnd;
TCHAR sz[160];
if (!pName)
// If the pName parameter is NULL, load the "Untitled"
// string from the STRINGTABLE resource and set the szTitle
// member of MDICREATESTRUCT.
LoadString(hInst, IDS_UNTITLED, sz, sizeof(sz)/sizeof(TCHAR));
mcs.szTitle = (LPCTSTR) sz;
// Title the window with the full path and filename,
// obtained by calling the OpenFile function with the
// OF_PARSE flag, which is called before AddFile().
mcs.szTitle = of.szPathName;
mcs.szClass = szChild;
mcs.hOwner = hInst;
// Use the default size for the child window.
mcs.x = = CW_USEDEFAULT;
mcs.y = = CW_USEDEFAULT;
// Give the child window the default style. The styleDefault
// variable is defined in MULTIPAD.C. = styleDefault;
// Tell the MDI client window to create the child window.
hwnd = (HWND) SendMessage (hwndMDIClient, WM_MDICREATE, 0,
(LONG) (LPMDICREATESTRUCT) &mcs);
// If the file is found, read its contents into the child
// window's client area.
if (pName)
if (!LoadFile(hwnd, pName))
// Cannot load the file; close the window.
SendMessage(hwndMDIClient, WM_MDIDESTROY,
(DWORD) hwnd, 0L);
return hwnd;
The pointer passed in the lParam parameter of the WM_MDICREATE message is passed to the CreateWindow function and appears as the first member in the CREATESTRUCT structure, passed in the WM_CREATE message. In Multipad, the child window initializes itself during WM_CREATE message processing by initializing document variables in its extra data and by creating the edit control's child window.
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Brodiesan + 1702d ago
I don't get the attraction with warbling along to songs (drumming along is a different story) but I can see this being something that could come in handy.
Parapraxis + 1702d ago
How is drumming any different? lol
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Submitted by edsmith1990 378d ago | opinion piece
Why Games Matter - Games Are Just Gadgets
Ed Smith of IBTimes UK writes: "The PlayStation event - it was really rubbish. Sony was mega kind in putting me up at the swish Bryant Park Hotel for my first ever press trip, but the launch itself was a total damp patch. The poxy bells and whistles (social connectivity, the Share button; some weird thing to do with cameras) that Sony has strapped to the PlayStation do nothing for me except solidify my suspicion that, rather than genuinely innovate, the next-gen of game consoles will repackage what's popular on phones and the internet and wrap some games around it.
"And since when was this computer gaming's future? A few years ago it felt like smarter, braver, more literate AAA games were coming next; now it seems the best we can hope for is the ability to instantly tell our friends whenever we finish a level on f*****g Killzone." (Industry, Next-Gen, PS4, Sony, Tech)
husomc + 378d ago
"it's the industry's lopsidedness, where the importance of flashy technology is given far more weight than the need for better cultural experiences"
i'll give u a cultural experience.. go F*** the Queen !!
edsmith1990 + 378d ago
Lol what?
ANIALATOR136 + 378d ago
sorry I stopped reading at "it was really rubbish"
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Hydralysk + 378d ago
So you ran into an opinion that you didn't agree with, didn't bother to read on to see what influenced that opinion, and then felt the need to share the fact that you didn't read it.
ANIALATOR136 + 378d ago
I'm not going to waste my life reading something I couldn't care less about and giving a site revenue which i've never even heard of. Anyone can write about videogames these days it seems
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Hydralysk + 378d ago
Yeah what right does a games journalist have to say he was unimpressed with Sony's conference?
Thank god you didn't waste your life reading an article you couldn't care less about, that time is much better spent doing something productive, like commenting on how you didn't read the article.
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edsmith1990 + 378d ago
Sorry I stopped reading at ANIALATOR136
Alos88 + 378d ago
Urgh. I read the whole thing and only wish I hadn't bothered, it was every bit as negative and whiny as I expected.The entire first paragraph is just the writer shitting on everyone in the industry, consumer and creator alike.
My favorite line?
"Hypocrisy will follow. You have been warned."
Announcing that you are being a hypocrit does not make your hypocrisy any more acceptable, or any less obnoxious.
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