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An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
فرهنگ ریشه شناختی اخترشناسی-اخترفیزیک
M. Heydari-Malayeri - Paris Observatory
Number of Results: 6 Search : technique
heterodyne technique
تشنیک ِ هترودین
tašnik-e heterodin
Fr.: technique hétérodyne
superheterodyne technique.
heterodyne; → technique.
Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT)
تشنیک ِ وینهگری ِ چرنکوف ِ جوی
tašnik-e vinagari-ye Čerenkov-e javvi
Fr.: téchnique d'imagerie Čerenkov atmosphérique
The method used to detect very brief flashes of → Cherenkov radiation generated by the → cascade shower of → relativistic charged particles produced when a very high-energy → gamma ray (in the range 50 GeV to 50 TeV) strikes the atmosphere at a typical altitude of 10 km. Owing to this technique, it possible to discriminate cosmic gamma rays from the cosmic ray background and to determine their energy and source direction. More specifically, the incoming gamma-ray photon undergoes → pair production in the vicinity of the nucleus of an atmospheric molecule. The electron-positron pairs produced are of extremely high energy and immediately radiate in a → bremsstrahlung process. This radiation is itself extremely energetic, with many of the photons undergoing further pair production. A cascade of charged particles ensues which, due to its extreme energy, produces a flash of Cherenkov radiation lasting between 5 and 20 nano-seconds. The total area on the ground illuminated by this flash corresponds to many hundreds of square meters, which is why the effective area of IACT telescopes should be large.
imaging; → atmospheric; → Cherenkov; → technique.
interferometric technique
تشنیک ِ اندرزنشسنجی، ~ اندرزنشسنجیک
tašnik-e andarzanešsanji, ~ andarzanešsanjik
Fr.: technique interférométrique
An observational technique based on principles of → interferometry.
interferometric; → technique.
laser cooling technique
تشنیک ِ سردش ِ لیزری
tašnik-e sardeš-e leyzeri
Fr.: technique de refroidissement par laser
laser; → cooling; → technique.
superheterodyne technique
تشنیک ِ اَبَر-هترودین
tašnik-e abar-heterodin
Fr.: technique superhétérodyne
The technique used in a radio receiver in which the frequency of an incoming signal is changed by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals. See also → mixer.
superheterodyne receiver; → technique.
تشنیک، فن
tašnik, fann
Fr.: technique
From Fr. technique "formal practical details in artistic expression," noun use of adj. technique "of art, technical," from Gk. tekhnikos, from tekhne "art, skill, craft, method, system;" cognate with Pers. tarâš- "to cut, hew; scape; shave," tišé "axe," as below.
Tašnik, related to Pers. tarâšidan "to cut, hew; scape; shave;" Mid.Pers. tâšitan "to cut, cleave; create by putting together different elements;" from Av. taš- "to cut off, fashion, shape, create," taša- "axe" (Mod.Pers. taš, tišé "axe;" tarâšidan "to shave"), tašan- "creator;" cf. Skt. taks- "to fom by cutting, tool, hammer, form," taksan- "wood-cutter, carpenter;" Gk. tekton "carpenter," tekhne "art, skill, craft, method, system;" L. textere "to weave;" PIE *teks- "to fashion."
Fann or fan, from Pers. fan "way, manner, mode, art, science," related to Mod/Mid.Pers. pand "path, advice, counsel;" Khotanese pande "road, path;" Ossetic fœndœg "path, road;" O.Pers. paθi- "path, way;" Av. paθ- "path, way," variants paθi-, paθā-, pantay-; cf. Skt. pánthā- "road, path, course;" Gk. patos "path, way," pontos "sea;" L. pons "bridge, path;" P.Gmc. *finthanan "to find;" E. find; PIE base *pent- "to go, to tread."
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KLIA Taxi - Scam or not?
I would like to alert travellers to an issue with taxi’s at KLIA.
The taxi system at KLIA is pretty confusing for most people unless you are a regular traveller to Malaysia and the very poorly design website doesn't offer any information regarding taxi services at the airport.
The main taxi company at KLIA who until recently held a monopoly is Airport Limo. This company provides a multi tired limo service by way of stating your destination, class of taxi and then purchasing a coupon for the journey.
The other system is what’s known as a city cab which is basically a standard meter taxi service which operates from level 1.
One of the frustrating problems with Airport Limo is the regular shortage of taxi’s especially at peak periods or owing to traffic congestion in KL. It is quite common for the coupon counter staff to tell you that there are no taxi’s or that there is a big queue.
I usually take a premier taxi which is between the budget and limo for a more comfortable ride and the fact that most of the drivers know the location of my condo.
The taxi coupons sold are valid for a month and owing to my weekly trips to and from Singapore I always have an option to use it another week if I change my mind and take the train or city cab.
Over the past few months I’ve noticed a trend whereby I’ve been told time and time again that there were no taxi’s and that I must get a limo or mini bus which costs significantly more than a premier taxi.
When I’m told that there are no taxi’s and I must get a limo/mini bus I simply request that they sell me a ticket. The counter staff look confused and usually don’t want to sell me one. When I firmly request a coupon the behaviour of the staff usually follows a similar pattern whereby a lot of time is spent on the radio chit chatting (about me) and generally ignoring me.
When I force the issue the staff act very sheepishly and begrudgingly sell me a coupon. Now the strange thing is that 9.9 times out of 10 when this happens I find little or no queue and at least several taxi’s available at the premier car area outside door 5.
The behavior of the staff and the fact that there isn’t usually more than one or two people queuing for the premiere taxi’s makes it appear that there is a scam taking place to rip off unfamiliar travellers. I have witnessed several other people encounter similar experiences at both the budget and premier services.
So is it a scam or are the unwelcoming counter staff simply out of touch with what is happening in the queue even though they have a radio?
The taxi service at the LCCT operated by a different company also tries this from time to time, however I haven’t found it quite so prevalent.
Perhaps it’s time raise a report to the authorities, not that SPAD will take any real action.
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Frontier Airlines to pay $10 million for $50 million in damages to passengers
Frontier Airlines is paying $10,000 for each passenger who flew on a Frontier flight from Dallas to Los Angeles last summer.
The amount is a small sum for the company but the passenger is trying to get compensation for the emotional trauma he experienced on the flight.
Frontier said in a statement that it has paid $1.4 million in the lawsuit to the passenger.
It was the fourth settlement Frontier made in a three-year period.
The company settled a class-action lawsuit in 2012 and another in 2015.
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Q: If my mother wants to sell an apartment that we jointly own, does she need my permission to do so?
My mother and I share 50/50 ownership of an apartment. If she decides to sell it, does she need my written permission to do so? And if she sells it, am I entitled to 50% of the profits?
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A: She may need your permission, depending on the type of ownership rights you share. The same goes for the profits. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney such as myself. You can read more about me, my credentials, awards, honors, testimonials, and media appearances/ publications on my law practice website, www.AEesq.com. I practice law in CA, NY, MA, and DC in the following areas of law: Business & Contracts, Criminal Defense, Divorce & Child Custody, and Education Law. This answer does not constitute legal advice; make any predictions, guarantees, or warranties; or create any Attorney-Client relationship.
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Hi im trying to set up trial before my laser gets here to get familiar with the program but i cant seem to download it. It keeps wanting me add the lightburn bridge and i cant find it. Can someone let me know if im able to do this before i get my laser or does windows 11 not compatible. Thanks in advance
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Things are looking up for atheists
A recent survey by the Pew finds that feelings towards atheists and Muslims are getting warmer, with younger people leading the way.
Pew atheists
Not surprisingly, people who have a personal connection with someone from a particular group tend to rate that group more warmly than those who do not know anyone.
I was having a conversation recently with a friend (who is himself not that religious) about the shocked reaction I got from some very religious people when I told them I was an atheist. I do not gratuitously tell people that I am an atheist but they had asked, upon meeting me, what church I went to. He said that maybe my response was more ‘in your face’ than saying something along the lines of “I am not very religious” which was his option. But I told him that my choice of label was deliberate because I wanted people to know that atheists were not some exotic species but part of the mix of people they would encounter in their everyday life, though they may not know it.
Meanwhile Pope Francis has delivered a kind of backhanded compliment to atheists, saying it is better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Christian.
Pope Francis has delivered another criticism of some members of his own church , suggesting it was better to be an atheist than one of many Catholics who he said lead a hypocritical double life.
In improvised comments in the sermon of his private morning mass in his residence, he said: “It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life.
“There are those who say, ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to mass, I belong to this and that association’,” the head of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic church said, according to a Vatican Radio transcript.
Since there is no person, Catholic or not, who is not a hypocritical in some way, that means that the pope thinks that atheists are better than all Catholics, no?
1. jrkrideau says
To a Canadian, this is totally bizarre.
Who would ask what church you attended? It would be seen as rude, unpardonably nosey and rather weird. Well, actually, really weird.
Heck, it was only after one of our Prime Ministers retired that some throw-away comment in a newspaper enlightened me to the fact that the PM apparently did go to church.
2. Shanti says
The Pope should never have made such a comment that people who do not do the correct thing should call themselves Atheists. I think most Atheists are good
Intellectual people who are against religious people who are hypocrites
3. Mano Singham says
In the US this question asking about your church is quite common, especially in less urban communities where the church often defines your social circle. It is seen as a ‘getting to know you’ question, like where you work, and less of a theological question.
A friend of mine is a Buddhist and said that in her small town she was asked this question all the time. They were a bit flummoxed by her Buddhism but generally took it in stride.
4. machintelligence says
What seems fairly surprising to me is the high score of the Jews among all age brackets. This has certainly changed in the last half century.
5. Mano Singham says
I was also a bit surprised that Mormons ranked relatively low in general and even lower with young people.
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Three teenagers in court on Mountcharles arson charges
Donegal Circuit Court has heard how three teenagers set fire to the furniture in a gate lodge house in Mountcharles, south Donegal causing €60,000 in damage.
One of them, a girl who was 15 at the time, and now has a nine-months-old baby girl, Donegal Circuit Court was told.
The girl, who cannot be identified and a young man, 20-year-old Edgar Kearns, admitted arson at Gate Lodge, Mountcharles, on March 8th 2008.
Another teenage girl, also too young to be named, has already been dealt with by an earlier court.
Judge John O’Hagan said it was a “very serous” offence with a life sentence the maximum penalty.
He said the youngsters were an out-of-control anti-social group who had been drinking and there were probably other substances involved. They broke a window to gain access to what was a holiday home.
He added that the act done was absolutely deliberate.
The judge heard the youngsters piled up furniture and then set it alight. When thick black smoke emerged they fled the premises.
He said he believed that Kearns, who was 18 at the time, and the teenage mother, now 17, were remorseful for what they did and they hadn’t been in trouble with gardai since.
Kearns, of Millrace Crescent, Donegal Town, was sentenced to two years, suspended on condition that he do 50 hours community service.
Because of conditions that apply under the Children’s Act, Judge O’Hagan put the girl’s case back until Friday when he will hear from the Probation Service.
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The internet is abuzz today with the news that an IMDB writer penned a scathing bio of Kim Kardashian, which was up for at least a few days on the entertainment information site and then promptly removed.
The bio, written by Jon C. Hopwood, called Kardashian shallow, talentless, and then some. He writes:
Hopwood goes on to compare America's embrace of people like Kardashian and Paris Hilton to Rome's "shuffl[ing] off the moral coil of virtue of the Republic." He then quotes Daniel Craig and Jon Hamm saying mean things about Kardashian, and finally wraps up with this:
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In the decadence that is America of the $15-trillion deficit and no serious plans from either party for a solution to the economic problems of the "Great Recession", Kim Kardashian is welcomed to her second White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. in 2012 and made fun of not only by host Jimmy Kimmel but by the President of the United States, Barack Obama, himself and laughs merrily at the merriment. That the women's fame rests on the February 2007 "leaking" of a four-year-old home sex (for which she ultimately received $5 million from Vivid Entertainment) is an apt metaphor for socio-economic-cultural malaise in Washington and the country beyond, where everything seems to be run by amoral prostitutes in bed with each other and merely out for a buck.
On a twitter page that appears to belong to Hopwood, the writer confirms that he wrote the bio, and has one final word for the reality star:
So. The bio is amusing, and it's being lauded by some bloggers as full of "truth grenades," while Hopwood is being called a "hero" by others.
As much as we hate to rain on anyone's parade, though, can we get real here for just a moment? It's not like Hopwood has said anything that we don't already know. It's not like he's revealing the identity of Deep Throat. Surely no one is surprised to find out that Kardashian is shallow, or that some people find her morally repugnant.
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No, the remarkable thing about this is that Hopwood, who has written over 600 bios for IMDB, was apparently willing to put his job on the line in order to make this Kommentary. This bio is basically the blogger's way of grabbing two beers, shouting expletives over an airplane's PA system, then sliding down a chute out the emergency door.
Anyway, it should be interesting to see how this all plays out. Hopwood will probably get a book deal. In the meantime, thanks to him for spicing up our day.
Here's the whole bio, via Uproxx:
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Gang Stalking – FBI newbies in training?
FBI New agent training.
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English: Standing on Pennsylvania Avenue NW an...
English: Standing on Pennsylvania Avenue NW and look up F Street NW at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Español: Edificio J. Edgar Hoover, la sede de FBI (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
No one stays long in apartment 204. Since I moved into this apartment, people move in and out of it constantly. The apartment’s never furnished. The people who stay in the apartment are there to watch me. I’ve noticed all they do is use the computer and nothing else.
There’s a new couple (I don’t think they’re married), and they look like they just came off a FBI training school. They just have the look that they’re in training. They’re FBI newbies that moved into the apartment to get their basic training. They have a Vermont license plate, and it looks like they’re not going to stay in Las Vegas. I should post their license plate on here, but I won’t.
The seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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They have the look that most FBI people have. Just as everyone who lives in the complex, they don’t work, either. Now, where do you think these people get their money? From the corrupt U.S. government.
Just another couple of perps to harass me. Oh, I’m going to give them some basic training. Believe me!
Enjoy your basic training FBI perps! I’m going to give you a run for your money.
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First of all, you are not crazy. Something is happening to you. So stop thinking you’re going crazy. You’re not. What you’re experiencing is gang stalking. You have become a target of the United States government. I know. You are very surprised. You’re wondering, ” Why would the government be after me. I’ve done nothing?” You haven’t done anything. The government is doing experiments on U.S. citizens and you’ve just become a target of the U.S. government. It is an experiment to drive you crazy. That’s their ulterior motive. When it succeeds driving you crazy, it succeeds in its experiment. Your job is not to let it win. To stay sane. Then you win.
We call ourselves targeted individuals. There are more than a half million, or more, of us that this is happening to. So you’re not alone. You have a lot of company. And each day more and more people get on this list.
You are probably followed everywhere you go. It is not your imagination. You’re followed by a group of people who we call gang stalkers. These gang stalkers are employees of the government and get paid. They are from every age group–kids, grandmas, grandpas, professionals, homeless, sales clerks, blacks, whites, Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, doctors, Asians, etc. They come from every walk of life. They are not the gang stalkers you grew hearing about on the 6 o’clock news. These are normal(?) every day men and women. They are your friends, co-workers, family, etc.
Yes, your family knows. This is the worse news of all; to hear your family knows, but it does. Your family gets notification from the United States government that you are a very violent person and must be watched. The government will have proof of all this. A dossier(file) is shown to your family about you. It has information (lies) to convince family and friends you really do need to be watched. They will all be convinced it’s true. Believe me, they’ll fall for it. The government is so good convincing people it’s telling the truth. Don’t confront your family about the fact that it knows. It will be a waste of time. It will deny it knows anything. So save your breath. Your family will tell you that you need psychiatric help. It’s been convinced by the government you’re crazy. Your family knows you and knows you’re not crazy, but it goes along with the program.
I’ll stop here and continue with this tomorrow. I know it’s hard to take this all in on one day. I’ll give you a chance to sleep on it. Just know that you’re not crazy and you’re not alone.
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Rawtext.club's "gab" Script
There's something interesting about smaller social communities of the tech-savvy using SSH and *nix to create social networks. They have none of the commercial aspects associated with large social networks (ads, tracking, algorithm-based feeds, etc.), but they also seem to tend to stay off the web, instead using SSH, Gemini, Gopher, and RSS.
I think the web is largely OK as is (though I admire Gemini quite a bit), but needs to be made easier for folks to run, like a vacuum cleaner or a car.
Take a look at the gab script for rawtext.club as an example. It's an entire chat service, with rooms, users, blocking/unblocking, in a single 356-line Python script. There are a lot of attributes of the problem that make such a simple approach possible:
• Storage: available for each user, it's nothing more than creating a directory in the user's home directory to store the necessary files.
• Permissions: the *nix filesystem has user permissions, so setting the right bits is all that's needed.
• Identity: provided automatically via $USER and enforced by SSH keys.
• UI: the commmand-line provides an existing UI that is already familiar.
This is neat! A chat service to serve up to several hundred users can be tiny and easily written by one person if it reuses existing components. What's interesting to me is that we don't have this for the web. Where is the reusable storage, permissions, identity, and UI to make web apps as trivial as CLI apps? I think web frameworks come close, and Parse/Firebase were exploring related ideas (making the backend highly reusable), but there might be room for a "cartridge" style of webapp that reuses storage (maybe sqlite), identity (maybe providing OAuth and password-based options), and UI (default layouts for standard views).
The value of this is not to power world-class services like YouTube or Facebook, but to power the neighborhood message board. It would be a beautiful thing if every town and neighborhood and family had their own system that did this. Fragmentation can be ok in an ecosystem with aggregators. Then one could use RSS to aggregate posts from all the interesting networks. I suspect this would be a much healthier outcome than the centralized services for a variety of reasons, but perhaps that's best discussed another time.
The gab script at rawtext.club
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#NOLATech Ideas: Potential Billion-Dollar Startups with Business Models
Editor’s Note: This post was written by Douglas Finley, an entrepreneur in the #NOLAtech community. He is the founder of Social Chomp, the easiest way to create multimedia marketing campaigns using videos, photos, and text from your social media fans. Please feel free to give feedback in the comment section below.
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Virtual Reality Developer Environment:
Programming from a laptop can be a hassle. With new technologies like Oculus VR and “Magic Leap”, a development environment for programmers to build applications using a combination of VR style goggles, Leap Motion gesture tracking, and a MIT Scratch like interface would open the capabilities to a new world of programmers. Programming needs an immerse interface to really take engineering efficiency to the next level.
Business Model — Charging developers for the “environment”. An app store for add ons. I always tell my friends…if you can play video games, you can program computers. The VRDE would be “THE Game” for developers.
Mentor Me:
I was the co-director of mentoring program at Georgetown, and I’ve been involved with mentoring youth ever since. The problem as I’ve gotten older is that I don’t have the time to dedicate anymore. Many young people and children in America are going through a variety of issues and really need a family/team to help them through their issues. Parents are busy, but it still takes a village to raise a child.
Mentor Me is a platform for parents to screen mentors to work with their child on specific subjects ranging from STEM or Public Speaking to Entrepreneurship. The difference is that all conversations between the child and mentor are recorded and parents/gaurdians would be able to listen/watch in realtime. The interface would use a combination of screensharing and facetime-like functionality. A user signs up for Mentor Me with skills and timeframes they would be willing to mentor/tutor. The parents and mentor would schedule the time, and the app would handle the rest. Security and Privacy would be baked in.
Business Model — Any transaction fees paid to the mentor/tutor. I can see a scenario where most people work for free, but some parents who have the money are willing to pay for a team of experts to engage with their child. They could have a schedule of people across various subjects stimulating they’re curiousity and reminding them how important they are. You could also bill parents for archiving recorded sessions.
Dropship Instant Storefronts with Unlimited Product Variations
Sales are the lifeblood of a business. Manufacturing systems are more advanced and building a business that can deliver personalized products on demand is the next wave of ecommerce. The process of creating and distributing engaging visuals is keeping consumers engaged but transactions are what allow businesses to innovate. Non profits, Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs have thousands of tools to create visuals. If those visuals could just as easily be transformed into products that ship to international customers, the power and value of every image created grows. Obviously, the key is that these platform users would not have to purchase the goods in advance. A middle school basketball team looking to fund they’re tournament, could easily create a marketplace of personalized products within seconds…all from a few pictures. This platform would definitely need to be integrated with social media networks to help streamline marketing. An API would allow this functionality to be embedded anytime any website to give platform users more places to generate revenue.
Business Model — A monthly fee to access the platform. The platform generate revenue from any merchandise sales and split the profits back to the users. A 15% fee of retail costs would be an intriguing opportunity for a variety of businesses looking to diversify their revenue stream.
If Dropship Instant Storefronts with Unlimited Product Variations are interesting to you, create an account on socialchomp.com or contactdoug@socialchomp.com.
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I know that it's possible to call .NET code from your VBA code, but why does VBA continue to exist? The only reason I can think about is legacy.
I just had to sort a Scripting.Dictionary and the amount of code needed was frightening.
The IDE looks like Visual Studio 2003. And there are many little details, that drive you insane (Like changing the line, and getting a warning because of some compilation error). Or, if you open more than one spreadsheet, it mixes into you "VBAProject" and this is really confusing.
The whole module/classmodule/form division is actually not that bad, but I end up everytime with directly writing logic in forms, or having one huge module that handles everything.
Why can't I press Alt+F11, and hack in C#?
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"The only reason I can think about is legacy." And that is not enough for you?
– Euphoric
Aug 4, 2014 at 14:44
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Microsoft is the king of legacy applications and backwards compatibility... any other answer would be surprising to me given this is Microsoft we are talking about.
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Aug 4, 2014 at 14:53
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@Kiril It's most likely not "we always did it that way"; it's probably "we've compared how much we stand to gain from breaking backwards compatibility vs how much we'll lose, and found it's not worth it."
– Doval
Aug 4, 2014 at 14:57
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@Kiril - you question asks to ship Office with .NET "instead" of VBA. That would require abandoning it.
– JeffO
Aug 4, 2014 at 15:15
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@Kiril: a lot of very dodgy characters would also be very happy to embed dlls in documents, but not for your benefit. Aug 4, 2014 at 15:58
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Microsoft Office have multiple ways to let you change/enhance the default behaviour programmatically. VBA is a battle tested, proven and widely spread language for in-doc scripting. A lot of office people know VBA and use it, while they don't know more complex programming languages like C#. Office would not be sold as much if customers had to rewrite loads of old macro enabled documents that does business critical things - after they learnt a new language or whatever. Backwards compability is a key feature!
A full .NET stack for Office likely requires some set of dependency management (dll:s, etc) and will easily get heavy to manage for simple tasks - it's hardly an alternative for lightweight scripting. VSTO gives you the ability to go with C#, but at the price of a heavier plugin development cycle.
A program manager at Microsoft has written about this here. It's clear that VBA is and will still be around for small scripting purposes.
• The explanation in the article is very good. Thanks.
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Aug 4, 2014 at 15:57
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As an ex-staffer I can add that some clients pay big money to have Gates/Ballmer/Nadella etc available on Speed-dial as well as regular chats and that VBA is considered critical enough that any changes which break VBA behaviour (especially in Excel and even between versions) get attention EXCEPTIONALLY quickly. Also it's by no means just for the unskilled; there is an army of professional developers using it. C# is quite commonly sought with VBA as working knowledge. Aug 4, 2014 at 22:52
• This argument didn't stop MS from obsoleting VB6 years ago in favor of VB.Net which broke lots of code. Aug 30, 2018 at 23:32
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The link is dead (killed off by Microsoft in Feb 2016) but you can still read it here: web.archive.org/web/20160201170821/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/…
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@rkagerer - thanks, I updated the link in the answer. Jul 7, 2020 at 6:43
Well, the answer is not strictly "legacy". The answer is that VBA is neither VB6 or VB.Net: it is VBA. A seperate, but related language. If replaced VBA with VB.Net it would inevitably break a lot of DOCUMENTS.
Replacing VBA with VB.Net would almost certainly result in data loss for a significant number of users of their prime products -- not a good thing.
And their target market for VBA is not programmers.
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VBA is a very close cousin of VB6. The only material differences are those having to do with the API; i.e VBForms instead of the Excel or Word object models. Absent those differences, you can copy/paste VBA code to VB6 (or vice versa), and it will still work 99 percent of the time. Aug 4, 2014 at 15:06
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Support for VBA and VB.Net/C# don't have to be mutually exclusive. Feb 9, 2017 at 22:31
If you consider the main reason people buy Office is to keep compatibility with all the existing documents, many of which have macros and VBA in them, it would be a very brave Microsoft to treat those users like they did the VB6 crowd and tell them to suck it up and start coding in .NET, just take a look at the #1 uservoice request ever!
I imagine the LibreOffice guys would cheer themselves into unconsciousness though!
VBA is for productivity in Office, not "programming". The day you need more power from your documents is the day you hire a programmer to rewrite everything. I guess another reason is why Visual Studios macros are not .NET either - think of the devenv4 COM object as not much different to VBA.
• He's not asking them to ditch VBA. He's asking them to have .Net as an additional option. Feb 9, 2017 at 22:31
I think there is a slight, but important, difference between legacy and popularity. And when you've done as many contracts as I have, you learn that VBA is insanely popular :) I can't tell you how many contracts I've done for "Excel jockeys" that don't know a thing about programming but can crush VBA like it's a matter of life or death.
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Apple announces its silicon
Apple announces its silicon
Analysis: Takes two years to transition
Apple has finally announced the beginning of a two-year transition towards its own silicon. The first systems based on Apple silicon will be shipping later this year.
The move is barely any surprise for anyone as it was evident years ago that Apple has an aspiration to lock down further its ecosystem and transition to its SoC beyond phones and iPads. Silicon, such as A12X and A12Z, gave us a good idea where things will go with Apple’s new laptop silicon aspiration.
At the WWDC earlier this week, Apple announced a developer transitioning kit model number A2330 and consists of an A12Z processor, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB storage drive, and a variety of common I/O ports (USB-C, USB-A, HDMI 2.0, and Gigabit Ethernet) in a Mac Mini case. Software developers can get one for $499 if select by apple to quality and start working on native ARM-based desktop applications today. Nick did a bit more detailed article about it.
Later this year, it is expected to see real laptops based on ARM-based Apple Silicon, but Apple has assured the market that there are still exciting Intel-based machines to launch in the next few months.
What Apple chose to show today was the A12Z SoC based developer platform, the SoC that it has already launched and used before. The A13x (A13Z ) is most likely the next one powerful enough to power the future MacBook.Have in mind that Apple’s next A13X SoC is most likely manufactured on 5nm TSMC geometry.
Remember, the two year period is how long it will take to push Intel entirely out of the roadmap.
Apple benefits
Apple gets to make its own in-house silicon tailored for its operating system. It can get a bit faster performance and design specific gates, blocks, and pathways to serve Apple’s needs. Using Intel is generally a compromise as it means that the operating system has to adjust to processor generally designed to fit everyone’s needs. Now Apple can design what it needs, and it sure has expertise in-house that can help. iPad is just a keyboardless laptop for the most part, and ironically it does sell with a keyboard that can make an iPad into a laptop.
Now Intel creates 9W, 15W, and 45W laptop parts and desktop Xeon W-3265M with 24 cores, 48 threads, and 205W TDP. The Xeon is the one we don’t see as something Intel can easily replace, while Apple should be capable of replacing the laptop parts within two years. It will most likely start with lower TDP parts and grow into higher TDP parts, putting more cores, higher clocks, and more GPU power to fits the needs of MacBook 16.
Long term, it will work well, but the transitioning period will be painful as there will be some inconsistency in powering countless numbers of X86 to Apple-ARM architecture. Emulators will help, but they often provide a degraded experience.
Professionals using audio and video tools from Adobe will be fine. This will all work well, and so will Microsoft’s Office tool, but the smaller publishers and developers might not have the will or work power to rewrite its code to fit the future macs. The issue will be solved with time, just as it was a decade and a half ago when Apple went from PowerPC to Intel’s X86.
Intel without Apple
Financial analysts were focusing on the potential three million of revenue that Apple was generating for Intel. It won’t go unnoticed, but it will create a big deal either. Apple for Intel was always a Frenemy. Anyone that ever worked with Apple didn’t like it, was pushed around, and even got to court. Just ask Qualcomm.
Apple’s 10nm notebook parts and upcoming Tiger Lake platform mark the era of Intel’s come back. Ice lake was a huge step forward for Intel but Tiger Lake with better graphics. It won’t be surprising to see Tiger Lake-based Apple products either.
Intel’s focus on the mobile market is literally everyone else but Apple. Every big and small OEM is using Intel for the majority of its systems, and this won’t change anytime soon. There will be some designs that AMD will win with its returning to a decent mobile computing performance market, but the majority, especially high-end designs, will stay with Intel.
Ryan Shrout from Intel showed that Battlefield V in thin, lite, and compact form factor playing Battlefield V, all settings at high at 1080p 30FPS. Tiger lake 2.2 (1KG) 13-inch and alike laptops will give you an ability to play some extremely demanding games on the next generation laptop for the OEM of your choosing.Ryan Shrout@ryanshrout
Perks of the job! Took a prototype Tiger Lake system for a spin on Battlefield V to stretch its legs. Impressive thin and light gaming perf with Xe graphics! Early drivers/sw, but it’s the first time I’ve seen this game run like this on integrated gfx. More later this year!
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Apple was never and probably will never become a serious gaming alternative, but it is more like a fashion statement for its users who are just drugged into this ecosystem. It is a vicious circle that it is extremely hard to leave.
Tiger lake and Intel’s future
Tiger Lake should get the AI performance up and enable new use case scenarios too, but Intel will take about this a bit closer to the launch.
Desktop platforms, especially the Alder lake, look very promising with the unequal cores that can target different workloads, and the server is where Intel will continue to thrive.
AMD will get some of the action, but the majority of 95 percent of the server market, will stay with Intel. Intel has edge computing and 5G as a growth opportunity.
One especially interesting aspect of Apple and Intel cooperation are the profit margins. Apple was squeezing every penny out of that deal for merely having this high volume and particular position. The strategy won’t be missed at Intel, that is for sure. Intel’s recent departure from the 5G SoC market and selling what is left of to Apple was just another turn point where intel management realized that it needs to spend the time on cure business instead of something that might become profitable in years.
Recently announced Lakefield is the step in the right direction for Intel, and there will be more innovative packaging, mix core design, and flexible IP that moves across geometries in the time to come.
Apple will still end up buying loads of servers from Intel for the years to come.
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What is halitosis?
Halitosis is the medical term for bad breath. While everyone experiences occasional bad breath upon first waking in the morning or after eating particular foods, for some people, halitosis is a daily problem.
It’s difficult to assess the smell of your own breath, which can make it hard to know if there’s a problem. Feedback from loved ones is sometimes the best indicator of whether there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
What are the causes of bad breath?
Numerous factors can cause or contribute to bad breath. Poor dental hygiene is one of the biggest factors. If food particles are left trapped between your teeth, they will begin to decompose in your mouth, creating bad odors as you breathe.
Plaque can also cause bad breath. The bacteria within plaque create odors that are carried on your breath. If plaque collects in pockets beneath your gum line, the problem can become even worse.
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The Knick
This post contains light spoilers of general themes from this season of The Knick although there are no specific plot twists discussed. You can use this as a primer for the second season before you begin, or review this list of historical moments before watching this evening’s finale.
Cinemax’s period hospital drama The Knick, now finishing its second season, spends a serious amount of time hunched over an operating table.
The able and ambitious surgeons of Knickerbocker Hospital cut open flesh, severed body parts, injected experimental serums and performed delicate incisions on brains, faces, throats and abdomens.
The special effects teams should be applauded for making me want to throw up on at least five occasions this year.
But The Knick is more than a procedural about a turn-of-the-century hospital although those watching for medical drama (or horror) will come away satisfied.
With Season Two (set in 1901) this hospital drama rose to become a detective story about New York City itself.
In Season One historic figures populated a story about a growing hospital. In Season Two the show finally found its footing within the messy patchwork of the Gilded Age.
Below are some historical highlights from the season, taken from some of my Tweets from the show’s original broadcast over the past several weeks.
There are no plot spoilers here — in fact, I’ve chosen to not even mention any characters’ names — and some of you might even find this helpful before you watch.
New Yorkers raced to find faster, more efficient solutions to horse-drawn vehicles. In the early years of automotive conveyance, it appeared the electric variety would lead the charge; however the earliest models were expensive and entirely inefficient.
Meanwhile oil refiners like the ones in Lima, Ohio, concerned that Edison’s electric light bulb was killing the kerosene market, began looking for other uses for their product.
Apartment living was all the rage with the upper middle class in the 1880s and developers around Central Park monopolized on the craze with lavish apartment complexes, bringing the amenities of upper crust life to those who couldn’t afford the upkeep of a mansion.
In particular, the Upper West Side was rapidly developed, becoming one of New York’s trendiest residential neighborhoods by 1900.
The ground was broken on New York’s ambitious new subway system on March 25th, 1900, but not everybody considered it progress. Miles of underground tunnel required unprecedented investment which tore into busy streets, creating nuisance and danger.
Those of the more sheltered class flinched at the idea of immigrant workers ripping into their streets. Most New Yorkers were certainly unsettled at the sound of dynamite explosions and feared that whole city blocks might blow up.
Medical practice and scientific thought were expanding in the 1900s, but new modes of treating complicated conditions like drug and alcohol addiction were having a difficult time in the morality based institutions of the day.
Most physicians still believed that addictions exposed flaws of the human character and had little connection to the processes of the brain.
Deteriorated or stunted moral character was also seen as endemic of new arriving immigrants especially those from southern Italy.
The study of eugenics — belief in the improvement of the human race through selective reproduction — rapidly grow in colleges and universities in the 1900s. Naturally the eugenics argument was also used against African-Americans and wielded as a threat against any who attempted to upend the status quo.
Although the scandals of Boss Tweed were almost 30 years old by 1901, Tammany Hall still held a viper’s grasp upon New York City infrastructure — from the ports to the construction projects.
A standard building project would often require many layers of ‘greased palms’, and expensive materials were often used because a corrupt middle-man could hide more layers of kickbacks there.
While the dangerous qualities of many common drugs were well known, few were actually banned in 1901. Cocaine and heroin were still used in the operating room, and even substances we consider deadly poisons today were available over the counter.
Inspired by P.T. Barnum’s American Museum and the popular cabinet of curiosities of Europe, ‘dime’ museums became a popular pastime for New Yorkers in the late 19th century. They were a hodgepodges of exhibits, from people with extraordinary abilities to exotic foreigners.
In places like Huber’s Museum in Union Square, some of the most popular attractions were humans with various deformities, the individuals who would make up the freak shows of Coney Island. Few considered these people in need of care, and they were often harshly abused by their handlers.
In a society so clearly judgmental of non-reproductive sexual behavior, STDs were poorly understood.
Syphilis remained a deadly illness running rampant through hundreds of New York brothels. Some protection, like condoms, did exist at the time, but they were terribly uncomfortable and not consistently made.
Pregnant girls were forced into the treacherous world of back-alley abortions. Many died during procedures — or afterwards due to unregulated and filthy conditions — and their bodies dumped into the river.
Violent racial tensions in neighborhoods like Five Points and the Tenderloin forced many black New Yorkers to move north — to the largely Jewish neighborhood of Harlem.
By the year 1900 thousands of African-American lived here, creating a foundation for the huge wave of new residents who would arrive a couple decades later, turning Harlem into the center of American black culture.
The greatest waves of immigration into America came in the early 1900s, and the largest group among them were southern Italians. Unlike the earlier wave of Italians, Sicilians were poorer and less educated. Difficulties in understanding led many New Yorkers to consider them a vastly inferior class and even dangerous.
While the modern restaurant was essentially invented by Delmonico’s in the early 19th century, it wasn’t until the Gilded Age that the delights of public dining were properly indulged. With the influx of opulent life came the finest hotels and eateries, all equipped with modern conveniences. Most were situated on Broadway, from Union Square to Herald Square. Longacre Square (not yet Times Square) was a few years away from becoming the center of New York nightlife.
For more historical Tweets of The Knick and other television shows, just follow me on Twitter at @boweryboys.
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Opinion: Football fan calls out 'standup guy'
By Martin Strouse
Cincinnati Bengals fans cheer their team against the Tennessee Titans at Paul Brown Stadium on Sept. 21.
Martin Strouse is an Anderson Township resident and longtime Bengals season ticketholder.
A few years ago my wife Kathi and I were watching a Bengals game in seats about 10 rows up from the field and I got to witness firsthand how the standing phenomenon gets under way.
It rarely starts with the people in the front row. Why would it? It starts with an exciting play when everyone gets up and cheers out of excitement and then sits down – that is, except for "standup guy" in around the fifth row. He remains standing. Then, of course, the guy behind him has to stand in order to see. By the time the chain reaction is over the back row is standing.
Kathi and I have master's degrees in human services and have worked in the field for more than 35 years. This doesn't make us experts in the study of the football fan, but we do find that the football fan is one of the more interesting studies that only require observation for approximately three hours every other week.
Martin and Kathi Strouse, in the football jerseys, sit between Kathi’s parents, Jim and Patricia Malone, at a Bengals game.
I never understood the thinking of the guy who starts the reaction other than it must feel pretty powerful to have that much control over that many people. Not only does standup guy control the physical actions of hundreds of people, but he also controls their emotions. Many fans get angry at standup guy. Many love him and bond with him. Most just wonder why standup guy doesn't realize or care that those around him can't see. My favorite is "standup and look at phone" guy. Not only is he oblivious to those around him, he isn't even watching the game.
At a game a few years ago, I had the opportunity to ask standup guy who owned the vacant seat right in front of me why he was standing. He said, with great conviction: "Because it's football." He was clearly angry when other fans began asking him to sit. Imagine leading an army into battle only to look behind you and see your troops sitting down. You now know how standup guy felt. His pride would not let him sit, though. He had a battle to fight and, by God, he would conquer. Thank goodness I could sit, watch the big screen and enjoy my beer.
Over the years, the trend has grown. For one thing, the Bengals have gotten more exciting to watch. But also, there is a new generation of fans who seem to personalize the sport. It becomes who they are. This has led to a culture that is evidenced by a sense of infallibility and power along with an extreme lack of awareness of their environment. Mix that with a little alcohol and you have "standup guy."
I really didn't notice it until I began having leg problems. I currently have a prosthetic leg, which doesn't prevent me from standing but makes it less easy than it used to be.
During the first few games of the 2013 season the Bengals management made announcements encouraging fans to stand during appropriate times but be mindful of those who can't stand. Standup guy, a couple of rows down from me, responded to one of these announcements by yelling "those people should stay home." I wanted to hit him over the head with my prosthetic leg.
Maybe this article will get a message through to standup guy: "Not everyone wants to join in the battle. Not everyone believes in you." But that would require standup guy to pick up a paper and read. I think he is probably too busy checking his phone.
Maybe I'll just be grateful that we have an exciting team whose play induces standing and cheering. Otherwise, standup guy would look pretty silly.
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NDP Should Push Liberals for Public Hearings on Popular Wealth Tax
Canadians might well be interested to learn that the NDP's proposed 1 per cent tax on wealth-holdings worth more than $10 million would only affect the wealthiest 75,000 families, but would raise $17 billion a year.
Linda McQuaig
by Toronto Star
In a recent article, a young freelance journalist expressed the familiar lament that she and other millennials won't be able to own their own homes or have financial security.
But in a surprise twist, she went on to embrace her reduced circumstances, and suggest other millennials do likewise.
The NDP might well have sufficient leverage to push the Liberals, ever anxious to prove their chops with progressives, to at least establish a parliamentary committee—with full public hearings—to study a wealth tax.
"We need to adjust to a new reality and remove the archaic expectations from previous generations about home ownership, investing and saving," Brianna Bell wrote in The Globe and Mail. "But that doesn't mean we should feel ashamed or guilty … it's time we admit that's OK."
Well, I'm no millennial, but I respectfully disagree. It's not OK. It's outrageous.
The fact that so many millennials—and other Canadians—have little prospect of experiencing the prosperity and financial security widely enjoyed in the early postwar years isn't due to some unknowable development.
What happened was the financial elite managed to change the laws—including tax laws—in ways that redirected income and wealth to those at the top, rather than being distributed more broadly throughout society, as in the boomer era.
But there's no economic law that decrees only the rich should own homes or that a tiny group at the top should be allowed to siphon off an ever larger share of what we all collectively produce.
In this week's federal election, the party platform that came closest to addressing today's grotesque inequality was the NDP's proposal for an annual net wealth tax—a modest version of the wealth taxes advocated by U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Making the tax the centrepiece of their campaign—as an indispensable tool for financing universal programs and distributing resources more fairly—the New Democrats have established the wealth tax as a serious subject in the Canadian political debate.
Anyone scoffing at the notion Canadians take taxing the wealthy seriously should look at polls showing the incredible level of public support for a wealth tax—89 per cent, including substantial support even among Conservative voters, according to an Abacus poll last month.
Of course, the NDP ended up winning only one additional seat in the election, giving them insufficient clout to force the minority Trudeau government to introduce the tax. But the NDP might well have sufficient leverage to push the Liberals, ever anxious to prove their chops with progressives, to at least establish a parliamentary committee—with full public hearings—to study a wealth tax.
That could be more consequential than it sounds, particularly because the tax is already hugely popular.
Public hearings could raise awareness and galvanize support for taxing the ultra-rich—particularly as members of this privileged set start decrying pandemic-inflated deficits, and insisting that the only way to reduce them is to drastically cut government spending.
Against a backdrop of calls for a return to full-blown austerity, Canadians might well be interested to learn that the NDP's proposed 1 per cent tax on wealth-holdings worth more than $10 million would only affect the wealthiest 75,000 families, but would raise $17 billion a year, according to Alex Hemingway, an economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Canadians might also be curious to learn just how wealthy those 75,000 families have become, particularly since the pandemic. (Spoiler: Canadian billionaires increased their wealth by $78 billion during the pandemic.)
Another intriguing fact is that our current tax system leaves the wealthiest Canadians largely untaxed. As long as they don't sell their stockholdings, they can avoid paying income tax on this wealth, even as it increases in value. They can finance their lavish lifestyles by borrowing against it, and avoid income taxes for decades.
It turns out a wealth tax isn't about punishing the ultra-wealthy; it's simply the only way to tax their vast fortunes, which account for a significant share of Canada's wealth.
While some millennials are resigned to their diminished circumstances, others appear resentful, such as Kristen Darch, who wrote a recent article entitled "Boomers, stop bragging about your second homes."
Both these millennials, the resigned and the resentful, seem to feel there's not much they can do about their plight. Imagine if they heard about the wealth tax.
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Linda McQuaig is an author, journalist, and former NDP candidate for Toronto Centre in the Canadian federal election. The National Post has described her as “Canada’s Michael Moore.” She is also the author of "The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada's Public Wealth" (2019), "War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet: It's the Crude, Dude" (2006) and (with Neil Brooks) of "Billionaires’ Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality" (2012).
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Spain’s European, and in particular, Champions League dominance this century is well known.
Since 2000, Real Madrid and Barcelona have shared ten titles between them with only England coming anywhere close with five wins across three clubs.
The times are changing however, with Real’s last win coming in 2018, and if one of the three Liga teams in this year’s competition fail to lift the trophy, it will be Spain’s longest ‘drought’ since 1997.
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Things aren’t exactly looking rosy currently either. Having seen Barca dumped out in the group stage, Real Madrid are currently 1-0 down against PSG from the first leg of their last 16 tie, while Villarreal could only draw at home to Juventus ahead of a tough trip to Turin.
It was a similar story for Atletico, who allowed Manchester United a late equaliser in the home leg of their tie, meaning the likelihood of needing a win at Old Trafford.
Are we really seeing an end of an era for Spanish football in the Champions League after these last 16 games? Andres Weiss assesses the Liga sides’ prospects ahead of the second legs.
With none of three teams winning their first legs, is there a worry that there will be no Spanish teams in the quarter finals?
The fact that the away goals rule is no more is good news for Atletico Madrid and Villarreal, since they played well against Manchester United and Juventus respectively.
Real Madrid will now play at home where they've been strong this season, a fact that gives them hope. But there's a chance that the three teams will get eliminated in the second leg, you never know.
What seems to be the issue? Difficult draws or something more concerning about Spanish football at the moment?
The main fact is that Spanish teams usually play in La Liga with a lower rhythm these days and that penalises them when they have to play against teams from England, Italy, Germany or France, where the game is now more intense.
Villarreal put up a decent fight against Juventus but face a tough away trip - can Emery mastermind a victory in Turin? and how?
Dusan Vlahovic will be a big fear for Villarreal, but they've had two big wins in their last two away games (0-2 vs Betis, 1-4 vs Granada) and following the strategy employed in those matches will be the route Unai Emery has to continue.
How disappointing was it for Atleti to concede so late having failed to kill off the game against Manchester United?
It was bitterly disappointing. It was a very good game from Simeone’s side. They hit the bar twice, Griezmann’s effort could have killed the game, but Elanga's goal broke the good mood of Simeone and his players.
PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 15: Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain scores their team's first goal past Thibaut Courtois of Real Madrid during the UEFA Champions League Round Of Sixteen Leg One match between Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid at Parc des P
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Given their inconsistent form in La Liga, is there any optimism about getting a win at Old Trafford?
It wouldn't be surprising if it happens, since their inconsistency shows that literally anything can happen.
Add that to United's inconsistency, the second leg is an impossible one to predict.
All eyes will be on Madrid for the return match against PSG, how will Real approach the game if they are to overturn the 1-0 deficit?
The first key is the fact that Santiago Bernabéu will be at full capacity. However, they've not found it easy to score in their more recent games, and they haven't managed a goal in the first 45 minutes of their last seven games.
Everything is likely to be decided late in the game, just as it was in Paris.
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With echoes of Gone Girl and My Lovely Wife, Sarah Bonner's debut novel introduces an exciting new voice in twisty thrillers.
When Megan discovers photographs of her estranged identical twin sister on her husband’s phone, she wants answers.
Leah already has everything Megan ever wanted. Fame, fortune, freedom to do what she wants. And when Megan confronts Leah, an argument turns to murder.
The only way Megan can get away with killing her twin is to become her.
But then lockdown hits. How can she continue living two lives? And what happens if someone else knows her secret?
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Five people killed on North West roads this year: Gardai urge people to slow down
Gardai are warning people to be responsible on the roads this Bank Holiday weekend.
Inspector at Letterkenny Garda Station Michael Harrison is appealing to people to follow the advice to slow down, wear your seatbelt and never drink and drive.
56 people have been killed so far this year on roads around the country which is three more than last year.
Sadly as Inspector Harrison points out 5 of those fatalities have been in Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal:
You can hear Inspector Harrison’s full interview with Claire Mulcahy here:
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The Jerusalema Challenge Goes Wild At An Elephant Sanctuary
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The Jerusalema dance craze has swept the world, but no one expected animals to get in on the act. No one told the animals in a wildlife park in Zimbabwe, though. At the Wild Is Life sanctuary for rescued wild animals, the keepers, elephants, and even giraffes are taking part in the viral dance challenge.
If you somehow have managed to miss it, Jerusalema is a song by South African DJ Master KG and performed by Nomcebo. The song has exploded on the internet, with everyone from Cristiano Ronaldo to Janet Jackson posting a video of themselves dancing to it.
No offence to all these celebrities, but their performances can't hold a candle to the fun and touching video posted by the keepers. It was recorded by the facility's founder Roxy Danckwerts who said they decided to do it to combat lockdown boredom for the employees. Now that it has received so much attention and acclaim, however, she hopes that the viral video will help to raise awareness:
"I hope it will spread further and get more people involved in the challenge. But really, it is about — for us particularly — it is about spreading awareness about animals and the sentience of animals and the importance of animals for national heritage" Take a look at these brilliant nuns doing their version of the Jerusalema Challenge.
It's impossible for anyone not to feel uplifted by watching this incredible video. It shows many groups of employees dancing and clearly having a ball. What makes it extra special, though, is the parts that include animals from the sanctuary. In any reserve, the worry is that the animals will be stressed and unable to behave as they would in the wild. This video allays all those fears as the animals seem so relaxed with their human carers.
The internet certainly agrees as the performance has been viewed 2.8 million times and received 39,000 likes. The comments all share how emotional and happy viewers feel when they watch the team and animals at Wild Is Life: "I love these animals and their caretakers so much that I want to cry tears of Jerusalema JOY! God Bless them all. Loved the mother elephant who tried to dance with the guys."
Let's all hope more dance crazes sweep the internet so we can see more. We should also hope that funding and awareness are raised for this sanctuary and their excellent work preserving wildlife for future generations. If you want to see more from these brilliant animals and their keepers, subscribe to the sanctuary’s YouTube channel.
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Big Brother 14: Willie Hantz Houseguest Profile
Big Brother 14 cast houseguest Willie Hantz, 34, can primarily lay claim to fame as the brother of villain Russell Hantz from Survivor: Samoa and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, the uncle of Survivor cast member Brandon Hantz, and brother to Shawn Hantz of flipped off.
Willie, who lives in Dayton, Texas and works as a tankerman, is willing to do whatever it takes to win Big Brother 14 and gain his own level of Reality TV fame. He said in one preseason interview that he would vote his own mother off to make it to the top. He actually thinks he can overshadow his famous brother Russell and be an even better reality TV show player. Big shoes there Willie, big shoes!
Vinton, Louisiana born Willie is also gross. Let me just say that. He told our buddies over at he thinks it would be a great trademark to leave a “deuce” in the toilet each time he takes a dump. Disgusting. He’s apparently really fond of his own excrement, as his Twitter feed tagline is “everytime i take a sh*t i blow up the toilet.”
Mr. Hantz is also allegedly still Tweeting to his fans, despite CBS not allowing contestants to do any such thing. Obviously it is someone else is having a great deal of fun playing Willie — probably his brother or nephew I’m thinking. (There was a rumor Willie got thrown off BB14 before the premiere because he had smuggled in his phone, but I’m not believing that until I see it.)
Also on his alleged Twitter Feed profile, Willie Hantz notes he is “not the glass house” — ha ha, yeah. Very cute. Willie’s Facebook page has been restricted to friends only, which is no fair because we just love reading all the wacky stuff on the Facebook pages of the new houseguests.
Willie, who says he can barely read, enjoys stupid movies like 21 Jump Street and reality shows (duh!) like Survivor and So You Think You Can Dance. He also listens to Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, and Lil Wayne. That makes me wince.
Willie says his strategy in the house is to help stir up drama and chaos, but not be in the center of it so he doesn’t look like it’s his fault. He also wants to keep all the crazy people in the house as long as he can to keep the target off himself. He has a girlfriend, but he’ll lay it on thick with the ladies if he thinks he can get ahead by doing it. However, he thinks showmances are a bad idea because the guy usually ends up a target. Also, he has said he would NEVER open Pandora’s Box unless things were seriously bad.
Decently knowledgeable about Big Brother, Willie’s favorite player is Dani Donato and he really wished Rachel Reilly would be on the show to cause the ultimate amount of chaos possible. He also said in his CBS profile, however, that he would have had to shoot himself if he’d been in the house with her last season. Willie admits he is a gambler and likes to take big risks, but he has lost more than he has won over the years. That could end up being exactly how he plays Big Brother.
Eviction: Willie defied all predictions, especially those placing him in the top three, by self-evicting when he was thrown off the show for getting violent with Chef Joe Arvin. He became the third person to leave Big Brother 14.
Willie Hantz CBS Big Brother Profile
Name: Willie Hantz
Age: 34
Occupation: Tankerman
Three adjectives that describe you: Serious, hostile and docile.
Favorite Activities: Gambling and strip clubs!
Most difficult part about living inside the Big Brother house: Eating the slop because I’m used to my roommate’s (i.e. my mother) cooking.
Strategy for winning “Big Brother:” To make as much confusion in the house in order to take the attention off of me.
Finish this sentence: My life’s motto is… only the good die young.
What would you do if “Big Brother” made you famous: I would be on All-Stars.
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Patriot Act renewal passes House
Ed Morrissey
The House had another opportunity for progressives to do a little piñata-beating on a bill last night — but curiously, it passed with little note or controversy. The extension of the Patriot Act sailed through the lower chamber with almost no one noticing, following a similarly quiet passage out of the Senate earlier in the week:
The vote was 315-97 .
During George Bush’s term in office, every renewal the Patriot Act became grand theater, with newspapers inveighing against the overreach of Bush and the danger to American liberty in the bill, which wasn’t an entirely vacuous argument. Protesters would fill streets, and reporters would demand positions from various members of Congress. So what happened this year?
First, Barack Obama took most of the wind out of the critics’ sails when he voted to extend the Patriot Act in the summer of 2008, reversing a pledge he had made just a few months earlier.
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interesting post…
Don’t want to go into a flame war or anything but surely the development of Linux would top this. Imagine a bunch of programmers communicating only through Usenet posts and FTP and coming up with that!
Interestingly, it looks the NT codebase is still fairly portable, even though x86 is now the only platform for windows.
The xbox OS is a cut-down version of Win2k - the xbox was based on PC x86 pc hardware. And for the xbox360 OS they started from the orignal xbox codebase… even though its a radicaly different architecture. With things like .net and DirectX 10 now appearing on the 360 there must have been some merging with windows/vista codebase.
Another interesting fact I’ve read is x86 wasn’t actually the original main target platform for windows NT. I forget which platform the new OS was originally planned for, but the it was only changed to x86 in the late stages of development - and Dave Cutler’s foresight in keeping the main codebase clean of platform-specific stuff allowed the change to x86 without a major fuss.
It’s also interesting to note that nobody is writing new operating systems any more.
Quite amazing how many people visit the website every day then, I guess.
And we’re seeing such WONDERFUL results from there arn’t we?
I also enjoyed this book. In many ways, it’s a paean to Cutler and his team. His Marine-like discipline and toughness of mind is a model for any project leader. The book reminds me of Microcosm, George Gilder’s paean to Carver Mead, another genius in technology.
I love that for the last few days many, many people have been bemoaning Jeff’s captcha and not commenting on his article. Good article, by the way. It seems like two seperate entries though; one on discipline ( and the other on Dave Cutler.
The original target for NT? Well, that would be the Prism RISC architecture, and NT would have been under the guise “Mica.” When Ken Olson (crazy as a loon) killed Prism/Mica at DEC (because the world only wants a little VAX, a medium VAX, and a large VAX), Cutler went to MS and took a lot of the team and the ideas with him. NT on DEC Alpha was, belatedly, Mica on Prism.
For what it’s worth, Cutler’s original target choice for CPU was MIPS. He didn’t care for i386 at all.
I think it’s possible we may not see another “from the ground up” OS developed in our lifetimes.
The internet 1.0, Web2.0, Google API etc. But I know what you mean, a real OS, not just an API or software development platform.
And we’re seeing such WONDERFUL results from there arn’t we?
And as was pointed out in the article, it took about 10 years to get to a version of Windows NT (2000) that didn’t completely suck. So give the new OS developers a chance. We wouldn’t want to appear hypocritical, would we?
It amazes me how everyone forgets NT started out as a co-development effort with IBM’s OS2. As an early third party developer I would get two large boxes of floppies from MS to develop with one was for NT and the other was for OS2. As a driver developer they were basically the same just substitute GDI for GPI etc. MS eventually dropped out of OS2 and focused on NT which eventually beat out IBM since it was used on third party PC’s. The IBM PS2 computers eventually lost out on cost. How much of IBM’s OS2 remains within NT has always been the question.
I was on that team. The platform was designed to run on x86 but the platform that Dave Cutler preffered was MIPS. We all had primarily x86 machines and one MIPS. Then came the the Alpha. It was always assumed the primary platform for V1 (NT3.1) would be x86. The cool thing about the OS at the time for Microsoft was the fact the it was portable across platforms. Dave Cutle was definately a personality. There were no build breaks from lousy chackins when Dave was at the helm. If you did break the build Dave would show up in your office and scare the living %$#(@ out of you. That WAS the process.
I just found your blog. Real nice article and I enjoyed it enough to go to Amazon and buy the book you discussed. I cant wait for that to be dropped off!
I don’t understand why somebody hasn’t started developing a third OS from the ground up. It makes no sense to me. Win NT has changed the landscape, but it is arguably the most frustrating OS in history. The problem I have with M$ technology is that it doesn’t work when you need it to, plain and simple. Whereas with Unix, it has no choice but to work. Apple software just works. The GPS funtions without flinching on an iPhone, but on my Win Mobile 6.1 Touch phone it may work or it may not. I say all of this to say that I just wish somebody would come up and develop a Unix competitor that works just as well and solid!
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Corinthians could scupper Barcelona's plans to sign Cavani
In Brazil, Globoesporte report that Corinthians hope to lure the Uruguayan with a lucrative offer, and a salary exceeding what Barcelona could pay him.
Corinthians could scupper Barcelona's plans to sign Cavani
Edinson Cavani's future remains a mystery. He has hardly enjoyed many opportunities at Manchester United - not even under new manager Ralf Rangnick and it looks likely that he could be moving on in the January transfer window. He is keen to be somewhere where he is playing regularly - the big question is where? Barcelona were one of the big favourites to sign him although it remains to be seen whether they can afford to once they complete the operation to bring Ferran Torres to Camp Nou. Now it appears there is another club who is prepared to not only meet Barca's offer but raise it - Corinthians.
Initially, Cavani seemed set to stay in Europe. Barcelona would have been the ideal place for the Uruguayan but there is just one snag, his salary.
Corinthians, according to Globoesporte, are keen to sign him. The player's brother insists that they will start negotiating from 1 January, when they are able to resolve the striker's contractual situation with Manchester United. Cavani's contract expires in June but it is likely that he won't complete his time at Old Trafford. United won't stand in his way if he finds a new club. It is not known whether they would ask for a fee, which could hamper Cavani's chances of moving on.
Cavani's agent: "Obviously, if Edinson receives an offer from Barcelona..."
André Cury, who is Cavani's agent, spoke to journalist Jorge Nicola and stressed that the player won't go to Brazil if he receives a good offer from a European club. Even so, a return to his South American homeland isn't entirely ruled out. "He's not happy at United. I know what he is like because we almost took him to Palmeiras last time. He's got his own ranch in Uruguay and he likes being close to home, so in that sense, there is a possibility. But obviouly, if he were to receive an offer from Barcelona, he wouldn't go to Brazil. If nothing comes through from Barcelona or another club playing in the Champions League, then there is a chance he could could back home," Cury said.
But the player's agent added that he feels slightly wary about Barcelona's financial situation. "We're not too sure what is happening at Barcelona. To give you an idea, I was working there when they claimed that Luis Suárez was too old and we paid what we had to so that he could leave,but then they signed Agüero, who is even older than him. It seems the club has been doing what they shouldn't for some time. Cavani is a big name playerand has the technical qualities to play at Barcelona. It could happen or not - bot because of what the club wants, but for their economic situation".
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IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", sometimes also called i386[1][2])[3] is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, designed by Intel and first implemented in the 80386 microprocessor in 1985. IA-32 is the first incarnation of x86 that supports 32-bit computing;[4] as a result, the "IA-32" term may be used as a metonym to refer to all x86 versions that support 32-bit computing.[5][6]
Within various programming language directives, IA-32 is still sometimes referred to as the "i386" architecture. In some other contexts, certain iterations of the IA-32 ISA are sometimes labelled i486, i586 and i686, referring to the instruction supersets offered by the 80486, the P5 and the P6 microarchitectures respectively. These updates offered numerous additions alongside the base IA-32 set including floating-point capabilities and the MMX extensions.
Intel was historically the largest manufacturer of IA-32 processors, with the second biggest supplier having been AMD. During the 1990s, VIA, Transmeta and other chip manufacturers also produced IA-32 compatible processors (e.g. WinChip). In the modern era, Intel still produced IA-32 processors under the Intel Quark microcontroller platform until 2019; however, since the 2000s, the majority of manufacturers (Intel included) moved almost exclusively to implementing CPUs based on the 64-bit variant of x86, x86-64. x86-64, by specification, offers legacy operating modes that operate on the IA-32 ISA for backwards compatibility. Even given the contemporary prevalence of x86-64, as of 2018, IA-32 protected mode versions of many modern operating systems are still maintained, e.g. Microsoft Windows (until Windows 10; Windows 11 requires x86-64-compatible processor for x86 versions)[7] and the Debian Linux distribution.[8] In spite of IA-32's name (and causing some potential confusion), the 64-bit evolution of x86 that originated out of AMD would not be known as "IA-64", that name instead belonging to Intel's Itanium architecture.
Architectural features[edit]
The primary defining characteristic of IA-32 is the availability of 32-bit general-purpose processor registers (for example, EAX and EBX), 32-bit integer arithmetic and logical operations, 32-bit offsets within a segment in protected mode, and the translation of segmented addresses to 32-bit linear addresses. The designers took the opportunity to make other improvements as well. Some of the most significant changes (relative to the 16-bit 286 instruction set) are described below.
32-bit integer capability
All general-purpose registers (GPRs) are expanded from 16 bits to 32 bits, and all arithmetic and logical operations, memory-to-register and register-to-memory operations, etc., can operate directly on 32-bit integers. Pushes and pops on the stack default to 4-byte strides, and non-segmented pointers are 4 bytes wide.
More general addressing modes
Any GPR can be used as a base register, and any GPR other than ESP can be used as an index register, in a memory reference. The index register value can be multiplied by 1, 2, 4, or 8 before being added to the base register value and displacement.
Additional segment registers
Two additional segment registers, FS and GS, are provided.
Larger virtual address space
The IA-32 architecture defines a 48-bit segmented address format, with a 16-bit segment number and a 32-bit offset within the segment. Segmented addresses are mapped to 32-bit linear addresses.
Demand paging
32-bit linear addresses are virtual addresses rather than physical addresses; they are translated to physical addresses through a page table. In the 80386, 80486, and the original Pentium processors, the physical address was 32 bits; in the Pentium Pro and later processors, the Physical Address Extension allowed 36-bit physical addresses, although the linear address size was still 32 bits.
Operating modes[edit]
Operating mode Operating system required Type of code being run Default address size Default operand size Typical GPR width
Protected mode 32-bit operating system or boot loader 32-bit protected-mode code 32 bits 32 bits 32 bits
16-bit protected-mode operating system or boot loader, or 32-bit boot loader 16-bit protected-mode code 16 bits 16 bits 16 or 32 bits
Virtual 8086 mode 16- or 32-bit protected-mode operating system 16-bit real-mode code 16 bits 16 bits 16 or 32 bits
Real mode 16-bit real-mode operating system or boot loader, or 32-bit boot loader 16-bit real-mode code 16 bits 16 bits 16 or 32 bits
Unreal mode 16-bit real-mode operating system or boot loader, or 32-bit boot loader 16-bit real-mode code 32 bits 16 bits 16 or 32 bits
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1. ^ "DITTO". BSD General Commands Manual. Apple. December 19, 2008. Archived from the original on June 2, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2013. Thin Universal binaries to the specified architecture [...] should be specified as "i386", "x86_64", etc.
2. ^ "Additional Predefined Macros". software.intel.com. Intel. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
3. ^ Kemp, Steve. "Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux". Debian Administration. Archived from the original on September 16, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
4. ^ "Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual". Intel Corporation. September 2014. p. 31. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2014. The Intel386 processor was the first 32-bit processor in the IA-32 architecture family. It introduced 32-bit registers for use both to hold operands and for addressing.
5. ^ Green, Ronald W. (May 5, 2009). "What do IA-32, Intel 64 and IA-64 Architecture mean?". software.intel.com. Intel. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
6. ^ "Supported Hardware". Ubuntu Help. Canonical. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
7. ^ "Windows 10 System Requirements & Specifications | Microsoft". www.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
8. ^ "Debian GNU/Linux on x86 Machines". Archived from the original on April 28, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
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A SpaceX two-stage Falcon 9 rocket launched a KoreaSat 5A communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday afternoon. KoreaSat 5A is owned by the South Korean company KTSat. The satellite will provide TV and other communications services to people in South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia, according to the company's website. The satellite will also aid maritime communications from East Africa to East Asia.
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PM: Reform for extraordinary elections but decision up to the president
Kaja Kallas in the Riigikogu.
Kaja Kallas in the Riigikogu. Source: Siim Lõvi /ERR
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that a vote of no confidence in her would prompt the Reform Party to inquire about the possibility of extraordinary elections, while the decision is up to the president.
Kallas said that a coalition between the Center Party, Isamaa and the Conservative People's Party (EKRE) would require a vote of no confidence in her that would give Reform grounds to request extraordinary elections.
"The Constitution does provide the possibility. However, the decision is up to the president at the end of the day. The government would be within its rights to propose it and it would be peculiar not to seize the opportunity," Kallas said when answering ERR's questions during the Thursday government press conference.
The premier added that even though the ratings would favor Reform going into extraordinary elections, that is not something the president can base his decision on.
"He must not weigh who would benefit and who would lose. The president needs to decide whether parliamentary democracy needs protecting or not. That is his discretion there. What we can decide is to make the proposal."
Minister of Rural Affairs Urmas Kruuse (Reform) added that extraordinary elections would help clear the air.
The PM also talked about what it would cost to hike family benefits, also in terms of potential tax hikes in the future.
"These amendments (family benefits hike – ed.) would cost €285 million in 2023. We would have to hike VAT from 20 percent to 23 percent. Or we could tax income, hiking the tax rate from the current 20 percent to 24 percent. Were we to look to excise duties, they would have to be hiked by 30 percent. Those are the figures people fighting for nothing but expenses should be voicing," Kallas said.
Kallas added that the Reform Party does not want to hike taxes but also understands why Isamaa finds raising child benefits so important.
"And should Isamaa decide in our favor, decide to launch talks with us, that is one of the things we will be discussing," the PM offered, adding that Reform would like it to be a part of state budget strategy deliberations.
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Maybe it’s because spring is just around the corner and many of us are thinking about our next garden. Or maybe it’s because the recent deep freeze plunged many of us into temporarily going “off grid” that brings this topic to mind. But have you ever considered what your Cherokee grandparents and great-grandparents went through to put food on the table and to preserve it through the winter months after our people were removed here to Indian Territory?
Now, many of us are familiar with the so-called Three Sisters — corn, beans and squash — that have been held up as a traditional staple for Cherokee gardens. Our ancestors found that the three, grown together, thrived and provided many of their nutritional needs.
The garden season in the Cherokee Nation starts for many of us around March or April and can run through mid-October. It’s a glorious time where we can amble out to the garden and pick a fresh tomato or pepper and enjoy it straight off the vine. If we have a bumper crop of something (I’m looking at you, zucchini), we modern folks can usually freeze it to enjoy long after the garden is gone.
Meat, also, is not hard to come by. It usually just takes a trip to the grocer or, again, to our freezer if we’ve planned ahead.
But a hundred years ago, most of our Cherokee ancestors didn’t have access to a freezer or a grocery store. What they often did have was a smokehouse and maybe a springhouse or a root cellar. Stories from our ancestors remind us that different times called for different measures. A lot of planning and preparation went into it, if one intended to continue to eat well through fall and winter months.
For instance, in the summer it was common for Cherokees to gather at a designated spot on the river for gigging and catching fish. Drying and smoke racks would be built on the river bank where the fish would be smoked and preserved for future use. Dried softshell turtles were also common to “put up” for cold season eating.
A smokehouse was a handy spot to preserve hog meat or even wild game. Meat was hung in the top of the smokehouse over a smoldering batch of coals for several days. The smoke both dried the meat and coated it with an acidic mantle to prevent bacteria and spoilage. Salt could also be used to coat the meat in the smokehouse.
Corn and beans were some of the most commonly preserved items. Old-timers often placed a bit of tobacco in sacks or cribs with corn to stave off insects such as weevils. Besides drying, corn kernels could also be preserved as hominy to prevent sprouting. It was made by boiling the corn with a teaspoon of lye in a pan of water or, if lye wasn’t available, woodstove ashes were used to get the same effect. Or dried corn could be reconstituted into hominy to make bread and other foods.
Most Cherokees also kept dried stores of pumpkin and string beans (sometimes called pole beans). The string beans were simply run through with a needle and thread, and then hung in the smokehouse or another dry spot. Cleaned pumpkin slices could be made the same way, but many families set them on top of their home’s shingles to dry out before storing. Later on, the pumpkin was reconstituted with water and maybe a little sorghum added for a winter treat.
Families often dug a root cellar to keep vegetables over the winter. Thick-skinned squashes, potatoes, turnips and even heads of cabbage could be preserved for months in a root cellar. Root cellars ranged from a deep hole in the ground to a fancier structure with a door and steps. They came in handy in later years as canning became another popular way to create long-term storage for food.
While our modern Cherokee chefs such as Nico Albert, Taelor Barton and Bradley Dry today can have access to traditional ingredients nearly year-round thanks to freezers and other modern devices, our ancestors found their own innovative ways to keep nutritious food on hand. It’s just something for us all to marvel at as another season turns the corner here in the Cherokee Nation.
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Meet a Former ESOL Student Now a Physician's Assistant
by Anna Golovk
Juan Carlos Zelaya today as a physician's assistant.
Mr. Juan Zelaya is a former Blair ESOL student who graduated in 1981. Mr. Zelaya is now a physican's assistant in Salisbury, Maryland.
Mr. Zelaya came to the United States from in December 1978 from Tegucigalpa, Honduras when he was a fifteen-year-old boy and he was a student in Blair's ESOL program. "I couldn't understand any English," said Mr. Zelaya. When he graduated he was in the regular English class with Mr. Stant. "I still have a mild Spanish accent," Mr. Zelaya said. He was a member of National Honor Society as a senior at Blair.
He was also a member of the International Club here in Blair. " The International Club was fabulous. I learned how to deal with people all over the world and it helped me to understand other cultures which now helps me in my chosen field of work. I loved the outings and the friendships," he said.
After graduation from Blair he attended Montgomery College at Takoma Park campus for three years. "I had a senatorial scholarship while at MC," Mr. Zelaya said. Then he went to the University of Maryland for one semester. After that he transferred to the University of Maryland at Baltimore where he graduated with a BS in science (medical technology) in 1987.
Juan Carlos Zelaya (back row, faw left) was active in the International Club in 1980. (Mr. Bellino was the sponsor of the club that year and he took this picture.)
Mr. Zelaya worked as a medical technician for three years. Then he decided to become a physician's assistant. "It's the greatest profession there is," Mr. Zelaya said. To get his degree as a physician's assistant, he went to George Washington University for three years from 1990 to 1993.
He has been a physician's assistant since he finished at George Washington. "My job involves dealing with patients in the rehabilitation field. I manage them in a hospital in Salisbury, Maryland," he said.
"My advice to Blair ESOL students is to never give up with your studies and listen to Mr. Bellino's advice. He is older now and for that matter wiser. Study hard because it is worth it at the end."
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This Video About Dueling Protestors In Dallas Is The Video America Needs Right Now
There’s been a lot of tragedy during this last week, with the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five police officers escorting a Black Lives Matter march in Dallas Thursday night. The Dallas shooting could have made racial tensions worse, but at least in some cases, it has brought people together. On Sunday, a video of Dallas residents hugging the city’s police officers went viral. Now, a CNN video of Black Lives Matter protesters and their counter-protestors has also gone viral, showing what is possible in healing the divide that has created all this pain and suffering.
The CNN video above shows the protestors and counter-protestors meeting on the streets of Dallas, with the Black Lives Matter protestors chanting “too black, too strong,” while the counter-protestors surround themselves with flags bearing “Texas” and a drawing of a gun on it. “We all matter. Hell!” one of them says. The two demonstrations start at opposite ends of the same street until representatives from each group meet in the middle.
It’s unclear what was said at first, and why they both decided to approach each other, but soon both groups are meeting and everybody starts hugging each other. They then pray for Dallas together, and the police officers assigned to watch both groups join in.
It’s still heartwarming to see a Black Lives Matter and an All Lives Matter group display some solidarity, rather than more violence. This surely didn’t solve America’s racial divide completely, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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Why Facebook Promotion Must Be Key in a Moving Firm Marketing Strategy
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Why Facebook Promotion Must Be Key in a Moving Firm Marketing Strategy
Social media has revolutionized the advertising agency. With more than 2.89 billion users, Facebook is chief amongst social media platforms. Facebook quickly became not just a platform for people to share their personal stories, but also for advertisers to purchase ad space.
The moving industry is highly saturated, in order to thrive you need to be proactive in seeking leads. For business owners, Facebook offers low-cost marketing and a platform to provide customer support. When used strategically, Facebook can be used to increase brand awareness and profitability.
Keep reading to learn more about Facebook promotion, and how you can utilize it for your moving business.
Build a Business Page
Similar to user profiles, businesses can create their own page. A business account page can be used to engage with customers and promote products and services. For a business page, leads will engage with the page by giving it a "like".
Facebook business pages let you share information about your business. This platform is also beneficial to provide customer support and engage with customers.
Your Facebook page can act as a virtual storefront. Your moving business can draw in customers by making organic posts on local neighborhood sites.
Your business page can be used to drive website traffic and generate a buzz around your business model. A robust media following can translate to an increase in sales.
Generate a Stream of Content
It's important that you always have a supply of copy-quality content ready to go. Brand consistency is key when it comes to stockpiling social content.
Building content off of set aesthetics allow you to ensure that your brand is recognizable. By developing a branding guide, you can ensure that your social media content looks cohesive and attractive to customers.
Posting consistently can help strengthen your brand and help you convert followers into clients. For Facebook you should build out a Content Calendar that allows you to map out your social media feed. By scheduling posts in advance you can generate interest in services and sales.
Engage with Users
Engaging with users on social media is as simple as a few keystrokes. Customer engagement is the emotional connection between a customer and a brand. Social media makes it easy to build rapport with potential customers and convert leads into sales.
Facebook makes it easy to engage with customers. By monitoring social media comments and direct messages, you can work on strengthening your relationship with your customers.
According to Facebook’s algorithm, posts with high engagement rates are boosted in the algorithm. By engaging with followers in the comment section, you can get your business more attention. Business owners should go through social media engagements each day to interact with posts.
Highly engaged customers are more likely to demonstrate company loyalty. This means that these customers will come back over time and continue doing business with your brand.
Post Facebook Ads
Ads are paid content that businesses place on Facebook. With paid advertisements you will be able to reach more people than you would with organic social content. These ads allow you to draw the attention of new customers and grow your business.
The Facebook algorithm also does remarketing on sponsored Facebook posts. Remarketing is when the platform recognizes which users have already interacted with your brand. This data helps Facebook place future ads for you in order to help improve your engagement rates.
Make Data-Driven Decisions
Facebook analytics also allow you to pull data from your advertisements so you can readjust your messaging. Facebook Ad Manager will allow you to sift through your advertising campaigns to see a visual representation of your ad's performance online.
These analytics can be used to help you see what messaging has a better click-rate and is more profitable. Data-driven marketing makes it possible for advertisers to learn the habits of their audience. Content creators can then tailor messaging to them for a more well-received message.
Use Targeting
In the digital sphere, targeting allows you to narrow the pool of people who are shown your sponsored content. Facebook collected demographic and behavioral data from its users. These cultivated lists of user data allow Facebook to pick and choose who gets to see particular ads.
Moving businesses can place geo-targets on their advertisements so they can directly target people in the area. This will help bring in business and drive up profits.
Targeted advertisements can have a higher degree of personalization. Identifying a target audience allows advertisers to invest in relatable media. Well-tailored content is more likely to connect with viewers and have higher engagement rates.
Building out different messaging tracks for particular audiences is cost-efficient. Although targeted ads have a higher placement fee, they also tend to have a greater return on investment.
Create SEO Friendly Content
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) content works in tandem with search engine algorithms. Well placed keywords and links directed to your site can increase your brand visibility. For a moving business it will be profitable to incorporate localized keywords to attract local leads.
Use Facebook Promotion for Profit
Moving businesses can't rely on reoccurring customers, so they need to come up with strategic ways to lure in new business. Facebook can play a foundational role in building out a robust digital marketing campaign. Facebook promotion can be used to increase profit through social media marketing.
Connect with us to learn more about how you can use Facebook to draw in more clients.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) – A magnitude 2.5 earthquake was detected Saturday morning in Asheville, Marshall and two other surrounding states just before 4:30 a.m.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quakes epicenter happened approximately 19.3 miles west northwest of Asheville and 10.6 miles west southwest of Marshall, North Carolina. Additionally, USGS reported it was also felt in Greeneville, Tennessee and Columbia, South Carolina.
Additionally, the depth of the earthquake was reported as 5km.
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Shamil Tarpischev is to be asked by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for his position after Serena Williams today accused him of being "sexist" and "racist" following remarks he made about her and sister Venus.
Tarpischev, President of the Russian Tennis Federation, called the American siblings the "Williams brothers" on a Russian television chat show earlier this month.
It led to him being fined $25,000 (£15,500/€20,000) by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour and suspended for a year.
Tarpischev has been a member of the IOC since 1994 and is currently part of its Entourage Commission, which deals with matters concerning the relationship between athletes, coaches, managers, sponsors and all other stakeholders that support athletes.
In a statement yesterday, Tarpischev called the Williams sisters, who have 25 Grand Slam titles between them, "outstanding athletes" but claimed the comment was "taken out of context" and was made "without malicious intent".
The IOC will now seek further clarification of the situation before deciding whether to take any action themselves, which potentially could include referring Tarpischev to its Ethics Commission.
"We take note of Mr Tarpishev's apology and the sanctions imposed by the WTA," an IOC spokesman told insidethegames.
"The IOC will first contact Mr Tarpishev to ask for his position before considering any next step."
Serena Williams, the world number one, today commended the WTA on its swift action in dealing with Shamil Tarpischev.
"Well, I think the WTA did a really great job in taking initiative and immediately taking actions," Williams, winner of 18 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals, said ahead of the WTA Finals in Singapore.
"His comments, I thought, were very insensitive,
"I just wasn't very happy with his comments and I think a lot of people are unhappy as well."
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Jobs, Ballmer and Obama: The Criticality of Balance
President Obama’s approval rating is in the toilet, and his recent firing of his lead general in Afghanistan suggests his approval inside his administration is likely not much better than we see outside.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, has been under fire for a while now and seems unable to get out from under stories of his impending replacement.
Steve Jobs, on the other hand, is on fire and — despite problems with suicides in China, AT&T’s stumbles, and App Store approval issues — is on top of the world.
I think this is because while Obama focuses excessively on form but not enough on function and Ballmer on function and not enough on form, Jobs is the only one that blends both effectively. Let’s talk about that this week.
We’ll close with my product of the week: a fascinating online gaming product called “OnLive” that may eventually render obsolete both Apple and Microsoft and prove Oracle’s Larry Ellison right.
Steve Jobs and Balance
Those of us who have been successful in jobs have learned that it isn’t just what you do, it’s how what you do is valued that makes the huge difference in our careers. You can put in 60 hour weeks, but if your boss isn’t happy with what you’ve done, you not only won’t get a raise and a promotion, but you likely won’t keep your job. Some people don’t get that you have to play to perceptions and make those who are important to your future appreciate what you are doing or it won’t make a difference.
Not getting this is why so many hard-working people are laid off or fired. On the other hand, there are those who constantly take credit for others’ work and go out of their way to seek praise but don’t actually do much of anything. They often get better jobs initially but are eventually fired because eventually the fact they didn’t actually accomplish anything catches up with them.
The ideal case is one of balance. Steve Jobs doesn’t hype crappy products, and he doesn’t build strong products and then fail to market them. He builds strong products that he hypes the crap out of. If he did the latter, he could be proud of the products but not the sales, and if he did the former, he might get lines once, but those folks would never buy from Apple again. However, realizing that impression is virtually all of reality, if he shifts to any side, he shifts to the hype side, because he knows that is what will make his boss, the shareholders, happy.
Obama and Form Over Function
President Obama fully gets the need to look positive and be in front of people. He likely would make a good CMO (chief marketing officer), but so far he sucks as a chief executive. This is because when you look under the hype, you don’t see much substance, and little seems to be getting done. The recent firing and replacement of the lead general in Afghanistan showcased the problem. Strangely enough, the public position of that general — that there was no substance behind the positive reports — may have resulted in a focus on the problem that might actually result in some real progress.
But from the various wars, to the economy, to the BP oil spill, you certainly can see strong marketing but very little in regard to actual progress because there is too much focus on the former and not enough on the latter.
What really drove this home was when I did a review of the 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement. It sounds great, it says all the right things, until you realize that it isn’t a plan at all because it has no milestones, not measurable goals — only promises to continue doing whatever everyone is doing and that things will get better. It is nearly 100 percent marketing fluff, and this seems to be the cornerstone of this administration and goes to the core of why Obama started out incredibly popular and is trending to be a one-term president with approval scores that are dropping faster than rocks.
To be successful, he needs to focus on building some substance under all this marketing fluff or virtually everything he has done, which isn’t much, will be undone in a few short years. We had one president who promised to get us to the moon in 10 years, and we got there. We’ve had eight say it was critical we get off oil over a period of 30 years, and we are literally swimming in a sea of oil. Obama is far from the first that has this problem.
Steve Ballmer: Function Over Form
If you step back and actually look at Microsoft the way it was in the late ’90s before Steve Ballmer took over and then look at it today, it is actually in much better shape. In the late ’90s, its enterprise products were an industry joke, it was under attack by the DOJ, and interoperability (critical to the market it was in) was a serious problem both inside and outside the company. It didn’t have any consumer products and probably didn’t really need them.
A little over a decade later, Microsoft leads in interoperability, they have settled virtually all of the old antitrust actions, their enterprise products are often preferred over other offerings, and they still make more profit for every dollar of revenue and more revenue than virtually any legal company on the planet. Those are solid fundamentals. However Apple and the consumer technology market, coupled with the economic downturn, have hurt and changed the metrics surrounding Microsoft. Working hard alone doesn’t get the job done; investors have to value the result highly — and they don’t, at least comparatively, in Microsoft’s case.
This is the exact opposite of Obama’s problem — a lot of functional improvements, but the company lacks the ability to get credit for them. Granted, gadgets like iPads and iPhones are easier than infrastructure products, but it was always up to Microsoft where to focus, and Jobs made better choices and redefined Apple around his skills. Steve Ballmer is actually a friend of mine, and I think he may be making progress, first by having Kathleen Hall do Windows marketing, and second by taking direct action on the kinds of products that have made Steve Jobs shine. We’ll see, we’ll see, but this clearly showcases that function over form works no better than form over function. You get more done with the first and get more initial credit with the second, but ultimately an unbalanced approach fails to reach its full potential.
The lesson here is that managers and investors tend to like balance. They don’t like people who self-promote but don’t actually accomplish much of anything, and they don’t appreciate people who can’t self-promote regardless of what they actually do. To be successful, you have to learn to do both, as just doing the part you like and are good at won’t result in the success that should be the ultimate goal.
Product of the Week: OnLive Cloud Gaming
Product of the Week
Speaking of setting impossible goals and then accomplishing them: A little over a week ago, OnLive launched, and many, including Microsoft’s ex-head of their entertainment and hardware division, said it was impossible.
OnLive is a gaming service in the cloud, and in many ways it is very close to the vision Larry Ellison had for thin client computing, but it is actually inexpensive and works. I’ve been playing on the service — way too much, I might add — for something like 40 hours, and I’m both impressed and unfortunately hooked. Game play is good if you have a strong wired Internet connection, and the experience is better in many ways than it would be on a PC. This is because the game actually runs on OnLive’s hardware and not your own, so you don’t have to deal with compatibility or performance issues (other than networking).
OnLive MicroConsole TV Adaptor and Controller
The OnLive MicroConsole TV Adaptor and Controller
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Right now, you run the service in your browser with a plug-in, and they will have a client device out (that would work like a game console) for under $100 (possibly free) shortly. You are basically watching a high-definition stream of the game you are playing, which also gives you the unique option of being able to watch other people play from their point of view, and that’s a great way to learn game strategy or get a sense of games you might consider buying.
Like streaming movies, you don’t actually get to own a physical disk, but you can play the game on any machine that has a fast enough Internet connection, and you always start from where you left off, much like it would be if each of these machines were your own. The graphics aren’t as good as they might be if you had a top-end game machine, but they are more than adequate, and you don’t have to fork over thousands for that top-end game machine.
This could be the beginning of truly appliance-like computing. It will likely take a decade for all of the potential for this to be realized and all of the performance bottlenecks (like WiFi and 5G) to be addressed, but it represents the best shot at a truly different PC experience, even more so than the iPad, from we have yet seen.
Because a lot of folks said this was impossible, because it actually is a great deal of fun , and because this could eventually drive the appliance PC experience we’ve all mostly wanted, OnLive is my product of the week.
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• Apple certainly can do no wrong. Microsoft on the other hand cannot do right. Even though Windows 7 is a big success. The media writers cater only to Apple in celebrating what Apple does and not what Microsoft does. Obama is just a snake oil salesman and the American voters believed him when he promised to fix government. I AM not sure anyone can fix what ails government.
Steve Balmer comes over like a lead balloon to me. He seems too brash and Steve Jobs is a much better salesmen. Until Microsoft finds themselves a Steve Jobs like salesmen the media will continue to ignore Microsoft.
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To Freshmen On The Night Before Move-In Day
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To all first-year college students on the night before move-in day,
There are hundreds of open letters such as this one floating around the internet, but I promise this one will be at least a tad different, and I hope worth the read.
The night before move-in day, I barely got three hours of sleep. My mind switched from extreme excitement to nerves that were absolutely off the wall. I was excited to start a new adventure that allowed me to start over and become a person I was more proud to be. But I was nervous that people would not like my new persona as much as my old one.
You are likely feeling something along these lines. And you likely feel as though you are the only one caught in this spiral of eagerness and hesitation, but you are most certainly not the only person feeling this way.
The night before move-in day will be one of the longest nights of your life. Longer than Christmas Eve in Kindergarten--when you were expecting a huge box from Santa the next morning. Longer than the night before your 18th birthday--when you became an "adult."
Even if you have friends from high school going to the same college as you, you will still meet many new people. And if you're anything like me, meeting new people is one of the most intimidating things you have to do.
You may spend the night before move-in day contemplating who you will be when you meet all these new people. But if I have one piece of uber cliche advice to give you in this letter, it would be to be yourself. Who you are when you first meet the people you'll be with for the next two to four years will be one of the largest ways they will remember you. And being someone you are not is not only hard, but it is not fun in the slightest.
Be someone you are proud to be. Be someone you want to be. Do not be afraid to switch it up from high school. You are not in high school anymore. You are going to be in a completely new environment, and you are most likely going to be with a brand new set of people. Don't think about it. When someone asks you a question, such as "what's your favorite movie?", Don't say some artsy indie flick that you think will impress them if your favorite movie is actually She's The Man. More than likely their favorite movie is something along the lines of She's The Man. Unless, of course, your favorite movie is an artsy indie flick, then, by all means, say that.
Move-in day will likely be the opposite of the night before. It will be a blur. It will be full of new names, faces, and places. As long as the night will be, know that the months to come will be different. College will go by so fast, so savor the slow moments that come before.
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Facebook wants to be your Internet ID Card
Mind you, even though Facebook wants to be your Internet driver's license, the service is still insecure and it's continuing to tear at your privacy.
God knows I understand that going from one Web site to another with one login and password scheme after the other is a real pain-in-the-rump. After the Gawker password fiasco it's become clearer than ever that using the same brain-dead simple login and password from one system to another is clearly dumb. But, the idea of using Facebook (Facebook!?) Connect as a universal Internet login and password system makes me want to gag.
You see Facebook is insecure by design and privacy is given only a minimal amount of programming and lip-service. Sure, you can make your Facebook information safe, well safer, anyway, but who has the time to be constantly plugging in Facebook's privacy holes? Especially since Facebook keeps opening up more and more or your personal information to vendors.
For example, Facebook quietly announced just before the recent three-day weekend that they were opening up a way for third-party Facebook apps developers to get to your snail-mail addresses and phone numbers. Isn't that nice of them? I know I want the likes of Zynga, makers of FarmVille, and all their partners, to have my home address and phone number.
Facebook has back off a bit on this. While still insisting that "you need to explicitly choose to share this data before any application or website can access it, and you can not share your friends' address or mobile number with applications," Facebook also acknowledged though that they need to make "people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data. … [and] are making changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so. We'll be working to launch these updates as soon as possible, and will be temporarily disabling this feature until those changes are ready. We look forward to re-enabling this improved feature in the next few weeks."
Fine and dandy, but I still trust Facebook about as much as I do Goldman Sachs' fouled up Facebook IPO. Regardless of that, though, hundreds of millions trust Facebook enough to keep using it. What I'm more concerned about today is that more and more Web sites are using Facebook Connect for their login and password management.
I started noticing this myself in the last few weeks as I kept stumbling over more and more sites, such as the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) and ESPN, that would let me login into them using Facebook. I was beginning to think about looking about this trend, when I found that others were already looking into it.
According to a Technology Review report, more and more Websites are essentially out-sourcing their identity systems to Facebook. The Websites get more than just an easy way to log you into their site though. Those sites also gets access to some, or all, depending on your privacy settings and whatever security blunder Facebook is currently making, of your personal data. Does ESPN need to know who my friends are? I don't think so.
Worse still, besides Facebook's privacy problems, Facebook's login and password system still has two major security holes: its use of a single user name and password and an unencrypted tracking cookie. It's that last that enables Firesheep, the easy to use network eaves-dropper program, to snoop on your Facebook sessions. And, oh yes, if you login into a site using Facebook Connect, those Web sessions as well.
So, what can you do? Well, for starters if you're going to use Facebook, lock it down using ZDNet's The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide and every time Facebook asks you for some new permission to share your data, just say no.
As for using Facebook to access other sites, are you crazy? It's bad enough that Facebook is such a security mess, but to trust it to be my universal Internet drivers' license? No. Just no. This is a security disaster that's just waiting to happen and I have no intention of being caught in it.
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Looking for some great streaming picks? Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2017. Gilbert is kind, and has a big heart. Gilbert's unusual life circumstances threaten to get in the way of their budding romance. Small American towns nurture kindness and big hearts, as personified by Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp), a twenty year old guy who heads a loving but difficult family of two younger sisters, a mentally retarded younger brother named Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio), and their obese momma (Darlene Cates). Arnie also runs out and goes to Becky, who takes care of him for the evening and helps him overcome his aquaphobia until he is picked up by his sisters. he plays the part of Gilberts (Depp) younger brother who has severe autism, Leonardo was only 19 when he made this film, and he puts in a stunning and thoughtful portrayal of someone with autism, his acting ability is without question astonishing. مشاهدة وتحميل فيلم Whats Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 مترجم للعربية كامل بطولة جولييت لويس و جوني ديب و ليوناردو دي كابريو و ماري ستينبورجين و جون سي. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he knows this, but it is in this guardian angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. Great movie, not much difference to DVD quality and no subtitles. In addition, Gilbert is having an affair with a married woman, Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). Movie25 - Watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) Full Movie Online Free - Plot unknown. What's Eating Gilbert Grape was shot in Texas, in various towns and cities; Austin and Pflugerville were primary locations, as well as Manor, where the water tower featured in the film was located.[4]. Obviously the movie is a classic and if you don't already own it on DVD, then go for the blu ray. He also apologizes to his mother for his behavior and vows not to be ashamed of her or let her be hurt anymore. The film is worth a serious look, for its thematic depth, for its acting, and for its attention to detail in sets and production design. What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Was this review helpful to you? I could of just stuck to my old DVD. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2018, Bought for my 14 year old daughter, whose mad on Leonado DiCaprio, it was delivered promptly and fitted through the letter box, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2020, Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Love the film, quality for a blu ray is so so. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2018. An artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. With Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen. What's Eating Gilbert Grape The film is more vignette than involved story, portraying the life of the Grape family, especially that of Gilbert Grape, in the the week preceding Arnie's 18th birthday. Use the HTML below. Directed by Lasse Hallström. "[9] Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times described it as "… one of the most enchanting films of the year" and said that DiCaprio deserved to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for which he was nominated. I know the fame Leonardo DiCaprio achieved after this movie and we used to joke about how many didn't know about this role. Reportedly an animated project based on the long-running What's Eating Gilbert Grape video game franchise. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Having recently read the wonderful book, I was pleased to see that Peter Hedges also wrote the screenplay. This is another Johnny Depp film I was unaware of before Amazon brought it to my attention through a recommendation email, a big thanks to Amazon! A young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness. DiCaprio earned his first Academy Award portraying Arnie Grape, the cognitively impaired little brother of the titular Gilbert, played by Johnny Depp. The film really tugs at your heartstrings. Robert B. Hedges). Leonardo DiCaprio is just fascinating to watch, especially after seeing him in later roles when he is much older. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he knows this, but it is in this guardian angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. There's really nothing to break this movie down in any way. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. Darlene Cates does a wonderful job in this role.Gilbert and his family live in a modest house. Discover what to watch this November including a Marvel docu-series, a '90s reboot, and a Star Wars holiday celebration. And Johnny, what can one say about the roles he's played? Momma is trapped in an obese body. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film was given a 90% "Certified Fresh" score and an average rating of 7.3/10 based on 49 reviews. [7], The film received positive reviews, with many critics praising the performances by Depp and DiCaprio. But life in a small town in Iowa is hard, and it can be frustrating and confining. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. In one sequence, momma must face gawkers as she leaves the courthouse. The children, wanting to protect their mother's dignity, empty their family home of possessions and set it on fire with her in it, burning her to ashes and the house down. Vicenarian Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. [6] The wide release garnered $2,104,938 on its first weekend. View production, box office, & company info. It is also incidentally about life in small town, rural America, something that folks like me who have spent their adult lives in an urban bubble, don't see much of anymore. The film's plot is slightly repetitive. The dinner table must be moved each meal to wherever momma is sitting. [5], The film was nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. The only times the police get something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Quickly browse titles in our catalog based on the ones you have picked. Who can sum it up in words? No subtitles on the disc and no additional features. Very grainy. The site's consensus states that the film is "sentimental and somewhat predictable, but those are small complaints, given the tender atmosphere and moving performances at the heart of What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Her response is inspiring and majestic. These are humble, unpretentious common folks who do the best they can. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world. part due to Dicaprio's nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Oscars and the film still remains popular as a vehicle for Depp and DiCaprio. This movie still holds up after all these years. A local woman named Betty (Mary Steenburgen) is trapped in an unsatisfying marriage. (1993). as this is a fantastic film, a straight role for Johnny Depp perfectly executed, but an absolutely amazing performance from a young Leonardo DiCaprio, wow!
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Interesting to see that John Naugton was talking about open data and "cultural agoraphobia" in The Observer this weekend..
Talis, where I work, has just announced its Talis Connected Commons, which offers free storage of semantic data sets to anyone - as long as the data is open. Peter Murray-Rust, who is quoted in the Observer article, is one of the people who will hopefully be making use of the Talis triple store.
And I've just been listening to Paul Miller's recent podcast with Reuven Cohen about the Open Cloud Manifesto, which tries to create a coherent idea of what an "open cloud" might be (although that seems to be more concerned with interoperability and portability, rather than openness of data). That seems to have caused some controversy along the way, even making it into The Economist.
It certainly feels like there's a tipping point approaching for the next version of data on the web, but (as usual) the barriers are more cultural than technical.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Sweets With A Side Dish Of Humor
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Crunch Cookies
Because I’m sorry to say, there’s more to come:
I hope you’ll come visit me at my blog:
Crunch Cookies
1 stick butter, softened
1 stick margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups Cocoa Krispie cereal
1 cup mini chocolate chips
*Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease cookie sheets.
*Mix in flour, baking soda and salt.
*Bake for 12 minutes.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Five Wishes
And cookies...lots of cookies...
Friday, December 14, 2012
The Secret Subject Swap
* Feed a baby panda at the zoo.
* Pour myself a glass of pinot grigio.
* Cuddle my chinchillas.
* Make sure I have enough toilet paper for the week.
* Play tug-of-war with my pug.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Holiday Hoarder
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Caveman Twitter
"Me start fire. Ug."
"Nobody answer."
"Me start 'nuther fire. Ug"
"Bigger fire."
"Now they answer."
"Where water? Ug."
Response: "How small?"
"Very small."
Response: "Not interested. Ug."
Response: "Make bear tooth necklaces?"
"That dumb. Ug. Me chase cantaloupe."
Response: "WTFug?"
"Tweet wrong. Antelope. Ug."
"Me have newest leopard print wrap. Ug."
Response: "Me have Victoria's Secrets Bobcat print."
Response: "Latest monkey butt satchel soft."
"Bear balls also make good satchel."
Response: "Dinner?"
"Me kill rabbit for dinner. Ug. Interested?"
Response: "Don't care."
"What if me kill deer?"
"Your son grow up quick. Ug."
Response: "We call him Stinky Fuss."
boyfriend at Brontosaurus Burger Barn. Ug."
Thursday, November 29, 2012
My Five Minutes Of Blogging Fame
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Life In The Unemployment Lane
Our current situation renders negative and positive thoughts on being unemployed:
Friday, November 9, 2012
Dear Meno Mama
Dear Meno Mama:
Dear S.S.:
Dear Meno Mama:
Dear L.L.:
Dear Meno Mama:
Dear P.O.P.F.P.:
Dear Meno Mama:
Dear S.N.S.B.I.S.:
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Season Of Change
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Bloggy Buddy Awards
*I make a damn good prickly pear margarita.
*While most women collect shoes, I hoard nail polish.
Answer 5 questions about yourself (same ones listed here)
List 7 random facts about yourself (already did this)
Pass award along to 7 other bloggers
Nominate 5 other deserving bloggers
Give 7-15 random facts about yourself (already done)
Post 7 interesting facts about yourself (already done)
Pass the award to 7 deserving sisters
*Foodaholic (and damn proud of it!)
List 11 factoids about yourself (done!)
Answer 11 questions given to you
Create 11 new questions for the bloggers you nominate for the award
Choose 11 bloggers for the award
Go to the blogger's page and inform them of the award
Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog
1. Do you salt your watermelon?
2. Your favorite beverage is?
3. Have you ever tasted cat or dog food?
5. What animal best represents you?
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Pigs, Poodles And Possums
Several bloggers have asked me recently why I don't post weekly or even daily on my blog site. Professional bloggers recommend it in order to increase traffic and followers. I know this is sound advice, but I am ashamed to admit that I am often stumped by writer's block. And that's when I turn into a professional procrastinator.
This is how it starts:
5:45 a.m.
Obnoxious alarm clock jars me awake. I want to yank it from the wall and toss it out the window onto the neighbor's lawn. It wouldn't matter because they get up at the ass crack of dawn to rev up their lawn mowers.
On my night stand sits the TO-DO list I scribbled out last night when there was still adrenaline coursing through my veins after watching a rousing episode of Top Chef. In the bleak morning light, that TO-DO list becomes a GO-TO-HELL list. No way am I getting up early to make everyone breakfast. That's why God invented granola bars and oatmeal-on-the-go.
Slap the snooze button on the alarm for fifteen more minutes.
6:00 a.m.
Just as I have drifted off into Never Never Land, I hear a nagging buzzer go off, and wonder if I'm on a new game show called, "Wheel Of Misfortune."
I REALLY need to wake up.
6:15 a.m.
Coffee. My morning elixir. Jumper cables to my heart. Now I'm ready to work.
6:30 a.m.
Realization that just because my body is doing the happy dance doesn't mean that my brain has caught onto the dance steps. Need more coffee.
7:00 a.m.
Staring at a blank computer screen, convinced that my muse bought a one-way ticket to Bora Bora and is completely content to sip Mai Tais on the shore while I struggle to post something witty on my blog site.
7:30 a.m.
Still staring at blank computer screen. Pick dog hair off tee-shirt and make a daisy chain out of paper clips. I end up trolling Facebook for status updates.
"Wow Camille, you sure look wasted in those office party pictures. Do people still do that kind of stuff on copy machines???"
"Aw, Cynthia, I just LOVE little Tommy's mullet. Is he channeling Billy Ray Cyrus?"
"OMG Vicky! Your poodle just pooped in your Jimmy Choos?!"
9:30 a.m.
Staring out home office window. When did the neighbors get a hairless cat? Oh, that's a possum rummaging around in the trash can. I didn't know possums liked beer.
10:00 a.m.
Glance at Facebook again to see if anyone commented on my latest status update: "Is it too early to add whiskey to my coffee cup? LOL!"
10:30 a.m.
Check fridge to see if anyone left an amazing surprise in there for me to eat, like an ice cream bar or a leftover egg roll.
11:00 a.m.
Back on the computer and begin typing blog entry: "Hello Readers! I'm hyped up on caffeine and shaky as hell but my brain has a log jam and I.....oh look! A cupcake!
11:30 a.m.
Gotta get this blog post going...whoa, what's this? New outdoor decorating ideas on Pinterest? Pot-bellied pigs for sale on Craig's List?
1:00 p.m.
Stalk other blog sites for inspiration. They're all good. Damn good. This leaves me feeling a bit insecure and I pick up the phone and call a friend for moral support.
2:30 p.m.
Damn possum is back. Brought some of his buddies. I didn't know they could carry a six pack and beach chairs.
4:30 p.m.
Wake up to computer keyboard imprints on my forehead.
5:00 p.m.
Feed and walk dogs, try to figure out something clever yet appetizing for dinner. My family is starting to catch onto the fact that I'm recycling leftovers tossed into pasta and rice to confuse them.
8:00 p.m.
Back on the computer. Something skitters across the floor and under my desk. Could have been a cockroach. Or a possum. Call Husband to exterminate whatever predator is stalking me.
10:00 p.m.
Loud cheering from the TV room. My family is either watching a Dolphins football game or The Kardashians. I need to investigate.
Computer screen still blank. So is my brain. Time to reboot both. Possums now sitting around campfire singing Kumbaya and making smores.
Surely tomorrow will be a more productive long as a parade of pugnacious pot-bellied pigs and prancing pink poodles doesn't pass by my office window...
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Menopausal Mama Drama
Got a complaint? Pick a number and stand in line. It will be three lunar eclipses before I have time to address your grievances. I would rather spend the day scraping up the collective gunk in the corners of my refrigerator drawers than discuss these issues, but I just can't keep my mouth shut any longer. In the past, I was a pro at sidestepping conflict, but there comes a time in a woman's life (known as MMP---Menopausal Mean Phase), where we've just GOT to unleash the hormonal beast raging inside of us. I'm tired of being stretched in ten different directions like a Stretch Armstrong doll just to please the entire universe. Some days I'd rather pull the covers over my head and staple the blanket to my mattress to prevent people from disturbing me in my cotton fortress. Just. Go. Away.
Maybe I'm feeling this way because I'm menopausal-bitchy-hungry-tired-hot flashy, or maybe I'm just older and wiser and have realized I don't need to put up with the bullshit anymore. My kids and my husband, I can handle. But outside of that comfortable nucleus, if you see a sign posted on my front door that reads, "Beware Of Rabid Otter...Enter At Your Own Risk" trust me, it's up there for your own good.
Things that REALLY piss me off:
*People who shove their political agendas down my throat via emails, robo calls, television ads, bulk mail and Facebook. This is especially insulting if the political onslaught hits me early in the morning when my eyes are at half mast. I'm basically brain dead until 9:00 a.m. when the coffee kicks in, so don't ask me to support your cause or I may end up voting for Sponge Bob.
*Waiting not-so-patiently in the "Ten Items Or Less Express Lane" at the grocery store only to have some jackass in front of me who: A) Has 15 items in his basket: 8 cans of sardines, 6 jars of pickled pigs feet and a ginormous bag of kitty litter). Dude, what are you doing-- hosting a redneck feline barbecue in your backyard? B) Decides he can't afford that many jars of pickled pigs feet and has the check-out girl de-scan them all. C) Tries to pay for his purchases with a credit card that has been denied (guess that case of chewing tobacco he bought last month maxed out his card).
*People who can't pay their mortgage but somehow scrape up the funds to book a room for a weekend at the beach, drive Beemer convertibles and suck down lobster tails at a five star restaurant.
*Late service calls. "Dear Mr. Internet-Television-Telephone-Electricity-Repair Man: I don't mind sitting in a dark cave for two weeks, waiting for you to show up and restore our service. I'll just sit here in the candle light and crochet a pastel noose while I wait patiently for your visit.
*People who criticize me or my family behind my back because they're too insecure to face their own demons. Criticize my kids and I'll go all Charlie Sheen on your ass. Yes, I know they've done some stupid things over the years, like sticking bubble gum in a sibling's hair or throwing a hot iron at someone who was poking fun at them...but at least they didn't shove a raisin up someone's nose like my older brother did to me when I was little. Raisins+nasal passage=emergency room.
*Erratic drivers multi-tasking behind the wheel while speeding down a busy interstate. These people aren't human--they're aliens from a planet that produces colonies of octopus people. Amazing how they can text, apply makeup, slip a contact in their eye and brush their teeth, all while dodging in and out of traffic.
*Diet products and expensive exercise equipment that promises to turn women into JLo. *NEWSFLASH* The money you wasted on these items could have been invested in a Twinkie factory, because either way you're going to come out looking like Melissa McCarthy from the Mike and Molly show.
*Celebrities who whine about their lack of privacy and run-ins with the paparazzi. Well duh, after clawing their way to the top, what did they expect? They can always switch careers---I hear they're hiring janitors at the local middle school to scrub spit balls off the bathroom walls. No need to worry about paparazzi showing up there.
*People who try to involve me in the he said/she said game. I'm tired of playing referee and would rather sit along the sidelines while they duke it out in the Octagon. Popcorn, anyone?
*Door-to-door salesmen. In the dinosaur days before internet, people used to sell encyclopedias door-to-door. As a kid, it was pretty darn exciting to flip through the glossy pages and look at the mating cycle of the woolly worm. But nowadays, it never fails---we'll just be sitting down to dinner when the doorbell rings and some squirrelly looking guy who seems to be hyped up on meth is trying to sell me an alarm system, a magazine subscription or a set of Ginsu knives. The only sales people allowed to cross my threshold are the ones selling Girl Scout cookies or those giant World's Finest chocolate bars to support the high school glee club.
*People who brag about their high paying jobs, yet bitch about the lengthy hours they put in each if the rest of us poor slobs do nothing but sit around the pool all day and sip pina coladas. Who do the they think they're kidding? Just. Shut. Up. Everyone knows they're the ones keeping TLC, MTV and the Bravo channel ratings up by never missing an episode of Honey Boo Boo, Sixteen And Pregnant, Real Housewives Of New Jersey and Toddlers And Tiaras.
*Cheap people. Don't bring the Walmart wine-special-of-the-week wrapped in fancy trimmings when I know damn well you can afford the good stuff. You can wrap your trash up in a pink bag with purple bows and it's still gonna smell like crap to the garbage man.
These are the types of people who have been sucking the life out of me for years. To hell with them. Now it's time for me to kick back, pour a glass of wine and watch back to back episodes of Koalas Gone Wild.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Menopausal Blogoversary
Today I'm celebrating my one year blogoversary. There have been a lot of changes around here since I stepped outside of my prehistoric bubble to learn how to turn on a computer. I was once the clone of Donna Reed, the nurturing mother and wife catering to the needs of my family. The laundry was always neatly folded into squares, meals were cooked from scratch, shelves were dust-free and the floors were spotless. But deep inside, a small voice kept whispering, "Eat the cupcake, eat the---" no, not THAT voice! It was the other voice that kept nagging at me about the unfinished book manuscript collecting fuzz balls under my bed.
I continued to ignore the voice until I learned about blogging. I was equally fascinated and intimidated by the concept of exploiting my life in the blogosphere, where I could be either loved or ridiculed for my views. But I figured, what the heck? What did I have to lose other than my dignity (that ship sailed LONG ago)!?
With a glass of Chardonnay in one hand and my laptop in the other, I composed my first blog post, which was much easier to write after the third glass of vino (*see "First Menopausal Moment" 8/27/11).
Starting a blog was one of the best decisions I have made, but not without some sacrifice. My addiction to blogging has created setbacks in other areas of my Donna Reed lifestyle; changes that my family hasn't wholeheartedly embraced:
* I seldom have time to run the vacuum cleaner these days---you could knit a sweater and matching scarf set with the amount of dog hair embedded in my carpets.
* I discovered that the microwave is a mother's best friend. I've learned to be creative when it comes to putting dinner together. Each night it's a surprise smorgasbord of leftovers from the dark depths of my freezer, also known as No Man's Land. Amazing what you can create with a lone hotdog, a sad-looking waffle and a bag of freezer burned peas.
* A raging caffeine addiction. Forget the coffee pot. Just give me the whole damn bag of coffee and I'll chew on the grounds like it was granola. My husband claims that caffeine overload has turned me into a whirling dervish (a.k.a. Tazmanian Devil). It's all fun and games until I'm wide awake, sitting alone in the dark at 3:00 a.m. and wondering if I should join a nocturnal commune of bats.
* Due to the aforementioned insomnia, my eyes are often puffy and ringed dark like my new cousin the raccoon. If I keep this up much longer, the airlines are going to charge me double for the extra baggage I'm carrying under my eyes. The pale pallor of my skin after a restless night doesn't help, either. I'm thinking I should apply for a job as an extra on the set of The Walking Dead.
* My husband thinks I have gone underground in the witness protection program because he never sees me. The untouched stash of Butterfinger candy bars is evidence that I've been missing for a long time.
* I stare at the computer screen so much now that I've upgraded my 1.5 readers to 2.5. Just last week I enrolled my pet pug into a seeing eye dog class so he can navigate me from my refrigerator to my home office. I just need to teach him how to post a blog with his front paws.
* I'm always looking for new blog followers. If my husband was more agreeable, I'd dress him up like a giant Cheeto and have him dance along Federal Highway with my website address plastered across his orange belly.
* My nightmares have turned into blogmares, and they always have something to do with Teletubbies and Mothra. Freud would have a field day with that one.
* My family finally figured out that I haven't done laundry in months. You can only get away with spritzing dirty clothes with Febreeze for so long.
* Lack of exercise. I used to power walk six miles a day. Now I'd rather stay home, eat pancakes and become a blogger blob.
Sacrifices? Plenty. The cost of a good blog post? Priceless!
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Menopausal Cuckoo
I think I'm losing my mind. Seriously. I used to be a compulsive organizer and proud of it. The spices in my spice rack were placed in alphabetical order from anise to turmeric. My closet was color coordinated along with the contents in my under ware drawer. Shoes fit snugly in shoe trees according to heel length and seasonal use. And all of my photo albums were neatly labeled and shelved in chronological order. Freakish to some, but at least I wasn't cultivating a dust bunny farm.
I was never late for a function, and I could easily juggle work with the kids' karate/cheerleading/
gymnastics/choir/ballet classes effortlessly while entertaining company and serving up a homemade five course meal Martha Stewart style. Wonder Woman had nothing on me.
And then something changed when I entered my menopausal years. It started with the keys. Took me thirty minutes one morning to find the refrigerator between the yogurt and an old bag of potatoes that were starting to grow roots. I kept forgetting to throw them out---something the pre-menopausal me never would have done. The keys? I swear I didn't leave them in the refrigerator. Surely someone was playing a prank on me---had to be my mischievous kids playing that "Lets-Drive-Mom-Crazy-Until-She -Is -Willing-To-Increase-Our-Allowance-And-Never-Make-Us -Clean-Our-Rooms-Again," game.
My glasses disappeared the following week and I walked around like a blind mole bumping into furniture and eating what I thought was a brownie but turned out to be a charcoal briquet. How do you find glasses if you need your glasses to find them?
It wasn't long before I was forgetting appointments with my hairdresser (which explains why my hair looked and felt like worn out Brillo pad). It also explains why the last time I showed up at the doctor's office to get my cavity filled for a tooth that ached, the nurse reminded me I was there for a colonoscopy and that yes, they were certainly going to fill a cavity while I was there.
What the hell was happening to me? Did all the crazy, drunken weekends from my college years really destroy THAT many brain cells ( I knew that weekend in St. Louis with my sorority sisters was going to cause some long term damage some day)?
It was karmic retribution for all of those times I poked fun at my husband for his Attention Deficit Disorder. I thought it was rather endearing to watch him struggle to remember what he walked into a room for (Your sunglasses? They're on your head), or when he stomped through the house and stubbed his toe while searching for his iPad (in the bathroom next to the toilet where you sat for an hour playing
raccoon relay races). I had to suppress a giggle each time he accused the kids of losing the TV remote when all along it was nestled between his butt cheeks on the couch. His ADD also worked to my advantage when it came to arguing---all I had to do was throw around a few incidences and conversations from the past, which of course he could never remember, and I always came out on top.
Now the tables have turned, and my mind has taken a seat on the crazy train somewhere between this birthday and my last.
Cooking is one of my passions, but what good is it if I get distracted and add salt instead of sugar to a recipe, or bake a loaf of bread that turns into a lumpy pancake that even the dog turns away from: "Lady, I may be just a dog, but even I have some standards. You can't pass off this crap like it's manna from heaven!" If the dog is insulted, he pees on the furniture to exact his revenge---or maybe it's just because I've forgotten to walk him in awhile, which explains the cobwebs on the dog leash.
Some days I forget to take my vitamins, especially the fiber pills. This can be dangerous for all the wrong reasons---something akin to a septic tank on the brink of failure.
While it is a relief to learn that memory loss and menopause hold hands and skip gleefully down a path together toward their best friend dementia, it is equally disturbing to discover the alarming rate for which it is happening. Think of all the women out there who are forgetting to fold the laundry, cook dinner or pick up the kids after school while they're sitting in a Starbucks sucking down a Frappuccino. How about the ones who take the wrong exit ramp for work and end up in a nail salon or at a bingo hall in Arizona?
My mother suggested that I start doing crossword puzzles to sharpen my mind. I tried this, but I think my brain is too far gone, because I couldn't remember the three letter word for donkey.
So what am I going to do? Make myself a margarita (or three) to help myself forget what I can't remember.
By the way, have you seen my glasses?
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sharing The Love
Thank you, Roe!
The rules for the award are as follows:
2. Answer 7 questions about yourself.
3. Provide 10 random factoids about yourself.
4. Hand the award to 7 deserving others.
1. What is your favorite song?
2. What is your favorite dessert?
3. What do you do when you're upset?
4. What is your favorite pet?
5. Which do you prefer, white or whole wheat?
6. What is your biggest fear?
Drowning. Flying. Cockroach stampedes.
7. What is your attitude mostly?
Theresa @
Thanks, Sandra!
The rules are as follows:
3. Nominate 10-12 other fabulous bloggers.
1. What would you most like to change about yourself?
2. What's your theme song?
5. What was your favorite childhood toy?
6. What is your favorite housecleaning chore?
7. Do you Twitter?
8. Any goals?
9. Do you really drink margaritas all the time?
Mara Paz@
Noir Ha@
Have fun all of you, answering these questions!
Rules to the Fabulous Blog Award:
2. Name 5 fabulous moments in your life.
3. Name 5 things that you love.
4. Name 5 things you hate.
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A number of social changes were introduced before the First World War, including the state retirement pension and free school meals.
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Microsoft suit “provocative,” legal eagle says
Feb 27, 2009 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — 2 views
[Updated Mar. 2] — Microsoft's lawsuit against Linux devicemaker TomTom is “clearly a provocation,” and the action will ultimately make the open source community stronger. So said Keith Bergelt, CEO of the Open Invention Network (OIN), in a brief interview with LinuxDevices a day after the suit came to light.
Bergelt added, “The community has matured well beyond the days of SCO. Look at the reaction then, versus now. Today, we understand that patent suits are part of life, whether they come from a troll, or from a troll within a multi-billion dollar organization like Microsoft.”
Bergelt seemed confident that the open community has little to worry about from the new suit over this patent. He said, “These patents are fairly well-understood. Now, they've been the subject of re-examination, and people feel comfortable they can get up to speed quickly.”
The suit
As reported yesterday, Microsoft sued devicemaker TomTom for five alleged infringements in userspace software. The suit also alleged three infringements theoretically capable of involving the Linux kernel. Two involve Microsoft's “Joliet” extensions for long filenames in FAT (patents 5,579,517 and 5,758,352), while the other involves wear-leveling technologies enabling the deployment of FAT on flash filesystems (patent 6,256,642).
Microsoft recently lost a case in Germany involving its two Joliet patents. However, to Bergelt's knowledge, Microsoft has not recently been asserting its wear-leveling patent. OIN is fairly aware of what Bergelt called Microsoft's “daily, covert” patent assertions, thanks to its “Linux Defenders 911” program offering legal referrals to open source users.
A history of non-enforcement?
Microsoft for decades has apparently seen it in its own best interests to allow the proliferation of FAT as a kind of lingua franca filesystem. FAT first became ubiquitous on floppy disks, even those used by Mac OS computers, by Unix systems, and basically every operating system. Microsoft did not complain very loudly, if at all.
As flash memory began replacing floppy disks, FAT made the obvious transition to USB keys and SD cards, such as those in the TomTom devices that enable users to transfer map data between their PCs and their in-car nav systems. Unlike floppies, Flash can only be written to in large, page-sized chunks, and each page can tolerate only a finite number of write cycles (typically about 100K in the cheapest parts). Patent 6,256,642 appears to describe one “wear-leveling” scheme aimed at distributing the writes over the entire flash part, to maximize longevity.
Flash can be attached to devices through a number of different interfaces. Some, like SD and CF and other removable storage media interfaces, use hardware (a low-powered, pre-programmed microcontroller) to make the flash appear to the host operating system as if it were a block device (like a floppy disk or IDE drive). A block filesystem like FAT can then be created and used atop the flash, with the MCU transparently handling wear-leveling. It's important to note that Linux plays no part in the wear-leveling here, which is all done by the SD or CF microcontroller.
Flash can also be attached via a simpler NOR memory interface (called “MTD” in the Linux kernel). This approach sometimes requires binary-only Linux drivers that do wear-leveling, because (as evidenced by Microsoft's patent on it), wear-leveling is often a sensitive area for IP law.
However, some recent NAND memory products that connect via a NOR interface are able to use open source drivers, thanks to programmed microcontrollers on the actual flash parts that again handle all the IP-sensitive processing in hardware. Such an architecture enabled flash pioneer M-Systems to open drivers in 2006 for some of its DiskOnChip parts. In general, moving sensitive IP out of the Linux kernel and into the firmware layer is the approach long recommended by open source advocates like Bruce Perens.
We're not sure about the exact architecture of TomTom's products, but we're puzzled why they might have been singled out by Microsoft. As a product company, they probably purchased a storage product and selected wear-leveling technologies with a long history of use in lots of similar products produced by other consumer electronics products.
As for the use of FAT and Joliet in consumer devices, well… basically every consumer electronics device with removable media uses these “patented” technologies, and Microsoft is going to have a mighty uphill battle enforcing patents it has obviously been convenient for the company to ignore for decades.
Bergelt has a different theory on why Microsoft decided to sue TomTom over FAT and wear-leveling. Not because they have a real case, but to take advantage of an opportunity.
Opportunism at work?
Bergelt pointed to rumors that Microsoft tried to acquire TomTom in 2006. He noted that TomTom has used both embedded Linux and embedded Windows in its products. And, he pieced together a history as follows, “Assertions are year-long, or two years long. Maybe Microsoft wanted to buy TomTom, but they didn't want to sell. So they started asserting patents, hoping to encourage them to at least only license Microsoft operating systems. That didn't work, so they sued.”
And why now? Bergelt points to a Reuters story suggesting that in the current tough economic climate, TomTom is “out of conformity” with a loan agreement. He said, “It is not beneath a monopolist to put all these pieces together and look to take advantage of a situation.”
Microsoft launched its own NavReady software stack for PNDs last summer.
Bergelt added, “Who knows the real motivations. But it seems a thoughtless and provocative act, whether by design or not. But in time, it will only prove to make sure the community is ready to do what's necessary under any situation.”
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We've been patiently waiting as the updates on Megadeth's new album slowly roll in, but now we actually may have a name for it. Frontman Dave Mustaine recently disclosed the working title for the new record in a live Q&A, and also teased a little snippet of it.
Mustaine made an appearance in a Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp Masterclass over the weekend, and a Reddit user recorded some of the Megadeth frontman's responses during it.
The frontman also played a little bit of audio from the new set of songs, but didn't provide any further details. Hey, that's good enough for us! Check out the video clip below.
The last we heard about the album was in November when Mustaine confirmed that he still had to record his vocals and solos, but based on the preview he shared, at least some of that seems to have been completed.
The Best Thrash Album of Each Year Since 1983
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tcpretrans(8) System Manager's Manual tcpretrans(8)
tcpretrans - Trace or count TCP retransmits and TLPs. Uses Linux eBPF/bcc.
tcpretrans [-h] [-s] [-l] [-c] [-4 | -6]
This traces TCP retransmits, showing address, port, and TCP state information, and sometimes the PID (although usually not, since retransmits are usually sent by the kernel on timeouts). To keep overhead very low, only the TCP retransmit functions are traced. This does not trace every packet (like tcpdump(8) or a packet sniffer). Optionally, it can count retransmits over a user signalled interval to spot potentially dropping network paths the flows are traversing.
This uses dynamic tracing of the kernel tcp_retransmit_skb() and tcp_send_loss_probe() functions, and will need to be updated to match kernel changes to these functions.
CONFIG_BPF and bcc.
Print usage message.
Display TCP sequence numbers.
Include tail loss probe attempts (in some cases the kernel may not complete the TLP send).
Count occurring retransmits per flow.
Trace IPv4 family only.
Trace IPv6 family only.
# tcpretrans
# tcpretrans -l
# tcpretrans -4
# tcpretrans -6
Time of the retransmit.
Process ID that was on-CPU. This is less useful than it might sound, as it may usually be 0, for the kernel, for timer-based retransmits.
IP address family (4 or 6).
Local IP address.
Local port.
Type of event: R> == retransmit, L> == tail loss probe.
Remote IP address.
Remote port.
TCP session state.
TCP sequence.
Accumulated occurred retransmits since start.
Should be negligible: TCP retransmit events should be low (<1000/s), and the low overhead this tool adds to each event should make the cost negligible.
This is from bcc.
Unstable - in development.
Brendan Gregg
tcpconnect(8), tcpaccept(8)
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NSG 4065 Week 1 Assignment 3 Latest SU: Assignment 3: Project Introduction
NSG 4065 Week 1: Holistic Care Plan Case Study
Post a summary of your experience of this process in a 2-3 page Word document to the W1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.
NSG4 065 Week 2 Assignment 2 Latest SU
Assignment 2: Project Part Two—Patterns/Challenges/Needs
Begin your submission with a short, 1-2 paragraph introduction of your Case Study. Identify one pattern, challenge, or need associated with each parameter of the person you interviewed for your Case Study in Week 1 (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual). Identify rationales for each of the patterns, challenges, or needs . Be sure to address at least four of the seven aspects of the Holistic Care Process discussed in this week’s lecture.
Submit your assignment in a 3-4 page Word document.
NSG 4065 Week 3 Assignment 2 Latest SU
Assignment 2: Project Part Three—Outcomes, Interventions, and Evaluating Criteria
Post your response to the tasks below in a 3-4 page MS Word document to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox. Be sure to format your paper according to APA 6th edition style.
1. Review the needs, challenges or problems you identified in your Case Study from last week’s assignment. For each need, challenge or problem identified, provide a desired outcome. Include a supporting rationale for each desired outcome. Outcomes should be stated as SMART goals (specific, measurable, action oriented, realistic, and time limited).
1. List at least one holistic nursing intervention you will use to achieve the outcome for each of the nursing diagnoses listed on your plan. Provide supporting rationale for each chosen intervention. The rationale should include what the intervention will provide for the patient, what level of the person it will address, and how it will assist the patient in achieving the desired outcome.
1. Define the evaluation criteria to track the effectof each of the interventions on the patient’s health and healing process.
NSG 4065 Week 4 Assignment 2 Latest SU
Assignment 2: Choosing a Core Value and Healing vs Curing
Review the core values of holistic nursing listed in the text. Determine which one you personally rank as the most important. Explore this core value further on the Web, in the text, and on the online library. State your rationale of why you see this value as being important for a holistic nurse to incorporate into his or her practice.
Interview 3 people (family, friends, coworkers) according to the following guidelines:
• Explain the selected core value to them in your own words.
• Ask them if they think that this would be an important aspect for a nurse to incorporate into his or her practice and have them explain why or why not.
• Also, review your text and lecture and explore the Web for descriptions of the terms healing and cure. Describe a case from your clinical practice in which there was no cure but there was healing. Describe the details of the healing experienced by the person interviewed.
Post a summary in a 3-4 page Word document to the W4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
NSG 4065 Week 5 Assignment 2 Latest SU
Assignment 2: Project Summarization
Submit a completed final project, in the form of a scholarly paper, to the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
• Discuss the principles of holistic care and the four principles of the holistic caring process
• Discuss the differences in patient needs when developing a holistic plan of care
• Discuss the similarities and differences between complementary and alternative medicine and western medicine
• Describe the role of nutrition, exercise, humor and music therapy in complementary and alternative medicine
• Discuss three main barriers to changing our current healthcare system to a more integrative system of care
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Debugging a Slow VM on a 2007 Era Xeon
Recently I've been involved in a project that requires a lot of kernel-space work on Linux. This of course means frequent re-builds of the Linux kernel. Taking about fifteen minutes for a build from scratch on my laptop, this provided too many opportunities to justify slacking off, and I decided faster builds were in order. It was then that I realized I had an eight core Dell workstation sitting in my basement that had been collecting dust for years. While it wasn't the newest machine (circa 2007), its dual-CPU motherboard with its two Xeon E5335's did have a total of eight physical cores to compete with my laptop's two (Core i5 5300U). I figured this would undoubtedly lead to a faster build and spun it up.
In order to avoid nuking my development machine's kernel, all my kernel work (including building) was done inside a QEMU/KVM virtual machine. While this did have a small overhead, KVM/VT-x ensured that this was minimal and the difference in guest/host build times on my laptop was negligible. I thought the story would be the same on the workstation, it did have older CPUs, but they did have virtualization extensions, so I expected a substantial decrease in build times due to those extra cores.
Firing up a build from scratch, I was surprised to see that a clean build of Linux inside the VM on the workstation took fifteen minutes, almost exactly the same time as my dual-core laptop. While single-threaded performance on Intel chips has certainly improved since 2007, two cores outperforming eight in such a highly-parallelizable task seemed fishy. Using the same .config I re-ran the build outside a VM on the workstation, which got it done in seven minutes. I was intrigued by the massive performance hit.
Asking around, I had someone tell me that they saw similar issues before that boiled down to performance hits from Meltdown mitigations, specifically, Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI). Running a quick test in which I ran a single-threaded build of Shallow Blue to completion inside the guest, this did appear to be the root cause (all times cited are averaged over 50 runs on an otherwise idle system):
KPTI Status in Guest Time needed for make -j1 all
Enabled 47.972s
Disabled 25.088s
Curious at the massive performance hit KPTI gave in a guest, I ran the same test on the host with KPTI enabled and disabled for comparison:
KPTI Status in Host Time needed for make -j1 all
Enabled 18.184s
Disabled 17.583s
So while KPTI still results in a performance hit on the host, it's nowhere near the scale of the performance hit in the guest. The host performance hit can likely be explained by the increased TLB misses resulting from KPTI (especially seeing as this processor is old enough that it doesn't have PCID), but I wouldn't expect that to be solely responsible for the near 100% slowdown seen in the guest.
The root cause of these types of performance issues can often be found by generating a few flame graphs, which can provide a massive amount of insight into performance bottlenecks. Attaching perf to the parent QEMU process, I generated the following flame graphs while Shallow Blue was building:
KPTI Flamegraph No KPTI Flamegraph
Open both of the above SVGs in another tab and you should be able to search and zoom in on particular sections.
So from the above two flame graphs, it's very clear that the kernel function kvm_mmu_sync_roots in arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c becomes a huge bottleneck when we enable KPTI in the guest. Correlating the stack trace in the graph with kernel sources, one can see that it's being called from vcpu_enter_guest, just before KVM hands off control to the guest OS.
if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_MMU_SYNC, vcpu))
Since the CPUs on this workstation are from 2007, they don't have support for second level address translation / EPT, necessitating the use of shadow page tables. The call to kvm_check_request checks if the guest's shadow page tables need to be synced with the host. If it returns true, kvm_mmu_sync_roots is called, which walks all page table entries reachable from the guest's CR3 register (page table base address) to perform the required shadow page table sync. Needless to say, walking the entire page table hierarchy is expensive.
This synchronization must be performed in a few circumstances, notably for us, upon a mov to the CR3 register (ie. a change of page tables). Since KPTI vastly increases the number of CR3 switches (every switch into kernel space requires a change of page tables), it seems we've located the source of the problem.
So what can be done about this? Well, my host was running a 4.9 kernel, and interestingly, this seems to have been more-or-less fixed in 4.19, with a number of workaround patches that cut down on the number of shadow page table resyncs needed. If upgrading to 4.19+ isn't an option however, perhaps invest in a newer CPU that has EPT and hope nobody finds any more phantom trolleys in Intel CPUs.
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What some firearm owners think could solve gun violence in America
Paul Kemp, a founding board member and the president of Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership, has been a gun owner for most of his life. Kemp said he had “no idea that we had such a patchwork of gun laws around the country.” While he noted the National Firearms Act, first enacted in 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Brady Law, which amended the GCA in 1993, there is a “a lot of latitude for very weak gun laws in states,” he said.
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There’s a lot of hype around CBDCs.But after a closer look at some CBDC pilots, I think we’re NOT going to see a lot of CBDCs except from a few big countries. Here’s why 👇 1. Building one from scratch is hard. A CBDC is essentially a stablecoin backed by the central bank. Seeing it from that perspective you may think it’s easy. You can deploy a ERC20 token in half an hour. Now just…
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Oscar picks up slight injury during Brazil training
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Daniel Kopatsch
We've already seen Eden Hazard miss some training this international break thanks to injury -- now it's someone else's turn:
A right ankle sprain isn't great news, but everyone's best guess at the moment is that the injury isn't serious enough to really have an impact on Chelsea. Brazil are playing against Australia in a friendly on Saturday, and he might not be able to feature in that game, but the initial reports say he should be fully healed up by the time the Blues head to Goodison Park later on in the month.
But that's conjecture for the moment, and this could well be bad news for us. For right now, let's hope for the best. It's not like Oscar couldn't use a break anyway.
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Virus Mahjong Connection Connect all the virus mahjong tiles and clear the board in this html5 mahjong connection games. What's the max level can you play?
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How to Secure Your Home Internet Connection
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Homes are filled with a range of smart gadgets all of which are connected to the home internet. From your smartphone, TV, baby monitor, to home security system, everything in between, since we are so reliant on the internet, this has opened a backdoor to security issues.
Hackers are sitting in an ambush. They take advantage of even the tiniest lapse in security to launch an attack. If they are able to gain control over your home network, stealing your personal information is just a piece of cake for them.
Just like you lock all doors and windows before going to bed, you MUST be on the lookout for your home internet connection. Here are some basic to advanced steps to take for securing your home network:
1: Rename Your Wireless Router
Wireless routers come with a generic username and password. The first thing you do to boost network security is to change the credentials. You’ll need to use this general admin information when setting up the router for the first time, but after it’s up and running, you must remain both. The default router usernames and passwords are public records. This makes a hacker’s job easy—especially if you don’t change the router’s factory settings.
Start by changing the username and password for your router and then change the name of your home network too. If you are a subscriber of Spectrum Internet services and you are not that tech-savvy, contact Spectrum customer service 866 and ask them for help. They should be able to guide you.
2: Download and Install a Firewall
Adding third-party protection to keep hostile actors out of your network is important. A firewall is an excellent tool for securing your home internet connection. In the case of Charter, when you are paying for Spectrum wifi prices, you are actually getting a security suite too. It’s meant to protect the connected devices from malware and viruses. But, even if you have a security suite, you still need a firewall.
Firewalls are a type of network security gadget that keeps track of all the data that passes across your network. It detects if the data is authentic or potentially dangerous. The job of a firewall is to prevent potentially harmful data packets from reaching the device connected to the internet.
3: Turn Off the Wi-Fi When You’re Not Home
Turning off your home network when you’re not at home is one of the simplest ways to secure your network against assault. You don’t really need to keep the Wi-Fi on if you are not using it. Turning it off will keep the opportunistic hackers breaking into your home network especially if you are gone for vacation.
4: Enable Network Encryption
Encryption is available on most WPA2 as well as WPA3 routers. To enable this function, just go to your router’s Wi-Fi settings. using your IP address and router login credentials to log in. Once the network encryption is enabled, any data exchanged between your wireless network and your device becomes encrypted.
This will prohibit anyone from eavesdropping on your Wi-Fi network without first logging in. after you enable this feature, you’ll need to manually reconnect all your devices to the wireless network.
5: Use a VPN
VPNs are effective when it comes to data security. This tool establishes a secure and encrypted connection between your device and a server. That server talks with the internet for sending and receiving data on your behalf. Thanks to the VPN, because all that data is transferred over a secure connection, no one can see it. Your browsing activities are fully secure due to encryption.
6: Use MAC Address Filtering
MAC address is a unique identification on most broadband routers. This address can boost your network security increase security by limiting the number of devices that can connect to the home network. enable MAC addresses on all your home devices, and the network will only accept connections from these allowed addresses. This will serve as a protection against malicious attacks.
7: Update Your Firmware
When you choose service plans much like the Spectrum silver packages, they already ensure all firmware provided to the customer is updated. However, that doesn’t mean updating the firmware isn’t your responsibility.
Routers must be updated regularly. Router firmware, like the operating system on your phone or computer, gets updated anytime a vulnerability is discovered. Set a monthly reminder to check your router’s settings to see if an update is available and hit install.
8: Place Your Router Where You Can See It
Place your router somewhere in the middle where you can actually see it. This will keep the device out of the view of hackers. Don’t place routers near external doors or windows.
Summing Up
Learning how to protect your data from thieves by securing your home’s Wi-Fi is a mandatory thing. Given the number of devices that we connect to our network, we must take every precaution possible to prevent hackers from infiltrating our connection.
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Car thefts prompt police to issue alert
Police-badgeNAUGATUCK — Police warned citizens to be vigilant as opportunistic car thieves are on the prowl.
Naugatuck Police Department spokesman Bryan Cammarata said between June 1 and Tuesday morning 22 cars have been reported stolen in Naugatuck. He said the department typically receives between three and five reports of stolen cars a month and some of those turn out to be someone who took a family member’s car without permission.
The majority of the 22 cars stolen since June have been crimes of opportunity. The cars were stolen after their owners left their cars unattended in a parking lot. The cars were running or the doors were unlocked with the key in the ignition, Cammarata said.
Many of the thefts have occurred from the parking lots of gas stations or convenience stores, Cammarata said. However, there have been some thefts from private driveways as well, he said.
Area car thieves have been observed on surveillance footage hanging around in gas stations, convenience stores and public parking lots waiting for an opportunity to take vehicles when they are left unattended, he said.
One recent theft occurred Monday shortly before noon at the Cumberland Farms on North Main Street.
Surveillance footage shows a white Mercedes pull up alongside a Jeep Cherokee parked unoccupied, unlocked, not running with its keys in the ignition. A suspect exits the Mercedes and gets into the Jeep and within less than 30 seconds both cars leave the parking lot towards Route 8 north.
Cammarata said prior to the theft the Mercedes is seen driving through the parking lot several times, presumably staking out vehicles.
The thefts aren’t just a problem in Naugatuck. Cammarata said similar thefts are happening throughout the Valley and greater Waterbury area. He said many of the stolen cars are resurfacing in Waterbury and police believe the thefts are all related.
Cammarata said there are so many different suspects stealing the cars and cars being used by the suspects that there is no particular car or person for people to watch out for.
“The cars are constantly changing,” he said.
The thieves aren’t targeting any particular cars either, he said. The thieves are just seizing opportunities to steal the cars, he said.
Cammarata said police have developed some leads in the thefts and made some arrests.
On Aug. 2 two Naugatuck men were arrested after being pulled over in a stolen car.
Jacob Sperling, 19, of 58 Anderson St., and Tod Turner, 34, of 59 School St., were arrested at about 9 p.m. after a motor vehicle investigation on North Main Street. During the investigation, police reported, it was determined the car was reported stolen from Waterbury.
Turner, who was driving the car, was charged with larceny in the third degree. Turner was given a court date of Aug. 5 to appear at Waterbury Superior Court and held on a $5,000 surety bond.
Sperling, who was a passenger in the car, was charged with conspiracy at larceny in the third degree. Sperling was given a court date of Aug. 8 to appear at Waterbury Superior Court and released on a promise to appear.
Cammarata said the stolen car was connected to the thefts occurring in the area.
Police are asking residents to be conscious of their surroundings and to keep an eye out for any cars just hanging around gas stations. If they see anything suspicious, Cammarata said, people should call police.
“We’re asking the public to not leave their doors open,” Cammarata said.
Cammarata said his biggest fear is that a parent will leave their child in a car when they run into a store quickly and the car is stolen with the child inside.
Police reminded citizens to never leave their keys in an unattended car, even while running a quick errand and to never attach a tag with their name and address to a key ring. If the keys are lost or stolen, the tag will lead the thief directly to their car and your home.
Also, avoid leaving a car unattended in public parking lots for an extended period of time. A car is five times more likely to be stolen from an unattended lot than from the street or an attended lot, police said.
Valuables should be locked in the trunk away from view.
People should immediately notify police if their car is stolen, and have their license plate number, vehicle make, model, color and year, and vehicle identification number available.
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LETTERS: Change prison from trash can to tool for reform
Staff reports
South Bend Tribune
I have served in prison ministry for several years and help in re-entry efforts locally. I recently read an editorial in America Magazine (Aug.4) that helped me understand the complex prison system I have personally experienced. The article states that the number of people in U.S. prisons is 2.2 million or about one of every 100 adults. This is the highest percentage in Western democracies. The average cost to taxpayers is $30,000, the writer adds.
The National Research Council reports that the "magnitude of the reduction" of crime due to imprisonment is "highly uncertain" and "unlikely to have been large." I observed men being warehoused at Westville with little job training skills and life coping skills when they did get released. Hence with no jobs, housing or life skills it is likely they will return to prison. I also learned that many states have prison management from for-profit companies and more convicts mean more money for business investors.
Prisons should be judged on how the recidivism rate is reduced. The article concludes: "Our country must transform the prison from a trash can where we dump offenders to an instrument for the public good."
Jim Bracke
Notre Dame
I write today, as is my custom, to praise and thank a local public servant. People are often negative, so I consciously take a positive approach to my streams of consciousness.
Special thanks to Congresswoman Jackie Walorski -- she went the extra mile to help a friend (a single mother) who was the victim of both identity theft and the IRS' bureaucracy. My friend's identity was stolen and someone filed fraudulent income tax returns on her behalf several years ago -- stealing her rightful refunds. This debacle led to a monumental mess with the IRS attempting to collect tens of thousands of dollars from her -- money that she didn't rightfully owe. To compound matters, the IRS froze her future refunds. I put my friend, who is also a disabled veteran, in contact with Jackie and she took action right away. In a matter of weeks the issue was corrected and not only did the IRS stop trying to collect a bogus tax debt, but my friend received her rightful refunds from the past four years.
Thanks, Jackie. Your efforts on behalf of your constituents is appreciated.
Jamie O'Brien
The writer is the St. Joseph County Council District C representative
I see it's already started. Joe Bock's ads have been out for about two weeks, and Rep. Jackie Walorski starts with the negative campaign ads about him. How he was a Missouri legislator, and voted himself pension increases, etc. Trying to make him look like an outsider, not from this district.
She conveniently forgets how she had to move to a different district and rent an apartment there when she was running for state representative. And she conveniently forgets how she voted to shut down the government but kept drawing her paycheck. Or how she votes along party lines 95 percent of the time but preaches to us how she reaches across party lines.
Walorski should tell us what she will do, not what someone else has done. But I guess her actions speak louder than words; she's already shown us she's just another career politician.
Ken Lubinski
South Bend
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Analyzing the success of the first season of the EFLI
Joshua Biers
Players from the Hyderabad Skykings and Bangalore Warhawks going at each other during an EFLI game
The inaugural season of the Elite Football League of India began in late September 2012 and should be considered a rousing success by American Football fans all around the region. With eight participating teams: five from India, two from Sri Lanka, and one from Pakistan, the EFLI did an excellent job of incorporating some of the most populated nations in Southeast Asia. While games still have some way to go before they receive the same attendance and attention as the NFL, the fact that a South Asian TV behemoth, Ten Sports, agreed to broadcast the EFLI games is huge.
While Ten Sports CEO Atul Pande says that the EFLI is a low-risk investment for the company, news that the EFLI was broadcasted to 14 different countries in the region and into 170 million homes is an extremely positive sign for a league that could break out any moment. In a region predominantly dominated by soccer (football) and cricket, it will take this type of advertisement and publicity to really generate viewership and support for the league. However, while securing a contract with one of the biggest sports networks in the region is a big step forward, there are still a few restrictions holding this Indian Football League back.
For starters, all games during the first season were played in one stadium. If you want to generate a fan base and a sense of community, it is ideal for your team to have a home stadium that home fans can flock to. The popular American tradition of “tailgating” would also be able to take effect if there were home stadiums. Tailgating is such an important aspect of American football that it is almost impossible for the league to succeed in India without tailgating taking place. As well as that, the use of stadiums as “home bases” for fans is very important. In the United States, home stadiums are considered a sacred ground to fans. They view the stadium as their own and it gives them something to rally around come playoff time and big games. It adds an extra element to the game as you have visiting fans who are determined to out-do the home fans and generate a greater buzz. It ties the community with their respective football team and that is a very important aspect of American Football.
Another shortcoming of the EFLI is the relative inexperience of players. There are currently around 30 players per team in the EFLI, totaling around 240 players in the league. Most of these players are converted rugby players or other athletes who grew up playing another sport. The pay isn’t too substantial, meaning that if EFLI players are offered other positions in the workforce, chances are that they are going to take it. For this to change, the EFLI will need to pay players more as soon as they gain more popularity. As well as that, there will need to be academies and skill camps for American Football so players can learn the sport as a primary one and not as a secondary one.
While it is clear that the EFLI made great strides in their first season with the Ten Sports contract, there are still many areas of improvement for this young league. My own hopes are high for this Indian league; American Football is such a beautiful game I find it hard for it not to capture the hearts and souls of young kids in the same manner that soccer and cricket does. However, expectations are much higher in the Indian community, as EFLI CEO Richard Whalen says, “One day, the Mumbai Gladiators will be worth much more than the New York Yankees”.
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'Realizing the Bigger Picture' at Mizzou
We love the game, but in end of the day, it is just that; a game. Through this experience, we've really began to bridge that gap between student and athlete in the phrase student-athlete by connecting with the community and realizing the bigger picture.
Mizzou S Ian Simon, in a beautiful summation of the other angle on this weekend's strike
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1. snl
Colin Jost and Pete Davidson Addressed the Boat Thing on ‘Weekend Update’“We thought the whole thing through.”
2. boats ‘n bros
Colin Jost and Pete Davidson Bought a Staten Island FerryThey’re boat boys now.
3. date night
Kim Kardashian Is Now the Queen of Staten IslandShe joined its king, Pete Davidson, for a customary strip-mall Italian dinner.
4. fuggedaboutit
NYC Mayor Likens MTV’s Staten Island Reality Show As ‘Shameless Ratings Grab’Made in Staten Island won’t drive any tourism, that’s for sure.
6. fuhgettaboutit
What Hollywood Gets Right (and So Wrong) About Staten IslandThe ferry runs all night, Carrie Bradshaw.
7. The Rap Group That Witnessed Eric Garner’s DeathThe Rising Sun All Stars’ struggle to deal with the aftermath.
8. the industry
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen to Wait PatientlyPlus: Staten Island finally gets its own TV show.
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Dr. Ben Carson Says Republicans' Brains Are Broken
No, YOU'RE the one with the broken brain.
Did God drop Ben Carson on his head at some point? Maybe sometime after He provided the answers for Carson's chemistry final? Honest question. Because for a man who's dropping in the polls, perhaps because he's so dumb on foreign policy even Republicans (!!!) are embarrassed, he sure doesn't seem to be able to keep idiot droppings from falling out of his mouth:
“Republicans have this mental disorder sometimes that says, ‘A person doesn’t agree with me 100%, I’m not with them, I’m going to go and sit down,’” Mr. Carson told a crowd of about 100 people at an Italian restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip.
Great campaign slogan right there. He couldn't have said "Republicans have a problem," or "Republicans have an OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH." No, Ben Carson The Brain Surgeon just went right ahead and looked at his fellow Republicans and said, "Your brains are bad and you should feel bad."
[contextly_sidebar id="7YiV891AvVbICq9DDyC06IQ9oP4Hglyp"]And before we get ANY further into what Ben Carson had to say about anything else, SERIOUSLY? The man who can't even remember his own life story because he lost a game of telephone to himself feels he's in a position to open up the flip-top heads of the entire Republican electorate and say THEY'RE the ones with the brain problem? They do have a brain problem, of course, but we do not think Ben Carson is the dude most qualified to be scribbling that information on the Republican patients' charts, if you know what we mean.
Oh but don't worry, dear sweet, mentally disturbed Republicans (Carson said it, not us), you don't have to feel sad about how the broken brain of Ben Carson said your brains are broken also too, because it is the Democrats' fault:
He then suggested, to some light laughter from the audience, that Republicans’ desire for a candidate who checks all their boxes is a Democratic plot to divide the party.
“You know, I believe that was a disease that was implanted by the Democrats,” he said. “That’s what they want you to do. As long as you feel that way they’ve got it, they’ve got it in the bag.”
Yes, we remember that time the Democrats held the Republicans hostage and forced them to vote for entirely unelectable kibble-farting morons.
[contextly_sidebar id="lyrY4cKxeuvtGnkDy1wY3ly9hMTyny8R"]Wonkette must give credit to Wall Street Journal writer Reid J. Epstein, who followed that quote immediately with the words, "Mr. Carson knows a little bit about mental disorders," and then proceeded to say, not that Carson is the President Of Brains, but that, according to Carson's (questionable) accounts of his own life, he is CRAY CRAY:
He wrote in his first memoir “Gifted Hands” that he had a “pathological temper” as a child. “The sickness controlled me,” he wrote.
Hahahaha, TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE, the august Wall Street Journal seems to be saying, and in such a gentlemanly way!
Any more brain surgeon knowledge to give us, Dr. Carson? Perhaps maybe you'd like to tell us how you'd be such a poor president you wouldn't be re-elected?
“You know, if I’m successful in this endeavor to become president of the United States, it’s very likely that I would be a one-term president,” Mr. Carson said. “Because there are some tough things we have to attack. We cannot continue down this path.”
[contextly_sidebar id="Z9gBtsHSHpGSV1yAwZiP2xEuATBaMdKq"]No two-term presidents have had to attack tough things, we guess. Ben Carson, on the other hand, is going to have to do brain surgery on America (which will only hurt a little bit, just like getting bombs dropped on you), and by the time he's done, all U.S. Americans will be so disappointed in his performance they'll leave him rotten tomatoes reviews on WebMD and decide to "get a second opinion."
Come to think of it, nothing he said is incorrect. Republicans are deranged morons, and Ben Carson would be a shitty one-term president. Maybe his brain isn't broken after all, just kidding yes it is.
[Wall Street Journal viaThe Hill]
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Saturday, 6 October 2012
On My Bookshelf (8)
You know the deal by now, based on IMM, probably mine etc. But this time, I actually did get books from publishers! So excited! This stash looks incredible!
From MiraInk:
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
I've left some clues for you.
If you want them, turn the page.
If you dont, put the book back on the shelf, please.
Devil's Bargain by Rachel Caine
What's the price of a deal with the devil? Playing by the psychic underworld's rules has cost. Jazz Callender's whole life just got turned upside down. Her friend Ben's been convicted of a crime he didn't commit, and Jazz is determined to clear his name, even if it means enlisting the help of dark forces. Enter James, a stranger with a mysterious offer. If Jazz pledges to work for The Cross Society, a shadowy secret organisation, he'll help her save Ben. But as she's thrust into a world of psychic powers and dangerous magic, Jazz isn't just bargain for her friend's freedom. She's bargaining for her soul too. And how high a price is she willing to pay?
From Sophie:
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr
Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
They say I'm evil. The police. The newspapers. The girls from school who shake their heads on the six o’clock news and say they always knew there was something not quite right about me. And everyone believes it. Including you. But you don't know. You don't know who I used to be.
Who I could have been.
Awaiting trial at Archway Young Offenders Institution, Emily Koll is going to tell her side of the story for the first time.
From Lily:
Breathe by Sarah Crossan
When oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides which lucky few will live inside the Pod. Everyone else will slowly suffocate. Years after the Switch, life inside the Pod has moved on. A poor Auxiliary class cannot afford the oxygen tax which supplies extra air for running, dancing and sports. The rich Premiums, by contrast, are healthy and strong. Anyone who opposes the regime is labelled a terrorist and ejected from the Pod to die. Sixteen-year-old Alina is part of the secret resistance, but when a mission goes wrong she is forced to escape from the Pod. With only two days of oxygen in her tank, she too faces the terrifying prospect of death by suffocation. Her only hope is to find the mythical Grove, a small enclave of trees protected by a hardcore band of rebels. Does it even exist, and if so, what or who are they protecting the trees from? A dystopian thriller about courage and freedom, with a love story at its heart.
My Love Lies Bleeding by Alyxandra Harvey
1. Looking forward to your Dash & Lily review - it's my favourite book!
2. Awesome books, I cant wait to start Breathe and omgosh I finished Dash and Lily on Friday and its AMAZING! I cant wait to see what you think!
Enjoy :)
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Published Feb 11, 2008
This is a raku technique brought to us by Mark S. Richardson. The basic process has been around for quite a while, and has been known by different names, one of which is "naked raku" (but don't go getting your hopes up-it's not that kind of story). As with any firing process, you should wear protective clothing, and exercise all fire-safety precautions while raku firing. Richardson devised a system for getting peel-away slip onto his pots, keeping the slip intact through the firing and reduction process, and then removing it easily at the end. - Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor
Step 1
Begin by dipping a bisque-fired vessel in the slip. This slip should be mixed to the consistency of pudding.
Step 2
Immediately place a piece of fiberglass screening (available at hardware stores) around the piece, so the screen is embedded in the slip. This will make it easier to remove after firing, but won't prevent the slip from cracking to allow for smoke to get to the ware. Follow the screen with a piece of newspaper. This will will protect it during the firing and keep it from becoming attached to other pieces.
Step 3
Stack all your pieces in a basket constructed of steel fencing bound together with #10 binding wire (both available from a hardware store) and place in an outdoor kiln. Fire slowly to 1100°F (or until you see color in the kiln).
Step 4
Using heat-resistant gloves and full heat-resistant body protection, transfer the basket to a steel garbage can with a small amount of combustible material in the bottom and along the sides. It will ignite immediately, so don't lean over it. Add more combustible material on top of the basket and put the can lid in place so the material smolders and creates smoke (now you see why we're outside for this).
Raku Technique
Step 5
After the combustible material has burned and the ware has cooled, the slip can be removed by pulling on the fiberglass mesh that still surrounds the pieces. Because the slip shrinks and cracks, but stays attached to the pieces, the smoke can only get to the surface through the cracks. This type of ware is usually still porous after firing, and should not be used for food-surface contact. Refiring will remove any smoke marking.
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2 Bars, calls/texts work, mobile data not working
Yesterday I decided to ditch Tmobile for Verizon because I moved and where I moved to I didn't get a signal for several miles. I got the iphone 11 because it was offered free. Where I live, I get 2 bars. The calls and texts work fine but the internet will not load anything. The bar near the bottom for loading moves maybe 10% and never gets past that. If I drive down the road to where I get 3 bars then the internet begins working.
Yesterday I spent hours talking to Verizon and nothing fixed the problem. One person said it was a bad coverage area, another offered to have the phone replaced but my brother also uses Verizon and he said lately his internet on his phone stops working at 2 bars so then I was thinking it's not a possible defective new phone. If i drive about 1/4th mile down the road it goes up to 3 bars and works.
I can accept the mobile data not working at home since I have home internet but it really has to work away from home so even if just 1 or 2 bars, the mobile data has to work even some. I like going to nature parks, wildlife preserves, and places miles away from the city so that's why I switched to Verizon. If I were getting no signal then that would be understandable for no mobile data working but it gets a steady 2 bars here but mobile data simply won't load anything.
Where I am at shows Verizon LTE for the mobile data connection so it should be able to at least load a simple web page. Even Facebook messenger won't send messages here unless I'm connected to home wi-fi. I've already done everything from removing reinserting sim card to far as complete factory reset. I'm posting here to see if anyone else has had or is having this problem and if Verizon might even be considering addressing this type of problem.
I can understand it's not profitable for them to care about anything living in rural areas but people shouldn't be punished for choosing not to live in the middle of a city. If I didn't get a signal then it would be understandable but since it gets 2 bars, I just have to believe there's a reason the mobile data internet portion isn't working when below 3 bars. If it's something that would be fixed by Verizon since it could be related to nearby cell towers then I'd be ok waiting but I would hate to waste $100 a month on something that I can't even use at home.
If anyone has any comments, suggestions, things to add, I'd love to hear it.
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The Empire Strikes Back!
With all the DAW zealots out here in the tech universe proclaiming their DAW of choice as the best, there is simply no denying that in the professional world of film and TV composers, engineers, and post production houses, ProTools has always been the industry standard.
There are good reasons for this. From their earliest systems though their more recent HD systems, the that it used its own DSP cards meant that users were not solely dependent on their computer’s processing power and delivered lower latency than any “native” system could deliver. Also, Digidesign, which was the ProTools developer for many of its peak years, was very cautious in certifying new versions of an OS and any hardware and drivers and even used its own plug-in formats. What this meant was that if your rig conformed to a “qualified” ProTools rig, it was as solid and bulletproof as a computer based DAW could be. If you run a 24/7 client based studio or post house,
nothing, and I mean nothing, is as important as this.
Also, from an engineer’s standpoint, for tracking, editing, and mixing ProTools had distinct advantages. Where a program like Logic Pro might give you several ways to accomplish a task, ProTools may give you only one, but the one frequently was logical, well thought out, and dead easy to learn.
But all this came at a price tag that generally could only be justified by working pros with decent budgets and/or a lot of steady clients. Probably $30,000 was the average. Digi did introduce some native version, like ProTools LE and ProTools M-Powered but they were pale imitations of the real thing with lower track counts, limited features, more latency without latency compensation, etc. They were OK as a secondary editing station or as a way to learn ProTools and get in the game. But I suspect a lot of users bought it for the chance to claim the status of having ProTools.
For years, its MIDI implementation was rudimentary and inefficient in terms of resources and so few composers composed MIDI with virtual instruments or MIDI hardware in it, preferring to do their MIDI in another DAW, bounce to audio, while tracking live musicians and mixing in ProTools. Digidesign did however, gradually start to improve their MIDI capabilities and some users thought they could envision using ProTools as their only DAW in the future.
So it is not surprising that a lot of people got really nervous when in 2005 Avid acquired Digidesign and in 2010 phased out that name. After all, a lot of high end guys and even some lower end guys had invested a lot of money in this stuff and depended on it daily for their clients and there were a lot of rumors about Avid’s financial health and questions about its competitiveness, as its core video editing apps had lost a lot of ground to Apple’s far less expensive Final Cut Pro based systems.
But Avid persevered, added more MIDI capabilities, introduced native systems that wee more robust and full-featured than the previous versions, and once again, the possibility of PT being a composer’s sole DAW seemed to be becoming more and more viable.
There were still some flies in the ointment however. PT lacked a score editor. Avid responded by integrating a light version of Sibelius, a nice step if not as full-featured as i.e. Logic Pro’s score editor.
PT used RTAS as a plug-in format and it was woefully inefficient. Avid responded by introducing the AAX plug-in format, which by all the reports I have received form PT user, is far more resource efficient. So again, Avid was on its gig.
What were the remaining issues?
1.Unlike pretty much every other DAW, ProTools did not have offline bounce capabilities or freeze tracks.
2.Unlike pretty much every other DAW, ProTools was not yet 64 bit, meaning it could not take full advantage of all the available RAM on your computer(s).
3.IOS support.
Well, Avid has responded big time with the announcement of ProTools 11, which addresses all these issues and more. It is slated for release on May 28th, 2013.
The software costs $699 and Avid says it will deliver better performance on whichever hardware you are using with it. There are upgrade paths for previous versions and while a high end ProTools setup that gives you the lowest possible latency and most power will still cost you some substantial bucks, lower priced configurations are nowhere near as crippled as they were in the past, giving you i.e. SMPTE timeline and latency compensation, just to name two.
So what does this augur? For the committed ProTools based composer, this is all very good news. Avid has proven its commitment to making ProTools a viable option for MIDI/virtual instrument composing as well as for all the audio tasks it has always excelled at. While it still may lack some things, for the first time, ProTools 11 will apparently be truly at least competitive with Logic Pro, Cubase, Digital Performer, and newbies like Studio One and Reaper as the all-in-one solution.
But for users of other DAWS who have not already bought in? Will they switch?
I can argue it both ways. The appeal of using just one DAW, the industry standard, will resonate with a lot of users. Also, “I use ProTools” translates to some potential clients as “I am the real deal.”
And compared to most of the competition, I do think ProTools is easier to learn for a newbie than most, but that is a subjective comment.
However, now that PT has “gone native”, native versions will be subject to the same software incompatibilities and conflicts that all native systems are and may not be as rock solid as that HD rig in the client-based recording studio or post house. Those guys will probably mostly update the software but keep their hardware. It still, in terms of bang for buck, will be among the more expensive options.
Most importantly, if you know your present DAW really well, you have to ask yourself ”How many hours will it take for me to learn to be as facile and efficient with ProTools as I am with DAW X?”
It is a legitimately big question that everyone will have to decide for himself/herself.
I would rather duck the obvious question for myself but as the author of three Logic Pro books, a Certified Trainer, a contributor here and on MacPro Video’s Hub, and a rep in Los Angeles and thanks to the internet, to a lesser degree the world (not trying to self-aggrandize, just factual I think) a Logic Pro guru, I am going to have to address it sooner or later, so here we go (gulp.)
Would I switch to ProTools 11 exclusively?
Probably not, unless I see enough increased earning potential to justify the number of hours of hard work getting really good with PT, as I am with Logic Pro. Plus sooner or later, there will be Logic Pro X and maybe, just maybe, Apple will up the ante, as Avid has.
But man, for the first time, I see it as a real possibility.
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• May 22, 2013 @ 12:00 am
A great article with a fair summary of how I feel. I love that AVID are such a robust and dependable company; like Metric Halo, their products (even some legacy) get better with age and they don’t seem to make as many ‘mistakes’ as some.
Native PT is finally becoming useable for composers and that’s exciting; having several good choices out there is always a good thing as we’re not all clones and we all work in different ways. I can happily report that the ‘old school’ idea that PT is “for serious businesses” and others are for hobbyists, has long faded. A huge amount of famous scores have been done in Logic and DP (then usually Mixed in PT).
Hopefully those “old school” clients will learn quickly that the proof definitely IS in the pudding and not in the bowl. That’s why they specifically hired YOU in the first place.
… and as long as there’s an OMF export, we’ll all be fine in the end.
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Record Store Day!
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It's Saturday April 19th this year, so are any MSE'rs planning on doing it either as a collector or purely for profit, and getting up at stupid o'clock to queue outside their local store?
There is nothing in my town, but last year I did go down to London. Didn't arrive until about 11 am and then spent about 3 hours queuing outside Rough Trade for the couple of things that I wanted. It would have probably been easier to just buy them on ebay.
But seriously, if anyone is thinking of doing it just for profit, a lot of items can be sold fairly quickly on ebay for at least 2-3 times their cost price, before everything settles down again, but you do probably do need to have some knowledge of which items are likely to be the most sought after. Oh and yes, get there early!
In London there a lot of smaller stores listed as taking part, but I did try a few of these last year (admittedly rather late) and it seems that Rough Trade or Sister Ray offer the best realistic chance of getting what you want.
One particular item I am interested in this year is Charlotte Gainsbourg's version of Hey Joe on limited 7" vinyl.
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How the ACA Enrollment Period Affects Everyone
How the ACA Enrollment Period Affects Everyone
Original air date: November 7, 2015
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BY: Dr. Elaina George, Host & Contributing Health Editor
PUBLISHED: November 7, 2015
Will the American Healthcare System Wind up with a Zombie Doctor Population?
It’s now open enrollment for Obomacare, but it doesn’t have to be open season on you and your family, but you have viable choices for you and your family.
Today on Medicine On Call, Dr George examines the ACA enrollment period, the fines are going up higher but still less than the cost of premiums for families using insurance. The Government estimated 20 million signing up but only 9 million signed up again this year. The Law isn’t working as designed, people aren’t buying health insurance and its costing the taxpayers more money than originally planned. The law is pushing the healthcare system into the same channels as banks and schools. These systems are bloated and inefficient, creating large burdens from all the failures for which the people are on the hook. Patients plans are bloating overnight from a $75 copay to a $4,000 deductible leaving people little option but no to pay or use medical cost sharing is an option for people can choose but the government is trying to close the loophole by making it smaller every year.
Doctors across the country are dropping out of accepting medicare, medicaid and all other government programs. They think the government is going to start forcing doctors (against their will) to accept these programs by not renewing their license when they apply every year. Dr. George asks the question, what if they start to force doctors against their will to start accepting these programs? Will we wind up with a Zombie Doctor population where they don’t care bout the patient anymore, where they just pull the plug on older people because they don’t want to absorb the costs? She feels some doctors could throw the Hippocratic Oath out the window and ignore the needs of some people just because they are forced to take them.
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So today, is the 8th of December 2015. I felt spiritually bullied. In Spain, today is a public holiday because Spain celebrates The Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
It is celebrating the solemn belief in the Immaculate Conception of theBlessed Virgin Mary. It is celebrated on December 8, nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Mary, which is celebrated on September 8. It is one of the most important Marian feasts celebrated in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church celebrated worldwide. (source: wiki)
I perfectly understand that people dont share the same belief, but in a group where I am in, people mock, ridicule, and make joke on this day. I felt so.. so sad. Been living in the country where Islam is the majority belief, I have never felt spiritually bullied like today. What did Jesus do to them that they do this to him?
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If you are wondering why in the world #savehajilulung is in twitter worldwide trending topic, here are some clues.
A little bit context for non indonesian readers, Indonesia is in 118 world’s most corrupt country from 174 countries listed. Not an achievement. Not proud at all. And just later last year Indonesia appointed a new Jakarta Governor. He is previously the vice governor who is now taking role as the governor since the previous governor is elected as the President of Republic of Indonesia, Jokowi, people call him.
Now this new governor Basuki Tjahja Purnama or “Ahok” is now standing in the white zone fighting corruption in any possible ways. He is of minority race, chinese, and he is of minority religion, christian, to top of that he is expressive, hence all the fuss. Yesterday, he went on a dialogue with the Jakarta’s House of Representative accommodated by the Ministry of Domestic Affairs to discuss about the suspected-to-be-manipulated Jakarta 2015 budget, note on 12,000,000,000,000 IDR (12 trillions just incase i miss some zeros there, converse to your own currency if you please) for UPS allocation fund for high schools in Jakarta. To make the story short, the dialogue did not work as intended to be. The “fighting” parties are Ahok versus Haji Lulung (Haji is a moslem title).
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4 encoders provide unlimited functionality
Updated: Jul 29, 2021
Due to the tremendous speed of the development of the IT sphere, it is impossible not to witness improvements in its products. We have recently noticed that many gaming and business keyboards started adding encoders. In the majority of cases, the encoders are rigidly tied to some limited functionality. Encoders are perfectly suitable for volume control. In some more expensive keyboards, we can choose from the proposed list of features. Usually, the majority of keyboards do not contain more than one encoder.
Initially, we have also added one encoder per half of the keyboard. We are happy to announce that we made it possible to implement any functionality - the initial feature base is large enough to cover all the needs of daily use. If you have some special needs, you can quickly expand the Keyboard OS yourself or write to us with a detailed description of what and how it should be, and we will add it in the next firmware release!
Everything seemed to be fine, but over time, we realized that even two encoders per one keyboard are not enough. Moreover, we have found out that we have a convenient place to install two more encoders to satisfy all the needs! We have tried it, and we have succeeded in making any of the four encoders optional.
One can ask, why have we decided to install exactly 4 encoders? We have been driven by the rule "hand opposite to the mouse". The number of keys for pressing and actions should be more significant on the hand that does not control the mouse. If we are talking about a right-hander, it is very comfortable to have two encoders under the left, and in the right half, the need for encoders is minimal. Of course, the situation is vice versa for left-handed people.
It is up to you to choose the number of encoders on your keyboard to meet your requirements. If you need some additional functionality, provide a detailed description to us, and we design a unique keyboard especially for you.
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• A Paradigm Shift is when a significant change happens - usually from one fundamental view to a different view. In most cases, some type of major discontinuity occurs as well.
Steven Covey gives the example of sitting in a subway train watching some kids roam around the car annoying passengers, snatching away newspapers, etc. With what he considered great tolerance and restraint, he asked the father to do something.
Click /here for the surprise answer. --Ed Poor 12:13, 30 March 2007 (EDT)
I have used the real world example of a paradigm shift as the realization that that must have followed when people first learned that the day/night cycle wasn't because Sol made a journey around the world each day but the Earth was revolving about it's own axis. The essay, (that one day I'm really [I swear]going to write), Will be titled, "No-one Believes a Lie". I think that is true. Just try to believe, really believe, that the Sun goes around the Earth. You'll find it quite difficult because you know it's not true.
MOO.-- Crackertalk 12:49, 30 March 2007 (EDT)
No, it's quite easy if you don't know about the principle of momentum. It's just a big ball in the sky, moving rather slowly. --Ed Poor 13:01, 30 March 2007 (EDT)
Good trim. [1] --Ed Poor 12:44, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
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Jan/Feb 2022 • Fiction
The Movie Theater
by William Han
Artwork by Dale Bridges
Artwork by Dale Bridges
Mr. Wu will buy the Gaoliang himself.
Young people today don't drink much Gaoliang anymore anyway. It's Western stuff now, beer and wine and vodka and gin and whisky, they prefer. If he sends Joey to the liquor store to pick up the Gaoliang, the young man probably won't even know what to look for. And Mr. Wu can't have that, not for an occasion as important as this.
At least that's what Mr. Wu tells himself. Then he tells Joey the same. But the truth is Mr. Wu simply wants to go. He is almost excited about something as simple and trivial as making a stop at the liquor store. This he will never admit, let alone reflect upon to work out just why that is, what it may say about him.
"Make sure the caterers understand they must not only be here but be all set up and ready to go by five," Mr. Wu says to Joey. "And double check the menu. Mrs. Wang and I agreed on the menu earlier. But too often they substitute something at the last minute. And that's not acceptable. We ought to get what we're paying for. Here, here is the menu as it should be." Mr. Wu hands over a sheet of paper covered in his cursive and increasingly shaky handwriting. "Shumai, shrimp dumplings, pork bao, 'Ants Climbing Up Trees,' pearl meatballs..."
"Yes, Grandpa, I know," Joey cuts him off as politely as he can manage, clearly afraid he will go on to read out everything on the paper. "I will make sure to check. Don't worry."
It's a sign of times that his grandson prefers to be called by his English name. It's more fashionable in the eyes of the young. Nonetheless, it's mildly amusing to Mr. Wu, because from what he's heard, Joey never scored higher than a B+ in English at school. And he's not doing any better in college. If a foreigner walked through the theater's front door right now and asked Joey for a ticket to the new Chris Nolan film, Mr. Wu feels fairly certain Joey would be tongue-tied and blush like a baby's bottom.
"And the guest list..." Mr. Wu adds.
"Yes, Grandpa. It's all finalized."
"So you are on top of things."
"I am. No really, I am."
"Because you know how important tonight is—to me personally but also to the theater. To our family."
"I know, Grandpa."
Mr. Wu leaves unsaid the state of the theater's balance sheets. The truth is, newer theaters with better equipment having been popping up for years, and now that audiences increasingly stay home and watch Netflix or whatever, the family business has not been doing well. It doesn't help that even among movie theaters in this provincial city on this neglected island, theirs is famously old-fashioned. Hell, it still insists on hand-painted movie billboards. Absolutely no other theater still does that. Just as youngsters now like to use their English names, so to them coming to the Wu family theater is like going back in time.
Mr. Wu made the decision to persist with tradition when he took over the business from his father some 35 years ago, when hand-painted billboards were already going out of fashion. The idea was to tap into a certain nostalgia, to double down precisely on the theater's status as a venerable, almost historic institution. A local landmark. But now that Mr. Wu, who was born the year the theater first opened its doors, has turned 70, he feels rather trapped between tradition and modernity. Abandon the hand-painted billboards and other time-honored practices now, and the loyal customers who come for nostalgic reasons will stop coming. Fail to abandon them, and the theater will never attract the younger generation.
Indeed, the family business couldn't even attract the next generation of the family. Mr. Wu's son, Joey's father, chose to go out on his own rather than inherit the theater. That it hasn't worked out well for him in the corporate world is a fact Mr. Wu tries very hard not to bring up, although his son rarely comes around anymore, anyhow. Now Joey is the closest thing Mr. Wu has to hope for the future. At 20, Joey is undecided on what he ought to do with himself. But for now, he is on break from university, and Mr. Wu managed to persuade him to spend a few weeks helping out at the theater and getting to know what Mr. Wu calls his "legacy."
It's what makes tonight so important from a business point of view. The Very Famous Director is, well, very famous. It is the theater's good fortune to be able to claim a connection to him. For the denizens of this relative backwater of the world, the fact that one of their own has gone on to achieve such success beyond any of their wildest dreams is much more than a point of enormous pride, it is the stuff of legend. The story has been told countless times, how the VFD grew up watching movies at the local theater down the road from his high school—this theater—developing a love of the cinema. This was where he first saw The Exorcist. This was where he first saw A Clockwork Orange. This was where he first saw The Godfather.
It was this youthful experience that made him choose to study film and to go to America at his first opportunity. It was ardent love that sustained the VFD through the long hard years when he couldn't get any work in Hollywood, when he had to survive on his wife's meager salary and spend his days as a stay-at-home dad. It was this ardor that finally earned the VFD his reward, well into middle age, when he won best picture as well as best director at the Academy Awards.
Mr. Wu remembers the night when the VFD won like it was yesterday. On that occasion, the theater dedicated all of its screens to broadcasting the proceedings in California live for anyone who cared to come in and watch. Given the time difference, it was a Monday morning here. Nonetheless, the theater was full. And when they announced the award for best director, and the VFD walked up the stage to a standing ovation, and he took out the crumpled paper from his tux pocket, and he read the speech in his accented English, and he began to recall his humble childhood on this humble island... there was not a dry eye left in the theater.
One of their own, a proud son of this very city, the best filmmaker in the whole goddamned world.
And Mr. Wu likes to tell all his friends about the role he played in the VFD's formative years. In fact, it is a story he has likely repeated too many times to his friends and still trots out for new acquaintances. When the young VFD came to the theater, being a high school student born to hardscrabble parents, he sometimes didn't have quite enough cash for a ticket. Mr. Wu manned the box office then, having recently returned from his military service and now reluctantly agreed to work for his father. A number of times he let the kid inside even though he was short a dollar or two, and Mr. Wu could do it because he was the owner's son.
It was very big news, then, when the VFD announced he would not only return to his homeland for a visit, but he would also stop by many of his old haunts including this theater where he first learned to love the celluloid. Mr. Wu wasted no time getting in touch with the VFD's people to arrange this special reception for him, to take place tonight. It can only help to raise the theater's profile.
"Everything will be all right, Grandpa," Joey says.
"It better be." You can't even buy the sort of publicity the VFD can give them with just a word. It may just mean the difference between demise and survival for the Wu family movie theater.
Mr. Wu steps out of the theater lobby. His preferred liquor store, the Oak Barrel, is just a few blocks down the street, a gentle and pleasant walk for a newly minted septuagenarian. He rather looks forward to it.
No more than two dozen steps later, and Mr. Wu passes by Mr. Yan's atelier with the "Avengers Row" on the outside wall: Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Chris Evans as Cap, and so on as painted billboards. All Mr. Yan's handiworks. Ah, Mr. Wu sighs inwardly: the power of American culture. Mr. Yan is surely better at painting foreign faces by now than those of his own race.
Mr. Yan has served as the theater's official billboard painter for the last 40 years. His workshop, ancillary to the theater itself, has been situated right next door for almost all that time. In truth, Mr. Wu has known Mr. Yan for even longer than that. And all those years of friendship show through now in Mr. Yan's casual greeting.
"What's up, old man?" Mr. Yan says between long drags on his cigarette as he observes his friend with lazy eyes.
"Old man?" Mr. Wu replies. "You're all of six months younger than me."
"Right. So I'm younger." Mr. Yan has always had this way of referring to any man older than himself as an "old man," and anyone younger as a "kid."
"Going to pick up some Gaoliang," Mr. Wu says. "You know, for the reception tonight."
"For the Very Famous Director?"
"Of course. You want to come with me?"
"Thought you'd never ask."
Mr. Yan uncrosses his legs and stands up from his tiny wooden stool. For a moment he looks unsteady on his feet in those rubber slippers. Despite being slightly younger, he has aged faster and more determinedly than Mr. Wu and appears to be a few steps closer to the grave. And whereas Mr. Wu still tries to dress like the businessman he imagines himself to be, Mr. Yan has the artist's carelessness about the clothes on his back. Now Mr. Yan is in his typical white undershirt over a pair of gray slacks.
"And you'll be there tonight, won't you?" Mr. Wu asks.
"At the reception? Sure, why not? Maybe the VFD will let me branch into portraiture."
"Aren't a lot of the billboards you do now basically portraits?"
Mr. Yan shakes his head. "I paint those from photographs, publicity stills," he says. "It's not the same to paint someone's portrait from life."
The two aged friends now amble side by side down the street to reach the liquor store. The standard PSA posters cover the Oak Barrel's glass exterior: "Don't drink and drive," "No alcohol for the underaged," and so on. The liquor store is not doing much business on this lazy weekday afternoon, and the cashier is almost asleep. The two men walking through the front door startle him and pull him back from approaching dreams.
"Ah, Mr. Wu, Mr. Yan!" The cashier almost jumps out of his seat. "Good to see you."
"Hello, Old Chen." Mr. Wu responds to his greeting. He has been frequenting the Oak Barrel since it first opened 15 years ago, long before Old Chen even started working here.
"What can I help you with today?"
"Well, Old Chen," Mr. Wu says proudly. "I don't know if you've heard, but we are having a reception this evening at the theater for the VFD."
"Ah, yes, yes, of course."
"You know I had a hand in inspiring him to go into the film industry? When the VFD was a youngster in high school, he used to come to our theater to catch the latest releases from Hollywood..."
"And you let him in even when he couldn't afford the ticket," Mr. Yan interjects. "No, you've never mentioned it before."
Mr. Wu blushes upon being called out. "Well, it's true."
"I have heard about this reception, yes," Old Chen says, helping Mr. Wu get past his embarrassment.
"We shall need some liquor for the event."
"Of course. What do you have in mind?"
"Oh, I suppose just to please everyone, we'll have to get some beer and wine and such."
"All right."
"But the important thing is that we pick up a few bottles of Gaoliang. You know, to give the VFD a taste of the specialty of his homeland, something he must be missing after all these years living in America."
"Very good, Mr. Wu," Old Chen nods appreciatively.
"Are you sure about that?" Mr. Yan chimes in. "Are you sure the VFD still enjoys Gaoliang after all these years? His tastes have probably changed, adapted to Western drinks by now, just as he must have adopted Western mores in a thousand other ways."
"Nonsense!" Mr. Wu frowns. "How can the man, how can any man, cease to enjoy Gaoliang? Don't you remember those days in Kinmen back in the day..."
Like so many men on this island, Mr. Wu and Mr. Yan developed a taste for the sorghum liquor when they served in the military as conscripts. In fact, the two of them were posted on Kinmen at the same time—it was how they first met. At the time, circa 1970, a full 100,000 troops served on that small frontline island at any given time. And Gaoliang, a Kinmen specialty, became the official drink of the men in uniforms while they sheltered from artillery fire coming from across the narrow strait. The army field manual at the time even advised soldiers to clean wounds with Gaoliang if a first-aid kit was not immediately available—God knows the stuff was strong enough to serve as disinfectant. Some of the rookies fresh out of high school least able to handle their drinks could turn tipsy just from a sniff of the bottle. And the government used to give every soldier ten packs of cigarettes and a bottle of Gaoliang every week as though to teach every man the essence of life: smoking and drinking.
But it's much more than the taste of the liquor. Rather, Gaoliang in Mr. Wu's mind has taken on the aspect of memory's synecdoche, the Proustian madeleine or violin refrain. As though to underscore this point, Old Chen now offers Mr. Wu and Mr. Yan a sip of the latest batch shipped over from Kinmen, an unnecessary gesture of courtesy. "To make sure it is up to your standard," Old Chen says.
Mr. Wu raises the tiny cup to his lips. And the smallest drop of the liquor now sends him traveling 50 years back in time, to the prime of his youth, to the pallor of innocence of that age both for the young man and the society in which he lived, or at least as the young man understood his society at the time. And all those crisp mornings and pitch black nights on that lonely island off the coast of the Asian continent come rushing back to him: the hours of guard duty in the hilltop guardhouses, the training exercises in the shadow of the mountain, the darkness in the secret tunnel on the southeastern side of the island while waiting for the navy boys to bring in supplies. It was military service. It was conscription—none of them had a choice. And yet now Mr. Wu remembers those years of unfreedom with such longing.
"Oh, I remember those days," Mr. Yan says, answering Mr. Wu's question from earlier but also interrupting his reverie. "I remember you running off to the outhouse to puke your guts out because you couldn't handle your liquor."
"That was one time!" Mr. Wu protests. "Besides, we all had to grow up, go from being boys to being men. The Gaoliang certainly helped."
"And I remember those days when we had leave—remember? We'd go into town..."
"All dressed in our uniforms of course."
"Of course. Those were the regulations at the time. Crisp, freshly pressed uniforms whenever we went off base to mingle with civilians."
"And so on weekends, the whole town was full of young men in olive green."
"And there was that one movie theater in town that we'd all cram into..."
"Oh, do you remember when they showed Fist of Fury? Good Lord, how excited we all were to watch Bruce on the big screen, kicking ass nonstop. There was not an empty seat in the house..."
Old Chen, who despite his nickname is in fact much younger than both Mr. Wu and Mr. Yan, politely listens to the two older men reminisce about their army days.
"The youngsters now," Mr. Wu says, thinking of Joey, "they have no idea. What is it now? Four months?" Although the conscription of all able-bodied young men remains an institution on this island, in the decades since Mr. Wu and Mr. Yan served on Kinmen, the government has gradually cut back the required term of service.
"Something like that," Mr. Yan replies. "Pathetic."
"Did the VFD serve on Kinmen as well?" Old Chen asks.
"Huh," Mr. Yan replies, "that's a good question. I don't know. Mr. Wu?"
"It doesn't matter," Mr. Wu says irritably. "Wherever he served, he would have spent as much time in the service as we did. And Gaoliang was shipped around all the military bases, not just on Kinmen."
So Mr. Wu doesn't know, either, but both Old Chen and Mr. Yan know better than to underscore this fact.
Old Chen clears his throat a little more pointedly than he means to. "Well, Mr. Wu," he says. "How many bottles of Gaoliang will you need?"
"More than we can carry, I should imagine," Mr. Yan observes. "Plus the beer and wine."
"That's a good point," Mr. Wu says. "Can you deliver?"
"For a large order like this," Old Chen says, "that'll be no problem."
* * * * *
When the hour approaches, Mr. Wu comes down from the office in a three-piece suit, one all too formal for the casual custom around here and definitely too warm for the subtropical climate. On any other occasion, Mr. Wu might worry about some of his friends making fun of him for the get-up. But when the VFD is the guest of honor, Mr. Wu feels confident everyone else will be similarly awed by the great man's presence and equally eager to make a good impression on the visitor from hallowed Hollywood.
Hell, just look at Mr. Yan: even he is wearing a proper shirt and actual shoes. Although a jacket would be a bridge too far, the man has even combed the surviving strands of his greasy hair. For Mr. Yan, this is practically black-tie.
The caterers are here now, and Mr. Wu flutters about them like a bumblebee, inspecting the food and interrogating the staff, naturally annoying them to no end. If he weren't their client for tonight, one or another of them would surely have lost his or her patience by now and told the old man to get lost.
Joey comes over. "Grandpa," he says, "don't worry. I went over the menu again with the caterers and double checked everything according to your instructions. Everything is fine." Left unasked is whether the VFD would even remotely care whether they served shumai or some other dish.
The other guests begin to file in, in twos and threes. A good many pause outside to admire Mr. Yan's billboards before coming in. But surely if gradually, they are filling up the theater space. Mr. Yan sidles over. "Is it too early to start with the Gaoliang?"
Drinks are being served already, it's true. After all, guests who have already arrived need something in their hands. But so far, the bottles of Gaoliang sit untouched. Presumably everyone is leaving the really hard stuff until later. There is no sense getting drunk when the evening has barely started.
It's part of Mr. Wu's consideration as he replies, "Maybe a little early." Mr. Yan looks forlorn as he turns away and settles for beer.
"When did the VFD say he will get here?" Joey asks. Mr. Wu can sense his impatience, a feeling no doubt shared by many guests.
"Oh, soon, soon..." Mr. Wu mutters. The actual answer to Joey's question, of course, is 15 minutes ago. "You know how things are in Hollywood," he adds. "Everyone who is anyone is always fashionably late." But even Mr. Wu can hear the lack of conviction in his own voice. Why would Joey know how things are in Hollywood? Why would Mr. Wu? For a local cinema operator, the Tinseltown where the movies are actually made is so distant as to be essentially mythical. Camelot, Wakanda, and Hollywood. All about equally real and equally unreal.
Mr. Wu walks away from his grandson to avoid further questions and to work the room, greeting old friends and new guests, doing his best to make everyone feel welcome and not to fret too much over just when the VFD will come.
Because it won't matter, Mr. Wu tells himself. The VFD will be here eventually. And once he arrives, no one will remember how they waited for him, no one will blame a famous man for tardiness. Everyone will drink the Gaoliang and have a marvelous time. And the evening will be one to remember, to be written into the history of this theater and even this town.
And, Mr. Wu now decides for himself, he won't open the Gaoliang until the VFD arrives. The sweet memories that the liquor brings him—those he will save for the VFD. Those he will share with the VFD. Oh, he can picture it even now, clinking glasses with the VFD, photos of the two of them being taken, reminiscing about the days of yore.
Just as soon as he arrives.
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1. With my experience with a Celeron, all I have to say is, their crap. I had a celeron and it only lasted a few years; only worked when it wanted to. Until one day it didn't even wanna run startup processes; my one was very sensitive to hot days in a unairconditioned room. Hey dont even ask to trade for my P4.
2. Has anyone orderd some sample parts, and when they show up you need to pay some C.O.D. Cost on delivery.
3. If only you could see how much I am laughing now. :D
4. Whoo these cooling systems are cool. :D I remember a few years ago when my dad took me to this computer warehouse that was full of computer stuff to buy. Thier was this stand with a computer on it and a resionably sized heatsink on the CPU, but it had two tubes going to it from a pump outside the computer. The tubes were filled with a green liquid, my guess would be radiator coolent. I cant remember the speed that it increased by. Anyway down hear in melbourne its quite cold we normally dont get 45C days, so the CPU in my computer dosent get too hot. The fan just came with the CPU so its just a standard fan, its currently going at 2.41Ghz. I can try to nuge it a bit harder to 3Ghz, but not to 4.16Ghz with a standard fan. The Mother board has a Spread Spectrum unit that stabalizes the main clock generators wave form, and is only needed at a high frequency. The most wierdest method of cooling your fan is putting a cup of liquid nitrogen on your CPU, I saw it on the net someware, must of been a test run because nitro would absorb the heat. Thier are some good heat transfer compounds like this one. http://www.arcticsilver.com/as5.htm Thier was also this super fan that I saw in a PCUSER magazine, i'll try and find it when I can. I'll give ya my results at running on 3Ghz. See ya.
5. I think I should say a little about old computers, my dad picked up an old computer that was kicked out the door from a hospital. Believe it or not but the HDD was about the size of 2 bricks and about as heavy as 1 brick. The HDD took up all 3 slots on the panel. I cant remember but I think it held 20MB. Thats as ancient as i've ever seen them.
6. Hmm, I wonder how much one of those Commodore's are worth? Anyway I know this is completely the opposite to the heading of this topic but i've got a: P4 2.4Ghz but able to clock 4.16Ghz. Affects at 4.16Ghz is stability, can be assisted be an expensive cooling fan. 512Mb ram. 64Mb ram video card Geforce 4 for games. "Very good!" with video out. T.V. capture card. Ethernet card. 100Mb/s Fire wire 4 ports. 4 USB ports. CD-R 4x write. DVD drive (DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW) CD ROM 50x 1 Floppy drv. Primary 120GB HDD. Secondary 40GB HDD. MSI 845E Max P4 Mainboard. Standard modern technology sound card. On MB. All made with my own hands. Its an all in one super computer, we've come a long way. Cost about $700 AUS with screen. Pretty good price, if I didn't have my computer knowledge i'd be up for a few thousand. Stats: Can download 220MB in 10 minutes. Cable obviously but with a very good downloading program, not the type you'd get from iexplorer. The program downloads the file in portion's and can download a portion of a file to a woping 500KB/s. My computer is also connected to a hub which serves wireless laptops and computer's, and non-wireless computers. I could say more but I gotta go!
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Off-duty officer shoots armed robber on Detroit's west side
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They thought they had an easy target on Detroit's west side - but thought wrong.
Two men looking to rob someone in the 16800 block of Linwood at 2:15 a.m. Monday thought they had an easy target.
What they did not know is that their target was an on off-duty Detroit police officer who just finished the police academy two months ago.
Police say he was in the area visiting his girlfriend and became concerned about a silver Chrysler driving suspiciously on Linwood. He decided to exit his own vehicle and that's when the Chrysler approached him.
"The passenger pointed what appeared to be a high-powered rifle in the direction of the officer and declared this was a robbery," said Police Chief James Craig. "The officer (had) the presence of mind and responded firing a number of shots."
The officer fired and hit the suspect.
People living on Linwood say they heard the barrage of gunfire.
"Multiple gunshots at least 10," said neighbor Marshall Brown.
Chief James Craig says one suspect was hit by the gunfire and is now in custody.
"He did sustain a gunshot wound but it was minor," Craig said. "He was treated and released."
As the investigation continues, police say they are looking for a second suspect the driver of the getaway car.
"His name is Timothy Sims, he is 24 years old," said Craig. "He was an acquaintance of the suspect who was armed with weapon. We need him to turn himself in."
Craig says the officer is now on restricted duty during this investigation. Police say this situation could have turned out differently but the officer’s actions changed the course of events.
"The training certainly kicked in," Craig said. "Recognizing that he had an acquaintance with him, he directed her when he saw the returning vehicle, to conceal herself from what he believed to be an emerging dangerous situation."
But residents living on this stretch of Linwood say they won't feel safe until the second suspect is behind bars.
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Oui, Oui...It's the Hodgepodge!
Joyce hosts most weeks and provides questions for us to ponder and then answer. Check out how others answered the questions at From This Side of the Pond.
1. Tell us about one small blessing you have counted in the past week?
2 weeks post-op and I was able to walk my usual route without any stops!
2. Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14th...have you ever been to France? Any desire to visit there, and if so what would site or city would you most want to see? (pretend for a minute international travel isn't an issue)
I've never been but I hope to go some time. I'd love to go to several places in France but these would top my list: Liseaux to see the home to St. Therese, Lourdes (where the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette and is still the site of miracles) & Nevers (to see St. Bernadette's incorrupt body), Chartres (because of the history), and of course, Normandy.
3. A food associated with France that you love?
Beignet. Or a souffle. Or quiche.
4. Something you recently purchased where a coupon was involved? Do you regularly shop with coupons?
I rarely use coupons because I never remember that I have them. I use digital coupons for my trips to Publix (when I remember ahead of time to save them to my account). I can't remember what I bought last with a coupon.
5. You have to give something away this week...what will it be?
Hmmmm...how about the hurt a parent feels when her "baby" is hurting?
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Can you believe summer is all but over for me? I feel like I say this every year, but this year I'm not sad to see summer go. I'm ready to get out of the house and stay busy.
Paddling Like Heck Hodgepodge
I'm back at the Hodgepodge this week. Joyce hosts most weeks and provides questions for us to ponder and then answer. Check out how others answered the questions at From This Side of the Pond.
1. July 5th is National Hawaii Day...have you ever been to Hawaii? Any desire to visit or make a return trip? Pineapple, mango, or guava...what's your pleasure?
I've never been but would love to go...Pearl Harbor is on my list.
Give me a nice juicy pineapple & I'm a happy girl.
2. Last time you were 'thrown in at the deep end'? Explain.
It's been a week of paddling like hell under the water after being thrown in the deep end. I just can't explain it.
3. Sun, sea, sand, salt...your favorite when it comes to summer?
I say that the ocean is great...except for all of that sand. I'm not a big fan of the sand and as I get older the sun is sinking on my list of faves. And feeling the salt on my skin after taking a dip in the sea? 😝 I do love sitting next to the sea and listening to the waves, especially if there is shade!
4. Bury your head in the sand, the sands of time, draw a line in the sand, pound sand, shifting sands...pick one and tell us how the phrase currently relates to your life in some way.
Shifting sands. We have a lot going on in our household right now. We're trying to find ways to cope with the changes. Let's just leave it at that.
5. On a scale of 1-10 (1 = make your own rules and 10=like a warden), how strict were your parents? If you're a parent where on the scale do you land?
I'd say my parents were a 7.5. Being the 8th child and the youngest girl, I think my parents were more lenient on me than they were my older siblings. I had friends whose parents were a lot more lenient than mine, but I also had at least one friend whose parents were much stricter than mine.
As a parent, I would say I was about a 6. It's difficult when both parents have different parenting styles and had a different level of strictness with our own parents. I gave in probably more than I should have.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
I know I need to get started on my vacation posts. I haven't even begun to look through my pictures yet. Maybe tomorrow...
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Russia Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine as Hackers Target the Country
Vladimir Putin thinks a switch to 'domestic technology' is the solution.
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The world is used to Russian hackers being a serious threat to businesses and infrastructure, but the tables have turned, and now Russia is increasingly the focus of attacks.
As Reuters reports(Opens in a new window), Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the Russian government's Security Council today during which cyber attacks were a focus. Apparently the number of attacks targeting state-owned companies, financial institutions, medical providers, and news websites in the country have increased several-fold.
Putin said, "Targeted attempts are being made to disable the internet resources of Russia's critical information infrastructure," and that "Serious attacks have been launched against the official sites of government agencies. Attempts to illegally penetrate the corporate networks of leading Russian companies are much more frequent as well."
Notable targets for these attacks include Russia's second largest bank VTB, online marketplace Avito, e-commerce company Wildberries, tech company Yandex, food delivery company Delivery Club, and video hosting website RuTube. Putin believes the best countermeasure is a focus on domestic technology and equipment, while also acknowledging sanctions have meant technical support for foreign software and products has stopped.
Focusing on domestic technology to make IT systems more resilient may prove much more difficult than Putin realizes. With access to the latest PC hardware disappearing, it seems Russia's IT future relies on a slow Chinese x86 CPU and legalizing software piracy. And who is going to carry out the work required to improve the protection of state-owned systems, prisoners with IT skills?
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