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WTF Wtf?? Why would that be a surprise? :confused: The TPMS sensor is just a transmitter, it doesn't know where on the car it is. You have to tell the system where each sensor is. The procedure is in the CTS-V FAQ, or you can take it to the dealer and pay them an hour's labor for 3min of work. |
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04-09-13, 12:09 PM
Has anyone installed an aftermarket system on their ATS? I have a sub, pioneer components and tweeders I would like to install...but would like to know if anyone has done it yet...I do remember Bose having their own amplifiers and such, so i dont know if it would be a pain in the a$$....Also, does anyone know what size the speakers in the front door panels are?
04-09-13, 01:00 PM
I have been asking Crutchfield for a while and they still haven't listed speaker sizes for the ATS. They are usually faster on this.
04-09-13, 10:10 PM
If you search on Metra, it will provide you the size information.
I am currently gathering equipment to do an install in the next month... One JL 10TW3, JL XD500/3, JL XD400/4 and am still trying to figure out what speakers to go with in the front and processor to equalize/integrate with CUE...
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October 11, 2006 At the Fall Processor Forum, chipmakers talk speed and arithmetic. NEC, meanwhile, readies a digital olive branch. TAGS: chip company, Sun Sparc, NEC Electronics Corp., AMD Opteron, AMD, Barcelona, quad-core, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, IBM Corp., blog, multimedia, Intel
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Witness Interview: Father Patrick Monahan, Priest at St. John's Catholic Church
Saturday, December 9, 2000 - 3:00 p.m.
Pursuant to Incident Report # 004516-08L-2000, this witness was identified as the director of the church donation program. Father Monahan was interview by Det. Sam Murphy in the rectory at St. John's Catholic Church.
SM = Detective S. Murphy
FPM = Father Patrick Monahan
SM: For the record, could you please state your name and address.
FPM: Father Patrick David Monahan. I live here in the St. John's rectory at 403 University Avenue, Oxford.
SM: Father Monahan, I appreciate your cooperation in this matter and allowing me to come at such a late hour. I won't take up much of your time.
FPM: It's nothing, my child. How may I help you?
SM: As we discussed on the phone, we received a report of a coat donated to United Way that appeared to have blood on it. According to their records, that donation came from St. John's parcel. We've brought the coat for you to examine.
FPM: Is that it there? In the bag?
SM: Yes, I'm afraid we have to keep it in the bag to protect it, in case there is forensic evidence. You understand?
FPM: Well, sure I understand. What is it you think I can tell you about this coat?
SM: Do you recognize it?
FPM: Do I recognize it? You mean, do I know who it might have belonged to?
SM: Yes, Father, that's what I mean.
FPM: It's very hard to say. There is nothing extraordinary about it. A simple cloth coat, it could have belonged to anyone.
SM: Of course, but is there anyone in your parish who wore such a coat, that comes to mind?
FPM: Many of our parishioners wear ordinary clothing. I suppose I could say I've seen coats of this type on several of our worshipers.
SM: Anyone specifically come to mind?
FPM: Well... Mary O'Keefe has a coat like this. I believe Mrs. Rose may also have one that is similar. Possibly a few others.
SM: What about Peggy LeClaire? Does she wear a coat like this?
FPM: Yes, I think so. Though I have to admit I never looked closely at any of their coats. But I believe they all wear cloth coats like this.
SM: Okay, fair enough. How does the donation process work? Do you keep any records?
FPM: I'm afraid it's not nearly that organized. We have a box in the foyer of the catechism and people just put things in that they want to donate.
SM: Does anyone check the box?
FPM: I do, when it seems to be getting too full, I call the folks over at United Way to pick it up. Then we place the empty box back in the foyer for further donations.
SM: I see. Do you check the pockets or anything before you hand them over to United Way? In case somebody has left something in them?
FPM: Sometimes. If it looks as if there is something in it, then we check. If it's something valuable, we post a note on the bulletin board to check the lost and found. If it's loose change, it goes in the poor box. If it's old receipts or something of that nature, we throw it away.
SM: To your knowledge, nothing like that was found in this bunch of clothing?
FPM: Not that I'm aware of. Let me check the lost and found. It's right here in the closet. Oh, here's something. Is that a brown coat?
SM: Yes, it's a brown coat.
FPM: Apparently, this glove and set of keys were found in the pocket of a brown coat. But as you can see, no one has claimed it. It's kind of surprising. You'd think someone would need their keys, but... maybe they're an old set. Would you like to take these things with you?
SM: Yes, Father, I would. No need to take them out of the bag. I'll just take them as is.
FPM: Of course, here you go.
SM: Thank you, Father Pat.
FPM: Do you think it will help you locate the owner of the coat?
SM: I think it might.
FPM: Anything else I can help you with?
SM: No, I think that does it. Thanks again, for your time.
FPM: You're very welcome, Samantha. Hope to see you at Mass sometime soon. We have one in just a little while, after I hear confessions.
SM: Now Father, you know I'm not Catholic. But if I was, you know I'd be here.
FPM: Well, it never hurts to ask. Bless you, child. Go with God.
SM: Thank you, Father. You too!
End interview 3:37 p.m.
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No, The flightseeing trip to Antartica was sold out to my surprise. A couple that went on it thought it was fantastic, especially the presentation before they left. The problem with this and Torre are they are too expensive.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1435 | Subject: Free simulation software From: Bard Ermentrout Date: Thu, 23 Sep 93 10:41:48 -0500 F R E E S I M U L A T I O N S O F T W A R E I thought perhaps that modellers etc might be interested to know of the availability of software for the analysis and simulation of dynamical and probabilistic phenomena. xpp is available free via anonymous ftp. It solves integro-differential equations, delay equations, iterative equations, all combined with probabilistic models. Postscript output is supported. A variety of numerical methods are employed so that the user can generally be sure that the solutions are accurate. Examples are connectionist type neural nets, biophysical models, models with memory, and models of cells with random inputs or with random transitions. A graphical interface using X windows as well as numerous plotting options are provided. The requirements are a C compiler and an OS capable of running X11. The software has been successfully compiled on DEC,HP,SUN,IBM,NEXT workstations as well as on a PC running Linux. Once it is compiled, no more compilation is necessary as the program can read algebraic expressions and interpret them in order to solve them. The program has been used in various guises for the last 5 years by a variety of mathematicians, physicists, and biologists. To get it follow the instructions below: - ------------Installing XPP1.6-------------------------------- XPP is pretty simple to install although you might have to add a line here and there to the Makefile. You can get it from ( here is how: ftp cd /pub bin get xpp1.6.tar.Z quit uncompress xpp1.6.tar.Z tar xf xpp1.6.tar make -k If you get errors in the compilation it is likely to be one of the following: 1) gcc not found in which case you should edit the Makefile so that it says CC= cc 2) Cant find X include files. Then edit the line that says CFLAGS= .... by adding -I where is where the include files are for X, e,g, -I/usr/X11/include 3) Cant find X libraries. Then add a line LDFLAGS= -L right after the CFLAGS= line where is where to find the X11 libraries then change this line: $(CC) -o xpp $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS) to this line $(CC) -o xpp $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) That should do it!! If it still doesnt compile, then you should ask your sysadmin about the proper paths. Finally, some compilers have trouble with the GEAR algorithm if they are optimized so you should remove the optimization flags i.e. replace CFLAGS= -O2 -I with CFLAGS= -I delete all the .o files and recompile Good luck! Bard Ermentrout Send comments and bug reports to |
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'Damsels in Distress' (April 11, 2012)
At the (fictional) Seven Oaks college student orientation, a transfer student, Lily, is forcibly befriended by a clutch of primly dressed specimens named Violet, Rose and Heather. Ringleader Violet, played by Greta Gerwig, spies a soul in need of assistance, a lump of insecure clay ready for molding. At Seven Oaks, Violet declares, "an atmosphere of male barbarism predominates. But we're going to change that."
In no time Violet introduces Lily to the unruly local male student populace, which is unruly only by Stillman standards. (The conversational level runs somewhat higher than, say, "National Lampoon's Van Wilder.") Violet and company also turn the new kid in town on to the satisfactions of running the campus Suicide Prevention Center and to Violet's most cherished dream: to initiate a worldwide dance craze of her own devising, built around a tune called "The Sambola."
With a title pulling a variation from the lovely 1937 Fred Astaire musical "A Damsel in Distress," Stillman's latest concerns a young woman either adopted by a fabulously odd trio of new pals or indoctrinated into the most twee cult in collegiate history. It's all in your receptivity to Stillman's brittle humor.
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In each of Stillman's four films to date, beginning with the swell "Metropolitan" in 1990 and moving on to "Barcelona" four years later, the dialogue bubbles up from a peculiarly nostalgic realm, as if aching for a return to the days when the bon mot meant more than hammer-headed put-down. Whatever his films' locales or time frames, one could be listening to moneyed characters of privilege straight out of Edith Wharton or earnest young strivers — those slightly outside the bubble of maximum financial ease — akin to the folks found in Philip Barry's "Holiday." Stillman's scripts wear their plots lightly but invest in felicity of verbal expression seriously, as seriously as the way Megalyn Echikunwoke's stern, snippy Rose judges each new boy in sight as a "rat playboy operator."
Gerwig is a wonderful paradox on screen: a big, strapping blonde who never, ever muscles a scene in her direction, her feather-light touch doing wonders with Stillman's most candied banter, turning it into something like actual human speech. Any time an audience (or many critics) encounter dialogue that sounds "written," you can smell the negative rebound coming a mile off. Most comedies today, and most comedies of every era (even Preston Sturges' era, the exception to which was Preston Sturges), are content to pile up situational contrivances without the verbal wit. It's easier. Stillman is different; his notions of female/male rituals of courtship may be science fiction, but they're a breath of fresh air.
If it's "about" anything, "Damsels in Distress" deals with Violet's triumph over adversities and assumptions largely of her own making. The film treats depression and despair and young love with just enough gravity so the movie doesn't float away completely. The romantic complications and pairings evoke Shakespeare, or at least Gershwin, and the movie's climax is a full-on musical number set to "Things Are Looking Up" (from the '37 Astaire picture). A charming tune. And in its own arch key, helped by sweet performances from Gerwig, Analeigh Tipton (Lily), Zach Woods (as the editor of the school newspaper, The Complainer) and others, the film — a contraption, but a likable one — establishes its own set of rules and sticks to them.
'Damsels in Distress' -- 3 stars
MPAA rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic content including some sexual material)
Running time: 1:39
Opens: Friday
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Apparently they missed the first study's conclusions
It also contains alarming language, such as:
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RE: America is ruled by idiots
By RedemptionAD on 3/17/2011 9:28:22 PM , Rating: 3
I declare that to run for a a political office you must pass both an IQ test and score above 120 and an ethics test which you should score "not a dbag" or its equivalent.
RE: America is ruled by idiots
By rcc on 3/18/2011 1:51:16 PM , Rating: 2
I'd agree, except that I know a lot of people with sub 120 IQs that are awesome administrators.
Not to mention that traditional IQ testing really just tests your ability to take a test. People that choke on tests won't score to their potential.
Now, if they can make a working ethics test......
Hey, make them play the intro to the early Ultima games where they used you answers to questions to determine your class. : )
RE: America is ruled by idiots
By RedemptionAD on 3/18/2011 11:37:53 PM , Rating: 2
Either way, 116 is average so 120 isn't asking for much more than competence. I scored a 167 like ten years ago and I'm a lot smarter even proportionately than I was then. So it should at least eliminate the complete idiots. We should also remember that being a secretary isn't the same as being a politician. Politicians walk around with a loaded gun aimed at the general public they should have half a brain about how the affect of what they do will have on us. Heck, they don't even pay taxes, yet they are in charge of tax code, WTF.
RE: America is ruled by idiots
By RedemptionAD on 3/18/2011 11:53:28 PM , Rating: 2
People need to understand that the bigger the government is, the more tax burden gets placed on non-government employees. Either they need to get smaller, or start paying taxes like the rest of us. It should be "By the people, for the people, like the people."
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The truck has been found by authorities
Cobalt-60 is most often used in hospital radiotherapy machines.
Source: NPR
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RE: so will everyone
By Amedean on 12/6/2013 2:25:19 AM , Rating: 4
This conversation brings back old memories in my Army days when I was a infantry paratrooper in the 82d Airborne.
Back in 2003 little known but I was part of a detachment on a mission here:
because we had to recover a larger than a baseball bat sized rod of Cobalt 60. Below that small town was the former Iraqi Army chemical weapons school and depot where an unknowing villager was paid by Al-Qaeda to drag that rod to his home.
I imagine the original intention was to make a dirty bomb.... needless to say America's finest including myself had to knowingly guard this exposed rod with all the understanding that we may all die of cancer in a few years.
Had a small lump on my scalp ever since but it is non-malignant. One guy in my company got breast cancer and another a tumor on one testicle. Either way, the VA wont accept documentation for this exposure and I am left today footing the bill taking precautionary antioxidants and anti-neoplastic supplements for as many years.
There you go, the unheard sacrifices soldiers knowingly accept to protect lives...
P.S. to the south west across the road from the spot I marked on Google Maps is 3 large facilities that were industrial weapons factories which also manufactured G5 howitzers and ammunition. Yes, chemical weapons as well. It is also the site of this disaster where I used to walk through unknowingly:
RE: so will everyone
By Amedean on 12/6/2013 2:29:05 AM , Rating: 2
My appologies, the correct map link is here:
Google maps got confused...
RE: so will everyone
By sorry dog on 12/6/2013 11:07:34 AM , Rating: 2
If that's the story, then you have my gratitude for your service.
I'm curious about the V.A. situation. Can you elaborate?
RE: so will everyone
By Amedean on 12/6/2013 11:46:50 AM , Rating: 2
Yeah, the VA only covers conditions diagnosed during service or "proven" service connected.
Hypothetical hopefully, but if I were to develop cancer it would require a miracle of paperwork to form a service connection. Let alone, by the time the paperwork would have been finished I would probably have died. I was even advised to not mention my cobalt-60 exposure should that happen to reduce paperwork so they said to claim "excessive sun exposure" as the most probable cause.
To give you a broader perspective on the issue, I broke my wrist in Afghanistan, cracked a few bones on my feet, cronic joint pains (naturally)......sports injuries apparently. Never played sports either but I have been fighting this and the exposure issue for over 5 years.
All the process is for is to reduce legacy costs of our many years at war.
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Paul Otellini holds up a wafer with 6400 cores
Intel promises teraflop chips within the next five years
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RE: Sounds nice
By Clauzii on 9/26/2006 7:22:00 PM , Rating: 2
The right answer is this:
Intel had an ALU-part running 10GHz. NOT a whole CPU.
I also don't think this will be 80 equal cores. probably 4 or 8 normal ones, and some "CELL"-like stuff in the rest for fast FPU etc.
RE: Sounds nice
By Tyler 86 on 9/26/2006 8:07:14 PM , Rating: 2
I wonder what the architecture is like in each of these 80 cores...
Today on x86 architecture, we work with 8 GP registers, 8 FPU/MMX registers, and 8 SSE/XMM, (or, with amd64, 16/16/16) while IA-64 architectures have 128 GP registers, and then some...
They used tera '-flops', which indicates fl oating point o erations p er s econd... so I'm assuming each of those simple processors are low precision (maybe less than 32-bit precision, eg fp24, fp16, maybe less, & perhaps non-IEEE?) with maybe 2 internal registers and direct memory access? ... but at 3.1ghz...
If it can do a teraflop at 3.1ghz... that's ridiculous...
The "PS3 has been announced as having a theoretical 2.18 TFLOPS", but most probably believe that's crap...
ATi claims the X1900 architecture is capable of 554 GFLOPS (0.554 TFLOPS), and crossfire isn't exactly unheard of ... they run at ~600Mhz... so...
Still, extra dimensionally stacked wafers makes my mouth water... that's an easy gateway to high performance.
RE: Sounds nice
By JeffDM on 9/26/2006 9:30:19 PM , Rating: 2
A theoretical teraflop on an 80 core SIMD CPU running at 3.1GHz doesn't sound too ridiculous, especially if each core has two floating point SIMD units with two pieces of data per instruction.
RE: Sounds nice
By Tyler 86 on 9/26/2006 9:36:16 PM , Rating: 2
Sorry, not ridiculous in that it's possible... It's ridiculous that it doesn't do more, considering, theoreticly, that a 'single core' X1900 architecture GPU at ~1200Ghz, with appropriate memory bandwidth, can do over 1 teraflop...
RE: Sounds nice
Yeah, my thought too.
RE: Sounds nice
By Tyler 86 on 10/3/2006 1:16:20 PM , Rating: 2
Ah crap, I just realized, I said 1200 G hz, I meant 1200Mhz... but you guys knew that, right?
RE: Sounds nice
Doesn't an ALU in a P4 run at double the clockspeed?
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Electromagnetic Theory: PHAS3201, Winter 2008
7. Waves in Conducting Media
1 Conductors
• All effects stem from the wave equation:
2 ∂E ∂2E
E − gµ − µ 2 =0 (1)
∂t ∂t
• In a conducting medium, J = gE, with conductance g
• Now see the effect on the plane wave:
E = E0 exp i (k · r − ωt) (2)
Dispersion Relation
• The dispersion relation is:
k2 = µ ω2 1 + (3)
• We get a variation of k (or λ) with ω
• Remember that vg = dω/dk and vp = ω/k
• g → 0: poor conductor, so k 2 = µ ω 2 and vp = vg
Good Conductors
• If g >> ω, we have a good conductor, and
k 2 = iµgω ⇒ k = + iµgω (4)
• What is i?
• We write:
√ π 1
2 1
i = exp i = exp iπ/4 = √ (1 + i) (5)
2 2
• So we write k = kr + iki
Skin depth
• When we put this into E, we find:
E = E0 exp i [(kr + iki ) · r − ωt] (6)
= E0 (exp −ki · r) (exp i [kr · r − ωt]) (7)
• This is a normal travelling wave
• It is exponentially damped in the direction of k
• We define an attenuation:
E0 (d) = E0 (0) exp (−d/δ) (8)
PHAS3201 Winter 2008 Section VII. Waves in Conducting Media 1
PHAS3201: Electromagnetic Theory
Skin Depth
• We define the skin depth:
1 2
δ= = (9)
ki µωg
• An EM wave falling from air to good conductor will penetrate a few δ
• For copper δ = 8.5mm at 60Hz, δ = 7.1µm at 100 MHz
• Hence waveguides confine EM waves to the space around conductors
2 Reflection At Metal Surface
We start with the refractive index, n, which can be (and will be here !) complex.
Refractive Index
• We know that n = ck/ω
• If we substitute in from the results above, assuming µ = µ0 we get:
c√ 1+i g
n= µgω √ = (1 + i) (10)
ω 2 2ω 0
• A “good” conductor, as defined earlier, has g >> ω
• Here, |n| >> 1
• Consider normal incidence at a metal surface
3 Plasmas
A neutral plasma can be thought of as a group of massive, slowly moving positive ions with a cloud of free
electrons surrounding it (of density Ne electrons per unit volume) so that the whole system is neutral. The system
is homogeneous on macroscopic length scales, so that there are no large areas of positive or negative charge. If
there is a local fluctuation, so that the electrons are displaced by x, there is a resulting polarisation, P = −Ne ex,
leading to a restoring force on the electrons.
In taking this approach we are expressing the local build up of charge density due to an electromagnetic wave
in the same way as we did for a dielectric: as an induced polarisation charge density. It’s presence will later be
expressed through an effective permittivity, so we will be justified in setting · D = 0 and also · E = 0 for a
linear medium. The wave equation for E that we have used before will therefore remain valid.
Plasma Frequency
• Consider a slab of plasma, width s, area A
• Displace all electrons in slab by x
• Produces charge build-up Q = Ne exA (equivalent to dipole moment density P)
Ne e2
• There are oscillations with frequency ωP = me 0
PHAS3201 VII. Waves in Conducting Media 2
PHAS3201: Electromagnetic Theory
Figure 1: A slab of plasma in which the electrons have been displaced by a small amount x.
• For an EM wave in a plasma, how does k depend on ω ?
• Collisions between electrons and ions are assumed infrequent
• For a high frequency wave, consider free electrons
• (only for a few cycles)
• Compare to a metal where ohmic collisions dissipate energy
• We find:
ω2 ωp
k2 = 1− (11)
c2 ω2
• Consider a wave with ω > ωp
• k 2 > 0, so k is real and there is no attenuation
• Let us consider the group and phase velocities
• We find:
vp vg = c2 (12)
• If ω < ωp , k 2 < 0 and we have absorption of energy and damping over some attenuation length, L
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I am 3 years old
December 10th 2006 9:28 am
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It is my birthday today. There was no celebration at shangrila, but I got pan fried pork chops for lunch and everyone said I look prettier now that I'm 3. We had friends come over--cha's friend power pig and my mamas' cousin and auntie. Even the painters came. But I wasn't allowed to play with them. I heard that's coz the painters painted fomfomfom's nikes and crocs, and also ah bee's birkenstocks. They were supposed to just paint the house. Fomfomfom swore they would have painted her car too if she had left it in the driveway.
We took pictures and lit candles on my birthday cake. It was a mango cake.I wasn't allowed to have any but my mamas enjoyed it for me. There were sultry and rousing renditions of birthday songs for me by ah bee and fomfomfom. When fomfomfom was cutting my cake on the table, a dragonfly flew into the lamp above the cake. It dislodged 2 dead flies which almost dropped onto my cake. Then it kinda got itself electrocuted. It thrashed about and buzzed a little and ah bee and fomfomfom freaked out coz they didn't want to eat dragonfly cake. Ah bee took care of it. It is in the bin now. Later ah bee ate her cake and asked if that crunchy bit was the nuts or the dragonfly. Fomfomfom told her to pretend it's nuts, life would be easier.
They forgot to cook an egg yolk for me. I always have egg yolk on my birthdays. I had leftovers from lunch for dinner.
Then me and fomfomfom and ah bee watched sister act 2 together until ah ma and ah gong came back from sending the auntie and cousin home. Then ah ma and ah gong gave me lovin'.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1527 | The difference between prey drive & hunting instinct
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Barked: Mon Oct 1, '12 7:12am PST
I think prey drive is more to describe the juvenile-like way of just chasing things. No method to it, just chase.
Whereas hunting instinct is used more to describe a more methodical approach. I think someone said something similar above? Same general thing though.
Here it'd be described as prey drive given just the total carelessness about the chase.
And this is more methodical, hunting instinct. An actual attempt to catch. He actually tries. Although gets confused by the initial lack in movement. Pheasants aren't that smart. laugh out loud
I don't think that stalking always means hunting instinct nor that hunting instinct is just stalking. It's just when the dog seems to really have it thought out what he wants. He has a goal. Whereas prey drive is more just for funzies. That's my take on it anyway.
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In her blog, Suzanne Clothier, a marvelous writer and trainer, has an entry entitled "Drive and Brakes and Steering." I'd like to quote from it some.
"For those who find the whole notion of biting and gripping worrisome, perhaps it is easiest to think about it this way: substitute "bite" or "grip" with retrieve, herd, chase. All of these behaviors are aspects of the predatory sequence. In his books DOGS, Ray Coppinger does a wonderful job of explaining the predatory behavior chain - I often recommend his book solely for that chapter.
In our dogs, the behaviors we see are the same ones that would be seen in a wolf's predatory sequence . These behaviors are instinctive, a natural part of the canine behavioral repertoire. Perhaps most importantly, when expressed by our domestic dogs, these behaviors can show considerable deviation from the natural behavior.
Specialized breeds reflect the results of selective breeding for specific behaviors or exaggerations of some behaviors or inhibition of other behaviors.Thus herding dogs exhibit strong chase behaviors but with inhibited bite/grip and highly inhibited killing behaviors, The Border Collie's famous "eye" is a result of generations of breeding for an exaggeration of a natural behavior. Bird dogs have the bite/grip intensely inhibited, thus the desired "soft mouth." In the case of pointing breeds, the naturally occurring stalk behavior is exaggerated to become a frozen "point".
The bite/grip/grab behavior is strong in many working lines, and there is a genetic component to how the dogs grip, where they grip, what will trigger a bite or grip. For example, some dogs bite low while others come up higher -- this becomes very clear when you see dogs worked on sheep or cattle. Are they moving the animals by nipping towards their heels (thus the term "heelers")? or grabbing a hindquarter or going higher for the shoulder/neck or higher still for nose ("headers")?
For many working lines (police K9, Schutzhund, ring sport, etc), there is a tendency to bite hard and to grip with a full mouth bite that goes right to the molars. This is prized, and for good reason: in an attack situation, you want the dog bringing his entire jaw power to bear, not merely the incisors and canines (sometimes called a "bitchy" bite, a grip that is more easily dislodged). These full, hard bites are evident from an early age in puppies from these lines, just as birdy pups demonstrate a keen interest in things with feathers, and field bred retriever puppies carry things, and herding puppies respond to moving things with delight.
Selective breeding is a way of engineering a bigger engine for that behavior (or set of behaviors), so that we can easily shape those behaviors into what we want, whether that's a retrieve of a duck or sheep neatly penned. But balance is the key in any working performance. If you think of instinctive behavior as the engine that drives the dog, then the balance comes in the form of the brakes and steering and multiple gears that allow that engine to be effectively utilized to good purpose. Just as it would not be okay to let a herding dog chase sheep willy-nilly or treat a toddler like an errant ewe, it's also necessary to teach a strong biting dog what is and is not appropriate for those jaws."
I think Clothier explains this question the best. thinking
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I think "prey drive" is something more instinctive and basic and "hunting instinct" is a modified (selectively developed) part of that drive. To me prey drive is a desire to kill things, very basic and critically important for survival. This strong instinct has been preserved in many types of dogs, both intentionally as in terriers, and not bred away from in Nordic breeds. The idea of hunting instinct is generally reserved for sporting breeds and refers to specific traits, like pointing or retrieving. These are unique traits (or parts of the prey capture sequence) that were isolated and enhanced through selective breeding.
My God-dog is a Sammy mix Brady and he has a huge prey drive. I was walking him once with my two pups and my guys who were off leash found an opossum, my Selli just wanted to sniff it and my Duff, a Sheltie Mix, barked at it. I went over with Brady on a leash (because I know how he is), to stop Duffy from barking, and I got one step too close and that was the end of the opossum. I have a friend who has a Brittany Cooper who one day brought her an opossum and dropped it in front of her. She thought the opossum was dead but she saw it run off a few minutes later. Brady had the desire to kill the opossum while Cooper just had the desire to bring it to her.
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I Was Bitten by a Dog as a Kid -- and Nobody Freaked Out
Nobody blamed the dog. Nobody blamed me. In those days, cooler heads prevailed.
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When I was about five years old, my parents took me and my sister to visit another couple with whom they were friends, the Campbells. While the adults sat around talking and sipping wine, we kids got bored and wandered around the big house.
In another room quite away, I met the Campbell family dog. She was a senior Basset Hound named Cookie –- white and orange with a grayed muzzle, and chubby -– lying quietly on the floor. I was pretty excited to see her –- our family didn't have a dog, so this was a novelty. I went to her and talked to her, petting her head, leaning over her. And suddenly I felt a “bang!” sensation right on my nose. It stung, like walking into a door, my vision turning red for a moment.
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Me in my kindergarten photo.
I backed away from the dog, who I decided obviously didn't like me, which hurt my feelings, as I'd hoped to be friends. But I didn't realize she had just bitten me. Maybe I didn't even have the concept of that possibility. I thought we'd just bumped noses in some uncomfortable way.
Later on, I remember rubbing my nose because it itched. My hand came away bloody. Somewhat bewildered, I ambled back into the room where my folks were sitting with their friends. Once the adults got a look at me, they reacted, and I started to piece everything together from their conversation.
No one panicked, though -– they were just discussing what needed to be done, which was to take me to the hospital. Mrs. Campbell worked at the local hospital as a head nurse, and she escorted us in, telling her colleagues matter-of-factly what had happened. As a nurse, she was level-headed about the whole incident. Fortunately, my parents weren't overreacting, either. There was no hysteria, just calm comforting for their child, giving me the sense that everything was going to be fine.
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My nose needed a few stitches. While I was getting patched up, the adults asked me about what had happened and I described it as best I could, although I didn't comprehend the whys of it. Mrs. Campbell told me she was sorry Cookie had bitten me. She said it wasn't that Cookie didn't like me, it had just been a misunderstanding of some kind. That made me feel better. I heard my father say to his friends, “It's our fault for not keeping an eye on the kids. I'm sorry about all this.”
Years later, I reflect on this incident as not only un-traumatic, but as a singularly positive experience. I was then, and am even more so now, extremely proud of my parents' behavior and attitudes. All the adults involved acted like just that, adults. Each accepted their part of the responsibility for not having prevented the accident. They weren't angry with each other. They weren't upset with the dog or the child.
My parents weren't dog savvy, and they're not particularly animal-loving. But they still acknowledged that this was in no way Cookie's fault, but rather their own, for failing to supervise their child in another's home. The Campbells, for their part, certainly could have had Cookie contained in a room or crate that wasn't accessible to the visiting children. But she was a nice old dog, and I bet they never thought she would bite. Yet, the Campbells knew that what happened wasn't the child's fault –- at any rate, they extended the benefit of the doubt that I wasn't doing anything intentionally mean to the dog to provoke her. They went out of their way to reassure me, which was a very meaningful kindness.
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Even at my young age and inexperience with dogs, I remember also feeling strongly that there should be no “blame” upon the dog. I had been worried about the adults finding out something had happened -– worried that Cookie would get in trouble, when I just knew, by some instinct, that she shouldn't. I'd have been devastated if any harmful consequences had come to the dog, even though she wasn't my pet and I'd just met her. My anxiety was that the Campbells might be mad at their own dog. They weren't, though -– perhaps they were surprised by Cookie's action, but they didn't lash out at her. I suppose in the end it was simply a learning experience for them, that it's best not to leave kids and dogs unsupervised, even when you do have a gentle, calm dog, which I'm sure Cookie was, generally.
Of course, everyone was glad that the bite wasn't more severe. The way that my parents and their friends handled the situation, though, gave me a great example and lesson. Today I have a small but noticeable scar on the lower edge of my nostril; but no emotional scarring, no fear of dogs or other fallout. I attribute that, in part, to the admirable actions of my parents and these dog owners.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1529 | Big Brother (TV Series)
Watch it!!! You know you want to!!! - Big Brother (TV Series) TV Programme
Newest Review: ... 'live launch' (which was over 2 nights this time) I'm totally and utterly hooked. This series started on 13 June and is on for 10 weeks... more
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Advantages: Interesting and engaging!!
Disadvantages: We need more!!!!!
Big Brother as a show has received not an unsubstantial amount of knocks over the years, often by those who have not fully allowed themselves to get involved with the programme and follow all the relationships and conflicts going on in 'The House.' But I think these knocks are unfairly administered.
There are so many different levels on which one can watch big brother that it appeals to a whole array of people. The two levels on which i watch it are the sheer enjoyment of the programme - the idea of the programme does just fascinate me and is made all the more enjoyable by the various tasks and such that Big Brother sets them. The second, deeper level on which I watch big brother is my fascination with the way in which humans react with each other and also themselves and the way in which we adapt mentally to certain situations.
Davina McCall is the perfect host for the show and so passionate about the show and brings out that passion in other people too.
The current shows for the last EVER CBB are around an hour long and are usually on between the brackets of 9 and 11, some nights it's 9 some it's 10 and so on, it seems to vary. There are yet to be any evicitions so it's not too late to catch up on all the house action.
Summary: I think even if you hate big brother you need to give it a chance, it's the last one!!!! |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1566 | 2kids asks:
How can I get my son and daughter to get along?
My problem has to do with my 7 year old daugther and 2 1/2 year old son. He likes to do nasty things to her but I always deal with him. The problem is that she doesn't act like he's only 2 1/2. And I fing it hard to find consequences that work with him. There are logical consequences but usually, the only thing that works for him is sitting on his bed. But using the bedroom is a bad idea because I don't want him to not like going to bed. As for my daugther, she axagerates the situations and often adds little lies. I don't like not believing her but sometimes I just can't. In the evening, I don't have the patience for this stupid behaviour and say things, to her, that I regret afterwards. It seems she does things to get her brother in trouble, thinking I don't know what sh's doing and it just gets me more frustrated. I need ideas, please. Thank you. Lisa
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It sounds like you are very frustrated in dealing with your kids not getting along with each other. Parents often find that whatever their children€™s age difference, sibling rivalry can be tiring! One of the first things you may want to ask yourself is, €œWhy?€" Why do they feel the need to €œpick€" at each other? Frequently there is some sort of jealousy or competition between siblings that is very common. There can also be a power struggle for your attention, even if it is for negative behavior.
Here are some basic tips that you might want to try proactively to set them up for positive interactions:
1. Make sure that you are giving positive messages and hugs to both children equally no matter what their age. Never compare your children to each other in front of them.
2. If you notice that their behavior toward each other is worse at night when you are the most tired, you may want to pour on positive attention to both of them with hugs, praise, etc. right away when you get them home. If you give them some positive attention up front, it could prevent the negative behaviors from starting.
3. Do something individual with each child and make sure that you are unable to be interrupted by the other one. Avoid distractions, relax and enjoy your kids as individuals.
4. As a consequence for not being nice to their sibling, you might want to try having them do something nice for them, compliment them, or do an activity together.
5. Catch them being good--praise them when they are getting along and being nice to each other.
6. As the older sibling, you may ask your daughter to occasionally to help the younger one with a task so they are put in a helping role rather than just picking on them.
Hopefully some of these ideas help. Sometimes it is the little things that get you through the more stressful times!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1582 | The Engadget Interview VP of design Scott Croyle talks HTC One at MWC 2013
It's no secret that we're big fans of the HTC One here at Engadget -- we've already written at length about the handset's hardware design, software features and imaging chops. At MWC, we were lucky to spend some time with Scott Croyle, VP of design, to discuss the company's latest superphone. We talked about the handset's delightful zero-gap aluminum and plastic unibody and how HTC wanted to "break down that last barrier" of integrating antennae in a metal casing without making compromises. He explained that the One's design was inspired by high-end watches, and it turns out that the zero-gap machining process was developed in-house specifically for this device. Some of the antennae (such as WiFi and GPS) are actually machined as part of the unibody and coexist on the same aluminum panel.
We then chatted about the gorgeous 4.7-inch 1080p display which was supplied by the same manufacturer which provided the screen for the Droid DNA and One X, and the daring Ultrapixel camera, which packs four million large (2µm) pixels and OIS. Mr. Croyle mentioned that while the business side is incredibly important, the decision to use Ultrapixels was focused on the needs of consumers. We asked if limiting the number of pixels was in any way driven by the software -- the desire to implement Zoe and perhaps curtail the massive amounts of data gathered and processed by the feature. It turns out that the development of the sensor and optics started a long time before the software. As for Zoe, "nobody's redefined what a photograph could mean" and HTC was eager to try something new. Our full video interview is yours to watch after the break.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1628 | Hackers claim attacks on Egyptian government computers
Wednesday - 12/28/2011, 8:05am EST
The hacker group Anonymous claims it took down a dozen Egyptian government websites this week. They say the hack attack is in retaliation for the government's treatment of protestors.
Infosecurity online reports Anonymous took down the sites using a denial of service attack. Among the casualties was the president's office site and the bureau for tourism page. Protestors have been demonstrating in Egypt demanding the military government move faster on democratic reforms.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1650 | Social Question
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How dangerous is to workout after drinking alochol?
Asked by bobby78 (155 points ) October 30th, 2011
Usually I workout every morning, even when I get drunk, which is not that often.Recently a friend told me that’s like the worst thing for the heart, tell me your thoughts about this.
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whitetigress's avatar
It wouldn’t be bad the first time around. Practicing it though is detrimental to your liver.
RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar
Are we talking about “drunk” or “drinking”?
I don’t know about the dangers… But the stupidity meter shoots up pretty high. Nothing like bench pressing an iron bar directly over the neck while intoxicated. That is… well… did I say stupid already? Yes, I think I said it was stupid… as in really fucking dumb.
Hibernate's avatar
Now let me get this straight. You start the day by being totally drunk or you just drank last night and you feel somewhat dizzy?
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I think it depends a lot on when you did the drinking, how much you drank, and how you are feeling at the time when you go to workout. Drinking can cause dehydration, so if you aren’t drinking enough water while working out, that could be dangerous for you. If you are working out while completely drunk, then that adds a lot of dangers based on your mental status, your reaction time, and your coordination while drunk. What’s going on within your body (you heart, lungs, and liver for example) add other elements to it and varies a lot based on what you drank, how much you drank, and when you drank it.
tedd's avatar
It isn’t the smartest thing to do, but you could get by if you only do it once or twice.
I used to work out with a buddy of mine every day, and at least one time (i think maybe 2–3) he had started drinking thinking we weren’t going to work out that day. Our mile warm up just about killed him, but he actually did better with bench press that day.
(I definitely wouldn’t work out while drunk though, my friend had just had a few beers)
nikipedia's avatar
It’s not a big deal at all.
YARNLADY's avatar
You might want to discuss this with your doctor. He would know more about your overall physical condition than we would.
gondwanalon's avatar
It doesn’t sound like it is a good idea to physically workout while intoxicated. You may not be thinking clearly and possibly injure yourself with the exercise equipment or jogging in traffic, etc. Also your body is already stressed physiologically trying to detoxify and excrete the alcohol. Then at the same time you want to stress your body even more by physically working out?
Keep working out regularly but cool it with the booze and or other drugs.
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I did it through college. Nothing happened to me. But different people have different reactions to adverse things such as this. . .
If anything it made me feel better.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1724 | How would Reggie break the news that Nintendo is going third-party?
#1Dersu_UzalaPosted 3/10/2013 10:35:23 PM
Would be the most awkward press conference ever.
#2ZvolTxPosted 3/10/2013 10:37:00 PM
He'd probably take off his clothes.
Why? Just cause.
#3QlJGamerPosted 3/10/2013 10:47:58 PM
Considering Monoplizing handheld market, why would they leave hardware if anything they should stop making games and focus on their hardware.
Quite Intelligent Judging
#4plasmatic5Posted 3/10/2013 10:48:46 PM
Just to answer the what if...
My body is ready.
#5tav19Posted 3/10/2013 10:49:48 PM
He would announce it then end by saying " Oops......April's Fools" at which point an army of people dressed as Nintendo characters would march on stage and join Reggie in singing the trolololol song. :P
#6Skill4ReelPosted 3/10/2013 10:58:39 PM
He wouldn't as he would have most likely been fired before something like that ever happened.
#7sentoworfPosted 3/10/2013 11:08:08 PM
He shows a trailer for Zelda and at the end you see the PS4 and Xbox logos.
(@_@) Spinda is watching
#8overkillwfo1978Posted 3/10/2013 11:13:32 PM
I could just imagine a Zelda on my PC. Full 1080p/60fps with all graphic sliders to max. If Nintendo were to announce that they were going 3rd party, I would throw my Wii U off of an overpass in celebration.... and I like the Wii U!
I'm not interested in gaming on it, just looking for a computer that will do things fast.- horror_spooky on building a new rig
#9DeltaProjPosted 3/10/2013 11:45:20 PM
He'd most likely break the news on April 1st
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#1Kcaz64Posted 10/11/2009 3:59:31 PM
They're giving out a bunch of keys right now.
The above post is 100% serious.
#2Kcaz64(Topic Creator)Posted 10/12/2009 3:48:10 PM
Bump because people are still posting asking for keys, apparently not seeing this.
The above post is 100% serious.
#3j8262345Posted 10/12/2009 3:56:09 PM
I saw it :D
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Thanks for the link, I thought I'd never get a key.
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Thanks just got one
#6Jmaster3265Posted 10/19/2009 8:15:39 PM
Also search league of legends on facebook. I believe there is a page that has a lot of keys.
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It won't let me get it because it's only open to North American users. Could someone claim a key and email me at [email protected] ?
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Doesn't matter anymore, the game is now OUT!!!! YAY!!!!
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See, im confused. Is the game actually out? Because the the main website is still all "beta" this and "beta" that.
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It is out, technically. It's still beta though as far as players are concerned. There's only 2 maps, and the store wont be up for another month, which means an entire aspect of character progression is missing (runes). |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1733 | Question from icedragon50
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Why is Impa the only Sheikah in this game? *spoilers*
After a year I decided to finish the game (stopped before final trial of the godess), and I just killed Demise.
In OoT they say the Sheikah have gone extinct except for Impa, who is the only survivor of the race.
But in SS Impa is also the only sheikah that appears.
So now I'm wondering: Did Impa used to live in an unexplored part of the ''surface world'' where the sheikah live until the Impa from OoT is the only survivor?
Was Impa from OoT born between hylians but recognized as sheikah?
Or is the Impa in OoT the same as in SS as ghost or with use of some live potion or magic (just like she survived until zelda returned from the past). I mean, her spirit might live forth in the bracelet she got from Zelda that fell on the ground when Grannie Impa suddenly vanished...
Any ideas?
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Considering how all the humans were brought up to the Sky during the war against Demise, except for Impa I suppose, it's extremely likely that there are some Sheikah-ancestors in the sky and that's how they repopulated.
And even if all the Sheikah remained on the surface during the war, by the time Impa is the old lady, it's also likely that they simply died out. Again, perhaps there were some Sheikah up in the Sky or were hiding very well on the Surface.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1757 | The Adam Warlock wiki last edited by The_Joker on 07/13/13 09:05AM View full history
Adam has not been playable in any of his three game appearances.
War of the Gems
Adam functions as the main NPC that ferries the player from stage to stage in an effort to gather the infinity gems.
Marvel Super Heroes
In Juggernaut's ending of Marvel Super Heroes, Adam claims the gauntlet for his own after Thanos's defeat. He then sends Juggernaut back to Earth.
Marvel Heroes
Adam Warlock's current video game role is the Eternity Splinter vendor in Marvel Heroes.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/1759 | The TimeSplitters 4 wiki last edited by SaturdayNightSpecials on 06/19/13 02:43AM View full history
Timesplitters 4 was confirmed to be in development in some way or another since 2005, but focus had been given to Haze. The game would still focus on multiplayer as with the rest of the series. Continuing in the vein of Timesplitters: Future Perfect, Timesplitters 4 would also contain a fully-featured single player campaign. Rumors stated that Simon Pegg, star of the movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, would have creative input, and possibly record voice acting. The series tradition of including monkeys as characters had been confirmed, and the protagonist of the previous games, Cortez would also be returning. Concept art released later suggested that the game would also feature zombies, as well as fan-favorite Jo-Beth Casey, this time in nun attire.
On December 18th 2008, Free Radical Design, the long time developers of the Timesplitters saga shut it's doors. The English studio met for a final meeting, and for a time, the status of Timesplitters 4 was unknown. The main reason behind Free Radical's closure seemed to be the poor performance of HAZE which sold under 500,000 units, and was in development for 4 years, costing the company millions of dollars. Free Radical Design has since been acquired by Crytek, changing its name to Crytek UK. Following this, the game was placed on hold, its future uncertain.
On January 28th 2011, during an interview with CVG, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli revealed the fact that his team had been discussing completion of the game, but that nothing more was likely to happen until Crysis 2 was complete, as the former Free Radical team was responsible for the game's multiplayer portion.
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Default Seat Conversion from 2004 to 2002
Hey there guys, I am brand new to this site, and so far I love it! so many nice people and great advice.
Here is my problem. My mother is buying an 08 Tahoe and selling her 2004 Burban... i love the seats in her rig and want to swap them with the ones from my 2002 Silverado. They are two very different seats, but the bolt patten should be the same. Before i swap them out i know i am going to have a hard time with the heated part of the seats. I need some help or advise with how to convert the harness on the two.
The seats in the 02 are ONE mode (back and butt part conjoined) seats with only HI/LO option. The seats in the 04 are two way heated (separate button for butt and back) AND the seats also have a side airbag (which will be disabled when i do the swap)
ANY information would be amazing, wiring diagrams, pictures, anything.
THANK you guys so much.
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most of the seats are self contained so they want a good chassis or battery ground and a ignition hot or a constant hot (your choice). there is a great power tap on the firewall if you need or want a constant hot line....mike
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What do you mean by self contained?? Are you saying I should cut the line coming from the door panel, run a constant to it, then run it back to the seat.?
I am also confused about a power tap.? what does that mean? i think you are trying to say that i can get power if i run a line to through the firewall to the batter.
do you happen to have any wiring diagrams or know if the seats will swap easily???
p.s. thanks for replying so fast.
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sorry no diagrams. but look at the seats and see how many wires are going to the seats you want to install and look at your current set of seats. if there is just a hot and ground you can just swap the seats and most likly have no issues. if there is more or less wires you will need to see where they go and see what you need to do. if there was no power to your current seats then a good place to get power is the power tap on the firewall on the pass side.
here is what i mean
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Explosive Situation
Carl Johnson proposes a heist on Caligula's Palace to Wu Zi Mu
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Carl Johnson proposes a heist on Caligula's Palace to Wu Zi Mu
Game GTA San Andreas
For Wu Zi Mu
Location The Four Dragons Casino, Las Venturas, San Andreas
Reward $7,000
Unlocks Architectural Espionage
You've Had Your Chips
Quarry Missions
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Explosive Situation is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas given to protagonist Carl Johnson by San Fierro Triads leader Wu Zi Mu from his office at The Four Dragons Casino, located along The Strip in Las Venturas, San Andreas.
Carl has just frightened Johnny Sindacco into revealing that the Sindacco Family has been responsible for the trouble being caused to Woozie's new casino venture. Armed with this information, Carl is poised to push the mafia families out of Las Venturas, and begins to systematically dismantle their presence. Woozie next asks Carl to acquire a stash of dynamite being used at nearby Hunter Quarry. Carl goes there, collects the dynamite which were set to blow, and gets out of the quarry, while avoiding security. Carl then gives the explosives to Guppy, who was waiting outside the quarry.
(Wu Zi Mu is playing minigolf in his room. He makes a putt, and Guppy places the cup so that Woozie gets a hole-in-one)
Wu Zi Mu: Ha ha ha! The glorious sound of a hole-in-one!
Guppy: Great shot, boss.
Wu Zi Mu: Thanks.
Carl Johnson: Not bad, Woozie.
Wu Zi Mu: So the Sindacco Family was behind the attempts to sabotage our venture. I wonder why it's only them and not the others.
Carl Johnson: Probably ain't just them. Rule of the streets: don't snitch. What we need...is to hit the mafia casino. Yeah, go jack the place.
Wu Zi Mu: Hey, hitting a casino isn't like gangbanging - it's a whole different league!
Carl Johnson: Yeah, you're right, it'll take some planning, but I'm down. Shit, I always wanted to pull a heist.
(Carl makes a putt, and Guppy moves the cup so he misses)
Carl Johnson: What the - ?
Wu Zi Mu: Bad luck. Listen. You're gonna need a crew and some special equipment.
Carl Johnson: Yeah, it'll take some explosives. Always got to blow up shit to pull a heist.
Wu Zi Mu: You know what? There's an open cast mine southwest of the city limits. They must have explosives.
Carl Johnson: I'll go peep it out.
(Carl steals four bundles of dynamite)
Carl Johnson: Special delivery for Woozie. Hey, be careful with that.
Guppy: You got it, CJ. Good work!
The rewards for completing the mission are $7,000 and an increase in respect. The missions Architectural Espionage and You've Had Your Chips are unlocked. The Quarrying side mission is also unlocked.
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slowly the portrait flew open…
I gasped loudly as the dorm slowly came into view. It was like nothing I had seen in the castle before. The inside of our new common room looked exactly like the living room of a small cottage.
Two squishy couches sat facing each other across from a large fireplace. A small table sat under the window and three doors led off of the one room. The first, straight opposite the portrait hole, was clearly a bathroom. The two other doors where the ones that interested me the most. Both of the doors were totally different but I instantly new which one would be mine.
I pushed past James, and as I got closer to the door notice a small golden plaque on the door. Head Girl: Jenny Phoenix it read. A small scream escaped my lips and James looked at me like I had gone totally mad.
I gently pushed open the door and made my way inside my new bedroom. Another scream escaped me as I took in the scene before me.
At one side of the room, a four poster bed with Gryffindor hangings stood between two mahogany bedside tables. On one of the walls next to the bed, a large window took up the space, a mahogany desk and large squishy chair sitting in front of it. Directly opposite the bed, a large mahogany wardrobe and chest of drawers sat against a wall decorated with wallpaper covered in a golden and red pattern of vines with flowers coming of it. Next to the door was a full-sized mirror.
It was perfect.
Composing my face, which had the look of a kid in a candy shop, I stepped back into the common room. James had disappeared, so I turned to the bathroom door.
Inside looked like a slightly better version of the prefects bathroom. A swimming pool sized bath dominated the centre of the room and at each side of it sat cubicles which read Head Boy and Head Girl on each door. At the end of the room were two more door which I new would be toilets with private sinks.
Leaving the bathroom in a daze, I flopped down onto one of the couches and let out a contented sigh. Just then James emerged from his bedroom, the same look of amazement on his face.
“It’s great,” he said to me, before dropping down onto the other couch. I grinned at him. “This is what I always imagined my parents house would look like,” I said half to myself- half to James.
James looked at me oddly, then in a sympathetic voice whispered, “Why do you never talk about them? What happened to them that’s so bad…?” he trailed off, his eyes questioning.
I had never told anyone at Hogwarts about how my parents had died, and now looking at the kindness and curiosity written over James’ perfect features, I suddenly wanted to tell my story.
“I never talk about my parents because they died when I was six,” I started off. James’ face faded away and was replaced by the pictures of that final night as I told my story, “My mum had been able to see visions of the future and in the days of Voldemort, even though she was only 15 or so at the time of his death, was wanted by death eaters everywhere. So she had left school and went into hiding with my grandparents, keeping her visions a secret from the world. When your dad killed Voldemort, my mum went back and completed school. Everyone had forgotten about her power-or so she had thought. She met my dad, they got married and a few years later I was born. And even though Voldemort was dead, my mum still panicked that I would be taken and used against her. Because she knew that the surviving death eaters-the ones that fled the country- were still out there, waiting for there chance. The night before she died she took of her locket and gave it to me. She said it had a special kind of magic that would protect me.”
I took a break from my story to look at James. A look of horror mingled with a burning curiosity was on his face. Then I continued “the next night a group of men wearing death eater masks turned up at the house. The demanded my mum told them how to bring back Voldemort. When she said she didn’t know, they told her to use her visions to find out. But she refused. They killed her first and when my dad started to fight them, they killed him too. Then they turned on me, the little six year old girl crying for her mummy and daddy. I even remember looking at the man as he raised his wand, hearing the curse, seeing the green light.. But it didn’t work, and the locket did. The man was killed by his own curse and the rest of them fled, leaving me alone with my dead parents. I cant even remember how long I was there, just that I kept crying and shaking my parents- telling them to wake up. When I was eventually found I was nearly dead from starvation and basically heartbreak. You know, I’ve never taken off this locket or told anyone this story. I don’t even know why I’m telling you…”
I finished off my story and looked at James pleadingly, tears trailing down my cheeks . I didn’t want him to think I was mad or that I wanted his sympathy, just to understand how hard it was for me to live a life where the only (or at least the clearest) memories of my parents were the ones of their deaths.
James was looking at me oddly, a mixture of emotions written on his face. He kept moving his mouth, as if to form a question, then faltering. Eventually he looked up. “How can you live with that in your head? And those death eaters do they still exist? Do they want you?”
I stared at him for a second and then answered half truthfully. “ I don’t know if they still exist, and even if they did why would they want me- apparently I have failed to inherit my mothers skills.” I laughed lightly. Of course I didn’t know if the death eaters were still around and if they were, then yes they might want my help, but I doubt it. Revenge seems more fitting for them.
Soon after James got up and went to his bedroom. I stared at the door wondering why I had told him so much, then lied to him when he’d asked a perfectly simple question.
I got up and headed to bed, in a daze as I pulled on my pyjamas. But snuggling down into the warm sheets made me forget about everything I had just said, and the only thing I was capable of thinking was what time would I need to get up in the morning…
A/N- well here’s the new chapter! Sorry it took so long , computer problems…
Anyway, I’m not really that happy with this chapter, but let me know what you think. Do you think Jenny should have told James about her past? What do you think will happen next? Do you have any questions for me? Please leave a review and let me know what you think!
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It is the magic of polymorphism, and of Java interface vs. implementation types. Two objects can both be "instanceof" the same interface type, even though they are not of the same implementation type.
When you call "getConnection()" on a pooled connection cache manager object, you get a "logical" connection, something which implements the java.sql.Connection interface.
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Hey there. Im sure you already heard about the programm privoxy, seems to be like a proxy with filters etc (windows eG proxomitron). Well I downloaded the Fedora core 1 source and upgraded it to the newest version. The installation, the configuration everything worked fine.
But now I am like "where is it , how do I start"
I already posted one thread in the linux newbie section about "where are my programs"
And I know now, that the software is in /usr/bin or some other */bin/ directories.
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And so at last I want to know if I don't need to start the program somehow (in windows it was the good old double click) how is it here ?
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Awsome Alleteration!
I installed from source but it placed a link in sbin (I think) so all I had to do to run it was type privoxy at the command line. By default I think it installed to /usr/bin but I could be mistaken (I stowed it). I don't know how the fedora package is setup so all I can do is speculate.
Also if people could check out my post and could help me it would be great, I still can't get the thing to run. A point to a slackware packaged version of privoxy would be fantastic.
foo_bar_foo 08-26-2004 05:04 PM
(make a user named provoxy and a group named privoxy)
(i can't remember if the directory and file permissions were done during the configure or if i did some of it by hand) sorry
make sure that user privoxy can write to the /var/log directory or wherever you privoxy logs go
i coppied the config from /usr/local/etc/privoxy to usr/local/sbin/config and set it up the way i wanted
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it's this same blinking orange i get when the gui is supposed to start loading.
the CD-ROM drive light stays on, tho and there's activity in the drive, plus the HDD light blinks, showing that there's still stuff going on. so i don't get why my monitor pretends like my pc has just been shutdown.
i tried in safe graphics mode, and that didn't help either. same issue.
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Overview of the Primate Example
In this example, a phylogenetic tree is constructed from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences for the family Hominidae. This family includes gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans.
The following procedures demonstrate the phylogenetic analysis features in the Bioinformatics Toolbox™ software. They are not intended to teach the process of phylogenetic analysis, but to show you how to use MathWorks® products to create a phylogenetic tree from a set of nonaligned nucleotide sequences.
The origin of modern humans is a heavily debated issue that scientists have recently tackled by using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences. One hypothesis explains the limited genetic variation of human mtDNA in terms of a recent common genetic ancestry, implying that all modern population mtDNA originated from a single woman who lived in Africa less than 200,000 years ago.
Why Use Mitochondrial DNA Sequences for Phylogenetic Study?
Mitochondrial DNA sequences, like the Y chromosome, do not recombine and are inherited from the maternal parent. This lack of recombination allows sequences to be traced through one genetic line and all polymorphisms assumed to be caused by mutations.
Mitochondrial DNA in mammals has a faster mutation rate than nuclear DNA sequences. This faster rate of mutation produces more variance between sequences and is an advantage when studying closely related species. The mitochondrial control region (Displacement or D-loop) is one of the fastest mutating sequence regions in animal DNA.
Neanderthal DNA
The ability to isolate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from palaeontological samples has allowed genetic comparisons between extinct species and closely related nonextinct species. The reasons for isolating mtDNA instead of nuclear DNA in fossil samples have to do with the fact that:
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While there is still controversy as to whether Neanderthals are direct ancestors of humans or evolved independently, the use of ancient genetic sequences in phylogenetic analysis adds an interesting dimension to the question of human ancestry.
Ovchinnikov I., et al. (2000). Molecular analysis of Neanderthal DNA from the northern Caucasus. Nature 404(6777), 490–493.
Sajantila A., et al. (1995). Genes and languages in Europe: an analysis of mitochondrial lineages. Genome Research 5 (1), 42–52.
Krings M., et al. (1997). Neanderthal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans. Cell 90 (1), 19–30.
Jensen-Seaman, M., Kidd K. (2001). Mitochondrial DNA variation and biogeography of eastern gorillas. Molecular Ecology 10(9), 2241–2247.
Searching NCBI for Phylogenetic Data
The NCBI taxonomy Web site includes phylogenetic and taxonomic information from many sources. These sources include the published literature, Web databases, and taxonomy experts. And while the NCBI taxonomy database is not a phylogenetic or taxonomic authority, it can be useful as a gateway to the NCBI biological sequence databases.
This procedure uses the family Hominidae (orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans) as a taxonomy example for searching the NCBI Web site and locating mitochondrial D-loop sequences.
1. Use the MATLAB® Help browser to search for data on the Web. In the MATLAB Command Window, type
A separate browser window opens with the home page for the NCBI Web site.
2. Search the NCBI Web site for information. For example, to search for the human taxonomy, from the Search list, select Taxonomy, and in the for box, enter hominidae.
The NCBI Web search returns a list of links to relevant pages.
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Creating a Phylogenetic Tree for Five Species
Drawing a phylogenetic tree using sequence data is helpful when you are trying to visualize the evolutionary relationships between species. The sequences can be multiply aligned or a set of nonaligned sequences, you can select a method for calculating pairwise distances between sequences, and you can select a method for calculating the hierarchical clustering distances used to build a tree.
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In the following example, you will use the Jukes-Cantor method to calculate distances between sequences, and the Unweighted Pair Group Method Average (UPGMA) method for linking the tree nodes.
1. Create a MATLAB structure with information about the sequences. This step uses the accession codes for the mitochondrial D-loop sequences isolated from different hominid species.
data = {'German_Neanderthal' 'AF011222';
'Russian_Neanderthal' 'AF254446';
'European_Human' 'X90314' ;
'Mountain_Gorilla_Rwanda' 'AF089820';
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3. Calculate pairwise distances and create a phytree object. For example, compute the pairwise distances using the Jukes-Cantor distance method and build a phylogenetic tree using the UPGMA linkage method. Since the sequences are not prealigned, seqpdist pairwise aligns them before computing the distances.
distances = seqpdist(seqs,'Method','Jukes-Cantor','Alphabet','DNA');
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The MATLAB software displays information about the phytree object. The function seqpdist calculates the pairwise distances between pairs of sequences while the function seqlinkage uses the distances to build a hierarchical cluster tree. First, the most similar sequences are grouped together, and then sequences are added to the tree in descending order of similarity.
Phylogenetic tree object with 5 leaves (4 branches)
4. Draw a phylogenetic tree.
h = plot(tree,'orient','top');
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The MATLAB software draws a phylogenetic tree in a Figure window. In the figure below, the hypothesized evolutionary relationships between the species is shown by the location of species on the branches. The horizontal distances do not have any biological significance.
Creating a Phylogenetic Tree for Twelve Species
Plotting a simple phylogenetic tree for five species seems to indicate a number of monophyletic groups (see Creating a Phylogenetic Tree for Five Species). After a preliminary analysis with five species, you can add more species to your phylogenetic tree. Adding more species to the data set will help you to confirm the observed monophyletic groups are valid.
1. Add more sequences to a MATLAB structure. For example, add mtDNA D-loop sequences for other hominid species.
data2 = {'Puti_Orangutan' 'AF451972';
'Jari_Orangutan' 'AF451964';
'Western_Lowland_Gorilla' 'AY079510';
'Eastern_Lowland_Gorilla' 'AF050738';
'Chimp_Schweinfurthii' 'AF176722';
'Chimp_Vellerosus' 'AF315498';
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for ind = 1:7
seqs(ind+5).Header = data2{ind,1};
seqs(ind+5).Sequence = getgenbank(data2{ind,2},...
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3. Calculate pairwise distances and the hierarchical linkage.
distances = seqpdist(seqs,'Method','Jukes-Cantor','Alpha','DNA');
tree = seqlinkage(distances,'UPGMA',seqs);
4. Draw a phylogenetic tree.
ylabel('Evolutionary distance')
The MATLAB software draws a phylogenetic tree in a Figure window. You can see four main clades for humans, gorillas, chimpanzee, and orangutans.
Exploring the Phylogenetic Tree
After you create a phylogenetic tree, you can explore the tree using the MATLAB command line or the Phylogenetic Tree app. This procedure uses the tree created in Creating a Phylogenetic Tree for Twelve Species as an example.
1. List the members of a tree.
names = get(tree,'LeafNames')
names =
From the list, you can determine the indices for its members. For example, the European Human leaf is the third entry.
2. Find the closest species to a selected species in a tree. For example, find the species closest to the European human.
[h_all,h_leaves] = select(tree,'reference',3,...
h_all is a list of indices for the nodes within a patristic distance of 0.6 to the European human leaf, while h_leaves is a list of indices for only the leaf nodes within the same patristic distance.
A patristic distance is the path length between species calculated from the hierarchical clustering distances. The path distance is not necessarily the biological distance.
3. List the names of the closest species.
subtree_names = names(h_leaves)
The MATLAB software prints a list of species with a patristic distance to the European human less than the specified distance. In this case, the patristic distance threshold is less than 0.6.
subtree_names =
4. Extract a subtree from the whole tree by removing unwanted leaves. For example, prune the tree to species within 0.6 of the European human species.
leaves_to_prune = ~h_leaves;
pruned_tree = prune(tree,leaves_to_prune)
h = plot(pruned_tree,'orient','top');
ylabel('Evolutionary distance')
The MATLAB software returns information about the new subtree and plots the pruned phylogenetic tree in a Figure window.
Phylogenetic tree object with 6 leaves (5 branches)
5. Explore, edit, and format a phylogenetic tree using the Phylogenetic Tree app.
The Phylogenetic Tree window opens, showing the tree.
You can interactively change the appearance of the tree using the app. For information on using this app, see Phylogenetic Tree App Reference.
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Estimating Nonlinear Grey-Box Models
Specifying the Nonlinear Grey-Box Model Structure
You must represent your system as a set of first-order nonlinear difference or differential equations:
where for continuous-time representation and for discrete-time representation with Ts as the sampling interval. F and H are arbitrary linear or nonlinear functions with Nx and Ny components, respectively. Nx is the number of states and Ny is the number of outputs.
After you establish the equations for your system, create a function or MEX-file. MEX-files, which can be created in C or Fortran, are dynamically linked subroutines that can be loaded and executed by the MATLAB® interpreter. For more information about MEX-files, see MEX-File Creation API.
The purpose of the model file is to return the state derivatives and model outputs as a function of time, states, inputs, and model parameters, as follows:
[dx,y] = MODFILENAME(t,x,u,p1,p2, ...,pN,FileArgument)
Tip The template file for writing the C MEX-file, IDNLGREY_MODEL_TEMPLATE.c, is located in matlab/toolbox/ident/nlident.
The output variables are:
• dx — Represents the right side(s) of the state-space equation(s). A column vector with Nx entries. For static models, dx=[].
For discrete-time models. dx is the value of the states at the next time step x(t+Ts).
For continuous-time models. dx is the state derivatives at time t, or .
• y — Represents the right side(s) of the output equation(s). A column vector with Ny entries.
The file inputs are:
• t — Current time.
• x — State vector at time t. For static models, equals [].
• u — Input vector at time t. For time-series models, equals [].
• p1,p2, ...,pN — Parameters, which can be real scalars, column vectors or two-dimensional matrices. N is the number of parameter objects. For scalar parameters, N is the total number of parameter elements.
• FileArgument — Contains auxiliary variables that might be required for updating the constants in the state equations.
Tip After creating a model file, call it directly from the MATLAB software with reasonable inputs and verify the output values.
For an example of creating grey-box model files and idnlgrey model object, see Creating idnlgrey Model Files.
For examples of code files and MEX-files that specify model structure, see the toolbox/ident/iddemos/examples folder. For example, the model of a DC motor is described in files dcmotor_m and dcmotor_c.
Constructing the idnlgrey Object
After you create the function or MEX-file with your model structure, you must define an idnlgrey object. This object shares many of the properties of the linear idgrey model object.
Use the following syntax to define the idnlgrey model object:
m = idnlgrey('filename',Order,Parameters,InitialStates)
The idnlgrey arguments are defined as follows:
• 'filename' — Name of the function or MEX-file storing the model structure. This file must be on the MATLAB path when you use this model object for model estimation, prediction, or simulation.
• Order — Vector with three entries [Ny Nu Nx], specifying the number of model outputs Ny, the number of inputs Nu, and the number of states Nx.
• Parameters — Parameters, specified as struct arrays, cell arrays, or double arrays.
• InitialStates — Specified in the same way as parameters. Must be the fourth input to the idnlgrey constructor.
For detailed information about this object and its properties, see the idnlgrey reference page.
Use pem to estimate your grey-box model.
Using pem to Estimate Nonlinear Grey-Box Models
You can use the pem command to estimate the unknown idnlgrey model parameters and initial states using measured data.
The input-output dimensions of the data must be compatible with the input and output orders you specified for the idnlgrey model.
Use the following general estimation syntax:
m = pem(data,m)
where data is the estimation data and m is the idnlgrey model object you constructed.
You can pass additional property-value pairs to pem to specify the properties of the model or the estimation algorithm. Assignable properties include the ones returned by the get(idnlgrey) command and the algorithm properties returned by the get(idnlgrey, 'Algorithm'), such as MaxIter and Tolerance. For detailed information about these model properties, see the idnlgrey reference page.
For more information about validating your models, see Model Validation.
Nonlinear Grey-Box Model Estimation Algorithm Options
The Algorithm property of the model specifies the estimation algorithm, which simulates the model several times by trying various parameter values to reduce the prediction error.
The following algorithm properties can affect the quality of the results:
For detailed information about these and other model properties, see the idnlgrey reference page.
Simulation Method
You can specify the simulation method using the SimulationOptions (struct) fields of the model Algorithm property.
System Identification Toolbox™ software provides several variable-step and fixed-step solvers for simulating idnlgrey models. To view a list of available solvers and their properties, type the following command at the prompt:
idprops idnlgrey algorithm.simulationoptions
For discrete-time systems, the default solver is 'FixedStepDiscrete'. For continuous-time systems, the default solver is 'ode45'.
By default, SimulationOptions.Solver is set to 'Auto', which automatically selects either 'ode45' or 'FixedStepDiscrete' during estimation and simulation—depending on whether the system is continuous or discrete in time.
Search Method
You can specify the search method for estimating model parameters using the SearchMethod field of the Algorithm property. Two categories of methods are available for nonlinear grey-box modeling.
One category of methods consists of the minimization schemes that are based on line-search methods, including Gauss-Newton type methods, steepest-descent methods, and Levenberg-Marquardt methods.
The Trust-Region Reflective Newton method of nonlinear least-squares (lsqnonlin), where the cost is the sum of squares of errors between the measured and simulated outputs, requires Optimization Toolbox™ software. When the parameter bounds differ from the default +/- Inf, this search method handles the bounds better than the schemes based on a line search. However, unlike the line-search-based methods, lsqnonlin only works with Criterion='Trace'.
By default, SearchMethod is set to Auto, which automatically selects a method from the available minimizers. If the Optimization Toolbox product is installed, SearchMethod is set to 'lsqnonlin'. Otherwise, SearchMethod is a combination of line-search based schemes.
Gradient Options
You can specify the method for calculating gradients using the GradientOptions field of the Algorithm property. Gradients are the derivatives of errors with respect to unknown parameters and initial states.
Gradients are calculated by numerically perturbing unknown quantities and measuring their effects on the simulation error.
Option for gradient computation include the choice of the differencing scheme (forward, backward or central), the size of minimum perturbation of the unknown quantities, and whether the gradients are calculated simultaneously or individually.
Example – Specifying Algorithm Properties
You can specify the Algorithm fields directly in the estimation syntax, as property-value pairs.
For example, you can specify the following properties as part of the pem syntax:
m = pem(data,init_model,'Search','gn',...
Represent Nonlinear Dynamics Using MATLAB File for Grey-Box Estimation
About the Model
Figure 1: Schematic diagram of a DC-motor.
d | 0 1 | | 0 |
| 1 0 |
y(t) = | | x(t)
| 0 1 |
About the Input-Output Data
1. Load the DC motor data.
2. Represent the estimation data as an iddata object.
set(z, 'InputName', 'Voltage', 'InputUnit', 'V');
set(z, 'OutputName', {'Angular position', 'Angular velocity'});
set(z, 'OutputUnit', {'rad', 'rad/s'});
set(z, 'Tstart', 0, 'TimeUnit', 's');
4. Plot the data.
The data is shown in two plot windows.
Linear Modeling of the DC-Motor
1. Represent the DC motor structure in a function.
In this example, you use a MATLAB® file, but you can also use C MEX-files (to gain computational speed), P-files or function handles. For more information, see "Creating IDNLGREY Model Files".
% Output equations.
x(2) ... % Angular velocity.
% State equations.
dx = [x(2); ... % Angular position.
The file must always be structured to return the following:
Output arguments:
• dx is the right-hand side(s) of the state-space equation(s)
• y is the output equation(s)
Input arguments:
• varargin for the auxiliary input arguments
2. Represent the DC motor dynamics using an idnlgrey object.
Ts = 0; % Time-continuous system.
'Name', 'DC-motor');
3. Specify input and output names, and units.
'TimeUnit', 's');
5. View the initial model.
a. Get basic information about the model.
b. View the initial states and parameters.
Both the initial states and parameters are structure arrays. The fields specify the properties of an individual initial state or parameter. Type idprops idnlgrey InitialStates and idprops idnlgrey Parameters for more information.
ans =
Name: 'Angular position'
Unit: 'rad'
Value: 0
Minimum: -Inf
Maximum: Inf
Fixed: 1
ans =
Name: 'Static gain'
Unit: 'rad/(V*s)'
Value: 0.2800
Minimum: -Inf
Maximum: Inf
Fixed: 0
getinit(nlgr, 'Fixed')
getpar(nlgr, 'Min')
ans =
ans =
d. Obtain basic information about the object:
nlgr =
FileName: 'dcmotor_m'
Order: [1x1 struct]
Parameters: [2x1 struct]
InitialStates: [2x1 struct]
FileArgument: {}
CovarianceMatrix: 'estimate'
EstimationInfo: [1x1 struct]
TimeVariable: 't'
NoiseVariance: [2x2 double]
Algorithm: [1x1 struct]
Ts: 0
TimeUnit: 'seconds'
InputName: {'Voltage'}
InputUnit: {'V'}
InputGroup: [1x1 struct]
OutputName: {2x1 cell}
OutputUnit: {2x1 cell}
OutputGroup: [1x1 struct]
Name: 'DC-motor'
Notes: {}
UserData: []
Performance Evaluation of the Initial DC-Motor Model
nlgr.Algorithm.SimulationOptions.AbsTol = 1e-6;
nlgr.Algorithm.SimulationOptions.RelTol = 1e-5;
2. Compare the simulated output with the measured data.
The simulated and measured outputs are shown in a plot window.
compare(z, nlgr);
Parameter Estimation
Estimate the parameters and initial states using pem (Prediction-Error identification Method).
nlgr = setinit(nlgr, 'Fixed', {false false}); % Estimate the initial state.
nlgr = pem(z, nlgr, 'Display', 'Full');
Performance Evaluation of the Estimated DC-Motor Model
1. Review the information about the estimation process.
This information is stored in the EstimationInfo property of the idnlgrey object. The property also contains information about how the model was estimated, such as solver and search method, data set, and why the estimation was terminated.
ans =
Status: 'Estimated model (PEM)'
Method: 'Solver: ode45; Search: lsqnonlin'
LossFcn: 0.0011
FPE: 0.0011
DataName: 'DC-motor'
DataLength: 400
DataTs: {[0.1000]}
DataDomain: 'Time'
DataInterSample: {'zoh'}
UpdateNorm: []
LastImprovement: []
Iterations: 4
InitialGuess: [1x1 struct]
Warning: ''
EstimationTime: 5.6600
compare(z, nlgr);
na = [2 2; 2 2];
nb = [2; 2];
nk = [1; 1];
compare(z, nlgr, dcarx);
4. Check the prediction errors.
pe(z, nlgr);
5. Check the residuals ("leftovers").
Residuals indicate what is left unexplained by the model and are small for good model quality. Execute the following two lines of code to generate the residual plot. Press any key to advance from one plot to another.
resid(z, nlgr);
6. Plot the step response.
7. Examine the model covariance.
ans =
1.0e-04 *
0.1521 0.0015
0.0015 0.0007
ans =
0.0099 -0.0004
-0.0004 0.1094
nlgr =
u(1) Voltage(t) [V]
States: initial value
x(1) Angular position(t) [rad] xinit@exp1 0.0302986 (est) in [-Inf, Inf]
x(2) Angular velocity(t) [rad/s] xinit@exp1 -0.133728 (est) in [-Inf, Inf]
y(1) Angular position(t) [rad]
Parameters: value standard dev
p1 Time-constant [s] 0.243646 0.00390033 (est) in [-Inf, Inf]
p2 Static gain [rad/(V*s)] 0.249645 0.00027217 (est) in [-Inf, Inf]
The model was estimated from the data set 'DC-motor', which
contains 400 data samples.
Loss function 0.00107462 and Akaike's FPE 0.00108536
Created: 14-Jan-2014 00:59:46
Last modified: 14-Jan-2014 01:00:04
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• Handling nonscalar parameters.
• Impact of certain algorithm choices.
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saving the data in excel
Asked by phani on 14 Jun 2012
hi all, i am having a 50 files in which every time i want to read a single file and perform some operations on the data and i get an output of 13x1 matrix i want to save this data in an excel file in sheet 1( i can use xlswrite options), when i am reading the second file it has to store output in sheet 2 automatilcally how can i do this?. i want to run this in a for loop. how to save the each output in different sheet. someone please help me. thanks in advacne.
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Answer by Ilham Hardy on 14 Jun 2012
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you can define sheet name on the xlswrite function.
xlswrite(filename, M, sheet)
I can imagine that you can put the integer as (a part of) sheet name
warning off MATLAB:xlswrite:AddSheet
to supress addsheet warning
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phani on 14 Jun 2012
hi, thanks for your reply, i don't want to add the sheet number manually every time, i want it to happen in the loop . i am providing the code below
for i=1:1:24
fnamer=sprintf('%s %d%s',fname,i,ext);
% i want to perform some mathematical operations on matrix 'a' , which gives me an output of 13x1 matrix and i want to save this in sheet1 in a excel file. when i value increments to 2 again it will give me a 13x1 matrix as output and i want to save this in sheet2 of the same excel file and as the loop progress i want it to save in the appending sheets.
thank you .
Ilham Hardy
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This paper presents the empirical modeling of the
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/2148 | Students Compete to Design and Race Autonomous Surface Vehicles in the RoboBoat Competition
The AUVSI Foundation focuses on the future of robotics by developing hands-on educational programs that attract students and equip them for a career in this rapidly growing field. In AUVSI's RoboBoat Competition, student teams must design, build, and deploy a fully autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) and race the boat through an aquatic obstacle course.
Competitions such as RoboBoat play an important role in helping inspire and form new engineers. Students experience the challenges of and develop skills in system engineering by accomplishing realistic missions. These programs also enable faculty to teach students with tools that are in use by engineering companies in industry today. As a result, students gain hands-on experience that is highly valuable when they begin their professional careers.
The RoboBoat competition takes engineering theory out of the classroom and applies it to current, practical challenges involving autonomous vehicles in the maritime environment. The teams have many challenges, including ensuring that the boat can autonomously navigate through a channel of red and green buoys. Many of the teams use Model-Based Design with MATLAB and Simulink to develop and test their boat system.
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About Linearizing Models
The Simulink® product provides the linmod, linmod2, and dlinmod functions to extract linear models in the form of the state-space matrices A, B, C, and D. State-space matrices describe the linear input-output relationship as
where x, u, and y are state, input, and output vectors, respectively. For example, the following model is called lmod.
To extract the linear model of this system, enter this command.
[A,B,C,D] = linmod('lmod')
A =
-2 -1 -1
1 0 0
0 1 -1
B =
C =
0 1 0
0 0 -1
D =
Inputs and outputs must be defined using Inport and Outport blocks from the Ports & Subsystems library. Source and sink blocks do not act as inputs and outputs. Inport blocks can be used in conjunction with source blocks, using a Sum block. Once the data is in the state-space form or converted to an LTI object, you can apply functions in the Control System Toolbox™ product for further analysis:
• Conversion to an LTI object
• Bode phase and magnitude frequency plot
bode(A,B,C,D) or bode(sys)
• Linearized time response
step(A,B,C,D) or step(sys)
impulse(A,B,C,D) or impulse(sys)
lsim(A,B,C,D,u,t) or lsim(sys,u,t)
You can use other functions in the Control System Toolbox and the Robust Control Toolbox™ products for linear control system design.
When the model is nonlinear, an operating point can be chosen at which to extract the linearized model. Extra arguments to linmod specify the operating point.
[A,B,C,D] = linmod('sys', x, u)
For discrete systems or mixed continuous and discrete systems, use the function dlinmod for linearization. This function has the same calling syntax as linmod except that the second right-hand argument must contain a sample time at which to perform the linearization.
Linearization with Referenced Models
You can use linmod to extract a linear model from a Simulink environment that contains Model blocks.
Note In Normal mode, the linmod command applies the block-by-block linearization algorithm on blocks inside the referenced model. If the Model block is in Accelerator mode, the linmod command uses numerical perturbation to linearize the referenced model. Due to limitations on linearizing multirate Model blocks in Accelerator mode, you should use Normal mode simulation for all models referenced by Model blocks when linearizing with referenced models. For an explanation of the block-by-block linearization algorithm, see the Simulink Control Design™ documentation.
For example, consider the f14 model mdlref_f14mdlref_f14. The Aircraft Dynamics Model block refers to the model mdlref_dynamicsmdlref_dynamics.
To linearize the mdlref_f14 model, call the linmod command on the top mdlref_f14 model as follows.
[A,B,C,D] = linmod('mdlref_f14')
The resulting state-space model corresponds to the complete f14 model, including the referenced model.
You can call linmod with a state and input operating point for models that contain Model blocks. When using operating points, the state vector x refers to the total state vector for the top model and any referenced models. You must enter the state vector using the structure format. To get the complete state vector, call
x = Simulink.BlockDiagram.getInitialState(topModelName)
Linearization Using the 'v5' Algorithm
Calling the linmod command with the 'v5' argument invokes the perturbation algorithm created prior to MATLAB® software version 5.3. This algorithm also allows you to specify the perturbation values used to perform the perturbation of all the states and inputs of the model.
Using linmod with the 'v5' option to linearize a model that contains Derivative or Transport Delay blocks can be troublesome. Before linearizing, replace these blocks with specially designed blocks that avoid the problems. These blocks are in the Simulink Extras library in the Linearization sublibrary.
You access the Extras library by opening the Blocksets & Toolboxes icon:
• For the Derivative block, use the Switched derivative for linearization.
• For the Transport Delay block, use the Switched transport delay for linearization. (Using this block requires that you have the Control System Toolbox product.)
When using a Derivative block, you can also try to incorporate the derivative term in other blocks. For example, if you have a Derivative block in series with a Transfer Fcn block, it is better implemented (although this is not always possible) with a single Transfer Fcn block of the form
In this example, the blocks on the left of this figure can be replaced by the block on the right.
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4. "Diane Young"
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6. "Holiday"
7. "Unbelievers"
8. "Horchata"
9. "Everlasting Arms"
10. "A-Punk"
11. "Ya Hey"
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Great Multiplayer game! Playing it with 3 or 4 people ist totally fun. Gameplay is easy hack'n'slah. U'll hack your way through enemy hordes with some very nice combos and special moves. Graphics are the best yet in the Gauntlet Series. Nice Leveldesign and nice character design. No Single-player game though - better stick with other Action-RPGs in that case. Multiplayer rocks!
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1. AlannaM.
Aug 10, 2004
I loved it! Anneliese was absolutely brilliant, I know I'll be hearing about her soon!
2. RitaS.
May 2, 2002
I thought this movie was darling. It was touching and funny and I had a downright good time.
3. TedK.
Jul 19, 2002
Really sucked.
4. TommyW.
Aug 20, 2002
If I had to choose between watching this movie again and stabbing out my eyes, well . . . where's the ice pick?
5. JosephV.
Mar 20, 2003
I too saw the piece of @#$@$%. It was truly an independent piece of @#$@$%. It looks like a lot of work and from the credits looks like Dworman movie had some good people working on it. I mean, it was really a two in one - a musical dance piece and a movie - and the locations looked really expensive - lots of extras - a lizard lady - too bad the script sucked. Didn't anyone help him fix it, or tell him his acting kinda sucked. How about his directing - I mean what directing - wasn't anyone there honest with him? I'll be honest - dont quit your day job! Please!! cool Expand
6. WilliamT.
Jun 4, 2003
I never need to see another Dworman movie again. Really! I'm so done...
7. John
Jun 2, 2004
The movie was hysterical! I give it a ten great comedy. A must see film.
8. Jojo
Oct 2, 2005
Anneliese is best .I give 10.
9. DanielK.
Mar 28, 2003
I didn't like everything about the film, but I know people who didn't like 2001. I was, however, amazed by the ability of this first-time director to assemble, train and shoot so many kids in complicated, entertaining dance sequences on what was certainly a low budget. I was also impressed by his courage at taking on some tough, confusing relationship issues that couples, parents and children are faced with way too often. Maybe Dworman missed a few beats, haven't we all, but making a move ain't easy, and the screen reveals a valiant, sincere effort by all concerned deserving of some kudos. So here they are. Collapse
10. LoraF.
May 7, 2003
Self-indulgent narcisim at its worst (is that possible?) I wonder how his real life family feels about this mean spirited effort at movie making? He should be ashamed. He's only hurting himself. No one will take him seriously again.
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May 3, 2004
12. SaraP.
May 4, 2007
Imagine how the author's daughter feels. Incredibly insensitive and narcissistic.
13. EdwardD.
Jun 26, 2007
Light, funny; hell I never laughed that much in my life!
14. DerekH.
Jul 29, 2002
This movie is about the worst movie I've ever seen. From the begging this film sucks..... then in the middle it sucks....and at the end it sucks even more. Don't waste your time.
15. MeganL.
Nov 1, 2004
IT WAS GREAT!! Anneliese van der Pol was the best.
16. SavannahS.
Nov 14, 2005
Hey i was the musical host claire in the movie and we all put a lot of effort and enjoyment into this film. from the five year old dancer in the red tutu to the 50 kids from 8-21 yrs old ya all have to admit it had a great outlet. for anyone whos ever gone through the experience of divorce like i had to a couple years later (thanks steven for jynxin me) it can touch down deep luv ya steve savannah starr. Expand
17. LynnS.
Mar 14, 2005
Disgusting narcisism. I hope he feels some guilt regarding the cruel treatment of his family. Imagine how his real life daugter must feel? It's not even a well made film per se.
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Intense but inscrutable tale involving a woman's gradual remembrance of a long-suppressed trauma.
4. It's a visually poetic style, and likely to find hardcore devotees, especially among the ranks of Terence Malick and Marc Forster fans. Others will just find it painfully slow.
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Nothing about this film pops out. It seems like any other HBO show. Sure it features big names but they give dull performances rarely even shaping a character. The story is plain and would have been the same difference as a documentary.
2. Mar 25, 2013
Regardless of what people may say about this poorly researched movie or what they may say about Al Pacino, he nailed my father in his acting. But, as an author of another article stated regarding the movie as a whole "What's the point?". I certainly was not entertained by a movie that used misinformation to prove reasonable doubt. This movie was not only disrespectful to Lana Clarkson (whom I never met), it mischaracterized George C. Brand (the "bodyguard" that Al Pacino took the gun from in the studio). George (was my guardian and like a father to me and my brothers), would never have allowed my father to take his gun, especially since my father would have had his own.
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May 29, 2013
Both actors [Al Pacino and Helen Mirren] could thrive with this story (Pacino's a ringer for Spector) but Mamet speculates a bit too much. Had he eliminated the title character entirely, it might have been more intriguing.
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Mar 26, 2013
Phil Spector is missing dramatic tension. It’s staged as a movie but it’s constructed more like a play, with plenty of scenes of two people exchanging Mametian dialogue in claustrophobic spaces.
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Preparing to share information with pregnant friend
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My friend is in her first trimester with her 2nd child.
Her first was a boy (now 2.5yo). He had a NICU start, and was circ'd because the baby next him was intact and they saw what a hassle it was to clean him. (Yup. The hospital retracted, even these tiny NICU babes! horrified!) However, I'm thinking that experience merely was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm pretty sure Daddy is circ'd as well, so the conventional nonsense arguments had to have factored in as well. They don't really research these things. : (
I plan to PM just a few links over FB, keeping it short and sweet; matter-of-fact. I am nervous--- I do not want to hurt our friendship, but I cannot consider myself a decent friend if I don't share the valuable information in my back pocket.
I would love some guidance finding links that address their specific concerns:
1) Above all, sensitivity and sobriety
My friend is an extremely sensitive person anyway, but even more so when she is pregnant. She doesn't need the inflammatory, loaded, accusatory words and phrases that frequently appear in our literature. They have their place, but it definitely isn't here. Remember she is hormonal, and she has already circ'd her first son. She needs articles and studies that will appeal to her logic, and use the utmost empathy when addressing mothers of circ'd sons. Also, she is a victim of sexual abuse, so anything linking circ to sexual abuse might be way too much, and might actually repel her (especially if she's seen circ as "no big deal"). The point of this is just to convince them to keep their baby intact, not beat them over the head with every point.
2) Acknowledging and addressing their faith
I can almost guarantee that their Christianity informs this decision. They probably agree with thought processes such as "God wouldn't command something that is harmful" and "If it is good enough for Jesus..."
Articles that discuss the differences between Old Testament and modern-day circ'ing, and that impress that their faith does not require it, would be very helpful.
3) Prepuce function and care; basic explanation of circ procedure.
Like I said at the beginning, they made the decision with their first sons based off of witnessing improper care. They need to know exactly how to handle an infant's intact penis--- don't retract, wipe like a finger--- simple, easy. It's a given that they do not know what the prepuce is for, so basic explanation about its value would help. Also, a basic explanation of the circ procedure--- I don't see videos being appropriate for them, though I might very briefly mention that there are videos of circs on youtube, and they might look them up.
4) Perspective from medical professionals
These folks abide by what the doctors say. They need credible articles written by medical professionals to appeal to them. They also have a nurse in the family who frequently advises them regarding medical matters. I do not know what the nurse's position on circ is, but I would be surprised if they don't run to her with these links. This part needs to be very strong in case this aunt tells them "it's really no big deal".
5) Addressing Daddy concerns
You know, the conventional pile of nonarguments. Ridicule in the locker room. Needs to look like Daddy. It's cleaner. etc.
6) Ethical dilemmas
It needs to be said, but as matter-of-factly and as sensitively as possible. FGM v MGM and his body, his choice.
I THINK that is it.
Also, when should I share this info? Now, ASAP? Or do I wait until after their big gender scan if it is a boy?
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32.) Fathers don't spend time comparing penises with their sons. If your son does notice that his penis is different from Dad's (other than size and hair), you can simply explain that Daddy had an operation when he was a baby. My dad lost half of his ring finger in an accident, but I was never bothered by having all of my fingers.
believe in God, why did he give men foreskins? Did they screw up?
42.) If you are Christian, your religion actually *forbids* circumcision. Your son's body is a temple, and Jesus was the sacrifice to end all sacrifices - including the foreskin. See this link for more info.
*these two points taken from the above link
Edited by Sol_y_Paz - 9/29/12 at 10:52am
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On the religious angle, I found an interesting site that talked about how circumcision was used to identify land owners in the time and place of the Old Testament. I've looked, and haven't found it again. I'll keep checking as time allows.
In the meantime, I found something else that may help with the religious aspect. According to this, circumcision was not complete in biblical times. I'm not sure if that's true, but it could help instill doubt as to whether circumcision is something that should be done today.
Edited to add more :
Hope these help. If her reasons include religion, entire amputation was not originally performed, according to these sites.
Edited by pek64 - 9/29/12 at 3:47am
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In Place of Circumcision
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I really think this article is great.
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Here are some good ones that should fit the bill. First is one that is quick and too the point. More importantly, it is by doctors, so has good credibility and should be good for the first concern you mentioned.
Here is another, interactive site that might be good:
Here is a very thorough discussion of how to care for an intact male, and why this seems so confusing. The care is a simple as can be, this mainly gives the background so you understand the why.
The daddy concerns are caused by fearmongering among advocates. The above links should help with that. Other than that, you really need to simply show the ill-logic of these "daddy" concerns. They are easily dealt with if you can get past the fearmongering brainwashing that they were subject too. For example, all you have to do i be able to think a bit to realize that the "look like daddy" argument is silly. What parent would glue hair into thier infants face or genitals to make them look like daddy? What if the dad was missing an arm form the war? Would he seriously advocate removing his son's arm?
Likewiase the "will get teased/traumatized by peers" or "won't find a woman". All you have to do is think a bit to realize that only fearmongering and blind acceptance of that fearmongering would sway anyone.
But if you want credible references for her, try this one on these issues:
As far as ethics, that same article has a section on that:
An even better one:
Hope these help.
I would start when you feel it is best, earlier the better.
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Oh! I need to update!
My friend brought it up in December totally out of the blue! We had a good conversation where we shared what we know, and we recommended the Penn and Teller Bullshit video and The Vulnerability of Men.
She still wasn't sure what their decision will be when the conversation ended--- her husband was very adamant about circ'ing; but a seed has been planted and nurtured! I am SO proud of her being open to challenging her POV.
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Best wishes
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The fact that her first boy was cut may be an speedbump in this effort, but it is still worth trying on behalf of the helpless baby. It might help her to know other moms have left their younger sons intact even though older brothers are not.
Here is a sweet story about this mom's first son being happy his little brother was not circumcised:
Here is another, the mom has 2 younger intact sons
Here is the Facebook "Keep future sons intact" support page:
And also I might mention, what my friend did to convince me was she casually sent me an email about her having left her sons intact, that it was not a big deal to keep up with, and that I should do some research on it before I go through with it. Well I took her advice and discovered a video of the procedure which convinced both me and my hard-headed husband. I am SO thankful to her up to this day that I must have thanked her 100 times already. Thank God for gutsy friends!!
Good luck!
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You can send an anonymous info card from the Whole Network. It costs around $2 to send one and will not include your information. I would personally go that route with this one because her first son is cut and she may feel judged and defensive. If she gets an anonymous card, she may just assume she ended up on a mailing list or something and will feel more like it was "her" idea and not some friend judging her. That is just my opinion though. If it were her first baby, I'd lean more towards just talking to her, but I'd lean this way and see if planting the seed gets her to do more research.
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Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. The film's story begins nearly three decades into George's reign, in 1788, as the unstable king (Nigel Hawthorne, reprising his stage role) begins to show signs of increasing dementia, from violent fits of foul language to bouts of forgetfulness. This weakness seems like the perfect chance to overthrow the unpopular George, whom many blamed for the loss of the American colonies, in favor of the Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett), but the king's prime minister William Pitt (Julian Wadham) and his wife Queen Charlotte (Helen Mirren) are determined to protect the throne. Doctors are brought in, but the archaic treatments of the time prove of little value. In desperation, they turn to Dr. Willis (Ian Holm), a harsh, unconventional specialist whose unusual methods recall modern psychiatry. Willis struggles to break through to the mad king, treating him with an anger and haughtiness George has never before experienced. Stressing the absurdity of the entire situation, Bennett's witty screenplay emphasizes dry humor over tragedy, even utilizing references to King Lear for comic effect. Hawthorne's fiery yet vulnerable performance received much critical praise, including Best Actor at the British Academy Awards and a nomination for the same at the Oscars. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
• Release date:December 28, 1994
Awarded by
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Ken Adam Best Art Direction 1994 Winner
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nigel Hawthorne Best Actor 1994 Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Helen Mirren Best Supporting Actress 1994 Nominee
Cannes Film Festival Helen Mirren Best Actress 1995 Winner
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Alan Bennett Best Adapted Screenplay 1994 Nominee
Nigel Hawthorne
as George III
Helen Mirren
as Queen Charlotte
Ian Holm
as Dr. Willis
Rupert Everett
as Prince of Wales
Rupert Graves
as Greville
Amanda Donohoe
as Lady Pembroke
John Wood
as Thurlow
Julian Rhind-Tutt
as Duke of York
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
as MP
Cyril Shaps
as Pepys
Barry Stanton
as Sheridan
Alan Bennett
as 2nd MP
Janine Duvitski
as Margaret Nicholson
Julian Wadham
as Pitt
Geoffrey Palmer
as Warren
Jim Carter
as Fox
Selina Cadell
as Mrs Cordwell
Peter Woodthorpe
as Clergyman
Nicholas Selby
as Speaker
Joanna Hall
as Royal Child
Robert Swann
as 1st MP
Anthony Calf
as Fitzroy
Roger Hammond
as Baker
Jeremy Child
as Black Rod
Struan Rodger
as Dundas
Nicholas Hytner
David Parfitt
Stephen Evans
Mark Cooper
Alan Bennett
Play Author
Alan Bennett
Andrew Dunn
George Fenton
Composer (Music Score)
George Fenton
Musical Direction/Supervision
Tariq Anwar
Ken Adam
Production Designer
John Fenner
Art Director
David Crozier
Sound/Sound Designer
Mary Soan
First Assistant Director
Celestia Fox
John Siddall |
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The air was so cold and pure
I could almost touch the heart of its sin
I turned my face against the sky
Nocturnal gates ruled this blackest night
I held my sword high...
And drank the blood on its cold blade
In a cyclone of infernal desire
The ancient northern warriors rose again
The pagan wind blows
Through the mists of eternal hate
Black ravens fly
Riding the winds of forgotten pride
So this night had come at last...
Raped is the grace of the queen of love
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Her tears of blood drown the frozen ground
A northern kingdom rose
At the artic waste of eternal night
This new aeon was... for the ones
Of this northern throne
I stood there alone at these mountains
Cold winds of hate filled my wings
I flew through this winter night
(Knowing) These kingdoms shall be forever
A hunger for the purest blood
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/2276 | Nicole Eggert Movies and Career Information
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Nicole Elizabeth Eggert is an American actress. Her notable roles include Jamie Powell in the television series Charles in Charge and Summer Quinn in the TV series Baywatch. In 1999 Nicole guest starred on Boy Meets World. She has made several Christmas movies that premiered on Lifetime. Eggert was most recently a contestant on the VH1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club and now on ABC's celebrity diving show Splash.
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one of my worst pet peeves if ignorant people, for one reason, they go trough life thinking that everyone agrees with them and that they are always right. why am i pissed off about this at the moment you ask? well i was looking for new wallpapers on my phone, using the internet, and i found a picture of my chem during their black parade days, nice picture however the link to the picture had the words, "i hate emo bands..." and this just set me off, i know my chem isn't an emo band so i clicked on it and my phone brought me to the page. i read the blog and was infuriated that someone could be so ignorant! anyway i made a huge comment speaking my mind. ignorant people suck... srry i want on a little rampage but if anyone else would like to set this ignorant person straight, here is the web adress,
p.s the picture is the one on the blog in case you cant find it, also three other bands are also labeled and hated on, the used, funeral for a friend, and alexis on fire.
thank you for reading, just needed to vent and tell the killjoys of this ignorant person.
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Date: Feb 12, 13 at 1:41pm (PST)
Subject: Blacklist/Redlist
Use this thread to post warnings about users that did not follow through on their promises. For clarification on the difference between blacklisted and redlisted individuals:
Blacklist - High risk, multiple and/or trusted individuals have reported issues with this user - Click here for Blacklist
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Reasons for reporting someone include, but aren't necessarily limited to; Hacked/Glitched the game if you made it clear you did not want it done (IE: You wished to play 'legit' and indicated as such). Refused to share loot. Failing to follow through on the trade (E.G. Taking items without giving promised items/money/etc in return, giving glitched equipment, making fraudulent reports about other players.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/2371 | The Adolph Coors Company is almost as well known for its conservative politics as it is for its beer. And that reputation, the Colorado brewery has found, can hurt business.
While Coors may be held in high esteem in conservative circles, in the fiercely competitive marketplace for beer it has alienated some important potential customers over the years: among them, black and Hispanic people, women's groups, labor unions and homosexuals.
Last week, the company made peace with one of these groups when it announced that it would spend $300 million to aid Hispanic businesses and hire more minority executives. ''This is by far the most comprehensive, the most equitable agreement that has ever been entered into by any minority group with any company in the United States,'' said Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza, one of the groups that negotiated the deal. For years, Coors has been a target of Hispanic boycotts in a dispute over hiring practices. Company officials, who last year announced a ''Decade of the Hispanic'' in an advertising campaign, have acknowledged that the boycott has hurt sales.
In September, Coors negotiated a similar deal with black civil-rights leaders. They called off a brief boycott when the brewery agreed to hire and promote more blacks and increase minority ownership of Coors distributorships - a commitment of about $325 million over a five-year period. The dispute had been fueled by a speech on American opportunity that William K. Coors, the company's chairman, made in February before before a group of black businessmen, saying that African blacks are ''intellectually inferior.''
Coors, the nation's fifth largest brewery, still has to contend with a seven-year boycott by the A.F.L.- C.I.O. A spokesman for the labor federation charged that last week's agreement was an effort by Coors executives to ''buy their way'' into minority markets. |
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THE PRESIDENT'S TRIAL; From the Prosecution: 'Today, the Analysis and the Speculation Ends'
Published: February 7, 1999
Following are excerpts from the presentations today by the House managers in the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton. Included in the presentations are segments from the videotaped depositions of Monica S. Lewinsky, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Sidney Blumenthal and the President, which are rendered in italic type. (Today's excerpts were recorded by the Federal News Service, a private transcription agency.)
JAMES E. ROGAN -- Today in particular, you will have your only opportunity to hear from the one person whose testimony invariably leads to the conclusion that the President of the United States committed perjury and obstructed justice in a Federal civil rights action. That person is Monica Lewinsky, a bright lady whose life has forever been marked by the most powerful man on the earth.
If her testimony is truthful, then the President committed the offenses alleged in the articles of impeachment.
Many different opinions have been formed about her over the last year. Nearly all of this has been fueled by spin and by propaganda rather than by truth. Today, the analysis and the speculation ends. There is only one judgment the Senate must make for history about Monica Lewinsky: Do you believe her? . . .
To justify a vote of ''not guilty'' for the President, you certainly have the right to reject Monica Lewinsky's testimony as untruthful. However, I trust your sense of fairness will dictate that you will listen to all of her testimony before you dismiss it outright.
If you believe her, you will see this morning how the President wove a web of perjury and obstruction of justice. You will see why he was impeached by the House of Representatives, and you will see why a just and proper verdict in this body would be to replace him as President, with Vice President Al Gore. . . .
Obstruction of Justice
ASA HUTCHINSON -- The obstruction, for our purposes, began on Dec. 5, 1997, when the witness list came out in the civil rights case. It was faxed to the President's lawyers, and it was later given to the President. At that point, the administration of justice became a threat to the President of the United States. He determined that the truth would be harmful to the case that he was trying to defend, and the President made a decision to take whatever steps were necessary to suppress the truth rather than to uphold the law. . . .
The President was obviously concerned about the truthful testimony of Ms. Lewinsky. It would have been harmful to his interests in the case. And as a result, the President personally instructed and directed the efforts of Mr. Jordan to secure Ms. Lewinsky a job and to urge the filing of the affidavit.
Now, what is the President's defense to this charge? Let's listen.
Mr. Hutchinson Was your assistance to Ms. Lewinsky which you have described in any way dependent upon her doing anything whatsoever in the Paula Jones case?
Mr. Jordan No.
MR. HUTCHINSON -- Now you've heard that before. As you can see, Mr. Jordan defends his actions, and by implication, defends the actions of the President. Well, you can weigh his intentions, but his intentions are not the issue, because regardless of your view of Mr. Jordan and his motivations, they are irrelevant.
His view as to whether there is a connection between the job and the testimony is not an issue. It is not an issue as to whether Ms. Lewinsky thought there was a connection between the job and the testimony. It's not an issue as to whether Revlon thought there was a connection between the job and the testimony. There is only one issue, and that is whether the President viewed that there was a connection between those two. . . .
First, let's go to the job benefit to Ms. Lewinsky. How involved was the President in this activity? Let's first listen to the President, as to what he says when he testified under oath in his deposition. . . .
Q. Have you ever had a conversation with Vernon Jordan in which Monica Lewinsky was mentioned?
President Clinton I have. He told me that he talked -- he mentioned in passing to me that he had talked to her, and she had come to him for advice about moving to New York.
Q. She had come to him for advice?
A. Mm-hmm. She had come to him for advice about moving to New York. She had called him and asked if she could come see him, and Betty, I think, had maybe said something to him about talking to her. And he'd given her some advice about moving to New York. That's all I know about that.
MR. HUTCHINSON -- ''That's all I know about that.'' Diminished knowledge, diminished responsibility.
But let's see what his good friend and confidant Mr. Jordan says about what the President knew, when he knew it, and to what extent he controlled this effort.
Mr. Hutchinson Now is it true that your efforts to find a job for Ms. Lewinsky that you referenced in that meeting with Mr. Gittis [Howard Gittis, vice chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holding Inc., the company that controls Revlon] -- were your efforts carried out at the request of the President of the United States?
Mr. Jordan There is no question but that through Betty Currie, I was acting on behalf of the President to get Ms. Lewinsky a job. I think that's clear from my grand jury testimony.
MR. HUTCHINSON -- As Mr. Jordan testified, the President was the source of it coming to his attention in the first place.
Mr. Jordan, the President's friend, testified that this was not a casual matter for the President. He was interested, he was directing the show. And as will be clear, he was consumed with preventing the truth from coming out in the civil rights case. And it started happening, of course, when the witness list came out, the President met with the attorneys on the witness list. And then Dec. 7, the President and Mr. Jordan meet. Dec. 8 the meeting is set up by Ms. Lewinsky with Mr. Jordan for the 11th. And the 11th, when they met, is when things started moving. Calls were being made. Of course that was done at the direction of the President. . . .
Ms. Lewinsky, at this point, is at their mercy. She doesn't know what the communication is. She doesn't know what the President knows. The witness list has come in, and she hopes things are moving, but she doesn't know it, but finally they start moving after the witness list comes in, and Dec. 11 she has the meeting in which things start moving.
Was this a typical referral? Each of you in this body, you know, have had occasions where friends, acquaintances at different levels, previous employees, come to you and say, ''I'm going to be applying for a job with such-and-such a company, will you be a reference for me?'' Sometimes they even go so far as to ask you to make a call to that company that they're applying for the job. But this is not a typical referral, as you will see from the testimony. A few days prior to the Dec. 11 meeting, Ms. Lewinsky sends a wish list to Vernon Jordan of the companies she wanted to apply for. Mr. Jordan quickly said: I'm not concerned about your wish list; I've got the people I want to deal with. And he took control of the job search. And let's listen to the testimony of Mr. Jordan as he emphasizes that point. . . .
Mr. Hutchinson And you looked at that, and you determined that you wanted to go with your own list of friends and companies that you had better contacts with.
Mr. Jordan I'm sure, Congressman, that you too have been in this business, and you do know that you can only call people that you know or feel comfortable in calling. . . .
MR. HUTCHINSON -- Now let's go again to that meeting of Dec. 11 in which Ms. Lewinsky goes, for the first time that Mr. Jordan remembers, for that meeting about the jobs. . . .
Mr. Bryant During this meeting, did he make any comments about your status as a friend of the President?
Ms. Lewinsky Yes.
Q. What---- what did he say?
A. In one of his remarks, he said something about me being a friend of the President.
Q. And did you respond?
A. Yes.
Q. How?
A. I said that I didn't, uh ---- I think I ---- my grand jury testimony, I know I talked about this, so it's probably more accurate. My memory right now is I said something about, uh, seeing him more as, uh, a man than as a President, and I treated him accordingly.
Q. Did you express your frustration to Mr. Jordan with, uh, with the President?
A. I expressed that sometimes I had frustrations with him, yes.
Q. And what was his response to you about, uh -- after you talked about the President?
A. Uh, he sort of jokingly said to me, You know what your problem is, and don't deny it -- you're in love with him. But it was a sort of light-hearted nature. . . .
And now let's go to the 17th, because now the President is ready to share some additional information with Ms. Lewinsky. Now that he has got the job search moving, perhaps she's in a more receptive mood, so that she can handle the news that she is on the witness list. So let's listen to Ms. Lewinsky's testimony as to this Dec. 17, 2 A.M. telephone conversation from the President of the United States. . . .
Mr. Bryant Let me ---- let me ask it. Did you understand in the context of the telephone conversation with the President that early morning of December the 17th -- did you understand that you would deny your relationship with the President to the Jones lawyers through use of these cover stories?
Ms. Lewinsky From what I learned in that -- oh, through those cover stories? I don't know. But from what I learned in that conversation, I thought to myself I knew I would deny the relationship.
Q. And you would deny the relationship to the Jones lawyers?
A. Yes, correct.
MR. HUTCHINSON -- Do you believe Monica Lewinsky? I believe her testimony is credible. She is not trying to hammer the President. She is trying to tell the truth as to her recollection of this 2 A.M. call to her by the President of the United States on Dec. 17.
The news is broken to her that she's on the witness list. It puts it in a legal context. This is a 24-year-old ex-intern. She might not have the legal sophistication of the President, but the President certainly knows the legal consequences as to his actions.
What he is telling a witness in a case that is adverse to him is that you do not have to tell the truth; you can use the cover stories that we used before. And that might have been in a nonlegal context. But now we're in a different arena, and he says, continue the same lies even though you're in a court of law, continue the same pattern.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, in my book that's illegal. And I hate to say it, but that is obstruction of justice by the President of the United States. And if you believe Ms. Lewinsky, then you have to accept that fact. Otherwise, we're saying that it's all right for someone to take a witness who is against them and say, ''Don't tell the truth, don't worry about that, use the cover stories, you can file an affidavit, you can avoid telling the truth.''
Ladies and gentlemen, this is significant. It is important. Do not diminish the impact of what happened on Dec. 17 with the obstruction of justice on that occasion.
And now let's move on. That's Dec. 17. We can move on to Dec. 19. And this is when the subpoena is actually delivered to Ms. Lewinsky. She calls Vernon Jordan. She's in tears; she's upset. Vernon Jordan says come over to my office, and they have the discussion. And you're going to hear Mr. Jordan's version of what happens on Dec. 19. . . .
Mr. Hutchinson And did she---- From your conversation with her, did you determine that in your opinion, there was a fascination on her part with the President?
Mr. Jordan No question about that.
Q. And I think you previously described it that she had a ''thing'' for the President?
A. ''Thing,'' yes.
Q. And did you make any specific inquiry as to the nature of the relationship that she had with the President?
A. Yes. At some point during that conversation, I asked her directly if she had had sexual relationships with the President.
Q. And is this not an extraordinary question to ask a 24-year-old intern, whether she had sexual relations with the President of the United States?
A. Not if you see---- Not if you had witnessed her emotional state and this ''thing,'' as I say. It was not.
Q. And her emotional state and what she expressed to you about her feelings for the President is what prompted you to ask that question?
A. That, plus the question of whether or not the President at the end of his term would leave the First Lady; and that was alarming and stunning to me.
Q. And she related that question to you in that meeting on Dec. 19?
A. That's correct.
Q. Now, going back to the question in which you asked her if she had had a sexual relationship with the President, what was her response?
A. No.
Q. And I'm sure that that was not an idle question on your part, and I presume that you needed to know the answer for some purpose.
A. I wanted to know the answer based on what I had seen in her expression; obviously, based on the fact that this was a subpoena about her relationship with the President.
Q. And so you felt like you needed to know the answer to that question to determine how you were going to handle the situation?
A. No. I thought it was a factual data that I needed to know, and I asked the question.
Q. And why did you need to know the answer to that question?
A. I am referring this lady, Ms. Lewinsky, to various companies for jobs, and it seemed to me that it was important for me to know in that process whether or not there had been something going on with the President based on what I saw and based on what I heard.
MR. HUTCHINSON -- Why was it important? Why was it important for Mr. Jordan to know whether she was under subpoena? Why was it important for Mr. Jordan to know whether there was a sexual relationship? Why was it important? Because those would be incredible, explosive ingredients in a circumstance that is fraught with danger and impropriety. And he knows that. And he asks the right questions, but he doesn't listen to the right answer, nor does he take the right steps, because he is acting at the direction of the President. . . .
Let's go on and hear some more about Ms. Lewinsky's version of that conversation on Dec. 19:
Mr. Bryant Did Mr. Jordan during that meeting make an inquiry about the nature of the relationship between you and the President?
Ms. Lewinsky Yes, he did.
Q. What was that inquiry?
A. I don't remember the exact wording of the questions, but there were two questions, and I think they were something like ''Did you have sex with the President'' or ''Did he -- and if -- or did he ask for it'' or some---- Something like that. . . .
Q. Did you ask Mr. Jordan to call the President and advise him of the subpoena?
A. I think so. Yes. I asked him to inform the President. I don't know if it was through telephone or not.
Q. And you did that because the President had asked you to make sure you let Betty know that?
A. Well, sure. With Betty not being in the office, I couldn't---- Like, there wasn't anyone else that I could call to get through to him.
Q. Did Mr. Jordan say to you when he might see the President next?
A. I believe he said he would see him that evening at a holiday reception. . . .
MR. HUTCHINSON -- And now let's go to what Mr. Jordan has to say in reference to his contacts to the President when he learned of the subpoena on Dec. 19. And so let's play that tape.
Mr. Hutchinson Now during this conversation with the President, what did you tell the President in that conversation?
Mr. Jordan That Lewinsky---- I'm sure I told him that Ms. Lewinsky was in my office, in the reception area, that she had a subpoena, and that I was going to visit with her.
MR. HUTCHINSON -- Now let's go back again to the testimony of President Clinton, this time before the grand jury in August of 1998.
Q. You were familiar, weren't you, Mr. President, that she had received a subpoena. You've already acknowledged that.
President Clinton Yes, sir, I was.
Q. And Mr. Jordan informed you of that. Is that right?
A. No, sir.
MR. HUTCHINSON -- Sequentially, the next thing that happens is that, Dec. 22, Ms. Lewinsky goes to Mr. Jordan's office, where Mr. Jordan drives her in the chauffeur-driven Akin, Gump vehicle [Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Mr. Jordan's law firm] to Mr. Frank Carter's office, where the attorney is provided for Ms. Lewinsky.
And that is the only time that it's happened in the referrals that Mr. Jordan took it upon himself to personally deliver a client to Mr. Carter. And during that conversation, Ms. Lewinsky tells Mr. Jordan more of the details of their relationship.
But let's go to another element of obstruction. On Dec. 28, a few days after Christmas -- you are very familiar with this episode in which Ms. Lewinsky and the President meet, they exchange gifts, the testimony in the Jones case is discussed. There is concern expressed about the gifts. She asked the President, in essence, ''Should I get them out of my house?'' And you will hear her answer.
Her testimony is very clear on this, and that is what I would like for you to listen to. There is no ambiguity; there's no what-ifs. It is very clear. And let's move now to the testimony of Ms. Lewinsky.
Mr. Bryant Let's go back now and resume where we were before the lunch break. We were talking about the December visit to the White House and the conversation with the President. You had discussed, well, I think we are to the point where perhaps you, or I'll ask you to bring up your discussion with the President about the subpoena and the request for production.
Ms. Lewinsky Part way into my meeting with the President, I brought up the concern I had as to how I would have been put, how I might have been alerted or, not alerted, but how I was put on the witness list and how I might have been alerted to the Paula Jones attorneys, and that that was, I was sort of concerned about that.
So I discussed that a little. And then I said that I was concerned about the hatpin. And to the best of my memory, he said that that had concerned him, as well.
Q. Could he have said that bothered him?
A. He could have. I mean, I don't, I know that sometimes in my grand jury testimony, they have put quotations around things when I am attributing statements to other people. And I didn't necessarily mean that those were direct quotes; that was the gist of what I remembered him saying. So ''concerned,'' ''bothered,'' it doesn't----
Q. Was there a discussion at that point as to how someone may have discovered the hatpin and why?
A. Well, he asked me if I had told anybody about it, and I said no.
Q. But the two of you reached no conclusion as to how that hatpin came----
A. No.
Q. To appear on the motion?
A. No.
Q. Did he appear at all, I think probably surprised that you had received a request for production of documents or the hatpin was on that document?
A. I didn't discuss, we didn't discuss documents, requests for documents. But with regard to the hatpin, I don't remember him being surprised.
Q. How long did the discussion last about this request for production of the items?
A. The topic of the Paula Jones case, maybe five minutes, not very much. . . .
MR. HUTCHINSON: -- She discussed the concern about the gifts, the subpoena, with the President of the United States, and that she asked him or posed the possibility, ''Perhaps I should put them away, or possibly give them to Betty.'' And her answer as to what the President said was, ''I don't know'' or ''Let me think about it.''
Now, I would agree with you that that's not enough to convict someone for obstruction of justice, taking it by itself alone, but if you take that statement -- and one thing, you know, that statement troubles you. And whenever you're talking about the chief executive of the United States saying, ''I don't know'' or ''Let me think about it'' when you're talking about evidence that is under subpoena in a court proceeding, that's not the answer you'd like to hear.
But regardless, you take that statement, combined with the fact that Ms. Lewinsky says unequivocally that it was Betty Currie that called subsequent to that, which is documented by a cell phone call, and then Betty Currie comes out and which to pick up the package of gifts she later places under her bed, everyone knowing this is evidence that's under subpoena in a case, that combination of facts gives you the circumstantial evidence combined with the direct evidence and testimony that it had to be the President of the United States that directed Betty Currie that ''Monica Lewinsky has something for you.'' . . .
Yeah, I'm---- Because of time I'm not going to be able to go completely through all of their testimony. But let me just take you time-sequentially through what is happening here.
And this is the second page of the time chart that you have. Jan. 5 and 6, the affidavit was repaired, discussed with Mr. Jordan and with the President. On the 7th, the affidavit is signed, and you recall Mr. Jordan lets the President know that the affidavit was signed and he says he was interested, he was obviously interested in this.
On Jan. 8, the job came through; the day after the affidavit is signed, and of course it had to come through with a personal call from Mr. Jordan to Mr. Perelman to ''make it happen, if it can happen.'' Once that job is secured, the President is informed, ''Mission accomplished.''
Jan. 15 there are some inquiries to the news media about the gifts that had been delivered to the White House. This makes Betty Currie nervous enough that she has to go see Mr. Jordan about it.
You go to the 17th; the President gives his deposition, in which that false affidavit is presented on behalf of Ms. Lewinsky and the President's attorney. And then the next day, after that deposition is given, you go to Jan. 18 where he is very concerned because he mentions Betty Currie's name so many times.
Now, we were not able---- We did not ask for the deposition of Betty Currie; we wish that we had had that opportunity. We'd like to call her here. But that is one of the most critical and most important elements in obstruction in which the proof is so critically clear, because it happened not just on one day, but it happened on a couple of days.
We see, on the 17th, the President is deposed. And this is the third chart that you have. The 18th, the President coaches Betty Currie, going through the series of questions. On the 19th, there is this dramatic search for Ms. Lewinsky. On the 20th the Washington Post story becomes known because the President's counselors get calls and the O.I.C. investigation becomes known.
On the 21st, at 12:30 A.M., the Post story appears on the Internet. At 12:41, the President calls Bruce Lindsey. At 1:16 A.M., after the Post story appears, the President calls Betty Currie for 20 minutes and discusses the Post story.
And then, according to Betty Currie, on the 20th or the 21st it was the second incident of coaching that took place, where the President calls her in and goes through that series of questions, ''I did nothing wrong,'' ''She came on to me,'' ''We were never alone.''
And so that was the second time that it happened, and that, ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, is another example of witness tampering. A known witness, clearly going to be testifying, a subordinate employee who is called in and coached.
Now the President says, ''I was trying to gain facts.'' You determine that. You are the ones that have to defend that question as to whether, under common sense, the President was gaining information on two separate occasions, or whether he was actually trying to tamper with the testimony of a witness. The 21st, she's subpoenaed by the O.I.C. The 23d, she's added to the Jones witness list.
And now I want to play the last video clip that I'm going to move to on Ms. Lewinsky and some things that she said that are different in regard to the President.
MR. ROGAN -- I would like to use my portion to discuss very briefly Article I of the impeachment resolution that alleges on Aug. 17, 1998, the President committed perjury before a Federal grand jury conducting a criminal investigation. He did this in a number of ways, embarking on a calculated effort to cover up illegal obstruction of justice.
First, the President lied about statements he made to his top aides regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. This is significant, because the President admitted under oath that he knew these aides were potential witnesses before a criminal grand jury. . . .
Just as the President predicted, several of his top aides later were called to testify before the grand jury as to what the President told them. And when they testified before the grand jury they passed along the President's false accounts, just as the President intended.
The President's former chief of staff Erskine Bowles and his current chief of staff John Podesta went before the grand jury and testified that the President told them he did not have sexual relations with Monica and he did not ask anybody to lie.
Mr. Podesta had an additional meeting with the President two days after the story broke. Mr. Podesta testified that at that meeting with the President the President was extremely explicit in saying he never had sex with her in any way whatsoever and that he was not alone with her in the Oval Office.
The most glaring example of the President using an aide as a messenger of lies to the grand jury was his manipulation of presidential assistant Sidney Blumenthal. Mr. Blumenthal has been assistant to the President since August of 1997.
Mr. Blumenthal testified that dealing with the media was one of his responsibilities on Jan. 21, 1998, the day the Monica Lewinsky story broke. Mr. Blumenthal testified under oath that once the story became public he attended twice-a-day White House strategy sessions called to deal with the political, legal and media impact of the Clinton scandals on the White House.
In his deposition testimony taken just this week by authority of the United States Senate Mr. Blumenthal shared in chilling detail the story of how the President responded to the public discovery of his long-standing relationship with a young woman who had shared tearful and emotional descriptions of her love for him.
Mr. Clinton responded not in love, not in friendship, not even with a grain of concern for her well-being or emotional stability. Instead, the President took the deep and apparently unrequited emotional attachment Monica Lewinsky had formed for him and prepared to summarily take her life and throw it on the ash heap.
The date is Jan. 21, 1998. The Lewinsky scandal had just broken in the newspapers that morning. Mr. Blumenthal met initially with the First Lady, Mrs. Clinton, to get her take on the growing political firestorm. Later that day, Mr. Blumenthal is summoned to the Oval Office. . . .
Mr. Rogan Did the President then give you his account of what happened between him and Monica Lewinsky?
Mr. Blumenthal As I recall, he did.
Q. What did the President tell you?
A. He spoke fairly rapidly, as I recall, at that point, and said that she had come on to him and made a demand for sex; that he had rebuffed her, turned her down; that she threatened him. And he said that she said to him that she was called ''the stalker'' by her peers and that she hated the term, and that she would claim that they had had an affair, whether they had or they hadn't, and that she would tell people.
Q. Do you remember him also saying that the reason Monica Lewinsky would tell people that is because then she wouldn't be known by her peers as the stalker anymore?
A. Yes, that's right.
Q. Do you remember the President also saying that, and I am quoting, ''I have gone down that road before. I have caused pain for a lot of people. I am not going to do that again''?
A. Yeah, he told me that.
A. Right, in that sequence.
A. Yes. He was very upset. I thought he was a man in anguish.
Q. And at that point, did you repeat your earlier admonition to him, as far as not trying to help troubled people?
A. I did. I think that's when I told him that ''you can't get near crazy people or troubled people. You are President. You just have to separate yourself from this. . . .''
MR. ROGAN -- The President of the United States used a special assistant, one of his aides, as a conduit to go before a Federal grand jury and present false and misleading information and preclude the grand jury from being able to make an honest determination in their investigation.
He obstructed justice when he did it, and when he denied that activity he committed the offense of perjury.
In response to a question from Mr. Manager Graham, Mr. Blumenthal candidly addressed the President's claim under oath that he was truthful with his aides that he knew would be future grand jury witnesses.
Mr. Graham Knowing what you know now, do you believe the President lied to you about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky?
Mr. Blumenthal I do.
Q. I appreciate your honesty.
Is it a fair statement, given your previous testimony concerning your 30-minute conversation, that the President was trying to portray himself as a victim of a relationship with Monica Lewinsky?
A. I think that's the import of his whole story.
MR. ROGAN -- In an earlier presentation, the President's attorney, Mr. Ruff, said that the very same denial the President made to his family and his friends was the same one he made to the American people. Mr. Ruff said, ''Having made the announcement to the whole country, it is simply absurd, I suggest to you, to believe that he somehow was attempting corruptly to influence his senior staff when he told them virtually the same thing at the same time.''
Members of the Senate, Mr. Ruff's conclusion is wrong, because his premise is wrong. The President didn't tell the American public and his aides the same thing, nor did he make the very same denial. On the contrary, the President went out of his way with his aides to make explicit denials coupled with character assassination against Monica Lewinsky. Why the distinction? Because the American public was not destined to be subpoenaed as a witness before the grand jury and the President's aides were.
MR. GRAHAM -- You vote your conscience. I told you to do so. And if we disagree at the end of the day, that's America at its best. I have never suggested that there was any reasonable doubt that this President committed crimes. I will ask you, at the conclusion of this case, to remove him with a clear conscience. You vote your conscience, and I know it will be clear.
Refocus: The gifts. Simply put, if you believe the President of the United States in his grand jury testimony said, ''I told her, I said, look, the way these things work is when a person gets a subpoena, you have to give them whatever you have. That's the way, that's what the rule, that's what the law is.'' If you believe that, we need to congratulate our President because he did in fact state the law correctly. He fulfilled his obligation as chief executive officer of the land. He fulfilled his obligation as an honorable person by telling someone, who happened to be Ms. Lewinsky: You're doing a bad thing here even by suggesting that we do something with these gifts -- you need to turn them over because that's what the law says.
If you believe that, that's the only time he really embraced the law in this case I can see. Everything about him and the way he behaved was 180 degrees out from that statement. That is the most self-serving statement that flies in the face of every action he took for months.
The truth is that a reasonable person should conclude that when Ms. Lewinsky approached him about what to do with the gifts, he said, ''I'll have to think about that.'' And you know what, ladies and gentlemen, he thought about it. And you know what he did after he thought about it: Betty, go get those gifts. And they wound up under the bed of the President's secretary, and people wondered what the heck happened here. What the heck happened here is, you've got a man trying to hide his crimes.
Affidavit. Where I come from, you call somebody at 2:30 in the morning, you're up to no good. That will be borne out if you listen to the testimony and use your common sense. He was up to no good. He told her: My heart is breaking because you're on this witness list, and maybe here's a way to get out of it. That's the God's truth. That's what he did, and that was wrong and that's a crime.
The rule of law? What does it mean? It means that process and procedure wins out over politics and personality. That means that subpoenas have to be honored by the great and the small. That means, when subpoenas come, you can't, as the President, try to defeat them, because you're nobody special in the eyes of the law, except that you're the guardian of the law. If you're special, you're special in a more ominous way, not a less way. When you file an affidavit in a court of law, nobody, because of their position in society, has the right to cheat and to get somebody to lie for them, even as the President. That means we're not a nation of men or kings, we're a nation of laws. And that's what this case has always been about, to me. This affidavit was false for a reason, because the President and Ms. Lewinsky wanted it to be false.
The job search? ''Mission accomplished'' says it all. ''Mission accomplished.'' It went from being no big deal to the biggest deal in the world, with a telephone bill -- I don't know what the telephone bill was to get this job, but it was huge. Mission accomplished. All these are crimes. All these are things that average Americans should not be allowed to do. But I'm going to tell you something. At this point in time, what is going on is that he's trying to conceal a relationship about the workplace that would be embarrassing and that would be illegal and that would help Ms. Jones, that would hurt him, and it's just not about his private life.
But you can say this about the President. He was trying to get her a job, and he was trying to just get her to file a false affidavit so this would go away, and he was trying to hide the gifts. And that's bad, but that's not nearly as bad as what was to come. Let me tell you what was to come, ladies and gentlemen.
After the deposition, when it was clear that Ms. Lewinsky may have been talking or somebody knew something they weren't supposed to know, the alarm bells went off, and concealing the relationship changed to redefining the relationship. That is why he should not be our President.
The redefining of the relationship began very quickly after that deposition. It started with the President's secretary, and it goes like this: The President on two occasions, under the guise of refreshing his memory, makes the following statements to his secretary: ''You were always there when she was there, right?'' ''We were never really alone.'' ''You could see and hear everything.'' ''Monica came onto me, and I never touched her, right?'' ''She wanted to have sex with me, and I couldn't do that.''
If you believe that's about refreshing your memory, you're not being reasonable. That is about coaching a witness, but here's where it get's to be nasty. Here's where it gets to be mean. ''Monica came onto me, and I never touched her, right?'' ''She wanted to have sex with me, and I couldn't do that.'' He didn't say it once, he said it twice, just to make sure Ms. Currie would get the point. . . .
Did he redefine his relationship to anybody else. I now would like to have a clip from Mr. Blumenthal, please.
Mr. Graham You have a conversation with the President on the same day the article comes out, and the conversation includes a discussion about the relationship between him and Ms. Lewinsky. Is that correct?
Mr. Blumenthal Yes.
A. Yes.
MR. GRAHAM -- Next tape.
Mr. Graham Now, you stated, I think, very honestly, and I appreciate that you were lied to by the President, is it a fair statement, given your previous testimony concerning your 30-minute conversation, that the President was trying to portray himself as a victim of a relationship with Monica Lewinsky?
A. I think that's the import of his whole story.
MR. GRAHAM -- Ladies and gentlemen, that is the import of his whole story. That story was told on the day this broke in the press and it goes on. That story is very detailed, it makes him the victim of a sexual predator called Ms. Lewinsky. He had to rebuff her, he threatened her -- she threatened him, excuse me -- and it goes on and on and on and I have always wondered, how did that story make it to the grand jury and how did it make it into the press? We know how it made it to the grand jury, because Mr. Blumenthal told it and the President told him and they claimed executive privilege and the President never straightened it out. Your President redefined this relationship and your President let that lie be passed to a grand jury. Your President obstructed justice in a mean way. Next tape. . . .
A. I do.
MR. GRAHAM -- Everybody wants this over so bad you can taste it, including me, but let's don't leave a taste behind that history cannot stand. It was shouted in these chambers: For God's sake vote.
Let me quietly, if I can: For God's sakes get to the truth. For God's sake figure out what kind of person we have here in the White House. For God's sakes spend some time to fulfill your constitutional duty so that we can get it right not for just our political moment, but for the future of this nation.
When the President redefined this relationship, he did so by telling a lie. He told a lie to a key White House aide who repeated that lie to a Federal grand jury. In our system, ladies and gentlemen, that's a crime. That lie made it into the public domain. That lie was mean. That lie would have the effect to run this young lady over. And you can think what you want to think too about Ms. Tripp, and I agree, she's not going to be in the Hall of Fame of Friends. But let me tell you, the best advice she ever gave that young lady was to keep that blue dress.
The final thing is that our President, in my opinion, and for you to judge, in August of last year, after being begged not to by many members of this body and prominent Americans, appeared before a Federal grand jury to answer for the conduct in this case, his conduct. We have alleged with forewarning and knowledge on his part, that instead of clearing it up to make America a better place, instead of fulfilling his role as the chief law-enforcement officer of the land to do honor to the law, instead of taking this burden off all Americans' back, he told a story that defies common sense; that he played a butchery game with the English game that ''is maybe is not is'' and ''alone is not alone.'' And he told John Podesta: My relationship with Ms. Lewinsky was not sexual, including oral sex.
He went on and told an elaborate farce to a Federal grand jury that they just didn't ask the right question, and really the sexual relationship did include one thing but not another. And he says he never lied to his aide. And he says he never lied to the grand jury.
Well God knows he lied to somebody. And he lied to that grand jury and this whole story is a fraud and farce. And the last people in the United States to straighten it out is the United States Senate. God bless you in your endeavors. |
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MUSIC REVIEW; A Little Chamber Opera Written for Full Orchestra
Published: June 5, 2001
Carlisle Floyd's one-act opera ''Markheim,'' based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, seems like a nice little chamber opera. The score gets the job done in workmanlike fashion, with set pieces broadly characterizing each of the four characters: Creach, the pawnbroker in whose shop the action takes place; Tess, his pretty young maid; Markheim, a dissolute aristocrat; and the Stranger, a Mephistophelean figure who promises him a life of pleasure. An offstage chorus sings Christmas carols -- to rather unseasonal music -- as a final Victorian touch. It's not, in fact, a chamber opera, since it's written for full orchestra; but if it were reorchestrated for a smaller ensemble, this would be a fine piece for conservatory students to cut their teeth on.
It was a little hard to tell from the production by the Center for Contemporary Opera, which opened at the Kaye Playhouse on Thursday night. It's a little hard to understand what the point of the exercise was at all. As laudable as the desire to stage contemporary opera undeniably is, ''Markheim'' is contemporary only by virtue of having been written in 1966. It doesn't push any artistic envelopes, nor does it aspire to; its frame of reference is tonal, and verismo and would have been completely recognizable to, say, Puccini. This is legitimate: the work is not ashamed to be what it is. But it doesn't need to have a case made for it. It's at best a diversion, and it wasn't very diverting here.
Atkin Pace's set was the strongest element of the production: a Dickensian pawnshop, with shelves of bric-a-brac. The stage direction was undistinguished, and the musical values negligible. Paring down the string section to the bare minimum, the conductor, Richard Marshall (also the Center's founder and artistic director), was left with eight winds, nine brass and eleven strings, which made for a brass-heavy imbalance, all the worse because the music was poorly played and poorly conducted.
This didn't help the singers, none of whom seemed to have a very good idea of how to use his own instrument; Blaine Hendsbee, a tenor, was the most proficient as Creach, although there was a braying quality to his voice. Salvatore Basile, as Markheim, seemed more an actor than a singer; there was a touch of Broadway to Shira Lissek's brassy Tess. Even the Stranger, one of those devil roles that seem like foolproof show-stealers for a performer who can ham it up, didn't come off; Sam McKelton moved through it with curious restraint, and didn't seem to be having very much fun. Given the context, it's understandable that he wasn't.
Photo: Blaine Hendsbee, left, and Salvatore Basile in Carlisle Floyd's opea ''Markheim,'' presented by the Center for Contemporary Opera. (Chris Lee for The New York Times) |
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By Rich Heldenfels Published: February 24, 2013
Watching some of the red carpet coverage on E! in anticipation of the red carpet coverage on ABC. Things I've learned: an Oscar nominee is being called "Little Q" to avoid pronunciation mishaps, Ryan Seacrest is a tiny man, Kelly Osbourne is very knowledgeable about "boobies" protection, and Seacrest apparently thought that everyone who showed up was going to get an award. Hey, this isn't the Golden Globes. And, apparently, there was a lot of drinking at "Django Unchained" -- but Kerry Washington was smart enough not to participate. And I am learning way more than I care about Washington's Oscar nails and her Olivia Pope nails..
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Michael Bluth retained what in his banana deal with G.O.B.?
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What is the name of Oscar's song
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RE: Blending QT and GTK+
by AdamW on Fri 12th Oct 2007 00:48 UTC in reply to "Blending QT and GTK+"
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We don't use the unified menubar by default. Thom chose to use it on his own.
The Mandriva default theme, Ia Ora, is implemented for both GTK+ and Qt, so applications in the two toolkits look very consistent by default.
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Comment by Traumflug
by Traumflug on Thu 29th Jan 2009 14:05 UTC
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This man is so wrong in thinking netbooks are some sort of cheap standard PC. For sure, netbooks aren't bought because people can't afford an extra $100. If you don't believe this, look at other low-priced offers like Wal-Mart PCs.
Netbook buyers won't value support for the big players in the software industry either. Likely the opposite is true, people get fully supported Linux with all it's free applications, and value that.
The good thing is, his guys obviously work on very power-efficient chips anyways. This will be good for all of us.
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by Thom_Holwerda on Thu 29th Apr 2010 23:17 UTC
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I left this comment on the MSDN blog:
"This is a very sad day for the open web. Microsoft will support HTML5 (yay!) but only a patent-encumbered, proprietary codec (boo!) anyone apart from Apple, Microsoft, and Google won't be able to support (due to the prohibitive licensing cost and/or the non-Free nature). So instead of Flash, we're now crippling the web with another proprietary technology.
I guess I was hoping against my better judgement. Microsoft is a licensor of the MPG-LA, and as such, you guys profit from having as many H264 licenses sold as possible. I had just hoped that due to recent positive steps from Microsoft with regards to openness and standards, we'd see some enlightenment here.
Due to the emphasis on "only", I'm assuming IE9 won't tap into DirectShow/Media Foundation codecs? I.e., if a user has a Theora codec installed, IE9 will make use of it?"
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It depends... Again, I'm not completely sold on Metro - I think it is a good start and this is the right direction and all, but it is lacking in some ways. That said, Windows still has a CLI. When you buy a book on how to use Windows you probably won't find much if any coverage of the command line or its usage. Same with OSX. But it is still there, because it is sometimes really, really useful. Its mere existence is not a barrier to learning the basic (even advanced) usage of either OS (unlike Linux), but there can be many benefits if you want to delve into it and some people do. It was not always like this though - back during the Windows 3.1/95 days saying "you don't need to know DOS at all" was simply not true. Things evolve...
I see the relationship between Metro and the traditional GUI the same way. It will be a long while until anyone can say "you really don't need to mess with the classic desktop", but it will get there eventually. People using Windows say "you really don't need to know the command line" all the time - its mostly true... but its still there and some people cannot live without it.
Well we have been trying for 25 years... And almost every operating system in existence has had to give way to having at least 2 interface modes (GUI + CLI) - even Apple gave up on GUI only... Its not ideal, but it is practical.
I have yet to see a UI that is simple enough for consumer use and powerful enough for expert use... If someone builds one Ill be the first to applaud it - but until then we have to make do.
See my previous commment... Windows and OSX and virtually everything else still has CLIs too. If you don't need it and never use it then it amounts to one icon (which you can delete) buried in your start menu - ironically much the same way that the classic desktop is buried in Metro.
No doubt. I think it has legs though, but I'm just a guy with an opinion. Well see I guess.
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Comment by bolomkxxviii
by bolomkxxviii on Mon 22nd Oct 2012 12:23 UTC
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"The Best" is meaningless. Which distro fills the needs of the most users in "X" category would be more accurate.
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Mac vs. the World
by Anonymous on Mon 6th Oct 2003 03:16 UTC
While obviously a biased article and maybe an outright sales pitch, we've heard comments like this from Mac users for too long:
Why do Mac users always feel like they need to defend themselves? God forbid anybody should ever make a product which might compete with Mac software... |
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Maybe not dead
by darknexus on Tue 2nd Mar 2010 15:22 UTC
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But it's lying there with a horrific gut wound, slowly bleeding out. In the os world, death of a reputation is often the death of a project, and SkyOS is almost dead if it isn't already.
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HP Webcam HD 5210: Settings You can make plenty of adjustments in the Settings menu; if you have a fast PC, you can turn more of the eye candy on. No surprise there.
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Skype (for Windows 8) - Full Screen By default, your Skype video calls are full screen, whith controls along the bottom for turning the camera and microphone on and off, starting a chat, or ending the call. The caller's image also shows in a small box at lower right.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given its blessing to Verizon Communication’s proposed $130 billion purchase of the stake that Vodafone Group has in Verizon Wireless.
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Re: Re: japhy's regex article for the TPJ
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Actually, I'm glad you brought this up. In 5.8.4, there's improved ability (thanks to me) to create your own Unicode classes, and even build cascading ones. The documentation is in perlunicode, and here's an example (you must have Perl 5.8.4 for this to work):
package MyUnicode; sub InLetters { return << 'END'; 0041 005a 0061 007a END } sub InVowels { return << 'END'; 0041 0045 0049 004f 0055 0061 0065 0069 006f 0075 END } sub InConsonants { return << 'END'; +MyUnicode::InLetters -MyUnicode::InVowels END } package main; my $string = "Chicken Stromboli"; while ($string =~ /(\p{MyUnicode::InConsonants}+)/g) { print "consonant cluster: '$1'\n"; } __END__ consonant cluster: 'Ch' consonant cluster: 'ck' consonant cluster: 'n' consonant cluster: 'Str' consonant cluster: 'mb' consonant cluster: 'l'
I could write about that, and explain the new '&' class operand, which allows you to do the intersection of two or more Unicode classes.
I like this idea. Maybe I can do this and one other topic -- I don't want the article to be too widely scoped.
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If you want a huge speed boost, replace
@rv=($i, @rv, map{$_.':'.$i} @rv);
push @rv, $i, map{$_.':'.$i} @rv;
By the way, I found confusing the use of $i for something which is not an index and not even numerical. $part would have worked fine, since it's an element of @parts. Well, it was named @parts before you renamed to worthless @t. Nice algorithm, but shoddy code.
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Thanks for the tip on the speed boost. Once I get the benchmarking stuff installed I'll play with it. While I do like your suggestion, I prefer the order that my method generates--all one-word combinations first, then the two-word combinations, etc.)
Re: shoddy code. Yeah, I guess so, consider me properly admonished. ++ for calling me on it and keeping me honest. When I thunk up the technique to use, I just erased the original function body and started whacking away at it. I didn't think to clarify things by using better variable names. (Of course, I just came off of a little golfing trip so my head was in "trim keystrokes" mode.</lame_excuse_mode>) Now, I guess the proper thing to do is to clean it up a little and insert your suggestion, so here goes:
sub function { my @parts = split /:/, shift; # Null is the complete list of combinations for # an empty word list my @combinations=(); # Sequentially (recursively with tail recursion # removed) rebuild the combination list adding one # new word each iteration for my $new_word (@parts) { # Given a complete set of combinations for a # given list of words, we can add a new word to # the list and generate all new valid combinations # by concatenating to the original list: push @combinations, # the new word (a single word is a valid # combination) $new_word, # and the original list with the new word # glommed onto the end of each member map {$_.':'.$new_word} @combinations ; } return @combinations; }
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i'm an assembly programmer by heart, so i would rather try to do "this" written from raw code as compared to using the Net::FTP module. i'm new to using sockets so bear with me, i just prefer understanding (by snippets/examples) how to accomplish this in the absolute basic bottom line. perhaps someone can direct me to the code listing for Net::FTP rather than just the most common "how to use" reference? i have no queries that if i could get a visual of the module, i could understand how its done... thanx for everyones response, i have been looking at the Net::FTP option, but, it doesnt do the proverbal "inside workings" that i yern
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This is the way I've usually seen it done. I was curious, so I ran a benchmark against the two.
use Benchmark; my @list; for ( 0..9999 ) { push @list, sprintf "%d", 100 * rand ; } timethese( 1000, { 'keys_map' => sub { my @uniq = keys %{{ map {$_ => 1} @list }} +; }, 'grep_seen' => sub { my %seen; my @uniq = grep ! $seen{$_}+ ++, @list; }, } );
Yields the following output.
Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of grep_seen, keys_map... grep_seen: 13 wallclock secs (11.17 usr + 0.00 sys = 11.17 CPU) @ 89 +.52/s (n=1000) keys_map: 30 wallclock secs (29.28 usr + 0.00 sys = 29.28 CPU) @ 34 +.15/s (n=1000)
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Making no claim to understanding tcl; what the code appears to be doing is:
1. for each row in the table;
2. query the text for each column within that row;
3. split that text on newlines;
4. find the maximum number of lines in any column within that row;
5. set the row height for that row accordingly.
SOmething roughly equivalent in Perl terms to:
my $maxRows = $tableMatrix->cget( -rows ); my $maxCols = $tableMatrix->cget( -cols ); for my $r ( 1 .. $maxRows -1 ) { set $maxHeight = 1; for my $col ( 0 .. $maxCols - 1 ) { my $text = $tableMatrix->getText( -row => $row, -col => $col ) +; my $nLines = scalar split "\n", $text; if( $nLines > 1 and $maxHeight < $nLines ) { $maxHeight = $nLines; } } $tableMatrix->cset( row => $row, height => $maxHeight ); }
You'll have to work out the appropriate methods to call for what I've shown as getText() & cset().
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Imagine the poor editors if several people started abusing the frontpage.
This already happens now to an extent. One Monk frontpages a worthy node only to have it knocked off The Monastery Gates by a few careless frontpages by new Friars. Although this hasn't happened as much since Am I a power-mad Friar? was posted.
Not allowing the author to single handily frontpage their own nodes would probably reduce such cases though.
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The internet wasn't built on perl. The biggest problem I have with perl is this idea that no other language should exist. In this thread alone, how many people have indicated that "after Perl 6 comes out and we get some GUI environments for it, etc. then no one will want to use any other languages". You don't see this in any of the other comunities, why is it seemingly the dominant voice in Perl land? It was this attitude expressed daily from a college for over 5 years that has driven me away from Perl forever.
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5 stars So much has been said about this album that I really don't need to add anything except this: this is one of the best albums ever made, period. Not one of the best Yes albums, but truly one of the best albums ever made by anyone anytime. Of course, I'm preaching to the choir here. I doubt that anyone who is reading this has not heard and appreciated CTTE in it's entirety. But if you haven't, go out and get a copy of it!!! "And You and I" is the most magical song that Yes ever released. "Close to the Edge" is a symphonic work that can stand proud even in the company of classical pieces by the greatest composers. And "Siberian Khatru" is an extended prog hard rock piece in the style of "Heart of the Sunrise," but so much better. Truly, this is one of the best albums ever released by any group.
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4 stars The Soundtrack of the Passions
In the enticing sphere of Italian Progressive Rock, almost every single subject sees its chance to shine, but like in all realistic establishments, some manage to shine brighter than the others. Latte e Miele saw serendipity strike in prog year of glory - 1972, when they produced a Bach and New Testament inspired Passio Secundum Mattheum. This Genova based band's debut album's magnetism lies primarily in its concept which, as the title suggests, is pertaining to Christ's dramatic last days but only according to a singular source ' the gospel of Saint Matthew, often referred to as the Passions. The beauty behind this concept is that it tells a story in a simple yet heart rending manner, without it being homiletic.
Musically speaking the record explores symphonic dimensions reached not only by ELP, but also by Genesis in tracks like Ultima Cena (the intriguing supper coincidence) or Getzemani which oozes an abundance of influences in terms of keys treatment not only from the above mentioned giants, but also from Deep Purple, Yes and even Eloy for that twist of spaceyness. The jazz influence is another chief constituent of the whole, although at first they may seem slightly disconnected from the main theme. Present in both parts of I Testimoni (the witnesses) via piano and drums, it raises a fairly compelling question regarding its presence: why are there emotionless straight-forward jazz sections in a crucial moment of the plot, where the false witnesses accuse Jesus of having declared that he would destroy the temple and then rebuild it in three days? The answer is that the senselessness of the jazz bits overlaps the duplicate attitude of nonchalance and lack of emotion emitted by the witnesses.
As seen above, the soundscape manages to intertwine effortlessly with the visual thread, emerging into a burst of sentiments. Thus the emotions grow more and more till they reach an overwhelming apex: from the uplifting choir on Introduzione and the rather mellow acoustic guitar and harpsichord driven Il Giorno Degli Azzimi accompanied by the elegant narration of the Passover preparations, to the dynamic operatic choir from The Trial; from the witnesses false statements rendered in a counter-tenor vox, in a very similar vein to some of Annas' bits from Jesus Christ Superstar to the yet again mellow and sweet but at the same time excruciating Il Pianto which displays an absolutely beautiful blend of keys, acoustic guitar and flute; from the surprising Giuda where harsh guitars and drums alternate with a jazz section denoting insolence to Il Calvario featuring dramatic operatic choir, morbid church organ keys, and drums reminiscent of ancient ships where they would set the rowing rhythm of the slaves; all this only to paint one of history's most tragic paintings. But because the Providence had other plans, the end fulminates in a reiterated theme of the heavenly choir present at the very beginning of the record accompanied by the now regulars ' guitar, piano and drums.
All told, Latte e Miele's first effort is a gorgeous journey whether it is on a musical, visual, religious for some, educational for others, or merely a rudimentary emotional level, in which every music lover should engage at least once in a lifetime.
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