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Not sure this clever when you're trying to avoid bankruptcy
Insane amount of court actions going on between all the largest tech companies at the moment :/
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All the mobile makers and various other camera makers and computer firms have been constantly suing each other over various patents for years now, and it seems it has no chance of changing any time now. Bunch of litigious arseholes, the lot of them.
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Suicide Bomber Strikes Near Islamabad's Red Mosque
Religious students demonstrating today in Islamabad (AFP) July 27, 2007 -- Reports from Islamabad say a suicide bomber blew himself up close to a group of police officers today near the Red Mosque. Initial reports say up to 10 people were killed, including at least one police officer, and 15 were injured.
Security forces outside of the Red Mosque have been reinforced by troops in riot gear and an armored personnel carrier after demonstrators earlier today chased away police and blocked a government-appointed cleric from leading Friday prayers.
Reopening Disrupted
Authorities were attempting to reopen the Red Mosque today after an assault against militants there by Pakistani troops on July 10 that killed more than 100 people.
Some protesters climbed to the rooftop of the mosque and raised Islamic flags. Others painted the outer walls in their original red color -- replacing the peach color used when the mosque was repainted after the deadly assault.
Workers in the past two weeks have plastered over bullet holes in the walls and repaired damage to the minarets at what had been a pro-Taliban place of worship.
The July 10 assault sparked protests across the country.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has defended the storming of the Red Mosque, saying it was "inevitable" because the mosque had functioned as a center for extremism.
The assault followed failed talks with cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the leader of the weeklong siege who was shot dead in the raid.
Provincial Official Slain
Meanwhile, in Pakistan's Baluchistan Province today, unidentified gunmen killed a provincial government spokesman.
Authorities say spokesman Raziq Bugti was shot dead in the city of Quetta as he was driving to his home.
Police said they were unsure if the killing was related to the violent backlash seen in Pakistan since the July 10 raid on the Red Mosque.
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Blatant untruths are standard ammunition for those who oppose Ballot Measure 3, which would ban bear baiting in Alaska. Typical falsehoods are contained in a letter published in the state voters pamphlet.
It says the measure would "severely limit" the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's ability to manage game populations, and would prevent the department from capturing problem bears and relocating them away from town. But if that's true, it's odd that Fish and Game Commissioner Kevin Duffy doesn't agree. He wrote in an Oct. 8 letter to Alaska Wildlife Director John Toppenberg that a search of Fish and Game's paper and electronic documents found absolutely no such fears expressed by the agency's staff in "any memoranda, written opinions or any other documents associated with Ballot Measure 3."
The opponents' letter also claims the initiative is sponsored "out-of-state extremists like Greenpeace and P.E.T.A." and is funded by "numerous anti-hunting, anti-fishing and envronmental obstructinist groups."
In fact, the measure is a grass-roots effort consisting 100 percent of Alaskans who realize bear baiting is a repugnant, unsportsmanlike practice that habituates bears to human food sources and actually causes wildlife management problems. Those opposing Ballot Measure 3 are funded by Outside organizations such as Safari Club International. There are many good reasons why only a small minority of states still allow bear baiting. Don't fall for the lies on Nov. 2. Vote for common sense by supporting Ballot Measure 3.
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Review: Humans raid planet in 3-D 'Terra'
Published 4:00 am, Friday, May 1, 2009
The Battle for Terra
3-D animation science fiction. Directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas. Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Brian Cox and David Cross. (PG. 85 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
The creators of the 3-D animation film "Battle for Terra" have developed such an entirely new world inside the movie theater, it's hard not to think they just pushed the film-viewing experience forward 10 years.
In "Terra," the last of the human race needs to colonize a planet that has oxygen (they ruined their original home, of course) and aim their sights on Terra, a planet inhabited by peace-loving creatures who cherish art and music. The Terrians are not familiar with the concept of war and, at first, welcome the invading humans as gods, even after the fighter planes start firing on their homes.
The plot is an obvious parable for modern dilemmas, yet in the hands of the film's creators, and with their graceful use of 3-D, viewers feel as if they're watching how the future might actually unfold, glimpsing a conflict that's destined to take place 300 years from now.
The old 3-D hackwork reserved for horror films - clawing hands reaching toward the audience, etc. - is replaced with a full, 360-degree immersion that serves the storytelling in every frame. Terra is located somewhere "above the clouds," but its inhabitants float and maneuver as if beneath water. (I felt queasy during the opening credits, but quickly settled in. After the film ended, I reached the lobby before I realized I was still wearing the glasses.)
After the humans attack Terra, downed Earth Force pilot Jim Stanton (voiced by Luke Wilson) is nursed back to health in secret by Mala, a teenage Terrian (Evan Rachel Wood). Stanton and Mala share one desire - to leave Terra. Mala is a rebellious youth, and her father was abducted as a war prisoner during the attack. The two make a deal: If Mala can sneak Stanton off the planet and back to Earth Force's base, he'll help her find her father.
The tone of "Terra" and its solemn commentary on the human race could have easily fallen into dark cynicism (see: "Wall-E"). But with the gorgeous universe created here, younger audiences will rightfully find this adventure as enticing and thrilling as any original "Star Wars" trek, and adults will recognize the story as rich and complex in its modern themes.
With surprising narrative choices, and an insistence on leaving some conflicts unresolved and messy, the 3-D animated "Terra" says more about the real world we live in, and the future we could inhabit, than any 2-D, real-world film could have said.
-- Advisory: Lots of sci-fi fighter-plane explosions, but nothing extreme.


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Honda's newest creation is named the Civic Black Edition and the model in question will become available to its future customers exclusively in the United Kingdom. The vehicle has received a new look, with the all-black treatment, some glossy elements for the extra touch, the black exterior mirror housings, the black side skirts, the glossy finished roof mounted spoiler, the Black Edition finished in aluminum, the black alloy wheels, the glossy black fuel lid cover and several other tweaks which will help it stand out from a crowd.
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President Barack Obama could be the next Jimmy Carter.
That is to say, he would be more instrumental in effecting change during his post-presidency than while signing legislation in the Oval Office.
Serving as the 39th president from 1977 to 1981, Carter's term was burdened by the Iran hostage debacle, an oil crisis and inflation. Though he promised to reduce inflation during his campaign, it was worse when he sought re-election. In January 1977, the national unemployment rate was 7.5 percent; in January 1981, it was 7.5 percent. No progress there either.
If that wasn't enough, Carter, the first president actually born in a hospital, faced discord with Congress and the media.
Sound familiar?
Now Carter is revered as an international diplomat. In 1982, he established The Carter Center, which advances human rights and humanitarian causes.
Carter used his center's expertise to resolve conflicts in such hotbeds as Bosnia and North Korea. He won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, has worked to improve global health and eradicate diseases and implemented strategy to improve crop production in Africa.
Carter has improved his legacy; Obama could do the same.
In 2013, Obama has been embroiled in three major Nixonian-like scandals, from the IRS to Benghazi to the Associated Press. He has been hamstrung by a recalcitrant Congress and obstructionist Republicans.
Obama will be lucky to pass any major legislation or pioneer any ground-breaking reform during his final three and a half years in office.
However, like Carter, Obama may have a higher calling. He showed seminal flashes during his commencement address at Morehouse College on May 19.
Obama told graduates of Morehouse, a predominantly black male college in Atlanta, that young black men should decry victimhood. His wife, Michelle, evoked a similar message a day earlier during her commencement address at predominantly black Bowie State University in Maryland.
The third week of May essentially was "Come Down Hard on Black Folk Weekend" for the Obama couple during this commencement season. It was like the First Couple said in unison, "We need an intervention."
On that Sunday, President Obama offered in an unabashed tone: "We know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices. And I have to say, growing up, I made quite a few myself.
"Sometimes, I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for not doing the right thing. But one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is there's no longer any room for excuses."
On that Saturday, first lady Michelle Obama offered in a scolding tone: "... More than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, more than 50 years after the end of 'separate but equal,' when it comes to getting an education, too many of our young people just can't be bothered.
"Today, instead of walking miles every day to school, they're sitting on couches for hours playing video games, watching TV."
The Obamas can use the remarkable Chelesa Fearce, who has been featured on CNN, as a talking point for their "no excuses" campaign. Fearce, a young black female with a made-for-television-movie life story, recently graduated as valedictorian at Charles Drew High School in Riverdale, Ga.
Growing up, she sometimes was homeless with her mother and three siblings. She often studied her homework by the illumination from her cellphone when the lights dimmed out in homeless shelters.
During her commencement address, Chelesa, as a model to follow, referenced Greek mythology figure Antaeus, who displayed great strength and power as long as he touched the ground. Well, Chelesa touched the ground when she said, "I just told myself to keep working because the future will not be like this anymore."
Now, she's headed to Spelman College on scholarship in the fall with an eye toward biology and medical school, with a concentration in oncology. Fearce is proof that you don't have to be defined by your environment.
Perhaps the post-2016 Obama couple can further the social cause for global achievement, a la Jimmy Carter.
Gregory Clay is assistant sports editor for McClatchy-Tribune News Service.


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iMovie is a free app which can be downloaded to your iPad. It enables students to make movies and trailers using a range of templates and themes with incredible graphics and original scores. Customising your movie could not be easier ensuring the app is accessible for a range of ages and subject matter. Movies can be made personally or as a collaboration using one iPad. This is especially beneficial in classes with less than one iPad per student.
I have been asked lately for ideas on how to use the iPad in food technology, so at the weekend I set some friends children to make me an iMovie based on their food technology homework assignment. The assignment was to make a pizza.
The link below is the finished product.
iMovies are really fun to make and the narrative that accompanies the media ensures that students really engage with the material. They look great which promotes the feeling of a real accomplishment. iMovies has a number of export options including YouTube, mail, Showbie, Dropbox and iCloud Drive meaning they can be shared with the class and home easily. They can be completed over a number of lessons, the first one planning their video, the second taking the pictures/ video and completing the project.
Other ideas that have been shared with me are:
- English- Romeo and Juliet trailer
- P.E- Sporting event videos
- Science- recording experiment results
Here is a step- by- step guide on how to make an iMovie in your classroom.
Making an iMovie with your class is an captivating and rewarding task. The possibilities of use are endless and watching the finished products as a class is amusing as well as educational.
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The residual interest rule from the CFTC will eventually require futures customers to fully cover the margin of their futures contracts by the morning of the day following a trade. In order to comply with the new rule, brokers would be more likely to demand drastically increased initial payments from farmers, hurting the availability of funds that support the agriculture industry. The end result may drive some farmers out of futures markets due to increased costs or restrict capital that could otherwise be used to hire, make capital improvements, and make other critical investments.The Senators' bill, S. 2601, the Risk Hedging Protection Act would provide futures customers with an additional day to get their needed payments to brokers to meet the margin call, while still protecting customers and the financial markets. The bill mirrors legislation, H.R. 4413, already approved by the House Agriculture Committee and the full House of Representatives.
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Compiling from source is the only way to use a lot of free software that your Linux package manager can't find, ready for download, in an Internet repository. Thankfully, compiling is often much easier than you may think.
In this post, I'll explain the most common way to install from sources on Linux -- suggesting, as a practical example, that you may replicate on your computer an actual compilation of the AbiWord 3.0 word processor on a Fedora 17 x86_64 box. My explanation is valid on most other distributions, as long as you change the "yum" parts with equivalent invocations of their package manager. Also, remember that only "yum" and (if installing to system folders) "make install" should be ran as root, and use your normal account for all the other steps.
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Bologna have appointed Albano Guaraldi as their new President this evening – their fifth in the last 10 months.
The troubled club held a Board of Directors meeting in which outgoing President Marco Pavignani tended his resignation.
He had only been in charge since January 21 and was always intended to be a stop-gap solution.
Guaraldi was voted in with Maurizio Setti as his Vice-President, becoming Bologna's fifth President in the last 10 months.
The club was on the verge of bankruptcy several times during this season and were docked three points in the Serie A table due to financial irregularities.
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In his latest post on this site (The God of the Blue States), I think that Sam Harris is making the same mistake that he attributes to other "liberals and secularists??? in the United States by drawing the "wrong lesson from the 2004 election???. Namely, that the election was primarily determined by the voters' religious beliefs. The objective evidence would suggest that this is a far too simplistic and one-dimensional analysis of a much more complex and multifaceted voter preference model.
For example, the Pew 2004 National Survey of Religion and Politics, (http://pewforum.org/publications/surveys/green-full.pdf) found that religious belief is quite diverse and fairly well distributed between Democrats and Republicans with slightly more respondents identifying themselves as Democrats (42%) vs Republicans (38%). Also equally split was whether or not respondents thought that religion was important to their political thinking (39% "yes???, 37% "no???).
None of the religious groups were "monolithic??? with each containing many "independents??? and significant minority populations claiming affiliation with the other party.
However, what is most striking about the survey results is that 35% of respondents self identified themselves as "conservative??? whereas only 22% claimed to be "liberal???. The most heavily liberal group was found to be Jews (a strongly religious group) at 46% exceeding even atheists at 44%.
I think that, by "drawing the wrong conclusion??? liberals are erroneously deciding that if they just wrap their leftist policies in religious rhetoric that they can appeal to (i.e., "fool???) the religious idiots that voted for Bush and regain political power. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.
What the American electorate has consistently and increasingly rejected since 1976 when the last openly liberal politician was elected president (Jimmy Carter) is LIBERALISM! Even Clinton ran as a "centrist???.
However, by incorrectly mixing up considerations of religious belief and political philosophy in their analysis, liberals avoid examining the fundamental failure of their repeatedly discredited vision and policies to resonate with the American electorate.
It is clear to me that this is a fatal error which will even further erode their political influence at all levels of government and, I must say, makes me extremely happy to watch it unfold.
I believe that this shift is primarily due to the aging of the US population and will not be quickly or easily reversed (unless, of course, God intervenes :o ).
I agree with the reasoning, if not the conclusions of my friend above. I am a lifelong republican who has never voted for a democrat in a national election, but I damn near did this time! If the democrat had been anyone from the center of the party, I'm thinking Leiberman, they would have had my vote.
I would consider myself a swing voter in this past election. As I have grown older, my views have moved closer and closer to the center. The republican party has left me, the same way the democrats left Reagan.
I voted the way I did for two reasons:
1. I am a viet nam vet. In my opinion, kerry betrayed not only his uniform and the people he served with, he was/is a traitor to his country and should have been court martialled after meeting with the viet cong in paris. He has no honor. His lies (self-admitted) to the senate dishonored America.
2. He has been the emptyist suit in a senate full of empty suits.
There were at least two dems who ran in the primaries that I could have voted for, but none of them made it. I cant wait 'till next election. The dems will probably run hillary or edwards (another empty suit, and head as well), get killed again and bitch about the election being "stolen" again.
The democratic party needs to get with it, or we WILL have the theocracy we all are working against. You libs out there - start now trying to drive your party more to the center. Get a reasonable candidate for next election, or we are all in deep do do. In my opinion, the dems are as much to blame for the present situation as the reps.
I still do not understand how GW Bush record was better than Kerry's even to a Vet.
I can understand Kerry serving in the war, and coming home with a conviction to do what he could to stop it, a kind of shell shock.
I knew people like this, that went thinking it was a patriotic duty and came home disillusioned and a bit nuts.
I can understand Bush taking advantage of the Texas good ole boy system to completely avoid putting himself in harm's way also, I knew quite a few people that took the hike to Canada because they had no other way out.
Please show me the lies, and the true history, and explain your thinking, I am very curious about your opinion.
Paul Starr, writing in today's NY Times, makes the valid point that Democrats (and liberals) have focused too much on winning constitutional battles through the courts, instead of winning elections, over the past 40 years. Now, it's payback time. He writes:
To be sure, Democrats were right to challenge segregation and racism, support the revolution in women's roles in society, to protect rights to abortion and to back the civil rights of gays. But a party can make only so many enemies before it loses the ability to do anything for the people who depend on it. For decades, many liberals thought they could ignore the elementary demand of politics - winning elections - because they could go to court to achieve these goals on constitutional grounds. The great thing about legal victories like Roe v. Wade is that you don't have to compromise with your opponents, or even win over majority opinion. But that is also the trouble. An unreconciled losing side and unconvinced public may eventually change the judges.
And now we have reached that point. The Republicans, with their party in control of both elected branches - and looking to create a conservative majority on the Supreme Court that will stand for a generation - see the opportunity to overthrow policies and constitutional precedents reaching back to the New Deal.
That prospect ought to concentrate the liberal mind. Social Security, progressive taxation, affordable health care, the constitutional basis for environmental and labor regulation, separation of church and state - these issues and more hang in the balance.
Under these circumstances, liberal Democrats ought to ask themselves a big question: are they better off as the dominant force in an ideologically pure minority party, or as one of several influences in an ideologically varied party that can win at the polls? The latter, it seems clear, is the better choice.
I think this is a good analysis of the situation. We liberals tend to assume that progress achieved in liberalising the country is never reversible - that the country is on a one-way ride to greater individual liberty. But why should this be the case? The opposition just stores up its resentment and goes about the messy business of winning elections, and then changes what it doesn't like. There is no comfort in being right if we lose in the end.
Scary stuff. Also, it is a mistake for Sam to automatically view the 44% of people who think jesus will return during their lifetime as the people who elected Bush. Many of them are confused democrats, and I fear that the whole issue is much more complex than Sam pretends. If even 30% of liberals are expecting jesus to drop by soon, then things are indeed bleak.
You guys seem to be forgetting that the greatest predictor of how a person would vote in the last election was how often he or she went to Church. While religion was not the only variable in play, it was definitely a major one. Harris' point is clearly that a significant percentage of the electorate had decided that Bush was God's man in the White House, and there was almost nothing he could have done to disqualify himself in their eyes. He would have had to curl up in the fetal position during one of those debates to have seemed unpresidential to them. These people were never really open to looking at the facts. That's not to say that everyone who voted for Bush did so for religious reasons, but clearly many did. And there is no doubt that the whole gay marriage thing mobilized the Republican "base."
Paul Starr's article is nice, but I think its revisionist history.
Rehnquist - Nixon
Scalia - Reagan
Stevens - Nixon
O'Connor - Reagan
Kennedy - Reagan
Ginsberg - Carter
Souter - Bush
Thomas - Bush
Breyer - Clinton
Abortion was revisited in 1992 and upheld. As you can see, from this simple list, the number of Democratic appointments vs Republican appointments is quite out of line.
Sure FDR packed the court back in the 1930s and the Earl Warren court was socially active, particularly in expanding the constitution to protect individual rights over states.
I did hear something quite disturbing the other day though, some people want the Supreme Court to be subject to elections.
The Democratic problem is not one of failure due to making enemies.
That sounds like the Republican party line. If you saw how GW Bush won over Ann Richards, you would know that the Republicans are propaganda experts, and this article is really just more Republican propaganda.
The old division between Democrat and Republican was based on economic issues, labor vs big business. The Moral Majority and Christian Coalition have changed the dialogue mostly because of abortion, but now "family values" and other rhetorical catch phrases are being used. At the same time as this was being formed and solidified, the big labor Unions were being dismantled.
The simple fact is, labor no longer has any money to support the party.
Labor actually no longer exists.
The Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition have an agenda. The Democrats no longer do. Democrats were always the party that reacted to excesses of exploitation by business and government.
The Great Depression, brought to you by the Republicans economic policy.
After capably serving as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover became the Republican Presidential nominee in 1928. He said then: "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land." His election seemed to ensure prosperity. Yet within months the stock market crashed, and the Nation spiraled downward into depression.
After the crash Hoover announced that while he would keep the Federal budget balanced, he would cut taxes and expand public works spending.
In 1931 repercussions from Europe deepened the crisis, even though the President presented to Congress a program asking for creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to aid business, additional help for farmers facing mortgage foreclosures, banking reform, a loan to states for feeding the unemployed, expansion of public works, and drastic governmental economy.
At the same time he reiterated his view that while people must not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for them must be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility.
Once the Republicans totally fuck shit up again, the country will elect a Democrat = )
[quote author="Conservative Atheist"]In his latest post on this site (The God of the Blue States), I think that Sam Harris is making the same mistake that he attributes to other "liberals and secularists" in the United States by drawing the "wrong lesson from the 2004 election". Namely, that the election was primarily determined by the voters' religious beliefs. The objective evidence would suggest that this is a far too simplistic and one-dimensional analysis of a much more complex and multifaceted voter preference model.
This is a good example of where I think authoritarianism ("The Authoritarian Specter" by Bob Altemeyer) explains the data much better than simply faith. The two are closely related, but faith tends to be loaded with the baggage of religion (though religious-type faith certainly isn't exclusive to what are generally considered religious beliefs), and that leads to confusion of the issues and misinterpretation, I think—things get all convoluted.
People seem to have a hard time not equivocating with the term faith, probably because the word has been popularly used so sloppily and vacuously to where it's hard to tell what anyone means when they use it (without carefully defining their use). It's what I call a "fudge term," like "spiritual." It's been used to mean too many things to mean much of anything—so much so that the problem is hard to defeat even through presenting a clear definition (of course the fault lies with readers not the writer).
Even still, given what I understand Sam's definition to be (the same one I have issues with—belief wihout sufficient epistemological cause—presumption, which Western religion has elevated to the status of high virtue), faith in small doses doesn't seem to be any more problematic than alcohol or any other mildish recreational drug. The problem with faith is that we're a culture of abusers—our abuse meter has been seriously miscalibrated by the factory, so to speak (Western—or US at least—socialization). But still, I'm not sure faith itself is the main problem. When faith is combined with authoritarianism, however, is when it gets ugly (arguably it has to be combined with authoritarianism in order that it be genuine faith, or real religious faith, but I think the problem—the ugliness factor—is more directly a function of authoritarianism than of faith).
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Once the Republicans totally f*** s*** up again, the country will elect a Democrat = )
It is an unfortunate sign of desperation that liberals view their best hope for regaining political power to be that some sort of disaster will befall their country.
This is an excellent example of the reluctance of liberals to critically examine why they are losing "mind-share" with the American people.
Is it any surprise that voters are reluctant to elect candidates who consistently and obviously relish, celebrate and enthusiastically "spin" every piece of negative news about the economy, the war on terror, the environment, poverty, healthcare, etc., etc.,.......?
When will these people face the reality that the old liberal playbook of attempting to scare senior citizens with implications that the next great depression is just around the corner, that social security is going to be taken away by heartless Republicans, that soup lines will be forming on every block to serve dog food to the hungry masses, etc. etc. does not work anymore?
Liberals need to quit rooting for the terrorists, hoping for an economic meltdown, eagerly anticipating the onset of either global warming or an ice age, and fearing the spread of freedom in the Middle East.
In my opinion, until liberals abandon their "doom-and-gloom" worldview and develop a positive vision for the country, they will continue to see their political power erode at an ever increasing rate.
okay to review…
lets look at the past say 50 years ...
Clinton Demo
Clinton Demo
Carter Demo
Johnson Demo
Kennedy Demo
Truman Demo
Truman Demo
Its not a sad state of affairs, its history….those with an agenda care more than those that just react to bad situations.
The liberals didnt lose Mind share…with the rest of the country….
Liberal became a bad word about 20 years ago over one issue..abortion…
Liberals aren't a cohesive group anymore, and what you accuse the liberals of doing has been done by the conservatives also in every election they lost. Look at Jimmy Carter?
seriously you must be under 25 = )
this is just more Republican party line rhetoric, and I am not buying it.
who was the ones that said if you vote for Kerry there will be another terriorist attack? talk about using fear…
this isnt a liberal only position about the state of economy, but many of us know that what is screwed up takes 8 or so years to come to fruition, meaning the effects of the bad decisions today will be felt tommorrow.
I am actually a social liberal and an economic conservative, so I have voted republican before…well before they became irresponsible spenders…
I am sorry the Democrats didnt have any plans to invade another soverign country on bad intelligence reports then try to cover it as spreading freedom. I am glad no other country feels as strongly about its political system it is invading other soverign countries to spread it around.
Oh wait, wasn't that what the cold war was about? = )
you know the more I think about what you are saying ....
the madder I am getting….
go read Its My Party Too
you guys are spouting gloom and doom about a party with NO base coalition that still had TWO of the closest elections in recent history…
Bush vs Gore and Bush vs Kerry were both very close.
It is True that the Democratic Base is neither rich nor cohesive, it is true that over the last few years it has lost some. It represents minorities, small business, blue collar workers, gays, pro-choice, compassion for the poor, education, the enviroment, benevolant foriegn policy, social services, equal rights and protections, gun control, abolition of the death penalty, election reform, actors and artists, intellectuals, scientists,
Alot of these people chose to vote Republican on narrow issues or out of FEAR of TERRORISTS. ....
But you still have the Republicans representing Big Business, the Oil Industry, Wall Street, the Insurance companies, Investment companies, exploitative foriegn policy, White supremacy groups, The American Nazi party, the NRA, Evangelical Christians, Pro-lifers, the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, isolationists, and uneducated morons from Kansas…
you know I watch C-Span for most of my news. I watched the Con. Rice hearings. I saw my senator, Ms Kay Bailey Hutchinson get up there and say this (Paraphrased) "We shouldn't be bringing up past mistakes made over Iraq or the war on terror or past job performance as an issue in the confirmation of Con. Rice"
Everytime anyone disagrees with the party line, even Moderates in their own party, they get shouted down with the same kind of accusations and rhetoric you are spouting here about the Democrats. The Republicans feed you a self-defeating spin, and you lap it up like the Pavlov's dogs you are.
Think for yourselves, look up the facts, turn off Fox and CNN and watch PBS and C-Span.
Just because the Republicans are out there using and abusing everyone they can to make a base and take power, doesnt mean I want to vote for another party doing the same thing.
My point about the way the country works is simple, its not gloom and doom that makes people vote, its when the government does something that finally directly affects their lives. Like getting their kids killed in wars overseas….
Oh yeah and the Daily Show on Comedy Central = )
[quote author="Iisbliss"]okay to review…
lets look at the past say 50 years ...
Clinton Demo
Clinton Demo
Carter Demo
Johnson Demo
Kennedy Demo
Truman Demo
Truman Demo
seriously you must be under 25 = )
First of all, although I wish that I was under 25, in actuality, I voted for each of the people on the above list from Kennedy on (including Carter - my biggest mistake) and except for Billy Jeff Clinton.
So, over the last 45 years, I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. I have always been open to listen to what they have had to say and, after careful consideration under the circumstances of the time, I have generally voted with the majority of the electorate (10 out of 12 times).
Based upon that record, I don't think that I am too far out on the "fringe" of the political spectrum and feel that I am at least reasonable barometer for moderate mainstream voter sentiment.
However, for the last 24 years, I have resided in the "Peoples Republic of California" where I have personally been subjected to the relentless assault of a political process dominated by modern liberal Democrats.
As a result, I would NEVER vote to impose liberalism on my fellow citizens in the rest of the country and must plead "guilty" to an experience-based strong anti-liberal bias.
So, in the last election, I believe that you are probably too liberal if your preferred candidate for President……
…..voted against the war and thereby to let Saddam Hussein keep Kuwait in 1991.
…..opposed every Ronald Reagan initiative to confront the Soviet Union and communism in the Western Hemisphere during the 1980's.
…..introduced legislation to cut intelligence funding by over $6 billion after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
…..failed to show up to any Senate Intelligence Committee meetings for one year after the first World Trade Center bombing.
…..failed to show up to over 75% of all Senate Intelligence Committee meetings while a member.
…..had his campaign website claim that he served as the Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence……even though he never held the position.
…..voted against the death penalty for terrorists.
…..voted against every significant weapon system now used to wage the global war on terror.
…..voted to increase taxes nearly 100 times and against tax reductions over 300 times.
…..voted against the funding needed to support our troops in Iraq.
…..spent 20 years in the US Senate without sponsoring any useful legislation that became law.
…..has a Senate voting record that is significantly to the left of Ted Kennedy (a.k.a. "The Hero of Chappaquiddick"), Hillary ("Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy") Clinton and Fidel Castro.
…..believes in freedom of speech ……unless you disagree with him in which case he will go to court to silence you, keep you off of radio and TV, suppress your videos, ban your books and, if you are Ralph Nader, keep you off the ballot.
…..ran as a Vietnam "war hero" but refused to release his military records or answer any questions regarding his military service.
…..wants yet another purple heart for the traumatic a$$-whipping that he suffered at the hands of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
…..admitted to personally committing atrocities against innocent civilians while serving in Vietnam.
…..while serving as an officer in the US Navy Reserve, aligned himself with "Traitor-Jane" Fonda to illegally meet with, take direction from and give aid and comfort to the North Vietnamese Communists and Viet Cong enemy thereby undermining the morale of US soldiers and POWs during the Vietnam war.
…..wanted to fight a more "sensitive" war on terror by broadening the "nuisance laws" against prostitution, gambling, loitering, curbing your dog and spitting on the sidewalk to include other "misdemeanor" terror acts such as mass murder, beheading of innocent civilians, car bombings and advocating Islamic jihad.
…..thinks that, before any action against suspected terrorists is taken under the Patriot Act, it should first be reviewed and approved by a panel of ACLU lawyers followed by passing a "global test" administered and proctored by the World Court.
…..believes that the best way to avoid international misunderstandings is to confuse both our friends and enemies by taking constantly changing and increasingly "nuanced" and convoluted positions that defy understanding by anybody on all significant issues.
…..thinks that he can build international support by referring to current US allies as "the coalition of the coerced and the bribed" and to patriotic Iraqi leaders as "puppets" of the US government.
…..thinks that he knows more about what is happening in Iraq than the heroic Iraqi Prime Minister who is risking his life for his country every day of every week.
…..thinks that he can attract new allies to our side and motivate our troops in combat by declaring that we are "fighting the wrong war, at the wrong time, in the wrong place" and that Iraq is a "distraction" from the global war on terror.
…..thinks that it is OK for US soldiers to die in support of and under command of the corrupt United Nations but not in defense of the United States of America.
…..thinks that we should forego collective multi-lateral negotiations with North Korea in favor of the failed Clinton/Albright/Carter bilateral approach that handed them nuclear weapons on a silver platter.
…..insists on taking a poll, consulting a focus group and passing a "global test" before committing any unilateral action including eating crackers in bed, singing in the shower, passing gas or taking a wiz.
…..thinks that the reason that American children cannot read, write or do math is because the recently passed "No Child Left Behind Act" has standards that are too high and funding that is too low…...not because of incompetent teachers who are protected by powerful labor unions.
…..thinks that the decision to recognize marriage between two men, two women, an adult and a child, a man and a sheep, a woman and a donkey and/or any other polygamous combination of animals, vegetables or minerals should be left up to the states.
…..thinks that his fleet of SUVs, private jet and luxury yacht will run better on caribou dung than oil from the north slope of Alaska.
…..thinks that capitalism is wrong and creates greed but supports himself by hitting on billionaire bag ladies.
…..believes that businesses create oppression but that government creates prosperity and jobs.
…..does not believe that lowering costs through outsourcing will make US companies more competitive in worldwide markets and reduce prices for US consumers.
…..believes that the domestic economy and international relations will be improved by restraining free trade.
…..believes that the economy will be strengthened by raising taxes on the entrepreneurs who create 90% of all new jobs.
…..believes that there is insufficient tax revenue flowing into the federal treasury but uses every loophole in the book to reduce his personal tax rate to 12% on multi-millions of income.
…..believes that record levels of economic growth, job creation, and home ownership, combined with low inflation and interest rates are sure signs of a failing economy that can only be rectified by raising taxes.
…..decries the high cost and inadequacy of health care but selected as his running mate a man who made his fortune on frivolous medical personal injury law suits that put good doctors out of business and forced the rest to practice extreme and costly defensive medicine.
…..ran as a devout Catholic and ex-alter boy but is in danger of being excommunicated for voting against the ban on partial birth abortion.
…..believes that embryonic stem cell research will cure athlete's foot, dandruff, the common cold, the flu and "The Curse of the Bambino" while also stopping the outsourcing of wheelchair manufacturing jobs by eliminating them entirely.
…..thinks that preventing felons, dead people, fictional characters, and/or illegal aliens from registering and voting multiple times is Republican voter suppression.
…..is OK with having to show a photo ID to rent a video at Blockbuster but not to vote for President of the United States.
…..directed and funded an army of lawyers to sue for election fraud whether or not there is any evidence to support the charges.
…..did not renounce the goons that were harassing his opponent's campaign workers and breaking into their offices all across the country in clear acts of election terrorism.
…..was called a "lousy candidate" by that great American conservative patriot Michael Moore.
…..cares about anything that Al ("Hanging-Chad")Gore says .…..especially in Florida.
FINALLY…. after 4 years of bitching about losing in 2000, millions of dollars spent trashing our president during a time of war, countless books and movies spreading half-truths and lies, a rock tour dedicated to get your candidate elected, three debates, almost every well known leftist celebrity endorsement, "another Vietnam" in Iraq, the most money ever raised for a political campaign, union thugs atacking Republican election workers, thousands of dead new voters, the old news media spewing the most unabashed liberal anit-Bush bias ever seen, …………Your candidate still lost by 3 million votes and the Republicans increased their majorities in both the US Senate, the House of Representatives and in Governor's mansions and State Legislatures across the country.
Liberals……..you need to step back, take a deep breath and realize that your political philosophy may need just a little "fine tuning" before you can sell that S**T to the American people.
ah so now we have the truth…and I am not going to play list the political exaggerations of both sides with you while you toe the party line.
clearly, you should move to Texas, and I should move to Ca.
The things that bother me about the Bush win…isnt so much how much I hate or dont hate liberals or Republicans.
Its a personal thing after having had him for Governor. The man is a smarmy as a used car salesman. And he is still smiling even when he talks about the casualties in Iraq, while Haleburton rakes in the dough and we put permanent military bases over oilfields. Well he needed to do something to help his buddies when Enron finally fell apart.
I don't generally dislike Republicans or Christians, but when you put them both together I think you have an unholy alliance, and it will fall apart of its own weight after doing some irreparable damage.
Anyway, you have Arnie now, so you should be happy = )
We got rid of Bush, and finally maybe we do something about the states terrible education problems.
The Atlantic this month has an excellent issue. One of the articles is the now-obligatory analysis of the election results, and the writer (whose name I've unfortunately forgotten) cites the widening gap within religious populations between the hardening conservative element and the more moderates. While religious believers' numbers apparently has remained relatively constant, the distinction between the wingnuts and the rest has become more marked and was exploited by the winner.
If Democrats had to convince hardcore fundamentalists to vote for them in order to win, there might be reason for them to run from Christianity. But I believe Democrats don't need to convince any of these people in order to win. Based on the closeness of the last two elections and the Clinton landslide in 1996, the Democrats need to convince the many moderates out there who already agree with them on the important issues but who somehow believe they are being "Un-Christian" if they pull the lever for a Democrat. If we could get the message out that it is OK to be both a Christian and a Democrat, I think the Dems could pick off enough votes to win. If the Democrats don't even try to show that there are people out there like me who vote for Democrats precisely because I am a Christian, then they are really doomed to a long winter in the wilderness.
I'm thinking Leiberman
The Democratic party is incapable of nominating a moderate. And, the more they lose, the more they are likely to go further to the left in response. It seems incapabable of seeing Clintons success, after moving more to the center, as an example of what they can do, despite conservatives pointing this out to them.
BTW, if Leiberman had been nominated, and if I had been a Democrat, I would certainly have voted for him! He seemed to be the only sane man of the bunch.


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Mary Baker Eddy Library Museum
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Take a break on Plaza May 27, 2012
The Mary Baker Eddy Library is dedicated to Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), a New England resident who founded The First Church of Christ, Scientist and The Christian Science Publishing Society (publisher of the secular news magazine The Christian Science Monitor). Regardless of your religious persuasion, you have to admire a woman who overcame poor health and limited options to become a pioneer in business, education, and publishing at a time when women weren't even allowed to vote. How many of us would have the courage to go head-to-head with a publishing titan like Joseph Pulitzer when we were 87 years old? Mary Baker Eddy did when she decided to start publishing The Christian Science Monitor, which ironically has won several Pulitzer Prizes over the years.
The Library includes the Mapparium, the Hall of Ideas, the Quest Gallery, a small gift shop and a café as well as access to its collections on Mary Baker Eddy through Research and Reference Services. The Quest Gallery covers the life of Mary Baker Eddy including her achievements and ideas. It also provides a back-drop to her work with its inclusion of photos, documents, and other items related to the medical, cultural, and religious history of mid-nineteenth-century America. The Mapparium is a painted glass globe three stories high that shows the countries of the world as they were in 1935. Visitors walk across the inside of the globe via a glass bridge in the middle of the globe. While visitors are inside, a program plays to "illustrate how ideas have traversed time and geography and changed the world." Access to the Mapparium is available only to those taking the tour. Tours run every 20 minutes and last about 15-20 minutes. (Adults $6 / Seniors (62 & older), Students, and Children 6-17 $4 / Children under 6 are free. There is no charge to visit the Shop, Café, and Research & References Services. )
If the Quest Gallery or Mapparium aren't of interest, you can also take a tour of the Church, which is located a very short distance across the plaza from the Library. The Church is actually two buildings – the original Romanesque style church from 1894 and a much larger Byzantine-Renaissance style Church Extension from 1906. Tours are free and last about 30 minutes. (Hours: Tues & Wed Noon-4PM / Thurs-Sat Noon-5PM / Sun 11AM-3PM. Enter through the glass doors facing Massachusetts Ave.)
Once you've finished touring either the Library or Museum, you might want to take some time to explore the plaza itself. It features a grassy area on Massachusetts Ave that often hosts students studying for finals or people enjoying the grass under their feet. Depending on the time of day, café tables and chairs are available in front of the Library. On the side of the plaza along Huntington Ave, there is a large reflecting pool and fountain. During the summer months, children are welcome to play in the fountain. All features of the plaza are free and open to the public.
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Inauguration of the University of Panama's Annex Programme in the Female Rehabilitation Centre
On September 2, 2013, the General Directorate of the Prison System, in conjunction with the University of Panama, and with the technical and financial support of the project "Supporting Prison Reform in Panama" of UNODC ROPAN, inaugurated the University Annex Programme in the Women's Rehabilitation Centre. This programme will be piloted with the initial participation of 70 female inmates, and will include the following technical courses: Bilingual Communication with an Emphasis on Call Centres; Clothing and Apparel; and Community Development.
This programme constitutes an historic milestone for the country and the region. It is designed to allow the prison population to access university education, thus raising its academic and cultural level, and contributing directly to social reintegration.


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The grass genera of the world
Excluding Monium, Pobeguinea, Anadelphia scyphofera
Habit, vegetative morphology. Annual, or perennial; caespitose (when perennial). Culms 20–200 cm high; herbaceous; branched above, or unbranched above. Culm nodes exposed; glabrous. Culm leaves present. Young shoots intravaginal. Leaves mostly basal, or not basally aggregated; auriculate (or seemingly so, by virtue of the ligule), or non-auriculate. Leaf blades linear; narrow; 0.5–5 mm wide; setaceous (e.g. A. pumila), or not setaceous; flat, or acicular; without cross venation; persistent. Ligule an unfringed membrane (sometimes laterally hardened, the margins auricle-like, when the blade narrow); truncate; about 1 mm long. Contra-ligule absent.
Reproductive organization. Plants bisexual, all with bisexual spikelets; with hermaphrodite florets. The spikelets of sexually distinct forms on the same plant; hermaphrodite (occasionally seemingly all so, by suppression of the pedicelled members), or hermaphrodite and male-only, or hermaphrodite and sterile. The male and female-fertile spikelets mixed in the inflorescence. The spikelets overtly heteromorphic (pedicellate awnless, sessile awned); all in heterogamous combinations. Plants seemingly outbreeding, or inbreeding; seemingly chasmogamous (the racemes usually long-peduncled and exserted from the spatheoles), or exposed-cleistogamous (seemingly, in A. trepidaria, in which the reduced raceme is enclosed in the spatheole, cf. Monium).
Inflorescence. Inflorescence paniculate; open, or contracted; with capillary branchlets; spatheate (and spatheolate); a complex of partial inflorescences and intervening foliar organs. Spikelet-bearing axes racemes (usually), or very much reduced (to one sessile spikelet with one more or less vestigial partner, in A. trepidaria - cf. Monium); the spikelet-bearing axes with 23 spikelet-bearing articles, or with 45 spikelet-bearing articles, or with only one spikelet-bearing article (A. trepidaria); solitary; with very slender rachides; disarticulating; disarticulating at the joints. Articles linear; without a basal callus-knob; not appendaged; disarticulating transversely to disarticulating obliquely (less obviously oblique than in Monium); densely long-hairy, or somewhat hairy, or glabrous. Spikelets solitary (sometimes, at least seemingly, in A. trepidaria), or solitary and paired (the pedicelled members - including their pedicels - often missing, vestigial or much reduced and concealed in the callus hairs, at least in parts of the raceme); not secund; sessile and pedicellate (but the pedicellate members not always conspicuous); consistently in long-and-short combinations (probably usually, if evidence of the pedicelled members is diligently sought), or not in distinct long-and-short combinations (often ostensibly solitary, sometimes genuinely so); when paired, in pedicellate/sessile combinations. Pedicels of the pedicellate spikelets free of the rachis. The shorter spikelets hermaphrodite. The longer spikelets male-only, or sterile.
Female-sterile spikelets. The pedicellate spikelets very variable in development and size, those of (e.g.) A. pumila and A. leptocoma larger than their sessile partner; awnless or the upper glume shortly awned. The lemmas awnless.
Female-fertile spikelets. Spikelets 3.5–5 mm long; compressed dorsiventrally; falling with the glumes. Rachilla terminated by a female-fertile floret. Hairy callus present. Callus usually short; blunt (usually), or pointed.
Glumes two; more or less equal; long relative to the adjacent lemmas; hairy, or hairless; without conspicuous tufts or rows of hairs; awned (G1 bidentate to bi-setaceous at tip, G2 more or less long-awned); more or less carinate (G2), or non-carinate (G1); very dissimilar (both hardened, the G1 dorsally rounded or flattened, acuminate and slightly bicarinate towards the tip, the G2 naviculate and keeled towards the tip, its slender awn sometimes long and twisted around the more substantial one of the lemma). Lower glume not two-keeled (except towards the tip); convex on the back to concave on the back; not pitted; relatively smooth; 5–7 nerved (sometimes obscurely so, the median inconspicuous or absent). Upper glume 3 nerved. Spikelets with incomplete florets. The incomplete florets proximal to the female-fertile florets. Spikelets with proximal incomplete florets. The proximal incomplete florets 1; epaleate; sterile. The proximal lemmas awnless (truncate to pointed); 0 nerved, or 2 nerved (palea-like); more or less equalling the female-fertile lemmas to decidedly exceeding the female-fertile lemmas; similar in texture to the female-fertile lemmas (hyaline); not becoming indurated.
Female-fertile florets 1. Lemmas less firm than the glumes (i.e. the wings and lobes of the stipe hyaline); not becoming indurated; incised; 2 lobed; deeply cleft; awned. Awns 1; median; from a sinus; geniculate; hairless; much longer than the body of the lemma (8–50 mm long); entered by one vein. Awn bases twisted; not flattened. Lemmas hairless (sometimes ciliate); non-carinate; without a germination flap; emphatically only 1 nerved. Palea absent. Lodicules present (small); 2; free; fleshy; glabrous; not or scarcely vascularized. Stamens 3. Anthers about 2 mm long; not penicillate; without an apically prolonged connective. Ovary apically glabrous. Styles fused (basally); joined below. Stigmas 2.
Fruit, embryo and seedling. Fruit compressed dorsiventrally (somewhat, at least in A. bigeniculata), or not noticeably compressed; glabrous. Hilum short. Embryo large.
Abaxial leaf blade epidermis. Costal/intercostal zonation conspicuous. Papillae present, or absent (A. pumila); intercostal. Intercostal papillae over-arching the stomata to not over-arching the stomata; consisting of one oblique swelling per cell, or consisting of one symmetrical projection per cell (large, fairly thick walled, surface-ornamented in A. leptocoma). Long-cells markedly different in shape costally and intercostally (the costals narrower and more regularly rectangular); of similar wall thickness costally and intercostally (fairly thin walled). Mid-intercostal long-cells rectangular; having markedly sinuous walls (A. pumila), or having straight or only gently undulating walls, or having markedly sinuous walls and having straight or only gently undulating walls (then sinuous only adjoining the costae). Microhairs present; elongated; clearly two-celled; panicoid-type; 33–45 microns long; 6–6.3 microns wide at the septum. Microhair total length/width at septum 5.5–7.1. Microhair apical cells 20–30 microns long. Microhair apical cell/total length ratio 0.59–0.67. Stomata common; 21–29 microns long. Subsidiaries non-papillate; variously dome-shaped and triangular. Guard-cells overlapping to flush with the interstomatals. Intercostal short-cells common (A. pumila), or absent or very rare; of A. pumila in cork/silica-cell pairs and not paired. Costal short-cells conspicuously in long rows. Costal silica bodies present and well developed; panicoid-type; dumb-bell shaped.
Transverse section of leaf blade, physiology. C4; XyMS (but the presumed PCR sheath very thick walled and mestome-sheath like in A. pumila and A. bigeniculata). Mesophyll traversed by columns of colourless mesophyll cells (A. leptocoma), or not traversed by colourless columns. Leaf blade nodular in section. Midrib conspicuous; with one bundle only to having a conventional arc of bundles (A. bigeniculata), or having a conventional arc of bundles; with colourless mesophyll adaxially (this represented by only a few cells in A. bigeniculata). The lamina symmetrical on either side of the midrib. Bulliforms present in discrete, regular adaxial groups (A. leptocoma), or not present in discrete, regular adaxial groups; associated with colourless mesophyll cells to form deeply-penetrating fans (these linked with the traversing colourless columns, in A. leptocoma); associating with colourless mesophyll cells to form arches over small vascular bundles (seemingly, e.g. in A. bigeniculata), or nowhere involved in bulliform-plus-colourless mesophyll arches. Many of the smallest vascular bundles unaccompanied by sclerenchyma, or all the vascular bundles accompanied by sclerenchyma (A. leptocoma). Combined sclerenchyma girders present; forming figures, or nowhere forming figures. Sclerenchyma all associated with vascular bundles.
Cytology. 2n = 20.
Classification. Watson & Dallwitz (1994): Panicoideae; Andropogonodae; Andropogoneae; Andropogoninae. Soreng et al. (2015): Panicoideae; Andropogonodae; Andropogoneae; Anthistiriinae. 13 species.
Distribution, phytogeography, ecology. Tropical Africa.
Savanna, often on shallow soils.
References, etc. Leaf anatomical: studied by us - A. bigeniculata W.D. Clayton, A. leptocoma Pilger, A. pumila Jac.-Fél., A. trepidaria (Stapf) Stapf.
Special comments. Contrast the treatments of Jacques-Félix 1962 and Clayton 1966: an effective resolution of generic limits (involving Anadelphia, Monium and Pobeguinea) awaits acqisition and proper analysis of dependable comparative data - meanwhile, the present descriptions are based on the incomplete sample examined (see the accompanying file). Illustrations. • A. leptocoma (as A. longifolia): Jacques-Félix, 1962. • A. afzeliana, as A. arrecta: Hook. Ic. Pl. 31 (1922)
We advise against extracting comparative information from the descriptions. This is much more easily achieved using the DELTA data files or the interactive key, which allows access to the character list, illustrations, full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, distributions of character states within any set of taxa, geographical distribution, and classifications. See also Guidelines for using data taken from Web publications.
Cite this publication as: 'Watson, L., Macfarlane, T.D., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 onwards. The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references. Version: 11th December 2017. delta-intkey.com/grass'.


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Can't Seem To Bleed Clutch, Please Help!! 2004 Fiesta Finesse
Sparticus89 posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHello, I have a 2004 Fiesta Finesse which has recently been showing signs of a faulty Slave Cylinder. I had the master cylinder replaced a few months ago when the clutch pedal dropped to the floor and would not return. I read about the clip that holds the rod in place with the pedal (it wasn't that). The car has been working ever since the Master Cylinder was changed and now I've lost all pressure my suspicions are that it was never the Master but the Slave. I recently bought a Vizibleed One Man Bleeding System from Halfords (£5.99) - http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&productId=204703_en_gb&catalogId=10151#tab3 and have had a bit of success but lost pressure again. I used a brick to press down the clutch pedal all the way to the floor, opened up the slave cylinder bleed screw (Non tool requiring switch looking thing?), watched fluid enter the Vizibleed carton, closed the valve once no more fluid & air came out, then depressed pedal and repeated. Can someone please tell me how to use this device correctly? I feel like I'm doing everything wrong... Here's the method I've used in bullet point format : 1. Press pedal all the way to the floor, hold with heavy brick 2. Open up bleed valve and wait till fluid stops coming out 3. Close Valve 4. Release pedal back to up position 5. Press pedal to floor, hold with heavy brick 6. Repeat number 2 Is this correct? Am I meant to keep the reservoir cap off or on? Should the end of the tube that goes into the Vizibleed carton be immersed in fluid (it has a a ball bearing at the bottom to stop air coming back up in the line)? I am so frustrated as I got pressure back and then lost it.... Any help would be greatly appreciated!! M
Stiff Gear Changes, Low Biting Point
Sparticus89 replied to Sparticus89's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubIt's not the LX but a 3 door Finesse? I haven't had the car long to notice a deterioration, more of a sudden change. This has just happened recently out of nowhere. I did smell some odd odors a week ago when driving around London after a few unexpected hill starts. It was like a burning metal smell. I'm guessing that's one of the cylinders? Would you be able to smell a slave cylinder getting hot or only a master cylinder? My suspicions are one of the cylinders as a local mechanic said the clutch wasn't slipping at all? Thanks for your help so far.
Stiff Gear Changes, Low Biting Point
Sparticus89 posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHello all, I am new to this forum and a complete car newb (recently passed my test and bought a bit of a nightmare car from a friend under impulse).. One day when driving back from a partner's house I couldn't get the car into any gear at all. Pushing the clutch pedal to the floor she wouldn't go into first, a 2 hour AA wait and miraculously as the gentlemen sat in my car it worked again. From that point there has been a significant difference in stiffness when changing gears. I have tried to research all possible issues (master or slave cylinder in need of changing, clutch wear, clutch fork etc etc) but would like some opinions from others. The car is a Ford Fiesta Finesse 2004 with 61K on the clock. I have no service history so no idea really how well the car has been maintained under the bonnet. She was driving fine when I purchased the car, gear changes were smooth also. P.S I have put a cable tie around the clutch pedal to make sure the rod is going into the master cylinder properly (known fault with these cars from my research). Any help would be much appreciated.. M
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Sparticus89 replied to ian610's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHad exactly the same problem with my 54 plate Fiesta Finesse (60k on the clock). There is a known fault with Fiesta's cylinder rod not connecting to the pedal correctly. A quick google search and you will see lots of people on different forums with the same problem. See here ---> http://www.rac.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?6261-56-Plate-Ford-Fiesta-Clutch-Gear-Problems http://www.rac.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?15596-fiesta-clutch-issue Ford dealerships should be able to provide a clip that will keep the pedal line with the master cylinder. Pop your head under the steering with some cable ties ready (and a torch) if there is a plastic cone to your right going into a cylinder. If it's not going into the cylinder when you press the clutch down use a cable tie to align them. Cable ties are just a quick fix, I'd recommend using a bolt through the clutch pedal (there should be a hole for one anyway) to keep things nice a secure. p.s I am not a mechanic so I'd expect someone will correct my terminology, I will post some pictures of mine if that helps. Will get the camera out tonight. M


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Thomas Banks RA, The Falling Titan, 1786, marble. Photo: RA/Paul Highnam © Royal Academy of Arts, London
Thomas Banks RA, The Falling Titan, c.1790-95, etching. Photo: RA © Royal Academy of Arts, London
Thomas Banks RA, The Falling Titan, 1786
The Falling Titan depicts the doomed attempt of an earthbound giant to reach Olympus and overthrow Jupiter by piling up great boulders, only to be crushed by these very stones. This dynamic sculpture represents the real anguish and pain of the giant as he is flung down the mountain, and the presence of the huge mass of rocks bearing down on the figure greatly contributes to its drama. The immense size of the titan is made clear by the inclusion of a tiny satyr and two goats on the base of the sculpture fleeing in fear.
The relatively small head of the giant suggests that the sculpture is supposed to be viewed from below. The effect of the falling giant is increased by the dramatic foreshortening of the figure. It is this foreshortening that is likely to have been the inspiration for the piece, rather than the myth itself. Banks' daughter, Lavinia Forster recalled that when they were studying together in Rome, Banks and Henry Fuseli RA would make sketches of figures from five different viewpoints. Forster believed that one of these drawings may have suggested the idea of The Falling Titan.
The sculpture is carved from a single block of marble from Carrara, Tuscany, favoured by sculptors for its pure, white appearance. The chisel marks remain evident in the boulders suggesting naturally formed stones, which contrasts with the smooth, lifelike skin of the giant. In preparation for this piece, Banks made multiple sketches and a clay model, a plaster cast of which exists in the Royal Academy's Collection.
The sculpture was much admired by contemporary critics. In 1812, John Britton wrote 'in form, expression, anatomical accuracy, and adaption, this statue approaches perfection: it is one of those works of art, that in a small compass, and with simplicity of parts, may be called sublime.'
Possibly in recognition of the support Banks received from the Royal Academy, when he was elected, he gave this ambitious piece as his Diploma Work. The work clearly remained significant to the artist as he produced an etching of the subject, which was published around 1795. Banks may have produced the print for self-promotion, but it also allowed him to add a dramatic twist. The satyr and goats are no longer cowering beneath the shadow of the giant, but they are set free from the marble and are running and leaping down the hill.
Thomas Banks RA, The Falling Titan can be seen in Richard Deacon RA Selects on The Dame Jillian Sackler Sculpture Gallery.


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On this week's episode of Weekend Confirmed, hosts Garnett Lee and Jeff Cannata are joined by "Indie" Jeff Mattas and Machinima's Andrea Rene. This time out, everyone heads up a segment of the show. Andrea kicks things off with some Disney Infinity discussion, Garnett talks about CES 2013 and the magic of 4K televisions, Mattas starts a chat about the recent legislative action surrounding video game violence, and Cannata shares some positive impressions about the Path of Exile closed beta. Finishing Moves puts a bow on it all, and is followed by another playoff edition of the post-show NFL TailGate.
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Zany bosses are a hallmark of the Metal Gear series, so while Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance may spin-off in a wildly different, stabby direction, rest assured that you'll still get to duff up some right proper weirdos. A new Japanese trailer from publisher Konami shows off a selection of the bosses Raiden will be cutting up, including a very handy lady, a pre-sliced chap, and some big fella wot hit things wiv swords.
In addition, developer Platinum Games, of Bayonetta and Vanquish fame, shared armfuls of concept art for Mistral in a recent blog post, showing the evolution of her design.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance comes to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on February 19. The demo will be opened up to all and sundry next week, after months as exclusive bonus in the Zone of the Enders HD Collection.
The long-coming indie game Antichamber has scored a release date. The game is coming January 31 on Steam. The title is a "psychological exploration" game, in which perception can't always be trusted.
The game features Escher-like visuals with impossible physics that wrap around themselves. Navigating your way through with a gun that can create, destroy, or manipulate matter makes for some unique puzzles. It comes from indie developer Alexander Bruce, and has been the recipient of more than 25 awards and honors from various festivals. Last April it scored Indie Fund backing.
"Creating Antichamber was a journey that took me around the world and deep within myself, through an emotional rollercoaster with the highs of award ceremonies and the lows of going a little bit insane," Bruce said in the announcement. "After several years of obsessively watching people play and trying to get inside their minds, refining and then watching some more, this is what I've discovered, and it's finally time to share that with the world."
As the political dialogue on video game violence continues in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, state representatives are starting to propose and draft legislation that would place restrictions on the game industry. One proposal would tax violent video games, while a drafted House bill would ban the sale of Adults Only or Mature-rated games to minors.
The AP (via Joystiq) reports that Representative Diane Franklin (R-MO) is proposing a 1% sales tax on violent video games, the proceeds of which would then be put towards law enforcement. This is similar to an Oklahoma bill that was defeated in a state house subcommittee last year.
Meanwhile, a new bill from Jim Matheson (D-UT), HR-287 (PDF), would require ratings labels on games, and restrict retailers from selling AO or M-rated games below their respective age recommendations of 18 or 17. Failure to comply with any part of the law would result in a fine up to $5,000 per violation. While the ESRB already exists to voluntarily rates games as a bit of self-regulation for the industry, the bill would make it a legal requirement.
If this all sounds incredibly familiar, it's because the Supreme Court struck down a similar state law from California in 2011. The state law would have imposed its own standards for what qualified as a violent game, so HR-287 wouldn't have that problem. But the SCOTUS' ruling was couched in the First Amendment, stating outright that "the basic principles of freedom of speech do not vary" based on the medium. So if this bill passes into law, it would likely be challenged in court.
To some extent the game industry is battling public perception. A NBC/WSJ News Poll (PDF) released last night showed 62% of respondents claiming violent media like movies and video games hold at least "a good amount" of responsibility for shootings like the ones in Tuscon and Newtown. By comparison, availability of guns and other weapons in general was only believed to be responsible at 53%, and availability of assault firearms was at 59%. This echoes Vice President Biden's recent comments that public opinion may be against the game industry.
It's been a long time coming, but it appears that DLC for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is finally coming to PlayStation 3 next month, at a discount no less, starting with Dragonborn. Oh, and PC folks will get Dragonborn in February as well.
While the PC version will be coming on February 5, no date has been associated with the PS3 release except February, according to the Bethesda Blog. The order of the content will be the 1.8 patch first, then Dragonborn, Hearthfire and finally Dawnguard. All are due next month, pending localization and approval from Sony.
To ease the pain of the long delay, all of the DLC will be offered at a 50 percent discount during the launch week on the PlayStation Network.
Now you PS3 folks can really get excited by this trailer:
SimCity isn't coming until March 5, so you'll have to wait for the flowers to bud before you can start your urban layouts. But you might get your chance to play a snippet of the game as early as next weekend, when the beta kicks off.
You can register for the beta now. According to an SimCity's Twitter, the beta will start next Friday, January 25, and last through Monday, January 28. It will feature a "one hour slice" of the game, but the announcement isn't clear on just how many eager city planners will get in on this round of beta invites. March is still quite a while away, though, so it seems likely we'll see more waves coming leading up to launch.
One day, you'll be able to download groceries through Steam, ingesting the nutrients through a Steam Port at the base of your spine. While Valve is forever expanding the platform in pleasing ways, it's not quite there yet. Still, you can now read and write game guides on Steam, hosted on the Steam Community. This'll likely tie into the hints we've seen of in-game Dota 2 guides, then.
Everyone Steam accounts can write Steam Guides for any software on Steam, jamming in images, videos or tables to make it all shiny like. The Steam Overlay now has a section for guides so you can quickly check things in-game, or you can casually browse from any game's Community Hub.
It seems Valve will tie guides in deeper to some games, though. Dota data digger Cyborgmatt's latest patch rummage shows hooks for pop-up guides with tabs for skill builds and suggested items. Given how complex the game is, it's a fine idea to help players learn 'new' heroes. It's not hard to imagine this being rolled into the Steamworks API for all developers to use if they fancy.
In this rapidly-changing guide environment, I just don't know what to do with my million-dollar idea of having Shakira write a video game tips column named My Tips Don't Lie. Gutted.
The new Tomb Raider reboot takes Lara back to a simpler time when she was less self-assured and getting regularly shot at and impaled. Developer Crystal Dynamics doesn't want to tip its hand on any of those foundational moments, so it won't be offering a demo for the game.
"There are no plans to release a demo of the game pre-launch," global brand director Karl Stewart said on Twitter (via IGN). "We don't want to spoil the story." He also noted reservations in having players experience a little bit of story in the demo, then wait a while before being able to continue.
Later, responding to fan questions, he also dispelled any notion of an online pass for the game. This will be the first Tomb Raider title to feature multiplayer, which lends itself to downloadable content, but apparently Crystal D doesn't plan to ask fans to pay a bulk sum for all of it up-front.
Now that Dota 2 is up to a whopping 96 characters, it's a fair bet that a good proportion of them are something of a mystery to most of its 3 million players. To help introduce you to a few more, without the fear of being stomped by people playing their best heroes, Valve added a new mode in yesterday's weekly patch that forces everyone to choose one of their least-played Doters.
'Least Played Mode' disables each player's top 20 heroes with the most wins so they have to pick a character they don't play very often, or at least are not very good at. "Having an even playing field for everyone in the match will hopefully encourage players to break out of their comfort zone and try new heroes," Valve said in a blog post.
The patch also brought goodies including bug fixes and bots for Warlock and Drow Ranger. It adds a lot to the Dota 2 Steam Workshop tools too. Industrious community creators can now make couriers and wards, and items for Centaur Warrunner, Batrider, Mirana, Keeper of the Light, Shadow Demon, and Slark, with a shot at getting them into the game.
Dota 2 is still technically in closed beta, though it's a pretty large-scale one as Valve also revealed yesterday that it sees "over 3 million unique players every month." If you know someone in the beta, they probably have a spare invite or two, or you can buy an early access package which includes loads of cosmetic items for the free-to-play game.
Thursday, January 17, 2013 ends on a quiet note with Late Night Computing.
Yeah, yeah, it's only Thursday and I've already run out of things to discuss. You'll have to excuse my brain, I guess, since its decided to take the day off. It's out running errands in the snow while I sit here and stare at my screen like a zombie for some reason.
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One Late Night free game 1.0. "One Late Night is a short immersive horror-game experience, starring an unnamed graphic designer employee, working late one night at the office, until strange things start to happen. The basic idea is that players who have been in similar situations, and worked with similar office jobs, will relate themselves to the game setting and scenario and become immersed. Even if you can't relate to the game storyline, you will still get a good experience. The storyline is presented with short monologues, displaying the thoughts of the player, as you need to perform certain tasks to proceed in the game to continue discover new clues about what's going on. Use your surroundings to your advantage and hide under desks and in corners to avoid being taken by the ghost which haunts the office. Survive the night and find as many clues as you can about the threat." Download the free game for Windows here, or DirectX 11 version for Windows here.
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Blow stuff up with a few of your new favorite action heroes in The Showdown Effect from Paradox and Arrowhead.
MLB 13: The Show reveals changes to its Diamond Dynasty mode in a new trailer, Wargame: European Escalation comes to the Mac in a celebratory trailer, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist unveils its Inauguration trailer.