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|2004-03-06, 17:26
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why to watch the movie
If you don't watch The End of Evangelion, you'll be missing out. For me the movie was the best part of the series. First off, I never watched the entire series, I picked random episodes and just watched most of the series. It never made sense. But the characters were often very compelling.
The movie makes no sense if you haven't seen part of the series, but it combines the best video and audio parts. Music lovers will appreciate it just for the soundtrack, but the whole thing is pretty artistic. I could do without the long psychological interludes, too, but there are some really great scenes.
|2004-03-06, 17:48
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The "compelling characters" you speak of go through major changes during the course of the series. The "psychological interludes" you disdain are the scenes in which these changes are taking place. These changes ARE the story, but you missed out.
The series is also self-contained - not everyone likes the ending but the series does end with episode 26. The movies used to be shown with a recap feature (Death & Rebirth) because they are not self-contained.
|2004-04-28, 01:21
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Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Im watching the series for the first time.
First Question: How many episodes are there in the series, as in like TV series or whatever, before the movies. 28?
Second question: What order do you watch the movies in? Does it go "End Of evangelion" first and then "death and re-birth"? or wha? is there also another movie to the series?
Kinda confused because me and a friend are watching them and we both done know....
|2004-04-28, 01:30
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
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Age: 37
Wrong place to post, but I'll be nice:
I do not know how it is released in your country, but the DVD-Box that I own (http://www.evangelion.co.jp/) is in the following order:
Disc 1: Ep. 1-4
Disc 2: Ep. 5-8
Disc 3: Ep. 9-12
Disc 4: Ep. 13-16
Disc 5: Ep. 17-20
Disc 6: Ep. 21 (TV version), 21' (VHS/LD version), 22 (TV version), 22' (VHS/LD version)
Disc 7: Ep. 23 (TV version), 23' (VHS/LD version), 24 (TV version), 24' (VHS/LD version)
Disc 8: Ep. 25 and Ep. 26
Disc 9: EVANGELION: DEATH(TRUE)^2
Disc 10: THE END OF EVANGELION
|2004-04-28, 01:57
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LiFe Of ReVeNgE
eva directors cut 21-23
|2004-04-28, 03:10
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Location: Netherlands
Age: 39
And if you want to get them on DVD, I suggest waiting until the end of July, when
a vastly improved "real" remastered version (way better video and 5.1 sound) will
be released under the name "Neon Genesis Evangelion Platinum".
|2004-04-28, 12:06
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The series is 26 episodes. End of Evangelion sort of replaces episodes 25 and 26. They do not come after those episodes in the story's timeline but watch them after you see the series.
Death and Rebirth I never saw because everyone says it's just a recap of the series.
|2004-04-28, 12:21
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Death is the first half of End of Evangelion or episode 25, Death. When End of Evangelion came out, the first half of it recieved about 3 minutes additional footage and was renamed Death(true²).
|2004-04-28, 16:15
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yes you can just skip death and rebirht since there is nothing in there which isn't in other episodes. Order to watch EVA
original ending : 25 - 26
alternative ending : end of evangelion
these two can be seen in any sequence, I suggest picking the original ending first it'll mess you up
|2004-04-28, 23:04
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Man, this is the 2nd time I posted in the wrong place. Im really sorry for that everyone. I guess I really just need to get used to these forums first.
But thanks for your help, that really cleared up everything.
So......I guess I shall watch the rest of Evo. im on episode 21. Late!
|2004-12-21, 18:11
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Neon genesis evangelion questions?! *May contain spoliers*
Ok i just finished watching neon genesis evangelion, and well the ending left me too confused.
Do i need to watch the 2 movies to better understand this anime?
If i need to watch the 2 movies to answer my following questions then please tell me, ok here goes:
1)What were the last couple of episodes about? What was the purpose of those interview type episodes?
2) Why were all those people Shinji knew congratulating him at the end?
3)What will the 2 movies shed any light (if any) on how the series ended?
Any help would be much appreciated! THANKS!
p.s. I really liked the first 3/4 of episodes but when it started getting confusing it just kinda spoiled it for me, and the ending just left me unsatisfied
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|2004-12-21, 20:51
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The way I see it, the series ending was inside Shinji and it concluded the story about his personal issues. End of Evangelion (which you should watch) shows you the ending that happens outside, around Shinji. I doesn't clear anything up, but it gives another perspective with more confusion. Enjoy.
|2004-12-22, 08:41
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Crouchety Old Man
I personally thought much of "End of Evangelion" was Anno's way of giving the finger to all the fans who criticised episodes 25 & 26.
I intepreted the movie ending as Shinji choosing to accept life as it is (warts and all) and thus he rejected Third Impact. Since the whole decision was up to him, the giant Rei shattered and everything spewed out. For some obscure reason, he didn't drag the rest of humanity back with him except for Asuka (is it really her? Hmmm) and thus they all stayed as LCL fluid.
He could have created a false world but that would only be for himself (as I understood it). Everyone else would have their own little worlds and there would be utterly no interaction between real people. More people would return from the pool of LCL if they simply rejected the false little perfect worlds that Instrumentality would give them.
As for Asuka... well, I always thought that was a Asuka/Rei hybrid thingy...
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creating new blocks against foreign content and stepping up surveillance of browsing habits
Sounds familiar for some reason.
Check out this great and inspiring talk by the Tor project: 28c3: How governments have tried to block Tor [youtube.com]
There are more Tor users in Iran (second-largest IIRC) now than in Germany!
Yeah, there's a lot of pot calling the kettle black going on here isn't there? "It's only evil if they do it" seems to be the ridiculous message we are expected to accept.
But all this talk about Iran makes me ask "why is Iran an enemy of the US?" Iran is an enemy of Israel to be sure. But I would really like to see it spelled out for me one day what it is that makes them an enemy. When we are talking about China, the former Soviet Union, Cuba or the like, we can paint pictures of authoritarian governmen
why is Iran an enemy of the US?
Might have something to do with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Iran [wikipedia.org]
Also, this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax [wikipedia.org]
This too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution [wikipedia.org]
As a US citizen you can still travel to Iran freely for business and tourism (for now). Technically they aren't an enemy (unless you buy the whole "Axis of Evil" rhetoric). The problem is that "we" don't want the Nuclear club getting any bigger, and when people say "would destabilize the region" they mean "Israel is likely to nuke Iran back to the stone age in a preemptive attack". This would cause several arab and muslim states to strongly consider nuking Israel, of note Iran and Pakistan. Syria doesn't have nukes but they wouldn't need a lot of convincing to start lobbing bombs across the border. It's a small region (think New Jersey) and they don't need to go very far.
If you look at the activity that's been going on lately, we sent an expensive spy drone over in to Iran, a missile research lab just outside of Tehran mysteriously exploded, and both the Chinese and the US both launched some high tech gadgetry in to space that orbits over Iran every few hours. Whatever they see down there must be pretty fucking juicy if we've talked the entire European continent to stop buying Iran's oil (1/5th of total current production) in the middle of a global recession.
So yeah, as always in this region there are a lot of things going on here -- Iran is a huge country (population 75 million, geographic size, wealth) with Nuclear ambitions, doesn't like Israel, and we don't want them getting the bomb. We are trying to protect Israel* via economic sanctions against Iran and stabilize the region, Iran is fighting for their ability to defend themselves and is holding the world's economy hostage.
*Why? This is the real question. Zionism sounds like a dirty word (it's not), but that's my guess
Why is Iran doing this to itself? It's so needlessly self destructive. Just stop it. Behave yourself, the sanctions will come off, and we can all get along. Aggressive posturing, locking your people off from the world, and developing variants of nuclear technology best able to produce weapons grade material... what is the point of all this? Best case you'll get a bomb and then what? Hundreds of years of MAD as the rest of the world contains you? That sounds like loads of fun. If you just stopped all this we could normalize relations to everyone's benefit.
I doubt Iranians want any of this. But the three power blocks have to posture and jockey for position, and this is what happens.
Man, the Iranians have it really bad. I mean, it's not like the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches keep trying to outdo each other in new levels of stupidity over here in the good ol' U S of A!
with a President who, just like a Republican candidate, has to pretend to be a religious fruitcake to keep power.
You haven't been paying much attention to Ahmadamnutjob or his Republican counterparts lately, have you? It's obvious they actually believe their religious fruitcakery. There's no pretending involved.
Especially that Santorum guy. Wow. He's basically Ahmadamnutjob in a sweater vest.
It's kind of an "in one ear, out the other" thing. Like when you get down into Muslim theology, the concepts of dar al-harb vs dar al-islam, the fact that Mohammed - a rapist, a pedo, not to mention a liar who repeatedly broke treaties - is the idea of the "perfect man" whose example Muslim leaders are expected to follow.
Nobody wants to believe it when they hear what comes out of the mouths of Iranian leaders, or Palestinian leaders, or Muslim Brotherhood leadership in countries like Syria or Lebanon or Egypt, because it means some pretty awful things. Kind of like how the world didn't want to think that the Nazis were REALLY that bad when Chamberlain was negotiating with them (how'd that turn out again?).
Personally, I'm not one to believe that all Muslims are bloodthirsty, nor hate-filled. But there are enough of a minority that are to do some really nasty things in the world, and it's a religion in desperate need of something akin to the Protestant Reformation that Christianity went through to inject some much-needed sense and throw out a lot of the nastier stuff.
Did I say it was easy? No, but the reforms that happened - and not all of them happened all at once, nor cleanly - wound up massively cleaning up the Christian religious problems. Throwing out a ton of corruption, and leading up to the rise of secularization and separation of church/state that the US, Canada, and most of Europe now take more or less for granted (Ireland/England being two notable exceptions).
With troops already in Iraq and Afghanistan
Not to be pedantic, but there are no longer US troops in Iraq.
it wouldn't take much to push the US to shift the carrier fleet over there and up the proposed trade embargo to a compete military blockade
I disagree. The USA has no desire to cut off 5% of the world's oil production, not to mention seriously pissing off the Chinese (who get 20% of their oil from Iran). The only thing that would incite a complete military blockade of Iran is a nuclear test.
Apparently you have not been listening. The majority of Iranians are just as pissed off about this as you, and wish their government would stop it.
And yet, every time there's a chance to show it and tell their government "knock it the fuck off", they... go to rallies calling the US the Great Satan, Israel the "little Satan", and calling for Islamic theocracy.
However, their government has more guns and the standard of living hasn't descended to levels in Egypt or Syria yet. It'll get there soon, and then the
for disobeying his orders when she told him not to date a non-Muslim guy.
Curse my editing. Should have read "when she told him she wanted to date a non-Muslim guy."
I think that becomes the problem, though.
The majority of Iranians may "dislike" their current theocratic regime, when it stops them from doing perfectly normal, human, inconsequential things like choosing a certain haircut, or women wanting to wear makeup, or a thousand other things. But they are willing to put up with it because these are "religious authorities" telling them so. And they are willing to go along when these same religious authorities tell them that anyone not of their sect of Islam, much les
It's not the Iranians, it's their government.
Yes. Iran gov't found it to be very tricky business. On one side - improve education to match the standards of the developed nations. On the other side - keep people contained to Islamic dogmas.
That's just impossible: highly educated people tend to be libertarian.
But at least one thing Ayatollah got right [wikipedia.org] is to not try to forcefully prevent the brain drain nor prosecute or condemn those willing to leave Iran.
That's just impossible: highly educated people tend to be libertarian.
Citation??? There are so many important philosophers, economists, scientists, etc... who were not Libertarian. Now if you had said that "highly educated people tend to be less religious" then sure... but Libertarian? Do you not realize how many highly educated socialists there are?
That's just impossible: highly educated people tend to be libertarian.
Citation??? There are so many important philosophers, economists, scientists, etc... who were not Libertarian. Now if you had said that "highly educated people tend to be less religious" then sure... but Libertarian? Do you not realize how many highly educated socialists there are?
Sorry, I haven't realized that thanks to US political propaganda the word is so loaded.
I meant of course "libertarian" in its original sense [reference.com], not the loaded one [wikipedia.org].
To quote the dictionary:
1. a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
[[citation needed]]
Everything they've been saying is that they have a right to defense (they do) and protect themselves. This is what India and Pakistan did, quietly, about 15 years ago. Now, they may have ulterior motives (they've stated before that they wouldn't mind turning Israel into a glass parking lot) but nuclear deterrence is something any nation* should strive for, and we're less than 20 years off from ICBMs being an off the shelf part/system that nearly every country will have. India and
Why is Iran doing this to itself?
Because the theocrats are in control. The Mullahs, if you will.
Behave yourself, the sanctions will come off, and we can all get along. Aggressive posturing, locking your people off from the world, and developing variants of nuclear technology best able to produce weapons grade material... what is the point of all this?
The point is, as with all despotic regimes, control of "their people." There's a major flaw here in failing to take into the lengths to which a despotic regime
But Mohammed created a religion that divides the world into "us" and "not-us" (dar al-Islam and dar al-Harb) with a primary mode of interaction consisting of antagonism and violence
That sounds like Christianity for most of it's history... until separation of church and state prevented Christianity from starting more wars.
You may be right, but that doesn't make the analysis of how the leadership of Iran operates any less valid, does it?
"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar... [wikipedia.org] I would argue the concept of separation of church and state *began* with Christianity. This explains it's viral nature and why it has been able to survive and even flourish under governments who are quite hostile to it. The fact it got coopted by the state says more about politicians than it does about religion.
But Mohammed created a religion that divides the world into "us" and "not-us" (dar al-Islam and dar al-Harb) with a primary mode of interaction consisting of antagonism and violence, and that's the perspective by which the Iranian theocrats view anyone who isn't of their particular sect of Islam.
Iranian fundamentalism is being fed with constant sanctions from the other side. One has to also consider that Iran as a whole not yet completely over the Iran-Iraq war. And we in West are not helping Iran to get over.
Otherwise, the dar al-Islam and dar al-Harb doesn't seem to be much different from jew and goy, a non-jew.
First what is good for the majority of iranian is not necessarely good for the current leadership..
Second foreign influence in Iran do not have a very good track record, so it is not "that tempting".
You can look at the situation in North Korea where it's even crazier, but obviously there are enough people benefiting to control the rest.
And maybe closer to your home: why are the US doing this to itself ? It's so needlessly self destructive. Just stop it. Behave yourelf, you do not need to put 1% of your adult population in prison, and rob the rest of all their saved, current and future cash with shemanigans like subprime financing, inflated student loans, etc.. what is the point of all this ? Best case a couple of manager get more money that they could possible spend in their lifetime, and then what ? Hundreds of years of eroding of civil liberties while the rest of the work shakes it's head ? That sounds like loads of fun. If you stopped all this you could have a nice life and everyone benefit..
And you know what
The US problems are nothing like the problems in Iran. US problems stem from greedy people just being greedy. Iran problems stem from morons believing in horrible ideas that are illogical and tend to violate human rights. Really, like the fucking heavens opened up and a voice boomed out that said "LOCK DOWN YOUR INTERNETS BECAUSE I SAID SO" Religion is poison. If you spend time obsessing about it, you are tainted.
As far as I'm concerned, no deity would stand for its blessed creations being stifled.
If Allah blessed them with brains, why would he then command they be restrained?
It is exactly the same thing, agreed life in Iran is worse than in the US, but there are much less differences than you think between the ideas of the majority of the US citizens and Iranian citizens.
"The voices said" : Homosexuality is really very very bad, nonono => no to gay mariage in the US, being gay is " choice" (yea after all they could just all because priest and not have sex...), etc
"The voices said": Drugs are bad, ok i
It's interesting.
In both cases, the citizens are being ass-raped by the government.
Why is Iran doing this to itself? It's so needlessly self destructive.
Super simplified answer is, "They're Shia." It is essentially doctrine that everyone's out to get them. They don't trust anyone. Also, the country is run by religious zealots who truly believe that's it been all downhill since the Fatimid Caliphate in the 900s. The educated class is seen by the leadership as both traitors and heretics who must be rubbed out.
Can I pilot the Millennium Camel?
This is going to be a golden age for Iranian hackers
Aside from the fact that the average person might not have a computer. And that they might get beaten/imprisoned/killed for hacking.
I look forward to the new technologies that will result from this.
They take away the arms in Poland during WW2, and the Polish build bombs, guns, and APCs (!) in their garages and basements.
They take away the Internet in a country full of energetic, intelligent youths like Iran and we'll instead have coders working on a sophisticated darknet that is easy to use and difficult to track. Stuff like Tor and Freenet are nice but neither can be called user friendly or efficient.
and has begun implementing it. The corporations will be pleased!
The good news is that soon, we may have some left over IPv4 again.
The good news is that soon, we may have some left over IPv4 again.
True. Also think of the speed on this new intranet. Shit ought to be ungodly fast with only three people using it...death to freedom and buffering!
This gives a strong signal that your ideology doesn't stand up to whatever else is out there. Alright, so it's strongly worded against "the west", for which read American Freedom And Liberty And Democracy (And Republicanism) And Commercialised Happiness For All[tm], which is strongly evangelised by the world's highest tech army, navy, and air force. Before you bristle: Yes, there is a strong case to be made that it is in fact an ideology with religious fervour backing it to match. The lot of you aren't nearly as Christian as you think, you're American[tm] first. Bristle on.
The point, however, is that ultimately such a strong signal of negativism will be self-defeating. They're defining themselves as something they are not, instead of as something they are. The more they have to denounce most of the world to keep to their way, the more of their people will stray from that way and find other ways to life fulfullment. And it leaves lots of attack angles for competing ideologies. Nevermind the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, that's just the pry-bar. The more you clam up, the more others will poke at you.
The lot of you aren't nearly as Christian as you think, you're American[tm] first. Bristle on.
I don't know many Americans who would bristle at that. Most Americans strongly believe that "Americanism" is an ideology and way of life, and back it with religious fervor. Most Americans would agree with the statement "We're right, they're wrong" with virtually no hesitation.
will insulate its citizens from Western ideology and un-Islamic culture
No wonder atheism is on the rise. Religion was a great idea a thousand years ago, but it's time it was consigned to the history books.
"Religion" in this context is just a means of control; you can't do that because God says so, you must do this because God says so and you can't question God's word so get off Facebook. I'm willing to bet that the Mullahs won't restrict themselves to this "halal" Irannet, no, they'll need to be able to check on all that corrupting, un-islamic content to make sure it's still out there and all corrupty - you know, for the good of the people.
Religion is a tool, it can be used for good or evil, help people or harm them, but in general when people in power get hold of it they move firmly into the "harm" category.
So Iran is going to be the next state where the people finally have had enough and overthrow the overbearing dictatorship.
You'd think these dictators would get a clue from recent history and simply ease up a little instead of getting deposed by a popular revolution (and usually executed) but they never seem to get it.
Have the freedom protests started in Iran yet?
They kind of tried a little bit already and got totally stomped on.
We've been waiting more than 60 years for North Koreans to get a clue and a backbone, yet you think Iranians will wake up after half that time under the most cynically intolerant religious bootheel in living memory? It took being ground into dust by the world's two mightiest powers, with very outsize help from a third power that was no piker, to snap the people of the Third Reich and the militarized Japanese Empire out of their acquiescence to evil. And their respective religious fervor wasn't even driven b
They should call it "Crackdown on Internet Piracy" and they would become best buddys with some congressmen.
The current political elite is loosing it's grip. So it is only natural that they start fighting. Same here, same there.
The current political elite is loosing it's grip. So it is only natural that they start fighting. Same here, same there.
No they aren't. The political elite in every government, every society has always had infighting, ranging from "office politics" (for lack of a better term) to outright armed struggle. And it isn't even limited to government. The political elite (or its equivalent) in any organization have infighting to some extent. Its human nature: there is always the desire to consolidate power or wield as much authority as possible. As long as there are multiple elite in an organization, the amount of power that ca
IMHO: The internet is as destructive for the current form of politics as for the music industry. If we will have a free internet, ways and means of politics are changing massively and render most political capital of the current political generation meaningless.
Since they start to realize it, they start fighting the free internet. Just my POV.
This can only work towards continuing the psychopathic elite control over people and causing problems that otherwise would not exists.
It is by the people of the planet talking with each other that the power of the psychopathic elite lose their power over the people, as the people find there are no ghost in the closet or monsters under the bed in reference to people around the world.
Such censorship and control need to be deteriorated in every way possible..... As a matter of peace.
When you see "US", "China", "IRAN" etc., in the news in terms of insinuating all they people of that country...... you are being lied to. i.e. US is going to war... does not mean the people, but rather the few who think they are a country called the United States and lied their way into a position of commanding war.
The mass majority of the people of this planet are to busy living their daily lives to have time for war. Its only the few who play their game at the expense of the rest of us. And they need to be ended.
... the same, oups wait, no they never had an open Internet.
Iran is on the Internet since approx: 95/96 (ok at that time they had about 19200b/s to connect them to the university of vienna...
KSA started to authorise Internet only around 2001 and only after they had installed a "country firewall"....
But all this shows that Internet is a tool, not a "solution"... Internet does NOT "route around sensorship", people do using the tools at hand, and it is not easy because the means of sensorship are many...
Making in country hosting very expensive and throttling international internet access are the most comment means...
Manipulating the search engine, either because you own it, or through various "preservation" laws another...
Make laws about what you are allowed to say is an all time favorite..
The Jim Crow laws have been repelled, including the laws forbidding to critisize them, but equivalent laws about drug policies, Intellectual properties policies, etc... abound in all the world...
With the effect that even with an "open internet" the info might "be there", but no local person therefore no "locally connected" person can point to it... (thing thai monarchy for an example concerning another "ally")
Only civic movements can change things, and even then "your mileanage might vary", (see the result of the "arab spring", now the new arab winter...)
He's convinced every young person in Iran to hate the regime...
If I'm not mistaken...and I think this came from the PBS/Frontline eppy about it...wasn't the Mubarak regime's decision to cut the internet the last straw in their revolution? That is...when the cut the internet...things really blew up. Pissed the ppl off big time.
In Iran, they build a halal closed internet. Here in the US they let the entrenched media conglomerates control the flow of information by abusing civil law to maintain a de facto cartel.
Iran has a state enforced religious code, in the US they privatize the enforcement to self serving corrupt economic interests that want to maintain the status quo by eliminating competition. Without meaningful competition there is no functioning capitalism.
The difference in only in the execution, not the result. The US version is more sophisticated, and the Iranian version is more crude. That's about it.
creating new blocks against foreign content and stepping up surveillance of browsing habits.
. OK, which Satanic US corporation has the contract to deliver this technology and support it?
I predict a sudden increase in the wearing of niqabs or burqas in Iran. By both women and men.
Internet cafes in Iran have 15 days to set up security cameras and start collecting information on customers
Which means 16 days from now there will be a massive increase in the popularity of burqas [wikipedia.org] among Iranian internet cafe users.
A big government program without Pork? Good luck with that...
...is that there has been this "Myth" that nothing can stop the internet. We've all heard the saying: the internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it.
Well I've always had a theory that it would only remain so until the powers that be sat around and figured out how to get the genie back in the bottle. There were those who claimed it could never happen, but I remember looking that the vast majority of the backbone of the internet is controlled by only a handful of companies.
I think a lot of countries have been waiting to see if countries like China and Iran can implement restrictions on the internet and frankly they've done so quite successfully. Has it been 100% successful. No. But it doesn't have to be. It just has to bee good enough to keep those that don't know technology trapped into a small little corner.
It's the fact countries like China and Iran have had enough success at it that we're now seeing it happen in the US, only we're calling it SOPA. Which is what I was predicting to friends and co-workers about 10 years ago that by 2020 the "internet" would become fractured and restricted most likely by law.
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I've also seen arguments about how Glennon played poorly against Vanderbilt at the end of last year. Tyler Bray was BENCHED against Vanderbilt last year.
And Glennon and Flacco are very comparable as prospects. Flacco is a bit more of an athlete, but other than that, yes they're very comparable.


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In now backing a $1.29 per pack hike, he's moving even further from his previous opposition to cigarette tax increases of any kind.
Gov. Mark Dayton proposed a new backup plan Thursday to shore up the state's lagging share of the new Minnesota Vikings stadium, suggesting lawmakers use money from a tax increase on cigarettes and closing corporate income tax loopholes.
Dayton's revenue commissioner, Myron Frans, unveiled the latest proposal in the House-Senate tax conference committee. It threw the contentious stadium issue back in the lap of lawmakers as they rush to wrap up this year's session by Monday.
"We think this will solve the stadium financing issue," Frans said.
The state's $348 million share of the $975 million downtown Minneapolis stadium was supposed to be fueled by tax revenue from new electronic betting games that last year's Legislature authorized in bars and restaurants. But sales of those games so far have badly trailed initial projections. The latest proposal calls for setting aside an estimated $24.5 million in one-time revenue that would be generated by applying a planned cigarette sales tax increase to existing cigarette inventories before the tax actually goes up — an approach Frans called a "stocking tax."
Dayton is now backing a cigarette tax increase from $1.23 per pack now to $2.52, more than he initially proposed. The money from the stocking tax would be diverted to a stadium reserve fund. Smoking will not be allowed at the new Vikings stadium, due to open in time for the 2016 season.
Earlier this year, Dayton proposed a cigarette tax hike of 94 cents a pack. In now backing a $1.29 per pack hike, he's moving even further from his previous opposition to cigarette tax increases of any kind. When running for governor in 2010, he called cigarette tax hikes "money out of the pockets of working people and poorer people."
If the cigarette tax increase still isn't enough to cover stadium funding shortfalls, additional backup money would come from beefing up collections of business income that Dayton's administration said some corporations have avoided paying by attributing in-state sales to out-of-state affiliates. That's estimated to raise $26 million for the fiscal year starting July 1, and $20 million a year after that.
If the money isn't needed for the stadium, Frans said, it would simply remain in the state's general fund.
"This is a way to make sure the state has the income to keep its end of the bargain," Frans said. It would replace a previous backup plan proposed by lawmakers cover stadium funding shortfalls with a sales tax on pro sports memorabilia and luxury seats at pro sports venues.
Republicans seized on the fact that the new proposal would seize tax revenue that could be spent on more general state priorities.
"We were promised, those of us who voted against the stadium, that this would not end up coming from the general fund," said Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville. "This is money that could otherwise go to schools, health and human services and the like."
The House-Senate tax conference committee voted in favor of Dayton's proposal, but left some details to be filled in later, such as the exact size of the cigarette tax increase. Tobacco taxes are still an issue in the ongoing budget negotiations.


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I went to the Tri-State Society for Human Resources Management Conference last week. And the number one topic?
Human resources, as a department, wants a "seat at the table." In other words, they want the same voice that marketing, finance, operations, etc gets at a company.
So how will they get it? It is all about one thing: revenue. Or, more accurately, tracking and then taking credit for revenue that human resources is already bringing in.
HR As A Revenue Generator
The reason today human resources doesn't get a proverbial "seat at the table" is because it is not seen as a revenue-generating aspect of the business and CEOs – who care fundamentally about the bottom line above all else – basically see it as a necessary evil. But that fact is that isn't true.
Here are some stats:
With it established that human resources is a revenue generator for a company – and a large one at that – it is time to start spreading the word.
Has a new hiring software like VoiceGlance increased hiring ROI from last year to this? Get the word out. Has a new compensation plan increase worker productivity by 5 percent, leading to another $500,000 in gross revenues for your company? Get it out there.
Bottom line, human resources deserves a "seat at the table" but hasn't because of a branding problem and doesn't always calculate the ROI it brings into the company. By start tracking ROI and then sharing those results, the opinion of human resources in your company will change, quick.
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@ Paul:
"Human resources, as a department, wants a 'seat at the table.' ...So how will they get it? It is all about one thing: revenue."
"Getting a seat at the table" isn't about revenue, or using metrics, or talking like them so they'll say "Isn't she nice" We'd LOVE to have her input!'- it's about POWER. You get a seat at the table by being too powerful to NOT get a seat at the table, and if you're trying to earn your way in, you've already lost.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never ...
First of all, anyone who utters that ridiculous phrase or even thinks seating arrangements are important has no business working in HR. Second, no amount of re-branding will gloss over the real or perceived lack of credibility and competence within the HR profession. Third, are these ads working?
Paul, see this link to a post I wrote before a SHRM-sponsored #NextChat last year about the topic as well as the post-chat recap.
@ Kelly: ISTM that Paul is merely repeating the tired cliches and irrelevant advice of a certain arrogant, clueless, but very famous and successful self-proclaimed "*Recruiting Thought Leader". I look forward to when Paul posts a non-self-promotional article that's original, interesting, well-researched. (And two outta three ain't bad!)
*You might think you know who I'm talking about, but I couldn't possibly comment...


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Every Sunday, Boston Globe photographer Stan Grossfeld asks the subject of one of his photos to explain what's happening in the shot.
Red Sox shortstop Jose Iglesias and pitcher Clay Buchholz and Orioles third base coach Bobby Dickerson explain what they thought when the Red Sox shifted their infield to face Chris Davis during the Fenway Park opener.
Iglesias: "I'm thinking just try to cover the most space possible. We've played that way before with him. Everybody knows he's a pull hitter so we play the shift. It's kind of uncomfortable. You're there by yourself in the middle of nowhere but it's Fenway, we'll be all right. I'm already shifted so I don't have to go far to my glove side so I'm taking a little step towards third if I have to cover that ground. You cover the most (ground) possible. It's a big space. I wasn't worried. (If he bunts) I'll make the play. Absolutely. Because I can. Plus Bucky is a pretty good athlete. He can make those plays too."
Buchholz: - "Well, we're sort of playing the numbers game with it. We've talked to Butter (Sox third base coach Brian Butterfield) about it a lot. He actually told everyone if they don't want that to happen they can just wave it off and play regular. But they do that for a reason. I've seen it factor into David Ortiz's at-bats a lot. I've just got to make a pitch, that's all that's going on right there. Davis is a lefty. He's quick in there so I'm trying to throw sinkers away and let him roll over on them. I don't think he's going to bunt on me; the guy's got four homers and like 18 RBI's in the first week. I think he's trying to do some damage with the bat. It's either you win or he does. It's basically 50-50. After you release the ball you can't do anything about it anyway so hopefully he doesn't hit it hard.
Dickerson: "It looks like back when you didn't have enough guys to play. You'd play straight base and close off left field. That's the manager and the hitter (deciding whether to bunt) and not me. He can though; he has the ability to do it. It's a lot easier to think about doing than actually doing. Major league pitching, it's tough. That pitcher is trying to get you out. The whole idea sometimes with something like that is to get the hitter out of his comfort zone.''


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Hello everyone. Found these boards via a Google Search for a Graded Attic Reader; am utilizing the online Athenaze materials kindly recommended by other users.
After letting it rust for over a decade I'm refreshing my New Testament/Biblical (Koine) Greek with Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek and adding some Attic. The Attic is a real kick. While NTG reading fluency is the main goal, a lifetime of quasi-memorizing the NIV text means I tend to intuit more than actually read or even translate Biblical passages; tackling Attic allows me to actually (start) reading in Greek. Hoping that this will help me sidestep the tendency to decode Koine and move into reading it.
Am also working through Dwane Thomas' Visual Latin (after getting bogged down in Collins' Ecclesiastical Latin and considering Latin Through Ovid, Lingua Latina, and various online self-study methods), and chipping away at Pratico and Van Pelt's Basics of Biblical Hebrew. I'm also trying to pick up a little Dutch, French, and German, though I haven't found sources that I'm happy with yet.
Tried Rosetta Stone for (Modern) Greek, (Modern) Hebrew, as well as Latin, Dutch, French, German. While the process was fun and painless, I found I didn't really learn much. My goal being reading fluency, anyway, RS was probably an odd choice. My mistake
I went to their website and bought Mounce and Pratico-Van Pelt's lectures. Very helpful. Along with the grammar textbooks and the workbooks it makes the process fairly accessible for self-study.
My kids are joining me in Visual Latin; my oldest is in French Immersion here in Canada.
Would never have considered myself/our family linguistically gifted or even keen; this is the first time I've actually compiled a tally of our language 'work'. I guess we must like it!


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- The Loya Jirga, a gathering of elders, will decide on immunity, Afghan President Karzai says
- Karzai says he thinks the Loya Jirga "is always reasonable" and will grant immunity
- Karzai says he is confident that Afghan troops can provide security after NATO leaves
Afghan elders will decide whether any U.S. military who stay in the country after 2014 will be granted immunity from prosecution, President Hamid Karzai told reporters Monday in his palace.
"The issue of granting immunity to American soldiers is not a decision that could be made by Afghan government. This is a decision that the Afghan people can make," he said. "This is a decision that should be made by the Afghan people in a Loya Jirga: whether they are granting immunity to them or not; if yes, how and under what conditions."
A Loya Jirga is a gathering of elders and peoples' representatives.
Karzai was referring to a comment made last week during his meeting in Washington with U.S. President Barack Obama, who told him that the continued presence of any U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the planned withdrawal of NATO forces in 2014 would depend on their being granted immunity from prosecution by Afghan courts.
"The United States already has arrangements like this with countries all around the world, and nowhere does the U.S. have any kind of security agreement with a country without immunity for our troops," Obama said.
But there is little doubt about what decision the Loya Jirga will reach, Karzai said Sunday in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
"I can tell you with relatively good confidence that they will say, 'All right, let's do it,'" Karzai predicted. "I could argue for it, I could sell it, and I'm sure they would understand. Loya Jirga is always reasonable."
Karzai said there was little chance the United States would remove all of its troops from Afghanistan after the pullout is completed at the end of 2014.
"The United States will continue to have the use of facilities in Afghanistan and, in order to run those facilities well for the purposes of continuing to fight al Qaeda and train and equip Afghan forces, the United States will need to have a limited number of forces in Afghanistan."
How many will remain is a decision that rests with U.S. officials, he said.
But he predicted that domestic forces would prove capable of handling the responsibility. "We have to provide for our own security; we have to provide for our own bread and butter, and I'm sure we are able and the Afghan people are willing overwhelmingly to do that."
Already, he said, stability has improved in areas vacated by departing international forces.
Karzai also said that Afghanistan has turned the corner in terms of battling the Taliban. He predicted Islamic fundamentalists will not regain the strength to enforce their radical agenda, which has included the closing of girls' schools and the subjugation of women.
"I think there is now a critical mass in Afghanistan of the educated, of the Afghan people who want a future of progress and stability. And I think, also, that the Taliban have recognized that the corner has been turned."


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More local kids are staying healthy this summer thanks to a major exercise summer camp program. The city of Valdosta's summer day camp program is putting more of an emphasis on exercise to help combat the growing problem of obesity.
The kids are enjoying the added exercise, the sounds of summer; kids outdoors playing and at the same time exercising more than before, thanks to the Valdosta Parks and Recreation's added emphasis on physical activity.
Brockey Brock, director of Valdosta Recreation, says, "What our goal is is to get them off the couch. There's nothing wrong with playing computers and games and watching TV as long as it's in proportion with what they're doing in physical activity. They do need mental activity, but the physical activity is so important because of the obesity problem."
At dozens of day camps around the Valdosta area, more kids are running, throwing and hanging out, getting a great workout everyday. These kids say despite the heat, these camps are extremely fun.
Patrick McMullan, a 14-year-old, says, "At school you sit at a desk all day and work. Here you have fun all day, run around playing, talking and everything. We do P.E. We have free time at the jungle gym, we have basketball, sometime we do drama."
"It's like better here because you don't just waste your brain cells watching TV and playing games. I just like to be outside and do stuff," adds 10-year-old Jay Orr.
In addition to being great fun for the kids, these camps are also very convenient for the parents as well. Exercise supporters say the summer programs are a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done for these kids when they are attending school.


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West Chester University (wcupa.edu/live): Kauner Gallery - The Human Image, Works by Gus Sermas and Robert Wassington, Nov. 28-Dec. 14, artists reception Nov. 28, 5-8 p.m.; EO Bull Center Gallery - A Retrospective Bill Freedland through Dec. 14.
The Steel City Coffee House in Phoenixville will hold an exhibit through Jan. 25 featuring the work of the Ursinus College Photography Club.
The display will not be available for viewing during any regularly scheduled performance at Steel City; call Steel City or check website for details.
Steel City Coffee House is located at 203 Bridge St., Phoenixville. For information, call 610-933-4043 or visit www.steelcitycoffeehouse.com.
Through November, the Newtown Square Public Library will feature the work of local artist Eleanor Schimmel, which is done in the ancient medium of encaustic. Encaustic is a blend of bee�s wax, damar varnish and powdered pigments that are heated to a molten stage and then poured or brushed onto a wooden surface. Using a blowtorch, the artist can then move the pigmented wax across the surface before a drawing or etching into the surface.
The library is located at 201 Bishop Hollow Road, Newtown Square. Call 610-353-1022 for hours and directions, or visit www.newtownlibrary.org.
Brandywine River Museum presents the following exhibitions:
Pop-Up! Illustration in 3-D, on view starting Nov. 23, presents the wondrous world of pop-up books-books. With pages that spring open to reveal pictures that self-construct into three dimensional illustrations, the pop-up form is used for an infinite variety of subjects for both children and adults, ranging from classic tales and elementary instruction to Bible stories and scientific topics.
The Brandywine River Museum, located on Rt. 1 in Chadds Ford, is open every day (except Christmas Day) from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Museum offers free admission Sunday mornings from 9:30 a.m. � noon. For information, call 610-388-2700 or visit the website at www.brandywinemuseum.org
The stained glass artwork of Chester County artist Robert Horan will be on display at the Delaware Museum of Natural History through Jan. 6, 2013. The windows coincide with the Rainforest Adventure theme of the exhibit.
The museum is located at 4840 Kennett Pike, in Wilmington. For information, visit delmnh.org. or call 302-658-9111.
The Chester County Art Association presents the photography of CCAA executive director Darcie Goldberg on view through Dec. 21.
CCAA is located at 100 N. Bradford Ave., West Chester. Normal gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday � Saturday, Closed Sundays and Mondays. Galleries are open to the public and admission is free. Call 610-696-5600.
CCAA�s Exton Square Studio is located on the lower floor of the Exton Square Mall beside H&M and Boscov�s. Gallery Hours at Exton are Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For information, call 610-524-1925 or visit www.chestercountyarts.org.
Chadds Ford Gallery presents its 31st annual Christmas in Miniature Exhibit opening, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit will continue through Dec. 31. The framed artwork, created in all mediums, oil, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, pastel and colored pencil; each artists� piece is a small treasure, with nothing larger than 12� x 14� overall framed. Some of the featured artists, represented, will have larger original artwork, open, signed and signed limited editions for sale. There are more than 70 artists participating.
The gallery is located at 1609 Baltimore Pike (Route 1 South, after the Brandywine Battlefield, before Brandywine Prime Restaurant) � Chadds Ford. Open Tuesday through Saturday 10-5 and Sunday Noon to 5. No Admission Fee � For more Information call 610-388-2412 or visit www.awyethgallery.com
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art is holding several exhibitions:
Four Visions/Four Painters: Murray Dessner, Bruce Samuelson, Elizabeth Osborne and Vincent Desiderio runs through Jan. 13, in the Main Gallery.
Interstitial Spaces: Void and Object, Recent Works by Roger Chavez, through Jan. 13, in the H.F. and Marguerite Lenfest Gallery in the Henry W. and June Pfeiffer Wing.
The museum joins museums throughout the United States that serve visitors with special needs with Access-Ability: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Art For Access, in the Upper Gallery through Dec. 3. The exhibition launches a series of initiatives to make the Museum�s collections more fully accessible to a wide range of differently-abled constituents. This exhibition will present pieces from the Museum�s permanent collection in the context of best practices, including verbal description and multi-sensory tours, 3D tactile diagrams of 2D works of art and specialized guided tours for visitors living with dementia.
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in Collegeville is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and noon to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Museum is closed Mondays and college holidays.
The Station Gallery will feature Michele Green �Way to the Water ~ New Paintings,� through Nov. 30. Green focuses on painting some of the more remote areas of the Delmarva Peninsula
The Station Gallery is located at 3922 Kennett Pike, Greenville, Del. For information, call 302-654-8638 or visit www.stationgallery.net.
Darlington Arts Center presents a public exhibition of watercolor paintings by Glen Mills artist Florence Stiefeld. Her work focuses on capturing the peaceful beauty of the Brandywine Valley as well as the tropical beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
The show will be open to the public through Nov. 27. Gallery hours are Mon-Fri 9am-9pm and Sat 9am-4pm. For more information visit www.darlingtonarts.org or call 610-358-3632.
Darlington Arts Center is at 977 Shavertown Road in Garnet Valley. For more information, visit www.darlingtonarts.org or call 610-358-3632.
Through November, the photography of Conrad Wolff, Seawolf Photography, will be on display at the Blue Cafe in Downingtown. The Blue Cafe is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day except Monday.
The Blue Cafe is located at 100 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Building 100, in Downingtown. For information, visit www.ourbluecafe.com or call 610-873-1700.
The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts announces the following exhibitions:
A solo exhibition of Philadelphia artist Kelly Kozma titled Play Next Episode will be on view through Dec. 16, in DCCA�s Beckler Family Members� Gallery. Kozma uses colored pencil on paper, sewn with brightly colored embroidery thread to create organo-geometric drawings that evolve through her process.
West Chester artist Alison Stigora�s Natural Forces is on view through Dec. 9 in DCCA�s Constance S. and Robert J. Hennessy Project Space. Stigora�s whole-room installation of burnt wood, sticks, and cardboard is the artist�s three-dimensional interpretation of the past, present and future.
The solo exhibition of Philadelphia artist Nicholas Kripal titled Contrivance is on view through Jan. 6, in DCCA�s E. Avery Draper Gallery. The exhibition features more than 70 ceramic forms of hybrid ceramic sculptures made from molds of throwaway food containers from the 1920s to the present.
The solo exhibition of artist Joseph Girandola titled Rise and Fall: Monumental Duct Tape Drawings is on view from through Feb. 10, 2013 in DCCA�s DuPont I Gallery. The exhibition features large-scale �drawings� using duct tape as the primary medium.
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts is located at 200 S. Madison St., Wilmington, Del. For information, call 302-656-6466 or visit thedcca.org.
Creative Hand, Discerning Heart: Story, Symbol, Self runs through Dec. 30 at the James A. Michener Art Museum.
The first exhibition presents the artist as seeker, storyteller, observer, and dreamer. Most of these artists begin and end with themselves as principle reference point, and their work becomes an exploration both of self as self, and self in relation to or affected by the �outside� world: Rachel Bliss, Diane Burko, Syd Carpenter, Susan Fenton, Catherine Jansen, Kate Javens, Celia Reisman, Peter Rose, Jack Thompson and Robert Winokur.
The museum is located at 138 South Pine St., Doylestown. Museum hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 4:30 pm; Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; Sunday noon to 5 pm. Admission: Members and children under 6, free; adults $12.50; seniors $11.50; college students with valid ID $9.50; ages 6-18 $6; under 6 free. For more information, visit www.michenerartmuseum.org or call 215-340-9800.
The Delaware Art Museum presents the following exhibits:
On view through Jan. 13, 2013, Centennial Juried Exhibition commemorates the museum�s past annual exhibitions of painting and crafts-which combined to form the Biennial in 1989. This 97-artist exhibition (featuring 98 individual works of art) honors the tradition of juried exhibitions in Delaware and the surrounding region while identifying the artistic trends that will characterize the region�s future.
The Delaware Art Museum, located at 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, is open Wednesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Sunday noon - 4:00 p.m. Admission fees are charged as follows: Adults (19 - 59) $12, Seniors (60+) $10, Students (with valid ID) $6, Youth (7 - 18) $6, and Children (6 and under) free. Admission is free every Sunday. For information, call 302-571-9590 or 866-232-3714 or visit the website at www.delart.org.
Blue Streak Gallery will present the work of Margo Allman, �2012, Paintings and Drawings� through Dec 4.
The gallery is located at 1721 Delaware Ave., Wilmington. For information, call 302-429-0506. Hours are Tues- Fri 10- 5 Sat 10-4
Main Line Unitarian Church will feature the work of Emmy Lou Packard, friend of Frieda Kahlo and student of Diego Rivera, on view in the Fireside Room from Nov. 25 through Dec. 31. The church is located at 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon. For information, call 484-341-8014 or visit www.mluc.org. Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-4:30 pm; Sun, 9 am-2 pm. Public is welcome.
The Gallery School of Pottstown�s Gallery on High will hold an art exhibit that has been traveling throughout the south and was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show in February 2011.
Threads of a Story: Continued runs through Oct. 20 at the Gallery. Threads features the work of artist Charlotta Janssen, who was inspired by mug shots of famous and nonfamous people arrested during the civil rights movement in the �50s and �60s.
The Gallery on High is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Gallery is closed Sunday and Monday.
Virginia Abrams will present an exhibition titled Reflections and Transitions in the Delaware Division of the Arts Mezzanine Gallery through Nov. 30. It will include art quilts with abstract designs inspired by observations of the natural world.
The Gallery, open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., is located in the Carvel State Office Building, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington.


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Arsenal and England's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain out until November
Arsenal and England midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain expects to be out of action until November at the earliest.
Last Updated: 21/08/13 7:20am
Gunners manager Arsene Wenger told a press conference on Tuesday that the 20-year-old will be out for at least six weeks with a knee injury.
The player himself later tweeted that he hoped to be "back playing in three months".
Oxlade-Chamberlain limped out of Arsenal's 3-1 home defeat by Aston Villa on the opening day of the Premier League campaign on Saturday.
Reports suggested he could be set for an even longer spell of rehabilitation, but Wenger moved to calm fears of a serious injury as he spoke ahead of the Champions League play-off first leg against Fenerbahce on Wednesday.
"He will be out for at least six weeks. He has a posterior cruciate problem, a ligament which is stretched," Wenger said.
"We don't think it will need surgery. He is consulting tonight, but it will be at least six weeks out."
But the player, who did not travel to Turkey and was due to see a specialist on Tuesday evening, later gave a much more pessimistic update on his official Twitter feed.
"Gutted I'm injured so early in the season," he wrote, "but I'm going to be working hard to hopefully be back playing in 3 months. Thanks 4 all ur support."
Oxlade-Chamberlain will miss September's crunch Group H World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
The midfielder also stands to miss the October dates against Montenegro and Poland as Roy Hodgson's team bid to reach next summer's finals in Brazil, as well as the important early league and European games in Arsenal's campaign.


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Clerical error rectified by Dallas County, but some agencies worry that more cuts are coming
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Although initial reports of cuts in federal funding for meals programs for people with HIV/AIDS turned out to be a clerical error, at least one Dallas County AIDS service agency still worries that cuts are coming.
Resource Center Dallas Strategic Communications and Programs Manager Rafael McDonnell said, "We're still trying to assess the numbers and trying to see where we are."
McDonnell said that the food pantry and meals program are not fully funded through government programs.
The agency also relies on a number of other grants from organizations like Mazon and on canned food drives run by community groups and businesses.
"We go into this budget year with a certain amount of uncertainty," McDonnell said. "We are hopeful there are no cuts. It's hard to determine if there will be."
He added that the center will need all those who have supported its programs in the past to continue to do so into the future.
With federal and state governments slashing their budgets, McDonnell said that money could be cut at any time from the programs.
"Until we see the check in our hands," they don't count on the money, he said. "We're doing the best we can, planning in an uncertain future."
But the grant that comes through Dallas County has been restored for the immediate future for the Resource Center and AIDS Interfaith Network.
AIN relies on the grant money for a third of its meals program budget.
"The county did respond and did rectify the mistake," AIN Executive Director Steven Pace said.
AIN has a weekday breakfast and lunch program and provides some weekend meals for persons with HIV. Resource Center Dallas runs a hot lunch program during the week.
Pace said that with grants of this type, there is always a degree of uncertainty. Even though the money has been restored for seven months, Congress can decide to cut funding to any program at any time.
He said it is just something nonprofit organizations that rely on government funding live with.
Because of a clerical mistake, funding for meals programs was moved to food pantry programs for the new fiscal year.
When AIN and RCD received emails confirming state grants that are funneled through Dallas County, the money for meals programs was omitted from the budget.
However, the money did not show up in the RCD grant budget even though that agency runs both meals and food pantry programs.
The state fiscal year begins Sept. 1 and final documentation needed to be back to the county by Aug. 12.
When Dallas County found the error, a new email was sent to the agencies. Pace worried at the time that he was missing the deadline to submit his budgets and documentation, but he has been assured the agency would not be penalized.
He said he promptly adjusted his figures and submitted the necessary paperwork to assure no interruption in funding.
RCD also readjusted its figures and resubmitted the paperwork.
Some years, grants are renewed from previous years. Other years, agencies must rebid to receive their funding. This year, money was renewed for seven months and agencies will have to rebid for the final five months.
Although the state funding year begins Sept. 1, the Ryan White fiscal year begins April 1.
"We appreciate that Dallas County corrected the error so quickly," Pace said.
Even with lag time in receiving the additional funds, Pace said the meals program will continue uninterrupted, thanks to a recent $25,000 grant from the MAC Cosmetics AIDS fund.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition September 2, 2011.


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(NEW YORK) — While Superstorm Sandy's devastation along the New York and New Jersey coastlines six months ago led to enthusiastic calls to rebuild, one Staten Island neighborhood has chosen a different course: sell.
The residents of Oakwood Beach, a small neighborhood that faces the Atlantic Ocean on Staten Island's southeast coast, held a community meeting days after Sandy had raged through, killing three residents and destroying dozens of homes.
Community leader Joe Tirrone Jr. said it was at that meeting that he casually floated an idea past his neighbors.
"After the storm, we had a community meeting, and just about everybody attended, and one of the things we said was that there is a government program and would anybody be interested in the government buying your home, and everybody raised their hand," Tirrone said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered to pay Oakwood Beach residents 100 percent of their homes' value before the storm hit, plus a 5 percent bonus if the residents stayed in Richmond County. Now, more than 90 percent of the community has taken steps to participate in the program, Tirrone said.
Cuomo hopes to build a "buffer zone" on the most vulnerable parts of the New York coast to prevent against future storms, he said.
"There are some parcels that Mother Nature owns," Cuomo said in his annual State of the State address this year. "She may only visit once every few years, but she owns the parcel, and when she comes to visit, she visits."
Oakwood Beach was located in a particularly low-lying and marshy area. The buyout program would ensure that the land remains "vacant in perpetuity," said New York state officials.
The small Staten Island community stands in contrast to many other areas hit hard by Sandy, where construction efforts are well underway to repair homes, boardwalks and highways that were destroyed in October.
In Breezy Point, a small community on the tip of New York's Rockaway peninsula in Queens, residents said immediately after the storm that they would work to rebuild their homes, destroyed by the storm and a resulting fire. Today, construction crews are working to have some of the homes ready by summer.
In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie vowed to rebuild the broken boardwalks and obtain federal funding for residents quickly so that they could begin construction on their homes.
"As a kid who was born and raised in this state and who spent a lot of time over my life, both my childhood and my adult life, at the Jersey Shore, we'll rebuild it. No question in my mind, we'll rebuild it," the governor said last November.
On Monday, Christie announced the approval of $1.83 billion in federal funds for rebuilding and recovery efforts.
Congress approved more than $60 billion in disaster relief funding to help with the rebuilding efforts.
"New Jersey seems to be going for the 'rebuild stronger and more resilient' way, those are the two buzzwords they're using, to elevate the houses and reinforce the need for beach nourishment projects and beach management in general that makes … it more difficult to submerge shoreline," said Stewart Farrell, director of the Coastal Research Center at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey.
Farrell said that both approaches, from rebuilding in New Jersey to razing homes in Staten Island, could work if done right.
"Either situation is successful," he said. "They're both viable solutions."
"[Staten Island] did get heavily, heavily damaged, and that doesn't say that it couldn't rebuild smarter with barriers or levees installed, or somehow raise everything up substantially, but that it is an expense somebody has to bear. So the fact that 90 percent agreed to a buyout says they had seen the writing on the wall," Farrell said.
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Gov. Robert Bentley is defending his decision against creating a state-based health insurance exchange program and expanding Medicaid in Alabama.
Bentley once touted a state-based health insurance exchange, but now he says state control is impractical.
The governor's decision means the federal government can now set up a health insurance marketplace for the state under the new federal health care law.
Bentley says that law is cumbersome and unworkable.
Bentley has told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the state does not have enough money to operate a health care exchange.
The governor estimates that it would cost the state between $30 million and $50 million to operate the program.
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George Lucas
Virtual Entertainment? - George Lucas has all sorts of prior "art" on that one.
Let's hope he sues. And everyone sues everyone, until everything comes to a standstill, an impossible-resolution scenario. After Intellectual Property World War One, perhaps we'll have some peace treaties. Because as things are going, soon you won't be able to buy soap and bread anymore, you'll have a Subscription to Biological Sterilization and Nutritional Services, with an Agreement and License to Use Proprietary Methods for Human Sterilization and Nutritional Planning Programs. For only $698.50 per month, you can get service contracts, training programs, and... soap, milk, and bread.
Great! Then the lawyers will have even more of the money, and more of the influence! Take that, you corporations!
Bill Gates: "Im gonna patent entertainment!!!"
Steve Ballmer: "I made moar $dollars"
Melinda Gates: "Honey those chldren in africa don't know how to read! "
George Lukas: "These are not the patents you are looking for"
Bill Gates: "Ohh look a butterfly..."
my bad
Prior art much?
http://secondlife.com/ [secondlife.com]
Calling Second Life 'art' is really pushing it....
Watch it in the basement where you live, by yourself, same as always.
If you thought Bill G was done, think again!
You know, that gives me an idea!
I'm going to patent a method of creating patents of ideas either absurdly obvious or already existent. That way all these patents will be, in effect, mine.
The best thing about it? I'll probably get that patent!
There are many people who would be willing to fix it. The problem is that it is in the best interests of the people in a position to fix it not to fix it. And the people with the power to remove those people from office are too busy watching mindless TV shows.
How is this different from an application of video conferencing?
It's not. vyew, gotomeeting, or whatever web conferencing software you're familiar with is prior art. Is the USPTO honestly saying that having an avatar in the conference window and it having something to do with an entertainment event makes this novel and some important advancement of the arts?
Bad patent.
How is this different from an application of video conferencing?
I would say that in the new proposal you can interact with entertaining persons only.
Just as there were hundreds of patents for "1. Do something that people have done for a long time 2. But On a Computer!" and "1. Do something that people have done for a long time 2. But On the Internet!", this is a patent for "1. Use the videoconferencing tools you normally use for business. 2. But For a Party!"
And yes, it's already been done. I was at a party a couple of years ago where one of the people was attending remotely from the Netherlands by videoconference, and then later, when she was in town
How is it different from phone sex? Now, that's virtual entertainment!
It sounds like what 4chan
We used to do exactly what has been patented, in Second Life, almost one decade ago. Lets say, 2004-2005ish.
Quick, someone patent Virtual Money so we can virtually pay for our virtual entertainment!
I'm going to patent "Virtual Housing", "Virtual Transportation", and "Virtual Utilities"...
Really... This is just fucking stupid. I'm so done. Please someone just blow up the patent office with a few RPGs, or there's going to be no end to this insanity.
you actually can have all of that
Now With Collada Mesh Support!!
the only thing thats a bit iffy is the virtual utilities but you can have scripted objects that have to be "refilled" at intervals so that can be done. And SL has had Media On A Prim for months now
Holy Prior Art BOFHman!!
I'll patent virtual love, and the billions of left/right-hands of prior art wont stop the patent office from granting me the patent.
I'll patent virtual love, and the billions of left/right-hands of prior art wont stop the patent office from granting me the patent.
You, sir, have just added a whole new dimension to the expression 'Get a grip on yourself'. Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Please someone just blow up the patent office with a few RPGs, or there's going to be no end to this insanity.
That's so 1990's. These days, you patent a Document Reviewing Process, sue them, and get an injunction.
Yeah, storm the place with a whole lot of Role Playing Gamers with swords and wearing armor (and a handful of clerics and magic users.)
However, what amazes me is that with a patent like this, I am waiting for a patent to be approved for breathing.
Don't hold your breath! Sorry.
They existed in the 80s?
The first 1G network was deployed in 1979.
He's got a patent on tele-presence? Web cams? Virtual meeting rooms? Avatars?
I don't get it
I mean, really, how far back can you go with a movie that has a hologram sitting at the meeting table? Star Wars maybe? Maybe older?
He's got a patent on tele-presence? Web cams? Virtual meeting rooms? Avatars?
I don't get it
I mean, really, how far back can you go with a movie that has a hologram sitting at the meeting table? Star Wars maybe? Maybe older?
SF goes way, way back. I'm sure that with a little digging we could find a dozen short stories from the 50s or even the 30s.
I seem to recall that H.G. Wells described people attending plays and concerts remotely in "The Sleeper Awakes" which was originally written in 1899 and then revised in 1910.
1992: James P. Hogan, Giant's Star [amazon.com]
"and there are no new ideas"
exactly. but this is about telepresenting the _audience_.
though, that's exactly what's been going on in ug internet radio stations.. that's what keeps the hosts going, that there's feedback - maybe even more and immediate feedback than on traditional radio.
because you know, for the band that is playing in some garage and is streaming their live gig, it won't feel like they're doing that unless there's some feedback.
likewise, if the viewers can't participate in any way - then the
Couple's who have had to spend lengthy times apart have been figuring out how to share experiences like this for a very long time. I did the same thing in the 80s, talking on the phone (landline for me back in those days) after a movie, or even calling during every commercial break during a TV show (which back in those days were automatically synched up for you).
There were probably people who decided to both go see the same latest Shakespeare p
There is
Since TFA links to the pre-grant publication (with its at-publication-time-not-yet-examined claims) instead of the issued patent, here's the first issued independent claim:
A computer implemented system comprising: at least one processor that executes the following computer executable components stored on at least one computer readable medium:
a virtual reality generation component that emulates real-life activities of a guest that is remotely viewing a spectator event that takes place outside of a virtual environment into corresponding virtual activities of a virtual guest representation in the virtual environment; and
a presentation component that presents the virtual activities of the virtual guest representation to a user that is attending the spectator event as an in-person spectator, the presentation system to facilitate an interaction of the user with the virtual guest representation provided in the virtual environment as the guest is remotely viewing the spectator event.
I think that "horrible article" could be applied by default to "Hey, did you hear they're applying on patent for [trivial thing]?" articles. I'm no fan of the actual patent system, and it's clearly broken, but the version of the patent system presented on Slashdot is fictional.
t the version of the patent system presented on Slashdot is fictional.
It goes with our fictional news, fictional politics and fictional economy.
it's just doing a *golfclap* over the internet.
nothing more, nothing less. you can use 100 words to say the same thing, but that's it.
Do you now have to pay a nice fee to Bill Gates and his friends?
That seems a little unfair to me.
Welcome to intellectual property law and the lawyers that exploit it.
Ideas are not patentable! Patents cover IMPLEMENTATIONS!
According the article:
For example, one of the scenarios shown by Microsoft in the patent filing a belt with "electronic and electromagnetic tracking components" for sensing the movements of the user (although the patent doesn't appear to be limited to that specific approach).
It sounds like they patented some vague idea of how something might be accomplished. That's not what patents are for.
this patent application was actually submitted way back in 2006 and only approved after years of back-and-forth with the patent office
I can see why... since it isn't a patent. Why was it granted at all? So in case I'm just overblowing this, lets look at the patent itself... [uspto.gov]
...Moreover, the presentation system 101 can employ a personal computer, a projection unit, a system including 3D goggles and headphones, or a simulator providing visual, audible, and physical stimulation, and the like, to present activities of the virtual guest to the user....
Aaand how would you do that? Elsewhere in the patent it talks about presenting virtual smells to the user. Right now, there is no technology to do that. This would be like me patenting teleportation by saying there is some sort of matter-to-energy and energy-to-matter device at either end, with some form of communication in the middle. That's the *idea* of teleportation, not a patentable implementation of it.
Almost every paragraph in the patent says something like this:
What has been described above includes examples of aspects of the claimed subject matter. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodologies for purposes of describing the claimed subject matter, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations of the disclosed subject matter are possible.
So it keeps admitting that they have no idea how to do this, or what combination of devices might achieve it, but they want to have all of them covered. Ordinarily, a patent author tries and make the patent broad enough to cover similar implementations - so that a trivial change can't be used to avoid paying the royalties. But this is ridiculous.
I think this is perhaps the second most quintissential example of the patent office gone wrong. The best example was when someone patented the tire swing. (Can someone find that? The closest I found was The patent on how to swing [slashdot.org].
... my future wife (married in 1976) and I did this. We watched our first opera together -- Don Giovanni on NBC -- she in Wisconsin, I (7 ayears old at the time) in Oklahoma. Of course, it would be a while before we would actually first meet each other.
social loser, to me.
Watching a movie on TV while you talk to a girl watching the same movie on TV is the most pathetic date I can imagine. Only Fucking Bill Gates would think of patenting this -- he should patent ordering pizza, sitting around in his underwear, and squeezing pimples while he's at it.
Watching a movie on TV while you talk to a girl watching the same movie on TV is the most pathetic date I can imagine.
It depends on the girl. The reality is that some of us are living a long way from our loved ones for a few months or years and this kind of thing is the best we can do for now. An idiot would say, "Well your reasons for being apart must be stupid!" but who cares what an idiot says?
I could see Linden Labs fighting this is they wanted to. regardless of what people think of Second Life they've already done this for several years.
I wish I had been at that meeting. Someone must have been talking about smell-o-vision and thought "hey, let's patent that, and everything else that relates to having a "remote experience".
Then everyone else at the table, who had been talking in on the same conversation that day said "hey, I was part of this invention!"
It sounds dumb, but in two years when they settle with Cisco for 120 million and license telepresence everyone in the office will sue who even heard about it that fateful day
Of course - we're all just responding to the
Windows Live Messenger, for instance, provides a "Watch this Together" link when you past a video or youtube URL to someone, which provides an API for synchronized viewing of the linked content. Obvious idea, sophisticated and non-trivial behind the scenes implementation.
in his novel "Against the Fall of Night", talked about this with a whole stadium of spectators. It also was made to seem that each of them thought they were in the best seats in the house and seated next to their friends.
I think this story was published in the 50s.
I seem to remember something like this in some Science Fiction book. I do believe it might have been Fahrenheit 451.
Prior art!?
I have plenty of prior art, starting with Camfrog, where I stream it all from art that I'm working on to design of hydro systems, plus occasionally stream a youtube video for discussion or what not.
Been pretty fucking obvious, really. The software to get all of this done has been around for quite some time.
Microsoft has patented this in 2006 [uspto.gov].
Second Life has been doing this since March 2005 [secondlife.com].
There are also other, less known virtual worlds that have been doing it since prior to 2005.
(I think Active Worlds [activeworlds.com] had this running in the same year or earlier? Needs to be checked.)
I wonder if this patent would hold against this sort of a prior art?
You patent a specific way of doing something, not the general thing itself. Therefore it's not possible for Microsoft to patent the idea of virtual entertainment because that idea already exists. All Microsoft can do is patent the way THEY would do virtual entertainment and then the patent lawyers and judges decide if patent infringing cases apply to the patent or not.
Bill Gates was late to the party. There were plenty of virtual dates in the 1970's between computer geeks.
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Pirelli tyre tester Jaime Alguersuari vented his frustration at failing to secure a Formula One race seat on Saturday by saying the sport had become an auction favouring money over talent.
The 22-year-old Spaniard has been trying to find a way back onto the starting grid since he and Swiss team mate Sebastien Buemi were dropped by Red Bull-owned Toro Rosso at the end of the 2011 season.
He had sounded confident about his chances but those hopes have been dashed with lower-ranking teams favouring drivers who can bring sponsorship with them to help shore up strained budgets.
The only remaining vacancy is at Force India, with whom Alguersuari had been linked, whose decision now looks like a choice between their former driver Adrian Sutil and young Frenchman Jules Bianchi.
"I never imagined that after Red Bull's incomprehensible decision not to count on me in 2012...I would have to fight so much outside the track," Alguersuari said in a statement issued by his management.
"I have been convinced most of the 2012 season that my seat was secured in a team that usually scores," he added. "They did tell me and I believed it to be true.
Alguersuari said he had hoped that "the value of my sporting career, and the verbal commitments received, would materialize with my return to F1 in 2013. This has not happened.
"Those who committed themselves with me have given me reasons that I must accept but that I do not share. F1 has become an auction."
The Spaniard said he would continue working with Pirelli and had not given up hope of returning to grand prix racing despite the difficulty of securing backing in debt-stricken Spain.
"Although Spain's economy is in the worst shape in our modern history, and except for Banco Santander no other company considers Formula One as a profitable and sustainable business, I know how old I am, I know my track record and I'm convinced that I deserve a winning car in F1," he said.
Double world champion Fernando Alonso will be the sole Spaniard on the starting grid this season at Santander-backed Ferrari. The country's sole F1 team, HRT, folded after the end of last season.
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Along with BluePrint Minnesota, Minnesota APA is working to increase awareness about our State's infrastructure needs. They are raising funds to produce a local version of "Liquid Assets", the trailer for which can be seen above.
The full documentary explores the history and challenges of our water infrastructure, and is a great reminder of the importance of systems we usually take for granted. So watch the trailer, head over to BluePrint Minnesota and help out if you can.


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