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New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says Boston Marathon terror suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were plotting to detonate more bombs in Times Square, according to the Joint Terrorist Task Force.
The surviving Boston Marathon suspect has told investigators that he and his brother decided after the attack to set off more of their arsenal — as many as six bombs — in Times Square, authorities in New York said Thursday.
The suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, first told investigators that the brothers were headed for New York to party after the marathon blasts, but he said under later questioning that they changed plans on the fly and intended a second attack there, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters that city officials were informed by the FBI of the turn in the investigation on Wednesday night. City officials were told that "the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets. He and his brother had intended to drive to New York and detonate additional explosives in Times Square," he said.
Senior law enforcement officials cautioned to NBC News that the idea was undeveloped. One senior official described the plan as "aspirational at most."
The brothers' decision was spontaneous and came after they carjacked an SUV and before a shootout with suburban Boston police early Friday, Kelly said. At that time, they had one bomb made with a kitchen pressure cooker and five pipe bombs, he said.
A photograph from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's page on VKontakt, the Russian equivalent of Facebook, appears to show him in Times Square. It is believed to be from November 2012. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said authorities knew of two trips by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to New York in 2012 but said he did not know whether those visits were related to any plot against Times Square. NBC News intentionally blurred the faces of the people with Tsarnaev.
The brothers' plan was interrupted only because they realized the SUV was low on gas, Kelly said.
Bloomberg said that the attackers would have encountered a heavy police presence in Times Square, and that an extensive network of cameras would have seen them, but that there was no guarantee they would have been thwarted.
"We don't know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists if they had arrived here from Boston," he said. "We're just thankful that we didn't have to find out the answer."
Kelly said Tsarnaev, who has been hospitalized since he was captured Friday, was more lucid in the second questioning and was speaking. Initially, he communicated with investigators mostly by moving his head and by writing, investigators have said.
Kelly said police knew of two visits by the younger Tsarnaev brother to New York last year — once on or before April 18, and once in November. He said he did not know whether those visits were related to any plot against Times Square.
The New York office of the FBI said there was no ongoing specific or credible threat to the city.
Tsarnaev, who was wounded in the shootout with police, is in fair condition at a Boston hospital. His older brother and the second suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed after the shootout. Authorities say they also shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus patrol officer.
Three people were killed and more than 200 wounded when two bombs went off near the marathon finish line April 15.
The subsequent questioning of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came before he was read his rights, senior law enforcement officials told NBC News. The U.S. government had invoked an exception to the requirement that suspects be read what are known as their Miranda rights, including the right to remain silent and the right to a lawyer, before questioning. The exception is applied in cases of public danger.
The man authorities say was carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers before the police shootout told investigators that he heard one of the men say "Manhattan" before he escaped. Authorities have cautioned that the suspects were speaking in a Russian dialect and that it may have been a language mixup.
Times Square was the site of an attempted car bomb on May 1, 2010, that never went off. Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-born naturalized American citizen, was arrested as he tried to leave the country and was later sentenced to life in prison in the attempted attack.
Earlier Thursday, the Tsarnaev brothers' mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, insisted from Russia that her sons were innocent.
"America took my kids away from me," she said. "I'm sure my kids were not involved in anything."
U.S. investigators want to know more about a six-month trip to Russia that Tamerlan Tsarnaev took last year. In 2011, the Russian government asked U.S. authorities twice for more information about the elder Tsarnaev, who is of Chechen descent but had a U.S. green card, because they suspected ties to extremism.
The FBI found no indications of terrorism and asked Russia to elaborate on its concerns, but Russia never answered, U.S. officials have said.
Ten days after the bombings, 32 people injured in the blasts remained in Boston hospitals, with one in critical condition.
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When it comes to TVs, 3D is the new buzzword. Well it certainly was at this year's IFA, Europe's largest consumer electronics show. But is the technology at a point that we really will be embracing it in our living rooms in 2010? We took a long hard look at Sony's efforts on its stand on the show floor.
Before you get excited, as with all these 3DTV concepts, currently on show from Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, Philips and Toshiba, the first thing that you should be aware of is that you'll need a new TV. In this case a Bravia model that hasn't yet be finalised, priced or even given a firm release date.
Get the TV and by the time it comes out in 2010 finding content shouldn't be a problem. The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is trying to add a 3D standard to the HD disc format and Sony has also confirmed that PS3 games, regardless of age, should be able to be "turned" 3D thanks to a software update.
Couple that with Sky saying they are hoping to go three-dimensional in 2010 and Hollywood kicking into gear with blockbuster movies, albeit mostly cartoons, and you'll have plenty of content in around 12-24 months. After all, DVD launched in the UK with just four movies - and they weren't the blockbusters you would expect (Fly Away Home, A Few Good Men, the three tenors, and some documentary). If Avatar from James Cameron is a success, expect 3D content to go into overdrive.
Back to Sony's 3DTV and the technology works by delivering two 1080p (Full HD) pictures simultaneously on the screen. To the naked eye it's a jumbled mess of imagery that you even after a couple of beers you would find hard to decode.
That decoding is done via a pair of glasses that you don. Sony's efforts are Ray-Ban esque, making you look super cool, and have the added mechanics of a shutter system to make the picture work.
Put them on and it takes a couple of seconds before the technology kicks in, the picture darkens slightly and the action on screen comes to life.
The electronic shutter system works by basically fooling your brain into seeing the two pictures as one. This can be replicated (alas very badly) by quickly closing and opening your eyes alternately left to right (you don't have to do it now).
Once you've put on the glasses and fired up some content you'll be sucked into a 3D dimension world that will either work or not depending on the content at hand. We experienced a slight delay in the glasses working but it's nothing to be too concerned about. That's not to say that the technology doesn't work, it's just that some applications will be better than others.
Sony, keen to show off the technology in a number of guises had plenty of content to watch. Football for example doesn't really work, most likely due to the fast moving action on the screen that means you have trouble focusing on the 3D elements before they change. It's a similar experience we had to when we viewed the Sky HD 3D demo in 2009. Football it seems, just doesn't work in 3D.
So what did work? Well two things really made us want it now rather than having to wait a possible 12 months.
The first was an underwater documentary filmed somewhere like the Red Sea. Maybe its because I've dived around the world I could associate with the content, but whether that's the case or not, it was stunning. Schools of fish had depth, and when the big shark came swimming towards me - well I found myself taking a step back, albeit small one.
The second demo we enjoyed the most was gaming. In short wow. First we watched a demo of Motorstorm and then played a level of WipeOut HD. I have to say both were amazing with the 3D element really adding to the experience.
The naysayers of course will be quick to point out both are driving games, both a defined perspective and horizon line. Sony were also showing cut sequences from Killzone 2, however it wasn't playable content so hard to see how it would fair in 3D. Still back to WipeOut HD and the 3D elements really added to the experience. Of course gameplay is still important, and unlike movies, content doesn't really fly out at you, but it does make for a considerably more visual feast.
3D TV is usually accused of making you sick, hot and well generally uncomfortable as your brain works in overdrive to process all the information being thrown at it "artificially" by your eyes (yes we know we see in 3D all the time). However we luckily aren't one of those people and while other journalists at the show we talked to weren't so sure about the shuttering technology used by Sony - preferring Philips system with no shutter glasses needed - we can see this being a big hit for those who want to immerse themselves in the experience.
Certainly at first this isn't going to be for everyday television. I don't think Eastenders is ready for 3D just yet, however games and movies lend themselves perfectly to the technology.
The catch? While your PS3 should, if Sony's words come true, be updateable with a quick software patch the same can't be said for your TV. That's right, you'll need a new one.
Lets hope that when it comes to upgrade - possibly in time for the 2010 World Cup - a format will be finalised and TV sets available so at least you can use the football as an excuse to upgrade.
Sony's 3DTV Bravia set is to be released sometime in 2010.


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This is an unfortunate situation as Extreme Rising has invested a lot of time, energy and money into this event and was excited about our Pittsburgh, PA return. The safety and well being for our fans, wrestlers, and staff is the first priority. These unsafe conditions cannot be taken softly or ignored.
The present weather conditions, along with the projected forecast for the weekend, from the National Weather Service for Pittsburgh, the East Coast, and the mid-West does not favor anyone traveling into Squirrel Hill to partake in the planned event. Given these conditions, we can not risk the well being and safety of our, fans, performers, or staff.
Extreme Rising has arranged a new, return date for the rescheduled event for SATURDAY, MAY 10th 2014 7pm at the IRISH CENTRE in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, PA.
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"He's a ghost, he's a man, he's a guru, he's a God." I'm sure Nick Cave wasn't talking about Boba Fett when he wrote "Red Right Hand", but it fits the character better than anything I've heard. There are many misconceptions of the Mandalorian Armour Clad bounty hunter. The foremost being that he is evil. In fact, he is a mercenary. Plain and
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Members of the 2004 Master JuryThe Jury met for the first time in January 2004 and started by reviewing 378 projects that had been nominated for the Ninth Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. After vigorous and concentrated discussions, the Jury shortlisted twenty-three projects that were proposed for On-Site Project Review. During the second meeting, in June 2004, the Reviewers presented to the Jury their detailed reports and, after discussions, the Jury selected seven projects to receive the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. View video of Master Jury Deliberations and Process of Selection.
From the outset, the Jury agreed that they would need to seek out a comprehensive approach in order to discover, understand and explain the challenges of architecture in the Muslim world as it confronts modernity in all its diversity. Four areas of social meaning came to the fore, and the Jury expressed these as a series of questions. The first question raises the issue of how the complexity of history and of historical memory can be expressed in architecture. Because restoration deals with history in architectural terms, it tends, pragmatically, not simply to freeze the past as it may have existed at a given moment. Instead, restoration increasingly responds to the needs of present-day groups and individuals, who often use historic buildings for new purposes. By accommodating historical meaning and contemporary needs, a building retains social meaning rather than becoming simply an object of tourism. Secondly, the Jury considered the question of how private initiatives are integrated into the emerging public sphere. The Jury believes that the development of a pluralist public realm is one of the most important issues facing many Muslim countries. Today, more and more private initiatives in the public realm empower societies and address their needs, be it in the fields of education, sanitation or other social requirements. Architecture plays an important role in manifesting these endeavours, and the Jury especially appreciated a balanced relationship between the social content of an initiative and its architectural representation. The winning projects also address the question of how to express individuality in complex social settings. In modernity, architecture expresses individuality, permitting a poetical interpretation of the self. The Jury recognized the growing awareness and appreciation of individuality in the Muslim world. On the one hand, this individuality counters the idea that Muslim societies emphasize collective identities, and on the other hand it reveals the plurality of Muslim traditions. The fourth question the Jury considered was the issue of how power and authority in the global domains of technology, culture and economics might be addressed through architecture. The Jury paid special attention to the responsibility of architecture in the Muslim world and to projects that show understanding of the worldwide exchange of technological, cultural and economic knowledge in local contexts. The translation of global identities into architecture - which can occur in the technology used in buildings or in the potential functions of buildings - was considered by the Jury to be of great importance for many parts of the Muslim world. The Jury also analysed how these four issues have been transferred to architecture. It is common sense that the way structure and design are used in a project should always be adequate to the issue addressed. Adequacy, however, does not mean simply assigning a form to a problem and updating traditional architectural solutions. It means adopting a critical perspective on the problem and addressing it by means of architectural techniques. The Jury recognized this by giving importance to projects that raise the standards of excellence. Finally, the Jury focused on the social, cultural and environmental impact of the projects, analysing the balance between intention and realization, meaning and material, and functionality and use. The integration of projects within the environment and the criticism of tradition were also factors in assessing projects. Architecture in the Muslim world partakes of all the features of modernity in architecture. However, it often also tries to incorporate specific Islamic meanings, and it is only in such deliberate instances that architecture can be labelled 'Islamic'. When 'Islamic' traditions are followed instinctively, the result is simply architecture in a Muslim cultural context. This means that there is a difference between architecture in the Muslim world and what is defined in discourse as 'Islamic architecture'. The plurality of architecture in the Muslim world is evident at many levels: in varied discourses on architecture; in architecture that deals with restoration in ways that re-establish the generic pluralism of Muslim culture; and in the multiplicity of forms produced by a variety of social, cultural and economic environments. The Jury was particularly aware of the complexity of the plurality of the Muslim world and was critical of those projects that tried to establish a cultural normativity that could threaten that plurality. The Jury believes that all seven projects selected for the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture meet with the foregoing criteria.


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Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton have agreed to postpone contract talks - and not approach other parties - until the intensity of the title battle calms down.
Hamilton is contracted at Mercedes until the end of 2015 but team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg recently renewed on a multi-year deal. With the battle for the title set to become even more intense, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said he had agreed to wait for a quieter time to continue negotiations with Hamilton.
"At this stage it is very intense and you have to stay concentrated on the season," Wolff said. "But one thing is for sure, we are not going to talk to anybody else before having a very clear situation about how we can continue to work with Lewis. This is what we said to each other."
With over a year left on the current contract, Wolff said both sides trust each other not to look elsewhere.
"We have no interest of having any other conversation with any other driver, and we are not having any, and Lewis is not having any discussion with any other team. That is why we trust each other. At the moment we need to be concentrated on the championship and not get involved in contractual discussions or intense discussions, because it is something that is one and a half years away from us."


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SUNY Canton Dental Hygiene Student Publishes ResearchThursday, March 4th, 2010
Healthy teeth and gums can contribute to the overall health and well-being of older populations, according to an article recently published by Wanda L. Coleman, a four-year SUNY Canton Dental Hygiene student.
Coleman's article, "Root Caries: Increased Risk in Nursing Home Facilities," in the Nov. 2009 edition of Access, a publication of the American Dental Hygienists Association.
"The increasing size of the geriatric population and new knowledge about the link between oral and overall health makes it more and more evident that oral health care providers will need to be more prepared to treat older patients," Coleman said. "The primary concern in nursing home facilities is the total care of the patient, including the health of their teeth and gums."
Her research addresses the prevalence of dental decay for elder Americans in nursing home environments. It also highlights preventative practices for dental and medical professionals can do to enhance the dental care for the aging population.
"Research has become increasingly important in advancing the practice of dental hygiene," noted Dental Hygiene Professor Susan Willette. "Through research we develop new techniques, materials, and treatments and it impacts education, and public health policy. We place an emphasis on continuing research in the four-year Dental Hygiene program."
Coleman has been a clinical dental hygienist for 30 years and is a dental hygiene instructor at Southeastern Technical College in Vidalia, Georgia. She is pursuing her bachelor's degree in Dental Hygiene entirely online through SUNY Canton OL.
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Apolo Anton Ohno is heading back to ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," the Olympian and Season 4 champ Tweeted on Saturday.
"DWTS….tuesday here I come :-)," he Tweeted.
However, ABC told Access Hollywood on Saturday that the star will be coming to the show's semi-finals this week as a former winner, not to strap on his dancing shoes once more.
Still, two other former "DWTS" contestants are planning to hit the dance floor as season 10 heads into its last two weeks. As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, two booted contestants from the current season, Kate Gosselin and Shannen Doherty, both revealed earlier this month that they will be appearing on the May 24 and 25 two-part finale for one last dance.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 18, 2015 — Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during the first quarter 2015 when compared to fourth quarter 2014 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.
Total silicon wafer area shipments were 2,637 million square inches during the most recent quarter, a 3.4 percent increase from the 2,550 million square inches shipped during the previous quarter, resulting in a new quarterly volume shipment record. New quarterly total area shipments are 11.6 percent higher than first quarter 2014 shipments.
"Total silicon shipment volumes for the first quarter of this year surpassed the record high reached in the third quarter of last year," said Ginji Yada, chairman of SEMI SMG and general manager, International Sales & Marketing Department of SUMCO Corporation. "Silicon shipments for the most recent quarter benefited from the strong market momentum the semiconductor market enjoyed last year."
Quarterly Silicon* Area Shipment Trends
*Shipments are for semiconductor applications only and do not include solar applications
Silicon wafers are the fundamental building material for semiconductors, which in turn, are vital components of virtually all electronics goods, including computers, telecommunications products, and consumer electronics. The highly engineered thin round disks are produced in various diameters (from one inch to 12 inches) and serve as the substrate material on which most semiconductor devices or "chips" are fabricated.
All data cited in this release is inclusive of polished silicon wafers, including virgin test wafers, epitaxial silicon wafers, as well as non-polished silicon wafers shipped by the wafer manufacturers to the end-users.
The Silicon Manufacturers Group acts as an independent special interest group within the SEMI structure and is open to SEMI members involved in manufacturing polycrystalline silicon, monocrystalline silicon or silicon wafers (e.g., as cut, polished, epi, etc.). The purpose of the group is to facilitate collective efforts on issues related to the silicon industry including the development of market information and statistics about the silicon industry and the semiconductor market.
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Many first time users find it very hard to use Vim. Especially those who come from X-Windows based editors (GUI Editors). This is a small tip to map standard shortcuts which we find in most editors with shortcuts in Vim.
Mapping short-cut keysEdit
Open the ~/.vimrc file if it exists, if not, create a new file. Paste the following remapping code into it.
set smartindent set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab set mouse=a set nu :map <C-a> GVgg :map <C-n> :enew :map <C-o> :e . <Enter> :map <C-s> :w <Enter> :map <C-c> y :map <C-v> p :map <C-x> d :map <C-z> u :map <C-t> :tabnew <Enter> :map <C-i> >> :map <C-w> :close <Enter> :map <C-W> :q! <Enter> :map <C-f> / :map <F3> n :map <C-h> :%s/ :map <S-t> vat :map <S-T> vit :map <S-{> vi{ :map <S-(> vi( :map <S-[> vi[
Once you are done, restart Vim. Now the following should work.
Ctrl + a --> Select All Ctrl + n --> New File (Also See Ctrl + t) Ctrl + o --> Open File (Opens current folder to browse) Ctrl + s --> Save File Ctrl + c --> Copy Ctrl + v --> Paste Ctrl + x --> Cut Ctrl + z --> Undo Ctrl + r --> Redo Ctrl + t --> Open new tab Tab --> Indent Ctrl + w --> Close (tab) Ctrl + W --> Force close (Quit) Ctrl + f --> Find F3 --> Find Next Ctrl + h --> Replace All Shift + t --> Select (HTML, XML etc.) tag (inclusive) Shift + T --> Select (HTML, XML etc.) tag (exclusive) Shift + { --> Select text between flower brackets Shift + [ --> Select text between square brackets Shift + ( --> Select text between parentheses
This is my first tip - If there are some mistakes or improvements that can be made, please do let me know
If You don't want to lose some of vim's powerfull commands its' WORTH TO READ BENEATH!
I don't think I'd ever recommend anything like this, without offering replacements for the lost functionality. Almost everything you use here overrides a very useful built-in command.
Ctrl + a --> Increment number Ctrl + n --> ''this one is OK, a synonym for the j command'' Ctrl + o --> Navigate backward in jump list Ctrl + s --> ''this one is OK, it doesn't do anything on its own'' Ctrl + c --> Interrupt action that is taking too long Ctrl + v --> Start "visual block" mode Ctrl + x --> Decrement number Ctrl + z --> Send Vim to background ''admittedly, probably OK for GUI vim'' Ctrl + r --> No need for a mapping, this is already a redo action Ctrl + t --> Go back in tag list Ctrl + i/Tab --> Navigate forward in jump list Ctrl + w --> prefix for ALL the window switching commands Ctrl + W --> Indistinguishable from the above Ctrl + f --> ''probably OK, there are synonyms and this is probably infrequently used'' F3 --> ''This is OK, Vim doesn't use any F{num} keys by default'' Ctrl + h --> ''this is OK, synonym for the h command'' Shift + t --> Jump to previous specified letter Shift + T --> indistinguishable from above (think about it, how do you type 'T' compared to 't'?) Shift + { --> { is "jump to previous paragraph", very useful...I'm not sure how you'd even type Shift+{, it's already a shifted key. Shift + [ --> [ starts many movement commands, Shift+[ gives you a {. Shift + ( --> ( jumps between sentences, but ( is already shifted, how do you even type this?
If you want a point-and-click editor, you might try the Cream distribution of Vim. But in general, intentionally crippling Vim's powerful interface is a bad idea. --Preceding unsigned comment added by Fritzophrenic 20:54, May 3, 2012
- You are right in that some features get overwritten. This tip is not for advanced users - it is for beginners who find it very hard to remember commands but are used to these in other editors. --Preceding unsigned comment added by Baliganikhil 08:46, May 4, 2012
- Thanks to Baliganikhil for the new tip, but Fritzophrenic is correct: Vim users should work how to use Vim (Tutorial is the start of an attempt to provide guidance), so these mappings are more of a current individual preference than general advice. Perhaps this should be moved to a user page?
- I do agree about Ctrl-A/C/V/X: when I used Konversation for the first time (the IRC client with KDE on Linux) I wondered how to copy some of the messages, and sure enough Ctrl-C worked. About that time I decided that Vim old timers had lost the battle over those keys, and I worked out how to properly map them (I intend fixing 356 Quick yank and paste one day). However, mapping Ctrl-C to
yis not helpful. I only use Ctrl-C/V for copy/paste with other applications: within Vim, it is essential to learn the basics like
p. Also, it is never a good idea to map a key that is easy to press for
:q!because sooner or later the key will be pressed accidentally and a lot of work will be lost. JohnBeckett 10:38, May 4, 2012 (UTC)
I think that the above reply paired with the original tip is very useful. For example, I never use tags (maybe that's my fault?) but I find it very convenient to have a hotkey for opening a new tab, and vim doesn't provide this. I can rest assured that, at least for the time being, I haven't lost any functionality that I might care about, and now I've learned some new commands about tagging that might help me in the future.
This is a nice summary of what "normal hotkeys" do in vim. Very convenient as a reference.
18:08:2014 - a guest added the first line of comments - he could never know about that vim's native commands. Thanks to Fritzophrenic, he knows now.


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Blue Creek is situated in six townships in Van Wert and Paulding Counties, Ohio and features 152 Gamesa G90 2MW turbines. The project more than doubles Ohio's current capacity.
The project has a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with FirstEnergy Solutions covering 100MW of its generating capacity.
Iberdrola has also started work this month on the 189MW Manzana wind power project, located near the town of Rosamond in California.
This project has secured two PPAs, one with the San Diego Gas & Electric company, which will receive the power generated by 100MW over the next 20 years, and another with the City of Santa Clara's Silicon Valley Power, which will receive the energy produced by 50MW over the same period.
According to the latest Windpower Monthly Windicator, Ohio had a wind capacity of 102MW as of end-2011.


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For the fifth year in a row, the remarkable Kat Kramer is presenting her series, "Films That Change The World." Film buffs, students and educators will be delighted. Being held tonight, November 13, 2013, at the Sunset/ Gower studios in the Cannon Screening Room, Kat and her celebrity guests, which include Lily Tomlin, Ed Asner, Ric O'Barry and Louis Gossett, Jr. as well as Dr. Helen Caldicott, the event shows the film Fallout. Others in attendance will be George Chakiris, Mike Farrell, Pete Hammond, Marsha Hunt, Rick Overton, Mark Rydell, Beverly Todd, Glynn Turman, as well as honorary event committee members that include Ed Begley, Jr, Harrison Ford, Sharon Stone and Billy Bob Thornton.
Fallout, a critically acclaimed documentary about nuclear holocaust is produced by Rough Trade Pictures in association with Screen Australia and Film Victoria. The film explores the myth and reality of Nevil Shute's international bestseller On The Beach and Stanley Kramer's film adaptation of the novel, which was filmed in Melbourne in 1959. That classic stared Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson. The film was co-produced by Lawrence Johnson and produced and co-written by Peter Kaufman. It's 86 minutes long.
Before the screening Dr. Helen Caldicott, a renowned Anti-Nuclear Activist, who was the subject of the 1982 Academy Award winning documentary short, "If You Love This Planet," will be speaking. She will be introduced by award winning comedian Lily Tomlin.
After the film, Katharine "Kat" Kramer will moderate an informative eye -opening panel discussion with Dr. Caldicott, actress Donna Anderson (who appeared in the movie), Tomlin, Louis Gossett, Jr, Ric O'Barry, Karen Sharpe Kramer (Golden Globe Award winning actress, also appearing in the film) and Heather Mayfield, daughter of the novelist Nevil Shute.
The event, which also honors the birth year of filmmaker Stanley Kramer, is being held adjacent to where the great man, Kat's father, once filmed 15 of his 35 movies. For more information on Mr. Kramer go to www.stanleykramer100.com.
The Cannon room is located at 6060 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, Ca 90028. Arrivals will begin at 6 pm and will be followed by a reception at 6:30 pm with the program commencing at 7:30 pm. Following the panel discussion, Dr. Caldicott will be available to sign copies of some of her books for sale, including "Loving This Planet," "A Desperate Passsion," "The New Nuclear Danger," "Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer," "If You Love This Planet," and "War In Heaven."
While this is primarily a film salon, there are a limited number of free tickets that will be availabe to the public on the first come, first serve basis. If you are interested in attending, please call KNK Productions, Inc, at 818 760 3106 or email [email protected]
To view a trailer for Fallout, go to http://youtube/F0AG6vDIxrc and to learn more about Kat Kramer's films please visit www.katkramersfilmsthatchangetheworld.com


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We often hear media reports that suggest addicts are created when doctors prescribe painkillers for people who are actually in pain. But the evidence suggests that this isn't true. And the stigma against prescribing painkillers is hurting patients who need relief.
Over at Washington Post, Maia Szalavitz explores some of the myths and facts about pain management. She notes that stories about painkiller addicts never address the needs of patients with chronic pain whose quality of life may depend on a prescription for opoids or other drugs. Plus, all the research on painkiller addicts suggests that most addictions do not start with a legitimate prescription from a doctor:
The media also give a false impression of the role of pain treatment in causing opioid addiction. While most coverage includes anecdotes about people who became addicted during medical opioid use, the research shows that most opioid addicts actually start as street users and were never pain patients at all.
For example, for years the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health hasasked thousands of Americans about their misuse of prescription drugs, and the sources from which they get their supply. And consistently, the answer is that at least 80 percent are not pain patients who were medically addicted: two out of three either get opioids for free or buy them from a friend or relative. The rest obtain the drugs either from dealers, by theft, by prescription forgery or online.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that among the most frequent opioid misusers, a full third get the drugs from doctors — but this suggests that preexisting addicts are seeking pain doctors to get drugs, not that pain treatment is turning people into addicts. Indeed, two-thirds of the heaviest prescription drug users are not seeing doctors to get their drugs at all.
As a result of the hysteria over painkiller addiction, doctors are less likely to prescribe drugs for people who really are in pain. And of course addicts are still getting their fixes — which most of them never got from doctors anyway.
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Backed by a Department of Homeland Security grant, The Day The Earth Shook is meant to be a video game that teaches children about surviving an earthquake, but it's more likely to educate them about the dangers of bad game design.
In the free PC and Mac game, players are meant to help Allen and Majel Irwin survive an earthquake by building a survival kit, finding all the safe and unsafe areas of their home, and learning to protect themselves!
The game opens with an alien hovering down out of a blue sky to a pencil-necked child standing in front of a blocky house. The alien pops a pair of special glasses on the kid's head and tells him he needs to prepare for an earthquake.
First you have to wander your home looking for items to fill an earthquake preparedness kit, next you spot dangerous places to stand in an earthquake, and then you find safe places to go if a quake hits.
The downloadable game is part of the State of Illinois' plans to prepare their residents for a quake triggered by the New Madrid fault line. If a level 7 or 8 quake were to hit the area it could impact 15 million people, according to the website.
As part of the "Great Central U.S. Shakeout" the state received a $286,000 gran to create and put the earthquake game online. The money went to the University of Illinois's visualization lab which created the game with the help of scientists from the University of Illinois Champaign at the National Center for Supercomputing applications.
Yes, someone, somewhere applied supercomputing to this game.
The Day the Earth Shook [State of Illinois IEMA, via ABC]


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Imprisoned activist demands march on governors of 50 states
Paul Joseph Watson
May 24, 2013
Imprisoned activist and former Marine Adam Kokesh – arrested last Saturday for exercising his First Amendment right at a protest – has called for a "new American revolution" to begin on July 4 with a march on all 50 state capitols.
Kokesh remains in a federal prison in Philadelphia on what many of his supporters claim are trumped up charges of assaulting a police officer and has been denied bail.
The former Iraq war veteran was already planning to lead a controversial armed march on Washington DC on Independence Day, but has rapidly expanded the scope of his plans, calling on an, "American Revolutionary Army (that) will march on each state capital to demand that the governors of these 50 states immediately initiate the process of an orderly dissolution of the federal government through secession and reclamation of federally held property."
DC police responded to Kokesh's plan for an armed march by vowing to arrest Kokesh and any other armed demonstrators who take part.
Kokesh and fellow activist N.A. Poe were arrested as they spoke at a permitted marijuana legalization rally at Independence Mall National Historic Park in Philadelphia last Saturday. Neither of the two were smoking or carrying drugs at the time.
Video of the incident shows Kokesh holding his hands up as he is dragged away by police. At no point does Kokesh appear to be resisting arrest (for which he is also charged) and he certainly does not assault any law enforcement officer.
The United States district court filing (PDF) claims that Kokesh "physically blocked and obstructed the Ranger" and also "grabbed the Ranger by the arm to hold him back." The video does not appear to show any of this.
Kokesh says the 50 state march is "necessary to secure liberty and ensure peace," and that, "Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible."
While Kokesh has attracted numerous supporters, others fear his plan for an armed march on D.C. and his aggressive rhetoric could grease the skids for gun owners to be demonized as violent extremists, in addition to increasing the chances of provocateurs being used to stage an incident during the march.
Read Kokesh's full statement below.
"When a government has repeatedly and deliberately failed to follow its own laws, violated the fundamental human rights of its citizens, threatened the sanctity of a free press, created institutions intended to eliminate privacy of communication, waged war at the behest of special interest that threatens the public safety, killed hundreds of children with drone strikes, imprisoned and destroyed the lives of countless individuals for victimless crimes, stifled economic opportunity to maintain the dominance of the financial elite, stolen from the people through an absurd system of taxation and inflation, sold future generations into debt slavery, and abused its power to suppress political opposition, it is unfit to exist and it becomes the duty of the people to alter or abolish that government by whatever means necessary to secure liberty and ensure peace.
"A new American revolution is long overdue. This revolution has been brewing in the hearts and minds of the people for many years, but this Independence Day, it shall take a new form as the American Revolutionary Army will march on each state capital to demand that the governors of these 50 states immediately initiate the process of an orderly dissolution of the federal government through secession and reclamation of federally held property. Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.
"The time to sit idly by has passed. To remain neutral is to be complicit, just doing your job is not an excuse, and the line in the sand has been drawn between the people, and the criminals in Washington, D.C. While some timid souls will say that it is too early, that we can solve this problem through democratic means provided by government, that current levels of taxation are reasonable for the services provided, and that the crimes of this government are merely a tolerable nuisance, it may already be too late.
"While there is risk in drastic action, the greater danger lies in allowing this government to continue unchallenged. So if you are content with the status quo, stay home, get fat, watch the fireworks from a safe distance, and allow this Independence Day to pass like any other. But if you see as we see, and feel as we feel, we will see you on the front lines of freedom on July 4th, 2013 for this, The Final American Revolution."
Signed, Adam Kokesh, May 23, 2013 from a cage in the Philadelphia federal prison.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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THE American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.
In 2007, before the Great Recession, people who were looking for work for more than six months — the definition of long-term unemployment — accounted for just 0.8 percent of the labor force. The recession has radically changed this picture. In 2010, the long-term unemployed accounted for 4.2 percent of the work force. That figure would be 50 percent higher if we added the people who gave up looking for work.
Long-term unemployment is experienced disproportionately by the young, the old, the less educated, and African-American and Latino workers.
While older workers are less likely to be laid off than younger workers, they are about half as likely to be rehired. One result is that older workers have seen the largest proportionate increase in unemployment in this downturn. The number of unemployed people between ages 50 and 65 has more than doubled.
The prospects for the re-employment of older workers deteriorate sharply the longer they are unemployed. A worker between ages 50 and 61 who has been unemployed for 17 months has only about a 9 percent chance of finding a new job in the next three months. A worker who is 62 or older and in the same situation has only about a 6 percent chance. As unemployment increases in duration, these slim chances drop steadily.
The result is nothing short of a national emergency. Millions of workers have been disconnected from the work force, and possibly even from society. If they are not reconnected, the costs to them and to society will be grim.
Unemployment is almost always a traumatic event, especially for older workers. A paper by the economists Daniel Sullivan and Till von Wachter estimates a 50 to 100 percent increase in death rates for older male workers in the years immediately following a job loss, if they previously had been consistently employed. This higher mortality rate implies that a male worker displaced in midcareer can expect to live about one and a half years less than a worker who keeps his job.
There are various reasons for this rise in mortality. One is suicide. A recent study found that a 10 percent increase in the unemployment rate (say from 8 to 8.8 percent) would increase the suicide rate for males by 1.47 percent. This is not a small effect. Assuming a link of that scale, the increase in unemployment would lead to an additional 128 suicides per month in the United States. The picture for the long-term unemployed is especially disturbing. The duration of unemployment is the dominant force in the relationship between joblessness and the risk of suicide.
Joblessness is also associated with some serious illnesses, although the causal links are poorly understood. Studies have found strong links between unemployment and cancer, with unemployed men facing a 25 percent higher risk of dying of the disease. Similarly higher risks have been found for heart disease and psychiatric problems.
The physical and psychological consequences of unemployment are significant enough to affect family members. The economists Kerwin Charles and Melvin Stephens recently found an 18 percent increase in the probability of divorce following a husband's job loss and 13 percent after a wife's. Unemployment of parents also has a negative impact on achievement of their children. In the long run, children whose fathers lose a job when they are kids have reduced earnings as adults — about 9 percent lower annually than children whose fathers do not experience unemployment.
We all understand how the human costs can be so high. For many people, their very identity is their occupation. Few events rival the emotional strain of job loss.
IT seems clear that neither political party was prepared to deal with the crisis of long-term unemployment. In spite of the severity of the downturn, there was a general expectation that the economy would bounce back, as it had after previous downturns.
Some countries that were more familiar with long-term unemployment, notably Germany, were much better prepared to deal with the fallout from the crisis. The German government aggressively pushed work-sharing measures. This meant that instead of workers' being laid off and receiving unemployment benefits, the German government helped companies keep employees, working fewer hours, on their payrolls by subsidizing their wages with the money saved on unemployment benefits.
The result of this policy is that Germany's unemployment rate is now lower than it was at the start of the downturn, even though its growth has been no better than ours.
Thankfully, there is some effort to learn from this model. The recent bill that extended the payroll tax cut included a provision that covered the cost of work-sharing programs in the 23 states that already had them as part of their unemployment insurance systems, and it helped other states start such programs. This should slow job destruction in those states, which will improve chances for all workers seeking employment. From now on, the first line of defense during a recession should be to expand work sharing rather than simply extend unemployment benefits.
But these changes come late, and we must get much better at sending a lifeline to those who are hardest to reconnect.
In the United States and elsewhere, government training programs have a mixed record at best. Some people have suggested that the unemployed be encouraged to start their own businesses, and entrepreneurship is one valid option for some. But given that most new businesses will fail, it may not be the best advice to tell older workers who have lost their jobs to also put their savings at risk to start a new business.
Clearly, an improving economy will help some, but those who have been out of work for an extended period have a difficult time finding jobs for many reasons. They are more likely to be discouraged, more likely to have seen their skills wane, and more likely to be seen as a risk by a prospective employer.
Policy makers must come together and recognize that this is an emergency, and fashion a comprehensive re-employment policy that addresses the specific needs of the long-term unemployed. A policy package that as a whole should appeal to the left and the right should spend money to help expand public and private training programs with proven track records; expand entrepreneurial opportunities by increasing access to small-business financing; reduce government hurdles to the formation of new businesses; and explore subsidies for private employers who hire the long-term unemployed. Those who hire for government jobs must do their share, too: managers who are filling open positions should be given explicit incentives to reconnect these lost workers.
Every month of delay is a month in which our unemployed friends and neighbors drift further away.


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Continuing with the night-by-night look at the fall 2012 schedule, we move to Friday night. Friday is sometimes scoffed at as a wasteland night when nobody watches television. Less people watch television on Friday, but only around 15% less than the typical Thursday. That still leaves a lot of people, but most of them are usually watching something other than the English broadcast networks.
This Fall the night will initially include 8 hours of scripted television (same as last Fall) on the broadcast nets with one new scripted series. Last Man Standing and Malibu Country are scheduled to move into the ABC 8pm slot in November, upping the scripted total to 9 hours and two new shows.
The new series are CBS's Made In Jersey at 9pm and later ABC's Malibu Country at 8:30pm. Perhaps CBS learned their lesson with A Gifted Man that premiering a new drama on Friday at 8pm isn't such a good idea.
Fringe being in its final season, and the move of Supernatural to Wednesday will likely dampen interest around here on Saturday mornings in the Fall, but we may make up for a little bit of the traffic from anxious Community fans, and maybe a handful of Touch fans. A potential traffic windfall for us would be if Grimm ratings stumble early, it could become the next traffic Fringe or Chuck.
If you're looking for other nights of the week, be patient. We'll post one per day through next Wednesday and then you'll have them all. You can find them (including Thursday night) here.
Take a trip down memory lane with last season's 2011-12's Friday night schedule:


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|Slytherin Dungeon
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Down a staircase from the Dungeon Corridor,
|Permanent residents
The Slytherin Dungeon, also known as the Slytherin Common Room[1], serves as the common room for students in Slytherin house at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The entrance to the common room is located behind a stone wall in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle. A password is required to enter it; whereupon a passage is revealed leading to the common room.
Known PasswordsEdit
Common RoomEdit
The common room is a dungeon-like room with greenish lamps and chairs. This dungeon extends partway under the lake, giving the light in the room a green tinge. The common room has lots of low backed black and dark green leather sofas with buttons, skulls, and dark wood cupboards. It has quite a grand atmosphere, but also quite a cold one. The password to the common room changes every fortnight, and it is posted on the noticeboard. It is decorated with tapestries featuring the adventures of famous Medieval Slytherins.
In Harry Potter's second year, he and Ron Weasley went into the Slytherin common room disguised as Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle with the aid of Polyjuice Potion to attempt to discover the identity of the Heir of Slytherin. The entry password was "Pure-blood" when Draco Malfoy let them in. The Polyjuice Potion's wearing off prompted Harry and Ron to leave after staying nearly an hour, still not finding out the identity of the Heir of Slytherin.[2]
In 1998, Harry, operating under the alias "Vernon Dudley", attempted to defend his false claim that he was a member of the Slytherin house by describing the location of the Dungeon to the Snatchers.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the video game version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, there is another way to the common room, where there are several enemies such as Gnomes and Cornish Pixies. There is also a bridge between the Dungeons and the common room, held up by Ectoplasm. A Slytherin student casts Skurge on the Ectoplasm, so you have to find a way to restore the bridge.
- Revealed in Pottermore: It was revealed that often the giant squid appears at the windows, and sometimes more interesting creatures, and that the sound of swishing water is relaxing at night.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Entrance only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Entrance only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)'
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Deleted Scenes)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Harry Potter LEGO Sets
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
See alsoEdit
Notes and referencesEdit


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Yahoo! released its 2012 Year In Review to provide a snapshot of users' search habits and what really mattered to them in the past year. Overall, the top three searches this year were: election, iPhone 5 and Kim Kardashian.
But Yahoo! also compiled other categories of top searches, including health topics, recipes and this list of what the search engine calls "Most Appetizing Yet Stomach-Turning Searches." Judging by this list, Yahoo! Users sure have interesting palates.
What foods might raise an eyebrow while simultaneously making your stomach growl while it braces itself for the calorie load? Here's what Yahoo! found...
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In September, Kraft Foods unveiled Candy Corn Oreos just in time for the Halloween season. While the classic sweet treat -- which turned 100 this year -- usually comes with a black cookie and white cream, the company markets fruity flavors in China.
Credit: Kraft Foods/AP
If you like pork and you like doughnuts, you may have to buy a plane ticket to China. In March, doughnut giant Dunkin' Donuts CEO Nigel Travis told Reuters that savory donuts with shredded pork are being sold at the company's 150 stories in China. The company also said at the time it was developing milk tea and bagels with pork floss topping in Chinese markets.
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This increasingly popular take on ice cream is popping up at state fairs and fancy restaurants. This past summer, Burger King offered a bacon sundae with vanilla soft serve ice cream with fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles and a piece of bacon to boot. The sweet treat may not have made nutritionists swoon, clocking in at 510 calories, 18 grams of fat and 61 grams of sugar.
Credit: Noel Barnhurst, File,AP Photo/Burger King
Flamin' Hot Cheetos made headlines in 2012, with news outlets around the country picking up reports of that some schools were banning the snacks because kids were going batty for them and skipping meals for the less nutritional snack. In addition, students were spreading germs through sharing and making a mess for janitors with small orange finger prints all over the schools.
Doctors also warned some concerned parents were taking their kids to emergency rooms because the dyes in the snacks were mistaken for blood in the stool.
Credit: Frito-Lay
Reaching for fruit instead of unhealthy snacks and sweets is often recommended as a way to boost health. Deep fried strawberries may not have been what nutritionists had in mind.
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Somewhere along the way , omeone who was a fan of these two beverages decided to experiment. That came to a head this past September when Red Robin unveiled its beer milkshake made with soft serve vanilla ice cream, vanilla syrup, caramel and a Sam Adams Ocktoberfest. The drink is not for the calorie-weary.
Credit: Red Robin
In the summer of 2011, deep-fried Kool-Aid balls swept the country fair circuit. According to Yahoo!'s list, the same appears to be true in 2012.
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Some people enjoy the flavor that comes from baking with beer, so it's not surprising people may grab a Guinness for the job. Food.com estimates the treat -- if topped with Bailey's frosting -- can top 350 calories per cupcake.
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A beer contains about 150 calories, and a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found alcohol accounts for about 5 percent of adults' caloric intake. How much would that percentage rise if your drink of choice was maple bacon beer?
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A holiday tradition, one grape jelly meatball -- which is exactly what it sounds like - contains more than 60 calories and about half a gram of fat, according to Livestrong.com.
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Lu Xun/Lu Kang SGZ Biography Translation Relay
(Feedback of all kinds is welcome in this thread)
I apologize for any inconvenience caused my recreation of this post, I had to do this in order to preserve a strange difficult-to-duplicate problem. Read this for more information: http://the-scholars.com/viewtopic.php?p=34181#34181
Lady Wu
Same thing as for the Lu Bu relay. Except this time it's Lu Xun/Lu Kang... everyone who can translate SGZ should help out, even if it's just a small section...
I'm kicking this off with Lu Xun, but if people feel like starting Lu Kang's (on p. 1354 in the Zhonghua Shuju edition of SGZ, in the middle of Lu Xun's chapter), they should start it too.
Lu Xun, styled Boyan, was originally named Yi. A native of Wu, in the commandery of Wu, Lu Xun comes from a prosperous and famous family east of the Yangtze River (1). Since he was orphaned at a young age, he lived with his grandfather Lu Kang [translator's note: this Kang is a different character from that in Lu Kang, Lu Xun's son], who was then the Grand Administrator of Lujiang. When Lu Kang found out that he was about to be attacked by Yuan Shu, who had long borne a grudge against him, he sent Lu Xun and his family back to Wu for safety. Since Lu Xun was several years older than Lu Kang's son Lu Ji, he kept his family in order for him.
When Sun Quan became a general, Lu Xun was 21 years of age, and began his career by working in Sun Quan's office. After serving as a consultant clerk of both the Department of the East and the Department of the West, he was sent out to the field as a garrison chief commandant at Haichang, with the additional duties of civil affairs of the prefecture (2). The prefecture had suffered years of drought, and so Lu Xun opened up the stores of grain to relieve the poor, as well as encouraging and overseeing farming personally. The people benefitted greatly from that. At that time, there were many bandits in hiding in the Wu, Kuaiji, and Danyang areas. Lu Xun petitioned to Sun Quan to attack them, listing the advantages of doing so. Now, there was one Pan Lin, the "general-in-chief" of the bandits in Kuaiji, who had been a scourge of the area, and who had escaped from the government's efforts to capture him through the years. And so Lu Xun had his subordinates recruit soldiers, and went straight into the holdings of the outlaws. Wherever he went the outlaws submitted to him, and his command grew to 2,000 soldiers. Then, when the leader of the Boyang bandits, You Tu, staged a rebellion, Lu Xun went to quell it. For that, Lu Xun was made Colonel Who Settles Majesty, and made to garrison at Lipu.
(1) Lushi Shi Song: Lu Xun's grandfather, Lu Yu, had the style name of Shupen. He was a virtuous man, quick in wits, and served as a Colonel of the City Gates. Lu Xun's father, Lu Jun, who had the style name of Jicai, was magnanimous and trustworthy, greatly loved by the different families in the clan. The highest rank he held was Chief Commandant of Jiujiang.
(2) From the Eulogy of the Portraits in the Lu Ancestral Temple: Haichang is located in the current day prefecture of Yan'guan.
Cai Yan
Sun Quan married Sun Ce's daughter to Lu Xun and often sought his advice on various world affairs. Lu Xun suggested, "At present, conquerers each take a portion of the land and fortify their stands. They wait and watch like wolves, and thus to win the enemies and bring peace to the land, we need many people to assist us. However, the bandits are still at large, owing to their geographically strategic hideouts. If we do not pacify them, it would be difficult for any other long term conquests to go far. Thus, we should lead an army to pacify them and in the process, recruit the best forces amongst them." Sun Quan accepted his proposal and appointed him as a right hand under his personal command. Fei Zhan, the leader of the bandits at Dan Yang, having received an official order from Cao Cao, rallied the Shanyue people to coordinate with him. Lu Xun was then sent by Sun Quan to annihilate Zhan. Zhan had a greater army than Lu Xun, hence Lu Xun increased the quantity of flags, drums and horns in his army and the troops entered the valley in the night. Suddenly the drums and horns sounded in the night as Lu Xun's troops charged forth and the bandits were defeated or dispersed almost immediately. Lu Xun reorganised the army stationed at the three eastern counties and also recruited people for the army. The more able-bodied ones became soldiers while the weaker ones were employed to manage agricultural lands. In the process, some ten thousand strong men were recruited and the remnants of the bandits were destroyed. The places where the army passed by were swept clean of bandits and Lu Xun returned to Wu Hu where the army was stationed.
(Edited by Cai Yan on 12/3/02)
Lady Wu
Chunyu Shi, the Grand Administrator of Kuaiji, reported to Sun Quan that Lu Xun enlisted commoners unnecessarily, disturbing the peace of the area. Later on, Lu Xun passed by the commandery, and in a conversation [with Sun Quan], praised Chunyu Shi for being an excellent official. Sun Quan said, "Chunyu Shi had reported against you, but yet you praise him. Why is this so?" Lu Xun replied, "Chunyu Shi's mind is on taking care of his people, and that was why he criticized me. It would not do if I, in turn, denounce him in order to seek your approval." Sun Quan said, "You have indeed the conduct of a trustworthy person! Not all could do what you have done."
When Lü Meng was on sick leave to Jianye, Lu Xun went to pay him a visit. "Guan Yu is stationed close to the borders," said Lu Xun, "should we devise a long-term plan, to reduce this threat?"
"What you said is right," replied Lü Meng, "but I'm gravely ill now."
Lu Xun said, "Guan Yu, proud of his own valour, is disdainful towards others. He has just accomplished something great, and now he has become overly arrogant, seeking only to strike northward. Since he hasn't suspected much activity from our side, once he hears of your illness, his defenses will certainly drop. So if we can take him by surprise, he is certain to be captured. It would be best if I could have an audience with the lord and devise a plan."
"Guan Yu's known for his military prowess," said Lü Meng, "and has been a difficult enemy. Now that he's in charge of Jingzhou, he has been benevolent towards the people. Furthermore, morale is high on his side due to his recent victories. It may not be so easy to defeat him."
Lü Meng thus came to the capital city. Sun Quan asked him, "Who would you recommend to replace you?" Lü Meng answered, "Lu Xun has far-reaching plans, and is able to take up great responsibility. Looking at his way of thinking, I think he would be the one capable for the great task at hand. Also, since his name is not well-known yet, Guan Yu would not be wary of him. Thing cannot be better! If he is employed, those from without will not see what we are up to, while we, from within, can seek an opportune time to strike and to defeat [Guan Yu]." And thus Sun Quan summoned Lu Xun, and made him replace Lü Meng as Lieutenant-General, Inspector of the Right Division.
Lady Wu
Once Lu Xun arrived at Lukou, he wrote to Guan Yu thus,
"Shortly ago I had witnessed your feats at battle: leading your army with discipline, you accomplished great victory with only a slight maneuver. How awesome and admirable that was!
Now that our common enemy is defeated, it is a time most meet for us to build an alliance. Having heard of your good news, I turn my mind to the command that has been entrusted to me, thinking always to follow your footsteps in conquest, and to fulfill the ambitions of our lords together.
Recently, unworthy though I am, I have been ordered to take up a post here in the west. I long to see even a speck of your glory, and to have your good counsel to bear in my mind. "
And he wrote on:
"Since Yu Jin and company were captured, everyone near and far proclaimed your name in praise. Not even the leadership of Duke Wen of Jin of yore, shown at Chengpu, nor even the strategies demonstrated by Han Xin at Zhao, can match what you have done.
I have heard that Xu Huang and his remaining mounted troops are stationed nearby, poised to strike. Though their number is few, Cao Cao is a cunning scoundrel, and there is no knowing what he would do in his wrath -- I would be afraid that he will secretly increase the troops there, in order to carry out his malicious plans. It is true that their army is fatigued, but they still have might in them. Furthermore, after a victory in battle, one is in danger of underestimating the enemy. The ancients who were skilled at warfare heightened their defenses even in the sight of a victory. Thus, I pray that you, o General, will plan far ahead, and ensure that your victory be complete.
I am but a student of the letters, unlearned, dull, unworthy in all regards. And thus I am overjoyed to have such a majestic and virtuous neighbour! My joy is indeed overflowing. Even though we have not had the chance to cooperate yet, I keep you in my thoughts. And so I dared to write thus to you, hoping that you will understand what is on my mind."


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What Is the 'Energy Crisis'?
President Nixon's energy policy, expounded in April and amended in each subsequent turn of economic policy, down to the imposition in June of Freeze Two, has failed so far to halt even the rhetoric of the "energy crisis." The President's energy message was received with judicious commendation by large and small US oil corporations. Nixon proposed the liberalization of oil imports, increased support for domestic production and refining, relaxation of controls on natural gas prices, reduced concern for environmental protection, and a new system of tax credits for oil and gas exploration. These suggestions inflated the already high price of oil stocks. The Wall Street Journal quoted the opinion of an oil analyst that "the [unpredictedly but ambiguously munificent] tax credit was the only surprise in the energy message."
Nixon's statement stayed close to the hopes and exhortations, even to the language, of the petroleum industry's corporate advertising. His major projects followed most of the recommendations of the American Petroleum Institute, the National Petroleum Council, the American Gas Association, and the other institutes and associations that had described America's energy crisis. The presidential message achieved a tone that mixed the calm and shrill, major and minor, multinational and nationalistic, Eastern and Texan voices of different energy interests: it was less sophisticated, less farsighted perhaps, than the reflections of the Mobil corporation, as advertised on the "Op-Ed" page of the New York Times, but less strident than the pronouncements of, say, the "New England Oil Men's Association."
Such a mixture of political-corporate business as usual was unexpected only because of the expense and momentous anticipation that attended Nixon's energy "initiative." Early descriptions of the forthcoming energy plan had promised the most global and photogenic policies. Soon after the 1972 election, Secretary of Commerce Peterson proclaimed that "the energy strategies and programs the President presents next year will be fully equal to his initiatives to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China." The subsequent message was prepared with the help of some sixty government reports, a cabinet super-committee, an energy overlord, a White House energy coordinator trained by the US Navy, and, sporadically, Dr. Kissinger's secretariat.
The Wall Street Journal, in January, noted that Kissinger's staff had organized "paperwork" on the strategic aspects of energy policy, and planned to "float it around the State Department, Pentagon, CIA and other concerned agencies." Energy policy was presented as a major endeavor for the period "after Vietnam." As one "Kissinger staffer" revealed, "Suddenly we've realized we should worry about energy problems. We've been pondering which matters to stress over the next |four years, and this is certainly one."
The rhetoric of political anticipation suggested questions which a US energy initiative could not hope to answer. The message was, as one government official put it, a "disappointment." Policies of Kissingerian balance were never very appropriate to the complicated and essentially economic problems of supplying oil, coal, and gas. The eventual energy message in fact minimized issues of national defense. Commentators noted that…
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The First Program Language Conundrum
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Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 18 April 2012 - 02:23 PM
It's quite simple, but tough with the rules.
One has to do things right without funny tricks.
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 19 April 2012 - 08:19 AM
I have spent between 5 to 30 hours playing with various languages over the past little while. I am captivated by LISP. I spent 8 hours reading about it yesterday after I stopped playing with it on my machine. It seems powerful, graceful and filled with potential. I want to learn to code. I am not sure I can explain it but I need to learn LISP.
Documentation is terrible -- hello world took over 2 hours because I was struggling with the environment. Yet it is so simple & useful. The simple convention of
(+ 2 3)
rather than 2 + 3
makes more sense when you stop for a moment and let yourself ponder it. I was up till 6am reading about cons and pointers and have taken the day off to play with Common LISP and try and learn some basics. Nothing has caught my attention like this. I am going to have to force myself to study JAVA - in fact I created a simple program I need to finish and will do a couple more but I already see how to rewrite in LISP. GUI is obviously an issue.
Okay so I am obviously all over the place but after all of the helpful comments I felt I owed you all an update. Also sporadic random LISP notes at http://codingwithalisp.wordpress.com
This post has been edited by Magooguli: 19 April 2012 - 08:20 AM
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 19 April 2012 - 08:56 AM
Don't worry too much about the GUI for the time being - just get comfortable with the language for now. Once you're comfortable passing functions around I think GUI programming will make a lot more sense.**
A lot of people find that EMACS + SLIME is a good environment for lisp hacking... I'm usually a vi guy, but SLIME works for me. That might be a little much to absorb all at once though. If so, just work in the clisp REPL until you get the hang of it.
There are a few books that might be useful to you.
Conrad Barski's Land of Lisp is a fun introduction to some serious ideas, using full-fledged games as the working examples. The material is deep, and I don't think Barski gets you all of the way there, but it's engaging and a good start.
Felleisen and somebody's The Little Schemer primarily deals with recursion and related topics - excellent guide to the lisp mindset, but almost no practical code - very abstract, very usful. Targets the scheme dialect of Lisp. It's close enough to common lisp that you shouldn't have any trouble, or you can run through the book in mit-scheme or racket, both of which are easily available.
Also scheme-oriented, Abelson and Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a classic. Available on the web for free, and it's the text for their MIT course of the same name, which is also available for free.
*clojure is a lisp which targets the jvm. Haven't seen Raynes around lately, but he's always been DIC's clojure maven. I'm not really sold on clojure yet, but don't let that stop you from trying it. My advice, if you were to ask me, would be to get happy with the basics of lisp (and maybe scheme) before diving into clojure, since it does depart from the core lisp in some significant ways, which might be pretty confusing to take in this early. But again, just because I said it doesn't make it right.
** one advantage of clojure, of course, would be access to java's graphics libraries. but there's other ways to do it, including ncurses for the classic feel...
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 19 April 2012 - 09:14 AM
I liken it to learning French, Italian & Spanish - with the similar root how the hell does one know which word belongs to which.
I am currently reading
COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
Practical Common LISP
Also reading John McCarthy's articles / essays on LISP as well as other positive & negative critiques.
Will get The Land of LISP today.
Am avoiding anything Scheme related until I have a better idea of syntax and have practised a little with Common LISP so will put those books on hold for now.
As for the practical side I took the shortest route I could find - lispbox 0.7 !
Will have longer more useful articles soon. Thanks again and feel free to keep sharing!
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 19 April 2012 - 10:29 AM
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 19 April 2012 - 10:36 AM
His essays are useful, too, if you want to ratify your decision to study the ancient and noble art of paren-fu.
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 22 April 2012 - 07:42 AM
While I haven't given up on learning Java I have put it on the back burner. LISP however is slowly encroaching upon my entire life. It fascinates. This should be what everyone learns first. I see why they don't, the resources are spare confusing and conflicting. Just figuring out how to compile a file and which version to use is a nightmare. Regardless once the environment is worked out (and I am writing a brief introduction on how people can quickly begin with LISP) the language is intuitive, succinct and requires thought.
As at best a half-witted out dated programmer I only see surface beauty in much of these bits, I am sure the more experienced among you perceive things I don't yet conceive.
For those of you interested in what LISP code looks like and why it is practical in its elegance may I suggest reading:
Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java
P.S. I don't plan on commenting further on these boards but should any of you wish to natter LISP like with me feel free to contact me. Good luck to you all!
This post has been edited by Magooguli: 22 April 2012 - 07:44 AM
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 01 May 2012 - 10:08 AM
...In other words, I'd start with a project you want to get done- you probably already know which one you want to do, as you're reading this, and I whole-heartedly recommend trying it if it's relatively simple, in terms of what it needs to do and what it needs to know, as well as how it is intended to know that. If you can completely explain those three parts, the rest is just details, almost no matter what language you use.
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 30 July 2012 - 05:50 PM
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 30 July 2012 - 07:37 PM
Why? If it's such an amazing language why not solely focus on it?
Ruby is a level of abstraction all its own, and in order to really appreciate and comprehend its real power you need background in a lower language like C++ or C. So much of Ruby is simple to start out and run with, but if you want to really be proficient then C should be a required prerequisite.
Now what makes Ruby so good is its ability to monkeypatch and metaprogram. You don't like the way that strings are defaultly handled? Override it. Integers? Override it. Kernel, and Object itself? Not suggested but it's possible to override.
So what does this massive Object Oriented freedom give us? Metaprogramming. Call methods by their names with a string or symbol dynamically, call a method that doesn't even exist and override the method_missing handler to intercept them. Make singleton/eigenclasses that dynamically redefine a class for one object. Generate hundreds of threads dynamically!
The beauty of it has really captured me. Combine the raw power of Object Oriented with the elegance of Functional Programming and you have even more to wrap with.
Closures to dynamically warp scope, blocks lambdas and procs to make anonymous methods, and more that I haven't even begun to stumble upon. I apologize, but my Functional is rather weak as compared to my OO experience.
Here's an example of one of my favorite little toys in Ruby (using Windows):
def ping(ip) return system "ping -n 1 -w 1000 #{ip} > NUL" end def hyperthread(method_name,ip,number) threads = [] number.times do threads << thread.new{method.call(method_name,ip)} end threads.each{|t| t.join} end
I need to work out passing args more efficiently, but you get the general point of that. You can pass a method name to method.call and dynamically call a method inside a thread and generate multiple threads. The result of this? 50 pings in .68 seconds on an i7 with 8gB of RAM that can be looped. Stress test anyone?
I'm still thrilled to get into the functional aspects and really find some new toys to play with as I go along, but we'll see how that one goes.
Ruby is a great language for a seasoned vet, but a crutch for a newcomer.
This post has been edited by Lemur: 30 July 2012 - 07:37 PM
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 19 December 2012 - 12:12 AM
It teaches you how to handle all the low-level stuff, which makes it easier to understand how programs and systems work better (although I guess use C++ instead since it has the "new" function which is easier to understand than "malloc" I think, and other tiny bits that they add onto C).
Once you learn how the low-level stuff is handled (references vs memory data, etc), you can understand better higher-level stuff, like in java.
For instance, the whole "Does java let you pass parameters by reference?" question is pretty easily answered if you already know how references are handled in C and just think of java variables as "C references without the * ".
After you get past that point java makes things SO MUCH easier though. Seriously. I'd recommend learning it at one point or the other.
Haven't really used scripting languages other than Perl or octave for some computation classes. I guess they fulfill their purpose of being "easy" and "fast" to use in those environments.
If you just want to do some methodical computation or math operations and the like I'd recommend those scripting interpreted languages instead (haven't really seen a compiled scripting language before though).
^Can't you use metaprogramming in java as well?
I know it's like 100 times more hard to do, and would require a lot of previous design, but if you plan on doing more "advanced" systems with lots of interactions and the like but still want metaprogramming it could be done I think
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 19 December 2012 - 07:18 PM
not like in lisp, not even like in C++. Heck, C with it's macros has better meta programing capabilities than Java as far as I know. Java has reflection I suppose but that's not really metaprogramming.
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 19 December 2012 - 07:44 PM
ishkabible, on 19 December 2012 - 11:18 PM, said:
not like in lisp, not even like in C++. Heck, C with it's macros has better meta programing capabilities than Java as far as I know. Java has reflection I suppose but that's not really metaprogramming.
I know there are some APIs that let you:
1)Handle .class files and create/get byte-code or create new .class files with the byte-code and constants you want
2)Handle .class files using source code.
I don't remember which ones, but I do remember ones that allow you to create a class with it's methods/fields/etc from scratch using source code.
Again....is not that easy to use, specially not in the middle of a program
JavaAssist is one of them, dunno about the other one.
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 25 January 2013 - 11:37 AM
If a student who is starting to learn Java and gets confused and decides to try another language, not only is tha "normal" but should be deemed as a good thing.
C++ is a good language to go to next because it is very similar to Java.
I would also recommend you consider learning Python too.
I have never studied Lisp so I have no opinion about it.
Re: The First Program Language Conundrum
Posted 30 January 2017 - 06:03 AM


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Reading hundreds and hundreds of pages of casebook Supreme Court opinions usually makes law students' eyes glaze over. But one student read the dramatic written legal interplay between Justice Antonin G. Scalia and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and it was music to his ears.
For Derrick Wang, a recent Maryland's Carey School of Law grad and a musician, it all started with a dissent by Scalia.
"I realized this is the most dramatic thing I've ever read in law school … and I started to hear music — a rage aria about the Constitution," Wang told NPR's Nina Toenberg. "And then, in the midst of this roiling rhetoric, counterpoint, as Justice Ginsburg's words appeared to me — a beacon of lyricism with a steely strength and a fervent conviction all their own. And I said to myself, 'This is an opera.' "
That opera, called "Scalia/Ginsburg," (which Ginsburg revealed in May was in the works) is now complete and will debut in the fall at the University of Maryland, and will be presented next spring at the Washington National Opera. The justices themselves got a sneak preview from Wang last month after the court issued its final decisions of the term.
More here from NPR.