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Comment on Top 10 Most Expensive Things in Japan by Rene:
Pizza is expensive?
Recent comments by Rene:
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What. Seriously? What a scumbag.
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So… he marries his sister… No no, the true twist ending is the three toed retard baby they can't abort.
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More people vote on that joke of a show called American Idol than they do for the guy running the country. It's not a strictly Japanese issue.
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Refuse China, it's bad. Accept China, it's worse. No winning this one, gents.
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Hibernate Object/Grid Mapper (OGM) aims at providing Java Persistence (JPA) support for NoSQL solutions. It reuses Hibernate Core's engine but persists entities into a NoSQL data store instead of a relational database. It reuses the Java Persistence Query Language (JP-QL) to search their data.
That's the grand scheme of things and we will roll out functionalities over time. The short term target is:
- support for Infinispan (done)
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- support simple JP-QL queries (restrictions and many-to-one joins)
The medium target is:
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The Past, Present and Future of GIS: PostGIS 2.0 Is Here!
Data Analysis
Knowing that your features are safely stored in a database is nice, but you may want to use them for purposes other than later retrieval. PostGIS functions let you interact with spatial objects and explore their relationships.
Functions known as constructors build geometry from definitions in
several formats. They are sort of like translators. You used it before with
, and ST_GeomFromKML
enable translations from
other popular formats. Output functions enable the inverse translation
as in ST_AsText
, ST_AsGeoJSON
and ST_AsKML
check fundamental properties of
geometry. You can interact with geometry with
to retrieve the
total number of vertexes and ST_PointN
to get the
nth vertex; ST_RemovePoint
removes the vertex at the position you pass to the function. Function names
often are self-explanatory, as with ST_Scale
measures the minimum distance between two geometry objects. As
others, this function is overloaded, the exact definition is:
float ST_Distance(geometry g1, geometry g2);
float ST_Distance(geography gg1, geography gg2);
float ST_Distance(geography gg1, geography gg2, boolean use_spheroid);
The returned distance is measured along a Cartesian plane for geometry, and along a spheroid/sphere for the geography type. If you are querying objects relatively nearby, the question of how to use them may seem futile, but think about measuring the distance from San Francisco to Denver:
SELECT to_char(round(ST_Distance(
ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-122.440 37.802)',4326)::geography,
St_GeomFromText('POINT(-104.987 39.757)',4326)::geography
About 1,530 km is quite a long way to go, and going straight from San
to Denver may be a real challenge, so there's room for extra mileage. But if
you try to measure the same distance on a printed map, you may find a
different result. As you learned in primary school, the Earth's shape is almost
a sphere. When a map represents a wide portion of the planet on the surface
of a plane (yes, curved monitors are yet to come), it has to distort the real
shape and distance. By passing two geography objects to
, you are
asking it to perform a distance calculus over the sphere's surface. Let's
use geometry, and it will use a Cartesian plane for the calculus:
SELECT to_char(round(ST_Distance(
ST_Transform(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-122.440 37.802)',4326),3857),
ST_Transform(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-104.987 39.757)',4326),3857)
To get the result in meters, comparable to the previous one, you need
to add the ST_Transform
function to change on the fly the SRS to the Web
Mercator used by most Web mapping systems:
More than 1,900km! Hey, Mr Mercator, where are you taking me?
Loading Data
You've learned how you can process spatial data in many ways inside PostGIS, but how do you get the data into the database? If you are familiar with PostgreSQL, you know it is shipped with psql, a command-line tool, or you probably have been using pgAdmin III if you prefer to interact with a GUI. Both are not specialized at dealing with spatial data, but you can execute SQL code that performs data loading.
If you search on the Internet, you quickly will realize that a lot of data is available in shapefiles, a binary proprietary format that is the de facto standard in spatial data exchange. Are you wondering how you can transform the binary format in an SQL script? Don't worry; since its early releases, PostGIS has included some tools that read shapefiles and load them in the database.
shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp are command-line tools that make your data go in and out. Not surprisingly, shp2pgsql loads the data. In fact, shapefiles are not really loaded by shp2pgsql but are translated in a form that psql can keep and load for you. So, you just have to pipe the output to psql:
$ shp2pgsql -s 4269 -g geom -I ~/data/counties.shp
↪public.counties | psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d
↪postgisDB -U gisuser
The basic set of parameters required are -s
to set the spatial reference
system, -g
to name the geometric column (useful when
appending data) and -I
to create a spatial index. There are quite a few
other parameters that make it a flexible tool. As usual,
is your
friend if you need to execute less-trivial data loading. Apart from
creating a new table, the default option, you may append data to an existing
table, drop it and re-create or just create an empty table modeling its
structure according to the shapefile data.
lets you drop your data
in a shapefile:
$ pgsql2shp -f ~/data/rivers -h localhost -p 5432 -u
↪postgres postgisDB0 public.rivers
The source of the data can be a table or a view, but you also can filter data at extraction time to export only a portion of a table:
$ pgsql2shp -f ~/data/california_counties -h localhost -p
↪5432 -u postgres postgisDB "SELECT * FROM
↪public.counties WHERE statefp = '06'"
As declared in its name, shp2pgsql-gui is a graphical version of shp2pgsql. Release 2.0 introduced some interesting features. Despite the name, you now can use it both for loading shapefiles and for exporting them, and although earlier versions processed one shapefile at a time, now you can add as many files as you need to load and then run it once.
Figure 1. Shapefile Loader GUI
Raster Data
Storing and processing raster data in PostGIS is analogous to vector data. Aerial imagery and satellite scenes, like those visible in Google maps, are common examples, but other types may be way more useful inside PostGIS. Indeed, the real value to having raster data inside PostGIS is the possibility to perform analysis. You also can mix raster and vector data in your analysis. The digital elevation model, a raster where an elevation value is associated to each pixel, is commonly used to perform terrain analysis by geologists. A raster data type has been added to support this kind of data. You can create a table for raster storage in the same way that you did for a vector:
CREATE TABLE myraster(rid integer, rast raster);
A raster is tiled in regular tiles, and each block is loaded as a record in the table. For example, if you have an imagery.tif file whose size is 4096x3072 pixels, and you choose a tile size of 256x256 pixels, after loading it, you will have a table with 192 records.
Loading raster data from the SQL prompt is not easy. As with vectors, a command-line utility exists, raster2pgsql:
$ raster2pgsql -s 4326 -t 256x256 -I -C
↪/home/postgis/data/imagery.tif imagery |
↪psql -d postgisDB -h localhost -p 5432 -U gisuser
Parameters are very similar except you use -t
to set
tile sizes, and -C
sets the standard set of constraints on the raster.
This article is merely a brief exploration of what PostGIS can do. Consider that there are about 700 specialized functions for dealing with spatial data. I hope you found it interesting and want to give it a try. Among experts, PostGIS always has been considered to be a hard horse to ride. I think it requires a little humility and a willingness to read the manual. Once you start using it, however, you soon will find yourself asking why people are spending big bucks for commercial spatial databases.
EnterpriseDB Downloads: http://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads
The Shapefile Format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile
Official Whitepaper from ESRI about Shapefiles: http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
The Main Reference for EPSG Codes: http://epsg-registry.org
PostGIS 2.0 Presentation (you can find details about new serialization on pages 5–13): http://s3.cleverelephant.ca/foss4gna2012-postgis2.pdf
PostGIS Users Wiki: http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiMain
PostGIS Official Documentation: http://www.postgis.org/documentation
Stefano Iacovella is a longtime GIS developer and consultant. He strongly believes in open source and constantly tries to spread the word, not only in the GIS sector. When not playing with polygons and linestrings, he loves reading travel books, riding
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American airlines decided to cancel 1000 flights without notice? Well guess what?? I am not asking for you to do anything! This will be the LAST(I MEAN LAST) time my family EVER flies American. I hope you go out of business....
How old are you? 12? Who acts like this? Granted it was inconvenient, but they were FORCED to pull those planesout of service because they were unsafe. But I suppose it is more important to kiss your butt than to keep youfrom getting KILLED on one of their flights. Heaven forbid you shouldbe (GASP!) inconvenienced in any way!
I hope you're not registered to vote...
"Oh YEAH, well go ahead and go bankrupt, see what I care! I'm nevercoming back." I'd much rather fly a plane with 8 tires out of 12, a few brokenelevators, and a poorly tuned engine than to have my flight cancelled. Why should my family put up with that nonsense?!
Perfer to get on an airplane that is not up to current FAA safetystandards because the airline didn't keep to their agreement tomaintain its safety records as per current regulations and then haveit break up in the air and die. Nice alternative! Real nice!
Gee Robert, thanks. Considering that my father works for AmericanAirlines, I really appreciate your wish that he lose his job. That'sreally nice of you. How would you like it if you came into work oneday and got told, "Sorry, you don't have a job. Some guy complainedand we have to shut down the whole operation." Those planes were grounded because the FAA determined that there wasan issue that could become a safety issue (whether that's the case orthey were trying to make an example in the wake of the craziness withSouthwest is another story). American did not just decide on a whimto cancel those flights; they were required to do so by law. Thinkabout it for just a second. Their entire business is based on theidea of flying people around the world. Why on earth would they justdecide to cancel the flights that earn them their profits if they hadany choice in the matter? They wouldn't.
So let me understand your reasoning here. Instead of them cancellingthese flights and having the planes serviced, you would rather take achance on you and your family getting injured or maybe worse beinginvolved in a plane crash than to have the planes repaired andinspected so they may be a bit safer.
Nice letter. If everyone felt the same way as the title implies, noone would have a job. Yeah it stinks for you, but they did the rightthing. Why risk passengers lives by doing a piecmeal recall? I'm sureit wasn't a saavy business decision, but they had your life and safetyas their first priority over profits.
this is a case of them not following an FAA directive that could leadto a safety issue. Due to the issues with lax oversight withSouthwest, there is re-newed focus by the FAA on all airlines andtheir procedures in the past few weeks. It was a collection of things that came together to grind everythingto a halt. I saw an interview last night on the nightly news with asenior level person from AA taking full blame on themselves,apologizing and such. I would be upset too, I give you that, veryupset in fact. However, they painted themselves in a corneraccidently and are now dealing with the consequences.
I don't mean to sound like a snob, but when I read a letter like this,I don't think the letter writer used American very much anyway (or anyother airline for that matter)...so I don't think the loss of theirfamily flying with them will really make a dent. And Robert, if they go bankrupt, think of all the people who will beout of work...and see how much flights go up at other airlines whichwill then have less competition
I just think it all comes down to management. Northwest was a greatairline, and a GREAT employer. Then the business was bought out by agroup of morally-bankrupt poopheads who decided to run it into theground, while they got huge bonuses, stock options, etc., and they gottheir money out right before filing for bankruptcy. If management cared about safety, they'd have made sure the planeswere inspected and properly maintained all along, rather than waitingfor heavily weighted words from the FAA. While American Airlines is my airline of choice, I just have to say,don't let everyone lose their jobs -- just get rid of management andbring in people who actually care about the company, instead ofwhether they can walk away with $50M in their pockets.
Were you that guy drinking on the other complaint?
united airlines canceled our flight, caused us to miss our connectingflight, stranded us at the airport and didn't give a flying fig. iknow because they told us so. no, they didn't use the term flyingfig, they did say they didn't care. this is true. we were literallyrescued by the then just starting out frontier airlines. they flew ushome for free, after putting us up in a local holiday inn for thenight. needless to say, i love frontier and hate united.i will neverfly united again, but have the good sense to understand that, in thescope of things, our family meant nothing to them and they aren'tgoing to go out of business just because of us. i did forget tomention that they also lost our luggage, but not once did i envisionthem or hope they'd go out of business. get over yourself, no one atthe airlines cares. you are a little, tiny fish in an enormous ocean.
than catch one on a safe plane. Everyone's different though.
I would never wish failure on anyone - how many people would losetheir jobs? The economy is already bad, please try and keepeverything in perspective.
Yes, please let's hope they go out of business like the several othersthat did just last week. That way I can pay double, maybe even triplefor plane tickets the next time I fly anywhere! Makes a lot of sensedoesn't it? Even if I don't care for a certain airline, I hope theyall stay in business so that they have to remain as competitive aspossible.
I don't think "deciding" to ground the planes is something we canblame American for. We can blame American for not meeting federal safety standards, or wecan blame the FAA for enacting tougher safety rules a year and a halfago and only giving airlines until last month before they startedenforcing them. (I have an opinion on that one, but I thinkreasonable people can differ.) But once American hadn't actually metthe standard and the FAA found out, I don't think there was too muchchoice involved on the airline's part. And I doubt that American is the last carrier that's going to havethis kind of problem. The airlines are barely getting by as it is,and it costs money to keep up with maintenance, so when it comes to arule that they don't think is warranted there are going to beincentives for noncompliance ... which works out fine until they getcaught (by the FAA, by a whistleblower, by an investigativejournalist, ..., or by investigators trying to figure out why a planecrashed). In other words, I'm sure the same conditions that led tothis problem are duplicated at every one of their competitors, and nomatter where the FAA draws the line, the rules right next to the linearen't going to seem like that big a deal to at least some people inthe industry. I do hope that the next time a whole lot of planes are suddenlygrounded you don't have a ticket on any of them, though. I amoverwhelmingly glad that I'm not traveling in the next few days, and Iwouldn't wish that experience on anyone once, let alone twice.


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Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.
After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins, destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first timebut now he is certain he knows where it lies.
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"Culmination point"
This is third book of trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation). Of course, it is culmination point and Issaac Asimov is a master of suspense and unbelievable twists. I loved this book in childhood and I still love it.
Great to re read this classic but I have to say that the background music and additional audio tracks are a great distraction. I have listened to hundreds of audio books...some good...some great in their presentation and reading. This is one of the most difficult to listen too and stay focussed on the story. Unfortunate since this is a timeless classic from Asimov.
"Classic, but flawed...part 3"
Asimov's Foundation series, based on the ideas from the "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire," starts with a 12,000 year-old Galactic Empire. The great Hari Selden has mathematically proven that the Empire will soon fall and a 30-millennium Dark Age will follow, but Selden's Foundation can shorten that time by a factor of 30.
In Second Foundation, the Mule has conquered the original Foundation and much of the galaxy, but the secretive Second Foundation---oriented to mental science where the first Foundation is oriented to physical sciences---lurks out there and is interfering with the Mule's plans for a new empire. The Mule attempts to track down the Second Foundation. After the Mule's death, the original Foundation needs the Second Foundation's help in getting the Selden plan back on track.
The Foundation trilogy is a bit dry, and the characters are quite one-dimensional and cartoonish. It may be more enjoyable if you think of it as a history book from the distant future rather than an adventure story. The envisioned technology was typical for the 1940's (computing your course across the galaxy with a slide-rule), but seems rather quaint now. One other complaint: Asimov got pretty wordy in places, to the detriment of the story.
I like Scott Brick as a narrator and he does a pretty good job with this.
for the love of 'purpose and reason'!
"epic classic sci fi wonderment"
Isaac Asimov's "Second Foundation", for the sci fi fan i am, floats near the top of my list for all audiobooks thus far, it is intriguing, intelligent, believable, spoke with excellence by Scott Brick and exceeded expectations.
Second Foundation, as all of Asimov's, in this collection, almost stands alone in this genre; but, if had to compare a book of such vast fictional intelligence i could easily put this in the same shelf as "star wars" and "star trek"...i only wish they would do a current day mini-series to show off the brilliance of the author.
Although lacking an enormous pool to choose from, Scott Brick, at this point, is....by far...my favorite! He is astronomically brilliant in his disposition of ALL characters, he is grammatically perfect in all facets of speech, punctuations, poetic pauses and character purpose and appeal. It is difficult to imagine any other doing a novel as well. I often filter for Scott Brick read books to find new! He is excellent!
No idea what a "tag line" is!? :)
Sci fi fans are doing a disservice to themselves if they have not read this epic classic....I highly recommend the series!
"The story continues even more"
I've read the other books in the 'Foundation' series and have enjoyed them thoroughly. I'm not surprised that I enjoyed this one. The whole series flows as if they were one book that had been cut up into three parts. Here we see more of the 'Second Foundation' and how their still working at fixing the 'Seldon' plan that was damaged in 'Foundation and Empire'. We see how one person in the right moment of time can impact everyone's life in the Galaxy. We also see where people think they're in control, they're really not. We also learn that the 'Second Foundation' is WAY smarter than the 'First Foundation'. Again however this story doesn't end with the recreation of the 'Empire'. This book also ends the 'Foundation Series'. I will not go on at this time to read the extended series because I don't want it to turn out like the 'Dune Series' which just goes on and on and on. This is a great read and once again proves what Isaac Asimov has made clear throughout all his books is those that try to control everything will fail along with those that will do the same with time. People have to be given freedom to choose their own paths in life. The unexpected can throw off all plans and controls. It can also move everything in a new direction that is better than the control. I recommend this book to anyone of says otherwise.
"Dated, but very imaginative"
The culmination of the original Foundation series was imaginative and had an ending that was interesting.
It was never clear to me why the first foundation found the second foundation to be a threat. Didn't both of them believe in Harry Seldon's plan?
I read perhaps 1 or 2 books a year before Audible. Now I listen to 1 or 2 books a month. I'm mostly listen to sci-fi, fantasy, and classics. I'm a software developer and tabletop game designer.
"Didn't Disappoint"
I really enjoyed the first two parts and the third installment didn't disappoint. I love how they defeated the mule and how the book ended. I wish I had read this ages ago. Sure the science is outdated, but it doesn't distract from the overall story. Also, I can see the influences this series has had on so many other novels I have listend too. It really is the grand daddy morden science fiction.
I read mostly science fiction. My guilty pleasure is Star Trek although I do not listen to much since it is abridged.
"You either like the Foundation Trilogy or you dont"
I for one have always like the Foundation Trilogy. I consider it simple and easy reading that does not require you to get a score card or journal in order to follow everything. For its' day it was a very cool idea.
"Very disappointed"
After completing the so-called "Foundation Trilogy," I felt compelled to write this review because I was so disappointed. My comments apply to all three books in the trilogy. I have read excellent reviews of these books from sources I considered credible. I am not an avid sci-fi reader but believed (erroneously, it turns out) that some familiarity with Foundation was necessary for the well-rounded reader. I have no complaint with Scott Brick. He did the best job possible with the material and remains one of my favorite narrators. This review is based entirely on Asimov's writing. The story line is interesting and could have been compelling. The story telling is just awful, based entirely on cliche-laden dialogs between one-dimensional characters and equally cliche-laden soliloquies. All three books in the trilogy consist entirely of characters talking to one another, thereby explaining to the reader events that took place prior to the conversations. There is no action here, no sweep of galactic events, just endless, boring dialog. I have now suffered through nine of the 15 books in Asimov's suggested reading order for his "Galactic Empire" novels (taken from the author's note in "Prelude to Foundation"). I kept hoping for something to hold my interest, but as I progressed, the stories became more boring and the author introduced nothing to hold my attention. Concerning "Second Foundation" specifically, Asimov never explains (or I was never able to grasp from the ceaseless dialog) why the First Foundation felt animosity towards the Second Foundation. The conflict seemed baseless to me. Two thumbs down for Asimov and two thumbs down for the Foundation Trilogy.
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I for one have always like the Foundation Trilogy. I consider it simple and easy reading that does not require you to get a score card or journal in order to follow everything. For its' day it was a very cool idea.


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mundheim wrote:one_irish_rover wrote:mundheim wrote:"The Bush White House openly rejects International Law. They make up their own laws."
What bullshit.
What do you know about international law?
What are the specific sources of international law?
Where is international law memorialized?
Who interprets international law?
Who decides whether a country has violated international law?
How specifically does "the Bush White House openly reject[] International Law"?
How specifically did the Bush White House "make up their own laws"?
I posted a link, read it. Here's a google search, dimwit. Plenty of scholarship on the topic. I can't even believe you seriously bothered to write the questions you did.
I am not surprised at your inability to answer my questions.
I know the answers to my questions without resort to google.
Opinions -- "scholarly" or otherwise -- are of no moment to whether a state has violated international law or "openly rejects International Law."
You have no clue what "international law" is.
Here's a hint: "International law" is not set forth in one place like U.S. Code.
You are in water above your head; now wade back to the baby pool.
Okay pee wee. World opinion (among international law scholars and "commonfolk" alike) is that Bush has violated numerous international laws, agreements, and treaties, so the onus is on you to refute those claims. Plus it gives you a marvellous opportunity to indulge your massive ego and show off your dazzling intellect. As you implied, I'm nothing but a simpleton who's way out of his league and area of expertise.
Here is a list of America's violations under the Bush presidency. You may address as many as you'd like, but I'm very interested in how you defend his record on torture and the justification for the invasion of Iraq.
The international legal rules governing the use of force take as their starting point Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter, which prohibits any nation from using force against another. The charter allows for only two exceptions to this rule: when force is required in self-defense (Article 51) or when the Security Council authorizes the use of force to protect international peace and security (Chapter VII)."
I suppose you will try to argue that the US was justified under some broad interpretation of Article 51 and that "terrorists" are not military personnel of any state and are thus exempt from the Geneva Convention's code for the treatment of prisoners of armed conflict.
Here's what Bush himself said, in his National Security Strategy ("The Bush Doctrine," Sept 17 2002):
The United States, the American people, and our interests at home and abroad by identifying and destroying the threat before it reaches our borders. While the United States will constantly strive to enlist the support of the international community, we will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right of self-defense by acting pre-emptively against such terrorists, to prevent them from doing harm against our people and our country….Given the goals of rogue states and terrorists, the United States can no longer solely rely on a reactive posture as we have in the past. The inability to deter a potential attacker, the immediacy of today's threats, and the magnitude of potential harm that could be caused by our adversaries' choice of weapons, do not permit that option. We cannot let our enemies strike first….For centuries, international law recognized that nations need not suffer an attack before they can lawfully take action to defend themselves against forces that present an imminent danger of attack. Legal scholars and international jurists often conditioned the legitimacy of pre-emption on the existence of an imminent threat—most often a visible mobilization of armies, navies, and air forces preparing to attack. We must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries….The United States has long maintained the option of pre-emptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction—and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack. To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act pre-emptively."
Bush clearly does not want to be bound by internationally agreed upon laws (which America has signed).
Here is that list. It's a statement of facts, no "left-wing propaganda" here. Go on then, please explain to me how these are not violations of international laws and agreements. On many occasions Bush and the Republican congress have framed their own laws in violation to those they've already signed onto.
"1. In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the first time in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms control accord.
2. 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ratified by 144 nations including the United States. In July 2001 the US walked out of a London conference to discuss a 1994 protocol designed to strengthen the Convention by providing for on-site inspections. At Geneva in November 2001, US Undersecretary of State John Bolton stated that "the protocol is dead," at the same time accusing Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, and Syria of violating the Convention but offering no specific allegations or supporting evidence.
3. UN Agreement to Curb the International Flow of Illicit Small Arms, July 2001: the US was the only nation to oppose it.
4. April 2001, the US was not re-elected to the UN Human Rights Commission, after years of withholding dues to the UN (including current dues of $244 million)-and after having forced the UN to lower its share of the UN budget from 25 to 22 percent. (In the Human Rights Commission, the US stood virtually alone in opposing resolutions supporting lower-cost access to HIV/AIDS drugs, acknowledging a basic human right to adequate food, and calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.)
5. International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty, to be set up in The Hague to try political leaders and military personnel charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Signed in Rome in July 1998, the Treaty was approved by 120 countries, with 7 opposed (including the US). In October 2001 Great Britain became the 42nd nation to sign. In December 2001 the US Senate again added an amendment to a military appropriations bill that would keep US military personnel from obeying the jurisdiction of the proposed ICC.
6. Land Mine Treaty, banning land mines; signed in Ottawa in December 1997 by 122 nations. The United States refused to sign, along with Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Egypt, and Turkey. President Clinton rejected the Treaty, claiming that mines were needed to protect South Korea against North Korea's "overwhelming military advantage." He stated that the US would "eventually" comply, in 2006; this was disavowed by President Bush in August 2001.
7. Kyoto Protocol of 1997, for controlling global warming: declared "dead" by President Bush in March 2001. In November 2001, the Bush administration shunned negotiations in Marrakech (Morocco) to revise the accord, mainly by watering it down in a vain attempt to gain US approval.
8. In May 2001, refused to meet with European Union nations to discuss, even at lower levels of government, economic espionage and electronic surveillance of phone calls, e-mail, and faxes (the US "Echelon" program),
9. Refused to participate in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)-sponsored talks in Paris, May 2001, on ways to crack down on off-shore and other tax and money-laundering havens.
10. Refused to join 123 nations pledged to ban the use and production of anti-personnel bombs and mines, February 2001
11. September 2001: withdrew from International Conference on Racism, bringing together 163 countries in Durban, South Africa
12. International Plan for Cleaner Energy: G-8 group of industrial nations (US, Canada, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, UK), July 2001: the US was the only one to oppose it.
13. Enforcing an illegal boycott of Cuba, now being made tighter. In the UN in October 2001, the General Assembly passed a resolution, for the tenth consecutive year, calling for an end to the US embargo, by a vote of 167 to 3 (the US, Israel, and the Marshall Islands in opposition).
14. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty. Signed by 164 nations and ratified by 89 including France, Great Britain, and Russia; signed by President Clinton in 1996 but rejected by the Senate in 1999. The US is one of 13 nonratifiers among countries that have nuclear weapons or nuclear power programs. In November 2001, the US forced a vote in the UN Committee on Disarmament and Security to demonstrate its opposition to the Test Ban Treaty.
15. In 1986 the International Court of Justice (The Hague) ruled that the US was in violation of international law for "unlawful use of force" in Nicaragua, through its actions and those of its Contra proxy army. The US refused to recognize the Court's jurisdiction. A UN resolution calling for compliance with the Court's decision was approved 94-2 (US and Israel voting no).
16. In 1984 the US quit UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and ceased its payments for UNESCO's budget, over the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) project designed to lessen world media dependence on the "big four" wire agencies (AP, UPI, Agence France-Presse, Reuters). The US charged UNESCO with "curtailment of press freedom," as well as mismanagement and other faults, despite a 148-1 in vote in favor of NWICO in the UN. UNESCO terminated NWICO in 1989; the US nonetheless refused to rejoin. In 1995 the Clinton administration proposed rejoining; the move was blocked in Congress and Clinton did not press the issue. In February 2000 the US finally paid some of its arrears to the UN but excluded UNESCO, which the US has not rejoined.
17. Optional Protocol, 1989, to the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolition of the death penalty and containing a provision banning the execution of those under 18. The US has neither signed nor ratified and specifically exempts itself from the latter provision, making it one of five countries that still execute juveniles (with Saudi Arabia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria). China abolished the practice in 1997, Pakistan in 2000.
18. 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The only countries that have signed but not ratified are the US, Afghanistan, Sao Tome and Principe.
19. The US has signed but not ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which protects the economic and social rights of children. The only other country not to ratify is Somalia, which has no functioning government.
20. UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966, covering a wide range of rights and monitored by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The US signed in 1977 but has not ratified.
21. UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948. The US finally ratified in 1988, adding several "reservations" to the effect that the US Constitution and the "advice and consent" of the Senate are required to judge whether any "acts in the course of armed conflict" constitute genocide. The reservations are rejected by Britain, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Mexico, Estonia, and others."


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3. | Metaphor | ||
The word that Christians use to describe contradictions and mistakes in the bible. "So, the Earth is flat, according to the bible, Tony?"
"No!" "but, "When the earth totters, with all its inhabitants, it is I who keep its pillars steady." — Psalm 75:3" "thats a metaphor, dude" |
1. | metaphor | ||
A comparison between two unrelated things; does NOT use the words "like" or "as." Note to all of the people out there who only think they understand grammar:
A comparison using "like" or "as" (definition #2) is a SIMILE. A sentence used to express the relationship of words (definition #3) is an ANALOGY. "America is a melting pot" is a metaphor. "Life is like a box of chocolates" is a simile. "Pink is to red as gray is to black" is an analogy. |
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A poetic device used to draw comparison, or illustrate a parallel relationship between two different subjects. More or less the same as a simile, except omitting the word "like;" as in the following example- METAPHOR- Life is a box of chocolates./SIMILE- Life is like a box of chocolates. Confusion over these two techniques has resulted in untold disasters throughout the history of language. The guy in the cowboy hat said, "Life is a metaphor for itself," but he's bi-polar and thinks he's Jesus, so don't pay no attention to him.
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A sentence used to express the relationship of words, : can mean "is to" and :: can mean "as" Arm is to leg as hot is to cold
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Sentient Biped sent me another really cool article on cats. So here I am sharing it with all of you.
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he's now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? A biologist's science- fiction hunch is gaining credence and shaping the emerging science of mind- controlling parasites.
By Kathleen McAuliffe
The parasite T. gondii, seen here, may be changing connections between our neurones, altering how we act and feel. (Dennis Kunkel Microscropy, Inc./Visuals Unlimited/Corbis Images)
Read the article here.
Jerry won't let me sleep. If I shut my bedroom door, he sits there and sings, yodels, yowls till I have to let him in, no matter what time it is. (He sleeps all day.) Then I have to pet him for an hour or so, or he will stomp all over the bed and around my pillow. When I finally do fall asleep, he waits awhile, and then starts head-bonking me to wake me up so I can pet him some more.
I be tired.
Thanks - I will follow the link, appreciate it.
Common Parasite May Trigger Suicide Attempts: Inflammation from T. ...
Toxoplasma gondii infection linked to suicide attempts.
Thanks - I am just now learning about all this.
New data on how toxo changes infected humans.
How a Cat-Borne Parasite Infects Humans
... Czech evolutionary biologist named Jaroslav Flegr has made headlines for a radical claim: that a common parasite called Toxoplasma gondii is controlling our brains.
Flegr discovered that the behaviors that toxo provokes in rats in order to get them eaten—slowed reaction times, lethargy, reduction in fear—also show up in infected humans.
In order to travel throughout the body and, most importantly, to the brain, toxo hijacks ... the white blood cells. ... it also turns them into tiny chemical factories, producing a neurotransmitter known to reduce fear and anxiety in rats—and in humans.
Over the next 15 years, using experimentation and analysis of public health data, Flegr discovered a series of fascinating links between toxo and human behavior. A toxo-infected person is more than twice as likely to be in a car accident—which Flegr attributes to the parasite's tendency to reduce reaction time—and has a higher than normal risk of developing schizophrenia. Other scientists have shown a connection between toxo and an increased risk of suicide. [emphasis mine]
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A Washington County grand jury returned indictments against six people recently, including eight counts against Kevin D. Graves of Springfield.
Graves, 30, of Jimtown Road, was charged with four counts of criminal attempt to commit murder (Class B felony), as well as one count of assault in the 4th degree (Class A misdemeanor), one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun (Class C felony), one count of criminal mischief in the 1st degree (Class D felony) and one count of being a persistent felony offender in the 1st degree.
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Washington County youth are invited to participate in a pitch, hit and run competition sponsored by Aquafina and Major League Baseball. The competition takes place April 18 at Idle Hour Park.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. with competition taking place afterward. Competitors will be divided into four age divisions: 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 and 13-14.
Over 160 people from across the state gathered April 4 at the Mercer County Extension Office for the 10th Annual Dustin Worthington "I Love Cows" Essay Contest awards ceremony. At t his year's ceremony, eighteen beef heifers were given away to students who participated in the contest. The contest is open to all FFA & 4-H members interested in the cattle industry in the state of Kentucky.
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The Washington County Fiscal Court is one step closer to a solution to the dead animal pickup problem. The county decided not to renew their contract with Nation Brothers due to a doubling of the contract cost. The court has received a proposal from Dead Animal Removal Service, Inc. from Winchester, Ky., to pick up and dispose of dead animals in the county for $27,900. The county is also considering keeping the $20 per-stop fee charged to farmers who use the service.
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If you were driving through downtown Springfield Thursday morning, you couldn't help notice all to the commotion by the Washington County Judicial Center. It was a big day as the town was paid a visit by none other than President Abraham Lincoln. Actually, it was an 11-foot, 1,195 pound bronze statue of our 16th president, but it was nonetheless a site to behold.
The Washington County Commanderette softball team hung tough last Wednesday to defeat the Fort Knox Lady Eagles 6-5 for their first victory of the season.
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Am I reading this right...the 5 watt CW amp is available as a kit? Frank
Ikers wrote:
Am I reading this right...the 5 watt CW amp is available as a kit? Frank
Yes...while supplies last.
I'm working to secure more of the 2SC5739 RF transistors for future kits.
I'm having trouble discovering an oscillator that will drive the 5 watt amp for 40 meters. Does anyone have a simple crystal oscillator with the right output?
I am understanding that the 5 watt amp takes 1 milliwatt input, which is the same as 0 dB. What circuit will drive the amp for 40 meters?
ae4gm wrote:
I am understanding that the 5 watt amp takes 1 milliwatt input, which is the same as 0 dB. What circuit will drive the amp for 40 meters?
Almost "anything" that oscillates...lots of circuits out there that deliver 5mW (+7dBm)...would need a 6 dB attenuator for those.
OK Diz. I just built a Michigan Mighty Mite for 40 meters. The link is http://www.metaphoria.us/hamradio/Michi … _mite.html
Where on the oscillator can I tap? and what dB pad attenuator (and circuit) would I use to tame that to 0 dB and still get a 50 ohm signal to put into the kitsandparts 5 watt amp? I don't think you mean I should tap the actual output of this transmitter that goes to the antenna? I don't have the equipment to measure these types of signals. I also just got a Johnson Transceiver Tester at a yard sale. If it works it takes a crystal and has a signal generator output. This unit is for CB radios, in particular. It only claims to be a signal generator at CB radio frequencies, so it probably won't work on 40 meter crystals. Does anyone know if this produces an input for the amp to use? I'm a technician (but Extra Class Ham), not an engineer.
BTW-Diz, I love this amp. Assembly is going fb.
Last edited by ae4gm (2011-09-06 11:23:33)
I measured the power out in watts on the Johnson Transmitter Tester. It is showing about 30 milliwatts out under the Dummy Load setting from the Michigan Mighty Mite on 40 meters. What kind of dB pad setup might I use to control the actual output of the MMM to 0 dB for input to the Kitsandparts 5 watt amp? Maybe I need an adjustable dB pad so I could go below .5 milliwatts and increase power out of it to .5 milliwatts to control the 5 watt amp. Any suggestions??
If you have a 30 mw output from your transmitter and you want to pad down to 1 mw:
db = 10 * (log P1/P2)
db = 10 * (log 30)
db = 10 * 1.48
you need a 14.7 (or 15)db pad with inputs and outputs of 50 ohms.
You can plug those values into a matching Pi Attenuator Calculator (one of many on the web) and you have your attenuator. Pick the most common value resistors as close to calculations as you can find and you should be in business.
Tom, ak2b
Dear AK2B, Thanks for the info. I found my yard sale Johnson Transceiver Tester has a wiring error in it that needs to be corrected before I rely on its readings. The dummy load readings are about 10% of the antenna connected readings. With the antenna hooked up I'm getting about 100 mw out of the Michigan Mighty Mite after putting on the low pass filter. After I correct the wiring I'll re-check everything. I appreciate your help on the forum and will ask for help in the future if more confusion descends upon me.
ae4gm...you may consider changing the emitter resistor from 27 ohms to something higher.
Play with it until you reduce the RF output to about 1 mW...that should also clean up the oscillator and reduce chirping etc. - Diz
That is an excellent idea. I'm working with Steve in Ca. on this by email. He's advising me on a current limiter to keep me from burning the device up over and over again by overdriving it. I'm learning a lot and having a lot of fun.
Is this a complete kit and how does one buy it?
I am new here. I am interested in something that will increase the level coming from
my HP8656B sig gen. I want to use the sig gen as a VFO for my Ameco AC-1.
I can only get +17dBm (1.58 volts) and I need somewhere in the range of 5-10 volts
to get me the same output I get with a xtal.
I was thinking about the 5 watt amp which is really more than I need but if its a complete kit
and depending on the price it might something to play with.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Is this a complete kit and how does one buy it?
Hi Ken,
You can buy it here. You could use it with your signal generator set for +0dbm and with an appropriate LPF (from the same page) and, you would have a complete transmitter - with the exception of some way to key it via the +8V on J2. The memory keyer would take care of that.
Otherwise, you might want to take a look at the Yahoo group dealing with that very same subject.
Tom, ak2b
I'm trying to wind T2 binocular on the 5 watt amp. It says to strip and tin the wires that bend back over the magnet. Does this mean that the tinned wires actually touch the magnet or does it mean just the tips of the wires are tinned where they go into the board?
ae4gm wrote:
or does it mean just the tips of the wires are tinned where they go into the board?
Pretty much.
The two wires made made from cutting the loop are the center tap of the secondary of T2 and go to ground via the holes provided in the center of T2's outline. They need to be stripped and tinned at least to the point where they are soldered onto the board. The same is true of the other two wires of T2's secondary which go into the outer two holes near T2's outline.
Tom, ak2b
I made a yahoo group page to be able to put a drawing by Steve Smith of the T2 windings on the 5 watt amp. If anyone sees errors on this group please say something so I can correct it.
The link is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kitsandpa … kit/files/
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Per your last email to me, you were right. I had wired the output of T2 wrong. Once I fixed that it is now working. I still need to put rf filter on it and get on the air. I am running it off my Heathkit HG10 VFO through a buffer Steve Smith in Ca. designed for the project.
BD139-16 replacement for 2SC5739
http://kitsandparts.com will be stocking the BD139 transistor and will be available for shipping on Nov 30 2011.
We will be using this transistor in future 5 watt class C amplifiers.
I have a yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kitsandpa … kit/files/ where I have the drawings for the binocular toroids and also a schematic from my Heathkit HG-10 VFO to a "buffer by Steve Smith schematic", which then runs the kitsandparts.com 5 watt CW amp. It seems to work very well, but I haven't operated it except under test right now. Just wanted to get the info out. Brock
Ok, I need some advice...
I thought everything was working, but the 5 watt amplifier seems to be going into oscillation. It puts out lots of power, and match looks perfect into a dummy load, but it sounds terrible on a monitor receiver..with wideband noise everywhere. When I try to load into a real antenna, the SWR is terrible no matter what I do with my antenna tuner. Would it be correct to assume that I can't get a match because the amp is really outputting broadband garbage, rather than power on a single frequency?
In my rig configuration, I am using the N3ZI DDS, along with the N#ZI receiver, home built buffer, and right now just some relays to switch the antenna, RF to the buffer and the DDS RIT line. The buffer for the VFO is built on perfboard and stacked on top of the amp module. The amp then goes to a low pass filter bank, where each of the low pass boards arestacked on top of each other using brass standoffs, and switched in or out using seperate input/output relays.
If I skip the lowpass filters and take the amp straight to a coax fed, matched 20M vertical, sometimes the oscillation goes away, and I get a good match. If I try 40M without the filter into the doublet, fed with ladder line, I cant get a match no matter what I do with the transmatch.
Also, when using the dummy load, the low pass filters have very little effect on output power (eg...still lots of power coming out on 20M even with the 80M low pass in line)
- How important is shielding?
- should the amp, and/or the buffer be in it's own box, or outboard from the rest of the transciever?
- IS perfoard a poor way to build the buffer?
This is really the first project of this magnitude I have tried from scratch, although I have built lots of kits. The DDS, receiver seem to work well, and the buffer is definately amplifying. I expect the amp is OK too, and I just have too much RF floating around, but any advice would be great. I plan to take the amp and buffer only to work tomorrow and try using a proper signal generator and spectrum analyzer
Turn down the gain control on the amp and try it again. The amp is very stable and the only time I had a problem was when I was overdriving it. The (old version) amp I use wants about 1mw at the input. When overdriving it I could get all the problems to go away by adjusting R6 to minumum. When I lowered the input drive I had greater control of the output power within the range of R6. I had all the doomsday symptons you described above when it was overdriven .
I see Diz recommends 5 to 10mw input power on the new version.
Tom, ak2b
To Bseres. I think you need to partially pull out the main chip (with power off) on the N3ZI DDS VFO (socket) and push it back in, reseating the pins. Mine does this sometimes with loads of power showing and no usable output. Once the chip is pushed in, it aways works fine.
The VFO itself seems to work fine, and I tried the amp into a dummy load at work today, driving it ad 0dBm with an Agilent signal generator and looking at the output on a SA. The amp looks like it's working perfectly, as the garbage seemed to occur when using my buffer. I re-built the buffer 'Manhattan" style instead of using perfboard, and it seems to be working much better on the bench, so I will try it when I get home into the antenna. I'll also try re-seating the chip on the board, although the DDS is working fine when not transmitting.
If anyone has a better buffer circuit, I would be interested in that. To control the output, I modified the N3ZI circuit as per the MultiPig rig mentioned earlier, with a 500 ohm pot in the emitter of the output 2n2222.
Since the amplifier is working ok the next step is to find out what is coming out of the buffer and at what level when driven by the DDS VFO. Assuming the buffer is working as advertised I see no reason to change it. If you have a scope, put a 50 ohm dummy load on the scope input and see if you can adjust the output of the buffer to around 600mv p-p (~0dBm).
Tom, ak2b
Thanks Tom
When I hooked the amp up at home, it seems to be oscillating again. At times, I can totally disconnect the driver and I still get oscillations. Things seem very output load sensitive, working best with a dummy load, not quite as well with a coax fed 20m vertical, and always oscillates on the ladder line doublet. Output starts as expected on key down, and continues on key up until I disconnect the power. Any other ideas?. How much should the pot typically control the output? When things are oscillating, it doesn't seem to do much


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I'm a bit upset that I just found out about this, but the Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department has an Arizona Centennial Celebration event going on called "100 Miles of Hiking". http://www.maricopa.gov/parks/100miles.aspx
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