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Anyway, there's a screencast which covers conflicts between the existing "rules" of object-oriented programming, specifically, inherent conflict between Tell Don't Ask and the Single Responsibility Principle. I'm into this topic, because my book Rails As She Is Spoke is mostly about similar conflicts.
One interesting thing that comes up in this screencast, mostly in passing, is that Rails enthusiastically embraces and encourages Law of Demeter violations. In fact, if you build Rails apps, you've probably seen a line of code like this now and then:
@user.friends.logged_in.where(:last_login < 4.days.ago)
This code subordinates the Law of Demeter to the Rule Of Thumb That Rails Code Should Look Like Cool Sentences. Lots of other things in Rails reveal this same prioritization, if you look at them closely. In fact, when Mr. Hansson wrote a blog post about concerns, he explicitly stated it:
It's true that [avoiding additional query objects in complex model interactions] will lead to a proliferation of methods on some objects, but that has never bothered me. I care about how I interact with my code base through the source.It's extremely tempting to laugh this off. "Wow, this guy prefers pretty sentences to considering the Law of Demeter, what a n00b." And I am definitely not going to endorse that blog post, or the idea of concerns, across the board. But I also think laughing off DHH's priorities here would be a mistake.
Consider RSpec, for the sake of comparison. RSpec prioritizes a sentence-y style of code, which tries hard to look like English, over just about any other consideration, as far as I can tell. And RSpec has an Uncanny Valley problem. This code has both an Uncanny Valley problem, and a Law of Demeter problem:
By contrast, it's very interesting that Rails only has Law of Demeter problems, when it does the same kind of thing. The Rails valley is not uncanny at all. When it tries to make Ruby look like English, it stops a little earlier than RSpec does, acknowledging the fakeness and the Ruby-ness of the "English," and in so doing, you end up with code which is English-like enough to be incredibly convenient and easy to read, but not so overly-trying-to-be-English that you can't reason about its API and are forced to memorize everything instead.
Rails encourages specific Demeter violations as a set of special, privileged pathways through unrelated objects and/or objects which exist only to serve as those pathways in the first place. And it works. I'm not saying Rails is perfect — if you've read my book, or indeed ever read anything I've written about Rails since about 2011, then you know I don't think that — but I don't think its cavalier attitude towards the Law of Demeter would even make it onto a top ten list of things I want to change about Rails.
Of course, the whole point of that screencast I mentioned, which points out that the "rules" of OOP conflict with each other from time to time, is that these rules are not rules at all, but merely guidelines. So it's no surprise that they involve tradeoffs. What is surprising is that I don't think there's any real name for what Rails chooses to prioritize over Demeter, except perhaps "readability."
Frankly, it's moments like this when I feel privileged to have studied the liberal arts in college, and where I feel sorry for programmers who studied computer science instead, because there's no terminology for this in the world of computer science at all. Any vocabulary we could bring to bear on this topic would be from the worlds of literature, poetry, and/or language. I know there's a widespread prejudice against the liberal arts in many corners of the tech industry, where things like literature and poetry are viewed as imprecisely defined, arbitrary, or "made up," but every one of those criticisms applies to the Law of Demeter. It's not really a law. It's just some shit that somebody made up. Give credit to the poets for this much: nobody ever pretended that the formal constraints for haikus or sonnets are anything but arbitrary.
Let's look again at our two lines of example code:
@user.should_receive(:foo).with(:bar).and_return(:baz).once # no
@user.friends.logged_in.where(:last_login < 4.days.ago) # ok
If you were to write one of these lines of code, it would feel like you were writing in English. The other line could function as an English sentence if you changed the punctuation. But what's interesting is that these two statements don't apply to the same line.
This one feels harder to write, yet it functions almost perfectly as English:
# "user should receive foo, with bar, and return baz, once"
Writing this one feels as natural as writing in English, but falls apart when treated as English:
@user.friends.logged_in.where(:last_login < 4.days.ago)
# "user friends logged in where last login less than four days ago"
These are extremely subjective judgements, and you might not agree with them. Maybe the RSpec code isn't such a good example. What I find difficult about RSpec is remembering fiddly differences like
should_receive vs.
should have_selector. I'm never sure when RSpec's
should wants a space and when it wants an underscore. Why is it
should have_selector, and not
should_have_selector? Why is it
should_receive, and not
should receive? RSpec has two ways to connect
should to a verb, and there doesn't seem to be any consistent reason for choosing one or the other.
In actual English grammar, there are consistent connections between words, whereas with RSpec, you kind of just have to remember which of several possible linkage principles the API chose to use at any given moment. To be fair, English is a notoriously idiosyncratic language full of inconsistencies and corner cases, so writing RSpec might actually feel like writing English if English isn't your first language. But English is my first language, so for me, writing RSpec brings forth a disoriented sensation that writing English does not.
(Tangent: because I'm a first-generation American, and England is "the old country" for me, English is not only my first language, but my second language as well.)
Anyway, the question of why Rails feels more natural to me than RSpec — and I really think it's not just me, but quite a few people — remains unanswered.
There is another way to approach this. This is an analog synthesizer:
These machines have a type of thing called envelopes.
Briefly, an envelope is way to control an aspect of the synthesizer. This synth has one envelope for controlling its filter, and another for controlling its amp (or volume). It doesn't matter right now what filters and amps are, just that there are two dedicated banks of sliders for controlling them. Likewise, it doesn't matter how envelopes work, but you should understand that there are four controls: Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release.
Now look at this synthesizer:
The envelope controls are much more compact:
This synthesizer again has one envelope for its filter, and another for its amp. But this synthesizer wants you to use the same single knob not only for each envelope, but even for each of the four parameters on each envelope. Where the other machine had eight sliders, this machine has one knob. You press the Attack button in the Filter row to make the knob control the filter attack. You press the Release button in the Volume row (as pictured) to make the knob control the amp release. (And so on.)
Do hardware engineers have a word for this? If they do, my bad, because I don't know what it would be. User experience designers have a related word — affordances, which is what all these controls are — but I don't know if they have a word for when you dedicate affordances on a per-function basis, vs. when you decide to double up (or octuple up). It is, again, a tradeoff, and as far as I can tell, it's a tradeoff without a name.
But it's the same basic tradeoff that Rails and RSpec make when they pretend to be the English language, and somehow, Rails gets this tradeoff right, while RSpec gets it wrong. When I need to recall a Rails API which mimics English, it's easy; when I need to recall an RSpec API which mimics English, there's a greater risk of stumbling. With
should_receive vs.
should have_selector, the relationship between the API's affordances and its actions is out of balance. RSpec here has the opposite problem from the synthesizer with one knob for every envelope parameter. Here, RSpec's got an extra affordance — using an underscore vs. using a space — which has no semantic significance, but still takes up developer attention. It's a control that does nothing, but which you have to set correctly in order for the other controls to not suddenly break. Rails, by contrast, has a nice balance between affordances and actions in its APIs.


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I have always loved a good pantomime production, and the best one I've seen in a long time was last week's US Senate Hearing's questioning of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Some great crackers throughout such as…Senator (looking baffled): "How do you sustain a business model which users don't pay for your service?" Zuckerberg (trying not to look amazed): "Senator, we run ads." – you couldn't make it up. Or the classic "if I'm emailing within WhatsApp does that ever inform your advertisers" – Zuckerberg "No, we don't see any of the content in WhatsApp, its fully encrypted". As my Washington colleague MJ Marshall noted in her blog a few days ago Zuckerberg could have prepared better for the Capital Hill inquisition, and this is where media training before such a grilling is key. It was at times comedic to watch, even though he tried hard to be patient and respectful to his inquisitors. But what is such an important issue – data privacy, was undermined extraordinarily by the ill-preparation and unsuitability of the some of the those trusted with the questioning, who were clearly struggling with the subject matter. For those interested in communications, it served as a great lesson for anyone who is a spokesperson for an organization – be prepared for the informed questions, but equally ensure you are prepared to answer the ill-informed questions as well, and do so with good grace, openness and sincerity. More often than not the interviewee is the subject matter expert not the interviewer.
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NEW LONDON, NH-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team swept host Colby-Sawyer in a dual meet at the Chargers' campus pool Saturday. The men won, 136-119, while the women were victorious, 126-104.
For the women, winners included junior Brittany Dupuis (Milford, MA/Milford HS), who won the 200 yard freestyle in 2:17.10 and the 100 freestyle in 1:02.31, sophomore Morgan Cooper (Sunderland, MA/Frontier Regional HS), who won the 200 yard butterfly in 2:35.63, sophomore Meredith Maki (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional HS), who won the 50 yard backstroke in 32.74 seconds, sophomore Maggie Conlon (Methuen, MA/Methuen HS), who won the 200 yard breaststroke in 2:24.97, junior Kim Moore (Billerica, MA/Billerica HS), who took the 1000 yard freestyle in 11:48.39, and sophomore Cecilia Rius (Rockville, MD/Richard Montgomery HS), who won the one meter diving with 174.30 points. The 400 yard medley relay team of sophomore Megan Brady (Peabody, MA/Peabody HS), sophomore Lindsay Days (Mattapoisett, MA/Bishop Stang HS), freshman Hannah Loubris (Beverly, MA/Beverly HS) and Dupuis finished first in 4:34.62
Men's first place finishers included senior Craig Johnson (Acushnet, MA/New Bedford HS), who won the 200 yard butterfly in 2:13.57 and the 500 yard freestyle in 5:21.13, senior David Adams (Tyngsboro, MA/Tyngsboro HS), who took the 50 yard freestyle in 24.24 seconds, and the 50 yard butterfly in 26.61, freshman Eric Frohman (Woodbridge, CT/Amity HS), who won the 50 yard backstroke in 28.46 seconds and the 200 yard backstroke in 2:15.59, sophomore Matt Dean (Londonderry, NH/Londonderry HS), who took the 50 yard breaststroke in 30.06 seconds, and freshman Christian Francia (Hampton, NH/Winnacunnet HS), who won the one meter diving with 156.65 points. The 400 yard medley relay team of Frohman, Dean, Johnson and senior Andrew Haughey (West Springfield, MA/West Springfield HS) finished first in 4:03.07.
UMass Dartmouth's men are now 4-3, while the women are now 4-7. Colby-Sawyer's men are now 2-6 and their women are 3-8.
Both teams will return to action when they visit Bentley for the New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association Championships next weekend.


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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #120 on:
Oct 01, 2012, 10:19 AM »
Hi Ari,
I am definitely interested in continuing on. Thanks for doing this!
God Bless,
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Oct 01, 2012, 10:34 AM »
Hi Ari and all.
Definitely interested. Thanks for the opportunity...
All the best,
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
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Oct 01, 2012, 10:35 AM »
Hi Ari,
I would like to participate. I have a question about a chart I am working with, should I ask it here or create an entirely different thread--the question has to do with nodes and nodal rulers.
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Reply #123 on:
Oct 01, 2012, 11:31 AM »
Definitely interested! Thanks am.
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Reply #124 on:
Oct 02, 2012, 01:56 AM »
Hi Ari,
I would also like to continue, it does help to understand the EA paradigm participating and sharing the little knowledge i have, very interested.
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #125 on:
Oct 02, 2012, 06:43 AM »
I'm interested in participating too.
Thanks Ari!
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #126 on:
Oct 02, 2012, 02:11 PM »
Dear Ari,
Sorry i didn't respond to you wondering if i was going to post a comment previously, i only just noticed your question now, i am just out of another 10 day workshop, i am trying to follow the thread when possible and i'm surprised how difficult i find it to combine even two archetypes.
I have more time now and am going to make an effort to participate. I am interested to explore the "energy of duality..central to Gemini"
Understanding Karmic Complexes
as part of the interpretation.
Thanks Ari. With love. Tory
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #127 on:
Oct 04, 2012, 08:14 AM »
Kora, Henrik, Wendy, Stephen, Rita, Emily, Tory and whoever else wishes to join - feel free to get started. And thank you all again for your participation here.
Tory mentioned a great book "Understanding Karmic Complexes" By Patricia Walsh. To me that book is an excellent ea resource for grasping the tangible nature of these archetypes from an ea perspective.
The paradigm we are working with again is Pluto in the 7th
SN in the 9th
NN in the 3rd
With love,
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #128 on:
Oct 04, 2012, 01:03 PM »
Hi Ari and Everyone,
Here is my attempt for our new assignment with Pluto 7th, SNode 9th and NNode in the 3rd:
This individual's past soul desire has been to objectively know himself or herself in relationship with another through seeking a variety of relationship with different people covering extreme differences. They have done this from a soul desire to find balance and equality in relationships and to learn how to listen to others and to give to others according to the needs of the other. Due to egoic insecurity imbalances have occurred with several possible scenarios of how this could play out. Examples include patterns of codependency, taking on dominant or submissive roles in relationships or depending on another in some way for self identity. The intent for the current life (PPP 1st house) is to be free and independent and to act instinctively towards new learning that fulfills their own needs and through these actions to expand their sense of self to meet their own needs without being in relationship to another. With the South Node in the 9th house this person has approached relationships in the past from an egoic personality structure desiring to find their truth and to expand their intuitive knowing of truth as well as developing their personal unifying belief system regarding life and the meaning of life and their place and purpose within it. They may have been a teacher or philosopher or guru type and perhaps attracted another who wanted to learn from them or they might have relied on such others to teach them or inspire them in the direction of their own intuitive development. Currently they would be functioning from imbalances that have occurred from a variety of possible manifestations. Their current egoic security would be based on past beliefs and what was true for them in the past and presently they might draw in people who have a differing set of strong beliefs who confront or challenge them. If threatened they may become very dogmatic trying to convert others or submissive to a stronger partner who tries to convert them and thus become separated from their own truth. They might be deceptive or actually lie about their current truth. They would likely feel quite alienated from others due to past experiences and be poor communicators finding it difficult to convey what they know through their intuition and consequent frustrations over their inability to communicate cause them to become withdrawn leading to further problems in relationships. They might also have difficulty making commitments and deception can occur related to this creating further challenges and confrontations.
Growth for this person can occur through embracing the NNode (3rd house) when this individual makes a deliberate effort to become a student searching out new information and experiences that can expand his or her current belief structures and/or tolerance regarding the beliefs of others. This would involve learning new communication skills and exposing themselves to a variety of individuals with differing beliefs from an attitude of being willing to listen to them so he or she can understand where they are coming from, being willing to learn about their differences as well as their similarities. By learning to listen this individual can become more tolerant and can begin to expand his or her own beliefs and their understanding of how many different paths to the truth can lead to an underlying resonant unity. As this is done the PPP (1st house) automatically becomes activated. The person instinctively acts independently in new directions following own desires for new learning and experience and through these actions expands his or her self identity. The ego is strengthened and this person can fulfill his or her own needs instead of relying on another. The person is more skilled if he or she chooses to be in a relationship to communicate in a better way, to listen to another and to be tolerant of a partner's point of view. When there is the freedom and the space for each to pursue their own individual needs and an attitude of respect and tolerance for another there is also a greater liklihood that the person will bond (feel less alienated) and want to be more committed.
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #129 on:
Oct 04, 2012, 02:29 PM »
Dear Ari, Dear All,
Pluto (unconscious emotional security patterns of the soul) in the 7th (Cardinal/Yang/Air) "the energy of Venus is yang and turned outwards, so we seek more than just what we can provide for ourselves-we look to 'the other' also for fulfillment" from Patricia Walsh's marvelous
Understanding Karmic Complexes
thanks to Patricia for her Keywords, so helpful! Pluto in 7th is on one hand learning through compare and contrast in relationships with others (indeed through all interactions outside of self) and self, having this deeply unconscious need for relationships as a platform for the souls learning, the degree to which it is unconscious and needy creating possible extremes between (swinging back and forth polarity of the 1st/7th house) co-dependancy and the 1st house PP (Cardinal/Yang/Fire) of ultimately having to fall back on self (triggering 1st house anxiety of separation) finding the courage to go within and accept that all we are searching for, ultimately is not out there manifest in a person or a thing, but to be found within.
SN (prior egocentric structure of the soul) in the 9th (Mutable/Yang/Fire) suggests prior purposeful search for knowledge/wisdom/meaning possibly constructively in relationship to others as teacher/shaman of natural law or otherwise where the knowledge/belief systems became/become an end in itself, teacher becomes a preacher, and all that goes with: dogmatic faith and ideals being forced onto others, knowledge as a means of power to control and manipulate others? (Pluto in the 7th?).
I have a question: The South Node of the
represents prior egocentric structure of the soul, on an emotional level?
I need to pause and reflect and will pick up where i left off in my next post.
Light and Love
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #130 on:
Oct 05, 2012, 08:48 AM »
Hi All,
Pluto in the 7th House
South Node in the 9th House
So in this case the 7th house Pluto soul has used an egocentric structure of the 9th house to actualize its desires of learning to be in relationships as an equal. The 9th house ego structure is all about the need to ..."understand themselves in a cosmological, metaphysical, philosophical, or religious context." (Pluto I JWG) So this desire would be operating in relationships that this soul would have had in the past. This soul has been focused on knowing the truth and created a diversity of circumstances and relationships in order to explore the nature of existence.
Assuming the soul did not yet know how to be an equal in relationships there is a chance this soul has tried to convert others to its belief system and been intolerant of others beliefs. The person may also have had trouble communicating his/her beliefs to others due to the difficulty of translating intuitive knowing into spoken word or into a coherent teaching - which would have created a feeling of frustration and of not being able to connect with other people.
This person would have been/is highly intuitive especially with regard to other people (? 7th house) and may have used this to manipulate others to get what they wanted.
This person may also have been able to truly listen to another and combined with their keen intuition could have been a very good friend/counselor (or is this more 3rd?)
This signature indicates a very wise soul that could have been a teacher or could have continuously found itself in teacher/student relationships - in which the partners are not meeting as equals but are involved in power struggles where one knows more (or thinks it knows more) than the other. This person could have been highly dogmatic and intolerant of others views trying to convince and convert others to their beliefs. Or could have found itself very easily overtaken by the beliefs of other more powerful people.
Although relationships may have caused the person to feel alienated, relationships with others have been opening the soul up to their own intuitive knowing of the truth of natural law. Whether they found themselves around others of like-mind or not at all the intention has been the same.
The degree of emotional security linked to their chosen belief system will determine the strength of confrontation they have experienced with others.
Also, this soul may not have engaged in relationship very much at all as it felt alienated from others and was focused on its search for the truth and its own special destiny. In order to learn to engage in relationships in an equal way - if the soul has been avoiding them - at some point it will need to find balance between being in relationships and maintaining its own freedom.
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #131 on:
Oct 05, 2012, 08:56 AM »
Hi -
I forgot the North Node in the 3rd:
The north node in the 3rd symbolizes that in order for this soul to enter into relationships as an equal it must learn that truth is relative and that it does not have a unique hold on the truth. This will need to happen by the soul opening up to other people, philosophies, religions etc and realizing that there are many paths to the truth. In this way the soul can be more relaxed in its interactions with others, not needing to convince and convert everyone to its way of thinking. And the soul can then share the wisdom it has with anyone because it is not dependent on a specific belief system but is rooted in natural law and intuitive knowing.
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
Reply #132 on:
Oct 06, 2012, 09:12 AM »
Hi Ari, Hi Everybody;
Pluto in the 7th house SN in the 9th house, NN in the 3rd house:
In the past this individual´s Soul has been involved in as many relationships as possible.
Through these relationships he learned how to listen to the needs of others so to be able to give them what they need according to the their needs, wants and desires. These relationships have also been teaching him balance and equality within the relationships he has had with others because these individuals have not learned how to do this.
There is the need to be in many relationships so that he can have many different points of views, and this will help him to know how to relate to others and to objectively understand the significance of human nature. There is a danger that by having many relationships he will have too many different points of views, mixing him up / confusing him. This in turn can become a compulsive behavior in which he is overly dependent on the opinions, advice or knowledge of others. Through these other peoples points of views,opinions and dictates, that he takes for his own, only adding to his inability to decide for himself how he should run his life. This in turn will only contribute to his feeling of having lost his own identity.
The possibility for extreme relationships in which codependency on the partner or by his covert behavior making the partner totally dependent on him. These extremes the Soul created / creates, are based on him believing that his own needs are the same needs of his partner and he cannot see that he is a mere extension of his partner, this is caused by his fear of loosing his self identity and the familiar emotional security he has / knows.
SN 9th:
In the past this individual´s Soul has been understanding himself and life in a cosmological, metaphysical, philosophical or religious context. He has been trying to understand his connection to the Universe and the world that he lives in.
His Soul / he feels, that he has a special destiny to fulfill, that he needs all the freedom to pursue the discovery of the truth for his existence. A loner due to prior lives of traveling in quest for the truth which is imprint in his subconscious, making his alienation to the society that he is born into very real, especially if the society that he is born in is based on specific religious or philosophical systems that are limiting by their ideologies.
With Pluto in the 7th house, SN 9 house, the philosophical or intellectual confrontations that occurred with others when he expressed his intuitive knowledge, and when confronted for his ideas, he could not really explain how he knew what he knew or why he had certainties for his beliefs.
This made it very difficult for him to have a balanced relationship in which he did not feel alienated and emotionally insecure for having different ideas, beliefs and values. Although a loner it is possible he succeeded to keep a more equal relationship with people who could understand and listen to his intuitive knowledge and openness to Universal truth.
Sooner or later his Souls desire (PPP 1 house ) will push him to take hold of his life, he will decide for himself what directions or decisions are best for him, without the dependency previously needed of others, opinions, ideas or consent. At the same time he will have learned not to control, interfere or block his partners need to initiate new things.
SN PP 3 house, the evolutionary intent for this life is that he understands that his version of reality, laws, principles and morality are relative, he will come to understand this through the many philosophical, metaphysical and cosmological confrontations he will have with others in which he will have learned to express his views, ideas in a language that is understood by everybody for its simplicity and truth.
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Re: New ea practice thread for beginners
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Oct 08, 2012, 01:47 PM »
Hi all, here's my interpretation. I haven't read other responses yet, so apologies if there's overlap:
With a SN in the 9th house and Pluto in the 7th, this soul has in the past primarily sought out relationships that have provided it with more cosmological-philosophical knowingness. In the consensus state, this could obviously manifest as a rigid clinging to a religious group. There's been a tendency to seek the approval and affirmations of others, a spiritual teacher for example, perhaps through philosophical discourse. And on the flip side, the soul has
relationships with others who've symbolized some sort of philosophy incongruent with that by which it has found security (including one that invalidates the 9th house perception in general). And quite possibly, this soul has avoided expressing its direct experience of natural law/truth due to the unconscious gravitation to 'fitting in'. In any case, the underlying desire has been to gain self awareness through relationships with 'other'. With a 9th house south node, the orientation to listening/feedback has been primarily based on intuition and feeling, rather than a mercurial left-brain process. Being identified with the intuitive search and direct knowing of natural law, to the point of missing social cues and the 'here and now' details, this soul has often struggled with effectively communicating to others in a way that meets them on their own (perhaps more left-brained) terms. There's also been a tendency to rely on intuition, blindly negating information to the contrary.
Some lessons for the soul in this life will involve learning how to learn from others - humbling oneself and learning how to integrate new information without needing to compulsively consult the inner 'but why?'. There's an obvious 7th house application here. By moving beyond the need to understand the 'greater' truths, this soul will be getting into its body and actually
with natural law, becoming present with the 'here and now' smallness of its humanity, rather than remaining in its head and finding security in the gaining of more objective truth (a neverending expansion!). To me, this 'aligning' with the 'here and now' has a very Aries/1st essence to it, albeit on the level of mind/3rd rather than instinct/1st.
In becoming a student of life's continually flowing and changing information feedback loop, this soul is learning that 'all of life can be understood according to logical rules' (citing AM's book), and that there are plenty of ways to understand 'what is' on the level of the left brain...and that's exciting! Learning adoptability to various microcultures and other ways of thinking will be a big lesson here. By sticking with particular areas of focus in the 'here and now' (contrasted with the 9th house's tendency to get wrapped up in some grand intuited vision), to a level of actual accomplishment, this soul could be an amazing astrologer, metaphysician, author, or speaker. A keen, tactful mind on the level of phenomena (3rd house) can give way to a true enjoyment of and relationship with all things phenomenal.
I'm also feeling that the objectivity of the 9th house and 7th house fit together in the same way that the subjectivity of the 3rd house and 1st house do. The 9th house orientation ultimately leads to a noumenal philosophy of Oneness, whereas the 3rd house orientation focuses more on the phenomenal information of apparent individuality. In a similar fashion, the 7th house orientation has to do with relationship (oneness) whereas the 1st house orientation has to do with self-initiated direction (individuality). With these similarities in mind, I'm able to feel how this 3rd house NN movement will activate 1st house PPP evolution at the unconscious level.
OK, that's all I've got for now. Thanks AM, and ya'll!
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Is EA's Online Pass a product or a service? Or neither? Or both?
Heh. I've been arguing this for a couple of years now.
Good work Shamus.
From a business perspective, EA's move about that whole online bit looks shady.
I would love to know what the actual cost-profit ratio is for that DLC, because if we suddenly see EA report a huge surge in earnings, it would be indicative of gouging.
Actually, thinking about it, its pretty weird the way they are doing the games service...I think in time it will evolve into one or the other, but, whilst in its infancy...
While there are some good points here, there's still some problems.
First, DLC (even day-one DLC) is almost always not something that was carved out of what would have been the full game at release.
Second, if you're buying the game new, you are getting the whole game (including online multiplayer) for the price of the game, so you aren't playing full-price for half a game. On the other hand, that was a badly-worded statement from EA's CEO.
Third, it's not that hard to show your buddy the multiplayer on your account.
That said, yes, EA does need to decide what they're selling. It's entirely lame that if your disk gets scratched you can't re-install the game.
Gosh, here I thought EA was doing all right, financially, what with releasing a new iteration of each game in every series once a year!
If it was a one-time fee, I think I'd be okay with it...that is, if I bought a lot of online-enabled EA games. Right now, I think the only current-gen EA game I have is NHL 10, so I would undoubtedly be an angry fan.
This would become a different topic entirely, if we were to raise the question of Sony charging for their online service. Then, it would have to rival Microsoft (hard thing to pull off, I think) and any problems with the network couldn't be hidden from. Right now, I don't expect Sony to give me a flawless online component in all my games, as it's free; if I'm paying for it, my expectations change. That's something EA might want to think about, as well - if they start charging everyone for their 'service', they have a TON of work to do.
Edit: if EA games continue to fill bargain bins like they do, they could see a lot of money from this venture. But the cost of maintaining their servers to the extent that buyers will expect is going to cost them, as well. Used games aren't free - I can see less people buying DLC when they have to pay to even be online. I don't know, but saying that he wasn't taking a hit at the used games market seems like a silly thing to say.
There's a thing I don't get, even if it isn't the main point of the article: Why will Shamus be pissed if something like Steam is introduced to the next console gen?
So EA are the bad guys again right?
To be fair, they're only charging the ten bucks for multiplayer with used copies. New copies come with a code to unlock the multiplayer for free. It's not entirely unreasonable for them to not want to let people that haven't given them any money use their servers. (That was a mess of a sentence, but I'm sure you can decipher it.)
Otherwise I agree with this article.
There's a scene from a certain movie that I feel fits here:
Don Corleone: We have known each other many years, but this is the first time you've come to me for games or for patches. I can't remember the last time you downloaded one of my demos, even though your friends have. But let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. And you feared to be in my debt.
Bonasera: How much shall I pay you?
Don Corleone: Bonasera, Bonasera, what have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd bought the game honestly, this DLC that ruined your game collection would be already on your computer. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself had to reinstall, we would let you. And then, you could play the game again.
Don Corleone: Good.
Don Corleone: Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to pay for some more DLC. But until that day, consider this game a gift on my daughter's wedding day.
As others have pointed out, this article is a little skewed due to the fact that (so far) EA isn't charging extra for the online access as long as you buy your games new. Granted, given the quote from Riticello it does sound a little more nefarious than that.
EA annoyed me with ME2. I bought it first hand from a small shop in my uni town who (simply to stay in the black) do not do refunds/returns, so my receipt was pointless.
Disc 2 was pre-scratched. This was a fortnight after release I'd bought it, EA wouldn't replace it because I had no proof I'd had it for less than three months. Two weeks after UK release, Three after US.
Physically impossible to have had it for three months.
I'll say this, from a Retailer's perspective, it better remain a product. Otherwise there's going to be a lot of people out of work.
I wish EA would stop pretending that the Used Game Market is killing them. I work at an independent game store. If we sell an EA game at full price, we make a dollar. Sometimes less. I realize that big box stores are doing better, probably making a bit more than that. But even if thanks to wholesale they were making a 500% profit? That's still 5 bucks to them, and 55 to EA.
So let me get this straight, you can release annual titles at 55 dollars gross profit a piece, and you don't make enough money? I realize, I don't know what that is net. And I get it, I mean, I get that companies ALWAYS want more money, but instead of outdoing the competition or making better products so that people have to be day one buyers, or just cut the costs of your development. Y'know, talented designers have been making award-winning, sales-making, blockbusters on cheaper tech for awhile now. Maybe you can get some of that going on?
I just don't understand why retailers have to suffer. Remove the used game market and retailers wither and die OR games shoot up 30% in cost. Either way, its your customers that suffer. I spend my work days telling people to buy your product, and you're putting me out of business.
I'm sorry, but why is asking people who have never given any money to EA to pay to help maintain servers and patches a bad thing? If you buy the game new, EA get your money and you can play online. If you buy used, you haven't supported EA, so why should they let you play on servers others have paid for? I accept that this has been going on for years on the PC, but thats supported by individuals, and not the developers/publishers.
People argue that Pirates have a feeling of entitlement, but it seems to be the same for any gamers. People who buy games used expect the publishers to provide services (yes, multiplayer is a service because its an addition to the game) that they haven't supported. Personally I support EA in this and hope other companies start to copy. Remember, both Piracy and buying used means you've got a game without supporting the original creators, but at least pirates sometimes buy what they copy.
Yea, and Xbox LIVE made all downloads completely free when it started out too.
Whenever EA does anything, it's to screw people out of their money one nickle and dime at a time worse than any other company. They've abused the microtransaction system to make their games' final cost the most expensive, and they're the worst about giving minimal content for full price that has pay for DLC from the first day to month.
The longer these companies go, the more frustrating they make it to be a fan of video games. I just wish they and Activision would just collapse so smaller independant devs can compete.
Well, I was actually poking a bit of fun at myself for always writing about this sort of stuff.
It actually depends on how it worked, but what if consoles required 24/7 internet in order to operate, you couldn't rent or borrow games, and games were forever locked to your account?
It's all speculation now, of course. But I'd be really surprised if nobody tried to engage Valve.
One thing I cant help but notice about your articles is that you tend to make light fun of your constant ragging on the popular topic of the month, so I assume you have finally decided that everybody has now been made aware of your opinion. And you then proceed to reiterate the point again anyway. I mean, I must admit this may only partially be irritating me because I disagree with the opinion that digital distribution is inferior to packaged products (which is not so say that I do not consider it) but it is actually also getting in the way of enjoying your articles.
I usually quite like reading your opinions in Experienced Points but when I see that you are making the same point as you have done time and time again I have to fight an overwhelming urge to just flick over to something else on the escapist. I did stay and read the article which was as informative as ever, but if I think that you are going to say something that I already saw you say many times before it makes me loose interest quickly. Anyway sorry to be so negative just wanted to point it out.
Games being a service... that's fine. At a dollar per hour of playtime--say hypothetically that's how we were charged--I'd probably save a lot of money over $50-60 per game, on average.
If I get more than a month out of an MMO, and usually I get several, the $15 monthly fee saves me quite a bit of money over buying new games outright once or twice a month. Even At 25 cents for a few minutes, I have a lot of good memories from afternoons spent in arcades.
It's a reasonable model where good games would prosper and pieces of crap with nice cover art and hyped reviews would fall by the wayside.
Actually (being my usual pedantic self) I feel the need to point out that you don't need an online connection most of the time to play games from Steam, you obviously need one to sign up and download the client the first time, and you need one when you're actually installing the game, but apart from that there is an "offline mode" that legs you log in and play without any internet connection (obviously you can't play multiplayer games online this way).
Other than that a fantastic article as always, and a very interesting read, if Sony and Microsoft went down the Digital Distribution method with their next consoles I would REALLY hope they take a page from Valve's book and not EA's, I don't mind gaming as a service or digital distribution, but only if it benefits the customer more than it hinders them, which is what you were getting at also I guess.
The thing is...the games are finished, even at half finished.
I can hardly say that I felt ripped off my Mass Effect 2 in terms of size without the DLC. And I can't say that about Dragon Age, or Battlefield either.
Are games either a service or a Product?
If classifying the game as a product gives the consumers any for of consumer rights - It is a "service".
If classifying the game as a service; giving consumers any consumer rights - EA says it is a "product". See? It is quite simple! Dont you guys love capitalism?!
Given the fact that EA can change between these two classifications when it come to their games to suit their own needs and rights to swindle people out of their money I would say it is indeed a dark age for consumer rights.
You know what? If they actually get consistent stable servers for games like NHL and Battlefield, I don't mind forkin out 10 bucks. Cause the servers they have right now are a fucking headache.
And yet NO ONE offers Linux support!
Get a virtual system.
I'd actually be interested in a major game publisher deciding to market their games as a cable-like service: EA would have a very good chance of getting me to pay $10-15 a month to be able to play any of their games at any time (old and new releases alike). You might even convince me to pay $2-5 a month to subscribe to a single game. (Massive content like those found in an MMORPG is a different story.)
Re: Game consoles as Valve-like stores. In the last 5-10 years I've largely switched from PC to console gaming because I can actually still own the damn games on my consoles. The day when that stops being true is the day when I stop playing console games. (I don't mind having an online store as an option; although even those I frequent rarely. Never forget where your data is.)
I noticed that you failed to mention that if you buy the game new, you don't pay the ten extra dollars. No additional tolls standing between the Xboxers and their multiplayer, so long as they spend the extra five bucks for a new copy.
Agree with this. You still get online free if you buy the game new.
I've always hated the whole 'you don't own your game' attitude publishers seem to have. £40 is a lot of money to be 'allowed' to play a game at the courtesy of some company or another, who reserves the right to just take it all away without notice. Hell, any money is too much really, given the actual lack of ownership PC gamers apparently have over their products.
That said, it's become the status quo. Console gamers don't care cos they've never had to deal with DRM and closing servers (well, Halo 2, sure...), but the moment a company tries to take serious advantage of us I would hope that we would all band together and, I dunno, sign an internet petition... or something...
You know you were entitled to a refund from the shop right? Sale of goods act / statutory rights / contract of sale?
EA's sleazy, backhanded business ethics make Bandai-NAMCO's DLC-whoring look fair and honourable by comparison.
What is that even in reference to? Namco-BANDAI releases a ton of extra content for free.
Capcom is the shadiest company when it comes to day one DLC. Versus mode in an action-horror game?
Though they redeemed themselves a bit in my eyes with the excellent and cheaply priced expansions for RE 5 a while back. As long as they chill with that day one shit in the future, I'll forgive them.
I believe the answer is "it's neither a product or a service, it's a scam". It's basically EA trying to gouge gamers to spend more money on an already expensive product. For all comments about the costs of running servers and the like, game companies have been providing these things as part of the product for a very long time, and the inclusion of things like those servers is part of how they were justifying the high price tag to begin with. When your looking at a multi-billion dollar industry it's hard to really have sympathy for stuff like this.
I'm not really sure that gamers are quick to embrace/support this either. I think the issue is mostly that we're not given much of a choice, and so far the gaming populance is a big enough group of addicts where we have not actually refused to patronize the gaming industry as a result. That may or may not be coming for more people due to the fact that I have probably seen more anti-industry sentiment recently than ever before.
I will also say that while piracy is wrong, to fight it takes consumer support. You'll notice that in pretty much every discussion on piracy you wind up with tons of people that defend it. That defense comes specifically because of practices like the ones being discussed here, "is it a product or a service?" and "you need an internet connection" and "$10 for multiplayer access that used to be part of the product".
This is why I say with some frequency that the whole "piracy" issue is basically two criminal gangs going at it. Neither side can claim the moral high ground. The game industry is both greedy and engages in corrupt cartel-type behavior like price fixing. The same kinds of stuff that has the federal goverment constantly at the throat of the gas stations/oil companies. Then you've got the pirates who are outright thieves, however in their case it's careful not to make a "Robin Hood" type analogy because for all claims about the safety of piracy I think these "botnets" and stuff come from these guys using "warez" to infect people's systems, which in many cases is probably their motivation to begin with. Not in every case of course.
I think Steam gets the support it does largely when there is no other option, or they are running a major sale on a product. I, and others, feel that paying full retail price for a game you have no direct control over is ridiculous. I mean consider that some people like me still play games like "Arcanum", or the original Fallout games. Buy your game from Steam and you want to play it in 5 to 10 years you might be totally out of luck, for all we know they could go out of business... hey, people thought companies like "Origin Systems" (once a titan, Richard Garriot could afford private space flights for a reason) were unstoppable titans, but then they got bought out and disappeared.
What's more, since The Internet costs money (and is becoming increasingly expensive as companies find ways to charge more and more money, and the basic service requirements to function online increase) I'm wary about the entire idea of internet connection being required to activate a game, never mind play it, or obtain all of the initial content your entitled to when you lay down your cash.
Truthfully I think what we need is consumer advocacy, though getting enough gamers to organize for something like that would be very difficult. Then we need to see that advocacy challenge the industry on even terms and fight to get things defined fairly along the service/product lines, ensure consumer protection of what they are paying for, and similar things.
This article is a God-send, very in-depth and clear about this matter. I just hope EA stops pulling these kind of shit in the long run, sure I played DA:O and ME2 but the quality was just bad [ Except for Stone Golem DLC, that was ablast ]
And indeed, we hare being held ransom. Literally.
Just going to say this. Never will I do business with a company who charges for online play.
Plus, with this DLC business that's going on now, I feel that now more than ever we need some kind of Gamers' Union that can stand up for our rights in a more definite manner.
They also release shovel-fulls of DLC content, much of which is literally nothing more than a 128K unlock code- but even more of which are incredibly trivial things like selling costume "packs" that consist of maybe two or three items or the entire soundtrack to a game, song by song by song... or worse yet, nigh game-breaking sales like selling in-game money and levels in an RPG.
Well, somebody probably needs to become a legitimate competitor to Valve because at the moment its only out of the goodness of their hearts that they don't crack the whip on us and introduces some more stringent policy but I don't know if anyone can. Nothing even comes close to how much of the market Steam has for whatever reason. Somebody needs to learn why and compete. Consoles could offer a blank slate to introduce steam like platforms. Console players are partially disjoint from PC players and could be used as an untapped resource, willing to try a new platform in the absence of Steam and assuming that Microsoft and Sony both introduce steam like products simultaneously they could create a new market that is equally divided and just as big as Steam. Maybe they can even move to PC from their and provide proper competition for Steam as it curb-stomps its current lowly rivals.
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Mr_Rook wrote:as long as the away fans and day tripper spend money then let them come i genuinely dont care about day trippers, look at day trippers for Chelsea, arsenal and Man United its due to these that they have such decent income from kit purchases etc....
I'm not Anti-Tourist or advocating a blanket ban on them. After all many years ago I myself attended a La Liga fixture, Barcelona v Real Madrid, and earlier that day I took in a guided tour of the Nou Camp. So I'd be a massive hypocrite if I objected to tourist presence at West Ham games.
And I agree - if Chelski, Man Utd, etc are benefiting from their cash, why shouldn't we? Better still if they go home converted West Ham fans, wearing a West Ham shirt, decide to learn about our history, decide to find out about the significance of that statue in Champions Place, about our working class Docker roots, about Bobby Moore, about Billy Bonds, about the 'White Horse' final, trying to work out what the **** the 'West Ham Way' is , and learning the words to Bubbles in a far flung corner of our planet then to me that's not a bad thing.
However what I don't expect, and did not expect when I got a ticket for that Barcelona game back then, was that any tourist should get a choice of seat location ahead of any Season Ticket Holder, Member or loyal fan. The tourist gets what is leftover. And they pay for what's leftover.
And if that cash they pay in some small way helps us invest in, and maybe actually helps us keep, the next generation of Rio Ferdinand's, Joe Cole's, Glenn Johnson's and Michael Carrick's instead of having to sell them on before they reach the reach the age of 21, then keep 'em coming!
Just as that £80 I paid for that Barcelona match over a decade ago helped pay for the tiniest fraction of Ronaldinho's wages as he demolished a David Beckham and Michael Owen featured Real Madrid that day.
Only keep them where they belong - at the back of the queue.


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The android squirmed in the chair as Dr. Rockwell drilled in the fresh tooth. The dentist shook his head as he exchanged the drill tool for the water flosser. "If I detach your jaw for the procedure," he told the robot, "you'll never learn to stop using your mouth to open oil drums." Concept art by Cedric Peyravernay.
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Although you can't export to Excel directly from a text file or Word document, you can use the Text Import Wizard in Excel to import data from a text file into a worksheet. The Text Import Wizard examines the text file that you are importing and helps you ensure that the data is imported in the way that you want.
Note: If your data is in a Word document, you must first save it as a text file. Click File > Save As, and choose Plain Text (.txt) as the file type.
To start the Text Import Wizard in Excel 2016 or newer versions, on the Data tab, in the Get & Transform Data group, click From Text/CSV. Then, in the Import Text File dialog box, double-click the text file that you want to import.
If you're using an earlier version of Excel on the Data tab, in the Get External Data group, click From Text. Then, in the Import Text File dialog box, double-click the text file that you want to import.
Step 1 of 3
Original data type If items in the text file are separated by tabs, colons, semicolons, spaces, or other characters, select Delimited. If all of the items in each column are the same length, select Fixed width.
Start import at row Type or select a row number to specify the first row of the data that you want to import.
File origin Select the character set that is used in the text file. In most cases, you can leave this setting at its default. If you know that the text file was created by using a different character set than the character set that you are using on your computer, you should change this setting to match that character set. For example, if your computer is set to use character set 1251 (Cyrillic, Windows), but you know that the file was produced by using character set 1252 (Western European, Windows), you should set File Origin to 1252.
Preview of file This box displays the text as it will appear when it is separated into columns on the worksheet.
Step 2 of 3 (Delimited data)
Delimiters Select the character that separates values in your text file. If the character is not listed, select the Other check box, and then type the character in the box that contains the cursor. These options are not available if your data type is Fixed width.
Treat consecutive delimiters as one Select this check box if your data contains a delimiter of more than one character between data fields or if your data contains multiple custom delimiters.
Text qualifier Select the character that encloses values in your text file. When Excel encounters the text qualifier character, all of the text that follows that character and precedes the next occurrence of that character is imported as one value, even if the text contains a delimiter character. For example, if the delimiter is a comma (,) and the text qualifier is a quotation mark ("), "Dallas, Texas" is imported into one cell as Dallas, Texas. If no character or the apostrophe (') is specified as the text qualifier, "Dallas, Texas" is imported into two adjacent cells as "Dallas and Texas".
If the delimiter character occurs between text qualifiers, Excel omits the qualifiers in the imported value. If no delimiter character occurs between text qualifiers, Excel includes the qualifier character in the imported value. Hence, "Dallas Texas" (using the quotation mark text qualifier) is imported into one cell as "Dallas Texas".
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Specify the type of decimal and thousands separators that are used in the text file. When the data is imported into Excel, the separators will match those that are specified for your location in Regional and Language Options or Regional Settings (Windows Control Panel).
Specify that one or more numeric values may contain a trailing minus sign.
Column data format Click the data format of the column that is selected in the Data preview section. If you do not want to import the selected column, click Do not import column (skip).
After you select a data format option for the selected column, the column heading under Data preview displays the format. If you select Date, select a date format in the Date box.
Choose the data format that closely matches the preview data so that Excel can convert the imported data correctly. For example:
To convert a column of all currency number characters to the Excel Currency format, select General.
To convert a column of all number characters to the Excel Text format, select Text.
To convert a column of all date characters, each date in the order of year, month, and day, to the Excel Date format, select Date, and then select the date type of YMD in the Date box.
Excel will import the column as General if the conversion could yield unintended results. For example:
If the column contains a mix of formats, such as alphabetical and numeric characters, Excel converts the column to General.
If, in a column of dates, each date is in the order of year, month, and date, and you select Date along with a date type of MDY, Excel converts the column to General format. A column that contains date characters must closely match an Excel built-in date or custom date formats.
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Let's travel back in time to see what answers David Smallman Everton gave when asked some simple questions during his playing days.
How did David Smallman Everton answer the questions put to him ? But what's the latest let's see if he has a wikipeadia page for more info ?


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With Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's retirement, Congress will lose arguably its most colorful, powerful, quotable characters. As expected, the news has longtime Capitol hands pulling out their best Frank anecdotes. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) regaled the news corps this morning with a few of her favorites – launching into a rare riff of storytelling.
Pelosi told of one of her early phone conversations with Frank, shortly after she arrived in the House in 1987. A fellow California lawmaker – former Orange County Rep. William Dannemeyer – made comments on the floor that Pelosi considered anti-gay, she said. She was outraged and wanted to talk to Frank, one of the first openly gay lawmakers, about what to do. He had no time for it.
"What are you calling me for? You have something to say, go down to the floor and say it. Why are you wasting my time?" Pelosi recalled Frank saying. From then on she learned to call Frank and talk in shorthand: "Barney, subject, question, timing, action. It really served me well for over 20 years."
The two developed a close relationship, Pelosi said. He liked to rip her for being one week older. He even commented on her style.
Pelosi told of her first time managing a bill as ranking member of the Foreign Operations Committee. She said she was excited and nervous – "To me, the most important place in the world was foreign ops" – and she put a new suit on for the occasion.
"So I got to the floor and the first person I see is Barney Frank who says, 'That suit, give it away,' " Pelosi recalled.
Frank is known for his cutting candor, but not his fashion sense. He's been described as looking like an "unmade bed," rumpled and untucked. Pelosi said that after the debate on the floor, the former committee chairman, the famously gruff Rep. David Obey, told her she could have been a little more diplomatic.
"This is really my day, I'm getting fashion advice from Barney Frank and diplomacy advice from David Obey," she said.


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State of the Gulf of Mexico - Summit II
Hosted by the Harte Research Institute
December 4 - 8, 2011
Omni Galleria Hotel
Houston, Texas
The Harte Research Institute (HRI) is planning a second State of the Gulf Summit along with several partners: Gulf of Mexico Foundation, Gulf of Mexico University Research Collaborative, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), The Gulf of Mexico Alliance, and The Nature Conservancy (TNC).
The Summit seeks to bring together the diverse array of actors working in the Gulf of Mexico towards restoration from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and prior environmental degradation. Many prominent players from a range of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the federally appointed Restoration Task Force, and the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) process are expected to attend, including, notably, Administrator of NOAA, Dr. Jane Lubchenco. This summit will provide an ideal platform to develop a shared vision of a healthy Gulf, allowing government, NGO, academic, and international experts to share knowledge and formulate a roadmap for restoration.


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Tamoxifen for DCIS
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I recently was diagnosed with high nuclear grade, multifocal, comedo-necrosis type DCIS. I underwent a modified radical mastectomy. No invasive cancer was found, & all 13 nodes excised were negative.
Estrogen receptor status was not done as the clinical guidelines in Canada indicate no further treatment is necessary. Is Tamoxifen warranted as further treatment in this type of DCIS, esp. for protection for the other breast? Is it only effective on ER+ receptors?
Kevin Fox, MD, Assistant Director, Clinical Affairs and Associate Professor of Hematology/Oncology at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania responds:
Tamoxifen will benefit you only insofar as it may lower the risk of breast cancer in the opposite breast. Your DCIS has been treated adequately with surgery; tamoxifen will provide no additional treatment benefit in regard to the breast that was removed. Estrogen receptors are not factored into the management of DCIS as opposed to invasive cancer.


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Question: Would you be willing to look at my MRA and MRI's on the neck jaw. I've been in debilitation, excruciating pain for the past couple of years. My head was twisted, repeatedly and cheeks on and pulled forward repeatedly at the same time my mouth was jarred opened beyond it's capability. The upper jaw – cheeks were pushed up at the same time the lower jaw was pushed down on excessively. The radiologist cannot seem to find anything that would cause that much pain, but the pain is excruciating from the cheek, running down through the face and ear and into my collar bone and shoulder. Thank you for any help.
Answer: hi,
thanks so much for the question. although i would really like to help you, the point of this forum is to answer general questions and not directly to dispense medical advice to a particular person. hope that you find your answer to help you.


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"THE GAME" � (9:30-10:00 p.m. ET)
"Tasha, Renee, and Malik the Clich�" (CONTENT RATING TBD) (HDTV)
LIVING WITH MAMA � When Malik (Hosea Chanchez) brings Renee (guest star Kendra Johnson) to his house for the first time for a romantic rendezvous, Renee is shocked to find out he lives with his mother. Renee tells Malik that she cannot have sex in the same house he shares with his mother. Looking for advice, Malik asks Melanie (Tia Mowry) her thoughts on the situation, which leads to Malik telling Tasha (Wendy Raquel Robinson) that they need to change their living arrangements. Meanwhile, Jason (Coby Bell) decides to win his new coach over by hosting the team's bible study at his house, even though he hasn't been inside a church in the last 20 years. Pooch Hall and Brittany Daniel also star. Salim Akil directed the episode written by Julie Bean (#40596-025).


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Florent V.
The WHAT-WG changed a few definitions and now you can't micromanage insignificant semantics the way you wanted to. This is really sad.
- The idea that there should be a defined semantic construct for everything in HTML is flawed.
- DIALOG was removed because of that. If HTML5 defines DIALOG, then it is entitled to define roughly 50 more semantic constructs inherited from existing print or online publications. BIBLIOGRAPHY, COMMENTS, WHATEVER. The choice of the WHAT-WG is to not offer specific semantics for every relatively popular use case out there, as that would make the spec more bloated (and most authors would just ignore those constructs and never actually use them). I think that's a sound decision.
- Obviously the spec still has some strange constructs. The transformation of DT and DD as a generic means to associate text content to an element (text to text, text to image) is a strange move. Is such a generic construct was needed, creating it would have been better in my opinion.
- I won't cry over the restriction in meaning of CITE. I was already using it for publications only, not people. One difference between people and publications is that you will want to always tag publication names with CITE, while you won't want to always highlight a person's name. Highlighting a person's name is a more discretionary move, so resorting to neutral elements (SPAN) or an occasional STRONG element is a good move in my opinion.
- I consider your use of an OL list to be some kind of abuse of that element. Likewise for the use of UL/LI for marking up comments in this very page. We should stop putting OL and UL everywhere because it's "more semantic" (ha!). We shoud think about the benefits and inconveniences of the (loose) semantics we use when doing that. One funny thing about that trend of over-using lists is that's it's mostly done by English-speaking writers and coders, while the French ones don't seem to do it (or not as much). I think it may come down to a few articles in English by influential HTML-CSS bloggers.
I'll respond to your riot incitation with another: stop obsessing over semantic micromanagement, people! Also, test in screen readers, that helps avoiding problematic semantic constructs (though screen readers may be wrong, too).


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The Polo Series showed off their new trophy, jerseys and the official painting last week at a cocktail party at the stunning historic home, Selema Hall, on Riedling Drive belonging to Drs. Kern and Elizabeth Alexander.
The team sponsors are Lenihan/Southeby's, Land Rover, The Lee W. Robinson Company and Sophisticated Living. The supporting sponsors are BBC Brewing Company and Seng Jewelers. The party was hosted by Elizabeth and John Lenihan, Babs and Lee Robinson, Andy and Mandy Vine and Bridget and Eric Williams.
The Alexanders have seven children between them and were childhood friends. He is the only person to have been president of two Kentucky Universities – Murray and Western.
All of the polo matches will be played at Oxmoor Farm. This will be an improvement over the first matches played in Louisville in the early 1930s in Seneca Park.
Birthday Candles
There sure were a lot of candles on Jim Haynes' birthday cake! 60 to be exact. Sara gave him a party to remember for a long time.
Friends gathered on the lawn and under a big tent for cocktails and dinner. If the heat got to be too much, then guests went into the ice "room†and gathered around the ice bar to chill down. Seriously, there was an outdoor room with walls of ice that were lit from underneath. To top it all off, the bar glasses were made of, what else? Ice!
It was a wonderful way to celebrate with friends and family of all ages socializing, having cool cocktails and then a delicious buffet prepared by the Silver Spoon.
Enjoying it all were Cheryl and Julius Friedman, Donna and Glen Reif, Susan and Michael Vine, Linda and Glyn Humphrey, Mandy and Andy Vine, Shaio Woo and John Shaw Woo, Debbie and Steve Reiss, Julia Lee and Doug Haynes, Babs and Lee Robinson, Sandra Ann Frazier, Ann Sternberg, Sister and Bodley Stites, Carol Seifer and Sandy Abrams and Gayla Irwin.
The Haynes' son, Travis was there with his fiancée, Ashley. Jim's sister Ann and her husband Ronnie flew in from El Paso.
The band was great. They were good and they were not trying to blow you out of the tent! The leader of the band was Graves Lee, who is a student at Tulane. He is Julie Lee's son. They were probably the best band I've heard in a year!


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Inquisition… Enlightenment… Reform… Communism… Zionism… Technology – Find the odd one out
In the race to the bottom that the anti-internet campaign has become it appears that no form of words is too stupid, no expression too trite, no metaphor too far fetched and no analogy too extreme for the fearmongers and thought police organising these events.
Strange then that despite the apparent strength of their convictions and the steadfastness of their resolve the organisers will not spread the message beyond Hebrew and Yiddish speakers. Unlike strawberry, grape and fish infestations in which the English language is squished for the sake of saving a Jewish soul from the hazards of creepy crawlies, saving us from the catastrophe unleashed by the internet is confined to Hebrew and Yiddish speakers.
So as a public service we will provide a blow-by-blow translation of the clarion call for a mass stampede to Leyton Orient's home ground as leafleted daily in tabloid typeface, brash graphics and garish colours. Oh, the wonders of technology. And so that the sacrifice of entire forests is not in vain we here will ensure that the message to rescue Judaism from oblivion reaches its widest audience.
Today we start with a debate between the Devil and his counterpart on the war being waged against God's Chosen on the battlefield of the world wide web. As every Miltonian scholar well knows the Devil gets the best lines and it is no different when trying to ensnare us poor vulnerable souls in the trap set by Tim Berners-Lee.
So without further ado here goes the first skirmish in the fight of the blinding light of fundamentalism and raging fire of ignorance against the candle of reason and the flame of knowledge.
A SERIOUS DEBATE BETWEEN THE YETZER HORA (evil inclination) AND THE YETZER TOV (good inclination) ON THE DOMINATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE OVER THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS
Yetzer Hora
Yetzer Tov
I established an INQUISITION to apostatise ever more Jews
But Jews martyred themselves and went into exile leaving behind their wealth, possessions and belongings!
I developed the HASKALA (enlightenment) to create "enlightened Jews"
The sages of Israel with the holy power of the Torah and Hasidism successfully defeated it.
I created the REFORM to reform Judaism
The Gedoilim of the generation railed that 'Novelty is forbidden by the Torah' and Jews remained steadfast to tradition.
I organised COMMUNISM to divert the Jewish people
With immense devotion Jews maintained synagogues, schools and mikvo'oth until thank God it was destroyed.
I brought ZIONISM to destroy Jewish continuity
The people of Israel obeyed the call of 'Who is to God, let him come unto me' and there survived a Judaism devout to God and his Torah.
Now I have produced TECHNOLOGY that is ripping God's people to shreds and this time I will UPROOT EVERYTHING
You just wait, hold tight, my battle for the rescue of the future has only just begun. As always with God's help we will succeed with a mighty victory.
For this purpose thousands of Jews, no evil eye, will assemble at 'The Assembly of the Jewish People' in Leyton Stadium
Instead of engaging in a futile debate on the nonsensical analogies let's just for a moment take them at their own word. Let us assume that the common denominator of the comparators is indeed that they were all aimed at destroying Judaism and that technology is the Inquisition of 2012. Yet one cannot help but notice that while the historical movements exerted pressure from the outside, whether by coercion or persuasion, in the case of the internet it is something we have and continue to embrace of our own free will.
No one forces you to connect to broadband, there is not auto-da-fe to make you sign up to a smartphone, the NKVD won't make you open an email account and nor is there anything to prevent us logging off en masse if we were minded to do so. The problem for them is that we don't want to. The same people who will attend the rally because they share some of the concerns or because they feel compelled to show their face will also log on once they get home to check news reports and web gossip of the event, assuming they weren't monitoring the bans in real time on their very proscribed phones.
And that is the difference. We want the internet to communicate with the wider world, to broaden our horizons in hitherto unimaginable ways, to expose the corruption and downright idiocy of our leaders, to engage in the openness and accessibility denied to us by our education and way of life, to widen our circle of acquaintances, to debate freely issues we care about, to taste forbidden fruits available elsewhere and, increasingly, to decide we quite like what we see and move over altogether.
This is what we gain by technology and this is what they fear. If the 9 circles of hell exist in every amoled screen then we descend each more willingly than the last. So let them rail, let them threaten, let them ban. It is they who are acting like our persecutors of times bygone and our threat today comes not from without but from within. The web, however, is here to stay and the sooner it brings an end to the madness we have engulfed ourselves in the sooner we may see the end to rallies like this one.


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11 October 2010 at 6.25pm | 6 Comments
The Royal Opera is deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Dame Joan Sutherland, who died on 10 October 2010.
Antonio Pappano, Music Director, The Royal Opera
"I had the opportunity to work with Joan on two occasions, her first Adriana Lecouvreur (I was the lowly prompter) and Anna Bolena. She actually was 'Stupenda'. A lovely human being who could sing anybody off the stage. And I mean anybody. What she did for bel canto music and its technique cannot be underestimated. We have lost one of the true greats. My sincere condolences to Maestro Bonynge, who played such an important role in Joan's life".
Dame Joan Sutherland at the Royal Opera House
Dame Joan Sutherland joined the Covent Garden Opera Company in 1952 and made her Royal Opera debut the same year singing First Lady in Die Zauberflöte. Later that season, she sang the role of High Priestess in Aida, and Clotilde in Norma (alongside Maria Callas and Ebe Stignani). She created the role of Jennifer in the world premiere of Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage in 1955, going on to sing Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) in 1956, Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and Gilda (Rigoletto) in 1957, and Desdemona (Otello) and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites in 1958. In 1959 she made her role debut in Lucia di Lammermoor and became an overnight sensation. Her successful partnership with Pavarotti at Covent Garden began in 1965 in La sonnambula, when she sang role of Amina with Pavarotti singing Elvino. They sang together again in La Fille du régiment (Marie and Tonio) in 1966, and 1967, followed by performances of Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia and Edgardo) in 1973. Joan Sutherland's subsequent roles at Covent Garden included Norma (1967), Maria Stuarda (1977), Leonora (Il trovatore) in 1981. Her final performances as Lucia at Covent Garden were in 1985 and her final opera at Covent Garden was Anna Bolena in 1988. She last appeared at Covent Garden on New Year's Eve 1990 in a gala performance of Die Fledermaus as a special guest, together with Luciano Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne, in the Act II Party Scene.