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I'm trying to set autosave to use a directory in ./emacs.d/autosaves. I previously used the two commented out lines below and currently tried the other function I found on the web. Really all I want is the autosaves to not be stored in the same directory. It does this in
(defvar autosave-dir
(concat "/home/" (user-login-name) "/.emacs.d/autosaves/"))
(make-directory autosave-dir t)
(defun auto-save-file-name-p (filename)
(string-match "^#.*#$" (file-name-nondirectory filename)))
(defun make-auto-save-file-name ()
(concat autosave-dir
(if buffer-file-name
(concat "#" (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name) "#")
(concat "#%" (buffer-name) "#")))))
;; (setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
;; `(("#.*#" ,"~/.emacs.d/backups/" t)))
or can I set autosave to put a #notes.org# at the beginning and end of the file because currently has the format .#notes.org.

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Mercenary Kings was released on Steam Early Access in July last year and many people cited its run-and-gun action, retro graphics and emphasis on customisable weapons as being reminiscent of the Metal Slug and Borderlands series. Now developer Tribute Games has announced that Mercenary Kings will blast its way onto PS4 via the PlayStation Store on April 1st in North America and April 2nd in European territories.
Pricing details haven't been announced as yet and there's also no word whether or not the game will be next month's PlayStation Plus freebie for PS4. However, Tributes Games did confirm that Mercenary Kings supports up to four-player co-op either locally or online, and the game's weapon set includes over 300 gun parts and more than 100 knives.
Here's the official synopsis for Mercenary Kings along with the latest trailer for the game:
"In this action-packed adventure, you must choose between Empress and King, two members of the elite squad known as the Mercenary Kings! Dropped on Mandragora Island, you're tasked with one mission: rescue the brilliant Dr. James Neil from the forces of C.L.A.W. (Cyber Loyalist Active Weapons) and prevent them from using the Mandrake Formula to conquer the globe."
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I am newbie to Test Automation.Currently I got an oppurtunity to work with selenium Web driver.I just want to know whether I need to learn Database like MYSQL,OR ORACLE to work with selenium. Also I need to know whether any need comes if I need to create queries for making automation script more power full.?
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Should Selenium Automation Testers possess knowledge on Database concepts and to write queries in the script?
Strictly speaking you don't need to know how databases work to work with any automation tool. But without an understanding of databases and the ability to query them, you block off a large source of extra information you can use for validation.
Some examples:
That's not a complete list but it's a starting point. I'd strongly recommend learning any database and query language (they're all very similar), because it will make your automation scripts more powerful and more accurate.
The general answer, for me to 'whether I need to learn' is always 'Yes, if you can find time for it', especially if it makes you progress in your field. There is no clear definition of how much knowledge a test engineer should have. As an automation engineer, you can be as good as any programmer or just know how to automate some testing using tools like Selenium, Watir, QTP, etc. - it is your choice at the end of the day.


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Recent and archived news articles by David Firestone of The New York Times.
Time's Running Out for the Torture Report
Republicans and the White House don't want it to be made public.
November 21, 2014, Friday
There's No Proof of Surveillance Abuse?
The world, of course, doesn't know the full extent of the program or its abuses, because it is secret.
November 20, 2014, Thursday
What Keystone Really Creates: Talking Points for Republicans
The pointless debate about the pipeline played directly into Republican hands.
November 19, 2014, Wednesday
Behind the G.O.P.'s Misleading Shutdown Statements
Mitch McConnell said he wouldn't shut down the government. John Boehner said he wouldn't rule out that possibility.
November 14, 2014, Friday
Elizabeth Warren Should Be a Partner, Not Just a Consultant
She's joining the Democratic leadership table as a "strategic policy adviser."
November 13, 2014, Thursday
New York's Miserable Voter Turnout Isn't an Accident
Incompetent Albany politicians like the system just the way it is.
November 12, 2014, Wednesday
Is It Too Late for a Democratic ALEC?
Conservatives have enacted their agenda with impunity at the state level.
November 10, 2014, Monday
The Tornado Election
More than a third of people voting for a Republican House candidate said they were unhappy or even angry at the Republican leaders in Congress.
November 5, 2014, Wednesday
Arkansas Votes for Higher Minimum Wage, and a Republican
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November 4, 2014, Tuesday
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Only 2 days of work left (or 1 depending on when you read this) and as we finalize our travel arrangements (booking Kerala for Xmas and New Year) I thought I would jump on and do a last look at my toons.
THD reminded me that 3.0.3 was out (shows you how much attention I am paying to WoW), so I was very excited to log in and confirm that Hallowed be my Gnome.
Not only hallowed, but apparently I have gained a mate, a shadow.
I have been careful in the last week not to post any auctions or send any mail. I couldn't afford to have it expire whole I was away and end up in Blizzard's dead letter box.
Dead Letters
On the subject of mail, do you know:
- Mail will remain in your mailbox (unread or read these days) for 28 days.
- At the end of the 28 days it will be returned to sender.
- If the sender is another player character, it will appear and remain in their mailbox for a further 28 days (but I don't think it is returned again to sender after that).
- If the sender is a NPC (eg. The Auction House), after 28 days the mail gets returned to a sender that can't return it, so it disappears into the void.
- I have heard (but not tested) that COD mail gets returned after 3 days.
So what, I hear you say?
Think of COD mail as your Auction House stock overflow release valve.
Send a 1 copper COD mail to one of your Alts, 3 days later, without logging onto that Alt, the item is back in your mailbox, ready for posting to the AH.
Remember, moral of the story is make sure all your mail is removed or forwarded within 28 days or you risk the loss.
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So yeah I logged onto all my toons just to check there was no mail that might expire in the next couple of months.
I was kind of surprised how many toons I had littered across a lot of realms.
It appears I love Priests the least, as they never make into double figures (to be fair, I want to level a Priest, but they always end up being server downtime toons, that never get any further love) , but my least loved toon is my warrior.
Sure it made it to level 29, but not one step further. When I saw it last night, and realizing I never wanted to level it further, I thought it was well placed as a BG toon. Sure, not a twink, but ready for WSG and AB. Assuming Aurdon isn't correct and BG XP is coming in the future. Which is specifically why I am opposed to BG XP.
That Gnome is toast
I ended the night trying to get a few more coins together for another Gnome ransom note for my Orc Shaman Nomesnatcha. Unfortunately the news hasn't become public about the Gnome abduction, and with Xmas fast approaching, Nomesnatcha wants her Sprite Darter in a Pear Tree.
Anyway, in her quest to gather the coppers to send another ransom note, she went from level 2 to 6.
I have played a Mage for too long. I am a lightning casting machine, and I need to /facepalm to remember I can now melée.
Anyway, money is earned, but I don't think I will be sending a ransom note this side of Xmas, as I won't be around to collect the booty that is due to Nomesnatcha.
Must say, I have enjoyed playing a Shaman, and revisiting the Orc starting zone after so long.
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The low minimum wage is a problem in the city. During the State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama mentioned how he would like to see minimum wage increase to $10 an hour. Realistically, no one can live on $8 an hour.
Even as a full-time worker at 40 hours a week, that is $320 a week before taxes get taken out. That's $1,280 a month. When taxes get taken out that's less than $1,000 being made to pay bills, support families, and to support oneself. I agree with President Obama's concern on minimum wage because barely anyone can make a living.
Many people state how high the rate of homelessness is but how can homelessness be diminished if jobs with low pay are sometimes the cause of homelessness? Or how about college students? How are us college students supposed to put ourselves through college or purchase books when one book is more than what one week's paycheck would give us? Education is important to us. So is trying to support ourselves.
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April 27, 2012 -- Doctors have been scratching their heads over how to treat bad cases of dandruff for more than century.
Over-the-counter shampoos and scalp treatments can help when dandruff is mild, says Thomas L. Dawson, PhD, a scientist at Procter & Gamble who works on Head & Shoulders shampoo. But they may not always benefit people with badly flaking and irritated scalps.
Now, a raft of new research, including a new study published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, suggests that scientists may be close to heading off the fungus that causes the problem in the first place.
Getting to the Root of Dandruff
Malassezia globosa is a fungus present on the skin of many newborns. Often, it lives harmlessly in the top layer of skin without causing any problems.
But for an estimated 50% of the population, it burrows into a hair follicle and sets up shop. And for reasons doctors don't fully understand, the body reacts. Skin cells can become irritated and shed roughly four times faster than normal, dropping off in days instead of once a month. The scalp can become irritated and itchy.
Scientists have long known that malassezia was the culprit behind dandruff, but because it is difficult to grow in a laboratory, it was tough to study.
In 2007, Dawson and a team of researchers at Procter & Gamble sequenced the Malassezia genome. That discovery gave scientists a new way to study the organism, and it sparked a resurgence of interest in finding ways to stop the problematic fungus.
"That was really the key in the lock that opened the door to all this work," Dawson says.
In the latest study, researchers in Italy and the U.K. were able to use the genome to look for proteins that might be critical to malassezia's growth.
They found an enzyme that helps the fungus break down carbon dioxide.
"When you inhibit this enzyme, the organism cannot grow well, so the organism dies," says Claudiu T. Supuran, a chemistry professor at the University of Florence.
What's more, the enzyme can be stopped by antibacterial drugs called sulfonamides or sulfas, which have been around since the 1930s.
Supuran and his colleagues tested that idea by giving six mice bad cases of dandruff and then treating them with a sulfa drug. Four out of the six mice showed improvement, suggesting that sulfa drugs may be a new weapon against dandruff.


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The old Junior High School could get a new owner. The Wellington school board accepted an offer from Gary Hassenilu, a developer from Kansas City, to purchase and develop the building into rental units.
It isn't a done deal though. Hassenilu is waiting to hear if he will get a tax credit he needs in order to complete the project. The board approved a similar deal with him last year, but he did not get the tax credit, so he is trying again.
The offer is for $150,000 and the board accepted it on a 5-2 vote. The developer will find out next May if he will get the tax credit he needs, so it would be a year or so before it becomes finalized.
Some board members did not like the idea of tying up the property that long. However it was pointed out that there have been no other offers.
Hassenilu said he is much more confident this time that his company will get the tax credit, because he lowered the proposed cost of the rental units and he has a letter from the local housing authority supporting the project.
The plan is to turn the building into 42 units of one, two and three-bedroom units with rent ranging from $380 to $650.
He said there would have to be a lot of asbestos removal. The project would be handicapped accessible, and there would be new windows and a lot of work done on the exterior.
"It will look like it did when it was built," he said.
The project would cost around $8 million.
Maintaining the historical integrity of the building is essential to the project, he added.
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It was a cool Monday morning when I was greeted at 7:30 am with a flat tire on my pickup. Before I knew it, it was a blistering hot afternoon and the tire was beyond repair. My laptop decided to join the bad news bandwagon and quit working as well! Needless to say, I went to bed early that night in hopes to avoid any other catastrophes.
The rest of the week went fast as the 3i Show was finally here. Unlike the weather so far this week, it was hot! Terribly, horribly HOT!!! But other than that, I'd say my first 3i Show was a success. It was so fun seeing the different exhibitors and hearing their stories. My favorite exhibit would have to be Cowgirls Dazzle! This booth was full of turquoise, crosses, and bling. Didn't make it to their booth? No problem, check out their Facebook page!
After being in the heat all day for four days...I was exhausted. I tell ya...this air conditioned office work makes a wuss out of you real quick! I had drinks and supper at Bad Habit's one night, Kate's the next...but Central Station is where the official after party was! Kyle Park and special guest Matt Stillwell performed live. It was a good time with great friends! Really got me looking forward to the Dodge City Days Street Dance on August 1st. I've seen Wes Cossman Band multiple times and they are sure to put on a great show! Click here for more details on the Street Dance or other events during the 10 day festival. Hope to see you there! Here are some of the pictures I took at the 3i Show. Such a fun event to be a part of, even if it's over 100 degrees outside! Be sure to check back this week for details on upcoming events.
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Why does Frodo have to fly solo without the others at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring? Especially Aragorn and Legolas both seem like incredible assassins/bodyguards and basically immune to the draw of the ring.
Frodo saw the effect the ring had on Boromir (Sean Bean), and knew that eventually it would corrupt the rest of the Fellowship. No one is immune to the ring. Even, Gandalf and Galadriel refused to touch it. Frodo as a hobbit, is a bit resistant to the ring, but not completely impervious to it's influence. This is something that Lady Galadriel had foretold (emphasis mine).
So Frodo knew that if he was to have a real chance at destroying the ring he would need to do this by himself and carry the burden alone. Of course Sam had other ideas.


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I'm thinking of making a house rule for Pathfinder which lets you counter attack when your opponent rolls a natural 1 to attack. First, is there already a counter attack system in Pathfinder? If not, how will my house rule impact the balance of the game?
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There is no "counter attack" system in Pathfinder as such. First off attacks are presumed to be happening at the same time, and swords, maces, and fists are expected to be flying all the time. The closest thing in Pathfinder is the Attack of Opportunity which models how attacking a character when they have effectively left themselves open, by casting a spell, running past, or some other mechanism.
Let's look at what your suggesting as an attack of opportunity. If you only have it occur on a natural 1, it will happen 5% of the time to all characters regardless of skill. Obviously it benefits characters in melee more as an opportunity to damage and causes a problem as they are taking more damage. It's not going to effect casters or ranged characters much since they aren't making attacks in melee often. It also benefits melee characters who have Combat Reflexes (can make more than one Attack of Opportunity) as they would be able to take advantage of it more often. It may also discourage a character from making all their attacks if they have multiple attacks. If you have 3 attacks, and the lowest only has a 10% chance to hit, but also involves a 5% chance of a counterattack you might not take that chance.
In short you will increase the lethality of melee combat slightly across the board, and improve the attractiveness of Combat Reflexes, while slightly decreasing the attractiveness of multiple attacks. It probably wouldn't be game breaking, but it would certainly affect play.
It would also affect the flow of play. Your combats will be interrupted more often with players making out of turn actions more often 5% of the turn for every attack made.
One way to include this as an idea, would be to draw on the Parry class skill that was included in the Neverwinter Nights games.
It was a Dex based skill available to the non-arcane casters(except bards so only sorcerer and wizard didn't get it as a class skill). The check used a fluid DC
In addition, if a Parry exceeded the attack by more than 10 points, then it allowed a counter-attack. Each successive counter-attack took a cumulative -5 penalty to the roll(along the lines of the penalties to BAB for multiple attacks). Wearing armor applies the check penalty as per normal for Dex skills.
The big issue with just making it a natural 1 is that this makes it more frequent than critical hits, which become a problem when the players make so many more rolls than the enemies.
One thing you could do, though, is invert the threat/confirm system: a natural 1 on an attack roll creates an "opening threat," and the player must make a second "confirmation" roll with the same modifiers. If that roll also misses, then the player has provoked an attack of opportunity from the target. The target must still obey the usual AoO rules when countering -for example, they must be able to actually reach the attacker- or else the counter is negated.
This should keep things relatively balanced versus critical hits. It gives some advantage to reach, range, and higher BABs: the former two reduce the amount of foes that can counterattack you, and the latter reduces the number of times you leave yourself open in this way. Then again, that could be considered a touch of realism.


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Yesterday, President Obama called for more federal aid to states too hire so-called "school resource officers" as part of his gun safety proposals.
In Warren County, talks of having an armed guard in schools for protection began more than 14 years ago. That's how long the county schools have had school resource officers.
Every Warren County High School has a school resource officer, also responsible for a middle school, and since the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, they've made an extra effort to be present in the elementary schools too.
Each officer is a Sheriff's deputy, trained and armed for even the worst of situations.
Situations we think about even more since that fateful day in Newtown.
"Unfortunate incidents that have happened around the world can cause everyone to have a heightened sense of awareness, and if a school resource officer here can help students have a good, safe learning environment... that's what we need." said Warren East High School Resource Officer and Sheriff's Deputy Mike Waldrop.
It was the Sheriff who suggested having deputies in schools even before the Columbine Massacre in 1999.
"We live in a society now where you need law and order. They rob a bank everyday here somewhere... have been. You have to have people to protect the citizens of Warren County, and the school resource officer is one of the most important things we have," said Warren County Sheriff Jerry "Peanuts" Gaines.
Some have suggested going a step further, and arming teachers.
The Sheriff says he could only hope it would never get to that point, but if it did, extensive training would be necessary.
"I'm not saying they should be or shouldn't have them, but you just don't want them in there with a gun not knowing what they're doing," said Sheriff Gaines.
One parent says he might be open to the idea.
"That would seem appropriate if someone was trained in that process," said WEHS Parent Danny Vincent.
Gaines says ideally, the federal government should help pay for resource officers so it never reaches that point.
These officers are paid by both the school system, and the Sheriff's Department, but currently receive no state or federal funding.


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Worn for countless years to come, there are a few considerations to keep in mind. Begin by creating a budget for your rings and start your search at least a month or two prior to your wedding.
For the bride, a unique ring combination may be the choice or matching the engagement ring may be her preferred combination. For the groom, find a wedding band that fits his personal style or take a cue from her ring set. Be sure to measure your fingers at different times during the day to get an exact measurement.
Women's Wedding Rings
Creative to classic, your choice of wedding ring can be very personal, an enduring reminder of the day you say, "I do." From diamond-accented, hand-carved, gemstone-accented or a polished precious metal band, the choices are all beautifully-sculpted. In addition, prong setting allows more light into the diamond for maximum brilliance. A channel setting protects diamonds from abrasions and offers a smoother look. A three-stone diamond ring represents your past, present, and future together.
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By Ann Hornaday
Friday, October 26, 2012
If ever there existed an unadaptable book, it's "Cloud Atlas," David Mitchell's 2004 novel that possessed a daunting, densely woven multi-part structure, characters who appeared and reappeared throughout six eras and even an original, never-before-heard language. A metaphysical meditation that careered from the 19th century to the 24th -- zigging, zagging, doubling back and hairpinning along the way -- "Cloud Atlas" was an unparalleled work of literary and moral imagination, an ambitious ziggurat that took readers to the heights of wordplay, philosophy and storytelling itself.
It seems altogether appropriate that it has taken not one but three filmmakers to bully "Cloud Atlas" to the screen: A structural and narrative challenge as prodigious as this needs many hands -- not to mention genres and tastes -- on deck to bring the multitudes it contains to life.
While Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski haven't necessarily expanded on Mitchell's book, they've done a superlative job making it legible onscreen. "Cloud Atlas" deserves praise if only for not being the baggy, pretentious disaster it could have been in other hands.
At its simplest, "Cloud Atlas" tells the interlocking stories of several characters over a 500-year span: Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess), a San Francisco lawyer traveling in the Pacific Islands in 1849; Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw), a brilliant young composer plying his trade in pre-World War II Britain; Luisa Rey (Halle Berry), a journalist investigating environmental corruption in 1973 San Francisco; Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent), a London publisher on the professional and personal ropes; Sonmi 351 (Doona Bae), a genetically engineered service worker laboring in New Seoul in 2144; and Zachry (Tom Hanks), the indigenous inhabitant of an island engaged in perpetual tribal warfare in the 2300s.
How these disparate players intersect becomes the labyrinthine game of "Cloud Atlas," in which each story line gets its own distinctive look and tone: historical drama for Ewing; "Masterpiece Theater"-worthy tastefulness for Frobisher; "French Connection"-era naturalism for Luisa Rey; cozy British comedy for Cavendish; Wachowski-esque pop futurism for Sonmi and scarified post-modern Primitivism for Zachry.
Those visual cues work well in helping viewers make sense of the dizzying time-trips "Cloud Atlas" takes them on; more controversial is having the same actor portray characters in every subplot, a choice that is surely motivated by Mitchell's interest in reincarnation and trans-historical truths but that occasionally feels like an exceptionally elaborate stunt.
The prostheses can be downright distracting, especially some cheesy-looking rubbery noses and Hank's aggressively rotting teeth in the 19th century sequences.
The danger of casting such big name stars in so many roles (I haven't even mentioned Hugh Grant and Hugo Weaving, who ably play the heavies in "Cloud Atlas's" many pieces, or a similarly effective Susan Sarandon) is that anything as subtle as a performance is next to impossible. One of the small miracles of "Cloud Atlas" is that every actor manages to create a palpable, even memorable character, within a structure that threatens to blow apart from its own concentric force.
As a parable of connectedness, liberation and progressive martyrdom (each protagonist grapples with some form of oppression, based on race, sexual orientation, gender, age, genetics or planetary origin), "Cloud Atlas" conveys exhilaratingly humanist values, whether couched in the cinematic vernacular of computer-game kitsch or twee British slapstick.
The question is whether such a vast, complicated piece of literature really needed to be reduced -- however thoughtfully -- into vignettes of Hollywood genre (vignettes, admittedly, that add up to a nearly three-hour sit). At its most on-the-nose, the movie suffers from sanctimony that is probably inevitable when evoking the Eternal Now.
At its best, though, "Cloud Atlas" represents just the kind of nerve and ingenuity that movies so desperately need these days. As a hymn to mutability -- human and cinematic -- "Cloud Atlas" reaches for the high notes and hits them often enough.
Contains violence, profanity, sexuality/nudity and some drug use.


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In Google Earth, if you move the mouse over a 3D model (building), it turns light blue. If you click on it, you get a description (or sometimes just an approximate address).
Google Earth plug-in web apps like Monster Milktruck or First Person Cam are wonderful educational tools for exploring an area, and learning about it spatially. For example you are walking or driving around Rome, and you see buildings like the Coliseum or the Forum, but you don't know what they are; so it would be very useful to be able to click on them as you can in Google Earth, and get a description.
Is there any way to do this in the G Earth Plug-in API? I see that a hitTest can tell you whether you clicked on a model, and if so, what the lat/lon of your hit is. But surprisingly, it doesn't tell us which model was hit. Nor can I find any way to look up the model in Google 3D Warehouse using the lat/lon.
Can someone tell me a way to do this? Or is it for sure not allowed?


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I have an Ubuntu Server 10.04 VPS (Virtual Private Server) that hosts my website. I would like to clone this VPS and create a VirtualBox machine from it. How can I do this?
I think you want to look at the command
Once you have the hard drive converted, you can just create a new Virtual Machine, but use your existing disk image you just created.
If you want to migrate the whole installation byte-for-byte, in essence making a copy of the disk: read penguin359's answer, or see Moving linux install to a new computer.
If you just want to reproduce the settings of an existing installation: install a basic system from scratch, then run


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Award-winning Scotch whisky producer, Isle of Arran Distillers, have just re-launched their Robert Burns Single Malt, a multi-vintage edition of The Arran Malt named after Scotland's most famous son.
A fitting tribute to Scotland's national poet, who famously had a taste for whisky, the new malt will hit stores at the end of September and is set to be a success with both whisky and literature fans alike.
This special Single Malt is the official Scotch whisky commemorating Robert Burns' legacy and is consequently a highly anticipated launch from Arran Distillery this year.
Made of the finest ex-Bourbon and ex-Sherry casks, with no artificial colouring added, the spirit has a rich and smooth flavour.
Commenting on the flavour of the blend, Arran's Master Distiller, James MacTaggart, said: "This malt has been skilfully created by combining different ages to produce a beautifully rounded whisky. The sweet, fruity notes and the depth of flavour mean that this malt can be happily enjoyed neat, on the rocks or as part of a classic whisky cocktail."
Euan Mitchell, Managing Director of Isle of Arran Distilleries, said: "As a Patron of the Robert Burns World Federation we wanted to create something special and with the end result we have achieved liquid poetry.
"Both Burns and whisky are global Scottish icons and we aim to promote this new bottling around the world".
Retailing at £28.99, the Robert Burns Single Malt is the perfect romantic gift for a whisky lover or poetry fan. Buy online at http://www.arranwhisky.com.


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In his latest special effects-laden spectacular, Freddie Wong takes on an issue that I believe is an area of massive untapped potential in the Grand Theft Auto franchise. Not every driver is going to take carjacking lying down. They might not strap on rollerblades and perform death-defying highway stunts, but they're going to do something.
Now I'm imagining a Grand Theft Auto where you steal a car and drive off, only to have the victim steal another vehicle and take off after you.
I'd also like to see vehicles with baby-filled car seats in the back because hey, free baby.
freddiew: Pedestrian Revenge [YouTube]


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Internal migration spurred primarily by employment and marriage helps shape the economic, social, and political life of India's sending and receiving regions. Labor migrants face myriad challenges, including restricted access to basic needs such as identity documentation and social entitlements. This article describes the barriers to integration that labor migrants face, and details the policy environment surrounding their integration challenges.
This edited volume develops a pragmatic approach to the engagement of highly skilled members of the diaspora for the benefit of their countries of origin. The book, edited by a World Bank senior economist, is based on empirical work in middle-income and high-income economies.
This report provides an overview of the global trends in the recognition of foreign credentials, and describes new and flexible ways that governments can recognize the qualifications of immigrants.
This brief explores how governments in Asia are facilitating diaspora contributions, including creation of conducive legal frameworks and diaspora-centered institutions to initiation of programs that specifically target diasporas as development actors.
Thailand is well positioned to take advantage of the benefits of migration. This brief examines the country's migration challenges and two basic approaches to regularizing labor migration: Memoranda of Understanding with migrant-sending neighbors and nationality verification as a preliminary step for work permit application by unauthorized immigrants.
Predeparture orientation programs have emerged as an important tool for the protection of migrant workers for a number of Asian states. This brief examines the strengths, limitations, and areas for improvement of this intervention.
This issue brief examines Asian labor migration to the Middle East—a region distinguished by its major dependence on migrant workers, the overwhelming majority from Asia. The author focuses on the role of private recruiting agencies as key facilitators of temporary labor migration and perpetrators of exploitative practices.


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The March 2003 issue of Health Care News offers articles addressing the key health care topics of the day:
- long-term care. Stephen Moses of the Center For Long-Term Care Financing summarizes the issue and urges "a change in public policy incentives to encourage Americans to take the risk of long-term care seriously, to plan early, and to save, invest, or insure so they can pay privately when they need long-term care."
- medical malpractice reform. Managing Editor Conrad Meier and attorney James Taylor team up to report on the latest work slowdowns by physicians who no longer can get affordable malpractice insurance. Between July 2001 and July 2002, average insurance rates across the country increased 29.1 percent for general surgeons, 17.6 percent for internal medicine specialists, and 12.5 percent for obstetricians/gynecologists. Some doctors now pay $200,000 a year or more for their malpractice coverage.
- the State of the Union address. Heartland President Joseph L. Bast analyzes President George W. Bush's January 28 address and urges the President to "focus his attention, both in the Medicare arena and AIDS, on allowing people to choose and private companies to innovate and compete."
The issue features part 2 of a two-part series, written by Ethan Allen Institute President John McClaughry, outlining key health care reforms that state legislators should consider in 2003. (Part 1, outlining federal-level reforms, appeared in the February issue.)
Also in this issue: contrarian thinking on America's obesity epidemic; the 108th Congress's unique opportunity to liberate Medical Savings Accounts; the politics of Medicare reform; Greg Scandlen's look at consumer-driven health care; the Galen Report; and coverage of state policy actions in Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and West Virginia.
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Pregnancy: Interviewing Your Doctor
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Complications and pain meds5. What is your complication rate?
This is a good question. My complication rate is low. I'm very pleased with that. I think I'm very fortunate, but I'm also well trained. I have very few problems or outcomes associated with the patients I manage. I also realize that complications are a fact of practicing medicine. The real question here is whether or not your doctor will be honest with you. You won't know until you ask, although frankly, this question may take him/her by surprise. If the doctor gets defensive, is evasive, or offended, you may think twice about using that particular doctor. If the doctor is confident in his abilities, he will probably tell you. Most patients don't ask their doctors this question, so I'm sure I'll get some mail from doctors asking what in the heck I was thinking of...
What we're talking about is what percentage of deliveries is associated with problems as a result of the doctor's management of the patient. Granted, doctors have big egos, so they won't admit this very often. But hospitals do track internally the statistics on complications and doctors' names are attached to these cases, although hospitals don't advertise these numbers. Any doctor will have complications it could be anything from something that happened in surgery to a readmission to the hospital from infection after a pregnancy. And some outcomes that are considered complications are unavoidable. Remember that the vast majority of doctors do want to take care of their patients.
6. What are your feelings about doing episiotomies?
I only do episiotomies if they are clinically indicated. I do not routinely do them, nor do I shy away from ever doing them. If a situation arises where I deem it necessary to improve the patient's delivery outcome, I would not hesitate to do one. However, I don't think they should be routine, although some doctors claim they have really good outcomes with them.
Some doctors routinely do episiotomies because they figure that a natural tear (if you let it tear naturally) can be more difficult to repair than a deliberate episiotomy. That can be true; however, a woman doesn't always tear. A doctor may also decide to cut if the woman is already starting to tear, or if it looks like it would improve the delivery of the baby.
7. How do you handle pain medication during the delivery? How early do you offer it?
I think it's important that the patient be as comfortable as possible, so I do offer medications to relieve discomfort during the labor and delivery process. I would discuss it in advance with my patient and respect her opinion if she wanted to have a natural birth without pain medications. If she changed her mind, I would offer her something.
Keep in mind that there are risks involved in taking pain meds and timing is important as well. For example, giving an epidural too early has been linked with an increased C-section rate because studies suggest that the epidural slows down labor. The medicine can slow down labor to the point where it doesn't allow further dilation of the cervix, so a C-section results.
The OB determines when you should get the pain medicine, not the anesthesiologist, who is basically a consultant. Doctors rarely will say that a patient can't get pain meds unless there is a medical contraindication for giving them. On the positive side, a patient who is comfortable with pain medication will likely increase her chances of having a successful vaginal delivery. There are some women who don't want any pain medication, and we should respect that choice. If a doctor says he'll always give it, that woman might not like that response and should choose a different doctor.
- Of a doctor who is inflexible about meds.
- Of a doctor who doesn't offer any meds.
- Of a doctor who overuses pain medicine (there are risks to fetus and mother in this case).
- Of a doctor who says you won't have any pain at all (giving too many meds or giving them too early can harm the patient or the baby).
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Reproduced from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Pregnancy, by John Adams and Marta Justak, by permission of Pearson Education. Copyright © 2005 by Que Publishing. Please visit Amazon to order your own copy.


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The 5 Most Ridiculous Attempts to Censor Popular Cartoons
The whole problem with censorship is that it's so arbitrary. For instance, you could make a strong argument in favor of a cartoon getting censored, like when it involves replacing smoking references in The Flintstones and Tom & Jerry, or getting rid of over-the-top racist stereotypes, or not getting blown up -- all of which was deemed appropriate for broadcast at one point or another. But then the stuff that does get censored makes no goddamned sense.
Sure, cultural differences get in the way sometimes (see: Thailand, which blurs one-piece swimsuits in imported anime), but other times the desire to protect children's sensitive brains turns into bizarre self-parody. For example ...
#5. The '90s Spider-Man Cartoon Was Forbidden from Showing Punches
Marvel Animation
Hey, children of the '90s, remember Spider-Man: The Animated Series? Can you name a single instance of Spider-Man punching someone in that show? Or anyone punching anyone? Surely there's at least one example -- how about that fight with Venom where Iron Man crashed the show for some reason?
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"Take thish, Hulk! *hic*"
"Dude, I can feel your breath through the mask. You need help."
Nope: They just roll around in a way that we find strangely arousing. OK, then, what about the super-violent confrontation between Blade and Morbius? Nope again: They throw shit at each other but never actually fight.
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"My secret weakness! Bricks!"
The closest we come to a punch in this series is an episode featuring the villain Spot where Spider-Man is forced to propel his fist through a portal to hit him, as the writers must have suddenly realized that grappling and dodging make less sense if done interdimensionally.
Marvel Animation
Although technically that's what they call a donkey punch.
Well, this was all quite deliberate: The producers had a set of rules stating that Spider-Man "couldn't throw punches, toss anyone through glass, put children in jeopardy, have anyone threatened by fire," or even say the word "kill" (so instead of getting murdered, Uncle Ben moves to Canada). That's also the reason why the grunge-era cops inexplicably carried around futuristic non-lethal blasters.
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If you're gonna try and tase Electro, you're gonna need some better hardware, boys.
The most noticeable rule was probably the anti-punching one -- every fight scene turned into a predictable formula of Spider-Man dodging things thrown at him and then wrestling his opponents into submission before shooting his milky web goo and incapacitating them. Head writer/producer John Semper explained that the writers were told to always be careful that "when Spider-Man lands on the roof, he doesn't harm any pigeons." Either the censors didn't understand how animation works or the scripts were peppered with random acts of bird murder that we never got to see.
In contrast, please enjoy this compilation of Spider-Man punching people, getting shot with guns, and getting punched with guns in the 1960s cartoon:
#4. Donald Duck Builds an Atom Bomb, Gets Censored for Selling Hair Tonic
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Occasionally, Disney looks at an old comic it made, says "Holy shit, did we really publish that?!" and censors it in all future reprints. Such is the case with "Donald Duck's Atom Bomb," a comic first given away in cereal boxes in 1947. Can you guess why they did it?
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No, that says "jigger."
In the comic, Donald Duck, already a prolific inventor, takes a page out of the official terrorist training manual and tries his wing at making an atom bomb. However, encouraging kids to mix chemicals and blow up their school wasn't why the comic was censored -- remember, this was 1947, a time when showing thigh was verboten and making atomic weapons was a wholesome and patriotic activity.
In the comic, while Donald and Fowl-Qaida are thankfully unable to create a working atom bomb, he does manage to produce a quasi-dirty bomb that subsequently detonates in the city's river, releasing waves of radiation. The radiation causes the town's residents to lose all their hair, making the citizens of Duckburg look like the male cast of Breaking Bad.
Walt Disney
Thanks, Donald, for showing us the lighter side of severe radiation poisoning.
That's still not why the comic was censored, though. After that little snafu, Donald realizes that he failed to build a working bomb and gives up. However, he decides he still wants to make some money off it, so he goes back to his capitalism lab and invents an atomic hair growth elixir ...
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"Buy it or spend your last weeks on Earth as a sexless abomination!"
... and that's why the censors flipped out. The Disney executives felt that Donald was too "mean spirited" in this ending and banned the comic in its original form. Trying to build a WMD? Fine. Dooming a city to a slow death of radiation sickness? Sounds good. Selling a hair-growth tonic? DONALD, YOU MONSTER. From then on, every time the comic was reprinted, it showed a new ending with Donald and his nephews looking super stoked about giving the tonic away for free.
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They were promptly disowned by Uncle Scrooge.
As a result, the original uncensored giveaway comic now goes for over 900 bucks. So maybe Donald's plan did work in the end.
#3. In England, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Couldn't Be Ninjas
In the '80s, the U.K. went batshit for ninjas. The idea that everyone was about to put on black pajamas and overthrow the monarchy terrified the authorities ... and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ended up paying the price. Since ninjas weren't allowed to appear in cartoons and the British censors weren't so cruel as to deprive their children of Turtlemania, they reached a compromise: The word "ninja" was edited out of the theme song and the show was retitled Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
Something similar happened to that Chris Farley movie that flopped in the U.K., Beverly Hills Fat Person.
That wasn't the only change: Check out the British intro and compare it to the original one. It's almost like it's a different show, one with far less nunchakus -- a bizarre, improbable alternate reality where Michelangelo was allowed to remain on the team not because he was useful in a fight, but because the others actually liked his jokes.
Well, there's a reason for that. Apparently envisioning a post-apocalyptic society where children fought to the death with hero weapons, pretty much any scene involving weapons was toned down or cut entirely -- with a special focus on Michelangelo's nunchakus. Because to the minds of people who've chosen to censor cartoons for a living, two sticks tied together with a string is much deadlier than a razor-sharp samurai sword.
Yet they never edited out any of the bits where the Turtles dress like sex offenders.
At first Michelangelo's nunchaku usage was simply reduced, but at some point the mere existence of his signature weapon was deemed so dangerous to society that they actually went ahead and replaced it with a grappling hook called the turtle line, which is somehow worse than having no weapon at all.
If Shredder's next plan involves spelunking, he is fucked.
Having been almost completely de-awesome-ized, Michelangelo remained the only mutant mountain climber in the New York sewer system until the show was canceled. Since then, the more recent versions of the Ninja Turtles in the U.K. have reverted back to the original name and weapons, which probably accounts for the 2011 England riots.


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January 30, 2013
Riding the waves at Long Beach – Flickr pic of the Day
This photograph of a surfer was taken at Long Beach, near Kommetjie, by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Chris Preen.
Chris says "A good Atlantic swell rolled into Kommetjie last week and local surfers took to the waves. Long Beach in Kommetjie is a favourite destination for local surfers and surf photographers alike. The crystal blue waters and incredible backdrop of Chapman's Peak and the Hout Bay mountains make for a stunning location."
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!


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I am teaching myself to play the electric guitar and I have printed out various tabs to practice with. On one there is a 14 single note introduction but, I have heard versions played where some notes are single and some have been replaced with chords which seem to sound the same as the single notes but give the intro a far more dramatic and rounded effect. The first note is F# - G string 11th fret - but when I try to replace it with the chord of F# it just doesn't sound right. I understand using F# A# C# in building the chord but not where to actually start the chord to get a sound close enough to replace the single note. Perhaps I am getting this all wrong and F# is not the chord I actually need. Any advice would be appreciated.
I think you're looking for the concept of
Most cases of which I'm aware use diatonic (within the key) combinations of the notes of the major scale for the key in which you're playing.
So in your example, assuming the key is F#, the notes you have available to choose from (and remain diatonic) are:
Root | 2nd/9th | 3rd | 4th/11th | 5th | 6th/13th | 7th F# | G# | A# | B | C# | D# | F
A combination of your melody notes and 6ths (above and below the melody note) will sound something like
An example of 6ths would be a melody of
Mix in the 6ths and you get
I wish I could explain better, but I hope this will get you started.
One alternative is to test the chords where F# is
Knowing only one note of song, you should try all the 14 chords above.
But, if you know the key of song, we can reduce our trials to just 7 chords. For example, if the song is in the key of D, you should try the following chords:
This approach works for songs with simple melody and harmony.
Another way to beef-up a single-note line is to add a drone. If there's a note that's common to several chords in chart, you can play it once and have it ring over all the changes (by the distributive property :).
This adds the tension of suspense. Why didn't the note change? Oh no, when will it change??!
Then, Zing! It changes. Whew.
I often write songs this way. Melody, add drones, add third line to cinch the harmony. It's a much more horizontal way of building a song than starting with chords. FWIW.


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What is the word for the values derived from an ordered set such that the values divide (by virtue of their positions; not by their value) the set into 3 subsets that have an equal or nearly equal number of members? What is the word when the values are drawn from the set?
What is the generic word that applies regardless of the number of subsets?
EDIT: The parenthetical "by virtue of their positions" is probably unnecessary because, as I said, the set is ordered and the subsets have a (nearly) equal number of members.
EDIT: Four answers are sought: a word for a value in the case of 3 subsets, a word for a datapoint in the case of 3 subsets, a word for a value in the general case, a word for a datapoint in the general case.


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'Orange is new Black' actress at UNCA
Published: Monday, March 3, 2014 at 3:28 p.m.
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Transgender actress Laverne Cox, best known for her role in the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black," will give a talk, "Ain't I A Woman: My Journey to Womanhood," at 7 p.m. Tuesday in UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium.
Cox will address how the intersections of race, class and gender uniquely affect transgender women of color. Cox will also host a question-and-answer session, followed by a meet-and-greet opportunity after her lecture.
Tickets are $5 and available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Cox's lecture is sponsored by UNC Asheville SAIL and Underdog Productions.
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Who first recognized that the torus supports a flat structure?
Who first characterized the moduli space of flat structures on the torus?
Who first recognized that the closed, orientable genus 2 supports a hyperbolic structure?
Who first thought of a geometrized surface in terms of the property that for any two points $A$ and $B$ there exists neighborhoods $U$ and $V$ of $A$ and $B$, respectively, and an isometry from $U$ to $V$?
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I love Wordpress, and I keep a blog on a domain hosted at wordpress.com. However, it's so damn slow! (Blogger wasn't much better.) Are there any full-featured substitutes available?
I use several computers, depending on where I am and what I'm doing: An older mac, a windows netbook, and a ChromeOS laptop, so the best solutions for me will be web-based, but I won't rule out desktop apps.
Aside from the slowness, I can't stand the little tiny window in the posyst editor (there's a fullscreen view, but not in code view), and as I tend to edit the HTML directly, syntax highlighting would be extremely helpful.


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Apple iPad 4 (late 2012)
Acer Switch Alpha 12 review: Affordability is its ace
Best smartphone battery packs: Pokemon power and more
Huawei MateBook review: 5-hours of friendship
Razer has a new iPad Pro mechanical keyboard case for gamers
- Huawei MateBook review: 5-hours of friendship
- Razer has a new iPad Pro mechanical keyboard case for gamers
- Kindle's Page Flip lets you skip pages without losing your place
- New Amazon Kindle 2016: Double memory, thinner, lighter and more
- Samsung Galaxy TabPro S review: Taking on the Microsoft Surface Pro
- Life-drawing at the Royal Academy with an iPad Pro
- Win an iPad Pro worth £500 with Travelex Supercard!
- Nvidia might have new Shield gaming tablet on the way, FCC filings reveal
- EE Jay is a fun and budget-friendly 4G tablet for summer travelling
- Next Apple Pencil could have swappable tips and even Touch ID
- Pokemon Go Gym tips: How to battle, train and win
- Pokemon Go: How to find and catch rare Pokemon like Charizard, Blastoise and Alakazam
- 13 secret WhatsApp tricks
- 17 Facebook Messenger tips and tricks you likely didn't know
- This is how much space PlayStation VR requires for you to play
- Apple iPhone 7 Pro: Will it happen and what's the story so far?
- Best Galaxy S7 and S7 edge cases: Protect your new Samsung device
- Best battery cases for iPhone 6S: So you can Pokemon Go and Go and Go
- Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus: Release date, rumours and everything you need to know
- PixelPhone app for Android makes light work of phoning people


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[[User:maltman23|Mitch]] - I don't know Mandarin, but I want to learn, and having a group might just help me motivate.
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Skory - (Well, I live in Pennsylvania now. But may Mandarin corner live on without me!)
Mitch - I don't know Mandarin, but I want to learn, and having a group might just help me motivate.
- (Re:Above) If enough Mandarin beginners are interested I'd be happy to teach some basics of character writing and grammar. But please do not try to learn pronunciation from me! -skory
Molly - I speak survival Mandarin and just got back from a year living/working in China. My pronunciation is fairly natural, though my vocabulary limited. I read and write around 500 characters, but want to collect the whole set! Win big prizes! Happy Everyday!
rachel - Oh yeah. Coming in a little late on this but BLTN. I can offer a bunch of beginner flash cards I made. Also I know how to talk about farting. Wednesday, Thursday not good for me... Friday!
Adam - I also know a few unsavory phrases but would like to learn more conversational mandarin.
quinn - I would really love to do this, and probably bring the most shear ignorance to the group. Whenever is good for me. I'm slightly more interested in writing than speaking atm.
Matt - I also can talk about farting! Any day of the week is an excellent day for fart talk!
Charie - I can talk household mandarin. Any day of week is good.
Eric - I am taking Mandarin classes at the local chinese cultural center, two lessons in. Looking for people to practice with and time to do my homework in...
Ursula - I am interested and would like to speak solely in Mandarin, with a realistic margin of error in the 20% range. 我 要 练习 普通话。
Miloh I'm a perennial Mandarin student. Texts and history to share. Interested in learning about schools in [Dalian]


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The Separation of Art and State
An article in todays New York Times, reporting increased funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, reminded me of a piece I wrote ten years ago but which the Times declined to publish as an op-ed piece. I entitled it: A Modest Proposal for Ending the Culture Wars.Art and religion were once considered public matters, expressions not simply of personal experiences and beliefs but of sentiments and convictions that both united large communities of people and sought to convey how things are in the universe and how people ought to act, individually and communally, within a universe so defined. That is why for centuries states sought to sustain political unity by imposing religious unity and artists sought and some of them received the munificence of the state.Religion, of course, has long since been privatized, at least in states that like to consider themselves advanced democracies. An early political expression of this narrowing was the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which forbade the Congress from making any law that respects an establishment of religion, this latter phrase referring to the singling out for state support and financing of any one of the then still public and communal religions, to the disadvantage of others. This constitutional disestablishment was extended into the realm of culture to the point that William James could define religion as the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. Religion has become what some people do when they are alone; it is now a matter of personal taste and decision, without public warrants, the sort of thing into which, on grounds of privacy, government should not intrude and over which it has no competence. People are free to adopt and express religious convictions, but they should not expect the state to support them or to decide among their great variety.Art has not advanced as far along this path of progress. Here the cultural privatizing came first, aided by the romantic notion of the lonely tortured artist whose genius puts him in the avant-garde of the march of progress and sets him over and against his culture and who often suffers from the criticisms of unenlightened contemporaries. Later generations, however, enabled by cultural progress to recognize his precocity, appeal to his eventual triumph in order to keep alive the older notion of the public significance of art. On that basis museum directors solicit public funding and American art critics bemoan the poverty of our governments aid to the arts, contrasting it with the practice of governments elsewhere, particularly in Europe, where ministries of culture survive long after establishments of religion have disappeared. So on the one hand, art is considered intensely private and not bound by common cultural norms, and on the other governmental support for it is sought. The result of this contradiction is our recurrent culture-wars.Surely it is time for art to catch up with religion and accept its complete privatization. How better could this be done than by a constitutional amendment modeled on the First Amendments statements about religion: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of art or prohibiting the free expression thereof? Many things would be clarified at once. It would be clear that, to adapt what Justice Black said of religion in the Supreme Courts 1948 McCollum decision, all laws and actions are invalid that aid one kind of art, aid all kinds of art, or prefer one kind of art over another. It would be clear that it is no more the business of government to decide what is true art and what is not than it is for it to decide which religion is true and which is not. It would be clear that it is unconstitutional to have a National Endowment for the Arts that grants taxpayers money to some artists but refuses it to others. It would be clear that New York City has no more right to finance the Brooklyn Museum than it does to finance a church, a synagogue, or a mosque. It would be clear that the government may not favor an art-establishment that prefers one kind of art to another, that continues the discrimination evident in the preference of government-supported museums for old works by dead white European males and, among contemporaries, provides a home for a Mapplethorpe or an Ofili but not for the poor struggling artist whose works on velvet he is forced to exhibit and sell in the parking-lots of strip malls.The problem with art today is that it suffers from a culture-lag. Defenders of continued or increased government-support for the arts are like the last-gasp defenders of a union of Church and State: they do not recognize that progress has passed them by. If art is the quintessence of the free expression of private meaningswhat artists do with their solitude, it should, of course, be free, not only from restrictions by government but also from what religion has long since known to be the suffocating embrace of its support. If art wishes to have public significance, let it earn it, as religions must. As it is not the business of government to choose among competing ultimate truths, it is not its business to choose among competing private meanings. A constitutional amendment would end a series of wars which resemble nothing so much as those that once pitted theology against theology. As those conflicts long ago led to the constitutional separation of Church and State, it is surely time for the separation of Art and State. Art should now be granted the honor long since bestowed on religionspecial mention in the Constitutionso that, like religion, art too, by constitutional privilege, may learn and keep its proper, private, marginal place.
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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I am not sure whether you are serious or not. Assuming that you are, this sounds like a recipe for anti-intellectualism. It would lead to a poverty of art, just as the American separation of church and state have led to a poverty of religion. When there are no social standards related to art, every artist will treat "free expression" as a licence to be as different and distinctive as the next guy. While this will probably lead to a wide diversity of artistic expressions, it is not clear whether any will have any great depth. Just like American religion, the public face of art will display its distinctiveness, but under this veneer there will be a common value that is not particularly artistic at all. Art will be co-opted by an elusive search for freedom, just as religion has. Freedom is not antithetical to religion or art, but neither is it the purpose of religion or art. It is a necessary context for certain forms of artistic expression, just as it is for certain forms of religion. But freedom should never become an idol of religion or art.
A familiar argument for direct public subsidies emphasizes alleged positive economic externalities associated with the arts - foreign tourists are attracted, neighborhoods redeveloped, upper income suburbanites patronize inner cities, etc. Some studies claim there are powerful multipliers, i.e. every dollar spent on the arts stimulates much more than a dollare in further spending.But its rare that comparisons are ever made with alternate ways of spending (on stadiums, shopping malls, or public transportation, say) and these studies are frequently conducted by the sponsoring institution. And when there are positive externalities its often the case that one neighborhood benefits at the expense of others such that the larger region is no better off. The economic argument is popular, however, because it avoids any focus on the often controversial content of the arts.One perverse argument for direct subsidies of modern art might adapt the popular theory that historically established churches ultimately suffered from the official embrace of the state and lost out to the more entrepreneurial sects. Likewise subsidized modern art would be less likely to seek support in the marketplace and thus in the long run fail, producing many critical successes but commercial failures.
Fr. K,I suppose the Times didn't publish it because they didn't get it! I think it is great. Thanks for sharing it with us.I'm curious, then, what do you imagine the role of religion should be in the public square today? Seriously, if you please.
JC: I'm glad that you got it! David Tracy and I have thought of trying to introduce a punctuation mark that would indicate that irony is about to be committed. I titled it "A Modest Proposal," but that may not have been enough for the NY Times...Can we restate your question in this way: What is the role of religious people in the public square today?
No doubt it's a general human failing which we all share, but irony (and the need for self-examination it implies) is generally neither recognized nor appreciated by those who suspect someone might be tweaking their own self-important tails. Try being ironic about the institution of academic tenure in a faculty meeting, for example, and then count the minutes till you're ridden out of town. The press is a particularly apt example, and I'm not surprised the Times wouldn't publish this. Had you re-written it so that the target was Southern evangelical Republicanism, no doubt it would have appeared in print. But then, of course, it would not have been truly ironic. We can imagine with little trouble Luke's publican in back of the Temple capable of irony about himself. But the Pharisee up in the first row of pews? Unlikely.
Idon't know what "ironic" means snymore. I've seen it used wbere I would use 'sarcastic" or "paradoxical" and other words expressing opposition. Of course, I can't define my meaning exactly. Maybe it does have lots of meanings. One meaning is about ironic events., some meanings relate to ironic speech. The latter is often hard to decifer because, I think, we can't tell what the speaker really intends.The punctuation mark would be a good idea if we could settle on a meaning. How's about the Bronx cheer cheer symbol -- P -- for 'I don't really mean this"
That smiley face that people can make with typographical symbols appears to have come into use because people don't recognize humor where it is intended. We got along without it for centuries (millennia?); why it is thought necessary now escapes me.
Maybe people in the olden days wrote more carefully than we do on the Internet. It took a lot more time to write by hand than to type. Maybe people had more time to think about how they would be interpreted even as they wrote it. And of course, phone calls then took the place of letters, and the human voice is much expressive than mere written words. At any rate, it seems to be a fact that emails and posts are easy to misunderstand. So I'm for the punctuation mark.
I suspect the smiley face is used now for much the same reason as question marks or exclamation points. People lived without them for centuries, but eventually decided it made communication clearer when they are used.They are used?They are used!They are used :-)
I was thinking more of the great literature. Swift or Pope or Waugh didn't have to announce to the reader that what he was about to read was a satire. Shakespeare or Dickens didn't have to announce that a humorous moment was coming, or had already passed! Some of us can remember when great comedians were live on radio and TV, and people laughed spontaneously and genuinely (or didn't, and then the show was a flop), and then came taped shows and canned laughter, perhaps out of fear that people wouldn't laugh enough or at the right time. Maybe the general public has forgotten how to laugh--has the part of the brain alert to the humorous atrophied?
i'm quite sure that the reason we're not as funny as Shakespeare and Waugh is because they were great talents and most of us have relatively little talent with words. Shakespeare was said not to revise his writing, but I bet the rest of them did. By the way I'm reading a laugh-out-loud funny novel -- "Straight Man" by Richard Russo. I know he revised his last novel - said he had trouble finishing it.About losing our capacity to laugh, it seems to me that humor flourished when there were serious troubles. Times here were relatively good for a long time. Now with the current troubles the humor might improve. It's a great defense against fear and despair.
I've read it three times and the only thing that keeps occurring to me is that the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War were not fought over differences in aesthetic tastes in painting or sculpture. Pretty sure this isn't irony, though I could never keep the categories straight and there is overlap. I think a good example of a work that uses irony is the novel Emma by Jane Austen, in which the heroine's thoughts about the motivation and awareness of others (or lack thereof) are really comments on the heroine herself -- so that each time she feels a little triumph of superior understanding, indeed, she is the one who has been duped. Good irony is extremely sly.
Yes, Barbara,, I would call "Emma" highly ironic. "Pride and Prejudice is also about a certain kindof blindness (prejudice) but I wouldn't call the basic plot ironic at all. I know they're different, but I still can't put my finger on what makes irony ironic. There's a sort of boomerang effect that is typical of irony, but not exactly a boomerang effect. It's kind of like obscenity == I know it when we see it.
Sure. "What is the role of religious people in the public square today?"So...Barbara, did you know that Catholic France and Lutheran Sweden fought together against the Catholic Hapsburgs in the 30 years war? Do you find that ironic?


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I'm searching for a way to remap certain keys in ubuntu.
I'd like to change PgUp to Home or PgDown to End.
Does a built-in command or a tool exist reassign keys in Ubuntu/GNOME?
I'm searching for a way to remap certain keys in ubuntu.
I'd like to change PgUp to Home or PgDown to End.
Does a built-in command or a tool exist reassign keys in Ubuntu/GNOME?
Notice: As of 2013, Ubuntu and derivatives no longer use
For remapping certain keys you need two tools. First xev (command-line tool) and second xmodmap (also command-line tool). Both should be available in Ubuntu without extra installing them.
Additional information: The sequence of these mappings is Key, Shift+Key, mode_switch+Key, mode_switch+Shift+Key, AltGr+Key, AltGr+Shift+Key. To skip a column use
Note: These change are for the active X session only and will be lost after reboot. When you want to save the changes permanently you have to run the following commands after the ones above:
(it creates a file named
Then you have to create a file named
You can now modify
source: Ubuntu Foruns
Bonus stuff:
If the key you are remapping has different behavior depending on a state (
like how the keys in the numeric keyboard depend on NumLock) you simply have to do
Suppose, for example, that you want to get a period instead of a comma on the numeric keyboard (useful for most programmers), but you want to keep the "delete" behavior when NumLock is off.
I've just had an afterthought.. I think you may mean something entirely different by "remap".. but I'll leave my answer as it is... (I don't know how to re-assign one key to behave as another)
UPDATE: my 'afterthought' has been confirmed; ( I've answered the wrong question :)... please see NES's Community Wiki answer (accepted above).
There are two general ways to
For 'local to a program' methods, there is sometimes a way to change keybindings offered by the app itself... eg.
Most Ubuntu programs are Gnome based and there is a specific utility to modify the keybinding for any menu item of these Gnome apps... It is called
Otherwise you can set up Global hotkeys. I use a program called xbindkeys , and there is also an option available via the Main Menu -- Preferences, called
If you use xbindkeys, you will need to add it to your "Startup Applications" (Main Menu -- Preferences) ... Also (as suggested by Stefano Palazzo) I have previously written a more detailed description of xbindkeys in an answer on this askubuntu page
If you're trying to move a Shift key, there are a few extra steps:
Here is how I tried to switch the mapping of the ENTER key to the SHIFT key (and vice versa):
(ignore the next fifty lines or so)
What's important is the third line of each keypress:
The main problem was that the reversal did NOT work. The ENTER key was mapped to the SHIFT_R key; but the SHIFT_R key was not mapped to the ENTER key. Go figure.
In order to do global remaps independently of X, you can make use of console-setup(5) instead.
In my case I wanted to remap Caps Lock key to D, since my D-key is broken :)
First I used dumpkeys(1) to get a template for a mapping, in the case of the D-key, the interesting bit is the mapping for keycode 32 (on my keyboard); Note that there are two spaces in the grep pattern!
In order to change the map to apply to Caps Lock (keycode 58 on my keyboard) instead
Now it reads
To add this remap to the default map, it simply needs to be appended to the remap include file for console-setup
and console-setup needs to be reconfigured (skipping low priority questions with
Now the remap should be completed, and be loaded automatically on boot.
I spent one whole day in trying to create a shortcut for
I first tried
I then tried
So I finally used Unity's own Keyboard Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts to setup my shortcut.
And instead of
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I have imported point coordinates from a database, but I need to manually adjust a lot of the locations. Is there a way for QGIS to automatically update the point locations in the attribute table after you move your points?
Using Field Calculator $x and $y operators, you can over-write the old coordinates in attribute table. Just run it once - after you have moved all points to the desired locations.
Field Calculator v.2.x: http://docs.qgis.org/2.0/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/field_calculator.html
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Patrick, if you have brought the point data in from a non-spatially-enabled source, you will need to save to a new, spatially-enabled format (and load that into QGIS) before you start your editing.
After that, you'll want to use either the Move Feature(s) or Node Tool.
Once in edit mode for your point layer, make your adjustments with either of those tools, then either click the Save Edits button, or exit edit mode (which will prompt you to save edits). While editing the points, an in-memory attribute table is updated, then on save, written back to the data source.
Many edits are undo-able, but not all. Choosing to not save your in-memory edits will leave your data source unchanged.


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That's not fair, Marc. I didn't say that I reacted to every one of her roles that way. I don't find her Odette-Odile nearly as objectionable. Yes, I have seen her subsequently, and yes, I still think she's tacky.
Well, I hope you had the chance to see Zakharova once live after that missed opportunity, volcanohunter. You do realize that condemning an artist on account of a clip is rather cheap and doesn't really help anybody?
I was simply stating that my first exposure to her Giselle filled me with a revulsion quite unlike any I'd experienced as a ballet viewer.


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