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Background: I have a TechniSat SkyStar USB HD DVB-S2 Digital Satellite USB Box, a fresh install of Mythbuntu 12.04, and I would like Myth to use the satellite box.
My immediate problem is that the kernel doesn't appear to be detecting the satellite box. I installed Kaffeine: it doesn't show any TV devices. The Kaffeine FAQ states that if my device is recognised, there should be DVB messages in
dmesg | grep -i dvb doesn't match anything.
The Technisat SkyStar USB HD is listed as supported since Linux 2.6.39 on the Linux TV Wiki.
uname -a says I am running Linux 3.5.0-23-generic.
I don't believe it is a hardware problem, because we got the satellite box working with a Windows 7 PC. I have double-checked that everything is plugged in properly.
How do I get Linux to detect the satellite box?
Edit (in response to david6's questions):
The final line of output from
lsusb is
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 14f7:0500 TechniSat Digital GmbH DVB-PC TV Star HD
lsmod | grep -i dvb and
dmesg | grep -i dvb both give no output.
Edit Following the instructions in david6's answer, and after rebooting:
The output of
lsmod | grep -i dvb is now
dvb_usb_technisat_usb2 17976 0
stv090x 62331 1 dvb_usb_technisat_usb2
dvb_usb 32408 1 dvb_usb_technisat_usb2
dvb_core 105916 2 dvb_usb_technisat_usb2,dvb_usb
rc_core 22172 13 dvb_usb_technisat_usb2,dvb_usb,ir_lirc_codec,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_sanyo_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_nec_decoder,rc_rc6_mce,mceusb
The output of
dmesg | grep -i dvb is now
[ 2.401826] 79a63c60a6a2ae589e44529401e0ab1150e9408a [media] media: move dvb-usb-v2/cypress_firmware.c to media/common
[ 2.732886] 79a63c60a6a2ae589e44529401e0ab1150e9408a [media] media: move dvb-usb-v2/cypress_firmware.c to media/common
[ 3.233497] dvb-usb: found a 'Technisat SkyStar USB HD (DVB-S/S2)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[ 3.234838] dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (dvb-usb-SkyStar_USB_HD_FW_v17_63.HEX.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2)
[ 3.234866] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_technisat_usb2
I still cannot use the satellite box.
I cannot find the
linux/Documentation/dvb/ directory referred to in the
dmesg output. It is not in the
media_build repository, and it is not in any Ubuntu package.
Where do I go from here? On the assumption that the
linux/Documentation/dvb/ directory is helpful, where is it?


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Before I choose to commit to a project, I'm usually very excited about it. But as soon as the commitment actually requires me to put an effort in, the excitement is partly replaced by stress or the feeling of a burden.
What practical habits, especially daily habits, could I try to adopt in order to remain excited and happy about my work?

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The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina
Região local
Modern, cosmopolitan Dubai boasts stunning beaches, award-winning cuisine, and high-end shopping—plus a legendary nightlife. The options are endless: take a breathtaking desert tour, enjoy a game of golf, explore the splendors of the mountains, or simply relax.
The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina is set on 1,200 meters of the Jumeirah coastline, curving alongside the city's largest private white-sand beach and a glittering, 238-berth world-class marina.
The marina is a hub of luxury yachts, sports fishing boats, and leisure craft, all classes included in the annual Dubai International Boat Show. Another remarkable boating event is the traditional dhow sailing races—a small taste of the region's rich cultural heritage. The Dubai International Marine Club, located on the resort grounds, is home to the world-famous Victory Powerboating Team, and is proud to host a number of international maritime events.
You'll find ample equestrian sports in Dubai such as polo, desert riding, and dressage, as well as the Dubai World Cup, a extravagant horse race that has become a seasonal highlight. The Dubai Autodrome is the venue for the new Al Championship circuit as well as rally driving and pro-karting.
Reserve a tee time at one of six world-class golf courses just minutes from the resort. The Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament is a fixture on the European PGA Tour, while tennis stars are represented annually on the ATP Tennis Circuit.
In Dubai, modern malls full of international luxury brands border ancient spice markets and gold souks. For shopping aficionados, the Ibn Battuta mile-long shopping mall offers an impressive 200-plus retail outlets, 21 cinemas, and the UAE's first IMAX theatre. The Mall of the Emirates is the largest shopping mall outside of North America and boasts an indoor ski slope.
Admire the view from the observation deck at the world's tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa, or enjoy afternoon tea at the Burj al Arab. Visit the Wild Wadi or Aquaventure water parks, or venture on unforgettable excursions like helicopter sightseeing flights or deep sea fishing. Experience a Desert Safari that includes dune-bashing and a barbecue at sundown featuring henna painting, belly dancing, horse & camel rides, and local cuisine.
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Atrações locais
- Marina de Dubai 0.5 km/0.3 milhas
- Burj Al Arab 7.0 km/4.3 milhas
- Shopping center Ibn Battuta 8.0 km/5.0 milhas
- Shopping dos Emirados 10.0 km/6.2 milhas
- Parque Gold & Diamond 12.0 km/7.5 milhas
- Dubai Mall 22.0 km/13.7 milhas
- American University of Dubai 2.0 km/1.2 milhas
- Faculdade de Dubai 5.0 km/3.1 milhas
- Hospital Regional Jebel Ali 12.0 km/7.5 milhas
Destinos próximos
- Palm Jumeirah 3.0 km/1.9 milhas
- Vila Knowledge 3.0 km/1.9 milhas
- Burj Khalifa 20.0 km/12.4 milhas
Escritórios Corporativos
- Nokia Corporation 1.0 km/0.6 milhas
- Reuters 1.0 km/0.6 milhas
- Siemens 2.0 km/1.2 milhas
- IBM 2.0 km/1.2 milhas
- Hewlett Packard 2.0 km/1.2 milhas
- HSBC 2.0 km/1.2 milhas
- Microsoft Corporation 2.0 km/1.2 milhas
- Cisco Systems 2.0 km/1.2 milhas
- Dubai Internet City 3.0 km/1.9 milhas
- Dubai Media City 5.0 km/3.1 milhas
- Zona livre Jebel Ali 8.0 km/5.0 milhas
- Emaar Business Park 8.0 km/5.0 milhas
- Dubai Investments Park 15.0 km/9.3 milhas
- Centro financeiro internacional de Dubai 20.0 km/12.4 milhas
- Schneider Co. 20.0 km/12.4 milhas
- Standard Chartered Bank 30.0 km/18.6 milhas
Escritórios do Governo
- Embaixada espanhola 20.0 km/12.4 milhas
- Embaixada da Austrália 150.0 km/93.2 milhas
- Embaixada britânica 150.0 km/93.2 milhas
- Emirates Golf Club 2.0 km/1.2 milhas
- Parque aquático Wild Wadi 10.0 km/6.2 milhas
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Show you're not afraid of a little precipitation with the sassy and confident Nike Rain Tee Shirt. Your bold style will be on full display, without you having to say a word!
Made of moisture-wicking Dri-FIT fabric, this comfortable tee features screen print graphics that tell the world you run, rain or shine. Rock this tee during your next workout for comfort and standout style.
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Can the physics complications of introducing spin 3/2 Rarita-Schwinger matter be put in geometric (or other) terms readily accessible to a mathematician?
Free spin 3/2 fields cause no problems; see Weinberg's QFT book, Volume 1.
The problem with elementary spin 3/2 fields is the difficulty of accounting for the interaction with the electromagnetic field. The Rarita-Schwinger field equations with the standard minimal coupling via the covariant derivative violate causality, as they allow superluminal signalling - already on the single particle level.
Nonrenormalizability is another issue, but could be handled in the sense of effective field theories if the other defect were absent.
You may be interested in following article: Thomas-Paul Hack, Mathias Makedonski "A No-Go Theorem for the Consistent Quantization of the Massive Gravitino on Robertson-Walker Spacetimes and Arbitrary Spin 3/2 Fields on General Curved Spacetimes" http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.6327
Physics complications of "introducing" spin 3/2 matter are the same as for spin 1/2 and spin 0 - the initial approximation in the corresponding interaction theory is physically wrong and calculations give too big (= just wrong) perturbative corrections. It is a complete failure of physics description and it cannot be casted in "geometric terms". Most people, however, does not see it.
Edit for downvoters: While in case of Rarita-Schwinger equation the solution violates even causality and it cannot be repaired with the constant renormalizations, this feature is still not considered as a failure of coupling. Indeed, we cannot be wrong. It is nature who is wrong, especially at short distances.


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Council Business Plan and Budget 2013+
A new administration and new priorities
Following the local elections in May 2012, Birmingham City Council had a change in administration and, with it, a new vision and a new set of priorities for the city.
The council's vision is to make Birmingham
An inclusive city in which many more people can play their part – a fair chance for everyone in Birmingham.
The council has three key priorities:
1. Tackling inequality and deprivation; promoting social cohesion across all communities in Birmingham; and ensuring dignity, particularly for our older people; and safeguarding for children.
2. Laying the foundations for a prosperous city, built on an inclusive economy.
3. Involving local people and communities in the future of their local area and their public services – a city with local services for local people.
Key aims for the city include making Birmingham an 'entrepreneurial city', a 'smart city' and a 'green city'.
Birmingham's budget challenge
Birmingham City Council is facing an extremely tough financial challenge.
In 2010, as part of the Spending Review, the government announced its plan for reducing the national financial deficit. Funding to local authorities will be reduced by 28% from 2011 to 2015 after taking account of inflation and, in fact, some grants have been stopped altogether. Some large cities, including Birmingham, have been hit hard.
In the last two years, the Government has reduced its grants to Birmingham City Council by over £140m. That is a reduction of 14%.
For 2013/14 general grants have been cut by a further £27m. Over a six-year period, from 2010/11 to 2016/17, it is forecast that the general Government grants to Birmingham City Council will reduce by at least £300m.
At the same time, the council has to pay for unavoidable cost increases due to inflation, changes in legislation, the changing needs of local people and financing costs. These are expected to cost at least £315m extra by the end of 2016/17.
The combined impact of grant reduction and rising local costs means the council will have to make cuts of around £615m by 2016/17.
The task for 2013/14 is to save around £102m in addition to the £275m saved in the previous two years.
In order to decide where budget cuts should be made the council carried out a consultation with local people, employees and other organisations. Hundreds of comments were received and these were all passed to councillors to help them make decisions on the budget for 2013/14.
Council Tax
There will be no increase in the city council's element of Council Tax for 2013/14.
The council has chosen to accept a Government grant to freeze Council Tax at the same level as 2012/13. This will produce the best financial outcome for the city council next year, as well as for the city's taxpayers.
Planning for the future
In recent years, efficiency savings have been made and these have helped to bridge the financial gap. This is no longer enough. Over the next few years services will need to change and, indeed, some may need to be discontinued.
The financial challenge facing local councils may be the end of local government as we know it and may change its relationship with its citizens.
This means that Birmingham City Council will need to continue to adapt and make changes to services and how they are run. The council will look at involving citizens much more in shaping and delivering services where possible, and in some areas decommission services altogether.
However, despite any cuts that need to be made the council's key aim will be to ensure that it makes the best use of resources for those most in need – protecting those local people who are the most vulnerable.
Council Business Plan 2013+
PDF attached (Business Plan and Budget 2013+ City Council 260213 final(1))
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A unique romantic Cabier wedding will be exactly as you dreamt.
Sailing-trip combination offer for those who cannot get enough of Pirates of the Caribbean and wish to sail and dive in these beautiful waters.
Your own home in the Island in the Sun.
We have land for sale beside Grenada`s most beautiful beaches.
Grenada is the most southerly of the Windward Islands, one of the savest of the Caribbean islands and it is 21 miles long and 12 miles wide. Located only 150 miles North of Venezuela and 250 miles South West of Barbados.
Sister Isles: Carriacou, Petite Martinique, and St. Vincent.
GMT/UTH -6/5 Germany 14:00 in the afternoon = Grenada 8:00 in the morning
With its warm climate, there really isnt a bad time to visit in Grenada temperatures range up to the overage 29-31° C. The dry season is between December and May but this also the main tourist season with higher rates for flights and accommodation. In the rainy season from June to November you will find the island in very green with more flowers and fruits with a rain mostly in the night or short showers followed by bright sunshine that does everything in minutes.
The most romantic time you could experience in Cabier is the time around full moon. Then you will see thousands of glittering sparkling light in the sea when the moon is rising out of the ocean.
If you like to party then choose the first two weeks in August because Grenadas biggest event is the carnival with costumes, music and of course rum and local food all the way around St.Georges harbor.
Grenada is located at around latitude 12 ° N and 61 ° 45 W which puts Grenada in the path of the Easterly Trade winds, this what makes the Windward Islands perfect for sailing. Check out our stay and sail offer. The wind perfectly cools all our guestrooms, villas and apartments naturally. We also have some allocations with air-conditioning and ceiling fans.
Do not forget to bring from home: Hiking sandals, flashlight, No Bite Mosquito spray or mosquito milk if you get it, sun screen, hat or cap.
230 V 50 HZ English Plugs we have adapters for European Plugs, 110 Volt transformers available.
1 US$ = 2,67 East Caribbean Dollars (EC$) for cash,
Cash machines are available in Grenville and St.Georges.
Info from the Lonely Planet about average prices on the island:
meals: low US$ 10, mid US$ 10-25, high US$ 25-35
rooms: low US$ 30-100, mid US$ 100-200, high US$ 200-500, deluxe US$ 500+35
Country dialing code:
from America 1-473 from other countries 001-473
By Bus:
By far the cheapest way to get around is by bus. These privately owned but government regulated minivans cram in as many people as possible, drive very fast and plays loud reggae, raga and soca. Dont be intimidated, however, as theyre also great fun and safe and the locals are very friendly!
Buses run from 6 am 8 pm daily, with a less frequent service on Sundays and holidays. Routes run from the main terminal at the market in St.Georges to cover the entire island. Simply ask the driver which bus to get on. There are regular bus stops and you can also flag one down at any point along the way, and with their constant honking, youll always know when they are around.
Transportation: flights, rentals, transfers, ferries
E njoy the love affair with food on our terrace restaurant situated over the ocean. Here you have the chance to meet people from UK, Canada, US, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Netherlands, France, Hungaria, West Indies, and most other places.
Self Catering rooms:
At the moment we can offer nine fully equipped with a kitchenette.
Most of our big Supermarkets are open until 7 pm, the Real value Supermarket in the Spiceland Mall (Grand Anse until 9 pm weekdays and also open on Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. There are local shops in Grenville and a bakery in Crochu village. If you are self catering with us Bruno go to Grenville several times a week to shop and can take you with them if you like. Alternatively you can take the bus from Crochu village.
No extra vaccinations are necessary. There are no poisoness insects or snakes to be found on the island and tap water is safe to drink.
English (Official); French Patois as an alternative in the villages.
In our Cabier Ocean Lodge we speak French, English and German
891 sq km.= 344 sq miles
53 % Roman Catholic, 13,8 % Anglican, 33,2 Protestant
Government: Governor and Prime Minister and Ministers elections every 4 years.
Reiseguides: Grenadaexplorer, Grenadagrenadines, Doitcaribbean


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I know that the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda in the distant future but based on what we know so far there is a supermassive black hole in the center of each galaxy and thus the Milky Way will get sucked into it as well. But before that will it turn into a quasar or something like that?
I was surprised that Wikipedia is so sparse on information in this topic. So how can I visualize its lifecycle?


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6 Iconic Video Games That Were Created by Technical Problems
We've told you before that some of the most iconic moments in movie history were created by accident, coincidence, or Benicio Del Toro's farts, but it's not just the movie industry that's prone to accidental genius. Video game developers, for example, often made their most creative choices specifically because technical limitations wouldn't let them make the game they really wanted to make. For example ...
#6. Everything About Mario's Design Made Him Easier to Animate
The Classic:
Mario is easily the most recognizable video game character in history: the red overalls, the blue shirt, the hat, and, of course, the mustache. It's one of those timeless character designs, up there with Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader -- simple, yet imaginative and unforgettable. And it was all because the artists just didn't have enough goddamned pixels to work with.
via MSN Games
Enough pixels for a lollipop hammer, but not enough for facial features.
The Technical Problem:
Creating an unforgettable video game character in the '80s was all about having a knack for shortcuts. Almost every aspect of Mario's design came from an effort to make him easier to animate. Remember, his first appearance was in 1981's Donkey Kong, an arcade game with processing power that was less than, say, a modern toaster (its 3 MHz processor gave it 1/70,000 as much power as a PlayStation 3 -- those old black-and-white Game Boy handhelds had more horsepower than a Donkey Kong arcade machine).
So Mario's creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, needed to make a tiny block of pixels resemble a human being. He started with the red-and-blue color scheme, reasoning that it would stand out against Donkey Kong's black background. The use of overalls as opposed to a shirt or a muumuu gave definition to Mario's arms, because it meant his sleeves would be a different color from his torso:
Without sleeves, this would have looked ridiculous.
Next came the hat, which was added not because Miyamoto had a stroke of genius, but because he didn't like designing hairstyles. That's right -- the most famous character in gaming wears a headpiece for the same reason you throw a hat on when you're too lazy to run a comb through your hair. As an added bonus, the hat saved programmers the trouble of having to animate Mario's hair when he jumped. Gamers in the '80s didn't expect much, but they demanded realistic hair physics, dammit!
But the big goofy nose and the famous mustache have got to be intentional, right? Nope. Mario's diminutive size made giving him a mouth and realistic facial expressions impractical, and so, much like putting a chair over the vomit stain on your carpet after a wild party, Miyamoto added the honker and 'stache to hide Mario's mouth while still ensuring that his face was more than a monochromatic blob.
via Design Juices
No offense intended to our less-chromatic readers.
The result of all of these patchwork compromises is a character who, instead of being a stereotypical warrior or daring explorer, is a working man with sideburns, a baseball cap, and a mustache ... and who thus oozes more personality than all of the modern "bald space marine" characters combined.
#5. Silent Hill's Fog Is There to Disguise Load Times
The Classic:
Silent Hill came out over a decade ago and is still considered one of the scariest games ever made. Part of that is the game's haunting atmosphere -- an omnipresent fog prevents gamers from seeing into the distance and, more importantly, prevents them from spotting hideous monsters until they're within "claw your face off and eat the gooey insides" range.
That sort of atmosphere had never been seen in a horror game before. It became an icon of the franchise as fans debated its origins and symbolism, and it was even an important part of the movie spinoffs.
TriStar Pictures
Which was good, because the less you saw of them, the better.
All in all, it was a brilliant stroke of mood setting.
The Technical Problem:
The world behind the fog didn't exist because the hardware hadn't loaded it yet.
The size of a game world is limited by the machine running it -- old-school arcade games took place on one screen, later games like The Legend of Zelda had large worlds that still only loaded one screen at a time, and of course modern games span for miles in every direction. So if you want a game that A) takes place in a town the player can walk around in and B) is running on the old Sony PlayStation, compromises had to be made. The game would need to stop and load the next section of town as the player walked toward it, which, as you can imagine, would kind of ruin the mood.
The next turn could reveal a bloodied mess, or a flying beast, or a [LOADING].
Developers use all sorts of little tricks to disguise these loading times -- from door-opening animations to elevator rides, you can bet that any time a game is making you stop for a moment, it's loading the next section of map into the memory. But instead of doing that, Silent Hill just dropped a fog bomb on the landscape, which served the dual purpose of letting the system get away with only rendering the bit of world that's immediately in front of the player while also making it next to impossible for them to see incoming enemies, the lay of the land ... basically anything that wasn't immediately in front of them.
The end result was a perfect mix -- it gave the impression of being in a huge open world where you could go anywhere ... if you weren't too scared of monsters jumping out of the murder fog and eating your spleen. It's like Jaws: Spielberg had to edit around a malfunctioning mechanical shark, and it actually made the movie scarier. When it comes to horror, sometimes less is more. That's why the crude, fog-shrouded landscape of Silent Hill is far scarier than the giant, beautifully rendered monsters that fill the Resident Evil franchise these days.
#4. Team Fortress' Spy Came from a Color-Swapping Glitch
The Classic:
Anyone who's played the multiplayer shooter Team Fortress knows the aneurysm-inducing frustration that is mowing down scores of enemies only to be stabbed to death by the Spy you didn't see creeping up behind you. Anyone who's played as the Spy can tell you just how mustache-twirlingly fun it is to be the person doing the stabbing -- it's almost worth unmuting the voice chat in the hopes that you'll hear your victims' sweet cries of anguish. Almost.
via Destructoid
Then drown the cries out with an MP3 of "Stayin' Alive."
The character is a touch of gameplay genius; a good Spy can shift the balance of a match. The Team Fortress Spy will go down in gaming history alongside Mario Kart's blue shell as "the thing everyone hates right up until they're the one using it."
The Technical Problem:
The Spy was never supposed to exist -- the developers got the idea from a bug that caused some players to appear in the colors of the other team. This was a nightmare for the unlucky team that got fooled by it; enemy players could slip right into the middle of their ranks and unleash hell, killing them all before they even realized what was happening. It completely screwed up the team dynamic and turned certain victory into crushing defeat.
Four years getting an engineering degree, all for nothing.
Rather than yell about "cheap ass hacking noobs!!!!111" and patch the bug into oblivion, the creators of Team Fortress realized the potential it had as a gameplay mechanic and decided to create a class geared toward deception. Using the color-swapping error as the basis of their new Spy, the developers crafted a character with a unique play style that eventually evolved into the stab-happy Frenchman players know today. It completely changed Team Fortress and, depending on who you ask, was either a brilliant innovation or the cheapest bullshit to ever ruin a game.


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So, I want to play some MP3s in a console player that takes file names as inputs. I have the following files, as given by
ls -1 * where
* get expanded by my shell (zsh):
1 - Main title.mp3
10 - End title.mp3
2 - Intro.mp3
But clearly, how I actually want them to be ordered is like so:
1 - Main title.mp3
2 - Intro.mp3
10 - End title.mp3
What shell expansion magic do I need to make it so?
I know I could get the same thing with some clever pipes and
sort -h but that's not really an option because I am a lazy typist. So, unless I wrote a small shell script to add song, I'd just rather do
nyxmms2 add /path/to/dir/*.mp3 thus why I am looking at how to do the filtering within zsh's expansion... Also, I want to know if this is possible because it applies to a lot of other situations as well -- for example, log files or revisions or ...


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Diagnosis of Fibrosarcoma in Dogs
Lili Duda, VMD
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
We were notified today that our 7 year old Boston Terrier, has a well differentiated fibrosarcoma located in his back right leg near his knee. We were told that there is moderate to high potential for local recurrence and progression. There is low potential for regional and systemic metastasis.
We were told by our vet that this type of cancer is common among cats. However, she has never seen this type of cancer in dogs before.
When our vet did the biopsy to remove the mass, she indicated that she did not think that it was cancerous. Therefore, she was not careful about getting all of the tissue around the mass. The pathology test proved that it was fibrosarcoma. Our vet has suggested that our dog have surgery in three weeks (due to her opinion that additional anesthesia this soon after his first surgery for biopsy purposes would be too risky) to make sure that all of the tissue that was around the mass is removed And told us that our dog will probably have to have his leg amputated. While we respect our vet's opinions, we are concerned as to whether
- she is waiting too long to go back in to remove the remaining cancerous tissue and
- whether she is being too pessimistic in that we have read that a "well differentiated" fibrosarcoma has a decent chance of being cured during the initial surgery by removing the surrounding and underlying tissue.
I would sincerely appreciate your opinion on this type of cancer with regard to dogs.
Also We would like to take our dog to a specialist who is familiar with this type of cancer for treatment. I would appreciate any guidance or referrals you could give me in finding a specialist in my area. As you might imagine, seeing as though he is nothing less than the heart of our family, state lines are not obstacles. While we prefer to stay in this region of the country, we are willing to consider almost anything in our attempts to save our dog's leg and perhaps his life.
Thank you very much for your time.
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section, responds:
Fibrosarcomas are a common skin tumor of both dogs and cats. Low grade fibrosarcomas (an indicated by the biopsy report) are generally locally very invasive, but unlikely to metastasize. Complete surgical excision can be curative; however, wide surgical margins are needed. The initial surgery (following the biopsy diagnosis) is the best chance for a cure, and it is always a good idea to seek the second opinion of a board-certified surgeon if there is any question about the surgery. This being said, it can be very difficult to obtain adequate surgical margins on a limb because of the lack of skin and soft tissue and proximity of vital structures (nerves, tendons, vessels). Amputation offers the best chance for a cure because the tumor is then removed with wide margins. A second option is to combine surgery with radiation therapy.
There is a good chance that there is a radiation therapy facility within driving distance. Check your phone directory for a large teaching veterinary hospital. Surgery combined with radiation offer a fair to good prognosis of tumor control and is the next best option after amputation.
In an otherwise healthy dog, and a well-equipped hospital with good monitoring equipment, a second anesthetic procedure should be no problem even within 24 hours. If the dog had any problems with anesthesia additional procedures would be a concern, but waiting a few weeks won't necessarily make any difference.


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In the mechanical part of the human eye the control system to protect for overload of the diaphragm in the iris with a strong coupling to the light intensity that falls on the retina has his place in the visual system as close as possible to the light source in the chain of control devices of the human visual system. The iris is disk-shaped and consists of two muscles. Like a diaphragm for light, the iris regulates how much light comes into our eyes. In bright conditions, the muscles of the iris limit how much light comes in. In lowlit conditions, the muscles of the iris increase the amount of light comming in.
Basic hypotheses is that the protection device in mammalian human hearing system is based on similarity as in the visual system and therefore should well also be using similar protection tools as used in the visual system and should well also be placed in the chain of control devices as close as possible to the signal source, as an experienced system engineer will always place a protection device in the chain of control devices as close as possible to the signal source.
Exists such an continuous functioning simalarity analogue in the protection system for sound signals ? Both the iris in the eye (two muscles) and eardrum+ossicular chain in the ear (two muscles): in protection. Exists that similarity ?


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What are the differences between the two? I thought that "World" means everything, i.e the same as "Universe". But people seem to think it means the same as "Earth".
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To me as well, World = Earth while the Universe = earth and space including the great unknown.
The Oxford seems to agree.
Origin of World: Old English w(e)oruld, from a Germanic compound meaning 'age of man'; related to Dutch wereld and German Welt.
Origin of Universe: late Middle English: from Old French univers or Latin universum, neuter of universus 'combined into one, whole', from uni- 'one' + versus 'turned' (past participle of vertere).
I'd say the difference depends on context. The most literal senses of world versus universe are, respectively, the planet Earth versus all that exists. However, for practical purposes, it is often clear that all instances of a thing that could possibly exist must exist on our planet, so that the difference becomes irrelevant.
Since there are hardly any men outside Earth, the words world and universe could be used interchangeably here.
Since there are mountains on Mars, you could not substitute world here.
In many expressions where it doesn't matter, the word world is used because it is the more common word.
World generally means Earth, as InSane mentioned.
Sometimes, however, it is used in a more general sense. See definitions 7-9 in this dictionary entry. Also, consider the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (also known as many-universes) and the notion of possible world in philosophy and logic.
I speculate that "world" is often seen as an acceptable substitute for "universe" (even though it's a less common meaning) for reasons of convenience: "world" is two syllables shorter.
Universe means all existing matter and space considered as a whole; it is also used with the meaning of a particular sphere of activity, interest, or experience.
World means:
Universe is unambiguous. It only ever means all that exists. World can have all of the meanings stated in previous answers to the question.


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I was thinking in particular about Brie because of its soft texture...
We've successfully frozen shredded mozzarella and then baked with it without losing flavor. Apparently the thing to be concerned about is the texture, not the flavor, and harder cheeses tend to retain their texture better (though using them for cooking/baking is still the only recommended way) according to Still Tasty.
Brie will probably freeze well since it doesn't have a curd structure and is fairly high in fat. I imagine the flavor won't be quite the same, but it should still be close.
In my youth, before you could buy good cheese at supermarkets, my mom used to buy huge blocks of cheese and freeze them in a chest freezer. The flavor was about the same, but they were a bit worse for the wear. With cheddar, the curds would become much more pronounced for some reason and the cheese would appear drier than normal. I think the freezing shuffles the water around somehow in the curd, but I'm not sure.
Parmesan always did fine, with no observable difference between the frozen and raw product. I assume this is because it has a very low moisture content.
Try it out with a bit of cheese and see if the thawed product is passable.
I have frozen Brie, having found it on clearance at the store but not having a plan to use it any time soon. Once defrosted, it seemed (to me) to be the same as if it were fresh.
I have frozen a variety of cheeses. The tastes seem to be just fine, but the texture is definitely different. Cheddar tends to crumble and mozzarella seems a bit drier. I prefer to shred then freeze, as I'm more likely to use it shredded than whole anyway.


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Farewell Address: Luigi Zoja, IAAP President
Congress : August 2001 : Cambridge
Continuity is important, and I will start this address with a reference to the last two Presidents.
In his 1995 Farwell Address, President Tom Kirsch noted that the IAAP Constitution was basically the one of its origin – that is the 1950ies – and hoped for changes in it.
In her 1998 Farwell Address, President Kast underlined that many constitutional reforms had been set in place, aiming at more participation and shared democratic processes.
As it has been explained in detail in the last Newsletter - and as I have tried to summarize in my Report - also during this term the Executive Committee has been working hard in that direction. However, we have also realized new activities within the existing Constitution. Also in this sense continuity is important. For instance, calling the Council of Societies with much advance, has given it the possibility of having a really effective role. And splitting the Executive Committee into many Sub-Committees with specific tasks, has allowed better coordination and the accomplishment of much more work – of course, at the cost of supplementary work on the part of the Committees. Both things were not foreseen by IAAP Constitution. But the guiding principle has been the one of extending our functions and the sense of participation as much as possible, while bringing about new institutions and new constitutional formulations as little as possible. For the first time, IAAP has elected its Honorary Members. This type of membership was already in the Constitution, but had been never used. We have achieved this without new costs and without institutional changes.
Only in few instances it was unavoidable to touch our Constitution. For instance, you might have noticed the Art. 2 speaks of high standards of ethics. But this formulation, as it was not accompanied by constitutional instruments allowing to enforce it, risked remaining a lip service to ethics and was already exposing IAAP to criticisms from outside.
Keeping all this in mind, I hope to have guided the Executive Committee in a direction which is the continuation of important steps taken by the previous Presidents.
After this premise, I would like to expand on some reflections that I have published on recent occasions. This has to do with the understandable wish that IAAP should not be concerned only with IAAP institutions, but with Jungian analysis and Jungian thought in general. Indeed, with the role of analysis and of psychology in the broadest possible sense.
Part of those reflections were unavoidably inspired by the change of the Century and of the Millenium.
Speaking of the XX Century, I happened to use the term "the Century of analysis". Such a definition is neither totally new, nor totally true. But it helps us to make a point. During the XX Century, Western culture – which, through globalization, tends to become universal, world culture – has been revolutionized. And one of the revolutionary powers, whether we like it or not, has been psychoanalysis. Unlike Fascism and Communism – which have been powerfully revolutionary movements, but have been defeated, respectively, in a military and in an economic confrontation – but similarly to the technological revolution, the analytic movement has impregnated the culture of the XX Century to a point of no return. Literature has radically moved towards the description of the inner world, has almost given the inner dialogue a priority over the outer one. Painting has dropped figurative in favour of non-figurative styles: that is, in favour of psychological rather than sensorial perceptions. In favour of depictions not of an outer, but of an inner vision of the author. Also cinema has mostly become an expression of inner states, of dreams, of the unconscious. And so on. Artistic work became, to a great extent, a direct expression of the psyche of its author. Every relevant cultural expression has been funnelled through an "analytic channel". And, the other way round, an analytic point of view has acquired full citizenship and has become indispensable as an instrument for the evaluation of the products of our culture and our history.
In a way, we should be proud of this. Our small and peaceful army – basically led by Freud and Jung – has won a big "revolution", without spreading any blood.
Let us consider more specifically in what sequence this took place during the century.
The first half of it was dominated by the presence of the two masters. In spite of their dramatic split, and of the fact that – at least officially – they didn't keep reading each other, their research reveals a common trend even after they parted.
After his first, typically clinical phase as a psychiatrist at the Burghölzli, Jung underwent a deep transformation. He re-emerged as a scholar not of psychopathology, but of general psychology. Not of specific situations, but of great collective symbols and themes: of these universal productions, which, in the end, he called archetypes. Freud remained predominantly clinical for a longer time. Yet, at a later phase, he trod with determination a path similar to that of Jung. Although, of course, he didn't use the term archetype, he dealt with the big themes of our civilization (like War and Death) and collective symbols (like Moses).
Both masters moved from what is particular to what is universal. From what varies – the single case, the pathology, which is by definition a variation from the norm – to what is stable. They searched for archetypal foundations of human events. May be, the shift had to do with the fact that the two masters were getting old. What is unchangeably stable is associated with immortality. And getting older we become curious about immortality. May be, it had to do with the fact that both had become immensely famous, and were constantly asked to share their opinions about the world at large. In any case, it is undeniable that, in spite of their radical differences, they both were attracted in a similar direction.
This responded to a dramatic collective need. Shattered in depth by two world wars, by the Communist Revolution, by the atomic weapons, the world was longing for a new stability and for unifying factors. This engagement on their part contributed, on its turn, to their fame and to the enormous influence of depth psychology over the century.
Let me now sum up how, on the contrary, I have viewed the evolution of Jungian psychology after the death of its founder.
During the first generation following that date, the expression "symbolic versus clinical" was often heard in Jungian milieus. The two polarities had almost come to represent, on their turn, two symbolic parents of the international Jungian movement. They expressed the tension of two opposites, which were still united by a creative confrontation. This lasted roughly until the Jerusalem Congress, whose title was precisely Symbolic and Clinical Approaches.(1983)
By then, things has started to change. In some countries, universities and other institutions, private and public, had started to be interested in Jungian analysis and to set up departments of analytical psychology: of course, departments of clinical training. In other countries, laws regulating psychotherapy were being enforced: those laws, for the first time, defined psychotherapy, and defined it as a clinical activity. Research centres had started verifications on the clinical effectiveness of the various school of psychotherapeutic thought: and health insurances were exerting pressure in the same direction, in order to save on repayments. All these institutionalisations could be summarized as aspects of a growing clinical competition. Analysis, once an individual endeavour, had become a market phenomenon. In most countries – I am roughly speaking of the last two decades of the century – the psychotherapeutic market begun to be overcrowded not only by psychoanalytic schools, but by new kinds of psychotherapies. These had mostly poor cultural basis, but boasted about rapidity and effectiveness of results. For the first time, analysts really started facing unemployment. Clinical institutionalization, and clinical competition started being reflected in debates, congresses, publications centred more around the treatment aspects of Jungian psychology. The newly graduated analysts received an indirect, but clear message: in a pionneering situation, an analyst can be clinical, symbolic, archetypal. In a competing market, an analyst should first of all impress with clinical skills.
By the end of the century, the clinical had won over the symbolic within the Jungian family. Training activities reflected this change in every continent. With a bit of exaggeration, we could say that the polarities had been separated. The tension of the opposites had dissolved. The symbolic parents had divorced: and custody of the symbolic child – analytical psychology – had been given to the clinical one.
In the new situation, Jungians were often at odds more than Freudians and neo-Freudians, as they had been traditionally less equipped with [primarily] clinical tools.
One way of seeing the new trend would be to consider it a return to the origins. After all, as we have recalled, both Freud and Jung started their work strictly as clinicians. And their involvment with great collective themes was encouraged by exceptionally tragic times and by the exceptional prestige they enjoyed as maitres à penser. We now live in more peaceful times. We are a generation of followers and, as it usually happens, do better than the previous one in quantity but not necessarily in quality. Who among us has enough authority to speak about the great themes and symbols of our times? So, our endeavours gradually have taken the opposite direction than the founding fathers. From the universal, we are going back to the particular. From what is stable – the archetypes and the collective symbols in which they express themselves – to what is variation: to the pathology – which is variation from the norm – to the evolutionary psychology – which is variation throughout growth.
All this, after all, seems in keeping with a great trend of the Western World, and of the globalisation which administrates it to the rest of the world: a tendency towards individualism, disengagement from big collective themes, refuge into private dimensions and specialization.
The conclusion could be that the Jungian analysts have gradually chosen to reverse the path of their founder, and to go back: from what is fixed, stable and eternal, to what expresses variation.
From archetypes and symbols to clinical interests.
However, this is not the case. We are not watching a free choice on the part of the analytical psychologists. All the factors we have mentioned a minute ago – institutions, universities, laws, market – are sociological, cultural, political and, above all, economical factors. Not by chance have we spoken of clinical competition. Of the two words, the decisive one is competition, which holds the clinical in its grips. The change does not stem from an internal debate of Jungian psychology. It does not express a preference, a choice of ours. It is produced by external forces over which we hardly have any control. Although, of course, we might adjust to their trend. The next generation of Jungians, having by then grown up in a milieu dominated by a clinical debate, might even not be aware that external, non- analytical factors have pushed in that direction.(See also the interview released by Fred Plaut at this Congress).
Allow me once more to make reference to something I have written about. Another couple of opposites, which has been creatively parenting analytical psychology, is the couple "unity versus pluralism". Unlike the Freudian school, which has often suffered from a need to produce a unitarian thinking, and has been at times called monotheistic, Jungian thought has been referred to as polytheistic – and not by chance it loves to use pagan classical divinities for its amplifications. Actually, the flexibility of Jungian thought possesses an innate predisposition to allow almost unrestrained pluralism, and yet to keep its unity. Even overly independent personalities, and founders of almost autonomous schools of thought, like Fordham and Hillman, didn't show an interest in starting organizations of their own. They remained faithful to IAAP.
But with time, and within the IAAP – thanks to the traditional individualistic tendencies of us Jungians and to the growing competition we have referred to – societies of analytical psychology kept multiplying. Not only in big countries, like the States, but in small ones, like Belgium. Not only in the same country, but in the same city. Here too, the pair of opposites seem not to hold together any more. The polarities have been split and unrestrained pluralism seems to have won. When I wrote a similar consideration for the Newsletter, I didn't yet know that the agenda for this Delegates Meeting would list 14 new applications from societies: that is, approximately 40% of those already existing. If such a geometric growth were to continue during every 3 years term, within IAAP the number of societies would soon rise above the number of existing analysts!
To flesh out our reflections, it is interesting to consider the result of the debate between IRS and CASJA (T. Kirsch, The Jungians, chapter 7). CASJA – that is the majority of the American Societies – wanted to put certain limits to the establishment of new training groups within the States. Yet, the opposite point of view prevailed, because those limits would clash with the freedom of trade ensured by the American legislation. Once again, it is worth noticing that we are speaking of a freedom of trade: not a freedom of the psyche. Like in the case of the victory of the clinical competition, we are watching a gradual domination of market realities over our psychological reality. We are not watching the victory of a certain school of psychological thought, but that of the Chicago boys: the victory of a school of economic thought, fostering a radical freedom of trade.
I have recently moved to a new country, the United States. There, I have watched a phenomenon, totally new to me, which some New York colleagues call "shopping for analysis". A potential client rings you for an appointment. When he/she shows up, you will find that the potential client has a list of many, many potential analysts: Freudians, Jungians; male, female; located downtown or uptown, and so on. He/she will get in touch with all of them, enquiring about fees and repayments from health insurances. Correctly, from his/her point of view. But not so incorrectly, some other colleagues argue that precisely such a careful potential client usually ends up choosing the wrong analyst: because he sets the objectively measurable criteria of efficiency and economicity above personal feelings. Above personal identity. He hasn't yet started analysis, but he has already started working against individuation. (Let me reject a possible European objection: "it is an American excess". It is an excess of respect for efficiency and economy typical of the post-modern era, or of the XXI century. It doen's matter how we want to call it: what matters is that you will soon find it all over the world). Shopping is an economic attitude, which has been legitimately expanded onto other fields, including ours: as it is well demonstrated by my country, Italy, where the richest of all citizens has recently decided to go shopping for the political power and, while keeping to the rules of the game, has acquired it.
Of course, excesses have their shadow, and such a shadow might take its revenge. Elsewhere, I have written about the most impressive and fast creation of a "new country". Europe. Never before such an imperial power had been pulled together in such a short time. And by streams of money, not by streams of blood. But precisely here lies the problem. Europe is, substantially, the economy of Europe. Not much more. Where is the myth of Europe and where is the European collective unconscious harbouring it? Of course, a mythic Europe exists, but she hasn't much in common with the present one. Even the European anthem celebates Freude, (joy), not Europe. Jung reiterated that myths and the collective unconscious are no less real than material facts. But the Eurocrates are interested only in efficiency and economy. The paradox is that precisely that onesidedness in favour of the material dimension, is responsible for many malfunctions of European institutions; and, finally, for the weakness of its currency, the Euro. Economic values are values which non-economic fields have been more and more compelled to incorporate: but in the end they can damage economy itself, because the individuals – who will exist and decide – tend to mistrust the one-sided overevalutation of economy and the absence of a soul in it. (in other words: I consider the "revolt" against Europe the rejection of Europe, as the big test in preparation for the revolt against globalization).
Let's come back to our field. Efficiency is an extra-psychological value, which psychology has been compelled to incorporate also in the form of research on the healing effectiveness of the various form of therapy. Jung would have loved to express one of his paradoxical statements about this: for instance, he often considered psychic symptoms a blessing, therefore their elimination not necessarily welcome; or, the purpose of analysis might be a search for meaning more than a search for healing; and so on. We, now, cannot easily afford similar statements. In our mouth they would sound like the fox speaking about the grapes. Like paradoxes, which are cynical more than provocative and creative. Like refusals of our "here and now". We have to accept that our field isn't any more – and will never be again – a purely psychological field. The dinamics taking place in it will be unpure: forever melted with pragmatic, materialistic ones.
We don't know, of course, what will be the fate of analysis, and of Jungian psychology, in the XXI century. Yet, we can anticipate that its pioneering and revolutionary age is over. Its century of grace is over. Analysis has ceased to be a major factor among cultural trends. It is, on the contrary, on the defensive, visibly undergoing the influence of radically different trends. In other words: in the culture of the XX century, analysis was one of the shaping factors. In the XXI, it must accept other dominating, opposed influences: for instance – besides of course the all pervading influence of economy – the biologistic ideology in psychiatry, the new psychopharmacology and so on. We cannot go back to a golden age. Like a river, the stream of history knows only one direction. We have to live with the excesses of competition and the excesses of attempts to measure our efficiency. This does not necessarily imply a tragic loss. It might, on the contrary, help us to lose a possible omnipotence. If we were to speak always of the meaning and never of the efficiency of analysis, we could risk inflation. Efficiency is not a psychological quality in itself, but it is objectively measurable; and this deflates us and washes away a certain temptation of "supermanism" – latent in analytical psychology probably through the deep influence Nietzsche had on its beginning. Jungian psychology has given so much to the culture of the XX century precisely because of its capacity of criss-crossing in depth history and society. Of dwelling deeply in them and analysing their sufferings. It would be a denial of this historical role to set us apart from history. Let's therefore consciously contaminate our hands with efficiency and other "new trends".
Analytical psychology should have, in the new century, a less visible but not necessarily less important role than in the old one. We cannot go back to the predominance of symbols and archetypes of our bemoaned origins. But we also cannot accept the total dominance of the clinical approach bound to efficiency in results, which could imply a loss of our specificity, and possibly turn psychotherapy into a passive object in the grasp of economy. We have no choice but to restore the couple, leading to the undivided dynamic duality of clinical and symbolic.
Also the one-sided predominance of plurality over unity should not be accepted uncritically. Of course, there are usually plenty of good and constructive reasons for the creation of a new society. Yet, the fact that we create new groups much more easily than, for instance, the Freudians, leaves some questions open. First, we should ask ourselves if we value unity less, and why. Secondly, we should ask ourselves if there isn't an unconfessed, even unconscious tendency to setting up a new group with the fantasy that it will represent the "really Jungian thought" or the "really Jungian Legacy", or something similar. After all, this might be the shadow side of the great Jungian tolerance and acceptance of pluralism. An unconscious arrogance, a drive not towards power, but towards pseudo-aristocratic isolation. What could be also unconscious in this tendency, is that this refuge is a hoped-for "purity" corresponds pretty much to a typical, more general trend of our "new age". A sudden reaction to the insecurity provoked by the accelerated globalization. This has been already foreseen by authors as different as O. Paz or S. Hungtindon. The too quick modernization we are watching, causes the reappearance of fundamentalism. A new closure into old sects. In spite of its appearance of return to religion, Jung wouldn't have liked it. However, it is a tendency the new generation will probably have to live with.
Many thinkers are trying to characterize the new era we are entering. Same say that the most typical feature of the dawn of our new century is a tendency to union: what quickly unites us, like the internet. I find that this is not so new and, unfortunately, not so irreversible. Global communication and global trade had in many ways already been started by the Spanish fleet more than 4 centuries ago. But it was then broken down by conflicts among European nations. It was again in full steam one century ago: you could for instance travel the whole of Europe without passport. Yet, European nationalisms and wars destroyed again that tendency to union.
In a way, I find that a remarkable, and surprising, trait of the new age is, unfortunately, rather a new tendency to divisions and intolerance. To what divides us, more than to what unites us.
Two gigantic statues of Buddha had lived for thousands of years in what is nowadays Afganistan. They lived untouched through different dominations, different religions, and so on. It was only at the dawn of the XXI century that the Talebans destroyed them in a few minutes with their machine-guns.
Jungian psychology is the main instrument we have acquired for the understanding of the tragic human tendency to division. It should not be allowed to become a factor of division in itself.
Copyright Luigi Zoja 2001
IAAP Congress - Cambridge - August 2001


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6 Nobodies Who Turned Into Superheroes without Warning
Experts sometimes fail us. Police officers and firemen can't be everywhere at once. Fortunately, on those rare occasions when qualified individuals can't be found, a random nobody is sometimes waiting in the wings, ready to toe-kick fate in the genitals and save the day.
#6. The Construction Worker Who Dove Under a Subway to Save a Man
The Nobody:
Wesley Autrey was a 50-year-old construction worker and Navy veteran living in New York City.
The Clutch:
Autrey was waiting on the subway platform with his kids when a man named Cameron Hollopeter (which is the porniest name since Big Dick Gigglefist) fell to the floor and began convulsing. Autrey and two other bystanders went to Hollopeter's aid and brought him back to his feet -- which is exactly what you don't want to do. Sure enough, Hollopeter took a few steps and fell right off the platform and onto the tracks below just as the train started to roll in, setting the scene for a spectacular obituary.
"Cameron Hollopeter: Lived fast, died at about 63 mph."
With no real plan in mind, since the seconds it would take to develop a plan would be just enough time for Hollopeter to be erased by the train, Autrey jumped onto the tracks, not wanting his two daughters to witness the horrific squishing of a human being via train. At first, he tried moving Hollopeter back onto the platform, but the man's convulsing hadn't stopped, making him impossible to lift out of harm's way in time. Luckily, a narrow trench in the center of the rails caught Autrey's eye.
It was little more than a shallow drainage gutter and probably didn't look anywhere close to big enough to shelter a man from a speeding train that was about to come roaring overhead. Autrey, of course, didn't have time to get out his measuring tape, so he just rolled Hollopeter into the trench and lay on top of him to try and keep him from flopping around. There was nothing else for him to do but hope the combined height of his body on top of Hollopeter's would be low enough to miss being fatally shaved off like Italian ice.
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The train's operator saw them laying right there between the tracks and hit the brakes, but the subway didn't come to a full stop until two cars had passed over them. To the witnesses on the platform (most notably Autrey's young children), it appeared that the two men locked in a life or death man-hug had most likely been crushed.
But amazingly, they were alive. The train cleared the men by about two inches -- close enough that grease from the underside of the train stained Autrey's hat.
"Would I do it again? No way, I was dumb. That was my favorite hat."
Autrey was honored by every politician in the immediate area and showered with rewards, which included a trip to see Ellen DeGeneres and $10,000 directly from Donald Trump. Through it all, Autrey remained humble, and like Rocky in whatever sequel you're thinking of, he kind of grew disillusioned with the whole hero thing.
"Disillusionment" here bears a striking resemblance to "pimping."
#5. The Chinese Bureaucrat Who Caught a Woman as She Fell from a Window
The Nobody:
Guo Zhongfan was a local community officer (the bureaucratic kind, not the police officer kind) and the director at the Xinfa Community Administration Office in China.
The Clutch:
A 22-year-old woman, identified only as Miss Li, was rejected by her fiance after a four-year relationship only days before their wedding. Of course, it wasn't just because he didn't love her, but because he had fallen in love with somebody else and decided to marry her instead. More than a little upset, Miss Li put on her wedding dress (because hey, she'd bought it already, so she might as well wear it) and climbed out of a seventh floor window of her apartment building, intent on ending it all.
The tension in this photo is lessened slightly when you realize she'd probably float like Mary Poppins.
She got all the way out and actually let go of the ledge, beginning her deadly free fall, when the strong, rough hands of Zhongfan snatched her out of the air.
And thus, an incredibly dangerous new fetish was born.
Miss Li struggled ironically against the cyborglike grip keeping her alive, but Zhongfan held fast, with a stern look of determination on his face that seemed to say "No way is this shit happening on my watch."
He looks like he beat Death in a staring contest.
With the help of another man on the floor below pushing up on the bride's feet, Zhongfan pulled her back inside to safety. When he was interviewed later, Zhongfan merely said, "I did what anyone would have done." Which seems to suggest that showing up out of nowhere and rescuing people from the crushing weight of mortal despair is business as usual in his province. Actually, now that we mention it ...
#4. The Window Cleaner Who Stops Suicides as a Hobby
The Nobody:
Keith Lane is a middle-aged window cleaner and widower in England.
The Clutch:
Lane lost his wife when she fell, or more likely jumped, off the East Sussex Cliffs. Beachy Head, as the cliffs are more commonly known, is a depressingly popular spot for people wanting to kill themselves, witnessing an estimated 20 suicides per year.
"Well, I don't really want to kill myself ... but when am I going to be here again?"
Lane's wife, Maggie, had been one of those suicides in 2004. Since he couldn't save her, Lane began patrolling the cliffs daily, looking for other distraught souls at the end of their (proverbial) ropes.
Completely untrained in counseling, Lane has so far managed to prevent 29 people from leaping off the cliff. In his first year of punching suicide in the face, he received a Royal Humane Society Award for tackling a woman about to go over the edge, which sort of explains the "untrained in counseling" bit. More recently, he found another woman clinging to the cliff face about 15 feet down from the edge and actually climbed down to retrieve her, saving her life and earning a shitload of criticism from the local suicide prevention group, the Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team (BHCT), because apparently they are unclear on the meaning of the word "prevention."
"Look, grown adults commit to things. You're just a big baby."
The BHCT claim that Lane's rogue suicide prevention efforts endanger the lives of the people trying to kill themselves. Whether he bought that argument or not, Lane has since scaled back his patrols from two to three times daily to once per day, because he didn't "like the confrontations," a phrase which here means "I don't have time for their ridiculous bullshit, I'm trying to save people from jumping off this here cliff."
The Sun
This man couldn't look more British if he was holding a tea kettle and wearing nothing but a Union Jack.


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10 Deleted Scenes That Would've Ruined The Film
You can criticize Hollywood for their often glaring inaccuracies or their attempts to cast dead actors, but the very existence of deleted scenes proves that they are capable of reining things in and making good decisions. Still, you have to wonder why so much money and time was spent filming some scenes that remain utterly baffling, and would have fucked up the rest of the movie had they been left in. Scenes like ...
Nothing can fuck up Cracked's new Adventures in Jedi School mini-series.
#10. Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines -- Schwarzenegger the Southern Sergeant
Say what you will about Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, but it grossed over $400 million worldwide, and it knew exactly what kind of movie it was -- a popcorn blockbuster. However, if the following scene had gotten through the edit, it could have turned Rise of the Machines from a pretty average action film into a pretty laughable screwball comedy.
The Deleted Scene:
The scene shows a boardroom full of military personnel and Cyber Research Systems executives watching a promotional video announcing their latest achievements in killer robot technology.
"We calculate its odds of destroying the entire human race at less than 40 percent.
Which makes it much safer than Project Sarandon."
We learn that these new robots will be serving on the frontlines on the battlefield. We also learn why the body design of the Terminator robots are based on Arnold Schwarzenegger. According to the video, Chief Master Sergeant William Candy (Schwarzenegger) has had such an impressive military career that they've decided to model the Terminator robots after him.
"Why does a robot need to be huge? Wouldn't basing it off of a little guy be cheaper?"
But when he opens his mouth, we realize he's not the emotionless, hardcore, aggressively Austrian Arnold we've all come to know and tolerate -- his voice has been overdubbed by that of a giddy, excitable Southern goofball. Grinning like an idiot, Chief Master Sergeant Candy is all "Howdy" and "Shucks," like the biggest, dumbest cousin of Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel. The voice is ridiculous, the dubbing job is jarring and unsettling and the whole concept of the scene is utterly pointless.
"The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a muscle fetish and wants an easy lay. It's our job to hook him up."
Obviously the filmmakers need to explain why Terminators don't sound like the Rich Texan from The Simpsons, so one of the executives says he doesn't like the accent. Then the man in the screenshot below turns and, in an aggressively Austrian accent, says, "We can fix it."
Also, he looks sort of like Arnold, too, for some reason.
Get it? The idea is that they liked the body of Arnold, but he had a ridiculous Southern accent, so they replaced it with the voice of some unnaturally deep-voiced scientist! That's exactly the kind of wacky comedy you crave in a movie about time-traveling robot monsters.
Why is he on that treadmill? What new, useful data could that possibly provide robot scientists?
Why It Would Have Ruined the Movie
This scene, trying to explain why all the Terminators look like Arnie, is bewildering for so many reasons, and not just because it was a question that literally no one was ever asking at any time. We've accepted the fact that Terminators have to be naked when they go back in time because clothes can't time travel, or whatever, we're already on board with your logic at its most bullshit-tastic; you don't need to explain anything to us.
Sure. The robots have to be naked and covered in skin to travel through time. That's perfectly logical.
But since you did, you've only raised more questions. Why would humans have been developing the Terminators when, in The Terminator, Kyle Reese said that it was the robots who actually designed and built them as a way to infiltrate the humans? Why, about 20 years after crushing the humans, would Skynet honor the inferior humans' choice of face when it came time to build the Terminators? Are we assuming the deep-voiced man with the Austrian accent recorded his voice for the project before Skynet became self-aware and gunned him down?
We're going to go with "no."
It took a decent stretch of the imagination to enjoy the believability of Rise of the Machines in parts, but something tells us this scene would have gone a little too far into the absurd.
#9. Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Pig-Faced Nightmare Fuel
You mainly remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit for two reasons -- it was the first time you realized a cartoon could give you a tiny boner, and for Christopher Lloyd's pants-shittingly nightmarish reveal at the end. But an arguably more disturbing scene was cut.
The Deleted Scene:
After Eddie (Bob Hoskins), who is trying to clear the titular Roger Rabbit's name, is caught snooping around Jessica Rabbit's changing room and accused of being a panty thief, Judge Doom has him kidnapped and sent off to Toontown, which terrifies Eddie.
You can tell he just pooped by the look on his face.
We don't know what exactly goes on in Toontown, just that when Eddie is released the next day, he has the head of a Toon pig covering his own. How the hell Toons have the ability to create their own Toons and attach them to humans is beyond us. All we know is that the result is pretty alarming.
"It's like Porky Pig plus the Predator plus you guys I just took a lot of acid!"
He tugs and pulls at it to no avail, then runs home and does what any sane man who has just had a Toon animal's head attached to his body by a group of anthropomorphic mobster weasels would do and showers in fucking turpentine.
Don't try this at home. Unless you have to off a psychotic cartoon character.
As he does so, the head of the Toon pig starts to break apart and come away from Eddie's face.
Thankfully we don't see that, as it's silhouetted behind the shower curtain, but we do see the horrifying aftermath as the bits of terrified fleshy swine Toon get washed down the drain.
"GAAAH I can see Bob Hoskins' junk! Also, my face!"
Why It Would Have Ruined the Movie:
Remember, Roger Rabbit is only effective as a movie if the audience feels for the Toons -- if we accept the fact that Toons are capable of having the same kinds of emotions and personalities as humans. They have their own set of rules and can take a good beating, sure, but otherwise they can feel sad and scared, and they can certainly feel pain. So seeing the obliterated remains of a still-living Toon pig face being washed away in the shower by an albeit reluctant advocate of Toon rights doesn't exactly make for a fun family night in. The protagonist of a movie isn't supposed to start killing off the people he is trying to protect, without even so much as an afterthought.
Eddie "Valiant" our collective ass.
#8. Clerks -- Death of a Salesman
Clerks follows a day in the life of an average, ambitionless, self-absorbed but ultimately kind of likable quick-stop clerk, Dante, and his best friend, Randall. It's the ultimate low-budget success story that created the behemoth that is Kevin Smith (figuratively speaking of course). Clerks is one of the best movies where ultimately nothing happens, which was entirely Smith's point. The movie's sharp and observational dialogue made up for the ultra low budget and the fact that the most "exciting" thing to happen is a rooftop hockey game. Strange, then, is the gun-toting ending that could have been.
The Deleted Scene:
The first 10 seconds of that clip are familiar if you've seen the movie. Dante takes his post at the counter, Randall reminds Dante that his store is no longer open, and then credits. Unfortunately though, the deleted scene keeps going. Dante goes back behind the counter, and then the movie switches to a point of view shot from outside. You know the one -- it's the kind you always see in a horror movie from the killer's perspective right before he murders someone, just to prove the situation is serious.
Except if this were a horror movie, someone inside that store would be getting laid.
Unfortunately for him, Dante forgets to lock the door after he closes the shop, because the armed robber quietly walks in and, without a word, calmly shoots Dante, killing him.
Bunch of savages in this town.
The final few seconds play out like disturbing news footage from the aftermath of an armed robbery gone wrong rather than the end of a cult comedy. Dante lies bloodied on the floor, his blank dead face staring at nothing.
Fade out. Cue nothing over the credits but ambient noise, followed by the now-eerie sound of a till being operated. Hockey games, arguments about Star Wars, blowjobs, life-- it's all meaningless. Everything dies.
In retrospect, that would have been a good thing for fans of Jay and Silent Bob to learn early.
Why It Would Have Ruined the Movie:
Did you read that part about how blowjobs are meaningless? For a start, it's depressing as fuck. Comedies, especially relatively light-hearted ones like Clerks, aren't exactly supposed to end with the protagonist getting shot for absolutely no reason. What gave Clerks its charm was the fact that many Generation X-ers could identify with the story of two slackers wasting their lives away in shitty jobs they hated. It worked because it spoke to a previously unaddressed demographic. It was the 1990s. It was about people raised by pop culture. It was one of the first movies that dealt with the idea of being stuck somewhere between adolescence and adulthood. It was about being disappointed but ambitionless, frustrated but impotent, but it was still ultimately hopeful, because it proved a community existed. This movie told every confused slacker out there, "Hey, you're not the only one; there are more of us out here, and we're just as lost and scared and into Star Wars and porn as you are. We're in this together, it'll be OK."
"Nah, just fucking with you. Everybody dies, have a good night!" Killing off Dante murders the good will and the comedy in one unexplained bullet. It's not that we're against sad endings; we're against senselessly idiotic sad endings that are forced onto an otherwise pleasant comedy that is 80 percent dick jokes.
#7. Alien -- Do the Crab Shuffle
When Alien was first previewed to audiences, ushers fainted and people ran screaming from the theater. Over 30 years later, Alien still packs a terrifying punch, and not just because of the moment when John Hurt's dinner is so rudely interrupted. It was the feeling of dread audiences shared with the crew as they were picked off by the unseen alien terror that was really the driving force. It made the movie just as much a horror film as science fiction.
Though it really was a terrible way to end a meal.
The Deleted Scene:
We're near the end of the film. The surviving crew members are almost home safe. Lambert (Veronica Cartwright) is so busy tying up loose ends and cleaning up some machinery that she doesn't even notice the alien waiting patiently, silently, in the middle of the room ....
Until, that is, the alien makes its presence known with a menacing tail whip.
Needless to say, Lambert is horrified. She stares at the alien, she can't move, she's paralyzed with fear. They're all alone in the room, the horrifying alien has her right where it wants her. The alien stands -- or, not stands, but, like, lifts itself up off the ground with its hands and feet, its stomach still up in the air ...
Just like that, Alien will never be scary again.
... and then it just ... walks like that, scuttling across the room like Dr. Zoidberg, or like this is a fourth-grade gym class and it's playing crab soccer.
The alien stands up later, proving that its feet work just fine and that it must have done that weird, inverted crawl for ... what, intimidation purposes?
Why It Would Have Ruined the Movie:
We know that a lot of our readers are at work and can't watch videos, but really, our best possible answer is "watch that video." Watch it. Watch it again. Watch it real hard. Watch that big, spooky alien fucking line dance its way across the spaceship over and over again until it's clear why it doesn't belong in this or any movie.
It is impossible for anyone but a sumo wrestler to look menacing while squatting.
As Ridley Scott himself has said, the main technique used to heighten tension in the film was to bathe the alien in darkness and only show glimpses of it just before it hauled someone off. The fact that you never got a decent look at it until the very end meant it was your own fucked-up imagination that filled in the gaps of what the entire alien looked like, and therefore what it was capable of. That was Scott's plan; the darkness would be just as important as the alien itself. Even though a lot of work went into creating the look of the evil bastard, Scott specifically wanted it to remain largely hidden from the audience so they couldn't tell it was just another dude in a rubber suit.
"We're gonna give it a mask, too, right? We should probably give it a mask."
So to go from having the alien only show itself when it mouth-fucked someone in the face to showing it scrabbling around on its obvious man-feet would have undone all the tension Scott had spent the past two hours trying to maintain.
#6. Ghostbusters -- Suddenly, Bums
Ghostbusters is up there as being one of the best comedies of the '80s, not least because of the improvisational style Bill Murray brought to the role of Dr. Peter Venkman. His performance produced some of the most memorable moments in the film. It makes sense then that a scripted scene was cut from the film, as it could have been memorable for all the wrong reasons.
The Deleted Scene:
Nothing that visually exciting happens in this scene. It's night time, there's a park, and two crazy bums are talking about Nicaragua, boxing and karate. Then Rick Moranis' Louis runs by screaming. Pretty standard. Oh, except for the fact that the bums are also inexplicably played by Murray and Dan Aykroyd.
We know this is offensive. But to whom?
Yes, for no reason at all, Murray and Aykroyd played two roles each in Ghostbusters, even though no one else did. Since Louis is running around screaming, fans of the film know that this scene would have taken place moments after the Terror Dog (as it was known) chases Louis out of the hotel, and right before Venkman goes up to Dana's apartment and resists the temptation to fuck a demon-possessed gatekeeper. They just show up to break up the action in an awesome movie to have a completely random debate about who would win in a fight between a heavyweight boxer and a karate master.
Apparently, New York bums wear ascots made of tin foil.
What's more than just weird about Murray and Aykroyd doubling up as bums for the film is the fact that Murray is clearly channeling Carl Spackler from Caddyshack.
Or maybe he just moved to New York and changed his name.
Why It Would Have Ruined the Movie:
Ghostbusters is a pretty strong film, so this might not have ruined it, but it certainly would change every conversation from "Yeah, I liked Ghostbusters a lot" to "Yeah, I liked Ghostbusters except for that fucking pointless bum scene." It would function as the "Octopus's Garden" of Ghostbusters, an aggravatingly goofy, out-of-place aside that ruins an otherwise incredible piece of work.
Not unlike the Ghostbusters cartoon.


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