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I have a Lenovo z570 i3, Ive installed the packages available for nvidia and my graphics card is still not recognised?
It displays the following error upon trying to configure it
You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file and restart the X server
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If I'm trying to say someone is a good example I often hear 例子, however, I have also heard 榜样, which seems to make more sense to me based on the meaning of the characters. What is the difference between these two?
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榜样 is a model, specifically a person regarded as an excellent example of a certain quality.
Every year, the government announces
In a lot of companies, they have an honor called
Teachers use the word fairly often:
An idiom:
例子 is a typical thing that can represent the whole kind.
It's actually very easy to distinguish between the two words.
Definition of "example" (from the Dashboard widget on my Mac):
一个例子 means a example.
and 榜样 means a PERSON who made good examples.
or 榜样 describe a excellent person


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Baseball Travels to North Greenville, USC Aiken This WeekMarch 24, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – As the month of March winds down, Anderson University baseball hits the road for a pair of nonconference matchups, beginning on Tuesday with a rematch against Conference Carolinas opponent North Greenville, followed by a trip south to Peach Belt Conference member USC Aiken on Wednesday. Both games this week are scheduled for 6 p.m.
The Trojans
Last week, AU finished 2-2 with a nonconference win over GRU Augusta, followed by a series setback to Tusculum, claiming its only win in the first game of a doubleheader in dramatic fashion, 13-12, in 10 innings. With the even week, the Trojans carry an 11-20 overall record into this week, along with an 8-10 mark in conference play.
Anderson enters the midweek contests as one of the best power hitting clubs in the South Atlantic Conference. The Trojans are one of three teams in the league with 20 or more home runs on the season, raking third with 24 for the year. With its power numbers continuing to grow, AU ranks third in RBI (166) and fifth in total hits (288).
A major contribution to those numbers has been hot-hitting sophomore Steven Cooper who has hit five home runs in Anderson's last eight games. During the span, the sophomore is hitting .452 with a .553 on-base percentage and a 1.000 slugging percentage. At the plate, Cooper has tallied two doubles and has driven in 14 runs and scored 12 times. In the span of the last eight games, the Westminster, S.C. native has recorded five multi-hit games.
Senior outfielder Nathan Galliford has followed Cooper in the lineup the entire season, but leads the team and ranks second in the SAC in home runs with nine. After hitting a home run in every game against Coker this season, the senior has cooled off at the plate, sending out two home runs since the three-home run series to open March.
On the mound, midweek starter David Thompson has made the most of his five starts. The right-hander leads all starters with a 3.97 ERA while posting 33 strikeouts in 34 innings. Currently, Thompson ranks sixth in the SAC in strikeouts per game (8.74), trailing teammate Landon Beck, who leads the league at 12.31. Beck has 57 strikeouts in 41.2 innings this season, which ranks second behind Mars Hill's Dale Innes.
The Crusaders
North Greenville is looking to get back on the winning track, as it enters the week dropping 11 of its last 12 ballgames as a 5-4 win over Conference Carolinas rival Pfeiffer on Saturday snapped a 10-game losing streak. Overall, the Crusaders are 5-22 for the year with a 2-7 mark in league action.
Two-way player Allen Staton continues to lead NGU at the plate and on the mound. Staton is hitting .400 for the year with 14 RBI and 11 runs scored. Staton is joined by Zac Davis as the only players on the team hitting over .300 for the season. For the year, the Crusaders have been outscored 232-115, as opponents are hitting .324 against their pitching staff.
Despite its record, right-hander Ryan Woodring holds a 2.18 ERA with six starts on the year. Woodring has completed 41.1 innings and has struck out 34 hitters. Staton closely follows with a 3.48 ERA and 29 strikeouts, earning the starting in three contests.
The Series vs. North Greenville
Earlier this season, Anderson posted over 20 runs for a game for the first time in three seasons, capturing a 22-12 win over North Greenville on Feb. 27. The Trojans pounded out 18 hits and scored 12 runs in the bottom of the fourth inning en route to the 10-run win. Currently, the Trojans have taken three-straight games from their in-state rival, as they swept the two-game season-long series a season ago.
The Pacers
USC Aiken enters Wednesday's meeting winners of its last four, coming off a three-game sweep of North Georgia after defeating nonconference opponent Paine last Wednesday. For the year, the Pacers carry an impressive 21-7 overall mark and a 10-5 record in PBC play, while sitting in fourth place in the conference standings.
Outscoring their opponents 246-119, the Pacers have belted 28 home runs this season and currently lead the PBC in triples with 13. As a team, USC Aiken is hitting .340 with a .507 slugging percentage, as sophomore Tyler Moore is third in the conference in average (.418) and classmate Sean Miller closely follows with a .406 mark.
The Pacer pitching staff has held batters to a .234 batting average, while accumulating league-highs with 258 strikeouts and 9.26 strikeouts per game. Junior left-hander Danny Wissmann, who has started in seven games, leads the team with 53 punch outs in 37.2 innings with a .430 ERA. Wissmann saw action in two games against North Georgia last weekend, as he tallied 1.1 innings in both contests and struck out three Nighthawks.
The Series vs. USC Aiken
Anderson and USC Aiken have played at least one game every season for the past 15 years, as AU has not defeated its in-state rival since a 7-5 win on March 4, 2003. Last year, USC Aiken claimed a 10-6 win over the Trojans at Roberto Hernandez Stadium on March 14, 2013.


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BSCI Custom Foam Seat Inserts - The Safer SeatWritten by on January 30, 2014 An expandable foam seat insert can make your ride both safer and more comfortable
As racing safety has continually improved over the past decade, one word that keeps popping up is "containment."
Containment doesn't mean you want to keep everything in the car—although that isn't a bad idea—it is about keeping the driver's body in a sort of cocoon so that movement is allowed only in the directions and distances you want it. When you boil it all down to the fundamentals, that's the purpose of a head-and-neck restraint, shoulder and knee brace attachments to your racing seat, belts, and even the seat itself. The more the body is allowed to move before you bring it to a stop, the more that body can accelerate. And that means more damaging force the driver must absorb when he or she is brought to a stop.
So it is critical not only to have a quality racing seat installed in your race car that is strong enough so that it won't flex too much under impact, it must also fit your body well. In a hard impact, even small movements inside the seat can help contribute to injury.
That's why moldable seat foam is becoming more and more popular in racing. No matter what your body shape, a well-done foam seat insert can make your racing seat fit you like a well tailored suit. It can help mold the seat to your body in place so that you, or your driver, is held more securely in place, which not only keeps you safer but also help your driving because you aren't sliding around in your seat. Finally, there's the added benefit of just being more comfortable.
Many hobby-level racers feel that a custom-poured seat is the domain of NASCAR Cup racers and fancy European open wheel racers with names like "Jacque" or "Reynauld." But that's simply not the case. BSCI is a company that has done molded foam seat inserts for the previously mentioned Cup guys and open wheel racers, but they are also more and more often doing inserts for Saturday-night racers at all levels.
BSCI will do the inserts themselves but they have also created a do-it-yourself kit so that racers can pour their own inserts. BSCI's Matt Ray says that they have a kit to cover the entire seat, but the most popular kit they sell is the small size designed for just the hips and lower back. That's not only easier to do, but it also is the most helpful area for locking the driver in place so that he or she won't slide inside the seat.
To get a better idea of how to properly pour a foam seat insert, we met up with Ray and Scott Zurawski at NASCAR Cup veteran Dave Blaney's shop where they were doing a complete seat pour for a 410 Sprint Car he was building. Ray and Zurawski used the same components provided in BSCI's kits, and even if you are doing the partial pour the process is the same. Follow along to see if how it's done if you are thinking of upgrading your own racing seat.
It is critical not only to have a quality racing seat installed in your race car that's strong enough that it won't flex too much under impact, it must also fit you body.


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Definition of bronze in English:
1A yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin.
Example sentences
- During the fifth century BC the Athenians introduced the third and more lowly currency metal: bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.
- He described the ratios between the densities of gold, mercury, lead, silver, bronze, copper, brass, iron, and tin.
- A century ago, before stainless steel was widely available, winery equipment was often made of iron, copper, or bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.
1.1A yellowish-brown color: rich, gleaming shades of bronze
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- Hours later my legs were a beautiful, rich shade of bronze - this colour is good.
- His clothes were of colours ever shifting between bronze, silver and gold and it seemed to shine without reflecting the sunlight.
- The heads would be coloured bronze, said Mr Malkin, who has smaller public works of art already under his belt.
1.2A work of sculpture or other object made of bronze.
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- They house an esthetic potpourri of modern painting and Ming sculpture, Luristan bronzes and mobiles by Alexander Calder, furniture by Marcel Breuer and reliefs by Jean Arp.
- With the assistance of Duveen, Frick formed a notable collection of Italian sculpture - bronzes by among others Pollaiuolo, Vecchietta, and Riccio, and a rare marble Bust of a Lady by Laurana.
- The piece recalls both an early Cubist still-life sculpture by Picasso and a Futurist bronze by Boccioni.
1.3 short for bronze medal.
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- A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride.
- Australia - who are desperate to add a gold to their haul of three Olympic silvers and three bronzes - battled hard but came up against rock solid defence which only allowed one of their 14 goal attempts into the net.
- Westbrook is also the last U.S. fencer to win an Olympic medal: a bronze in 1984.
verb[with object] (usually be bronzed)
1Make (a person or part of the body) suntanned: Alison was bronzed by outdoor life
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- Before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of suntan lotions, bronzed bodies belonged to the working class.
- I've got Richard Glover on the radio, a gentle sea breeze blowing in from the south and the sun bronzing me up due west.
- He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic.
1.1Give a surface of bronze or something resembling bronze to: the doors were bronzed with sculpted reliefs
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- It was intended to be bronzed and auctioned for charity, but after it was made, the deal fell through, leaving Aden with a life-size sculpture of the Queen Mother on his hands.
- I also concluded that it was pointless to try and convince anyone else of this; that those who had an opinion had already had it bronzed and placed on the mantel.
- Someone at the VA hospital in Washington found the thing and had it bronzed after Cleland became famous.
bronzy adjective
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- A third variety of this species, Clematis montana 'Rubens', is growing through Jasminum officinale and it is my favourite with dark bronzy red leaves and deep pink flowers.
- Peachy tones look great on most complexions (or dab a bronzy shade on eyelids, cheekbones and lips), while a frosty white tone adds instant sexiness to darker complexions.
- There's also a large bronzy image of Buddha seated in meditation and ornate hooded archways, and sunny colours abound.
Words that rhyme with bronzebonze, Johns, mod cons, Mons, St John's
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Keep track of the most important muscle in your body with the Premium Heart Rate Monitor from Garmin®. Adjustable size and made with soft fabric, this Garmin® Heart Rate Monitor is comfortable and great for the athlete of all sizes. Wirelessly transmitting your heart rate to a compatible device, you get instant feedback. Optimized for use in crowded areas, the Heart Rate Monitor's plastic module is removable for cleaning the strap.
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I received my B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technical of China in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2002. From 1999 to 2002, I was a research assistant in the Computational Electronics Group at UIUC under the supervision of Prof. Karl Hess, where my work was on the device-level modeling and simulation of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) based on a comprehensive laser diode simulator MINIASE. At the beginning of year 2003, I spent three months as a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Kent D. Choquette\'s Photonic Device Research Group, where I studied the electrical turn-on characteristics and thermal rollover effects of VCSELs. I have been affiliated with Prof. Dutton\'s TCAD group at Stanford as a research associate since March, 2003. My current research interests include the design and simulation of novel photonic crystal based LEDs and laser diodes. I am also interested in the tunneling related effects in Field Effect Transistors (FETs). The simulation platform of my work is a general semiconductor device and process simulator, PROPHET.
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luncheon fork and teaspoon, lengths 7 3/4, 7 1/8, 7 1/4 and 6 inches respectively, weight 5.34 oz. Troy, all monogrammed "Ralph Chandler" script obverse. For those who have interest in such matters, Ralph Chandler served as Master Lieutenant on the sloop Vandalia, and saw action on her in the Civil War battle of Port Royal...


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i wonder if this is possible with simple css or if i have to use javascript for this?
i have a sidebar on my website. a simple div#sidbar it's normally about 1024px high, but the height changes dynamically due to it's content.
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i want the div#rest to fill out the rest of the sidebar till it reaches the bottom of the div#sidebar.
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Five Dollar Earphone Event for $4.99 + free shipping
I can think of worse places to cram five bucks.
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Five-dollar earphones!"
Upvote solely for the description, it's so awesome.
You're not the only one thinking that song.
This is what it makes me think of:
Being a huge headphone user and wearer I think you get what you pay for when it comes to $5 headphones but sometimes that's exactly what you need. I keep sets like this around just for the moochers that know I love killer headphones and want to "borrow" a pair of mine.
$5 for $4.99... I know it's basically the same thing, but it's still funny!
There are a couple of other cool things on that page. I'm getting the $6 24-pack of AA's and the Altec Lansing Muzx phones for $8. I had these before, and they have decent sound, though they broke after a couple of months. All in all though, I'd probably pay $15 for another pair
I bought 3 pairs of wicked little buds a while back from woot. They all still work and came out to about 4to something a pair. But 5 bucks? Screw it, I can risk that.
And here i am needing some ear buds.
I tried to order a pair, but it said my credit card was blocked by my settings in FMF or something like that. Not sure what that means.
Does anyone know which pair is the best? They all seem to have about the same MSRP but that doesn't mean that they are comparable in terms of quality.
I bought the second pair that mic and volume control, since i cant wear my dr dre beats at work these will do =) much love woot team
@phizzo where can I find these huge headphones you speak of? Do you have a giant head?
I tried to order a pair, but it said my credit card was blocked by my settings in FMF or something like that. Not sure what that means.
LOL I think that means you are broke ?
They have Altec Lansing headphones for $7.99 and $8.99, also with free shipping. Definitely better quality than "G-Cube". Worth the extra $3.
Well, I was going to purchase a couple of things from this site, but I did not. I DO NOT LIKE when websites make you create an account in order to purchase something. Yes, I have a spam email account, but i'd rather not go through the hassle. Oh well. Maybe i'm just too lazy this AM.
Sweet deal..i wish they had the altec lansing ones with in-line mic and volume control..but as a back-up pair..g-cube will do just fine..
only complaint is that the website dis not allow me the option to use a sperate shipping from billing adress..so not my headphones are going to vermont..rather than philly..
stay away from the g-cube earbuds, the sound quality is horrible. i bought 2 different pair from 1saleaday.com a few weeks ago and they are terrible. i ended up getting a pair of zaggbuds instead when zagg had a 50% off code, much better. i did keep the g-cubes though, just in case i lose my zaggbuds. i wouldn't recommend them unless you are just gonna use them as backups, or as decoys as phizzo mentioned earlier.
@phizzo: Whoever wants to borrow a pair of in-ear headphones is pretty effin' gross, in my opinion.
@tsfisch: Now that you mentioned it... [puts hands out in length of headphones]
@devildotcom: No, I have plenty of money in the bank to afford $8 headphones.
5 dolla make ya holla!!!!!
These are great for five bucks, but don't mistake them with the audiophile favorites, which cost hundreds of dollars. These are great for casual use; and better than what comes with most products (I.E. iPod).
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Facebook contributed to Tuesday�s meeting of the Durango School District 9-R board, as members spent the evening discussing ways social-networking websites might benefit and be safely incorporated into public education.
Currently, social-networking sites Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr and Tumblr cannot be accessed by 9-R wireless Internet and are not incorporated in the curriculum.
James Torres, executive director of educational technology, said, �But the sites of tomorrow will be different.�
Board member Kristy Rodri said, �In the classroom, you have control over the students and the curriculum, whereas with Facebook, you don�t have that kind of control.�
Board member Stephanie Moran said, �So many people use Facebook like they�re talking in their living room.�
�Or at a bar,� Rodri said.
Torres cited Edmodo, an educationally bent social networking site, as a safe and easy way teachers could communicate with students, before reminding the board that, as always with the Internet, �The question is: Is this too restrictive or not restrictive enough?�
Board members agreed social-networking sites should be used in classrooms as a way to prepare students for 21st-century technology, but the Internet remains a double-edged sword to educators, and working out the details of proper Internet use will be taken up at future meetings.


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Here's some amateur video that was taken today in New York City's Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. Watch as sanitation workers attempt to free a snowbound front loader—and destroy a nearby Ford Explorer in the process. 2010's blizzard claims another!
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| Prince Turki addresses the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
GEORGE ISRAEL: If I could have everybody's attention we'll go ahead and get started in the interest of time and especially to leave time for question and answers. But I want to – on behalf of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce I want to welcome each one of you here today. We all want a special welcome to His Royal Highness for joining us, and as he goes throughout the United States trying to reach out to – choosing Atlanta to come here. I also want to welcome the leadership of Georgia and the fact that you're being here is a commitment to Georgia's involvement in building international relations.
Now I want to introduce a special guest and friend and host who is also going to be introducing our special guest. All of you know him, and that's Wyche Fowler. We were talking last night – I first met Wyche at a GMA convention and met this tall, tanned, skinny, handsome guy with a '78 Cutlass convertible – met him in the parking lot – because he was on the city council. He later became the president of the Atlanta City Council, then a congressman, then a U.S. senator, and then ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Please join me in welcoming a friend to international relations, Wyche Fowler.
WYCHE FOWLER: Thank you, Mayor Israel, for that extraordinarily fine introduction, which I wrote. (Laughter.) On the back of your program, as I'm sure you've seen, is a brief catalogue of the extraordinary and accomplished life to date of our guest, so I will not go through those particulars. Sixty years ago, in 1945 – maybe 61 – the grandfather of our guest, King Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the founder and unifier of what is now the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia met on the USS Quincy with our president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was the first time that King Abdul Aziz had ever left the shores of his country, and history records that there was a two-day wait while all of his constituents, the gathering tribes, were calmed, thinking that he was leaving to abdicate. And Roosevelt, in his political acumen, said, we will wait on the king of Saudi Arabia.
They had a four-hour discussion. This was only two months before Roosevelt died. They had about a four-hour discussion. It went well, as history records, and at the end, President Roosevelt said to the king, do you have any other questions? King Abdulaziz said, I have only two. In your country do you have colonies? Roosevelt said, no, we never have and we never will. He said, do you and your people believe in God? He said, we do, and we always will. And with that, the right hand of friendship was extended between the two men.
That relationship that began in 1945, that extraordinary bilateral relationship quickly moved from a government-to-government relationship to commercial ties to economic ties to energy ties, and to the ties of friendship. Up until very recently there were as many as 30,000 young Saudis studying in the United States, having chosen to study in our country. And over the last 40 years, thousands and thousands and thousands have chosen to study. They came, they saw what they liked, they learned about our institutions, they made friends. Those friendships became joint ventures and business partnerships. And here at the Georgia Chamber I want to say that as we speak there are over 30,000 American men and women working in Saudi Arabia, many of whom are there – I gave away 30-year pins, 35-year, 40-year pins of the successful relationship that, yes, has been strained since 9/11 but is now on the rebound, both by the initiative of the president of these United States, but also because of the initiatives of King Abdullah and men such as our guest today.
I want to just emphasize the last part of his introduction on your program. Prince Turki is one of the founders of the King Faisal Institute. He is one of those men from Saudi Arabia who have been the most outspoken on the need for dialogue across religious lines, promoting understanding between our cultures and between our religions, without which that foundation will continue – will not be able to flourish. He is a friend of the United States. We are extraordinarily fortunate that his government has chosen him to be their representative in our country.
Please welcome His Royal Highness, Prince Turki Al-Faisal.
PRINCE TURKI: Thank you very much, Ambassador. It's always a pleasure.
MR. FOWLER: I meant every word of it.
PRINCE TURKI: Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
MR. FOWLER: Excuse me.
PRINCE TURKI: Yes, sir?
MR. FOWLER: I think we have a presentation from the city before your remarks.
PRINCE TURKI: (Inaudible.)
MR. FOWLER: Let me get out of the way.
KWANZA HALL: On behalf of the city of Atlanta, I'm Kwanza Hall, District 2 representative for the city council and the mayor of the city. I'd like to welcome you to Atlanta and congratulate you on your new appointment, and also to acknowledge that Atlanta is the first city to receive His Royal Highness, Prince Turki Al-Faisal. Thank you very much and congratulations.
PRINCE TURKI: Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. This is quite a privilege, not just on receiving the award but also on seeing so many of you come and join in this lunch. I'm really moved by this. And my friend Wyche Fowler did not tell you that as well as being ambassador to Saudi Arabia, he is probably the last person who went exploring in the desert of Saudi Arabia on a camel. (Laughter.) And he caused quite a stir because when he was out in the desert without telephone, without any means of communication, then Crown Prince Abdullah, now King Abdullah, was looking for him and nobody knew where he was – not his embassy, not his CIA station chief. Nobody knew where he was. But after a couple of days of searching they found him and then – I won't say how they brought him back – (laughter) – but they brought him back in quite a hurry.
And, really, this is a privilege and I am very pleased to be here to talk to you today. First of all, let me thank Mr. Israel and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce for inviting me here. And I understand that the big news here is that Atlanta is in the final round for becoming the home of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. (Laughter.) Now, I can understand the appeal of fast cars in this city, given the amount of traffic that you have. (Laughter.) I want to be sure, though, to provide you with enough time for questions, so I'll keep my remarks short.
Saudi Arabia and the United States have a long history of cooperation together. Certainly we've gone through ups and downs. We've gone through difficult periods and easy periods, and I think it will continue to be this way. But this is the nature of any relationship, whether between friends or between countries. Ultimately we always return to seeing the real reason why we stick it out with one another, and quite simply, we work well together.
For more than 60 years we've had a mutually beneficial relationship, and I can say – and I think proudly say – that it is a relationship not just of oil for security but, more broadly speaking, a relationship of people to people. I for one first came to the United States when I was 14 years old to attend high school here. After that I attended college. And I visited Atlanta before at the invitation of Saudi Air Force personnel who were being trained at Lockheed on the C-130 aircraft. The year was 1965. You didn't have much of a traffic problem then. (Laughter.) But Atlanta has certainly grown since then and I have had a great deal of exposure to the U.S. and the American way of life. And this is not unique to me. As Ambassador Fowler mentioned, literally hundreds of thousands of Saudis have traveled to the United States seeking education or healthcare, to conduct business or simply to visit.
The friendships and partnerships that have formed since well before our governments had official relations are lasting because, at the bottom of it, Saudis and Americans are very similar to each other. We're plainspoken and straightforward and we both believe in the importance of faith and family. We want the same things for us and for our children that you do: security, opportunity, good health and education, and a bright future. We know that this can be a challenging proposition, so in Saudi Arabia we have been diligently working for years now to modernize and to confront head-on the problems that exist within our society.
If you look at the Kingdom today, it is a country that is moving forward at great speed economically and socially, and even politically despite what some might say. We have over $650 billion worth of investment opportunities in the Kingdom over the next 15 years, and American business should take advantage of that. In December we officially joined the World Trade Organization. This is providing us with great opportunities to increase foreign investment and diversify our economy so it will be not so reliant on oil. We have undertaken a strategic multi-year program to improve the level of education in the Kingdom to be competitive internationally, and this program is emphasizing critical thinking and math and science, which are important to success in the global economy.
Our municipal councils have now all officially formed and have begun to meet. Members of these councils were elected to office last spring. This is an important step as the Saudi people learn how the electoral process works, and we will continue to expand citizen participation.
These developments, which are only a few of many, are not just for the Saudi people. We live in a global community, so if we are to benefit ourselves, we are benefiting those in the world with whom we interact. And we interact with the U.S. in particular a great deal. This is why it is so important that we continue to redefine our relationship as it evolves, which is what we have been doing all along. As ambassador to your great country, I am privileged to contribute to developing this relationship.
As I was preparing to leave for my new assignment, I asked King Abdullah, Your Majesty, how should I deal with President Bush and the American people? He turned to me without batting an eye and he said, just be frank with them – (audio break, tape change) -- with your secretary of State with a couple of my credentials last September. I told her the story of Winston Churchill being a guest at the White House during the war years when President Roosevelt wanted to honor him by putting him up in the White House instead of Blair House.
One night Mr. Roosevelt wheeled into Mr. Churchill's room and found him stark naked. (Laughter.) Embarrassed, he tried to wheel back out but Churchill turned to him and he said, "Mr. President, the prime minister of England has nothing to hide from the president of the United States." (Laughter.) And I did assure the secretary of State that I was not going to come to her naked – (laughter) – on any occasion, but that that is the kind of relationship Saudi Arabia would like to have with the United States.
And so with those remarks I would be happy to take any questions, thank you. (Applause.)
MARTHA ZOLLER: I think we're just going to sit down. I'm Martha Zoller. I'm a talk show host as well as a member of the Georgia Gang on Fox 5 Atlanta. I work for WDUN in Gainesville, Georgia. And we are going to be doing a few prepared questions, a little bit of discussions between the Ambassador and I, and then there are cards on the table where you all can put your questions and then those questions will be brought up and then we will ask those questions also.
As I have been told by the keeper to the time, we have got about 15 minutes of discussion between Prince Turki and I and then we will be taking questions from the audience.
Mr. Ambassador, first of all thank you so much for being here because –
PRINCE TURKI: A pleasure.
MS. ZOLLER: Because I like you believe that with all of the ways to reach people, this direct reaching out to people is what is going to do the rest for all of our people, so thank you so much for being here.
PRINCE TURKI: Thank you.
MS. ZOLLER: Over the past few weeks obviously there has been a lot of violence over the Danish cartoons, over other issues. I fear that there is a widening gap between the understanding of people in America, of the Muslim faith, and of people in this country. What do Americans need to know about – from your perspective from both sides about what we need to know about each other.
PRINCE TURKI: Well, first of all, let me say that in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as in the United States, there are images and stereotypes that we have of each other. The first thing we have to do is break down these stereotypes and the only way we can do that is by people-to-people exchange, hence the program for bringing Saudis to America over the last six years, 50 years since the meeting between King Abdul Aziz and President Roosevelt.
Now, on the cartoon issue, I think there is a basic misunderstanding that has arisen as a result of that issue. In some quarters in the West, particularly in Europe and more particularly in Denmark, it was initially treated as an issue of freedom of speech. And we all know what freedom of speech means particularly in Western thinking. It has gone through a history and a background, and, if you like, a lot of baggage to be where it is today.
Hence there is not only an analytical outlook on what freedom of speech is, but there is also a lot of feeling and passion behind it. Many people in your countries over the years have gone through a great deal of trouble to be able to achieve the kind of level of free speech that you have achieved. And frankly speaking, particularly in the United States, you have set standards for others to emulate and to imitate.
From our side, the Muslim side of the situation, the issue is treated as an insult and as an assault on revered and a much-beloved prophet, very much like your prophets Jesus, Moses, Abraham, you name it. And I as a Muslim simply cannot see how a depiction of such revered and a loved individual within our community of Muslims as the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, to become simply an issue of free speech.
If the depictions were of political leaders in today's Arab and Muslim world, King Abdullah or President Mubarak, or Colonel Qaddafi or President Musharraf of Pakistan in those caricatures that were published in the press, I can understand then that it would be an issue of free speech. But to choose the Prophet Muhammad himself as a target of that kind of characterization, to us appears to be, as I said, a matter of intentional insult and assault on our most revered and most beloved prophet.
It would be simply like making a picture of Abraham or Moses or Jesus in a kind of situation where Jesus, let's say, would be portrayed as carrying a swastika or calling for the annihilation of the Jews or something like that. And it is in that context that the passions in our part of the world came about.
Now, I think on both sides, extremists have taken advantage of that. We have seen the reprinting of these cartoons in Western media in other countries as if to say we're not going to just simply leave it at one insult; we are going to give it even more insult and insult to injury. On the Muslim side, there have been also the extremists who have fanned the passions of the masses, if you like, in demonstrations in various cities and so on.
In Saudi Arabia, particularly, our people are not inclined to such passionate demonstration of feeling, and they have pretty much expressed their opposition and their outlook on this matter by letters to the Danish ambassador or by groups who met with him and told him how offensive these pictures are. And the Kingdom has worked very closely within the Organization of the Islamic Conference and with the European Union, and now with the Danish government to try to overcome this issue.
Inasmuch as it is wrong to depict the Prophet in such an abhorrent view by these people who drew him in that way, it is equally as wrong for us as Muslims to treat the matter with violence. The Prophet himself, peace be upon him, whoever read his history, when he was preaching, he used to be stoned in the street, or he used to be drenched with awful and with all sorts of horrible things. He used to be insulted in person and beaten, and so on, and he always treated those who dealt with that way with forgiveness, and that should have been the hallmark of how we react, not the violence that has taken place.
MS. ZOLLER: We of course saw the city mosque in Iraq be bombed last week and then of course there was an unsuccessful attempt to attack in Saudi Arabia, your oil facilities. How did those things, if at all, change the way you all are looking at terrorism, and are you changing the way that you are looking and dealing with terrorism, and are you changing the way that you're looking and dealing with terrorism within your own country?
PRINCE TURKI: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been a victim of terrorism since the 1960s. In those days it was the extreme leftist organizations like the PFLP [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] in Palestine or other such groups that inflicted terrorism on Saudi Arabia, by hijacking embassies, by taking hostages and things like that. In the '90s, the Kingdom was the first target of a terrorist attack by al Qaeda. This was in 1995. At that time it was against a training facility of the National Guard in Riyadh. I think 11 workers who worked as trainers were killed in that – you were there – (inaudible).
The first one I'm talking – 1995. This was before you then. And then of course the Al-Khobar bombing in the Eastern Province. So we have been victims of terrorism for all of those years, and as I said, the first victims of the al Qaeda attack. And I must tell you that the 9/11 attack on the United States, inasmuch as it killed so many innocent people of many nationalities and many religions in those Twin Towers and in the planes, and in the Pentagon, the memory of those victims among their families and their friends will be always an honored memory and a memory of affection of them because they were victims of those horrible attacks.
For us in Saudi Arabia, the memory of 9/11 will always be that 15 of our citizens were the mass murderers. So the burden and the scar, if you like, of that criminal act will be on our shoulders for ever, 200 years from now, 500 years from now, when people look upon that murderous act. Inasmuch as they will remember the 3,000 who were killed innocently and so on, but they will also remember the 15 perpetrators who were of Saudi origin.
Now, our people have taken this to heart, and have gone through a period of introspection and reevaluation of our basic tenets and our basic beliefs as to how 15 of our youngsters could turn out to be such callous and vicious killers of innocence. And this process of introspection and reevaluation has led to all sorts of developments in our educational system, in the way that we teach our religion, in the way that we deal with others, whether they be of the book by Christians and Jews, or people who don't believe in the book.
And in 2003, the late King Fahd presented a reform plan to our Majlis al-Shura, which is equivalent to your Congress. That reform plan was made up of six points. The first point was to stress that Saudi Arabia's practice of Islam, is the practice of Islam as taught by the prophet himself. When the Prophet was asked when he was preaching, define yourself for us, who are you Muslims? He said we are a people of the middle. And an explanation of that: We are not zealous on one side, nor are we lax on the other. And that has always been the consistent practice in the Kingdom since it was founded.
So how did these 15 people come about to be such murderers and so on? They followed what basically is a cult devised and developed by Mr. bin Laden and his supporters like Ayman al Zawahiri and whoever went to their orbit. And this cult like all cults – the first thing it does when it recruits somebody is that it severs his ties first with his family, then with his community, and third with his country and make the connection between the recruit and the leader of the cult almost not just filial, almost umbilic in the sense of how they deal with each other.
And that is where not just the 15 but the hundreds of others al Qaeda members from all nationalities, including some from America and some from Europe and from Asia and so on, joined this cult. And we in Saudi Arabia, in our view were equally targeted by September 11th as the United States was in trying to drive a wedge between not just our governments but between our people so that in your memory there will always be the issue that 15 of those killers were Saudis.
And my presentation, when I speak to my American friends here, is always to remind them that that is exactly what bin Laden to come between us, and that we should work in order not to let him succeed in that objective by having the kind of contact that we are having today.
Q: Mr. Ambassador, how does the Kingdom see its role with oil and then the growth of oil around the world, not just in the United States but China, India – very large markets that are being developed?
PRINCE TURKI: The Kingdom has always had a very consistent policy in its oil production and refining. First of all, we would like to produce as much oil as the market demands, and we have been fortunate to have the kind of reserves underground, but also more importantly the kind of vision to be able to invest in bringing out that oil from underground so that it will be available on the market for the needs of people.
You mentioned the growth of consumption in China and India and in other places. Their consumption rates of oil from our part of the world far exceed your consumption of oil from our part of the world. The Middle East exports to the United States only 15 percent of its consumption of oil, whereas China and India and Japan and Korea and other countries in the rest of the world import a lot more of our oil not just from Saudi Arabia but from other countries in the area – (audio break, tape change) -- Prince met with your president in April in Crawford, Texas and they agreed on a joint energy policy, which would deal with the issue from this aspect that there will be an increased production rate from Saudi Arabia, that Saudi Arabia and the United States would work together to increase refining capacity because the bottleneck in oil supply today is in refining, not in supply, and thirdly, that there will be joint research in making oil and other fossil fuels more friendly to the ecology. And we're working with that proposition and hopefully we can go forward from there.
MS. ZOLLER: This is a question from the audience. There's been increased violence between Shia and Sunni in Iraq. What is the potential for that violence to spread across Iraq's borders to other countries and can these two sects co-exist?
PRINCE TURKI: Well, I hope that there will be no extension of that violence across the borders. The Shia/Sunni sect is a historical division. It goes back nearly 1,000 years in Islamic history. At times, it becomes bloody like it is now. Other times, they find a means of coexistence; and hence, the need to be open and engaged and inclusive rather than exclusive.
King Abdullah proposed last October to the Arab League that there be a meeting of the Iraqi political leadership of all factions to look at this issue and to try to form a unified position on what the future of Iraq is going to be. Fortunately, there was a positive response from all of the political factions and they met in November in Cairo for the first time since the downfall of Saddam Hussein. And in that meeting, they reached an understanding of how to move forward. Since then, one of the things that they agreed upon is that they would all participate in the political process in Iraq.
And hence, when the elections were held for the parliament last December, all factions including the Sunnis, which had kept themselves out before, participated fully in the elections. And one of the positive elements in those elections that was not much reported in your press was that in so-called Sunni cities like Mosul and Tikrit and other, Fallujah, and other cities, those protecting the polling booths that allowed the Sunnis to go and vote were not the local police, which were mostly made up in any case of Shia or Kurdish elements, but it was the resistance, the Iraqi resistance. They protected these polling booths from the foreign jihadis who wanted to disrupt the elections. And there has been a growing rift between the Iraqi resistance as it were and the followers of Musab al-Zarqawi. And that is what we hope will continue.
Now, just a couple of days ago, again, the Iraqi political leadership from all sects and ethnic divisions came together and decided that there will be an end to the violence that had taken place after the unforgivable and very objectionable destruction of the Shia mosque in Samarra. And they agreed, these political leaders, that they would form a national unity government. Perhaps there is a silver lining there that the tragedy of what happened in those three or four days of killing and counter-killing and so on has made people realize that things can get out of hand, that they have gotten out of hand actually. And the prospect of civil war became very, very big in their minds so they have decided to come together and form a national unity government. We in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, of course, will not only promote that and support it, but work very hard to achieve it.
MS. ZOLLER: We want to remind folks that you can fill out the response forms that are on your tables, as well as submit questions to be asked, so we hope that you will take the time to do that. I know that I've read a number of your interviews, and I'm not going to ask you to comment about Iran's current situation, but I do think it's important for these folks to hear what the Kingdom's position is on nuclear proliferation and what they see as the Middle East zone and how that should go forward in the Middle East.
PRINCE TURKI: As far as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is concerned, the Middle East should be free of any weapon of mass destruction, not just nuclear, but biological and chemical and whatever weapons might be considered. And we have been working on that for many years. We think that there should be a level playing field in that issue. No country should be an exception, including Israel, which already has by all accounts more than 100 nuclear weapons in its arsenal. So once that is done, we believe that issues affecting that situation will be resolved by talk rather than by threat.
MS. ZOLLER: As chairman of the King Faisal Center, this is from the audience, what are your goals in promoting closer academic relationships between the United States and Saudi universities?
PRINCE TURKI: The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies is one of the establishments that came about as the result of the creation of the King Faisal Foundation, which was built after the death of the late King Faisal by his children. The late king -- before he died he gave an interview to American television in which he was asked how did he look to the future of Saudi Arabia? And his answer was that he hoped in the future that Saudi Arabia will be wellspring of understanding and culture and knowledge, not just for the Arab and Muslim world, but for humanity. And that has been the motto, if you like, of the foundation and the King Faisal Center. The Center today hosts something like 20 non-Saudi fellows from all over the world, including the United States. One of your previous ambassadors, Ambassador Jordan, when he was serving as ambassador in the Kingdom, his wife was one of those fellows at the time. And other nationalities have been invited to participate in furthering their research and so on in the center.
We have established with the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States, along with British, European, and other Arab research centers what has been called the Arab Reform Initiative, which is a grouping of these research centers that will deal with Arab reform and studies from each country in this effort. And just last week, I received at the center former Ambassador Djerejian from the United States who is now directing the Baker Institute to try to organize cooperation with the Baker Institute. And I am sure we will continue to promote such interaction and dialogue with American and other research centers, because as I said earlier, the late King's belief that Saudi Arabia can be the wellspring of understanding and education and culture for humanity is what we aspire to be.
MS. ZOLLER: Thank you. I'm getting mixed. One saying no more time; you're saying two more questions, so are you in charge? (Laughter.) Okay, no, I'll ask two more questions. What does Saudi Arabia do now and what are their plans for the future to protect individual liberties, whether male, female, Muslim, Christian, what are the areas you are working on in the area of civil liberties?
PRINCE TURKI: Well, let me just start by saying that we have in our faith, our Islam, basic principles that deal with these issues, whether it is human rights, rights of individuals, property rights, issues of rights of women, children, et cetera, pretty much drawn out in not just verses from the Qur'an, but also sayings of the Prophet. The problem with us Muslims -- and I am one of those will admit this freely -- is that we have not lived up to these principles. Many of them over the years either have been totally ignored or simply forgotten in the practice of day-to-day life. And so, the Kingdom has reinvigorated its outlook on trying to achieve these higher ideals, not just as principles to be guided by, but also as beliefs that should be put in practice. In other words, put our mouths where our – whatever it is, the expression –
MS. ZOLLER: Put money where our mouths are.
PRINCE TURKI: Money where your mouth is. And that's what we are trying to do. Now, the basic law that was passed in 1993 by the Kingdom defines the rights and the obligations of each side, the government on one side and the individual on the other side. And it has been published. And those of you who want to look at it, I don't know, I think we have it on our embassy website. They can look at that basic law. And they will see where we are aspiring to go. But we have much to learn from your country. I remember reading in my studies here about how your constitution was written and the great debate that went between your founding fathers on whether to have a bill of rights or not. And finally, somebody, I think very bravely, accepted that there should be a bill of rights that defines the various freedoms that you enjoy now. But in the practice of those freedoms, it took you a long time to reach the level of practice and tolerance and application that you have reached now. We are going through the same process in the kingdom.
MS. ZOLLER: Absolutely. Mr. Ambassador, I want to thank you so much for your time today. (Applause.) You mentioned last night that you flew over beautiful green areas in Georgia. This is from the city of Gainesville and – (inaudible) – here, some of the most beautiful green areas.
PRINCE TURKI: Thank you. Thank you very much.
MR. ISRAEL: Thank you so much, your royal highness. I would like to ask everyone to please stay seated until his Royal Highness exits, and that we've got some few instructions and lunch. I also would like to do a public thank you.
MR. FOWLER: Well, I just want the word to go forth to his majesty, King Abdullah, that his new ambassador kept the faith and kept his charge to be frank and lucid. And I'm sure that Georgetown University is extremely proud of its very distinguished graduate. Your Royal Highness, thank you very much for being in Atlanta.
PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL: Can I say something?
MR. FOWLER: You certainly may.
PRINCE TURKI: It's not that I want to speak some more, but having spent 30 years in intelligence business without speaking to anybody, you can imagine the kind of relief I have in talking to you all. But, last night at dinner, I remember asking the guests there if they feel something about Saudi Arabia that they should please get in touch with their Congressman. So please, if you have any opinions about Saudi Arabia, make them known what those opinions are, because we really need a lot of help with your legislature. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
MR. ISRAEL: As His Royal Highness exits, I'd like to ask each of you. You have a response form on your table and pens. His staff and His Royal Highness is very interested. He wants to read this himself. Please fill these out and turn them in as you leave because what they want to do is try to establish firmer relations with y'all, each of you in the room; you represent the leadership of Georgia.
I do want to again thank everyone. I want a special thanks to Wyche Fowler, our friend and former ambassador. I appreciate your working for international trade and international peace and continuing to do that. And I want to again thank each one of you for being here, and again please fill these out and they'll take them up at the door. Thank you.


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For those really horrible problems my strategy usually goes as follows.
Quit. No, not your job! Just get up and go home. You're done for the day or the weekend. 19 times out of 20 when you come back to the problem next, the solution will present itself within an hour.
Before ten hours go by, I would get some help.
One word,
That and another set of eyes, is always worth more than any time you can waste staring at something.
I would never spend more than 45 mins to an hour trying to solve something in one sitting, it violates the law of diminishing returns.
Explain the problem to someone else.
By explaining the problem to someone else, you have to clarify it: this often lets you see the solution.
(One of the UK professional computer magazines once proposed selling life size cardboard cut-outs of a senior programmer specifically for this purpose.)
I find sleeping on a problem (sometimes for a couple of days) can also help.
I have a three step plan:
Each stage is an escalation if the previous step failed. There's almost always something else productive I can work on at stage 2.
Sleep over it
Otherwise, call someone nearby and ask him to take a quick look over the code.
Often errors which would take you a long time to find (since its your code) are found very easily by others
You could see if getting up, pacing around, and thinking about the problem helps you find a solution. Whether or not you're actually standing or pacing, try getting away from the computer while you're thinking.
I generally do one of the three:
Any of the three do a good job of distracting oneself from the situation at hand. I find the distractions let my subconscious brain chew on something for a while. After an hour or so of this, bam, there's the solution :-).
Build a test Harness to target that exact Defect and Isolate it
Just keep eliminating good code.. while replicating the defect. Until you target the exact piece of code casing the error. Then trace the code.
Recommended reading : The Pragmatic Programmer Specifically Chapter 10 : Tracer bullets
All of these suggestions are great. However, I use a technique quite often that I didn't see mentioned. Make lists to organize your thoughts about the problem. If I have a particularly sticky problem I usually write out multiple lists such as: Facts, Assumptions, Questions, Symptoms, etc. I find that oftentimes in the process of organizing things in this way I discover assumptions I didn't realize I had (that often turn out to be wrong), questions I didn't realize need to be asked, other permutations I can check, etc.
The short answer:
Q: How do you tackle really bizarre errors that keep you puzzled for more than 10 hours?
A: Make sure they never happen: understand your design, know your code, learn how to use your debugger.
"Where it seems like a gremlin just jumped deep inside your chips and messed up something"
This should never happen. If it's your code, you should have a very good idea of what is causing the error before you attempt to fix it.
Futhermore, when you write your code you should already know where and why it's likely to fail.
Having said that - asking a peer, posting on SO, retracing and rolling back your steps and taking a break - all the suggestions mentioned above will help.
The other thing, is you must know your tools - your debugging toolkit. Logging messages at suspect points in your code, examining your call stack carefully, using conditional breakpoints and watches, etc etc. Debugging skills are not extras - they are part of programming.
I had a similar problem, an apparent memory corruption in Objective-C, which I struggled with for many hours. But then me and my colleagues just took a walk for lunch, and I explained the problem (and one particular bit having to do with deserialization of an object in its init method), and basically explained the whole problem to myself.
(techy details: basically, I initialized and returned an object onto something else than self, so there were two allocs, but just one object returned. Memory shifted and went crazy, crashes, and the debugger didn't really know what to do with it either).
Take a bath.
Any Rodney McKay fans?
Seriously, though, if there's one commonality among all these answers, it's to take a break and do something else.
I like to think of it as relegating the problem to your subconscious. Even if we are otherwise unaware, our minds (seem to) continue to work on the problem, even when we're doing something else, such as taking a bath.
Step through it step by step, down into assembly. Who calls what, break-point on memory access. That usually catches the bug real fast.
If not, take a walk.
A combination of all of these :
I really didn't like the most up-voted answer, because even though that sometime works, some times you just need to figure it out that same day, so what I'd recommend, in this order, is:
You need to step back. My motto is 'if the problem is too hard then you are solving the wrong problem'. What are your assumptions? don't trust anything.
The corollary to that is 'the weirder the problem, the weirder the solution'. The computer's strength is its logic so you can't win on logic. You have a brain and have to out-think it.
In modern times there are so many other things interacting on a system - firewalls, AV, Antispyware, automatic updates happening every night - you have to deal with moving targets.
Google it. Stackoverflow it. Post it on forums. Basically if you can't solve it alone, get people to help.


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I've been trying to search for the origin and meaning of the phrase "Shiver my timbers", but can't seem to find anything.
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The way pirates talked and the phrases they used (or didn't) aside, we gather this from Wikipedia:
In case you care not to read the above, in summary, it states that it can be attributed to Frederick Marryat, in the publication named Jacob Faithful, published in 1895.
However, Wikipedia does provide further information to help explain the formation and meaning:
Shiver my timbers!
Shiver means to break into splinters or small pieces (unrelated to cold shivers). Timbers refers to the wooden parts of a ship's hull. So "Shiver my timbers!" is similar to exclaiming "Well, strike me down!"
The OED has shiver my timbers from 1834, but the oldest reference I can find is from The Tomahawk! or, Censor General of Friday November 6, 1795:
My timbers!
The earliest the OED has for any nautical slang with my timbers is 1790 by Charles Dibdin in A Collection of Songs, Selected from the Works of Mr. Dibdin:
This can also be found in 1789, but I found many earlier exclamations:
Split my timbers!
Plays Written For a Private Theatre (1786) by William Davies:
Start my timbers!
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (Third Edition, 1775) by Tobias George Smollett:
The verb start has many meanings in the OED, and this was current at the time:
The story was first published in the British Magazine in 1760 and as a book in 1762.
Smite my timbers!
Again, in the same book (The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, Third Edition, 1775 by Tobias George Smollett):
There's a few variations of "smite my ..." in the book.
Odds my timbers!
Yet again by Tobias George Smollett, this time in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751):
Odds was a minced oath for God's, presumably in this context urging God to do something unspecified to my timbers.
The Anatomy of Swearing (2001) by Ashley Montagu catalogues Smollett's swears:
I'll expand my answer then:
Shiver in this context means to splinter or to break in or into pieces rather than to shudder, the more familiar definition of shiver. Timber was nautical slang for the wood comprising the hull of the ship, so shiver my timbers literally meant blow my ship to little bits.
Hundreds of years ago when ships were mainly made of wood, a cannon attack would shiver the timbers, as here from the early 1800's.
A pirate captain would obviously refer to this on his ship as shiver my timbers (although as @Kitḫ points out below, he'd probably say me rather than my).
Online Etymology Online reports that the origin of shiver me timbers is 1835, as a mock oath attributed in comic fiction to sailors.
A shiver, or in carpentry more commonly a "shake", is a defect in timber, a split along the grain. Roofing shingles are also known as "shakes", as they are split from the parent timber.


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U.S. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-MN) have released a draft of their bipartisan Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM). The House Ag Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow, July 11th, to review this legislation.
The Southern Peanut Farmers Federation (SPFF), representing 80% of U.S peanut production, is pleased with the House Agriculture Committee proposal. SPFF Chairman Armond Morris, a Georgia peanut producer and Chairman of the Georgia Peanut Commission, stated "We would like to thank the Chairman and Ranking Member for their commitment to agriculture. Our producers want a farm bill that provides a safety net yet is fiscally responsible. The House proposal is a balanced bill for all regions of the nation and for all commodities. Rural America and all consumers need this bill to move forward in the Congress before the current law expires."
The SPFF is comprised of the Alabama Peanut Producers Association, the Florida Peanut Producers Association, the Mississippi Peanut Growers Association and the Georgia Peanut Commission.
Chairman Lucas stated, "I'm pleased to release this bipartisan legislation with my friend and colleague Collin Peterson. Our efforts over the past two years have resulted in reform-minded, fiscally responsible policy that is equitable for farmers and ranchers in all regions and will lead to improved program delivery. This bill is an investment in production agriculture and rural America. Those of us in the agriculture community are quick to point out that our producers provide us with the safest, most abundant, most affordable food and fiber supply in the history of the world. We say it because it's true. This legislation is a commitment to maintaining that tradition."
Carl Sanders, President of the Alabama Peanut Producers Association, commented, "This bill provides a safety net for our peanut producers. We appreciate the efforts of the Chairman Lucas, Congresswoman Roby and our peanut state representatives reaching out to our industry to determine the best possible proposal."
"There have been numerous discussions with Committee members on behalf of peanut growers in regards to the 2012 Farm Bill," said Randy Griggs, executive director of the Alabama Peanut Producers Association. "The results of the talks have been very favorable in regards to safeguarding our farmers. We are optimistic about the Committee meeting. Senator Sessions and Senator Shelby supported us in the Senate which passed a bill that is not the best for peanut growers. If the House passes their proposal it will give them something to work with in the conference committee."
Larry Ford, President of the Florida Peanut Producers Association, stated, "Peanut producers, from the beginning of the Farm Bill debate, have recognized the need for reform and budget savings. The elimination of direct payments is a significant contribution to this process. FARRM repeals direct payments as well as other programs, saving tax payers billions of dollars. The Federation is looking forward to continuing to work with Chairman Lucas and the House Ag Committee to create a Farm Bill that is fair for all regions of this country."
"We are excited about the growth of the peanut industry in Mississippi. This bill is a balanced farm bill that protects our producers yet is fiscally responsible," said Joe Morgan, President of the Mississippi Peanut Growers Association.
The proposal offers producers an option to choose between price and revenue protection.
A few highlights of the FARRM bill include-
*FARRM saves more than $35 billion in mandatory funding.
*FARRM repeals or consolidates more than 100 programs.
*FARRM cuts billions in discretionary spending authority.
*FARRM repeals Direct Payments, Countercyclical Payments, ACRE, and SURE, replacing these four programs with a policy that will save taxpayers more than $14 billion.
*FARRM consolidates 23 conservation programs into 13, improving program delivery to producers and saving taxpayers more than $6 billion.
*FARRM provides regulatory relief, including H.R. 872, to mitigate burdens placed on our nation's farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.
While this bill is a great first step, the Chairman and Ranking Member acknowledge this is far from over. Ranking Member Peterson commented, "Congress needs to complete work on the 2012 Farm Bill before the current bill expires, otherwise we jeopardize one of the economic bright spots of our nation's fragile economy. This legislation brings us yet another step closer to achieving this goal and I am pleased to have worked with the Chairman on this effort."


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...you were an Israeli and found out that 53 percent of the campaign contributions to your political leaders came from foreigners. Such contributions are illegal in the United States, but not in Israel. Still, wouldn't you wonder how much influence outsiders have on the policies of your country, or whether foreigners favor politicians who align with their views but not yours?Haaretz reports the breakdown of these contributions among Israeli politicians: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised 96.8 percent of his NIS 1.2 million in campaign contributions from foreign donors...." Netanyahu came in second beaten out by the minister for strategic affairs who raised 100 percent of his campaign contributions from abroad. The 550 foreign donors, largely Americans, contribute five-and-a-half times more than Israelis themselves.Could an Israeli write this off as a form of foreign investment? Or would she be deeply troubled by the implications for Israeli domestic and foreign policies. Mondoweiss points out that one of Netanyhu's biggest American donors also supports settler projects in the West Bank.UPDATE: Here is a short youtube video on Foreign Monday and U.S. Elections pointing out how Citizens United has made way for foreign money in U.S. elections.
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Now if we could collate the Israeli donor list with the Romney donor list before Nov. 6 we would know something about bombing Iran.
One would think this is against U.S. law, but we allow Americans to contribute to elections in other U.S. states But I ain't no lily. I once sent a few dollars to John Glenn's campaign and still feel guilty. That should also be against the law.I wonder if the TV news channels will report this. I don't think Americans realize that there is a real possibility of war with Iran because of Netanyahu's madness.
Thanks, Ms. Steinfels - always follow the money. And you wonder why there shouldn't be daylight required between US policy and the state of Israel.The wisdom of Eisenhower in 1956 is a vision lost by the Republicans - doubt many Republicans even know that narrative. Unfortunately, the R party today has also lost the justice of Lincoln; the economic populism of T. Roosevelt; the foreign policy dariing of Nixon's China initiative, or even the flexibility of Reagan (he was no dogmatic politician or world leader).
Bill, today's Republican party has also lost Theodore Roosevelt's commitment to the environment. Privatizing our national parks would be just the Tea Party's cup of tea.
When we connect the dots in this scenario, it's easy to see how private U.S. money, passed along to foreign political candidates, has the potential to influence if not dictate U.S. foreign policy and possible military involvement elsewhere.If dumb ol' me can see this link, what is it with Americans in general?(i mean, our armed forces do offer employment to young'uns with little/no career prospects, but...)
So far as I can tell, it is the U.S. military (Joint Chief Martin Dempsey in the lead) who are most resistant to an attack on Iran. Guess they don't have to raise campaign cash.
I find it extremely interesting that when the generals are pro-war the super-liberals never stop trumpeting the fact, but when the generals are anti-war few liberals take the time to note it. Thanks, Ms. S.
This explains a lot of the intransigent posturing of most Israeli governments over the years, especially the Likud.And for that matter, much of the politics in America about the Israeli-Palistinian conflict.OBTW: There is a part of me that thinks Bibi Netanyahu got an earful from Obama about the amount of the Israeli economy is dependent on US aid just before Bibi publicly stated that the US and Israel have the same position about any prospective military attack on Iran.
Jim J. --Obama is not one to embarass people publicly, but I agree that he might have given Netanyahu some straight talk privately. Evidence? It is not like Bibi to reverse himself without a motive, and what else could have caused the change?


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this is a practice problem I am doing. It says "Suppose that in a community the distributions of heights of men and women in centimeters are N(173, 40) and N(160, 20) respectively. Calculate P that the average height of 10 randomly selected men is at least 5 centimeters larger than the average height of six randomly selected women." I am tempted to say that I should just look at the probability that height of 1 randomly selected man is at least 5 cm greater than height of 1 randomly selected woman, but I am struggling to make this rigorous. Help appreciated! P.S. Central Limit Theorem might be used here too, this is a chapter review question so not sure what exactly can be useful.
Consider the fact that from a normal distribution $N(\mu, \sigma)$, the distribution of means from samples of size $n$ is $N(\mu, \sigma/\sqrt{n})$. We can use this to make new distributions for the mean height of 10 random men, and the mean height of 6 random women; then consider the fact that the distribution for a random sample from $N(\mu_1, \sigma_1)$ minus a random sample from $N(\mu_2, \sigma_2)$ is $N(\mu_1-\mu_2, \sqrt{\sigma_1^2 + \sigma_2^2})$.
Hints: (1) What is the distribution of the average height of 10 randomly selected men? (2) What is the distribution of the average height of 6 randomly selected women? (3) What is the distribution of the difference of these two average heights?
There is no need of CLT nor of LLN here, rather one uses some properties of independent gaussian random variables.


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WATERBURY -- It was pointed out to me on more than one occasion the past few days, and especially Saturday at the CIAC basketball championships, that there was one, and only one, athletic conference in Connecticut not represented this weekend at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Anyone have a guess as to the name of that conference?
Yep, the Naugatuck Valley League.
They could have taken the thought one step further: No NVL basketball team, male or female, made the semifinal round either.
On the girls side, only Ansonia got through to the quarters. For the boys, only Wilby. Thanks to Kaynor Tech in Class M, the city at least had two schools in the quarters.
The Berkshire League, by contrast, had a heck of a postseason. The Thomaston girls brought the league to the casino for the first time, and the Nonnewaug ladies also gained the quarters. Both the Terryville and Northwestern boys got into the quarters.
As for the Valley, or more precisely, the city, it seemed odd that Waterbury did not have a horse in the race. Does this mean the city was lacking in overall talent? Absolutely not, we just put that talent in a lot of different places.
The same can be said about Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven, but something tells me it is even more severe in Waterbury: We have an astonishing number of high schools in this town and in this region.
A young man or a young woman has many academic and athletic choices, and that is, of course, a wonderful thing. But when you distribute a strong basketball talent base through a variety of buildings it isn't easy to spit out a powerhouse.
There are the three public high schools in Crosby, Kennedy and Wilby, and two parochial in Holy Cross and Sacred Heart. Both Chase Collegiate and Kaynor Tech had superb teams this season. Factor in athletes who attend The Taft School, plus city kids who left city programs to play at suburban schools, and you're left with a lot of talent, state championship-caliber talent, spread out over many programs.
To make the point in another way: If all the wonderful city basketball talent stayed in district, by that I mean attended the public high school in the district where they lived, we'd have a state champion on our hands. Or, if they all went to Kaynor Tech, or Sacred Heart, or Holy Cross, we'd be ordering the championship rings today.
Let me put it another way: Could you imagine a city basketball team with both Walter Wright and Terrance Thompson in the same backcourt? It could have happened.
The first time I met many of the players in this sensational senior class was when they were eighth graders, playing middle school championship games in a city armory doubleheader. Wright was incredible then, as he is now. I remember him telling me that he never knew they played basketball in that old brick building.
The talent in the gymnasium that day was astonishing. It still is. It's just spread about the region and that, it seems to me, is a positive thing. If I do a quick accounting, I believe that from the boys and girls games that day, the Wallace and West Side girls, and the Wallace and North End boys, four teams fed players to eight high schools.
To the "experts" who ask, "What's wrong with the NVL," or, "What happened to basketball in Waterbury," may I say, "Nothing at all," and, "It's as strong as ever."
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In his second post as a contributor to the Columbia Law School (CLS) Blue Sky Blog, Reid Kress Weisbord, Vice Dean and Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, introduces some of the issues raised by reforms affecting perpetuities law that he explores at length in the forthcoming article, "Trust Term Extension." The CLS Blue Sky Blog is one of the most respected blogs that focus on corporations, securities, and capital markets.
In the blog post, titled "How Financial Institutions May Benefit from Changes to the Rule Against Perpetuities," Weisbord writes that with most jurisdictions having repealed or abrogated the Rule Against Perpetuities, "estate planning practitioners have started to consider whether a trust created to comply with the Rule could, after the Rule's repeal, be extended in perpetuity to provide for future generations of the settlor's descendants." Weisbord asserts that trust term extensions of this sort would create lucrative opportunities for financial institutions in the form of corporate fiduciary fees, but that courts should not authorize trust modifications for the benefit of the fiduciary.
The article concludes, Weisbord reports, that "modification of an existing trust to provide for new beneficiaries not explicitly selected by the settlor would constitute a misapplication of trust law doctrine and would be inconsistent with the modern trend in trust law favoring the rights of living beneficiaries over dead hand control."
Professor Weisbord's growing reputation in the areas of trusts and estates and nonprofit law is also reflected in his invited participation in the Vanderbilt Law Review spring 2014 symposium "The Role of Federal Law in Private Wealth Transfer." He will serve as commentator for papers presented by Professor Adam Hirsch of the University of San Diego School of Law and Professor Ronald Mann of Columbia Law School.
A member of the Rutgers Law faculty since 2010, Weisbord received a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His published work has been cited in the Restatement (Third) of Trusts and the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. "Wills for Everyone: Helping Individuals Opt Out of Intestacy" (53 Boston College Law Review 877, 2012), was recognized as one of the top 10 trusts and estates law review articles published in 2012.| Read Story


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I want to make crispy fried chicken and waffles. I have had great luck boiling chicken wings and then deep frying them. Can I do the same thing for fried chicken? Boil, brine in buttermilk mixture, coat and then fry? Or is there a better way?
Short answer: Brining after boiling won't do much (if anything), and you probably don't want to boil all parts of the chicken anyway.
One primary purpose of brining is to hydrate the cells of the muscle tissue before cooking, which allows the cells to hold on to more moisture during the cooking process via denaturation of the proteins. If you cook the meat first, then the heat will permanently denature the proteins first, so the brine will essentially be useless.
The reason why you want to pre-cook chicken wings is that (a) they have a lot of fat which melts off into the cooking liquid, and (b) they have a good amount of connective tissue (collagen) which needs to be cooked low and slow to soften into delicious gelatin. Most of the other parts of the chicken don't have nearly as much fat and collagen, so boiling them would likely only serve to overcook them.
My wife soaks her chicken in buttermilk and spices overnight. However there is no boiling involved. I'm not sure how boiling would affect the soaking process, but I'd guess not favorably. Are you just looking to reduce the frying time by boiling the chicken first? If so, maybe you could go with an "easy" fried chicken technique, where you finish in the oven.