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I've seen it said a few times that one of the more irritating aspects of Star Trek is that the alien species are all monocultures. That is, all members of any given species will generally think, talk, and act alike. Many will even dress alike and have the same hairstyle!
Take Klingons. The argument goes that every Klingon values honour, is obsessed with ritual, wears that Samurai-armour-style garb, practices with his bat'leth two hours a day, and wants to die an honourable death in combat. With a population likely running into the tens of billions, how likely is it that all Klingons would be like this?
Contrast this with present day Earth. Only six billion people on the planet, but attitudes to honour run from those who are obsessed with it to those who don't even know what it is. Some dream of dying in combat, some don't want to but would if they believe it is necessary for a higher cause, while others think combat is never justified and still others are simply cowards. And as for appearance... well look at the average black person next to the average oriental person. Such racial diversity within a species is hardly ever seen in Star Trek.
It's worth mentioning that this is hardly just a Star Trek issue. Much of sci-fi is like this; for instance virtually all of Larry Niven's Pierson's Puppeteers are cowards, while his Kzinti are virtually all brave.
I'm going to talk about this in three strands. First, I'm going to argue that within limits, a monoculture isn't actually all that unreasonable.
I mentioned before the bewildering variety of attitudes and cultures we have here on Earth. But in fact, one of the major trends of the last century has been the erosion of that diversity. The aeroplane was invented in the opening years of the twentieth century, and even the early primitive versions of it rapidly became much faster than railroads - and you didn't need to build an expensive infrastructure to cross country by plane, just a flat place to land and enough fuel there to get you back. As aircraft speeds and ranges increased they allowed a revolution in transportation; more people were able to go further and at higher speeds than ever before. It's hard now to understand just how much of a change this has made in people's lives; two hundred years ago, it wouldn't be at all unusual to spend your entire life without ever going more than ten or twenty miles from where you were born. Today, I can step on a 747 and be on the other side of the world within 24 hours.
Another revolution which happened more or less in parallel was in communications. Back a couple of hundred years ago, communication systems were next to nonexistent. You could send letters, which travelled maybe thirty miles per day. Governments could use heliographs or similar systems, but these simply couldn't carry enough information for them to be available to the commoners.
The communications revolution has if anything been even more astounding than the transportation revolution. Not so long ago I sat watching the "shock and awe" attack on Baghdad on a cable news channel whilst chatting about to my brother on the phone. Real-time, full colour coverage of a
happening in a country several thousand miles away, piped directly into my living room from a news station in the US, a country thousands of miles away in the opposite direction, while I talked on another real-time link to somebody a hundred or so miles away. Truly amazing.
The reason I'm going on about all this is because, wonderful though I think these inventions have been there is a major consequence and it's one that has come markedly to the fore in the last year or two. The transportation and communication revolutions have made huge inroads into the cultural diversity of the Earth.
Cultural diversity thrives when - and because - people live largely in isolated groups. Customs which evolve in one group don't get taken up by other groups, because the other groups never experience them; how could they when there's little or no interaction? Back a couple of hundred years, villages separated by even a hundred miles would most likely not even know of one another's existence; differences in language and ideas could be vast, with virtually no cross-pollination going on.
Today, on the other hand, most people in the "developed world" have a network of friends that stretches over hundreds if not thousands of miles. Half the world watches the same movies and TV shows, listens to the same music, even reads the same books. There's a massive cross-pollination of ideas going on. France even has laws about the movies that show in their cinemas, because all the Hollywood blockbusters were making English a more dominant language in their country!
And these revolutions allow businesses to operate on a multinational basis as never before. Coke and McDonalds are so widely spread that it's a standing joke - remember the "Afghanistan a year from now" email that went around after 9/11? It showed the whole country dotted with McDonalds franchises... kind of gruesome and disturbing, but it makes the point.
Various factors have allowed the USA to capitalise on this so massively and successfully. For most of the last century the US has had amazing natural resources, a population big enough to truly exploit them, and a vast degree of natural isolation from any enemies. Perhaps most importantly, they also had a society that encouraged individual freedom and the free development of ideas. It's partly an accident of history, that a country like the US was established just at the right time to take advantage of all these new developments - but only partly. In truth it's a circular thing; the US had the right conditions to take advantage of these revolutions, but it's precisely the fact that the US is such a rich, free and dynamic society that actually drove the inventions that made the revolutions possible in the first place. (Can you tell I'm a huge admirer of the United States?)
Anyway, I'm babbling on again and I don't really mean to, but my point is this; technology has eroded cultural differences, and this is only going to accelerate. You think the world has changed a lot in the last fifty years? How will it be fifty years from now, when every single person alive will have access to the same kind of communications and transportation systems that the US does now?
And Star Trek technology will only enhance this process. In Star Trek the transporter allows pretty much instantaneous transportation, worldwide, for everybody. Imagine a world where you are
more than five seconds away from any other place. Think about that lost tribe in the Amazon you're always reading about - will they truly maintain their cultural differences when they can go spend the afternoon wandering around New York and any New Yorker can come and do the same in return?
Larry Niven, a far better writer than I by any standard, makes this point in his novel "Ringworld". In Niven's universe there is a transporter-style technology which allows you to teleport virtually anywhere in the world in an instant. In the opening chapters of the book the hero, Louis Wu, takes a trip around the world - no more a big deal to him than walking down the street is for you or me today. On the trip he is depressed at what the teleport system has done to Earth; language, traditions, even fashions are the same everywhere, they change all at once in one gigantic world-wide surge. Star Trek transporters aren't quite the same as Niven's system (Trek's are less realistic, scientifically speaking), but they would have the same overall effect.
Of course, you can't transport between worlds or solar systems. But you can communicate between them, and for the most part in real-time (communications lags were a common problem in TOS, but are rarely heard of in TNG, DS9, Voyager, or, rather irritatingly, Enterprise). And as I said before, even today communications are doing the same thing that transporters would, just on a smaller scale.
Now don't get me wrong, transporter or not I don't think we will ever reach a point where everybody wears the exact same outfit and thinks in an identical way about everything. But a world where everybody thinks acts and dresses as alike as do the residents of, say, Los Angeles? We are
on the road to this.
My second argument is to question the initial assertion; that Trek aliens actually exist in a monoculture. I'll go with the Klingons mostly, since they are the aliens we have seen the most of.
Are all Klingons alike? Obviously there are age and gender differences, but what about their general attitude and demeanour? Perhaps the definitive trait of Klingons in the TNG era is their frequently mentioned desire for personal honour.
How many Klingons actually live up to this? Worf does; in Klingon terms, he's perhaps the most honourable person we've ever seen on screen. Martok is as well. What about Gowron? He's frequently been described as a political opportunist; he re-wrote Klingon history in his own favour after becoming Chancellor, he launched a war against the Cardassians on shaky evidence that the Dominion had taken control of them and then declined to end it when he was proven wrong - and only ended the subsequent war against the Federation when the Dominion kicked him out of Cardassian space and threatened to invade the Klingon Empire. He took personal control of the Dominion war for his own glorification. Gowron has behaved honourably at times, but just as often he has not.
What about Duras? Traitor to his own people. K'mpec, Gowron's predecessor? He covered up Duras's treason for political reasons, allowing Worf to take the blame for a crime K'mpec knew his family had nothing to do with. Toral, Lursa and B'Etor, Duras's son and sisters, fare little better. How can we reasonably claim that all Klingons are obsessed with honour?
We can say that all Klingons
to value honour, but that hardly unreasonable. The enormous majority of Americans would say that they value freedom highly, after all, whether their actions actually support this or not.
What about religion, then. Are all Klingons obsessed with traditions and rituals? Well, pretty much. K'Ehleyr wasn't; she referred to it as "Klingon nonsense" and barely even told her son Alexander that it existed. Alexander himself wasn't, at least until he went to live with his father. Beyond that, though, it does seem like the vast majority of Klingons are indeed ritual-obsessed.
But are they the same rituals? Does the whole Klingon race subscribe to one set of beliefs?
Consider that Kang once told Kirk that Klingons have no devil. Yet in "Devil's Due" we saw Fek'lhr, who sure seems to fill the same role as the devil. Worf believes in the saying "drink not with thine enemies" in "Hide and Q", yet Kang drank with Kirk in "Errand of Mercy". In the TNG episode "The Emissary", Worf and K'Ehleyr only have to sleep together and say a few phrases to be married; compare that to Worf and Dax's wedding in "You are Cordially Invited". In "Heart of Glory", we are told that a dead body is an empty shell which is basically treated as garbage; in "The Sound of Her Voice" Worf describes a Klingon ceremony of sitting with a deceased friend's body to keep the predators away from it.
Now in the real world, the reason for all that is likely that the writers have made an awful lot of Klingon episodes, and it's hard to keep track; contradictions inevitably creep in. But in the Trek world, most if not all of them could be explained away precisely by saying that the Klingons
live in a monoculture, that two Klingons may be as different from one another as a Baptist is from a Bhuddist. One problem with that idea is that it is Worf who speaks some of these contradictions, and it's not often that you find a person who is both Baptist
Bhuddist! However, this is not so much an issue; Worf joined the House of Martok in Deep Space Nine, which may well be the Klingon equivalent of switching religions in the here and now. Of course he would observe different rituals. I haven't taken the time to do a proper analysis of which rituals Worf did when, but certainly as one example his "insta-marriage" to K'Ehleyr came before the conversion, and his big ceremony with Jadzia came afterwards.
Further evidence of Klingon rituals being non-global comes in DS9's "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places". Advising Quark on how to woo a Klingon lady, Worf states :
Worf : "Grilka is from the Mekro'vak region. It is customary among her people for the man to bring the leg of a Lingta to the first courtship dinner. Bring it fresh, as if you had just killed it."
Worf is saying this is a specific custom amongst one group of Klingons, not a species-wide thing. It doesn't follow that other customs and rituals are confined to separate groups along similar lines, but it surely is at least a possibility.
What about dress - do all Klingons dress alike? Well, yes and no. Most Klingon wear is indeed a variation on a common theme, but look closely; there is
variation in those armour-uniform things. I've already explained that technology will tend to erase cultural diversity to a great extent... will it do it to such an extent that the variation in Klingon clothing is reasonable? It's a value judgement. Personally I tend to think the answer is no; Klingons are just too alike to be quite reasonable. But I also think that it's not
far away from reality.
I said I would concentrate on Klingons, but I am going to take a little time to talk about one or two other species. Take the Ferengi for instance. The stereotype is that Ferengi males are obsessed with money and following the rules of acquisition. Their femals stay home, naked and hidden from view, completely docile. Does that match what is actually seen on screen?
Nog isn't obsessed with profit and the rules of acquisition; he joined
for Pete's sake! His father Rom is hardly a fully paid up member of the club either - worked for Starfleet on Deep Space Nine, worked for the underground when the Dominion occupied the station, encouraged his son to join Starfleet, married a Bajoran woman. For that matter Quark isn't exactly the stereotypical Ferengi, as he has shown several times that he values family and even personal respect more than money. As for Ishka, Quark and Rom's mother, well, she could hardly be
like a Ferengi is supposed to be. In fact, you have to go to the minor one-off characters to even
a supposedly "typical" Ferengi.
How about the famously logical, non-emotional Vulcans? Sarek, who married a Human woman? Saavik, who cried at Spock's funeral? Tuvok, who is actually a rather mean and spiteful person, at least in the first Voyager season - and let's not forget that he gave us black Vulcans. And what about the "Vulcans without logic" of Enterprise's "Fusion"? What about the "Melders" who were considered an outcast section of society during Enterprise? Can we truly say that Vulcans are a monoculture?
What about Humans? Let's limit it to TNG; humans certainly dress in a varied manner, but that's minor. Much more importantly, they all seem to buy into the "we don't want material goods, we just want to better ourselves and mankind" philosophy of TNG. Or do they? What about Vash? Not exactly a shining example of the non-profit mentality there. What about Okona? He didn't seem to spend his life trying to better himself and Humanity.
Overall I would say that whilst both Human and alien cultures in Trek are certainly far less diverse than present day Earth is, they are not nearly so narrow and rigid as is commonly supposed.
My last strand here concerns just how representative the people we see in Trek are of their species. I doubt there is any species in Trek that we've seen more than, say, five hundred members of - and we rarely get to know more than ten or twenty as anything more than a passing face with a line or two. Can we really judge the variation in
species of billions on that basis? And bear in mind that the overwhelming majority of people we see are in Starfleet, at least for most of the Trek series. I've said before that you wouldn't get much of an impression of Earth's current diversity if all you saw of it were the personnel of a single Navy warship.
On the face of it, my arguments here can seem contradictory - I'm simultaneously saying "it's perfectly reasonable that these monocultures exist", "actually, if you look closely these aren't monocultures at all", and "we don't know enough to be able to tell if there is a monoculture going on or not".
In fact, though, I think the truth is somewhat a combination of these three things. Yes, I think that our future is likely to see Earth as a much less diverse place - but I doubt it will ever reach a point where everybody dresses and thinks alike. Yes, I think that there is more diversity in Trek's alien species than they are generally given credit for - but at the same time, I can't deny that I'd like to meet Bob, the Klingon who cares nothing for combat and is perfectly happy in his job as a telephone sanitizer. Though I have to say, Bob's story might not make the most exciting of episodes. And finally yes, I do think there is more diversity in Trek aliens than we see - after all
must sanitise those Klingon telephones, somebody must design and build the ships - but I can't deny that there's a certain dissatisfaction in just assuming that those people are there without us seeing them.
Overall, then, I would say this : Trek aliens are a lot more culturally diverse than they appear to be at first sight, and a lot less diverse than they could be, and to an extent this is what we would expect. But if the deities of Trek happen to hear my humble prayer... just a
role for Bob, somewhere in the background? Please?
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Great thanks, Condor.
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How about this: Minimalistic / Least Invasive Surgery. Rather than cut a scar across your gut to take out an appendix, make a small incision and use some tweazers and a fiber optic camera and a lazer to remove it.
So your tieing into a framework that was already done synchronously and you don't want to spend the time or money to re-write things. The client you are working with wants to see the job done ASAP, they are on a shoe string budget.
You want to use a package such as Joomla and VirtueMart on your E-Commerce Site.
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You want to do bare-minimal code tweaks so as to sniper the specific validation issue rather than re-write the whole validation function to work asynchronously.
You just want to insert a few lines of code in dynamically generated javascript from PHP code.
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So if I did this synchronously, I would have hack up the existing virtuemart/joomla code and I really really don't want to get into all that. I just want a simple function notGood()
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are over tens or even hundreds of Gbyte.
before any asynch data querying , I need to grab query parameters, like genome build version, snp build version, chromosome length, etc that chage or update very often. Ajax asynch calls grab the jsons for all the analysis tracks (un limited), but a syn ch call come first to grab all asynch call's query parameters.
Use of the EXTJS ajax call w/ sync flag on/off will make design and coding and update analysis track loading order logically elegant.
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the order of grabbing parameters before data and the order of data display change often, I use ajax call order w/
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In case anyone still cares about synchronous calls
In fact, I think this is one of the main reasons that the XMLHttpRequest specification supports a synchronous flag.
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I am playing Super Meat Boy, and failing terribly at it, but at least want to say I beat the bosses of each world. How many levels for each world do I need to complete to unlock the boss?
You need to complete 17 levels in each world to unlock the boss. From the Super Meat Boy Blog:
The exception to this rule is the 6th world (The End), which requires all 5 light world levels to be completed to unlock the boss. This world also has a dark world boss, which requires 85 of the dark world levels to be completed to unlock (source).
No, you only need to finish any arbitrary subset of a certain length of the levels for a stage, to be able to fight the boss. I don't know how many levels you need to beat, but you can definitively beat a boss before you've finished all the levels of stage.


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3:30 p.m. 7-8 grade football at practice field
Monday, August 13
3 p.m. 7-8 grade volleyball in MS gym
All students must have a sports physical by a doctor, concussion form, code of conduct and drug testing form on file in the athletic office before starting practice. HS athletes must also have an IMPACT baseline test completed.
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Monday, July 30
9 a.m. football
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6 p.m. boys tennis at tennis courts
Wednesday, August 8
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Tuesday, August 14
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Thursday, August 16
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All participants must have a physical prior to the first practice date. No one may participate in a practice without a physical and the concussion information sheet read and signed. Both forms are available in the athletic office and can be turned into the coach or the athletic office. For further details, contact the Adams Central athletic office at (260) 692-6105.
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Chicken in a Pot
Categories: Comfort Foods, Entertaining, Halloween
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
A one-pot meal wonderfully flavored with hard apple cider and root vegetables
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 1H45M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 1 chicken, about 3 3/4 lb ( 1.7kg), trussed
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2 cups hard apple cider
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1 bouquet garni ( 1 celery stalk, 4 thyme sprigs, 4 parsley sprigs tied)
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 12oz ( 350g) baby carrots, peeled
- 12oz ( 350g) baby new potatoes, scrubbed, but unpeeled
- 2 leeks, thickly sliced
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
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- Preheat the oven to 325°F (160°C). Using kitchen twine, tie the chicken drumsticks together. Tie twine across the breast to secure the wings down. Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole over medium heat. Add the chicken and brown on all sides. Transfer to a plate. Sprinkle flour into the casserole and stir for 2 minutes over low heat until barely browned. Stir in the cider and stock, and bring to a boil.
- Return the chicken to the casserole, breast-side up. Add the bouquet garni and salt and pepper to taste. Cover and bake for 11/4 hours. Add the carrots, potatoes, and leeks. Return to the oven and bake for about 40 minutes more, or until the juices run clear when pierced.
- Transfer the chicken to a carving board. Let stand for 10 minutes. Discard the bouquet garni. Carve the chicken, return to the pot, and sprinkle with parsley. Serve hot.
- large deep flameproof casserole
- freeze after step 3, once cooled completely, for up to 3 months; thaw at room temperature, then reheat
- Good with creamy mashed potatoes and green beans or a green leafy vegetable. Leftovers can be tossed with frisée, grated carrot, and vinaigrette dressing to make a salad.
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WACO (December 27, 2012)-Members of Congress are back on Capitol Hill, the President is at the White House, but there is still no compromise to avoid America's looming fiscal cliff.
However, talks between the President and Members of Congress are set for tomorrow. This will be the first time they've met since November 16th.
If President Obama and Members of Congress don't reach a compromise on the budget to avoid "the cliff," taxes will rise across the board for Americans.
The fiscal cliff has dominated discussions on Capitol Hill since election day. When the clock hits midnight on December 31st, the Bush Administration tax cuts on income and investments will expire. An end to the payroll tax holiday will come as well.
What begins from there are massive spending cuts for over 1,000 U.S. Government programs. Also, taxes related to President Obama's health care law will begin.
Hitting the national economy with the double whammy of tax increases and spending cuts is what's called going over the "fiscal cliff."
Here's where taxpayers come in. Economists say if the U.S. goes over the fiscal cliff, taxpayers could owe an average of $3,500 more per household.
The tax hikes could cause local businesses like Uncle Dan's Bar-B-Que in Waco to suffer.
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TT will sign FA's but I am glad he did not get sucked in to the day 1 frenzy of putting the team through cap hell in a couple years. There is still decent talent out there in DeCoud, Clemons, Wright, Doughty that would still be able to provide a necessary upgade at safety, and of course a decent crop of safeties in the draft.
Packers stand pat, safeties sign elsewhere on Day 1
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You watch these guys who signed to these massive contracts most will have garbage seasons cause they finally got 'PAID'.. How did Asomugha and the rest of the cast work out for the "dream team" a few years ago?
TT will sign FA's but I am glad he did not get sucked in to the day 1 frenzy of putting the team through cap hell in a couple years. There is still decent talent out there in DeCoud, Clemons, Wright, Doughty that would still be able to provide a necessary upgade at safety, and of course a decent crop of safeties in the draft.Hide replies
I'd like to see Chris Clemons on a reasonable contract. I don't have much faith in a rooking from this draft coming in and doing well.
Exactly, I was thinking Mitchell would be a solid stopgap while they rebuilt the position, maybe at 3/10. He goes for 5/25 and that's not even the worst contract given to a safety yesterday.
Clemons and Allen are legit starters. Calvin Pryor looks better and better.
Does one remember all of the hand wringing and consternation that was posted last year at this time when Atlanta out bid Green Bay for Stephen Jackson. So, TT went out and drafted Eddie Lacy and Franklin and Lacy becomes the offensive Rookie of the Year and I believe that Franklin still has a huge upside. And Atlanta? They went from NFC championship game to 4-12 and Jackson was a major, albeit expensive, dissapointment. So I guess the morale of the story is watch what you wish for because you just might get it.
Also, stump I agree with you about Clemons on a reasonable contract. DeCoud could also be a slightly cheaper option as well. That way we would not need to focus on safety in the first round of the draft, and if a player like Mosely or Nix should fall like Bulaga did in 2010, TT could pounce.
I also remember the hand-wringing about the safety position, and about the center position, and the lack of pass rush. Turns out that was justified. Sometimes the naysayers are correct!
Who needs cheap? We need playmakers! And… about all of the hand wringing. Do you forget we got beat at home in the playoffs. One and done ain't good enough when we have the best player in the NFL. The defense is a detriment to this team TT needs to fix it now and not count on dumb rookies.
stump. what pass rush?? When CMIII went down there was not a pass rush.
Certainly not high on rookies helping as our last 2 # 1's much less than hoped for.
I think the biggest problem tht Packer fans have with TT is that he stands pat on other teams free agents because free agency is a crap shoot. Yet he pays his own guys as much as any free agent gets. Burnett's contract is more than TJ Ward got, and basically the same deal as Bethea and Whitner. There is one major difference... the other three are pro bowl players. Burnett is not.
The same can be said for the deals that the DE/DTs received. We offered Raji a 4 year $32 million deal before last year (thank God he passed on it). That is more that Arthur Jones received yet Ted pulled out because the price was too high. You can't have it both ways Ted.
His arrogance will cost us the prime of Rodgers career.Hide replies
TT overvalues his own players especially if it is his draft pick. Burnett's deal is a joke. they guy had done nothing to earn his deal. Bryd, Bethea or Whitner are all markedly better players.
It's all about buying up free agent years, when it works (Jordy, the first Rodg deal) it's a huge advantage. Huge enough to cover the occasional Burnett anyway...
You got that right. Shields? Burnett? What are they thinking? Way over valued. Remember the stupid money AJ Hawk got after 2010? It's ridiculous!
And Ron Wolf's and Mike Sherman's arrogance cost us the prime of Favre's career? And Tom Brady hasn't won a Super Bowl since 2004, his fourth year in the league, so the arrgance of the New England leadership cost him several more Super Bowls?
I'll give Holgrem part of that blame as he cried all the days between the NFC championship game and the superbowl, that he'd leave if he didn't get the GM job to. What an a hole.
burnett was one of the best safeties in the NFL in 2012. he had a down year last year.
guys like ward and mitchell haven't done ANYTHING burnett hasn't done.
heck, mitchell started for ONE season and now he's a 1st day FA signing.
good luck with that.
many of these guys that signed yesterday are nothing more than the flavor of the day, being paid more than their resume dictates.
TT lovers, this team was f***ing 500 last year. It's headed in the wrong direction. TT's draft & develop has run it's course. CM3 & T Williams are calling for no more rooks and getting some play makers, are they goofy?
You ever think that one of the reasons the team was .500 last season was because of, oh, the injury that put Rodgers out for 7 games?
But you just want to rage against the Packers not winning day 1 of FA...so carry on.
Burnett had one average to ok year in 2012 but that is ok because he is ted's guy. yet TT decided to pay him. Take off the homer goggles and see that Burnett is a bust.
get real. burnett was not "average to ok" in 2012.
he was one of the best safeties in the NFL.
every bit as good as ward and mitchell were last year.
Pro Football Focus ranked him 12th. that is not "average to ok".
If your going to use PFF, where does the rest of TT'S defensive players rank? Were any of these flavor of the days ranked higher than TT'S players on defense?
Striker1, we lost in the playoffs with Rodgers. The defense lost that game. The defense could not stop SF at the end when it counted. This is not good enough. We have the best QB on the planet and yet, TT stands pat with ths pathetic defense.
TT has become an arrogant GM who thinks he's smarter than the rest of the GM'S.Even after T Williams and CM asked for more experienced play makers and less Rookies, TT has basically told them to shove it!Any Packer fan who watched the SB must realize how far we are as a team behind Seattle.On special teams and defense, we're not in the same ball park.TT will throw another 10-12 rookies @ MM & Capers and expect miracles.My guess is the way we're headed,we will not win the division next year.If that happens, TT is the guy who should be retired.Hide replies
Hit the nail on the head. Arrogant people are the worst kind becuase they cannot make a decision using objectivity. If it weren't for AROD falling to him in round 1, thus guy would be washing dishes somewhere by now.
Not sure how anyone sees TT as arrogant. That's the last thing I think of when I listen to him talk. And I don't think we are that far behind Seattle. In fact, I think we beat them 50% of the time on a neutral field. We came within a eye lash of beating SF and without some very questionable calls, Frisco wins the SB. Regarding experienced play makers, there aren't many of those in FA. The good ones are kept by their teams. And any Packer fan that thinks we should have gone after Byrd is delusional. There is NO way you can tie up over $30 million on 4 players in the defensive backfield. You can argue about the Shields, Williams and Burnett contracts, but you can't have 4 high priced guys back there.
You use the word delusional, that would be you if you really beleive the Pack is that close to Seattle and several more teams. Go back and watch the SB tape.
wolf... Why would I watch the SB tape? IMO, the best 4-5 teams in the NFL were in the NFC last year. SF, NO, Carolina & GB would all have beaten up on Denver. Watch the SF-Seattle tape and then watch the SF-GB tape. Green Bay was playing without Finley, CMIII and Shields and still easily could have won that game.
Another excuse maker. They didn't win did they? 8-8, that was the record. This is a 1 or 2 player team.
Maybe, but GB did not win. End of story. Lombardi would not be happy with the way things are going in GB with one and done seasons, crappy tackling, overpaid zeros playing ILB, and horrible safety play.
Right now the Pack is no where near Seattle. FACT.
And rwolf, your arrogance apparently didn't bring us any more Super Bowls either, did it. You are THE Ron Wolf aren't you???
wolf got the Pack to (2) SB'S. That's 50% more than TT, correct?
Math doesn't seem to be your strong suit.
Got me on the math! But i'm still correct that this team is heading in the wrong direction and the main reason is TT. You can love him, I'll leave him. He's arrogant and weird.
You're technically correct they are headed in the wrong direction based on the records the past 2 years, rwolf. Of course, they realy had no where to go but down since being 15-1. And so, if Rodgers doesn't get hurt, they probably end up 10-6 or 11-5 which then your comment doesn't hold water. Not that it really did before anyway.
And your comment about wolf getting them to two SBs is offbase too. Basically the same group of players under Wolf got to two Super Bowls, but that second team LOST. After TT's team won the Super Bowl, basically that same group of players went 15-1 and then lost the in playoffs. Really not that much of a difference. Bottomline: both GMs only have 1 SB to their credit. And while we're at it, let's a call a spade a spade...it was an idiotic choice on Wolf's part to recommend that Mike Sherman take over his duties as GM
sure, and basically that same team Favre took to the last few minutes of the NFC championship game before losing to the Giants, came back next season under Rogers and same coaches and went 6-10??? Go figure. Had McCarthy forced Harris to accept coaching and get over the top help on Plaxico, we'd have another one, and Favre wouldn't have even thrown that last INT.
The "TT is arrogant" argument is a typical strawman projection.
Hey, rwolf, EVERY GM has a bit of arrogance/ego about them. Otherwise they'd follow the sage advice of armchair NFL GMs like you and be in real hot water.
LOL wow, 50% more Super Bowls!
Was this the same guy with the 8-7-1 is sub .500 comment?
There were three or four safeties that I thought could really be impact players for the Packers in free agency. All gone at this point. If I were in Thompson's shoes, I wouldn't let Ware's agent put the phone down until his client was wearing the Green and Gold. Putting him opposite CM III would give both players the complement they have lacked for years.Hide replies
Ware signed a three year deal worth 30 million with the Broncos.
Yeah, just now. You beat me to the punch. Not much left to be excited about. Getting Owen Daniels and a DL to add to the mix looks like the most likely scenario at this point.
Having rushed out to overpay for Shields, he probably needs to catch his breath for a while.
Nick Collins has mentioned he would like to play this year.Hide replies
I feel bad for the guy, but if there was a doctor in this country that was willing to clear him for contact, some team would have picked him up.
The only one listed there that gives me a little heartburn is Mitchell - young and a flat-out baller, $5M is a good deal for a real, rounded safety. Living in the Carolina market, I got to see almost all his games. He's as good as Byrd, without the hype.
They talked to him; must have made their usual joke offer that he didn't give second thought to.
The rest are on the downhill side, have recurrent injuries, or have a major hole in their game.
One good thing I see is that two teams picking ahead of us - Cleveland and Pitt -- may pass on 1st round safeties now.Hide replies
Agree Lep, Mitchell is the one guy I thought would help. He signed for similar money as Burnett, but as I said in earlier posts, you can't afford to put that much money into the dbacks.
As disappointed as we are, I think that we all knew that TT wasn't going to be in on that first round of insanity. I don't think that the price on Ward and Mitchell was that inflated, especially in light of a growing cap. Now we are into the territory where TT might do some shopping.
Raji on a short term deal
Mike Neal
Chris Clemmons
Nate Allen
Henry Melton, Corey Wooten and Cam Thomas could all play 5T
Daryl Smith was an absolute beast last season
Garret Graham could be a nice receiving TE
And maybe the price is right for a guy like Justin Tuck at some point.
The one free agent left that might require a stretch is Alex Mack. I think putting him inside on our O-line with Sitton and Lang could interesting. He's the best center in the game.Hide replies
Good point on Mack. IMO he is the only guy out there that might be worth over-spending for.
Good list Kareem. I like most of those ideas (except for Raji).
HOW was signing Reggie White, Sean Jones, Santana Dotson Gilbert Brown, Des Howard, a zero sum gain??? How was signing Rod Woodson and Pickett, a zero sum gain?? I'll take super bowls anytime. One and done seasons suck!
How many of those that signed these safeties got better AS A TEAM yesterday?
1. New Orleans now has two good safeties, a QB and a TE, but is having to jettison its offensive weapons due to previous salary cap overpayment, and they will lack good players in the trenches. And Byrd is a more expensive replacement of Jenkins anyway.
2. Cleveland replaced a guy more expensively than the younger guy they lost.
3. SF replaced a guy they lost, so that's a wash.
Pittsburgh, IMHO, is perhaps the only team the filled a need without losing other key players (and even they are losing Emmanuel Sanders).Hide replies
My point: FA is usually a zero-sum game. You can pay a little more here, but it costs you over there.
You are absolutely correct. Way too many people on this blog have doomed the Packers before the season even starts. Keeping the Packer organization financially stable is the most important priority. Winning games and championships only happens if the former is maintained. Overpaying for players jettisoned by other teams is not financially astute and not in the best interest of the organization long term. You do not ever overpay for a player just because you want him, unless that player is truly special, like Reggie White. There is not one person in FA that even comes close to the caliber of player and leader Reggie was for the Packers.
How many of those teams that did absolutely nothing got better yesterday?
1. The Packers signed Lattimore.
Nuff said.
Keeping the Packer organization financially stable is the most important priority? Silly me, I thought it was winning SB'S! Thanks TT.
The Packer organization is no different than any other business. Yes, maintaining financial stability and making money are the top priorities. Fiscal irresponsibility will eventually lead to the downfall of any business. Anybody that has ever owed a business and had to make a payroll understands that you never, ever overpay the majority of your employees based on market value. You have a select few key employees that are over compensated for because they are deemed necessary for the long term success of the business. The remainder are paid according to market value and deemed replaceable. If the Packers top priority was only to win SB's, they would have been financially bankrupt years ago.
Here is the issue: the landscape of the NFL is evolving. Thompson's tactics proved to be valuable at a time where the team was rebuilding to contender status and when the salary cap was basically flat. Now, the Packers have a top 5 offense and need defensive help. But, the salary cap could be rapidly expanding ($160M by 2016) . . . . He can spend some money now. Rodgers and Matthews contracts will still be huge, but they will be a smaller percentage of the cap going forward. Thompson needs to show flexibility. All good business people adapt to the changing environment.
ITTTTWT.Hide replies
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Justice Sotomayor delays contraception mandate.
Late yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted the request of a community of nuns in Colorado to delay enforcement of the Obama administration's contraception mandate. Her order applies to the Little Sisters of the Poor in Colorado and other nonprofit groups whose health plans are administered by Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust. Sotomayor intervened after a U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver denied the nuns' request earlier on New Year's Eve.
Most news reports lead with the claim that Sotomayor's order blocks the Obama administration from forcing these groups to "provide contraception coverage" to their employees. But of course that's where the dispute lies. The Little Sisters of the Poor claim that the mandate forces them to act against their religious convictions, which, they say, do not allow them to "facilitate" the procurement of artificial contraception. (I find that claim tendentious.) The Obama administration says that religiously affiliated employers don't want to provide such coverage they can opt out, in which case a third party will offer it to employees. I imagine that will be more or less what administration lawyers will say in their reply to Sotomayor's order. She's given them until Friday to respond.
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The NY Times article makes a helpful distinction in noting that the Hobby Lobby lawsuit applies to a different class of conscientious objector than the Little Sisters of the Poor.
The root of the problem in this instance is that the original religious exemption in the contraception mandate was written so exceedingly narrowly that the Little Sisters of the Poor does not qualify as a religious organization.
The cynic in me can't help wondering if the Little Sisters of the Poor joined in this lawsuit simply to prove that they are truly committed to the war on contraception and abortion, and thus dissuade any "Apostolic Visitors" from poking their noses into the Sisters' business.
I wonder if the Little Sisters of the Poor might have been chosen in the hope that one day there would be a lawsuit entitled "Obama vs. Little Sisters of the Poor"!
Angela - I doubt it.
@ Angela Stockton: I tend to agree with you because the LSotP seeking to insulate themselves from the political oppression of the hierarchs makes sense considering the church's dominant internal politics. Besides, everyone knows that the generals [i.e., the hierarchs] in the "war on contraception and abortion" have always been shooting blanks!
The most interesting aspect of this lastest development for me is the order coming from Justice Sotomayor. She supported the statute when it previously came before the court - we have to assume that she understood the implications of her concurrence. So what has changed?
Is this a case of Sonia Sotomayor - nice Catholic girl from the Bronx - feeling sympathetic for the Little Sisters of the Poor, knowing that these women usually minister to the poorest of the poor?
Or is Justice Sotomayor changing of her mind and commitment regarding attempts to provide affordable health care to all, especially women?
Or are the LSotP just looking for a way to continue to maximize their funding stream from the federal government?
Or are the LSotP just being exploited by much more powerful and wealthy corporate interests - at the encouragement of the hierarchs and their reactionary right-wing allies - in the healthcare debate, providing them cover behind the skirts of the begging nuns at the train stations?
Because the Obama administration has already tried to address this issue by forcing the insurance companies to provide these coverages regardless, it will be interesting to see this play out in court.
(I don't think the Little Sisters were among the congregations investigated by the apostolic visitators.)
The Little Sisters of the Poor like the Daughters of St Paul are part of the Catholic Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious of the United States and are not affiliated with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which is the organization that has problems with the Holy See.
It may be, Mr Jenkins, that Occam's Razor provides the answer to the question. The simplest explanation for their behavior is that they are Catholic.


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ANSONIA —Junior taiback Saiheed Saunders, starting in place of injured Arkeel Newsome, rushed for 107 yards and three touchdowns, on runs of 7, 31 and 9 yards, to lead the undefeated Ansonia High football team to a 47-0 win over Seymour at Jarvis Stadium on Thursday night.
Andrew Matos returned a punt 85 yards for a score for the Chargers (5-0), and Jai'Quan McKnight threw scoring passes to Raeshaun Finney and Ryan O'Connor.
Ansonia led 41-0 at halftime. Seymour dropped its second straight and slipped to 3-2.
Newsome, a junior who rushed for 3,763 yards and 62 touchdowns last season, didn't play for precautionary reasons after sustaining an ankle injury last week in a win over Holy Cross. He has rushed for 560 yards and 11 touchdowns through the first four games.
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This is in regards to the article that appeared in the Jan. 25 edition of the Herald-Star about the crosses in Stratton ("Stratton takes down crosses.")
Tell me why it is the business of anyone in Madison, Wis., on whether the crosses are there or not?
Perhaps a family who lost a loved one near there put them up - and they live here. Do you think it is fair to take them down?
Surely, we are living in the last days, when everyone will turn against Jesus.
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Quick question, when marking an object as serializable, does it need to be a JavaBean? I mean, can you serialize an object that's not a JavaBean? Does it have any risk? Is it a good practice to always make an object a JavaBean if you intend to serialize it?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
You are looking at it the wrong way. A Java Bean is any class that is
1) implements Serializable
So your question
has it backwards. Any class can be Serializable, by implementing the interface. Not all serializable classes define a Java Bean.
It is good practice to design your classes with data encapsulation in mind. This means limiting access to fields directly, and using setters and getters where appropriate.
Of course, having a public no-arg constructor is not always necessary from an API point of view.
You really only need to follow the Java bean standard if you are going to use a library that depends on your classes being Java Beans.
Serializable is a marker Interface. Each Object you mark with the serializable interface can be sent trouh the wire or can be safed in a file. For example if you mark the class Foo with the serializable interface, you are able to safe the object state in a file and restore it later:
That means it doesnt need to be a JavaBean. It could be a plain old java object, like the Foo Object example.
If you want to serialize an object of class, then that class need to implement serializable interface irrespective of it's bean (or) class with simple properties.
This tutorial may help you
You can serialize any object that implements the Serializable interface, whether it's a JavaBean or not.
That said, the decision to make an object Serializable shouldn't be made lightly, because it locks in certain implementation details of the class thus reducing future flexibility.
See here for information on implementing Serializable.


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No sooner than you found out you were pregnant, like most expectant women, you may have begun to worry about all aspects of your lifestyle and your unborn baby's health. To put things in perspective, remember that in generations gone by pregnancy was considered to be a natural event, and few women made lifestyle changes to accommodate the condition. So in the past, pregnant women were likely to continue eating unhealthy foods, drinking alcohol, and smoking.
Furthermore, pregnancy tests tended to be much less accurate or sensitive, meaning that many pregnancies ended in early miscarriage without anyone being aware. For this reason, many of the problems now known to be risk factors for pregnancy complications or miscarriage were not analyzed or addressed, or worried about.
Today, with the benefit of a great deal of research, and precise monitoring of ovulation, conception, and pregnancy, women are very aware of what is happening inside their bodies, and are informed about the potential pitfalls. This is a mixed blessing: while it is important to avoid anything known to adversely affect your unborn baby, it is equally important to relax and enjoy the pregnancy, because stress is not good for you or your baby.
Pregnant women used to be advised to drink dark beer because it's a good source of iron.
Sadly, this is an old wives' tale as the iron content of beer is negligible. So, even though they're not as interesting, stick to your leafy green vegetables!
Yes, any woman over age 35 is categorized as high risk, regardless of her health status. Although this can be frustrating, the reason for the close monitoring is that, statistically, women over 35 are more likely to suffer from complications during pregnancy, such as high blood pressure, miscarriage, and gestational diabetes; there is also an increased risk of having a baby with a genetic disorder, such as Down syndrome.
Your doctor will simply want to keep an eye on you to be sure that your pregnancy progresses normally, and that both you and your baby remain healthy. By having regular monitoring, any potential problems can be addressed and hopefully rectified at an early stage.
Try not to see it as an intrusion. It's great that you're in good shape already, and if you continue to take care of your health and exercise regularly, you will reduce the risks of complications from occurring.
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Taxonomy of Trash
Invited as an artist-in-residence at Revolution Recovery, a Philadelphia recycling company, Tim Eads in turn invited a team of a sound engineer, videographer, photographer, and biologist to help him analyze the aesthetic potential of trash. All accomplished in their respective fields, the collaborators present us with a mystifyingly professional and creatively nebulous endeavor that is at once a hybrid form of art, connoisseurship, scientific research, audio-visual documentation, readymade sculpture, and performance that underscores much of today's collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to artistic practice. From Revolution Recovery's inventory, the team selected objects of visual interest, recorded the sounds the objects made when activated as ersatz instruments, and photographed and categorized them in a phylogenetic tree chart. At the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, all of these inventive examinations and permutations of art and trash are on display. In addition to the sensory connection to trash that the visitor experiences in the gallery, Eads supplements the Taxonomy exhibition with a kinetic sculpture called the "Mobile Trash Lab." This photography studio/garbage bike on wheels travels to litter-strewn locations and enables the driver or citizens off the street to select ubiquitous city trash, and have it "taxonomized" on the spot, free of charge. Displayed alongside audio-visual recordings of garbage gleaned from this geographic region and exhibited in proximity to a chart categorizing these biodegradable and non-biodegradable items, the DCCA visitor is invited to view both an objective and ethical analysis of what we throw away.
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The Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!
The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. This is a page where you can read about and contribute to organizing aaronsw hackathons around the world.
We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list firstname.lastname@example.com
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
- In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
- The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
- Then there's open time to work.
- Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.
Proposed Dates
- Set up a event webpage - NOW (Sept.)
- Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - NOW (Sept.)
- Get signal-boosting web coverage - Sept/Oct
- Run events - Nov. 8 weekend
Projects to Work on
- HTTPS Everywhere (yan): an EFF browser extension to encrypt the web that Aaron worked on. There are a lot of tickets that we could work on, including making an Opera port of the extension.
Groups/People to collaborate with
- Praveen - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff
- Willow - Hackers Without Borders
- Nosebridge, SF
- Boston, MA (ML?)
- Seattle, WA (some hackerspace - willow?)
- Talk to SeattleAttic and/or Jigsaw and/or some other place. I can ask around. 18.104.22.168 23:15, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
- Bangalor
- Berlin
- Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
- Paris
- London
- Zagreb (+ other balkan)
- Tokyo


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More than 340 students graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery during its fall commencement exercises on Dec. 14. Among those receiving degrees was Erman E. Samelo, the university's first graduate from its Master of Science in Cybersystems and Information Security program.
Samelo enrolled at Auburn Montgomery in 2011 upon retiring from the U.S. Air Force as superintendent of the Education Support Squadron at the Spaatz Center for Officer Education at Maxwell Air Force Base. With 23 years of experience in information management, he decided to embark on a second career in information security and turned to AUM for training.
"When I was still in the Air Force, my job was the one that implemented information security policies," said Samelo. "The CSIS master's program at AUM taught us why policy makers want those policies implemented. This was a challenging program and I know that the knowledge I gained from it will help me in my next career. I would definitely recommend it to others."
Established in 2010, AUM's cybersystems and information security program is the first program of its kind in Alabama. It prepares students to become leaders in the field of information and network security, offering instruction and research opportunities that provide graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively assess, develop, and manage secure information networks and respond to newly developed threats
Students are prepared for careers in homeland security, government and state agencies, private businesses, and armed forces. The program is certified by the Committee on National Security Systems, approved by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, and accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Learn more about the program at www.aum.edu/csis or by contacting program director Mehmet Sahinoglu at 334-244-3769 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Samelo graduated during AUM's afternoon commencement ceremony at 2 p.m., along with graduates from the Schools of Sciences, Nursing, and Liberal Arts. At 10 a.m., students from the School of Education and College of Business received degrees. Benedict Okeke, AUM microbiology professor, served as the distinguished speaker during both ceremonies. He said that graduation is the beginning - not the end - of an educational journey. He said the world is increasingly changing with new technologies and opportunities and encouraged graduates to continue to build their knowledge and skills and evolve with the changing world.
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Vegan food near 2169
So you're @ 83c and hungry, AND you're vegan?
Fear not! The mission is full of vegan friendly joints!
Big Lantern - 16th just past Valencia - good chinese
Sunflower - Valencia and 16th - some vegan options
Osha - kinda expensive but good, open until midnight?
Pakwan - Pakistani food, unknown quality
Dosa - 995 Valencia [1]] (see they have a dietary needs pdf, wow!)
Minako - 2154 Mission St - organic Japanese food with many explicitly vegan options a bit $$$ but super good http://www.yelp.com/biz/minako-organic-japanese-restaurant-san-francisco
Cha-ya - 762 Valencia -is vegan organic Japanese food http://www.yelp.com/biz/cha-ya-vegetarian-japanese-restaurant-san-francisco
Taqueria Los Coyotes No 2 - right down the block on Wiese, not too bad for the money
The mission obviously has a ton of amazing burrito joints - but here are some that are vegan friendly without hassle:
Mariachi's - 508 Valencia St - http://www.yelp.com/biz/mariachis-taqueria-san-francisco
Pancho Villa -3071 16th St - http://www.yelp.com/biz/pancho-villa-taqueria-san-francisco
Papalote - 3409 24th Street - http://www.yelp.com/biz/papalote-mexican-grill-san-francisco
Ike's Place - 3506 16th St - FUCK YEAH!! http://www.ilikeikesplace.com/ (super big vegan menu no on board but in binder/onweb)
Gratitude - 2400 Harrison St. - Raw type food, super vegan friendly, makes people reactionary with unique Cult-Sabor. Another SF location on 9th Ave in the Sunset as well as San Rafeal, Healdsburg, Oakland, Berkeley.
Herbivore - 983 Valencia Street - all vegan, good for breakfast/brunch until 2pm http://www.yelp.com/biz/papalote-mexican-grill-san-francisco
Weird Fish - 2193 Mission Street - don't let the name fool you, great vegan brunch until 3pm http://www.yelp.com/biz/weird-fish-san-francisco
Monk's Kettle - 16th and Valencia - vegan chili, veggie burger are awesome
Frjtz - 590 valencia Street - belgian fries, fake chicken sammich by request, vegan sauces available, play like you are David Bowman in the back of the Hayes street location.
More, you fill in some more!
Stuff that's not in the mission:
El Balazo - 1654 Haight St - (415) 864-2140 - fantastic burritos including "Joe's Burrito" for vegans
Herbivore - Divisadero Street - another location
Ananada Fuara - Market Street
Saha - 1075 Sutter Street - http://www.sahasf.com - Same caliber as Millenium, but not as expensive.
Gestault House - bar that serves Tofukey sausages, etc
Rosamunde's - on Haight -
Citris Club - Upper Haight - pan asian
King of Thai Noodles - 5th and Mission - open until 2am
Sparky's Diner - open 24/7 with some vegan options
Naan N' Curry - O'Farrel - will make vegan food upon request
Zante's - Cortland and Mission - vegan pizza options (indian pizza??)
Lucky Creation - 854 Washington St - (415) 989-0818 - awesome wheat gluten and generally good chinese. vegan.
Dosa - 995 Valencia dosasf.com and also on 1700 Fillmore.


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Georges Colomb was a professor of natural science and sub-director of the botanical institute in Sorbonne when he first published his drawings in Mon Journal, in 1887. He used the pseudonym Chistophe (referring to Christopher Columbus). Two years later, he created 'La Famille Cornouillet' for the magazine Journal de la Jeunesse. This family was a prototype for 'La Famille Fenouillard', which appeared in Le Petit Français Illustré from 1889 until 1893.
He continued to draw comics for this magazine until 1899. In 1915, his 'Les Douze Commandments de Lord Curzon' was published by editor Armand Collin. A lot of his work has been reprinted after his death in 1945. In 1975, his granddaugher Hélène Colomb dedicated the book 'Mon Grand-père Christophe' to him.


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Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being
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Participants completing training in intensive meditation and continuing frequent practice for one year would experience reduced frequency, duration and severity of headaches along with improved awareness of the triggers of their symptoms, improved quality of life and mental health, improved heart rate variability, and reduced inflammation.
Chronic Daily Headache
Behavioral: Vipassana Meditation
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being
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MedlinePlus related topics: Headache MigraineU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Johns Hopkins University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- number of migraine days, number of headache days [ Time Frame: 3,6,12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- severity of headaches [ Time Frame: 3,6,12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- quality of life [ Time Frame: 3,6,12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Heart Rate Variability [ Time Frame: 3,6,12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|April 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|October 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Behavioral: Vipassana Meditation
12 day retreat where participants learn to meditate
Active Comparator: 2.Comparison group
Unstructured comparison group
Behavioral: Vipassana Meditation
12 day retreat where participants learn to meditate
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Chronic Daily Headache, defined as a headache at least 15 days of the month, of which at least 8 are migraines.
Exclusion Criteria:1.
- Severe depression, anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis or dementia that may interfere with ability to participate in a 10 day course
- Active alcoholism on screening or use of illicit drugs within the last 3 months
- Already completed a 10 day course
- Actively involved in another form of meditation over the past 6 months
- Women who are pregnant, planning pregnancy during trial period, or lactating.
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There is a unit with 5 strength and 2 wounds. The attacker wants to use the resource ability of
mathematics to finish the unit, the defender the healing effect of
animal husbandry. Which effect is resolved first? According to the rules, there is no stack, so is it really just the one who cries loudest or fastest?
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There is a unit with 5 strength and 2 wounds. The attacker wants to use the resource ability of
Cards with Battle abilities can only be played before or after an attack on an enemy front (or starting a new front), not during the battle.
Animal husbandry can therefore only remove wound tokens from units who've survived with some damage. Likewise, Mathematics can only add wound tokens to units already in fronts. All these cards are resolved before the next card is played (which will kill any units who've suffered wounds equal to their strength) or also at the 'end of the battle' which in the rules, explicitly checks again for dead/surviving units.
In the case you listed, therefore, a wound token is removed then added or added then removed, then the unit is only 'checked' later after all cards have been resolved.
This means that if you initiate the mathematics, you might put more than a unit's strength in wound markers on an enemy if you want to guard against the use of animal husbandry.
Since this particular case doesn't matter, the more general answer is this, though there is no stack, the rules say that you take turns playing cards (defender first) and also that battle abilities are played immediately before or after playing a card. This implies that you take turns playing battle abilities, just like cards. After your opponent plays a card and the attack is resolved, you can ask him or her to explicitly give up control to you to play a card (asking them if they are going to use any battle abilities before you declare your action). Once you declare, it's too late to use an ability on you, since it's your control now.


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Snippets of Memory
This installation is by, about, and dedicated to the photographer Andrew Harkins. In May 1992, Andrew was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Through the next year and a half, he documented what was happening to him physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Andrew's artwork, which had focused on people around him, became introspective during his illness.
The framed photographs document Andrew's medical treatments, as well as his search to create some understanding out of this experience. They were conceived by Andrew as a series joining empty hospital spaces with overlapping text recounting what he was experiencing emotionally and medically.
The sculpture books incorporate Andrew's story Paul and the Headache, self portraits, and MRI images. The story, transcribed from tape, is Andrew's retelling of the events surrounding the first weeks of his diagnosis and surgeries. His story is not a factual record, but one that speaks of the confusion of these events for Andrew and those around him.


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The 5 Most Insane Original Uses of Famous Products
Plenty of products we use every day have interesting little back stories to them. For instance, we bet your fourth grade self could find no greater joy than discovering that Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays."
But what is even more interesting than that is how some world-changing inventions were created for a completely different, and often stupid, purpose. For instance ...
#5. Lysol Was a Terrible Gynecological Snake Oil
The next time you get the chance, take a look at the warning label on a bottle of Lysol. The first one that catches the eye is "Do not spray on skin." A close second: "Extremely flammable."
Now, let's play a fun game: Bearing these in mind, see if you can read the rest of this entry without cringing.
Boy, are you doomed to fail.
That wince of sympathetic crotch pain is perfectly natural. Or the onset of a kidney stone.
The Original Use:
There really is no way to put this gently: Lysol used to be peddled as a genital disinfectant for the ladies.
When the product first came out in the 1920s, it was marketed as a feminine hygiene product and, we kid you not, a form of birth control by way of vaginal douching. Lysol ads proclaimed a plethora of benefits for pretty much every gynecological need, making claims that were 100 percent, natural horseshit. The ads were, however, backed up by a bunch of prominent European doctors no one had ever heard about (because they were completely made up). The American Medical Association eventually called the makers of Lysol out, but by then their product had already been the leading form of female birth control from 1930 to 1960.
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Modern ladies, did you know that Lysol stops ghosts from cockblocking you?
The obvious problem that somehow got completely ignored for decades was that Lysol is very much a caustic poison. If you apply it to your skin, which more or less all the women were doing for freaking 30 years, it burns and itches like there is no tomorrow. Which they of course attempted to cure by applying more Lysol. Which got exactly as ugly as you imagine, to the point where words like "severe inflammation" and "fatal" get thrown around.
After the AMA finally put the cork on the genital Lysol, what was left of the company was acquired by Sterling Drug in 1967. The new owners took a look at what had been going on and, presumably after some violent retching, decided to actually take the product's beneficial side (being a kind of good, if poisonous, disinfectant) and apply it to uses it was best suited for (anything that is not a living thing, and especially not a vagina). Lysol found a new life as a cleaner and disinfectant, and scores of confused women found themselves living in a world where they suddenly had to clean floors with something they had been using to clean something else altogether for years. Something that was now clearly marked as being highly toxic.
Ads from 1940s Look Magazine
Lysol's marketing team would go on to successfully promote Chesterfield cigarettes and the Ford Pinto.
#4. Bubble Wrap Used to Be Wallpaper
We would probably live in a much more productive world if it weren't for bubble wrap. In addition to being one of the best products for packaging fragiles, it was everyone's favorite procrastination material before the Internet came along. Popping those air bubbles under your thumbs has to be one of the most satisfying simple pleasures in life.
As soon as the camera's off, she'll toss that bear and go for the bubble wrap.
Hell, even today popping bubble wrap is so addictive they're actually making electronic devices to simulate the experience. Lucky for us, then, that no one thought to make wallpaper out of it or anything. Humanity would've gone extinct in no time, as everyone would've just stayed home, popping their walls ...
... wait, that actually happened?
The Original Use:
The first thing you need to realize is that necessity isn't always the mother of invention -- sometimes inventors just invent something that seems cool, even if they have no idea what to do with it. For instance, aluminum foil was invented by the French in 1903, but nobody figured out that you could wrap food with it until two decades later (before that, they used it to mark racing pigeons). Bubble wrap is like that -- a couple of dudes figured out how to manufacture the stuff, and then they were like, "Well, now what?"
Above: What.
That's when inventors Alfred W. Fielding and Mark Chavannes decided their wondrous new material could be sold as "bubble wallpaper" and they started peddling it for the new, hip generation as the "must have" interior decoration thing. The world took a look at what they had to offer, laughed heartily and didn't even consider buying it (which is weird, because a bubble wrap house is all we can think about now).
Undeterred, Fielding and Chavannes' company Sealed Air set their sights on a new market: greenhouse insulation. It failed miserably once again. And there, the bubble wrap story would have ended ... if it hadn't been for IBM.
It would take a subdivision worth of bubble wrap wallpaper to ship this thing.
The up-and-coming technology giant had just launched their 1401 computer model and needed a way to keep the expensive equipment safe in transport. Fielding and Cavannes noticed that they had a warehouse full of stuff that was essentially tiny airbags, thought "Eh, what do we have to lose?" and somehow managed to convince IBM that the best possible way to keep their incredibly valuable high-tech computers safe was to wrap them in old, unsellable wallpaper. Bubble wrap found its niche as a packaging material and was an instant, huge hit.
Surprisingly, it only saw moderate success as a street drug.
And the rest, friends, is procrastination history. But the really strange thing is this isn't the only time the wallpaper industry has popped out something this huge ...
#3. Play-Doh Was a Wallpaper Cleaner
Perhaps no toy relies more on imagination than Play-Doh. There it sits, a blob, waiting to be fashioned into anything a child can imagine: a snake, a worm, a bowl, an ashtray. A differently shaped blob. Those five things.
Unless you use stencils, the imagination's crutch.
So, of course such an abstract and creativity-enhancing toy must have a really, really weird-ass background to make it on a list like this.
The Original Use:
Wallpaper stain remover. It was a goddamn wallpaper stain remover.
Which primary color best matches "dilapidated"?
Play-Doh came into existence as a nameless, unpleasantly off-white wallpaper-cleaning compound sold by a company called Kutol. However, it hit a speed bump in the form of vinyl wallpapers, which, unlike bubble wrap wallpaper up there, were actually a big thing in the 1950s and played merry hell with the wallpaper-cleaner industry, as they provided consumers with the ability to clean their new wallpaper with just a little water and soap.
This was before they invented "taste."
Their product rendered obsolete, things looked bleak for Kutol -- until they learned by chance that a nursery school was using their remover goop to make Christmas ornaments. Not being ones to look a gift horse in the mouth, or for that matter think things through, Kutol immediately removed the detergents from their goop, renamed themselves the Rainbow Craft Company (despite the product only coming in that fucking off-white color at the time) and began selling their wallpaper remover as a toy.
Eventually, other colors came along and the product was rechristened Play-Doh. And that is how the only toy empire was born from the practice of letting toddlers play with household cleaning chemicals.
Anything that doesn't kill when ingested is halfway to being a great kid's toy.