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Box Score | Game Notes
SAN ANTONIO (October 18, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage (2-3-0-0) dropped their first of 12 matchups this season against divisional rival, the Texas Stars (2-1-1-0), 3-1, on Friday night in front of a crowd of 6,660 at the AT&T Center.
Rampage netminder Dov Grumet-Morris turned aside 33-of-35 shots to earn Third Star of the Game honors on College Night at AT&T Center.
The Rampage penalty kill was perfect on the night, holding Texas to 0-for-7 with the man advantage. San Antonio has now killed 23-of-24 (95.8%) penalties on the year to lead the AHL.
The year's first meeting between the I-35 rivals featured a slew of penalties in the opening minutes, as Rampage defenseman Alex Petrovic went off for high sticking just 2:31 into the opening period. The Texas power was short lived, however, as Chris Mueller was whistled for goaltender interference just 35 seconds after the Petrovic minor. The 4-on-4 dissolved into a 4-on-3 for the Stars, as Vincent Trocheck sat for slashing.
All three penalties were killed by their respective teams, and Grumet-Morris stole the show for the remainder of the period. He made two excellent saves; one on a Mueller shot from the top of the crease, and the second a flashy glove save during a penalty kill late in the period.
The Rampage had a final chance to strike first late in the opening frame when Jyrki Jokipakka went to the box for interference, but were unable to capitalize with the man advantage.
Texas broke the stalemate 1:19 into the second period, when Chris Mueller got a shot past Grumet-Morris from the bottom of the right circle. His goal was his first on the season, and gave the Stars a 1-0 lead.
A San Antonio turnover at their blueline led to what appeared to be a second goal for the Stars. Francis Wathier streaked down the right side, and his rebound was gathered by Taylor Peters, who knocked it past Grumet-Morris. The Texas celebration was cut short as the referees called the play under review, and eventually ruled it no goal due to the kicking motion of Peters' skate that sent the puck over the goal line.
With just over five minutes remaining in the second, Greg Rallo ripped a shot from the right circle that caught the very end of Garrett Wilson's stick. The tip-in proved effective, marking Wilson's first goal of the season and tied the game at 1-1.
However, only 26 seconds later, Grumet-Morris came out of his crease to play the puck, but was dispossessed by Stars winger Brendan Ranford, who fired it past the Rampage goalie and into the open net. The goal, Ranford's first of the year, put the Stars back on top, where they ultimately stayed for the rest of the game.
The Rampage were handed a golden opportunity four and a half minutes into the third in the form of a Brett Ritchie high sticking double minor. Despite the extended power play, the Rampage were unable to cash in. Bobby Butler had the best chance of the power play, but rang a shot off the crossbar from the slot.
The teams continued to exchange penalties in the third period and a Travis Morin empty netter with 21.6 seconds remaining sealed the 3-1 victory for the Stars.
Texas outshot San Antonio, 36-27, on the night. San Antonio finished 0-for-8 on the power play, while Texas was 0-for-7 with the man advantage.
The Rampage travel north to the Cedar Park Center tomorrow (Saturday) night to complete the home-and-home with the Texas Stars. Puck drop for the second of 12 meetings between the two rivals is set for 7 p.m.
Individual and season tickets can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554, or online at sarampage.com.


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Based on an original pattern from the late 1920s, this one-piece, knee-length ladies' day dress comes with the typical 1920s dropped waistline and either long-sleeved or sleeveless. Skirt front is pleated. Collar or collarless options included. Make Skirt and Top in the same fabric or mix and match to suit your fancy.
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Day Dresses in the late 1910s and early 1920s
From the middle of the 19th century, the emphasis of fashion was on the waist. Corsets were employed to make the waistline smaller and crinolines were used to fluff out skirts and increase the visual effect of a tiny waist. Eventually crinolines shifted to the back in the form of bustles and then reduced to mere petticoats under the smooth skirts of the Edwardian period. By the end of the 19th century and the very early years of the 20th, the skirts were no longer large, but the shoulders took their place and were further adorned by shirtwaists with decoration on top of decoration. Marry this to the S-curve corsets that forced the female figure forward and we have a very top-heavy effect occurring in fashion.
By the time of the Great War (World War I), the female silhouette had changed again. Fashions from the Teens were noted for their columnar shape. The columnar shape of the 1910s was profoundly natural compared to the heavilystructured figures of the previous decades. The hourglass-figured women of the previous decade changed their corsets from the Victorian type that made for a small waist to the 1910s version that, like the girdle decades later, slimmed the hips.
After the devastation of the War and the Flu epidemic that followed, social mores changed radically and fashion came to be the outward representation of the far-reachingness of that change. Almost an entire generation of men had been lost and the world was reacting. Servants left their situations and took jobs in factories. Women got the vote and entered the workforce. The restrictive "lady-like" clothing of the Victorian and Edwardian periods were no more.
The tyranny of the corset and wired petticoats had been fading from the fashion scene even before the War. But after it, fashions show a decidedly more natural look. Although corsets were still worn for support, as you can see in the illustration from 1918 above, waistlines were not compressed and skirts fell naturally to the ankles. In the new decade, waistlines were dropped to the level of the hipbones, as seen in the illustration at left from 1921, and the silhouette of women's fashionable clothing became curveless.
Plain as it may seem in black and white line art, the 1920s were in fact a time of colour and decoration. The surfaces of squarely-cut dresses were encrusted with beading and embroidery. Bright shades were used on different parts of dresses to present a cacophony of colour to the viewer. Fine, flowy fabrics such as georgette and chiffon were employed to make every movement of the wearer attract interest. And wildly printed fabrics didn't let down the eye.
Fashions of the early 1920s, like those shown in the illustration at left, may seem almost juvenile to modern eyes. But we must remember that fashion was rebelling against the serious, possibly "adult" world that got us into World War I. People had had enough death and destruction. It was a time to throw off one's cares and live life to the fullest. This devil-may-care feeling is transmitted by the dropped-waist, schoolgirl garments worn at this time. Hats were worn low over the brow and hair was cut short. Skirts rose to mid-calf level, but were minus the pantaloons of children's outfits in the previous period.
It was not until the middle of the decade that the knee-length "flapper dress" came into fashion. After centuries of women's dresses covering the shoes, or at least the ankles, the idea that a woman's knees might show was a shock to all. Even famed risk-taker and fashion designer Coco Chanel thought that a woman's knees shouldn't show. (She thought them a particularly unattractive part of the female anatomy.) These short dresses still employed the dropped waist of the earlier part of the decade. But instead of taking elements from children's clothing, menswear was the inspiration here (also thanks to Coco Chanel). Dress bodices that resembled men's shirts were worn and skirts often took on fabrics from the haberdashery. Even women's shoes were modeled vaguely along the lines of men's footwear.
- Arnold, Janet. Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction c 1850-1940. 1977: McMillan, London and Basingstoke.
- Blum, Stella. Everyday Fashions of the Twenties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs. 1981: Dover, NY.
- Laubner, Ellie. Fashions of the Roaring '20s. 1996: Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, Pennsylvania.
- Payne, Blanche. History of Costume. 1965: Harper Collins, New York.
- Skinner, Tina and Lindy McCord. Flapper Era Fashions from the Roaring '20s. 2004: Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, Pennsylvania.
- Waugh, Norah. Cut of Women's Clothes 1600-1930. 1968: Routledge, New York.
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A Meeting of Past and Present
Heaven, Hell And the History Of Punch
Grounds for Sculpture
Through April 2013
Hamilton, N.J.
'Heaven, Hell, and the History of Punch," the title of Robert Taplin's arresting survey show at Grounds for Sculpture, is not simply a provocative phrase designed to draw visitors to the sculpture park and exhibition center in this New Jersey suburb. Rather, it is an accurate catalog of the wide-ranging themes of the works included—although "the heavens" might have been more accurate, if less catchy, than "heaven." More important, the unlikely string of nouns is also an effective equivalent for the hard-to-pin-down character of Mr. Taplin's sculpture itself.
His compelling narrative works, at once deeply personal and dispassionate, are figurative, illusionistic and rooted equally in contemporary actuality, the history of art from antiquity to the present, canonical literature, and the mass media. Unignorable, nonironic associations with the fundamental texts and images of Western culture resonate with things we've just seen on the news, all of it enacted by figures whose disposition and formal relationships are driven by acute sculptural intelligence. Despite Mr. Taplin's desire to suggest stories, he never resorts to illustration or settles for received ideas about the body; instead, he is wholly engaged by the expressive potential of manipulating masses in space, while keeping us off balance intellectually.
In "Heaven, Hell, and the History of Punch," these ambitions first manifest themselves in "The Five Outer Planets" (2004), a group of paired male nudes—one twin opaque, cast in pale gypsum; the other translucent with internal lighting—representing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Ranging from twice life-size to two-thirds life-size, in approximation of the relative sizes of the planets, the pairs float, tumble, swim and crouch in a darkened space, the illuminated figures glowing while the solids dissolve into shadow.
Mr. Taplin describes the installation as "part planetarium, part pagan temple." Yet though the classical origins of the planets' names—the mythical conflict between the Olympian gods and their parent Titans—clearly provoked his personification of heavenly bodies as heroic male nudes, the beefy figures seem contemporary. "I thought of the Titans as having lived a long time, aging, thickening, with mileage on them," Mr. Taplin says. The immortals, improbably suspended above us, are impressive and timeless, weary and of the moment, once powerful but going to seed. Ancient Greek prototypes and people we've seen at the gym coexist in these eloquent figures.
A similar conflation of past and present obtains in "Everything Imagined Is Real (After Dante)" (2007-09), nine tableaux inspired by "The Inferno," installed in massive, wooden, confessional-scaled structures. We peer into their dimly lit interiors, sometimes looking down into secret spaces, sometimes disoriented by distorted perspectives and scale shifts. Small, agile figures dressed in today's casual clothing—the poet, his guide Virgil and the characters they encounter on the journey through the underworld—evoke the mood of Dante's cantos in modern terms. Mr. Taplin finds parallels between today's political unrest and international disasters, and Dante's visions of the damned, reminding us that "The Inferno" was itself a metaphor for early 14th-century politics. But the result is never literal. The otherworldliness of Mr. Taplin's images is announced by the monochrome pallor of his figures; only Dante, who belongs to the living, is polychromed.
Studying the tableaux, we become aware of what cannot be seen—things out of our line of sight, indecipherable, or lost in darkness. The exception is the largest and sole free-standing piece: the celebrated moment, painted by Delacroix, among many others, when Dante and Virgil cross the River Styx. Their boat tilts ominously over the edge of the supporting plinth, as Virgil repels a would-be boarder. Yet here, too, Mr. Taplin plays with our perceptions, adjusting scales slightly and blurring detail.
Works from the continuing "History of Punch" series (2005-12) also confound our faith in what we see. Mr. Taplin departs from the celebrated drawings of Punch's ancestor, the commedia dell'arte figure Punchinello, by Giandomenico Tiepolo (son of Giambattista). Mr. Taplin imagines Punch, young and mature, traditionally costumed, in modern situations: shopping with his pant-suited mother, at a stag party, watching television, as a homeless person. Cast in sugary white resin, the small, complex groupings conjure up everything from the animated figures on Romanesque capitals (Mr. Taplin was originally trained as a medieval-art historian) to Renaissance bronzes to 18th-century figurines to Edgar Degas's bronze bathers, while remaining wholly in the present.
Suggestive as the enigmatic narratives are, it's the sculptural qualities of the groups that distinguish them—the way, for example, the extended limbs of Punch and his companions define geometric chunks of space. But the closer we look, the less detail we find. Despite their apparent specificity, Mr. Taplin's figures, like much of the best Romanesque sculpture, threaten to become abstractions.
Outdoors, over-life-size versions of two "History of Punch" sculptures broaden the discussion. "The Young Punch Goes Shopping With His Mother" (2010), far more detailed and crisply articulated than its small relative, was enlarged by the artist himself. "At this scale," he says, "I needed more incident." The digitally enlarged version of "Punch Is Homeless" (2012), nearby, is remarkably economical. The chunky figure with a shopping cart loaded with bulging bags is as "abstracted" as the foot-tall sculpture on which it was based. Mr. Taplin is fascinated by the difference.
"I'm interested," he says, "in representational images whose logic doesn't necessarily follow the logic of the thing they represent—representations that give you what you think you see all at once, but you don't." The works in "Heaven, Hell, and the History of Punch" do just that.
Ms. Wilkin writes about art for the Journal.


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I have $P(t) = 1-(1-R^{-t})^N$ which is the probability that I need more than t operations in my algorithm, t is a random variable then, I can assign a probability to it.
Why is it that the sum of probabilities of t
is the average value for that variable? I mean: the formula for the average value of a random variable is:
$E[X]=\sum\limits_{i=1}^\infty{x_i p_i}$
but since my random variable is "I need more than t elements", which is its value $p_i$?
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value#Discrete_random_variable.2C_countable_case )


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Suppose I have a datastore comprising many databases. For the purposes of this question, let's assume
MySQL, but I suspect it might apply to many technologies. The stored records aren't particularly special. They're not credit card numbers, financial transactions, or any type of data covered by existing American law or particular compliance levels. They are, however, production.
From time to time, users, be they developers, data quality specialists, or support personnel, need access to the data store. Traditionally, credentials were handled with RO users, but that method is inherently insecure insofar as the passwords require frequent rotation, whenever someone leaves the company or the credentials simply age. Most times, users need temporary access -- an afternoon, day, or week at most. Temporary credentials are a perfect fit, but a nightmare to manage by hand.
How can I effectively grant and revoke temporary access to my datastore, preferably programmatically? I can envision any number of scripts that leverage, say, a highly privileged user to add and drop temporary users, but it all feels like reinventing a wheel that should already roll. Google results are surprisingly unhelpful here, making me think the problem is either too easy to discuss or too difficult to solve.


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I have been using Android for the last week.
I have Opera for browsing. I download videos from a website directly thru Opera. While downloading it asks me whether to open the video in Opera or default video player of my mobile.
Accidentally I once clicked on the "make it default" option and it was directly streamed to the video player. After this it never open in my Opera to download.
Because of this I can't download videos into my mobile. If I try to search the name of the video player I cant find it. And please help to restore as it was before.


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Is there a specific such creature, with a name for it and description, in any lore or game?
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In D&D 3/3.5e there is a creature called a Dragonnel (p.151-152 of the Draconomicon). While not strictly a half-horse/half-dragon it serves the purpose being essentially a winged steed that very much looks like a scaly horse with dragon wings. It also has a little bit more background then the templates below.
Both D&D 3x and Pathfinder have the half-dragon template which entirely applies to horses D20SRD/Pathfinder SRD.
Pathfinder Bestiary 2 also has a creature called a Dragon Horse however this is not a draconic creature but merely a horse that flies. The Dragon Horse is also in the Tome of Horrors (Complete for Pathfinder rules, Revised(p.167) for D&D rules). It looks like the Bestiary 2 version is probably based partially off of this and the original Gary Gygax version.
I can't think of anything closer then those for D&D/Pathfinder.
Edit: Was perusing Dragon Magic last night and there is another dragon/horse hybrid that might work: the Drakkensteed. Best link I could find talking about it is here.
The Qilin or Kirin is a creature of Chinese mythology that has been described in various ways, one of which is a half-dragon, half-horse or half-deer.
The "Ki-rin" appears in the (A)D&D monster manuals as early as 1st edition AD&D's Monster Manual (1977), where it is depicted as a scaled, Chinese-dragon-headed, hoofed equine that flies but is wingless (much like Chinese dragons). In D&D they are very rare and very intelligent, and as likely to serve as mounts as Western unicorns, i.e., not very often at all.
sounds like something out of Gamma world O_O


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I have a ubuntu desktop on my home network which has a lot of files that i'd like to play on my tv. I have a logitec reveue (google tv) which is capable of streaming media on the lan.
So, I'm looking for recommendation on applications that can start a media service on my lan (like windows media center) so that the google tv can play files from that server.


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If you're taking your kids trick-or-treating, must you wear a costume too?
For those parents that will be escorting their young children out trick-or-treating, are you going to dress up too? Do you think it's a must? Or do you think it's a children's holiday and you're too old for all that mess? But more importantly, what's your cut of the candy haul for being their bodyguard?
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No costume. Dump all candy on the table, pull out the trash. Then the 2 adults take 1 piece each. Then 1 child, then the other. Next round the 2 adults take, but the kids switch who picks first. This repeats 10-15 times (or more if there is lots of high quality candy). The unselected candy goes in a bag to put out at work.
I have worn a costume some years and not worn one other years. As far as candy went, my daughter was allowed to eat as much candy as she could before she went to bed that night. Candy that was left over went to work for my employees the next day.
{FWIW: My daughter has ADHD, and candy still (at 18 yo) is not a good idea. Candy in my house was extremely limited, but I baked all the time, so it wasn't really missed.}
I don't wear a costume when I take my kids because I end up having to carry one by the end of the night (4,3,2 last year) and don't want to carry them with a costume on but I might later when they get older.
I take the kit-kat's and they can have the rest.
We didn't dress up when we took the kids Trick or Treating. We also didn't take their candy, in fact we loaded a couple of handfuls of chocolate from our distribution bowl into their bags before they headed out. The wife always buys too much candy and we always have leftovers for the next several weeks.
I usually have some Hershey Special Dark or something else for the more mature palette to give out to parents with good costumes. So it is not required, but beneficial.
I think the Dads that half-ass it and just throw on a crappy plastic cape or a dumb mask look out of place. When I take my kids I usually drop a little coin on a decent mask or put some thought into my outfit. Last year I found a really high end Homer Simpson mask. I threw on some blue leisure pants and a white collared shirt I found at Goodwill and supplied my own fat. This year I bought the horse head from @deals.woot and bought this ill fitting 1970's tuxedo from the Goodwill.
My neighborhood is pretty festive instead of handing out candy to the parents, a few guys will toss you a cold one or give you a refill out of their keg. So I'm feeling pretty good before I get back home.
Must? No. It is more fun with a costume.
Candy cut? You don't get a cut! You have money and can buy your own candy when you want it.
@dontwantaname: Amen. I always stayed at the curb - no costume - and waited. My daughter went through what she had collected and put aside that which she did not like. We would put them in a bowl to be eaten by anyone who wanted them . It was, of course, usually I.
We get about 200+ kids at our house. Setting up the front porch and dressing up is a must if you come over. So far the best of my costumes have been Domo, glow-stick man and Spaceghost. Glow stick man was a big hit because i would jump out of a bush and start throwing glow sticks at all the kids. As far as the candy. We inspect then let my daughter have her pick. We then take a few of what we like. I usually make out the most because I love all the "crappy" candy.
I don't have kids but I took my nephews out a few times when I was visiting my sister's family over Halloween. I never wore a costume. Wasn't really expected in their neighborhood.
My little nephew has always been great about sharing his candy with me. It helps that he thinks I'm just about the coolest person in the world and that he really prefers gun, lollipops and other hard candy while I like chocolate. One year, when I got home, I found a few chocolate bars in a ziploc bag in my duffle bag. I didn't put them there. I can only assume the little guy snuck them in as a surprise for me to find when I got home.
As a porch sitting candy giver - I think that unless you are going to "bring it" - don't dress up. If you do go for it, however, we may be forthcoming with a beer/mike's/whatever we have in the cooler.
We don't have kids, but we went trick-or-treating with friends and their kids last year. We dressed up, our friends didn't :(
@thumperchick: And your address is......? ;)
@jsimsace: Ask @meh3884 - my stalker :) But my place is easy to spot - all members of my household (2 adults, 2 dogs) plus whoever stops by, drinking on the creepy front porch with a door that yells at you and creepy haunted sounds that play as you walk up.
I usually put on a costume to answer the door, so I think it is nice when the escorts dress up. Not required, though. This year I thin that I'll take out my Obi-Wan costume from a few years ago.


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How can timelapse sequences be shot without having in-camera support for it?
Which third-party tools are recommended?
How can timelapse sequences be shot without having in-camera support for it?
Which third-party tools are recommended?
I have a Canon TC80N3, which works as a remote shutter, can do hundred of exposures at a timed interval (aka time lapse), a long delay before taking a shot, and very long exposures (ie, greater than 30 seconds that the camera can do).
They seem to be quite difficult to get new nowadays - but they do have them on eBay.
Even though most cameras don't support it by themselves, many times it's possible when you connect them to a computer and use vendor-supplied software. For example Canon EOS utility should be able to do time lapse.
There are a number of remote shutter release devices with time lapse capabilities. I cannot recommend any specific, partly because I never used one of them myself, and also because I do not know what camera you have.
For Nikon SLRs, have a look at this blog post:
These tools do however require you to have a PC available nearby... I'm still looking for an Android app!
It seems there's a slew of free and commercial software available that will capture images on a timelapse basis. I've used Apple's Quicktime Pro on Windows to successfully create videos from image sequences.
gPhoto is capable of this, and supports a huge variety of cameras.
For one exposure every minute, this command will do the trick:
Granted, not everyone has a Linux or BSD machine sitting around to run this, but it's a perfect option for those who do.
I've started using TriggerTrap Mobile, an iOS app, which provides basic and complex intervalometer settings as well as a variety of other trigger types, and it works with a variety of cameras just by using the correct cable.
I haven't tried their TriggerTrap v1 product, but it also looks pretty slick, and is again compatible with a variety of cameras just by using the correct cable.
You can find pretty cheap intervalometers here : http://www.linkdelight.com/camera-remote-controls.html Also if you have a compatible Canon reflex, you caqn install Magic Lantern on it : http://magiclantern.wikia.com
Adding an updated answer for Canons, I am going to suggest the answer of How to programme EOS utility to take n number of shots?
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UPDATE: As predicted, YouTube yanked the other upload of this video that I happened to find within 24 hours. You can watch it here on Vimeo – from the actual director's page. (WARNING: This music video contains explicit, violent images)
This new M.I.A. video "Born Free" is something you have to watch, let roll around in your mind for a few hours, watch again, etc. Rinse, repeat.
In a nutshell, it's a graphic political video that doesn't hold back. A group of American soldiers storm through buildings and apartments searching for someone, and beating anyone who gets in their way. And who are they looking for? It turns out to be a resistant, young, white redheaded man. It becomes clear soon after that redheaded males are the only targeted group – and there's an army-driven bus full of them. Ultimately, they are being driven off to be massacred.
One thing that this explicit video makes me think of is how the reign of MTV – and music television in general – is over. Not surprisingly, this video was primarily heard about through viral online tactics. As I've said before, the new music video platform is the internet. And what can you get away with on the internet? That's right: Everything.
Sure, Marilyn Manson shocked everyone in the 90s when he released, for example, "The Dope Show" on MTV. But compare that to this M.I.A. video or the new Erykah Badu video and Manson just looks silly. I mean, the dude is only walking around in an alien body suit that gives him breasts…But this new wave of videos – these are forms of art that feel like they matter and are standing up for something. Artists are making statements not because they want to out-shock each other, but because they're genuinely pissed off or impassioned. They are screaming to be heard.
As for M.I.A.'s video itself, there's so much you could say. But I'll give my first impressions. The choice of redheaded men as the target is the first thing to boggle your mind. Why them? It's obviously symbolic in one way, or possibly in every way. You could say they represent Jewish people. You could say they represent Palestinians (and it's interesting to note that the redheads attacking the bus are wearing red and white keffiyehs, most often associated with Jordan).
But for me what's striking about this video isn't who's on the bus, but who's not on the bus. People of color. Women. Girls. Blonde people. Dark-haired people. Old people. The only people targeted are light-skinned, redheaded boys and young men. But are M.I.A. and French director Romain Gavras trying to draw our attention to everyone who is and has been persecuted by marking their absence?
Another way to look at it is that it's meant to make us realize how ridiculous profiling is. By asking, "Why the hell target redheaded young men?", you might as well be asking, "Why the hell target Jewish people? Black people? Japanese people? Muslim people? Hispanic people?" The list goes on. The point being: There's never a good reason for ethnic cleansing, prejudice, and profiling. It is never humane and it is never justified. And what good timing on M.I.A.'s part – just days after Arizona demands that Hispanics (or, sorry, only illegal immigrants…) show them their papers.
As for the artist herself, I do know this: Anyone who thought M.I.A. was done was horribly, horribly wrong. Long gone are the days of overplayed and eventually mediocre "Paper Planes." M.I.A. does not just exist for you to announce that no one has "swagger" like you. This is why M.I.A. exists – to scream out against the world's injustices. So get ready. 'Cause it's gonna get loud.


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Jamie Meyer, known rockstar, will get in your face and tell you how it is and take your night over and everything you thought was right and true
Are you bigtiming me bro?
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The Act of screening a phone call with caller id and not taking the call.
"I called you three times yesterday, what are you Big Timing me?"
"You better not Big Time me when I call, asshole!"
"You better not Big Time me when I call, asshole!"
by k-10 August 09, 2006
The Act of intentionally being late or too busy for others
You were really stuck in traffic...I thought you were just Big Timing me.
by Prime-Time July 10, 2009
Walking in to a party full of people you know and saying hi to none of them.
You see Favareau over there? Been here for hours and hasn't even glanced at anything but his blackberry. That big timing ass motherfucker.
by RangerXT February 01, 2010


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Can someone indicate me a good introductory text on geometric group theory?
de la Harpe's book is quite nice and has an amazing bibliography, but it doesn't really prove any deep theorems (though it certainly discusses them!). Some other sources.
1) Bridson and Haefliger's book "Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature". Very easy to read and covers a lot of ground.
2) Ghys and de la Harpe's book on hyperbolic groups. Another classic, but in French. If you look around the web, you can find English translations.
3) Cannon's survey "Geometric Group Theory" in the Handbook of Geometric Topology is very nice.
4) Bowditch's survey "A course on geometric group theory" is also very nice.
5) Bridson has written two beautiful surveys entitled "Non-Positive Curvature in Group Theory" and "The Geometry of the Word Problem". The latter was one of the first things I read in any depth.
6) Geoghegan's "Topological Methods in Group Theory" is very nice, with a more topological approach.
7) Mike Davis's "The Geometry and Topology of Coxeter Groups" is a bit specific, but covers a lot of important material in a nice way.
8) John Meier's book "Groups, Graphs and Trees: An Introduction to the Geometry of Infinite Groups" is well-written and pretty gentle.
A classic, but perhaps not as "geometric" as contemporary sources, is Lyndon and Schupp's Combinatorial Group Theory (named after the classic Combinatorial Group Theory, by Magnus, Karrass, and Solitar).
Pierre de la Harpe's "Topics in Geometric Group Theory" is, to be fair, the only book I know relatively well so I can't compare it to others. Anyway, I do like it - the writing style is pleasant and it gets to some non-trivial results, including a fairly complete review of the Grigorchuk group.
What about this wonder:
Peter Scott, Terry Wall, Topological methods in group theory, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 36, Cambridge Univ. Press (1979) 137-203.
simply beauty and useful
A book I quite like is Bogopolski's Introduction to Group Theory. It's not really an introduction (at least at undergraduate level), but it covers some things that aren't covered in the books above, particularly automorphisms of free groups and it has more Bass-Serre theory than anything I've read that's mentioned in the other answers.
I also want to add a dissenting opinion on de la Harpe's book. I think it's quite disappointing, given that it's the first real textbook since geometric group theory went beyond combinatorial group theory.
There is a very nice book related to the topic - "Word processing in groups" by David Epstein. It covers some stuff about the combinatorial aspects of geometric group theory, e.g. automatic groups, combable groups etc.
My personal favorite learner (not a reference) for geometric group theory is John Stalling's notes from a course that he gave at Berkeley about a decade ago. It's terse, since they are just lecture notes, but I like his style of exposition and there are many examples to work through in the exercises, which I found helpful.
It's not an introductory text, but if you're trying to get a feel for the area you could look at the GGT Open Problems Wiki. It's still rather incomplete and patchy; a more coherent and shorter alternative is Bestvina's Problem List.
discrete groups by Kenichi Oshika is one of my favorites


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Exclusive: Al Gore On His 'Climate Realilty Project' Launch: "It's Urgent To Rendezvous With Reality To Save The Future Of Civilization As We Know It."
Today, Former Vice President Gore launched The Climate Reality Project "to broadcast the reality of the climate crisis and mobilize citizens to help solve it."
In an exclusive extended interview with Climate Progress, the Nobel-Prize winning champion of climate action discussed the "24 Hours of Reality" — a worldwide, live streamed event this September. He explained to CP why he strongly disagrees with those who suggest we are talking about climate change too much and and why he is making the link between extreme weather and global warming a major focus of his effort.
Let's start with why he launched The Climate Reality Project, and why he changed the name of his effort from Alliance for Climate Protection. The short answer is that the goal of the group is to explain that the impacts of human-caused climate change are reality now (much as the solutions to human-caused climate change are reality now):
Gore: Well it really grew out of an extensive strategic review. The change in the name is intended to reflect the organization's new strategic focus and our new campaign to provide context to the ongoing disclosure of scientific information – to defend the scientists, to defend the science. And to bring energy and focus to the climate issue by reaffirming the reality of the climate crisis and the urgency of the climate crisis.
We have a number of strategic moves coming up, the first of which I want to tell you about in this call. And we wanted to introduce the new name of the organization before launching the new strategic initiative.
Of course as you know extremely well, the whole presentation by the deniers, and large carbon polluters and their ideological allies, has depended on their efforts to undermine the credibility of the science. And toward that end they have slandered these scientists by implying and sometimes baldly stating the accusation that they are distorting and manufacturing science in order to win more research grants. Alternatively, the scientists are often accused of having a secret political agenda as some of the leaders in the denier community have argued – and the whole climate crisis is just a ruse to enact a political agenda. And of course both of those overlapping accusations are absurd as well as insulting and fraudulent.
In any case, the reality of the climate crisis continues to unfold irrespective of what these attacks are, but as you also know extremely well, it's urgent to rendezvous with reality in order to take the appropriate steps to save the future of civilization as we know it. That sounds like an expansive goal, but that's really now what we're facing. This crisis is very threatening, very urgent. We know the solutions require broad changes and we know it's a fight that won't be won overnight. And the politics, the campaigns, the media cycle, will all ebb and flow on this issue. But the reality of the crisis marches on. If we keep focusing on that reality, it is only a matter of time before we reach a tipping point with the public, beyond which inaction is no longer an option.
Gore then went on to preview the series of global events that will take place September 14th and 15th, what they are calling "24 Hours of Reality." Details of the event are on the website here:
Gore: It will cover a 24-hour period. And I'm preparing a brand new 30 minute multimedia presentation. A keynote slideshow with video and other features that will focus in part on the connection between the extreme weather events all around the world and the climate crisis. And it will begin on September 14th, in prime time, central time zone from Mexico City, and then it will move West to the next time zone over, and continue through all 24 time zones, ending the following evening, in prime time, in New York City where I will give the last of the 24 presentations.
Each site where a presentation originates will have basically the same 30 minute slide show, but with slides used in each time zone that illustrate particular impacts and particular efforts towards solutions at the venue representing than that time zone. And then the second thirty minutes of each hour will include a panel discussion focused on the climate crisis and the solutions to it from the perspective of leaders and scientists and others in that particular location. So it will be a 24-hour event.
I'll host it from New York City, but really all 23 of the other presenters and I will host our respective presentations. And we have a lot of work underway. There will be 13 languages involved, and we have a lot of work that's bearing fruit for the events in each of the locations. And this will be designed to present the full truth, scope, and impact of the climate crisis and discuss the solutions to it and again it will be the first of a series of large events that we will hold multiple times a year to mobilize the public around actions to solve the climate crisis. Each global event will focus on a different facet of the crisis and its solutions. And we're pretty excited about it.
Back in April, I interviewed the Vice President about his spectacular interactive digital book, "Our Choice," on climate solutions. There was one part of that interview I didn't get around to posting, but which is relevant now:
CP: There are people out there saying, "Well we should stop talking about climate change and we should be talking about other things like energy security." And you have been consistent in talking about the climate. And you write a lot in the book about behavior change and persuasion. I'd be interested in your thoughts about people who think we're talking too much about climate change.
Gore: Well, I simply and strongly and vigorously disagree. The scale and magnitude of the changes that are necessary to solve the climate crisis mean that all of the collateral reasons for taking these steps will not get us to where we need to go without a clear understanding of what we're facing if we don't act. I think it's a mistake to move that to the periphery of the conversation as so many have done. I think it has to be the heart of the conversation.
And as you know, change is not always linear, the tipping point metaphor really does apply here. The potential for change builds up unmanifested until it achieves enough critical mass to break through the barriers holding it back. I am even more convinced that we are close to that tipping point. I worried in the past, Joe that the absorption of so much heat in the oceans, which turn over so slowly, put the heat back in after a long time delay, would mean that we have a great danger of overshooting the window for solutions, before we get there, but the impact on the hydrological system with the large downpours and stronger storms, the deeper droughts and associated fires and food price increases and a number of other manifestations related to the impact on the hydrological system is accelerating the recognition by millions more people every month that we've got act on this.
This manifestation of climate change now is ultimately what lends urgency to Gore's actions. Human-caused climate change is harming people now — and that's with only a very small amount of warming to date. We are poised to warm 10 times as much this century if we don't act swiftly.
Yesterday, I asked him specifically about the extreme weather issue, one of the subjects I have covered the most at Climate Progress:
CP: Obviously, we both talk a lot about the connection between global warming and climate change, making extreme events more likely, more water vapor in the atmosphere, but it gets a lot of pushback, you know, from the deniers and their allies in the media. I'm just wondering how you plan to talk about this and get over this threshold of talking about a subject that is so rife with complexity.
Gore: Well of course, and the truth is we've passed the threshold beyond which it's any longer credible to say that the climate crisis is not a factor in a great many of these extreme weather events. I have paid very careful attention to the way Jim Hansen and Kevin Trenberth and other leading climate scientists have shifted the way in which they frame this connection. The old way of responding to questions about the linkage between the climate crisis and extreme weather events was to begin with the rote language of course every extreme weather event has many causes and you cannot say any one of them was caused by the climate crisis. But both Jim and Kevin, as well as others, have gone to some lengths to reframe that characterization by saying, if you ask the question "would this have happened in this way without the climate crisis?" the answer is almost certainly no.
For more on Hansen's thinking, see NASA's Hansen: Would recent extreme "events have occurred if atmospheric carbon dioxide had remained at its pre-industrial level of 280 ppm?" The "appropriate answer" is "almost certainly not."
The very fact that there's 4% more water vapor in the atmosphere above the oceans and extra water vapor over land masses, though not quite in that percentage, the fact that these storms reach out 2000 miles, often, and use water vapor as fuel for the storms means that every event is affected. There's more water vapor, the shift upward in global temperatures also has an effect. So the predictions made years ago are now consistent with what we're seeing in reality. And the predictions of what lies ahead, of these trends to become much much worse, unless we intervene in this pattern of adding 90 million tons of heat trapping pollution every 24 hours. And I think we're at the point where we can't tolerate the easy denial that there's no connection between global warming pollution and global warming impacts in the form of more extreme weather events.
For more on Trenberth's thinking, see "NCAR's Trenberth on the link between global warming and extreme deluges."
For all of the rhetoric and ideological arguments, many of them manufactured by the deniers, the crisis continues to worsen. And the reality is clear to see right in front of our eyes. And my home Nashville is one of the victims. And the 12 months just ended have seen more extreme weather events than anyone can remember. And Swiss Re , one of the largest re-insurance agencies is among one of those who is like "look, the science is consistent with what we are seeing happen in the world." That's not an ideologically motivated statement. They're not looking for research grants. They're looking at real world data – that's their business.
Somewhere between 97 and 98 percent of all the climate scientists in the world agree with that consensus, every national academy of science in the world, every professional scientific association in every field connected to the study of climate. At what point do we conclude that that's really enough to outweigh the eccentric arguments of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, I mean come on!
Precisely. The Vice President and I also talked about solutions, but I'll leave that for another post.
Below are earlier comments from the Facebook commenting system:
Testify, brother. Testify.
Good on V.P. Gore…
"Hay Obama, lead the Nation…
Give us Climate Education…"
I never thought Al Gore would be my idol….but he is!
July 12 at 12:30pm
Al Gore has become my idol. He is trying to single handedly save our planet. If just the USA would listen and contribute the world will be a better place for our childeren!
July 12 at 12:34pm
The proof is in the pudding barbarrossa. Saying people are mindless is just being closed minded. I do green retrofitting for a living. The science shows that the numbers are correct. Who cares if he is not single handedly saving the planet, what have you done to help the planet on a larger scale besides putting your recycling on your curb every week? At least Gore is making an effort. It seems your problems are with the druids, not with Al Gore.
July 12 at 9:21pm
" OAKES, N.D. – Cleanup is ongoing here after Sunday night's storm, which included 81-mph winds that caused a 10,000-gallon diesel spill near here.
"It's just a mess," Charles Russell, Dickey County director of emergency services, said Monday. "The (agricultural) damage alone is in the millions – elevators, grain bins, personal farm equipment." –
Heavy June flooding in China has caused $5.4 billion in economic losses, while the Philippines and the US also face hefty damage bills following catastrophic events, according to research by reinsurance broker Aon Benfield.
Rains and floods across southern and central China last month had a direct impact on at least 37 million people, killing nearly 200 people and damaging or destroying more than 500,000 homes, Aon Benfield said in its monthly catastrophe risk report.
Colorado Bob, I count on you rendezvous-ing with reality all the time!
July 12 at 4:11pm
Joan –
What I once saw , in the course of weeks, now comes by the hour. All of it is running throttle wide open. The tach-o-meter is red-lined. and to Al I say , what I said to the deniers 5 years ago at the Vine.
"Observed Events" boys "Observed Events".
July 12 at 8:13pm
My point happened last night. West of Childress , Texas. They have been ground zero for this heat , their first 100F degree day this year came in April , they are into over 40 days above 100F.
I have the OKC radar from last night. 10.75 inches fell just west of them. In a very short period of time. The sky unzips, the water falls down.
2 inches just fell on the largest fire in Arizona history. Guess what black foam comes down the mountain first. Then rocks and water the size of your head. follows.
July 12 at 8:29pm
And now, I will make that screen grab out of OKC, because it is a big deal , and I am recording it.
July 12 at 8:33pm
It was 102F on April 3rd at Childress airport , the first of 3 such days that month. When the NYT's writes of the heat coming early, that's how early it came.
July 12 at 8:44pm
Childress has 46 days of these this season , today that rain broke a streak , it was 99F there.
July 12 at 8:47pm
It rained like hell West of them, but they didn't get a drop. Completely normal for them. But now the big numbers are 117F and 10.75 inches, newer, bigger numbers.
July 12 at 8:55pm
Nobody has had their brains beat in this year ,like the radar out Paducah, Kentucky. Have a look tonight …..
6 inches near Bowling Green. These doppler numbers are very good.
I now have several that match what's being caught in rain gauges.
July 12 at 9:12pm
Since the rainy season started on June 22 in Seoul, the city has received more than 600 millimeters of rainfall, about four times the average and about half an average year's total precipitation.
In Seoul, it has rained for 15 of the last 20 days.
This is fantastic. I'm ready to sign up to do whatever it takes. Totally agree that we have to stay on message–loud and clear. As you have, Joe. Climate Hawk is a great turn of phrase. Otherwise we give the opposition the chance to define the argument. Right on! (As we used to say).
Kevin Trenberth*.
I am really excited for 9/14!
ps your twitter link isn't working properly you have to shorten the address! d
This is exactly the right message. Climate change is happening now – and it is affecting you and everyone else alive today. It is a fight for our lives.
I see some call Gore a Hypocrite. And ask why they should believe in Climate.
Why take Gore's word? Look at the science- is Gore a climate scientist- or is does he have a message as a private citizen?
Look to Dr. Mann, Dr. Alley, Dr. Oppenheimer. Dr. Masters, Dr. Trenberth and Dr. Hansen- all highly trained physicists/climate /atmospheric scientists who say the same thing Gore is saying.
Do some have a political agenda? Or do they look at the science- or the personality- of Gore?
Extreme Heat Bakes Much of the U.S.
U.N. Security Council to Take Up Climate Change.
Publication of deliberately false climate change data literally ought — i.e., MUST — be treated, not as a peccadillo, but as a Crime Against Humanity. My remark here is not an expression of an emotion, but of an intellectual and humanitarian reaction of a scientist to falsification of data that could be as bad in its effect as long-term global warming itself, by permitting the latter to thrive, and acquire an egregious and panhumanly disastrous momentum. If this were World War III such people would be shot, and with far, far greater warrant than even those human catastrophes.
A scientist is a kind of Protective Angel for Humanity. Why? Simply because he lives and breathes for Truth.
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As for the falsifiers of data, or criminal social parasites, let me switch from the second to the first of my scientific careers, long ago at M.I.T., where I was — a then VERY rare! — theorist in neuroscience, trying to make sense of the human brain as a whole and all the astonishing behavior and abilities it gives rise to. A SIDE interest of mine, then and later, was the queer and baffling, and decidedly chilling, phenomenon of the psychopath, a.k.a. sociopath. The essential trait of such people is that have little or no conscience, and yet they can be at the same time profoundly convincing to the layman — i.e., virtually all of us.
The incidence of these curious and horrific people in the body of the whole of humanity is estimated to be of the order of 1/200. This is misleading, however, because the pathology is a matter of degree, or properly illustrated by an intensity-frequency curve. To put it simply, a psychopath can and does lie without a blink, either external or internal. And often does so for profit or simply out of total indifference to the harm he works upon the innocent and the virtuous. I have little doubt that the purveyors of purposefully, and dangerously, falsified Global Warming data ARE in many instances psychopaths, whose falsifications tend to put ALL of us at risk. Even heads of great corporations can be, in various ways and degrees, psychopathic. (Psychopathy probably had some partly useful — personal OR social — function in the long-ago past of Homo sapiens. It is certainly common enough in our politicians nowadays!)
Two decades ago I was neutral, but skeptical, about global warming. Later I realized that we simply could not tolerate the risks it potentially posed.
One does not play games, or take chances, when essentially the whole of civilization and humanity MAY be in peril. None of us can escape from the need for such caution, and where even the very survival of our species over Eternity may just be confronted with the possibility of extinction through carelessness or ignorance, or a shallow and selfish morality, or ideology or skepticism, or a universal involvement in petty and personal disputes between men fighting in diapers. (Phenomena we have seen often enough in World Wars and in Wars Ancient, but no less pathetic and mindless.) In short, All of the Future hangs by a single tenuous thread from each and ever Present. — Patrick Michael Gunkel (Princeton, NJ).
Is climate science disinformation a crime against humanity?
Deeply irresponsible corporate-sponsored programmes of disinformation have potentially harsh effects upon tens of millions of people.
Our body temperature is about 37 degrees. If you increase it by two degrees, 39, you have fever. If you have add four degrees, it is 41 – you are dead – Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber PIK Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research http://tiny.cc/ztonm
July 12 at 9:02pm
This is a battle for science, for the future of our civilization, for the future of the planet that we all must join.
This would be easier if Al had bought Dennis Weaver's Earth Ship.
Better yet, build his own in Tenn.
July 12 at 3:20pm
One thing about Al , " Optics" zoomed way over his head. I don't ding him here, it's just something he never saw as a kid. Many things I missed as well.
July 12 at 9:24pm
And don't forget those tinfoil hats, kiddies! This is going to be one heck of a ride …… :P
July 13 at 1:30am
"Rendezvous with Reality" is a great term. Most think this is a choice those on the Greed-Worshipping Right might consider making, but I absolutely, positively guaran-friggin'-tee you that if they don't move to reality, reality will move to them, flooding their basement, then house, first with water, then with many less desirable things.
And to those geniuses who invalidate Gore's position and statements due to the size of his house, visit the homes of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, which were far larger relative to the average home of their day than Gore's is. Does the size of their homes invalidate their contributions? Do you really care about climate change, energy or anything but throwing sand in the machinery of legitimate and meaningful discussion? Did you get such a good deal on your Faustian Bargain that you need to crow about it here?
By the way, whatever you think about Al Gore politically, his understanding of climate change is absolutely immense, incredibly accurate, current and impressive, and his ability to communicate it is also superlative. The only other popularizer who understands as much and communicates complex issues as well is Joe Romm. Both also understand the energy, policy, politics and media sides as well as anyone, and come to think of it I've never seen them together. . .
July 16 at 4:38am
This company does one thing and one thing only "to Lie".
Montana Questions Exxon Estimate of Spilled Crude.
So it begins. Join the fight for survival and real action. STOP THE TAR SANDS!
Demonstrators shake up Capitol in Helena.
I am willing to bet this new 24 hr fear fest is a complete bust and that in many places the "Gore Effect" will come into play i.e. record cold temps/snow wherever he is. Yea, Al I guess a giant swiss insurance company is not ideologically motivated by the prospect of collecting higher premiums that they will never have to pay out on this scam. Didn't Algore get a D in science in college before failing out of divinity and then law school? Real smart guy….
Translation from Haley-speak to English:
"I am too lazy and/or incompetent to comprehend the scientific evidence linking human CO2 emissions to global-warming/climate-change. So instead, I'll parrot wingnut talking-points about Al Gore and hope that nobody notices how incompetent and ignorant I am."
July 12 at 10:46pm
So according to the internet, you're a VP at an energy services company out of Potomac, Maryland (1,2). So what's your deal? What's in it for you to diss Al Gore?
(1) http://www.energyprollc.com/contact.html
(2) http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-haley/b/a97/566
July 12 at 10:50pm
It is very illuminating that none of the detractors wish to discuss the science of climate change, extreme weather, disruption to the hydrologic system, or what that will mean for our food supply. They will never be impressed by reality. They have constructed an alternate reality based on belief outside the realm of rational discussion.
kermit X
chsavage24 – It's Joe's blog, he can do what he wants on it. I lurk here everyday and read the articles and comments, and often follow the links and read those papers or articles. I am tired of open comment blogs and newsgroups, where the noise to signal ratio is so high that nothing substantial can be said.
"These things" are never "discussed by the detractors". Instead, we hear unsubstantiated claims by the same handful of tame scientists, without science to back them up; political conspiracy "theories" by bots and loons; and gossip about celebrities, as though Al Gore was responsible for the existence of an entire field of science, and science was somehow magically negated by somebody's character flaws.
July 13 at 11:05am
I'm more than willing to discuss the science. The fact is the data doesn't support any notion of a climate crisis.
July 13 at 3:36pm
The factS ARE that the data overwhelmingly demonstrates the reality of the climate crisis. One does not even have to be especially literate in the peer-review literature to realize as much. One only has to be literate.
July 13 at 10:33pm
Talk.. Talk.. Talk.. debate and argue…. There has been enough talking, debating and arguing FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
Deniers will keep on denying. No one will ever change their minds (and we don't need too).
Forget about them. Don't waste time and energy on them or others who won't or can't make a difference.
Do something.
Words, words, words. Millions of them. What difference are most of them really making?
I'D BE MUCH MORE IMPRESSED if Al Gore was announcing that he was helping a thousand people in say Arizona get solar panels installed on their roofs. That he was financing it up front and allowiing them to pay him back back wthout interest.
Do something. Inspire somebody. Make a difference. (I'm not talking about individual effort here, but the efforts of individuals with the power and resources to help many more than just themselves – and not necessarily for profit.)
Germany IS making a difference. Google IS making a difference. Spain, UK, and others too. All making a differenc through action.
Deniers won't be convinced with water around thier ankles, with water around their knees, or with water around their waists.
Actions persuade. Action inspires.
And when the action is self sacrificing, it inspires more still.
( I am not talking about an ordinary individual's efforts here so don't ask me what I'm doing.)
That's what I'm doing. I'm financing solar panels and allowing people to pay for them based on the electricity they use.
I have also started a 20% by 2020 campaign in our town to reduce the energy used by all buildings in town – residential, commercial and municipal by 20% over the next 10 years.
Individual efforts matter. They are the seeds around which larger efforts can grow.
Roll up your sleeves and get to work. There is plenty of work to do for everyone.
July 12 at 6:04pm
We do not have to worry about people changing their minds, what we need to worry about is the thousands that have not made up their mind and make sure that they understand the dilemma and respond rationally.
July 12 at 10:56pm
Mike twotwo
VP Gore "it will be the first of a series of large events that we will hold multiple times a year to mobilize the public around actions to solve the climate crisis".
Is 2011 the year this finally goes mainstream? At long last? Its late, but not too late.
I find this a very encouraging development and one I intend to support vigorously.
Will the slide show be factually incorrect as in the movie? Showing photographs of rain/drought/hurricanes/to rnadoes is hardly correlation, much less CO2 causation. All Gore emotional drivel from the guy who's making tens of millions telling us to cut back. Great images, but low on facts. Past 4 years is lowest hurricane activity than past 40 years. "But, it's raining in China!" Yes, it typically does, somewhere. Normal cycles. We're now entering into a solar minimum with temperatures cooling off. Better to worry about coming cold!
I personally believe that the expected future cooling is the main reason that Gore (and other alarmists) are making one final push with their agenda. They know that in a few more years when the temps start to drop they will be S.O.L as the saying goes.
July 12 at 10:04pm
"Expected future cooling" — more fact free drivel from a ranting idealogue. The *FACT* that there is no such expectation is scarcely the sort of thing that will interrupt your snivelling. Even in the event of a "super" solar minimum, the actual difference to the climate will be measured in a few tenths of a degree, which vanishes in insignificance to the many degrees of warming already in the pipeline. But of course, it would actually require some scintilla of integrity to go to all the bother of learning an actual fact.
July 12 at 10:57pm
UK Met Office in FT Magaine: "We now believe that [the solar cycle] accounts for 50 per cent of the variability from year to year," says Scaife. With solar physicists predicting a long-term reduction in the intensity of the solar cycle – and possibly its complete disappearance for a few decades, as happened during the so-called Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1715 – this could be an ominous signal for icy winters ahead, despite global warming.
July 13 at 2:13am
Wow Larry you ever learn to read the article you're quoting? Here lemme give you THE PARAGRAPH BEFORE IT:
Third, scientists at the Met Office and elsewhere are beginning to understand the effect of the 11-year solar cycle on climate. When sunspots and other solar activity are at a minimum, the effect is similar to that of El Niño: more easterly winds and cold winter weather for Britain.
Now he is A) Talking about the UK and B) El Nño years are the hot years compared to cooler La Niña years for global average temperatures. Also the IPCC has already said that if we went into another grand minimum it would be overwhelmed by our release of greenhouse gases in seven years.
Also lemme give you another paragraph from the article:
However, some of the recent antagonism is linked to the Met Office's deserved reputation as a champion of research into climate change- and its scientists' unrepentant calls for urgent action against man-made global warming. Some climate-change sceptics seem to attack the Met Office weather forecasts as a way of undermining its climate predictions. Still senior staff insist that, judging from their personal experiences of talking to non-meteorologists and from it's surveys of public trust, the reputation of the Met Office is higher than ever. "Our trust scores are about 82 per cent which is phenomenal for any organisation," says Varley. "I find it heart-warming that, when it comes to the crunch, people trust the Met Office."
Weird how that little snippet doesn't get into the word vomit by climate denier literature that they put out there. Climate sceptics will say how awful the Met Office is at predicting the weather…..until they can use the same organisation to lampoon the idea of anthropogenic climate change. Maybe they should have Anthony Watts look whats up with that while he's out pretending to be a credible scientist.
July 13 at 11:32am
"According to these results, a 21st-century Maunder Minimum would only slightly diminish future warming. Moreover, it would be only a temporary effect since all known grand solar minima have only lasted for a few decades. Critics of this result might argue that the solar forcing in these experiments is only based on the estimated change in total irradiance, which might be an underestimate, or that does not include potential indirect amplifying effects (via an ozone response to UV changes, or galactic cosmic rays affecting clouds). However, our model reproduces the historic Maunder minimum with these estimates of solar irradiance. Furthermore, even if one multiplied the solar effects by a huge factor of 5 (which is unrealistic), no absolute cooling would take place (the temperatures would be temporarily cooler than the base scenario, but the trends would still be warming)."
Also, if you're going to post what are purported to be quotations, then post the *exact* citation as well, not a fragmentary "maybe it was in this magazine" thing. Deniers' well established habit of cherry-picking when they are not just bald-faced lying is far too well established for an uncited/uncontextualized quote to be taken at its face value.
July 13 at 11:38am
Joe – I like your last sentence – that you have talked with Mr. Gore about solutions. Maybe those who don't see the problem, will find something to like about the solutions (my favorite is Biochar). Hope you can relate this part of your interesting dialog sooner rather than later.
July 12 at 9:03pm
Climate Change is probably the most important issue facing us now. On all fronts simultaneously.
One in 10 Species Could Face Extinction: Decline in Species Shows Climate Change Warnings Not Exaggerated, Research Finds.
Recent ecological responses to climate change support predictions of high extinction risk.
Thanks Joe..Great interview..
This farce will fail just as all his other scam attempts have. We just aren't stupid enought to buy this nonsense any more… Well some morons are, but the rest of us can read. Gore has his followers are simply a dying religious cult.
Both Steven Hawking and Carl Sagan have talked about the severe repercussions of continued releases of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by man. Are they both part of the 'cult' you denigrate too?
July 13 at 10:55am
Apparently. Even smart people can be wrong. Specially what a political organization like the UN gets involved in it to puch an agenda. Besides, it all seemed plausable 20 years ago. Real scientists have moved on but the cult remains loyal to the doctrins of the religion.
July 14 at 11:04am
How is it not plausible now? What has changed? If anything the people who were advocating global warming 20 years ago are now being vindicated.
July 14 at 11:36am
Here is the merest tast of all the problems eith the failed AGW hypothesis:
The only thing holding this scheme togeher now is shere hubris and religious faith.
July 14 at 10:56pm
So how does this disprove anthropogenic climate change?
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So there are so many pen-testing tools that perform a memory dump on the system. How exactly do they work - what exactly happens ?
A core dump, either of the entire system, or single executable, is the entire contents of that processes' memory, or in the case of the system, everything's memory, written out to a file. There can be a lot of data in such a dump - here's an abbreviated form of the memory space of gvim, which I'm currently running:
From that address space, shared objects wouldn't be dumped, but everything else, stack, heap, would be. Addresses will be relative to certain versions of shared objects and potentially with ASLR they may not line up process to process. A kernel dump can be configured to contain varying amounts of information, from small dumps to everything.
What does this tell you? Exactly the state of the system or program at the time of being dumped - what it has on the stack (and so probably which function it is in). Most core dumps also contain other useful information like what is in the registers of the processor at the time of the dump.
In terms of how you work out what is going on, EIP or RIP on x86 (x64) will tell you at exactly which memory address the process was executing. rbp or ebp will tell you where abouts on the stack your function is working. You'd expect to find local variables there. You could also potentially look for all system calls and their arguments made in a core dump.
All of this serves to tell you what is going on with a process at that specific point in time. It isn't just a tool for pen testing either; it's possible to analyse core dumps as a form of debugging applications, particularly where running debuggers is hard or impossible. For example, you might analyse a kernel core dump to work out why the kernel crashed (what was it doing when it panicked?) rather than attaching a debugger and trying again - it also allows other people to send dumps to you for analysis.
How does this help with pen testing? The same way debugging helps with pen testing. You can see what's loaded in memory, what the current state is. You can work out what a process might be doing when you took the dump and perhaps most crucially, any data stored in any executable in memory (heap, stack etc) will also end up in the core dump, including passwords stored as plaintext in memory.
What do the analysis tools do? Look for patterns and structures indicative of a potential exploit (or error, if you're after debugging). A full explanation of that is probably beyond the scope of this box - there are many books dedicated to techniques for analysing memory dumps. Much of this is also system and architecture dependent; techniques for Windows x86 are different to techniques for Linux on MIPS.
As an example of something that might be indicative of an error, here's an example AviD will really appreciate:
As you can see, the first space available to this function on the stack for local variables was
In case you're wondering, the offending piece of code was simply a
First of all, there are two main users of memory dumps in security - forensics and exploit writing guys. Pen-testers, not so much - of course it depends on the pentest ;)
The usual way tools that dump memory work is by opening the memory pseudo-device and reading all the contents to a file.
For example with dd in windows you would do something like
The same applies to linux e.g.
This is the simpliest way of course. Other ways to acquire memory are by using crash dumps as Ninefingers mentions, LiveKd dumps, get the memory through the hypervisor if we are talking about a VM, get the hibernation file if one exists or even get the memory through fireware or another DMA interface. Of course, then there's the cold boot attack too.
Having the memory on a file, you can do many things, depends on what you want. The common one is to search for strings, e.g. password tokens, private keys and the rest, this is the easiest one.
If you want to do any more than that, usually a lot more work is needed, but is automated with varying degrees of success using commercial or open source tools. The main idea is that physical memory in your dump will be scattered in pages. To make any sense of it, you locate by heuristic search the page tables, and try to reconstruct a logical view of the memory. Having done that, you can perform other searches and locate structures for the various running processes, open files, network connections etc. It really depends on what your goals are.
It would help if you listed which tools, as there are differences - eg whole memory vs specific areas. I can't think of any attack tools I use regularly that dump memory.
But simply, taking a dump of memory let's you look at not only the application code in situ, but also variable values.
The memory is just copied to a disk similarly to the way memory pages are swapped to disk in normal usage, or a tool reads memory directly.
If you're on Windows, use Process Explorer from the SysInternals suite. Just right-click a process and elect to dump the memory for that process.


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Some time ago, I bought a used Giant full suspension MTB. The guy cut the original seatpost too short for me, so I needed a new one. The post was some weird size, either 31 or 31.1 mm. Closest I could find was a 30.9. (Isn't that the standard?) Needless to say this kept on sliding down as I rode. I stuck a small strip of metal between the post and frame -- yeah, I know you're not supposed to do that! -- but it still slowly creeps down (about 5 mm every couple hours). I checked eBay and Giant's web site, to no avail. Anyone know if I can find one somewhere? Or anyway to fix it? (Its amazing how hard it is to slide the post up and down with that homemade "shim" in it, and how hard I tighten up the clamp -- surprised it hasn't broke yet -- yet it STILL slides down!)
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According to info from Sheldon Brown, Your Giant post is most likely to be 30.8 as this seems to be a common size on with that brand - however you don't give the age and model of the bike, so it could be Giant changed to another size. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks its so they sell a whole new bike when to can't find a matching seat post.
I have also had this problem (With another brand), and beyond trawling ebay and craigs list in the vain hope sellers will put the size on the listing and its accurate, your best bet is to try your luck with your corner LBS (Not the chain-shop who only has this years stock and is shiny and flash) - good chance they have one in back somewhere. Shops that have been around for a while tend to keep boxes of odd ball sized parts such as these, (rather than throw them away) as it's good for business being the "The only guy in town who...." kind of place.


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I'm looking for a device I'm not sure if it easists.
I'd like a hardware button that I can press occasionally. I'd like to later be able to plug it into - say, a USB port and get a list of times/dates when the button has been pushed. (So, far example, if I have the button next to the kettle I could press it every time I make a coffee - and then at the end of the month plug it in and find out how many coffees I have.
Do we have anything like this on the market?
(Yes, paper and pen would kind of work - but I'd like it to be as low effort as possible for each time and I'd like electronic dataset to play with...)


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What small point-and-shoot cameras are available that support RAW images? I'm looking for something to use when I don't want to lug my SLR around, so I want something that is small and convenient. In other words - it has to fit in my wife's purse :)
Look at the Canon S95. I have the s90 and it creates great RAW images, I also love the UI of the camera ring around the lens which you can rotate to change aperture/shutter speed depending on the mode you're in. Has a more positive feel for people used to SLRs.
There are also chunkier Canon offerings like the G series (G12) but they're bulky, though you do get a hot shoe. Nikon offers a similar (chunky) P&S that supports RAW, the P7000.
Another thing to consider while comparing the P&S's is the maximum aperture (S95 goes to f2.0!) and the widest angle it offers in 35mm format (S95 goes to 28mm but I've seen other P&Ss go to 24).
Depending on your comfort level with this sort of thing, you can get one of the cameras that CHDK supports. It adds a whole lot of fancy features to less expensive Canon cameras.
If size and bulk is a concern, the S95 is one to consider, along with the Panasonic LX-5; the former is definitely sleeker and sexier. If not, the Canon G12 is worth considering.
I have the Panasonic LX3 - I bought it for exactly the same reason as yourself.
I did debate the Canon S90 as well, there is not much between the 2. The canon has a lens that is covered, the LX3 lens sticks out (so a pain if in a pocket)
My personal preference was for the menu on the LX3 - its great to have in my bag for everyday use.
Good luck!
There are presently 7 compact cameras that support RAW. You can see then all here.
Now, if you were primarily concerned with size you can refine your results to get the lightest ones and that leaves 3 models: Canon S95, Canon S90 and Casio FH100. Personally, I really liked the S90 and its controls are really superb. They let you work efficiently for a camera this small.
You wont get the same direct controls for the Casio but if you don't use manual controls so often you may be swayed by its ultra-wide 24-240mm lens. It is also much faster than the Canons, as it shoots at up to 40 FPS and has near-instant shutter-lag.
Just took the LX-5 on a 3-week road trip across America. I love it! I found myself reaching for it even before my D3 or D2Xs on many occasions. It's a really fun camera! It's got lots of manual controls, a great screen, a nice zoom range, and a fast lens. It also shoots RAW, but produces beautiful JPEG output as well.
To see samples from my trip taken with the LX-5, check out this gallery on my website. These are all untouched, straight-out-of-the-camera JPEGs:
I recently read a bunch of reviews for various compact P&S cameras that support RAW output. I came across the Samsung TL500/EX1 on dpreview.com. It ranked pretty high, and it has some nice features. It definitely does RAW, and one of the features I liked most about it was the 24-72mm f/1.8-2.4 lens. Nice zoom range with a great max aperture. The sensor size is small for 10mp, but overall, the image quality seems to be pretty good. This camera supports a variety of image factors as well, including 16:9, 4:3, 3:2 and even 1:1.
Almost every electronics device outside of my camera and my computer that I own is Samsung. I can attest to their quality, its stellar. This camera is pretty intriguing, and on my list as a P&S next to the Panasonic LX3. It has some detractors, but for my needs, they didn't seem too worrying.
Here are some links to DPReviews of the Samsung TL500 and Panasonic LX3:


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Why is the spelling "eureka" by far more preferable to "heureka" in English? Greek vocabularies give "heureka" for the perfect to "heurisko".
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Eureka is the exact transcription of the Greek word in the Latin alphabet. The additional h in the correct written form marks the pronunciation, which in ancient Greek was denoted with punctuation signs right above the letter u. This pronunciation has now become extinct in Greek, although this word is still used.
My guess is that when eureka started being widely used in the English speaking world, the pronunciation of the word in Greek had already changed, so there was nothing to be denoted with an additional h in the beginning of the word. Therefore, even erudite speakers adopted the simpler form of writing.
In summary, my hypothesis is that certain translators transliterated the Greek letters but not the accents, and thereby lost the [h], because initial [h] is only a small mark above the vowel. They may have done so because their Greek was not very good, or because they did not consider the [h] mark a real letter worth transliterating.
The Greek word εὕρηκα was pronounced [hěu̯rɛːka] in classical Greek; the [h] is indicated by the spiritus asper ("rough breathing"), the tiny "c" above the ὑ. (The other accent, the acutus, indicates increasing pitch; note that the spiritus asper came from a tiny left half of the Greek letter H, which was used in some older dialects to denote an [h] sound.)
Many, perhaps most Greek words came to English through Latin. However, the Latin transliteration of εὕρηκα would be heureca, or possibly eureca. My own, quick research in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina suggests that the great majority of Roman writers transcribed the spiritus asper as h, but a significant minority did not. In any case, neither heureca nor eureca exists in the BTL; therefore I suspect that the word was not the famous expression in Rome that it is now.
The earliest mention of Archimedes' exclamation is by Vitruvius (De Architectura IX, preface 10), and later usage is most probably all based on him. Both the Perseus Digital Library, whose edition of Vitrivius is based on the 1912 Teubner, and the edition by C. Fensterbusch (Darmstadt 1964/76) give the word in Greek letters. Perseus/Teubner give the Greek with accents, Fensterbusch without.
The first use of the word recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1570:
Notice that the word is given in Greek capitals, without accents.
(The square brackets may indicate either something added by editors in a quotation (unlikely, because that only applies to parts of quoted sentences), or a "spurious" entry in the dictionary, which is a word that erroneously found its way into other dictionaries while in fact it was never used (just as unlikely). I conclude that the brackets either indicate nothing of relevance or that this is a dubious quotation.)
By the 19th century, eureka seems to have prevailed. Before that, as it can be seen, various versions were used. Several editions did not print the breathing mark: perhaps this caused readers who were not well versed in Greek to translate the Greek letters one by one into the most similar English letters, disregarding conventions; this would give eureka. A commenter on Languagehat gives the following for the editions of Fielding also quoted in the OED:
This might suggest that the spelling eureka did indeed originate in a letter-by-letter transliteration of the Greek into similar English letters by someone who didn't know the traditional convention of using c for Greek κ: Fielding feared that his version Eureka might seem illiterate and changed it into Heureka in the third edition.
In the time of Vitruvius (1st century BC), the spiritus was most probably not yet in use, so that plain unaccented Greek letters would have been written. It would have been capitals, because Greek minuscules were probably not yet used either. (Note that we cannot be sure that the Greek wasn't added later by monks and that Vitruvius himself didn't use Latin letters.) In the edition by Fensterbusch mentioned above, the Greek letters printed without spiritus too. This might support my theory. But we would really need to compare many more editions from various dates.
So nothing is certain. Before the 19th century, transliterations of Greek words that were not used in Latin varied wildly—if not of other Greek words, then certainly of this one. The reason why it eventually became eureka in modern English, Dutch, and French, as opposed to heureka in German, could be any arbitrary circumstance, though I have a feeling that the German version is relatively new as compared to ours. In the edition of De Architectura below, printed in 1567 in Venice, the word is written in Latin letters as eurica:
This shows how varied transliterations were in the 16th century. The i can probably be explained by the fact that it was printed in Italy. But here is the Latin edition of Giambattista della Porta's Magia Naturalis from 1597 (the English version is in the OED's quotation from 1658 above):
It was printed in Frankfurt, and eureka is given in Greek, with spiritus. Another Latin edition of the same work, printed in Naples in 1589, uses the aspirated Greek too (scanned image no. 302 / printed page 285, at the bottom).
As the Oxford English Dictionary says, 'the correct spelling heureka is rare'. Heureka is found in the dictionary's citations only until 1806. Twelve years later, even that great hellenophile Byron writes in 'Childe Harold':
I don't know what makes the spelling 'Heureka' the correct one. The Greek is εὕρηκα, which has the same initial vowel as Εὐρῑπίδειος (Euripides). Well, not quite the same because it has a different diacritic mark and therein may lie some sort of explanation, perhaps to do with Greek aspiration (in the phonetic sense). We need a Greek scholar to tell us more.