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Does anyone have any insight into this?
Posted 01 June 2011 - 07:05 AM
Here's the link to his article in "The Observer."
I love this line from Gottlieb's review, re Seven Deadly Sins: "Sloth, Pride, Anger, Gluttony, Lust, Avarice, Envy? No. Taylor-Corbett's sins were deadlier: Blandness, boredom, confusion, vacuity, dreariness, pointlessness, pretention [sic]."
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I love this line from Gottlieb's review, re Seven Deadly Sins: "Sloth, Pride, Anger, Gluttony, Lust, Avarice, Envy? No. Taylor-Corbett's sins were deadlier: Blandness, boredom, confusion, vacuity, dreariness, pointlessness, pretention [sic]."
For the 2011-12 season, they are once again programming every performance of Vienna Waltzes with the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Any word????
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Posted 03 June 2011 - 08:27 PM
When Rubies began, there was an audible gasp from the audience at the dancers' striking beginning pose. The costumes were gorgeous, and the quick tempo and intricate steps for the corps were very well danced. Savannah Lowery reads very tall from the audience, and she did a stand-up job with her very quick choreography. Megan Fairchild and Joaquin de Luz were the other Rubies leads. de Luz has great attack in his dancing and was a joy to watch. However, to me Ms. Fairchild came of as cutesy and not much more. She completed all of her footwork and turns, but I was left wishing she had given more artistry.
The final treat of the evening was seeing Wendy Whelan in diamonds. Ms. Whelan uses her arms very long arms incredibly, right down to her fingertips. Her placement is impeccable but she is also a real performer. Tyler Angle had a strong debut as her cavalier. Megan LeCrone and Gwyneth Muller both stood out in a good way in the demi-soloist roles.
I was in the first ring and didn't see many open seats in the audience from my vantage point. I'm excited to come back for the Sunday matinee mixed-rep performance. Sorry to hear about Maria K's spill in the Thursday night performance. I saw her walking on my way over to Lincoln Center for tonight's show and she seemed to be walking completely normal!
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Posted 04 June 2011 - 09:16 PM
This cast of Rubies was about as opposite as possible from the Lowery/Fairchild cast. Tess Reichlen is a marvel! She is technically perfect and every move was exciting. And just when I didn't think anyone could even come close to Tess's level of dancing, Ashley Bouder came onto the stage. She attacked the steps with pure gusto, and the excitement from her dancing seemed to ripple through the audience. She articulated steps that I thought Megan Fairchild glossed over the previous evening. The corps was strong and in unison, and I felt like I had seen a very special performance when the curtain came down on Rubies.
When Maria Kowroski began Diamonds, a thought crossed my mind that this ballet suited her so well that it looked like it could have been made for her. Her sky-high extensions produced audible gasps in the audience, and Charles Askegard showed highly developed partnering skills. I'm sure the tall women in the company will miss Askegard when he retires next season.
It is incredible how different a dance can seem with a fresh cast. I think my dream cast with this run of dancers would be Tiler Peck and Sara Mearns in Emeralds, Ashley Bouder and Tess Reichlen in Rubies and Wendy Whelan in Diamonds.
Posted 05 June 2011 - 07:43 PM
Here's a link to a NY Times article regarding NYCB's Chase Finlay and the amazing season he is having:
Amazing? In what way? The fact that he stumbled and nearly fell in several of the Apollo performances I saw (I saw three in addition to one private rehearsal)?
Posted 05 June 2011 - 09:55 PM
Normally, I find Diamonds to be a bit bland, but when the lead couple is very good (for example, last night, as well as with Philip Neal and Wendy Whelan last year) their extended pas de deux can a real treat. Last night Kowroski and Chuck Askegard danced it beautifully. His partnering was flawless and both executed their solo jumps and turns superbly. She looked glowingly at him throughout and he glowed back at her. I found the performance somewhat poignant in its way because it's one of the last times I'll see the Chuck and Maria Show, a traditional pairing I love.
The stately latter portion of Emeralds, featuring the four principals and three soloists, ending with the three men kneeling, makes this my favorite act of Jewels. I thought it was danced with great sensitivity last night. Antonio Carmena was impressive, making quick, clean jumps and showing particularly good chemistry with his two solo women, Erica Pereira and Ana Sophia Scheller. But the standout in this section for me was Jenifer Ringer's strong, yet delicate and unhurried solo. She's obviously worked off the sugar plums, because she seemed to float through it. In particular, I was captivated by a series of dreamy arabesque turns. She is a mature and thoughtful dancer with that wealth of experience to bring something special to a role and who still has the physical capability to execute ita golden spot in her career.
A fun aspect of Rubies was the contrast between the styles/body types of the two principal women, Ashley Bouder and Teresa Reichlen. Both were fantastic, with their intricate footwork, tremendous speed and spectacular jumps. A slight disappointment was Gonzalo Garcia, who struck me as a bit stiff (not bad, but not of the same caliber as the principal women). To be frank, I haven't been happy with the Rubies leading men I've seen since Nikolaj Hübbe (Joaquin De Luz, whose dancing is normally jaw-droppingly good, Garcia, Mr. Portman). I'd like to see others in the company get a crack at the principal male role.
All in all, a fantastic night in a fantastic season.
Posted 06 June 2011 - 06:52 AM
In Rubies, I've never been a fan of Megan Fairchild in the lead. She plays it cute, but lacks sophistication. I thought DeLuz, as her partner, did very well. He is technical wizard, and has the bravado style for the role. Lowery did the tall girl role. I much preferred the Bouder/Garcia/Reichlin cast. Reichlin owns the tall girl role at the moment. It is one of her signature roles. Rubies is perfectly suited to Bouder's extroverted style, and she performed with incredible speed and precision.
Whelan was partnered with Tyler Angle in Diamonds. This is becoming a frequent partnership at NYCB, but I could not believe for a second that he was her cavalier. Wendy did a lovely job in the pdd, but in her solos she tended to clip her movements short in order to keep up with the music. I preferred the pairing of Askegard and Kowrowski. She is a lush, grand dancer with sky high extensions. She is wonderful in Diamonds, and Askegard was a perfect partner. (By the way, Maria did not fall on Sat., and appeared to be fine after her fall on Thursday.)
Sadly I will miss Mearns' Diamonds performances this season, but I'm looking forward to seeing her in the Tall Girl role in Rubies at Dancers' Choice.
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31st Annual Seagrove Pottery Festival held at Seagrove Elementary School, 528 Old Plank Road, Seagrove, NC 27341.
November 17 & 18, 2012; 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. both days.
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I had my website on mydomain.com for a few years and was number 1 on Google for my market. Due to a bad registrar and my own lazynes i lost my .com a year ago and it has taken me nearly a year to get it back. In that time i have put my site on a local domain mydomain.ie and changed a lot of the back links to the .ie domain so it is showing up in the results but not as well as my .com did. My question is which one do i use now and which one do i 301? Would i be better to switch back to the old domain and would it still carry the same value with Google?
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After a year, very doubtful indeed. Google has probably given up, especially if you changed the a lot of the back links. My suggestion would be to roll with the new address now, and continue improving that. Unless there is some decent reason to change, and you know what you're doing getting your redirects, back links, etc, etc sorted for another change, then I can't see the benefit. And after one year without using the old domain, I doubt there will be a really strong reason, bar maybe some old visitors trying the URL on a whim.
Definitely set up new redirects, etc, on the original domain to point to your new one, making sure you catch any authority or link juice you might possibly still have.
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Background: Software Transactional Memory (STM) is a foundation for atomic composable non-blocking transactions. An STM transaction consists of a set of variables and a monadic sequence of read/write operations on those variables. As the transaction progresses, a transaction table is constructed detailing the specific variables to be modified. At the end of the transaction, either the changes are written atomically (that is, none of the intermediate modifications are visible to the outside world), or the transaction is aborted as though nothing had happened.
Blocking-transactions is an alternative library that implements atomic transactions using locks. This library is strictly less expressive than STM, but does have some advantages.
First, I will demonstrate why such a library is even possible. In order to implement a blocking transaction, we must:
- Sort all of the variables that could participate in the transaction.
- Sieze a lock on each variable in sorted order.
- Perform the transaction.
- Release all of the locks.
- Notify any waiting threads that the variables have been modified.
Acquiring locks in sorted order guarantees that the program can not deadlock. Acquiring a lock effectively acquires the exclusive right to acquire any greater-ordered locks before any thread that has acquired a lesser-ordered lock.
None of this is possible unless we know the entire set of variables before the transaction takes place. In traditional models of computation, this is impossible. However, arrows provide an environment of restricted flow control in which all computations are either inevitable or in which there is a finite set of branches. The StaticArrow is an example of an Arrow that can do this.
It is also possible to build a monad with similarly restricted flow control. If the side-effectful operations of a monad always return an opaque value (meaning that there is no function that can transform the value or any combination of values into a boolean) then no flow control within the monad is possible.
Such a library has a profound limitation: although we can store a transactional variable inside another transactional variable, we can not retrieve it without considerable contortions. Blocking transactions therefore do not seem to be suitable for working with complex graphs of transactional variables.
On the other hand, the restricted flow control that blocking transactions require presents an unexpected opportunity: transactions can be made inevitably lazy. A lazy transaction completes in the time it takes to entangle the variables in a system of unevaluated thunks. This means that the locks are held for the shortest time possible, but increases the CPU time needed to complete the entire program.
These systems of unevaluated thunks constitute a potentially hazardous memory leak. I choose to write the library in such a way that each variable is forced after the transaction completes, by means of a parallel spark.
This is not the only strategy for evaluating a transaction. We could also choose to:
- Allow values to be forced within the transaction, but locks could be held while an expensive and unimportant computation completes. We would then want a strategy to release unneeded locks early, but this would add overhead.
- Sequentially force each variable after the transaction, but this was not efficient in the benchmark.
- Specify a per-variable strategy for forcing each variable, but this is adds complexity with little apparent benefit.
- Tolerate the memory leak on the assumption that the caller must manually force the contents of the transaction, but this had catastrophic implications for performance in the benchmark.
Note that the blocking transactions library at the moment is not exception safe.
My implementation is available as a git repository. You can also link directly to the source code and a simple benchmark.
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The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes Implied by 'Harry Potter'
Say hello to Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus' brother.
With a beard like that, you know he is at least mayor of something in Scotland.
And in the wizard world, he is probably a sex offender.
This is another of J.K. Rowling's quick, throwaway jokes that is meant to fly right over the heads of the 9-year-olds but is supposed to make the grown-ups giggle.
You find the references in both Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, where it is mentioned in passing that Dumbledore's brother Aberforth got in trouble for a "minor scandal" with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for "using inappropriate charms on a goat."
Via Margot.id.au
To Make It Even Weirder ...
We know that there is not one part of "inappropriate charms on a goat" that does not warrant some serious explaining, which is why one of J.K. Rowling's readers asked her about this at the same Q&A where she disclosed Albus Dumbledore's homosexuality. Check out Rowling's reaction:
"Wait, I wrote that? No. Really?"
Q: In the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore said his brother was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms [JKR buries her head, to laughter] on a goat; what were the inappropriate charms he was practicing on that goat?
JKR: How old are you?
Q: Eight.
"He fucked that goat."
JKR: I think that he was trying to make a goat that was easy to keep clean [laughter], curly horns. That's a joke that works on a couple of levels. I really like Aberforth and his goats. But you know Aberforth having this strange fondness for goats if you've read book seven, came in really useful to Harry, later on, because a goat, a stag, you know. If you're a stupid Death Eater, what's the difference. So, that is my answer to YOU.
[loud applause]
#1. Hagrid's Father Banged a Giant
The groundskeeper at Hogwarts is Rubeus Hagrid, an abnormally huge but kind man who is universally beloved by the good guys.
Hagrid is a half-giant roughly 8.5 feet tall, which should immediately raise questions if you are old enough to know where babies come from. And, sure enough, Hagrid described his father as "a tiny little man," even by non-giant standards.
Hagrid's mother, meanwhile, was the giantess Fridwulfa. While we will be the first to point out that even if she was considered "small" by giant standards, she nevertheless possessed a womb, um ... ample enough to accommodate a 16-foot-tall son. And no, we are not talking about Hagrid but his full-giant half-brother Grawp, who was the product of good old-fashioned giant sex between Fridwulfa and a male giant, complete with giant-sized schwanzstucker.
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Hagrid's half-brother, in the fetal position.
So, the big question is how this "tiny little" man ...
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That's him sitting on the kid's shoulder.
... was able to successfully impregnate a titanic woman whose sex organs were probably more commodious to most humans than a hotel room in Tokyo.
To Make It Even Weirder ...
While we personally wish this discomfiting discussion about giant sex could end here, the truth is that Hagrid's father is not the only human to knock boots with someone taller than a telephone pole in Ms. Rowling's wizarding world.
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"RUN! It aims to eat us!"
Olympe Maxime, headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and Hagrid's old flame, is a half-giant as well. In fact, there are apparently enough half-giants in the Harry Potter universe to warrant their own wiki entry. The precise number of wizards -- and witches -- rubbing wands with these huge humanoid monsters remains a mystery, as does how it works when it's a male giant and, say, a 5-foot-tall female.
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Damn son.
That's a pretty sweet tattoo.
Well done tattoo though I can't say I'd ever get a gaming tattoo myself.
I wouldn't get one that explicit, but if it was just the vault symbol I could say it was a stylized V (and it is) and it would be okay, since my name is Victor. Non-gamers wouldn't know any better.
Totally just got my Borderlands boner chopped off. i guess I didn't knock on wood hard enough when I said I didn't get my badass rank or customization options reset. Just got the DLC and updates downloaded...guess who now has absolutely nothing but what he had on.
It's not even that the badass ranks made that much of an impact, it's just that i literally can't earn any of it back until it's fixed or something. How has this been overlooked/not been fixed yet. I haven't kept up but i kind of assumed it was after they supposedly fixed that graveyard.sav shit.
Nah dawg. They got our money already. They don't care about fixing things that are actually broken and affect gameplay, they only care about dumb shit like nerfing weapons/shields in a single player/co-op NON-COMPETITIVE game.
- Every developer this generation.
They nerf weapon, I just make a better one myself.
Mr Torgue is voiced by the same guy that did Hercule in DBZ, and Handsome Jack is voiced by Cell's voice actor. Gonna be a reunion soon.
I didn't get to play any Mr. Torgue last night, because by the time it finished downloading, my board game group came over for Descent. Then after they left I played with a friend who doesn't have the DLC. We did manage to kill Terramorphous without the Bee/Conference Call though. It took us a few tries.
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There was a lot of censorship for the US version of Dragon Ball Z. They changed Hell to the Home For Infinite Losers (HFIL on the shirts that previously said HELL).
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
You just reminded me to be excited about Django Unchained.
I did my good deed for the day.
Anyway, back to Borderlands 2, I finally got in a decent amount of time (~1.5 hours) with Mr. Torgue. For the first time in playing this game, I have a minor complaint about the writing.
In Captain Scarlett, it's pretty obvious that Scarlett is eventually going to betray you and try to kill you, and Gearbox pokes a bit of fun at that obviousness by pointing it out in game with some slight fourth-wall-breaking stuff. Cool. It worked.
In Mr. Torgue, there's a character who has the same type of role, where he takes you under his wing but you're pretty sure he'll betray you later, and Mr. Torgue blatantly points out that it will happen.
It's one thing to do it once, to sort of lampoon a somewhat overused story mechanic. However, when you do it a second time, it stops looking like satire of the genre and starts to just look like you're out of ideas to build a story around. For what it's worth, I like the idea of betrayal as a main plot point, but it doesn't work as well when it's totally expected, and doing some fourth-wall-breaking to point out that that's what's happening doesn't automatically make it okay that it's happening.
Still, I'm pleased that Mr. Torgue isn't strictly arena combat like some of the previews would have you believe. There's still its fair share of exploring, and it's still largely story-based, so I can't complain about that. I'm slowly running out of people on my friend list to play with, however, because while a good chunk of people have the base game, few of the people who I actually play with have the DLC.
Yeah, that was sloppy. They could've maybe got away with it in a later DLC--maybe--but not with Scarlett still fresh in people's minds.
So far, the only redeeming feature in this DLC is Mr Torgue. The rest is just... bleh. Hardly any interesting drops, hardly any interesting quests, and the main questline is really quite short. And the last boss: goddamn. I haven't played any sidequests, so hopefully they're better.
Gearbox (is it even Gearbox developing these?) need to step their game up for DLC 3.
The only sidequests I've seen so far are more difficult versions of main story quests (like the bar room brawl).
It is Gearbox developing these. I definitely think Mr. Torgue himself is a highlight.
Right. I thought I read somewhere that the DLC was outsourced to the same devs that did Knoxx.


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Mexico's Self-Image Problem
Investigators say Mexico stonewalled their inquiry into the deaths of 43 college students. But officials seem more concerned about Donald Trump.
April 26, 2016, Tuesday
More Deportations Follow Minor Crimes, Records Show
Two-thirds of the nearly two million people deported since President Obama took office had committed only minor infractions or had no criminal record, a New York Times analysis has found.
April 7, 2014, Monday
El Chapo's Arrest Unlikely to Break Mexican Cartel
Officials say the Sinaloa cartel has transcended its leader, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, learning better than its competitors how to produce and move drugs, establish new markets and outsource business.
February 26, 2014, Wednesday
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JROTC Raider Team shines at Furman
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The LHS JROTC Raider Team followed the S.C. State Championship win with another impressive victory at Furman University on Feb. 23.
The Furman University "Paladin Challenge" included 15 teams from South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina. The Landrum A Team consisting of Sam Robinson (team captain), AJ Kniffin, Ian Betzel, Adam McNeil, James Jackson, Mark Conner, Thomas Sparks and Thomas Riordan dominated the meet, placing first in the 5K run, litter carry (150 pound litter carried 300 yards), and obstacle course events. They placed second in the rope bridge and tug-of- war events.
The Landrum B Team surprised everyone with a strong third-place overall finish. Members of the B team included: Hunter Conley (team captain), John Conner, Paige Herbst, Nathan McCutcheon, Nick Kniffin, Jake Bryant, Holly Rickett, Rina Davenport, Pierce Cannon, Dillon Stephens and Johnathon Parker. Additionally, Paige Herbst won the top female fitness award.
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DPSEP receives information from various departments on campus, such as the Office of Environmental Safety and Services. If DPSEP or the Office of Environmental Safety and Services confirms that there is an emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of some or all members of the SLU Community, DPSEP, the Office of Environmental Safety and University Communications will collaborate to determine the content of the message and will use some or all of the systems described below to communicate the threat to the SLU community or to the appropriate segment of the community, if the threat is limited to a particular building or segment of the population. DPSEP and University Communications will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing a notification will, in the judgment of the first responders (including, but not limited to: DPSEP, St. Louis Metropolitan Police, St. Louis Fire Department), compromise the efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.
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Why for certain months of the year do we celebrate the festival of Rosh Chodesh for two days while on other Roshei Chadashim we have one day of Rosh Chodesh?
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Tur (Orach Chaim 427) explains as follows:
A lunar month is 29-1/2 days plus some extra chalakim. Since a month has to have an integral number of days, the months (usually) alternate between 30 and 29. The 30th day, then, is always going to have to be Rosh Chodesh:
In the latter case, then, you're going to have two days of Rosh Chodesh, since after all the 30th day belongs to the previous month, and so the first day of the next month is again Rosh Chodesh by definition.
I disagree with the answer above. The month is not decided by the moon cycles, but by Witness testimony, so any astro science becomes somewhat irrelevant. For example if there are witnesses accepted when the moon is not new yet, we go after the Witnesses, not the actual placement of the moon. So I thinks its wrong to say: then part of the 30th day really already belongs to the next month
2 days comes from the same problem that creates 2 days Rosh HaShanna in Israel (although RH in Israel is fundamentally different as the 2nd day of the month is celebrated as a festival, which could never happen.) You will see that 2 days Rosh Codesh is only when the previous month is 30 days. If it is 29 days, the rosh chodesh is only 1 day.
Since a month has to be 29 or 30 - As explained in the previous answer the 30th day is either the 30th day of month A, or day 1 of month B. Day 30 is the only unknown in all this. Witnesses will either come on the 30th and turn it into the 1st, or they wont come, and the 31st will have to become 1st of month B.
Witnesses have to come in the daytime, so even if they come at the earliest time possible, the 30th has already had 12 hours before it turns into the 1st.
So we keep every 30th as a Rosh Chodesh in case the Witnesses come.
According to what I am saying, if the Mashicah comes on the 30th of the month, and the court is established in time, and witnesses come, they can technically turn that day into the 1st. So we have to keep it just in case.
(Similarly by Rosh hashanna - its not a delay in witnesses but a fundamental problem that what day it is today will not be know till some point in the future that creates the 2 days in Israel. And we now keep the 2nd day on day 2(not 30 & 1) as a remembrance of this)
A little bit of background for this. In the days of the Temple, the new moon was actually CORROBORATED by witnesses. They were not the ones who declared whether a new moon was sighted or not. That task fell to the court that sat at the Temple, whose task it was to ensure that the witnesseses actually saw a new moon in its proper place. However, in some exceptional cirucumstances, a court can proclaim unilaterally that a month has an extra day in it or not. There is a story of Rabbi Akiva proclaiming that an extra day should be added to a month - this, while he was locked up in prison (Yevamot 104).
Having said all that, in our day the Jewish calendar was set in its way by Hillel II. Realizing that being able to proclaim a new moon by a court of Rabbis given proper semicha (not the kind given nowadays, but given from teacher to student from Moses to the time of the second Temple) would soon be impossible, he and a court unilaterally proclaimed the new moon for each month based on calculations (including ensuring that holidays such as Yom Kippur would not fall on a Friday or Sunday). In this case, some months have 29 days and some have 30 days. Even though we can nowadays compute exactly when the new moon is, we still use the calendar based on the idea that only a Jewish court of equal or greater knowledge can overrule a ruling from a previous Jewish court. Once we get to the time of the Messiah, then we will go back to having witnesses telling us when the moon was visible or not.


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Denis Lawson
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Rebel X-Wing Pilot Wedge Antilles
The actor:
According to his official (meaning Wikipedia) biography, Denis Lawson was born in Crief, Perth and Kinross, which we are choosing to believe means he left three separate wombs, in thirds, and was assembled later.
His father was a watchmaker and his mother sold sweets, making him by far the member of the Star Wars cast with the childhood most like a Hans Christian Anderson story. He's also the only member of the Star Wars cast to have his name misspelled in the credits (twice!), giving him full automatic rights to the title "unsung."
Get this: Ewan MacGregor, Obi-Wan Mark 2, is his nephew! We imagine family reunions are pretty awkward, what with Uncle Denis telling stories about "the good old days with Alec" as soon as he's got a few shots in him.
Inestimable contribution to the films:
Was the only minor character to survive all three movies, despite being present at both Death Star attacks and being likable yet expendable, usually a recipe for poignant death.
Most memorable line:
"My scope shows the tower, but I can't see the exhaust port!"
Best Youtube video featuring character:
This is a keen dance number, in which Wedge leads the gang in a victorious celebration of the Rebel victory over the evil Empire.
Weirdest merchandise based on character:
This Topps trading card from 1996, featuring Wegde in a shimmering bodysuit on what appears to be planet Hoth, if it were struck with a beam that made everything into rainbows.
Best excerpt from Wikipedia entry on character:
"At this time the unworldly scientist Qwi Xux, primary designer of the Death Star, appeared in Wedge's life, and the two were involved romantically for several years, during which Kyp Durron's Force-mindwipe changed her life for better or for worse. Barely hours after the break-up, Wedge found himself en-route to Adumar as a pilot/diplomat for the New Republic; there he met Iella Wessiri again, and after a few false starts, the two became officially engaged."
Best excerpt from Wikipedia entry on actor:
"He recently appeared on an episode of "Loose Ends" hosted by Ned Sherrin on BBC Radio 4 (December 10, 2005), during which his cell phone rang."
Where is he now?
Lawson is one of the few to have actively resisted the siren's call of Star Wars reprisals, denying a request by Lucas to play Capt. Antilles, a character "totally unrelated" to Wedge, in Episode III. Sorry George, we guess he saw Episode II.
Lawson has had an extremely healthy career in BBC television, appearing in more than 20 series between now and then. In fact, he's still considered a celebrity in London, but as a master of musical comedy. Admittedly this is not as cool as being known as a sci-fi fighter pilot, but it's a damn sight better than being known as one of the 30 guys who hasn't done anything since the '70s. Now if only he'd star in a musical comedy about the life of Wedge Antilles.
Mark Hamill Career Sadness Rating: 10
On one hand: he turned down Lucas and the chance to cash in once again on his old role. On the other hand: musical theater.
David Prowse
The character:
The body of Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader
The actor:
Before playing Vader, the staggering 6--foot--7 inch weightlifter appeared in several films as Huge Muscular Guy.
Our favorite role has to be Green Cross Code Man, a hero invented by the BBC to encourage kids to follow street lights when crossing the street. A video of Prowse as Green Cross Code Man can be seen here. Thrill as he allows two small children to nearly get hit by a car, just to teach them a lesson!
Inestimable contribution to the films:
He intimidated everyone while simultaneously allowing James Earl Jones to perform his role from a booth in his underwear.
Most memorable line:
Technically, he had no lines. Even sadder, Prowse apparently wasn't aware James Earl Jones was slated to overdub his voice, and got quite pissed about his being replaced in post production.
Best Youtube video featuring character:
Tough to call, as the videos of Darth playing the blues and being a smartass are both hilarious in their own right. But, for our money the funniest Vader vid has to be the one below, in which the beleaguered Sith Lord finally snaps under pressure.
Weirdest merchandise based on character:
Darth Tater is the only member of the Potato Head species that has spent a lifetime hunting down and murdering Jedi Knights.
Best excerpt from Wikipedia entry on character:
"Darth Vader appeared in the commercials for Energizer where Emperor Palpatine (who is shown with a battery for a right eye) instructs Darth Vader to get the Energizer Bunny's battery. When Darth Vader attacks with his lightsaber, the Supervolt batteries in it run out."
Best excerpt from Wikipedia entry on actor:
"In a television interview he related how his response to being told 'We've found our Superman' was 'Thank you very much.' Then he was told that Reeve had been chosen and he was only to be a trainer."
Where is he now?
As mentioned above, Prowse worked as a trainer whipping Christopher Reeve into shape to play Superman. He also trained Cary Elwes to play Westley in The Princess Bride. Unlike most typecast actors, Prowse seems to love his most famous role, still attending conventions to discuss the films and even heading the 501st legion, a group of Star Wars costuming fans.
Mark Hamill Career Sadness Rating: 96
Despite his total succumbing to the geek world, Prowse can't seem to get the recognition he so deeply craves. He even appeared as Vader in two fan films for website Order of the Sith, yet his lobby to get to play Vader in Episode III was denied, and he was excluded both from the Star Wars reunion documentary Empire of Dreams and the famous Star Wars cast photo for Vanity Fair.
This is how the guy gets treated? He makes millions for George Lucas, and these days Lucas can't drive past him without chucking a beer can at him and cackling as he drives away?
Well, we appreciate you, Prowse. And, when we watch the original trilogy, we'll always imagine you behind the mask instead of Hayden fucking Christensen.


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KKOA Leadsled Spectacular - Getting The Lead OutWritten by on April 30, 2012 Trucks strut their stuff at the KKOA Leadsled Spectacular
Chopped Mercury coupes and low-riding Chevys may be the first rides that come to mind when you think of classic customs—or kustoms—from the '50s and early-'60s. Let's not forget, though, that pickups also played an important role in the fabled custom era. Most of the popular custom shops had parts-chaser trucks that inevitably went under the torch. And several of the most famous customs of the day—including the Rod & Custom Dream Truck and the George Barris-built Kopper Kart—were based on radically restyled commercial vehicles.
It should really come as no surprise, then, that a good number of modified haulers showed up last summer for one of the biggest custom car events in the country: the Kustom Kemps of America Leadsled Spectacular. Held July 28-31 in Salina, Kansas, (about as close to the geographical center of the US as you can get), the 2011 Leadsled Spectacular brought together more than 1,600 custom vehicles of all styles and shapes, with an emphasis on the era when flipper caps, fender skirts, and lakes pipes ruled the road.
Now in its 31st year, the Spectacular remains one of the most laid-back "big" shows in the country. Participants can cruise the lanes of Salina's Oakdale Park and claim a parking spot under any number of shade trees. There's plenty of retro-flavored entertainment, from do-wop bands to pinup contests. And you can even put power to the pavement at an old-fashioned, heads-up drag race on Friday night at a local airstrip. For most participants, though, the real fun comes from hanging out with friends and fellow enthusiasts who share a love for chopped tops, whitewall tires, dual pipes, and candy paint. Does this sound like the sort of tail-dragging gathering you might enjoy? Cruise on over to www.kustomkempsofamerica.com for details on the 2012 show.
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Dakota Wentz is the grandson of pioneering customizer Darryl Starbird and has recently revived his grandpa's famous Star Kustom Shop.This bright blue Chevy is one of his latest creations, featuring a custom tube grille, rolled pans, and a custom-formed bed and rear panel. We especially liked the blue pearl drum kit material used as accent on the dash, door panels and bed-side steps.Dan Cuellar makes the kustom pilgrimage from California to Kansas every year, usually in his chopped Chevy pickup.Influenced by the Barris-built Kopper Kart, Cuellar's cruiser sports a custom tube grille and a radically reshaped bed with custom taillights and a rear pan and grille.KKOA Hall of Famer Harold Murphy brought his wild '60s-style '54 Ford pickup, which has been radically reshaped from nose to tail.The grille and rear fender scoops pay homage to the El Matador, the radical '40 Ford custom built by Bill Cushenbery in the '60s and restored by Murphy in the '90s. We're pretty sure that full-width taillight is from an '80s-era Buick—what do you think?The Atomitron is the name bestowed on John Saltsman's radical '49 Studebaker pickup. A 6-inch top chop is only the beginning of the modifications on this wild rig, which lists bodywork credits from legends like Bill Hines and younger torch carriers like Brad Masterson.The reshaped and molded front end features '55 Cadillac bumpers, modified '53 Chevy grille teeth and teardrop-shaped custom headlights from George Barris. Out back, a '59 Chevy trunk lid creates a tonneau cover between the custom fins, with taillights from Gene Winfield and '59 Dodge grille bars serving as bumpers. Keith Dean gets credit for the brilliant gold paint with candy red scallops.
Want to give your '47 Ford pickup a distinctive look? How about grafting on the front fenders and grille from a same-year Ford passenger car? We liked the effect on Sid Drapal's olive-colored hauler from Oklahoma.Artist Dennis McPhail and customizer Jeff Myers have teamed up on a number of cool custom projects through the years. Their latest is this '58 Chevy, which wears a '55 Plymouth grille bar and sports scores of slick and subtle body mods. Watch for it in paint sometime soon.Hey, Dodge trucks can make cool customs, too. Kevin Murphy's '57 was looking sharp with a ground-scraping stance and a panel-painted green metalflake finish on the chopped top.How can you not like a simple, well done highboy street rod pickup like Bill Shapland's clean, green '32 Ford?We really like the subtle, understated look of Jerry Curry's '36 Ford pickup. All the elements are right on target, from the perfect stance and whitewall-wrapped wire wheels, to the gray-green paint and triple-carb small-block Chevy mill.We're not sure if the Sentimental Journey Garage is a real business or not, but Larry Sherer's '41 Ford bearing that name on the door is most definitely a real cool ride.Call 'em rats, bobbers, or anything else you'd like, but there's no doubt that fenderless, channeled pickups like Chad Weaver's '46 Ford have been plenty popular lately. Several examples could be found in Salina.
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text: Peter, We use swish to index a Linux knowledgebase used to support 30 engineers across Australia some of the documentation stores phone numbers for each customer. Now as we are dealing with engineering notes the phone number may be captured in several different formats such as full IDD format +61396260437, or local internal format 00396260437 and without the dial prefix 0396260437 and without the state 96260437. Therefore searching for the local extension 60437 fails to find any hits. As swish cannot search for *60437 as leading wild cards are not permitted. I would like to table a simple solution to add wild card searching with leading wild cards. The method suggested is to search only through the keys using some code a sample is attached below once we have a matching key that contains a match we can us this found key to execute a search without a major rewrite. Please not this came from the C users journal originally I have just tuned it to handle START of WORD and End of WORD options like grep does ^ and $ characters. The code can be used freely without saying where it was sourced. We have tried all major search engines and none can search with a leading wild card. Please consider this code and the suggestion as adding this functionality will add a unique feature to swish making the other search suppliers play catch up. Rgds Ron Soutter.... From: users-bounces(at)not-real.lists.swish-e.org [mailto:users-bounces(at)not-real.lists.swish-e.org] On Behalf Of Peter Karman Sent: Sunday, 8 July 2012 11:34 AM To: users(at)not-real.lists.swish-e.org Subject: Re: [swish-e] Ok - I do not understand what the problem is Joseph Norris wrote on 6/29/12 6:12 PM: > I have the following: > > swish-e -w "China Confirms Gold Price Suppression" -s names desc title > desc -f /home/cs/sw/swishe/gold/i > ndex.swish-e > > No hits > > however when I do this: > > grep -l "China Confirms Gold Price Suppression" /home/cs/sw/swishe/gold/* > > I get a hit Try reducing your sample size to one doc, with the -T options as David suggests. Here's a small self-contained example. I suggest you put together a similar example of your own, which IME will often reveal the problem. [karpet(at)not-real.pekmac:~/tmp/s]$ swish-e -c conf Indexing Data Source: "File-System" Indexing "docs" Removing very common words... no words removed. Writing main index... Sorting words ... Sorting 8 words alphabetically Writing header ... Writing index entries ... Writing word text: Complete Writing word hash: Complete Writing word data: Complete 8 unique words indexed. 6 properties sorted. 1 file indexed. 96 total bytes. 8 total words. Elapsed time: 00:00:00 CPU time: 00:00:00 Indexing done! [karpet(at)not-real.pekmac:~/tmp/s]$ swish-e -w "China Confirms Gold Price Suppression" -s names desc title # SWISH format: 2.5.8 # Search words: China Confirms Gold Price Suppression # Removed stopwords: # Number of hits: 1 # Search time: 0.002 seconds # Run time: 0.009 seconds 1000 docs/china.xml "china.xml" 96 . [karpet(at)not-real.pekmac:~/tmp/s]$ cat docs/china.xml <doc> <title>China Confirms Gold Price Suppression</title> <names>foo bar baz</names> </doc> [karpet(at)not-real.pekmac:~/tmp/s]$ cat conf IndexReport 1 IndexOnly .xml IndexContents XML* .xml IndexDir docs IndexFile index.swish-e ParserWarnLevel 1 IgnoreTotalWordCountWhenRanking yes PropertyNames names title -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . peter(at)not-real.peknet.com<mailto:peter(at)not-real.peknet.com> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(at)not-real.lists.swish-e.org<mailto:Users(at)not-real.lists.swish-e.org> http://lists.swish-e.org/listinfo/users itevomcid _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(at)not-real.lists.swish-e.org http://lists.swish-e.org/listinfo/usersReceived on Mon Jul 09 2012 - 01:11:10 GMT


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(KAKE) -- A Kansas lawmaker has apologized for an incident that occurred during a congressional trip to Israel where, after a night of partying and drinking, sources say he took off all of his clothes and jumped into the Sea of Galilee, a Christian holy site where, in the Bible, Jesus is said to have walked on water.
Politico reports that in August of 2011, Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder joined a number of other Members of Congress, their families and GOP staff in the late-night dip into the sea after a night of drinking. Sources who were in attendance say while some swimmers partially removed their clothes, Yoder was the only one who stripped completely naked.
The American Israel Educational Foundation sponsored the trip, which ran from Aug. 13 to Aug. 21, 2011. Politico reports the trip cost AIEF upwards of $10,000 per person, according to records filed with the House Ethics Committee. More than 60 people took part in the trip.
The group of lawmakers was staying in Tiberias, a town located on the banks of the Sea of Galilee at the Scots Hotel where rooms run up to $1,000 a night. Politico reports that according to an itinerary filed with the House Ethics Committee, the group met for dinner at a popular restaurant located on the sea. According to sources who attended the dinner, after the dinner and some drinking, more than 20 lawmakers and senior aids decided to jump into the sea wearing all their clothes, partially undressed, or, in Yoder's case, fully nude.
In a statement to Politico, Yoder admitted what happened and apologized for his actions.
"A year ago, my wife, Brooke, and I joined colleagues for dinner at the Sea of Galilee in Israel. After dinner I followed some Members of Congress in a spontaneous and very brief dive into the sea and regrettably I jumped into the water without a swimsuit," Yoder said. "It is my greatest honor to represent the people of Kansas in Congress and [for] any embarrassment I have caused for my colleagues and constituents, I apologize."
Politico reports the FBI looked into whether any inappropriate behavior occurred, but their investigation did not result in any formal allegations of wrongdoing. Travis Smith, Yoder's chief of staff, says Yoder has not been interviewed by the FBI. The FBI declined to comment on its probe, saying its standard policy was not to comment on such matters.
Yoder has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since January of 2011. He represents Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, which includes Johnson County, Wyandotte County and part of Douglas County. He currently serves on the House Appropriations Committee, the committee responsible for allocating federal spending. He also serves on the Financial Services, Commerce, Justice and Science and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittees.


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The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study reported increased risks of myocardial infarction, stroke, invasive breast cancer, pulmonary emboli, and deep vein thrombosis in postmenopausal women (50 to 79 years of age) during 5 years of treatment with oral conjugated estrogen (estropipate) s (CE 0.625 mg) combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA 2.5 mg) relative to placebo. (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Clinical Studies.)
The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a substudy of WHI, reported increased risk of developing probable dementia in postmenopausal women 65 years of age or older during 4 years of treatment with oral conjugated estrogen (estropipate) s plus medroxyprogesterone acetate relative to placebo. It is unknown whether this finding applies to younger postmenopausal women or to women taking estrogen (estropipate) alone therapy. (See CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Clinical Studies.)
Other doses of conjugated estrogen (estropipate) s with medroxyprogesterone acetate, and other combinations and dosage forms of estrogen (estropipate) s and progestins were not studied in the WHI clinical trials and, in the absence of comparable data, these risks should be assumed to be similar. Because of these risks, estrogen (estropipate) s with or without progestins should be prescribed at the lowest effective doses and for the shortest duration consistent with treatment goals and risks for the individual woman.
OGEN (estropipate tablets), (formerly piperazine estrone sulfate), is a natural estrogen (estropipate) ic substance prepared from purified crystalline estrone, solubilized as the sulfate and stabilized with piperazine. It is appreciably soluble in water and has almost no odor or taste — properties which are ideally suited for oral administration. The amount of piperazine in OGEN (estropipate) is not sufficient to exert a pharmacological action. Its addition ensures solubility, stability, and uniform potency of the estrone sulfate. Chemically estropipate, molecular weight: 436.56, is represented by estra-1,3,5(10)-trien-17-one,3-(sulfooxy)-, compound with piperazine (1:1). The structural formula may be represented as follows:
OGEN (estropipate) is available as tablets for oral administration containing either 0.75 mg (OGEN .625), 1.5 mg (OGEN 1.25), or 3 mg (OGEN 2.5) estropipate (Calculated as sodium estrone sulfate 0.625 mg, 1.25 mg, and 2.5 mg, respectively).
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Each tablet contains: Colloidal silicon dioxide, dibasic potassium phosphate, hydrogen (estropipate) ated vegetable oil wax, hydroxypropyl cellulose, lactose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, sodium starch glycolate and tromethamine.
OGEN (estropipate) .625 also contains: D&C Yellow No. 10 and FD&C Yellow No. 6.
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Before taking this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: vaginal bleeding of unknown cause, certain cancers (such as breast cancer, cancer of the uterus/ovaries), blood clots, stroke, heart disease (such as heart attack), liver disease, kidney disease, family medical history (especially breast lumps, cancer, blood clots, angioedema), blood clotting disorders (such as protein C or protein S deficiency), high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol/triglyceride levels,...
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I am looking to brew a hazelnut brown ale. What brands of hazelnut extract are the best tasting? My lhbs does not carry one. Ideally im looking for a brand that closely resembles the real thing.
I just co authored a book on commercial beer recipes for homebrewers. One of the recipes I got was Rogue Hazelnut Brown ale. The recipe came directly from brewmaster John Maier. They used to use Flavormate extract, but have switched to the Northwestern brand. John says it has much more flavor than other brands. Based upon their usage, 1/2 tsp. for a 5 gal. batch is the right amount.
For my first Rogue hazelnut brown nectar clone I am using a homemade hazelnut extract (2 cups roasted and crushed in 2 cups vodka for 4 weeks) It will not be as potent as the commercial extracts so I am thinking a couple tbs in the 5 gallons - will let you know if interested. ..
Just use a brown ale extract kit, and add some hazelnut flavoring to fermenter. If you don't use a pre-made kit, I would suggest always using the lightest extract you can get, and adding color, flavor using specialty grains. Browns ales are usually made with 1 pound or so of a dark crystal malt (80-120L) and 4oz of chocolate malt. (for 5 gallon batches) easy on the hazelnut, it could get too powerful.
I have had success with a bottle of hazelnut syrup from Starbucks. You can experiment with it by adding it directly to a glass of finished beer.
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Recognizing the importance of creating vibrant and engaging green spaces for Seattle as it grows, Seattle Parks and Recreation moved quickly into action. We are half way through the Levy and have added over 8 acres to the park system and completed 32 development projects.
The map poster to the right lists all the named projects in the levy. Parks values the community's commitment and support and we constantly seek new and innovative ways to engage and serve the public. Again, thank you and we look forward to the completion of these improvement projects over the next six years.
What is the 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy?
It is a lifting of the lid on property taxes that was submitted to Seattle voters on November 4, 2008.
How much will it take in, and over how much time?
$146 million. It will last for six years, from 2009 through 2014.
How much will it cost the owner of a house assessed at a value of $450,000 in 2009?
It will cost $80.78 per year for the life of the levy, which is 2009 through 2014. (Source: Seattle Department of Finance.)
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The City Council created a Parks and Green Spaces Citizens' Advisory Committee in April 2008, and asked the Committee to propose options for parks, open space, boulevard, trail, green infrastructure, and recreation projects and to identify strategic funding options for these potential improvements and acquisitions. The Council asked the committee to report back by June 30, 2008.The Committee submitted its report, and the City Council adopted Ordinance 112749, placing a levy on the November 2008 ballot, on July 21, 2008. 59% of Seattle voters supported the levy.
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The Opportunity Fund allocated $7 million to the first round Opportunity Fund projects in spring 2011. Some of the 15 projects that received funding were an acquisition on 19th and Madison, Jimi Hendrix Park Development and Rainier Beach Urban Farm. The second round allocates the additional $8 million. For more information, please visit the Opportunity Fund page.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – After a disappointing three-game series with North Georgia over the weekend, Anderson University baseball returns to the diamond on Tuesday in search of Beville Cup points against archrival Erskine. First pitch from Erskine's Grier Field is set for 2 p.m.
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Despite out-hitting the Nighthawks for the three-game series (28-27), the Trojans were unable to capitalize on their opportunities, being outscored 26-17 in AU's only three-day series of the season. Senior outfielder Nathan Galliford continues to the lead the squad in most offensive categories, hitting .327 and slugging .633 (sixth in SAC), while posting a .417 on-base percentage with 15 RBI (second in SAC), four home runs (first in SAC), 31 total bases and nine walks. Sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper added four doubles for the weekend to lead the conference with seven.
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After Erskine's 6-0 win over Anderson in its season-opener on Feb. 4, the Flying Fleet has won eight of their last nine including a four-game sweep over Salem International last weekend. Overall, Erskine is off to a 9-1 start and has scored in double digits six times, including a current three-game stretch when it outscored Salem International 38-2 in the final three contests of the series.
Senior outfielder Chase Corn headlines the Fleet lineup, hitting .486 (18-for-37) with four doubles, 18 RBI and 12 runs scored. For the year, Corn has four multi-hit games highlighted by a 4-for-5 day against GRU Augusta and a 3-for-4 performance against SAC opponent Newberry. Junior outfielder Logan Galliher follows Corn with a .455 average with three home runs and 14 RBI. Galliher has recorded a hit in all but one game this season, including blasting two home runs in the third game against Salem International.
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My company I started working for is looking to move from ArcInfo and MapPoint to an online GIS for easier data access/availability. Obviously the GIS capabilities needed are rather basic, but security is a must. What sort of options are out there? In order to ensure security of data, would we need a hosted platform? Any help would be appreciated!
There are a few companies offering hosted solutions. A few that come to mind are Arc2Cloud, GeoIQ, WeoGeo, etc. Although some of them do not list this on their site, you can contact them and find out more about it.
Personally, I have not used them directly and I prefer another route: using my own gis stack in the cloud.
You can use ArcGIS Server/Geoserver/Mapserver with PostGIS or a whole suite of other technologies on any of the cloud solutions (for example Amazon AWS) if want to run your own stack.
If you are going to secure it, forget the fact that it is a "GIS" server. The problem is the same as securing a regular server.
Putting the site behind VPN is good advice from Matthew, but IMHO it is also slow.
Another thing to consider is that you can configure most GIS servers to work over https - so that would leave the problem to be standard problem of securing a site through https. Depending on what web server you use, this may or may not be a CPU intensive thing for the server (newer web servers are awesome at making this scale fine).
Of course other people will recommend to use token-based authentication over un-encrypted channels (like std http). Although this may be easier on the bandwidth, it will also mean that you will be open to session sniffing attacks.
Securing a website is a problem that requires knowledge of various attacks, and if you are asking how to "secure it", then most likely you should not be doing it alone.
Just remember that you will not be able to secure it 100% (it is connected to the Internet after-all), you just need to make it harder to break. How hard is up to you.
I found one option: Online GIS and storage by Ovation Solutions
I would recommend storing your data in PostGIS and serving it through Geoserver. Both free, stable and opensource. Your coworkers can then use the data through a number of interfaces such as mashups, Google Earth, etc... Have a peak at this example.
Geoserver would handle the security... But if you wanted to increase the level of security you could either run everything through a proxy, https or both.
Speed, Security and Ease of Access...these do not tend to go hand in hand. So you've to make a conscious decision which is the most important factor for you and compromise a little on the rest.
Though cloud based solution will give you sufficient security and speed...but many organizations are not willing to put their confidential data onto a cloud, for obvious reasons that they do not "trust" the cloud owner. Going with a well known cloud provider can reduce such risks.
You can have multiple layers of security at the cloud level, but I'm sure it comes with a price!


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What do you call a person who hates everyone but himself? I'm looking for a single word for this.
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I believe the correct word would be misanthrope or misanthropist.
As @theUg suggests, I am elaborating my explanation. Following are the reasons why I believe misanthrope should be the correct word here:
Note: this echoes several other answers and comments, but I had felt most of them lacked detail, and as I became interested in this topic I decided to elaborate.
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A misanthrope would be the most fitting term, but with large shadow of philosophy hanging over, it may require deeper understanding, although in common usage and less demanding context, the somewhat pedantic details may be overlooked.
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First ingredient in our recipe would be the "hatred of mankind". Dictionaries differ in their interpretation of misanthropy, from mere "dislike" in OED's definition, to "mistrust", to the full-on "hatred" in M-W's. But the etymology is unambiguously clear:
With that taken care of, the next step is exclusion of self from universal loathing. That is where things become complicated, as misanthropy can come in many flavours, and, on the other hand, some ideas that may look like misanthropy, are not (that is why M-W's synonymizing of misanthrope with the words like cynic, or pessimist is less than responsible).
One early definition of misanthropy can be found in Plato's dialogue Phaedo:
In essence, it is about someone placing unrealistic expectations on others, and then crushing disillusionment when those fail. It does not imply that the doubts of the worth of humankind extend on the subject, but it may force one to separate from society. However, that would be a key point, as according to Aristotle's Politics, a solitary man is not a man at all (from 1598 translation titled Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government):
Thus, Aristotelian qualification would allow a reclusive misanthrope to avoid a pitfall of intellectual dishonesty ("I hate all of the humanity, except myself, though I am part of that very humanity"), or becoming a pitiful wreck as Alceste, the character from Molière's satire Le Misanthrope, had. And, on the subject of gods, one can be auto-theistic misanthrope. Nietzschean idea of Übermensch and other forms of radical individualism were also criticized for that sort of disregard for humanity.
On the other hand, even though Schopenhauer proclaimed "human existence must be a kind of error", misanthropy does not necessarily mean malicious hatred of others. We could all be failed beings, doomed to suffer together.
Finally, why I think the sorts of narcissistic misanthrope would not work. Basically, it is an oxymoron. Misanthrope despises humankind, and dislikes the idea of society, but narcissists, "unethical" egoists, megalomaniacs and other radically-selfish types, either strive for validation from society, or its subjugation or exploitation.
Like many other answers here, this one is not perfect, but how about
This was my initial response, and a simple Google search reveals that sociopathy is thought of as a severe form of antisocial personality disorder, so it seems like Jim and I are on the same track.
From Merriam-Webster online:
I'm not sure if my assessment of a sociopath is right, and it may be too strong a word for what you intended, and also come with some connotations about destructive behavior that you do not intend, but that's all I got. As stated, it seems English has no perfect word to answer your question. Misanthrope, suggested above, is the next closest thing I can think of to the suggestions I have given.
For reference, here's a very interesting breakdown of the related psychological disorders
In one word it would be antisocial.
'Narcissist' (defined as 'someone who loves oneself excessively') seems to be the word that fits your description.
I don't believe that there is one word that can definitively say that "someone hates everyone else, but himself" because there is some ambiguity concerning how that person feels about himself. So now you are limited to words that describe someone who hates everyone else . . .
I think this is an unanswerable question.
Although this question seems to be without a clear answer, I believe the most concise way to convey such an individual would be to call the individual a "narcissistic misanthrope."
Such a person may suffer from Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD).
In a Wikipedia citation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth edition Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) American Psychiatric Association (2000) pp. 645–650, ASPD is described an Axis II personality disorder characterized by
Therefore, one might say he hates everybody else.
Per Wikipedia, again:
I propose the term Dissocial but I don't consider this adjective alone, being a neologism (to common usage, anyway), to be as strong as describing the person as one who suffers from ASPD. You may find it to be acceptable as an answer to your question.
Urban Dictionary describes a disanthrope as a person who is discordant with mankind. In the present context, I interpret this as someone who considers himself apart from mankind, and the term is also consistent with the more modern usage of "dis", in that he is dismissive (or disrespectful) of mankind. But this doesn't address how the "dissocial person" hates everyone but himself (unless you consider that dis- implies that he is 'apart' or 'separate' from). So I will stand by my neologism - dissocial.
Another possibility is
callous: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others. Not quite hateful, but close.
You might call such a person a scrooge. A scrooge (or Scrooge), named for Charles Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge from his A Christmas Carol, is "A miserly, selfish person." More detail on the Ebenezer Scrooge character from Wikipedia:
The Wikipedia entry goes on to describe how "[h]is last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy, traits displayed by Scrooge in the exaggerated manner for which Dickens is well-known."
Scrooge certainly behaved hatefully towards everyone he encountered. I wouldn't go so far as to say that he loved himself, but he certainly despised everyone else more than he did himself.
Even though I think this question might be unanswerable... How about psychotic...?
a runner up might be nihilist (but a nihilist can want the destruction of everything including themselves)
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