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The Set Up (Part 1)
Fantasy, Anal, BDSM, Bondage and restriction, Domination/submission, Exhibitionism, Extreme, Group Sex, Hardcore, Humiliation, Rape, Torture, Toys
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Gender: female Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Sun 6th of September 2009
Set - Up
Watching as the rain drops slide slowly across the window of the bus, I could not help but think of how I had gotten myself into this situation. It was only two weeks ago that I had flown to this miserable town, and now look where I was. Sitting beside a man I hardly knew, in one of the most slutty outfits I had. My black mini skirt barely left anything to the imagination and could hardly contain my thighs whenever I sat down. Hardly matching, my bright pink tank top, way too small for a my age, stretched horribly thin around my large breasts, exposing my black bra underneath. I must have looked ridiculous to any passerby. My blonde hair done up in a high pony tail and my pink high heels. Who would wear such a thing I told myself. If only they knew! The scenery of the town whizzing by as the buss accelerated towards the countryside. Looking across the man next to me smiled, "And what are you hiding?" Of course he knew. He was the one who jammed them up there in the first place!
"You know! Now where are you taking me?!" I asked harshly.
Slowly he moved his hand over to my thighs, squeezing them gently and then moving up my skirt. I wasn't wearing any panties so his fingers directly touched my pussy. Sliding up and down my pussy lips, opening them slightly, "This one seems fine, let me check the other". I wiggle a little sliding down on the seat as his hand moved down to my ass. I feel his fingers brush up against something large and hard. "Oh, well, lets fix this", pushing gently, I feel the large 8 inch dildo begin to slide back up into my body. Luckily only an inch had slipped out. As the end of the dildo reached my anal lips and was sucked in. Giving the dildo one last push with his finger into my ass, he then tells me to lick off my own juices, which I happily do, loving the taste.
The buss slows to a stop, the brakes squealing. I look out the window at the barren countryside, dotted with a few houses. "This is our stop", I wonder why he brought me out here. I get up carefully, feeling the dildos mashed up inside of my adjusting to my standing position. As I walk down the isle I feel them move, rubbing up against each other. I wince, hoping no one notices how unusually far apart my legs are. As we descend the buss, I look out and my gaze falls upon the public restrooms. The man is standing outside, beckoning me to come over. "Your surprise is inside, toy" he said with a grin, pointing to the mens side. I walk slowly in, opening the door. My gaze falls upon a dirty room, one stall, a urinal and a hose in the corner. "Its in the stall", I hear from behind me. I walk over and then suddenly the man takes hold of my wrists and handcuffs them to each of side of the stall.
"Hey, whats going on", I pull hard, but the shackles are tight. He points to the mirror on the wall.
'Next week, Gang Bang Slut here, 3:00 PM Friday – Anyone and everything invited'
I gasp. Rattling the chains with all my might, I scream for help. The man walks over to me and unzips the duffel he has been carrying, "That's enough out of you!", pulling out a reverse strap on he takes my head roughly, shackling the clasps. "Open wide", I scream, but as I do he forces the dildo into my mouth and down my throat. Tightening the clasps, he then takes some clear tubing out of the bag, "Well, lets see how many things we'll be able to use these for tonight!". I can hardly breath, let alone scream. My breasts heaving, he comes forward. Taking my head in his grasp he pulls it back and pushes the tube up into my nostril. I struggle greatly, the pain hurts. I feel it enter my sinus, sliding easier now, poking around in my head. I struggle harder as I feel myself running out of breath. Strangely I realize the tube is now snaking down the back of my throat. Past the dildo. Three inches down, he stops and then cuts the tubing, forcing the rest so that just a few centimeters stick out of my nose.
I can breath, barely, but its enough. He takes the rest of the tubing and repeats the process, this time it didn't hurt as much. "There you go, much better right?". I mumble and nob my head, feeling the tubes slide against the dildo in my throat. He then unpacks the bag. I see all my toys come out, my inflatable but plug, my anal beads, various dildos, a funnel. I struggle again, to no use. He walks out of the room and closes the door behind him. I,m left here, wheezing through tubes stuck in my nose and two dildos deep inside me. I glance at the watch on my wrist, 2:57 PM, almost time.
My arms shackled on the sides of the stall, I stand waiting, the tubes doing their job by allowing me to breath. I look at myself in the mirrors on both sides of the bathroom. My blonde ponytail tied snugly by the straps holding the dildo in place. Two transparent tubes protruding from my nose, and a large bulge about 3 inches down my jawline. I hear talking in the hall, then footsteps. Hoping that its someone not here to fuck me is coming, I struggle wildly. The handle turns and in walks a large man, grinning. He walks in, turns around and closes the door, hanging up his jacket and a dog leash. I begin to rattle the handcuffs again, but stop soon due to lack of air I can breath. He watches me for a while then begins to walk towards me, stopping at my toys, he picks up my anal beads. Coming around behind me, he grabs my legs together and bends me over, the shackles sliding down the two stall posts. I feel him licking my ass. I push with all my might, forcing the embedded dildo out of my ass and hitting him in the face.
"You bitch slut." he slaps my face and mercilessly pushes the smallest of the beads into my ass. I turn around, the dildo in my throat begins to hurt. I see him grab the next two beads and force them into my ass. I rock forward as he stuffs the next ball in, about the size of a small apple. I begin to feel a small pressure in my abdomen. The last ball, about the size of a pool ball, slides in with a pop, my ass closing about all 5 balls. I let out a strained sigh, creating a whistling from the tubes. I hear the doorknob turn and in walk three more guys, about the same size as the first. All but one hand up their coats. The last one takes off his pants, and hangs them up on the wall along with three large leashes. I struggle when I see how big his cock is. The closest man slaps me hard on the cheek.
"Now that my friends are here, lets see what you look like underneath those clothes" All four guys begin to mercilessly rip my clothes to shreds until all im left with is my black bra. One grabs my breasts and pulls them out. "Woah, look at dos' knockers, dey' dont need no bra!". Another grabs my head and neck, "Look what he has rigged up for us man," he points to the tubing in my nose, "so she dont need no air!". I struggle again, and am instantly slapped and told to be quiet. I feel metal clamps pinching my nipples. It hurts horribly and I let out a slow moan.
"Hey whats this thing?" One says holding up my inflatable butt plug. "I don't know lets try it out." As he begins to force the dildo into my pussy I get a leg free and kick the guy behind me. "You'll pay for that bitch!" He says slapping my tits and twisting the clamps. I groan in pain as the plug disappears into my pussy. One of them begins to pump it, after about 10 seconds I begin to feel a growing pressure in my gut and start to squirm, "I think she likes that, keep going". The one holding the pump begins to pump furiously for 10 more seconds until the pump begins to eject air. I start to scream the pain is unbearable. I feel like a balloon. One begins to tug on the tube protruding from my pussy. Yanking down hard on it, he begins to pull the dildo out. I scream and toss. It feels like he is pulling my insides out. I feel my pussy lips stretching, almost to the point of tearing. I hear all the men gasp, and I feint.
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text: "There's a lady on the ground" - Scenes of Black Friday Video Game Shopping MadnessStephen Totilo11/23/12 2:50pmFiled to: Black Friday254EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Scenes of people shopping for video games today on Black Friday—specifically at Wal-Marts across the country—don't resemble shopping as much as they resemble feeding frenzies. Why they do it like this is beyond me.AdvertisementThis kind of thing is a great argument for downloading games or at least ordering them online. Here's the video referenced in the headline. There's a lady on the ground. She's ok, so the shopping continues. There are tons of videos like this on YouTube. This isn't one store's approach. It's how these stores sell older and/or discounted games to kick off their holiday sales. (Turn your volume down for this one.) Hopefully someone got something good. Otherwise, what's the point? (Turn your volume down for this one.)AdvertisementHappy Black Friday, everyone.Reply254 repliesLeave a reply


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River Flicks: Pitch Perfect
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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Pitch Perfect (Rated PG-13)
After The Barden Bellas, a college a cappella singing group, lose last year's finals Beca (Anna Kendrick) takes it upon herself to restore the group to a new glory.
Free popcorn served. Movie begins at dusk.
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
An Adults-Only Summer Vacation in Grenada
June 26, 2013When summer hits and schools close, many families take to the roads, seas, and skies to reach their ideal vacation destination. The Caribbean is a hot-spot of activity for vacationers, and those looking for a romantic, kid-free time can sometimes run into troubles finding one. Designed for couples, Laluna Resort … Read More
Yoga Takes Many Forms in Grenada
June 19, 2013Laluna Resort established itself as Grenada's premiere wellness resort five years ago with the completion of our Wellness Center. Situated on prime Caribbean beachfront area, there were those who believed that given the value of the land, it would be more cost efficient to build multiple new suites to add to … Read More
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June 12, 2013Whether you're visiting Grenada for Carnival, are on your honeymoon, or are on a quick getaway, Laluna is the premier resort in Grenada for a full-body reset. With all of the stress and toxins put on-and into-your body on a daily basis, an escape to our tropical wellness paradise could … Read More
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June 5, 2013While Carnival may be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about August in Grenada, there are many other activities to engage in when on the island for the festivities. Grenada has a rich, storied history, of which music plays a major part. Found on the boundary-line between the … Read More


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I think its unfair how mages dont get green fire lol jk :P
It's cool and all, but it just drops a huge dump on affliction...
About darn time! Can't wait to get back into WoW to get this...
This looks so cool, I've definitely lvling my lock to 90. I hope blizzard does this for all classes eventually maybe not to change spell colour, but some sort of animation would be awesome.
Im sorry but this is BS, B TO THE EFFIN S. Warlocks have had their pets redone and now spells, and moonkin form hasnt been updated since vanilla
I'm really, really, REALLY excited for this and I need to get my lock to 90 ASAP, but I have a question.What's Warlock Island for if it isn't in the questline? (I may have missed it somewhere on the page, but I dount it.)
Usually I'm all grinch an I tend to shrink my heart by a size ever Christmas but well what can I say? Red is the new green and not the opposite. Don't mistake my statement. I will do the quest. I just won't keep the color.
Oh I can't wait for the green flames! Defiantly doing the quest as soon as I can!
Ok, I made a lock on the PTR the other day just to do the green fire quest.It was really fun, up to the Kanrethad encounter. I whittled his health down to the Pit Lord add, but after I killed the Pit Lord, nothing else happened.I didn't think to control it, I was in destruction spec (didn't think to switch after first boss), and just rezzed pet whenever the Pit Lord killed it.Stood there DPSing Kan for about 13 min, while he just did nothing else.I don't know if there should have been more adds, or what.If you go this route, the ending is going to feel lackluster.
I only am not a fan of the Metamorphosis change. Personally, I think it looks better/more accurate that the demon-form itself stay purple, but the effects turn green. Certainly the fire, immolation aura, etc. But for the actual purple parts of the model to turn green. Little overdone, IMO. Also, I'm not entirely sure how I'll feel about the mounts. I suppose that will depend on how bright or dark the green is. Too bright looks cheesy, but too dark is harder to see the color beyond the shade.Regardless, LONG overdue and I'm happy it's finally coming. I only wish/hope we had a choice on Meta. Though, I suppose my opinion there doesn't count much since I've gone full Affliction, no secondary, since 5.x.Thanks for the update, guys. Great job, as usual.
Ah, finally. A chance to prove my Warlock's power to everyone!
I have a question. Can I complete this chain of quest, but keep my spell color normal?I'm interesting in this quest chain since patch 5.0.5 when I found a book in Stormwind. This quest should be interesting to read and complete but green color of fire spells looks ridiculous.
Because we old school locks have been asking for it since vanilla and blizz very rarely listens to the lock community.
Well at least I can try to get this on any character, apparently.
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The Copa Libertadores might not have the same worldwide name recognition as The Champions League, but this South American club tournament packs just as much excitement. Take the 2011 final between Brazilian side Santos and the Uruguayan team Penarol. A great game with the Santastico side coming up victorious 2-1.
Unfortunately their post game celebrations were interrupted by the Peranol players who took offense to some of the Brazilian fans rushing onto the field to join the party. A lot of flying kicks ensued. Let us take a look.


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RiverFest on Lake James
10th Annual RiverFest will take place at Lake James State Park (Paddy's Creek area) with music, food, a water derby, lake tours, a hawk release, group tables and more!
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Where | Lake James State Park |
Contact Name | Sam Perkin |
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10th Annual Catawba RiverFest scheduled at Lake James State Park
Catawba Valley Heritage Alliance and Lake James State Park announce the
10th annual Catawba RiverFest, to take place from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.,
Saturday, Sept. 21, at Lake James State Park; Paddy's Creek Area in
For generations, the Catawba River has shaped the economic vitality of
the region and remains a public commons of immeasurable recreational
value. The river and its system of reservoirs face competing interests,
including power generation, public water supply, waste assimilation,
recreation and critical aquatic wildlife habitat. Catawba RiverFest
promotes a greater appreciation of this vital waterway and efforts to
protect and improve this valuable natural resource. The day-long event
highlights a variety of conservation groups and their ongoing work to
improve the quality of life for people and animals along the river.
The event will take place at the Paddy's Creek Area of Lake James State
Park, located on State Highway 126. Facilities at the park include a
700-foot swimming beach, concession stand, 6,000 square foot bathhouse,
two picnic shelters, more than 20 individual picnic sites, nearly seven
miles of hiking trails, and a 450-vehicle parking lot. The Paddy's Creek
Area encompasses more than 3,000 acres of undeveloped open space and 33
miles of beautiful Lake James shoreline
The main event; a midday water derby, will include an obstacle course
and an extended lake race. Prizes for the derby are offered in part by
CBS Sports of Morganton, NC. Visitors are encouraged to bring their
canoes and kayaks and participate in this fun competition, which is open
to all ages and levels of experience. A raffle will be conducted in
conjunction with the festival , with various prizes including 9-foot
Heron 9 kayak. Tickets will be available for purchase at Catawba
RiverFest and at CBS Sports.
Festival goers will also have an opportunity to demo kayaks and
paddleboards, sign up for a ranger-guided boat tours and witness a
rehabilitated hawk be released back into the wild.
Sponsors of this free festival include Lake James State Park, Catawba
Valley Heritage Alliance, Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Western
Piedmont Council of Governments and The Friends of Lake James State
There will be a wide variety of organizations to conduct fun activities
and informational booths. Exhibitors include: Carolina Raptor Center, NC
Division of Air Quality, Lake James Area Wildlife and Nature Society,
The Foothills Conservancy, NC Conservation Network, McDowell Trails
Association, McDowell Honeybees, Catawba Valley Outing Club, Lake James
Environmental Association and many more. Good Wood Pizza will be
selling their delicious pies and the park's concession stand will be
open for drinks and snacks. Roving musical entertainment will be
provided by Alan Darveaux with Slight Departure, an area folk group
dedicated to the traditions of indigenous music of western North
Carolina. More information and directions to Catawba RiverFest can be
found at www.heritagealliance.org, search "RiverFest" on Facebook or by
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2012-10-03 / Front Page
Water Main Relining Finally Starts
Monday afternoon, crews started their massive water main relining project. Cold Spring Water Superintendent Greg Phillips said that weather permitting, the job will be completed and there should be a marked change in both fire flow and water quality.
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Fear of Fiction
Fear of FictionDVD
An author suffering from writer's block takes a cross country trip with a pair of identical twins in this surreal road film starring Melissa Leo and Sam Trammell. Sigrid Anderssen (Leo) has a bestselling book and a red hot reputation. Trouble is, her wellof ideas has just run dry. In search of inspiration, she answers an ad seeking a traveling companion for a coast-to-coast cruise. The person who placed the ad is Red (Trammell). He's packed his camping gear for a tour of the south, but he doesn't want tomake the drive alone. When the two road warriors stop to pick up Red's identical twin brother Tom, the road before them seems to stretch out into infinity.


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Teacher's court hearing delayed until Feb. 4
The Supreme Court proceedings for a Langley elementary school teacher accused of molesting one of her students was put off because she had a stomach flu on Wednesday.
Deborah Ralph, 59, was a teacher at James Kennedy Elementary and is charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of sexual interference of a person under the age of 14.
The jury trial was put over until Feb. 4.
It is alleged Ralph sexually assaulted a male student between December 1998 and June 2001.
The alleged victim contacted Langley RCMP on Nov. 8, 2011 to report he had been sexually assaulted by Ralph. He had been one of her students at James Kennedy but alleges he was assaulted when she was no longer his teacher.
Ralph taught at the school from September 1987 to June 2010. She was suspended with pay after she was charged.


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Hey, everyone! First blog post on Giantbomb! Wooo! Let's jump right in!
Last Monday, I took the plunge and went out around 11:00 p.m. to buy myself a pre-paid World of Warcraft subscription card and an AMP energy drink. This comes after many messages sent and received by one Thrawnkkar of Giantbomb and forum posts made on the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm page. Little did I know that there was a Giantbomb community guild for World of Warcraft and I, looking for a reason to blow my money, decided it'd be a great way to get back in the game and hopefully get into some raids, my favorite part of the game. I was worried, though, that making a new character (didn't have one already on <Bomb Sqaud>'s server, Ysera) would take far too long to level up. It's been a while since I made a new character (since The Burning Crusade, to be exact) and since then leveling has become so much quicker! For example, I started Monday night/Tuesday morning and have made it to level 27, an easy feat. I rolled my favorite and the class I was most familiar with, Paladin and tauren for my race. The <Bomb Squad> has been great so far and I hope that I'll be running dungeons with you guys soon!
Yes, I spent the day at the E.R. yesterday due to intense abdominal pain that I was having since 3:00 a.m. on Wednesday. At about 10:00 a.m. I knew that it wasn't going to go away on its own and told my sister about it. She called my mom, wondering what to do, who then told us to go to the E.R. and get it checked out. I spent the rest of the day there and went home around 6:00 p.m. In that time, I fainted from the blood samples they took before setting my I.V. and had to drink the most disgusting thing ever, a contrast to make things more visible when I went in for my CAT scan. Fun stuff. They were worried that it was appendicitis, which it wasn't, but they did find that my lymph nodes near my groin were inflamed/enlarged. By this time, some of the pain had subsided and they told me to just avoid greasy foods and drink a lot of water and follow up with my primary physician. Right now, I don't feel much pain, but I don't feel 100% either. I have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow and I'll know more then.
Until next post, hadet bra (yeah, I'm Norwegian. Big whoop! Wanna fight about it?)!


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Posts Tagged '2013'
Fuse Technologies Year-In-Review: An Exciting Launch In 2013 With More To Come in 2014
July 2013 marked the launch of AGCO's new global precision agriculture initiative, FuseTM Technologies. The Fuse strategy and customer benefits were shared with the world at several key events, involving customers and dealers.
AGCO's Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) leadership unveiled this new strategy at a precision agriculture conference in Lleida, Spain on July 9 and again the following week in Springfield, Illinois at North America's largest precision agriculture tradeshow, InfoAg. The launch was well-received globally, garnering broad exposure on the international business wires as well as with regional media.
Following these launches, Fuse Technologies had a significant presence at the 2013 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, IL, in August. The team hosted two well-attended information sessions during which a panel of AGCO experts and local personalities presented the Fuse strategy and other precision farming topics.
Fuse also had a noteworthy presence at Agritechnica in Hanover, Germany, in November which included the debut of a 3D, interactive smart farm visual that brought the Fuse connected strategy to life for visitors to the AGCO area in Hall 9. Fuse experts were stationed in each brand area to further explain how Fuse helps customers within each brand, and Fuse also had a presence in the Smart Farming exhibit hall.
In the APAC region, AGCO ATS dealers gathered in New Zealand in August for comprehensive training in AGCO's technology offerings. The Fuse South America launch began with the annual dealer meetings in that region: Massey Ferguson dealers in Argentina in November, and Valtra dealers in Brazil in December. The South America customer launch will soon follow with a Fuse presence at regional trade shows starting in early 2014.
An AgCommand website release with new features and updates went live in November, with updates for the mobile app launched this December. There were several product launches at Agritechnica as well: TaskDoc which is now available on select Massey Ferguson combines, VarioDoc availability for select Fendt combines, and Fendt Section Control for most new Profi Plus tractors.
There have also been numerous activities for AGCO employees and dealers to learn about the new Fuse strategy and get excited about how we are delivering on our vision to provide high-tech solutions for professional farmers feeding the world.
What's next for Fuse Technologies? ATS recently launched the Fuse Contact Center, a dedicated, global customer support center, first opened in North America with more regions coming on board in early 2014. The Fuse team will continue to provide ongoing support of the strategy from product development to marketing and communications. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest Fuse news!
To learn more about AGCO's on and off board technologies and the Fuse Technologies strategy, visit http://www.agcocorp.com/products/precision_farming.aspx.
Award Success for Massey Ferguson MF 5600 at LAMMA 2013
The Massey Ferguson MF 5600 Series was honored with an Award of Merit for the Best New Product or Innovation at the LAMMA, UK show 2013. The tractors, which made their UK debut at the event, attracted many positive comments from throngs of visitors to the busy stand.
"The MF 5600 Series brings together straight-forward operation with some sophisticated features that provide great comfort and control," says Andy Prosser, Manager Sales Support, who accepted the Award at the event.
Operators will also appreciate the new, spacious cab that is the based on that used on the larger MF 7600 range. This boasts a new right-hand console and controls that provide simple operation and can be specified with a Slimline, Visio or Standard roof as well as being fitted in two positions to exactly suit all customers' requirements.
The MF 5600 Series sets the new standard for loader operations. The three cylinder engine's compact dimension ensures excellent maneuverability and combines with the transmission's ease of operation, with a new joystick not only operating the loader, but also changes direction with the same lever. A new automatic high-flow 100 liter/min hydraulic option also speeds up cycle times.


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Cavanagh's Tortured Life
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011This is a great article about a very unfortunate topic:
From the San Jose Mercury-News … It confirms something not explicitly stated at the time — that former Harvard star Tom Cavanagh committed suicide. It goes into details of his mental deterioration and schizophrenia that he hid for a long time but became more acute over the last year.
I remember Tom Cavanagh's time at Harvard, and he was everything that the article says — an "honest" player, a hard worker, whose play "exceeded his skill."


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They've got muck; we've got rakes. TPM Muckraker
Feds Seek Long Sentences In Occupy Bridge Bomb Plot
Douglas Wright, Brandon Baxter and Connor Stevens were arrested in May as part of an FBI sting. They were charged with plotting to use C-4 explosives to blow up the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge in Ohio as part of a "May Day" protest. A fourth man, Anthony Hayne, is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday, while a fifth, Joshua Stafford, is undergoing a competency evaluation.
Federal prosecutors on Friday filed paperwork asking U.S. District Judge David Dowd Jr. to sentence Wright to 30 years, Baxter to 25 years and Stevens to 19 years in prison. The men, in their early- to mid-20s, pleaded guilty in September. The government contended that all three pose a danger to society, suggesting Wright has a "history of glorifying violence and seeking out confrontation," arguing that Baxter had "utter contempt for human life" and calling Stevens "a young man filled with violence and hatred."
Dozens of family members, friends and associates of Baxter and Stevens wrote letters to Dowd asking the judge for leniency. Many of the letters took issue with the tactics the FBI used during the investigation, claiming the bureau set up the men.
As the Smoking Gun reported, the FBI's cooperating witness in the plot was 39-year-old Shaquille Azir, who was arrested for bad check and theft charges while he was cooperating with the feds. Lawyers for all three of the men argued earlier this month that Azir "knew how to play the system" by having his attorney inform local court authorities about his work with the FBI.
"It is no wonder that the [Azir] went to the great lengths that he did in order to get the defendants indicted," lawyers for the men argued. "He had to, if he was going to stay out of jail. He seduced three homeless troubled young men with meals, money, jobs and drugs and then prodded them into accepting the C-4 when they had no plan to acquire it, let alone to use it."


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Miss Piggy
Seriously, what would Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week be without Miss Piggy? She stole the show at the Mercedes-Benz Star Lounge. We're loving Miss Piggy's vampy jacket and signature purple gloves! If only Kermit could be this fashion forward.
AnnaSophia Robb
We couldn't resist including AnnaSophia Robb's delicious leather getup at the Jason Wu show. A twist on the usual leather jacket, Robb's leather skirt proves that the confident power-girl look is definitely in.
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Rose Byrne
Is it a jumper? Is it a dress? Whatever Rose Byrne's Jill Stuart creation is, we give the gal props! Spotted front row at the designer's show, we can't wait to see what else the Bridesmaids star has up her fashionable sleeve.
Minka Kelly
Channeling her inner Grace Kelly, could Minka Kelly's Oscar de la Renta outfit get anymore awesome? Hey Minka, can we please borrow those super cute shoes?
Jenna Dewan-Tatum
Front row at Naeem Khan, Jenna Dewan-Tatum nails a sleek and sophisticated look with this black and white stunner. Congrats, Jenna! You've given us yet another reason to be totally envious of you.
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This Obama-supported "Occupy" group's plans for Halloween
Original post made by inform yourself, Amador Estates, on Sep 26, 2012
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Btw: If you'd like to learn more about this group ("God bless them" said Nancy Pelosi), check out this movie called "Occupy Unmasked" >>> Web Link
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 26, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Kind of reminds me of the great patriots who engaged in the Boston Tea Party.
a resident of Downtown
on Sep 26, 2012 at 11:36 pm
MePartyPatriot is a registered user.
The Occupy movement thinks President Obama sold out. He's a centralist, that is, a rationalist.
The Occupy movement is no more part of the Democrats than the Republicans are part of a rationalist thinking.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Sep 27, 2012 at 6:54 am
Hey Former Rep,
I agree with you that the Occupy Group "kind of reminds me of the great patriots who engaged in the Boston Tea Party."
With one "slight" difference...
The Boston Tea Party patriots where rebelling in favor of FREEDOM.
The Occupy Group (funded by Soros, the SEIU and other democrat groups) are rebelling AGAINST FREEDOM and FOR COMMUNISM
Trouble is...I think the Occupiers and the Obamabots are winning.
Someday, citizens in America will look back and long for the days we had freedom in America. Anyone who votes for any democrat is helping to extinguish the flame of freedom.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 27, 2012 at 8:42 am
Thanks for sharing that astute commentary with us 'getting informed'. It is child-like reasoning like yours that drove me out of the Republican Party.
a resident of another community
on Sep 27, 2012 at 9:19 am
I was glad to see it reported on the news this morning that an occupy encampment in SF in front of the Federal Bldg was busted up and 20 scummy squatters were arrested. The place had turned into a small landfill, with squatters using the landscaping for a toilet.
Yup, true patriots in the mold of our forefathers.....sympathizing with these losers only drags you down to their level.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 27, 2012 at 9:22 am
Ditto ...
Ready, set, go! Let's see who will contribute the most hate-filled piece of vitriol. Because, boy, a lot of us really really hate don't we?
a resident of another community
on Sep 27, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Former republican, current dem weenie: you've substituted your manhood for the leftist version of being male; emasculated metrosexual.
So sorry, you give our gender a bad name.
By the way, it's ok to criticize, so your misinterpretation of that as hate sounds like talking points from the dem play book. You probably think it s racist to criticize the occupier of the White House...........grow up.


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Subject | [jira] Commented: (HADOOP-3421) Requirements for a Resource Manager for Hadoop |
Date | Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:04:45 GMT |
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3421?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12602972#action_12602972 ] Hong Tang commented on HADOOP-3421: ----------------------------------- I think I got your point. Yes, historically, SuperComputing centers do use the name "Queue" to describe "Job repositories". So maybe we should stick with the name "Queue" (and I will always use "Job queue" in the following for clarity). What I describe as "scheduler" would then be the underlying mechanism and policy that arranges jobs in the "Job Queue", and in the scheduler, the implementation may have data-structure queues. If we support multiple "Job Queues" for each org, the scheduler in each may be oblivious to each other and thus it could be harder to implement intelligent scheduling (due to unpredictable interferance). So the reason I see you want to have multiple "Job Queue" is that you can associate access and capacity control at the "Job Queue" level (instead of at the job level). What I am thinking is that we can provide only one "Job Queue" per org, but inside each "Job Queue", we can have job classes, and we associate resource allocation, prioritization of jobs in the same class, access/capacity control a the job class level. Admittedly, it is just a change of view. If we can clearly define how resources are allocated among different "Job Queues" and use a single scheduler to drive all Job queues in one Org, then we get mostly the same thing... > Requirements for a Resource Manager for Hadoop > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-3421 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3421 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Vivek Ratan > > This is a proposal to extend the scheduling functionality of Hadoop to allow sharing of large clusters without the use of HOD. We're suffering from performance issues with HOD and not finding it the right model for running jobs. We have concluded that a native Hadoop Resource Manager would be more useful to many people if it supported the features we need for sharing clusters across large groups and organizations. > Below are the key requirements for a Resource Manager for Hadoop. First, some terminology used in this writeup: > * *RM*: Resource Manager. What we're building. > * *MR*: Map Reduce. > * A *job* is an MR job for now, but can be any request. Jobs are submitted by users to the Grid. MR jobs are made up of units of computation called *tasks*. > * A grid has a variety of *resources* of different *capacities* that are allocated to tasks. For the the early version of the grid, the only resource considered is a Map or Reduce slot, which can execute a task. Each slot can run one or more tasks. Later versions may look at resources such as local temporary storage or CPUs. > * *V1*: version 1. Some features are simplified for V1. > h3. Orgs, queues, users, jobs > Organizations (*Orgs*) are distinct entities for administration, configuration, billing and reporting purposes. *Users* belong to Orgs. Orgs have *queues* of jobs, where a queue represents a collection of jobs that share some scheduling criteria. > * *1.1.* For V1, each queue will belong to one Org and each Org will have one queue. > * *1.2.* Jobs are submitted to queues. A single job can be submitted to only one queue. It follows that a job will have a user and an Org associated with it. > * *1.3.* A user can belong to multiple Orgs and can potentially submit jobs to multiple queues. > * *1.4.* Orgs are guaranteed a fraction of the capacity of the grid (their 'guaranteed capacity') in the sense that a certain capacity of resources will be at their disposal. All jobs submitted to the queues of an Org will have access to the capacity guaranteed to the Org. > ** Note: it is expected that the sum of the guaranteed capacity of each Org should equal the resources in the Grid. If the sum is lower, some resources will not be used. If the sum is higher, the RM cannot maintain guarantees for all Orgs. > * *1.5.* At any given time, free resources can be allocated to any Org beyond their guaranteed capacity. For example this may be in the proportion of guaranteed capacities of various Orgs or some other way. However, these excess allocated resources can be reclaimed and made available to another Org in order to meet its capacity guarantee. > * *1.6.* N minutes after an org reclaims resources, it should have all its reserved capacity available. Put another way, the system will guarantee that excess resources taken from an Org will be restored to it within N minutes of its need for them. > * *1.7.* Queues have access control. Queues can specify which users are (not) allowed to submit jobs to it. A user's job submission will be rejected if the user does not have access rights to the queue. > h3. Job capacity > * *2.1.* Users will just submit jobs to the Grid. They do not need to specify the capacity required for their jobs (i.e. how many parallel tasks the job needs). [Most MR jobs are elastic and do not require a fixed number of parallel tasks to run - they can run with as little or as much task parallelism as they can get. This amount of task parallelism is usually limited by the number of mappers required (which is computed by the system and not by the user) or the amount of free resources available in the grid. In most cases, the user wants to just submit a job and let the system take care of utilizing as many or as little resources as it can.] > h3. Priorities > * *3.1.* Jobs can optionally have priorities associated with them. For V1, we support the same set of priorities available to MR jobs today. > * *3.2.* Queues can optionally support priorities for jobs. By default, a queue does not support priorities, in which case it will ignore (with a warning) any priority levels specified by jobs submitted to it. If a queue does support priorities, it will have a default priority associated with it, which is assigned to jobs that don't have priorities. Reqs 3.1 and 3.2 together mean this: if a queue supports priorities, then a job is assigned the default priority if it doesn't have one specified, else the job's specified priority is used. If a queue does not support priorities, then it ignores priorities specified for jobs. > * *3.3.* Within a queue, jobs with higher priority will have access to the queue's resources before jobs with lower priority. However, once a job is running, it will not be preempted (i.e., stopped and restarted) for a higher priority job. What this also means is that comparison of priorities makes sense within queues, and not across them. > h3. Fairness/limits > * *4.1.* In order to prevent one or more users from monopolizing its resources, each queue enforces a limit on the percentage of resources allocated to a user at any given time, if there is competition for them. This user limit can vary between a minimum and maximum value. For V1, all users have the same limit, whose maximum value is dictated by the number of users who have submitted jobs, and whose minimum value is a pre-configured value UL-MIN. For example, suppose UL-MIN is 25. If two users have submitted jobs to a queue, no single user can use more than 50% of the queue resources. If a third user submits a job, no single user can use more than 33% of the queue resources. With 4 or more users, no user can use more than 25% of the queue's resources. > ** Limits apply to newer scheduling, i.e., running jobs or tasks will not be preempted. > ** The value of UL-MIN can be set differently per Org. > h3. Job queue interaction > * *5.1.* Interaction with the Job queue should be through a command line interface and a web-based GUI. > * *5.2.* All queues are visible to all users. The Web UI will provide a single-page view of all queues. > * *5.3.* Users should be able to delete their queued jobs at any time. > * *5.4.* Users should be able to see capacity statistics for various Orgs (what is the capacity allocated, how much is being used, etc.) > * *5.5.* Existing utilities, such as the *hadoop job -list* command, should be enhanced to show additional attributes that are relevant. For e.g. which queue is associated with the job. > h3. Accounting > * *6.1.* The RM must provide accounting information in a manner that can be easily consumed by external plug-ins or utilities to integrate with 3rd party accounting systems. The accounting information should comprise of the following information: > ** Username running the Hadoop job, > ** job id, > ** job name, > ** queue to which job was submitted and organization owning the queue, > ** number of resource units (for e.g. slots) used > ** number of maps / reduces, > ** timings - time of entry into the queue, start and end times of the job, perhaps total node hours, > ** status of the job - success, failed, killed, etc. > * *6.2.* To assist deployments which do not require accounting, it should be possible to turn off this feature. > h3. Availability > * *7.1* Job state needs to be persisted (RM restarts should not cause jobs to die) > h3. Scalability > * *8.1.* Scale to 3k+ nodes > * *8.2.* Scale to handle 1k+ large submitted jobs, each with 100k+ tasks > h3. Configuration > * *9.1.* The system must provide a mechanism to create and delete organizations, and queues within the organizations. It must also provide a mechanism to configure various properties of these objects. > * *9.2.* Only users with administrative privileges can perform operations of managing and configuring these objects in the system. > * *9.3.* Configuration changes must be effective in the RM without requiring its restart. They must be effective in a reasonable amount of time since the modification is made. > * *9.4.* For most of the configurations, it appears that there can be values at various levels - Grid, organization, queue, user and job. For e.g. there can be a default value for the resource quota per user at a Grid level, which can be overridden at an org level, and so on. There must be an easy way to express these configurations in this hierarchical fashion. Also, values at a broader level can be overridden by values at a more narrow level. > * *9.5.* There must be appropriate default objects and default values for their configuration. This is to help deployments that do not need a complex scheduling setup. > h3. Logging Enhancements > * *10.1.* For purposes of debugging, the Hadoop web UI should provide a facility to see details of all jobs. While this is mostly supported today, any changes to meet other requirements, such as scalability, must not affect this feature. Also, it must be possible to view task logs from Job history UI (see HADOOP:2165) > * *10.2.* The system must log all relevant events about a job vis-a-vis scheduling. Particularly, changes in state of a job (queued -> scheduled -> completed | killed), and events which caused these changes must be logged. > * *10.3.* The system should be able to provide relevant, explanatory information about the status of job to give feedback to users. This could be a diagnostic string such as why the job is queued or why it failed. (For e.g. lack of sufficient resources - how many were asked, how many are available, exceeding user limits, etc). This information must be available to users, as well as in the logs for debugging purposes. It should also be possible to programmatically get this information. > * *10.4.* The host which submitted the job should be part of log messages. This would assist in debugging. > h3. Security Enhancements > * *11.1.* The RM should provide a mechanism for controlling who can submit jobs to which queue. This could be done using an ACL mechanism that consists of an ordered whitelist and blacklist of users. The order can determine which ACL would apply in case of conflicts. > * *11.2.* The system must provide a mechanism to list users who have administrative control. Only users in this list should be allowed to modify configuration related to the RM, like configuration, setting up objects, etc. > * *11.3.* The system should be able to schedule tasks running on behalf of multiple users concurrently on the same host in a secure manner. 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In the state of South Carolina, they are having a tax free sale on all firearms. Did not find this out until today when I went in to get some ammo. It will run through Saturday. I am not planning on purchasing anything but thought it was funny idea.
Does anybody else possibly know the reason behind such a decision. Its not like gun sales need a stimulus at the present time.
In the county I live in, it would add up to another 8% off the gun of your choice.
That's pretty sweet! Go buy something!
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I may be building a BD/HTPC and I would not want it to conflict with his gear. There are cases out there that look like Aragon equipment and such. I just want to pick out something that's classy, roomy and able to fit in his rack/equiment stand and not scream "Hi, I'm a computer".
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You are right, most people (the mainstream consumer) do not care. We certainly only clouded the issue more with the format war. And, low and behold, the record companies do not care. Thus, the demise of SACD and DVD-A. People on this forum have to realize that the high end community represents a small market, compared to the rest. Now, there have been opportunities where we could have gotten more people to gain interest. I believed High Definition was one of those areas. But, we shot ourselves in the foot, with the format war.. We don`t get many chances like this!! A few weeks ago I listened to Dan at Krell at Sound by Singer talk about why he made the KID for the I - Pod. 125 million people have bought those little music servers. 125 million!!!!!!!!!!! They are hoping to tap somehow into that marketplace. Dan and Krell have the vision, what about the rest of the industry??!! |
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To quote a bit from this read, Why doesn't my local Blockbuster carry Blu-ray Disc movies? In fact, why are my trips to Blockbuster so infrequent these days? I'm thinking that Blu-ray -- and high-definition optical disc ownership in general -- just isn't that appealing. I've watched Blu-ray movies on the best televisions money can buy in Circuit City, Best Buy and Tweeter, and while the picture looks terrific, it just doesn't have me reaching for my wallet the way DVDs did when they were first introduced. Maybe it's because it's an evolutionary improvement in video quality and not the revolutionary jump that occurred when DVDs overtook VHS tapes. So I've come up with these four reasons why I -- and probably most of America -- won't be heading down to Wal-Mart to buy a Blu-ray player anytime soon. And it goes on to say These days, I prefer the video-on-demand services I get off my set-top cable box. They're cheap and easy to use. According to Michael Cai, director of broadband and gaming issues at media research firm Park Associates in Dallas, Internet movie downloads and video-on-demand rentals will represent a $1 billion market in two years. If you include advertising dollars, it will represent a $7 billion market in 2010. Also coming down the pike is the ability to buy movies from your cable provider and store them either on your set-top DVR box or store them with your cable provider just like any online storage service offers free capacity today, according to Cai. "Cable service providers with video-on-demand services are a strong contender to Internet video downloads," he says. "If you can fairly easily rent or buy a movie through a cable box, you'd probably rather do that than ordering a movie through an Internet site." I think the "evolutionary improvement" comment and the fact that Blu Ray is not a significant jump over DVD like DVD was over VHS will kill off Blue Ray. YMMV, of course, but Joe and Susie control the mass market, not us. Now here's another consideration: Do older people or younger people have more discretionary income? Right - older people do. But, how sharp is their vision? How many of these older people with the money to buy Blu Ray really have good enough vision to really appreciate the difference between 720p and 1080p? No company I know has even researched this question because the people in the executive suite are generally all on the young side and this question has simply never occurred to them.
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Neighbors need facts about Cornelius group home
As a citizen of Washington County I am concerned about the media coverage of the Connell House and resulting community response. It is appropriate for all citizens to be concerned when discovering a risk in their neighborhood.
Unfortunately this anxiety has been fanned by the lack of accurate information.
It has been said that additional Psychiatric Security Review Board conditional releases from the Oregon State Hospital (OSH) are due to the, 'pending closure of the hospital.' This is untrue as the hospital is not closing; rather the buildings are being replaced due to years of facility neglect. The hospital itself will remain operational during and after this process.
An accusation that the PSRB has 'commuted' the sentences of those under their jurisdiction is inaccurate given that the board cannot 'commute' sentences. This being said, the question appears to be, why is the board able to release individuals from OSH and into the community?
According to the Oregon Revised Statutes, individuals are to be committed to either OSH or, 'A secure intensive community inpatient facility designated by the Department of Human Services.' These legal statutes define the operation of the PSRB and, as a result, the level of security afforded to the community, a level of security significantly higher than that of the correctional system (i.e. probation).
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Patent reform will take a bit longer to come about
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) has taken its fair share of criticism of late, with some
calling it a "broken" system
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$1.92M USD verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset
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threatening to sue the New York City
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In recent years, the debates over copyright have become increasingly contentious. Too often copyright and technology policies are seen as pitted against each other, as if a meaningful copyright system is antithetical to the innovative power of the Internet, or an open Internet will result in the end of copyright. We do not believe such a dichotomy is necessary or appropriate.
It alludes to recent audits which
revealed rampant abuse
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Copyright wars have raged for over a century in the U.S. as law clashed with new technologies.
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Establishing a multistakeholder dialogue on improving the operation of the notice and takedown system for removing infringing content from the Internet under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA)). It also says it will "solicit public comment". The paper offered no details on when or where the public can take advantage of these opportunities, but it advises interested citizens to "stay tuned for announcements."
At this point some of you may be thinking -- "Great, that covers copyright, but what about patents?"
Recall, with government bureaucracy and public indignation there's a certain latency/suffering period between whenever things go to the metaphorical Hades in a hand basket and when the government finally feels compelled to take action. The copyright wars
largely raged in the early 2000s
. By 2010 the RIAA had
mostly scuttled its campaign of threat letters against citizens
and while flashy infringement battles continued to emerge, much of the worse abuses were already said and done.
Likewise the
smartphone patent battles
, and the general
rise in patent trolling in the software industry
-- a present tense battle that emerged in full effect around 2010 -- may not be
resolved with reform
until 2020 or later, perhaps.
"So far we have not seen a single Android device that does not infringe on our patents." -- Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith
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what about the phaedo? you've got recollection, discussions of the soul and of eidos, and a dramatic setting that follows very nicely from the apology.
- Tue May 13, 07:50:00 AM
- Doctor J said...
That was actually my second choice, so I'm glad to see you confirm it, Melanie!
By the way, when are y'all moving? - Wed May 14, 07:45:00 AM
- Booga Face said...
Please accept my apologies in advance for being a complete snot in this post, but you've touched on one of my biggest peeves.
When I was a college student, my friends and I had a different name for the "great books class." We called it "stuff we read over summer vacation." And my summer reading was often only slightly more random and arbitrary than the list of great books in a great books class.
In my view, great books classes, like SUV's, are criminal.
There are numerous problems with great books classes. First, they begin with the assumption that the student must come to class with a worshipful pose, that these books have been selected as the repositories of enduring value (though the terms of their selection is obviously suspect), and that one can only be a true member of the elite class if one has read these "great works" which are sufficiently distant from our present reality so as not to trouble anyone's actual lifestyle. In other words, great books courses begin with classist (not classicist) assumptions and promote a somewhat fascist orientation to learning.
Pedagogically, it's worse. Let me compare a great books class with a real literature class. A real literature class has some sort of method. There are many methods. One method is historical, in which the students are taught how literature responds to various events and literary genre change over time as socio-economic conditions change. For instance, the novel can't exist as a form until print culture becomes cheap enough. Likewise, the so-called "canon" of great books was largely created in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by white men to justify Western European imperialism (and Plato is part of that, not because Plato himself promoted imperialism, but because claiming Plato as our intellectual ancestor -- and not claiming, for instance, the inventors of modern math and Algebra because they happened to have written in Arabic and lived in Baghdad -- clearly has a politics to it.) Understanding literature historically teaches students to question what ends up on the fucking list of books handed to them, and enables them to think about how to revise that list themselves.
That's the historical method. There are other methods of course -- deconstruction being one of them.
However, I recognize that our teaching has to deal with the many preconceptions that students have about what learning is when they come to college. Most of them have already been brainwashed into thinking that great-books learning is what real learning is, even though they haven't a clue why. So, we have to start with where they live, and move them somewhere... um... so I suppose ultimately, I somewhat agree with you that a great books class is good for first-year students, so long as the goal of that course is to move them away from great books learning. A paraodox, surely.
I think most great books classes end up being centered around a "theme." The theme method -- if one can call it a method -- seems to me good enough, so long as the theme is tackled with some conceptual rigor and focus. When I teach literature, I usually try to blend the conceptual with the historical, so that the students can be excited by big, fancy concepts (like freedom or something) at the same time that they attend to historical context and alternative points of view. For example, putting John Locke's notion of freedom next to an 18th c. romance novel's hypothetical situating of freedom is more illuminating in my view than tracing the stale genealogy of Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Hume... groan, kill me. All of my students very quickly noticed how much Locke overlooks simply by noticing how much richer something as patently silly as a romance novel was. It's obvious that the woman in the novel doesn't have the same ability to form social contracts as the man does, and so... yes, clearly Locke is more even more simplistic and fantastic than romance novels, and that's not to say that romance novels aren't also simplistic and fantastic. Putting Locke next to Olaudah Equiano or any text that even mentions real slavery is similarly illuminating.
So, in my view, the attempt to "cover" the great classics of Western civilization is a mistake, because you can't. And you shouldn't even want to. And likewise, focusing on "content" rather than on "context" or "concept" is also a mistake. In other words, your question about "which Plato" to read (i.e., which content to include on the syllabus) is the wrong question. The right questions are "which context" and "which concept"? - Wed May 14, 01:41:00 PM
- Ideas Man, Ph.D. said...
Leaving aside questions of canonicality, if you want a good introduction to Plato that's shorter I agree the Phaedo is a good way to go...
But the Symposium is so much more enjoyable a text. - Wed May 14, 03:17:00 PM
- Ideas Man, Ph.D. said...
And by Plato, I of course mean Platonism since the best way to get a good introduction to Plato remains to go to the right kind of bar in Athens and ask for Alcibiades...
- Wed May 14, 03:20:00 PM
i guess my question would be the same as ideas man implicitly asks, namely, what is the ultimate aim of the program (i.e. what do you want your students to learn, or get, from the 3 courses)? if you're going for a rudimentary "systematic" knowledge of certain figures or schools, then the Republic or Phaedo routes would be the way to go. if something else is the primary motivation, though, it might not be.
i am inclined to agree that the Phaedo is the best way to go for certain purposes (classic "Platonism"), but for other purposes, the Symposium has obvious advantages. and i have to say, virtually every semester in which i have taught the _Symposium_, it has ended up being the class favorite.
the S also gives you an opening into certain aspects of Athenian culture that i think are not as obvious with the Phaedo, if that's what you're going for. either one, i think, gives you a great (though different) route into discussions about the body. i've also found that the move from love of soul/character to love of laws and customs, provides a nice route towards discussing a vision of society in which government is supposed to help direct us towards a/the g/Good. so for me, the Symposium also works better as a sociopolitical text, as well. - Fri May 16, 05:34:00 PM


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First post here.
I'm looking at the 44L Granoro suit and am wondering if it's going to work for me. I am pretty tall (6'4") and have large thighs (27" circumference at the widest part). My inseam is 34" and I wear a 17-36 shirt. My problem buying suits (especially with flat-front trousers) is that the trousers are typically pretty snug. I don't need baggy, but I need to be able to put keys and wallet in my pockets. I recently tried a 44L Hugo Boss that fit perfectly, except for the thighs, which couldn't be let out enough to make it work.
I'm also a little concerned that the jacket might not be long enough (body not sleeves). I don't really know how to measure my torso, though.
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Tacking on to my last question...
I went suit shopping today to get a better feel for the fit of different cuts. So far, the best fitting jacket I have found was a Hugo Boss 44L. The trousers were way too tight in the thighs, though. I also went to Brooks Brothers and tried on one of their Fitzgerald suits (46L). The pants (flat front) fit great and the jacket was pretty good too, though the waist would need to come in a fair amount.
Not knowing how your suits fit in comparison to these, I'm wondering if a 44L will be big enough in the shoulders (I am very square-shouldered) and if the pants would fit at all. And unfortunately you don't seem to have anything in 46L other than a Maestro jacket, which I'm not as fond of due to the high button.
From a hard-to-fit guy...HELP!
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Zynga Just Can't Win (ZNGA, FB)
Published 12:46 pm, Friday, November 30, 2012
Mark Pincus just can't figure out how to play Wall Street's game.
Zynga's stock is down 7 percent Friday morning after the online-games maker announced major changes Thursday afternoon to its agreement with Facebook, the platform that fueled its initial runaway success.
Even when Zynga was a private company, it was dogged by concerns that it was overly dependent on Facebook. After it went public, those worries were realized after Facebook altered its algorithms in a way that punished Zynga's viral promotion techniques on the social network. Starting in May, usage cratered.
So what happens when Zynga alters its agreement with Facebook to make it less dependent on the social network? The stock goes down.
So Zynga gets punished for being overly dependent on Facebook. And then it gets punished for trying to ease off its dependence.
One way to read this: Investors are not confident in Zynga's plan to grow off of Facebook—on mobile and on Zynga.com.
That's reasonable. All of Zynga's top mobile hits so far have come through acquisitions. And its Zynga.com website is still nascent. Quantcast shows a steady decline from 5 million U.S. visitors in June to 3.6 million in November. That's going in the wrong direction.
FarmVille 2 and CityVille 2, its recently released sequels, are huge hits with tens of millions of players. But those are traditional Facebook games. Zynga won't get a free hand to pursue a Facebook-independent strategy until March, which is when the companies agreed they'd start to unwind some of their exclusivity terms.
The only thing Pincus & Co. can do now is deliver real numbers. Unlike the players of its games, there's no way to buy magic points to skip a level. It's just a matter of grinding through one challenge after another.
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"Dammit, where are my White Castle burgers? Come on, humans, don't try and tell me that the trip I took to the store yesterday to specifically get those burgers was just imaginary.
You might as well fess-up and admit that you ate them! I'm gonna wreck this entire fridge unless I get some honesty!"


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Stickeen, John Muir, 1909
In the summer of 1880 I set out from Fort Wrangel in a
canoe to continue the exploration of the icy region
of southeastern Alaska, begun in the fall of 1879.
After the necessary provisions, blankets, etc., had
been collected and stowed away, and my Indian crew
were in their places ready to start, while a crowd of
their relatives and friends on the wharf were bidding
them good-by and good-luck, my companion, the Rev.
Young, for whom we were waiting, at last came aboard,
followed by a little black dog, that immediately made
himself at home by curling up in a hollow among the
baggage. I like dogs, but this one seemed so small
and worthless that I objected to his going, and asked
the missionary why he was taking him.
"Such a little helpless creature will only be in the
way," I said; "you had better pass him up to the Indian
boys on the wharf, to be taken home to play with the
children. The poor silly thing will be in rain and snow
for weeks or months, and will require care like a
His master assured me that he would be no trouble
at all; that he was a perfect wonder of a dog, could
endure cold and hunger like a bear, swim like a
seal, and was wondrous wise and cunning, etc.,
making out a list of virtues to show he might be the
most interesting member of the party.
Nobody could hope to unravel the lines of his ancestry.
In all the wonderfully mixed and varied dog-tribe
I never saw any creature very much like him. At
first sight his only noticeable feature was his fine
tail, which was about as airy and shady as a
squirrel's, and was carried curling forward almost to
his nose. On closer inspection you might notice his
thin sensitive ears, and sharp eyes with cunning
tan-spots above them. Mr. Young told me that when
the little fellow was a pup about the size of a
woodrat he was presented to his wife by an Irish
prospector at Sitka, and that on his arrival at Fort
Wrangel he was adopted with enthusiasm by
the Stickeen Indians as a sort of new good-luck
totem, was named "Stickeen" for the tribe, and
became a universal favorite; petted, protected,
and admired wherever he went, and regarded
as a mysterious fountain of wisdom.
After we had explored the Sundum and Tahkoo
fiords and their glaciers, we sailed through
Stephen's Passage into Lynn Canal and thence
through Icy Strait into Cross Sound, searching for
unexplored inlets leading toward the great fountain
ice-fields of the Fairweather Range.
I planned a far-and-wide excursion for the morrow.
I awoke early, called not only by the glacier, which
had been on my mind all night, but by a grand
flood-storm. The wind was blowing a gale from
the north and the rain was flying with the clouds
in a wide passionate horizontal flood, as if it
were all passing over the country instead of falling
on it. I had intended making a cup of coffee and
getting something like a breakfast before starting,
but when I heard the storm and looked out I made
haste to join it; for many of Nature's finest lessons
are found in her storms, and if careful to keep in
right relations with them, we may go safely abroad
with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of
their works and ways, and chanting with the old
Norsemen, "The blast of the tempest aids our oars,
the hurricane is our servant and drives us whiter we
wish to go."
Stickeen left his bed in the tent and came boring
through the blast after me. "Now don't, Stickeen.
You must be daft. This wild day has nothing for
you. Go back to the camp and keep warm, and be
sensible for once. I can't carry you all day or
feed you, and this storm will kill you."
But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the
affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as
with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and
pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but
killing us at times in getting her lessons driven
hard home. After I had stopped again and again,
shouting good warning advice, I saw that he was
not to be shaken off; as well the earth try to shake
off the moon.
At length our way was barred by a very wide and
straight crevasse, which I traced rapidly northward
a mile or so without finding a crossing. In all this
distance there was only one place where I could
possibly jump it, but the width of this jump was the
upmost I dared attempt, while the danger of
slipping on the farther side was so great that I was
loath to try it. One is liable to underestimate the
width of crevasses where the magnitudes are
great. I was eager to go on. But this wide jump
was a dreadful obstacle.
At length, because of the dangers already behind me,
I determined to venture against those that might ahead,
jumped and landed well.
But poor Stickeen, the wee, hairy, sleekit beastie,
think of him! This was the first time I had seen him
gaze deliberately into a crevasse, or into my face
with an eager, speaking, troubled look. That he
should have recognized and appreciated the danger
at first glance showed wonderful sagacity. At last,
with the courage of despair, hushed and breathless,
he crouched down on the brink in the hollow I made
for my knees, pressed his body against the ice as
if trying to get the advantage of the friction of every
hair, gazed into the first step, put his little feet
together, and slid them slowly, slowly over the
edge and down into it. Here he halted in dead
silence, and it was here I feared he might fail, for
dogs are poor climbers. Then suddenly up he came
in a springy rush, and whizzed past my head, safe
at last.
And now came a scene! "Well done, well done, little
Boy! Brave boy!" I ran ahead, calling him, for we had
far to go and it would soon be dark. Neither of us
feared another trial like this. Heaven would surely
count one enough for a lifetime.
Muir, John. Stickeen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Hardcourt, 1909. Gutenberg.org. The Project Gutenberg. Web. 4 May 2016.
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Imagine opening a restaurant menu and finding that every dish, from the steak frites to the frisse salad, costs $14.99. It would seem odd, right? After all, buying and cooking a ribeye is more expensive than throwing some lettuce in a bowl. Charging the same for each wouldn't make sense.
Yet, that's pretty much how most colleges price their majors. Undergrads pay the same flat rate per credit no matter what they study, even though different courses can require vastly different resources to teach. Giant freshman lectures are cheaper to run per-student than intimate senior seminars, and reading-heavy majors like history are cheaper than lab-oriented disciplines like biology . At New York's state colleges, to give one real-world example, advanced engineering or hard science courses cost more than five times as much to teach than low-level psychology classes. None of this tends to be reflected on tuition bills.
Should it? Would colleges, or students, be better off if higher ed finally nixed one price fits all?
This week, University of Michigan economist Kevin Stange released a new working paper that illustrates what one of the potential downsides of doing so might be. Over the last two decades, a growing minority of schools have in fact experimented with varying tuition by major. A Cornell study (which produced the graph below) found that 41 percent of public doctoral universities have tried charging a premium for at least one program -- usually engineering, business, or nursing. Looking at a sample of these schools, Stange's paper concludes that raising the price of certain majors seems to influence what students choose to study, though not always in predictable ways.
In the case of engineering, raising the price of a degree by 14.5 percent was associated with a 7 percent point drop in the share of degrees schools awarded in the field. Meanwhile, a 19 percent increase in the price of a nursing degree led to an 18 percent rise in degree share* -- though, for reasons having to do with the statistical calculations, the true jump might well have been smaller.
Why price hikes reduced the number of engineers but increased the number of nurses is a bit of a puzzle. The study tries to control for the influence of the job market by comparing schools that varied their tuition against those that did not within the same geographic region, meaning that the boom in healthcare jobs shouldn't have been an issue. As Stange notes, it may be that some colleges took the extra revenue and reinvested in their nursing programs, which led to higher enrollment. But in the end, the cause isn't clear.
Nonetheless, Stange's findings seem to confirm a notion that will sit uncomfortably with many educators: varying prices by major might dissuade students from pursuing their academic interests, even if they're geared towards lucrative fields like the sciences, where the eventual payoff from a degree would almost certainly outstrip the extra tuition dollars. Worse yet, in the case of engineering, low-income Pell Grant recipients had the strongest reaction to price hikes. In other words, many colleges essentially seem to be pushing poor students away from one of the most financially rewarding majors.
Some might see a plus side here. Florida governor Rick Scott, for instance, has advocated tuition discounts for students studying high-tech, high-demand fields, in order to encourage more to undergrads to pursue them. But that doesn't appear to be an idea that is being pursued in most states, and it could bring on its own problems .
So does this mean that we should leave one-price-fits-all as is? Not necessarily. Rather than charging based on field of study, there's still the option of charging students based on course level, since, again, upper level classes tend to be more expensive to run. I'm not about to roll out a full policy proposal at the moment. But there are a couple of reasons to think it wouldn't be a bad idea to charge seniors more than freshmen. Right now, students who take a few intro level courses and then drop out -- of which there are depressingly many -- subsidize students who take costlier, higher-level courses on route to a degree, and a better paycheck. Charging students less early on and more down the line would fix that imbalance. Beyond that, since some studies have suggested that the cost of school also influences completion, charging by course level might also help keep students in school through the crucial early years of higher education.
It's just a thought. But in any event, there's got to be a better system than charging the same price for steak and salad.
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People in Tonbridge are being invited to a quiz night to raise much-needed funds for national charity Epilepsy Action. The charity supports the 14,000 people with epilepsy in Kent.
The quiz night takes place on Friday 22 November at 7.30pm at the Angel Centre, Angel Lane, Tonbridge. Local man Kevin Humphries, 60, who works at the Angel Centre, has organised the event.


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¶ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite, |
God is jealous, and the LORD avengeth; the LORD avengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. |
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. |
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. |
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell therein. |
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. |
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. |
But with an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. |
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. |
For while they are folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. |
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor. |
¶ Thus saith the LORD; Though they are quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. |
For now I will break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder. |
And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile. |
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. |
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