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I was thinking inappropriately until I see "property" lol.
which country are you talking about or is your home/property in? different countries, different laws.
I don't see you backing up your point, in detail, about .999 repeating =1
actually, on hardcore homework help forums or xkcd forums, they can go super logical and serious.

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ai weiwei made headlines back in 2008 for his quest in recovering the truth about the number of student casualties that were a result of the sichuan earthquake that hit china — his citizen's investigation was aimed at collecting the names of all the victims of the natural disaster, uncovering the truth about the chinese government's corruption in trying to hide the actual facts. since then he has undergone much scrutiny by chinese authorities for his activism and was incarcerated for 81-days back in 2011 for his involvement.
150 tons of steel rebar recovered from the schools which collapsed in sichuan china were straightened
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now, five year's after the tragic event which took the lives of more than five thousand school children, ai weiwei presents his sculptural installation 'straight' at the 2013 venice art biennale. the work is composed of 150 tons of steel rebar which the artist recovered from the sites of the collapsed schools in sichuan following the quake. varying in diameter, ai weiwei has had all of the retrieved metal parts straightened as if new, and has arranged them in stacks, creating an eery landscape which immediately brings forth a feeling of somberness in memory of those whose lives were lost; the action of adjusting the pieces in a way metaphorically speaking of the artist trying to make things right.
the work accompanies ai weiwei's specially conceived 'S.A.C.R.E.D.' installation displayed within venice's sant'antonin church, where he presents six life size dioramas that depict scenes from his 2011 detainment in detail. see designboom's coverage of 'S.A.C.R.E.D.' here. 'straight' and 'S.A.C.R.E.D.' are being exhibited with the zuecca project space and represented by lisson gallery as part of ai weiwei's greater 'disposition'.
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Remember Microsoft Bob? It was a shiny new windowing system on top of a windows kernel. Now Google is announcing the imminent release of the Chrome OS which, according to the official Google blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html is a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. So is it an OS or a GUI? Chrome
We came across an interesting test report at http://www.passmark.com/ftp/antivirus_10-performance-testing-ed2.pdf. Symantec commissioned a comparative performance test from Passmark. That is, a test measuring performance in terms of speed and resource usage rather than looking at detection rates. Not surprisingly, Symantec came out very well overall, and deserves congratulations for demonstrating how far it's gone in addressing
Recently ESET commissioned Competitive Edge Research and Communications, Inc. to conduct a study about attitudes, beliefs, and experiences of Americans with respect to cybercrime. There were some interesting results. One of the findings is that most American's are not aware that cybercrime is linked to organized crime. Viruses and Trojans are no longer the purview
Gadi Evron drew my attention in an article for Dark Reading to a piece in IT Pro by Asavin Wattanajantra. The piece quotes Dr. Steve Marsh, of the UK's Cabinet Office (the Office of Cyber Security, to be precise) as saying that botnet operators are interested in money-generating attacks on the private sector, not causing
Strangely enough, I'm actually encouraged to contribute to other blog pages, perhaps in the hope that I'll stop cluttering this page with rubbish about iPhones. Today I've finally remembered that I'm supposed to contribute regularly to the AVIEN blog page at http://avien.net/blog/. You might find these a little lighter in tone than I tend to
Now that the end-of-year security conference season is winding down, we're able to start making available some of the presentations and papers that we've been building up in the past few months, but haven't been able to make publicly available ahead of the events for which they were written. We've already made available a slide
Today I read an article in the National Journal concerning cyberwarfare. You can read the article at http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20091114_3145.php. I think people have some misconceptions about "cyberwar". There isn't going to be a war, at least anytime soon which is fought with only computers. Computers are simply being used as a weapon in conjunction with traditional
Will No-One Rid Me Of This Turbulent Hacker Tool? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket) I was kind of hoping to have moved on from the iPhone data stealing hacker tool by now. While I do think it's a significant development (see http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/11/12/iphone-hack-tool-a-postscript), there comes a point where the sheer volume of discussion of the subject gives it more importance
Update: there's more information on the Windows 7 exploit mentioned below in a Register article at http://reg.cx/1FcX. Update 2: I keep seeing references to this as a virus or worm. However, the code I've seen does not contain any self-replicative functionality. It's not even a Trojan, as such. Following an extract from one of my
In my previous blog on this topic (http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/11/11/hacker-tool-exploits-vulnerability-in-jailbroken-iphones), I said that I didn't know if this hacking tool worked under Windows as well as OSX/Unix and Linux. I've subsequently exchanged email with Philippe Devallois at Intego, who tells me (thanks, Philippe!) that in principle, it will work fine with Windows. It's written in Python (as
I don't really want to keep banging on about jailbroken iPhones when there are threats out there that affect many more people (though according to Intego, 6-8% of iPhones are, in fact, jailbroken, so I don't want to minimize the threat either). I'm quoting Intego because they've just blogged (http://blog.intego.com/2009/11/11/intego-security-memo-hacker-tool-copies-personal-info-from-iphones/) what I think is a
Inevitably, the source code for the ikee worm I mentioned in a previous blog (http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/11/10/iworm-ikee-sex-and-drugs-and-rick-and-roll) has crept back out from under its rock. It's probably equally inevitable that there'll be more script-kiddy attempts to produce variants and it will be easier for heavy-duty malware creators to produce new malware using similar techniques, if they're so-minded. If you
I was asked about malware infection in the UK (especially with reference to Conficker), and(a) if the situation is really as bad as we, the AV vendors make out, and what the real infection rate is; and (b) whether government and ISPs etc could do more to help. You can now find a link here
The iPhone, it seems, is under siege: a recent worm exploits a known (and previously exploited) vulnerability that affects the owners of "jailbroken" phones on which OpenSSH has been installed. (Jailbreaking allows iPhone users to install and use unapproved applications.) Of course, there's been an enormous amount of media coverage on this already (I've just
I recently learned a new acronym: SODDI (Some Other Dude Did It). What this refers to is the defense that criminals routinely use (plausible deniability) – and even more so when it comes to illicit activities on the Internet. On Sunday, November 8th 2009 the Associated Press published an article regarding an individual that was
As I already mentioned briefly in a blog about our October Threat Trends Report, researchers Christopher and Samir came up with an interesting idea at the First International Workshop on Aggressive Alternative Computing and Security, held under the auspices of ESIEA Laval (École Supérieure d'Informatique, Electronique et Automatique). They took a handful of scanners (including NOD32),
As usual, ESET has released its monthly Global Threat Trends Report, which will be available in due course at http://www.eset.com/threat-center/index.php. There are no surprises in the top five malicious programs, which have the same rankings as in the September report. Clearly, not enough people are taking our accumulated advice on reducing the risk from Conficker,


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He was born on May 30, 1944 in California. He is the son of Homer Leon and Frildo Chewning Ikerd. On March 6, 1965 he married Anna "Maisie" Benda in DallasCity. She preceded him in death on July 6, 2011.
Jerry worked as an automotive technician for Knutstrom Chevrolet in Stronghurst, IL for many years. In 1985 he began working at Shottenkirk in Ft.Madison, retiring in 2009. Also, he and his wife owned and operated the Double G Restaurant in Ft.Madison from 1981-1992. Jerry enjoyed bowling, fishing, camping, playing pool and especially spending time with his family.
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The After-Party Party
The two-for-one philosophy of hosting By [Jeanne Martinet] As most savvy New York hosts know, when you throw a large cocktail party, you can expect approximately 60 percent of the invitees to attend. Of the 40 percent who don"t come, most have a scheduling conflict or illness and are truly sorry to be missing the affair.¬Ý So, what if you immediately offered these people an alternative's a kind of make-up party? That"s exactly what my friends Ned and Donna did. They held a big cocktail party one Saturday night and invited the people who sent '??regrets to a smaller party the very next Saturday. Now, Ned and Donna are people who do not entertain very much, so at first it sounded crazy to me that they would decide to have two parties in a row. But this nonhosting tendency on the part of this couple is in fact why the double party idea was perfect for them. Once they had managed to find the impetus to entertain, whipped their house into guest-ready shape (cleaning it from top to bottom, even rearranging the furniture) and stocked the larder with staples like soda, snacks and booze, the second, smaller party was a veritable snap for them. They even had leftover wine and supplies that the guests from the first party had brought them. Having two parties in a row may sound exhausting, but it can be much more efficient than spreading them out. You can pay back everyone you owe an invitation in a spectacular one-two punch. Really, it"s like getting out all the painting equipment to paint a room and then deciding that, while you"re at it, you may as well paint another small room at the same time. Also, having a second gathering is a great way for the hosts to soak up every bit of fun they can; after working hard to make a party happen, hosts can feel it is over too quickly. Most people I talk to who, for one reason or another, had dreaded hosting a party are so energized afterward they wonder why they don"t host more often. Might as well have another party while you are in the mood! You can also employ a similar version of this kind of party clustering when you find you have more than one dinner party you need to give. Instead of hosting one dinner one month and one another month, have a dinner party weekend. Make one big pot of something hearty and fabulous's say, oxtail stew, boston butt or chili--then hold two dinner parties one after the other. Contrary to what one might think, the second set of guests are not getting shortchanged, because by the second dinner you are probably more relaxed (having cleaned and shopped like a madwoman before the first one), and often the Italian pot roast you spent hours making is even better the second day. Of course, in the case of back-to-back dinner parties, the guests must not know about each other at all. While a make-up cocktail party is like being offered a wonderful consolation prize, being part of a double dinner party weekend can seem more like a prize cut in half. The one rule to follow when hosting consecutive parties is that you can never let the people at the second party get the idea that your first party was in any way more enjoyable than the one you are having with them right now. You want them to feel fortunate and much sought-after, as if you are going to extra trouble just for them's which, in a sense, you are. The people who could not attend the primary event should feel flattered that you have gone out of your way to extend your hospitality to them. It"s as if you are saying to them, '??I want to have you over so much I will even have a do-over just to get you here! even though it is really a case of a relatively easy two-for-the-fuss-of-one for you. Speaking of two for one, I somehow got to go to both of the lovely parties given by Ned and Donna. Not fair that they invited me to both? Hey, there"s got to be some perk to this whole Miss Mingle thing! [Jeanne Martinet](http://JeanneMartinet.com), aka Miss Mingle, is the author of seven books on social interaction.ÝHer latest book is a novel, Etiquette for the End of the World. You can contact her at [JeanneMartinet.com.](http://JeanneMartinet.com)
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I have a string of time such as: 6:00 AM, 7:30 PM, etc. It can easily be changed to 6:00:00 AM, 7:30:00 PM, etc as well.
I'm looking for a way to quickly convert this time into a 24 hour format, e.g 7:30 PM = 19:30:00.
Is there any PHP or MySQL function which has this capability, or do I have to devise my own?


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Authority and conformity
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People are social beings, who like to play by the rules, therefore Social Influence, Social Power, Obedience to Authority and Conformity is one of the most effective ways of changing a person's behaviour. However, studying this topic empirically leads to ethical problems.
Over the years, many studies have been carried out by social psychologists whose primary aim is to understand behaviour in a social context and to further look at the ways in which this can influence a person's behaviour. There are many effective ways of changing a person's behaviour, such as Social Influence, Social Power, Obedience to Authority and Conformity. All of which, have been studied and successfully used, in demonstrating how other people can influence our behaviour. This area of study, however, does not come without its criticisms. Ethical principles such as informed consent and the use of deception have been discussed and debated over the years. This essay will look at the different ways of changing a person's behaviour and discuss some of the ethical problems which may arise.
Social facilitation is one such effective way of changing a person's behaviour. This is an activity which is increased (or facilitated) when being observed by other people. The earliest known published research into this area of study was conducted by Norman Triplett in 1898. Triplett noted that when in the presence of other cyclists, bicycle racers tended to increase their performance, leading to faster race times. This type of social facilitation is often referred to as audience effects. Studies show that when we perform well known tasks in the presence of others, we perform better. There is, however, a negative side to audience effects. Pessin (1935) conducted a study which required a group of students to learn a list of nonsense syllables under two conditions. The first condition of learning was alone and the second was whilst in the presence of others. Pessin's results showed that the students who learnt the words alone needed an average of 9.85 trials whereas the students who learnt the list in the presence of others needed an average of 11.25 trials. It was also discovered that the number of errors made was much higher for the group who learnt in the presence of others. From these results, we can conclude that completion of a well known task is increased when being observed by others but, on the negative side, the learning of a completely new task is impaired when in the presence of others.
The second type of social facilitation to consider is co-action effects. This is the effect on an individual's task performance when in the presence of other individuals completing the same activity. Once again as with audience effects, depending on the nature of the task, the effect on performance may be positive or negative. Research into this area began in the 1920's when social scientists studied animals to see the effects of co-action. Chen (1937) conducted an experiment which involved observing ants building a nest. The results showed that when there was more than one ant involved in the building of the nest, each individual ant's working capacity doubled. When the extra ants were removed, the working capacity of the original ant returned to normal and there was no lasting effect. This experiment confirms that being with co-workers facilitates the working in the same way as seen with the audience effects. In addition, it was also thought that, as co-action produces the same results as with audience effects, then co-actions effects would also inhibit the learning of new skills when in the presences of others.
In everyday life we often conform by altering our actions or opinions so that they fit in with those of other people in a group. This is known as conformity and can be defined as 'changing one's beliefs or behaviour because of real or imagined group pressure'. One of the earliest studies into conformity was conducted by Sherif (1935). His experiment consisted of a visual illusion in which a stationery dot of light would appear to move when shown in a very dark room. Participants were asked how far they thought the light moved and those who observed it whilst on their own gave estimates between 2 and 25cm. Then the participants observed the light again with two others and over a series of trials, estimated in public how far they thought the light moved. The estimates became closer and a group norm emerged. Sherif's research did receive some criticism. Firstly, it was said that the participants could not be classed as a group because they had no interaction with each other and, in addition, several participants reported afterwards that they did not feel influenced by the other participants estimates and that they were simply trying to work out the actual correct answer. Soloman Asch stated that they conformed to a group norm simply because they did not know the correct answer.
Asch (1951) followed on by conducting further experiments into conformity. He wanted to know whether an individual would conform to the group even when they knew that the answer they were giving was wrong. His experiment consisted of 6 to 9 people in a group. All but one of the group was pretending to be part of the experiment. Asch told them he was testing visual perception and showed the group members lines of different lengths. Each person had to answer which line they believed was the same length as the test line. The one participant was the last person to answer in the experiment. Asch found that when part of the group 25% of the actual participants conformed to the rest of the group whereas in the control trials when they were tested alone, very few wrong answers were given. Overall, during the experiments, 75% of participants conformed to the wrong answer at least once. When interviewed after the experiment, most participants said that they knew they were giving the wrong answer but did not wish to stand out from the group. This method of experimentation has been criticised for a number of reasons. Not only was it costly and a slow process but, more importantly, it contravenes ethical guidelines by deceiving the participants and also causing them some distress through embarrassment and confusion.
Crutchfield (1954) went on to conduct further experiments into conformity. His experiment was conducted with participants in private so as to avoid any distress from embarrassment. Participants sat in a booth with a row of lights in front of them. Each of the lights was intended to show the answers others had given to the same question. Participants gave answers by pressing a button. This method of experimentation was much faster and cheaper than that conducted by Asch. Crutchfield found similar results to that of Asch and he also noticed that whilst some participants were very conforming, others could also be very independent. As a follow up he gave his participants personality and IQ tests and from this he found that those who conformed more were also more likely to be open to influence of others and less intellectually competent. The individual differences found may help to explain the differences in levels of conformity which both Asch and Crutchfield found.
Research into conformity has met much criticism. The environment, for example, in which the experiments have been conducted, is artificial and the groups were also artificially created. Real-life conformity is about fitting in with others, and the groups to which we belong consist of people we know. This was not the case in any of the mentioned laboratory experiments and, so, these cannot be related to everyday cases of conformity. The participants were also deceived as to what type of experiment they were taking part in and, in the case of Asch's research some experienced distress through embarrassment and confusion.
In contrast to conformity, obedience is the following of a command, order or an instruction which is given by an authority figure. Obedience is an extremely important factor in everyday life; we obey orders because they benefit us or because they seem fair, but would we consider obeying an order that was illegal, unjustified or immoral? A well known psychological study to investigate this question was carried out by Stanley Milgram and, with it, came much criticism. Milgram wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures. He planned to first test this in an American setting before conducting further research in Germany and, so, advertised for males between the age of 20 and 50 years to take part in a study of learning at Yale University. The procedure for the experiment was that the participant was partnered with another person and 'drew straws' to decide who would play the role of 'teacher' and who would be 'learner'. It was, in fact, already set up so that the participant would be playing the role of 'teacher' but this was not disclosed to the participant. The 'learner' was strapped into a chair with electrodes attached to his arms and the experimenter briefed the participant that he should read out word pairs which the 'learner' must remember. If a wrong answer was given by the 'learner' then the participant or 'teacher' must issue them with an electric shock. There was no real electric shocking and the 'learner' would simply be acting for the benefit of the participant. The more wrong answers given, the higher the electric shock would be issued. Before the experiment began, Milgram showed a description of his study to psychiatrists and it was predicted that only 2% of participants would issue the highest level electric shock. However, following the experiment, it was determined that a total of 65% participants did in fact issue the highest level of shocking. Participants showed severe distress during the experiment. Three had seizures; several challenged the experimenter and asked if the' learner' could be checked. At the end of the experiment, all participants were debriefed. An explanation of the real reason for the study was given, they were properly introduced to the 'learner' so that they could see there was no harm really done to them and they were also assured that their behaviour during the experiment was perfectly normal. Milgram argued that this experiment was a powerful example of the human tendency to obey an authority figure even when they did not feel that what they were doing was correct. His studies created huge amounts of interest as well as concern. From an ethical point of view, he received a great deal of criticism. The participants in the experiment were put under a great deal of distress, some even suffering health risks. Milgram retaliated to this by stating that he had no idea how any one participant would react. However, he did still continue with the experiment even after he did become aware of the potential distress caused. Although, it has been clearly stated that participants were able to withdraw from the experiment at any time, they were not reminded of this fact when they protested and were told that they 'had no choice but to continue'. Lastly, it is fair to say that there was a huge amount of deception in the study. After being given a debrief, the majority of participants did state that they were glad they had took part and Milgram argued that this showed that the procedure was in fact acceptable.
Studies, such as those discussed in this essay, have been met with many ethical criticisms, as to the way in which participants have been deceived and/or distressed when taking part. Certainly, all of those studies considered herewith would not have been successful had the participants been aware of the actual experiment taking place. The idea behind all of these studies was to investigate behaviour and this could not have been done, had the participant been aware of the 'real reason' for the experiment. In addition, the experiments were conducted 'to find out how behaviour is affected' and an experimenter would have no way of knowing beforehand that a participant may experience distress as a result. We should also consider that the studies discussed in this essay were designed during a period of time when ethical constraints were not so restrictive and it is due to studies such as Milgram's, that psychologists have been able to establish ethical guidelines to protect participants in future experiements.
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- Pessin (1935) In E.C Simmel, R.A Hoppe and G.A Milton (eds), Social Facilitation and imitative behaviour. Boston: Allym and Bacon
- Woods Barbara, Psychology First Second Edition, 2006


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In 1994, Nine Inch Nails auteur Trent Reznor totally disturbed my peace of mind with his full metal paean to self-loathing and destruction, The Downward Spiral. It was a somewhat shocking turn of events for me. I'd never been a fan of synth noodlers, had no interest whatsoever in industrial music, and was not habitually interested in guys who rocked it in leather hotpants, fishnets, and opera-length latex gloves, but somehow, I rigged myself up to a pair of headphones and gave it a full day in court. It was all over after that: I was a total slave to his grind.
Almost universally praised by critics, The Downward Spiral was improbably launched into the stratosphere by "Closer", the danceable hit single with the chorus least likely to please the FCC. After that, drunk frat boys, kid sisters and liberal arts majors like me joined Reznor's misfit industrial goth audience, and that year, we all bore witness to a tour so headlong and ferocious, that it's a wonder scorched earth was not left in its wake.
The night I saw the "Self Destruct" tour, Reznor, who was beside himself about sound problems and a failed attempt to accompany his most plaintive moments with a film clip featuring rotting animals, hurled a microphone at the mixing desk with all the adrenalized strength of a furious five year old in a grown man's body, and told the projectionist he was fired over the PA with a growl so rumblingly and gutturally pissed off that the sweaty, vinyl coated moshers down front were momentarily rendered attentive out of what I can only assume was an instinct for self-preservation. Before that, Reznor had destroyed several keyboards and a guitar, and had physically menaced the rest of his band in such a way that I was genuinely concerned that someone would put an eye out. Before the night was over, he'd spent a good five minutes writhing around with his hands in his pants, and ended by shuddering over what was left of his busted-up keyboard.
All of that's to say nothing of his opening acts of special freakishness: The Jim Rose Circus, featuring "Mr. Lifto's" amazing cinderblock lifting nipples, and Marilyn Manson, wearing latex underpants with a strategically placed hose. I mention them only in passing because compared to Reznor's pure physical intensity, howling rage, desperately emotional and subversive sexuality, and seemingly bottomless despair, they were barely memorable. Trent Reznor was clearly the biggest freak in the building, and it took me months to explain to myself why a good Christian girl like me loved it so much I could barely breathe. How could something so dirty feel so clean?
At the time, I was a student of aesthetic theory and literature, and, I am somewhat ashamed to admit, enthusiastically immersed in egg-headed postmodern and feminist readings of everything from Victorian poetry to The X-Files. Needless to say, I dutifully set to work, using a full arsenal of academic instruments as forceps to hold "the text" at a safe, scientific distance, and made an effort to solve the problem of how a creature like Trent Reznor could menace and thrill me at the same time, and why he and his super loud art project made my skin crawl in the most delightful way.
Reznor's most pivotal topics, I determined, were power, and opposing it, absolute subjectivity. The Downward Spiral was obsessed with duality and control, but while the literal surface presented itself as a typical melodrama of beset masculinity, the contradictions to that reading came in waves. Reznor backed tearful vocals with the buzzing menace of devouring machines, or paired virulent resentment with a jazzy, soft-shoe rhythm, moving between silence and thunder with shattering digital precision, and leaving only a hair's breadth between a whisper and a scream. With its layer upon layer of almost literary sound, and constantly shifting foregroundings of literal and figurative sense, Reznor's noise never anesthetized, and as much as you were aching to respond to his gentle come-ons, he never let you forget that he was a dangerous, blood-letting animal.
Meanwhile, Reznor's narrative "i" systematically distanced itself from the archetypal powers of the Ultimate Object (all you out there who've ever read any postmodern or feminist theory will know the object of which I speak), and framed icky self-loathing and masochistic sexual stylings in so much raw competence and aggression as to manufacture a positively riveting relationship between itself and his audience. If the confluence of Reznor's literal and figurative sense rejected The Object and it's Powers, he was so clearly and impressively the master of them that his performances were a veritable exercize in penetration. It was that charismatic mixture of over-intended, pure, dominating egotism, and totally Julia Kristeva, Powers-of-Horror -worthy abjection that fueled the production of slavish armies of sweaty teenaged dominatrixes and boys in fishnets and eyeliner, each one feeling all naughty and conflicted, except in their desire to make sweet love to their cornstarch-coated rock and roll fetish doll: a reaction which placed Reznor firmly in a position of ultimate-object-bearing power, which only justified his legitimate reasons for nuclear weapons grade angst. Good shit.
Best of all? It was theater. If Reznor was St. Sebastian onstage, he was also the geeky computer genius with a long enough attention span to spend months cooking this shit up all by his lonesome. If he was a ferocious, screaming beast on his record, he was soft-spoken, articulate and thoughtful in interviews. In an era marked by entire rock shows of shoe-gazing gas station attendants and audiences who never looked at the stage, Reznor's high drama, pure competence, and sharply focused intention was like an oasis of cool, clear water in an endless desert of the bone dry earnest authenticity of virtuous, by-the-numbers guitar rock.
At his best, Trent Reznor's got a laser eye for structures that house diseased meaning, a rage for what's real and worthy, and the sheer force of will to break everything that isn't strong enough to withstand him. The sharp intelligence of the record alongside the violence of Reznor's aesthetic fearlessness made the emotional rasp in his very human voice all the more excruciating. Reznor was often compared, in those days, to alt-rock's undisputed heavyweight champion of angst, Kurt Cobain, but where Cobain's words were often chaotically imagistic and difficult to pin down, Reznor's were simple, unabashedly linear, and absolutely lacking in a single shred of hip ironic detachment. By the end of the last song, on The Downward Spiral, one had the unmistakable sense of teetering on the brink of the nihilist void with Reznor's narrative "i", now reduced to a stripped down, elemental consciousness that had eviscerated itself of moral and emotional certainty, but whose mind was still terrifyingly and unflinchingly engaged. It was a dreadful prospect, but one which felt like a kind of extreme, if uneasy, virtue.
If The Downward Spiral was a work of destruction, it was also an incredible creative accomplishment. As eviscerating as it was, it more thrilling than depressing, because Reznor had set the bar so high: ultimately, The Downward Spiral held the promise – in fact, could be adequately followed by nothing less – than an almost alchemical transformation. Either that, or death, and Reznor seemed too purposeful for death. It thrilled me beyond expression how little I could imagine what that process could possibly consist of, and I was on the edge of my seat as to what would happen next.
Little did I (or Reznor, to hear him tell it nowadays) know that The Downward Spiral would become a grim script for the next several years of his life, as depression, anxiety, addiction and fear spiraled out of control. Years on pins and needles elapsed before another sound emerged from the Empire of Dirt, and when it did, it was 1999's The Fragile, a sprawling and often gorgeous two disc epic that painted, often wordlessly, a massive, oceanic picture of psychological impasse and a deeply troubled inner life so vividly that it was both riveting and impossible to digest. It lacked the hermetically sealed precision of The Downward Spiral, which gave it a courageous vulnerability, especially coming from the world's biggest perfectionist, but in an essential way, it was something of a disappointment to hear the unmistakable sound of a continued downward trajectory.
With all of Reznor's intrepid will turned to desperation, it felt a little wrong to revel in it. For the first time, in Reznor's angst-heavy history, a Nine Inch Nails record was actually depressing. The Fragile didn't thrill me, it worried me. It's one thing to enjoy a destructive narrative, and another to enjoy watching a man eat himself alive. I listened to it a few times, put it away, and skipped the show. Transformation seemed a long way off.
Cut to: 2005. Some issues take time to resolve, apparently, and Reznor's long awaited return from a personal hell is in stores tomorrow. If I had somehow stumbled over a copy of it, and it happened to offer nothing less than the enormous aesthetic satisfaction of a derailed narrative put to rights, a blowhard like me could never resist writing about 10,000 words on the subject, right?
Next up: With Teeth.
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I was out in the back yard playing with my son this evening.
Young children can be a lot of work, and there are times when I wish he'd go away for just an hour.
But then sometimes it's just poetry.
Mommy, play with me I want to go outside now our needs are but few the sun setting low hide-and-seek in the backyard where'd he go??? surprise!!! night's dreams rolling in the long day's play put to bed sleep now, little one
I'm back in school for the 3rd time, after having some injuries that led to degenerative problems in my back and knees. I loved being an LPN but I am medically forbidden from returning to that career, so now I am learning to be a tech geek and network administrator. I have about 6 months until I graduate with an associate's degree (though I am planning on going directly into the bachelor's program when I graduate this program) - that means it is time to start the job search process.
I attended a career fair for my school last week and I made some really good contacts, passed out many copies of my resume, etc. I got an email back from Hyland Software, saying they liked my resume and wanted me to fill out their online application. Cool - this means I might have a job BEFORE I get out of my program. This is good.
I get through the personal information, the education history, the work history, the cover letter, the "paste your resume here," and then I find the most interesting part of the application. The last page includes the request that I write a 40 to 60 word original poem about my current or most recent job.
Being 3:30am when I happened upon this part of the application, I just stared at my screen for a moment or two. And then I wrote this:
Asylum for those deprived of their reason, whether there for a week or for a season, from childhood to elderly life, our patients need care, not additional strife.
Children's behaviors and angry outbursts, addictions so strong they needs must come first, eating disorders, both large and small, our tenderness stretches to cover them all.
We are Friends Hospital.
Steve Ward will go to the split shift 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. co-worker will go to 3rd shift 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. – co-worker, this shift will require you to be here Sunday night at 11:00 p.m. June 1st. co-worker II will go 2nd shift 3:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Should anyone have any questions or concerns please see me.
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After a little over a year of not getting more than 7 hours of sleep a day, ever, I am finally being allowed to reattain the title Daywalker. It's been long enough that I had forgotten what it feels like to sleep next to my wife and was having a hard time getting to sleep when I tried to on the weekends.
Free at last!
(WARNING - Vent approaching.)
Not happy.
That's actually an understatement. I'm positively quivering with rage right now, actually. Normally this could be solved by having a good hard windmill round my room to something suitably furious sounding like Sadus's song "Certain Death," but that's no use. Not at the moment. Shrieking about what it feels like to have a stroke in all its gory details won't solve the problem - not even if the victim of this stroke is Jack Straw or Martin Salter or Harriet Harman.
Have you ever felt totally and unutterably powerless, like the world around you is melting and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it? Because that's pretty much how I feel right now. Here in Britain, and I shit you not, we are teetering on the edge of being in a police state. And two things that have happened today only confirmed these suspicions. Firstly, there's the new proposal which I just learnt about, coming 2009, for yet another giant database of everything you look at on the internet, every e-mail you send, every phone call you make, and so forth, administered by the Government, ostensibly to protect us from terrorism. The fact that 20 years ago we were under siege from terrorists who were I. well funded, II. competent, and III. whose finest hour was to come within six inches of wiping out the entire Cabinet, and we didn't need any of these Orwellian measures to beat the IRA, did we? Not to mention the inordinate number of people that could abuse this database to settle personal scores, or even sell the information to spammers and other assorted wasted orgasms - or "accidentally" post the discs to a remote shack in Horse's Creek, Nebraska. And then there's the cost and all that, but still we deserve to be spied on to this extent all in the name of fighting terrorism.
The second thing is that people honestly don't seem to give a flying, sailing, fuck. Even my fellow students, supposedly intelligent folks (well, they have three A's, but you know...) are completely unpertubed by such things as this. One particularly egregious dimbulb I spoke to yesterday said that if he was locked up for 42 days without charge on mere suspicion of terrorism, he'd actually be thankful that the police were doing their job properly!!! What a spineless worm he really is. The reason we have such short pre-charge detention limits is because it forces the police to come up with at least some reason why this person is to be taken off the streets and make it properly known to the public in general, thus making it more difficult for police officers to abuse their power against personal foes. He also went on to call me naive for allegedly understating the terrorist "threat". Despite the fact that we hear more about plots being foiled with current police powers than we do those that actually go off... not to mention that his handmaidens then told me to "sort my life out" because the majority of people wanted these measures when I mentioned that, thanks to the miracle of control orders, the only thing keeping all of us off house arrest is that we've kept our heads down. His advice? "Keep your head down then".
But why should I have to keep my head down? Isn't the whole point of liberal democracy that it fosters things like the marketplace of ideas and encourages individualism and sticking one's neck out because just about every advance in every field of the human experience, ever, has been made by people putting their bonces over the parapet. But numbskulls like him and his cohort would be just fine sitting in a well of stagnation and despondency, living as one of a legion of lawful automata, constantly in fear of the suicide bomber that never appears.
And what about the National Identity Register? "Well everyone else has one, and what have you to hide?" Not as intrusive as ours will be they don't, and what good will it be anyhow? The ban on "extreme pornography," perhaps? "Well I don't look at that sort of thing..." But what gives the State the right to pry that far into our private lives anyhow? The exclusion zone round Parliament? "It's needed to protect the Government from terrorists." Really? Have you SEEN the security measures round Parliament? They have fucking tank traps for fuck's sake. All these are widespread amongst my fellow students and they consistently fail to justify any of the needs for it outside of a vague "well, it's terrorism, isn't it?" or similar completel failure to understand the intricacies of the situation. Or that it's justifiable because the majority of people want it. And that makes it right how, you grinding afterbirth? What is this, mob rule?
Oh. And then there's the folks that say that I'd be a hundred percent behind all these measures if I'd lost someone in the July 7, 2005 bombings like they have? Wrong. Yano the News of the World headline that went "Tell Tony He's Right" soon after with a picture of someone holding a bloodstained bandage to his face? He was in the bombings and he was against 90 day detention and control orders and has since said so, and was particularly narked that his photo had been used without his permission to push a point of view that he vehemently opposed.
As an aside, I'm with Fondue on his idea that politicians should be barred from basing their policies on the emotions of grieving mothers, but that's by the by.
People today are so absorbed by red top tabloids and celebrities and reality TV and other shitbagging nonsense to care. In fact, it's almost like they don't want to care. As long as they get their tart fuel and goss and so forth, they're perfectly happy to live out their lives in blissful ignorance that Jack Straw only need give the nod and all of them will have their assets frozen and be placed on house arrest indefinitely, without ever having had to go before a judge for all of this, with no chance of appeal whatsoever, with anyone who interacts with them in any way being liable for a seven year prison term, and without even having the reason for their being put on control order made public because to have the charge against them revealed would allegedly be to compromise national security (As an aside, I cannot conceive of how the mere facts of the matter being contrary to national security could ever come about, but then again, this Government just unilaterally banned any and all adult content that it doesn't like, so nothing surprises me any more.)
I shouldn't be writing this. I'm only 22, for crying out loud. It feels like I'm the one-eyed man in the land of the blind. People are just totally uninterested in having these safeguards and things and freedoms. I've tried talking to them. None of them care, ever. None of them would care even if they did have their privacy data-mined on a daily basis and had to give 56 bits of information, including credit card details, complete itineraries and names and addresses of everywhere they plan to stay, fingerprints, DNA, retinal scans, and so forth, just to leave the country on holiday.
And because I actually take an interest in what's going on, I need to "sort my life out." Bollocks. You're the ones who need to sort their life out, you miserable, flaccid, fucks. What would it take you to actually take an interest and DO SOMETHING about our approaching topple into the abyss of tyranny, hm? Detention without trial for 28 days? Being locked up for three years for possessing the "wrong" sort of smut or for reading pamphlets by the "wrong" people? Being put on control order? Being waterboarded? Being trowelled in the cunt - and if you have no cunt, one will be provided for you? Because most, if not all, of you, could do with any or all of those so you get the message.
In closing, I strongly suspect that my card is marked. Because during the extreme pornography wrangle I wrote to several MPs and Lords about the ban voicing opposition to it. My local MP being Tessa Jowell, who strongly supported this ban, she probably passed my details on to the Met. Who will probably subject me to the midnight knock come January 2009 and the coming into force of this Act.
It indeed is frustrating to be the one who believes they know the truth in a crowd of people who don't. As the old saying goes, "it's hard to soar with Eagles when you're surrounded by Turkeys."
Senator Edward M. Kennedy co-wrote a fabulous piece in The New York Times with former United States Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger about a similar thing. The article, "America Needs A Literacy Corps," focuses on illiteracy in the United States. At the time the article was written the U.S. had the highest rate of per-capita illiteracy of any of the industrialized nations. I'd hazard a guess that's still true twenty years later.
The Judge and the Senator were exasperated by the fact that so many of their fellow Americans couldn't read the very article they'd written. Worse, these Americans can't read a safety warning on a piece of power equipment or dosage directions on medication. And the two had an answer which would take a mere vote of Congress, and require little or no funding and certainly not the $106 million spent in 1987 alone to fight illiteracy. When the idea of a "Literacy Corps" failed to materialize, imagine how frustrated the two men felt.
When it comes to matters of politics and socio-economic issues, many people who hold strong beliefs refuse to accept any version of the truth but their own. I hate to refer to a writeup hereinabove but these are daylogs so I feel better about it. Hazelnut has a very valid point with which I agree when I wear my Libertarian hat. Americans shared the fear of the midnight knock at a number of points in their history, ranging from the Salem Witch Trials to Senator McCarthy's own hunt for Communists during the 1950s. More on point, when I was a child a film showed in school instructed us to "duck and cover" under our desks lest a nearby atomic bomb blast us to smithereens — Soviet Russia's version of a midnight knock. It's amazing how many adults thought it appropriate, whilst most of us kids thought it laughable.
The threat of mutually assured destruction no longer hangs over our heads. The horrible plague of AIDS remains incurable, but the disease is now survivable, thanks to amazing scientific breakthroughs. Terrorism, however, remains an enigmatic enemy which comes knocking at midnight all to often in too many corners of the globe these days.
Now, far be it from me to buy into hysteria. However, giving up a few of our rights if we are law-abiding citizens who have nothing to hide should not be too great a price to pay for the luxury of peace of mind with regard to national security. If we fail to impose the same requirements for, let's say, identification, on every person, then we're going to end up being called racists as soon as profiling, instead, is used to root out terrorists.
September 11, 2001; July 7, 2005 — both dates will live in infamy just as the unprovoked attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor will. How many more September 11ths and July 7ths must we endure? We don't know. We don't know. Those who'd harm citizens of the United Kingdom and/or citizens of the United States are an unknown quantity. There's an old saying, "knowledge is power." What, I ask, have we to be worried about, then, if we hand over a bit of knowledge about ourselves so we can board an airliner, train or even bus and truly feel safe?
If I am living as one of a legion of lawful automata, so be it. If it becomes uncomfortable, there's always the ballot box, or for quicker relief, revolution. There are far more of us citizens than there are folks in government.
A few hours ago, as I was combing my unruly hair, pulling on my nice slacks and finding a button up shirt, and otherwise preparing for my first job interview ever, which happened to be at Sears, I was already anticipating writing this daylog about how the interview went.
Unfortunately, I find myself able to choronicle only my lack of said job interview.
I showed up at Sears about a half hour early, and asked the nearest employee where the HR office was. The first thing I noticed on the way there was that I was severely overdressed. All the employees I saw were wearing dark shirts or sweaters and casual pants; I had elected to wear black dress shoes and slacks, a short sleeve, button up shirt, and a black tie. I spent most of the thirty minutes roaming around the store, feeling conspicuous and out of place. I tried to fight off my sense of impending awkwardness by reading the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner boxes, but failed.
When the time came, I walked into the HR office, and seeing no one who appeared to be expecting me, told someone who didn't that I was there for a job interview. He asked for my name, and checked a tray labeled "First Interview." He couldn't find my file. The interview went downhill from there. Not only had my file failed to make it to the aforementioned tray, it had also failed to conveniently misplace itself in the "Second Interview" tray; even more admirable was its complete and utter failure to be found anywhere in the electronic system. I was asked to wait outside, and did so for twenty minutes. Then the man who was helping me came out and told me that they were having "printing problems," which was encouraging, since I assumed that meant he had located my file. I waited patiently for another ten minutes, and was rewarded with the printout of the confirmation email that I had given to him earlier, plus a phone number and instructions to call it the next day. Supposedly this will ensure that the HR office is "better prepared" to interview me. This, combined with the sight of many cashiers standing around doing a fat lot of nothing, made the entire experience rather disheartening.
Here's hoping that tomorrow's interview actually happens.
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Best Repeat
The Duchess of Cambridge
As predicted by everyone (give the reader to your right a pat on the back), Kate repeated yet again today. But if you're gonna repeat, this is the way to do it: we've seen this before, more than once, but not so recently as to smack us with a case of déjà vu, and she's spiced it up with a new chapeau. A new chapeau that I love, by the way. But then again, I love anything that inches us closer to a proper hat and away from forehead-bolted fascinators. (P.S.: Yes, I do know some of these ladies and gents have Scottish titles. We're gonna keep it simple, though.)
Best Try
Princess Beatrice
Vibrant color: check. Excellent detailing: check. Shiny new outfit made special for your cousin's wedding: check. That usual Yorkie desire to reach in and tug the jacket for her: check. Upturned teacup hat: check with accompanying tears. Good try, though, Bea. (Interesting tidbit: both York girls were dressed for the day by Angela Kelly, the Queen's dresser and designer. Granny's solution to avoiding another airborne commode seat debacle?)
Worst Butt Bow
Princess Eugenie
It's like she saw how often you lot have been chatting about butt bows, and thought: "I'll show them!" Either that, or somebody's mum got hold of Ms. Kelly. Is this the biggest butt bow you've ever seen? Seriously, this can't be comfortable to sit in.
Best Explosion
The Duchess of Cornwall
Well, somebody had to bring the crazy in hat land. And this repeated detonation of prairie wildlife will do just fine. Really, though, she wore my favorite choker ever, so my hands are tied.
Worst Straight Jacket
Princess Anne
I see the beginnings of a kicky coral party dress under there...shame she topped it off with such an ill-fitting upholstery remnant. She does get extra cute points in the mother of the bride category: see her waving Zara and Mike off here. Awwww. Now, that's one proud mama.
Best Rule Breaker
Lady Sarah: I know, but there was an emergency. I look really good in white.
Most in Need of Some Rule Breaking
Autumn Phillips
Speaking of Autumn...this is just a business suit topped with a beach hat! It's like the wedding guest equivalent of what she did with her own wedding gown: business in front, bow in the back. Perfectly appropriate, but kind of sad at the same time.
Most Typical
Queen Elizabeth
Per usual, the Queen is classy and so forth. But: tremendously typical for such a special day. A second candidate for Autumn's prize, I feel.
Best Dressed
The Countess of Wessex
You guys, I think I'm developing a bit of a girl crush on Sophie here. She's my best dressed of the day, not just for her lovely pale pink ensemble with a hint of a sparkly party dress underneath, but for her overall efforts these past months. I'm loving it!
Best in Gents: Elder Generation
The Prince of Wales
Left to Right: the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex, Tim Laurence
I sort of love it when Prince Charles insists on marching to the beat of his own drummer and wearing his all-gray morning suit. Don't ask me why.Left to Right: the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex, Tim Laurence
Best in Gents: Next Generation
Well, they all look dashing, groom included. (With a special welcome to Princess Beatrice's boyfriend, Dave Clark, who was looking chummy enough this weekend to earn a spot amongst the royal men.) But come on...it's Harry.
Who made your best and worst dressed lists for Zara and Mike's wedding?
Photos: Getty Images/Daylife/PA/Daily Mail/Mark Cuthbert/ABACAUSA.com/Matt Keeble/Splash News/Reuters/Picture Press Europe/SIPA


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Like her parents, Raksha Sharma died an unnatural death.
It was in 1997 that her father Paras Ram and mother Shobavati were shot dead by suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in their house at Kalra Dhok village in Prem Nagar of Doda district, about 220 km from Jammu city. On Tuesday night, Raksha committed suicide in her hostel room at Mehr Chand Polytechnic College, Jalandhar, allegedly due to harassment by her ex-boyfriend.
Soon after their parents' death, Raksha and her sisters Sneha and Bhawana had been adopted by the SOS Children's Village-India here on the recommendation of the local administration. The Village, operational since 1995, has 180 orphaned students.
Brajesh Singh, assistant director of the village, said, "Raksha would call us regularly. She spoke to me in the afternoon on August 14 (Tuesday). But her voice did not betray any mental stress."
"She was an above-average student and would score around 65% marks. She was a good communicator and was interested in dancing and other co-circular activities," said Meenu, counsellor of the Village.
Raksha and her sisters were being taken care of by Sarswati Pandey (44), who was now their adopted mother. After studying in the Village school, Raksha shifted to Khuda Bakshi school (with hostel facility) after clearing the entrance test. Later, she secured admission in the Jalandhar polytechnic, where was pursuing a diploma in computer science and engineering. All expenses on her education were being borne by the Village.
Sneha is pursuing graduation from Jammu University, while Bhawna is doing BSc in hotel management outside Jammu and Kashmir.
Narinder Sharma, a resident of Kalra Dhok village, told HT on the phone, "Raksha was cremated at her native place in Doda district on Thursday, 17 years after her slain parents were consigned to the flames."


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The White House is prepared for the GOP to press the nominee on health care, but an aide told me today in an interview that because it's not clear how the multi-state lawsuits will materialize when they get to the Supreme Court, Obama does not expect the nominee to get detailed questions about the lawsuits. The aide said Obama indicated he wants a nominee that can understand how legal decisions will affect the lives of everyday Americans, and any possible health care litigation fits into that category.
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