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"It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators.... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another...." ~ Ron Paul
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"An Identity Document (ID) is an official document used to identify yourself. Every country...needs to be able to identify its citizens..."
I don't need "an official document...to identify myself"; I already know who I am.
Those humans who act as agents of the government do not have the lawful authority to force an ID (identity document) on any one who has not voluntarily submitted his, or her, self to the dominion of the government, i.e. who are not "its citizens", any more than a man can lawfully put a brand or ear-tag on a cow that doesn't belong to him.
"Its" is the "possessive form of the pronoun it[1]". [Emphasis added]
These individuals are not possessed; they belong to no man, and they especially do not belong to any "it"; they are self-governing, and therefor any "official" identity documentation must originate from their authoritative source, themselves.
Anyone who really needs to know who I am need only ask Francis, the old woman across the road, the one who I built a landing and set of stairs for, because she had no safe way into, or out of, her single-wide trailer. I'm fairly certain that she would recognize me.
[1] Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition, page 793
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Question: Who forces any of us to use a social security number? I asked that because, if one does not use any of the government chattel numbers, for all intensive purposes, one does not exist.
- nonperson noun▸someone who a government says does not exist ~ Macmillan Dictionary
- nonperson▸ noun: a person* regarded as nonexistent and having no rights ~ WordNet
*Anyone else catch that, a "nonperson" is "a person"?
"...having no rights"? But wait, I thought...
- "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men... are endowed...with certain unalienable Rights..."
- "All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights - among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property"
And, I thought...
- "natural rights [are] rights which persons[1] [humans] possess by nature: that is, without the intervention of agreement, or in the absence of political and legal institutions. Natural rights are therefore attributable to individuals without distinction of time or place."[2]
And, tzo says...
- "You can have a government, or you can have inalienable rights[3]. Choose one, but then please, do not complain that you do not have the other."
And, oh, the tie-in to the article? There can be no "theft" of that which you do not have.
[1] Corporations, which are "persons", do not have natural rights, because they are not "formed by nature"; they are "formed by human laws for purposes of society and government."
[2] Andrew Reeve, Professor of Politics, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.
[3] Inalienable rights. Rights which can never be abridged because they are so fundamental. ~ Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition (c.1991), page 1057
ABRIDGE, v.t. ...2. To lessen; to diminish... 3. To deprive; to cut off from... as to abridge one of his rights, or enjoyments. ~ Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language
"You have rights antecedent [prior] to all earthly governments, rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws..." ~ John Adams, 2nd President of the United States [Emphasis added]
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"You have rights antecedent [prior] to all earthly governments, rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws..." ~ John Adams, 2nd President of the United States [Emphasis added]
However, as Noah Webster appropriately, (IMO), points out in his 1828 dictionary, "we say, [there is] a tacit agreement or covenant of men to live under a particular government, when no [formal] objection or opposition is made; [we say there is] a tacit surrender of a part of our natural rights", "when [there is] no [formal] objection or opposition made"...and, unfortunately, complaining[1], particularly to each other, does not count as either of these forms of rebuttal.
And, of course, these formal objections and oppositions, must be validated[2] by concurring[3] actions.
[1] COMPLAINING, ppr. Expressing grief, sorrow, or censure; finding fault; murmuring; lamenting; accusing of an offense.
[2] validated▸ adjective: declared or made legally valid ("A validated claim")
[3] A concurring figure, in geometry, is one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which corresponds with it in all its parts.
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Of Prairie, Woods, and Water
Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing
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- Review Quotes
The Chicago Region—Introduction
Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres
Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
William Johnston's Tour from Fort Wayne to Chicago, 1809
William Johnston
A Visitor to Chicago in Indian Days: "Journal to the Far-Off West"
Colbee Benton
Talk of the Town
Robert P. Saunders
A Summer Journey in the West
Eliza Steele
Berrien and Cass Counties
Sketches of My Own Times
David Turpie
Rats! Rats! Rats!
Carl Schurz
Prince of Wales in Canada and the United States
Nicholas A. Woods
Breeding habits of Ardea heroias as Seen During a Visit to Crane Town
The Shooting Clubs of Chicago—No. IX: The Grand Calumet Heights Club
Emerson Hough
Voices of the Dunes and Other Etchings
Earl Reed
Tales of a Vanishing River [The "Wether Book" by Josiah Granger]
Earl Reed
Most Interesting Interview with Mrs. Druscilla Carr
J. W. Lester
The Tippecanoe River
Theodore Dreiser
An Early Illinois Prairie
Albert W. Herre
The Kankakee in the Old days
F. E. Ling
A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region
Elliot Downing
A Hoosier Tramp
Samuel A. Harper
The Sand Dunes of Indiana
E. Stillman Bailey
Our Native Grasses
George Vasey
Prairie Woodlands
Ellsworth Jerome Hill
The Plant Societies of Chicago and Vicinity
Henry Chandler Cowles
Round About Chicago
Louella Chapin
Reading the Landscape of America
May T. Watts
On Improving the Property
May T. Watts
Impressions of the Warren Woods
Wendell Paddock
An Annotated Flora of the Chicago Area
Herman S. Pepoon
Dune Boy: The Early Years of a Naturalist
Edwin Way Teale
Darius Cook
Notes on the Ornithology of Wisconsin
Philo R. Hoy
The Quadrupeds of Illinois, Injurious and Beneficial to the farmer
Robert Kennicott
Recollections of Bird-Life in Pioneer Days
Halvor L. Skavlem
Birds of Northeastern Illinois
Edward W. Nelson
Birds of Lakeside and Prairie
Edward B. Clark
Nature Sketches in Temperate America
Joseph Lane Hancock
Months of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter
A Day Among the Waterfowl and Its Sequel
G. Eifrig
Memoirs of the Naturalist
Herbert L. Stoddard Sr.
Bird Notes from Trailside Museum
Mary Block
[Notes on a Woodcock]
Bird Life of a Roadside Marsh
Alfred M. Bailey
American Egrets in the Lake Region
W. J. Beecher
Green Herons
Donald Boyd
Passenger Pigeon in Northeastern Illinois
Benjamin T. Gault
Reminiscences of Early Experiences in teh Chicago Area
Benjamin T. Gault
Geolycosa, The Wolf of the Dunes
Donald C. Lowrie
The Opossum, Prophet without Honor
D. Dwight Davis
Pyramids of Palos
A. S. Windsor
On the Trail of the Chat
Amy Baldwin
Cliff Swallows
Violet F. Hammond
An Old Colony of Cliff Swallows
Alfred Lewy
Wildlife of Elk Grove Preserve
Gordon Sawyer Pearsall
My Secret Places: One Man's Love Affair with Nature in the City
Leonard Dubkin
Life Plus 99 Years
Nathan F. Leopold Jr.
Letter to Spencer F. Baird [Regarding Crayfish]
R. P. Stearns
Southern Cook County and History of Blue Island Before the Civil War
Ferdinand Schapper
Sea and River Fishing: Fish in Season in November
S. C. Clarke
Letter [Fish Pot Hunters]
Black Bass Fishing in Fox River
Fred J. Wells
Gleanings from Nature
W. S. Blatchley
The Fish Market of Chicago
Illinois Board of Fish Commissioners
Animal Communities in Temperate North America
Victor Shelford
The Nesting Habits of Certain Sunfishes as Observed in a Park Lagoon in Chicago
Carl L. Hubbs
A River Mussel Parasitic on a Salamander
Arthur D. Howard
A Survey of Fishes in an Illinois Stream
Loren P. Woods
Observations on Lake Michigan Fishes at Chicago
Loren P. Woods
Miscellany [Wolf Hunts]
Six Months with the Indians
Darius B. Cook
Letter in Defense of Snakes
John Kennicott
A History of the County of Du Page, Illinois
C. W. Richmond and H. F. Vallette
A Day's Hunting in 1871 on the Club's Ground
South Shore Country Club
Field, Clover, and Trap Shooting
Adam Bogardus
History of Kendall County
E. W. Hicks
Game Hunt
Duck Shooting Around Fox Lake
Then and Now—the Extermination of Game
Prairie Chicken Shooting and Trapping Fifty Years Ago
Plover Shooting on the Prairie
Rock Jr.
Recollections of Calumet
Blue Wing
A Plea for the Wild Duck
Statement Read before the Central Illinois Sportsman's Association by Its President
George Hayden
Letter from Princeton, Illinois [in Favor of Hunting Hawks]
Letter [Wasteful Hunting on the Des Plaines River]
J. G. Nattrass
Our Hearts were Young and Gay
Edward R. Ford
Skokie Memories
Edward R. Ford
The Naturalist
Edawrd R. Ford
Who Kills the Birds?
Mary Drummond
Colonel Isaac Washington Brown: The Bird and Bee Man
Henry A. Pershing
When the Lotus Are in Bloom
Laura Buchannon
Letter to Illinois Audobon Society
Olga Vrablik
Nature Recreation in Chicago
William G. Vinal
A Prairie Grove
Donald Culross Peattie
Some Scenes Years Ago at the Dunes Recalled with Great Pleasure
Donald Culross Peattie
Chicago Park District vs. Arthur Canfield
Illinois Supreme Court
Jens Jensen
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In the eyes of many people, especially film nerds, and especially especially my erstwhile cohort on this site, Jim, Christopher Nolan can do no wrong, and it's hard to argue (2002's lukewarm remake Insomnia notwithstanding): from his first appearance in the mainstream 10 years ago with Memento, he has written and directed some of the most successful films of the decade, both critically and financially. It's thanks to him that the Batman franchise has been guided from its troubling teen years, where it got its ear pierced and started wearing some questionable plotlines, into a more rounded and grounded adult with a nice career and a responsible car and some designer suits. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Another notable aspect of Nolan's ascendency has been the talented actors he has worked with along the way, many of whom return to work with the director on other projects. There's an old saying that you can tell the measure of a man by the company he keeps, and it must be said that when you include Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Tom Wilkinson and Gary Oldman in your circle of friends, chances are you're a pretty good guy to be around. It's hard to imagine any other director getting Messrs. Caine and Oldman to sign on for not one but two (so far) 'superhero' movies, and it's to his credit.
To say, then, that the recently-released Inception has a lot to live up to, is to put it mildly. Eschewing all of the big names he has worked with in the past (aside from Caine, appearing in a brief cameo), Nolan has assembled another absolute dream cast for his latest self-penned opus. Leonardo diCaprio leads as Cobb, a man with the ability to navigate peoples dreams, which ordinarily he uses to perform industrial espionage for a high fee. Joining him in this enterprise is Arthur, played by the ever-competent Joseph Gordon-Levitt (formerly of 3rd Rock from the Sun, though to think of him as a sitcom actor is to sell him very short: check out 2004's Brick {Dir. Rian Johnson} for an excellent example of what he can do). Whilst trying to steal some secrets from the mind of Ken Watanabe's (previously from Batman Begins) energy tycoon, Saito, he is caught but impresses enough for Saito to hire him not to extract information from a business rival, but to plant an idea in his head (the Inception of the title), a considerably more difficult exercise that requires Cobb to put together a larger team.
This starts with an 'Architect'- someone who crafts the dreamworld that the infiltrators and the target all share, in this case promising young student Ariadne, introduced by Michael Caine (as Cobb's inexplicably English father/university lecturer) and ably played by Ellen Page. Page is most famous for her lead role in indie sensation Juno {2007, Dir. Jason Reitman}, but in my opinion her skills were best showcased in 2005's chilling psychological thriller, Hard Candy {Dir. David Slade, who also directed the recent Twilight: Eclipse, though the two are poles apart in terms of theme and tone}. This world has to be detailed and complex like a maze, to stop the dreamer's subconscious 'projections' (the people populating the dream) rooting out the interlopers and killing them in the dream, which wakes them up in the real world. Along the way, Ariadne discovers that Cobb can no longer craft the fantastical and sometimes paradoxical dreamworlds himself, due to some pretty serious personal demons concerning his wife Mal (Marion Cotillard), who turns up with increasing frequency to frustrate or attack the team in the dreamscape.
In order to convince their target, Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy, star of 28 Days Later {2002, Dir. Danny Boyle} and previously Scarecrow in Nolan's Batman Begins, 2002) the son of a large energy company boss, that he wants to break up his father's empire after he dies, he will need to take him into a dream within a dream within another dream (just go with it), and that means two more people for the team: Dileep Rao as Yusuf, a chemist specialising in ridiculously-specific sedatives, and Tom Hardy as Eames, a man who can appear to be other people in the dreamworld.
Just as I have spent a healthy chunk of this review describing the basic premise and characters of Inception, the film itself spends most of its first hour doing the same thing. It does start to get a bit worrying that it takes so long to explain everything in such detail, but Nolan guides this introduction expertly, never letting the exposition dip into being patronising or tedious, and later on you'll be glad they took the time to explain all the quirks of the process, especially when they start redefining or breaking all the rules they previously mentioned.
Once the team is assembled, it's time to step up the action, drug their target on a transcontinental flight, and enter the dream state together. At each level of the dream, time passes slower, and, contrary to what they said earlier, if you die in this dream, you don't wake up, but instead go to limbo, where decades can pass in real-world minutes. From the moment the team (including Saito, who wants to oversee the operation he's paying so much for, and Ariadne, who is there to watch out for Mal) enter the dream, the drama and urgency build and there really isn't any let up in the tension for the rest of the film, which is really as much as I can say about the plot without spoilers.
Let's move on then to the visuals of Inception, which are absolutely stunning. The dreamworld involves some incredible sights; buildings folding in on each other, visual paradoxes and fantastical vistas, of which the absolute standout is a brilliant sequence in a hotel. The CGI is expertly and seamlessly handled, and of peerless quality, which really helps preserve the suspension of disbelief that they took such pains to weave in the first act.
Judging by Nolan's pedigree, I was not expecting less than solid performances from the cast, and they do not disappoint. I personally have a difficult time thinking of Leonardo diCaprio as an adult, despite the patchy stubble he now sports in all his films to show how 'grown up' he is, and though pairing him alongside the similarly babyfaced Gordon-Levitt doesn't really help with this, it's a minor point; overall he's a solid lead and inhabits the character of Cobb well. Gordon-Levitt carries off Arthur effortlessly, and I'm not sure if this is testament to his talents, or because it's exactly the type of character in which he excels; smart, confident, but also subtle. Ellen Page is coming into her own as an actress, and Ariadne is the perfect stepping stone on her way to leading lady. Marion Cotillard also deserves special mention for her powerful and affecting portrayal as Cobb's wife, Mal, whose performance sticks in the mind despite the sparsity with which her character appears.
The standout performance of Inception, though, is the fantastic Tom Hardy, who steals every single scene he's in as the instantly likeable rogue, Eames. What we see on screen in his character is a fascinating example of what a Nolan-directed Bond film would look like (steady on Jim), with Hardy's suave charm and effortless style taking Eames believably from comedian to conman to action hero as the film goes on. What we see here could well be the role that really launches him into Hollywood, and I look forward to seeing what he does next.
With Memento, Nolan established himself not just as a director but also as a writer, and Inception is the natural evolution of his craft, both in complexity and intelligence. He has assembled a peerless cast, and though the story could be summarised as the clever offspring of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Matrix, that hardly does it justice. This is the smartest, most original screenplay you will see this year, and though sometimes it can be a little difficult to follow, the pace of the second and third acts means you are never left long enough to dwell on some of the potential plot holes to let them derail the ride. This is a film that can be hard work at times, and one that you probably need to see several times to understand, but it's also such an exciting and smart thriller that you will want to come back to it again and again. Just maybe not straight away.


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gaz, i like this a lot.
And the suit size...he has a large head, but an awkwardly shaped/sized body.
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- Scott Chicken said...
Rock on to Kate. Opened the paper this morning and said "hey, that looks like Kate!" To which Paige said "that's 'cause it is..."
I was amused by Paynter's twisting of the truth in her line about "Immediately Hunt recognized what Moe and her husband, John, were only just grasping themselves..." Hadn't you guys been "grasping" the dwarfism issue for about 3 months when she was born? Still, that wouldn't have made as dramatic a story... - 11:29 AM
- tina said...
What a beauty that Kate is. I'm so glad you linked us to that.
- john said...
Well, we got the diagnosis 6 weeks out from birth. But the grasping was still being attempted. Still trying to grasp it to some degree.
- fatmouthed greg said...
Thanks for sharing this story, John. I have a hard time thinking of any of us as adults now, but to see you, Tina, Scott and others living your lives, continuing to make people laugh and smile makes me feel lucky to have known you all back then. Granted, I was a penis to most of you most of the time, and I quickly wore-out my welcome with the Harper Joy crowd (and other crowds, come to think), but I still miss those salad days and appreciate that you, Tina and others invite the rest of us to know what's happened and is happening to you and yours over the years, and how you live and love in the world. I like best reading about your kids and the things they say. They are mighty ministers of good sense and good faith in a nutty world. Good luck to you as your book goes to press. You mentioned that you now have an ISBN number. You'll also have an authority record in the Library of Congress catalog. You've arrived, John Moe. Make yourself at home. (How was that New Year's Eve show?)
- Scott Chicken said...
Ah...yeah, I suppose that would still take some grasping. At least with Logan's TEF we didn't have any notice but got to listen to all the far worse things it could have been and as a result the final outcome was pretty mellow.
Oh, and I'll second Tina's "beauty" comment, in case it ever needs to come up for a vote... - 7:52 PM
- la Ketch said...
what beauties! What a wonderful story! Thank you!
- Matthew said...
Yay Kate!
I love that the image attribution is "Moe Family Photo," like you guy own and operate a one-hour photomat in the parking lot of Fry's Electronics somewhere. - 12:26 PM
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- Electronics News Lover said...
Search engines take too much time to index the newest info on electronics catalog
So that's why i come to blogs but many of them are not really updated or focused on their primary topic
How come ?
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On comparing his speech for his induction into the Hall of Fame to that of his father's induction: "(It was) almost the opposite. I had less time. My dad's such a big topic and such an important part of the industry. Maybe more so to the wrestlers themselves. This is one that the wrestlers really care about.
"There's so much to say about my father and what he contributed to and all those who loved him and what he meant to the industry that in the time that they gave me, it was impossible to do justice to him. So, I almost didn't even care. 'OK. I got 30 seconds to say something about my father. I'll do it and get it over with.' I'd like to have expanded it and do it a little longer. Not like I did at the Hall of Fame for myself. Just to where I could talk and leisurely about my father and some of the things he did. I wish I could have done that a little longer.
"Whereas, for my Hall of Fame, I didn't know if I was ever going to come back. So, I went on and on and on and on for so long."
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The Saloon
American is full of cocktail lounges, and even bars, but they are nothing like that great male institution and home-away-from-home which died with Prohibition
April 1963 | Volume 14, Issue 3
There has been a curious, somewhat anachronistic connection between preachers and saloons. The Great West was dotted with bars run by ex-clergymen from back east who for their own reasons had exchanged the cloth for the bar rag. Many gospellers, of course, invaded the precincts to bring the Word. They were invariably treated with courtesy, even when the hosts were assailed as "fiends in human form." In encounters of this sort, the cupbearers of the Demon Rum came off at least as well as the spade-tail ministers so far as basic good manners were concerned. On one occasion when an evangelist made a few remarks of a religious nature at the end of a bar in a Macon, Missouri, gin mill, the proprietors and bartenders stood with folded arms during the devotions, then joined heartily in singing "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." Again, two clergymen preached so powerfully in Close & Patterson's saloon in Las Vegas that they baptized four gamblers and fifteen hurdy-gurdy girls, who were led to the altar of penitence by Lazy Liz and Nervous Jessie. A reporter who was present passed up the opportunity to be saved, but remained for the jubilation when the bar reopened. When death came to Riley Grannan, an honest gambler who had been generous to his nightcrawling friends, the services were held in back of a Nevada saloon. The tribute and farewell to Grannan, delivered by a wayward Methodist preacher who had himself drained the chalice of life to the dregs, is generally regarded by those fortunate enough to possess the full text as one of the truly eloquent and moving funeral orations in our language.∗
‣Reprinted in Play the Devil: A History of Gambling in the United States , by Henry Chafetz, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1960.
The personality of a publican was important. It helped boom business if he was a philosopher, a comic, an alderman, or a man of the people who had been in the public eye. One such was Steve Brodie, who did or didn't jump from the Brooklyn Bridge on July 23, 1886, but in any event parlayed his notoriety into a popular resort. Retired fighters moved easily, almost inevitably, into barkeeping. John L. Sullivan, high up in saloon hagiology, tried over and over again to become a successful boniface. But he wasn't cut out for it. Himself a man who got up in the morning with the feeling that he was spitting cotton, John L. could go through several pints before he felt even a little bit wet, and he was so expansive by nature that he was always inviting his customers to promenade up to the bar and have one on the house. "The Strong Boy" wore out several partners and finally landed in bankruptcy court.
The idea that the saloon was all evil was the product of the farmer mentality of the period. Yet the whiskey lecturers were right to some extent. In the small towns, before local option drove the saloon out, the bars were supported by serious drinkers who were indeed social outcasts. Tucked away on side streets, such barrooms were often places of violence. One saloon in Memphis set out a private-label whiskey with a strikingly candid name—"A Fight in Fifteen Minutes." In the five-cent houses, a man could get a mouse with no trouble at all. There were cuttings and occasional gunfire, and what was worse, a good deal of Monday absenteeism from the wholesome twelve-hour daily discipline of factory life.
The grand opening of a new saloon in any American city was a jovial and stylized occasion. There would be a formal parade. Great Clydesdale horses in four- or six-hitch would draw a beer dray followed by a brass band composed of players with names like Johann Sebastian Schwartz, not to mention several Mullers and a Sontag. The board of aldermen and city fathers would be in the line of march, as well as thirsty citizens in mufti and the usual urchins who appeared on circus day. The bartenders would take their places, wearing clean jackets and geraniums wrapped in silver foil in their lapels, hair well pomaded with Lucky Tiger and carefully roached up in front. The brewer's representative would be on hand, hail fellow well met, to stand treat and pass out cigars. He would also arrange for the license at city hall, go bail for good customers, and fix the cops. Sometimes the arrangements were even more imaginative. When the Bon Ton opened on East Randolph Street in Chicago, the proprietor sent out engraved invitations to come and meet the mayor, and Bathhouse John Coughlin and Hinky Dink McKenna. To open the Monte Carlo in Dawson, Alaska, William F. ("Swiftwater Bill") Gates arrived at the landing wearing a Prince Albert coat and high silk hat, and there was a lovely girl perched on top of every barrel of whiskey.


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It took me a while to get around to this drama, but I finally did. Yay – old drama checked off my list! I'm glad I watched it, because in a way I got to see how action dramas worked in 2007, and compared it to the more recent dramas of late (think IRIS, ATHENA, and City Hunter). I have to admit I went into the drama with pretty low expectations; when I watched the first episode years ago, I couldn't sit through the first half-hour. I was bored to death. But with nothing to do except some snuggling against my couch and huddling under a blanket, I sat through the entire first episode – and the entire series.
This drama has almost every melodramatic cliche you could squeeze into a 16-episode revenge/action drama, which is both its strong point and its weakest. While the fast pace of the drama helps keep the tensions high, it has more plot holes and crazy plot lines than I could keep track of. It also fluctuated between the story being propelled forward, and then stretches of meandering about as characters dance around the truth but never really get there. But perhaps a summary is in order for those who haven't seen this series.
Lee Soo Hyun (Lee Jun Ki) was raised in Bangkok by his widowed mother, who worked tirelessly as a prosecutor, trying to bring the Jung Triad to justice after the untimely death of her husband (an NIS agent). Her investigations and police operations attract too much attention, and the Jung Triad decides to swiftly eliminate her.
It also doesn't help that one of the higher-ups, Mao Liwarat (Choi Jae Sung), just lost his wife and daughter Ari to Seo Young Kil (Jung Sung Mo), one of his underlings. Young Kil made a deal with Soo Hyun's mother where he would be given safe passage to Korea with Mao's family (whom he loves dearly) in exchange for information about a scheduled drug sale. So Mao is filled with vengeance when he goes to kill the mother – point blank, and right in front of Soo Hyun's eyes.
Mao, wearing a Thai costume mask, aims to kill again, but Soo Hyun holds his hand over the nozzle of the gun, holding his mother's last gift: his father's broken watch. Moved, and unable to shoot a child in the face, he leaves, but not before Soo Hyun remembers the tattoo on his arm. Soo Hyun had met Mao before when he walked Ari home, and shook hands with him, but guess he never saw the tattoo then…
Ari is forced to leave her home and her newfound friend for Seoul; she never had issue with her father, who was the best father he could be, but she wanted her long-suffering mother to be happy as well. Likewise, Soo Hyun's parents' friend Kang Joong Ho (Lee Ki Young) adopts Soo Hyun as his own and takes him to Korea.
His son Min Ki (Jung Kyung Ho) doesn't have much of a problem with Soo Hyun, but dislikes that Soo Hyun is so distant and cold. He just wants to be friends!! They get into a schoolyard scuffle, and then get caned by the father at home. Joong Ho's wife and son think that he would never hit Soo Hyun because he's not his real son and is favored, but Joong Ho whips the boy for his insolence. Bonding moment — and Soo Hyun becomes a real part of their family.
Time passes. They grow up, and Min Ki and Soo Hyun become NIS agents just like their fathers. Min Ki is the troublemaker, being the more lazy agent, and so he ends up in the data mining section. Soo Hyun is quiet but brilliant, and super sharp – he becomes a field agent. It's a testament to their bond as brothers that neither side is jealous, and neither is surprised by Min Ki's playboy ways.
They bump into Seo Ji Woo (Nam Sang Mi) accidentally, with Min Ki pursuing her as a love interest, and Soo Hyun in the middle. But when the two old friends recognize each other and reunite, Min Ki can't stand in the way of their sparkling chemistry. Or more like, Ji Woo's enthrallment with Soo Hyun, and Soo Hyun's indifference.
Soo Hyun is assigned a reconnaissance case against the Jung Triad and Mao, who have arrived in Korea in hopes of expanding their market and establishing a hub there. He's nervous as he plants a camera bug, but then is in for the shock of his life when he recognizes Mao's tattoo.
He goes rogue, attempting to kill Mao himself, and fires his gun against him. It's caught on tape – and caught by Min Ki as he reviews the case, no less – and he is subsequently fired. Soo Hyun goes to Thailand immediately, and is followed by Ji Woo and Min Ki, who know he's plotting revenge.
Soo Hyun tries and fails, and gets hurt, and then goes home. Director Jung, the chief of NIS, recognizes his talent and thirst for revenge, and offers him a position as a narc – he will go deep undercover in Thailand and attempt to infiltrate the Jung Triad. Commence Infernal Affairs plot, with a dash of Amnesia, a heavy dose of Denial and Revenge, a teaspoon of Brothers Reuniting, and a sprinkle of Final Showdown with a Twist.
This drama has loads of Lee Jun Ki at his best, or should I say, trying his best? Whether it's making spinning kicks or besting others at "Who can shoot first?" he always looks impressive and cool as he does it. Just how I like my heroes. However, there were moments of him screaming in despair or agony that had me wondering, "Are you screaming because this is all too much? Too over-the-top?"
Jung Kyung Ho holds up his end admirably, going from dorky to badass agent when he tries to take Soo Hyun's place in NIS. The best part is putting the two of them together; together you have a wonderful bromance that shows how much they love each other and support each other.
Despite all the lies and betrayals, I'm glad that Min Ki quickly gets over it because he realizes that 1) he has his brother's back, and 2) he understands his brother's need for revenge. I think this drama had too many episodes with them not together, which totally sucked.
In regards to the love triangle though, because Jung Kyung Ho played Min Ki so well, I really wished that he ended up with Ji Woo. Though he threw tantrums when she couldn't let go of Soo Hyun's memory, he tried so hard to win her hand. He was a good guy, and I felt bad that Ji Woo wouldn't accept him.
As for Soo Hyun, I never felt his love for Ji Woo – I think he lacked any chemistry with Nam Sang Mi, despite the drama claiming otherwise. Nam Sang Mi herself was quite annoying – she was always getting in the way of Soo Hyun and Min Ki's plans, and I just wanted her to shut up and wait until the fighting was over. Though she saved Soo Hyun a couple of times, she also put him in a lot of danger too. Grr – I guess because I didn't like her character, I didn't like how these two guys were fighting over her.
[SPOILERS AHEAD] The drama had some crazy plot lines and plot holes that raised more questions as I watched than answered. I mean – when Soo Hyun comes back from the dead in the movie theater, the first thing the agents do is arrest him. Really? You don't pause and stare mid-punch, crying: "Is that you, Soo Hyun!? Welcome back, buddy!"
Granted, you all asked once, "Is that Soo Hyun?" as you stared at him through the one-way glass, but it falls flat because no one even wants to pursue the possibility with a DNA test. It's like in Ocean's Twelve, when Matt Damon makes a passing remark that George Clooney's wife looks like Julia Roberts. Umm, duh?! At least in Ocean's Twelve, they do something about the likeness; in Time, they don't.
Soo Hyun even conveniently gets amnesia, and at that point in the drama (around Episodes 6-8), I felt the series was dragging its feet. Things didn't make sense – I kept asking myself, "Wait, don't Mao and Soo Hyun recognize each other already? There are so many signs!" or "Shouldn't he have seen that watch earlier?"
And then nearer to the end, I wondered, "How'd the Chief survive that flash bomb in his office?" and "Was Mao's bodyguard Giraffe a double agent too or something?" and "Why the hell do we find out now that Mao and Soo Hyun's father were friends?" At that point it was such an unnecessary detail that I wish they didn't include that connection. The drama would have been fine without it.
It was ridiculousness built upon ridiculousness, to the point that when I reached the end, I was willing to buy everything despite my questions because there were too many gaps and potential plot wells to keep track of. "Don't you know that already?" and "Oh, now you know?" were constant refrains in my head.
I felt the show didn't pick up again until around Episode 13, when every episode after that had a better cliffhanger than the last. It's like they got a whole new scriptwriter and editor for the final episodes, because suddenly the story was quicker, more exciting, and wrapping up its story.
Once Soo Hyun remembered who he was, allied with his brother, and their plans came to fruition, the wait became worth it. I don't like the ending because it was so cheesy, and yet, I love how Min Ki and Soo Hyun essentially became their fathers, and Soo Hyun continued being a narc. In the end, I only cared about these two brothers.
I don't mean to bash this drama, since I do think that because it was so short, and was trying to move as quickly as possible, it kind of glazed over a bunch of details. I will give this drama some props for developing solid characters like Min Ki, Soo Hyun, and even Ji Woo (as annoying as she was). It had a great supporting cast in Sung Ji Roo, Lee Tae Sung, and Kim Gab Soo, all of whom made me feel sympathy, made me smack my lips in deliciousness, and made me love to hate, respectively.
At its core, Dog/Wolf was about revenge, and yet it got sidetracked with the side story of Soo Hyun trying to take down the Triad in forgettable ways (except the time he finally teams up with his brother – see, two heads are better than one!). I'll draw some parallels to more recent shows. IRIS took a little diversion with the whole NIS takeover, which was important, but all you really wanted was for Hyun Joon to just get chief Baek San already!
It also makes me appreciate City Hunter more, because it had a well-thought-out plot with enough twists that weren't dropped in the last five minutes to keep me interested. City Hunter was also about revenge, but its plot of going against five men was actually laid out better than this drama's plot of going after one man. Time Between Dog and Wolf is a drama that marks its time in 2007 – it's a drama that makes me appreciate the later action dramas, which had less ambitious plots, but more focused storytelling.
If I were to ever watch this drama again, it would be because of Lee Jun Ki and Jung Kyung Ho's bromance. I might just watch the first five episodes over and over again, and then skip to Episode 13. Anything with the two of them is worth it; episodes with them apart just makes the drama fall apart.
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Posted By Stephanie Geosits On May 6 2010 @ 2:20 pm In New York Yankees | 2 Comments
The Yankees made quick work of the Orioles, sweeping a three-game set, but it was the Bombers' own physical woes that created a sense of panic this week.
Mariano Rivera has a sore side. Andy Pettitte left Wednesday's game with soreness in his left pitching arm. Joba Chamberlain is on the shelf and Jorge Posada is banged up. Not how the Yankees want to be heading into a three-game set with the Red Sox.
Ignore the fact that Boston is in fourth place in the AL East. They could be in 11th of five teams and still bring a fight. This weekend series will be tough for the Yankees, given all of their injuries.
One of the Yankees who will not be playing at Fenway is Javier Vazquez. With a 1-3 record and 9.78 ERA skipper Joe Girardi said that he will put Vazquez on ice for the Fenway series and give him the start in Detroit on Monday against the Tigers. Don't assume that move will help Vazquez any, since Detroit has a better record than Boston does and is currently occupying second place in the AL Central.
Currently the Facebook group Yankee Fans Against Javier Vazquez is 29 members strong. The group is for those "who support either the trade, release or demotion to Scranton of Javier Vazquez." Those are some very disparate options. I feel that if he just needs to "work things out" as Girardi has said, then send him to Scranton and let him do that. Keep throwing him out there for starts against any major league team, and he'll keep on getting crushed. That won't help anyone, especially not him or the Yankees.
The Bombers gave up a fan favorite in Melky Cabrera for Vazquez, so there's not much patience for the righty to get back on track. (Cabrera is currently batting below the Mendoza Line for the Braves, by the way, but that doesn't mean that fans don't miss him).
What do you think? Send Vazquez to Scranton? Trade him for a couple cases of balls? Is it time to throw in the towel or show some more patience?
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Sangai Mohochi has arrived in Kenya and sent this message as an update:
Our trip back home was quite eventful. It was very very tiring, especially because of the twins and the luggage. One of our bags was left behind in Minneapolis but luckily it was reunited with us in Nairobi 3 days after our arrival with everything intact.
I am now preparing a major job hunting operation. There are a couple of leads in neighboring countries, however, I still prefer remaining in Kenya for the sake of Kusoma - LMEF and my other interests at home. Besides, after 5 years in the US, I would have loved to be at home.
I now have a broadband modem, and I hope to be able to check my emails everyday most of the time. However, I warn you that they will be very short due to cost constraints - I will have to learn how to be brief and to the point.
I already miss all of you, but I am sure we shall be able to move on smoothly.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
CULT American alternative rock band Pixies will play ahead of headliner Neil Young on Sunday's bill at this year's Isle of Wight Festival.
The four-piece Boston punk and surf-rock band make the Island set on Sunday, June 14, their only UK festival performance this year.
"It was hard to think of someone capable of complementing the musical talent of Neil Young but once I had the idea, it was blindingly obvious and it will surely be a legendary day on the Isle of Wight," said John Giddings, festival promoter.
Formed in 1986, Pixies influenced a generation of guitar bands.
Their albums Surfer Rosa and Bossanova both won album of the year accolades in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
More recent success includes a reunited Pixies single, Barn Thwok, which coasted to number one in the British download chart in 2004.
Pixies join an eclectic 2009 festival line-up including The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx, The Ting Tings and Pendulum on Friday night, Stereophonics and Razorlight on Saturday and a Big Top curated on Sunday by Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess.
The Isle of Wight Festival runs from June 12 to 14 at Seaclose Park, Newport.
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The heavy floodwaters in Colorado this month caused more than 37,000 gallons of oil to spill into or near rivers, and the state's oil and gas industry is rushing to fix equipment damaged during the storm. It comes at a time when there's growing public concern about the environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing in the state.
In recent years, hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technologies have enabled more oil and gas production along Colorado's Eastern Plains. The boom has led to thousands of well sites across the state. As heavy rain entered the forecast, operators shut off wells and equipment in flood-prone areas — and then water rose.
"So as the water crested there was a tremendous amount of I think earth moved in some cases to where the foundations to some of these tanks actually washed out underneath them," says Dan Kelly, vice president of Noble Energy's operations in the area.
The company reported four spills, amounting to almost 9,000 gallons of oil. In some instances the floodwaters quickly swept the oil downstream. In others, the company had to sop up the spilled oil or use vacuum trucks. Kelly says his company is still trying to gain access to a few sites.
"Due to the water, due to the currents, due to some of the other issues with potential pollutants — bacteria and some of the things we're very concerned with — we have not aggressively pursued trying to get into some that still have risk," he says.
The bacteria he's referring to — from raw sewage and animal excrement from feed lots — have also spilled into floodwaters. Overall, state officials are warning people to stay away from the water. But not everyone can make that choice.
Riding on horseback, one of the few ways to get around near the South Platte River, rancher Kody Lostroh searches downstream from one oil spill area for a cow he lost in the floods.
"There's a ton of junk in the water right now," he says. "It's just another thing we have to deal with."
In total, state officials are tracking 12 of what they call "notable" oil releases in the region. Colorado's oil and gas regulatory body has multiple teams in the field assessing the affects of floodwaters. Energy companies themselves are conducting aerial surveys of their equipment.
Some sites remain unreachable by land because roads are too muddy or have been destroyed. Overall, state officials estimate about 1,300 wells remain shut down.
"For that region, that represents about 14 percent of the oil production," says Tisha Schuller, the CEO of the trade group Colorado Oil and Gas Association. "So it's a significant percent that's not operating right now."
Schuller says in some places it could take months for repairs and testing to happen. There are also public concerns about potential fracking wastewater or chemicals that may have been swept into the floodwaters.
"To the best of our knowledge there were no pits in the flooded areas," she says. "And so we're confident that the order of magnitude of impacts that we've seen so far, which are relatively minor, is what we'll see as the floodwaters continue to recede."
The recent spills are moving environmental and advocacy groups to call on state and industry officials to revisit the rules governing where oil and gas drilling can take place in flood plains.
"The state of Colorado and the oil and gas industry has made a terrible mistake," says Gary Wockner of the environmental group Clean Water Action. "If there's any silver lining here, it's [that] we have the opportunity to change that as we move forward and create much better regulations that would protect the public, and the environment, and of course our water source as we move forward."
Other public discussions on oil and gas development along the Front Range are expected to develop this fall. That's when voters in five Colorado communities will weigh in on ballot measures that seek to limit or ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing.


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Even before the second season of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" completed its three-episode(!) reunion special, the rumors were already flying about who from the cast is in or out next season: Camille won't have her contract renewed! Lisa is getting her own show! These casting decisions won't be easy for Bravo; while the multi-woman wipeout the network performed on the New York edition excised that series' most toxic cast members like a cancerous lesion, Beverly Hills will require trickier surgery. Maybe these unsolicited recommendations will help Bravo figure out who should stay and who should go.
Camille Grammer: Either Camille the Chameleon is saving her multiple-personality disorder diagnosis for next season or she decided to become a completely different person this time around. Gone was the ice queen whose steely facade was put to the test last year as Bravo cameras captured the dissolution of her marriage to Kelsey Grammer. In its place was the sympathetic martyr who was unfailingly genial all season–and totally boring. Guessing which Camille is real is besides the point; she has become so self-conscious about how she's depicted that there's no point to her continuing anymore. The one interesting thing that happened to her at the very end of the season–she got a boyfriend–played out entirely off camera; if not even that is fair game, she truly has nothing left to offer.
Lisa Vanderpump: She's the show's nucleus, but does she really have Bethenny-like breakout potential on her own? Doubtful. What makes Lisa so compelling is the way the other women in this cast orbit around her as she vacillates between regal condescension and den mother. To pull her out would be like replacing a planet with a black hole, destabilizing the entire production. That said, let's hope Bravo finds a better storyline than the excruciating detail to which viewers had to experience the planning of Lisa's daughter's wedding. It was only amusing when kooky wedding planner Kevin Lee was on air–now he's someone who should get his own show.
Adrienne Maloof: She continues to be exceptionally consistent when it comes to acting sensible, smart and grounded–so what business does she having being on a reality show? You could make the case that Maloof no longer belongs on Bravo but there's two reasons you're wrong: 1) Perhaps the wisest move the show made this year was to increase her husband Paul's screen time because their Lockhorns-like dynamic is hilarious 2) The reunion made clear that her bond with Lisa is getting shaky, and watching that relationship unravel as Lisa seems to be forging an unlikely friendship with Brandi is the kind of love triangle on which you can build an entire season.
Kim Richards: This is a tough one. She was the consummate train wreck this season as she futilely tried to hide her addiction problems, acting erratic at every turn, which was highly entertaining. But now that she's been through rehab, you could argue that she's going to be as boring as Camille. That's not going to happen though. As the reunion made clear, even a sober Kim is not exactly stable. Her return to the show would bring an element of suspense given there's no way her effort to stay on the wagon is going to go smoothly no matter how hard she tries.
Kyle Richards: Kyle is essential because the story of the "Housewives" seems to be filtered more through her sarcastic observations than anyone else in the series. She also seems to cry on camera more than anyone else, but therein lies a weakness in her appeal: If for some reason the main source of her tears, sister Kim, doesn't return, that makes Kyle about 50% less interesting. Perhaps after making Kyle out to be Ms. Perfect for the past two seasons, Bravo can find some cracks in the facade and shake things up a bit in her life.
Brandi Glanville: There's probably a lot of people hoping she doesn't return because of how polarizing a presence she was in her rookie season, but that would be a big mistake; her very divisiveness is the reason she needs to be upgraded to full-time status. The other women put her through hell but her inability to control the passageway from her brain to her mouth made her trial by fire endlessly enjoyable. If there was a weakness to Brandi, it's that she wasn't given much to do beyond being a pin cushion for the other women. What she should be doing is taking on the storyline Camille was meant to have but dodged: the search for a new man after a divorce. Not only will she be back, but she's probably the future of the franchise.
Dana Wilkey: Yes, she provided the season's biggest laughs between her $25,000 sunglasses proclamation and her game-night suck-up to Kyle Richards. But the fact that she barely had any screen time beyond those episodes is evidence enough that the chemistry just isn't there with the other women the way it was for the other woman with quasi-Housewife status, Brandi. See-ya, Dana.
Taylor Armstrong: This is the toughest call of all. Her abusive relationship with husband Russell Armstrong, who went on to draw national headlines by committing suicide before the season began, might seem to make her a magnet for attention, but let's take a closer look. Yes, you could make the case that there will be tremendous interest in seeing how Taylor manages to put her life back together. And she is a compelling character because there's such a paradox at the core of her personality: She's both an extremely emotionally damaged being and a fairly intelligent, articulate person. But there's also huge risk here that Taylor is going to pull a Camille and act so guardedly going forward that it will negate her reason for being on the show. Nevertheless, let's give this poor soul the benefit of the doubt and keep her on another season. But that's just another reason Bravo should shelve Camille: It will send Taylor a message that nursing a victim complex isn't the way to ensure longevity on the network.


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OSC Bundle syntax ??
I'm trying to "speak" to a Arduino board. To observe the validity of my OSC packets, i use the oscP5sendReceive.pde script in Processing.
To avoid long and fastidious script in Arduino itself, i have to send an OSC bundle, since the messages i'm sending are quite long ones (between 100 and 1000 messages at 25 messages/second). So that the arduino board gets an array, and not a loooooong list of values.
So i am currently trying to find out how to write this bundle, but the infos about OSC "syntax" are not clear, and no example is given on cnmat examples or wherever. Seems like few are interested by sending BIG lists in OSC.
I understood that the bundle must be composed like this : #bundle – timetag – size of bundle – bundle elements
… But how to actually WRITE it ? i can't find out in which order, where to put the tag, which separators, or anything…. Please help me, much thanks
Have you checked the OpenSoundControl object in the CNMAT Max distribution?
Sure I did. My question is about the message … The OSC bundle description is a bit laconic in the OpenSoundControl external help file .
Any idea ?
… Seems not very inspiring to you people.
I'll try to be more explicit :
– I'm sending a big list (1000 items) at a 25fps rate. This list can be divided into 10×100 values (0-255)
– I would like Processing/Arduino to receive an ARRAY and not this huge LIST, so that it avoids the OSC receiver (Processing/arduino/whatever) to look for each value, but just get one array.
In the OpenSoundControl help file, there's very few explanation about how to write correctly a bundle. The "openbundle" or [ and "closebundle" or ] have arbirtary result, as it does exactly the same as just sending a BANG to the OpenSoundControl external.
I wish Processing could see the beginning and end of an array … Like specified here : http://opensoundcontrol.org/spec-1_0
Moreover, can't see how to send more than about 300 values to OSC, even when increasing the buffer.
A bit fuzzy…
There do appear to be shortcomings in the documentation – on the other hand, the sub (and related) patches do have a lot of info in them. Some may be of use. My understanding is that a bundle is any collection of OSC style messages with a time tag – the bundle does not need to be explicitly defined -unless you are making a "sub"-bundle – the OpenSoundControl object takes care of that as well as the packet size. (Check the subpatch "timestamped-bundle-generation of Osc-timetag help) . Use verbose mode in OpenSoundControl (debug) to check what is going on – it will be very useful to give you an idea – especially of the buffer size of the current buffer…
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Copy all of the following text. Then, in Max, select New From Clipboard.----------begin_max5_patcher----------
If you're on a UNIX machine, you can try investigating packets using the 'nc' command (in the terminal).
'nc -lu 7400' will listen on port 7400.
Oddly floats show up as "'Ap", but when you wrap a float in brackets (i.e. [5.0]), it appears as a float (type tagged "s"). Does anybody know why that is?
Thank you Spectro, indeed i check all the documentation. It's not that i cannot send simple OSC message – i succeed in sending basic messages – …. But, as Morgan specifies, a float or a group of floats or ints, when surrounded by brackets, become OSC-strings… Where i'd like them to appear as array, with [ and ] expliciting the beginning and end of the array itself.
So it seems we don't write it correctly…
Why can't you just construct OSC packets like so?
/osc/packet 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 etc. ?
In my work when I want to send an array, that's how I do it, though I'm staying in Max and udpsend/receive have no problems understanding eachother.
btw, 'nc -luv 7400' is nicer (-v flag prints more info about the packet)
With OSC I thought you only had the option of float, int or string, but I may be wrong.
I turn OSC strings into an array in Arduino with the 'toCharArray' function, but then I'm only sending a few values at once.
Sorry, i'll be redundant …
I can construct simple osc packets. But as i need to send them at a great frequency, it makes A LOT of data to send : 100 x 10 values every 25 fps. I'd prefer to send real arrays, and not lists……
oh i'm repeating myself a lot :/
Hi Luke,
indeed that's the function i would look for in max, but cannot find any info in the cnmat doc …
So just to be clear…
you want to turn your values into an array in Max BEFORE you send over OSC to your Arduino rather than turn the string into an array the other end??
Would that be possible? As I understood it you would only be able to use strings with OSC (or floats, or ints obviously)
Indeed Luke, that's what i was hoping to do. Finally we'll manage, as you said previously, to turn the lists into arrays into Arduino.
I thought this process could 'save' bytes during the communication… But it seems to work for the moment, even at high frequency.
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Shoemaker NEO Winner Finds Close Fly By Asteroid
Posted by Bruce Betts
Topics: Shoemaker NEO Grants, asteroids, near-Earth asteroids, planetary astronomy
Last week, Planetary Society Shoemaker NEO grant winner Gary Hug of Kansas, USA discovered the asteroid 2012 SY49 that flew by Earth about 2 lunar distances away later in the week. He said the discovery was only possible because of the upgraded camera he purchased with the Shoemaker NEO grant. The asteroid is still on the predication lists for low probability of impact with Earth in many years. Some of the initial follow-up observations (necessary to refine the orbit) came from fellow Shoemaker NEO grant winner Robert Holmes in Illinois, USA.
There are 20 possible impacts calculated in the next 70 years or so with a cumulative impact risk of about 1 in 77,000 with the largest chance of impact at 1 in 213,000 in 2048. Thanks to Hug's discovery, the orbit can be refined when observations are made during future Earth flybys. The size of the object is still also being refined, but it is ball park few tens of meters. If it impacted Earth, that could put it small enough to break up in the atmosphere harmlessly, or big enough to cause Tunguska size damage depending on its exact size.
Hug emailed me, "If I were still using my old Camera before receiving the Planetary Society's Shoemaker NEO Grant, 2012 SY49 would not have been in my field of view. And if no one would have imaged the area again within the few days the object would not have been discovered at all [now only a week later, it has already dimmed beyond the point where even large telescopes would be able to image it]. I was quite lucky to be in the right spot at the right time. Makes you wonder how many more 2012 SY49's there are that are never observed because of the short time they are visible."
Wonder indeed. But, obviously, the more qualified observers with advanced equipment there are, the more we'll find and track. Consider helping The Planetary Society help observers like Gary Hug find, track and characterize near Earth objects through our Shoemaker NEO grants. If you missed my blog last week about some of our other Shoemaker NEO observers and the program in general, follow this link.
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A Ride in My New Car
Fiction, Male/Teen Female, Mature, Teen
Author's infos
Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Wed 9th of October 2013
Author's Note: This story is not my usual way of writing. This story is mainly a get back at one of my friends. This is technically a cheat, because I used a story generator. My main purpose on this site is as a story critic, not a story writer.
Bo had been living in Wyoming for quite a while. As a kid, he'd ride his bike around the neighborhood, dreaming of the day when he'd finally have his driver's license and could jump in his beautiful new Mercedes-Benz S550. It didn't even have to be new. As long as it was that car and as long as it was his, that's all that would matter. It took a few years, but today was the day he got to realize his dream.
"It's all yours," the car salesman smiled as he flipped him the keys. Leaning into the window the salesman watched Bo grinning in the driver's seat, ready to roll off the lot, straight over to the one person with whom he wanted to share the realization of his dream: Arielle.
"You're not going to believe it," Bo practically yelled into his phone. "It's exactly the car I wanted, down to the colors, options – everything!" Arielle knew how much he'd wanted that car. She was genuinely happy for him. "Bring it on over," she laughed, "and let's break it in!"
They agreed he'd drive right over to her house, in Sycamore. Bo was thinking about his new car's high performance, but back at her place, Arielle was preparing for a performance of her own. Knowing how much Bo went crazy over her naturally sensual ass, she decided to wear her sexiest Shirt. Then she brushed out her lustrous dark brown hair and touched up her sparkling hazel eyes and full, kissable lips. All that was left was to make sure the drinks were ready for their inaugural celebration.
"I hope he's wearing his necklace," Arielle thought to herself. She was crazy about Bo, often spending hours fantasizing about his incredible ass and his deep, penetrating hazel eyes. She laughed to herself. "This is one ride he's never going to forget!"
It wasn't too long before Bo pulled the car into Arielle's driveway. Sparkling in the sunshine, it really was gorgeous – everything Bo had worked and hoped for. Arielle bounded out to greet him with a tray of Cîroc Amaretto.
"What are these for?" asked Bo. "We're celebrating," chirped Arielle. "If I'd just bought the car of my dreams, we'd be drinking to celebrate! Here, have one! Congratulations!"
"If we drink these, I can't drive for a while, you know," warned Bo. Arielle thought about it. Then her beautiful hazel eyes brightened with her mischievous smile. "Well, we can sit in it and celebrate! That will be the first part of the party. And later, we'll celebrate with a test drive!"
It seemed to make sense, so they both jumped into the front seat of the car. It was warm and cozy. The seats hugged them while the sound system softly played Bo's favorite music.
"Here's your drink," said Arielle as she slowly handed him his drink. "And here's mine." Then she placed the tray in the back seat, out the way. "To your dream come true, your new car. Congratulations, baby, you deserve the very best." They clinked their glasses and began sipping.
Bo noticed that the drinks were pretty strong. Maybe it was all the excitement, but he was beginning to feel a little buzzed. "Wow, baby, you really made these strong. I don't know if we'll be able to take a ride any time soon." Arielle just smiled. She was feeling every bit of the Buzz, too – and she was loving every bit of it. "Well," she whispered as she leaned over to kiss him on the neck, "Maybe we could break it in right here…with a little ride of our own."
Her hand dropped into Bo's lap, working her way inside his pants, immediately grasping his cock with a firm yet tender grasp. Squeezing a little harder, she could hear him sigh with unexpected delight. She moved her lips along his neck until they were squarely on his mouth. Little kisses at first. Then she began licking his lips with her tongue. All the while, she kept squeezing his cock, grabbing his balls, making him crazy – and incredibly hard.
Bo was barely able to keep himself together as he reached his left hand down to the switch that reclined his seat all the way down. He slid his right hand down the small of Arielle's back, where he could feel the moist warmth of her ass crack. As their tongues intertwined, he reached further, his fingers bathed in the juices that were flowing freely from Arielle 's pussy.
Arielle felt his fingers probing inside her, causing her hips to begin gently writhing. Bo's fingers were wet and slippery, finding their way from her pussy to the rim of her asshole, tickling it gently in delicate, small circles.
The custom tinted windows on his car were beginning to steam up. Neither one could see outside, but neither one cared. The only thing on each one's mind was getting Bo's cock into Arielle's pussy – right now. Bo tore off her Shirt, took one long look at her ass and tossed her panties in the back seat. Arielle, who practically worshipped Bo's back, remove his necklace to prevent it from breaking.
She climbed over the console and straddled his huge, hard cock. Inserting it slowly at first, she let out a small, breathless sigh. She began to slide down his turgid, pulsating shaft, moaning as each inch made its way deeper into her soaking wet pussy.
Bo could feel the end of his cock deep inside Arielle. She had taken him in and now was beginning to grind up against him, rhythmically pumping as her breathing got heavier and heavier. Within moments, Bo's chest was heaving, his hips bucking to push even farther into her. He pushed his face into her soft, warm breasts, kissing and sucking them as hard as he could.
The two of them were now in perfect rhythm, gazing into each other's eyes as the air around them grew hotter and steamier. Faster. Harder. She could feel his cock's head inside her, getting larger and larger, ready to release all that he had for her.
And then it happened. Arielle felt the explosion of passion as Bo flooded her pussy with an endless torrent of his hot, steaming cum. Bo kept thrusting into her, plunging deeply and pulling back, sending streams of his love juice spilling out of her pussy, dripping down his thighs. Arielle slowed her rocking into a slither against his slippery, soaking thighs.
Then they were still. After a moment, Arielle looked glowingly into Bo's sweet, brown eyes.
"That," she purred, "is one sweet ride."
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No elevators
Hotel Name
- Knights Court Great Yarmouth
- Knights Court Hotel
- Knights Court Hotel Great Yarmouth
- Knights Court Hotel Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
We should mention
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. Set meals are served in guestrooms only (no menus or public dining).