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What does membership on the San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law entail?
The San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law (JCEL) is a substantial responsibility. All members are required to complete one "comment"—research paper intended for publication—and participate in cite-checking exercises periodically throughout the year.
The comment will discuss an interesting and emerging topic in climate and energy law. Every JCEL member receives personalized editing assistance on the comment from a member of JCEL's board. Papers determined to be of exceptional quality and interest will be selected for publication in JCEL. Writing an article published by JCEL is a distinction that will remain with the student throughout his or her legal career.
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The editorial board runs JCEL. The editorial board consists of an editor-in-chief, a managing editor, a chief articles editor, a chief comments editor, articles editors and comments editors. Each board member is assigned specific editorial tasks, and the board works together to complete each issue of JCEL and to assist second year members in their completion of comments and assignments.
The editorial board is selected by the outgoing editorial board from within JCEL membership ranks. Membership on the editorial board is an honor and requires a significant time commitment.
JCEL receives tremendous support from the Assistant Director of Law Journals, Brigid Ann Bennett, and the Director of the Energy Policy Initiative Center, Scott Anders.
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Clint Eastwood's empty chair act takes spotlight on last day of RNC
TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- Actor and director Clint Eastwood made the day of the GOP faithful at the Republican National Convention when he gave a surprise speech Thursday night, August 30th in which he laid out what he sees as the good, the bad and the ugly state of American political affairs.
And he did it all while addressing an "invisible" President Barack Obama sitting in an empty chair. Eastwood, who played the iconic tough guy character "Dirty Harry" during his long career in Hollywood, fired up the party base when he said he cried when Obama was elected and cried even harder years later when millions were out of work.
"It's a national disgrace," Eastwood said. "It may be time for someone else to come along and solve the problem."
At times, Eastwood sent the crowd into laughing fits when he pretended Obama was offering colorful objections.
"What do you want me to tell Romney?" Eastwood asked the empty chair. "I can't tell him to do that to himself ... you're getting as bad as Biden ... of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it ..."
The RNC had left room for a "mystery guest" on its Thursday schedule and announced Thursday that Eastwood would speak. Late Thursday afternoon, Eastwood walked through the convention floor for a brief rundown of the night's events.
His ad-libbed speech later in the evening was decidedly political, bitingly satirical and more than a bit, well....rambling.
"I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane," Eastwood said.
Seconds after Eastwood finished his speech, the Twittersphere was buzzing with response.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics tweeted:
"I'd feel better if I knew for sure that Clint doesn't see anyone in the chair. :)"
Comedian Roseanne Barr tweeted: "clint eastwood is CRAY"
Actor George Takei tweeted that he could use the Eastwood tactic at next week's Democratic National Convention.
"I'm drafting a DNC speech to imaginary Romney in an empty factory," Takei's tweet said.
Actress Mia Farrow tweeted that she thought Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who introduced Mitt Romney later in the evening, was the night's best speaker -- with one problem: "Rude to ignore invisible Obama sitting right there."
The Twitter handle "Invisible Obama," which said it was sitting "Stage left of Clint Eastwood," quipped that "The GOP built me." An hour after Eastwood's speech, it already had 20,000 followers. The move spawned a new trend with people posting photos of themselves pointing at empty chairs with the hashtag "eastwooding."
Comedy Central's Indecision Tumblr posted a summary that read: "I was talking to Barack Obama the other day. ... Potato. Sneaker. Fish. Pizza. Algebra. Racecar."
Comedic takes on Eastwood's speech went viral and all of a sudden, what might have been for some younger viewers a ho-hum speech by an octogenarian actor became both a national joke and a means to engage in the political process, political experts said.
"It was campaign malpractice that the Romney managers sent out a dithering, clueless Clint Eastwood. The Romney campaign will be lucky if Eastwood's antics don't linger as a national punch line," Sabato wrote on his "Crystal Ball" blog.
Sabato also noted that fallout from Eastwood's vaudevillian like schtick overshadowed "Sen. Marco Rubio, whose dazzling speech to his home state conclave might end up being as nationally invisible as the imaginary Barack Obama sitting in Clint's stage chair."
A Romney campaign aide addressed Romney's appearance later, saying, "Judging an American icon like Clint Eastwood through a typical political lens doesn't work. His ad-libbing was a break from all the political speeches, and the crowd enjoyed it. He rightly pointed out that 23 million Americans out of work or underemployed is a national disgrace and it's time for a change."
But political fact checkers immediately pounced on the 23 million unemployment figure.
The U.S. Labor Department, says there are 12.8 million unemployed people---not 23 million.
Eastwood, a longtime Republican, endorsed Romney at an Idaho fundraiser at the beginning of August, where he told reporters that he was backing the GOP presidential candidate "because I think the country needs a boost somewhere."
He endorsed Sen. John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
Earlier this year during in an ad that aired during the Super Bowl, Eastwood's familiar, sandpaper voice spoke to Americans about the nation's economic woes. The ad featured close-up shots of factory workers and black-and-white photos of Midwest families -- images some political watchers flagged as subtly political.
"It's halftime in America, too," said the 81-year-old Hollywood legend. "People are out of work, and they're hurting. And they're all wondering what they're gonna do to make a comeback. And we're all scared because this isn't a game. The people of Detroit know a little something about this. They almost lost everything. But we all pulled together, now Motor City is fighting again."
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By RALPH D. RUSSO
Dana Holgorsen can earn a $50,000 bonus if West Virginia beats Syracuse next week in the Camping World Bowl, a game the Mountaineers will play without star quarterback Will Grier and left tackle Yodny Cajuste.
Dave Doeren's contract with North Carolina State calls for him to receive a $50,000 bonus if the Wolfpack beat Texas A&M in the Gator Bowl. N.C. State's best players on either side of the ball (receiver Kelvin Harmon and linebacker Germaine Pratt) will not play.
Grier and Cajuste, Harmon and Pratt are part of a growing trend in college football. At least 20 players are planning to skip their teams' bowl games and focus instead on getting ready for the NFL. The importance of non-playoff postseason games depends on who you ask and changes from player to player and team to team. But for many coaches, winning a bowl game has a set value.
Six coaches who have players sitting out bowl games this year have nearly $400,000 in total bonuses at stake in those games. Arizona State's Herm Edwards would have earned the largest bonus in the group, $166,667 for winning the Las Vegas Bowl against Fresno State last week. The Sun Devils lost 31-20, playing without star receiver N'Keal Harry. The junior is a possible first-round draft pick who led the team with 73 catches for 1,088 yards and nine touchdowns.
Like Doeren and Holgorsen, Minnesota coach PJ Fleck and Memphis coach Mike Norvell can each earn $50,000 bonuses for winning their bowl games.
Fleck's Gophers face Georgia Tech in the Quick Lane Bowl on Dec. 26 on Detroit without linebacker Blake Cashman, the team's leading tackler, and offensive tackle Donnell Greene. Norvell's Tigers play Wake Forest in the Birmingham Bowl on Saturday without All-America running back Darrell Henderson.
Houston coach Major Applewhite would earn a $25,000 bonus if the Cougars can beat Army in the Armed Forces Bowl on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas. Houston won't have star defensive tackle Ed Oliver, who missed four games this season with a knee injury and decided after the regular-season finale that it would be best for him to skip the bowl.
Bob Lattinville, a St. Louis attorney who specializes in sports law with the firm Spencer Fane, provided the contract information to The Associated Press.
Lattinville said bonuses for bowl wins should generally be avoided by coaches and universities. They can be redundant to other contract bonuses and schools sometimes barely break even financially when they participate in lower-tier bowls.
"Consequently, both parties are usually better off saving their negotiation gun powder for economic provisions that better marry their long-term interests and don't create the impression of wasting money or calling into question their motivations for encouraging a player to play in a given bowl," Lattinville said.
Coaches frequently receive bonuses just for reaching a bowl, not on the result.
That's the case with Michigan's Jim Harbaugh. The Wolverines will be without three key players when they face Florida on the Peach Bowl on Dec. 29. Running back Karan Higdon announced Thursday in an Instagram post that he would not play, joining defensive end Rashan Gary and linebacker Devin Bush, who said he had not been cleared by doctors after injuring his hip in the regular-season finale against Ohio State.
Harbaugh's contract provides a $200,000 bonus for the team playing in a New Year's Six game — such as the Peach Bowl — that is not a College Football Playoff semifinal, but nothing more for winning it. He would get a $500,000 bonus for winning the College Football Playoff national championship.


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Bourbeuse River
Mainstem and its tributaries:
Spotted bass: No length limits
Black bass: The daily and possession limit is 12 fish and may include no more than 6 largemouth bass and smallmouth bass, combined total of both species.
Long Branch Lake
Length Limits:
Black bass: minimum 15"
Hybrid striped bass: minimum 20"
Walleye and sauger: minimum 18"
Daily limit:
Hybrid striped bass: 4
Crappie: 15
Norfork Lake
Daily limit:
Catfish (channel, blue and flathead): 10, combined total of these species
Crappie: 15
Length limit:
Black bass: minimum 15" on largemouth and smallmouth bass; minimum 12" on spotted bass
Crappie: minimum 10"
On the lake and its tributaries:
Daily limit:
Striped Bass: only 3 striped bass may be included in the aggregate.
Length limit:
Walleye and sauger: minimum 18"
Striped Bass: minimum 20"
White bass, yellow bass, or their hybrids: none
Thomas Hill Lake
Length limits
Black bass: minimum 15"
Hybrid striped bass: minimum 20"
Daily limit
Crappie: 15
Hybrid striped bass: 4


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We Are Retiring And All RSI Operations Will Cease By The End Of 2023
Recreational Software, Inc. was incorporated in the state of Arizona in 1995 to create and distribute specialized products for shooters. In 2003 we added specialized hardware instrumentation to our product offerings. Our ballistics software and barrel pressure testing hardware is used throughout the world by serious shooters, industry, the military and government agencies. Due to age and health issues it is time to quit. It is recommended that all customers download the latest support files while this web site is still operational. A new source of strain gages and cables should be posted here in the near future. Stay tuned for news about the possible continuation of PressureTrace production.
Bluetooth Wireless PressureTrace II
The Shooting Lab program does not forecast pressure and velocity using mathematical models. It is our firm belief pressure cannot be predicted. There are simply too many variables unique to each firearm and a "theoretical" peak pressure has little value for optimizing loads.
Theoretical models of what pressure or velocity "should" be can be interesting but do not help shooters isolate the cause of shot to shot variation in "the real world". PressureTrace shows the affect of neck tension, distance off lands, bore fouling, etc. and was the first product to incorporate Long's Optimum Barrel Timing (OBT) "barrel harmonic" calculations ... for each shot!
The pressure below was captured with our PressureTrace system. The hot high power club load tested as 63,000 PSI at a leading SAAMI laboratory but when shot through an extremely worn barrel, pressure actually reaches 120,000 PSI near the muzzle! It is doubtful the high pressure occurred at the lab in their tight test barrel, but these secondary events are more common than you may think. (See end of this Tech. Article for more information.)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Inventory has been entirely sold. At this point there are no plans to produce more.
Best of all, RSI's products are affordable and can be purchased as individual components for use with equipment you already own. Feel free to try the software on this web site to learn how instrumentation can help improve your loads, reduce the time required to find optimum loads, diagnose problems and more.
With the complete RSI Lab System you will be able to measure velocity deviations, calculate ballistic coefficients for bullets shot from your rifle and see pressure curve variations in "real time" right on your PC.
Detailed information about these and other products, software, technical articles and other items of interest can be found in the menus at the top of these pages.
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Version 4.9 of Shooting Lab supports custom text scaling on high def. screens. First released in 1998, Shooting Lab is fully Windows 8/10/11 compliant and will run on Windows XP SP2 or newer. Recent releases support Lapua .drg Doppler Radar files, calculate B.C.'s from Labradar, include full drag tables and more.
Shooting Lab will more accurately model trajectories to long ranges, estimates bullet drag and gyroscopic stability, keeps load and firearm records, analyzes targets, load density, prints blank targets, box labels and more. It contains everything we believe can be squeezed into software without specialized instrumentation.
Shooting Lab should not be confused with simplistic products for smart phones and tablets. It is a comprehensive feature rich product that reflects nearly 20 years of constant development and input from thousands of users.
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A good chronograph is a necessary part of any ballistics lab. For decades, serious enthusiasts and handloaders have known a good chronograph is the first piece of instrumentation one should acquire. Optimum accuracy simply cannot be achieved without consistent velocity and shot to shot variations cannot be predicted by mathematical algorithms or load manuals. These are the two chronograph systems we endorse.
The CED M2 Optical System
Proven optical technology used for decades that will work with any firearm. The CED 's large display can be read at 100 yards through a target or spotting scope for calculating Ballistic Coefficients with the RSI Shooting Lab software. No one else offers an optical chronograph with large display, optional IR light kit, USB connectivity, 1000 shot non-volatile memory, sensors that self-adjust for available light and voice chip technology. Chronograph brands range in price from $90 to $900 with precision and functionality across just as wide a specrtrum. None match the features, options and overall value of the $200.00 CED M2 Chronograph.
The Labradar Doppler System
Thousands of shooters have now aquired the Labradar Doppler chronograph. We received serial number 0006 last year and tested it against the popular CED M2 and Magnetospeed. Results were so interesting we added support for both Labradar and Magnetospeed to Shooting Lab. Even with it's few limitations Labradar will no doubt dominate the high end of the chronograph market. Click the above link for an honest review of Labradar and why you may also want one.
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XBMC & Broadcom Bring 1080p Decode Upgrade to ill-equipped netbooks, nettops, Apple TVsby Anand Lal Shimpi on December 29, 2009 12:00 AM EST
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We finally have tons of machines that come in these tiny little boxes, sometimes with pretty interfaces, that hook straight up to our TVs. We've been asking for this for years and we finally have it. They're even downright affordable. In order to make them affordable, they use cheap hardware. In particular, slow CPUs. they're not that bad. Definitely fast enough to browse a bunch of movies or TV shows, but generally too slow to play back high definition video.
Pine Trail, a great little platform, uses very little power, it just can't play 1080p video
NVIDIA built an entire platform out of addressing this deficiency. It's called ION, and it mates a fast-enough-for-most-things CPU with a GPU capable of decoding 1080p video. Hooray for NVIDIA. Here's the problem - ION is not retrofittable.
ION, it's a new system, not an upgrade
If you have a non-ION netbook, nettop, AppleTV, Mac Mini, or other impressively tiny device that you want to use to drive high definition video you can't. And you can't upgrade them to enable such support.
It's not like buying a hard drive or more memory. Well, it wasn't at least.
In one of my last articles on ION I talked about XBMC being one of the best applications for the platform. It delivers a better UI for watching downloaded content than Windows Media Center does, and the Linux version has full hardware acceleration support for ION. Oh, and it's free.
Last week it got even better. The next major version of XBMC, codenamed Camelot, came out with a whole bunch of new features. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet but it definitely looks cool.
And today it just got incredible. Thanks to the efforts of Scott Davilla, the XBMC developers and Broadcom there's now full support for the Broadcom Crystal HD decoder (BCM970012) in all versions of XBMC. The code has been merged into XBMC as of this morning and will be available in the next release of the project.
The mini PCIe BCM970012 from Logic Supply
The Crystal HD chip is currently available on mini PCIe cards, and is expected to make its way to ExpressCard and PCIe x1 cards in the future. This is huge because many netbooks, nettops and existing devices like the AppleTV or Mac Mini have at least one mini PCIe slot. A $69 mini PCIe card (or $25 on eBay) with the Crystal HD chip on it plus the next version of XBMC can enable full 1080p playback on any of these machines that would otherwise not be able to play high def video. Not to mention that you can get some of these devices second hand or refurbished for much less than the cost of a new ION system.
It's extra sweet because the driver is open source, so we can expect to see it more than just XBMC. The next official release of XBMC is likely some time away, but support has already been added to the SVN release.
The full press release from XBMC is below.
Broadcom Crystal HD, It's Magic.
1080p HD content playback has always been the Holy Grail for any Media Center application but this has traditionally been difficult; playback using software decode alone requires a very hefty CPU and hardware decoding has only been made available recently using the nVidia's VPDAU technology, available only on Linux. Windows has its own platform specific solutions and poor old OSX has no public APIs available at all. There really is nothing around with a common API that enables hardware accelerated 1080p HD content playback that can also be used under all three major platforms (OSX, Linux, and Windows). Well, that situation is about to change.
Through hard work and the joint efforts of several TeamXBMC/Redhat developers and the Broadcom Media PC Group, cross-platform hardware decoding of mpeg2, h.264 and VC1 video content up to 1080p will be coming to XBMC on OSX, Linux, and Windows via the Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012). The Broadcom Crystal HD is available now in a mini-PCIE card with ExpressCard and 1X PCIE form factors to follow. This means that the AppleTV and all those lovely new netbooks, Eee Boxes and older Intel Mac Minis have exciting new potential.
This solution has a common programming API, so many 3rd party developers and applications will be able to leverage hardware accelerated video content playback across OSX, Linux, and Windows platforms with minimal source code changes. Best of all, this is an open source solution with full source code for driver and library available for OSX and Linux under a GPL/LGPL license. Wow, this indeed is the Holy Grail and a major score for the open source community as this means no more tainted Linux kernels! Support has already been added to XBMC under the svn trunk. Other media projects such as FFmpeg, MythTV and Xine will soon follow as their developers add
The Linux source code for the driver and library can be found at the Broadcom web site. For OSX, the binaries and source code for the driver and library will be hosted at http://crystalhd-for-osx.googlecode.com. Users in the USA can purchase the Crystal HD mini PCIE card from Logic Supply for $69 and of course, there's always ebay for those outside the USA.
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fangwoo - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - linkthis will take the slot in most devices that is occupied by the wifi card. lame.
kingtrae - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - linkI'm really intrigued to know what case that was that was featured in the article near the top. does anyone know?
aleutia - Thursday, December 31, 2009 - linkIt's a T3500 Morex case. $80 on eBay and not a bad form factor though I prefer the World Top (www.wtcase.com) IT-02.
Soulkeeper - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - linkexcellent news
LTG - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - linkXBMC has fast forward/rewind modes of 2x-32x which this solution can't support. Try to use them too much and they become more of a "skip" feature than fast forward.
XBMC also has skip forward, and if you're happy with that this will work fine.
If you want true, smooth fast forward and rewind this won't cut it.
If you want to see how it works, just just Fast forward with 720x480 video which will be smooth, and you can see if you care or not.
bjacobson - Friday, January 1, 2010 - linkBandwidth limited I gather--very interesting.
So why can't I just get an Ion board and use that? It does video decoding.
ifkopifko - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - linkI have read somewhere, that netbooks based on the new pinetrail platform will have limited digital video outputs to 1366x768. So decoding 1080p is fine, but no way to display it anyway.
marc1000 - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - linkI second your opinion.
Reven - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - linkJust to confirm, even if I do install this new chip, iTunes still wont have 1080p video right? So its great for streaming native 1080p content off my PC but if I just use it for iTunes video downloads it wont help at all right?
KidneyBean - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - linkHow is the performance in XP, or Vista, when running 1080p video on Flash 10.1?


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How Boomer Job Seekers can Stay Relevant in Today's Job Market
Older workers' resumes can be jammed packed with a wealth of experience and work history, but to remain marketable for employment in today's labor market, they better be able to prove their tech skills are up to date.
Whether it's for personal or financial reasons, baby boomers are either staying in the job market longer or looking to re-enter it, and it's important they remain relevant.
Thomas Kamber founding executive director of Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) and Beth Finkel, the state director for AARP in New York discussed with me the challenges older workers face in today's labor market and how we can maintain competitive. Here's what they had to say:
Boomer: What skills and technology do older workers need to focus on to stay competitive when looking for work or retaining their current employment?
Finkel: If you're looking for work, it is critical to build your network, both online and offline, and leverage the networking power of the people you know. Understand your skills and strengths so you can create and promote your personal brand. Stay positive and connect with communities in your related field to share experiences.
No matter the industry, workers can demonstrate their value by staying up-to-date on relevant advances – in technology, yes, but also in business trends, current events and the competitive landscape. Volunteering, taking classes and attending seminars are great ways to keep skills fresh and expand your network at the same time.
Kamber: The most important skills and technologies for older adults in the workplace are actually the least esoteric. Applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and Gmail are essential for functioning in the modern workplace, and many older adults need to brush up on or develop new skills in these mainstream tools.
In addition, it's critical for older individuals to stay up-to-date on general trends such as social networking, mobile communications and cloud computing, since familiarity with these topics is often required for decision-making in a wide variety of contexts. Finally, there may be sector-specific tools that are important for data management, graphics or project tracking, such as Salesforce, Photoshop or BaseCamp. Basic familiarity with these kinds of applications can really set an older applicant apart in this job mar
Boomer: Should older adults try to hide their age or present themselves as "younger" when interviewing?
Kamber: Ageist stereotypes regarding older adults' memory problems, unwillingness to learn, and lack of flexibility are unfortunately all too common, and job seekers must counteract them by demonstrating clear thinking, a commitment to learning and a positive attitude during interviews. This doesn't mean hiding your age or presenting yourself as younger, but rather projecting a sense of confidence and self-awareness as an older person who has a great deal to offer. Mentioning a recent computer class, for example, can reduce an employer's anxiety about your resistance to learning new skills.
Finkel: It's important for interviewees of all ages to make a good first impression. So it's a good idea to get an up-to-date haircut and dress appropriately in line with both the company and current fashion. And naturally, never lie. Demonstrate in interviews that you are up to date with technology to fight off any ageist perceptions. Talk about your accomplishments during the interview – highlight the results you've produced without dwelling on the timeline.
If you feel like your age is could be an issue, consider re-ordering your resume so that it is not chronological – list your accomplishments in order of relevance to the position and avoid easy tipoffs of your age such as years of graduation.
Boomer: Are social platforms important for baby boomers to use when searching the job market and why?
Finkel: Yes. Today's job market is difficult to navigate, radically different from the market of a decade ago and now predominantly online. When you apply for a job today, here's what the recruiter is likely to do to get a more rounded view of your accomplishments:
- Check your profile on LinkedIn;
- Browse your Facebook page;
- Look for a blog or a website, and
- See if you're tweeting, which shows that you at least know what it is.
If you look competent online, you might get a response to the reume that you emailed to the company. If you have no digital footprint, you're likely to get a pass. The only exceptions might be jobs at very small companies or nonprofits, or lower-level jobs, for which résumés are enough.
All this might come as a shock to job seekers over age 50, but the traditional job search has changed, technology has changed, and employers today need people who are comfortable online.
It's worth noting that 85% of people 50-plus use social media, and nearly one-third of all people who use social media are 45 or older.
Kamber: Social platforms are a critical component of any job search today. Older adults should be actively participating on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to find out about available jobs, expand and strengthen their social networks, and initiate dialogue with potential employers. And while you're at it, lose the AOL account! Nothing says "outdated skill-set" like an email signature that ends in "@aol.com."


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Redneck is a slang term originally applied to poor whites in the U.S. South, although black intellectual Thomas Sowell says it applies to modern urban blacks as well.[1]
- Books, businesses, technology, and science were not the kinds of things likely to be promoted or admired in the world of the rednecks and crackers.[2]
Historically the term redneck was derogatory, suggesting a beefy, bestial white southern workingman or farmer and his scrawny, sallow-looking wife and nasty children. By extension it now refers to any uncouth person. In recent years the term has been favorably adopted by less educated white Southerners.The term "redneck" was in use by 1890; the first known print usage of the term appears in an 1891 Mississippi newspaper in reference to an upcoming Democratic primary. The exact origin of "redneck" is undetermined. Perhaps it refers to the sun burnt necks of people who worked in the hot fields all day, or to red necks characteristic of sufferers from pellagra (a disease caused by poor diets).
"Cracker" and "White Trash"
"Cracker" has a similar negative meaning; it was commonly used before the Civil War; Georgia became known as the "Cracker State." The term was in use by 1766: it was
- "a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascals on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their place of abode."[3]
By the antebellum period, rural southern poor whites with a striking avoidance of hard work, seemed increasingly out of place in a nation of yeoman farmers, Yankee tradesmen, and urban artisans. Northern abolitionists blamed the slave system for its degrading and dehumanizing effects on poor whites. Conversely, southern proslavery spokesmen saw the same poor whites as victims of their own laziness and immorality. In either case, the categorization of that group as "white trash"—a term in use by 1855—helped define a stigmatized, dishonored, and despised identity.[4]
In the early 20th century social workers discovered environmental causes for laziness such as hookworm (which drains victims of their energy). About a third of all Southerners had hookworm in 1900; and few dwellings had an outhouse. The Rockefeller Foundation launched a major, successful campaign to eradicate the disease.[5]
African Americans, beginning with house slaves who worked for rich whites, often ridicule poor whites as "white trash."
Social and political history
After the Civil War the status of the independent white farmers (called "Yeoman") fell drastically in the South. Many became sharecroppers or tenants—they worked land owned by landowners in town. In the towns the rising southern middle class rejected the celebration of rural life associated with the yeoman. They denounced as "demagogues" the radical leaders who appealed to the poor farmers, for example "Pitchfork Ben Tillman who was governor and senator from South Carolina. As the poor Democrats endorsed lynching of uppity blacks, the middle class townsfolk denounced lynching in the name of Law and order. Some poor farmers moved to mill towns, especially to work in the textile mills of the Carolinas. The money was much better than on the hard-scrabble farms, but this again represented a fall in social status. By the end of the century the middle class was ridiculing the former yeomen as "rednecks" and "hillbillies."[6]
Appeals to the redneck vote angered the middle class but they were a minority, and redneck oratory proved successful in stirring resentment against cities like Charleston, South Carolina. A major breakthrough came in the 1899 Democratic primary campaign for U.S. Senator in Mississippi between the last of the middle class Redeemers, Congressman John Mills Allen (1846-1917), and Governor Anselm Joseph McLaurin (1848-1909). Supported by the railroads, landowners and bankers, Allen won support because of his effective humor, clean political record, and reputation as a persuasive speaker. But McLaurin ignored Allen's attacks and skillfully reinforced his image as a poor dirt farmer sacrificing himself for his own people to fight single-handedly the organized corporate and political powers. Allen lost partly because of voting frauds, and, mostly because he did not understand the power of the new redneck rhetoric. He did not think that oratory which fanned the flames of class hatred could withstand criticism, and he was wrong.[7]
In the 1900s to 1930s leading reneck politicians included senators Tom Watson of Georgia, Ben Tillman and Cole Blease of South Carolina, Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi and, especially, Huey Long of Louisiana. In the 1960s Governor George Wallace of Alabama made national headlines in his two runs for the White House using redneck rhetoric.
Recent usage
Beginning in 1960s poor working-class white Southerners started to call themselves rednecks, redefining the word to mean an honest, hardworking man who respects traditional Southern values. Their use of the term also suggested a racial and class solidarity that set them apart from the upheaval of the civil rights movement, the 1960s counterculture, and the women's liberation movement.[8]
See also
Further reading
- Carr, Duane. A Question of Class: The Redneck Stereotype in Southern Fiction. Bowling Green State U. Popular Press, 1996. 188 pp.
- Ettling, John. The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South (1981) excerpt and text search
- Goad, Jim. The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats (1998) excerpt and text search
- Huber, Patrick. "A Short History of Redneck: The Fashioning of a Southern White Masculine Identity." Southern Cultures 1995 1(2): 145-166.
- McKern, Sharon. Redneck Mothers, Good Ol' Girls, and Other Southern Belles: A Celebration of the Women of Dixie. (1979). 268 pp.
- McWhiney, Grady. Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South (1988) online edition
- Roebuck, Julian B. and Hickson, Mark, III. The Southern Redneck: A Phenomenological Class Study. (1982). 210 pp.
- West, Stephen A. From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915. (2008) 262pp
- Wray, Matt. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (2006) excerpyt and text search
- ↑ Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Page 2, by Thomas Sowell
- ↑ Sowell page 5
- ↑ see McWhiney, Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South (1988)
- ↑ See Wray (2006)
- ↑ See Ettling (1981)
- ↑ "Hillbillies" lived in remote mountain areas. Stephen A. West, From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915. (2008)
- ↑ Clyde J. Faries, "Redneck Rhetoric and the Last of the Redeemers: The 1899 Mc Laurin-Allen Campaign." Journal of Mississippi History 1971 33(4): 283-298 0022-2771
- ↑ Huber (1995)


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Venezuela's Chavez scoffs at cancer rumours
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday mocked rumours that he was suffering from cancer as wishful thinking by his squalid enemies.
Some local media have been saying this week that Chavez, 56, may be suffering from a cancer in the nasal cavity.
His failure to appear on Wednesday's first day of campaigning for the September 26 parliamentary elections fuelled the speculation, although it later transpired Chavez was holding a lengthy meeting with his mentor, Fidel Castro, in Cuba.
The squalid ones want to kill me, Chavez said after returning to Caracas for a graduation ceremony of socialist medicine students. Now they're inventing that I have cancer, that I'm dying. That's what they want, he added laughing.
Former soldier Chavez, who has inherited Castro's mantle as Latin America's leading critic of the United States, took power in 1999 and plans to run again for the presidency in 2012.
Although not in the same shape he was as a sportsman in his youth, Chavez still likes to demonstrate his physical vigour with marathon speeches or games of baseball.
The spectre of cancer is a delicate subject in South American political circles at the moment, given that Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was diagnosed with the disease this month.
Brazil's front-running presidential candidate, Dilma Rousseff, had a tumour removed last year and underwent therapy for lymphoma cancer, but now has a clean bill of health.
Chavez said he spent a happy five hours in Havana discussing global politics with Castro, 84, who has reappeared on the public stage in recent weeks after ill health led him to hand over the Cuban presidency in 2008.
He's devilishly well, I tell you, (showing) vitality, energy, Chavez said.
He's taken on a sort of crusade against war, he said of Castro's exhortations to U.S. President Barack Obama to avert a nuclear war over Iran.
Fidel is saying, 'Be careful,' because the imperialists in their madness could lead us to nuclear war, God spare us.
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Regulator triggers efforts to standardize faecal transplants.
The brown slurry is piped through tubes into the top of the human body — or the bottom. It can even come in pill form. For years, doctors have been transferring faeces into ill people's intestines to replace resident microbes with a fresh batch. The procedure is often a therapeutic success, but protocols for it vary wildly. As it steadily grows more popular, regulators are now working to define what a standard faecal transplant should be, and how to deliver one safely.
During a public workshop last month at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reaffirmed that it has authority over faecal transplants. The agency had said this for years to researchers and companies who asked privately, but the workshop was the first public forum in which the FDA broadcast that it regulates faeces like a drug.
Clinical trials of the procedures are not affected, because they were already subject to approvals from the agency. But US doctors performing faecal transplants as treatments must now submit an Investigative New Drug application to the FDA with details about their protocols. (The agency then has 30 days in which it can intercede and stop an experiment.) Jay Slater, director of the division of bacterial, parasitic and allergenic products at the FDA in Silver Spring, Maryland, says that the move is a crucial way for the agency to make sure that protocols are safe. But he adds that the FDA wants to avoid being too prescriptive for now, so that it can adopt the most effective, advanced protocols as they are developed.
Although it may be years before the agency weighs in on which method is the safest, it has ignited a debate among researchers over how faeces should be screened, processed, delivered — or even synthesized.
With faecal transplants, doctors aim to reestablish healthy microbe populations in the guts of patients. The procedure seems especially effective for people infected with Clostridium difficile, a diarrhoea-causing bacterium that in the past two decades has become more prevalent and antibiotic-resistant in the United States, where it now kills an estimated 14,000 people each year. A 2011 review of data from more than 300 patients concluded that faecal transplants can cure 92% of people with recurring C. difficile infections for which antibiotics prove ineffective (E. Gough et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 53, 994–1002; 2011).
But there are many issues and unanswered questions. The method's success against C. difficile has led to an "outrageous exuberance", says Amee Manges, an epidemiologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who led the review. Some doctors are using faecal transplants to treat other conditions, for which effectiveness is less established — or not established at all. Faeces, if not properly screened, can transmit disease. Furthermore, it is too early to know which of the many protocols is the most effective. "Everybody has their preferences," says Manges (see 'Gut instinct'). Resourceful individuals can even get in on the act at home, by following step-by-step enema instructions from online videos.
The wide variation in clinical practice starts at the very source of the 'drug'. Although evidence is lacking, some researchers suspect that the best stool comes from a patient's blood relatives, who have genetic and environmental similarities with the patient that might influence their gut microbes. Other doctors use anonymous donors.
Preparation methods also differ. Some researchers freeze the stool for convenience, to use later. Others insist that it must be fresh — 6 hours old or less — to ensure that the bacteria do not die or change their behaviour during their time outside the colon. Fresh or frozen, the stool is mixed with a liquid — usually saline, although some researchers have tried water or even milk. Others are exploring synthesizing faeces from scratch (see 'How to make a stool').
When it comes to the mode of delivery, some researchers use enemas — easy to administer, but good for transplanting stool into only the lower end of the colon. Others use colonoscopies, which are more invasive but ensure that the stool makes it farther into the intestines.
Johan Bakken, an infectious-disease consultant at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth, who has used faecal transplants to treat 120–130 people with C. difficile infections, delivers the preparation in a tube threaded through a patient's nose into the small intestine. This, he argues, may be safer for people with disease-weakened intestinal walls that could be torn during enemas or colonoscopies. Thomas Louie at the University of Calgary in Canada avoids tubes altogether: so far, he has treated 33 people by delivering stool microbes orally, wrapped in three layers of medical-grade gelatin capsules.
Researchers generally agree that donors must be screened using standardized procedures if faecal-transplant therapies are to flourish. Many are concerned that inadequately checked material could contain pathogens, just as blood transfusions sometimes caused transmission of hepatitis C in the days before screening. Faecal screens tend to include tests for blood-borne pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis viruses, as well as intestinal pathogens and parasites. But some scientists have collected anecdotes of donors who were not even tested for obvious pathogens such as HIV and C. difficile.
One of the most pressing questions is which diseases can be treated effectively with faecal transplants. In addition to C. difficile infections, researchers have used the procedures to treat chronic problems such as Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disease and multiple sclerosis, but in very small case studies. Some clinics are even recommending faecal transplants for obesity, Parkinson's disease or autism spectrum disorder — although most doctors remain sceptical. More data and oversight are needed to enable researchers to learn which applications work and which do not, says Gary Wu, a gastroenterologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "Stool is a very complex mixture that we don't fully understand," he says.
Wu expects that researchers will eventually move to synthetic stool, a potentially safer and more consistent concoction. "But right now, we're not at that point," he says.
Some researchers expressed frustration with the FDA's move to regulate faecal transplants. Infectious-disease specialist Trevor Van Schooneveld of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, has performed about 20 such transplants since 2011, working with gastroenterologists. But in the past few weeks, he has turned away three patients while he submits the required Investigative New Drug application. Van Schooneveld questions whether the agency should preside over an organic, personal substance, rather than a drug. "How the FDA plans to regulate human faeces is a mystery to me," he says.
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The Amazing Saga of Crasher Squirrel!!!
From his lowly beginnings last week as a humble, family-photo-interrupting rodent, Crasher Squirrel, thanks to the creative work of BuzzFeed readers, has moved into full Internet Takeover Mode!!! No longer content with his picture-crashing beat at Lake Minnewanka, Crasher Squirrel now lurks behind every corner, ready to spring headfirst into the sights of anyone who dares to snap a picture. This is his story.
1. Crasher Squirrel's Humble Beginning
In this now infamous photo, taken by Melissa Brandts, Crasher Squirrel hopped in front of the camera just as the timer was going off. It was the beginning of something BIG.
2. Family Portraits
Pretty soon after that, BuzzFeed reader Colin M. and our friends at Urlesque made the amazing simultaneous discovery that Crasher Squirrel had been showing up in quite a number of seemingly innocuous family portraits. A meme was born...
[class photo discovered by Lin P]
[ruining a perfectly good snapshot of the leaning tower of pisa. discover by Pawel S.]
3. Paparazzi Shots
Apparently not content with interrupting people's family portraits and vacation photos, Crasher Squirrel decided it was time to go high profile. Before long, he was appearing in celebrity snapshots and paparazzi pics. Here he is with his best friend Vladimir Putin.
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[lurking in the background of a once-happy family.]
[he even crashed the beer summit! discovery by julie b.]
4. Crasher Squirrel Throughout History
It soon became clear that Crasher Squirrel - or one of his ancestors - had been interposing himself where he wasn't wanted for decades. BuzzFeed's archivists and historians started discovering Crasher Squirrel in some of the most famous historical photos of our time, including this shot of the faked moon-landing.
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Crasher Squirrel has even been seen accidentally painted in to early versions of famous art works! Here he is at the Last Supper!
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Once people started seeing Crasher Squirrel in classic paintings, they began to see him as an objet d'art in his own right. The important new field of Crasher Squirrel art was born...
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We've talked before about Apple's plans for the iPhone as an iWallet, now it looks like former ally turned foe, Google's preparing to take Apple on in the same space, with big boss Eric Schmidt telling a panel at the Web 2.0 conference his company feels its got to get NFC (Near Field Communication) into Android's life. Will PayPal endure the new war?
Google makes a grab
The Google chief had a couple of other interesting things to say, changing tune on the iPad v netbook debate he noted that Android is the OS for 'touch' while Chrome will be for netbooks.
Schmidt's statements on NFC support in the future 'Gingerbread' Android OS are interesting, as they reflect months and years of rumors claiming Apple's working in the same direction.
[This story is from Computerworld's Apple Holic blog. Follow on Twitter or subscribe via RSS to make sure you don't miss a beat.]
The story continues to be the transformation of the iPhone into an 'iWallet'. You'll wave it over a contact point to pay for physical goods at participating retailers. Apple was first reported to be testing RFID iPhones last year.
As I've noted before, this move will have a huge impact on the financial sector. In corporate governance and treasury decisions are already being pondered as to the effect of Google and Apple's move to disrupt payment systems with zero plastic mobile banking systems.
"Apple iPhone is set to follow with the iPhone 5 in July. With these two heavy weights weighing in on NFC, mobile payments are sure to dominate the disruptive change cycle in 2011," writes Brett King at Fin Extra.
Different strokes
Apple and Google's models for payment systems may differ. And while Apple's App Store is curated, Google's is not, so security experts will likely look at any systems supported on either platform to check for the potential of fraud.
Google expects to see a wave of start-up firms appear attempting to make some of the moolah available form NFC payment systems.
Apple meanwhile has a host of patents and has already hired in significant expertise in the field, suggesting in the near field AAPL strategy there's some intent to offer its own payment models, as well as allowing app-based solutions such as that offered recently in the UK by Orange and payment processing systems from Square.
Think about it. Apple's clearly in a strong position to take on PayPal with a move into payment systems.
Using iTunes as a payment system, iPhone users could conceivably pay for items with payments charged to them via iTunes. iTunes already has 160 million or more registered users. Can PayPal ramp-up the user experience sufficiently to take on AAPL style?
Apple will lead the evolution
Apple will also benefit from a non-fractured market. While not all Android systems will offer NFC features, all iPhones will.
This means, at least at first, the most significant deployments of mobile payment systems will be through Apple's devices. This will give the company a lot of influence of the evolution of such systems.
There's a good reason why such a system could see wide usage in an economically uncertain world. iPhone users spend more, and have a tendency of maxxing-out their credit cards.
"iPhone users leverage credit cards significantly more than Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile users," a new study by Pageonce has found.
"The average iPhone user has a 35% higher balance (this is carried balance plus new transactions plus any fees/charges) on their monthly credit card statement than the average Windows Mobile user," said COO Steve Schultz.
It seems a safe bet to assume credit card companies want to get friendly with all those iPhone users.
Look: Orange and Barclaycard in the UK are working away at creating NFC-based payment systems and this week launched an iPhone app which lets users manage their Orange credit card.
Disruptive forces go over the top
In a report which also speculates Apple's existing iPhone 4 may already have an NFC chip inside, which isn't yet activated pending a future software upgrade, Nearfield Communications World also notes:
- Confirmation that AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA have formed a joint venture to introduce NFC-based mobile payments services in the US could come as early as tomorrow.
- Bling Nation is set to roll out its mobile payments technology across the United States, using NFC phones in early 2011.
- Nokia has revealed it will switch on the NFC functionality built into its C7 smartphone in early 2011.
Apple's moves to deliver NFC-based systems took a huge leap in terms of speculative happenstance way back last summer, when the company hired an NFC and mobile payments expert, Benjamin Vigier.
A June 2009 Apple patent revealed it has developed a method for building an NFC antenna into a touch screen.
Cult of Mac speculates this development could go very deep. Apple may intend using the authentication potential of NFC in the iPhone 5 as a way to finally deliver a portable Home folder. Essentially you sit by any PC and use your phone to confirm your ID, after which you have full access to any file or application held on your authorized base computer. A complete portable computing experience.
Apple's been quietly plotting its course for some time. It seems ready to bring its solutions through at about the time contactless payments are set to reach critical mass.
One million contactless transactions were conducted by Barclaycard and Barclays Bank cardholders in the UK this year, a report claims.
"We are reaching a tipping point," said Stuart Neal, head of payment acceptance at Barclaycard.
"The number of terminals has gone from 25,000 at the beginning of 2010, to 42,500 today, and this is before the big grocers like Co-operative begin their roll out in earnest."
Who is at threat?
As customers move to use these systems to pay for goods, established financial houses face disruption to their business. There's lots of questions here.
- Should iTunes find success as a form of payment broker for NFC systems, what's to stop it gaining a bank license just as PayPal already has done?
- If iTunes were to gain such status, would people stick with the damaged reputations of the players in the banking sector today, or move on to other contenders?
- Has PayPal got the ability to match Apple's gift for seamless user experience?
I look forward to finding out in the months ahead.
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- Get an account on the cluster - and consult DMSC computing cluster for how to access it!
- Please ensure that your simulation runs on your own desktop / laptop first - and estimate a required runtime to achieve your necessary statistics!
- When transferring input data to the cluster - please ensure that all necessary files are present, i.e. your
- instrument file
- any extra needed components
- any extra c-codes
- any extra datafiles
Load the mpi module of choice, one of the openmpi ones are recommended:
[willend@r1n2 ~]$ module load openmpi<tab>
openmpi/3.0_gcc1020 openmpi/3.0_intel17 openmpi/4.0_gcc920
openmpi/3.0_gcc831 openmpi/4.0_gcc1020 openmpi/4.0_intel17
openmpi/3.0_gcc920 openmpi/4.0_gcc831
[willend@r1n2 ~]$ module load openmpi/4.0_gcc831
Recommendation is module load openmpi/4.0_gcc831
- Load the mcstas of choice using e.g. the below command (which will give you the newest installed mcstas)
[willend@r1n2 ~]$ module load mcstas/
Compile your instrument at the compile node using a command like
[willend@r1n2 ~]$ mcrun -c --mpi=1 -n0 BNL_H8.instr
willend@r1n2 ~]$ mcrun.pl -c --mpi -n0 BNL_H8.instr
You may experience some error output like below, but this can be safely ignored when compiling, since mpi processes are only allowed to run via the slurm scheduler.
Error obtaining unique transport key from ORTE (orte_precondition_transports not present in
the environment).
Local host: r1n2.esss.dk
*** The MPI_Init() function was called before MPI_INIT was invoked.
*** This is disallowed by the MPI standard.
It looks like MPI_INIT failed for some reason; your parallel process is
likely to abort. There are many reasons that a parallel process can
fail during MPI_INIT; some of which are due to configuration or environment
problems. This failure appears to be an internal failure; here's some
additional information (which may only be relevant to an Open MPI
PML add procs failed
--> Returned "Error" (-1) instead of "Success" (0)
*** Your MPI job will now abort.
[r1n2.esss.dk:11016] Abort before MPI_INIT completed successfully; not able to guarantee that all other processes were killed!
- On the ESS cluster, and optionally also on your own laptop, you can use the mcsub_slurm script to help you generate a batch file for the cluster. It takes a few input arguments:
[willend@r1n2 ~]$ mcsub_slurm --help
Usage: mcsub_slurm [options] [mcrun params]
-h --help Show this help
-rN --runtime=N Specify maximum runtime (hours) [default 1]
-qQNAME --queue=QNAME Specify wanted SLURM queue [default 'quark']
-e<mail> --email=<mail> Specify address to notify in reg. sim status [default none]
--nodes=NUM Specify wanted number of nodes [default 1]
--name=NAME Specify openPBS job name [default "McSub_<USERNAME>_<TIMESTAMP>"
Usage: /mnt/lustre/apps/mcstas/2.4.1/bin/mcsub_slurm [options] [mcrun params]
-h --help Show this help
-rN --runtime=N Specify maximum runtime (hours) [default 1]
-qQNAME --queue=QNAME Specify wanted SLURM queue [default 'express']
--mpimodule=MODULE Specify wanted MPI module [default 'openmpi/3.0_gcc540']
-e<mail> --email=<mail> Specify address to notify in reg. sim status [default none]
--nodes=NUM Specify wanted number of nodes [default 1]
--name=NAME Specify slurm job name [default "McSub_<USERNAME>_<TIMESTAMP>"]
After running mcsub_slurm NAME.batch is ready for submission using the sbatch command
(On McStas installations v. 2.4.1 and newer, the template batchfile writing is also available via File → Configuration in mcgui on Linux / Python → Preferences on macOS - meta-comma is a shortcut.)
To generate a batch file repeating a simulation that worked on your Desktop, use the script "in front" of the mcrun command run at your Desktop, e.g.:
[willend@r1n2 ~]$ mcsub_slurm -qquark mcrun BNL_H8.instr -n1e6 Lambda=2.37
- Having seen the output from 8, you should be able to request a production queue and a longer runtime using the -q and -r options of the script. (Or simply edit the script output to your taste and need!)
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New Windows Phone users will be left out in the cold after January 30th asnewly connected Google accounts will no longer work through Exchange ActiveSync. Something we've known since last December, which caught Microsoft by "surprise". But fret not, Microsoft is scrambling to push out an update that will support Google's CardDAV and CalDAV system.
What's more surprising, though, is that Microsoft has apparently known this was coming since last summer, says The Verge.
So what does this mean for anyone who starts using a Windows Phone after the 30th? Well, you'll have a tough time syncing your Google Calendar and Contact details. For those of you who have it set up already, you should be in the clear as current users wont be affected by the change. (But don't think about wiping your phone and starting fresh because that will put you in the dark.) Paid Google Apps users will also experience no problem whatsoever.
It's interesting that Google gave Microsoft a heads up given what's happened more recently between the two companies.
The catch here is that between, possibly, a slow developing team and an even more nightmarish carrier roll-out process, Microsoft is requesting a six month extension on the ActiveSync expiration to make sure it's as smooth a transition as possible. The silver lining is that the first update for Windows Phone 8, "Portico", rolled out relatively fast so, the question is, how far along are they on implementing the next update? [The Verge]


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WASHINGTON – President Obama issued an executive order yesterday – putting a ten percent tax on yoga studios and everything related to yoga.
"We see this as a fairness issue," said a source inside the White House, adding that Pilates would be next. "There's a lot of people doing yoga and the government needs to get a piece of that action. They've been untaxed for too long."
The new tax policy was met with cries of protest from the yoga business community. For years, studios budgeted without the expectation of a sales-tax hit.
"Yoga classes have been around forever and not taxed," said Willow Lark , executive director of Yoga America.
She said the new tax policy could not have come at a worse time, with the industry just beginning to get back on its feet after the economic downturn, or what she termed "the yoga crisis."
Like most businesses, yoga studios likely would pass the sales tax on to the customer, forcing prices up. That will cause yoga participants a great deal of stress, which will in turn, cause them to take more yoga. "That's what we are counting on. A Yoga explosion," said a White House source.
Lark added, "It is important that we have stress-relieving activities that are affordable to all levels of income. Something like this is a threat to that. A nation without yoga, is a nation without peace."
On Monday afternoon, more than 2,000 yogis and Yoga managers, studio owners and instructors across the country sat down in the lotus position to meditate on what to do — they're still there.
The Yoga community as a whole gave the tax news a big downward dog.


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NEW: Tammy Baldwin one of at least 118 successful gay and lesbian candidates this election
NEW: Baldwin says her victory means states are "moving toward full equality"
She won a Senate seat over former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson
Campaign watchers: Race rooted in voter issues, not sexual orientation
Tammy Baldwin made history Tuesday night – twice. She became the first openly gay politician, and first Wisconsin woman, elected to the U.S. Senate.
The seven-term Democratic congresswoman edged past former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson in a win that advocacy groups hailed as a significant stride toward bringing diversity to the Senate.
Baldwin said she ran "to make a difference" and not to make history. But she said she hopes the Senate will be more reflective of America and the "life experience" of women.
"Having a seat at the table matters and I think we will see a Senate that is more reflective of America. We're certainly not there yet, but this will be a change that moves us forward," she told CNN.
"People … see our country and our states moving toward full equality in many respects," Baldwin said. "When you have legislative bodies that look more like America, that happens."
Baldwin was one of many successful gay and lesbian candidates in local and state races this election cycle, which also included her successor in her legislative district in Madison, state Rep. Mark Pocan. At least 118 gay and lesbian candidates won their races as of Wednesday, according to political action committee Victory Fund, which supports gay and lesbian candidates.
Political commentator Sally Kohn was ecstatic.
"This is a big day for gay women in America, and really, for all communities who aren't the typical straight, white, wealthy men elected to Congress," she said.
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There has never been an openly gay or lesbian member of the U.S. Senate, according to several LGBT advocacy groups. Baldwin is one of four openly gay House members of the 112 U.S. Congress, along with fellow Democrats Barney Frank of Massachusetts, David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Jared Polis of Colorado.
"For the LGBT person growing up in Wisconsin or anywhere across the country, seeing an openly gay woman who is able to rise up to become a senator in the U.S. Congress is an incredible role model," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign.
Though Baldwin's sexual orientation makes her victory notable, it rarely came up during the campaign, unless it was called a nonissue. The race pitted Thompson's "conservative leadership" platform against Baldwin's progressive agenda. Thompson, a four-time governor and secretary of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush, said he returned to politics to make America a better place for his grandchildren.
"I wanted to so much help lead back America," he said in his concession speech. "To be the country of growth and opportunity. To build America for future generations. I certainly didn't need the job. And I guess I'm not going to get it."
What started as a long shot for Baldwin eventually narrowed to a close finish, with the born-and-raised Wisconsinite capturing 51% of the vote, according to CNN projections.
"This campaign has been run on who's the most qualified candidate and who has the best vision for the state," Griffin said. "We're eager to have her move from one side of the Capitol to another and take a seat in the chamber as the first openly gay person."
Maryland, Maine approve same-sex marriage
To those watching the race, it was no surprise that Wisconsin, a state that approved a gay marriage ban six years ago, would send the first openly gay politician to the Senate. Baldwin has made no secret of her sexual orientation as she rose through local and state politics during the last two decades. When she was elected in 1998 to represent Wisconsin's second congressional district, she was the first out candidate to be elected to the chamber, said Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Victory Fund, a political action committee that supported LGBT candidates including Baldwin this election.
"The electorate already knew what they needed to know about her, and they continued to elect her every step of the way," Wolfe said.
"She is a force with very deep roots in Wisconsin. She has a backbone of steel, but she's polite and compassionate, and people enjoy their interactions with her."
Born and raised in the Congressional district she has represented for the past decade, Baldwin's track record reflects a commitment to LGBT issues and diversity. As a Wisconsin representative, she was a co-founder and co-chairwoman of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, leading efforts to advance the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and other civil rights initiatives. She also led successful efforts in the House in 2009 to pass expanded hate crimes legislation and was the lead author of legislation to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
"Tammy has been a driving force because of her ability to tackle issues without having to use double-speak," Wolfe said. "Having someone like her in the Senate changes the tone and tenor of this discussion."
Democrats keep control of Senate
Others are hopeful that more women in Congress will change the discussion of policies affecting women and families. Women in the 112th Congress made up 17% of both the Senate and the House, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.
"A lot of research has shown that more women in leadership leads to better outcomes for the community," said Tiffany Dufu, president of The White House Project, which trains women for leadership.
"We know that women in political leadership reach across the aisle more often and are inclusive when it comes to taking constituents into consideration. They care deeply not just about the outcome, but the process," she said.
"For us, the biggest thing about Tammy Baldwin is her visibility. You can't be what you can't see."


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Brazing is a group of welding processes which produce coalescence of materials by heating them to a suitable temperature and by using a filler metal having a liquidus above 450oC and below the solidus of the base metals.Filler materials for brazing are covered by an AWS specification. They are classified according to analysis: aluminum-silicon, copper, copper-zinc, copper-phosphorus, copper-gold, heat-resisting materials, magnesium, and silver are the basic groupings.
Brazing is a group of welding processes which produce coalescence of
materials by heating them to a suitable temperature and by using a
filler metal having a liquidus above 450oC and below the solidus of
the base metals. The solidus is the highest temperature at which the
metal is completely solid, that is, the temperature at which melting
starts. The liquidus is the lowest temperature at which the metal is
completely liquid, the temperature at which freezing starts. The solidus
and liquidus for a particular alloy are defined values.
The filler metal is distributed between closely fitted surfaces of the
joint by capillary attraction. To avoid confusion it is necessary to
explain braze welding which is different since the filler metal is not
distributed by capillary attraction.
Filler materials for brazing are covered by an AWS specification. They are
classified according to analysis: aluminum-silicon, copper, copper-zinc,
copper-phosphorus, copper-gold, heat-resisting materials, magnesium, and
silver are the basic groupings. Filler metal selection is based on the
metal being brazed.
Certain brazing filler metals contain cadmium in significant amounts.
When these are used adequate ventilation is required.
Filler metals are available in many forms, the most common is the wire
or rod. Filler metal is also available as thin sheet, powder, paste,
or as a clad surface of the part to be brazed.
The aluminum-base filler metals used for brazing aluminum alloys have
liquidus temperatures much closer to the solidus temperature of the base
metal than those for brazing most other metals. The non-heat treatable
wrought aluminum alloys, such as the 1xxx, 3xxx, and 5xxx (low-magnesium)
series, have been brazed successfully. Alloys that contain higher magnesium
contents are more difficult to braze by the usual flux methods because of
poor wetting and excessive penetration by the filler metal. Filler metals
that melt below the solidus temperatures of most commercial, non-heat
treatable wrought alloys are available.
The most commonly brazed heat-treatable wrought alloys are those of 6xxx
series. The 2xxx and 7xxx series of aluminum alloys have low melting points
and therefore are not normally brazeable. Alloys that have solidus
temperatures above 595oC are easily brazed with commercially binary
aluminum-silicon filler metals. Higher-strength, lower-melting-points
alloys can be brazed with proper attention to filler metal selection
and temperature control, but the brazing cycle must be short to minimize
penetration by the molten filler metal.
Sand and permanent mold casting alloys with high solidus temperatures are
brazeable. Commercial filler metals for brazing aluminum are
aluminum-silicon alloys containing 7 to 12 wt% Si. Brazing fillers
with lower melting points are attained, with some sacrifice in resistance
to corrosion, by adding copper and zinc. Filler metals for vacuum brazing
of aluminum usually contain magnesium.
Most filler metals are used for any of the common brazing processes and
methods. Two alloys, 4004 and 4104, have been developed exclusively for
use in fluxless vacuum brazing.
Brazing of aluminum to copper is difficult, because of the low melting
temperature, 548oC, of the aluminum-copper eutectic and its extreme
brittleness. The eutectic is formed due to dissolution of aluminum
during brazing. By heating and cooling rapidly, however, it is possible
to make reasonably ductile joints for applications such as copper inserts
in aluminum castings for electrical conductors.
Brazing of Tough Pitch Coppers. Tough pitch coppers are subject
to embritllement when heated at temperatures above 480oC in reducing
atmospheres containing hydrogen. Phosphorus-deoxidized and oxygen-free
coppers can be brazed without flux in hydrogen-containing atmospheres
without risk of embritllement, provided self-fluxing filler metals
are used.
Brazing of Red and Yellow Brasses. Red and yellow brasses are readily
brazed with a variety of filler metals. Flux is normally required for best
results, especially when the zinc content is above 15 wt%. Low-melting
filler metals should be used to avoid dezinfication of the yellow brasses.
If added to red brass or yellow brass, lead forms a dross on heating that
can seriously impede wetting and the flow of filler metal. Consequently,
in brazing leaded brasses, the use of a flux is mandatory to prevent dross
formation in the joint area.
Brazing of Phosphor Bronzes. Phosphor bronzes contain small amounts
of phosphorus, up to approximately 0,25 wt%, added as deoxidizer. Although
susceptible to hot cracking in the coldworked condition, alloys in this
group have good brazeability and are adaptable to brazing with any of
the common filler metals that have melting temperatures lower than that
of the base metal.
Precipitation-hardenable alloys present several difficulties not normally
encountered with solid-solution alloys. Precipitation-hardenable alloys
often contain appreciable (greater than 1 wt%) quantities of aluminum and
titanium. The oxides of these elements are almost impossible to reduce in
a controlled atmosphere (vacuum, hydrogen). Therefore, nickel plating or
the use of a flux is necessary to obtain a surface that allows wetting by
the filler metal.
Since titanium and titanium alloys are very resistant to corrosion,
the filler metal should be selected carefully to avoid galvanic corrosion.
Titanium and its alloys are usually brazed by induction or furnace
processes with a protective atmosphere. The brazing atmosphere is usually
a vacuum less than 13 mPa or an inert atmosphere with dew point
lower than -55oC. Vacuum brazing with filler metals that contain
silver or gallium must be performed with an argon back pressure to avoid
the vaporization loss of these elements.
In induction brazing, the chemical elements of the filler metal must
alloy readily with titanium, due to the fast heating cycle. However,
furnace brazing requires a filler metal with a chemical composition
that does not alloy excessively with titanium, due to longer period
at elevated temperatures. Torch brazing is not usually done because
special fluxes and a skilled operator are required.
b and a+b titanium
alloys can be strengthened by heat treatment. The basic
heat treatment consists of heating in single-phase field (b alloys) or in
a two-phase field (a+b alloys), followed by a quenching. The aging is
performed between 480 and 650oC. During the aging, a or other compounds
will precipitate in a b matrix, increasing the strength and toughness of
the alloy. Thus, the thermal cycle during brazing may affect the mechanical
properties of the base metal. The b alloys should be brazed at a temperature
close to the solubility temperature. Brazing at higher temperatures will
reduce the ductility of these alloys.
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Pssst. Don't tell anyone, but I must be one of the few people engaged in the social media and Internet marketing space who hasn't read Chris Brogan (@ChrisBrogan) and Julien Smith's (@Julien) first New York Times best seller, Trust Agents. It was a Reader's Choice for the Small Business Trends 2009 Business Book Awards, but I just didn't get to it at the time.
That's why I was very happy to receive a review copy of their newest book The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
In the introduction to the book (and in several of their online interviews) Brogan and Smith say they never wanted to write a sequel to Trust Agents, but it seems like that's what their audience wanted.
So, if you're one of those people who read and loved Trust Agents or who were left with a little something missing after reading Trust Agents – you will want to pick up a copy of The Impact Equation.
The Impact Equation Focuses You On What Matters Most
I'd say that this is really a book about how to effectively communicate in today's world. Now that you have several solid years of social media under your belt, what would you say is missing for you? You might struggle with this question because you're overwhelmed by the mountains of online media channels and the myriad ways of how to use them effectively.
Brogan and Smith did this work for you and decided that what was missing was – IMPACT. And to tie their concept together, they created the following equation that serves as the platform for the book:
Impact = Contrast x (Reach+Exposure+Articulation+Trust+Echo) or
Impact = C x (R+E+A+T+E) — If you're like me and didn't catch the cool acronym it's Impact = Create.
The authors are adamant that this book is NOT about social media – while being about communicating using social media. It's a tough distinction to get across and I have to admit, I was a bit confused at first. I think the analogy that cleared it up was this one:
"Saying that this book is about social media is like saying that Moby Dick is a book about boats."
Ok – I think I get it now.
The Impact Equation is about CONTEXT and not about CONTENT. What they are trying desperately to get across is that you should be approaching your online communications from the context of making an impact – a difference in the world.
The social media tools that they talk about throughout the book are really nothing more than vehicles to help you achieve your goal of making an impact instead of just noise.
How To Get The Most From The Impact Equation
As I mentioned before, I had a bit of a challenge "getting into" the book. I started reading and felt somewhat overwhelmed by the content. I just didn't get where they were going with this at first. That's when I turned to the table of contents and spent a little bit of time just digesting it. I'd recommend you do the same.
You'll notice that the book is divided into four parts:
- Goals
- Ideas
- Platforms
- Network
Brogan and Smith then broke up the Impact Equation into each of those parts:
The Goals section contains the introduction of working with the Impact Equation. This is where they introduce the concept and explain each element.
In the Ideas section, they discuss Contrast and Articulation. In other words, Contrast and Articulation are what you have to do with your ideas. In order to accomplish this – you need a clear idea; one that can be contrasted and articulated via a variety of channels.
My favorite section in the book was the one about Platforms. In this section, they discuss Reach and Exposure. It's my experience that people really struggle with platforms. And if you find yourself wondering which platform will help you achieve your goals, you'll want to read this section more than once.
Finally, they get into your Network. Inside this section, the authors get into what it takes to build on the Trust component and the Echo component of the Impact Equation. As much as they try to avoid getting into the details of social media tasks, you will find them there and I think that these examples and their advice only add to the relevance of the book.
How To Tell If Impact Equation Should Be On Your Reading List
First of all, if you're a Chris Brogan and Julien Smith fan, you'll want to read this book. It will give you all the things you love about them and then some.
If you are an online publisher, blogger or small business that has social media and internet marketing as a core strategy, reading The Impact Equation will help you to tighten up your message and your communication style online.
Just as an example: I visited Chris Brogan's Facebook page and my Facebook page (the personal ones) and I can definitely see the difference. Chris' Facebook page not only features his personality and personal life, but seamlessly integrates his professional brand as well.
One task I'm taking on is to make my Facebook page posts more intentional, deliberate and purposeful as I move forward. As you read through the book, you'll find yourself doing much of the same thing; reading, checking online, comparing and creating some new strategies for yourself.
Small business owners who are still a bit confused or overwhelmed by the entire online and social media marketing space will benefit from reading The Impact Equation. My only advice would be to not read a few pages and throw it down in disgust because you're not getting it right away. Give yourself time and space to process the information. Put it down for a day or two and pick it up again. I promise you will see the content differently.
Overall, The Impact Equation is slated to be one of those books you have to read if you're in the social media space. Ignore it, and you'll likely feel left out the next time you're chatting Internet trends and social media.


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Happy New Year | by Pat
Without a doubt, 2008 is going to be a very interesting year for ND football. There are plenty of questions to be answered about the direction of the program. Will the coaches fix the mistakes from 2007? Will the young freshmen and sophomores have breakthough years on the field in '08? Will the seniors rise to the occasion and provide needed veteran leadership? What will the Irish do against a schedule that features only two teams that have coaches who have been at their school longer than Charlie Weis has been at ND?
But before we get to all that, we still have the final batch of bowl games for the 2007 season to finish off. So get comfortable on the couch, drink plenty of liquids to fight off the effects of last night, and settle in for what is, even in its somewhat neutered state, still one of the better days of college football.


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Literary types often regard Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita as the greatest love story of the 20th century. They're close, but it's actually the '80s cartoon series Robotech.
Specifically, it's the Macross section of Robotech, based on the 1982 anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the first of the three Japanese cartoons that were cobbled together and re-edited to make the Robotech cartoon that aired in the US. While so many other children's entertainments were going on and on about true love (or avoiding the subject entirely), the Macross saga helped countless kids understand that love isn't perfect, it isn't good, and most importantly, it's never easy.
Robotech's Macross saga was a romance more than it was a sci-fi adventure, and since it was full of jets that transformed into robots, a giant race of aliens named the Zentraedi, and the giant spaceship called the SDF that had accidentally crash-landed on Earth they would stop at nothing to take, that's saying something. Here are five truths about love that only Robotech had the guts to admit to kids:
Love Knows No Bounds
Macross understands that you love who you love, and there's no class, race, or any kind of status that matters. Lisa Hayes, the second-in-command of the most powerful spaceship in the galaxy (and she's also the most sober commander, she ends up in charge most of the time), loves a lowly pilot recruit. Young Chinese pop star Lynn Minmei loves her cousin Lynn Kyle. Ace pilot Maximillian Sterling loves the beautiful alien Miriya, who's trying to kill him. Even more insanely, veteran pilot Roy Fokker loves Claudia Grant, a - gasp! - person of color. I know it doesn't seem worth congratulating now, but showing an interracial relationship in kids' cartoons in the mid-'80s was simply unheard of, and Robotech had the cajones to never even comment on it in the scripts, portraying it as completely natural. The heart wants what the heart wants, and there's no amount of reality that can sway it.
Love Is Messy
After countless cartoons where the prince gets the princess at the end (or vice versa), Robotechgot kids ready for a lifetime of relationships by revealing that love as first sight was a lot more rare than awesome jets that transform into robots. The show basically centers on Rick Hunter's incredibly long, unrequited infatuation with Lynn Minmei, and Lisa Hayes' simultaneous crush on Rick. Both of these take up most of Macross' 36 episodes, forcing viewers to wonder if Rick will ever wake up, drop the mercurial Minmei, and realize that the infinitely more awesome Lisa has the hots for him- or, conversely, if Lisa will ever stop pining over the bastard who keeps ignoring her for the 15-year-old Chinese pop star who treats him like shit. Unrequited love isn't fun, but it's a hell of a lot more likely than some fairy tale ending.
Love Hurts
To clarify the above, Rick doesn't just sit in his bunk pining over over Minmei; no, that's only what he does in-between the times she's leading him on and/or breaking his heart. Minmei does just enough to keep Rick thinking he's got a chance" asking for him along to her concerts, accepting his gifts, giving him kisses on the cheek, and more. Inbetween these moments of happiness are: Minmei ignoring him, Minmei fawning over Lynn Kyle, and Minmei generally breaking his heart. Minmei was the most hated character in anime in the '80s, and her torture of poor Rick is the reason why; but what we didn't understand is that Minmei wasn't actually trying to be cruel - she genuinely likes Rick, and likes being with him - she just likes someone else. Sure, she's flirty and flighty, but she's a 15-16-year-old girl. Who could reasonably expect her to choose a stable relationship as opposed to the dark, brooding Lynn Kyle? Boys watchingRobotech in the '80s, that's who. But we were wrong.
Moreover, everything Minmei does to Rick? Rick does to Lisa, only worse. At least Minmei's flirty nature gives Rick hope some of the time. Rick makes his feelings for Minmei abundantly clear to Lisa, and she's still so in love she simply waits and hopes he eventually wises up.
Love Is Gross (Usually If You're Doing It Right)
In one of Robotech's most iconic scenes, Rick, Lisa and fellow pilot Ben Dixon are captured by the giant alien Zentraedi and interrogated. Since the Zentraedi are cloned and immediately bred to be warriors, they have no sense of romance or relationships or sex. As these alien interrogations often do, the subject of love comes up, specifically kissing, and the Zentraedi demand the humans kiss to find out what the hell they're talking about. Lisa kisses Rick (sorry, Ben) and immediately disgusts every Zentraedi watching. They're stunned, appalled, and actually retching at the site of the two humans touching mouths (and potentially tongues) - to the point where they consider the act an actual weapon. Look, if you think there's a better way to slyly hint at the biological messiness of love in a kids' cartoon, you're lying to yourself.
Love Is Dumb
When summarizing the Macross portion of Robotech, one could do worse than trying to describe the show's primary love… er… polygon. The most powerful woman in the galaxy is so in love she washes the underwear of a young pilot who is in love with a 15-year-old Chinese pop star who is in love with her cousin, who throws gin bottles at her. I'm serious. Love makes Lisa Hayes - the second in command of the SDF-1 - actually does Rick Hunter's laundry at his apartment… while he's out chasing Minmei. Minmei has the hots for Lynn Kyle, who gets so mad at her success that he does throw bottles at her (that they're gin bottle is my hypothesis, but I stand by it). And these things don't affect Minmei or Lisa's affections in the least. Oh, they're upset; they wonder what the hell they're doing; but they're still in love. Because love makes us dumb.
Also, Max Sterling asks the alien spy Miriya on a date while she's actually trying to kill him… and they end up having the most solid relationship in the series. Because love is dumb.
Love Is All That Really Matters
But for as dumb, gross, messy and cruel love can be, it's what makes humans human, and it's what holds the crew of the SDF-1 together during their horrific war with the Zentraedi. It what keeps the crew and unwilling residents of the SDF-1 sane during their attempt to travel home, even if that love is returned or not. When the Earth is pretty much annihilated in episode 27, all people have to hold onto is each other, as they try to survive and carve a new civilization out of the ashes. Love isn't a cure-all; it's not going to bring humanity back, and it's not going to conquer everything. But whether you're facing giant aliens in space bent on your annihilation or just everyday life, it's obviously the best thing we've got.
Now, maybe you fell in love with your partner at first sight and were in bliss from that moment on, but if so, you're the exception, not the norm. Most of us will feel the pain of unrequited love, of debasing ourselves for someone who may not deserve it (or even notice), will have our hearts broken, and/or end up in multi-person relationship drama that would make Romeo and Juliet's heads explode (I, for one, have experienced all of these things, multiple times). Lolita might have revealed that love is blind, unquenchable and not always good, but Robotech taught us that and more, and did it in a kids' cartoon to boot. Sorry, Nabokov. Better luck next time.