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When you grab the sniper rifle, head to the vantage point as the game instructs you to do. Then, kneel down and watch the deal on the streets below quickly turn sour. Follow the on-screen prompts to aim your sniper rifle, look through the scope, and all that jazz. Then, keep your gun trained on the guy closest to your new friend Packie. He'll be your first target once the deal heads south. Then, begin clipping his friends, working your way away from Packie, one target at a time.
The enemies are represented on your HUD as red dots, so they are easy enough to track down. There are a few things to keep in mind here, however. First and foremost, try to aim for the head or chest, so you don't have to shoot an enemy more than once. Secondly, when the game tells you that Packie is in trouble, immediately go towards the street-side of the alley, where you'll see Packie in a struggle. Shoot the guy he's dealing with as soon as you can. Then, eradicate the rest of the foes until the third point comes up. The third point is to watch the remaining foe struggle towards the van at the back end of the alley. When he does, make sure he doesn't escape by either shooting him as he gets into the van, or shooting him through the windshield as soon as he does. This will accomplish your mission. Elizabeta is impressed.
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That's the headline on a feature story from St. Anthony Messenger magazine about Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski — "Coach K" to any of us who follow basketball. For those of you who don't follow sports, Krzyzewski's Duke team won the national championship of college basketball Monday night.
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(This concludes the Ten Principles for a New Economy series, based upon the New Economy Network publication Principles for a New Economy". Part one and part two looked at the Ten Principles in detail; this post looks at four things a new economy should NOT be.)
The first two posts in this series looked at Ten Principles for a New Economy and how these could fit into today's business environment. This last post looks at four things a new economy should not be.
The Ten Principles document states that:
"the purpose of an economic system is to organize human activities in ways that support healthy and resilient communities and ecosystems for both present and future generations"
It then goes on to describe how current global, regional, national and global economies have failed. In today's language the economy is largely made up of for-profit businesses, so if there is any fault to be found in the economy then it also points to faults within how businesses conduct themselves.
These failures show that businesses, along with the wider economy, are currently:
"They over consume and degrade the resources upon which their long term prosperity depends."
Over-consumption is not just a question of wastefulness: it's also a question of simply trying to grab as much as possible today without any thought of what is needed for tomorrow in terms of environmental, mineral and human resources.
The biggest trouble is that it's impossible to second guess what long term prosperity will need. Sustainability by its very definition means that a precautionary principle needs to be adopted: if its not necessary, then don't use it.
Sadly, sustainability is too often seen as efforts to offset emissions or reduce outbound waste. Rarely is it seen as as a need to reduce consumption, both in terms of business inputs and the sale of products or services to the wider business and consumer communities.
Until these fundamental points are tackled on an economic scale business, as a whole, will remain unsustainable.
"They multiply financial advantages to those already advantaged at the expense of those most in need."
The biggest flaw in capitalism is that it relies upon capital investment. Those who have the capital to invest can take the risks and reap the rewards, those who don't, can't. As a one off scenario this seems fair enough, but when it's multiplied over decades or generations you realise that those with financial assets are more likely to remain wealthy, while those without are more likely to remain poor.
While this is not a class system as such it is still based on income and wealth, not merit and ability; this is profoundly unfair.
This is why I remain profoundly cynical about Bottom of the Pyramid marketing. It's a nice idea to alleviate the absolute poverty rampant throughout the world, but it does so by reinforcing the unfairness in the system which condemned these people to destitution in the first place.
"They lack resilience in a time of growing volatility and rapid social, political, technological, and ecological change"
The secret to resilience is that there should never be a single point of failure in a system. In economic terms this means you should not have institutions which are too big to fail and an economy dominated by one sector. Businesses need to support the economy by ensuring they don't get so big that they destabilise the local, national and even international economies.
The standard reply to that would be "why can't businesses get as large as regulations allow?" The answer is because that could well be irresponsible and I always thought CSR was about responsibility, not regulatory compliance.
"The operate with inadequate democratic controls and accountability on the part of their most powerful organizations – corporations, financial institutions and governments"
The whole way Greece has unraveled demonstrates how profoundly undemocratic the institutions which make up an economy have become, including the government. The latest and most poignant example is the suicide of Dimitris Christoulas, a pensioner who saved privately all his working life only to find on retirement he had nothing to live on.
There is now deep mistrust of financial markets and governments running across the world from the highly paid chief executive down. The political ramifications of this are already being felt: the Pirate Party, which calls for greater government transparency and participation and the reform of most intellectual property rights, has spread around the world like wildfire. International affiliates are officially registered parties in over 20 countries, including the US, Russia and the UK , and it's now the third largest political party in Germany and has won nearly 200 state and city councillor seats.
Business itself is only slowly reforming. Companies tend to be dictatorial in nature, with managers instructing employees in what they should be do: ownership is defined solely by financial investment and voting is generally in block form and uncritical.
So to the future….
Social accountability has to become embedded within both business and the economy. SRI and CSR should be watchwords to encourage the major players in the economy to look at how they can best create sustainable, inclusive, stable and holistic organisations which don't pursue profit to the detriment of everything or anything else.
However the trouble is business, like politics, is inherently conservative and dislikes change when it's not in its own interest. So it is that we have the slow baby-step by baby-step transformation which is so painfully slow it can almost make you cry.
Against this you have movements such as Anonymous and the Pirate Party which are taking direct action to reform the economic and political institutions they hold in contempt. Both of these movements have attracted widespread public support around the world and cannot be considered fringe groups by any means.
This is why proposals such as these principles are so vitally important. They move the debate away from the old, stale and largely defunct capitalist-socialist arguments of the last century and look to how a more sustainable, stable and inclusive economy can be built.
For businesses raised and grown in a capitalist environment this can be a challenging vision, but if they don't reform soon they may find the pace of change is pushed along even faster.
Picture Credit: Rosie from the New Economy Network website.
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In his new book, "Total Recall," former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger explains why he didn't want to talk to the media when it was discovered that he had fathered a child with the family housekeeper.
"I wanted to protect my family's privacy," Schwarzenegger writes, "which remains a priority of mine today."
That being the case, a question comes to mind. If Schwarzenegger wants to protect his family's privacy, what was he doing on "60 Minutes" on Sunday night, talking about that affair and admitting to a number of others?
The simplest answer, I suppose, is that he was promoting the book. But that raises another question:
If Schwarzenegger cares about his wife and their four kids - or his former mistress and the child she had with him - why write the book at all?
Let's think about this. His wife, Maria Shriver, and the kids were gone for a week, and not only was Arnold bold enough to have Mildred Baena do a little extra "housework," but he was careless enough to get her pregnant in the family domicile. She later brought the child to the house to play with half-brothers and half-sisters, all of them unaware they were related, until the resemblance became a little too obvious.
And yet, after putting his family through all of that, after Maria filed for divorce and his family exploded, the 38th governor of the great state of California still thinks it's appropriate to memorialize the whole thing in book form and blab about it on national television?
"It's another case of Arnold being Arnold," a former Schwarzenegger adviser and longtime GOP consultant told me, saying his former boss was simply promoting the book and drawing attention to two upcoming movies. Like a shark in the ocean, he said, "Arnold's got a single-minded purpose to do what Arnold wants to do."
And he never lets contradiction get in the way.
"Secrecy is just part of me," he wrote in the book, explaining how he answered Shriver when she asked him why he hadn't confessed earlier. "I keep things to myself no matter what."
Secrecy would be a part of me, too, if I'd slept with the maid and my love child was running around the house under my wife's nose. Schwarzenegger writes that Maria had suspected the truth, but since he wasn't certain the child was his when she first asked, he denied it.
Schwarzenegger said on TV that Shriver hadn't read the book, which covers everything from his upbringing in Austria to his bodybuilding and Hollywood days, and I can understand why it wouldn't be at the top of her reading list. Imagine how she might react, though, if she were to read this passage in which Schwarzenegger writes about discussing the affair with his wife.
"I explained that it was my screw-up, "that (Maria) should not feel that it had anything to do with her."
What a prince. The former Mr. Olympia did some cardio work with the maid while his wife was away, and he's not even blaming her.
"You're the perfect wife," he goes on, recreating his conversation with her in the office of their therapist. "It's not because anything is wrong, or you left home for a week, or any of that. Forget that. You look fantastic, you're sexy, I'm turned on by you today as much as I was on the first date."
Classy guy, huh?
Maybe he'll invite her to the sophomore prom and try to patch things up. And he can pick her up in the fantastic new idiot-mobile he drove on "60 Minutes," a $250,000 Mercedes Unimog truck that looks like a Hummer on steroids.
Poor Maria. And poor Arnold. He's unlikely to find another woman who would have stood by him him through his denials about all those groping stories during the recall of Gov. Gray Davis. She even stayed true after Schwarzenegger said that although "most" of the groping allegations were false, he wasn't denying bad behavior. As he put it, "where there's smoke there's fire."
Say again?
So Schwarzenegger went from sexual harassment allegations as he entered office to a sex scandal on his way out of office. There's a neat symmetry to it all, especially when you consider that while he was governor, all of California got screwed.
The man who was against borrowing broke borrowing records.
The man who said he didn't need to raise campaign donations raised more than anyone.
The man who replaced a governor with a 22 percent popularity rating ended up matching that all-time low.
The man who promised to balance the budget left office with record deficits.
You can blame some of that on Schwarzenegger, some on the Legislature, and some on voters who were swept up by the action hero antics of Schwarzenegger the candidate, a man who now confesses in the book that he had no idea what he was doing. After appearing on Jay Leno to announce that he was running, which was news to his wife, Schwarzenegger writes that he got a call from Matt Lauer of "The Today Show."
"As he pressed me for specifics on how I would bring back the California economy and when I would release my tax returns, I realized I was unprepared," Schwarzenegger writes. "Unable to answer, I finally had to resort to the old Groucho Marx stunt of pretending the connection was bad. 'Say again?' I put a hand to my earpiece. 'I didn't hear you.'"
None of this surprises Garry South, Gray Davis' campaign manager.
"It's all just another movie to him," said South, whose diagnosis is that Schwarzenegger has always been defined, pure and simple, by the narcissism that drives an international body-building champion.
That - and an unlimited supply of hubris-may also be what drives a man to end his book with a chapter called "Arnold's Rules," a section that contains such wisdom as, "Don't overthink," "Change takes big balls," and "When someone tells you no, you should hear yes."
Unless she's the housekeeper.
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Tallahassee, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - The seventh-ranked Syracuse Orange will try to snap out of their funk as the regular season comes to a close, as they venture to the Donald L. Tucker Center on Sunday afternoon to take on Atlantic Coast Conference rival the Florida State Seminoles.
Midway through last month, Syracuse was riding high as the nation's No. 1 team, but it has hit a slide at the tail-end of the regular season with losses in four of five outings. The Orange most recently lost a home bout versus Georgia Tech last Tuesday, 67-62, to slip to 26-4 overall and 13-4 in the ACC.
Unlike Syracuse, Florida State has turned it on late in the campaign with three straight victories to improve to 18-11 overall and 8-8 in league play. The Seminoles defeated Boston College on the road on Tuesday, 74-70, and they have played well at the Tucker Center with wins in nine of 13 home bouts.
The Orange lead the all-time series with Florida State, 3-1, but the new conference rivals haven't played each other since the 1996-97 season.
Syracuse was embarrassed on its home floor in the latest bout by a mediocre Georgia Tech squad, as it was unable to overcome a 12-point deficit late in the second half. The offense fell flat, as it shot only 39.1 percent from the field (including 5-of-17 from 3-point range) and had a dreadful 7-of-16 showing at the free-throw line. C.J. Fair was outstanding despite the defeat, shooting 12-of-25 from the field for 28 points to go with eight rebounds. Tyler Ennis added 18 points and seven assists, while Rakeem Christmas grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked four shots.
The offensive output for the Orange has been suspect all season long, as they shoot just 43.9 percent from the field for 68.1 ppg, but they've been one of the nation's elite teams thanks to a stout defense, which ranks eighth in the country in allowing only 59.3 ppg. Fair leads the way with 16.7 ppg to go with 6.2 rpg and more than a steal per contest. Trevor Cooney (12.6 ppg) has drained 83 3-pointers at a 38.8 percent clip, while Ennis (12.3 ppg, 5.6 apg, 2.1 spg) has shown flashes of brilliance during his freshman season.
It would have been tough for the Seminoles to play a closer game their last time out, as they and Boston College played through 24 lead changes and neither team ever led by more than four points, but the Noles ultimately outlasted the Eagles as their winning continued. The squad made greater than 56 percent of its field goal tries on the evening and won the turnover battle, 16-11. Aaron Thomas paced the effort with 26 points while knocking down 3-of-5 from 3-point range. Okaro White was hot on his heels with 24 points on 9-of-12 from the field and 6-of-7 at the foul line.
On the season, FSU has impressed on both ends of the court, shooting 46.8 percent from the field, 37.5 percent from beyond the arc and 72.4 percent at the free-throw stripe for 71.6 ppg, while allowing just 65.7 ppg on 39.3 percent shooting. Thomas (14.1 ppg), Ian Miller (13.6 ppg) and White (13.1 ppg) are all neck-and-neck for the scoring lead, with Miller doing so on 54- of-136 from beyond the arc and White adding 6.5 rpg and more than a block per outing.


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Veracity is a DVCS that can be installed on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and uses a distributed database for its repository.
Veracity is a relatively new Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) that has been in tests for more than a year, and now version 0.9.1 made its debut as "ready to use." Veracity is similar to Git or Mercurial in many ways, but there are some differences. We talked to Eric Sink, the founder of SourceGear, the company behind Veracity, and he said that their DVCS supports a decentralized database:
A unique feature of Veracity is its "decentralized database". Most version control tools are designed to manage data which is file system-oriented, directories and files. Veracity can do this as well, but it also has the ability to manage data which is database-oriented, records and fields.
Just as it does with file system data, Veracity's decentralized database keeps the full history of the database. Every version of every record is retained in history, with log information about who made the change and when. Veracity also supports push and pull of "database changesets", including the ability to automatically merge (at the level of a record or of a field) and resolve constraint violations.
This capability is what allows this database to be "decentralized".
Users can choose various databases for their Veracity repository, as Sink explains:
Veracity communicates with repository instances through an API which hides all the details of how things are stored. The intent here is that Veracity users can choose how their repository is stored. The current version of Veracity supports only one of these "repository storage plugins", called FS3. This implementation stores blob data in files (up to 1 GB of blobs in each data file) and uses a SQLite database to keep track of where everything is.
We have prototypes of storage layers which keep everything in an enterprise SQL database. These kinds of things will be available from SourceGear in the future. Some of them may be proprietary rather than open source.
Veracity supports clone/push/pull between repository instances even if those instances are running different implementations of the storage layer. So for example, it would be possible for a Veracity team to run a central server which keeps a repository instance in an Oracle database (if/when we have an Oracle implementation) while configuring all the developer desktops to use FS3.
Veracity was written in C and JavaScript, and it was built with CMake, and there are binaries for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The code was open sourced under the Apache 2 license. A public repository is available for those interested to see how its client interface looks like.
There is still work to do, such as integrating it with Visual Studio and Eclipse, adding fast import/export, sub-modules, wiki and others, but Sink says Veracity's code is stable enough that future versions will be compatible with the current repository. Version 1.0 will be released during OSCON 2011 taking place in a week.
As a note, SourceGear created Vault, a Windows-centric version control system designed to replace Microsoft's SourceSafe.
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"Just as it does with file system data, Veracity's decentralized database keeps the full history of the database. Every version of every record is retained in history, with log information about who made the change and when. Veracity also supports push and pull of "database changesets", including the ability to automatically merge (at the level of a record or of a field) and resolve constraint violations."
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Mike Gale
This "late Beta" release seems squarely aimed at non-Windows / VS users. Take a look at what's needed to compile it on Visual Studio. Not terribly hard but some unexpected hoops to jump through, like loading Cygwin! I hope that version 1, just works with Visual Studio.
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Tim Ryan
I have moved all of my systems from Hg to fossil and it is great.
There are lots of innovative options out there.
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- Integrated bug tracking. This solve the common issue of de-synchronization between what's in the repository and what's described in the bug tracker.
- File locking. Might sounds like an heresy at first glance, but is VERY useful when working on assets that cannot be merged.
- Focus on large binaries from the start. While it is not mentioned in this article nor in the chart, it is something that was one of their key feature when they started Veracity. It is somehow related with the file locking, as these kind of feature are what is preventing Hg, git, bazaar on any other current DVCS to be popular in some areas, like game development.


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SAN JOSE, California (AP) — A Somali-born teenager who survived a flight to Hawaii as a stowaway in the plane's wheel well said he hopped on the closest flight that was going west in an effort to find his birth mom and can't believe he survived the journey.
Yahya Abdi, 15, spoke over Google Chat to KPIX-5 (http://cbsloc.al/1lCIvg4) in his first public comments since his improbable survival during the 5 1/2-hour flight from San Jose to Maui in April. The interview was reported on Tuesday night.
Yahya, a Somali immigrant, ran away from his California home and hopped a fence at Mineta San Jose International Airport. He crouched down in the wheel well of the Hawaiian Airlines flight and remembers covering his ears as the plane took off, he said.
"It was above the clouds, I could see through the little holes," Yahya said.
Yahya survived the flight at 35,000 feet despite low oxygen and freezing temperatures. Video footage from the Maui airport shows him dropping to the tarmac about an hour after the jet landed.
The teen said he made the decision to get on board the plane because he didn't want to live with his stepmom and wanted to find his mother, who he hasn't seen since he was seven years old. She lives in Africa.
Yahya spoke to her on the phone on Tuesday.
"I would tell her to live with me in America," he said.
His mom, Ubah Mohammed Abdule, confirmed the conversation to The Associated Press.
"He says, 'Mom, you are not dead for sure?'" Abdule told the AP. "'I thought you died in a boat trip. This is incredible news!' Then he became silent for a moment. Then he cried."
Yahya is staying at a temporary foster home. He will be a junior in high school this fall and plans to live with his aunt in the Minneapolis area, KPIX-5 reported.
Yahya has been spending his days doing normal teenage things. "I've been going to the movie theater and playing video games," he said.
Earlier this year, police said they were investigating possible criminal charges against the boy for climbing the airport fence, and that the teen was being cared for by child protective services.
The Santa Clara County Office of the Public Defender confirms it has been appointed to "advise and assist" the boy but could not explain in what capacity due to juvenile privacy rules.


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Memories, life is made of 'em.
- The spring of 1970 bringing home a jar full of polliwogs. Probably my first artist date although it would be 30 some years before I'd read the phrase and recognize it.
- Reading Jane Eyre through a rainy camping weekend.
- My first airplane trip, alone, going to Alaska to care for a friend with cancer.
- The 'club' in the late 1950's...we thought we were going to make a killing for the club kitty by selling mints out by the mail box. Those kids were all such good friends. No agendas at that age in those days.
- Cats, all my precious cats through the years.
- Hunting parties and how wet we'd get during the days and how much laughter there was at night.
- The green and cream kitchen woodstove. So beautiful. Got shoved in a pit and buried, time had moved on at the farm.
- The first time hearing a friend had died in 'Nam. Would that it had been the last.
I am reminded by this card I have memories by the millions, could finish out my days just reliving them. But no...I'll go forward, making new memories for the files, something to look forward to when there isn't any more forward going.
"Own only what you can carry with you; let your memory be your travel bag." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~ 1918-2008


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It's a video card bonanza right now. New video cards have been flying out of the doors from both ATI/AMD and Nvidia, from the 3870 X2 and 48XX series from ATI to the 9-series, and now the latest from Nvidia - the GTX 200 series. The GTX 260 is really nothing more than slightly de-tuned GTX 280; the GTX 260 uses 192 stream processors, 898MB of GDDR3 memory running at 1000MHz, and 1.4 billion transistors on the 65nm core that is clocked at 576MHz. With those credentials, the GTX 260's performance should be able to hang close to it big brother, the GTX 280. With the massive parallel computing capabilities of the Palit GTX 260, it is able to use Nvidia's CUDA technology to perform complex scientific calculations ([email protected]), as well as offload the burden of video transcoding from the CPU to the GPU. After seeing the performance of the GTX 280, and an overclocked GTX 260, you have to wonder just how a stock clocked card will perform.
If the performance of the Palit GTX 280 is any indication of the performance potential of the GTX 200 series video cards, then this looks to be another high performing example. Will the Palit GTX 260 be able to match the overclocking capabilities of the EVGA FTW edition that OverclockersClub recently reviewed? Will it be able to be pushed farther? I will have to find out.
Palit is still a newcomer to the North American market, and is still not well known by many - but this does not mean that they are a new company. They have been manufacturing motherboards and video cards for 10 years now. Palit is known for the overclocking potential of their non-reference design video cards, and providing innovative cooling solutions on the cards they build. Let's see if the Palit GTX 260 can step out from the crowd, or see if it hides in the shadow of its more powerful sibling, the GTX 280.
Closer Look:
The front panel of the box shows the Palit mascot, the Frobot (Frog Robot), along with product identification, basic specifications and the "Gamers Choice" splash logo. The rear panel elaborates on some of the specifications, including support for DirectX 10, Open GL2.01, and what drivers are included on the driver disk. This information is included in 12 different languages, and considering the global availability of Palit's products, this is needed. The side panels list very little additional information, but Windows Vista compatibility and the Frobot are shown prominently.
Popping open the hood provides little excitement. The insides are partitioned to allow the GTX 260 to stay in place, locked in a box of its own, while the bundle takes up the rest of the space.
The bundle that comes with the Palit GTX 260 is pretty slim, but what is there will allow the end user to get the card installed and functioning in just about any case. The documentation includes a quick start guide, a generic driver disk, a DVI to D-sub adapter, and last, but not least, a DVI to HDMI adapter. Unfortunately, there is not an HDMI cable provided, making this feature unavailable until you purchase the 2-pin cable.
Now, let's take a look at the GTX 260 and see what it has to offer.


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A Thursday morning fire gutted a Florence home.
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Firefighters arrived to find flames coming through a hole in the roof of the home. They fought the fire defensively from outside until the flames subsided somewhat, then went inside to knock the rest down.
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The nation's largest bank could now pay a record $13 billion to settle a raft of federal and state probes, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
Such a settlement would be an increase from the $11-billion figure under discussion three weeks ago when Jamie Dimon, the bank's chairman and chief executive, attended a high-level meeting in Washington, D.C., with Atty. Gen. Eric Holder.
Of the $13 billion, $4 billion would be set aside as relief for troubled homeowners, according to the person familiar with the matter, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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In a conference call with analysts as the bank released its third-quarter results last week, Dimon could not predict precisely when the legal costs would ebb.
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There's spanking your kids. And then there's biting them. A mom is defending herself against accusations that she bit her 2-year-old daughter on the shoulder. But her boyfriend claims she has an excuse: She was just trying to teach her daughter not to bite. That's okay, right?!?
Riiiiight. Well, here's what happened. A police officer spotted teeth marks in the shoulder of a toddler. When he confronted the mother, Christina Crandall, she said she didn't know how those teeth marks got there. But her boyfriend claimed Christina's daughter bit her first, and Christina bit her back to show her daughter how it feels. Now Christina faces charges of assault and child cruelty.
Does that seem a little severe for a little difference of opinion on the subject of parenting techniques? I've actually seen parents and caretakers do this sort of thing on the playground. Their child hits or pinches, and they pinch back and say, "See? That hurts! Don't do that!"
I guess there's a sort of logic to it. Or there would be, if the adults were doing it to other adults. But I don't even think this makes sense to toddlers. You have to remember, they don't think like we do. They're still figuring out cause and effect. What's more, they're looking to us for emotional support. If the person you love most in the world, the person your whole life depends on, HURTS you, what kind of message does that send?
Every single time I've seen an adult hit or pinch back (I've never seen actual biting, wow), I've seen the same sad look of confused betrayal in the child's eyes. NOT a look of comprehension. NOT "Ah-ha! I see now! That hurts people." And in the end, the grownup just ends up looking cruel and foolish. Not to mention -- why is it suddenly okay for you to hurt your child, but not for your child to hurt others?
I don't know that parents who hit back really need to be charged with assault and child cruelty. But come on. This is not effective parenting. This is just one adult acting childish with a child.
Do you ever hit, bite, or pinch your children back in order to teach them a lesson?
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Volume 18 Issue 16 | September 09 - 15, 2005
Irish Arts Center
553 W. 51st St.
Enters previews Sept. 8
Opens Sept. 13
Photo by Richard Chambers
Susan McConnell, left, and Claran Crawford in The Blowin of Baile Gall.
Another outsider appears on stage
By Jerry Tallmer
Eamon, an Irishman with an overload of grudges and a caustic tongue, sits on a crate at the construction site where hes employed and, at a work break, fulminates against all those feckin fugees i.e., refugees, immigrants from places like black Africa walking around our basterin town [a]nd us accommodating them with our taxes. It aint right..
Theyre not all black, says Molly, the slightly overripe but still handsome woman whom Eamon used to have a thing with, but who now favors his young fellow worker, Wild Stevee, an introspective, insecure reforming alcoholic.
Theyre all black to me, says Eamon. Ill tell you we spent eight hundred years fightin for independence, and then two years in a civil war killing ourselves because of it. I dont need no black bastards coming over here takin my job, dirtin our streets, stealin from us and sleepin with our women,
Youre some primitive, says Molly.
Primitives dont have my vocabulary, Dolleen, Eamon snaps back. And hes right. That vitriolic tongue of his is never still, never stops needling Molly, or Stevee (whom Eamon refers to as Jehovah), or G.C., the worried general contractor who is their boss and whom Eamon calls Yank for the years the man spent in the United States. Above all, Eamon has his verbal claws in Laurence, the handsome young black whom Molly has befriended and who works beside them to raise money to bring his ailing mother over from Africa.
Put these several people near one another, on and off their proprietary milk crates, give them a knife, a hammer, a sharpened trowel, some mistaken suppositions, and you have The Blowin of Baile Gall, a play by Irish-born, Boston-based 35-year-old Ronan Noone that is itself like a knife waiting, waiting, waiting to strike.
It enters previews September 8 for a Tuesday, September 13, opening under the aegis of Gabriel Byrne and the direction of David Sullivan at the Irish Arts Center on West 51st Street, hard by the Hudson River.
Blowin no apostrophe doesnt mean blowing up, or anything like that. In the west of Ireland, where playwright Noone comes from, it means something like an outsider somebody not from here. Somebody, perhaps, from Africa.
Ronan Noone, with his full head of curly black hair, and his blue-ish eyes maybe, doesnt look 35. More like 19. The reason there are so many bloody-minded Irish plays, he says, is that Ireland is such a bloody-minded place. Then he dryly appends a throwaway: Let Brian [Philadelphia Here I Come] Friel take care of the rest.
It was after a summer or two of painting houses on our own countrys Martha Vineyard that Noone went back, in 2002, for a visit to his hometown, Clifton, Ireland.
I didnt meet any people of any other nation where I grew up, he says. Its a white town.
One morning, standing at Mass, I saw this young black family, a father and his son a boy about four years of age. Not far away there was another father and son, whites, about the same age.
The black child went over to play with the white child and the white child hit him in the face. I didnt know why. Because the black child looked strange, perhaps.
Theres always the same kind of bigotry, here, there, everywhere. America more so, because its not as homogenous as Ireland. There are black immigrants all through Ireland actually.
Well, says Noone, that was the trigger. Id worked on a few building sites in my time, and I realized how people sat around on milk crates at lunch breaks and so forth. If you sat on somebody elses, they told you to get off. So these two things came together that incident in the church, and milk crates.
Ronan Noone, the son of an engineer and a mother whose job was to stay home and take care of her husband, her son, and three daughters Some job! the son murmurs in irony and awe was born April 7, 1970, in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.
While at Galway University he started free-lancing for several small-town newspapers. (Free-lancing, says the interviewer, a mugs game. Tell me about it, Noone replies.) Came to the United States to do anything but journalism and found himself bartending and writing poetry ( twas doggerel) on Marthas Vineyard.
He wrote a play, The Lepers of Baile Baiste, submitted it to Boston Universitys MFA program, where it came to the attention of Kate Snodgrass and Nobel Laureate playwright Derek Walcott.
They liked it and invited him into the program. Lepers won a National Student Playwriting Award and was done at the Kennedy Center in Washington. No, Noone wasnt in it. I never act, but I thought I could make a career out of playwriting. Like a fool, he murmurs, then quickly tacks on: Dont have me say that.
It was published by Samuel French, and it was while all that was going on that I wrote this play, The Blowin, and another
and another
and another
Just kept going. Cant tell you why.
How many plays altogether so far?
Short? Long? I guess about 20.
The characters of Blowin Eamon, Molly, Stephen, G.C., Laurence, played by Colin Hamell, Susan McConnell, Ciaran
Crawford, George Heflin, Ato Essandoh all came out of Noones own head.
How much of devilish Eamon is in you?
Well, they all are. Youve got a lot of time, winters on Marthas Vineyard, to create a lot of characters and sometimes its juicy to create a malignant character.
The character G.C. (General Contractor) is not malignant; if anything, he is gravely put upon as a Blowin, an outsider because of his years in the United States and, more cruelly yet, as a desperately non-drinking alcoholic.
Do you drink? Noone is asked.
He shrugs and touches his beer bottle.
Ronan Noone and his wife Jessica Roche met on Marthas Vineyard. They are the parents of 12-weeks-old Molly.
Named for the character in the play?
Maybe. I doubt it, says her father as he boldly sets forth to navigate a subway to West 50th Street in a large, strange city where there are more black and white faces than in Boston, Dublin, and Clifton, Ireland, all thrown together.
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Barcelona's dominant lead at the top of LaLiga and place in the Copa del Rey final means Lionel Messi seems certain to burnish his reputation as one of the all-time greats with yet more silverware this season.
However, on Tuesday at Stamford Bridge, a troubling foe comes into view for the mercurial Argentinian.
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Gained numerous water polo and swimming honors at Granite Bay High School ... A two-year starter (junior and senior) and team captain (senior) in water polo ... A first team All-San Joaquin water polo player ... Also gained all-league water polo and swim accolades ... Her efforts helped her team to the CIF San Joaquin Section Division II championship game ... Helped lead the Grizzlies to three water polo league titles, and four swimming league championships ... Also competed for the American River Water Polo Club ... Has been a part of the Olympic Development Program in Central California.
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Killer Bees LLC and Blue Ox jointly announced that Blue Ox will serve as the primary sponsor of the #96 car driven by Ben Kennedy in the NASCAR K & N Pro Series East on Thursday (April 28) in Richmond International Speedway, Richmond, Va.
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Li looking ahead after quit talk
Li Na sent a teenage prodigy packing for the second successive round at the Australian Open and then discussed this week's revelations that she considered quitting the game before Wimbledon last year.
The Chinese player ended up having the most consistent season of her career in 2013 and finished the year ranked third in the world.
But in an interview with Melbourne newspaper The Age, Li revealed she told coach Carlos Rodriguez on the way to London from Eastbourne last summer that she wanted to retire.
She decided to play at Wimbledon and see how it went, and a run to the quarter-finals persuaded her to continue.
She said: "It wasn't about how I hit the ball on the court, it was about so many things off the court. But I was really happy I did well in Wimbledon, so that's why I've continued until now. Otherwise, I don't know where I would have been now."
Li cited negative media coverage in her home country, where she is a huge star, after she was knocked out in the second round of the French Open as her principal off-court frustration.
She said: "It's not about all the Chinese media. It's some of them.
"I could say something but what they would write down in the newspaper is totally wrong. They gave me a very tough time when I played the French Open, and it continued to Wimbledon."
Those days now appear far behind Li, who certainly deserves to be regarded as a title challenger after two final appearances in Melbourne, most recently last year when she lost to Victoria Azarenka.
The fourth seed was first up on Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday against 16-year-old Swiss Belinda Bencic, having knocked out another 16-year-old, Croatian Ana Konjuh, in the first round.
Li had little trouble against Konjuh and it appeared it would be the same again but Bencic gave notice of just what a talent she is by fighting all the way before going down 6-0 7-6 (7/5).
Bencic is coached by Melanie Molitor, the mother and former coach of Martina Hingis, and Li said: "She played exactly like Martina Hingis.
"She gave me a very tough time at the end of the second set. But I was really happy in the end I could use my experience to win the match.
"If she plays more tournaments on the tour, for sure she would be very good."
Bencic beat 43-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm in round one for her first victory in the main draw at a grand slam, and she loved playing on the big stage.
"It was an amazing feeling," she said. "I always watched on TV and I always said I wanted to play there and today I played there.
"I think it was an amazing tournament. I came through qualifying, I had a tough draw, and I could win a round in the main draw. So that was awesome."
World number one Serena Williams wasted little energy in winning her second-round match 6-1 6-2 against Serbia's Vesna Dolonc.
Next up the top seed meets 31st seed Daniela Hantuchova, who needed more than three hours to see off Karolina Pliskova 6-3 3-6 12-10.
Great Australian hope Sam Stosur delighted the night session crowd on Rod Laver by thrashing Tsvetana Pironkova 6-2 6-0 and will next meet 14th seed Ana Ivanovic in the stand-out match of the third round.
Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki said she had been beaten by the heat after a surprise 2-6 6-2 6-2 loss to Monica Niculescu of Romania.
Maria Sharapova opens proceedings on Laver on Thursday against Italy's Karin Knapp, while defending champion Victoria Azarenka plays in the night session against Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.


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The Drones Danger
Update: July 31, 2017
THE PROLIFERATION of drones has moved from an "emerging threat," as I described it on this website several months ago, to an established one. There have been hundreds of close encounters between airplanes and drones at airports across the country, large and small — the FAA says it receives over a hundred reports every month — and it's perhaps just a matter of time before we see a collision.
The FAA, with its unquenchable enthusiasm for mind-paralyzing acronyms and abbreviations, now refers to all remotely piloted flying machines as UAS or "unmanned aerial systems." Whatever you call them, they're potentially lethal.
The bigger the drone, the greater the potential damage from the impact forces, shrapnel, etc. Most hobby drones weigh less than ten pounds and don't fly very high, but bigger, heavier machines are out there, and we'll be seeing more of them: paramilitary border patrol drones; police department surveillance drones; Bezos and his fleet dropping iPhones and toaster ovens from the sky. It's these larger drones that are of greatest concern. If an operator should lose control of one of these things, or it otherwise wanders into airspace it shouldn't be in, the results could be deadly — particularly if the collision were to damage the plane's control surfaces, stabilizers, tail or cockpit. A jetliner traveling at 250 miles per hour (in the U.S., that's the maximum speed when flying below 10,000 feet), hitting a 25-pound UAS creates about 40,000 pounds of impact force.
A collision with even a lightweight drone could result in serious and expensive problems. A small drone impacting an engine would be unlikely to cause a crash, but it could easily cause the failure of that engine and millions of dollars of damage. Windscreens and other components are vulnerable as well. Small drones are invisible to air traffic control and onboard radar.
Rules have been on the books from the start. For instance, it is illegal to fly a drone higher than 400 feet or within five miles of an airport. But many operators either haven't known about these regulations, or have flouted them. "The FAA's near-total ban," reads one Associated Press story, "has been ignored by operators ranging from real estate agents to farmers who use them to monitor crops." One way or another, this has to change. The FAA can't be patrolling our parks and streets, of course, so it's going to need help from local law enforcement. Ultimately, though, it's up to users policing themselves.
In 2015, the FAA enacted a mandatory registration process for all UASs weighing more than half a pound. The fee is five dollars. Will all hobbyists comply with this program? Probably not, but its purpose is less about tracking drone users than it is about creating awareness. The problem all along has been mostly one of ignorance: many users don't simply don't realize how hazardous a collision between and airplane and a drone could be. This mindset needs changing, and the registration program is a step in that direction. More than coming up with technical fixes or enforcing complex airspace rules, we need to encourage common sense.
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So let me get this straight. Nokia claims that the Nexus 7 infringes upon standard essential wifi patents, and that Asus does not have a license. How in the name of hell is it possible that Asus has been shipping a gazillion wifi-enabled products every year for god knows how long now, and only now does Nokia notice? Wait - of course. Silly me. If you can't compete, litigate. D'oh.


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SERP'12 – The 2012 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice
March 8, 2012
SERP 2012 conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations.
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DIY Decor Ideas: Fake Taxidermy Art Projects
Taxidermy is the trend that just won't die (pun intended). If you aren't into hanging real deer or other animals on your walls, how about one of these creative, cruelty-free versions instead? They skip the creepy and are mostly cute. And one last note: take my word for it and don't search for DIY taxidermy on the inter webs. Just keep your eyes on these and you'll be fine…
1. Eat Live Make riffed on classic taxidermy in this humorous ode to the bicycle.
2. From Manmade DIY comes this wooden deer silhouette art project.
3. Sugar and Charm used twigs instead of antlers.
4. Instructables shows you how to make an all wood 3D deer with a bandsaw.
5. Little House on the Corner's cardboard deer is fan-stag-tic.
6. Here's a papier maché unicorn from Lil Blue Boo.
7. Cate made a bent wire deer head for about six bucks.
8. This newspaper project from Design Sponge has some great texture.
9. A Lion's Nest created these wall mounts from store-bought papier mache deer, which she painted herself.
10. Better Homes and Gardens has a how to for making this pretty version yourself.
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X Factor judge Cheryl Cole has been hospitalised after contracting malaria.
The Geordie beauty was originally reported to have been suffering from exhaustion, but now her spokesman has confirmed she is ill with the tropical disease after being bitten by a mosquito during a trip to Tanzania.
Cheryl visited the East African nation three weeks ago with rumoured love interest Derek Hough. She did take a full course of malaria tablets, though some forms of the virus are resistant to drugs.
A friend of the singer told the Daily Mail: "Cheryl hadn't been feeling herself for about a week [after returning from holiday on June 22]. She was feeling tired and listless. This must have been the beginnings of the virus.
"During Sunday afternoon, Cheryl went downhill quickly. She was sweating and shaking and in a bad way."
The Three Words singer is now expected to spend the next few days in hospital and several weeks recovering.
"Following doctors' advice, Cheryl Cole will be cancelling all work commitments for the next week," said her rep.


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How did it end up like this?
I wish my life were as misfortunate. LOL
And I totally agree with Toma being a monster, but maybe in different meanings.
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Though Touma would say he deserves an Oscar for his acting ability.
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yeah *nods*. after vol 15 or so suddenly he have his role bigger and bigger. I can only think the editor asks the author to give hamazura more role after vol 15, only to make to aru longer and thicker(as a book).
Spoiler for vol 20, Touma's eyes:
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where do you guys get those info? I was surfing the net since vol 20 is out but still no luck. Tried 4chan but too little info. Its alright if its japanase. Though I can't read it I'll ask someone to do it
Hama isn't cool his kinda lame from skill out underling to skill out leader like for a day or two or is it even a week? To underling of ITEM too a main guy suddenly..... with lots of appearance on SS. I totally doesn't see any cool on this guy. He looks week and lame unlike Accel and Touma.
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Well, for the first time, I've been seeing 3 main male protagonists being the hero on their own separate ways: Touma for pretty much anything, Accelerator for his (beloved) brat, and Hamazura for Rikou. I can say I'm looking forward to how this works out.
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And anyway, she didn't place the blame for the massacres on the scientists, who created the experiment, nor on the administrators who approved it all and covered it up, and no, not even on Accelerator who carried them out. Mikoto placed the blame squarely on her own shoulders and bore the burden of thousands of deaths as if she herself had killed them. The issue is that Mikoto is one of those characters who is "too good". She should have hated the scientists, she should have hated the administrators, and she should have hated Accelerator, but ultimately, she only hated herself.
Despite her mask of cynicism, Mikoto is ultimately as much a starry eyed idealist as Touma. And just like him, she desperately wants to see the best in others. Having said that, could she ever trust Accelerator? Presumably we mean could she trust him to protect Last Order and the other Sisters? It would be a hard sell, to be sure unless she actually saw him risking his life for Last Order or the others. But if the explanation were to come out of Last Order's mouth rather than his, it's not all that unlikely honestly. I don't think he could, or honestly would even try, to communicate his feelings and intentions properly.
Ultimately though, this is probably all academic. The amount of time the two of them have interacted in their lifetimes is measured in minutes. And I don't really see any indication that this is going to change much. Within the scope of the series, Mikoto is a character in Touma's story, and she really isn't part of Accelerator's story.
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How do you think is going to react to the situation? "Oh!, Accelerator-kun good job for taking good care of my clones! Thank you very much!" .... I don't think so .
Meanwhile in the pther hand, putting aside her feelings, the connection between Touma and Mikoto is because of the promise he made to Etzali, protect the world around her, but for Touma with promise or without it, he always will protect the people around Mikoto and the people around the people he did'm meet yet. Thats Touma, the guy with a hero syndrome, its not like he has an interest beyond that.
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Spoiler for recent events:
As for Mikoto, even with Kamachi's promise of her playing an important role in the coming events, not to mention the memory subplot he has been setting up for several volumes, her role in the story continues to be defined by her interactions with and her relationship with Touma, rather than with the events occurring in the plot. That's simply the kind of heroine she is in the context of this story, and that's the role Kamachi has given her. While the Railgun manga ultimately exists to show the other aspects of Mikoto.
Spoiler for vol 20:
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Spoiler for hentai kamen returns:
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And while Mikoto was assigned the role of the main heroine of the science side, whenever the story focuses on Accelerator, she might as well not exist. That's why some fans occasionally joke about her being supplanted by Last Order. Though they throw similar mean spirited jokes about Itsuwa usurping Index's role though for different reasons.
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Nanjing Massacre, conventional Nanking Massacre, also called Rape of Nanjing, (December 1937–January 1938), mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, on December 13, 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II. The number of Chinese killed in the massacre has been subject to much debate, with most estimates ranging from 100,000 to more than 300,000.
The destruction of Nanjing—which had been the capital of the Nationalist Chinese from 1928 to 1937—was ordered by Matsui Iwane, commanding general of the Japanese Central China Front Army that captured the city. Over the next several weeks, Japanese soldiers carried out Matsui's orders, perpetrating numerous mass executions and tens of thousands of rapes. The army looted and burned the surrounding towns and the city, destroying more than a third of the buildings. In 1940 the Japanese made Nanjing the capital of their Chinese puppet government headed by Wang Ching-wei (Wang Jingwei). Shortly after the end of World War II, Matsui and Tani Hisao, a lieutenant general who had personally participated in acts of murder and rape, were found guilty of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and were executed.


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Medication reviews can keep you safe, save you money. What you need to know.
Drug interactions are a serious concern for individuals who are managing more than one health problem and taking multiple medications.
According to the AARP, the average senior takes four prescription medications per day, in addition to over-the-counter medications, supplements and vitamins. If this sounds familiar, it could be time your meds got a check-up.
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Exactly when and how you should take your medications
Certain prescriptions should be taken with a full glass of water or with food. Failure to do so sometimes results in side effects that might deter people from taking their prescription, says Kristen Eblen, PharmD, at Lake Regional Pharmacy.
"Certain medications may be harsh on an empty stomach," Eblen says. "If you don't eat food when you take them, it may cause nausea and dizziness. Many of these reactions can be avoided by carefully following instructions."
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What OTC drugs may be interacting with your prescriptions
It seems everyone gets allergies during certain times of the year. Often, an over-the-counter drug clears it up. But, is it OK to give that same drug to your 83-year-old father?
"Drugs are created to be powerful," Eblen says. "Even over-the-counter drugs, which means they can interact with your prescription medications. Ask you pharmacist or doctor before you take drugs not prescribed to you, even if it's just an over-the-counter allergy medication or a cough syrup."
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Some supplements can have powerful effects, too, including side effects.
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Supplements also can be expensive, especially when you don't need them. And, some of them don't work as well as others.
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Wanted: Digital-Savvy Directors
Nearly every facet of corporate life has gone digital, so corporate boards are scrambling to recruit newcomers to advise on strategies for mobile devices and social media. Joann Lublin reports. Photo: Mike Kane for The Wall Street Journal.
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