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Something is very wrong with us, and it's not bad reviews
It's so much worse than that. Something is very wrong with us, and by "us" I mean the online community of (largely) women authors and readers. What is wrong is the "outing," threatening, shaming, and silencing of readers who are perceived to be too critical of or hostile to authors. And for those in this online community who believe that this is not their concern or their harm, I would ask them to think again.
Several disturbing events targeting women have happened in the past few weeks. First is an app that allows you to beat the crap out of Anita Sarkeesian, a woman who makes videos about gaming. The app lets you beat this woman's face until it is utterly wasted from violence, as part of the male gaming community's ritual of threatening violence and rape against women who, in any way, best men in the gaming world. Then there is the story about a woman who left a comedy club after Daniel Tosh personally heckled her by suggesting she be gang raped when she vocally objected to one of his rape jokes. An incident featuring Eddie Griffin and a woman he is now referring to as a "dyke bitch" has just hit the news.
What all of these incidents have in common is the targeting of women for stepping out of the lines behind which we have historically been expected to stay – to refrain from criticism of men, to refrain from being outspoken, authoritative, aggressive, assertive, self-confident, brazen, in control, more competent than men, etc. And in each case, implicit or explicit threats are utilized as a means to scare women back behind those lines. Whether it's being raped, beaten, or publicly exposed to ridicule, silencing, harassment, or shaming, each of these situations presents an invitation to violence, both to the women involved, and, by extension, to others who act out in ways that violate some behavioral code to which women are expected to adhere – polite, demure, uncritical, nurturing, etc.
Add to the mix the new website devoted to outing and threatening certain readers accused of being "bullies" on Goodreads. [note: I am linking to author and blogger Foz Meadows's post on the site, so as not to drive more traffic there. If you are also concerned about this, I suggest using only Google cached links]. Although there was a similar incident on Goodreads that has created a strong suspicion of the website's owner, there is a public assertion of anonymity that makes the outing particularly and perversely disturbing, as are the claims of justice and accountability. How is what this website is doing to female readers a whole lot different than the incidents I recounted above? Short answer: it isn't. It is part of a larger pattern of making women feel physically unsafe by exposing them to the threat and the possibility of actual violence, even if the person doing the threatening isn't doing physical violence him/herself.
We have seen this kind of behavior before in the online Romance community. Remember when DeborahAnne MacGillivray went full-force against a reader? Or Victoria Laurie's aggression toward a reader and a blogger? Jane Litte has her own personal harasser, an author who used very similar tactics to somehow get Jane to be "nicer." In the SF/F community, Will Shetterly found himself in hot water a few years ago when he outed a LiveJournal blogger with whom he had disagreed. And let's not forget the "Dixieland Mafia" incident involving a group of published authors who managed to hunt down the personal info of an aspiring author who had left a negative review of one of their books on Amazon.
Note that one main similarity among these examples is that it's authors (public figures with books for commercial sale) going after readers (private figures who are responding to a commercial product), not the other way around (and while reader allies of authors might be involved in the GR site, I don't think anyone believes a reader would be that invested in authors to take such a risk and spend so much time and energy on a site like that). And by "going after," I don't mean leaving a snotty comment about a book or about a comment an author left on Goodreads to a reader's review or comment. What I mean by "going after" is pursuing the reader beyond the online exchanges, attempting to shut the reader up by threatening and or exposing their off-line life to danger and the possibility of violence or other unhinged aggression by crossing a hard, bright line away from snarky online exchange to real life stalking.
What could possibly be okay about that?
First, there is the accusation of bullying. When the GRB site put up banners of anti-bullying organizations, the organizations asked them to take the banners down. That is a decisive cut against GRB's definition of bullying. As bloggers like Foz Meadows have pointed out
. . . bullying is not a synonym for argument, disagreement or pejorative reactions. Bullying is not a synonym for disliking someone, or for thinking their work is rubbish. Bullying is not even a synonym for saying so, publicly and repeatedly, in a place where that person can hear it – although that's certainly unpleasant. Bullying is when someone with a greater position of power and/or possessed of greater strength repeatedly and purposefully attacks, harasses, belittles and/or otherwise undermines someone in a position of lesser power and/or possessed of lesser strength. In the vast majority of circumstances, bullying trickles down; it does not travel up, and in instances where the author in question is a super-successful megastar, to say they're being bullied by reviewers is to ignore the fundamental power-dynamics of bullying. Even on the Goodreads system, where authors can see exactly what readers and reviewers think of them, expressing a negative opinion is not the same as bullying, because although the conversation is visible, it's not directed at the author; they are under no obligation to respond, or even to read it at all. Feeling sad and overwhelmed because people don't like your book and have said so publicly might constitute a bad day, but it's not the same as being bullied.
Bullied individuals cannot just walk away from the bullying, because, for example, someone has posted their personal information online in tacit or explicit invitation for nasty pursuit. Bullying looks like this or this. It is not justice of any kind, let alone an eye for an eye, to do what is being done on the GR Bullies site. To make that association is to create a false equivalence.
And we should know better.
I say "we" here because I've seen a surprising number of comments online suggesting that what the GRB site is doing is fine and dandy, and that the readers being targeted deserve it, somehow. And we, as a community of women who can amass how many thousands of comments on the ethics of accepting ARCs and exchanging tweets with authors, or the real life effects of reading about forced sex, should know better than to stand for something that so obviously and intentionally targets and imperils the real life safety and security of other women. This is not the time to be sympathetic to people "getting sick of the high road," or suggesting that "the two parties should fight amongst themselves and everyone else stay out of it." There is no reasonable justification for statements like "I, for one, am happy that there is a group of people who have called attention to the viciousness of a mob," nor the passive posting of a link to the GRB site by someone in the guise of objective reporting (and could Jane's recent email asking him not to post vast swaths of her blog content without permission or substantive comment of his own have influenced his GRB post?). The door to inviting, inciting, sanctioning, or providing a means for violence against women who have stepped out from behind the politeness veil has been kicked open, and it is changing the way we can talk about the reader – author relationship. When you really stop to think about what's going on at the GRB site, even comments like this can feel potentially threatening and aggressive: "Read some of the blog posts there and then tell me those people don't deserve to be outed."
We should be better than this.
While many, many authors and readers have spoken out against the bullying that is going on at the GRB site, we, as a community, should know better than to think that just because we may, as individuals, dislike others in the community, that talking smack about a book and/or an author's public persona is in any way equivalent to hunting down someone's public information, posting it online (or threatening to), and inviting any and all sorts of real life harassment of those individuals and their families, co-workers, dogs and cats, etc. Why would someone do that if not to make the targeted individual feel unsafe at every level? Would it be okay if readers started combing through the copyright records looking for authors' real names, and then hunting down and posting as much private information as possible, gleefully using words like "justice" and "bullying" to rile up other readers against those outed authors? Because that is much more akin to bullying, and it's equivalent to what GRB is doing to readers.
And it is already doing harm to the community as a whole, including authors who are not involved in the site. It is confusing the exchange of opinions and the writing of reviews with actual violence, making it even more difficult to have reasonable conversations about reviewing and the role of criticism more generally. It sowing seeds of suspicion toward authors about where they stand and how far they might go to silence critical readers. And beyond the obvious ramifications around readers feeling afraid to post honest opinions and reviews of books, it is generating hostility toward authors and readers who are offering equivocal opinions about how readers need to be slapped back or quasi-supportive comments about the goals of the GRB site (sometimes without having ever seen the site). And the last thing this collective online community needs is more unbridled hostility. Or more revenge outing.
As a community, we should not "stay out of it" or use our own personal dislikes as a justification for totally unjustifiable behavior. We don't need to like the readers who are being targeted or agree with what they're doing. We can think it's crappy or out of line or undesirable. However, none of those thoughts could ever logically lead to an endorsement of literally targeting these readers for harassment. Can you imagine what a world created entirely from the logic that brands the GRB site as "justice" would look like? It would be incoherent and unlivable. It would obliterate the most basic social contract not to inflict intentional, undeserved harm on one another. It would be pure violent chaos.
And we can do better than that. We need to do better than that, not just to protect the integrity of the books and the book-talk, but to protect ourselves as women from even more vulnerability than we already face. Because, in the end, what this is really about is not reviews or criticism or Goodreads message boards, but threatening, punishing, and silencing women. And it's not okay; it's never okay.

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Reports linking Hungarian side Debrecen with match-fixing are merely raking over old ground, the club said in a statement on Tuesday.
Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported that Debrecen's 2009 Champions League group match against Liverpool was among 680 suspicious games being investigated by European anti-crime agency Europol, who announced details of its probes on Monday.
A spokesman for Liverpool, who the newspaper report stressed is not under suspicion, said they had not heard from Europol or any other agency regarding the match at their Anfield home.
The Danish report said match-fixers intended to rig the betting market for total goals in the European club clash, which Liverpool won 1-0, and targeted Debrecen's Montenegrin goalkeeper Vukasin Poleksic.
Debrecen, however, said these allegations have already been dealt with by European soccer's governing body UEFA and Poleksic was given a two-year ban in 2010 for failing to report approaches from alleged fixers ahead of matches against Liverpool and Serie A side Fiorentina in Hungary.
Debrecen said that neither the club nor the player would react to the latest reports and chose instead to republish a statement they issued in 2010.
"In the view of the UEFA Disciplinary Committee, Vukasin Poleksic failed to comply with his duties when he did not report to Debrecen that before two Champions League matches unknown people tried to persuade him to influence the result," the statement read.
"The investigation revealed that Poleksic rejected the requests. Furthermore, the probe found that the matches were not influenced by anything connected with the bribery.
"But the player committed an error by failing to inform the authorities immediately, therefore he was punished for not meeting the reporting requirement."
The case came before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in 2011 when Poleksic's team mate Norbert Meszaros, who played against both Liverpool and Fiorentina, had his own 18-month ban for the same offence overturned.
CAS annulled the suspension imposed on Debrecen's Meszaros after deciding there was not enough evidence to suggest he had breached UEFA regulations. However, CAS maintained a two-year ban on Poleksic for failing to report the approach.
CAS said there was no evidence that matches had been manipulated.


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EMan32 wrote:xbaywarrior wrote:sfsfsfgiants wrote:xbaywarrior wrote:Ohhh. I'll look at DeVon Hardin from Cal.
You fricken homer...
Seriously, though, Hardin is a great player. I remember him in high school. He was a HUGE name player around here.
I like Hardin. I'm glad he decided to come back for his final year at Cal. Still don't think he's a first rounder, though. Maybe late first rounder-early second. Idk, though. I need to scout his game more before I say more.
i think he's gonna be a first rounder...might be a little of my bias in my opinion considering he is one of my friends, but as far as talent goes i think he could definitely be at LEAST a late first rounder. he's actually projected as one of the top 10 big men expected to enter this upcoming draft. but of course the PAC 10 isnt exactly known for its big men. it would be great to see DeVon in a warrior uniform tho. id buy it as soon as it hit the store, assuming he couldnt hook me up
I think deciding to come back for a 4th season, his senior year, was a great move and it may do him well for the NBA.


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The most dynamic visual representation of tomahawk combat in modern times is probably the electrifying rescue sequence in The Patriot, in which Mel Gibson turns a detachment of British soldiers into hamburger.
This portrayal of tomahawk fighting is as elegant as it is ugly, equal parts martial art and straightforward butchery. I suspect the reality was a lot more grab-and-hack and less Jackie Chan.
One account of a tomahawk in action—or about to be put into action—comes from the pension application of Charles Bowen, who fought at King's Mountain. During the battle, Bowen somehow heard that his brother Reese had been killed in action. As he tried to find him, he came across his own captain, dead or dying from a shot to the head. At that point, something in Bowen apparently snapped.
Making his way to a spot "within fifteen or twenty paces of the enemy" and taking cover behind a tree, Bowen shot down a Tory who was attempting to raise a flag of surrender. He was reloading when Col. Benjamin Cleveland approached him and demanded he give the countersign, which was "Buford" (after the commander of a Virginia unit defeated by British dragoons earlier that year). Bowen couldn't come up with the word, perhaps because he was still in some kind of a berserk rage, so Cleveland assumed he was a Tory. Here's Bowen's recollection of what happened next, as transcribed and amended at revwarapps.org:
Col Cleveland instantly leveled his rifle at Declarant's breast and attempted to fire, but the Gun snapped. Declarant jumped at Cleveland seized him by the collar, drew his tomahawk, and would have sunk it in Cleveland's head if his arm had not been arrested by a soldier by the name of Beanhannon [sic, Buchanan?], who knew the parties. Declarant immediately recollected the countersign which was "Blueford," [sic, Buford] named it and Cleveland dropped his gun and clasped Declarant in his arms.
There's nothing fancy about what Bowen was about to do; he simply "seized him by the collar, drew his tomahawk, and would have sunk it in Cleveland's head." If this was typical of tomahawk combat, then that scene from The Patriot is probably too elaborate on the choreography, even though it gets the raw brutality exactly right.


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|2012-12-16, 02:08
|Link #1021
Truth Martyr
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 32
Firstly, it's Koko.
Secondly, even if the world's armies attempt to mobilize against Koko, to do so they will need mobilisation irders, op orgers, FRAGOs, logistics support requests. How ate these going to be transmitted by? Computer, using military networks. Who has a quantum computer that can access these networks and tamper with these orders?
That's right, Koko.
Tl;dr, nobody can move against Koko because when they order their armies to move, Koko uses Jormungand to rewrite the orders. In the short term, she's untouchable.
|2012-12-16, 08:04
|Link #1022
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
In the long term (a few weeks) they can get a few hundred people to South Africa.
No, scratch that. In the long term (a few days, or maybe a few hours) they can make a deal with the armed forces that are already there and kill Koko and her, what, nine bodyguards?
She isn't on the moon. You don't need thousands of people with rare equipment. So, while unusual, the logistics problems are far from unsurmountable.
Unless Jormungand's on a ship in the middle of nowhere. With satellites working against them, they'd never find it.
|2012-12-16, 08:33
|Link #1023
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Guys, there's no solid confirmation that her Q-comp is in South Africa. It's only the CIA that even has a remote guess that it's there. No one is going to deploy forces or nukes against her there if they can't even confirm it's there. They're more likely guessing it's with all the satellites launched for Hek-GG.
They'd have to send the orders to move the troops. By intercepting communications, she'd force and deployed forces at sea to navigate to a port first then somehow communicate back home. No way anyone can deploy against her for weeks.
That's assuming they can confirm the computer is in South Africa.
|2012-12-16, 08:33
|Link #1024
Join Date: Sep 2006
But what about the good old M.A.D. doctrine? Mutually Assured Destruction.
Koko's perfectly OK with killing three quarters of a million people in flight. If country X launches an attack on her, you think she'll have qualms about reducing their capital city into a pile of rubble? Just for starters?
It's also possible that the satellites are part of a distributed computer system, so to take down Jormungand would involve downing a large number of satellites.
There's a lot more to the plan than just downing all airborne vessels, I think.
|2012-12-16, 08:59
|Link #1025
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Whether the computer's in South Africa or not, she is, and so is her factory.
The South African army has more than 30000 people in it, and they don't have a long way to go. They'll be just as out for blood as the rest of the world.
As for fear of retaliation... What's she gonna do? Ground every plane, twice?
|2012-12-16, 09:26
|Link #1026
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Think of it like a country with: is it worth it to mobilize what little active forces you have against a hard to reach target, with no guarantee that it's actually your target? And Koko can move. She's not stuck in SA. Her flight/naval assets are fully operational.
Okay, assume they confirm it's the factory and 30,000 SA army peeps got down there, assume the orders to hire the SA army get through, and assume the order from the SA commanders to their troops don't get intercepted and redirected, then Koko deploys her predator drones and bombs the army to pieces. She certainly has them 'cause if she can deploy a drone on unfriendly territory near Cuba, she can deploy on home ground. Let's also assume she doesn't hire a personal PMC, of which there are probably plent of in SA, to help fight too.
Retaliation? That's a nice stock market you have there. It would be a shame if it suddenly got wiped. Electronic hospital records? It says little Susie Evans is a 87 year old man with incontinence and no penicillin alergy. Production Factories? How come my Ohio GM production line isn't making cars, but dancing around to the tune of Portal 2's "Exile Vilify?" Personal computers? Senator Lamar Smith and all his staff's work and home computers have all suddenly been bricked. That's probably sufficiently threatening if you target the right people or a good amount of people.
|2012-12-16, 10:30
|Link #1027
Join Date: Oct 2009
So uhh, did she not realize that we had two world wars with aircraft that had next to no 'computers' that could be hacked?
Unless she has stockpiled a huge amount of drones, like decades worth, I don't see how it's feasible to maintain the no air travel rules.
I guess should could bomb manufacturing plants, but that would completely destroy infrastructure which would go against the whole keeping the world as it is (the one Jonah mentioned he loved).
|2012-12-16, 10:49
|Link #1028
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
And against someone who just killed 700000 people and threatens the world with more to come? Yes, it's worth it. No sacrifice is too great, unless you're the one getting sacrificed. (Meaning SA wouldn't nuke itself even if it was a nuclear power, but for every other country that option would totally be on the table.)
For that matter, how is she going to pay them? Just her threat effectively destroyed our banking system.
Killing 700000 people and threatening the rest of the world with more? It just means she has to do down as fast as possible. Worry about picking up the pieces of her rampage once she's dead and her computer destroyed or seized.
And worst case scenario: people learn to do without open electronic networks. It'll suck, but that's how we've done for most of our history. What they won't do is give up on killing Koko and taking back... well, late 20th and early 21st century technology. That's what this is about.
|2012-12-16, 23:09
|Link #1031
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tesla Leicht Institute
Age: 28
|2012-12-17, 00:34
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Hiding Under Your Bed
Join Date: May 2008
As entertaining as it is to speculate on the feasibility of Koko's plan (personally, I think it's completely unfeasible and in RL she'd be dead within a week, or so on the run she may as well be, but I digress), I'm fairly sure at this juncture that the details don't matter and what does is whether or not Jonah proves to be the healing tonic Koko's shattered psyche needs to return to becoming a functional member of society.
The easy answer is yes, he'll bring her back over the edge of insanity, but I really hope they don't go for the easy answer. I wouldn't bet on it, but I do hope.
We've presumably got two more episodes left, and while the short preview didn't really give much away that couldn't be taken wildly out of context, I'm going to guess that it's mostly the world reacting to Koko's plan, prior to the final episode which will actually get around to making the decision on whether Koko's "conscience" ala Jonah wins out, or all the pent up pain and rage she's accumulated over the years living the twisted life she has.
On another note, if Koko is ready to implement her plan already, what was the point of springing the chic from the Americans?
Or is there a third season coming up and I'm totally wrong in the assumption that this plot is going to have to be wrapped up in two more episodes? :/
It could certainly go on and on, as it's obvious she's pulled the rug out from under her own family as well, and we haven't even met the father, who's probably the source of all sorts of therapy-requiring issues in both his children.
|2012-12-17, 06:39
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
That 700k is a one-time thing from the plane crashes. After that, nobody flies and no more body count from her unless you're dumb enough to fly on compromised networks.
As for Jonah, well that's a storyline thing. While Koko has trusted him explicitly, she knew, he knew, and we all knew he wasn't that loyal to her and that he has his own conscience. She chose to expose herself that way for her own reasons.
You're thinking too small of a scale. Both Russia and the USA had each other's countries hostage for ages with nuclear arms. MAD doctrine ensured that neither struck. They nuke her, and while the nukes are in-bound, she wipes them out. So just like the cold war, neither will want to strike. I bet that if she wipes them pre-emptively, they'll launch a few weeks later if they're feeling bold; that preserves the MAD aspect.
|2012-12-17, 16:25
|Link #1034
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
And as I've explained, her very existence means the world is stuck in a bad place. Just keeping breathing isn't the worst thing she can do to the world, but it's close enough that the difference won't matter.
More than that, you think the world can pretty much keep existing while she has that sword of Damocles above the world. I think the only way forward is over her dead body.
BTW, it's not like even a quantum computer can't break the One Time Pad, or gain access to a physically closed network, so it's not like they'll be completely disarmed.
|2012-12-20, 16:12
|Link #1037
Radical Dreamer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Washington DC
overall, i loved this episode. and OMG I'm soo attracted to Koko right now.. Jonah!!! is too lucky!!! But women like Koko are my type I guess.
|2012-12-20, 23:30
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: gs series
Age: 29
ep.11 perfect order
so koko even more why she doing this plan cause of dislike of war, killing, etc want to change it all give doing for the reasons it cause johan to swim away from koko.
yet after swim here kasper little talk with johan with more wonder to asking for answer so johan hang around with kasper.
& koko let show here plan having bookman witness it all being like a test subject that koko's plan is about having bookman meet rebel then rescue by marines & seeing it happen so amaze indeed bookman is also a koko's person.
1ep left to see how it all plan.
|2012-12-22, 03:20
|Link #1039
Hiding Under Your Bed
Join Date: May 2008
Looks like Koko cuts her hair for the next episode. I liked it long.
I wonder if Lehm works for Koko, or works for her father (and similarly, Chiquita in regards to Koko's brother).
Because, if I had one more episode left and was in charge of this story, I'd end it with Jonah deciding Koko is right, going back to her, Koko smiling and putting her plan into full gear, and then Lehm quietly shooting Koko. He then lights a cigarette, we get flash-reaction face shots from everybody, and credits. Last few seconds after the credits roll, still shot of Koko's father in his lair of evil, muttering something about a foolish girl.
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Congress Gives NSA-Controlled US Cyber Command More Resources
from the keep-feeding-the-beast dept
However, Congress has just agreed to funnel a lot more resources to the US Cyber Command, giving Keith Alexander and his soon-to-be-announced successor that much more power to attack computer systems and networks around the globe.
As part of the defense policy bill that just passed Congress, the Pentagon's many cybersecurity initiatives together secured billions of dollars in funding as well as new resources to help train Cyber Command's programmers and prepare them to operate on the emerging digital battlefield.Of course, as the report by Tony Romm notes, this is all being done despite no "rules of engagement" for the US Cyber Command. You would think that before handing over billions, Congress would like to know what the group -- again, controlled by the NSA -- can and cannot do with that money.


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This weekend Hollywood was again unable to lure teens to the multiplex in droves, as "Ender's Game" became the latest young adult adaptation to open with modest ticket sales.
The pricey sci-fi flick debuted with a so-so $28 million, according to an estimate from Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment, which distributed the movie. While the opening is far from disastrous -- it's actually $5 million more than industry predictions suggested -- it still isn't great given that the studio was likely hoping "Ender's Game" would launch a successful Y.A. franchise.
Meanwhile, in somewhat of a surprise, Johnny Knoxville's hidden-camera prank flick "Bad Grandpa" was the weekend's runner-up. After debuting at No. 1, the film saw its ticket sales tumble only 36% this weekend to $20.5 million, raising the picture's 10-day tally to $62.1 million.
PHOTOS: 'Ender's Game' premiere in Los Angeles
Heading into the weekend, pre-release audience surveys indicated the 3-D animated movie "Free Birds" would easily top the comedy "Last Vegas." Instead, the latter film starring Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Kevin Kline and Michael Douglas came in just ahead of the family film with $16.5 million -- a healthy start given its modest $28-million budget. "Free Birds," which cost $55 million to make, opened with $16.2 million.
Based on Orson Scott Card's bestselling 1985 novel, "Ender's Game" stars 16-year-old newcomer Asa Butterfield as a boy attempting to protect mankind from aliens. Though the movie is aimed at teenagers, it attracted an older crowd this weekend as 54% of the audience was over the age of 25. Those who saw the film assigned it an average grade of B+, according to market research firm CinemaScore. Even if the movie generates positive word-of-mouth, it will still have to contend next weekend with the sequel "Thor: The Dark World," which is expected to be a big hit.
"The real key to the success of the movie is going to be how we hold next weekend," acknowledged Richie Fay, Lionsgate's president of domestic distribution. "But if we can survive against 'Thor,' I think we'll be in good shape."
The movie is the latest in a series of films made for the under-18 crowd that have failed to connect at the box office. In the wake of the massively popular "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" franchises, "The Hunger Games" has been one of the only young adult novel adaptations to work at the multiplex. (The next entry in the "Hunger Games" series, "Catching Fire," is set to hit theaters with a possible $150 million opening on Nov. 22.) This summer, the second installment in the "Percy Jackson" series grossed just $67.3 million in the U.S. and Canada -- roughly $20 million less than the first film collected domestically in 2010. Other Y.A. casualties have included "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," "The Host" and "Beautiful Creatures," none of which ultimately made it above $32 million.
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"Ender's Game" cost a pretty penny to produce -- about $110 million, co-financed by OddLot Entertainment, the visual effects company Digital Domain and Summit. However, the financiers insist that international pre-sales took care of the majority of the film's production costs, meaning they would not have much on the line financially.
While "Ender's Game" played to an older-than-expected demographic, "Last Vegas" resonated with exactly the crowd distributor CBS Films anticipated: the AARP set. About 83% of moviegoers were over the age of 25, and 47% were over 50. Though critics loathed the movie, filmgoers enjoyed it, giving the film an average A- grade.
Financed by CBS and Good Universe, "Last Vegas" follows four older gentlemen who travel to Sin City for a bachelor's party. The movie played best in the South -- where Freeman's movies are often popular -- and the Midwest: On Saturday, the movie sold more tickets at a theater in Oklahoma City than any other venue in the country.
"We always thought this would be a fly-over movie because movies about Vegas -- which is a destination holiday location -- tend to do better in middle America," said Steven Friedlander, executive vice president of theatrical distribution for CBS Films.
As for "Free Birds," the movie is the first partnership between Relativity Media and Reel FX Animation Studios. The movie is the first in a slate of planned low-budget animated films to come from the two companies.
The movie follows two turkeys (voiced by Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson) who are attempting to save their kind from ending up as Thanksgiving dinner. Given the film's subject matter, Relativity is hopeful the movie will play well over Turkey Day. Though the movie didn't get off to a fantastic start, it earned an average grade of A- from moviegoers, and no other films for little kids are slated to be released until Nov. 27.
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HEART OF GOLD: Ending date for entries extends
COLUMBIA CITY — The deadline for submitting nominations for the Whitley County Community Foundation's Heart of Gold award has been extended to Wednesday.Continuing an 18-year tradition, the Whitley County Community Foundation will host the annual Heart of Gold Awards in celebration of the people in the community who give of themselves to make life a little better for others."Whitley County is a great place to live and work thanks to the many thoughtful people who call it home," said Chelsey Barrell of the Whitley County Community Foundation.Anyone's neighbors, friends or coworkers may be among those who deserve to be recognized. Any person living in Whitley County, regardless of age, who enhances another's life is eligible to be nominated.Whitley County residents may nominate someone for a Heart of Gold Award simply by filling out a nomination form which can be found at businesses throughout the community, public libraries or at the Whitley County Community Foundation.People who have been nominated in years past are eligible for nomination again in 2013, as long as they are recognized for a different act of kindness.To read the rest of this story, see the Oct. 18 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.


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The IT Plant, Air Plant
I just finished up work on the big Dwell on Design show coordinating the outdoor section and working closely with a lot of plant people (nice people!). I was struck by the amount of air plants (or Tillandsia) that were used throughout the show and as accessories in modern interiors. Could Air Plants be the new Terrariums?
Tillandsia can grow without soil and with little water (though they like humidity and do not like direct sun). You can keep them alive by either misting them or soaking them once a month. I loved seeing a bunch of air plants as accessories in a bowl on a table and, in a more dramatic play, as an ethereal sculpture in the center of the Outdoor Section (see images 3-5). The Tillandsia shower at Dwell on Design was concepted by Shades of Green, a landscape architecture firm in Sausalito.
Because they're so hardy, they could definitely vie for a place in our list of foolproof plants that can almost survive the dark. And if you're looking for a place to buy them, check out the online shop, Rainforest Flora.
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Patriot Viper II Sector 7 PC3 14400 Cas 9 6GB Review
The Intel Core i7 architecture was launched back in November of 2008. With that launch, memory manufacturers had to search for modules that would run the speeds we need, while still meeting the 1.65v maximum voltage to the modules, or .15 over JEDEC spec for DDR3 modules. This is to preserve the integrated memory controller so it did not suffer the same fate as the A64 chips from AMD when the memory was over-volted. Of course slapping 3.0+ volts through some BH-5 modules has its advantages when you are shooting for world records, but for everyday use, something more realistic was in order. When Intel's latest micro architecture was launched, we looked at a set of Patriots Viper Series modules rated at 1333Mhz with timings of 9-9-9-24. Fast-forward a couple years and latencies have dropped dramatically, with speeds trending ever higher while still keeping at, or slightly above Intel's 1.65v guidance. Just last month, Patriot rolled out a 4GB set of Sector 5 modules for use on a P55 based platform that came out the door running at 2500Mhz. No small feat in itself running speeds this high. The Sector 7 modules are the logical progression up from the Sector 5 series and are for use with the X58 platform. Let's see if this 6GB set of memory from Patriot performs under the gun.
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This set of Patriot Sector 5 modules comes in a package sized to fit all three of the modules. A color change from red on the Sector 5 packaging to blue on the Sector 7 modules. The front of the package shows the design of the Sector 7 modules the part number and rated speed and a 25th anniversary graphic celebrating 25 years in operation. The rear identifies this set of modules as part of the Viper series of modules, lists free technical support as a feature, lists the addresses and method of contact for its main facilities. On the bottom left is the mention of the lifetime warranty on this set of modules. Inside the package, you get the traditional blister pack style of packaging. This method seems to hold the modules firmly in place preventing any damage.
The Patriot Sector 7 modules are part of Patriots Extreme Performance Enhanced Latency line up with each module hand tested before it leaves the factory. Each set of modules are built using pre-sorted IC's to make sure these modules stand up to the rigors of use by the overclocker or enthusiast. This set of modules carries part number PV736G1800ELK and are built to run at PC3 14400 speeds or 1800Mhz with timings of 9-9-9-27 using 1.65 volts and carries an XMP profile for this configuration. Where this series of modules differs from the Viper series is in the construction of the heat sinks used on the modules. The original Viper Series modules used an AOC (Aluminum on Copper) heat shield that utilized the benefits of both Aluminum and copper to deliver excellent cooling to the dram chips. The Viper II series uses and extruded aircraft aluminum heatshield to keep the modules cool. When I tested the Sector 5 modules I found the heat shields to be effective at transferring the heat from the IC's to be dissipated by the airflow around the modules.
The new heat shield should offer cooling benefits, but how does that transfer into real performance numbers?


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Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ (RB) Review
As in every market, there are trends. Heatsink manufacturers offer variations of designs seen on other heatsinks - some performing better and some worse. Not all heatsinks are designed with the same use in mind – some are low profile, some are silent, even inexpensive, and some aim to cool the best no matter how big or bulky! The behemoth this review focuses on – the Titan Fenrir – sets its sights for high performance cooling. Fenrir is a wolf in Norse mythology that is said to kill the lead god Odin during Ragnarok. This cooler is definitely geared to put up some competition, but we'll see how well it holds up to the name!
Titan was founded in 1989 Taiwan originally as Sogic Computer Co. The name change occurred in 1992; Titan currently employs approximately 1200 people at its two factories in China. The company aims to provide the best cooling solutions to its customers, looking to become the best computer cooling solutions provider.
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The front of the box is decorated with a menacing face hovering over the name Fenrir in bold red, model number TTC-NK65TZ (RB), with Core i7, Core 2, and AMD X4 badges to the right. Underneath, it proudly proclaims that it can handle quad cores. The clamshell packaging is fairly sturdy, and the detailed inserts are good looking. The bottom has six pictures with the general features of this heatsink; 17dBA operation, 160W thermal load, universal socket support, PWM function, 8mm heat pipes, and 12cm fan. The rear side has pictures that focus on different aspects of the heatsink, such as the heatpipe direct touch, U-shaped heatpipe design, and Fenrir totem. The features section reiterates the main points with a little more detail, and is also repeated underneath in eight different languages.
The right side goes in depth about the fan specifications; 120x120x25mm, 12V, 800-2200 RPM +/- 10%, 33.2 ~ 78.41 CFM, 0.02~0.11 Inch H20 static pressure, <17.2~39dBA, Z-axis bearing, with 60,000 hour lifetime. Continuing on is a guide for CPU support, which lists in detail the CPUs that are definitely supported by this heatsink. The other side shows the included accessories – an adapter to convert the four-pin PWM fan into a three-pin connection, allowing the fan to operate at 1300 RPM, and Royal Grease thermal paste with thermal resistance of 0.032*C/W.
The top of the heatsink is clearly visible through the clamshell packing, with the Fenrir totem adorning the top fin. The sides are all angled and the fins are all stamped with the Titan logo and designs on the sides. The rear has the Titan logo, and company website address for more information.
After cutting the sides off of the packaging, the heatsink is revealed, along with a small box and foldout guide. With the heatsink removed, the fan is seen protected by another fitted plastic mold.
Once the molding is removed, the fan is easily taken out. The fan is stamped Titan TFD-12025H12ZP 12V 0.32A, with the reverse side being fitted with a sticker of the Titan logo, 12V specification, and bordered with a sunny theme. The blades are painted chrome, and the plastic casing is painted a dark gunmetal color. The sleeves are highly flexible, and a tag states that it is RoHS compliant.
With the fan and packaging out of the way, the small cardboard box and foldable installation manual are easily accessed. The guide gives installation instructions the sockets in nine languages, and folds into a very small sheet.
Inside the small white cardboard box are the mounting plates and bracket; also included are washers and standoffs for Sockets LGA 1366, AM2, 939, and LGA 775. The i7 kit is stand alone, while the AMD and Intel LGA 775 share a double sided and insulated mounting plate. Royal Grease thermal paste, fan mount wires, and four-pin PWM to three-pin adapter round off this kit, allowing for most users to be ready out of the box. The completed i7 LGA 1366 mounting hardware consists of the grooved mounting plate, which increases strength and helps keep it from flexing, i7-only bracket, and four thumb fasteners.
The insulated mounting plate's AMD side has three prongs on each side, and is tacked in two spots per side onto the Intel plate, which is also insulated. The insulation is simple black plastic, which is held in place thanks to an adhesive. Each branch has a channel running its length to reinforce the plates, helping to maximize the material's strength. The included thermal paste from Titan named Royal Grease appears to contain around a tenth of a CC of paste, hopefully enough for an application or two, although the cap is flimsy.
With everything unpackaged, let's get a closer look at the Fenrir heatsink!


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Webgame Wednesday: The Saddest Little Zombie
Writer Douglas Clegg and artist Glenn Chadbourne managed to combine zombies and Christmas with their morbidly endearing picture book The Saddest Little Zombie. Now you can play a video game version of the book. It's a simple "spot the difference" game, but the "point and click" interface is quite intuitive and the illustrations delightfully detailed. Who doesn't want a little mistletoe and intestines for the holiday? Ho, ho, ho! The horror. The horror.


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Union Leader: Kuster launches 'Holiday Cards for Heroes'
Dec 12, 2013
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CONCORD — Congresswoman Annie Kuster yesterday announced that she has launched a "Holiday Cards for Heroes" drive at schools in the Second District to help honor New Hampshire's veterans during the holiday season.
Elementary students at participating schools in Nashua and Concord — as well as other interested schools throughout the second district — will make holiday cards for veterans to thank them for their service .
Members of Kuster's staff will pick up cards from participating schools.
Kuster, who is a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, will personally deliver the cards to veterans at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton later this month.
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All this is really an effort to find boots that are compatible with crampons, yet not so heavy that they interfere with the rest of the trip.
"Crampon compatible" has usually meant two things to me: 1) high enough so the ankle strap doesn't make mince meat out of my leg, and 2) stiff enough that when I use rigid strap-on crampons, I don't "walk out" of the crampons as the boot flexes. I've tried wearing crampons with low-cuts, and it just kills my ankles. I've also walked out of my crampons a few times, and boy that is not a good feeling.
I thought that I might be able to get by with flexi-crampons on "soft" boots. The only flexis that I've tried with my normal approach shoes (camp fours by 5.10), were the grivel monte rosas. But the plastic toe binding was so narrow that it was essentially incompatible with 5.10 approach shoes-- it was painful to wear the combo. Too bad, since the Monte Rosas are light.
The compromise is exemplified by my last Sierra trip, 11 days back: Sill from Elinore Lake, via the North (L-shaped) couloir. I wore the Garmont Vetta Hikers, which are not really grippy, but are otherwise supportive and good for boulder-hopping. We basically trudged and boulder-hopped up from Elinore. When we reached the bottom of the L-couloir, we strapped on crampons for a relatively short trip up, before we were on rock again. The couloir averages only ~40 degrees, and it seems a little goofy to plan everything for such a short snow climb; but that's essentially what I did. At the top of the couloir, the vanilla vibram soles were grippy enough for the rest of the trip. There is only about 15-20' of class 4, above the couloir, and I put more confidence in my 50' of rope, than in my soles, for the downclimb to come.
In any case, the Vetta hikers did well, but they were a lot hotter than what I normally wear. Mercifully, it was a pretty cool day. In the couloir, I wished they had stiffer soles; everywhere else, I wished they had stickier soles (but after a while I really didn't miss that so much). At least these boots weigh only about 2.7 lbs. At the end of the day, my feet looked a bit like they had been in a bathtub. I rarely ever get blisters; that day, I just got abrasion on my damp feet, with raw spots that persisted for a 5 days.


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Connect2One Predicts Top College Trends For 2013
From Quarterback Crops to Performance Wear, College Students Turn to Sports Pages for the Hottest Trends
Jan 17, 2013, 08:03 ET
CINCINNATI, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- One thing remains consistent about the shopping pattern of college students – change. It's not easy to stay a step ahead of collegiate retail trends, but one buying group has been doing just that successfully for 25 years. Connect2One helps its more than 650 college store members fill the shelves with the items most likely to appeal to the college crowd.
The top college trend picks in 2013 include quarterback crop tees and patterned performance wear. Collegiate fashion has taken a cue from the field with a feminine take on a traditional team jersey look with a scoop neck and a decidedly girly pink and grey color combination in this year's quarterback crop tee, perfect for layering. And the sportswear trend continues with boldly patterned, stylish athletic wear featuring innovative fabrics. Some college traditions continue – such as appliqued sweatshirts and loungewear – but updated for today's shoppers.
If you want to know what's hot with college students across the country, there's no better resource than college trend expert Paula Haerr and her team at Connect2One. Haerr is Connect2One's Associate Executive Director and resident collegiate trend spotter. Her annual "What's Hot" presentation at CAMEX (Campus Market Expo), the industry's top trade show, is one of the highlights of the show. From trending fashion colors to best bets in apparel, Paula and her team cover it all. Her session also hits on the best ways to promote to college students in an era of social merchandising. Paula will take to the stage again on February 24, 2013 in Kansas City to share with the CAMEX crowd what's on the horizon in college trends.
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Pickled Turnips
I'm pickling a lot these days. That seems to be the way it goes with summer gardening. You hoe and weed and till and sow and water and worry and then it all comes pouring in at once, faster than you can eat it.
When I have this problem, I pickle.
Folks, get ready for a lot of pickling posts. It's a sure path to colorful shelves. And besides, colorful shelves in the cold winter months are a good thing,
The turnips didn't grow yellow. But I tend to dye my vegetables when I pickle them so that they don't turn an unappealing brown color while they sit in the liquid for a time. It also imparts some flavor.
For this, I used turmeric to color them, but you could also use saffron if you have it handy.
These were the turnips from the garden. There was more than this but I think someone had steamed turnips for dinner.
Here is what you'll need to pickle these turnips: Anise seed (you could also use star anise) turmeric, white vinegar (you could also use rice vinegar, white wine vinegar, etc, etc) coriander seed, sea or Kosher salt, black peppercorns, sugar, mustard seed, and turnips of course!
Give your turnips a nice peel.
Then slice them thinly. I recommend a mandolin for this unless you have serious knife skills.
But you don't want the slices to be paper thin, you want them to have some sturdiness to them. Otherwise they'll disintegrate in the hot liquid.
Next you make your pickling mixture. Pour in the vinegar…
The salt!
The anise…
The mustard seed!
The sugar.
The peppercorns!
The coriander seed.
And at last the turmeric.
Keep in mind, that if you're feeling elaborate, you can toast the seeds for 1-2 minutes in a pan before you add them to the liquid to bring out the flavorful oils. Just don't toast anything powdered, ie. the turmeric, sugar, salt.
Once you bring your mixture to a simmer and turn off the heat, you can add your turnips to the mixture, or even better you can add your turnips to mason jars, tightly packed and pour the liquid over them, one by one.
But of course, I'm not the best at doing things the easy way. So I dumped 'em in, then dumped 'em in the jars.
Ain't it purty?
These are such a fun and flavorful condiment to add to a salad, or a burger, or a sandwich. They really jazz things up. And sometimes life needs jazzing up.
Give this a try sometime!
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I have four cabernet bbls I am trying to name. The barrels hold a beer I brew once a year called "Frankenhammer" that I brew to be released around Halloween. This batch in Cabernet lbs I plan on releasing on draft only. Some have sour cultures, others have Brett and some blended. One I am planning being a solera. I am going to blend some of the bbls together and age on sour cherries and call it "Bride of Frankenhammer"... fun, right?Anyway, I like the name my bbls. Last time I names them Greek goddess names (Helena, Aphrodite, Athena, Persephone). This time I am looking for names from monster or horror movies. But I am not familiar with the genera. "Carrie" is one I came up with. "Carmilla" is one I found, apparently some classic female vampire.Or maybe some other theme? I'm not sure. If anyone has some names they can pop around I would appreciate it. If they are really good I might even send out a few bottles.
List of female demons: http://www.lizaphoenix.com/demons/demoness.shtml
Quote from: Kinetic on May 16, 2014, 12:50:50 PMList of female demons: http://www.lizaphoenix.com/demons/demoness.shtmlThere ya go! Great idea. Still open to suggestions but will be hard to beat.
Get 3 more and name them after the seven dwarfs
With four of them, it's tempting to name them pestilence, war, famine, and death.


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HARTSVILLE, SC – The Coker women's soccer team will return to the pitch for a non-conference tilt against former conference foe Converse College. Kick-off is set for a 6:00 p.m. start Tuesday (Oct. 1) at the Coker Soccer Field. The match will be broadcast live online at www.cokercobras.com.
The Cobras will be home for the first time in two weeks after a four-game road trip. Coker will be looking for their second win after notching their first of the season earlier this year against Georgia Southwestern.
Junior Millie Rogers and sophomore Katie Cooper continue to lead the Cobra offense. The two midfielders have a goal apiece on the year.
Converse comes to Hartsville sporting a 6-3 record. The Valkyries won their most recent game, and are led by Georgia Jones and her four goals.
Tickets for the match are $5 for adults, $3 for students and free to all Coker faculty, staff and students.
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The body is a 3 mm (around 1/8") acrylic (or plexiglass) shield, cut with a saw and an angle grinder, polished, and bent in shape with a hot air gun. As with almost everything else on the bass, it is not intended as the final version. For this, I will use thicker (probably 5 mm) acrylic sheet and have the leg rest further to the back.
The acrylic shield is slightly bowl-shaped so it follows the contours of my body. It's a fairly deep bowl shape ;-) It has a leg rest bent into the lower part and an arm rest created by folding back a wing on the upper part. It quite looks like the body of an Ovation Breadwinner, though that was not the intention originally. It's very comfortable, and I expect it to be even more so when I've moved back the leg rest.
The four mounting supports that connect the shield to the stick will have to be replaced with a central support mounted on one of the two places where the stick has least vibration. A so-called node. I located the node by suspending the stick on two springy foam blocks, pouring salt on the stick and tapping it with a knife handle. As predicted in the marimba literature, the salt would gather to show the location of the node. Luckily, the node is somewhere in between the mounting supports, which makes construction easy. BTW; marimba and vibraphone builders do a lot of interesting research into the acoustics and vibration of wood; something that the guitar builders might draw upon in their work.
The reason for having the shield mounts on the node is to preserve vibration in the stick and not have it travel through the body and into the all-absorbing torso of the player. The node does not vibrate - or at least it vibrates less than other areas of the stick, meaning that less vibrations will be transferred from this point to the shield than from any other areas. I expect it to have a pronounced effect on sustain, and perhaps also on tone.
Some sort of leaf spring suspension mount might give even better isolation between the shield and the stick, but that will have to wait for a later version.


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I've done it. I've resisted for years, although some wonderful friends have some great blogs, I've resisted. But I've had a couple of real "bell-ringer" experiences with my family history research in the last couple of weeks, and I wanted to be able to share them. Another thought that occurred to me was that this would be a way to share the family history with the family in a more casual way, since most of the family are interested in the stories, but not necessarily the nitty-gritty of the whole process. I especially want to use this as a way to share our heritage - the people, the stories...this is what makes them who they are today!
A brief note about the title of my blog: I wanted a way to combine my husband's Keillors and my Smiths in the same title. I wanted it to be light but not cheesy, and be significant at the same time. My husbands ancestry is scattered all over the world, but all the lines work back to Great Britain, personifying the expression "The sun never sets on the British Empire." My ancestry? I am truly a product of the greatest melting pot in the world: Boston, Massachusetts. Instead of being scattered and then being gathered back to one place like Howard's, my ancestors gathered from all over Europe to Boston. Finally, those of us who love genealogy would rather do it day and night than almost anything else, so the sun would never set on our efforts. Thus, my title. Amen!


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Can I search the internal memory for select programs/setups by name?
You can find programs or setups by searching for a string of characters from the Program or Setup mode main pages (or when selecting programs from with the Setup Editor.) On these pages, hold the Enter button and press any of the alpha-numeric keypad buttons to display the Search dialog.
Type in the string of characters you want to find using the alphanumeric pad. For example, if you are looking at the program list and you want to find all programs containing the word "Horn", you would type h-o-r-n. This function is not case-sensitive; it will find upper and lower-case characters regardless of what you type. When you've typed the string of characters you want to find, press OK.
The PC3 searches through the current list of objects or values, finds all items that match the string of characters you typed, and displays the first one it finds.
To navigate through the list of matches, hold Enter and press one of the -/+ buttons(below the Alpha Wheel) to move to the next higher(+) or lower-numbered(-) object that contains the string of characters.
Example, here we pressed ENTER and plus (+), incrementing up to the next higher match:
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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 20: Quantum Monte Carlo, part I
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This lecture provides and introduction to Quantum Monte Carlo methods. We review the concept of electron correlation and introduce Variational Monte Carlo methods as an approach to going beyond the mean field approximation. We describe briefly the Slater-Jastrow expansion of the wavefunction, and show how we can recover the some of the correlation energy using a variational approach to optimizing this form of the wavefunction.
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The brilliant tactical victory by Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa in last weekend's Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril was further evidence of the dominance of Spanish riders.
After last year's MotoGP World Championship, there can be no question that the best road racers in the world are Spanish. For the first time ever, riders from the same country won all three classes in the Road Racing World Championship and that country was Spain.
Spanish world champions are nothing new. Angel Nieto is second all-time with 13 world championships. But those titles came in the 60's, 70's and 80's in the smaller displacement classes. It wasn't until 1999 that Alex Criville became the first Spaniard to win a title in the premier class.
And it would be more than a decade before another Spaniard, Jorge Lorenzo, took the first MotoGP World Championship back to Spain. The next one won't take as long.
No country supports motorcycle racing more than Spain and no rider embodies the Spanish system more than Dani Pedrosa. The triple World Champion from Sabadell, in the rider-rich region of Catalunya, is not only a product of the system that has produced a host of strong riders, but also active in making sure the system prospers.
Last year Pedrosa had his best season ever, winning four times and finishing second twice. This season has started even better. Pedrosa was third in Qatar, second in Jerez, and in Portugal last weekend won a thrilling battle with fellow countryman Lorenzo to take an unexpected 13th MotoGP victory.
Pedrosa entered the race unsure if his surgically repaired left shoulder would withstand the rigors of the race. The shoulder and collarbone were painful and uncomfortable, but not debilitating, and Pedrosa made an impressive late race surge to lead the Repsol Honda team to a 1-3-4 finish. Casey Stoner was third, Andrea Dovizioso fourth.
The Spanish government, which finances circuit development, deserves some of the credit; the country has more world class race tracks than any other country. Four rounds of the MotoGP World Championship run in Spain and there are a number of very good facilities that are just below world level. Learning their craft on safe tracks allows riders to concentrate 100% on racing, which prepares them for the world stage. Five of the seven races in the CEV Buckler Spanish national championship are held on grand prix tracks.
The CEV Buckler has been run by Dorna, the MotoGP rights holder, since 1998 as a steppingstone to MotoGP. Their aim has been to develop young talent to move to the next level. The class structure mimics MotoGP, with 125cc, Moto2, though not with control engines, and a big bore class.
The day before Pedrosa won at the Estoril Circuit, and between qualifying, debriefing, and physical therapy, we sat down with Dani in Honda's hospitality unit to find out why he and his fellow countryman are on top of the road racing world.


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Palermo Viejo, Buenos Aires Travel Guide
Palermo Viejo Summary
- Attractive area with cobblestone streets and historic buildings
- Upscale shops and restaurants
- Vibrant nightlife
- Young, bohemian atmosphere
- Expensive dining, shopping, and lodging
What It's Like
Part of the massive Palermo neighborhood in northeast Buenos Aires, Palermo Viejo, literally meaning "Old Palermo," is an attractive area with oak-lined cobblestone streets and low historic buildings in the old Spanish style architecture. Today it's a hip spot with block after block of upscale restaurants, bars, and shops, but only a couple of decades ago it was a dilapidated neighborhood of run-down warehouses and crumbling historic homes (though Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges has always written fondly of it). Its resurgence, however, has made Palermo Viejo one of the ritziest areas in the city, and it attracts many tourists and locals during the day and night.
Palermo Viejo can be divided into two sections: Palermo Soho to the south and Palermo Hollywood to the north. On Palermo Viejo's southwestern edge, lively Palermo Soho is a small neighborhood that's very similar to New York City's SoHo, with cobblestone streets and tons of upscale boutiques. Most of the shops and restaurants are centered around Plazoleta Cortazar, which is a late-night gathering spot for those coming and going from the bars. Across the train tracks is Palermo Hollywood, the quieter (and not quite as gentrified) counterpart to Palermo Soho. Though Palermo Hollywood also has an active nightlife, it attracts an older crowd than Palermo Soho.
Where To Stay
Palermo Viejo is a popular place to stay among those looking forward to fine dining, shopping, and partying. Palermo Soho is slightly more expensive and covenient than Palermo Hollywood, but both neighborhoods are solid options and there are many hotels in the area.


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By now you've probably noticed that the Gaiscioch website is as one of our members once said "Trying to drink water from a firehose". This section we'll post our latest tutorials on how to use various tools the family website has to offer as well as a few video's to make playing games with the family a bit easier.
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Israeli airstrikes on targets in Syria remain shrouded in secrecy, and are often subject to speculation about what has been hit this time. For instance, the recent raids on Syrian territory, during which just one Popeye air-to-surface missile was intercepted by a Syrian Pantsir-S1 SAM system, saw depots near Damascus being hit by Israeli jets, although the content of these is unknown. The actual locations and targets reported to have been hit do often not correspond with the truth. This post will try to make clear why Israel is bombing Syria and why it is getting away with it.
Syria has direct access to the Mediterranean Sea and is a neighbouring country of Israel and Lebanon, and thus very attractive to any country wanting to enjoy both political and military influence in this region. One of these countries is, to no one's surprise, Iran.
Iran's involvement in financing and arming Hamas and Hizbullah is substantial, and often greatly underestimated. For example, the military wing of Hamas (the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades) frequently receives Iranian-made weaponry or weaponry acquired by Iran. These shipments usually include various sorts of lighter weaponry that is generally more suitable for Gaza's urban environment. It was also supposed to acquire C-704 anti-ship missiles, which were confiscated by the Israeli Navy onboard the freighter Victoria, and Syrian made 302mm Khaibar-1 'M-302' rockets, which were also intercepted by the Israeli Navy near Sudan's Red Sea coast. Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard present in Sudan take care of the weapon shipments as they travel from Sudan to Gaza via Egypt. Sudan functions as a middle man here, as they allow the shipments to arrive and agree to see them transported over Sudan's soil. A number of past Israeli raids on such convoys and storage depots inside Sudan thus comes as no surprise.
The reason why a part of the weaponry is held back has to do with the inability to safely store and defend larger weapons systems in Lebanon. Buildings containing such weaponry can only be defended by an integrated network of surface-to-air missile systems (SAMs), something which Hizbullah lacks. Syria on the other hand had one of the most dense air-defence networks in the Middle East before the start of the Civil War. While Syria's SAM network has never managed to shoot down any of the Israeli aircraft striking locations in Syria, it does prove more of a deterrence than having no SAMs to defend your weapons systems at all.
Syria's most modern SAM units, some of which strategically positioned around such storage sites, all remain active. Most of these systems were ordered and received in the past couple of years. Should the SAM network have been completed, these storage sites would have been defended by S-300PMU-2s, Buk-M2s, Pechora-2Ms and Pantsir-S1s. It is unknown if Iran provided funding to allow Syria to buy so much high-grade equipment from Russia, but it at least seems likely.
The first time the Syrian method of smuggling armament was put to test was in 2006. Yet Syria's role in this war went further than just supplying some of the weaponry to Hizbullah; it also actively participated in firing rockets at Israel and might even be responsible for the attack on the INS Hanit, an Israeli Sa'ar 5 class corvette.
The most famous documented usage of Syrian weaponry by Hizbullah was the use of 9M133 Kornet ATGMs to destroy at least five Merkava tanks during the 2006 war. 9M133 missile containers captured by the IDF revealed the true origin of the shipment: Syria.
Direct involvement of Syria in the 2006 conflict came through the use of 302mm Khaibar-1 multiple rocket launchers (MRLs), an indigenous product of Syria. These MRLs, operating from within Lebanon, were responsible for much of the damage done on Israel's infrastructure. While it was initially thought these launchers were only provided by Syria to Hizbullah, all the Khaibar-1s were actually operated by Syria's 158th Missile Regiment in close cooperation with Hizbullah. At least one Khaibar-1 was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force.
Syrian-produced 220mm MRLs also saw use in Lebanon, where they were used by Hizbullah. Most of the launch platforms used for the 220mm and 302mm Khaibar-1 rockets are based on brightly coloured civilian trucks, which can be quickly reconfigured to a more civilian look shortly after launch.
The usage of such trucks is perfect for Hizbullah, as they're very mobile and its deadly weaponry is easy to hide. For example, this Falaq-2 used by Syrian troops in the Syrian Civil War was reconfigured to resemble a civilian truck within minutes after launching its rocket.
The relative ease of driving these trucks around in Lebanon is what caused another major incident: The assault on the INS Hanit by a C-802 (or the Iranian-produced copy by the name of Noor) anti-ship missile fired by Hizbullah, likely aided by members of the Revolutionary Guard. In order to fire a C-802, you need a launch platform, which is either a ship, a plane or a truck. The first two possibilities can be eliminated immediately as Hizbullah doesn't operate any fighter jets or missile boats. This leaves a truck-based launcher as the only remaining option.
Syria is known to have acquired a truck-based C-802 coastal defence system, which was shown in a live firing exercise by the Syrian Navy in 2012. This raises the question if Syria might have been involved in the assault on the C-802 at the INS Hanit.
While Syria was already in the possession of a C-802 based launcher, Hizbullah was not yet familiar with such a system, and would have had trouble storing it within Lebanon. Much more likely is that it was actually Syria who transported one of its C-802 launch platforms (as seen with the 220mm and 302mm rockets) to Lebanon disguised as a civilian truck, and subsequently used it to strike the INS Hanit in cooperation with Hizbullah and the Revolutionary Guard, after which the launch platform safely returned to Syria.
To ease the flow of such sophisticated weaponry, Iran established a production line for Zelzal-2 artillery rockets and Fateh 110 ballistic missiles inside Syria. These production lines are likely based in the undergound facilities of the Al Safir and Hama missile facility sites. In Syria, the Zelzal-2 is known as the 'Maysalun', referring to the Battle of Maysalun which was won by the French. The Fateh 110 is known as the 'Tishreen', which in turn refers to the October War. Syrian artillery rockets and missiles are seen as weapons of revenge and thus always purposely named after military defeats. The Maysalun and the Tishreen can be seen in the images below.
As weapons such as the Zelzal-2, Fateh 110 and C-802 would require a whole new Israeli strategy to cope with such threats, taking out some of the advanced weaponry destined for use with or alongside Hizbullah seems exactly what Israel is doing. By taking out advanced equipment before it even reaches its destination, Hizbullah is derived of offensive capabilities that could otherwise inflict serious damage on the Israeli military, yet while running a low risk of actually provoking a war or suffering losses itself.
If Syria would retaliate by firing ballistic missiles on Israel, it would undoubtedly result in a direct war, which the already battered Syrian military simply isn't capable of waging at this point. Such a war would see the whole Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) destroyed by Israel, leaving a gap easily exploited by groups such as the Free Syrian Army and the Islamic State. This imbalance in military capabilities essentially means has Israel can roam free through Syrian airspace without having to fear serious retaliations.
Syria's inability to protect these shipments against Israeli attacks is the only hitch in the method of covertly providing arms to Hizbullah. As the Israeli Air Force makes heavy use of electronic countermeasures and deploys weapon systems outside the range of Syrian SAM systems, Israel can freely continue to roam over the Syrian skies, at least until Syria receives its first S-300PMU-2.
Buk-M2 SAM systems and Bastion-P coastal defence systems were reported to have been struck out of fear of these weapons falling in the hands of Hizbullah. This has much to do with Israel's fear of a repetition of the INS Hanit scenario.Yet it remains unlikely Syria would use its most advanced Russian SAM systems and coastal defence systems in Lebanon in the foreseeable future. In turn, transferring such large weapon systems to Hizbullah would likely meet fierce resistance from Russia, and thus seems unlikely.
In case of a future war with Israel, we might see an increasing amount of Iranian and Syrian weaponry being used by Hizbullah and by Syria itself within Lebanon. Advanced weaponry such as the Igla-S and Fateh 110 missiles will surely change the way any future war in the region will be fought.
Essentially, both parties are waging a covert war spanning a large period of time. Syria (as well as Iran for that matter) use Hizbullah and other anti-Israel groups in the Middle East as a proxy to fight the war on their own terms, whereas Israel manages to strike at its enemies without any retaliation.