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Washington (AFP) – U.S. senators scrambled together an eleventh hour compromise Wednesday that they hoped might protect Washington's battered financial standing by heading off fears of a default.
The Senate deal must still pass a divided and unpredictable House of Representatives, but lawmakers were hopeful it will allow the U.S. government to reopen and keep borrowing to meet its obligations.
"I hope that we're nearing the end of this ordeal, this impasse which never should have happened in the first place," said Senator Susan Collins, a Republican who has led efforts to broker a compromise.
At midnight (0400 GMT), the U.S. economy was to sail into uncharted waters where the Treasury would no longer be able to borrow more to meet its obligations and avert a devastating debt default.
The only way to avert this peril, which could send global markets into turmoil and threaten another recession, would be for Congress to agree to raise the U.S. government's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling.
Senate leaders met to hammer out a compromise, after a previous effort in the Republican-led House collapsed in chaos on Tuesday.
"The America people are tired of where we are," Senator Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, said. "They're tired of the brinksmanship, and so they want us to get this resolved now for them — today, hopefully."
Ayotte and other senators said that they understood that senate leaders had agreed the terms of a deal that could pass, and that it would be sent first to the House.
If it is approved there, it would return to the senate, where lawmakers hope to rapidly pass it into law.
Conservatives from the Tea Party movement in the House have thus far thwarted votes on the debt ceiling and on passing a budget, demanding concessions from President Barack Obama.
Obama's Democrats have refused to allow Republicans to hold the budget and debt ceiling votes to "ransom" with attempts to defund or delay the president's landmark Obamacare health insurance reform.
The stand-off has forced the U.S. federal government into a partial shutdown, and if it continues past midnight it would put the United States in a position where it might not be able to pay its debts.


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Gowns and designs are one my fetishes. Yes I have tons, but my love for fashion designing is still dwelling and running through my veins. The smell of new sheets, newly sharpened colored pencils and colored markers just satisfies my passion for such work.
That is why when I discovered one of the most sophisticated and fancy wedding gown markets in Suzhou, I can't help but notice all the beautiful and unique designs from Jusere Wedding & Evening Dress Co., Ltd. So here are some bonus tips to the aspiring designers like me and to those who wants to have the best wedding gown for one's wedding.
Wedding dresses are the most important and expensive clothes during a women's life. For some brides who are on a tight budget, more than US $1,000 (PhP 46745.00) of wedding dress may be in far over their budget. It may sound exaggerated, but the big question has always been, "Why are wedding dresses so expensive?"
Some brands depend on the value, more reason for the cost to be of high cost. They just guarantee you with excellent quality. Though wedding dresses are not a pure manual work art, but most of designs and middle procedures are hand-made. That is why many laborers and designers gets the return from their masterpieces.
But how can you know that they really reasonable and assure you with great quality gowns?
Here's a nice tip and simple tutorial on how to make the best wedding dresses in town, the Jusere wedding & evening dress Co., Ltd way.
The first step is doing a sketch according to the fashion trend or the customers' requirements. Currently, JUSERE Company has more than thirty (30) designers, releases 100 pieces of new models every month and supplies one to one advanced customization service.
During illustration, they consider all materials needed. It needs a procurement officer to buy the fabrics and beads. China has the most complete fabric types in the world. That is why, many clothing processions chooses Suzhou Huqiu Wedding Market for that, and you can buy any material and accessories for that love wedding dress of yours.
Pattern makers are also available to build a 3D model in the computer which depicts and makes a real picture of your sketched designs. Printed out in special papers, it makes templates and bigger versions of the illustrations. Making it easier to draft, cost, measure and put the designs respectively.
Next step is cutting out. For simple designs, a simple cutting out will do the trick. For the complex designs, solid cutting is needed to make sure that the design according to the original sketch is being followed and applied. The skill of pattern making and cutting is closely related that of the quality of the finished clothes.
The cut-out fabrics are then to be sewn. Some wedding dresses that have appliqué and laces are sewn to make sure that they are properly placed and will not easily fall-off.
Patterns and designs are properly and closely sewn to bring out the beautiful masterpieces.
After all the meticulous sewing, you can see that the wedding dress is looking more like the sketch in Step #1. Next step is to add and sew the beads and embroiders. Suzhou embroidery has been famous for this type of embroidery since the Qing dynasty in China. That is why they are known for many royalty clothes.
When a wedding dress is finished, it needs to be ironed and undergo a quality inspection. Through these procedures, they are able to assure that there are no problems and defects on the gowns and dresses. After the wedding dresses have passed the tests, they will be placed in the show room or delivered to the customers.
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The wedding dress procedures are very complex. Making a wedding dress will take about forty (40) days. Now you can see the total cost of the designs, processions, quality inspections, and the packages. It is no easy work. They really assure that the customers have the best of the best when it comes to their products and services.
So when you find some wedding dress price is lower than US $200.00 (PhP 9,351.90) or US $100.00 (PhP 4,675.95) from Ebay or Aliexpress, be careful. If the wedding dress looks complex, consider looking at the materials that were used and how they were made. Make sure that you choose the best suppliers to make your wedding gowns.
Gowns and designs are not a piece of cake. They need time and scrupulous effort to provide the client the wedding dress they dream and desire. That is why Jusere wedding & evening dress Co., Ltd. does not only provide the fanciest and royal designs but they are also transparent on how they make their dresses.
Choose and make the wedding dress your way and Jusere-lified!

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Following the success of the European FP7 project PASSPORT, and in the spirit of its free virtual university dedicated to surgeons WeBSurg, IRCAD (Research Institute against Digestive Cancer) has decided to offer free access to a set of 3D virtual anatomies modeled from medical images of anonymous patients. In order to make this virtual reality experience available for a maximum of users, IRCAD has asked KITWARE, a proven leader in the creation and support of open-source software, to developed a specific 3D viewer dedicated to mobile devices. The resulting "Visible Patient" offers a complete free visualization solution of 3D patient-specific anatomy. This completes the IRCAD Virtual Patient software suite using the open source FW4SPL and Kitware VES, ITK and VTK libraries, which are dedicated to physicians.
* First of all, Visible patient offers several patient specific 3D modeling. Each visible anatomy is extracted from real but anonymous CT or MRI. User can select among a list of clinical cases the clinical case he wants to discover and manipulate in 3D.
* Secondly, Visible patient allows to rotate, translate, zoom in and out the 3D model of a selected anonymous patient through a classical iPhone interaction with one or two fingers.
* Thirdly, Visible patient allows to have the name of any organ or pathology selected through a double tap with one finger.
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RIP Mary, Queen of Scots.
The Reign series finale ended with the beheading of fierce, determined Mary (Adelaide Kane), who gave up her throne to her son, James, and then imprisoned for nearly two decades by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (Rachel Skarsten).
Before that, Mary and paramour Lord Bothwell (Adam Croasdell) tracked down her infant son, who had been kidnapped by her husband, King Darnley (Will Kemp). As retribution, and future protection, Mary ordered the murder of Darnley. But Bothwell's plans to blow up Darnley's hideout failed and he was forced to kill him by hand. Unfortunately, Mary's privy councillors discovered the plot and arrested both her and Bothwell.
History tells us that Mary fled to England, where she was kept confined by Elizabeth until Mary was beheaded for plotting against her cousin.
Reign creator Laurie McCarthy talked to Yahoo TV about some of the tweaks they made to the historical timeline, Mary's big decision to murder her husband, and the surprising cameo at the end of the finale.
It was great to see Toby Regbo come back as Francis, and to see Francis and Mary share a lovely moment together after her death.
That footage was shot before Toby left the series. We shot it knowing that the series would end with her death and knowing that underneath it all, this was a love story, and knowing where her life was going to go — she had this idyllic existence when she was younger, and then duty was really going to take over, and then she was going to go into not one, but another marriage beyond Francis, and they were going to be incredibly painful.
The marriage to Darnley was not going to be a happy one, and the marriage we didn't get to show but we hinted at, with Bothwell, was going to be short-lived. Ultimately, I would say it was a mistake she could've avoided, but still a mistake.
Why end with Mary and Francis together?
I would like to think that for any of us, when you're in a final moment like that, your mind can take you to a happier place. I feel like the happiest time of her life was when she was with him. That is the person who in her darkest hours she wanted at her side. So, I wanted to give her that at the end. And Toby Regbo was gracious enough to agree to film that before he left the show.
In history, it's unclear if Mary actually played a part in Darnley's death. Why did you decide to have her make the choice?
We wanted her to be proactive. I think there are a number of different books on the topic, and some of them indicate pretty strongly that she had to know what was going on. So, we went with that version of history.
Throughout the series, Mary has always strived to be good and decent and moral. So, this is a dark turn for her.
She really had very little choice. One of the things that we dramatize was the struggle for whoever had power over the heir. The kidnapping of the child was a fabrication. But the truth of the matter is, what we saw play out in Scotland is what Elizabeth kept referring to England — once you wed and you're a woman, even if you're the rightful heir to the throne, people will look to the king to vest their political chips in.
We wanted to create a dynamic that she was justified in playing that role in his death, and that she had very little choice. It wasn't just her welfare, but the welfare of her child.
There's quite a bit of talk in the finale about women in power — Knox tells Mary that he'll bow to no woman, Elizabeth makes a big speech about her power. It feels very relevant to current events. How much did you want to connect the finale to the current political climate?
I would say that, in some ways, little has changed at the very top. I'm sad that it's relevant, is probably the best answer to that.
Did you intend to draw those parallels?
I think the parallels exist. As we laid out the dynamic of the time, the fact that they resonate still is meaningful for all of us. We weren't trying to make a big political statement. We were really trying to explain and justify some of the actions our lead character took.
What do you hope the fans walk away from the finale feeling?
I hope they feel the sadness of her life but also the exhilaration of the journey. What was fascinating to me about the show was how bizarre their lives are — the lives of monarchs, the lives of royals at the time was so foreign. They really did not live like other people.
There were things that we heard from historians we couldn't even put in the show. One that always stood out to me — and I thought, how could you ever portray this? — was the fact that the peasants really looked up to the royals because they were nearly a foot taller than them. That was because royals and people at court ate protein, and peasants did not. They didn't grow to the same height. So, they really looked at these people like they were gods.
The foreign quality of their life that was really unrelatable was fascinating to me. The phrase I kept using about the show was, I want to see what their life was like on an 11 o'clock in the morning on a Tuesday. Not on a day when they were getting their portraits done, and not on a day when they were going to war or making some declaration. They were just these people living in this community, in a house that wasn't even really their own home.
Early on, I felt like it was Mary going to a boarding school with her friends. And then it became a city-state, which is what those castles really were. They didn't have privacy and were beholden to so many rules. So, I wanted people to go on that journey and feel that escapism and lushness of that life, but also the confines of it, which I felt like gave the series stakes.
And if they would like to step back and contemplate the difficulty of women in power, I would, of course, as a feminist, love that as well.
Did you take anything from the set as a memento?
You know, what I really wanted but didn't get was a pair of great riding boots. Because the guys had such great boots on the show. But the people in Toronto sent me from the set, a portrait from the set. So that was my takeaway.
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Inspired by Mezba's post, I decided to write my own. But to keep it in hsa's style, I'll start from December
December was the RIS month. For the first time, I attended (volunteered for the last four). It was a different experience - to say the least. December was also awaited for another reason - Hajj.
SunniPath's Hajj course in November was very enlightening. And with one of my best friends, hrah, going for Hajj, we talked about it for days, weeks and almost a month! I also wrote a long dua for her to make when she was on Arafah! I honestly can't wait to go for Hajj. End of November, I was also looking for TD employees ;) .. [for those concerned, I've stopped my search for now - contact me for more details]. November also saw the crazy me!
October, I spent planning a surprise for hrah. That was fun. The plan was to invite her best friends. But the challenge was - I didn't know most of them :( . Yup, with Rhan's snooping around, and thanks to evite, we managed to get some 20 sisters together!!!! October also witnessed an unfortunate news. Yes, the renaming. I thought it was sad. (for those who didn't know, I was born in Bangalore)
And there was Ramadan and Eid. Ramadan did bring along some changes in me, Alhamdulillah (at least for a short while after). I ended up working on Eid :(
Highlight September was the Muslim Professionals Networking Dinner - Downtown. Met some nicest people there. September was also the month of "when's YOUR Ramadan starting" : (
In August, my dad's latest book was published. You can read about it on his blog.
July was the BlackBerry month (for me). Surfed every website out there, and researched and tried everything that exists. July also saw a new blog - MY blog!
Beginning of July, there was another surprise- for Kshan this time. Funniest was when she called me during the day, and expected me to wish her on her birthday. But I didn't, and she was disappointed. Until later in the night!!!
In june, my cousin got engaged. May saw my new phone. My two month research actually paid off. I love my phone! April was my photography month. ZA and I took pictures every day! Laser tag fun was the highlight of march. February I started Shariah Program Weekend Classes. And January saw my return to CIBC!
A year gone...
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exciting year for u! good luck for the future inshallah
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I never knew Bangalore's name changed... India's always doing changing the names of its cities!
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April 24, 2010
Vietnam's guarded US embrace
By The Hanoist
Fifteen years after normalizing diplomatic relations, military cooperation between the United States and Vietnam is evolving bit by bit.
Both sides would like to counter China's military buildup and historic desire to dominate the region – including the strategic South China Sea where a quarter of the world's trade transits and where Vietnam, China and other countries contest two island chains believed to contain rich mineral deposits.
While US motives are relatively clear – to deepen contacts with the Vietnamese military and establish areas of cooperation – the Hanoi side is often tied up in knots on how and whether to partner strategically with Washington, its former war adversary.
On one hand Vietnam enjoys high-level attention from the US. In October 2008, the two countries initiated an annual security meeting held at the assistant secretary-vice minister level. Referred to officially as "political-military talks" by the US, Vietnamese diplomats advertise the event as a "strategic dialogue", referred to locally as doi thoai chien luoc.
According to a diplomat in attendance, Ambassador Le Cong Phung made the first public announcement of the dialogue while speaking at a Vietnamese embassy function in Washington a month prior, to the surprise of some American guests.
But there are also Vietnamese concerns over the appearance of too close a military relationship. Since 2003, American warships have docked in Vietnam to conduct a range of military-diplomatic exchanges. While welcoming these highly symbolic visits by the US Navy, Vietnam initially limited port calls to one a year and ensured that the Chinese navy enjoyed equal docking rights.
The desire to placate China is reflected in a gamut of policies, from how activities with the US are disclosed in the state-controlled media, to the habit of sending high-level delegations to China coincident with any high-level visit to the US.
In March, a US naval supply ship quietly spent 16 days at Vietnam's newly completed Van Phong port located in strategic Cam Ranh Bay. This famed deep-water harbor was originally built by the Americans during the Vietnam War and after the communist takeover became a key base for the Soviet Union's Pacific Fleet. The recent port call by the USNS Richard E Byrd was not publicly announced, but the purpose of the visit was supposedly for repairs and resupply under a new comprehensive agreement for logistical support.
In December 2009, General Phung Quang Thanh became just the second post-war Vietnamese Minister of Defense to visit Washington. True to form, senior Defense Ministry delegations went to China before and after General Thanh's US visit. This deference to Beijing is reflected in a recent Hanoi white paper on defense policy where territorial disputes with its northern neighbor China are downplayed.
Overall, warming US-Vietnam ties have generated actual and promised results. Vietnam has been invited to observe US military exercises with regional allies, including Thailand. There is also discussion of joint search and rescue operations off Vietnam's coast and of the US training Vietnamese peacekeepers for international United Nations-led missions.
Vietnamese staff officers have also been offered participation in International Military and Education Training (IMET), the American program for developing ties with future military leaders. While none of the exchanges is particularly significant in isolation, each activity represents further cooperation between Hanoi and Washington and facilitates an active US naval presence in the South China Sea.
Friend or friendemy?
Although relations with the US have advanced on many fronts, there is nevertheless a deep ambivalence in Hanoi on proceeding further. And it is just not about sensitivity to China's feelings. Many in Vietnam's leadership dread "peaceful evolution," code for closer ties to the US unleashing forces of political liberalization that the ruling communist party cannot control.
This paranoia is manifested in various ways. Earlier this month, the Vietnamese government refused to grant a visa to US congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, a senior member on the House Armed Services Committee and staunch human rights defender. According to a statement by Sanchez, Vietnam was worried she would highlight the government's well-chronicled and ongoing rights abuses.
The suspicions are sometimes personal. In the fall of 2008, Hanoi would not allow the current US military attache to serve at the US embassy because of his ancestry. Born in Vietnam, Colonel Patrick Reardon was adopted by an American family as a toddler. Vietnamese authorities are known to remain suspicious of overseas Vietnamese, particularly those with political influence.
The deep-seated paranoia also affects decision-making at the highest level. Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh's trip to the US last December was reportedly postponed twice. According to a Vietnamese source, there were differences in the party politburo over the goals of the visit.
While the defense minister is seen as pro-Western, others within the communist leadership – such as first deputy Defense Minister General Nguyen Chi Vinh – rely on Beijing as a political hedge and are wary of closer ties with the US. The conflicting worldview is reflected in a popular saying now making the rounds in Vietnam: "Too close to China and lose the country. Too close to America and lose the party."
Such is the dilemma in which Vietnam's communist leaders now find themselves. Who knows what the captains and colonels of the People's Army of Vietnam might learn when they attend US staff colleges? While there is momentum for increased US-Vietnam military cooperation, expect ties to cycle hot and cold.
The Hanoist writes on Vietnam's politics and people.
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The demonstrators believed erroneously sugar from nearby Fincha sugar factory was being transported illegally to other places.
Well, one dead is very minute, unfortunately, on the scale of trajic loses of innocent lives in the recent past in our country, but what is those in the power doing when people are "erroneously" made to go out to risk their lives?
How did it happen, where was the source of the "erroneous" information and where do those sources hide now??
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If people think we need a government to get along, they really need to think outside the box, because anarchy is as inevitable as government -it's all a part of the social cycle. For centuries, we've needed government to facilitate growth, but with development in transport and communications technologies, the government is not only unnecessary, it's becoming more of a threat than anything else. If we can't understand the world around us without looking to someone else, then we have no business deciding how others should live. I understand why people think government is necessary, but if you don't understand how anarchism is a useful political ideology... you're not thinking for yourself.... and that's what's wrong with the world.
Anarchism wouldn't mean gang warfare or war of all against all. It would simply mean there wouldn't be institutionalized crime and aggression and that multicentric defense and communal institutions would be allowed to form. The general conception of anarchism as chaos seems to be largely based on Hobbes' overrated conjectures.
Yes, I think we need the principle of anarchy, chaos, or the absence of coherent unity to stand as the antithesis to cohesive states of being or governing. Chaos loves a vacuum and anarchy thrives in the absence of guidance and leadership, so it serves an important lesson, demonstrating the outcome when leaders abdicate their leadership role.
Friedrich Nietzsche says, "From chaos comes order" and I do agree. Many times in our history, it is from lawlessness that we come up with laws. It is with disorder that we come up with processes. Anarchy serves as an alternative path, which we try to avoid; hence, we do everything to steer clear from it.
Frankly, all of these arguments that the decentralization of power would lead to abuses of power are dumbfounding to me. At what point are we going to take an intellectually honest perspective on the issue, and stop parading institutionalized violence as a means of reducing or minimalizing violence without so much as a shred of supporting reasoning?
Certainly certain services are necessary for any civilized society to function such as mutual defense, dispute arbitration, commerce regulation, and basic infrastructure. But at what point does it make sense to entrust these services to a monopolistic institution that can compel payment?
Everyone knows that monopolies are abjectly expensive, unresponsive, and abusive towards their customers as well as employees. So why must we assume that social power must be monopolized for any reason in the first place?
It seems to me that statist ideologies are just a hold-over from the notion of the "divine right" of Kings--that centralized, absolute authority was not only possible but ordained by God and no other earthly power was legitimate. I don't see how the divine right of numerical might(ie an election, and that is making the dubious assumtion that votes are counted in the first place) confers legitimacy any more than some appeal to divinity.
I've heard arguments that say anarchism will lead to widespread murder because no one's there to stop them: who would be there to jail these criminals? If anarchy means a world without government, then there won't be police or any sort of commerce regulation. However, isn't that saying humans have a natural tendency to kill each other? Are we really that violent? After converting to anarchism, would not common sense and justice exist, just as government has? In addition, without government, there would be no reason to become a 'criminal,' and in fact, crime wouldn't exist because there would be a lack of rules. Without rules, there would be less limitations and more freedom. If someone or a gang of people were to, for example, steal something from someone, other more logically minded people could step in and put an end to it. We as a society don't need to rely on a government: we don't need to rely on police to stop 'bad' people. We can rely on ourselves.
Ultimately, in the process of a civilization we inhabit, creativity is suppressed in order to secure power and stability. This security revolving around authoritarian repression of the social being in human nature can logically be stopped in favor of more creativity without being subjected towards being a mere subject of civilization. Allowing that anarchic sensation of freedom to throw any immediate tyranny into the past by simply living in the present without subscribing to tyranny. Anarchism as a terrain of interaction internally/externally towards human nature and the natural world could mean justice is passion as material condition, not "ideology" as it is a phenomenon of following dormant instincts of egalitarian conduct from outside alienated reality, imposed by those anarchy arise from in to eventually leave for good, revolution as creative process. Useful for finding truth by organic means of decentralized revolution , not an artificially constituted means of resolving social conflict tied to interests outside of emotional response or intellect. Bring resistance to everyday life, not that controls life.
I believe in anarchism on a much smaller scale than as a total political state, such as the independence of children in a school yard without relying on adults to solve all of their problems and such. I know that the point is "As a useful political ideology" but honestly I think that politics does not just restrain itself to national governments. It is a fact that politics are used in all ways of life, and I think that anarchism can be a useful method from time to time.
I probably sound like a dimwitted high school graduate writing this, but I think that the seed of anarchy has rooted much further into the ground than as a simple political state. As with all other forms of political system, anarchism not only changes the way the government acts, but the way the people feel, think and act daily. Democracy gives a much more free approach. Dictatorship or other forms of total rule provide total control.
I know I sound like a total hippy here, but I would like to quote something that I wrote for an essay about anarchism opposed to other systems once.
"Families would earn their survival, instead of loathing it everyday."
I don't think I need to really explain that.
I understand that anarchism wasn't meant to last, but I see it as the start of the rebirth. The burning away of bush to make way for more fertile ground. It was used like this often in ancient Greece, even if they didn't realize it.
So to all those people saying it isn't meant to last long, of course it isn't. It is only a method rather than a form of government, but nevertheless, is a political ideology.
Also, to those people saying that anarchism is a bunch of blokes pissed off at the current system, just think - If nobody ever questioned the system, where would we be now?
No matter what you believe in, in regards of religion and science, the human civilization began on the basis of anarchy. Government was made by tyrants who fell to temptation to greed and power. Government has become better in today's world compared to the past, but the real purpose of anarchy is equality. The true sense of equality. The American people are the most equal of all other nations. It would fall under an anarchist side, as opposed to controlling, "Big Brotherish", of North Korea.
politics have created factions and partisanship which in essence stalls progress, the old adage "if you want something done you've got to do it your-self" holds true. all Republicans and Democrats do is fight and argue about how things should be done, yes its true that smaller groups and factions would likely break out but all of the same mindset, and most likely moving forward, and with these smaller groups they'd be more able to deal with corruption, as well as each member having more of a share in each item of interest.
I understand that there are various forms of anarchist thought and indeed, some anarchists are actually closer to libertarian, meaning that government should only exist for the protection of the individual. However, for the sake of this particular argument, I have stuck to the philosophy of pure anarchy, which is the total absence of a state.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that 99.9% of humans are neither greedy, violent, nor amoral. In an anarchist state, the greedy, violent and amoral 0.1% would be highly likely to conflict with each other and also with the 99.9%. This would force a societal evolution in which on one extreme the 0.1% completely wipes out the 99.9% and becomes the new 99.9%, or the original 99.9% seeks out some way to protect themselves from the 0.1%.
Methods of achieving some form of safety might include arming or isolating yourself from others, as well as seeking safety in numbers and with alliances. These alliances are the beginnings of what would evolve into government. Thus, increasingly large and powerful groups would form, resulting in increasingly complex forms of organization from families, to clans, to more structured feudal societies and republics. This evolution would largely follow in line with Maslow's Hierarchy, so that initially humans would form government for the purposes of safety and later the evolution would shift towards governments that provide for the other higher needs illustrated within the hierarchy.
Two of the most popular television shows on cable, do a fairly decent job of illustrating such an evolution. The society represented within The Walking Dead is an exaggerated one, but one that might exist in a lesser form in which humans seek larger groups in isolated places for their own protection. Game of Thrones illustrates a nearly anarchist clan based society in the form of the Wildlings who choose to band together for a similar purpose to that seen in the Walking Dead. In each case, these alliances form solely for the purpose of protection and are facilitated by the dangers of the "Walkers" and the "White Walkers" which represent the 0.1% I mentioned earlier. These stories lay within the world of fantasy and exaggeration, but they are fairly honest representations of how society may evolve from anarchism into a more evolved and stable state. In Game of Thrones, the more evolved feudal state is still highly unstable and oppressive, yet there are those that seek a society in which the weakest among us are protected and individuals are able to fulfill higher needs.
The point is that government does not just exist. Government evolves and is as natural of a state of organization as the atom is. It is the result of individual needs and it's structure is not just necessary for us to live the lives we live, but it is the natural result of our own human needs.
Let us suppose that 99.9% of people are not inherently violent, greedy, or amoral. That 0.1% would still be a very large number, so that conflict would likey occur between increasingly larger groups of individuals seeking to protect themselves through numbers. Conflict might start only within the 0.1%, but would eventually move into the 99.9% because these people would not survive without protecting themselves in some way. Thus, you would have a social evolution in which either the 0.1% become the 99.9% through destruction of the original 99.9% OR the original 99.9% are able to successfully push back and protect themselves from those that are inherently violent, greedy, and amoral. Again, this protection would arise with numbers and a willingness to do violence.
It is important to recognize that our current state establishment evolved out of an anarchist state, which evolved from families, to clans/tribes, to more organized feudal types of societies and republics (simplistically speaking). This evolution sprang from an initial need to seek protection in numbers and once a general state of safe living was achieved, this evolution came more from the individual seeking to regain some power and freedom back from an authoritarian state, which had been accepted solely for the purpose of safety and survival. One only needs to look at Maslow's pyramid to see that we seek safety before we seek other higher needs.
I understand that there are various forms of anarchist thought and indeed, some anarchists are actually closer to libertarian, meaning that government should only exist for the protection of the individual. However, for the sake of this particular argument, I have stuck to the philosophy of pure anarchy, which is the total absence of a state. Government does not just exist. Government is the result of individual needs and it's structure is not just necessary for us to live the lives we live, but it is the natural result of our own human needs.
Without the governmental authority, the world would be horrible and the disputes will increase. In addition, the production will decrease.
They claim that the production will increase with the liberty, although the biggest production in the world in China which is not democratic country. On the other hand, the economy is very weak in the countries which have weak governments like African countries.
Thus, for Kant, anarchy falls short of being a true civil state because the law is only an "empty recommendation" if force is not included to make this law efficacious. For there to be such a state, force must be included while law and freedom are maintained, a state which Kant calls republic.
As summary Kant named four kinds of government:
A. Law and freedom without force (anarchy).
B. Law and force without freedom (despotism).
C. Force without freedom and law (barbarism).
D. Force with freedom and law (republic).
Without a stable government, business cannot thrive. And without a regulated currency business cannot even exist. Assume we where to go to anarchy, who then would be running the car manufacturers? Or Apple? Or Microsoft? No one. If a currency does not exist (which it wouldn't in an anarchistic society) then the ability to mass produce goods would be lost. Simple bartering wouldn't be able to make up the difference in people's lives. Think about it, all your company makes is shoes...How do you compensate your employees for time given producing shoes? Eventually they will have enough pairs of shoes to last ten lifetimes and then what? You cannot eat a shoe, a car, an ipod, and on and on. Anarchy can only exist as something to judge our current system, not an all together political difference. Or think about it in a completely different way...The basic electricity we use to do anything would not exist either. For 99% of what we have today comes from corporations and government. Remember when you read about the feudal system, France used back in the dark ages? That is what anarchy would turn into. Each family would be responsible for themselves, which means no facebook (oh no), no organized sports, no television, or anything. The human race would be set back literally hundreds of years of progress. Think about that.
If you get rid of the government and replace it with "the people" soon there will be a government that arises out the various "negotiations" between groups of people. News for you pal, but "multicentric defense and communal institutions" would be a form of government.
If you get rid of t he government and replace it with "the corporations" such as in anarchocapitalism then the corporations are basically "the government" in all but name.
There will always be a government, recognized or not.
Political ideology, no matter what your views, must be well thought out and defined in order to be sustained by the original thinkers and expressed in a way that would lead others to want to follow the same strategy. Anarchy creates confusion and unrest, something that will not serve as a useful long-term set of beliefs.
I think government's primary role is to protect the people and enforce the rule of law. Anarchists believe that competing security firms can take over that role. But, they do not consider that each of those agencies will fight for control, as in the old west, and we would end up with gangs of powerful agencies ruling over us, and no rule of law to protect us. The government is there to protect us, as laid out in the Constitution.
If anything, anarchism is the absence of political thought. Politics attempts to rule over a mass of people by providing a baseline of services and rules to follow, and anarchy would ensure that, at a very minimum, no rules would be followed. This suggests that it is not something that should be associated with political thought, but rather social theory.
There has never been a society that has successfully implemented anarchy. Countries without a government system end up being the poorest countries in the world. The people struggle to have what they need. However, these countries do not truly follow this ideology. People struggle for power in these situations. War lords take over and dictate their own rules. Violence then reigns. This is what anarchy looks like in practice. Therefore, it is not a useful ideology.


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Loic Remy is attracting the attention of Champions League clubs, according to QPR manager Harry Redknapp.
The French striker, who is on loan at Newcastle, is expected to leave the west London outfit in the summer, with no guarantee of Premier League football at Loftus Road next season.
Remy has scored 13 goals for the Magpies this season and has a £10 million release clause in his QPR contract, and Redknapp believes many of Europe's elite are waiting to activate it.
"Remy wants to play Champions League football next season, so they tell me," Redknapp told reporters. "The chances of us keeping him are not great if he's got a buy-out clause.
"He's done well at Newcastle, and one or two other big clubs are trying to get him, so there's every chance he will go."
Redknapp also revealed he never had any doubts that Remy would prove a success in the Premier League.
"I chased him at Tottenham, and I knew he would do well," Redknapp said. "He's a scorer, and with the right team pushing to get in the top four, he's capable of getting 20 goals.
"If I say he's worth £20m, and his buy-out clause is £10m or whatever, then it's difficult."


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After more than 40 years as a guide in northern Maine, Wayne Bosowicz, a self-taught wildlife expert, knows it can be hard to keep bears and people apart, especially when food and foolishness collide.
He recalls seeing a man who spotted a black bear at a town landfill get out of his car with a bag of M&Ms in his hands. From a distance, the man tossed a few candies to the bear, drawing it closer and closer, until the beast padded up and clawed the bag of candy out of his hands.
"People sometimes are the biggest problem," said Bosowicz, owner of Foggy Mountain Guide Service in Sebec. "Someone gets raked, and then they want all the bears shot. You almost want to shoot the people."
Officials from the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife report that seeing black bears up close is becoming more common, as bears' habitat in northern Maine shrinks and the human population in the southern half of the state grows.
Prompted by an unusually high number of bear-human interactions last year, they are warning people to be careful about encounters with the animals, which can weigh 300 to 600 pounds.
People are being advised to stay alert — especially from dusk into the dead of night — and to eliminate conditions that attract bears — namely bird seed, garbage and deliberate feeding, said Doug Rafferty, director of public information and education with the department.
In 2012, the Maine Warden Service received 870 bear-related complaints, compared with 395 in 2010 and 436 in 2011. Last year's increase is explained in part by a relatively warm winter and an early spring that brought hungry bears into contact with curious and unwitting humans.
"There are probably more bear in the state than ever in the history of the state," said Bosowicz.
Right now, as mud season wears on, bears are ravenous. Initially, they'll take whatever they can get — soft vegetation to start. But soon they'll be longing for something more tasty, like bird seed or soggy food waste.
A bear's stomach shrinks during denning to the size of a clenched fist, said Bosowicz, who has studied bears for nearly 40 years.
"The first thing they eat is grass … along streams and brooks, and buds," he said. Each week, they extend their territory to find more to eat until mid-June, when they reach their normal shape, stature and appetite. Then, they tend to drift farther back into the forests, away from people.
For now, if you see a bear, steer clear.
"A safe distance would be inside the house," said Rafferty. "That would work for anybody, I think."
And as the weather warms and camping begins, apply those precautions at day's end to outdoor recreation.
"Get everything in," said Rafferty. "And I wouldn't sleep near the cooler."
In general, a bear will not attack unless it's provoked, experts agree.
"My observation is that it's the last thing they want," said Paul Cyr of Presque Isle, a wildlife photographer who owns a small farm and has seen as many as 15 bears in back of his house.
His early impression of most bears was that they were timid, he said. "I thought, 'These guys will die from nervous stomachs,'" he said. "I think they'll run if they have a chance."
The ones he has filmed over the years have reinforced that notion, tending to be skittish, quicker to take off than take a stand, he said.
"Bears are way more scared of us than we are of them," Cyr said. "I've seen raccoons driving bears away."
Still, you might not want to count on that — especially at this time of year, when a 400-pound male is waking up hungry.
That's a bear you want to avoid.
And that's likely the bear you'd run into right now. Black bears are rousing from their long winter denning, a partial hibernation. They've gone a long time without a good meal, so they can be uncharacteristically dangerous.
Should you accidentally stumble on one, leave an escape route. "Don't corner him," said Rafferty. "Give him a way out.
"You have to remember these are wild animals. The misconception is that they're fat and waddle around," he said. "But they can move."
A human being, no matter how afraid or quick, cannot outrun a black bear, which can reach speeds of 35 mph.
You can probably prevent an encounter just by keeping anything a bear might find delectable out of range.
"They're following the odor of food," said Rafferty. "Their sense of smell is more powerful than ours. If they get a whiff, they'll follow it, if it's strong enough."
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The rugged moorland that surrounds Bodmin's found itself under the gaze of the nation over the past few years, as it's been used as one of the filming locations for the BBC's Poldark. Bodmin Moor stars as the backdrop to many a shot of Ross Poldark cantering through the heather on one of his missions, and if you've seen the series then you'll already have an inkling that Bodmin and its countryside are spectacular.
If you like long windswept walks, plenty of opportunities to wander the path less travelled and scenery that changes with the seasons, then Bodmin's the place to do it. The town itself has a charming air that makes it easy to imagine how it looked in days gone by, and you'll find your share of quirky attractions to enjoy while you're there. The Bodmin & Wenford Steam Railway's one of the area's most popular days out, and there's something relaxing about sitting back and watching the landscape roll gently by.
Places to visit in Bodmin
Ok, so let's start with the obvious one – Bodmin Moor's got to be one of our favourite places to visit in Bodmin. There's a wildness to this moor that sets it apart from Dartmoor in neighbouring Devon, and it's a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. With jutting granite outcrops, fluttering heather and historic churches, Bodmin Moor's perfect for those days when you feel like escaping the crowds and finding your very own corner of Cornwall.
Next, it's Bodmin Jail. This imposing jail dates back to the 18th century, and if you're feeling brave you can join one of the tours that guide visitors around the building. With original cells and an atmosphere that only adds to the experience, the jail's inspired more than its share of ghost stories over the years, and there's a restaurant in the building so you can tuck into a plate of something hot while you mull over the tales at the end of your visit.
On a brighter note, make sure you travel the short distance to Lanhydrock, a stunning historic house not far from Bodmin. Owned by the National Trust, Lanhydrock's a beautiful Victorian manor house, and it's home to much of the furniture that it housed in its heyday.
Things to do in Bodmin
With all that countryside within easy reach, holidays in Bodmin make it easy to get out and about and enjoy some activity during your time away from it all. The Camel Trail's a 17 mile stretch of walking and cycling trail that runs all the way from Bodmin to Padstow, and it's nice and flat so it's pretty much suitable for all. Keep your eyes peeled along the way, as there's plenty of wildlife to spot as you make your way to the fishing town of Padstow, and if you work up an appetite you'll have your pick of seafood restaurants that serve up the fresh catch of the day.
If you've never read Daphne du Maurier's The Jamaica Inn then make sure you do before your Bodmin holiday. The real Jamaica Inn sits in the heart of Bodmin Moor, so you'll be able to make your way to the eerie looking inn that inspred the spooky tale. Don't be put off by the novel though, you'll actually be greeted with a warm welcome and great food at this friendly pub, but part of the fun's in imagining how life may have been for those who called the moor home in the days when smuggling was rife.


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'Tis the season for richer game-flavoured dishes thanks to in-season game meats and woodland crops. Our forests are generous with a wealth of delights for us to choose from and we explore the seasonal delight of mushrooms.
There are hundreds of common mushroom varieties such as button and brown mushroom buts some of the tastiest include field mushrooms, morels, oyster mushrooms and blewits. Field mushrooms are delicious with sautéed butter and herbs and are found in summer and autumn in rich open manured grasslands grazed by horses or cows. Morels are best cooked with a touch of cream and chopped chives – they have a light honeycomb pattern and a delicate scent. Oyster mushrooms are found in later autumn and have a very mild flavour – they are delicious fricasseed or sautéed with garlic or finished with cream on a steak.
Mushrooms are so versatile and go well with many other ingredients such as shellfish, poultry and meat. Wild game (also in season) with wild mushrooms is an especially good match – they are made for each other. Mushrooms are also a great option for vegetarians.
The flavour texture and scent of wild mushrooms, available either dried or fresh are very distinct – cultivated mushrooms are more widely available but are no match for the unique appeal of their wild cousins!


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I add some FMOD DSP effect in some instance in FMOD designer , for example FMOD chorus , but in the game , when I play this instance many times , some pop noise appears and finally the istance play the wrong samples !! and when I delete the FMOD chorus effect ,every thing goes well!
but in event player everythings seems OK …
So what's my problem ?
this game is in WINDOWS XP and in FMOD I set the parameter to FORCE SOFTWARE and compress is MP2
- aduan asked 9 years ago
Hi aduan,
I haven't been able to reproduce the behaviour you described. What FMOD API version are you using? Make sure you are checking the FMOD_RESULT being returned from all the FMOD function calls, not checking the result can often lead to unexpected behaviour. A good way to track down a problem like this is to try reproduce the problem by modifying one of the designer api examples.
HI Pete
Thanks for your answer !
We check the program carefully , and we find that when we paly those instance with FMOD desp (FMOD Distortion for example ) ,the active instances keep increasing , Is that normal ? (the intance is one shot sound , not loop)
Do we need call the function to close that?
our audio play source code is :
IF only by this code ,we found the active instacne keep increasing.
So we add the following code in game loop:
if(FMOD_OK != pEvent->getState(&uState))
if (now_time > (pEvent)::Stop_time)
Is that OK ? Our FMOD and API version is 4.2506
Looking forwards to your answer again !
Thanks !
[quote:p69ro0b7]We check the program carefully , and we find that when we paly those instance with FMOD desp (FMOD Distortion for example ) ,the active instances keep increasing , Is that normal ? (the intance is one shot sound , not loop)
Do we need call the function to close that? [/quote:p69ro0b7]
One shot events can hang around if the sound instance [i:p69ro0b7]Loop mode[/i:p69ro0b7] property isn't set to "Oneshot". The default value for this property is "Loop and cutoff" which will cause the event to hang around. To make a one-shot event you can play and forget about you must make sure that Loop mode is set to "Oneshot".
What are the [i:p69ro0b7]Max playbacks[/i:p69ro0b7] and [i:p69ro0b7]Max playbacks behaviour[/i:p69ro0b7] properties for this event?
[quote:p69ro0b7]our audio play source code is :
pEvent->start() [/quote:p69ro0b7]
You should [b:p69ro0b7]always[/b:p69ro0b7] check the FMOD_RESULT being returned:
[code:p69ro0b7]ERRCHECK(result = m_pPoject->getEvent(m_szEvent,FMOD_EVENT_DEFAULT,&pEvent));
ERRCHECK(result = pEvent->start());[/code:p69ro0b7]
[quote:p69ro0b7]f(FMOD_OK != pEvent->getState(&uState))
if (now_time > (pEvent)::Stop_time)
} [/quote:p69ro0b7]
You shouldn't need to do all that.
hi pete
Thanks for your answer . We will check our program .
We set the Max playbacks 100 , is it too terrible ? 😮
[quote:3ci4l1a2]We set the Max playbacks 100 , is it too terrible ?[/quote:3ci4l1a2]
Short answer: yes.
[i:3ci4l1a2]Max playbacks[/i:3ci4l1a2] is the number of instances of this event which can play [b:3ci4l1a2]at the same time[/b:3ci4l1a2]. Normally something like 3 would be enough, if it is a long event and it is used frequently maybe something more like 10, I cannot imagine any event would need 100 max playbacks.
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My new found sarcastic counterpart Talented_ink 's hub www.hubpages.com//hub/Real-hub-of-geniusreally got me thinking about this. Hey I'm not knocking it or anything I just believe that there is a different site for this stuff. I don't just spend time here writing but I read lots and I believe I have found some of the greatest literary geniuses in the world right here on this site; or at-least the best up and comers including myself. Are we not (and I'm painting with a broad brush) here to craft our skill, to develop our writing voices and gain knowledge from others who are even greater than ourselves. To receive feedback from our peers and to be shot down by any idiot with a computer. The point is when I click submit, up pops a whole array of things that hubpages claims not to accept. And yes you keep it very low profile by not using certain words out-right, which is extremely clever of you actually, yet again I digress.
I guess i just wanna put this out there for the individuals who monitor hubpages and present this question to you: Are we able to find any relief from such Photo Galleries who take up front page space under the hubs or hubbers tabs?
Oh and thanks all you lovely ladies out there for your amazing photos, come on guys you know you wish you had caught a few of those beauties 40 to 50 years ago!
funny. I actually looked to see if it was something needing reporting.
As for your story, I'm still wondering, What?, but I've been off HubPages for a while.
I did read another article you wrote. bj
Thanks for the info, I'm new to the Hub and it really made me laugh! I have to admit I often wondered the same thing! After several Hubs, and no followers yet I wondered if there would be a silver lining unless I had dozens of photos on my site. ( I did go back and put pics on mine!) lol Catch ya around!
Could you please publish more of these (I mean the pics)? I really get annoyed by all these wannabe-writers that feel they have to waiste HubPages with their ill attempts, preventing me from finding those artistic pearls, such as this wonderful gallery. ;)
This was great--thanks!
Pen-n-pad to illustrate a point I would not normally bother with a title Beautiful, Busty etc but I look at my fans and people that I am a fan of and if here are comments made, then curiousity gets the better of me and I go to see what the hub is about. You probably wouldn't read my hub "How i lost 25kg's but it is a personal story that embodies the weight loss and health issues that I faced at the time. Good writing attracts good people.As someone said above, a snowball grows and slowly gathers its own momentum. I have often said; ignore the junk and it will die. hubpages is a form of nurture which grows slowly on its own and you gradually get to know who to be fans of and gradually develop your own fan clubs. I enjoyed your counterpoint and the girls.
I now will join your fan club!
Great hub here. Thanks for the counterpoint. Yes the scoring is not important but the reality and meaning of what we writers, at least some of us, try to achieve is what really counts at the end of the day. That is a way of truly expressing ourselves and releasing that inner fuel that drives us to create with words, and the occasional, apt photo for illustration.
Read my hub on the Secret Society.
I got a shout out....YAY! When I first saw the title for this hub, I thought you had finally lost your doggone mind. Way to hit 'em with the sarcasm!
Variety is the spice of life.
On hubpages like life we have a tendency to focus on the current mood or circumstances. I am guessing that you are frustrated by the slow pace of getting your hard work seen.
Just keep writing, you will get a following. If you focus only on getting on the hot list front page you will only be banging your head against the wall. (unless you pick an explosive topic.) Hubpages are like the Internet in general, it is a challenge to get your work found.
The only way to do it is stick with it and write lots of hubs, each one can add a couple more to your following. It is like a snowball, starts out very small and slowly grows.
Good luck, keep it up and remember, pictures no matter how nice only take a moment to see. Someone interested in exercising their brain will search for quality writing and will return when they find it.
And in the meantime eat healthy and go natural. :-)


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Summer has once again rolled round, and as clockwork as unseasonable British weather, is the release of a new Taiko no Tatsujin game. No stranger to handhelds this generation after several on DS and PSP, this new entry marks the series debut on the 3DS. Is there much to distinguish it from prior years releases, or is this more of the same?
For the uninitiated, Taiko no Tatsujin is a rhythm game series, based around the Taiko drum. Console releases in the past have had optional drum peripherals available, mimicking their arcade counterparts, but whereas the PSP games relied solely on button input, Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb (which translates as "Litte Dragon and the Mysterious Orb") follows on from the DS versions in taking advantage of the touchscreen, allowing the use of the two stylui that are included in the box to provide an experience more akin to the console and arcade versions via a virtual drum on the bottom screen.
As notes pass from right to left, the correct button or area of the touchscreen must be hit as they pass over a marker. Red notes relate to the face of the drum or any of the d-pad or face buttons, with blue ones being mapped to the outer edge of the drum or the L/R shoulder buttons. Larger versions of these notes require both stylus' to hit a section of the drum, or alternatively, pressing any two directions or buttons simultaneously. Yellow "freestyle" notes round out the input options, allowing frantic bashing of touchscreen or buttons in order to increase the overall score. This is a series that is perfect for sharing with those who don't usually play games as it can be picked up and learnt almost instantly.
So what is there to attract long-term series fans? The main draw is the adventure mode that is inherant to the portable versions. Each one has been slightly different over the years, but essentially they boil down to being a story mode where battles are fought with enemies via playing songs in the usual way, albeit with some alterations to keep things interesting. Here, our intrepid Taiko drum travels across several regions with the titular Chibi dragon in tow, facing off against foes until a boss appears. Once defeated, one of the games seven Mysterious Orbs are awarded, each able to be used in the battles as an elemental power up. Before battle, the choice of orbs that have been captured is given and brought into the fight. Some, such as the fire orb, see the dragon attack the boss with a powerful attack in the middle of the song. Others are more tactical, such as the orange one which sees the larger notes deal out more damage. Whilst it's by no means a complex or particularly deep mode, using the right orb against the right enemy will see them taken down faster and more efficiently, in turn affecting the score, something that is all important in what is, at the end of the day, an arcade experience.
Unsurprisingly, it's the 3D effect that is the most noticeable change to the game. When fighting bosses, they will use a variety of attacks that cover or distort the scrolling notes, making them harder to see and easier to miss. Whilst this is the same formula as in the previous games, the 3D really stands out, making it both more pleasant to look at (it's mostly "pop-out" 3D) and frustrating in equal measure.
The songlist is always going to be something you'll either love or hate, depending on how much tolerance you have for J-Pop and the like. The usual offering of anime and game themes, kids songs and classical numbers are here with the standard difficulty levels ranging from almost insultingly easy to the sort of challenge that makes the chanced of 3DS meeting wall all the more likely.
It's not just completing the adventure mode and trying to earn a gold crown (awarded after a no-miss run) on each song though, as there is plenty to unlock. New songs are awarded once bosses have been defeated, and new costumes that give Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai competition for most ridiculously cute game on the system are handed out once a certain amount of crowns have been earned. It's not going to add months to the replay value, but it does provide a nice


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I/O Registry (
The I/O registry is only meant to be used directly by users who want
to define their own custom readers/writers. Users who want to find
out more about what built-in formats are supported by
Table by default should see
Unified file read/write interface. No built-in formats are currently defined for
NDData, but this will be added in
The I/O registry is a sub-module used to define the readers/writers available
for the
Table and
NDData classes.
The following example demonstrates how to create a reader for the
Table class. First, we can create a highly
simplistic FITS reader which just reads the data as a structured array:
from astropy.table import Table
def fits_table_reader(filename, hdu=1):
from astropy.io import fits
data = fits.open(filename)[hdu].data
return Table(data)
and then register it:
from astropy.io import registry
registry.register_reader('fits', Table, fits_table_reader)
Reader functions can take any arguments except
format (since this
is reserved for
read()) and should return an instance of the class specified as the second argument of
register_reader (
Table in the above case.)
We can then read in a FITS table with:
t = Table.read('catalog.fits', format='fits')
In practice, it would be nice to have the
read method automatically
identify that this file was a FITS file, so we can construct a function that
can recognize FITS files, which we refer to here as an identifier function.
An identifier function should take a first argument that should be a string
which indicates whether the identifier is being called from
read or
write, and should then accept arbitrary number of positional and keyword
arguments via
*args and
**kwargs, which are the arguments passed to
Table.read. We can write a simplistic function that only looks at
filenames (but in practice, this function could even look at the first few
bytes of the file for example). The only requirement is that it return a
boolean indicating whether the input matches that expected for the format:
def fits_identify(origin, *args, **kwargs):
return isinstance(args[0], basestring) and \
args[0].lower().split('.')[-1] in ['fits', 'fit']
Identifier functions should be prepared for arbitrary input - in particular, the first argument may not be a filename or file object, so it should not assume that this is the case.
We then register this identifier function:
registry.register_identifier('fits', Table, fits_identify)
And we can then do:
t = Table.read('catalog.fits')
If multiple formats match the current input, then an exception is
raised, and similarly if no format matches the current input. In that
case, the format should be explicitly given with the
keyword argument.
Similarly, it is possible to create custom writers. To go with our simplistic FITS reader above, we can write a simplistic FITS writer:
def fits_table_writer(table, filename, clobber=False):
import numpy as np
from astropy.io import fits
fits.writeto(filename, np.array(table), clobber=clobber)
We then register the writer:
io_registry.register_writer('fits', Table, fits_table_writer)
And we can then write the file out to a FITS file:
t.write('catalog_new.fits', format='fits')
If we have registered the identifier as above, we can simply do:
astropy.io.registry Module¶
register_reader(data_format, data_class, ...)
|Register a reader function.
register_writer(data_format, data_class, ...)
|Register a table writer function.
register_identifier(data_format, data_class, ...)
|Associate an identifier function with a specific data type.
identify_format(origin, data_class_required, ...)
get_reader(data_format, data_class)
get_writer(data_format, data_class)
read(cls, *args, **kwargs)
|Read in data
write(data, *args, **kwargs)
|Write out data
|Get the list of registered I/O formats as a Table.