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Blogs archive
Below is a list of past blogs based on a range of topics.
Arts and humanities
- Adrian Vickers' Indonesia blog
A series of notes and discussions about research Adrian, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, undertook about Indonesia.
- ArtSS in Motion
The experiences and thoughts of students, staff and alumni from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
- The Business of Art
A forum relating the roles and influences of business and economics in the production, consumption and valuation of the visual arts.
- The Cultured Object
Bringing China and Australia together through the art of jewellery.
- Digital Repost
A space for reposting news, events and other content related to digital culture at the University
- Max Lane: Southeast Asia and international affairs
Fostering serious discussion on international and Asian affairs.
Race and Ethnicity in the Global South
- SOPHIstry
Blog of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
- Transient languages and culture
Work on endangered languages in the Oceania region.
- Thinking about music
A discussion of themes in the philosophy of music
- Yiddish @ Sydney
Focuses on the research done by members of the Yiddish program at the University
Business and Law
- A Woman's Constitution
Reflections on constitutional law and scholarship from a woman law professor's perspective.
- Global Opportunities
... at the University of Sydney Business School
- Los Angeles Placement Program
Read about the experiences of our students who are studying and interning in LA!
- Methodological and Empirical Advances in Financial Analysis
Supporting the work of the cross-disciplinary research group MEAFA, which promotes methodical analytical work with empirical applications in financial analysis.
- Thalia Anthony on Indigenous Legal Rights
Reflections on legal issues and developments pertaining to Australian Indigenous people especially stolen wages, sentencing and policy.
- Tim Stephens
Peregrinations in International Law by Associate Professor and Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law, Tim Stephens
- Washington DC Placement Program
During their stay in the United States, participants in the Washington DC Internship Program share their experiences of work, study and all else that is life.
Communications, publishing and the web
- Open access
An informed discussion on the benefits of open access publishing, developments in the area and at the University of Sydney
- Templatedata
Developing the web at the University of Sydney
- Style matters
Tips, techniques, and design discussions for web and print publishing, especially useful for marketing and communications staff
Health and medicine
- Sydney Health Policy Network
Promoting cross-disciplinary health policy research, education and advocacy.
Learning and teaching
- E-learning Research
The CoCo Research Centre's blog on how new technologies can support and enhance learning.
- Students work like marine biologists ending with the immortal lines 'Attempting to finish our Underbelly Season 2 marathon which Ben and I had begun on SS2010 V08, we fell asleep to the uninspiring Kiwi accents and gratuitous nudity'
Staff Experience
- "WiSci" Women in Science Project
Discussion of experiences working and studying in the field of science.
Student experience
- Graduate life
All about graduate study at Sydney


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This I Believe
I believe in to just stop thinking it over and stop procrastinating and do it. When I was younger I was chosen to go on stage at Nickelodeon Studios for a game. As they were preparing me and dressing me in a suit I was to busy thinking on what was happening and all the people there and what to do, I told to the lady I wanted to go back and sit down with my parents. As watching the kid that took my place from the audience have a blast on stage sliming other kids and getting slimed I was very disappointed. When I look back and think about it I wish I could have gone on stage, and maybe I would have been in the same place as I am now but I would have had the memory that I got up on stage and got slimed.
Last year I was not going to try out for the Lacrosse team because once again I thought, I thought that I was not going to make it. Until my friend told me to try out the day before try outs, and said what is the worst thing that could happen, so I tried out and I made it and got a lot of playing time too. I did not think about it I just did it. Was I the best absolutely not, but now I love the sport because I just tried out for it, just did it.
If everyone just stopped and thought then our lives would be boring, most of our memories have come from one of your friends doing something fun and crazy or you did something fun or crazy, I mean when your friends stands up on a table and starts dancing you think they thought about it, but to you it was hilarious, and you would never forget it. I have talked myself out of doing really fun things just because I was scared. I regret not doing some of those things because I was afraid of what people would think, but if I did then I would have had so much fun. I would have met so many more people and had so many more fun and memorable experiences if I just did it and not over analyze the situation.
I believe that we would all just have more fun if we just went with our natural reaction instead of thinking it over to many times and eventually talking yourself out of what ever you were planning on doing.
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Power Rangers DinoThunder: Triassic Triumph (December 11/04)
Power Rangers DinoThunder is the latest Mighty Morphin Power Rangers spinoff, and it's not difficult to see why the series has managed to stick around for so long. Aimed unapologetically at young children, the show features easy-to-identify-with heroes and detestable bad guys (the latter of which are always vanquished). When in human form, the Power Rangers participate in soap opera-esque plot lines that most adolescents will be able to relate to (ie how to deal with a bully). Triassic Triumph collects five episodes of the series.
Episode #1, "It's a Mad Mad Mackerel," opens with Kira starting an internship at a TV station, where she's working on a children's TV show. One of Mesogog's minions finds out about this, though, and dispatches several monsters to her location - forcing Kira to transform into her Power Ranger alter-ego there and then. Meanwhile, Mesogog's son - the evil White Power Ranger - is squabbling with a fellow villain for second-in-command status.
"Copy That" features a new villain that is able to copy whatever weapon it is being attacked with, leaving the Rangers unable to defeat it. Luckily the White Ranger is transformed back into his good self, allowing him to help in the fight against the monster. Meanwhile, Dr. Mercer is struggling to keep his evil alter-ego from emerging, but Mesogog won't be vanquished that easily.
In "Triassic Triumph," Mesogog creates a powerful clone of the White Ranger, along with a powerful dino-villain that seems determined to kill the Rangers. Meanwhile, Conner finds himself playing second banana to a Russian student who has a reputation for being a much better soccer player.
Kira is the focus of "A Star is Torn," as she receives the opportunity to release one of her songs as a single and video. But when she meets up with the producer, Kira discovers that he wants to turn her into an '80s-style techno act. Meanwhile, Mesogog has learned about the Rangers' efforts to develop a super-weapon and decides to step in before they have a chance to finish building it.
The disc's final episode, "A Ranger Exclusive," Kira learns that Conner has been seeing the nerd-hating Cassidy - and is cajoled into introducing her to the TV station's general manager. Fortunately for Cassidy, she just happens to be in the right place at the right time and captures footage of the Rangers defeating Mesogog's latest monster (and as such, winds up impressing said general manager).
Older viewers will be hard-pressed to find much here worth embracing, although there's no denying that the show isn't quite as bad as one might expect. This is mostly thanks to the various performers, who are surprisingly charismatic and adept.


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"Evening of Elegance" to Benefit Two Local Festivals
The second annual 'Evening of Elegance' will be held at the Crosswinds Restaurant (320 S. Lake St. Whitehall) on Saturday, June 3, from 6:00 – 10:00 pm. This exquisite evening of fine dining, dancing, and music benefits two of our community's most favored festivals!
The 'Evening of Elegance' is presented by the Arts Council of White Lake and the Book Nook & Java Shop. The proceeds from the event will help to fund both the West Michigan Wine & Jazz Festival (June 29 – July 4) and the Arts Council of White Lake's Chamber Music Festival (August 3 – 13). Come support two great White Lake festivals while having a wonderful evening with friends!
Tickets for the 2nd annual "Evening of Elegance" are available online at www.eventbrite.com-evening-of-elegance and at the Book Nook & Java Shop, 8744 Ferry St., Montague. Tickets are $95 per person until May 1. After May 1, tickets are $100. Music will be provided by Tim Johnson and Friends.
For more information, please contact Director Sondra Cross at 231-329-3056 or visit us online at www.artswhitelake.org.
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Wild mushroom & goat cheese filo cups
Shrimp & crawfish cocktail
Heirloom cherry tomatoes stuffed with dill salmon mousse
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Classic caprese salad on baby artisan greens
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Served with lemon and almond sautéed haricot vert and rosemary roasted potatoes
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- January 15th, 2011
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This is a great reason to stay connected on Facebook, because your friends ask questions and their friends can also answer them who you are not connected to. This was a FREE piece of technology I didn't know about for keeping my computer systems optimized. (In non-tech speak that means, it allows your computer to go a little faster, clean up old useless files, and organize it better. ) The FREE version of Advance System Care 3 doesn't allow for scheduling the software to automatically do it, so schedule yourself weekly to click their icon. It's a no brainer.


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Are you interested in getting fit without stressing out or overworking yourself? If so, it is a great idea to perform some of the best weight loss exercises on a daily basis. While working out may not be your favorite thing to do, there are some exercises you can do that are enjoyable, simple and still extremely effective at helping with the weight loss process.
The Cardio Combo
Completing cardiovascular exercises is extremely important when you are trying to lose weight. These are the exercises that will help you burn more calories and fat. One way to have fun with it is to complete a series of different routines. As an example, this is what one of your cardio combo workouts may consist of:
• 30 Jumping Jacks
• 30 Squats
• 30 High Knees
• 30 Crunches
• 30 seconds jogging
After completing this routine, you could easily start over from the jumping jacks and work your way down the list repeatedly until you have exercised for a total of 30-45 minutes. You will start to feel your heart racing and your body may even begin to sweat while you are completing this kind of routine, but that is a good thing when you want to lose weight.
The Treadmill Routine
Working out on a treadmill is a great way to lose weight. You get to run at a comfortable speed without leaving your home, which is especially ideal when it is raining, snowing or simply too hot outside for you to want to run outdoors. There is a convenient way for you to get an even better workout by adjusting the incline and speed at certain points. In fact, this is one example of a treadmill routine you can do to start losing extra weight in no time:
• Start at speed 4 with an incline of 5% for five minutes
• Increase the speed to 5 while reducing the incline to 3% for five minutes
• Set the speed back at 4 and increase the incline to 6% for eight minutes
• Lower your speed to 3 and reduce the incline to 1% for ten minutes
By changing the speed and incline after several minutes, you will experience a feeling that is similar to running outside on a path with different hills and turns. As you are running on an incline, you will feel the burn in your thighs and legs, but you will have just enough time to cool down after adjusting the speed and reducing the incline. Although this is a great example, you can always switch up the speed and incline to make it even more ideal for you.
The overall best weight loss exercises include cardiovascular routines. If you would like to burn calories, it is important to get your body up and moving, whether you are doing jumping jacks, squats, crunches, jogging in place or even running on the treadmill at different speeds. While exercising may seem like a chore, these fun routines may help you achieve fitness goals without any stress.


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Random thoughts about running(and life) that are racing through my brain…
-When you accomplish your goal & finish a race…you must always have a NEXT in mind. Otherwise the exhilaration & feeling of accomplishment lends itself to emptiness & lack of motivation. It would be easy to fall back to square one.
-After last weeks 5k(where my family all ran together)…no one has wanted to run w/me all week!!! But, I understand…I felt the same way after my first 3 races. The Lord always sent me some form of encouragement to keep going forward.
-Even when you don't feel it…take the next step anyway. Feelings come & go…right choices ultimately take you where you want to be. I enjoyed having Matt back on the track with me this morning!
-Every race, even if it's not pretty (ie~my Talladega run)…has it's own unique triumphs, struggles & meaning.
-Can't get MILE ELEVEN at the Talladega out of my head. At a point in life that I had never been past…never ran more than 11 miles at one time(a half marathon is 13.1 miles)…the Lord gave me this song on my i-pod, it started playing exactly as I passed the 11 mile marker. That moment changed my life. I am still not able to comprehend completely all that moment meant to me. That song summarizes my life & my relationship with the Lord. I now listen to it every time that I run.
I'm sure that I'll dedicate a blog to each topic someday….but for now…maybe my mind can rest…


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It's no secret that Zendaya has been killing it on the red carpet lately, and the ruby red Marchesa dress she wore to the Golden Globes on Sunday was no exception.
Still, killer dresses can be, well, killer when it comes to partying: As pretty as it is, all that length and volume can really hold you back from boogying down. But if you thought Zendaya would let something like that get in her way of busting a move, you were mistaken. The style star headed out to the after parties and transformed her elegant gown into a fun cocktail length dress. It was a genius combination of finding the right dress (thanks to longtime stylist Law Roach) and following her heart to the dance floor.
"I can't take much credit for the transition from long to short," says Law. "It was one part great construction from Marchesa and the other Zendaya hiking up her dress ready to dance the night away."
Click through to see Zendaya's incredible dress transformation, and take notes when out shopping for your prom dress this season: Anything you can customize to show off your slick moves is best!
Boom! Totally brilliant: By hiking up the bottom tiers, she loses none of the drama but gains a lot more freedom of movement. Bonus? Now she gets to show off those incredible black sandals.
Another extra idea for prom: Someone who can help you get down stairs without tripping. Hey, we can dream!
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It sounds like a good class that might be helpful, so I thought I'd share.
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Of the two, the apocalypticists are the worst. A nationalist can kill few before being defeated because they can´t hide the fact that they work for themselves and they find rapid opposition.
But the apocalypticsts work "for the good of humanity" and are here and there, everywhere, ready to commit whatever crimes to advance or avoid the coming apocalypse. And because their propaganda say that they work for the good of Humanity, and not for themselves and their laboratories and their political careers, they find little opposition. On the contrary, they find armies of hyperinformed idiots.
These, their followers are late-news addicts with null background knowledge in human affairs and almost in anything else except his little specialization, incapable to interpret and integrate what they see and hear for a couple of yeas if not days and compose mentally the big picture. Their fish-like memory and their opinions are shaped by professional opinators that follow the smell of money and power,
You can do little against their propaganda armies. Their generals don´t have personal lifes. They are like priests, dedicated to evangelize unbelievers to their obsessions. Occupy the bureaucracies of the states and specially the international institutions. they feel compelled to work in the mass media and the Education to extend their propaganda. You will never win the battle. You have a familly, children, a future in which to think... Those that believe in the apocalypse don`t.
Just mock at them. sit patiently an wait for the reality to work for you, and the apocalypse will ridicule them one more time with his absence.
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
Thomas Malthus ☨1834
Thomas Malthus ☨1834


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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
What a Great Year to be a Blogger!
Happy Birthday to A Year of Reading! We are one year old today! What a great year it's been! We feel very lucky to be part of an amazing group of kid lit bloggers! We have so many people to thank--people who have made the kidlitosphere such fun!
We can use the term "kidlitosphere" thanks to Melissa's post at Here in the Bonny Glen when she invented it in June. It hit big and fast and was picked up by Wands and Worlds and made official by Liz at A Chair, A Fireplace, and A Tea Cozy. As of today's post, the word gets 538 Google hits when searched! Thanks Melissa!
Here are some other highlights from 2006!
In JANUARY, we had no idea what we were doing. So, there was probably a lot of great stuff going on but we totally missed it all!
In FEBRUARY, Betsy at Fuse#8 revealed her first Hot Men in Children's Literature which has become quite the tradition! Aside from her great book reviews and her knowledge of what is going on in the children's book world, the Hot Men are another fun thing to look forward to regularly from Fuse #8.
Also in FEBRUARY, Kelly at Big A, Little a published the first issue of The Edge of the Forest! This has been a great monthly online journal that we all look forward to!
In MARCH, Gregory K at GottaBook started to share his ODDAPTATAIONS which have been quite fun to read and try!
Poetry Friday was also instituted in MARCH! So many of us participate in that each Friday. Thanks, Kelly!
In APRIL, Gregory shared his first Fib which have also become something we all look forward to on his blog.
In MAY, Mother Reader issued the 48-Hour Book Challenge. We did not notice this until it was well under way. (We had just discovered Mother Reader and became quickly addicted!). We were VERY disappointed about not participating but we are anxiously awaiting the 2007 Book Challenge as well as any other contests that Mother Reader devises!
Read Roger was the first kid-lit blog that we discovered! He hooked us into the blogging world and connected us to so many of our other favorites! In JUNE, Read Roger let us know that Nina, of Nina's Newbery would be the 2008 Chair of the Newbery Committee. Since our blog started out as a way to think about the Newbery, we were very excited to start reading Nina's blog!
In JUNE, Jen Robinson had the great idea to compile a list of Cool Girls in Children's Literature and Cool Boys in Children's Literature. What great lists! She inspired many of us to start our own lists. In JULY, we started collecting our list of 100 Cool Teachers in Children's Literature. The Bookdragon compiled a list of Librarians in Children's Literature. Jen started a great trend and the kidlitosphere created some popular lists!
In AUGUST, we celebrated Blogday when we got tagged by A Chair, A Fireplace and a Tea Cozywith a blogday meme . We participated along with many other bloggers everywhere!
In August, Rick Riordan posted about summer reading and got many of us thinking and writing about that topic.
In SEPTEMBER, Educating Alice became one of our new beloved blogs and shared with us her thoughts about naming a blog .
In OCTOBER, BookBuds and Big A little a unveiled the CYBILS and Children's Literature Book Club created the logo. So many of us have had such a great time talking about the great books published in 2006 and the publishers have been very supportive. Thanks to Anne and Kelly.
In NOVEMBER, Amy at the SLJ Blog interviewed us for her blog!
We also attempted our first author interview in NOVEMBER with Ralph Fletcher.
DECEMBER was an exciting month!
3 Silly Chicks revealed the winner of their caption contest. We are still laughing and are amazed at how many clever entries there were! We had fun following the contest. More exciting news when author Mo Willems started a blog!!
Thanks, everyone! We've had a fun time blogging with all of you! Looking forward to our 2nd year:-)
Franki and Mary Lee
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Happy Birthday!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your post on highlights of the past year in the kidlitosphere. I am a novice in the world of children's literature bloggers. I didn't become a regular contributor to the Blue Rose Girls until last fall
Happy New Year, too!
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And a happy blogoversary to y'all, indeed! May your new year be full of reading, too....ReplyDelete
What a great recap of the year! I'm so pleased to be part of it, and so happy to have gotten to know you both throughout the year (albeit virtually so far).ReplyDelete
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|06 Jul 2012
BSOD STOP 101 when watching netflix (fine when gaming in bf3/Diablo 3)
Hey guys,
my friends PC that she just got has been randomly BSOD'ing whenever she watches netflix (and only netflix). It doesnt always BSOD, sometimes it just completely locks up and you have to hard power cycle it because nothing is responding.
I've attached the BSOD minidumps as well as the output of msinfo32 and dxdiag. Let me know if anything else is needed.
System specs are in attachments, but heres a quick rundown
Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit)
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 Motherboard
AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor, 3624 Mhz
16.0 GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
So, here's what I've tried so far,
* since its only been affecting netflix so far I reinstalled Silverlight.
* the minidumps point to RT64win7.sys, so i reinstalled and tried 4-5 different versions of the Realtek drivers that are for the built-in card in question (currently latest driver is installed)
* tried turning off AMD Cool/Quiet and C1E support on the bios (i had a weird C1E issue on my mobo so i figured I'd at least try that)
* tested chrome, internet explorer and firefox... all have the issue.
any help on this would be greatly appreciated, this issue's been driving me up a wall.
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|06 Jul 2012
on a side note,
i'm going to follow this guide on Saturday to see if its the CPU or not.
Class 101 for 0x101 Bugchecks
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|06 Jul 2012
We prefer that you follow the https://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html to provide more information, but I will do the best I can with the given information.
3rd Party Drivers:
Drivers in red should be updated. Drivers in blue are corrupted and should be uninstalled and re-installed. Drivers in sea green are known to cause issues with Windows 7 and the software should be removed from the system:
The link you refer to is a good place to start. It is strange that it is pointing to a network driver, though. I rarely see 0x101 show a driver in the stack; it is usually all Windows based... I wonder if it is due to the corrupted LogMeIn software.
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|06 Jul 2012
well after looking thru the memory.dmp and checking the interupt levels on the processors, it doesnt appear to be bad hardware as the 'r if' output was 0 and not 1. I've attached the requested full info dump.
Im having my friend reinstall logmein and remove the gigabyte software
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|06 Jul 2012
You seem well versed in using the debugger. Nice work! I assume you read the thread by Vir Gnarus, who is probably the best I have seen at digging deep into .dmp files and coming out with very useful info.
Let us know how things go with the LogMeIn re-install and whether fixing its drivers stops the processor hang.
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|07 Jul 2012
I'm still learning the debugging end
I've done alot of coding so doing it from this side is just taking a bit of time getting used to it..
2: kd> !thread THREAD fffffa801554b060 Cid 10d8.0f74 Teb: 000000007efaa000 Win32Thread: fffff900c2aaac20 RUNNING on processor 2 Not impersonating DeviceMap fffff8a0099bf640 Owning Process fffffa8015821060 Image: chrome.exe Attached Process N/A Image: N/A Wait Start TickCount 1149033 Ticks: 524 (0:00:00:08.174) Context Switch Count 3155 LargeStack UserTime 00:00:00.140 KernelTime 00:00:00.062 Win32 Start Address 0x0000000069266d4d Stack Init fffff8800ac81c70 Current fffff8800ac80e80 Base fffff8800ac82000 Limit fffff8800ac7b000 Call 0 Priority 11 BasePriority 10 UnusualBoost 0 ForegroundBoost 0 IoPriority 2 PagePriority 5 Child-SP RetAddr : Args to Child : Call Site 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x0 2: kd> !irql 2 Debugger saved IRQL for processor 0x2 -- 0 (LOW_LEVEL) 2: kd> !gle Unable to read TEB at 000000007efaa000 2: kd> !TEB 000000007efaa000 TEB at 000000007efaa000 error InitTypeRead( TEB )...
probably helpful to note that this is an 8 core computer.... had to get the stack off the core that caused the issue (core #2), which in this case... wasnt in memory during the dump :/
here's a link to the full memory dump (once it finishes sync'ing to my dropbox around 2am Central time given my current speed)
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|07 Jul 2012
I am also a software developer. I enjoy doing the debugging work and determining what is causing crashes.
Unfortunately, I have not yet learned the differences between the minidump and kernel dump since I rarely receive a MEMORY.DMP on these forums. I just started learning this back in November, and we have since lost a number of our blue screen experts due to them burning out, moving to other things, etc. so I have picked up a number of threads to keep the crashes and debugging forum well supported. I work on here as a volunteer in my free time, and spend the rest of my time doing PhD research. I say all this because it leaves me with very little free time to learn more of the intricacies of kernel based analysis.
I feel bad that you uploaded that file since I cannot provide more insight with it.
|My System Specs
|07 Jul 2012
Quick update on this issue.
Uninstalled the realtek NIC and did the 'remove driver' option, then also went into device manager, showed hidden devices and removed the realtek NDIS device. Rebooted and reinstalled the nic drivers (RtNdPt60.sys Dec 13 2010 (NDIS driver), RT64Win7.sys Sep 29 2011 (device driver)) and it seems to be working at the moment as we where able to watch netflix for 30 minutes without a crash.
I'll monitor for a week before writing up a final resolution post and marking as solved
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|08 Jul 2012
Thank you for posting back the details of your steps. That may help others who have similar problems. Was LogMeIn also taken care of?
Even though it may not have been the direct cause, LogMeIn was corrupted and may cause other issues down the line. Just wanted to make sure that was also resolved. :)
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|08 Jul 2012
We uninstalled logmein, and watched netflix prior to my purging of all things realtek. Still got a bsod. After reinstalling the realtek driver per my last post, theres only been 1 bsod (same issue) but before the bsod, silverlight actually did an appcrash first. So.... hopefully there's some info in there on whats going on :)
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Hello again. I have a dilemma.
I have a short story I want to submit for a deadline at the beginning of August. It's been most of the way written since the end of January. The sticking point is the final, or possibly penultimate, scene. It's a sex scene, an explicit one. I'm struggling because it's something I'm a little (OK, a lot) uncomfortable with. There's no question it has to be included, however. It's an essential part of how my characters reconnect after their relationship nearly founders. One of the things that was wrong was that they weren't making love any more, just having (infrequent and perfunctory) sex. So they're going to have to talk. Of course they are. They'd lost touch with each other along the way. But they also have to make love.
On. The. Page.
After four or five months allowing myself to be distracted with the new shiny that was the editing and production process for Working it Out, I really need to get back to it. I have to just buckle down and write it as a clunky laundry list and then start moulding that into something more like what I need. It's just that I have this perfectionist streak that makes me want to write it right the first time. I do know that's not possible. But. I can't help thinking wistfully that I ought to be able to.
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Well said, Bob. Those are the kinds of things you really don't think about...
As for questions, um... all I got is "What do you think of the 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'" craze?
Though anything involving cliche fantasy tropes and what writers can do to spice them up would be good...
EDIT: How about the new DCU? Or even your favorite South Park Episodes?
Nice video, and all very true.
An excellent example of anti-African architectural ignorance: reader, name a World famous African building that wasn't made by Egypt.
What if I told you that the chief contender for the biggest structure in the World was African? The wall of Benin is five times longer than the great wall of China, yet the odds are, you've never heard of it. The alarming thing is that few have, specifically because British Colonists knocked it down for the sole purpose of "punishing" the state.
Not only did we stereotype Africans as primitives, we forcefully manufactured that stereotype by destroying evidence to the contrary. What a legacy.
Spot, I think you asked a good question. "We know their outlook was highly racist, but can we prove this specifically is a manifestation of that racism?" I don't know the answer to that, but I do have a guess: most likely. I'm a history major, and I've perused endless primary sources from many time periods. Take it from me- people don't hold that shit back. Or if they do, it's very, very new. We really don't need to psychoanalyze any 19th century historians. If they thought black Africans lacked the capacity to construct sophisticated structures, they probably just fucking said so.
Like I said, I don't actually know the answer to your question. But experience tells me you will probably find it in very plain bold language.
Imagine how much it blew the minds of the Christian conquistadores to find fully living, breathing, functioning civilisations in South America that still worshipped a whole host of gods and who, in turn, were very much aware of the legacy left to them by still older, vanished, civilisations.
Also in terms of popular "culture" the concept of the Lost City is far older; see the already mentioned El Dorado in South America and the lost civilisation of the Christian king Prester John holding court somewhere in the wilderness of Africa/Asia that was fairly well-propagated as early as the Middle Ages.
I recognise the overall point of the video but I don't see how it follows. The Lost City, at least as I've always understood it, speaks to a hidden native nobility untouched by the excesses of the West and is not inherently "racist" so to speak, at least not how we'd understand it nowadays.
It is however, perhaps, inextricably bound up with the innately racial concept of the "other", which pre-dates the colonialist era and is probably, as Bob says, going to stick around for a hell of a long time.
This is my mailbag question please!
Well, the Europeans kind of had a precedent to understand this on, in the form of the rise and fall of the Roman empire. They only needed to look to the ancient aqueducts and the Colosseum in Italy, then look to the millennium between the years 500 - 1500 to see how far a society can fall from such a cultural stage.
Of course, since unlike the Italians the people they encountered elsewhere had no written history to speak of, and generally didn't live at the site of the ruins either, there was nothing to actually link them to these ruins. And their culture was even less advanced than the Italian one had been at any point, making the gap even wider.
Combine this with a pre-existing cultural fascination of "lost cities" dating back to the myths of Atlantis (...and arguably a pre-existing fascination with the strong Christian imagery of societies suddenly being wiped out as well, such as Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, and just the whole Flood thing), and they'd be quite likely to engage in such speculation; Absent any motive of racism.
It's pretty surprising that Bob mentions Atlantis - so well ingrained in our culture that he himself unconsciously links it with "lost city" - without pausing for a second to ponder whether that myth might've been the primary motivation for these fantasies when coming upon unknown ruins from a distant past. But I guess that'd kind of undermine his whole crusade against the racism he can apparently find everywhere.
I think you two have missed the point of what he's trying to say. He's not condemning modern culture for continuing to make films and stories based on a trope that was originally grounded in racism. He's pointing out how the racist attitudes of the past are still ingrained so deeply into human culture in ways that we don't even notice anymore. Another example might be the Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemimah brands in American grocery stores. Are any of these things bad? No. He said so himself. His point was that culture doesn't just rewrite itself from scratch every time people realize their attitudes about some issue were wrong all this time.
What was interesting, because whe you mentioned the idea of lost cities, my mind went to the Central and Southern Americas because because they have still standing castles and monuments...
So is that a case where my not reading has made me more open minded? Because here reading was a product of and a device to spread ignorance...
Why ist the "Ancient Prophecy comes true"-theme so often used in fiction since it never happens in real life.
The first thing that came to my mind was New York,
I guess my question is why do movies like to show New York city desroyed ?
First, Bob this was an excellent video and I'm glad you put it up. I do wish though you had talked about something with more relevance to today and how racism still affects people, like how black students in almost every country still do badly on IQ tests because of a racist bias that states black people aren't smart and it's been reinforced in these kids' minds. Fortunately, these same kids will do better on IQ tests as soon as it gets pointed out to them that some of that racist thinking might still be hiding in their brains somewhere so it's a fairly easy fix.
Second, everyone who keeps bringing up the point of "well, if you had seen huts and didn't see people living in castles wouldn't you assume that these people were primitive too?" I'm sorry, but your point doesn't really stand here. Firstly, there's an assumption already here stating that things Europeans have had (castles) are better than huts and that's not always true. In fact, most huts were better to live in than some of those castles because the air flow was better and castles had to stay in one place where as with huts and similar housing you could move with greater ease and this is a huge advantage in most of Africa. I don't know if most people are aware of this, but there are a lot of crops you can't grow in certain parts of Africa that actually stick around, so it makes it dangerous to try and stay in just one place to live your whole life because you don't have a guaranteed steady food supply. The places that did crop up as castles had things growing there in the past, as well as certain animals there, that weren't necessarily doing as well as they were then and those civilizations used to have a lot of trade to rely on that they later didn't have.
Had the explorers just bothered to ask some of the natives there they would have gotten some of these stories from them, but that would also have required them to have believed them and not dismiss them automatically based on their race, which most of them did. The racism also didn't just come from people thinking that oh these huts aren't like our houses so they must be inferior (though that is unfortunately part of it because colonists from anywhere tended to assume that if a civilization was different from their own it meant it was inferior), you have to keep in mind part of the racist movement from this time period unfortunately came from people making some creepy interpretations from their bibles. People literally thought at one point that people with darker skin were descendants of Cain (the first murderer in history according to that text, just in case someone doesn't know that). This is only one small part of that though, there were people also using evolution (in the later proper time periods - the lost civilization thing kept being a thing for awhile sadly) to also say that hey people with darker skin are inferior to those with lighter skin. This primarily came up though because these people again thought the group they were already part of was the best one (so a French person would think they're better than non-French people as would and English person think that only the English were superior) and with their superiority they thought they could either help those "under" them or use those same people to make themselves better and further their own evolution.
Also, everyone who is saying that the behavior of the people living in Africa was also savage and should give reason to the explorers to believe they were inferior needs to step back and examine themselves really closely. You're firstly assuming that all groups of African people behaved the same, they didn't, and secondly you're also saying that the more acceptable behavior of people for that time was that of the explorers. The explorers regularly did horrific things to the native people there and to their own people and implying that they were somehow more well behaved than all of the diverse cultures in Africa is not that great of an idea, that can make you racist and it also ignores how differently groups of people there actually behaved. Can we just not give into that type of thinking anymore?
Pretty much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University_of_California_v._Bakke
Affirmative action is the laziest and most unfair way to try to correct social inequality. A capitalist society is a meritocracy. Academia is a meritocracy. Meritocracy is a good thing, it means that the person who is most qualified and most likely to be successful gets the job. The problem with affirmative action is that it gives the position to less qualified people, and by doing so you're taking the position away from someone who is more qualified. The funniest part about it is that it has quickly turned into a bragging rights competition over who has the most diverse staff/student body. Another major problem with affirmative action that we've seen is that sadly students from underprivileged inner-city communities are often completely unprepared for college and flunk out.
The answer isn't at the collegiate level. By then it's pretty much too late. The answer is to fix the broken primary school system so that everyone, no matter what their ethnic or socioeconomic background, has access to an education that will prepare them for college. But the American people just don't want to foot the bill.
Question for MovieBob
Asking what your favourite comic is seems a bit bland, so your most liked story arc or character development? And can you explain it in detail?
I've never really got into comics but I'm always been interested in and entertained by the "COMICS ARE WEIRD" episodes, I'd like to see more of them. :D
A trio of questions:
1: What are your thoughts on the 3DS eShop and Club Nintendo?
2: What is your biggest concern for the WiiU?
3: Can you think of a series (any medium) where nostalgia has actually been a liability for it?
Norway's most well known cartoonist (Frode Øverli) was accused of racism because he did a comic strip about cannibals. He later went on record saying that there was no racial intention behind it and that he drew them that way because it is a well known cliché/stereotype/parody like Santa, Dracula and werewolves (meaning fictional characters).
What do you guys think?
I think you've missed my point of questioning whether even back then it was in fact (primarily) grounded in racism, or whether perhaps it could primarily have been motivated in the ancient and well established cultural tropes of Greek and Christian mythology, which were even more prevalent and well known at the time than they are today.
Awesome episode; offered a unique perspective on the issue. Nice outside thinking.
Someone will have probably mentioned it to you in better detail, but I would care to discuss it. First things first: most major ruins appear to "surpass" the surrounding buildings because they were grandiose construction projects, commissioned by the nation's wealthiest people, designed by the best educated engineers, built with the finest resources, and specifically constructed for the purpose of withstanding a lot of clout. That explains why the castles remain, but the settlements around them disappear without trace: they were built to entirely different standards.
Secondly: Those "mud huts" tend to be more advanced than the castles. A castle looks big and imposing and impressive, even when compared to a 20th century bungalow. When you compare this to this, it is easy to kid yourself into thinking that the bigger, stronger looking structure is technologically superior. It isn't: Terrible ventilation, drainage, foundations, insulation, difficult and slow to construct, exhaustive of materials, expensive to maintain. There are no doubt some excellent architectural features of a castle that make it stand the test of time, but it certainly isn't more advanced.
Finally, it isn't as if Europeans didn't have similar structures in similar circumstances. Europe is littered with castles and other displays of archetectural prowess, and they often seem far more imposing than the buildings that surround them. Had the Europeans thought to apply their logic to their own civilizations, they might have recognised the flaws with it.
That was an interesting take but I would like to give a different opinion on the whole "where did this come from?" angle
I understand that racism being "how it was" back then made the colonials not even consider the African's responsible for those relics. However, for me, I probably wouldnt have thought they were the source because of how technologically advanced castle and city building is compared to the technological advancments of most African tribes today.
I think its hard for the human mind to see remnants of an advanced civilization and then think that it came from a more primitive one even though its a sign of cultural entropy. Our minds are hard wired to advance and evolve our technology but to have it, for lack of a better word, devolve is an alien concept. I think its easier for us to see or imagine a civilization being wiped out then it is for us to imagine a civilization going backwards in the technological scale
hmmm... kinda makes me wonder what the spanish thought when seeing nonwhite native americans building giant cities complete with monuments to pagan gods. One wonders why they wiped them out.
question - Applied to the escapist in general, Is it better if i watch the entire video or can i check out during the credits. I think i heard once that sitting until the end of the web-video is better for it's makers, something to do with ad-revenues and traffic numbers), and since then i've diligently sat through the credits. I probably still will even if i don't need to but sometimes though finger twitch or other external forces i switch it off before the video goes all the way through, and i'd like to know if that guilt associated with that is justified or not.
The difference is that those fictional characters are obviously works of imagination at the expense of no one, whereas the "fictional image" of a cannibal is based on offensive stereotypes of real cultures (indeed, the word "Cannibal" was derived from the word "Carib" or "Caribbean").
The problem with what Bob is saying is that it's an intellectual sleight of hand. Bob is still implicitly arguing that culture needs to rewrite itself, which bares the question: does culture really need to rewrite itself so it no longer acknowledges the existence of race? He's going back to a descriptive definition of racism and then saying it's still prevalent. So what? If racism is just distinguishing between people or things according to race, then it isn't a bad thing. Saying, "I like Japanese food" would be racist by that definition. "Hey man! That's not cool! All foods are created equal, no one food is better than another!". Then Bob goes back to a more traditional form racism that many would consider bad, and then implicitly argues that negative racism is still prevalent. It's fallacious equivocation. Sure, there's still plenty of the bad kind of racism out there, but not every instance in which we distinguish between people or things based upon race is evil.
As far as the lost city thing goes, most people think of a lost city as just an abandoned city. While the early literature that Bob was referring to was undoubtedly racist, I don't think any of the modern incarnations of the meme bare the same racial connotations. Frankly, when most modern people think of a lost city, they probably think of the Mayans or the Aztecs in South America because they are the two biggest examples that come to mind. That doesn't strike me as terribly racist. If anything, it says something negative about white people, because we played some role in the death of the Aztec civilization. (Though the Aztecs' neighbors were more than willing to help the Spanish because of the human sacrifices and all that.)
Interesting, although you should probably clarify that it wasn't a single continuous wall, but in fact hundreds of walls and earthworks. It also took 600 years to reach that size, so was presumably not a single project.
Good episode but I have one bone to pick
I don't there was the assumption that these lost cities were made by white people, more so that the black builders of said cities had themselves vanished. That's not to say all colonials thought like this but the more enlightened of them just wondered where had the city builders gone? why hadn't they continued and advanced like other major civilisations.
Of course there are minute things that can hold an entire civilisation back, the early Chinese empire, while having gun powder, was still less advanced than their European counterparts because the Chinese used china.
This may seem a bit of an odd point, but because glass blowing and the use of glass provided the Europeans with an advantage, that their scientific minds could work longer with better eye-sight and such devices as microscopes, telescopes and everything else used in glass work helped advance their society.
Civilisation, what a weird thing. (apparently, a good book to read on this is Guns, Germs and Steel. A book on why Eurasian society has prospered but refuting any intellectual superiority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel )
Also, A question for Bob himself! I wonder what impression he would have on the Assassin's Creed series on it's handling of race and religion, despite the immediate disclaimer at the start of each game.
Tolkien is another good example of culturally entrenched racism, only this time in a fantasy setting. Think of it, Dwarves. Short, big noses, obsessed with gold and riches and a language based on Hebrew....yeah. Elves, fair skinned, blindingly beautiful, the pinnacle of enlightenment. The hatred between them is all a metaphor for anti-Semitism. However, this has a happy ending with Gimli and Legolas becoming friends. The point being that Jews and Gentiles have no reason to hate each other.
Don't even get me started on Lovecraft.
I'm guessing they do that because:
1. New York is world famous. It's iconic. The first time I went there it felt like I'd already been there because I knew the streets, the buildings, and part of the history. I'm guessing that's the same for a lot of people.
2. From a non-American point of view (because I'm not American) New York is often heralded as the First City of the US. Since the majority of films and tv programs are also American, the US is always portrayed as the greatest civilisation ever.
So, to sum up, it is an ideal target because at some base level, anyone who has watched television or films will almost certainly recognise, and have some sort of attachment to, New York City.
What ideas would you implicate into a 'good' transformers movie?
Mailbag? Oh boy!
1. You've already mentionned once that a live Super Mario brothers movie is possible. How would you see it?
I'll edit if there's more questions that I would like to hear your answer.
A great point on how memetic evolution is as slow and cumbersome as genetic. Certainly worth remembering. Until memory is selected for vestigiality, that is.
I don't mean that they didn't think the Africans could have built those structures, they literally believed that the African continent had no history.
Did he always need to make an "announcement" for his Mailbag episodes?
I suppose the point of the episode was pretty good overall, but the example was terrible.
You said " Lost City- what do you think of?"
You said my answer was: "Africa- Because of Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider, and Tarzan among others, all take place in either Africa, or places like Africa, and that's racist because way back in the day people were surprised and mystified to find ruins of cities in Africa" Paraphrased of course.
The reality is, I immediately thought of South America, Asia, and the Middle East. In fact, Africa is pretty far down on the list. The argument would then be, "Why didn't I think of Africa, isn't that racist?" And the whole damn thing just gets worse after that.
But, before jumping into that, I'd like to address a couple of things first. For the most part Indiana Jones doesn't take place in Africa, I realize that the Lost Ark was found in Egypt, but aside from that he doesn't spend much time there. Tomb Raider is the same, there is a map on wikipedia that shows places where Lara Croft has been in the games, most of them outside of Africa. You used Tarzan as an example of the Africa lost city concept, congrats that's valid. . . and very old. Counterpoint: The Jungle Book- Lost City, not in Africa, very old.
To return to the "Why not Africa?" mention. Quite frankly, outside of Egypt, Africa doesn't have any mysterious ruins. Not compared to Asia and South America anyway. Sure, as stated in the video, "ruins like these are found all over the place" and that's very true. It's also true that in terms of sociaties mastering complex buildings and math before their "time", nobody in Africa holds a candle to the Asians, South Americans, and Middle Easteners, with the exception of Egypt.
My point is, this whole episode was a strawman argument. Pity, when there are so many good examples of modern day, unrealized, and indvertant racism.
P.S. Bob, when you say "places like Africa" when refering to Asia and South America. . . that's racist. lol
Question: why do Video Game Movies always fail, and what do you think needs to be done to get them over.
Cool. Another big advantage Eurasian cultures have is their geographic location. According to economist Charles Wheelan, equatorial nations (particularly much of Africa) had the disadvantage of a harsher climate, with scaulding dry seasons and torrential wet seasons. This meant that tropical diseases were far more common, whilst soil quality was often poor. Thus, famine and plagues would constantly hamper attempts at advancement.
This also had knock on effects: Climate often has a big influence on how Colonists (the guys with the most advanced technology) behave in any given region. The more inhospitable, the lesser chance of colonists attempting to develop proper settlements. In places like Africa (and to a lesser extent, India) colonists focussed more on stripping as much resources as possible, without bothering to attempt any long term plans for sustainability. In more hospitable climates like the Americas, Europeans found it easier to settle for the long term. The upshot of this is that the locals in harsher climates get their precious resources stolen, whilst the ones in accommodating climates get completely replaced, leaving a developed, advanced civilisation in their stead.
This still is a huge problem that continues to hold back African countries (along with the many others). A severe lack of drug research on tropical diseases means that this is unlikely to change any time soon.
Some thing that comes to mind: One of the big criticisms of Ancient Aliens is how is discounts the idea that non-European civilizations could have attained any knowledge of math, science, engineering, or construction on their own.
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Helping Hand for Hurricane Sandy
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Felix and Texas rout Oklahoma State 87-68
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Back in Texas for the second time in four days, the Oklahoma State Cowboys had to leave star guard Marcus Smart back home under orders of the Big 12.
Without him, they didn't have a chance against the No. 19 Texas Longhorns.
Smart served the first of a three-game suspension for shoving a Texas Tech fan and the Longhorns sent the reeling Cowboys to their fifth straight loss, 87-68 Tuesday night, as guard Javan Felix erupted for 27 points and made six of Texas' 11 3-pointers.
"We're going through a tough time right now. We're not down, not blaming anybody else," Oklahoma State center Kamari Murphy said. "There's no excuses."
The Cowboys didn't have any answers either. Texas stormed through a 54-point first half and had four players score in double figures despite missing leading scorer Jonathan Holmes, who sat out with an ankle injury.
When the teams met in early January, Smart had 24 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in a Cowboys victory. Back then, his defense also helped limit Felix and Longhorns guard Isaiah Taylor to 14 total points. Without the muscular Smart in their face, those two combined for 43 points Tuesday night.
"This has nothing to do with Marcus Smart," Cowboys coach Travis Ford. "He wasn't here tonight. We've got to play with what we've got."
Le'Bryan Nash scored 23 points to lead the Cowboys (16-8, 4-7).
Sharp-shooting guard Phil Forte, who was Smart's high-school teammate when they won a Texas state championship on the same court, was just 2-of-7 shooting and never got a chance to open up from long-range. Forward Brian Williams was 0-8 and the Cowboys shot just 36 percent for the game.
Smart still must sit out games against Oklahoma and Baylor before he can return for a rematch with Texas Tech.
"We just waited until the second half to start playing ... which was too late," Murphy said.
Texas (19-5, 8-3) didn't miss a beat without Holmes, its best all-around player.
Felix, who missed a game a week ago with a concussion and was just a 30-percent shooter from long range coming in, scored eight consecutive points that pushed the Texas lead to 22 in the first half. Texas led 54-33 at halftime.
"I know I can make those shots. It's a matter of me taking them," Felix said.
Martez Walker scored 12 and Cameron Ridley had his sixth double-double of the season for Texas with 12 points and 13 rebounds.
Texas' outburst came three days after the Longhorns scored just 18 points in the first half of a loss at Kansas State that ended a seven-game winning streak. Back home, Texas made eight 3-pointers and shot better than 50 percent for most of the first half.
Conner Lammert, who got just his second start of the season in place of Holmes, made three 3-pointers in the first half. Felix made two 3-pointers and a layup that put Texas ahead 36-14.
Felix opened the second half with two more 3-pointers. He followed the first one with a steal that set up his second in transition. The run ended any chance of a Cowboys rally.
Ford noted that Texas came in as the second-worst shooting team from 3-point range in the Big 12.
"They go out and make 11," Ford said. "You can't sit around and hope a team misses, you've got to do something about it."


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May 6, 2012
DeBray "Fly Benzo" Carpenter. He was busted on Oct. 18, 2011, by two of SFPD's finest, John Norment and Joshua Fry, for (gasp!) participating in a community organized rally while playing a boom box in Mendell Plaza in the heart of Bayview Hunters Point. For speaking out against police brutality, especially the SFPD murder of Kenneth Harding last July, he was brutally arrested, tried and now is barred from Mendell Plaza by order of Judge Jerome T. Benson.
July 22, 2009
For well over five years now, Rev. Edward Pinkney, living in the depths of the de facto apartheid-type township of Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been waging a relentless struggle on behalf of the people of Benton Harbor (Berrien County) against the avaricious, blood sucking, wily Whirlpool Corp. and its mentally somniferous lackeys. It has been and remains, a real people's struggle to, in the words of Huey P. Newton, "determine and control institutions, so that they reflect the integrity of the people" – in this case Benton Harbor. After he was locked up for over a year in eight different Michigan prisons, an appeals court has ruled in his favor.


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Sid Misra, Line Producer with EA (Electronic Arts) Canada, developers of FIFA Street took the time to answer a few questions on what the team was trying to accomplishment. Misra goes in depth with how the team puts together their player ratings and discusses the team's relationship with Major League Soccer. He also drops a few hints for those who cant seem to beat those Messi level challenges.
MLS Reserves: First of all congratulations on creating
FIFA Street, which has been received well critically by the gaming community.
Sid Misra: "Thanks!"
MLS Reserves: The FIFA series sells extremely well worldwide, can you talk about the decision to reboot the
FIFA Street franchise and how you see it fitting in with FIFA lineup?
Sid Misra: "FIFA Street was always on the radar, but we didn't want to bring it out until we could commit the right team and people to it, as well as ensure we could deliver a product that lived up to the quality expectations of the "FIFA" franchise. With the introduction of Player Impact Engine and Precision Dribbling to the award-winning FIFA gameplay engine in FIFA12, the foundation for building a great street football experience was in place.""Before even starting on the project, we did a lot of research about what our fans were looking for in an alternative football product – the answer we got was that there was still a strong appetite for a street football game that was authentic and embraced the level of quality expected of our FIFA series."
"The next step was then to better understand what "authentic street football" really meant. For this we did research in
, Amsterdam & Rio to understand what street football meant in those regions, and discovered they meant very different things. So right away we knew that if we wanted to be an authentic street football game, the first thing would be to ensure the game allowed for varying styles of play." London
"Authenticity & Quality. They are the pillars of any EA Sports FIFA title, and very much true of this
FIFA Street reboot."
MLS Reserves: Traditionally,
FIFA Street had a caricature look to it and was known for over-the-top, impossible tricks and flips. What made the team at EA Canada decide to bring a more realistic look and feel?
Sid Misra: "Realism/believability was important for us to achieve our central focus for this game: authentic street football. Pairing our gameplay with cartoonish visuals would have felt disconnected, and would have gone against a lot of the feedback we have heard from fans of the series and those waiting for a new
FIFA Street."
MLS Reserves: What challenges did the team face during the reboot and do you feel you were successful in creating a product you can be proud of?
Sid Misra: "The biggest challenge was really trying to pack all the cool ideas we had into the game in the time we had. When I sit back and think about what we've managed to accomplish as a team – everyone really stepped above and beyond to deliver a product that has really resonated with fans and media. Some of our big achievements:
1. Brand new control innovation with Street Ball Control;
2. Over 35 varied environments with unique physics that impact gameplay;
3. A deep World Tour mode featuring numerous game styles and showcasing the incredible environments based around the world;
4. Street Network that connects you with your friends throughout the game experience, and allows you to share your coolest highlights – and view your friends' - without having to leave your couch;
5. A new take on FIFA online gameplay that focuses on your club above real clubs.
Again, kudos goes to our team for really embracing our challenges and delivering a street football game that exceeded fan expectations."
MLS Reserves: FIFA 12 and FIFA Street run on the same engine is that correct? What changes or tweaks were necessary to change the game to match play styles?
Sid Misra: "That's right, this is the first
FIFA Street built off a FIFA Gameplay engine. That said, we have had to make significant changes to that engine to make FIFA Street an authentic street football game."
"As soon as you step on the pitch you will notice the differences. Both offense & defense player movement and dribble have been changed to better support head-to-head street football gameplay. We have implemented a new core dribble mechanic we are calling Street Ball Control – it's a new and innovative control scheme, and the first true control innovation in this console cycle. The game supports more skills than ever before with very accessible air moves and tricks. Attack, defense, goalkeeping, positioning, shooting, passing, etc – all areas of gameplay have been addressed to create a great street football game."
MLS Reserves: Including club teams was a big change for the Street series. What influenced this decision?
Sid Misra: "The fans. All the feedback we had seen in the forums indicated that they wanted to see proper clubs in the game, so we worked with our licensing team to make that happen."
MLS Reserves: Major League Soccer has evolved quite a bit in recent years. How have you as a development team tracked the league and what goes into the process of rating them?
Sid Misra: "We have an enormous data collection team that scouts and rates every player across the leagues around the world. Luckily, we on the actual development team don't have to try and keep up with everything that happens across the leagues while trying to build the game – that's too big of an ask! They are an extremely dedicated group who take a lot of pride in ensuring the traits of the players match fan expectations. It's this data that helps distinguish individual player movements and skills in the various football games we make."
"We collect objective data such as date of birth, nationality, height, weight etc. as well as the physical appearance of the players, his face and his body. The most challenging data to collect are the attributes and traits. This is subjective data, and it is difficult to compare a player who is known to be a great tackler in England Premiership and a player who is known to be a great tackler in the Korean K-League. So we give guidelines to our editors of how to rate players according to their league level in order to get to a consistent and balanced database. This data has a significant impact in the game so it has to be as accurate as possible."
MLS Reserves: Can you talk a bit about how you determine player and team ratings, particularly in
FIFA Street?
Sid Misra: "Again, done by our data collection team – they determine player ratings and we determine a team rating based on the skill of the players. This is more dynamic, so if player ratings change (either by database update or because a gamer swaps players) the team rating can adjust accordingly. The same scouts that collect individual player data also collect team formations and squads, the tactics used by the teams, league info and much, much more. If any of your readers are interested in becoming scouts the first step would be to go to this website formore information."
MLS Reserves: What type of relationship do you have with Major League Soccer, the English Premier League and other top leagues around the world? How do those relationships influence the game(s)?
Sid Misra: "We are fortunate that the leagues agreed to allow their clubs to be a part of
FIFA Street. We also understand that there are league and club interests they need to protect, which can sometimes limit what we can do. I will say that the MLS seemed to be a very good partner with FIFA Street – an example of this is in the authentic adidas training wear the MLS teams will use in street matches. The MLS is the only league that features fully authentic training gear, and it looks pretty cool."
MLS Reserves: Why should gamers embrace
FIFA Street when they are already playing and enjoying FIFA 12?
Sid Misra: "Our anti-vision when making this game was "FIFA with walls" – we wanted to deliver a brand new way to play football, but keeping in mind that a lot of our FIFA gamers would be interested in playing and can't be put off by a whole new control scheme... a challenging goal! So, the basic controls of football – locomotion, pass, shoot – are still the same as FIFA, but we've built Street Ball Control and cool skill move mechanics to differentiate and bring you into the 1v1 battles that street football is all about. Both FIFA gamers and new gamers seem to really enjoy the new game dynamics."
"Overall, we envision two key types of gamers coming to
FIFA Street :
1. People who have been playing FIFA (or club football games) for a while, love their football gaming and are itching for an innovative new way to play football and;
2. People who want to become part of the FIFA gaming family, but may be late to the game and are intimidated by controls or other more experienced gamers.
The common thread is both groups are people who also love the idea of playing skillful, stylish football – ready to embarrass their opponents, while scoring."
MLS Reserves: Can you share with the readers any fun anecdotes that came with making
FIFA Street?
Sid Misra: "Gary Paterson, our Creative Director, likes to tell the story of how the street footballers we brought in for motion capture (Sean & Soufiane) introduced themselves to him. They had a ball and pretended to panna
upon first introduction. As Gary turned around sheepishly to retrieve the ball that he let through his legs – he soon realized that he should feel even more sheepish as the ball was actually up the shirt of Soufiane! At least we knew then we had the right guys to do our mo-cap." Gary
|What we lack in grace we make up for in style: MLS Reserves.
MLS Reserves: Lastly, I any suggestions for stepping my game up? Those gold level matches are not easy.
Sid Misra: "Don't dive into the tackles – back off and let the players come to you. Strong defending will lead to swift counter attacks!"
MLS Reserves: Thank you again for your time.
The game has been well received critically and commercially. IGN, a reputable gaming site, gave the game an 8 out of 10 and my own review concurred. I If you haven't picked up the game yet, it is available for both Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.


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Fiber optic repair means slow internet in Pohnpei but almost no Internet services in RMI
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FSMTC had bought backup bandwidth and taken other steps to minimize the impact
On December 28, 2016, at exactly 19:45 and at the direction of the CS Dependable, the submarine fiber optic cable repair ship, FSM Telecommunications Corporation (FSMTC) disconnected power from Segment 4 of the HANTRU1 Branching Unit to Pohnpei Terminal Station by putting their Power Feed Equipment in the short circuit position after ramping voltage and amperes down to zero
Pohnpei, FSM—The fiber optic line that provides data and voice service to the FSM was as "offline" as it could get as of 7:45 on December 28. The branch that services the Marshall Islands also had to be turned off. Fiber optic service to the two nations will remain offline until the owners of the HANTRU1 cable that stretches across the ocean floor from Guam to Kwajalein, Marshall Islands is able to finalize repairs to the cable.
The estimated date for completion of repairs has changed several times since the project began as new faults were found. At press time, the ship's schedule listed the completion date for repairs as January 18, but a spokesperson for Truestone, one of the owners of the cable provided a different date in an email to FSMTC. "There were a number of technical challenges locating the fault," he wrote. "We have now found the fault and have started the process of making the repair. The current schedule shows the repair complete between 1/21 and 1/24. The later date includes contingencies due to bad weather or other unexpected circumstances." By press time, FSMTC was unable to ascertain which of the dates is actually correct.
Both MINTA (Marshall Islands National Telecommunications and Authority) and FSMTC (FSM Telecommunications Corporation) are customers who pay for services on the line. Neither was responsible for the repairs that are underway.
When the fiber optic cable was shut down for repairs, the Marshall Islands all but shut down. The College of the Marshall Islands rescheduled its start up for the spring semester because of it. The Bank of Guam said it couldn't process allotments as it had previously done. The government could not process purchase orders or payments because they were web based. Home users were entirely cut off and businesses had very limited daily access and had to schedule it. Many could not, and some had services of an hour or less per day if that. This evening, MINTA proudly sent a mass message to users saying that effective today Internet connection would be available to government offices and business during working hours and that home users would have access from 7 PM to 7 AM.
The front page of today's Marshall Islands Journal says that MINTA had finally bought $40,000 worth of bandwidth.
FSMTC customers have not had it nearly so bad. Because FSMTC had arranged to send the domestic internet and international voice link transmissions to a provider in Hong Kong instead of routing those transmissions to Pohnpei and then out through the fiber optic cable, those customers have seen slightly faster Internet connection than they had previously. Pohnpei customers who have the greatest demand for Internet services nationwide have suffered the most during the repair.
Like MINTA, FSMTC initially shut down home ADSL but only during the 8 AM to 5 PM working hours in order to let commerce flow, even if more slowly. No businesses had to queue up or schedule internet hours. The repairs were only supposed to take a few days, but the TE Subcom crew making the repairs off the shore of Kwajalein found more extensive damage than they had initially thought there might be and the end date for repairs was rescheduled several times. FSMTC bought more bandwidth and at 3:30 in the morning on January 10 began using that bandwidth to provide service to their home ADSL users 24 hours a day.
Bandwidth is a measurement of how many bits of digital information can be transmitted per second over a medium like fiber optic cables. The telecom providers sell bandwidth packages that they are expected to provide to their subscribers. How much band width a telecom provider needs depends on the bandwidth packages it has sold and the expected number of users they expect to be simultaneously accessing the fiber optic cable at any give time.
The HANTRU1 cable and its spurs have maximum capacities of 160 Gbps (giga bits per second). Half of that is available FSM and RMI but neither has purchased anywhere near that amount.
FSMTC has purchased "pipelines" that allow them to access 4 Gbps if they absolutely need it, but they never have come even close to needing it. FSM wide access needs average about 1 Gbps for both Internet and long distance phone services, but the standard deviation on that average is quite high. At about 10:00 each evening, as ADSL customers are watching Netflix movies or doing other things on their computers at home, Pohnpei's data demand peaks at about 1.2 Gbps. In the wee hours of the morning the fiber optic demand is quite small for quite a while.
There are also monthly peaks. On the second Tuesday of each month, Microsoft sends out patches and updates to Windows users. On that day, the incoming data demands peak drastically as thousands of computers across the FSM download those updates over the course of the next few days. Microsoft's most recent update was sent two days ago. Given the already small bandwidth availability, Internet service became notice-ably slower. Other major software companies also send updates at about the same time, further draining already limited bandwidth.
Both FSMTC and MINTA (Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority) have known for months that the repairs were scheduled but seem to have made substantially different types of preparations to cover the loss of bandwidth that the fiber optic cable provides.
MINTA prepared a backup plan with its satellite service provider for 50 Mbps (megabits per second) for the entire nation, 3% of its average bandwidth, all but shutting down Internet services and also interrupting some voice services.
FSMTC worked with its satellite provider (ABS-Satellite) to facilitate 197 Mbps of new bandwidth. When the repairs began, FSMTC already had the backup bandwidth in place divided as follows:
101*/30** Mbps for all Pohnpei only internet traffic.
20/20 Mbps for international voice traffic in/out of FSM.
5/5 Mbps additional for Chuuk voice traffic.
4/4 Mbps additional for Kosrae voice traffic.
4/4 Mbps additional for Yap voice traffic.
*download bandwidth
**upload bandwidth
At 3:30 on Tuesday morning, FSMTC turned on an additional 100 Mbps download speed and 30 Mbps upload speed that they acquired from their satellite provider at an additional cost.
Even though the slow connection speeds were not their fault FSMTC has said that they intend to credit Pohnpei customers for their ADSL subscriptions for the number of days that the fiber optic cable is down.


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What's better than wireless music streaming? How about wireless music streaming and charging at the same time? Welcome to the future, courtesy of Nokia.
There's a lot of worry at the moment among Apple fans. The iPhone 5 looks like its about to drop with a much smaller dock connector, which will cause headaches for anyone with a bunch of iPod and iPhone docks about the house. Of course, one solution to that problem is AirPlay – the Bluetooth tech that lets you beam your tunes wirelessly. Except then there's a new problem: you're not charging.
It's a conundrum that Nokia's obviously put some thought to. Like the Palm Pre, the new Nokia Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 are equipped with wireless charging powers. That means that you'll be able to drop them onto one of the Qi standard pads, and they'll happily suck energy up through the air. Nice, right? It gets better.
- Nokia Lumia 820: The underdog smash hit?
Nokia has inked a deal with JBL, to produce a wireless speaker system that not only uses NFC to stream your tunes, but charges your phone without the worry of dock connectors or compatible chargers.
The JBL Power Up allows Nokia owners to tap their phone to the edge to switch from phone playback to speaker playback, but the really clever part is that you can then simply place one of the two Lumias on top (it's guided in place by an LED phone outline). Once there, it'll continue to send your songs to the speaker and it'll power up your phone from the mains, wirelessly.
In a time when having the wrong sized dock connector is an actual problem, I think we've just sniffed the future. There's no word on price or availability yet, but we'll keep you posted.


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My new Nation column is called "The Trouble With Democrats."
I've written quite a bit about The New Republic over the years, though nothing since Marty Peretz was forced out and it ceased to be a problem in my life. I've chosen not to say anything of substance regarding Chris Hughes and the current conundrum he has created because I think the issues raised are too complex for me to do justice to them in just a column, and most of what I would say now, I've already said (except to note that I thought it was quite a good magazine post-Peretz, albeit one that no longer served the role it historically claimed for itself; and it's a shame that it will cease to exist). Anyway, I've taken the opportunity of today's blog post to collect a bunch of articles, columns and sections of books I've written that are available on the web and provide links to them. I hope those interested in the topic find them to be useful and/or interesting:
1. Thanks, first of all, to Salon for republishing the TNR chapter from Sound and Fury, first published in 1992, updated in 1999, under the title: "The truth about the New Republic: Kinsley, Krauthammer, Oliver North and a liberal magazine's demented war on liberalism."
2. The American Prospect re-upped my history of the Marty Peretz era of TNR from 2007 under the title: "The New Republic Was In Trouble Long Before Chris Hughes Bought It."
3. Under the title "You've Got to Hate and Fear," I excerpted the story of The New Republic and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve, from my 2003 book, What Liberal Media?
4. In The Nation, in 1997, I wrote about the role of TNR under Michael Kelly's editorship in a piece called "TNR: The Long Goodbye."
5. And here are a few additional columns I wrote about the magazine:
'The New Republic': Bad for the Jews (The Nation, 2009);
The Problem With Peretz (The Nation, 2010);
How Peretz Undermined Liberalism (The American Prospect, 2011).


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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is not too happy with Chelsea Handler. In an interview with Fox & Friends, he defendd his daughter Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders after Handler joked Sanders' hair and makeup.
"I mean, one day she has no makeup on at all. The next, she's got six-foot-long eyelashes, cleavage and summer whore lipstick all over her face," Handler reportedly said on a recent talk show. "Can you believe what they're turned her into? A proper trollop."
Huckabee said he felt bad for Handler. "I'm surprised that there were not women on the left who at least had the decency to call her out for this," Huckabee opined. "I know you're probably expecting me to be very angry about this, but truthfully, when I read what she said and then I watched it, I felt sorry for her."
"I feel sad for Chelsea Handler," he continued. "She seems like a very angry and bitter person. Look, she's almost as old as me. So this is a point in her life, she needs to start mellowing out. And she seems to be just in a rage. The sad thing about it, she boasts about the two abortions she had at 16. I think in many ways she's jealous of my daughter."
He continued, "My daughter has a husband who loves her and is wonderful to her. My daughter has three delightful children. She's a happy balanced person. My daughter has enjoyed life. She's a pretty straight-laced person. She goes to church and lives a life Chelsea Handler has never known."
Believing that the only way to be happy is to crank out children and get hitched to someone, the conservative Christian theorized that "there's something deep inside of Chelsea Handler that says, 'I've missed out on a lot, I could be raising children, but I aborted them.'"


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A?trip to the post office never sounded so inviting to Laurie Stokoe. When the Lewis Center stay-at-home mom dropped her two young boys off at First Presbyterian Church in Westerville one Thursday during the fall, she felt an overwhelming sense of relief.
A?trip to the post office never sounded so inviting to Laurie Stokoe.
When the Lewis Center stay-at-home mom dropped her two young boys off at First Presbyterian Church in Westerville one Thursday during the fall, she felt an overwhelming sense of relief.
�I think I almost cried,� she said. �The post office in Lewis Center is small, and to take two little boys in there can be a real challenge.�
For the first time, Stokoe was taking advantage of Parents� Morning Out � a free child-care service that the church has provided on Thursdays since the fall of 2010.
�Just to be able to go all by myself and get my stuff mailed was so exciting,� she said. �It sounds perfectly ridiculous, I know.�
To Linda Kretschmaier, it sounds perfectly gratifying.
�The first time she (Stokoe) came in, she had this depressed look,� recalled Kretschmaier, who helped found the program as director of youth and family ministry at the church.
�Now, she always has this big smile on her face.�
The idea for the service originated with church member Deanna Dunlap � who, when the youngest of her three children was about to go to kindergarten, started thinking about ways to serve during the time she would have free.
�I just remember those days when I would have done anything to be able to go to the grocery store by myself,� said Dunlap, a Westerville resident.
�I thought, �My gosh, this is something so simple that we can do.�??�
Many other central Ohio churches offer some form of sitting or child care, but The Dispatch couldn�t find others that provide such services free.
After discussions with pastor Mark Gauen, Kretschmaier and Dunlap decided not to charge fees for Parents� Morning Out � viewing the program as a ministry, not a moneymaker.
Kretschmaier, Dunlap and church member Sue Ann Norton handle most of the child-watching duties. The church also hires several Otterbein University students.
The program � from 9:30?a.m. to noon Thursdays during the school year � is open to the public.
About 15 children are served each week; her staff, Kretschmaier said, could handle as many as 20.
To fund the program, the church spends $600 to $900 annually from its missions budget.
The lack of fees, Gauen said, �keeps the expectations at the right spot. It�s warm, tender care �
On a recent Thursday, 13 children played happily with a variety of toys in the carpeted nursery room � some zooming around on scooters in the adjacent common area with a linoleum floor.
Several girls doted on Coraline Zuchowski, at 11 months the youngest of the group. (Children are accepted from infancy up to kindergarten age.)
Her father, Tom Zuchowski of Westerville, is a stay-at-home dad. His wife, Wendy, is a park ranger for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
�My wife was looking for a way to give me a break, and she found a few churches in the area (that had child care),� Zuchowski said. �But this was definitely the closest and the one we could afford.�
After hearing about the program from a mothers� group, Sara Tadak of Westerville began dropping off her two children in April 2012.
�They love it,� Tadak said of Olivia, 4; and Miles, 2.
�Today in the car, I�m like �Have fun,� and Olivia was like �Mommy, you know we always do.�?"
Program organizers were surprised at how many grandparents use the service.
Last year, Clayton Maurice of Galena took great-grandson Gregory to the program.
�It gave us a big lift � a couple hours off,� Maurice, 80, said of himself and his wife, Mary Jo.
They watch Gregory, 3, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.
�We�re not youngsters, but we do a pretty good job (of child care).�
Stokoe stuffs errands and housework into the weekly window of free time. Her younger child, 17-month-old Luca, doesn�t like the sound of the vacuum cleaner, so she runs it on Thursdays.
�For there to be some people who are so nice and so good to my kids, and to know that I can take them there once a week,� she said, �it�s amazing.�
For information on the program, contact Linda Kretschmaier at 614-560-1682 or familyministry.wfp@sbc global.net.