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You know when one of the kids pilfers something out the fridge when they shouldn't be delving in there and you catch them with the cake crumbs crumbling from the corner of their mouth? You've got them red handed and yet they still go doe-eyed and weasel-voiced and deny it to the bitter end in the full knowledge that you actually know they are lying. Either you choose to play along with the game or you don't. One choice makes your life much easier to live and the second alternative launches something at the fan that you could have done without at the weekend. Well, the National Security Agency has been caught lying through its back teeth now (yet again, perhaps, some might hasten to add). The trouble is that the NSA won't have any teeth left after the people find out that the supposed surveillance of US citizens' internet traffic being nothing more than a measly 1.6% of the sites that we visited and the communications sent is just a bare faced lie. It apparently turns out now that it is 75% at least of the sites that are visited by everyone in the country. Whereas the kid that swipes the stuff from the fridge is excused for being young and learning, the NSA is at an advanced stage of maturity and old people are notoriously renowned for telling fibs, aren't they? Well, sometimes, they just don't give a dam either and blatantly launch themselves into rhetorical speeches that get them into hot water for telling the truth far too much. Yes, the NSA lied. The NSA has lied. The NSA is still lying.
75% of Data
The revelations are coming out now hard and fast as we unravel the wicked web of deceit that has been weaved in the name of national security of the country. But the genesis of this story was hatched well before the 9/11 attacks. The attacks were just an overtly public excuse to make sure that the country accepted for the main part what was being planned (when the extent of the operations was fully uncovered).
Today 75% of communications in the United States of America are covered by the NSA. The names of the programs that enable this are called BLARNEY, FAIRVIEW, OAKSTAR, LITHIUM and STORMBREW.
It is perhaps rather fitting that Blarney is the name of one of those programs. The meaning of the word is 'flattering wheedling talk' and 'cajolery'. The NSA has been blarneying us all along with its deceptive and misleading talk and hooey. You can just imagine the person that thought that up sitting round the boardroom table. Bush must have laughed and choked on a pretzel back then, I guess. Strombrew is another good and prodding handling for a surveillance program that has caused more than just a storm in a tea cup.
Supposedly, the people are protected by the fact that a court order would be necessary to obtain that information regarding individual communications. The reality might be a whole lot different. The communication details include:
- International gateways
- Metadata
- Content of online communications
- Sorting of the data
- Copying of traffic on the internet and filtering that data
- The type of communication that is being sent across the internet is filtered by the NSA to keep or discard from searches.
- That means that any form of communication, whether it be surfing, downloading a video, downloading music, sending email and everything else that we might be doing.
- Digital phone calls can also be monitored and logged.
- IP addresses are also logged and matched to those downloads to show the region where the communication takes place.
- Anyone that has any form of contact with someone outside of the US is immediately logged for foreign-intelligence analysis.
Compulsive NSA Lies
The NSA is not suffering from a compulsive lying disorder that would mean that it has a pathological inability to perceive the truth from falsehood. The NSA knows only full too well that propping up that idea is tantamount to excusing what it tells the sheeple every day. It is possible that they have thought so little ahead that they are unable to foresee the negative adverse consequences of what that lying will entail in the future. The NSA has exploited used and abused the electronic systems that have invaded our lives for the past few decades in the hope that they might also infiltrate and control the people through those means. Except the NSA never thought far enough ahead to understand that what one might use can also be used by someone else. There are some people that are also exploiting that data and the systems in order to grapple with the NSA and thus the revelations today concerning the 75%.
Lying that is compulsive can be attributed to a number of factors such as dysfunctional childhood or cerebral dysfunction, amongst other things. Clearly, the NSA needs to get something done about the cerebral dysfunction, which means going straight to the top, getting rid of the grey matter and replacing the cells (attempting to make sure that the new cells are trustworthy if that is possible). The dysfunctional childhood has resulted in Pseudologia Fantastica, a system of complex lies that form a matrix becoming so intertwined that it has been impossible to distinguish the truth from lies recently. Pseudologues just trade one story for another when confronted for fear of not being just quite as good as they had of hoped and thus leading to the destructing of their image, or the even greater fear that others will one day stumble across the proof that reveals that they are indeed less than they would have liked to have been perceived. The NSA has been rumbled, at last. The NSA is a pseudologue that is monitoring our country.
Some people criticize the fact that there are others out here that are critical of what is taking place with regard to the powers that have been handed over or stolen left right and center by the state and yet that still maintain the 'our' description when talking of the country. Perhaps everyone's definition of their country is different, but it doesn't stand for flirting with the powers-that-be. That fizzles out into subservience and annihilates critical thinking. But, 'our' doesn't necessarily mean condoning what the state has been doing to the people not only in the USA but around the world with the surveillance of our every move. The system that has been created by the NSA for some is unconstitutional. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, the laws have been passed to allow that to take place. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Section 702 enables the NSA and the FBI to carry out any form of surveillance where there is 'reasonable belief' that there is a threat to national security. Anything can be a threat to national security. It was only prior to 2008 and the enactment of the FISA Amendments Act that it entered the legal framework. Prior to this date the Bush administration had been collecting data illegally in a warrantless surveillance plan revealed in 2005. The 'reasonable belief' tag is so large that anything and everything could be turned over by the NSA to the FBI in theory.
What is illegal however is the filter that has been used to sort the data! The filters have been set in such a manner that 75% of our data is now collected. The NSA supposedly only collected 1.6% of the communications over the internet according to document released (and therefore now fabricated?) by the Obama administration to allay fears of the public. To make matters worse, we are Obama blarneyed into hearing that only 0.00004% of world traffic (0.025% of the 1.6% is selected for review) was actually analyzed at all by the NSA.
Mr. Obama stated: "We've got congressional oversight and judicial oversight. And if people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress and don't trust federal judges to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then we're going to have some problems here."


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Building Console Applications
Applications in the .NET framework can use the System.Console class to read characters from and write characters to the console. Data from the console is read from the standard input stream, data to the console is written to the standard output stream, and error data to the console is written to the standard error output stream. These streams are automatically associated with the console when the application starts and are presented as the In, Out, and Error properties, respectively.
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The Chargers were obviously not happy with the original state of their defensive line, as they've made another change the day after final cuts.
They've claimed former Colts defensive tackle Drake Nevis off waivers, according to Stephen Holder of the Indianapolis Star.
Nevis, a former third-round pick, joins trade acquisition Sean Lissemore, who was brought in earlier today in a deal with the Cowboys.


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SELINSGROVE, Pa. – The York College women's track & field squad posted yet another terrific meet this season as they competed at the Susquehanna Crusader Indoor on Friday evening. The Spartans notched two individual triumphs and brought down three more school records.
Jasmine Smith had a banner day for the Green and White as she registered both victories and a school-best mark. In the long jump, the Spartan rookie catapulted herself to her first collegiate individual win as she registered a huge leap of 5.17 meters (16' 11.50") to set the new program record. Smith also won the 60-meter dash, finishing with meet-best times in both the preliminaries and finals. In the prelims, Smith ran to an 8.26, a result which gave her the top time entering the finals. She then won the 60-meter finals with an 8.27 performance. Smith also finished fourth overall in the 200, winning her heat with a 28.15.
In the weight throw, junior Katie Shinn established a new Spartan record tossing the weight 11.44 meters (37' 6.50"). That effort busted Shinn's own previous school record of 11.04 meters, set back in February 2011, and provided the junior with second place overall.
Chitom Henry added yet another new record to the York ledger as she ran to a school-best in the 60 hurdles. Her school-record time came in the preliminaries as she ran to a 10.66 mark as she qualified for the finals. In those finals, Henry finished fifth overall with an 11.23.
Laura Rowlands, who continues to put together strong performances, took second in a pair of events. In the long jump, Rowlands finished just behind teammate Smith as she recorded a 5.01-meter (16' 5.25") bound to tie for second. The second-year Spartan also registered second in the high jump with a result of 1.57 meters (5' 1.75"), her best mark of the 2011-2012 campaign.
Senior Mandy Parshall posted a pair of fourth-place times in the one-mile and 800-meter events. Parshall ran to a 5:35.87 in the mile while she crossed the 800 finish line in 2:32.82.
Nicole Seitz performed well in the pole vault for the York squad as she gets back into the competitive action. Her height of 2.45 meters (8' 0.50") provided the Spartan with a tie for fourth.
York's 4x400 relay squad of Deborah Fidele, Hannah Ritzman, Korissa Lincoln, Mandy Parshall ran well and placed fourth with 4:23.42
Misty Parshall (5:45.20), Nicole Danielewicz (5:50.33), and Caroline DeLany (5:50.36) each finished in the top-ten in the mile.
Off the track, Meaghan Jackson tossed the shot put 9.80 meters (32' 2.00") to finish sixth while Ashley Menniti went seventh with a result of 9.23 meters (30' 3.50"). Menniti also took eighth in the weight throw with a 9.30-meter (30' 6.25") distance.
The Green and White return to action on Sunday, February 12. Set to travel back to Selinsgrove, the Spartans visit Susquehanna University once again, this time for the Susquehanna Indoor at 10:00 am. This meet will prove the final competitive tune-up before York competes in the inaugural Capital Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday, February 19, at George Mason University.
PHOTO: Ashley Menniti competes in the weight throw at the Susquehanna Crusader Indoor on Saturday in Selinsgrove, Pa. Courtesy of Theresa Dark - York College (Pa.) Athletic Communications Student Photographer.


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By Dylan Vazzano, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech soccer team closed out its non-conference campaign in grand fashion Sunday afternoon, blanking East Tennessee State University, 1-0.
A fast start did the trick for Tech (2-7-0), as the Golden Eagles wasted no time in jumping on the scoreboard behind a third-minute goal from senior Shannon Rountree. The score marked the first of the season for the Tamarac, Fla., native, while fellow senior Ellie Iaciofano picked up her third assist of the year on the play, and second in as many matches.
Rountree led all players in the tilt with four shots-on-goal,
part of an attack that saw the Golden Eagles with twice as many
shots-on-goal as the Buccaneers (10-5).
"Overall, it was a great team effort," fourth-year head Coach Daniel Brizard remarked after the match. "This is the sort of result that we have been on the verge of getting, so it was nice to get a win for the effort."
The one-goal advantage proved to be enough for TTU sophomore goalkeeper Jordan Brown and the rest of the Golden Eagle defensive unit. With five saves, the League City, Texas native notched her first shutout of the year and fourth in her career.
"Defensively, we remained calm and disciplined throughout the match," Brizard said. "Jordan came up with some key saves to preserve the shutout and the back four remained strong and committed."
One of those "back four" that Brizard spoke of, senior Leigh Heffner, played 90 more minutes today to put her within just 25 minutes of the TTU all-time record for most minutes played.
As far as ETSU is concerned, the Bucs equaled the Golden Eagles with 19 total shots, but were unable to crack Brown and the rest of the Tech defense.
East Tennessee goalkeeper, freshman Anna Yancey, made six saves on the day.
The Golden Eagles will remain on the road for the start of Ohio Valley Conference play this week, kicking things off with SIUE on Friday. Action is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. CDT.


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Louis G. Hill, 89, Philadelphia, Pa, former Common Pleas Court Judge and State Senator passed away on Saturday, July 13th after a lengthy illness with dementia. Born March 10, 1924, in Palm Beach, Florida to Crawford Hill and Ann (Kaufman) Hill. Beloved husband for 36 years to Marilyn (Ashton) Young Hill, married in 1977. Formerly married (1951) to Jane (Cox) Hill, now MacElree for 25 years. Hill is the proud father of seven children, 10 grandchildren, four stepchildren and nine step-grandchildren. He had one sister, four stepsiblings and two half-siblings. Hill graduated from St. George's School in Newport, RI in 1942 and Harvard College in 1944 (accelerated class of 1946 due to WWII). He was an undefeated heavyweight boxer at Harvard and served with the US Marines as a captain during both WWII and Korea. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1949. In the early 1950s he joined the law firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish and Levy as a trial lawyer where for 27 years he never lost a case decided by a jury. Lou Hill first became active in politics as a volunteer campaigning in the 1940s for his stepfather, Richardson Dilworth, mayor of Philadelphia from 1956 to 1962. In 1966 Hill was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate and served three terms. As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a position he held for over 7 years, he was deeply involved in the passage of every law. In the early 1970s Hill was responsible for driving through the legislature the first Crimes and Juvenile Code in Pennsylvania's history. Hill was also the prime sponsor or co-sponsor of hundreds of bills and over 60 became law. He consistently voted to provide funds for the State Crime Commission and the Special Prosecutor Investigating political corruption in Philadelphia. In 1975 he ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat against incumbent Mayor Frank Rizzo. Hill presided as a Common Pleas judge in Philadelphia for over 20 years. He inspired his children and friends with a love for the wilderness. On one memorable weeklong hike his wife, Marilyn, was initiated to the Appalachian Trail on their honeymoon with Hill's children. Starting in the 1950s Hill could often be found early in the morning running the bridle path in Philadelphia along the Wissahickon Creek somewhere between Lincoln Drive, Valley Green and Bell's Mill. After his run he would finish his workout in his basement home gym before going to work at a time when the term home gym was not known. His children are Crawford Hill and his wife, Suzie of Ardmore, PA; Leslie Hill, her husband Dennis Carroll of Chevy Chase, MD; Jessie B. Hill and her husband, Ming Fang of Kauai, Hawaii; Thomas G. Hill and his wife, Nancy Hagens, of Newton, MA; Michael C. Hill and his wife, Susan Bear, of Newton, MA; Charlotte Hill and her husband, Marc Henrich, of San Francisco, CA and Ann Hill of Newtown Square, PA. His stepchildren are Anita Young of Philadelphia, PA; Edwin Germaine (deceased) of Hawaii; Michelle Peretz and her husband Amiel Peretz of Pound Ridge, NY, and Melissa Young of Jenkintown, PA. He is also survived by his half-sister, Deborah (Dilworth) Bishop, of Bryn Mawr, PA and his half-brother, Richardson Dilworth, Jr., and his wife, Leslie Dilworth, of Galisteo, NM. His sister, Marie Townsend, died in 1976. He is also survived by his stepbrother, Warden Dilworth, of Portland, ME and stepsister, Anne Hackett, of Villanova, PA. His stepbrother, Brockie Dilworth of Chicago and stepsister Patricia Lees of Philadelphia predeceased him. The Memorial Service took place on Tuesday, July 23rd at Bringhurst Funeral Home, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, 225 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be sent, in memory of Louis G. Hill to: Friends of the Wissahickon, 8708 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118; Alzheimer's Association, Delaware Valley Chapter, 399 Market Street, Suite 102, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
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Sometimes the longest struggles can be the most rewarding. After 10 months of #PeoplePowered activities and behind-the-scenes haggling, G-Star Raw finally committed to eliminate all uses of hazardous chemicals from its supply chain and products by 2020. This means that the Dutch denim brand joins the likes of Uniqlo, Benetton. and Victoria's Secret in making credible "Detox" commitments in 2013. And with the Italian high-fashion brand Valentino joining the leaders in the industry this past week, there are currently 16 big brands that have started a process to eliminate all discharges of hazardous chemicals throughout their supply chains and products.
Some people might wonder, why is the companies' deadline 2020? Greenpeace is an organization that pushes for actions. We want to see solutions happening yesterday rather than waiting for tomorrow.
So, why the generous deadline?
The elimination of all hazardous chemical discharge of this scale and complexity has never been attempted before.
The elimination of all hazardous chemical discharge of this scale and complexity has never been attempted before.
The elimination of all hazardous chemical discharge across a global sector of this scale and complexity has never been attempted before. We're not just talking about managing hazardous chemicals or reducing their use to "safe" levels. We're talking about brands taking responsibility for their products and for their entire supply chain, ensuring that both consumers and the people living where these clothes are made know what's being pumped into their water and garments—and ensuring there's not even a chance of these chemicals causing harm to planet or people.
On the flip side, seven years is still seven years during which toxic water pollution impacts the lives of millions of people worldwide. In other words, we cannot wait so many years to see things movie.
And we won't.
Brands will report on how they substituted hazardous chemicals with safer alternative. Look, for example, at the short elimination timelines of certain hazardous chemical groups, such as alkylphenol ethoxylates, phthalates, and perfluorinated compounds.
The murky world of fashion is slowly becoming more transparent. Already, several hundred facilities in the Global South will be requested by brands to disclose pollution discharge data before the end of this year. They'll be using online platforms that provide easy access to pollution information, in a language and format easily understandable in manufacturing countries.
This is our water, we have a right to know what is in it.
This is our water, we have a right to know what is in it.
This is our water, we have a right to know what is in it.
We also expect lawmakers to step up their game. In order to steer real and irreversible changes, they play a crucial role to both push the greenwashers within the textile sector to act and also set the standard for other polluting industries, such as paper, automotive, and electronics.
Our work is far from done. Many other brands including Gap, Calvin Klein, and Jack Wolfskin have so far failed to take real action to stop polluting our precious water supplies with hazardous chemicals.
Join fashionistas, activists, designers and bloggers who have joined our call and signed up to our Detox Manifesto so that together we ensure that the toxic tide turns for good.


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Linda Ward and Greg Waters met a year ago when fate pitched their tents in close proximity to one another at Charlotte Motor Speedway's Peninsula Campground. Yesterday, the gushing jail nurse and truck driver became one at their "Royal Race Wedding."
The bride wore an "embroidered sundress purchased at a Cherokee, N.C., souvenir shop." The groom, in shorts and a tan shirt, "tried not to cry, but I teared up because she's such a special woman."
Love is a smoke made with the fume of Goodyear slicks.
'Royal Race Wedding' at Charlotte Motor Speedway [WCNC]
A fire burns at Charlotte Motor Speedway campgrounds [Charlotte Observer]
Coca-Cola 600 victories are coveted [Fox Sports]


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Penn State Model Railroad Club plans open house
Penn State Model Railroad Club plans open house
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State Model Railroad Club (PSMRRC) is holding a public open house from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, and Sunday, Dec. 8, in the basement of Pinchot Hall in East Halls.
Club members will escort visitors from the main outside door to the basement club area. For an escort, call 7-1361 from the phone by the primary outside door of Pinchot Hall or use a cellphone at the door to call 814-867-1361.
The scale model railroad is located in an 1,100-square-foot room and built on more than 2,200 linear feet of track and 400 square feet of benchwork. The setup features landscaping and many model buildings, including a steel mill, Hershey as seen track-side, a quarry, a well-detailed Union Station, a farm and a brewery. The scenes include bridges, mountains, villages, trees and a big railroad yard for train cars and locomotives.
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There is no good way to pause and share support with those who lost life and loved ones during the Friday shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Everything, whether it's a moment of silence or a promise of solidarity in the face of violence, is not enough. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, though. The health and fitness-centric Gamer Fit Nation and its CEO Antwand Pearman are trying to do something for the victims of the massacre with the Day of Cease Fire for Online Shooters event scheduled for Friday. It's an unusual moment of silence, and a laudable one.
"We ask for gamers to show their support for the families of those who lost their lives in the tragedy that took place in Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday, December 14, 2012," reads a statement from Pearman on Facebook, "We are simply making a statement that we as gamers are not going to sit back and ignore the lives that were lost. Instead we will embrace the families with our love and support."
"So if you are an owner of a website I ask that you post to your readers that you will join us in our Day of Cease Fire for Online Shooters. I ask you all to please share and I thank you for reading. This starts Thursday night, Friday morning at 12am and will end Friday night, Saturday morning at 12am."
Pearman's request is a tall order just days before Christmas, a period when online gaming populations spike thanks to students and others going on vacation. It's also the time of year when the newest online shooters like Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Halo 4 see peak saturation. The statement that people stand together and refuse to engage in even an entertaining facsimile of violence in the face of real brutality should be all the more powerful as a result.
Video games have shared an ignoble link with school shootings in the past. The Columbine massacre in 1999 was marked by reports of the shooters' playing early first-person shooters like Doom. The mainstream press has abstained from blaming games or game communities on the mindless actions of shooter Adam Lanza, though tabloids like Britain's The Sun have made dubious claims that he was obsessed with Call of Duty.
Please do take Friday off from shooters to show your support, even if that's all you can do.


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* Are you growing some great tomatoes that you'd like to share?
* Have you got more fruit on your trees than you know what to do with?
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The Newport Fruit and Vegie Swap is an gathering of backyard harvesters who have extra produce that they'd like to share and swap with others. Everyone is welcome!
When is it? The Swap will be on the third Sunday of every month - from 10:30 to 11:30am.
Where is it? It's at Newport Lakes. Just through the entrance from Mason St at the under-cover BBQ area on your left. Melways Ref 55 G3.
How does it work? Swappers bring their produce and put it on a common table and then swap it for other produce on the table. It's pretty casual, no bartering occurs and no money changes hands. It's up to the swapper to decide what is fair. The Fruit and Vegie is starting as a pilot project and it may evolve as we go.
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According to this article, well known industry mag Publishers Weekly is going to "embrace the self-publishing phenomenon" and begin listing self-published titles in a quarterly supplement.
They are books and that is what PW cares about. And we aim to inform the trade.
On the surface, it seems they're actually acknowledging this red-headed stepchild of the publishing world. They even claim they're going to review at least 25 self-pubbed books per supplement. Perhaps those indie authors who fought so long and hard for respect will finally get some recognition from the industry that spurned them.
Intrigued? Interested? Willing to give it a try?
All it takes is $149 for the processing fee.
For that fee, PW will print your title, author name, ISBN, and a brief description, in their supplement. The fee does not include a review.
We briefly considered charging for reviews, but in the end preferred to maintain our right to review what we deemed worthy. The processing fee that guarantees a listing and the chance to be reviewed accomplishes what we want: to inform the trade of what is happening in self-publishing and to present a PW selection of what has the most merit.
They used the phrase "inform the trade" two different times, as if to hammer home the point that their magazine is there to serve the industry. At the end of the article, they even say, "books are our business."
Actually, this little venture seems more like "authors are our business." If PW truly believed in the worth and merit of self-pubbed books, and that their subscribers needed to know about this "phenomenon", then shouldn't they list these titles for free? If the trade really wants a compendium of self-pubbed ISBNs, surely this list will only make them more eager to sign up for another PW subscription, right?
But instead, I can't see this as anything other than trying to separate a writer from her money. The chance of being reviewed is dangled there like a carrot on a stick, but there are no guarantees. Which seems even less appealing than Kirkus Discoveries, which began offering a paid review service for indie authors a few years ago, and endured considerable flack for it.
The part that really makes me set my jaw, however, is this paragraph:
The entire PW editorial staff will participate in a review of the titles being considered for review, and we'll likely invite a few agent friends and distributors to have a look at what we've chosen. No promises there, just letting some publishing friends take advantage of the opportunity to see the collection.
Ugh. And this article was written by George W. Slowik Jr., the president of PW.
Making indie authors pay for nothing more than a few sentences in a quarterly supplement (not even the actual magazine) is pretty pathetic. But saying that agents will see this, under the guise of making no promises that they will, is really yucky.
The $149 fee also comes with a six month subscription to the digital edition of PW, which is normally $90. No word about getting a partial refund if PW folds before the six months is over. But if they're this needy for cash, and willing to go in this direction to get it, I don't have high hopes.
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John Searle, (born July 31, 1932, Denver, Colorado, U.S.), American philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of language—especially speech act theory—and the philosophy of mind. He also made significant contributions to epistemology, ontology, the philosophy of social institutions, and the study of practical reason. He views his writings in these areas as forming a single picture of human experience and of the social universe in which that experience takes place.
Searle's father was a business executive and his mother a physician. After moving several times, the family finally settled in Wisconsin. As a 19-year-old junior at the University of Wisconsin, Searle was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. After receiving a doctorate in philosophy in 1959, he left Oxford to join the faculty of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was eventually appointed Mills Professor of Philosophy and later Slusser Professor of Philosophy.
Philosophy of language
Speech acts
Searle's early work in the philosophy of language was an outgrowth of his study at Oxford under the ordinary-language philosopher J.L. Austin. In his 1955 William James Lectures at Harvard University, published posthumously as How to Do Things with Words (1962), Austin criticized the tendency of analytic philosophers, especially adherents of the school of logical positivism, for supposing that there is only one basic kind of language use: that of making descriptive utterances (in speech or in writing) that are either true or false depending on how the world is. Focusing as they did on scientific discourse, the logical positivists went so far as to claim that an utterance is meaningful only if it is a tautology or such that it can be confirmed or disconfirmed (in principle) through experience; all other utterances are literally nonsense (see verifiability principle). Austin pointed out that descriptive utterances (which he called "constatives") hardly exhaust the range of meaningful uses of language. They are only one of many kinds of performative utterance, or speech act (Austin called them "illocutionary acts"), which consist of social acts performed by means of linguistic utterances in appropriate circumstances. Other examples are orders, requests, promises, greetings, resignations, warnings, and dozens more. For most speech acts, the utterance through which the act is performed—e.g., "I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth"—is neither true nor false, though the performance may be infelicitous in various ways, as when a person who is not authorized to name the ship cracks a champagne bottle against the bow and utters "I name this ship the Generalissimo Stalin."
Dimensions and taxonomy
In his first major work, Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), Searle treated speech acts much more systematically than Austin had. He proposed that each kind of speech act can be defined in terms of a set of rules that identify the conditions that are individually necessary and collectively sufficient for "sincerely and non-defectively" performing an act of that kind. Among the rules for promising, for example, are that the speaker (S) predicate a future act (A) of himself, that S intend to carry out A, that the hearer (H) prefer that S carry out A, that it not be obvious to both S and H that S would carry out A in the normal course of events, and that S intend to place himself under an obligation to carry out A.
At a more general level, Searle identified three basic dimensions with respect to which different kinds of speech vary from one another: the illocutionary point of the act, insofar as it is an act of a certain type; what he called the act's "direction of fit"; and the psychological state expressed by the act. For example, the illocutionary point of a statement, insofar as it is a statement, is to present the world as being a certain way, and the illocutionary point of an order, insofar as it is an order, is to get the hearer to do something.
A speech act's direction of fit characterizes the way in which acts of that type are related to the world. A statement has a "word-to-world" fit because it constitutes an attempt by the speaker to make his words "match" the world in a certain sense. In contrast, a promise has a world-to-word fit because it constitutes an undertaking on the part of the speaker to make the world match his words. (Searle also recognized a "null" direction of fit for speech acts, such as greetings and thanks, that match neither words to the world nor the world to words.)
Finally, the expressed psychological state of a speech act is the belief, desire, intention, or other mental state that a speaker necessarily expresses by performing an act of that type. The statement "It is raining" expresses the speaker's belief that it is raining; the order "Get me some raisins" expresses the speaker's desire that the hearer get him some raisins; and the promise "I'll be there" expresses the speaker's intention to be there. The expressed psychological state of a speech act is distinct from its propositional content; in the examples above, the propositional contents of the acts are, respectively, that it is raining, that the hearer gets the speaker some raisins, and that the speaker will be there.
Using these dimensions, Searle developed an elaborate speech act taxonomy, consisting at its highest level of five categories: (1) assertives (e.g., statements, descriptions, and predictions), (2) directives (e.g., orders, requests, and direction giving), (3) commissives (e.g., promises, oaths, and bets), (4) expressives (e.g., greetings, congratulations, and thanks), and (5) declarations (e.g., excommunications, hirings, and declarations of war). Searle considers his taxonomy to be superior to Austin's, in part because Austin's was not based on a definite set of basic dimensions and so resulted in inconsistent and overlapping classifications of speech acts.
Searle also introduced the notion of an indirect speech act, in which the speaker performs one kind of speech act by means of performing another. An example is the statement "You are standing on my foot," used as a means of requesting or demanding that the hearer get off one's foot.
According to Searle, speech acts do not function in isolation. They are embedded within a "Network" of unarticulated beliefs and other mental states and within a "Background" of capacities, all of which must exist if the illocutionary point of the act is to be served. For example, the promise "I'll buy you dinner" presupposes that the speaker understands what dinner is, what money is, and what restaurants are and that he knows how to conduct himself in a restaurant and how to eat and drink.
Speech act theory is important in the philosophy of language not only for having demonstrated the wide range of meaningful uses of language but also for yielding insight into fundamental issues such as the distinction between speaker meaning and conventional meaning, the nature of reference and predication, the division between semantic and pragmatic (use-generated) aspects of communicated meaning, and the scope of linguistic knowledge.
Philosophy of mind
In large part, Searle was driven to the study of mind by his study of language. As indicated above, his analysis of speech acts always involved reference to mental concepts. Since mental states are essentially involved in issuing speech acts, Searle realized that his analysis of language could not be complete unless it included a clear understanding of those states.
Intentionality and consciousness
An important feature of the majority of mental states is that they have an "intentional" structure: they are intrinsically about, or directed toward, something. (Intentionality in this sense is distinct from the ordinary quality of being intended, as when one intends to do something.) Thus, believing is necessarily believing that something is the case; desiring is necessarily desiring something; intending is necessarily intending to do something. Not all mental states are intentional, however: pain, for example, is not, and neither are many states of anxiety, elation, and depression.
Speech acts are intentional in a derivative sense, insofar as they are expressive of intrinsically intentional mental states, including expressed psychological states and propositional contents. According to Searle, the derived intentionality of language accounts for the apparently mysterious capacity of words, phrases, and sentences to refer not only to things in the world but also to things that are purely imaginary or fictional.
Although not all mental states are intentional, all of them, in Searle's view, are conscious, or at least capable in principle of being conscious. Indeed, Searle maintains that the notion of an unconscious mental state is incoherent. He argues that, because consciousness is an intrinsically biological phenomenon, it is impossible in principle to build a computer (or any other nonbiological machine) that is conscious. This thesis runs counter to much contemporary cognitive science and specifically contradicts the central claim of "strong" artificial intelligence (AI): that consciousness, thought, or intelligence can be realized artificially in machines that exactly mimic the computational processes presumably underlying human mental states.
The Chinese room argument
In a now classic paper published in 1980, "Minds, Brains, and Programs," Searle developed a provocative argument to show that artificial intelligence is indeed artificial. Imagine that a person who knows nothing of the Chinese language is sitting alone in a room. In that room are several boxes containing cards on which Chinese characters of varying complexity are printed, as well as a manual that matches strings of Chinese characters with strings that constitute appropriate responses. On one side of the room is a slot through which speakers of Chinese may insert questions or other messages in Chinese, and on the other is a slot through which the person in the room may issue replies. The person in the room, using the manual, acts as a kind of computer program, transforming one string of symbols introduced as "input" into another string of symbols issued as "output." Searle claims that even if the person in the room is a good processor of messages, so that his responses always make perfect sense to Chinese speakers, he still does not understand the meanings of the characters he is manipulating. Thus, contrary to strong AI, real understanding cannot be a matter of mere symbol manipulation. Like the person in the room, computers simulate intelligence but do not exhibit it.
The Chinese room argument has generated an enormous critical literature. According to the "systems response," the occupant of the room is analogous not to a computer but only to a computer's central processing unit (CPU). He does not understand Chinese because he is only one part of the computer that responds appropriately to Chinese messages. What does understand Chinese is the system as a whole, including the manual, any instructions for using it, and any intermediate means of symbol manipulation. Searle's reply is that the other parts of the system can be dispensed with. Suppose the person in the room simply memorizes the characters, the manual, and the instructions so that he can respond to Chinese messages entirely on his own. He still would not know what the Chinese characters mean.
Another objection claims that robots consisting of computers and sensors and having the ability to move about and manipulate things in their environment would be capable of learning Chinese in much the same way that human children acquire their first languages. Searle rejects this criticism as well, claiming that the "sensory" input the computer receives would also consist of symbols, which a person or a machine could manipulate appropriately without any understanding of their meaning.
Mind and body
Searle's view that mental states are inherently biological implies that the perennial mind-body problem—the problem of explaining how it is possible for minds and bodies to interact—is fundamentally misconceived. Minds and bodies are not radically different kinds of substance, as the 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes maintained, and minds certainly do not belong to any realm that is separate from the physical world. This is not to say that mental states are "reducible" to physical states, so that all talk of the mental can be eliminated in favour of talk of the physical. Rather, they are intrinsic features of certain very complex kinds of biological system. Because mental states are biological, they can cause and be caused by physical changes in human bodies. Moreover, reference to them is essential to any adequate explanation of human behaviour.
Philosophy of social institutions
Searle's interest in social institutions, like his interest in the mind, was also an outgrowth of his study of language. Speech acts, after all, are linguistic entities embedded in social settings. Searle was thus naturally drawn to questions concerning the constitution and creation of social institutions.
A key notion in Searle's account of social institutions is that of a collective intention, such as the intention expressed by "Let's push the log at the count of three." Collective intentions, or "we-intentions," entail the existence of individual intentions, or "I-intentions," because a person cannot intend that he and others do something without also intending that he do his part (and because there is no distinct entity, over and above the individual, that could be said to be the bearer of a collective intention). Although we-intentions are held only by individuals, they are not reducible to I-intentions; in other words, a we-intention is not merely the sum of a certain number of I-intentions. This fact is evident, according to Searle, in any example of cooperative behaviour, such as a football (soccer) game or an orchestral performance. The we-intention to run a set piece in football is not equivalent to the sum of I-intentions to run, kick, or head; and the we-intention to perform a symphony is not equivalent to the sum of I-intentions to play a certain sequence of notes on a certain instrument.
According to Searle, objective social reality is literally created by means of we-intentions. The general form of such intentions is "X counts as Y in context C" or "X becomes Y in context C." By adopting a we-intention that X counts as or becomes Y in C, individuals make it an objective fact that X counts as or becomes Y in C. A familiar example is the institution of money, which is created by the we-intention to treat certain pieces of paper or metal, issued by the appropriate governmental authority, as money.
An important feature of we-intentions in their role as creators of social institutions is that they can be iterated: given a we-intention of the form "X counts as Y in C," the "Y" in the intention may become the "X" in a higher-level intention. For example, a certain utterance (X) counts as an English sentence (Y) in the context of an intention (by an English speaker) to utter an English sentence (C); an English sentence (X) counts as a promise (Y) in the context of an intention by the speaker that he do what he says he will do (C); the making of a promise (X) counts as getting married (Y) in the context of a marriage ceremony (C); and so on. According to Searle, the possibility of this kind of iteration helps to explain how complex social institutions are created out of simpler ones. Other examples of social institutions created by we-intentions are employment, ownership of private property, games, universities, political parties, governments, and, most importantly for Searle, language.
Searle has written scores of journal articles and several books. In addition to Speech Acts, the latter include: Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts (1979), Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983), The Rediscovery of the Mind (1992), The Construction of Social Reality (1995), Rationality in Action (2001), and Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization (2010).
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David Dreier was 26, still living in a dorm at Claremont McKenna College and working as a college administrator, when he ran for Congress the first time, in 1978. He lost then but never thereafter. Sixteen times, Dreier was elected to the House of Representatives from a San Gabriel Valley/San Bernardino County district. He became the youngest-ever chairman of the Rules Committee, mastering the machinery of the House. But in February, he announced he would not seek reelection. He leaves behind a sharply redrawn district, and a Congress he insists is not so awfully different from the one he entered more than half his life ago.
You went to Washington in the "Ronald Reagan Class of 1980.'' Pundits have said even Reagan wouldn't manage in today's political climate.
I joke that Reagan could not win the Republican nomination and John F. Kennedy could not win the Democratic nomination. When I made my [retirement] announcement, I said this institution is as great as it's ever been. That led everyone to scratch their heads. The institution is reflective of society and the body politic. We have a very divided America; that being represented in Congress does not diminish it, even though it has a 10% approval rating — lower than Moammar Kadafi's, from the people who killed him! The attention is always on areas of disagreement, but that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of things getting done reasonably well.
Other departing Republicans, such as Sens. Olympia Snowe and Richard Lugar, deplore the level of hostility and lack of nuance in Washington.
I don't look at the world through rose-colored glasses. Is it not human nature to talk about the "good old days"? I heard people [in Congress] saying that in the early '80s. I just don't buy it.
Then where does the partisanship leave you, as a known moderate?
I know I'm labeled that, but when I got here I was labeled a Reagan robot. I like to get things done and find areas of agreement. That doesn't mean I'm not a proponent of James Madison's clash of ideas, but you've got to get things done. That means you're compromising, which some see as a negative. You should never compromise your principles, but you should always be prepared to compromise for principle.
Your moderation reportedly cost you the House speakership.
There were people who wanted me to be speaker, and I said I just want to be chairman of the Rules Committee. This committee is the traffic cop through which virtually everything has to go before it's considered on the House floor. It's just an amazing honor.
A group of members, Democrats and Republicans, have said to me, "This place isn't going to be able to function without you." I was reminded of Charles de Gaulle's famous line that the cemetery is filled with indispensable people.
Wasn't there talk of you becoming head of the Motion Picture Assn. of America?
In 2004, I was approached by studio heads. I'm so grateful I [said no]. The things I wanted to accomplish —reverse the 82% non-defense discretionary spending, the Panama, Colombia and South Korea free-trade agreements I'd worked on for a decade, and opening the [legislative] process to make sure Democrats as well as Republicans have their ideas considered. [L.A. Democratic Rep.] Maxine Waters has said to me, "You've handed me more opportunity than Nancy [Pelosi, the former Democratic speaker] ever did."
What happens in January?
Right now I have about 10 different options. I'm so pleasantly surprised. I've been asked by a couple of networks, Fox and CNN, to offer commentary. I'm also looking at new-media stuff. There are people who've asked [me], regardless of who's elected president, to consider posts in either administration.
That would mean living in Washington, not your house in Malibu.
That's why I'm a little conflicted!
Is it hard to be a Republican in a blue-state delegation?
I don't think of it in that respect. Maxine Waters is one of my great friends. I work with [Democratic Rep.] Henry Waxman on a lot of issues. For 11 years I've been leader of the [Republican] California congressional delegation. I'm the only Republican [from] Los Angeles [County]. I work with a Democratic delegation, and I enjoy it.
Did redistricting affect your decision to retire? And what about Republicans and California's changing demographics?
Redistricting played no role. I had made a decision before the last election: I would serve one more term. As far as changing demographics, even though I'm in the minority party in California, I represent the majority philosophy. We need to encourage more people of diverse views into the Republican Party. I believe in limited government, free economy, strong defense and personal freedom.
And the party's opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, its stand on other conservative social issues? Don't a lot of young voters define personal freedom as a kind of libertarianism —
Which is where I am.
Does the GOP risk alienating those potential members?
The answer is yes. The party should embrace those four core goals I set forth. Somebody says, "What do you think of the so-called religious right as part of your party?" I say, "We welcome anyone." I just don't want [one group of] people controlling my party.
You joined a few GOP colleagues and recently changed your mind and your vote on "don't ask, don't tell."
My position has been similar to President Obama's. I voted for repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," but 15 years ago of course I voted for it — everybody did, and Clinton signed it. There wasn't a long list of Republicans [voting to repeal], but I said, "Yeah, this just makes sense."
Why haven't you run for the Senate? Republicans seem to have a dearth of qualified candidates willing to run in California?
Well, you just described the demographics! Right after I was elected, people said, "You'd be a natural in the Senate." I love the House of Representatives. When you're on the floor of the Senate, it's like you're in a living room. When you're on the floor of the House, it's like you're in an arena. I enjoy the mixing it up. And I find diversity in the House that does not exist in the Senate. The Senate has a tendency to be more monolithic. If you look at the Constitution, Article 1, Section 7, the House is really where the action is.
You chaired Arnold Schwarzenegger's transition team. What do you think of his governorship?
His instincts are great. He came in at a time when the economy was facing real difficulty. The biggest problem was taking on too much. He was fantastic, and still is, in that he believes he's close to invincible, failure is not an option. He and Reagan had the most positive outlooks. Sure, he had difficulties and problems and conflict. His attempt at four [state government reform] initiatives, and getting his hat handed to him, was a setback. [But] the idea of going through what we went through with Arnold was great for California.
You've been in Congress from the post-Watergate era to post-Citizens United. What about regulating the effect of money on politics and governance?
Madison said the problem with democracy is solved with more democracy. The problem with political action committees is solved with more political action committees. People coming together and exercising their right to speech is good and healthy.
You've said you regretted your vote against a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Are there others? The Iraq war?
I haven't really spent time thinking about that. One [thing] I haven't been able to get accomplished is to go from a one-year to a two-year budget process. I'm most proud of the work I've done on opening markets for U.S. goods and services around the world through trade agreements.
You're the head of the House Democracy Partnership, which works with Middle Eastern countries setting up democratic institutions.
I [just had] Mongolians, Kyrgyz and Indonesians here. They're ecstatic about learning from us. We focus on the budget process, committee structures, oversight of the executive. I was in Tunisia as they were putting their constitution together. There's nothing I've done in Congress that I find more fulfilling. It's the best way we can deal with terrorism, global poverty and environmental issues.
What's been the effect of the "tea party" in Congress?
Based on media reports, I thought these 87 newly elected members would be coming in carrying "Obama is a Nazi" signs. By and large they are thoughtful, deliberative and desirous of getting things done. The attention is focused on a few who make statements I wouldn't necessarily make. I always say "tea party" means "taxed enough already."
Do we need term limits in the House?
We have term limits, every two years.
I've consistently opposed constitutional amendments. I argued against a balanced budget amendment; that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see us balance the budget, [but] without touching that inspired document, the Constitution.
One of the things that's troubled me about Republicans and some Democrats is a tendency to say your level of commitment to a public policy question is based on your willingness to amend the Constitution to implement it. To me, mine is the real conservative view: It's hard to amend the Constitution for a reason.
I've got to ask about you teaching Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to tango, aboard Air Force One, on a trip to Latin America with President Clinton.
Well, she's a better dancer than she was before! Somebody said, "You've been to Buenos Aires — what do you do in Buenos Aires?" I said, "You tango, of course."
[Later] this guy comes rushing back: "The first lady wants to see you." She said, "We understand you give tango lessons, David." Madeleine was standing right there so I took her arm and [tangoed] right up the aisle on Air Force One.
Rush Limbaugh went on for three hours about Dreier selling out. He read [my statement] on the air: "Dear Rush, it's true that I'm in Latin America promoting Ronald Reagan's vision of democracy, free markets and free trade. And it's true that I was dancing the tango on board Air Force One with the secretary of State. It's important to note that she was dancing to my tune and I was leading."
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This interview was edited and excerpted from a taped transcript. An archive of Morrison's interviews can be found at latimes.com/pattasks.


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Author Notes: These little biscuits are made like dumplings, filled with goodness. I love dumplings and I love cookies, so this is just a match made in heaven for me. Another reason I love these is that they are called "stuffed birds" because in one of the many traditional forms of these cookies from Abruzzo, they are made in the shape of little birds for the Festival of St Antonino in Aquila.
Yet another reason I love these is that they are traditionally made with a homemade grape jam that is not so much a recipe but something that, until recently anyway, the women of Abruzzese households seemed to learn how to do without notes or measurements. Just a way of life. This jam, known in dialect as scurchjiata, is made from the local Montepulciano d'Abruzzo grapes and is not as sweet as a store-bought jam.
The cookies are made with a filling of the scurchjiata, chopped walnuts and almonds, then flavoured with orange or lemon peel and sometimes even dark chocolate. Some recipes include a puree of chestnuts, or in the absence of it, chickpeas, breadcrumbs, dried figs, coffee, cinnamon… each household have their own favourite combination of flavours. This filling is then hidden inside a beautiful pastry of flour, white wine, extra virgin olive oil, sugar and eggs, and the whole things are baked and then covered in icing sugar.
Just as traditions go, there are many variations on this recipe, but here's a basic one that I like to use. - Emiko —Emiko
Food52 Review: This elegantly simple confection is astonishingly easy to whip up, part of the experience is crafting the dumplings. When mixed together, the mildly sweet dough emits the incomparable earthy aroma of extra-virgin olive oil and wine -- it is hard to resist sneaking little bits! The combination of nuts, orange zest and grape jam yields a rich filling that holds together perfectly with the addition of the crushed biscuits. When baked, the end result is a crusty shell enveloping a decadent paste of citrus-infused jam with generous amounts of almonds and walnuts. Ideally, a pop tart should taste like this. I could have polished off the whole batch in one shot! - Panfusine —Panfusine
Makes: 24
For the pastry
pound flour
ounces extra virgin olive oil
ounces white wine
tablespoons caster sugar
Pinch salt
For the filling
ounces grape jam (preferably homemade)
ounces peeled almonds and/or walnuts, chopped
grated rind of orange or lemon
dry, crushed plain biscuits (like digestive)
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. For the pastry, mix all the ingredients together until you get a smooth, elastic dough. It's a beautifully velvety pastry. Don't over work it; when it comes together nicely just wrap it in some plastic wrap and let it rest while you prepare the filling.
- Prepare all the ingredients for the filling, including chopping finely the nuts (a mixture of both almonds and walnuts is nice), crushing the biscuits and grating the citrus rinds (with the simple version of this recipe, I use just lemon rind, but if you're going to add chocolate, for example, orange rind really goes well). Warm the jam in a small saucepan on low heat and add it to all the other ingredients you're using for the filling with, except for the crushed biscuits. The biscuits (some use breadcrumbs) are for adding to the mixture in the case that the jam mixture is too liquid – you want to be able to take spoonfuls of it that don't slide off the spoon.
- Roll out the pastry to a few millimetres thick and cut it into squares of about 10cm squared. Place a teaspoonful of the jam mixture into the centre of each pastry square and, first folding over the pastry to create a triangle, bring the two outer corners together to create a horseshoe-type shape, pressing down on the edges to seal them. This is essentially the same technique as for tortellini or Chinese wontons! The pastry tends to shrink when it bakes so make sure you have plenty of pastry (i.e. don't fill them too much!) and that you seal them well.
- Arrange them on a cookie sheet, greased and covered with baking paper, and bake until the Celli Ripieni are lightly golden. When they are cool, dust them with icing sugar. Enjoy with a nice little cup of espresso!
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EC2305 TRANSMISSION LINES AND WAVEGUIDES NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 Anna University Previous Year Question Paper ...
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B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010
Fifth Semester
Electronics and Communication Engineering
(Regulation 2008)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer ALL questions
PART A — (10 × 2 = 20 Marks)
1. A constant-K T-section high pass filter has a cutoff frequency of 10 KHz. The design impedance is 600 ohms. Determine the value of L.
2. What are the advantages of m-derived filters?
3. Define delay distortion.
4. Write the expressions for the phase constant and velocity of propagation for telephone cable.
5. A lossless line has a characteristic impedance of 400 ohms. Determine the standing wave ratio if the receiving end impedance is 800 +j 0.0 ohms.
6. Write the expressions for the input impedance of open and short circuited dissipationless line.
7. Define the cutoff frequency for the guided waves.
8. For a frequency of 6 GHz and plane separation of 3 cm, find the group and phase velocities for the dominant mode.
9. Calculate the cutoff wavelength for the TM11 mode in a standard rectangular waveguide if a = 4.5 cm.
10. Give the applications of cavity resonators.
PART B — (5 × 16 = 80 Marks)
11. (a) (i) Design a m-derived T-section low pass filter having a cutoff frequency (fc) of 5000 Hz and a design impedance of 600 ohms. The frequency of infinite attenuation is 1.25 fc. (8)
(ii) Draw and explain the operation of crystal filters. (8)
(b) (i) Design a constant-K T-section bandpass filter with cutoff frequencies of 1 KHz and 4 KHz. The design impedance is 600 ohms.
(ii) Draw a constant-K T-section band elimination filter and explain the operation with necessary design equations. (8)
12. (a) (i) A transmission line has the following per unit length parameters : L = 0.1μ H, R =5 ohms, C = 300 pF and G = 0.01 mho. Calculate the propagation constant and characteristic impedance at 500 MHz. (8)
(ii) Derive the conditions required for a distortionless line. (8)
(b) (i) The characteristic impedance of a uniform transmission line is 2309.6 ohms at a frequency of 800 MHz. At this frequency, the propagation constant is 0.054(0.0366 + j 0.99). Determine Rand L.
(ii) Explain the reflection on lines not terminated in characteristic impedance with phasor diagrams. Define reflection coefficient and reflection loss. (10)
13. (a) (i) Draw and explain the operation of quarter wave line. (8)
(ii) It is required to match a 200 ohms load to a 300 ohms transmission line to reduce the SWR along the line to 1. What must be the characteristic impedance of the quarter wave transformer used for
this purpose if it is directly connected to the load? (4)
(iii) What are the drawbacks of single stub matching and open circuited stubs? (4)
(b) (i) Draw and explain the principle of double stub matching. (8)
(ii) A UHF lossless transmission line working at 1 GHz is connected to an unmatched line producing a voltage reflection coefficient of 0.5(0.866 + j 0.5). Calculate the length and position of the stub to match the line. (8)
14. (a) (i) Explain the transmission of TE waves between parallel perfectly conducting planes with necessary expressions and diagrams for the field components. (12)
(ii) A TEM wave at 1 MHz propagates in the region between conducting planes which is filled with dielectric material of r μ = 1 and r ε = 2. Find the phase constant and characteristic wave impedance. (4)
(b) (i) Explain the reasons for the attenuation of TE and TM waves between parallel planes with necessary expressions and diagrams. (10)
(ii) Write a brief note on the manner of wave travel and their velocities between parallel planes. (6)
15. (a) (i) Discuss the propagation of TM waves in a rectangular waveguide with relevant expressions and diagrams for the field components. (10)
(ii) A rectangular waveguide measuring a = 4.5 cm and b = 3 cm internally has a 9 GHz signal propagated in it. Calculate the guide wavelength, phase and group velocities and characteristic impedance for the dominant mode. (6)
(b) Explain the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a cylindrical waveguide with suitable expressions.(16)


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Crosstalk has been a relative calm in some of the storms which have brewed on Jezebel and other forums. I realize that addressing any part of this most recent dust-up could cause ripples in our oasis which is why I'm going narrowly, but because @MorningGloria'a outburst could cast a shadow, I feel the need to speak.
For those who don't know, Erin Gloria Ryan is a Jezebel blogger. She had been a commenter, who was brought onto the staff — I believe after agreeing to move to New York from the Midwest, á la Matt Cherette. She was on the Jezebel staff for a while, then I understand she took a job on a canceled cable show and now she's back blogging for Jezebel.
Over the past couple of months, a vocal segment of Jezebel readers have taken issue with some of the things Ryan has done, both on and off Kinja. One of these incidents was previously touched upon by me with a Storyfied collection of tweets, while others may have posted about or made mention of different incidents, here or there.
On Friday, after Jezebel had suffered an onslaught of poor public reaction to a misguided stunt from both their readers and the internet, Ryan saw reference to a Groupthink post which had been critical of her in the past and after getting a link, she posted the following.
Guys? We don't owe you a forum. If all you're going to use our bandwidth for is to shit on the staff, then, maybe find some other bandwidth.
However one might feel about that particular post, thread or the incident which inspired them, no matter whether you think them fair or unfair, this (now deleted) comment shows that she does not understand Kinja. Apparently, she believes they'll just change the whole concept and Nick Denton will write-off the millions he's invested, all to protect blogger's feelings.
Kinja is a publishing platform. Jezebel is a group Kinja, like Crosstalk and Groupthink. What sets it apart is that it has banner ads. One could also suggest that having paid bloggers is another distinction, but there are other Kinjas with paid bloggers and there are some on Kinja who may be getting some kind of pay, so the only real thing setting Jezebel, Gawker and the similar blogs apart is that they're owned by the same parent and they have banner ads.
Since the advent of the hashtag forums, it has been possible to carve any number of corners off of this webspace and Kinja is the crowning achievement of that quest. At its heart, Kinja is a publishing platform. We have the same tools as the paid bloggers and as Nick Denton declared a couple of years ago, he is no longer just a publisher, he also owns a technology company.
Though the management of Jezebel could cut their link to Groupthink in the same manner as A.J. cut the ties between Crosstalk and Gawker, they're still not going to take back their bandwidth because that would require the realignment of the entire enterprise.
By itself, Ryan misunderstanding the company for which she works might be enough, but she also added a bit of irony by commenting in a Jezebel thread on a post being critical of Vogue and Anna Wintour that those posting in Groupthink didn't expect her to see it.
If Ryan believes there's no expectation for Kinja bloggers to see criticism posted to another Kinja blog, even those associated so closely they share an URL and positions on a dropdown, one has to wonder why Jezebel went to the trouble of criticizing Wintour? After all, until someone gave her a link, she wouldn't have been expected to see it.