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Hard Disk Drives
- Western Digital Caviar Special Edition Hard Disk
Times on list: 5
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When Quantum and Maxtor joined forces some time ago, the competition in the hard disk industry began to thin out. Add to that IBM's woeful 60GXP and 75GXP hard drives which suffered very frequent data loss and complete failure (thankfully the newer GXP120 is better) and the market is left with three main forces - Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital. In recent times, all three companies have put out excellent drives and Maxtor went the next step and added ATA-133 support to their drives.
The Western Digital drives, or WD for short, supports ATA-100, spins at 7200 RPM (revolutions per minute), has a 2MB buffer, an average Read Seek time of 8.9ms and comes in sizes from 20-120GB. If you're in need of some serious space, the 80-120 GB models also come in a "Special Edition" format, which ups the buffer to a massive 8MB. All the drives come with WD's special Data Lifeguard, which is a group of software utilities that tries to identify problems on the disk and then fix them before they result in data loss.
Warranty Issues
As of a few days ago, around the 20th of September in Australia, nearly every hard drive sold in Australia, and I would assume the world, now comes with a one year warranty. This is down on the previous 3-year warranty, so be wary of this. Previously there were a lot of issues with the IBM GXP 60 and 75 DeskStar hard drives (leading to them being called DeathStars), where they were blowing up (literally in some cases). These two drives, the WD and Seagate, are not know to blow up, but be wary of this issue.
The performance of the normal WD drives is excellent, but the performance of the Special Edition drives are unbelievable. In many cases they can outperform a SCSI drive, which obviously puts them ahead of the Maxtor and Seagate IDE drives. With a buffer of 8MB and performance that can beat SCSI drives, the WD Caviar Special Edition drives are the ones to get. Couple these together in a RAID array and you can get even higher performance (and an awful lot of HDD space seeing as they only come in 80-120 GB sizes). The choice of size is yours but it's going to take a lot of programs, MP3's and DIVX to fill even the 80GB model up.
If you're in the market for a hard drive that can support insane FSB speeds, the Seagate Barracuda IV drives have been getting a reputation for just that. Take a look if that's your cup of tea.
Even though a few motherboards with SATA (serial ATA) support are filtering through, like the Abit IT7 MAX 2, there still doesn't seem to be any SATA drives for sale. I have seen some benchmarks of the Seagate Barracuda 5 SATA HDD, in which it murdered this drive performance-wise. If you can hold on until the Seagate Barracuda 5 is out, I'd certainly wait.
- Find the best price on Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 100GB!
- Seagate Barracuda ATA IV Hard Drive
Times on list: 4
Seagate's website for this product
The Seagate Barracuda IV can't keep up to the Special Edition WD's, thanks to their massive buffer size, but they can surpass the normal WD Caviar drives in performance and are slightly cheaper. The Barracuda IV comes in sizes ranging from 20-80GB, has a 2MB buffer, spins at 7200 RPM, has an average Read Seek Time of 9ms and supports ATA-100. Like the WD drives, they have a data protection system, in this case called 3D Defense System. They also come with a 3-year warranty.
As I've said, the performance is better than the normal WD drives and they are priced slightly cheaper. The Maxtor drives support ATA-133, but you will rarely exceed a transfer rate of 100MBytes a second so there's nothing to worry about. To cap it all off, they have a reputation for supporting crazy FSB speeds, which is a big plus for extreme overclockers. Finally, when the Barracuda IV was first released, it had issues with running in RAID at any decent speed. However, the new Barracuda IV's do not have this problem, due to a firmware upgrade, so these drives are a decent choice for a RAID array.
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By Harold Meyerson - Washington Post
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
As he prepares to move back to Texas, our 43rd president is the beneficiary of Bush fatigue. The nation has long since repudiated him. Americans are looking ahead to the promise of Barack Obama.
And it's lucky for George W. Bush that they are, because his handling of our plunging economy is Hooverian in both its substance and inadequacy.
Herbert Hoover, we should recall, had a program for dealing with the Depression. It consisted of lending to banks but opposing fiscal stimulus or direct aid to individuals. Which is why Hank Paulson's frenzied endeavors to prop up the banking sector and Bush's dogged resistance to assisting anybody else amount to pure neo-Hooverism.
As the 1930s began, Hoover believed that the coordinated actions of the private sector could save the beleaguered economy. It soon became apparent that the only action that private-sector businesses could agree upon was closing down factories and offices and throwing people out of work. Under immense pressure to do something, in late 1931 Hoover asked Congress to establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to provide funds to banks it deemed creditworthy.
By 1932, the RFC was making loans. Yet with the economy in free fall, the rate of bank failures increased until Hoover's successor, Franklin Roosevelt, created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Having done his bit to bail out the banks, however, Hoover rested. He opposed provisions that would have enabled homeowners to hang on to their homes.
As breadlines lengthened, he vetoed a bill appropriating funds for public works on the grounds that it was inflationary and contained pork-barrel spending. Bankers would be saved; everyone else was effectively damned.
Sound familiar? The Bush administration's approach to today's meltdown is to direct all its energies and largess to lending institutions. There is, as yet, no program to help floundering homeowners renegotiate the terms of their mortgages. The president is opposed to further stimulus programs, even though private-sector investment in the United States has all but ceased.
It's becoming increasingly clear, however, that while saving the banks may limit further calamities, it doesn't really save anybody else. Even with government-guaranteed lines of credit, financial institutions are refusing to lend money. With the banks effectively on strike, an economic recovery, if there is to be one, must begin with the government injecting funds to those parts of the economy that need it most: infrastructure development, state and local governments, an alternative-energy sector. These are all programs to which Bush is firmly opposed.
In a sense, Bush's inactivity is even less excusable than Hoover's. Unlike Hoover, Bush could learn from the successes of New Deal and World War II-era programs to revive the economy. Keynes's general theory of how to defeat depressions wasn't around when Hoover was president, but it's been with us now for 72 years. What's more, virtually every reputable conservative economist, from Martin Feldstein on down, now supports a government stimulus program. But Bush, drawing on no known body of economic thought, remains opposed. (So does Republican House leader John Boehner, who seems determined to elevate stupidity to a party principle.) And with each passing day, the economic hole out of which we will have to climb grows deeper.
So where's the outrage? Why aren't demonstrators besieging the White House? Where are the "Welcome to Bushville" signs in those neighborhoods where abandoned homes outnumber the occupied ones?
The answer, I suspect, is that you can only irreversibly give up on a president once. Further catastrophic failures on the president's part elicit only diminishing returns. Buchanan did nothing while the South seceded: That was it for him. Hoover did nothing as farmers, workers and middle-class America got wiped out: With that, he was beyond rehabilitation. Nixon had Watergate: Enough said. One mega-strike and you're out.
Bush, however, has had three. He misled us into a nearly endless war of choice to disarm a threat that never really existed. He let a great American city drown. And now he stands by while the economic security of tens of millions of Americans is vanishing.
Yet in the hearts of his countrymen, Bush's place is already fixed. Even before the financial collapse, he was in the ninth circle of presidential hell, with Buchanan and Hoover. At his own party's national convention this summer, his was the name that no one dared speak. And so, though his mishandling of the economy is criminally inept, he is being spared one more outbreak of public rage by two countervailing public sentiments: Americans' relief that he soon will be gone and their kind reluctance to kick a corpse.

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Arson Suspected in Thursday Fire [AUDIO]
Early Thursday morning, Missoula city fire crews battled a blaze in a parking structure on 34th street. Now, arson is suspected as the cause.
Assistant Missoula Fire Chief Jeff Brandt says some type of accelerant was found at the scene, there were footsteps in the snow leading away from the structure, and that witnesses reported that they saw individuals running away from the fire scene.
Brandt says detectives from the Missoula city police department are on the scene searching for evidence and questioning witnesses. Their investigation is ongoing.
Brandt says the dollar amount of damage to the structure at the Wildflower apartments is as yet undetermined.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Overheard at Ranch 99
Ranch 99 (or is it 99 Ranch) is a fun place to browse. I don't go often because the produce is wrapped up in Styrofoam trays and plastic wrap, the meat is of questionable origin, and the parking lot is a slow motion bumper car ride, but I am thankful that there is a Ranch 99 near me. The alternative would be to go to Little Saigon, Chinatown, Korea town, and whatever the Malaysian, Filipino, and Thai communities are called. I also don't go often because I easily can spend an hour there browsing and buying tons of stuff that I have to scramble to use up before it goes to the dumpster gods.
In addition to the lazy people noodles, I also found brown rice ovalettes! I have high hopes that the brown rice ovalettes will be chewier and nuttier than their white counterparts. For the uninitiated, ovalettes can be put into soups, or boiled and then stir-fried just like the wide rice noodles.
From the library, I checked out The Kimchi Chronicles cookbook, the companion cookbook to the television show. There's a wonderful recipe for an easy chicken stew that I've made twice now, and I plan on making the fried seafood pancakes tonight. The hardest part of the chicken stew is browning the chicken - and both times I managed to get some hot oil splattered in my eye. So, perhaps it isn't hard, but dangerous.
Much to the boy's dismay, there's another batch of kimchi in the refrigerator and some more fermenting in a crock - apparently the smell makes him sick, although he loves to eat it. Since the smell only really emanates from the refrigerator once it's opened, I consider it a good way for him to diet and drink less beer.
Since I can't figure where else to post it, I've been using my Twitter account to post inane food commentary. So, if you'd like to read or share inane food and occasionally knitting commentary with me and sometimes talk about cats and dogs (it's about as focused as this blog, which is to say "not focused" and full of my typical typos and grammatical errors), follow along at spindlesnspices.
8 comments:
My husband keeps asking me to have a go at making kimchi. I really should!ReplyDelete
Foodycat, you should try it! Just remind your husband when the kimchi is ripe and smelling up the place that it was his idea... :)ReplyDelete
I love going to Fubonn here in PDX and going up and down all the aisles, guessing at what it is I'm buying. So far, so good! 'ReplyDelete
and the snarky people can have their mushy noodles...
Michele, I regret not visiting Fubonn the last time I was in Portland. I've read such good things about it!ReplyDelete
I laugh at the people who call you lazy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 5:26 PM
ha! when my husband and i were dating, 26 years ago, his roommate, one of the original renaissance men, befriended the korean grad students in his department and had a giant kimchi making party. there were kimchi crocks buried in their rental house yard for many years. fortunately, the landlord was also eclectic. best way to get the department computer lab to myself? open my plasticware of homemade kimchi. bwah-haha.ReplyDelete
i DO like kimchi, but it is also an effective office weapon.
Meera, I can be lazy, but not when it comes to what I eat! ;)ReplyDelete
skubitwo, that's so funny! I love the idea of unearthing vintage kimchi years later from the backyard. Perhaps instead of pepper spray, crazy xmas shoppers should carry opened jars of kimchi around to ward off others.
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 7:42 PM
I just always wonder, since we are now elsewhere, did he and his roommate get all of those jars of kimchi, or is some unsuspecting wonder-bread family going to find them in the carrots???ReplyDelete


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Anti-nuclear protestors will demonstrate in Bristol demanding Bristolians be consulted about plans for two new nuclear reactors near the city.
The protest outside the council house on Tuesday afternoon has been organised by Lib Dem councillor Mark Wright, who has also asked the council to formally oppose the new reactors at Oldbury and Hinkley Point.
Hinkley Point, near Burnham, is about 25 miles from Bristol. Oldbury in Gloucestershire is only 8 miles outside the city boundaries.
Dr Wright, who is a long-term campaigner against nuclear power told Jones The News: "The government is pressing ahead with imposing a new wave of nuclear reactors on the country, because they haven't pulled their finger out in time to get renewable energy up and running. We're going to have two of them near Bristol.
"These power stations are being pushed through and there have been no consultations near Bristol. Consultations have been held for people living in the towns just north of Bristol, but none here.
"There are half a million people in greater Bristol and I'm sure many of them have views on these power stations."
Dr Wright's motion will be discussed at a full meeting of Bristol City council on Tuesday afternoon. It calls on the city to oppose the new reactors and to demand more consultation for people in the city.
Jim Duffy, Coordinator of the Stop Hinkley campaign group said: "People from Bristol were very involved in the previous Hinkley C inquiry in 1988-89. It will be an important message if the City Council votes to oppose the new development.
"Being downwind from Hinkley and so close to Oldbury, Bristolians should not be excluded from deciding on something that could profoundly affect them."
The power companies involved in building the new reactors claim they have consulted Bristolians through discussions with the city council and the government.
EDF Energy, the firm that intends to build the new Hinkley Point reactor, told Jones The News in a statement that the first stage of a pre-application public consultation had just finished on January 18, and that they had been encouraged by the level of public response.
They said: "Over 1,000 local people have attended public consultation events and more than 400 stakeholders have participated at additional stakeholder meetings to date. Bristol City Council were formally consulted about our initial proposals and options in November 2009.
"We continue to welcome views on our proposals and will review all responses before we carry out the second stage of consultation in the spring. Details can be found online at http://www.edfconsultation.info
"The consultation's focus has been the potential impact of the development of new nuclear power at Hinkley Point, and its associated infrastructure, on surrounding local communities particularly those in West Somerset and neighbouring Sedgemoor.
"Additional national consultations on wider questions beyond the immediate local impact, including the need case for new nuclear and where new power stations might be located have also been conducted by Government through which the residents of Bristol could also express their views."
Horizon Nuclear Power, the joint venture of E-On and RWE behind Oldbury, said: "Bristol is a very important area to us and no decisions will be made before people and local authorities in and around the city have had a chance to have their say on our proposals.
"We're still in the very early stages of the project and haven't even begun the formal consultations we are required to do in the run up to a planning application.
"What we have been carrying out is early informal engagement and we thought it was most sensible to start with the communities nearest the power station. We're looking forward to expanding this to Bristol as we enter the next stage.
"In the meantime the earliest we would apply for planning permission would be towards the end of 2011 with construction unlikely to begin before 2013, and there will be many opportunities during that time for people to have their say and influence the process."


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D-Day at 65
|Omaha Beach
photo: Anthony Atkielski, Wikimedia Commons
I graduated from high school in 1994, and my father's graduation present to me was a trip to Normandy for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. It was as much a present to himself as to me -- he was the one who was obsessed with World War II, the one who would enjoy all the various military museums we would see over the two-and-a-half week tour. I wouldn't say I was thrilled, at 17 years old, at the prospect of the trip, but I recognized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and there would be some free days in London, a city I'd been to once before, and Paris, a city I had never seen, so I went along with the idea.
We began in London, which, it seemed to me then, was likely to be the highlight of the trip, because I got to see excellent productions of Sweeney Todd and Oleanna (the latter directed by Harold Pinter), go to bookstores, and indulge my love of cities. But it wasn't until we took a ferry across the Channel to Cherbourg that I began to realize how truly unique this trip was.
I was the youngest member of our tour group and my father was also among the youngest members. The tour was one he had found via the Battle of Normandy Museum in Bayeux, and it had mostly attracted veterans. We traveled to five of the six landing beaches and to various towns, historical sites, and museums, and all the while I heard the stories of the men who had been there 50 years before.
My journal for the trip is not particularly illuminating, mostly because I did not have time to chronicle everything that happened, and half-way through the trip I was utterly exhausted. Adding to this was my own struggle with my presence there -- I was at the time a self-proclaimed and self-righteous pacifist and was deeply bothered by the inevitable expressions of triumph that accompanied many of the events we attended, so a lot of the journal is me trying to state to myself how much I hated the idea of war and all its attendant celebrations. But through it all, some occasional moments of interest appear. Here's one passage written on June 10 about June 7:
We went to Avranche -- all 12 buses of the tour. The whole town was waiting to greet us, as if they'd just been liberated. We let the veterans get off the coach first, since they were the people the Avrancheans came out for. It was tremendous. There must have been a few thousand people waiting for us, lining the sidewalks, standing on balconies, hanging out of windows, all with huge smiles and excited handwaving and vigorous greetings. They asked all of the veterans for autographs. A little kid, five or six, came up to us and held out his yellow balloon for my father to sign, but dad said, "No no. I'm not a veteran." The kid looked ready to cry.The day before, we had been at the ceremonies on Omaha Beach (I remember being pleased that we had better seats than senators Robert Dole and Patrick Leahy). I had forgotten my camera back at the hotel, but my father had brought a video camera; perhaps later today I will dig out the tapes, which I haven't ever watched. My journal for the day doesn't say much -- I remember being in awe, incapable of words, and most of the words I wrote down as I tried to mark some memory of the day were about people who were complaining about one thing or another and so were annoying me. Annoyance, that petty emotion, I could express; all the more profound emotions of the experience escaped my vocabulary.
The veterans and the town marched down to a town square where there were some speeches, music, and lots of wine. Patton's grandson gave a short speech and then led the "Star Spangled Banner", changing a few notes.
We went back to the hotel and the deputy mayor of Vologne [the town where we were staying] was waiting to greet us. He pinned a medal on one of the veterans, as a symbol of the town's thanks, and then gave me a cigarette lighter from the French senate, since I'm the youngest of the group, and I think Roger (who arranged all this) [and was our liason in the town] said all sorts of things about me. [Though I remember the deputy mayor was crestfallen when he learned I did not smoke!] I was really surprised and touched. The mayor herself wanted to greet us, but was doing stuff in Paris with the heads of state who showed up for D-Day.
The strongest memory I have of one of the veterans was a man named Harry who lived in northern California and had been with the 741st Tank Battalion. What I remember is sitting beside him on the bus and listening to him talk about watching the DD tanks sink in the heavy waves of Omaha Beach. He said by the time he landed in a regular tank, the entire beach smelled like blood. But he survived -- and went with the battalion on to Paris at the end of August and then into Belgium to support the 2nd Infantry Division, just in time for the Battle of the Bulge. After that, the battalion continued on into Germany, crossing the Rhine at Remagen.
What struck me about Harry was how ordinary and humble he seemed. Some of the vets were boastful of their kills, but not Harry -- he talked reluctantly of what he'd done and seen fifty years ago, and more than once I remember him telling me something to the effect of, "War is a terrible thing" and "The Germans were just kids like us." Some of the vets seemed to wish they could go back to their youth, to their time of heroism; not Harry. The beach had smelled like blood.
I returned home from Normandy numbed by the whole experience -- I was getting ready to go to college, I had more on my mind than it could bear, and I didn't know where to put those two and a half weeks. I've spent a long time trying to contextualize them for myself, to fit them in to who I am, to sort out my relationship with my father so that I can better live with the memories. Even in 1994, though, and mostly because of Harry, I knew that part of my responsibility was and would always be to remember as much as I could of what I saw and heard there, out of respect for those men and what they experienced.
In 1995, Harry sent my father a copy of a history of the 741st written in 1982. His letter accompanying it says the history is good as far as it goes, but there's a lot that's left out. He says his wife, Rose, has often told him he should write a book, but he hasn't had time.
My father didn't keep the envelope that accompanied the letter, and so I don't have Harry's last name. (I never wrote it in my journal.) He was going to be 75 that December, he said.
My father died a year and a half ago, and I don't know if Harry or Rose are still alive. I remember that he said he hoped I would return to Normandy for the 100th anniversary. "None of us will be around then," he said, "except for you."
I'll be 67 in 2044, and if I'm alive I'll be in Normandy on June 6 -- for Harry and Rose, for the 741st, for all the people I was privileged to spend those weeks with in 1994.


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McLibel case
|McLibel case
|Full case name
|McDonald's Corp v Steel (No.4)
|19 June 1997
|Case history
|Prior action(s)
|McDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris (Trial) and 3 procedural appeals (McDonald's Corp v Steel No.1 - 3)
|Subsequent action(s)
|Steel & Morris v United Kingdom
|Court membership
|Judge(s) sitting
|Pill LJ, May LJ, Keen J
|Subsequent ECHR decision
|European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section)
|Full case name
|Steel & Morris v United Kingdom
|15 February 2005
|application no. 68416/01
|Court membership
|Judge(s) sitting
|M. Pellonpää (President)
|Freedom of expression, libel, legal aid
McDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris [1997] EWHC QB 366, known as "the McLibel case", was an English lawsuit for libel filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris (often referred to as "The McLibel Two") over a pamphlet critical of the company. Each of two hearings in English courts found some of the leaflet's contested claims to be libellous and others to be true. The partial nature of the victory, the David-and-Goliath nature of the case, and the drawn-out litigation embarrassed McDonald's.
The original case lasted ten years, making it the longest-running case in English history.[1] McDonald's announced that it did not plan to collect the £40,000 that it was awarded by the courts.[2] Following the decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in Steel & Morris v United Kingdom that the pair had been denied a fair trial, in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to a fair trial) and that their conduct should have been protected by Article 10 of the Convention, which protects the right to freedom of expression. The court awarded a judgment of £57,000 against the UK government.[3] McDonald's itself was not involved in, or a party to, this action, as applications to the ECHR are independent cases filed against the relevant state. This judgement, given on 15 February 2005, represented the end of the pair's 20-year battle with McDonald's.
A feature-length documentary film, McLibel, was made about the case by Franny Armstrong and Ken Loach. In 2013 The Guardian newspaper reported that one of the authors of the "McLibel leaflet" was Bob Lambert, an undercover police officer who used the alias Bob Robinson in his five years infiltrating London Greenpeace.[4]
Beginning in 1986, "London Greenpeace", a small environmental campaigning group (not to be confused with the larger Greenpeace International organisation, which they declined to join as they saw it being too "centralised and mainstream for their tastes"),[5] distributed a pamphlet entitled What's wrong with McDonald's: Everything they don't want you to know.
This publication made a number of allegations against McDonald's. The leading allegations were that McDonald's:
- is complicit in Third World starvation
- buys from greedy rulers and elites and practices economic imperialism
- wastes vast quantities of grain and water
- destroys rainforests with poisons and colonial invasions
- sells unhealthy and addictive food
- alters its food with artificial chemistry
- exploits children with its advertising
- is responsible for torture and murder of animals
- poisons customers with contaminated meat
- exploits its workers and bans unions
- hides its malfeasance.[6]
It was later noted that the reach of the campaign was tiny compared with the level of ensuing controversy.[7] In 1990, McDonald's brought libel proceedings against five London Greenpeace supporters, Paul Gravett, Andrew Clarke and Jonathan O'Farrell, as well as Steel and Morris, for distributing the pamphlet on the streets of London. This case followed past instances in which McDonald's threatened to sue more than fifty organisations for libel, including Channel 4 television and several major publications. In all such cases, the media outlets settled, and offered apologies for the alleged libel.[8]
Under English law, the burden of proving (on balance of probability) the literal truth of every disparaging statement is on the defendant. This can be an expensive and time-consuming process. Three of the charged individuals (Gravett, Clarke and O'Farrell) chose to apologise as requested by McDonald's. Steel and Morris, however, chose to defend the case.[9]
The two were denied Legal Aid, as was policy for libel cases, despite having very limited income.[10] Thus, they had to represent themselves, though they received significant pro bono assistance. Steel and Morris called 180 witnesses, seeking to prove their assertions about food poisoning, unpaid overtime, misleading claims about how much McDonald's recycled, and "corporate spies sent to infiltrate the ranks of London Greenpeace".[11] McDonald's spent several million pounds, while Steel and Morris spent £30,000; this disparity in funds meant Steel and Morris were not able to call all the witnesses they wanted, especially witnesses from South America who were intended to support their claims about McDonald's activities in that continent's rainforests.[12]
In its libel allegation, McDonald's asserted that all claims in the pamphlet were false.[13] They found it difficult to support this position despite the indirectness of some of the claims. The case eventually became a media circus. McDonald's executives, including Ray Cesca, took the stand to be questioned by the defendants.[14]
In June 1995, McDonald's offered to settle the case (which "was coming up to its [tenth] anniversary in court"[15]) by donating a large sum of money to a charity chosen by the two. They further specified that they would drop the case if Steel and Morris agreed to "stop criticising McDonald's".[15] Steel and Morris secretly recorded the meeting, in which McDonald's said the pair could criticise McDonald's privately to friends but must cease talking to the media or distributing leaflets. Steel and Morris wrote a letter in response saying they would agree to the terms if McDonald's ceased advertising its products and instead only recommended the restaurant privately to friends.[12]
High Court
The case was adjudicated by Hon. Mr Justice Rodger Bell.[16] On 19 June 1997, Mr Justice Bell delivered a more than 1,000-page decision largely in favour of McDonald's,[17] summarised by a 45-page paper read in court.[18] Steel and Morris were found liable on several points, although the judge also found that some of the points in the pamphlet were true.[12] McDonald's considered this a legal victory, though it was tempered by the judge's endorsement of some of the allegations in the pamphlet. Specifically, Bell ruled that McDonald's endangered the health of their workers and customers by "misleading advertising", that they "exploit children", that they were "culpably responsible" in the infliction of unnecessary cruelty to animals, and that they were "antipathetic"[19] to unionisation and paid their workers low wages.[20] Furthermore, although the decision awarded £60,000 to the company, McDonald's legal costs were much greater, and the defendants lacked the funds to pay it. Steel and Morris immediately appealed the decision.[21]
In 1998, a documentary film was made about the case, also titled McLibel. This was updated in 2005 after the verdict of the final appeal.
In September 1998, the pair sued the Metropolitan Police for disclosing confidential information to investigators hired by McDonalds and received £10,000 and an apology for the alleged disclosure.[21]
Court of Appeal
An appeal began on 12 January 1999 and lasted 23 court days, ending on 26 February.[22] The case was heard in Court 1 of the Court of Appeal in the Royal Courts of Justice. The case was adjudicated by Lord Justices Pill and May and Mr Justice Keane. The defendants represented themselves in court, assisted by first year law student Kalvin P. Chapman (King's College London). McDonald's were represented by libel lawyer Richard Rampton QC,[23] and a junior barrister, Timothy Atkinson,[24] and Ms Pattie Brinley-Codd of Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert.[25] Steel and Morris filed a 63-point appeal. They had requested a time extension, but were denied. The verdict for the appeal was handed down on 31 March, in Court 1 at the Royal Courts of Justice.[26]
The judges ruled that it was fair comment to say that McDonald's employees worldwide "do badly in terms of pay and conditions"[27] and true that "if one eats enough McDonald's food, one's diet may well become high in fat, etc., with the very real risk of heart disease". They further stated that this last finding "must have a serious effect on their trading reputation since it goes to the very business in which they are engaged. In our judgment, it must have a greater impact on the respondents' [McDonald's] reputation than any other of the charges that the trial judge had found to be true".[28][full citation needed]
The Court of Appeal also stated that it had "considerable sympathy" with the defendants' submissions that the leaflet meant "that there is a respectable (not cranky) body of medical opinion which links a junk food diet with a risk of cancer and heart disease", that 'this link was accepted both in literature published by McDonald's themselves and by one or more of McDonald's own experts and in medical publications of high repute', and that therefore 'that should have been an end of this part of the case'.[29][full citation needed] However they ruled against the defendants on the allegation that McDonald's food was a carcinogen.[30][full citation needed]
As a result of their further findings against the Corporation, the three Lord Justices reduced Mr Justice Bell's award of £60,000 damages to McDonald's by £20,000. The court ruled against the argument by Steel and Morris that multinational corporations should no longer be able to sue for libel over public interest issues; they believed "that may be seen as an argument of some substance", but ultimately rejected it, on grounds that it was a matter for Parliament.[31][full citation needed] Steel and Morris announced their intention to appeal over these and other points to the House of Lords, and then take the UK government to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary.
In response to the verdict, David Pannick QC said in The Times: "The McLibel case has achieved what many lawyers thought impossible: to lower further the reputation of our law in the minds of all right thinking people."[32]
Steel and Morris appealed to the Law Lords, arguing that their right to legal aid had been unjustly denied. When the Law Lords refused to accept the case, the pair formally retained solicitor Mark Stephens[33] and barrister (later Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales)), Keir Starmer QC to file a case with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), contesting the UK government's policy that legal aid was not available in libel cases, and setting out a highly detailed case for what they believed to be the oppressive and unfair nature of UK libel laws in general, and in their case in particular.[34] In September 2004, this action was heard by the ECHR. Lawyers for Steel and Morris argued that the lack of legal aid had breached the pair's right to freedom of expression and to a fair trial.
European Court of Human Rights
On 15 February 2005, the European Court of Human Rights ruled[35] that the original case had breached Article 6 (right to a fair trial) and Article 10 (right to freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights and ordered that the UK government pay Steel and Morris £57,000 in compensation. In their ruling, the ECHR criticised the way in which UK laws had failed to protect the public right to criticise corporations whose business practices affect people's lives and the environment (which violates Article 10); they also ruled that the trial was biased because of the defendants' comparative lack of resources and what they believed were complex and oppressive UK libel laws.
In particular the Court held:
in a democratic society even small and informal campaign groups, such as London Greenpeace, must be able to carry on their activities effectively and that there exists a strong public interest in enabling such groups and individuals outside the mainstream to contribute to the public debate by disseminating information and ideas on matters of general public interest such as health and the environment.— ECJR judgement, para. 89[35]
The safeguard afforded by Article 10 to journalists in relation to reporting on issues of general interest is subject to the proviso that they act in good faith in order to provide accurate and reliable information in accordance with the ethics of journalism (...), and the same principle must apply to others who engage in public debate.— ECHR judgement, para. 90[35]
It is true that large public companies inevitably and knowingly lay themselves open to close scrutiny of their acts and, as in the case of the businessmen and women who manage them, the limits of acceptable criticism are wider in the case of such companies.— ECHR judgement, para. 94[35]
In response to the European Court of Human Rights' decision, Steel and Morris issued the following press release:
Having largely beaten McDonald's... we have now exposed the notoriously oppressive and unfair UK laws. As a result of the... ruling today, the government may be forced to amend or scrap some of the existing UK laws. We hope that this will result in greater public scrutiny and criticism of powerful organisations whose practices have a detrimental effect on society and the environment. The McLibel campaign has already proved that determined and widespread grass roots protests and defiance can undermine those who try to silence their critics, and also render oppressive laws unworkable. The continually growing opposition to McDonald's and all it stands for is a vindication of all the efforts of those around the world who have been exposing and challenging the corporation's business practices.[36]
The 2005 film quoted McDonald's as offering little comment on the European Court decision other than to point out that it was the Government and not McDonald's who was the losing party and that "times have changed and so has McDonald's". On a website aiming to state its view on issues raised about it, McDonald's stated that the case is in the past and the issues more so, and that both sides in it have moved on (although Morris and Steel did continue related litigation).[37]
See also
- English tort law
- English defamation law
- McDonald's legal cases
- Strategic lawsuit against public participation
- Chilling effect
- Maxime, McDuff & McDo – a 2002 Québécois documentary film about the unionising of a McDonald's in Montreal
- Gunns 20 – Gunns Limited v Marr & Ors[11], an Australian case filed by Gunns, a Tasmanian-based forestry company, against 20 individuals and organisations for over 12.2 million dollars
- Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants – A 1994 case about a woman who scalded herself with hot coffee
- ↑ "McLibel pair get police payout". BBC. 5 July 2000.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> "'McLibel' pair in fresh court bid". BBC. 7 September 2004.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> "McLibel: Longest case in English history". BBC. 15 February 2005.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "McDonald's lets McLibel case rest". AP. 19 July 1997.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Press release issued by the Registrar. "Chamber Judgment Steel and Morris v. The United Kingdom" The European Court of Human Rights, 15 February 2005. Received 1 September 2008.
- ↑ Paul Lewis; Rob Evans (21 June 2013). "McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ pg 388 of No Logo
- ↑ "What's wrong with McDonald's?". McSpotlight. Retrieved 14 July 2006.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "London Greenpeace's campaign was winding down, and only a few hundred copies of the contentious leaflet had ever been distributed." pg 391 of No Logo
- ↑ "Over the past 15 years, McDonald's has threatened legal action against more than 90 organisations in the U.K., including the BBC, Channel 4, the Guardian, The Sun, the Scottish TUC, the New Leaf Shop, student newspapers, and a children's theatre group. Even Prince Philip received a stiff letter. All of them backed down and many formally apologised in court." from "Why Won't British TV Show a Film about McLibel?", Franny Armstrong, 19 June 1998, The Guardian; as quoted in No Logo.
- ↑ Skau, S. (2013) McLibel. followthethings.com (www.followthethings.com/mclibel.shtml) Accessed 16 June 2014.
- ↑ "For 313 days in court - the longest trial in English history - an unemployed postal worker (Morris) and a community gardener (Steel) went to war with chief executives from the largest food empire in the world." pg 389 of No Logo
- ↑ pg 389 of No Logo
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 McLibel film, 1998
- ↑ "Statement of Claim". Mcspotlight.org. Retrieved 13 November 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Vidal, john (1997). McLibel: British Culture on Trial. The New Press. pp. 11–20.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 pg 387 of No Logo, 1st ed.
- ↑ Bell J had never tried, or acted as a barrister in, a libel case. His area of law had been primarily professional negligence, and so it has been felt by many that he was "led" by Richard Rampton QC, for McDonalds, throughout most of the case.
- ↑ "The Court Service - Queens Bench Division - Judgment - McDonald's Corporation & McDonald's Restaurants Limited against Helen Marie Steel & David Morris". Hmcourts-service.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 5 June 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "On 19 June 1997, the judge finally handed down the verdict....It felt like an eternity to most of us sitting there, as Judge Rodger Bell read out his forty-five-page ruling - a summary of the actual verdict, which was over a thousand pages long. Although the judge deemed most of the pamphlet's claims too hyperbolic to be acceptable (he was particularly unconvinced by its direct linking of McDonald's to "hunger in the 'Third World'"), he deemed others to be based on pure fact." pg 389-390 of No Logo.
- ↑ "SUMMARY OF THE JUDGEMENT / Employment practices". Retrieved 26 May 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Judgement Day Verdict - Highlights". McSpotlight. 19 June 1997. Retrieved 14 July 2006.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 BBC News (5 July 2000). "McLibel pair get police payout". Retrieved 12 May 2007.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Press Release - McLibel Support Campaign; 6 January 1999". Mcspotlight.org. Retrieved 13 November 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ One Brick Court - Barristers
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae - Timothy Atkinson
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae - Patti Brinley-Codd
- ↑ Press Release - McLibel Support Campaign; 25 March 1999
- ↑ [Appeal Judgment p247]
- ↑ [Judgment p264]
- ↑ [p169]
- ↑ [p170-2]
- ↑ [p287]
- ↑ The Times, 24.04.1999
- ↑ Gibb, Frances (16 February 2005). "McDonald's gets a taste of defeat as Europe backs the McLibel Two". London: Times newspapers. Retrieved 29 January 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ European Court of Human Rights Application
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 CASE OF STEEL AND MORRIS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (Application no. 68416/01): JUDGMENT
- ↑ "Victory for McLibel 2 against UK Government". McSpotlight. 15 February 2005. Retrieved 14 July 2006.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Skau, S. (2013) McLibel. www.followthethings.com/mclibel.shtml
- McLibel: burger culture on trial by John Vidal (Macmillan, 1997; New Press, 1998) ISBN 0-333-69461-9 (hardcover), ISBN 0-330-35237-7 (paperback), ISBN 1-56584-411-4 (US). Afterword by Steel and Morris
- McLibel: Two Worlds Collide, documentary produced by Spanner Films.
- McWorld on Trial, an extensive article on the case from the point of view of Dave Morris and Helen Steel appears in The Raven: Anarchist Quarterly, issue 43 (published by Freedom Press)
- Fast Food Nation (by Eric Schlosser), an exposé on fast food and the culture it has created, which mentions McLibel in its last few chapters.
- No Logo, Naomi Klein, 490 pages, cover design Bruce Mau & Barr Gilmore, 1999. Published in USA by St. Martin's Press, Picador USA Reading Group imprint, and in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada of Random House Canada Limited. ISBN 0-312-20343-8 (hardcover); ISBN 0-312-27192-1 (softcover)
- "McLibel in London", 20 March 1995, Fortune.
- "Anti-McDonald's Activists Take Message Online", 27 March 1996, Associated Press.
- "Activists Win Partial Victory in Appeal Over McDonald's Libel Case", 31 March 1999, Associated Press.
- "Guess Who's Still in Trouble?" Newsletter #9, October 1997, Campaign for Labor Rights.
- "Few Nuggets and Very Small Fries", pg 22; 20 June 1997, The Guardian.
External links
- Use dmy dates from January 2011
- Articles needing additional references from July 2014
- McDonald's litigation
- Defamation case law
- DIY culture
- Business ethics cases
- Anti-corporate activism
- Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights
- Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights
- Food law
- European Court of Human Rights cases involving the United Kingdom
- Legal aid
- 2005 in case law
- 2005 in the United Kingdom
- Criticism of fast food
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In an unprecedented effort to highlight the importance of medical research, the AACR and more than 200 national organizations and institutions partnered to conduct a Rally for Medical Research on April 8 in Washington, D.C., on the steps of the Carnegie Library. The rally served as a unified call to action to raise awareness about the critical need for an increased investment in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve health, spur more progress, inspire more hope and save more lives. Occurring at the time of the
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The Guerrilla Guide to Game Code
April 14, 2005 Page 1 of 2
There are a lot of articles about games. Most of these are about particular aspects of a game like rendering or physics. All engines, however, have a binding structure that ties all aspects of the game together. Usually there is a base class (Object, Actor or Entity are common names) that all objects in the game derive from, but very little is written on the subject. Only very recently a couple of talks on game|tech have briefly touched on the subject [Bloom], [Butcher], [Stelly]. Still, choosing a structure to build your game on is very important. The end user might not "see" the difference between a good and a bad structure, but this choice will affect many aspects of the development process. A good structure will reduce risk and increase the efficiency of the team.
When we started Shellshock: Nam '67 (SSN67) at Guerrilla Games we were looking for a structure that would be flexible enough to handle all of our ideas, yet strict enough to force us into a structured way of working. The development of our first game Killzone was already well underway so we had a good opportunity to look at their structure and improve on it. After a couple of weeks the base structure for our game had been designed and over the course of the next 2 years a lot changed but our basic structure remained more or less the same.
The core design decisions we made at the start of SSN67 are:
- The system needs to be (mostly) data driven
- It should use the well known Model-View-Controller pattern
- The game simulation should run at a fixed update frequency to ensure consistent behavior on all platforms (PS2, XBOX and PC)
In the remainder of this article these points will be worked out to show how they were implemented in SSN67.
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In SSN67 the base class for all game objects is called Entity. We make a clear distinction between objects that have game state and those that don't. For example, the static world geometry and its collision model are not Entities, neither is a moving cloud in the sky. The player can't change the state of these objects so they are not an Entity. An oil barrel, for example, is an Entity because when it explodes it can harm the player and therefore influences the game state.
Using a definition like this makes it very easy to separate objects that are important to the game from objects that are not. Our streaming system, for example, can stream textures and other rendering data in and out without affecting the game state. Another system that benefits is the save game system. The state of an Entity is saved and on reload all current Entities are destroyed and replaced by Entities from the save game. Because all static geometry is unaffected saving and loading is very quick and the resulting save game is small. To go back to our example of a moving cloud: In SSN67 clouds are not Entities and therefore not saved. If you look carefully you can see this.
Most of the Entities in SSN67 need a position and orientation in the world so our Entity by default contains a 4x4 matrix. For those Entities that do not need a position we just accept the overhead.Data Driven
Data driven systems use data instead of code to determine the properties of a system where possible. In SSN67 we used the EntityResource class as base class for Entity properties. EntityResources are defined in a text file and edited by hand. The following example shows what the configuration for an NPC could look like:
CoreObject Class=HumanoidResource
Name = Ramirez
Model = models/soldiers/ramirez
Speed = 5
When these text files are loaded by our serialization system the corresponding objects are automatically created and each variable is mapped onto a member variable. After an EntityResource is loaded we validate the range of each variable and check if all variables together form a correct configuration. If this is not the case the game will display an error and refuse to run until the problem is corrected.
In SSN67 we do not allow Entities to be created without an EntityResource. Using an EntityResource makes sure that a specific object acts the same in all levels. This generally reduces the amount of bug fixing when the code for an Entity changes, because there is no need to test every level but only the EntityResources that are affected. We use a simple folder structure to store our EntityResources with one object per file.
The Factory pattern [DP] is used to create an Entity from its EntityResource. This means that if you have an EntityResource you can create a corresponding Entity ready to be used in game. We use the factory mechanism, for example, in our Maya plug-in. Level designers can create an Entity in a level by selecting the corresponding EntityResource file. Maya uses the factory to create an Entity for it and allows the level designer to position it. Entities that need specific (dynamic) behavior are controlled from our scripting language LUA [LUA]. The properties that can be set from LUA usually boil down to giving high level commands to the AI so that most of the configuration of an Entity is still contained in the EntityResource. Supporting a new Entity class in Maya is as simple as recompiling the Maya plug-in.Model-View-Controller
The Model-View-Controller pattern [DP] is used in many areas. In a word processor, for example, the Controller handles mouse and keyboard input and translates these to simple actions. The Model manages the text and executes the actions dictated by the Controller. The View is responsible for drawing (a portion of) the text on screen and communicates with the display drivers.
In a game we can use the same pattern. In our case the Model is called Entity, the View is called EntityRepresentation and the Controller is called Controller. We will now discuss the roles of each of these classes in game.
The Model (Entity)
Entities try to keep a minimal state of the object. Any state that is only needed for visualization is not part of the Entity. Most Entities in SSN67 are simple state machines.
Ideally the Entity should not know about its animations but unfortunately most animations affect the collision volume of the Entity and therefore the game state. Still, we try to keep Entities and their animations as loosely coupled as possible. A walking humanoid, for example, looks at its EntityResource for its maximum walk speed and not at the walk animation. The EntityResource precalculates the speed of the walk animation and speeds up / slows down the animation based on the current speed. This makes it possible to use a simple model for a walking humanoid (linear movement) while the animation always matches the current speed perfectly.
The View (EntityRepresentation)
The EntityRepresentation is responsible for drawing the Entity and all of its effects.
Examples of things that an EntityRepresentation manages are:
- 3D models
- Particles
- Decals
- Screen filters
- Sound
- Controller rumble
- Camera shake
An EntityRepresentation can look at but not change the state of the Entity. The current state of an Entity is usually enough to calculate the state of the EntityRepresentation. In some cases this is not practical however. For example, when a human gets hit we want a blood spray from the wound. Simply looking at the previous health and the current health does not tell us where the enemy was hit. For these cases we use a messaging system. All messages derive from a class called EntityEvent, which contains an ID that indicates the type of the message. The getting hit message also contains the type and amount of damage and where the hit occurred. The Entity fills in the structure and sends it to a message handler in the EntityRepresentation. It won't receive a response to this message so the communication is one way only.
To achieve a game object that looks realistic the timing of effects is usually critical and needs a lot of code to manage. By separating this code from the essential game logic we reduce the risk of bugs. Another advantage is that if all objects follow the rules, the game state is not dependent on any of the EntityRepresentations and the game can run without them. This principle can be very useful for creating a dedicated multiplayer server where graphical output is not needed.
The Controller
The Controller provides abstract input for an Entity. For every Entity that supports Controllers we create a base class that defines the controllable parts of the Entity. From this version we can derive an AI and a player version of the Controller. For example, a Humanoid has a HumanoidController and we derive a HumanoidAIController and a HumanoidPlayerController from this controller. The player version of the controller can be further split up to provide mouse and keyboard support (for PC) or joystick support (for XBOX and PS2).
The role of the Controller is to specify what the Entity should do. The Controller can't directly change the state of the Entity. Every update the Controller is polled by the Entity and the Entity tries to follow the Controllers instructions.
For example, the Controller would never call a MoveTo() function on a Humanoid but instead the Humanoid would poll the Controller's GetDesiredSpeed() function and then try to reach this speed while performing collision detection to make sure not to clip through walls.
The Controller's functions are more abstract than IsButtonPressed() or GetJoystickAxisX(), this to make it easier for the AI to use the Controller.
To make a Humanoid interact with a mounted gun, for example, the HumanoidController implements a function called GetUseObject(). This function is polled every update by the Humanoid. The AI uses reasoning to determine if it is beneficial to use a specific mounted gun. When it chooses to use a mounted gun it walks to the correct location and returns the mounted gun through GetUseObject(). When the player stands next to a mounted gun the HumanoidPlayerController detects that the mounted gun is in range and handles the logic of the use menu. The HUD takes care of drawing the menu. When the selection is made it is returned through GetUseObject(). Next time the Humanoid polls the HumanoidController it will start up the mount process. The HumanoidController is disabled and the mounted gun receives a MountedGunAIController or MountedGunPlayerController so that it can be used.
A Simple Example
We will illustrate the Model-View-Controller mechanism with an example of a tank.
The tank is split up in an Entity (Tank), EntityRepresentation (TankRepresentation) and a Controller (TankController).
The TankController has functions like GetAcceleration(), GetSteerDirection(), GetAimTarget() and Fire(). The AI steers the tank using a TankAIController, the player uses a TankPlayerController.
The Tank keeps track of the physics state of the vehicle. It looks at the controller and applies forces to the physical model and responds to collisions. It keeps track of damage state, turret direction and implements firing logic.
The TankRepresentation draws the tank. It creates sparks particles and corresponding sound when the tank collides. It plays the engine sound and changes its pitch when the speed of the tank changes. It creates smoke particles when the tank fires and produces track marks when the tank is driving. It can also fine tune the position / rotation of the tracks so that they follow the terrain exactly (without influencing the collision volume of the tank).
An Example of Simplifying the Game State
When a human fires a gun, the bullets exit from the muzzle of the gun. In SSN67 this sometimes led to problems. Every weapon had its own aiming animations that were slightly different. These differences led to inconsistencies with our precalculated cover positions for the AI. The AI would sometimes think that they could fire from a specific location but when they got to that position and tried they would shoot into a rock.
To improve the situation we separated the logic of firing from the visual effect (the tracers). The bullets now exit from a fixed offset (roughly where the shoulder is) based only on the current position and stance of the humanoid. The tracers are handled by the EntityRepresentation and come from the muzzle of the gun (which is taken from the animation) and move in the same direction as the bullet. They slowly converge towards the real path of the bullet so that the impact point and time for the bullet and tracer is the same.
For the player it turned out that with our 3rd person camera it sometimes looked like you could fire over a piece of cover where in reality you couldn't. We tweaked the firing offsets for the player so that he was shooting from eye height instead of shoulder height and fixed the problem.
This simple model in the Entity is easy to use for the AI and guarantees consistency throughout many bits of code that are related to aiming and firing. It trades complicated code throughout the system for complicated code localized in the EntityRepresentation where it can only influence the EntityRepresentation itself.
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by Carole Verona
Since ancient times, people have practiced yoga to improve their mental and physical health and their spiritual well-being. Fast forward to 2013, and you'll find a dedicated team of yoga practitioners working hard to combine all of those good outcomes with one more —raising much-needed funds for Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC).
Janet Meenehan Point, a Chestnut Hill resident, is … a case in Point!
In what she refers to as "six degrees of Kevin Bacon-ness," Point was introduced to yoga in 2006 through a class for parents at Our Mother of Consolation School. She later signed up for outdoor yoga classes led by Chestnut Hill native Jennifer Schelter at Morris Arboretum.
Schelter, the founder of Yoga Schelter in East Falls, created and leads Yoga on the Steps, a fundraiser for LBBC. At this event, over 1,200 people gather on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to participate in a one-hour yoga class designed for all skill levels and body types. (This year's event will be held on Sunday, May 20).
Point decided to continue her yoga classes at Twisters, a wellness center with studios in Erdenheim and Ambler, where she became involved with a team that participates in Yoga on the Steps.
"Last year we had 70 people on the team, and we actually had our own school bus to take us to the art museum. It's an amazing event. You're standing on the Rocky steps doing a yoga class. It's a little silly in some ways, but it's a great event because you are with survivors along with those who have been recently diagnosed."
Although Point has never had breast cancer, she believes that every woman knows someone who has. Her aunt is a survivor, and both she and her sister have lost friends to the disease. Each year, 230,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer.
LBBC provides information and support to those whose lives have been affected by it, including those who are living with the disease, their families and friends, and the medical professionals who take care of them.
Twisters became the number one fundraising team for Yoga on the Steps in 2011 and 2012, raising over $27,000 each year for LBBC. Twisters then went on to expand its fundraising efforts for LBBC by adding The Barefoot Ball. "Barefoot … because it's also a yoga class and there are no shoes involved," Point quipped. This year's Barefoot Ball will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., at the Mercedes-Benz dealership on the corner of Bethlehem Pike and Pennsylvania Avenue in Fort Washington. All levels of yoga students and their families and friends are invited. The yoga class will be followed by a performance by opera singer and yoga instructor Natalia Levin. There is a suggested donation of $25 per person. Register at twistersyoga.com.
"Last year, we raised $7,000 from this event for LBBC. In addition to the yoga class, representatives from LBBC are on hand to share information. What's so nice about it is that so many people from the community are involved. There's a lot of overlap. You'll see the people from yoga class at Weavers Way or at other places in the neighborhood," she said.
Although she's quick to give credit to all of the other members of the Twisters team — especially Twisters team captain Jill Miller — Point has been able to bring her extensive background and leadership skills as an investor relations and communications professional to the team's fundraising efforts.
Her impressive resume includes positions of increasing responsibility with InterDigital, Inc. (Executive Vice President, Investor Relations, 2000-2012); Corporate Office Properties Trust, (Vice President, Investor Relations, 1998-1999); Advanta Corporation (Vice President, Investor Relations, 1993-1998); Fannie Mae, Director of Investor Relations (1985-1993); Rail Company (Financial Analyst, 1984-1985); and Sallie Mae (Customer Service Analyst, 1983-1984). She received an M.B.A. with a concentration in Policy and Control from the University of Michigan in 1983, and a B.A. in English and Economics from the University of Virginia in 1981. She is a past president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute and has also served on the Finance Council and as Treasurer of the Home & School Association at Our Mother of Consolation.
Point agreed that sometimes it's difficult for women to talk about money or to ask for it. "In the world of investor relations, you're dealing with a lot of high profile financial people. It can be frightening for some people to meet with those who are very powerful and connected, or to step out and say what they believe," she explained. Over the years, she had learned to be at ease and comfortable in her own skin doing just that.
"A former co-worker once gave me a book called 'Women Don't Ask.' It was eye-opening. As women, we are really good at negotiating for other people in our lives — for our children and friends — or for a cause. But when it comes to advocating for ourselves, we're very shy. It's easier for us to enable others to take the limelight.
"At a company where I used to work, I was the only female on the executive team, so I had to get used to being the only woman in there," she said. What prepared her for the experience was her very first job — working at her dad's hardware store. "I was definitely the only female in that world."
A key to Point's fundraising success is her ability to see and honor connections among people. "When you can connect like-minded people, one and one becomes three," she said. "This is how an effort can expand quickly."
Point's contribution to Team Twisters involves reaching out to local publications to ensure that they know about the event. Her job is to make sure that everyone in the community knows about and is invited to The Barefoot Ball and Yoga on the Steps. "I'm helping to create awareness because we're raising all of this money for LBBC. It's a naturally interesting story and it affects so many people in the neighborhood," she said.
A Washington, D.C., native, Point, 54, moved to Chestnut Hill in 1993 to accept a job with Advanta. She finds Philadelphia more livable that D.C., smaller in scale and less competitive. "Chestnut Hill is so beautiful, and there's such a sense of community here." She lives with her husband Steve, who is working on a start-up investment firm, and her sons Edward, a senior at Penn Charter, and John, a sophomore at PA Virtual Charter School.
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text: Good morning! With the intention to run my chessprogram on a beowulf to be constructed here (starting with 2 dual-k7 machines here) i better get some good advice on which network to buy. Only interesting thing is how fast each node can read out 64 bytes randomly from RAM of some remote cpu. All nodes do that simultaneously. The faster this can be done the better the algorithmic speedup for parallel search in a chess program (property of YBW, see publications in journal of icga: www.icga.org). This speedup is exponential (or better you get punished exponential compared to single cpu performance). Which network cards considering my small budget are having lowest latencies can be used? quadrics/dolphin seems bit out of pricerange. Myrinet is like 684 euro per card when i altavista'ed online and i wonder how to get more than 2 nodes to work without switch. Perhaps there is low cost switches with reasonable low latency? Please note MPI is probably what i'll use, though i keep finding online information about 'gamma'. Is that faster latency than MPI implementations? Note normal 1Gbit cards for normal network traffic. Each node is a SMP or NUMA node and not only multiprocessor also multithreaded. I welcome any advice, Best regards, Vincent Vincent Diepeveen


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'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.
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Friday, January 3, 2014
New Start - 2014
I hope I still have a few readers. Even if I don't, I need to write regularly, and so this blog will probably be part journal, part genealogy discoveries, and part "cousin bait" for the future.
I'm back to blogging; I hope regularly.
I'm back to genealogy; I hope regularly.
I'm back to presenting and teaching; I hope regularly.
This is a New Year.
So, I'm putting the past behind me. I'm starting over with ALL of my family research. Yes, I had computer problems. Yes, I had been saving my files to an external hard drive. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that my genealogy program files weren't in my documents or someplace that I was actually backing up. No, I didn't have a cloud backup or anything that allowed me to sync with other devices. So when my computer "crashed", even specialists couldn't recover my lost files. That's now in the past.
What have I learned? What am I going to do differently?
Before I assume that everything is backed up, I am going to make sure that all of the different parts. Backing up isn't helpful if I can't retrieve the files.
I'm going to get cloud storage and use it regularly. Again I'm going to make sure I can retrieve the files.
I have a new tablet and I'm going to get a new laptop. (I'm using one of my husband's old ones temporarily.) I will make sure that the tablet and laptop "communicate" with each other, particularly with regards to genealogy files.
My new family files will have sources for facts as I input the information. This will take me longer, but I won't have to spend hours, days, months, going back and adding sources. Hopefully some of it will be quicker because of my experiences and improved skills.
I am going to return to making presentations at FHSA chapter meetings and giving free beginning classes (5-6 hours) at public libraries in order to share the joy, excitement and wonder of family discovery with others.
Lastly, for now, I'm going to try to put the fun back into genealogy as many have been discussing on other social media outlets.
Again, Happy New Year to all and I hope we find at least one brick wall crumbling down.
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"Backing up isn't helpful if I can't retrieve the files." – I agree. Backups are obsolete if you can't retrieve or save any of your files. It's a wise decision that you'll be going for cloud storage as it's more efficient to use when it comes to accessibility. It's also a lot safer. With cloud storage, you will always have a copy of any document that you need, wherever you are (for as long as you can connect to the internet).ReplyDelete
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A new year, a new you! It's really great to learn from our past experiences, it helps us be wiser; just like what you've learned from your computer issues. Now you're well-prepared for any sudden turn of events with regards to your computer, because you have a more reliable back up system. Cheers!ReplyDelete
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