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Magdalen Dacre
Magdalen Dacre | |
Viscountess Montagu | |
Effigy of Magdalen Dacre on her alabaster tomb in Easebourne Church
Spouse(s) | Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu |
Philip Browne
Sir Henry Browne George Browne Sir Anthony Browne Jane Browne Mary Browne Elizabeth Browne Mabel Browne Thomas Browne William Browne |
Noble family | Dacre |
Father | William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre |
Mother | Elizabeth Talbot |
Born | January 1538 Naworth Castle, Cumberland, England |
Died | 8 April 1608 Battle Abbey, Sussex |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Occupation | Maid of Honour |
Magdalen Dacre, Viscountess Montagu (January 1538 – 8 April 1608) was an English noblewoman. She was the daughter of William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre of Gilsland, and the second wife of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu. Magdalen, a fervent Roman Catholic, was a Maid of Honour at the wedding of Mary I of England to Philip II of Spain in Winchester Cathedral. Dacre, despite being a Catholic, managed to remain in high regard with the Protestant Tudor Queen who succeeded Mary, Elizabeth I. Dacre was, according to biographer Lady Antonia Fraser in her historical biography, The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605, a fine example of "how the most pious Catholic could survive if he (or she) did not challenge the accepted order".[1]
Early life[edit]
Magdalen Dacre was born in January 1538 at Naworth Castle in Eskdale Ward, Cumberland,[2] the fifth child of William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre of Gilsland, 2nd Baron Greystoke, and Elizabeth Talbot.[3] The Dacres were powerful Northern Border lords and fervent Roman Catholics, however by the time of her birth, Henry VIII, the reigning monarch, had already made the break with Rome by placing the Protestant denomination on England, and had also just produced a male heir, Prince Edward (later Edward VI), with his third wife Jane Seymour just months prior to the birth of Magdalen. Despite the Protestant Reformation sweeping the country, Magdalen Dacre, along with her siblings, were raised Roman Catholic by her family.
Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, of Gilsland, 1st Baron Greystoke, and Elizabeth Greystoke, and her maternal grandparents were George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Anne Hastings, daughter of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and Katherine Neville. She had five brothers and five sisters. Her father was the English Warden of the Scottish Marches and Governor of Carlisle.
Magdalen served as a gentlewoman to Anne Sapcote, Countess of Bedford when she was 13.
In 1553 Edward VI, the boy king who succeeded Henry VIII, died after six years on the throne, aged 15, the same as Magdalen. Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, became Queen of England, and England returned to Roman Catholicism. By 1554 Mary had turned her attention to finding a suitor and producing an heir to the Tudor dynasty, and became engaged to Philip II of Spain. The marriage took place at Winchester Cathedral on 25 July 1554 and Magdalen Dacre was selected as a Maid of Honour and took part in the bridal procession.[1]
In E. S. Turner's The Court of St. James, Magdalen was described as having been very pretty and blonde. She was also very tall, and reportedly stood a head above the other maids of honour at court. Turner alleged that she attracted the attention of Philip, whom she had to beat off with a staff when he tried to embrace her.[4]
List of siblings[edit]
- Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland (1527/1530- 1 July 1566), married firstly Elizabeth Neville, and secondly Elizabeth Leyburne, by whom he had five children, including George Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, 4th Baron Greystoke, and Anne Dacre, later Countess of Arundel (21 March 1557 – 19 April 1630). When Thomas died, his widow remarried Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
- Leonard Dacre (died 12 August 1573). He joined the Northern Rebellion and had to flee England.
- Frances Dacre (b. 1523)
- Anne Dacre (1521- July 1581), married Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland by whom she had six children.
- Dorothy Dacre (b. 1533), married Sir Thomas Windsor by whom she had one daughter, Anne Windsor.
- George Dacre (b. 1534)
- Eleanor Dacre, married Henry Jerningham, Esq., of Cotesby Hall by whom she had issue.
- Mary Dacre (b. 1539), married Sir Alexander Culpepper of Bedgebury, by whom she had one son, Sir Anthony Culpepper of Bedgebury.
- Edward Dacre (d. 1579). He joined his brother in the Northern Rebellion.
- Sir Francis Dacre (d. 1632), married Dorothy Radcliffe by whom he had issue.
On 15 July 1558, Lady Magdalen married Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, a Privy Counsellor, Knight of the Garter and King Philip's former Master of the Horse, in a ceremony took place at St. James's Palace. Browne was 10 years Magdalen's senior, aged 30 and a father and a widower from his previous marriage to Jane Radclyffe, who died due to childbirth, after the delivery of their twins, Mary and Anthony. Browne's links to the Queen were also impressive, and at Queen Mary's coronation, Browne carried the Queen's train.[5] Due to their links, Mary I attended the wedding. The Browne family, like the Dacres, were also staunch Catholics. Their principal residences were Cowdray Castle and Battle Abbey, both in Sussex. Anthony and Magdalen had ten children.
Following the accession of Queen Elizabeth I to the throne in 1558, Montagu lost his seat on the Privy Council but was made joint Lord Lieutenant of Sussex in 1570. With the return to Protestant Christianity, the Montagus were forced to reveal their stance on the situation: loyalty to the Pope, or to the new Protestant Queen. Browne, along with Lord Dacre (Magdalen's brother), declared that they would support the Pope if he came in peace, but would serve the Queen if he came with war-like intentions.[6] Magdalen found favour with the Queen despite her Catholicism, her former close friendship with the late Queen Mary and later the treacherous behaviour of her Dacre relations, some of whom conspired to depose the Queen and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. The Montagus entertained the Queen for a week at Cowdray Castle in 1591,[7] and the priests were kept hidden during the visit.[8] Magdalen was very devout and supposedly wore a coarse linen smock underneath her extravagant court costumes.[8]
Magdalen was only once accused of recusancy, and although she allowed a printing press to be set up on her property, she refused to assist or abet treasonous plots against the Queen.[8]
Magdalen Dacre died at Battle Abbey, Sussex on 8 April 1608 at the age of seventy.[9] She was originally buried in Midhurst Church, where a splendid tomb with her effigy was erected. The tomb was moved in 1851 to Easebourne Church.
- Philip Browne (born 1559). He is assumed to have died young.
- Sir Henry Browne (1562- 6 February 1628). He married firstly Mary Hungate, and secondly Anne Catesby by whom he had issue; he was the ancestor of the Browne baronets of Kiddington
- Sir George Browne, married Elizabeth Lawe, by whom he had issue.
- Sir Anthony Browne, married Anne Bell
- Jane Browne, married Sir Francis Lacon
- Mary Browne
- Elizabeth Browne (died after 29 September 1623), married Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer of Wing by whom she had issue.
- Mabel Browne
- Thomas Browne
- William Browne
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In fiction[edit]
Magdalen Dacre appears in Anya Seton's historical romance Green Darkness, which was partially set in 16th century England.
- Footnotes
- ^ a b Fraser 2002, p. 28
- ^ DACRE (V. Montague) "Magdalen Dacre, Viscountess Montagu" Check
value (help). Tudor Place. Retrieved 25 August 2010.[unreliable source] - ^ DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke) "William Dacre" Check
value (help). Tudor Place. Retrieved 25 August 2010.[unreliable source] - ^ Emerson, Kathy Lynn. A Who's Who of Tudor Women – D
- ^ Carolly Erickson "Bloody Mary", p.294
- ^ Fraser 2002, p. 29
- ^ Cowdray ruins: a short history and guide.
- ^ a b c Emerson
- ^ Worldroots.com
- Bibliography
- Antonia Fraser (2002), The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 – Part One, Orion, ISBN 978-1-4072-1613-3
- Carolly Erickson. Bloody Mary, International Collector's Library, Garden City, New York, 1978
- Cowdray ruins: a short history and guide

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I am sure you would rather be toboganning in the snow than zipping through the trees, wouldn't you!?
Sleepless in La Fortuna
Trip Start
Dec 12, 2009
Trip End
Dec 30, 2009
Where I stayed
The Pura Vida hotel is lovely to look at, quaint little rooms with a view of the volcano if it�s not cloudy (as it is right now).
But if you actually want to sleep in the Pura Vida hotel you will find it almost impossible. The trucks roll by at all hours of the night and there is a disco somewhere in the area that pumps out beats at high volume. We barely slept. Both woke up with giant bags and dark circles under our eyes. I first woke up to the sunlight and deafening rumble of a truck at 4:30 am then slept on and off sort of till 7:30.
The day got progressively better from there. A delightful and cheap breakfast of rice, beans, sausage (Sang had bacon and eggs too) and coffee premixed with milk all for the low price of $4 for both of us. I love eating in Costa Rica.
Next we went and booked a volcano watching tour at a hostel offering tours called Gringo Pete's, only to discover from a couple from the U.S. later that the volcano has been dormant for the past month. Oh well. The hostel was offering tours at some of the cheapest rates in La Fortuna we could find.
The zip line tour was incredible. Sang looked great with all the gear on:
And I looked spectacular too:
Sang and I both did the superman zip too, where a tour guide holds up your legs behind you as you spread your arms out and go head first down the zip line. I was scared at first, didn�t want to let go of the wire but then I did and it was great. The view down was at least 300 ft in places. Luckily the first zip line was short so we got aclimatized to the feeling of whooshing through the trees suspended in the air by a small cable.
Sang on the zip line video:
Twyla on the zip line video:
We learned after that we could do a hike to a cooler volcana lookout place but decided since we�d already paid US$17 each for our evening tour we�d hold off.
Decided to take the shuttle to Torteguero instead of 4 buses plus the boat taxi.
Lunch time now. We�ll probably hit another cheap Soda place and get more authentic and cheap food. Then we must prepare for our volcano hike and get everything in place for our escpate to the land of the leather back turtles.


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Massey Ferguson Sponsors Oxford Farming Conference Report
Europe should not underestimate its role as an agricultural powerhouse, but it needs to focus on areas of weakness including access to natural resources, according to a unique report into where global agricultural power lies commissioned by the Oxford Farming Conference, sponsored by Massey Ferguson.
"Europe currently ranks respectably for political, corporate and trade power but is vulnerable in the long-term to the availability and control over natural and mineral resources," Oxford Farming Conference chairman Cedric Porter said.
"If the European Union is to continue to punch above its weight on the global agricultural stage it will need to strengthen output – it is vital for farming and for our future food security. The report shows us that Europe as a whole still retains historical influence in global agriculture, but with exporting nations such as China, Russia and Brazil coming up the ranks, the food and farming industry will need to act with policy to retain our strong position."
"The whole of the food industry also needs to ensure that the relationship between corporations and farmers is a successful and balanced one. Europe, and in particular the UK, has a disproportionate concentration of large trans-national corporations (TNCs) based here which in global terms can be seen as a positive since those organisations are powerful when it comes to decisions that affect agriculture and food. But while that, continues to give international influence, it does not necessarily translate into an improved position for our farmers or the agri-food supply chain."
Who's in control of the supply chain?
- Four companies account for between 75% and 90% of the global grain trade
- 10 companies are responsible for over 40% of the global retail market
- Seven companies control virtually all fertiliser supply
- Five companies share 68% of the world's agrochemical market
- Three companies control almost 50% of the seed market
Commenting on the report, Richard Markwell said: "Massey Ferguson is well-poised to help meet the challenges facing European farmers, given the company's mission to provide straightforward, dependable machines designed to help farmers cut costs and maximise productivity."
The report, written by the Scottish Agricultural College, pulls together a vast array of recent research into an unrivalled and uniquely authoritative document which the OFC hopes will be used by farmers and interested groups to lobby in order to keep the Europe at the top table.
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Red Tractor Gets Full Back-ing From Bristol Rugby Club's Full-back, Jack Tovey
Two local Bristol (United Kingdom) farmers, John Hore and Charles Bourns, have combined their two greatest passions – farming and rugby – by sponsoring up-coming rugby star, Jack Tovey. The sponsorship aims to promote great food and farming through the use of the Red Tractor logo which will now gain exposure to thousands of Bristol's rugby fans.
John, a local Red Tractor beef and sheep farmer, said: "Rugby is a truly British sport, featuring highly skilled athletes and it has a vast number of supporters who regularly go and watch their team each week. We thought the rugby would provide a fantastic stage to highlight the important role that Red Tractor farming plays in producing quality food."
Charles Bourns runs a poultry farm in Gloucestershire, he said: "A tremendous amount of effort and integrity goes into producing great quality chickens under the Red Tractor Scheme and it is important that we help to promote this to consumers."
Every time full back Jack scores a try, the Red Tractor name is announced and it seems to be providing an extra lift for Jack who has made 56 appearances for Bristol and scored seven tries so far this season. Jack said: "I'm delighted that John and Charles approached me about the Red Tractor sponsorship. I jumped at the chance to help support local farmers in the Bristol community and to engage spectators in something with real value."
For further information on Red Tractor visit: http://www.redtractor.org.uk/.
Massey Ferguson Proud Sponsor of the NEW Melbourne Rebels Rugby Team.
In 2011, Massey Ferguson proudly became a major sponsor of Melbourne's new Super 15's Rugby Team, the Melbourne Rebels, in their inaugural year.
The Super 15's Rugby competition has been revamped for 2011, providing spectators across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa with new teams, more games and more finals.
"It's an honour to be associated with the new Melbourne Rebels team in their inaugural year," says Managing Director of AGCO Australia, Warwick McCormick. "We believe it's a good fit – the Melbourne Rebels have a strong sense of community and so do we; which is evident in our close relationship with the rural community."
"The significance of the Super 15's being an international competition, ties in perfectly with Massey Ferguson as we also have a global presence," adds Mr. McCormick. "We also feel a large part of our rural customer base has a strong following of the sport."
The Melbourne Rebels engaged in a number of close and thrilling matches both within Australia and overseas this year and have proven their presence in this exciting competition. With the first season now completed, we congratulate them and look forward to seeing them superior in the 2012 season! Go Rebels!
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"I've got this camera click, click, clickin' in my head," said Elvis Costello in "I'm Not Angry." These following songs, f-stop at f-off, offer up some cherished memories of put-downs and general piss-offedness. Here are my Kodak moments:
11. "Waitress In The Sky" by the Replacements. A mild enough rebuke, perhaps, but I've had my own share of problems with stewardesses, too–so this time it's personal:
Sanitation expert and a maintenance engineer
Garbage man, a janitor and you my dear
A real union flight attendant, my oh my
You ain't nothin' but a waitress in the sky…
10. "Reelin' In The Years" by Steely Dan. See you in September…then again:
You been tellin' me you're a genius
Since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you
I still don't know what you mean
The weekend at the college
Didn't turn out like you planned
The things that pass for knowledge
I can't understand.
9. "Holiday In Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedys. It may have been more of an extended weekend at the college, but real life still has its rude awakenings:
So you been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl.
Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul.
8."Stupid Thing" by Aimee Mann. She makes me feel like shit:
Maybe that's just how I am
to fall where I stand, or I'm
weak for that kind of man
one who looks helpless and brave
but you turned into a coward
I don't care for the parts you saved.
You stupid thing.
7. "Parting Gift" by Fiona Apple. Okay, at least we're good for something, but I still feel like shit:
Oh you silly stupid pastime of mine
You were always good for rhyme.
7. "Mercury Poisoning" by Graham Parker. Spittle virtually flies off albums like "Squeezin' Out Sparks" from the trenchant relationship attacks. This time around, Graham aims at his old record company–but hey, nothing personal. Right?:
For them it's inconvenience for me it's hell
The geriatric staff think we're freaks
They couldn't sell kebabs to the Greeks, the geeks
Inaction speaks, and …
…Is this a Russian conspiracy, no it's just idiocy
Is this a Chinese burn
I gotta dinosaur for a representative
It's got a small brain and refuses to learn
6. "God Save The Queen" by the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols griped about their record company, too, but they also had enemies in higher places– and were gracious enough to remember them:
God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential h-bomb.
God save the queen
She ain't no human being
There is no future
in England's dreaming.
5. "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones" by Fear. They're bad, they're city-wide:
New York's alright if you like drunks in your doorway!
New York's alright if you wanna freeze to death!
New York's alright if you wanna get mugged or murdered!
New York's alright if you like saxophones!
4. "Brilliant Mistake" by Elvis Costello. There was a reason that "Armed Forces" was originally called "Emotional Fascism." By the time of "King Of America," Elvis was branching out, and toning down the venom a bit while remaining just as caustic:
She said that she was working for the ABC News
It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use
Her perfume was unspeakable
It lingered in the air
Like her artificial laughter
Her mementos of affairs
"Oh" I said "I see you know him"
"Isn't that very fortunate for you"
And she showed me his calling card
He came third or fourth and there were more than one or two.
He was a fine idea at the time
Now he's a brilliant mistake
3. "Like A Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan. Familiar, but never loses its fulminatory force. Though I would've thought Bob could've fit in "fulminatory" somewhere amid the language that he used:
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
2. "How Do You Sleep" by John Lennon. Just in case anyone wondered how John and Paul were getting along after the split, John spells it out in some vicious but petulant cheap shots. "The only thing you done was Yesterday/ And since you're gone you're just Another Day," offers Lennon, but it really doesn't matter because "Those freaks were right when they said you was dead." Moreover, John hits "the cute one" where he thinks it might hurt the most:
A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
1. "Idiot Wind" by Bob Dylan. It's Bob's world, you just piss him off in it. Dylan's a little more inclusive in his finger-pointing here, bringing himself finally into the fray, too. Mr. Anti-Congeniality gets the top nod here for his transition to a pan-discontentedness and a certain empathy. He's mad at the world and everyone in it, but at almost eight minutes, he has time for both individualized conferences and self-recriminations. Here's how "Idiot Wind" plays out in the closing stanzas:
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
And all your ragin' glory.
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
And it makes me feel so sorry.
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
We're idiots, babe.
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
I was going to tack on some honorable mentions, but, being the idiot that I am, it would be a wonder that I'd still know how to breathe any more life into this compilation of contempt. But I'm thinking others might be able to enrich and embellish . . .
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Civic Commons creates a place for agencies to share software
Government IT shops looking to save money — and it's hard to imagine one that isn't — now have a common well they can draw on for software development and innovative ideas.
A public/private partnership launched Civic Commons this month, a website designed to let state, local and federal agencies share software they have developed. Created by the Washington, D.C., Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the nonprofit organizations Code for America and OpenPlans, the partnership will work with agencies "to identify, document and relicense technology now in use to make it available for sharing," according to a Civic Commons announcement.
Civic Commons plans to create a directory of applications available to government IT shops and allow agencies to contribute applications as they develop them. The goal is to allow agencies to share innovative ideas and cut costs.
"In the District of Columbia alone, we have a large set of applications that other governments may find very useful," said Bryan Sivak, Washington's CTO.
Washington attracted applications through its Apps for Democracy competition, in which the city invited developers to submit applications that make use of government data. Sharing open-source applications as a way of improving efficiency is an idea that's catching on in government. Sunlight Labs' Apps for America and the Army's Apps for the Army are two other examples.
More than a dozen entities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, have already agreed to share their open technology, the release states. Among the applications that will be available are the New York State Senate's Open Legislation application and the Federal IT Dashboard.
Civic Commons will plans to act as an information resource in support of using open technologies, standards and data. Open government is a focus of both Code for America and OpenPlans.
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This has beenand remains a great idea. Let's hope it results int cream rising to the top so to speek. In past similar efforts such has not been the case all to often resulting in many of the now existing incompatability/interoperable and security problems we seemingly are continuely to experiance.
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Is the SOPA Opera Over?In case you missed it -- and I actually did -- hundreds of Websites were blacked out yesterday in protest of some proposed US legislation. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has a self-explanatory intent, but aspects of it have many people crying, "Censorship!" I've had a hard time writing about yesterday's protest without getting entrenched in a debate over the First Amendment, so I'm just going to avoid that topic. But the uproar is so interesting because there could be a lot of business at stake. The best SOPA synopsis I've seen so far is in the Wall Street Journal. The bill's biggest supporters are movie and music companies, and the loudest protestors are Web companies. But I'd rather look at the implications for the electronics industry. Semico's Michell Prunty crystallized the issue in her blog The Agony of Digital Rights Management. SOPA is really about digital rights management, and DRM is crucial to the supply chain. Prunty's observation that the semiconductor industry "likes to think it doesn't have to worry" about DRM, because people say "those things will work themselves out" struck a chord with me. In our world -- the digital ecosystem -- content is king. A lot of content relies on hardware from cradle to grave. The sounds and visuals of most movies and music don't happen without a whole lot of support from technology, from the cameras used to film movies to the LEDs and switches under the on/off button of your PC, smartphone, or tablet. Do the artists still own the creative rights to this stuff? Of course they do. But much of this content is developed with the assistance of processors, DRAM, disk drives, displays, crystal clear digital sound, and lots and lots of battery life. Hardware companies have skin in the SOPA game. But making sure copyrights are enforced remains a challenge, as the SOPA opera this week demonstrated. If content becomes increasingly restricted, either voluntarily or by law, licensing costs are going to skyrocket. Legal downloads, in turn, will also become more expensive. Consumers are going to look for more free content (probably pirated) or go back to CDs, DVDs, and cheaper means of entertainment. The digital ecosystem as we know it may suffer. What's the point of owning an iPad if you can't surf and download from the Web? How much are you willing to pay for a song, book, movie, or video? I know there's a price point I won't tolerate, but I haven't reached it yet. Hardware companies have been battling copyright infringement longer than many Internet companies have existed. I'm not sure these efforts will be any help to SOPA, but it's disingenuous to think only Internet/content companies have a stake in the legislation. So I'd like to hear from you. Does the bill go too far? Or do we need strict measures to preserve the digital ecosystem? Bonus question: Does anyone else find the idea of Wikipedia censoring its own site ironic? |
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Tax reform ought to be a national economic imperative. I signed the Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge. I have committed in writing that I will not increase marginal tax rates, or vote for any new taxes whose net result is that Americans pay more in taxes.
I strongly support the concept of the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax will abolish the federal income tax and the IRS. April 15th will become just another beautiful spring day!
The Fair Tax will replace the income tax, corporate taxes, capital gains taxes, and estate and inheritance taxes with a national sales tax. I do not favor and will not support a sales tax and the current income tax. My political opponents may make that charge, but do not let them confuse you. My position is clear: Abolish the Income Tax. Replace it and all other federal taxes with the Sales Tax.
Politicians often run for office saying they won't raise taxes, but then quickly turn their backs on the taxpayer. The idea of the Pledge is simple enough: Make them put their no-new-taxes rhetoric in writing.
In the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, candidates and incumbents solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases. While ATR has the role of promoting and monitoring the Pledge, the Taxpayer Protection Pledge is actually made to a candidate's constituents, who are entitled to know where candidates stand before sending them to the capitol. Since the Pledge is a prerequisite for many voters, it is considered binding as long as an individual holds the office for which he or she signed the Pledge.
Since its rollout with the endorsement of President Reagan in 1986, the pledge has become de rigeur for Republicans seeking office, and is a necessity for Democrats running in Republican districts.
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OnTheIssues Explanation: At the end of 2010, the temporary one-year suspension of the estate tax ended. This bill proposes to make it permanent, with zero exemption. The "exemption" means the amount one can inherit without taxation. In 2009 the rate was 45% and the exemption amount was $3.5 million. On January 1, 2010 a "one year repeal" of the tax was effectuated by a temporary, one-year-only rate of 0%. On January 1, 2011 the estate tax is scheduled to a top rate of 35% and the exemption amount is scheduled to be $5 million, or $10 million for married couples.
[The ATR, Americans for Tax Reform, run by conservative lobbyist Grover Norquist, ask legislators to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge in each election cycle. Their self-description:]
In the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, candidates and incumbents solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases. Since its rollout in 1986, the pledge has become de rigeur for Republicans seeking office, and is a necessity for Democrats running in Republican districts. Today the Taxpayer Protection Pledge is offered to every candidate for state office and to all incumbents. More than 1,100 state officeholders, from state representative to governor, have signed the Pledge.
The Taxpayer Protection Pledge: "I pledge to the taxpayers of my district and to the American people that I will: ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rate for individuals and business; and TWO, oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates."
Opponents' Opinion (from wikipedia.com):In Nov. 2011, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) claimed that Congressional Republicans "are being led like puppets by Grover Norquist. They're giving speeches that we should compromise on our deficit, but never do they compromise on Grover Norquist. He is their leader." Since Norquist's pledge binds signatories to opposing deficit reduction agreements that include any element of increased tax revenue, some Republican deficit hawks now retired from office have stated that Norquist has become an obstacle to deficit reduction. Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson, co-chairman of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, has been particularly critical, describing Norquist's position as "no taxes, under any situation, even if your country goes to hell."


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Hi, wanted to post something. So here are all Supermans powers and weaknesses. Some of them have been reduced because they made him too strong for his enemies so they reduced his powers.
- Superhuman Strength - Enhanced strength much greater than that of a normal human and even most superhumans, making him "more powerful than a locomotive," is one of Superman's signature powers and has often been described as chief among his other abilities. While not infinite, depictions of the upper limit of how much weight he can lift have ranged from being able to do the work of several laborers in half the time, lift objects hundreds of times his own weight including any sized vehicle over his head, bend and/or break steel with his bare hands, snapping chain links, lifting mountains, and all the way up to in the Silver Age and Modern Age moving entire planets. After being saturated with yellow solar energy in All-Star Superman, his strength was tested as exceeding the force of 200 quintillion tons (or 2x10 tons, in scientific notation, i.e., two hundred billion billion tons). Explanations include being adapted to the heavier gravity of Krypton, and his muscles using the power of the solar energy which fuels all his abilities. Superman's stamina has also been shown as limitless (whilst he remains in yellow sunlight).
- Invulnerability - Immunity to almost all forms of harm and ailments, including extreme force and extremely high temperatures. Effectiveness has ranged from his skin being piercable by nothing less than a "bursting shell" to being completely unharmed by a star going supernova. This ability includes the immunity to most known physical and mental diseases, viruses and toxins. Explanations for this ability have ranged from Kryptonianstitanium and emitting an unbreakable aura of solar energy. However, in the rare instances Superman has required medical attention, this resistance to injuries has complicated necessary procedures such as surgery. For instance, when a criminal shot him with kryptonite ammunition, a surgeon was forced to give Superman a controlled exposure to the mineral in order to temporarily weaken his skin enough to make the incisions necessary to remove internal fragments of the bullet. In some versions, this power greatly retards his aging and increases as he gets older, sometimes rendering him effectively immortal. The epilogue to the having an extremely dense molecular structure to each of his cells making his epidermis stronger than Justice Society of America storyline "Thy Kingdom Come" (a sequel of sorts to the Kingdom Come limited series) showing Superman surviving 1,000 years into the future, albeit as a very elderly, hunched-over man. Another version in DC One Million lives through the 853rd Century, some 83,200 years from now.
- Flight - The ability to naturally defy and operate independently of gravity and propel himself through the air at will. Originally, he only had the power to jump great distances, as stated by the 1940s Superman cartoons ("Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound"). Has ranged from simply being able to jump great distances using his vast strength, to beginning in late 1941 being able to accelerate, float in midair, and change direction while traveling. Later he became able to traverse interstellar distances without stopping. Lex Luthor once theorized that Superman had to stem from a gigantic planet with enormous gravity, where his species had developed natural anti-gravity organs to be able to function; on Earth, this would allow him to control his own gravimetric field in order to fly.
- Superhuman Speed - Another one of Superman's signature abilities is his superhuman speed, allowing him to move, react, run, and fly extraordinarily fast. Originally classified as being "faster than a speeding bullet", allowing him to catch bullets in mid air before they hit him, or anyone else. Top speeds have ranged from nearly a hundred miles per hour when he was first created in the 1930s to speeds far greater than the speed of light. His thoughts and perception are also greatly accelerated to be able to control his actions while moving at high speeds. Superman's running speed has oftentimes been shown to be on par with that of The Flash's.
- X-Ray Vision - The ability to see through solid objects, usually with the exception of lead. Early stories assumed that hiding objects in lead would prevent him from finding them, however, more modern stories have Superman being able to take advantage of lead's opaqueness to do a wide scan of an area with his X-Ray vision in which the lead objects become immediately visible and then narrow his search to those specific locations.X-Rays, as such high-energy radiation would actually be dangerous to living things he uses it on. A more common theory involves being able to see and concentrate on the patterns of natural cosmic radiation as it reverberates off objects. X-Ray vision was first used by Superman in Explanations for how this power works vary, but rarely include the emission and perception of actual Action Comics #11 (April 1939), where it was called "Superman's X-ray eyesight."
- Heat Vision - Ability to emit solar energy from his eyes. Usually resembles bright red or orange laser-like beams, which may be invisible at low temperatures but extremely bright at high ones. The effective range of his beams are hundreds of feet. In addition varying the beam width, height, and intensity, Superman has demonstrated a high degree of skill and accuracy in manipulating his beam able use this power with surgical precision and at microscopic levels. Since the power can be used invisibly, Superman often takes advantage of that to perform tasks subtly without needing to get into costume. In some version, these beams can also be used to produce great concussive force rather than heat. The beams are tremendously powerful and can be used to rupture steel plates and pulverize rock. Also in some stories, it can be reflected like a true laser, able to use great skill and accuracy in manipulating the blasts off multiple targets in rapid succession, or more commonly to remove his very durable facial hair. Sometimes shown to be one of his more physically draining powers to use as it uses such concentrated solar energy. In the Pre-Crisis stories, Clark wears glasses with lenses made of Kryptonian glass (initially cannibalized from his rocket ship's transparency dome) so he can fire his heat vision through them without damaging them. In the stories from the 1986 relaunch onward had Clark wearing regular glasses and then with the revision in Superman: Secret Origin, he wears glasses with Kryptonian glass that are intended to contain unwanted firings; in this situation, Clark is forced to momentarily lift them out of his eyes' firing arc to use his heat vision effectively.
- Superhuman Breath - Ability to inhale and exhale huge volumes of air with great force, capable of extinguishing large fires and moving heavy objects such as cars.Even ice breath. Also allows Superman to hold his breath for extended periods in airless environments. The release (exhalation) of highly compressed air through a valve (such as pursed lips) causes it to drop radically in temperature. This is known as the Joule–Thomson effect, and when Superman does this, it is usually referred to as Freeze Breath, and can cool objects to sub-zero temperatures and freeze air moisture solid.
- Superhuman Hearing - Can hear far more sounds with far more detail at far greater distances than normally humanly possible, including sounds on frequencies undetectable by humans such as dog whistles. Superman is able to mentally screen out most of these sounds to be able to function normally, even in a noisy environment, and can focus in on specific things, like a person's voice or heartbeat, even if they are in another part of the city. He can even hear sounds on other planets, which makes it likely that his hearing is fundamentally different then that of a human, as sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space. Like humans and most animals, he is skilled at automatically noticing his own name out of the jumble of several overheard conversations, making him adept at quickly responding to calls of distress all over the city.
- Superhuman Vision - His senses grant him the ability to see farther and with greater accuracy and detail than humanly possible. Sometimes includes the ability to see frequencies invisible to humans, such as radio transmissions, infrared light, the bioelectric aura which surrounds all living things, even in pitch-black darkness. Offshoots of this power include Telescopic Vision, which allows him to "zoom in" on far away objects, sometimes hundreds of miles away, and Microscopic Vision, which allows him to zoom in on objects that would normally be too small to see, like those on a cellular or molecular level.
- Superhuman Olfaction - A heightened and highly accurate sense of smell comparable to some animals such as dogs. Can be used to detect things like the chemicals in a bomb hidden somewhere in a crowded room.
- Eidetic Memory - Superman is occasionally shown to have flawless, total recall of everything he has ever seen, read or heard. In turn, he is often depicted as being fluent in many of Earth's languages and cultures.
- Intelligence - Superman is consistently shown as being more intelligent than the average human. The extent of this varies, however, with some stories portraying all Kryptonians as geniuses by human standards and other stories showing Superman with intelligence just above average, but can easily outsmart the likes of Lex Luthor and Batman.
- Master Combatant - While most authors prefer to portray him as having mediocre combat prowess in favor of showing the magnitude of his powers in battle, there have been some exceptions. Some stories portray Superman as a very capable fighter with or without his abilities, as he has been trained by both Wildcat in boxing and Mongul in the fighting arts. He has fought and learned from Wonder Woman and has also learned more advanced martial arts techniques from Batman.
- Kryptonite: Superman's most famous weakness, kryptonite originated as radioactive fragments of the planet Krypton, created by fusion during the explosion that destroyed it. Superman's cells store electromagnetic radiation from the rays of a yellow sun, and converts it into energy, manifesting as his super-powers. When Superman is exposed to the most common variety, green kryptonite (within roughly ten feet or less of any size or amount), its high-band radiation rapidly interferes with this process, causing severe physical pain and the loss of his powers. Long enough exposure to green kryptonite may eventually lead to death. Kryptonite radiation can be blocked by the use of lead
- Red Sun Radiation: Natural in Krypton's planetary system, red solar radiation replaces the higher-yield yellow solar energy in Superman's cells, robbing him of the fuel for his powers. (Pre-Crisis, red solar radiation was said to lack the superpower-enabling "ultra solar rays" that yellow solar radiation contains This process does not have the painful, crippling and fever-like symptoms of Kryptonite, and essentially leaves him with the normal health and abilities of a human in his size and shape, as it did for the entire population of Krypton during its existence. Exposure to yellow solar radiation causes his powers to return. Other than red solar radiation, using up his stored yellow solar energy (without continued exposure to yellow solar radiation) also causes Superman to lose his powers.
- Magic: While not so much an actual weakness, Superman's invulnerability offers no protection against magic. The explanation for this is simple; Superman's powers, extraordinary as they are, are the result of natural phenomenon, not supernatural. As a result, spells cast on Superman affect him the same as they would anyone else. This sometimes goes so far as enchanted weapons being able to subvert his invulnerability as well. Generally, he suffers the vulnerability provided he is directly attacked with magic. But there exists a number of exceptions, such as in Justice League of America (volume 1) #49 (November 1966), where Superman faces an ogre. Superman's direct attacks have no effect on the ogre, however Superman is able to harm the ogre through the usage of a stick.
- Massive Physical Forces: While Superman is extremely resilient to most physical harm, he is not quite completely invulnerable and is susceptible to temporary injury from physical forces usually delivered to him by some of his super-powered enemies (during a story where the JLA faced an insane J'onn J'onz, Superman admitted "I can count on one hand the beings I would genuinely be afraid to face. J'onn is top of that list."). Superman's ability to gain energy from sunlight may be counter-acted if he is badly beaten so quickly that his body doesn't have time to heal (as happened in his battle with Doomsday). In some spin-off media, he has been shown to be similarly vulnerable to electricity, a weakness exploited by nemeses Conduit and Live Wire.
- Lead: While lead protects Superman from kryptonite, it also prevents his X-ray vision from being able to see the items and objects encased in the material.
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State Sen. Kevin de Leon defended himself Tuesday against allegations he helped transfer $25,000 to a non-profit controlled by Sen. Ron Calderon's brother.
De Leon's name appears in recently-released federal documents detailing an FBI investigation of Calderon, who allegedly received bribes from an undercover agent.
While the FBI probe centers on Calderon, the Los Angeles senator is referenced 17 times in the 124-page FBI document. At one point, the documents state de Leon helped transfer $25,000 from a Latino political group in the state legislature to a non-profit.
Appearing at a Hollywood industry event Tuesday, de Leon emphatically said he wasn't responsible for the $25,000 contribution.
"Quote me verbatim," de Leon told a reporter. "I don't know where that figure comes from. I don't know why it is attached to me because I don't have authorization. In no form, way or shape, did I intervene with that 25k. It has nothing to do with me."
While de Leon's spokeswoman has previously said details of the affidavit are false, the senator's remarks Tuesday were one of the first times the senator has talked extensively about the FBI investigation.
The affidavit, made public last month by Al Jazeera America, alleges Calderon accepted bribes from an undercover officer posing as the president of a low-budget studio. In return, Calderon promised to create laws that could benefit the studio.
The federal documents detail an atmosphere of payback and rewards, with Calderon talking up his connections at the Capitol. Some have suggested, however, that Calderon is exaggerating his power and influence.
At one point, the affidavit states de Leon helped broker a deal for leadership of the Latino Legislative Caucus, a 25-member group of legislators that includes the senator.
Calderon wanted to lead the caucus, according to the affidavit. So Leon hammered out a deal between the Montebello Democrat, and the caucus' existing leader, Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Huntington Park), the documents state.
Under the pact, Lara would remain chairman, Calderon would drop his bid for the seat, and the caucus would give $25,000 to a Californians for Diversity, the non-profit controlled by Thomas Calderon, Ron's brother.
The FBI affidavit lays it out: "As set forth, Senator de Leon caused $25,000 to be contributed to Californians for Diversity, the California corporation controlled by (Tom Calderon) in exchange for Ronald Calderon not to challenge Senator Lara to become the Chairman of the Latino Caucus."
On Tuesday, de Leon acknowledged he helped resolve the chairmanship issue.
"I was asked to intervene and make peace between two individuals. And I did so, and I think I did so satisfactorily," de Leon said. But he disputed any involvement in the money transfer.
According to the Los Angeles Times, $25,000 was transferred to the non-profit earlier this year. A Sacramento Bee story quoted a government ethics expert who said it's unclear whether such a transfer would be illegal.
On Tuesday, de Leon suggested the investigation has detracted from recent legislative work, including passage of bills raising the minimum wage and drivers permits for undocumented residents.
"It's unfortunate, it's sad," de Leon said of the FBI probe.
"It should not be reflective of the institution as a whole," he added. "And I think that's really important to underscore and emphasize."
Asked when the FBI investigation might conclude– if it hasn't already– de Leon said that investigators have asked him not to talk about the case.
Separately, U.S. attorneys last week sent a note to de Leon's attorney indicating the senator is not currently a target in the investigation.
On Tuesday, Senator Lara removed Calderon from the Latino caucus, stating "recent allegations against one of our Caucus members, Senator Ron Calderon (D-Montebello), threaten to overshadow our accomplishments and undermine the integrity of the Caucus as a whole."
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I would go with the calipers. you want to get down to around 1/64
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Extremely important. Especially for rimless straight walled cases since they headspace off the case mouth. Tape measures are for carpenters. For the precise measurements involved in handloading, calipers are a must have.
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Cartridge length is limited by the magazine and rifle! A cartridge will vary significantly depending on bullet and seating. There is not a single answer.
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I'd recommend a good digital caliper - and using a case gague so you can check every load easily. Before I box anything up - I run every round thru a case gague - just takes a couple of minutes ( Dillon and others sell case gagues ).
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"...is that good enough for reloading..." No. 1/16" is 62.5 thousands of an inch. 1/16" too long and you'll have feeding issues. A tape measure isn't accurate enough. Calipres aren't terribly expensive.
"...gague..." That'd be a guage. A case guage is ok, but isn't versatile enough. A calipre can be used to measure case length and a whole bunch of other stuff too. Like BigJimP says, go with a digital. Easier to read than a regular vernier. There are dial calipres too. They're not too bad. Obviously not as quick to read as a digital. |
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Using a tape measure to eyebal COL is like using a tablespoon to eyeball a powder charge.
A set of woodworking calipers used in conjunction with the tape measure would be better than a plain tape. However, the dial caliper is essential.
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Just go down to Harbor Freight and put down the 15-20 bucks for a digital caliper and be done with it.
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One thing to look for when you buy a digital caliper is how many decimal places. Most of the ones I saw at Harbor Freight only went two decimal places. I bought a good dial caliper at Harbor Freight for $20.
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If you are just blowing away ammo, anything works as long as it goes thru the gun safely. Wanna hit something? Now you are in a different ballpark. Hardly ever do I need to play with various powder loads in working up an accuracy load for my shooters. I pick a powder that will give me 80% or better loading density with a midrange weight bullet. Then all I vary is the cartridge length to dial in accuracy. In the case of the 40SW, the same loading data but varying the OAL, I will go from an extreme spread group of 4" at 25 yds to .75" group at 25 yds just by shortening the OAL by .010 from max length. OAL is critical if you want accurate loads. Also, in loading the smaller pistol cases like the 9mm, pressure can be raised dramatically by seating the bullet deeper.
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Brownell's and Midway both sell quality dial calipers at a good price. Get one!
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I have two Harbor Freight digital calipers. They are good to .0005 resolution, and I have never had a problem with either one. The last one cost me $12.95 and came with 2 batteries.
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Steamboat Springs Jenny Lewis' English class of Soroco High School seniors was relatively quiet in the middle school auditorium Thursday morning.
Lewis said they're normally a lively group, but during Thursday's workshop, they had a lot to think about.
The night before, the group of students had gotten on a bus to Steamboat Springs to visit Strings Music Pavilion for a Literature to Life performance of "The Glass Castle" by New York's American Place Theatre.
Aside from it being the first time many of them had seen a professional theatrical performance at Strings, the subject matter — that of the book they had just finished reading — was a heavy one: poverty, alcohol abuse and emotional pain are the main themes woven throughout Jeanette Walls' memoir.
"I felt strongly the book would resonate with the students, and it did," Lewis said about assigning the book. "They would come into class and say, 'This book is making me angry,' and whenever you can spark some kind of emotional reaction, you know you've reached them. It's taking it to a level above just basic instruction."
On Thursday morning, actress Sarah Franek and teaching artist Erin Ronder from the American Place Theatre traveled to Soroco High School for an in-depth workshop with the students based on the book and performance.
They did a few acting warm-ups and activities relating to the themes of the book.
Then, Ronder brought the discussion into a subject that hit home with the seniors: college essays.
The students did a short writing activity where they drew on some hardship or obstacle they overcame, just like Walls' described in "The Glass Castle."
"Memoir is about action," Ronder told the students. "This book is an action. The point of her writing this was to learn something."
The American Place Theatre Literature to Life program is a traveling teaching theater that performs famous works of American literature at schools in communities across the country.
Betse Grassby, Strings Music Festival's nonclassical programming and operations director, first saw a Literature to Life production at a conference in New York. She said she had been looking for the opportunity to partner with the Bud Werner Memorial Library on a communitywide project.
And "The Glass Castle," part of this fall's ONE Book Steamboat community read, seemed to be a fitting story.
"It ends with a hope that people can overcome things," Grassby said. "It's an incredible book.
"It deals with poverty, with parent-child relationships, and obstacles. This is what kids are dealing with these days … we all are."
Soroco senior Lauryn Bruggink said what she took out of the book, performance and workshop is that everyone has their glass castle — for Walls it was her success she found in her writing.
"It's our hopes and dreams for the future," Bruggink said.
For her, those inspirations come from the people in her life. And those reflections are coming in handy as she begins to dive into her college essay writing.
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73% of Mobile Nations iPad 2 owners are planning to upgrade, but to what exactly?
While we wait for tomorrow's big iPad event, I thought it would be fun and informative to explore whether or not the next iPad (iPad 3 or iPad HD depending on which rumor you listen to) would drive massive upgrades for Apple.
Last week we ran a Mobile Nations survey on the state of tablet adoption. Now we have to keep in mind that the folks who come here to read about Apple products and fill out surveys about their use of Apple products are clearly early adopters. So your responses don't tell us what the mass market is doing. But they do tell us what early adopters are doing. And that's still useful. It's also important to remember that the survey wasn't just of iMore readers, but Android Central, CrackBerry.com, WPCentral, and webOS Nation as well. So we're dealing with more than just Apple enthusiasts.
Check out this statistic: In our survey, a whopping 73% of iPad 2 plan to buy a new tablet this year. The stats also suggest that interest in Windows 8 is significant, though. Of the 73% people iPad 2 owners who plan to buy a new tablet, a solid 18% of them plan to switch over to the dark side. No other competing platform has anywhere near that much interest from current iPad 2 owners in our survey.
We're assuming that it's a fact, at this point, that tomorrow's iPad announcement will include a Retina display that's 4x the pixel density as the current iPad. This opens the door for Apple to leave the iPad 2 on the market at a lower price point.
Given the huge margins on iPads and the massive market opportunity that Apple is going after, I think it makes sense to keep the iPad 2 on the market at a reduced price. Lower prices will make it easier to go after the education market, for example.
A lower price also makes it easier to compete with the $199 price points of the Kindle Fire and BlackBerry Playbook. $499 for an iPad feels like a big stretch versus $199, but when you consider the larger size and super HD resolution, it's compelling for those who can afford it. But if Apple could keep the iPad 2 on the market at a price that makes it easier to upsell people away from a $199 competitor, all the better.
So what about all the people who plan to upgrade? If the iPad 2 price gets cut as I'm hoping, then there will naturally be a flood of very low-priced "gently loved" Apple tablets hitting Craigslist and eBay.
The name of the game, for Apple, is to own mobile computing. They never owned the PC market and perhaps they never will. But they can dominant in mobile computing and I think an iPad 3/iPad HD along with a price cut on the iPad 2 is a great opportunity for them.


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David Remnick of the New Yorker offers this list of 100 essential jazz albums. Note that many of them are not albums but mammoth multi-disc retrospectives covering vast spans of time. It would be interesting to see what a list like this would look like if you decided to only include actual albums of original material: i.e., all things like "Dexter Gordon, Our Man in Paris (Blue Note, 1963)" and no "Django Reinhardt, The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order (JSP, 2000; tracks recorded 1934-39)". Is there a case to be made for a jazz album qua album? Probably a better one than can be made for rock records.
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Posted by Word Camel on October 14, 2002
In Reply to: Lobster neuroanatomy posted by R. Berg on October 14, 2002
: : : : : : with regards
to bleeding, my grand mother has always said that some one or something had "bled
like a stuffed pig". To me this does not make much sense as I would think it might
be a stuck pig that would bleed more than a stuffed pig. Any suggestions or sites
for where to find the answer would be much appreciated.
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: : : : : It's a stuck pig--stuck with a slaughtering knife, I believe. "Bleeding like a stuck pig" is a traditional phrase.
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: : : : Unlike cattle
or sheep, pigs, when frightened, release a hormone that taints the flavour of
the meat. To avoid that, they were killed as suddenly as possible by sticking
them through the heart with a sharp knife. They were bled immediately by suspending
them by the back legs and the blood spurting from the wound was collected to make
black puddings (blood sausages?)
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: : : That's interesting. I have
some Egyptian friends who - though they do not stick pigs, were explaining Halal
meat to me. They were saying that when and animal is frightened, its muscles tense
up and the meat isn't as tender. Halal butchery is supposed to be a gentler way
to go since it drains the blood and the animal basically falls asleep. I don't
know if this is true, but I do know that if you cut the spinal cord of the lobster
(it runs down the back and can be cut by snipping just where the head and joins
the rest of the body) before you put it in the pot of boiling water the meat is
also supposed to stay tender. Or so said James Beard.
: : : I'm not really a gruesome person, but it seemed relevant.
: : I'm sure you're a really delightful person!! But, umm . . , lobsters are invertebrates and are therefore disqualified from all Spinal Cord events on the grounds that they have no backbone, multitudinous appendages that give them an unfair advantage over biped competitors, and are unbeatable on a large plate when accompanied by the tipple of your choice!
: What nerve! No, I mean "What nerve?" That which is to be severed (I poked around Google to find out) is probably the ventral nerve cord, a major neural highway in the lobster.
Yes, it's the nerve I meant. I don't know why I wrote spinal cord. Shea is quite right to suggest that there is no spinal cord because there is no spine, just the exoskeleton.


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A Detroit groundskeeper, who turned in a loaded handgun he found hidden in weeds while working, was fired by the Wayne County Department of Public Services, MyFoxDetroit.com reports.
John Chevilott, who is just two years shy of retirement, found the loaded snub-nosed revolver on May 3 when he and his crew were mowing a lawn in Wayne County. Chevilott secured the gun, waiting for police to drive by so he could hand it over to them.
But, according to the station, the Detroit police never did pass by, so Chevilott finished his work that day, drove the gun home and later that same evening turned it into his local police department.
He says the cops ran the gun and discovered the weapon had been stolen from St. Clair Shores in 2005.
"They said I did the right thing getting it off the street," Chevilott told MyFoxDetroit.com.
However, Chevilott's superiors at the Wayne County Department of Public Services had a much different opinion. His foreman, who had knowledge of the situation, was suspended for 30 days, and after 23 years on the job, Chevilott was fired for violating department policies.
According to a Wayne County spokeswoman and the rules, employees aren't allowed to possess a weapon on work property.
Chevilott says he didn't bring a weapon to work. He found it on the job.
"There is no policy. I've never seen a policy what to do if we find a gun out here. So, all I did was secure the situation to make sure nobody else got hurt or killed."
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How Can We Help President Obama Today?
We can point out to him that, according to his Labor Department, new unemployment claims jumped again, and that the blog's basic economic theory — Fk The Deficit. People Got No Jobs. People Got No Money — seems to be in play again, and that, frankly, nobody much cares about his spending cuts or his attempts to get The Deficit under control. The Republicans wouldn't give him any credit if he eliminated the entire federal government — "He's stealing our ideas!!!!! AIEEEEEE!!!!" — and many Democrats are tired of hearing about pie in the sky by and by. The only ones listening to him on this are Tim Geithner and the people with whom Tim Geithner has lunch.
Is the "jump" in unemployment claims really a "surprise"? To whom? It feels to me like the classic Doonesbury cartoon about the "secret" bombing of Cambodia, in which two peasant farmers are being interviewed, and both of them explain that the bombing wasn't secret to them. "I stood right here," one of them says, "and I said, 'Look, here come the bombers.'" Out in the country, there is no surprise anymore that more people are out of work. Chronically high unemployment is part of daily life now. We see it on the local news, hear about it on the radio, talk about it at the corner joint. We develop elaborate coping strategies — one of which, unfortunately, seems to be blaming our unemployed neighbors for their plight. There is a sullen ugliness building in the land, and professorial explanations about "the long-term" aren't cutting it any more. And, no matter how correct the president is about the destructively goofy ideas coming from the other side, it doesn't hide the fact that, for too many people, many of his policies seem to be happening somewhere else to somebody else.
I'd like to hear him give one speech on the current economic crisis in which he doesn't mention The Deficit at all. (Most people don't understand what he's talking about anyway, and see The Deficit only as a proxy for government spending on people they either don't like, to think they don't deserve it.) I'd like to hear the rest of the campaign be about unemployment and unemployment alone. The corrosive effects of The Deficit exist in some realm beyond the experience of most people. The corrosive effect of unemployment is right down the block. Willard Romney has a deficit clock being set up in Tampa. And, Mr. President? You're not going to get any help on this, and the clock is ticking.


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Emmitt Smith
You know... even when he was a Cowboy, he was the only one that I had an ounce of respect... maybe it's a couple of ounces now.
CNN just reported that Emmitt had the following quote:
"Last year was my worst year as a Cowboy. I felt like a diamond surrounded by trash."
CNN just reported that Emmitt had the following quote:
"Last year was my worst year as a Cowboy. I felt like a diamond surrounded by trash."
Sean Taylor was one of a kind, may he rest in peace.
That quote is a classic. Now he is trying to change it up but I'm holding him to what the above says. And Jerry Jones took it all seriously on Sportscenter last night being real careful with his words. I hate the cowgirls but emmitt was more important to the teams success than jones...he can say what he wants. jones is no Jack Kent Cooke and never will be.
Emmitt Smith's comment illustrates the "classic" difference in the "great" Redskin vs Cowboy players, no matter how negative the situation, without exception through the years former and still great players for the Redskins have retired, been traded under dubious circumstances, yet they remained "Class" individuals and did not embarass themselves, the Redskins or the fans with "bitter" comments that reflect a level of selfishness that has always been present on "America's Team". The only person that can tarnish the image of a great player is himself, Redskin greats acknowledge this, Cow "boys" will be "boys", the "Great Ones" have great character which sustains them through the good and bad times.
Emmitt's a punk! How come everyone wants to give him this "he's a great person" status?
He's nothing but a ham! How many people have forgotten that the "keeping your helmet on after scoring" rule was because everytime Kermit scored a 1 year td over his superior o-line, he'd rip off his lid to show the world his ugly mug?!?
Damn shame he now holds a record that many much better backs should hold! Hope someone breaks that record soon, and I never hear another dumbass say that Kermit's the best back in the history of the league.
He sure made the Skins d look comical at times and always seemed to have a big game against the Skins, but I still think he sucks...and that our d sucked when they couldn't stop him.
Man I'm still upset about that!
God bless our troops and Joe Gibbs.
We'll miss you, Joe.
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We'll miss you, Joe.
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I was wondering what precentage of people you get that start the haunted house but are unable to continue and have to take one of the exits to saftey?
So if any of you pros out there keep statistics or at least an estimate of out of every 100 how many fail to make it to the end I would love to hear your results.
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mkb tells me that there is a four-player version, played as two teams of two, but team members are forbidden to speak to one another.
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1. Short for hexadecimal, base 16. 2. A 6-pack of anything (compare quad, sense 2). Neither usage has anything to do with magic or black art, though the pun is appreciated and occasionally used by hackers. True story: As a joke, some hackers once offered some surplus ICs for sale to be worn as protective amulets against hostile magic. The chips were, of course, hex inverters.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.
Dr. Nash has proven in 1949 that there is an unbeatable first-person strategy for any given game of Hex, but it's not known what that is.
Definition 2: In American folk magick, a hex sign is a round plaque characteristic of the Pennsylvania Dutch, with designs based on the 6-leaved rose (in the mathematical sense) which are often combined with other emblems such as the distlefink (thistle finch), clover and oak leaves, tulips hearts, etc., used as a charm against lightning and to promote fertility.
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Interprets EXPR as a hexadecimal string returning a string containing the decimal value. If you start EXPR with an 0x then it will be ignored, however it is not mandatory. So 0xff113a would be the same as 0ff113a.
Hex is played with two colors of stones (like go stones) on a rhombus-shaped board that is tiled with hexagons. The board can be of any size, but is almost always NxN and it is common to find 7x7 thru 14x14 boards. The game progresses much like go: two players take turns laying different-colored markers on any open spot. Each player "owns" two opposite sides of the board, and the object is to connect one's sides with a continuous chain of stones of one's color. The chain can take any path, however winding, to get from one side to the other. The game can be played on MxN boards but this tilts the odds heavily in favor of the player with the shorter distance to traverse.
Hex is a zero-sum game with perfect information, meaning one player's total gain is the other's total loss and both players know all there is to know about the state of the game. Other games of this type include go, chess, and checkers. Hex differs from these games in a very important way-- it is impossible for a game to end in a draw. Put another way, when an NxN board is filled there is always at least 1 path between parallel sides.
Based on this fact, Nash proved that the player who goes first can, with the right strategy, win the game every time. Nash's reductio ad absurdum proof can be summarized thusly: Assume there is a winning strategy for Player 2. Knowing that strategy, Player 1 could first play an arbitrary move, and thereafter play as though they were Player 2, in effect stealing Player 2's winning strategy. Player 1 would then win, contradicting the assumption; since Player 2 cannot have a winning strategy, and there can be no draw, the winning strategy must belong to Player 1. Elegant, no? However, there exists no method describing how to obtain such a strategy.
Sources Better explanation of Nash's proof, and proof of the impossibility of a draw in Hex: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~javhar/hex/index.html Hex FAQ: http://www.gamerz.net/~pbmserv/hex.faq.html Hex IAQ: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~hde/hex/hexfaq/ http://www.mazeworks.com/hex7/about/ http://www.abstractgamesmagazine.com/hex.html
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The original Templeton Board of Trade was formed in 1913 to promote trade and commerce, for the promotion of work, and for advertising to encourage growth in the community.
In May of 1979, a town meeting was held to determine whether or not to revitalize the Board of Trade. It was overwhelmingly accepted and a new organization known as the Templeton Chamber of Commerce - Board of Trade was formed. This was in keeping with the original historical name, but also realizing the need to be a member of a nationally recognized organization such as the Chamber of Commerce.
The organization consists of local businesses, professionals and individual members who are committed to promoting economic vitality, quality of life, and encouraging cooperation within our community.
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Templeton was founded in 1886, when C.H. Phillips of the West Coast Land Company ,sent R.R. Harris to survey 160 acres south of Paso Robles. This acreage was to be laid out in business and residential lots and 5-12 acre parcels for a town named "Crocker" after the famous San Francisco financier. When it was discovered there was already a town by that name, this settlement became "Templeton," named after Crocker's son. This is the only town along the El Camino Real named for a person, rather than a saint.
Templeton was fathered by the railroad, built on the main highway between San Francisco and Los Angeles and, in its heyday, had a reputation for its saloon brawls and wild 'n' rough street scenes. The town was the end of the line for passengers coming from the north. Tourists disembarked here and took a stagecoach south to San Luis Obispo.
In 1891, the railroad continued south and the town was reduced to a flag stop and is now a bypass. In 1897, there was a great fire which burned most of the business district. The town was rebuilt, but not to its former glory.
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