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Navigation: Integration > Enabling Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Scheduling from Microsoft Outlook
Note: This page applies to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 7.0.2 and later. For information about this topic for Release 7.0.1, see Integrating with Microsoft Outlook.
- Install the msft_int license. See About Licenses.
- Configure a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace user profile for each user who will schedule Cisco Unified MeetingPlace meetings from Microsoft Outlook.
- If you plan to use the Single sign-on default authentication method, the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace User ID must match the Microsoft Outlook username.
- Enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on the Application Server.
- For Release 7.0.2 and later, SSL is required only to use the Single sign-on user authentication method for Microsoft Outlook integration.
- In order for end users to receive complete and correct Cisco Unified MeetingPlace notifications in Microsoft Outlook, the e-mail accounts set up in the Microsoft Outlook client must be configured to use the Server Type option called "Microsoft Exchange Server." Cisco Unified MeetingPlace for Microsoft Outlook does not support other server types, such as POP3.
- In order for a Microsoft Outlook delegate to schedule Cisco Unified MeetingPlace meetings on behalf of other users, the delegate must have the "Editor" level of delegate access permissions.
- Note: Microsoft Outlook delegates are completely separate from Cisco Unified MeetingPlace delegates. The Type of user and User ID of delegate fields in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace user profiles do not affect the privileges and capabilities of Microsoft Outlook delegates.


text: Remember those crack security guys who ignored alarms while invaluable national treasures were being thieved from the University of British Columbia's Anthropology Museum? Well, it wasn't their fault. Someone called up and told them to ignore the alarms. Clearly, this was heist impossible to prevent. Four hours before the break-in on May 23, two or three key surveillance cameras at the Museum of Anthropology mysteriously went off-line. Around the same time, a caller claiming to be from the alarm company phoned campus security, telling them there was a problem with the system and to ignore any alarms that might go off. Campus security fell for the ruse and ignored an automated computer alert sent to them, police sources told CBC News. Meanwhile surveillance cameras that were still operating captured poor pictures of what was going on inside the museum because of a policy to turn the lights off at night. Wow. That's really all I've got. Wow.

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Aug. 29, 2008) - The ETSU men's soccer team dropped its inaugural season opener to Appalachian State Friday at a sold out Summers-Taylor Stadium, 3-1.
"It was very encouraging to see how well we can compete against a Division I program that has been around for a long time," said head coach Scott Calabrese. "These guys are young and being in their first game you could tell they were nervous. You have to credit Appalachian State for taking advantage of that, but I think after the first 20 minutes of the game we took over and really controlled the game."
The Mountaineers took an early 1-0 advantage in the 3rd minute as Sean Dreybus scored off of a Arie Muniz shot. ASU didn't waste any time scoring again in the 15th minute as Arie Muniz knocked the rebound from a Sean Dreybus shot into the back of the net to give the Mountaineers a 2-0 lead.
Junior Kyle Franklin (Maryville, Tenn.) got the Bucs on the board in the 23rd minute with a powerful shot that deflected off of a Mountaineer defender into the goal to make the score 2-1.
The Bucs had a couple scoring opportunities late in the half, but couldn't convert as ASU took a 2-1 lead into the break.
In the second half, Dreybus added another goal for the Mountaineers scoring in the 63rd minute as he headed the ball past the outstretched ETSU keeper to extend the ASU lead to 3-1.
Sophomore Andrew Brown (Montego Bay, Jamaica) had a breakaway late in the second half, but ASU keeper Collin Taylor made an incredible save to preserve the two goal lead for the Mountaineers.
"The guys showed a lot of heart and fight," Calabrese said. "Even when we were down 3-1, we were still in the game. Our guys will be able to take a lot of confidence from this game. If we learn from our mistakes and come out playing like we did today for most of the game we will do well."
The Bucs outshot the Mountaineers 21-12 with 11 of the 21 shots coming on goal. Franklin led ETSU offensively with six shots, including five on goal. James Holt (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) led the Bucs defensively tallying five saves.
The sellout crowd of 1,311 is a Summers-Taylor Stadium record, as the 850 seat grandstand was filled to capacity, with the overflow crowd seated on the east side hill.
"Our guys really feed off of the crowd, especially late in the game," Calabrese said. "I really want to thank our fans for showing their support of ETSU soccer. I think the atmosphere that we had today will be an advantage for us throughout the season."
ETSU (0-1) is back in action Sunday at 2 p.m., heading to Spartanburg, S.C. to take on Wofford in a non-conference match. Please visit www.ETSUBucs.com for more information on men's soccer or any of the other Buccaneer athletic teams.


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DIXON – Frederick S. "Fritz" Sneek, 89, of Dixon, died Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at his home.
He was born Nov. 1, 1923, in Freeport, the son of George and Rena (Terhark) Sneek. He married Shirley Fritzenmeier on Sept. 18, 1948, in Freeport. She preceded him in death on Oct. 15, 2007. He served in the Army, 553rd B Battery AAA as a T4 auto mechanic. Fred will be remembered as a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and friend.
His survivors include his daughters, Sharri (Dennis) Antoine of West Brooklyn and Becki (John) Martin of Dixon; grandchildren, Joe (Melanie) Bergstrom, Michele Bergstrom, Kristen (Rick) Gaither, and Tyler Burdick; great-grandchildren, Tyler, Chase, Ashley, "Lil" Chase, Bradly, Jerreck, Nykollette, and Gage; great-great-grandchild, Cameron; sisters, Kathryn (Larry) Yingling and Jenny Thompson; and a brother, Melvin (Mary) Sneek.
He was preceded in death by his wife; daughter, Shirlene Kay Sneek, and son, Frederick Douglas Sneek, both in infancy; and brothers Simon and Alfred Sneek.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Chapel Hill Funeral Home in Dixon. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Vincent Marrandino, director of pastoral care at KSB Hospital in Dixon, officiating.
Interment, with military honors accorded by the combined Dixon veterans group, will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Dixon.
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|2012-08-19, 06:11
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I still don't understand. Won't the story's "Real Plot" be just like this? You know, since SAO's premise is "Thousands of people trapped in a game and how they cope with it."?
As for Lisbeth falling for Kirito. Yes, she became attracted to him, but this stuff happens often enough. That doesn't necessarily mean that something deeper is going on. A crush does not automatically mean love is happening. The latter takes time.
|2012-08-19, 06:44
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I personally don't agree with that view, as I too like the presentation style and think the vignette nature of the show thus far is pretty poignant... but that seems to be the major point of contention.
(That aside, based on the way the episode ending, I think we are heading in that plot now anyway.)
|2012-08-19, 06:49
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|2012-08-19, 07:39
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Just because she said she had to be there, doesn't mean she 'had' to be there. Folks have already addressed this from the LN perspective, but lots of MMO player's get some rather silly notions about increasing drop rates.
And it's possible Liz really did fall for Kirito because of the whole suspension bridge effect. What's more important is that she realizes Asuna has already fallen for Kirito and steps aside, and that Kirito realizes Liz has feelings for him and reacts properly.
|2012-08-19, 08:04
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Uggggh @ that CG Dragon, in fact the whole fight was pretty lackluster since consisted of 90% stills. Bleh
Aside from that, not bad episode. I liked Lizbeth/bet quite a bit, moreso at beginning then before she randomly decided to fall for Kirito since having a platonic relationship with at least one female character is bad thing for whatever reason. If the show wasn't so intent sledge hamming KiritoxAsuna, I would pretty much root for her and Kirito despite fairly forced way she fell for him. Now I wonder why Kirito wanted a sword with same strength as his old one rather than one stronger...
The show still suffers from the general issues that plague the series from episode 2 onwards (awkward writing, disjointed timeskips etc) so there no real point in repeating that. Kirito testing her sword without asking her or not offering compensation felt rather out of character. I also don't see why he needed climb the belltower to find her when he has a tracking skill, not to mention she's likely on his friends list. It's pretty bad sign when a show forgets it's own mechanics not introduced too long ago.
Overall pretty pleasant this week. 7/10
|2012-08-19, 08:15
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Moreover, he has a tracking skill, but scanning might have been better (assume these two are different skills). There are a lot of obstacles (buildings, tree, etc.) in town, so I guess using scanning from ground won't be as effective as doing it from above-down. Kirito said he went up to the bell tower to scan the whole town for her, after all. I don't know why "she's likely on his friends list" either, seeing how long it takes for Asuna to be there...
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|2012-08-19, 08:27
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As for the tracking, obstacles didn't seem to hinder him when he used to find Saichi who was hiding under a bridge at night.
Your right about the friends list, but he could have at least asked Asuna.
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|2012-08-19, 09:24
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I really liked this episode, but a large part of that was getting to see some actual action scenes for a change. While I respect how Iron Maw found it to be a bit lackluster, I myself found the whole fight with the dragon pretty exciting and compelling (granted, though, that a lot of that was due to the breathtaking "sky of sunlight" scene they had while Kirito and Liz were in mid-air together).
And Liz was a nice character. She struck me as being cute like Silica, but having a bit more edge and spunk to her. I have to admit that if I was Kirito I'd be very tempted to pick Liz over Asuna as great as Asuna is.
As for Kirito being a Marty Stu... Yes, in a way, he is. But I think that's the whole point with his character. I think he's designed to be the very exemplar of what the modern otaku wants to be (incidentally, I'm now starting to get a clearer idea of why SAO is as popular as it is).
He's a loner that tightly guards his independence, but he has admirable (and at times amazing) empathy for others.
He's caring, but he says more with his actions than with his words. His words are chosen carefully, and hence they usually have some weight to them.
He doesn't lose sight of "the mission" (i.e. clear the game), but he also takes time to appreciate the finer things in life (in SAO).
He's strong, swift, and effective, but he's not a showboat. He's confident, but not cocky.
He attracts the ladies and legitimately wins them over due to his positive personality traits, but he's not afraid or too shy to clearly and fairly speak his mind to them (this particular trait of Kirito's I think is honestly under-appreciated).
He has just the right amount of angst. Not so little that he lacks character or seems impossible to accept in a setting like this, but not so much that he makes you think of guys like Guilty Crown's Shu or Mirai Nikki's Yuki.
And yes, he's very good at what he does and he has plenty of talent and skill.
In short, he's Chuck Norris. Or Optimus Prime. Or Superman. Or Batman. He's that sort of character, and that's the whole idea with him I think. He's meant to be awesome and cool and the ultimate "good guy".
I honestly kind of like it - Instead of being another pure stand-in character for otakus (we see these all the time in harem shows), he's rather the person that the otaku would want to be.
Is he a wish-fulfillment character? Sure, totally. Just like Chuck Norris, Optimus Prime, Superman, and Batman are. Those sorts of characters can say a lot about a culture or a subculture, and that's much of what's interesting about them. These sorts of characters tend to represent the very best/most desirable in what we see in ourselves, and so they can speak to our hopes and dreams and imaginations in ways that most other characters can't.
That being said, to make Kirito work, Asuna is going to need to be very strong. The danger with a character like Kirito is that they can make other characters seem useless by comparison, and I'll admit that there's a slight touch of that in these "Girls of the week" episodes. I'm hoping that the episode will come where Kirito truly needs Asuna to bail him out, where "The Big Damn Hero" needs to be saved himself for a change. You need that at least once or twice to humanize "The Big Damn Hero", imo.
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|2012-08-19, 10:39
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My point to them is "You're right about how Kirito is just an all-around great guy, who's "flaws" are of the sympathetic sort that just enrich his character, and that he doesn't have some tragic flaw that truly undermines him a lot or makes him less likeable. And that's the point. He's a hero, a real hero. And I can see how he's probably designed to be the guy that the modern otaku would want to be."
I honestly haven't seen many anime characters like Kirito (which is partly why I now find him very interesting), but western entertainment has many of them. There's the four I mentioned, as well as Kirk like you mentioned.
Yeah, he's more Kirk than Mary Sue, definitely.
But I want to differentiate Kirito from harem leads that attract lots of girls for no apparent reason, because I think he's very different from them (and frankly, I think he deserves better than to be equated with them). Kirito is not a loser that girls inexplicably fall for. Quite the contrary - He's a winner, and a hero with a good personality, and that's why girls legitimately fall for him. Let's be honest here - He seriously helped out Silica, he had been seriously helping out Sachi, and he really impressed Liz. And it's not hard to see why.
That's not to say I want this "Kirito saves the girl of the week" thing to be your typical SAO episode, but it's fine for these side-arc episodes I think. And I think we might as well embrace the fact that Kirito is a Kirk - a cool hero. That character type is definitely not without its charms and appeals, at least in my opinion. I'd take him over your standard harem anime lead any day.
|2012-08-19, 10:40
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A reminder: Spoilers in a large sense isn't only defined as disclosed information of future whatsoever. Hints and references are also part of it.
Again, please do not make any hints and what's the purpose of a specific item/weapon/character that the anime has brushed out. Unlike a conventional linear story, most if not ALL SAO side stories were written after the first arc of the franchise, therefore involve details and knowledge from the end of the first arc, which certainly explains why the studio has altered few details to leave things less "obvious". So please consider these points and use the appropriate thread for that.
Failure to do so will be considered just like a regular spoiler, leading to the 1 day ban.
|2012-08-19, 10:48
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well, I don't really like noisy girl like Lizbeth but during this episode, finally I can see her appeal...
at least, Kirito isn't a dumb guy who doesn't realize girls feelings around him...
when Asuna appeared, I already hear something cracked... hahaha... what a painful episode
I'm glad Lizbeth is mature enough to face reality.... just like what Silica did
oh! I almost think Kirito give that earring to Asuna (and almost rage because it's not get animated) but thanks for the explanation.... so Asuna wear her own earring to impress Kirito and her fans in SAO and animesuki thread... hehehe *blushing*
now, are we done with side stories??? I'm ready to follow main story now!
|2012-08-19, 10:48
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What you're describing sounds an awful lot like The Wesley.
|2012-08-19, 11:05
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Quite honestly, I like how the side stories add to the dimension of the series. Like what someone has said, one thing the side stories do is to show how the rest of the players are actually coping in this game over time. Of course it develops Kirito to some extent, but in that respect, it's more in the capacity of 'connecting the dots' more than a natural planned development since the stories were written after the main arc. And this side story is a little different since it touches a little more on a character who chose not to participate frequently in adventures but live her time as a service provider in the game while waiting for it to be cleared, and searching for a meaning to continue living in this 'fake' world (playing the game in a more passive way rather than active). This is quite different from previous stories where the side characters that were central to each story were mostly actively 'adventuring'. And in the end, the emphasis on the 'responsibility' of the clearing team and the importance of what they are doing, and that there are people like Liz, waiting, believing and hoping that they will end this nightmare, is a nice touch. And it's truly one of my favorites. (Side note: Liz's face was priceless when her prided sword broke. ) Oh yes, there were several stuff/infomation that were cut out in the show so that the audience won't be spoiled (so people shouldn't even start bordering on hinting, I guess , though I myself have forgotten most of the stuff except for one or two thing, unlike so many hardcore readers ). Up till now, quite honestly, I'm still of the opinion it's better to do it like the novels and have these episodes as OVAs or interlude episodes (it doesn't feel right to have these 'fleshing out' in a linear, chronological order, and cut things for that).
|2012-08-19, 11:47
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The funeral parlor directors were not amused, at this "unauthorized" competition -- and warned the monks that violating the laws against such unauthorized funeral merchandise could land you in jail for up to 180 days. Yes, the funeral directors were threatening a bunch of monks who were hand-crafting coffins out of pine trees knocked down by Hurricane Katrina with jailtime. After the threat, the monks continued to make caskets, but tried to keep the activity quiet -- and the funeral regulatory board literally sent out investigators to go spy on them to see if they were still selling caskets. After collecting evidence, they hit the monks with a subpoena, and are attempting to fine the monks for selling such caskets. In response, the monks are filing a federal lawsuit, claiming that they were being shut out of the market by a "casket cartel."
It's difficult not to see this as a clear case of regulatory capture. The Louisiana funeral regulatory board has nine members, eight of whom are in the funeral industry. There are even some funeral directors who are willing to admit that the whole thing looks bad, with one telling the Wall Street Journal that "They're making us all look greedy." As for the defense of the law? Well, the funeral directors who support such a restriction on free trade are really reaching:
Boyd Mothe Jr., a member of the fifth generation of his family to run Mothe Funeral Homes outside New Orleans, says Louisiana's law should remain on the books because licensed directors have the training to sell caskets--transactions he calls "complicated." For instance, he says, "a quarter of America is oversized. I don't even know if the monks know how to make an oversized casket."Very convincing, huh?


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National security expert KT McFarland on what could happen if the U.S. does not act on the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons in Syria. (Photo: AP)
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... the the ... what happens to us dulce on my to act immediately on cents use of chemical weapons joining us now to help answer the question is KT McFarland who held national security policy in the Nixon Ford and Reagan administrations she joins me now ... on the phone from Long Island ... thank you Brian much for being the case it ... so what what happens if the ... U ... S the U S to act now ... while we don't wanna after Iraq ... but Euromonitor Libya ... and ... having to get by with a careful what happened in Libya for it ... we knew the capacity have large stockpiles of weapons ... particularly in an effort to shore for weapons ... that can take that helicopters civilian aircraft ... we never secure if that ... weren't Ghadafi was toppled in their remember there with them on a standard search ... and Hunt were of Ghadafi what we never ... during that period every security ... personnel ... were scattered around twenty or so to retail ... and cafe ... the ... by failing to secure ... weapons ... the weapons are now being issued today and ... in North Africa all the way the counter ... yes we have the same kind of failure with curious ... you can expect to see that ... the chemical weapons we know we have ... we don't know whether each of them are not the preventable but it's going to get some ... so we wanna make sure we picture of them ... before they fall into the hands of rebels their character of Christ or whatever and you wait ... and tell after his fall and that is really to make ... the case you have to ... you don't have a few weeks to get them you probably have a better balance ... in fact I would question whether ... I have secured ... control of the chemical weapons even at this point ... they say the Obama ministrations says that the use of chemical weapons as a as a red line that would would do this it's crossed would change from the U S involvement in Syria from from ... someone hands off ... do you think we've gone to my point now where should should should be a bonus section say yes ... we call enough evidence now might be some fear a few doubts we should go and will know what you think it's on you know ... you think it might be to ... read why here Red Lion Air but wouldn't that be ... when you say go in now would that mean ... that that seem to have a crowd at me ... after the commander reprinted for the chemical weapons to death in eighteen ever Apple computer Apple ... does that mean I mean the chemical weapons such as a whole range of thing that the United States can do alone ... or with Bali's ... Lateline for the region ... why chemical weapon to be used in the middle ... so we get I think it is connected to type letters to let life take anything for different other warned that lead ... turning now to better their ground or ... what would it take evidence from the picture ... I'm I'm one of the people said ... but there are a thousand rebel militia group ... we can't ... get the condo flipping on her ... and if we start earning the fire that when ... it could well end up like like Libya where the people we are to take the weapon ... and turn them on our own people in the West African fantastic ... I do think however we have a responsibility to work out their free days ... to get hold of the chemical weapons which they do it now ... thank you Brian much to write inside the Qasim and fall and we


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The two unarmed Iraqi brothers posed no threat as they herded cattle in a grove where a U.S. Army reconnaissance team was hidden one day seven years ago. But then-Staff Sgt. Michael Barbera took a knee, leveled his rifle and killed them anyway, a prosecutor said Wednesday as a preliminary hearing opened in the soldier's case.
The first boy was shot in the back, the prosecutor, Capt. Ben Hillner, told an investigating officer considering whether Barbera should face a court martial in the March 2007 slayings. The second boy was shot in the chest as he raised his hands in the air, he said.
Barbera, 31 and now a sergeant first-class, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder in a case that raised concerns about a possible cover-up. Two years after the killings, Army criminal investigators looked into the case, but commanders decided to give Barbera a letter of reprimand instead of a court martial.
It was only after a Pittsburgh newspaper, The Tribune-Review, published an investigation about the matter in 2012 that the Army took another look. The story described how some of Barbera's fellow soldiers remained troubled that he was never prosecuted, and it prompted calls from Congress for the Army to review the matter.
As the preliminary hearing began Wednesday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle, Barbera's attorney, David Coombs, called the allegations baseless and highlighted the lingering questions about why it has taken so long to bring the case to court.
He alleged that the newspaper's "hit piece," which won an investigative reporting award, and congressional pressure had improperly influenced the Army's decision to file charges against Barbera last fall.
Barbera's fellow soldiers didn't begin to come forward to report concerns about the shooting until 2009, and a criminal investigation was conducted then. The matter was "somehow put to bed by administrative action," Hillner said in his opening statement.
Hillner did not elaborate on that decision by commanders at Fort Bragg, N.C., where Barbera was then based.
Coombs, who represented Chelsea Manning, the Army private convicted of leaking a massive trove of information to Wikileaks, argued in his opening statement that even though the soldiers' rules of engagement required them to report violations, it was two years before any raised concerns.
Further, he said, the reporter who wrote the stories, a former Marine named Carl Prine, was only too ready to believe what Barbera's former comrades told him.
Prine and his wife are on the witness list. Quickly after Prine contacted Barbera via Facebook in 2011, Barbera called and told Prine's wife something to the effect of: "For your own personal safety, you need to tell your husband to back off the story," Hillner said Wednesday.
That's the basis of another charge against Barbera, conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline. He's also accused of trying to get a fellow soldier in 2009 to tell investigators that the dead boys might have been wearing suicide vests.
The shootings came in the village of As Sadah, in Diyala Province. Barbera was the leader of an eight-man reconnaissance team that had planned to remain secreted in the grove for two to three days monitoring possible enemy activity.
After the brothers were killed, Barbera's group also killed their cousin, who approached the scene along a footpath. No charges were filed in that killing. The first witness to testify Wednesday, former Army medic Andrew Harriman, fired the shot that killed the cousin and said it appeared the man had been reaching for a weapon.
Harriman testified that he didn't see where Barbera was shooting when he fired five or six shots that day, and that he only learned after the fact from another soldier, Private 1st Class Dary Fink, that Barbera had killed two unarmed boys.
Harriman testified that because he didn't see whom Barbera was shooting at, or even the bodies, he didn't report the issue. But he said he believed he urged Fink to do so.
Nevertheless, Harriman also testified that he believed his immediate commanders would have swept the matter under the rug even if he had reported it right away.
"I believe they would have, yes, covered it up. They had all kinds of shady dealings," he said.
The victims were identified as Ahmad Khalid al-Timmimi, 15; his brother Abbas, 14; and their cousin Muhamed Khaleel Kareem al-Galyani.
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[Manga] Naruto Chapter 634 Discussion Thread
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As per the forums rules, please don't ask for or mention about where to download the (licensed) manga. Also remember not to post or link to any translations of the manga, since this is illegal as well. Posting a synopses or summary is fine (and welcome) but please do not discuss scans, raws, translation groups, etc. Additionally, if you are posting another's synopsis (or their translation of a synopsis), then please provide credit were credit is due.
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Well the raging this chapter will be enjoyable
Bulbasaur was hit by fireblast, it's super effective.
Apparently the 2nd was seen Sasuke's new flame element before? And alright Minato.... nice naming system you have there
Anyone else expecting an Edo Tensei of Jiraiya?
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Finally, finally Kishi showed Sakura doing something that's relevant to what she's been learning for so long. Nice going
Now, since Kishi seems to have turned his troll mode off for the past 2 chapters, here's hoping Oro screws everyone with surprise butt-sex
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Well, at least, Aoda is decent and polite snake, unlike Manda the bitch .
Seeing that Oro has arrived at where Tsunade is , the question now is whether he will help Tsunade recover or just end her misery right there (and maybe stab the Alliance from the back after that). I think next chapter will be full of plot. Me like .
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Good to see Naruto remembering that Wind helps Fire, its as if Sasuke and Naruto are telepathic from there old Team 7 days.... they often say you don't know someone until you fight them, well they have fought for years, its no surprise that they can pull off a combo attack like that even though Tobirama said its next to impossible.
also good to see that ODAMA sized forms are back for Naruto!. just think of the damage that Mini Rasenshuriken and Rasenshuriken does, and to have one 10 times the size of a normal version, man thats deadly to anything on the planet......... I know you can't escape from the black flames of Sasuke's Amaterasu, but how on Earth can you run from the Vacuum of a Odama Rasenshuriken???.
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well... good chapter.. but too short
I'm expecting more battles using Gamakichi and Aoda... but it seems the end for Juubi because Madara is too enthusiastic to fight with Hashirama
I really hope Kakashi will have chance to see his students right now... about how they unite and defeat Juubi together and become the center of battlefield
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Sasuke's snake summon seems nice and friendly(and that's first time a snake has been showed that way) and gamakichi is just great and huge,
i guess jugo is observing the people's reaction towards sasuke, but can't say about sasuke's motives,
Finally orochimaru appears, so now orochimaru fix all the kages and then who knows what
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I felt some of the bad Sasuke "Burn it down" he says,what is his tone?
That was a great attack on the Juubi,but i don't think it was as effective as it looked.We'll have to wait and see if it jumps up and says surprise.
Orochimaru,could do something good could do something bad.I'm going with badish.
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What really surprised me this chapter was Orochimaru, I have to say we can actually trust him this time, but I never imagined that he would be the one to not only help Tsunade, but the other kage as well.
Kishi really knows how to surprise us.
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My Hard-Core Obsession
Threesomes, fishnets, dirty talk—those are the vanilla sorts of fantasies we admit to. Then there's the truly filthy porn we actually watch when we're alone. Shalom Auslander discovers that everyone has his guiltiest pleasure
I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household in New York, where the Old Testament was believed to be the literal word of the Almighty God and where we obeyed, as closely as we could, all 613 commandments elucidated within its holy pages. To us, God was not simply a concept, but a very real, everyday presence in our lives and our community. Which is to say, I know pornography. Hard-core, graphic pornography. My father had it buried beneath his mattress. My brother had it hidden under his dresser. Pornography, like God Himself, was everywhere. Sex was dirty. Pornography was worse.
The really bad news was this: God, my rabbis told me, could only grant me forgiveness for the sins I had committed against Him; sins I had committed against my fellow humans could only be forgiven by them personally. If they didn't forgive me, my rabbis said, when I died and went to heaven, God would cause me to suffer in the exact way I had caused them to suffer.
At the time, though only 14 years of age, I had already tired of the porn magazines I found in my house and decided it was time for full-motion video. I went to Times Square, where a group of women stood outside a porn shop, protesting and carrying placards. On one placard was a picture of a naked woman tied to a bed. She had a ball gag in her mouth and clamps on her nipples. I ducked into the store, spent every dollar I'd stolen from my father's wallet, hurried home, and hoped the videos wouldn't work.
They worked.
I wondered what was wrong with me. I wondered how many gang bangs I would have to suffer in heaven. Was it like an eye for an eye—a gang bang for a gang bang—or was it some sort of eternal gang bang that never ended? Would I be anally violated? Would I be spanked? Did they have ropes and ball gags and Ron Jeremy in heaven?
I decided to watch them again. If I did, and they didn't work for me, surely I would be forgiven.
I watched them again.
It has been a guilt-filled few decades.
A while back, I read that a pornographer named Max Hardcore, having been convicted of obscenity charges two years earlier, was serving time in a federal prison in Texas. A few Googles later, I learned that over the course of his career, Max had made hundreds of films, ranging from the mildly rough in his early years to the truly disturbing before his conviction. A few more Googles later and I was watching one of his scenes.
Ext.—Somewhere in California—Day. Open on wooden deck. A bright yellow couch. Max and his co-star appear. Max wears his trademark cowboy hat, white tube socks, and nothing else. The woman wears a ponytail and pink high heels. She lies supine on the couch, legs spread, her head tilted back over the armrest, mouth open. This video seemed to be about a 5 on the Max Hardcore 1-to-10 Scale of Fucked-Upitude. Still, it was shocking. It was outrageous.
I didn't want it to work.
It worked.
It wasn't any one thing they did, not one specific act or position, and I suppose with fantasy it never is; it's a triggering thought, a concept that runs through the mind at just that apical moment, and for me that triggering thought was this: I can't believe she's letting him do that.
I hoped the woman was okay. I hoped she was acting. I hoped she hadn't been forced. I wondered if the founders of Google knew they were contributing to an exploitative, misogynistic industry that lets strange men watch this woman do these strange things. I wondered if I could find her and apologize.
And I wondered, most of all, what the hell was wrong with me.
I told my friend Jerry* about Max Hardcore. When Jerry isn't practicing mid martial arts, he works for the N.Y.C. fire department. I wanted my confession to be met with macho derision, which would shame me out of my shame.
Jerry, it turned out, has a Max Hardcore as well: sleeping-girl porn. In sleeping-girl porn, the woman pretends to be asleep while the man creeps into her room, undresses her, and does his thing.
"Is it like a rape thing?" Jerry wondered aloud about himself. "Do I want to rape someone? Or do I just think she'd never let me fuck her if she was awake, like I'm not good enough for her, like a low-self-esteem thing?"
I didn't know. A subgenre of sleeping-girl porn is drunk-girl porn, in which a girl drinks a tremendous amount of alcohol until she passes out. Then a man undresses her and does his thing. I asked Jerry if the drunk-girl thing worked for him, too.
"No, no, no," said Jerry with a disgusted shake of his head. "That shit," he insisted, "is fucked up."
I told Jerry that I want to locate the woman in the Max Hardcore scene, to ask forgiveness.
"Yeah," he said. "I'm sure that will cheer her right up."
The thing is, I don't like myself very much. I'm my least favorite person in the world, by a long shot, and if you knew all the dark, sick, demented things that go through my mind, you'd agree. I've wasted fifteen years in therapy with a shrink who spends an hour a week trying to persuade me to like myself even the tiniest bit more or to just loathe myself the tiniest bit less. We've made very limited progress.
And so while Jerry felt shame, I was sure his wasn't nearly as warranted as mine. Sleeping girls? Sleeping-girl porn was almost peaceful; she's having a nap. She's catching a few z's. Heck—she's Sleeping Beauty! Max is the Big Bad Wolf, though, and his Little Red Riding Hoods suffer through an ordeal. Which is why, later that evening, I decided to visit Paul Little, a.k.a. Max Hardcore, at the Federal Correctional Institution-La Tuna, just outside El Paso.
I needed to know we were different. I needed to know I wasn't him. I needed to know that whatever the hell was wrong with me was not as bad as whatever the hell was wrong with him.
A couple of thousand miles, I decided, wasn't too far to go to find someone I hated more than myself.
The TSA officer at JFK airport waves me forward through the metal detector. I am holding my breath, trying not to make any sudden moves, afraid she will stop me, inspect my bag, and find the image I had printed out from a scene of Max's. The image is of Layla Rivera, a recent Max Girl. A Max Girl is Max's Squeaky Fromme, his favorite, his something-like-a-girlfriend, the girl who gets to live in his California mansion and star in his films. In this shot, Layla's makeup is smeared across her face, her legs are spread, and Max's hand is inside her pussy.
What the hell is this? I imagine the officer asking me.
Doesn't look like nothing, she says. Do you hate women?
Hate women? I don't hate women.
What do you call this then?
That's...that's fisting. Some people call it handballing....
She grabs me by my shirt collar and slams me against the wall.
Why don't I handball your fucking face? she asks.
I pick up my bag and head to my gate.
* Jerry's name and some of his identifying details have been changed.
When I arrive at the prison early the next morning, Max meets me in the prison's busy visitation room. He is of medium height, with silver hair and an easy smile; with his cowboy hat off and his pants on, he looks like a dentist, like a salesman, like he'd be more interested in putting me in a Toyota than a porn film. He shakes my hand firmly (too firmly; did he hurt those girls, I wonder, did he squeeze them that hard?) and says, "Thanks for coming." I can't help cringing and wishing that the first sentence Max Hardcore said to me hadn't contained the word "coming." And that he hadn't said it quite so loudly.
We find an empty bench and sit down. Max tells me to call him Paul. Paul tells me he's glad I enjoyed his movie. I tell Paul that I feel like I jerked off to a crime.
"They know what they're getting into," says Paul.
"Do you ever feel guilty?" I ask.
I expect him to say no. I want him to say no. I want the guilt to myself. My guilt, at least, makes me better than him.
Paul shrugs and sighs.
"Sure," he says.
He nods.
"But they know what they're getting into," he quickly adds. "It's like boxing. You don't feel bad for the guy who loses; you don't wonder why they're in the ring."
"I don't watch boxing."
"Why not?"
"I feel bad for the loser," I say. "I wonder why they're in the ring."
"I have this board," Paul explains, "in my office. There are twenty Polaroids on it, each one showing what we're going to do in the scene. I tell the girl, 'See this? This is what we're going to do. First we're going to deep throat, then we'll do some puking. Are you okay with puking? Good. Then we're going to do some anal, then I'm going to fist you. Oh, you've never been fisted? Don't worry, we'll show you how. Then
I'm going to piss on you, then we'll do the pop shot.' "
I ask him if he ever shows them the twenty-first Polaroid, the one where they crawl into the corner, suck their thumbs, and think about how to kill themselves.
"It's not like that," he says. "I'm not Khan Tusion."
Khan Tusion is the notorious porno director of a series of films called Meatholes and Rough Sex. They are extraordinarily violent. There is choking. There is hitting. There is crying. In the videos, Khan masks his voice and obscures his face.
"Khan wants the girls to feel like shit," says Paul. "With Khan it's real. Khan hates women."
Paul is soft-spoken and often laughs at himself. I know it's all bullshit—he's in prison, he's on his best behavior. I try to picture him violating someone I love.
"I'm playing a character," says Paul. "I'm playing this average guy who can get these babes to do all this stuff. That's Max. But the minute the scene is over, I'm Paul. Ask anyone. Talk to Layla. Go see Layla. Ask Layla if you should feel bad."
It was time to go. Paul walked me to the door.
"I don't want people watching my films to feel lousy," said Paul. "I guess I just want them to be more like guilty pleasures, like eating chocolate. Is that the way you felt?"
"Kind of," I said. "Like eating chocolate made from babies."
It had been over two hours. I didn't hate him nearly enough. And it made me hate myself even more.
Ashley Blue saw the tunnel.
"I died," she says.
It was in a scene with Khan Tusion. He was choking her, and she says she saw the tunnel, the one people claim to see when they're dying. She woke up a few seconds later.
"He's more of a monster," she says. "Definitely."
Ashley was known as the female Max Hardcore; she and Max wanted to make a movie together, but no actresses would agree to be in it for fear of what might happen to them. Polaroid number twenty-one, presumably.
We are sitting in the den of Ashley's tiny ranch house, which sits only a few feet off the edge of an impossibly busy Los Angeles thoroughfare. The den doubles as her studio—she gives ever more time to painting since reining in her porn career. It is small and cramped, the walls covered with her paintings. The drawing table is buried beneath her charcoal-and-pencil sketches; a magazine featuring R. Crumb's drawings sits nearby. Her dog's collar jangles incessantly until she locks him in the bedroom, which, from what I can gather, is the only other room in the house.
Ashley Blue, whose real name is Oriana Small, is as physically un-porn-star-like as one can imagine: small, un-made-up, un-cosmetically-altered, and, for a man like myself on forty milligrams of Prozac a day, depressingly happy. It seems to me she should be more miserable, more guilt-ridden, and so it takes me a while to tell her why I am there: to admit that I watched a Max Hardcore scene, and that it did it for me.
Ashley laughs and tells me that she doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. She tells me that she doesn't think it makes me sick. But I'm sure she thinks I'm a pervert. I'm sure she's thinking, Why did I let this sicko into my house? I'm sure she's wondering where she left her Mace.
"Max, to me," she says, "is kind of a gag. It's all dressed up, he's got the things he likes to do. It doesn't seem as bad as Khan Tusion, where he wants the girl to really feel like a turd, and then he wants to pee on that turd. He really has problems."
Ashley says I have nothing to be ashamed of. I appreciate her saying so, but I've watched a few of her porn films, too—it has been a guilt-filled few decades—and so I'm silently wondering if I should ask her for forgiveness now or just wait for the afterlife and suffer through Anal Excursions 8 Starring Shalom Auslander then. Ashley says that she would worry more about guys who get off to "vanilla" porn—that she suspects they're dishonest or, worse, dull.
I tell her it doesn't matter. I tell her I still feel bad. I tell her about Jerry, who likes sleeping-girl porn.
"What about you?" I suddenly ask her. Has she—the star of White Trash Whore 30, Attention Whores 1-9, Gag Factor 10, Piss Mops 2, Girlvert 2-19, and many, many (many) more—has she ever gotten off to something that made her think, Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with me? Something that worked for her that she didn't know would, that made her wonder how the wires in her head got so bizarrely, disgustingly crossed?
She sighs. She shakes her head. And then, incredibly, Ashley Blue blushes.
"Incest," she says. She covers her face with her hands for a moment and lets her hair fall down in front. Mr. Natural watches from the cover of the magazine, amused by our self-contempt.
"Incest?" I ask.
Not real life, she adds, just the fantasy.
"Like when I see—oh God, this is so...When I see twin sisters or twin brothers," she says, "brother-sister...even a dad and son... that's where I feel like, I am so gross. That's such a crime. Anal, throwing up—I feel like I can justify everything in that, but I have no justification for the incest fantasies that I have."
She shakes her head, and the blush returns.
"I don't know why," she says.
She buries her face in her hands and laughs again, and the dam of our shame seems to break; we're laughing at ourselves, at our humiliation, at our own foolish, tortured humanity. She tells me about sisters and brothers, stepfathers and stepdaughters; about mothers "sharing the cock" with their daughters, about sisters doing the same with each other. On a roll of acceptance now, she tells me about her husband, a caring, sensitive photographer, a man who would never hurt a fly, who feels shame about the fantasies he has of men tying women up, having their way with them. I tell her that my shrink says the people who should feel guilt usually don't, and the people who shouldn't usually do. She goes back to talking about watching twin sisters sharing a man. "I kinda almost feel, oh, I wish I had a twin sister. I feel envious, and I feel it's really, really dirty," she says.
"I'm so glad I came here," I say.
She laughs. She shakes her head again.
"It's so," she says with a sigh, "disgusting."
Big Paul is Max's office manager and occasional bodyguard. He is a heavy-set Mexican-American man with a personable air, unless you're trying to touch Max's cowboy hat.
"I made sure nobody touched the hat," says Big Paul.
Big Paul has offered to show me around Max's home, high in the hills of Altadena, just outside Los Angeles, where he continues to run the business while Max is in prison. When I arrive, black trash bags line the foyer. Big Paul is in the process of throwing Layla out.
"Yeah," says Big Paul, "she's a troublemaker."
The trash bags are filled with Layla's clothes, all neon colors and high heels and spandex, waiting to be picked up. It looks like someone robbed a Frederick's of Hollywood, got home, and couldn't figure out why they'd robbed a Frederick's of Hollywood.
Big Paul shows me Layla's bedroom. On the wall hangs a large crucifix strung with rosaries and flowers. Beside it hangs a poster-sized still from one of her Max Hardcore scenes; Max, smiling and fully dressed, stands beside Layla, who is naked, legs spread, steel dental instrument forcing open her mouth. I ask him if girls ever got upset after a scene.
"Nobody is putting a gun to their heads," says Big Paul. "Any girl has the right to stop. You don't want to get pissed on? Don't do the scene."
Big Paul shows me to the garage, which also serves as the warehouse. Steel shelving units filled with DVDs line the walls. He seems to show no interest whatsoever in these films; he displays, it seems to me, a measure of disgust with them. And then, standing awkwardly in this porn-filled confessional, I tell Big Paul I watched one of these movies. He nods. I tell him it worked for me. I tell him I feel bad.
"You want any of these?" he asks.
"Um," I say.
"I'll hook you up," he says.
He pulls a few from the shelves—notably films like the ones that were shown to the jury, the films Max is serving time for—and hands them to me. I think about refusing them, but I don't want to offend him, and the yeshiva boy in me will kill me if I do.
I ask Big Paul if he has some sort of a box to carry them in—I'm staying at a nice hotel, after all. As he looks for one, I ask him if he has ever gotten off to something that made him feel ashamed.
He shakes his head and says no.
"I watch that soft shit," he says, "I guess I'm more of a foreplay, take your time, kissing, and then going at it kind of guy."
This is typically referred to as "bullshit," but the more I admit my own shame to Big Paul, the more Big Paul loosens up. Just as I'm thanking him for his time and making my way to the door, he stops me.
"Oh," he exclaims, as though he's only now remembered. "I do have a fat fetish. For fat chicks."
"Like 300 pounds?" I ask. "Four hundred?"
"No," he says with a wince, "not that big. Like 200. Nice chubby chicks. That turns me on, I don't know why."
He shrugs, runs a hand over his head as if he's confessed to a murder.
I ask him if he dates big women.
"I fuck them every now and then, but then I feel guilty. I feel disgusted. But yet I still do it." He swears to himself after that he'll never do it again, but when he's doing it, he just can't stop himself.
I ask him if he watches Max's videos. He shakes his head.
"Palos," he says of the Max Girls in Spanish. Sticks.
He's laughing now. The only thing that can make the moment even better is to declare roundly that others are worse than us.
"My brother-in-law," he says, "that's with my sister is into like 300 pounders." His sister is, alas, only 150, 155. "He always wants to feed her," says Big Paul with a laugh, "and I'm like, Fuck you.
"One day," he says, "I had him working here on the computer, and he was getting these chicks with, like, rolls on their legs, and printing them out, and I'm like, What the fuck are you doing?"
"You're not into that," I say.
He shudders.
"That's fucking sick, dude," he says.
Layla Rivera thinks I think too much.
I meet up with her one evening, almost two months after visiting Max in prison, at an upscale bar in Santa Monica. The bar is filled with mostly after-work business clientele in dark, formal business attire. Layla arrives wearing bright yellow four-inch platform heels and a matching bright yellow dress that would have been small on a toddler. The men and women at the table beside us titter and snicker. Beneath all her pornification, beneath the ludicrous implants, the heavy makeup, the garish spandex, Layla is a beautiful dark-skinned woman of Mexican-Polish-Hawaiian descent. She exudes insecurity, though, this supposed high priestess of shamelessness—she lowers her eyes when she speaks and twirls her hair nervously. Her clownish, superficial appeals to the predictable male sexual desires are having the opposite effect: I don't want to fuck her, I want to club her over the head, put her in the car, drive her out to the wild, and set her free, free of this bar, this city, this world. Go! Run free, Layla! Start over!
I confess to her I've seen her movies and that they worked for me. Not what Max did to her, but that she allowed him to do it. Her compliance. Her acquiescence. Her submission. I told her that I felt bad that the movies worked, and that I wished that they hadn't.
"It's for perverts and sickos," she says, looking down at her drink. "You're not a pervert or a sicko; that's why it disturbed you."
It didn't disturb me, I tell her. It worked for me. That's what disturbed me.
"Because you're normal," says Layla. "That's why it bothers you. If you were a pervert it wouldn't bother you."
She is sounding disturbingly like my shrink.
She adjusts her breasts, flips her hair, trying to be alluring but never quite making eye contact, always staring down at the table or her drink. I ask her what else I should know. Without looking up, she replies: "I don't know. I just know how to give blow jobs. Want a blow job?"
I decline. Politely.
"I'm so blowing you right now. Assess my blow jobs. Anytime."
I tell her I don't want a blow job, and I suspect Max put her up to it, and I feel bad. Every time the conversation lags, she offers me a blow job; and every time I say no, she responds with such genuine bafflement that I suspect Max didn't put her up to it, that this is just the way of the world in her world. Now I feel even worse.
The people at the table near us laugh loudly, and I assume it's at us. I ask Layla about Max. He has three rules for his girls, she says. The rules were written on a board and hung in his house.
" 'Don't get pregnant,' " says Layla, " 'don't get a fat ass, and don't fall in love.' Those are his major, major rules to live by, and you'll be fine. Because then you don't have to worry about your feelings being hurt, you don't have to worry about having a baby and getting fat, and you don't have to worry about not getting work, because you're skinny, so don't get fat."
The men and women behind us look over at Layla again and roll their eyes. What, I wonder, is their Max Hardcore? How dark are their dark corners? Does the smug little bald man in the blue tie like to get pissed on? Does the woman in her sharp red business suit like to get spanked, like to spank? How many of the respectable folks in this bar want nothing more than to go home, tie up their mate, and play Nazi and Jew?
"People who know Max," continues Layla, "love him."
"It's all an act," I say. (It probably isn't.)
I ask her what I asked Jerry and Ashley and Big Paul—if there's anything that does it for her that she feels ashamed of—and for once I want to hear that there isn't, that she really is okay with it, with all of it, that she's achieved some sort of Zen-like state of personal enlightenment, of sexual wisdom, a meditative state of Non-Self-Loathing and Un-Reproach.
"Me?" she says, still looking down. "No way, uh-uh. I do it all, whatever."
The people at the table behind us finally get up and leave. Layla watches them go. The bar seems empty, quiet. And at last she looks up at me and shrugs.
"Amateurs," Layla says.
She wrinkles her nose as if it's disgusting.
"Home videos," she says. "Just couples, you know. I like couples. It's real."
Missionary position, she continues, if she can find them.
"Lovemaking," she says quietly.
"You know?"
She shakes her head, and pulls up on her tube top. What am I doing, her motion seems to convey, in this ridiculous outfit?
The waitress comes by, hands me the bill, and glances with contempt at Layla. Layla disgusts the waitress, Big Paul's brother-in-law disgusts Big Paul, drunk-girl porn disgusts Jerry, Khan Tusion disgusts everybody. But nothing, if we're honest, disgusts us more than ourselves. Our truest selves. The selves we give in to when we watch sleeping girls, and brothers and sisters, and Max and Layla, and amateur couples together in bed (missionary style if possible). The selves who experience these flickering moments of pure acceptance—that's the real pleasure, isn't it, the real joy?—when Shame and Sin watch from a distance, blessedly, briefly silent. Maybe that's why we take such consolation in meeting other people with their own Max Hardcores, and, paradoxically, why we put our Max Hardcores in prison—because by declaring them obscene, we can tell ourselves that we are not.
"You think too much, I think," says Layla.
"You don't think?"
"I never think usually on a regular basis," she says. "I just don't think."
"About anything?"
"Usually. I just be."
"I can't stop thinking," I say.
"That could be bad for your health," says Layla. "Thinking too much."
"Do you read a lot?"
"Because it's thinking."
"It's in the category of thinking," says Layla. "Comprehending."
"Do you think you're not thinking about things," I ask, "because there are things you don't want to think about?"
"No. Because it doesn't need to be thought about. Just be."
I'd never thought about it that way before.
"You think too much," she says, getting up from the table and tugging down on the hem of her dress. "That's enough thinking for me for one day."
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Posted: Fri 18 May 2012, 08:46
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This got me thinking. When did programming (in high level language) start. As I recall there was a FORTRAN standard FORTRAN66 which presumably relates to 1966. Not sure about COBOL.
There must be a limit on age in Programmer Years (in high level language at least).
Me - I'm 60.
My school, which I finished in 1970, did not have ANY computers or calculators. Slide rules and logarithms were the technology of the classroom! I had some time to kill so used a book to teach myself FORTRAN before going to University later in the year, where I did it properly. These were the days of submitting programs on punched cards and waiting overnight to see if it ran! Getting syntax errors was extremely annoying and caused a delay of a day in running a program so we took more care in those days.
Puppyluvr asks us to remember when the 5 1/4 floppy was such an amazing improvement over the old 8 inch format.. My first Hard Disk was 10 mb, and I was awestruck..
He must be young! I've already mentioned punch cards and then came cassette tape on the first home computers. Hards disks? they were but a twinkle in the eye! I paid £180 to expand my Commodore PET with 8K of static RAM. A twin 5-1/4" floppy came later at £540.
Earlier this year I paid £8 to get an 8GB USB stick.
My computing history?
FORTRAN on an ICL190x mainframe (education and work)
IBM360 (work)
Commodore PET - Commodore 64/SX64 - Commodore Amiga (Home)
CP/M based machine (work)
IBM compatible PC (work and home) in increasing size and power over the years.
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Posted: Fri 18 May 2012, 14:34
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The computer thinks I am this old:
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Posted: Fri 18 May 2012, 22:33
Post subject: Why this age distribution?
I'm not surprised that there's an almost bimodal distribution of ages on this forum. This group isn't like the poll about "who uses Ubuntu"' which might be skewed to a younger more casual crowd. Nobody adapts Ubuntu. You just download it and use it. Whereas puppy is incredibly adaptable, designed deliberately to be adapted by people with different levels of expertise, from simple remastering all the way to building whole new versions from the ground up using woof. Theres a place for everyone here. It's a real community, where real enthusiasts spend a LOT of time working on their own versions, making pets, building kernels, figuring out printing, or wireless, or helping newcomers.
So who's got the free time to spend doing all that? Some young people, with their youthful energy and relatively free schedules (although they're probably neglecting their studies somewhat). Some younger singles, without family obligations, although sometimes they get busy with their jobs. ( jemimah works like a superhuman person when her job isn't busy, but even she has to pull back when it is). Who really has the time - frankly it's going to be retired people, or people who're between jobs. Bless them, that they spend that free time working for the benefit of this community.
People in between, with kids and spouses and jobs and parents, can't always devote as much time.
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Posted: Sat 19 May 2012, 08:07
Post subject: Eight Kilobites to Twelve gigabites
Eight Kilobytes to Twelve gigabytes! One meg disk to Terabytes drives.
Anyone play or program on an IBM 1130 computer?
Eight K.. well actually a sixteen bit word, so by today's terms two bytes per word. Engineering major, was told to take a FORTRAN class, copied the first three programs, was so lost. By the end of the semester, I was playing from eight in the morning till after the janitor left. Following year in 1969 I was programming Payrolls, registration systems, grading systems, all on the 8 K machine. Size of your couch.
Cost was fifty thousand for an additional 8K of core memory. Just added 8 Gig of memory to my new laptop, so now have 12 GB, for forty dollars.
World goes around. One of the neat parts of the 1130 world was COMMON and other USER groups for folks to share programs and ideas. Then bigger systems became the norm. Fewer user groups. BBS's became a bit popular....and finally PUPPY and the Forum... folks like to share and contribute. For me puppy is fun, useful as well. Sixty-Six a few days ago.
Question was asked when higher level languages became popular. I would say mid Sixties. I programmed the 1130 in assembler a bit, mostly in FORTRAN and RPG. I took a COBOL class taught by an IBM instructor at the Junior Collage, COBOL was the popular language for Business and FORTRAN for engineering. A Few other flavors were used as well. That was the age of the IBM 360.
Much faster to program in higher level languages. First database was on the 1130, most of my programming today is in MS Database. Yes still programming commercial applications, in my spare time. Machines change, requirements change, but lots of companies still are manual or semi manual. Bet can be programming the same applications when I am 90! Currently programming an application I programmed similar twenty five years ago.
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Posted: Sat 19 May 2012, 09:57
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49 and as the kids are finishing college, just starting life.
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Posted: Wed 23 May 2012, 13:18
Post subject: POLL: How old are you?
8-bit wrote:
If you really have to know, figure it out for yourself.
I was born in 1947.
Really a very good method: Compute age from date of birth (1948)
Who had 8 kiloBytes?
1 k :
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Posted: Mon 02 Jul 2012, 16:23
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I voted (?) back in 2009, thought I'd check to see how the results are going, but I can't see them. Have they disappeared?
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Posted: Tue 10 Jul 2012, 15:56
Post subject: Re: POLL: How old are you?
L18L wrote:
8-bit wrote:
If you really have to know, figure it out for yourself.
I was born in 1947.
Really a very good method: Compute age from date of birth (1948)
Who had 8 kiloBytes?
1 k :
My Timex Sinclair has 8 kilobytes
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really I am under 50, but have had an eventful life, always acted older but looked younger, was carded for alcohol till mid 30s. And was harassed by other teachers for blending in to much with my first teaching job, many times told to leave teacher lounge. had to grow facial hair to appear older.
But some posters surprise me by their mature posts ( like pizzagood and bark^3 ) and others post like middle school, but are 28 til mid year Wink no names lol.
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Maybe we should start up another poll again. That way all under 50 year olds can retain their anonymity but we can still satisfy our (my) curiosity if the forum's age average has shifted.
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I'm 51 year old. I have a wife: no sons. I'm retired or a rentier: I worked in a familiar enterprise now closed. I'm not rich: I spend my time reading about "living off the grid", "de-growth", "climate-change" and so on. I love puppy and I'm happy to spend some time writing in the forum even though I have not programming skills. I learned a lot using the work of skilled men who dedicated much time to open source projects: every user should consider to give something back to the community if they can.
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan 2015, 06:42
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Looking at today's forum posts this thread caught my eye.
I was curious.
I started reading pg.11, then 10, then jumped to 1 and continued to the end again.
To read through the posts is interesting as well as surprising ...or perhaps not?
I discovered Puppy with 3.01 when I was looking to get away from bloat.
Today I am still fascinated by its concept of compactness and usability and when possible I try to make people "see the light" and use Puppy too.
Now that the thread has been revived, perhaps the original poll can be revived too.
Why should the under 50's want to be anonymous as regards to their age?
No need, battleshooter, you pull your weight well above your tender years
My self, I am 70.
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan 2015, 08:51
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I think a poll would be good.
I am 33. A daughter has just joined the family, increasing its size by 50% (in discrete quantities).
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As of this post, I am 17.
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Hah, busted. I actually forgot I've posted on this thread before.
New poll for 2015
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This textbook chapter outlines the historical development of the Theory of Natural Selection, presenting classic evidence including Darwin's study of finch beak variation in the Galapagos Islands and Kettlewell's investigation of the pepper moth... (View More) in England. A simulation activity depicting the process of natural selection is included. The resource includes a link to current news articles and a teacher's guide with additional investigations and student research project ideas. This is the third chapter in the unit, Losing Biodiversity, examining the endangerment and extinction of entire species of plants and animals throughout the world due to human actions. The resource is part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
This activity uses an episode of poor air quality over the Midwest and Eastern seaboard to engage students in an exploration of the collection, comparison, analysis and utilization of air quality data. With the aid of a camera, the EPA website and... (View More) Google Earth, students will determine local visibility. Students will also interpret images taken with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard both the Terra and Aqua satellites to distinguish between three aerosols-smoke, dust and haze. Then students will then find online satellite images of the local area to determine aerosol types and possible sources. Four lesson extensions are included. This lesson uses the 5E instructional model. (View Less)
This activity's storyline is built around the real-life case study of Dr. Walt Meier, a Sea Ice Scientist from Boulder, Colorado. In the fictional story, the students of Churchill become concerned about wildlife in their region because polar bears... (View More) have become a nuisance in the town. According to the local elders, the sea ice patterns have changed. The students turn to Dr. Meier for his expertise in sea ice analysis. Dr. Meier then instructs the students in the use of ImageJ and guides them through the research process. This chapter is part of the Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET). Each EET chapter provides teachers and/or students with direct practice for using scientific tools to analyze Earth science data. Students should begin on the Case Study page. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Free
In this lesson, learners will discover how certain snakes (pit-vipers) can find prey using a natural infrared sensor and will extend their understandings by exploring infrared technology applications. The lesson features background information for... (View More) the teacher, pre-requisite skills and knowledge for the student, a mini-exploration of infrared image technology, multiple image sets, assessment information, student worksheets, extension and transfer activities, and additional resources. This is lesson 2 on the Infrared Zoo website. (View Less)
Materials Cost: $1 - $5 per group of students
This activity is designed to introduce students to planetary geologic features and processes. First, students will use NASA satellite images to identify geologic surface features on the "Blue Marble" (Earth), and will explore the connection between... (View More) those features and the geologic processes that created them. Using that information, students will then compare and discuss similar features on images from other planets. Included are the following materials: teacher's guide (with reference and resource information), student's guide (with activity sheets), and multiple cards of planetary images. Note that the range of targeted grade levels is quite broad; however, explicit adaptations for younger students are highlighted throughout the teacher's guide. (View Less)
Materials Cost: $1 - $5 per group of students
How do Atmospheres Affect Planetary Temperatures: Activity A How do Atmospheres Interact with Solar Energy?
In this 2-part inquiry-based lesson, students conduct a literature search to determine the characteristics of the atmospheres of different planets (Venus, Mercury, Mars and Earth). After collecting and analyzing data, student teams design and... (View More) conduct a controlled physical experiment using a lab apparatus to learn about the interaction of becomes CO², air, and temperature. The resource includes student worksheets, a design proposal, and student questions. Connections to contemporary climate change are addressed. This lesson is the first of four in Topic 4, "How do Atmospheres Affect Planetary Temperatures?" within the resource, Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate? (View Less)


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