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I have many individual snapshot reports (customer invoices) that I would like to concatenate/merge into one big report.
Does anyone have any code examples on how to do this?
I'm thinking that when the individual report is created...
...that another report (I'll called it the "merged report") would be opened and appended with the individual report.Code:DoCmd.OpenReport REPORTNAME, acViewPreview outputFilename = "P" & Reports(REPORTNAME).Pages & "_" & outputFilename fileToSave = SAVEPATH & outputFilename DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, REPORTNAME, acFormatRTF, fileToSave, False
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In his (free and open to the public) lecture today at the GSD, structural engineer Guy Nordenson cited this passage from Carlo Ginzburg on "Clues." It speaks about the decoding that we do of our environment every day--but which, because we are so immersed in its methods, can be difficult for us to identify and articulate:
"Man has been a hunter for thousands of years. In the course of countless pursuits he learned to reconstruct the shapes and movements of his invisible prey from tracks in the mud, broken branches, droppings of excrement, tufts of hair, entangled feathers, stagnating odors. He learned to sniff out, record, interpret, and classify such infinitesimal traces as trails of spittle.
This knowledge is characterized by the ability to move from apparently insignificant experiential data to a complex reality that cannot be experienced directly. And the data is always arranged by the observer in such a way as to produce a narrative sequence, which could be expressed most simply as "someone passed this way." Perhaps the very idea of narrative (as distinct from the incantation, exorcism, or invocation) was born in a hunting society, from the experience of deciphering tracks."
Can we say that the construction and deployment of these narratives, in the shaping of people's lives, is the work of the architect?
Thanks for reading, and happy weekend!
P.S. I'm using Peter Brooks' modified version of the Tedeschi and Tedeschi translation, found here.
P.S. You can watch Guy Nordenson's lecture here. I recommend it!
What do you understand by 'narratives' in terms of architecture?
Hey Ilya,
Good question, because I wasn't clear at all on that.
I was thinking of "narratives" here not so much as "stories," in the sense of verbal accounts that have a plot, character, and so on, but as the wider meaning-making structures that organize our lives. Things like a collective, family, self, the memory of a place, habits, common modes of understanding. Somehow, the creation of these things requires the collaboration and acknowledgment of people within a social group, and I'm wondering if this work can be thought of as the construction of shared narratives.
You know how a myth is retold in different ways (by different people at different times) that have variants while sharing a common structure and themes? Can we use this as a model for how we understand the negotiation of meaning, identity, and social organization through our built environment?
Moreover, the story of the same structure can be told and understood in a different ways depending on the values of narrator and listener. In the end it all comes to communication and communication problems.
I was curious what you associate with 'narratives'. What I thought of was in a way different. I thought of an architect as of a pathfinder deciphering subtle traces of history and meanings in the physical, cultural, anthropological context he works in.
And if he takes what he learns from that as a departure point for his work, his building becomes more of a folklore narrative than a fiction story.
hmmm... if the architect's role is to become the narrator/detective, what is the creature that is leaving hehind mysterious piles of excretement... what is being hunted? and is this to say that each link of historical evidence is to be documented, pinned on a wall in a ziplock bag, and cast metaphorically into a section diagram? i'm wondering if nordenson is positioning architecture as an encyclopedia of history, or as the agent that solves the case.
p.s. i once had an unfortunate encounter with a juror from the GSD that declared narratives to be "the weakest form of making architecture." I've since thought of the GSD a narrative-loathing place. Am i off?
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Remember way back when his own staffer said Mitt Romney had the convictions of an Etch-A-Sketch? Well, stand back, because as we speak, the former Governor of Massachusetts is being flipped over and shaken so hard the fillings in the back teeth of his whole family are starting to rattle and cascade like some great crumbling Utah Butte.
Fear not the rubble, little ones. This simply means we're entering general election territory, so anything Mitt Romney might have said up during the primary no longer applies. We're beginning anew. Reshuffling the deck. The winter of our discontent has been made glorious summer by this Son of Dork.
We're not even playing the same ballgame anymore. Fast pitch hardball has morphed into beach volleyball before our very eyes. And the sand's been replaced with money. Unlike the previous six months, the object is no longer about how hard you hit the ball, rather how long it stays in the air. On your side of the net. You may recall this from pre-video game childhood as Keep Away.
Already the severely conservative former governor has turned into a moderate kind of a regular guy. Mr. Hyde sunk behind the lab island and Doctor Jeckyll rose to walk forward with an outreached hand. Mister "Its okay to call Susan Fluke a slut" is now the soul of Chivalry.
And the "War on Women" was instigated by Obama. Never mind the hundreds of bills written and enacted across the country restricting the rights of women, wholeheartedly endorsed by the candidate. Never mind his previous statements on Planned Parenthood and birth control. Never mind he thinks Lilly Ledbetter is an affliction of his youth successfully repressed.
All that silly suffragette bashing has been offset by a single Democrat suggesting Ann Romney might not be qualified to be her husband's economic strategist since she spent her working life running a tycoon's household. Maybe Alice from the Brady Bunch shouldn't be Secretary of the Treasury.
The outcry was so loud a million apple pies shook off of shelves and the President of the United States got tangled in a War on Mom's Web. Was this an exceptionally sticky birthday gift to a two Cadillacked woman or what?
Apparently the presumptive nominee is taking a page straight out of the Karl Rove Handbook and plans to run one of those "I know you are, but what am I" campaigns. Later to be partnered with the auspicious "I am rubber, you are glue" ploy.
Republicans love this third grade playground strategy. You indict the other guy for exactly what you're guilty of. Go back to 2004, when a borderline deserter successfully accused a war hero of being a traitor. The theory being: if you can't convince the people, confuse them. As the right is so fond of preaching: there's a fine line between educated and confused.
It's only a matter of time before the challenger accuses the incumbent of being a fat cat tool of Wall Street. Totally out of touch with normal people. Belongs to a funny religion. With a long history of extreme insensitivity to dogs. And he has cooties.
The New York Times says Emmy- nominated comedian and writer Will Durst "is quite possibly the best political satirist working in the country today." Check out the website: Redroom.com to buy his book or find out more about upcoming stand- up performances. Or willdurst.com. Every Tuesday. Elect to Laugh! The Marsh. San Francisco. themarsh.org. Special $10 tix. Use code "vote."


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Our Security Segment designs, manufactures, markets and sells a wide range of products. The Company's primary focus in the Security Segment is the sourcing and selection of electronic surveillance products and components that it produces and sells, primarily to installing dealers, system integrators, retailers and end users. Other products in our Security Segment include, but are not limited to, less-than-lethal Mace defense sprays, personal alarms, high-end digital and machine vision cameras and imaging components, as well as video conferencing equipment and security monitors. The main marketing channels for our products are industry shows and publications, outside sales representatives, catalogs, internet and sales through telephone orders. Revenues generated for the year ended December 31, 2008 for the Security Segment were comprised of approximately 35% from our professional electronic surveillance operation in Florida, 43% from our consumer direct electronic surveillance and machine vision camera and video conferencing equipment operation in Texas, and 22% from our personal defense and law enforcement aerosol operation in Vermont.
The decrease in revenues within the Security Segment in 2008 was due to several factors. The majority of the decrease in sales was from decreases in sales of our consumer direct electronic surveillance division, our professional electronic surveillance operation and our machine vision camera and video conferencing operation. Our Vermont personal defense operations sales remain consistent between years. The decrease in sales of our consumer direct electronic surveillance, machine vision camera and video conference equipment operations, and our professional electronic surveillance operation was due to several factors, including the impact on sales of increased competition and the impact of management's completion of its consolidation of the Security Segment's electronic surveillance equipment operations from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to the Farmers Branch, Texas warehouse. The consumer direct electronic surveillance and professional electronic surveillance division had a decrease in sales due to a delay in introducing new product lines during 2008. In the latter part of 2008 sales also decreased due to a reduction in spending by certain of our customers impacted by the deteriorating economy.
â€We packaged it. We packaged it like it has never been packaged before. We wrapped it up, along with our most unique business model and plan, in the most easily recognizable, electrically charged, energy generating way. The Spy Place is sure to become the most recognized name in the security industry, period,†explains Ms. Smock.
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"We pride ourselves on being an innovative franchisor utilizing the highest quality training and systems for our franchisees. The Spy Place franchisees will run our exciting James Bond-type retail store complete with the most innovative and exciting spy gadgets. Our unique system and trademarked name, The Spy Place, allow for a panoply of surveillance services far beyond the generalized business model of installation and monitoring, limited access and lighting control. There is no limit as to what our franchisees can do in this industry. In addition to the general business model, our franchisees can also service GPS vehicle tracking, document destruction, vehicle recovery, personal protection, private investigation, computer forensics, and any other niche from within the industry. In essence, the franchisees will be running several different businesses under one name,†adds Ms. Smock.
In order to train franchisees, the company will provide a fully-integrated sales training program including "Perception Training†at The Spy Place University in its world headquarters located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. During the two-week course, franchisees will be provided insight into the company's operating system, along with its business knowledge and leadership.
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Recipes for a Low-Fiber, Low-Residue Colitis Diet
Cookbook co-authors Denise and Ross Weale both graduated from Johnson and Wales Culinary School, located in Providence, Rhode Island. A short time later, in 1990, symptoms led Ross' gastroenterologist to diagnose him with ulcerative colitis.
During a severe flare-up in 1995, and with the need to maintain a low residue diet, Denise and Ross collaboratively wrote "The Culinary Couple's Creative Colitis Cookbook"— a cookbook that contains 100 easily-prepared low fiber, non-dairy breakfast, bread, soup, side dish, main course, and dessert recipes (see complete table of contents with free recipes). The recipes reflect a delicious collection of diet-modified American comfort foods, and ethnic favorites like Arroz con Pollo, and Salmon Croquettes.
Together, we thought our colitis diet cookbook would be a great way to share the culinary creations that helped Ross while trying to deal with the ups and downs of ulcerative colitis. The cookbook itself is spiral bound, and pocket-sized (4¼" by 5½") making it a great supermarket, and counter-top companion. In addition to the use of a low residue diet during flare-ups, Ross utilizes a prescription drug maintenance program during remission — as indicated by his physician.
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Mastodon's Sixth Studio Album Nears Completion
We broke the news not too long ago that Mastodon had finished recording their sixth studio album. The hugely anticipated record is expected for a summer release, but the entire process isn't done yet. In a message posted on Mastodon's Facebook page, the band reveals the record is now in the mastering process.
"Dearest Mastodon fans, after many hours in the studio riffing out, we are excited to announce our new album is almost complete. It is in the finals of being mastered. We are gearing up for our US tour with Gojira and Kvelertak next month! Looking forward to seeing you all out there on the High Road in May!"
It wouldn't be a Mastodon album without a guest appearance from Neurosis vocalist / guitarist Scott Kelly. Guitarist Bill Kelliher has confirmed that Kelly will be a part of the new record. Kelliher says, "He always sings on a song and it's sounds tough as nails. It's exciting and I can't wait for it to reach the masses and for people to hear it."
Before the Mastodon album is released, frontman Troy Sanders' side project Killer Be Killed will unleash its debut album. The self-titled effort that also features Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato, Sepultura / Soulfly legend Max Cavalera and former Mars Volta drummer David Elitch will be released May 13.
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Online Realty Pricing Sites: Do They Work?
Yes, they work. But are the prices valid? That's another story. Let's listen in as the San Jose Mercury News (motto: We're a newspaper just like Burbed is a real estate blog, haha!) explains why the valuation models don't agree with each other.
Online sites can help tell you what your home is worth
By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News
You're likely to get a warm fuzzy feeling if you look at what your home is worth on Zillow, Trulia or any of the other real estate sites that provide values for millions of houses. Home prices have risen rapidly, and the value these sites assign to your home is sure to reflect that.
But don't carried away by a single Zestimate, SmartZip quote or Trulia estimate. While they are fine for spotting trends, these home valuation services come with a caveat: they offer rough approximations by computer programs. If you want a more precise estimate, hire an appraiser, talk to a real estate agent or check around your neighborhood and see what homes are selling for.
The sites all use what's called "automated valuation models," or AVMs, to make sense of mountains of data, typically drawn from recent sales, property history, size and number of rooms, market trends and other factors that influence price.
We can't believe they spent all that trouble writing an article that says, "If you want to really know what your house is worth, hire an appraiser." There are multiple models out there, but this piece won't tell you how they differ, or why. We did learn that Santa Clara County prices are more likely to be correct than Alameda County, but again, no explanation why.
We know why! It's because the Real Bay Area's prices only go up, and all the models built that in. Feel free to speculate on what's going on with the AVM of your choice and why your house is So Special that the price estimates are Way Too Low. Unless you're buying, in which case they are Way Too High.


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The Battle Against Broadly Written Court Orders And Warrants Goes All The Way Back To 1760
from the older-than-heated-BBS-discussions-even dept
Ed Snowden's story kicked off with the leak of a single, 4-page court order that granted the NSA and FBI access to millions of Verizon phone records. Signed by Roger Vinson of the FISC, it was a broadly written order that contained none of the expected constitutional protections extended to US citizens.
Whistleblowers and government overreach are nothing new in this country. Snowden gave up his job and left the US in order to expose wrongdoing. Before him, other whistleblowers have done the same, either quitting in order to take their findings public or being forced out of a job as a result of their actions.
The ACLU's Free Future blog recently featured a post detailing how far back this sort of thing goes -- all the way back to before the official formation of the United States.
Do you know about James Otis, his struggle against the British Empire, and the making of the Fourth Amendment? A brilliant, young attorney, Otis became practically obsessed with what he viewed as a profound injustice visited upon the American colonists by their British rulers: the writs of assistance.James Otis ditched his job to fight this injustice. Despite being only 31, he held the position as Advocate-General in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. His position meant arguing for these general warrants, something he couldn't do in good conscience. He resigned his post and took up a case representing (pro bono) a group of Boston merchants opposed to the warrants.
Writs of assistance were essentially general warrants. They allowed British soldiers to raid and search homes based on no suspicion whatsoever of criminal activity. Any soldier could violate the sanctity of anyone's person or home... The writs of assistance were extreme violations of the basic privacy and property rights of Americans, and the American revolutionaries loathed them – no one more eloquently or passionately than Otis.
The young attorney's five-hour oration railing against the writs of assistance, "in opposition to a kind of power, the exercise of which in former periods of history cost one king of England his head and another his throne," is now a famous speech...Unfortunately, Otis lost the case. Fortunately for the US, John Adams was sitting in the courtroom. Otis' arguments formed the basis for the Fourteenth Amendment to the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights (written by Adams), which in turn inspired the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution.
Specific warrants describing the people, places or things to be searched, and sworn by an affirmation, are legitimate and legal, Otis said. But general warrants, those that do not require any specific information or targeting – those warrants that enable the government to search at will – are illegal.
This amendment is being abused by the NSA's and FBI's sweeping data requests. It gives them the ability to digitally ransack American citizens, without a warrant or probable cause. It may be legal, thanks to some very dubious secret laws, interpretations and complicit courts, but it's still unconstitutional. Any hopes that the Supreme Court will sort this out have been effectively nullified as the court finds itself bound in the same web of secrecy.
Otis lost his battle but paved the way for our Constitutional rights. Why did he give it all up to take on the system?
"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country," he told the court.Snowden himself may lose this battle, but hopefully, his actions will help Americans regain the rights they never realized they had given up.
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Sharing power in Stamford
When the lights went out on Monday night at the height of Hurricane Sandy, Maria and Angie Palermo, of Highview Avenue, in Stamford, were understandably concerned.
Adding to their angst was the fact that the sisters, 48 and 65 respectively, live with and care for their 89-year-old mother, Olivia.
By the way, never mind that Olivia goes to the gym five days a week with her daughters.
"She's not pressing weights," Maria said the other day, "but she does the treadmill."
As vibrant as Olivia may be, her daughters were reluctant to move her into a new environment for the duration of the power outage.
That's where neighbor Bruce Vetti stepped in.
As Maria wrote in an initial email, "I know there are so many stories of sorrow and hardship, but there were acts of kindness that came out of Hurricane Sandy to which I can personally attest to as my family was a recipient of such an act. (Vetti) let my family share his generator. We were able to run our heat and power our refrigerator for clips at a time. His generosity and compassion was so much appreciated considering that my sister and I care for our elderly mother who lives with us, and the fact that he has a wife and three small children that he was tending to.
Vetti's lived in the neighborhood for 11 years.
"Yeah, we've become friends over the years. I have an electrical background, so I did some rewiring to connect the generator to their boiler and their refrigerator," the 39-year-old Vetti said.
"We're good neighbors," he said.
And on a similar note, this from Belinda Basile, of Stamford:
"I would like to include John and Jeanne Davis of Verplank Avenue in Stamford as "Lights in the Storm." John and Jeanne and their two sons hosted one or two families and their dogs in their generator-powered home every night from Monday afternoon until Sunday night. In addition, several other families spent time there enjoying hot coffee, delicious dinners, charging electronics and enjoying the warm, welcoming atmosphere."
The Davis home was truly a "Light in the Storm" for many families from Shippan Point.


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Dominic West On Becoming Jean Valjean
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The North American rights deal for 99% – The Occupy Wall St Collaborative Film is the latest in a surge of acquisitions that came out of Park City last week. Phase 4 Films has acquired US rights to NEXT entry Milkshake.
Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read and Nina Krstic directed 99% – The Occupy Wall St Collaborative Film, which chronicles the birth of the anti-elitism Occupy movement
Ewell, Aites and Williams Cole produced the film and Brian Devine, Brooke Devine and Tyler Brodie served as executive producers.
Jeff Ivers of Participant negotiated the deal with Ben Weiss of Paradigm. After a theatrical run the documentary will premiere on Participant's upcoming TV channel set to launch in August.
Phase 4 plans a summer theatrical and VoD release through its Kevin Smith Movie Club on Milkshake, David Andalman and Mariko Munro's portrait of a wannabe thug in Washington DC who strives to be black. Tyler Ross stars.
Andalman and Munro wrote the screenplay and produced, while Vinay Singh and Jason Sosnoff served as executive producers. Phase 4 negotiated the deal with Cinetic Media.
- 108 Media/Paladin has acquiredworldwide rights to Musa Syeed's Sundance 2012 World Cinema Competition entry Valley Of Saints, which earned the audience award and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize. 108 Media will commence sales at the EFM next month after concluding the deal with Traction Media on behalf of the film-makers. A North American release is being planned for the summer.


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I just read this comment by Arwen on my last post, and it got me thinking:
The last time I went to a WW meeting I'd started gaining after two months on the plateau (or perhaps was simply heavier – I go up and down about 5 pounds every day.) As I was weighed the woman clucked at me and shook her head. She said I was sabatoging myself with cough drops.
I don't eat cough drops; it was so odd and frustrating and I had no way of saying: "but I'm doing it RIGHT" without sounding defensive.
Of all the ways weight loss programs, doctors, and society make us crazy about our weight, one of the worst has to be the presumption that fat people are lying all the goddamned time.
It happens frequently, as Arwen says, at the weigh-ins for commercial diet programs. You show up, take off your shoes and belt, step on the scale… and this week, you've gained a pound. Or you haven't lost. Or you've lost less than last week. You tell the counselor you can't imagine why this is, and the interrogation begins:
- Did you stay "on program"?
- Did you go out to eat at all?
- Did you snack without remembering to count it?
- Did you get in all your exercise?
- Did you drink all your water?
- Did you drink alcohol and not count it?
- Is it that time of the month?
- Did you forget and have a latte or anything?
And evidently, if the answer to all of the above is no, then you might just have forgotten to count the cough drops you didn't actually consume.
If you do not lose weight in any given week, then the starting point — and middle point and ending point — is that you must have fucked up, and we're gonna figure out how! If you swear you didn't "cheat," didn't make any "mistakes," the presumption remains that there's something you're either just not thinking of, or deliberately lying about.
In the airport on the way home from Vegas, I picked up John Grisham's The Innocent Man, which — like practically every non-fiction book I read — sparked a mini-obsession with the topic for a few days. The topic in this case is wrongful convictions. So in the last week, I've read a bazillion websites about people being convicted of crimes they didn't commit — everything from The Innocence Project to the "Satanic Ritual Abuse" hysteria of the '80s to stuff on the Salem witch trials. Over and over, I read stories of innocent people having their lives taken away because investigators had decided they were guilty and simply would not hear any arguments or evidence to the contrary.
Being accused of snarfing cough drops is obviously not quite like ending up on death row for a murder you didn't commit. But what I'm thinking about here is the crazy-making aspect of being told again and again that you did what we say you did, even if you know damn well you didn't. People can be badgered into confessing that they fucking killed people or molested children when they know they didn't, just because interrogators will not let up on the "You're guilty, and everyone knows it" theme. Is it any wonder fatties can easily be convinced we must have done something "wrong," must have slipped up, cheated, forgotten something, not tried hard enough, when the whole freakin' world is telling us that if we truly ate "right" and exercised, the fat would melt away? That's a scientific FACT! You cannot violate the laws of thermodynamics! Liar, liar!
So, there's supposed to be an article on the Fatosphere coming out in the NYT some day soon. Last I heard, it was slated for publication today, so when I woke up, the first thing I did was look for it. Not only is it not there, but this is:
And really, it doesn't matter whether you choose a diet based on your genotype or the phases of the moon, or whether you cut down on sugars and starches or fats. If you consume fewer calories than you need to maintain your current weight, you will lose.
I mean, at least she didn't say — as I originally read it — "If you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will lose." (I don't remember who first responded to the old thermodynamics argument with "Human bodies are not bunsen burners!" but I think of that every time.) No, she's just warped the thermodynamics argument into something that's impossible to dispute, because it's a fucking tautology: If you eat few enough calories to lose weight, you will lose weight.
It's actually, come to think of it, more of a variation on the "There are no fatties in concentration camps" argument. Because of course the problem is, "fewer calories than you need to maintain your current weight" varies widely from person to person, and in many cases, it ends up being fewer calories than your body needs, period. But this goes right back to what Arwen was saying: if you plateau while dieting, if your body stubbornly refuses to lose any more weight after you've dropped to 1,200, then 1,000, then 800, and in some cases as low as 500 calories a day, you are not absolved of the obligation to lose more weight. You're simply found guilty of lying about what you eat and/or how much you exercise. Because if you were really eating that little and exercising that much, you would still be losing! Because human bodies do work exactly like bunsen burners, and there aren't 85 squillion variables affecting how different people process the same number of calories, duh! You're just not doing what we told you to do, you BIG FAT LIAR!
When it's just one poorly trained, batshit crazy weight loss counselor, or just one article telling you you're full of shit, the consequences aren't such a big deal. But they become a very big deal when it's a doctor, or a series of doctors, insisting that you can't be telling the truth about your eating and exercise habits, and they won't do anything for you until you knock off the denial and start burning more calories than you eat. The only way to clear your good name — and get some attention to your actual symptoms — at that point is to lose weight. And if the only way to lose weight is to literally starve yourself, so be it. Those are your choices: starve, or don't come back. Exercising moderately and having a healthy relationship with food is not an option if you remain fat while doing those things, because that can mean being denied surgery, misdiagnosed time and again, told that your debilitating pain can only be cured by strenuous exercise, told you don't deserve to have children, et fucking cetera.
And on top of that, it's never just one poorly trained, batshit crazy weight loss counselor or just one article. It's your friends, family, co-workers, trainers, nutritionists, therapists, teachers, perfect strangers, and a million fucking articles, telling you every time you turn around that the secret to substantial, long-term weight loss is simply eating less and moving more. Despite, you know, no evidence whatsoever that that's true, or that there is any known secret to substantial, long-term weight loss. If you're fat and claim you don't sit on the couch eating baby-flavored donuts all day, you are a liar. Period.
Is it any wonder, then, that we blame ourselves, hate ourselves, feel constantly guilty and ashamed about our weight, even if we know somewhere down deep that our eating and exercise habits aren't any different from our thin friends'? Is it any wonder that we routinely criticize ourselves and catalogue our "failures" in front of people who we know are likely to judge, just so they don't think we're too ignorant to know what's causing our fat? Everyone knows! Calories in, calories out! It's so much easier, in a world where someone can accuse you with a straight face of sabotaging yourself with imaginary cough drops, to confess that yes, you ate a candy bar yesterday, and on Tuesday, you cut your workout short by twenty minutes, and today, you haven't yet had all the water you're supposed to drink — so obviously, you're not doing what all the thin people do, and that's why you're still fat.
If you confess, you might get some sympathy and encouragement along with the judgment. But if you dare to say there's nothing fucking wrong or unusual or peculiar to fat folks about the way you eat and exercise, you just happen to be fat, for loads of possible reasons scientists are still sorting out? Well, then you're nothing but a dirty liar.
It is absolutely enough to make you crazy, to make you doubt reality, to make you convict yourself for a crime you have not committed. So if you were wondering why I keep beating the same friggin' drum here, day in, day out, why I can't shut up about the same few topics, over and over and over? That's why. Because this blog is a drop in the fucking ocean compared to the constantly repeated messages that all fat people are guilty of eating too much and not exercising enough, and if we'd just admit it and repent, society would go much easier on us. All I can do is repeat myself as much as the rest of the fucking world does.
Being fat is not a crime. Eating enough food to satisfy yourself is not a crime. Overeating is not a crime, whether you do it or not. Plateauing on a diet is not a crime. Gaining it back is not a crime. Exercising for fun instead of pain is not a crime. Deciding not to exercise is not a crime. Getting sick is not a crime.
You are not a liar. You are not guilty.


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He acts like this big tough, smart guy, but he's just a puzzy.
Hey mate, i have had Lost at Last vol 1 on repeat this week - it is not his finest work, but i still like it a lot. But, since picking up the album, i have had his back catalogue on constant play!! Awesome!
No mate, but I did know he was touring Europe soon, do i figured it might be out soon. He's not got any dates near me though, which sucks
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text: Ellen Page Online - Press archive - Shacknews - Beyond: Two Souls review: caged ambitions Shacknews - Beyond: Two Souls review: caged ambitions by Andrew Yoon, published on October 8, 2013 - 8:00am PDT Some would argue that an artist is only as good as his tools. For Beyond: Two Souls, writer and director David Cage has been given resources that would make any director--Hollywood or not--jealous. Cage has at his disposal some of the best visual tech of the generation, a stunning motion capture suite, and two Academy Award-nominated actors. Sony has pulled out all the stops. The end result is a game that improves upon nearly every aspect of Quantic Dream's first PS3 effort, Heavy Rain. Beyond leaps over the uncanny valley thanks to its new engine and motion capture tech. Gone are the awkwardly-accented performances, only to be replaced by Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe. Even the gameplay has been significantly improved, moving away from the QTE button-mashing that defined Heavy Rain. Every aspect of Beyond is a generational leap. Too bad it's all wasted on a story that isn't worth telling. Beyond: Two Souls spans the decades-long journey of Jodie and Aiden, an invisible spirit inexplicably tethered at birth. Taken under the care of a research program, Jodie ends up being recruited by the military as they try to understand the mysteries of the afterlife. Having the narrative span such a large amount of time lets players see Jodie grow from being a child to a teenager to an adult, and Ellen Page does a wonderful job of portraying the character across her life. Unfortunately, what should be a character study instead becomes an excuse to string together unoriginal tropes and Hollywood action cliches. With a deft touch, many of these scenes could be affecting. For example, one of Jodie's first interactions with other teens has her playing the awkward social outcast. But Cage stages the scene with the subtlety of an explosion. The gang's eventual betrayal of Jodie is so apparent, especially if you've ever seen any other movie involving teenagers. In fact, the game's heavy inspiration from film becomes a deterrent. Whether you're fighting atop a moving train, or having a spiritual encounter with a Native American family, the narrative rarely surprises, mostly because you've seen this stuff before. While many of Cage's choices are uninspired, one in particular is baffling. Beyond is told non-chronologically, much to its detriment. There's no meaningful reason to frame the story in such a way, as scenes rarely flavor one another. Jumping between random sequences of being a child, military badass, and sexually frustrated young adult do little more than make the narrative feel disjointed. Even worse, it manages to undo one of the greatest aspects of Heavy Rain: the feeling of player agency. Heavy Rain made good on its promise of a narrative that adapts to your choices, even when main characters die. Knowing that every scenario could have repercussions augmented the tension of the game's knuckle-biting sequences. Beyond fails to replicate that sensation because you're aware that the entire game is a flashback. You know Jodie cannot die, and you know that your decisions won't have any meaningful impact on the story--because you're already aware of what will happen in the future. Simply telling the story in chronological order would not only make the story flow better, but it would be more effective at giving the illusion of player agency. Thinking even a little about the story will make it clear how absurd the narrative is. The end-game disaster is, like most other things in the game, so obviously going to happen. But why doesn't Jodie acknowledge that ever? Why does one character decide to so suddenly go insane? Is Cage familiar with the terms "character development" and "foreshadowing?" Given Quantic Dream's focus on narrative, it's a little bit surprising that Beyond is the best playing game they've created. Whereas Heavy Rain used Resident Evil-style tank controls, Beyond gives players direct control over Jodie and Aiden. Quantic Dream's interpretation of combat is the best so far, with players having to move the analog stick in tandem with Jodie's motion. The kung-fu fight sequences are just as thrilling as those of Indigo Prophecy, without turning into a frenetic game of Simon Says. Playing as Aiden is also interesting, as he introduces an interesting puzzle-solving element to the game. The best moments have you figuring out "who do I need to possess now?" as you manipulate NPCs to your advantage. However, all the gameplay ultimately exists to drive the narrative forward. Given how disappointing the story is, it's difficult to recommend Beyond as a game for play's sake. If David Cage was aspiring to be like a Hollywood director, he's succeeded with Beyond: Two Souls. Perhaps he can be best compared to George Lucas. Both are visionaries, with exciting views on the future of cinema and games. However, neither are particularly skilled storytellers. With Beyond, Cage shows us what the future of games could be--but ultimately fails to take us there. Source: www.shacknews.com


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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, apologized Wednesday for the social networking giant's controversial experiment concerning nearly 700,000 users' emotions.
Over the weekend, many Facebook users became upset when they learned of a recently published study in which the company moved around posts on the social network's news feed to test the effects on users' emotions. Privacy advocates say the experiment, which was performed without warning users, was unethical. Others say that Facebook, a for-profit company, is free to tweak its product as it wishes.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sandberg, speaking in India, told an audience, "This was part of ongoing research companies do to test different products, and that was what it was; it was poorly communicated, And for that communication we apologize. We never meant to upset you."
In the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March, users who saw less "positive" content in their news feed had a larger percentage of negative words in their subsequent status updates. The opposite was true for users who saw less "negative" content.


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"The aim of this conference is to get the nations who are disproportionately affected by climate change, the most vulnerable nations, to come together and speak with one voice," asserted Bangladesh's environment secretary Mesbah ul Alam. "Climate change is real and it is affecting us now — we live with floods, with climate refugees, with rising salinity in our coastal areas and with the impact of rising sea levels."
Delegates at a climate change conference beginning November 28 in Durban, South Africa, are to consider options to raise $100 billion a year for the fund, which was established last December to aid countries reportedly most affected by climate change. "Governments must find ways — now — to mobilize resources up to the $100 billion per annum pledged," Ban professed. "An empty shell is not sufficient."
Representatives of about 20 countries in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), a global partnership of nations "disproportionately affected by global warming," are meeting for two days in Dhaka to form an agenda to curb the effects of global warming in nations with heightened socio-economic and environmental vulnerabilities. The forum was founded at the initiative of the Maldives government, by President Mohamed Nasheed, and first organized at a meeting in November 2009. Eleven countries founded the CVF, including Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Vietnam, and Rwanda, and dozens of others now participate in its initiatives.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Shekh Hasina deplored that responses from the global community have been displeasing. "Climate change has been seriously affecting us. We are bearing the brunt of the damage though we made negligible or no contribution to the menace. This constitutes a serious injustice and must be acknowledged by the global community," she said.
The UN Secretary General hoped that the forum will develop a strong and cohesive position at the Durban conference, which is projected to attract more than 190 countries. "I will count on the members of this forum to arrive with a strong united voice," averred Ban. "In this time of global economic uncertainty, let your commitment to green growth be an inspiration to more developed countries — the major emitters," he added. "Even in these difficult times, we cannot afford delay."
The Durban conference also intends to resolve a new compromise on the Kyoto Protocol, a failed initiative which requires participating industrialized nations to commit themselves to modest reductions of various forms of greenhouse gases. However, the international effort to curb manmade greenhouse gas emissions has spurred no demonstrable reductions.
The United States ultimately rejected Kyoto, as political and business leaders warned that agreement to join the international effort would stifle the American economy. Further, U.S. federal officials believed reductions should have been required of developing nations such as China and India. U.S. resistance to the protocol, and concerns over poverty and economic stagnation — particularly due to the global economic crisis — have up until now suppressed talks on a pact to succeed Kyoto.
While Mr. Ban and the CVF argue that more needs to be done to battle the global warming "problem," critics may point out that the climate change wishing well has dried up, even in industrialized nations, where billions of dollars have been shoveled out in domestic environmental policies. The United States is one country that has spent enormous sums of money on climate change projects, and Washington continues to dump taxpayers' dollars into "green" investment projects.
And so far, the only observable outcome is a backwash of oppressive regulations and mounting government debt.


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John Torrence Tate
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First let us clarify that John Torrence Tate should have Jr after his name since his father was also named John Torrence Tate. John Tate Sr (born Lennox, Iowa, 28 July 1889) had a father of Scottish descent and a mother of Irish descent. He obtained a degree in physics from the University of Nebraska and was then awarded a doctorate by the University of Berlin. He married Lois Beatrice Fossler, a high school teacher of English, on 28 December 1917 by which time he was on the staff at the University of Minnesota. John Tate Sr. was a full professor of physics at the University of Minnesota when his son John Torrence Tate Jr was born. John Tate Jr, the subject of this biography, was brought up in Minneapolis.
In 1939 John's mother died. During World War II, John's father served on the National Defense Research Committee, in charge of the Division which researched undersea warfare. John grew up with a fascination for mathematical puzzles, in particular reading books by Henry Dudeney that his father owned. When at high school, he read E T Bell's Men of mathematics from which he learnt about quadratic reciprocity and Dirichlet's theorem on primes in an arithmetic progression. However, despite loving the ideas he had read about, he thought that mathematics was a subject for people who were cleverer than he was, so he decided to study physics at university. He graduated from Harvard University in 1946 and went to Princeton University, still with the intention of undertaking research in physics. However, during his first year of graduate study at Princeton it became clear to him that mathematics was not only the subject he liked best but it was also the subject for which he had the most talent. He was allowed to transfer to graduate study in mathematics and was assigned Emil Artin as his thesis advisor. It was pure coincidence that his thesis advisor had made major contributions to the topics that had most fascinated Tate when he was a schoolboy.
In 1950 Tate was awarded his doctorate for his thesis Fourier Analysis in Number Fields and Hecke's Zeta Functions [5]:-
In his doctoral thesis, Tate introduced harmonic analysis into number theory, paving the way for the adelic approach to automorphic forms and the Langlands programme.In [4] the authors write:-
In his thesis, which has become a classic, he proved the functional equation for Hecke's L-series by a novel method involving Fourier analysis on idele groups.The thesis was published in 1967. Returning to 1950, the year Tate was awarded his doctorate, we note that his father died in May of that year.
Tate was appointed as a research assistant and instructor at Princeton in 1950. The Artin-Tate seminar on class field theory given at Princeton University in 1951-1952 covered cohomology theory of groups, the fundamentals of algebraic number theory, a preliminary discussion of class formations, local class field theory, global class field theory, and the abstract theory of class formations and Weil group. Parts of this was written up as the book Class field theory by Artin and Tate and published in 1968. During his three years (1950-53) as a research assistant at Princeton, Tate published papers such as: On the relation between extremal points of convex sets and homomorphisms of algebras (1951); (with Emil Artin) A note on finite ring extensions (1951); Genus change in inseparable extensions of function fields (1952); (with Serge Lang) On Chevalley's proof of Luroth's theorem (1952); and The higher dimensional cohomology groups of class field theory (1952). For this last mentioned paper, Tate received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory from the American Mathematical Society in 1956. He spent the year 1953-54 as a visiting professor at Columbia University then, in 1954, he was appointed to Harvard University. He remained in this position until 1990 when he accepted the Sid Richardson Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin.
The London Mathematical Society elected Tate to Honorary Membership in 1999. We quote from the citation in [5] which gives an overview of Tate's remarkable contributions to mathematics:-
His work on class field theory and Galois cohomology over local and global fields, especially his duality theory, underpins much of modern number theory; and the Tate cohomology groups for finite groups, which he invented for use in class field theory, are a standard tool of algebraists. Tate's deep insights have had a crucial impact on the development of arithmetic algebraic geometry from the sixties onwards. Perhaps most celebrated are his conjectures about algebraic cycles on varieties over finite and global fields, formulated 35 years ago but still largely unproved. Equally striking is his seminal 1966 paper 'p-divisible groups', which for the first time recognised the richness of p-adic representations of the absolute Galois group of a p-adic field, as well as indicating the existence of a p-adic analogue of Hodge theory. This is now a key tool in understanding the arithmetic of algebraic varieties. Tate's work on classification of abelian varieties over finite fields is a core part of standard theory, underpinning almost all work on the L-functions of Shimura varieties as well as being the starting point for the study of motives over finite fields. Through his discovery of rigid analytic spaces, he established new foundations for p-adic global analysis which have wide applicability in number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory. The theory of elliptic curves owes an enormous amount to his contributions, both theoretical and computational; the theory of height functions (Neron-Tate and Mazur-Tate) and descent theory (including his construction of the notorious Shafarevich-Tate group) are of key importance in understanding the arithmetic of elliptic curves, and Tate's algorithm for determining the bad reduction of an elliptic curve plays an equally important role in computation. Other contributions of deep significance include his work with Serre on the deformation theory of abelian varieties, his contributions to algebraic K-theory and its relation with Galois cohomology, his work on the Stark conjectures, and most recently his work in non-commutative ring theory.Tate received a Sloan Fellowship during 1959-61, and a Guggenheim Fellowship during 1965-66. He was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Nice in 1970 when he gave the lecture Symbols in Arithmetic. In 1972 he was the American Mathematical Society's Colloquium Lecturer and spoke on The arithmetic of elliptic curves. He was a member of the committee that decided on the awards of the Fields Medals in 1974. The committee surprised the mathematical world by only making two awards (to Enrico Bombieri and David Mumford). It was Tate who reported on Mumford's work at the awarding ceremony at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver.
Tate was honoured with election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1969 and to the Académie de Sciences in Paris in 1992. In 1995 he received the Leroy P Steele Prize For Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society [6]:-
... for scientific accomplishments spanning four and a half decades. He has been deeply influential in many of the important developments in algebra, algebraic geometry, and number theory during this time.In 2003 he received the Wolf prize:-
... for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.Although the citation is similar to that of the London Mathematical Society which we quoted above, we give the following extract:-
For over a quarter of a century, Professor John Tate's ideas have dominated the development of arithmetic algebraic geometry. Tate has introduced path breaking techniques and concepts, that initiated many theories which are very much alive today. These include Fourier analysis on local fields and adele rings, Galois cohomology, the theory of rigid analytic varieties, and p-divisible groups and p-adic Hodge decompositions, to name but a few. Tate has been an inspiration to all those working on number theory. Numerous notions bear his name: Tate cohomology of a finite group, Tate module of an abelian variety, Tate-Shafarevich group, Lubin-Tate groups, Neron-Tate heights, Tate motives, the Sato-Tate conjecture, Tate twist, Tate elliptic curve, and others. John Tate is a revered name in algebraic number theory.In the first semester of the academic year 1980-81 Tate gave a course of lectures on Stark's conjectures at Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay). This was published in 1984 as Les conjectures de Stark sur les fonctions L d'Artin en s = 0. This is not the only book by Tate based on a lecture course he had given previously. In 1992 he published Rational points on elliptic curves coauthored with Joseph H Silverman. This book was based on a course Tate had given over 30 years earlier in 1961 at Haverford College. Andrew Bremner begins a review as follows:-
The authors' goal has been to write a textbook in a technically difficult field which is accessible to the average undergraduate mathematics major, and it seems that they have succeeded admirably. The book is quite delightful. ... The most obvious drawback to a text for undergraduates in a field such as this is that it is not possible to be entirely rigorous, and so, as the authors declare, "much of the foundational material on elliptic curves presented in Chapter I is meant to explain and convince, rather than rigorously prove." An appendix does develop the necessary algebraic geometry, but throughout the book the approach to the underlying geometry is informal, allowing a more rapid and intuitive access to the number theory.On 24 May 2000, Atiyah and Tate presented the Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems in Paris. Tate's lecture covers the Riemann hypothesis, the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture and the P = NP problem. He explained the problems and put them into their historical context.
On 24 March 2010 the President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced that Tate would be presented with the Abel Prize in Oslo on 25 May:-
... for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.The press release reads:-
The theory of numbers stretches from the mysteries of prime numbers to the ways in which we store, transmit, and secure information in modern computers. Over the past century it has developed into one of the most elaborate and sophisticated branches of mathematics, interacting profoundly with other key areas. John Tate is a prime architect of this development. John Tate's scientific accomplishments span six decades. A wealth of essential mathematical ideas and constructions were initiated by Tate and later named after him, such as the Tate module, Tate curve, Tate cycle, Hodge-Tate decompositions, Tate cohomology, Serre-Tate parameter, Lubin-Tate group, Tate trace, Shafarevich-Tate group, Néron-Tate height, to mention just a few. According to the Abel committee, "Many of the major lines of research in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry are only possible because of the incisive contributions and illuminating insights of John Tate. He has truly left a conspicuous imprint on modern mathematics."We should end with one final note. Tate was one of the younger members of the Bourbaki team and almost unique in that team in that he was not French.
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If you were to build an online radio station that could channel characters from Arrested Development, what would you call it?
Clearly, "Bluthify."
A free Arrested Development-themed web app, Bluthify.me lets you tune into radio stations "created" by all the main characters on the show. Yes, every single amazing, mind-altering Bluth character is represented in all of his or her glory: Buster, George Sr., Lucille, G.O.B., Lindsey Bluth Fünke, Michael, George Michael, Tobias Fünke, and Maebe Fünke. To hear them, click their character and a Spotify playlist will semi-magically appear.
The playlists are convincing. Lindsey's station is all Ke$ha and Britney Spears, while George Sr.'s jams tends towards smoother, old-school rock: Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and The Big Bopper. Each character's playlist differs each time you load it, so if you want to listen to G.O.B. radio all day, or even all week — you can.
Bluthify was built during a single weekend at Philly Music Hack Day at Drexel University's Excite Center, while the rest of us were watching baseball, riding bicycles, and so on. Jason Steinbach (engineer for The Echo Nest, which publishes Evolver.fm) built models of each character's personality in an Echo Nest Taste Profile, using intimate knowledge of the show gathered from himself and a group of other Arrested Development fans at the hackathon.
He also added some special tweaks, like how every single G.O.B. playlist ends with "The Final Countdown." Once the taste profiles are built, he adds a few rules (like G.O.B.'s predilection for "The Final Countdown") plugs them into all the music on Spotify to generate the playlists on Spotify's web interface. You can hear all of the full songs, for free, if you have Spotify for desktop.
Overall, it's a carefully-crafted insight to each character, the perfect accompaniment to your freakout about how every single episode from the new season will be available on Netflix starting May 26 without requiring a silly old television subscription.