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Title text: Everyone's caught by surprise when a theory of quantum gravity is developed by a sound technician wearing patent leather shoes while editing Clerks II.
This comic is a reference to revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein, who got his first big ideas about physics while he was working as a Swiss Patent Clerk. His list of accomplishments is too big to go into here, but Wikipedia should help you out if you want to know more.
Hence this huge pressure on future Swiss Patent Clerks to also come up with genius ideas while they are working there.
The title text makes the joke that instead of a patent clerk making the next breakthrough theory, as everyone is supposedly expecting, it's instead made by someone wearing "patent" shoes and working on a movie called "Clerks" II. There by suggesting that anytime something called a "patent" crosses with anything called a "clerk", radical breakthroughs in physics result. Clerks II is the second movie in the Clerks series by Kevin Smith, widely regarded as not nearly as good as the first - which could be said about most sequels, but you get the point.
- [Ponytail walks up to Megan examining documents]
- Ponytail: So.. what"ve you been up to?
- Megan: Handling patent applications.
- Ponytail: Yeah, but... besides that?
- Megan: That's about it.
- Ponytail: You're not, like, thinking about any cool stuff? Just curious.
- For the last hundred years, Swiss patent clerks have been under some weird pressures.
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I think the alt-text is a play on words, where you have someone wearing "patent" shoes working on the movie "clerks II". So "patent" "clerk" if you will. Which is why everyone is surprised because they were looking for "patent clerks" with brilliant ideas, not someone wearing "patent" shoes working on a movie called "clerks..." It also seems to be sort of a jab at the absurdity of assuming there is something special about a "patent clerk". Like is it the job that is important? Just the name? 184.108.40.206 23:51, 20 September 2012 (UTC)Someone who should be working. (TJ)
"Much of" Einstein's patent work revolved around those arcane topics? Sounds like revisionist bullsh*t to me. 220.127.116.11
I had just started work on the idea that small adjacent (geographically and chronologically) earthquakes not only signal the demise of tropical storms (as I had posited a long time ago) but that (as more recently noted) medium sized earthquakes signal their advent when I was attracted to the ancient ideas leading to the discovery of steel which was concurrent to my watching videos on Thorium Reactors which indirectly led me to the idea that fusion can take place (I had assumed fusion most unlikely) only under the auspices of the three phases in a Deep Hot Biosphere (only of course there is no need for the bio) when I was diverted by the idea of reworking The Tempest. Maybe I should get a job? I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 19:48, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Doc Brown was a patent clerk in Back To The Future: The Game (Telltale Games) when he was young. Not sure though. -Cye from #team cyeborg on yt -- Comment Police (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Are Clerks or Clerks II a real movie? "That Guy from the Netherlands" (talk) 14:22, 9 April 2019 (UTC)


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Soul singer Anita Baker is wanted by police in Michigan after she skipped a court date to face accusations she failed to pay more than $15,000 for work on her Grosse Point estate.
Ray Smith Painting and Decorating claims Baker never paid up for thousands of dollars worth of work the company did at her home in the tony neighborhood northeast of Detroit.
"We certainly would have liked to resolve it before now. We just want to try to get my client his money," said Daniel Gerow, attorney for Ray Smith Painting. "We're not trying to give her any hard time or anything unnecessary. We just would like to collect the money for my client. He's owed the money, and that could end it all right then."
Baker previously faced jail time in 2010 when a judge threatened to throw her behind bars for allegedly failing to sign divorce documents.
Baker reportedly learned of the news while watching television at home Thursday night.
WHATTT??!!... sittin' in the kitchen watching this on TV. BIG time crazy. Atty on his way to TV Station. Devil sho is busy.— Anita Baker (@IAMANITABAKER) March 20, 2014


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It's an incredibly short week for the Nintendo Download, but that just makes Circle Entertainment's follow-up to the compelling DSiWare action-adventure The Lost Town: The Dust more of a chance to shine. Stare into the eyes of the red-headed killer.
It was a grave oversight on my part that I completely skipped over The Lost Town: The Dust when it appeared in the Nintendo Download last year. Well, Final Fantasy III was partly to blame, but the fact remains — I may have deprived you all of an amazing mix of role-playing, survival and action. You should play it.
And then you can play the sequel! Like the first game, a town (this time in the Amazon jungle) has been consumed by darkness, driving the local people and animals insane. A mysterious girl named Chilia appears, once more tasked with performing quests during the day and setting traps at night to keep the darkness at bay.
Thank goodness the rest of this week's offerings are only a card game and old Mario titles, or I might have missed her again.
The Lost Town: The Jungle
Platform: DSi / 3DS
Price: 500 Points / $4.99
The red headed killer is back! In 1997, a meteorite landed within the Amazon jungle, consuming the land in darkness. The effects of the meteorite caused villagers, and animals to go insane. The villagers that resisted the effects of the meteorite have become prey for those under the influence of its darkness. A girl appears in the jungle named Chilia. Behind her beautiful exterior hides elite combat skills that will be used to help get rid of the Amazon of the mysterious meteorite. You're aware of your skills, but you also need to find food, ammunition, and other resources for survival. Sane villagers will provide rewarding quests in the daytime, but when the sun goes down, you will need to set traps around camp and recruit assistants to keep things safe. In this mission, you must locate the meteorite; the area will be swarming with opposition. Its effects on people and animals will vanish if you are successful, there will be no rescue team, so success is the only option.
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OK, so the venue is 1,778 miles — more or less — from New York's fabled Fifth Avenue, but that doesn't really matter because Wednesday night's Miracle on Fifth Avenue is going to be a big city-type happening that will raise money for three nonprofit organizations that help young people.
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The Deluminator, also known as the Put-Outer, is a device used by Albus Dumbledore (the first known owner and designer of the one Deluminator known to exist) to remove light sources from the Deluminator's immediate surroundings, as well as bestow them. It looks like a standard silver cigarette lighter. Dumbledore left the Deluminator to Ron Weasley, in his will, after his death.
Albus Dumbledore's UsageEditIn 1981, after the murders of James and Lily Potter by Lord Voldemort, Dumbledore used the Deluminator to darken Privet Drive, where the Dursley household was located. Dumbledore was expecting Rubeus Hagrid to transport the infant Harry Potter to Privet Drive, where Dumbledore would leave him at the Dursley household. Dumbledore's Deluminator allowed Hagrid to arrive with added security.
In 1995, Dumbledore lent the Deluminator to Mad-Eye Moody, who used it when transporting Harry from the Dursleys' home to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix at 12 Grimmauld Place. The Deluminator again provided added security to keep Harry Potter safe, as he was a highly valued target among Lord Voldemort's supporters, and to keep the Order's headquarters secret, because these headquarters were also a highly valued target.
In 1996, Dumbledore used it again to darken Privet Drive before coming to collect Harry.
Ronald Weasley's UsageEditIn 1997, the Deluminator was left to Ron Weasley in Dumbledore's will. It seemed to also act like a homing device. Whenever Hermione and Harry mentioned Ron's name, he could hear snippets of conversation before and after, even though he was far away. It then acted as a guide, leading Ron back to Harry and Hermione after he left them following an argument.
In 1998, Ron Weasley used the Deluminator in the Malfoys' cellar, so that Luna Lovegood, Ollivander, Ron and Harry could see inside the cellar, releasing light that he had earlier taken from the lamps within Perkins's tent. And when Peter Pettigrew came down into the cellar, Harry told Ron to keep the lights on and leave as it is. The lights, being unable to rejoin their sources, simply remained in the room.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In its first and second appearances in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Deluminator was called a Put-Outer.
- In the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the Deluminator is able to turn off electric appliances, as seen in Luchino Cafe when Ron put out the lights and the TV turned off.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ron explains that the Deluminator creates a blue light which, after entering his chest near his heart, allows him to disapparate to where his love interest (Hermione) and his best friend (Harry) are located. The ability to transport a wizard, via a light through the heart, to where his or her favourite (or most treasured) people are is curiously similar to the epitaph Dumbledore selected for his mother and sister: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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Nate Berg is a freelance reporter and a former staff writer for CityLab. He lives in Los Angeles.
As far as analogies go, the food desert is a pretty effective one. You can almost imagine yourself out in the middle of nowhere, not a banana or egg for miles. It's not a pleasant thought, especially if you like bananas and eggs. But really, everybody's gotta eat, and without food nearby, eating is not easy. Because this analogy works so well, it's very well used – by food activists, public health officials and countless researchers. But like many analogies, it doesn't really capture the whole picture.
"A lot of the work on food deserts has been people rather unscientifically pointing to urban areas and saying, 'oh, there's no grocery stores there' and that was sort of the end of it," says Laura Leete. She's an associate professor of public policy at the University of Oregon, and co-author of a recent paper looking at how food deserts are measured in different cities. What she and her co-authors found is that there's not a lot of consistency in these measurements across cities. But in looking at the different ways food deserts are measured, it became clear that the context of communities had an important impact on which neighborhoods had low access to food. And, contrary to the easy analogy of the food desert, the people with low access to food in many cities aren't all living in the same neighborhood.
"In Portland, and in the West in general, urban poverty is less of a concentrated urban phenomenon and the low income households living with low food access are really spread all over an urban area," says Leete.
While food deserts may be more of a reality in cities in the Eastern U.S. where poverty is more concentrated, cities in the West have more suburbanized poverty. She argues that these aren't food deserts, but food hinterlands. The issue, Leete says, is not just areas with few grocery stores, but the scattered low-income people who live too far from grocery stores and have few options to get to them.
"The food desert idea has been bandied about a lot and it's been popular, but it's really only a relevant problem to people who don't have access to cars, and that's a certain particular subset of the population. It's not even the poor population, but it might be 25 percent of the poor population," says Leete. "In some urban areas virtually all or some huge percentage of the poor have access to cars and in some other urban areas very few of them do. So it's a very context-specific problem."
And in the context of transportation, residents in food hinterlands are limited. But merely building a grocery store can't possibly accommodate a fairly large population that's spread out across the city.
"The policy solutions break down into space-based solutions versus transit-based solutions: bringing the stuff to the people or bringing the people to the stuff," says Leete. "And the hinterland idea suggests that maybe we need to bring the people to the stuff."
But under the current paradigm, food accessibility tends to be tied to the idea of the food desert. Leete hopes that there will start to be a deeper understanding of the broader issues in food accessibility, and that more appropriate policy solutions will emerge.
"Food desert people are usually trying to get grocery stores and farmers markets into the food desert. For this really spatially dispersed problem, the policy solutions are probably different and have more to do with transit than with actually locating grocery stores."
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Suppose $f:\mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{C}$ is a map with your favorite smoothness condition (say, $C^1, C^{\infty}$ or holomorphic) and suppose that $f(\overline{\mathbb{Q}})\subset\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$. Is $f$ a polynomial? (I.e., if you chose $C^1$ or $C^{\infty}$ in the beginning, then is $f$ a polynomial in $z$ and $\overline{z}$, and if you chose holomorphic, then is $f$ a polynomial in $z$?)
I imagine this is a well-known problem, but I don't remember having seen it before. A holomorphic counter-example would be quite impressive, though I doubt such a thing exists.


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Cross posted at Healthy Concerns, since I did the same test to both blogs!
Right below this post is my first attempt to use Quick Compose. This seems to be Typepad's way of incorporating Status Updating (i.e. the kind of posting done in Twitter or Facebook) into one's blog.
There are two things that will probably keep me from using this all that regularly:
1. No titles or categories for your Quick post. It's really just the message. No headline. No ability to categorize (that I saw). So it interrupts the visual and formatting flow of your blog, providing less information that is, I think, required.
2. I may try it again, to see if you can post a hyperlink under text, but it didn't seem like it on first glance. It automatically converts any URl you enter as a hyperlink, but as per the test I did, that was a pretty long, gnarly URL. I would have preferred to put that link under text.
Now, it may encourage me to keep this blog a little more active by posting quick thoughts and links so easily.
But the bigger question, then, is this: Would that improve the quality of the blog. The beauty part of sharing ephemeral thoughts on Twitter is that they're just that: Ephemeral. Not too weighty. Fun, sure. Conversational, often. But without the conversational element, do those same thoughts hold up for a blog "post"?
Any of you using this feature? How? Why? Will you continue? What do your readers say?


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< Ambassadors | SteeringCommittee | Election
- 1 Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election 2009: Nominations
- 1.1 Joerg Simon (kital)
- 1.2 Shakthi Kannan (mbuf)
- 1.3 Maria Gracia Leandro (tatica)
- 1.4 Jean-Francois Saucier (djf_jeff)
- 1.5 Max Spevack (spevack)
- 1.6 Susmit Shannigrahi (susmit)
- 1.7 Scott Seiersen (sseiersen)
- 1.8 Robert Scheck (rsc)
- 1.9 Luca Foppiano (lfoppiano)
- 1.10 prename surname of next candidate (copy+paste this template) (ircnick)
Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election 2009: Nominations
Candidates may be any member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.
Ambassadors will be following the Fedora general election timeline.
You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages carry additional details about the nominee which the nominee is expected to write.
Joerg Simon (kital)
- Candidate statement
I am proud that major goals i had planned last year for my first FAmSCo candidature are achieved:
- put events in Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Hungary on the road to support underrepresented regions in the former eastern bloc
- improved membership process and regional mentoring
- measurability and transparency for membership is much better now [1], [2], [3],
But i also failed with some goals:
- the process to find new ways to encourage people for contributions needs improvement
- i was not sustainable enough to enforce that the Ambassador Group has liasons to the other important Groups in the Fedora Project
Once doesn't count ;) - i would be really happy if you trust me again. As a FAmSCo member i will further do all my best to help all Fedora Ambassadors to achieve their best contributions.
- Contributor profile
After a history as Linux user/enthusiast/contributor since 1995, my involvement with Fedora started with my first FUDCon in 2005, today i contribute to multiple groups in the Fedora Project. My main focus in Fedora right now is: the work on membership Community Development and Mentoring, Fedora as Security Testing Platform and the Fedora Security Spin, Fedora mailing list- and membership-administration and working on strong support for the Fedora Community in underrepresented regions in the world! Promoting Fedora on Events is another major part of my work and so i work as organizer, driver, helper, slogger, promoter on a lot Events every year and i produce, store and ship a lot of the EMEA SWAG and Booth Material.
- Future plans
- more transparency for the work that is done by FAmSCo
- further - enhance Fedora´s presence in underrepresented Regions - concrete: a translation marathon in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 and more focus on Africa!
- further - improve the Membership and regional Mentoring Process
- establish measurability not only for Membership also for Success of Events!
- ongoing - Establish liasons to other subprojects! - especally to marketing, artwork and docs!
- ongoing - Invent new ways to encourage people to contribute to the Fedora Project
Shakthi Kannan (mbuf)
- Candidate statement
* Streamline delivery of content to scale down the learning curve in using F/OSS with the help of Fedora. * Fedora marketing to regions that require attention and support. * Work on providing more hands-on workshops for newbies starting to work with Fedora.
- Contributor profile
I help with the following:
* Conduct free workshops, and training sessions during weekends /work. * Create F/OSS content /downloads. * Assist newbies on starting to work on F/OSS projects. * Work on Fedora Electronic Lab packaging Fedora Electronic Lab.
- Future plans
I don't make long term plans, but would like to focus on the above mentioned objectives for the next one year (to begin with).
Maria Gracia Leandro (tatica)
Quieres leer mi Declaración en Español? Accede a: (Would you like to read my Statement in Spanish? Go to: ) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tatica/FamscoStatement_ES
Nominated by Paul Mellors
- Candidate statement
As a Fedora Ambassador, I have been able to help several users and new ambassadors on this learning and teaching journey. My main goal is to make users heard and understood, make them be part of everything and give them answers to their needs. We all know that ambassadors are the knowledge gate into fedora and a connecting part between users and developers.
Fedora is one of the best communities, solid and organized but fedora is a lot more. We need to encourage our ambassadors not only to spread fedora to users, we also need to spread fedora to governments, developers, schools and also to ourselves. We need to teach people how to use fedora, but also how to contribute.
I'm really unsure about getting into FAmSCo, I know I'm one of the newest ambassadors running for this position, but maybe we need a new approach to get some issues solved, new ideas, more feed back, something. Let's keep fedora be what it is for us and work to grow up.
- Contributor profile
- Linux user since 2005
- Fedora user since 2006
- Fedora ambassador since 2008
- Working on:
- Design / Artwork
- Design and organization of http://proyectofedora.org/wiki
- Leader of LATAM Artwork http://proyectofedora.org/wiki/Arte
- Artwork for Education SIG, Security SIG http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/
- Several artwork for many latam and international events http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-LATAM/
- Base artwork for Fedora12 and some extras http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/
- Promo videos for new fedora users and ambassadors talks http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/fedora-videos/
- Events
- Main organization of FLISoL (Latinamerican Free Software Installfest) for Venezuela (also leader of Caracas organization since
- Design / Artwork
2008) http://flisol.org.ve http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Venezuela
- Local meetings and installfest http://proyectofedora.org/wiki/Eventos_Fedora
- Around 15 events per year giving talks, workshops and helping new users to get involved on fedora community
- Main Organization
- Working on a new organization for LATAM projects http://proyectofedora.org/wiki/Participa
- Future plans
- Reach more people than I do now, and be able to make them be part of fedora community and help with in our organization, planning and presence tasks.
- Get to countries and communities where there aren't fedora users or built communities
- Help to improve fedora merchandising on LatinAmerica.
- Increase communication/cooperation with Red Hat in LATAM
- Motivate all ambassadors to share their knowledge/experience in terms of how to organize/run a event/booth.
- Possibly I will run a research about what do we need as community, what are we doing wrong and what can we improve, because all these efforts is for our users.
- Next month will be release Fedora-Latam Magazine.
- Help to latinamerican community and try to set a new strategy for merchandising supply to all.
- We start the "fedora-route" in Venezuela, and I'll like to get some support, ideas and help to make this an international event; making several events with a close schedule (maybe a month or two)
- Help to improve Freemedia project held on LATAM
- I have a big concern about inactive ambassadors, I've see some numbers growing up and we need to do something about it. Maybe offer some prize, bi-monthly contest (just for fun) or something else
- more ideas are coming.
Jean-Francois Saucier (djf_jeff)
- Candidate statement
As some of you may already know, I am an Ambassador from Canada, specifically from Quebec City. One thing that I would like to do as a FAmSCo member would be the creation of a well defined workflow to help Canadian Ambassadors represent Fedora by :
* Setting up a Canadian Event Box (already started) * Helping Canadian Ambassadors in getting resources they need * Help them with the sponsoring of events in Canada * Represent Canada in FAmNA and FAmSCo meetings
The big goal I have for this term is to have Canada be an included part of FAmNA.
I know that my goals sound very Canada centric but I think that creating and documenting this process will benefit Ambassadors in regions less represented.
- Contributor profile
I started working with Linux ten years ago when I was in high school. Since that moment, the interest in learning more never left. That led me to work in an Open Source related environment. Currently, I mostly do deployment, development and security work with RHEL.
My involvement in the community is with bugzilla and trying to help people on irc and multiple boards across the net. I recently started to use Rawhide daily on a separate box at home, helping with tests and use cases. I plan on doing some packaging effort, submitting some packages that I maintain for my personal use.
I am also very active in local events, mainly "Install Fest" and LUG meetings. I love to make presentations, sharing knowledge with other people in the room, having some great discussions about a subject, etc.
- Future plans
* Promote Fedora in Quebec and Canada * Be sure to have a strong Fedora image and presence across Canada * Recruit and mentor new Canadian Ambassadors * Try to facilitate new Ambassadors contributions * Document every step to make them accessible to other Ambassadors
Max Spevack (spevack)
- Candidate statement -- My goal in running for FAMSCo is to continue to be the primary worldwide budget coordinator for the Fedora Project. In the past year, my primary goal with FAMSCo was to initiate and kickoff the Fedora Activity Day idea, which is an expansion of the Fedora Ambassador Day. I am very proud of the achievements in mentoring that FAMSCo achieved this past year. My small contribution to that was to teach a "How to be a Fedora Ambassador" class in #fedora-classroom a few times, and to produce a template for that class which anyone can use.
- Contributor profile -- I've been doing Fedora stuff for quite a while now. See my user page for more information.
- Future plans -- Just to keep doing what I'm doing.
Susmit Shannigrahi (susmit)
- Candidate statement -- To be updated
- Contributor profile -- To be updated
Scott Seiersen (sseiersen)
- Candidate statement-To be updated in the near future.
- Contributor profile-Will be updated.
- Future plans
Robert Scheck (rsc)
- Candidate statement -- To be updated
- Contributor profile -- To be updated
- Future plans -- To be updated
Luca Foppiano (lfoppiano)
- Candidate statement
- Contributor profile
- Ambassador since 2008, Fedora User since 2007, Linux user since 2002
- I've Joined some EMEA and Italy events: FOSDEM, Linux TAG, Linux Day for e.g.
- Actually running the Italian Fedora Community
- Future plans
- Keep FAmSCo up to date on Local groups activities/problems/improvements;
- Improve communication within and outside the FAmSCo and the fedora ambassadors project
- Help Ambassadors with events organization, supporting Ambassadors ideas and initiatives.
prename surname of next candidate (copy+paste this template) (ircnick)
- Candidate statement
- Contributor profile
- Future plans


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cross-posted from Lipstick Feminists
It is not an invitation
a provocation
an indication
that I want it
or give it
or that I hook.
My short skirt
is not begging for it
it does not want you
to rip it off me
or pull it down.
My short skirt
is not a legal reason
for raping me
although it has been before
it will not hold up
in the new court.
My short skirt, believe it or not
has nothing to do with you.
My short skirt
is about discovering
the power of my lower calves
about cool autumn air traveling
up my inner thighs
about allowing everything I see
or pass or feel to live inside.
My short skirt is not proof
that I am stupid
or undecided
or a malleable little girl.
My short skirt is my defiance
I will not let you make me afraid
My short skirt is not showing off
this is who I am
before you made me cover it
or tone it down.
Get used to it.
My short skirt is happiness
I can feel myself on the ground.
I am here. I am hot.
My short skirt is a liberation
flag in the women's army
I declare these streets, any streets
my vagina's country.
My short skirt
is turquoise water
with swimming colored fish
a summer festival
in the starry dark
a bird calling
a train arriving in a foreign town
my short skirt is a wild spin
a full breath
a tango dip
my short skirt is
But mainly my short skirt
and everything under it
is Mine.


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In "This is your brain on metaphors," Stanford University professor Robert Sapolsky describes the biology and neuroscience behind metaphors, how we (and those we're speaking to) understand them, and where our brains find it tough to discern between the literal and the metaphoric in our language. Here's a sweeping paragraph that sums up the ease with which humans grasp metaphor:
Symbols, metaphors, analogies, parables, synecdoche, figures of speech: we understand them. We understand that a captain wants more than just hands when he orders all of them on deck. We understand that Kafka's "Metamorphosis" isn't really about a cockroach. If we are of a certain theological ilk, we see bread and wine intertwined with body and blood. We grasp that the right piece of cloth can represent a nation and its values, and that setting fire to such a flag is a highly charged act. We can learn that a certain combination of sounds put together by Tchaikovsky represents Napoleon getting his butt kicked just outside Moscow. And that the name "Napoleon," in this case, represents thousands and thousands of soldiers dying cold and hungry, far from home.This is a long read, and a fascinating peek at what's really happening when you use a metaphor...great food for thought as you plan your next eloquent presentation or speech.
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Because my creativity well has gone a bit dry, I decided to sign up for WordPress's Writing 201 course again. It's a poetry course, and I had so much fun with the last one that I couldn't resist doing it again.
Today's post calls for a haiku on screens. I wrote so many haiku at one point that I even began to think in the form, but with this challenge, I've had a little more trouble. Screens are everywhere, but they really don't get my poetic motor running, so I decided to try something a little bit different. This haiku sequence is brought to you by the vision of a dressing screen that flashed into my head as I tried to get to sleep last night. I hope you'll enjoy it. 🙂
Separated from
Each other by naught but a
Screen, the two lovers
Poured out their hearts, full
Of longing, to the dark night.
So close, and yet so
Far away, the screen
Might have been a wall, thick and
As stone and mortar
Against the cries of the two
Lovers' broken hearts.
What do you think about when you think of screens? Do you think of computers and cell phones and TV, or do you think of something a little more old-fashioned?
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It's safe to say there aren't too many rich people like Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg.
The Bay Citizen, with Facebook hosting President Obama at a town hall Wednesday, examined public records and found that Zuckerberg, while registered to vote in California, has never voted in an election here.
Even more strikingly for a billionaire, he has never made a political donation -- either in federal or state campaigns.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
I suspect that will change. But Zuckerberg's refusal to play the political game is refreshing. And not voting, particularly in California, is probably the right choice (as I explained here last fall).


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Behind-the-Scenes - Beyond Graduation
Season 3 Episode 12 | 24m 33s
Go behind-the-scenes of the production of BEYOND GRADUATION: Meet Latinx directors Alan Domínguez, Dez Hernández, Georgiana González, Carlos Valdivia and Carla Dauden as they produce short-form films that tell personal stories of Latinx youth transitioning from high school to life. Presented with the National Association of Latino Independent Producers.
Aired: 10/08/18Video has closed captioning.
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Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's American Graduate: Getting Back to Work initiative. Additional funding provided by the Wyncote Foundation.


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A math teacher was murdered with a box cutter.
Somebody put a dead baby on a conveyor belt at a recycling plant.
Iran could have the bomb in a month.
Brett Favre has memory problems at 44.
Music eases pain, according to a survey of people who like Elton John songs.
And what about boomerangs? How do they work?
The discovered a cool Viking site in Scotland.
Don't be hanging with your baby at a reggae concert. Mon.
Police seek the costumed Garcia's robber.
And now for some important tax tips.


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Health Services Research into the German statutory and private healthcare system
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|September 8, 2005
Introduction and objectives
In Europe only the Netherlands and Germany provide opportunities for research into two-tiered healthcare systems. We therefore present methods of comparative health services research into the German statutory (SHI) and private (PHI) health insurance system on the basis of patient-level secondary data.
Methods and Results
We used the example of the first selective vascular 5HT1B/1D receptor agonist sumatriptan in a large sample of statutorily (SHI) and fully privately health-insured (PHI) patients with migraine headaches at 377 primary-care practices (MediPlus, IMS Health) in the second (1994) to fourth (1996) year of the Healthcare Structural Reform Act. PHI patients were regarded as "exposed" and SHI patients as "unexposed". The outcome was prescriptions for oral or subcutaneous sumatriptan as opposed to nonserotoninergic migraine attack therapies. Firstly we determined whether a disparity between the two systems existed. We then developed a novel person-time-related hurdle model and used it to characterize more precisely the disparity that was found. We estimated the epidemiologic consequences as a population-attributable risk fraction. In order to present the findings in a more easily understandable format, we adapted Brenner's risk advancement period [Ref. 1]. Generalized estimating equations accounted for clustering of patients within practices. Figures 1-4 [Fig. 1], [Fig. 2], [Fig. 3], [Fig. 4] do present the main results.
SHI migraine patients, i.e. more than 90 percent of all patients with migraine headaches in Germany, were found to be considerably disadvantaged in terms of access to health benefits from triptan therapy [Ref. 2], [Ref. 3], [Ref. 4] . Health policy research confined to the SHI system may be inadequate; the public must be provided with comprehensible information on the nationwide quality of healthcare service provision. The methods exemplified here may foster such research.
- 1.
- Brenner H, Gefeller O, Greenland S. Risk and rate advancement periods as measures of exposure impact on the occurrence of chronic diseases. Epidemiology 1993; 4(3): 229-36.
- 2.
- Krobot KJ, Miller WC, Kaufman JS, Preisser JS, Christensen DB, Ibrahim MA. The disparity in access to new medication by type of health insurance: Lessons from Germany. Med Care. 2004; 42(5): 487-91.
- 3.
- Krobot KJ, Kaufman JS, Miller WC, Preisser JS, Christensen DB, Ibrahim MA. Accessing a new medication in Germany: A novel approach to assess a health insurance-related barrier. Ann Epidemiol, in print 2005.
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- Krobot KJ, Miller WC, Kaufman JS, Christensen DB, Preisser JS, Ibrahim MA. Quantifying delay in access to new medical treatment: An application of risk advancement period methodology. Epidemiology 2004; 15(2): 202-207


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The high street retailer Poundworld is set to enter administration with up to 5,000 jobs at risk.
MORE FROM THE HIGH ST: Retail giant House of Fraser announces Yorkshire closures as part of 31 store cutback
The discount store claims to have started out in 1974 as a market stall in Wakefield and has a distribution centre in Normanton, West Yorkshire.
They have over 350 stores and employ around 7,000 people throughout the UK.


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NEW ORLEANS, LA--(Marketwired - Jul 10, 2014) - Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, the former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors with large financial interests that they have only until July 14, 2014 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against INSYS Therapeutics, Inc. (
What You May Do
If you purchased shares of INSYS and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll free at 1-877-515-1850, or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (email@example.com) or KSF Partner Melinda Nicholson (email@example.com). If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action by overseeing lead counsel with the goal of obtaining a fair and just resolution, you must request this position by application to the Court by July 14, 2014.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include the Former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is a law firm focused on securities class action and shareholder derivative litigation with offices in New York and Louisiana. KSF's lawyers have significant experience litigating complex securities class actions nationwide on behalf of both institutional and individual shareholders.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Contact Information:
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn
Managing Partner
Melinda Nicholson
206 Covington St.
Madisonville, LA 70447


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2 In those days la decree went out from mCaesar Augustus that all the world should be nregistered. 2 This was the first nregistration when1 Quirinius owas governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up pfrom Galilee, from the town of qNazareth, to Judea, to rthe city of David, which is called sBethlehem, tbecause he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed,2 who was with child. 6 And twhile they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and uwrapped him in swaddling cloths and vlaid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in wthe inn.3
8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord xappeared to them, and ythe glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all zthe people. 11 For aunto you is born this day in bthe city of David ca Savior, who is dChrist ethe Lord. 12 And fthis will be a sign for you: you will find a baby gwrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." 13 And suddenly there was with the angel ha multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 i"Glory to God jin the highest,
jand on earth kpeace lamong those with whom he is pleased!"4
15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." 16 And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby mlying in a manger. 17 And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. 18 And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. 19 But nMary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. 20 And the shepherds returned, oglorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
21 And pat the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, qhe was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22 And rwhen the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem sto present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in tthe Law of the Lord, u"Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord") 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in tthe Law of the Lord, v"a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." 25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was wrighteous and xdevout, ywaiting for zthe consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not asee death before he had seen bthe Lord's Christ. 27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when cthe parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, 28 he took him up in his arms and dblessed God and said,
29 "Lord, now you are letting your servant5 depart ein peace,
faccording to your word;
30 for gmy eyes have seen your hsalvation
31 ithat you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
32 ja light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and kfor glory to lyour people Israel."
33 And mhis father and his mother marveled at what was said about him. 34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, "Behold, this child is appointed nfor the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign othat is opposed 35 (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed."
36 And there was pa prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, 37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four.6 She did not depart from the temple, qworshiping with rfasting and prayer night and day. 38 And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were swaiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
39 And when they had performed everything according to tthe Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of uNazareth. 40 vAnd the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.
41 Now whis parents went xto Jerusalem every year at ythe Feast of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, zthey went up according to custom. 43 And when the feast awas ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. wHis parents did not know it, 44 but supposing him to be in the group they went a day's journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, 45 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, bsitting among cthe teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 And when his parents7 saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, dyour father and I have been searching for you in great distress." 49 And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that eI must be in fmy Father's house?"8 50 And gthey did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And hhis mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus iincreased in wisdom and in stature9 and in ifavor with God and man.
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This example shows how to filter before downsampling to mitigate the distortion caused by aliasing. You can use
decimate or
resample to filter and downsample with one function. Alternatively, you can lowpass filter your data and then use
downsample. Create a signal with baseband spectral support greater than radians. Use
decimate to filter the signal with a 10th-order Chebyshev type I lowpass filter prior to downsampling.
Create the signal and plot the magnitude spectrum.
F = [0 0.2500 0.5000 0.7500 1.0000]; A = [1.00 0.6667 0.3333 0 0]; Order = 511; B = fir2(Order,F,A); [Hx,W] = freqz(B,1,8192,'whole'); Hx = [Hx(4098:end) ; Hx(1:4097)]; omega = -pi+(2*pi/8192):(2*pi)/8192:pi; plot(omega,abs(Hx)) xlim([-pi pi]) grid title('Magnitude Spectrum') xlabel('Radians/Sample') ylabel('Magnitude')
Filter the signal with a 10th-order type I Chebyshev lowpass filter and downsample by 2. Plot the magnitude spectra of the original signal along with the filtered and downsampled signal.
y = decimate(B,2,10); [Hy,W] = freqz(y,1,8192,'whole'); Hy = [Hy(4098:end) ; Hy(1:4097)]; hold on plot(omega,abs(Hy),'r','linewidth',2) legend('Original Signal','Downsampled Signal')
The lowpass filter reduces the amount of aliasing distortion outside the interval .


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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Cristie Kerr is already the only two-time winner of the Kingsmill Championship and a return to her old putter has her on a roll again. The LPGA Tour veteran also knows better than to put too much stock into what she did on a Saturday on tour.
"There's definitely no chickens to be counted," Kerr said after making six birdies in a 5-under 66 that gave her a two-shot lead heading into Sunday. "You have to play a really good round tomorrow whether you're two ahead or two behind."
Stacy Lewis, ranked No. 2 in the world, shot a 69 and was tied with 2007 winner Suzann Pettersen, who shot 68, for second. Angela Stanford was fourth, three shots behind, after a bogey on the par-3 17th left her with a 70.
Pettersen seems to think with low scores to be had, Sunday can turn into a shootout.
"There's a lot of great players right in the mix," she said. "Cristie's two ahead. I don't think that's a massive advantage. I mean, we're all going to go out tomorrow and try to shoot as low as we can. It would take more than 10 under to win."
Kerr, at 10-under 203, took command on a day when seven players shared the lead at one point or another.
"Saturday is definitely moving day, but I've got to look at it like I'm two back tomorrow because that's when I play my best golf," said Kerr, the 15-time tour champion who won at Kingsmill in 2005 and '09. "I'm looking at it as moving day tomorrow as well because if you're not moving, someone else is going to. That's kind of where my head is right now."
She's also focused on avoiding being complacent.
"I know I have a two-shot lead, but a lead means nothing on Saturday. You need the lead after Sunday," she said.
For much of the day, the busiest person at Kingsmill was updating the leaderboard.
Pettersen was among the early leaders, but a bogey after missing the fairway at No. 9 dropped her back and she managed only one birdie on the back nine. Lewis, her playing partner, rallied with three birdies after an early bogey.
"My round was pretty boring and pretty frustrating," said Lewis, who has struggled reading the greens all week.
"I think we both kind of feel like we left a couple out there and there's still a low one out there," Pettersen added.
Several players looked to be going low Saturday before faltering.
When Lewis got to the 11th hole and saw she was still in the top five, she was surprised, but unaffected.
"The minute you think you can make a birdie, you're probably going to make a double," she said. "That's just the way this course plays."
No one demonstrated that better that Ilhee Lee, who had an eagle, five birdies, and bogey and two double-bogeys.
She moved into the early lead when a 3-foot birdie putt on No. 8 moved her to 5 under for the day and 9 under overall, but she gave all five shots back on the first four holes of the back nine, including back-to-back double bogeys on the par-4 12th and par-3 13th. She finished with her third consecutive 69 and was four off the lead.
The best round of the day came early, with Lizette Salas' bogey-free 65 vaulting her from 40th to a tie for sixth.
"I tried not to look at the leaderboard and just say, 'You know what? Just go have some fun,'" Salas said. "I think yesterday I was a little too conservative. I just did my style and attacked the pins."
That style had served Thai 17-year-old Ariya Jutanugarn well, helping her lead the tournament after the first two rounds, but she had three bogeys and a birdie on her first four holes and fought a balky putter for a 73 also to be five back.


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For decades conservatives have complained about the mainstream media, seeing them as too liberal.
Scholarly research shows that a good part of that perception stems from people on the right looking toward the center, thus craning their necks to the left. The same sort of thing also affects how people on the left see the press.
Yet the traditional media do have particular tendencies, such as focusing on dramatic tales over in-depth policy discussions. And on social issues, there is a tendency for the media to emphasize liberal positions. However, the media is quite even-handed to at least slightly conservative on economic issues and foreign policy.
But movement conservatives have been quite unhappy with the traditional media and have developed their own media outlets.
Now the Maine and U.S. conservative press needs to earn respect
At a minimum, this means they should have an unwavering commitment to a basic principle of journalism: Get it right.
This is what it means to get it right:
- Don't publish unless your information is correct.
- Use more than one credible source to tie down the facts.
- And if you make an error, correct it quickly and completely and without defensiveness.
In the last week, there have been two striking examples of not getting it right.
The "Friends of Hamas" story
Nationally, the website Breitbart.com has come under withering criticism for their story by Ben Shapiro claiming that Chuck Hagel, the president's nominee for Secretary of Defense, had involvement with a group called Friends of Hamas.
Thinly sourced, after its publication, the story spread far and wide.
Then it turned out that, not only does no such group exist, but the story was based on a joke.
As reporter Dan Friedman explained:
When rumors swirled that Hagel received speaking fees from controversial organizations, I attempted to check them out.
On Feb. 6, I called a Republican aide on Capitol Hill with a question: Did Hagel's Senate critics know of controversial groups that he had addressed?
Hagel was in hot water for alleged hostility to Israel. So, I asked my source, had Hagel given a speech to, say, the "Junior League of Hezbollah, in France"? And: What about "Friends of Hamas"?
The names were so over-the-top, so linked to terrorism in the Middle East, that it was clear I was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically. No one could take seriously the idea that organizations with those names existed — let alone that a former senator would speak to them.
A media outlet that wanted to be taken seriously would instantly retract something like this once it was proven false.
Instead, as Alex Koppleman explains, "Shapiro and Breitbart.com are refusing to admit that Shapiro made a serious mistake, and attacking anyone who suggests otherwise.
The Maine Wire's "Orweillian story"
Meanwhile, in Maine, the on-line newsletter of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, got another story wrong.
The group had just lost its lawsuit against the Maine Municipal Association (MMA). The MHPC's lawsuit claimed that some citizens' free speech rights were undermined by the MMA's campaign activities.
In describing its loss, the reporter suggested that the judge had said the MMA was "Orweillian." The story's headline and an accompanying picture furthered that claim.
However, it's quite clear that this was inaccurate.
Here's the part of the judge's decision using the word "Orwellian."
There is also a certain Orwellian aspect to the vision of government sponsored speech drowning out the voices of ordinary citizens and in so doing assuring the continued sustenance and primacy of government itself. See GEORGE ORWELL, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1949). But here the Plaintiffs have not made the case, if it could be made, that government speech so dominated the debate that the views of others, including the Plaintiffs, were eclipsed.
Note how the argument is structured. It says that the vision presented by the MHPC is one where the government drowns out "the voices of ordinary citizens" and keeps itself in control, but those bringing the case didn't show this happened.
So, no, the judge didn't say the MMA was "Orweillian." It said that the MHPC said MMA was "Orwellian," but the MHPC didn't come close to establishing that was true.
In fact, the judge says this is a major reason MHPC lost its lawsuit: MHPC didn't offer proof for one of its central claims.
To date, there has been no correction by the Maine Wire.
A strong, competent conservative press would be good to have.
Mainstream journalists don't always get it right. But they do have built-in safeguards which, if they fail at first, tend to kick in so they can offer corrections.
To provide a check on the mainstream press, which might overlook certain stories or cover them with a certain ideological lens, it would be worthwhile to have a strong, competent conservative press.
Not getting it right undermines these outlets' credibility.
Using charged language and publishing exciting but incorrect information probably works to keep other movement conservatives engaged and fired up.
But it doesn't enable these groups to persuade others or to be effective checks on politicians and the traditional media — not if they don't show respect for the fundamental press principle: get it right.


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In-depth review: can Amazon's Kindle light a fire under eBooks?
Judging the Kindle by its Cover
It seems the Kindle was only designed to be used with the included leather cover, which turns it into a hard bound virtual volume. The cover itself seems well built and is more attractive looking than the Kindle itself. It includes a padded area to protect the Kindle's screen (visible below top) and has an elastic band that holds the cover closed when not in use (below bottom).
Snugly fit into the cover, the odd Kindle shape makes more sense. Reading is still a bit foreign, as it feels like you are forever stuck on page one of a hard cover book, but the page turning buttons reflect how you'd turn real pages: tap the right edge to page forward or reach over to touch the upper left to flip back. Kept inside the cover, the Kindle quickly begins to feel natural, although it can still be easy to bump the page turning buttons accidentally.
Being inside the cover doesn't make the keyboard fell any less cheap, but the Kindle is designed primarily to read information, not to enter significant amounts of text. Taking the Kindle outside of its cover is a bit like taking a snail out of its shell: it lethally converts its plucky, slow crawl into an ugly mess you don't want to have in your hands. Used as intended however, the Kindle seems to work well within its intended purpose as an electronic reader.
Reading Between the Lines
Because the screen isn't backlit, you can't read in the dark. In bright light, the Kindle's display looks like very much like light grey, unbleached paper printed with a good quality inkjet printer (below, in contrast with paper). In dim light where paper books are still very readable, the Kindle's contrast and readability falls dramatically; it's like reading a wet newspaper: black on dark grey.
That limitation comes with the territory for devices using E Ink. The upside is that the Kindle lasts forever on a battery charge. It's rated for two days of use with the wireless antenna turned on, and a week if you turn it off. The wireless service, called "Whispernet," is used to order and receive content, and can also be used to access Wikipedia and experimentally browse the web. The store and ebook download service is exceptional, but the other online features sound more attractive than they actually are.
For a number of obvious reasons, directly competing against paper with a digital reader is quite impossibly difficult. For the serious reader, Kindle offers a variety of very compelling features that weigh against the inherent limitations of replacing paper with electronics. In sufficient light, the Kindle is about easy to read as paper; unlike the printed page however, you can select from six levels of type size on the Kindle, which range from what looks like a compact but readable 12 point type to a large, oversized 24 point font. That makes it an enabling technology for readers who require larger type.
Being digital also means that the Kindle can hold scores of volumes and periodicals without consuming space or filling landfills. Once fitted into the cover, it generally works well enough to serve as a stand in for a real book and makes it possible to read text-oriented books, magazines, and newspapers without waiting for or paying for shipping, and without unfolding a tabloid or broadsheet paper.
The Amazon Content Connection
The main reason this oddly shaped plastic gadget absolutely wipes the floor with Sony's sharper looking Reader is that fresh content for the Kindle is literally a few clicks away. Unlike the iPod or iPhone, you don't need a PC or or any software equivalent to iTunes in order to use the Kindle, although it does include a USB cable that allows you to manually drag files to the device as if it were a Flash memory card.
There's also that standard SD Flash RAM slot on the back that can be used to store additional document files on the device, or to manually transfer content from another system. Plugging the Kindle into a Mac or PC via USB presents both the internal Flash and the SD card as mounted volumes. It does not however provide any access to its internal system software, which happens to run a version of Linux, just like Sony's Reader. Incidentally, running Linux doesn't necessarily mean the device is functionally open; there is not currently any way to extend its features. Additionally, all Kindle purchased content is protected by DRM.
The exceptional new wrinkle introduced by the Kindle is its wireless features. Amazon links the unit to your account before mailing it to you, so it shows up personalized with your name when you turn it on. Amazon also activates EVDO mobile data service for you, which is included in the price of the unit and the content you buy. EVDO is the 3G mobile data service offered by CDMA2000 providers such as Sprint and Verizon Wireless, as opposed to the GSM network providers AT&T and T-Mobile in the US. EVDO is also what wags have in mind when they complain about the iPhone's mobile data service not being 3G. As described in How AT&T Picked Up the iPhone: A Brief History of Mobiles, EVDO is significantly faster than AT&T's "2.5G" EDGE, but is much slower than WiFi.
The Depth and Breadth of Amazon Content
Since the digital books and periodicals Amazon delivers are all relatively small, EVDO is plenty fast enough to download content. It typically arrives before you can actually navigate back to the home page to look for it. Issues of the Wall Street Journal appeared to be about 500 - 700 KB, and books seemed to be on average about the same size as long as they didn't include illustrations.
In the 180 MB of free space available, Amazon estimates you can hold about 200 books. If you need more than that, you can drop in a cheap 1 GB SD card and carry around a thousand more books. That type of capacity offers digital book readers another major reason to take the plunge. But where does one get it, and how much does it cost?
Books from the Amazon store (above) cost around $10 for bestsellers and new releases, or a couple dollars for public domain books. Other books are discounted significantly from list prices. For example, Aaron Hillegass' "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" lists for $44.99, but is offered at $29.96 as the Kindle download. The paper version is listed on Amazon's website at $31.49. Oddly, Amazon listed the full "print list price" as $49.99 on the web, suggesting a greater discount percentage online despite actually being cheaper as a download.
You can download a sample of a book for free to try it out; I sampled Hillegass' Cocoa book, which included the first three chapters, roughly 10% of the entire book. If you buy a book on accident, you can immediately undo your purchase. You can't sell or giveaway your ebooks when you're finished with them, as they are tied to your account just as most iTunes media downloads are. Rather than paying for a paper copy of a work that wouldn't be easy to duplicate, you're licensing a digital copy that--without DRM--would be trivially easy to mass duplicate and distribute.
The Kindle store lists around 94,000 titles broken down into two dozen categories. Those titles will likely expand rapidly as Amazon continues to line up new content. That sounds like a lot of books, but there's still significant gaps caused by publishers leery of entering the ebook business, and there were a number of duplications. For example, under "Computers and Internet," the store listed nearly 5000 books, but two of the top ten were "iPod and iTunes for Dummies," the latest version and an old edition from 2004. I find it difficult to believe that many people are actually buying a three year old edition of a "how to" book that was published prior to 90% of the iPods ever sold.
The Kindle ebook selection looks more like what Amazon could quickly wrangle the digital rights to distribute, not necessarily a listing of the most popular or most significant books. There were no Harry Potter books, but there were eleven books explaining, attacking, or defending the Harry Potter books. On the other hand, there are five books by Ann Coulter, who has only written six, and at least one of them was filed under the reference section. The Kindle catalog and selection needs some work, but it's still impressive that it's already both larger and lower priced than Sony's "thousands" of Connect ebooks and Mobipockets' library of 40,000 ebooks.
Thinking Outside the Book
Amazon is also offering the Digital Text Platform, which allows writers to publish and sell their work as ebooks for a retail price between a quarter and $200. Amazon pays the author 35% of the proceeds based on the price set by the author. That move makes for an interesting addition to Amazon's existing retail business, and a new opportunity for self-published works.
The Kindle store also offers digital editions of daily newspapers that range from $6 to $15 per month, with a current selection of just 8 US papers: the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Investor's Business Daily, Seattle Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as the Irish Times, the French language Le Monde, and German Frankfurter Allgemeine.
There's also a selection of digital versions of magazines at $1.25 to $3.50 per month. Currently, the offerings are limited to the Atlantic, Time, Fortune, Forbes, Readers Digest "express", the Nation, Slate, and Salon. Each issue feels a bit abbreviated, but there's also no advertising, so it makes for dense reading.
On page 3 of 5: Other Alternative Content: Blogs, Audiobooks, and Other Documents; A Decade of eBook Failure; Amazon Kindle vs Amazon Mobipocket; Kindle eBook Content Management vs Sony Reader, iTunes; and Kindle vs the iPhone or iPod Touch as a Document Reader.


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'Fight Club' Tshirts: New Model Pics Posted!
Our brand new 10th Anniversary Fight Club Tshirts are now shipping! If you haven't yet placed your order for one of these amazing shirts...
Order Your 'Fight Club' Tshirt Today!
Many of you were holding off on your orders until we had some modeling shots to show you. Well, as of last week, I got some friends together and we took about 400 pictures of them wearing the 'Fight Club' shirts. To see some of the best pics we captured, check out our Fight Club Tshirt gallery! We purposely photographed people with different body types, so you can get a full idea of how the shirts will look on you.
Also don't forget that we are co-promoting the sale of these awesome Tshirts with the limited edition posters that the designer, Kevin Tong, has put together. The design features the high-rez image from the shirts, which you can see below. These posters are selling out quick, and there will not be another run of them. The poster is hand screen printed, four colors, on 18 x 24 inch Cornflower Blue 100 lb Cover Paper in a limited edition of 200. It costs $30. For more details as well as pictures of the poster:
Order Your Limited Edition 'Fight Club' Poster Here!
Unfortunately, the t-shirt and the poster must be ordered separately as they ship from different locations.
Some more details about the shirts:
- They are brand called Next Level Apparel. (they fit much like American Apparel)
- We offer them in both Mens and Womens.
- The Mens come in Cornflower Blue and Cream.
- The Womens come in Cornflower Blue only (for now).
- We offer all sizes from Small up to 2XL.
- There is no back design.
For any other questions, please contact email@example.com and either Mirka or I will get back to you as soon as we can.
Order Your 'Fight Club' Shirt Here!
Combo Deals!
One last thing I want to mention is these new combo deals we're offering for the first time. Quite simply, if you purchase your 'Fight Club' Tshirt along with another item in our Store, you'll save $10 off your total.
Currently, we are offering combo deals for the 'Fight Club' Tshirt along with our Chuck Palahniuk Documentary DVD, or you can choose to purchase it along with an Annual Premium Membership. We're also offering deals on our Choke and Survivor shirts, along with the Chuck Palahniuk Docuementary DVD, and with that combo, you'll save $11.
You'll see these deals offering in our Store page. We may offer more soon, but for now, take advantage of these great deals.
Check Out Our Discount Combo Deals
That's it! Get your orders in and we'll ship them out within one week!


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The Dream Warrior
Rude Awakening
Erik Perez has finished his first three UFC opponents in the first round. | Photo: Dave Mandel/Sherdog.com
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When it comes to fighting, Erik Perez has always been a bit of a dreamer.
Whether that meant learning under a well-known trainer, competing on the world's largest mixed martial arts stage or wrapping championship gold around his waist, Perez's fantasies were often specifically geared toward a realm he entered when most kids were barely learning how to spell their names.
When the time arrived for the only-Mexican born fighter on the Ultimate Fighting Championship's roster to make his way to the Octagon for the first time, it was only natural that he began to feel a little overwhelmed. After all, it was only days earlier that Perez was overweight, depressed and out of work, the day-to-day grind of training for six-plus months with no visible payoff in sight taking its inevitable toll.
That all changed when longtime trainer and mentor Mike Valle informed Perez that Step 1 of his dream fulfillment plan was in motion. The UFC had called, but there was a catch: the promotion wanted the young bantamweight to face John Albert at "The Ultimate Fighter 15" Finale in a week-and-a-half's time. The decision, of course, was a no-brainer; Perez could not stop crying and shaking when he received the good news. He then called his parents in Mexico and cried some more on the phone.
"Not too many guys achieve their dreams," Perez said.
From there, the hard part would seem to have been a frantic weight cut in which Perez rushed to shed some 34 pounds to tip the scales just under the bantamweight limit. The adventure was only beginning, however. On fight night, somewhere between the time it took to admire the UFC logo on his four-ounce gloves and when the mariachi music signaling his walk to the cage hit the loudspeakers at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Perez blacked out.
When he came to his senses, Albert was on the verge of ruining his debut with a deep triangle choke. An altered state of consciousness is not unusual for an athlete during the heat of competition, but it was unfamiliar territory for Perez. Even so, it was hard to argue with the results: "El Goyito" won via armbar with just 42 seconds left in the first round. Where Perez went during those harrowing opening minutes of his UFC debut will forever remain a mystery. The important thing was that his out-of-body experience did not last long enough to derail his dreams. Everything, from holding a UFC belt to fighting in his homeland, remains in play.
"I start punching Albert, and I was about to pass out. He tries for the armbar, I jump in, grab the mount, go for the submission and win the fight," Perez said, snapping his fingers for emphasis. "I was lost for three minutes, and then I won in about 10 seconds."
In hindsight, it all seems so simple. Since then, Perez has done his best to ingrain himself in the memories of fight fans and UFC brass alike, earning first-round knockout victories over Ken Stone and Byron Bloodworth in his next two Octagon appearances. Perez makes his first main-card appearance at UFC Fight Night 27 on Wednesday in Indianapolis, where he will meet hard-nosed Japanese veteran Takeya Mizugaki in a matchup that represents the most significant step in the Mexican fighter's career.
Photo: Sherdog.com
Jackson saw potential in Perez.
UFC President Dana White has had Mexico in his sights for some time, and it is no secret that the Las-Vegas based organization would like nothing better than to plant its flag on the soil of the boxing-mad country. Although one man's progress is but a small piece in the overall puzzle, continued success for Perez would do wonders in paving the way for Zuffa to hold an event South of the Border. Perez is well aware of the burden he faces as a nation's sole representative in the Octagon.
"Every fight is more pressure because more people know [about me]," he said. "I'm transforming this pressure into motivation."
According to Perez, the number of MMA fans is increasing rapidly in his home country. Spurring that growth is the recent deal the UFC signed with Televisa Networks to bring its programming to 20 Spanish-speaking countries across Latin America, including Mexico. Later this year, Televisa is expected to launch a 24-hour network solely devoted to UFC content. Already Perez can sense a shift in the interest of the Mexican fight fan. While boxers Juan Manuel Marquez, Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. are as popular as ever, Perez claims Octagon staples like Jon Jones, Cain Velasquez and Carlos Condit are gradually receiving more recognition.
"Every time I go, more people are in training, more people see the fights. MMA is one sport I think that, in a couple years, will be bigger than boxing," he said. "Now there are more names in MMA than in boxing that people like."
Perez factors prominently into any big-picture scenario involving Mexico and the UFC, but he is not allowing himself to look past the opponent immediately in front of him. For someone who had to verify his toughness to his siblings and peers by fighting kids in his neighborhood as early as 7 years old, it only makes sense to take life on a fight-by-fight basis.
While Perez has steamrolled the opposition inside the Octagon, he encountered some serious adversity outside of it, as a staph-infection forced him to withdraw from a proposed bout with Johnny Bedford at UFC 159. For a while, the situation was dire, even life threatening, as his body did not properly respond to prescribed antibiotics. In the end, "Goyito" did what he has done so often in his life: he fought through it. After having avoided the initially recommended surgery, Perez expects to suffer no ill effects from the infection in his first action since December.
At his home base of Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts, a smiling Perez appears to be in a perpetual state of bliss -- exactly how one might imagine a man living the dream would look. It was the same sunny demeanor, along with his talent, that first caught the eye of Greg Jackson, who encountered Perez years ago while in Monterrey to attend a seminar. At Valle's urging, he made it a point to pay special attention to the teenage muay Thai practitioner who had been making the three-hour trek to hone his skills at Valle's Weslaco, Texas, gym.
"He was kind of a young, wide-eyed kid, really sweet and nice," Jackson said. "You could tell that he had a lot of potential and was very gifted."
Perez paints a different picture of his youth, describing himself as a kid with "a lot of energy and anger" who was always involved in a scrap, whether on the streets of Guadalupe or at school. To provide an outlet for that aggression, his father enrolled him in sanda, the Chinese martial art also known as sanshou, which was made famous in MMA circles by UFC middleweight Cung Le. It was the beginning of a love affair with combat arts that continues to this day for Perez, who in addition to practicing sanda, took fights in boxing and muay Thai before focusing on MMA.
"It changed my life. It changed my temper," he said. "When I'm training, I'll be more relaxed. I don't want to [get in fights]."
As it turned out, Perez found plenty of opposition within the confines of the ring and cage, taking his first muay Thai bout at age 16 and his first MMA fight at 17. His youthful features earned him the moniker "Goyito," as he squared off with men sometimes 15 to 20 years his senior. The age difference was no issue for someone who had already been fighting for nearly a decade himself.
"Every time I fought," Perez said, "I was never scared of people that were bigger, taller or older."
Finish Reading » "He's just a hard working kid. He's a lot younger than me and he inspires me to train harder, as well. I benefit from him living with me just as much as he does."


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New York, March 22, 2012--Turkish authorities must immediately dismiss the new criminal investigation against journalist Ahmet Şık and should thoroughly investigate threats made against Şık and investigative journalist Nedim Şener, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On March 12, Şık and Şener were released from prison on bail for the duration of their ongoing trial, according to news reports. The journalists were charged with participating in the purported Ergenekon antistate plot and had already remained in prison for more than a year, according to news reports.
Special Authority Public Chief Prosecutor Muammer Akkaş launched a new investigation against Şık shortly after his release, according to the independent online news agency Bianet, although Can Atalay, a member of Şık's defense team, told CPJ today that the journalist had not yet received an official notification of legal action.
The new investigation against Şık accused him of allegedly "threatening and identifying judges and prosecutors as targets for terror organizations" in his statement to journalists upon his release from prison, Bianet reported. Şık had told the press that day: "Incomplete justice is not going to bring justice and democracy. About one hundred journalists are still in prison. ... The police officers, prosecutors, and judges who plotted and carried out this complot will go to prison. Justice will come when they enter this prison," according to news reports.
Four days after Şık and Şener were released from prison, unknown individuals posted threats against them on Twitter. On March 16, someone posting under the name Faiz Düşmanı (Enemy of Interest) tweeted: "Attention, attention... I warn the government... The Ergenekon Terror Organization is planning to assassinate Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener." The Twitter post then said the assassination would be blamed on the Fethullah Gülen, a powerful religious brotherhood close to Prime Minister Recep Tayyp Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP). CPJ confirmed that the user's Twitter account is no longer available.
"In launching yet another politicized investigation against Ahmet Şık, Turkish authorities are demonstrating their determination to criminalize dissent," CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova said. "We call on authorities to use their resources instead to investigate the criminal threat against Şık and Nedim Şener and to ensure their safety."
Also, on Wednesday, Erdoğan sought to link journalists who cover Kurdish separatist issues with the separatists themselves. In comments directed at those journalists, made at a meeting of the ruling AKP, the prime minister said: "Do you have ears? Are you deaf? ... How long will you make common cause with those who endeavor to turn an easeful country into a restless country?"
"We are deeply concerned by Prime Minister Erdoğan's intemperate statements concerning journalists," Ognianova said. "Coming from his high office, they are equivalent to instructions to his subordinates to crack down on the independent media."