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We noted a couple of months back that the theme for this year's LA Auto Show Design Challenge was "Highway Patrol vehicles in the year 2025." Now, with the show's press days but a week away, the pie-in-the-sky po-po-machine renderings have been made public.
The wacky heavy-industrialists at Subaru decided that rather than just design a police vehicle for California, they'd pull a page from Leonard Freeman's playbook and move the setting to Hawaii. For good measure, they also deigned to pay tribute to Denis Leary and the FDNY. Distressingly, their SHARC (Subaru Automated Highway Response Concept) has little, if anything, to do with Teutonic metal-mite Udo Dirkschneider. Rather, it's some type of autonomous vehicle that runs on renewable energy. We assume that said renewal energy is not chum. Or the limbs of surfers.
Honda R&D; Japan went obvious, plucking the heartstrings of '70s cop-show aficionados with the "CHiPs" 2025 Traffic Crawler. Designed with an eye toward another a boom in California car culture once we all adapt to the joys of autonomous motoring, Honda's three-wheeler splits the difference between nimble and tough.
Their counterparts in the company's Advanced Design Studio came up with a two-vehicle system that would seem right at home in Bubblegum Crisis, an anime series which borrowed liberally from Blade Runner, thus looping everything back onto a futuristic Los Angeles. No mention was made of either boomers or skin-jobs, but the CHP Drone Squad features a future-butch van and a bike that can either be used as a drone or a ride-on vehicle.
On a similar note, General Motors delivers the Volt Squad, a three-vehicle unit built around the core principles of "Observe, pursue and engage." All three machines would be powered by some future variant of the Volt's powertrain.
BMW DesignworksUSA's E-Patrol (Human-Drone Pursuit Vehicle) is designed to be operated by a team of two — a driver and a drone operator. The right-seater has his choice of airborne or wheeled drones, suggesting that future perpetrators might need to invest in anti-aircraft weaponry if a heist is expected to be successful. Alternately, there's always cybercrime.
Mercedes-Benz thinks that 2025 will likely be merely a more futuristic version of the present. As such, they've taken their Ener-G-Force concept from this year's show and polizei-ified it. After all, if they've been churning out variations on the archaic Geländewagen for 33 years, 13 years would be but a blip in the life of this newfangled G-Class.
So, faced with a choice of future police states and future state police, which would you choose? Have it out in the comments below.
The 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show takes place Nov. 28 through Dec. 9. In keeping with the Southern California lifestyle, the LA auto show is usually a showcase for green cars, hybrid vehicles and electric transportation. But sports cars – especially convertibles – also command the spotlight. Check out Autoweek's complete coverage of the Los Angeles Auto Show here.


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A prosecution of Mr. Breitbart and O'Keefe – will serve the multiple functions of holding him accountable, recompensing his many victims, and also will provide an "ounce of prevention" by slowing down or stopping the harm he continues to work tirelessly to visit on the American people.
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महिंद्रा एंड महिंद्रा लिमिटेड की फ़रवरी'23 ट्रैक्टर सेल्स में 30% की वृद्धि, 24619 ट्रैक्टर बेचे
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Mahindra Yuvo 575 DI, Mahindra Yuvo 415 DI, and Mahindra JIVO 225DI are the most popular Mahindra tractor models.


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Extracurricula Activities
The system of extracurricula activities helps the ISUCT students to obtain good education.
Art association "Sheremetev Centre" carries out versatile esthetic education of the students and directs a varied programme of entertainment, visiting speakers, social and cultural events, discussion clubs,etc.
The identity card of the "Sheremetyev Centre" and of the city of Ivanovo is the choir which was awarded the honorary right to be called "The People's group". The choir is the laureate of all-Russian and internatioanl festivals. Its concerts held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin and many other cities abroad and in Russia were a great success.
More than 15 art groups are the members of the students' club which became a real youth centre for the students of the University. The students' club participates in various perfomances where the spectators enjoy the students theatrical group, dancing and folklore groups, circus studio, show-theatre "Come on", rock groups.
The University students' club was many times the winner of the regional amateur performances festival "The Students' Spring" and thus became a real leader among other higher schools of Ivanovo.
Numerous sport groups are very popular at the University. The students take part in various intramural and extramural sport events and often become their winners.
Doctors and qualified medical staff of the profilactic and health centre take care of the faculty members and students health. It has excellent medical equipment, comfortable accomodations and is considered to be the best in Ivanovo and the oblast.


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Formatting OpenBSD /etc/fstab file with awk
An example of an OpenBSD /etc/fstab file:
/dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0m /backup ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0e /home/j65nko ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0k /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2 /dev/wd0l /usr/local ffs rw,nodev 1 2 /dev/wd0f /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0h /var/log ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0g /var/tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
# special mount fs mount dump fsck # device point type options freq pass# # ======= ===== ==== ======= ==== ===== # /dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0m /backup ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0e /home/j65nko ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0k /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2 /dev/wd0l /usr/local ffs rw,nodev 1 2 /dev/wd0f /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0h /var/log ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0g /var/tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
# Reformat OpenBSD /etc/fstab file # $Id: format_fstab,v 1.1 2010/01/27 02:14:02 j65nko Exp $ # usage: awk -f format_fstab /etc/fstab # WARNING: first backup your original fstab file before redirecting # the output of this awk script to the /etc/fstab # cd /etc # cp -p fstab fstab.orig # awk -f format_fstab fstab.orig >fstab # cat fstab BEGIN { printf("%s\t%s\t\t\t\t\t%s\t%s\t\t\t\t\t%s\t%s\n", "# special","mount","fs","mount","dump","fsck") printf("%s\t%s\t\t\t\t\t%s\t%s\t\t\t\t\t%s\t%s\n","# device","point","type","options","freq","pass#") printf("%s\t%s\t\t\t\t\t%s\t%s\t\t\t\t\t%s\t%s\n","# =======","=====","====","=======","====","=====") printf("#\n") } { T2=" " if (length($2) >= 1 ) T2="\t\t\t\t" if (length($2) >= 8 ) T2="\t\t\t" if (length($2) >= 16 ) T2="\t\t" if (length($2) >= 24 ) T2="\t" T4=" " if (length($4) >= 1 ) T4="\t\t\t\t" if (length($4) >= 8 ) T4="\t\t\t" if (length($4) >= 16 ) T4="\t\t" if (length($4) >= 24 ) T4="\t" printf( "%s\t%s%s\t%s\t%s%s\t%s\t%s\n" ,$1,$2,T2,$3,$4,T4,$5,$6) } # end of script
# -------------------------------------------------- FILE=/etc/fstab FILE=./fstab ORIG=${FILE}.orig cp ${FILE} ${ORIG} # create backup echo Formatting ${FILE} cat <<END >${FILE} # special mount fs mount dump fsck # device point type options freq pass# # ====== ===== ==== ======= ==== ===== # $(awk '{ printf("%s\t%s\t\t%s\t%s\t\t\t\t%s\t%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6)}' $ORIG ) /dev/cd0a /cdrom d9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0a /floppy msdos ro,noauto 0 0 END cat $FILE
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
Good article, as i see, you love scripts ! It is very technical... hard to understand all...it is necessary to be honest ;-)
Why don't you build guide for novice users?
All you need for that Wesley, is to type `man awk` on any decent machine. I know FreeBSD and OpenBSDs manual pages for it do plenty of explaining, but I can't say the same for every platform.
The same thing could also be used with Perls built in rubish printing language.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
Although the code provided does not do anything extensive, what needs to be supplied to awk(1)'s interpreter to perform this formatting is not that complicated either. In fact, a point being made is that with nominal knowledge of what awk(1) does & does well, it serves as a good tool to solve this particular type of problem. Other scripting languages can do the same thing, but other scripting languages also come from different backgrounds. The mindset needed to write similar code will result in completely different scripts. I urge others to take this same problem & implement a similar solution in other languages. The point is not to pit one language against another, but point out differences in their underlying assumptions.
Just to quickly explain the methodology of awk(1) scripts, awk(1) is very good at batch processing -- performing the same tasks to each & every row in a file (preferably text files...). In meeting this goal:
As for where to find more information on awk(1):
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Education 'protects' poor women from fattening effects of rising wealth
10 March 2014
Obesity levels among women in low- and middle-income countries tend to rise in line with wealth as they purchase more energy-dense foods, but a new UCL study suggests that more educated consumers make better food choices that mitigate this effect.
The study showed that in middle-income countries, obesity levels among women with secondary or higher education are 14-19% lower than less-educated women of similar wealth.
The research, published in PLOS ONE, looked at the relationships between obesity, education and wealth in over 250,000 people across four middle-income and three low-income countries between 2005 and 2010. More educated people are typically wealthier, and this study was the first to isolate the effects of education and wealth to unpick their distinct effects.
Each household's "wealth index" was measured by evaluating their possessions, housing situation and access to basic amenities. Based on these criteria, they were divided into five wealth brackets on a scale of 1-5, from richest to poorest, in each country.
The middle-income countries examined were Egypt, Jordan, Peru and Colombia. In Egypt, where 43% of the 32,272 women surveyed were obese, the effect of wealth on obesity was reduced as education levels increased. The increased risk of obesity associated with a rise in wealth bracket was 39% for women with primary education or below, 25% for women with secondary education and only 2% for women with higher education.
For the first time, we have studied the interaction between wealth and education and found that they have fundamentally different effects on obesity
Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health)
"For the first time, we have studied the interaction between wealth and education and found that they have fundamentally different effects on obesity," says lead author Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi, Wellcome Trust fellow at UCL. "As emerging economies are exposed to a flood of calories from the global food market, rising wealth often leads to rising obesity as people buy energy-dense foods.
"Our study suggests that investing in women's education protects against this effect by empowering individuals to look after their health. However, it is not a substitute for good public health systems and the regulation of commercial activity such as the aggressive marketing that puts pressure on individuals to consume unhealthy products and take unnecessary risks with their health."
In the low-income countries of India, Nigeria and Benin, the relationship between education and wealth was more difficult to unpick. In India, where only 2.8% of the 113,063 women surveyed were obese, wealth had a profound impact on the risk of obesity. For each increase in wealth bracket, the risk of obesity increased by 123%.
"The jump in obesity risk that people in low-income countries experience as they become wealthier is likely related to the environment of scarcity," explains Dr Aitsi-Selmi. "The weight of scientific evidence that we have leaves no doubt that the environment we live in is largely responsible for the obesity epidemic."
- Research paper in PLOS ONE [Open Access]
- Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi's academic profile on Iris
- UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Map of obesity in adult females (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)


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In the directions requiring verification, all transactions after identification take place without delays.
On demand we can increase an allowance, any provided Kazakhstan bank to the necessary amount.
The term of handling of requests in the automatic mode - 5 minutes.
Bitcoin to automatic the direction of exchange is added.
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Круглосуточно, без выходных
Режим работы оператора:
Пн-Пт: с 7:00 до 24:00 UTC+6
Сб-Вс: свободный график
This transaction is made in the automatic mode, except transactions with banks.
In certain cases requests can be processed by the operator in the manual mode. Handling time, as a rule, borrows, from 5 to 30 minutes in working hours (daily from 07:00 till 1:00 GMT +6).
The guaranteed transaction accomplishment time — 24 hours
For exchange, you need to follow some steps:
Fill in all the fields of the submitted form. Click "Continue".
Read the terms of agreement for the provision of exchange services, if you accept them, tick in the appropriate box/click "I accept" ("Agree").
Again, check the details of the application.
Pay for your request. To do this, you should to make a required Deposit amount, follow the instructions on our website.
After performing these steps, the system moves you to the page "Application Status", which will indicate the status of your transfer.
Note: this operation will require the participation of the operator (see operator status).


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#anatomy #animals #street art
Anatomical Murals of Bisected Animals by Street Artist Nychos
Street artist Nychos paints large murals of bisected animals and humans, large works that allow you to take a peek inside their anatomical structure. These works include extremely detailed bone and vein structures, such as the Tyrannosaurus rex he painted in Oakland, California late last year. Most recently he has been on a tour through Australia where he has made stops in both Sydney and Melbourne to put up works.
Nychos opened a solo exhibition of works on paper with Juddy Roller Gallery in Melbourne during this tour titled Monochrome Organism on March 10. You can see more of his public and canvas-based paintings on his Instagram and Facebook. (via This Isn't Happiness)
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Wolf Blitzer delivers the most important breaking news and political, international, and national security stories of the day. Tune to The Situation Room weekdays 5-7pm ET on CNN.
Thousands of anti-government protesters are camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square, after one deadline passed for embattled Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy to step down, and another one is looming.
Morsy was elected Egypt's president in June 2012, but critics say he has become increasingly authoritarian during his year in power and has failed to revive Egypt's economy.
In an exclusive interview in Cairo in January, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy told Wolf Blitzer that it would take time until real change came to Egypt.
"I would say to start real stability and development, there are steps," Morsy said. "We may take six months or a year. To reach what we want, I think we may take five or ten years to reach 60, 70 percent of what we want."
Today in the 6pm ET hour of "The Situation Room," CNN's Ben Wedeman reports on the latest unrest from Cairo. CNN's Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour also join Wolf Blitzer for analysis.
Related CNN iReport: Wolf interviews Egyptian President Morsy
Alternative name – RECOUPVOLUTION!
It is wrong to call this a coup, it is misnomer because this is the Egyptian masses who demanded the removal of fundamentalist administration. Let's give the event a name – COUPVOLUTION!
Morsi was elected, They should change through peaceful and legal means. What will unfold in the coming 48 hours will determine the future of democracy in Egypt. George Washington said: "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government" . I was in Cairo before and right after the revolution. the attitude of the people is that revolution means they can do whatever they want, including not obeying and respecting institutions. Absenteeism is high at the workplace since the revolution.
"They don't want Obama's interference in Egypt, so telling this guy to go, won't allow Obama to supply this Guy "Noisy Morsy' with 'Scramble the Jets' or Tanks!"
Omar Sharif said it eloquently; The People are hungry.
For food: poverty/unemployment.
Housing: Crushing lack of affordable housing.
Intimacy: Sexual assaults during protests underline the general sexual frustration of the population.
Democracy: has been hijacked by the Brotherhood.
Inspiration: Where is a strong charismatic leader? Egypt needs another Gamal Abdel Nasser, but a democratic/fair-minded one.
There are no easy answers, and it will take a herculean effort to revive a dead economy. But Morsi has certainly disappointed everyone – including his supporters, and got off on the wrong foot.
It will actually take effort, and courageousness from Egypt's leaders – courageousness to compromise and to offer new platforms for progress and reform. Unfortunately, while those things will take time, time alone is not likely to produce these outcomes. I sincerely hope the President offers a meaningful path; but I fear he intends to just wait it out.
I do find it ironic that he thinks protests are the birth pangs of people gaining experience.
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By: Sheikh Mansour Leghaei
In this chapter we will conduct a quick survey in different areas of jurisprudence. As you will see, the survey shows:
1) The necessity of the existence of a legislative ruler (al-Hakim al-Shar') in order to implement the divine laws, and that:
2) Governance is part of the system of Islamic jurisprudence.
1- Prayer
a- Congregational prayers: Islam has emphasised on congregational prayers even in the battle lines, in which case it is called the prayer of fear or prayer of pursuit.
b- Prayer for the deceased: it is narrated from Abu Abdullah (as): "if the Imam is present at the burial of the corpse then he is the most worthy to pray over it" It is also narrated from the Commander of the Faithful (as): "if a ruler from among the rulers of Allah is present at the burial of the corpse then he is more worthy of praying over it". The meaning of 'ruler' and 'Imam' in these and similar narrations is more general than the infallible Imam (as) and the just jurist, as will come later. This is why Sheikh al-Tusi says in 'al-Mabsoot': 'if the just Imam attends he would be more worthy of leading and it would be obligatory upon the guardian (of the deceased) to ask him to go forward to lead'. Therefore, the specification of the word 'Imam' to the infallible Imam by the author of al-Jawahir is out of place.
c- Burying the deceased Muslim who has no guardian, trustee or heir is the obligation of the legislative ruler.
d- Friday prayer: the one who should take up its establishment is the leader of the community or his representative. Al-Fadhl ibn Shathan narrated from al-Ridha (as): "if it is said: 'why was the sermon put in place?' It would be said: 'the congregational prayer is a general gathering and so He wanted to make a way for the leader to advise the people and to encourage them towards obedience and frighten them from disobedience, and to help them towards that which is beneficial for their worldly and religious affairs, and to inform of all the harmful or beneficial events that are taking place across the globe."
e- The Eid Prayers: it is narrated in the authenticated narration of Suma'a from Abu Abdullah (as): "there is no prayer on the day of Eid except with the Imam" [25].. This narration is relevant based on the possibility that 'Imam' in this narration is not referring to the leader of the congregational prayers but to the leader of the community.
2- Fasting and Ritual Self-Isolation (i'tikaf)
It is narrated in the authentic narration of Muhammad ibn Qays from Abu Ja'far (as): "if two witnesses witness in the presence of the Imam that they saw the crescent moon thirty nights ago the Imam would command the people to break their fast (the next day)" (Wasailul Shia) our jurists are in agreement that the term 'Imam' in this context means the (just) ruler.
3- Zakat
It can be understood from the Glorious Book and numerous narrations that Zakat is among the taxes of the Islamic government and that the one who is in charge of collecting and distributing the Zakat is the Legislative Ruler, through his workers. The following two narrations will be sufficient to prove the point:
a- The authentic narration of Zurarah and Muhammad ibn Muslim, in which they narrate from Abu Abdullah (as) regarding the interpretation of the Qur'anic ayah: "surely, charity is for the poor and the indigent…" that he (as) said: "the Imam shall give all of these people"
b- It is narrated from al-Ridha (as): "if a person who is overwhelmed with debt borrows money or seeks to borrow money rightfully, he would be given one year respite. After this year, if his situation does not improve, the Imam shall fulfil his debt from the public treasury."
4- Khums, Anfal and Kharaj
There is no disagreement about the fact that Khums and Anfal belong to the Imam due to his leadership, and this is why they are passed on from the Imam to the next Imam and not to the heirs of the Imam. Abi Ali ibn Rashid narrated from Imam al-Hadi (as): "whatever belonged to my father because of his position of Imamat belongs to me, and whatever belonged to him for other reasons is inheritance."
It is narrated from Imam al-Kadhim (as) that he said: "Khums applies to five things: war booty, treasures found while diving, treasures under the earth, the mines, and Salina. From each of these five things Khums should be extracted and allocated to those whom Allah (swt) allocated it to…
It should be divided among them according to the Holy Book and the Sunna such that it will suffice them for that year…and the earth which was taken by force with men and horses, it is given to those who work on that land, cultivate and maintain it, according to what the Ruler agrees with them as per their share; being a half, or a third, or two thirds, and according to what will be beneficial for them and will not harm them…
The rest of the Khums will go towards the sustenance of the assistants of the Ruler in establishing the religion of Allah, as well as what he sees fit to strengthen Islam and strengthen the religion, such as Jihad and other things which have a general benefit. None of it, whether a large or small amount, is for himself. Besides Khums, the Anfal belongs to him.
Anfal is any ruined land whose inhabitants have abandoned it, as well as any land that was not attacked by horses and horsemen but whose inhabitants reached an agreement and surrendered without fighting. To him also belongs the peaks of the mountains and the insides of the valleys, as well as the woods and any barren land with no caretaker…and he is the heir of the one with no heir"
5- Hajj
In the narration of Abdullah ibn Sinan from Abu Abdullah (as): "if people stopped making the pilgrimage of Hajj, it would be obligatory upon the Imam to force them to perform Hajj" (Wasailul Shia)
In another narration from Abu Abdullah (as): "if people did not perform Hajj, it would be obligatory upon the ruler to force them to do this, and to stay there. Also, if they stopped visiting the Prophet (pbuh), it would be for the ruler to force them to do this and to stay there. If they did not have the financial means, he would have to spend on them from the public treasury of the Muslims".
6- Jihad
The obligation of Jihad in general is one of the necessities of the religion of Islam. The ayat regarding this obligation are numerous. Is it possible to imagine Jihad- whether it be defensive or pre-emptive- without a ruler or governor or army? Sheikh al-Tusi said regarding fighting those who oppose the Imam: 'whoever rebels against a just Imam and breaks his allegiance to him and opposes him in his rulings, then he is a rebel and it is permissible for the Imam to fight him and battle against him'.
7- al-Hijr (to limit someone's legal competence)
The necessity of a government in dealing with the affair of a Mahjour (the one who is restricted in accessing his wealth) is clear. In the narration of Safwan it is narrated: "I asked Abul Hassan (as) about a man who owed another man some money. The one to whom the money was owed died and left two trustees. Is it permissible to pay that debt back to one of the two trustees and not the other trustee? He (as) said: 'this is not proper, unless the ruler had divided the wealth between them and placed half of it in the possession of one and half in the possession of the other, or they reached an agreement under the auspices of the ruler.'"
8- Marriage and Divorce
In the authentic narration of Abu Basir it is narrated: "I heard Abu Ja'far (as) saying: 'if one had a wife and did not clothe her with that which would cover her 'awra (the parts of the body which should be covered) and did not feed her with that which would give her strength, the Imam has the authority to separate them.'"
In another narration from Abu Ja'far (as) by Abu Basir: "if I had authority over people, I would teach them how to divorce, then I would not come across a man who went against this except that I would strike him painfully on his back."
9- Judgment and Sentencing
There is no doubt that the task of judgment and implementation of punishments is one of the tasks of the government. In the narration of Hafs ibn Ghiyath it is narrated: "I asked Abu Abdullah (as): 'who implements the punishments, the ruler or the judge?' He (as) said: 'the implementation of punishments is the task of the one who rules"
10- Judicial Punishment and Blood-Money
Jurists have defined judgment to be a legislative authority on behalf of the Imam (as) to look after the laws and benefits of the general public. The author of al-Jawahir says: 'perhaps what is meant by their mentioning guardianship- since we know that the judges are not an example of it- is clarification that the role of making true judgments is a status and a role just like that of leadership and that it is one of the branches of the tree of general leadership of the Prophet (pbuh) and his successors (as)'.
Therefore, there is no doubt that implementing the judicial punishment and the rules of blood-money needs an Islamic government and a legislative ruler. One option is to say that these laws should be suspended during the period of occultation.
This is both impermissible legislatively and would mean that the greater part has been excluded, because the time of occultation is far longer than the time when the Infallibles (as) were present.
It is narrated from Abu Ja'far (as): "a legislative punishment implemented on earth purifies it more than it would be purified by forty days and nights of rain" [37]
In another narration from the Commander of the Faithful (as): "O Allah, You have said to your Prophet, may Your blessings be upon Him and His Progeny, in among that which he informed about: 'whoever suspends a punishment from among My punishments then he has become stubborn against Me and asked through this My enmity.'" [38]
Therefore, the rules of judicial punishment and blood-money in Islamic jurisprudence indicate the necessity of an Islamic government more clearly than the sun in the middle of the day.
By: Sheikh Mansour Leghaei


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I don't envy those who'll be trying to fix the triangle ferry route.
The solution probably requires cutting sailings so boats have time to load and still keep the schedule. Riders from Vashon Island and Southworth don't want less service. They want more, especially more direct runs, at the expense of each other.
Meanwhile, the Fauntleroy community doesn't want anything to do with either of them. It would prefer that the ferry dock just go away. I'd probably feel the same way too if I was in their shoes, though the dock has been there probably longer than most of them have.
Ferry traffic creates a freeway through their neighborhood. They especially hate the motorcycles that get off the boats first, roaring down Fauntleroy Way early in the morning.
Washington State Ferry officials held "listening" meetings in Southworth, Vashon and Fauntleroy two weeks ago, writing down all of the public comments. WSF director Lynne Griffith and members of her executive team heard from more than 120 people and captured more than 400 comments.
They're assembling a community task force to review the comments and other data to identify "quick wins" that could improve service by summer, and exploring longer-term solutions.
Fauntleroy residents rarely use the route, but suffer its consequences. Many of their comments suggested that it operate out of Colman Dock in downtown Seattle instead of in West Seattle. There's an extra slip at Colman, but the dock is being rebuilt to strengthen it against earthquakes over the next five years. Construction will cause a frequent loss of one of the three slips and a reduction in vehicle holding capacity.
When WSF last proposed diverting Southworth ferries to downtown in 2006, the city of Seattle said it didn't want any more cars brought into downtown, said WSF planning director Ray Deardorf.
And, what about the riders who aren't headed downtown, who work
south of there. This isn't the first time the downtown vs. West
Seattle question has been batted around.
An origin and destination study in 2013 showed 53 percent of Southworth travelers wound up south of the West Seattle Bridge and 47 percent went north. From Vashon, it was 59 and 41, respectively.
Fauntleroy commenters didn't have much good to say about the route. Ferry riders clog up streets, throw cigarette butts all over, their big trucks shake houses.
"Remember that Fauntleroy is a residential neighborhood," one read. "Most cars head to downtown/East side. They do not stop/shop or provide any value to West Seattle. They jam up the bridge for West Seattle residents."
The destination study actually showed 18.8 percent of Southworth riders and 12.2 percent of those from Vashon are bound for West Seattle, nearly as many as are going downtown.
At the other extreme, Vashon and Southworth riders proposed that the state buy properties near the Fauntleroy dock, by eminent domain if necessary, so parking and staging areas can be enlarged. They call for more lanes and a second slip. One of the biggest issues is loading there. There's not enough space to sort vehicles for two destinations, plus deal with pre-paid tickets and those who are buying at the booth.
Vashon and Southworth want more sailings, particularly more direct ones to or from Fauntleroy that they don't have to share. There's not much room to squeeze more trips into the schedule. Whatever one community gains would be at the expense of the other, a source of division for decades.
"Vashon gets 3 times service to Southworth and pay LESS," wrote a Southworth rider.
"Eliminate the SW run!!!" said a Vashon resident.
"Vashon is an island, Southworth is not and ok with eliminating SW service," said another.
Based on historical use, Vashon has received 65 to 70 percent of car spaces and Southworth 30 to 35 percent, Deardorf said. In 2015, Vashon had 67.7 percent of the traffic and Southworth 32.3 percent.
The most heated debate continues to be whether to fill up the boats at the expense of being late or having to cut sailings versus leaving on time.
"Never sail without loading those who arrived in line before the boat arrived!"
"Make it a priority to leave with full boats even if running late."
The ferries system is more concerned with on-time performance because that is among performance measures it's required to send to the Legislature.
I cherry-picked comments from the hundreds submitted to illustrate a point that this is no easy fix. There were many good suggestions, particularly about loading boats at Fauntleroy. That seems to be Job One, and one they can work together on because it should benefit everyone.


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SA orthop. j. vol.8 n.4 Centurion Jan. 2009
Shoulder dislocations: Management by doctors in emergency units
MJ MulderI; SJL RocheII; BC VrettosIII
IMBChB(UCT), FCS(SA) (Orth); Orthopaedic surgeon, Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic and Somerset Hospital
IIMBChB(UCT), FCS(SA) (Orth); Head Shoulder and Elbow unit, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Cape Town
IIIMBChB(Zim), FRCS(Eng), FCS(SA) (Orth), MMed(Orth) (UCT); Cape Town Centre for Bone and Joint Surgery, Vincent Palotti Hospital
The risk of recurrent instability after shoulder dislocation reduces with increasing age at time of first dislocation with recurrence in young patients of up to 100%. While traditional immobilisation has been shown to be ineffective, recent research suggests immobilisation in external rotation for three weeks reduces recurrence rates. We developed a questionnaire to determine how doctors working in emergency departments manage acute shoulder dislocations, to assess their knowledge and determine the source of their knowledge.
Doctors staffing the emergency departments of private and provincial hospitals, and registrars in emergency medicine, were surveyed regarding:
• details of the doctor's rank, experience and training
• number and details of dislocations managed and type and length of immobilisation
• knowledge of prognosis for future dislocation
• current and preferred sources of information.
Responses were subjected to multivariate analysis, allowing evaluation of the prevalence of misconceptions and identification of subsets of doctors who were better informed or who held similar beliefs.
Seventy questionnaires were completed (66.6%), with an average of 7.5 years post-graduate experience. All immobilised their patients for a period of between 1 and 6 weeks; however none did so in external rotation. Only 27% would refer patients for assessment by an orthopaedic surgeon. The redislocation rate for young patients was correctly chosen by 32.8%. Two-thirds of doctors incorrectly believed that redislocation is more common with increasing age. No group of doctors had statistically better knowledge than another. Books and colleagues were the most common, but were not the most preferred, sources of information.
We concluded that doctors working in emergency departments appear to have a poor understanding of existing and newer treatment options for shoulder instability and are not referring patients appropriately for orthopaedic specialist assessment. A variety of sources of knowledge are utilised, suggesting that multiple sources are required to better inform doctors of current and new treatment options.
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5 March 2010
The versatile Dutch artist Wasco opened his new exposition, 'Cut-out Shapes, Secondhand Daylight', in Galerie Lambiek on Friday, 5 March 2010 at 5:00 PM in a cosy setting.
With his self-published books, Wasco has created a colourful oeuvre, and gathered a large and loyal following since the eighties. He is a regular contributor to comic magazine Zone 5300, and each year he participates in the 24 Hour Comics Day event at Lambiek. Wasco strongly believes in affordable art, so he makes pieces of art to fit every budget.
For this occasion, Wasco took his scissors and created some cut-outs for the heart and soul of the exposition. Aside from these, there are drawings, collages and other art objects on view. Of course Wasco was present to sign his books amid the inevitable raising of glasses. The exposition was on view until the end of March 2010.


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Super Filmi Week: More power to Sonali Bendre!
Sonali's unrelenting spirit, Jai's unacceptable loss, Ijaazat's timeless melancholy, Neetu Singh's zing and not enough Sacred Games dominates my Super-Filmi Week Monday On Twitter, someone starts a conversation on cinematic deaths there's simply no getting over. Sholay's Jai is a no-brainer … Continue reading


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We've been keeping a little secret. Over the summer, we began the process of compiling content for our very own Hack Library School ebook. We've recently finished and decided it's time to share The HLS Guide to Library School with the world.
The ebook is a whopping 328 pages of content: both old and new posts, written by current and alumni hackers (and a few guest writers, too). To learn more about our motivation for compiling an ebook, you can read our introduction.
We're so excited to share this with you. We can't wait to hear what you think!
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Use the mouse to move the pandas through each level.
The crazy 3 pandas are back and making their escape once again! They were captured by a poacher but escaped his trap and landed in Brazil!! They love Brazil but have never been there so it is all new fun for them. These adventurous Pandas are in for a lots of fun new tricks and new obstacles!


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John Byrom, (born Feb. 29, 1692, Kersal Cell, near Manchester, Eng.—died Sept. 26, 1763, London), English poet, hymnist, and inventor of a system of shorthand.
Byrom was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow in 1714. He then went abroad, ostensibly to study medicine; in view of his Jacobite leanings his journey may have been political. On his return to London in 1718, he taught his own method of shorthand and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1724.
Byrom's first poem, "Colin and Phoebe," appeared in The Spectator (October 1714), and his collected Miscellaneous Poems were published posthumously in 1773. His poems are lively and show ingenuity in the use of rhyme, which is particularly telling in his poetic epigrams. A high churchman, and a follower of William Law (many of whose prose works he paraphrased in verse), Byrom also wrote some forceful hymns, the most famous of which is the Christmas hymn "Christians Awake, Salute the Happy Morn." His diary gives interesting portraits and letters of the many great men of his time whom he knew intimately. Although his system of shorthand, posthumously printed as The Universal English Shorthand (1767), was soon superseded, it marked a stage in the development of shorthand.


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By David Brooks
On the surface, Republicans are already doing a good job of beginning to change their party. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana gave a speech to the Republican National Committee calling on Republicans to stop being the stupid party, to stop insulting the intelligence of the American people.
Representative Paul Ryan gave a fine speech to the National Review Institute calling for prudence instead of spasmodic protest. The new senator for Texas, Ted Cruz, gave a speech to the same gathering saying the Republicans should be focusing on the least fortunate 47 percent of Americans.
But, so far, there have been more calls for change than actual evidence of change. In his speech, for example, Jindal spanked his party for its stale clichés but then repeated the same Republican themes that have earned his party its 33 percent approval ratings: Government bad. Entrepreneurs good.
In this reinvention process, Republicans seem to have spent no time talking to people who didn't already vote for them.
Change is hard because people don't only think on the surface level. Deep down people have mental maps of reality — embedded sets of assumptions, narratives and terms that organize thinking. Since Barry Goldwater, the central Republican narrative has been what you might call the Encroachment Story: the core problem of American life is that voracious government has been steadily encroaching upon individuals and local communities. The core American conflict, in this view, is between Big Government and Personal Freedom.
While losing the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, the flaws of this mentality have become apparent. First, if opposing government is your primary objective, it's hard to have a positive governing program.
As Bill Kristol pointed out at the National Review event, the G.O.P. fiercely opposed the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law but never offered an alternative. The party opposed Obamacare but never offered a replacement. John Podhoretz of Commentary added that as soon as Republicans start talking about what kind of regulations and programs government should promote, they get accused by colleagues of being Big Government conservatives.
The next problem with this mentality is that it makes it hard for Republicans to analyze social and economic problems that don't flow directly from big government. For example, we are now at the end of the era in which a rising tide lifts all boats. Republicans like Mitt Romney can talk about improving the overall business climate with lower taxes and lighter regulation, but regular voters sense that that won't necessarily help them because wages no longer keep pace with productivity gains.
Americans are still skeptical of Washington. If you shove a big government program down their throats they will recoil. But many of their immediate problems flow from globalization, the turmoil of technological change and social decay, and they're looking for a bit of help. Moreover, given all the antigovernment rhetoric, they will never trust these Republicans to reform cherished programs like Social Security and Medicare. You can't be for entitlement reform and today's G.O.P., because politically the two will never go together.
Can current Republicans change their underlying mentality to adapt to these realities? Intellectual history says no. People almost never change their underlying narratives or unconscious frameworks. Moreover, in the South and rural West, where most Republicans are from, the Encroachment Story has deep historic and psychological roots. Anti-Washington, anti-urban sentiment has characterized those cultures for decades.
It's probably futile to try to change current Republicans. It's smarter to build a new wing of the Republican Party, one that can compete in the Northeast, the mid-Atlantic states, in the upper Midwest and along the West Coast. It's smarter to build a new division that is different the way the Westin is different than the Sheraton.
The second G.O.P. wouldn't be based on the Encroachment Story. It would be based on the idea that America is being hit simultaneously by two crises, which you might call the Mancur Olson crisis and the Charles Murray crisis.
Olson argued that nations decline because their aging institutions get bloated and sclerotic and retard national dynamism. Murray argues that America is coming apart, dividing into two nations — one with high education levels, stable families and good opportunities and the other with low education levels, unstable families and bad opportunities.
The second G.O.P. would tackle both problems at once. It would be filled with people who recoiled at President Obama's second Inaugural Address because of its excessive faith in centralized power, but who don't share the absolute antigovernment story of the current G.O.P.
Would a coastal and Midwestern G.O.P. sit easily with the Southern and Western one? No, but majority parties are usually coalitions of the incompatible. This is really the only chance Republicans have. The question is: Who's going to build a second G.O.P.?


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The Intel 8xx and 9xx families of integrated graphics chipsets have a unified memory architecture meaning that system memory is used as video RAM. For the i810 and i815 family of chipsets, operating system support for allocating system memory is required in order to use this driver. For the 830M and later, this is required in order for the driver to use more video RAM than has been pre-allocated at boot time by the BIOS. This is usually achieved with an "agpgart" or "agp" kernel driver. Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Solaris have such kernel drivers available.
By default, the i810/i815 will use 8 MB of system memory for graphics if AGP allocable memory is < 128 MB, 16 MB if < 192 MB or 24 MB if higher. Use the VideoRam option to change the default value.
For the 830M and later, the driver will automatically size its memory allocation according to the features it will support. Therefore, the VideoRam option, which in the past had been necessary to allow more than some small amount of memory to be allocated, is now ignored.
The following driver Options are supported
The following driver Options are supported for the i810 and i815 chipsets:
The following driver Options are supported for the 830M and later chipsets:
BACKLIGHT - current backlight level (adjustable)
BACKLIGHT_CONTROL - method used to control backlight
PANEL_FITTING - control LCD panel fitting
BOTTOM, RIGHT, TOP, LEFT - margins
BRIGHTNESS - TV brightness, range 0-255
CONTRAST - TV contrast, range 0-255
SATURATION - TV saturation, range 0-255
HUE - TV hue, range 0-255
TV_FORMAT - output standard
TV_Connector - connector type
DVI SDVO output
BROADCAST_RGB - method used to set RGB color range(full range 0-255, not full range 16-235)
SDVO and DVO TV outputs are not supported by the driver at this time.
See xorg.conf(5) for information on associating Monitor sections with these outputs for configuration. Associating Monitor sections with each output can be helpful if you need to ignore a specific output, for example, or statically configure an extended desktop monitor layout.
Following here is a discussion that should shed some light on the nature and reasoning behind the LVDSFixedMode option.
Unlike a CRT display, an LCD has a "native" resolution corresponding to the actual pixel geometry. A graphics controller under all normal circumstances should always output that resolution (and timings) to the display. Anything else and the image might not fill the display, it might not be centered, or it might have information missing - any manner of strange effects can happen if an LCD panel is not fed with the expected resolution and timings.
However there are cases where one might want to run an LCD panel at an effective resolution other than the native one. And for this reason, GPUs which drive LCD panels typically include a hardware scaler to match the user-configured frame buffer size to the actual size of the panel. Thus when one "sets" his/her 1280x1024 panel to only 1024x768, the GPU happily configures a 1024x768 frame buffer, but it scans the buffer out in such a way that the image is scaled to 1280x1024 and in fact sends 1280x1024 to the panel. This is normally invisible to the user; when a "fuzzy" LCD image is seen, scaling like this is why this happens.
In order to make this magic work, this driver logically has to be configured with two sets of monitor timings - the set specified (or otherwise determined) as the normal xorg "mode", and the "fixed" timings that are actually sent to the monitor. But with xorg, it's only possible to specify the first user-driven set, and not the second fixed set. So how does the driver figure out the correct fixed panel timings? Normally it will attempt to detect the fixed timings, and it uses a number of strategies to figure this out. First it attempts to read EDID data from whatever is connected to the LVDS port. Failing that, it will check if the LVDS output is already configured (perhaps previously by the video BIOS) and will adopt those settings if found. Failing that, it will scan the video BIOS ROM, looking for an embedded mode table from which it can infer the proper timings. If even that fails, then the driver gives up, prints the message "Couldn't detect panel mode. Disabling panel" to the X server log, and shuts down the LVDS output.
Under most circumstances, the detection scheme works. However there are cases when it can go awry. For example, if you have a panel without EDID support and it isn't integral to the motherboard (i.e. not a laptop), then odds are the driver is either not going to find something suitable to use or it is going to find something flat-out wrong, leaving a messed up display. Remember that this is about the fixed timings being discussed here and not the user-specified timings which can always be set in xorg.conf in the worst case. So when this process goes awry there seems to be little recourse. This sort of scenario can happen in some embedded applications.
The LVDSFixedMode option is present to deal with this. This option normally enables the above-described detection strategy. And since it defaults to true, this is in fact what normally happens. However if the detection fails to do the right thing, the LVDSFixedMode option can instead be set to false, which disables all the magic. With LVDSFixedMode set to false, the detection steps are skipped and the driver proceeds without a specified fixed mode timing. This then causes the hardware scaler to be disabled, and the actual timings then used fall back to those normally configured via the usual xorg mechanisms.
Having LVDSFixedMode set to false means that whatever is used for the monitor's mode (e.g. a modeline setting) is precisely what is sent to the device connected to the LVDS port. This also means that the user now has to determine the correct mode to use - but it's really no different than the work for correctly configuring an old-school CRT anyway, and the alternative if detection fails will be a useless display.
In short, leave LVDSFixedMode alone (thus set to true) and normal fixed mode detection will take place, which in most cases is exactly what is needed. Set LVDSFixedMode to false and then the user has full control over the resolution and timings sent to the LVDS-connected device, through the usual means in xorg.
The number of independent outputs is dictated by the number of CRTCs (in X parlance) a given chip supports. Most recent Intel chips have two CRTCs, meaning that two separate framebuffers can be displayed simultaneously, in an extended desktop configuration. If a chip supports more outputs than it has CRTCs (say local flat panel, VGA and TV in the case of many outputs), two of the outputs will have to be "cloned", meaning that they display the same framebuffer contents (or one displays a subset of another's framebuffer if the modes aren't equal).
You can use the "xrandr" tool, or various desktop utilities, to change your output configuration at runtime. To statically configure your outputs, you can use the "Monitor-<type>" options along with additional monitor sections in your xorg.conf to create your screen topology. The example below puts the VGA output to the right of the builtin laptop screen, both running at 1024x768.
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Laptop FooBar Internal Display" Option "Position" "0 0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Some Random CRT" Option "Position" "1024 0" Option "RightOf" "Laptop FoodBar Internal Display" EndSection Section "Device" Driver "intel" Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop FooBar Internal Display" Option "monitor-VGA" "Some Random CRT" EndSection Textured Video AttributesThe driver supports the following X11 Xv attributes for Textured Video. You can use the "xvattr" tool to query/set those attributes at runtime. Xv_sync_to_vblankXV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK is used to control whether textured adapter synchronizes the screen update to the vblank to eliminate tearing. It is a Boolean attribute with values of 0 (never sync) or 1 (always sync). An historic value of -1 (sync for large windows only) will now be interpreted as 1, (since the current approach for sync is not costly even with small video windows). Xv_brightness Xv_contrast Reporting Bugs The xf86-video-intel driver is part of the X.Org and Freedesktop.org umbrella projects. Details on bug reporting can be found at http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html. Mailing lists are also commonly used to report experiences and ask questions about configuration and other topics. See lists.freedesktop.org for more information (the email@example.com mailing list is the most appropriate place to ask X.Org and driver related questions). See AlsoXorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7) AuthorsAuthors include: Keith Whitwell, and also Jonathan Bian, Matthew J Sottek, Jeff Hartmann, Mark Vojkovich, Alan Hourihane, H. J. Lu. 830M and 845G support reworked for XFree86 4.3 by David Dawes and Keith Whitwell. 852GM, 855GM, and 865G support added by David Dawes and Keith Whitwell. 915G, 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q and 946GZ support added by Alan Hourihane and Keith Whitwell. Lid status support added by Alan Hourihane. Textured video support for 915G and later chips, RandR 1.2 and hardware modesetting added by Eric Anholt and Keith Packard. EXA and Render acceleration added by Wang Zhenyu. TV out support added by Zou Nan Hai and Keith Packard. 965GM, G33, Q33, and Q35 support added by Wang Zhenyu.


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What with all the ranting and soforth that constitutes the majority of my output here at Shattersnipe, I've decided to class up the joint by incoporating author interviews and guest blogs as part of its semi-regular fare. By way of inaguration, let me introduce you to Patrick O'Duffy, an upstanding layabout, editorial ninja and self-published author of the Melbournian persuasian who I first met via the auspices of a mutual dayjob. Patrick's new novel, The Obituarist, is a sharp, fun murder mystery with a social media twist; my review of it is here, and you can also keep up with Patrick via Twitter and his blog.
So, without any further ado: let the interviewing commence!
The Obituarist reads as a modern, self-aware take on the classic noir and hardboiled detective genres – a sort of stripped-down, blackly humorous homage to the works of Raymond Chandler. Rather than being a PI, your protagonist and narrator, Kendall Barber, makes a living by tidying up the online affairs of the recently deceased, putting up tribute pages for bereaved families and removing the risk of identity fraud. What lead you to connect such an interesting and recent niche profession with golden age gumshoe stories?
I had the 'social media undertaker' idea back in, hmm… early 2010? I was using Facebook and Twitter and so on and saw how people who voluntarily left those platforms still left traces behind that they might then have to go back to clean up – and how, in a handful of sad cases, someone else would have to do that work because their relative or friend had died, leaving this constant reminder behind. It struck me that there was story potential in that, but I wasn't sure what to do with it.
When I first started mulling over the idea, I was mostly thinking in terms of sci-fi, fantasy or horror, because these are the genres in which I've mostly worked in the past. At one point, years ago, I'd sketched some ideas for a story where an online historian 'audits' the lives of other people to turn into presentations, and he realises that some of them are based in alternate timelines. (That's a cool concept, and I may still come back to it one day.) But I decided that it might also be a chance to play around in the crime genre, which I've enjoyed for decades as a reader but barely ever written.
Still, 'social media' on its own isn't really a strongly compelling concept for a crime story, so the idea didn't develop further – not until I was thinking about identity theft for some reason and realised that leaving unfinished business online would create potential avenues for copying and reusing someone's identity. At that point the two plotlines of The Obituarist pretty much popped straight into my head, and it was then just a question of fleshing them out and writing the damn thing.
As for why I looked to hardboiled crime stories for inspiration, well, a lot of that is because that's the kind of crime fiction I like to read. It's a subgenre where mystery and investigative procedure are major elements, but are nonetheless secondary to character and tone. It's also a subgenre that tends towards pyrrhic victories and protagonists who lose as much as they win, if not more, and that's a story direction that's always appealed to me
Another major reason, though, is that the best works in the genre have an economy of language. One of Chandler's great strengths as a writer was that he largely eschewed detailed descriptions of people and places, and instead used simile, metaphor, voice and dialogue to communicate personality, rather than appearance, to the reader. This let him sketch things out quickly and broadly so that he could then focus on characters and action. I didn't want to specifically emulate that writing style – it's been done too often by too many writers – but I wanted to find my own way of compressing description and character so that I could fit a worthwhile, moderately complex story into a 22 000-word novella. So in looking to Chandler for inspiration in writing style, it was natural to also look to him for inspiration when it came to genre, tone and story structure.
You say in your dedication that, although the book is partly for him, Raymond Chandler would probably hate it. What makes you say that?
I think Chandler was not just a pioneer of the crime genre but one of the great American writers of the 20th century. He wrote crime fiction not because he loved the genre but because he thought that the techniques of good writing could and should transcend the limitations of genre. And he was right. The way he approached character and tone, the way he used simile, the way he transplanted Shakespearean concepts of nobility and tragedy into a genre that had previously lacked much depth… he was a genius.
But he was also, well, kind of a dick – a prissy, bitter, homophobic misanthrope with a very low opinion of modern life. And 'modern life' in this context is the 1940s. He didn't like people, he didn't like technology, he didn't like change. Things like social media, the internet, the way the boundaries of 'community' have swelled and changed shape due to technology – oh man, he would have just crawled into a whiskey bottle and died rather than accept any of that.
For that reason, along with a few other bits and pieces of the story, I'm pretty sure Chandler would just cut me dead if we met at a party. And that's okay. He probably wouldn't like the parties I throw anyway – too much playing of Rock Band.
As a narrator, Kendall is self-deprecating without being self-pitying, while the setting is less atmospheric than it is ambiguously everyday. Given the overwhelming tendency of noir and hardboiled characters to brood angstily about their tortured pasts in convenient alleys while the rain falls darkly on their trenchcoats, was it a conscious decision to try and subvert the more gothic, melodramatic elements of the genre, or just a consequence of your particular narrative voice?
I think that the kind of tendency you're talking about is really an overstatement. It's a stereotype of the genre that came from secondary texts like films of the 1960s and 1970s, which exaggerated the tropes of hardboiled stories to make them more overt and accessible to the broadest possible audience. Semiotic cues like voiceover monologues, muted lighting, rain and alleyways – these were all overt tools filmmakers used to emphasise tone and character in situations where subtlety wouldn't work. And somewhere along the line, the idea developed that those exaggerated tools were in fact the core tropes and conventions of the subgenre – that it's a genre of brooding and angst.
When you go back and look at the original source texts (Chandler, Hammett, Thompson etc.) or at the better modern writers in the genre, such as Mosley and Parker, you get a very different picture of the genre's emotional makeup. Most of the protagonists in these stories are men (always men) with strong emotions but little sentiment. They feel pain but refuse to show it; they feel love and its loss but internalise it rather than admit their sorrow, their weakness, to others. They hold to a personal concept of nobility that they inevitably have to compromise in some way over the course of the story, and they do so stoically. Actually, that's a good term – hardboiled crime is very much a genre of stoicism.
Does The Obituarist engage with that stoicism or subvert it? Hmm. Probably a bit of both. I wanted to embed the novella into an everyday sort of context, to tell a story about normal concerns like dealing with loss and controlling our identities, rather than the more esoteric world of detectives and complex, dramatic crimes. But I also wanted to contrast that everyday world with oddities, with offbeat crimes and characters, and to let those normal concerns propel things in strange directions. Plus, you know, have some fights and chase scenes in there for colour.
…hang on, did any of that answer the question? Probably not, now that I look at it again. Sorry. Hazards of studying English literature when I was at Uni long ago.
On the whole, I'd say it was a consequence of the narrative voice rather than something intentional.
And on that note…
Which aspect of The Obituarist are you the most proud of?
I think it would have to be the voice of the book. Voice is probably the most important thing to me as a reader and a writer, both in terms of character voice and in the narrative voice/style used to communicate the text. There are many stories that could be told, but the way you tell them is what makes them compelling, and storytelling is an aspect of voice (among other things).
The thing about the voice in The Obituarist is that it was easy and fun to write. I've been working on a novel for several years now, called Arcadia, which has a very specific voice born from a narrator with an often-shaky grip on her emotional state and the difference between reality and imagination. It's a book I want to write and a story that I think is worth telling, but the complexity of that voice, which is so very different from my own, makes it incredibly hard work and draining work to boot. Every time I work on that book I struggle.
By contrast, I was able to just sit down every night and get into the voice of Kendall like I was turning on a tap. It's not simply my own voice, although there are similarities, but it's one I can assume and use as a lens for the story with ease and confidence. And I think that ease and confidence comes out through the story; it makes it a smooth, natural work that you can read easily without it being 'easy reading'. Well, that's the hope anyway.
The idea of a digital obituarist-turned-detective is a compelling one. Do you think you'll ever tell more stories about Kendall and his world?
Oh man, I hope so! I started coming up with ideas for a sequel while I was still working on The Obituarist, and I think I could definitely write more than just one.
In the end, this is a book about three things – death, identity and how technology/social media affects the way we think about death and identity. That's a pretty solid thematic foundation and it's one on which you could build any number of stories. The trick will be to do so without falling into formula or into stasis – Kendall and his world need to change in every book. But then again, themes of death and identity allow plenty of room for change, so the potential's there.
I'd also like the chance to tell more stories about these characters and their city – see, you thought I was all just wanky literary talk, but I like characters and setting too! The city of Port Virtue is only lightly sketched in The Obituarist, and I want to avoid giving it too much detail, but at the same time it has a personality that I'd like to explore. Especially its shady side, which I see as being rife with strange, offbeat crimes and criminals. You probably won't encounter a car theft ring or second-story burglars – but black marketeers selling high-grade bull semen or forgers of 'authentic' Victorian pornography? That's the kind of thing I'd like to pit against Kendall and his mad social media skills. That could be fun.


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All my life, I've been waiting for someone and when I find her, she's… she's a fish.
With 13 nominations and expected to lead in overall wins in tonight's Academy Awards ceremony, The Shape of Water is the film of the hour, and the popularity of the sea creature lore is at a peak right now. Taking advantage of the interest in seafaring lore and gilled creatures, the Freeform channel (formerly ABC Family) is airing new trailers this weekend for its own new mermaid/merman series, Siren. It's not Splash or The Little Mermaid. It looks like it may have more of the feel of The Creature from the Black Lagoon at least initially more so than The Shape of Water. No, the new series Siren looks more like a thriller or horror series than a romance, something mixing Stephen King's Haven with John Carpenter's The Fog and The Thing, and the British space vampire cult classic, Lifeforce.
Eline Powell (Game of Thrones, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword) plays Ryn, a mysterious girl who arrives in the Pacific Northwest coastal town of Bristol Cove, a town that boasts its local lore–a town once known for its mermaids. Aylya Marzolf plays a mermaid leader, and Sedale Threatt, Jr. a warrior merman. From its several preview trailers, Siren has a great, creepy look. Art direction is by The Predator and The Returned's Peter Mihaichuk. Costumes were designed by Pirates of the Caribbean and The Exorcist's Lorraine Carson and iZombie and The Flash's Maria Livingstone.
Based on a story by Eric Wald and Dean White (originally to be called The Deep), marketing for Siren is evoking all the aforementioned films and TV shows in its key imagery–even the back of a man in a parka straight out of The Thing, a strange killer young woman as seen in Lifeforce and The Ring, a trapped creature being studied in an aquarium as in The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Shape of Water. And it features that familiar coastal town seen in Jaws, Haven, and The Fog.
Check out these several previews for Freeform's Siren:
The show also stars Fola Evans-Akingbola (Game of Thrones), Lost in Space and Black Sails' Sibongile Mlambo, Ian Verdun (The Social Network), Rena Owen (The Orville, Star Wars episodes II and III, A.I. Artificial Intelligence), Alex Roe (Rings, The Calling), and Ron Yuan (The Accountant, Tron: Uprising).
Ten episodes of the series Siren will begin to air with a two-hour premiere, March 29, 2018, at 7 p.m. Central on Freeform.
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Grim prospects for new grads
After graduating next May, college seniors are likely to face the worst job market in 15 years.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- With unemployment rising and employers lowering their hiring expectations, soon-to-be-graduates are facing the worst job market in years.
Projected hiring for the class of 2009 is only slightly higher than 2008 levels, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE. In October, employers said they planned to hire just 1.3% more graduates in 2009 than they hired this year, a large drop from the 6% projection NACE made in August.
"It is possible that it will be revised downward again," said Edwin Koc, director of strategic and foundation research for NACE.
The nation's unemployment rate now stands at 6.1%, but it will likely get worse by May. Forecasts predict that it will hit at least 7% in the spring when the next crop of seniors dons their caps and gowns. That would be the worst rate since 1993.
And the official unemployment numbers don't even include those who have settled for part-time positions or given up looking for a job altogether.
But students on the cusp of entering the worst job market in five years already know that their prospects are bleak.
Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said that the crisis on Wall Street is at least minimally affecting their job outlook, according to a poll by Miami-based research firm Universum. Thirty-one percent said they were losing sleep.
As the job market gets tougher, more graduates will be forced to take jobs outside their chosen field or find interim part-time positions just to make ends meet. That can be a rude awakening for young adults trying to get a foothold in a lifelong career.
For college seniors, that reality "will probably sink in sometime during the course of the year," Koc said.
When Kay Ewing, 23, was a senior at Vanguard University in Calif., she said she wasn't too worried about her job search, although she did begin sending out resumes and attending career fairs long before her graduation in May. Since then, the sociology major has had no luck finding a job in her field.
"I did not think it was going to take this long," Ewing lamented.
After applying to roughly 60 positions in education, administration and social work, "I heard back from maybe three or four," she said. So Ewing moved in with her parents and accepted a part-time position at a law firm.
For others, the tough job market may be an opportunity to reinvent themselves, or rethink their career path entirely.
Trudy Steinfeld, executive director of the career development center at New York University, says when it comes to their futures in the workforce, seniors are either angry that their job prospects may be thwarted, hopeful that things will change or relieved to have escaped the pressure of having to settle on a set career immediately.
For those who have always wanted to volunteer, travel or teach, it's "like they have permission now to do what they always wanted to do," Steinfeld said.
The Peace Corps and Teach for America ranked 8th and 11th, respectively, for students in Universum's Ideal Employer Rankings for 2008. Neither were even in the top 200 two years ago.
Students are also turning their attention away from traditionally-lucrative fields like investment banking and toward industries with greater hiring potential, such as accounting.
For example, this year accounting firm Ernst & Young topped Universum's list of ideal employers for business students, surpassing traditional stalwarts Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500).
"The industries that used to be appealing, like financial services, are becoming less appealing," said Universum USA CEO Claudia Tattanelli.
Government, healthcare and accounting now top the list of industries where students would most ideally like to work, according to Universum.
For those gearing up to graduate this year, Steinfeld says she encourages students to consider jobs outside the traditional trajectory. Business majors, for example, might have better luck submitting applications for finance-related positions in the healthcare industry.
Steinfeld also suggests that students consider small or mid-sized firms, in addition to the traditional "name brand" businesses, and expand their search nationwide.
"We don't like any student to give up on their dreams, but we're all about being realistic."


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After countless minutes of begging, an employee finally searched the store's back room for any additional letters, but alas, it was in vain. Black Friday had left hardly any remnants. Down, but not out, I did what any respectable DIY'er would do. I adapted and overcame. Of course the inspiration this "Noel" was Anthropologie's zinc letters.
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After the silver paint was dry, I used a black glaze. You can wipe it on, then wipe it off with a slightly damp cloth. Try to apply your glaze in inconsistent, haphazard ways. You want them to each look a little different in the end. As my Professor used to say in Hawaii "They should be same same, but different."


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One of the first challenges of self-publishing is learning the jargon. Authors who manage their own marketing, distribution, and printing will soon find that there are far more concepts — and acronyms — they must learn about than if they were working with a traditional publisher.
"There are a lot of terms, but I think it would be the same in any industry," says Patricia Payton, senior manager of publisher relations and content development at Bowker, which recently launched Self-Published Author.com. "You are coming into a supply chain for a certain type of product and trying to learn how you fit into it."
Payton moderated a session at BEA's uPublishU on understanding how to distribute a book, and offered an extensive glossary of terms that can be viewed here. But for those just trying to make sense of self-publishing's many acronyms, we offer this basic survey of terms any self-publisher should know:
ASIN (Amazon standard identification number) — The unique 10-character block assigned by Amazon to each product on Amazon.com. Books with 10-digit ISBNs have an identical ASIN.
DRM (digital rights management) — Technologies or programs used by sellers of digital content, including e-books or audiobooks, to limit its use or prevent copyright infringement. This includes the number of times a product can be downloaded for a single purchase, the number of devices on which it can be accessed, and whether the content can be duplicated or modified.
EPUB (electronic publication) — An open and free e-book format proposed by the International Digital Publishing Forum that allows for the simple re-flow of content for whichever device the reader is using at the time. Files carry the ".epub" file extension.
FTP (file transfer protocol) — Protocol that allows users to copy files from their local system to a network. Authors can transfer using FTP client software such as Fetch or SmartFTP, or cloud-based programs such as YouSendIt.
HTML 5 (hypertext markup language 5) — The latest revision of the markup language used to create web pages and other information viewed on a web browser. This revision offers new features such as embedding graphics, audio, video, and interactive documents.
ISBN (international standard book number) — The unique identifier barcode given to each book/format combination. It can be either 10 characters or (for books published in 2007 or later) 13 characters. The number is provided by the ISBN agency of each author's home country.
ONIX (online information exchange) — The international standard for capturing bibliographic information — including title, author, and publication details — for books. Retailers, distributors, wholesalers, and publishers use it to communicate information about titles.
PDF (portable document format) — A file format that allows for documents to be viewed and printed the same way, regardless of the application or device used. It is often used for e-books and for transferring files to be printed to create hard copies.
POD (print on demand) — A printing technology in which physical copies of books are not produced until an order is received. This reduces the need for inventories of books to be kept on hand and a lower overhead cost to self-published authors. Popular POD platforms include Lulu, Xlibris, and Amazon's CreateSpace.