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Chapter 104 Waiting For You
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Emmett watched Debbie's figure recede from view. He needed to get back in the car again and tell his boss what happened. Carlos, sitting in the back seat, didn't respond. It was what he had expected, though. He knew Debbie wasn't willing to let others know about their relationship. Every time they were in the midst of a crowd, she would act as if they were strangers.
Carlos had been away on official business for the last two months, and this was his first class after he'd come back. The classroom was fully stocked with his admirers. Debbie, sitting in the last row, gave her full attention to the man on the podium, her husband.
People all believed that Carlos was cold and detached, but Debbie knew that was not the case. It was a ruse that he adopted, to keep people at arm's length, to add to his mystique. Debbie had seen different sides of him—an angry Carlos, a gentle Carlos, an upset Carlos... Just like ordinary people, he had the full range of emotions. He could be cold and distant, yes, but also loving and warm.
He was just used to concealing his true feelings in front of strangers.
He was 28 years old now, yet he was a successful businessman. He was confident, strong and powerful—better than 99 percent men in the world.
Debbie couldn't help but wonder whether he was the favorite creature of God and he was born to be the winner. She felt so lucky she was his wife. She was lost in her own thoughts when the man's voice brought her back to her senses.
"Debbie Nian, please stand up and tell us what you've learned so far."
His voice was so cold that she immediately stood without any hesitation. She winked at Dixon, who was sitting next to her.
Lowering his head, Dixon whispered to her, trying to catch her up, "Mr. Huo has taught us AIP—automatic investment plan, and risk prediction..."
With a cunning smile, Debbie cleared her throat and repeated, "Mr. Huo, you've taught us AIP and risk prediction..." While she recited the litany that Dixon was helping her with, Carlos left the the podium and walked towards her.
The girls fixed their eyes upon him, looking excited. They even began whispering, "He's coming this way!" Some of them even took out their phones and took photos of his back or selfies with Carlos in the background. There was giggling and more whispering as they checked out their handiness with a camera.
When Carlos at last stood beside Debbie, Dixon shut his mouth and pretended that he was reading his book. He wasn't dumb enough to get caught.
When her sister ran away from the wedding, Autumn was forced to marry Charles.
His name had been linked to innumerable ladies.
He had different girlfriends for every day of a year.
Autumn had never thought that she would fall in love with him.
bang me. Now!"
Carlos, on the other hand, was making for the underground car park. The moment he saw the message, his eyes darkened. Before he could reply to it, he got another message. "Now or never!"
Clearly, the girl was trying to play him.
After some hesitation, he told Emmett, "Drive me to Caspian Hotel."
Emmett wanted to remind him that it was time to go to the party, but on second thought, he decided against it. "Yes, Mr. Huo." He slid into the driver's seat and the two roared off to the hotel.
When Carlos' car stopped in front of the Caspian Hotel, he felt something was not right.
Some paparazzi must have been hiding somewhere around the hotel.
Pretending to ignore them, he got out of the car and entered the hotel lobby. Upon seeing Carlos, the lobby manager immediately trotted towards him and greeted, "Good evening, Mr. Huo."
Carlos nodded in return, and strode toward the lift without further ado.
The manager decided to see if he could help, as he could tell that Carlos was in a hurry. Besides, he was curious what his business was.
"Mr. Huo, which room are you going to?" asked the manager, who was about to press the button for Carlos.
"1208," Carlos answered shortly.
"Mr. Huo, here comes the lift. Let me show you the way."
"I'm good." Carlos entered the lift and pressed the button to close the doors, leaving the manager behind.
When the doorbell rang, Debbie was so nervous that she was too weak to stand.
She took a few deep breaths before she opened the door.
It was him—Carlos Huo—standing at the door!
Her nervousness disappeared at the sight of him. She threw herself into his arms. "Honey!"
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Op-Ed: State of the Union Disappoints
Miles Munkacy, Executive Editor| February 13, 2019
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Last Wednesday, President Trump delivered his much anticipated State of the Union address. His remarks were generally greeted with cheers from members of his own party, and everything from exasperation to anger from the Democrats.
Though I generally agree with liberal policies, I tried to keep an open mind while watching the speech. I held out hope that in a divisive time in American politics, our President would rise to the occasion and alleviate some of the partisanship vitriol he helped inflame. Even with this mindset, I found he still spoke of the improvident and misinformed policies that pepper his Twitter account.
However, his remarks were not entirely heinous. He began by talking the upcoming 75th anniversary of D-Day, one of the most important victories for Allied soldiers in World War II. After describing the heroic actions of Americans on that fateful day, he highlighted three veterans in the audience who were there.
Later, he introduced Judah Samet, a survivor of the Holocaust. After spending ten months in Dachau Concentration Camp, Samet was liberated by American soldiers. In an emotional moment, Trump revealed that one of the three veterans he mentioned earlier was one of the soldiers present during the liberatation of Dachau.
Although State of the Unions typically include audience members whose stories prove a political point, it seemed Trump generally invited people who represented non-partisan issues. When they were introduced, both parties rose to their feet in applause.
In a moment of fresh air, the public saw Republicans and Democrats chanting "USA, USA, USA," united in their love of country. His speech needed more of these unifying moments.
Still, Trump was not perfect.
He invited the family of Gerald and Sharon Bissell, two Nevadans who were killed by an illegal immigrant. He used this grieving family to indirectly promote the false notion that illegal immigrants commit more crimes than native born Americans.
The State of the Union is not a time for fear mongering.
Another one of Trump's better moments came when he spoke about some of the records women have set while he has been in office: there are more women in the workforce than ever before, as well as more women in Congress. It is ironic that Trump praised the latter, as most are Democrats who have consistently expressed their disapproval of his actions. Nonetheless, it was an important fact to mention.
That detail about female Democrats not supporting him was part of a consistent theme throughout the night. He would say something on which most people could agree, but there would be subtext or ensuing statements that stirred controversy.
The most notable example of this was his discussion of security.
We can all agree that the United States should be protected from external threats, and Trump acknowledged as much. Much to the chagrin of Democrats, he followed this by spewing the same immigration falsehoods that he has been using months.
In contrast to Trump's claims, non-partisan sources argue the wall won't work. Furthermore, his idea that "walls save lives" is not true—it has been shown that walls can actually lead to more immigrant deaths.
In addition to his assertions about immigrants committing crimes, many of his arguments about the economic impacts of illegal immigration are erroneous.
Trump had to mention immigration and his solutions, but the State of the Union is not a time for fear mongering. If he truly wants to fix issues surrounding immigration, he should have presented a less extreme, more uniting, message.
Another security issue he discussed was nuclear weapons. We can all agree that Russia should comply with the INF, a nuclear arms control treaty the country signed. Otherwise, should the United States stoop to Russian's level and pull out of the treaty all together? Trump's answer in his speech was yes.
Forgetting the issue of treaties, pulling out of the INF could lead to a nuclear arms race, which didn't faze Trump. Instead, he had a cavalier attitude, saying, if a new agreement can not be reached, "we will outspend and out-innovate all others by far"
His speech was full of other statements that were simply false, misleading, or unprovable.
Trump said, "as a result of my Administration's efforts, in 2018 drug prices experienced their single largest decline in 46 years." According to the Associated Press, drug prices have still risen, although more slowly.
He continued with comments about abortion, alleging recent New York legislation "would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments before birth." NBC News reports that the law prohibits abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy only if the fetus is not viable, or if it is necessary to protect the life of the mother.
Trump's most ridiculous comment was about North Korea, as he argued that if he was not elected, the United States would be "in a major war with North Korea with potentially millions of people killed." Glenn Kessler, the writer behind the Washington Post "Fact Checker" article, says "Trump exaggerates the possibility of war, which had been heightened by his own harsh rhetoric."
There is a lot more to talk about in Trump's State of the Union, but the big takeaway from Tuesday night is that Trump continued a commonality in his presidency: disregarding facts for political gain.
While there were positives in his speech, they were overshadowed by Trump's falsehoods.
After two years of Trump's presidency, it's getting old.
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Before there was Angry Birds Space, there was Pioneer 10
tags: computatinoal modeling, computational thinking
A couple of weeks ago, Rhett Allain wrote a beautiful post about why he continues his quest to figure out the physics of Angry Birds Space, which is a must read: Why do I love Angry Birds Analysis.
I think Rhett's analogy is spot on, and I want to dig into a bit more detail about the Pioneer 10 anomaly and the comparison with Angry Birds Space—since these two situations are far more similar than you might think.
But lets start with little diversion from Richard Feynman, about another game, Chess, and how it is an apt analogy for science.
I love Feynman's analogy. Science is a game. More precisely, it's about learning the rules to the game, just by watching the game, and now, thanks to computers, setting up model games of our own.
Now what's the connection Angry Birds Space? You launch a bird from a planet using a giant slingshot, and the bird moves along a trajectory. How does the game know the trajectory of the Birds? It calculates it knowing that the current velocity of the bird will tell us the future position of the bird a small time step in the future.
future position=current position + velocity * delta t
If delta t is small enough, the computer can make a very accurate calculation of the next position. But how does the program calculate the velocity? It uses a similar idea, along with Newton's second law, .
future velocity = current velocity + Fnet/m*deltat
So in order to predict the future position of an object, given its current position, all we need are its current velocity and the forces acting on that object. If we can always calculate the forces acting on the object as it moves through space, we can predict the position. This works easily for Angry Birds, since the game designers decide exactly what the forces of the slingshot, planets and atmosphere will be, and code these forces into the program directly. This is the beauty of programming—the game designers are literally playing god in creating the Angry Bird universe and defining the laws that govern the motion of objects.
As players, we can't read the laws that govern Angry Birds Space directly, we must deduce them through experiment—this is the science Feynman describes. This makes for a fun game for scientists like Rhett who like a good mystery. The program doesn't tell us the forces, but if you carefully measure the trajectory of the Birds, you can begin to make some conclusions about the forces in Angry Birds Space. And then, if you're super cool, you can use your conclusions about these forces to build your own model universe to calculate the trajectories of the birds and see how they match up to the 'reality' of the game.
Here's an example of just what a wizard like Rhett can produce:
And as Rhett says, this is a fun exercise, much like indoor climbing, and if you really get stuck, you know that there's someone you can turn to (the game designers) to help you out.
But the real fun happens when you start climbing on a real rock, and to understand what a real climb looks like in physics, we need to understand a bit more about Pioneer 10 and 11. These are robotic space probes launched in the early 1970s to explore the outer planets of Jupiter and Saturn, and ultimately escape the Solar System. The trajectory of the space probe is very similar to that of an Angry Bird, the launch by rocket is accelerates the spacecraft up to a particular velocity, and from there onward, with the exception of small course corrections made by thrusters, the trajectory of the space probe is determined by the gravitational forces from nearby masses, like planets.
That we can launch a space probe on a trajectory that has it pass just by a planet-moon system 800 million km away, speaks to the incredible understanding we have of "rules" of gravity and motion. But, as Feynman discusses in the video above, scientists are also always on the lookout for small signs that they may not have a full understanding of the rules of the game. In this case, it's the observation that when measuring the velocity of Pioneer 10 using a doppler shift of its radio signal, scientists can't account for of acceleration. Again, that such a seemingly small acceleration can be measured, considering the measurement is made from an accelerating platform (the earth) is a real testament to the power of science and the precision of our ability to measure quantities like the acceleration of the earth, which affect this measurement—out ability to observe the game.
Scientists have spent the past decade trying to account for this anomaly. In a move very similar to Rhett's attempts to figure out the frictional drag on the angry birds, scientists have attempted to model some unknown drag force acting on the probe, or perhaps that the gravitational force is slightly stronger at those distances. Each of these possible explanations has been disproven with further experiments, such as measuring that Pluto does not experience a similar effect.
One of the most promising explanations of the anomalous acceleration was the possibility thermal radiation from the spacecraft's main equipment compartment was reflecting off the back of the antenna and causing a very small acceleration toward the sun, tending to slow the spacecraft, as shown below.
But in order to test this idea, scientists needed to develop a computational model of the heat transfer of the spacecraft. And this makes a nice connection with the world of video games. It's a pretty common problem in modern video games to need to model the how objects are illuminated in a virtual world. Current games now explicitly model this using a technique called Phong Shading, which divides objects into tiny polygons, and the calculates the reflection of light off of each of these small polygons. Both Phong Shading and the computational method for calculating position above illustrate the general approach to computational modeling. Take something complicated (the path of the spacecraft over a long period of time, or thermal reflection off of the back of the curved antenna), then break it apart into many small bits (tiny time steps, or tiny polygons on the antenna). Each bit can be described by simple physics (constant forces, or simple reflection), and a computer can then sum all of these bits to determine the overall result(the complete path of the spacecraft, or the total force on the space craft due to thermal reflection).
For our real Angry Birds Space problem, Pioneer 10, we not only need a computer to help us model the path of the spacecraft, we need a computer to help us model the possible forces that are acting on the object, and when we do this, we find our models, based on physics we understand fully, predict the path of the spacecraft completely within our current measurement, or as Francisco et. al. put it in their paper:
With the results presented here it becomes increasingly apparent that, unless new data arises, the puzzle of the anomalous acceleration of the Pioneer probes can finally be put to rest.
This is why Rhett's work with computational modeling and Angry Birds Space is so interesting—it bring challenging and current problems like Pioneer 10 to physics students at the introductory level, and teaches students the same tools of computational modeling that are used even in the most complex problems. With the Pioneer anomaly solved, Angry Birds Space seems to offer plenty of mystery to keep physicists busy.
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Columbia, SC - South Carolina's Future Scholar Advisor 529 Plan ranked in the top 10 for one-, three-, five- and 10-year investment performance in a recently released nationwide analysis by Savingforcollege.com that identifies the best performing advisor-sold 529 plans.
"We are honored that Savingforcollege.com recognized the Future Scholar Advisor Plan as one of the top 10 performing 529 plans in the country," said South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis. "We take great pride in our state's 529 plan and work hard to make it as customer-focused and cost-efficient as possible. This high ranking gives us positive momentum in encouraging families to save for college by investing in a Future Scholar 529 plan."
To promote Future Scholar and celebrate the performance rankings, Treasurer Loftis is launching a privately funded multi-media Holiday Gifting campaign.
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A businesswoman, Mrs Monsurat Oseni, on Friday approached an Igando Customary Court in Lagos seeking divorce of her 18-year-old marriage to Munirudeen Oseni over allegation of witchcraft.
Mosurat, 48, told the court that she was no longer interested in the marriage, because her husband labelled her as a witch responsible for his predicament.
"My husband goes about telling whoever cares to listen that I am a witch and I was responsible for his low financial status.
"Most times, he comes to my shop wearing worn-out clothes to curse me and destroy my goods," the mother of three alleged.
She further alleged that Munirudeen was an irresponsible husband and father.
According to her, since the inception of our marriage, I have been the one paying our house rent and the children school fees.
"Our first child is in the university and I am the one paying her fees.
"Six years ago, my husband packed out of the house to stay in Sango-Ota in Ogun, claiming Lagos State is expensive.
"He married another woman and abandoned us.
"After some months, he came back to Lagos to squat with friends in my area from where he comes to my shop to insult and curse me," she said.
The petitioner said that her marriage had been turbulent and fraught with fights and quarrels.
She said that she had not been at peace because her husband always beat her on any provocation.
"My husband takes alcoholic drink a lot. He drinks to stupor after which he will vomit everywhere in the house.
"I have reported him to his family, but he refused to change," she said.
The woman urged the court to terminate the marriage because she was no longer interested in it.
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Munirudeen, who was said to have been summoned, was however, not in court.
The court President, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, ordered the bailiff to summon him again to respond to the allegations on June 27.


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De rivier de Pattani ontspringt in de provincie Yala in het district Betong. In deze provincie ligt ook het Bang Lang-reservoir, dat door een dam in de rivier gevormd wordt. De rivier stroomt in de provincie Pattani in de baai van Pattani, (Ao Pattani), een hoefijzervormige baai aan de Golf van Thailand bij de stad Pattani. De Pattani is 214 kilometer lang en is hiermee de langste rivier in het zuidelijke gedeelte van Thailand.

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 Rivieren in Thailand

Rivier in Thailand
Pattani (provincie)
Yala (provincie)
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A pioneer of blending world music and jazz, going back to early Latin-tinged fusion outings like 1976's Land of the Midnight Sun, 1977's Elegant Gypsy and 1978's Casino, the guitar great continues to reflect the rich influence of flamenco, tango, Middle Eastern, Brazilian and African musics on more recent outings like 1998's The Infinite Desire, 2000's The Grand Passion, 2006's Consequence of Chaos and 2008's La Melodia, Live in Milano…
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HAL developed 425 Kgf Manik turbojet for Nirbhay cruise missile
HAL intends to design and develop a 320 daN (326 kgf) thrust class jet engine for various applications.
The single spool turbo jet engine would have an envelope diameter of 310 mm and length of 740 mm.
It would be capable of operating in altitude range of Sea Level to 8.5 km.
The engine would have a SFC of 1.175 kg/daN-h, a starting envelop of 8.5 km to SL @ 0.4 to 0.8M, endurance of 1,000 sec
Physical Parameters and Weight
Length <= 740mm (Excluding LRUs)
Diameter <= 310mm
Dry weight < 44-kg (Excluding LRUs and cartridge Starter)
Initial Requirement
2 engines for Technology Demonstrator (TD)
10 prototype engines for various certifications / qualification trials
5 deliverable engines for limited series production
Private Sector Manufacturing Partnership
HAL on May 31, 2016 released a RFI for 'Selection of an Indian partner to manufacture aero engine in India.'
The due date for submission of a response to the RFI is August 10, 2016
HAL has invited interested Indian partners to undertake the manufacture of the engine by establishing all the required facilities including test rigs and engine test bed. HAL will manufacture 2 technology demonstrators and 3 qualification test units.
In the proposed partnership arrangement, the marketing of end product will be in the scope of HAL.
The current projection is to produce about 12 engines over 2 years time frame after initial development phase. The engine under development is likely to undergo changes during the productionisation. Once the development phase is completed, it is anticipated that the total no of engines required would be around 250 over 5 to 6 year period.
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ISRO's Forthcoming ATV-D02 Scramjet Test Details
The photo above of the ATV-D01 mission shows two scramjets strapped to the second stage of a Rohini-560
ISRO is poised to fly the maiden test of its scramjet engine developed under the Air Breathing Propulsion Project (ABPP) in the next few days .
A component of ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) project, the ABPP aims to reduce the size of launch vehicles and increase their payload capacity, facilitating cheaper access to outer space.
ISRO refers to the scramjet test mission as ATV-D02 or Advanced Technology Vehicle Development Flight 2. (In March, 2010 ISRO conducted an unpowered flight test of the Scramjet engine using the ATV-D01 mission.)
The ATV-D02 mission will use a Rohini-560, a two stage sounding rocket, to test the scramjet. The rocket will feature two active scramjet engine modules and the associated fuel feed system. The scramjet engines would be symmetrically strapped to the second stage of the rocket for the experimental flight. (Rohini-560 is ISRO's largest sounding rocket. The 560 designation comes from the 560mm diameter of the rocket.)
ATV-D02 will use scaled down ramjets, each half-meter long and weighing 45-m long.
Apart from demonstrating hypersonic ignition at Mach 6, ISRO hopes to sustain combustion for 5 seconds.
The Rohini second stage will achieve a height of 70 km and sustain Mach 6 +.05 and dynamic pressure (80 + 35 kPa) for seven seconds. These conditions are required for a stable ignition of active scramjet engine combustor. Once lit, the scramjet will sustain hypersonic flight for five seconds.
At Mach 6, the drag on a air vehicle is considerable. A challenge with scramjet propulsion is to develop more thrust than drag. ISRO hopes to demonstrate good thrust value with its scramjet engine.
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Bharat Forge Kalyani and Uralvagonzavod Sign 155mm SP Howitzer Co-production Deal
"MSTA-S" self-propelled guns. Source:mil.ru [via RIR]
General Director of the "Uralvagonzavod" corporation Oleg Sienko and the CEO of the Indian company Bharat Forge Kalyani of the Kalyani Group signed a memorandum of understanding providing for the establishment of the co-production of self-propelled artillery units (SAU) in India. It's not clear if the deal will bring the Russian gun back into contention for supplying SP 155mm howitzers to India under its artillery modernization program. [source]
The ET reported on July 1, 2016 that MoD had wrapped price negotiations with L&T for purchase of 100 guns, earmarked for deployment along India's border with Pakistan.
A contract has been finalized and will be forwarded for approval to the Cabinet Committee on Security.
The value of the contract - Rs 4,500-crore - makes it the largest to be entrusted to the industry.
L&T, along with its technology partner Samsung, will produce the guns in India at L&T's Strategic Systems Complex at Talegaon near Pune with close to 50% indigenous content.
The Indian Express reported on January 11, 2016 that MoD on December 22, 2015 opened the price bid of L&T, the only gun to qualify in the trials. Price negotiations with L&T will commence this month and are likely to be concluded in this financial year. The deal for 100 guns is estimated to cost between Rs 4,500 to Rs 5,000 crore. The contract will also have a follow-up option clause of 50 additional K9 Vajra-T guns.
The first 10 guns are to be supplied by L&T to the Army within 18 months of signing, with the balance 90 guns to be supplied in the next two years.
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Labels: Army, Artillery, Howitzer
Russia's Project 23000E Shtorm (Storm) Aircraft Carrier Design: A Strong Contender
Photo credit: Artem Tkachenko / Wikipedia
Russia has offered its "Shtorm" nuclear aircraft carrier design to India for purchase, the Defense News reported on July 12, 2016. A diplomat with the Russian Embassy confirmed that a Russian team visiting India last week made the offer. The Deccan Herald confirmed the visit today reporting that the Russian team had met Defense Secretary G Mohan Kumar. MoD is likely to seek opinion of the Navy and undertake a detailed cost-benefit analysis before taking a call on the offer. In March 2016 the Izvestia newspaper had reported that Russia's Krylovsky State Research Center (KRSC) would be offering its new multipurpose heavy aircraft carrier design called Project 23000E Shtorm (Storm) for the Indian Aircraft Carrier-2 (IAC-2) project. The Shtorm project was first revealed to the public in June at the Army-2015 show near Moscow, where a scale model of the ship was exhibited. The model featured a split air wing comprising navalized T-50 PAKFAs and MiG-29Ks, as well as jet-powered naval early warning aircraft and Ka-27 naval helicopters. The presence of AEW&CS models on the deck suggested the carrier would be able to operate heavy aircraft, perhaps using a Russian developed EMALS analog. The Shtorm design has a displacement of up to 100,000 tons, is 330 meters long, 40 meters wide, and has a draft of 11 meters. It has a nuclear power plant, although initial plans state a conventional one may also be used. The ship is designed to sail at up to 30 knots (around 55 km/h) and withstand sea state 6-7 (characterized by waves up to 9 meters high).
Navy Seeing Design Finalization by 2016 End
The Hindu reported on January 22, 2016 that design of the carrier would be frozen by the end of 2016. Feasibility study has started and would be completed in 8-10 months leading to a design freeze. Design consultancy will be sought from foreign companies with expertise in carrier design and construction. Five countries have been identified for the purpose — the U.S., Russia, France, the U.K. and Italy — all of which currently operate carriers. With the December 2016 deadline looming, the Shtorm would be a strong contender with an already finalized design.
Design Cooperation with the US
India and the US are exploring the feasibility of co-designing INS Vishal under DTTI. That may prove to be too little too late.
Nuclear Propulsion
EMALS based carrier operations require lot of electrical power, mandating nuclear propulsion (NP). Russia has built and operated nuclear powered heavy cruisers. It earlier helped India develop NP for Arihant class SSBN. It's likely that Russian NP ToT for a super carrier would come with less strings attached than US ToT. Additional details on the IAC-2 (INS Vishal) project are available on my paid (Rs 500/- per year) access site IDP Sentinel.
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on April 27, 2004 7:04 AM | Permalink
ABC is one of those open source projects that has taken on one of the most attractive qualities of the open source community, it's penchant for witty, faultlessly descriptive and devastatingly wry acronyms.
Michel was the one who told me about Apache, which is (if I'm not wrong) server software. Apparently it was put together by amalgamating numerous Unix patches. It stands for A Patchy Server.
My favorite though, is LAME, which stands for Lame is not An Mpeg Encoder. In fact it is used for that function, to encode mp3 files, but apparently the project was originally or fundamentally focused on another (I think more theoretically research based) aim.
I'm sure better information about these can be found through searching for them.
ABC isn't the most fantastic, but it's not bad, it stands for Yet Another Bittorrent Client. It is, however, a rather good client, in that it seems to offer queueing of torrents in a way that it doesn't strangle downstream like TorrentStorm seemed to. It's currently working its charm on getting me more Sports Night. It also happens to use Shadow's latest engine, ie it uses the protocol that my previous recommendation, BitTornado uses. Good stuff. I recommend it.
You do have to allow your torrents to seed for at least 30 mins after they complete though, but that is a small price to pay for queueing. And file sharing networks are about sharing, and the best way to make sure it stays that way is to make it easy on the people who share. Clever.
I feel the need to explain to him, perhaps on the off chance that he sees this, or not, whatever.
What happens when you have no future is that you come, literally, to live in the past. You see, he, perhaps you, don't/can't understand this, certain fuckwit doesn't understand it, but it's true.
And your reaction, after a while, is to think to yourself, that this is not what you want to do, that there is nothing noble or transcendent about confronting that aspect of horror, of concieving of the world around you as an attic.
There are some people who simply do not want to talk to you (ie: me) and for all that, I think I'd rather have an empty attic.
You see, even though my third chapter is meant to lead up to a descent into hell, perhaps there's a reason it's not written yet.
That said, wouldn't you rather go back to Tekong?
Tell you what, let's go and watch Elephant together and then you'll understand better.
Sometimes you just stand there, hip-deep in pie
I'm trying to stave off watching yet another episode of Sports Night, largely due to the fact that I can't stop, and one day there will be no more.
And also, I'm here to remind myself that I should write about how Sorkin's reliance on rock to express jubilation and exuberance - happy things - is a lot more convincing with sports than it is with politics. With politics it comes off as being - I want to say smug and exclusive - self-congratulatory, perhaps indulgent.
Part of me thinks the way he handles love is the way most people of a certain kind handle it, though obviously he does it with a breathtaking deftness in a way that is eloquent and moving. And there are times when I think those people are hideous.
Did anyone else notice that the Simpson's had a rather extended reference to the Economist? What's that about? It was in the one that just aired in the US, I think 15x18.
Miss it, miss it, miss it
I'm missing being in the US right now. Largely because I've actually been watching most of the TV I download with the ads cut out, since people do that as a service, and also to reduce file size. I downloaded however, an episode of Conan, and while it's dated 22nd of April, it's an older show. Regardless, I'm watching a Zelnorm ad now and it's rather gratifying. What was also cool was watching Jewel do an ad for Loreal, and if I'm not wrong, having her music in the background.
Shoe Money Tonite
Sports Night is absolutely breathtaking. Sure there are episodes that aren't quite as pleasing or as lyrical, but there's an inescapable (I don't use this word often) verve about the show.
I don't like sports, I don't watch sports, which is why the tagline as quoted by IMDB is pretty cool: "It's about sports. The same way Charlie's Angels was about law enforcement."
There are also significant reasons why Aaron Sorkin should choose to work so often with Joshua Malina, and within a couple of episodes this comes into clear focus, he's absolutely brilliant. I must say though, that the women in the series are exceptional, who would have guessed Natalie used to be in a cheesy rip-off of Quantum Leap (Sliders). And as the title of this post suggests, Felicity Huffman is officially my new favorite actress, for a while at least.
on April 25, 2004 3:23 PM | Permalink
Why would I think that I'd be able, or it would even be possible, for me to build a system for myself that would be "perfect"? I should know by now that it's always going to be more complicated than all that, that something won't be quite right and there'll be some form of compromise as there always is.
I wonder if I had a paycheck if it would be more or less inconcievable for me to just blow money on components because we want to.
It's just that getting a SFF PC would be fun, and having a hyperthreaded cpu would be nice, and a proper gaming platform would be good, and a mid-range Nvidia graphics card isn't too much to ask for.
Thank god Windows is free :), like most other forms of software.
Sports Night, Dead Like Me
I want to write a glowing entry on Sports Night and Aaron Sorkin, but I really can't muster up the will to do much more than link you to the TV Tome page and the DVD that's on sale, and tell you that some friendly fellow is posting it on Suprnova.org.
Very much in the same way as people are doing for Dead Like Me. Now I'm not saying that DLM is the best series, but I do really like "A. Cook", and once Bryan Fuller got done with the considerably stiffer early episodes, and esp. once Laura Harris comes on, the series really picks up. But yes, penchant for the character of the slacker girl, and a recurrent theme of family.
I can't seem to sleep. So let's tell you what's going on. I got my debit Mastercard today, which is fun, making my life in this place complete (aside from the fuck-you glasses). Apparently you should remember to notice the words in bold on the instruction slip that tell you to use your ATM card to activate your debit card. Anyway now I won't have to carry my ATM card any more and I can stop carrying around my HSBC cards (they sent me another debit card, my issue no. is now 7...)
I've applied for a job writing about games for this place called GameAxis, which I think is a subsidiary of HardwareZone. Sounds like an ideal situation for me, but we'll see how it goes, Louis has learned how not to hold his breath. But honestly I don't think I can be bothered to try for SPH till after these guys blow me off...
I've worked my way up to doing 3 rounds round the convenient circuit near here, which takes me a nice round 30 mins. If I keep it up I really should get new shoes. I should also get more CDR, an 80 pin IDE cable, buy some M&S shirts, and perhaps more pairs of socks. Shorts I think I'm doing okay with so far.
And yes, Overnet is doing exceedingly well, with my downstream being consistently about 90-100, which is pretty amazing. And as tends to happen, it just got around to completing a whole bunch of things that had been languishing for a while, so my queue is starting to see 300...
And the ficus election episode of The Awful Truth has somewhat renewed my idea of Michael Moore. Not to mention that Louis Theroux meeting the Hamiltons was quite a bit of a hoot if I should say so myself.
I've figured that a lot of people bump into this site looking for subtitles for their divx/xvid .avi files, so I've decided that I should provide the public service of pointing them to a place where they can actually find said subtitles. That said, I'm not sure there are places that specialise so readily in TV subtitles - eventually a dubbed version for your country will come out. The best suggestion I can give you is to look here. The suggestions below tend to be for films.
Here. The site is called extratitles.to - it seems to be the most central place online for finding subtitles for films - the database is pretty huge. If you're looking specifically for english subs for asian films, try kloofy.net here, note that you'll have to register at kloofy. These are not necessarily the best or by any means the only way of getting at subs, but it's what I know of. The other way being to search the file sharing network you were on for them, but I'm assuming people who end up here are just piss-lazy (and honestly, not the bluntest edge of the club).
Though I'm assuming people who bother to come here already know the best way to play subs with their files is with BSPlayer. There's another way, but let's not confuse the poor dears.
Oh, go on then: VobSub.
BitTornado
I've been using BitTornado for the past couple of weeks, and it seems to have significant improvements over the experimental client.
Apparently it's better known as "Shadow's Experimental Client" but it seems to have rebranded itself. Basically it fixes alot of things that were annoying about the original/experimental clients. First, it actually uses the most recent engine, as opposed to the experimental one which is a bit dated now, second, you can set a default download rate, ie dial-up etc., you can set the default download directory, and you no longer have a long allocation period each time you start or resume a download.
All basically reasons enough to move over to it.
There are other clients out there, but I tried Torrentstorm and the downstream seems limited when you limit your upstream, which is annoying since you can actually queue downloads. Azeureus, which is the Java based version, is supposed to be a bit buggy and take up a significant amount of processor overhead.
Beta Time
It's hidden away in super secret places that only the Opera initiated know about, but Opera 7.5 Beta 1 is out in the wild, with a lovely new default skin!!!
I'm so happy I could... do something that happy people do.
This Is The End
I suppose again that it doesn't matter how flawed Enterprise is, it doesn't matter how mediocre it is, there are just moments when it is simply sufficient. Part of me thinks of it as the uglier twin of Firefly, since they debuted at the same time. I mean I didn't have to watch beyond the teaser to just sense that this could turn out to be a good one - perhaps more moving that I'd give it credit for, maybe less.
And it's not that it evokes particular memories, it's more likely that it triggers some subconscious response that recalls without recalling. You can read one of my previous entries on Enterprise here.
I'd like to think that my cryptic titles would be at some point an interesting study or at least a point of consideration.
on April 20, 2004 9:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
One Word: Good Fun; Americans...
I don't really go in for action movies in general, but this wasn't bad. Honestly, it made me wish I had done something similar back at ISSE. There's a particular satisfaction in seeing people surprised.
Empathy my ass. Ties for top spot of worst use of piano soundtrack (on first impression) with Eyes Wide Shut.
I'm trying to analyse why this and 21 grams annoyed me so much, but Out of Gas (Firefly 1x08) is something of a favorite. Part of it at least is that Out of Gas used it in a very transparent way, that it wanted some exposition about the characters - there is a good reason that exists outside of the diegesis.
And as for the pornographic aspect of it, you should look at this.
Overnet 0.53 Point Upgrade Goodness
Ok, having to admit that I was having my doubts about the efficacy of the new Overnet client, but 0.53 is turning out pretty fantastic. Download here.
If nothing else, the performance improvement is fantastic. On my brother's cable line, the downstream is consistently about 80-90 kbs, and for all the who-ha about the ratio changing, my upload doesn't go much past 10 anyway. I'm assuming that basically what this did was just make the community as a whole raise their upload barrier, so that downstream speeds have become rather ideal.
That might be the reason that MSN can't sign in anymore...
So yes, now the ratio is such that you have to set your upload to 20 to get unlimited downloads, but I've left my upload at 0, with no decrease in downstream, in fact, as I mentioned, quite the opposite.
I get the feeling I'm going to have a hard time keeping my queue to a reasonable number, as it is it's about 350+ at best, with about a quarter to a third paused. I'm trying to maintain at least a 10 gig leeway in terms of space on the temp drive. Which means I'm using up about 100 gig in temp files, but what else is new.
Buffy is still being rather fun. Makes me want to watch Buffy, strangely enough.
Buffy on Xbox
on April 15, 2004 11:40 AM | Permalink
I'm not sure if this is Computer Stuff, but if I ever doubted Xbox, I take it back. And I must say that the Buffy game is surprisingly effective at being buffy-esque, though I've only just started playing. The "witty banter" if not fantastic, is at least close enough to be amusing and qualify it as being what it says on the tin. And the buffy figurine is pretty accurate as well, though far too gamine to not be accused of Lara Croft syndrome.
Opera 7.5 Preview 4
Beta Forum post here.
They weren't kidding when they said there were performance improvements - startup time has pretty much dropped to maybe a quarter of what it was. Opera used to have a start up lag of about 4 seconds, but now I hit my hotkeys and there it is. Obviously I'm talking about a cold startup of the Opera application, opening pages is still instantaneous.
What's very encouraging as well is that they've enabled the personal bar by default again, yay :). Main bar was always a waste of space anyway.
It now probably takes me about 15 mins-half an hour to customise a clean install of Opera. I move over my search.ini, my cookies, my wand.dat, my address book. I enable smooth scrolling, switch on my ad-blocking style sheet. Move plug-ins, enable trusted protocols. And any number of small things like disabling the mail client, removing unwanted panels, identifying as Opera, blocking pop-ups, making it default browser, changing the hotkey, setting Outlook as mail client, applying Blue Button as my current skin of choice now that search boxes have issues...
There have a been a fuck load of previews so far, and I'm still sort of wondering how they're shaping up on the UI stuff, since the new search panel is sort of lame - not that the start page was that great either. The fine tweaking has been fantastic overall, but I wonder at the end result of all the UI work. I'm assuming that my java related crashes are just temporary.
Oh, and smooth scrolling is nicer again, which is good.
Tim Minear
Tim Minear is a clever, clever man. Part of me is just convinced that he out-Joss-es Joss Whedon. He's the reason Out of Gas is the high water mark of Firefly, and why I've just watched the second episode (actually 11th) of Wonderfalls again with a certain kind of wry, loving relish. For all Joss' talk about space and imbuing, Tim Minear is the one whose handling of it is most deft, most "organic".
And so it's done. I now have socks and shorts, so that the world may tremble. I've also bought film fest tickets, after staving off inquiries by su-lin as to whether I had actually bought them yesterday as I had said I would. For better or worse, some of the seats are couples' seats, but I'm sure we can handle that.
Uh, so what's that?
The fuck you table.
And. So.
And so I went to get my new table leg and to have my chair fixed, and was happier.
It's sort of happy making, and quite calming, rearranging the stuff in the room. My secret plan, which might actually come to fruition tomorrow, involves rug for the floor and probably table for me to work at. Ask, and IKEA will provide.
Oh, and I now have tumblers, ones where you can actually pour a whole can of coke (diet vanilla) into.
I'm probably better off not using the external keyboard in all this, my right arm is feeling marginally more comfortable this way. But thankfully the table I'm looking at will actually be able to have adjustable height, so that I can lower everything to the appropriate level.
It's nice having Angel Season 4 pour into my lap, and "Spin the Bottle" is a rather very good episode, restores some of my faith that Joss does certain things fantastically.
Must remember I should buy film fest tickets some time soon, though probably won't get the chance tomorrow.
No Man's Woman
on April 8, 2004 4:23 AM | Permalink
It's not an anxiety by any means, but it is something I wonder about, that my physiology has really changed after. It's just a sense of your body being different, not to mention the short term memory loss.
So you see, when you're making fun of it in the way you make fun of mechanical (or electronic) reproductions, it is a private thing, away from the intrusion of society. So you're making fun about your own, non-present, anxieties. When people who live in a place where we have the end of satire talk about it, it becomes what kettles of fish become.
So no, how would that be personal?
I've entirely forgotten that it was the Alias pilot when we have Jack Bristow telling the guy from Shindig that it really is like asking your neighbours whether you can have a loud party.
Mean spirited.
In, the, darkest place...
This was a couple of days ago, but just to say, Borders Singapore makes fuck-off stupid plastic bags.
Went to buy tickets for Hellboy, remarkably few pre-sales, though I suspect that Winston and I will be sitting just in front of the Hellboy Fanboy Collective who got the entire row behind us. I'm hoping this means that I did not, in fact, get seats too far to the rear of the cinema. And that dead centre on the seating chart really is dead centre in the cinema.
Overnet has been behaving itself remarkably well since I changed ports, I suspect the cable company's trying to limit usage of the default ed2k port. And I'm no longer getting the same annoying firewall messages.
I actually should be listening to "Painted from Memory" now.
Spartan Backflip
It's just so typical that the reason why they didn't cut Irreversible is more reprehensible than if they had cut it.
Spartan is good, but did they have to use a hacksaw? I can only imagine what they would do if jesus was spelled as fuck in aramaic. But to a certain extent, I would say that Spartan does for the political thriller what the Wire did for crime drama. It was good. I'll get the DVD, pity I won't want to watch it in the cinemas here again.
So I'm not the only one to think of pornography.
I h8 txtng
on April 2, 2004 10:33 PM | Permalink
I'm sorry, but just the idea of Peishan and her nice spanky new Bible thumping, snuff film watching fuck-buddy was just too tempting to pass up. I apologise. I should have had more faith. And by that I mean Eliza Dushku.
Joan of Arcadia can BITE ME
Being funny makes up for a multitude of sins, which, if you've watched Firefly enough times, you understand. Wonderfalls is pretty funny. Lesbian porn :).
I am now officially a bit baffled by why Fox fucked with the series run order. It was a great episode, if only for "destroy her". There really was nothing to be gained by putting those episodes first other than to pump up the concept, which to be honest is exactly what they didn't want to do if they put this as the follow up to the pilot.
It's about the family. Not about the shop.
on April 2, 2004 8:51 PM | Permalink
I can't remember if Kristeva is the one that talks about this, but there is the assertion that the process of pornography is to create metonomy - to reduce the thing itself to one of it's functions or appendages. Hence, they talk about how in sexual pornography, the woman is reduced to the vagina, or in "Not I", where the woman is reduced to a virtual vagina.
So an aspect is substituted for the thing itself. Affective piety is offensive.
I'd like to say (in this case) that I don't watch pornography, but that's patently untrue in at least one (if not more) definitions (colloquial or otherwise) of the word, even though I think the statement itself is pretty accurate. I'd like to say that well, I watch porn, but I don't watch snuff films - which is true, but not quite accurate.
Hitler-Cartman is endlessly amusing.
Christian Rock (I'm Careless, I Believe)
I'm altogether too happy about the fact that I now have claritine - or actually, a form of generic loratadine. Tufty.
Oh, and that christian rock episode of south park is funny beyond words.
Let's Protest Globalisation
I haven't laughed this hard in hours.
Wing Man
I need someone to go to Sim Lim with me, or at least tell me where CD media is cheapest. Leong? Winston next week? Should I call Jiang? Peishan perhaps? That place really does require moral support, or at least a wing-man.
Storyteller West Wing Sty-lee
So... West Wing concept episodes... It's probably easier to criticise because it wasn't quite fantastic, but the gesture again is that of "we've had 4 seasons of Sorkin, and that can never be reclaimed, so lets go get dialectical on everyone's asses".
Perhaps it's because I've been watching Chris Marker documentaries (which I was trying to tell Cari about) but I had high hopes for the episode at the beginning. The immediate reaction at the end was of "not too bad", and yet 5 mins after, now, here, things are rather more like puddles of piss (ie fluid). The way the episode resolved, not even polemically, stating accusations and then putting the bow around at the end, demeaned the enterprise.
This is the reason we stopped watching the west wing after the first season, because it became insufferable at a certain point for the soft core of it's politics and the ejaculation of it's glow. What's more, the collusion of the diegetic documentary maker was all the more cloying for the looping sensationalism. Granted I came back to the earlier episodes later and couldn't find it, but I find it now, and something tells me it's different.
The digital look was fun, the press staff was fun, the use of sets was fun.
You get the feeling that the meandering of the earlier seasons served the broader aesthetic purpose, that resolution is constantly deferred, that like the trope of nation building, there is always constantly more work to be done. Now when things wrap up like candy wrappers, the twisting at the ends leaves your fingers sticky like cookies when you eat me.
It's all the more infuriating that the documentary is meant to have gestated till after the end of everything, the end of the second term. I'd never wish any series cancellation, but I wonder if I'm missing something.
I want a muffin.
I'm sorry I ever doubted how moving the West Wing could be despite everything. It's a pity that I didn't get to see the budget storyline before the later episodes. Everything really just makes Mary Louise Parker's lusciousness all the more central, all the more pregnant.
And I thought Overnet was starting to seem overrated.
A Flop
And someone should tell the fuckwits on Alias that a Teraflop is a measure of speed, not a measure of storage.
Let's Vote for the Smart One - Bush.
Now this is what I mean and this is why I get pissed off. I don't like John Kerry enough to forgive him his demagoguery. Howard Dean is doing the right thing by his party, but he is the victim of his own sincerity.
People of integrity should be able to stand up and say what is right even when it isn't popular, and even when Lou Dobbs and the Trade Police are vershnickt. Kerry isn't stupid, Kerry is educated, and he should be standing up for smart not for ball tickling. Who would have thought that anyone would get to accuse Bush of being on the smart side of the fence?
It does make sense to send jobs overseas. I'll reference the economist to you again so you get that it is my newspaper of choice. The amount of jobs lost overseas are a tiny fraction of the workforce. There isn't enough of it to make up too significant a proportion of cyclical unemployment. Jobs are lost and gained as bad companies die out and new companies are formed. Good companies are good because they make money, would you have it otherwise?
People's jobs are more secure when the company they work for remains focused on being economically viable, which means it needs to make profit. If that means sending jobs overseas, they should be applauded with both hands. Going on a witchhunt against people who are doing exactly what they should is irrational - tell the leopard not to have spots.
More jobs overseas means what? More, and richer, people to sell your goods to. Expensive goods that only you can produce. Expensive goods that require highly paid staff to produce. And in the mean time, have you noticed that it now requires less people to do what you used to do before? A jobless recovery where production increases means a leap in productivity, which means you're getting better at what you do, which means in the future you can create even more than before - prosperity that is.
It's like Old Norse notions of honour, only this time, instead of reductive recycling of finite commodity (which seems increasingly unlikely), you have an ever expanding cycle of wealth and renewal.
And people wonder why I dismiss the Passion as affective fallacy.
People who criticise Bush on spending money on Iraq are the very isolationists that claim Bush to be so. You help yourself by helping others - if anyone should know that giving to others does not mean taking away from your own, it should be the Democrats.
Non-paltry comments can go to the forum - though for once I wonder if I shouldn't enable comments to the post. If you're not a fuckwit I'll reference you by editing this post.
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