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Building my Teenage Dream PC - Ricer PC Part 1
indrora replied to AlexTheGreatish's topic in LTT Official
Oh man. Brings back some memories. Definitely gotta give a few different classic games a shot from the mid-aughts LAN days: Serious Sam ARMA Battlefield 1942 Portal Far Cry GTA Just to name a few. Portal was way on the high side of that but oh boy if you had a couple copies of Serious Sam kicking around you were the go-to friend at LAN parties.
The Supercar Gaming PC - Aventum X Review
indrora replied to JonoT's topic in LTT Official
You're very much not its target audience. This is for the person with dollars than sense. This is the "I paid $fuckyou for my computer because I can" and a few steps above the person who buys a Porche 911 Sharkwerks to daily to the grocery store because fuck you and then takes it to mororama and puts a little "RARE ONE OF A KIND" plaque on it to show that they pay for twinkies with a platinum gold card. Where the typical system integrator machine is a Mazda Miata, this is a custom-baked supercar that cost more than the GDP of a small country because my pants don't bulge enough and I need to compensate at the next Fortnite invitational.
Was RTX a big scam? – Performance & image quality analysis
indrora replied to GabenJr's topic in LTT Official
I'm not talking about the camera trick that produces funky looking images, I'm talking about the HDR we get in games. It also doesn't inherently need multiple exposure samples (you can do certain amounts of HDR with RAW DNG and compensation techniques, a cheater HDR that some photographers use when handling moving subjects and want to avoid ghosts). No, I'm talking about games supporting HDR. Some of the first were in Unreal 3 and an early demo (HL2: Lost Cost), and a lot of the work was done by keeping two textures around and in other areas apply a bloom shader effect to the bright bits of the scene. It wasn't real HDR, but it was close enough. For an interesting look at how Valve cheated, they talked about it at SIGGRAPH 06, but the basic gist of it is that they're not really doing the raytrace HDR that you would want to do (and which RTX/DXR enables today) but instead pre-baked all their HDR stuff before rendering it fully. The long and short of it is thus: Microsoft released DXR into the world nVidia then released their RTX cards which have hardware support for DXR A few games kinda-sorta rush DXR support in nVidia announces they're kinda supporting DXR on GTX 10-series cards through CUDA cores, but that it comes with a significant performance hit Unreal Engine is slowly adding the baked-in support for DXR People get angry that there's a performance hit on GTX cards Everyone completely loses their mind and the rational folk in the room apply Hanlon's Razor Look where we are now. PhysX needed special physics cores that later were integrated into GPUs by nVidia and then replaced with CUDA GPGPU kernels -- in fact It wasn't until much later that GPU support was added. Only two games supported the accelerator card anywhere near its launch. When GPU support was added (which required quite high spec cards,) only five games supported physX on the GPU. Was physX a scam too? You later could run the physics simulations on the CPU but your framerate would tank. If we really apply the logic that's been going on, the Voodoo2 cards were a scam! There were a handful of games that depended on the Voodoo2 in order to provide 3D accelerated graphics and later got software rendering support. Hell, we can even go back as far as the Intel 8087 Math Coprocessor, since there were games that demanded it but worked fine after patching that out... but with tanked framerates because of the integer approxomations. Hmmm... It's like we've been down this path before.
You're uh, new to this whole "cost of new tech" thing, aren't you? First generation of something that hasn't really been done before (remember that this is not GPGPU -- this is not CUDA -- this is adding special silicon for things like Tensor cores and ray tracing) will be more expensive. This isn't re-purposing texture shaders for something else, this is literally dedicated, first generation silicon. There's R&D cost that has to be recouped somewhere. That cost goes to you, the consumer. When CUDA came out, the cards cost more. Hell, dedicated compute cards like the nVidia Titan still cost a pretty penny. I remember when you had to make sure you had to make sure that the game you were buying supported your soundcard. Nothing like getting home from Fry's only to realize that your fancy new game (now out of the shrink wrap) doesn't support AdLib except for a few crappy MIDI renditions of the soundtrack because it was built for the Soundblaster PCM FM channels, so you go and buy a SoundBlaster only to realize that it's the same MIDI renditions just with slightly better sounding instruments. Today, there's little difference: Software support is still getting there and the first few generations of software and hardware are going to be... spotty, if not a little lacklustre. Remember when HDR was new? And how we all oohed and ahhed when it was all over our faces, only to realize it was just Bloom and some subjective lighting? How about when everybody realized Doom wasn't really 3D? Or when you really honestly needed an SLI setup to make Unreal work right?
Google quietly kills "Project Campfire", the semi-secret "Windows/Linux on Chromebooks" initiative
indrora posted a topic in Tech News
Source: ZDNet , AllAboutChromebooks (Image from AllAboutChromebooks) Google has apparently killed their (hiding in plain sight) skunkworks project to run Windows and Linux on Chromebooks under the name "Project Campfire" or "AltOS". From ZDNet: The project would have allowed Chromebooks to officially dual boot Windows or Linux alongside ChromeOS. Chalk another one up for the Google Graveyard. This certainly could have been cool, given that it currently requires quite a bit of shenanigans but is quite doable by the enthusiast... On the other hand, we've avoided (narrowly) a brewing OtherOS fiasco.
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ARIN revokes 757K+ fraudulently obtained IPv4 addresses
Source: BleepingComputer Team ARIN ZDNet ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, is one of the organizations responsible for dolling out IP addresses on the public internet. They've discovered that 757,760 IPv4 addresses were fraudulently allocated (making up 0.02044% of the internets publicly routable IPv4 addresses) by an individual with a few shell companies. From the ARIN press release: Now, digging into the ZDNet article, it seems Mr. Golestan tried to actually tell ARIN that they're just being mean and to go away after making a tidy sum of cash: (emphasis mine) A suspense thriller worthy of prime time news, truly. The sad fact of the matter is that IPv4 is still what most enterprises are using, not IPv6. We were supposed to get IPv6 rolled out permanently and completely back in 2012, on World IPv6 day, but of course, we all sat on our thumbs and did nothing that day. This makes IPv4 addresses tantamount in rarity somewhere comparable to meetings that couldn't be an email. Takes some brass ones though to tell the company you've defrauded to not talk to you because they're the ones being mean. That really seems to have worked out for poor Mr. Golestan, eh?
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US telcos say "no more data sharing"... Except of course, the data they do share
Source: ZDNet Several major American phone companies have written a joint letter to the FCC stating that they're no longer going to be opening new third-party sharing agreements and are terminating existing ones. From ZDnet: AT&T claims they are only sharing customer location data with E911 services and service such as ride sharing applications but that this, according to the article are limited to "legal and highly controlled cases". So, then -- what's my take on this? If this is really happening, then I think there might be a net good that comes of it from the perspective of control of personally identifiable information and the like -- especially given how cheap and easy it is to track someone if you know their phone number as it stands today, but on the other hand we're trusting the telcos to not be lying through their teeth to the FCC (and, by extension, the public) and not simultaneously also handing all this information to insert your favorite intelligence agency here. Because of course, they wouldn't do that, would they? I doubt there will be any accountability for any of this, and that's my big concern here.
First off, I'm enjoying Anthony's style. Calm, collected, and a nice flip-side to the often energetic Linus. Linus is great for telling us about the Hot New Thing, but Anthony has a fantastic, slightly slow-burn style that works well for technical overviews. @GabenJr -- Please, pitch more of these sorts of things! Find a topic that interests you and just write a script, even if you end up putting it on a personal channel! I think the conclusion here isn't as clean-cut. Was it a scam? Not really, in my opinion -- as Anthony said, NVidia has come first to market and we're seeing the ripple effect of early adopters getting the kinks out. For those of us old enough to remember when eight times speed CD-ROM drives were the hot rage, I remember the occasional discussion as to if you needed anything better than 4x -- you'd saturated the controller on your sound card (yes, kids, sound cards ran your CD drives back then!) and there was dismissal as to if you'd want it. After all, you'd have to slow down for the CD audio! Thomas J. Watson, late head of IBM, is often quoted as saying that there would be a market of maybe 5 computers in the world, with others making similar statements. In the 90s, there was debate over the need for 3D accelerators in pairs or for high-resolution textures, high framerates, if online gaming would ever catch on, and even a hot take article in Boot Magazine that said, effectively, "3D games won't be popular, 2D board games will." In that same issue, they even had the truly bad-in-hindsight spicy take from Alex St. John, one of the people behind DirectX and later the founder of WildTangent, that Java would die a painful death... and look now: one of the most successful games on the planet is written in Java (Minecraft), the most successful mobile OS on the planet runs on Java (Android), and inside most every ATM cards and SIM card is a tiny version of Java, in many places in the world used for everything from banking to just general account management tasks! (JavaCard) I suspect it'll take a few years before we really get the hang of rayracing on the GPU (How many people remember "VR" being the hot thing in marketing land and now we're seeing sub-$1000 headsets from Lenovo, HP, Acer, etc). It'll take time, tooling changes, and developers having time to work out the kinks. When CUDA and OpenCL came along, there were only marginal gains over traditional software processing, but now we're seeing more things running on the GPU than ever before.
New Windows Terminal - tabbed, emoji-capable Windows command-line experience.
indrora replied to Screen's topic in Tech News
Lots of reasons. It's useful to remember that emojis are, internally, characters like the latin letter a, the greek letter ζ, the cyrillic letter Д, the ideograph ヅ, or the arabic script letter ك. There's a lot of things that Conhost (the process that hosts the shell itself) has had in the past that have been broken. For instance, for a long time, if your system was in English (US) and your WSL environment happened to be in English (Germany), all sorts of tools would produce garbage until you changed your windows locale to English (German). So, the reasons to bring up full Unicode support in the terminal: Lots of dev tools use emoji -- for a variety of reasons. Python and Node tooling especially love emoji, since the languages have native support for any unicode character. Swift as well, since you can name a variable an emoji. Mixed-locale software is easier to use in WSL. Tools like ssh and such work fine Japanese users don't need a butchered environment where you have to mentally translate from \ to ¥ Japanese text renders correctly in mixed-widhth (half/fullwidth) environments Bidirectional users can have working bidirectional text (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) Powershell cmdlets for Active Directory can now easily take the name "Martin Grüßer" without silly hacks to make it work Emoji here is really a happy side effect of having full unicode support and fallback font rendering. This means tools like PoSh Git can use arrows and other unicode characters when you are ahead/behind/etc.
Power Outlets PISSES LINUS OFF. [Discussion]
indrora replied to SesMoge's topic in General Discussion
Most consumer electronics with switching power supplies don't give a damn about voltage or frequency now. Look at your laptop's PSU, it'll look something like this: This object can be plugged into a local outlet anywhere in the world and it'll probably work. There's some weirdness with stuff that isn't natively able to auto-adjust to 110/220, but these objects typically have a voltage switch (e.g. power supplies meant for LED displays). This is why these travel adapters work; There's no smarts in them, they're just fit-all plugs that mostly make enough connection to work. Literally the best thing to take with you to another country is a C5/6 grounded cable (or C7 ungrounded cable) with the local plug. Your laptop PSU doesn't give a damn. If it's got the CE (Conformitee European) mark it's meant to be sold in Europe. Going to Britain? Take one of these: Going elsewhere in Europe? They're like, $10, plus they're a lot safer. Plus, a nice long one (I like 2-3M long) means you're never searching for an outlet because there's always an outlet if you're brave enough to stand on chairs. I hacked an IEC connector onto my old fixed-plug laptop and enshrined it in clear resin to make it look "official" and folks really didn't give me a hard time.
Since someone mentioned the UK plugs, I figured I'd post this: The multi-adapters are terrifying as well. The one that Linus actually showed in the video is __amazing__ because it includes a feature that most people didn't even know about! In the UK or parts of Europe, it turns into a free lamp tester! The ever wonderful Big Clive talks about them here: One of the safety things that we in the US are more and more commonly seeing (and something that to this day saves lives and eliminates those nasty shocks that Linus so hates) are RCD devices. They've been part of the US National Electric Code for some time now and are super cool, and Technology Connections has a wonderful video on how they work over here:
LTT: We bought a cheap SSD from Ali Express..
indrora replied to Ivan M's topic in LTT Official
One of my machines has one of their... And this is an abomination unto itself: mini PCIe PATA IDE SSD. You read that right: an IDE PCIe SSD. What's the machine, you might ask? A Dell Mini 9, a netbook that I just use as a note-taking laptop 10/10 nobody messes around with a large man who carries a candy pink netbook.
Does DBAN just lifespan?
indrora replied to BloodyGlitch's topic in Storage Devices
Don't DBAN SSDs. It's not a good idea and will quickly rip through an SSD's lifespan. DBAN works by writing random patterns to the disk, ignoring partitions and filesystems and all that jazz. It's perfectly safe (and might extend some life of the drive in some very limited cases, but those are rare). If you're just concerned about cleaning a disk up, I keep Ubuntu around so I can use the ATA Secure Erase, or you can remove all partitions on the disk with Disk Management and create one partition doing a non-quick format operation (this writes zeros to every block that the partition spans).
Louis Rossmann just had 20 Apple batteries seized by US Customs
indrora replied to Athan Immortal's topic in Tech News
you literally never know what you're getting sometimes. I've bought batteries that claimed to be unbranded but turned out to have branding slathered all over them. Worse, sometimes you buy what you think are legit parts only to find out that they're not. He ends up with counterfeits all the time and has regularly talked about how he spots them.
Apple rumored to be working on its own non-mobile ARM processor and ditching Intel around 2020
indrora replied to indrora's topic in Tech News
They in fact did. It's called a Universal Binary, which (confusingly) also refers to 32-bit and 64-bit fattened binaries. From wikipedia: MacOS 10.0 didn't ship with Intel support. by the way; it wouldn't be until 10.4 that Intel support would be a thing. In 2006, they were seeding out $1k developer devices called the Developer Transition Platforms to select developers, PCs shoved into PowerMac G5 cases with a custom TPM. They were almost all returned within the year, as per the Apple agreements. For software from the 68k era that didn't have the same fat binary format, Apple included the Mac 68k emulator in OSX up until 10.5, which was mostly known as Classic Mode. in 10.4 for Intel macs, the emulation layer you're referring to was released, called Rosetta. Later in the PowperPC life cycle, there were articles about trimming out the PowerPC (and later 32-bit) versions of the executables, as well as removing non-native language support. It's not all that hard to move from one architecture to another when the underlying OS stays the same in terms of programming interfaces for a vast majority of software. For a vast majority of software written in ObjectiveC on the platform, it'll be a matter of "recompile and done". When moving to a new platform with a standard interface in place, you don't need to rewrite things in the vast majority of cases. It's a matter of checking that you're not doing anything ultra-specific to the processor (e.g. hand-rolled assembly) and that you're not making any major assumptions about the architecture. The reason that Office isn't 64-bit native is because Word documents pre-DOCX are literally dumps of the Word memory structure with some numbers fixed up, then un-fixed when you load them later. Backwards compatibility sucks some days, doesn't it? The fact something was on Windows made no difference during the Apple transition from PowerPC to Intel. It was the fact that Apple released a compiler that they could just go "in Xcode change this line and boom you get intel and PowerPC support if you aren't touching any funny hardware, which you shouldn't and you should be using the OS provided things." For stuff that was really heavily AltiVec-reliant, there was some work to rework that into Intel, or just turn off the AltiVec support and use the non-AltiVec version, or release a non-universal binary that suffered performance hits. Microsoft already made it just as easy; For the vast majority of software that needs native performance, the change is just "target ARM not x86" under the compiler options, and for everything else, you'll have to replace your silly "we wrote it in x86 assembler so it's like 3% faster" hack with something in ARM assembler or rewrite it in C so you're letting the compiler do the work.


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Gabon's Bongo stands firm after riots greet his re-election
Gabonese police patrol the streets of the capital Libreville on September 1, 2016
Gabonese police patrol the streets of the capital Libreville on September 1, 2016 (AFP Photo/Marco Longari)
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Libreville (AFP) - President Ali Bongo of Gabon poured scorn Thursday on opposition supporters who rioted overnight after he was declared the winner of a weekend election his main rival said was rigged.
Three people were killed in the unrest and around 1,000 arrested, the interior minister said.
"Democracy does not fit comfortably with self-declared victory, with small groups trained in destruction," Bongo said in a short speech from the presidential palace.
"Democracy does not sit well with an attack on parliament," he said, referring to the national assembly building that was set ablaze Wednesday night.
"The elections have delivered their verdict... Who lost? A small group whose only plan was to take power to make use of Gabon rather than serve it."
Soon after Saturday's poll, opposition candidate Jean Ping, 73, said he had won and that any results to the contrary would be fraudulent.
Thousands of angry protesters poured onto the streets of the capital Libreville late Wednesday, accusing the government of stealing the election after Bongo won a second term by a razor-thin margin over Ping.
His victory is set to extend the Bongo family's almost 50-year rule over the small oil-rich nation.
Ping said two people were killed and 19 hurt in a raid on his headquarters early Thursday.
Another opposition leader, Didjob Ding Duvungui, claimed that between 500 and 600 people had been arrested there. He spoke as he waited to be transferred to police headquarters for questioning along with ten others.
But by mid-morning, security forces had sealed off the city centre, which was calm and otherwise deserted, with troops, police and anti-riot squads patrolling the streets.
- 'Excessive force' -
Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet-Boubeya said three people had died in the violence and that between 600 and 800 people had been detained in Libreville, and 200 to 300 in the rest of the country.
As Gabon descended into chaos, the EU called for calm, while former colonial power France urged "maximum restraint" and Amnesty International warned against the use of "excessive force".
Police chief Jean-Thierry Oye Zue said six officers had been injured in the post-vote riots and said there were "very probably" civilian injuries "given the violence with which they attacked us".
A Red Cross worker who gave his name as Gildas said one of 15 people who were injured and brought in by an army truck had died on Thursday.
It was not immediately clear where Ping -- a veteran diplomat and former top African Union official -- had taken refuge.
A European diplomat said he was safe, however. Internet communications remained cut-off across swathes of the country.
In Libreville, the parliament building's facade was blackened by fire and its windows were smashed. Protesters had torn down its huge main gate and torched a sentry box at the entrance.
On the city's main arterial road, the Boulevard Triomphal -- the location of numerous government institutions and foreign embassies -- burnt-out buildings and cars could be seen, while makeshift barricades were still smouldering.
A government spokesman said the security operation was to catch the "criminals" and "looters and thugs" responsible for the parliament blaze.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said police had used "disproportionate" force and called for the release of "political detainees immediately and unconditionally".
- 'He cheated' -
The results of the presidential election -- which gave Bongo 49.8 percent to Ping's 48.23 percent, a gap of less than 6,000 votes -- remain "provisional" until they are approved by the constitutional court.
The opposition has called for results from each of Gabon's polling stations to be made public to ensure the credibility of the overall outcome -- a demand echoed by the United States and European Union.
Bongo's spokesman, Alain-Claude Bilie-Bye-Nze, dismissed the demands, saying they broke the country's election law, which states that results should be broken down by region.
Any appeal by Ping would likely focus on disputed results in Haut-Ogooue province, the heartland of Bongo's Teke ethnic group.
In Saturday's vote, turnout was 59.46 percent nationwide but soared to 99.93 percent in Haut-Ogooue, where Bongo won 95.5 percent of the votes cast.
"It's going to be difficult to get people to accept these results," one member of the electoral commission told AFP, asking not to be named.
"We've never seen results like these, even during the father's time," he added.
Bongo took power in 2009 in a violence-marred election that followed the death of his father, Omar Bongo, who had governed the oil-rich former French colony for 41 years.
One-third of Gabon's population lives in poverty, though the country boasts one of Africa's highest per capita incomes at $8,300 (7,400 euros) thanks to pumping 200,000 barrels of oil a day.
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The College offers curricula in the fine arts, the humanities, the sciences and the social sciences. These curricula are designed to introduce students to the basic methods of inquiry in diverse disciplines, to develop their analytical abilities, to improve their skills in writing and speaking, and to broaden their perspectives on humanity and culture in the natural and technological worlds. Additionally, they provide intensive preparation in one or more academic disciplines.
A liberal education attained in this context should ensure that graduates of the College have gained an understanding and appreciation of human culture. They should have examined the social, historical, political, philosophical and economic dimensions of the human condition and mankind's perception of the world as it is expressed through the fine arts, language, and literature. They should have learned the use of quantitative and scientific methods and should have participated in the universal quest to comprehend natural phenomena and to utilize this knowledge beneficially and ethically.
The student is assigned an advisor as soon as he or she enters the College of Arts & Sciences and should maintain contact with that advisor throughout the university affiliation. The advisor will assist the student in developing a course of study and will serve as a resource person to deal with academic problems and student needs.
The College of Arts & Sciences offers three degrees: the Bachelor of Arts, the Bachelor of Social Work, and the Bachelor of Science. All B.A., B.S., and B.S.W. students take a common set of requirements consisting of 25-29 semester credit hours in basic skills, 9-10 semester credit hours in natural sciences, 6 semester credit hours each in humanities and social sciences, and 3 semester credit hours in fine arts, computer literacy, and a junior/senior level writing course. The B.A. and B.S.W. curriculum requires 12 additional semester credit hours each in humanities and social sciences. The requirements for all three degrees as well as the curricula for specific areas of study are described below. Details for B.S.W. degree requirements are listed under Social Work.
The student must satisfy residency requirements at Mississippi State University after the first degree has been conferred (30 hours upper division work).
The major department from which the second degree is sought shall determine completion of requirements.
The College of Arts & Sciences has identified graduation requirements which must be satisfied by all students pursuing degrees conferred by the College. Furthermore, these requirements (listed immediately below) must be satisfied from a list of courses approved by the College. These approved courses are taken from a longer list of courses satisfying general education requirements which can be found in the Academic Policies section of this Bulletin. However, majors in the College of Arts & Sciences must be aware that there are numerous courses on the General Education list which are not on the College approved list. Copies of the College courses approved list are available both from the Dean's Office and from advisors.
A Bachelor of Arts degree is offered in the following areas: anthropology, chemistry, communication, criminology, economics, English, foreign languages, general liberal arts, history, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. A minimum of 120-124 credit hours is required in all B.A. programs, 31 of which must be upper-division (3000-level or higher) courses in residence at Mississippi State University through Arts & Sciences. The Bachelor of Social Work is offered in Social Work and follows the same basic regulations as the B.A. degree except that courses must be taken in proper sequence and a minimum of 124 hours is required.
The liberal arts include certain basic academic disciplines that contribute to the development of intelligent, moral beings. Over the centuries various subjects have at one time or another been spoken of as "liberal arts," but the objective of liberal-arts training has remained unchanged. Whether students major in liberal arts or whether they merely take a few basic courses in that field, the liberal arts will enable them to develop those fundamental habits of good citizenship and cultural awareness which are expected of all members of our society.
specialized training of a professional or pre-professional nature, as offered by the several liberal-arts departments.
A Bachelor of Science degree is offered in the following areas: biological sciences, chemistry, general science, geoscience, mathematics, medical technology, microbiology, physics and psychology.
on the completion of not fewer than 124 semester credit hours of study including 31 upper-division Arts & Sciences approved credits and the common curricula for Arts & Sciences approved by the dean and an official advisor.
on the transfer of satisfactory credits from other institutions, provided the candidate, during at least one academic year in actual residence, receives 31 credits in upper-division courses in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Arts & Sciences majors are responsible both for knowing the graduation requirements associated with their degree program and for keeping track of their own progress toward graduation. Departmental advisors are available to offer students informed answers to their questions and, during registration, to review and approve their course schedules. In addition to the graduation requirements outlined above, students pursuing majors in the College of Arts & Sciences need to be aware of a number of special requirements having to do with graduation.
75-hour check sheets: Students who have completed 75 or more semester hours (including 'S' hours) must meet with their advisors and complete a 75-hour check sheet or they will be unable to register for courses. A completed 75-hour check sheet allows a student to determine which graduation requirements are not completed at the time the check sheet is filled out; this then allows the student to identify those remaining courses he/she still needs to pass in order to graduate. A 75-hour check sheet cannot be completed until all transfer course work and/or independent study is on record with the Office of the Registrar.
Off Campus Study: Arts & Sciences majors are expected to take courses on the Mississippi State University campus when possible. If the desired courses are not offered, or if special circumstances exist, students may receive permission from the Dean to take courses off campus.
CLEP Credit: The College does not allow graduation requirements in English Composition, Literature, or Public Speaking to be satisfied by the awarding of CLEP credit.
PE: Only two 1-hour PE courses may be used toward graduation requirements.
The B.A. degree requires a 3rd semester proficiency in a foreign language. Students may fulfill the requirement through placement tests administered by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literature or by passing nine hours of a foreign language. One year of a foreign language taken at the high school level allows a student to bypass one semester of foreign language. Students are encouraged to take the foreign language placement test before enrolling in a foreign language course.
The B.S. degree requires a 2nd semester proficiency in a foreign language. Students may fulfill the requirement through placement tests administered by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literature or by passing six hours of a foreign language.
the language meets specific departmental requirements.
In English, a maximum of 12 semester hours total of English as a Second Language (ESL) and freshman composition courses (including the required EN 1103 and EN 1113 may be counted for graduation. Proper placement of international students from ESL courses into English composition courses is important to students' academic success.
The College offers appropriate curricula for students who plan to enter schools of dentistry, law, medicine, theology, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, and physical therapy. These are described with the departmental entries in the following pages.
In order to satisfy College graduation requirements, students seeking B.A., B.S., or B.S.W. degrees must take the number of courses indicated in each of the areas below. By satisfying these College requirements, students will also satisfy all analogous General Education requirements.
B.A. and B.S.W. students must complete 12 hours in Humanities and 12 hours in Social Sciences in addition to the two courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences required of all majors. Hence, a student must complete a total of 18 hours in the Humanities (EN, HI, PHI, REL), AND 18 hours in the Social Sciences (AN, GR, PS, PSY, SO).
These additional 24 hours are not limited to the courses listed below; they may be satisfied by others in EN, HI, PHI, and REL or in AN, EC, GR, PS, PSY, SO as long as they satisfy the distribution requirements for the major.
While all of the courses below satisfy college-wide requirements, individual departments may require that particular courses in each area be taken to satisfy requirements for their majors.
Also, Honors classes satisfy requirements and students who qualify are encouraged to take the Honors sections.
B.S. degree Requires one EN and one HI from the core listing.
B.A. and B.S.W. majors must take at least 1 PHI course.
B.S. Two courses in different disciplines.
B.A. and B.S.W. Courses spread over at least four disciplines, max of two in each discipline. Of the six, only two are required to be from this list. Only one of the CO and one of the EC courses listed may count.
Air Force ROTC students may substitute AS 3013 and AS 3023.
Either two courses required or one MA course at the level of MA 1613 or higher (with the exception of MA 2113/ST 2113).
3 courses required, 2 with labs. B.A. and B.S.W. Majors must take one lab course in the Life Sciences AN or BIO and one in the Physical Sciences CH, GG, GR, PH.
The Minor in International Studies is designed to enhance students' understanding of the global environment in which they are living. Students completing this program will develop some proficiency in a foreign language, have experience living in another country, and have some general background of different cultures and societies. The Introduction to International Relations course serves as a broad introduction to the political, military, economic, and cultural interaction of state and on-state actors at the global level. The Principles of Macroeconomics course provides students with the background needed to build a deeper understanding of common issues of trade and development encountered in International Studies. The two upper division courses serve as capstones to bring the ideas of students in the program together from the perspective of their selected approaches -- formalized as Tracks -- to the minor. A total of 21 approved hours must be completed in this minor.
For additional information, contact the Office of Study Abroad or visit the web site at international.msstate.edu/current/minor/index.php.


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SDCC '04 - Day Two
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SPECIAL REPORT: The Comics Grid and Comic Book Academia
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Dark Days: The Forge #1 is Nothing to Get Hard Over
Big Two, Big Two Reviews, DC Comics
Occasionally DC Comics puts out over-sized comics to hype their upcoming sales and changes to the universe. They're giant advertisements stuffed with characters and some of the more recognizable talent in the brand's stable. You get comics like Countdown to Infinite Crisis and DC Universe Rebirth. They're not coherent narratives, but they're passable entertainment because of the price tag: $2.99 or less. It's difficult to complain about 80 pages of comics with decent art of favorite superheroes for less than a buck, though god only knows I'll try.
It's a completely different deal when you sell that same level of dreck with less than half as many pages at $4.99.
Dark Days: The Forge is this sort of un-story. It is meant to show fans things they recognize in the hopes it will encourage them to buy some more comics down the road that actually reveal something resembling a narrative. This comic doesn't possess anything like plot points or a sense of causality though. It jumps up and down shouting "Look at this! Now look at this!" Did you know that Batman knows everyone? Did you remember that Court of Owls thing? Did you want to see Green Lantern? If Dark Days: The Forge is a wall, then the characters and artifacts of the DC Universe are shit being flung to see what might stick.
That style of writing makes itself difficult to critique because of the very fact that it is not a story. You can't discuss motives or characters or even dialogue within a broader context because there is none. Yes, it is ridiculous that Duke Thomas goes from fiercely defending the Batcave to traipsing about with Green Lantern in two panels, but that's what happens when show n' tell is the name of the game. If you aren't already familiar with the people, places, and things that fill panels in this comic, then you won't learn anything. If you are, you won't learn anything new.
The real tragedy of this comic is that it's deeply boring to look at. Even the most inane comics can be redeemed to a large extent by a killer art team, and Dark Days: The Forge goes all out. It rotates between pencil and inks teams of John Romita Jr. and Danny Miki, Andy Kubert and Klaus Janson, and Jim Lee and Scott Williams. It's DC Comics bringing out the biggest names they have on both halves of the equation for some of the dullest pages of 2017 thus far.
This is a comic composed largely of people explaining things to one another, which is a concept that doesn't lend itself well to comics, much less superhero comics. In spite of interesting venues and arrays of canonical items decorating walls, artists are still primarily tasked with having Batman talk to Aquaman, or Batman talk to Mister Terrific, or Batman talk to Superman. Lots of panels with people talking. The occasional roundhouse kick or wide panel of the Fortress of Solitude isn't enough to inject any awe to the explain-o-rama that is this comic.
Kubert's work stands out as feeling the most rushed of the three. He receives arguably the best panel of the comic, a splash of a batsuit emerging from lava to save the day. Yet line weights are so monotonous and the pose so still that it reads more like a convention sketch than professional work for a prestige title.
Romita on the other hand continues to excel with Miki on inks. His Fortress of Solitude and the appearance of Mister Miracle offer the closest thing Dark Days: The Forge has to genuinely affecting moments. There is a scale and attitude in these things that make them feel larger than life, whereas so much of the comic is either poorly done pastiche or all too familiar in a less obvious way. Not even this pairing, DC Comics' real pencil and inks dream team, can help the issue rise above itself though. A few better than bland moments cannot elevate a collage of moments that all cry out for unearned attention.
Those are the central sins of this advertisement passed off as the must-read superhero comic of June. It's an intangible spatter of selling points for other comics lacking even the intent to appear interesting. You don't need to go any further than that and you don't need to read any further than here.
That having been said, if you really want, there are some real goddamn nits worth picking in this book. That's especially the case if you spent five bucks like a certain idiot writing this review, so here are five more real problems with this comic:
1. Batman needs to go to prison. A fun reveal in this comic is that Batman has kept Plastic Man in solitary confinement for years because he is "too unstable" while extracting molecules from his body. That's the kind of shit that would make most dictators fucking blanch. I get that morals are skewed in a superhero universe, but this is nothing short of a monstrous reveal played off as a joke. It's the kind of thing that one person thought of, but nobody bothered to think about. Habeas fucking corpus.
2. There's a page packed with a gallery of DC Comics memorabilia made from metal. You have Dr. Fate's helmet, Aquaman's trident, Wonder Woman's bracelets. Because the upcoming series is titled Metal, and this is The Forge, and they're all made out of metal. Do you get it? Do you get it?
3. That hallway of iconic objects just speaks to a broader issue too. The entire comic attempts to weave disparate elements of DC Comics into a secret history, tying The Outsiders, Nth Metal, the Court of Owls, The Joker, and more into a web of conspiracy. Everything in the DC Universe is apparently connected, and that actually makes the entire concept a lot more boring. The obsession with origins and everything being part of a single giant story needs to end.
4. Jim Lee can't draw faces from below.
5. The enormous boner that everyone in this comic has for Batman is nothing short of obnoxious. Aquaman points out that Batman technically invaded his kingdom in secret for years, putting Atlantis at risk, without even bothering to tell his friend… and then he shrugs it off. Superman, Mister Terrific, and others all follow his every word and then repeat how they'd be foolish not to like a pack of cub scouts whose pack leader is the guy who drinks his own piss on Discovery Channel. Even when Mister Miracle realizes Batman is doing some insane shit, he just points out it's crazy, but then flies off and does nothing. DC Comics is Batman's world and everyone else is just lucky to show up, I guess.
That's it. That's all there is worth saying about Dark Days: The Forge #1, and then some. Boring is a boring word, but it's the one this comic deserves. It's an advertisement, and not of the mildly clever Super Bowl variety either. No, this comic just reminds you of things you know about DC Comics and hopes that vague sense of nostalgia or being in on the joke will compel you to keep dropping cash.
It's too damn bad I appear to be the sort of sucker they were gambling on with this book.
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Chase is a mild-mannered finance guy by day and a raving comics fan by night. He has been reading comics for more than half of his life. After graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with degrees in Economics and English, he has continued to research comics while writing articles and reviews online. His favorite superhero is Superman and he'll accept no other answers. Don't ask about his favorite comic unless you're ready to spend a day discussing dozens of different titles.
The Newest Rant June 21, 2017
I actually kind of liked the comic. It was messy and unclear at various points–full of teasers for stories as opposed to actual stories–but it raised enough questions that interest me to wonder where certain things may be going. Also, I actually thought the art was pretty good. Whether that means I'm too forgiving or so many other books have just had wretched art is something I am not sure about. If I may share a link to my own review:
http://www.thenewestrant.com/2017/06/is-dcs-latest-event-teasing-comic-any.html


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How cyber security can tackle cyber bullying
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Students, parents, teachers and community experts can all harness technology to protect children from cyber bullying
MARKUS LEE
Access to online learning exposes students to a wealth of information. However, it can also expose them to the darker side of the Internet. Cyber bullies use Internet-based platforms to torment others, even when attending school.
And cyber bullying is a serious political, educational and public health concern.
Asia is rising up to embrace legislation, such as Singapore's Protection from Harassment Act in 2014, to reduce cyber bullying.
But it is far easier for adults than children to manage cyber bullying, and find legal and policing means to defend themselves against it.
Education itself has a clear role to play in helping schools and colleges to counter cyber bullying.
It is vital to teach young people about the very real consequences of online bullying, both in terms of health and well-being of the victim, and potential criminal consequences for the perpetrator.
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So, too, is helping young people to feel comfortable recognising and reporting harmful behaviour before it escalates.
However, there are also technological dimensions to fighting cyber bullying.
URL filtering has been used by schools for years to control which Internet websites can be accessed on school networks.
In turn, this helps schools and educational authorities to establish safe computing policies, specifying which websites to allow, limit or block access to, and screening out unsuitable language.
New techniques have enabled filtering to be expanded out to cover Internet applications as well as websites.
FILTERING NOT ENOUGH
But filtering unwanted content is not enough. Young people must also be protected from online abuses such as inappropriate content, phishing exploits and online bullying in chats and social network sites, including Instagram and Facebook.
This requires advanced sandboxing and filtering technology to identify and extract such harmful content before it reaches users.
Additionally, safe browsing must be enabled to allow young people to search safely across different search engines to filter out disturbing content and images.
Teachers or managers in educational settings need to be empowered to set safe search capabilities.
Anti-bullying features must be customisable through blacklisted keywords, enforced website categories and block actions.
These advanced protection and filtering capabilities should be deployed on school-issued devices to protect students' online experiences to empower teachers and education managers to harness digital technology for learning without increasing the risk of cyber bullying.
Cyberthreats targeting school-age children are a clear and present danger. Cyber bullying can cause serious harm and give rise to violent behaviour.
It can be eradicated only with the active participation of students, parents, teachers, school districts and community experts, and by harnessing advanced solutions that can identify the words and actions used by cyber bullies on social media apps, text and e-mail.
With this combined approach, schools can give their students a safer place to learn and thrive, free of cyber bullying.
The writer is Singapore country manager at Check Point, a provider of cyber security solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally


Here's a closer look at Giro's Havik 2 glasses which we previewed at this year's 2009 Interbike trade show.
The Havik 2 glasses were worn to victory by Tour de France winner Alberto Contador in 2009, and the changes developed with Contador's input have now been applied to the models available to us mere mortals.
Changes that have been made are minimal rather than major overhaul, and include a more comfortable fit to suit a greater range of head sizes and pressure at the temples has been reduced by altering the shape of the arms.
The amount of material used at the brow area has been reduced to reduce fogging, and a new range of frame colours and Zeiss lens tints are available too.
Havik 2's will be available in the UK around February 2010 with prices starting between £119.99 – £179.99srp for the packaged dual lens set.
Look out for a full review on BikeRadar soon.


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Information on the Railway Stations in Kharkiv:
Railway Station Kharkiv Pasazhyrskyi;
Railway Station Levada;
Railway Station Loseve;
Railway Station Novoselivka;
Railway Station Osnova;
Railway Station Nova Bavaria;
Railway Station Kharkiv Balashovskyi;
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Railway Station Kharkiv Pasazhyrskyi
Address: 1 Pryvokzalna Square, Kharkiv 61052;
Information desk phone numbers: +38 (057) 724-37-17, +38 (057) 724-37-17;
On-duty person at the Kharkiv railway station: +38 (057) 724-20-76;
Train Schedule for Kharkiv Pasazhyrskyi;
The main passenger railway transportation node of the Ukrainian Southern Railways is located in the city of Kharkiv – Pivdennyi railway station (officially called Kharkiv-Pasazhyrskyi) is a central station of the largest transport system in the eastern part of the country. In addition, it is the headquarters for the Kharkiv State Customs Service for passenger trains crossing the border between Ukraine and Russia.
The building of the Kharkiv-Pasazhyrskyi railway station is rightly considered an architectural monument of the city and occupies the 9th out of 12 positions in the ranking of Kharkiv symbols. Its history dates back to 1869. The well-known Russian architect Andrey Ton had a hand in the creation of this building. The war years served as a catalyst for the introduction of multiple corrections and innovations to the reconstruction project of the Kharkiv railway station in 1952. The building embodied the Stalin's Empire style with the elements of classicism. Today, the building's total area is 32,600 m2; the area of tunnels and platforms is 33,100 m2.
Pivdennyi railway station complex includes the main building, 24/7 ticket offices of the Kharkiv railway station, station hotel, spacious luggage storage, shopping and entertainment center "Zaliznychnyk", elaborate network of tunnels and platforms, capacious parking lot, and station forecourt.
Waiting rooms are located on the second floor of the Kharkiv station building and operate on a paid basis. Waiting rooms are equipped with everything a passenger needs when waiting for a train – comfortable furniture, computer equipment, plasma screens with entertainment content, climate control equipment, and a cozy railway station café. Kharkiv railway station also provides separate, specially equipped waiting rooms for people with disabilities and participants of the Great Patriotic War.
On the ground floor of the Kharkiv Pivdennyi railway station, opposite the railway ticket offices, there is a specialized service center that provides passengers with high-quality complex services since 1999. Its creation implies expanding the list of services for an additional cost. On the territory of the service center, there is an operations hall that allows visitors to purchase tickets for long-distance and short-distance trains within the CIS countries, book a hotel room, call a taxi, use the services of a porter, get access to computers, print and laminate documents, etc.
Information desk of the Kharkiv railway station is also located on the ground floor of the main building. Here you can receive all the necessary information regarding the cost of train tickets, schedule of passenger trains, detailed description of the location of key facilities and platforms, customer support at all stages of interaction.
Railway platforms are conveniently located and connected by the system of pedestrian tunnels, divided into southern and northern ones. Only the first platform is not among them, since it is accessed through the central hall of the Kharkiv railway station. Information boards with train schedules are installed above each entrance to pedestrian tunnels, to the right and left of the central entrance to the building.
The transport infrastructure of the city of Kharkiv is properly developed. The railway station is in the center of the road network with many stops of various public transport lines. Here are laid the tracks of the city tram No. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 20, whose routes connect al the key points in the city. Trolleybus No. 11, a wide variety of route taxis and intercity buses run along the Malynovskoho Street. Under the station forecourt, there is a Kharkiv subway line that can be accessed through the entrance to the subway station "Pivdennyi Vokzal".
Railway Station Kharkiv-Levada
Address: 6A Molchanovskyi Lane, Kharkiv 61000;
On-duty person at the railway station Kharkiv-Levada: +38 (057) 729-45-11;
One of the largest elements of the railway transport system of the east of Ukraine and southern railway is the passenger railway station Levada, located in the Osnovyanskyi administrative district of the city of Kharkiv. This object is characterized as a dead-end station and has a clear specification of the railway track branching: tracks 1-3 are meant for arrival, and tracks 4-7 – for departure of trains. Boarding platforms are equipped with a suspended canopy; the low-height sills are made from tile materials.
The building of the railway station Kharkiv-Levada is of the "3rd class" category. In 2001, the station was modernized and equipped with a modern pavilion where, for the first time in the entire country, the turnstiles were installed along with harmoniously fitted railway ticket counters that allowed passengers to purchase boarding documents immediately before boarding a train if they didn't manage to do it earlier. In total, 12 railway ticket counters are operating on the territory: 3 of them are located in the administrative building and sell tickets for long-distance trains, 1 counter is for tickets purchased through the Internet, and the remaining 8 counters provide services at the suburban pavilion where railway tickets for suburban and long-distance trains can be purchased. The average daily passenger traffic is 15,000. Passengers can accommodate themselves in the spacious, cozy waiting room that comprises convenient seats for resting, a station café, and a high-comfort lounge room.
Since 1996, the passenger railway station Kharkiv-Levada has been specialized in handling suburban railway transport. From here, trains depart to Shebelynka, Ternove, Osnova, Merchyk, Liubotyn, Lyman, Izium, Savyntsi, Zolochiv, Balakliia, Grakovo, Bezliudivka. In addition, a long-distance, high-speed electric train No. 7005/7006 runs along the route Kharkiv-Levada – Izium.
The transport system of the city of Kharkiv allows you to get to the Levada railway station using the metro system (subway station "Prospekt Haharina"), trolleybuses No. 3, 5, 6, city bus No. 46, tram No. 27, which stops on the Goldbergivska street, as well as services of private route taxis and intercity buses provided by the local bus station.
Railway Station Loseve
Address: 275 Moskovskyi Ave., Kharkiv 61106:
Loseve station phone number: +38 (057) 724-59-80;
Loseve-2 station phone number: +38 (057) 724-58-50;
Kharkiv railway station Loseve started its existence in 1895. The construction was carried out during the development of the Kharkiv-Balashov railways. Global reconstruction was performed in 2002. Today, the railway station complex consists of two passenger stations – Loseve and Loseve-2. It is under direct subordination of the Kharkiv Directorate of the Southern Railways and belongs to the junction of Kupiansk railway direction.
The boarding sector consists of two side platforms through which pass two railway tracks. On the territory of the Loseve railway station, there is an area designated for the holding yard for electric trains in the Kupiansk direction where the old railway complex building and dispatch room with electric interlocking are also erected. The number of boarding platforms and tracks is comprehensively supplemented by one from the Loseve-2 station.
Loseve railway station serves as a departure point in the Grakovo direction for suburban electric trains ER2, ER2R, and ER2T. The nearest transportation to the railway station can be made through the subway stations "Traktornyi Zavod", "Industrialna".
Railway Station Novoselivka
Address: 1A Vahonna St., Kharkiv 61157:
Phone number: +38 (057) 724-24-43;
Since 1980, the Novoselivka railway station is a part of the Kharkiv Pasazhyrskyi station's territory and serves as a stopping point for a limited number of suburban trains that belong to the Southern Railways. The station's operation zone provides boarding platforms for the following railway tracks: 1UA, 2UA, 3UA, 4UA, 5UA.
The building of the Novoselivka railway station is located in the Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv and has a railway ticket counter, a little diner, and a restroom.
Railway Station Osnova
Address: 5 Pryvokzalna St., Kharkiv 61000
It is one of the most important strategic objects of the Southern Railways in the city of Kharkiv. Osnova railway station is a large sorting point of the railway junction of Kupiansk and Izium directions. Its universal location at the intersection of important railway transport networks allows handling trains in several directions: railway station Kharkiv-Pasazhyrskyi, Kharkiv-Levada, Liubotyn, Izium, Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, Zolochiv. The entire system comprises 104 railway tracks and 386 railroad switches.
The date of the Osnova station's establishment is assumed to be 1911. The station was opened at the same time as an eponymous locomotive depot (now – TCH-3 "Osnova") during the construction of the Gotnia-Lyman line, part of the North-Donetsk Railways.
The building of the out-of-class railway station Osnova was erected upon the project of the engineer Yuliy Peshel. The station complex is equipped with a system of underground pedestrian crossings that join passenger platforms together. These platforms have access to important state enterprises of Kharkiv – PivdenTransBud, KharkivGaz, etc. The territory extends 14.5 km lengthwise with a total area of 237 ha. In addition to its main function, it serves as a base for the locomotive depot "Osnova TCH-3 SR", coach depot "VCHD-3 Osnova", track machinery unit "KMS-39", and construction train "SMP-655". Within the range of operation, the track division "PCH-7", electric power supply division "ECH-7", signal and communications division "SHCH-5" provide their services. Out of the total number, tracks No. 1-4 are intended for passenger use. All of these tracks are equipped with platforms and have access to pedestrian bridges for convenient movement of passengers.
Railway Station Nova Bavaria
Address: 2A Stantsiinyi Vizd St., Kharkiv 61019:
Kharkiv railway station Nova Bavaria is of great importance in the functioning of the eastern transport connection. It is a part of the Liubotyn railway track system, a center of intersection of large railway junctions, Kharkiv and Osnova. The station only provides services to suburban trains that run in the Liubotyn direction from the stations Kharkiv-Pasazhyrskyi, Kharkiv-Levada, Kharkiv-Balashovskyi and Osnova.
The construction of the railway line Kharkiv-Poltava started at the watershed of the Uda River, and the intermediate, 2nd class railway station Nova Bavaria served as the starting point for this process. The station inherited its name from a large brewery located along the 1st passenger platform. The emergence of such an important point of reception and departure of transport and freight trains entailed the creation of a number of strategically important urban manufacturing enterprises, in particular, a rope factory. At first, the use of the Nova Bavaria station was limited to transportation of construction materials, crossties, rails, and rolling stocks. Over time, the complex has adapted to the high demand for passenger transportation. Today, the arrangement of tracks is represented in the form of twelve receiving and departure tracks laid in pairs; the pairs of 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 tracks are equipped with intermediate platforms. On the territory of the Nova Bavaria railway station, there are the following facilities: the main building, signal box, automobile overpass, pedestrian bridge, water pumping station, and loading yard.
The city of Kharkiv allows getting to the Nova Bavaria station using the public transport services of the following variety: trolleybuses No. 11, 27, buses No. 75, 209, route taxis No. 238, 303, 220, 237.
Railway Station Kharkiv Balashovskyi
The railway station Kharkiv-Balashovskyi, a multipurpose point of arrival and departure of both passenger and freight trains of the Southern Railways, is located in the Slobidskyi district of the city of Kharkiv, between the Vereshchakivka-Balashovska platform and the "13th kilometer" stopping point. The share of freight traffic considerably exceeds passenger transportation, as the station is located at the intersection of a large commodity-turnover junction. Due to this, it is categorized as a first-class freight station, while as a passenger handling center it falls under the third-class category.
The Kharkiv-Balashov railway began its existence in 1895, and the Kharkiv-Balashovskyi railway station became the fundamental base of its construction (thus inheriting this name). The first directions for passenger trains at the beginning of the 20th century were Luhansk and Kazan. In 1985, the development of transport infrastructure in the field of freight traffic initiated the introduction of an efficient computer system based on EVM-SM-4 at the station, thus making possible to automate the operation process of container terminals. Kharkiv-Balashovskyi railway station was provided with everything necessary for the implementation of loading and unloading operations of any complexity; in particular, there were built a warehouse sector and a separate platform for transshipping freights from coaches to automobile transport. All of this contributed to the creation of large industrial enterprises – the Malyshev factory and "Turboatom", the latter of which, by the way, had the entire track along the eastern direction allocated for its demands. All in all, more than fifteen tracks were constructed for the needs of the freight traffic fleet.
For the purposes of passenger trains, five tracks with three platforms operate at the Kharkiv-Balashovskyi station. As of today, two tracks are in service for electric trains running in the western direction: Liubotyn, Zolochiv, Ohultsi, and Merchyk. One track is intended for the movement of trains in the eastern direction to the Loseve railway station.
The city infrastructure of Kharkiv allows you to get to the Balashovskyi railway station via tram lines No. 5, 8 and using the services of the "Zavod Imeni Malysheva" subway station.
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do you actually believe that the government will return to living within its means by 2014?
We're getting there. The 2009 primary deficit was €16 billion following the collapse in tax revenue; this year it is forecast to be €7 billion.
It is likely that the measures that have been introduced over the past few years will have some carryover in 2013 that will further improve the primary deficit. Any measures introduced in next year's budget will add to this.
The experience of the household charge will deter the introduction of new taxes and a shift back to income taxes is possible. For similar reasons expenditure cuts may be seen as easier to implement though with capital expenditure cut to the bone the changes here will have to be on the current side.
The government's plan is to introduce a budget for 2013 with €3.5 billion of expenditure cuts and tax increases. There will be €0.3 billion of new measures so there will be €3.2 billion of new measures, though €0.6 billion of this comes from the stalling of the capital programme. Taxation and current expenditure need to deliver €2.6 billion. The current expenditure cuts are due to be greater than those introduced this year with slightly smaller increases in taxation, though this is subject to change.
Of course, whether this will get the primary deficit down to €3 billion in 2013 depends hugely on the growth outcome. No one knows how this will fare out though cutting expenditure and raising taxes will not help the growth rate.
The primary balance will have improved by 2014; it is still far from certain that it will be in surplus.
These are the government accounts. The banks pay the bondholders not the government. Since 2009 the government has provided around €64 billion to the banks. These payments are not included in the above figures.
I have a very limited understanding of this subject as you may have already gathered. Is it the case that the only impact the banks should have on the government accounts in future is the interest on monies previously borrowed to recapitalise them? not including the Anglo promissory notes. And if there is a deal done regarding the banks, how positively (if at all) will this reflect on the governments books. Obviously this depends on the type of deal agreed but your best guess?
The public sector pay bill should of been slashed in 2009, but they sacrificed the rest of the country at the proverbial altar to spare themselves.
Now there is no one left to rob.
I'm afraid there is...you and I through inflation and tax increases. The 'governments' (if you want to call them that) only hope is to deflate your savings value/income thorough price inflations, stagnant pay and tax increases.
Watch tax paid for based services head towards zero, and inflation to set in.
the private sector has been decimated and we have massive migration of the youth and skilled.
any further increases in tax will result in a lower tax take as evidenced by increases in alcohol/tobacco... i would be interested to see the tax take for income tax, car tax and VAT this year if it has decreased too.
the only places left to make meaningful cuts is the public sector - pensions and pay!! it is just a shame they decided to spare themselves when the crisis hit instead of "sharing the burden" - as myself and many others in the private sector have nothing but contempt for these selfish people now. The bail out of higher education pensions was particularly sickening and is one of many examples of special interests saving themselves.
worst leadership crisis the country has ever experienced.
High taxes? sorry, I beg to differ..you ain't seen anything yet. People think they are taxed high, thats very different to actually been taxed high. I pay 16k on 50. I expect that to go to about 22K in 50.
Health insurance, local taxes, Vat, duty, just wait.....must happen if we have any chance.
you forget people get nothing in return for taxes in Ireland compared to other countries, so yes taxes are high!
once you hit 32K your tax rate goes to 55%+!
talk about a disincentive to work.
what do you mean "any chance?" for what? no economic recovery i have ever seen has been done by taxing people to death... i can't see what will make Ireland different.
the only chance of recovery is if spending is massively cut back - that means sacking thousands of useless people in the public sector, cutting the very generous public sector pensions,. slashing welfare and time limiting it.
all difficult political decisions - hence they will only happen when there is a huge crisis - good luck to you - bags are packed - find some other mug to pay.


The northern branch of the jet stream features a weak trough over Alaska. A weak ridge over northwest Canada. A trough over north-central and northeast Canada and a ridge over northwest Europe extending back into Greenland. This is producing cool temperatures in western Canada, variable central, cold in the east. The southern branch of the jet features a trough in the Gulf of Alaska extending into the northwest U.S. A flat ridge over the central U.S. A trough over the eastern U.S. and a ridge in the western atlantic.Subtropical high pressure extends from southern Mexico to the central Caribbean and southwest atlantic.
The U.S. and European models are in good agreement through 6 days. Fair agreement days 7-10. During the 6-10 day period the northern branch of the jet stream will feature a weak ridge over Alaska and northwest Canada. The polar vortex over north-central and northeast Canada and a weak trough over Greenland. This will produce variable temperatures over western Canada, cool/cold central and east. The southern branch of the jet will feature a trough in the Gulf of Alaska. A flat ridge in the eastern pacific. A trough over the interior western U.S. A ridge over the interior eastern U.S. and a trough in the western atlantic. This will be a wet weather pattern for much of the central U.S. as disturbances move out of the trough in the west into a flow of gulf moisture over the central U.S. due to the ridge in the east. Temperatures will be variable, milder out ahead of systems, cooler behind them.
This pattern will feature variable temperatures in the Midwest. Precipitation near to above normal. The northern plains will see variable temperatures. Precipitation near to above normal during the next 5 days, near to below normal days 6-10. The southern plains will see variable temperatures. Precipitation near to above normal. The Delta states will see variable temperatures. Rainfall near to above normal.
The US and European models are in fair to sometimes good agreement today. I am using a little more of today's European model. A weak to moderate upper level trough is expected to move across the northern Rockies and the northern plains early in the period. A weak surface low forms over the central plains and tracks northeast through the western Midwest around the middle of the period. The US model is somewhat weaker and faster with this system. A new trough is shown moving across the Rockies and into the plains towards the end of the period. The European model features somewhat more rainfall over the western Midwest during the 6-10 day period than the US model. Neither model shows much rainfall through the eastern and southern Midwest or the Delta during the outlook period. However, there is a cold front passage moving through during the period that might become more active than is currently indicated by the models.
The mean maps at 8-10 days feature a strong trough in the Gulf of Alaska, a weak trough in the western US and a trough just off the mid-Atlantic coast. We note slightly above normal heights over the central and east Midwest and well above normal heights and upper level ridging over the northeast US, east Canada and the northwest Atlantic. The strong trough over the Gulf of Alaska and a strong jet stream south of this trough should continue to send frequent disturbances inland over the northwest US which would then dip southward over the western as indicated by the weak western US trough and then there track east-northeast from there. The slightly above normal heights in the Midwest suggest somewhat warmer temperatures. The period, overall, may not be as stormy as it has been recently but there is still potential for this pattern to produce a good deal of thunderstorm activity at times.
NORTHERN PLAINS/CANADIAN PRAIRIES: Rain midweek falling onto moderate to heavy snow cover over southern and eastern areas could cause some significant flooding. A new crest is expected to form on the Red River and move northward later this week and next week. The first crest on the river is still moving north towards the Canadian boarder at this time.
MIDWEST (SOFT RED WINTER WHEAT, TRAVEL and TRANSPORT): Wet weather and saturated fields will continue to delay spring fieldwork in most areas of the Midwest. Heavy rains falling onto melting snow cover in the northwest Midwest during midweek could create another major flooding event. It is possible that significant fieldwork delays could continue through the end of the month.
DELTA (SOFT RED WINTER WHEAT, CORN, SOYBEANS, COTTON): Heavy rain and thunderstorms occurred in the region during the weekend. Another moderate to heavy rain event is expected during the middle of this week. The region has mostly surplus soil moisture with a significant risk of severe flooding. Delays to seasonal fieldwork appear likely.
CENTRAL/SOUTHERN PLAINS (WHEAT/LIVESTOCK): Adequate to surplus soil moisture for developing winter wheat. Crop ratings continue to improve.
BRAZIL (SOYBEANS/CORN/SUGARCANE/COFFEE): Moderate to locally heavy showers and thundershowers in Mato Grosso, Goias, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo will favor development of second crop corn, late development of sugarcane and coffee. No significant concerns for the harvest of soybeans in southern Brazil through Friday. A system next weekend will bear watching as it may bring heavier rain or thunderstorms to the area.
ARGENTINA (CORN/SOYBEANS/SUNFLOWER/WHEAT): A few areas had showers during the weekend but nothing major. Drier again early this week. A strong cold front should track through later in the week. This might mean heavier thunderstorms for some areas. This may cause some delay to the harvests for corn, sunflower and soybeans. Rainfall will help to recharge soil moisture as we approach the planting season for winter wheat in the region.
SOUTH AFRICA (MAIZE/SUGARCANE): Periodic shower activity continues to move through the region. Rainfall might favor late filling corn and late developing sugarcane but it will be unfavorable to highly unfavorable for maturing crops and early harvesting.
WESTERN FSU (WINTER WHEAT): Winter wheat is in vegetative growth southern areas while wheat is breaking dormancy in the north. Dryness has been of some concern in eastern Ukraine during the early spring period. Rains have reached into this area during the weekend which should continue today. This should help east concerns for crops in this area.
CHINA (WINTER WHEAT/RAPESEED): Moderate to locally heavy showers and rain developed through key winter wheat areas of the North China Plain early this month. This included key growing areas of Henan and Shandong. This will be highly favorable to vegetative and reproductive wheat and timely, following the typically dry winter period... especially in northern areas.
AUSTRALIA (WINTER WHEAT): Moderate to heavy rain and thunderstorms occurred through New South Wales and southern Queensland during during the last couple of days of March. This provided a much needed boost to soil moisture ahead of winter wheat planting. The area has been under severe drought conditions for awhile. The forecast continues to suggest that the next 10 days will be mostly dry with a variable temperature pattern. This is likely to reduce or deplete the soil moisture in the area. Meanwhile, the western Australia wheat belt has been seeing an increase in shower activity recently. This will begin to recharge soil moisture for planting wheat next month.
West: Light to locally moderate precipitation lingered in northern areas Friday. Mainly dry Saturday. Rain through southern and eastern Missouri during Sunday. Drier elsewhere in the region Sunday. Temperatures averaged below to well below normal.
East: Moderate to locally heavy rain occurred through southern, central and northeast areas during the weekend period. Ligh rain through northern Illinois, drier through southern Wisconsin. Temperatures averaged below to well below normal through north and central areas, somewhat warmer near the Ohio river.
West: Mostly dry today and during the daytime hours of Tuesday. Rain north, showers south, during Tuesday night. Rain or showers and thundershowers during Wednesday. Rainfall may become moderate to heavy. Temperatures average near to above normal today, above normal tomorrow and Wednesday.
Rain east, drier west, during Thursday. Mainly dry Friday and Saturday.
Temperatures average near to below normal Thursday, near to above normal Friday, above normal Saturday.
East: Mostly dry today. A little light rain favoring northern areas tonight or during Tuesday. Rain or showers favoring western and northern areas later Wednesday or during Wednesday night. Showers and thunderstorms Thursday and Thursday night. Rain may linger in the east, drier west, during Friday. Mainly dry Saturday. Rainfall during this period should average moderate to heavy, occurring mostly during Thursday and early Friday. Temperatures average below normal today, near to above normal Tuesday, above normal Wednesday and Thursday, near to above normal Friday and Saturday.
6 to 10 day outlook: Temperatures are expected to average near to above normal.
Rainfall should average near to above normal.
Light precipitation lingered in the east Friday. Mainly dry Saturday. Light precipitation Sunday or Sunday night. Temperatures averaged below to well below normal Saturday. Warmer from western North Dakota westward during Sunday. The eastern areas continued colder Sunday.
Mostly dry today. Light to locally moderate precipitation, favoring southern and eastern areas, Tuesday into Wednesday. Temperatures average near to below normal today, below normal west and above normal central and east tomorrow, near normal Wednesday.
Mostly dry Thursday and Friday. Dry or with only a little light rain or showers Saturday. Temperatures average near to mostly above normal during this period.
6 to 10 day outlook: Temperatures are expected to average near to above normal during this period. Precipitation should average near to below normal.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms occurred through eastern and southern Oklahoma, north-central and northeast Texas during the weekend period. Rain also in west Texas but mostly south of the Panhandle. Little elsewhere in the region.
Temperatures well below normal Saturday and early Sunday, somewhat warmer later Sunday.
Mostly dry today and Tuesday. Scattered showers and thundershowers from east and south Kansas through north and east Oklahoma and northeast Texas during Wednesday and Wednesday night. Temperatures average above normal west and northeast and near to below normal southeast today, above to well above normal Tuesday, above normal Wednesday.
Light rain or showers may linger in eastern areas early Thursday, mainly dry later in the day. Mostly dry Friday and Saturday. Temperatures near to below normal Thursday, below normal south and east and near to above normal northwest Friday, above normal west and northeast and near normal southeast Saturday.
6-10 Day Outlook: Temperatures are expected to average near to above normal during this period. Rainfall near to above normal south and east, near to below normal northwest.