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Q: .NET / jquery - previewing a form result/rendering a view to a string Here's the situation (using MVC 2.0):
I'm trying to build a feature to allow a user to preview changes they make to their bio/profile without actually committing their changes first. User fills out a form, clicks a "Preview" button and see what their changes look like. One difficulty is the front-end has a different master-page, so we need to render the whole view, not just a control.
Here's the approach I took:

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*Asynch post the serialized form to a controller action

*Manipulate the model to flesh out the collections, etc. that don't get posted

*Return the front-end view, passing it this modified model

*Catch the response to the asynch method, wrap it in an iframe and write that to a lightboxed div on the page

Code I'm using... Controller action (the BuildPreview method just alters the model slightly)
    [HttpPost]
    [Authorize]
    public ActionResult PreviewProfile(PersonModel model)
    {
        return View("Person", PeopleService.BuildPreview(model));;
    }

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A detailed review of the Next18 (NEM662) interface. Does it deserve to be NEM651's successor?
My article complaining about the multiplication of new digital interfaces in N scale model trains in Europe has had quite a lot of success ("DCC plugs overview (they've gone crazy)"). My criticism stays intact: European manufacturers need to stop meeting in closed rooms and inventing multiple interfaces to replace the NEM651, thereby segmenting the market.
That said, there is one fact I don't argue. The NEM651 digital interface is old, does not offer enough possibilities, and needs a replacement.
I recently decided to try out the Next18 interface (also called "NEM662"), which I originally criticised.
What changed my mind? Some manufacturers (in my case, Doehler & Haass) have released adapter boards for this interface, which means you can equip old models with the Next18 interface, and then just plug in a compatible decoder. Installing an interface, instead of soldering the decoder, is a good future proof strategy. Of course, this is all manual DCC conversion work.
There are also some store-bought models with the Next18 interface. Although, because of the segmentation, not all manufacturers are on board. One of these manufacturers is Liliput (now Bachmann Europe PLC).
Update 2014-07-29: Next18 is gaining traction. The German magazine Modellbahn Digital has announced that Arnold will start using the Next18 digital interface on its new models.
Update 2016-01-03: Next18 is conquering the UK. Graham Farish (Bachmann Europe Plc) is releasing its first Next18 models this year!
Of course, remember: the fact that an engine has a specific digital interface does NOT mean that all functions outputs are actually used and connected inside the engine. For example, Liliput trains already equipped with the Next18 interface do NOT use the full range of 6 auxiliary functions.
"Testing" a DCC interface does not really make sense. So here are instead my first impressions, opening the box from the Doehler & Haass adapter boards for Next18, and the ESU Loksound Micro v.4 sound decoder in its Next18 declination.
This all seems very promising, and much smaller than what I had expected. I will be testing the interface by converting a train of my own.
In both cases, the Next18 plug/interface is exactly the same. However, the room to be left free for Next18-S decoders is bigger. Added to this, 2 pins are reserved to connect a loudspeaker with Next18-S.
It gets more complicated than that. A locomotive with a simple Next18 (no sound) interface will actually be able to accept a Next18 sound decoder, if the latter has adopted the smaller Next18 dimensions (which is the case for the CtElektronik SL76Next18). All you'll have to do is connect the loudspeaker correctly.
Next18 may be the next best thing for European (and hopefully international) N scale models. It remains very small, but has plenty of connection options.
The Next18 vs. Next18-S possible confusion proves that German and Austrian train manufacturers still employ too many engineers and not enough marketing people (actually thinking about being "customer friendly"). That drawback, however, is not that serious.
I personally hope that more and more manufacturers will start selling their engines with the Next18 digital interface.
Although some of the content is relevant for other model railroading scales, if you are using another scale, additional or more accurate information might be available elsewhere!


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Chelsea star Willian insists he's happy with the Blues and wants to win titles under Maurizio Sarri
Brazilian appears to be going nowhere despite Manchester United and Real Madrid links
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Updated: 6th August 2018, 1:20 pm
Chelsea star Willian has reiterated he is happy at Stamford Bridge, despite a summer of speculation about his future.
The Blues winger has been linked with moves to Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United this off-season but appears intent on playing a big role in new manager Maurizio Sarri's plans.
Chelsea midfielder Willian in action during the Community Shield.
After only minor training following his World Cup exertions for Brazil, Willian came on as a substitute in Chelsea's 2-0 Community Shield defeat to Manchester City.
And following the Wembley clash, he insisted his future remained in west London as he targets more trophy glory.
"I'm happy here," he told Chelsea TV. "I'm happy to play here at Chelsea so I'm looking forward to playing well and win titles.
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And he added the arrival of Sarri has motivated him further as he returns to domestic action.
"When you arrived under a new manager you have more motivation,"Willian said.
"After holidays you are fresh mentally and you try to do everything that is possible to win games and win titles. We go for it this season."
Willian has confirmed that Barcelona made a move for him but a switch to the Nou Camp has never been on the 29-year-old's mind.
"I always made it clear that what I wanted was to stay in the club," he said, speaking to ESPN Brasil.
"The only club I knew that really made an official offer for me was Barcelona.
"But I have my head here and I intend to continue in the club unless the club wants to sell me. But my head is here in the club."

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RHONY's LuAnn de Lesseps & Bethenny Frankel need to stop fighting dirty
by Christina Marfice
Sep 13, 2016 at 2:33 pm EDT
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Bethenny Frankel and LuAnn de Lesseps are taking their feud to a new low.
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As viewers will know, Frankel and de Lesseps have been feuding on The Real Housewives of New York, and their fight intensified recently when Frankel revealed that de Lesseps' fiancé, Thomas D'Agostino, had kissed another woman while he was dating de Lesseps. De Lesseps retaliated by claiming that Frankel hooked up with Dennis Shields, who Frankel is now dating, while he was still married, which Frankel denies.
And now, Page Six says that it got a "sketchy" anonymous tip from someone claiming that de Lesseps and D'Agostino were getting down and dirty in a bathroom stall at a hotel in New York, saying that de Lesseps performed an "unspeakable sex act" on him for nearly an hour while passers-by could hear "audible moans" and "whispering in French." According to the site, de Lesseps thinks it's Frankel's friends who started the rumor.
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De Lesseps also says there's no way it could have happened because she was in Philadelphia for a funeral when it supposedly went down.
"Obviously a desperate attempt by the Housewives camp to ruin my reputation and my upcoming marriage," she said. "Not going to happen! It's really sad how desperate these women can be. I think the show should be renamed The Desperate Housewives."
Sorry, LuAnn, that name's already taken.
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Government Regulation Of Fracking Needs To Address Air Quality, Gas Migration, Speakers Say
Air quality and gas migration are the two major environmental issues that new government regulations must address to control the booming hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") gas drilling operations in Pennsylvania, New York and other states, said former Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger. Hanger spoke at the Gas Drilling Operations Conference, produced by HB Litigation Conferences, on Sept. 9, 2011 in Philadelphia.
Hanger, who is currently special counsel at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott spoke at the "Government Oversight" session during the conference, along with John Imse, principal at Environ International Corp.
In Pennsylvania, there are approximately 3,500 natural gas wells drilled in the Marcellus Shale, 1,600 of which are now producing, said Hanger. These wells currently produce about 30 percent of the total U.S. gas production, compared to 1 percent more than a decade ago in 2000, he noted. Hanger added that he expects production throughout the entire Marcellus region—which includes West Virginia, New York, Ohio and West Virginia—to continue to expand rapidly in the coming years.
New York recently released an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) regarding hydraulic fracking operations. "Now New York is probably going to have the most rigorous and costly regulations and protections in the United States. Pennsylvania's, frankly, are pretty tough as well but New York, from what I've read, is going to take it a step further — in part to say they took it a step further," said Hanger. "There are a range of legitimate issues and concerns that do need to be addressed by regulation whether they be state or federal."
Gas migration is a "real issue" in the state of Pennsylvania, Hanger acknowledged.
"We actually tested for it a number of times but what I can also tell you just as certainly is that poor drilling techniques, poor drilling design, poor drilling execution … can and have caused gas to move to people's water wells and contaminate them," said Hanger. "I want to distinguish this issue from frack fluids returning from depth and reaching ground water or people's water wells. At least in Pennsylvania, we have not had one case of frack fluids returning from depth and reaching people's water wells," he said.
Air impacts are an important emerging issue that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be addressing with a "fairly significant" set of rules expected to be finalized by February 2012, Hanger said. "I think the environmental community is sort of cautiously embracing [the proposed set of rules]. I'm sure they'll criticize it to some extent for not going far enough. The American Petroleum Institute also responded relatively calmly."
Hanger noted that while he was Pennsylvania's Environmental Protection Secretary 1,200 violation notices were written for fracking operators by the state's inspection teams. "We were trying to create … a culture of safety within the industry; and you can't develop a culture of safety without paying attention to the small things," he said.
"I think it's also important to note that the companies by and large did not appeal these violations. Less than 10 were appealed and I personally think that's a credit to the industry. They certainly would grumble quite a bit about some of them, and that's fair enough, but at the end of the day they really pretty much went about the business of responding through operations to violation notices—essentially fixing what had been pointed out," he explained.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) advisory board recently released a report on fracking that highlighted issues related to air quality over water. "They put air first before water and that wasn't accidental. That was a deliberate indirect statement about what was most important in their own minds, the air issues, rather than the water issues. My own view is that the water issues – with the exception of gas migration, at least in Pennsylvania – are substantially taken care of," said Hanger.
Imse of Environ International commented that, although the Marcellus Shale has gotten a lot of attention recently, there are shale gas plays all over the U.S. and that fracking operations have been going on for many years.
"I think a lot of the regulators are trying to push through some things right now that they've wanted to for a long time and hydraulic fracturing is giving them that hook to do it," Imse said.
"Not that there aren't real issues," he continued. "I think that the NOx [Nitrogen Oxide] issues and the smog breaches are real issues. Some of the worst ground level ozone concentrations in the country are in southwest Wyoming" where fracking operations have been ongoing for years.
"For those of you have been there, you know that the three people who live there aren't responsible for it," said Imse. "There are states that are hundreds of years out of date in terms of where their drilling regulations are."
"The issue is the cementing, the casing, the drilling management… it's not the fracturing or the formation 8,000 feet down. It's not putting a little bit of proppant in the formation 8,000 feet down. But it's the practices that allow you to do it. It's the engineering … that's critical," he said.
As hydraulic fracking expands into more shale locations throughout the country and more and more people are affected by it, there's going to be a greater push for more government regulation and oversight of the operations, said Imse.
"Subdivisions that don't have mineral rights are going to see that their green space [surrounding their] expensive homes are going to have drilling rigs on them in the upcoming years. There will be lots to push these new regulations forward; lots of impetus from the public," said Imse.
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Jahalin Bedouins fear new Israeli transfer plan
Entire community faces demolition orders, move to Jordan Valley. Civil Administration: We are trying to improve living standards of both Palestinians, Israelis
The Media Line|Published: 04.20.13 , 07:15
Id Khamis Jahalin sits in his sparsely furnished, illegally-built shack, and worries about his future. A father of seven, he was born in this community of tents and shacks about 10 miles east of Jerusalem.
Sitting on a thin mattress that substitutes for a couch during the day and a bed at night, Id Khamis told The Media Line that a new Israeli plan to relocate the Jahalin Bedouin community, "is the worst one yet. It is not appropriate for us at all. The place they want to move us to is surrounded on all four sides and it is very crowded. I am a Bedouin and I want to live like my parents."
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Id Khamis says he used to have more than 100 goats, but as grazing land became more limited, he ate or sold most of them. He also used to work in nearby Jewish communities built on post-1967 land such as Kfar Adumim, less than a mile away. But in 2009, when residents illegally built a new school out of mud and tires, He says all of the Bedouin here lost their jobs.
Since all of the homes are built without the approval of government authorities, there is no access to water or electricity. Id Khamis has installed solar panels outside which produce enough power to run a television and lights. He has no refrigerator.
"My wife has to work very hard preparing all of the food fresh," he says with a smile.
'They are living there illegally'
Several years ago, Israel tried to move these Jahalin Bedouin, along with 22 other communities - a total of 2300 people - to another location near a garbage dump. Israeli lawyers hired by human rights organizations appealed to Israel's Supreme Court to thwart that plan. Id Khamis says the new plan is even worse.
"This is private land. It is not appropriate for Bedouin. It's like a prison. It is surrounded on all four sides. I am a Bedouin…but this is not acceptable to me. Israelis wouldn't want to live like this, either."
Id Khamis says Israel is trying to remove all Palestinians from Area C, the 60% of land Israel acquired in the 1967 war over which it continues to hold both security and administrative control pursuant to the 1994 Oslo Accords. He sees it as proof that Israel is not interested in a long-term peace with the Palestinians.
"Once they have removed all the people, they will say that the land belongs to them," Id Khamis argues. "This is like the last bullet in the head of the peace process."
Israeli officials say the plan has not been finalized and they are not sure why the Jahalin are launching their objections now.
"They are living there illegally and we are looking at a series of options," Guy Inbar, spokesman for the Civil Administration, the Israeli body which administers the post-1967 areas, told The Media Line. "One option is to relocate them to the Jordan Valley. We are working with the Palestinian Authority on a proposal for 800 building units, but it has not been decided."
Inbar said the plan is being drafted by a Palestinian company was awarded the project in a bidding process, and that Israel is simply trying to improve the Jahalins' quality of life.
"We are trying to improve the living standards of both Palestinians and Israelis," he said. "We want the Bedouin to live in an area where they get all the infrastructure they need, like water and electricity, instead of living in tents that could be demolished."
All of the structures in this village, including the school, have outstanding Israeli demolition orders against them.
Inbar said he was not sure why the plan's detractors were coming forward now but insisted that nothing has been finalized.
But attorney Shlomo Lecker, who showed The Media Line a copy of the plan, said he had information that it will be presented in the next 2-3 weeks.
"The homes will be built on the outskirts of Jericho in Area A (which is under complete Palestinian control)," he explained. "Then Israel will use it as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Palestinians. They will offer to give the Palestinians this area in exchange for annexing part of Area C – (where there are Israeli communities built on post-1967 lands)."
Lecker also says that temperatures in the Jordan Valley reach 120 degrees during the summer and most Bedouin will not be able to afford air conditioning.
Speaking to The Media Line, Stephen Wilkinson of the non-profit organization Dikania explained the position of those who accuse Israel of violating international law, a charge it denies. "According to the Geneva Convention, Israel, as the occupying power, has very clear obligations when it comes to the occupied people, in this case the Bedouin. Forcible transfer of protected populations is prohibited. International law can be very complicated, but on this issue it's very clear that it is illegal," he charged.
Article written by Linda Gradstein
Reprinted with permission from The Media Line
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Penn State defensive line play is surprising bright spot
JOE MIEGOC
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State's inexperienced defensive line was thought to be its biggest weakness coming into this season, but that has been the least of the Nittany Lions' problems.
Penn State held Iowa to eight first downs and 194 yards total offense in its 27-7 victory at Beaver Stadium on Saturday. The Hawkeyes had just two first downs and 54 yards through three quarters.
A big reason for that was the play of the defensive line, where junior defensive end Josh Gaines was the lone returning starter. Against the Hawkeyes the Nittany Lions rotated 10 lineman, led by sophomore Maurice Evans, who had two sacks to up his total to five for the season, and redshirt freshman Aaron Maybin's two sacks.
"My main thing this week was taking off," said Evans, who is second in the Big Ten with 11 tackles for loss. "We've been a little slow these past few weeks. The D-line rotation lets us keep each other fresh."
That was important during the fourth quarter with Penn State leading 20-0 and Iowa completely abandoning its running game, which finished with just 48 yards on 28 carries.
The Nittany Lions gave up a touchdown early in the fourth, but buckled down and stomped out any thoughts the Hawkeyes had of coming back.
"I thought our defense played a very, very fine football game, a very solid game," Penn State coach Joe Paterno said. "I thought our tackling was good. We were able to have a strong rush without sending a lot of people."
Sophomore tight end Andrew Quarless still appears to be in Paterno's doghouse.
After Quarless was cited for underage drinking in Aug., Paterno briefly contemplated kicking him off the team before the Nittany Lions' captains made him think twice. Quarless was suspended for the first two games and has only started one of the four games he's played in this year. Sophomore Mickey Shuler has started the others.
"Quarless is a careless kid," Paterno said. "He's got to learn to be a little more disciplined. He's got a tremendous amount of talent because he can really run for a big guy. But he's got to practice every play all out. He's got to play every play. Sometimes he's sloppy with his blocking. But he'll get better.
"He's just a true sophomore and of course he missed those first couple of weeks."
Quarless finished with three catches for 48 yards, including a diving 24-yard grab that set up Kevin Kelly's 53-yard field goal at the end of the first half. He's caught nine passes for 131 yards and two touchdowns this season.
Penn State's Big Ten contest at Indiana is scheduled to start at noon on Oct. 20.
A determination on whether ESPN or ESPN2 will air the game will be announced no later than Oct. 15.
The contest with the Hoosiers is the ninth announced television appearance of the season for the Nittany Lions. Saturday's homecoming clash with No. 15 Wisconsin airs on ABC regional telecast at 3:30 p.m., with other markets across the nation receiving the game on ESPN. Penn State's Oct. 27 home clash with Ohio State will air on ABC, ESPN or ESPN at 8 p.m.
Penn State and Indiana will be meeting for the first time since the Nittany Lions won 22-18 in 2004 on a dramatic goal line stand in the final minutes. The Nittany Lions lead the series 10-0.


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Irish scientists have outlined how they managed to make the "wonder material" graphene, incredibly using dishwashing liquid and a kitchen blender!! Graphene is thin, strong, flexible and electrically conductive, and has the potential to transform electronics as well as other technologies.
The Irish-UK team (led by Prof Jonathan Coleman from Trinity College Dublin whose research we profiled in Series One of The Science Squad) poured graphite powder into a blender, then added water and dishwashing liquid, mixing at high speed. The results are published in the journal Nature Materials and their work has been reported by BBC News.
Because of its potential uses in industry, a number of researchers have been searching for ways to make defect-free graphene in large amounts. The material comprises a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure. Graphite – mixed with clay to produce the lead in pencils – is effectively made up of many layers of graphene stacked on top of one another.
Prof Coleman and colleagues tested out a variety of laboratory mixers as well as kitchen blenders as potential tools for manufacturing the wonder material. They showed that the shearing force generated by a rapidly rotating tool in solution was sufficiently intense to separate the layers of graphene that make up graphite flakes without damaging their two-dimensional structure.
However, it's not advisable to try this at home. The precise amount of dishwashing fluid that's required is dependent on a number of different factors and the black solution containing graphene would need to be separated afterwards. But the researchers said their work "provides a significant step" towards deploying graphene in a variety of commercial applications.
The scientists have been working with UK-based firm Thomas Swan to scale up the process, with the aim of building a pilot plant that could produce a kilo of graphene per day by the end of the year. In addition to its potential uses in electronics, graphene might have applications in water treatment, oil spill clean-up and even in the production of thinner condoms.
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When I found out that Kristen was going to be on Live! with Kelly on May 31, I was super excited to try to get into the show again. The first time was a huge success, so I was hoping luck would be on my side again. The typical 3 hour bus ride from my home to NYC took 5 hours due to a huge traffic jam. The ride was miserable, but once I got to my destination (aka my friend Lynsey's apartment) and had something to eat, I was feeling much better. Lynsey and I only got about 2-3 hours of sleep before heading out to ABC Studios and were ecstatic to be the first ones in line. Time flew by and suddenly we were inside the studio being seated. While we weren't sure the seats were the greatest (they were all the way on the side of the studio), we were really just happy to be in. And in a whirlwind experience, I ended up meeting Kristen after her segment filmed. It's one of those amazing, I-can't-believe-this-is-happening-right-now, OMG kinda moments that seem to go in slow motion and at lightning speed all at the same time. All I can say is that Kristen is so nice and easy to talk to. During our quick chat, I told her that I help run her bodyguard's fan page, to which she replied "Oh, yeah? I like that!" and was more than happy to take a picture with me. With my birthday a week away, that was one of the best presents I could have gotten! So, thanks Kristen for making my day :) Missing my bus back home was totally worth it!
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Finch Creek Fieldhouse Set For Opening
Friday, September 28, 2018 05:53 PM EDT Updated: Monday, October 1, 2018 10:11 AM EDT
Officials in Noblesville are celebrating the opening of the city's new indoor youth athletic facility and community center. The $24 million Finch Creek Fieldhouse, which officially opens to the public Monday, features 165,000 square feet of space for a variety of sports, including basketball, volleyball and soccer.
An invitation-only grand opening celebration was held Saturday evening to give attendees a preview of the amenities offered by the fieldhouse. They include 75,000 square feet of indoor turf field for football, soccer, lacrosse and rugby, as well as 11 pitching and hitting tunnels for baseball and softball. There are also five hard-surface courts for basketball and volleyball.
The facility was developed by Hamilton County-based Klipsch-Card Athletic Facilities LLC. In a recent appearance on Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick, Co-president Andy Card said Indiana's location has made the state a prime spot for youth sports.
"As we attract tournaments for Nike, Under Armour, USA Basketball, we're also the NBA partner for the entire Midwest region," said Card. "A lot of that has to do with the location of Indianapolis and its suburbs and due to the fact that our hotel rooms are more affordable, our airport's outstanding, and literally the infrastructure of the highways to get in and out of our facilities is superior to the rest of the country."
Plans for the facility were first announced in November 2016. Klipsch-Card Athletic Facilities LLC said at the time the fieldhouse, which was being proposed as a $15 million project, would be the most advanced, state-of-the-art indoor sports facility in the country.
Klipsch-Card Athletic Facilities also operates the Pacers Athletic Center at Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield. The company is also in development of another $14 million facility in Pendleton that Card says will focus more on indoor tennis and gymnastics, as well as a large health and wellness component. Card says the close proximity of all three facilities is not a worry.
"In this region, we are fortunate to have tens of thousands of kids that really extend from the west side all the way over to the east side, especially in the northern suburbs," said Card. "There just isn't a saturation yet. There's still a big demand."


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FishBase er en global arts database over fiskearter (specifikt finnefisk).
FishBase er den største og bredest tilgængelige online database om voksne finnefisk på world wide web.
Over tid er den blevet en dynamisk og alsidig økologisk værktøj, som er citeret i forskningspublikationer.

Historie
FishBase's oprindelse går tilbage 1970'erne, hvor fiskeri videnskabsmanden Daniel Pauly havde problemer med at teste en hypotese om hvordan fisks vækst blev påvirket af deres gællestørrelse.
Hypoteser, såsom denne, kunne kun testes hvis store mængder af empiriske data er tilgængelig.
På denne tid anvendte fiskerikontrolinstanser analytiske modeller som krævede estimater for fiskevækst og mortalitet.

Pauly rekruterede Rainer Froese - og begyndelsen af en software database blev kodet i 1988. Denne database, som i starten kun omfattede tropiske fisk, blev FishBase-prototypen. FishBase blev senere udvidet til at omfatte alle finnefisk og blev tilgængelig på Web august 1996. FishBase er nu den største og mest besøgte online database over fisk i verden.

FishBase er et konsortium der støttes af blandt andet Forenede Nationers "Food and Agriculture Organization", FAO, og har støtte fra Europa-Kommissionen.

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Eksterne henvisninger
 FishBase online
 The Fish Database of Taiwan
 LarvalBase online
 FishBase Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary in Kiel  Science newsline, 3 September 2010.
 Interview with: Dr. Rainer Froese, marine biologist  Youtube video, 13 September 2010.

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We launched out data evolution survey on 6 June 2016 and many of you have already helped us by completing it.
Thanks to a volunteer Data Scientist working with our partner DataKind UK we've been able to do some analysis of where people who completed our survey are based.
We've looked at our target for completions and broken it down by English region and Wales based on the share of population.
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From this you can see that we are furthest away from our target in the South East and the North West.
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Dutch company Allego has developed an electric vehicle charger that can add 100 km / 62 miles worth of power into a car battery in 5 minutes. The company is building a large network of charging stations across continental Europe that is compatible with electric cars, buses and light trucks.
Electric cars, scooters and bicycles are here already, but conducting a long road trip on a fully electric car has a problem: range. For instance, manufacturers of compact electric cars may specify a 200 mile / 350 km range for their vehicles, but in reality, the range can be one-fourth or one-third shorter than that. Toshiba's solution to the problem is the SCIB vehicle battery that fully charges in six minutes.


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Death by Despair
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"She's lost the will to live?! What is your degree in, poetry?!"
—Dr. Ball, MD, Robot Chicken
Citizen One: Indeed and it was at that very moment that Rachel Jackson began to die of grief.
Citizen Two: Grief?
Citizen One: It's the nineteenth century. That's the kind of shit that happened then.
—Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Sometimes, life sucks. People go bankrupt. Plans go awry. People we love die. Terrible things happen to people. And sometimes the poor, unfortunate people to whom terrible things happen just... stop. Death by Despair is what happens when someone loses the will to live, and as a result, just dies. There's rarely a readily apparent medical cause for it. Just a broken heart, or a broken soul for those cases not caused by the loss of a loved one.
A Sub-Trope of Despair Event Horizon, since this is the result of despair that severe.
If a character's anguish causes them to take affirmative action to end their own lives rather than just dying from despair then Driven to Suicide (for deliberate attempts to end ones life) or Death Seeker (for when simple self-preservation instincts are ignored) applies instead.
As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.
Examples of Death by Despair include:
Shou Tucker's first chimera in Fullmetal Alchemist dies this way by ceasing to eat and eventually dying of starvation. This makes more sense when it's revealed that this chimera was his wife.
Also, it's implied that this is what happened to Ed and Al's mother. Yes, it's true, she got sick, but (in both the first anime and in the manga/Brotherhood) it was stated that she was just never the same after Hoenheim left, and that the lack of self-care between being a single mother and her broken heart weakened her enough to die from an illness she probably should have recovered from.
It could also be said that this is what almost happened to Riza. When Lust made the Badass Boast that she had killed Roy Mustang, Riza went on a brief Roaring Rampage of Revenge until she ran out of bullets...then slumped to the ground, weeping and waiting to be killed. She only recovered the will to live when she realized that Roy had survived.
In Dragonball Z the stress of his people being slaughtered by Frieza and co. causes this to happen to the Grand Elder of Planet Namek. To be fair, he was extremely old and had been dying slowly for quite a while, so it amounted to dying a matter of minutes before he would have died 'naturally'. It nonetheless became a critical plot point because Planet Namek's Dragon Balls disappear when he dies.
Tomoya Okazaki of Clannad ~After Story~. When his daughter, his new reason to live after Nagisa's death, dies in his arms, he collapses in the snow, presumably dead from a broken heart. But he got better. Really.
Parodied in Mahou Sensei Negima with Emily Sevensheep's mother. After she hears about her idol Nagi's death, we see her in her apparent death bed, telling her daughter that, just once, she wanted to see Nagi in person... then we cut to the doctor sweatdropping and saying that she only has a cold.
Subverted/Averted as all hell in Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei, much to the (non) consternation of Itoshiki, a man so steeped in despair that he will Wangst himself to suicide over the most outlandish theories and observations.
The Anti-Spiral tried to make humanity suffer this in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It didn't work.
Kaede Fuyou from Shuffle was close to this as a young girl, after her mother's death in an accident. Rin had to lie to her by putting the blame on him so she'd recover the will to live.
Almost happens to Liechtenstein in Axis Powers Hetalia, after World War I destroys her lands and kills a good part of her people. Fortunately, Switzerland finds her when she's about to give in and let herself die, and takes her in into his home (symbolizing the union between both countries, which still survives to this day).
In C the Money And Soul of Possibility, Entres who get bankrupt lose their future and would usually commit suicide afterwards.
Barely averted in Bellemere's backstory in One Piece. She had fought in a terrible battle that destroyed a coastal city and was just waiting for her almost sure demise... then she saw little Nojiko carrying baby Nami in her arms and regained the will to live, taking the little girls in.
Mai's friend Konami from Popotan. Due to the girls being time travelers Konami waited years for her best friend to come back. After so many years, she apparently gave up hope, and passed away. Mai doesn't take this news very well.
While it hasn't actually happened so far, the succubi of Rosario to Vampire can literally die of heartbreak.
Literally occurs in Puella Magi Madoka Magica in the new world in the endings, a Magical Girl's magic is somewhat based on her level of hope. So if they run out of magic (or hope) they die. This is a step up from the original timeline, where they turn into The Heartless.
Revolutionary Girl Utena was close to this after her parents died but thankfully her prince (or Touga) saves her.
In S-Cry-ed, Ayase Terada goes out this way when she learns that her brother is dead (through a wireless heart monitor on her wrist). It might be justified, since she went through a process to refine her power which is said to drastically shorten lifespan in some cases, but aside from some scarring looks perfectly healthy. Kazuma, who she was fighting, didn't even get a chance to land a hit.
Fables: According to Bigby, his mother died of a broken heart after his father abandoned the family.
Padme in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith suffered this according to the medbot attending her. Watching her husband become Darth Vader was apparently too much and even giving birth to twin future heroes of the galaxy wasn't enough to salvage her will to live. Apparently getting force choked hard enough to break bones wouldn't have killed her if she hadn't given up, though saying "there is still good in him" kinda contradicts that.
One theory is that Vader really did kill her subconsciously through the Force. Due to their connection, it is possible that as he was falling deeper into the Dark Side, he was draining the life Force out of her, a common ability in the Expanded Universe. Palpatine also states that Vader did kill her and he never told an outright lie in the movies.
Possibly Illanka in House of Frankenstein after she shoots Lawrence Talbot with a silver bullet after he attacks her as the Wolf Man. She shows no signs of injury afterward, and since she can move, her neck was clearly not broken, but she dies on top of Larry's corpse.
Possibly George in A Single Man. Eight months after the death of Jim, his lover of sixteen years, George has been so ground down by grief (which he can't outwardly show, because it's the 1960s) that he decides to commit suicide... which turns out to be an unnecessary decision, since he dies of a heart attack instead, having been shown throughout the film to be nursing a chronic heart condition. Diabolus Ex Machina, or stress-induced cardiomyopathy? See Real Life examples below.
Contact with the "ghosts" of J-Horror film Kairo (Pulse) results in this. The ghosts don't even do anything, they're just there, but coming face to face with one results in the victim realizing that, even in death, everyone is completely and utterly alone. The soul-crushing despair from this revelation causes the victim to simply shrink away, their will to live fading, until they literally become nothing but an eerie stain of soot on the wall.
Hunger Games: Katniss attempts this during her confinement after Prim's death and her subsequent assassination of Coin. It doesn't work.
Milly in The Wings Of The Dove is ill throughout the book, but eventually dies due to a broken heart.
In Anne Mcaffrey's Dragonflight, we learn that, when a rider dies, his/her dragon goes Between (a bitter cold, blackness through which dragons teleport), never to return.
Also, dragon riders whose dragons die can become this.
In the Incarnations of Immortality novel With A Tangled Skein, we see this is apparently the reason people die after Atropos cuts their life's thread.
In the novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, after Walter dies of cholera, Kitty says that he really died of a broken heart.
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Physiologist's Wife, the eponymous physiologist dies of this in the end, much to the disbelief of those examining the body.
After the dog Old Dan dies of injuries in Where the Red Fern Grows, his companion Little Ann gradually wastes away (her owner literally has to pry her jaws open to force her to eat something) and joins him in death.
In World War Z some people are so traumatized by the horrors and hopelessness sometimes just go to sleep...and never wake up.
The eponymous Phantom dies of a broken heart in The Phantom of the Opera.
Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three Kingdoms has the ability to cause this. Several other people die of this naturally as well.
Not a few cases in JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium (The Lord of the Rings etc), both Elven and Human. Specifically notable as a way of death for the immortal Elves. Elven spirits are noted to have a much greater influence over their physical bodies, so if they have the appropriate willpower and determination they can live and pull through almost anything; however it also works the other way round - if they lose their hope and will to live their bodies just give out. In The Silmarillion there almost seems to be a tradition for the men to be killed and their wives dying of despair shortly afterwards; this happening to Rian, Gloredhel, Melian and Luthien (although Luthien's case is a little unique)
In More Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark, the story Cold As Clay involved this, when a farmhand "wastes away" after his employer moves his daughter in order to keep the two apart. The daughter is never told about this, however, which is why she isn't surprised when the farmhand arrives at her door to take her home...some time after his death.
Jean Valjean dies like this in Les Misérables, after he is separated from his adopted daughter.
Iseult of Tristan and Iseult fame.
In The Wheel of Time people who lose the ability to channel do this as well as Warders with dead Aes Sedai who aren't killed trying to avenge them.
Warders who outlive their bonded Aes Sedai and can't avenge their deaths (if the Aes Sedai wasn't killed by someone, or died in an accident, or someone else gets there first, etc.) more become Death Seekers By Despair -- they'll continuously throw themselves at Shadowspawn and dangerous problems until they finally get killed.
Catherine Earnshaw-Linton of Wuthering Heights. Nellie Dean personally believes Heathcliff died of this too, and was not Driven to Suicide -- she sees his refusal to eat or sleep for days as a "result" of his illness rather than a cause.
In American Gods, a funeral director observes that an elderly man whose wife just dies will most likely be dead himself in about eight months. In his experience, elderly women who lose their husbands are usually able to live on, but elderly men can't handle it and will stop taking care of themselves and lose the will to live.
After both of Colonel Filitov's sons died young, one while fighting counterrevolutionaries and one due to his tank suffering a critical defect, his wife faded away. The loss of his entire family is what inspired him to start working for the CIA, becoming The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
Don Quixote:
Parodied by the "resurrection" of Altisidora, a girl who claims to love Don Quixote and invokes this trope (it's really a prank). Don Quixote and Sancho didn't believe it for a minute (this was at XVI century). When Don Quixote rejects her again:
Hearing this, Altisidora, with a show of anger and agitation, exclaimed, "God's life! Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar, stone of a date, more obstinate and obdurate than a clown asked a favour when he has his mind made up, if I fall upon you I'll tear your eyes out! Do you fancy, Don Vanquished, Don Cudgelled, that I died for your sake? All that you have seen to-night has been make-believe; I'm not the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!"
"That I can well believe," said Sancho; "for all that about lovers pining to death is absurd; they may talk of it, but as for doing it-Judas may believe that!"
Played straight at the end of the novel by Don Quixote, whom could not survive his Fan Disillusionment. (This is a petty reason to die, it's An Aesop).
Happens to the Aboriginal boy in Walkabout. He believes the girl's fear of him is because she's seen the spirit of Death on him (in fact, she's just afraid because she's been taught Aboriginals are savages and never actually met one before). Because he thinks death is coming for him, he then more or less wills himself to die.
More precisely, he catches the flu from the girl's brother, but has neither the inherited resistance nor the will to fight it. (The movie is more explicitly Death by Despair: he hangs himself after the failure of his courtship dance.)
In Gene Stratton Porter's Freckles, Freckles's conviction that he is unworthy of Angel is killing him after his injuries.
Larry Marvick in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".
A Red Shirt in "The Naked Time" tried to commit suicide, was stopped before he seriously hurt himself,then died anyway because he couldn't summon the will to fight off the minor infection of the wound.
Seen in Scrubs in episode "My House", when a patient whose husband had just passed was suffering from "Broken Heart Syndrome" (see Real Life examples of this trope).
This happens to lead to one of the show's all-time great Imagine Spots: "Box of kittens, STAT!"
One way to interpret Fumine Sonozaki/Shroud's death on Kamen Rider Double.
In series two of Downton Abbey, Lavinia develops Spanish flu before her wedding to Matthew, forcing them to cancel. While Matthew thinks she is in bed, she witnesses him and Mary kiss with Matthew explaining that Violet asked him to marry Mary. Lavinia tries to convince him to go back to Mary, but then her condition inexplicably worsens and she dies suddenly, leading Matthew to conclude that she died of a broken heart because she believed he did not love her.
Elves in Dungeons and Dragons who have formed an empathic bond with another person can fall to the depths of despair when that person dies. The shock and grief of the bond breaking can sometimes kill the elf in question, and vice-versa. Likewise, if confined away from nature itself and other elves for a long time, elves can simply literally lose all hope and force their own death.
In Role Master, critical hits on the "depression damage" table can cause the target to assume a fetal position on the floor and literally lose the will to live, dying by despair.
Romeo and Juliet contains two examples, one played straight and one subverted. Lady Montague is said to have died of despair after she learned about Romeo's banishment. Also, Juliet is believed to have died of grief over the death of her cousin Tybalt. Subverted because Juliet isn't dead, and wasn't grieving that much over Tybalt anyway... though despair does drive her to kill herself when Romeo kicks it.
Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra after he realizes betraying Antony was too much for him. Manages a long monologue before he dies (and there's also an opera of the play, where he sings an aria in good ol' operatic tradition).
Isolde shows how it's done... after a long monologue.
Elsa in Lohengrin.
Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, most likely. She dies without a physical reason. Tannhäuser himself does this too when he sees Elisabeth dead.
Rachel Jackson in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson after her bigamy is made public by Congress. The play even calls out how ridiculous such a death sounds.
At the very end of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the defendant (Vera Misham) is comatose in the hospital after the Big Bad poisons her while the cast enstablishes the verdict. If there's a Not Guilty verdict, she lives. If there's a Guilty one, she dies before she can be executed.
Minnie 'Stronie' Goodsoup from The Curse of Monkey Island died of a broken heart after her fiancee (revealed to be LeChuck) left her at the altar.
Oswald from Odin Sphere lets himself be carted off to the underworld by a Halja (a grim reaper-type servant of the Queen of the Dead) after his mistaken conclusion that Gwendolyn doesn't feel anything for him and that he is imprisoning her in their marriage causes him to lose the will to live. Fortunately he's saved when Gwendolyn, who really does love him, invades the Underworld and rescues him.
In The Sims, Sim children who are left alive, after their parents die, eventually die due to despair, even if all of their other needs are addressed.
This must refer to one of the later versions - it's possible, though difficult, for Sims 1 children to survive on their own. It also tends to involve a lot of cheat codes.
In Final Fantasy X it is heavily implied that Tidus' mother died this way after Jecht vanished, and that this is one of many reasons that Tidus hates his father so much.
In Team Fortress 2, you can inflict this on your enemies: The Jarate weapon causes anyone hit by it to "lose the will to live" and take more damage from you and your allies' weapons. Played entirely for laughs- this is TF2.
The Apathy Syndrome victims in Persona 3 suffer from this after Shadows from humanity's Collective Unconscious feed on their sense of "self." All they do is shamble around and vegetate, doing nothing but wait to die, while letting out the occasional moan if you try to talk to them. In the Bad Ending of the game, Nyx inflicts this upon everyone and everything on Earth, including the main characters.
The Lord of the Rings Online, possibly uniquely among fantasy MMORPGs, replaces the admittedly conceptually illogical "hit points" most games use with "morale points." The general idea seems to be that the only way to die is literally from despair, though this despair is most commonly caused by the pain of being surrounded by enemies and stabbed repeatedly. Given the legendarium of Tolkein, mentioned in the Literature section of this very page, it's actually harder to argue against this being canonical than you'd think.
Ink City: while not explictedly played out, Word of Mundane gave this as the reason for Misery's departure: the horrifying fashion in which her best friend departed from the City and the Awful Truths he unintentionally shared with her beforehand caused her so much grief that she curled up and wasted away.
After realizing the painful truth that he's a waste of space whose life has gone nowhere, The Nostalgia Critic slumps over his chair to eventually die alone. Luckily, he then gets some confidence back with an awesome song.
In No Rest for The Wicked, Beauty sees the Beast down and is convinced that it's this, and agrees to marry him.
Parodied in The Simpsons:
Abe Simpson: They may say that she died from a ruptured aorta, but I know she really died of a broken heart.
In "Curse of the Flying Hellfish", this is implied to be the cause of Asa Phelps' death:
Reverend Lovejoy: He worked at the United Strut and Bracing Works as a molder's boy, until he was replaced by a Molder-Matic and died.
This nearly became the case for Kyle in South Park. Cartman receives $1,000,000 from his grandma upon her death and buys a flailing amusement park with it, and keeps it all for himself, having the time of his life and gaining national fame. This causes Kyle to have a hemorrhoid in his ass that is slowly killing him because he loses faith in God and the will to live. But at the end of the episode, when a series of hardships causes Cartman to lose his park and be utterly miserable, Kyle's hemorrhoid vanishes and he instantly becomes better, realizing that there is a God.
The page quote comes from one of the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials, mocking Padme's death in the Revenge of the Sith.
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy AKA "Broken Heart Syndrome" can cause your heart to fail.
Truth in Television to a degree: Depression, stress and lack of "will to live" do appear to weaken the immune system. Mortality rates for the sick and elderly are lower just before birthdays, anniversaries and other events that they want to see - they manage to "hang on" by increased will to live - but worsen afterwards. Articles were published noting the sudden rise in the death rate of 100 years or older people directly after the year 2000 hit, because they wanted to see three centuries.
Theodore Roosevelt was quite sickly and in very poor health, but overcame it with with pure Badass and force of will. When his son Quentin died in World War I, that will failed, and years of poor health hit him like a sack of bricks. He died less than a year later.
Victor Frankl, in his book Man's Search For Meaning, described how some people he'd known in Nazi concentration camps gave up after awhile and stopped doing anything. Within a week or two, they'd just die.
Toshiro Mifune reportedly got a heart-attack or stroke from Karōshi, also known as "Death by Over Work," but did not die. He did, however, spend his life after that in the care of his estranged wife, fellow actress Sachiko Yoshimine, until she died from pancreatic cancer; he would die two years later from multiple organ failure. Before Sachiko had been diagnosed, it was reported his health was returning, but after her death, his health quickly and rapidly declined. Some believe that he did eventually die because Sachiko was no longer with him, having simply lost the will to live.
Babies can possibly die if not held enough... Seriously. Since they're babies it's hard to get concrete evidence as to why this happens, but many people think that it's because they don't feel loved. The experiments that proved this (made, of course, long before modern ethics standards) dubbed it "failure to thrive".
(...but don't panic if your pediatrician says your kid has failure to thrive. That is now a catch-all term, meaning any kid significantly underweight who doesn't have some other disease to explain it.)
Some believe that this is what ultimately killed Johnny Cash; His death came mere months after his beloved wife June Carter Cash died.
Chang and Eng Bunker, otherwise known as the original Siamese Twins, lived a fairly prosperous life, swapping between running a plantation and exhibitioning themselves (they were the first Siamese Twins, after all). One day, Chang died while he and his brother were sleeping; when Eng awoke, he was consumed with grief, wrapped himself around his brother, refused to let surgeons separate the two of them, and died three hours later. He's reported to have said "He's my brother. We've been together from before we were born. I simply won't live without him."
Theo, an army sniffer dog, died hours after his handler was killed in a firefight, despite being a healthy young dog who wasn't injured himself.
Apes can die of loneliness. Keeping one in a cage all by itself is not recommended.
Apparently it can happen to elephants too.
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Date Unveiled : The South African War Memorial was unveiled September 1902 by His Excellency Sir Edward Stone. The actual foundation stone was laid earlier by the Duke of Cornwall & York (later to become King George V) on 22nd July 1901.
Location : On Fraser Avenue near the entrance off Kings Park Road, Perth, Western Australia.
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Q: Why Stack overflow error occurs on creating nonstatic instance within an instance? Why Stack overflow error occurs on creating nonstatic instance within an instance  of same class ??
public class ObjectTest {
    ObjectTest instanceObj = new ObjectTest("Outside");

    public ObjectTest(String s) {
        System.out.println(s);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ObjectTest localObj = new ObjectTest("Inside");
    }
}

But the problem gets resolved by below modification :
static ObjectTest instanceObj = new ObjectTest("Outside");

It is understood like circular dependency occurs in first case while assigning new object to instanceObj reference
Can anyone clarify the whole thing ?? Why for static reference  circular dependency doesnot occur??

A: When instanceObj is non-static, the constructor for the ObjectTest creates another ObjectTest which creates another ObjectTest, and so on ad infinitum. When it's static, only one instanceObj is created for the entire ObjectTest class ... it is static, after all. :) When instanceObj is static and its ObjectTest is created, it already has the static instanceObj, which is itself. It does take some getting used to, it might help to work it out on paper and make sure you're clear what the static keyword means.

A: Because it creates object inside object and again object inside the object. This is like infinite mirror image when two Mirror keep in front of each other.
About static object, it is not instance of the class. static object is created at the class level.
We use such static object of the same class while designing SingleTon class.

A: Because the code you exposed is almost the same as:
public class ObjectTest {
    ObjectTest instanceObj;

    public ObjectTest(String s) {
        instanceObj = new ObjectTest("Outside"); // creating another object executing this constructor again
        System.out.println(s);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ObjectTest localObj = new ObjectTest("Inside");
    }

}

When you modify the field to static field you do something like:
public class ObjectTest {
    static ObjectTest instanceObj;

    static {
        instanceObj = new ObjectTest("Outside");
    }

    public ObjectTest(String s) {
        System.out.println(s);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ObjectTest localObj = new ObjectTest("Inside");
    }

}

executing the constructor just once.

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If you're not sure, you aren't alone. Americans toss out $165 billion worth of food each year, often out of safety concerns fueled by confusion about the meaning of the 10-plus date labels used on packages.
Grocery manufacturers and retailers are finally taking pity. Earlier this month, the Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers Association announced they would voluntarily streamline date labels and begin using two standard phrases: "best if used by" for quality and "use by" for highly perishable items like meat, fish and cheese that can be dangerous to eat if they are too old.
When in doubt if food is still good to eat after the "best before" date, look at it, Harris said. If it looks fine, you can smell it. If appropriate, feel the texture. If it passes those tests, go ahead and taste a little bit of it.
As an undergraduate student, Harris and her roommate planned meals for each week, made a list and bought only those items at the grocery store.
If you're not that precise, be practical. There are plenty of tools to help. If you have extra meat, freeze it. If there's mold on soft cheese such as cottage cheese, discard it because the contamination is likely far below the surface. If there's mold on hard cheese such as cheddar, you can cut off an inch around and below the mold spot and the rest should be OK to eat.
Except for infant formula, food product dating is not required by federal regulations. About 20 states have restrictions on food date labeling, such as "sell by" labeling laws on milk in Montana, Roberts said.
Why do we waste so much food, and why does it matter?


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On ground and groundlessness: Jamesonian Marxism v. Derridean deconstruction v. Buddhist onto-phenomenalism (w/ guest appearances by Lacan and Freud, spiked all the way through with ecology)
February 6, 2009 by Adrian J Ivakhiv
Or, Toward an eco-Buddhist-processualist cultural criticism
Note: This is work in progress and probably won't be published for a while, and not in this form in any case. It comes from an attempt to theorize an 'ecocritical' understanding of culture that is in dialogue with the Marxist tradition of social and political analysis, Derridean poststructural philosophy, Buddhist psychology, and the psychoanalysis of Freud, Lacan, and Zizek, among others. I welcome comments.
For Fredric Jameson, it is history, understood in Marxian terms as a series of changing relationships among and between social groups and their systems of material production, that serves as a relatively stable ground or horizon against which the vicissitudes of human culture play their figure. For Derridean deconstruction (and other brands of poststructuralism), there is no ultimate ground, and textuality in its groundless infinite play is what shows us this most clearly. For the approach I'm working on, rooted in a more naturalistic understanding of the world than Derrida's and a more ecological one than Jameson's, there is similarly no ultimate ground, but there are relative grounds that can be found in the unfoldment of social and ecological relations. The hermeneutic I'm proposing doesn't leave us errantly wandering among texts and discourses (as does deconstruction), but leaves us ethically responding to others (as many deconstructionists themselves do) among relations that are simultaneously material and biological (a la Marx and Darwin), discursive (a la culturalism), and imaginal-phantasmic (a la psychoanalysis).
The role of history is different here than it is for Jameson for two reasons. The first is that one person's history is not identical with another's, and there is therefore no 'true' history that can be appealed to; as a narrative of the past informing the present, history is part of the shifting ground of human discourse. Secondly, it is not so much the past that grounds as it is relations with the Real – which, loosely following Lacan, I would define as 'the fullness of experience that eludes signification.' We cannot say anything concrete about the Real, since it eludes signification, but we can say that our sense of it (which for humans can be both a conscious and an unconscious sense) varies depending on our own conditions of life experience. Freud recognized this as biographical, Jameson recognizes it as sociohistorical, and I'm proposing that it also be recognized as broadly ecological.
If one's foundational experiences of security and oneness, formed in the earliest stages of life, shape their sense of the Real, so do one's experiences of the social and ecological world. One's sense of the Real would be different for someone born and raised during an anarchic wartime than it would be for someone born and raised during a prosperous peace. It would be different for one raised in slavery than it would be for one raised in egalitarian conditions. One's positioning within these relations – military commander or vulnerable child, slave or slavemaster – affects one's conscious and unconscious sense of the Real; and it is this that results, for instance, in the slavemaster's haunted dreamlife and his fears of the revenge of the 'primitive savages' whose subjugation his own welfare depends on. In the same way, one's sense of the Real would be different for one born and raised in an environment that features intimate exchange with other species, reliable and recurrent provision for the survival needs of one's social group, and a sense of belonging in a spacious and storied landscape, than it would be for one raised without such things. It would also be different in a world which is haunted by the spectre of potential or possible cataclysm, whether that be the nuclear 'mutually assured destruction' I grew up with or the eco-catastrophe my students are growing up with today. It is in this sense that we can speak of an 'ecological' or 'ecopolitical unconscious.'
Since the world of our experience is shaped by discourse and language, by social and material relations, and by bodily sensations, desires, imaginings and phantasms, cognitions and proto- or pre-cognitions, there will be a disjunction between the sum total (and potential) of these sensings (the Real), the imaginary formations of these sensings within which one's desires get their bearings (the Imaginary), and the linguistically symbolized and ordered world in which the self/identity emerges, develops, and unfolds (the Symbolic; I realize I'm using these terms slightly differently from Lacan). The work of critical interpretation is to get beyond the third level to the more primary ones.
Derridean deconstruction tells us little about the first two levels (Real, Imaginary), picturing the first as nothing beyond the free flow of the liberated elements of the second and third, with an emphasis on the third. Buddhist onto-phenomenalism shares this deconstructive picture, but with a greater emphasis on the first and second levels in that it is less interested in deconstructing words than in deconstructing thoughts, tracing them to the desires underlying them (the second level) and ultimately to what is at their heart, which Buddhism (Madhyamika Buddhism, at least) portrays as a luminous or radiant, self-subsistent and self-generating 'emptiness.' This qualifier of 'underlying luminosity' is significant: Buddhism is sometimes misunderstood as a kind of nihilism, but it differs from a secular, value-free nihilism by making a distinctive leap of faith into the nature of that first level. Specifically, Mahayana Buddhism claims that the nature of reality is ultimately benevolent and that this insight into reality gives rise to spontaneous compassion, since at this level there is no division between (illusory) egos, but rather there is a sense of the shared commonality and solidarity with all sentient beings – all other beings (or becomings) finding themselves in the process of becoming, struggle, and so forth.
Buddhism, or this anti-essentialist variant of it, can then be understood as a form of 'deep deconstruction,' where what is being deconstructed is not only texts and the linguistic or symbolic realm, unveiling reality as an infinite play of sliding and unfixable signifiers. Rather, it is the very nature of selfhood – concepts of self as well as convictions of self-identical existence (the ego) and the bodily, emotional and mental experiences that underpin these convictions. These are deconstructed to unveil the play of experience as a kind of relational field characterized by desire and suffering, which is shared across subjectivities (including any arisings of subjectivity, not just human individual 'subjects') and which unfolds through the interconnected actions and events that make up the life process.
While Buddhism is a rich set of traditions encompassing many diverging schools, the Mahayana Buddhist philosophical tradition I am drawing from can be represented through a simple formula, which is taken from the modern Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The formula essentially defines emptiness (or the self beyond illusion) as "empty in essence, cognizant in nature, unconfined in capacity." In other words, at the heart of experience is an emptiness, a non-self, which is aware (of what is going on) and agential, that is, capable of acting. Recognizing the emptiness of one's ego, not just theoretically but experientially, especially as a result of extended meditation practice, one gains insight into the effects of one's actions on others.
While some traditions of Buddhism de-emphasize any social implications such insight might generate, the Mahayana tradition celebrates those figures, known as Boddhisattvas, who have attained such realization and who have in turn devoted themselves to spreading it and to guiding other beings toward liberation from suffering. The tradition of engaged Buddhism, as it has been developing in Asia and in the West, takes its impetus from this form of commitment.
The systemic level: Always ecologize!
But while it is helpful at the microscopic/molecular/individual level, it does not help us as much at the systemic level, where we need to understand the complexity of larger sociopolitical and techno-economic systems and the historical dynamics they evince.
If for Marxism, as Fredric Jameson puts it, what is essential is "the collective struggle to wrest a realm of Freedom from a realm of Necessity" (Political Unconscious 19-20), a struggle that occurs through the wresting of truth from ideological falsity, for a post-humanist or post-anthropocentric political ecology what is essential is a collective struggle to wrest a realm of compassionate solidarity from a realm of suffering based in delusion.
If the prime directive for Jameson is "Always historicize!" (Political Unconscious p. 9), for onto-phenomenalist eco-deconstructionists it is "Always ecologize!", with the understanding that this ecologization be a political and historical one, not merely a scientific or crudely environmentalist one. It can be rephrased as "Always contextualize within the networks of social, historical, and political-ecological relations that make up the broader world and 'ground' of the object being examined."
For his historical understanding, Jameson draws heavily on Ernest Mandel's four phases of capitalism: early, industrial, imperial, and late. Our political ecology can take in a much wider lens, one which Marx and Engels grappled toward, but the details of which we can fill in much more readily today than could they. The full spectrum of political or cultural ecologies includes small-scale societies subsisting on hunting and gathering or on farming and pastoral relations, as well as the vastly bureaucratized civilizations that Marx and Engels had only a premonition of. It also includes the history of imagined relations between selves and others, such as colonial depictions of otherness – of primitives, brutes, and savages, depicted against hierarchic scales of 'civilization' or 'development', with all their mappings onto race, gender, social class, community, nation, and species. This diverse history, or at least the sensed relation of oneself to that history, becomes the 'horizon' for criticism in this mode.
Where Jameson, for instance, would read nineteenth century novels in terms of their mediation of the social realities and unequal class relationship of industrial capitalism, our political ecology would broaden the lens to include the loss of access to and affective connection to land (through land enclosures and neoliberal privatization) and the sudden emergence of chaotic urban conditions faced by the industrial proletariat or today's global shanty-town underclass, etc. Industrial capitalism would be defined not just as a new form of relationship between social classes, but also as a thorough change in relations between people (social classes) and land, a deterritorialization and reterritorialization of these relations. A similar process occurs through colonization and eventually through globalization, both of which involve the enclosure of land into new structures of commodity relations, ownership and access (or lack of it) of land, and associated class relations.
If cultural criticism, for Jameson, means reading texts as embodying the repressed features of historical anxiety and trauma, then surely these altered relations to places, animals, landscapes, and environments will be felt at a level consciously or unconsciously recognizable to users of these texts.
More to come, eventually (bringing Deleuze & Guattari into the picture, no doubt)…
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Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter | Tagged Buddhism, Derrida, ecocriticism, Jameson, Madhyamika, Marxism, psychoanalysis, theory, Zizek | 1 Comment
on January 4, 2015 at 8:18 am | Reply Matthew O'Connell
I wanted to complement you on your blog. The content is fascinating and you seem to have managed to articulate, far better than I, many of my own thoughts, intuitions and conclusions.
I have recently written a blog post of my own over at Post-Traditional Buddhism which I hope you will take a look at. It expresses ideas that will resonate to some degree with your work and with Tim Ingold's. Though I am an amateur and not an academic and my writing is, apart from being an opportunity for me to straighten out my own thinking, aimed at long-term Buddhist practitioners who are perhaps unconvinced by a lot of institutional Buddhism's self-claims. You are linked in the article.
http://posttraditionalbuddhism.com/2015/01/02/radical-identity-and-non-duality/
Please keep up the good work. I will continue to read your blog and pieces on pre-G with great interest.
Matthew O'Connell


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Stampede Meat Inc., announced it is expanding outside of Illinois for the first time in its 24-year history. Stampede is investing more than $36 million to renovate and reopen the former Tyson Foods facility in Sunland Park, which will increase Stampede's existing 285,000 square footage and 190 million-pound capacity by more than half.
"Stampede has been at capacity on some critical lines for a number of months," Stampede Meat CEO and President Brock Furlong said. "Starting this fall, this will allow Stampede to grow with a significant investment in cook capacity and new capabilities to continually play a more critical role as our customers look for more turn-key solutions."
Over the next five years, this expansion will create 1,295 new food processing and manufacturing jobs, making Stampede's growth one of the largest job creation projects in New Mexico in over a decade. Founded in 1995, Stampede produces custom, protein-based solutions for the foodservice and retail industries.
"The power of New Mexico's economic development tools are on full display today, as we proudly welcome Stampede Meat to Sunland Park," said New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez. "This investment will bring new life and new jobs to a previously dormant facility and dramatically affect not only the community of Sunland Park, but also the entire State."
In similar fashion to Stampede's existing facilities, products made in New Mexico will be distributed across the entire U.S., as well as internationally to locations such as Canada and South America. Once fully utilized, the facility will support $300 to 400 million in revenue.
"We greatly thank our customers for their loyalty and partnership, giving us the confidence to make this investment in support of their growth and continued success," Furlong said. "Thank you to Governor Susana Martinez and her team, the City of Sunland Park and the New Mexico Partnership for working with Stampede Meat to make our dream come true in the City of Sunland Park in the Great State of New Mexico. The level of support and degree of flexibility far surpassed the options we were considering in other states."
Stampede's expansion also received a great deal of support from the New Mexico Economic Development Department, which is investing up to $3 million in Local Economic Development Act (LEDA) funds. LEDA is New Mexico's closing fund, which helps in recruiting new businesses to the state. The City of Sunland Park will act as the fiscal agent for the award. Additional supporters in this expansion effort include the Construction Industries Division (CID), the New Mexico State Fire Marshal's Office, and the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance (MVEDA) team.
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(person) by liveforever Wed Apr 17 2002 at 11:56:18
(Latin form of Greek Polybios)
Greek historian. Born c. 200 BCE in Megalopolis, died c. 118 BCE.
Born into a prominent Megalopolitan family (his father Lycortas was a general of the Achaean League), Polybius received an early training in politics and military affairs. By virtue of his family connections and his training, he was given several important positions, including a post as cavalry commander. He was thus a significant participant in the activities of the Achaean League.
In 167 BCE, during the war between Rome and Macedonia, Polybius was one of the 1000 Achaean hostages who were taken to Rome to guarantee the neutrality of the League. He was to remain there for 17 years. Since he was a man of culture and distinction, he was treated as an honoured guest in Rome, and welcomed into the finest homes. Among these was the household of Aemilius Paulus, whose two sons (Fabius and the younger Scipio) Polybius became the teacher of.
In particular, Polybius established a close friendship with Scipio. Though he was allowed to return to Greece in 150BCE, he went back to Rome the very next year, and joined Scipio in Africa, in time to witness the fall of Carthage (146 BCE). With the fall of Corinth later that year, Polybius returned to Greece once more. Eventually, when Greece became a Roman province, Polybius helped arrange the political transition, in recognition of which the Romans raised many monuments to him (the remnant, a pedestal, of one such monument was discovered at Olympia).
For most of the latter part of his life he seems to have lived at Rome, writing history. His particular subject was, unsurprisingly, Rome, and it is in Polybius' historical and political studies that we find the best contemporary description of Roman politics and history. It was Polybius' view that the Roman constitution, being a combination of the political forms of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, was the best of its time - and that its strength was the prime cause of Roman dominance. His histories (Pragmateia, 40 vols.) deal with the period of Roman history from 219 BCE to 146 BCE. Of the forty volumes of the original, only books 1-5, part of book 6, and extracts from the remaining books, are preserved for posterity. Although the style of his writing is sometimes ponderous and stiff, his overall knowledge and insight is unparallelled among ancient historians.
After many years in Rome, he finally returned to Greece, and died sometime around 118 BCE, of a fall from a horse.
From the Renaissance to the Romantic age, Polybius was the most widely-read of the Greek historians. His analysis of the Roman constitution formed the basis of Niccoló Machiavelli's political philosophy, and his description of the Achaean League inspired the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, when they composed the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
(thing) by malcster Sat Sep 06 2003 at 17:03:12
Polybius is probably the most mysterious arcade game ever. It's probably the most mysterious video game ever, full stop.
However, there is very little information around as to exactly what it was like, and there are a whole host of Area 51* style ideas about it floating around on the Internet. Googling for "Polybius" turns up a whole heap of information on the philosopher mentioned above, and not a whole lot of information on the game. I set google to 100 results per page, and found a handful of references to the game, mostly people posting on forums after having seen the page at http://coinop.org. However, this is what I have been able to scrape together. Should you happen to find something else around that looks like it has a shred of a chance of not being a hoax, I would appreciate if you could /msg me so that the writeup can be updated. Please note: NONE of this is guaranteed to be true. This is all rumour, and will remain so until the day when someone comes up with a working machine, so don't go around saying "Polybius exists, malcster from E2 said so".
Although you can find a few postings about it, if you really look hard, they have all been copied and pasted from one location - god knows who wrote that originally. www.GoodDealGames.com has an article about it by a Michael Thomasson, and that seems to be the piece that has been pasted into many message board postings. The other relatively solid source I found was at coinop.org, and while the comments to the story are relatively interesting to read, they are all pretty much "Email me this ROM, I don't care about any harmful effects" or "I HAD THIS GAME IT WAS WEIRD BUT THEN I SOLD IT TO THIS PERSON WHO SEEMED TO REALLY WANT IT!!" which is quite far fetched to me. What's weird is that a lot of the messages posted that I found were very recently... as in, they were all this year or the last... Anyway, on with the "facts"...
What is "known" about the game.
It was an arcade game, a prototype, which was only ever released to perhaps a dozen arcades, back in about 1981. They were removed again after about 4 to 6 weeks.
These arcades were all in a small suburb of Portland, Oregon, although I saw a message board posting from someone who lived there and wanted to know which suburb it was in (the general impression was that he had not heard about it).
The game was reportedly made by a company called Sinneslöchen, which is German for sense deleting.
The game was "abstract in design with fast action and puzzle elements".
The real point about the game is the effect it had on players. Supposedly, people who played would suffer amnesia, supposedly forgetting the way home and sometimes their own name. Also, players would wake up at night screaming from terrifying nightmares.
Apparently an owner of an arcade which had a machine witnessed men in black style people turn up regularly to retrieve "play statistics and other records" from the coin-op. Also, "The mysterious collectors failed to take the coin earnings, nor did they seem interested in or recognize any monetary potential that is usually associated with such devices."
The children who played it gave up video games and one became an ardent anti-games campaigner.
Polybius was a Greek guy who dabbled in crytography (this is known, and not a rumour, silly), and putting "Polybius" into the decrypter at www.oneacross.com comes out with a whole bunch of words which appear to "support the story". I've done it, you can check it out at the link below, but if you can't be bothered, the words are things like "children", "problems".. I suppose if you look at it in the right light then it's odd, but I'm sure you could get "odd" results with any word.
This would all be considered to be bullshit, except for two points.. the ROM and the screenshot. Supposedly a ROM has appeared, and apparently if you load it in an emulator it freezes on the title screen before letting out a "weird noise". Also, a screenshot of the title screen has appeared, and can be found from the coinop.org link below. The ROM apparently has text in it like "insert coin", "press 1 player start" and "only", and so the only thing that has been confirmed is that it's a 1 or 2 player game. It's "supported in MAME, but not officially", which is a handy way of explaining why all the big mame sites like mame.dk don't have any mention of it, and why MAME will not spit out the CRC32 values for it when the command (-listinfo or something) to create a dat file is made, and that's also why MAME32 doesn't show it under "all games". Paul and antibasic at www.edgeemu.com claim that they have the ROM, but mame.dk has the policy that only contributors can access ROMs for all the systems. Since the full MAME set includes this ROM according to them, you need to contribute $30 or more to the site to get to it.
The screenshot looks... well, like nothing much. I daresay I could've made it in MSPaint if I'd tried. It is simply "Polybius" on a black background, with "(c) 1981 Sinneslöchen inc." and "0 credit". One poster said putting it in Photoshop and turning up the brightness would expose artifacts indicating a fake, but another poster said that happened on any screenshot you cared to try it with.
Malcster debunks rumour and saves day. Gets home in time for tea.
And there we have it. What with all the smoke and mirrors, and stuff that just sounds not even slightly believable (hoards of people confirming the story and saying they have screenshots to email in... Although no further screenshots have been displayed on the site) it's hard to get a really clear picture, but I have to say there are an amazing number of points that with no research I can smack on the head right now.
Paul from Edge Emu says it's "supported in MAME, but not officially". Well, the problem is, MAME is open source. If there is any code in MAME that plays Polybius, then it will have been added by Nicola Salmoria, because all the changes to the main source are up to him. And he will know who wrote it. I invite anyone to come along with some source code of the driver which supports Polybius. I would download the source, but I am confident of it not being there, else at least one of the Mamedev team would be able to shed some light on this situation. Which brings me to my next point.
"It boots but freezes at the title screen"? I'm sorry, I'm not claiming to be an emulation expert, but this much I know. As far as arcade emulation goes, you need to have a fair bit of knowledge about what hardware the game was run on - CPU at least. Without knowing that, how does it even boot?
The "wanted prototypes for dumping" page at http://targets.mame.net doesn't mention it, so they are clearly not goin all out to find it, and they are some of the most knowledgeable arcade games people around.
The ROM that exists is almost certainly a fake ROM. I am not exactly sure of my opinion as to whether the game itself used to exist, but if the ROM does exist, and is "unofficially supported in MAME", then how come all we have is one grainy title screenshot, which uses the font that Williams used to use? If and when someone appears with a ROM that doesn't appear to have been faked (although even the fake ROM is unfindable), I might take notice. Until then, I say that it is undumped and unemulated.
Whether it existed in the first place, well, that's a little harder to write off straight away. If it seems a little odd to you that a "small Portland suburb" would have a dozen arcades, well, that's another point that doesn't quite add up. Sure, I live in the UK, where everything from our cars to our shops are smaller than the US, but jesus, how big is a small suburb of Portland? I can't believe that it would be big enough to have 12 arcades... And obviously the reluctance of anyone to name a suburb is very suspicious.
About the men in black, well, if I was an arcade operator and some people came in and started pulling reams of printouts (or whatever) from a machine of mine, I'd probably go and do something. I mean when you see someone open an arcade machine, you'd think they would be doing it to get the money, and you wouldn't just stand around doing nothing. Besides, you'd probably notice the huge number of kids coming up to the change desk and saying "'scuse me mister, but I can't remember where I live".
Overall, I'd say that on the evidence currently available, I don't think the game existed. Prank Hoax. Urban Legend. Lie. Bullshit. The fact that so many people claim to have played it and "I HAVE MANY SCREENSHOTS" while no new shots appear is just far too ridiculous to believe. Maybe someone will come along with a working machine and prove me wrong, but I doubt it. The "Sense deleting" company name is just the kind of in joke I would put in if I was going to start a weird hoax like this, and the amnesia / men in black thing is just like the plot of a bad B-movie. The other thing which is weird is that it all appears to have appeared very recently - message board posts that I found were predominantly this year or last year. If it was there, giving people amnesia in 1981, then how the hell has no one said anything till 20 years later?
The clincher for me is this "Anti-games crusader" who became so after playing the game. Well, I know we have a lot of anti games crusaders... but surely if one of them had the ultimate proof that games were bad "I used to play this game once, and it gave me and everyone else who tried it nightmares!!" they would be spouting it out constantly. That kind of stuff is priceless for people who want to get games banned - just line up a bunch of these people who all got amnesia from it, and have them tell the world about it, and you win. The claim made by a site that they "contacted a person who met (the anti games crusader)" is ludicrous - I want to know this person's name, and why exactly he hasn't managed to get games banned in 22 years (I'm sure with that kind of evidence I could do it faster than you can forget your way home).
It would be nice to believe this, but if you look at the people seriously into arcade emulation, they are not asking for dumps or requesting that people contact them with information. They don't think it's anything more than a prank which has managed to go on for a hell of a long time. I have to say I agree with them, and until any further information comes to light (I'm not holding my breath) I think we can all rest easy, and rack up those high scores without fear of G-men coming round to collect information on us.
And to the person who started the hoax? Well, I have to congratulate you. You definitely did it right, even down to making a fake ROM. Your professionalism should be an example to aspiring bullshitters the world over. Especially nice touch on the german. But you failed to fool the people who really know what they're on about... so better luck next time.
UPDATE!! - McCritical saves day even more. Gets home before malcster.
HUGE thanks to McCritical who just messaged me a very interesting link:
http://vimm.net/cgi-bin/bbs/messages/900.htm
As any relatively mild arcade geek might know, Tempest was originally a game where the tubes rotated and the player's "claw" stayed still. This was changed after it caused motion sickness to the tubes being stationary and the claw rotating, and apparently the Polybius name was just a prototype for Tempest. "Sense deleting" refers to a lead coders Herculean alcohol consumption. Someone clearly took the stories of a prototype game in Oregon causing motion sickness and added a load of Men in Black for good measure, before faking a ROM.
Although this is obviously not officially confirmed from Atari, it does seem incredibly likely. I guess that's a solved mystery then... a pity, because it did all seem kind of cool as a conspiracy theory. I guess we'll all have to find something else to be paranoid about.
Did anyone else hear that?
Cheers to Servo5678 for a correction, and MASSIVE thanks to McCritical for clearing the story up by giving me the Vimm's link.
http://coinop.org/g.aspx/103223/Polybius.html
http://www.vimm.net/cgi-bin/bbs/messages/632.htm
http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Videogame%20Urban%20Legend%20-%20Polybius.html
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00BGSu
http://forums.edgeemu.com/viewtopic.php?p=24773&highlight=polybius#24773
http://www.oneacross.com/cgi-bin/crypto.cgi?r=+Suggest+&sender=&c=POLYBIUS&h10POLYBIUS=on&s10POLYBIUS=
* - as in conspiracy theories. not as in arcade shooting game.
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