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1700's to 1800's
During the mid 1700's, men known as the Long Hunters" explored and hunted in the Middle Tennessee region. They were usually gone from their home for more than a year at a time, to hunt and collect pelts and other animal products, then they would go to Natchez to sell their goods. It is known that the Long Hunters used the Mississippi River system to get their products to Natchez, but it is undocumented how they got back to their homes in the Tennessee country. But it is widely assumed that the Long Hunters marched back overland along the Trace. If this is true, they would have been the first Americans to use the Natchez Trace as a road for business.
The earliest documented American travelers of the trace were the people of the Kentucky and Tennessee river valleys known as "Kaintucks" or flatboatmen. At this time, the only market place for the mountain settlers of Tennessee and Kentucky to sell their goods was Natchez, the oldest city on the Mississippi River.. To get to market, the farmer or mountainman had to build a flatboat, load it with his produce and pelts, and float it down the Ohio, Cumberland and Mississippi rivers. Once there, and the goods sold, the Kaintucks would break up their flatboat, sell it for lumber or even abandon it if necessary, since it was impractical to try returning by the river against its flow. If the farmer or mountainmen had made a good sale, they might buy a horse for their return trip. If the sale was bad, they would return on foot. In any case, in those early years, the return route home used most often was the old Natchez Road as the Trace was known at this time.
The 450 mile journey from Natchez to Nashville took fifteen to twenty day. It was these return trips that later made the Natchez Trace famous (or rather infamous would better describe it). Robbers, and outlaws, known as highwaymen, were common on the Natchez Trace. Since the Mississippi Territory was where travelers with money were, the highwaymen ended up there also. The Trace attracted large numbers of the lawless who survived by stealing and killing boatmen and other travelers. There are many stories of murders along the Natchez Trace. Tales of travelers being robbed, killed, then disemboweled, their body cavities filled with stones, and then the bodies submerged in some nameless creek were heard throughout the area.
Natchez was an important military and economic site in the early 1800's, so communication between Natchez and Washington, D.C., was needed, and necessary for all. In 1800 Congress extended mail service to Natchez. The Postmaster General complained that it was a bad road, no more than an Indian footpath, and too treacherous to use. In 1801, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the army to clear the road for the new postal route. Army troops cleared underbrush and built bridges. In 1806, Congress gave the Postmaster General $6000 to contract outside the army for improvements, and within a short time the old Indian trail became an important frontier road. Inns, or "stands", as they were called, began popping up every few miles along the Trace. Stands were operated by both Indians and whites, and offered food and lodging to the weary traveler By 1818, there were 50 stands and trading posts along the Trace from Natchez to Bear Creek on the Alabama border.
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0.039691 | <urn:uuid:3f486981-6c46-475d-8762-0eca75d1ed5a> | en | 0.914255 | When I browse to a question page, one of the requests doesn't complete as times out after 2 minutes. Looking at the source it looks like it's a <script>. This blocks/delays some of the JavaScript on the page. The rest of the page renders properly and I can see all the questions & answers, but the browser 'busy' spinner is still there.
For instance for question: Is svn global ignore recursive?
The request to: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/7599489/ivc/c30c times out after 2 mins.
I happens on all my browsers (IE8, FF 7.01, Chrome 14).
Note: We have a very strict proxy here which tries to strip out ads, spam and social networking sites.
EDIT: I have attached a screenshot from Firebug of the offending request:
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Can't repro, page loads fine. Try without your proxy. – Mat Nov 4 '11 at 10:26
No repro. I can't even find the file you mentioned, can you please point us to the exact resource? Screenshots of Firebug (or similar, showing the timed out request) are welcome, too. – Time Traveling Bobby Nov 4 '11 at 10:27
FYI, it's not even a JavaScript file, so it not loading should not cause any issues with the interface. – lunboks Nov 4 '11 at 10:52
lunbocks - As I said below, all JavaScript execution is blocked until the 2 minutes is up. Meaning that I can't for instance comment on something until it's timed out. Also - the syntax highlighting and the orange background highlighting the current answer remains that colour until the 2 minutes are up. – Phil Peace Dec 5 '11 at 14:07
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That request returns a HTTP 204 No Content. While that's perfectly legal, some broken proxies are known to choke on that. My guess is that's what happens in your environment.
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I think that's most likely the case. Because it's trying to download a <script> JavaScript is blocked until it times out. – Phil Peace Nov 4 '11 at 11:00
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0.037981 | <urn:uuid:cbf05eb4-7653-4d26-a534-ccba271ffa8f> | en | 0.973659 | « Panthers Start their Purge: Dominic Moore to Montreal ... Rostislav Olesz IN | Main | Louie, Louie: Roberto Luongo Likes The Billboard Apparently »
Randy Randy Sexton just told us that he is hoping to get more deals done before the 3 p.m. mini deadline set tomorrow.
He said that no player -- including Tomas Vokoun -- is off limits in the trade talks. He has not spoken to anyone regarding waiving their no trade clauses.
A source close to Vokoun said the goalie would not waive his no trade at the current time despite the team's struggles on and off the ice. That could change post Olympics, however.
Sexton also said Rostislav Olesz is not on bench just to show people that he might be OK.
"This is the first move of the process to retool our team,'' Sexton said during the first intermission. "We need to make more moves, need to be better. We're working on a variety of things. .-.-. I think it speaks to the player Dominic is. He's a good serviceable guy.I told him when I called him that I thought he would fit in well with Jacques. He likes players with speed, guys who are smart. He has unique skills, good on face offs, good penalty killer. Those things are important to Jacques.
"From our perspective, we need to add depth. Converting a UFA guy we signed for nothing into a second round pick is something we need to do. There's going to be more things happening I hope.
"The time is ticking. We're working on a variety of things, the discussions have really picked up in the past 72 hours. We'll see. Deadlines cause people to focus.''
Randy also said the second round pick could be in play as part of a bigger deal. "Absolutely,'' he said.
-- "Whether we're buyers or sellers, we have to retool this team.''
Anyone off limits? "No.''
Even Tomas Vokoun? "There's no player off limits. There are players we'd like to keep, but at the end of the day Wayne Gretzky was traded. We have to get better and get our team to the point where we want it to be. Sometimes you have to make hard decisions.''
At least Sexton is FINALLY doing something about this team. Let's hope that the owners are not meddling in these trades.
P.S. The save of the game for tonight's game should go to the goal post! How many times can the Panthers hit the post? 1,2,3,4,5!
Talk is cheap
yes im glad he has motivation and i love his energy i just hope he keeps booth horton weiss reinprecht frolik kulikov and re tool everyone else get rid of guys like kreps olesz campbell lanky bryan allen and mccabe even seidenberg especially stillman , if i was him i would go after sam ganger and souray from edmonton like give them cambell mcabe stillman and a draft pick that would help add some grit and some youthful energy!!! and through repik on a line with gagner and frolik in there would be a good line!! and trade kreps and allen for voracek from nashville! and get rid of vokoun i no hes good but markstrom is going to fill his role hopfully next year anyways ??? and im sure they could get a superstar (isnt mike green a free agent at the end of this year?) i no washington is looking for a goalie!! those all sound like good ideas ??? what are your thoughts guys? hopefully sexton will read this !!!! i dont care what happens just get my fav team to the playoffs pleassssssssssse been way to long nine years! they just need a character player to get some energy going look what phaneuf brought to toronto!!
Another smoke and mirror show presented by Yormark.Wow I am so excited about my true blue reward gift from the panthers.So they get rid of the one player that shoots the puck and is a true gritty NHL er and they blame him for the lousy penalty killing.Sexton is a puppet for Yormark/cohen.Seriously thinking of letting them keep my first 1/4 renewal payment and cancelling renewal.This group makes me sick after 5 years of watching them.Guess it is time for another closed door meeting.
we need to overhall the front office.
everyone knew coming into this season we did not have enough scoring and we do nothing then just 2 weeks ago Sexton says he likes the make up of this team
how can you trust a guy whose claim to fame is drafting and overpaying Alexandre Daige
how can you trust that a front office will do the right thing when they put more resources into marketing the team then into scouting for assets for the team?
How can you trust an organization that has its GM reporting to a person that knows nothing about hockey (Yormark)
How can you trust an organization that gets rid of its best announcer and says it is because he is not here during the off season then the same organization does no marketing during the off season when everyone knows it was for money
How can you trust an organization whose web page talks about the great job its GM did in building the foundation of Ottawa when everyone elwse talks about how bad Ottawa was when Sexton was fired
how can you trust an organization that signs a player for 2 years that no one wants because he is Finnish
how can you trust an organization when every free agent signing brings character and leadership and helps with our scoring problem and that free agent ends up like all the others
how can you trust an organization that has only had one season in its history where they won a playoff series?
which Yormark has done the most harm to his organization the panthers Yormark or the NJ Nets Yormark
I would rather get rid of our players and come in last than see this crap every year, atleast we would get a star with the #1 overall pick. We NEED a Bure.
how can you say that we will get a star with the #1 overall pick when the panthers have had the overall number 1 pick 4 times and the only player to pan out that played for the panthers was Jovocop.
We have a GM who had the overall #1 pick with Ottawa and blew that.
We have traded the overall #1 pick 3 times and it was a mistake all three times
until you overhaul the front office nothing will change
Good luck with that one.
The guys at the very top aren't likely to step down because a fan was whining on the internets. Grow up....
taylor hall sweepstakes!
Good posts above. Yes, a #1 pick would be great, but can we really trust our management?
I wish Randy could get rid of Stillman and Reinprecht, both of which who are signed to multi-year deals. Take their salary and spend it on someone who can score some goals.
If Randy can't trade Kreps and Campbell, who are RFA's, then don't offer them qualifying offers after the season is over. Cut the cord man!
sexton get Ryder from boston !!!!!!!!!!
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Staff reports Modified: February 9, 2014 at 7:05 am • Published: February 9, 2014
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The women's Olympic curling tournament is shaping up as more than just a fight for gold. It's also a battle of the generations.
In one corner is the modern face of curling, 23-year-old team captains Eve Muirhead of Britain and Anna Sidorova of Russia. Both are as much at home in a photo shoot or with sports psychologists as they are out on the ice.
In the other corner are battle-hardened veterans Jennifer Jones of Canada, Erika Brown of the United States and Mirjam Ott of Switzerland, rival skips aged 39 to 42 trying to keep pace with the youngsters and the growing professionalism in the sport.
The next two weeks will determine where the power lies in curling.
"There is a new generation coming through," said the 42-year-old Ott, who is taking time off from her bank job in Lenzburg, Switzerland, to compete in Sochi. "They curl and do nothing else anymore.
"We still have our jobs but we have the advantage of our experience — you still have good chances even if you are a little bit older."
The contrast in generations will be most stark when the U.S. takes on Britain on Tuesday in their second games of the round-robin stage.
In Ann Swisshelm, the U.S. has a 45-year-old player who is the oldest member of her country's vast Olympic contingent. Britain's equivalent in the lead position — the player who throws the team's first two stones — will be Claire Hamilton, who is less than half Swisshelm's age.
"I love that we play a sport that's pretty forgiving to age," Swisshelm said. "I think very few sports in the world are like that."
Don't think for one minute, however, that Swisshelm and other members of the older generation aren't embracing curling's new era. Gone are the days of the 1980s when curlers used to fire up a cigarette during competition and could barely do a sit-up.
Muirhead, for example, spends as much time lifting weights as she does throwing rocks. As full-time athletes backed by government and lottery funding of 5 million pounds ($8.2 million) over an Olympic cycle, the British have sports psychologists and strength and conditioning coaches. They are current world champions and favorites for gold in Sochi.
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Oklahoma's small to mid-sized oil and natural gas producers are known for being fiercely independent, but cooperation may be necessary to develop new oil fields.
By Adam Wilmoth Modified: November 30, 2012 at 9:12 am • Published: November 30, 2012
The oil and natural gas industry largely is made up of small, fiercely independent companies.
While those firms often work together to drill and produce multi-million-dollar wells, they also tend to maintain a strong sense of competition and distrust.
Competition can be especially fierce as companies vie for the best leases and for access to critical infrastructure, such as power lines, pipelines and access to market.
While heightened competition may work in some parts of the oil patch, the Mississippi Lime play of northern Oklahoma and western Kansas apparently requires more cooperation.
Three times over the past two weeks, I've heard industry leaders talk about the need to work together in the Mississippi Lime, one of the newest and higher-potential oil fields in the country.
Stretching up to about 20 million acres, the play has attracted the country's largest independent producers and the state's smaller and mid-size operators.
The land grab essentially is over, and producers are now testing drilling and completion techniques to get the most oil and natural gas out of the ground.
Because the play is so new and still largely untapped, cooperation is especially critical, said Robert Sullivan, owner of Tulsa-based Sullivan and Co. and chairman of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association.
“We should all make available to the industry our drilling, completion and production data on a more open and timely basis,” Sullivan said Wednesday at the Mississippi Lime Congress in Oklahoma City. “The faster we learn how best to drill, produce and complete the Mississippi rock, the sooner we will realize the rewards on our respective lease blocks and the greater those rewards will be.”
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The Los Angeles Dodgers received a real shot in the arm when hard-hitting outfielder Kirk Gibson signed a free agent contract prior to the 1988 season. Gibson hit 25 homers and drove in 76 runs that summer, stats that pale in comparison to today’s sluggers, but it was Gibson’s team that went all the way. Gibson hated to lose, he played in pain, he played hard every inning of every game, and he saw to it that his teammates did, too. A look at the Dodgers’ offensive numbers begs the question, How did these guys finish in first place? The answer can be summarized in the words of the late, great Connie Mack, who once said, “pitching is 90 percent of the game.”
Dodger tradition was carried on by a corp of hard-throwing horses who gave them a lot of innings. Tim Belcher brought high heat, going 12-6 with a 2.91 e.r.a. U.C.L.A.’s Tim Leary finished 17-11, also with a 2.91 e.r.a.
With all due respect for Gibson, who won the award, the Most Valuable Player in the National League that year was pitcher Orel Hershisher. A fine pitcher over his career, explaining exactly what got into him that year is surely beyond my expertise. He had one of those “mystery seasons,” like Dean Chance in 1964, or Ron Guidry in 1978; guys with solid ability who for one year are absolutely untouchable.
That was Orel. By mid-season, he was having a good year, but Cincinnati left-hander Danny Jackson was the frontrunner for the Cy Young award. Then Hershisher started throwing shutouts. A bio-mechanics expert might point to finger pressure, release point, the muscles and tendons in his right arm, but whatever it was, you cannot bottle it. The baseball’s Hershisher threw had extraordinary spin, delivered three-quarter arm, creating a terrific sinking action so that wood bats meeting one of his natural sinkers had the effect seemingly of meeting up with a shot-put. Hershisher would throw a sinker to a right-handed hitter that would break in with the same kind force as a slider from a southpaw like Carlton. The utterly unexplainable aspect of it all was that no matter how much movement the ball had, Hershisher could throw it for pinpoint corner strikes in such way as to make pitching seem the easiest activity in the world.
For the last two months of the regular season it went on like that, and when it was over, Hershisher had thrown 59 straight scoreless innings, breaking Don Drysdale’s Major League record. If anybody had any doubt that Hershisher and his club were a team of destiny, Orel’s final start at San Diego would remove all questions. He needed 10 innings for the record, so it appeared that he would have to pitch a shutout, then wait until 1989 to break the mark. Naturally, after nine innings the score was conveniently tied at 0-0, allowing Hershisher to pitch a scoreless tenth, breaking the record en route to a 23-8 record and the Cy Young award.
The 94-67 Dodgers hosted the 102-victory Mets in the Championship Series opener, and the New Yorkers were already talking about playing the vaunted Oakland A’s in the World Series. For eight innings, Hershisher’s sinker was insane. He could knock the eyelash off a fly at 60 feet, six inches, and led 2-0. In the ninth, New York scored three times against relievers and won it. If ever a team should have been mentally beaten, it was the Dodgers, but the Blue Crew won game two. Hershisher started the third game, left leading in the seventh, but again the bullpen blew it. In a pivotal game four, Mike Scioscia belted a two-run game-tying homer off Dwight Gooden at Shea Stadium, followed by Gibson’s twelfth inning blast to win it, 5-4. Series M.V.P. Hershisher was as good as good can be in the 6-0 game seven clincher at Dodger Stadium. Few pitchers have so dominated good hitters in such important games: Koufax vs. the Twins in ’65, Gibson striking out 17 Tigers in ’68, and now Orel Hershisher.
Despite Jose Canseco’s first inning grand slam for Oakland in World Series’ game one, L.A. did not have an ounce of quit, and trailed only 4-3 in the ninth against ace closer Dennis Eckersley. With two out and none on, Mike Davis somehow drew a walk against the control expert Eck. How Eckersley managed to throw four wide ones against the non-threat Davis remains, like much of that season, a mystery.
Gibson had a bum knee, his career was effectively already over, but he was called on to pinch-hit. Why did Lasorda not use him sooner, like when Davis was up there with two outs, and it was now-or-never? For whatever reason, and that year the reasons just added up right, Tommy waited. Eckersley dominated Gibby up to a two-strike count, his moving, blazing fastball almost knocking the bat out of Kirk’s hands. The ball Gibson hit out of the park to win it was almost in the dirt. The same hand of destiny that controlled Hershisher’s 10-inning breaking of Drysdale’s record somehow lifted, golf swing-style, that baseball into the right field pavilion.
The rest, of course, was quite predictable at that point. On Sunday night, Hershisher threw a three-hit shutout. By this time, just getting a hit off the man almost seemed worthy of headlines the same size as, say “KENNEDY MURDER SOLVED.”
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I've installed the Intel Compiler 11.1 on my Mac (Snow Leopard) in order to use AVX instructions.
It compiles ok.
Then I've looked for a Intel Software Develoment Emulator for Mac, but it is only available for Windows and Intel.
So I thought that it would be possible to run my program with the Intel Debugger using the command linebut it fails as soon as a avx instruction comes. It says: "Program received signal SIGILL".
I'm actually wondering if this debugger really handles the avx instructions, because it doesn't seem to do so.
How thus can I emulate the avx instructions on a Mac machine?
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We released our first mac version today: 5.31. It works with OS X versions 10.6 and 10.7. We have 10.8 support in development.
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'I am rarely shocked by my own performance,' Michael Johnson says as he looks back on his record-shattering 200-meter run. 'And I'm shocked'
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There was a delay. The officials had escorted the Olympic men's 200-meter finalists to their marks a few extra minutes before the scheduled start of the race, so Michael Johnson, warm and grim, sat on the box with the number 3 on it that marked his lane. His mustache was perfectly shaved. If he was nervous, it had not affected his razor hand.
Throughout the stadium, people called his name, screaming, "Michaelllll!" as if he were their last thought as they fell from a burning building. He no longer heard them. In this unwonted moment the whole shape of his mission was suddenly clear to him.
He was back in Barcelona, four years earlier, mortifyingly weak from his famous case of food poisoning. He was watching the final of this race, the 200, which he, the prohibitive favorite, had not even made. He was taking an oath.
The fates may have taunted him—a man to whom control is paramount, a man who plans against every possible hindrance—by slapping him with this freakish weakness, dashing his orderly dreams with something as unpredictable as a toxin in a revered restaurant's mixed grill. Well, so be it. If ever there was a man born to take revenge against the fates, it was Michael Johnson. He would return.
In 1996 he would employ the fury he was feeling to pursue a great 400-200 double, never accomplished by any man in any Olympics. So for the next four years he trained and raced to build and test the incredible sprint stamina needed to achieve that quest. He became the first man to rank first in the world in both distances in the same year. He became the first to break both 44 seconds in the 400 and 20 seconds in the 200, the first to win that double at the world championships.
For years he had seemed capable of world records in both events, yet he didn't set one until his 19.66 in this year's Olympic trials because achieving the double—with its eight races in five days, its premium on raw durability rather than pure speed—was more vital to him. He came to Atlanta and won the Olympic 400 in a near record 43.49, moving halfway to that precious double, and felt he had energy left to spend. He stood on the 400 victory stand, exultant, yes, but primarily relieved. "I had always been afraid," he said, "of ending my career without having won an individual gold medal." (He had a relay gold from '92.) Now that fear was stilled.
In Atlanta there were no unhinging interventions of fate. In fact, after the 400, Johnson's main worry was making sure he held the flag right-side-up on his victory lap. "Everything was going to plan," he said. "No surprises. I was surprised there were no surprises. The Centennial Park bombing was tragic, but the way the athletes and city responded and were able to acknowledge Alice Hawthorne's death and feel sympathy for her daughter and come back, it was all so positive, it made performance even more important."
The first two rounds of the 200 exacted a price. Johnson's left Achilles tendon was aching. The tendon behind his left knee, already sore coming into the Games, was worse, and he needed repeated adjustment of his sacroiliac joint.
"Since the 200 is more intense attack sprinting, I woke up the day of the semi and final with my whole body sore," Johnson said. He put it out of mind. "In what I like to call the danger zone, there are certain unimportant things you block out."
He won his semifinal in 20.27, coasting in, then watched Namibia's Frankie Fredericks win his semi in 19.98. In Oslo on July 5, Fredericks had beaten Johnson over 200 meters, and in Atlanta on July 27 had run a 9.89 to take the silver in the Olympic 100 behind Canada's Donovan Bailey, who set a world record of 9.84. The danger was clear.
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Problems getting XML content via https using SimpleXML and PHP
I have the URL:
Which loads a file like this one:
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What error are you seeing? – bcmcfc Aug 9 '12 at 14:02
According to this page, you need openssl enabled. Do you have it enabled? (And please don't repeat a question, move back to your older one) – Alvin Wong Aug 9 '12 at 14:13
Please do not duplicate questions. Instead, edit your previous one. – hakre Aug 9 '12 at 16:04
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probably an answer here: (if protocol is the issue)
file_get_contents with https?
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Yes it was the extension=php_openssl.dll that needed to be activated in my php.ini thanks!! – user1482082 Aug 9 '12 at 14:14
This is more a comment than an answer. Just saying, it's not your fault that OP is rather unspecific. – hakre Aug 9 '12 at 16:07
Duplicates should not be posted as answer. You have comments and flags for that. – kapa Aug 10 '12 at 8:40
i wasn't aware of it... I can't delete and make only a comment as it's an accepted answer. – N4553R Aug 10 '12 at 8:45
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Have you tried simplexml_load_file, I tested it's working for me
$xml = simplexml_load_file('https://www.casapilot.com/api/1/accommodations/calendar.xml?auth_token=hyXHjP8QdrRuX8q3FsbC&id[]=1049165');
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But presumably file_get_contents() would also work for you? – w3d Aug 9 '12 at 16:44
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This is my first time working with node.js and I am trying to use express.io to save cookies.
I have literally carbon copied the tutorial ( https://github.com/techpines/express.io/tree/master/examples#sessions ) but I only receive this error:
root@server1 [/nodeexample]# node server.js
//Result after First Page Load
{ touch: [Function],
resetMaxAge: [Function],
save: [Function],
reload: [Function],
destroy: [Function],
regenerate: [Function],
name: 'test',
feelings: 'test' }
//Result after refresh
expires = 'string' == typeof sess.cookie.expires
TypeError: Cannot read property 'expires' of undefined
at /nodeexample/node_modules/express.io/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/session/memory.js:46:47
at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)
Edit: I have the main server file in /nodeexample and the client script in: /home/mysite/public_html/nodetest
I did notice the app.get does not seem to be getting called. the final alert comes back as Also, you joined undefined
The error does not appear until the second refresh, and it seems as if it does work originally.
The Code I have is:
express = require('express.io')
app = express().http().io()
// Setup your sessions, just like normal.
app.use(express.session({secret: 'monkey'}))
// Session is automatically setup on initial request.
req.session.loginDate = new Date().toString()
// Setup a route for the ready event, and add session data.
app.io.route('ready', function(req) {
req.session.name = req.data
req.session.save(function() {
// Send back the session data.
app.io.route('send-feelings', function(req) {
req.session.feelings = req.data
req.session.save(function() {
req.io.emit('session', req.session)
<script src="http://localhost:7076/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:7076');
// Emit ready event.
socket.emit('ready', prompt('What is your name?'))
// Listen for get-feelings event.
socket.on('get-feelings', function () {
socket.emit('send-feelings', prompt('How do you feel?'));
// Listen for session event.
socket.on('session', function(data) {
message = 'Hey ' + data.name + '!\n\n'
message += 'Server says you feel '+ data.feelings + '\n'
message += 'I know these things because sessions work!\n\n'
message += 'Also, you joined ' + data.loginDate + '\n'
I am not sure if I am missing a dependency or not? I loaded it with npm install express.io
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Why is the app.get part of the server commented out? what page is the client loading if there is no route? – Benjamin Kaiser Oct 20 '13 at 4:40
I updated my question, I had tried this with the app.get commented out and having it added. I had assumed the node server should not be in the public_html folder since people would be able to access the scripts. I am still brand new to node.js and am trying to learn how it is all suppose to work. I assume its something very straightforward I am doing wrong. – Corey Oct 20 '13 at 19:03
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OK, so I figured it out finally, Ben led me on the right direction and it was due to the app.get function. It was a miss understanding of where the client file was suppose to be.
The req.sendfile will actually send the html to the port when it is opened. I had the client file in public_html of my website where instead it should have been in the node server folder.
This way when you go to www.whateveryoursiteis.com:7076 it would load it load the html client for you.
Run: node /node/server.js
Load: www.yoursite.com:7076
I figured this was a pretty simple mistake, this answer might help another newbie on his way
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Glad I could help :) – Benjamin Kaiser Oct 20 '13 at 23:23
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I have a timer app which uses a NSTimer to track minutes. How can I keep the timer going, even when the device is put into sleep mode? Thanks!
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You need to update your question with information about why you think you need the timer to keep going when the device is asleep. Most likely there is a better solution but it depends on what you need this for. – rmaddy Nov 24 '13 at 17:27
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Adjust After Wake Notification
Scheduled NSTimer instances will halt during sleep. Your application needs to respond to the NSWorkspace's wake notification and adjust its timers.
If you do not respond to wake notifications, your timers will resume but without accounting for the time spent asleep.
See Apple's technical note QA1340 Registering and unregistering for sleep and wake notifications for getting the appropriate notifications.
Consider this situation:
• Create a timer to trigger in 5 minutes
• Wait 1 minute
• Put the computer to sleep for an hour
• Wake the computer
• The timer resumes upon waking
• The timer triggers 4 minutes after waking
From the timer's perspective, five minutes has passed by. Note the language used by NSTimer, it uses relative durations rather than absolute times, scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:invocation:repeats:.
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What happens if I don't respond to wake notifications, as I am doing now? – PanicDev Nov 24 '13 at 16:54
Your timer will resume but not account for the time spent asleep. – Graham Miln Nov 25 '13 at 11:30
Could I use something like NSDate to track and add the time spent asleep? – PanicDev Nov 25 '13 at 15:01
Yes, NSDate is the recommended way to get the current date and time. You will need to reschedule your timer after wake. – Graham Miln Nov 25 '13 at 19:01
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Take a look at this class, which handles sleep/wake for you with the "Hourglass" behavior: https://github.com/jmah/MyLilTimer
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<script type = "text/javascript">
var counter = 0;
function AddFileUpload() {
var div = document.createElement('DIV');
function RemoveFileUpload(div) {
$(document).ready(function () {
<br /><br />
<div id = "FileUploadContainer">
<br />
<br />
For i As Integer = 0 To Request.Files.Count - 1
Dim PostedFile As HttpPostedFile = Request.Files(i)
If PostedFile.ContentLength > 0 Then
Dim FileName As String = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(PostedFile.FileName)
End If
End Sub
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Your question is a bit confusing.. But by the things that i have understood from your question. i would say if u have problem of adding forms into your content form u can remove form from the master page and then u have to add forms to each content form you will add.
Bu if you want multiple forms in your page u can do so by making only one form visible at a time.
But see to it that the form is in another placeholder from the one which already had form in it. Question is a bit confusing but hope i was able to give u solution ...
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no what i mean what i not able to save the image – actKing Feb 3 '12 at 8:14
what is the error that you are getting or there is no error message at all?... – RohitWagh Feb 3 '12 at 8:22
there no error, i update my code, basically i have a javascript which have a input that allow me to upload a file or image, but the problem, it seem like total skip the code inside – actKing Feb 3 '12 at 8:27
you understand what i mean? – actKing Feb 3 '12 at 8:33
Yes got your Problem. It seems like the JavaScript code creates the control on fly and is not adding it to the actual code (check in view source). Thus asp.net is not getting any thing to upload. – RohitWagh Feb 3 '12 at 8:47
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My standard procedure for writing mathematical email has been to use pidgin-LaTeX for some time now, and many of those I communicate with do the same. However, someone I know has recently started a few Unicode symbols for standard operations (arrows, etc) into the mix and this seems to greatly improve the readability.
When I've tried to do this, I spent a lot of time opening webpages looking for appropriate Unicode symbols and copy-pasting them. This roughly doubles my writing time. In an ideal world I could hit some kind of conversion button, or in a less ideal world I could put together a toolbar of commonly-used symbols.
Are there any methods for easily looking up some standard LaTeX symbols as Unicode, and further for doing so in an easily-accessible manner?
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This is one of the reason why I use the Neo keyboard layout which has Greek letters and all kinds of mathematical symbols on it (e.g. →,∞,⊗,∫,ℝ, etc.). – Caramdir Feb 19 '11 at 22:02
One might perhaps write a short search-replace script for doing so. – ipavlic Feb 19 '11 at 22:04
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Following on from ipavlic's comment to the main question, here's a script that I threw together for almost exactly this purpose:
It was actually for typing unicode into webpage text boxes rather than email. The link there goes to a working implementation (the difference between "submit" and "ajax" is that the ajax method builds up a list of all the ones that you've done, useful if you do the same one over and over again, whereas submit starts afresh each time). If you drop the '/utf.php' from the web address then you're left with the location of a BZR repository for the code so you can get it and mess around with it as you like.
There is allegedly an extension to detexify that will give you the unicode instead of the LaTeX symbol, but I haven't seen a working version of it so can't comment further.
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Thanks! One minor thing: I get an XML parse error for certain elements. It looks like the code on line 2248 should maybe end in symbols_one[$i] rather than symbols_one? – Tyler Lawson Feb 20 '11 at 2:23
@coarsemoduli: Absolutely correct - thanks for the bug report. Just shows how often I use that for things like \nabla! (I use it mainly for accented characters) (Fixed now) – Andrew Stacey Feb 20 '11 at 14:39
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You may hit M-x describe-input-method RET TeX RET in Emacs. Here is a fragment of what you get:
\"x ẍ \^h ĥ \~e ẽ \=\AE Ǣ \euro € \doteq ≐ \square □ \spadesuit ♠ \vartriangleleft ⊲
\"y ÿ \^i î \~i ĩ \=\ae ǣ \e{e} ė \equiv ≡ \subset ⊂ \subseteqq ⊆ \circlearrowright ↻
\'A Á \^j ĵ \~n ñ \={A} Ā \flat ♭ \frac1 ⅟ \succeq ≽ \subsetneq ⊊ \downrightharpoon ⇂
\'C Ć \^o ô \~o õ \={E} Ē \flqq « \frown ⌢ \supset ⊃ \supseteqq ⊇ \ntrianglerighteq ⋭
(By the way, this input method might be a nice way to actually type your emails - you type the TeX way, Emacs converts it to Unicode on the fly. And you don't have to use Emacs as your email client - even though it's a reasonable option - since you may configure it as an external editor in your MUA)
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For the record, this is what I ended up using: a combination of the "It's All Text" extension for Firefox with Emacs set up to input text files in TeX mode. It works well. I wish I still had AUCTeX shortcuts, and there are a few symbols that I miss (the \Bbb array of characters is a little thin). – Tyler Lawson Nov 22 '13 at 23:11
Nice. Why not use AUCTeX then? It's Emacs, after all, and you can configure it to your taste. You may either (a) assign some key binding to LaTeX-mode (which starts AUCTeX), or (b) configure "It's All Text" so that it starts Emacs in AUCTeX mode (I think at least that it should be possible, I don't use it (yet)). – mbork Nov 23 '13 at 9:47
And yet another thought: it's quite possible that Org-mode can export LaTeX markup to Unicode. And Org-mode is pretty awesome for lightweight markup (I personally use it sometimes to write emails, which I then copy to my email client. It' probably a shame I don't use Gnus, but I only have this much time to configure my stuff...). – mbork Nov 23 '13 at 9:50
So you can certainly turn AUCTeX mode on (I tried), but it turns out that, if you're not actually inputting the keystrokes, the shortcuts for \alpha etc don't have their text interpreted by tex-input-mode. This I'm less sure how to fix (I also only have so much time to configure my stuff). – Tyler Lawson Nov 23 '13 at 14:15
so far as Org-mode, I use that too. But my personal experience is that as the number of tools needed to write the email increases, the chance that I'll actually use them drops off sharply. – Tyler Lawson Nov 23 '13 at 14:17
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A tool for converting LaTeX to Unicode is available at
I’m guessing it’s similar to the script mentioned in Andrew Stacey's answer. However, in case you’re using Chrome, you can also download an extension from said site that lets you convert LaTeX to Unicode using just the context menu.
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Here's another Unicode <-> LaTeX conversion tool
Courtesy of John D. Cook
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The organic trend is catching on around Australia, particularly in beef production
Over the last two years Australian Certified Organics, the national accreditation body, recorded a 25 per cent increase in applications from beef producers wanting to register as organic.
Certification officer Matt Baker says market opportunities can make the transition an attractive concept for producers.
"The demand for exports of beef overseas particularly in the United States; there seems to be a strong market over there.
"China's the dark horse in this situation in terms of what it will turn out to be in the next few years."
He says the process of becoming organic is an easier transition for livestock producers.
"Compared to other industries like broad acre cropping and horticulture, because they are so low input operations there isn't a lot that they need to change.
"I think the evidence sort of speaks for itself in terms of what producers are seeing now, with the differentiation between pricing compared to conventional pricing," he says.
Matt Carter, a cattle and lamb producer from western New South Wales became certified organic eight years ago and says he hasn't looked back.
"I started getting quite sick from farm chemicals and I ended up at a naturopath who said I had to make a decision about my future as a farmer."
"The three years that it takes you to become certified are the toughest and I certainly think it takes a lot of time for the animals to adjust but it gets better every year."
He says stable market conditions are a significant benefit.
"It's just a consistent price, a fantastic grid and it's something you can say, next year all the steers and heifers that I sell will get that price."
Adelaide organic meat retailer, Enrico Aisielle says while consumer interest in organic products has risen some still don't know what it all means.
"I think it's a word that sounds good and a lot of customers now get confused with free range," he says.
"Even grass fed is being thrown around because it's trendy to use."
He says reaching consumers online through social media has exposed a growing trend.
"The enquiries coming in through that, because I've been able to reach more people, have increased by about 50 to 100 per cent over the last 6 months."
Topics: beef-cattle
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How Golf Is Like Urinating In A Restroom
1. Keep your back straight, knees bent, and feet shoulder-width apart. 2. Form a loose grip. 3. Keep your head down. 4. Avoid a quick backswing. 5. Stay out of the water. 6. Try not to hit anybody. 7. If you are taking too long, you should let others go ahead of you. 8. You shouldn't stand directly in front of others. 9. Be quiet while others are about to go. 10. Keep strokes to a minimum.
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A screwdriver walks into a bar and takes a seat up by the bartender. The bartender looks up at him with a puzzled look on his face. He leans closer to the screwdriver and says, "Hey buddy, you know we got a drink named after you in here." Suprised, the screwdriver looks up at the bartender and responds, "You got a drink named Carl?"
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Tasty Lawyer?
The scene is a dark jungle. Two tigers are stalking through the undergrowth in single file when the one to the rear reaches out with his tongue and licks the bottom of the tiger in front. The startled tiger turns around and says, "Hey! Cut it out, all right!" The rear tiger says, "Sorry," and they continue. After about another five minutes, the rear tiger again reaches out with his tongue and licks the bottom of the tiger in front. The front tiger turns around and cuffs the rear tiger and says, "I said stop it!" The rear tiger says, "Sorry," and they continue. After about another five minutes, the rear tiger once more licks the bottom of the tiger in front. The front tiger turns around and asks the rear tiger, "What is it with you, anyway?" The rear tiger replies, "Well, I just ate a lawyer and I'm trying to get the taste out of my mouth!"
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Joke N° 3990
The Horny Wife
Ivana has been married to Bart for a while now, yet she is so horny that every time her husband goes away on a business trip, she invites not one, not two, but three men to come over and play hide the snake. One time when her husband was leaving for a business trip, she had three men lined up to come over right away. However, this time Bart forgot his passport at home so he had to rush back as fast as he could. When Ivana heard the door open, she told all the men to hide somewhere. The first guy hid under the bed, the second in the closet and the third out on the balcony. Bart walks into the room and sees his wife standing naked and asks, "Ivana? Why are you naked?" She immediately claims that she was changing into her PJs for a quick nap. But then Bart hears something under the bed. He finds the first guy under the bed and exclaims, "Who the hell are you? And what are you doing here???" The guy pulls a fast one and says "I'm a carpenter, and your wife sent for me to come and fix the bed... it's fine now." Bart sighs and says, "Okay, how much do I owe you?" Bart gives the man $20, as he requested, and tells him to get the hell out of his sight. He then opens up the closet to get his passport from the drawer and sees yet another guy. "Who the hell are you???" he shouts. "Your wife sent me to come and fix the closet because it had some loose hinges on the inside," he proclaims. Bart just sighs it off again and says, "Okay, here's $20, now get the hell out of my sight!" While all this is going on, the man outside on the balcony is looking through the window and all he sees is Ivana's husband giving these guys some money. So wanting his share as well, he barges through the balcony door blurting, "I was sleeping with her too! I was sleeping with her too!"
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Joke N° 3992
Jesus To The Rescue
Jesus saw a crowd chasing down a woman to stone her and approached them. "What's going on here, anyway?" he asked. "This woman was found committing adultery and the law says we should stone her!" one of the crowd responded. "Wait," yelled Jesus, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Suddenly, a stone was thrown from out of the sky, and knocked the woman on the side of her head. "Aw, c'mon, Dad...," Jesus cried, "I'm trying to make a point here!"
Walter N.
Joke N° 3991
Counting Sheep
A blonde dyed her hair brown because she was tired of being picked on. She was driving along the countryside when she got a bright idea and stopped at a nearby farm. She said to the farmer: "If I can tell you how many sheep you have in total can I have one?" "Ok," said the farmer. So she quickly counted them and said 91. The farmer looked around astonished and said, "Alright take one." As she was walking back to her car the farmer said, "If I can guess your natural hair color can I have my dog back?"
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Founders Curmudgeon (Old Ale)Founders Curmudgeon (Old Ale)
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pDev: 11.22%
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Michigan, United States
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Old Ale | 9.80% ABV
Availability: Rotating
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Old ale brewed with molasses and oak-aged.
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Photo of ultralarry2006
1.18/5 rDev -70.6%
Poured from a 12 oz. bottle. Left a slight head that quickly dissappeared into just a ring at the edges. Body was medium brown.
Smell - bourbon, it actually smells like I've poured a glass of bourbon, not beer. It's really bad for me so far. Some diacetyl as well ( which I sort of expected, but not the bourbon ) .
Taste - bourbon, some diacetyl, more bourbon. Aftertaste of bourbon.
Mouthfeel - full, not smooth, low carbonation, alcohol astringency.
Drinkability - not at all. I do not like bourbon.
Serving type: bottle
05-30-2006 20:38:54 | More by ultralarry2006
Photo of mattcrill
1.2/5 rDev -70.1%
Stubby brown twist-off bottle. No useful label information.
Aroma: Bourbon, oak, and alcohol...this could be ugly for me.
Appearance: Cloudy brick red pour with a thin wispy white head. The head quickly fades to a perfect ring around the glass.
Flavor: Vanilla bean and oak. Gimme a break. No malts, hops, or anything that resembles a beer.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with light carbonation.
Overall impression: Drain pour. Glad I bought a single. Would someone please STOP the barrel-aging, over-oaked, over-bourboned silliness??? It's tired and it does nothing to showcase a brewer's talent or anything that fine beer ingredients can provide in terms of flavor. Avoid.
Serving type: bottle
05-28-2006 20:11:36 | More by mattcrill
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1.35/5 rDev -66.3%
This beer pours a very cloudy copper with no head or lace. The aroma is of grapefruit, caramel, and bread crust. The flavor leads with a bitter grapefruit smack, like an IPA, followed through with a cloying, sticky sweet caramel with a medicinal warmth in the finish. The mouthfeel is sticky and sickeningly sweet. Founders Curmudgeon (Old Ale) is a disappointing beer, not recommended.
Serving type: bottle
08-09-2012 23:06:48 | More by B967ierhunter177
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Quebec (Canada)
1.55/5 rDev -61.3%
Bottle: Poured a deep cloudy brown color ale with a small foamy head with small rings of lacing. Aroma is super sweet, almost disgustingly so with some notes of alcohol. Taste is a huge mess between some intense sweetness, oily texture with some cloying notes of alcohol. I couldnt find anything close to old ale but more of an American barleywine with some unbalance feature. I usually love product from this brewery but this beer did not profit from barrel-aging.
Serving type: bottle
11-28-2007 21:36:26 | More by Phyl21ca
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2.03/5 rDev -49.4%
As a fellow Michigander, I was disappointed by this beer. Founders makes some great beers, so this must be an anomaly. It poured a beautiful dark amber into my glass. It poured very dense, almost like syrup, which is very inviting. It foams up to 1 finger then dissipates down to a light, white lacing. Smells is of vanilla and raw coconut. The coconut flavor overwhelms the smell of the beer. Taste is a little better. Hops, then raw coconut and vanilla, followed by a heavy alcohol finish. Mouthfeel is heavy, but lightly carbonated. The coconut flavor of the beer was so strong that this beer is not drinkable. Perhaps this would be alot better if it were better balanced.
Serving type: bottle
12-27-2007 03:13:32 | More by wardough
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2.1/5 rDev -47.6%
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07-23-2009 07:58:32 | More by Arbitrator
Photo of bobhits
2.13/5 rDev -46.9%
cloudy thick dark amber. LARGE pieces of debree. Thin off white head.
Strong alcohol and malt explosion in the nose.
One dimensional beer. Strong malty flavor, carmel, off tasting candy, some hops in there just barely. Barrel aging can be great, but this one looses flavor and lacks complexity.
The mouth needs more carbonation, and well the flavor just doesn't ask to be consumed. The alcohol kicks fairly hard and doesn't work well for me.
This beer just either needs age or just is a rare strike for founders. I think most beer lovers will enjoy this beer, but it's just not up to par.
Serving type: bottle
09-17-2010 22:34:52 | More by bobhits
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New Jersey
2.17/5 rDev -45.9%
A - Pours an opaque dark sienna color with absolutely no head. If I really excite the beer - and I mean practically stick this sucker ion a paint shaker, then I get about a half finger of head. It will leave tiny specks of lacing on the glass.
S - Oak, butter, caramel malt, alcohol and vanilla - in that order.
T - A smokey sweet bourbon oak flavor meshed with a caramel malt. These have a lot of buttery diacetyl and a fair amount alcohol underneath.
M - Very thick, a little harsh and actually a little parching. (Can something be a little parching?) It has a buttery texture that coats my mouth with a film.
D - I'm not a fan, but it is something I can handle. It isn't a terribly unpleasant experience either. It just isn't for me. I won't have this again. The closest beer I can think to compare this to is Avery's Samael's Oak Aged Ale. This doesn't come close in pleasantness though, it lacks all the pleasant fruit flavors and has a shitload of butter. It also reminds me a bit of Weyerbacher's Prophecy, but not as offensive, at least in my opnion anyway. This is just way too buttery throughout. If you like drinking bourbon butter, then drink this. Otherwise avoid it.
Serving type: bottle
12-03-2006 05:29:15 | More by mrasskicktastic
Photo of ibbjamin
2.25/5 rDev -43.9%
Paid $3.49 for a 12oz bottle from Discount Liquor in Milwaukee, WI. I pour into a snifter to review.
A thick brownish orange elixir pours from the bottle. No head or carbonation.
Bourbon-like boozy nose with candied raisin, oak and caramel malt. Has an organic earthiness to it and even some slight butterscotch hints.
Taste is more reminiscent of a boozy barleywine than an old ale. A bit hot from the alcohol which is poorly hidden. Fermented dark fruits, bourbon, oak some caramel malt.
Almost no carbonation detected in the mouth. Medium-full body with an almost chewy texture and long finish.
Even taken as a boozy sipper, it really is not all that great. If I wanted to sip on booze, I'd go for some fine bourbon on the rocks, not a boozy old ale.
Serving type: bottle
11-15-2009 02:06:27 | More by ibbjamin
Photo of CaptJackHarkness
New York
2.5/5 rDev -37.7%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2
From twelve ounce bottle states bottled 04/13/12.
This beer is a New style for me and I was not sure what to expect. Also, from the date, perhaps too old old ale! That said,
Aroma was a boozy, sweet caramel. Poured headless , cloudy ruddy body. Holding to light shows floating particulates. Taste is alcoholic and bitter/acidic. Overall : Nasty!
Serving type: bottle
02-05-2014 05:21:40 | More by CaptJackHarkness
Photo of Murchmac
2.53/5 rDev -36.9%
Thanks to zealot for this suprise beer in a trade, I think.
Pours a thick Honey Brown with lots of floaties in this bottle. Didn't know or look out to see sediment.
Smells like an old ale but kinda boozy. Like the drunk at the bus stop.
This might not be fair because all those yeasty floaties are giving it a very bitter taste??!! Not too good in my book.
I think this might not be too fair because the beer may have been poured wrong, but good beer should be idiotproof. The more I drink the worse it gets, so it might not be me. No soup for you!
Serving type: bottle
03-10-2009 04:50:01 | More by Murchmac
Photo of Steasy66
2.53/5 rDev -36.9%
Half a 12oz bottle into a small snifter
A- Deep garnet, zero head
S- Smells like a European macro-lager, really surprising for a beer this big.
T- Starts sweet, finishes crisp, a bit of vanilla in the middle. Not bad, just nothing noteworthy here.
M- Fairly thick, good carbonation
O- This beer is just bland. A big surprise from such a great brewery. I had a 3 year old version of this a few weeks back and thought it was terribly bland but figured it was past its prime. Its a bit better fresh, but not much.
Serving type: bottle
05-09-2012 05:50:12 | More by Steasy66
Photo of BlindPig
2.55/5 rDev -36.4%
A- Thin off white head. Cloudy brown body with a bit of amber in it. Basically no lacing.
S- Strong alcohol. Almost like perfume. Some rich fruits and other rich smells. Can't really pin point it since it's not a pleasant smell at all.
T- The taste really follows the smell. Not in a bad way. Light alcohol. Has the perfume taste. It's really different and not to good.
M- Medium to full body very light carbonation.
D- Don't like this at all and don't see me making it all the way through.
Serving type: bottle
10-21-2006 07:14:10 | More by BlindPig
Photo of Minkybut
2.55/5 rDev -36.4%
I poured this awful beer into my tumbler at 45 degrees. The beer was the color of gasoline. The beer poured with no head at all. The beer smelled sour and had a sour taste that was not pleasant at all. Little bit of a burn to it and earthy tasting. I will not buy again.
Serving type: bottle
12-17-2009 22:29:19 | More by Minkybut
Photo of dedrinker
2.55/5 rDev -36.4%
Dark amber color. I smelled like caramel and cocoa butter.
The flavor was a mash up of Nutella, vanilla, cheap milk chocolate and caramel, more cocoa butter, macadamia nuts etc.
Full bodied, and the finish just kept bringing on the flaver mentioned above to make a beer that I had to dump out.
the over all impression was one of numerous artificial flavors.
I bought two bottles, and I refuse to touch the other one.
Serving type: bottle
01-09-2010 05:25:19 | More by dedrinker
Photo of wheelinshirt
2.6/5 rDev -35.2%
Excited to try this one for a while, not really sure what to expect. Picked it up at Abe's for $3 or so, poured into a pint glass.
Less dark than i was expecting, it looks like a mahogany color with lots of little tiny sediment particles, some visible carbonation and a modest light tan head that receded to a thin covering and left hole sections of the glass covered in solid lace.
Smell is boozy and full of sweet dark malts, some dark ripe fruit, some toffee notes. Pretty nice mix.
But here is where things start to turn ugly. The taste is immediately boozy and sweet, as expected, but the bitter roasted malts don't seem to meld very well with the sugar and alcohol. Also, the burnt toffee (i think that is how i would describe that) taste is pretty upfront and not really to my liking.
Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy. Pretty damn good, actually.
Drinkability is severely limited by the combination of flavors that I didn't particularly enjoy. Someone else, though, might have this same beer and absolutely love it. Definately interesting, i might even pick one up to age it for a couple years, but, fresh at least, it isn't really for me.
EDIT: as i got down about halfway and it had warmed enough it basically just started to taste like rum. Had to pour it out because it wasn't worth trying to choke down. Only the second or third time I have had to pour beer out. Very disappointing.
Serving type: bottle
04-20-2008 04:42:50 | More by wheelinshirt
Photo of corby112
2.6/5 rDev -35.2%
Serving type: bottle
09-04-2009 06:55:14 | More by corby112
Photo of dino213aa
2.63/5 rDev -34.4%
Since I have no authority to speak on what an "old ale" should taste like, consider this a mild observation.
A: an attractive clear, burnished wood glow that fades golden near the edges. minimal lacing.
S: licorice, roasted malts, bourbon
T&M&D: This beer has a strong, bourbon like flavor that will smash you in the balls and give you a good talking too (especially at 9.8%ABV). Because of the strength of this ale- both in flavor and ABV, I can't imagine drinking more that one.
Serving type: bottle
07-11-2009 20:43:24 | More by dino213aa
Photo of cokes
2.65/5 rDev -33.9%
Rusty peach-brown colored with little head development or lacing and loads of suspended particles.
The nose brings dry toffee, apricot, pineapple. But these are all muted by the papery, peppery oak. This also brings sub-bourbon notes of vanilla cream, butter, and hazelnuts. Muted is the key word, as paper/wood/oak and grain booze are the two major aromas, everything else is fleeting, indistinct, and ephemeral.
Caramel shows up more in the mouth, along with walnuts, and peanut skins. Oak brings burnt butter, vanilla, and bourbon-esque black cherry. But once again, the flavor profile thins immediately. Oak is more responsible for paper and bland pepperiness. Booze is notable, and seems to suggest sherry, but is equally devoid of gumption. Late black tea and cigarette ash notes.
Full bodied, lowly carbonation. So, basically how an Old Ale should be. I wish this was the norm rather than the exception.
I feel like I'm drinking this through a flavor-filter. A 9+% oak aged Old Ale, and all I can experience is paper, water-logged butter-caramel, and grain alcohol. It's like that very last, weakest sip of a Beam of the rocks.
Serving type: bottle
12-17-2008 10:08:37 | More by cokes
Photo of jsh420
2.68/5 rDev -33.2%
bottled 3/5/09
pours dark clear amber with small white/tan head that fades fast with no lacing
smell is all sweet candy carmel and alcohol - i could tell this was going to be a hot one
taste - i picked up some banana carmel and too much booze
mouthfeel was good light carbonation but not flat - body is on the a tad heavy and sticky
drinkability - not good this one need to sit a while
overall this beer is nowhere close to fresh old stock (which i love) but time might be on this ones side - i will check back in a year
Serving type: bottle
05-06-2009 03:29:18 | More by jsh420
Photo of ThisWangsChung
2.7/5 rDev -32.7%
12 oz. bottle poured into a tulip.
A: Pours a burnt sienna color with huge, oily-looking chunks of sediment plopping down into the glass. That plus very little head means this is one ugly-ass beer - almost to the point where I'm afraid to sip it.
S: Quite strong with molasses, mint, and caramel, while darker fruits help augment the malt backbone. Pretty nice smelling, and a lot more promising than the look of the beer.
T: The flavor is hard to describe. The first sip is loaded with caramel, dark fruit, brown sugar, and a little finishing booze; a few sips later, the profile changes to that of slightly burnt pumpernickel bread. Not as sweet as I expected, probably due to the age of the bottle and the yeast eating some of the sugar - despite that, it's still a bit cough syrup-y at times. Kind of boozy, also. Just a weird, strange beer, one that I'm struggling to finish.
M: Thickly textured, with tannins helping to neutralize the finish somewhat. Nice creaminess to start, before the body itself finishes slightly coarse and sticky. Rather boozy feeling on the throat in particular.
O: Meh. In fairness, this is not a good late afternoon kind of beer, but I still found it rather mediocre despite that. A rare misfire from Founders, but it's not completely irredeemable.
Serving type: bottle
08-03-2012 22:13:16 | More by ThisWangsChung
Photo of DeltaGolfSierra
2.75/5 rDev -31.4%
Color is a rather unattractive orange-brown, and the lack of any head or lacing doesn't help the appearance. Scents of dark fruits and molasses are nice if a bit weak, and there's a bit of a boozy smell too. Caramel and molasses are up front in the taste, with a punch of booziness in the finish that I don't find particularly pleasant. High pucker factor and plenty of burn going down the throat. This is not one of Founder's better offerings.
Serving type: bottle
10-12-2011 01:13:14 | More by DeltaGolfSierra
Photo of falloutsnow
2.75/5 rDev -31.4%
From: Binny's, Champaign, IL
Date: None on bottle, spring 2013 release
Glass: Founders snifter
Founders' Curmudgeon is a rather disappointing old ale, featuring a good, but fairly uncomplicated dark brown caramel-like sweetness with a bit of oak, both of which are rather quickly subsumed by the ethanol content of the beer. The alcohol becomes excessively apparent with warmth, detracting from the overall experience and enjoyment of this beer. I find myself asking, "was this intentional, or just a too-hot and quick fermentation/bottling/shipping schedule?" Founders suggests that this beer is "deceptively smooth and drinkable," on the 4-pack, but I'd heartily disagree. Nowhere near comparable to the effortless smoothness (that is, non-ethanol-detectable) and more complex flavors in, say, Hair of the Dog releases. Not one I'd pick up again.
Pours a 0.5cm tall head of beige-colored, small-sized bubbles, with below average retention of about twenty seconds, barely enough time to register that the head looked a bit frothy. The head fades to a thin ring around the glass, and leaves good lacing, a more than moderate number of large dots cling to the glass' sides. Beer's body is a dark golden orange color, almost brown, with reddish highlights; light brings out brighter golden orange hues with yellow highlights. Carbonation visible through the slightly hazy (20-30% opacity) body, low in number and moderate in activity.
Aroma of fairly heavy caramel-like sweetness, ethanol, and oak, only moderately robust, not nearly as expressive or complex as I was hoping.
The most notable flavors of the beer are heavy/syrupy brown caramel-like sweetness, a touch of toasted bread and oak, and big ethanol, which becomes more apparent the longer the sip lasts in the mouth. The front of the palate tastes moderate oak, medium-strong brown caramel-like sweetness, and light ethanol. Mid-palate detects flavors of strong ethanol, heavy/syrupy brown caramel-like sweetness, a touch of toasted bread and oak, but the somewhat harsh ethanol largely steamrolls the other flavors. Back of palate is largely of heavy/syrupy brown caramel-like sweetness with a bit of oak, which is quite pleasant, but then the ethanol largely obscures this with its flavor and heat. Aftertaste is primarily of ethanol, with a bit of light caramel sweetness hidden in the background.
Beer's body is medium-heavy, with carbonation of medium-low intensity, resulting in a lightly foamy (1/4), mostly smooth (3/4) mouthfeel that is appropriate for sipping a beer of this style. Unfortunately, ethanol is easily felt as heat in the nostrils and across the palate, and as a burning sensation on the throat. Though "only" 9.8% ABV, this feels like a much stronger beer; ethanol not well-hidden. Closes dry, with heavy stickiness lingering on the palate and lips.
Serving type: bottle
01-19-2014 04:09:35 | More by falloutsnow
Photo of jwhawkins81
2.78/5 rDev -30.7%
Sampled Fresh
Aroma - Way sweet smell with no noticeable hop characteristics.
Appearance - Cloudy reddish brown with no I mean no carbonation.
Taste - Sweet cherries and then the bite of alcohol. This beer really needs to be shipped and also needs to hit the tip of your tongue. I got some raisin flavors near the end.
Mouthfeel - Not a light beer. Without carbonation this beer just lays there.
Drinkability - I can't imagine drinking more than one of these at a time. I hope this beers improves over the next three years in my cellar.
Serving type: bottle
05-16-2009 16:54:13 | More by jwhawkins81
Photo of kohoutek
2.8/5 rDev -30.2%
Pours a deep ruddy amber without filtration. This bottle sat for three days in the fridge and it is still very cloudy. Head is light caramel in color with a short life and little persistent lace.
The aroma is wild: overoaked, over bourboned, malty, wheaty sweetness with a touch of fresh morning urine. Where is the piss coming from and why won't it leave?
The beer is large, sweet and boozy with an oakiness that would make a late 90's Cali-Chardonnay jealous. This is an oak bomb!
Butter, Bourbon and a sweet malty mess.
Mouthfeel: Well, for a 9.3% beer, I would understand sweet, but everything about this beer is over the top. Bittering hops perform like an underly confident supporting actor in the middle school production. They try, but they cannot step up to the immensly expulsive and overconfident quickly maturing and painfully overcompensating female lead(s).
After 20 min of swirling and smelling the urine is beginning to subside but the bourbon sweetness is increasing.
Edit: I stopped swirling for two minutes and the urine is back.
Serving type: bottle
05-10-2006 21:56:53 | More by kohoutek
Founders Curmudgeon (Old Ale) from Founders Brewing Company
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It was a close call. Just a few hours before army and police troops were set to heavily bombard armed Albanian insurgents fighting to take control of the northwestern corner of the Balkan state of Macedonia, the rebels called for a ceasefire. "We think it is better to talk rather than start a fight between the two peoples, because blood will be shed and then there will be no room for talks," Ali Ahmeti, political spokesman for the so-called National Liberation Army declared on television in neighboring Kosovo on Mar. 21.
But the troubled Balkans may still be facing another war--and that could prove to be a dangerous test for President George W. Bush and the 37,000 NATO troops stationed in Kosovo. There's no telling how long the ceasefire will hold, and pressures have been building steadily in the region. Since late last year, armed Albanian insurgents have been trying to destabilize a 70-mile-long strip of territory running along Kosovo's border with Serbia--both part of Yugoslavia--and into Macedonia. Hundreds of rebels, as well as their weapons, have been streaming over the frontier.
The guerrillas have mainly attacked Serb police and the Macedonian police and army, but NATO troops have also come under fire. U.S. forces have engaged in skirmishes, and a German soldier was wounded on Mar. 16. He was one of some 4,000 troops that NATO has stationed in Macedonia to provide logistical support for the force in Kosovo.
That's why on Mar. 19, NATO officials decided to bolster patrols on the Kosovo border with Macedonia. Lieutenant General Carlo Cabigiosu, commander of the NATO force in Kosovo, says he is also sending armor and artillery troops into Macedonia to "provide a robust level of protection" for NATO logistical operations there. Meanwhile, Greece and Bulgaria are channeling aid to the Macedonian army, including helicopter gunships.
Why are diplomats still worried about a possible war? Although the Albanian insurgents say they want greater civil rights for the Albanian-Muslim minority in Macedonia, many observers believe there's a bigger goal. The guerrilla force is dominated by radicals who want independence for Kosovo and its merger into a greater Albanian state linking Kosovo, northwest Macedonia, and, eventually, Albania.RADICAL HOPES. Some analysts say the insurgents fear warming relations between NATO and Yugoslavia, where democratically elected President Vojislav Kostunica replaced strongman Slobodan Milosevic last year. As long as Milosevic was in power, Albanian radicals clung to hopes that Kosovo might become independent, despite U.S. opposition.
But Kostunica, in contrast to Milosevic, is likely to work with the EU and the U.S. to seek a political solution to the conflict between Kosovar Albanians and Serbs. Albanian guerrillas launched their offensive precisely to stymie that process, analysts say. "Kostunica's election produced panic among [pro-independence] Albanians," notes Michael Radu, a Balkans expert at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
Now, what European and U.S. diplomats fear is that the ceasefire will not hold and the rebels will touch off a wider war. If the fighting keeps up, pressure will grow on NATO to play a more active role. That could involve a controversial decision to send NATO troops to combat rebels in Macedonia. Washington, however, wants to avoid an escalation.
Strangely, NATO troops could yet find themselves increasingly under fire from the very people they were sent to protect--ethnic Albanians. That's the last thing the allies expected when they came to the Kosovars' defense back in 1999. The Green Party may be the new wild card in French politics. In their best showing ever in France, Green candidates captured nearly 12% of the popular vote in municipal elections ending on Mar. 18. They won 15% of the seats on the Paris city council and took control of city halls in three towns with populations of over 20,000.
The surge in votes for the Greens may be attributable to growing disaffection with established leftist and Gaullist parties. Green voters are mostly middle-class 25-to-49-year-olds who in the past voted Socialist, says Philippe Mechet, director of the SOFRES polling group. Success in the municipal vote may pave the way for a better result in next year's legislative elections, even though the Greens still lack an effective national organization. President Vicente Fox is trying to rescue his Chiapas peace process as subcommander Marcos and 23 other Zapatista rebels prepare to return to the jungle. The Zapatistas traveled to Mexico City to lobby for passage of an indigenous-rights bill that Fox sent to Congress in December. The rebels angrily announced they would leave on Mar. 23 after legislators rejected Marcos' demand to address the Congress.
In response, Fox is offering to meet with Marcos. And he has agreed to Zapatista demands to free more prisoners. Fox will have to overcome some legislators' concerns that the bill grants too much autonomy to indigenous groups. Whether or not Fox succeeds, Marcos will be returning to the jungle with new political strength.
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Nikki Hegerich
QUESTION: Why did you become a teacher?
ANSWER: Throughout my years of schooling, I was fortunate enough to have some amazing and very influential teachers. Because of those teachers, I knew I wanted to be able give that same experience to others. Teaching gives me the opportunity to pass on my enthusiasm for learning and show my students what a quality education means to their future.
ANSWER: The key to teaching is getting your students to understand that knowledge is power and can take them wherever they want to go in life!
ANSWER: When I'm not teaching, I am usually spending time with my family and friends. I also love to travel and visit new cities or countries whenever I have the opportunity.
ANSWER: I was a competitive dancer for 12 years, as well as a member of my university's competitive dance team.
SCHOOL: Mars Middle School
GRADE: Eighth
HOMETOWN: Gibsonia
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NCI Cancer Bulletin: A Trusted Source for Cancer Research News
Featured Clinical TrialFeatured Clinical Trial
Targeted Therapy for Lymphoid Cancers
Name of the Trial
Phase I/II Study of ABT-263 in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory T-cell or B-cell Lymphoid Malignancies (NCI-07-C-0006). See the protocol summary at http://cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/NCI-07-C-0006.
Dr. Wyndham WilsonPrincipal Investigator
Dr. Wyndham Wilson, NCI Center for Cancer Research
Why This Trial Is Important
Lymphoid malignancies are cancers that originate in the body's lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). A particular genetic mutation known as t(14;18) is frequently found in lymphoid cancers. This mutation causes a cell to produce too much of a protein called Bcl-2, which inhibits the process of programmed cell death (apoptosis) and contributes to tumor formation, tumor growth, and resistance to treatment.
A new drug called ABT-263 may block the activity of Bcl-2, thereby allowing cancer cells that depend on this protein for survival to undergo apoptosis. Preclinical studies have shown that ABT-263 can bind to Bcl-2 in cancer cells and prevent it from functioning, leading to cell death.
In this clinical trial, patients with T-cell or B-cell lymphoid cancers that have recurred or progressed despite prior chemotherapy will receive ABT-263 orally for up to a year. Researchers seek to establish the maximum tolerated dose of ABT-263 and to determine the drug's safety and, preliminarily, its effectiveness in these patients. They will also study ABT-263's activity in the body (pharmacokinetics).
"The Bcl-2 protein family plays a crucial role in cancer cell immortalization in B-cell lymphomas, as well as in some T-cell lymphomas and solid tumors, making it an important molecular target for these cancers," said Dr. Wilson. "This is the first study in humans of ABT-263, which was specifically designed to inhibit Bcl-2."
Who Can Join This Trial
Researchers seek to enroll 80 patients aged 18 or over with a T-cell or B-cell lymphoid cancer that has relapsed or progressed despite previous chemotherapy. See the list of eligibility criteria at http://cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/NCI-07-C-0006.
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By Patrick Engel
[Ed note: Check back each week as Chef Patrick shares delicious recipes, his thoughts on cooking, cooking with kids, food shopping and more!]
pat_kids_shopping_ext.jpgMy career often has me working odd hours, and can shortchange me of quality time with my kids, which is why I like to take them to the grocery store. Seriously.
I use grocery shopping as a time to chat with the kids about life in general, but also as an opportunity to introduce them to new foods, and to facilitate discussions about what is healthy, what is real, what is not and why. The grocery store truly is a great venue in which to educate your kids about food.
Now I know the mere suggestion of food shopping with multiple young children is enough for some parents to question both my intelligence and my sanity, but it's fun. Trust me. Here's what I recommend.
1. No timelines. If you're in a hurry, don't take the kids. If you need to be somewhere after, don't take the kids. Thinking you can get in, get what you need, and get out quickly with the kids in tow is a recipe for disaster.
2. Make a list.
Even if your list is incomplete, have one. You can stray from it, but if things start to fall apart during the trip, you can refer back to your list almost as a distraction. For instance, when the kids stumble down the candy aisle, pull out the list and cry, "Lemons! We forgot lemons! Oh, the humanity. Quickly, everybody, to the produce section!" Crisis averted.
3. Ask and ye shan't receive. My rule is simple: If the kids ask for something more than twice, they're not getting it. Asking once is a way to communicate you'd like something. Asking three times is officially pestering, which goes unrewarded.
4. Everyone gets one treat. You may want to reserve veto power here, but I always offer the boys one treat per trip. The no-pestering rule is still in effect, but the boys know to be on the lookout for that one thing they can have. It keeps them interested, exploring, and it usually keeps them asking questions. I use my otherwise dust-collecting psychology degree here, as you can gently and subtly push your kids into a wise treat choice. If psychology fails you, invoke your right to veto! (I often give myself one treat, too. Fair is fair, right?)
5. The wild card.
Buy one unknown food each trip. A great way to expand the repertoire of a picky child is to find an interesting and curious-looking food to buy, take home and experiment with. (That's what I do when I find myself in an ethnic grocery store; I buy one product in a non-transparent package with no English. It has led to some hits; it has led to some misses.)
6. Have an end game. Add purpose to the trip by going through the store for specific ingredients for one meal that you plan to make later at home, preferably as a family.
This week, I practiced what I'm preaching. The family headed to the grocery store, and it was a great time. We had a rapid-fire quiz in the produce department - "What's this? How do you eat this? Where is this from?" We got food for school lunches. I felt like the parent of the year when our kids' "treat" choices were a giant juicy apple and some frozen juice pops (no sugar added!).
We had a lot of fun. We didn't rush it.
And then we picked up a pizza on the way home ... You win some, you lose some.
Happy shopping!
patrick_headshot.jpg Patrick Engel has been cooking professionally for 15 years. After graduating from George Brown College in Toronto, and training in the kitchens of Rodney's Oyster House and Bymark Restaurant, Patrick relocated to Niagara's wine region, working at Inn on the Twenty, followed by six years as resident chef instructor at The Good Earth Cooking School. Patrick is currently the chef at Hospice Niagara's Stabler Centre and associate chef at The Garrison House in Niagara-on-the Lake. Patrick lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, with his wife, Marnie, and their two boys, Charlie (7) and Johnny (5).
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By FaceMaster on 7/4/2008 6:46:56 PM , Rating: 3
My sister got a virus which AVGV successfully detected. However, it only removed one file. After installing Kaspersky on the same computer it found 2 other traces. AVG is okay, but to be honest if you're getting something for free you're going to have to pay the price. No you don't. But you do. What ever.
By Kenenniah on 7/5/2008 2:05:58 AM , Rating: 5
Actually you are the one deluding yourself. There are giant differences between anti-virus programs. Take a look at researchers that do real testing of anti-virus programs. (requires free registration)
Look at the comparatives found at
Especially the Retrospective /ProActive tests. The range on % of found viruses between different antivirus programs ranges from 6% to 74%.
Don't pay attention to sites like PC World that throw a few viruses at a progam to see what it catches. Places like av-comparatives test with over 11,000 malware programs on the retrospective tests, and over 1.6 million on the on demand tests.
By Kenenniah on 7/5/2008 2:13:21 AM , Rating: 2
And just in case you don't understand the difference, the Proactive comparitives are using unknown virues that aren't in the definition files. That is where the largest difference exists between antivirus programs. For viruses that are well known, yes most programs can do roughly the same job (with some exceptions). It's in finding those yet unknown viruses through advances heuristics etc. that truly sets good scanners apart from the bad.
By GaryJohnson on 7/5/2008 7:57:40 AM , Rating: 3
Read: advanced heruistics as advanced CPU usage
By Cogman on 7/5/2008 10:04:06 AM , Rating: 2
Though, to be honest unless you are in a corprate environment or downloading a lot of pron/illegal material. The chances of getting a virus are fairly slim.
In all my years of computer usage I have downloaded 1 maybe 2 viruses (I had AV at the time) an yes, I was pretty sure there might be viruses in the programs. The only virus I caught without my knowledge (ok, with my knowledge, but without my consent) was the RPC (Or RDP, I can't remember which) that exposed a fairly big explote in MS windows, making your computer shutdown several times.
Yes, I think it is safe to say that getting a virus on the internet isn't easy for someone that uses their head. Its next to impossible for us linux users :D;
By Spivonious on 7/5/2008 10:23:12 AM , Rating: 3
I haven't had a virus in 15 years of being on the Internet. It really is just common sense and staying up-to-date on security patches.
"Browse smart, not hard."
By FastLaneTX on 7/9/2008 12:37:56 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah, and the subset of Internet users that do not fall into one of those two groups is what, maybe 1%?
By Diesel Donkey on 7/5/2008 10:23:48 PM , Rating: 3
I suppose you're correct that I should have done my research a little better before making the claim I did. However, one of the points I was trying to make, and I see now that I did not make it clearly, is that whether or not the software is free probably has nothing to do with how effective it is. The detection engines and heuristic algorithms that you mentioned are always evolving with the software, so an anti-virus that is on top now may no longer be the best after some detection engine updates across the board. Thus, I still hold the opinion that the OP is deluding him/herself if he/she believes that forking over the money for one anti-virus solution will lead to a permanent solution that will always be the best.
By Kenenniah on 7/6/2008 5:24:58 AM , Rating: 2
Very true also. Just by looking through the past results from AV Comparatives you can see major changes between each year's test of the same software. One program can have great results one year, then bad results the next. On average though you can find trends of those companies that seem to regularly do well (Eset Nod32) for example. There is always that caveat that trend might not continue for the next year :P
You are also correct that you can't jude based on price. There are many times that free programs have fared better than quite a few of the paid for suites.
By zolo111 on 7/6/2008 1:34:11 PM , Rating: 2
I have never had a virus infection in my pc for years, and I don't use AV software either; but I do a search every once in a while to see how things are going.
I've always recommened AVG till 6 months ago when friends have had viruses in thier pcs and AVG didn't get red of them, even clients running NOD32 have had thier share of trouble, same with people who have kaspersky running.
A friend of mine brought his laptop that had tons of viruses, and kaspersky couldn't heal the problem, I've tried different software but nothing seemed to fix it, till I installed Panda 2008 which got red of the problem. The virus was pretty new at the time, and it was a matter of who released the proper definition which in this case Panad did first.
Since I moved back to my home country, Saudi Arabia; my brother started using my pc, and I find Kaspersky Internet security suit to be the best so far.
The thing is, you shouldn't blame the AV program, if you use virus infested programs like some P2P ones and download a freaking 250kb .exe file labled hot teen sex and then moan about the AV program not doing it's job.
By callmeroy on 7/11/2008 11:13:32 AM , Rating: 2
Anyone really serious about virus/keylogger/spyware detection does NOT rely on a single product....I don't care WHAT product it is either.
I run more than one AV and more than one Spyware/Keylogger detection package and the ones I run are all given good to high reviews from multiple sources as well.
There is NOT a single package that even exists in the world today that catches everything.
Don't fool yourselves thinking there is.
By wordsworm on 7/6/2008 12:37:55 AM , Rating: 2
Since I got Vista 64, I've been using Avast (AVG doesn't work on Vista 64). I like it better than AVG to boot.
I really hate Norton. I can't tell you how many computers I've run into with it running where the owner says, "My computer is slow." I delete Norton, and voila! 'Fast' once more. Just installed Avast and the computer starts running quickly. Norton is a real computer killer. It's not great at dealing with viruses either. I had Norton for 1 year, and it did little for me. I got into ZoneAlarm for awhile, but their renewal process was a hassle, so I gave up on them and went with AVG.
Since getting rid of Norton, I've never had a virus.
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The truck has been found by authorities
Cobalt-60 is most often used in hospital radiotherapy machines.
Source: NPR
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By Amedean on 12/6/2013 2:25:19 AM , Rating: 4
This conversation brings back old memories in my Army days when I was a infantry paratrooper in the 82d Airborne.
Back in 2003 little known but I was part of a detachment on a mission here:
because we had to recover a larger than a baseball bat sized rod of Cobalt 60. Below that small town was the former Iraqi Army chemical weapons school and depot where an unknowing villager was paid by Al-Qaeda to drag that rod to his home.
I imagine the original intention was to make a dirty bomb.... needless to say America's finest including myself had to knowingly guard this exposed rod with all the understanding that we may all die of cancer in a few years.
Had a small lump on my scalp ever since but it is non-malignant. One guy in my company got breast cancer and another a tumor on one testicle. Either way, the VA wont accept documentation for this exposure and I am left today footing the bill taking precautionary antioxidants and anti-neoplastic supplements for as many years.
There you go, the unheard sacrifices soldiers knowingly accept to protect lives...
P.S. to the south west across the road from the spot I marked on Google Maps is 3 large facilities that were industrial weapons factories which also manufactured G5 howitzers and ammunition. Yes, chemical weapons as well. It is also the site of this disaster where I used to walk through unknowingly:
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By Amedean on 12/6/2013 2:29:05 AM , Rating: 2
My appologies, the correct map link is here:
Google maps got confused...
RE: so will everyone
By sorry dog on 12/6/2013 11:07:34 AM , Rating: 2
If that's the story, then you have my gratitude for your service.
I'm curious about the V.A. situation. Can you elaborate?
RE: so will everyone
By Amedean on 12/6/2013 11:46:50 AM , Rating: 2
Yeah, the VA only covers conditions diagnosed during service or "proven" service connected.
Hypothetical hopefully, but if I were to develop cancer it would require a miracle of paperwork to form a service connection. Let alone, by the time the paperwork would have been finished I would probably have died. I was even advised to not mention my cobalt-60 exposure should that happen to reduce paperwork so they said to claim "excessive sun exposure" as the most probable cause.
To give you a broader perspective on the issue, I broke my wrist in Afghanistan, cracked a few bones on my feet, cronic joint pains (naturally)......sports injuries apparently. Never played sports either but I have been fighting this and the exposure issue for over 5 years.
All the process is for is to reduce legacy costs of our many years at war.
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#1Dersu_UzalaPosted 3/10/2013 10:35:23 PM
Would be the most awkward press conference ever.
#2ZvolTxPosted 3/10/2013 10:37:00 PM
He'd probably take off his clothes.
Why? Just cause.
#3QlJGamerPosted 3/10/2013 10:47:58 PM
Considering Monoplizing handheld market, why would they leave hardware if anything they should stop making games and focus on their hardware.
Quite Intelligent Judging
#4plasmatic5Posted 3/10/2013 10:48:46 PM
Just to answer the what if...
My body is ready.
#5tav19Posted 3/10/2013 10:49:48 PM
He would announce it then end by saying " Oops......April's Fools" at which point an army of people dressed as Nintendo characters would march on stage and join Reggie in singing the trolololol song. :P
#6Skill4ReelPosted 3/10/2013 10:58:39 PM
He wouldn't as he would have most likely been fired before something like that ever happened.
#7sentoworfPosted 3/10/2013 11:08:08 PM
He shows a trailer for Zelda and at the end you see the PS4 and Xbox logos.
(@_@) Spinda is watching
#8overkillwfo1978Posted 3/10/2013 11:13:32 PM
I could just imagine a Zelda on my PC. Full 1080p/60fps with all graphic sliders to max. If Nintendo were to announce that they were going 3rd party, I would throw my Wii U off of an overpass in celebration.... and I like the Wii U!
I'm not interested in gaming on it, just looking for a computer that will do things fast.- horror_spooky on building a new rig
#9DeltaProjPosted 3/10/2013 11:45:20 PM
He'd most likely break the news on April 1st
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It is a good game but gets really boring, it is really repetative and can be really annoying. Towards the end of the game there are hardly any saves and the final boss is just rubbish, some how your party get to the top of the tower and you fight the eye of Sauron. which is the most pointless fight in the game. First immpressions are really good other than the first impressions the rest of the game it really boring. I would suggest to rent it for a week and then you wont play it for all the time that you have. I think that it is a really bad game beacuse of how boring it gets. It takes longer than I thought it would to complete. I think my time would have been better spent reading a book it was that boring... | http://www.gamespot.com/deus-ex-invisible-war/user-reviews/2200-482792/ | dclm-gs1-273450000 | false | false | {
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WINDER - A woman who shot her husband last May was found guilty of murder Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison.
The jury deliberated for about three hours before finding Diane Elaine Hogsed, 46, guilty of malice murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, Assistant District Attorney Coy Johnson said. Hogsed was sentenced to life in prison for the murder, plus five years on the firearms conviction.
Hogsed shot her husband, 58-year-old Willis "Bill" Cecil Hogsed, in the front yard of the couple's home at 686 Hancock Bridge Road about 10:30 a.m. May 26. They had left the house to go fishing, then returned home where an argument ensued. Diane Hogsed took a gun from the couple's home, lawyers said, then came back outside where Bill Hogsed was and shot him.
The bullet entered the left side of Bill Hogsed's chest and went through his left lung, heart and right lung before exiting through the right side of his chest.
District Attorney Tim Madison told the jury Tuesday that Diane Hogsed had written about killing her husband in her journals and wanted revenge for being called names.
He called the couple "two of the most dysfunctional people you ever heard about in your life" and said "both knew where the other's scabs were and picked them," but that Bill Hogsed had simply gone too far with his wife the day he died.
Diane Hogsed also wanted money, Madison said, and would have collected $548,000 in disability checks if her husband died. He said Bill Hogsed had told his wife to leave earlier, and that she was upset about the possibility of losing the money if the couple got a divorce.
"It was a deliberate act of revenge," Madison said Tuesday. "One time, 3 feet away, almost point blank, she takes the life of her husband for disrespecting her."
Diane Hogsed's attorney, Wayne Burnaine, said during his closing statements that she had been abused by her husband and she suffered from battered woman's syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder. He contended that the gun had gone off accidentally, or that Diane Hogsed had reacted subconsciously when she saw her husband enter a pose that was common before he struck.
Madison said Diane Hogsed's journals showed Bill Hogsed had not been violent for the preceding 18 months.
The malice murder charge, on which Diane Hogsed was convicted, implies that she gave forethought to the crime and killed her husband intentionally, Johnson said. The jury also had the option of convicting her of felony murder, meaning Bill Hogsed's death resulted from a felony that Diane Hogsed was committing - such as aggravated assault - or voluntary manslaughter, meaning she had no intent to kill him.
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Building a Phylogenetic Tree
Note: For information on creating a phylogenetic tree with multiply aligned sequences, see the phytree function.
Overview of the Primate Example
In this example, a phylogenetic tree is constructed from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences for the family Hominidae. This family includes gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans.
The following procedures demonstrate the phylogenetic analysis features in the Bioinformatics Toolbox™ software. They are not intended to teach the process of phylogenetic analysis, but to show you how to use MathWorks® products to create a phylogenetic tree from a set of nonaligned nucleotide sequences.
The origin of modern humans is a heavily debated issue that scientists have recently tackled by using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences. One hypothesis explains the limited genetic variation of human mtDNA in terms of a recent common genetic ancestry, implying that all modern population mtDNA originated from a single woman who lived in Africa less than 200,000 years ago.
Why Use Mitochondrial DNA Sequences for Phylogenetic Study?
Mitochondrial DNA sequences, like the Y chromosome, do not recombine and are inherited from the maternal parent. This lack of recombination allows sequences to be traced through one genetic line and all polymorphisms assumed to be caused by mutations.
Mitochondrial DNA in mammals has a faster mutation rate than nuclear DNA sequences. This faster rate of mutation produces more variance between sequences and is an advantage when studying closely related species. The mitochondrial control region (Displacement or D-loop) is one of the fastest mutating sequence regions in animal DNA.
Neanderthal DNA
The ability to isolate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from palaeontological samples has allowed genetic comparisons between extinct species and closely related nonextinct species. The reasons for isolating mtDNA instead of nuclear DNA in fossil samples have to do with the fact that:
• mtDNA, because it is circular, is more stable and degrades slower then nuclear DNA.
• Each cell can contain a thousand copies of mtDNA and only a single copy of nuclear DNA.
While there is still controversy as to whether Neanderthals are direct ancestors of humans or evolved independently, the use of ancient genetic sequences in phylogenetic analysis adds an interesting dimension to the question of human ancestry.
Ovchinnikov I., et al. (2000). Molecular analysis of Neanderthal DNA from the northern Caucasus. Nature 404(6777), 490–493.
Sajantila A., et al. (1995). Genes and languages in Europe: an analysis of mitochondrial lineages. Genome Research 5 (1), 42–52.
Krings M., et al. (1997). Neanderthal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans. Cell 90 (1), 19–30.
Jensen-Seaman, M., Kidd K. (2001). Mitochondrial DNA variation and biogeography of eastern gorillas. Molecular Ecology 10(9), 2241–2247.
Searching NCBI for Phylogenetic Data
The NCBI taxonomy Web site includes phylogenetic and taxonomic information from many sources. These sources include the published literature, Web databases, and taxonomy experts. And while the NCBI taxonomy database is not a phylogenetic or taxonomic authority, it can be useful as a gateway to the NCBI biological sequence databases.
This procedure uses the family Hominidae (orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans) as a taxonomy example for searching the NCBI Web site and locating mitochondrial D-loop sequences.
1. Use the MATLAB® Help browser to search for data on the Web. In the MATLAB Command Window, type
A separate browser window opens with the home page for the NCBI Web site.
2. Search the NCBI Web site for information. For example, to search for the human taxonomy, from the Search list, select Taxonomy, and in the for box, enter hominidae.
The NCBI Web search returns a list of links to relevant pages.
3. Select the taxonomy link for the family Hominidae. A page with the taxonomy for the family is shown.
Creating a Phylogenetic Tree for Five Species
Drawing a phylogenetic tree using sequence data is helpful when you are trying to visualize the evolutionary relationships between species. The sequences can be multiply aligned or a set of nonaligned sequences, you can select a method for calculating pairwise distances between sequences, and you can select a method for calculating the hierarchical clustering distances used to build a tree.
After locating the GenBank® accession codes for the sequences you are interested in studying, you can create a phylogenetic tree with the data. For information on locating accession codes, see Searching NCBI for Phylogenetic Data.
In the following example, you will use the Jukes-Cantor method to calculate distances between sequences, and the Unweighted Pair Group Method Average (UPGMA) method for linking the tree nodes.
1. Create a MATLAB structure with information about the sequences. This step uses the accession codes for the mitochondrial D-loop sequences isolated from different hominid species.
data = {'German_Neanderthal' 'AF011222';
'Russian_Neanderthal' 'AF254446';
'European_Human' 'X90314' ;
'Mountain_Gorilla_Rwanda' 'AF089820';
'Chimp_Troglodytes' 'AF176766';
2. Retrieve sequence data from the GenBank database and copy into the MATLAB environment.
for ind = 1:5
seqs(ind).Header = data{ind,1};
seqs(ind).Sequence = getgenbank(data{ind,2},...
'sequenceonly', true);
3. Calculate pairwise distances and create a phytree object. For example, compute the pairwise distances using the Jukes-Cantor distance method and build a phylogenetic tree using the UPGMA linkage method. Since the sequences are not prealigned, seqpdist pairwise aligns them before computing the distances.
distances = seqpdist(seqs,'Method','Jukes-Cantor','Alphabet','DNA');
tree = seqlinkage(distances,'UPGMA',seqs)
The MATLAB software displays information about the phytree object. The function seqpdist calculates the pairwise distances between pairs of sequences while the function seqlinkage uses the distances to build a hierarchical cluster tree. First, the most similar sequences are grouped together, and then sequences are added to the tree in descending order of similarity.
Phylogenetic tree object with 5 leaves (4 branches)
4. Draw a phylogenetic tree.
h = plot(tree,'orient','top');
ylabel('Evolutionary distance')
The MATLAB software draws a phylogenetic tree in a Figure window. In the figure below, the hypothesized evolutionary relationships between the species is shown by the location of species on the branches. The horizontal distances do not have any biological significance.
Creating a Phylogenetic Tree for Twelve Species
Plotting a simple phylogenetic tree for five species seems to indicate a number of monophyletic groups (see Creating a Phylogenetic Tree for Five Species). After a preliminary analysis with five species, you can add more species to your phylogenetic tree. Adding more species to the data set will help you to confirm the observed monophyletic groups are valid.
1. Add more sequences to a MATLAB structure. For example, add mtDNA D-loop sequences for other hominid species.
data2 = {'Puti_Orangutan' 'AF451972';
'Jari_Orangutan' 'AF451964';
'Western_Lowland_Gorilla' 'AY079510';
'Eastern_Lowland_Gorilla' 'AF050738';
'Chimp_Schweinfurthii' 'AF176722';
'Chimp_Vellerosus' 'AF315498';
'Chimp_Verus' 'AF176731';
2. Get additional sequence data from the GenBank database, and copy the data into the next indices of a MATLAB structure.
for ind = 1:7
seqs(ind+5).Header = data2{ind,1};
seqs(ind+5).Sequence = getgenbank(data2{ind,2},...
'sequenceonly', true);
3. Calculate pairwise distances and the hierarchical linkage.
distances = seqpdist(seqs,'Method','Jukes-Cantor','Alpha','DNA');
tree = seqlinkage(distances,'UPGMA',seqs);
4. Draw a phylogenetic tree.
ylabel('Evolutionary distance')
The MATLAB software draws a phylogenetic tree in a Figure window. You can see four main clades for humans, gorillas, chimpanzee, and orangutans.
Exploring the Phylogenetic Tree
After you create a phylogenetic tree, you can explore the tree using the MATLAB command line or the Phylogenetic Tree app. This procedure uses the tree created in Creating a Phylogenetic Tree for Twelve Species as an example.
1. List the members of a tree.
names = get(tree,'LeafNames')
names =
From the list, you can determine the indices for its members. For example, the European Human leaf is the third entry.
2. Find the closest species to a selected species in a tree. For example, find the species closest to the European human.
[h_all,h_leaves] = select(tree,'reference',3,...
h_all is a list of indices for the nodes within a patristic distance of 0.6 to the European human leaf, while h_leaves is a list of indices for only the leaf nodes within the same patristic distance.
A patristic distance is the path length between species calculated from the hierarchical clustering distances. The path distance is not necessarily the biological distance.
3. List the names of the closest species.
subtree_names = names(h_leaves)
The MATLAB software prints a list of species with a patristic distance to the European human less than the specified distance. In this case, the patristic distance threshold is less than 0.6.
subtree_names =
4. Extract a subtree from the whole tree by removing unwanted leaves. For example, prune the tree to species within 0.6 of the European human species.
leaves_to_prune = ~h_leaves;
pruned_tree = prune(tree,leaves_to_prune)
h = plot(pruned_tree,'orient','top');
ylabel('Evolutionary distance')
The MATLAB software returns information about the new subtree and plots the pruned phylogenetic tree in a Figure window.
Phylogenetic tree object with 6 leaves (5 branches)
5. Explore, edit, and format a phylogenetic tree using the Phylogenetic Tree app.
The Phylogenetic Tree window opens, showing the tree.
You can interactively change the appearance of the tree using the app. For information on using this app, see Phylogenetic Tree App Reference.
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• Release Date: Feb 8, 2005
Generally favorable reviews - based on 52 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 32 out of 52
2. Negative: 2 out of 52
4. It's a blast, and the combat is a great balance between a wrestling and a fighting game, but I felt like a terrible human being. I guess that's the price you pay for being a gladiator. [Feb 2005, p.116]
5. Playing Shadow of Rome has made me more sympathetic to people who argue that killing fake people can lead to killing real ones. I came to accept Shadow of Rome's violence fully.
6. Every time the action has you hooked, the intertwined, mediocre-at-best stealth missions suck away a lot of the fun and detract from what could have been one of the best action adventure titles of this year.
7. 8 / 8 / 9 / 8 - gold [Vol 848]
8. Not only is the atmosphere of this one second to none, the game that it surrounds is massively rewarding and challenging in equal measures.
9. The meaty parts make it worth getting through the leaner parts, and for fans with interest in the period or graphic action, it's a keeper.
10. Packs some of the most brutal hand-to-hand combat ever, and there's plenty of story and intrigue to conveniently justify all the gory violence.
11. As these concepts are nothing new and have been integrated better (way better) with bigger games already (e.g., the Metal Gear Solid series), and with a singular character to boot, Shadow of Rome isn't nearly as great as some other big guns it may be trying to imitate.
12. There really isn't another game like Shadow of Rome, let alone one of similar quality and polish. [Feb 2005, p.102]
13. Fun. Frustrating. Gory. Cerebral. Engaging. Off-putting. Brutal and civilised. A thing of uneasily juxtaposed opposites, much like the Empire it's set in.
14. The storyline genuinely is an absolute cracker and I'd love to give away the ending but it truly would spoil a great finale to a dark horse of a game.
15. The game only makes a good purchase if you are a diehard Gladiator fan; otherwise the game is a perfect rental title.
16. A historic blend of bloody action and stealth set in Roman times. [Jan 2007, p.106]
18. There is an awful lot of game here... Another schizophrenic winner from the Japanese masters of action/adventure.
19. 80
Brings a unique blend of innovative - if slightly mediocre at times - stealth adventuring with exciting gladiatorial battles that utilise one of the most enjoyable fighting systems yet.
20. 80
The stealth levels are the only other chink in the game's chain mail. Just when you finish turning arenas into butcher shops, who's in the mood for a little Metal Gear-style stealth? Answer: not us.
21. 80
While the idea of mixing weapons based brutality with careful tiptoeing stealth may have been the result of having one too many at the pub, it certainly comes off much better than expected. Well worth a look.
22. 80
The combat sequences are the undisputed highlight, and much of the game puts on a great show...just be prepared for stretches of frustration while sneaking around. [Feb 2005, p.74]
23. 80
The boss fights are supremely challenging and satisfying, and you’ll earn totally bitchin’ sets of armor as you accumulate bloody victories. There’s even a very enjoyable chariot race section.
24. It's sad that some of the best pure action on the PS2 is paired with such amateurish stealth. [Feb 2005, p.85]
25. It efficiently captures the mood and spirit of ancient Rome through bloody battles, exhilarating chariot races, and a few minor stealth sequences, all intertwined with a good moving story and impressive (for the most part) gameplay.
26. You’ll almost be able to smell the sweat and blood. Too bad the stealth side of the game is so weak in comparison.
27. 76
The equivalent of a summer action flick with a decent plot. It won't make you think too hard and the slow parts can get a little boring and clumsy, but the action is fun enough to redeem it.
28. Has its share of repetition, clunky controls, and a boring palette of polygons, but its high points - gory battles and an open-ended weapon system - make it a must-rent.
29. The violence is so over the top that it becomes funny...It's an uneven game that keeps speeding up, then slowing down, and as a result, it never really manages to keep your pulse racing for very long. [Jan 2005, p.64]
30. 75
The game simply bit off way more than it could chew with the stealth sections. The end result is certainly a thumbs up -- but only just.
31. Inspired Beat 'em Up action with some quality stealth mixed in to boot, just a shame that it lacks the polish to extrapolate its full potential.
32. There are many fewer stealth levels with Octavious, and they're not as well-polished as the fighting. But they're a nice break from the arena action, and none of them are very long.
33. There is nothing like disembowelling some poor defenceless slave to help calm the nerves after a hard day at the office.
34. Shadow of Rome unfortunately doesn’t quite manage to pull it off with an excellent fighting engine for Agrippa but poorly designed stealth missions for Octavianus which you cant help but wonder why they tried to implement it in the first place.
35. It's compelling enough to keep you retrying the more frustrating match types, plus put up with the stealth missions. Sure beats watching the History Channel. [March 2005, p.119]
36. The recreation of Rome, while not completely accurate, feels like Rome, and the wilderness sections are likewise done well. The enemies, however, do tend to be a bit bland, and it doesn’t take long until it feels like the same enemy has been killed numerous times.
37. It's almost as if Capcom has distilled its Onimusha series, extracting the two core components of the franchise ' epic, fierce confrontations, and puzzle-pocked exploration of lavish settings ' and given each more room to breathe, with their own character, style, atmosphere and pace... Fresher, but not better. [Jan 2005, p.82]
38. The brutality of the battles is Shadow Of Rome’s saviour, ensuring the joys of arena battles outshine the gloom of the needless padding and provide guilty thrills that little else can offer. [Feb 2005, p.95]
39. The combat system is as well done as anyone could ask for and is enough to make you play again and again. Unfortunately, the sections involving Octavianus’ are only punctuated with such pleasures, generally coming across as uninspired and fairly clumsy.
40. Too bad the game’s bloody battles (starring Agrippa) far outpace its stealth segments (featuring Octavianus), resulting in an uneven experience that makes players anticipate half the game and loathe the other.
41. 70
42. With the atmosphere and mood so sensationally presented, Shadow of Rome exceeded my expectations, which might have been questionable since I am avidly interested in the history of Greece and Rome.
43. There are a large range of weapons and opponents are smart. Unfortunately, the lengthy espionage sorties are often not as gripping and the change of pace is jarring.
44. 60
An undoubtedly flawed, but fun experience - Agrippa’s combat is enjoyable, engaging, and exhilarating, whereas Octavianus’ stealth sections offer nothing new and are fairly limited.
45. Once the combat stops being a one-button-win it builds into a genuinely captivating series of varied events and manages to present the futile bloodlust in an unsympathetic light, yet making the process of limb removal, beheading or carving someone's torso straight down the middle a thrilling experience.
46. Playing as the Centurion turned gladiator Agrippa is quite fun at first but very quickly becomes repetitive, whilst the sections of the game where you play as Octavianus are just plain dull to begin with.
47. Simplistic combat, trial and error stealth levels and a climax that seems to hit a bit too late all add up to an experience that falls a bit flat. Experience Rome as a solid rental, but all but the most patient will likely feel cheated for a full-price entry.
48. While serving up some more cerebral fare with the violent action is laudable, and the graphics are very good, by extending its sights, Shadow of Rome just fails to conquer.
49. We’re just left with one more game that relies on frustrating elements to make a short game seem longer, and one more game that settles at just average.
50. Merely a bad stealth game chained to a limited action game. While mauling people as Agrippa is fun when you get the chance to do it, the combat system isn’t revolutionary or deep enough to warrant the effort of dealing with the crummy Octavianus bits.
51. 47
One half of Shadow of Rome is a solid, if mildly frustrating, bloodbath that will please anyone looking for a chance to let off some steam. The other half of Shadow of Rome is an annoying slog through a weak knock-off of Metal Gear Solid’s sneaky parts.
52. The banality of the stealth sections and the laboured story telling are not worth the fun of the combat. The idea to blend together the two distinct, yet very successful in their own right, styles was interesting - but here the sum of the parts is much less than the total, and that’s your irony.
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I give the premise of the film and the acting a solid 9. Topics about education are extremely important for our society to grasp. The film itself was heavy-handed but it had to be. You cannot be subtle or make plot twists more important that the purpose of your film. While it doesn't make for the most compelling overall story possible, it does the trick that it needs to do. As a film, it wasn't perfect by any means but I would still recommend it as a viewing to anyone who cares about the state of our educational system which should be everyone. I do not think that the teacher's union portrayal was entirely accurate but like I said before, this film was from a particular point-of-view, and a passionate one that is worth viewing. Expand
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This movie was just not good, bottom line. I went in watching it because I was curious about it, but I could barely stay in the theatre. It was your stereotypical feel-good movie, which does not include strong acting performances. The story itself is inspiring, but the screenwriting and overall production of the movie was simply sub-par. Also, it was about 97% propaganda against unions. Not that I'm pro-union or anti-union, but having a movie that demonizes some organization in real life, or insinuates a false pretext about something makes the movie suffer in my opinion. It almost puts the "focus" of the film ahead of its actual production and the fundamental aspects of the film such as acting suffer as a result of it. Expand
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Hi everyone. This is my first post here but I feel like I need some advice.
I lost my husband 4 years ago very suddenly in an accident. Our daughter was 20 months old at the time; she is now 5.
I met my current bf almost 2 1/2 years ago. We moved in together in November of last year, so coming up on a year ago. We have discussed marriage but haven't taken any steps in that direction yet. His son is 5 as well. He shares custody with his ex-wife. We have 6 of 14 overnights and his ex-wife has 8. She is remarried with 2 stepkids.
The relationship between my bf and his ex-wife is very contentious. I genuinely believe she has mental health issues. She is extremely manipulative and controlling and creates conflict at every opportunity. She has tried to bring me in to it as well, but so far I've been able to avoid engaging with her. However, that doesn't mean I'm spared the headache, as my bf and I spend time nearly every evening discussing the most recent accusation/threat/criticism/rant/complaint and how to respond. The constant conflict takes a toll on my bf and I, and our entire family as a result. I feel like there is a third person in our relationship. I'd like to disengage, but I feel like my involvement improves matters somewhat because I'm able to view things a little bit more objectively and communicate more clearly than he is, which mitigates some of the conflict. While his ex-wife is, at least in my mind, the instigator of most of the conflict, my bf certainly isn't perfect. He is stubborn and tends to get drawn in by her games. I feel that many of their decisions are made with the goal of "winning," rather than doing what is best for their child.
Another concern is that his son has some behavioral issues. He is very impulsive and has issues with anger. He tends to resort to physical aggression (which in my opinion is unacceptable under any circumstance) and tantrums. My bf will discipline him if the aggression is directed toward my daughter or other kids, but will tolerate it when it's directed at him. My bf often accomodates his son's ridiculous demands in order to avoid a tantrum. Yesterday was only the 2nd week of kindergarten, and my bf's son was sent to the principal's office for trying to strangle another child (yes, you read that right, strangle). My bf's ex-wife has a brother with bipolar disorder, and as I stated above, I genuinely believe she struggles with mental illness, so I'm afraid that potential may be there with their son. Further, when my daughter and his son are together, my daughter does naughty things she would never in a million years do otherwise. She is a willing participant, and sometimes even the instigator, but she's not like that with anyone else, ever.
My daughter is no walk in the park either. She has some serious attitude for a 5-year-old, and has struggled a lot with "sharing" me, which results in some pretty difficult behavior with both my bf and his son. However, I feel like my bf lets his son get away with murder, but will fight my daughter to the death over even the tiniest thing. Additionally, there is love and forgiveness behind his discipline for his son, but not with my daughter. He can be very cold with her, and seems to hold a grudge, so that some tiny little infraction will be brought up over and over again. This morning when I was walking out the door to take my daughter to school, my bf picked a fight with her about why she put playground gravel in her backpack (which ended up on the carpet). He had already discussed the issue with her once, but felt it necessary to bring it up again, while his son was at school strangling other kids.
I don't want to paint this picture as worse than it is; my bf is a great guy, we have a very healthy relationship, his son is mostly loving and very intelligent, he is willing to work on his relationship with my daughter, and we are generally on the same page when it comes to parenting, beliefs, values, etc. However, I am terrified that at some point his ex-wife will make allegations of abuse, or that our kids will always be "trouble" together, which is manageable at 5 but not so much at 16, or that the the relationship between my bf and daughter will remain difficult.
I don't want to listen to it, but there is a little voice inside of me telling me that someday I may deeply regret bringing my daughter into this situation.
Does anyone have any advice, insight, or recommendations? Thanks in advance...
post #2 of 6
I'm sorry, I don't have any advice for you really, except listen to your gut. While some of these things sound like small things now, they will not magically improve without serious effort and cooperation between you and your dp. Don't jump into marriage until you feel like things are on the right track.
It sounds like his son needs some sort of help (and I say this in a caring, loving way)-strangling other kids at school sounds out of the ordinary to me. Is your dp open to this?
As far as your two kids getting into trouble together...is it mischevious, silly kind of trouble, or like playing with matches potentially dangerous kind of trouble? The first one, I would just let it go as a funny mix of personalities and continue encouraing them to play together but working on boundaries; the second, yes I would be concerned about the wisdom of keeping the two kids together without pretty strong supervision. This would be true of any set of kids getting into that kind of trouble, whether they are step-siblings, friends, or biological siblings.
Good luck!
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I do not have advice for you, other than what what was posted before: trust your gut. But I do understand your concerns about the relationship between your so and your dd. Also, I understand the "ex" aspect. Presently my boyfriend (and father of my son) is going through a custody battle with his ex for his daughter. They both go back and forth on getting under each other's skin. She is the primary instigator, but it does seem like their daughters well being is not the primary concern, but rather it's more about "winning"/"defeating" the other. All I can say, is do your best to stay out of it and do not directly engage with the woman, no matter how much she tries to pull you into it. As for the rest. . . it will take patience, understanding, work, and compromise with your children, you and your boyfriend; if you're willing to stick it out with this guy. *nodnod*
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I don't really have advice except to say that if you think the dynamic between him, his ex, and you will improve with time, I definitely wouldn't count on that. You should assume it will be just as bad for as long as you are around, and decide whether or not that is something you can live with. I'm nearly 10 years into this, with a very level-headed husband who is extremely protective of me and understands well the impact on my mental health when I get too involved in their conflict... and it is still a big piece of our lives. While I will say it is not nearly as bad as it was the first two or three years, there are plenty of times it is just as bad as in the early days. If you decide to stay in this relationship, be aware that this relationship with his ex will probably be part of your relationship for the foreseeable future... I know when I was going into it, I assumed we would go through the initial horribleness and then it would settle down once we got everything ironed out and got into a routine. While that might be true for some (or maybe just in the movies), it definitely wasn't for us. Their relationship is what it is, and it may or may not change, and whether or not it does is outside my control. So make sure that is something you can live with.
I sound all doom and gloom... even if I knew then what I know now, I would still have decided to be in this relationship with my husband, despite his ex and the stress she can sometimes bring into our lives. Even at its worst, that stress is worth having my husband and step-daughter as part of our family. And there are even times when I am grateful for the things I have learned through this struggle that make other difficult people easier for me to deal with. I'm definitely not advising you one way or the other... it seems like what you really need is a crystal ball to see the future, and this is the best I can do :)
post #5 of 6
I read your post and see red flags that suggest your bf's child has been abused, and unfortunately, the behavior your bf is exhibiting with your own child sounds controlling and emotionally violent, also red flags for domestic violence. Another red flag is how your bf argues to win with his ex-wife, instead of negotiating with the best for their child in mind. Kids don't strangle other kids unless they see it modeled to them, and the parents of that child are the most likely perpetrators. I would advise you find a DV support group in your area to take care of yourself and your daughter - they are there to support women in figuring out how to handle difficult situations in their home like the one you describe.My strong advice is to not just disengage with the ex-wife but the bf as well. You and your daughter deserve a man in your lives who is trusting and loving at ALL times.
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I am sorry that you are going through this, too. I do not have any advice either except an experience. My husband has 15yr old son with second wife, 12 yr old daughter from a wild woman he was involved with for a short period of time and 7yr old and 8yr old from his third wife and 3 yr old with me. So as you can see I have had potential to deal with a lot of that but he has made it very clear that I come first before any other woman in his life. I must say, it has felt good to know that I am first in his life. He usually takes my advice about those situations when one of them wants to start something like that with him, he ignores it. Idk your belief system or anything and I sure do not want to offend you but when we got together we broke soul ties with past relationships. Breaking soul ties is a part of my beliefs and I believe that this practice saved us from difficulties within realm of possibility.
I hope it works out for ya. Blending families is challenging. Backbreaking... in my case ;) I hope you follow your heart... but wait, one more thing.. I have had a feeling about raising my daughter around his kids because of the behavior patterns. I did not listen to that little lump in my stomach, I focused on how much him and I connected and I believe that with cooperation it will work out for our kids as well. Woman/mothers have an instinct for a reason, ya know?
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My friend is in her first trimester with her 2nd child.
Her first was a boy (now 2.5yo). He had a NICU start, and was circ'd because the baby next him was intact and they saw what a hassle it was to clean him. (Yup. The hospital retracted, even these tiny NICU babes! horrified!) However, I'm thinking that experience merely was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm pretty sure Daddy is circ'd as well, so the conventional nonsense arguments had to have factored in as well. They don't really research these things. : (
I plan to PM just a few links over FB, keeping it short and sweet; matter-of-fact. I am nervous--- I do not want to hurt our friendship, but I cannot consider myself a decent friend if I don't share the valuable information in my back pocket.
I would love some guidance finding links that address their specific concerns:
1) Above all, sensitivity and sobriety
My friend is an extremely sensitive person anyway, but even more so when she is pregnant. She doesn't need the inflammatory, loaded, accusatory words and phrases that frequently appear in our literature. They have their place, but it definitely isn't here. Remember she is hormonal, and she has already circ'd her first son. She needs articles and studies that will appeal to her logic, and use the utmost empathy when addressing mothers of circ'd sons. Also, she is a victim of sexual abuse, so anything linking circ to sexual abuse might be way too much, and might actually repel her (especially if she's seen circ as "no big deal"). The point of this is just to convince them to keep their baby intact, not beat them over the head with every point.
2) Acknowledging and addressing their faith
I can almost guarantee that their Christianity informs this decision. They probably agree with thought processes such as "God wouldn't command something that is harmful" and "If it is good enough for Jesus..."
Articles that discuss the differences between Old Testament and modern-day circ'ing, and that impress that their faith does not require it, would be very helpful.
3) Prepuce function and care; basic explanation of circ procedure.
Like I said at the beginning, they made the decision with their first sons based off of witnessing improper care. They need to know exactly how to handle an infant's intact penis--- don't retract, wipe like a finger--- simple, easy. It's a given that they do not know what the prepuce is for, so basic explanation about its value would help. Also, a basic explanation of the circ procedure--- I don't see videos being appropriate for them, though I might very briefly mention that there are videos of circs on youtube, and they might look them up.
4) Perspective from medical professionals
These folks abide by what the doctors say. They need credible articles written by medical professionals to appeal to them. They also have a nurse in the family who frequently advises them regarding medical matters. I do not know what the nurse's position on circ is, but I would be surprised if they don't run to her with these links. This part needs to be very strong in case this aunt tells them "it's really no big deal".
5) Addressing Daddy concerns
You know, the conventional pile of nonarguments. Ridicule in the locker room. Needs to look like Daddy. It's cleaner. etc.
6) Ethical dilemmas
It needs to be said, but as matter-of-factly and as sensitively as possible. FGM v MGM and his body, his choice.
I THINK that is it.
Also, when should I share this info? Now, ASAP? Or do I wait until after their big gender scan if it is a boy?
post #2 of 12
32.) Fathers don't spend time comparing penises with their sons. If your son does notice that his penis is different from Dad's (other than size and hair), you can simply explain that Daddy had an operation when he was a baby. My dad lost half of his ring finger in an accident, but I was never bothered by having all of my fingers.
believe in God, why did he give men foreskins? Did they screw up?
42.) If you are Christian, your religion actually *forbids* circumcision. Your son's body is a temple, and Jesus was the sacrifice to end all sacrifices - including the foreskin. See this link for more info.
*these two points taken from the above link
Edited by Sol_y_Paz - 9/29/12 at 10:52am
post #3 of 12
On the religious angle, I found an interesting site that talked about how circumcision was used to identify land owners in the time and place of the Old Testament. I've looked, and haven't found it again. I'll keep checking as time allows.
In the meantime, I found something else that may help with the religious aspect. According to this, circumcision was not complete in biblical times. I'm not sure if that's true, but it could help instill doubt as to whether circumcision is something that should be done today.
Edited to add more :
Hope these help. If her reasons include religion, entire amputation was not originally performed, according to these sites.
Edited by pek64 - 9/29/12 at 3:47am
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In Place of Circumcision
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I really think this article is great.
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post #8 of 12
Here are some good ones that should fit the bill. First is one that is quick and too the point. More importantly, it is by doctors, so has good credibility and should be good for the first concern you mentioned.
Here is another, interactive site that might be good:
Here is a very thorough discussion of how to care for an intact male, and why this seems so confusing. The care is a simple as can be, this mainly gives the background so you understand the why.
The daddy concerns are caused by fearmongering among advocates. The above links should help with that. Other than that, you really need to simply show the ill-logic of these "daddy" concerns. They are easily dealt with if you can get past the fearmongering brainwashing that they were subject too. For example, all you have to do i be able to think a bit to realize that the "look like daddy" argument is silly. What parent would glue hair into thier infants face or genitals to make them look like daddy? What if the dad was missing an arm form the war? Would he seriously advocate removing his son's arm?
Likewiase the "will get teased/traumatized by peers" or "won't find a woman". All you have to do is think a bit to realize that only fearmongering and blind acceptance of that fearmongering would sway anyone.
But if you want credible references for her, try this one on these issues:
As far as ethics, that same article has a section on that:
An even better one:
Hope these help.
I would start when you feel it is best, earlier the better.
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Thread Starter
Oh! I need to update!
My friend brought it up in December totally out of the blue! We had a good conversation where we shared what we know, and we recommended the Penn and Teller Bullshit video and The Vulnerability of Men.
She still wasn't sure what their decision will be when the conversation ended--- her husband was very adamant about circ'ing; but a seed has been planted and nurtured! I am SO proud of her being open to challenging her POV.
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Best wishes
post #11 of 12
The fact that her first boy was cut may be an speedbump in this effort, but it is still worth trying on behalf of the helpless baby. It might help her to know other moms have left their younger sons intact even though older brothers are not.
Here is a sweet story about this mom's first son being happy his little brother was not circumcised:
Here is another, the mom has 2 younger intact sons
Here is the Facebook "Keep future sons intact" support page:
And also I might mention, what my friend did to convince me was she casually sent me an email about her having left her sons intact, that it was not a big deal to keep up with, and that I should do some research on it before I go through with it. Well I took her advice and discovered a video of the procedure which convinced both me and my hard-headed husband. I am SO thankful to her up to this day that I must have thanked her 100 times already. Thank God for gutsy friends!!
Good luck!
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You can send an anonymous info card from the Whole Network. It costs around $2 to send one and will not include your information. I would personally go that route with this one because her first son is cut and she may feel judged and defensive. If she gets an anonymous card, she may just assume she ended up on a mailing list or something and will feel more like it was "her" idea and not some friend judging her. That is just my opinion though. If it were her first baby, I'd lean more towards just talking to her, but I'd lean this way and see if planting the seed gets her to do more research.
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Okay this is a total stretch but I'm going to give it a shot. So, I'm going to SoCal very unexpectedly last minute from the 10th to the 21st. That being said, I had no intention of going to Disney because... simply put it's spendy to buy a hopper now that isn't attached to a vaca package. However, my brother who is in the military currently stationed in Texas said he could get me and a friend a 3 day hopper through a promotion they have for military friends and family but I talked to DL and they said I have to just have someone going into the park with me that has a military ID, regardless of weather they are active or not, the first time I go in. So I figure it's a long shot, but by any chance, does there happen to be an amazing MWer going to the parks some time between the 11th and like the 16th of July, that has a military ID that wanted to walk in the gates with us. You can have an AP, we just need your company apparently. Wow sorry for the novel
Do you get in free? If not I think you can usually buy tickets on base. And they are way cheaper there. Maybe your brother could buy them and then mail them to you. But I don't know if the base in Texas would have Disneyland tickets. I would help you if I could. - Flyingtoneverland 188.1 #1946 3:56PM
No. Disney has a special until September where a soldier or their spouse can buy a 3 day hopper for $99... i think it's like up to six per person or something, for family and friends. He should be able to get it on base somewhere from what I understand. And he could send it to me. Thing is, The first time we go in, someone with a military ID has to be there with us. There is where we're having the issue cause he couldn't get leave to fly up. - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 5:35PM
I was under the understanding that the person who purchased the tickets has to be there with you to activate the tickets. Did I miss understand? If so, this may help me immensely come September! - DizGeek 453.6 #367 5:40PM
Well when i called they made it seem like it just had to be anyone with a military ID just had to be present and it didn't specifically have to be the person that purchased it. I may have to check on that though. - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 5:46PM
I was reading the rules and it sounds like the person who purchased the tickets has to be the one to show ID. - DizGeek 453.6 #367 5:48PM
I'll have to call them again in a bit - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 5:54PM
Can you please post what you find out? Thank you! - DizGeek 453.6 #367 5:55PM
will do. Prob be in an hour or 2 - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 5:58PM
Alright so I just called. They said it can be anyone with a military ID as long as there are no names on the ticket. So when whoever purchases it makes the purchase, just don't add names and it doesn't matter who purchases it. There just has to be someone with you the first time entering the park that has a VALID military ID and it can't be more than 6 tickets in total. - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 6:31PM
Awesome thank you!!! - DizGeek 453.6 #367 7:32PM You can buy discounted passes without a vacation package. - streetsweeper 511.8 #310 5:47PM
Thanks I'll check it out :) - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 5:50PM
Seems on there you still need to get a hotel though... i just need a ticket - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 5:53PM
You can get tickets only on just click the ticket only tab at the top. - azbellatink 241.8 #1277 6:10PM
The tickets on getaway today are really not any cheaper than on - Pudgeman 536.7 #287 7:45PM
Yeah not enough so for me to decide to buy them :(. But still appreciated ppl suggesting it. - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 11:34PM
We have bought the $99 military tickets multiple times so I can help you. When you buy the ticket on base they put the person that buys it(w/ ID) name on it. Then when going through the gate, they check for that person's ID. We have used these tickets 4 times as recently as 2 weeks ago and they have check that ID every time for the first use. Even last time, my sister was using it. My parents had bought the ticket with their retired ID so it had their last name, my sister showed her paper and her husband showed his active duty ID and they would not let them in. My parents had to walk back and show their ID with their last name. My husband(retired) bought for his family and had to show his ID on entrance. We bought for friends and same thing. We have only had to show ID initially, after that they never asked. - emnldsmom 250.0 #1176 11:43PM
Sorry, was getting long. Maybe the person meant that you could buy them at the ticket booth? I would just be careful! Would hate to see you get to the park and have problems. The specific page on their website and the MWR have this all posted. In fact the MWR said the military member needs to be with the person for evey entry, but DL site does. I called and was told they only have to be with them the first time. - emnldsmom 250.0 #1176 11:46PM
Maybe your brother could go to MWR and see if they put the name on the ticket? If they don't put his name in the paper, then your plan would work! It is a printed paper that is scanned at the gates and then a reg ticket prints out. - emnldsmom 250.0 #1176 11:48PM
So basically the guy i talked to lied. Not only would I have to find someone to be there I'd have to find someone to purchase it for me... and this is where I give up. Thank you so much for clearing that up cause it could have been a disaster :) - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 11:49PM
Yeah I suppose checking at least wouldn't hurt. But I sorta feel bad on imposing on anyone in the first place since he can't make it. Thanks a bunch though! Like I said you were super helpful :D - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 11:51PM
feel bad about* - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 11:52PM
I don't know if he lied or maybe didn't understand completely what you want to do? When I was buying one for our friends that were going with us for 2 days and then using the last day on their own, I called to make sure that was legit. I was told yes. I wrote the girls name down and have it just in case they had a problem. When we went with my hubs family, we were blocked out the first day wanted to go in. He went to the gate with them, showed his ID(we were prepared to buy a block out for his of needed) and the lady was nice and let them in without him but still needed his ID. - emnldsmom 250.0 #1176 11:56PM
But this lady at MWR said we had to be with them all the time for every entry. We even signed a paper saying we understood this. She said people were being turned away if the military member wasn't with them. That is why I called. We have not experienced that at all with all the tickets we have bought. And you can buy 6 tickets in a one week period but up to 12 throughout the time period. - emnldsmom 250.0 #1176 11:58PM That is the Disney page. This is getting long, And I don't want to upset anyone. If you want to DM, I can answer any questions you have! I hope it all works out for you! - emnldsmom 250.0 #1176 12:01AM
No worries I think that about answers it. The 3 separate people I spoke to the times that I called told me the same thing, that they only check the first time in. It really just is a lost cause at this point. Thank you so so so so much you were so helpful! - Poisen_Ivy 269.3 #997 12:11AM
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If you want a huge speed boost, replace
@rv=($i, @rv, map{$_.':'.$i} @rv);
push @rv, $i, map{$_.':'.$i} @rv;
By the way, I found confusing the use of $i for something which is not an index and not even numerical. $part would have worked fine, since it's an element of @parts. Well, it was named @parts before you renamed to worthless @t. Nice algorithm, but shoddy code.
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Thanks for the tip on the speed boost. Once I get the benchmarking stuff installed I'll play with it. While I do like your suggestion, I prefer the order that my method generates--all one-word combinations first, then the two-word combinations, etc.)
Re: shoddy code. Yeah, I guess so, consider me properly admonished. ++ for calling me on it and keeping me honest. When I thunk up the technique to use, I just erased the original function body and started whacking away at it. I didn't think to clarify things by using better variable names. (Of course, I just came off of a little golfing trip so my head was in "trim keystrokes" mode.</lame_excuse_mode>) Now, I guess the proper thing to do is to clean it up a little and insert your suggestion, so here goes:
sub function { my @parts = split /:/, shift; # Null is the complete list of combinations for # an empty word list my @combinations=(); # Sequentially (recursively with tail recursion # removed) rebuild the combination list adding one # new word each iteration for my $new_word (@parts) { # Given a complete set of combinations for a # given list of words, we can add a new word to # the list and generate all new valid combinations # by concatenating to the original list: push @combinations, # the new word (a single word is a valid # combination) $new_word, # and the original list with the new word # glommed onto the end of each member map {$_.':'.$new_word} @combinations ; } return @combinations; }
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This is the way I've usually seen it done. I was curious, so I ran a benchmark against the two.
use Benchmark; my @list; for ( 0..9999 ) { push @list, sprintf "%d", 100 * rand ; } timethese( 1000, { 'keys_map' => sub { my @uniq = keys %{{ map {$_ => 1} @list }} +; }, 'grep_seen' => sub { my %seen; my @uniq = grep ! $seen{$_}+ ++, @list; }, } );
Yields the following output.
Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of grep_seen, keys_map... grep_seen: 13 wallclock secs (11.17 usr + 0.00 sys = 11.17 CPU) @ 89 +.52/s (n=1000) keys_map: 30 wallclock secs (29.28 usr + 0.00 sys = 29.28 CPU) @ 34 +.15/s (n=1000)
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Making no claim to understanding tcl; what the code appears to be doing is:
1. for each row in the table;
2. query the text for each column within that row;
3. split that text on newlines;
4. find the maximum number of lines in any column within that row;
5. set the row height for that row accordingly.
SOmething roughly equivalent in Perl terms to:
my $maxRows = $tableMatrix->cget( -rows ); my $maxCols = $tableMatrix->cget( -cols ); for my $r ( 1 .. $maxRows -1 ) { set $maxHeight = 1; for my $col ( 0 .. $maxCols - 1 ) { my $text = $tableMatrix->getText( -row => $row, -col => $col ) +; my $nLines = scalar split "\n", $text; if( $nLines > 1 and $maxHeight < $nLines ) { $maxHeight = $nLines; } } $tableMatrix->cset( row => $row, height => $maxHeight ); }
You'll have to work out the appropriate methods to call for what I've shown as getText() & cset().
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The internet wasn't built on perl. The biggest problem I have with perl is this idea that no other language should exist. In this thread alone, how many people have indicated that "after Perl 6 comes out and we get some GUI environments for it, etc. then no one will want to use any other languages". You don't see this in any of the other comunities, why is it seemingly the dominant voice in Perl land? It was this attitude expressed daily from a college for over 5 years that has driven me away from Perl forever.
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Of what relevance is Baldwin's religious affiliation to what's going on in this photo? Why does the media have no problem outting religious people (mainly Christians) when their religion has nothing to do with the story. It's one thing to have written the caption this way, but to actually post the anti-Christian and discriminatory comments is very disturbing. Especially posts from obviously non-religious people who claim to not want religion "forced" on them and yet find time to post offensive comments about Baldwin's religious beliefs. Please don't provide the ring side seat for faith bashing as an internet sport.
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uh yeah # 33-Maybe because all these born again "Christians" are bible thumping freaks & that is all they talk about? Easy targets.
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does anyone else think her nails look disgusting? and not just the tacky yellow color, but the fact that it kinda looks like they're going to fall off or something? maybe it's just the picture, but gross!
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Baldwin didn't say anything. IT'S A PHOTO NOT A VIDEO. Thanks for making my point. So you're looking for "Easy targets" - how sad for you. I wish you inner peace.
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By DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) — Eight months into a bankruptcy that was years in the making, American Airlines is showing signs of finally turning itself around and regaining its lost glory.
The airline is cutting costs and making progress in labor negotiations. It's even losing fewer bags.
But the nation's third-biggest airline still faces huge challenges to succeed against United and Delta, which are similar to American in structure but much bigger. They're also profitable.
Analysts say American must expand and improve its route network to attract high-paying business travelers. It's weak on both the East and West coasts. It ranks below average in government ratings for on-time flights and consumer complaints.
US Airways CEO Doug Parker says the best way for American to grow its network is by merging with his airline. Many Wall Street analysts agree. American's unions support a potential US Airways takeover because they believe it will mean fewer layoffs and other concessions.
AMR CEO Thomas Horton has preferred a go-it-alone strategy, although he said last week that AMR will examine merger possibilities. Bankruptcy creditors will decide between Parker's proposal, Horton's independent path and any other plans that pop up.
Horton called the quarter "exceptional improvement." He said the restructuring was just beginning to take hold, and that momentum would build until "American re-emerges as an industry leader."
In late June, American was struggling to get its union on board with the cost-cutting plan. It had agreements only with a few groups of ground workers. Then it scored a breakthrough: Directors of the pilots' union narrowly approved an American contract proposal and sent it to the airline's 7,500 pilots for a ratification vote that will end Aug. 8. American says the deal would cut spending on pilots by 17 percent or about $315 million a year even with pay raises.
Union President David Bates said the union's financial and legal advisers recommended the offer largely because the pilots would own 13.5 percent of the new AMR that emerges from bankruptcy.
The tentative contract would also let American expand its use of smaller regional jets and boost revenue through closer partnerships with other U.S. airlines. American wants to "code-share" with JetBlue Airways and Alaska Airlines, in which it would sell seats on the other airlines as if they were American flights and share in the revenue.
"It was an important milestone in our restructuring," AMR chief commercial officer Virasb Vahidi says of the deal. "It accelerated the momentum of our labor negotiations."
The unions have a powerful incentive to bargain. If they don't, a federal bankruptcy judge in New York could rule next month that American can simply throw out its labor contracts and impose pay and other terms on workers.
To reduce empty seats, it put smaller planes on some routes where it couldn't fill 140-seat MD-80s, including new service between New York's LaGuardia Airport and Atlanta and many flights between Chicago's O'Hare Airport and Newark, N.J., San Antonio, Texas, and Denver.
It must fix a route network that is weaker than key rivals on the East and West coasts. American has pulled out of many secondary cities, leaving weak connections. For example, to fly from Rochester, N.Y., to London, American sends passengers west to Chicago, then back east to London. That's a tough sell when United will route them to London via New York City or Washington.
American could bolster its position in the eastern U.S. by code-sharing with or even buying JetBlue, which is strong at New York's Kennedy airport.
Publicly, JetBlue isn't interested. "Our path forward," says CEO David Barger, "is one of independence."
And that brings American back to a potential combination with US Airways, which many analysts consider to be American's best option — but not necessarily for AMR's top management.
"In all probability," says longtime airline industry analyst Ray Neidl of Maxim Group LLC, "it would be the US Airways management that would survive."
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Analysts crush HP's revamp: 'Juggling in a wind tunnel'
Here's a sampling of analyst comments:
Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore said:
Shares were down 17 percent in premarket trading:
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• A classic mistake
Don't announce something then try to do it, do it then announce it. When HP announced the PC business was crap, they ensured that companies would think three times before buying any HP PCs and they guaranteed the unit would go for a firesale price. I have to wonder if Apothaker really works for Larry Ellison ....
terry flores
• Shot themselves in the foot, didn't they?
I won't be buying any HP laptops or PCs in the future. Not if there's uncertanity as to whether they will be supported or not. <br><br>And I don't know the story on their printers since I was planning to buy a new one next year as well.
• HP.bis
This is completely in line with the business operating model of HP in recent years.
It is completely out of line with the business operating model that brought HP to success.
• RE: Analysts crush HP's revamp: 'Juggling in a wind tunnel'
HP's changes are focused on numbers. They are following trends and finding which areas are not best for them now, but going to be the best for them in the future.
I'm disappointed that the webOS may be dropped, as it is a better performer than most others and would likely land in 2nd or 3rd place in the market over the long term.
For the stock, I am looking forward to buying at the lower price and holding on to it for some time to come. The company is a better bet than any airline or bank stocks these days.
You may want to wait until the ax falls on Apothecker. You'll miss out on the uptick the day he gets fired, but so long as he is there the bigger risk is that he will do something even more stupid than announcing the sale of the PC Division before he has anyone lined up to buy it. You have to admit, that's about as dumb as it comes.
I had assumed that the death of the TouchPad was a side effect of a long-planned decision to sell the PC business. Now it looks more like the whole "transformation" was decided over a quick lunch at McDonald's, some time in the last week. "Juggling in a wind tunnel," one guy called it. "Driving by bouncing off the guardrails" is another.
I'll bet the phones are ringing off the hook at the board members' offices... institutional investors wanting Apothecker's head on a stick. Even if you agree with the decision to spin off the PC business, telling everybody you're going to take a year to think about it while it swirls slowly around the porcelain bowl is nuts.
Robert Hahn
@Robert Hahn
Totally agree with your statement. Apothecker's in line with Balmer. Since I still own MSFT stock, I hope Balmer's ahead.
• One Man's "Bold"...
...is another man's "Moronic", "Desperate", "Bizarre", or cue to short-sell.
what does this have to do with nuking the Touchpad?
@ThereThere In a word, everything. The iPad has hit HP's core business with a paradigm shift in how people use computing devices. PC sales are flat or down over year mainly due to the flooding of the consumer market by Apple's iPad.
HP's half hearted attempt at stemming that flood with a WebOS device was aimed at joining in that shift, though, frankly when an exec at HP said that the best HP could hope for was battling it out for second place I thought then there wasn't enough fire in the belly for HP to succeed in the tablet market.
Apple has if not single handedly at least been a major factor in the disarray of both HP and the entire computer industry. I'll admit that while Apple has enjoyed considerable success it has been the stumbling and miscues of every major CEO out there that's contributed to their success. HP is no exception to that. The Touchpad, while it may have matured into a real competitor, HP didn't have the balls to attempt to compete two iterations in on the iPad. It was a non starter from the get go.
Stocks have been hammered enough lately - buy - hmm - that "could" be a long term money maker - if HP does not sell off - that should have been kept quiet - that leak sure did not help the stock price.
• Shot Foot Again
HP's been shooting itself in the foot ever since buying Compaq. Total outsource model. Compaq was making money doing maintenance on lower end products. Hp piloted outsourcing and even though the outcome was slightly in the negative, moved to outsourcing. Their mindset back then was "if it's not running HPUNIX, it isn't worth our time". Obviously they've now decided to just scuttle all the low end stuff. And the phone and pad were recent products!
Glad I dumped my stock when it was up. I think it's going to be a long time before it comes back.
Leadership is lacking at HP! If they wanted to lose money, they could have paid me a few million to be their CEO!!
HP suffers from the same inbred philosophy as Microsoft and Intel. Having dominated the PC industry for decades there was no fire left to follow Apple's paradigm shift to Pad computing for consumers. Each of the PC producers suffer the same problem. They think Pads are a passing consumer phase, like the iPod. Well, like they thought the iPod was. The entire industry is over burdened with the fruits of past successes: CEOs who think eternal growth happens without effort, Boards who haven't a clue about vision, and bureaucracies laden with decades of 'process' unable to respond in a timely fashion to Apple's start up philosophy.
HP is just the latest, but I can be confident not the last victim of Apple's success.
• Two things:
Fear of the iPad or other "current" tablets is just one of the reasons for pulling the plug on webOS. More significant is the 800 pound gorilla about to be unleashed to the world of tablets and PCs, that being Windows 8. HP saw the writing on the wall, and they knew that, with Microsoft entering into the tablet arena with Windows 8, that they didn't stand a chance. Enter Windows 8, and exit webOS. But, HP is trying to get something out of the division before it's too late.
Also, HPs PC division is still worth a lot of money, and perhaps it's management were hoping that, with the announcement of that division being up for sale, that they could start a bidding war for HP's PC business.
HP is not dead yet, not by a long shot, and if they can get good value from the sales of webOS and the PC division, then that money could be put to use in other areas that HP is hoping to be more successful in.
I know what you mean. Once Windows 8 comes out, all will be crushed in its path. The Seven Cities will fall. The heavens themselves will crack. Mountains will be reduced to rubble; entire oceans will disappear. The fabric of spacetime will be twisted into pretzels and fabulous creatures will disappear from the Pleistocene and pop out on the streets of Philadelphia. The Ballmer will survey his domain, and hear the lamentations of the women.
Robert Hahn
• Not quite, but close.
Being dismissive is not how one goes about dealing with the real world. Denial is not going to earn you a place on the decision-making process which makes the world richer.
Windows 8 hasn't been released yet, but to deny that it's going to have a huge impact on the world of IT, is the same as the statement a few decades ago that, most people wouldn't have a need for more than 600k of storage.
Hold on to your thoughts and meet me again in another discussion in the future, in perhaps 18 to 24 months, after Windows 8 has been released and used. I'll bet you won't be as sarcastic as you sound now.
<ul><i>Windows 8 hasn't been released yet, but to deny that it's going to have a huge impact on the world of IT, is the same as the statement a few decades ago that, most people wouldn't have a need for more than 600k of storage. </i></ul><p>
I think it's more like the statement one decade ago that corporations are finally getting off NT4 and moving to Windows XP. The history of these things is that "the world of IT" goes along with spending millions on upgrades about half as often as Microsoft wishes. Vista fell in that crack, and so will Windows 8. The corporations are just now moving to 7. They aren't going to do it again until Windows 9... ten years from now.
Robert Hahn
@Robert Hahn I feel that so many people simply are not treating Ballmer of Microsoft fairly. By any count, Ballmer has real vision and better sense to the core businesses of Microsoft. In contrast, Leo of HP simply does not have a a clue!
• Robert Hahn: Corporations won't be moving to Windows 7
if they haven't already done so.
With Windows 8 on the horizon, it wouldn't make any sense for them to go with Windows 7 when Windows 8 sound much more promising for all the different computing platforms and for connecting all of them with with same OS.
So, in essence, Windows 8 will get the customers that hold off on going with Windows 7, and the new OS will also get the upgrades and new customers who automatically get the OS with new PCs. So, there is no doubt that Windows 8 will be the most successful OS of all time. And, it's going to also take a huge portion of the tablets market. No doubt, Windows 8 will be an overwhelming success. And that could get even bigger if Windows 8 can be successfully installed onto smartphones.
I don't think HP has any more feet left to shoot. Don't you wish there were audio/video recordings of when decisions like these are reached and what exactly were the discussions and reasoning, if any, behind them? Gawd....
Absolutely. One of two things is true: either Apothecker knew that HP was about to exit the PC business when he said all those things about the WebOS being the future, and how it would be put on all of HP's PC products... or he didn't know, which means that the decision was made very recently, on the basis of little discussion.
In the first case, Apothecker can't be trusted as far as you can throw him, and in the second case they have made a hugely monumental decision to shed 35% of the revenue of the company (and probably thousands of employees) without doing any serious analysis.
I'm not sure which is worse.
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0.520106 | <urn:uuid:bcfe6b59-cc6a-48b5-bb1e-8cfd5298b5ad> | en | 0.956516 | China's right to demonstrate no such thing as absolute online freedom | ZDNet
China's right to demonstrate no such thing as absolute online freedom
No such thing as absolute freedom of expression
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• Freedom just flew away
Excellent story, Eileen.
In China, you can get arrested for spreading untruths. But in the United States, you can get arrested for telling the truth.
Apart from what happened to Snowden, look at the recent press conference by the CEOs of Yahoo and Facebook. They said that they could not even mention the extent of government eavesdropping or they could be arrested themselves. Just for talking about it! Just for telling the truth about what the government is doing.
Can anyone really call that freedom?
• Ten cent army
Are you one of those bloggers they Chinese government hires to put up disinformation? In China, if two internet CEOs complained about how they are hardwired in to domestic surveillance programs or how they , if anyone wrote about it, or if anyone tried to read it, they'd all be in jail. But that would never happen becuase the CPC has complete control, an army of censors, and texts editors what they can and cannot write about. Call that freedom? You need to re-read Animal Farm.
Eileen Yu the 50 cent voter doing the chinese communist regime shilling.
Pathetic shina apologist
• Absolutes and Freedom
No freedom of any kind is unlimited. Oliver Wendell Holmes famously stated, "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." All rights are limited to actions that do not violate the rights of others. Freedom of speech does not include the freedom to slander. Freedom to make copies of DVDs does not include making copies of DVDs that contain copyrighted material. Of course, piracy is rampant in China.
Freedom of expression also does not include the right to distribute materials that have been obtained illegally. I believe that is what Bradley Manning is accused of, and Edward Snowden as well.
The problem in China, though, is that the Chinese government simply cannot be trusted. With no free press in China, all government officials are corrupt by definition. So China does not need laws protecting government officials from slander. They are all guilty by definition. If China were a country governed by the rule of objective law, we could have an intelligent conversation about Chinese internet slander laws. I don't think much of the Chinese government, so I have to assume that the slander laws are just a pretext for arresting people who are critical of government. With no free press to shed sunlight on government abuses, how will we ever know.
Please don't write articles saying "China may of done X, but the US did Y, so China must not be that bad!" Both China and the US should be judged against objective criteria of what is just and what isn't. The US isn't perfect by any stretch, but we still have a free (if incompetent) press. Try again when China frees its press.
• They don't equate
Trying to compare the two as the same is like looking at a rowboat and a cargo ship and saying "they're both boats".
I definitely have my problems around the censorship that the US government tries to impose but as long as the Great Firewall stays in place, any attempts to compare information restriction in the US and China are ludicrous.
• Known untruths vs whistleblowers
China monitors their citizens use of the internet - (rule 1 of masterminds of the obvious).
China dislikes disrupters of the social harmony.
If you accuse someone of corruption in China, you better have a video of it taking place.
US government dislikes whistleblowers that embarrass the US governments ability to spy on its citizens or disclose its military mistakes. Despite the precedence of the leak of the classified Pentagon Papers by NYT and their exoneration by the Supreme court.
If freedom of the press is paramount? Is it free to print all the time, or only sometimes? What is the least untruthful answer the government can say?
In 2013 survey, 75% of republicans and 40% of Dems, regard the US government as a threat to their rights and freedoms. So how is this freedom of the press doing for our comfort with government?
• Incompetence
A free press is no panacea or guarantee of the preservation of other freedoms. The mainstream press in the United States is massively biased in favor of the Left, plus they are in bed with the politicians. They go to the same cocktail parties. But the truth is available through Internet media. The US government is currently a major threat to our rights and freedoms (e.g., Obamacare), so 25% of Republicans and 60% of Democrats need to wake up and smell the coffee.
• People spread unsubstantiated rumors...
...on a regular basis and have for millenia. People even do it right here on ZDNet. I even have good reason to believe that some of them are even spread by functionaries of political parties such as the one that rules China.
It's possible that the Comrades in Beijing are simply trying to protect innocent people's reputations, but I doubt that even then they would go so far as to prosecute rumor spreading that makes them look good.
John L. Ries
• Who decides what is true?
In a society with free speech and a free press, the truth or falsity of a report is left up to the readers of the report. In a society with major restrictions on speech and press, it is left up to the government to decide what is "true" (i.e. following the government line) or "false" (contradicting the government line.) If the government suppresses any ideas it disapproves of, the opportunity for the readers to decide whether a report is true or false has been taken away.
The actions of the United States government against Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are a violation of what has theoretically been a part of our society since the Bill of Rights.
Granted that officials in all levels of government in the United States have violated those fundamental principles, institutions such as the Supreme Court have (at least sometimes) defended those principles even when they are violated by government officials.
We also have competing power bases in the US government (big business, small business, labor, environmental protection, multiple religious groups, anti-religious groups, farmers, scientists, engineers, etc.). When the government is not monolithic, violations of human rights by government officials "owned" by one power block are continually challenged by government officials "owned" by another power block. The system is obviously not perfect, but it has mechanisms that allow it to improve.
Putting all the power to decide what speech and what press releases are acceptable in the hands of one group is asking for trouble, and that is what has resulted every time that has been done. Although human reasoning abilities are, have been, and will probably always be limited, I think that it is safer to let individuals look at MULTIPLE viewpoints and decide for themselves what is true.
I do, however, agree with the safeguards of slander and libel laws that can carry penalties for people who KNOWINGLY and MALICIOUSLY publish falsehoods about other individual human beings. The idea of "slander of the state" and "slander of a corporation" are illegitimate and should not be a part of any legal system. | http://www.zdnet.com/chinas-right-to-demonstrate-no-such-thing-as-absolute-online-freedom-7000021292/ | dclm-gs1-274680000 | false | false | {
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currently we have only:
the symfony2 way:
by the way, autoloading "bundleless" files will work also:
so now we have a registered bundle and from here we can do some more magic stuff...
i can optimize the code and provide a diff, if there is any interesting person.
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so here is the patch with some additional test cases.
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hey i'm hungry now ;( Kudos for writing tests!
Let's first discuss how we actually want it to behave and then fix the code-style-issues etc.
It seems to make sense for me to have a new component in Drupal beside modules/themes/profiles, though a bundle wouldn't fit 100% into the previous 3 examples,
because it will not have an info file. In general it would be nice, to get the two worlds connected even more.
What about adding a new "bundles" folder to make it clear where to put your stuff.
Component:plugin system» base system
Issue tags:+WSCCI
Adapting the components.
Status:Needs review» Needs work
Issue tags:-WSCCI
The last submitted patch, 0001-every-module-can-provide-a-src-folder-for-recursive-.patch, failed testing.
Status:Needs work» Needs review
Issue tags:+WSCCI
We can use the SystemListing to search for .info files which should find the themes also, currently this is only done on .profile and .module. by the way we can than provide the lib/Drupal structure also for themes.
i would not rename the src folder to bundle, because in the src folder we have an autoloader fallback. so we can put there any namespaced class which is than known by the classloader. i dont found any discuss about the /lib/Drupal/ namespace structure, but currently i can not see any possibility to reuse or write psr-0 styled code, without the Drupal prefix.
whats about registering the lib folder as autoloader fallback too and provide a bundles folder? or put the bundles into lib? provide a .bundle file?
would it be nice if the .info can also provider some autoloader folders? so any psr-0 lib can simply implemented without changes!
by the way the registerModuleNamespaces() misses an is_dir check, so way search in lib folders which are not there?
pls some decisions; we need more psr-0.
i can then provide some more patches.
I thought about using bundles/src instead of modules/src
Maybe people like crell and other people should be first involved in the issue
Hm. Actually, I don't this is Drupal's job to manage at all. At least not directly.
A well designed bundle is just glue code between a component/library and Symfony. If what you want is that component, just stick that component in Packagist using Composer and then use Drush Composer to pull it in. That will take care of the autoloading.
If you really do want a bundle... the bundle should *also* be in Packagist so the same thing applies. Now there's still the problem of core not supporting 3rd party Composer usage directly, but that's another issue (that should still get solved).
So if all you want is the code, Composer should deal with it for you, end of story.
If you want the Bundle itself "as" a bundle, not just as a bunch of autoloadable code... there are compatibility issues there that I don't think we've resolved. We're not using the Symfony Config component, so I suspect most bundles won't actually run. Sure they could pull in the Config component I suppose, but I have no idea how well that will work given that Drupal makes no attempt to do anything with Symfony config files I question if that would do anything useful.
I'm not sure how (or if) we want to resolve that question.
The use case I have is a module that wants to pull in a generic Symfony bundle (performance monitoring for HTTPKernel). Here's what I've done to get it to work (and it now works fine in D8):
• Modify composer.json to add the bundle
• Run `drush composer update` to pull in the bundle, putting it with other dependencies
• Load the bundle into the DIC via setting $conf in settings.php
• Register bundle classes as services via the module's
I think this is a very bad approach even apart from the bundle loading nonsense because modifying core's composer.json should be treated like hacking core. Unfortunately, since module composer.json files aren't part of a package, that's not a solution - they won't be recursively included on a run of core's composer.json. Running them as composer.json files independently is out of the question - there's not even any reason to use Composer if you're going to break dependency management like that.
We need to think ahead and provide at least a basic framework for how a module can require bundles. It's OK if we wait for contrib to do the implementation since it's a rarer use case, but something like Composer Manager won't work in D8 without thought of how it will integrate with core's composer.json. IMO a module featuring a Symfonic bundle needs to be able to do the following without requiring a command line tool or hacking core:
1. Get its composer.json pulled in recursively when core's composer.json is updated
2. Get the bundle autoloaded
3. Get the bundle registered
4. Prevent `composer update` if it would change core in a way broken with the module's composer.json
5. Prevent module update if it would change the module's composer.json in a way broken with core
3 is its own issue, so I'll skip it for now. 1 and 2 come together. But, if we want to get 4 and 5 too, I think we want something like this:
• Each interested module includes a composer.json of type `drupal-module`.
• A custom installer recognizes `drupal-module` packages and no-ops apart from their requires (i.e., it doesn't shove the module into vendor).
• Core requires the `modules` metapackage from the filesystem.
• When the module list changes, the `modules` metapackage is rewritten to require all composer.json-including modules (sort of like Composer Manager, but not assuming that it's the root composer.json) from the filesystem.
• `composer update drupal/modules` pulls in the new version of the `modules` package from the filesystem instead of remotely.
Unfortunately, right now this can't be done because Composer's 'archive' repository type assumes that local filesystem packages are .zips in a folder, rather than nested locations within it. But with that (frustratingly minor) upstream change, we could allow modules to have fairly arbitrary composer.json includes with proper dependency handling...
FWIW: In searching "drupal 8 symfony 2 bundle" I found "TraceView’s Oboe Symfony No. 2", a blog post about the performance monitoring bundle mentioned in #9. Thanks, Eronarn. I am still trying to figure out how Symfony2 bundles should/could be integrated with Drupal modules.
They can't...
Seriously Drupal is build on some Symfony components not the entire symfony suite. We even removed the ModuleBundle file to make it visual that you can't install Symfony Bundles.
It's already possible to install Symfony bundles, so the only question is how difficult we want to make it. I think it's a bit short-sighted to take a walled garden approach to this question. What's the point of adopting Symfony code into core if we're going to prevent contrib from bringing in more of it without jumping through hoops?
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So what is a proposed way to use custom Bundles in contrib modules?
I don't will will support this given that Drupal does not use symfony fullstack at all.
The way to do this is to encourage the bundle author to make the code into a stand-alone library and the bundle just a bit of glue-code to attach to Symfony. Then make a Drupal module that depends on the same library using Composer. As a bonus, the code becomes more decoupled from Symfony which just about everyone in Symfonyland views as a good thing.
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Alexander Herzen
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Portrait of Herzen by Nikolai Ge (1867)
Born Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
April 6, 1812
Moscow, Russia
Died January 21, 1870
Paris, France
Era 19th century philosophy
Region Western Philosophers
Religion None. Agnostic.[1]
School Agrarian collectivism
Main interests Russian Politics, Economics, class struggle
Notable ideas Agrarianism, Collectivism, Populism, Socialism
Herzen was born out of wedlock to a rich Russian landowner, Ivan Yakovlev, and a young German Protestant woman, Henriette Wilhelmina Luisa Haag from Stuttgart. Yakovlev supposedly gave his son the surname Herzen because he was a "child of his heart" (German Herz).[2]
He was first cousin to Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898, Moscow, Russian: Сергей Львович Львов-Левицкий), considered the patriarch of Russian photography and one of Europe's most important early photographic pioneers, inventors and innovators. In 1860, Levitsky would immortalize Herzen in a famous photo capturing the writer's essence and being.
A year later, the family returned to Moscow, remaining there after Herzen completed his studies at Moscow University, until 1834, when Herzen was arrested and tried on charges of having attended a festival during which verses by Sokolovsky that were uncomplimentary to the tsar, were sung. He was found guilty, and in 1835 banished to Vyatka, now Kirov, in north-eastern Russia. He remained there until the tsar's son, Alexander (later to become Alexander II) visited the city, accompanied by the poet Zhukovsky; Herzen was allowed to leave Vyatka for Vladimir, where he was appointed editor of the city's official gazette.
In 1840, he returned to Moscow, where he met literary critic Vissarion Belinsky, who was strongly influenced by him. He then obtained a post in the ministry of the interior at St Petersburg; but as a consequence of complaining about a death caused by a police officer, was sent to Novgorod, where he was a state councillor until 1842. In 1846, his father died, leaving him a large amount of property.
In 1837, he eloped with Natalya Zakharina (Letters from France and Italy, 1847–1851), his cousin, secretly marrying her. She accompanied his emigration abroad in 1847, never returning to Russia. She bore him four children, before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1852 (Letters from France and Italy, 1847–1851). Herzen was eventually joined in France by his lifelong friend Nikolay Ogarev. By then, Natalya was in the final stages of tuberculosis and soon died. Ogarev was in poor health, having suffered a number of strokes. Herzen began an affair with Ogarev's common-law wife Natalia Tuchkova, the daughter of the general Tuchkov (the hero of the War of 1812). Tuchkova bore Herzen three more children. His assets were frozen because of his emigration, however Baron Rothschild with whom his family had business relationship, negotiated the release of Herzen's assets, which were nominally transferred to Rothschild.
From Italy, on hearing of the revolution of 1848, he hastened to Paris and then to Switzerland. He supported the revolutions of 1848, but was bitterly disillusioned with European socialist movements after their failure. In 1852, he left Geneva for London, where he settled for many years. He promoted socialism and individualism, arguing that the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. In 1864, he returned to Geneva, and after some time went to Paris, where he died in 1870 of tuberculosis complications. Originally buried in Paris, his remains were taken to Nice.[citation needed]
Alexander Herzen, by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, 1860
Free Russian Press[edit]
Writing in 1857 Herzen became excited by the possibility of social change under Alexander II, "A new life is unmistakably boiling up in Russia, even the government is being carried away by it".[4] Herzen used his skill for popular writing to expose the injustices of the ruling elite.
Herzen fought a propaganda war through the journals that had the goal of attaining individual liberty for Russians. Herzen understood the competing claims to power and was aware of the failings of the doctrines that guided the 1848 revolutionary failures. Herzen wrote of the inhumanity of the ruling monarchies of Europe but also the excesses perpetrated by revolutionary governments.
Herzen refused to trust any government and believed in the right for people to make their own choices, with minimal state intervention.
For three years, the Russian Free Press went on printing without selling a single copy and scarcely being able to get a single copy introduced into Russia; so when at last a bookseller bought ten shillings worth of Baptized Property, the half-sovereign was set aside by the surprised editors in a special place of honor, but the death of the emperor Nicholas in 1855 led to a complete change. Herzen's writings, and the magazines he edited, were smuggled wholesale into Russia, and their words resounded throughout the country, as well as all over Europe. Their influence grew.
The year 1855 gave Herzen reason to be optimistic; Alexander II had ascended the throne and reforms seemed possible. The Bell broke the story that the government was considering serf emancipation in July 1857, adding that the government lacked the ability to resolve the issue. Herzen urged the Tsarist regime 'Onward, onward' towards reform in The Polar Star in 1856, yet by 1858, full serf emancipation had not been achieved. Herzen grew impatient with reform and by May 1858 The Bell restarted its campaign to for the comprehensive emancipation the serfs. Once the Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia was achieved, The Bell's campaign changed to 'Liberty and Land', a program that tried to achieve further social change in support of serf rights. Alexander II granted serfs their freedom, the law courts were remodelled, trial by jury was established, and liberty was to, a great extent, conceded to the press. When the January Uprising broke out however, and Herzen pleaded the insurgents' cause, his reputation in Russia declined.
British Exile 1852 - 1864[edit]
In 1852, Herzen arrived in the United Kingdom, where he would reside until 1864. Herzen was disillusioned with the Revolutions of 1848 but not disillusioned with revolutionary thought. Herzen had always admired the French Revolution and broadly adopted its values. In his early writings, he viewed the French Revolution as the end of history, the final stage in social development of a society based on humanism and harmony. Throughout his early life, Herzen saw himself as a revolutionary radical called to fight the political oppression of Nicholas I of Russia. Essentially, Herzen fought against Christian hypocrisy and for individual self-expression.
Alexander Herzen plaque in London's Judd Street
Herzen spent time in London organising with the International Workingmen's Association, becoming well acquainted with revolutionary circles including the likes of Bakunin and Marx. It was during his time in London that Herzen began to make a name for himself for "scandal-mongering" when he told Bakunin, freshly arrived having escaped imprisonment in Siberia, that Marx had accused him of being a Russian agent; in reality, the two were on very good terms.[6]
It was revolutionary failures and the tragedies of his wife, children's and mother's deaths that drove Herzen to Britain, and he fell into emotional despair for several years. From London he found his despair had revived new energy for political and literary work to help the Russian peasantry he idolised. Herzen became critical of those 1848 revolutionaries who were "so revolted by the Reaction after 1848, so exasperated by everything European, that they hastened on to Kansas or California".[7] Herzen found a new desire to influence and win the appreciation of his countrymen as he established the Russian Printing Press.
In London, he hired Malwida von Meysenbug to give an education to his daughters. In 1862, Malwida von Meysenbug went to Italy with Olga, his daughter. Meysenbug would later become an acquaintance of Friedrich Nietzsche, while Olga married Gabriel Monod in 1873.
Contemporary reputation[edit]
Herzen drew criticism from both liberals who were against violence and from radicals who thought Herzen was too soft.[8] Liberals led by Boris Chicherin and Konstantin Kavelin believed individual freedom would be achieved through the rationalisation of social relations. Their etatist variety of liberalism was opposed by Herzen as it supposed that Russian society would evolve to an ideal state based on a Hegelian view of reason. They believed the revolutionaries would merely postpone the establishment of the ideal state, while Herzen thought that, on the contrary, they were blind to historical reality. Herzen would always reject grand narratives such as a predestined position for a society to arrive at, and his writings in exile promoted small-scale communal living with the protection of individual liberty by a noninterventionist government.
Herzen was disliked by Russian radicals as too moderate. Radicals such as Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Nikolay Dobrolyubov wanted more commitment towards violent revolution from Herzen and the withdrawal of any hope in the reformist Tsar. Radicals asked Herzen to use The Bell as a mouthpiece for violent radical revolution, but Herzen rejected these requests. He argued that the Russian Radicals were not united and strong enough to seek successful political change, stating, "You want happiness, I suppose? I dare say you do! Happiness has to be conquered. If you are strong, take it. If you are weak, hold your tongue".[9] Herzen feared the new revolutionary government would merely replace the dictatorship with another dictatorship.
The radicals describe Herzen as a liberal for not wanting immediate change, but Herzen rejects their pleas arguing for change at a pace that will ensure success. Herzen briefly joined with other Russian liberals such as Kavelin to promote the peasant 'awakening' in Russia.[10] Herzen continued to use The Bell as an outlet to promote unity with all sections of the Russian society behind a demand for a national parliament. However his hopes of acting as a uniting force were ended by the January Uprising, when the liberal support for Tsarist revenge against the Poles ended Herzen's link with them. This breach resulted a declining readership for The Bell, which ceased publication in 1867. By his death in 1870, Herzen was almost forgotten.
Influence in the 19th and 20th century[edit]
Herzen opposed the aristocracy that ruled 19th century Russia and supported an agrarian collectivist model of social structure.[11] A rise in populism by 1880 led to a favorable re-evaluation of his writings.
Tolstoy declared that he had never met another man "with so rare a combination of scintillating brilliance and depth". Berlin called his autobiography "one of the great monuments to Russian literary and psychological genius... a literary masterpiece to be placed by the side of the novels of his contemporaries and countrymen, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky ...".
Russian Thinkers (The Hogarth Press, 1978) a collection of Berlin's essays in which Herzen features, was the inspiration for Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, a trilogy of plays performed at London's National Theatre in 2002 and at New York's Lincoln Center in 2006-2007. Set against the background of the early development of Russian socialist thought, the Revolutions of 1848 and later exile, the plays examine the lives and intellectual development of, among other Russians, the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, the literary critic Vissarion Belinsky, the novelist Ivan Turgenev and Alexander Herzen, whose character dominates the plays.
Alexander Herzen
1. ^ Alexander Herzen; Kathleen Parthé; Robert Neil Harris (2012). A Herzen Reader. Northwestern University Press. p. 367. ISBN 9780810128477. "Zernov writes: “Herzen was the only leader of the intelligentsia who was more an agnostic than a dogmatic atheist and for this reason he remained on the fringe of the movement.""
4. ^ A. Herzen., “Another Variation on an Old Theme, A Letter to X (I.S. Turgenev”, 1857). in The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. Vol IV. Chatto and Windus. London (1968). pp 1561.
5. ^ A. Herzen., "The Russian people and Socialism. A Letter to Michelet" (1851). in The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. Vol IV. Chatto and Windus. London (1968). pp 1649.
6. ^ F. Mehring, Karl Marx: The story of his life (1918), Chapter 13.
7. ^ A. Herzen., "Ends and Beginnings: Letter to I.S. Turgenev". (1862). in The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. Vol IV. Chatto and Windus. London (1968). pp 1683.
8. ^ Kelly, "A Glowing Footprint": Herzen Proudon, and the role of the Intellectual Revolutionary, Modern Intellectual History. (2005), 2: 179-205.
9. ^ A. Herzen., "Bazarov Once More. Letter I". (1868). in The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. Vol IV. Chatto and Windus. London (1968). pp 1753.
10. ^ D. Offord., Portraits of Early Russian Liberals. (1985). Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. p. 200.
11. ^ Venturi, F., Roots of Revolution. A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth Century Russia. (1960). Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. p. 4.
12. ^ I. Berlin., Russian Thinkers. (1979). The Hogarth Press. London. p. 189.
13. ^ a b c d e f g h Alexander Herzen at
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
• Acton, Edward. Alexander Herzen And the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary, Cambridge University Press, 1979.
• Coates, Ruth. "The Early Intellectual Careers of Bakhtin and Herzen: Towards a Philosophy of the Act," Studies in East European Thought, Vol. 52, No. 4, Dec., 2000.
• Eckardt, Julius. Modern Russia, Smith, Elder & Co., 1870.
• Gavin, W. J. "Herzen and James: Freedom as Radical," Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 14, No. 3/4, Sep./Dec., 1974.
• Grenier, Svetlana. "Herzen's Who Is to Blame?: The Rhetoric of the New Morality," The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 1995.
• Kelly, Aileen. "The Destruction of Idols: Alexander Herzen and Francis Bacon," Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 41, No. 4, Oct./Dec., 1980.
• Malia, Martin Edward. Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, Grosset & Dunlap, 1965.
• Orlova-Kopeleva, Raisa: Als die Glocke verstummte. Alexander Herzens letztes Lebensjahr, Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87956-190-7
• Palmieri, F. Aurelio. “The Earliest Theorists of the Russian Revolution,” The Catholic World, Vol. CVIII, October 1918/March 1919.
• Partridge, Monica. "Alexander Herzen and the English Press," The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 36, No. 87, Jun., 1958.
• Rzhevsky, Nicholas. "The Shape of Chaos: Herzen and War and Peace," Russian Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, Oct., 1975.
• Weidemeier, William Cannon. "Herzen and Nietzsche: A Link in the Rise of Modern Pessimism," Russian Review, Vol. 36, No. 4, Oct., 1977.
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The GeoCam Project helps people better understand and respond to disasters. GeoCam consists of a GPS-enabled camera (or cell phone) and a web app for sharing geotagged photos and other geospatial data.
GeoCam Memo is a scribing and note-taking application intended for use by search team members as they canvas the scene of a disaster. Notes can be recorded using text or audio and various forms of attachments (including but not limited to images) can be attached for transmission to a central server. All messages can be geotagged and categorized before saving to provide proper context when analyzing them via a web interface at a later time.
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The Armitage Shanks made some of the loudest, nastiest garage punk in the U.K. during the '90s. Falling under the wing of Billy Childish, the group recorded singles for Damaged Goods, Vinyl Japan, Little Teddy, Wild Wild, Sympathy for the Record Industry, and Hangman's Daughter as well as five albums. 25 Golden Showers collects tracks from their singles and is a no-holds blast of noise and attitude. Along with their own singles, also included are their records backing Billy Childish (the Shirts Off EP) and Headcoatee Kyra Rubella on wild covers of Siouxsie & the Banshees' "Love in a Void" and the Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict." Their own singles are uniformly loud and obnoxious and sure to knock the feather off your cap. The best tracks are their snarky cover of Gary Numan's "Are 'Friends' Electric?," the sarcastic "Thank You," the angry "Punk Tune," "Dutch Courage" (which features an incredibly annoying organ), and the closest thing they have to a love song, "You're Here I'm Hooked You're Gone." As a document of what made the band so good, this is a perfect collection. The Shanks are the like a loud cousin who shows up at Christmas, drinks all the egg nog, pisses on the cat, and throws up under the tree. Amusing in small doses and from a distance. If you are a paid-up member of the cult of Childish, you know you need it. Even if you aren't, the band provides an unschooled, raw antidote to the glossy, corporate punk running rampant in the early 2000s.
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There is a subtle distinction as to why Kohl’s coffee maker has a higher list price than similar models. The machines sold elsewhere look identical, but are sold with different model numbers. I asked Kohl’s about their price and why they wouldn’t answer you.
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rita chapter 1 . 7/24/2009
so. good. Really good. m, constructive spelt elderly wrong. ;) But otherwise, a really good look at Ianto in a more 'why I don't kill myself' instead of a 'why I want to kill myself' way, which is what the majority of Lisa angst fanfics are. Nice job.
doctor-who-fangirl chapter 1 . 4/7/2009
That was so sad, and beautiful. I loved it. It's the best Ianto/Lisa fic I've ever read.
Abi2 chapter 1 . 3/15/2009
Wow, this is a beautiful way to see Ianto's struggle with remembering and forgetting. It's always hard when you lose somebody, to realize that you'll never get that chance to say that one last goodbye, or that no matter how you try to hold on to the memories of the good, and the bad alike, they will slowly fade into a picture, devoid of words and only half-remembered, even if it brings back all the pain of their passing.
Sorry for the rambling, but I know how Ianto feels, in part at least, and you do such a wonderful job of evoking those emotions, giving such a sense of loss as most writers seem to forget. How can someone who fought so hard and for so long to keep her alive, just forget her and forgive Jack and move on? I don't care if it's cannon for the two of them to be screwing like bunnies, there will always be that little part of Ianto that can't stand what Jack did.
I also love the way you say that it scares him how he would resort to killing Jack if it meant getting Lisa back. A very nice touch. I hope you have more, but even if you don't, this was beautiful. | https://www.fanfiction.net/r/4924459/ | dclm-gs1-274880000 | false | false | {
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0.109777 | <urn:uuid:ebd884c5-2bac-4e8a-bf72-e0ed59a8318e> | en | 0.991235 | DISCLAIMER: I am not the proud owner of Harry Potter. If I was, the sixth book would be out and the seventh one would be in your hands in a few months.
To say that Draco Malfoy was a wreck would be putting it mildly. To say that he was a pile of nerves would be a more accurate assessment. He couldn't tell you what was discussed in the classes that he actually went to and he couldn't tell you what anyone told him that day. All he could think about was 'I want to find out if you taste like you smell, vanilla raspberry.'
It was slowly driving Draco insane.
So when dinner came, he slowly made his way to the Great Hall. He sat with his back to the Gryffindor table so he wouldn't be slowly tortured to death. Draco didn't know how much he ate or what he painstakingly shoved into his mouth, all he knew was that dinner went by way to fast.
When he left the great hall, he hadn't even made it anywhere close to the Gryffindor Tower before he was ambushed and pushed into an empty classroom.
"Sorry, I didn't know if you would actually show and I couldn't take that chance," Harry whispered as he slowly pushed Draco against the back wall.
"I was working on it."
"Mmm, good." Harry suddenly lowered his lips so they just brushed against the partially stunned Slythern. He then pulled his head back up and looked Draco in his eyes.
What he saw in those smokey orbs was enough to make him feel weak. But he couldn't falter, not at this stage. He was determined to win; he was determined to make the sexy man standing before him his. And he was a Gryffindor with Slythern qualities. Which meant he would get what he wanted, no matter what the cost.
"Harry," whispered Draco, not quite trusting his voice.
Harry smiled; this was going to be easier than he thought. "Yes?"
"Because Draco, just because."
"I need to know."
Harry leaned forward so his forehead was resting against Draco's. "You want to know why? Because you make a potion with so much emotion, because of the way you look at the world, because of the way you look when you are deep in thought, because of the way you strut around here like you own the place, when really inside you just want someone to notice it is really an act, and because I love you. I love the way you look when you are on top of the world, I love the way you can make my blood run, I love the way you look when you get frustrated about something, and I love the way your eyes show what you are too afraid to show the world. Is that enough for you?"
Draco responded by giving into his dreams, giving into his lust, and giving into the love that Harry was ready to give him. Their lips meet with a fire that could burn less worthy souls. Days, months, years of unreleased passion meet with the hormones of two seventeen-year-old boys. Hands roamed over firmly muscled bodies. Soon, fingers were busy working the clasps that stood between them and desire.
For the next few hours, lust was fulfilled many times over; both boys finding release several times. When their love was placated for the time, they gave each other a hungry kiss and promised to meet tomorrow.
Draco went straight to his room and fell asleep almost immediately. This time, his dreams were not only his dreams, they were also his reality.
Harry collected his thoughts for a second before heading down to the dungeons. He knocked on a door and was granted permission to enter.
"I just thought you should know, it worked. He's mine," Harry told the soul occupant of the room.
"Good. I was tired of hearing his whining this summer. Now the downside will be that I will have to listen to his ranting of how delectable you are."
"Oh, come on Severus. You know you like it."
"Between you and Draco,"
"You have two people who would gladly give their lives for you. That you would protect like your sons, and that you love like they are your family."
"Insolent brat."
Harry laughed. "So, when are you going to tell me about your mysterious man?
"When he decides to grace me with his presence."
"Ah. Well, when ever that is, I want to be the first to know. But right now, I have to go announce the good news to my friends who are probably getting a little worried."
"Go, tell your friends the good news. Are you going to announce this tomorrow over breakfast?"
"I was planning on coming in and giving everyone a show. So make sure you're though eating before I get there."
"Leave. I want to enjoy my last few moments of tranquility in silence."
Harry smiled and left to go tell his friends the good news. Severus, on the other hand, stayed for a while before his mystery man came in and dragged him though several halls and up numerous stairs before arriving at their destination, where he was shown just what animal passion meant.
The next day at breakfast, Draco was eating in solitude. It was not by his choice however, he was 'scaring the shit' out of everyone with his I-had- sex smile, or so he was told.
When Harry walked in with an almost identical smile on his face, Draco's smile somehow grew. But when Harry purposefully started walking towards him, his smile faltered. 'What is he doing? Is he crazy?' was all that seemed to be running though his head.
Harry stopped right behind his boyfriend. "Can I talk to you for a second?"
Draco nodded, confusion apparent on his face. 'He had better not tell me this was all some joke.' He soon found out that is was no joke, for as he started to walk out of the hall, he felt an arm block his path. He looked up at the owner of the arm and found desire showing in those emerald-eyes.
Harry, before he lost his will, attached his lips to he delicious morsel standing before him. He was not disappointed as Draco returned the kiss with as much passion as he was getting.
They broke apart to applause. But the were oblivious to it all. "I just had to make sure you still tasted like vanilla raspberries."
"And do I?"
"I don't know, I think I will have to check again." And check again he did. They only stopped their show when the Headmaster came down to congratulate them on their newfound relationship.
^*^Later that night^*^
"Harry, where exactly are we going?"
"My room."
"And why exactly are we taking all my things?"
"Because you're moving in with me."
Draco stopped dead in his tracks. "What?"
Harry turned around to look at his new roommate. "You're not safe in the Slythern dorms. Dumbledore has been looking for a way to keep you safe all summer. When he saw that we were together, it was the perfect solution. Come on, we're almost there."
They started walking again. When the came across a portrait of Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slythern, Draco's jaw dropped open. "This is your room?"
"Head Boy's quarters, why?"
"I had a dream, and in the dream this was your room."
"And why were you dreaming about my room?"
Draco glared at the teasing Gryffindor. "You know perfectly well why I was dreaming about your room. Now, are we going to stand here like two idiots, or are we going in?"
"Good evening Godric, Salazar."
"Good evening Harry. And how is my favorite descendent doing today?" asked Godric.
Ignoring Draco's dropped jaw, Harry answered, "Never better. Oh, by the way, this is Draco, my boyfriend. He is going to be living here with me this year."
Salazar turned to his portrait companion. "I told you so. Now will you allow it?"
Godric mumbled something and sat down in a chair that was behind him.
"This is getting a little weird. In my dream, they were arguing about something that sounded an awfully lot like that." the blonde wizard said.
"You dreamed about it huh? I told you that is wasn't inappropriate! But would you listen to me, nooooo. All high and mighty Godric Gryffindor listens to no man," Salazar complained in a very age inappropriate voice.
"Alright, I was wrong, again. Don't have to go rubbing it in my face," Godric said as he sulked away.
"Salazar, what are you two blithering about now?" asked a very perplexed Harry.
"Albus was wanting to put Draco in here with Harry all summer. Godric here wouldn't allow it, something about how it was inappropriate. I responded with its not inappropriate for them, again, he wouldn't listen."
"So you were right. Can we let it drop now and let them in?" Godric whined.
"No password has been given. It would be,"
"Vanilla raspberry," interrupted Harry. The portrait swung open while the two occupants still bickered about nothing.
"Vanilla raspberry, now where have I heard that before?" Draco asked.
Harry responded by attaching his lips to his boyfriend and dragging him to the bedroom where they spent the night letting their love get the better of them.
Outside, Godric and Salazar continued to bicker about anything and nothing, oblivious to the world inside just as the occupants were oblivious to the world outside.
Elsewhere in the castle, Severus and his mysterious lover were just laying in each other's company, happy for the time spent together.
"What do you think of Harry and Draco?"
"I wish them all the happiness that they can possess."
"Do you think they can make it?"
There was a pause. "If they can both survive the war, then I think that they will live together in happiness forever."
"What are the chances that they will survive?"
"You're just trying to be a pessimist tonight, aren't you Sev?"
"I'm trying to be a realist."
"Its not working."
"Humor me."
"If they hadn't gotten together, I would say that the chances of them surviving are slim. But since they now have something to hang onto, a reason to live, I think that Harry will do anything he can to protect Draco and Draco will do anything he can to protect Harry."
"And you and that mutt will be doing everything you can to protect Harry as well I take it?"
"Sirius will always try to make up for lost time. Me, I will try my hardest to protect Harry, Draco, and you."
Severus was stunned into silence for a while. No one had ever said that they would try to protect him. And while he really didn't need the protection, he was grateful for what it meant. "I love you Remus."
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0.2025 | <urn:uuid:081e5b38-c762-4027-a464-8ff3df2394f7> | en | 0.985277 | By: Karen B.
Summary: An ordinary day story
Thank you: CC, very much, for sharing your friendship, time, and open eyes!
The vibrant colors of the sunset gave way to the darkness of night. Wind rattled the tall grass and cattails near the canal, filled to its highest peak a day ago by a late summer squall. Bullfrogs sang a duet, hidden behind billows of fog that rose up off the water. The gentle push of lapping water rippling along the bank's edge added to their music.
Enjoying the cool of the evening, Starsky and Hutch sat on the porch steps of the tiny cottage, withonly a small cooler between them. A neat row of empty brown bottles lined the porch rail, and bottle caps littered the ground, along with an empty cardboard pizza box. Both men were quiet, heavy with fatigue, but content to sit in silence watching the moon on its rise in the east. It felt good to just be still, to settle down the noise in their heads, and rekindle their strength after a long week of mental and physical madness.
Hutch fidgeted his gaze, trailing from the moon to his partner. "Anymore brew in the cooler, Stars?"
Hutch awaited confirmation as Starsky opened the cooler and dug around in the ice. Finding two bottles near the bottom, Starsky uncapped them and passed one over to his waiting partner.
"Here's to getting through another day." Starsky aimed his beer toward Hutch.
"I'll drink to that," Hutch said, clinking his bottle against his partner's.
The life of a cop was a 'hold on to your hat, fist in your face, adrenaline-pumping, beat the hell out of you, scuffles in dark alleys, tiptoeing through minefields, and following cold trails that often amounted to squat,job'. A job that could be full of fear, a job where you were lucky if a bullet didn't find you. But while fear was the logical conclusion of such a job,Starsky and Hutch also knew fear could be your friend. Without it, you knew you were in trouble. Without it,you could find yourself in the lowest of places. Fear kept you straight. Kept you from sitting down at the bargaining table. Kept you making the right decisions, and kept your beer tab from getting too big to handle. The streets were a real crapshoot;yet, ironically, they both loved the job.
Hutch shifted to relieve the numbness he felt in his ass from sitting for so long. "Call me crazy, Starsky, but--"
"You're not crazy, Hutch, just totally nuts," Starsky interrupted with loud liquored-up laughter.
Ignoring his partner Hutch continued, "Tell me again why we do this?" he asked,taking another long draw from his beer bottle.
The laughter stopped, and Starsky got serious. "I don't know, blondie, but we love it. Right?"
"Two double day shifts followed up by three graves... hell yeah,we love it," Hutch said and slugged back more beer.
"It's not a bad gig," Starsky took another glug.
"Not a bad gig if you like sewage-treatment plants," Hutch added. "Other than that, we're home free, huh, partner?"
"It's in our blood. Way I see it Hutch--" Starsky paused. Gulp. You can either fight the bad guys or join 'em," frankly said.
Hutch looked at Starsky with a whisper of a smile on his face. His best friend always had a universal way of seeing the world in simple black and white. Hutch stretched out his arm, holding his beer toward his friend. "Here's to fighting the bad guys," he said, clinking his container against Starsky's.
"That's the partner I know and love." Starsky joined his friend in slugging down their drink. "You know, Hutch, we see things. Things most people never see. Things they wouldn't want to know. Things they probably wouldn't be able to believe. Brrr…aaaaaaaaa!" He rewarded Hutch with a loud exaggerated belch, wiping his mouth with his shirt sleeve and not bothering to excuse his lapse of manners.
Hutch raised his bottle to his lips,ignoring his friend. "You say something, Starsk?" He asked, in monotone, deciding he didn't want to think about those things tonight.
"You ever think about it, Hutch? What we look at day in and day out. What we have to try and figure out? What we--"
"Let's talk about something else," Hutch sighed.
"Like what?"
"Anything but the job."Hutch rubbed his chin in thought.
Starsky casually sucked on his beer. Silence once again ambled through the air, but it wasn't a needle fine sharp silence. It was an unwritten language only they understood. Comfortable, warm, and just as important as any lengthy sappy talk they could have. For Starsky and Hutch, the experience of speaking without words was just as effective, maybe even more so. It was a passionate thing between them. Something special, something real, something only they could share.
"You ever think what you'd of done, Hutch, if you didn't become a cop?"
"Maybe," Hutch softly said. He lifted his beer, swallowing until he drained it, then stared wistfully at the empty bottle, lost in thought.
Starsky opened the cooler, dug out two more beers, and popped the caps. "I hate to break the news to you," Starsky continued, retrieving Hutch's empty bottle and replacing it with a full one. "I didn't always want to be a cop."
Hutch's head snapped around, eyes flashing serious. "Starsk, you thinking of quitting? 'Cause damned if I'm going to get another partner at this stage of the game."
"Fat chance, buddy. I'd give my left arm to stay on the force and retire by your side."
"I'd give your left arm too, Starsk," Hutch snickered, relaxing further back against the porch stoop. "I suppose the day comes to everyone when you question why you are on the road you're on," Hutch said somberly, then took a long pull of his drink.
"I suppose," Starsky agreed, then was quiet for a long time, suddenlymore interested in toeing a bottle cap than continuing on talking.
Hutch looked up at his partner, who had a glassy far off look in his eyes. He knew thatlook. Starsky often talked about his father being the reason he was what and where he was today. He recalled Starsky once saying the man's shadow never left him.
"Hey," Hutch cheered, "I thought we weren't going to talk about the job, Starsk?"
Things were quiet again. They never did catch the man who killed his father. Starsky often wondered who did it and why the hell--he shook his head of the memories, instead taking several more long drinks until his bottle was empty. Setting it aside,he reached inside the cooler, broke open another bottle cap, and nervously rolled his beer bottle between his palms. He had to talk about something to chase away the thoughts in his head.
"Hutch, did you hear who was released from prison--"
Hutch knew alright, but didn't want to talk about it. He wanted to get him and his partner off that fast downhill track. "Starsk, I don't care if it was Bonnie and Clyde. I told you--no shop talk."
"Hutch, that was just a movie. 'Sides they both died in the end. Don't you want to know?"
"Fine, Starsk who got cut loose?" Hutch grumbled, stretching his legs out and nursing his beer. Starsky always did get overly chatty when he was drinking.
"Tommy the Pork Chop, believe it or not. He's gone straight, Hutch. Owns a fruit and vegetable stand on Maple."
"That's poetic justice," Hutch chimed in.
Starsky kept on. "And did you hear the rumor? About the new rookie, Temps? He decided to go to martial art school after being beat up by old lady Mills and her cane, for dropping her cat out of the tree? And Johnson in records raises angora rabbits and knits gym socks, and ladies panties out of their hair?
"That's a little weird," Hutch quirked a brow.
"And you know what else?"
"You and I are having an affair?" Hutch said dryly, raising his bottle to his lips once again
"We are?" Starsky jerked straight.
Hutch hunched slightly forward, spitting out a mouthful of beer "Starsky, I'm kidding."
"I don't know how I missed that one?"
"Starsky, I said I was kid--"
"Anyway, Hutch," Starsky wandered off the point. "Did you catch the story about the drunk grocery store burglar?"
Starsky moved in a little closer to Hutch, as if it were some big secret. "Trace and Sanders arrested him Tuesday night. The guy--"
"Starsky," Hutch said sharply, waving a hand in front of his face, smelling the beer and anchovies on his partner's breath. "Will you just stop."
"Hutch, don't you want to know?"
"Would it make a difference if I told you,no?" Hutch talked around his beer bottle.
Starsky didn't answer,nor did he stop. "The guy broke into the store the middle of the night. He must have already been drunk."
"He isn't the only one," Hutch muttered.
"Helped himself to a few more beers, 'cause by the time Trace and Sanders found him he was snoring, passed out cold."
Hutch closed his eyes, feeling really tired, downing another swallow, but continued to listen.
"And, did you hear--" Starsky took a breath. "About the teenager who was caught vandalizing headstones at Hillcrest Cemetery? Uniforms found him trapped. His hand caught under one of the headstones he was trying to turn over. And then there was that 2-11 at--"
Hutch had had enough. His body stiffened and he frowned, looking Starsky square in the eyes and holding him off with an upheld hand.
Starskyshrunk back. "Eh, never mind, Hutch, it's nothing that can't wait," Starsky said. Seeing his partner's annoyance, he looked away, swallowing another swig of beer along with his tongue. Swallowing a cat would be easier. What could they talk about if they didn't talk about work?
Hutch sighed exasperated. "Just finish the story, Starsky."
"Nope. It can hold."
"You sure?"
"Can you think of anything else you want to tell me about work?" Hutch prodded his partner to get it out of his system.
"Not yet," Starsky said, casually, slugging back another gulp, then gave a curt smile a moment later,the glassy look in his eyes replaced with wonderment.
"Hey!" Starsky's voice held pure pleasure, causing Hutch to cringe, making him wonder what 'beer logic' Starsky would come up with now.
"Hutch, did I ever tell you when I was a kid I wanted to be a magician?"
Hutch snorted. Okay,this was better. At least he didn't have to hear another crazy work- related story.
"Serious, blondie. When I was twelve I went to the library. Got every book I could find about Houdini and magic." "Seemed like the best job ever back then. Rabbit's feet. Do-it- yourself magic kits. Rubbing Aladdin's lamp. Making wishes, making magic, making something out of nothing."
Hutch felt more relaxed and settled back against the steps onto his elbows, chuckling under his breath while processing the image he now had in his head.
"What's so funny?" Starsky asked.
"Nothing too funny, buddy," Hutch said, gazing off toward the canal. "I just keep picturing you magically pulling a hot ham and cheese sandwich out of Dobey's Sunday hat." Hutch laughed out loud.
Snapping his fingers, Starsky suddenly got an idea. He polished off his beer and slapped the empty next to him. "Just a minute," he said with excitement, getting up, he half dashed, half staggered into the cottage.
Used to his partner's exuberance, Hutch continued to study the water, watching the way the light of the moon reflected off its surface. The white noise of the waves lapping at the bank almost lulled him to sleep, and he closed his eyes. A moment later Starsky was back,causing his eyes to snap back open. Starsky sat down,scooting real close to Hutch. In his hand he expertly shuffled a deck of playing cards, squared them, fanned them out, and shoved them at Hutch.
"Pick a card, Hutch, any card," Starsky drawled confidently.
"Oh come on, Starsky, that old scam?"
"Pick one. Any one," Starsky insisted, wiggling closer, anxious to show his trick.
"Look out, Houdini," Hutch teased, setting his beer down, then sitting straighter. "Hmmm?" He peered at the cards, taking his good old time.
"Will you come on, Blondie." Starsky rolled his eyes. "'S not like I'm asking you to do something illegal. Just pick a card." Starsky's patience wasclearly waning.
Hutch suddenly reached out, quickly plucking a card from the deck and holding it close to his face. "Have you got it?" Starsky questioned with a mischievous grin.
"I got it, Starsky."
"Good. Then memorize it. Don't just look at the card, Hutch. Stare hard at it. Remember it. Become one with it. Whisper its name over and over in your head, and don't forget--"
"Starsky! I got it!"
"Okay," Starsky snickered, having a good time with the whole thing. "Place it anywhere back in the deck," he said, shoving the fanned cards Hutch's way again. Hutch skeptically slipped his card back between the others, turning only slightly to retrieve his beer. Starsky waved his hands flamboyantly about,mumbling some magical gibberish. He shuffled the cards several times, then squared the deck once more. Closing his eyes, he pulled a single card from the deck and showed it to Hutch. "Is this your card?" he proudly announced.
Starsky tossed the card over his shoulder, and randomly pulled another. "Is this your card?"
"No, that's not my card." Hutch watched the card flutter to the porch.
"This?" Starsky pulled another.
Another card was pulled. "This?"
"No, gordo," Hutch huffed.
Starsky scratched his head,looking for all the worldbaffled. "Hutch, check your back left pocket, for me."
"Oh for--"
"Just check."
Hutch lifted his butt just enough to slip his fingers into his back jean pocket,certain he would find nothing. His eyes went wide when he felt a card,and his eyes went even wider when he pulled it out and looked at it.
"Is that your card, partner?" Starsky grinned from ear to ear, knowingly.
Hutch peered up at his friend; drunken eyes flashing with both confusion and delight. "Eight of diamonds." Hutch's mouth gapingas he turned the card around so Starsky could see. "Starsky, how the hell did you?"
Starsky raised a stiff finger, waggling it back and forth. "Magician's code, partner. If I told you, I'd have to turn you into a toad," Starsky laughed.
"Hell." Hutch leaned back onto his elbows, his expression of amazement still on his face. "That was terrific."
The night air was fresh and crisp, and Hutch found himself quiet again, drawn to the water. He had picked the cottage by the canal because of the peace he felt there. You could watch the sunset. The water-colored sky, the reflection of the light on the channel, the sweet smell of wet earth, and the kaleidoscope of nature that lived in and around its bank; it inspired him. Hutch thought of his grandfather, who'd told him just before he'd died if it were up to him, he'd come back as a ship, blithely sailing the swells, encountering dolphin and whale, and watching the sunset in the eye of hurricanes.
Hutch sighed heavily, running his fingers through his short blond hair. "I grew up with dreams of becoming a sailor."
Starsky could feel the change in his partner. He reached a hand over and clapped Hutch's shoulder for a brief moment. Hutch remained quiet. "A sailor, huh?" Starsky asked, a dubious smile coming to his face. "Hutch, you mean as in, ahoy there, barefoot treasure seeking pirates with an eye patch, swinging across the deck with swords?" Starsky laughed, giving Hutch's shoulder one squeeze then releasing his hold.
Hutch smiled back , acknowledging his partner's care and comfort. "No, buddy. More like of crossing the ocean. The freedom of being in the middle of nowhere, with nothing around you but water, beautiful sunsets, fresh sea air. Seemed like a romantic sort of life"
Hutch looked back out to the canal and Starsky followed his gaze, quietly sipping on his beer and letting Hutch talk.
"I used to sit at the kitchen table with a magnifying glass and all these maps in front of me. Charting my course. I was in love with the idea of setting sail. The adventure of it. Used to have this old ratty blue couch in our basement. I'd turn it upside down, use a broomstick for oars, and Mom's good white sheets as sails. Then I'd perch on top of it, pretend it was my ship. I spent hours being a captain, sailing off to distant deserted islands, tossing my nets into the sea, and racing the wind. Dad frowned on it."
Starsky looked at Hutch to see the disappointment on his face.
"But my Mom," Hutch's expression brightened again. "She finally signed me up for the Sea Scouts. I was fourteen." Hutch adjusted his position, sitting up again and looking right at his partner. "You know, buddy," Hutch said, with a yearning in his eyes. " It pales in comparison to the ocean, but Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Three hundred and fifty miles east to west, and one hundred and sixty miles north to south, with an average depth of 483 feet. Hell, it was big enough, and I had a good imagination. We learned about bowlines, how to heave a lifeline out, anchoring, coming alongside the dock, celestial navigation, and how to read when bad weather was headed your way."
"All the skills to become a good sailor," Starsky announcedwith a lopsided grin. "What about getting seasick? Huh, buddy?"
Hutch tore his gaze from Starsky, taking another swallow of beer. "Two kinds of sailors, in this world, Starsk. Those who have been seasick. And those who have not. Those who have run aground. And those who have not."
"Which are you?"
"Both," Hutch said with a wink, looking over at Starsky again. "You know what,partner?"
"What?" Starsky asked, seeing Hutch's eyes become a clearer blue right before his own.
"When I finally got my seamanship badge," Hutch took a long drink, gulping it down hard. "Was the first time I knew what it felt like to have a dream come true," he said in an emotionally-strained voice.
"Yeah." Starsky nodded his understanding.
"So, sailorman, you gonna tell me where you buried the treasure?" Starsky prodded, watching Hutch
"If I would I could Starsk. Sailor's code. If I told you, I'd have to lock you in a tower," Hutch laughed, then tipped his head far back,letting the last of his beer drain into his mouth.
"What does a tower have to do with being a sailor?" Starsky polished off his beer. "Don't you mean walk the plank?
Hutch slowly stood, stretching his tired and cramped muscles. "Misunderstood legend," Hutch grinned, holding a hand down toward his partner. "Come on,old man, whatd'yasay we head in? You can take the couch."
Starsky reached up, letting Hutch pull him to his feet. "That lumpy thing? I won't be able to move in the morning," he complained.
"Sure you will. It's all in the way you stack the pillows, buddy."
"Yeah?" Starsky leaned closer to his friend, feeling a bit dizzy, and nowherenear as talkative.
"Stake my reputation on it, buddy," Hutch slung an arm around his partner's shoulder and they walked toward the screen door. "I'll make it up to you, Starsk. I got cold pizza for breakfast. I'll even sprinkle on some extra cheese."
"Trying a new strategy, huh, Hutch? Don't bother pretending. I know your plan. You're going to pile on some of that weird health powder on top my pie." Starsky one handedly pushed the door open.
Hutch walked them both through the entrance. "You know. Starsky, I only have your best interest in mind. Where's the problem in that, buddy boy?
"That, Hutch, is part of the problem.," Starsky said, letting the screen swing shut behind them.
A few minutes later, the lights went out inside the cottage, and all you could see were moving shadows on the walls. It was quiet, the moon shone bright, waves lapped at the banks of the canal, the grass stirred, frogs croaked, and two best friends called it a day.
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There were birthday wishes all around and Hinata was completely surrounded by her comrades and close friends. A smile was ever present on her face as everyone took part in laughter and conversations over a delicious meal. Her sister Hanabi, who was now sixteen years old, was kind enough to throw her the party in the Hyuuga compound. It was nice that everyone was in town for her birthday
"Thank you, everyone," Hinata said and closed her eyes to make a wish.
She blew out her candles in one breath and the whole table clapped and cheered. A few of the girls prodded her, asking what it was that she wished for. Hinata playfully declined, stating the well known fact that if she told, it wouldn't come true. Looking around at the table, she noticed that even Temari's brothers, Kankuro and Gaara, were present. There was only one person missing and thinking about him, Hinata instinctively touched the fan under her belt. He still hadn't returned, perhaps he was having trouble. What if he was hurt? What if he was-
"Hinata, come on, get in the picture!" Kiba called and gestured her over to where everyone was gathering.
"Coming!" She laughed and ran over to the group. They place her in the middle and crowded around as the picture was taken…
"Thank you for coming," Hinata said, seeing off the last of her guests. It was beginning to get dark and a cold wind rushed through the streets. She shivered and wrapped her arms around herself in an effort to stay warm. Looking up at the sky, she sighed, "I guess my wish didn't come true after all."
"Am I too late?"
Hinata's hands flew up to her face upon turning and finding out just who it was. "Sasuke, you're here?"
"Want to get some ramen with me?" He turned around and started walking towards Ichiraku without a second glance. She tilted her head slightly in confusion, but followed after him anyway. Hinata was just happy that he was back; it made for a pleasant surprise.
They sat down at the bar and ordered their food. Hinata stared down at the bar top, not even noticing Sasuke stand up beside her.
"Happy Birthday," A beautiful silver snowflake hung from a thin silver chain, the round crystal gems glimmered wildly in front of her eyes despite the dim lighting. Hinata gazed at it in awe. Sasuke smiled slightly and hooked his around her neck. Returning to his seat, he broke apart his chopsticks and began to eat.
Hinata touched the pendant around her neck and blushed heavily, glancing at Sasuke out of the corner of her eye. Picking up her chopsticks, she broke them apart and did as she always did. Two naruto were chucked into his bowl and he paused for a second before turning to face her.
"Hinata-" Imagine Sasuke's surprise when Hinata suddenly leaned forward and placed chaste kiss on his lips. She sat back with a shy smile and tucked her hair behind her ears, averting her gaze to the ramen bowl that sat in front of her.
"Thank you for this," Hinata said. "I love it."
Perhaps wishes really did come true, Hinata thought with a secret smile.
Just once, I wish for snow… and Sasuke's safe return.
Sasuke leaned over and returned a kiss to her left temple.
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Disclaimer: Dont own it.
Being a Hero is for Sissies
I smirked as I neared the golden snitch. I reached my hand out to grab it. Almost there…
"M-master Draco?" I jumped slightly, hearing my name and looked down to see one of the family house-elves calling up to me. I scowled at the pathetic creature and flew angrily back to the ground.
"Yes?" I snapped. The house-elf's abnormally large eyes widened, if possible.
"Your father w-would like to s-see you right a-away." The house-elf stuttered. I scoffed angrily.
"What now?" I muttered under my breath as I dismounted my broom. I walked swiftly back into Malfoy Manor, leaving my broom abandoned on the ground. As I entered the Manor, I shivered at the sudden warmth and shrugged off my winter cloak and scarf, tossing them to the house-elf to take.
I reached my father's study and knocked lightly on his door.
"Come in," Lucius Malfoy called coldly. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. What seventeen year old boy had to knock on his own father's door just to talk to him?
"You wanted to see me, father?" I asked, bowing my head slightly in greeting. Lucius looked up at me and nodded briskly.
"Yes Draco, it's rather important so pay attention." He said firmly. I nodded and he continued. "Our Lord has had word that we have a spy in our ranks. He has also had word of who this particular spy is. The Dark Lord is very, very angry with this traitor. You know very well that traitors are the Lord's least favourite people. He punishes them severely."
I nodded again, showing that I understood.
"This traitor has gone to Dumbledore and told most of the Lord's plans to the old coot. This traitor happens to be one of your friends and your mother's closest friend's son. Blaise Zabini. The coward went to Dumbledore. I'm very proud that you have not been cowardly enough to do such a stupid thing. Now, why am I telling you this?" Lucius asked, raising his eyebrows as I wondered the same thing. "I'm telling you this, son, because as your initiation, I – as well as the Dark Lord – would like you to get rid of the Zabini boy. You may get rid of him in whatever way you see fit. However, it must be done as soon as you get back from your break. You had better accomplish this if you want to make me proud boy." My father hissed. I swallowed hard at the task laid out for me and nodded tightly.
"Very well, you're free to go now." Father dismissed me and I quickly fled the room, breathing rather heavily. Kill Blaise? But he was my best mate! How could Father expect me to murder him? Especially when I've never murdered anyone in my life.
I angrily sighed. Why did I have to kill him? Why couldn't someone else do it? Why me? I groaned as I put my winter gear back on and headed out to put my broom away. Blaise was my friend. I can't believe I never noticed he'd joined the other side. What a coward. I thought this, but I knew it was I who was the true coward. It was I who was too afraid to stand up for myself like Blaise did. If I could, I would have gone with Blaise to join the other side. But I am too afraid of my father and his Lord to do so.
Now look what has become of me? I'm set to murder my best friend so I can be accepted into Lord Voldemort's rank of followers. I'll be a slave for the rest of my life. I'll murder people for fun and torture innocents. I'll follow what that evil bastard says and respect him, calling him 'sir' and 'Lord'. I'll be just like my father. This is, of course, what my father wants. I, too, used to want that for myself. But my views changed as I grew older. I've always wanted to make my father proud. But when I was younger, I would do anything to be noticed by him. My father was my idol. I wanted to be just like him. However, as I got older, I realized how little hope he really had left for him. He was doomed to stay with his Lord forever, to be faithful to his Lord and respect Voldemort's every wish. He could not and did not love his family. He did not care, love, cry or pray. He knew nothing of a true life. I however, did not want to be like that. But I knew it would happen to me. I was destined to be just like him.
A murderer, a heartless bastard, a stone cold prat, a prejudiced asshole – that's what I would be. I would become all of that, after I had finished my task. I already was prejudiced, stone cold and a bastard. I just wasn't a murderer – yet.
--Blaise Zabini
Peck, peck, peck.
I looked up from my Quidditch book to see a tawny owl tapping at my window. I grinned, knowing exactly whose owl that was and quickly opened the window for him.
I took the letter attached to the owl's leg and fed the bird a treat. As the owl happily ate his treat, I hastily opened my letter, grinning from ear to ear.
Dear Blaise,
Happy Christmas! Are you having a good break? I am. So far, it's been wonderful. Harry and Hermione came to stay at the Burrow with us and Ron's been surprisingly nice to me. Fred and George came and brought loads of new jokes with them for my brother and me to try out. It was brilliant.
I got another new jumper this year, it's green – that's the way my mum is. She makes us a new jumper every year. It's sort of a tradition, you know. I also got an amazing Quidditch book that you'll have to read when we get back to Hogwarts. I know you'll enjoy it. It's very informative.
I miss you loads. I've been thinking a lot about our relationship though. Don't you think it's a bit dangerous? What if your parents or their fellow Death Eaters find out about it? They'll kill you for sure. And I really care about you. I don't want to lose you, Blaise. Maybe we shouldn't see each other. It kills me to say that to you, but I'm really worried that you'll get hurt. I think I might be in love with you Blaise Zabini.
That's right, I, Ginevra Weasley of Gryffindor am in love with Blaise Zabini of Slytherin. Isn't that something? Anyway, we'll have to talk more at school. So on the first day back, meet me at our meeting spot right after the feast, all right?
Loads of love,
I read the letter twice. I couldn't believe it. Ginny Weasley is in love with me. Who would've thought it? I couldn't deny that my feelings were very strong for her as well. I suppose I was in love with her too. I've never loved anyone before. I've never even liked anyone as much as I like Ginny.
I can still remember the day we first talked. I smiled as I remembered it.
"Hey Weasley," I said, smirking. She turned her big brown eyes on me and rolled them.
"What do you want, Zabini?"
"Why nothing, Weasley. I just saw your beauty and decided to talk to you."
"You're a Slytherin. I'm a Gryffindor. We don't talk to each other." She stated firmly. I smirked again.
"What no one knows won't hurt them," I said quietly. I'd fancied the redheaded Weasley for quite some time and decided I wanted her. I didn't care that she was a Gryffindor and I was a Slytherin, nor did I care that she was a Weasley. I wanted her.
She raised her eyebrows at me, but couldn't hide a small smile. "What are you proposing, Zabini?"
"That you talk to me,"
"I do believe I am talking to you," She quipped, smirking.
"I mean a civil conversation, without the use of our last names," I paused. "Ginny,"
She raised her eyebrows again, surprised. "I suppose it won't hurt,"
"Right, so what class do you have this afternoon, Ginny?" I asked, purposefully saying her name.
"Potions with the overgrown bat," She replied, wrinkling her nose. I laughed. "What about you, Blaise?" She asked, putting emphasis on my name.
"I have Transfiguration," I replied.
After that, we made it a routine to meet each other in the room of requirements. Our friendship soon became more than friendship and led them to where they stood now. They were 'seeing each other'.
Ginny sat cross-legged on the sofa in the room of requirement with her potions textbook open on her lap. She was wearing a dark green tank top and blue jeans. I sat beside her and looked at her as she tried to study.
Half of her long red hair was pulled back behind her head, while the rest fell gracefully down her back. She was biting her lip softly as her eyes scanned her textbook.
Feeling my gaze on her, Ginny looked up at me and raised an eyebrow, half smiling. "What?" She asked. I shrugged and leaned towards her.
"You just captivate me with your beauty," I replied. She blushed and shoved me playfully.
"You're so corny," She murmured, smiling. I returned the smile.
"I'm serious though Gin," I began. "I fancy you,"
"Aren't you right to the point?" She replied, still smiling. "But, I like you too Blaise,"
I had waited for that for way too long. Leaning forward, I closed the space between our lips slowly. The kiss became passionate and by the time we pulled apart, we were both gasping for air.
Ginny had broken up with Harry shortly after, saying she needed to focus on her studies and didn't have time to be going after boys. She had said that a white lie never hurt anyone and Harry never liked her that much to begin with.
I wondered what Draco would say if he found out about my affair with Ginny. He'd be angry with me for sure. However, he'd be furious if he knew what I was doing in my spare time. Rather than spend my time worshipping the ground Voldemort walks on, I spend my time hanging out with Ginny and giving information to Dumbledore.
If anyone from the dark side found out, I'd be murdered. However I wasn't too worried. I didn't care if I was killed, as long as I didn't die with people thinking I was a Death Eater.
--Ginny Weasley
I sighed happily as I awoke from my slumber. Today was the day to go back to Hogwarts. Normally, I wouldn't be very excited. But today, I had reason to be excited. I got to see Blaise.
Sadly, I have fallen in love with a Slytherin. But Blaise isn't bad for a Slytherin. He's actually rather nice. And he's not a deatheater. However, I'm not sure if it's going to work between us. I mean, I care about him a lot, but if he were to be found out, he could be seriously hurt, or worse killed. And that would break my heart.
I really love him though, more than I loved Harry.
"Ginny!" Mum called up the stairs. I rolled my eyes.
"I'm up!" I hollered back. Sighing again, I rolled off my bed and walked to my wardrobe. I picked out a thin green sweater and dark blue jeans with black boots.
After showering, I got Hermione to magically put my hair in loose ringlets, as I was too young to do magic outside school. I still roll my eyes at that rule.
I haven't told anyone about Blaise; not even Hermione. She's always asking if I've found someone special since Harry, because apparently I have that 'smile' that gives her a hint that I like someone. But I keep telling her there's no body.
"Hey Gin" Harry and Hermione greeted as I walked into the kitchen. I smiled at them both. Ron was no where to be seen.
"We're just waiting for Ronald," Molly Weasley announced as she entered the kitchen. I smiled at my mum and took a seat beside Hermione.
"You seem, er, cheerful this morning, Gin," Harry stated and I flushed, looking away from the emerald eyed boy as I tried to explain my sudden eagerness to go back to school.
"Er – I – uh," I struggled to find something to say. Fortunately, Hermione came to my rescue.
"She's probably excited to see everyone Harry," Hermione said. I smiled and nodded. Harry rolled his eyes and I sent a look of gratitude towards Hermione.
Finally Ron came into the kitchen dressed in baggy jeans and his new mahogany jumper. Mum scolded him for taking so long and then we headed to King's Cross to board the train back to Hogwarts.
I could barely contain my excitement as Harry, Ron, Hermione and I looked for a compartment with Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood.
--Draco Malfoy
"Draco, stop that immediately," My mother whispered harshly. I turned my glare away from some Gryffindors to look at my mother.
"What?" I snapped.
"You must act normal towards your foes. You must be the graceful one. A Malfoy is always graceful. Act like your father, insult them with hints. Do not show your dislike for them so outwardly." My mother lectured quietly and I rolled my eyes. 'Act like a Malfoy' lecture was the most popular lecture I received from my mother.
"Yes mother," I drawled.
"Very well, I'll see you for summer. Behave yourself, and don't do anything to disgrace our name, boy." Narcissa Malfoy said coolly. I nodded and walked swiftly away from my mother. That's all it ever was. No 'good bye Draco, I love you' or 'be careful, son.' I don't think my mother has ever told me she loved me. My father has never said it either. It was always the same 'make me proud' speech or the 'don't disgrace us'.
I'm quite used to it. I never tell them I love them either. I said it once when I was four or five and for some reason I'll never know, I got a beating for it. I've seen how other parents are with their children. How the mothers get teary eyed when sending their kids off to Hogwarts. Or how the fathers pat their sons on the back and tell them how proud they are of them and how much they love them.
"Hey Draco!" I turned to see Blaise running up to me and I barely hid a wince. I'd forgotten about my task until just then. I swallowed hard.
"Hey Blaise," I drawled, keeping my tone regular. He smiled.
"How was your holiday?"
"Boring, as usual." I replied, avoiding Blaise's eyes. We found a compartment and sat down. "How about yours?" I asked casually.
"It was all right," Blaise said. "My mother got a new beau but that's nothing new,"
"Yeah," I said, for I had nothing else to say to that. The compartment opened and Weaselette poked her head in.
"Nope, this ones taken!" She called and sent a glare at me. I glared back however I noticed the look she had sent towards Blaise. It wasn't one of hate. I believe there was an actual smile there.
I looked at Blaise but he was expressionless. Either because I was in the compartment or because he missed the look Weaselette gave him. Weaselette closed the compartment door.
I thought of my mission again and struggled to fight off a groan. How the bloody hell was I supposed to do this?! I'm not a murderer! There's no way I can kill my best friend!
"What's wrong Draco?" Blaise asked, raising his eyebrows. I looked at him and shrugged.
"Nothing, why?" I replied nonchalantly.
"You're awfully quiet,"
"Just tired is all," I said smoothly, even adding in a fake yawn. I kept my eyes on Blaise. How could you do this? I mentally asked him. Why would you be so foolish? Whatever possessed you to switch sides? I fell asleep with the same unanswered questions passing through my mind.
I woke up abruptly as a hand roughly shook my shoulder. "Wha…?" I murmured, squinting up a shape in front of me.
"We're almost there, mate. Time to put our robes on." Blaise said quietly. I nodded and sleepily stood up, stretching.
As we arrived at Hogwarts only a few minutes later, we suffered through Dumbledore's boring speech and then headed to our dormitories for bed.
Blaise went to the bathroom and I sat on my bed, brooding. What should I do? Maybe I could talk to him about it? I asked myself. No, I replied firmly. My father gave me a mission that was from the Dark Lord himself, and I will complete the task given to me. After-all, it was my life or Blaise's. That may be selfish, but I'm a naturally selfish guy.
My mind made, I waited for Blaise to come back. When he finally did, I spoke, a plan forming in my mind.
"Blaise!" I whispered urgently. He raised his eyebrows at me. "Come with me to the forest. I have to show you something, but it's secret and you mustn't tell anyone." I continued. "It has to be tonight,"
Blaise's dark eyebrows furrowed in confusion but nevertheless he stood up and followed me out of the Slytherin common room, grabbing our cloaks on the way.
We walked in silence to the forest; I was too nervous to speak and Blaise too confused.
I remembered the first day Blaise and I officially became friends. We were sitting on the floor of my parent's mansion at the age of seven. Blaise's mother had been good friends with my mother.
"Draco go play with Blaise," My mother ordered. I wrinkled my nose but obeyed and led the dark haired boy into our living room.
"So…Do you like Quidditch?" I asked, trying to strike up a conversation. I had talked to Blaise before in the seven years we'd know each other, but I had never had an actual conversation with him.
The boy nodded enthusiastically. "I love Quidditch; I want to be a chaser when I get to Hogwarts."
"I want to be a seeker," I said proudly. Blaise smiled.
"Seekers are really important. I reckon you'd make a brilliant seeker," He said. I smiled too.
"Thanks, I bet you'll make a great chaser too." I replied. "So what house d'you wanna be in?"
"Slytherin," Blaise said and I knew then that he and I would be very good friends.
We played a few games of exploding snap and laughed a lot. We also realized we had a lot in common. I shook myself free of my memory and focused on the task at hand; killing my best friend.
We arrived at a very secluded spot in the forbidden forest and I turned to face Blaise. He stopped and looked at me, confusion evident on his face.
"What did you have to show me, Draco?"
"Blaise, why did you do it?" I whispered.
"What?" He asked. "I didn't quite catch that,"
"I said why did you do it?"
"Do what?"
"Switch sides, act carelessly and betray our Lord." Blaise's eyes widened and I saw the fear flash in them. "You were my best mate. And now look what I'm forced to do."
"Y-you've got to kill me, then?" Blaise mumbled, blinking rapidly.
I nodded, casting my eyes downward. "But, I want to know why you did it Blaise."
"Because it was the right thing to do, Draco." Blaise replied softly. "I couldn't fight for that bastard any longer. I couldn't listen to everyone talking about the scum of muggleborns and how they're so below us. I couldn't take it anymore. Plus, I fell in love with someone who gave me the courage to do it."
"And who would that be?"
"Ginevra Weasley."
My eyes widened in shock. "You fell in love with a Weasley?!"
"Yes," Blaise replied. "So how did the Dark Lord find out?"
I shrugged. "Doesn't matter. But my father gave me strict orders from the Lord,"
"So you're going to kill me?" Blaise asked casually. I groaned.
"I don't want to Blaise! I really don't have a choice!"
"Yes you do, you're just too afraid to pick the alternative choice." Blaise replied matter-of-factly.
"Yeah well," I brushed what he said off, trying to focus on the matter at hand. "It doesn't matter. I've got to do what my father told me. I'm sorry Blaise. You're my best mate, but…" I trailed off, biting the inside of my mouth.
"But your life is more important than mine," Blaise said bitterly and I winced. When he put it like that it made me sound extremely bad. I guess that's true, but I'm a coward. I'm not afraid to admit that.
"Blaise you're making this very hard," I muttered.
"Okay, I'm sorry Draco. How about I just shut up and let you kill me? Will that make it any easier?" Blaise said angrily. "Go ahead, Draco. Kill me!"
I clenched my fist and raised my wand. Blaise didn't flinch. I have to do this. I thought, trying to convince myself. It's either him or me. And I don't want to die.
"Wait – as clearly you're sure about killing me then I want to ask you one favor; just one." Blaise said quickly.
"What's that?" I asked, swallowing hard.
"T-tell Ginny, tell her that I love her. She told me yesterday that she loved me and we were supposed to meet tomorrow at lunch to talk so I could tell her then that I loved her too. But now I won't get the chance. So please, Draco, please tell her that I love her. And tell her not to blame herself. It's not her fault." Blaise said desperately. His voice was cracking and I had the feeling he was trying hard not to cry.
"Okay Blaise, I'll tell her," I whispered. I didn't want to do this! I wish there was some way I could get out of doing it. However, it had to be done and so I pointed my wand directly at him and muttered the two words that would end my best friend's life.
"I'm so sorry," I murmured softly as a flash of green light shot from my wand and hit him in the chest. Blaise smiled slightly and collapsed in a heap on the ground.
I slowly made my way back to the castle, telling myself over and over again that Malfoys don't cry.
--Ginny Weasley
I headed to the Great Hall for lunch, nearly skipping. I was to meet Blaise today in the Room of Requirements. I was so excited.
As I neared the Hall however, there was a big commotion going on outside it. A crowd was gathered around and Dumbledore stood at the front.
"- I found him around by Hagrid's hut sir and dragged him up here," a voice I recognized as Terry Boot's said. I pushed my way through the crowd to see what was going on and gasped at what I saw.
Tears immediately flowed down my cheeks before I could stop them. "No!" I cried. "No, no, no! This can't be happening!"
"Gin, why are you so upset?" A voice asked me. It was my brother. "It's just a Slytherin."
I ignored him and fell to my knees beside Blaise's body. "Not Blaise," I murmured softly, stroking his cheek. "Not Blaise,"
As I was pulled away from my love's dead body, I let out a sob and began to cry harder onto my brother's shoulder – who still didn't understand why I was so upset.
I tore away from my brother and ran down the corridor, unsure of where I was headed. However, I reached the lake and threw myself into the grass beside it, crying hard into my arms.
A while later, there was a sound of a twig braking and I raised my head to see Draco Malfoy standing by the tree, wearing dark robes.
His pale face was expressionless but he gazed at me with the same sadness that I felt. I sat up and stared at him.
"He loved you," Draco said quietly. "He wanted me to tell you that. He doesn't want you to blame yourself. But he said that he loved you and wanted you to know."
Draco didn't say anything else, nor let me ask any questions. He turned and stalked off. And that was the last I had ever seen of him. He didn't come back to classes and no one heard what happened to him. Perhaps he ran off.
--Draco Malfoy
I walked away from Ginevra Weasley, the girl who stole my best friend's heart. I decided at that moment that I didn't want a part in the war anymore. I didn't want to see who won or lost. I made the choice I should have made ages ago. I left Hogwarts, my father, Lord Voldemort. Hell, I left England.
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B.S. Theories of the Bible
D: I hope that these theories make Jesus laugh so hard that the disciples (also suppressing giggles) have to hold him up so that he doesn't fall off his throne.
E: Either that or we go to the "other place"
D: At least someone will get a kick out of it.
2. Exodus 15:8
By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up… I just have two things to say to that. One I'll bet you didn't know that was in there, and secondly don't you think they could have found another way to phrase that?
3. Multiplication- God's curse to the Israelites and fourth graders around the world
4. In Moses day they worshiped cows, now we make them into yummy burgers.
7. He is the Lord your God - fear and obey
8. .
9. Thou's enemies shalt eat it.
10. Guilt makes an ugly stain on that new white carpet your mother just installed.
11. The sword is not mightier than the pen but it is mightier than the lion.
12. Priest's cannot be embarrassed or ashamed for they do not blush
Jeremiah 6:15
14. Mrs. God is the queen of heaven and she likes her them cakes of bread
15. Jesus went in the desert for forty days and all hell broke loose
17. Jesus name was on the cross in 3 different languages so that all would know his name.
18. Heaven has the best electric company in the universe because the lights never go out
20. Before Genesis 1:1 there was a title page.
21. Their es noh speel chek en hevin becauz ther ar noh mestaces
22. We are all the children of God but the child called Son is the only one with a real job.
23. Jesus represented all people. He came to earth in the form of a man, but he had the peaceful loving (unpredictable) mind of a woman. And as a plus his hair and makeup were always perfect. (sniff) Mrs. God was so proud.
25. If Jesus represented people of all ages, races, and places his skin tone should be pretty messed up right? I mean seriously he should be like purple or something.
26. Judas drugged the other disciples with sleeping pills.
27. When on your deathbed asking why, know that you were human you made mistakes, and that you have been forgiven with the most painful death the Roman's created.
29.When God tells you to jump off a cliff you jump! Don't ask questions stupid just jump! (exclamation, exclamation , EXCLAMATION!)
30. 40 is the holiest number in the Bible, 40 days on the ark, 40 years in the desert etc etc. So according to heavens aging scale God must be 40 years old. Being over the hill isn't so bad.
31. Hobos started out fairly early living in Hobab, but then feeling lonely began to wander the rails.
32. What would Christians do if Billy Gram was Jewish?
33.For those of you who were wondering yeah we realize that we're going to hell for this.
34. God is the ultimate stalker, but in a good way,
35. There are ten universes one under each of God's fingernails. (He never cleans them)
36. Pangaea broke up after the confusion of the languages at Babel because God
was just really mad that day and said " Fine you're gonna go here and you're gonna go here."
37. If all the people spoke a different language at Babel how did they all collectively decide on the name?
38. I wonder if God ever gets mad at his super-computer because it freezes up on him.
39. If everything we have belongs to God, God is seriously loaded-
41. Jesus made the first Hungry Man © (almost) TV dinner.
42. Jesus did not run off to be a rice farmer- but he did think that it was yummy!
(this came to be after reading something online that said Jesus ran off to be a rice farmer and I was insanely ticked off about it so after venting to no one in particular I decided to write that)
43. Wouldn't it have been funny to watch Jesus ascend into heaven using a bunch of helium balloons?
44. God looked down from heaven saw a school bus and said "Hey a Twinkie!"
45. It took all little boy to give all that he had to Jesus - maybe growing up isn't such a good thing.
46. Believing that Jesus is the messiah back in his day is easier said than done.
48. If God holds the life of every living thing in his hands he has some really big hands.
49. Jacob and God created the first WWE
Genesis 32:24
51.What happened to mommy?
Hebrews 1:4
52. It was and all blue family.
Hebrews 1:4
53. God keeps a bottomless jar of pickles in his fridge
(not biblicly relevant I know but we just really like pickles)
54. God sits up there in heaven says I want some chocolate and "PING" chocolate
55. If God is everywhere he must look something like Buddha
57. A wise son pays attention- so sit down shut up and listen!
Proverbs 13:1
60. Israel had a much better fire department than all those cities listed above.
Amos 2:5
61. The lord is your witness- too bad you can't call him to the stand at your trial, now that would be awsome
1 Samuel 12:5
2 Kings 22:17
64. Molid caused all the bread in the house to mold on his parents.
1 Chronicles 2:29
65. Jesus is a mirror he reflects his fathers image,
Hebrews 1:3
66. Contrary to popular belief Jesus did not look like Fabio
67. Poor Hazel and Ben Hadad,
Amos 1:4
68. Thou canst make one hair white or black, all you need is a stylist
Matthew 5:36
70. God has the DVR of the world. That's how he knows what everyone's doing at any given moment in time, and he can see the future
71.God granted the Philly cheese steak to the church of Philadelphia.
Revelations 2:1-3:22
73. Why are you where you are? Because God said "What the hell lets put another one right there and see what he will do for me." (of course having the DVR of the world he already knows and you don't have to worry about it)
75.Earthquakes are God's hiccups; volcanic eruptions, God had too much to drink with St. Peter and missed the wine box.
77. Even the gospels got writers block.
78. God decides when its your time to go. If your soul is too small you're going back. it's a fishing thing.
80. Mrs. God gave birth to the world - Ouch ( I wonder if she had to have a sea section)
81. DVR theory extension: any mass extinction is God hitting the erase button because it wasn't good anymore.
82. The 11th commandment: thou shalt memorize the first ten commandments
83. At the beginning of time there was extensive purpling-look at all the people!
Customer: Waiter, I thought this dish came with a veggie.
Waiter: What the olives are blue?
Customer: Yeah actually they are just look at them
Waiter: Yeah we should probably get the fridge fixed.
85. Thou shalt not bash thy brothers head in with a rock Cough CAIN cough.
The 12th commandment.
86."Thou shalt memorize the 10 (unbash) 15 commandments
The 13th commandment
87. Ham was shortier than Shem
Genesis 4:8
88. Aphra and Ham got married (against their will) by Mrs. Clark before creation and divorced after the flood ended. (lizzie had to play ham's wife in a production of children of eden and to put it nicely she isn't ham's biggest fan)
89. There were three pigs on the ark. Ham and the two animals
91. Salt tastes icky.
Matthew 5:13
93. We've decided that we are going to hell because of our theories, but people say that they are good. According to our pastor all good things were given to us by God. And our theories are good so aren't they from God? Why then I ask you are we going to hell?
L has a point and seeing as it is a good one I retract theory number 33 while it will still be in there for you to laugh at (and it is very possible that we are still going to hell for this)
94. Theory 93 did too count (and so does this one) Don't you argue with me! You'll upset the "Big Guns" upstairs
95. God has a sense of humor: he gave us siblings
96. Paul used his God given explosives to break out of prison.
Acts 16:25-26
97. We take that back the plastic explosives were God's backup if he was too tired to make the earthquake follow through
98. God's just slick/great like that
99. Christians are cannibals ( the body and blood of Christ at communion )
100. God denies pastors the right gamble or even the right to visit Vegas without a lot of problems (our pastor went to visit his sister in law in Vegas and he couldn't even make it out of the airport without having problems)
101. The Bible cannot be read in one year to a teenager
102. There are more than 10 commandments Jesus even gave you the eleventh (we know we gave you the eleventh but that was a different eleventh and since he's Jesus his overrules ours and it doesn't count any more)
103. No Christian music artist to our knowledge can remember all 10 (15) commandments in order hence our 11th
104. Don't mess with God he can and will cause as many mass extinctions as he has to
105. No matter who says it oranging and greening will never sound as good as purpling
106. God's favorite part of the week-Friday Night-of course. Why else would Unsearchable Riches have wrote that song?
107. Thank God for the weekends. They will be your best friends ( next to God and the Bible ) when you REALLY get sick of school.
108. Also thank God for snow days. They give you an extra day to get the homework you "forgot" about done.
109. Really you should be thanking God for everything, even when it seems completely useless you never know ( just look at what we learned to do in language class)
110. God is like a teenager, he knows everything and you can't always tell what he' s thinking.
111. (I wonder what happens when we get to theory 666!?) God gave women chocolate a) because Mrs. God told him to and b) because he knew that Eve would need it somewhere along the line.
112.God has a sense of humor he gave us children (gee thanks mom now we really know what you thought about all those icky diapers)
113. Our lives were saved by a blood donor.
114. Black sharpies are the latest and greatest writing utensil ever (cough Garret Cough)
Yeah we know that its no where in the Bible but the guy is in a Christian band
115. For God so loved the world that he gave it a bath ( the flood and Jesus )
116. If the bread they give you at communion is the body of Christ and Christ is over 2000 years old don't you think it would have gotten a bit moldy by now?
117. Abraham had way too many wives for his own good.
118. Any day can be used for worship including Friday night when kids are the most alert and ready to listen as long as you don't drone we will stay awake. Why do you think there are so many Christian concerts on Friday night and hardly any on Sunday morning?
119. Mrs. God is never mentioned because it would screw up the trinity.
120. Mrs. God is also never mentioned because then what would they call the trinity?
121. Mrs. God also didn't think that four interlocking circles looked as good as three and God wouldn't let her be by the holy spirit and Jesus
122. Biblical wizard of Oz: Job of Uz
Job 1:1
123. If heat rises heaven should be hotter than hell
124.Heaven is hotter than hell but heavens heating system is more controlled than hell
125. The devil says things that are so cold that they burn. (LOL)
126. Along with all of Jeremiah's other problems his lips were chapped
127. If we are the clay it's a good thing that God is the potter, some stuff by other artists is pretty messed up.
128. I wonder if God ever gets bored and starts creating all these strange animals just because he can
129. God likes a challenge he probably had a bet going with the angel Gabriel to see if he really could create the world in seven (more like six) days. The only problem now is that he has to feed it water it and try to keep WWIII from breaking out. No seriously that's an actual job … I think
130. There is an Unsearchable Riches song (My Element) that says "You alone can tell me why my heart is beating. You alone can tell me who I am." (we really are very sorry for this) Actually we can tell you both.
1) Your heart is beating because God has the greatest defibrillator in the universe, and even though he will enjoy having you in heaven he likes keeping you alive so that you can tell others about him
2) you are fill in your name here, and either deep down or on the surface you are a good person. And if you have to get major surgery and look like a total ditz in front of a lot of people we hope you show that side to the world.
Okay yeah I know that there are blank spots in here without a theory or anything else for that matter but the ones that I took out were probably the most offensive and looking back at them now (we wrote these like three years ago, its hard to offend a 12 year old) I've offended myself with a lot of these so if there are anymore that you think should be taken out just let me know.
Dedication (again)
For all the people that spent all those long boring Sunday morning sermons and weekday lectures rolling their eyes, we did more constructive things. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4504009/1/Theories-of-the-Bible-redone | dclm-gs1-274960000 | false | false | {
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I'm branching out guys. Trying my hand at writing other X-Men characters...with the fine assistance of my galpal grrl4vic.
The dark figure moved silently through the lower level of the mansion, negotiating the corridors with a knowledge not borne from familiarity. The intruder stopped at a large steel door, the words Danger Room signed above it. Fingertips danced lightly across a keypad, easily breaking the unknown code.
The door hummed as it slid open, and the figure moved quickly. Crossing to the main control panel, the trespasser disabled the security system, unlocking the interior doors. As a side door opened, the figure moved with surety through it, stopping a few feet from a manacled giant.
Sabretooth. Victor Creed. The mutant assassin was chained to the basement wall, currently a "guest" of the X-Men. He had come to the mansion seeking solace after the death of his sidekick Birdy. Birdy. His prisoner. His lover. Supplier of the "glow", the incomparable telepathic rush that erased all horror of his monstrous acts. He had been lost after her death. A pitiful junkie begging at the mansion door for a psychic hand-out.
The X-Men had promptly and rightfully imprisoned him instantly.
He stood against the wall eyeing his visitor. His powerful body restrained at wrist and ankle with heavy eighteen inch chains. He raised a curious eyebrow. He was not afraid. The scent of the person before him was as familiar as his own.
"Well", he growled softly. "Look who's back from the dead."
The slender form pulled the knit hood from their head in a fluid motion. Blonde hair fell softly to slim shoulders.
His dead assistant stood before him in the flesh.
"Hey boss."
Birdy hesitated, keeping several feet between them. They stared intensely at each other. Creed shook his wrists, making the chains rattle.
"Come ta see the chained monster?, he whispered, his voice acid with hate. "Like the freak-show Birdy.?"
Birdy was nervous. She spoke quickly. "I've got all the systems disabled except for the wall restraints. They must be on a separate line." She took a deep breath and moved within his reach. She wrapped her slender arms suddenly up and around his neck, and pressed her face to his chest.
"I never meant for this to happen. I can't stand to see you like this."
Creed's instinct was to hurt her. Just extend his claws and bury them in her throat. But he was momentarily stunned by her touch. The warmth of her body and the sweet smell of her hair. He remained tense, the chains straining at the wall. But he lowered his head slightly, nuzzling against her face He felt her telepathic intrusion and he opened his mind to share his thoughts..and receive hers.
The brooding figure watched the monitor with rapt attention. It's green glow casting a ghostly pale on his hard features. He watched with a voyeuristic focus, amazed, bemused. He observed the exchange far longer than a sentry would have. Jeanne had woken him within moments of the blonde girl's invasion. But he was fascinated by the duo's apparent reunion.
Logan stood, rolling his corded neck until the joints popped. He stretched his arms and flexed his hands, which cracked loudly in the silent room.
"Time's up moll. Visitin's hours over."
Logan felt the adrenaline surge through him as he moved down the corridor toward Creed's improvised cell. He was sorry the bastard was chained up. No excuse to hurt the prick while he was helpless. But the girlfriend had better not start any trouble....
His head turned sharply at the sound of the girl's cry. His claws extended as he ran towards the room.
Creed was leaning hard against his chains. They groaned in protest from the force of his body, but remained attached. He was standing and laughing at the surprised girl sitting at his feet. Birdy scrambled back quickly and stood a safe distance from him. Her voice quivered with emotion.
'It's not like that boss. I only wanted to help you."
She turned as Logan entered the room.
'Damn!" she said in an annoyed tone, as if he were a servant interrupting a private moment.
"What are you doing here?"
Logan laughed at the outrageous question, and at the sight of the frustrated Creed and his inept rescuer. He retracted his claws.
The blast came suddenly, as if a hot wave had washed over him, starting at this ear, whipping across his face. It was instinct that moved him. He lowered his shoulder and surged his weight against the girl, propelling both of them across the room and into the wall. Birdy's head and shoulder cracked against the barrier. Her eyelids fluttered briefly, and she sank to the floor. Logan collapsed on top of her, his mind clouded, his ears ringing.
After a few moments, his head cleared. He heard the sound of laughter.
"Nice job runt! Whadja forget she was a telepath? Let your guard down?"
Logan rolled off the girl. He stood slowly, pressing one hand against the wall for support. He
hit the manual alarm switch, even as he heard faint footsteps hurrying down the hall.
"Hey Birdy" Creed taunted cheerfully, "Didn't I tell ya about the X-Mens brand of hospitality?"
'Shut the fuck up psycho!", Logan growled as he examined Birdy. The shoulder looked dislocated. He didn't know about the face.
Scott entered the room, his hand ready to trigger his visor. Upon seeing the prone girl, he used his beeper to signal Dr. McCoy. Logan spoke in low tones, explaining the girls presence. Creed's tirade continued.
"Whadya think skirt? You betray me and I'm gonna give you a big, wet one when ya show up?"
Logan lunged suddenly, shoving Creed hard against the wall, his claws pressed against the bigger man's throat.
"I said shut the fuck up psycho!"Creed was breathing hard, but his voice was cold.
"I ain't a little girl runt. You'll havta do better than that to hurt me."
Logan smiled slightly at Creed's challenge. He got a grip on his anger. He retracted his claws and stepped away from his nemesis.
Hank McCoy was examining the X-Men's new guest. He unrolled a stretcher and motioned for Logan's assistance.
"Please Logan..I'm quite sure Sabretooth will be available to torment you tomorrow. In the mean time..?"
Logan glanced at Scott, who was busy resetting the security system. He moved over to the girl and physician, and crouched down next to them. Together, he and Hank gently moved the girl to the stretcher.
Creed had been quiet while he watched them tend to his former assistant He called to Logan as they carried her from the room.
'Why doncha just leave her with me? I can take care of her for ya some trouble."
Logan and McCoy ferried the injured girl out of the room, ignoring Creed's laughter. Logan almost wished he could. He didn't miss the look of reproach in Hank's eyes. The girl may have tried to scramble Logan's brains, but all Hank saw was a pretty, young girl that might just die as a result of tangling with the Wolverine. This was already a mess. Logan groaned his disgust as they carried her to the elevator.
They could still hear Creed's baritone. Laughing, angry.
"You can't trust her runt. She's a wicked girl, I tell ya. Not to be trusted."
The men and unconscious girl entered the elevator. The sound of Creed's mocking voice disappearing only as the doors closed behind them. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/628543/1/Loyalties | dclm-gs1-275000000 | false | false | {
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The Ever Elusive Afterwards
This was the first time in just over a year Naruto had been back to the caves. Unsurprisingly it didn't look all that different and he remembered the details and the layout like he'd been here yesterday. And why not? He'd been dreaming about this place almost non-stop since he'd left.
But he didn't ever remember being this nervous when he was here last. Actually he wasn't sure he'd ever felt this nervous in his life. A lot of his future well-being, his sense of worth and his happily ever after rested somewhere within these caves.
Or not, as the case may be.
Optimism wasn't normally something he was in sort supply of but it was hard to keep up the excited feeling when so much rested on whether a certain bastard had any feelings for him anymore. And the invitation had been clear, 'if you love me, you'll be there'.
He'd meant to make it sound like it was a certainty, as though there was no way Sasuke wouldn't show up. But assuming things where Sasuke was concerned, especially where his heart was concerned, was sometimes a bad move.
He couldn't believe that one person could reduce him to this. A nervous, second-guessing, negative version of himself. But he did and he could with a single look or word. It sometimes made Naruto wonder why he felt so strongly for him.
But that was just it, no one else ever made him feel like this. And although those feelings were sometimes negative, mostly it was exciting. Besides, if all his feelings were warm and mushy what would ever push him the way Sasuke did? Who could ever make him strive to be so much more than Sasuke did? No one did, Sasuke made him a better person just by being the way he was.
And a slight nervous wreck too.
Of course it wasn't the only reason he loved him. The determination he showed, the unwavering devotion he threw into whatever he did was truly awe-inspiring whether the deed itself was all that moral or not. Well almost unwavering. Thank every god that perhaps Sasuke wasn't determined as all that or things last year might have turned out a lot differently.
But the way he threw himself into things, his confidence, the way his sometimes over meticulous mind worked was nothing short of fascinating. Fascinating and scary, sure, but amazing to Naruto all the same.
However underneath that there was something that wasn't a little vulnerable, something not a lot of people ever got to see and it was that something, that glimpse of wanting to be doing the right thing that had made Naruto push so hard to save him. He could be good, Naruto really believed that, but Sasuke just had to realise what was really good not only for him, but to the rest of the world. He had only done the things he'd done because he had thought deep down that he was justified and the moment he had felt that he wasn't, he'd begun to second-guess himself. It was that hesitation that had made Naruto feel for him even more.
It had been a year and no one had seen the elusive Uchiha. Naruto believed this was actually a good thing. Sasuke had not come back to the village for revenge, he had not in fact done anything bad that Naruto had heard of. And he had heard things. Little things from reports saying that someone that fitted a vague description of Sasuke had been reported from time to time. An assault stopped in a mining town, a robbery foiled in a small shop, things like that.
Naruto wasn't completely stupid, he wasn't about to assume that Sasuke had gone out of his way to start doing good deeds. Most likely he had been in the right place at the right time and it would have hardly made him break out in a sweat to assist someone who needed it. But Naruto didn't care if Sasuke was only doing these small deeds because it had been connivent for him to do so at the time. The fact that he had bothered at all was a better sign that Naruto could ever have hoped for. Accidental hero or not, the fact remained that perhaps Sasuke was trying.
Well sort of. Of course it was also entirely possible that the wrong doers in these situations had simply gotten in his way or annoyed him and he just happened to help out the right person at the time, but Naruto wasn't about to let all his optimism die at once.
He walked into the little room that he and Sasuke had spent the bulk of a month in a year ago now and stopped dead in his tracks. He had expected to see that all too familiar figure waiting for him in this room. No matter his negativity on the reality of that hope, he had secretly believed all his confidence at the time hadn't been for no reason and that Sasuke might actually be here waiting for him.
And he was.
Sitting but half reclined back on the old bed, dark eyes boring into his, faint but familiar smirk in place was the object of his determination as cool as cool can be while Naruto meanwhile had been fighting to keep his heart in place in his chest and not let it succeed in breaking out of his chest after all.
And the bastard couldn't have looked more casual if he'd simply been meeting a friend for lunch.
"Don't look so shocked dobe. I could feel you coming from a mile away. It's a handy trick I picked up in Konoha."
But just like that he could make everything seem okay again.
"I didn't know if you'd come," Naruto admitted.
"And here I thought you were oh so confident about that," Sasuke mocked him. "And we both know I can't actually kill you."
"Asshole," Naruto replied smiling. He couldn't help it, Sasuke was here and he knew that what meant. "You remember what this means right?"
For the longest moment it seemed as though Sasuke wasn't going to reply. But the wait was worth it, everything was worth it, when Sasuke replied.
"I remember."
The End.
Notes: Everybody breathe out. And please don't throw things at me. Actually considering where this fic was going for the majority of it, methinks that was a pretty happy ending when it could so easily have gone so very bad. I was entertaining notions of epic last battles wherein they kill each other in a dark and violent though somewhat romanticised manner but as you can see, I got over it.
Actually I had a few endings planned for this and went with sweet and soppy at the end because I think it deserved it at this point. We definitely needed some aww moments. And as mentioned, thanks to Cellariusianua for helping me decide about the sex scene in particular. I always seem to take a bit of a risk in this story having Naruto top but fuck it, by now I think those of you left reading don't really mind all that much anyway. It just made more sense to me here because Sasuke really did need to let go for better reasons than he had the last time and I really wanted to point out the differences between that scene and this. Many apologies though for not making it too graphically smutty. I really had meant to but the emotional stuff kept getting in the way and eventually I just gave in. Damn emotions *sigh* Not sure how the plan came out to have the sex leading off from last chapter as a flashback throughout this chapter but I thought it somewhat fitting at the time. I'm not certain that wasn't the copious amounts of coffee that made me think that was a good idea though…
And yeah, I left it a little open on purpose. I didn't specifically state that Naruto had become Hokage or that Sasuke would return with him to the village because I wanted something left to the imagination even though since they both seemed happy to see each other it was greatly implied this indeed did happen. It was something I picked up in the reviews that while overwhelmingly people wanted a happy ending, there were quite a few that felt having things too neatly wrapped up would seem strange after everything that had gone on. But with this ending it seems like the boys will get their happily ever afterwards, but of course there may well be some trials ahead of them.
And on that note, no, this fic will not be continued. It is done, ended, finished. I know I don't generally set that in stone, but for this one it is certain, no matter what ideas I've had for it and how much I actually do itch to give it a little more finality. Sorry guys, but Remember Me will be the last story of its kind that I will write. I have found that I just don't have the time these days to post anything this large every two weeks or so. Yeah I know, it wasn't a massive story but just part 3 alone posted every two to three weeks if I'm lucky is a 4-5 month ongoing deadline I've been finding harder and harder to meet these days. So I'll probably keep to smaller controlled postings for the future. Little parts in stories that are 2-4 chapters long will be a lot easier to cope with like the instalments for both Long Way Home and WNL.
Thank you so much for those of you that have stuck with me through to the end, I appreciate it more than I can say. I think most of the feedback has been positive but honestly I have never been so glad to finish a story. 2012 filled me up on my angst quota and I'm going to tentatively dub 2013 to be my adventure year with some more Long Way Home, WNL and a smattering of requests in between. Oh I might throw a little angst around here and there but I think I'm more than ready for something a little lighter. Thanks to everyone who gave me helpful tips and pointers throughout, it helped me greatly. Unfortunately I will not be able to respond to this chapter's unsigned reviews but please don't let that stop you :)
Much love, you guys deserve it,
PS – I've had a few questions about songs since I posted up that song influence for Dreams Aren't Real so I thought I'd try it again. Remember Me is a bigger story and I've listened to many songs to either get me in the mood or have given me ideas but if I had to choose one I would have to go with: 'Save Me' by Gotye. Have a listen on YouTube if you are interested :) | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7496176/23/Remember-Me | dclm-gs1-275030000 | false | false | {
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The Little Things
Claire must continue to live after the death of her husband of several years, West, and her pregnancy with a child that will have no father. With the support of her uncle and his wife and the constant protection of her grandmother, she feels more than capable to raise a child until an accident on a plane trip to France kills Angela and ends up with her own abduction. She returns months later with no child and no memory of what has transpired over the time she was missing and must piece her life together while searching for her baby.
Sixteen-year-old Molly lives a perfect life with the Parkmans until a car accident kills Janice and leaves Molly with one less eye, Matt with a drinking problem and Matty in a wheelchair. After picking up their life and moving to Denver, Molly struggles to support little Matty with his condition and get Matt back on track.
Desme, a woman over a century old with a dreadful curse accidentally murders her husband, causing her son to take her daughter and run from her. Over thirty years later she tracks and protects her grandchildren while trying to hide her secrets from a particularly nosy Original Vampire.
RATING: T for now, may change later
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After The Fall
Michael Vaughn was killed on the night of Jack Bristow and Irina Derevko's deaths, forcing Sydney to go into hiding in the hope of escaping the dangerous life she has been forced to lead. In the hope of a better life for her infant daughter, she organizes for the CIA to have Isabelle adopted by a normal family where she would be safe before Sydney herself leaves for England in the hope of starting fresh. She completely changes herself, and becomes Ivy Willow, a female author of spy novels. She lives alone in a small flat in London, leading a fairly regular and boring life, until Mycroft Holmes invites himself into it.
Arvin Sloane manages to escape the confines of his stone prison and seeks out Nadia's corpse, using the Rambaldi potion to first resurrect her and then his wife, Emily. Nadia flees him and returns to her home of Argentina, changing her last name and starting over as a police officer.
Sherlock is forced to change his name to Spencer Henley and seek out somewhere foreign to reside as he attempts to bring down Moriarty's network, and settles in Argentina where he meets a young female police officer by the name of Nadia Rossi, who seems more than willing to accept his help on many of her cases, thus unkowingly reinstating his status of consulting detective.
John seeks another flat to live in after becoming unable to return to 221b, and finds a flatmate in a 'Mary Morstan', formerly known as Rachel Gibson.
Exit Wounds
Claire Bennet's life is turned upside down after her best friend, Alex Wolsley, dies on a mission for the newly reformed Primatech. Matt Parkman and Micah Sanders investigate Meredith Gordon's family records in the hope of finding a family for Claire to associate with and new people for the grieving young woman to connect with, and discover that the former cheerleader has two cousins living in Bon Temps. Claire takes leave from her job and travels to Louisiana, searching for Sookie and Jason, not knowing the trouble she is heading toward.
Ordinary Frivolities
Meredith Gordon shows up on the doorstep of 221b and informs Sherlock of their illegitimate daughter Claire, forcing him to take responsibility for a fully grown and incredibly headstrong daughter. A high functioning sociopath becomes a father, the 'British Government' becomes an uncle and Mrs Hudson is overjoyed at another person to spoil.
A Poisoned Barb
The Avengers and Primatech are forced to collide in an attempt at cooperating, but all does not go according to plan as tempers flare and hilarity ensues.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask yourself what the worlds needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go and do that. What the world needs is more people who are alive.
-Howard Thurman
-Albert Einstein
-Shing Xiong
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
-John Wayne
Joey: Man this is weird. You ever realize Captain Crunch's eyebrows are actually on his hat?
You think that's what's weird? Joey, the man's been captain of a cereal for the last 40 years.
Phoebe: Your tombstone can say whatever you want it to say. It could say "Ross Geller, Good at Marriage!" Y'know? Mine's gonna say "Phoebe Buffay, Buried Alive."
Joey to Chandler: Okay, man, I didn't want to bring this up, but Chandler is the stupidest name I've ever heard in my whole life! It's not even a name! It's barely even a word. It's kind of like chandelier...but it's not. It's a stupid, stupid, non-name.
Monica: Shut up, the camera adds 10 pounds.
Chandler: So how many cameras are actually on you?
Ross: Dad’s still telling the story about how you tried to escape from fat camp….
Monica: I wasn’t trying to escape!
Monica: I was… helping out a squirrel…
Ross: You were trying to eat it!!!!
CHANDLER: What are you doing?
CHANDLER: The cushions are the essence of the chair!
That's right! I'm taking the essence.
Chandler: Honey, hundreds of CD's, not one of them in the right case.
Well maybe we could alphabetize them??
Or maybe we could label them, you know in files??
Rachel: Oh My God you guys have such problems, I FEEL SO BAD FOR YOU!!!
Ross: You-you-you-you (trying to remain in control) threw my sandwich away? MY SANDWICH?!!! MY SANDWICH!!!!!!
Ross: What are you doing?
Chandler: Making chocolate milk. You want some?
Ross: No thanks, I'm 29.
Joanna: What are you doin
Chandler: I'm getting dressed.
Joanna: Why?
Phoebe: Aw, Phebes...
Rachel: Honey, that's your name.
Chandler: If I'm gonna be an old, lonely man, I'm gonna need a thing, you know, a hook, like that guy on the subway that eats his own face. So I figure I'll be Crazy Man with a Snake, y'know. Crazy Snake Man. And then I'll get more snakes, call them my babies! Kids won't walk past my place, they will run. "Run away from Crazy Snake Man," they'll shout. "Run!"
Sherlock: Shut up.
Lestrade: I didn't say anything.
Sherlock: You were thinking. It's annoying.
Sherlock (to Mycroft): Try not to start a war before I get home. You know what it does to the traffic.
Sherlock: I am not a psychopath, Anderson. I am a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.
John: Why didn't I think of that?
Sherlock: Because you're an idiot. *John frowns* No, no, don't be like that. Practically everyone is.
Sherlock: Look at you lot! You're all so vacant. Is it nice not being me? It must be so relaxing.
Sgt Donovan: Are those human eyes?
Sherlock: Put those back!
Sgt Donovan: They were in the microwave!
Sherlock: It was an experiment!
John: Have you talked to the police?
Sherlock: Four people are dead. There's no time to talk to the police.
John: So why are you talking to me?
Sherlock: (morosely) Mrs. Hudson took my skull.
John: So I'm basically filling in for the skull?
Sherlock: Relax, you're doing fine.
John: We can't giggle, it's a crime scene. Stop it!
Sherlock: Well you're the one who shot him!
I'm EMO, so I MUST cut my wrists.
I'm a GIRL, so I MUST be WEAK.
I'm a NEGRO so I MUST carry a gun.
I'm BLONDE, so I MUST be a ditz.
I live in the COUNTRY, so I MUST live on a farm.
I SPEAK MY MIND, so I MUST be a bitch.
I'm ATHEIST so I MUST hate the world.
I'm REPUBLICAN, so I MUST not care about poor people.
I'm DEMOCRAT, so I MUST not believe in being responsible.
I am LIBERAL, so I MUST be gay.
I'm IRISH, so I MUST have a bad drinking problem.
I'm INDIAN, so I MUST own a convenience store.
I'm a PUNK, so I MUST do drugs.
I'm RICH, so I MUST be a conceited snob.
I'm EGYPTIAN, so I must be a TERRORIST!
I have big BOOBS, so I MUST be a hoe.
I'm COLOMBIAN, so I MUST be a drug dealer.
I'm GERMAN, so I must be a Nazi.
I'm SINGLE so I MUST be ugly.
I'm a SKATER so I must do weed and steal stuff.
I'm CHRISTIAN so I MUST hate homosexuals.
I'm a FEMALE, so I MUST not SWEAR.
I'm MUSLIM so I MUST be a terrorist.
I'm in BAND, so I MUST be a dork.
I'm GOTH so I MUST worship the devil.
I'm YOUNG, so I MUST be naive.
I don't like the SUN so I MUST be an albino.
I'm an ONLY CHILD so I MUST be spoiled.
I'm INTELLIGENT so I MUST be weak.
I’m a YOUNG WRITER, so I MUST be emo.
I'm a GUY, so I MUST ditch my pregnant girlfriend.
I'm DISABLED, so I MUST be on Welfare.
I CHAT, I MUST be having cyber sex.
I like READING, so I MUST be a LONER.
I DON'T CURSE, so I MUST be an outcast.
I wear BLACK nailpolish, so I MUST be EMO, GOTH, or PUNK.
I'm SWEDISH, therefore I MUST be WHITE.
I'm GOTHIC, so I MUST be mean.
I’m STRONG so I MUST be stupid.
I'm Australian so I MUST hunt crocodiles and talk to kangaroos.
I'm NOT CHRISTIAN so I MUST just need converting.
I DRINK and SMOKE, so I MUST have no life.
I cry easily, so I MUST be a wimp.
Whatever it takes by Fayth3 reviews
Peter and Emma are engaged. Why is best buddy Sylar not as happy as they are? Please note- RATING HAS CHANGED.
Heroes - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 29 - Words: 101,045 - Reviews: 404 - Favs: 213 - Follows: 293 - Updated: 8/6/2013 - Published: 10/14/2010 - Sylar/Gabriel G., Claire B.
Ordinary Frivolities reviews
Crossover - Heroes & Sherlock - Rated: T - English - Family/Romance - Chapters: 3 - Words: 11,881 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 20 - Updated: 12/6/2012 - Published: 10/7/2012 - Claire B., Sherlock H.
After The Fall
Sydney Bristow is now an authoress by the name of 'Ivy Williow', Sherlock is now 'Spencer Henley', and must find a job to support himself after his inconvenient 'death', Nadia Santos has been resurrected and is hiding out in Argentina, and John Watson must try and make sense of the mess Sherlock has left him with. JohnxRachel SherlockxNadia SydneyxMycroft
Crossover - Alias & Sherlock - Rated: T - English - Romance/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,609 - Follows: 3 - Published: 11/15/2012 - Nadia, Sherlock H.
Exit Wounds reviews
Claire, cousin of Sookie, is lost. One of the few truly immortal beings on earth must come to terms with her never-ending existence while desperately trying to untangle the web of lies surrounding Sookie Stackhouse and all her supernatural lovers.
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• n. a match between chess players
Sorry, no etymologies found.
• Several small boys dashed into town to spread the news, and soon most of the population of Goodland had left their crops and their washing, their blacksmiths and their innkeeping to watch what we knew would be the chess match of the century.
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for the conservative caucus is the panama canal. their idea, roughly speaking, is we need to invade panama and talk the panama canal back because obviously, communists or something. the panama canal and up all night hair on fire fantasies about communists coming up the canal to come get us in the middle of the night, those have been around for a while, in the 1970s and the 1980s. the panama canal was the fast and furious, birth certificate, the president is a secret muslim conspiracy theory of its day. when that panama canal conspiracy theory was lighting up the tin foil hats of the generation ago, it was an ambition politician named ronal reagan who took that issue from the fringe and decide today mainstream it into national mainstream republican politics. he based his presidential campaign in part on this insane idea that the panama canal was basically an american state that we can't let the communists steal this american thing from us. he mainstreamed this paranoid far right fantasy that if we went along with our treaty obligations to let panama run its own canal, then america would seize to exi
, bain and co-people. there are also these kind of mysterious, you know, there's a geneva trustee, panama corporations. there are trusts. these are, for any tax authority around the world, these are big red flags. camp panama, i describe in the article, a u.s. customs official calling it one of the filthiest money laundering sinks in the world. this is not -- we're not talking here about u.s. investors breaking u.s. tax -- we are talking about foreigners cloaking their money in these offshore structures and the money coming in. and that just raises an awful lot of questions. you know, did those investors break their own country tax laws? are they committing tax evasion in those countries? el salvador was certainly one of the countries where a lot of those investors were coming from. you know, that was a country torn apart by class warfare and military conflict. you know, this kind of thing about tax evasion can, you know, is sort of a symptom of the kind of impunity of the elite of these countries. it raises a very sort of nasty set of questions about, you know, was that a vehicle for for
of the foreign investors' money came through corporations registered in panama. and then known for tax advantages and unusual banking secrecy. in an interview with abc news this morning, anne romney was asked to respond to thebain attacks and she came out swinging. >> i was beneath the dignity of the office of the president to do something as egregious as that. to attack somebody on that level is i believe beneath his dignity. >> nbc's senior political editor mark murray is here. he joins me now. and mark, fascinating numbers on the polls. we'll put it up there. 47-46. obama 47-41. razor thin race and obama seems to be just brought down by his handling of the economy. can't shake it. >> luke, there are two forces at play which show why the polls pretty much are the same. that this race is essentially tied or deadlocked, however you want to describe it. the economic forces keeping president obama down, but also, the fact that people aren't yet still sold on mitt romney. and these two forces are at play right now which explains why we see president obama up two or three points up in one poll. overa
says quote, most of the foreign investors' money came through corporations registered in panama. then known for tax advantages and unusual banking secrecy. but it didn't matter to romney where the money was coming from, he knew there was little risk to him in starting his investment fund. he was assured by his boss bill bain back in 1984 that starting up bain capital would be a non-risk prospect for romney. ezra klein at the washington post writes, romney would get his old job and salary back plus any raises he would have earned during his absence. and bain promised that if necessary he would craft a cover story saying that romney's return to bain and company was needed because of his value as a consultant. so there was no professional or financial risk. no professional or financial risk. that's the kind of security that's denied to most americans. there's also news today undercutting romney's claim that he left bain back in 1999 to run the salt lake city olympics. >> i had no association with the banishment of bain capital after february of 1999. that's when i left the firm. i'
importantly, i don't see pensacola, i don't see fort walton, i don't see panama city beach, not the redneck riviera. >> mcclain. >> mcclain, come on. it looks like a town where a bunch of hip peas hang out and smoke pot or something. >> you sound the way colbert drilled me one day. it's great to see you, joe, and you know i visited pensacola a number of times and worked with them on making their city and helping their institute and everything they're doing down there. and they're doing good. florida is better. i spend the winter in miami, but it's got toin ve invest a little in that technology, it's got to bring skills. huntsville does great. it may not be tuskarawas loocal it's doing great at growing its economy. >> we have a chance to grow in the next 20, 30, 40 years. if we crack the code on an energy source that's cheap enough and economical enough that we can produce it on scale and run the economy, you will see smaller college towns just like richard is talking about absolutely explode. instead of some oil taxes in sau saudi arabia or some natural gas fields in pennsylvania, you will
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Hello all, I have a wedding cake coming up in the next few weeks and the bride would like a cake similar to the one in the link. looks similar to the cascading rose cake, but I just can't decide what flower to start with! Thanks for your help!
You might also try adding pudding mix and reducing a bit of the water for a more dense cake.
For standard size cuppies I really like the under the bed boxes, I think I got about 65 each in mine? For mini's, I have a bunch of lids from the paper boxes that I have hot glued 1oz plastic shot glasses in (the kind you make jello shooters in!) and they are the perfect size to safely carry mini's. I can get at least 50 in one of the lids.
It depends on how you are icing them, a 1M swirl will take more buttercream then the rose style, etc. But I usually count on it taking 4TBSP buttercream per standard size cupcake, 2TBSP for a mini cupcake. Multiply those numbers by how many cupcakes you are doing and you have the amount of buttercream you need.
I use the upside down icing method, and do my final smoothing with a hot bench scraper (I use boiling water to get it hot). Perfectly smooth icing, and perfectly sharp sides and edges!
I think your main problem was letting it cool in the pan overnight. When the cake completely cools, the agent that you used to keep it from sticking dries and no longer lets the cake release. If you've let it cool to long, you can gently heat the bottom of the cake pan on the stove top for a minute and then it will release easily.
I've transported a number of them and what I usually do is take a 10 or 12" cake box and fully assemble it, including taping the lid down. I then cut a circle in the centre of the box approximately 1" smaller then the opening at the top of the vessel the cupcakes are in (so if I am using 6" pots, I cut a 5" circle). When you place the pot in the box, it will be held securely upright even if the bottom of the pot doesn't touch the bottom of the box. It's definitely sturdier...
Thank you I will try that! And yes I agree on the salt, I always use salted butter and don't add any additional salt to the batter.
Anybody have any insight? Thanks!
Even if a recipe tells me how many cups it yields, I always do a test run because I don't feel that my clients should be the guiney pigs. I want to taste the cake before I even contemplate selling it. I make up the batter, weigh the entire batch, and then weigh one cup. I keep a spreadsheet with what each of my recipies yield so that I know how many batches I need to make for each pan size. Much less waste this way, and it alleviates last minute trips to the grocery store....
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Re: Is Transunion 644 a good credit score?
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Should there be a difference between the FICO TU score viewed here and the TU score viewed through Walmart's site? I believe they are both FICO scores.
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The Sprint/Clearwire joint WiMax venture announced back in July is a done deal, as is the $3.2 billion investmentfrom Intel, Google and others. The WiMax network will branded Clear, replacing the stupid Xohm moniker. » 12/01/08 2:15pm 12/01/08 2:15pm
AT&T Tries to Kill WiMax
Would you kick a crippled person just as they were standing on their feet, about to walk for the first time in years? AT&T would! Against all odds » 7/28/08 12:10pm 7/28/08 12:10pm, WiMax just might make it, pending . So AT&T filed with a petition with the FCC to block it. The rationale behind AT&T's petition is basically that the deal requires more…
Sprint WiMax Launches Commercially in September
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Tonight was a blast. :)
Well since I have been feeling so much better, and better and better each day, my grandparents (That's where I am staying for a little while until I can get my feet back under me.) decided they wanted to take me out to have a bit of fun. We went to a few truck stop casinos and they gave me some money to play video poker. I'd say I did pretty darn good, walked in completely utterly broke and walked out with thirty two dollars. I calls that sucess. I didn't think I was really going to have much fun, but when they 'go out to do something' that's what they like to do so I went along with it. You never know right. No, you sure don't because I had a blast. It was nice calm relaxing fun, and I thouroughly enjoied it, way more than I thought I would. And so that you never have to leave there is always someone walking around handing out free drinks and food and they had some of the best coffe I ever tasted. I'm so glad they brought me out there, I really needed to get out. I didn't realize until we were going that since the beginning of June I have been sick and there for have not gone anywhere just for the heck of it. The only places I have been are mental wards, hospitals, emegerncey rooms, and doctors offices. Boring. Anywho, Sarah and Nick are comming in the morning to pick me up, I am going to spend the weekend at home then come back out here after church on Sunday. It's going to be so good to sleep in my own bed for the first time in about a month. I miss just being around my own home, not that I am not loving it saying with G-maw and Pops but there is just something about being in your own home you know?
I know this is a long one but if you could please read....
Never Knows Best
Hi, long time no see eh? I kind of forgot about LJ and went through a pretty dark peirod of my life. Really I forgot about most social media sites I used to love to keep up with. BUT it's time for a major update on me and my life. This is going to take a while and probably several entries, but if there are any of my LJ friends still out there that would like to join me on my journey of recovery and growth in my mental helth problems and just in my life in general, stay tuned.
I was actually just released from a psychartic facility dealing with my Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and new digonesis of Borderline Personality Disorder. I let things decline pretty badly for myself before I realzed it and went in for treatment. Since the begining of June I have been instutionalized a total of three times, but I don't think I will need to go back. I am putting most of this under a cut because it's pretty long and I don't want to be buggin.
Read more...Collapse )Well, I have gastritis, which if left untreated can get pretty serious. The pounding heart was because my potassium was allowed to get so low because I had had nothing in my body nourishment wise in days. The back pain was toxins building up in my kidneys that I already have kidney disease in and my kidneys are low functioning as it is. The toxins were allowed to build up because my kidneys weren't being flushed. Even people who fast drink water just to keep the toxins from building up in their kidneys. My bilirubin numbers were three times the amount that they should be and that has to do with liver function. I honestly could have gone into kidney failure in there.
There is so much more I want to share with you but I'm going to stop myself here because this post is already getting kind of long and I don't want to bore you guys my first post back. I am just so excited that I am finally taking steps in the direction of recovery of my metal wellness that I just need to share it. I am no longer ashamed by my mental illness and I can finally be open and honest and that is what is enabling me to heal.
Anyway, if you took the time to actually read this whole post I appreciate it so much, I just feel like I need to share this and to talk to people about my self, and their selves. I just feel the need to connect. I hope my old LJ friends out there that I was close to, it was only a few, are still there and are doing okay. Tomorrow I plan to read around all your journal entries to see what has been going on with you guys.
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I need a quick vent, had an exhausting few days.
My grandmother is in the hospital. She had a surgery, gastric bypass, over thirty years ago and where the connection was made her intestines have closed up so they have to go in and reverse the bypass. The way that she had toe bypass done is not the way they do them now, they were very unsafe and the doctor was surprised that her and her two sister's that also had the surgery around the same time were still alive. He said most people that had the procedure around that time have passed away from complications.
So ya, that's scary.
She went into the hospital Thursday night and we were told her reverse surgery would be Monday morning. Well it's 7:15pm Wednesday night and we JUST now got the phone call that they have started the procedure. We were first told Monday morning. Then Tuesday evening. Then Tuesday night. Then 8am this morning. Then 3pm. And here it is 7:19pm and they are JUST starting. This means my G-maw has not had ANYTHING to eat since Thursday morning. WTF. I know she is getting fluids through IV so she is safe, but she is still starving! UGH.
And, they won't tell us anything. Getting information from them is like an act of congress.
This waiting is driving me nuts. Nuts I tell you!!
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Oh yeah!
Forgot to add this to my post from yesterday but guess what!?
Remember GeoKitty? The one that disappeared?? Well he showed back up a few weeks ago. That's right!! I got my boy back!! n.n
Hello my faithfull friends.
Hai, sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been pretty bummed lately. I still haven't found a job, which really sucks and has put a big strain on Sara. I've had a few offers BUT there is something holding me back. Something I have been putting off and putting off for a long time. My damn GED. I still haven't gotten it. My parents have offered to pay for it, and we're about to get a good dependable car (More on that in a bit) and I've gone through the books and taken all the tests and I think I am ready.
I'd gotten a call from a Marketing company with a job offer but I couldn't take it because of the GED. (There have been a few other offers that went about the same way this is just the one I am most excited about.) She seemed really interested in me, and said she'd try and hold a position for me for a few weeks so I can get transportation and that darn GED. Hopefully I can get it.
So, I'd given my dad some money to work on my Mustang a while ago and he never found the time or parts. Well, he found this guy with a car for sale and him and my mom are buying it for Sarah and I to make up for it. It's not a brand new car or anything, but it is in great shape it was very well maintained. It's a good dependable car. I can't believe I'm drawing a blank on the kind at the moment. It's a really pretty redish-orange color. We've been waiting several weeks for some paper work to go through so that we can get the car because the lady the car belonged to died.
Reason they are getting a good car so cheap, the lady died in it. She over dosed in the car. I thought it might be a bit weird, but the way I look at it is this; It wasn't about the car and this woman took like the up-most excellent care of this car, she'd want it to go to someone who'd take care of it and really needed it right? I think Sarah finds it a bit weird, and my mom was freaked about it at first but It's fine by me. It might be different if it was a violent suicide, but it wasn't so I'm okay with it.
Been sick with Bronchitis for the past four-ish weeks. Finally went to the ER and got some meds to clear it up. Hopefully it'll be clear before I get any job interviews, which will hopefully follow my getting of the GED.
How do you get run over by your own car??
So... um... my mom got hit by a car yesterday.
Her own car....
While no one was driving it.....
It's funny now, wasn't funny then. She could have been seriously hurt.
We were pulling out of McDonald's and the car died so we were going to push it backwards into a parking spot. I told my mom I could push it by myself, because I have had to do that before on several occasions. I told her the easiest thing for her to do would be to get in and ride so she could steer and put on the brake when needed.
She said no, I couldn't do it. Well, we pushed and she tried to steer without being in the car and it went for the curb. She tried to put the break on but couldn't reach it with her foot so she dropped to her hands and knees and tried to push it with her hand, her knee ended up getting drug between the tire and the curb.
It was about to completely run over her knee but got caught in a drain.
Her knee got scrapped up pretty badly, and it's really swollen but they did x-rays and everything checked out fine.
A few of my creations.
Feel like posting a few of the necklaces I have made so far, tell me what you think!!
This was a Christmas gift for my cousin Nikki.
Treasured by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
Just something I threw together because I was bored.
Cameo Pendant by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
This was a commission for my cousin to give as a Christmas gift for her friend.
Sea Friends by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
This is a design I came up with, I've made them in several different colors and have even sold a few so far.
Barbed by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
Another product of boredom.
Lock and Key necklace by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
I really liked how the sea themed necklace for my cousin turned out so I made another kinda like it with these glass beads Sarah had gotten me.
Sea Friends Necklace with glass beads by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
Another example of the barbed necklace in a different color.
Barbed - Green and Black by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
Wanted to try my hand at a SteamPunk themed necklace, and this is what came out. This is actually one of my favorite pieces I've made so far and it's going to be hard to part with it when/if it sells.
Steam Punk Pendant by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
By ze way, I am working on improving my photoshop/photo manipulation skills, so excuse the badness of them. If you have any tips, tricks, or critiques feel free to give them. There is always room for improvement, and that goes for my jewelery too. Also, if you like one of the necklaces, I would of course offer discounts for meh friends so let me know! :)
Also, any advice on pricing for these necklaces would be helpful, I am so bad at putting a price on stuff. I never think my stuff is as worthy as it is, and normally get ripped off because of my lack of confidence in my work. So... ya... HELP!!
AND one last thing I need help on. A name for my Etsy shop. It was going to be &stuff which I REALLY like, BUT you can't have the & sign in the shop name and it just doesn't look right as And Stuff, so ya... it took me FOREVER to come up with that one, so I know it'll be years before I can come with another.... Well maybe not years, but you get it. XP
Look whos back!!
Beaucitul Curvs
Hey guys, I know I haven't been on in forever but I didn't disappear, promise. xD Just been without internet and busy.
We finally have a laptop again, and not one we're making payments on either. Well, we have to pay Sarah's dad two-hundred dollars for it, which makes no sense since it was her Christmas gift. She has decided to share it with me, but she's only spent maybe a total of an hour on it since we got it. I hope I'm not taking it over. It's a brand that I have never heard of, Asus, BUT her brother (who is a computer tech) did a lot of work to it, even put a second hard drive in it, so it's got lots of space for EVERYTHING. He also put emulators for the NES, SNES, and N64 on it with a bunch of awesome games. Also, he bought Sarah Skyrim for the PC. Skyrim = FANTABOLOUS!! Srsly.
Also I have been keeping busy making jewelery. I've started up an Etsy store and I am trying to sell my creations online to make a little extra cash since I am out of a job.
Oh, did I not mention getting fired? Ya, for three tardies. That's what I got fired for. I tried to go through corporate to fight it, since you can only be fired if you've had a D-day and the only reason I had a D-day was because of that idiot Chad, ( ) and I was in the process of fighting that D-day anyway, because every manager in the whole place said I should have never been written up, except Mr. Jerk aka Mr. Larry. So yah, I have been without a job since a little before Thanksgiving. So, finances are in the dump right now, and we may have to forgo our Cruise we were supposed to take in July sometime. I am hoping I find a job soon so I can start pulling my weight. Sarah started a second job today, and I feel bad that she has to work so hard to support my jobless butt. I feel like such a bum, I've never been without a job this long (Except during my medical leave, but that doesn't count). :(
What else is new??
We have a new family member, and we've lost one.
Geokitty got out and we haven't seen him since. I really miss him, I keep telling myself that someone saw him, and realized what a wonderful, cute, sweet, and loving cat he was and took him home to spoil him even more than we did. That IS my story and I am sticking to it. He is in a good loving home. Period. I haven't given up looking for him though, we canvased the neighbor hoods and posted adds and signs. I don't think I'll ever see him again, but I'll never give up hope or stop looking. I MISS YOU GG! PLEASE COME HOME!! Those of you on my Flist who are local, keep an eye out for a huge fat black and white tux cat. I miss my baby. :,(
I'm not sure if I have mentioned WheeMan or not, but he was one of my mom's cat's kittens. He was the runt of the litter, and was getting beat up and wasn't being taken very good care of by his mum so when my sister got his sister MaggieMayham, we brought WheeMan over too so he could heal and get the attention he needed. He wouldn't grow for the longest time, I think his growth was stunted or something. He has always been half the size of his siblings, hence the name. My sister decided she was keeping him, and he was going to be an outside cat when they moved, well Sarah and I decided to keep him. More on WheeWee later.
Well, I'll have to finish this update later on, it's time to get Sarah up for her second job and take her.
Beaucitul Curvs
So, I've really gotten into painting my nails recently and just realized I've never posted any nailart pictures on LJ.
So, yah. Here are a few of my attempts;
This was my first ever attempt at nailart:
Skulls and Stripes by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
You know I gotta pay love to Jack:
The Many Faces of Jack by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
Just trying to find the right technique for doing stripes:
Wyld Side by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
Just a few designs:
Creative Nails by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
Just wanted to try and do a few characters:
Guess Who? by ~LeRHAT on deviantART
If you have any tips and tricks let me know, I am new to the whole nail painting scene but I love it and I think I am pretty good at it too. (Not to toot my own horn or anything.) Even though I don't even wear it. I always take it off not long after I photograph it. xD
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EVERYWHERE you look in the Saarinen House, subtle harmonies of color, form, space, and texture soothe and rest the eye or engage it in wonder. One alcove invites relaxed conversation. Another, reading and quiet thought. Each room has a completely different feeling by design, yet each is related to all the others, and the effect of the whole is a soothing, peaceful haven.
Saarinen House is undergoing meticulous restoration at the Cranbrook Academy of Art 20 miles outside of Detroit. It is named for Eliel Saarinen, the academy's first president and its resident architect, who designed, built, and lived in the house from 1930 to 1950.
The exterior, built of buff-colored brick with Indiana limestone detailing and a slate roof, is two-story, and resembles the European row houses common to Saarinen's native Helsinki.
Saarinen also designed the other structures on the sprawling Cranbrook campus, including studios, a boys' school, a girls' school, a science institute, the art academy, and finally, the art museum.
The tender care with which he built his family home has been revitalized in what will become the community's second museum, scheduled to open in May of 1994.
The art academy has had only five presidents. The second, third, and fourth made changes in the house to accommodate their own family needs and tastes. But the fifth president, Roy Slade, decided to return the house to its original (and lavishly documented) state after he took over the reins of the school and took up residence in the president's house in 1977.
In 1988, Mr. Slade turned over the curatorial responsibilities to Greg Wittkopp, the Cranbrook Art Museum's director, and the most involved tasks of detective work began. Since then, 170 paint samples have been analyzed, fragments of wallpaper have been discovered and reproduced, recessed light fixtures have been liberated from burial beneath wall board, all the principal pieces of furniture have been restored by collectors and family members, and nearly all of the important textiles have been located and preserved, and many of them reproduced.
``Saarinen believed that architecture should encompass all the arts,'' Mr. Wittkopp says, ``and that therefore, the architect as designer should be responsible for designing all aspects of the building.''
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Let $R$ be an integral domain and $P,Q$ be proper prime ideals of $R$. Let $R_P,R_Q$ be localizations of $R$ at $P,Q$. If $R_P\subseteq R_Q$, is $Q\subseteq P$?
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Presumably, you mean $\subseteq$ when considered as subsets of the field of fractions of $R$? – Thomas Andrews Jan 14 '13 at 19:03
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More generally, if $R$ is a commutative ring, then $R$-algebra homomorphisms $R_P \to R_Q$ exist and are unique - by the universal property of localizations - iff $R \to R_Q$ maps $R \setminus P$ to $(R_Q)^* = R_Q \setminus Q R_Q$ iff (since $Q R_Q \cap R = Q$) $R \setminus P \subseteq R \setminus Q$ iff $Q \subseteq P$.
More generally, if $X$ is a scheme with points $x,y$, then $x$ is a specialization of $y$ iff there is a morphism of $X$-schemes $\mathrm{Spec}(\mathcal{O}_{X,y}) \to \mathrm{Spec}(\mathcal{O}_{X,x})$.
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thank you very much Martin – Azadeh Jan 20 '13 at 9:49
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Take any element $q\in Q$. If it was not it $P$, then it would be invertible in $R_P$, but not in $R_Q$, which would contradict the fact that $R_P\subseteq R_Q$.
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Thank you very much – Azadeh Jan 14 '13 at 19:20
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By Berry Tramel Published: August 24, 2008
was a big winner as a player at Cardinal Mooney in Youngstown, Ohio, and as a player and coach at Iowa. But Stoops also suffered through a 1-10 record in the first of his seven years as a Kansas State assistant.
K-State was expected to lose, but "it still stunk,” Stoops said. Those losses — to the likes of Northern Iowa and North Texas — hurt as much as the losses to LSU and Southern Cal more than a decade later.
When the Sooners fall, Stoops said, "you're angry, but we are very analytical and realize what are the reasons, what are some of the things we could have done to prevent it, or was there much that we could have prevented?
"There is always a certain amount of it that is in the players' hands. So you assess all of that and what is realistic to expect from your players, what they expect of you and what your opportunities are. You work to fix those areas that you are able to.”
That's what Bill Snyder and Co. did almost 20 years ago at K-State. That's what Stoops and Co. do now at OU. Defeat means roll up your sleeves and go to work.
Shipp has experienced disappointment in football. As a Sooner linebacker, he started on Barry Switzer's three worst teams, the four-loss squads of 1981 through 1983.
But he also made a Super Bowl with the Miami Dolphins, for whom he played five NFL seasons.
Shipp has spent most of his football life with organizations — Sooners, Dolphins — that expect to win.
But he's been enough places where winning isn't automatic — Langston, Central Missouri State, Tennessee-Martin, Southern Illinois, Louisiana-Monroe — to appreciate the frequency of victory now, even when punctuated with a bowl slump.
Consistent losing? "That would be tough,” Shipp said.
All losses are.
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06/17/08 Let's Hear It For California!
Yesterday was an utterly wonderful day. The morning was quiet and peaceful. I spent most of it being as lazy as possible, just snoozing and watching tv and occasionally puttering around doing tiny little chores.
Then came the afternoon. KidThree and I got ourselves ready and out the door and headed over to the county seat to celebrate Gay Marriage!! We didn't know anyone involved but wanted to help ensure the pro-love people outnumbered the anti-love people. KidTwo was out of the country and KidOne was in class (first one of the summer session, so she couldn't miss it and hope to keep her seat), so we had to represent all of us.
It was wonderful. We got to the county admin building, where a friendly man directed us around the side to the wheelchair ramp and then met us at the door at the head of it to let us in. (As it was after-hours, all side and back doors were locked.) There were plenty of police, all set to protect gays instead of harass them--what a lovely turnaround in our society. The protesters were pitiful. Just five of them. The happy celebrating folks outnumbered them by a large margin.
Inside was equally nice. Sometimes the wheelchair can come in handy. A news photographer saw KidThree and me behind him and moved out of the way so KidThree could be right in front of the windows of the room used as a wedding chapel. We watched the entire first ceremony, finding a friend of a friend in the crowd to visit with. This man was friends with the brides, so he took us right to the reception in the foyer and got us cake--how nice!
Someone had had the foresight to prepare a lot of signs for people to carry when they left, to help counter the protesters' signs. After thoroughly enjoying the reception for a bit, we gathered up a set of those signs and went outside to enjoy the sights and welcome couples and hold up our signs. Again, we got a special escort so we could get out of the building via a door near a ramp.
Outside, we parked ourselves right by the path used by the happy couples to enter the building, just a few feet from the protesters. KidThree had fun engaging one of the protesters for a bit, an older man who looked maliciously satisfied at the thought of her spending eternity in a lake of fire. What a lovely advertisement for a religion that promotes 'love of all.' This same man spent quite a bit of time trying to convince the cops next to him to go in to arrest our county recorder, or to let him go make a citizen's arrest. No go. The cops were friendly but determined and didn't let him disrupt things.
One thing I did notice about the protesters that I think bears out the idea that a lot of anti-gay sentiment is from suppressed thoughts or proclivities on the part of the anti- folks. Four of the five protesters were men. They dutifully ranted away at the female couples, but then when a male couple came in, they got really animated. The two men horrified them much more than the several pairs of women who had preceded them. It was interesting to see. (The one female protester was a teen who had apparently been brought there by her father; she dutifully held up a sign but otherwise stood back by the safety of their truck and didn't say a word.)
Several groups entering the building thanked us for being there. KidThree is so cute and was so front and center in her wheelchair that she got lots of personal thank you's. We ended up giving some of our sign collection (we had gotten one of each) to some young girls who wanted to get signs but had missed the chance. There was a pair of young boys there on their funny bicycles holding up signs with us and making lots of responses back to one of the protesters. We had a good time joking around with them. Down the block by the other building entrance was a group of teens who had seen on the news that this all was happening and that protesters were there; this terrific group of kids got immediately to work, fixed up some big bright signs of their own, and came down to counter the protesters. What good kids--I was so proud of them.
It was a lovely day. The protesters were so few in number, the police were so good at keeping them relatively contained, and the engaged couples with their families and friends were so very joyful. It was wonderful to be able to go share in that, even just a little bit. Good for my state, good for my county, good for my county recorder, and most of all, good for the happy couples.
I am vehemently pro- everything that makes the world a happier place, that brings more joy, that celebrates love and family and honor and commitment. The more people pledge themselves to each other, the better.
KidThree was impressed by the number of news trucks outside and by the number of news people she recognized from having seen them on tv. She even saw one who had come to the scene when she was shot. I told her to enjoy seeing a bit of history being made and that when her kids were grown, they would be totally befuddled that this had ever been an issue.
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Eating a diet packed with the right kind of carbs is the little-known secret to getting and staying slim for life.
When we talk about the right kind of carbs, we mean Resistant Starch. Hundreds of studies conducted at respected universities and research centers have shown Resistant Starch-such as grains, beans, and legumes-helps you eat less, burn more calories, feel more energized and less stressed, and lower cholesterol.
Sound too good to be true? Here are eight evidence-based reasons you must get carbs back in your life if you are ever to achieve that coveted sleek, slim look.
Eating carbs makes you thin for life
That's the equivalent of several stuffed baked potatoes (a food we bet you've been afraid to eat for decades).
Most low-carb diets limit you to fewer than 30% of total calories from carbs and sometimes contain as few as 30 grams of carbohydrates a day.
Health.com: 10 fat-burning carbs
Carbs fill you up
Many carb-filled foods act as powerful appetite suppressants. They're even more filling than protein or fat. These special carbs fill you up because they are digested more slowly than other types of foods, triggering a sensation of fullness in both your brain and your belly.
Research done at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom found that consuming Resistant Starch in one meal caused study participants to consume 10% fewer calories (roughly 150 to 200 calories for the average woman) during the next day, because they felt less hungry.
Carbs curb your hunger
According to researchers, when dieters are taken off a low-carb diet and shifted them to an approach that includes generous amounts of fiber and Resistant Starch foods, something wonderful happens: Within two days, the dieters' cravings go away.
The fiber and Resistant Starch fills them up and satisfies them while allowing them to eat the foods they crave. These good-news carbs also raise levels of satiety hormones that tell the brain to flip a switch that stifles hunger and turns up metabolism.
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Carbs control blood sugar and diabetes
Eat the carbs you want, but you need to combine them so that they don't cause a spike in your blood sugar. Instead of eating white rice, switch to brown and combine it with beans, corn, or other high Resistant Starch foods that keep your blood sugar more balanced than low-carb diets.
Carbs speed up metabolism
Carbs high in Resistant Starch speed up your metabolism and your body's other natural fat burners. As Resistant Starch moves though your digestive system, it releases fatty acids that encourage fat burning, especially in your belly.
These fatty acids help preserve muscle mass-and that stokes your metabolism, helping you lose weight faster. Researchers set out to fatten up two groups of rats, feeding one group food that was low in Resistant Starch.
A second group was fed Resistant Starch-packed food. The rats fed the low Resistant Starch chow gained fat while losing muscle mass. Rats that ate the high Resistant Starch meals preserved their muscle mass, keeping their metabolism moving.
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Carbs keep you satisfied
Carbs keep you satisfied longer than other foods. Here's why: Your brain acts like a computerized fuel gauge that directs you to fill up whenever it notices that its gas tank (stomach) is empty
Foods high in Resistant Starch flip on every single fullness trigger in the body. They release fullness hormones in the intestine and make your cells more sensitive to insulin.
By increasing your consumption of filling foods and releasing satiety hormones, you'll minimize your hunger and cravings.
Carbs make you feel good about you!
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afarhan writes "India will pull the plug on it's 160 year old telegram service on 15th July, this year. This will be the last telegram every sent in the world. However, telegrams are still relevant in this vast country. More than 500 million people are still without access to a phone or Internet. For these people, telegram still remains the only digital communication available. In India, telegram is also considered a legal correspondence."
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from the we-think-we-can-save-the-foot dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Stephen Gallagher, Security Software Engineer at Red Hat, has completed his week-long experiment running GNOME 3 Classic. Stephen writes: 'While I was never as much in love with GNOME 2 as I was with KDE 3, I found it to be a good fit for my workflow. It was clean and largely uncluttered and generally got out of my way. Now that Fedora 19 is in beta and GNOME Classic mode is basically ready, I decided that it was my duty to the open-source community to explore this new variant, give it a complete investigation and document my experiences each day.' I'll leave Stephen's opinion on the new Classic Mode to the Slashdot reader to discover, but I will say that it does touch on the much debated GNOME Shell Activities Overview, and the gnome-2-like Classic mode's Windows List on the taskbar."
Comment: Re:Many classes of non-human (Score 1) 115
by AceJohnny (#43855595) Attached to: Book Review: The Human Division
It isn't useful on such a trivial example, but add in pointers...
int * func(char* a, char* b);
int *
func (char *a,
char *b);
(or better elaborate examples I can't be assed to come up with for a /. comment) ... and the milliseconds and frustration saved in parsing function declarations starts to add up
Comment: defected to Awesome (Score 1) 818
by AceJohnny (#40287179) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE?
I've long been a KDE user, switched to it in the KDE 4.1 days and never understood why people were so unhappy about it. I found it to be slick and useful, despite the regular problems with the NetworkManager applet in Debian Unstable. I just used the Gnome applet instead, which fit without a hitch.
Last year, finally frustrated enough with juggling between the windows of my various terminals and editors, I chose to give a tiling window manager a good try, and spent some effort on the ill-named Awesome (seriously, how do you SEO that?).
Though it's certainly not aimed at Joe Six-Pack in that you actually have to edit the Lua-based config file to configure it yourself, I found it extremely powerful and perfectly suited to my needs. The "tag" system to organize your window is supreme in allowing me precise control over which windows to display.
I discovered that I didn't have a use for all the frills of Gnome and KDE, except for USB-key and Wifi network management which are both accessible from the CLI anyhow (see udisks and nmcli). ... does this mean I've turned into a greybeard?
Comment: Re:Good Idea (Score 1) 127
by AceJohnny (#40073607) Attached to: Emacsy: An Embeddable Toolkit of Emacs-like Functionality
I've been using CScope in Emacs for about a year (in fact, I added the entry to ascope.el on that wiki page you linked to), and I've recently switched to Semantic from CEDET and GNU Global.
Sadly, the Emacs Code Browser (ECB) linked to from the CEDET page seems to be broken for recent versions of Emacs and CEDET and unmaintained.
While I dislike Eclipse for bloat and difficult extensibility, I have yet to decide whether Emacs has caught up with it for code browsing.
Comment: Strong Magnets! (but only transient) (Score 1) 166
by AceJohnny (#39456759) Attached to: Record-Setting 100+ T Magnetic Field Achieved At Los Alamos
I used to work next to the french Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (Powerful Magnetic Field National Laboratory) and was lucky enough to visit it once during the yearly Science Day (why don't we have this in the US?).
They claimed they had the second most powerful magnets in the world, IIRC behind the Fermilab, at about 32T (again, IIRC). Note that this is a sustained magnetic field, not transient as the OP's record. (still, hitting 100T without destroying the magnet is one hell of a feat! Now if only we could find a source of power to sustain such a field...).
32T is extremely high, more powerful than any natural magnetic field on Earth (according to WP, the Earth's field is about 25uT at the equator to 65uT at the poles). The most powerful permanent magnets (rare-earth) can achieve a little under 1T, and good luck getting that magnet off a piece of steel. 32T is achieved only in a space about the size of 2 coke-cans at the center of a large cylindrical apparatus that is the concentric electromagnets. But even at such a strength, the fields we make are dwarfed by stellar and interstellar magnetic fields, that have been calculated to reach hundreds or thousands of Teslas.
Fun facts: they run the magnets at night, when power is significantly cheaper. They have big banks of capacitors and batteries for spare surge power. The (classical) electromagnets aren't built by spooling wire on a tube, because wire isn't thick enough the sustain the kind of current that goes through. Instead they take a thick copper tube that they slice in a spiral and insert an isolator in the spacing.
Their most powerful magnets were formed of a core superconducting electromagnet surrounded by standard electromagnets. The cost of superconducting materials is what prevent them from making more powerful stuff.
But despite all that, I'm still not sure what kind of experiments require such powerful magnetic fields. Such awesome engineering, so few applications...
Comment: News isn't the soldering, but the OSS libraries (Score 4, Interesting) 240
by AceJohnny (#38882137) Attached to: Why the Raspberry Pi Won't Ship In Kit Form
The fact that they won't deliver in kit isn't news*, it's more interesting to know that they have HW-accelerated versions of MPEG4 and H.264 (and only those), and that all these libraries are closed source.
Furthermore, claims that they have the fastest mobile GPU are fluff: we only have the subjective word of someone who worked on it, not a neutral 3rd party, and it'll be caught up by someone else soon anyhow.
Finally, I'm going to advance that any complaints about the nvidia binary driver are going to be small fry compared to Broadcom's drivers.
*it's just not possible to hand-solder BGA packages. At best you'd need a reflow oven, and *that's* still tricky with the sizes involved here.
Comment: Simtec "Entropy Key" also does quantum RNG (Score 4, Interesting) 326
by AceJohnny (#38207918) Attached to: Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator
A while back, the Simtec Entropy Key was making the rounds among Debian Devs, and claims to be exploiting quantum effects in the P-N junctions to be a true RNG.
They seem serious and I tend to trust paranoid Debian developers' opinions, but ultimately I don't have enough knowledge myself to make a confident judgment call. I'd be curious about more opinions.
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Comment: Re:Total map size (Score 2) 77
by j-b0y (#45744965) Attached to: Billion Star Surveyor 'Gaia' Lifts Off
Very little that Gaia observes is truly discarded -- just the main astrometric system needs a mix of stable, well behaved stars and very distant quasars, that could be between 10% and 50% of the objects detected. There will be an attempt to classify objects -- which you need to do in order to grab the quasars for the astrometric system
Comment: Re:The real test... (Score 1) 77
by j-b0y (#45744945) Attached to: Billion Star Surveyor 'Gaia' Lifts Off
Well, Gaia won't ever observe the Moon, nor Venus and Mercury which are always on the sun-ward side of the solar-shield. Jupiter is so bright that it really messes with the detectors when it transits the focal plane, but it should be possible to do some interesting general-relativity experiments with the light-bending effects of Jupiter's mass for stars that are close (not not too close) to Jupiter when Gaia observes near it.
Comment: Education (Score 1) 397
I think a necessary step is to make sure that there is a general understanding that this is a problem -- here we must not merely preach to the choir but reach a wider and maybe technically illiterate audience) Who are we dealing with
1. People who willingly forgo their right to privacy (and therefore understand the issue at hand)
2. People who are ignorant their privacy rights are not respected (and therefore do not understand the issue at hand)
3. People who are aware that their privacy rights are not respected but wish to interact with 1) and 2) and therefore give up some or all of their privacy rights (and therefore understand the issue at hand)
4. People who will protect their privacy rights at the cost of limiting their ability to interact with at least those in 1) and 2) (and therefore understand the issue at hand)
We cannot save those in category 1), they know the risks and accept the "terms and conditions" of using the internet with public and private data mining/surveillance in place. These people are lost to the Dark Side.
People in category 2) need education on what the consequences of their actions are, and may then resolve into one of the other groups.
People in category 3) should accept that their permissiveness strengthens the hand of the NSA et al. If a practical alternative solution is presented they will probably help to bring people in category 2 away from the Dark Side.
People in category 4) are probably a small population already using Tor, Freenet, PGP, etc. They can help by adopting new technologies that do not compromise (too much) their desire for privacy.
Comment: It's all about the payload (Score 1) 188
by j-b0y (#42026597) Attached to: Ariane 5 Has No Chance, Says Elon Musk
Ariane 5 is and continues to be a success but the premise on which Ariane 5 was built -- heavy payloads -- is a small and shrinking market segment. Ariane 5 can launch two payloads, but matching payloads -- the right orbital configuration and mass constraints -- is not easy.
Arianespace hedged their bets by bringing this Soyuz launchers over to CSG with a new (ESA-funded) launchpad at Sinnamari. The much smaller Vega rocket is way off in the distance. The reasoning for Ariane 6 (not having to pay the Russians, as far as I can work out) is sound enough, but the politics (money for France for A6 vs money for Germany for revised A5) is getting in the way.
Comment: Copyright cuts both ways (Score 4, Insightful) 179
by j-b0y (#34159526) Attached to: UK Reviewing Copyright Laws
While we desperately need some sanity injected into the system after the Digital Britain Bill, I suspect this is going to really favour big-media's use of our copyrighted work.
"He said the law could be relaxed to allow greater use of copyright material without the owner's permission."
There must be plenty of companies drooling at the idea of smash and grab raids on flickr accounts and GPL'd software.
Comment: Re:Knowledge systems are not wisdom systems (Score 4, Insightful) 89
by j-b0y (#33859680) Attached to: AI Pushing the Boundaries of Space Exploration
Which is exactly why you will never see anything more than an expert system in space. There is no way any space agency is going to punt hundreds of millions or euros/dollars/pounds into space without a full understanding of the decision tree in the spacecraft control loop. It is hard enough at the moment without introducing outliers into the system.
Comment: Re:What about the artists? (Score 1) 319
by j-b0y (#33097234) Attached to: Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers
Indeed. I'm not sure what the industry could do in this case. It would be up to the theatre owner to contact the musicians - which they can choose not to do. I imagine the composed would get a cut if electronic score has to be licensed for public performance (it would be slightly strange for this not to be the case).
It might be hard to find musicians later though; I'm not sure many musicians make a full time career out of this sort of work, but it might be just be the last straw - god knows I've seen enough string quartets busking these days and that can't be much of a money spinner.
All in all, it sucks to be a musician these days - composing, recording or performing seems to be a talent which is rather unappreciated (to the extent that anybody is willing to pay for what a musician produces).
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2014 Mar 7
19:47:00 - My computer's display is going nuts
Probably not the entry you wanted me to write, but, whatever that entry might be, I probably don't have time to write it. (Or even this, really, but...)
So, the other week, I restarted my computer for some reason, and, when it turned on, found that the display was messed up; it didn't stretch all the way to the right side of the screen, leaving a black bar there, and the bottom of the display extended past the bottom of the screen. Like the software thought my screen had a different aspect ratio than it does.
Restarting the computer didn't help. Going into the "Monitors" settings couldn't fix it; the various resolutions listed simply weren't of the right aspect ratio, and all left the same problem as before. I had downloaded some updates that day and had assumed those caused it; I would have tried uninstalling them, but I couldn't remember what they were. Should I try digging into xorg.conf? Well, I considered it, but ultimately decided screw it, I'll just upgrade the whole damn OS! I was still using Linux Mint 13, after all; they're on 16 now.
And so I downloaded Mint 16, booted up a Live CD (really a USB drive) -- and yes, the problem still occurred when running off the Live CD, which I think maybe I should have noticed as suspicious[0] -- and, hey, it solved the problem! (It also did other neat things like, now I can hibernate my computer again. Not that I really need to; suspend is pretty damn good at saving power.) And so it went.
...until today, when I restarted the computer to find the problem occurring again. What?? What the hell am I supposed to do about that? Uh... restart it and hope it goes away? Hey, it worked!
So offhand it looks like what we have here is in fact an intermittent hardware error, where it misreports the screen resolution to the software. Yikes. It is a bit odd that before, it just happened to go right after I upgraded the OS, but, I dunno, what else can I conclude? Guess I should take it to a repair place maybe? Well, for now I'll just resort to "turn it off and on again" as necessary, and hope it doesn't get stuck in that state again like it did that first time...
[0]In fact, the problem happens really early in the boot process, before the machine even gets to the bootloader! That should have struck me, but...
2014 Jan 30
19:54:00 - I'm a little confused about the recent hubbub over "There are no black holes"
So recently there's been this whole big fuss over Stephen Hawking claimed there are no black holes with event horizons and people are saying "There are no black holes!" and other people are saying "What are you talking about he just said there are no event horizons" and well a hell of a lot of silly things are being said when, as I understand it, nothing complicated is going on, just a bunch of sloppiness with language. As far as I can tell, this is all just a question of what we mean by the phrase "black hole". (Maybe. See bottom.)
Originally, "black hole" meant a body so massive even light could not escape from it, regardless of direction of travel. That is to say, having an event horizon was a defining characteristic of a black hole. These were hypothetical objects and none were known.
Then, candidates for black holes were found, and more evidence confirmed it, and astronomers were like "Yay, we've found black holes!" Of course, such objects weren't necessarily black holes as such; just something close to it. Still, one way or another, these objects have become referred to as black holes.
Now Stephen Hawking is saying there are no event horizons. This does mean there are no black holes in the original sense. It does not mean the various objects that have been called "black holes" do not exist, just that they are not quite black holes in the original sense.
Now here's what's bugging me here -- what in space is new about any of this?
Some time ago I asked relativist Sarah Kavassalis on Formspring (now lost to the internet) just how sure we are that black holes can actually form in finite time. I don't have her exact answer to hand, obviously, but essentially it was: Black holes cannot form in finite time in general relativity. What astronomers call black holes, and what relativists call black holes, are not really the same thing, and one day she should really get around to writing something about this. (Apologies to Dr. Kavassalis if I'm misremembering.)
So if that's really true... what's the big deal? Didn't we already know this? (Of course, if that's really true... why does it seem nobody really talked about this before now?)
Anyway, it seems to me there's really not much going on here, it's just a language issue. I am worried though that I might be missing here. If that's the case, can anyone clarify?
2014 Jan 23
20:31:00 - Appendicitis lost (for real)
So about a year ago I noted that "Appendicitis: The Movie" had been taken down from YouTube and was, it seemed, lost, and the only person who might have a copy was not someone any of us were really in contact with any more. But there was still the possibility that I might be able to find the guy and recover it from him.
Long story short, I emailed him, asked him if he might be willing to try to dig it up, he said he didn't have time right then but maybe he'd do it later. Then we both forgot about it.
A few days ago I remembered about it and thought to ask him about it again. And the answer is no, it's not really going to be possible; it's just lost.
Oh well. We at least have my attempts to explain it. :)
2014 Jan 22
02:45:00 - Mystery Hunt 2014 roundup
EDIT: Ugh, LJ mangled this due to some bad syntax on my part. Managed to pretty well recreate it though.
So! Solutions are up for Mystery Hunt, and you know what that means!
This year I joined Donner Party of N for the Mystery Hunt. Despite a number of people expressing interest earlier, I didn't really get much of anyone from Truth House to help out unfortunately (though Sam and Beatrix each joined in briefly). Oh well.
The story is -- I thought Strange New Universe still existed, since I still got mail from Mystery Hunt HQ on their mailing list. But a few days before the Hunt I realized -- I'd never gotten any mail from the actual *team* on the mailing list. So I emailed Tim Black, a friend of Youlian's who'd officially put me on the team last year, and asked him what was up. I also sent an email to Kevin Carde asking if I could join his team. Well, I got a reply from Tim; SNU had dissolved he said, but I'd be welcome on Donner Party of N. And so it was. (It later turned out Kevin was also on Donner Party this year.)
Donner Party didn't have a wiki, only Google Docs, which was a bit of a pain; when Sam was trying to help out I was just like "yeah I can't figure out how to let you access the spreadsheets unfortunately". Still, it worked. It had to; most of the team was off-site, based in Chicago. Apparently we had so few people on-site that they had to make special allowances to allow us to do the runaround. (Did we even make it to the runaround? I don't know what the rules were.) Towards the end, for whatever reason, there just didn't seem to be many people around and so I was largely working solo. (Everyone working on the runaround? But there's no way we could have made it there by then.)
We ended up solving about 40 puzzles, which is apparently considered pretty good for a team our size. We hadn't unlocked the Knights round when the coin was found, and still hadn't unlocked much of the Tea Party and Mock Turtle rounds. Oh well. I tried a little bit of solving, mostly solo, after the coin was found, but not very much.
Anyway! What follows is obviously spoiler-filled, so...
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...and I should probably go get some actual work done now.
2014 Jan 13
20:37:00 - Nobody is going to get this joke
Today was this semester's organizational meeting of the student combinatorics seminar, when we decide on what topics we want to hear about and try to see who we can get to talk about them. One topic last year that we agreed on was the Artic Circle theorem; however, we ultimately didn't end up getting anyone to talk about it so that never got done. So this semester, the Arctic Circle theorem was first on the list; we didn't even count votes for it, Chris just drew a box around it to indicate that it's in. Later, when circling the other topics we'd agreed on, the ones with lots of votes, he drew circles around them.
Later, someone who'd missed this asked, "Why does the Arctic Circle theorem have a box around it?"
Someone replied: "Because it's a frozen vertex."
2014 Jan 8
17:55:00 - A more findable location for the Space Alert stuff
I've written up my Space Alert max/min score analyses as a page for my website. :)
2013 Dec 29
17:57:00 - It's the co-files again
Just realized I forgot "coplanar".
EDIT: Also, "covariance", which does not really belong with "covariant".
Also, you know what? I should really put up my Space Alert min/max analyses on the website at some point... I'll put that on my todo list...
2013 Dec 28
20:09:00 - Red threats? Pah! (Also further notes on min/max Space Alert scores)
Of course I'm writing more about Space Alert.
So yesterday there was a bunch of Space Alert with Mickey and Nick and Oren. Oren has the expansion, so we played with those cards in and with specializations and with variable-range interceptors[0]. (Mickey was captain, I was comms, Nick was security.)
First game was all yellow threats -- except serious internal, those were white. (Oren apparently thinks mixed decks are silly.) It went pretty well, so next game, why not? All yellow threats!
When that went pretty well too, there was only one thing to do... yup. Red threats. External only -- internal was still yellow. This went less well. We drew the Executioner, and despite Nick's warnings, I screwed up and ended up getting knocked out by it; we survived, but largely due to luck. And to avoid getting knocked out, we did have to miss the mouse in 2nd phase and eat a delay. Still, the Executioner isn't as scary as I thought it would be. (The Seeker still scares me though. We didn't draw that.)
Did we want to put in red internal? Should we? That last one was pretty shaky... well, Nick wanted to, so we did. Not red serious internal though. (Those are pretty much all terrifying.)
And, uh, we survived. Of course, it helped that the phasing troopers happened to pass X on a phase-in turn and stay in lower red. Still -- we survived! I'm wondering if I might have to get the expansion sooner than I was intending. (Well, it's out of print right now anyway; and hopefully in a second printing they'll have fixed the misprints.) (Also, we still haven't tried any *campaigns* at Truth House...)
...I suggested we go to *all* red threats, but that was not done.
1. Red threats are not as scary as they seem at first; most just require a bit of counting. Not that the people back at Truth House are at all ready for them. The serious red internals still seem terrifying though (and so does Seeker).
2. Energy management is different with this crew. We had Mickey as captain and designated energy person; he handled all that, though he didn't always update it on the board. You had questions about energy, you talked to him. Different from how we do it at Truth House, with always explicitly marking energy and not having any central person manage it. Both seem to work, but maybe depends who you have. Remember that I played with Space Alert with Mickey, Nick and Oren first, so I learned this way first; when I introduced the game at Truth House, and tried captaining and doing this, I failed pretty badly at it. As did everyone else who tried it.
3. White shield trick is a bit easier when you're playing with specializations and one player is an Energy Technician!
4. Let me say a bit more about specializations, actually. I actually played with specializations before playing with heroic actions, but very little; I didn't really get a feel for how they were different from the base game. So let me say more on that.
To a large extent I'm not really a fan -- Data Analyst and Energy Technician, for instance, remove the spatial aspect of cracking a canister or hitting the mouse, which I feel like is making things a bit too easy. On the other hand, interceptors become much more useful when you have a Squad Leader who can get to them instantly; they're a bit too hard to use in the base game, IMO (I've mentioned this before). Not sure how I feel about Rocketeer. One thing worth noting though is that while the Squad Leader can repair their battlebots anywhere, they can't do a heroic battlebot action! That ability, often so crucial in the base game, is missing if you're playing with specializations. Medic and Special Ops offer some ways to get some of the same effect, but at more of a cost. This might be a good change -- as I've said earlier, heroic battlebot actions often obviate any need to repair the battlebots. (But perhaps not if you're playing double-action missions. Which we weren't.)
(Naturally I think the whole sort-of-experience-system thing is pretty stupid. If I do get the expansion, and play with specializations, I think I'll do it as "one game with just basic to get used to it, then straight to level 3 all the time".)
I'm really unsure what to think of Hypernavigator; we didn't play with one this time. (Mickey was Energy Technician, I was Pulse Gunner, Nick was Squad Leader, Oren was Rocketeer.)
5. Holy crap the expansion is so much more *complicated* than the base game -- both because of specializations and because the threats are way more complicated. Even the non-red ones can be really complex; take a look at Ninja! With the base game, you can learn the rules really well and predict all the weird interactions; with the expansion, that seems less possible. (What happens if your Special Ops is parasitized, and you would defeat the parasite (knocking them out) in the same turn they have a protected action? Is the parasite still defeated? According to the online FAQ, no! But that doesn't seem to follow from the other rules at all.)
EDIT next day: Actually, looking over the base game again, this is less true than I thought; it does have some weird interactions you couldn't really predict and just have to learn. But again, this is much more true of the expansion.
EDIT: You know what I just noticed? Even though defeating the Parasite requires knocking out a player[3], I'm pretty sure the Parasite is only worth 16 points if killed, not 18. I could be misremembering but I feel like I would have noticed that.
Also, the sometimes-relevant distinction between "moving really really fast" (what heroic movement does and what the Squad Leader does when he rushes to the interceptors), and "teleporting" (every other teleportation-like effect) is confusing. (When explaining heroic movement, I usually explain it as "teleporting", but in the expansion, that's not correct.)
So, the question: How does the expansion affect the lowest and highest possible scores?
Well, I can't answer that, because to seriously answer that would require sitting down and working it out and probably actually owning a copy of the expansion. But I can at least now say what is in there that would affect it.
Ways to get additional points beyond 69:
1. Double-action missions. These raise the total threat value from 7 (8 with 5 players) to 10 (12 with 5 players); I'm assuming we're using the standard ones and not the easier ones. However, in my opinion, it should really be considered a separate problem if you're doing this, so I'll consider this separately.
2. Red threats. This is the other obvious one. Surviving a red common threat is worth 4 points (as opposed to 3 for yellow and 2 for white) and the other numbers are derived in the usual way. (There's a little bit of variation which I'll describe in a moment.) But in fact there are smaller ones...
3. Data Analyst basic action -- use of this action gets you +1 point, so there you go.
4. Data Analyst advanced action -- use of this action allows you to get up to 4 extra points.
5. This one's not really that relevant, but it is technically possible. By using the Medic's or the Special Ops's advanced action against the Seeker, you can avoid being knocked out by it (though your battlebots will still be disabled). The Seeker is worth 15 points if killed instead of the expected 12 to compensate for the knockout effect, meaning you normally only get 12 points out of it despite its listed number being higher; this allows you to get 14 points out of it (with Special Ops) or 13 points out of it (with Medic). Of course, that's still less than you'd get from just killing a serious red threat instead.
So, with the expansion in, and 5 players, a perfect game becomes 8*8+25+1=90 points for a normal mission, and 12*8+25+1=122 for a double-action mission (not 117 as I said earlier). Whether these are actually achievable, who knows.
But what about the question of getting points *below* -28? (Here I'm assuming a normal mission.) Note that in the base game, we had an absolute lower bound of -36 (no positive points and all the penalties), a lower bound of -30 based on analyzing the audio tracks and how few threats you can let through, and an actual minimum of -28 (assuming I'm correct).
Let's address these in reverse order:
1. Plasmatic Fighter -- the Plasmatic Fighter can knock people out, but is a white common threat (!). This probably makes -30 achievable.
2. More slow threats. The expansion adds in more threats that have an initial speed of 1; IIRC, they all speed up later, but these should still be useful for lowering point values, just as the Man-of-War is. (The Juggernaut unfortunately isn't really useful for these purposes.) Many, IIRC, are yellow or red, but in this context that doesn't matter.
3. Calling in threats. Several of the serious red threats call in another threat; these threats are only worth the points of a red common threat (4/8) instead of a red serious threat (8/16). This is still too many points to be helpful for this, but it's worth noting. A called-in threat may not appear until quite late, making it easy for it to be neither killed nor survived. However there is one case that is helpful...
4. Sealed Capsule. The Sealed Capsule is the one red common threat that calls in another threat; it is worth no points at all. (Yellow and white threats never call in other threats.) Now that's helpful for reducing your score! Especially because, once again, the called in threat may not appear until quite late.
5. Hypernavigator basic action. The Hypernavigator's basic action can be used to have threats move one less space that turn. The application is obvious.
6. Hypernavigator advanced action. This allows the ship to jump to hyperspace after turn 10 or 11 instead of 12 (although there is always a "turn 13", no matter what). The application, once again, is obvious. So, point 1 should allow us to achieve -30, and points 2-6 should allow us to achieve -36; indeed, they seem like overkill for achieving -36. Although, of course, I haven't checked this. But it may even be possible to get below -36...
7. Medic advanced action. Using this action costs you a point. So, with it, it's quite possible that -37 might be achievable! And that of course truly is an absolute lower bound.
And that of course is as far as I'm going to go with the matter until such a time as I actually get the expansion.
[0]Looking through the rulebook, I see variable-range interceptors are really only meant to be used with double-action missions. Well, whatever. We can play it how we like...
[3]Barring use of the Medic's advanced action, which could also be applied in the case of the Seeker -- of course, the Medic didn't exist then...
2013 Dec 25
17:51:00 - Moser's shadow problem; also unlocking some old entries
So, a while ago I wrote this entry about what it turns out is called Moser's shadow problem; shortly after I locked it because uh it turns out Jeff didn't want people knowing he was working on the problem. But it turns out that he has since solved that problem, along with Yusheng Luo. (And so in particular, that entry can now be unlocked.)
Worth noting here that in 1989, Chazelle, Edelsbrunner, and Guibas figured out that the answer is yes... if we modify the problem slightly, by allowing projections from finite light sources instead of just light sources at infinity. (I think technically they wrote it in terms of faces rather than vertices, but this makes no difference.) But allowing finite light sources can make a difference, so the original problem remained unsolved. Now, apparently, that gap is closed.
Unrelatedly, I'm also unlocking these two old entries. (Yeah, unlocking old entries has become more of a "when I feel it's appropriate" thing rather than a strict time-based thing.)
2013 Dec 21
01:34:00 - What is the lowest possible surviving score in a game of Space Alert? What's the highest?
In this entry I want to consider the questions, "What is the lowest possible surviving score in a game of Space Alert?" and "What is the highest possible score in a game of Space Alert?". (I like to say that dying is -∞ points, but that is not very interesting.)
Let's be clear on the parameters of the problem -- this is Space Alert without the expansion. (Because I don't have the expansion, and there doesn't seem to be a list of the cards available online.) 4 or 5 players may be used. The players are actively trying to achieve the lowest/highest score. Any deck of threats may be used, any set of tracks, etc.; we assume we are allowed to rig all the decks (damage tiles etc.) and that the players know in advance everything that will happen. The audio track must be one of the 8 normal missions provided.
Some terminology: Let's define the "total threat value" of a mission to be the number of common threats plus twice the number of serious threats. This is a useful quantity, because serious threats of a given difficulty level are (with a few exceptions) worth twice as much as common threats of that same level. Furthermore, it is constant across mission types -- it's equal to 3 for the test runs, 5 for simulation or advanced simulation (6 with 5 players), 7 for a mission (8 with 5 players), and if we include the expansion, it's equal to 8 for the easier double-action missions (10 with 5 players), and 10 for the standard double-action missions (12 with 5 players). So for our purposes now this quantity will always be equal to 7 or 8.
First, the maximum problem; this is the easier one. There's an obvious upper bound on the maximum possible score, which is 8*6+21=69. (8 total threat value, times 6 points for killing a yellow threat, plus 21 points from the window.) 69 points is a "perfect game"... but is it actually possible?
Well, after several hours of trying to construct such a scenario, I can report that the answer is yes. Solution (and hints towards my solution) is spoilered for those of you who really want to try this yourself. Note of course that there may well be other solutions that look very different; this is just the first one I found.
Use 5 players. OK, that's not really a hint. Use audio track 8.
Trajectories are as follows: T3 blue, T6 white, T4 red, T1 internal.
Threats are as follows: T+3 Overheated Reactor, T+4 Psionic Satellite, T+5 Nebula Crab, T+7 Juggernaut, T+8 Scout.
Players will move in the order Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple.
Turn 1: Red hits C, all other players change decks. (Green, Blue, and Purple are delayed.)
Turn 2: Red changes decks, Yellow hits B, all other players do nothing.
Turn 3: All players press C. (7 points.)
Turn 4: All players press C. (7 points.)
Turn 5: Red uses heroic B (the other side of which shows upper red). Yellow presses B. (Overheated Reactors killed.) Green moves blueward. Blue changes decks. Purple heroically rushes to upper blue. (Psionic Satellite reaches X. All players are delayed.)
Turn 6: All players do nothing.
Turn 7: Yellow moves redward; all other players press A. (Psionic Satellite killed; Nebula Crab takes 3 damage. Nebula crab reaches X.)
Turn 8: Red and Green move redward. Yellow and Purple change decks. Blue presses C. (Nebula crab reaches Y.)
Turn 9: Purple presses C; all other players press A. (Nebula Crab killed; Juggernaut takes 4 damage. Scout reaches X.)
Turn 10: Blue changes decks; Purple presses C; all other players press A. (Juggernaut killed.)
Turn 11: Red moves blueward; Yellow heroically rushes to lower white; Green presses B; Blue presses A; Purple moves redward. (Scout killed.)
Turn 12: All players press C. (7 points.)
...I didn't list what the *other* sides of the cards do, but it's pretty easy to fill these in in a manner consistent with the contents of the deck.
I do have to say, though, that the maximum problem seems kind of silly if you don't include the expansion, which raises this upper bound to 12*8+21=117. Or... is it even higher? I seem to recall reading that threats that call in other threats have their scores a bit weird. And, actually, I guess just the possibility of calling in other threats should raise that bound, shouldn't it? I don't actually have the expansion. Crap. Yeah, this is why I'm ignoring the expansion.
Anyway, so the minimum -- how about lower bounds? Well, there's an obvious lower bound of -36 -- all penalties, nothing else. Now wait, you say, shouldn't that be 7*2-36=-22? Because you get 2 points for surviving a threat? No! It's possible to neither kill nor survive a threat without dying; remember you only count as having survived a threat if it reaches Z. That said, we can certainly make a lower bound based on this idea.
The longest track, T7, is 16 spaces long; a threat needs to advance 15 spaces to reach Z. If it has speed 3 or more (let's assume everything is constant speed for now), it will assuredly reach Z regardless of when it appears. If it has speed 2, however, it will have to appear by turn 6 to reach Z; and if it has speed 1, it will never reach Z. One can come up with similar numbers for the other tracks; I won't go into details here. Note that straight-up "speed 1" threats do not exist -- there are two "speed 1" threats, the Man-Of-War and the Juggernaut, and both speed up. It's straightforward to compute numbers for both of these. (Be careful, the Juggernaut has the odd property that it sometimes arrives *sooner* on longer tracks.) There are no threats that lose speed so these are not a concern.
[Previously here were two paragraphs giving a probable lower bound based on this idea. However, the numbers were wrong, and it ultimately yielded no improvement, so I don't feel like fixing it. Let's skip ahead a bit.]
I guess we'll have to analyze the actual audio tracks. There's only 8 of them after all. We'll consider both what happens with only 4 players and with only 5 players -- while having fewer threats may seem better, let's remember that with 4 players, one can only get -8 points from knockouts, not -10. After a bit of work, we find the following (not necessarily unique) minima for points let through:
Track 1: 10 points (put T7 on red); 12 points with 5 players.
Track 2: 12 points (put T6 or T7 on blue); 14 points with 5 players.
Track 3: 6 points (put T7 on blue and T6 on white, with T+6 being the Man-of-War); still 6 points with 5 players (put T5 on red).
Track 4: 10 points (put T7 on blue, with T+6 being the Man-of-War); 12 points with 5 players.
Track 5: 12 points (put T7 on red and T6 on white); still 12 points with 5 players.
Track 6: 12 points (put T6 on red); still 12 points with 5 players (put T7 on white).
Track 7: 10 points (put T7 on red and T6 on white); 12 points with 5 players.
Track 8: 6 points (put T7 on red and T6 on white, with T+5 being the Man-of-War); still 6 points with 5 players (put T5 on blue).
OK. And it's pretty clear these are indeed minima, so we get a lower bound of -30 points. Still, it's not clear whether this is achievable. Let's consider -- achieving this requires knocking out all players. But there's not too many ways to do that in the base game. Especially since whatever delivers the knockout must either A. be white or B. do so without reaching Z. The only white threats that knock out are the Battlebot Uprising and the Commandos (both serious internal). The only threats that knock out without reaching Z are the Battlebot Uprising (serious internal), the Executioner (serious internal), and the Power System Overload (common internal); however, the Executioner and the Power System Overload each lack the ability to knock *all* players out, and so if we are relying on one of them to deliver the knockout, we must have both. (Or rather, Executioner can knock all players out, but it can't both knock out all players and disable both battlebot squads.)
From this we can see that -30 is not achievable with track 8, since its only internal threat always reaches Z (meaning it must be white) but is also common, incompatible with the above. Track 3 can be ruled out for similar reasons. Thus -30 is not achievable. And since the only common threat that knocks out is Power System Overload, and it can't knock out all players by itself, one can deduce that -29 is not achievable either.
And -28, it turns out, is achievable. Solution is spoilered if anyone wants to sit down and figure it out themselves.
Audio track 8, 5 players. T7 red, T6 white, T5 blue, T4 internal. T+3 Hacked Shields (blue), T+4 Psionic Satellite, T+5 Man-Of-War, T+7 Frigate, T+8 Gunship.
I'm not going to go into details of how it's executed because, well, it's fairly obvious -- pick up battlebots, fiddle with the shields, get knocked out. You need 2 shield up on red. You also need exactly 2 shield up on white, which means first you'll have to hit B in lower red before filling up the white shield. Don't worry about the blue shield, it'll take care of itself. Point is, you'll survive with all players knocked out, both squads disabled, 6 damage on each zone, and a mere 8 points for threats survived, for a total of -28.
So we have an answer to our question: The maximum possible score is 69, and the minimum is -28.
...yeah, I basically spent all day on this instead of working. But now I'll never have to do this again! Unless I someday try to figure out how the expansion affects it, anyway.
2013 Dec 20
04:20:00 - 50 points? What does that even mean?
So. I've been playing a bunch of Space Alert lately with the people here at Truth House. (I bought it because I thought I might actually get people to play it, and, holy crap, it actually worked.) Mostly with Andy, Seth, Ryan, and Dan[0] (Ryan in particular got kind of obsessed with the game...).
When we started out we often did disastrously. Things got a lot better once we started taking marking energy usage seriously. Eventually Ryan was (along with me) playing every game and we made him captain because, well, he seemed to be the best at it. Before long we could consistently beat white-threat missions... well, unless we just really screwed something up. Which is always going to happen now and again.
So we started mixing in the ordinary yellow threats. It took a bit, but before too long we could handle those pretty well too. So we mixed in the serious yellow external threats. Those posed more of a problem. I'm not sure we ever really got to the point of really being able to handle those, but we certainly beat them a few times.
Ryan graduated this semester and was leaving Ann Arbor on Wednesday, so Tuesday we played a few games and, even though we weren't really sure we were ready for it, we mixed in the serious yellow internals as well. (Dan is also going back to Australia shortly.) The first few games they didn't come up, so in the last game we reduced the density of white threats in all the decks. Indeed, Contamination came up, and we killed that, but ended up dying anyway.
Then yesterday I played with Justine, Angus, and Nick -- all of whom had played before, but not in a while, and never with any yellow threats in. (Seth was also in for one game.) So we went down to only white threats, and, well, it was tough. I'm not convinced this is yet a crew with whom we want to add in yellow threats.
Anyway. All this is prelude to the story I want to tell right now. Tonight, Geoff Scott[3] hosted a game night. First we played a few games of The Resistance -- which, I gotta say, though it's apparently still weighted towards the spies (the "Mafia", the "bad guys"[4]), certainly seems to be easier for the Resistance (the "townspeople") than Mafia is. Resistance won 3 out of the 4 games. Basically, it seemed to me, the game forces the spies to act rather more openly than the Mafia do in Mafia. Of course a lot of that could be us not having the hang of it yet. In particular, in one particularly embarrassing incident, when straight-up asked "Are you a spy?" in the final game (I was[5]), I started kind of giggling; simply saying "No" at that point wouldn't have been believable so instead I went with "What the hell is this?" and only then stating "No I'm not a spy." It didn't work. But, like, it's a little ridiculous, because I'd never do that during Mafia; I'm a decent Mafia during Mafia. Somehow, though I was prepared for "Are you Mafia?", I wasn't prepared for "Are you a spy?". Nor was I generally a good spy most of the time. (First and last games I was outed very quickly; second I managed to convince people I was Resistance, but I tried to be too tricky and cast a "mission success" when I should have cast a "mission failure", and that ended up us getting us in the end.)
(You know, it only now occurs to me that I was on the losing side every game.)
Er right but the point was Space Alert. So after that we played Space Alert. I had intended to play things other than Space Alert, because I'd play so much of that recently, but Geoff was saying we should play something... well, I don't remember what the conditions he said were, but Space Alert fit perfectly, so I suggested it.
Crew was me (captain), Geoff (comms), Julian, Jordan, and KK. (We didn't bother appointing a security officer.) Julian, Jordan, and KK had all played before, but it had been so long that we did a full rules explanation anyway. (I suggested we play one round of simulation first, but Geoff wanted to start on full mission.) The first game or two didn't go very well -- lots of non-marking of energy especially -- but by the third game we'd gotten some of the hang of it (though we still died). The fourth game finally we survived (with 28 points or so). (Side note: Geoff has the first edition, where Stealth Fighter has its speed misprinted as 4 instead of 3[7]. I didn't realize what was going on there until well into the game so we decided to just play it as 4. It wasn't a problem.)
Then Geoff says, OK, one more round; and since this is our last round, let's play with all yellow threats! You must be kidding, I say. The people I play with at home with have played well more than you and they're not ready for such a difficulty level; we're certainly not. We're going to die horribly. Well, let's try it, Geoff says. It's a Vlaada Chvátil game; dying horribly is the point!
And so it was. All yellow threats. And somehow... we won. With 50 points. That's such a large number I don't even know what to make of it. OK, we've had some high-30s wins here at Truth House, but... 50 points. Every threat killed -- Minor Asteroid, Nebula Crab, Phantom Fighter, Major Asteroid, Power System Overload. Only one damage (on red zone, from when we killed the Minor Asteroid). And we even had time to look out the window, for 1 point in phase 2 and 3 points in phase 3. Everything basically went perfectly.
I mean I'm not even sure what to say about this. Obviously we had a bit of luck, but... the people in the math department are just that much better than the people here at Truth House? Well, I guess that's not too unbelievable, but it's still kind of astonishing. We really did have quite a bit of luck though -- the Overload could easily have wrecked us; we needed to coordinate perfectly, all of us hitting B at the same time in 3 separate stations, in order to bring it down. (Plus one additional point from me on the turn before, and one additional from one of those Bs being heroic.) And the one point of damage that got through knocked out the blue gravolift. Fortunately, we didn't need it to get into position -- we already had someone in lower blue to fire on the Minor Asteroid, I was already in lower white manning the main reactor, and Geoff used his heroic action to rush to lower red from the bridge. So in fact knocking out any of the gravolifts wouldn't have caused a problem... OK, I guess that's a bit less luck than I thought. Still!
(I'm pretty sure had the Executioner or the Seeker come up, it would have been a slaughter. Those two really scare me.)
Anyway, 50 point victory, holy crap.
Well, one thing worth noting -- there are basically two ways that threats can be harder; they can be harder to deal with (increased probability of failure), or do worse things to you if you fail to deal with them (increased disutility of failure). (Though sometimes they can be intermingled, e.g. with Psionic Satellite.) I'm of the opinion that the game is harder (and more fun) when things are primarily hard the first way rather than the second (with one or two of the second for splash)[8]. Firstly, the latter tend to make things too all-or-nothing; either you die, or you survive with a huge number of points. Except the funny thing was, Power System Overload really is a hard-to-deal-with threat! Which is why it's so surprising we survived; Major Asteroid is not exactly scary, you know? (The Nebula Crab is a little, but they just zapped it before it could reach X.) If it had been more of the second sort of threats, our survival would have been less impressive.
Secondly, the first are just more interesting -- you have to spend more time figuring out what the hell you're doing in the first place; you can't just quickly come up with a simple plan and do it. (For the same reason, I prefer more smaller threats to fewer larger threats.) I think a game where there's more damage, and more chances for damage to screw you up (rather than just killing you outright), is more interesting. Although, I guess, even with a lot of damage, it often just isn't a problem -- guns frequently take damage after you've stopped using them, for instance. And who really cares if the shields are damaged? It is a little disappointing. Actually there's a number of things in the game that just don't seem to come up much. I mean, the interceptors, obviously -- those seem to be mainly used if someone's picked up a squad of battlebots and has nothing else to do -- but the one that really sticks out in my mind is repairing battlebots; due to the fact that you never have more than 2 internal threats per game, the existence of heroic battlebot actions, and the fact that few threats both have 2 hit points and fight back, it's just rarely necessary. Probably more necessary in the expansion when you have double-action missions with threats (and also harder threats).
Actually, tonight's crew was pretty keen on shields. I tried to convince them that shooting more was really just better most of the time, but they were not so convinced. Personally, this experience playing with a little more shielding and a little less shooting seems a data point in favor of "No, it really doesn't work as well." Although -- Ryan came up with this neat trick with the shields I'm teaching to people now. It is: On the first turn, someone refills the white shields; on the second turn, someone cracks a canister. Isn't that a bit early to be cracking a canister?, you say. Or at least, I said at first. Well, maybe, but this seems to work pretty well -- running out of energy by the end of the game due to insufficient canisters has generally not been a problem for us. (Certainly not compared to running out of energy due to people failing to mark, or people getting delayed, or not having people in position... you get the idea.) As I recall, when I learned to play, and played with Mickey and Nick, we typically had an unused canister at the end of the game. And often there just isn't much else to do in the first few turns, so, why not? Shields on white!
ADDENDUM next day: Well, OK, one reason not to is that it will seriously hurt you if you draw Crossed Wires...
Maybe shields are also something we could use a bit more in cases where we're deliberately not killing a threat, as often happens with the asteroids. But that needs proper timing -- it should be after the shooting is done. Of course, often, after the shooting is done, there's no more energy left, and in that case having someone draw energy just to put it in the shields seems wasteful. If there's energy sitting around in a side reactor to shield with, it would make sense, but drawing from the main reactor to do it -- especially having two people to coordinate to do it -- doesn't seem worth it.
Anyway. I think I've rambled a bit. I think that's all I had to say on the matter. I'll stop here.
[0]This is Dan the first-year who lives here now, not Dan Zemke.
[3](From the math department.)
[4]Naturally, before the game started I kept making jokes about "Why do you asume the Resistance is the good guys? This game is just Resistance propaganda!" Later after a few votes on forming a team failed, I commented, "What an inefficient system they want to replace our government with!"
[5]In fact, I was a spy in 3 out of the 4 games we played.
[7]But on the good side, with the first edition, the canisters aren't rolling away all the damn time.
[8]Although, the Seeker kind of maximizes the first of these, and I'm not sure I'd consider the Seeker fun. I guess it goes a little too far. But, well, I've yet to actually encounter the Seeker, so we'll see.
2013 Dec 18
17:25:00 - According to some Redditor called "BlackBrane"
[...] In my view this is exactly the sort of thing that demonstrates why its wrong to dismiss string theory as "non-predictive". This attitude simply fails to grasp that string theory is not analogous to the standard model, but to quantum field theory. People still have to write down a model in order to make a prediction, just like always. Now that process just has taken on a totally different set of constraints, that in many ways are far more restrictive than before. Scientifically the only difference is that now we call it "choosing a vacuum", but its scientifically the exact same thing as "postulating a Lagrangian" in quantum field theory, like the one that earned Higgs and Énglert the Nobel Prize.
(Yes, this is a followup to this old entry.)
2013 Dec 16
16:57:00 - More physics I don't understand: Mass-energy equivalence
I used to think I understood mass-energy equivalence. Well, to the extent that you can understand it without seriously learning modern physics, anyway.
It seemed to be pretty simple: Mass simply is energy. That is to say -- well, there are two things we mean by mass, right? Gravitational mass and inertial mass, though of course relativity demands that the two are equal. Well, both of them are simply equal to energy -- this is only meaningful of course if energy has an "absolute zero", but, well, apparently it does. Energy warps spacetime around it, attracting things to itself; and the more energetic a body, the more its inertia. When something speeds up it gains mass and when it slows down it loses mass. An object on earth has slightly less mass than that same object 1000 miles above the earth. Rest mass of a particle I guess is just how much energy it takes to create that particle ex nihilo -- OK, I imagine there's a better explanation than that if you actually understand QFT, but I don't.
Except I keep reading that the notion of "relativistic mass" (i.e. γm0) is not really right, and it shouldn't be used, because it acts like mass in some ways but not others, and it shouldn't be thought of as mass, and objects shouldn't thought of as gaining mass when they accelerate.
(...on the other hand, there do seem to be number of contexts where I see "mass" being used to mean "relativistic mass". So I dunno.)
This doesn't make sense to me. So you're telling me that if I have, say, 2 protons and 2 neutrons, and I put them together to form an alpha particle, they do lose mass because of the energy difference, but if they're moving really fast and I declerate them, they don't? Huh?
"Energy is mass" I can kind of wrap my head around. "Energy is sometimes mass" is just weird.
2013 Dec 1
23:50:00 - lowdefectvsomething
So I decided today to try to get some work done other than writing. But what? I could work on this hard problem that I've gotten nowhere on... or that hard problem I've gotten nowhere on... oh! I'm currently writing the paper where I explain the computational side of what I've done, so this would be a good time to go back over the code and improve it -- there's a few optimizations I've intended to implement for a long time. Well, one big one, anyway.
Surprisingly, playing around with the program, I found a bug I never noticed before: When run in "all information" mode[0], and input a number which is divisible by 3 a fair number of times, it sometimes just crashes rather than output anything.
I have no idea why this is -- well, OK, I haven't sat down and looked into it, but knowing how my code is structured[3], I already have a guess. Still. Guess I'd better fix that before worrying about how to speed things up...
[0]Meaning, give information about ||3kn|| for all k≥0, instead of just outputting the stabilization length and stable complexity.
[3]At least, I think I remember...
2013 Nov 22
02:31:00 - Alert! Enemy activity detected. Please begin first phase.
Here's my log of the real missions played so far with my copy of Space Alert (sorted chronologically).
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...I'm not sure what to make of that.
2013 Oct 28
11:07:00 - Yet another thing messed up about the Guilty Gear storyline
Yeah, yeah, picking on easy targets. Still, I wanted to point this out.
In GGXXAC+ story mode, when you select your character, it gives you a short bio of them -- in-universe, it's supposed to be the PWAB's file on them. The first screen involves information like name, height, weight, birthday, blood type (because after all the game was made in Japan), and... "type".
What is "type", you ask? Well, here are the types for all the characters:
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So it's some weird combination of species/ethnicity/nationality that is applied quite inconsistently. Bridget is "English" while Axl is "Human/English", despite the fact that they're both human. Justice is type "Gear" despite not being the only Gear on the list -- but Dizzy is just listed as "non-Human" while Testament is listed as "Swiss"! Not exactly the most relevant information! (Sol is just listed as "Human(?)", but it's entirely possible the PWAB isn't aware he's a Gear; I get the idea that few people are, in-universe.) Similarly Eddie is listed as Spanish; seems like they've forgotten this is Eddie and not Zato. Meanwhile, A.B.A is listed specifically as "Homunculus", while Dizzy and Slayer are just "non-Human", and Robo-Ky gets the unhelpful designation of "Humanoid".
You could try to justify this in-story by saying the PWAB's files are quite disorganized, but somehow I don't think that's the reason for this.
2013 Oct 27
00:32:00 - Well-ordering, upper bounds, and fusible numbers
Have you heard of the fusible numbers?
They're a recursively defined set of nonnegative dyadic rational numbers. The definition is simple:
1. 0 is fusible.
2. If a and b are fusible, and |a-b|<1, then (a+b+1)/2 is fusible.
(If you allow |a-b|≤1 instead, the result is the same.)
The fusible numbers are well-ordered, and it is conjectured that their order type is... no, not ωω, but ε0. (No, I have no intention of seriously thinking about fusible numbers now or anytime soon. I've got plenty of work to do already.)
Anyway. My point is, if you read the proof of well-ordering, it says nothing about the order type. The paper actually proves that the order type is at least ε0, but doesn't put any upper bounds on it. I mean, I suppose the Church-Kleene ordinal is a trivial upper bound, but that really isn't saying anything.
I note this because in my work, when I prove a set is well-ordered, the proof invariably also supplies immediately an upper bound on the order type. The hard part, strangely enough, tends to be finding a lower bound on the order type! Which is really odd, since that doesn't even require proving well-ordering, and seems like it should be easy, but that's what's occurred in the contexts I've dealt with.
But my point was about upper bounds. Proving well-ordering without an upper bound now feels weird to me, like nonconstructive or something. I don't know that it's actually nonconstructive in any real sense, but there's at least a superficial analogy there -- proving something exists without proving an upper bound on it. (Of course, quite a bit of my work is nonconstructive, at least at the moment. I'd like to have constructive versions of what I can prove, but it's not a priority. Of course right now my real priority is writing...)
I have to wonder if it's possible to extract an upper bound from the proof anyway? (Probably not.) Or if there's some other proof that yields an upper bound? One that isn't so difficult, that is -- I suppose if you could prove it's actually ε0, that would count, but I mean something easier.
Well, like I said, not going to think about it.
2013 Oct 26
04:14:00 - A bit too long for Twitter
A few nights ago I had a dream wherein some people started singing the theme song to a silly science-fiction show that existed in the universe of the dream; the song made reference to some hazards our heroes wanted to avoid in their spaceship. In particular, it would be bad to fall into "the Aptenon, the poisonous gap in space".
...I just don't think I need to comment on that.
(What? I went to Berkeley for two weeks? Yeah, maybe I'll write about that sometime...)
2013 Oct 11
02:13:00 - Self-promotion time: Integer Complexity and Well-Ordering is now on arXiv!
Here's a link.
For those of you that are just tuning in: Let's define ||n|| to be the complexity of n, by which in this context we mean the smallest number of 1s needed to write n using any combination of addition and multiplication. (Note that this is the number 1, not the decimal digit 1. Allowing you to write "11" and say you've only used two 1s would just be silly.)
Then we can define the defect of n, denoted δ(n), to be the quantity ||n||-3log3n; and we can then consider the set of all defects δ(n), as n ranges over all natural numbers. Surprisingly, this set is well-ordered, and its order type is ωω.
...OK, this won't be surprising to you if you've spoken to me anytime in, say, the past several years. But it should be a surprise to almost everyone else. And it's pretty damned neat regardless.
Thanks are of course due to Joshua Zelinsky -- who, after all, defined the object of study of this paper in the first place (defect, that is, not complexity) -- and to Juan Arias de Reyna who not only helped a lot with the editing but also helped organize several of the ideas in the paper in the first place. And other people, but, well, you can check the acknowledgements if you really care about that.
We'll see where I can get this published. In the meantime, this should be quite a bit more readable than the old draft sitting around on my website.
Now I guess it's on to the next paper (for now)... or rather, it already has been for a while...
2013 Oct 3
17:17:00 - It is hard to be original
(It is possible I am misremembering who said what here.)
I was talking to Justine and Seth and Noelle yesterday and I don't remember the context but someone suggested making ants on a log. Only problem was, we don't have raisins at the moment. I have some prunes in my room, I pointed out. Those would be pretty large ants, says Noelle; beetles on a log, maybe?
Today I look at the Wikipedia entry and there it is mentioned, that exact variation with that exact name. I had to check to make sure the edit wasn't made today or last night.
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The Ripples from Little Lake Nellie
Gary Smith
July 12, 1993
Four months after Cleveland Indian pitchers Tim Crews and Steve Olin died in a boating accident, their families and friends are coming to grips with the grief that still washes over them
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Were this story a movie, it would open with a scene 20 years from today. Patti and Grover and Wick and Laurie and Bobby would be sitting around a fire near the cypress trees on the bank of the little lake in Clermont, Fla. They'd all be graying and wrinkled by then. They'd all have angle and distance on what occurred that night at the dock. In the campfire glow you would barely make out Bobby's scar, the one that loops across his forehead like the seams of a baseball. Laurie would be trying to explain what it was like sleeping for months in the same bed with three little bodies. Patti and Wick would be getting hopelessly tangled trying to remember the words to the song they each listened to a zillion times right after it happened, only you wouldn't quite know what it was, and you would have to wait two hours and two dozen flashbacks to make sense of it all.
But not even four months have gone by. There is no angle yet, no distance, no movie cliché. There are splinters of wood still flying, people still crying out a name, still groping through the darkness. The ripples haven't even begun to reach the edge of Little Lake Nellie.
So let us just reach into the swirl, choose a moment and begin: A Florida morning, a baseball clubhouse, a week after Tim Crews and Steve Olin died when their heads struck a dock during a family outing on a spring training off-day. Grover—that's what everyone around the clubhouse calls Cleveland Indian manager Mike Hargrove—is gazing out at the surviving members of his bullpen, wondering how in hell he is ever going to bring this team back from its grief. On Eric Plunk's chest is one of Steve Olin's T-shirts. On Ted Power's waist is the belt Oly wore when he broke into the major leagues. In Derek Lilliquist's hand are the two steel balls Oly squeezed to strengthen his wrist. On Kevin Wickander's feet are Oly's shower clogs. Thank god, they didn't know Tim Crews any better—another sweet human being, just like Oly. Thank god, Tim had just joined the team.
And now there's a ghost walking slowly toward Grover. Face white as bone, shoulders stooped, checks sunken, eyes dead as stones; a good breeze would blow him away. It's the third man who was in the boat that night, the 35-year-old whom the Indians had hired as a free agent three months earlier to be their No. 2 starter, a Los Angeles Dodger teammate of Crews's the previous two seasons. The one who pleaded, "Keep breathing, Crewser, c'mon, keep breathing!" barely aware that two quarts of his own blood were all over the boat, that his own scalp was ripped back like the top of a tennis ball can.
"I'd like to talk to the team," Bobby Ojeda said softly.
Sure...of course, Bobby, fine, Grover heard himself say...but good lord. Grover glanced over the ghost's shoulder again at the team. He felt the lump, the goddam fist, rising in his own throat again. His whole life, a childhood amid the cattle ranches and oilfields of Texas, a manhood amid the cleats and tobacco-stained teeth of professional ball, he had been weaned on a truth, a way of surviving, that was being blown to bits here.
One day. That's what Graver's manager in Class A ball had offered him to get from Gastonia, N.C., to Perryton, Texas, and back when his grandfather, Papaw, died. You couldn't do that in one day, so Grover clenched his jaw and kept playing. A few years later his wife's dad died when Grover was a first baseman with the Texas Rangers. "That's not immediate family," said his manager, Billy Martin, when Grover asked for time off to attend the funeral. How many teammates even bothered to call him when he was traded in 1978 after five seasons with the Rangers? Two. Two. Baseball had too long a season, was too dependent upon mechanics, for spilling emotions; a high five now and then, an obscenity and a stream of brown goo, that's all a guy was supposed to let out. Even last year, when Grover risked a little kiss with his wife through the screen behind home plate after a spring training game, damned if that fan hadn't caught him and howled, "Get a room!"
If a man was around that long enough, he became it, even a good guy like Grover. When his wife's eyes welled up in front of a movie, he made the wisecrack. When his teammate Danny Thompson died of leukemia in the off-season in 1976, Grover drove from Texas to the funeral in Oklahoma because that was the proper thing to do, but the agony, the enormity of what this did to Danny's family, never hit him, and he drove back home feeling as flat and arid inside as the land around him, wondering if something was wrong, if something was missing inside, but...crap, that speeding ticket he'd gotten on the way, screw it all....
He wanted what Bert Campaneris got. He wanted, at the end of his career, for an umpire to walk over to him in the dugout the way he had seen Bill Haller do one day to Campy—his teammate, the Ranger shortstop who never whined, never cried, never even smiled—and offer a handshake and say, "You're a real professional." That was Grover's goal in life.
So what was happening to him now? The other day, for instance, when he was bawling like a baby, with his son in his lap. And the day after, head buried in his pillow and crying his eyes out on his bed at his spring training apartment, when his wife walked in, and right after her one of his relievers, Kevin Wickander, and Wick's wife, Kim. The four of them all ending up on the bed, talking and sobbing and wrapping their arms around each other. That was professional? Two things were warring inside Grover on the bed that day with the wives and Wick, the last player left on the roster whom he had managed in the minors, now that Oly was gone. "We've...we've got to get over this, Wick.... We've got to get busy.... You're my last pup."
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The QA department that tests my apps at work uses an Oracle database that they all share. Things get really hairy w/ their cases getting changed. bug reported filed + I spend time just to find out the test case has been changed = time wasted.
What I'd like is for dev and qa to all have our own copy of Oracle running on our machines, so we can protect our data and chase our tails... less.
The problem, which I understand, is we don't have funding for all those licenses. Using an open source database won't work because we have all kinds of PL/SQL packages and triggers that I'm sure tie us to Oracle.
Does anyone know of a way (or maybe an open source product) to "fake" an Oracle database? There are no performance requirements at all. I don't mean mocking objects (we do use that for unit testing), but the actual "listening on a port for your request" RDMS. It's a longshot, but I have to ask.
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You don't all have your own instances, I suspect, for one very practical reason - it makes collaboration a nightmare. You should have AT MINIMUM a dev instance of Oracle, a test instance, and production. I have worked at companies that had a dev, test, qa, preprod, and prod, which to me is a bit much. But the Express solution below should give you a playground to test out ideas and prototype. – GrayFox374 Aug 10 '12 at 20:44
I see your point. Thanks. – Stinky Aug 10 '12 at 22:48
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Use Oracle Express for this purpose.
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Ugh, you beat me by 8 seconds. – Mike Christensen Aug 10 '12 at 20:39
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You can use Oracle XE (Express Edition) which is free.
You can download it here.
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Assuming that each developer needs less than 11 GB of data in their personal copy of the database, have you looked at using the free express edition of the Oracle database? You can install that on your local machine or even deploy it in production free of charge. You can't use enterprise edition features but basic PL/SQL should work exactly as it does in whatever edition of the database you're using now.
It's not obvious to me, however, that this is really the solution to the problem you're having. If test cases are getting changed without that information getting communicated to developers or test data that one person is relying on is being changed by some other person, creating more database instances with more copies of the same data isn't likely to be terribly helpful. If you have a local copy of the database, you need some way of getting the current version of all the objects (tables, packages, triggers, etc.). You need some way of getting the data that a particular tester is relying on. You need some way of moving your changes from your machine to the shared databases in a way that doesn't stomp on the changes other developers are making. None of these hurdles are insurmountable, but they do require a very solid build and deployment process-- otherwise, you end up with chaos where the version of code in your database is subtly different than the version of code in everyone else's database and the test data in your system has slightly different characteristics than the test data that QA is using leading to lots of bugs that are reproducible on one system but not another. If your current build and deployment process can't even ensure that test cases aren't changing while bugs are being investigated, I would tend to expect that adding more instances is going to make the problem worse, not better.
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I've also found WM_CONCAT is mysteriously missing from XE. – Mike Christensen Aug 10 '12 at 20:42
@MikeChristensen - Well, WM_CONCAT is technically undocumented-- I'm not too shocked that undocumented features don't always work correctly. I'm guessing that they pulled all the Workspace Manager stuff out of the express edition. – Justin Cave Aug 10 '12 at 20:44
Ah makes sense. I try to use LISTAGG instead, but it's hard to filter out dupes with that function. – Mike Christensen Aug 10 '12 at 20:47
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The functions c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 from <cuchar>/<uchar.h> are described in the C Unicode TR (draft) as performing conversions between UTF-321 and "multibyte characters".
(...) If s is not a null pointer, the c32rtomb function determines the number of bytes needed to represent the multibyte character that corresponds to the wide character given by c32 (including any shift sequences), and stores the multibyte character representation in the array whose first element is pointed to by s. (...)
What is this "multibyte character representation"? I'm actually interested in the behaviour of the following program:
#include <cassert>
#include <cuchar>
#include <string>
int main() {
std::u32string u32 = U"this is a wide string";
std::string narrow = "this is a wide string";
std::string converted(1000, '\0');
char* ptr = &converted[0];
std::mbstate_t state {};
for(auto u : u32) {
ptr += std::c32rtomb(ptr, u, &state);
converted.resize(ptr - &converted[0]);
assert(converted == narrow);
Is the assertion in it guaranteed to hold1?
1 Working under the assumption that __STDC_UTF_32__ is defined.
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For the assertion to be guaranteed to hold true it's necessary that the multibyte encoding used by c32rtomb() be the same as the encoding used for string literals, at least as far as the characters actually used in the string.
C99 specifies that setlocale() with the category LC_CTYPE affects the behavior of the character handling functions and the multibyte and wide character functions. I don't see any explicit acknowledgement that the effect is to set the multibyte and wide character encodings used, however that is the intent.
So the multibyte encoding used by c32rtomb() is the multibyte encoding from the default "C" locale.
C++11 2.14.3/2 specifies that the execution encoding, wide execution encoding, UTF-16, and UTF-32 are used for the corresponding character and string literals. Therefore std::string narrow uses the execution encoding to represent that string.
So is the "C" locale encoding of this string the same as the execution encoding of this string?
C99 specifies that the "C" locale provides "the minimal environment" for C translation. Such an environment would include not only character sets, but also the specific character codes used. So I believe this means not only that the "C" locale must support the characters required in translation (i.e., the basic character set), but additionally that those characters in the "C" locale must use the same character codes.
All of the characters in your string literals are members of the basic character set, and therefore converting the char32_t representation to the char "C" locale representation must produce the same sequence of values as the compiler produces for the char string literal; the assertion must hold true.
I don't see any suggestion that anything beyond the basic character set is supported in a compatible way between the execution encoding and the "C" locale, so if your string literal used any characters outside the basic character set then there would not be any guarantee that the assertion would hold. Even stipulating extended characters that exist in both the execution character set and the "C" locale, I don't see any requirement that the representations match each other.
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Nice answer. Just to be clear: If he adds a call to setlocale, the assertion could fail, even if his strings are entirely within the basic character set? – Nemo Nov 1 '12 at 21:00
@Nemo If setlocale() were called with an argument other than "C", yes. For example setlocale("en_US.EBCDIC") (assuming that's a supported locale with the obvious meaning) on a system where the execution encoding is ASCII compatible would cause c32rtomb() to produce EBCDIC strings while std::string narrow would remain ASCII encoded. – bames53 Nov 1 '12 at 21:16
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The TR linked in the question says
At most MB_CUR_MAX bytes are stored.
which is defined (in C99) as
a positive integer expression with type size_t that is the maximum number of bytes in a multibyte character for the extended character set specified by the current locale
I believe this is sufficient evidence that the intent of the TR was to produce the multibyte characters as defined by the currently installed C locale: UTF-8 for en_US.utf8, GB18030 for zh_CN.gb18030, etc.
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My problem is that I cannot use those two aggregate functions together like in the query: AVG(MIN(, First I need to obtain the minimum value from that entity termResultCurrent and after that the average of all the minimum values. Probably it must be changed the group by and include some other clause to fetch just the minimum value (I don't know if that is possible). Otherwise, it might be using subqueries but I had problems with the group by... I know it is quite challenging but I do appreciate your help.
SELECT AVG(MIN(termResultCurrent.position)), count(*)
FROM TermSubscription subscription,
Competitor competitor,
TermQuery termQueryPrev, IN(termQueryPrev.results) termResultPrev,
TermQuery termQueryCurrent,IN(termQueryCurrent.results) termResultCurrent
WHERE subscription.account.id= 274
and competitor.id = 379
AND termQueryPrev.term=subscription.term
AND termQueryCurrent.term=subscription.term
AND termQueryCurrent.provider.id= 1
AND termQueryCurrent.provider.id=termQueryPrev.provider.id
AND termQueryPrev.queryDate.yearWeek = YEARWEEK(FROM_DAYS(TO_DAYS('2013-01-01') - 7), 1)
AND termQueryCurrent.queryDate.yearWeek = YEARWEEK('2013-01-01',1)
AND termResultPrev.url.hostname MEMBER competitor.domains
AND termResultCurrent.url.hostname MEMBER competitor.domains
group by subscription.term.id
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Use this:
select avg(s.minimum) from
(SELECT MIN(termResultCurrent.position) minimum
FROM TermSubscription subscription, ...
WHERE subscription.account.id= 274 and ...
group by subscription.term.id
) s;
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I tryed it and I got the following exception: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected token: ( near line 2, column 5 [ select avg(s.minimum) from (SELECT MIN(termResultCurrent.position) minimun FROM TermSubscription subscription,... group by subscription.term.id) s;] I think that I saw that solution before but I wasnt able to implement because this exception. – user1847584 Jan 30 '13 at 11:28
This works in native SQL. You can use createSqlQuery() for this. Hibernate itself might not support these subselects. When using HQL you only do the inner select [SELECT MIN(...) minimum FROM ... WHERE ... group by ...] and you calculate the average manually in the Java code. That might even be faster than doing all in the database. – Johanna Jan 30 '13 at 11:36
Thanks Johana. I really appreciate your hekp!! – user1847584 Jan 30 '13 at 11:37
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I am using matplotlib to create a 3d bar plot like this one.
Unfortunately matplotlib 3d plotting capabilities are very limiting and have a few bugs (e.g. it can't render properly some viewing angles).
MayaVI2 offers a solution to this problem but I have not found a way to make the size of the bars uneven. In matplotlib you can just give the bar edges as an array using the bar3d function.
Has anyone tried this with mayavi2?
I tried to use barchart from mayavi.
from pylab import *
from mayavi.mlab import *
#define bin edges
x = [1,2,3,5,7,12]
y = [1,2,3,5,7,12]
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x,y)
S = rand(len(x), len(y))
Which resulted in all bins with the same width.
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Can you include what you have tried in mayavi? It is easier to help if we have something to start with. – tcaswell Nov 26 '13 at 18:37
just edited the question to include a sample code using mayavi. – user3037698 Nov 27 '13 at 10:12
In what way does your sample code use mayavi? – aestrivex Nov 30 '13 at 0:55
it uses in the boxplot function. – user3037698 Dec 2 '13 at 16:10
Sure about that? mayavi.mlab has no attribute 'boxplot' using the current between-releases development version. What versions of matplotlib and mayavi are you using? – aestrivex Dec 3 '13 at 15:59
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What is the maximum length of the alert text of an iOS push notification?
The documentation states that the notification payload has to be under 256 bytes in total, but surely there must be a specific character limit for the alert text.
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Sadly, the real limits are not documented anywhere. The only thing the documentation says is:
The maximum size allowed for a notification payload is 256 bytes;
But that only applies to the simple notification format, it doesn't say anything about the new enhanced notification format.
A MALCOM team member did some experiments and this is what he found:
• UIAlertView display limit is 107 characters. After that your message gets truncated and you will get a "..." at the end of the displayed message.
• We were able to send (and receive) messages as a long as 1400 characters.
• Big/long messages (> 200 chars) take longer to get to the destination. We still need to check if this is due to the enhanced notification format or not.
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Should be clarified that an in-app UIAlertView has no display limit; text over a certain length will go into a scroll view. An SMS or push alert probably has that 107-character limit, however. – azdev Aug 5 '11 at 18:34
And displayed text is not limited by payload, because when you use localization method it's no longer match 1:1. Payload may be short while final message may be much longer. The question is about displaying message it's not strictly related to payload maximum length. – Marcin Feb 17 at 11:54
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It should be 236 bytes. There is no restriction on the size of the alert text as far as I know, but only the total payload size. So considering if the payload is minimal and only contains the alert information, it should look like:
That takes up 20 characters (20 bytes), leaving 236 bytes to put inside the alert string. With ASCII that will be 236 characters, and could be lesser with UTF8 and UTF16.
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ASCII encoding violates the JSON spec, which requires UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, or UTF-32BE. See ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt; page 4. – Aaron Brager Nov 15 '13 at 20:04
ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so it is always safe to transmit 8-bit ASCII over the wire. – Patrick Horn Dec 11 '13 at 3:35
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The limit of the enhanced format notifications is documented here.
It explicitly states:
The payload must not exceed 256 bytes and must not be null-terminated.
ascandroli claims above that they were able to send messages with 1400 characters. My own testing with the new notification format showed that a message just 1 byte over the 256 byte limit was rejected. Given that the docs are very explicit on this point I suggest it is safer to use 256 regardless of what you may be able to achieve experimentally as there is no guarantee Apple won't change it to 256 in the future.
As for the alert text itself, if you can fit it in the 256 total payload size then it will be displayed by iOS. They truncate the message that shows up on the status bar, but if you open the notification center, the entire message is there. It even renders newline characters \n.
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Team Fortress 2's long awaited Mann vs. Machine update launched yesterday and so far it's been a mixed bag. As Mike Fahey mentioned earlier today, matchmaking is an unplayable mess, due to the sheer demand and a lack of community servers. Hopefully that will be resolved in the coming days, but in the meantime you can still play the mode directly, using the server list.
And that's exactly what I did!
The video above is from the last wave of a match I played earlier today. As you can see, they've significantly revamped the system to include perks. Near the end, my Engineer's turret was a monster.
Oh, and a word of advice: Beware those sentry busters. They pack a wallop.
P.S. I am aware that I suck.
P.P.S. In retrospect, Engineer was a poor choice for video.
Can't Wait to Play Team Fortress 2's Mann Vs. Machine Multiplayer? Tough.I've been seeing this screen a lot since downloading the Team Fortress 2 update yesterday, and I am not alone. With hour wait times, server connection issues and various other problems, Mann Vs. Machine co-op play is nearly unplayable.
I say nearly because you can still grab a group of friends and start your own server. I made one by myself and it started up fine. Then the robots came, and destroyed me.
But if I try to get into a community game server I get close to an hour wait. Obviously people are playing, but those people are not me, and they aren't many of the irate inhabitants of the Team Fortress 2 Steam forums either.
In the forums players are also reporting long waits for the Mann Up servers, the premium $.99 per completed mission servers , indicating the wait starts small but goes on much longer than indicated. One user claimed to have been sitting at a 10 minute wait time for more than a half hour.
I can't confirm this personally, however — when I tried to buy a ticket the store wouldn't complete my purchase. Take my money already!
At least I can watch! Joining an MvM map on the server list works, but unless there are less than six people playing I'm stuck as a spectator.
So far there's not much from Valve on the matter. We've reached out to the company to see if we can get some sort of update on when everything will be running smoothly, and will update the post should we receive a response.
In the meantime, stick with your friends and you should (theoretically) be okay. If not, make yourself a sandwich and hope the connection doesn't time out.
Team Fortress 2's Hats Just Turned It Up To ElevenIt's the third and final day of reveals for Team Fortress 2's big Mann vs Machine update, and Valve has saved the most important for last.
Well, most important if you're the kind of person who's still playing TF2. Because if you are, you probably enjoy hats.
The robot wars will include a game mode called Mann Up. Completing these maps (which can be linked together to form "tours of duty") gets you rare loot in the forms of attire and accessories for your characters. But to get onto those maps you have to pay.
Think of it as an amusement park ride. You pay $0.99 for a ticket (this isn't part of the metaphor, it's actually what you pay and what you get), and that ticket is used to get on an official Valve Mann Up server. Once there, you're in line to get the rare loot.
Note that this is purely for cosmetic purposes; the Mann vs Machine game modes are free to play on any non-Mann Up server. And those who do pay are only getting superficial items, they won't be getting better perks or more powerful weapons
Still...this is a game whose entire economy is built around hats. Now that there are better and newer hats, making money shouldn't be a problem for Valve.
Mann vs Machine is now out and ready for download.
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We've already seen the robots, now today, we see how the cartoon mercenaries are going to fight those robots. If you've played Call of Duty's zombie mode, you'll be right at home.
For starters, every player now has a single slot for what's essentially a perk, with five different abilities to choose from, ranging from temporary invincibility to short bursts of never-ending ammo. Each class of soldier now also has specific tactics (see: abilities) they can uniquely use to slow down or destroy robots.
Both of those things, as well as your weapons themselves, can be improved throughout a game by visiting an "Upgrade Station", where you spend money earned by killing on stuff to help you do more killing. If you're wondering where you'd find the time for this, remember: this is a wave-based game mode, so there'll be breathers in-between all the killing.
Oh, Valve also took the wraps off a new map, called Coaltown.
How do you get people interested all over again in a game that's five years old? Why, this is how.
Mann vs Machine goes live on August 15.
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Valve Has Been Teasing a Secret Robot Army For Over Two Years NowValve's announcement of a new "Mann vs Machine" game mode for Team Fortress 2 didn't just come out of the blue. It didn't even have its hat tipped over the weekend.
Team Fortress 2 now has a co-operative "horde" mode of its own, allowing five players to team up and take on waves and waves of...angry robots.
As expected, Valve's "Gray" teases have indeed led us to the dawn of the franchise's war against robotics.
The robots are modelled after each of the existing game's iconic classes. There's at least one new map built for this new game mode (pictured below), which has the robot army trying to deploy and detonate a bomb. There are also new achievements.
What's more, between waves you'll have the chance to upgrade both your character's abilities and weapons. Those making it to the end will pick up, you guessed it, loot. Which I'm guessing it hats.
Only details on the update's robots have been released today. Info on changes to the human players and just what the loot and equipment for the mode is will come later in the week.
The update is scheduled to go live on August 15.
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Team Fortress 2 Now Has a Third Team: Robots. Also, Co-op!
Team Fortress 2's Gray Mann Surfaces as Signs Point to All-Robot Faction [Update]Diehard Team Fortress 2 fans have spent all weekend sleuthing out Friday's tease, in which a "Gray Mann" is revealed to be the brother of Redmond and Blutarch Mann, owners of the game's RED and BLU teams. Tons of evidence suggest this is going to mean the introduction of a robot faction, which Valve itself all but confirmed today in two more clue dumps—the will of the brothers' father and, more importantly, a new webcomic in which Gray is shown for the first time.
Read it for yourself, but it's quite apparent this guy Gray uses some heavy duty prosthetics. The will, which surfaced sometime overnight, can be found by clicking on a second bloodstain appearing on the banner of the Team Fortress 2 homepage.
A NeoGAF reader also notes that, on the front page logo, Scout, Heavy and Spy all seem to be giving Engineer dirty looks, which conforms to the thesis of that amazing video at left. It collects two years' worth of visual clues, leaks and curiosities that imply Engineer is responsible for the construction of a robot team, and that whatever this mode of play is to be, it'll be called "Man vs. Machine."
Sure, maybe we kinda know what this is all about by now, but that doesn't mean a forensic investigation of it isn't fun. Especially if it reveals some kind of a canonical structure for this feature going back two years. For more, visit the thread on NeoGAF, they seem to have uncovered some kind of encrypted file in the latest update, which upon decoding looks like the basis for another ARG.
Update: Reader iamjethro explains both the ARG and how the webcomic was discovered.
And that my friends, is a VALVE ARG. Special thanks given to the fine people who inhabit the valvearg.com chat for solving all this.
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Well, here's what it looks like when a professional gets their hands on it.
This lengthy short, detailing the daily problems faced by an Engineer, is the work of James McVinnie, a cinematic designer at BioWare. If you think the animation looks a little better than what we're used to seeing with these clips, that's because he used two Kinects to grab motion-capture data.
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I have been trying to use vim as a wordprocessor to do most of my initial drafting and then open in abiword or open office to do my final printing.
Problem has been, even with :set linebreak and :set wrap, when I open it, there's a ton of line breaks. I have to go and manually remove them.
What I want is to be able to write at 40 columns wrap around softly so that when I open it up in Open Office, it gets restored to whatever that column width is, preserving things like carriage return but without all those linebreaks.
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Vim does not distinguish between what you call "carriage returns" and "linebreaks", basically because ASCII does not have separate control characters for those two functions and there is no convention for distinguishing between those two functions in a plain text file. I wouldn't try to do any formatting, such as setting column widths, in Vim--leave that for Open Office. For your draft, set Vim's window width to 40, set tw=99999, and put actual carriage returns only at the ends of paragraphs. List items and such will have to be paragraphs in the draft. – garyjohn Dec 28 '10 at 17:50
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Have you considered feeding your vim-edited text into a plain text processor - this can produce some remarkably good-looking results in PDF RTF or other final form.
If you do this you don't need to worry about line breaks.
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for soft-wrapping you need to use :set columns instead of :set textwidth or set wrap (which are for hard-wrapping):
:set columns=40
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Use this option in your .vimrc or at runtime:
:set textwidth=40
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I believe that adds a linebreak – Angela Dec 28 '10 at 4:31
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The roll call of U.S. allies in the Middle East and its neighborhood has always read like a target list: Maliki, Karzai, Sistani, Musharraf. One bullet or one suicide blast could wipe out all our work and rip apart a strategically important country.
Assassinations have steadily picked off pro-Western politicians in Lebanon, and one of our key tribal allies in Western Iraq, Sheik Satter, was murdered shortly after meeting with President Bush. But since Sept. 11, we have been lucky. There have been no assassinations of true geo-strategic significance, except perhaps that of anti-Syria former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose killing prompted a popular backlash that ended the Syrian occupation of his country.
Until now. Until Benazir Bhutto was killed in a shooting and suicide bombing at the end of a political rally in the city of Rawalpindi. Until her return to Pakistan from exile a few months ago, met immediately with threats to kill her from Islamic extremists, ended in a tragedy that is still shocking even if it seemed inevitable.
It's always been the assassin's conceit that he can move history with a single blow. Sometimes, as most infamously with Gavrilo Princip's shot that precipitated World War I, he succeeds. But it is much harder to do in stable, institutionally mature democracies where established parties can be as important as a single man or woman. Pakistan, alternately ruled by civilian kleptocrats and generals, is not such a country. Bhutto will be hard to replace.
In keeping with the clannishness of Pakistani politics, her Pakistan Peoples Party was entirely dependent on her (authoritarian-style) leadership. Her civilian rival, Nawaz Sharif, who also recently returned from exile, is soft on Islamic militants and has even been accused of having taken bribes from Osama bin Laden. That leaves President Pervez Musharraf, increasingly isolated politically, without a decent civilian ally with whom to try to broaden his support as his country totters from this latest blow.
Musharraf had seemed on the verge of escaping from the political fix his state of emergency of November had placed him. He had removed judges implacably opposed to his rule, then stepped down as head of the army, lifted the state of emergency and said parliamentary elections would go ahead on Jan. 8. The killing of Bhutto throws the elections into doubt, and will politically weaken Musharraf further as rumors circulate that his extremist-infiltrated security services may have played a role.
If Bhutto's murder were to create a spiral of violence in nuclear-armed Pakistan that Musharraf couldn't control, it would be the most successful post-Sept. 11 terrorist act since the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Iraq, which stoked a civil war that nearly brought us to our knees there. Chaos is militancy's friend, and it is much easier to bring about than lawfully constituted order.
For the terrorists, murder rather than persuasion is the very stuff of politics. It's no accident that the thunderclap that heralded the horrors of Sept. 11 was the assassination in Afghanistan of the anti-Taliban guerrilla fighter Ahmad Massoud. Where it has no majority support and no democratic inspirational leaders of its own, al-Qaida can always kill and hope to gain in the resulting whirlwind.
As Iraq during the past year shows, chaos needn't prevail. But we have more leverage over Iraq than Pakistan, where we have no troops and not necessarily even a dependable ally in power, and Afghanistan, where we are operating in a cumbersome arrangement with NATO forces that have been struggling to take the fight to the Taliban. As our Iraq policy spiraled downward in 2006, it benefited from the sort of thorough rethinking that we now need to bring to bear to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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