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|2009-07-12, 20:42
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Ava courtesy of patchy
Join Date: Jan 2009
|2009-07-13, 01:01
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Guys you forget the effects. They lose their memories but the feeling of love they do not.
That is why Keima seems familiar to Kanon. Unlike Chichiro or Ayumi Kanon did not know Keima prior to the time she first met him.
This brings to question other girls who first met him. We know some of the other girls give him furtive glances but what about those without any contact?
The Sensei certainly remembers him as problem child prior to possesion. Perhaps in her subconscious she remembers her promise to come back a teacher.
Keima is now what? Second year? When he gets to the next year level that middle school girl will identify him as a Sempai. Not the she remembers him but she will fall for him all over again.
Perhaps the biggest question what will happen to Keima when his contract with Elsee ends. Will he forget her and the rest of the girls?
|2009-07-13, 03:12
|Link #806
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Australia
I knows it's not really true(of course it's not true), but if you think: when Keima have more social contact with girls -> his godly power lose a bit of effect...... Then some evil can just try to pair him up with, let's say 300 girls(3 every 1% x100) , and Keima would not be possible to capture anymore..... xD
On another note, IMO Elsee is too close to be a sister to romantic pair up with Keima. She's for the purpose of siscon, i guess......
|2009-07-13, 13:26
|Link #810
Portable Dude Mk. II
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
Age: 29
|2009-07-14, 10:01
|Link #816
Wise Otaku Seeker
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Philippines
Age: 28
in any case if as in if ever keima pics one girl which girl do you thin he would choose???
when will a loli be a target
its been so long since i last saw a loli (the one with high heels and is the tsundere type princess)
but the main question is
will go live for eternity since he is stuck in fate with elsee until all the evil spirits is obtained
|2009-07-14, 10:12
|Link #817
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Iceland
Still I wonder when there will be an appearence of an angel. I mean okei we have demons, but no angels so Its pretty obvious that one will appear with a diffrent mission.
Perhaps getting rid of demons along with the runaway spirits? because even thought it has not bin mentioned much lately, Keima is being forced too do this and is under the demons slavery lol.
Also the whole thing about him being the God of love lol, is actually something I hope other angels and demons will recognize him for. A God.
|2009-07-14, 11:14
|Link #818
Portable Dude Mk. II
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
Age: 29
Chapter 60: Someone hand me over a locked and loaded demon-killer sniper rifle. No, I'm not going to shoot Hakua. No way I will. Not even Elsee either.
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|2009-07-14, 16:44
|Link #820
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
- Keima helped her twice VOLUNTARILY, without being asked. (Not something that can be said of Elsee)
- His reactions to her are consistently the strongest among all the girls. (Consistently tsundere as well)
- He shows off his Capturing-God mode to Hakua, something that strains him a lot. He is definitely trying to impress her.
- He follows her home just help her work better with her partner and become more successful. Sure he helped Chihiro, Ayumi and Kanon in Chapter 55 (semi-voluntarily), but Hakua is the ONLY one for whom he takes the initiative.
Answer to the second question: Tsukiyo CAN be considered a loli right? (In fact she was smaller than your average loli)
Answer to the third question: Although 60,000 is a large number, it is still finite. So no, he will not live forever. Considering that there are hundreds of members in the Escaped Spirits Corps, the task may be done before Keima graduates out of college (considering that he is in high school now).
Of course that is assuming that everyone in the Escaped Spirits Corps work together and not trying to sabotage one another (which seems to be the case).
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SPRINGFIELD – More than 3,000 Illinois FFA high school students – including 11 members of the Bureau Valley FFA chapter – participated in the 2013 Illinois State FFA Convention at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield.
The 85th annual convention featured a "Growing Legacies" theme inspired by the 2012-13 Illinois State FFA Officer team. The convention celebrated the events of the year and included motivational speakers, recognition of individual and chapter achievement, and election of a new state officer team.
BV FFA member Susan Brummel was recognized on stage during the first convention session as the State Proficiency winner in the area of Agricultural Mechanics Design and Fabrication. Her application will move on to the national level for judging. Retiring chapter reporter Michael Lotspeich and newly-elected reporter Lauren Peterson were also recognized on stage during the fifth general session for placing gold in the state with their chapter scrapbook.
During the convention, FFA members heard from motivational speaker Sam Glen, served as ushers, heard speeches from the five retiring state officers, participated in business sessions, and toured downtown Springfield.
Samantha Haney participated in the 50-member state FFA band playing first chair clarinet during the convention. As a member of the state FFA band, Samantha had an opportunity to audition for the National FFA Band and was recommended. The National FFA Band performs during the National Convention held in Louisville, Ky., at the end of October. After being recommended, Samantha has to create an audition tape, prepare an application and gain recommendation from her band instructor. Finally the national band director will review all applicants before selecting those that will perform. This will be Samantha's second time participating in the National FFA Band.
During the sixth and final general session of the convention, Andrew Smith, Thomas Monier and Lauren Peterson received their state FFA degrees. The degree is the highest degree which the state association can award their members. In order to qualify for the degree, a member must have an outstanding Supervised Agriculture Experience Program, exhibit premier leadership qualities, be highly involved in the activities of the FFA, have an outstanding scholastic record, and provide service to their community.
Andrew Smith and Kelly Sierens served as voting delegates participating in the elections of the new state officers and approval of degrees and awards.
The chapter was also recognized as a member of the $1,500 club for its donation to the Illinois FFA foundation and was recognized as a bronze emblem winner in the National Chapter Award program.
The Illinois Association FFA is part of the National FFA Organization, formerly known as the Future Farmers of America. The FFA is a national youth organization of 557,318 student members – all preparing for leadership and careers in the science, business and technology of agriculture. The FFA mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. Visit www.illinoisffa.org for more information.

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What: Zero Bound, a national crowdfunding organization that asks communities to support students as they pay down student loan debt through volunteer work, will launch its fundraising campaign on March 31. To find out more, or to support local students, visit zerobound.com
Becky Havens has a heart for volunteering — and though she might not get paid, her passion could help her pay off her student loans.
Havens, a Broomfield resident who is studying creative writing at Metropolitan State University of Denver, is trying a unique approach to paying off student loans: Using a new crowdfunding site called Zero Bound.
Zero Bound asks users to "pay it back by paying it forward." That means participants volunteer in the community while crowdsourced backers sponsor participants' volunteer hours.
The idea is to promote volunteer opportunities that can strengthen students' resumes while also paying down student loans.
"I love volunteering, and I want to go into the nonprofit world. This just seemed like the perfect fit for me," said Havens, who will graduate in May.
Sabrina Norrie, CEO and co-founder of Zero Bound, said new, creative ways to handle student loan debt are critical, especially as the cost of higher education continues to skyrocket.
"One thing we've seen is that ... students and alumni paying back debt still have an interest in giving back to the community," Norrie said.
Zero Bound is in its beginning stages, but will launch its full website on March 31.
After that, people can browse Havens' and other users' profiles, then decide if they want to kick in a few dollars to support those students as they pay back their loans.
The term "zero bound" refers to students who hope to reduce their loans to zero.
Zero Bound users sign up and create a profile, then film videos and write blog updates to talk about their volunteer work, passions and personality.
Outside funders — friends, family and interested strangers — can donate directly to that person's student loan account.
Havens hopes the new crowdfunding effort will help her pay about $15,000 in student loans, while also connecting backers with her favorite nonprofit: The Harry Potter Alliance, a national group that tackles inequality, illiteracy and human rights violations. HPA chapters throughout the United States use parallels from the Harry Potter books to launch social activism campaigns.
Havens has volunteered with the Harry Potter Alliance for about two years. Her time there has been inspiring and invigorating, but she had no idea her volunteerism could help her pay her college debt.
Norrie said Havens' dedication to volunteering made her a perfect fit to become one of just 24 students who are participating in the beta testing of the Zero Bound site. More than 1,000 people signed up for the first wave, but Zero Bound only chose students who already had a history of activism and hearts for making change in their communities, Norrie said.
"She's very motivated and a great example of having a student who is just really involved in and passionate about the work she does," Norrie said. " She's proving her skill set to an organization" while growing her career, she said.
Norrie and fellow co-founder Kelli Space have experience working with crowdfunding, and felt the formula could translate to a program that helped students while promoting worthwhile nonprofits and charities.
"We just knew there had to be a way to get creative about student loan debt in a way that hasn't been done before," Norrie said.
According to the nonprofit Institute of College Access and Success, Colorado students who graduated from a four-year public or private Colorado institution in 2012 had an average of $ 24,540 in debt. At Metro State, where Havens studies, students had an average of more than $31,400 in debt.
While students who have earned their degrees look for ways to pay back their debt, they still carry with them the skills and expertise they learned while in school, Norrie said.
Students might see themselves as broke, but they have more to their futures than a dollar sign, Norrie said.
"Attached to that loan debt are skills and education that can be reinvested in the community," she said.
Harnessing those skills to help the community is a valuable way to make change, Norrie said. Havens and other Zero Bound students volunteer for organizations that address social justice causes, the arts, children's causes and health care.
Havens said she is not used to promoting herself on a site like Zero Bound, but has no problem promoting the Harry Potter Alliance and the programs it launches throughout the year.
Havens got connected with the Harry Potter Alliance while she struggled with an eating disorder. After learning Harry Potter fans in the alliance were committed to providing support to teens struggling with eating disorders, she knew she wanted to get involved.
"I learned that that the fandom was not just a place where I could escape, but a place where I could also be supported," she said.
In addition to volunteering with the Harry Potter Alliance, she also has an internship with the Tibetan Village Project, which helps Tibetan communities with sustainable development. She also volunteers for Uprise Books, a Portland-based organization that helps inspire underprivileged teens by connecting them with banned and challenged books.
Working with nonprofits "is just my favorite thing to do," she said.
Norrie said social outreach is at the heart of the Zero Bound, and students with a passion for helping others should get their own helping hand with loan debt.
"We not only reduce student loan debt, but strengthen communities. There's a high level of skill (participants) can offer to our communities," she said.


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Hello all,
I am helping a friend and we are both a bit over our heads with this one -
He wants to set up recurring payments for donations - the Merchant (globalgatewayconnect.com), has the input fields for that however when I called and spoke with tech support about what values should be carried over to their secure site if recurring was not selected the guy told me those input fields should be skipped and not sent at all if recurring wasn't selected. Of course it's not their job to help you to set this up, but the implied some type of condition statement, I was thinking javascript, to exclude those fields if a condition box wasn't checked.
Anyone seen this or know what is needed in a situation?
I was thinking set those values to "0" or some other null and pass them anyway, but the guy said no.
Your form expertise is much appreciated, thanks.


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Comics, book, and DVD reviews (and occasional eruptions of other kinds)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Comics Review: LITTLE LULU, VOLUME 24: THE SPACE DOLLY AND OTHER STORIES by John Stanley and Irving Tripp (Dark Horse, 2010)
a brand of peanut butter? Well, anyone who knows the i.d. of my favorite female Toon -- POGO's Miss Ma'amselle Hepzibah -- will not be surprised that this kid was a big hit with me. I wonder whether she appeared in any future LULU stories, either before or after Stanley left the title. Another fave in this issue: "The Super Puzzle," in which Tubby creates the headlined headscratcher by mixing a bunch of different puzzles together. It sounds contrived until you remember how many different flavors of Sudoku have been invented by now. Stanley only has one more year of LULU work in him, so there won't be many more of these ever-pleasing collections... more's the pity.
Posted by Chris Barat at 7:44 PM
Labels: Comic Strips, General Comics, John Stanley, Little Lulu, Pogo
2 comments:
- Faster, Harder, More Challenging GeoX said...
As you've probably seen, though, they ARE releasing collections of the Tubby spin-off, so that should be fun. I hope that they also reprint the giant-sized LL specials at some point; I only vaguely remember them, but I do remember thinking that it was neat to see the characters in longer, extended narratives of sorts.
- September 1, 2010 at 10:56 PM
- Faster, Harder, More Challenging GeoX said...
....also, I'm *pretty* sure I remember seeing Fifi in multiple stories, but don't quote me on that.
- September 1, 2010 at 10:58 PM
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From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy
MERIDIAN, Miss. -- With a 20-minute long familial history here this morning, John McCain kicked off what his campaign is formally calling the "Service to America" tour meant to reintroduce McCain to voters. But if today was any indication, the tour could accurately be renamed "Faith of my Fathers on Stage."
This morning's speech was a Cliffs Notes version of the McCain Family story found in the senator's best-selling autobiography -- written with assistance from senior advisor Mark Salter. The message of the speech focused on how the military service of his ancestors inspired him to serve his country as well.
"The family I was born to, and the family I am blessed with now, made me the man I am, and instilled in me a deep and abiding respect for the social institution that wields the greatest influence in the formation of our individual character and the character of our society," McCain said. "Government must be attentive to the impact of its policies on families so that it does not through inattention or arrogance make it harder for parents to have the resources to succeed in the greatest work of their lives -- raising their children."
The several hundred people seated in the audience sat quietly for the first 15 minutes of McCain's talk before applauding loudly when the candidate called for the federal government to be mindful of its effects on the American family.
Going forward, McCain visits his high school and college in the coming days when he is expected to outline how his education shaped his character and prepared him for the presidency.
*** UPDATE *** Howard Dean's response to the McCain tour, via the DNC: "John McCain deserves our respect for his service to our country, but no reinvention tour can change the fact that a vote for him is a vote for four more years of President Bush's failed policies. No matter how many times he tries to reintroduce himself, the voters already know that John McCain is out of touch with the challenges facing working families, admits he doesn't understand the economy, and is willing to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years. John McCain can talk about his past, but only a Democrat can bring the change the American people want for the future."


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Phone sex is all talk and doesn't constitute an act of prostitution, an Italian court has ruled.
The Italian supreme court Friday overturned a lower court conviction of a Milan man who had paid a woman to talk dirty to him over the telephone.
The man had been convicted of sexual exploitation, but the high court ruled no crime had been committed since the man and the woman had no physical contact.
"Verbally servicing an interlocutor for the purpose of sexual excitement does not constitute a sexual service, if it does not involve the bodily erogenous zones of the person who is getting paid for such a service," the criminal court ruled.
Italy's ANSA news service said the court reminded the parties there is a fine line in the case and Italian law says prostitution "may well be carried out via telephone or Internet Web chats" if the customer requests the vendor to perform a specific sex act.
Must be slow season for lawyers and prosecutors. Or they're just practicing wasting taxpayer euros.


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This was the first computer bug, but not the first engineering bug. A "bug" has always been a problem, whether blamed on demons or by errors on the part of the engineer. So what they're saying is that, although we've used the term "bug" for some time, this is the first time it's actually a physical insect.Or is this the first actual case because they suspected before there were actual bugs in the system but never found them?
What's the difference between etymology and entomology?
It's just a little 'n.
Windows ME
Could we please stop hearing about it?
The The Jargon File covers this and includes a picture of the bug in the entry on "bug [catb.org]" and states:
John.Indeed, the use of bug to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather modern use can be found in an electrical handbook from 1896 (Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity, Theo. Audel & Co.) which says: "The term 'bug' is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus." It further notes that the term is "said to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to all electric apparatus."
She said that when her colleagues would complain about the latency of satellite communication, she would pull out her "nanoseconds" and explain, "You see, sir, there's an awful lot of these between here and there."
See TechTV [techtv.com] for more details.1. Twisted List: Five Computer Bugs That Changed the World
2. Famous Bugs: The First Computer Bug
3. Famous Bugs: The Funniest Computer Bug
4. Famous Bugs: The Most Tragic Computer Bug
5. Famous Bugs: The Most Embarrassing Computer Bug
6. Famous Bugs: The Most Famous Computer Bug
I don't know if this counts, but here goes:
I worked as student help at a college that had a PDP-11 based mainframe. One night it went down. Computer techs were called out but could find nothing wrong. This continued night after night at about the same time each night. So the techs hung around after hours to keep an eye on it.
Around 6:30pm, the cleaning woman came in with her vaccuum cleaner. She promptly went over to the wall socket, unplugged the mainframe, plugged in her vaccuum cleaner and started vaccuuming the floor.
From the OED:
b A defect or fault in a machine, plan, or the like. orig. U.S.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 1/1 Mr. Edison, I was informed, had been up the two previous nights discovering `a bug' in his phonograph-an expression for solving a difficulty, and implying that some imaginary insect has secreted itself inside and is causing all the trouble.
Why do people perpetuate this myth? Sure it's a nice story, and sure, it might even be true. But the word 'bug' as in 'error in a program', wasn't coined until much later at the MIT media labs (think maybe Negroponte himself were involved).
What am I missing?
(The linked articles didn't give any hints either.)
However, it suddenly stopped working and it had turned out that during an upgrade the number had been changed slightly. The leading 9 (to dial for an outside line) had been removed. Therefore rather than hitting an outside line, it would dial 0 (getting the receptionist) and then try to negotiate with her before hanging up. Three minutes later, it would try again and again - until it had retried and failed 10 times.
The poor receptionist hadn't reported it to anyone and it was only after about a week did they find the problem. She'd put up with 10 calls a day for 5 days without saying a word. She thought it was some prank caller.
Quoted from Chapter 5 of The Practice of Programming, by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike.
Apollos were well networked, and it was possible to manipulate the parameters of the windowing system on one machine from another machine (like you can with X Window system, given sufficient permissions).
The Apollos had a command to change the mouse speed (similar to the X "xset m" command). It took a numeric value specifying the pointer distance to travel per unit time. The bug was that if you specified a negative value, the mouse pointer would travel backwards. No big surprise really, and not very interesting.
When this bug was discovered but not yet fixed or widely known, someone decided to play a practical joke, and walked into a fellow hacker's office and sat at his workstation and started playing with his mouse. A few seconds later (with the help of a hidden assistant in another office), the hacker says, hey look, there's something wrong with your mouse, it's all backwards. Sure enough, the mouse is acting all upside-down. The prankster then says, hey, I know what's wrong, have you cleaned your mouse lately? You must have put your mouse ball in upside down. He then pops the mouse ball out and pops it back into the mouse, and sure enough (with hidden assistance), the mouse works normally again. The victim of the practical joke was, of course, entirely puzzled.
Tracking #: 121144608
Title: Bush robot constantly makes grammatic mistakes and makes up words.
Problem Detail:
Corporate puppet robot model George W. Bush (serial #44625441) exhibits erratic grammatical behavior when deviating from scripted speeches. Often uses words like "subliminable", "methodological", "mispronunciated", "stregic", and "permanency" in place of their English equivalents. Platinum users (Haliburton, Exxon/Mobil, Chevron, Bechtel, Kenneth Lay) have noticed other erratic grammatical behavior, including such phrases as "is our children learning", "we need to make the pie higher", and "will the highways on the internet become more few". Strongly suspect some Jim Beam spilled into the model's grammar logic circuits during an all-night instructional binge session with Barbara and Jenna. Suggest immediate implementation of gaffe-filtering algorithm on all corporate media modules to limit the damage from this bug.
Problem Resolution:
Media filters in place as of 12 SEP 2001. Language errors are no longer being reported in the corporate media. Suggest further workaround of detaining at Guantanamo Bay register all non-corporate media modules that are incompatible with gaffe-filtering algorithm.
I have been developing code for 30 years now.
Early on in my career, in the era of large decks of punch cards, I dropped a deck of cards on the floor.
I picked them up and put them back in the right order (an ugly job).
When the job was submitted and the print-out eventually returned (1 day turnaround), the compile failed. I was surprised as the deck was basically unchanged from a previous run.
I checked the output and discovered a syntax error. I then checked the card deck and discovered an insect that had gotten squished into a hole punched in a card, which changed the resultant character and caused the syntax error.
Nowadays, my bugs are all my very own.
Back to unit testing
Upon opening the box, we found a mouse had been living in the box, died in the box, mumified in the box, and finally his old nest caught fire (well, maybe not on fire, but blacked it). We're not sure how long the mouse had been in there, but it was long enough to gently bake him to perfect mumification. The theory was that with all the moving going on, the mouse had gotten in through a propped open door, through an open accessory panel in the back, and made a nice nest in the warm computer. How he actually died, we're not sure. Maybe he killed himself from the misery of NT 3.5.1 because *I* sure entertained the idea.
Then there was the time we found out that the entire DNS for our networks in France was on an LCD 486 laptop, originally used to test the DNS setup, but then it never got updated at production, and had been running for about 2 years before it failed (we found it sitting on a desk in an abandoned office, the original employee long since moved on).
You see, the opti 895 was a chipset for a i486 processor based motherboard. The 486 processor's ZIF socket (The mdern kind with a lever, before that you had to press the procesor into a socket and hope that you aren't breaking the traces on the motherboard) had an extra row of pins to accomidate the Pentium OverDrive Processor. This processor actually put a P5 core in a motherboard designd for a i486 processor. The nifty thing was ha it worked at all.
Getting to the bug: The outer row of pins on the socket for the 486 were only power and ground for the extra power consumption for the PODP. The specs were clear which ones were Vcc and which were Vss. Well, the opti 895 had 2 of the pins backwards. This was never found in testing. Many many boards were sold from various Tiwanese manufacturers. The boards ran fin until you purchased and installed a PODP into yhe board and powered up. The chipset would short, get HOTHOTHOT, start glowing, and burst into flame within minutes.
This was bought to out (I was working for Intel as OverDrive Processor support at the time) about a week after product launch. Can you imagine how that call went?
Caller: Uhhh... I installed tha part into my computer and it burst into flames...
Tech: Yes, the speed improvement is quite impressive.
C: No, you dont understand. My computer actually caught on fire.
T: (silence)
C: Hello?
T: Am I to understand that you have a fire in your computer?
C: Yeah, the smoke is getting pretty bad.
T: You mean to tell me that it is STILL ON FIRE?
C: Well yeah, the manual says to call you with the system in the current condition.
The motherboard was sent in (we replaced the system with a new name brand machine) and the chip was redisned so that one of the pins was removed. (Pin A4, IIRC)
I have NO idea how many motherboards we ended up replacing , but I know it was a bunch, even though it wasn't Intel's fault that opti couldn't read a pinout diagram.
It took over a year to track down the cause of this problem, which was very costly: the jobs were often time critical and mainframe computer time was costly anyway. We had top hardware CEs and systems programmers looking at this from every conceivable angle. Just about every component in the tape drive was changed.
The mystery was eventually solved by an observant computer operator. The tape drives were on the second floor of a building with a road passing just outside. At that hour in the morning, if the sun was shining, it was possible for the sun to reflect off the windscreen off passing cars and flash briefly on the read head of the tape drive. The tape drive interpreted this as invalid data.
During the industrial year of my degree (mumble) years ago, my first task was to modify a Fortran 77 engineering program which calculated intersection points between two pipes, so the correct cuts could be made and the pipes joined. We're talking big pipes here - the company built the Syney Harbour Bridge and the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank building in Hong Kong.
Lacking the modern tools we all love, debugging tended to be done by printing values at pertinent points. When the code was correct, I removed them all... and it broke; I put them back in and it worked; commented them out and it still worked; deleted the comments... and it broke again! These were basic, fundamental print statements, no fancy function calls with side effects. I eventually ended up with two 100+ page listings of the object code (working and non-working) side by side on the floor and had to compare the lot by hand until I found the difference, near the bottom of course!
It turned out to be a bug in the PDP Fortran compiler. It was incorrectly generating two identical labels in the same code block, but for whatever reason they were together in the working version and had a register being reset to zero between them in the broken version - the JMP was going to the second and therefore not resetting the register.
As an undergraduate at the time, I was in despair... my first 'real' job and I couldn't fix a simple program - little did I know what the final cause would be - nearly put me off software development for life! Bloody DEC and their shonky compiler, they didn't even give the company a free upgrade when the fix came out!
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson


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2008 Cross Country
Beavers ready to run for first year Head Coach Gary Labonte
By: Thea Rosengarten, sports information assistant
August 13, 2008
Cross country Head Coach Gary Labonte is looking to make his first year at Bluffton University a memorable one. Under new leadership the squad is working to improve as the men finished eighth and the women placed seventh at the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference in 2007. Labonte is excited to help the teams improve in both talent and depth.
With a new coach and few returning runners, the main focus for the Beavers is going to be on team and individual improvement. Due to the loss of key runners Sarah Humphrey, Bree Fetterman, Tyler Fairchild, Peter Husted, Mike Koch and Hillary Shilosio to graduation, the team will be lacking in both experience and leadership.
Labonte is looking to junior Sarah Binkley (Bluffton/Cory Rawson) and sophomore Brian Timpe (Wauseon/Pike-Delta-York) to lead the way this season.
The Beavers' cross country teams will open their season at the Defiance Invitational on September 13. Bluffton also travels to Cedarville, Earlham and Wilmington before the Heartland Conference Championships on November 1 at Manchester. "I am looking forward to meeting the athletes and getting the season started," concluded Labonte.


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(11-12-10) Recovery act safety project on State Route 49 completed 100 days ahead of schedule
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(11-10-10) New carpool lane completed on I-580 will bring congestion relief to Bay Area motorists
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(11-05-10) Caltrans Receives $171 million to Improve Passenger Rail Service
(11-04-10) State Allocates $141 Million to Upgrade Transportation Infrastructure and Drive Economic Growth, Adds One More Project to Its Historic Design-Build Pilot Program
(11-04-10) California's first recovery act transportation project to break ground is completed
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(09-09-10) Caltrans completes new lanes on U.S. Route 395 in Inyo County
(08-23-10) Caltrans uses recycled tires to complete construction on U.S. Route 395
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FAIRHAVEN — A fire at 204 Washington St. caused heavy damage estimated at $200,000 on Tuesday, Feb. 19.
FAIRHAVEN — A fire at 204 Washington St. caused heavy damage estimated at $200,000 on Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Two adults and two dogs escaped from the house without injury, according to Wayne Oliveira, firefighter/EMT and public information officer for the Fairhaven Fire Department.
Mr. Oliveira said the fire was reported at 9:12 p.m. after a resident lost power and heard crackling in the walls.
Firefighters responded with two engines and a ladder truck. When they arrived, they found heavy smoke and flames coming from the front of the home on the first floor, Mr. Oliveira said.
The fire is believed to have been electrical in nature, starting behind a wall and traveling to the second floor and attic.
It was declared under control at 10:15 p.m., but crews remained on scene for another hour overhauling and checking for extension of the fire.
All of the utilities were shut off to the residence and the occupants were not able to return.
The property is owned by Bob and Donna Westgate.
Acushnet firefighters covered the Fairhaven station while crews were battling the fire.


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Jen Ikemoto married and married and married.
She and her former partner married first in San Francisco in 2004, when then-Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed same-sex couples to tie the knot; then in a ceremony that took place before family and friends; and finally in a civil ceremony in October 2008, not long before Proposition 8 banned gay marriage in California.
Two years ago, Ikemoto got divorced.
"When San Francisco allowed us to get a marriage license, it was kind of 'We need to make a stand,' " said Ikemoto, 42, who lives in Sacramento and works for the state.
And the couple kept making a stand, she said, even as the relationship faded.
"Maybe if we'd always been considered equal partners by the state," she said, "I wouldn't have been so eager to rush into it."
Sometimes, marriages just don't work out. The flip side of gay marriage is, of course, gay divorce. With the legal resumption last week of same-sex marriage in California, the state's family law attorneys are gearing up for what happens when some of those marriages fail.
That's already the reality for some same-sex marriage pioneers: Gay and lesbian couples in unsuccessful domestic partnerships and those whose 2008 marriages didn't last have already learned the ropes in family court, where attorneys' fees can easily soar past $20,000.
They've already negotiated child and spousal support, and they've navigated the world of community property, with the equitable division of real estate, bank accounts, pensions and other assets.
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively overturned California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage and handed down a sweeping Defense of Marriage Act ruling that allows legally married gay and lesbian couples across the country to receive federal benefits.
With those landmark actions, legal experts are already warning same-sex couples that hard-fought civil rights can also come with hefty contractual consequences.
"When you grow up in a culture where you're expected to be married, you understand the rules better," said Sacramento family law attorney Eileen Gillis, who handles same-sex divorces. "If you divorce, you know that someone will pay spousal support, and someone will pay child support.
"But with folks who became domestic partners or got married during that brief window in 2008, they came in expecting a simple and easy process to terminate. They were shocked to realize they'd made a deal and signed a contract, and now the Superior Court is involved. You had a bit of a naive population."
When same-sex marriage was briefly legal in California in 2008, about 18,000 couples obtained marriage licenses. What's more, 70,336 domestic partnerships – which provide a network of rights similar to those conferred by marriage – were registered with the state from January 2000 through the end of May 2013, according to the California Secretary of State.
Some of those partnerships involve opposite-sex couples; they can form domestic partnerships when one member of the couple is at least 62.
Like marriages, domestic partnerships are dissolved in Superior Court as mandated by the state's family law code.
Among states that track the dissolution of same-sex marriages and partnerships, the annual divorce rate for gay couples averages 1.1 percent, lower than the 2 percent annual rate among opposite-sex couples, according to a December 2011 study by the Williams Institute, a gender law think tank based at the UCLA School of Law.
The annual rate of dissolution among same-sex domestic partners in California was 1.1 percent, the same as the national average, according to the report.
But divorce isn't foremost in the thoughts of couples as they marry.
"The cynical part of me says that people will jump on the bandwagon now," said Sacramento family law attorney Robert Boucher. "They'll get married not thinking what they're getting into."
With the DOMA decision, legal experts say divorce-related tax consequences will likely be among the federal rights and benefits granted to same-sex couples in the 13 states where they can marry.
For example, the transfer of property and retirement accounts between divorcing same-sex couples previously entailed a gift tax, but perhaps no longer. The DOMA decision also opens the door for the deduction of spousal support payments from federal tax returns.
But same-sex couples still deal with inconsistencies in the law when they split up.
For one thing, none of those federal tax benefits will apply to domestic partners, only married couples, said Sacramento family law attorney Victoria Linder.
And for another, she said, community property begins only with the start of the marriage or domestic partnership, even if a same-sex couple has been together many decades longer.
And what happens if a same-sex couple married in California moves to a state that doesn't recognize gay marriage, then decides to divorce? In an out-of-state divorce, how is child custody determined?
For those couples, family law remains an impossibly complicated maze. No one has clear answers.
"These are growing areas that will keep lawyers busy," Gillis said.
Before domestic partnership moved same-sex divorce into family court, gay couples seeking monetary settlements were required to file so-called "Marvin cases." In 1977, actor Lee Marvin's longtime partner, Michelle Triola, sued him for support in civil court after the couple broke up. She was unsuccessful.
"We used to have a lot of Marvin civil actions," said Gillis. "At least when you have a domestic partnership, you're in family court, and you don't have to prove that contract in civil court through evidence like joint bank accounts."
Child custody cases were equally difficult in the days before domestic partnership: California courts before 2005 routinely ruled that nonbiological parents, as well as parents not specifically named in adoption documents, were not allowed custody.
"It was like the Wild West with some biological parents once they realized they had the reins," Gillis said.
As the Supreme Court ruling on Proposition 8 loomed, Sacramento Pride organizers considered whether to allow same-sex weddings at the June 15 festival. The timing was going to be close, though as it turned out, the ruling wasn't handed down until June 26.
"We decided against it anyway," said Outword publisher Fred Palmer, one of the event's organizers. "My opinion was that marriage is a serious thing, and people need to take it seriously."
Considering all the potential difficulties, Jen Ikemoto was lucky. Her marriage ended, but she and her ex-spouse cooperated with one another during its legal unraveling, she said. They had no children, so custody wasn't an issue; and, she said, they worked out how to divide their finances.
"I don't regret being married," she said. "I'm the person I am because of it.
"When you get down to it, it's marriage. It's not gay marriage and gay divorce. It's marriage and divorce."


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The poem below (my contribution to Bill West's Third Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge) was included in an undated newspaper article found in the files of my Grandmother. Just 17 ½ years old, her Grandfather (my Great-Great Grandfather) William Brubaker enlisted in Company E, 17th Indiana Regiment on April 21, 1861. He was discharged on June 20, 1864 and eight months later was "veteranized" and enlisted as a sergeant in Company I, 152nd Regiment. He was again honorably discharged on August 30, 1865.
In October 1862, the 17th Indiana was part of a brigade headed by General John Thomas Wilder (a Colonel at the time). The regiments spent much of their time pursuing Confederate raiders and cavalry. As a result, the General decided that his troops would be more effective as mounted infantry. The brigade became known as the "Hatchet Brigade" and then as the "Lightning Brigade" since it could move much faster than the regular walking infantry units. Adding to their effectiveness, the mounted brigade was armed with Spencer repeating rifles on May 18th, 1863.
A little over a month later, on June 24, 1863, the Lightning Brigade used the Spencer rifles for the first time in battle - at Hoover's Gap, Tennessee. They successfully repelled five Confederate assaults and inflicted huge casualties. The 17th Indiana lost 48 soldiers killed and wounded in the severe fighting and the Illinois regiments lost over 100 in the fighting that day.
The poem was recited by Miss Maud Pressler during the 4th annual reunion of Company E held at the residence of Mrs. Isaac Shinneman in Columbia City, Indiana. There was no indication in the article as to the author of the poem.
"Wilder's Brigade at Hoover's Gap"
We rode in advance the whole night long, Faster as near the daylight come,
With never a shout, or laugh, or song, Like hunters pursuing game.
And never a clank of a saber smote An ear in the whole brigade,
And never a bugle breathed a note As the swift night ride we made.
Night's silence was only broken by The sound of our horses' feet:
The stars shown bright in the Southern sky, And the air was warm and sweet.
A sudden halt in the gray of dawn, A single, low, keen bugle call,
We formed in line and galloped on - A few low whispers, and that was all.
For well we knew the day would bring The fierce, wild charge and fight,
And that many a rifle ball would sing Its death-song ore the night.
Our blood rose high when right before, Our eyes the first thin lines of gray,
The skirmishers of an army corps, stretched out across our way.
And on beyond, in Hoover's Gap, Before us spread were a thousand tents;
And in them taking a morning nap Slept Bragg and his regiments.
Loud and clear our bugles sang, And "Charge for the Gap!" was the cry.
And a shout went up from our line that rang And echoed against the sky.
And every steed by spur was stung, As we bent in our saddles low,
And quickly our "Spencers" were unslung, As we rushed on the fearless foe.
On, in the face of the storm of lead That full on our column broke
Over the wounded and over the dead, And through the sulphurous smoke.
We rode the skirmishers to the ground, For Hoover's Gap was our goal;
But above the tumult came the sound Of and army's battle-roll!
"Dismount - Lie down!" Strong line of gray At the double-quick with guns atrail,
Bore down on us in fierce array Expecting that we would quail.
But never a man in the whole brigage Turned back on a coward's heel,
But we lay and gazed all undismayed, Along our barrels of steel.
On - on they came, with savage yell, 'Till fifty paces lay between
And then a flame, as if from hell, Burst full upon the scene.
The black and writhing clouds of smoke Leaped up, then settled over all,
Meanwhile ten thousand rifles spoke Their speech of flame and ball.
For one full hour, like waves that beat Upon the shores that will not yield,
They charged - then sounded the retreat, And left us on the field.
Comrades of many a bloody fray, Of victory or dire mishap,
Who would not rather on that day Have died than lost the Gap?


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Let's Go ElsewhereSubmitted by Children's Services on August 24, 2013 - 2:21pm
Say you're a creative young girl with two flighty, yet brilliant, mathematicians for parents. Say you also move into a giant manor house that someone just died in, an old lady with no family who left all her stuff behind. One day while you're exploring, you discover a pair of glasses, a very special pair of glasses, which lead you on a twisting and turning adventure into Elsewhere. Elsewhere, you learn, is the world that exists inside the paintings which cover the walls. Each painting is different and leads to new and interesting places (or sometimes just to a bowl of fruit). Then you meet the talking cats: Horatio, Leopold and Harvey. And you start to uncover some startling secrets about your house and the people who used to live there: they were witches, dark witches. And they may not be completely gone from Elsewhere or the real world. This is Olive Dunwoody's life, and it couldn't be crazier.
The Books of Elsewhere series by Jacqueline West reminds me strongly of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. The premise is similar: an eccentric, lonely girl moves into a new house and finds a passage into an alternate world. They both even have talking cats. After the story is established, however, Olive holds her own. It begins with the first book, The Shadows, where Olive is introduced to this new world and the dangers it brings. In Spellbound, she uncovers more secret powers hidden in the house and learns the consequences of using them. The house has further temptations for Olive in Second Spy, and she doesn't know who can be trusted, or even if she can be trusted. The latest in the series is The Strangers, and Olive has to decide who is willing to help her fight the evil that Olive has (accidently) unleashed and who just wants the power of the house for themselves.
This series will be loved by any grade school age (and up!) child with an active imagination and a healthy dose of curiosity.


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Despite all the panic inspired by the TV hype of Hurricane Irene, I went about my usual routine for the most part. Since I live in the city, I know all the markets will be open come Monday morning and I can easily walk, even if I need to climb over a few tree stumps, to Whole Foods. All summer, I've been loading up the freezer with kale from the garden and corn from the farmers' market. I have a hefty stash of canned tomatoes. And just last week, I bought several steaks from two different meat CSA farms that I'm thinking of joining. Along with a well-stocked liquor cabinet, I could easily survive a week.
The one preparatory step I took was to harvest as much as I could from the garden. The only plant I'm really concerned about is the tomato – the harsh weather could bring an untimely end to the growing season. The rest of the veggies will be okay. But knowing that I won't want to venture outside in the sheeting rain, I picked plenty of eggplant, broccoli, kale and herbs so that I could cook up a storm while I waited out Hurricane Irene.
Taking a Japanese theme, I cooked up variations Nasu Dengaku (miso rubbed eggplant) and Gomae Spinach (chilled spinach salad with sesame dressing). I topped the eggplant with spicy scallops, and used kale instead of spinach. The recipe for the sesame dressing on the kale can be found here.
Eggplant with Miso and Spicy Scallops
Adapted mostly from The Farmer's Kitchen with the additional inspiration from Nobu .
Eggplant from my garden has no bitterness. The step of salting keeps the eggplant from absorbing oil when being fried.
2 eggplants
½ cup miso
¼ cup sugar
¼ cup mirin
¼ cup sake or dry sherry
½ cup mayonnaise
1 tbs. lan chi chili paste
½ pound dry sea scallops
½ cup oil
Scallions to garnish
1. Cut eggplants in half lengthwise. Generously sprinkle salt on the cut side and let sit for 20 minutes.
2. Make the miso sauce: combine the miso, sugar, mirin and sake in a small sauce pot. Cook over low heat until well combined and the sugar is dissolved.
3. Brush the excess salt off the eggplant. Heat a large skillet over high heat. Add the oil. Cook the eggplant, cut side down, for 5 minutes or until deeply golden brown. Turn the eggplant over and cook for one minute more. Remove from pan, at put on a cookie sheet, cut side up.
4. Mix the mayonnaise with chili paste. Cut the scallops into chunks. Toss the scallops with the spicy mayonaise. Top the eggplant with the scallop mix.
5. Broil the eggplant for 5 minutes or until mayo starts to glaze. Remove from oven and drizzle miso on top. Continue to broil for another few minutes before serving. Garnish with scallions.
From the garden: eggplant, kale, scallions, garlic
From the Farmers' Market/Freezer: scallops
From the pantry: everything else.


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On March 20, the sun will officially shift into our vernal equinox, bringing the lively weather of spring with it. All I can say is expect everything, all four seasons, throughout the month.
If nothing else, it will certainly keep us on our toes, as if the mud isn't enough.
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They are young, urban and well-educated, and for the past week they have been sleeping in an Istanbul park: meet the women on the front line of Turkey's mass anti-government protests.
"We are the women Erdogan would like to see staying at home," actress Sevi Algan, 37, said, referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who protesters say is forcing his conservative, Islamic values on the mainly Muslim, but staunchly secular nation.
Many of the women happily admit they are accidental activists who never would have guessed two weeks ago that they would be pitching a tent in the epicenter of a nationwide civil unrest.
Yet now these young Turks, many of them students, lawyers, teachers and office workers, account for half of the thousands of demonstrators in Gezi Park and nearby Taksim Square — and they have taken to their new routine with gusto.
They spend hours under the park's sycamore trees debating their cause, take part in all-night singing and dancing sessions and, when necessary, stand shoulder-to-shoulder with soccer fans on guard against police action outside the park's police-free zone.
The protest began after a small campaign to save the park's 600 trees from being razed sparked a police crackdown with tear gas and water cannon on May 31, quickly spiraling into widespread anger against the government. The unrest has injured more than 4,000 people and killed three across the country.
Many of the female protesters say the time has come to stand up for their rights in the face of creeping infringements on their freedoms by Erdogan's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Erdogan has won three successive elections, gaining almost 50 percent of the vote in 2011 after presiding over steady economic growth. However, critics accuse him of increasing authoritarianism and of polarizing the country.
"Women are on the front line because they are the first victims of Erdogan's projects," Sevi said.
Her list of grievances include Erdogan's proposals to limit abortion rights, tighten the rules for the morning-after pill and ban the late-night sale of alcohol.
Erdogan has also sparked outrage for declaring that every woman in Turkey should have three children.
"Would he like more children like us?" Ozlem Altiok, an unemployed former flight attendant, said as she chatted with friends in Gezi Park.
Sevi said supporters of the ruling AKP consider the demonstrators "bad Muslims," but she insists they are not against Islam.
"We like to drink, debate, but Erdogan and his people do not have a monopoly on Islam," she said. "Look at the solidarity on Taksim Square. That's what it means to be Muslim."
In the park, where free food, yoga lessons and concerts are on offer, clusters of feminists and gay rights activists are camped out next to veil-wearing anti-capitalist Muslims, the site's festive atmosphere and a sense of camaraderie outweigh any ideological differences.
While women in Turkey are underrepresented in politics, they figure prominently in universities and in companies, in large part thanks to emancipation reforms introduced by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey, after the Turkish republic was founded in 1923.
"It's not about abandoning parts of our Islamic culture, but about preserving our existing rights," philosophy student Esra, 21, said, adding that she was not trying to copy the model of "Western women."
"A career, succeeding at all costs doesn't seem to make Western women happy," she said as she sat cross-legged on the grass.
"The system does not change overnight, we know that, but this is a historical step toward a social revolution," said her 26-year-old friend, Dicle, a bank employee.


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(A cross-post from our friend Anomaly100 at FreakOutNation.) Thanks, Anomaly!
Pat Robertson warns that our clothes could have demons attached to them, better to pray over them.
On the 700 Club, televangelist Pat Robertson cautioned his audience, saying that demons can attach themselves to material goods and therefore it's not a bad idea to rebuke them before bringing them into your home. Yes, don't we all have a picture of ourselves wearing 'that' sweater.
A viewer asked Robertson whether she should follow her mother's recommendation to pray away demonic spirits over her secondhand sweaters.
Right Wing Watch reports, "Robertson recounted a story about "a witch who had prayed over a particular ring and asked for a spirit to come into it, and this Philippine girl was so attached to this ring, she had to buy it and all hell broke loose because she finally recognized what it was. Can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects, the answer is yes," Robertson said.
Robertson added that people don't have to concern themselves over whether every item they purchase is possessed by demons, but he added: "Hey, it ain't going to hurt anything to rebuke any spirits that happened to have attached themselves to those clothes."
H/T @ComgenKDT (who I know has demons attached to his sweater)


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