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Would someone like to explain why a game with a grand total of 5 Git commits (http://repo.or.cz/w/ArenaLive.git) and approximately 1 kloc is on the front page?
Hey, I clicked the link and even started installing it. That's more than 95% of the articles on this site can say, for me. The reason I stopped installing it was because I already decided I didn't like playing quakelive, since I have Unreal on the windows side anyway, and because I genuinely suck compared to people that play that game. It is neat to see someone targetting the linux crowd before anyone else, but that feeling is overruled with the question "why?" I guess they're doing this just for the hell o
windows users laugh at you when you release a work in progress, or something that is simply a peice of shit, as they're used to commercial grade game releases. that can be very hard to compete with, considering the development time that goes into even a passable 3d game.
By your argument Linux should not exist since commercial OS's are so hard to compete with. Labor is not the issue with open software, it is more having a good idea that attracts people who want to work on it. So if a game sucks and stalls in alpha it is probably because it just outright isn't any good and nobody wants to fix it.
There are so many gamers so pissed off with the commercial game world who would leap all over a by-the-gamer-for-the-gamer open source revolution. So what's pissing us gamers off? How about paying upwards of $50 for a game only to have seven hours of single player game play and mediocre multiplayer with hardly any servers. Or amazing graphics, sophisticated sandbox gaming (Cryengine) and it's all over in that 7 hours of cookie-cutter linear storyline with little replay value (Crysis). Throw some buggy code and DRM and you have all the reasons to be angry.
By your argument Linux should not exist since commercial OS's are so hard to compete with. Labor is not the issue with open software
Labor of skilled programmers is not an issue with open software. Labor of skilled graphics artists, UI designers, project managers, and various other professions vitally important to get a polished final product, is definitely an issue.
??? Project Managers ???
Where do you live?
Where do you work?
How do I move there?
Who do I have to bribe to get a job there?
Clearly you have project managers of value for you to mention them as valuable assets! Actually contributers to the process and progression of a project?
I need to know desperately where this nirvana is!
What a second. Are you a project manager?
Ah! Project Managers, the turd polishers of the IT world.
Don't know enough to collect business requirements, and yet unable to write a "Hello world!" program. Yet they still manage to slip themselves into the middle and get paid more than their customers OR programmers!
A good project manager is worth an order of magnitude more than a good programmer because they enable the good programmers to do good work without being hassled by things outside of their job of writing and documenting good code.
The fact that there are few good project managers doesn't make this any less true.
I find it sad that the parent poster, who is spot on (and precisely mirrors my experience), is modded Troll. You mods are poor, sad people - if you have bad PMs, then blame them specifically, not the profession.
You're probably used to the business world. In the games world, the project manager is the creative vision of the game. Analogous to the director of a movie.
In any case, if you have useless project managers that says a lot more about your company's hiring practice than the value of a project manager.
I'm just a developer. However, from my experience, I have concluded that a good project manager is absolutely crucial to get things done. And developers usually do not make good PMs (though a good PM must have some understanding of what he is managing).
It is true that a good PM is a rarity in any case; before you ask, a good one is the one who listens to developers he manages, and doesn't try to second-guess them or override their time & comlexity estimations for individual tasks. I had a pleasure of wo
There are so many gamers so pissed off with the commercial game world who would leap all over a by-the-gamer-for-the-gamer open source revolution.
The plain fact of the matter is that you're not going to get the same kind of quality, by any stretch, out of an "open source revolution." I don't suppose you've noticed that virtually all of the open-source FPSes out there are based off very old (originally proprietary) code, do you? Code that has to be hacked at significantly to get much beyond the nVidia TNT2 target that it originally topped out at (oh boy, the GPL'd Quake 3 code has hardware T&L!)? Even the really good open-source FPSes (I'm talking Warsow here) are extremely limited games, and sure as hell don't address what you complain about ("linear storyline").
Open source software is good in some cases. Games are clearly not really one of them. You aren't getting Half-Life 2 out of the open source world, I'm sorry to say. You don't have anything technically equivalent to even Source (and despite Valve making great, quality games, Source really sucks, it's one of the main reasons I'm glad my team is writing our own engine for our games). You don't have the kind of incentives to create a focused, quality project because you're not paying them to stay in line (people will just toddle off to play with your code--which is by no means a bad thing, but it kind of makes it hard to make a kickass game when everybody's off dicking around with their own thing).
Sorry, but no, open source is not always the answer. Like right here.
Code that has to be hacked at significantly to get much beyond the nVidia TNT2 target that it originally topped out at (oh boy, the GPL'd Quake 3 code has hardware T&L!)?
This kind of comment makes you appear to have no clue what you're talking about. Hardware T&L is an artefact of the drivers, not the engine. GLQuake makes use of hardware T&L if you run it on a card which supports it. Most modern open source FPS engines - including things like DarkPlaces which are based on updated versions of the original GLQuake engine - make heavy use of fragment and vertex shaders, rather than relying entirely on the fixed-function pipeline that older engines used. This puts
Tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, anyone? Of course hardware T&L is a driver thing, I was poking fun (you know, that thing normal people have) at the old Quake 3 requirements.
Yes, DarkPlaces supports shaders. It also couldn't have been a particularly easy task to convert a largely fixed-function setup to a shader-based one, which is why I said "has to be hacked at significantly". And any of the GPL'd iD Tech engines suffer from fairly huge technical shortcomings (yes, BSP is a technical shortcoming--modern engin
Wow, you've completely missed the entire *point* of the grandparent's post to focus on a trivial technical error. Which was probably a joke you didn't get in the first place. You win Slashdot.
You might want to check those trees again, I think there might be a forest hidden in there.
cube2 [wikipedia.org] shows that on the technical level opensource can compete.
Nethack [wikipedia.org] shows that on the complex non-linear story level opensouce can compete
You don't have the kind of incentives to create a focused, quality project because you're not paying them to stay in line (people will just toddle off to play with your code--which is by no means a bad thing, but it kind of makes it hard to make a kickass game when everybody's off dicking around with their own thing).
The same could be said about linux. In addition closed source gaming is pretty complicated, so its safe to say that it's not as simple open source not being able to produce quality games. There are many problems but simply being open source isn't one, a free highly customizable engine would surely be a great base for many indie developers to work from.
For example, if i
Yes, I know Sauerbraten. It doesn't compete. I'm sorry, because it's a really nifty concept for an engine, but it really doesn't.
Compare Sauerbraten to UE3 and tell me how it goes.
As for Nethack--frankly, and I say this as somebody who loves NetHack and has ascended four times, it doesn't stack up from a gameplay perspective except for the "god dammit I WILL BEAT THIS GAME" people. That's not at all the people who you'd be targeting for the person I replied to's "open source gaming revolution" because they'
I'm no expert on game engines, but comparing the current top of the line commercial engine to a previous gen engine, isn't really fair.
Compare Sauerbraten (a 2004 gamecube-era engine) to the modified goldsrc in CS:CZ/Unreal engine2/idtech4 and while it might not be as good, it surely does compete!
Ding ding ding. Sandboxes (which, in a lot of ways, Nethack is) are not non-linear stories.
It also isn't really an example of good game design, except when you want to explicitly target uber-grognard hardcore types. There aren't a lot of those.
By your argument Linux should not exist since commercial OS's are so hard to compete with. Labor is not the issue with open software,
Yah it is.
Where are the great open source artists, musicians, screenwriters, modelers, level designers? Those all count as "labor", buddy. And the open source community has few-to-none of them. (For good reason: those people like to be paid.)
Having a good idea to attract people doesn't help make a finished game if you only attract programmers.
There are so many gamers so pissed
Huh? The crysis menu system is a serious PITA. unnecessary nesting layers, unreadable fonts (using all caps IIRC), horrible delay when clicking on items etc... I have never seen a worse menu system than that of crysis.
Bad example, seriously
You're right, it's a bad example. But, still, try Alien Arena or Blood Frontier-- trust me, it could be a thousand times worse.
I have played alien arena, and while the UI is a bit quirky if I remember correctly, it never pissed me off as much as crysis' did.
I'm not really an FOSS fanatic who thinks that everything FOSS is better than anything purely commercial, but I have no illusions about commercial games either. Sure the games industry has a lot of technical expertise, but even they are only able to make a truly good game once in a while. And I have never been so frustrated with FOSS games as I ever have with commercial ones (bu
The reason I stopped installing it was because I already decided I didn't like playing quakelive, since I have Unreal on the windows side anyway, and because I genuinely suck compared to people that play that game.
The skill matching system didn't work for you or did they not have that in place before? It seemed to work quite well for me.
First, as another poster said, Quake Live has a skillmatching component to it that is poised to work better than any OSS alternative even simply because of sheer number of players.
Secondly - prepare for onslaught of aimbots in ArenaLive. It is, after all...open source.
Uhhh.... OpenArena had 914 commits:
http://openarena.ws/svn.html [openarena.ws]
Otherwise, I don't see much of a reason for having an open source Quake Live clone especially when the service it seeks to clone is free as well.
The real reason for this is for the FSF to finally get a chance to call something "GNU Quake".
Installed and played a few games without a hitch. I'm sure it's not 100% but it seems pretty playable. I think it's nice being able to play in linux first for a change.
It's too bad this isn't under the AGPL. Maybe it has to be GPL2 because of what it's based on. But with the GPL2 source only has to be shared with people who receive binaries. This does not include visitors to a website, or an in-browser game in this case.
The AGPL got me thinking about the relevance of FLOSS if everything moves to cloud computing. If this project takes off, it would be a "cloud" that is based on FLOSS. Meaning that others could take the code and run their own "clouds". It would be th
You receive a binary each time you load the game. Hosting it on a website and re-downloading it with java each time doesn't circumvent the license. If you want the source, perhaps you could approach them about rectifying their license obligations.
The limit to a specific browser on a specific OS sounds like there's a lot of client-side code to this (and makes me wonder why the hell it's even browser based if all it's doing is display an installed game in a browser window).
It's too bad this isn't under the AGPL. Maybe it has to be GPL2 because of what it's based on. But with the GPL2 source only has to be shared with people who receive binaries.
That's not true [gnu.org].
It's too bad this isn't under the AGPL.
The AGPL is a complete waste of time - it is an EULA and thus suffers the exact same problems as every other EULA. Namely that it is pretty much unenforceable and thus its only use is to intimidate your own customers into doing things they have no legal obligation to do.
I'm afraid the FSF has completely lost the plot these days - they are more interested in pushing their own agenda than supporting the Free software projects.
The AGPL is as much of a EULA as the regular GPL, be that version 2 or 3.
The GPL is a *distribution licence*. If you don't distribute the software, you don't need to agree to it. If you do distribute the software then copyright law prevents you from doing so unless you have a licence to do so - i.e. if you're going to distribute the software, you *must* agree to the GPL because there is nothing else that allows you to do so.
The AGPL is a *use licence*. If you use the software (i.e. you are a service provider, using it to provide a service to your users) then the FSF tel
Every lawyer I've ever talked to about the GPL and AGPL (some very invested in the open source community) agrees with this viewpoint.
The GPL is a distribution license, and thus probably enforceable (has been, some places). The AGPL has poorly worded extensions to the GPL, and redefine "distribution" to essentially mean "use"--which they may find cute, but does turn it into a use license and an enforcement mess.
I think you need to talk to better lawyers. The AGPL doesn't say anything about use, it says something about modification. If an AGPL program includes a download-the-source link, you are not allowed to remove it. If you do remove it, then you have created a new derived work, which is something restricted under copyright law and requiring explicit permission from the author. The AGPL provides you with explicit permission to create derived works as long as they do not remove the download-the-source link.
No, because in the course of using it you are subject to specific restrictions (the inability to modify it--just like a closed-source EULA).
But with the GPL2 source only has to be shared with people who receive binaries. This does not include visitors to a website, or an in-browser game in this case.
In the case of a browser game, the game is sent to the client for play, and so it most certainly does apply. You receive the binary before execution. The site isn't sending geometry data to your browser in realtime.
I guess it's better than the current option we have for running QuakeLive for Linux (i.e. nothing). Yes I know they're working on it, but it'd be nice if Linux wasn't treated second-class to Windows all the time.
Then have a community big enough to merit it.
I like Linux in some capacities (I hate it as a desktop because it doesn't work particularly well for me and advocates try to foist it off on people who don't know better, but it's running on all but two of my server machines). But there's no market share worth noting for targeting for most consumer applications.
Thats not an issue yet, atm you have
QL = windows only (500k players)
AL = linux only (a few players)
Even when both spread to multiplatform QL is going to get the majority of players, and AL will be an interesting project but between hosting costs and lack of a recognized name will never be able to split the community
With all the work that Mr Carmack has done under linux, I was surprised when I loaded Ubuntu on my new laptop that Quakelive wasn't supported... its kinda sad actually
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Arsenal face Bayern Munich on Tuesday and the Germans' goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, will be bringing something unusual with him.
The Germany international is going to turn up with an interesting piece of kit – a four-fingered glove.
Arsenal's travails against Blackburn in the FA Cup on Saturday won't have helped confidence of overturning an in-form Bayern side in their Champions League last 16 clash.
It would have been a daunting task even if had they beaten Blackburn as the Bundesliga leaders are currently sitting 18 points clear of Borussia Dortmund and have yet to concede in 2013.
Neuer's right-hand glove will see the slots for the index finger and middle finger merged into one, making one large slot.
The glove is supposedly made to allow him to strap two fingers together when he has injured them and he wore them in the 2-0 win over Wolfsburg on Friday night after suffering bruising in training.
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Cameroon 'Onesie'
The Cameroonians are no strangers to being the guinea pigs for Puma kits innovations and the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations edition certainly garnered some attention.
Samuel Eto'o and his teammates were given a green and red one piece kit to wear that FIFA President Sepp Blatter was not best please about.
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"King of Bling" Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
The Saint-Etienne striker gained the nickname after he sported an extravagant pair of boots in the warm up to a Ligue 1 clash earlier this season.
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Edgar Davids and his goggles
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"H" is for hour and includes the numbers 1-12.
"M" is for minutes and includes the options 00, 15, 30, and 45.
"T" is for time of day and includes AM and PM.
Upon form submission, each day's hours are checked for a value !='' ("H", "M", and "T" all have a default value of ''). If actual values are found, calculations are performed. If not, the day is set to "None" and the day's total hours are set to "0". Like so (using Saturday because it's the specific piece of code I'm playing with at the moment):
//SATURDAYS if(($_POST['satsh']!='')&&($_POST['satsm']!='')&&($_POST['satst']!='')&&($_POST['sateh']!='')&&($_POST['satem']!='')&&($_POST['satet']!='')) { $sat=$_POST['satsh'].":".$_POST['satsm']." ".$_POST['satst']." - ".$_POST['sateh'].":".$_POST['satem']." ".$_POST['satet']; //Calculate session hours. } else { //No Saturday session. $sat="None"; $sathrs=0; }
Because part of my job on this project is to calculate the number of hours in a particular day's session - I've done the following under the "//Calculate session hours." comment:
//Convert start hours to 24-hour format. if ($_POST['satst']=='AM') { $start=$_POST['satsh']; } else { $start=$_POST['satsh']+12; } //Convert end hours to 24-hour format. if ($_POST['satet']=='AM') { $end=$_POST['sateh']; } else { $end=$_POST['sateh']+12; } //Calculate session hours. $hrs=$end-$start; //Convert start minutes to decimal value. if ($_POST['satsm']=='00') { $sm=0.00; } else if ($_POST['satsm']=='15') { $sm=0.25; } else if ($_POST['satsm']=='30') { $sm=0.50; } else { $sm=0.75; } //Convert end minutes to decimal value. if ($_POST['satem']=='00') { $em=0.00; } else if ($_POST['satem']=='15') { $em=0.25; } else if ($_POST['satem']=='30') { $em=0.50; } else { $em=0.75; } //Calculate session minutes. $mins=$em-$sm; //Calculate total hours for day. $total=$hrs+$mins; //Verify total hours is positive number. if($total>0) { $sathrs=$total; } else { $sathrs="Error"; }
Later on, I'm echoing this information, like so:
if ($sathrs>0) { echo "Sat: ".$sat." (".$sathrs." hours)
"; } else if ($sathrs=="Error") { echo "Sat: ".$sat." (ERROR)
"; } else { // No Saturday hours. }
Essentially, if there are hours on Saturday, I want it to display the start and end times and total hours for the day. If there are hours with mismatched start and end times (ie, start time is PM, end time is AM), I want it to display the start and end times and list ERROR for the total hours for the day. If there are no hours for the day, I don't want it to display anything at all.
I also have the following line of code so I can see what actual values I'm dealing with:
<?php echo "Control: ".$sat." ".$sathrs; ?>
Test data set 1:
Output 1:
Sat: 2:00 AM - 2:15 AM (0.25 hours)
Control: 2:00 AM - 2:15 AM 0.25
Control: 2:00 AM - 2:15 AM 0.25
Test data set 2:
Output 2:
Sat: None (ERROR)
Control: None 0
Control: None 0
Test data set 3:
Output 3:
Sat: 2:00 PM - 2:15 AM (ERROR)
Control: 2:00 PM - 2:15 AM Error
Control: 2:00 PM - 2:15 AM Error
The problem lies in data set 2. There should be no echo outside of the Control line because the $sathrs variable is equal to 0. It should most assuredly not be displaying (ERROR) as it is not set to "Error" and therefore should not be entering the else if part of the statement, right?
Where am I messing up my logic here?
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OSNews writing about social networks? Yes, it happens, and today is one of those days. We all know Facebook is king here, with a massive userbase and a seemingly unbreakable hold over the market, with Twitter covering the more public side of social networking. Google does some stuff in a fringe somewhere with something called Google+ which tries to combine Facebook and Twitter, but it's effectively a ghost town with a confusing interface. So, if you're Microsoft, what are you going to do? Well, build your own social network, of course!
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I thougt (after the reports) that westerners were leaving facebook and most other social networking sites in droves now and the only growth is in asia and africa, maybe i am wrong.And twitter and alike is mostly for people telling others when they had bowel movements, what they have eaten and uther useless stuff.. oh wait that is most of them.


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But those bumps in the road were no problem, because Boston scored one in the first (Ortiz's sac fly bringing in Youkilis, who totaled two singles, two walks, and three runs scored) and four in the second (Nixon's two-run double being the big blow). ... Mark Loretta had three hits.
Keith Foulke pitched a perfect eighth (10 pitches) and Everyday Jonathan Papelbon pitched a perfect ninth (7 pitches) for his 18th save in 18 chances.
WTF Moment: Ruddy Lugo walked Willie Harris on four pitches in the eighth inning.
New York routed the Royals 15-4, so the East lead remains at 2 games.
6:07 PM -- Kevin Youkilis is playing left field tonight (it had been reported earlier this week that he was taking fly balls out there). ... Manny Ramirez gets his first day off.
Wells Update: An MRI taken today of Wells's right knee confirmed the initial diagnosis of a deep bone bruise. ... Tito: "I think there's an outside chance he could make his next start [Wednesday in Toronto]. We're still holding out a little bit of hope. I think there's a little bit better chance his start gets pushed back a couple of days ..."Youkilis, LF
Loretta, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Nixon, RF
Varitek, C
Lowell, 3B
Snow, 1B
Pena, CF
Cora, SS
Curt Schilling goes for his 200th career victory tonight. Only 103 pitchers have reached that milestone (three of them with the Red Sox -- Lefty Grove, Ferguson Jenkins and Luis Tiant).
Some schlub named McClung is tonight's designated punching bag.


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Monday, October 22, 2012
Melanie Fredericks on the South Carolina Trip
In traveling to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina this past weekend, our team brought three things back to Deland: a closer bond and sense of unity, a new, sharp perspective of what is to come in the spring season, and finally, a more focused outlook on what the stepping stones to success in the spring truly are.
Moving from this point, through playing outside competition this weekend, we became much more aware of the level that our team will be expected to perform at this spring in the competitive season. Scrimmaging the other programs on Sunday, we were able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of not only ourselves and each other on an individual basis, but as a team as well. Playing for the second time as a team together, feeling the vibe of my teammates and gaining comfort on the field with each other was incredible. With everything new comes a certain level of awkwardness, and I cannot ignore the fact that growing pains were an issue on Sunday. However, in spite of this fact, the point remains that with every outside program we play collectively, cohesiveness within our team will increase with experience. And in this, a vision for our program is established as far as working toward the spring season.
We arrived back at Stetson with not only more experience as a team but also a comprehensive new set of goals for both the rest of fall ball and for the preparation period for the competitive spring season. All in all, I would call it a successful journey - not only were we able to grow as a team on and off the field, but we captured the opportunity to assess and evaluate what the next step in our evolving program needs to be. With a new team, there are many challenges, and there are many new experiences - last weekend we took it all in, and are ready to take this team to the next level.
Melanie Fredericks
Freshman - Attack
South Lyon, Mich.
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How did I forget this sexy creature? I had such a crush on Nastassja Kinski. Who didn't?
sorry if i missed her
there's nothing like a shapely skinny girl with big pointy boobs.
How about a young Jasmine Bleeth (always loved the sound of that name) before the drug problems ravaged her looks?
The Seduction. Good stuff starts around 7:50. Bring tissues.
Didnt know she had a drug problem. Sh was a badass.
Thought she had smaller tits.


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Plague, that is.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Plague, that is.
Posted by Rot at 5:25 PM
Labels: flickr.com, plague doctor, plague mask, season of the witch
3 comments:
- K.O. said...
I was going to be a plague doctor for Halloween last fall! But I was afraid nobody would know what I was. This image makes the film look like it might be good. Love the "original gothic" aesthetic.
- February 2, 2010 at 1:59 AM
- Rot said...
You totally have to do it for 2010 : )
- February 2, 2010 at 6:27 AM
- Sam Kadi said...
kind of reminds me of the cool masks from Eyes Wide Shut, creepy.
- February 3, 2010 at 10:15 PM
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Earlier this year, while my wife & I were shopping with my mother-in-law and the girls, we went to Elder Beerman nearby Kokomo. There, my wife sampled various perfumes, and found one that she liked. She gave me a copy of a marked card, telling me exactly what type of perfume it was. Being the good husband, I dutifully placed the card in my wallet, sure that I would have the perfect birthday present in a few months.
Fast forward to today, one day before her birthday, when I (as always) had procrastinated and not purchased her birthday present. Early morning I headed out to our Elder Beerman in Marion, sure that it would be a quick in and out. I was wrong.
The perfume that she wanted was called Le Bateleur made by Dolce & Gabanna. I went to the counter and was unable to find the perfume. Asking the clerk if they carried that particular type, I was disappointed to learn that they did not.
Normally, panic mode would have sat in, but I knew that latter in the day we might be heading to Kokomo, which has a bigger Elder Beerman, so there was a chance I could still redeem myself. Though I was not thrilled with the prospect of buying her present while she was there, at least I wouldn't be empty handed.
As today progressed, my mother-in-law wanted to buy my wife some shoes and make-up from Elder Beerman, so I returned for the second time in one day to the store. It was not a good shopping day, as the store didn't have the type of Clinique that my wife needed either. After a few phone calls, the store clerk managed to find out that the Anderson store had a supply of the make up and we headed back on down the highway.
At the Anderson store, I panicked again as I couldn't find the Le Bateleur anywhere. I finally asked the clerk, in front of my wife, if they carried this type - as all I could find was Dolce & Gabana's Light Blue.
The clerk tells me that Le Bateleur means "light blue" in French, so I bought the perfume. Perhaps I have "sucker" written on my face. Of course, all of these perfumes are named in French, and I took German in high school and college. Anyway, my wife did like the perfume, so she seems happy. However, I once again fell victim to a sales clerk, because if I would have checked it out I would have known that it didn't mean 'light blue'. My French-speaking ancestors would have been horrified at my performance today.
BTW, I did look it up - seems that Le Bateleur means 'the magician' - Wikipedia has a nice write up about the Tarot card named after this phrase.


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April 2007 YO Club Winner
Marley Depew of Keaau, Hawaai is the April 2007 YO Club Winner
Owner: Marley Depew
Location: Keaau, HI
Vehicle: '69 Ford Mustang Hardtop
Color: Light Metallic Blue
Engine: 302ci V-8
Length Of Ownership: Just over 1 year
Primary Use: Driven to school
Marley purchased his Mustang in April 2006, and it's one of the rougher projects we've heard of. "When I bought the car, the roof was rusted through, the tail was crushed in, and the transmission mount hung down so you couldn't go over bumps," the 17-year-old says. "The outside, driver-side door handle didn't work and kept breaking--I must have fixed it four times. My dad and I worked on the car all summer, building up the roof and getting out the pits in the paint. We had it painted two days before the school car show, and I loved showing it off that day. I won a tool set for Second Place."
Marley's family is currently in the middle of a move from California to Hawaii, and his '69 is safely tucked in the belly of a container ship. Once things settle in their new home, Marley and his dad plan to drive the Mustang into their new garage and really tear into it with a more thorough repair and restoration, including a lot of interior work and electrical repairs.
"When I bought it, the body, interior, and electrical were all shot," Marley says, "but it ran great. I had the biggest smile on my face the first time I heard it start up and rev. It's barely under the noise limit, and I call the car 'Thunder.' Everyone I show it to is jealous. I'm looking forward to the 5-mile drive to school and the gas bill that comes with it. I plan on getting a job in an auto shop when I'm older."
It certainly sounds as though Marley has some fun headed his way, driving a sharp-looking Mustang on a Hawaiian island to high school every day. Good luck with your Mustang, Marley, and we hope the $400 gift certificate to Mustangs Plus will help you further the repair and restoration efforts on your '69.
For being this month's YO Club winner, Marley will receive a $400 gift certificate from Mustangs Plus. Mustangs Plus has been supplying and developing parts for Mustangs for more than 25 years. While restoration has always been a part of the company's focus, over the years Mustangs Plus has evolved into a one-stop restoration and performance shop, offering parts for restored and restomod street Mustangs as well as road-racing machines. In fact, Mustangs Plus bills itself as "restomod headquarters," with a well-stocked line of fiberglass body panels (including Eleanor conversions), sound systems, power windows, steering wheels, tilt columns, EFI and five-speed conversion kits, rack-and-pinion steering, and aftermarket wheels.
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1. Kulturbund Berlin. Its organization. Activities of several members
2. (continued). Report of activities of further persons
3. Hausobleute (House Police) in the Eastern Zone. The SED party surveillance
4. Use of German scholars for European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan)
5. "Denazification: Remarks on the Law" from the Swiss newspaper Die Tat, 1946
6. The Nuremberg Trial. Letter of U.S. Attorney Carroll to General Lucius D. Clay
7. "Berlin and Its Effects in the West" from an article in Zurich's Weltwoche, 1948 April 7
8. Present attitudes in Germany. Remarks of former SS leader
9. "The SS State" by Eugen Kogon. Criticism of the book
10. War prisoners and workers from the East during the Second World War
11. The Nuremberg Trial. Report of K. I. Albrecht
12. KPD, Germany. Report of meeting of the KPD, SPD, KAPD in Ulm, 1948 February 1
13. Peoples in the East. Memorandum on Rosenberg's attitude toward them
14. The Nuremberg Trial. Report of witness of process "Wilhelmstrasse"
15. Western Powers - Russia. Remarks on impossibility of understanding between them
16. Battle against Bolshevism. Remarks on formation of group as bulwark against it
17. Letter of K. I. Albrecht, author of "The Betrayed Socialism" to Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller, 1948
18. Excerpt from a letter of Fieldmarshall Manstein, prisoner in England, 1947
19. a. Yugoslav rebellion against the Kremlin b. Addition to above
19. b. Addition to above
20. Request for investigation of conditions in SS prisoner-of-war camp, Lambach
21. Protocol on interrogation of witness K. I. Albrecht by Dr. Fröschmann
22. German POWs in Yugoslavia. Report from Yugoslavia
23. The last words of Professor Karl Brand under the gallows, 1948 June 2
24. Reichssicherheitshauptamt, SS Oberabschnitt Süd-West: Directives on measures against the Catholic Church, 1938 February 15
25. Report on the Nuremberg Trial from the periodical Christ und Welt
26a. Regarding Malmedy process. Mistreatment of German POWs by Americans
26b. Sworn statement of above
27. Hitler and Eva Braun
28. Hitler's knowledge and intellectual faculties
29. Chain letter sent to thousands of former German officers and men
30. K. I. Albrecht's statement on "How Must We Fight Bolshevism?"
31. K. I. Albrecht's view on Bolshevik victory in China, the result of long-range planning
32. Von Krosigk's (?) report on Hitler's policy
33. General Jodl's opinions about the U.S. - Soviet war, 1946 August
34. Rudolf Lehmann, judge, accused at Nuremberg. Statement to his friends, 1948 November 15
35. Von Hasselbach: "Dr. Morell, Hitler's Physician"
36. The national-socialist revolution of the lower middle class (anonymous)
37. Statement by Manstein, Brauchitsch, Halder prepared for the Nuremberg Trial, not submitted
38. Article by an officer on the inside story of the Supreme Command, and Hitler's role therein
39. Observations and remarks on German General Staff
40. Thoughts on collaboration (at present time
41. K. I. Albrecht, "The Decisive Factor"
42. Arno Schreiber's report on his experience as POW of the French
43. Interrogation of former Gauleiter (Baden, Alsace) Wagner and former Fieldmarshall Keitel
44. Hans Raupach: Socialization of industries in satellite states and its economic-political significance
45. Report on organization of indoctrination of the SED (Eastern Zone)
46. Speech of Walter Ulbricht, 1948 August 27 (never published)
47. "Marshall Plan 1948 - Without Illusions" (in English)
48. K. I. Albrecht, "Vyshinsky: Hangman of the Old Guard of Lenin," 1949 March 10
49. Translation from periodical Hungaria (published in Munich, 1949, No 1)
50. Bolshevik gains all over the world. Results of planning
51. K. I. Albrecht: Exploring and combating Bolshevism, 1949 February 16 1949 February 16
52. "Before the Storm," critical article on policy of Western Powers, by a member of the Reichstag in the Weimar period
53. Statistical data of CP in Austria (14th Congress)
54. Purges within the SED, by leading Berlin politician and economist
55. Roland Eck, "Our Fifth Column," in Rheinischer Merkur, 1949 February 1
56. "Limits of the Defensive," by member of the Reichstag in the Weimar period
57. Memorandum of German Volksrat, with additional remarks by Walter Ulbricht. See also Nos. 58 and 59
58. Basic outline for CP in its political work in Germany
59. Tasks of the party control commission of the SED
60. Hans Raupach: Soviet Rule and the Psychology of Southeastern Europe
61. "Will Southeastern Europe become Bolshevik?" Views of a political scientist
62. P. H. Seraphim and W. Conze: Poland's expansion toward the West: the question of Poland's Western frontier
63. Declaration of the KPD central committee on the political situation (pamphlet)
64. Directives of the KPD for organization and conduct in the struggle for unity and peace, 1949 March 5-6
65. The work of the KPD in the Ruhr
66. Resolution of the Central Committee of the KPD on youth policy, 1949 March 2
67. Tasks of the party control commission of the SED. Extract from directives issued by a Kreisverband
68. Silesia, the country of the most complete self-sufficiency
69. Gottlob Berger, former SS General: letter to his friends, 1949 April 30
70. The extinction of the Germans at Werschetz
71. German Politics Today?
72. The situation (1949 May)
73. Political motivating forces and national-political developments in the Eastern Zone
74. "Democracy and the Civil War," by a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar period
75. "Europe's Latest Zone of Unrest: The Slavic Wall and Its Cracks"
76. Report on the agricultural situation in the former territory of Silesia
77. "Cultural Bolshevism and National Bolshevism"
78. Political Indoctrination and Training of the Police in the Eastern Zone
79. Members of the police in the Eastern Zone to join the international brigade in Greece
80. The organization of indoctrination of the SED in Thuringia
81. Letter of an uneasy German and Pieck's (chairman of the SED) answer. Communist propaganda pamphlet


text: Who would've guessed that a Gold Glove-winning All-Star with an .846 OPS at the time of the trade (Rolen) + millions of dollars would cost a AAAA player (Roenicke), a player with negative value (Encarnacion), and an actual prospect (Stewart)? Let's be real. At no point did the Reds 'overpay'. As Reds fans, we overvalue our own prospects. I remember people around here being upset that the Reds traded away Red Turner and Brandon Waring to obtain Ramon Hernandez.


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Being Human 2013
Dates: September 28, 2013
Location: San Francisco, California
The Science & Mystery of Human Experience
Being Human 2013: a daylong exploration of human nature in the light of cutting edge science, philosophy, and evolution. At this event we will look at:
The Biology and Psychology of Ethical Behavior
Is morality culturally determined and relative, an evolved social contract that is absolute, or something else? In this session, we examine the biology of caring behavior and social interactions, as well as the dynamics of cooperation, competition, and power.
Presented by Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., Susan Fiske, Ph.D., and Josh Greene, Ph.D.
Human Emotions
In this session we look at emotions as evolved behavioral responses, how well-being can be cultivated, and how our emotions can influence health. We further investigate the nature of compassion and its compatibility with evolutionary theory.
Presented by Richie Davidson, Ph.D., Paul Ekman, Ph.D., and Esther Sternberg, Ph.D.
Love and Sex
Sexual behavior, romance, and partnerships are among the strongest human social drives. In this session we delve into the biology of sexual behavior and such topics as love addictions, serial monogamy, clandestine adultery, hookup culture, and how human partnering psychology is reflected in our animal cousins.
Presented by Helen Fisher, Ph.D., Justin Garcia, Ph.D., and Laurie Santos, Ph.D.
The Future of Being Human
In this session, we examine how the contemporary journey into massive scales of space, time, and big data irreversibly expands our perspective on ourselves—and how medical innovations which allow us to move past our traditional human bodies will change our cares and our consciousness.
Presented by David Eagleman, Ph.D., Natasha Vita-More, Ph.D., and Jer Thorp.
The experience of being human can be exciting or stressful, fun or depressing, but most often it's simply confusing. How can we make sense of our world with all its pain and suffering, its delights and disappointments?
For most of human history we've been trying to understand our lives based on metaphysical, religious, and supernatural concepts. Then the Age of Enlightenment ushered in science and Darwin's remarkable theory of evolution—a powerful new way to look at ourselves and the world. Now disciplines such as cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, genetics, anthropology, and philosophy are delivering fascinating new findings which have the potential to radically remake the way we see ourselves. Based on these scientific insights, a more comprehensive view of human nature is now emerging.


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Oregon Police Chief Darin DeHaan received the 2013 Outstanding Alumni Award at Sauk Valley Community College commencement exercises May 17.
DeHaan is a 1993 SVCC criminal justice graduate.
After graduating from SVCC, he continued his education at Western Illinois University, Macomb, earning a bachelor's degree in law enforcement and justice administration in1996.
He then joined the City of Oregon as a patrol officer and climbed the ranks as a detective, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant and now chief of police.
During this time DeHaan enrolled at Northwestern University, Evanston, to complete his master's degree in public administration. With the Oregon Police Department, DeHaan establishedthe first K-9 unit and wrote grants that brought in more than $100,000.
DeHaan gave credit to SVCC.
"With my education from Sauk, I was able to quickly and successfully climb through the ranks in law enforcement," he said. "This institution not only cares about the current learning environment for its students, but also focuses on preparing them for the future as well."
He is involved in numerous organizations as a member of the Illinois Chief's Association, the International Chiefs of Police Association, the Oregon Rotary, the Ogle County Domestic Violence Coalition and is the founder of the Ogle County Methamphetamine Awareness Coalition.
He also coaches youth basketball and football and is an adjunct faculty member for SVCC's criminal justice program.
The Outstanding Alumni Award recognizes those who have gone on to make a positive and lasting impact on their community or career field.
Nominees must have completed a minimum of 24 credit hours or completed a certificate or degree at SVCC to be eligible.
For more information about the Sauk Valley College Foundation or the award, call Amy Viering at 815-835-6329, or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ARIES: With Mercury in Sagittarius until January 1, many Arians will be taking stock of their long-range plans. Consideration must be given to study, travel and sound advice.
TAURUS: Money and its management will mostly captivate Taureans until January 1, with a little extra coming on the side. December 14, 15 bring out the immediate best potential.
GEMINI: Until January 1 much of your attention will be focused on partnership commitments, whether they are personal or business, with the best days falling on December 14, 15.
CANCER: The three weeks to January 1 will see you focus on health issues and work, which is fairly usual for the average Cancerian. There are a few problems to be managed.
LEO: Your mood will be more light-hearted in the weeks from December 11 as activities with a loved one, friends or children capture your imagination. December 14, 15 are best.
VIRGO: Life at home will be hectic until January 1 as you become more personally involved with the family and domestic arrangements. Some will bring work home too.
LIBRA: Until January 1, it is likely that catching up with friends and neighbours will be a number one priority. Expect action on December 12, 14, 15, 17, 18.
SCORPIO: Until January 1 life will be in full swing, as you enjoy the thrust of economic life and the companionship of friends. Trends are active on December 12, 14, 15, 17, 18.
SAGITTARIUS: Partnership and career matters must take priority until January 1. There's so much to be accomplished personally by you in this time, with December 14, 15 being great.
CAPRICORN: You will need to pay more attention to your health and personal problems over the coming three weeks. Perhaps it is time to relax and take that annual break from work.
AQUARIUS: The social butterfly will have a wow of a time in the weeks leading up to January 1, especially on December 14, 15. Many will implement plans aimed at financial growth.
PISCES: Career options will be uppermost on the minds of many Pisceans until January 1; and may be associated with banking, transport and communications or government.
LUCKY NUMBERS: Aries: 1, 3, 4, 9; Taurus: 5, 8; Gemini: 6, 7; Cancer: 3, 4, 7, 9; Leo: 1, 3, 4, 9; Virgo: 6, 8; Libra: 5, 7; Scorpio: 2, 3, 7, 9; Sagittarius: 1, 3, 4, 9; Capricorn: 5, 6; Aquarius: 5, 6; Pisces: 2, 4, 7.


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The First Amendment Protects Ann Coulter, William Ayers, And The Westboro Baptist Church
This morning brings the news that a speech by former Weather Underground leader William Ayers at the University of Wyoming has been canceled:
The University of Wyoming announced Tuesday that a public lecture by William "Bill" Ayers, a former 1970s radical antiwar protestor who is now a university professor, has been canceled.
Ayers, 65, a distinguished professor of education and senior scholar at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC), had been scheduled to give a public lecture from 4-6 p.m. Monday in the UW Education Auditorium.
The public lecture had been sponsored by the UW Social Justice Research Center, which is a privately endowed center that studies problems of oppression and inequalities among different social groups.
Titled "Trudge Toward Freedom: Educational Research in the Public Interest," the talk would have focused on what makes education in a democracy different from other societies, as well as the importance of teachers seeing their students are more than just students, but whole human beings.
UW released a statement on its Web site on Tuesday afternoon explaining why the Social Justice Research Center had decided to cancel Ayers' visit.
In the statement, the director of the center, UW Educational Studies chair Francisco Rios, apologized to the university community for any harm that may have come to it, and cited personal and professional reasons — including safety concerns — for the cancellation.
This is pretty much the same reason that the University of Ottawa used when it canceled Ann Coulter's speech there a week or so back.
And it's bogus.
First of all, it's worth noting that the University of Wyoming is a public institution so the First Amendment applies. The fact that Ayers is controversial, or that he'll say things that might offend people, doesn't mean he doesn't have the right to say it. In fact, as I noted some four years when I first discussed the Westboro Baptist Church protesters, offensive speech is perhaps the most important speech to protect:
Over the past several weeks, several states have taken steps to prevent protesters from picketing at funerals, a move propelled by the fact that an objectively offensive group of extreme Christians have been staging protests at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq claiming that the deaths America is experiencing in Iraq are God's punishment for tolerating homosexuality. Offensive ? Absolutely ? Should they have the right to be offensive ? I can't see any reason why not.
Freedom of speech means that, sometimes, we will hear some truly offensive things. When government starts regulating speech based on the fact that it may offend, though, it diminishes freedom for everyone.
Exactly. I despise the Westboro Baptist Church protesters, I think Ann Coulter is mostly an idiot, and really don't care what a tired old leftist like Bill Ayers has to say. Nonetheless, they all have a right to say it.
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Is There Interest in Seeing ChemSpider Link to CrystalEye?Posted by: Antony Williams in Uncategorized
Copyright©2007 Antony Williams
CrystalEye is a project running at the University of Cambridge/Unilever School of Informatics and the screenshot below is self-explanatory.
Based on what I have seen Nick Day is doing a fine job. As of September 2007 there are over 100,000 CIF files aggregated already. The data are all labeled as Open Data so we could index the related 2D structures and link out to CrystalEye. I'm interested in whether our users have an interest in us linking up?Stumble it!


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What: Conor O'Neill's World Cup watch party U.S. vs. Portugal
When: 10 a.m. Sunday inside, 3 p.m. outside; game at 4 p.m.
Where: Conor O'Neill's, 1922 13th St., Boulder
Street closure: 13th Street from Pearl to Walnut
More info: 303-449-1922
Conor O'Neill's Traditional Irish Pub in Boulder is hosting an outdoor watch party and soccer festival for Sunday's United States versus Portugal World Cup match.
The pub, working with nonprofit youth soccer club FC Boulder, secured a special event and street closure permit to shut down 13th Street from Pearl to Walnut during the game. Bike lanes will remain open in both directions.
"Soccer is becoming such a big thing in this country, especially with the enthusiasm for the World Cup," said Colm O'Neill, Conor O'Neill's owner. "We want to really raise the profile of soccer and do a bit of fundraising."
FC Boulder will receive a portion of the proceeds from the watch party.
The outside viewing party starts at 3 p.m., while the restaurant opens earlier at 10 a.m. The game is scheduled to start at 4 p.m.
Outside, fans can watch the action on a 10.5-foot by 17-foot LED screen, with a beer garden set up for drinks. Both the mobile Rocky Mountain Soccer Shop and Fast Eddie's Hot Dog cart also are expected to set up outside.
For kids, local soccer clubs are planning a variety of soccer games and activities during the game.
"It's definitely a family oriented a event," O'Neill said.
Inside, fans can watch the game on seven TV's, with the band "The Goonies" set to play as soon as the game ends.
Ashlee Herring, Boulder's special event coordinator, said the city wouldn't normally grant a street closure permit to a single business, but approved this one because the event supports a nonprofit and will have kids' events.
"Because it's more of a family atmosphere, we'll be able to do it," she said.
Conor O'Neill's is located at 1922 13th St.
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Chain World — Innovative Game Design Sparks Debate 178
A story at Wired charts the course of Chain World, a video game designed by Jason Rohrer to be different from any game that came before it. Quoting: "It would exist on [a USB flash drive] and nowhere else. According to a set of rules defined by Rohrer, only one person on earth could play the game at a time. The player would modify the game's environment as they moved through it. Then, after the player died in the game, they would pass the memory stick to the next person, who would play in the digital terrain altered by their predecessor—and on and on for years, decades, generations, epochs. In Rohrer's mind, his game would share many qualities with religion—a holy ark, a set of commandments, a sense of secrecy and mortality and mystical anticipation. This was the idea, anyway, before things started to get weird."


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Difficult Tournament to Kick Off Spring Season
OPELIKA, Ala. — It was a tough opening day on Monday for the Yale men's golf team at the Mar. 11-12 Tiger Invitational, as it fought its way through rough weather to end the day in 13th place.
Hosted by No. 19 Auburn at the Lake Course on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Grand National in Opelika, Ala., the Tiger Invitational marks a difficult start to the Bulldogs' spring campaign. The tournament features a highly-ranked field including No. 48 Kentucky, No. 41 North Carolina and No. 26 Wake Forest.
After one round of play—Monday's second scheduled round was cancelled due to inclement weather—the Bulldogs sit in 13th with a score of 308. Sixteen shots ahead of the Elis, East Carolina leads at the moment with 290.
Junior Sam Bernstein shot 75 to end the day in a tie for 29th place, while sophomore William Davenport was two shots behind at 77, in a tie for 44th place.
Players will return to the course Tuesday to play 36 holes beginning at 8 a.m. Central with a shotgun start.
Report filed by James Lu '14, Yale Sports Publicity.


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Canadian Cycling Achievements
A couple of weeks ago we suggested that it was time to put together a list of the top Canadian cycling achievements (see Daily News: November 20/05 10:35 am EST - Canadian Cycling Achievements). Thanks to input from readers, we have put together a list of 25 individual achievements. Now, we want you to vote on which ones are worthy of being on our top-ten list.
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Joe Doherty has received the highest honour in Irish cricket, being elected president of Cricket Ireland at the AGM held in Dundalk today.
Strabane-born Doherty has previously held some of the highest offices in north-west and Irish cricket, being a former chairman of both, and has just stepped down as the chairman of the influential Cricket Committee of Cricket Ireland.
Doherty played all his cricket with his native Strabane, making his senior debut for the club in 1969.
A canny off-spin bowler, he twice took nine wickets in intermediate cricket, against Waterside in 1975 and Drummond in 1988.
He was also a steady top-order batsman, with his highest senior score of 67 coming against Burndennett in 1981.
Following his election, Doherty said: "It's been a long journey from Courtrai Park in Strabane where I played my first softball cricket under local rules, but I've loved every minute and cricket has been very good to me already.
"I'm looking forward to repaying the faith that Strabane, the North West Cricket Union and Cricket Ireland have always placed in me and I want the cricket community to see that there is unlimited opportunity in Irish cricket for all, irrespective of upbringing or geographical origin."
Former Cricket Ireland and Northern Cricket Union Chairman Dr Murray Power was named president elect, and will take over the reins from Doherty in 12 months' time.
Cricket Ireland chairman Ross McCollum welcomed the new president saying: "I'd like to wish Joe Doherty the very best for the coming year, and thank Robin Walsh, who was a magnificent ambassador for Irish cricket."
McCollum also confirmed that North West president Andrew Fleming will replace Doherty as the NW representative on the Cricket Ireland Board, while confirming Peter Dineen as the Munster delegate following the sad death last year of Leo Durity.
In other news from the AGM, Cricket Ireland announced a financial profit of €117,300 following a successful season both on and off the field, with highlights including winning the three main Associate tournaments, and successfully hosting sell-out fixtures against both Pakistan and England.
Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom also announced that RSA will be ending their sponsorship at the end of 2014 after a seven-year partnership: "I'd like to thank RSA for their terrific support over the last seven years.
"Their involvement was a primary factor in helping us finance our player contract structure which has been so successful and has directly impacted upon the growth of cricket in Ireland.
"Equally, RSA's early notification of their intentions has given us the maximum time to seek a replacement shirt sponsor in a year in which we are playing in the World Cup, hosting England and hosting the ICC World T20 qualifier.
"On the field, our male and female players of all ages continue to do us proud, while another significant growth in participation numbers year-on-year is a powerful testament to the extraordinary growth of the game in Ireland, not to mention the tireless work of our magnificent volunteers and development staff."


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"Research In Motion today released the 'gold' build of the BlackBerry 10 developer toolkit. The 'gold' build includes all of the final tools, components, and APIs that will enable developers to create integrated, social and beautiful applications for BlackBerry 10, and have the confidence that their apps will delight customers at launch." Let's hope so. This industry needs more viable players.


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FULLERTON, Calif.—Brandon Campbell, a Cal State Fullerton alum, former Titan dual athlete, and assistant track and field coach, has been hired as an assistant track and field coach at Fullerton effective immediately, Titans' head coach John Elders announced Friday.
Campbell served as an assistant coach under Elders from 2006-09 before taking the same position at Adams State from 2009-13.
"I was extremely disappointed to lose him four years ago, but in the end it worked out for the best because he was able to grow as a coach and a leader," Elders said. "To have him back now is super exciting, as he'll have a positive impact on this program right away.
"It's personally really gratifying for me to hire him as an alum of this program because he is a Titan through and through."
During his time at Adams State, he guided the men's program to its first-ever outdoor track & field national championship in the spring of 2012.
Under his tutelage, the Adams State women earned a third place finish at the 2012 NCAA DII Outdoor Track and Field Championships and at one point claimed the top spot in the USTFCCCA rankings during the season.
During Campbell's time at ASU, Grizzly sprinters earned 45 all-American accolades and broke 35 school records.
During his first stint as a Titans' assistant coach, Campbell helped coach Big West individual champions Johnathan Golden (high jump 2008), Garrett Myers (triple jump 2008) and Laron Brown (high jump 2009). All three were also NCAA qualifiers.
As a student-athlete at Cal State Fullerton, Campbell ran track and field and played basketball for the Titans. He earned All-American honors in the high jump in 2002 and qualified for the NCAA championships in both the long and high jump in 2001 and 2002. He was also a two-time Big West Conference champion in the long jump (1999 and 2001) and high jump (2001 and 2002) and was a member of the two championship 4X400 meter relay teams (2000 and 2001).
While with the Titan basketball program, he averaged 8.3 points and 3.4 rebounds per contest in 84 career contests while battling a foot injury.
Campbell graduated from Cal State Fullerton in 2005 with a B.S. in sociology.


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The Raspberry Pi may be designed as a cheap educational computer, but hardware-wise it has a lot in common with set top boxes. However, set top boxes are traditionally locked down and not easily modifiable by the user, the Pi is the opposite and is open to user experimentation. People have been building their own media centres for years and now the Pi offers a very cheap route into learning about this area. XBMC defines itself as a "software media player and entertainment hub" that is packed with features and offers a fairly friendly user experience which follows the ideas in the ten foot user interface. It has also been ported to work on the Pi. I've been experimenting with OpenELEC - a minimalistic Linux distribution that hosts XBMC and makes setting up this sort of environment on your Pi not as difficult as you might think.
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Anyone should feel free to add themselves as a curator for this consensus protocol. You do not need to be a curator in order to contribute.
Electrophoresis permits assessment of RNA by size and amount. In general, electrophoresis of RNA is done as a step prior to Northern analysis.
List everything necessary to perform the protocol here. Include all information about suppliers, ordering details, etc. Links to the suppliers' page on that material are also appropriate and encouraged. Please be aware that users of this protocol may not be working in the same country as you.
Biological resources e.g. cell lines, buffers (link to a method for making them), enzymes, chemicals, kits, etc.
Any equipment used to perform the protocol (link to a method for using them).
A step by step guide to the experimental procedure.
Critical steps
- RNA secondary structure can strongly impact how RNA electrophoreses through the gel. Therefore, electrophoresis of RNA is usually done under denaturing conditions. However, to simply assess the presence of RNA and its quality, a native gel might be sufficient. [1]
- The choice of gel matrix depends on the size range of RNAs to be analyzed. Use 3-20% polyacrylamide for RNAs < 500bp. For RNAs between 0.5-8.0 kb, use 1.5% denaturing agarose gel. For a larger size range (typically necessary for Northern analysis), use 1.0-1.2% denaturing agarose gel.
- RNases are the biggest problem in RNA work. Use proper precautions.
- For best resolution, pour gels as thin as possible (0.5-0.75cm is typical especially for efficient blotting later) and run at low voltage. [2]
- Tom Knight strongly recommends using glyoxal denaturation rather than formaldehyde denaturation due to the safety issues of formaldehyde.
- Many protocols call for recirculation of buffer during electrophoresis of glyoxylated RNA. However, recent electrophoresis buffers (like 10X BPTE electrophoresis buffer) are more stable and do not require this. [3]
- Molecular Cloning: Separation of RNA According to Size: Electrophoresis of Glyoxylated RNA through Agarose Gels
- Molecular Cloning: Separation of RNA According to Size: Electrophoresis of RNA through Agarose Gels Containing Formaldehyde
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Goodwood hill climb comes to GT6
You are not a former Formula One driver named Nick Heidfeld*, and you haven't got a McLaren Formula One car at your disposal, which is why you aren't the current overall hill climb record holder at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
But you'll soon be able to challenge for supremacy, because lots of digital boffins have painstakingly recreated Lord March's driveway - the actual Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb - for upcoming racing simulator Gran Turismo 6. This is Good News.
We're quite fond of Goodwood, because it's a very TopGear kind of garden party; many cars, many horsepowers, many tyres being destroyed and a general feeling of goodwill. Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi is also in awe of the place. "I have always been a huge admirer of the Festival of Speed and what Lord March has achieved," he tells us.
You'll be able to pilot the huge range of cars available in Gran Turismo 6 up the Goodwood Hill, which has been rendered in incredible detail, by the looks of the video and these screenshots. "I love the incredible range of cars on display - from the priceless, rare and exotic - to the latest family hatchback and full on racing cars," Kazunori says.
Seems Lord March is quite taken with it too, noting how he feels "proud and honoured that the Festival of Speed has been chosen to showcase GT6". He really wants to run the hill climb on GT6 too, we're told, though he's always got the option of, y'know, just popping out onto his own driveway and do it for real.
Gran Turismo 6 will be released later this year, so anyone who fancies their chances against Nick Heidfeld's record-setting 1999 run up the hill in a McLaren F1 car - which took him just 41.6s - won't have to wait long...
Which car would you most like to pilot up the Goodwood hill? Click through the gallery to see more.
*If you are a former Formula One driver named Nick Heidfeld and you're reading this, then please ignore. Also, shouldn't you be racing something, instead of wasting time on the Internet?
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University of Vermont
Asian Studies Outreach Program
Thai Celebration of Lights at Putney
- 12-06-2012
- By Jacqueline Drouin
Visiting Scholar Somrit provided Putney Central School students and teachers with the opportunity to experience the Thai festival fo lights, or "Loy Krathong" as it is called in Thailand, this past Wednesday. Somrit worked with students and teachers to create a paper river in the school gym for the students to place their krathongs.
Krathong refers to a usually lotus-shaped container which floats on the water. The traditional krathong are made of the layers of the trunk of a banana tree or a spider lily plant. Modern krathongs are more often made of bread or styrofoam. A bread krathong will disintegrate after a few days and can be eaten by fish. Putney students made paper krathongs, and were able to bring the krathongs home after the celebration to share with their family.
For more information, view the news article that appeared in the PRIDE update, the newsletter of the Putney Central School.


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January 12th, 2013, 12:40 AM
I upgraded my Acer laptop to Ubuntu 3.8.0-0.2-generic from the Raring repositories today. I get a blank screen when I boot up with no text or gui. I can tell that the system is starting correctly and I can access the machine via ssh. I can get the screen to work if I add 'nomodeset' in /etc/default/grub. However, doing so prevents me from changing screen brightness from the maximum value. I tried using 'ubuntu-bug linux-image-3.8.0-0-generic' to submit a bug report, but it is complaining that it is a mainline kernel. Can someone point me in the right direction to report this bug? This is a regression from the previous 3.7 kernel.


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Knoxville (WVLT) - The Outback Bowl outcome is certainly not what big orange fans watching the game had wanted either.
Fans we spoke with say they got very little sleep last night and still woke up early to cheer the Vols on to victory, not getting the ending they hoped for!
"I'm a huge Vol fan, born in Nashville, went to school here," Amber Henry grew up in Vol country, but later moved on to another Big T... Texas.
However she never left her volunteer roots far behind.
"Our house in Texas is decorated in real orange, not burnt orange," she says.
For Henry and dozens of other fans who bleed orange, there's nothing better that starting a New Year cheering on the Vols.
The only problem.
"You can't do nothing with a fumble," yells Vol Fan Steve Coward.
The final outcome wasn't quite what they had hoped for.
"I was hoping they would have won, it would have been much better," says Steve.
No tunes of Rocky Top echoed here at Kingston Alley.
The 20-10 defeat certainly changed the "It's Great To Be A Tennessee Vol" mood everyone started the day with.
"It was a pretty good game but the offense let it go. Defense did what they could," Steve Coward had an opportunity to witness the Vols in action, but says now, "Glad I didn't spend my money for it"
Win or lose fans say they're proud of the team for making it to the Outback Bowl and won't use the loss as a predictor for next season.
"We're going to have to go with 2007 is going to be a better year for the Vols," says Amber.
Fans say they hope this loss isn't any prediction for the 2007 Vols season, which by the way kicks off September 1st against California.


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2Stitch Explanation: kfb (knit in front and back) Knit the next st without removing it from left needle, then k through back of same st 1 st increased.
3Notes: Shawl is worked in one piece, with shaping on each half. The first half leans diagonally in one direction and the 2nd half leans diagonally in the other direction to create a "V" shape that will lay comfortably on your shoulders. An increase is worked at the beginning and a decrease at the end of every other row in each half of Shawl. The increase and decrease balance each other, so the stitch count remains the same. The Shawl is worked in Garter st (k every row), so is reversible. Slip sts as if to purl.
4Shawl First Half Cast on 54 sts. Row 1: Sl 1, kfb, k to last 2 sts, k2tog. Row 2: Sl 1, k to end of row. Rep Rows 1 and 2 until piece measures about 36 inch (91-1/2 cm) along diagonal edge, end with a Row 1. Note: End with a Row 1 means that the last row you work should be a Row 1. Second Half Beginning with Row 1, rep Rows 1 and 2 of first half until second half measures same as first half. Bind off.
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DURHAM, N.C. – The Duke track and field team sends 27 competitors, including 15 women and 12 men, to the 2014 NCAA East Preliminary Round meet in Jacksonville, Fla. The three-day meet is scheduled to run from Thursday, May 29, through Saturday, May 31.
The two NCAA preliminary round meets, divided between the east and the west, provide an opportunity for the top-12 finishers in each event at each site to qualify for the national championship meet in Eugene, Ore. The combined top 24 declared competitors in each event from the two sites will compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Sixteen individuals and one relay qualified for the first round contest on the track. The Blue Devils showcase experience at the meet, with nine individuals, including sophomore Anima Banks (800), juniors Abby Farley (800; 4x400), Lauren Hansson (400; 4x400), Nate McClafferty (1,500), Elizabeth Kerpon (200; 4x400) and Shaun Thompson (5,000), senior Brian Atkinson (10,000) and graduate students Mike Moverman (5,000) and Juliet Bottorff (5,000; 10,000) boasting at least one appearance at the contest.
Seven individuals enter this weekend's competition for the first time in their collegiate careers, including freshmen Haley Meier (1,500) and Madeline Kopp (400; 4x400), sophomores Madison Granger (1,500) and Robert Rohner (100), redshirt sophomore Teddi Maslowski (400 hurdles, 100 hurdles), senior Ashley Berry (3,000 steeple) and graduate student Audrey Huth (1,500).
In the throws, Duke is represented by five participants. Redshirt sophomore Thomas Lang is set to compete in the javelin after winning the conference title in the same event earlier this season while fellow redshirt sophomore Stephen Boals is scheduled to participate in both the shot put and discus for the second consecutive year at the first round meet. Joining Boals in the discus is redshirt senior Austin Gamble, who is slated to compete in the first round meet for the third time in his career.
For the women, freshman Christine Streisel enters the first regional preliminary meet of her collegiate career, competing in the javelin Thursday afternoon. In the women's shot put, redshirt senior Michelle Anumba enters the event scheduled for Saturday. Anumba last competed in the NCAA East Preliminary Round Meet in 2012, when she placed 12th in the shot put and 25th in the hammer throw.
Duke, which is the only team at the meet to enter three high jumpers in the contest, is represented by senior Tanner Anderson, redshirt junior Michael Krone and sophomore Carl Heinz. Anderson and Krone both boast a wealth of experience at the regional first round meet, with a combined six trips between the two. Their counterpart, Heinz, takes to the high jump apron in Jacksonville for the first time in his career.
Redshirt sophomore Karli Johonnot is scheduled to compete in the women's high jump, set for 5 p.m. Friday. The Las Vegas, Nev., native owns a season-best clearance of 5-10.00 (1.78).
The Blue Devils will be represented in the pole vault by sophomore Megan Clark in the women's contest, while senior Justin Amezquita is slated to participate in the men's pole vault. Clark, who owns the third-highest clearance in the nation this season at 14-7.25 (4.45), competes in the second NCAA East Preliminary Round Meet of her collegiate career. Clark also heads into this weekend's meet with the top clearance in the region. Amezquita also owns experience at the first round meet, entering the competition for the third consecutive year.
Duke enters this weekend's meet with a total of 15 All-NCAA Regional honorees in school history, including four on the men's side and 11 on the women's side. Liz Wort last won an NCAA East Preliminary Round title in 2007, winning the steeplechase.
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|Thomas Lang
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|Stephen Boals
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|(W) 400-Meter Hurdles
|Teddi Maslowski
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|Nate McClafferty
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|Haley Meier
Audrey Huth
Madison Granger
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|Robert Rohner
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|(W) 400-Meter Dash
|Madeline Kopp
Lauren Hansson
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|Anima Banks
Abby Farley
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|Brian Atkinson
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|(W) 10,000-Meter Run
|Juliet Bottorff
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|Megan Clark
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|(W) High Jump
|Karli Johonnot
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|(W) 100-Meter Hurdles
|Teddi Maslowski
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|(W) 200-Meter Dash
|Elizabeth Kerpon
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|(W) 3,000-Meter Steeplechase
|Ashley Berry
|12 p.m.
|(M) Pole Vault
|Justin Amezquita
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|(M) Discus
|Stephen Boals
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|(W) Shot Put
|Michelle Anumba
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|(M) High Jump
|Tanner Anderson
Carl Heinz
Michael Krone
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|(M) 5,000-Meter Run
|Mike Moverman
Shaun Thompson
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|(W) 5,000-Meter Run
|Juliet Bottorff
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Elizabeth Kerpon
Madeline Kopp
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Chelsea have given up on signing Radamel Falcao and will turn their attentions towards Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, according to AS.
The Stamford Bridge club were reportedly tracking Falcao for some time, with owner Roman Abramovich sanctioning a big money move for the Colombian, though Manchester City were also credited with an interest in him.
However, the report from the Spanish newspaper claims a statement from Falcao's agent, Jorge Mendes, saying his client would be going nowhere in January, has prompted new Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez to move focus from the Atletico Madrid striker to his French counterpart at the Santiago Bernabeu.
The Blues pulling out of the race could leave Roberto Mancini a free run at signing the prolific former Porto striker in the summer if he has ruled out a January transfer window switch.
AS also claim Benitez's admission that Fernando Torres is no longer the same player is as good as an admission that he feels he needs to recruit a replacement for the misfiring 'el Niño'.
Torres has had torrid time on front of goal recently and hasn't score din the Premier League since the beginning of October.
Such form has led many to believe the appointment of Benitez was made almost directly to address the Spain striker's abysmal goals record for Chelsea.
Torres' best form in England was see while playing under Benitez at Liverpool, where he was one of the most feared strikers in Europe.
His form is compounded by so few options available in the centre-forward department; Daniel Sturridge has rarely played there and was recently injured, while raw young Belgian Romelu Lukaku is on loan at West Bromwich Albion and does not appear keen to return any time soon.
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