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cassbackward's Bio
What nearly thirty years of gaming have taught me
(In roughly chronological order)
- Girls can, too, play.
- In the sequence OTTFF, the next letter is S.
- A piece of lucite over graph paper or a chalkboard and a yardstick are all you need for mapping.
- Anything drawn in purple is evil and must be killed forthwith.
- You can know the rules without necessarily knowing how to role-play.
- You can know the rules without necessarily knowing how to run a game.
- That feeling you have, early on, that there must be more to this than rolling dice is right.
- You don't really need to map anything.
- Online text-based gaming is fun!
- Just because someone on an online text-based game is called a Storyteller doesn't mean he knows how to tell a story.
- Games that allot rewards on the basis of popularity will turn you into a manipulative twit.
- Running a game isn't so hard as long as your players have very low standards.
- Give your players NPC's they can love and trust.
- Then take them away.
- It is okay not to include all your gaming friends in every game.
- Smart boys who can do spot-on Irish accents are hot.
- You can meet the love of your life through gaming.
- Games in which everyone is your helpful, competent friend are boring.
- When you move away from everyone you've ever known, gaming is a good way to meet new people.
- In live-action role-playing (LARP), everyone can wear great costumes, show off amazing props, and have detailed character backgrounds, and it will still be a boring and expensive costume party.
- And yet they still show up. Month after month. For years.
- Without gaming, you can get really lonely.
- There are other gamers out there for whom character and story are more important than rules!
- Play-by-e-mail (PBEM) is fun!
- A little HTML will let you share and preserve your favorite characters and their stories forever.
- With a great game master (GM) and a rich setting your character can actually grow and change in a way that can't be quantified with experience points.
- Without gaming, you can get really lonely, and when you get really lonely, you get a little crazy.
- Play-by-post (PBP) is fun!
- You can learn something about writing from gaming.
- You can meet some real [female reproductive anatomy (plural)] in PBP: anonymity emboldens the mean.
- But you can also meet your new, beloved, very best friends through PBP, no matter where they are in the world.
- It helps, in every game, to have an NPC who means something to your PC—someone who needs your help. That character anchors you to the world and helps you to understand the stakes of your every endeavor.
- Even when LARP is full of genial people whom you like very much, it is still pretty boring.
- Yup. Still boring.
- And when writing LARP, less is more.
- Video-conference gaming doesn't work as well as you might hope.
- "Role-playing" on Second Life means something completely different.
- Everything you learned about online text-based gaming pertains to gaming on Second Life.
- PBP is still fun, but pairing PBP with a table-top game can detract from the interactivity at the table.
- To enliven the table-top experience as a player, think harder about which player character's life you're going to complicate this week, and how.
- Play the buffoon, the child, the omega; it gives you a reason to provoke interaction with the other players and a way to make them giggle.
- Let your characters die.
- Steve Jackson has ruined Champions.
- When a game, a whole campaign, seems to be dead at the table, turn yourself into the conduit that keeps story circulating.
- Mess with your friends.
- Ask embarrassing questions.
- Maneuver your friends into situations in which they have to demonstrate their character through action.
- Not every story has to be a love story—or at least it doesn't have to be a story about falling in love.
- All these new-fangled rules systems that promote story actually constrain it.
- Never let someone else pick your rules set for you; if you're running the game, run it any way you want.
- Dungeons and Dragons isn't as much fun as I remember.
- Wait. Did I ever like Dungeons and Dragons?
- When expectations are at their lowest, that's the time to strike: take your shot at GMing.
- Savage Worlds is pretty awesome.
- Even when you're really tired and have no story, just open your mouth and maybe a game will come out.
- Every Nazi comes with four hand grenades.
- You can never have enough Nazis.
- All you have to do is act like assholes and kill people.
- I am not GM For Life!
- You can kill only so many goblins and orcs before it starts to feel a little like work.
- Running PBP for one person is much easier than running for a group and better utilizes your fiction-writing skills.
- Okay, I might be GM For Life.
- Create a spreadsheet, and sketch out the agendas of your game's various factions over the course of a putative campaign.
- Random generators are overrated; MadLib your players to come up with names of important places and institutions in your game.
- Problem, complication, complication, outcome. Do that three times, and you have an evening's session.
- Obsidian Portal is great for managing a campaign, but you do have to post to it.
- Scrivener is great for managing a campaign from session to session.
- Cater to your players' paranoia: in story world their worst nightmare will be your best story.
- By the end of the evening you will have loved running your game.
- Mutants and Masterminds might be better for superheroes than Savage Worlds.
- The tabula rasa character concept is like the silent loner concept—a cool idea that plays poorly: the whole point of role-playing is to tell your characters' stories to each other at the table, and if your PC can't, or won't, you're screwed.
- LARP is best when it's run a little like table-top.
- Props and sets are totally overrated.
- LARP can actually be fun sometimes.
- Maybe table-top should be a little like LARP.
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Never without his rakish Stetson hats and a crisply pressed suit or designer shirt, veteran reggae crooner Gregory Isaacs has been loyal to his music for more than 40 years. A slave to the studio, there's a wild rumor circulating that he's recorded more than 500 albums in his career, Red Rose for Gregory, My Number One, and Rumors, among the most influential of the bunch. But even if you include his numerous greatest-hits collections, is the rumor even plausible?
"It's more like 200 albums," Isaacs laughs during a recent telephone interview from his home in Kingston. "I think they're exaggerating, seen?"
With those numbers, it would mean the singer, born in the Fletcher's Land area of Kingston in 1951, has released almost nine albums for every year he has been alive. Influenced by popular rhythm and blues singers such as Sam Cook and Otis Redding, plus reggae singers John Holt, Delroy Wilson, and the Heptones, Isaacs got his start in the '60s by participating in local talent shows as a youth. Fellow artist Byron Lee spotted him and recorded his first studio track, a duet called "Another Heartbreak," which barely caused a ripple. Undeterred, Isaacs tried his luck with a vocal trio, the Concords, before returning to his solo career two years later. Working with famed local producers such as Prince Buster, Prince Jammy, and Gussie Clarke, his early recordings showcased his relaxed and somewhat nasal style that instantly stands out today. Songs like "Night Nurse" and "Number One" spring to mind, both tinged with a copasetic approach that earned Isaacs his enduring nickname "The Cool Ruler."
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The former dread started the African Museum label in 1973 with singer Errol Dunkley, and to finance it, he continued working with other producers. "It was important for me to do my own production, but I realized I got less publicity doing that, so I had to keep working with other producers to stay consistent and spread my music out there." Among his personal favorites is "My Only Lover," one of the label's first releases, and "Front Door" — a mellow track about a relationship breakup. "To be honest, I like all of my songs or I wouldn't have sung them," he says.
By 1980, Isaacs had become one of the top stars in the reggae world, touring Europe and the United States extensively. Hit singles and albums have continued to follow — some are perfect rum-drinking, domino-playing background music, and others are slow-grinding couple's ballads. He even released a new album, Brand New Me, in May. Regardless of what songs he touches from his catalog, when he performs live, he always gives fans what they want to hear.
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I haven't spent any real money on the cartel market so far and I doubt I will. However, I am subbed and don't plan to unsub soon so there isn't any need for me to spend extra money on things.
One guy in my guild spent $600 last time I heard and was going back for more. Seems to be working as intended.
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$0, I refuse to spend another dime on this crap title until they've fixed the underlying game mechanics and other issues which have plauged this shit game since launch. Once that's done, I'll resub and put this title on my frequent gaming list. I love the idea of flying around the galaxy wielding a lightsaber and choking people who piss me off, that's epic sauce... I'd rather play the total piece of crap that's D3 over this game... but, but, but... Daaaaaaaaave, you're a retard. No, it's just sad and pathetic to me that they spent 400M on development and we got what we got at launch and then less than a year later one of the worst F2P models is released.
So as a bit of fact checking, that statment should say 100-500 Million Estimated. Though your point is still valid. This game has a much larger potential than what they did. I don't think what we've got so far is even worth the starting point for their budget which has been put at 100M.


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The newly-reauthorized Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) includes new protections for Native American women who are victims of sexual assault or domestic violence. Despite attempts by House Republicans to pass a watered-down version of VAWA that limited these Native American provisions, as well as eliminating protection for lesbian and gay victims, the bill was passed by the House of Representatives and signed into law by President Obama on March 7th, just in time for International Women's Day.
VAWA continues $5 million financial support and expands programs that target domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking on tribal territory, and adds programs focused on sex trafficking, developing response programs, and services for youth who are victims of domestic violence or who are exposed to domestic violence in their homes. It also provides funding for research and analysis of statistics for sexual assault and domestic violence in Alaska Native Villages and maintains $1 million in funding for a Native American sex offender registry.
The biggest changes in the new VAWA address tribal jurisdiction in abuse cases. Changes are severely needed; according to the National Task Force to End Domestic Violence, 34 percent of Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes, and 39 percent will be victims of domestic violence. The murder rates for Native American women are consistently much higher than the national average. Current legislation does nothing to address the jurisdictional gap that leaves many Native American women absent of a path to bring their attackers to trial. Federal and state law enforcement are required to intervene on such cases, but they are often located far from the reservations and lack the resources to respond properly. 86 percent of Native American women who report sexual violence say that they were attacked by a non-Native man.
Currently, tribal governments have very limited power to punish non-tribal members who commit crimes on reservation land. As Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla), a registered member of the Chickasaw nation and one of only two Native Americans in Congress illustrated, "There are 535 members of Congress, and 534 of them could go on to the Sioux Reservation, commit a crime, and not be subjected to local jurisdiction. If I did it, though, I would be, because I'm an Indian."
VAWA "authorizes Indian tribes to exercise special domestic violence jurisdiction over certain non-Indian offenders who commit domestic violence offenses against an Indian in Indian country," only if the non-Indian in question resides in or is employed in Indian country or is a "spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner" of a tribal member or non-tribal member who also lives on or is employed in the Indian territory. New legislation also gives additional funding to tribal court systems, requires the cross-designation of at least ten tribal prosecutors as federal prosecutors, requires the Attorney General to consult annually with tribal governments on programs and report those findings to Congress with recommendations for improvement, and expands the duties of the Secretary of the Interior to include monitoring conditions on Indian territory. It also solidifies the right of tribal courts to grant protection orders to Native American women.
Though an important and positive step towards change, VAWA is unlikely to be a magic solution for the epidemic rates of rape, assault, and domestic violence on tribal land.
The funding from VAWA may not be enough to drastically enhance much-needed victim services. According to the Bureau for Indian Affairs (BIA), "Native American assistance programs currently resemble the mainstream victim assistance programs of the 1970's: little money, few staff, no resources, and a huge number of victims."
The BIA warns that underreporting of crime will also likely remain an obstacle in reducing violence against women. "The issue of crime on Indian reservations also requires us to look at the victims of those crimes, as crime is not committed inside a vacuum. Crime rates remind us that there is generally a loss involved: loss to the victim, loss to the community, and a loss to the general wellness of the tribe. If victims do not receive a response from law enforcement or the justice system, it undermines the entire population. When tribal members see a rape victim report the crime, then see that nothing is done, it sends the message to criminals to commit more crime; the other message is, 'Why report?'"
Tribal courts are still only authorized to prosecute offenders of such crimes for up to three years, and, while targeting intimate partner violence, the law would not apply to stranger rape, known as "hunting" on some reservations.
"Non-natives come here hunting," says Lisa Brunner, a Native American victim advocate who, along with both of her teenage daughters, has experienced rape and sexual abuse. "They know they can come onto our land and rape us with impunity because they know we can't touch them. The U.S. government has created that atmosphere." Brunner, whose group, The Sacred Spirits First Nations Coalition, provides services including teen outreach programs, says that rates of rape are so high in her community that girls discuss rape in terms of what to do "when I am raped," not "if I am raped."
Grassroots movements across North America are stepping up to help fill the judicial gap. Operation Thunderbird has created an online, interactive tracking map that allows the public to anonymously add information about missing Native American women or reports of violent crime, so that "no one woman's story gets left behind." The organization was started after concerns that the Thunder Bay Police Department was failing to properly investigate assaults against aboriginal women in the community.
The Moose Hide Campaign, also formed in Canada, is a male-led aboriginal movement that rejects the cycle of domestic violence and encourages men to take an active stand against such behavior, stating that "this cycle came from the residential schools, racism against our peoples, and colonization. It was never in our culture to do violence against women in our families and communities; it was always our responsibility to protect them…Simply being a non-abuser is not enough. We need to speak up and take action, and we need to support each other as aboriginal men."
The passing of the Violence Against Women Act with these new provisions represents a historic step in acknowledging the systemic violence and discrimination that has been allowed to build against Native American women. However, it should not be a stopping point in the fight for equality: further reforms are needed to enhance the tribal judicial systems, break the cycle of violence and silence, provide for victim services, and protect Native women from rape and assault at the hands of both Native and non-Native men.
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If ya gotta ask...
Anyone who wants power badly enough to debase themselves to the level required of the leader of a democratic society, cannot be in any way trusted with power. Barry is just the latest case in point.


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Stand up and ask Minnesota Lawmakers to Protect Sports and Music Fans
Whether we're catching a Twins' game at Target Field or concerts at the Xcel Energy Center, one thing is certain: Minnesota fans are frustrated by the ticketing industry. From enormous fees to ultra-fast sellouts, when it comes to tickets, it seems us fans always get the short end of the stick. But there's a light at the end of the tunnel: Minnesota legislators are considering legislation to end the worst abuses of the ticketing industry.
Here's how:
Honesty in Ticket Sales: Many times artists, producers, promoters, venues, and ticket companies hold back as much as 90% of tickets for VIPs, fan club members, and premium credit card holders, dramatically reducing the number of tickets available to the public. The pending bill requires venues to be honest with us about the number of tickets available. Every fan deserves to know how many tickets are on sale, especially for events at publicly funded venues where sell-outs are common.
For too long, the ticketing industry has worked against the people it is supposed to serve: the fans. Legislation to preserve a fair and honest marketplace for tickets in Minnesota has been introduced, but Ticketmaster and industry insiders oppose this legislation. Write to Governor Dayton and members of the Minnesota House and Senate to ask them to stand with fans, not with the ticket industry.
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Chuck Norris – actor, film producer and martial artist — is also a patriot and conservative columnist. On Monday, he revealed that President Barack Obama is following a strategy outlined by liberal activist sociologists in the 1960s to destroy the U.S. public welfare system. This would allow the federal government to "end poverty" by establishing a guaranteed annual income.
The liberal media, of course, has never mentioned this strategy, which effectively expands the nanny state in America.
Norris noted that in 1966, two Columbia University sociologists, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, described a plan in the liberal magazine, "The Nation," to expand the U.S. welfare system until it strained state and local resources past the point of failure. At that point the federal government would argue that the system had become dysfunctional and ought to be replaced by "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty."
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Of course, Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and was educated by supporters of the Cloward-Piven plan, such as Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, George Soros and others.
The expansion of the U.S. welfare system began as early as the 1960s and into the 1970s when the number of welfare recipients more than doubled from 4.3 million to 10.8 million.
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Norris gave Heritage Foundation figures showing that in 1964, 1.2 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) was consumed by programs for the poor. Since then, the amount spent on welfare programs has increased 13 times and consumes more than five percent of the GDP. Additionally, the system has been expanded by Obamacare and many illegal aliens who scurry across the border to get their piece of the entitlement pie.
Yet, for all this spending, the percentage of Americans in poverty has dropped from 19 percent to only 15 percent over the past half century.
Norris thus speculated that solving the poverty problem was never Obama's goal — expanding the welfare system was his true objective.
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Frezza wrote in Forbes magazine "that precipitating an existential crisis in order to bring about radical change has been Obama's underlying agenda all along. Suppose he is methodically executing the infamous Cloward-Piven strategy – which, if it is not succeeding in its objective of totally remaking America, you sure couldn't tell by looking at the results."
Norris concluded that this is what Obama actually meant when the president suggests that the time has come to "fundamentally transform" America (H/T WND).
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Formal Development of a Tool for Automated Modelling and Verification of Relay Interlocking Systems
Publication: Research - peer-review › Article in proceedings – Annual report year: 2011
This paper describes a tool for formal modelling relay interlocking
systems and explains how it has been stepwise, formally developed
using the RAISE method. The developed tool takes the circuit
diagrams of a relay interlocking system as input and gives as result a
state transition system modelling the dynamic behaviour of the interlocking
system, i.e. the dynamic behaviour of the circuits depicted in
the diagrams. The resulting state transition system (model) is expressed
in the SAL language such that the SAL model checker can be used to
model check required properties of this model of the interlocking system.
The tool has been applied to the circuit diagrams of Stenstrup station in
Denmark and the resulting formal model has then been model checked
to satisfy a number of required safety properties.
Original language | English |
Title of host publication | FM 2011: Formal Methods : 17th International Symposium on Formal Methods Limerick, Ireland, June 20-24, 2011 Proceedings |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication date | 2011 |
Pages | 118-132 |
ISBN (print) | 978-3-642-21436-3 |
ISBN (electronic) | 978-3-642-21437-0 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2011 |
Event | International Symposium on Formal Methods - Limerick, Ireland |
Conference | International Symposium on Formal Methods |
Number | 17 |
City | Limerick, Ireland |
Period | 01/01/2011 → … |
Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Economics and Politics: Interest Rate Convergence in Europe and EMU
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The second interesting thing we did before leaving Lhasa was to go on a day trip to a monastery called Tsurphu, the traditional home of the Karmpa (third highest in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy behind the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama). Of course, the Karmapa took off to
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We also got to visit the Great Wall, or at least see parts of it from afar, when we went with all the artists on a Red Gate (they really took care of us and the artists…I mean first class treatment the whole time we were there) sponsored field trip to a place called The Commune. The place is a private plot of land that butts up against part of the Great Wall out a little past Badaling – still almost 2 hours out of town. The owners of the place, a fancy hotel chain, invited 20 or so architects from all over
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Is this weird? We adopted the cat a few months ago and while he eats hs pet food, he hangs out in the kitchen whenever I am in there and sits at my feet when he sees me eating. The cat LOVES gravy; he smells it cooking and meows piteously until I give him a little. He also loves ham and meows for that. I found him eating out of my son's discarded bowl of honey nut cheerios ( but he doesn't like milk alone!). I know this isn't a pet health board, but should I not let him eat these things? Do any of you let your cat eat people food?
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What better way to contrast the stark essence of the outdoors, than with a generous arrangement of colorful florals?
photography by HUDSON NICHOLS PHOTOGRAPHY
It's no secret that wedding florals can get a little pricey. So when it comes to centerpieces, consider swapping them out for seasonal fruits or veggies. This eye-catching scene is riddled with fresh grapes and figs, which lend the most pleasant touch of color.
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serves 4-6
olive oil
red pepper flakes
3-4 minced garlic cloves
4 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 jar marinara sauce (I used Barilla traditional marinara)
8 oz mozzarella, shredded
4 oz parmesan, grated
italian seasoning, salt, and pepper
5 oz bag of garlic croutons
Preheat oven to 350F. Drizzle olive oil into a 9x13" baking dish and generously sprinkle with red pepper flakes and garlic cloves. I did not skimp on the pepper or garlic, but it was not over powering at all, so don't be afraid of it being too spicy!
Cut the chicken into 2-3 oz cutlets. This is optional but I felt it made the chicken more flavorful and ensured that the chicken was cooked through. Some reviewers of the original recipe complained that the whole breasts were not cooked through in the allotted time, but I did not have this problem when I cut up the chicken a bit.
Arrange the chicken breasts on top of the olive oil in the baking dish. Season generously with salt, pepper, and italian seasoning.
Spread marinara sauce on top of chicken, and sprinkle on half of the mozzarella and parmesan.
Distribute the croutons evenly on top and sprinkle on the remaining cheese. Cover with foil and bake at 350F for 35 minutes, uncovering for the last 15 minutes so the croutons have a chance to crisp up.
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This paper examined the technologies for instruction as innovative strategies in higher education from a Nigerian perspective. Heinich, Molenda, Russell & Smaldino (2002) described technologies for instruction as the specific teaching – learning patterns that serve reliably as templates for achieving demonstrably effective learning. It is the application of modern tools, technical/technological knowledge and methods as a unit for a common goal to achieve specified instructional objectives. Higher education in most African/developing countries is currently going through its most challenging and depressive situation due to unprecedented high demand of youths for admission into tertiary institutions; lack of funding which is reported to be below UNESCO recommendation; etc. Since it has been shown that technologies for instruction have been used by the developed countries over the years, to address and overcome these challenges, it was recommended that government should enforce training and retraining of teachers and learners in computer literacy, government and other stake holders in higher education sector should procure and be involved in producing technology materials for teaching and learning, and to begin to make computer literacy a prerequisite for employment and promotions.
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Document Title: | Technologies for instruction as innovative strategies in higher education: A Nigerian perspective |
Journal: | European Journal of Scientific Research |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 4 |
No. of Pages: | 557-562 |
Document Type: | Journal Article (Peer Reviewed) |
Subject Area: | Teaching and Learning |
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Poland obstructed EU climate ambitions at Doha, activists say
Climate activists say Europe failed to deliver at the UN's Doha conference on climate change.
"This time Europe – usually seen as a leader on climate change - comes away with dirty hands," Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace international, said in a statement on Saturday (8 December).
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Poland demanded to keep its 'hot air' carbon credits awarded to them in the 1990s in opposition to developing countries, which wanted the surplus emissions scrapped altogether.
The surplus credits, also collected by Russia, Ukraine, and Japan, total 13 billion tonnes of CO2 - or almost three times of what the 27 EU-member states pump into the air each year.
The credits were handed out under the initial 1997 Kyoto protocol and allow Poland to emit far greater carbon into the atmosphere than its EU counterparts. Poland can also sell a fraction of the emissions on the market.
European decision makers at the summit, says Greenpeace, sided with Poland to keep the surplus emission credits, preventing them from committing to a more ambitious carbon-emissions plan.
"EU climate diplomacy is stuttering, with Polish obstruction having prevented any change to the ambition of the EU position," said Finnish Green MEP Satu Hassi.
Hassi says the EU could cut carbon emissions by 30 percent in 2020 and not its stated goal of 20 percent compared to 1990 levels.
A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change says current global carbon emissions may increase the world's temperature between 4 to 6 degrees Celsius.
The Doha summit brought together almost 200 nations to extend, by seven years, the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire on 31 December.
But large carbon emitting nations decided not to sign on, including Canada, Russia, Japan, and New Zealand. The US and China, the world's two largest carbon emitters, have also largely opposed the pact.
The US signed the first Kyoto protocol but never ratified it.
Instead, the EU, Australia, Switzerland and another other eight industrialised nations signed up to Kyoto's extension, representing some 15 percent of total global emission output.
The nations agreed to draw up a new global climate agreement in 2015 and adopt ways to reduce global climate emissions by 2020 to keep the Earth's temperature from increasing by 2 degrees Celsius.
"In Doha, we have crossed the bridge from the old climate regime to the new system. We are now on our way to the 2015 global deal," said EU climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard.
Commitments made by rich countries in 2009 to mobilise a €100 billion annual fund by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change also failed to materialise.
The EU, for its part, said it will provide the full €7.2 billion it pledged in 'fast start' finance for the period 2010-12.


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The gadgets on my desktop were there this morning, but upon rebooting, they were gone! I can no longer access them. I right click the desktop, and click 'Gadgets...' and nothing happens either. Is there a way to fix this? I miss my slideshow/weather thingies already.
Well, luckily the gadgets work if I put it on the low setting, it doesn't bug me as much... but it's enabled enough to keep my gadgets going. Thanks for the tip!
Hi Lazure I had exactly the same problem and could'nt figure it out. (Thought it was a beta bug or somthing), anyway, I installed Yahoo's newest widget program, selected some cool widgets and it works great..... I may go back and reset my UAC's to the lowest setting and get my original gadget's back. Greg
Gadget fix w/o activating UAC This is all you have to do to activate your desktop gadgets w/o activating UAC. 1. Open the Registry Editor, or regedit.exe. You can search for regedit in the Start Menu. 2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Sidebar\Settings 3. Right-click and create a new DWORD (32-Bit) Value called AllowElevatedProcess. 4. Right-click AllowElevatedProcess and click Modify. Set the value to 1. Close the registry editor. Your gadgets should work with UAC off now. Enjoy


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Brian McBride
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Backed by an enthusiastic home crowd, this vital Premiership encounter got off to a lively start. Fulham lined up in a conventional 4-4-2 formation with Brian McBride partnered by Eddie Johnson up front. The American had the home supporters buzzing early on as he looked to get in behind the Everton back line.
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Simon Davies, lining up against his former side, crafted a fine opening for Fulham when his lofted, outside of the boot pass fell into McBride's path. The American looked to execute a difficult first-time volley which flew wide of Tim Howard's left hand post. Nonetheless it was a bright start for Fulham.
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Johnson's presence up front was giving Fulham a different option in attack as was shown in the 13th minute when his run was almost found by a Danny Murphy through ball after Bullard had linked up well with Murphy. Andy Johnson was withdrawn soon after, having picked up a groin strain. The change forced David Moyes to line up with a 4-5-1 formation.
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Despite not having found a breakthrough, the Whites continued to probe patiently. The visitors were posing greater resistance in their midfield as a result of their formation change but it was their attacking play that seemed to benefit the most from the new line-up.
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Getting forward in more numbers than previously, Everton had their first attempt on goal when Yakubu bundled through a couple of challenges before shooting low from the edge of the area. Kasey Keller produced a routine save.
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The swirling wind and rain was surprisingly having a limited effect on the game as both sides were opting to play safe passes rather than run the risk of the longer balls. Whilst the Whites were still looking to fashion an opening opportunity, Everton's back line was holding firm, cutting out most through balls and looking strong in the air.
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Kasey Keller was forced into action in the 42nd minute when a well constructed Everton attacking moved found Yakubu in space on the edge of the area. His fierce shot was parried by Keller into the path of Konchesky.
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A moment of promise for the visiting side came in the 50th minute when Yakubu held of Hughes to play the ball into the path of Arteta whose shot was blocked. The ball fell kindly for Everton and Steven Pienaar looked to be through before the linesman flagged for offside.
58 mins
Brian McBride set Eddie Johnson away for a promising counter attack. Johnson got to the line and his low cross was put behind for a Fulham corner. Jimmy Bullard's ensuing delivery was met firmly by Johnson who headed just over. That chance prompted Fulham to up their attacking play.
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Another Jimmy Bullard corner delivery was met at the back post by Simon Davies who was unable to get over the ball. The action rapidly switched to the other end where Phil Neville's overlapping run was found by Yakubu. The former Manchester United player's attempted cross was deflected behind for a corner.
67 mins – GOAL FULHAM – McBride
Fulham took the lead in the 67th minute courtesy of Brian McBride's header – his first goal since sustaining an injury in the home match against Middlesbrough earlier in the season. The move started when Simon Davies received the ball on the left wing inside his own half and proceeded to make good ground down the wing before delivering a fine cross into the box. McBride was waiting and diverted the ball past Howard.
Following a couple of scares from Everton, Fulham came close to extending their lead when Jimmy Bullard's cross was cleared only as far as Eddie Johnson whose powerful shot flew just over.
Fulham Substitution – Danny Murphy OFF Carlos Bocanegra ON
Roy Hodgson replaced the hard-working Danny Murphy with Carlos Bocanegra. The American defender slotted in at left back with Paul Konchesky moving up to the left side of midfield. With Everton moving Joleon Lescott up front, the aerial strength of Bocanegra was a vital factor.
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Jimmy Bullard found the run of Simon Davies with a well-placed up-and-over pass. The Welsh winger, in on goal, looking to try an chip Howard, scuffed his shot wide of goal.
Fulham Substitution – Jimmy Bullard OFF Moritz Volz ON
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With Fulham looking to hold out to the final whistle Brede Hangeland rallied the home fans with two consecutive towering defensive headers.
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Fulham Substitution – Brian McBride OFF Clint Dempsey ON
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Fulham sprung forward on the counter-attack and the ball was worked to Eddie Johnson who advanced to the edge of the area before hitting a ferocious shot which arrowed just over the angle of the bar and post.
Competition: Barclays Premier League
Date: Sunday 16 March 2008
Kick-off: 1:30pm
Venue: Craven Cottage, London
Attendance: 25,262
Referee: Steve Bennett
Line-up: Keller; Stalteri, Hangeland, Hughes, Konchesky; Davies, Murphy (Bocanegra 74'), Andreasen, Bullard (Volz 85'), Johnson; McBride (Dempsey 88')
Unused substitutes: Batista, Healy
Line-up: Howard; Neville, Jagielka, Yobo, Lescott; Osman, Arteta, Carsley, Pienaar (Baines 64'); Johnson (Hibbert 14'), Yakubu
Unused substitutes: Wessels, Nuno Valente, Rodwell
Pos | Club | Pl | Pts |
1 | Manchester United | 29 | 67 |
2 | Arsenal | 30 | 67 |
3 | Chelsea | 29 | 64 |
4 | Liverpool | 30 | 59 |
5 | Everton | 30 | 56 |
6 | Portsmouth | 30 | 50 |
7 | Aston Villa | 30 | 49 |
8 | Blackburn Rovers | 30 | 46 |
9 | Manchester City | 29 | 45 |
10 | West Ham United | 30 | 43 |
11 | Tottenham Hotspur | 28 | 35 |
12 | Middlesbrough | 30 | 31 |
13 | Wigan Athletic | 29 | 28 |
14 | Reading | 30 | 28 |
15 | Newcastle United | 29 | 28 |
16 | Sunderland | 30 | 27 |
17 | Birmingham City | 29 | 26 |
18 | Bolton Wanderers | 28 | 25 |
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August 04, 2012, David Caraviello, NASCAR.com
LONG POND, Pa. -- Sam Hornish Jr. couldn't have picked a more hectic weekend for his first as the regular driver of Penske Racing's No. 22 car. Hornish took over the ride for the foreseeable future this week when driver AJ Allmendinger was fired in the wake of a failed random drug test, stepping up from the interim role he had filled since his predecessor was first suspended July 7. That means the Penske driver will pull double duty across two series, states and time zones -- given that his Nationwide car races at Iowa Speedway on the same weekend NASCAR's premier circuit competes at Pocono Raceway. "I feel like we've got some really good opportunities here and [I am] just trying to maintain everything and not get stressed out about it, because that's not going to help anything. Just enjoy it. " --SAM HORNISH JR. "I just really enjoy the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to do it," Hornish said. "It's kind of a lot on my plate this weekend. I'll close my eyes and sleep for a little bit on the airplane to try to catch up." Hornish and Kurt Busch are each competing in both races, but these days the latter driver seems to have more at stake. Hornish was a regular for Penske on the Nationwide tour before he was called into emergency duty on the Sprint Cup side, and he currently stands 28 points behind leader Elliott Sadler in the race for that circuit's championship. He's also trying to make a statement toward possibly landing the ride in the No. 22 on a full-time basis next season, making every lap pivotal for the former open-wheel star. His 16th-place finish last weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was his best in his current vehicle thus far. "I feel like the way things have been going, we've been steadily progressing," Hornish said. "Hopefully before too much longer, we'll be running well enough that they'll want to keep us in there for the foreseeable future. I feel like we've got some really good opportunities here and [I am] just trying to maintain everything and not get stressed out about it, because that's not going to help anything. Just enjoy it. Something good happened to me at the end of last season -- we got the opportunity to go full-time Nationwide racing, and we're doing pretty good over there. Now we've got the opportunity to go Cup racing, too, so just trying to take both things and run with it and enjoy it as best I can, because it's a good feeling to be in a little bit of demand." This weekend, though, that demand brings with it some logistical hurdles. Hornish practiced the No. 22 car at Pocono on Friday, posting the 18th-fastest time of the final session. He then planned to jet to Iowa Speedway to get in as much practice as he could in his No. 12 Nationwide Series car. Then it was back to Pocono late Friday night, Cup qualifying Saturday morning and up in the air once again -- this time for Nationwide qualifying and the 8 p.m. ET Iowa race. Hornish planned to fly back to Pocono immediately after the Nationwide event for the 1 p.m. ET start of the Pennsylvania 400 on Sunday. That's four trips halfway across the country -- in case you were counting -- but the driver doesn't seem to mind. It probably seems simple compared to his rushed flight at Daytona last month after Allmendinger was initially suspended, which Hornish trotting onto pit road just minutes before engines had fired. And all that air time and seat time will be good practice for another split weekend coming up in two weeks, when the Sprint Cup tour races in Michigan while the Nationwide circuit is in Montreal. That journey will also involve clearing international customs. But first, Iowa. "We're probably going to give up 30 minutes of track time at both places with practice," said Hornish, "But, outside of that, as long as everything goes to plan, we're not going to miss any drivers' meetings or anything like that, and [it gives] us an opportunity to qualify and to start where we qualified at. It's a great opportunity to be able to do that. Not all weekends like this work out to where you can be able to do that to go to two place that I really enjoy racing at. And [to] be able to run both of them, and feeling like we can start where we qualify at, is a good feeling." For Penske, the routine is -- well, routine. Competition director Travis Geisler said Hornish's schedule this weekend is similar to one teammate Brad Keselowski used when he competed in both events in 2010. "It's something that we've been through before, and I think we're really fortunate to have a lot of really great people around us to help support and make this doable and to make it very smooth," he said. "... I think it's going to be pretty smooth, actually, is what I'm predicting. Obviously they'll be a lot of little things along the way, but we're down to figuring out what kind of food we need to have where for him and making sure that we have all the right stuff, just trying to make it as comfortable as possible. Obviously, Sam is going to be in a heck of a lot of race cars in lot of different places in a short amount of time, so we need to try to do the best we can to be able to make it work for him. I'm excited about it. I think it's a unique challenge, [although] it's not one that I've been through. You never know what you're going to get in this business." Predictions aside, there are still contingency plans. Forecasts call for a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms Saturday in Newton, Iowa, where the Nationwide Series venue is located. Although Penske developmental driver Parker Kligerman is in Pocono competing in the Camping World Truck Series event Saturday, Geisler did not specify who might be on call should Hornish get stuck in the Hawkeye State. If Hornish qualifies the No. 22 car, Kligerman would need approval from Sprint Cup director John Darby to be in the seat for the race, even though the Truck Series regular is already cleared for 2.5-mile facilities like Pocono. "We've got contingency plans for contingency plans for contingency plans," Geisler said with a smile. "We're pretty much down to the next option is me, I think. Obviously. you try to think of all those scenarios of everything that can go wrong; everything that can happen. There are a few that can make it really, really difficult that we'll have to deal with. You know, everybody is trying to be as prepared as possible and to have the options kind of laid out. We're all hoping for the best, and if it goes that way I feel like it can be a pretty reasonable, smooth weekend. Otherwise it'll be a forest fire, and we'll try to put it out and we'll figure out a way to put it out. That's what we do." Should weather dictate a decision, which event would be a priority for Hornish? Geisler indicated it might be the Nationwide race, given the driver's status in the title hunt. "The championship, after last week, things got pulled to within 20-some points," Geisler said. "That's a pretty reasonable margin that anybody really right now has a good shot at that Nationwide championship, and I think we're in as good a shot as anybody, so we've got to stay focused on that, and Sam needs to stay focused on it. So that's certainly a priority of ours."


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https://philanthropy.com/article/Utah-Preschool-Program-Yields/233689Goldman Sachs will reap financial gains for funding a Utah program that showed positive results in keeping kids out of special education. It is the first time a U.S. social-impact bond has paid off for the investor, The New York Times writes.
The Wall Street bank covered preschool costs for 595 students, 110 of whom were expected to require costly special-education services. After a year of preschool, testing indicated only one of the students needed special eduation, and the state paid Goldman Sachs what it would have spent on special ed for the other 109.
Social-impact bonds, also known as "pay for success," provide a new way to fund social programs in an era of government budget cuts. Nonprofit and private investors put up the money and see returns if programs meet quantifiable targets. The first such effort in the United States — a project to reduce recidivism among inmates at New York's Rikers Island prison, also backed by Goldman Sachs — was shut down in August after failing to meet performance goals.


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Gamification — using game-like features in non-game applications — is paying off for brands.
NBC Universal's USA Network found that it could double the engagement on its Psych TV show web site with a game-like competition. Jesse Redniss, vice president for digital at USA Network, said in a talk at the Gamification Summit today that game-like reward programs generated a 130 percent increase in page views for the network's Psych show and a 40 percent increase in return visits. That adds up to a decent financial pay off.
While gamification is a fledgling industry, the early results from players such as USA Network will likely inspire even more brands to start using game mechanics and games themselves to keep users more engaged.
Redniss said his network figured out five years ago that the demographics of online casual game fans matched pretty well with those of USA Network, which is the largest network on basic cable TV.
A few years ago, the company started adding online games, and it now has more than 75 of them in the Character Arcade section of its web site. The games have driven engagement upward from 4 minutes per session spent on the site to as high as 28 minutes now, depending on the show. One game based on the Monk show has been played more than 13 million times.
"We wanted to find users who wanted to engage with the brand beyond the show," Redniss said.
USA Network has also integrated Bunchball's system for adding achievements and rewards for loyal site visitors. As soon as USA Network launched Bunchball's Nitro system, it grew its Character Arcade registered users from 400,000 to 1 million. Now there are 3 million monthly unique visitors on the overall USANetwork.com web site.
Advertisers have taken notice, not just because of a growth in page views but because of the increase in engagement. Companies such as Ford and Toyota have asked USA Network to create custom games around their products.
The Character Arcade and its gamified reward system current drive about 50 percent of overall referral traffic to the core web site. Players experience the brand through the games and then become show fans, Redniss said.
The company's Psych show is a case in point. The show has 1.3 million fans in a key demographic, ages 18 to 49, and about 53 percent of them are female. It's the top basic cable program on Wednesday nights for people ages 18 to 49.
The Psych section of the site, dubbed Club Psych, encourages visitors to become loyal fans with achievements and rewards. The show has 1.5 million Facebook fans and users spend an average of 22.5 minutes on the Psych site. Fans can play games, watch videos and answer trivia questions. If fans share something on the site, they get 200 reward points. If they take a poll, they get 50 points. The challenges are posted on the home page every week; that drives return visits, with 50,000 coming back every day. For every shared piece of content, the fan gets 10 points for every additional fan who shares the content with someone else.
"The more you share, the more you win," Redniss said.
The Nitro-based reward system for the Psych site shows the leaderboards for who has the most reward points, spurring a natural competition among users. The network offered virtual goods for users with lots of reward points. But the engagement really took off on Sept. 3 when USA Network offered a limited number of real goods — merchandise related to the show — to users in exchange for their reward points. Within a few days, the DVDs, signed posters and other goods ran out.
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Unfortunately, you would have had to be living under rock in outer-Mongolia not to have noticed the press coverage surrounding Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's wedding 'merger' this weekend.
Now, the first official pictures have arrived, via an unsurprising exclusive with E! Online (they own the rights to Keeping Up With The Kardashians), and despite the endless amount of farcical pomp linked with the ceremony, the pictures look relatively 'normal'. At least proportionately so, considering the couple's predisposition for overexposure, conspicuous consumption and extravagance.
The wedding did, after all, take place in a castle in Florence, surrounded by the Italian military for maxim security, and sound-tracked by operatic musician Andrea Bocelli.
They are pictured kissing in front of a wall of white flowers, following their exchange of vows.
Then they are photographed walking down the aisle, Kardashian in her custom-made Givenchy gown and West in his bespoke tuxedo, also designed by the same label (designer Riccardo Tisci was one of the hundreds of famous guests present).
Their daughter, 11-month-old North West (who was apparently also wearing Givenchy – there's just no point in skimping on these things really…), is seen precariously balanced in the arms of her grandmother, Kris Jenner.
There is also a full-length picture of Kardashian's lace gown, which was taken at her final dress fitting in Paris. There are probably few brides who could a boast a dress train to rival that of Diana, Princess of Wales, but we would expect nothing less.
The remaining pictures feature the couple posing in a photo booth installed at the wedding reception – one of them 'casually' kissing and the other with them wearing his-n-hers leather jackets, emblazoned with 'Just Married' in white paint.
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<computer hardware> (GPIB, General-Purpose Interface Bus, HP-IB, Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus) An 8-bit parallel bus common on test equipment.
The IEEE-488 standard was proposed by Hewlett-Packard in the late 1970s and has undergone a couple of revisions. HP documentation (including data sheets and manuals) calls it HP-IB, or Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus.
It allows up to 15 intelligent devices to share a single bus, with the slowest device participating in the control and data transfer handshakes to drive the speed of the transaction. The maximum data rate is about one megabit per second.
Other standards committees have adopted HP-IB (American Standards Institute with ANSI Standard MC 1.1 and International Electro-technical Commission with IEC Publication 625-1).
To paraphrase from the HP 1989 Test & Measurement Catalog (the 50th Anniversary version): The HP-IB has a party-line structure wherein all devices on the bus are connected in parallel. The 16 signal lines within the passive interconnecting HP-IB (IEEE-488) cable are grouped into three clusters according to their functions (Data Bus, Data Byte Transfer Control Bus, General Interface Management Bus).
In June 1987 the IEEE approved a new standard for programmable instruments called IEEE Std. 488.2-1987 Codes, Formats, Protocols, and Common Commands. It works with the IEEE Standard Digital Interface for Programmable Instrumentation, IEEE 488-1978 (now 488.1). HP-IB is Hewlett-Packard's implementation of IEEE 488.1.
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Looking after more than 200 gardens has taught us a thing or two, so here our gardeners share some of their tips for a blooming beautiful garden
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Janet D. Spector
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Janet D. Spector (October 21, 1944 – September 13, 2011) was an American archaeologist. She is known for her contributions to the archaeology of gender and ethnoarchaeology.[1][2] She is the author of What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village,[3] a book which combines Spector's autobiography with the excavation of the Little Rapids site (also known as Inyan Ceyaka Otonwe) in Scott County, Minnesota and a fictional story of a young Dakota woman who lived in the village. While a professor at the University of Minnesota, Spector helped found the women's studies program at the university, and chaired the program from 1981 to 1984[4]
- ^ 10,000 Books Weblog : Minnesota Historical Society Press » Janet D. Spector (1944–2011), In Memoriam
- ^ Thomas, David Hurst and Robert L. Kelly (2006). Archaeology. Thomson Wadsworth. ISBN 0-15-505899-1.
- ^ Spector, Janet (1993). What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-87351-277-4.
- ^ Janet Spector has died - College of Liberal Arts E-News
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