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If you've bought or sold items through eBay, or through hundreds of other online sites, then you're familiar with PayPal, the online payment service. With PayPal, a valid email address, and a credit card or bank account, you can easily send and receive payments online. Not a bank or financial institution itself, PayPal describes its service as one that builds on the financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards, and using advanced propriety fraud prevention systems, creates a safe, global, real-time payment solution. Put simply, PayPal provides the means for people to conduct financial transactions online, instantly and securely.But there's more to PayPal than meets the eye. PayPal Hacks shows you how to make the most of PayPal to get the most out of your online business or transactions. Authors Shannon Sofield of Payloadz.com and PayPal evangelist David Nielsen guide you through the rigors of using and developing with PayPal. Whether you're building an ecommerce site using PayPal as a transaction provider, or simply trying to pay for an eBay auction without getting burned, PayPal Hacks will give you the skinny on this leading global online payment service.The collection of tips and tricks in PayPal Hacks shows you how to find or even build the right tools for using PayPal to buy and sell on eBay or as a transaction provider for ecommerce on your own site. Written for all PayPal users, from those just starting out to those developing sophisticated ecommerce sites, this book begins with the basics such as setting up your account, then moves quickly into specific tips and tools for buyers, sellers, and developers.With PayPal Hacks, you can:
Shannon Sofield is the personification of a hack, he takes anything that is supposed to do one thing, and manipulates it to serve his own purposes, both in his life as a developer and his life in general. If it was supposed to do one thing originally, he probably has it doing something entirely different instead.Shannon began creating PayPal solutions more than 3 years ago using his original database driven PayPal purchase system that integrated with Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev. Since then, he has gone on to work on implementing unique fixes for common eCommerce problems using PayPal. He has written several tutorials and articles, as well as spoken on the topic of using PayPal in new ways. One of the first members of the PayPal Developer Network, he was added to the PayPal Developer Network Advisory Boards on its inception. He also served several terms as a member of Team Macromedia for their web development program Dreamweaver which he uses in his daily PayPal development. His technical background extends back to the initial Internet boom when he began picking up simple web design that evolved into web planning and programming using a variety of technologies, languages, and databases.Currently, he manages the PayLoadz Digital Goods eCommerce system that allows merchants to sell digital goods securely with PayPal. One of the first and most successful 3rd party solutions for PayPal, this system made headlines when it launched Madonna's American Life single higher on the Billboard music charts than any previous digital single (and he did it before selling digital music was cool). In addition, he continually contributes to the PayPal Developer Network Message Boards (www.paypaldev.org) which his company, Superfreaker Studios, hosts and maintains.While not slogging through code at his computer in a caffeinated, sleep-deprived state, Shannon enjoys outdoor activities that fit the time of year. In the Summer he surfs and volunteers for the surfboard manufacturer Wave Riding Vehicles, while in Winter, he can be found on the slopes working on his kicker spins. Year round, he can be found reliving his BMX days on his 24 GT cruiser. Shannon's undergraduate studies majored in Finance and Accounting, while his Maters in Business Administration includes a concentration in Finance. Ctrl+C is his best friend
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Dave Nielsen is a Technical Evangelist within the PayPal Developer Network, a member of SDForum's Executive Council and the founder of the Web Services SIG of Silicon Valley. Dave has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Cal Poly: San Luis Obispo. Armed with an education in engineering and marketing, as well as many technical certifications and real world experience, Dave has both the technical skills and business savvy to give him insight into emerging technologies and trends.As a technical trainer in the early 90's Dave taught classes in languages such as Visual Basic and SQL. Dave was an early Internet programming enthusiast and found himself hounding Microsoft for data-driven web developer tools. After discarding Microsoft's first two efforts (dbWeb and IDC) and taking a chance on early beta versions of IIS and Active Server Pages, Dave became one of the first technical trainers certified to teach the now popular ASP technology.At PayPal Dave focuses his efforts on creating tools that help developers create ecommerce websites. Some of these projects include the Payment Request Wizard, the JavaScript Button Factory and the PayPal Commerce Starter Kit. Dave is cursed with more than one new product idea every day, but is always available to debate the latest technologies and how well they will be adopted.Dave can be found online at www.paypalhacks.com, at conferences and "competing" in an occasional triathlon. At home, his girlfriend tries to stop him from selling everything he owns on eBay.
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Dave Burchell got his start with computers by programming the Radio Shack TRS-80 in BASIC and the Commodore 64 in 6510 assembly. Currently, Dave's favorite programming languages are Perl and XSLT. A fervent proponent of XML, Dave enjoys solving content-management problems with markup and open source software. His other interests include American history and Hellenistic philosophy. Dave lives with his wife, Renee, and children, Max, Gus, and Samantha Grace, in Lincoln, Nebraska. His web site is http://incolor.inebraska.com/burchell/
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Great format and information, but .NET?
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The information in this book is very well organized and well explained. I'd read a number of the programming documents on the PayPal site, but reading this seemed to bring everything together as to WHY I would want to use one technique over another.The only real drawback to the book is that all of the examples are made with Microsoft .NET languages. I haven't worked on a Microsoft system for over 10 years, and even then I was working in Java. I get the algorithm for most of the examples, but some examples seemed to have more irrelevant overhead than others.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Love the book..BUT....AND the website here has apparently dead links..
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Great stuff in the book and if I was an ASP guru, I would be on easy street. As a entry level (self taught) PERL monger, I'm frustrated. My pulse went up and I got excited at the More on the examples link when you talked about auctioning off hacks on ebay for initial inclusion at the www.paypalhacks.com website. The ebay link is currently DEAD. The www.paypalhacks url is also a dead link. (By the way, the actual "examples" link seemed not to be working also on this visit to the page). So anyways, as Arnie said best in one of his movies: I'll Be Back ! (looking for some PERL examples of hacks, especially ALL OF THEM in the PDT/IPN section of hacks !!Great Book...just looking for the addendum or supplement that comes in: "my flavor".- Dan
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By Paul
I like the format of the Hacks series, and I had high hopes for this one. It presents quite a bit of information in an easy to find manner, along the way detailing posibilities one might not have otherwise thought of. It does have some flaws though, in my mind deserving just under 4-stars.There are two small issues I have with this book. First, some of these hacks feel like filler, many of these would be obvious if one were to read PayPals online documentation. The counter to this though is that Oreilly does post the table of contents online, so one can make that judgement for themselves.The second reason is purely subjective, but an annoying one for me. Every single Hack I've looked at so far, for any server side code, it uses a .NET language, mostly ASP. I was somewhat surprised that neither PHP or JSP/Servlets were mentioned. As they stuck to just one language, some of the code samples seemed pretty heavy and unnecessary.The book does present some useful information though and does deserve a serious look.
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- You may be looking for the Cybermen from Mondas or the ones from Pete's World.
The Cybermen were a "race" of cybernetically augmented humanoids. They varied greatly in design, with different factions throughout time and space. The two major groups, from which all other known versions derived, were the Mondasian Cybermen, which originated on the planet Mondas – Earth's twin planet in the Doctor's universe – and the Cybermen created by Cybus Industries, which originated on Earth in an alternate universe known by the Doctor as Pete's World.
Despite the different origins, there were similarities between both groups of Cybermen, and there were groups that shared the characteristics of both. For the most part, they lacked individuality or names. Cybermen had no emotions and viewed them as a weakness. They frequently attempted to physically and mentally re-engineer humans and other humanoids into Cybermen, via a process called "cyber-conversion" or "upgrading".
Cybermen of Mondas
- Main article: Cyberman (Mondas)
These Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of humanoids who originated on Earth's former twin planet, Mondas. Mondas drifted into the outer solar system. To survive, the natives of that world adapted by turning themselves into cyborgs. (TV: The Tenth Planet) Eventually, all of the Mondasians underwent cyber-conversion. (AUDIO: Spare Parts) Many of them left Mondas and ultimately developed into separate groups without connection to one another.
Nearly all were silver save for one black variety (for stealth) surviving in the London sewers (TV: Attack of the Cybermen). They had exposed circuitry and tubing which may have contained hydraulic fluids for motion, covering a rubber or Mylar-like outer skin. The Mondans which the First Doctor met on the Snowcap base in December 1986 had undergone a less radical conversion and still retained biological hands; it is possible these Cybermen were prototypes. (TV: The Tenth Planet) They were similar in design to the earliest Mondans which the Fifth Doctor would later encounter on Mondas. (AUDIO: Spare Parts) All other Cybermen were entirely covered by their metallic suits. (TV: The Moonbase onwards)
These Cybermen had several major weaknesses. The most notable was the element gold. Gold, being non-corrosive, choked their respiratory systems. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen) 20th century guns barely fazed Cybermen, though explosives and bazooka shells could take them down. (TV: The Invasion, Silver Nemesis) UNIT would develop gold-tipped rounds for Cybermen. (TV: Battlefield) In later centuries, the Cybermen would take hits from laser guns and energy weapons: at close range, this could destroy them. (TV: Earthshock)
Cybermen designed by John Lumic
- Main article: Cyberman (Pete's World)
These Cybermen originated in another universe, where they were created by John Lumic, the owner of Cybus Industries. His Cybermen believed that all of humanity must be "upgraded" to cyber-form so that information would never be lost and that the humans' physical and emotional weaknesses were abolished.
Cyber-conversion usually involved removing the brain of the subject painfully and placing it within a suit of armour. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) Once complete, the new Cybermen had a special implant that prevented them from feeling emotions. If the implants were disrupted, the Cybermen entered into a traumatic state caused by the pain of the conversion. This inevitably resulted in an agonising death from the emotional overload. (TV: The Age of Steel)
The cyber-suit was constructed from bulletproof steel. This exo-structure appeared thicker and heavier than that of the Cybermen of Mondas (though a comparison of the strengths of the two body types was never performed). A chest plate with the Cybus Industries logo housed a "heart of steel" and the emotional inhibitor chip. The brain was contained within the head. Artificially-grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. (TV: The Age of Steel) Without a brain inserted, the cyber-suit was a robot. Even when disembodied, the various parts of the suit – arm, head and torso – had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
Cybermen created by Missy
Missy founded 3W, (TV: Dark Water) and began preserving bodies of the rich, (TV: Death in Heaven) who believed their minds stayed conscious after death, in tanks filled with dark water which only showed the organic material, allowing Missy to convert them into Cybermen, supposedly exoskeletons to protect the bodies while uploading their minds to the Nethersphere, a Matrix data slice. There, she removed their emotions to download them back into their bodies and create a Cyber army of the dead. When Danny Pink died, the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald found 3W and Missy activated the Cybermen and released them from their tanks in St Paul's Cathedral. (TV: Dark Water)
The Cybermen marched into the streets where they were greeted by curious on-lookers before UNIT arrived to confront them. The Cybermen flew off until one was over each area of major population density in the UK, then self-destructed, creating a rainstorm of Cyber-pollen that went into the ground and Cyber-converted all of the world's dead. The Doctor teamed with UNIT to try to stop them, despite the human race being outnumbered, while Clara was saved by Danny who was Cyber-converted but retained his emotions as he chose not to delete them and his emotional inhibitor was thus never activated. When Missy broke free, she had the Cybermen attack the UNIT presidential plane Boat One. The Doctor got sucked out of the plane in the attack, but managed to get into his TARDIS. Missy gave control of the Cyberman army to the Doctor, who then gave control to Danny. Danny, who retained control even with his inhibitor, ordered the Cybermen to fly into the rain clouds and self-destruct, burning up the clouds and stopping the conversion of humanity. A few minutes later, a surviving rogue Cyberman made out of the Brigadier shot at Missy after having saved his daughter Kate Stewart from the attack on Boat One and flies off. (TV: Death in Heaven)
Cybermen of unknown origin
Last Great Time War
The Cybermen got involved in the Last Great Time War on planets such as Veestrax. (COMIC: Outrun)
Cybermen in the Arctic
While in the Arctic, the Doctor encountered Cybermen that greatly resembled the Cybus-made Cybermen, and were said to be brains in metal shells like the Cybus creations, but also had certain characteristics common to the Cybermen of Mondas. For instance, they used Cybermats, they recognised the Eleventh Doctor as a Time Lord, and they had advanced space-faring capabilities.
This group of Cybermen had been buried under the ice in the Arctic Circle for tens of thousands of years after being hit by a temporal storm. An excavation began to awaken the army, commanded by a Cyber-Lord, releasing Cybermats which in turn created Cyberslaves. The Eleventh Doctor arrived on 4 May 2010 and stopped their awakening. He blew up their ship and returned them to stasis. (GAME: Blood of the Cybermen)
The Doctor kept a chest plate and head of one of these Cybermen in the TARDIS drawing room. (GAME: TARDIS, The Gunpowder Plot)
Cybermen of the Cyber Legions
The Cyber Legions were a major power in space, possessing at least twelve fleets in the 52nd century. Outwardly, these Cybermen resembled the Cybermen of Cybus Industries, but their chest logo featured a simple circle instead of the Cybus logo. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War) They were known to use blasters on their wrists, were all linked by the Cyber-network, and used terms such as "Delete" and "Upgrade" like the Cybus Industries Cybermen (PROSE: Plague of the Cybermen, GAME: The Eternity Clock, COMIC: Assimilation²) with usage of Cybermats and Cyber-Planners being comparable to Mondasian Cybermen. (TV: Closing Time, GAME: The Eternity Clock) Their arsenal also consisted of large handheld weapons which were sometimes used in place of wrist blasters. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War, GAME: The Eternity Clock)
A Cyber Ship full of these Cybermen, either on a mission for colonisation or a military purposes, crash landed in Klimtenburg at some point prior to the 19th century. The survivors began capturing humans, using body parts to replace their own damaged parts, and they created their own thunderstorms so they could revive themselves using power from the lightning. The Eleventh Doctor arrived in Klimtenburg during the 19th century and began to investigate an illness the villagers were catching which he identified as Hapthoid Radiation poisoning from a Cyber Ship's generator. As more and more Cybermen began to revive, the Doctor rallied the villagers to fend off the oncoming attack. When battle began, the Doctor infiltrated the Cybermen's base of operations and, with the help of the mostly converted Victor Ernhardt, overloaded the Cyber-network with excess power. All the Cybermen exploded. (PROSE: Plague of the Cybermen)
In 2011, a group of these Cybermen were encountered by the Eleventh Doctor and Craig Owens in Colchester. They were based in another crashed ship which the Doctor claimed had been crashed in the future site of the Sanderson & Grainger department store, "centuries" before the survivors were revived by the council laying down cabled on top of it, which activated the ship's Cybermats. The Cybermen attempted to rebuild their numbers and upgraded store employees Shona and George but they were eventually defeated when Craig's love for his son Alfie allowed him to resist Cyber-conversion and created a surge of emotion which destroyed the Cybermen. (TV: Closing Time)
The Ninth Cyber Legion invaded London in 2012 commanded by a Cyber-Leader and a Cyber-Planner using a piece of the Eternity Clock. They made a Cyber factory that was full of Cyberman storage units, guarded by Cybermats. The Legion was destroyed by the Eleventh Doctor and River Song by shutting down their thermionic core. The shells of dead Cybermen remained in London as far as 2106 when the Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm invaded. (GAME: The Eternity Clock)
In a daring attempt at conquest, the Cybermen prepared an armada of Cyber Ships and attempted to take over other universes as well as their own. Led by a Cyber-Controller, the armada crossed from their universe into the 24th century of another and entered into an alliance with a species similar to their own known as the Borg and together they attacked the planet Delta IV. The Deltan Prime Minister escaped the attack and warned Starfleet of the newly assembled war force. The Doctor, Amy and Rory accidentally found themselves on the bridge of the USS Enterprise just as it was attacked by a massive fleet of Cyber Ships and Borg cubes. Joining forces with Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the Doctor intended to help Starfleet end the Cyber threat. He then began to remember an encounter with the original Cybermen during his fourth incarnation which took place in the same universe - which he also remembered not remembering - and concluded that the Cybermen were rewriting history.
Meanwhile, the Cybermen betrayed the Borg and the two sides fought a devastating battle on Cogen V. The Cybermen were victorious and the Borg collective was at risk of falling completely under Cyber control. The Enterprise arrived at the planet to find only the remnants of numerous Borg ships in its orbit and the bodies of Cybermen and Borg on the planet's surface. The Borg contacted the Enterprise and offered Picard an alliance. Picard refused, having painful memories of a previous encounter with the Borg, but the Doctor, Amy and Guinan realised the alliance was necessary. Picard realised this too after the Doctor took him in the TARDIS and showed him a future in which the Cybermen had succeeded. The Borg accepted the temporary alliance and they and Starfleet organised a raid on the Cyber-Controller's command ship and they weakened the Cybermen by filling the air with gold dust. After a struggle with the Cyber-Controller, one of the Borg set all ships linked to the Cyber-web to self-destruct, much to the Doctor's disgust as he considered this genocide, despite what the Cybermen had done. With the complete destruction of the Cybermen from the Federation universe, the Doctor guessed that any changes they had made had unwound themselves, although all involved would retain their memories of the event. (COMIC: Assimilation²)
In the 52nd century, the Twelfth Cyber Legion was positioned 20,000 light years away from Demons Run when it was largely obliterated by the Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams, who were planning to assault the asteroid station to rescue Amy and Melody Pond. This gave the Cyber-Leader little choice but to give the Doctor and Rory the information they needed regarding Demons Run. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
The dead suit of one of these Cybermen was recovered after the Cyber-Wars and used as a chess-playing robot at Hedgewick's World of Wonders, where it was referred to as one of the 699 Wonders of the Universe. Some Cybermites waited inside the suit for a chance to wake three million other Cybermen, left over from the Cyber-Wars, from their tombs. The Cyber-suit was destroyed when Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI set off a bomb to kill the Cybermen emerging from hibernation, destroying the planet as well. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
Alternative timeline
In the future shown to Picard by the Doctor in which the Cybermen had succeeded in their conquest of multiple universes, the Cybermen made use of the technology they had acquired from the Borg and they were able to convert more species. Among these species were as follows:
- The Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS fell to the Cybermen in under 50 years. These Cybermen bore the Klingon insignia and used Klingon swords.
- Raxacoricofallapatorius was taken 30 years after Qo'nos. The Raxacoricofallapatorians were more bulbous Cybermen with large claws for hands.
- The Vulcan homeworld was taken another 20 years later and all the Vulcan culture and wisdom was lost.
- The Judoon were conquered in another 25 years and they became the Cybermen's shock troopers, identified by their metal Rhinoceros horns.
- Humanity fought back for almost 40 more years but the Cybermen eventually triumphed. San Francisco became another nexus from which the Cybermen could strike. Starfleet Academy held the last survivors in the galaxy before they were overrun. (COMIC: Assimilation²)
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Cybermen of unspecified origin
According to comments made in The Brilliant Book 2012, the Cybermen of the Cyber Legions were the original Mondasian versions because, despite having the Cybus-style suits, they lacked the "C" logo on their chest. If so, the Cybus Industries Cybermen joined the Alliance and the Cybermen that have appeared since then (without the "C" logos) are the Mondasian models.
No fictional source has given a clarification, and the matter is made all the more complicated by the fact that the Cyber Legions Cybermen have displayed characteristics of both the Mondasian and Cybus Cybermen, as stated in the overview above.
The story which comes closest to giving any clarification is Assimilation², which initially features Cybermen with the Cybus logo but these are later changed to the logo displayed by those of the Cyber Legions and remains for the rest of the story. The use of the Cybus logo was likely an error. However, the comic also details an encounter between the Fourth Doctor and the original Cybermen which is said to be directly related to the comic's main Cyber Legion threat, but at the same time the Cybus terms "Delete" and "Upgrade" are still used in the final issue, and Guinan also states that "different versions of [Cybermen] can be found in alternate universes." Thus, the complete background of these Cybermen remains a mystery.
Neil Gaiman, writer of The Doctor's Wife in Series 6 and Nightmare in Silver in Series 7, has stated in an interview[1] that he believed the Cybermen in the "'Tom Baker' universe" had all but died out. That left the Cybus Cybermen who had escaped the Void and ended up in Victorian London, and were sent into the Time Vortex at the end of The Next Doctor. Rather than be disintegrated as Jackson Lake predicted, they were scattered through time and space and eventually encountered the remnants of the Mondasian Cybermen, "and there was some cross-breeding and interchange of technology, which is why you then get the ones that look like, but actually aren't, the Cybus Cybermen." This is despite the fact that all of the Cybermen in The Next Doctor were seen to be blown to bits by Mercy Hartigan, unless there were more deeper within the CyberKing. However, Gaiman includes no reference to this theory in Nightmare in Silver.
Other appearances
- The chess-playing Cyberman from Nightmare in Silver appears in She Said, He Said, the prequel to The Name of the Doctor. However, the story's unusual style of narrative makes it difficult to determine where, when and under what circumstances the story takes place in-universe.
- It is not known if the Cyberman head from The Gunpowder Plot belonged to a Cyberman from Cybus Industries, the Cyber Legions or Blood of the Cybermen, although the appearance of the Blood-style chestplate from TARDIS suggests it to be the third option.
- Similar to the above point, a 2006-style Cyberman head is seen in the Black Archive in The Day of the Doctor but it is unknown which of the three possible variants it belonged to, as all three kinds of Cybermen had taken part in activities on Earth that UNIT likely investigated.
- A 2006-style Cyberman is also depicted in the front cover of the 2014 re-release of Illegal Alien as part of The Monster Collection.
- The Cyberman in the video game Whodle resemble the Mondasian Cybermen, but when the Doctor is killed, they shout "YOU WILL BE DELETED", the catchphrase of their Cybus counterparts.
- Cyberman also appears in the LEGO Dimensions Video Game and has his own personal pack that comes along with a Dalek
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE – Neil Gaiman Talks Doctor Who And Cybermen. SFX (May 7th, 2013). Retrieved on January 5th, 2014.
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I have weathered the drop pretty well so far, had about 40% of my 401K in cash before "the fall", had sold all my China holdings, and had purchased some BRK-B shares which have weathered quite well.
While I don't think we have hit bottom yet (more mortgage woes to come), there are some attractive places to put my money and ride from here. I took pretty decent stakes in NUE, DOW, and EBS.
I still hold a sizable chunk of BWLD (BW3's) which I think is a sensational stock now and heading forward.
EBS generates Anthrax vaccines and had contracted with Homeland security quite nicely. They have additional capacity coming online in 2009/2010 timeframe which I think will be greatly beneficial to them. I started tracking them at 8, bought in at 10.00 and 11.50 and am thinking about taking 1/3 back out today as they are closing in on 17.00 (I think they'll come oscillate a bit given the market) . -- I know we have a few researchers here (princeton - cancer? and one other?) and would welcome any comments they (or others) might have on EBS.
I am interested in looking at China again as they have gotten waxed.
I am hoping to buy 1 or 2 more stalwarts that are trading at or below book value and paying a nice dividend ... ones that I can feel comfortable to ride out the current malaise, have nice profit potential overseas, and will more than likely not cut their dividend in the process.
Hope all is well with you and your portfolios.


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I have the same problem and i'm trying to fix it for 2 weeks now.Every driver and kernel and distro ive got in my hands shows ra0 No scan results.
Hey all, ive recently updated to BT4 R2 and got madwifi drivers working for my ar5001x+ chip thru synaptic. My problem is i cant get wicd to function correctly, it detects my wired network with no problems but cant seem to scan and detect any wireless networks within my vicinity.
It could be possible that they are hidden and i cant tell the difference because im a noob, though they can be spotted with an atheros utility in windows. I have no problems scanning them in kismet or connecting to them with airodump.
I think the wifi has no problems being intialized when Backtrack is first loaded and the wicd icon loads on the taskbar (automatically connecting my wired connection). Ive checked the wicd log file and nothing abnormal there. In wicd's preferences ive changed the wireless interface to "ath0".
I have tried the command: ifconfig ath0 up
Followed by: iwlist ath0 scan
(which returns "no scan results")
Could it be the madwifi drivers which are fault here? Any suggestions?
Hi again,
Previously i had updated from Backtrack 4 to Backtrack 4 RC2. I did it through this funky command - apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
I just downloaded a fresh ISO of Backtrack 4 RC2, installed it, and now wicd is working fine. I will try synaptic and get the madwifi drivers for my Atheros, if wicd stops functioning after that i may make a further reply in this thread.
Ok so ive tried the madwifi drivers out by uninstalling them through synaptic, reinstalling them through a tarball i found on the wifi site. I then enter these commands -
ifconfig ath0 up
iwlist ath0 scan
This is displayed: "No scan results"
Strange thing is, when the madwifi driver is unloaded, "wlan0" (the same wifi) gets good results with the above commands.
So because kismet, aireplay and airodump can initialize and work with the card through the madwifi drivers (ath0), im wondering what it is that these programs are telling the operating system for the wifi to kick in.
Maybe i could use "that" to get the card "active" for wicd?
Any ideas? Also ive heard about ath5k and ath9k maybe i could try them instead of madwifi?
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I have the same problem and i'm trying to fix it for 2 weeks now.Every driver and kernel and distro ive got in my hands shows ra0 No scan results.
I think im ok now, for those who are interested i added the ath_pci back to the black list (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist). I rebooted and doing so loaded the default wifi driver which reverts ath0 back to wlan0.
I put this command in to start wlan0 in monitor mode -
airmon-ng start wlan0
From the output i see that it has used the ath5k driver for wlan0 and mon0. (which i guess is what i want)
After putting wlan0 into wicd's preferences for wireless interface i found that wicd correctly scans as it should.
I also put in some command which i cant remember but it confirmed that my setup supports injection.
Apparently the commands "sudo athload madwifi" or "sudo athload ath5k" might be a shortcut rather than modifying the blacklist file. (i havent tried it, nor will i now)
Oh yeah the command to figure out if your setup "can potentially" inject packets is -
aireplay-ng -9 mon0 (mon0 being my card in monitor mode)
I might try and get my usb TL-WN321G working too, just for fun. (Its got crap range)
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6 exclusively New York shopping experiences
In the endless consumer mecca that is New York, it's ludicrous to shop at ho-hum department stores that sell the same clothes you can find anywhere else.
While the city's biggest fashion party -- Fashion's Night Out (FNO) -- was canceled this year, the shopping has never been better, especially now that stores can stop worrying about celebrities showing up and can get busy showcasing their latest pieces.
Want the inside word on shopping the city's trendiest neighborhoods and boutiques, and on getting first dibs on the latest designer pieces straight from the showrooms? Charge ahead.
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Founder of personal shopping company Chic Inspiration Ella Goldin is known for helping people create fabulous looks.
She and her team of stylists and personal shoppers specialize in taking small groups to shop in the trendy New York neighborhoods of Nolita, SoHo and the East Village.
"We cater to people based on the part of New York they want to shop in or around specific items they want to buy," says Goldin. "We also want to give clients a feel of a particular neighborhood."
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US$1,700 for a full Day of Style, including a personal consultation on colors and styles, how they work with skin tone, eyes and body type, a styling session in an exclusive boutique and lunch. US$850 for a half-day tour sans lunch; www.chicinspiration.com
Book personal shopping tours (US$500 for three hours) on www.chicshoppingtoursny.com.
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Fancy an exclusive look at a designer showroom and a chance to buy the latest fashions right off the racks at hugely discounted prices?
Karen Parker O'Brien, president of Style Room, is the person to see.
A fashion industry veteran with 20 years experience, she has connections to many of the "high-beta designers featured in all the top fashion magazines," connections that afford her clients a 50 to 80 percent discount on retail prices at many designer showrooms across New York.
"I like the shopping experience to be part educational, part party," says O'Brien.
That means a limo, some champagne, exclusive fashion industry insights and a personal one-on-one meeting with the designers themselves.
"People are all the more appreciative of what they buy because they're in the place where the designer works and where magazine editors come," O'Brien says, "so it's more than just shopping."
+1 646 245 5316; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to set up your tour; www.styleroom.com
Group tours available. Price on demand. Tip: dress smart -- no sneakers allowed.
More on CNN: Hong Kong's best shopping
Curated vintage shopping
Natalie Joos is a fashion consultant and casting agent who's fast gaining a reputation as New York's Vintage Queen -- that's all she wears -- through her vintage-focused blog, www.talesofendearment.com.
According to Joos, New York City abounds with all manner of curated vintage stores where one can buy anything from 1980s T-shirts to 1920s Chanel skirts, with a whole lot of bags, boots, scarves and jewelry to mix and match and whip up a one-of-a-kind look.
Joos's top picks include Artists & Fleas in the trendy neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, an indoor market that houses a community of vintage sellers.
"It's full of all kinds of stalls and nicely curated, and it's where I find my coolest pieces," she says.
She also loves Stella Dallas in Greenwich Village, where dedicated Japanese vintage experts cull varsity jackets, old Levi's and "tons of cool dresses from every decade," and Amarcord Vintage, for "fun pieces" by European designers from the 1940s through the 1980s.
Artists & Fleas, 70 N. 7th St., New York; +1 917 301 5765; open weekends 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Stella Dallas, 218 Thompson St., New York; +1 212 674 0447; open Monday-Sunday 12:30-7:30 pm.
Amarcord Vintage, 252 Lafayette St., New York; +1 212 431 4161; open Monday-Sunday noon-7 p.m.
Self-guided shopping tours
She prides herself on her ability to guide New York shoppers to the city's unique boutiques, but Natasha Malinsky, founder of Shop NYC Tours, also knows that some shoppers would prefer not to have her around.
That's why she came up with the idea of the self-guided shopping tour, an e-mailed itinerary complete with map and directions, for those who want the insider take on New York shopping but would rather do the act solo.
"Many people want to take their own time shopping and don't want to be stuck to a guided tour schedule," Malinsky says.
Her self-guided shopping tours are either thematic (specialties include a Fashionista Fave tour, Unique Gifts tour and a Recessionista tour), or can be customized depending on what people want to buy. (Yes, she can get as narrow as just scarves.)
Purchase pre-designed tours online for US$14.95 and receive a pdf itinerary. Or, e-mail for a customized tour, which costs approximately US$99-US$199, depending on needs. An iPhone app is forthcoming.
Fashion history tours and sample sales
Founder of Seek New York Tours, Rebecca Frey has worked as a costume designer and stylist for TV shows, plays and fashion magazines, and specializes in "bringing a little bit of history" to her New York garment district shopping tours.
You can hear the stories behind New York's most famous department stores, or meander through the innards of New York's fashion district and comb through the wares at fabric and button wholesalers, snagging deals along the way.
Then, stand on plaques commemorating such greats as Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren on the Fashion Walk of Fame -- "A place that even longtime residents of New York may never even have noticed," Frey says -- while learning about the machinations of the fashion industry and how designer creations actually come together.
For those who may not be into the technical side of fashion, Frey is hooked into the legendary New York sample sale scene, and has dibs on exclusive sales that not many know about.
+1 888 274 8580; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to set up a tour or book online through the website. Prices on demand depending on group size; www.seeknewyorktours.com
Discount department store
Discount mega-department store Century 21 is often touted as New York's best kept shopping secret.
Except it's not much of a secret, judging from the hordes of shoppers with suitcases (bought on site in the luggage department) crammed with designer handbags, shoes, watches and sunglasses.
"One time, my best friend found a suede Derek Lam dress there for $60," says popular New York fashion blogger Leandra Medine, aka The Man Repeller.
"She was my hero until I found a white tweed Oscar de la Renta blazer for $57.99."
There's no need for a guide at Century 21. But as you dig through the jumbled racks of shirts and jackets, and turn boxes inside out looking for your shoe size, brace yourself for either the great disappointment of finding nothing, or for the jubilation of scoring a Gucci skirt for under 50 bucks.
It's usually one of either extreme.
Century 21, 22 Cortlandt St. (between Church Street and Broadway), New York; open Monday-Wednesday 7:45 a.m.-9 pm; Thursday-Friday 7:45 a.m.-9.30 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
More on CNN: Best of Paris shopping: The street market guide


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Arsenal have been drawn against Athletic Bilbao, Marseille and now Olympiacos in Group Four of next season's NextGen Series. Initially it had been announced that Anderlecht would be in the Gunners' group, but it has now been corrected to Greek side Olympiacos.
The elite European youth tournament competition - which is based on the Champions League format - is an exciting competition which features the next generation of world-class players who have been trained and nurtured by 24 of the greatest clubs in Europe.
It is an Under-19s competition, with three squad members able to be over this age limit. It gives players and their clubs the chance to take part in a challenging six-month international tournament, culminating in a one-off final in March 2013 to win the NextGen Series trophy.
The Gunners, who announced their involvement in April, are one of nine new clubs to sign up for the tournament after it proved a major success in its inaugural season.
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Group Three - Chelsea, AFC Ajax, CSKA Moscow, Molde FK.
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I had a Colt Pony for several years. I had the stainless version - Here is a pic:
I think I would have preferred the SA version - almost like a mini 1911. But, at the time, this was the only one being made - it was DAO.
I had 1 problem w/ it - the slide stop was peening the slide - basically, the hole in the slide for the slide stop - the metal around it was bending back, the more I used it (the slide locks back on the last round). I sent it in to Colt right after I got it, because it did it very fast, and they replaced the slide. It started to do it again, so I rarely shot it. Finally ended up getting rid of it...
Don't know if it was a consistent problem or not. But, I wouldn't buy another because of this. If not for this, it would have been a good gun - recoil wasn't too bad because of the weight of the gun. Although, the stainless version was very heavy. The aluminum frame version would be lighter.
I think the Beretta Cheetahs are nice 380s, but of course, they are big. Berse and SIg make some nice ones - look almost like a PPK. And, I think I plan to buy a Keltec one myself... Because, I want something smal. The Keltec is a little bit smaller than the Colt versions, if I am remembering correctly.


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I have tried this method as well and ''it works'' not to mention it was quick and easy. Forget dying the girt belt ,this is definetly the best route. BTW I used china red stain and the results are good.
I have tried this method as well and ''it works'' not to mention it was quick and easy. Forget dying the girt belt ,this is definetly the best route. BTW I used china red stain and the results are good.
Is latex-stain the same as latex paint?
No it's not the same. The latex stain is specifically for wood, normally used on decks and the like (people will look at you strange if you tell them what you plan to do with it... beware).
Hehe, well that´s how it is with more or less everything you buy for this hobby.
Thanks though:-)
I'm definitely going to do that with mine. Thanks.
great thread awesome info... this looks like it will be the way to go!
Now if I could just find a good girth, I'd use this method.
Looks great...I am going to use this on my belt.
Hey guys. I am in need of a girth belt, and I saw a nylon cord girth and before I buy it I have a question.
Would this stain work good with a nylon belt? Or something more of a cotton Girth?
I tried the RIT dye method twice, and got nothing but fail.
Looks like your method is the way to go!
Would anyone by chance have an idea as to what latex stain color i shold get for ESB?
Check this thread out...I think I'm pretty close to the right color.
Just saw this thread last night and I like it. I'm signing off and heading to the Home Depot now! Let you all know how it comes out.
Well whistle8mp, it worked fantastic and it was sooo easy. No more than 30 minutes from start to all cleaned up. I went with the China Red and I think it looks darn good.
Bountyone, good suggesting Vaseline on the hardware, but the water based stain wipes right off the metal.
Thanks whistle8mp and all those posting here. Great education and help!!!
Wow this thread just got bumped, glad to hear your girth dye went well. I went threw hell and back trying to find a reasonable method and to see it helping you all makes my day.
So would these be what I see on the store shelves as "water-based" stains? I haven't been able to find any that say latex.
From the colours available, I'm thinking I'll try rosewood for the ESB belt. It's a very nice brown with a nice, warm red undertone.
Awesome. Thanks.
i totaly screwed that up. ha!
dont buy the nylon girths! i bought two thinking i was getting a sweet deal and the dont die. basically cuz they are palstic. also someone asked about spray paint. ive done that befor too and in my experiense for some reason the smell never comes out if u spray paint fabric i even did fabric spraypaint. i live in a more rural area so im going to take my 2 nylon belts and see if i can trade someone with horses for there old ones. plus im trying to get5 enough hair to do a wookie braid run.
This is for the Mod staff to decide, I was hoping to make this thread a sticky since dyeing a girth is one of the hardest soft parts of the suit. It seems to me that it would help up and comers as well.
You guys do realize you can add your own entries to the wiki, right? If you need any help, please don't hesitate to ask!


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I attended FinovateSpring 2013 last week to get a preview of new products from digital technology vendors for financial services. For those of you that have not been to Finovate, it's a little like innovation speed dating — where 72 vendors have 7 minutes to win the hearts of the audience to secure the "Best of Show" Award. At last year's conference, a few new topics emerged: Personal Financial Management (PFM), payments, rewards, coupons, and mobile banking services for Prepaid Visa customers. This year the focus was still on PFM and payments, but one new topic hit the stage full force: authentication, which is this year's new black. Sexy, I know!
While there were plenty of interesting and innovative demonstrations, Forrester attended the conference to identify trends and solutions relevant for our retail digital financial services clients. My "Best of Show" picks included innovative solutions that helped our clients either deliver on a customer need or solve a core customer problem in the retail banking realm. At this year's conference, I noticed that:


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Yesterday CNET named Mozy the 2009 CNET Webware 100 winner in the Infrastructure & Storage category. The Webware 100 Award honors the people's choice in the best sites and services available today.
We thank each Mozy customer who voted for Mozy and helped us win the award. After more than 6,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, the CNET editors narrowed the nominations to 300 in each category. From this list, web users voted more than 600,000 times to select the top 10 products from each category.
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SABRINA SHANNON died two days before the Liberal Party was voted in to power in Ontario. The party even had a line in its platform promising that, if elected, it would require public schools to have anaphylaxis plans based on Ontario-wide standards. Such words were encouraging to those who had been lobbying, even before Sabrina's death, to pass a law requiring school allergy procedures.
Dave Levac, then a Liberal MPP from the Brantford area and a former high school principal, first introduced a private member's bill to protect anaphylactic students in the province's elementary and secondary schools in June 2002. While many schools had anaphylaxis plans in place, he thought it was dangerous that the standard was not been consistent.
His view is that uniform procedures will avoid "the arguing [between schools and parents], the gnashing of teeth in the protection of a child."
His first bill died on the order paper under a Conservative government, as did his next effort. But with the Liberals barely sworn in to office, Levac's third attempt – the proposed Act to Protect Anaphylactic Pupils – became Bill 3, numbered near the top of the pile.
The MPP and Cindy Paskey, then president of the Niagara region's anaphylaxis association, had worked together since 2002 – organizing letter campaigns and petitions. They were elated as Bill 3 passed second reading on December 4, 2003. Now it just needed to go to a standing committee for a consultation process before a final reading enshrined it in law.
But for more than a year, the bill simply sat. By March 2005, Paskey and Laurie Harada, the executive director of Anaphylaxis Canada, were concerned: the clock was ticking on Bill 3 – if it didn't get passed during this session of the legislature, it would die.
Then the Shannon family stepped in to help, and Sabrina soon became the human face of this legislation. Anaphylaxis Canada dubbed Bill 3, "Sabrina's Law," driving home Shannon's point from that Ottawa press conference that no other child should suffer her daughter's fate. Sara Shannon and Laurie Harada met with government officials who were receptive to their concerns.
After all the delays, the government suddenly convened the standing committee's review in early May 2005. On May 16, 2005, the final vote on Bill 3 was held in the legislature. As parents and allergic children watched intently from the public gallery, all three parties voted in favor of Sabrina's Law; it passed unanimously.
The law, which took effect January 1, 2006, requires school boards to have all principals implement anaphylaxis plans that include: strategies to reduce exposure to allergens, procedures to communicate to parents, students and employees about life-threatening allergies, and regular training on dealing with life-threatening allergies for teachers and staff.
In addition, principals are required to: develop an individual plan for each student at risk of anaphylaxis, maintain a file that lists that student's prescriptions and emergency contacts and ensure that parents enrolling pupils supply information on a child's allergies.
WHAT THE McGuinty government didn't realize, is that the progress of Sabrina's Law was not just watched by the Shannons and by relatives of anaphylactic students in Ontario, but it was also drawing attention across the United States and the rest of Canada.
In 2004, Sabrina's aunt Kathleen Whelan wrote to Robert F. Kennedy, who was on the board of the Food Allergy Initiative (now FARE), the influential research and education organization. She had learned on the Internet that Kennedy has a son with peanut allergy and decided to let him know about Sabrina and how the family wanted to tell her story so that people would appreciate the gravity of anaphylaxis.
Kennedy seemed moved, and asked the former director of FAI to contact Whelan. The FAI would arrange to publish a two-page story that Whelan, a writer, had composed about Sabrina's death in its annual gala journal. The organization's gala in November 2004 was held at New York's Plaza Hotel and was a star-studded affair. Among the guests were Kennedy, Ron Perelman, chairman of Revlon, and his then-wife, the actress Ellen Barkin. As guests dined on fine cuisine and raised tens of thousands of dollars for research, they also read Whelan's words about her niece – and the hole her death left in so many hearts.
Sabrina's family impressed FAI and Rachel Sanzari, who was then its administrator. "It's just amazing that they took a tragedy and used it to make anaphylaxis an issue," she said in May 2005. A law in a province the size of Ontario "will serve as a model here in the United States." [Editor's note: Today, there are several comprehensive state allergy laws and policies in the U.S., and a section in the federal FAAMA act of 2011.]
"No matter where you are," said Anaphylaxis Canada's Harada, "the issues are very similar, the emotional aspect and what's going on in schools. So many jurisdictions are looking at what's happening here because nobody seems to have any law. There are guidelines, there are directives, there are ministry of education policies, but there's no law. This is precedent-setting."
In the end, reminds Levac, Sabrina's Law is about saving students' lives. It's a point that is hard to forget around Sara Shannon.
"I loved Sabrina so much. I miss her terribly," she says. "We have to make sure this doesn't happen to another child. When everything is done, everything is in place, every procedure, every emergency plan, then if a child dies, we can say, 'there was nothing we could do'. But when we know that there is something we can do to prevent this, we can't live in a world of denial."
Sabrina's Law fulfills a promise that Shannon desperately wanted to keep.
Reprinted from Allergic Living's Spring 2005 issue. Updated February, 2011.
See Also:
• Sabrina Shannon's documentary: A Nutty Tale
• School Anaphylaxis Legislation and Policies, read here.
* Know Your Rights at School
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The Ensemble of Soloists
The performer walks out on stage and a single white spotlight snaps to attention. The audience goes silent and waits, anxiously, for the play to begin. In that moment before a word is uttered, the actor holds everyone's attention in his hands.
How does it feel to be a solo performer in a theatre filled with people? Exhilarating? Frightening? Powerful? It is, most likely, a combination of those emotions and more, much more.
For the 13 students in Dana Yeaton's winter term class, "Performing Others: Writing and Staging the One-Person Show," they found out intimately what solo performance is like, with a twist to the experience. The students wrote all of their material themselves.
"Performing Others" is both a theatre class and a college writing (CW) class. (Middlebury College students are required to take at least one CW class by the end of their fourth semester.) And from their first meeting on Jan. 3 – a sleepover for which every student had to write and then perform their own monologue – the students realized that Performing Others would probably be a transformational experience in terms of their acting, their writing, and their commitment to the workshop process.
Yeaton, a visiting assistant professor of theatre and 1979 graduate of the College, called the class "an ensemble of soloists." Yes, every performance was a solo performance, but how the students got there was an ensemble experience. During the final week of winter term the students gave two public performances in Seeler Studio Theatre, but not before they spent countless hours in the workshop process examining each others' writing and acting and motivations and biases, often under a microscope and in ways more personal than they expected.
"Almost nothing in theatre reaches full production today without being 'workshopped' first," Yeaton explained to the class.
"So our process will be an open one. Almost before you have the impulse to put something in writing or on stage, your peers will be responding to it, shaping it with their questions, confusions, and enthusiasms. And, of course, each one of you will have the same responsibility toward their work."
Performing Others met four days a week for two-and-a-half hours per day. The class also included weekly film screenings and frequent evening and weekend assignments. By the end of the second week, each student had written and performed (in class) six monologues of varying length. The students were required to react to their peers' work, sometimes in face-to-face discussion and sometimes anonymously on paper.
English major Alexander "Sasha" Hirsch was a senior "Feb" who took Performing Others as his final class at Middlebury. Concerning the workshop process, he said, "It is a testament to Dana Yeaton's skill as a teacher of writing and criticism that, as the class wore on, we began to synthesize his method of critique. The more we listened to Dana give feedback, the better we became at giving our own. As a result, I felt that by the beginning of the second week I was getting concise, insightful and, most importantly, respectful feedback from every member of the class."
Yeaton opened every class with an exercise, usually tai chi, to help his students focus and work together. Then he directed each session with the meticulous attention of an offensive coordinator calling plays for a football team. As an accomplished playwright and theatrical coach, Yeaton sensed what his ensemble of soloists needed from moment to moment and improvised accordingly.
One of the biggest challenges for the class was coming up with enough original material to write six monologues. Remember, this was a class about performing the lives of other people so none of the material could be autobiographical. Yet through field trips (to a local center for young parents), visiting artists (like Dael Orlandersmith), readings ("I Am My Own Wife" by Doug Wright, and others), and outside experiences (a solo show about Ethiopia), the students were pushed to think beyond their own lives in their writing and performing.
As a consequence, one student wrote a piece about having just 90 seconds to live. Another created a one-woman performance about a single mother on the run. A third assumed the part of an Army sergeant in Afghanistan. Yeaton's students crossed genders, lifestyles, races, and boundaries – all in a quest to find purity of expression as solo performers.
Click on the video to see Lucy Van Atta '12 performing a part she was not born to play.
Their final performance was titled "Single Whip," both as a tribute to the well-known tai chi posture and as an expression of each student's mission: to write and perform as soloists.
"As a writer," Yeaton explained after one class, "I would have run out of material if all I ever did was write about my own life. The characters that are the least interesting in my own work are the ones that are the most autobiographical. So this is a class about allowing your imagination to go where it needs to go, and it's also a class about gaining the confidence that you can do it because you've done the research – both the literal research and the emotional research – to go there.
"A lot of what we do in this class is drill down into every character, into the subtext. And, in a way, that's what makes one-person performances today so interesting. There's the story on the top, but that story is only interesting because we sense these characters go very deep and we want to go there with them."


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HILLSVILLE –– It's been proven this year that there's no shame in having played a close baseball game with Grundy. Even a loss to the one-time Southwest District doormat isn't nearly as surprising as it once was.
Carroll County did neither.
Facing a team that handed league-leading Tazewell its first SWD loss of the season just a week earlier, the Cavaliers jumped on the Golden Wave early and advanced to the SWD tournament semifinals with a 12-4 win Monday at Bill Worrell Field.
With the end of the world predicted for later in the day, what better way to spend one's last few mortal hours than with a Saturday double header.
And if you're reading this, that giant burning ball in the sky that nobody had seen in what seems like forever was just the sun.
Galax swept the team titles at the Mountain Empire District track and field championships Wednesday, repeating the performance from a year ago and marking the 24th time the school has won district track championships since joining the MED.
The Maroon Tide girls earned their ninth title by holding off Narrows 152-143 while the boys easily outpointed Grayson County 163-108 for their 15th district championship. Fort Chiswell's boys were third with 86 points, followed by Bland County (35) and Narrows (30).
HILLSVILLE –– A predictable offense isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, repetitiveness was a key Thursday for Richlands.
Every nine batters, the kid wearing No. 13 hit one over the fence.
Led by Bradley Strong's three solo home runs and a solid effort by starting pitcher James Patton, Richlands knocked off Carroll County 6-2 in a Southwest District game at Bill Worrell Field.
NARROWS –– Three Grayson County pitchers limited Narrows to a pair of hits Monday and the Blue Devils wrapped up the Mountain Empire District regular season championship with a 10-0 win shortened to six innings.
Jared Salts improved to 8-0 on the mound, giving up two singles in four innings. The senior right-hander struck out four and walked two. Dustin Leonard and Tyler Rutherford each pitched one hitless inning.
Tuesday at higher seed
Chilhowie 4, Auburn 3
Giles 13, Patrick Henry 1
Glenvar 8, James River 3
Grayson County 25, Fort Chiswell 6
Thursday at Grayson County
Grayson County 9, Chilhowie 5
Glenvar 7, Giles 5
Fridayat Grayson County
Grayson County vs Glenvar, 4 p.m.
Another reminder to readers: no comments reflecting on specific candidates for local public office will be published in the Hotline.
Where's the help?
By TINA E. VAUGHN
Copyright © 2017
The Galax Gazette is your source for local news, sports, events and information in Galax, Grayson, Carroll, and surrounding areas.


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Re: efficient term collection algorithm
Try using Collect:
In[1]:= e=a/i+b/j+c/i;
In[2]:= Collect[e, i^(-1)]
a + c b
Out[2]= ----- + -
i j
Oleksandr Pavlyk
Wolfram Research
Blake Laing wrote:
> Dear Math Group
> I wish to combine terms in a expression which share a denominator, such
> as in the following simple case:
> In[1]:=
> a/i+b/j+c/i//.Plus[Times[A_.,Power[denom_,-1]],Times[B_.,Power[denom_,-1]]]:>
> Factor[Plus[A,B]Power[denom,-1]]//InputForm
> Out[1]//InputForm=
> (a + c)/i + b/j
> The actual expression I am working with contains thousands of terms, and
> a pairwise algorithm such as this is wholly inadequate. Will one of you
> please suggest a more efficient way to combine each additive term in a
> large expression with a shared denominator?
> Thanks,
> Blake Laing
> physics grad student
> University of Oklahoma


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I hope you can help me out... I'm about to sign a contract to start teaching in Febuary of 2010 in Taiwan. My problem is Im only thinking of doing a year and I may decide to study back in my home country South Africa. If I do decide to study again in 2011 then I must be back in South Africa by January. Therefor I will have to quit my job a month before my contract ends
Will I damage my reputation as a TEFL teacher in Taiwan? What I mean is will I be able to go back to Taiwan lets say in like 3 years and TEFL again, or will the country not grant me a VISA because I "terminated" my previous contract therefor "terminating" my work visa prematurely?
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Both Sides of the Fence
A Tosa resident since 1991, Christine walks the dog, cooks but avoids housework, writes and reads, and enjoys the company of friends and strangers. Her job takes her around the state, learning about people's health. A Quaker (no, they don't wear blue hats or sell oatmeal or motor oil), she has been known to stand on both sides of the political and philosophic fence at the same time, which is very uncomfortable when you think about it. She writes about pretty much whatever stops in to visit her busy mind at the moment. One reader described her as "incredibly opinionated but not judgmental." That sounds like a good thing to strive for!
Choosing not to put fear first
The bustling season has settled into a soft couch with a fuzzy throw at my house, and she has substituted Pandora Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Station for National Public Radio. There are no terrible voiced prophets spewing frogs of doom, warning about the lack of brakes on the truck they are driving, gas pedal down, to the fiscal cliff.
Still, my thoughts keep turning to slain Wauwatosa police officer Jennifer Sebena, to the slaughter of innocent children and their teachers before that, to all the terrible things that happen near and far. To all the stories we hear that support our false impression that terrible things happen more than non-terrible things, that the only way to keep them at bay is with guns. Stories that make us forget that most of the terrible things that happen to us are things like cancer and lost love, things guns can't control.
So many questions. So many answers that have to do with weapons, so few that have to do with putting down the arms we use and holding each other more securely in our hearts and arms.
The murder of Officer Sebena tears open a story that defies the usual responses. "Arm everybody" doesn't work: both she and her husband-murderer were armed. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" never meant anything anyway.
But to comfort ourselves, we tell the story of bad guys and good guys. The victim is a pillar of her community, of her church; the perfect officer, the perfect wife and daughter. And her killer, her husband, is a monster.
We don't spend much time on how the world we live in, a world that meets anger and fear with gunshots, helped make him a monster.
So many questions are hidden beneath the story we repeat, the litany of good person versus bad person.
So many questions about us, about the community we create to help and support each other.
Did she report being stalked to the police? If not, why not? Some of her fellow officers knew bad things were going on: did they do anything? Why or why not? Did the killer's church men's group sense a hardening, a losing of control, a shifting – a possession by terrible fears and evil ideas? If not, why not?
It's easier to pretend that everything is fine, that a man who goes to church and has accepted Jesus as his savior won't kill someone, especially not his wife. But they do, more often than we'd like to admit. And so do people of all faiths and of no faith.
Bad guys, good guys. Suppose you get an idea that your wife is messing around. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not: in your mind she has become a bad guy. And what do we do with bad guys? Punish them. Put an end to them through execution.
It's all so terribly wrong.
I don't have the answers. But I know that fear and anger are prisons. That most people are kind and decent most of the time, and everyone is also not, some of the time. That more guns won't solve the hard problems.
DH Lawrence wrote:
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It is somebody wants to do us harm.
No, no, it is the three strange angels.
Admit them, admit them
I have a job that exposes me daily to strangers in strange places. To do it, I have to choose not to fear. So far the choice hasn't been a mistake. I've been lucky. And I've been cautious.
Come with me for a moment.
The stairs are rickety, broken, and you hope they and the railing hold for you and your bags of equipment and paper.
A man lies on the couch, covered with many quilts, and he does not smile. You understand why the young researcher was reluctant to come here, but your gut, which you hope and pray is operating on some kind of experiential evidence basis, says it's okay.
"I'm sorry for the confusion and misunderstanding about our visit," you say. He's still not convinced. "They sent the A Team today," you joke, and he laughs, and something heavy in the room is lifted.
The house and the people are poor, but they are clean, and the Christmas tree is beautifully decorated. While you are there, they smoke outside, an act of courtesy in a household where everyone usually smokes everywhere. You didn't ask them to do that.
Things go surprisingly smoothly. Whatever idiosyncrasies of speech make the people hard to understand don't reflect cognitive problems. They "get" the survey, where it's going, more quickly than most.
One woman asks her weight. "One hundred and eighteen pounds," the measurer says, and all three cheer. She's worked for years to get it up to that point. "What's mine?" the second woman asks. "One hundred and forty seven pounds," you say. She's exactly the same height and weight you are, and you are struck by the commonality between people more used to seeing differences.
"You should get the checks before Christmas," you say as you are leaving, wondering how they are managing. They agree they can use those checks.
"God bless you, ma'am," they say, "and have a Merry Christmas!"
"You too," you reply, and you are feeling blessed already.
I'm not sure who the strange angels are, the three of us or the three of them. We're all so much the same most of the time that it's hard to know.
Carrying a gun would not make me feel safer. Paying attention to what's going on, heeding the warning signals, does.
What will we do next time we suspect someone is being terrorized, someone is being guided by demons? Before the chill of deep and justified fear, before the need for weapons? Or will we just accumulate an arsenal and lock our doors, assuming the worst of everyone out there all the time?
Even when the monster lives inside with us. . .
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I am brand new to the world of Backtrack and am in need of a an answer to a seemingly easy problem! I installed the Gnome 64bit version of BT5 on my laptop and everything seems to be working.
I am trying to log in to my school's public wireless network. Typically I would try to connect and windows 7 would then say limited connection etc.. And I would accept some terms and then login with a username and pw. With BT5 I try to connect to a network and it tries to get an IP, but don't know how to log in to the network to receive that address.
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I'll start it off. Here is mine done with the US med green for the main armor and the Reefer yellow and UP armor yellow for the knees and bells.
Here is a pic of the final AB plate finished, I "may" work on the lighter green on the right side, but I think it is done. I beat the heck out of it. The semi gloss clear paint does wonders on it, I doubt I will go back to flat clear paint for this, the clear brings out the colors soooooooo much better.
I have done some further weathering on the green armor since these pics.
Bells and knees
*** MY ARMOR*** before I repainted it with the new colors.
I was VERY close to the color using my misting techniques.
Come on guys/gals lets see more, I know alot of you have gotten these paints, lets see your progress.....


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