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Abstract: We propose a method for characterizing large complex networks by introducing a new matrix structure, unique for a given network, which encodes structural information; provides useful visualization, even for very large networks; and allows for rigorous statistical comparison between networks. Dynamic processes such as percolation can be visualized using animations. Applications to graph theory are discussed, as are generalizations to weighted networks, real-world network similarity testing, and applicability to the graph isomorphism problem.
Abstract: We propose a method for characterizing large complex networks by introducing a new matrix structure, unique for a given network, which encodes structural information
I should probably go follow your link, but on the face of it, this sounds like a 60's paper about the adjacency matrix
Truly nice way of getting high-level information from graphs. I'll probably use it sometime in the future, as I actually work with graph viz, and was looking for ways to visually compare related graphs.
And for those too lazy to actually open the PDF and look at the pictures, the idea is to draw histograms of 1st order vertex degree up to nth order vertex degree (where order-l vertex degree gets defined as how many other vertices can be reached in exactly 'l' forward hops, as found by a breadth-first search
Unfortunately, this means that it is much too utilitarian (and ultimately, why products like Peoplesoft are making headway).
If you find that you have developed a good product to help with operating SAP, you can sell it as a third party add on. Many of the popular add on's were created out of a sense of frustration with the "mother product".
Have fun!
Have fun!
Seems to be excellent inspiration on visualizing data..
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it apparently advocates the RIAA approach.. pretend its not there at all.
How are you supposed to handle the data if you do not understand it? Sure, there can be too much to see/think about at one time, but if you don't understand it, how can you visualize it usefully?
I am asking because I have a problem: Where I work, I understand the data and I make efforts to visualize it for others. The trouble starts when they don't understand the data and it's sources and limitations, so what they see in my visualization is all they know of it, and they make assumptions about it. I've even had people worry that the network is down because there were holes in the collected data which then showed up in the visualizations.
If anyone has some good URLs for such thinking, I'd be grateful.
I simply do not understand how you can visualize data for people if you yourself do not understand it.
If give you a scatterplot of X vs Y you would instantly be able to see what kind of relationship exists (if any). You might notice an exponential relation, linear relation, or that they are the exact same. For more statistical things, you might notice two distinct groupings, correlations, or completely uncorrelated date.
So your boss doesn't know what the relationship between X and Y are, but he wants to save $ and increase profits. You tell him that based on this relationship that you proved exists (whate
You should do some 'Exploratory Data Visualization'. Use GGobi (http://www.ggobi.org/) it's free, works fast, can handle lots of data, lots of different formats.
There are a bunch of different options, but when I'm trying to figure out what some basic data relationships, I use the scatterplot matrix (2D matrix of 2D plots) or the 2D tour.
Also agree about R. Also, consider hiring a statistical consultant. They do this kind of thing all the time.
I'd also suggest R. One of the problems with visualizing complex data sets is that, almost by definition, the prepackaged graphics tools don't allow you to create custom-designed graphics that suit the particular data-set you're working with. But with a bit of programming in R you can get amazing results.
There are some R packages that can help too -- I write about one of them, ggplot [revolution-computing.com], here. (Disclaimer: I work for a company that provides support for R.)
The infovis community has been dealing with these subjects for years. There's many different visualisation techniques around. Here's a list of the past conferences and the papers:
http://conferences.computer.org/Infovis/ [computer.org]
Plenty of good products out there, but the one that I like most is from Tableau Software (http://www.tableausoftware.com/).
I used Xgobi (http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/) for a lot of things back in the day. It gave me the ability to 'see' and understand high dimensional data sets quite easily when I was looking at computer vision research.
Wouldn't any everyday cube browser along with any tool to detect base dimentions in a datawarehouse schema do the trick? You may have to add a few custom dimentions on your own depending on how shitty the master data is (I don't think that can be helped, no matter the solution, if a dimention is "these two fields multiplied together times a magic number appended to the value of another table", you need to know, no tool will guess), but aside that?
Thats usually what I do anyway. I dump my data in a datawarehouse, use whatever built in wizard can auto-generate dimensions, then play with them in a cube browser. Works for even pretty archaic home-made multi-thousand-tables-without-normalization ERP systems I had to work with in the past anyhow.
Not sure what you can use to create a visualization, but the information you need is in the IMG.
I don't have a need to develop a visualization of the whole of our SAP implementation, just my little FI-CO corner of it, and that's a big enough pain
Your ERP isn't supposed to directly analyze the data. You're supposed to use a Business Intelligence software package for that. This being SAP, I believe they'll try to sell you Hyperion.
I'll try to answer your question without the key info needed: "What is the data your modeling?"
You're on the right track...
Either way, from experience i'd say you're answer is "this just one of those situations where customization has to fill a gap"
Be warned though, out of the box solutions do exactly what's on the box. Anything else is going to be modeled by you, or customized (usually at a high rate), by the vendor.
That being said, I've used oracles' solution http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_int [oracle.com]
Hey, you managed to use both "your" and "you're" both correctly and incorrectly in one post!
I think you must be taking the idea of stochastic grammar somewhere it doesn't belong...
Just take the first 65k rows and dump them into excel and create a pivot table.
[in Excel 2007 that's] ~2M rows!
I can't help but notice that 2M ~= 2^21. So the index fits perfectly into one word of three 7-bit bytes.
Are Microsoft programmers optimizing for weird 60's architectures?
Actually, Excel 2007's limit is 1,048,576 rows or 2^20 which is pretty round in binary, but still somewhat arbitrary.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA100778231033.aspx [microsoft.com]
...which I just took offline for a quick database upgrade. Er, sorry, will be back online soon!
...and, back online; here's the Ruby/ASP project [rubyforge.org] which also hosts ruby-graphviz.
I'm not sure if you're jesting about that, but I wrote a patch for xscreensaver to allow just that functionality for the xmatrix hack. Looks great for things like 'ps -eo command'. See any version from 5.04 onwards.
I wrote this after noticing the DNA encoding and thinking, "hey. Wouldn't it be great if I could feed this with real DNA sequence?"
Unfortunately, I had to send the same stream to each of the feeders on the screen, which means it can only show one vertical line of data, rather than 40 or so.
I've had really good success using an information visualization tool called Starlight on a number of projects like this. Everything from process modeling to military intelligence. It's a commercial spin-out from the DOE PNL lab information visualization research in Washington State.
I'm sure it's my mathematics background, but when I saw the headline I assumed the author would be discussing something involving the square root of negative one, to which my response was, "Silly author, you can't visualize four dimensions. (Sober.)"
You have a mathematical background and can not visualize four dimensions? Here is how you do it: Just visualize the problem in n dimensions and then set n=4.
Here's a community that looks to be more recently active (that is, it has been dormant for a shorter period) than the original IBM site, having taken the last IBM build and worked on it - http://www.opendx.org/news.html [opendx.org].
Disclaimer: I looked at OpenDX for a project, but never went anywhere with it.
It has its own website here too:
OpenDX [opendx.org]
Both tools combined allow you to easily visualize large data sets and adjust the resolution of your data.
Take a look at Essbase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essbase [wikipedia.org]. It is now owned by Oracle and is used by finance departments at most Fortune 100 companies.
As you have do doubt discovered, SAP is great for transaction level detail, but kinda sucks at the big picture and doing "what ifs". Essbase's tight integration with MS Excel and very cool reporting tools makes it a much easier to analyze your data than looking at spending reports from SAP.
Mainly implemented by budgeting and finance groups, Essbase is not
Normally, BI and data warehousing tools in general are used for visualising things like sales of beer vs temperature or cost of toilet roll relative to the same quarter last year. Basically, transactional data and trends.
I think what the OP is looking for is either something to generically draw interrelationships between tables, or between the defferent views on the material master, BoMs and the like. In either case the problem is that when you do it with any non-trivial data you'll need to hire a basketb
I'm a SAP consultant and have "cleaned-up" several data sets over the years. I'm lucky in that all of my customers are running it on Unix with DB2.
I wrote a series of PHP scripts that go through everything and present inside a somewhat simplified web interface. I also use Crystal Reports to provide "cleaner" copies.
But, at the end of the day, it's more of a brute-force exercise then anything. Providing a simpler interface then R/3 is the first step, but you have to have users that are willing to use. What I
I first saw a video of Hans Rosling [youtube.com], who had some very unique ways of visualizing data that would otherwise be useless to a simple mind such as mine.
After I watched that, I found a piece of software called Tableau [tableausoftware.com]. I downloaded the trial version, and really liked how easy it made visualizing data for me. I can take the data I have, and Tableau will see how it's connected and allow you to generate visual reports of the data. I'm not saying that it'll work for everything, but it certainly does what I need i
depending upon the problem domain, a very useful (albeit expensive) set of tools is StarLight, written for the US Government: http://starlight.pnl.gov/ [pnl.gov]
highly recommended if you've got tough visualization problems. this tends to get used for the *really* interesting visualization challenges.
I am pimping my own employer's product here, and I'm admittedly biased, but we've got a phenomenal web-based/SaaS solution to this exact problem. We've done work for clients with billions and billions of rows of data (like 50+GB) and we've got a unique database that can generate reports in seconds that could take upwards of fifteen minutes on a SQL-backed solution. You can take any report, drill down arbitrarily into the data below, flip through the datasets, arbitrarily flip axes, filter out unwanted da
I had a similar situation to yours recently, except I was trying to detangle a horridly complex product substitution graph for a logistics company.
I used a bunch of Perl to crunch the raw databases into various abstract graph structures, but instead of graphviz or something created by/for developers, I found that the best software for graph visualisation is the stuff that the genetics and bio people use.
The standout for me was a program called Cytoscape [cytoscape.org] which can import enormous graph datasets and then gives you literally dozens of different automated layout algorithms to play with (most of which I'd never heard of, but it's easy to just go through them one at a time till something works)
It's got lots of plugins for talking to genetics databases and such, but if you ignore all that and use Perl/Ruby/whatever for the data production part of the problem, it's a great way to visualise it.
Looks like SAP tricked another sucker.
A company I worked at several years ago migrated to SAP. It took several hundred million dollars, 6 years, AND the companies main branch was already using SAP. All to replace an MVS system that cost under $5M a year to run, did more, and was much faster.
SAP is NOT a business application. It's a programming environment where you get to build and customize your own. Then those German Wunderkids break your customizations every time there is an SAP change.
A "good" business
SAP is NOT a business application. It's a programming environment where you get to build and customize your own.
Looks like you work for another company that tried to reimplement their old system word for word and step by step in SAP.
And customization has a specific meaning in SAP that doesn't involve any coding. It appears you don't know that, which doesn't improve your credibility.
A "good" business software package allows you to customize "it" to match your business processes.
If you want that, don't use a
Have you looked at data mining solutions? Someone mentioned Pentaho already, but there's also:
Rapid Miner [rapidminer.com]
Orange Data Miner [ailab.si]
all of which are packed with enterprisey features. But you may have to learn some stats. Once you get past what you can do with the pre-packaged stats methods, then head for R [r-project.org], or write a RapidMiner plugin in python.
There's a product called JMP [jmp.com]. It's relatively inexpensive. It's great at visualizing (especially statistical) data. They've got a 30-day trial. Check it out.
disclosure: I have an association JMP's parent company.
It also runs on Linux MacOS and Windows. It works great with large data sets and supports a lot of data sources (ranging from XLS files to SAS databases)
Bargain and SAP are not two words to be used together!
General Dynamics offers a product called CoMotion that allows you to visually explore your data and find interesting patterns and trends.
http://www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm?item=32341561-76f9-40f8-8ad5-0f0d66dd240e [gdc4s.com]
CoMotion is a commercial fork of Visage, a collaborative visualization platform designed at Carnegie Mellon University and MAYA Design [maya.com]:
I don't use their product but http://palantirtech.com/ [palantirtech.com] makes a data visualization tool and has a good blog about it, with some interesting Java dev tips thrown in. It might be overkill for the data discussed in the article summary, but sounds pretty badass.
One really interesting blog article http://blog.palantirtech.com/2008/12/12/vizweek-2008-report/ [palantirtech.com] talks about something called the "VAST Interactive Challenge", which as near as I can tell is a competition for data visualization tools to go head-to-head a
Check out OpenDX [opendx.org], its visualization capabilities are way beyond Graphviz's and it provides a GUI. It's an open source version of IBM's famous Visualization Data Explorer (initially released in 1991), which IBM converted into an open source project a couple of years ago.
Quoting the site: "OpenDX is a uniquely powerful, full-featured software package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data: Its open system design is built on familiar standard interface environments. And its sophis
BTW, I suppose you'd like to have a look at Data Mining [opendx.org] examples gallery first.
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They had 4 suicides last year out of 1.2 million people (compared to 125 in the army) and they don't feel even that is acceptable but buying nets to prevent suicides make them evil now? You have failed to make your case.
You also called me an Apple fanboy and I don't own a single Apple product. I'm just looking at the facts which I understand can be pretty unpopular.
Another fact is that Apple is hardly the only company who Foxconn assembles products for (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers ). Acer, HP, Intel, Dell, Samsung, Microsoft, Toshibam Sony, Cisco, all Foxconn clients.
Probably 80% of the things you own were probably made in China by companies no better than Foxconn but there you are singling out Apple for human rights violations. Does the media decide all of your opinions for you?
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- Celeste Holm starred on Broadway, film and television
- She "passed peacefully" with husband, friends, family nearby, her niece says
- Holm won the best supporting actress Oscar for "Gentleman's Agreement" in 1947
- Funeral arrangements were not immediately available
Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died at her home in New York on Sunday at the age of 95, her niece, Amy Phillips, confirmed.
Holm, a star of the Broadway stage and movies, was admitted to New York's Roosevelt Hospital a week ago, but her husband took her home to her Manhattan home on Friday, Phillips said.
"She passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with her husband and friends and family nearby," she said.
Holm won the best supporting actress Academy Award for "Gentleman's Agreement" in 1947. She was nominated for the same honor in 1949 for "Come to the Stable" and 1950 for "All about Eve," according to the Academy database.
Holm's stage career began in 1936 in a Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, stock company, which led to an understudy role in a touring production of "Hamlet" with Leslie Howard, according to her official biography.
Her Broadway debut in "The Time of Your Life" in 1939 was a small part, but it brought her to the attention of New York critics. Four years later, she was cast as Ado Annie in the smash "Oklahoma!" because of her ability to "sing bad," the biography said.
She signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox that began her film career in 1945, after she toured Europe entertaining troops with the USO. Her first Fox movie was "Three Little Girls in Blue" in 1946, a supporting role that earned her star billing for the musical "Carnival in Costa Rica" in 1947.
Holm's stardom took off in her third film, "Gentleman's Agreement," in which she won the best supporting actress Academy Award for playing fashion editor Anne Dettry.
Her official biography said she was challenged in "finding parts appropriate for this intelligent blonde who didn't fit their Betty Grable 'pin-up girl' mold." In 1949, however, she was cast as a "tennis-playing French nun in "Come to the Stable," which earned her another best supporting actress Oscar nomination, it said.
Fox briefly suspended her in 1950 "for refusing other roles she felt were beneath her." But she was brought back that same year to play the role of Karen Richards in "All About Eve." She was again nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar.
She shocked Hollywood by buying out her Fox contract after "All About Eve" to return to Broadway, despite her rising big screen stardom. Once back in New York, Holm also began a long career acting in television.
Her TV resume includes dozens of series, starting as a guest actress with "All Star Revue" in 1950 and concluding with an episode of "Whoopi" in 2004. In between, she had her own short-lived series "Honestly, Celeste!" in 1954. She is also remembered as the Fairy Godmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella," a 1965 television show.
She played Hattie Greene in both the "Touched by an Angel" and "Promised Land" TV series in the 1990s.
The last decade of her life was overshadowed by a bitter legal dispute between one of her two sons and Holm's fifth husband, Frank Basile. She married Basile, who was 46 years younger than her, in 2004.
Neither of her two sons was there in her Central Park West apartment when she died, Phillips said.
She first married director Ralph Nelson in 1938, but the couple divorced the next year after the birth of a son, Ted, according to her official biography.
Her second marriage, to English auditor Francis Davies, in 1940 also ended quickly, the biography said.
Holm married airline public relations executive A. Schuyler Dunning in 1946. Her second son, Daniel, was born that year, but that marriage did not last, it said.
In 1961, Holm married her fourth husband, actor Wesley Addy, whom she met while co-starring in the 1960 Broadway production of "Invitation to the March." They often acted onstage together during their marriage, which lasted until Addy's death in 1996.
Holm was appointed to the National Arts Council by President Ronald Reagan, knighted by King Olav of Norway, and inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame, her family said. Her many charitable works include the chairmanship of Arts Horizons, an organization that brings the arts to school children through the Metropolitan area; The Actors Home of Englewood, New Jersey; and UNICEF.
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Re: Love Covers a Multitude of Sins/ Forgiveness
If you go online a study on
"Love Covers a Multitude of Sins"
will show you God's will in these things.
I didn't do the best job, but God forgives me.
Not that this is excuse to keep sinning. But He requires us to forgive. This is very difficult without Jesus, part of forgiveness is covering the sins of others.
It may be one of the hardest things but God's Word says we are to be like He is he is love how is love?
1 Corinthians 13
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not selfseeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails. .
Forgiveness is closely tied in with this
Forgiveness is required for those who have been forgiven
The story of Corrie Ten Boom is a great story of forgiveness. She, it could be argued, had a "lot" to forgive.
Here's a study, but there is no compromise or half-way on forgiveness for the Christian. That's just the facts.
Know this, friends, it is never God's will for us to keep a record of wrongs. This is not forgiveness, not God's love. Anyone who says you are entitled to your unforgiveness, for the Christian, is wrong and in error. We aren't. Don't let Satan make you buy that lie.
We are not entitled, in anyway, to such things, as Christians, if we truly are.
Here'a a favorite quote of mine:
"To forgive is
to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. ... "
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In which case, frankly, I find myself wondering exactly what you're doing in here. Hot Topics I could understand, since there's very little wank fodder in there, but here in the fetish and porn sections? I'm a little skeptical.
In which case, frankly, I find myself wondering exactly what you're doing in here. Hot Topics I could understand, since there's very little wank fodder in there, but here in the fetish and porn sections? I'm a little skeptical.
As for being here, I'm working on my Master's thesis. Part of the inspiration was D. Michael Quinn's book "Same Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth Century America: A Mormon Example". Another part of the inspiration comes from my sociology of human sexuality course I took in my undergrad. Another part of the inspiration is the influences of pop culture on sexual dynamics. I'm fascinated by the various influences that determine one's fetish, fear, and sexual psychology.
www.mormonboyz.com. There are several other threads in the porn forum that feature this website:
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@ StSinner,
Hello new person. We haven't met yet but I like words and I like the way you manufactured the one earlier in this thread.
As you familiarize yourself here you will learn that some of our jubbers are incapable of using a bit of wit or humour when
they attempt communications. Grow past them, it is a valid place. So, welcome and see you in the threads.
Without going into a long discourse , I average 14.14 postings per day and started in Jan of 05. You started your current
identity here as allman in Dec of 09 and posting an average of 1.10 per day. I presently have received more posts, p/m's
and comments thanking me for my contributions here than you have total postings. With 3 threads and many comments
and p/ms to keep me busy on a daily basis, I do not have the time nor patience nor interest in stalking you, waiting quietly
and or pouncing on your drivel. You did your usual job of castigating a poster for voicing his opinion.
Others teased noob StSinner, (our Afrikanner Ninja for example), you were unpleasantly rude.
I consider your puerile attack on my character as degrading and offensive...however, rather than complain to our already
overstressed mods/admins, I elect to continue scrolling past the bulk of your drivel. As to the remainder of your diatribe
directed at me here, make note...I have no intention of practicing STFU and quite a few (several anyway) people have been
known to be interested in stuff I say.
now, These guys may not have sweat(y) pants...but what about you?
I could understand your being offended if you were a practising Mormon, but I find your indignation of something that you have rejected somewhat confusing.
Regardless, we have no intention of removing any images of models wearing either authentic, or reproduced, Mormon undergarments.
An aside, I'd be interested to see if there was any legal liability at all. Can you patent clothing or uniforms, especially based on the typical existing design of pants in general? What's so special about them to make them the official underwear of the Church of LDS?Wearing such garments outside of membership or endowment can lead to legal issues as they are not a public product.
An additional aside: use of words like endowment (and membership) in your argument is setting the rest of us up for hours of sheer comedy gold, and you up for endless piss-taking. You've been warned...
Anyway I won't even address you by your screen name, because judging from your screen name and deranged posts, it seems that's the only side of your brain that's halfway functional.
You claim you don't personally attack me, yet you somehow perfectly get the spelling/capitalization right on everyone else's scream name and PURPOSELY put mine in lowercase every time you address me. My screen name is not meant to be in lowercase--the A and M are capitalized in case you didn't notice. But that's neither here nor there; thanks for helping me make my point and proving your inconsistencies and hypocricy! Did ridiculously centering the response and singling me out once again make you feel better? Did that give you your daily dose of much needed testosterone/self-esteem booster? Hope so if it did, I am happy for you---whatever brings you joy and works for you! I know self-glorified "perfect" people, who live in their own little cube, like you don't think they need it, but I will continue to pray for you. Good day mate!
~~USMC for life, Semper Fi!!!!~~
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There. hopefully...All better now.
You did enlighten me to the news that companies were reproducing the garment. Thank you. I knew of other Mormon based churches using and reproducing the garment but only for ordinance work and for members to wear. I won't ask what companies because I don't want to come off as a douchebag or a bigot.
As for the legality of reproducing pictures, etc., I was wrong. I contacted the Church Office Building in SLC to inquire about the policies. Once the garment is purchased by a member with who has been through the temple, it is by the conscience of the buyer what to do with the product. Again, sincerest apologies.
I did realize that the usage of the word endowment would beg a sexual response or snicker. That's okay, when i actually matured to the age where I could understand the different meanings...I snickered too. And still do on occasion.
What a drama about some pics of religious undies. Doesn't the first amendment cover the freedom to use religious symbols in an artwork? I think it does. Some people might find it controversial or offensive, or not much of an artwork, but that's all subjective and that doesn't make it illegal. If you want laws like that, try Saudi Arabia or Iran.
^Strenght training.
It's important to emphasize that guys should free-ball. Underwear is for kids. Once you mature, you free-ball. Men wear pants without underwear. Jeans, shorts and even suits. And of course especially sweatpants.
^^ Not true. Freeballing isn't always comfortable. If you're working all day long or at the gym, freeballing doesn't always feel good.
Hot, hot, hot.
There was a guy at my gym last week who had to be going commando. His dick was flopping around in his sweats. He was hung and you could see the outline of his head. I had to go back into the locker room because I couldn't stop watching and was getting hard lol.
A few years ago, I used to regularly wear mesh shorts and other forms of semi-exposed freeballing and even flashing in my neighborhood. It was probably getting to be too daring for my own good, so I've stopped doing that, but sometimes do so while on vacation.
Recently, however, I tend to go where I can be completely nude and see nude guys, too. I still
The spirit is willing, but the flash is weak
fuckin LOVING this thread! basketball shorts have always been an instant turn on for me and I think it has something to do with the fact that most men in mesh shorts are a certain body type - like all the hotties in this thread with athletic body types. they are all soooo sexual


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Over the course of the next couple of months, I'm pretty sure there will be several stories I'm going to share from my experiences in the Navy. Some are seasonal in nature.
Some just fit a season only if I'm lamely trying to be funny. Chalk this next story, the Legend of the Catch-Edge Ghost, up as the latter.
It took place during my boot camp experience. My company, C-017, was perhaps one of the worst that ever graduated from Recruit Training Command-Orlando.
We were the first company in a decade — a decade — to completely fail an official inspection. That means more than a third of the 90 guys in the company failed.
Among them was a guy named Simpson from Arkansas. From the first day of boot camp, Simpson could not make his bed properly.
His problem was the catch-edge on the seam of his top sheet. Properly made, this catch-edge shouldn't be visible (catch-edge down). Simpson always ended with it facing up.
During inspections, the guy who had the rack (that's Navy slang for "bed" or "bunk") above his was supposed to watch to make sure he did it right. On the day we failed inspection, this obviously didn't happen.
So, once our company commanders sufficiently destroyed us physically for our failure, it became my responsibility as Company Yeoman to ensure Seaman Recruit Simpson was properly educated.
And, when he still couldn't get it after six more tries, I made him run circles around the company as we marched that afternoon with his sheet over his head. Each time he passed me, he had to yell out, "Boo! I'm the Catch-Edge Ghost!"
The nickname stuck with him, even after he went to the fleet. And, when it was time for C-017 to be reinspected, Catch-Edge Ghost — who looked a little green in the gills — was sent to Sick Call.
I wasn't taking any chances.
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Wet Moon [1]
If, a couple of decades ago, you'd bet that scientists would one day tell us that there's a lot of water on the Moon, the odds are you'd be rich now.
For many decades, the Moon had been considered one of the driest worlds around. But in recent years, orbiting spacecraft have found strong evidence of water all over the Moon -- either bound with minerals at the surface, or mixed with the soil as ice. And in some places, there may be great slabs of ice just waiting for someone with an icepick to come chip away at it.
The water is basically found in three forms.
One form, detected in samples brought back by Apollo astronauts, is water that was created with the Moon. This water is locked up in the rocks beneath the lunar crust.
The second is molecules of water or a related compound, called hydroxyl, that are bound to minerals at the lunar surface. Orbiting satellites have detected this form of water all across the lunar surface.
And the third form is ice crystals that are hidden in craters at the lunar poles that never see the Sun. A craft that slammed into a crater near the south pole last year found that ice made up more than five percent of the surface material. And another craft found that there could be hundreds of millions of tons of ice around the north pole. So it's a sure bet that you wouldn't have to look very hard to find water on the surface of the Moon.
We'll talk about a moon with even more water tomorrow.
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- Earth's Moon [3]
- Water and Water Ice [4]
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Bedford: Sibelius & Ravel
Tuesday 22 Jan 2019, 7.30pm
Bedford Corn Exchange
Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major was composed between 1929 and 1931. The concerto is in three movements and is heavily influenced by jazz, which Ravel had encountered on a concert tour of the United States.
The concerto was deeply infused with jazz idioms and harmonies, which, at the time, were highly popular in Paris as well as the United States, where Ravel was traveling on a piano tour. After his well-received tour, Ravel wanted to give the first public performance of this new work himself. However, health issues precluded this possibility, with his preparatory practice of Liszt's and Chopin's etudes leading to fatigue. He then planned a premiere for March 9, 1931, in Amsterdam, but these plans also were cancelled due to his work on the Concerto for the Left Hand, his many public appearances, and his performances of his other works.
Eventually, Ravel offered the premiere and dedicated the concerto to Marguerite Long, who was known for her performances of the works of Fauré and Debussy and had earlier asked Ravel for a new work. She received the score on November 11, 1931, and played the concerto on January 14, 1932, with Ravel conducting the Orchestre Lamoureux. A few days after this highly successful premiere, Ravel and Long started a tour of twenty cities in Europe, where the work was received with consistent enthusiasm.
The first North American performances were given simultaneously on April 22, 1932, by both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra at their home concert halls.
Tuesday 22 Jan 2019, 7.30pm
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Wednesday 23 Jan 2019, 7.45pm
The Anvil, Basingstoke
Thursday 24 Jan 2019, 7.30pm
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Modern Replica Issues and Fantasy Coins
Presented here are modern reproductions of iconic Greek and Roman coins that none us can afford. Each of these reproductions are hand-struck from dies cut by modern day master celetors; each coin will be slightly different, just as in the ancient past.
None of these coins are meant to be perceived as original; they are modern replicas struck in the tin or silver. The silver coins have a countermark 'S' on the reverse.
NRC is presenting these issues for collectors and teachers whom cannot afford the high price of the authentic issues. For instance, an authentic Julius Caesar 'EID MAR' denarius in VF condition will cost the buyer $80-$100 thousand dollars! The are that rare.
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Calimehtar (son of Calmacil)
A prince of the Royal House of Gondor, the younger son of King Calmacil, and brother to the famous Rómendacil II. His direct impact on history was negligible, and indeed he is not mentioned in the annals of his own time at all. He had a lasting legacy, though, in the shape of his grandson Castamir, who used the fact of his descent from Calimehtar as a pretext for usurping the throne of Gondor during the bloody times known as the Kin-strife.


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University Health Services Closed November 6 and 7
Limited services available until January due to renovationsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
University Health Services will be closed November 6 and 7, open on November 10, closed for Veteran's Day November 11, and then open for business November 12 and continuing as usual.
The closure is in connection with air conditioning renovations that require the clinic to relocate temporarily from one side of the building to the other. Signs will direct patients to the temporary clinic entrance, the back door closest to the marine science building.
TB tests will not be given from November 4 through November 11. After November 11, the clinic will be operating in close quarters, so there may be delays in service, limited waiting room space, and a reduced number of appointments for special clinics such as Women's Health. There will also be limited preventive medicine services such as immunizations. Special flu clinics will be arranged on campus outside of the Health Service for those who do not get their shot by November 4.
The Health Service appreciates the patience of the campus community as it undergoes this last phase of renovation. In January, the clinic will be back to normal operations.
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The Toledo area's first New Year's baby made his arrival at Flower Hospital, one hour and 28 minutes into 2013.
Eli John was born at 1:28 a.m. to parents Britney Stoldt and Daniel Poulin of Toledo. The baby weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces and measured 21 inches long.
And while Flower Hospital in Sylvania claimed the honor of delivering the area's first baby, Toledo Hospital was a close second with a baby born at 3:31 a.m. followed by a baby born at St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee born at 4:34 a.m.
Bay Park Community Hospital, Oregon, was a distant fourth with a baby delivered at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.


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Video: Wentworth Miller's FULL Speech On Coming Out Struggles
Nigel Campbell | September 10, 2013
This past weekend we reported that Wentworth Miller spoke out for the first time regarding coming out as gay and his multiple previous suicide attempts.
Today, we finally have the full speech that he delivered at the Human Rights Campaign dinner in Seattle. Check it out!
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A 56-year-old Albion Park man was treated at Shoalhaven Hospital for minor injuries after his truck collided with a tree at Bomaderry on Wednesday morning.
At about 6am the water tanker being driven south on the Princes Highway, collided with a medium strip at the intersection.
As a result the truck crossed the intersection of Bolong Road and the Princes Highway, broke through a light pole, ran down an embankment and crashed into tree.
The collision with the light pole left live wires exposed which were caught underneath the truck. The driver remained in the truck until the live power line was isolated.
One northbound lane on the Princes Highway was closed while emergency services attended the scene and a heavy vehicle tow truck recovered the water tanker.
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In this game you pick one of 6 factions and battle in typical RTS-style your opponents. But Intruder Alert isn't like other strategy games. While in other games you have unit limits, Intruder Alert has no limits except your pc power. Moreover ressources are drain realistically and your population grows exponential. Besides all factions differ greatly. For example the Ixir can transform all their buildings into vehicles and backwards and the Mercoss use only drones for all their economic jobs. The story of Intruder Alert is shortly that you are an Ixir from a foreign Galaxy, who is the first of his race leaving their galaxy and finds the Milky Way galaxy. There you get to know many diffrent races, which are currently in war with each other. The game plays many years in the future, where the humans are already part of an alliance containing diffrent alien races. In the Milky Way you also have to cope problems of any kind. If you want to know the details, play the game!
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User:Lcarsos has responded and I also concur: this is not a change Administrators can make. You'll need to email or ask User:Jeff as Lcarsos mentions. Mark Hurd (talk) 16:14, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
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UH Board of Regents accepts largest gift ever to benefit UH Manoa Athletics Department
BOR also approves policy amendment to lower ticket fees for certain UH Manoa sportsUniversity of Hawaiʻi
External Affairs & University Relations
KAPOLEI, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi — At its monthly meeting held this week, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) voted to accept a $5 million donation from the Clarence T. C. Ching Foundation to assist in the construction of an athletics complex on the makai campus of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In recognition of this historic gift, the new facility will be named the Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex.
The gift will transform Cooke Field, which is UH Mānoa's only on-campus, all-purpose track and field, football, soccer and recreational facility, to more fully realize its potential as a center of student activity. As a first step to renewing the facility, UH has already invested nearly $2 million to upgrade lighting and the stands on the makai side of the field.
With the gift from the Clarence T. C. Ching Foundation and $1.2 million committed by the Legislature this past session, just $3 million more is required to create an excellent facility. It is anticipated that the investment made by the Clarence T. C. Ching Foundation will encourage others to make gifts in support of athletics and UH Mānoa.
In other action, amendments to BOR policy were approved relating to admission fees and charges to UH Mānoa athletic events. The amendments include the elimination of the minimum admission fees in the current BOR policy leaving only the maximums, which allows the Athletics Department to be free to reduce ticket prices at any time.
Also included was the creation of a family package for single game tickets for the sports of football, women's volleyball, men's basketball, and baseball, and the elimination of tiers three and four in football and tier three in women's volleyball and men's volleyball individual game ticket pricing leaving just two tiers for pricing of individual game tickets.


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Cheyenne, WY (KGWN) - Kraft Foods is recalling 260 cases of its Velveeta Original Pasteurized Recipe because it could spoil prematurely. Velveeta Original Pasteurized Recipe Cheese Product 32 ounce (2 pound), code date 17 DEC 2014 09:34 - 13:15 doesn't contain the correct amount of preservative sorbic acid, which can cause the product to spoil before the marked expiration date and could lead to food borne illness.
The Velveeta is being recalled from Wal-Mart stores in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
There hasn't been any reported illnesses because of this defect as of today. For more information you can visit the FDA's recall webpage which is linked above.


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The Washington Redskins are 1-4, have one of the worst defenses in the NFL and, while they pile up yards on offense, they're not particularly good at scoring points.
Like the Bears, they struggle with time of possession. But unlike the Bears, other than Robert Griffin III and Alfred Morris, they don't have many players who scare you.
Perhaps none is the complete package, but Jay Cutler, Matt Forte, Brandon Marshall and Martellus Bennett all are players the opposition has to scheme for because they know they can beat them.
Griffin and Morris were those guys last year as rookies, but they haven't been to date this year. Offensively for the 'Skins, that's it.
Pierre Garcon is their leading receiver, but he's really just an average wideout who drops too many balls. Santana Moss was one of those guys for a number of years, but these days he's just another target. Leonard Hankerson, Jordan Reed, Josh Morgan, Logan Paulsen, Fred Davis ... OK, but most teams can handle them.
That group collectively has piled up some yardage, it just hasn't had the igniter to allow them to make a difference. If RGIII and/or Morris suddenly become that guy/igniter again, as they were last year, then the Bears could have big problems on their hands.
Defensively, Brian Orakpo, Ryan Kerrigan and DeAngelo Hall at times will remind you of the Lance Briggs, Charles Tillman and Julius Peppers we once knew. The last time these clubs met, Hall picked off Cutler four times. But, most of the time, they'll remind you of the Bears defense we've come to know this year.
With just a few great players, they've been getting pushed all over the field and leaving the 'Skins needing to get into a shootout and have the ball last to win.
Worse than 1-4, the only loss the Redskins really were competitive in was to the Lions. The Eagles, Packers and Cowboys games were not as close as the scores indicate.
Washington's one win was on the road, but beating Oakland anywhere is hardly something to build a season on.
Sunday's game will be the first time the 'Skins have played at home since Sept. 22, against the Lions, and that was the one loss the Redskins were competitive in. In fact, they would have won were it not for a bushel full of mental errors, which is unusual for a Mike Shanahan-coached team.
What the Bears have to worry about is whether Griffin finds himself and brings Morris along for the ride. Griffin was a Pro Bowl quarterback last year with a 102.4 passer rating, 20 touchdowns, five interceptions and 120 rushes for 815 yards.
Today, his passer rating is 21 percent lower at 80.4 and he's on pace to rush for only 480 yards. He's thrown only six touchdowns and has yet to score on the ground.
Of course, a great deal of the falloff is because of his rehab from the torn ACL he suffered in the 'Skins wild-card game last season.
He did look as explosive on the ground last week in Dallas as he has all season.
Perhaps Griffin's woes have allowed defenses to take away Morris, who rushed for 1,613 yards and 13 touchdowns last year but is on pace for 1,200 yards and nine touchdowns this season.
The Bears' biggest concern should be the 'Skins' pass rush, which is seventh in the NFL right now with 16 sacks. Although the Bears have been good protecting Cutler, if the 'Skins force them to struggle, it could disrupt the flow of the offense and lead to turnovers like the last time these two met.
In addition to Orakpo and Kerrigan, the Bears guards will have to account for Barry Cofield, the Northwestern alum who's having a big year on the nose.
That said, this appears to be a good matchup for the Bears. If both clubs play to their 2013 form, they should go to the bye at 5-2.
• Hub Arkush covers the
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JAMES CITY – Connor Tsigaridas left his Lafayette football jersey at home before Friday night's crosstown showdown with Warhill.
The senior running back didn't miss a beat in the No. 8 jersey he wore instead, rushing for a career-high 148 yards and two touchdowns to propel the Rams to a decisive 59-12 victory at Wanner Stadium.
In a game of big plays, Lafayette (5-1 overall, 4-1 district) did just about everything it wanted offensively, rushing for 434 yards against the Lions. The Rams' win, coupled with Smithfield's loss, forced a three-way tie atop the Bay Rivers District standings along with York, which beat Poquoson 14-7.
Jahlil Green rushed for a game-high 168 yards and two scores for the Rams. Reserve Derrick Harris added a touchdown on both sides of the ball.
Green set the tone early, returning an interception to the Warhill 1-yard line. The junior running back finished the job on the next play, plowing in up the middle. He then added a two-point conversion to give the Rams an 8-0 lead with 5:41 left in the first quarter.
Tsigaridas showed he was explosive too, scoring an impressive 36-yard touchdown run. He broke through the middle, then hurdled a would-be defender and raced to the pylon. Green scored the two-point conversion to give Lafayette a 16-0 lead with 54 seconds left in the first quarter
The night of big plays continued as Brendan McGinty hooked up with Green on a 32-yard completion to set up first-and-goal. Two plays later, McGinty scored from 1 yard. Alex Webb kicked the extra point for a 23-0 lead with 5:55 left.
Devonte Dedmon gave Warhill a spark late in the first half on defense. The Warhill junior picked up McGinty's pass and returned it 48 yards for a score. The two-point conversion failed as the Lions trailed 23-6 with 2:22 left.
Lafayette regained momentum, thanks to a big kickoff return from Brandon Villanueva-Pernell to the Warhill 39. Four plays later, Schekel Wallace scored from 3 yards to give the Rams a 30-6 advantage at halftime.
Green scored his second touchdown of the game with less than five minutes left in the third, rumbling 72 yards for the first score of the second half. McGinty converted the two-point try to build the lead to 38-6.
Warhill fumbled the ensuing kickoff. Green followed with a 31-yard run, and Tsigaridas leaped his way through the final 12 yards to build a 45-6 lead with 4:04 left.
Dedmon scored on a 12-yard reception from Seth Thompson on a fade pattern. The two-point conversion failed as Lafayette still led 45-12 with 49 seconds left in the third.
Lafayette's reserves got in the action in the fourth, as Derrick Harris scored his first varsity touchdown, from 5 yards, to stretch the lead to 51-12 with 9:09 left. Harris capped a big night for Lafayette with a 102-yard interception return for a touchdown to give Lafayette a 59-12 lead.
Lafayette 59, Warhill 12
Warhill – 0-6-6-0—12
Lafayette – 16-14-15-15—59
First quarter
Laf: Jahlil Green 1 run (Green run), 5:41
Laf: Connor Tsigaridas 36 run (Green run), :54
Second quarter
Laf: Brendan McGinty 1 run (Alex Webb kick), 5:55
War: Devonte Dedmon 48 interception return (run failed), 2:22
Laf: Schekel Wallace 3 run (Webb kick) :35
Third quarter:
Laf: Jahlil Green 72 run (McGinty run), 4:45.
Laf: Connor Tsigaridas 12 run (Webb kick), 4:04.
War: Dedmon 12 pass from Thompson (run failed), :49
Fourth quarter
Laf: Derrick Harris 5 run (Webb kick), 9:03
Laf: Harris 102 yard interception return (Webb kick), 2:03
First downs 6;22
Rushes-yards 19-36; 51-434
Passing yards 144; 62
Comp-Att-Int 7-22-3; 2-6-1
Punts-avg. 4-28.7; 0-0
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DailyDirt: Get Your Motor Running, Head Out On The Highway
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Changing the way people drive could actually save more resources than switching to exotic hybrid drivetrain technologies. But it's so much more convenient to speed along at 70mph than to try to coast as much as possible and maintain a steady 55mph. Here are some car projects that are trying to break speed/mileage records and maybe create more environmentally-friendly cars.
- Faster than a speeding bullet, but less powerful than a locomotive... it's a rocket car. Driving at over a thousand miles per hour? Now that's podracing! [url]
- An 11yo girl driving at 1,325 miles per gallon isn't breaking the sound barrier, but she's saving a lot of gas. Too bad the car is just a one seater. [url]
- Toyota is working on an electric motor that isn't as dependent on rare earth metals. Rare earth metals aren't actually that rare, but China seems to have cornered a significant part of the market when it comes to mining and processing them. [url]
- To discover more interesting car-related content, check out what's driving around StumbleUpon. [url]


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New Zealand's first foray into Fast5 netted mixed results, with the Fast Ferns picking up a draw and win in their opening two matches, but wowed the crowd with their array of tricks.
A 31-23 win over Australia in tonight's final game, went some way in making up for a slow start to the evening, in which they drew with Jamaica.
The 38-all draw wasn't the only shock result from the opening night's action at Vector Arena, with Australia slumping to a 33-15 loss to Malawi in their second match-up.
World champions in the long form of the game, Australia have struggled with Fast5 format with the new rules rewarding high-risk play, which is at odds with the Diamonds' preference for structure. Australia fell to England 29-27 in their opener, before they were upstaged by a dazzling long-range shooting display from the Malawi Queens, led by star shooter Mwai Kumwenda, who was sporting a rockstar hairstyle to match.
One of the great entertainers in world netball, Malawi delighted the crowd with exuberant celebrations following their impressive win. But the excitement was all too much for one of the Malawi constituents travelling with side, who was so overwhelmed with the result, she passed out.
The African side looked set to go to the top of the leaderboard after the first day, with the Queens in control of their second match against Jamaica, holding a five-point advantage with 30 seconds to go. But poor option-taking from Malawi at the death gave Jamaica one last roll of the dice and the Sunshine Girls came up trumps, with Jhanielle Fowler landing a "super shot", which was worth six points in their powerplay quarter.
New Zealand shooter Maria Tutaia said the newly revamped rules, which features three different scoring zones, means that upset results will be a feature of the tournament.
"In this competition it's anyone's ballgame, especially with the three-pointers and the two-pointers, no lead is really safe," said Tutaia after her side also came undone by the Jamaicans' clutch shooting.
While the other top nations are using the tournament as an opportunity to expose their youngsters to the international environment, Waimarama Taumaunu selected virtually a full-strength line-up for the Auckland tournament.
Taumaunu's advice to her side heading into the weekend was to enjoy themselves and be creative - an instruction the Ferns keenly grasped in last night's opener.
For periods of their two matches the Ferns were like the Harlem Globetrotters of netball, with their full range of trickery on display.
There were long bombs delivered into the circle with pinpoint precision, some exceptional long-range shooting, and the crowd favourite "Harrison Hoist".
But the Ferns could not quite find the right balance between when to go for the high-risk play and when to opt for safety in their opening match against Jamaica.
The Kiwi side trailed 27-26 heading into the final spell, but with New Zealand saving their powerplay quarter - during which their score is doubled - for the fourth quarter, the Ferns still looked in control of proceedings.
But New Zealand failed to make the most of their advantage, with Jamaica learning their lesson from their first-up loss to South Africa, and defending resolutely to starve New Zealand of possession during their powerplay quarter.
As frustration set in for New Zealand, so too did the errors, which the Sunshine Girls capitalised on with a late flurry of long-range goals.
Diminutive shooter Anna-Kaye Griffiths levelled the score at 38-all with 28 seconds left on the clock, and while the Ferns had the following possession, they could not break the deadlock.
Fast5 World Series
Day one results
South Africa 34-25 Jamaica
England 29-27 Australia
New Zealand 38-33 Jamaica
Malawi 33-15 Australia
England 41-27 South Africa
Jamaica 32-31 Malawi
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What to Expect From Apple's Event
Apple executives will take the stage Tuesday at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the company's annual pre-holidays gadget event.
In the past, Apple has used its October event to provide an update on its iPods and computers, though last year the company threw the iPad and iPad Mini into the mix.
The Journal will have real-time updates and analysis from Tuesday's gathering, which begins at 1 p.m. ET. Apple isn't saying what the event entails, but here's a guide on what you should expect.


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chapcrap wrote:Fazeem wrote:chapcrap wrote:Ok, so you are saying people should be able to choose to play this option with 1 starting territory if they want, because they know the risk they are taking. However, they should not be able to do it if the map is small because that would be unfair.
I understand what you are saying, I'm saying it doesn't make sense. You are arguing on both sides of the fence. You can not argue for choice and for restrictions. That is what I am saying.
Now I am thinking you are just arguing to be arguing.
Manual does not work on all maps for example Jamaica it does not work on but it potetntially could. What I am saying makes perfect sense for the same reasons manual does not work on certain maps. My argument hinges on the ability to select starting points on the majority of maps on this site which would be a new dynamic of gameplay while it appears yours simply wants to be petty and split hairs because it cannot be used on all maps.
Saying that it should and could be available on most maps is not contradictory to recognising that it might not and probably should not be available on a minscule minority of maps. All that said for the umpteenth time please feel free to continue on with not grasping and wasting mental energies whether intentioanlly or unintentionally on derailing what should be a discussion on how to implement and best use this great idea.
Disagreement is not being petty. I'm trying to understand your thought process. Why do you think it can work with 1 territory to start, but it can't work on Doodle Earth?
As far as my thoughts, I see no reason why this shouldn't be allowed on smaller maps. There just needs to be a way to make sure it's coded properly for maps like Feudal War, King's Court, Clandemonium, etc., or just not used for maps like that.
My thought is that there needs to be some measurable way to decide a range of options that is appropriate for each map. I like that 3-whatever the normal starting positions are is a good idea for that. I would like to be able to go above 14 on Classic, but that can't be done for games that aren't 1v1. So, I think a blanket statement of only allowing the normal starting position number should be the rule.
we will have to agree to disagree then as you do not grasp my point and have tunnel vision based on your own misconceptions about the idea. I would like to point out that a map like feudal never gives anyone more then 2 starting territs anyways so again it would be not feasible for this idea but clandemonium would be ideal for this setting in small numbers games likes 2,3 or 4 players.


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The one question this article doesn't really clarify is pretty important: How are these exploits being loaded onto the user's computer?
Are we talking applets, Java web start, or some other mechanism?
I feel that NoScript is doing a greater and greater work in protecting me each and every day.
In response to all of these "Java!=Javascript" comments that are here. Yes, we do. NoScript does a lot more than just JavaScript. It sandboxes Java and Flash until we tell them to run, too. It limits XSS. A lot of things, really.
It sandboxes Java and Flash until we tell them to run, too.
You're saying two different things in this sentence, only one of which is true. NoScript does only load plugins if you click on them (assuming it's configured to do so), but it does not "sandbox" plugins in any way. If you allow a malicious object to be loaded in a plugin (such as by clicking on it), NoScript does nothing to stop it.
You're Preaching to the Choir bucko but it's gotten to the point that NoScript goes onto every system I put Firefox on simply because of the various problems we've seen with J-Script and Java in general over the years.
CVE-2008-5353 was fixed with Apple's Java Patch #2 on June 15, 2009.
CVE-2009-3867 was fixed with Apples Java for OS X 10.6 Update #1 and Java on 10.5 Patch #6 on December 3, 2009
CVE-2010-0094 was fixed With Apple's Java for OS X 10.6 Update #2 and Java on OS X 10.5 Update #7 on May 18, 2010
The flaw may not be Windows specific, but OS X is not included in your list.
Well, those of us who update their Linux installation should be safe then. Windows is trickier of course with no centralized updates in place.
Perheps this is because each java update forces the bloody 'autoupdater service' (jusched).
Theoretically it allows user to turn it off.
When I turn it off, close java config and reopen - schedule is still active.
Cutting in registry is the proper sollution.
When you update the JRE, it doesn't uninstall the old version. Can something exploiting these vulnerabilities request an older version? It would appear to be possible. I've always kept my JRE updated, but I still got hit with a couple of these this year before uninstalling Java entirely and throwing out any software that depends on it.
Propagation generally happens via applets, loaded through IFRAMEs or Javascript-based redirects. Actual payloads are not yet OS-agnostic (even though the exploits themselves are).
according to CVE-2010-0094 : the vulnerability is in RMIConnectionImpl and since you can only initiate a connection to your host in an applet, I would guess that you would need to use java web start
If the infections were coming via Java Applets then it becomes pertinent to ask how did they get on the machine. Java appplets must be signed to write to the user's hard drive. This means the user was prompted to approve an untrusted certificate and they did so, or the malware organisation had a trusted certificate, in which case the trust authority should revoke the certificate. It is not like applets are without protection to the end user.
Unless, of course, said exploit allowed the bypassing of the certificate requirement.
Seeing Oracle and Java all in the same sentence gives me a nervous tick...the same nervous tick that I developed when I read MS was in talks to acquire Adobe.
Just wait until you hear the news that Larry Ellison is buying Linus Torvalds.
Just wait until you hear the news that Larry Ellison is buying Linus Torvalds.
"Linux, I am your father."
..laughed my cotton socks off. Thanks.
Seeing Oracle and Java all in the same sentence gives me a nervous tick
Well, seeing Oracle and "Eleonore, Crimepack and SEO Sploit Pack" in the same paragraph makes me nervous.
When Ellison's raiders see a money-making opportunity, they go for it.
FTA: The Java spike in Q3 is primarily driven by attacks on three vulnerabilities, which all, by the way, have had patches available for them for some time now.
So unpatched machines are vulnerable. Perhaps people don't auto-update Java as often.
I've run out of space in my head for all the different tools I need to seperately manage updates for.
I've run out of space in my head for all the different tools I need to seperately manage updates for.
Sounds like you need a computer.
Usually that is the case but
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/659937 [launchpad.net]
The current version appears to be vulnerable. you can manually update or use the ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:duh/sun-java6
and then the usual update upgrade
when the official packaging comes out it should overwrite the ppa version.
I guess Windows isn't ready for the desktop.
All it needs is to allow me to manage a list of repositories that I trust (one centrally managed repository won't fly in the commercial world, but it doesn't have to be that way). It's a small addition - maybe next year will be the year of Windows on the desktop!
For reasons I have never been able to figure out, Java has significant issues auto updating on all my home Windows computers (XP, Vista, and 7). Sure enough, just last week I had to spend a night sanitizing one of the systems, for now I've uninstalled Java until I have the chance to figure out just what the problem is but honestly not having it hasn't been a problem so I'll probably just leave it off until I find something that actually requires it.
You can always tell the people that don't work in "the biz" when they make comments like the parent's.
He seemed pretty accurate other than some exaggeration. If you want to see a "Massive amount of crapware" buy a PC from a big box store, not "java tried to install the yahoo toolbar boo hoo".
The funniest Java related thing I've seen, is amongst the non-computer cow orkers "Oh man, another java program, that thing is gonna be slow and take IT forever to install (actually they mean the JVM) and crash all the time". Computer people have known that for over a decade now, the funny part is hearing non computer people start to complain.
I've never run across a site that required Java (which I've always had disabled in Fireofox). I do have Java installed so that I can run applications that use it, but why should I enable it in my browser?
Java updates contain unrelated bugfixes and functionality, breaking applications. They are far from being minimal updates. Back in the Sun days, this was addressed by enabling parallel installation of many JVM versions. It was even possible for web content to request a specific JVM version, which means that you actually had to update to a newer version and delete all the old versions. I'm not complete sure that this part has actually been addressed. It's certainly a problem for those who still need to use Java 1.4 or Java 5 (which are out of security support now, but are still widely mandated in the industry).
Java web start allows a developer to specify an exact version of the JVM to run. If that JVM doesn't exist, it could be downloaded from Oracle through the web start installation process. I'm not sure if you can specify flaw enabled versions of the JVM anymore, but at least there are dialogs and choices to make before the JVM gets installed anyways, so a naked web site can't just inject a bad JVM into your system based on an exploit web start file. The same goes for applets these days, as applets and web start start merging into some sort of common entity.
That said, there are a lot of 3rd party vendors that have installed JVM's over things, and set environment variables that break other things over the years (Oracle DB client I'm looking at you!) that can cause all sorts of compatibility problems.
"Write Once, Run on a Very Specific Virtual Machine Version Which We'll Download For You Automatically" doesn't sound quite so appealing.
There are maybe 3 major versions of Java still in somewhat standard use: 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6. Unless the application in question has some very specific quirks, users should always be able to use the latest and greatest version of 1.6 to run them. The allowance for using older versions of the platform is a feature, not a hindrance.
It means that if I want to use "BadSoftwareCompany"'s piece of java software, I'm not confined with downloading and breaking my host's latest version of the java if their code only works with 1.4 or 1.5. If I didn't have the feature, I just couldn't use the software without a huge head-ache. To assume that every version of every software will work forever is delusional, but at least there are facilities to support the older tech.
It's certainly a problem for those who still need to use Java 1.4 or Java 5 (which are out of security support now, but are still widely mandated in the industry).
Including, surprisingly, Android.
OpenJDK 1.6 works with Android, but if you want to use the official one they recommend, you have to use 1.5 (Java 5) because of some oddball parser issues in official Oracle JDK 1.6.
So one's choices are ot use the unsupported OpenJDK 1.6 with Android, or the unsupported (but Android-supported) JDK 1.5. Bleh.
I hope
So unpatched machines are vulnerable. Perhaps people don't auto-update Java as often.
Even patched machines are vulnerable as well, at least on Windows (don't know if it does this on other OSs). Java updates on Windows do not uninstall previous versions of Java, they just add a new one.
Since Java apps can request specific versions of the JRE to run in, even patched machines are vulnerable until the user/admin Uninstalls the previous versions.
This creates a huge issue for the company I provide support for. We have so far not updated beyond 6u20. That is the last version of the JVM to carry the "Sun Microsystems" label instead of something referencing Oracle.
Some divisions of this company (and I would assume others as well) still run apps that seem to be incompatible with anything above 6u20 for this reason. Oracle's poor stewardship toward the Java platform has lead to a situation where we will have to make a decision on a per workstation basis
What's annoying is there is no real "patch" as such. You have to install the entire 77mb package from scratch and it installs crap like the yahoo toolbar by default.
What's annoying is there is no real "patch" as such. You have to install the entire 77mb package from scratch and it installs crap like the yahoo toolbar by default.
If you update through the java control panel, it definitely does not grab the entire 77MB package + toolbar.
Last I checked, that just updated the JRE - the only way to update the JDK was to pull a complete new copy.
What's annoying is there is no real "patch" as such. You have to install the entire 77mb package from scratch and it installs crap like the yahoo toolbar by default.
chkconfig yum-cron on
Presto will handle the deltarpms.
You have to install the entire 77mb package from scratch and it installs crap like the yahoo toolbar by default.
77mb!?! Well, that pretty much fills up MY entire hard drive.
You don't have to be vulnerable. The listed exploits were patched in Update 22, last spring.
Update available here. [java.com]
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Since MS has posted this list of exploits that were fixed on Update 22(last spring!) is it safe to assume that Microsoft is simply trying to redirect people who complain about Adobe's security vulnerabilities to look at Java with bigger contempt so Microsoft can buy Adobe and still claim that their software is the most secure?
Seems a bit odd to me that Microsoft would be trying to improve Adobe's image when they need to be looking at their own. Perhaps they ARE looking at their own image because Adobe will
I doubt it has anything to do with Adobe. It is probably simply yet another MS screwup that was reported to upper management as an Java insecurity and their marketing machine took over.
Is there a way to disable java across all browsers, but keep it installed for other software like openoffice?
I.e. block all applet functionality, but still allow local java code to run?
That would make maintaining friend's pcs a lot easier. They never update on time, and when they do, I always have to remove a new bundled browser toolbar again.
Seems like it only lists settings for IE and firefox, not chrome or opera, but it's a start.
When I finally had some time (and was fed up with the nagging), I typed "jucheck.exe unknown publisher" in Google. I waded my way through the hits warning me that it was probably a virus and that I should do a "free scan" with
It's not a surprise that there are a lot of unpatched systems out there. Java's stealth-mode installation pretty much guarantees it.
I know what I'm doing. The machine on my desk is one I built myself from parts (won't do that again; these days an off the shelf system costs a great deal less than the sum of its parts). Every bit of software is there because I decided it should be--or so I thought. This post got me curious.
I've never consciously installed or enabled java on this machine and yet, in the java p
The reason why Java's never updated is that it's automatic updater is annoying. It always shows up as soon as a boot up my computer, and then tells me I need to reboot. Now, given that normal people like to USE their computers; and given that many corporate computers take forever to boot up, something like this is going to remain ignored. Just think, after waiting 5+ minutes while my computer boots up, do you think I'm going to reboot again for something I've never heard of nor, as far as I know, use?
The Ja
Yep, they need an updater updater.
Unlike the Macrocost implementation of it C# or whatever.
In other news OS2 is the most secure system ever, too bad no one is using it....
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Olney Central College students have access to new high-quality microscopes purchased with funding from the OCC Foundation.
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"With microscopes for biology students, it's really important that when they look through the microscope for the first time they have a good experience," said Life Science Instructor Jim Burnett. "So many students come from high schools where they do not have modern or up-to-date equipment because it is so expensive. It isn't a reflection on the high school — many just can't afford them. It's important when students get here they get excited about microscopy and having a good experience is essential."
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Sen. Jim DeMint isn't happy with the House Republican offer for averting the fiscal cliff.
The conservative Republican from South Carolina warned that the plan to raise $800 in new revenue would be a job-killer. He issued this statement:
"Speaker Boehner's $800 billion tax hike will destroy American jobs and allow politicians in Washington to spend even more, while not reducing our $16 trillion debt by a single penny.
"This isn't rocket science. Everyone knows that when you take money out of the economy, it destroys jobs, and everyone knows that when you give politicians more money, they spend it. This is why Republicans must oppose tax increases and insist on real spending reductions that shrink the size of government and allow Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money.
"Big government is the cause of our debt crisis, not the solution. Washington has a spending addiction that is shackling our children and grandchildren with unsustainable debt. Conservatives fought for a balanced budget amendment last year precisely because we knew the political establishment in Washington would never stop their tax and spend addiction without it.
"However, if neither party leadership is going to put forward a serious plan to balance the budget and pay down the debt, we should end this charade. We can stop the fiscal cliff with the bill that House Republicans already passed that simply extends the current tax rates and replaces the defense cuts with reductions in wasteful spending."


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I think it has been a part of zombie folklore since the original Night of the Living Dead to play off the scenario or your loved ones being the thing you should fear. It's easy for us to watch it in movies or television and say, "Sure, I'd kill off my sister/brother if they were bit". But in reality I don't think many people could.
I fully admit that I could not "deal with" my familiy if they were bit. I'd have to let someone else do it because I just do not have it in me. That said, I think it would be considerably easier to kill off random zombies whom you had no prior relationship with.
I think many of us survivors would have our own barn to deal with our family.