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Build Hadoop from Source
Instructions in this write-up were tested and run successfully on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10. The instructions should run, with minor modifications, on most flavors and variants of Linux and Unix. For example, replacing apt-get with yum should get it working on Fedora and CentOS.
If you are starting out with Hadoop, one of the best ways to get it working on your box is to build it from source. Using stable binary distributions is an option, but a rather risky one. You are likely to not stop at Hadoop common but go on to setting up Pig and Hive for analyzing data and may also give HBase a try. The Hadoop suite of tools suffer from a huge version mismatch and version confusion problem. So much so that many start out with Cloudera's distribution, also know as CDH, simply because it solves this version confusion disorder.
Michael Noll's well written blog post titled: Building an Hadoop 0.20.x version for HBase 0.90.2, serves as a great starting point for building the Hadoop stack from source. I would recommend you read it and follow along the steps stated in that article to build and install Hadoop common. Early on in the article you are told about a critical problem that HBase faces when run on top of a stable release version of Hadoop. HBase may loose data unless it is running on top an HDFS with durable sync. This important feature is only available in the branch-0.20-append of the Hadoop source and not in any of the release versions.
Assuming you have successfully, followed along Michael's guidelines, you should have the hadoop jars built and available in a folder named 'build' within the folder that contains the Hadoop source. At this stage, its advisable to configure Hadoop and take a test drive.
Configure Hadoop: Pseudo-distributed mode
Running Hadoop in pseudo-distributed mode provides a little taste of a cluster install using a single node. The Hadoop infrastructure includes a few daemon processes, namely
- HDFS namenode, secondary namenode, and datanode(s)
- MapReduce jobtracker and tasktracker(s)
When run on a single node, you can choose to run all these daemon processes within a single Java process (also known as standalone mode) or can run each daemon in a separate Java process (pseudo-distributed mode).
If you go with the pseudo-distributed setup, you will need to provide some minimal custom configuration to your Hadoop install. In Hadoop, the general philosophy is to bundle a default configuration with the source and allow for overriding it using a separate configuration file. For example, hdfs-default.xml, which you can find in the 'src/hdfs' folder of your Hadoop root folder, contains the default configuration for HDFS properties. The file hdfs-default.xml gets bundled within a compiled and packaged Hadoop jar file and Hadoop uses the configuration specified in this file for setting up HDFS properties. If you need to override any of the HDFS properties that uses the default configuration from hdfs-default.xml, then you need to re-specify the configuration for that property in a file named hdfs-site.xml. This custom configuration definition file, hdfs-site.xml, resides in the 'conf' folder within the Hadoop root folder. Custom configuration in core-site.xml, hdfs-site.xml, and mapred-site.xml corresponds to default configuration in core-default.xml, hdfs-default.xml, and mapred-default.xml, respectively.
Contents of conf/core-site.xml after custom configuration:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?> <!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. --> <configuration> <property> <name>fs.default.name</name> <value>hdfs://localhost:9000</value> </property> </configuration>
The specified configuration makes the HDFS namenode daemon accessible on port 9000 on localhost.
Contents of conf/hdfs-site.xml after custom configuration:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?> <!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. --> <configuration> <property> <name>dfs.replication</name> <value>1</value> </property> <property> <name>dfs.name.dir</name> <value>path/to/data/dfs/name</value> <description>Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name node should store the name table(fsimage). If this is a comma-delimited list of directories then the name table is replicated in all of the directories, for redundancy. </description> </property> </configuration>
The override specifies a replication factor of 1. On a single node, you can't have a failover, can over? The custom configuration also sets the namenode directory to a path on your file system. The default is a folder within your /tmp folder, which gets purged on a restart.
Contents of conf/mapred-site.xml after custom configuration:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?> <!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. --> <configuration> <property> <name>mapred.job.tracker</name> <value>localhost:9001</value> </property> </configuration>
After this configuration the MapReduce jobtracker is accessible on port 9001 on localhost.
Finally set JAVA_HOME in conf/hadoop-env.sh. On my Ubuntu 11.10, I have it set as follows:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
If you don't have passphraseless ssh setup on your machine then you may need to execute the following commands:ssh-keygen -t dsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
This creates a DSA encrypted key named id_dsa and adds it to the set of authorized_keys for the SSH server running on your localhost. If you aren't sure if passphraseless ssh access is setup or not then simply run 'ssh localhost' on a terminal. If you are prompted for a password then you need to complete the steps to setup passphraseless ssh.
Now start up the Hadoop daemons using:
Run this command from the root of your Hadoop folder.
As an additional step set HADOOP_HOME environment variable to point to the root of your Hadoop folder. HADOOP_HOME is used by other pieces of software, like HBase, Pig, and Hive, that are built on top of Hadoop.
Running a Simple Example
If you ran the tests after the Hadoop common install and they passed, then you should be ready to use Hadoop. However, for completeness, I would suggest running a simple Hadoop example while the daemons are up and waiting. Run the simple example illustrated in the official document, available online at http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.203.0/single_node_setup.html#PseudoDistributed. The example is available at the end of the sub-section on Pseudo-Distributed Operation.
**Build HBase from Source
Once Hadoop is up and running, you are ready to build and run HBase. Start by getting the HBase source as follows:
git clone https://github.com/apache/hbase.git
I clone it from the Apache HBase mirror on Github. Alternatively, you can get the source from the HBase svn repository, which is where the official commits are checked-in.
HBase can make use of Snappy compression. Snappy is a fast compression/decompression library, which was built by Google and is available as an open source software library under the 'New BSD License'. The official site defines snappy as follows:
Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger. On a single core of a Core i7 processor in 64-bit mode, Snappy compresses at about 250 MB/sec or more and decompresses at about 500 MB/sec or more.
Snappy is widely used inside Google, in everything from BigTable and MapReduce to our internal RPC systems. (Snappy has previously been referred to as "Zippy" in some presentations and the likes.)
You can learn more about Snappy at http://code.google.com/p/snappy/.
To build HBase with snappy support we need to do the following:
- Build and install the snappy library
- Build and install hadoop-snappy, the library that bridges snappy and Hadoop
- Compile HBase with snappy
Build and Install snappy
Building and installing snappy is easy and quick. Get the latest stable snappy release as follows:
wget http://snappy.googlecode.com/files/snappy-1.0.4.tar.gz
The current latest release version is 1.0.4. This version number could vary as newer versions supersede this version.
Once you download the snappy zipped tarball, extract it:
tar zxvf snappy-1.0.4.tar.gz
Next, change into the snappy extracted folder and use the common configure, make, make install trio to complete the build and install process.
cd snappy-1.0.4 ./configure && make && sudo make install
You may need to run 'make install' using the privileges of a superuser, i.e. 'sudo make install'.
Build and Install hadoop-snappy
Hadoop-snappy is a project for Hadoop that provides access to the snappy compression/decompression library. You can learn details about hadoop-snappy at http://code.google.com/p/hadoop-snappy/. Building and installing haddop-snappy requires Maven. To get started checkout the hadoop-snappy code from its subversion repository like so:
svn checkout http://hadoop-snappy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ hadoop-snappy-read-only
Then, change to the 'hadoop-snappy-read-only' folder and make a small modification to maven/build-compilenative.xml :
# add JAVA_HOME as an env var <exec dir="${native.staging.dir}" executable="sh" failonerror="true"> <env key="OS_NAME" value="${os.name}"/> <env key="OS_ARCH" value="${os.arch}"/> <env key="JVM_DATA_MODEL" value="${sun.arch.data.model}"/> <env key="JAVA_HOME" value="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk"/> <arg line="configure ${native.configure.options}"/> </exec>
Also, install a few required zlibc related libraries:
sudo apt-get install zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev[/pre] Next, build Hadoop-snappy using maven like so: 1sudo mvn package
Once hadoop-snappy is built, install the jar and tar distributions of hadoop-snappy to your local repository:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.hadoop -DartifactId=hadoop-snappy -Dversion=0.0.1-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=./target/hadoop-snappy-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.hadoop -DartifactId=hadoop-snappy -Dversion=0.0.1-SNAPSHOT -Dclassifier=Linux-amd64-64 -Dpackaging=tar -Dfile=./target/hadoop-snappy-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-Linux-amd64-64.tar
Compile, Configure & Run HBase
Once snappy and hadoop-snappy are compiled and installed, you are ready to compile HBase with snappy support. Change to the folder that contains the HBase repository clone and run the 'maven compile' command to build HBase from source.
cd hbase mvn compile -Dsnappy
The -Dsnappy option tells maven to compile HBase with snappy support.
Earlier, I setup Hadoop to run in pseudo-distributed mode. Lets configure HBase to also run in pseudo-distributed mode. Alike Hadoop, the default configuration for HBase is available in hbase-default.xml and custom configuration can be specified to override the default configuration. Custom configuration resides in conf/hbase-site.xml. To setup, HBase in pseudo-distributed make sure the contents of conf/hbase-site.xml are as follows:
<configuration> <property> <name>hbase.rootdir</name> <value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value> <description>The directory shared by RegionServers. </description> </property> <property> <name>dfs.replication</name> <value>1</value> <description>The replication count for HLog and HFile storage. Should not be greater than HDFS datanode count. </description> </property> </configuration>
You may recall we configured the HDFS namenode to be accessible on port 9000 on localhost. Therefore, the 'hbase.rootdir' needs to be specified with respect to the HDFS url. If you configure to run HDFS daemons on a different port, then please adjust the configuration for 'hbase.rootdir' in line with that. The second custom property definition sets replication factor value to 1. On a single node thats the best and only option you have!
Now you can start-up Hbase using:
Build Pig
Building and Installing Pig from source is a simple 3 command operation like so:
svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/trunk/ pig cd pig ant
The first command checks out source from the Pig svn repository. It grabs the source from the 'trunk', which is referred to as 'master' in git jargon. The second command changes to the folder that contains the pig source. The third command compiles the pig source using Apache Ant. Invoking the default target, i.e. simply calling 'ant' without any argument, compiles Pig and packages it as a jar for distribution and consumption. Pig jar file can be found at the root of the Pig folder. Pig usually generates two jar files:
- pig.jar — to be run with Hadoop.
- pigwithouthadoop.jar — to be run locally. Pig does not need to always use Hadoop.
Build Hive
Building and Installing Hive is almost as easy as building and installing Pig. The following set of commands gets the job done:
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk hive cd hive ant package
You should be able to understand the commands if you have come so far in this article.
There is one little catch in this Hive instruction set though. As you run the 'ant package' task you will see the build fail. With HADOOP_HOME pointing to a hadoop-0.20-append branch build, Hive ShimLoader does not get the Hadoop version correctly. Its the "-" in the name that causes the problem! Apply, the simple patch available at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2294 and things should work just fine. Apply the patch as follows:
patch -p0 -i HIVE-2294.3.patch
To start using Hive, you will also need to minimally carry out these additional tasks:
- Set HIVE_HOME environment variable to point to the root of the HIVE directory.
- Add $HIVE_HOME/bin to $PATH
- Create /tmp in HDFS and set appropriate permissions
bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /tmp
- Create /user/hive/warehouse and set appropriate permissions
bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user/hive/warehouse bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse
Now you are ready with pseduo-distributed Hadoop, pseudo-distributed HBase, Pig, and Hive running on your box. This is of course just the beginning. You need to learn to leverage these tools to analyze data, but that not covered in this write-up. A following post will possibly address the topic of analyzing data using MapReduce and its abstractions.


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An attendee at the recent meetings of the Modern Language Association (MLA) has set the dankprofessor straight about the dankprofessor's belief that the MLA has no sexual harassment policy. In fact, every registered attendee at the MLA meetings was given a copy of the MLA sexual harassment policy. I gather that members did not receive a copy of the MLA sh policy before the meetings; if they did, attendance at the meetings may have precipitously declined.
And interestingly enough, the MLA sh policy could not be found online, at least the dankprofessor could not find it. But the dankprofessor's readers should be pleased since a copy of the policy received by the members has been emailed to the dankprofessor. Key excerpts follow; those persons wishing to read the whole policy, email me your request and I will forward it to you.
THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSSOCIATION (MLA) is committed to providing a convention environment that promotes equal opportunity and treats all persons with respect. Discriminatory practices, including sexual harassment are prohibited. Sexual harassment, whether verbal, physical or environmental and whether at the convention site or premises off-site is unacceptable and and will not be tolerated.
Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when … (3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with the person's performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive convention environment.
Sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to, between persons of the opposite or same sex.
. sexual jokes, flirtations, or innuendos
. display of sexually suggestive objects or pictures.
…If you believe you have been the victim of sexual harassment in any guise or have witnessed an act or acts of sexual harassment, you are urged, encouraged, and expected to discuss the incident promptly with a representative of the offender's educational institution or company who is present at the convention. If no such person is present, you are encouraged and urged to report the incident immediately to the institution or company.
OK, in this MLA nightmare vision of convention sexual hell, the dankprofessor's alter ego was in attendance at the MLA meetings in the city by the bay and imbibing and bantering over dinner with six other alcohol fueled MLA attendees. And much to my dismay I heard a comment that was directed by one of the diners to another diner that "I not only have a hunger for dinner, but I also have a hunger to get to know you better". Obviously, such represents a thinly disguised sexual innuendo, even the dankprofessor's alter ego got it. But no one at the dinner, no one to my knowledge, has reported this incident to the powers that be. I couldn't report it since I could not remember who made the comment and to whom it was made, nor could I remember the sex of the commentator or of the recipient.
Of course, what anyone in attendance at the dinner should have done was to immediately take out the MLA sexual harassment policy and read it to those in immediate attendance. But there were no readers. We all just wanted to eat and drink and drink. And no matter there was no MLA drinking policy. We all could drink to that and we did over and over again.
But, of course, the MLA wants its sexual harassment policy to be taken seriously. In all probability the policy was written by persons who are hardly ever taken seriously by anyone and now they had the opportunity to get back at those who never hear or see them and are hardly ever the subject of sexual innuendos.
But if the MLA wants to be taken seriously and get the attention it does not deserve, it needs the following additions to its sexual harassment policy.
. Require all members who register for the MLA meeting to go thru a MLA approved sexual harassment module.
. Have MLA approved town criers read the MLA sexual harassment policy throughout the meetings and at nearby dining venues.
. Require all registered attendees to adhere to an MLA approved dress code.
. Attendees be prohibited from consuming spirits of any kind during the MLA meetings.
OK, that's it for now. But, of course, there must and will be more.
Anti-sexual crusaders are never satisfied; they know there is always so much more they can do. Now that they have their policies in place at the MLA, they can believe they can have them in place at any place, at any time, even at Sarah's Alaska place.
So I hope I have not offended any MLA members, at least not offended those who are in good standing; good standing meaning those who know they have not violated MLA policies. Go ahead stand up and be counted.
Conference sex "explained"
Inside Higher Education reports on a Modern Language Association (MLA) conference panel on conference sex. Conference sex is, of course, sex which occurs at academic conferences. Actually there was no sex of any kind at the conference sex panel although at least one panelist seemed prepared for such an eventuality since she was dressed in a bathrobe. Of course, being dressed in a bathrobe can also indicate that one is about to go to sleep; such might very well represent a practical wardrobe since many presentations at academic conferences do facilitate sleeping behavior.
So what was this panel all about?
Jennifer Drouin, an assistant professor of English and women's studies at Allegheny College, argued that there are eight forms of conference sex (although she noted that some may count additional forms for each of the eight when the partners cross disciplinary, institutional or tenure-track/non-tenure track, or superstar/average academic boundaries).
The categories:
"Conference quickies" for gay male scholars to meet gay men at local bars.
"Down low" sex by closeted academics taking advantage of being away from home and in a big city.
"Bi-curious" experimentation by "nerdy academics trying to be more hip" (at least at the MLA, where queer studies is hip). This "increases one's subversiveness" without much risk, she said.
The "conference sex get out of jail free" card that attendees (figuratively) trade with academic partners, permitting each to be free at their respective meetings. This freedom tends to take place at large conferences like the MLA, which are "more conducive" to anonymous encounters, Drouin said.
"Ongoing flirtations over a series of conferences, possibly over several years" that turn into conference sex. Drouin said this is more common in sub-field conferences, where academics are more certain of seeing one another from year to year if their meetings are "must attend" conferences.
"Conference sex as social networking," where academics are introduced to other academics at receptions and one thing leads to another.
"Career building sex," which generally crosses lines of academic rank. While Drouin said that this form of sex "may be ethically questionable," she quipped that this type of sex "can lead to increased publication possibilities" or simply a higher profile as the less famous partner tags along to receptions.
And last but not least — and this was the surprise of the list: "monogamous sex among academic couples." Drouin noted that the academic job market is so tight these days that many academics can't live in the same cities with their partners. While many colleges try to help dual career couples, this isn't always possible, and is particularly difficult for gay and lesbian couples, since not every college will even take their couple status seriously enough to try to find jobs for partners. So these long distance academic couples, gay and straight, tenured and adjuncts, must take the best academic positions they can, and unite at academic conferences. "The very fucked-upness of the profession leads to conference fucking," Drouin said.
Milton Wendland of the University of Kansas linked the jargon and exchanges of academic papers to academic conference sex. The best papers, he said, "shock us, piss us off, connect two things" that haven't previously been connected. "We mess around with ideas. We present work that is still germinating," he said. So too, he said, a conference is "a place to fuck around physically," and "not as a side activity, but as a form of work making within the space of the conference."
At a conference, he said, "a collegial discussion of methodology becomes foreplay," and the finger that may be moved in the air to illuminate a point during a panel presentation (he demonstrated while talking) can later become the finger touching another's skin for the first time in the hotel room, "where we lose our cap and gown."
And Israel Reyes, of Dartmouth College
devoted most of his paper to a critique of Jane Gallop's 1997 book, Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (Duke University Press), which recounts accusations that Gallop harassed two graduate students. Gallop has written frankly of her sexual relations with her professors and students. The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, where she teaches, cleared her of the harassment charges, but found that in one case, her relationship with a graduate student was inappropriate.
The charges against Gallop, Reyes noted, came out of an incident that included banter and kissing at … an academic conference, and this is no coincidence, he argued. Generally, Reyes praised Gallop for questioning some widely accepted definitions of harassment, but he said she was "less perceptive" when writing about herself, and the reasons that may have led the graduate students to complain about her.
OK, here's the rub according to the dankprofessor. Academic conferences are one of the few places left where the sexual harassment advocates have not made a play. The MLA and the myriad of other academic associations have no sexual harassment policy. This is fertile ground for the sexual harassment industry. All it will take is for one sexual harassment lawyer to get one conference attendee to testify that she was subject to repeated unwanted sexual attention or was offended by some sexually tinged remarks made at a panel presentation, and we will have a whole new ballgame. If such ends up being the case, then academic conferences will become boring ad nauseam.
And then there is the matter of student professor sexual dalliances and alliances at academic conferences. No mention of this at the MLA panel. Academic meetings are one of the few remaining places that student/professor couples can come out of the closet to some degree. They have a little breathing room. I can testify that such is not the product of a dank imagination. When will the campus sexual puritans become the conference anti-sexual zealots and crack down on this space?
I guess I should also note that the MLA meeting was in San Francisco.
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Discover Oregon's Old-World Charm
Oregon's coast has always been slightly off the radar, but now its small towns are gaining just the right amount of polish.
There are many reasons to visit Oregon's coast, but Jetty Fisheryisn't usually one of them. At first glance, the tumbledown crab shack north of Tillamook Bay hardly screams out for a stop (27550 Hwy. 101 N., jettyfishery.com, crab from $9 a pound). Add to that the chef, Ron Hall, who, on the day I visited, was stirring a steaming pot while smoking a cigarette. But then you order the Dungeness crab, fresh and perfectly boiled, and any reservations you had fly out the window.
The Oregon coast doesn't have the sex appeal of California or the old-world charm of New England—and that's precisely the point. Pretense doesn't have a place here. Ticky-tacky beach towns and unassuming cottages are scattered between dozens of laid-back state parks. There are no big resorts and no private beaches, just arching bays, spits of sand, clusters of tidal pools, and deep Sitka spruce forests.
I grew up in Portland and visited the coast every summer, but after a decade in New York City, I'd lost any connection with my former vacation spot. Each time I came home, I saw Portland transforming from a second-tier town into a foodie fantasyland for urban expats. Happy as I was to get a decent espresso, I worried that such an evolution might spread to the coast, a place I'd always hoped would remain the same. I set off for the mellowest stretch, the 59 miles between Tillamook Bay and Astoria, directly west of Portland.
Jetty Fishery was my first stop, but Manzanita, nine miles north on Highway 101, was where I expected to start seeing Portland's influence. The 564-person town used to be just a blip on the map; I don't even remember seeing signs for it when I was a kid. Perhaps because of this anonymity, Manzanita has started to draw in creative types, just as Big Sur, Calif., did back in its heyday.
I pulled into town and stopped in front of an idyllic cabin, all front porch, faded shingles, and leaded glass. A guitarist was casually strumming away in the afternoon sun. Down on the main drag of Laneda Avenue, I met Cecily Crow, 26, at Unfurl, a natural-fiber-clothing store that opened in 2004 (447 Laneda Ave., unfurlclothing.com). An aspiring actress, Crow left Hollywood just over a year ago to settle here. "Manzanita is different from a lot of coast towns," she said. "We don't get the random tourists. It's more like an artists' retreat." Sure enough, a few doors away atVino, a wine bar that sidelines as a tapas restaurant (387 Laneda Ave., 503/368-8466, plates from $8), server Julie Yanko explained how Manzanita was better for her as a jazz artist than Portland had been. "We all support one another here," she told me.
North of Manzanita, 101 unwinds like a wire, bending around headlands and plunging into cathedrals of spruce and fir. Empty beaches emerge unexpectedly, the most striking of which is atOswald West State Park(503/368-3575). The sandy stretch has become famous for its protected break, and when I arrived, surfers were wrapping up a midday session, tugging off hoods and wet suits.
If Manzanita is Oregon's Big Sur, then Cannon Beach, 10 miles north, is its Carmel, a warren of Cape Cod–style homes with not a chain store in sight. I breezed into town in late afternoon and headed to the 15-room Land's End Motel(Beachfront at W. 2nd St., landsendmotel.com, from $100). The challenge with Cannon used to be that if you didn't rent a house, your only option was a mediocre motel. The recently overhauled Land's End changed that, and my room, with a fireplace and huge picture windows overlooking the Pacific, was an inviting retreat.
In the early-evening light, I wandered down to Haystack Rock, a hulking 235-foot-tall boulder that ranks up there—geologically speaking—with the Rock of Gibraltar. The waves were coming in small sets, and the sand made arip-ripsound underfoot.
Cannon was pretty much as I remembered it—homespun and occasionally campy—except for one thing: the food. There's still the standard beach fare (smoked mussels, fish-and-chips), but with the arrival of new chefs, from Portland and beyond, items like gourmet pizza and butternut-squash ravioli have started to pop up on menus across town. There's even a cooking school, EVOO, for folks who want to take the taste of Cannon back home (188 S. Hemlock St., evoo.biz, classes from $45). To sample the scene, I stopped into former New York chef John Sowa's 3-year-old Sweet Basil's Cafe for a pulled-pork sandwich and side of homemade coleslaw (271 N. Hemlock St., cafesweetbasils.com, $7).
My final stop was Astoria, Oregon's northernmost town, 25 miles up 101. Set at the mouth of the Columbia River, Astoria was founded as an outgrowth of Fort Clatsop, the settlement established by Lewis and Clark upon reaching the Pacific, and it still comes off as a roughneck port—all 19th-century canneries and working warehouses—albeit spiked with an indie-rock air.
I checked in to the recently renovated Commodore Hotel Astoria, a former seamen's boardinghouse turned 17-room boutique hotel (258 14th St., commodoreastoria.com, from $69), and then took a quick stroll. Boutiques and galleries have sprouted up all over downtown. There's even that requisite Portland import, an artisanal coffeehouse: 7-month-old Street 14 Coffee, attached to the lobby of the Commodore. This all seemed rather familiar and predictably urban to me, but strangely enough, as I lingered over my espresso, I didn't much mind. Even with changes here and there, the coast I loved had somehow overall managed to remain true to itself, while improving in just the right ways.


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"Extraordinary . . . profoundly moving." —Geoffrey C. Ward, The New York Times Book Review
"This Republic of Suffering is one of those groundbreaking histories in which a crucial piece of the past, previously overlooked or misunderstood, suddenly clicks into focus." —Newsweek
"A shattering history of the war, focusing exclusively on death and dying-how Americans prepared for death, imagined it, risked it, endured it and worked to understand it." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Faust yanks aside the usual veil of history to look narrowly at life's intimate level for new perspectives from the past. She focuses on ordinary lives under extreme duress, which makes for compelling reading." —USA Today
"Faust is particularly qualified to identify and explain the complex social and political implications of the changing nature of death as America's internecine conflict attained its full dimensions." —Ian Garrick Mason, San Francisco Chronicle
"Faust excels in explaining the era's violent rhetoric and what went on in people's heads." —David Waldstreicher, The Boston Globe
"The beauty and originality of Faust's book is that it shows how thoroughly the work of mourning became the business of capitalism, merchandised throughout a society." —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
"Fascinating, innovative . . . Faust returns to the task of stripping from war any lingering romanticism, nobility or social purpose." —Eric Foner, The Nation
"Eloquent and imaginative, Ms. Faust's book takes a grim topic–how America coped with the massive death toll from the Civil War–and makes it fresh and exciting. . . . [A] widely and justly praised scholarly history." —Adam Begley, New York Observer
"This Republic of Suffering is a harrowing but fascinating read." —Marjorie Kehe, The Christian Science Monitor
"If you read only one book on the Civil War this year, make it this one." –Kevin M. Levin, American History
"Having always kept the war in her own scholarly sights, Faust offers a compelling reassertion of its basic importance in society and politics alike." —Richard Wrightman Fox, Slate
"[An] astonishing new book." —Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun
"A moving work of social history, detailing how the Civil War changed perceptions and behaviors about death. . . . An illuminating study." —Kirkus
"Penetrating . . . Faust exhumes a wealth of material . . . to flesh out her lucid account. The result is an insightful, often moving portrait of a people torn by grief." —Publishers Weekly
"No other generation of Americans has encountered death on the scale of the Civil War generation. This Republic of Suffering is the first study of how people in both North and South coped with this uniquely devastating experience. How did they mourn the dead, honor their sacrifice, commemorate their memory, and help their families? Drew Gilpin Faust's powerful and moving answers to these questions provide an important new dimension to our understanding of the Civil War."
—James M. McPherson, author of This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
"During the Civil War, death reached into the world of the living in ways unknown to Americans before or since. Drew Gilpin Faust follows the carnage in all its aspects, on and off the battlefield. Timely, poignant, and profound, This Republic of Suffering does the real work of history, taking us beyond the statistics until we see the faces of the fallen and understand what it was to live amid such loss and pain."
—Tony Horowitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
"Drew Gilpin Faust has used her analytical and descriptive gifts to explore how men and women of the Civil War generation came to terms with the conflict's staggering human toll. Everyone who reads this book will come away with a far better understanding of why the war profoundly affected those who lived through it."
—Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Confederate War
"Drew Faust's brilliant new book, This Republic of Suffering, builds profoundly from the opening discussion of the Christian ideal of the good death to the last harrowing chapters on the exhumation, partial identification, reburial and counting of the Union dead. In the end one can only conclude, as the author does, that the meaning of the Civil War lies in death itself: in its scale, relentlessness, and enduring cultural effects. This is a powerful and moving book about our nation's defining historical encounter with the universal human experience of death."
—Stephanie McCurry, author of Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the political culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
"Whitman was wrong; the real war did get into the books. This is a wise, informed, troubling book. This Republic of Suffering demolishes sentimentalism for the Civil War in a masterpiece of research, realism, and originality."
—David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
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PWM click is a simple solution for controlling 16 PWM outputs through a single I2C interface. You can use it to control anything from a simple LED strip to a complex robot with a multitude of moving parts. The click board carries the PCA9685PW IC. There's an additional set of pins that allow you to connect up to seven PWM clicks together (using three solder jumpers to specify a different I2C address for each one). This will allow you to get a total of 112 PWM outputs on a single I2C line.
Another solder jumper allows you to set the module for 3.3V or 5V power supply. It is in the 3.3V position by default.
In addition to the mikroBUS I2C pins (SCL and SDA), the PWM click board uses a LOW Output Enable Input pin (OE), which is in place of the default mikroBUS RST pin.
Note: The picture shows the board with through-hole headers. The board now comes populated with male pins already soldered to the mikroBUS connection headers for your convenience (the daisy-chaining headers remain unpopulated). The board's user manual has yet to be updated to remove the soldering instructions.
You also can connect Click boards to many other popular platforms via these adapters:
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) The Chicago Bears reached the Super Bowl under coach Lovie Smith and consistently boasted a formidable defense.
However, they missed the playoffs too many times, never solved their problems on offense and even after a 10-win season they are moving on without him.
The Bears fired Smith on Monday after the team missed the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons. General manager Phil Emery delivered the news to Smith on the day after the Bears beat Detroit to finish 10-6 but still didn't make the playoffs.
Hired in 2004, Smith led the 2006 team to the Super Bowl, but he also saw his team collapse in the second half of the past two seasons. He was let go with a year left on his contract, ending a nine-year run that produced an 81-63 record, three division titles and two appearances in the NFC championship game.
The Bears scheduled a news conference with Emery for Tuesday to discuss the move. Smith was not available for comment, but talked to the team after he was fired.
``He earned even more respect from me, if it was possible,'' quarterback Jay Cutler said. ``He handled it the right way. A lot of character in that man, and it showed up.''
Emery appears to be moving quickly in the search for a replacement.
A person familiar with the situation said Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy will interview for the Bears and Arizona Cardinals jobs this week. The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on Monday on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to publicly speak about the interviews, said the talks would take place in Denver.
Even though Chicago closed with a win, the Bears needed a loss by Minnesota to get into the playoffs. The Vikings, though, beat Green Bay to clinch a postseason spot, leaving Chicago as the second team since the postseason expanded to 12 teams to miss out after a 7-1 start. The other was Washington in 1996.
Smith ranks third on the Bears' wins list behind George Halas and Mike Ditka.
The highlight of his tenure was the run to the title game that ended with a loss to the Indianapolis Colts. It was the first time two black coaches met for the championship, with Smith going against his mentor Tony Dungy.
The 2010 team lost to Green Bay in the NFC title game, but the Bears made the playoffs just three times and won three postseason games under Smith.
There was speculation he would be let go following the 2011 team's collapse, but he got one more year while general manager Jerry Angelo was fired. Now, he's out.
Return star Devin Hester was so upset he said he was considering retirement, adding, ``I've got my workers' comp papers in my pocket.''
Is he hurt?
``Not physically, but mentally,'' Hester said.
He wasn't ruling out playing next year, either.
While Smith was dismissed, there was no official word on the status of assistant coaches.
``I think we're going to get the best available coordinator, head coach, assistant coaches,'' Cutler said. ``(I'm not going) to speculate where they're going to go. I have no idea. But I trust Phil and everyone involved in the search, and they're going to make the best decisions they can make.''
Known for solid defenses, Smith oversaw a unit that was consistently effective and at times ranked among the league's best with stars such as Brian Urlacher, Lance Briggs and later Julius Peppers. Smith emphasized taking the ball away from the opposition, and no team did it more than the Bears with 310 during his tenure.
But on the other side, it was a different story.
Smith went through four offensive coordinators in Terry Shea, Ron Turner, Mike Martz and Mike Tice. He never could find the right formula, even as the Bears acquired stars such as quarterback Jay Cutler and receiver Brandon Marshall over the years.
Smith had no bigger supporter than team matriarch Virginia McCaskey, but the fans seemed split on him.
``The media, the false fans, you all got what you all wanted,'' Hester said. ``The majority of you all wanted him out. As players we wanted him in. I guess the fans - the false fans - out-ruled us. I thought he was a great coach, probably one of the best coaches I've ever been around. He brought me in.''
History suggests fans hoping for a high-profile replacement such as Bill Cowher or Jon Gruden might be disappointed. The last time the Bears went with an experienced NFL head coach was when Halas returned to the sideline in 1958.
They might, however, go with an offensive-minded coach for the first time since Mike Ditka was fired after the 1992 season, given the issues in that area.
That the Bears would be in this spot seemed unthinkable after they won seven of their first eight games, but the schedule took a tougher turn. Injuries mounted and so did the losses. It was similar to last season when they finished 8-8 after a 7-3 start, a collapse sparked by a season-ending injury to Cutler.
Dismissing Smith was the first move in what looks like a busy offseason. Urlacher has an expiring contract and was limited by knee and hamstring injuries this year.
The Bears might have a decision to make on Cutler, who has one more year left on his contract.
``I think, first and foremost, their concern is going to be with finding coaches, and we'll address it from there,'' he said.
AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton in Englewood, Colo., contributed to this story.
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The Duelling Beginner's Luck Badge was an award given by the Duelling Club to students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the 1996–1997 school year. To receive the badge, students had to simply join the Gryffindor Duelling Club.[1] The badge was a Duelling Gold Badge.
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Nima Bavardi-Fipo Wireless Speaker
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Interview with Nima Bavardi : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Nima Bavardi : The particular shape of the glassy bubble and speaker into its pit refers to deeply penetration of sound into bone cells as like as a outer penetration of two cells into blood and bone of the human body and joining together. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Nima Bavardi : I wanted to produce high power and quality of sound into body bone and cells of it. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Nima Bavardi : Actually i did not think about that but of course i will wait for founders for any offers for producing it. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Nima Bavardi : I do not remember exactly but i researched a lot about user experiences to design a true concept and i think it took 2 month till completing the concept. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Nima Bavardi : I pursuit an inspiration and wanted to join function and aesthetics together and also make connection between the concept and the user. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Nima Bavardi : Not produced yet and as i told i am waiting orders from founders for producing it. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Nima Bavardi : once i was visiting digital and electronic shopping center in Tehran and after seeing many speakers i figured out many of products do not have logical relations between form and function so i wanted to do that in my concept. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Nima Bavardi : No, I do myself. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Nima Bavardi : At first i wanna say it is minimal, function and aesthetic beauty are joined together and also it makes emotional connection between the concept and the user. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Nima Bavardi : FiPo is abbreviation of fire power as the form of speaker show. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Nima Bavardi : It is minimal, performance and aesthetic beauty are joined together and it makes emotional connection between FiPo and the user. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Nima Bavardi : No I do it myself. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Nima Bavardi : the glass of speaker is made by blown method and the speaker is wireless that users can easily connect their devices to the speaker and enjoy with high quality speaker. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Nima Bavardi : As i said before i researched about user experiences and ... . .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Nima Bavardi : My main concern designing this eye-catching speaker was to join function and aesthetic beauty in on new concept of speaker and make emotional connection between "FiPo" and users. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Nima Bavardi : Actually i was sure that my design will win because there are many researches behind it and it is different from other speakers. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Nima Bavardi : I learned a good design should should easily connect, speak, be a friend, love and live with the user. That is why the user love the design. Emotional connection between a product an the user is my main perspective of explaining a good design. Joining all aspects of aesthetic, ergonomic, form, function, usabality, accessibility, ... complete the meaning of a good design. That is all I do in my designs. .
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Meditatio Podcast December 2012
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This December edition reviews The World Community in the past year:
- Laurence Freeman at Google HQ.
- The passing of Rosie Lovat
- A meditation group for the homeless in Boston
- The Meeting of Fr. Laurence and the Dalai Lama
- Meditation with Children in Asia
- John Main Seminar in Brazil
- New meditation programme at Georgetown University
- Meditatio Seminar on addiction
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Main Index
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Browse the site choosing a game from the menu, here you'll find Story, Screenshots, Arenas, Props and Fighters of the game, each fighter page includes: A complete Spritesheet, Biography, Animations, Props, Movelist, Fatality Videos, Ending, Renders, Cut-Out Pictures, Wallpapers and more!
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Mortal Kombat 11
- Fatalities, Friendships, Stage Fatalities and Brutalities
- Kollection Characters Art
- Kombat Kard Backgrounds and Kombat Kard Icons
- Pre-Fight Dialogue
- Kombat League Banners
Mortal Kombat Mobile
Mortal Kombat X
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe hits the store shelves this sunday and we already got some vital info of it! Each character has now a page detailing his/her special moves and finishers (fatalities or heroic brutalities), I'll be updating each page as we know more (read: pro moves and combos), but in the meantime you can check them out and start practicing your favorite character's move to master them once you get the game!
And if you want a full guide with all the finishers you can go to this page.
Huge thanks to Patrick McCarron of TRMK.org who got the guide of the game early and let me use his transcription of the movelists.
And talking about transcript, be sure to read what happened at the lastest Fight Night event!
[November 15 Update] I've just uploaded the full accomplishments list, Xbox 360 Achievements and PlayStation 3 Trophies are now located in this page, check them out!
Credits for the Xbox 360 buttons icons go to 360 Prophecy.
[November 16 Update] Updated the characters pages with Bios and Endings! I'll upload the ending pictures when I get the game. (OBVIOUS SPOILER WARNING)
[November 22 Update] Ending illustrations are up! Thanks to ]{0MBAT for delivering these.
[November 27 Update] Fatalities and Heroic Brutalities videos are up! These are in flash inside all characters pages, right below the movelists, credit goes to ]{0MBAT for ripping these videos.
[December 12 Update] Dark Kahn render is up.
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Add Dark Kahn to "Fighters".I know, I know, he's not playable, but put his render and his moves (not the legend, just his moves)
send me pictures of every mortal kombat character. send them to email@example.com
Hey Murdoink, There are some arenas that you haven't put in mk vs dc. You didn't add the green lantern corps and a few bottom part of a few arenas, and how about the final boss arena.
Also for MK2 you don't have Goro's lair on there, and are you even able to put arenas in the MK:Deadly Alliance page.
i wish you can make shao kahn talk againg hes no fun with ridicule n take hes sore troat away when he wins what does he have troat canser now? lol
Add missing MKA cut out pictures.Reptile's missing.
With Reptile's I mean his versus pose
It has come to my attention that Johnny Cage still needs ALOT of MKT sprites, is it possible to rip those?
Where do the endings come from?
Here you have Reptile's MKA versus pose http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nY5-bUcKd08/SVa09L7O4YI/AAAAAAAAAiM/9g2-nahxk4s/s1600-h/Reptile+Versus+Pose+MKA.png and Raiden's MK2 missing spirtes (his arms, remember they were wrong)http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nY5-bUcKd08/SVa7VwuKKXI/AAAAAAAAAiU/lB15uXudRD0/s1600-h/Raiden%27s+Arms+MK2.png If there's another missing thing, tell me, I want to help.
Update man!
Murdoink, when are you ever going to put new themes for the site? I have been wanting an iceburg kind of theme.
I have thought of a lot of themes for the site including:
1. Lin kuei
2. Special forces base
3. The heavens
4. Earthrealm
5. Chaosrealm
6. Orderrealm
7. Edenia
Batman's grappling hook brutality isn't working for me for some reason, there ain't nothing wrong with his buttons is there.
OK I just did that grappling hook with them other buttons now how about the bat swarm brutality, the one I was trying to do.
Never mind, I've done it I figured out the mistake it was suppose to be either sweep or 1 step away I don't really know, not close distance. Sorry I typed to much.
Hey Murdoink, once you are done with whatever you are busy on you have a lot to do. Adding arenas in mk: deadly alliance, Adding new themes, fixing mistakes in the fatality pages of mk vs dc, adding the missing versus pose in armageddon, and you might want to check and see if you are missing any sprites on mk2.
Happy new years ! Also surprise Murdoink to you :D ! I think props are in need for an update don't you think ?
http://www.mediafire.com/?x9zsquzmpud : Fatality MKD ( Maybe MKDA as well ? ) Logo
http://www.mediafire.com/?11moy9m0bmz : Hara-Kiri MKD Logo
Perfect quality too honest :) .
Enjoy !
i have more mk1 missing sprites. i'll send them soon. also have riped one from sub zero's fatality, the only sprite that aren't from his uppercut or wins animation :P
well, i sent you a zip with some mk1 and mk2 sprites :P
How can we download the Fatalities and Heroic Brutalities?
When are you going to be done Murdoink?
Add sound clips of the screams of the fatalities or the sound of Scorpion's spear or maybe Sub-Zero's ice ball, something like that would be really cool.
Also Khameleon's MKA page is not complete.You must add her render cutout and her moves.Stryker's, Li Mei's, Frost's, Sindel's, Sheeva's and Havik's versus pose are missing.I'm going to try to find them.If I do, I'll give them to you.Also, Kung Lao's versus pose is missing…but his cutout picture is from MKSM, not MKA.Here you have some of the missing things:
Don't forget to fix Raiden MK2 arms http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nY5-bUcKd08/SVa7VwuKKXI/AAAAAAAAAiU/lB15uXudRD0/s1600-h/Raiden%27s+Arms+MK2.png and add Reptile's versus pose http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nY5-bUcKd08/SVa09L7O4YI/AAAAAAAAAiM/9g2-nahxk4s/s1600-h/Reptile+Versus+Pose+MKA.png
After all that you should make me a member
P.S.:I've got Sindel's and Frost's versus pose, I'll post them soon, once I cutout them ;)
Yo, the grappling hook heroic brutality for batman it's actually sweep, not close. I kept on trying it in close but then I tried it in sweep and it worked. Both of Batman's HB is in sweep.
How come you don't have the belltower theme on the theme selector and you have it on the site page?
Havik, Sindel and Frost MKA versus pose:
I know Mokap is pathetic and the oficial MKA site has that image, but you should replace it for a cut out of his render.
Can you get someone to rip the Mk 2 stage when you fight Shao Kahn? The one with the empty chair.
I watched some stuff about minor characters on youtube. Do you guys think they should have those characters in the next mortal kombat game? Including: Tremor, Tasia, No Face, Water God, Fire God, Earth God, Skarlet, and Hydro. They should rename and add Hornbuckle and Belokk.
Hey Murdoink, dus Shao Kahn & Darkseid have fatalities?
hola, este mensaje es para ed boon:
hola, me encanta mortal kombat, el que me gusta mucho es mortal kombat trilogy, pero hay un problema con el juego para pc y son los siguientes:
1. las zonas de kombate de armory, wasteland, the portal, goro lair y the pit bottom, tienen en la parte de abajo de la pantalla, espacios vacios, es como imagenes incompletos
2. los sonidos soundtrack esta bien pero el unico problema es que porque no pusieron musica definish him/her y final en el juego.
3. en zona de armory, wasteland y dead pool, no tienen animaciones del lago y the portal no aparece el rayo.
4. en el supreme demostetion, falta brutality, y que en el fondo solo aparece armory, podian ponerlo a todos.
1. que cuando pelees con shao kahn, hay dos distintos finales cuando pierde, es decir, un final como de mk2 y otro de mk3. una manera reconocerlo es que si aparece kintaro (reemplazando a motaro) el final seria de mk2.
2. que cuando empieze el juego q haya una presentacion, como UMK3 version arcade
3. que sub-zero (enmascarado) tenga lo mismo poderes que el otro sub-zero.
4. que pongan la zona de star bridge, the hidden portal y noob the forten.
5. que goro, kintaro, motaro y shao kahn tenga fatality
6. cuando llege los tesoros de shao kahn, que tenga mucho, como de mortal kombat trilogy de N64.
7. que este khamaleon y chamaleon como personajes ocultos y que haya un truco para elegirlos.
8. si puden poner en la zona de kombate palace gate y thore room.
9. que haya el truco de modo endurace como de mortal kombat trilogy de n64.
10.las torres de choose your destiny, que hayan 5 en ves de 4.
bueno, espero que lo hagan de nuevo este mortal kombat trilogy para pc y porfavor envialos este mensaje a ed boon porfavor. gracias :)
I think that Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion will be a lot better than Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe because it has twice as many characters as DC Universe. Mortal Kombat VS DC is getting kinda boring.
Very cool to see this. I've been curious enough to see more about this game, having only heard about it in passing. I don't see how anyone could beat Superman, but it's still an interesting concept.
the game is very cool i love mk very much but i hope they add create a fighter and other coustem to the fighters and more blood and awsome fatalities to the new mortal kombat thanks
Quan Chi Needs to be a down loadable character. I look forward to seeing Reptile and Johnny Cage. That's all I really have to say.
Big hopes for the future MK's
Hey Murdoink, I heard Mortal Kombat 9 is coming….
eu qria saber como se libera os personagens do mortal kombat decepition qualqer resposta me falem por favor.
Wonderful journey and experience.
I really appreciate if someone would please add Mortal Kombat vs DCU versus pose
or could just tell me where can i find Mortal Kombat vs DCU versus pose
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4 Vital Parts to Reproducing Great Leaders.
"It's time to make time count."
That's the place we're in as a church. I'm not getting any younger, and it seems we are losing Kingdom ground on a national and international level. The only answer to reversing that is building and growing Kingdom and mission minded leaders who will do the same.
I feel a great sense of urgency that we have to equip and empower an entire new army of leaders, younger leaders that have incredible passion for the mission of the church to multiply. In response to that, we have revamped our leadership development process.
At its core our new process has four parts:
1. A pre-process. It's important that potential leaders know you are serious about multiplying leaders. That it's not just another "program" they can sign up for. Make your leadership process by invitation only, and where some pretty high standards must be met prior to being allowed in.
2. A basic beginning. Start all at the same point. It's important that all those with you know the vision, passion and direction of your church. Don't make any assumptions! Remember what they used to say, "Assumption is the mother of all _________."
It will be difficult to build on a foundation if you didn't lay it from the beginning.
3. A measurable middle. You can't manage what you can't measure. You will never know where people are in their abilities if you don't measure their progress.
Some will complete a portion of your process, and not have the gift set to continue to the next level. It's better to know that in the middle, and release them to use what they have learned, than to frustrate them and waste unproductive resources and time.
We can't nor should we expect that all those in our process will become level-five leaders. We have a tremendous deficit of level three leaders as well.
4. A clear call. Leaders that complete all parts of your leadership process should be equipped and have a clear call to go and multiply themselves into others. Your leadership culture must be one of calling leaders to multiply.
The end of all can't be just completion, but one of a deep sense of call. Empower and equip your leaders to reproduce themselves. If this last step is neglected you will have only succeeded in producing a tribe of new Pharisees that will guard their territory rather than seeking to enlarge it.
It's time to make time count.If you don't have a leadership process, start one, a simple one. Change it as you go, but have a process! You have no right to complain about loyalty, the lack of volunteers, that no one is giving or no one is "stepping up" if aren't imparting that to potential leaders.
Written by Artie Davis
Artie Davis wears a lot of hats and leads a lot of people. He's a pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Orangeburg, S.C. He heads the Comb Network and the Sticks Conference. He speaks and writes about leadership, ministry, church planting, and cultural diversity in the church. You can find his blog at ArtieDavis.com or catch him on Twitter @artiedavis.
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Standard & Poor's stripped the Netherlands of its triple-A credit rating Friday, saying that the country's growth prospects have deteriorated and it is not performing as well as peers.
It downgraded the country to AA+, meaning the only remaining eurozone countries with AAA ratings from S&P are Germany, Finland and Luxembourg. The Netherlands' finance minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said the downgrade was unsurprising "but disappointing."
The Dutch economy has been hit by falling home prices and rising unemployment, which is expected to hit 8 percent next year.
"The downgrade reflects our opinion that The Netherlands' growth prospects are now weaker than we had previously anticipated, and the real GDP per capita trend growth rate is persistently lower than that of peers at similarly high levels of economic development," S&P said in its announcement.
It said it expects Dutch GDP to fall by 1.2 percent in 2013 and grow by 0.5 percent in 2014.
Dijsselbloem, who is also president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, has prescribed spending cuts and tax hikes to strengthen Dutch and other European government finances and pave the way for long-term growth. Some economists say such austerity measures are counterproductive during a downturn, but the idea is popular in German-led policy-making circles.
Dijsselbloem said in an interview with RTL television that, despite the downgrade, S&P supports the Cabinet's approach to cutting debt.
But a spokesman for the agency said that's not accurate. "We as a rating agency do not give any endorsements to policy," said Josy Soussan. "We look at measures and assess the impact we think they will have."
The Dutch government has undertaken several rounds of budget cuts but is still expected to run deficits of a little more than 3 percent this year and next year.


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A 12-year-old boy from Santa Rosa is hoping his personal story will help the U.S. Supreme Court decide to overturn California's ban on same sex marriage, Prop. 8.
Daniel Leffew had a difficult beginning in foster care but was adopted by two dads when he was five.
"My foster mom always told me I was not adoptable because of my medical condition. When my dads adopted me I realized everything she said was a lie," Daniel said.
Daniel suffers from Goldenhar Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the left side of his body.
Jay and Bryan Leffew adopted 5-year-old Daniel and his 1-year-old sister Salina seven years ago and the family shares many everyday moments on a YouTube channel.
With the Prop. 8 hearings approaching, the family learned Chief Justice John Roberts also has two adopted children. Daniel decided to write him a letter to show the court his family is a lot like Roberts'.
He read the letter to his YouTube fans before sending it off saying: "You and I know family goes deeper then blood. I was lucky to be adopted by two guys I can call dad."
The Leffew dads are proud of Daniel for making his case and Daniel is hoping it will make a difference.
"When he reads the letter I want him to see our family is a lot like his," he said.
The Leffews will be monitoring the arguments at U.S. Supreme Court closely.
Here is the complete text of Daniel's letter:
Dear Justice Roberts,
My name is Daniel Martinez-Leffew. I'm 12 years old and I live in northern California. I have a younger sister named Salina, and we were adopted by two dads. We were adopted when I was five and my sister was about twelve months old.
When I was in foster care I was told that I was considered unadoptable because of my Goldenhar syndrome. That is a genetic disorder that affects the whole left side of my body.
I lost my little brother Emilio because some people wanted to adopt him, but they weren't willing to adopt me because of my medical conditions. Lucky for me, that's when my two dads came along.
I recently found out that you yourself adopted two kids, a boy and a girl, kind of like me and my sister.
Family means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but some people believe that you have to have the same blood to be a family. You and I both know that family goes deeper than blood.
I was lucky to be adopted by two guys I can both call dad. They give me and my sister so much love. My dad Jay works in San Francisco as a deputy sheriff, and my dad Bryan stays at home and takes care of me and my sister.
My dads really encourage me to excel in life. Since I want to be a cook when I grow up, they're letting me take cooking classes. My parents want me to improve, whether it's schoolwork, or my social life.
I know you have a tough decision to make with the gay marriage issue, but my family is just as valuable and worthwhile as any other.
It's especially tough for you because I know you don't necessarily believe in gay marriage religiously. Lucky for us, though, you also don't believe in taking away a right, even from people like us.
My family and I have spent the last four years making YouTube videos to show people who don't understand that our family is like any other. If Prop 8 is allowed to stand, imagine the pain we would feel knowing that we are not considered equal to everyone else.
I guess to end this, it is important that all families are protected and valued. In our country we may not all be the same, but we are all Americans and deserve an equal chance at bettering our lives.
I hope you make the right decision in the end.
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text: Gillman Posted August 23, 2007 I am trying to understand when, or approximately when, bourbon and coke became an accepted mixed drink and part of Southern lore.Like a lot of things, I suspect its antiquity is not that great.Coca-Cola was invented in the late 1800's. Its large-scale success began though in the early 1900's and I would think in particular from the 1920's. The rise of Coke was probably assisted by Prohibition and the search for an acceptable, flavourful, "stimulating" alternative to liquor. But its rapid growth surely also was aided by then emerging modern business methods including sophisticated national advertising techniques.In all the reading I have done, in books, periodicals and online, I cannot recall ever reading that someone mixed whiskey with a soft drink before Prohibition. E.g., one might think it was a practice in the 1910's and earlier to mix bourbon or other whiskey with sasparilla, ginger ale, root beer or Coca-Cola. But was it? The first I have read of whiskey being mixed with a soft drink, ginger ale in this case, was in a 1930's novel by Frank O'Hara. He wrote - it was in Voyage to Samarra - about people in a country club during the later part of Prohibition who mixed whiskey from small bottles with paper stamps (i.e., the so-called medicinal whiskey which should not have been used recreationally) with ginger ale or White Rock (sparkling water).Before 1920, almost certainly people would have mixed White Rock and similar waters (e.g., "Polly", or Appolonaris) with bourbon and rye. In the U.K. the habit was to mix whisky or brandy with such waters and a similar practice would have existed in the U.S. viz. its own spirits.("Brandy and soda old boy", as the late Who drummer Keith Moon used to say in parodying the habits of the class he was - paradoxically - seeking also to emulate).So when did soft drinks and liquor first meet in the U.S.? I would think this must have happened during Prohibition, when (supposedly anyway) dubious hooch was disguised with mixes of various kinds: it is not that far a stretch to think people finally added the real stuff to the same Coke and ginger ale.But can anyone show a citation of a bourbon and cola or rye and cola drink from before the 1960's? I first recall reading that bourbon and coke was a typical southern drink in a contemporary novel in the 1970's, the comment was that it was a great drink but rather fattening (true I guess). This would suggest to me it had taken root at least by the 1960's. But again, how far back does the mixture go...?Gary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The 13-year-old son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver is recovering at an LA-area hospital after suffering injuries while surfing.
Sources close to the family said that Christopher was in a surfing accident while boogie boarding on the beach on Sunday. He suffered a collapsed lung, broken bones and broken ribs. Christopher was in the ICU in serious condition.
Schwarzenegger and Shriver released a statement Friday saying, "A few days ago our son Christopher suffered an accident at the beach. While it has been a very scary week, Christopher is surrounded by his family and friends. He is a brave boy and is expected to make a full recovery. On behalf of our entire family, we want to sincerely thank the paramedics and lifeguards who responded so swiftly as well as the doctors, nurses, emergency room and hospital staff who have cared for our son. They have been extraordinary to him and to us. We thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers and ask for respect and privacy for Christopher and our family."
In the 911 call released by the Fire Department, Shriver says she was afraid her son had a broken rib.
"He's awake and breathing, he just can't move. He's having trouble breathing," she said.
The Schwarzengger children also tweeted their thanks for everyone's support.
"Thank you everyone for your messages about my brother," Christopher's older brother, Patrick, tweeted Friday. "This kid is strongest kid I ever seen. Keep praying."
Their sister Katherine added a Twitter message of her own: "Thank you guys for ur concern and prayers for my baby brother! He's a tough little guy and getting better! Please keep praying for him!"
Two days after the accident, Arnold Schwarzenegger was spotted at The Grove with son Patrick. Witnesses say he seemed upbeat and even posed for photos.
According to TMZ and People magazine, Christopher's mother has been at his side constantly and is also sleeping at the hospital. His father has been a regular visitor as well.
Boogie boarders at the beach in Malibu say the waves were huge last week, but experts like Tom Corliss with Malibu Mako Surf Camp, says the injury sounds unusual for what they'd normally see for a boogie boarding injury.
"Mostly I would say neck, shoulder or collar bone, those are more of the injuries you would receive by body boarding or surfing, not a punctured lung. I mean that's kind of odd for sure. I've been doing this for 20 years and never had any kind of rib injuries by body boarding," Corliss said.


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Imagine immense short-grass plains that run to the horizon. Now imagine the plains filled with so many wildebeest and zebra that they run to the horizon too. This is just a glimpse of the incredible views at the Serengeti National Park. There is no other place in the world where you can get such a feeling of wild expanse. This area is famous for the Great Migration, in which millions of wildebeest and zebra travel in giant herds, and predators follow closely behind. If you'd like to see one of nature's greatest phenomena, timing is everything. Every year is slightly different, since the migration is dictated by the weather. But in general, the migration is in the southern Serengeti in December through March, in the western Serengeti in June and July, and heads up to the northern Serengeti and Masai Mara in Kenya in September through November.
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MOUNT PROSPECT, IL — In spite of a 3 percent decline, exercise walking remains the No. 1 participation activity surveyed by the National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA), a position it has held for more than a decade. Data contained in NSGA's annual "Sports Participation-Series I and II" reports, shows 79.5 million Americans walked for exercise in 2003.
Camping, which replaced swimming as the No. 2 activity in 2002, attracted 51.4 million Americans in 2003. In spite of a 7.2 percent decline, camping remains ahead of exercising with equipment, which rose 4 percent to 48.6 million participants and secured the No. 3 position. Swimming slipped to No. 4 with 47 million participants, an 11 percent decline. Bowling rounded out the top five with 39.4 million.
After a strong showing in 2002, fitness activities showed modest growth or declines in 2003. The leader in percentage growth among fitness activities according to the report was exercising with equipment, up 4 percent, followed closely by weightlifting, with an increase of 3.1 percent. Weightlifting attracted 25.9 million participants in 2003. In 2003, 29.5 million people indicated they worked out a club, a 1.9 percent increase vs. 2002 figures, the NSGA said.
Showing modest declines were exercise walking (-3.3 percent to 79.5 million) and aerobic exercising (-3.4 percent to 28.0 million).
Running/jogging drew 22.9 million participants, a decline of 7.3 percent.
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