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GM shares jumped as much as 5% in premarket trading immediately following the report, but gave up those gains after the European Central Bank failed to take action to spur the EU economy. Shares were slightly lower in late morning trading.
Total GM sales fell 5% to $37.6 billion, even as the number of vehicles sold worldwide edged up slightly. The revenue decline was due to a strengthening of the dollar compared to a year ago.
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I poured a door drink in Cebarkul and the portal took me to Nylon Phool... in a region called Lisa!! I got xp for visiting there even though I've been to Nylon Phool for parties before and when I clicked the map a crinkly page with no streets popped up but with a title - Lisa. I was not at a party, it was like a permanent Nylon Phool or something. Plates of food were out, there were gift boxes lying on the ground. Different characters from the game, the ones represented in the cubimals, were there as well - a pair of animated cacti, Helga the liquor vendor, the greeterbot from Jethimadh Tower, a Bureaucrat who asked you to wait when you talked to him.
Other people were coming through the portal and eventually a couple of staff came along and asked us how we all got there. We were booted out soon after, but I did manage to take a few screenshots.
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The month of August started hot, much like July was with highs in the lower 90s for the 1st, a Wednesday. The 2nd saw temperatures soar into the upper 90s, but thankfully we saw some thunderstorms south of Springfield that dropped a reported 3" in some places. Friday was just as hot, but more humid. Saturday was also hot, but the overnight hours brought central Illinois more rainfall. Between Thursday and Saturday some areas saw 4" of rainfall!
The next week started out warm with Sunday being in the 80s and only a few 90s on Monday. Tuesday was the next hot day with middle to upper 90s under mostly sunny skies. Wednesday the 8th saw some more clouds but still made it into the 90s. A few showers started to push in from the west in the evening, but we didn't get much rain from this event.
Thursday the 9th brought a generally cloudy day that saw some afternoon sunshine. That sunshine turned to Severe Weather and parts of McLean, Champaign, Vermilion, and Edgar Counties saw storm damage. You can get the entire rundown of the reports in the weather vault.
The weekend of the 10th through the 12th was cooler with generally plenty of sunshine. Sunday was a bit cloudy with a few showers. The showers would linger into Monday the 13th, but generally totals were sparse and light. the 14th and 15th were both sunny days with fairly pleasant temperatures and cooler morning starts.
Thursday the 16th brought another chance of severe weather that produced strong winds. The hardest hit areas were in Moultrie, Coles, and Effingham counties. The town of Gays was hit especially hard and there were many other impressive damage and rainfall reports.
The weekend of the 17th through the 19th had great temperatures with highs in the middle to upper 70s, with just a few 80s. The nice temperatures would hold on into the next week as well with highs around 80 for Monday the 20th and Tuesday the 21st. The 22nd saw temperatures rise into the middle to upper 80s and we were back into the 90s for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Sunday brought a great amount of rainfall, with some places reporting up to 4", but areas around I-70 didn't get much. Plenty of sunshine returned on Monday afternoon and stuck around through Thursday. High temperatures during this time were around 90. The heat stuck around through the weekend and into the next week.
The change in the weather came on the last day of the month, Friday, the 31st. The reminants of Hurrican Isaac arrived in central Illinois, bringing scatterd showers. Much heavier rain would arrive in the first few days of September. Rainfall to begin September would good as the Exceptional Drought was still around by the end of August.
We will be updating this story with more August 2012 weather facts as we gather them.
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August actually finished a bit below normal for the state with an average of 73.5 degrees. That's only 0.1 degree below normal, so we'll actually call it "normal." The rainfall average was 3.4", which is 95% of what we should see for the month. Hoopeston actually had the second highest total for the month at 8.33"
These numbers brought the statewide average for temperatures down to 59.0 degrees, which is still 4.2 degrees above normal. This is still the warmest January - August on record in Illinois with the second warmest being 1921 with 58.3 degrees.
The statewide rain totals are still well below normal with a statewide total of 17.45 inches. That number should be 7.31 inches higher. This is the fourth driest July through August on record with the driest being 1936 at 14.95 inches. 1988 at 17.12" and 1934 at 17.41" were the second and third driest.
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The U.S. recorded the 16th warmest August on record with an average temperature of 74.4 degrees. The average precipitation was 2.59", making this August very close to average. You can see the August summary with this signficant event image.
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August of 2012 went down as the 6th warmest August on record. Furthermore, the global land temperatures were the 2nd warmest and the global ocean temperatures were the 5th warmest on record. This is the 330th consecutive month with global temperatures warmer than the 20th century average. The last time there was a month cooler than the average was February of 1985.
You can see the summary for August in this significant event image.
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The average temperature for August was 0.62 C above the 20th century average, making it the 4th warmest August on record. This helped the Arctic shrink to the lowest mark on record. Check out the significant event map for more.
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Champaign-Urbana | 83.7 | 87.1 |
Danville | 83.8 | 86.0 |
Decatur | 86.1 | 86.8 |
Effingham | Not Listed | 88.0 |
Springfield | 84.9 | 89.5 |
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Champaign-Urbana | 63.1 | 61.2 |
Danville | 63.1 | 59.7 |
Decatur | 64.1 | 62.6 |
Effingham | Not Listed | 59.9 |
Springfield | 63.6 | 61.0 |
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Champaign-Urbana | 73.4 | 74.1 |
Danville | 73.5 | 72.9 |
Decatur | 75.1 | 74.7 |
Effingham | Not Listed | 74.0 |
Springfield | 74.3 | 75.3 |
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Champaign-Urbana | 3.93" | 5.55" |
Danville | 3.48" | 3.65" |
Decatur | 3.77" | 2.66" |
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Jim Ingraham's iChart: This might be the end for Manny, and what a wacky ride it was
The Oakland A's are last in the American League in hitting, last in slugging percentage and last in runs per game.
Friday, they released Manny Ramirez from his minor-league contract because they don't have a spot for him on their major-league roster.
If the worst hitting team in the American League doesn't want Manny, chances are Manny is done. But make no mistake about this: Manny was fun.
This was before it got ugly in Boston, before he started bouncing from team to team, before he started juicing, and before he was suspended twice. Before the dark clouds descended over the career and the life of one of the greatest natural hitters who ever shuffled onto the major-league stage.
His was a career best, and succinctly, summed up by Dennis Eckersley after Manny poleaxed him with his famous grand slam:
Manny was in every sense of the word a hitting savant. It was his great fortune his best skill in life was one for which people will pay hundreds of millions of dollars.
If the game of baseball had never been invented, the world would never have heard of Manny Ramirez.
From virtually the moment he walked out of the halls of George Washington High School in the Bronx, Manny could do what less than 1 percent of the American population can do.
He could hit a baseball. Hard. Often. Far. Continued...
He literally was born to hit. So hit he did — from the moment he arrived in Cleveland until literally the moment he left.
As an Indians rookie on Sept. 3, 1993, at age 21, in the second game of his major-league career, in the seventh at-bat of his major-league career, Manny hit the first home run of his major-league career.
Two innings later, in his eighth major league at-bat, he hit his second major-league home run. They both were hit in old Yankee Stadium — which was about a Manny Ramirez home run away from George Washington High School.
Manny's homeboys were there that night. Chanting and cheering, waving the Dominican flag and banging on the pipes of the old ballyard in a celebratory salute to one of their own who made it out of the mean streets and onto easy street.
That's what the major leagues are when you can hit like that. For the next 19 years, it was summertime, and the living was easy for Manuel Aristides Ramirez.
Especially the Cleveland years. The innocent years. The years when Manny would toss his paychecks into the glove box in his car and forget about them. The years when he would wear other players' pants during batting practice. The years when he would get stopped and given a ticket for speeding, then pull away, do a U-turn and get pulled over again by the same officer and given a second ticket.
Oh life could be a dream, sh-boom.
It was great to be young and a hitting savant.
Manny careened through his Cleveland years, forever a juvenile, wild, but innocent. And, oh, could he hit!
How about 1999? A .333 batting average, 44 home runs, 165 RBI, a .442 on-base percentage, a .663 slugging percentage and 131 runs scored. Continued...
Sure, it was the steroid era, and maybe Manny was on the juice then. He did get physically bigger, but it's not as if he suddenly had a spike in his statistics that year. In the four previous years, he hit .310 and averaged 34 homers and 113 RBI per year.
But Manny eventually did test positive for illegal substances — twice. It was after he left Cleveland, though. And nobody left Cleveland like Manny did.
In 2000, he hit a preposterous .351 with a .697 slugging percentage. The last game of that season was Oct. 1 vs. Toronto at Jacobs Field. The Indians weren't going to the playoffs. Manny was going into free agency. So it was his last game with the Indians.
"Manny! Manny! Manny!" the chanting by the fans began as he stood on deck in the seventh inning. It was going to be his last at-bat of the game, the season and his career in Cleveland.
Everybody knew it.
As he walked to the plate: "Manny! Manny! Manny!" By now, it was equal parts adulation and pleading: "Don't leave!"
It ended the way we knew it would.
Manny hit one into the trees in center field, shuffled around the bases wearing the simple grin of a hitting savant — "Hey, it's what I do" — jogged off the field, out of our lives, away forever from his years of innocence and on to New England, where even greater fame, fortune, shame and dark clouds awaited.
It was the end of an era. For the Indians, their fans and for Manny being Manny.
Wow. Continued...
-- Major League Baseball has denied the appeal by the New York Mets that R.A. Dickey should be awarded a no-hitter. Dickey pitched a one-hitter vs. Tampa Bay on Wednesday, but the Mets — in an amazing display of dissing one of their own players — said the one hit should have been an error on their own third baseman, David Wright.
Had MLB agreed with the Mets and changed Dickey's one-hitter to a no-hitter, there was a rumor the Indians were going to file an appeal with MLB saying they should have won the 1997 World Series because, let's face it, they played a pretty solid game in Game 7.
-- In an interview on HBO's "Real Sports," Phil Jackson said he wouldn't want to coach the Knicks because they are "clumsy."
Said Jackson: "They don't fit together."
In the NBA, since when does that matter?
-- What's the deal with all the fake glasses NBA players wear as fashion statements? Isn't wearing glasses you don't need the same thing as wearing a knee brace you don't need?
-- According to ESPN's Chad Ford, the Cavs offered New Orleans, holder of the first pick in the NBA draft, all of their draft picks for New Orleans' first pick, which they would use on Kentucky big man Anthony Davis.
According to Ford, the Hornets "quickly and firmly" declined.
If I were the Cavs, I would have "quickly and firmly" tried these sweeteners:
"All of our draft picks and all of our players, except two."
"All of our draft picks, all of our players, except two, our flaming scoreboard, the yelling guy, and two of our mascots."
"All of our draft picks and half of the Browns' draft picks."
Weak of the week
In the three-game series between Kent State and the Oregon Ducks in the super regional of the NCAA baseball tournament last weekend, I can't believe the ESPN announcers not once in three games described an Oregon rally by saying "There are Ducks on the pond."
Because there were. Literally.
Weak. Very weak.
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This post serves several purposes. First, we bring an update on the code state: The client is now able to leech, that is download, in a lab setting. The lab consist of a test tracker, an rtorrent client two computers. The tesfile is file of 5000000 bytes containing a specific phrase over and over. This gives good compression ratio in git and thus it is not that irritating to move over the wire if needed.
Alex Mason did a good job improving several things in the project. He added prioritization to logging, got compilation working on GHC 6.12.x and is now looking at improving every aspect of data parsing. The BCode work, able to handle the bittorrent bencoded data using applicative functors (Data.Applicative) look really good.
The latter part serves two purposes in parallel: It describes the used idioms and it describes the piece manager code used for leeching torrents. This is a work in progress and there are some things we don't handle yet.
Also, I am trying to use John MacFarlane's excellent pandoc package for typesetting this in blogger.
The Piecemanager
The Piece Manager is defined in the module PieceMgrP. It is responsible for keeping track of the torrents internal Piece State. That is, what do we need to download, and what have we already downloaded and can serve to other peers. Remember that in our terminology, a Block is a subset of a piece, given by an offset and a length. You could call it a slice of a piece.
The basic idiom of the piecemanager is that of an owning process. In traditional semaphore-oriented programming we protect a data structure by a mutex. We could also protect it software transactions, but since we partially derived haskell-torrent from etorrent, we'll go with the message passing method. We simple invent a process to manage the data structure. Operations on the structure is then serialized by passing them to the process and gettings answers back, RPC-style. It might not be parallel, but it certainly is easy.
The data structure we want to protect is the piece database:
> data PieceDB = PieceDB
> { pendingPieces :: [PieceNum]
> , donePiece :: [PieceNum]
> , inProgress :: M.Map PieceNum InProgressPiece
> , infoMap :: PieceMap
> }
The database contains a list of pieces which are pending for download. This list should, in a perfect world, be maintained with a histogram such that we know the rarity of each piece. A good client prefers rare pieces to young pieces and selects randomly among pieces of the same rarity. A weaker client picks randomly without taking their rarity into consideration. A dumb client, like haskell-torrent currently, just picks them off from a single end. This is bad for the torrent cloud to do, but it is a start. If someone comes up with a data structure which is (practically) efficient for storing histograms, I would be happy to hear about it.
The donePiece record field is the list of pieces that are done. We keep this around because when a new peer is connected to the client then we need to tell this peer about what pieces we have fully downloaded.
Then we have Data.Map Map which tells us something about Pieces that are in progress. The InProgress data type has the following structure:
> data InProgressPiece = InProgressPiece
> { ipDone :: Int
> , ipSize :: Int
> , ipHaveBlocks :: S.Set Block
> , ipPendingBlocks :: [Block]
> } deriving Show
These fields are (in order) how many blocks in the piece we have downloaded, the complete size of the piece, a set of the blocks we have downloaded and a list of blocks pending download. The size of the piece is almost always the same, but the last piece is different if the complete file is not a multiple of the block size.
Returning to the PieceDB, the last entry describes the complete torrent. The PieceMap tells, for each piece, its offset in the file, its length and its SHA1 digest. Note we do not support multi-file torrents yet, although this code would probably be unaltered. The offset is in the multi-file-case the offset in the concatenation of the files in the torrent.
Starting the process
The PieceManager process is started with the start call:
> start :: LogChannel -> PieceMgrChannel -> FSPChannel -> PieceDB -> IO ()
> start logC mgrC fspC db = (spawn $ lp db) >> return ()
> where lp db = do
> msg <- sync $ receive mgrC (const True)
> case msg of
We supply a number of CML-channels to the process from the outside and then we spawn off the main loop before returning (). This is probably not good in the long run, where we will need to handle errors in the process. But for now we accept that the code is supposedly error-free and never have any problems.
The loop code itself synchronizes on messages here named msg. These messages have the form
> data PieceMgrMsg = GrabBlocks Int [PieceNum] (Channel [(PieceNum, [Block])])
> | StoreBlock PieceNum Block B.ByteString
> | PutbackBlocks [(PieceNum, Block)]
> | GetDone (Channel [PieceNum])
and each of these are going to be explained in the following. A general note is that if the message contains a channel, it is usually a form of RPC-message, where the channel is the return channel on which to send back an answer. One could probably factor this out into a generic RPC-construction with a bit of cleverness, but I have not given it much thought yet.
In the following, we present some examples of processing these messages.
Grabbing blocks
Here is the fragment for grabbing blocks. It is one of the paths in the diagram above.
> GrabBlocks n eligible c ->
> do logMsg logC $ "Grabbing blocks"
> let (blocks, db') = grabBlocks' n eligible db
> logMsg logC $ "Grabbed..."
> sync $ transmit c blocks
> lp db'
Basically, this call is a request by a peer process to get exclusive access to n blocks among all the available blocks for a while. This ensures that only this peer will download the blocks, eliminating block collisions. The eligible value is a list of pieces that the peer has already downloaded, and we should of course only choose blocks among those. Our block grabber may honor the request or return an empty list if no block can be satisfied.
The guts is hidden in the call to the helper grabBlocks', which we will describe later.
Storing blocks
The other path in the diagram is maintained by this code fragment:
> StoreBlock pn blk d ->
> do FSP.storeBlock fspC pn blk d
> let (done, db') = updateProgress db pn blk
> if done
> then do assertPieceComplete db pn logC
> pieceOk <- FSP.checkPiece fspC pn
> let db'' =
> case pieceOk of
> Nothing ->
> error "PieceMgrP: Piece Nonexisting!"
> Just True -> completePiece db' pn
> Just False -> putBackPiece db' pn
> lp db''
> else lp db'
We get a request to store the block blk in piece pn where d is the data we want to store as a ByteString. We invoke the filesystem to actually store the block. In a real world, we would check that this is really what we wanted. If the piece is already complete and checked, we don't want a stray block to errornously destroy the piece. In general we want more checks like these in the client.
Then we update the database with the progress on the piece. If the piece is done, we invoke a checking of that piece. Either it is complete and Ok, in which case we mark it as such in the database — or it is not Ok, in which case we put it back for downloading. This happens in the real world at times due to clients with bugs so it is always important not to trust the other client. If the piece completes, we should send out HAVE messages to all connected peers. I plan to make the Peer Manager do that, but the code has not yet been implemented for that.
The RPC idiom
When we initially connect to a peer, we will have to transfer the pieces we have. To do this, we construct a BITFIELD message and to construct this, we need the set of pieces which are complete. The GetDone message handles this:
> GetDone c -> do sync $ transmit c (donePiece db)
> lp db
and the peer which want this calls the function
> getPieceDone :: PieceMgrChannel -> IO [PieceNum]
> getPieceDone ch = do
> c <- channel
> sync $ transmit ch $ GetDone c
> sync $ receive c (const True)
I think there is an idiom to be extracted from this code and as it is used quite a lot it would be very beneficial to have in the long run.
Grabbing blocks, the inner workings
The diagram above hints that grabbing blocks has a more complicated control flow. The idea of the code is that the control flow is modeled by a tail call into the next box. Let us break up the code:
> grabBlocks' :: Int -> [PieceNum] -> PieceDB
> -> ([(PieceNum, [Block])], PieceDB)
> grabBlocks' k eligible db = tryGrabProgress k eligible db []
> where
So we will try to grab k blocks from the eligible pieces from db. The empty list is the accumulator in which we add the blocks we found as we go.
> tryGrabProgress 0 _ db captured = (captured, db) -- Enough, exit
> tryGrabProgress n ps db captured =
> case ps `intersect` (fmap fst $ M.toList (inProgress db)) of
> [] -> tryGrabPending n ps db captured
> (h:_) -> grabFromProgress n ps h db captured
Grabbing from the pieces already in progress minimizes the number of "open" pieces. We want to minimize this as a complete piece can be checked for correctness. Correct pieces can then be shared to others and since our download speed is dependent on our upload speed, complete pieces is key. Finding a piece is simply to carry out set intersection. If you've read to this point, there is a refactoring opportunity by using M.keys.
A smarter client, as hinted, would order the eligible pieces such that the rarest pieces were tried first. One could also toy with the idea of pruning: tell the peer what pieces we already have downloaded so it won't include them in further requests. This would keep the ps parameter small in size.
There are three exit-points. Either there was a piece, h, we can grab from that one, or there were none among the pieces in progress: we will then seek the list of pending pieces. Finally, if we are requested to grab 0 blocks, we already have enough blocks and can return those we have together with the new database.
> grabFromProgress n ps p db captured =
> let ipp = fromJust $ M.lookup p (inProgress db)
> (grabbed, rest) = splitAt n (ipPendingBlocks ipp)
> nIpp = ipp { ipPendingBlocks = rest }
> nDb = db { inProgress = M.insert p nIpp (inProgress db) }
> in
> if grabbed == []
> then tryGrabProgress n (ps \\ [p]) db captured
> else tryGrabProgress (n - length grabbed) ps nDb ((p, grabbed) : captured)
Here, we have found the piece p as being in progress. So we find its InProgress structure, and use Data.List.splitAt to cut off as many blocks as possible. We may find that we can't grab any blocks. This happens when we or other peers are already downloading all pieces. We then prune the piece p from the set of eligible pieces and try again. Otherwise, we update the database and the number of pieces to grab and go back to start. Another hint: We should probably prune p from ps here as well :)
> tryGrabPending n ps db captured =
> case ps `intersect` (pendingPieces db) of
> [] -> (captured, db) -- No (more) pieces to download, return
> (h:_) ->
> let blockList = createBlock h db
> ipp = InProgressPiece 0 bSz S.empty blockList
> bSz = len $ fromJust $ M.lookup n (infoMap db)
> nDb = db { pendingPieces = (pendingPieces db) \\ [h],
> inProgress = M.insert h ipp (inProgress db) }
> in tryGrabProgress n ps nDb captured
Finally, this part grabs from the pending pieces. Either we can't find a piece and then we can just exit. In the other case we have found a piece. We then create the blocks of the piece and insert it into the pieces in progress. The tail-call to tryGrabProgress will then find it.
I hope the similarity to the diagram is clear. When building these tail-call mazes I usually start with the diagram sketch. Then I hand-write them in Graphviz's dot-notation and create them. Finally I write the code.


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1. This is statutory guidance from the Department. It explains why maintained schools must have a behaviour policy, what it must cover and the role of the governing body and headteachers in shaping their school's behaviour policy.
2. We use the term 'must' when the person in question is legally required to do something and 'should' when advice is being offered.
3. This guidance replaces chapter 2 of 'School discipline and pupil behaviour policies – guidance for schools'
Expiry/Review date
This guidance will be reviewed in spring 2013.
What legislation does this guidance relate to?
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Who is this guidance for?
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Key points
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Tuesday's Olympic schedule features more Track & Field events, continuing water polo matches, track cycling and beach volleyball.
For the full schedule of events, see the London 2012 official site. As always the NBC Olympic site will be streaming all events live as they happen and the NBC networks will carry various portions throughout the length of the games.
NBC Late Night Finals in the women's steeplechase and shot put, plus the women's omnium - a new program in Olympic Cycling. NBC PT Repeat More apparatus finals in Gymnastics, plus the men's 400m final in Track & Field coverage. Also, qualifying in men's springboard Diving, a men's Beach Volleyball quarterfinal and the men's sprint final in track Cycling. |
10:00A - 10:30A | Track & Field
Qualifying round in Track & Field, including the men's 110m hurdles and 200m, and the women's 5000m. |
10:30A - 11:30A | Women's Water Polo
A women's Water Polo semifinal match. |
11:30A - 11:45A | Cycling
The second round of the men's Keirin. |
11:45A - 12:00P | Track & Field
More qualifying round in Track & Field, including the men's 110m hurdles and 200m, and the women's 5000m. |
12:00P - 12:30P | Cycling
The women's Omnium time trial to be joined in progress. |
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The men's Keirin final. |
Diving The men's 3m springboard semifinal. |
2:00P - 4:00P | Women's Volleyball Quarterfinal Match Women's quarterfinal action in volleyball. |
4:00P - 5:00P | Men's Beach Volleyball
A men's Beach Volleyball semifinal. |
8:00P - 12:00A (8/8) | NBC Primetime
Individual event finals in men's and women's Gymnastics and Track & Field, plus a key women's Beach Volleyball semifinal. |
7:34 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
My spouse has been hovering over the TV coverage of the Olympics in addition to the usual array of nonsense sports but he didn't know that Curiousity landed on Mars, let alone know what Curiousity was or its mission. Sadly, this is the mindset of many Americans. Sporst should be an overall part of the news, not the dominant feature and the Olympics should not be on five different channels simultaneously. Our bodies may be more exercised than in the past but our brains have become dead wood.
5:12 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Classic liberal. You don't like it or understand it so no one should or do it or enjoy watching it. You know what's best for us. You should run for office. You could sponsor some bills to tax all sports.
5:58 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
How is gjc a liberal by saying that we have been inundated with Olympics??? You must be a classic conservative then. I agree with gjc - it's cool to watch the events, but it's around the clock and there are certainly other important things going on in the world.
6:18 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
First, she has a problem with her husband watching so much Olympics. That is "in addition to the usual array of nonsense sports". She seems to have a problem with him watching anything she doesn't think is worthy. Millions of people play, watch and make money on sports. But to her it is nonsense. Classic.
Now, if collecting government checks and entitlements was an OIympic event she'd probably like it. Or maybe the most billions spent in the shortest time. Gold medal there.
Thomas Bruno
6:11 am on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Jerseyswamps - you seem to have gjc pegged into a stereotype just as you complain she has done to her husband. Why don't you lay off. You can share an opinion just don't flame on people. Insinuating that an anonymous poster is on entitlement checks makes you seem like you are more the problem than the solution. Rethink how you share ideas and you might find people listen
4:35 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Tom, I didn't mean to imply she or her family received any kind of entitlement. I meant if the Olympics had events like I suggested she would then find the games more interesting and she would enjoy watching them. She'd cheer them on to win lots of government checks.
I also know gjc is easily offended because she has no sense of humor or at least can not see when someone is making a joke. I meant the whole thing as a joke to see if I could get a rise out of her.
9:58 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
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The Beggar is a randomly occurring NPC in the game. He appears as a Slot Machine icon on the mini-map.
Bumping into The Beggar gives him a penny, and he has a chance of dropping a random Pickup, a Trinket, an Item, or nothing at all. This can be repeated until he drops an item, after which he will vanish. The Beggar will remain in the room until he drops an item or is blown up by a bomb.
If blown up, he will drop a couple of random consumable items. He always gives a pickup or an item if he doesn't drop anything after giving him 4 cents.
- The Beggar's final reward can be a HP Up or any item you could get from a Shop or even a Treasure Room.
- Items from The Beggar are in effect usually cheaper than the items from the Shop.
- It also seems that giving a beggar your last cent (ie. dropping you to 0 cents) has a higher chance of an Item dropping.
- Blowing up a Beggar increases the chances of finding the Devil Room.
- Giving the Beggar coins increases the chance of finding the Angel Room.
The XX Judgement Tarot Card can be used to spawn a Beggar in any room. This causes the beggar to drop items from that room's Item Pool, allowing a player to get free Devil Room items or multiple Cubes Of Meat, for example.
Devil BeggarEdit
Devil Beggars are a new type of Beggar added with the Wrath of the Lamb DLC. They can be found anywhere a normal beggar can be found. They can also be spawned with the XX Judgement Tarot Card.
Beggars will exchange red hearts (Similar to a Blood Donation Machine, taking a 1/2 heart in levels up to the The Womb and a full heart in The Womb and onwards) per use for Trinkets or Items.
Unlike normal beggars, devil beggars also have a chance of spawning a Devil Room item. If blown up, they drop two Spiders.
Devil Beggars will take Eternal Hearts first, then Normal Hearts. Like Blood Donation Machines, Devil Beggars take normal hearts over soul hearts first. If you have half a heart left, but still have some Soul Hearts, it will take those instead.
Heart donation counts as damage, so they should be avoided when attempting to achieve a "No Damage" achievement unless encountered with the use of invincibility-granting items such as the Book of Shadows or My Little Unicorn.
Using Devil Beggars with an invincibility-granting item will not take hearts, but can still spawn items and the like.
For the purpose of opening a Devil Room/Angel Room, Devil Beggars count as normal beggars.
Unlike normal Beggars, Devil Beggars aren't guaranteed to give out a drop when played 4 times.
Devil Beggars will occasionally fluctuate on health-taking, taking one heart, no hearts, etc. with no seeming pattern.
Devil Beggars actually count as Blood Donation Machines, so you can unlock Mom's Bottle of Pills by giving hearts to them. They also make the same Blood Donation Machine heart-taking sound when impacted by the player.
Possible Item DropsEdit
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Housing | |
Built-In Tamper | No |
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