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NAIA Softball Players of the Week - No. 1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Latainna Eltsosie of Lubbock Christian (Texas) has been tabbed as the NAIA National Softball Player of the Week and Caitlin Santefort of Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) has been named the NAIA National Softball Pitcher of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Eltsosie and Santefort are the first honorees of the 2013 season. The pair was chosen, based on their performances from March 4 - 10 out of a pool of conference player of the week selections among 21 conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Eltsosie, an Albuquerque, N.M., native, hit a scorching .615 (8-of-13) in helping the Lady Chaps to a 3-1 week. In her four games for the week, she recorded four home runs and 11 runs batted in (RBI). In the only lose for the Lady Chaps, Eltsosie hit two homeruns and collected four RBI. In three of the four games Eltsosie recorded multi-hit games. She recorded a slugging percentage of 1.538 for the week.
Eltsosie ranks near the top nationally in multiple categories, including tenth in homeruns (6) and 21st in RBI (22). She is hitting .286 for the season.
Santefort, a Mokena, Ill., native gave up no runs in six appearances last week for the Tigers. Santefort recorded five wins and one save in the last week. In 23 1/3 innings pitched, Santefort gave up 13 hits, while striking out 17 batters and walking four. Against No. 22 William Penn (Iowa) on March 7, Santefort allowed two hits while striking out one in an 11-0 victory.
Santefort ranks among the nation's elite in several major categories, including first in total earned runs allowed (0), Earned Run Average (0.00), total runs allowed (0) and 13th in saves (1). She is holding opponents to a batting averaging .177 on the season.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
Pitcher Nominees: Maddie Monroe, Reinhardt (Ga.); Taylor Mohler, Bellevue (Neb.); Alexis Beltran, Texas Wesleyan; Katie Cotta, Concordia (Calif.); Jennifer Garcia, Bethany (Kan.); Cassie Daniels, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); Cheyanne Knepper, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Taylor Schmidt, Oregon Tech; Kelli Wenberg, Park (Mo.); Emily Lemin, Ave Maria (Fla.); Bridgett Goss, West Virginia Tech; Heidi Warmelink, Cornerstone (Mich.); Brooke Brenton, Evangel (Mo.); Bethany Sullivan, Indiana Southeast; Jennifer Whitehead, William Penn (Iowa); Natalie Newell, Bethel (Ind.); Katie VandeVoort, Northwestern (Iowa); Laura Fleck, Rogers State (Okla.); Justine Roscoe, Menlo (Calif.).
Player Nominees: Megan Walentynowicz, Southwestern (Kan.); Brittany Lamar, William Jessup (Calif.); Ciara Fraher, Southwest (N.M.); Vanessa Arandules, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Emma Napier, Campbellsville (Ky.); Kortney Loar, Concordia (Mich.); Jyssica Pepper, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); Jess Plummer, Oregon Tech; Cj Browder, South Carolina Beaufort; Jamie Tanno, Park (Mo.); Justine Phillips, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Jacki Wood, West Virginia Tech; Megan Perry-Shifflett, Virginia Intermont; Molly Miller, William Penn (Iowa); Danielle Reilly, Bethel (Ind.); Lindsey Remien, Northwestern (Iowa); Allison Edwards, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Jordan Batliner, Indiana Southeast; Jennifer Lorenzi, Arizona Christian.
2013 Softball Weekly Honors (Player, Pitcher):
Week 1: Latainna Eltsosie, Lubbock Christian (Texas), Caitlin Santefort, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)


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Sailing Log of the vessel WINGS
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so sorry to hear about rage , so heartbreaking . i dont know your friends or their boat but i can feel the grief of losing their home. good luck to you all. tom gatrell
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Two people: Fred & Judy , drawn to each other and yet somehow drawn also to the sea, and both intrigued by the idea of living aboard.
I saw her, blond and asymmetrical, beautiful, boarding another's boat and I followed her and wooed her, or she wooed me. That was 1985 and we fell in love and we thought that to buy a boat and make a life together on the water was only natural.
So we did.
The boat was WINGS.
For the next ten years we lived on Wings in Seattle, had jobs in the city, sailed every chance we got, and 40-50 times a year, went racing. It was great.
Then we left Seattle and began our cruising life. We voyaged across the world, across the seven seas, to faraway places, and made them our own.
Wings was our home, and is still, and we lived wherever the sea met the land and people welcomed us, as they did everywhere.
For thirty years we've lived this life, and more to come, we hope.
Join us now, and sail the seas.
Fred Roswold & Judy Jensen, SV Wings, Caribbean
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Kohl's Cares grants Hershey more than $150K for prevention initiatives
Kohl's Cares grants Hershey more than $150K for prevention initiatives
Kohl's will present Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital with a check for $153,285 at the opening bell ceremony for the Farmer's Market in Hershey on Aug. 8. Through outreach events like the Farmer's Market in Hershey, the Kohl's funded Healthy Champions program, delivered by Penn State Hershey PRO Wellness Center, teaches children and families the importance of bringing healthy choices to life — starting with eating healthy and getting active.
The gift supports Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital and Penn State Hershey PRO Wellness Center in efforts to fight childhood obesity by supporting programs for advancing nutrition and activity awareness in the community.
Through the Kohl's Cares cause merchandise program, anyone can help support the Kohl's Healthy Champions program with the purchase of a $5 Kohl's Cares book or plush toy found at any Kohl's location in York, Lancaster, Lebanon, Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, Hanover, Colonial Park, Williamsport or Selinsgrove. One hundred percent of the net profits supports children's health and educational opportunities.


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The Fig That Was Almost Toast!
Source: Catholic.Net
At that time some people who were present there told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them -- do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!" And he told them this parable: "There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he said to the gardener, 'For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So, cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?' He said to him in reply, 'Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not, you can cut it down.'"
Introductory Prayer: Lord, who am I that you spend time listening to me in my prayer? Who am I that you speak with me? You have given humanity such dignity by assuming our nature and giving me personally so many gifts. Time and time again you have been patient with me and received me back into your embrace when I have strayed from you. Thank you for your kindness to me. I hope to receive it always in the future and especially at the hour of my death. Your kindness and patience are a manifestation of your love for me. I want to return that love, because the only fitting response to love is love.
Petition: Lord, help me to be as patient with others as you are with me.
1. The Fig-less Fig: The owner of the fig tree in the parable, which many spiritual authors see as an image of God the Father, comes for three years in search of fruit. How often our Heavenly Father comes in search of fruit on the fig tree of our lives. And what does he find? He has given us the "soil" and so many elements that are conducive to being fruitful. He has made known his desire for us to bear fruit, and his Son has explained to us how the fruit is to be produced. There are no excuses. Let's take notice of the lesson of the parable: When the Father comes to us looking for fruits, it is because it is the time for fruit. What will we say to the Father if he has given us ten, twenty, forty, sixty years to bear fruit but finds none? It's not just about looking nice, as a fig does. It's about bearing fruit – fruit that will last – according to the Father's plan.
2. The Fig That Was Almost Toast: There is an American idiom referring to something that is destroyed and no longer what it was: "It's toast!" The fig tree in the parable was in danger of becoming "toast." "Cut it down" was the order given by the owner. "Why should it exhaust the soil?" What a terrible accusation! It was useless and only sapping nutrients from the soil for no purpose. When we apply this parable to our own lives, it is ghastly to think that our life, or the lives of others, might be just as useless. Cut it down. Take it away. It serves no purpose. The judgment is just. But it was a judgment that was soon to be lifted, both in the case of the fig tree and in the application to our own lives. Am I sufficiently grateful for God's continual mercy towards me and others?
3. Leave It… Thanks to the gardener in the parable, the fig lives and is not cut down. The axe does not bite into the trunk of the fig, wrenching from it the beauty of its leaves and meandering branches. In our case, Jesus Christ the Good Gardener steps in and asks the owner, the Heavenly Father, to "leave it;" he, the Good Gardener, will take care of things. And how he does it! The Gardener himself is cut down in a bloody way and crucified. We who indeed should justly be cut down are saved, while the axe is put to the trunk of His body. All for love of us! Archbishop Luis Martinez has a beautiful image in his book, The Secrets of the Interior Life where he speaks of suffering as a manifestation of love: "It is said that the myrrh tree allows its perfume to escape only when it is bruised." The perfume "flows drop by drop through the lacerations of the bark that enfold them."
Conversation with Christ: Lord Jesus Christ, how patient the Father is with me! Thank you for coming to save me, for laying your life down for me, for suffering what I should endure because of my self-centeredness and sinfulness. But with you, there is hope.
Resolution: I will exercise patience today with everyone I meet, thinking of the patience that God has had with me.


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At the End of My Rope.
Every time I hear John Kerry or his surrogates try to explain how his position on Iraq has been "consistent all along" I could scream. You've heard it all already ("I voted for the 'authority' only, but Bush 'rushed to war' and lied about WMDs…blah, blah"), so there is no need to lay it all out again. He has spent the last year in the enviable position of being able to sit on the sidelines, criticize the entry into the war and carp at the President's every move to prosecute the war.
Let's just suppose that when we took Baghdad, we had found 20 warehouses full of nuclear weapons. Here's my question. Does anyone think that John Kerry wouldn't have elbowed his way to the front of the line to brag about his vote FOR the war? [/rhetorical question]


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Jackw necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 145 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
CMS Montera Inc.
We are a software development and business consulting firm that helps manufacturers and distributors improve. We have already created a software called CMS RoadRunner (logo attached) that helps with production scheduling and execution as well as supply chain flow. This product, together with our business consulting services, based on the Toyota Production System and Theory of Constraints enable our clients to implement new processes and tools making them more productive.
Monter in French means Ascend - signifying rapid growth.
Most of our clients are business managers and executives. They are conservative but looking for new and innovative ideas that can help them grow their businesses.
They expect to deal with a trust worthy, experienced and professional businesses in order to establish long term relationships with.
We need a business logo that will build on our existing product logo (attached). It may or may not use some the elements already incorporated in the logo. It would probably be advantageous if we could incorporate some of the existing colour schemes.
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Bring out your lawn chairs for free blues music every Tuesday night this summer at The Tower Courtyard in Overton Square.
This week, jam to the tunes of Wampus Cats.
Beer is available for purchase. No coolers or outside alcoholic beverages please.
Bluesday Tuesday is hosted by The Memphis Blues Society (MBS), a nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to present live blues performances, sustain blues artists, preserve blues culture and offer the entire Mid-South community, regardless of socio-economic status, age or disability, the opportunity to appreciate live blues performances.


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The above sites are not managed or maintained by the City of Fullerton. The City does not control or guarantee that third-party sites are accurate or reliable and is not responsible for the content of any third-party sites. The City encourages visitors of those sites to check the privacy statements of those sites and be cautious about providing personally identifiable information without a clear understanding of how the information will be used. Real estate professionals pay to list properties on the CoStar and LoopNet search.
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Blue Jays looking to fill holes at Winter Meetings
TORONTO -- Blue Jays officials will descend upon the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Monday morning with the goal of laying some groundwork to fill the club's remaining holes.
Toronto doesn't appear to be on the verge of any major deals, but that could easily change at a moment's notice. The annual Winter Meetings is often the site where proposals and general concepts are exchanged, and general manager Alex Anthopoulos will once again find himself a busy man.
TORONTO -- Blue Jays officials will descend upon the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Monday morning with the goal of laying some groundwork to fill the club's remaining holes.
Toronto doesn't appear to be on the verge of any major deals, but that could easily change at a moment's notice. The annual Winter Meetings is often the site where proposals and general concepts are exchanged, and general manager Alex Anthopoulos will once again find himself a busy man.
Anthopoulos has garnered a reputation of being one of the most active general managers in the league, but typically the Blue Jays don't make any moves at the Meetings. Over the years, there have been trades involving Shaun Marcum and Sergio Santos. But in both cases, the moves were agreed upon prior to the Meetings and just not officially announced until later in the week.
A similar period of inactivity could be on the horizon for Toronto. Anthopoulos told reporters on Wednesday morning that the Blue Jays continue to have trade talks with other teams, but he didn't necessarily anticipate any major moves in Florida. The same goes for free agents, and unless some of the asking prices drop, Toronto appears unlikely to make a major splash on the open market.
Even though Anthopoulos tempered expectations, there's still a chance that some progress could be made. Last year, the Blue Jays began to close in on a deal with the Mets for R.A. Dickey and the dialogue helped set the stage for a trade that was completed later in the month.
Here's a closer look at what the Blue Jays will look to accomplish at the Winter Meetings and some of the assets they could make available in order to get it done:
Club needs
Rotation: The starting rotation continues to be the most glaring area of need for Anthopoulos and the rest of his staff. Toronto would like to add at least one legitimate starting pitcher and is still open to the idea of making more changes if the price is right. The Cubs' Jeff Samardzija continues to be frequently mentioned in the rumor mill, while other names are sure to surface in the coming days. Adding at least one proven starter to the likes of Dickey, Mark Buehrle and Brandon Morrow would go a long way toward stabilizing the starting five. Depth isn't the issue -- with J.A. Happ, Drew Hutchison, Marcus Stroman, Sean Nolin, Todd Redmond and Esmil Rogers in contention for a spot -- but the overall quality of talent is.
Second base: The Blue Jays entered the offseason with a goal of adding a proven second baseman to the roster, but that appears to have at least somewhat changed over the past several weeks. Anthopoulos claims he would be just fine with rookie Ryan Goins and veteran Maicer Izturis working together in some sort of platoon next year. Anthopoulos obviously wouldn't tip his hand to the media, but it does become rather clear that second base isn't as much of a priority as previously thought. There's still a desire from the club to add depth, but it probably won't be a big name like the Angels' Howie Kendrick or the Reds' Brandon Phillips.
Utility infielder: Mark DeRosa's retirement in November opened up a spot on next year's roster for someone else to platoon with first baseman/designated hitter Adam Lind. The 30-year-old Lind is at his best when limited to starts against right-handers, and the 25th man on the roster likely will begin the games with lefties on the mound. The early favorite for that role is outfielder Moises Sierra, who recently began taking ground balls at first base in winter ball. Sierra is out of options on his contract, and will be given a legitimate shot to make the team. But Anthopoulos hasn't ruled out acquiring someone with more of a proven track record to fill that role.
Who they can trade if necessary
Relievers: The Blue Jays have an abundance of late-inning relievers, and there's a strong chance the club could use some of that depth to improve another area on the roster. Closer Casey Janssen, Santos, right-hander Steve Delabar and left-hander Brett Cecil certainly would generate a lot of interest across both leagues. There's also a lot of depth in the second tier of Toronto's bullpen, with the likes of Neil Wagner, Dustin McGowan, Aaron Loup and Luis Perez.
Happ: Happ likely isn't going anywhere unless the Blue Jays add at least two starters this offseason. He currently projects as Toronto's No. 4 starter and would transition into the No. 5 spot if the club is able to find an upgrade elsewhere. In the unlikely event that a second significant piece could be added to the staff, then that likely would spell the end of Happ's tenure in Toronto. Happ is owed $5.2 million next year, with a $6.7 million club option for the following season.
Prospects: The vast majority of Toronto's depth in the Minor Leagues can be found at the lower levels, but there are still some very appealing targets to be had through trade. The Blue Jays want to hang onto top prospects Stroman and Aaron Sanchez, but that could always change depending on who was being offered by another team. The more likely candidates to be used as trade chips would be the likes of Nolin, Kyle Drabek and Daniel Norris.
Top prospects
There was a lot of speculation last year that the Blue Jays gutted their system to complete blockbuster trades with the Marlins and Mets, but that's only partially true. There's no doubt that the system took a major hit with the departures of Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud, Jake Marisnick and Justin Nicolino, but there's more help on the way.
More experts seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of the Blue Jays' system this offseason. The club can be found in the top 10 on a lot of lists that rank overall depth and the quality of talent. The problem is that most of that talent is at least a few years away. There are a few prospects on the horizon, though, as Sanchez is ranked as Toronto's No. 1 overall prospect by MLB.com, Stroman No. 3 and Nolin No. 5. The rest will take longer to develop, but the club has some high-end arms in Roberto Osuna (No. 2), Norris (No. 4) and Matthew Smoral (No. 10).
Rule 5 Draft
The Blue Jays currently don't have any openings on their 40-man roster and appear destined to take a pass on the Major League portion of this year's Draft. This should hardly come as a surprise, considering that Anthopoulos declined to make a pick in each of the past three years.
Toronto doesn't appear to be at a major risk of losing any significant pieces to other teams during the Draft. Outfielder Kenny Wilson and right-hander Deck McGuire were added to the 40-man roster to avoid just that, and right-hander Ryan Tepera would appear to be the most likely candidate to get swiped by another team.
Big contracts they might unload
There isn't anyone that really fits into this category for the Blue Jays. Buehrle is owed $37 million over the next two seasons, but Toronto needs to add more quality pitching and can't afford to trade away someone as reliable as him.
Jose Bautista has been frequently mentioned in the media this year as a potential trade candidate, but that's equally as hard to believe. Bautista is owed a rather team-friendly $28 million through the 2015 season, with a club option for $14 million in the following year, as well. He's an integral component of Toronto's lineup and, unless another team offers up a frontline starter, it's extremely unlikely that Bautista goes anywhere.
Payroll summary
The Blue Jays' payroll is always somewhat of a mystery, but according to various reports, it's believed that the club will operate under a payroll of approximately $145 million to $150 million next year. The club currently has 16 players under guaranteed contracts for 2014 at a total of $121.2 million. There's an additional three players eligible for arbitration, while the overall projected payroll hovers around the $135 million mark.
That's easily enough money in the bank to add at least one starting pitcher, but leaves the rest of the club's plans a little bit up in the air. An addition at second base should also be feasible. But if the club wants to add a second starter, it might have to get a little creative with some of the players already under contract.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.


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Lawyers for NECC-linked meningitis victims flood Boston court
50 deaths blamed on NECC meningitis outbreak
Dozens of lawyers from around the country filed into the federal courthouse in Boston Tuesday to appear before a judge trying to work through hundreds of lawsuits against the New England Compounding Center.
The cases have been consolidated into the Framingham company's bankruptcy proceedings.
Plaintiffs' attorneys say all of the cases against NECC and health care providers that administered the contaminated steroid have gotten tougher to defend. NECC has been accused of providing the steroid that led to a nationwide meningitis outbreak.
A "60 Minutes" report Sunday included a former NECC salesman who claimed many of the company's clients were aware of a fraud.
The law required NECC to have a name on every prescription.
The salesman said clinics would write names of Simpson cartoon characters to get product in bulk and at a cheaper price.
"All of the bad things that happened to the victims could not have happened if the people who bought them had checked out the clinics and checked the information," said attorney Michael Galligan who represents numerous victims in Tennessee. "They should have checked instead of actually conspiring with them to help this project along when it really wasn't one prescription for one patient."
In all, 50 meningitis deaths and 722 illnesses in 20 states have been blamed on contaminated injections from NECC.


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BULLSEYE was a popular British television programme. Between 1981 and 1995, your host Jim Bowen fronted the world's leading televised, darts-based, pro-am game show. So long as people talk about darts-based games shows on ITV, they will talk about Bullseye. But what about the contestants? Christina Martin has compiled a gallery of faces who played "a bit of Bully". More here.
Also look out for the prizes and the spelling round.


text: It is a great time of year to cuddle up with some good books! Join the Winter Reading Program by tracking your minutes and filling out a square of a form for each minute read. It can be library books, books from home, even books friends loan you! Once the form is filled, it reveals a picture and you can turn it in to select a free book to keep! Pick up the form from the Children's Question Desk and return it there as well, when you are done. The program runs from now until March 21, 2014. Stop by today for the form and get reading! --Rachel


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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government held talks with top commanders of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) rebel group in China on Monday to try to rescue a faltering peace process and end one of the country's bloodiest ethnic conflicts.
The KIA is fighting for autonomy for Kachin state within a federal Myanmar, which successive governments of the ethnically diverse country have long rejected.
The two sides met for seven hours in Ruili, just inside Chinese territory and afterwards issued a vaguely worded joint statement that said further talks would be held in the next few weeks, aimed at setting up a communications channel and monitoring system, to enforce a ceasefire "as soon as possible".
It was unclear whether the meeting represented any real breakthrough and if any formal ceasefire deal had been signed.
Government-KIA talks have been held on 11 previous occasions, without progress, after fighting broke out anew in June 2011, when a 17-year truce collapsed. The number of casualties is unknown.
The talks come off the back of an escalation in a conflict in which the military has been accused by rights groups of using excessive force, discrediting a government lauded for broad reforms and initiating a nationwide peace drive.
Myanmar's military admitted in December to using jets for air strikes to thwart what it said was KIA aggression and witnesses say helicopter gunships were also deployed against the KIA, which is one of the strongest rebel armies in Myanmar and has its own munitions factories.
Truces with ethnic minority rebel groups, some of which have fought central governments since the end of British colonial rule in 1948, were among a series of reforms that led to the suspension last year of most Western sanctions on Myanmar. The KIA is the only group that has not agreed a formal ceasefire.
President Thein Sein has been praised for helping to strike ceasefires with various groups but the heavy fighting in Kachin state has raised doubts about his ability to control the military, which ruled Myanmar from 1962-2011.
Thein Sein, a retired general, made public calls for troops not to launch offensives, but fighting has not stopped, even after he announced a unilateral ceasefire in January and invited the KIA for talks.
The government sent its top negotiator, Aung Min, a minister in the office of the president, to Monday's meeting, which was also attended by the second-in-command of the KIA, General Gun Maw, said sources with knowledge of the talks.
The government wants a ceasefire deal signed before any long-term political agreement is discussed, but the KIA, which harbors deep distrust of the military, wants a concrete proposal to be made before it signs a truce.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry official and two top-ranking members of the Karen National Union, which ended its six-decade conflict with the government last year, also attended the meeting as witnesses, the statement said.
Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Oliver Holmes


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Student or Learner
Is there any difference between "to hit one's head on smth" or "to hit one's head against smth"?
Please take the trouble to write something and somebody in full in future posts.
I'm not a teacher yet, but I am studying a Bachelor of Education with an English Literature major at Charles Sturt University, in NSW, Australia.
We do see "smb" and "smth" and various versions of those on here quite regularly, mainly because dictionary definitions use abbreviations and contractions of those words. As HanibalII said, though, we have to be careful on the forum to use full English words as true beginners can become very confused if they see non-standard words but don't realise they are not non-standard. That is one of the reasons that we ask members not to use "text-speak" or "chatlish" (ie, don't use "u", "thx" etc).
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I remember when I was just starting out with my life…graduated high school and was ready to tackle the world…but how would I do that without a credit card?
Luckily I was 24 when I got my first credit card…it was a Sears Card (still have it) and I had watched enough friends go through "credit hell" to know that credit cards were bad news. I also had a wise old grandfather who liked to remind me all the time that "credit cards were the devil." he would say. And by golly he was right.
Today is National Get Smart About Credit Day and I have decided to share a few things that I have learned along the way about credit and your credit score.
Don't open a charge account every time a department store tells you they will give you a discount for opening one. Department store credit cards are always higher in interest. Usually averaging in around 23% or higher. Not to mention that the more credit cards you have activated…the more it hurts your credit.
Pay attention to your debt to credit ratio. This means that the amount of credit you have available should be higher than that you are using. Much higher. Your credit score with be majorly affected if you go above a 50% ratio.
Don't close unused accounts. This goes with the statement above. If you have cards you don't use it's not always a good idea to close them because that also lowers your debt to credit ratio and believe it or not also takes points off your score.
When buying something via loan be aware that every inquiry on your credit hurts your credit score. I am sure you are asking, then how am I supposed to find the best deal for a loan? Staying on top of your credit score and having this information readily available with you can avoid them having to do an inquiry on your credit report. Credit Karma is a great place to keep track of your credit report and score and it's free! It really is. If you have been with a particular bank for a long time your best bet would be to check with them first about obtaining a loan. Especially when doing a car loan.
Don't use a credit card unless you can pay it off each month. I know that for some this is a very difficult task, so try to limit your use to only using credit cards for emergencies. Not to obtain a want, but a need, rather. Yes that new dress would be great hanging in the closet but just add up in your head how much you will actually pay for it after you have taken 6 months and lots of interest payments later to pay for it.
When getting a major credit card try to obtain one with a points perk. And make sure they don't expire! You can build up points quickly by using the credit card for everyday purchases and making sure to pay it off before the grace period. Just make sure you keep track of what you are spending so you are not surprised when you go to pay it.
Zero interest or same as cash is awesome. If you can purchase something with one of your cards and get so many months same as cash…go for it! Just make sure that you pay the amount before the end, or the credit card will charge you all the back interest for not paying within the said time limit. Best way to do this is to take the total of what you are going to owe and divide it by how many months you have to pay it and then pay that amount every month. I am all for borrowing someone else's money for free and not having to dig into my own savings for a big purchase.
Try and get lower interest rates. When your credit score is in good standing and you have been paying your bills on time call your credit card companies and see if they would be willing to offer you a lower rate or a special offer on a balance transfer. Only do balance transfers if they are really going to save you a ton of money. The hidden fees in balance transfers sometimes out weigh the money you think you are saving.
Always have one credit card in use. To keep your credit score up you must always be using your credit. Therefore even if you hate using credit cards, if you love having a good score then you will want to always have one card you are using at least once a month. Even if you just make a small purchase with it and pay it off before interest.
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One of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's premier sites and 100 years old, Hakone is one of the oldest Japanese estate, retreat and gardens in the Western Hemisphere. Hakone has also been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2013. 18 acres of magnificent beauty is nestled in the verdant hills of Saratoga overlooking Silicon Valley.
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As China ring-fences internet spat
Google is serving up an explanation of its China syndrome difficulties amongst its sponsored search results - but has apparently balked at the idea of pouring its marketing budget into Bing or Yahoo!'s pockets.
Searchengineland spotted that users tapping 'Google China' into Google will see the usual slew of results, as well as a sponsored link to the blog posting that kicked off the whole Google/China/hacking/dissidents firestorm last week.
This is fair enough - Google has to make its point somewhere, after all. It might help if its PR department actually returned journalists' calls, though.
However, the firm appears to have limits on exactly who it wants to get its message out to, and users of lesser search engines are not on its radar.
The same search terms on Bing show no sponsored results on the main search page, though the shopping results do serve up some sponsored results. These included florists and valentines in China, though we suspect Google won't be availing itself of such services for a while.
The cupboard is equally bare over at Yahoo!, though a search on China does offer some sponsored links to holidays there. Something else we don't imagine Google top brass doing anytime soon.
Alternatively, it may be that Yahoo! and Microsoft have turned down the Google shilling to tell it to do its own shilling.
Meanwhile, China has played down the impact of its falling out with Google on the broader relationship with Washington. State news agency Xinhua, quoted Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei as saying: "The Google incident should not be linked to bilateral relations, otherwise that would be over-interpreting it."
He added that relations between China and the US had been "basically stable" since Barack Obama took the presidency. He also repeated Beijing's position that it welcomed foreign internet companies, as long as they observed Beijing's laws, and/or Beijing's interpretations of same.
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The other night I plowed through Jeffrey Goldberg's recent New Yorker article, "The Hunted: Did American Conservationists in Africa Go Too Far?" (full text blissfully available online). Goldberg reports the story of Mark and Delia Owens, animal researchers turned conservationists in southern Africa. They wrote several books about their life in Botswana and Zambia, and American TV producers filmed a documentary about them in the mid-90s. The film crew captured the shooting death of a "trespasser" (or poacher?) by someone off-camera, believed to be Mark's adult son Christopher. The Owens left Zambia shortly thereafter and, in the aftermath of the controversy, have been advised not to return.
As I read, I kept waiting for the climax. OK, I thought, so the Owenses were perhaps involved in the murder of one person. What else? This thought was immediately followed by another: has my time in Central Africa made me so cynical that I no longer react with outrage to the killing of an unarmed "trespasser"? Perhaps.
But I think my reaction stemmed less from cynicism than from Goldberg's relentless focus on this one charismatic American couple at the expense of placing them within a larger perspective -- a larger perspective that would in fact have been more chilling. For many people are killed every year in the name of combating poaching across the continent.
In CAR, militarized anti-poaching is done by a parastatal "project" funded by the European Union. (The project will end in July, at which point it will be replaced; its successor aims to critically examine the management of space in CAR, which hopefully will diminish the death toll of poachers, anti-poaching guards, cattle, elephants, and other animals.) In the past twenty years, this work has been done by French soldiers ("securing the borders"); an American conservationist (his efforts never really got off the ground, though, because the South African mercenary in his employ got into diamonds and attempted murder and other scandals); Russian former French Foreign Legionnaires funded by safari hunters...I could continue.
The well-armed poachers come in increasingly large groups (up to one hundred strong, with camels and donkeys), and, according to the anti-poaching guards, they shoot first. These are not people you can ask nicely to please not kill the elephants and go home. The poachers, who generally come from Sudan, used to target CAR's north and east, closer to home. But they've killed all the elephants there, and the poachers have now penetrated as far as the southwest, and even Cameroon. Because of this dire situation, appearance alone suffice as justification for the guards to kill an interloper. It is war between the anti-poaching guards and the poachers and cattleherders who seek to profit from CAR's vast, sparsely-populated terrain. Only it's a war that is largely hidden from the outside world.
(I once spoke with a man who does militarized anti-poaching work about the fall from grace of one of his predecessors. The predecessor had apparently mutilated, or allowed his men to mutilate, the corpses of poachers they killed. I suggested that this was why he had been kicked out. My interlocutor, though, disagreed. The problem was not that he mutilated bodies. The problem was that he took photos, and, when he had a falling out with a few people, those photos made their way into the European press.)
There is a case to be made for militarized anti-poaching work. Richard Leakey makes it eloquently in Wildlife Wars, his book about his tenure as head of the Kenya Wildlife Services. It is a difficult issue that demands a sustained examination. But focusing on Owenses, and the fall-out from one particular incident, risks masking that what they appear to have done/abetted slots uncomfortably into a widespread division of labor in the conservation world. I once spoke with a director at a reputable international conservation organization, who explained his personal opinion: militarized anti-poaching work is necessary, and our programs would be useless without it, but we can't do it, or say we support it, because of the outcry. Donors wooed with fundraising entreaties full of photos of furry friends would be scandalized. Again, the message is that it's OK as long as it is hidden.
By focusing on the Owenses' misguided efforts (yes, criminal would probably be a better descriptor, but there is a lot of technically criminal activity that goes unpunished in Central Africa) the article makes them into scapegoats rather than implicating the rest of us who see saving the elephants as an imperative. Goldberg unintentionally obscures the thorny challenges of human/livestock/wildlife coexistance that the world (the ivory market is not in Africa, it should be noted) currently struggles with. (Based on the article, it seems like poaching in southern Africa is somewhat under control; in Central Africa it is anything but.)
It is important not to oversell the successes of militarized anti-poaching. National Geographic published a graphic photo-studded story three years ago about Zakouma National Park in Chad (just across the border from CAR), which has been hard-hit by poachers. The author, Mike Fay, struck a cautiously congratulatory tone in his description of the anti-poaching guards' (also EU-funded) work. Nevertheless, in the past four years Zakouma's elephant population has dwindled from 4,000 to 400. Unless something is done about demand, no conservation efforts will succeed.
The article's best line by far came from an Idahoan reacting negatively to the Owenses' attempts to impose their will on their Idaho neighbors: "We're not Africans." The comment carried a clear meaning: you can't just push us around the way you can those peasants. The comment is such a sad commentary on the state of Western ways of operating -- whether motivated by good intentions or not -- in the continent's "hidden" spaces.


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Six months after his triumphant re-election, President Barack Obama has run into the hard reality of the modern presidency.
The cheering crowds that helped vault him into a second term in the White House mean little, if anything, back in Washington. A close look at his most recent defeat – a series of proposals intended to curb gun violence – shows that election popularity does not automatically translate into legislative success. Nor do campaign-like efforts to win a vote in Congress. Obama put more effort into the proposals than he has most issues, but he still suffered one of his biggest legislative defeats.
The defeat illustrates a key truth – for all their power, presidents rarely succeed in manipulating votes on Capitol Hill. If anything, their abilities to twist arms have grown even more limited in recent years. Strained budgets leave them no extra money or pet projects to offer lawmakers in return for votes. And Obama's detached personality and short history in Washington make him even less likely to wheel and deal with lawmakers.
"There's not much presidents can do to change votes. It's mostly a myth," said George Edwards, a presidential scholar at Texas A&M University. "It's never been that way and it's less so now."
His own election victory still fresh in his mind, Obama thought he had a clear path to bend Congress to his will after the horror of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December. His goal: the first significant new controls on guns in a generation.
He tapped Vice President Joe Biden to lead a task force to examine gun laws. Biden spent a month speaking to more than 200 organizations on all sides of the issue, from crime victims to religious leaders, law enforcement organizations to gun manufacturers.
Obama unveiled his sweeping package of executive actions and proposed legislation in January. He immediately began trying to sell it.
By the standards of a campaign, he did everything right.
Obama and Biden gave more than 30 speeches, interviews and online chats, oftentimes with families of gun victims at their side.
First lady Michelle Obama made a rare foray into the debate by delivering an emotional speech in her hometown of Chicago.
Obama's political organization, Organizing for Action, held dozens of events, including candlelight vigils, rallies and meetings across the nation pushing the legislation.
Obama flew Newtown families to Washington to lobby senators and turned over his radio address for the first time to the parents of a slain child.
He did not win support for a proposal to renew a ban on assault weapons or to limit ammunition in clips. But support for greater background checks for gun purchases topped 90 percent in the polls. If it were an election with voters choosing whether to pass background checks, Obama would have won a landslide.
But it was not an either-or choice. Congress could choose to do nothing.
In March and April, Obama and Biden spoke to nearly 30 senators in 45 meetings or phone calls, according to the White House. The president stressed gun control proposals at a pair of dinners with Republican senators. In the final days before the vote, Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, visited an undecided Democratic senator, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, but failed to convince her to vote for the background check legislation.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and one of the nation's most prominent gun control advocates, said he and Biden divvied up a list of senators to call in the hopes of convincing them that backing the legislation would not hurt them in their next election.
"I'm thoroughly convinced that he and the president and this whole administration are committed as they could possibly be to help end the scourge of gun violence," Bloomberg said.
It wasn't enough.
Last month, the Democratic-controlled Senate defeated all significant gun proposals sought by Obama after some lawmakers bristled at being pushed by Obama.
Obama, along with gun control advocates, insist they'll try again, at least for the proposal to expand background checks to private and Internet sales. But the initial defeat underscored the limits of presidential power and suggested Obama faces major challenges for the duration of his presidency.
"We actually thought he and the vice president handled this perfectly. They handled this quite deftly," said Matt Bennett, co-founder of Third Way, a think tank, who served in the Clinton White House. "The gun issues are about as hard as it gets."
"The president worked really hard on this issue," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "He put political capital on the line. He made it one of his centerpieces of his State of the Union address and he went all around the country to try and rally support."
So what happened?
For one, Obama and his allies often staged events in states that had been sites of mass shootings such as Illinois, Connecticut or Virginia, instead of states where senators were wavering on the issue.
For another, his high-profile push may have cost as many votes as it won, given how polarizing modern presidents have become.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, one of four Republicans who voted for expanded background checks, said a better model of leadership would be Obama's role on the proposed rewrite of the nation's immigration laws. On that, Obama has expressed support but stayed out of the way to let members of Congress negotiate among themselves. "I think his role has been very appropriate, exactly appropriate," he said of Obama's approach on immigration.
Finally, Obama might have relied more on personal talks with senators and less on the bully pulpit, presidential scholars said.
"As soon as Obama jumps in, it makes it hard for Republicans to get behind it," said Robert Spitzer, a political scientist at State University of New York at Cortland who has written extensively on gun control. "Obama could have done more on the inside game."
But Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the importance of public speeches is misunderstood. They aren't, he said, designed to convince more Americans to favor proposals backed by Obama, but rather to convince them to lobby Congress.
If the use of presidential rhetoric is misunderstood, the power of the presidency itself is often overstated.
Even Lyndon B. Johnson, whose domineering personality and negotiating skills helped fuel his reputation for helping push through major legislation, benefitted from large Democratic majorities in Congress and broad popular support in the wake of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
There have been instances where presidents have helped get legislation passed, though they are the exception, not the rule.
Bill Clinton offered to support Republicans who voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement. George W. Bush pushed through prescription drug coverage in a rare middle-of-the-night vote in the House of Representatives by making last-minute phone calls to lawmakers.
But Obama's effort to lobby or socialize with lawmakers has been sporadic, and some of his recent dinners came after the gun votes were all but locked up.
Also, he has little to offer the lawmakers.
While Washington was once a place where lawmakers openly traded votes with goodies from the White House – a president's attendance at an event or a project in their home state – it's not like that anymore.
The practice of offering so-called earmarks – pet projects for lawmakers tucked into appropriations bills – fell out of favor following years of criticism by watchdog groups, constituents and even some lawmakers themselves. And even if it hadn't, the money for many of those projects has dried up as the economy took a downturn and the government slashed budgets.
"There's not a lot he can give," said John Burke, a political science professor at the University of Vermont who studies the presidency.
Still, some say, Obama should have offered senators appointments to boards or behind-the-scenes assistance with fundraising – items that even senators from conservative states who want to keep their distance from the president might want.
But in a recent wide-ranging news conference, Obama pushed back on the notion that he could get Congress to – as he called it – "behave."
"I can urge them to," he said. "I can put pressure on them. I can, you know, rally the American people. . . . But ultimately they themselves are going to have to say, we want to do the right thing."


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In baseball we often see a batter "take a pitch." In other words, before the ball is thrown the batter decides he's not going to swing regardless of how good the pitch is. Sometimes this is a tactic to tire his competition–the pitcher–out. Sometimes it's an attempt to draw a walk because that's the best the batter can hope for under the circumstances. Sometimes it's a strategy to wait things out, figuring a better opportunity will present itself later.
Lots of businesses take pitches.
When Sears allows discounters and category killers to erode their core customer base and chip away at their dominant market share, they are taking pitches.
When Blockbuster fails to mount a compelling response to NetFlix and Redbox, they are taking pitches.
When Neiman Marcus, Saks and Nordstrom allow flash-sales sites like Gilt and RueLaLa to build brands with significant market value, they are taking pitches.
When dozens of companies deny the future of social networking and location-based marketing, they are taking pitches.
Of course there are times when it makes sense to wait things out–to study and analyze before placing a big bet. Customer-centric companies know who their most important customers and prospects are, and when the metrics on those customers deteriorate, they dig in to understand the drivers and take action.
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Annotated Playthrough Rock Garden
|This article may contain outdated information.
The Rock Garden scenario is one of the earliest "hard" difficulty dungeons a player may encounter, and is one of the only ones featuring a total of three bosses. Specifically, two of these bosses are the brothers of Earth and Stone, which respectively have 75% magic and 75% physical resist. In this demonstration, I will play as an Elf Warlord who uses only physical attacks to prevail. This means I will convert BURNDAYRAZ on sight. The Warlord is one of the most powerful classes in the game, and well-suited to any physical-specialist approach. Generally speaking, you should play as an Orc, Elf, or Gnome when playing as a Warlord, and the HP->Attack booster swap is highly recommended.
Note: since this playthrough was originally posted, the Crystal Ball item has received a nerf, and now requires 5 gold to activate. Since very few items were purchased in this run, and the crystal ball was used sparingly, this change wouldn't have affected this run at all. However, keep in mind that it is now correspondingly more difficult to use this item.
Annotated Playthrough of Rock Garden - Physical Damage Specialist
For preparations, I select the Crystal Ball item, HP->Attack booster swap, 25 gold allowance, and (this is very important) the really big sword from the blacksmith. This item allows physical damage specialists to overcome foes with high resistances, and I will use it to defeat the Brother of Stone. However, it comes at a price, and I will always strike last in any combat against monsters, even if they are lower level than me. I will eventually want to convert this item so I do not continue to suffer its penalty, but I will first need to defeat the physical-resist boss.
Normally as an elf you would prepare a Schadenfreude potion and the apothecary shop preparation, but I will not be using this incredibly powerful combo since many players may not have these items unlocked at this stage in the game.
This is a pretty nice find for an Elf Warlord. The biggest problem Elf and Gnome Warlords have is making up for their low damage, and this fine sword should keep me on top of things until I find those extra attack power-ups I prepped. Raising your damage is always a great idea, and this early there's almost never a reason to say no to a fine sword! I ignore the altar of Tikki Tooki; he's very difficult for a Warlord to use effectively, but may have some use later on.
Right now, I'm concerned about finding a glyph – any glyph – so that I can start building up charges on my Crystal Ball. CYDSTEPP is not repeatable so it won't work.
Ah, a perfect find, the ENDISWAL glyph. This will allow me to explore more easily as well as build up charges on my Crystal Ball. I locate a level 3 Dragon Spawn; this will be a perfect target for my Warlord to take down. Using my Crystal Ball to recharge my mana mid-fight, I can get three hits on him, enough for a knockout.
I also locate an altar of Mystera. As of this version, Mystera is pretty much the ideal god for Warlords, however she's in a state of flux and may be completely different in the next update. I don't want this example to be outdated in less than a week, so I sadly leave her altar alone.
After dealing with the Dragonspawn, I make short work of the two level 5 trolls using the same approach. I needed to rebuild the charges on my crystal ball for the first troll, but the second one goes down a little easier since I level up from the first.
I now want to focus my attention on the level 7 troll. First of all, this combat prediction is wrong; the Warlord gets bonus damage when at low health so my subsequent attacks will be hitting considerably harder. I only need three hits to kill, not the four it appears. However, three hits means that I need to expend my crystal ball again. However, I could use my ENDISWAL glyph to build up some temporary resistances to his attacks. This allows me to survive his first hit normally, then use death protection to survive his second and third hit. No crystal ball necessary.
Before the final blow, I head out and kill all the poison and mana burn plants. I've been forgetting to do this since the start of the game; they will drop useful spoons which will boost my attack damage, and after killing this powerful monster I will immediately level up.
Oh my... I could pull some really crazy stunts with this item. It's incredibly double-edged, but it vastly increases the amount of XP you earn. I suspect most of the people who will be using this as a guide don't have this item unlocked, however, so I'll pass it up. At this point, I elect to just attack the level 8 goo blob in the corner. Goo blobs are normally difficult to take down for physical specialists, but my really big sword mitigates most of his damage resistance.
I find both BLUDTUPOWA and APHEELSIK glyphs while exploring the left side of the map, but no bosses. I leave these glyphs alone for now, and finally locate the bosses on the right side of the map. I might be able to take on Aequitas by using BLUDTUPOWA, CYDSTEPP, and APHEELSIK, but I'd much rather do battle with the Brother of Stone so I can convert this really big sword. The bosses are usually in close proximity on Rock Garden, so I take a look around before committing to a fight.
I do take the opportunity to kill the level 9 Troll, however.
Bingo; this is the guy I wanna fight. I convert ENDISWAL (but not before punching a few holes to ensure I don't get cut off) and pick up APHEELSIK. I'm going to whittle this guy down to size with poison. Golems normally have magic resist that makes poison's effectiveness spotty, but this Guardian has only physical resist. Poison is 100% effective.
That wasn't too bad at all. I have some mana left-over so I'm going to use my remaining death protection to attack the level 9 troll and soften him up before leveling up.
I also (finally) locate the subdungeon, which I leave untouched for the time being. Subdungeons are always a bit of a gamble. Some of them are very tiny and so much as entering them will reveal most of their tiles. I need to conserve every bit of explored space available, so I'm not even going to peek at this point.
I convert BLUDTUPOWA, APHEELSIK, and the Really Big Sword, and my max MP hits the magic number 20. The Guardian of Earth here is going to get toppled easily with three strikes from my Warlord. Keep in mind that the combat prediction is wrong; my damage is going to be significantly higher on the second and third hit, so it will take fewer strikes than advertised to kill.
Now to deal with Aequitas. I cannot survive one of his attacks without death protection. This is the price of the HP->Attack prep; a heavy hitter like Aequitas is going to 1HKO you. My crystal ball is fully charged, so I can get a total of 5 death protections for this battle. I can steamroll him that way if I want, but supposing I didn't have that luxury I do have other options.
I check the shops to see what's available. They're completely barren. Nothing to boost my damage or survivability. The best item available for sale is a pendent of mana, which isn't of much help here.
Option one is to worship Tikki Tooki and to select the Warrior's Pact from the Pactmaker. There are lots of low-level monsters lying around, so gaining piety with Tikki Tooki and triggering the Warrior's Pact will be pretty easy, which will bring my max HP high enough to survive a blow from Aequitas. I could also purchase a Reflex potion from Tikki Tooki to get a "first strike" in at the end of combat. I do need to be cautious with Tikki Tooki since he will punish the use of CYDSTEPP, but he dishes out enough piety that I should still be able to stay in the positives (I can always tribute gold to keep him happy).
If any were present, Dracul (blood shield or blood hunger), Glowing Guardian (absolution), Jehora Jeheyu (boost health), or even Taurog (Taurog's Helm) would allow me to purchase defensive boons to survive Aequitas. Binlor can also be used to gain magic resistance, but you usually need to begin worship with him earlier to pull that off.
Another option to kill the corrosive creepers and pick up their spoons to boost my damage, allowing me to kill Aequitas in only three hits. The corrosion is irrelevant at this point; Aequitas will 1HKO me anyways, and getting the job done in one fewer attack is a benefit.
And of course, all this is without even touching my potions. I could always just gulp down those mana potions for a few extra CYDSTEPPs, but that wouldn't be any fun.
Well, I never did enter the subdungeon until after beating the boss and reaching level 10. It turned out to be the zombie subdungeon. There's lots of space to explore down there, so I had a lot more leeway that I thought I did. I end up triggering the trap down there for fun, and had to use a mana potion to get out, but hey no biggy ;-)
One thing to notice is – aside from a handful of level 1's I needed to knock out during my poison antics – I was always fighting higher-level monsters until I'd beaten the physical-resist boss. This allows me to completely ignore the penalty of the Really Big Sword, all while vastly increasing my damage output against wraiths, goo blobs, and the guardian of stone. After defeating all the high-level monsters with physical resists, I convert the sword and can go on a rampage 1-hit killing weaker foes.


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Nov. 3, 2006
PRINCETON, N.J. - One week after a fast race under beautiful conditions at the Head of the Charles, the MIT varsity heavyweights experienced another side of fall racing this past weekend at the Princeton Chase, on Lake Carnegie, in Princeton, N.J. Race organizers canceled both the small boats and fours races due to a brutal headwind on the course, which gusted to 40 miles per hour.
The eights raced as scheduled, and boats from many of the country's top rowing schools slugged their way down the 2 ¾ mile course, dodging floating debris and disabled boats, and enduring gusts that slowed the strongest rowers to a crawl. The Engineers struggled in these conditions and finished 29th, beating only Dartmouth among EARC crews.
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Fearful symmetry
June 27, 2008
Ian Stewart traced the history of the mathematics of four or more dimensions as it evolved from an an obscure and esoteric collection of ideas during the Victorian period into something "straightforward and ubiquitous." Victorian spiritualists attempted to use emerging concepts of the fourth dimension to explain their esoteric beliefs using mathematical logic. This is echoed today in a myriad of print and virtual publications and postings where quasi-scientific explanations are offered by well-meaning people and charlatans alike to promote their views on spirituality using "mathematics" and "physics." Rather than strengthening their own spiritual orientations or religions, they undermine more profound philosophical arguments by deflecting uplifting conversations into the realm of science fiction and transforming potential conversations on spirituality into arguments about fractals, numerology, quantum physics, etc.
"Why is it so hard to apply reasoning with the aspirational symmetry of mathematics to the other aspects of our lives?"
It is indeed more difficult to apply reasoning since the process of tracing sources of knowledge claims has become even more time-intense with the proliferation of information. In order to reason and use logic we need to start with some truth claims we can trust. We live in a period of democratization of knowledge management. Whose information do we trust?
"We do not see how things are. We see things as we are." Talmud
In contrast, Ian Stewart (1945-), Fellow of the Royal Society (2001-), professor of mathematics at Warwick University, UK, and a science and science fiction writer as well as Director of the University of Warwick's Mathematics Awareness Centre has popularized mathematics by making it more accessible. In his most recent publication is entitled Why Truth is Beauty: A History of Symmetry, he writes eloquently about the resonance between mathematics and the natural world:
"Throughout history, mathematics has been enriched from two different sources. One is the natural world, the other the abstract world of logical thought. It is these two in combination that give mathematics its power to inform us about the universe…The story of symmetry demonstrates how even a negative answer to a good question can lead to deep and fundamental mathematics . . . The true strength of mathematics lies precisely in this remarkable fusion of the human sense of pattern (Beauty) with the physical world, which acts both as a reality check (Truth) and as an inexhaustible source of inspiration (Stewart 2007 WTB: HS)."
Webliography and Bibliography
Abbott Abbott, Edwin. 1884. Flatland.
The Victorian clergyman, schoolmaster, and Shakespearean scholar created the character Hex, a small talking orange heretic hexagon living in a (flatland) Euclidean plane, granddaughter of Arthur Square. Hex pondered on the possibility that, "[A] square … moving somehow parallel to itself … can make something else, [a] supersquare that represents three to the third power, or 27 units; [A] supersquare in the third dimension!". In an elegant, old-fashioned style Abbott Abbott described the "dimensional analogy" between the "Flatland view of 2-space and the human view of 3-space with some biting social criticism of the Victorian treatment of two disadvantaged groups: women and the poor." See Stewart (2007-11).
Banchoff, Tom. geometer and Flatland authority,
Dewdney, Kee. 1984. The Planiverse.
Hinton, Charles Howard. 1907. An Episode of Flatland.
Stewart, Ian. 2007a. Why Truth is Beauty: A History of Symmetry. Basic Books
"Hidden in the heart of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. Symmetry has been a key idea for artists, architects and musicians for centuries, but within mathematics it remained, until recently, an arcane pursuit. In the twentieth century, however, symmetry emerged as central to the most fundamental ideas in physics and cosmology. Why Truth is Beauty: A History of Symmetry tells its history, from ancient Babylon to twenty-first century physics. It is a peculiar history, and the mathematicians who contributed to symmetry's ascendancy mirror its fascinating puzzles and dramatic depth. We meet Girolamo Cardano, the Renaissance Italian rogue, scholar, and gambler who stole the modern method of solving cubic equations and published it in the first important book on algebra. We meet Evariste Galois, a young revolutionary who single handedly refashioned the whole of mathematics by founding the field of group theory—only to die at age nineteen in a duel over a woman before publishing any of his work. Perhaps most curious is William Rowan Hamilton, who carved his most significant discovery into a stone bridge between bout of alcoholic delirium (cover)."
Stewart, Ian. 2007-11. Review of Flatland: The Movie . Notices of the American Mathematical Society. November. pp. 1317-1321.
"The late Victorian era, in short, was a period of remarkable progress and free thinking. Science and the Church came to a gentleman's agreement not to tread on each others' toes, and many a country clergyman became the world expert on six types of beetle or the reproductive habits of slugs. Scientific advances were discussed along with the price of sugar and the increasingly parlous state of the British Empire at garden parties and polite social gatherings. Victorians, in particular, were fascinated by "the" fourth dimension. Mathematicians had come to recognise that the dimensionality of our own familiar space did not necessarily impose constraints on the dimensionality of any other structure. Mathematics was littered with "spaces" of dimension four, or ten, or a hundred. Many of these spaces accurately represented aspects of the physical world—for instance, as "degrees of freedom" of a mechanical system. Spiritualism, another flourishing Victorian interest, latched on to the fourth dimension as a convenient location for the spirit world. Ghosts could enter our world "sideways" along a dimension that mere humans could not observe or experience. Hyperspace theologians seized on the fourth dimension as an excellent place in which to put God and His angels, though they quickly realised that the fifth, sixth, and seventh dimensions were even better, and the infinitieth dimension added a satisfactory element of closure. While well-meaning people and charlatans of every kind were appealing to the fourth dimension to justify their beliefs and scams, the mathematics of four or more dimensions was changing from an obscure and esoteric collection of ideas into something straightforward and ubiquitous (Stewart 2007-11:1318-9)."
"[At] the dawn of the New Millennium, Arthur receives a visit from Spherius the sphere, an extradimensional being from the mysterious world of Space. But this is no dream. A quick run through the dimensional analogy fails to convince Arthur that Space can possibly exist, so Spherius bumps him out of Flatland. Now he sees the entire plane spread out before him. "I can see inside everything … I can see inside everyone's bodies and I'm going to be sick." He even sees the artifact in Area 33H, which is a slowly spinning cube. Now Arthur realises that Hex was right—a supersquare does exist. And back to Flatland he goes, to spread the gospel of the Third Dimension." (Stewart 2007-11:1321).
Stewart, Ian. 200. Does God Play Dice?
Stewart, Ian. 200. Nature's Numbers.
Stewart, Ian. 200. The Annotated Flatland.
Stewart, Ian. 200. Flatterland.
Travis, Jeffrey. Flatland: The Movie — A Journey of Many Dimensions. Flat World Productions.
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Tutorial introduction
This tutorial will be a basic demonstration of calling routines written in assembly from your C code. We will use NASM to compile our assembly code and GCC to compile our C code.
The assembly code
For the purpose of this tutorial, our assembly routine will be very simple, it will simply add two integers passed as parameters and return the result.
; make the add function visible to the linker global _add ; prototype: int __cdecl add(int a, int B)/> ; desc: adds two integers and returns the result _add: mov eax, [esp+4] ; get the 2nd parameter off the stack mov edx, [esp+8] ; get the 1st parameter off the stack add eax, edx ; add the parameters, return value in eax ret ; return from sub-routine
We are using the __cdecl (default for C/C++) calling convention, so we must take some things into account...
We preserve the stack pointer, this is because the stack is cleaned up by the caller so we don't want to mess around with the stack pointer inside the routine.
The return value is returned in the EAX register.
Leading underscores are added because by default GCC will add these to function calls. We could use GCC compiler flags to change this behaviour but for simplicities sake, we will just add them in here.
The C code
The C code will simply be a basic main function that calls our add function
#include <stdio.h> /* * declaring add as extern tells the compiler that the definition * can be found in a seperate module */ extern int add(int a, int B)/>; int main() { int ret = add(10, 20); printf("add returned %d\n", ret); return 0; }
Compiling the above code requires the use of object files, the format that we will use is ELF since NASM and GCC both understand this format.
The first thing we must do is compile our assembly code using NASM. We will compile add.asm into an object file called add.o using the following command.
nasm -f elf -o add.o add.asm
Now you should have an ELF file called add.o in your working directory. Next we need to compile our C code, main.c. We use GCC to do this using the following command.
gcc -c main.c -o main.o
Now you should have two object files, add.o and main.o. Now for the final step, we will link these object files together to create our final executable file. To do this, we will use GCC again which in turn will invoke LD for us. The following command will create our executable.
gcc -o test_asm add.o main.o
Now you should have an executable file asm_test.exe which will call our assembly routine and display the result, that is.
add returned 30
Thanks for reading my tutorial, I hope you got something out of it.