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WFP has prioritised orphanages and hospitals in recent days in order to ensure food is reaching the most vulnerable. At one children's home in Port au Prince, the quake killed 56 of the 134 children. WFP is ensuring that those who survived are being fed.
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Beside what was once Notre Dame de la Nativité children's home in Port-au-Prince, women stir big vats of food as lunchtime nears. The week after the quake, WFP delivered rice, beans, oil and sugar. "The kids have enormous appetites," the director, Eveline Louis-Jacques, tells us.
"You've no idea how helpful it's been getting this food," she says, sitting surrounded by the possessions that she and colleagues have salvaged from the rubble.
There are more than 300 such institutions in Port-au-Prince and by Day Four food had been delivered for nearly 1,400 children. The initiative is being conducted in co-operation with UNICEF and UNPOL, the U.N. police force.
56 children
When the children ask about little friends whom they haven't seen since the quake, the carers here tell us they simply don't have the heart to tell them the truth. Fifty-six children and one nurse died on 12 January and most still lie in the pile of rubble which was their home (photo below right).
Equally distressing are the long-distance telephone calls from couples in France who had been hoping to adopt these children and who, after completing the first stage of the lengthy bureaucratic procedures, had been assigned a child.
"Of course, I have some good news for some couples," says the Madame Louis-Jacques, referring to the 78 children who survived. "But for the others, it's heartbreaking. They cry down the phone and then I cry. I can't face taking these calls any more."
Too young to understand
As we're talking, two French government officials arrive to enquire about the fate of one child on behalf of his prospective adoptive parents in France. The news is good. The little boy is unharmed and playing in the garden of Madame Louis-Jacques' nearby home where the children now reside.
An aid worker with an American organisation helping out with the children says most of them are fine despite superficial wounds and the odd broken leg. The children, mostly aged between six months and six years, are too young to understand what has happened.
One little girl, rescued after four days trapped in the rubble, may have to have a leg amputated. A few of the children, says the aid worker, are withdrawn and lethargic. Others sleep on a groundsheet in the garden while a bunch of older children play noisily, 50 yards from the ruins.


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Originally Posted by Johnnyg7: Great insight.
Originally Posted by Roused: I still have to figure out to place this.
You mean in real life, you can't pick every horse to win, then just bump the winning ticket and make money?
Originally Posted by Johnnyg7: I know you pride yourself on picking 7/5 shots in 4 horse fields, but for me and most real bettors, it looks like an absolute garbage chalk race...and if you don't like Bode just pick IHA, CC, WTDW, or DNB. Those 5 are a lock for the exacta, near lock for the trifecta, and a very strong bet for the superfecta. The new shooters are way too slow and ridiculously outclassed. Here I'll toss em all quick for you:Cozzeti - Romped by Bode in Ark Derby, Loss to Prospective in TB Derby. Romans wanted to run the horse in Peter Pan, but owners had Triple Crown fever. Probably belongs on turf. Zetterholm - Rushed into the race big time. Better off running against state breds in NY. Teeth of the Dog - Maiden winner beaten by Gemologist and Alpha in the Wood. I think by now we can all agree that race was trash.Optimizer - Has he finished the Derby yet??Tiger Walk - Behind Teeth of the Dog in the Wood. Moving on...Pretension - 9th to Done Talking in the Illinois Derby....next....Guyana Star Dweej - I don't even have words to describe this one. See how easy it is to handicap a race without making 16 threads about it and still not making up your mind? Trifecta Key: Bode/IHABode/IHA/CCBode/IHA/CC/WTDW/DNBIf you want to be foolish enough to toss classy lone speed playIHA CCIHA CC WDTW DNBIHA CC WTDW DNBCheap and probably somewhat profitable since people will still play their favorite numbers and their favorite names and other illogical handicappers will make a case for every other horse in the race and press the all button and give away money.
Great post Johnny.
So Aroused, it's Preakness Day!
What are you taking down? I mean other than your pants!

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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a government agency and a part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI is fully funded by taxpayers. Three academics from California convinced unelected bureaucrats that we needed a study to see if the Teaparty is responsible for "advancing tobacco issues." show that conservatives since the 1980's have "advanced" the use of tobacco. The origins of the Teaparty began back in the 1980's. Bet you didn't know that. The study, paid for by you the taxpayer, is available to you for $30.00 or you can read a tiny three paragraph abstract for free.
From the abstract – and this is all you get without paying up for something you've already paid for:
Background The Tea Party, which gained prominence in the USA in 2009, advocates limited government and low taxes. Tea Party organisations, particularly Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, oppose smoke-free laws and tobacco taxes.
Methods We used the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, the Wayback Machine, Google, LexisNexis, the Center for Media and Democracy and the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) to examine the tobacco companies' connections to the Tea Party.
Results Starting in the 1980s, tobacco companies worked to create the appearance of broad opposition to tobacco control policies by attempting to create a grassroots smokers' rights movement. Simultaneously, they funded and worked through third-party groups, such as Citizens for a Sound Economy, the predecessor of AFP and FreedomWorks, to accomplish their economic and political agenda. There has been continuity of some key players, strategies and messages from these groups to Tea Party organisations. As of 2012, the Tea Party was beginning to spread internationally.
Conclusions Rather than being a purely grassroots movement that spontaneously developed in 2009, the Tea Party has developed over time, in part through decades of work by the tobacco industry and other corporate interests. It is important for tobacco control advocates in the USA and internationally, to anticipate and counter Tea Party opposition to tobacco control policies and ensure that policymakers, the media and the public understand the longstanding connection between the tobacco industry, the Tea Party and its associated organisations.
If I could get into the full report, I bet I wouldn't find tobacco dynasty, Al Gore Sr.'s or Al Gore Jr.'s name anywhere in this report.
As reported by NPR about an interview yesterday with Gore as part of his 24-hour assault on climate science:
"He went on to accuse those who express the loudest doubts about whether humans are contributing to climate change of "doing exactly the same thing that the tobacco industry did after the Surgeon General's report came out" linking smoking to cancer. "They hired actors and dressed them up as doctors and gave them scripts" saying that smoking isn't harmful. Today, said Gore, "carbon polluters" are paying for climate change doubters to say similar things."
But as reported by the New York Times in 1998,
"Six years after Vice President Al Gore's older sister died of lung cancer in 1984, he was still accepting campaign contributions from tobacco interests. Four years after she died, while campaigning for President in North Carolina, he boasted of his experiences in the tobacco fields and curing barns of his native Tennessee. And it took several years after Nancy Gore Hunger's death for Mr. Gore and his parents to stop growing tobacco on their own farms in Carthage, Tenn." Source: Junk Science
Look at this hypocrisy: Gore is blogging about the Teaparty and Tobacco.
Gore in 1996:
At the Democratic national convention in 1996, Gore gaving a moving speech about his only sister's painful death from lung cancer. And since then he has pushed the administration's aggressive anti-smoking campaign.
What Gore didn't mention is that he grew up on a tobacco farm, worked on it, and continued to accept checks from that farm for years after his sister died. In 1988, while running for president, he defended tobacco farmers while campaigning in Southern tobacco states (and made the quote up above: 'I've raised tobacco … I've shredded it, spiked it,… and sold it.') He accepted contributions from tobacco companies as late as 1990.
Gore claimed that "emotional numbness" led him to defend and profit from the tobacco industry. "Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to." Source: RealChange.org
From The Free Beacon today (read it all here):
The study in question purports to show that the Tea Party movement was created by and works to advance the interests of the tobacco industry.
Its critics have rejected the study's findings and expressed particular concern that taxpayer funds were used to support "politically motivated attacks," in the words of one Tea Party-aligned congressman…
The study says it "was funded by [two] National Cancer Institute grants." The NCI is a division of the National Institutes of Health, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
"Tea party sympathizer or not, liberal or conservative, every taxpayer should be outraged that their money is used to editorialize on the politics of the day," Rep. Tim Huelskamp, (R., Kan.), a member of the House Tea Party caucus, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon.
"Instead of spending money to research cancer—as the National Cancer Institute is supposed to do—they are engaged in politically-motivated attacks on Americans engaged in the political process," Huelskamp added.
As our government continues to rake in big revenues from the tobacco industry, I know only one thing: as abhorrent as it is, smoking is legal. As extraordinarily abhorrent as abortion is, abortion is legal, but I find no one on the left blaming the Black Congressional Caucus or the the Congressional Progressive Caucus or Code Pink or Planned Parenthood for furthering the advance of murder. Differing from this attack on the TeaParty, the murder charge would stick.
I've never smoked in my life, but…it's legal, and it is outrageous that taxpayers funded this study and that the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Health and Human Services allowed it.
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In a year when the confidence of Internet users in the Internet governance status quo was shattered by revelations o f systematic and indiscriminate governance surveillance\, there is a great er need than ever before for civil society organisations engaged on Intern et governance and Internet rights freedom issues to come together to share and strategise. The 2013 meeting of the Best Bits network will address ke y issues at the intersection of Internet policy and human rights\, for dir ect application over the next twelve months.\n
Through the shared ou tputs of this meeting and the indirect benefits of participation\, we expe ct to empower civil society organisations and individual activists to crea te more informed\, effective\, inclusive and complementary advocacy outcom es\, in which the public interest is better reflected in high-level policy discussions and in the outputs that these discussions produce. The meetin g will also place Best Bits itself on a firmer institutional footing\, in order to enhance its legitimacy as a broad-based civil society advocacy ne twork and improve its long-term sustainability.\n
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Global Internet governance principles\, enhanced coop
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State surveillance and human rights
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Best Bits
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Output: Proce dure wiki.\n
Joint Best Bits/Web We Want dinner at Nusa Dua Beach Grill (own cost of IDR 200.000\, transpo rt provided)
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One-Pot Wonders: Mussels With Chard and Tomatoes
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I get that while Serious Eats has a fantastic group of readers who are avid cooks, there are people out there who just don't want to cook or think they don't have the time. I recently sat next to a young man on a plane and he said just that as we discussed our respective fields. At which point I said, "Well wouldn't it be great if you could make one-pot meals in under 30 minutes?"
Yes, definitely an act of shameless self-promotion, but the idea really is a good one, regardless of whether I have a column or not. Of course, there are nights when cooking dinner is just not going happen, but when it comes to easy recipes that literally only involve putting things in a pot, why not give it a try?
For this week's recipe, I was inspired by an appetizer that I wanted to make into a full and filling dinner. I typically see mussels as a starter on restaurant menus, unless they're in a cioppino or pasta dish. Time and time again I order mussels as an entree, only to find myself eating copious amounts of bread, partially to soak up the sauce but also to stretch my appetizer into a main course.
In true one-pot fashion, I needed to figure a way to make it a well-rounded meal and also keep it on the lighter side—i.e., avoid serving it over a pasta. Enter the peppers, chard, and tomato, which I like to think work as a vegetable base for the mussels, in lieu of noodles, making it a filling and colorful meal.
Of course, serving it with bread is always a great idea as it would be a shame to let those beautiful juices at the bottom of the pan go to waste, but that's up to you. For the newbies out there, and perhaps that young man on the plane, I hope you give it a shot and let me know what you think!
About the Author: Yasmin Fahr is a food lover, writer, and cook. Follow her @yasminfahr for more updates on her eating adventures and discoveries, which will most likely include tomatoes. And probably feta. Happy eating!
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Athens police seek toothpick thief | Crime
ATHENS, Ga. -- Police in Athens are trying to figure out who stole nearly $3,000-worth of toothpicks from the manufacturer.
Police report someone took six cases from Armond's Manufacturing Company Inc. about two weeks ago, and another seven cases went missing last weekend.
Each case contains 288 packages of 100 toothpicks. That brings the total number of stolen toothpicks to 374,400 with a value of about $2,808.
Police say there were no signs of forced entry. The owner believes a current employee or a former employee with a key might be responsible.
Two employees told the owner they saw an unknown man selling containers of Armond toothpicks at a flea market last weekend.


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Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin's guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world's most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.
Once Upon a Time in HollywoodOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood 25 July 2019
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
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Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
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A woman receives the chance to relive the life of her younger self, at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much for her to bear.
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After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
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An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
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After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
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Three posts in 2009 sofar! That won't do.
But I guess I have a proper excuse now. Finally, finally
I finished the monstrous thesis and turned it in. It counts 104 pages, or 124 in total. Now I've only got one presentation left plus the extra preparing for printing.
And then I can go on with my life…
So, until next Thursday afternoon I will keep my new, huge, Icelandic pattern book (Sjónabók) wrapped up. It has been lying around in the plastic bag since I bought it last April and I may not touch it until I've finished the presentation and got my grade.
I have been knitting though. I finished a pair of green shell pattern socks in May:
The pattern is from Nancy Bush's book Knitting Vintage Socks. I used 2 skeins of green Regia sock yarn which I bought in Denmark last summer (2008) and needles 2.5 mm.
I think I'll save the rest of the finished projects for next post.
First I've got to do some photo shooting. And prepare a proper presentation for a project that should have been finished four years ago!
Wish me luck!


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MONTGOMERY | On his first day back at the office after surgery, Gov. Robert Bentley brushed aside criticism that he's trying to run Alabama State University and said he will keep pursuing a financial review of university spending despite opposition by some school officials.
MONTGOMERY | On his first day back at the office after surgery, Gov. Robert Bentley brushed aside criticism that he's trying to run Alabama State University and said he will keep pursuing a financial review of university spending despite opposition by some school officials.
"They did stonewall. They did try to keep us from getting certain documents. They treated it more as a criminal case from the beginning. That was not me. That was them," Bentley told reporters Monday at the Capitol.
Monday was Bentley's first day at the Capitol since having hernia surgery Oct. 15. The surgery came one day after he released preliminary findings of a forensic audit of Alabama State. The firm Bentley hired, Forensic Strategic Solutions of Birmingham, said it had difficulty getting records from the Montgomery university. It also indicated there were at least $2.5 million in contracts where there were conflicts of interest involving present and former university trustees and where there was limited or no services delivered for the funds paid by the university.
After the release, anonymous signs popped up around Montgomery accusing the governor of trying to damage the university, and the university's interim president, William Harris, said ASU was "under attack by a governor who wishes to control the destiny of the university."
"Look, I have a state to run. I'm not interested in running a university," Bentley told reporters in his first opportunity to respond to criticism he received while sidelined by the surgery.
Bentley hired Forensic Strategic Solutions for $650,000 after former ASU President Joseph Silver questioned some contracts. Bentley, president of the Alabama State board of trustees by virtue of his office, said Monday he intends to have every contract looked at and for the trustees to provide leadership, particularly during the search for a new president following Silver's departure.
"I want the board of trustees to step up and take their responsibility seriously. I want us to have a very good president who is independent, who has some financial background, who understands the spending of money correctly, and I want the best for our students and our faculty," the Republican governor said.
On Friday, Moody's Investors Service downgraded Alabama State's revenue bond rating from A2 to A3. University spokesman Ken Mullinax said, "We certainly anticipated that this attack on ASU by Governor Bentley could affect our bond rating."
Bentley said Monday the university's spending patterns and management were responsible for the downgrade. "Me releasing a report that was by a forensic group, all that did was show what the real problems were," he said.
Bentley has called a special meeting of the university trustees for Oct. 28 to discuss the audit's preliminary findings. He said as governor, he has the authority to do more than pursue a forensic audit, but he has not chosen to do that.
"I had the authority to bring every one of the people at the university or any university before me and make them testify under oath. That's in the constitution. I did not do that," he said.
Alabama State did not have any immediate comment about the governor's remarks Monday.
Bentley's predecessor, Republican Bob Riley, also got into a dispute involving Alabama State in 2007 when he drew opposition from some ASU supporters and from some powerful legislators when he replaced state Democratic Party vice chairman Joe Reed on the board of trustees.


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Ex-Credit Suisse Banker Found Guilty of Insider TradingBy Reuters - | Posted 2008-02-04 Print
A U.S. jury found a former Credit Suisse Group investment banker Hafiz Naseem guilty of insider trading and conspiracy.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Monday found a former Credit Suisse Group investment banker guilty of insider trading and conspiracy.
Prosecutors accused Hafiz Naseem, 37, of participating in a $7.5 million scheme to leak inside information about pending corporate takeovers by calling a friend in his native Pakistan, who then traded on the unlawful tips.
Naseem was accused of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and 28 additional counts of insider trading, and faces at least 25 years in prison and deportation.
He sat impassively beside his lawyer as the jury foreperson answered guilty on each of the 29 counts. The jury of eight women and four men had been deliberating since Thursday afternoon.
The trial before U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson follows a mistrial in the case in December, when a different judge found that jurors had failed to follow instructions.
Prosecutors say Naseem fed nonpublic, material information on pending transactions to Ajaz Rahim, a former head of the investment banking group at Faysal Bank Ltd in Pakistan.
Among those deals, prosecutors contend, was the $32 billion private equity buyout of power company TXU Corp.
An arrest warrant is pending against Rahim, who is fighting extradition from Pakistan and is not on trial.
(Reporting by Martha Graybow; Editing by Brian Moss)
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Ok, stop sweating: the time has come!... My System 2 has finished the Super PI (v1.1e) 32M Test in: ... HEAR THE DRUMS ... ... 35h 35m!!!
And to make it even worse, System 3 is about to finish its run and even though it is the most modern 486 EVER, it is a little slower than System 2: it is PCI (instead of the good old VLB ) based and it has an Enh. Am486DX5-160 in L1-WriteBack mode with 512 kB (instead of 1 MB) of WriteBack L2 Cache, 64 MB of 50 ns EDO (instead of FastPage) memory running at 40 MHz and a 120 GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP at UDMA-66 (instead of PIO Mode 5)!!!


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Sickle Cell `Life Partner`
I am a sickle cell patient, who has been unhappy for a very long time and this makes my crisis occur frequently. I met this lady 2 years ago and we`ve been dating for a year. I think due to the relationship I have not had any crisis because of the joy she brings to me, only to find out her genotype is AS. I don`t know what to do, because I can`t imagine life without her. What do I do? Please, I am so confused.
As you know, sickle cell anemia is a genetic disorder that affects the red blood cells â the cells of the blood that carry oxygen. In sickle cell anemia, the gene that produces hemoglobin (the part of the red blood cell that carries the oxygen) has been changed or mutated (hemoglobin S). This gene change or mutation causes the red blood cells to change shape âand makes it very difficult for the red blood cell to pass through tiny arteries and veins in the body. This causes the types of problems that you have experienced.
Sickle cell anemia is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion. This means that both parents of a child with sickle cell anemia each carrier a gene coding for hemoglobin S. In your case, you inherited one mutation (change) from your mother and one from your father â so you have 2 genes coding for hemoglobin S or SS. If your partner is a sickle cell carrier (sometimes called sickle cell trait – AS) â you would have a 1 out of 2 (50%) chance of having a child who is a carrier (AS) like their mother and a 1 out of 2 (50%) chance of having a child who as sickle cell anemia (SS), like you. So you certainly are able to have children who do not have sickle cell anemia.
If you and your partner are thinking of having children, I would recommend that you talk to a genetic counselor or geneticist so that they can answer any questions you have about your chances to have children with SS or SA as well as what that means to you both. You can locate a genetics center near you at the National Society of Genetic Counselorsâ Resource center website below.
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*URL - The exact URL of the desired modification package.
*URL - The exact URL of the desired modification package.
*Name of the file - Required if the download URL does not include the file name of the package. If left blank, the base name of the file from the URL will be used. For example, the default name of the file for a package mod_name.zip would be mod_name.
*Name of the file - Required if the download URL does not include the file name of the package. If left blank, the base name of the file from the URL will be used. For example, the default name of the file for a package mod_name.zip would be mod_name.
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- 1 Browse Packages
- 2 Download Packages
- 3 Installing a Package
- 4 Installed Packages
- 5 File Permissions
- 6 Options
The package manager is a default feature of SMF that allows you to install packages for your forum. Packages consist of customizations and updates to your forum. Customizations can be a number of things: a new feature, a theme, avatar set, smiley set, a feature enhancement, or anything you can think of and program for SMF to do. Before we go any further, it cannot be emphasised enough, here, that you REALLY, REALLY should backup your forum, before installing any packages (mods). It is VERY important that you back up both your forum AND the database. Detailed information on backing-up can be found here: Backup
Browse Packages
In the Browse Packages section of the package manager, you will see all of the packages that are currently downloaded on to your forum. You can install/uninstall them, view details of a package, and delete packages. Applying the package to your forum is as easy as clicking 'Proceed' next to the package you want to install, most of the time. However, you may be asked to fill in FTP information whenever the files needed are not writable.
Latest Packages / Package of the Moment
Located at the top of the 'Browse Packages' section is a box that includes the 'Latest Packages' that have been added to the SMF Customizations Site. Clicking on the name of any of the packages will expand information about the package taken from the mod's download/description page from the mod site.
You can select 'Install Now!' underneath the name of the mod after it is expanded and then the package will be downloaded to your forum and the install screen will appear showing what files could be edited successfully, and which ones (if any) couldn't be. To go back to the list of the latest packages, you can select (go back), located at the bottom of the information about the mod.
These packages are grabbed from a javascript file on the SMF server which is automatically updated with the latest mods that have been added to the mod site.
At the bottom of the 'Latest Packages' box is the 'Package of the Moment', which is taken by selecting a random mod package from the SMF mod site. The package listed here works the same way as the latest packages above it do and will expand and allow you to install it.
Browse Packages
Underneath the Latest Packages box you will see the listing of all the mod packages you have downloaded on your forum. There are three options listed next each mod that you can use for each mod:
- Apply Mod or Uninstall
- List Files
- Delete
When installing a package, you must select Apply Mod next to the package you want to install. If you see failure instead of success on the pre-install, this means that there is an issue with the editing a file the package is suppose to edit or the package does not work with your version of SMF. You might want to contact the developer of the package for more information. If there are test failures, it generally not advised to proceed with the installation until you are prepared to manually install the mod.
When uninstalling a package, you must click Uninstall next to the package you want to uninstall. If you get any failure notices for any files, that means the mod can not be uninstalled completely. If there are test failures, it is generally advised to proceed only when you are prepared to manually uninstall the mod.
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At the bottom of the Browse packages section is a link located on the right side of the page. Clicking this will add an additional box to the page which allows you to emulate your version of SMF to another version temporarily. Just type exactly the version you want to emulate in the input box next to Emulate Version. This is useful if a mod is set to only install for specific versions of SMF, however the mod may still work on your version. To revert the text entered in the input to your version of SMF, click the Revert link.
For more information on using this feature, please see How can install a mod that doesn't work in my SMF version
Download Packages
The download packages section of the package manager provides tools for loading and installing a package and for using the package server browser. To download a package is to obtain it from some place it is stored. In some cases, the package may be downloaded directly to your forum. In other cases, it must be first downloaded to your desktop, then uploaded from your desktop to your forum. Download packages is accessed by selecting the download packages tab from the package manager. Required FTP settings are found in the installation options section.
Package servers
An SMF package server is a repository stocked with modification packages for SMF forums.
The package servers browse feature can be used:
- to obtain packages from a local SMF package server, if one is located on the forum host
- or to obtain packages from a remote SMF package server (such as the Simple Machines Third-party Mod Site), if the forum host permits downloading SMF packages directly from a remote SMF package server
Selecting the browse button next to a server in the package servers list allows viewing of the packages available on that package server. If this feature does not work, upload a package may be used instead to upload a package that has already been manually downloaded to the desktop. The delete button is used to remove a package server listing.
Add server
To add a package server to the list to the list, the administrator may type in a server name (e.g. Simple Machines Third-party Mod Site) and a URL (e.g. http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/), then select the add server button
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Download a package by URL
Download a package by URL is a quick way to download a package from the web to a forum.
- URL - The exact URL of the desired modification package.
- Name of the file - Required if the download URL does not include the file name of the package. If left blank, the base name of the file from the URL will be used. For example, the default name of the file for a package mod_name.zip would be mod_name.
For example the URL format will be: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=download;mod=1519;id=179488
Upload a Package
Upload a Package is used to upload a package from the desktop to the forum. The browse button is used to locate the package file, and the upload button is used to upload it to the forum. After an upload, the administrator is given the option to immediately apply the package, or to use browse packages to install it at a later time.
If you prefer, you may upload the package, or a directory full of package files, to your "Packages" directory, using FTP. For more information about Uploading packages using FTP, see Packages - How to upload packages using FTP.
Installing a Package
Once you have uploaded a package, you can install it -- either immediately, or later, from the Browse Packages list.
Under the heading Install Mod, you'll see the warning Please remember to always make regular backups of your sources and database before installing mods, especially beta versions. Heeding this advice can save you from trouble later.
Below this, the Installation Readme will display any readme text supplied by the mod's author.
Under the heading of Installations actions, you will see a list of all the actions the package manager will take to install this mod. You will see actions of the following types.
- Execute Modification Changes made to existing files. Select the icon to reveal a list of exactly what is being done to this file, complete with a icon to show the search and/or replace strings used in this operation.
- Extract file A file will be copied from the package, to the given path and file name.
- Extract Tree An entire directory full of files will be copied from the package, to the given path
- Adapt Database The named script from the package will be executed. Generally, this script will get the database ready for the mod to run.
Modification packages often make changes to the default theme. These will be listed under Installation actions. Often, it is possible for the package to make changes to all of your themes. These changes are optional, and won't be done unless you check the box next to the modification's name.
As the Package Manager prepares this list, it has made a backup of php files for the forum (please see the FAQ on using package backups for more on this file). At the same time, it tests each action it is preparing to take on your forum, and reports the results in the list. The Package manager will report whether the installation test was successful or failed. If the test failed, it is recommended that you resolve the problem before proceeding with the installation. Checking-out the parser, on the mod's download page, will tell you what edits are made, to which files. If you can match-up the file edited, there, with the edit that's failing, you can often make the failed edit, yourself, manually. If you do that, we have to stress, again, the importance of backing-up, before you do this. You can read more about installing mods by hand.
Installation will begin when you select the Install Now button at the bottom of the page. After a successful installation, the Package Manager may redirect you to the new mod's configuration page, or return you to the Package Manager.
Installed Packages
This page allows you to view your installed mods, the files included in each mod, and gives you the ability to uninstall any mods that you no longer want at the moment. It is similar to the Browse Packages section.
Note that the list of mods shown on this section are taken directly from the Packages/installed.list file of your forum. When mods are added or removed, the file is updated and thus the list on this page will also be updated.
You can select the Delete Mod List button at the bottom of the page to clear the list of mods you have installed, but this is generally not recommended.
File Permissions
You can use this section to review the writable status of critical files and folders within your forum directory. Note this only considers key forum folders and files - use an FTP client for additional options.
Please Note:
- Be careful when changing file permissions from this section - incorrect permissions can adversely affect the operation of your forum!
- On some server configurations selecting the wrong permissions may stop SMF from operating.
- Certain directories such as attachments need to be writable to use that functionality.
- This functionality is mainly applicable on non-Windows based servers - it will not work as expected on Windows in regards to permission flags.
- Before proceeding make sure you have an FTP client installed in case you do make an error and need to FTP into the server to remedy it.
- If you make changes to your file permissions and they don't seem to be having the effect that you expected, you'll need to contact your host, asking them if you have FULL OWNERSHIP of all of the files on your site. Don't worry, if you don't know what that means, exactly, because your host certainly will.
Change File Permissions
Apply individual file permissions settings selected above:
- If "Custom" has been selected use chmod value of: You can manually set the permissions you wish to set the selected files to. To do this enter the chmod value as a numeric (octet) value. Note - these flags will have no effect on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Use predefined permission profile: this only applies the predefined profile to key SMF folders and files.
The installation Options section of the package manager, accessed via package manager's options tab, is for information that is sometimes required during installation. Some package installations may require FTP login information or changes to file permissions.
- Installation Options
- Cleanup Permissions
- FTP Information Required
Installation Options
Settings for FTP Server, Username and Port are used by SMF to make an FTP connection in order to complete certain package installations. The Create Backup versions of replaced files with a tilda[sic] (~) on the end of their names checkbox instructs SMF to save a backup version of any file that is changed or replaced during installation.
Cleanup Permissions
Because it is generally more secure to keep as few files writeable as possible, and because some package installations involve more files than others, this section provides a quick way to change file permissions in the smf directories. In order of increasing permission and decreasing security, the options under this heading are: The minimum files are writable[sic]; All files are writable[sic]; and Only the standard files are writable[sic]. Choosing one of these options and then selecting the Change file permissions button below makes the change.
FTP Information Required
After the change file permissions button is selected, SMF will display a new page prompting for additional FTP information.
- FTP Server - The internet address of the forum ftp server (e.g. ftp.forumname.org)
- Port - FTP port, supplied by the site host if other than 21
- Username - The FTP username used to login to the FTP server.
- Password - The password for the FTP username given above.
- Local path to SMF - FTP Path to the SMF root. This may differ from the SMF path given in the core configuration section of server settings.
The What is the local path to SMF? FAQ has more information.
Following selection of the Proceed button, SMF should make the requested file permission changes at the Local path to SMF and return to the Installation Options section. If this does not happen: 1) If the FTP Server does not exist, the page will be refreshed -- no error message will be displayed; 2) If the FTP Server exists, but FTP login fails (incorrect username/password), a browser Error 500 message will be displayed; 3) If FTP login is successful, but the local path to SMF does not exist, a small FTP error message will be displayed.
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Decimus wrote:ironmanco wrote:A couple of questions:
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I don't have an answer to that but you can. I've check the service manual for the 2014 and it should work.
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There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples on the market today.
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I like to have in my room men that indulge me with their tenderness and make me feel special! I love to tease , to see the desire in your eyes . Knowing how much you want me turns me on even more ;)
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Spontaneous sex with a hot stranger, in a place where almost no people are , but still public, such as the park at night . I bump into him, our eyes meet and we know instantly that we want each other. There's something really hot and intense about it escalating so quick and wanting each other so badly that we don't have time to find a private place or even take our clothes off .
My Obsessions & Desires
Sissy training, CBT, JOI, Financial domination, Foot worship, Spanking, Leather and latex, Whipping, Bondage, Face Sitting, Trampling
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Sometimes I'm sweet and romantic and sometimes I'm kinky and wild . let's see what mood you catch me in. I dare you ! :) Being with me is like riding a roller coaster, from start to finish . it's an exhilarating and heart stoppingly exciting experience.I've been told :P
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Quantifier shift
For more information, see the Wikipedia article:
A quantifier shift is a formal logical fallacy in which the quantifiers of a statement are improperly transposed. While this cannot always be easily recognized in common language, it can be expressed in both formal and informal terms.
- For every x there is a y such that R. Therefore, for every y there is an x such that R.
The classical illustration of this fallacy is as follows:
- Everybody has something to believe in. Therefore, there is something that everybody believes in.
Use in Apologetics[edit]
This is most commonly illustrated in First Cause arguments for the existence of God.
- Every event has a cause. Therefore, there is an event that caused all subsequent events.


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doraapos necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
The company is situated at the center of Athens, it is a "family" office and it is composed by
• Father=40years experienced constructor(retiring),
• Son=civil engineer + constructor,
• Daughter=architect + constructor.
Therefore the company has 2 areas of interest:
First it is a construction company: we buy land, we build blocks of flats, we sell flats etc…..
Second, it is an office of engineering projects that are made from us (architectural + statics), but also we can deliver all the studies for construction new buildings or renovating old ones (through our co-workers)
Brand Name
The name as it is now it is "Afoi Apostolopouloi & Sia O.E."(Meaning bros apostolopouloi & co")
What we would like to promote though it is A³N (from Apostolopoulos Apostolis, Apostolopoulou Ntora)
Potential house owners
• buying a house that we have built to leave with their family, house for their childs etc
• or who want to built a house of their own, so they need someone to make the projects and the studies
The ex- logo is attached. you may either get "inspired" or don't take it under consideration, makes no difference
What we have in our minds is the logo to be composed by a picture + A³N. How it will be done it is up to you
Favorite colors : gray + orange, or red, or open to suggestions…..
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Comparison of empirical models for calculating the vuggy porosity and cementation exponent of carbonates from log responses, Issues 93-94
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The 2006 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) envelope requirements are not coupled to the home''s glazing area percentage. A home with modest glazing area, say 13% of
floor area, will likely require a more efficient envelope for 2006 IECC compliance. Conversely, a home with larger glazing area, say 20% of floor area, may achieve 2006 IECC compliance with less insulation.
The 2006 IECC also implemented a new climate zone system. The system introduced more homogeneity across climates, resulting in less variation in the envelope requirements from location to location. Therefore, some locations have slightly different (higher or lower) efficiency requirements under the 2006 IECC than under the previous codes.


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Ex-Fire Chief Admits Stealing $500,000
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A former fire chief has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $500,000 from the St. Clair Fire District in eastern Missouri.
Eric Hinson pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis. Sentencing is May 2.
Hinson admitted stealing the money from January 2006 through September 2011. He took cash advances on a district credit card and used the card for family vacations in Florida and Hawaii and to pay for personal purchases. He altered records to hide the theft.
Hinson started as a volunteer firefighter in 1985. He became chief in January 2011 and was paid about $25,000 annually for the part-time job.
He became chief in the St. Louis County town of Ladue in July 2011 but resigned two months later amid the St. Clair investigation.


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. --- Kerri Belcher (Roanoke, Va.) and Alyssa Munson (Summerfield, N.C.) each posted a double-double to lead the Lees-McRae College women's basketball team to a 70-56 win over Converse College in their Conference Carolinas opener on Tuesday evening.
Lees-McRae (4-5, 1-0 CC) held Converse (0-5, 0-1 CC) to a field goal percentage of 32.8 percent, including a 23.5 percent clip in the first half, while converting 19 Valkyrie turnovers into 12 points. The Bobcats won the battle on the glass by a 49-42 margin, including a 14-11 advantage on the offensive boards, and scored 17 second-chance points in the contest.
Belcher led all scorers with a career-high 23 points on 8-of-13 shooting, and added a contest-best 11 rebounds to post her second double-double of the season. Munson recorded a double-double of her own with 16 points and 10 boards, while Kabrina Truesdale (Wilmington, N.C.) chipped in nine points and a game-high three assists.
Shanice Bruster paced the Valkyries with 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting, knocking down a pair of three-pointers, as Margo Dill and Brooke Garrison added nine and eight points, respectively. Avery Winchester chipped in a team-high seven rebounds.
Converse scored the game's first basket for its first and only lead of the contest, as Lees-McRae quickly answered with a 21-8 surge, opening a 21-10 margin following a Kasey Haynes (Mooresville, N.C.) lay-in at the 8:23 mark. Lees-McRae would push the advantage to 36-20 with a 15-10 run, capping the spurt with six straight points from Belcher and taking a 37-24 lead into the break.
The Bobcats carried the momentum into the second half, opening its largest lead of the game at 48-26 on a bucket by Belcher at the 16:21 mark. Lees-McRae would hold on from there, weathering a late comeback attempt by the Valkyries en route to the 70-56 victory.
Lees-McRae returns to the court on Saturday when the Bobcats travel to Bristol, Tenn. to take on King University in league play at 5:30 p.m.


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CLEVELAND -- Eric Hinske's fork was digging into the last of his baked potato as he sat at one of the round tables that occupy the open space in the visitors' clubhouse at Jacobs Field. He and his teammates were locked into the third episode of the ESPN miniseries "The Bronx is Burning," the dialogue broken only by chewing. The clubhouse was strangely silent, the feeling more like that after a day game or even, perhaps, a loss.
That was when Hinske piped up. "This is the weirdest after-win clubhouse I've ever seen," he said, prompting laughs from the rest of the mesmerized team and assembled media.
The Red Sox had indeed claimed a crisp 1-0 victory from the arm of Daisuke Matsuzaka and the bat of Mike Lowell and the team's defense, the 39,339 in attendance witnessing a duel between Matsuzaka and C.C. Sabathia.
"I'm grateful for the one run that my teammates were able to score against him," Matsuzaka said through an interpreter. "That obviously made the difference. Since we'd won some games in a row coming into this game, I'm very glad that I didn't stop the winning streak."
That streak is now five games, equaling their longest of the season and matching the current run by the Yankees, who maintained their 7 1/2-game deficit with a 9-4 win over the Royals last night.
But it required a different sort of performance from Matsuzaka than his previous three outings. Since an outstanding eight innings of shutout ball against the Devil Rays July 3, Matsuzaka had given up six runs to Detroit, four to Toronto, and three to Chicago. And six walks against the White Sox didn't qualify as reassuring.
He recovered enough to throw seven innings (98 pitches, 60 strikes) of shutout ball, aiding the team's ninth blanking of the season, and collected his 12th win, the fifth American League pitcher to reach that mark this season. (Three were at last night's game, with Matsuzaka joining Josh Beckett and Sabathia.)
"It was nice to see out of anybody," manager Terry Francona said. "That's a good lineup. That was a major league game pitched by both guys. Not going to see too many 1-0 games here against that lineup.
"You throw the ball over the plate and they take pretty healthy swings. They're not just trying to put it in play. I thought his breaking ball tonight was sharper than we've seen. He threw some cutters tonight, I think one hit 90. That's pretty strong pitching."
And there was that guy on the other side, too.
"He's a dominating pitcher," Lowell said of Sabathia. "He's so big, it looks like he's throwing the ball from about 30 feet away. There are some big guys that throw 88. It's a little different when a guy's throwing 96 with a big slider and a good changeup. He definitely has the ability to shut down offenses. He's an elite pitcher in this league, there's no doubt about it."
But Matsuzaka is joining him, especially with outings like last night's. He ran into serious trouble only in the first inning, when he loaded the bases by hitting Ryan Garko with two outs. But he struck out Jhonny Peralta swinging to end the inning. He wouldn't let a runner past second for his next six innings, then handed off to Hideki Okajima in the eighth and Jonathan Papelbon in the ninth (23d save).
Wily Mo Peña, not normally known for his defensive efforts, made a smashing play in left field, corralling a shot from Casey Blake in the fifth inning up against the wall. Two batters later, second baseman Dustin Pedroia showed nice range to take away a hit from Travis Hafner out of the shift. And Kevin Youkilis grabbed a bunt attempt by Josh Barfield in the seventh, getting Ben Francisco at second for the force.
As for the Sox' run, scored by Youkilis in the fourth, that almost didn't happen. With one out, Youkilis sent a ball just in front of Trot Nixon's glove in right field for a single. Though Cleveland manager Eric Wedge protested that Nixon had caught it, replays showed the umpires were right. Then, after a Manny Ramírez single to left put Youkilis on second, came the bloop hit of the evening.
Lowell touched a ball into short left field that Francisco couldn't quite get to, the ball bouncing just in front of his glove, another trap. This one also was correctly ruled a single, Youkilis coming home. But at first it looked as if Francisco might be able to catch the ball.
"Not initially," Lowell said when asked if he thought the ball was going to fall. "But he kind of broke back a little. You get spoiled because you see the left fielders play so shallow in Fenway. He was kind of playing normal. I thought there was a chance. I was just hoping like any other time a bloop hit might fall. Hoping it drops and it worked out.
"Like they say, better [to] be lucky than good. I'll take luck there."
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Electro Ball is unique in that its power is determined based upon both the user's speed and the speed of the target. More damage is inflicted if the opponent is slower than the user. This isn't done via a specific calculation but has set amounts based upon the speed values.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2006 News Releases > May 2006 > Community Classroom introduces first set of Kids' Kollege offerings
Community Classroom introduces first set of Kids' Kollege offerings
PLAINVIEW – For many children, summer is a time of lazy days, TV or movies and little else. But new offerings at the Community Classroom at Wayland Baptist University can help youngsters grow their minds during the months between school years.
The first offering is the Summer Art Trek for grades 1-4. Cynthia Pinnell, area artist and retired elementary teacher, will help children explore various elements of art, learn basic drawing skills, experiment with the use of a color palette, learn about classifying art and complete a visual art project.
The art trek will meet on Thursdays beginning June 15 and running through July 27. Children entering grades 1 and 2 will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and children in grades 3 and 4 will meet from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Classes will take place at the Community Classroom, and the art trek costs $50 per child, covering the cost of all materials and supplies.
The Mind, Body and Heart Camp will be offered for children in grades 2-5 in July. The three-day camp is full of activities designed to integrate children's minds, bodies and hearts. Children will be introduced to Yoga (without the Eastern philosophy), computer classes, service learning, team games, lifelong sports, nutritional information and daily devotionals.
Instructors for the camp will be Natalie Collins, Alissa Carter and Debbie Stennett. Cost for the camp is $85 per child and includes lunch and snacks for all three days and a t-shirt. Children in grades 2 and 3 will meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 11-13, and children in grades 4 and 5 will meet July 18-20.
The Plainview High School chess club is sponsoring the Bullpup Chess Camp from 9-11 a.m. July 13-17, aimed at children ages 6-14. The camp will feature classes divided into beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Participants will learn how to play chess, refine their skills and compete with each other, with the top ranking player from each level earning a camp award. The cost is $30.
Registration for any of these offerings can be done at the Community Classroom, 708 Yonkers. For more information, contact CC director Debbie Stennett at 291-3650.


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One nice thing about the contemporary world of comedy is its abundance of small gifts. You can thank the Internet for this; it may have destroyed bookstores and record stores and much else I hold/held dear, but it created the video version of the occasional, even random comic essay (what S.J. Perelman, borrowing from the French, called his feuilletons, "little leaves"). Television, sometimes distinct from the Web, but sometimes in concert with it, has picked up on some of these rhythms; but in the new media egg-basket, and in the minds of your children, America, it is all pretty much the same thing anyway.
Here are three very short comedies, made for different reasons and in different forms, but all good.
Every so often, Adam Scott, from "Parks and Recreation" and "Party Down,," in concert with wife, Naomi Scott, puts together something he calls "The Greatest Event in Television History," almost as if to underscore its weightlessness, and to justify his bothering you with it. The fourth and supposedly final installment arrived Thursday at midnight on Adult Swim.
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Just what would constitute the first "The Greatest Event in Television History" was kept tightly under wraps before its premiere in October 2012. What it turned out to be was a shot-for-shot remake of the opening credits to the 1980s detective series "Simon and Simon," with Scott and Jon Hamm standing in for Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney, preceded by a portentous countdown, hosted by Jeff Probst, and a fictitious "making-of" documentary to fill out the quarter-hour. Subsequent editions, following the same pattern, had their way with the credits to "Hart to Hart" (1979-1984), with Scott, Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz as Lionel Stander, and "Too Close for Comfort" (1980-1983), with Scott, Jon Glaser, Catherine O'Hara, Chelsea Peretti and Kathryn Hahn.
The fourth, therefore, was only a surprise as to the identity of the targeted series, which was leaked beforehand in any case: "Bosom Buddies," with Scott as Peter Scolari and Paul Rudd as Tom Hanks. (Rudd, as "himself," also fictionally directed the first "The Greatest Event"; Scott and Lance Bangs are the actual directors.) It was exactly as pointless and wonderful as its predecessors, a fine example of what can happen when a little money and a little talent attaches itself to a throwaway idea. The making-of segment, in what can be seen as a comment on the whole crazy enterprise, has Rudd living his part to extremes. Watch for cameos. (You can see all four episodes here.)
B.J. Novak, who wrote for and played Ryan Howard on "The Office" and is an executive producer of Mindy Kaling's "The Mindy Project," this Thursday posted a "book trailer" (below) for his forthcoming volume of short fiction, "One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories" (Knopf), which is also a comedy sketch in which he and Kaling play themselves in a sort of New Wave film, dubbed in French and subtitled in English. "Does the world need more books?" asks Kaling, whom Novak is trying to impress, when he shows her his. "Ecclesiastes: 'Of the making of books there is no end.'" Novak: "Yes and what is Ecclesiastes but a book? A book ruing its own kind -- perhaps this is the ultimate literary joke." (The title of Kaling's own book, "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?" is translated here as "Is It Existentially Possible That the World Hangs Out in My Absence?") There is also this Francophone "Office" joke. She, regarding a story in his book: "Ceci est très long." He: "C'est ce qu'elle a dit."
Music videos are still a thing, or a thing again, thanks once more to the Internet, and to the form's compatibly small claim on your time. North Carolina's Superchunk, heroes of heartfelt punk for upwards of two decades -- they can still lick any band in the room -- also belong to a kind of comedy-indie-rock complex that may exist mainly in my head, and also would include Hoboken's Yo La Tengo, who have performed sitcoms onstage. David Cross and actress Janeane Garofalo appeared in the clip for the band's "Watery Hands," back in 2006.
Set in a club in a building that's condemned "only on weekdays," the video for "Void," from the band's most recent album, "I Hate Music," was directed by Scott Jacobson (a writer for "The Daily Show" and "Bob's Burger's"). The clip, in which the band members play people too old to be attending their own show -- which is to say, people their own age -- features, as ardent middle-aged fans, H. Jon Benjamin (Bob on "Bob's Burgers," the voice of "Archer," and so much more), Jon Glaser (Councilman Jamm on "Parks and Recreation" and, as above, a participant in "The Greatest Event in Television History" No. 3), writer-comic-Twitter-star Ted Travelstead and Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, who himself has a sideline in comedy and comedy writing. (Until recently he was partnered with writer-comic-video-director Tom Scharpling ("Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!") on WFMU's "The Best Show." (Tweets from Scharpling suggest a possible revival in another venue.)
It's funny and exciting and a little moving as well -- everything I want in a rock video, really, or a comedy short.


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Paths (GTA IV)
Paths in GTA IV are similar to the 64 node-files introduced with San Andreas. Like the first version of the format there are 64 node files where each file corresponds to a 750x750 square unit starting with
nodes0.nod in the south-west corner (-3000.0, -3000.0) and ending in the north-east corner (3000.0, 3000.0) of the game's world in row-major order.
Before trying to understand the format of GTA IV's path files, it is recommended to read the San Andreas paths article, since GTA IV paths are an update of the old format.
Unlike San Andreas, paths are not stored in the major archive file (gta3.img) and the node files also do not have the extension
.dat anymore. In GTA IV, paths are stored in the
~\pc\data\cdimages\paths.img file as 64
.nod files. Furthermore the file structure has generally changed: If San Andreas had 7 sections per node file, GTA IV only got 2. Linking works in a different way and there are no navi nodes any longer.
File Format
The following data types and structures are used within this article:
- INT8/UINT8 - signed/unsigned 8 bit integer (1 byte)
- INT16/UINT16 - signed/unsigned 16 bit integer (2 byte)
- INT32/UINT32 - signed/unsigned 32 bit integer (4 byte)
- FLOAT - single precision floating point number (4 byte)
The header is a structure of 4 values with a size of 16 bytes.
4b - UINT32 - Number of nodes (section 1) 4b - UINT32 - Number of car-nodes 4b - UINT32 - Number of intersection nodes 4b - UINT32 - Number of links (section 2)
Section 1 - Nodes
4b - UINT32 - MemAddress 4b - UINT32 - Zero (Allways) 2b - UINT16 - Area ID 2b - UINT16 - Node ID 4b - UINT32 - Unknown - may be related into interpolation 2b - UINT16 - Allways 0x7FFE 2b - UINT16 - LinkID 6b - INT16[3] - Position (XYZ) 1b - BYTE - Path Width 1b - BYTE - Path Type 4b - UINT32 - Flags
- Area ID
- defines the area where the node lays in. Usually this is the same number as the one of the node file.
- Node ID
- defines the id of the node. This is important for linking the node to others. Using the node and area id nodes can be identified as unique. There cannot be 2 nodes with the same area and node id.
- Link ID
- points to an link in section 2. The link ID cannot point into another node file. It points to a link in the same node file. However this link is able to point to an node in another or the same area.
- Position (X,Y,Z)
- The world-coordinates of the node. To get the floating point X and Y coordinates divide the 16 bit integer by 8. For Z coords you have to divide by 128 (Unlike San Andreas).
- Path Width
- used to set the width of the paths. For cars this is related in how much space there is between 2 lanes. Divide the 8 bit unsigned integer by 8 to get the floating point value.
- Path Type
- descripes the type of an node. This is used to isolate certain nodes from others. For boats this is allways 0x01.
- Flags
- the flags are used to influence the behaviour of non-person-characters (NPC's), which are spawned along the paths on the nodes (See below).
Path Node Flags
0-4: unknown Flag 05: Emergency only Flag 06: Boats Flag 07: Unknown Flag 08: Exactly the same as 05 Flag 09: Intersection central node Flag 10: Is highway Flag 11: Is not highway 12-15: Link count Flag 16: Disable linking 17-23: unknown (Perhaps related to lanes or other earlier Navi node flags) Flag 24: Is ped node? Flag 25: Rarely used, police controls or roadblocks? Flag 26: unknown ped flag Flag 27: Unknown ped flag 28-31: unknown
- Structure unconfirmed and partially incomplete
Section 2 - Links
2b - UINT16 - Area ID 2b - UINT16 - Node ID 1b - UINT8 - Unknown 1b - UINT8 - Link length 2b - UINT16 - Flags
- Structure unconfirmed and partially incomplete
Tools and Scripts
- – a tool by User:Aschratt which allows to view paths and highlight nodes with special flags in 3D.
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