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Is GFCI protection required for temporary power sources? Oregon OSHA's construction rule on branch circuits, 437-003-0404(2), requires GFCI protection for employees working from temporary power sources, using 125-volt, single-phase, 15-, 20-, or 30-ampere receptacles. This requirement applies to all tools and equipment connected to temporary power sources. If a permanently wired receptacle (not equipped with GFCI protection) is used for temporary electric power, GFCI protection must also be available.
For receptacles with more than 125 volts, single-phase, or more than 30-amp capacity, GFCI protection or an assured equipment grounding conductor program is required [See 437-003-0404(3)].
Is GFCI protection required at the user end of the circuit? GFCI protection can be anywhere on the circuit as long as it protects the worker.
How do I know if a GFCI is defective? The best way to determine if a GFCI is defective is to test it with a polarity-checking tool that has a built-in milliamp indicator. If the GFCI trips out at four to six milliamps, it's working; if it trips out below four milliamps, it's defective and must be replaced.
Are electrical cord inspections required? Daily inspections of extension cords and plug-connected equipment are required only as part of an assured equipment grounding conductor program. However, employers are required to ensure that electrical equipment does not have hazards that are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to their employees. So, regular inspections of electrical cords are certainly worth the effort. See 1926.403, General Requirements [Subdivision 3/K].
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Jon Haidt's Righteous Mind
I've had my copy of the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind for about 10 days now, and I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to blogging about it. Longtime readers will know that I'm a big fan of Haidt's work; we've talked about it here on many occasions. I have been so consumed by trying to get the rough draft of my book finished that I haven't had time to devote to the book. When I get back from Paris, I will remedy this.
Meanwhile, here are excerpts from an article in Prospect about it. Enjoy! And buy the book!:
All of the above are, in the formulation of a group of North American cultural psychologists, WEIRD—they are from a sub-culture that is Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic. They are, as we have seen, universalists, suspicious of strong national loyalties. They also tend to be individualists committed to autonomy and self-realisation. Balancing that they are usually deeply concerned with social justice and unfairness and also suspicious of appeals to religion or to human nature to justify any departure from equal treatment—differences between men and women, for example, are regarded as cultural not biological.
This is what one might call the secular liberal baby boomer worldview and it is in many ways an attractive and coherent one. It is also for historical reasons, to do with empire, unusually ingrained in the British cultural and political elite, the default position in much of the education system (especially higher education) and the public services more generally, plus significant parts of the media.
The Daily Mail is dedicated to a Kulturkampf against it precisely because it is so powerful. In the neat slogan about British politics since about 1975, "the right won the economic argument, the left won the cultural argument." But is the left now losing the cultural argument too? Or, to put it another way, is the WEIRD elite coming up against some of the boundaries of everyday morality?
Most traditional societies are "sociocentric," meaning they place the needs of groups and institutions first. Today most rich societies are "individualistic," making society a servant of the individual. Yet even in these countries significant traces of our more sociocentric and "groupist" past are to be found in peoples' instincts and moral intuitions. This has been the message of countless works of popular science since the renewed interest in Darwin (including from the late conservative social scientist James Q Wilson). Humans are not "blank slates" and only partially respond to a WEIRD worldview, we are still also group-based primates and our moral psychology has been shaped by deep evolutionary forces.
And the problem for liberals is that conservatives understand this better than they do. As one conservative friend put it, "it has taken modern science to remind liberals what our grandparents knew." Ed Miliband's difficulty is not so much that he is weird but that he is WEIRD. Yet help is at hand in the shape of a truly seminal book—out of that remarkable Amerian popular-science-meets-political-speculation stable—called The Righteous Mindby Jonathan Haidt.
Like Steven Pinker, Haidt is a liberal who wants his political tribe to understand humans better. His main insight is simple but powerful: liberals understand only two main moral dimensions, whereas conservatives understand all five. (Over the course of the book he decides to add a sixth, liberty/oppression, but for simplicity's sake I am sticking to his original five.)
Liberals care about harm and suffering (appealing to our capacities for sympathy and nurturing) and fairness and injustice. All human cultures care about these two things but they also care about three other things: loyalty to the in-group, authority and the sacred.
As Haidt puts it: "It's as though conservatives can hear five octaves of music, but liberals respond to just two, within which they have become particularly discerning." This does not mean that liberals are necessarily wrong but it does mean that they have more trouble understanding conservatives than vice versa.
One of my most politically liberal friends read this book and declared his world view to be transformed. Not that he was no longer a liberal but now "he couldn't be so rude about the other side, because I understand where they're coming from." This will be music to Haidt's ears as the book was written partly as an antidote to the more polarised American politics of the past 20 years, marked by the arrival of Bill Clinton and the liberal baby boomers onto the political stage.

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Here we were, only earlier today saying not enough video games get into the Christmas spirit, and what does driving sim Gran Turismo 5 go and do? Get into said Christmas spirit.
If you've got the game, go boot it up and listen to the music when the main menu first kicks in. Playing in this clip is Silent Night, but earlier today I also heard Jingle Bells and We Wish You A Merry Christmas.
Creepiest part? I couldn't get it on camera, but when Jingle Bells started up, it started up while zombie Jeff Gordon was walking onto the screen, his zombie mouth flapping open and shut like some sick, undead NASCAR karaoke.


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wow, what a game. our chances were slim… but we came out victorious in more ways than one. firstly, we scored the opening goal of the world cup. secondly, we scored 3 goals overall – that's 2 more than the french. thirdly, we BEAT the french. they are ranked 9th, we are ranked 83rd. so, as us south africans would say, wela kapela! feeling like this:
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It is officially a new year, and yes Praxedes, we somehow survived the annual mandatory blood alcohol poisoning that is part of the rituals of ringing out the old and ringing in the new.
Below, numbered for enumeration and not for order of importance, are my memorable basketball moments for 2017:
1. Kevin Durant made the move and won his championship ring.
There are those who think Durant ought to be commended for finally coming to terms with the fact that he and Russell Westbrook will never win an NBA world title together in Oklahoma City.
There are also those who think Durant should never ever be allowed into the Hall of Fame because he took the easiest way out of that little conundrum by signing with the Golden State Warriors, effectively ensconcing the NBA title in the West for all time, or at least the next decade.
Durant did what he had to do, and did it at a time when he can still win multiple championships in Oakland. Yes, if he was as great as he thinks he is then he should have stayed in Oklahoma and proven it.
But then again, he doesn't owe anybody any explanation or excuse about making a move that is simply a no-brainer if he wants to have the one thing that all the true greats have, a championship.
Unless LeBron James is cloned in Cleveland then the NBA has become boring for the next decade or so.
2. Ginebra retains its Governors Cup title.
Ginebra San Miguel and Meralco played to a record crowd of over 54,000 fans at the Philippine Arena in Bulacan in the Mother of all Game 7's as the Gin Kings retained their PBA Governors Cup championship.
Greg Slaughter, who sat out the 2016 title run due to injury, finally got his first PBA championship on the hardwood floor.
Meralco put up a heck of a fight, but in the end the superior size of Ginebra proved just to big (literally) an obstacle to overcome.
If the Game 7 box office and television share was any indication, Ginebra is still the lifeblood of the PBA.
3. Lyceum went from shit to sweep in the NCAA.
Talk about the Lyceum Pirates in the NCAA and you'd normally get word associations such as "cellar dweller", "league doormat", "whipping boys". At least until this season.
This season the Pirates completed an historic 18-game regular season sweep of the NCAA, including two tough games against reigning champion San Beda.
Granted they eventually folded when it mattered most, getting swept 2-0 in the Finals as the Red Lions went on to continue their NCAA Dynasty.
Still, no one can ever take away what Coach Topex Robinson, CJ Perez and the rest of the Pirates achieved this season. That si probably a record that will stand for the better part of this century.
4. Christian Standhardinger, through no fault of his own, is now June Mar Fajardo's teammate.
Mention Christian Standhardinger and what automatically comes to mind is the controversial trade that allowed the already powerful San Miguel Beer franchise to draft him with the Number 1 pick in the 2017 PBA Rookie Draft.
No one except the most hardcore of hoops fans even heard of Standhardinger before this year.
He is a strapping and active 6-foot-8 Filipino-German forward who spent his college years in the US NCAA.
Then Gilas head coach Chot Reyes summoned him for national team duty and he answered the call.
Although he was classified by FIBA as a naturalized player and not a local, he saw action with Gilas and showed Pinoy fans why Reyes wanted him.
Fast forward to Draft Day 2017 and Kia gives up the rights to the Number 1 pick in favor of some role players, allowing the Beermen to nab Standhardinger.
He now gets to play alongside four-time MVP Fajardo, although not right away since he still has an active ABL contract to play out.
5. Chito Narvasa resigns as PBA Commissioner following the Standhardinger controversy.
Kia, as mentioned above, gave up the chance to get Standhardinger in the draft essentially for three role players: JR Reyes, Ronald Tubid, and Filipino-American Rashawn McCarthy. Uh, who? Yes Praxedes, that was what everybody thought as well.
Anyway, where were we? Ah yes, Narvasa.
This trade would not have been consummated had Narvasa not approved it as Commissioner.
This then led to a "schism" of sorts within the PBA Board, with five team allied with the San Miguel Corporation on one side, supporting Narvasa, and seven teams led by the PLDT Group on the other side asking for Narvasa's head on a platter.
Although Narvasa held out for a while, he did eventually give up and resign.
Truth be told nobody would ever in a million
We used to call them zebras, because they used to wear shirts with bold black stripes.
Now however it seems there is an explosion of colors in referee fashion. In some games they wear a bright yellow, reminiscent of emergency signals.
In some tournaments they wear orange, like life savers and lifeguards sometime do.
For the most part however, the modern basketball referee wears grey. Even in the ongoing UAAP Season 80 basketball tournament, it has been their uniform color of choice.
For those of you who've watched the post-season of Season 80 you already know where this is going.
It all began with the Final 4 match between reigning champion De La Salle and Adamson. That was a game won handily by the Green Archers 82-75, coming back from as many as 15 points.
And that is where things start to get interesting.
Franz Pumaren, head coach of the Soaring Falcons and a UAAP veteran, called it "the worst officiating" he had ever experienced in a few interviews after that game.
Considering there was a free throw disparity of 39-5 in favor of La Salle, it seems Pumaren wasn't merely going all sour grapes or whining. Let me repeat that: 39-5.
Now La Salle is a strong team, the reigning champion, and the consensus Number 1 seed going into this year's tournament. Surely they - of all teams - wouldn't need any help from the referees just to win a game. Right?
That sort of misses the point. The actual point is that glaring disparity in free throws. It was so glaring that even people who had nothing to do with either side took notice and had opinions about it.
"For the first time in three years, it was a first that aside from the losing team which you expect the complaint from, there are some sectors who checked what happened. So of course, I cannot be insensitive to the public cause at the end of the day, they are the audience. We have to address the outcry," said Commissioner and Executive Director Rebo Saguisag.
Saguisag, a lawyer, and son of former Senator Rene Saguisag, also suspended all three referees who worked this game. At least two of these referees were already singled out in previous controversies. That they were even calling a critical playoff game is beyond me.
Hardly had the sound and fury of this game died down when suddenly Game 1 of the Finals rolled around, and was done.
Both the league and ABS CBN had its dream match, with the Ateneo De Manila disposing of Far Eastern in their knockout Final 4 game in overtime to set up the title series with La Salle.
Leaning on the clutch baskets of center George Go in the last few seconds, the Blue Eagles went on to take Game 1 76-70.
Once again however, the referees were in the thick of the conversation.
Videos circulating all over the Internet, especially social media, showed at least four specific instances when La Salle players had committed clear violations while the referees inexplicably did not blow their whistles.
1. Ricci Rivero low-blowed Vince Tolentino after Tolentino had taken a free throw, with a closed fist.
2. Benoit Mbala hit a driving Thirdy Ravena in the face, with a closed fist. This time with Referee Number 59 right there at the baseline with a clear view of this bit of action.
3. Abu Tratter punched Raffy Verano in the side as Verano hit the deck to try and go after a loose ball.
4. Benoit Mbala, on a cut, snapped an elbow into Tolentino's chin as the latter went to cover the former.
5. Prince Rivero also had a closed fist throughout his attempts to get rebounds and box out.
It is one thing to try to get an advantage through tough / clever play, "kung ayaw mo masaktan, mag-chess ka na lang," as my good friend Wang-bu always says.
It is however quite another thing for an entire team to make it part and parcel of strategy and tactics to go out and deliberately hurt the opponents.
This might be an opportune time to remind the league that closed fists are such a huge no-no in this game that just brandishing them (such in a "fighting stance" as the FIBA rules say) could get a guy tossed from a game and even suspended.
"I'll do whatever it takes to win. But I won't go out there and deliberately injure a fellow player," explained former UP star Jett Manuel in one interview.
You'd think after the Ateneo had been given 29 free throws in the first half of this game that La Salle would tone it down, but no, the Green Archers just kept going.
"I've never in 35 years had a consultation with a referee at halftime. I thought it was reduntant. They were just saying what is obviously happening and what will obviously continue to happen," said Tab Baldwin,


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David Gorgani | KF17 | Dominican RepublicToday marks the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the strong-handed dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Otherwise known as El Jefe (the boss), El Benefactor, El Chivo (the goat) and La Chapita (bottle cap), Trujillo was known for his deep egocentrism. Here are some examples of Generalissimo Trujillo's ego in action:
1) For 25 years, Santo Domingo – the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas – was officially named "Ciudad Trujillo"
2) Under Trujillo, the highest peak in the Dominican Republic (and the Caribbean) was renamed from Pico Duarte to "Pico Trujillo"
3) Trujillo erected hundreds of monuments across the country in his honor, and named numerous cities and public works after himself
Still, much more significant than the Trujillo's unique personality and unrivaled sense of self-worth was his iron-fisted rule. While the notorious black Volkswagen Beetles of Trujillo's SIM, or secret police, roamed the streets collecting alleged enemies of the state for imprisonment, torture and execution, Trujillo pursued a series of erratic and often contradictory policies. While Trujillo left the doors of the Dominican Republic wide open to immigrants from Asia and Europe (including Jews fleeing Europe during World War II), he also oversaw the killing of tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants in what has been termed the "Parsley Massacre". And while the Dominican economy expanded significantly under Trujillo's rule, Trujillo's close friends and family saw a disproportionate augment to their wealth. Through his strong anti-communist policies, Trujillo was able to gain the support of the United States, although that support waned as Trujillo's days neared their end.
As a bit of a fanatic of political history, I've spent a great deal of time asking around in taxis, on buses, on the street, in colmados (think the intersection of a convenience store and a bar), and at work about how Dominicans feel about Trujillo. I've heard responses all across the board, some of which were exactly what I expected and some of which came as a big surprise.
Of course, the most interesting conversations (as well as the most fun conversations) have been with the "old-timers" who remember what it was like to live under Trujillo's regime. In addition to the extravagant (and dubious) stories about how many illegitimate children the Generalissimo has (some say in the hundreds), the majority of these individuals are also quick to recall their complete lack of civil liberties under Trujillo. The "old-timers" often reference the subjects that simply were not discussed, and many have friends and family that disappeared for various periods of time.
Nonetheless, despite Trujillo's many ills, a number of the people with whom I've discussed this theme have also referenced the ways in which life was better under Trujillo. Although the Dominican Republic is a relatively safe country, many nostalgically recall the days when people didn't lock their doors or when the streets of Santo Domingo were safe at all hours. Many also express concern about the growing income discrepancy in the Dominican Republic and refer to the lower level of extreme poverty (although I'm on the fence about how much I confide in this claim.)
Don't get the wrong idea, Dominicans overwhelmingly view Trujillo's iron rule as a dark period in their history. Still, I've been fascinated by the consistently nuanced responses I've received from the people I've talked to. Nobody has responded to the question: "How do Dominicans feel about Trujillo?" with good or bad; the norm is generally a long, drawn-out explanation of why it's such a complicated question. And that is exactly why I've continued asking…
[Source of biographical information: Trujillo: The Life and Times of a Caribbean Dictator by Robert Crassweller, published in 1966 by MacMillan, New York]
David Gorgani is a Kiva Fellow serving in the Dominican Republic, helping ASPIRE get started as a Kiva Field Partner, helping Esperanza International with borrower verifications, and attempting to learn salsa and merengue on the side.


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(This is an outdated version! ArchPack for SRB2 2.1 is here: http://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=39728)
ArchPack - single player and multiplayer level pack for SRB2 v2.0.x
version 2.0 stable - Genesis Keep Zone is out
All my released maps are included in this level pack. You'll find single player and multiplayer maps, including my very first map called Miscellaneous Trip Zone released on July 2008.
I hope you enjoy playing this level pack and feel free to comment in this topic.
Along with the wad file, I added three batch files that starts up SRB2, SRB2CB and XSRB2 with ArchPack. You just need to download the attachment below, unzip, move the content into SRB2 folder and double-click the batch file at your choice.
To see the complete list of changes for v2.0, go here.
More info: ArchPack Doc. Videos: EzerArch's YouTube channel. Images: Ezer'Arch's albums. Homepage: Ezer'Arch's site.
Add-on's short link: bit.ly/i4AfGK
Single Player maps:
Multiplayer maps:
2014-08-19: ArchPack ported to SRB2 2.1. New topic.
2013-07-14: ArchPack v2.0 stable is out! 4 new maps + Parts pack.
2013-05-12: NEW MAP: Genesis Keep Zone Act 3 alpha release.
2013-05-11: NEW MAP: Genesis Keep Zone Act 2 alpha release.
2013-04-16: NEW MAP: Genesis Keep Zone Act 1 alpha release.
2013-01-27: ArchPack 1.1a stable is out! (small fix for SRB2 Wad Speedrun competition)
2012-01-26: New levels in the making
2011-10-20: ArchPack v1.0 stable is out!
2011-07-17: Arch Pack v0.6 is out!
2011-02-26: Arch Pack v0.5 is out!
2010-11-09: Arch Pack v0.4 is out!
2010-04-25: Arch Pack Repository.
2010-04-19: Arch Pack v0.4 will be out soon.
2009-12-18: Arch Pack v0.3 is out!
2009-10-24: Two new testing releases for v0.3: Lift Bridge Zone and Miscellaneous Trip
2009-10-20: Scripts for Arch Pack released.
2009-10-03: Lift Bridge Zone and Water Plant Zone for v0.3 are out for testings. Mirror for IE users removed.
2009-09-29: Mirror added for IE users (go download FireFox!)
2009-08-21: 101 downloads!
2009-08-17: Beta version 0.2 released - level design fixes
2009-08-13: Beta version 0.2 coming soon and the new Addon System
2009-08-01: Version 0.1, first release of ArchPack.
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ArchPack v2.0 is out! 4 new maps + parts pack
ArchPack 2.0 features 3 new single-player maps and 1 casual map; a small unlockable system with 15 emblems and 9 special stage tokens.
New maps:
3 Single player maps, Genesis Keep Zone Acts 1, 2 and 3 are now included in the main pack before Mill Citadel Zone. This zone has got a few hidden rooms and items.
The casual map is Soccer Field Zone, an experiment I had made when SRB2ME was released. It's a soccer field with a ball to mess around. It was included in the 0.6 release, nobody noticed, I removed it, but it seems the people on YouTube liked it. So it's back as unlockable. Check the Secret List in the game menu after you've completed the pack once. (This map is multiplayer compatible for co-op, match and tag. To access it, type MAP MAPC4 in the console. Make sure to host it on Casual Room)
Savegame, Statistics, Time Attack, Secrets and Emblems:
This version records savegames, statistics, emeralds and emblems collected and time attacks. Sorry, time attacks and statistics from older versions are broken.
15 emblems were included. Collect them all and Soccer Field is unlocked. Now collecting tokens can give you the chance to go super in the latest maps.
Know issues:
1) I know there are some hall-of-mirrors in GKZ2. I'll try to fix them for the next release, if possible.
2) There is a bug in the emblems/unlockable system, vanilla unlockables "leak" into this mod, and it counts more emblems than it is supposed to.
An ArchPack 2.1 release to fix a part of these things is expectable.
ArchPack, it ends here. Parts pack:
A few months ago I changed my priorities. I decided that Genesis Keep Zone would be my last map. But people saw the screenshots and videos of other maps I was working on, it wouldn't be fair if I simply trash everything I have done just because it's unfinished. As I said here, there was no guarantee I would be finishing them all.
This video playlist shows a bit of these maps I was working on: SRB2 ArchPack Dev - Development of new maps. Now everything is out.
I then decided to release everything in form of parts pack. You can freely copy and use the parts in your project. Just copy, paste, modify if you want. Read the licence.txt.
Plus, I have some unfinished and scrapped maps too. You are allowed to open and learn from them, but not copy them since they have shape and character. But if you have a nice idea or project that could use or continue these maps, I would be glad to hear. I offered these maps and the parts once in a collab, but it seemed nobody cared. Now it's open. Read the licence.txt as well.
Spoiler: Wet Village Zone maps and the secret control room in every 2nd act
- These are unfinished maps. Water themed; it takes place in a flooded town with aqueducts, dams, tunnels and canals (Venice?). It is based on 4th room of Miscellaneous Trip Zone and Aqueduct Circuit Zone, both from ArchPack, and it was *slightly* inspired by Assassin's Creed II game.
- There is a lot of content, secrets, gimmicks and nice ideas. The control room, the same that can be found in ArchPack's 2nd acts, can be accessed by "figuring out" the secret passage in the lastest room of the act 2 and beating the challenge path (harder and longer than that of Mill Citadel Zone 2). Beware, something that ressembles Rexxon from Sonic Spinball is waiting for you.
Spoiler: About only the control room and the tokens
Special stages tokens weren't supposed to be found outside in the map, but only in the control rooms in the 2nd acts, therefore 7 control rooms, 1 per zone.
There's a cool plot behind it.
I no longer feel like making new maps. But I'd be glad to help people with map editing and using the stuff I'm releasing. It's more rewarding; I don't want to be consumed with new maps.
Feel free to comment, ask questions. Feel free to contact me via private message, posting here or via my YouTube channel (complete list of ways of contacting me is there). Subscribe if you want, I'll post more videos about SRB2 and other things.
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Please check the changelog below for details about the changes.
Along with the level pack, I added three batch files that start up SRB2, SRB2CB and XSRB2 with Arch Pack. Just save the stuff in SRB2 folder and double-click the batch file.
Finally, thanks for 487 downloads and 78 installs.
See 1st post for downloads.
ArchPack v2.0 change log (2013.07.14):
- ADD: General - unlockables.
- ADD: General - 15 emblems, 1st and 2nd act maps and MTZ have got 3 emblems each map.
- ADD: New map - Genesis Keep Zone Act 1 (GKZ1).
- ADD: New map - Genesis Keep Zone Act 2 (GKZ2).
- ADD: New map - Genesis Keep Zone Act 3 (GKZ3).
- ADD: New map - Soccer Field Zone (SFZ) is back as unlockable.
- CHANGE: General - tumbleweed sprites were replaced to make SFZ ball. See SOC section below.
- CHANGE: General - total number of emerald tokens is now 9.
- CHANGE: General - single player maps were renumbered. Old savegames, statistics, time-attacks are unsupported.
- CHANGE: MCZ2 - minor changes in the left path's 1st room. A few crates were moved and the path next to the exit enlarged.
- CHANGE: MTZ - emerald tokens removed.
- FIX: MCZ1 - wrong FOF height in the first room.
If you download and install this add-on, I'd ask you to click on Mark as Favorite (see 1st post, in Addon Information) to receive notifications regarding updates. And don't forget to rate this level by clicking on "Rating".
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Sweet, I am going to give this a try. I liked what I played from Genesis Keep Act 1 and I looking forward to playing the rest when I get time. I will give feedback on the levels after I get a chance to play them a couple of times.
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This is cool. I found 4 emeralds, 2 emblems, game in 8 mins and Genesis keep 2 under a minute. Thanks for updating. But I taught that vanilla maps was quite used idea. And solid falls in Mill Citadel were bit weird. Soccer field would be fun on server but not so fun in 1p. I lost many in Genesis keep when trying to find hidden things (But it was maybe my fault).Here is still fun to find emblems.
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Let me explain why it is there: when you load my mod, all vanilla maps become "hidden" (they are still accessible via Multiplayer though) so that attention is focused only on the ArchPack maps. Once the player completes the pack, all vanilla maps are back via secrets menu.
space-glider room came up by the same reason. It was a normal room of Star Station Zone, but I ended up enlarging it to the max SRB2 can stand and became a separate map.
In fact, this soccer field plays better in multiplayer. But it isn't a working soccer field: the goals don't detect the ball so that the teams can score points. It's rather a casual/role-play map than anything. If at least the ball were detect when it enter the goals, scores a point and it's teleported to the center... SRB2 had a gametype that somewhat worked like this but it was removed (the Ice Hokey).
{ About the spece-glider room: it's included in ArchPack-Parts.zip }
When SRB2 2.0 came up, I replaced the old static texture with animated ones and removed the scroller.
The GKZ1 one is kind of known: SRB2 ArchPack Dev - A safe place to rest
The GKZ2 is this:
It's easy to find, hard to enter. Let me give you a tip:
Both in the air, door and key; both look and work in the same way, but both look and work differently.
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Today, I will continue with the lesson we started yesterday with a modification. We are still working on Common Core State Standard: W.2.1, and the students will still write an opinion piece. The modification I am incorporating given their writing from yesterday is to let them either write an opinion about the book or about the character Velvet. This is a follow up based on the analysis I did of student work from yesterday's lesson that told me I needed to revise my writing prompt to make the task more straightforward for students. In the end, this decision serves the greatest good because they will still need to provide evidence to meet the task of the standard. Expressing an opinion, finding evidence from the text, and putting it altogether in a well-structured written piece is a lot to ask in one lesson, so it makes sense that we needed a follow up.
As in yesterday's piece, they will need to provide reasons that support their opinions after they state their opinion. And, again, I am looking for them to use the linking words: and, because, and also. I am also looking for them to use evidence from the story and for these reasons to clearly support their opinions. Finally, students will take their evidence and write a paragraph that supplies reasons and include a concluding statement.
To support their fact-finding, I am rereading Odd Velvet and having them take additional notes to the ones from yesterday.
Lesson Opening:
I start by reviewing facts and opinions on the rug. I review the chart we created yesterday about apples. I have students pair share their response journals from yesterday. I believe in reviewing as I feel it is an important part of helping our brain establish long term learning/memories. Also, my students benefit much from various opportunities to practice academic language.
I am rereading Odd Velvet and giving the students additional time to add to their notes because I noticed a good amount of them did not write down evidence to support their opinion. I review with them how they need to support their opinion. For example, if think Velvet is odd, then they should listen for evidence that supports that. If they do not think she is odd, then they need to listen for details to support that. The same applies to whether they liked the book or not.
I am asking them to choose one of their pens from their pencil box to write the additional details. I do this because I want to bring attention to the new knowledge they are adding. For some the new details will be written with a red pen. I also doing this so that these details show up in their writing. Being able to use a different colored pen or pencil also makes it fun for them. And, I want them engaged!
Here are some of their work samples:
Rereading the book brought about some more questions from the students:
And, I was able to listen to one of students express his opinion of Velvet: SheisNotOdd.
Since they will be writing next, I ask my students to take a brain break. I take two minutes where I ask the students to stand. I move them through breathing exercises where I ask them to breathe deeply. I ask them to move their hands/arms and legs. This movement helps their brain wake up and reenergize. Playing music during this time makes it fun too.
I tell them that today, I am teaching them how to include a concluding statement. I give them the following steps:
During the revision process, I will have a chance to look at their concluding statements again to give them additional guidance.
My students are using the information gathered in their response journals and writing their paragraphs. I am looking for them to indent correctly. I am looking for them start with their opinion. I am looking for them to supply reasons that support their opinion. I am looking for them include a concluding statement. And, I am looking for them to use neat printing. This is something I have been working with them.
Here are some of their work samples:


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CENTER LINE, Mich. – A 34-year-old blind man is recovering from an attack by a man who tried to rob his apartment.
A man forced his way into the apartment of Francis Champion in the Lawrence Park high rise on Ten Mile Road in Center Line, which is home to many elderly and special needs residents.
Francis explained he has been living with physical impairments.
"I actually went blind in '05 from diabetes. I lost my kidneys in '07 and I just had a kidney transplant August 9," Champion said.
While he is living with his disabilities, Champion said he was not prepared for the invasion of his apartment home.
"He kicked the door in. That's when I heard the blast. I jumped up out of my sleep and stumbled around the corner to see what what was going on and he just ran towards me," Champion said.
The attacker wrestled Champion to the floor. Champion said he stayed down, now knowing if there might be more than one attacker. The intruder then ransacked the apartment but left without taking anything.
Francis Champion said he considers himself fortunate because he is young enough to survive an attack. He is, however, worried if that intruder comes back and attacks an elderly neighbor.
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This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I can't stop laughing how at the end, after writhing in pain, he catches the ball which just lands.
I'd say the directors are ingenious but I feel anything that you put Schintzius in is bound to be hysterical.
The catching the ball at the end was awesome. I missed that the first time. Schintzius really shows off the heart that made him such a great player by still focusing on catching the ball even in extreme genital pain. I also think with his obvious Oscar caliber acting ability he would thrive into today's game by becoming an expert flopper. Looking forward to episode 3.
Haha, this is great.
Yeah the catching the ball is priceless!
You're right he'd be right up there with Varejeo in the flopping department.
His focus and concentration as a pro is what kept him in the league so long. It had nothing to do with him being 7'3. He had that mental toughness that Jordan used to allude to all the time. He easily could've been Luc Longley on those Bulls teams that won it all.
No Glen Davis. No KG. :( Can Schintzius give us like 9 minutes?
Schintzius and his spaceball can give about 13 minutes tonight.
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Starbucks said customers who order a holiday beverage on Friday Nov. 2 get a free "Limited-Edition Reusable Red Holiday Cup," and an invitation to join the company in reducing the collective impact on the environment. Customers who get the reusable cup can also get a discount on holiday drinks after 2 p.m. from Nov. 3 to Jan. 7.


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General Services Administration Presents Hammer Award to USWEST for Revised Blue Pages Publishing EffortsTuesday April 13, 1999
Bill Bearden
(202) 501-1231
Washington, D.C. -- In a ceremony in Denver today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recognized USWEST and its directory publishing company, USWEST Dex's efforts to help make government more "consumer friendly" by presenting the company with the prestigious Hammer Award. Barry Johnson, a GSA employee in the Federal Technology Service in Salt Lake City, Utah, also received the award.
USWEST has been working with GSA for more than two years on the effort to revise and distribute an easier-to-use edition of the Blue Pages federal government services directory listings. The company introduced the Denver edition of the Blue Pages in November, 1998. USWEST will publish different editions of the revised Blue Pages in nine cities, reaching more than 10 million people.
Improving the Blue Pages - and making them more useful to consumers - grows out of a recommendation from the Vice President's National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) initiative. As the lead agency in the effort, GSA has been working with consumers, publishers, phone companies, and other government agencies to create a helpful, "hassle-free" listing format. So far, the improved version of the evolving product reaches 105 million Americans.
"In just a few years, thanks to public/private partnerships with companies like USWEST, we've been able to make huge strides toward the Vice President's goal of giving consumers easier access to their government," said GSA Administrator David Barram. "Right now, we're getting this valuable tool to nearly half the homes in America."
Consumers can open their local phone books and see the improvements that the GSA and USWEST have made. Instead of endless columns of information arranged by government agency name, consumers now have a resource with larger type, identifying icons, toll-free numbers, and Internet addresses, organized by subject and type of service. GSA testing shows that this new format cuts down on the time people need to find numbers - a key part of the product's efficiency.
GSA plans to continue to gather feedback from consumers, publishers, and other government agencies to refine the Blue Pages even more. According to Barram, one of the advantages of working with companies like USWEST is that they're attuned to serving customers. "For our corporate partners, innovation and constant improvement are basic parts of their business strategies. GSA operates the same way, constantly striving to improve our customer service. Working together in a public/private partnership, we've been able to focus our efforts and reach a huge segment of the country quickly and efficiently."
In a recent letter to Barram, the Vice President echoed this idea. "The new Blue Pages have improved customer access to federal services and support the Administration's effort to bring government closer to the people." GSA began working on the Blue Pages project,once described by the Vice President as a "low-tech puzzle that must be solved before reaching the high-tech government," in 1995. Soon, the agency learned that about one-third of people using the "old" Blue Pages to reach the government failed to find the information they needed. Part of the problem stemmed from confusing listings that organized information alphabetically by government agency name, rather than by common-sense subject. Working with representatives from other federal agencies, GSA's team sorted out the listings and developed a standardized, subject-driven approach that can be used throughout the country.
In Denver, for example, consumers can look under "T" for taxes or "I" for Internal Revenue Service to get forms and other assistance - a resource that's particularly helpful this time of year. By publishing the Blue Pages, USWEST and other companies offer a value public service. Thanks to GSA's partnership with USWEST, 3.9 million households have more efficient access to their government.
Judi Hand, USWEST Dex Vice President of Marketing, and Dave Miller, USWEST Vice President of Operator and Information Services, accepted the Hammer Award for the USWEST team. Don Elder of the Vice President's National Partnership for Reinventing Government, presented the award on behalf of the Vice President.
"Consumers in Denver, where we've published one of our most recent directories, and other cities can already see the benefits of the revised Blue Pages," said Hand. "We are committed to publishing directories that are complete, accurate, and easy-to-use. Our work with the GSA has gone a long way to helping our federal Blue Pages meet the 'user-friendliness' test." Hand added that, "We're proud to receive the Hammer Award - not only because it marks an important partnership for us, but because it represents the same kind of drive toward service and quality that USWEST Dex is committed to providing."
The Hammer Award is given to participants in a team effort that contributes dramatically to improving the way government works. It recognizes special achievements in the four main themes of reinventing government: improving customer service, cutting red tape, empowering employees, or getting back to basics. The award was designed to be a reminder of the government's past practices that, among other things, led it to pay $400 for a hammer. The award consists of a $6 hammer, a ribbon and a note from the Vice President, all in an aluminum frame. Individual team members receive certificates and hammer-shaped lapel pins.
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For more information about the GSA Blue Pages Project, contact Beth Johnson at (202) 501-1938. For more information about today's awards, contact Wendy Carver-Herbert, USWEST Dex, (303) 784-2427.
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Holier-than-thou horndog Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp) was last seen on HBO's True Blood as a minister's cheating Mrs. back in 2009. When the crazed character reappears in Bon Temps on June 30, we'll learn "she's written a best-selling book about what it means to be a Christian fighting vampires," Camp says. "And she's working her way into politics, because she's craving more power and fame."
That ain't all she's craving. "Sarah is a very sexual lady who still has a soft place in her heart for Jason Stackhouse," The Good Wife alum says. "There's a scene where I come over to his house after a long, hard day and things ensue."
We can also look forward to Sarah landing another sexual conquest (Eric?), and having an awkward reunion with ex-husband Steve (Michael McMillian), who has transformed into a gay bloodsucker. "Sarah is not happy about what's become of him and confronts him head-on," she says. And what does Steve have to say for himself? "He's not really in a position to be able to speak."


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Patients often ponder which position is better for the body in terms of lower back health — standing or sitting?
Sitting in an office chair is, at best, a necessary evil. To add fuel to the fire, if you are sitting in an office chair that is not designed with your body in mind, it is only a matter of time before you encounter lower back pain.
The recent Bloomberg Businessweek article "Your Office Chair is Killing You" by Arianne Cohen explains how the seated position does nothing to recruit the core muscles. A repetitive cycle of weakness is reinforced with sitting, regardless of the quality of the chair. My previous blog entry "The Health Consequences of Sitting All Day" delves into the problems associated with gluteus maximus weakness as a result of sitting.
The office chair industry does however attempt to address some of the structural issues associated with prolonged sitting.
Structurally speaking, a problem that I see with sitting involves the positions of the lowest vertebrae. We have a tendency to roll our pelvises backwards when seated for long periods of time. This slouching position places stress on the discs, which potentially leads to long term problems such as disc herniations.
This rolling backwards of the pelvis can at least be partially dealt with by adjusting the height of the chair. Most people will benefit from a chair that allows his or her hips to sit in a slightly higher position than the knees, with both feet resting flat on either the floor or on a stool.
The office chair should also offer support to the lower back to mimic the natural lordotic curve of the lower back and discourage the backwards slumping motion. Your lower back, mid back, and shoulder blades should all make contact with the upright support of your office chair.
The best thing that you can do for your lower back at work is to get out of your chair. Many people who have sedentary jobs have adapted their work spaces to include an office chair and a standing work station. Ms. Cohen's article highlights an office setup that used treadmills at office work stations. That might sound extreme, but I'm willing to bet that once these office workers have built up endurance, the incidences of lower back pathologies will decrease.
European office furniture manufacturers have work desks with hydraulic mechanisms that accommodate for both the seated and standing positions. Why has this not caught on in the United States? Ask your employer about implementing these types of alternative set-ups. Your back may thank you for it.
What have you tried to make your office chair more comfortable? Write a comment and tell us about it!
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Remarks by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General OECD
London, 4 December 2012
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Baroness Kinnock, Distinguished Ministers and MPs, Dear Owen, Ladies and Gentlemen:
In this time of economic stress, when attention is focusing on avoiding worst-case scenarios from the global financial crisis, putting our public finances back on a sustainable footing, and rebooting growth and employment, our duty is to not forget the development agenda. We need to double our efforts to continue supporting less developed countries, not only with policy specific actions, but also to improve the development impact of all of our policies. This is in our best interest as our future is closely interlinked to the future of the less developed countries.
Let me first commend the Centre for Global Development's great work – and I know what I am talking about since I served on its Board for many years. Your Commitment to Development Index has helped policy makers and advocacy groups around the world by raising awareness on the range of policies that can have an impact on development, and by placing the contribution of aid in a broader context. Indeed, aid is just one of seven policies tracked by the Index along with other important ones such as trade, investment and migration. Thank you Owen for co-organising this side event.
We all know that the policies of advanced countries – beyond aid – matter for the development of low-income countries. For this reason, the OECD tries hard to assess the combined impact of such policies and to promote coherence among them. Policy-coherence for development is an important tool in this regard.
Our goal is clear: we support governments in designing better policies and making reforms happen. But we also know the importance of mutual learning. Sharing knowledge on the policy experiences among a wider group of countries beyond the advanced economies will be key to understanding what policies work in which conditions.
This twin-track approach – policy coherence for development and knowledge sharing on good policies – is at the heart of the OECD Strategy on Development that Ministers approved last May.
The Strategy calls upon the OECD to enhance its role for development. This means:
This is already happening.
The OECD has been requested to contribute to global processes on development including the G20. Our work on aid effectiveness has culminated in The Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation. We have also deepened our collaboration with developing countries on a wide range of policy areas. In 2011, more than 3,800 representatives from nearly 150 non-member countries participated in OECD's work. That is more than four times the number of countries who are members of the OECD!
Our collaborations go beyond governments. We have active relationships with private sector, labour groups, and foundations with strong interests in development. Our OECD Parliamentary Network disseminates the OECD's work to MPs and helps us to obtain their views on our analysis. I'd like to thank the Africa All UK Parliamentary Group for their kind invitation to this joint side event. I compliment your efforts to look at aid and other public policies to better understand the impact of the United Kingdom on development.
OECD's "bread and butter" are public policies and data. This is where we can help developing countries the most. To do so, we are working closely with partner organisations and with our members' implementing agencies that have a presence in the field. To this end, we will launch a Knowledge Sharing Alliance in January.
Let me mention two specific policy areas, among many others, where the OECD contributes to making a difference: taxation and skills.
Tax and development
Here in the United Kingdom, I do not need to highlight the importance of ensuring that multinationals pay their fair share of tax. David Cameron, as the next chair of the G8 is already the champion of our work to address tax base erosion and profit shifting (what we at the OECD call BEPS). This means developing new inclusive rules for international taxation. In doing so, we will draw on our experience of simplifying transfer pricing rules as tested recently with Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya and Vietnam, to name a few.
We may soon be able to say that the era of bank secrecy is over. But we have made sure that this major change also benefits developing countries: among the 117 members of the OECD Global Forum on Transparency, we now have more than 30 developing countries! Many are also joining the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Assistance that we opened to non-OECD countries three years ago. This is leading to the automatic exchange of information.
We are also increasingly active on fighting illicit financial flows, which are thought by some to equal about USD 1 trillion a year, or 9-10 times more than all ODA from OECD member countries. In the UK, efforts are yielding impressive returns: estimates suggest that up to 20 USD is potentially tracked and frozen for every 1 USD spent on investigating the transfer of illicit funds from the developing world to the UK. And a significant proportion of the recovered funds is repatriated to developing country of origin.
In 2010, we launched an initiative named the "Oslo Dialogue," aimed at enhancing interagency co-operation to better fight tax crime, money laundering and corruption. We will work closely with developing countries to train tax agents, prosecutors and financial police to help them fight these scourges.
Jobs and skills
Jobs and skills are also a major concern to governments, both in advanced and developing countries.
With the global economic crisis still continuing, more countries are examining structural reforms to unleash growth, including in the areas of labour markets and skills. To support OECD policy makers, we developed a Skills Strategy to help countries identify the strengths and weaknesses of their national skills systems, benchmark them internationally, and develop policies that can transform better skills into better jobs, economic growth and social inclusion, including greater gender equality.
Developing countries are facing similar challenges. In Africa, an estimated 40 million young people are currently under-employed or in poor employment. Like Europe, Africa needs more growth with better jobs. Within the next 10 years, 130 million young Africans will be leaving the education system. In many countries, we are also observing a significant mismatch between the skills in the labour market and the demands of potential employers. For example, in Egypt, 1.5 million youth are unemployed while 600,000 jobs need to be filled. In South Africa, the situation is even more extreme: there are 800 000 jobs unfilled with 3 million young people neither employed nor in training. We are now examining the major challenges relating to the demand for skills, as countries seek to develop private sector activities better adapted to global value chains.
These are becoming global challenges.
For these reasons, G20 Leaders asked the OECD, World Bank, ILO and UNDP, to develop a set of skills indicators for developing countries and to support them in designing and implementing their skills strategies.
These indicators are now being tested in Bangladesh, Benin, and Malawi. With continued support, this effort could lay the basis for identifying better skills training and job policies in the developing world.
These are just two examples of how the OECD is re-tooling itself to better work on development. I should also mention our initiative on Green Growth, based on a Green Growth toolkit that we developed in the G20 context.
This afternoon, I will launch the 2012 Development Co-operation Report which this year focuses on "Lessons in linking sustainability and development". Here too we seek to account for the impact of environmental and green growth policies on developing countries.
Contributing to International Discussions on a Development Framework in a Post-2015 World
Ladies and gentlemen:
We are committed to supporting the international community's effort to shape a new development framework for global development. Armed with a cluster of development institutions with decades of experiences and a wide array of policy tools, we are ready to join the deliberations on the kind of post-2015 world we all want to achieve.
How might the OECD contribute? I believe we have much to offer. Let me mention three.
My bottom line is simple: the OECD can assist governments in improving their policies to better contribute to international development and monitor closely the outcomes of actions. These assessments will provide us with valuable guidance on whether we are doing all that we can to achieve the shared goal of more inclusive and sustainable growth in both developing and developed countries.
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Christmas came way early Sunday night in the form of the new Springsteen album leaking more than two weeks before its release date.
Not that I really know from Christmas, being Jewish, but it sounds better than saying Hanukkah came early. And it really was more like Christmas because I got all of the songs at once, as opposed to the E Street Radio and Backstreets.com Chinese-water-torture-Hanukkah method of playing one new song a day until the album comes out.
So a mere ten minutes after I got the first message containing the link to the album (which was AGONIZING because the little status bar SAID I only had to wait six minutes. I swear, between that and the Ticketmaster "Your wait time is 15 minutes" message, I'm going to stroke out the next time I get an inaccurate wait time for something online), I was listening to Wrecking Ball. And even though it turns out that my next door neighbor IS, in fact, alive and well (which, in his case, means angry and bitter), I cranked it. Because that's what you do when you listen to new Bruce.
And in case you're not tech savvy enough to have the album yet (or don't have friends like mine who will send it to you—I won't name names, but you know who you are, and thank you! <3), or if you're just DYING to know my take on it because I'm the girl who literally wrote the book on being a Bruce fan, I'm going to break it down, song by song for you.
1. "We Take Care of Our Own"
Okay, you've already heard this one. And if you haven't, you've been living under a rock, and if that's the case, how are you reading this blog? I'm not going to go into WTCOOO though, because you either already get it or you already think it's a "Yay America!" song for you to pump your fist to in concert while you pat yourself on the back saying, "We DO take care of our own! Go us!"
And you wonder why I'm so misanthropic. People are idiots.
2. "Easy Money"
The second song on the album is the first real clue that this isn't your typical Bruce album. You couldn't take this song and slap it onto any other album and make it fit. It's a country song. And while I normally hate country music, I get where he's going with this one. Maybe he eased me into it with the Seeger sessions and all, but I'm already finding myself singing along and dancing a little to this. Granted, I'm dancing like a drunk chick at a country show, so it's not something you'd WANT to see. But it kind of makes me want to buy a cowboy hat and some boots.
3. "Shackled and Drawn"
Eesh. It's a country album isn't it? Oh crap, Bruce went country. And he's kind of yodeling. I'm never going live this down with people who already make fun of me for being obsessed with him, am I? I don't even think I can make the folk argument that we could with the Seeger sessions. This is country. And I like it. It's got a good beat to it. And it's catchy. Even with the gospel-y background singers. And the yodeling. Do you think they make stiletto cowboy boots?
4. "Jack of All Trades"
I have a feeling this is going to be the bathroom break song of the tour. (Assuming he doesn't bring "Mary's Place" back that is.) It's not bad. And lyrically, it's one of the strongest on the album because it has a seriously poignant message about the current state of the economy and what's happening to people who are losing their ability to earn a living. The problem is that it's just too slow. It kind of reminds me of "Devil's Arcade" in that it SHOULD be a great song. The story of it is fabulous. But musically, it's a slow waltz. Like I could picture it being the song for a music box that you wind up and there's a little animatronic Bruce and Patti waltzing across a darkened stage. It feels like "Cherry Blossoms" off of the Horrible Crowes' debut album Elsie—it just drags the party down too much. I like it, but I don't think this is going to get much airtime on my iPod.
5. "Death to My Hometown"
Love it. It's got that folksy-country feel to it that most of this album has, but I think that this one is going to rock live. It has a passion to it that I haven't felt on this album since the opening track. There's a solid beat, and I can picture Bruce making his angry guitar face when he's declaring that they "brought death to my hometown, boys."
Although from 2:15 to 2:35, Bruce kind of channeled the Grateful Dead's "Throwing Stones" and I definitely started singing "So the kids they dance, they shake their bones, while the politicians throwing stones, singing ashes, ashes all fall down," then was like, oops, wrong song… But I like that one too, so it works.
6. "This Depression"
This one is going to get old fast. Mostly because the confession-depression rhyme is repeated WAY too much. I could see this song fitting on The Rising or Magic pretty easily. It's not as good of a story as "Jack of All Trades," but it doesn't stop the album like that one does. I'll keep listening, but I think this one is a throwaway for me so far.
7. "Wrecking Ball"
On first listen, I was super disappointed by the title track. Partially because I was at Giants Stadium the second time that he played it, which was the show that the live released version and video were recorded at. And the album version lacks the passion, the fire, the spirit, the—well, the Bruce-ness of the live version. This one sounds like someone's grandpa telling a story. I half expected him to add a verse saying, "Sonny, when I was your age, I had to walk ten miles to school every day, barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways."
But then I really thought about it. Because in its original form, this is the one song that doesn't fit in on an album about the economic injustice of the country right now. The original was a fun rocker to close the last shows at the Meadowlands with. So why on earth would Bruce pick THAT song as the title song of the album? Then I understood the grandpa-ish feel of the new version. It makes it more neutral, less about Bruce in Giants Stadium. I think I still prefer the live version, but I get what he's going for here. And maybe the real album version, not the leaked mp3s will sound a little thicker and a little less tinny.
8. "You've Got It"
Hey, I remember this song! It used to be called "All or Nothin' At All," was a lot faster, and was on the album Human Touch. Wasn't it?
Bruce, I love you. But that's NOT the album to be pulling outtakes from.
9. "Rocky Ground"
I have a feeling most Bruce fans are going to HATE this one. It actually manages to combine Bruce, gospel, and rap in one song. I'm not big on gospel or rap, but this is kind of cool. And even if you hate it, you've got to appreciate that Bruce can branch out instead of just producing the same album over and over again in different forms. (And for that, I like this song way better than "You've Got It," which seriously does feel like a recycle.)
10. "Land of Hope and Dreams"
After a dozen years of playing this one live, it was an interesting choice to put on the new album. And in the first thirty seconds of the song, I worried. A lot. Because the gospel thing at the beginning did not work for me. But a studio LOHAD was worth the wait. It feels pure and redemptive and better than it's felt live in years. And that last recorded solo from Clarence brought tears to my eyes.
I also kind of wondered at the lack of a song for Clarence on this album. Terry Magovern got "Terry's Song." Danny Federici got "The Last Carnival." But listening to "Land of Hope and Dreams," Bruce doesn't need to tack on a song for Clarence. Because Clarence really WAS the biggest man you've ever seen. He got to play on his own goodbye song. And I think that's the most fitting tribute to him that there could ever be.
11. "We Are Alive"
Okay, ignoring the Zippity Doo Dah riff that comes in at about 1:45 (…and at 2:45… and at 4:30…) and the weird foot stomping in the middle of the song, this one is kind of cool. Yeah, it's more Seeger than E Street. But I like the lyrics. Even though I do picture Snow White's animals cleaning the house while whistling this one.
So there you have it. It's a VERY different album. And as several people who have heard it before have said, E Street it isn't. (Wow, I just turned into Yoda there… sorry.) But even though it's not Born to Run or Darkness on the Edge of Town, I think new Bruce music is like sex. Even if it's bad, it's still new Bruce music, which is better than no new Bruce music. And this is far from bad—it's just trying something new that will take a little getting used to.
Just don't judge me if you see me at shows next month rocking a cowboy hat and boots. A few more listens and you may be doing the same!


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As a side note, today a fresh boot and I have Odyssey, Wookie, Dopus 5 all running. Mplayer running playing the same 720p that killed sound yesterday. Not a lockup but sound died.klesterjr wrote:This seems to be the same issue as discussed in thie thread: http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz ... =57&t=3625 -- just manifested in a slightly different way.
I was the one who told TJ how to induce the crash/freeze/etc. It happens while playing ANY video, but a larger one (720p for example) will accelerate things.
So when I ran that 720P yesterday that stopped sound after being OK all day, today fresh boot right to video playback and I have sound still and video is playing fine too.
Just add that to this whole madness.


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Next week, on October 14th at 6pm, Laurel Ptak of photography blog iheartphotograph will host FREE KEVIN at Art in General. The screening will present films depicting hackers and computer culture from the past 30 years, all sourced from Pirate Bay member pirateturk. For the AIG event, Ptak will show WarGames (1983) and Hackers (1995) from pirateturk's 15.4 GB collection, and the screening will also be an informal ripping party, so attendees are encouraged to bring their USB sticks and laptops to lift material for later viewing. Named for Kevin Mitnick, a hacker arrested in 1995 by the U.S. Government for computer fraud, FREE KEVIN examines the representation of hackers in popular culture and its relation to concerns about security, intellectual property, and technology. A roving, evolving project at its core, FREE KEVIN is realized as a website as well, with a smattering of clips from the films in the collection, and the organizers invite other, parallel FREE KEVIN screenings around the globe. (To arrange a screening in your town, email screening [at] freekevin [dot] info.)
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I mean geology that makes your heart race, your pupils dilate. Rocks and exposures that make you feel woozy and warm. Structures and concepts that make your skin alternately sweaty and covered with goosebumps. Places you've visited, read about, or seen photos of that make you feel weak-kneed, and induce a pit in your stomach.I'm in a bit of a rush these days it seems, and so I'm just going to post a couple photos of some geology that always turns me on, and two links to related posts from earlier this year.
Beds and bedding are always of interest to geologists; cross-bedding is best.
Related Posts:
More Cross Bedding
Also see Callan's recent post.
Photos are of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Zion National Park, on Utah route 9, the Zion–Mount Carmel Highway, a few miles east of the Canyon Overlook Trailhead.
UPDATE: Accretionary Wedge #37, Sexy Geology, is now up at Outside the Interzone!


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■ The U.S. Coast Guard Foundation's Fallen Heroes
Scholarship Fund, which awards educational assistance to the spouses and children of Coast Guard men
and women killed in the line of duty.
On behalf of the Navy League, McGrath and
Bernard presented grants of $75,000 each to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society and U.S. Coast Guard
Foundation, and $100,000 to the Wounded Marine
Careers Foundation.
Bernard extended the Navy League's thanks to the
grant recipients "for their unparalleled support to the
men and women of the sea services and their families
who have sacrificed so much in service of the nation."
While the Tribute Dinner celebrated senior military
officials and those they lead, the event also provided
the Navy League an opportunity to salute its industry
partners and donors for their generosity throughout
the year.
Navy League Corporate Members and councils supporting the event included Boeing Co., General Dynamics Corp. and Manitowoc Marine Group, all of whom
helped underwrite the reception and dinner, as well as
McGrath and Bernard congratulate Steve Abbott of the
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society's Combat Casualty
Assistance Program, which was given a grant from the
Navy League during the National Tribute Dinner.
L-3 Communications, DRS, EDS, Lockheed Martin
Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp., BAE Systems,
Honeywell and the Navy League's National Capital and
Hampton Roads, Va., Councils. ■
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JYJ's Park Yoochun finally opened Yoon Eun Hye's heart.
On the Thursday episode of MBC drama "I Miss You," Zoe/Soo Yeon (Yoon Eun Hye) takes a step closer towards Jung Woo (Park Yoochun).
Jung Woo was wandering the streets looking at the signs that the two of them left 14 years ago and sang "Magic Castle" while playing in the playground they used to hang out in. He then saw her turning around after watching him.
It was as if she was responding to his advances. When she returned his coat, she had placed the button he left behind at Harry's house.
After the episode, internet users said, "I guess she's accepting him after all." "Is there another like Jung Woo who will be true for 14 years?" and "I hope the two can keep their love story going!"
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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) will host a conference call on Monday, April 24, 2017, to discuss the first quarter 2017 financial results. The call will begin at 8:00 AM Central Time (9:00 AM Eastern Time).
The company will issue a press release regarding the 2017 first quarter earnings prior to the conference call. Halliburton's first quarter press release will be posted on the Halliburton website at www.halliburton.com. Please visit the website to listen to the call live via webcast. In addition, you may participate in the call by dialing (888) 393-0263 within North America or (973) 453-2259 outside North America. A passcode is not required. Attendees should log in to the webcast or dial in approximately 15 minutes prior to the call's start time.
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Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. With approximately 50,000 employees, representing 140 nationalities and operations in approximately 70 countries, the company serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir - from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production through the life of the field. Visit the company's website at www.halliburton.com. Connect with Halliburton on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.


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Because of the way influenza is spread, the most important control measures are frequent hand washing, staying home when ill, and covering your cough. The same controls should be used during a pandemic. Influenza viruses are primarily transmitted from person to person when respiratory droplets of coughs and sneezes (called "droplet spread") from an infected person are propelled (generally up to 3 feet) through the air and deposited on the mouth or nose of people nearby. Though much less frequent, the viruses can also be spread when a person touches respiratory droplets on another person, or an object, and then touches their own mouth or nose (or someone else's mouth or nose) before washing their hands.
Josephine County will consider implementing other control measures, on a voluntary basis, depending on the characteristics and severity of the pandemic strain.
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Parshas Vayakheil, Pekudei and Parah 5758 - '98
Outline Vol. 2, # 21
Chodshei Hashanah Part 13
The Song of the Wine
The sacrifices included "nesachim" -- pouring wine on the altar. The Levi'im sang special songs during the nesachim.
Commenting on the verse "Wine, which causes Hashem and man to rejoice" (Shoftim 9:13), the Talmud asks: 'Wine may make man's heart rejoice, but how does it make Hashem's heart rejoice? From here we see that song must be recited over the (pouring of the) wine.' (Brochos 35a.) It is apparent that the song served an exalted purpose...
Although brochos are to be recited before consuming food, the brocho over wine is often more than an ordinary blessing. Various mitzvos involve formulations declared over a cup of wine; for example, Kiddush, Bris Milah, Kidushin and Nesu'in (stages of the Wedding Ceremony). Here, the brocha recited over the wine is a "Birkas Mitzva," a component of the services (See Rosh Hashanah 29b). In fact, the brocha represents the song of the altar recited over the pouring of wine. (See Birkas Refael, Pesach, chapter 72)
The Talmud declared that the Cup of Brocha should be raised a hand's breadth (Brochos 51a). This law was derived from King Dovid's statement: "I will lift up the cup of salvation, and will call the name of Hashem." (T'hilim [Psalms 116:13].) Rashi (T'hilim, ibid.) explained that the verse was referring to the sacrifice. The "cup of salvation" was the wine of the altar, which Dovid would bring for his thanksgiving offering; the "calling out in the name of Hashem" referred to the songs of praise that would be recited at that time. Just as the Levi'im sang at the wine libation of the public sacrifice, Dovid would sing praises at the pouring of the wine on the altar for his private thanksgiving offering.
The four main parts of the Pesach Seder are distinguished by four recitals over wine: Kiddush, Hagada, Bentching and Hallel. The entire Seder takes on the form of the songs of the altar, which brings rejoicing in the higher spheres...
The Error in the Song
The Talmud explained the history of two days' observance of Rosh Hashanah (Beitza 5a, Rosh Hashanah 35b). Rosh Hashanah occurs at the beginning of the month. In order to know for certain that the new moon had appeared, witnesses would report to the court, located on the Beis Hamikdash grounds. Witnesses would not appear until daytime, usually after the morning services. Until then, there would be no way of ascertaining that it was actually Rosh Hashanah.
Every day, the Tamid (perpetual burnt-offering) was brought in the morning and afternoon. The Levi'im sang the daily song with the pouring of the wine. At Yom Tov, special songs were recited, rather than the ordinary, weekday song.
At the first offering on Rosh Hashanah morning, since the witnesses had not normally arrived yet, the established protocol was to recite the regular, weekday song. (See Rashi, Beitza 5a.) After the witnesses would arrive, the Yom Tov song would be said with the later sacrifice. Since the witnesses usually arrived before the afternoon services, everything normally went smoothly.
Once it happened that the witnesses had not arrived in time for the afternoon Tamid. The Levi'im were concerned that the witnesses would not appear on the first day at all, in which case only the following day would be Rosh Hashanah (and not the first day). The Levi'im were in a quandary as to which song to sing, and erred. One version is that the Levi'im did not recite any song; the other version is that they recited the week-day song, but the late entrance of the witnesses and the proclamation of Rosh Hashanah that day demonstrated that the Levi'im miscalculated.
Because of the error in the song, a decree was formulated: Should the witnesses not appear by the afternoon Tamid, the court would close for the day; witnesses would not be accepted. Both that day and the next would be sanctified as Rosh Hashanah.
The full implications of this story, and resulting two days' observance of Rosh Hashanah, need to be discussed at a later date. For now, we will briefly look at one explanation of the incident, as explained in Chidushei Chasom Sofer (Beitza, 5a.)
First Day's Musaf of Rosh Hashanah
There is an additional offering on Yom Tov -- the Musaf. Anticipating that witnesses might suddenly appear, the Musaf of Rosh Hashanah was brought at its regular time. The nesachim -- pouring of wine -- was delayed, for it can be performed days later, if need be. If witnesses should come on the first day, the wine pouring would be performed at that time, with the Levi'im reciting the song for Rosh Hashanah. If, however, it would be determined that the witnesses were not coming, the wine pouring would be performed with the week-day song, and the offering would instead be considered a "nedavah" -- voluntary offering.
What actually occurred one particular year, could not have been anticipated. Once, the witnesses came so late, that there was not enough time for the wine-pouring. As we said, the nesachim can be performed days later, if need be; however, the song of the Levi'im accompanies the wine-pouring. Since the witnesses came the first day, they were accepted, and the first day -- only -- was declared Rosh Hashanah. The song had to be recited the next day -- with the wine-pouring -- but the second day was no longer Rosh Hashanah! There remained no choice, but to recite the week-day song on the second day. Consequently, the Musaf of Rosh Hashanah took on the form of a different offering altogether, because it was associated with the week-day song.
Rabbi Yaakov Bernstein
Kollel of Kiryas Radin
11 Kiryas Radin
Spring Valley, NY 10977
Phone: (914) 362-5156
E-mail: [email protected]
Good Shabbos!
Text Copyright © '98 Rabbi Yaakov Bernstein and Project Genesis, Inc.
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Today's location: peeron geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox
The North-West Netherlands graticule is at latitude 52, longitude 4 and contains the cities Den Haag, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Alkmaar and Den Helder (and large stretches of the northsea)
So a 50/50 chance of it being in the sea...
Proposed solution
There are many graticules in the world where a large portion is made up of water. It is of course a shame to only get half of the possible meet-ups. One possible solution is like they use in the Chicago graticule: when the hash ends up in the water, you move the meeting point in a straight horizontal line to the nearest coast (so in our case, straight East). This would give many more opportunities to meet up, and as most of it is beach, it would also be a nice place to do something fun.
Today's Location
[2020-09-30 Noord West Nederland]
Notable Dates
| Niels earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement
- 2008-05-23: Friday afternoon location reached by Niels
- 2008-05-24: First Saturday xkcd meetup (4 people)
- 2008-06-01: Sunday location reached, first Honorable Mention in the Couch Potato Geohash Achievement (1 person) for Celebithil.
- 2008-07-19: Meetup location reached at 16:00 by Joris.
- 2008-08-02: Meetup location nearly reached (~200 m distance) at 16:00 by Joris.
- 2008-08-15: Meetup location nearly reached (~30 m distance) by Joris.
- 2008-08-16: In Park Groenendaal; reached by Joris.
- 2008-08-30: Meetup location (almost, <30m) reached by Fijian Scion.
- 2008-09-10: In the dunes near Noordwijk, reached by Arvid and bz2 and fuzzie.
- 2009-04-18: Meetup location near Woerden, reached by Jorisslob.
- 2009-06-20: On farmland near Ter Aar, reached (~100 m) by Joris.
- 2009-06-27: In Bleiswijk, right next to the HSL railway (Joris).
- 2010-03-27: In golf park Groendael in Wassenaar. (Joris)
- 2010-04-10: On farmland near Woubrugge (Joris)
- 2010-07-12: Side of a street in Zoetermeer, by bicycle (Daksol)
- 2012-06-30: Burgerveen, where highway A44 meets A4, reached by car without stopping (Palmpje)
- 2013-04-28: Langevelderslag, Noordwijk, a failed hash but an unplanned meetup between (Palmpje) and Murfie!
- 2013-07-02: The hashpoint is directly on runway 27 at Schiphol airport. Depending on wind direction the point may be visited by many ignorant travellers.
- 2014-09-22: On the A10 motorway, right lane, just before entering the tunnel by JwB.
If you plan to go to a geohash, let the rest of us know here....
- Fijian Scion lives in Leiden, will keep checking this site, and will attend meetups within cycling distance whenever he is in the country.
- Istari lives in Leiden and will keep on checking this site.
- Niels lives in Hoofddorp, and will mostly forget to check this site. However, when he is actually planning to go to a meetup, he will announce this in the above meet-up section.
- Sojaboon lives in Woerden
- Martin lives in Amsterdam and will keep an eye on this site.
- Daksol lives in Voorburg, and looks for meetups within cycling range.
- Clement lives in Leiden, and looks for meetups within cycling / running range.
- Energya lives near Leiden will occaisionally check this site.
- Georgina lives in Sydney, Australia, but is visiting the Netherlands in March/April 2012 and would like to go to meetup while she's there, but hasn't thought much about how feasible this is.
- Murfie has been found geohashing here.
- Palmpje lives in "De Bollenstreek" and will try to reach geohashes in that area.
- Marvyn lives in Haarlem and will try to reach geohashes in a 30km cycling radius or more adventurous ones when he finds the time.
- Brzzz lives in Leiden, will keep an eye out on this site.
- Eupeodes lives in the north of 52,4 and works on Texel (which is in 53,4)