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Hey guys,
I have Oracle's Java 7 installed on my 64-bit Lubuntu 12.04 system.
Yesterday, everything was working fine. I was using Java, because nothing else seems to work with minecraft.
So, today comes along and the usual option to run the .jar file "with Java 7" is gone. Cool.
So, I try
which returnsCode:
java /home/user/Minecraft/MinecraftSP.jar
So clearly java 7 is gone, right?Code:
The program 'java' can be found in the following packages:
* default-jre
* gcj-4.6-jre-headless
* openjdk-6-jre-headless
* gcj-4.5-jre-headless
* openjdk-7-jre-headless
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
Well, I used the oracle-java7-installer method mentioned here:
So I go to reinstall that package. It's already installed. huh.
Upon further reading, I find that you can remove Java 7 by removing the installer, so I do this. I also remove anything related to Java using the method described here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/84483...uninstall-java (answer #3)
Reinstall everything. Still does not work. Can't select to run .jar files in java, can't use "java" command. Even though it's apparently installed.
What should I do? I'm worried that something somewhere has messed up Java's ability to run, and I'm going to have to reinstall Lubuntu. :(
EDIT: So, I'm watching youtube currently. Which I thought required Java. Removing the installer is supposed to have removed the browser-plugin. And I don't have iced-tea. Atleast, I thought I had removed it.
What is going on? haha


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By Albert Ching, Newsarama Staff Writer
We're less than a week away from the official kick-off to Avengers vs. X-Men, with the #0 issue by Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho out this Wednesday, March 28, and Avengers vs. X-Men #1 following one week later on April 4.
The series co-written by Aaron, Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and Jonathan Hickman; and illustrated by Olivier Coipel, Adam Kubert and John Romita Jr was first announced in December, and the concept is pretty simple: It's, well, Avengers vs. X-Men. It's Marvel's two biggest super-teams (and two of their biggest movie franchises) slugging it out in a story written and illustrated by some of their top talent.
If you're a Marvel fan worth your weight in No-Prizes, as soon as you hear the title, your mind starts running, dreaming of potential match-ups to take place during the 12-issue, biweekly series. Marvel has done their part to fuel that speculation, with a couple of different marketing campaigns focusing on potential Avenger vs. X-Man fights.
For our latest countdown, we've put together our own list of 10 possible conflicts we'd like to see at some point during Avengers vs. X-Men. Some are obvious and have already been teased or effectively confirmed, some are considerably less so, but all would be pretty cool.
Of course, with teams that have as many members and iterations as the Avengers and X-Men, the possibilities are very nearly endless so head over to Facebook and Twitter and tell us the match-ups between Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Children of the Atom that you want to see.
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This one is a no-brainer. Not only are both of these teams black-ops squads that do the things that their parent teams don't want to do (or don't want to know about), both of the books are currently written by Rick Remender.
The individual combinations are also exciting Venom's now a Secret Avenger, which could mean a'90s-tastic collision with Deadpool. Sibling rivalry in the form of Captain Britain vs. Psylocke. And Fantomex is cool against pretty much anybody. Fantomex vs. Hawkeye. Fantomex vs. Black Widow. Fantomex vs. Ant-Man? Make it happen, Marvel!
If this does happen, don't look for it to happen in Uncanny X-Force, as Remender has confirmed that series won't tie into AvX. Secret Avengers will, so there's a chance the two teams might have some amount of interaction in that title or elsewhere in the main series or one of the tie-ins.
Dr. Strange and Magik are two of Marvel's foremost dealers in the supernatural arts heck, Illyana Rasputin's connections to magic are so strong, she even took it as a name. That's commitment.
But while Dr. Strange has usually been pretty responsible with his magical dealings, Magik can sometimes be... less so, having a tendency towards getting mixed up with things like demonic possession. Maybe Avengers vs. X-Men, with some help from Dr. Strange, will be the event to set her straight.
While we haven't heard a lot about Dr. Strange's involvement in AvX keep in mind, he's also busy in Defenders we do know that Magik is co-starring in the June issue of spinoff title AvX: VS, squaring off against Black Widow.
OK, we're not exactly going out on a limb here. Several pieces of Avengers vs. X-Men promo art have focued on Red Hulk fighting Colossus now Juggernaut-ified (and thus even more powerful) as a result of recent events in Uncanny X-Men. So it looks like it's definitely going to happen.
Still, the implications are cool: While Red Hulk is trying to make good for his past misdeeds, Colossus has been struggling with the effect the demon Cyttorak has had on his psyche. Plus, they're both red. It just works!
This might not seem like the most natural pairing, but stick with us. Both are powerful. Both seemed like unlikely candidates for memberships of their respective teams at first, but now play very important roles. Both are fiercely protective; Luke Cage, of his family, and Namor of his underwater kingdom.
Also possibly significant? They're both constantly rumored to be the subject of feature films, but neither has actually been in one yet. What better way to take out that frustration than on each other?
If that wasn't enough, just last week Marvel sent out an AvX teaser image that featured Luke Cage and Namor talking smack and laying the smackdown on each other. So look for this fight at some point in the story, possibly right in the first act.
Another one that probably looks a little odd, but in a climate where mainstream publishers are often criticized for not placing enough value on female comic book characters, here are two that play vital roles in their respective organizations, and also happen to be incredibly tough.
Strictly from a physical standpoint, it's not really a fair fight Maria Hill doesn't have any powers. But in terms of cunning, strategy, and ability to deliver cutting dialogue? Much more of a contest.
Maria Hill hasn't yet shown up in any AvX promotional material, but given her role in this spring's Avengers film, it's a good bet she'll show up in the story itself. Emma Frost has been seen in AvX promotional material against the original, green Hulk, plus Iron Man as one of the leaders of the X-Men, she'll probably be pretty busy throughout the story.
It's not just youthful ennui: Both of these young hero groups have legitimate reasons to have massive chips on their collective shoulders. Avengers Academy and Generation Hope both tend to have cast members with powers that are more of a curse than a blessing, and added psychological pressure, to boot the Avengers Academy were tortured by Norman Osborn and thought to be potential villains, and the Generation Hope crew are the first new mutants to be discovered since House of M.
Bonus: A fight between Hank Pym and Sebastian Shaw has definite potential, right? One keeps growing, the other gets stronger every time you hit him. When does it end?
It's been confirmed that the Generation Hope kids will play a big role in Avengers Academy during AvX, though they might be more sympathetic to each other's plights than combative, according to AA writer Christos Gage:
"Heck, some of the Avengers Academy kids are mutants... besides X-23, there's Ricochet and Wiz Kid," Gage told Newsarama earlier this month. "And the others are not robots; they all have their own feelings about what's going on. It's almost inevitable that there will be dissension in the ranks."
Sure. Part of the reason for wanting to see this is the obvious Magneto is the master of magnetism. Iron Man is not only, well, Iron Man, but now as a result of Extermis, his armor is literally a part of him. So, there's that whole thing.
But now they actually play pretty similar parts in their own teams Iron Man is one of the main Avengers, right behind Cap, and Magneto is one of Cyclops' top advisors. Yeah, they've met before, but haven't had a full-scale conflict with that kind of juicy context.
No need to really speculate on this one: It's been confirmed that Iron Man vs. Magneto will be seen in the first issue of AvX: VS, rendered by the Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine team of Jason Aaron and Adam Kubert. Only one question remains: Who wins?
Two long-time friends, and both are currently members of Avengers teams and the X-Men.
But who's on which side? Oh, the suspense! (Throw Beast in there, too, who has the added wrinkle of being on Wolverine's side post-X-Men: Schism.)
It's clear from even the wording of their press releases that Marvel wants to keep fans guessing as to the allegiance of both of these characters, especially Wolverine. He was fighting Captain America in a teaser, but he's standing with the Avengers on the cover of issue #1 with Storm making her presence felt on the opposite side, opposing Thor. Where these characters and Beast, another mutant with dual membership fall in line is likely to be a major part of at least the early issues of the story.
Earlier today, Marvel released preview pages from Avengers vs. X-Men #2, which clearly show Wolverine on the side of the Avengers though who knows how things progress from there?
"Amazing Friends" no more?
Other than co-starring in the iconic '80s animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Spidey and Iceman also play the comic relief role in their teams. Though, of course, both are more than that Iceman has been exploring the full extent of his powers over in Wolverine and the X-Men, and Spider-Man is pretty much the conscience and voice of the common man in all of these mega-events.
Marvel has released a Spider-Man vs. Iceman teaser by Mark Bagley, playing off the obvious history there. Of course, that doesn't mean that Spider-Man and Iceman are definitely going to fight at any point in Avengers vs. X-Men (these teasers are often not meant to be taken literally), but it's at least an indication that Marvel wants readers to think that they will.
This is a big "duh" for the top spot, but let's ruminate on that for a bit.
The fact that at this point, Captain America and Cyclops can be seen as equals, is a huge testament to the work writers like Grant Morrison, Joss Whedon, Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen have done on Scott Summers in the past decade. While always a vital part of the X-Men and frequently in a leadership position, Cyclops was always overshadowed as "the guy" by Professor Xavier in terms of influence, and Wolverine in terms of popularity.
Now there's no question that Cyclops embodies the X-Men as much as Captain America embodies the Avengers, and it seems like a good bet that their ideological differences will fuel much of the Avengers vs. X-Men affair and not just because they're front-and-center in the Jim Cheung-illustrated promo image (though that doesn't hurt). Captain America and Cyclops are the two main heads on the cover to Avengers vs. X-Men #1, and fighting right on the cover of #2, so, though there's rarely any guarantees in life, a fight between the leader of the Avengers and the leader of the X-Men in a comic called "Avengers vs. X-Men" certainly seems like a probable occurrence.
In fact, it looks like Captain America vs. Cyclops might just be the conflict that the entire Avengers vs. X-Men battle hinges on similar to Captain America vs. Iron Man in Civil War.

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- 6:37 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Pretty sure Penn St., Ohio St. and Minnesota are in the Big 10, not 12
- 6:38 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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This is exactly the type of schedule Tom Holmoe promised BYU fans by the third
year of Independence and now he's delivered.
Grade A!
- 6:54 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Normally, I'd give an AD with the Y's 2013 schedule a "B+".
Had Texas, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame been Home-&-Home games, they could have
earned an "A". However, Y fans have proven time and time again that
they don't care "who" they play; just that they win. Hence, their
immediate flirtation with the WAC. Even Bronco himself said, "the model had
been set" in reference to Hawaii's weak WAC schedule back in 2007 that
enabled them to back into a BCS bowl. Then after saying that, the very next
team added to the cougars' already mediocre schedule: the FCS'
Northern Iowa. And then they "Quested" for perfection.
I see a few cupcakes on that line up, but I'm not sure it's enough to get Y fans excited about potentially embarking on another "Quest".
The last sold out game the cougars had at LES was Utah -- who then proceded to pound them 54-10, and sending Y "fans" fleeing towards the stadium's exits by the end of the 3rd Qtr. I guess we'll have to wait and see if they can sell out a game without their big brother on the field to draw the "fans".
- 7:04 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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D Harmon and more blue Kool-Aid.
- 7:24 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Chris hill's job of getting us USC, ucla, Stanford, Oregon, Washington,
Michigan, etc.?
- 7:31 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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- 7:40 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Maybe this will help prevent the serious cases of carpal tunnel in store for all
those cute little utes "fans" that sit in front of the computer screen
all day waiting for the next BYU article to hit the web.
Here is a good analogy for you to consider.
While Utah is winning the battle (Head to Head), BYU is winning the war (better overall records, higher rankings, more national exposure, ect.)
I guess fans have to decide what is more important to them?
Now can we avoid another comment thread full of garbage comments and have intelligent discussion?
Personally, I think Holmoe is doing a fantastic job with scheduling, especially giving the unique circumstances of independence. Now Bronco & Company need to take care of business and win some games.
- 7:40 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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oh chrisy how do you figure you are a member of the BCS unless you play football you are not a bcs member the school might be but you yourself are not not unless you are on the board and i highly doubt that.
- 7:53 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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A+, best schedule I've seen for the cougars in at least the last twenty years. The balance is great with easier games and byes in-between the most difficult contests. I'm also thrilled to see that ten of the games are on Saturday and am optimistic that most games will be shown on national television. I will be surprised if we do any better than 7-5 (even that might be optimistic), but you can't blame Holmoe, this is about as good as it gets. Of course I'm a little biased since the schedule gives me the opportunity drive over to watch the cougs play my Badgers and I can even swing down to South Bend when they play the Irish. Go cougs!
- 8:06 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Easy A, are you kidding. Very silly question to ask.
- 8:15 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Tom Holmoe deserves all of the howls and wolf calls we can muster. I will stick
with an A- grade since he could not close Mizzou (as of this date still an 11
game schedule and open on 11/16) and had to settle for Idaho State. Clearly,
Leach and Sarkesian don't need any more trouble beyond what they gets in
the Pac. As for Chow, he doesn't want to get his butt kicked at home and
then have to recruit against BYU on the islands. Chow has also held a grudge
since Crowton got the job he felt should have been his. Lucky for us.
Holmoe is showing us why he has four Super Bowl rings. This rocks.
- 8:26 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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It's sad when half the comments for grading BYU's 2013 schedule are
snide little digs from Utah fans, yet the only two comments about the retirement
of Rick's sweater, both complimentary, come from BYU fans.
More proof that a large portion of "Utah fans" are really just "BYU haters".
Holmoe definitely gets an A+ grade for BYU's 2013 schedule - tough, challenging opponents spread throughout the season, nice home and away balance, and great scheduling of the byes and tune-up game.
- 9:00 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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I would give Holmoe a B for his effort and now when BYU plays .500 I will give
him an A.
No matter how good you are, your going to the SF Bowl...nice
- 9:32 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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"It is interesting that in three cases, coaches with ties to BYU (Mike
Leach, Steve Sarkisian and Norm Chow) had their schools cancel series with the
"Consider that the MWC appears to still have its boycott of BYU in place for departing."
I don't know anything about what happened with Washington and Washington St but it is very clear that Chow had nothing to do with the MCW conference scheduling the Championship game on the day Hawaii was penciled in on byu's schedule. Boycott of byu by the MWC? Seriously? Why does Harmon do this? Why is he compelled to paint byu as a victim and why do byu fans buy into this schtick? Just asking.
- 10:00 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Great grade at this time. The schedule is "the best the Y has ever had". He should also get a grade after the season. But more importantly, what grade does he get for leading the Y to independence? Little is know about the finished schedule for 2014 and beyond. In addition, I wonder how the long term outlook is for recruiting this year and beyond. That said, I find myself supporting the Y for the first time I can remember - Perhaps I have "moved on" in baby steps.
- 10:10 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Tom did a great job with the schedule every year he has had that responsibility. This is an excellent effort. I question his allowing so many young assistanc coaches. Not good. Sure glad he pushed for changes in the offense. We are lucky to have him as the AD. He's a great improvement over what we had before he came.
- 10:11 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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"Why does Harmon do this? Why is he compelled to paint byu as a victim and why do byu fans buy into this schtick? Just asking."
Have you followed the MWC for any length of time? It isn't only Utah that loves to hate the Y. The first wall to fall though was SDSU being willing to play BYU in the Poinsetia Bowl. Seriously, many of the coaches stopped just short of swearing an oath to never play BYU again. Go back and read for yourself.
As to inferring that WSU and UW cancelled their contracts, that is a fact. That they did it because they didn't want anything to do with BYU while trying to work their way up the PAC - conjecture. Blaming it on the coaches? Unsubstantiated rumor. But possible.
- 10:17 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Miss Shields style...
- 10:27 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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BYU schedule work = A
Getting Cal on NCAA probation while the coach = F
- 10:57 p.m. Jan. 30, 2013
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Notre Dame-Michigan: Touring the Ruins of a Great Rivalry
In his new book "Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football" (Simon & Schuster), John U. Bacon spent a season tracking four Big Ten football programs—Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State and Penn State. This excerpt, which is based on historical records, correspondence and several narrative accounts, including John Kryk's "Natural Enemies," looks at the Notre Dame-Michigan rivalry, which resumes Saturday in Ann Arbor and is set to end after next year's game.
Michigan and Notre Dame started going at it when they first met in 1887—by accident. The Michigan team was traveling to Evanston, Ill., to play Northwestern when it learned the Purple were backing out. So they got off the train at South Bend instead and literally taught the boys at Notre Dame the rules of the game.
After the Wolverines won that first contest, 8-0, Notre Dame treated their guests to a hearty banquet. The mood was so friendly that Notre Dame president Thomas Walsh felt compelled to give a toast, assuring the Michigan players that a "cordial reception would always await them at Notre Dame."
Promises, promises.
Notre Dame's relationship with the Big Ten Conference became complicated after coach Fielding Yost arrived at Michigan and a player named Knute Rockne enrolled at Notre Dame. In 1910, Yost accused Notre Dame of using ineligible players and cut the series off. On the various All-American teams that big-name coaches selected in 1913, only one coach left Rockne off his list—Yost.
Things got worse after Rockne became Notre Dame's coach in 1918, and then blew up beyond repair in 1923—at a track meet. Rockne got into a shouting match with Yost over the distance between the hurdles Michigan had set up. Yost vowed then and there that Notre Dame, which had desperately been trying to get into the Big Ten, would never be admitted.
The animosity between these two men continued at a fever pitch for the rest of their lives. When a Spalding salesman tried to get Rockne to order new equipment, Rockne kept repeating that he was already overstocked with everything he needed. Finally, just before turning to go, the clever salesman sighed and said that was a shame because Yost liked Spalding's new footballs so much he'd ordered three dozen. "He did?" Rockne snapped. "Then I'll take three dozen and a half."
The teams ended the embargo during World War II, when they split two games, before cutting off the series again.
Like all great rivalries, this one has outlived its originators. Michigan's Fritz Crisler didn't trust Notre Dame's Frank Leahy any more than Rockne trusted Yost. Pressed to explain why, Crisler cited this example: Whenever someone asked Leahy if he wanted a cigarette, he'd say yes, then just play with the thing without ever lighting it. "Why," Crisler asked, "doesn't he just say he doesn't smoke?"
For the next 35 years, from 1943 to 1978, the sport's two most legendary programs, situated just three hours apart, didn't play once—but once again, Notre Dame seemed to fare pretty well without the Wolverines, winning six national titles during that span.
But like all family squabbles, this one eventually started to soften. At a banquet in the late 1960s, Notre Dame athletic director Moose Krause leaned over to Don Canham, his Michigan counterpart, and said, "Don, Michigan and Notre Dame should be playing football."
After a few years of touchy negotiations, they relaunched the rivalry in 1978, and it was an immediate hit. It had everything college football fans loved: In addition to history and tension, there were classic uniforms and stadiums, and most importantly, unequaled parity.
The night before the rivalry restarted, Moose Krause said, "When we look back 25 years from today, we will probably see that Michigan won half of the games and Notre Dame won half of the games."
Going into Saturday's game, since Krause made his prediction, each side had beaten the other 14 times, with one tie.
The week before the 2012 Michigan game, Notre Dame had joined the suddenly active Atlantic Coast Conference, which was gobbling up Big East members at the same time it was trying to keep other conferences from doing the same to its schools. The move would give Notre Dame's other teams, especially basketball, a promotion from their membership in the Big East. The ACC was so eager to lure Notre Dame, it let the Irish remain independent in football, while the Irish agreed to play five ACC football teams a year.
After examining the deal, some observers immediately recognized a potential problem: at some point, Notre Dame's decision could threaten its rivalry with Michigan.
Before the 2012 game, this seemed to be a far-off notion. But the day after Notre Dame's 13-6 victory, Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon pulled the letter out of his coat pocket that Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick had handed him right before kickoff. That's when he learned that, as their agreement allowed, Notre Dame was ending one of the greatest rivalries in sports, canceling the games from 2015 through 2017, with no future matchups scheduled.
By informing Michigan minutes before kickoff, Notre Dame could count 2012 as one of the three games notice the agreement required, giving the Irish two remaining home games to Michigan's one.
So much for Father Walsh's promise to the Wolverines that a "cordial reception would always await them at Notre Dame." The tradition of distrust between the schools' leaders, at least, was alive and well.


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It was a tense situation late last Thursday evening for officers from the Tuscarora Township Police Department when they were called to a home on Kings Point Road where a man possessed a loaded shotgun inside his home and had allegedly threatened to shoot at law enforcement officers if they were called.
Officer Dale Williams from Tuscarora Township said the department was assisted by two officers from the Cheboygan County Sheriff's Department. According to a news release from Tuscarora Township, officers were dispatched to the home at 11:53 p.m. after the wife managed to escape with the couple's 15-month-old child and called from a neighbor's home.
The husband had allegedly been drinking and smoking marijuana and punched her with his fist and choked her. The release states that when she tried to call 911, he broke her phone. As she left the house, the wife told police he got a loaded shotgun and said he was going to shoot himself or shoot at the police until they shot him. She said he fired a round from the gun outside of the residence as she was fleeing to the neighbor's home.
Williams confirmed that spent shells were recovered at the scene. He said the police parked away from the residence, arrived on foot with rifles and set up a perimeter in the dark. About 10 minutes into that process, he said the suspect left the scene in a vehicle. Law enforcement vehicles had been positioned blocking Kings Point Road where the suspect was surrounded and taken into custody at 12:12 a.m. without further incident.
Williams said the wife did appear to have injuries, but refused emergency medical services treatment. The child appeared to be uninjured.
Williams said police typically "go dark", parking away from the residence and approach quietly when cases involving domestic assault are involved.
He said coming into a scene where shots have allegedly been fired and officers threatened raises the anxiety level and creates a heightened sense of awareness for law enforcement officials.
The 36-year-old man was arrested and lodged in the Cheboygan County Jail.
He is currently hospitalized and awaiting arraignment in 89th District Court. Charges include domestic assault with strangulation; operating a vehicle while impaired, interfering with an electronic device for 911 communication; reckless discharge of a firearm, possession of a firearm while intoxicated, child endangerment and possession of marijuana.
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21 Feb 2013 12:39 PM #1
YUI Compressor Options
Is there any way to set the options for YUI Compressor when generating a production build through CMD? Specifically I am interested in preserving line breaks (--line-break) for remote error tracking purposes.
24 Feb 2013 5:46 PM #2
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25 Feb 2013 3:44 PM #3
Is this something that could be considered for future updates? Without that option using Sencha CMD does not allow for remote JS error reporting, since these reports are pretty useless when they all return line number 1.
4 Mar 2013 8:51 PM #4
+1 for allowing to pass configuration options to YUI (or closure) compiler.
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Integrate CMD into Ant to configure options
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The CWC Lady Bulldogs gave it all they had, but were unable to take down Eldorado, ending their season Monday night at Hamilton Co. The final score was 51-37.
The girls kept the game close in the final three quarters, with Eldorado only holding a one-point 30-29 advantage in the second through fourth quarters. But a 21-8 lead in the first was hanging over the Lady Bulldogs heads the whole game.
Emma Bachman played hard and led the Lady Bulldogs in scoring with 12 points. She also had an assist and two rebounds.
Others contributing to the team in the loss were Sydney Clark with seven points, an assist and four rebounds, Kelsey Rogers with seven points, two assists, seven rebounds and two steals, Briley Attebury with six points, an assist and 17 rebounds, Alexa Combs with four points, two assists and four rebounds, Jerrica Money with a point, three rebounds and a steal and Briley Tolley with an assist.
The loss brings the end of seniors Emma Bachman and Sydney Clark's CWC basketball careers.
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I'm visiting the mountains of La Plagne in France. I'm hoping to get some nice photographs of the snow covered mountains while I'm there. I'm thinking of getting some filters for to use with my Cokin filter kit. Any advice on what to get? I'm thinking neutral density filters, but not sure about which types or densities to get.
Assuming you are shooting digitally, a polarizer should be all the filter you really need. This can reduce contrast in the scene my making the sky darker, depending on the angle of the sun. It will also reduce glare from the snow.
You may also consider a solid ND filter if you wish to do long exposures. You can do this to include climbers are night as they trace paths through the mountain with their lanterns or head-lamps. Since you get a clear view of the sky at altitude, you may also do star-trials.
Facing mountainous terrain, there is little use for a graduated ND filter since the transition on the filter is unlikely to match anything natural in the scenery. Instead, you can probably experiment with exposure fusion.
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BELLAIRE - A citizen's quick thinking led to two arrests in a burglary case Wednesday.
Ryan Johnson, 23, 3342 Guernsey St., Bellaire, and Bryan McCorkle, 22, 56250 First St., Bellaire, were both arrested and charged with burglary, a felony of the second degree.
According to Sheriff David Lucas, deputies responded to an alarm at a vacant Fulton Hill Road residence close to 10 a.m. and found a broken basement window. A local resident reported observing a strange car in the area and photographed the vehicle and license plate.
"That information gave us suspects from the Bellaire area," Lucas said. Bellaire police were contacted and located the car at 3342 Guernsey St. "From there and the evidence that was recovered, two arrests were made for the burglary."
Lucas added that one of the items recovered was a pistol.
"From the quick response of the deputies, and also I've got to commend the resident, this is where the community really comes in," he said. "When you see something strange or out of place in the area, make note of it. This resident did, and by making note of it and by taking photographs of the car led us to solving this case and getting a weapon off the street."
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WACO (October 11, 2012)--A local woman was sentenced Wednesday to federal prison after she pleaded guilty earlier to stealing art paints from area Hobby Lobby stores and reselling the merchandise on eBay.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith sentenced Andrea Kay Thompson to 30 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years supervised release and ordered her to pay $22,276.90 in restitution and a $100 special assessment to the court.
A federal court document says, beginning in January 2011, Thompson stole fine art paints from Hobby Lobby stores in Temple and Killeen and then resold them on eBay.
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Having a child with autism isn't easy. Having autism isn't any easier. It wasn't so long ago that many children were falling through the cracks at school, being overlooked as shy or quiet, when in fact several had a diagnosable disorder and could have received assistance to help them acclimate to social demands. But that was then and this is now and parallel to advances in diagnosing children with autism, services continue to grow. Further, certain services that were once too costly for too many are now provided for through insurance. California, like 27 other states that now offers autism insurance coverage for applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy through its state exchange, the insurance marketplace created as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). California's autism insurance mandate (SB 946), implemented on July 1, 2012, requires most health plans to cover applied behavior analysis therapy for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Bryce Miler, director of contracts at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), will be hosting a free two-hour workshop, "California Insurance Funding for Autism," in Thousand Oaks this Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, at the CARD treatment center in Thousand Oaks, located at 325 E. Hillcrest Drive, suite 140. The workshop will help parents navigate through the insurance coverage process; plus, parents will learn what must be covered under California law and the most effective way to access coverage. Attendees must register by the morning of the event with firstname.lastname@example.com.
Miler spoke with the VCReporter this week about autism and the changing face of insurance coverage.
VCReporter: How many children are diagnosed with autism every year in the state of California? In the U.S.?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 88 children in America is diagnosed with autism. If you apply that number to new births per year that gives an estimate of how many children are diagnosed. About 500,000 babies are born per year in California, so that means that about 5,600 of them will later be diagnosed with ASD. For the U.S., there are about 4 million births per year, so one out of 88 for that works out to be about 45,400 per year that will later be diagnosed with ASD.
What are symptoms of autism? What are the youngest age and oldest age for diagnosis, typically?
Significant challenges with social communication and restricted repetitive behaviors that lead to clinically significant negative effects on quality of life. Children are usually diagnosed around 3 to 4 years old, but they can and should be screened as early as 18 months. Tragically many children with ASD are not diagnosed until they are 5 to 7 years old.
Prior to the Affordable Care Act, what services had been available to parents with insurance? Without insurance?
Since the California insurance mandate to cover ABA began on 7-1-2012, there has been widespread coverage for ABA therapy; however, many employer-sponsored health plans were/are exempt from the requirement to cover ABA. When patients do not have insurance coverage for ABA, they can request services from their local regional center; however, some California residents will not qualify for services. The ACA does change the coverage picture for Californians with modest means who may now be able to buy more affordable coverage then they had access to in the past.
What will insurance companies now cover that they hadn't before?
The only recent change (resulting from the ACA exchange plans) is that patients can buy plans under Covered California and possibly qualify for a subsidy to assist with the insurance premiums. These plans do cover ABA therapy.
How does treatment help children with autism? Does it cure them?
Scientifically supported treatments based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) produce substantial, lasting improvements in children's ability to communicate, play, make friends and generally function more independently. ABA treatment teaches skills across all areas of deficits that a child suffers from, with the goal of removing deficits entirely. A substantial minority of children who receive ABA treatment starting in the early intervention period, consisting of 30 or more hours of one-to-one treatment per week, and continuing for two or more years, end up having no clinically significant deficits when they are done with treatment. CARD refers to this outcome as recovery from autism. The majority of children with ASD do not recover, but all children who receive top-quality ABA treatment learn a substantial amount of skills that help them live more independent, happy, fulfilling lives.
What is the best plan of action for any parent who thinks his or her child may have autism? For a parent who has a child diagnosed with autism?
Any parent who is concerned about the rate of their child's development should take their child to a pediatrician or psychologist for an autism screening. If there is any further concern, the child should see a medical doctor or psychologist who specializes in diagnosing autism. The key is to begin the screening process as young as possible.
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Is there a way to play all YouTube videos uploaded by a particular user? Obviously I could create a playlist, add each video to it, then play the entire playlist, but is there a simpler way?
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5 Movie Apocalypses That Would Defeat Themselves
#2. Waterworld Doesn't Have Enough Water
In Waterworld, the polar icecaps have melted, covering the Earth entirely in water. Humanity has learned to adapt to a new way of life and now lives entirely on boats and floating settlements out on the open ocean. Kevin Costner plays our antihero, the Mariner, a mutant who can breathe underwater and has no real interest in helping anyone other than himself, even though he'll wind up doing it anyway, so essentially he's Mad Max with gills.
If Mad Max spent a sizable chunk of the movie drinking his own urine.
Their mission is to find one of the last, tiny little bits of dry land remaining on Earth, and some have searched for so long that they believe no such land exists.
So, What's the Problem?
If the polar icecaps melted, the oceans would rise only 68 meters. That's real bad news for Florida, Uruguay and Bangladesh, but it falls well short of the urine-drinking horror of Waterworld, where dirt is considered as precious as gold. In fact, this is what the world would look like:
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With Florida gone, Oklahoma and Arizona would have a pitched battle for the coveted 'Craziest State' award.
Land wouldn't be a distant rumor, it'd be right where it always was.
The only plausible way that the events of Waterworld could take place is if all the people in this movie are somehow conned into believing they're living on a worldwide ocean. When you think about it, this kind of makes it a more interesting movie. After all, a lot of things don't really make sense if you accept the film's central premise at face value. Like where Dennis Hopper's band of pirates are getting their endless supply of factory-processed cigarettes.
If the story of Waterworld works at all, then everyone is the victim of some strange conspiracy, like those villagers who were trapped in an old-timey village in that Shyamalan movie whose title escapes us. Clearly, somebody thinks it's in their best interests to keep a bunch of people trapped out on the open ocean. Some people will pay good money for dirt and other crap that you can find on the ocean floor if you're the one person who can breathe underwater. Someone, for example, who is part fish and whose name is "The Mariner."
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#1. Planet of the Apes Doesn't Have Enough Apes
At some point in the future, mankind loses the eternal war between man and ape. Accidental time travelers return to Earth in the distant future to find that shit is completely messed up and the world is run by ape-people now. The scenario is slightly different depending on which version you're watching -- in the original series, humans start mass breeding ape slaves who eventually rise up against them and start a nuclear war. In the new Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a virus is created that simultaneously makes apes smart and kills people. And in Marky Mark's Planet of the Apes, a future ape gets a hold of a sports almanac and gives it to his younger self in 1955. Or something. We didn't see it.
So, What's the Problem?
No matter what version of the ape-pocalypse you subscribe to, there are simply too many people and not enough apes to enslave them.
There are currently 7 billion humans on Earth. Apes, on the other hand, are all critically endangered. There may only be around 350,000 of them in the whole world. Now, the Apes movies seem to be vaguely aware of this inequity -- in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, humans start breeding apes in 1983 to increase their numbers, and the world has been overrun with them by 1991. By this timeline, even if humans collected every ape female on Earth and forced them to have a baby every year, there would still be fewer than 10 million apes when the ape revolution occurs, and most of them would be children. As armies go, that's woefully inadequate when your goal is total dominance of every inch of the globe.
"You. Me. World domination. We totally got this covered, bro."
And even if the apes develop some kind of super-intelligence, we still have the guns and bombs and nukes and poison gas and, most importantly, vastly more experience at this "war" thing than the apes do. Somehow every version of the Apes franchise asks us to imagine the same scenario -- a relatively insignificant number of apes simply punches every man, woman and child on Earth to death while we just let them do it.
Now, the new franchise introduces a viral pandemic into the scenario, suggesting at the end of Rise that most of the humans are going to die to make way for the ape revolution. But they also only have a tiny handful of apes when the virus hits. Even a plague that killed 99 percent of humans would still leave 70 million people versus only a few hundred apes.
Sorry, but if one species boils your species down to this, you are not the dominant life form.
Yep, no matter which way you slice it, a Planet of the Cows is still infinitely more likely. Also, we really want to see that one.
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If someone has a Kezayit of cake, for example, and he finishes it without having blessed before eating it, does he make an after-blessing?
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Yes, he makes one. Source: The Halachos of Brochos, by Rabbi Yisroel Pinchos Bodner, (self-published, distributed by Feldheim, 1989, second printing, March 1990), chapter 15, section C.2, citing Magen Avraham 172:2 and Mishna B'rura :3. (The Machatzis Hashekel there notes that this is obvious.)


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Mercy Project, a Bryan/College Station, Texas based non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating child slavery, will attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for longest baseball game this weekend. The game will begin at 7:30 pm on April 4th and end at 9:30 pm on April 6th and will take place at the American Momentum Bank Ballpark in Bryan, Texas.
Mercy Project's Baseball Bash is an attempt to play a continuous game of baseball for 50 straight hours. The game will feature 56 players from around Texas that range in age from 17 to 50 plus. This is Mercy Project's fourth world record attempt in as many years.
The ultimate goals of this event are to create awareness about the plight of child slaves around the world and raise money that will directly help children in slavery in Ghana, Africa. An estimated 7,000 Ghanaian children have been sold into slavery, most of them in the fishing industry. The money raised from this record attempt will build new farm fishing opportunities, enabling the communities in that region to be economically viable without slavery. This will lead to the voluntary release of slave children from these communities where they will then be reunited with their families. Organizers estimate this event will raise more than $40,000.
In September of 2012, Mercy Project rescued their first group of 24 slave children. As of this game, those children have been re-integrated into their families and are now attending school, many of them for the first time in their lives.
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I can't seem to find any definite earliest example of this expression, or a reason why "hissy" was chosen to describe a tantrum. Does anyone hiss when they are angry? When and why was the phrase coined?
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The OED included hissy fit in their entry for hissy, writing:
The 1967 usage is the first recorded usage that they give, so the phrase is relatively new. They suggest that this use of hissy is tied to hysterics, and they add:
It seems possible that hissy came first--someone would go into hysterics and throw a tantrum if they didn't get their way. This eventually changed to become a hissy fit, or a "fit of hysterics". Note that there isn't a firm indication of origins, but this is the theory presented by the OED.
There's only snippets so it's not possible to verify, but Google Books has some earlier references than the OED's 1967.
1943's The Business of Getting Well by Marshall Sprague:
1959's The Numbers of Our Days: a novel by Francis Irby Gwaltney:
1966's The Sum and Total of Now: a novel by Don Robertson:
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It would be worth seeing whether the expression originates in the Scandinavian Midwest. See Einar Haugen's Norwegian English Dictionary under "hissig" (the g at the end of the word is silent):
1 ardent, eager, keen... 2 angry, irascible, quick-tempered: bli h- lose one's temper, (pop.) fly off the handle. 3 intense, violent (e.g. discussion, battle). 4 inflamed, irritated (e.g. boil).
Here's a possible origin:
Hissy fit could come from Hysterical, where hysteria was associated with women who had a hysterectomy and any fits of 'craziness' (for lack of a better term) were attributed to to the hysterectomy. Hence hissy fit and hence its association with women. (sourced from an undisclosed episode of QI, BBC.co.uk)
The general consensus both here and on the Internet at large is that "nobody knows" the origin for certain, but wisegeek.com presents a good summary of the three main theories...
Most likely one of those really did occur first, and thus could be said to be the "original". But I think for a term like this to gain and retain currency it probably gets some input from all three on an ongoing basis. Personally, I put more weight on histrionics. It's the least common term - but to those familiar with it, the "attention-seeking" connotations should seem particularly apposite.
The expression comes from the actions of a cat when it is suddenly upset—it shows its anger by hissing and swatting, and baring its teeth.
WHen I was about ten (i.e. about 1970) I used this expression. My father took me aside and explained that it was not a proper one to use in polite company, as the "hissing" referred to is actually the sound produced by involuntary voiding of liquified bowel contents and urine. In other words, the person throwing the fit has become so distraught as to cause his body to produce this instinctive response. I have not seen this explanation anywhere else, but it is the one I received.
During the American Reveloution the British hired mercenaries from Germany and Prussia to fight. These mercenaries came to be know as Hessians.
There were some skirmishes between the Hessians and the rough hewn soldiers of the Applachian region, most of whom were of Scottish or Irish descent, and when one of the Hessians was captured in battle they became very animated and cursed and stomped around speaking in a very animated manner in their native German dialect, much to the entertainment of the mountain men soldiers. The mountain men came to refer to these histronic displays as a Hesse or Hissy fit.
If you can find corroboration for this theory you are a better researcher than I, but that is the story that was passed down though my family though the generations.
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TOPEKA -- The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is helping to upgrade computer labs at community centers thanks to a joint venture with Shawnee County Parks and Recreation Department.
Thirty-six new PCs will include Internet browsers, Microsoft Office, resume software and, of course, access to the library catalog. The community centers receiving equipment, including a print station, in 2013 are Rice, Central Park, Garfield, Crestview, Hillcrest, and Oakland. Shawnee North and Velma Paris Community Centers are scheduled to receive computers and printers once a broad-band Internet connection is established in those locations.
"The library has no branches, so this is a cost-effective and innovative way to deploy library services, collections and programs to make sure all Topeka and Shawnee County residents have access to their library," said Gina Millsap, Library CEO.
"The existing computers for the computer labs are in very poor condition. Most of them have outlasted their life expectancy. There are several computers at each computer lab that are not working and it has caused longer wait times," said Randy Luebbe, Director of Recreation, Shawnee County Parks and Recreation.
The library and county will share the cost of an information technology employee to maintain the technology and provide training as necessary. The salary and benefits of this position will be split between the two entities.
The public will also see cross-promotion of library and county programming and eventually expanded programming at community centers as a result of the new partnership.
The Library Board of Trustees approved the memorandum of understanding at its mid-November board meeting, followed by Shawnee County Commission's approval November 29th.
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Health Care Push Is Here
WASHINGTON (AP) – The long slog has turned into a sprint. President Barack Obama's highly controversial health care law survived the Supreme Court and the election; now the uninsured can sign up for coverage in about 11 months.
Even the government's top-ranking Republican, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, said Thursday that "Obamacare is the law of the land." But not all hurdles have been cleared.
Republican governors who opposed the law have to decide whether it's better for their states to now help carry it out. The administration could stumble carrying out the complex legislation, or get tripped up if budget talks with Congress lead to scaling back the plan.
"We are out of the political gamesmanship and into the reality," said Sandy Praeger, Kansas' Republican insurance commissioner. Next week, states have to say if they're committed to building the framework for delivering health insurance to millions.
"We are still going to be struggling through the politics, and there are important policy hurdles and logistical challenges," said Andrew Hyman of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, helping states carry out the law. "But we are on a very positive trajectory."
Instead of being dismantled by a Republican president and Congress, Obama's law is now on track to take its place alongside Medicare and Medicaid. The action starts right away.
A week from Friday, states must notify Washington if they'll be setting up new health insurance markets, called exchanges, in which millions of households and small businesses will shop for private coverage. The Health and Human Services Department will run the exchanges in states that aren't ready or willing.
Open enrollment for exchange plans is scheduled to start Oct. 1, 2013, and coverage will be effective Jan. 1, 2014.
In all, more than 30 million uninsured people are expected to gain coverage under the law. About half will get private insurance through the exchanges, with most receiving government help to pay premiums.
The rest, mainly low-income adults without children at home, will be covered through an expansion of Medicaid. While the federal government will pay virtually all the additional Medicaid costs, the Supreme Court gave states the leeway to opt out of the expansion. That adds to the uncertainty over how the law will be carried out.
A steadying force within the administration is likely to be HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The former Kansas governor has said she wants to stay until the law is fully enacted.
Governors will be the main counterparts to Sebelius.Some, like Rick Perry of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida, have drawn a line against helping carry out Obama's law. In other states, voters have endorsed a hard stance. Missouri voters passed a ballot measure Tuesday that would prohibit establishment of a health insurance exchange unless the Legislature approves. State-level challenges to the federal law will continue to percolate.
Other GOP governors have been on the fence, awaiting the outcome of the election. All eyes will be on pragmatists like Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bob McDonnell of Virginia, whose states have done considerable planning to set up exchanges.
"Republican governors are at the center of the health care universe right now," said Michael Ramlet, health policy director at the American Action Forum, a think tank. "They do not have a uniform position."
Virginia's McDonnell, in a rebuff to the administration, said in an interview published Thursday his state would not set up its own exchange, defaulting to a federally run one. McDonnell left open the possibility Virginia might later change course.
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Ever since DriveClub was delayed last October there's been plenty of speculation regarding when exactly the game would be released during the "early 2014" window Sony reallocated this PS4 exclusive to. For a long time the official PlayStation Japan website listed DriveClub's release date as February 22nd – the same day the PS4 is due to launch in the territory, and then earlier this month the ESRB rated the game suggesting that its release isn't too far off.
Now Sony has announced that DriveClub will miss the PS4's Japanese launch and the game's release date has consequentially been changed to 'TBD' on the PlayStation Japan website. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that DriveClub won't be released before February 22nd in the West since localising it into Japanese is bound to take a few extra weeks.
Furthermore, Sony issued the following statement to IGN when asked about the game's status:
"The team at Evolution Studios are working hard to bring Driveclub, a truly next gen driving experience to PS4 and we will announce the release date shortly. We're really excited about how Driveclub is progressing and thank you for your patience."
The big question now is how soon is "shortly"? We'll let you know as soon as Sony resolves this conundrum.
Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of DriveClub for news, screenshots, trailers and previews of Sony's debut PS4 racing game.
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None of these sites had Area 51 proposals.
None of these sites had Area 51 proposals.
In addition to Popular Demand's "funny because it is true" comment ..
The Precognitive badge appears in the badge list on every site to announce the presence of Area 51, and its primary function.
Since Area 51 is itself about creating new sites that don't exist yet, the thought process is supposed to be:
Yes! Thus, based on seeing this badge and reading about it, a user is incentivized to:
In conclusion: win.
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You really do get a real life experience with the Sims 3, or at least it feels like it. People still age and eventually die, but what really makes the Sims 3 great is that new characters will appear, so you get a real sense of change.
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The Sims is one of the most popular games of all time and has achieved so many awards over the past decade. Even non-traditional gamers find themselves wrapped up in this award winning game. In case you are new to the Sims you get to build a house and get to live your life however you see fit. There are all kinds of comical elements packed in the game. There are also important decisions that you need to make. So, Sims fans you will not be disappointed with the latest release of this game, The Sims 3.
The biggest change to The Sims 3 is you can now explore the neighborhood at anytime without having to wait for the world to load. In fact, a lot of people believed that the previous Sims games were too limited to just your house and your character. It truly does give you the feel that you are living your life in the computer realm world. However, I would also like to point out that you can just sit back and watch your characters, which will keep themselves amused and entertained on there own.
You really do get a real life experience with the Sims 3, or at least it feels like it. People still age and eventually die, but what really makes the Sims 3 great is that new characters will appear, so you get a real sense of change. The psychological system for the Sims 3 is really quite complex and different sims react different ways to other sims. Really, one of the coolest parts about this game is sitting back and watching how everyone interacts with each other.
What is really nice about this game is they have removed the fact that you don't have to watch them go to restroom multiple times per day. Instead they will only go once per day. This gives you a lot more time to interact with them. You can use your time to develop friendships, complete daily task, ect.
So with all the positive things about The Sims 3 there are a couple negative things that might be taken into consideration. For instance, when your sims rush off to work it would be nice if they just didn't disappear. It would be nice if you could complete some kind of task for their jobs to give this a real life experience. Another thing that people might not like is the fact that it takes a lot of trial and error to create an appealing house. But, then again that is part of the game.
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Whether we listen to President Obama, Paul Krugman, Robert Samuelson, the Republicans, Tea Party-ers, or liberal progressives, they all want more "jobs," a "recovery," and "prosperity." As long as lust for "growth" prevails, and the approved social critics also ignore the nature of the system and its collapse, then the runaway train of unprecedented chaos and ecosystem destruction is only accelerating.
We can't afford to cling to the illusions of consumerism's plenty and corporate globalism, for they are fading into history. By now you are either cheering on this radical critique and you stand for fundamental change, or you are perplexed and are asking, "Don't we need more jobs so we can all live decently?"
When one is at the end of one's rope, the answer is not to try to stretch the rope, or, in the real world, attempt to continue the cancer-like endless growth of industrialism that runs on fast dwindling, nonrenewable resources. Still, one asks, "what is the alternative to doing the forever commute, the endless shopping, and trusting the never-ending flow of water, electricity and other services for a huge population disconnected from local ecosystems?" The "alternative" is not really an alternative, but is rather nature's way, the only way, with humans as a cooperative part of it. In truth, the brief fossil-fuel phase and craze of human history is the "alternative," and it on the way out along with countless species. Still, according to Obama and the rest of the Establishment, the fossil fuel industries and the even more subsidized nuke power crowd are essential and a part of our future. Drill Baby Drill is bipartisan. But whose future is it? What if socioeconomic collapse (petrocollapse) and climate disaster bump aside business-as-usual mega-pollution and maximum consumption?
"Enough!" someone cries, "what can replace the present system? I need to drive a car even if you don't. I need to put my kids through college." This is all reasonable, but it's obsolete thinking. Imagination has brought about deep questioning and has successfully demonstrated more rational ways of living ever since the hippies went "back to the land." Their success was not large-scale, but what has sprouted from that passionate movment flowered into appropriate-tech, permaculture, natural building, bicycle culture, DYI (do it yourself, or anarchism), ecovillages, and campaigns for peace and justice. These components of a sustainable society -- and there are many others such as local currency and depaving -- don't appear yet as a cohesive or growing movement in the eyes of the mainstream. The "green" wing of the mainstream has started to learn about farmers markets, different light bulbs, expensive "clean(er)" cars, organic food, and greater recycling. But the "green" consumer is typically as alienated and isolated as his or her parents were in their middle-class oblivious splendor. U.S. culture centers on materialism and work, with families and friends given mostly lip service.
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Oil reality nowhere to be seen by mainstream
Trying to strengthen the petroleum-oriented infrastructure is folly when we find ourselves at the end of petroleum's capability for economic vitality. And, although rebuilding or repairing roads sounds innocuous enough, much new capacity would be involved such as road widenings -- simply adding to traffic congestion. But a real solution, that of getting people out of their cars, remains the poorest stepchild in politics because "Money talks" (e.g., the U.S. has plenty of corruption and the skids are greased). Obama's not above it, although many would like to think he's above it in his heart. In the transport-jobs article he said enviously, in some longer versions of the story, that China is building "hundreds of thousands of miles of new roads." China endured a nine day traffic gridlock in the summer. This congestion would not happen if the people were still oriented to bicycles. But then there would be no need for the roads, and Obama would not have a shining example of climate-killing development to rave about.
Krugman is a smart economist only in his narrow field of vision. He's typical in holding out for growth and more employment, and he makes it sound believable when he promotes fairness. But what is fair about workers giving their lifetimes for meaningless, hard work, when the future of prosperous retirement will never happen? Does Krugman himself want to work for someone else and have no say over the work? No; he's above it all, as if we need him to speak down to the masses from his ivory tower with his message of "Work for the capitalists!" Samuelson is less emotional than Krugman, but his journalistic contribution of revealing that the age of growth has given way to cutting back is hardly enlightening. To him we're just in a maybe this, maybe that phase of the economy: less spending by government is important but harmful as well, so we'll just have to see! How a Samuelson's waste of ink and electrons is justified is by pretending that "growth" can return and be endless.
What all three talking heads -- Barack, Paul and Robert -- really stand for, though they may admit things aren't looking bright for total "recovery," is society's success through greater consuming and generating more wealth and jobs. Population growth? Good, no problem. The greater the consumption and rise in the GDP, the better. Hence, the overt over-consumer is still the coveted hero. He's buying, and we need to pay attention to what he's buying! But he too is an endangered species if we care to face reality.
The answer is not to green consumption, for it won't be a factor as people retrench into their own local communities for subsistence.
The corporate media and the politicians play a cute game that all too many people fall for: posturing that there is a real difference between the "pro-job roadbuilders" (to give them a half-accurate name they would like) and the "pro-profit non-regulators" – the Demopublicans and their Republicrat opponents, respectively. In the real world the progressive-leaning liberals in both politics and business are no more useful than kinder destroyers of Mother Earth, or torturers who do not shock the testicles but only twist arms. Granted, it is easier for the average citizen still eating today to just put up with this system, complain about the truly repugnant, and wait for a better Obama. Or, start forging radical, fundamental change through new relationships, tactics and vision that put people and nature first.
Obama and the corporate columnists have in common that they can only see the perpetuation of capitalism, the corporate model and "innovation!". Working for others is right for the masses, these bosses say. Gotta maintain the status quo and blame the Republicans or the Chinese. Set up a straw man to knock down, instead of dismantling the lethal system destroying nature and exploiting people. The entire political system's visible face or facade is a straw man. Serving up lies is the job of the dominant mass media, with tidbits of truth thrown in for verisimilitude. As questionable as a manufacturing or pencil-pushing job is when its days are numbered, at least a physical or cubicle job is more honest work than the top job of propping up a facade while refusing to acknowledge collapse and ecocide falling down around our heads.
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McClatchy-Tribune news:
(in the Oregonian, the bottom 5 paragraphs were cut)Obama presses pitch for $50 billion plan for roads, runways
Washington Post:
Welcome to the Age of Austerity, Oregonian and OregonLive.com
New York Times:
Hey, Small Spender (in the Oregonian as "That big-government expansion? Never happened")
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The 6 Most Terrifying Work Commutes in the World
#3. Tokyo Trains
Imagine being deliberately shoved against other people so hard that within a few minutes, you've completely forgotten what it was like to be able move or breathe or experience happiness, as your body is slowly crushed by a giant mass of flesh and bones (and boners). For some in Tokyo, this is known as "going to work."
See those guys pushing people into a crowded train with impunity, while everyone else stands and watches? Well, they're doing that because it's their job: They're called oshiya, which literally translates as "train pushers." Yes, in Japan, there is a word for "person who stuffs trains with human bodies." Train pushers are usually strong and intimidating and they take their job description pretty seriously, as you can see here:
The fact that the Japanese government deems it necessary to pay workers to cram more people into trains is the result of a complex set of socioeconomic factors. Houses in Tokyo are really, really expensive -- like $45,000 per square meter expensive, on average. So while there are "only" about 13 million people living in Tokyo proper, there are tens of millions more living on the outskirts who have to commute to the city every single day.
They had to use fire hoses and riot guns to clear the platform off enough to take this picture.
Consider how excruciatingly fucking tedious traffic jams must be in Tokyo that people would rather subject themselves to the humiliation of being pushed into a train full of sweaty body parts than drive to work. And yes, creepy hobos with persistent stenches also exist in Japan, and they also use the subway as their personal offices.
Incidentally, "Poo Man on the Run" was the name of our funk band in college.
Tokyo authorities have stated that they plan to reduce train capacity to "only" 150 percent, which makes us think they need to rethink their math (or build bigger trains). Also, we weren't joking when we mentioned boners earlier: Train-groping (as in groping someone in a train, not fondling the train itself) is a real thing, and despite the anime industry's best efforts to romanticize it, it is a serious problem in Tokyo.
Shockingly, real-life women seldom enjoy sexual harassment.
Tokyo train-riders have a pretty accurate name for this whole experience: They call it tsukin jigoku, or "commuter hell." Actually, being shoved, immobilized and sexually harassed sounds exactly like our idea of hell.
#2. Tower Climbing
Tower climbers are exactly what they sound like: Dudes who get on top of very tall towers to fix stuff, because someone has to. So how do they get to work? By climbing a tower.
Bet you didn't see that coming.
Actually, they ride most of the way up in an elevator and only have to climb about 200 feet by themselves. Unfortunately, those 200 feet happen to be positioned at the very top of these extremely tall broadcasting towers -- like those on the (former) Sears Tower, whose tallest spot is located more than 1,700 feet above the ground (not a good place to be in a city known for being windy). Add to this the fact that tower climbers have to carry bags filled with assloads of tools (weighing around 30 pounds), because if it turns out they need a wrench or something, it's a pain in the ass to have to go all the way down to fetch it.
This is right about the time your taint would start to itch.
But it gets worse: As if the job wasn't scary and dangerous enough by itself, tower climbers apparently feel the same way we do about their commutes -- the faster they can get them over with, the better. For you, this means running a few yellow lights; for tower climbers, getting to work faster involves ditching some essential precautions and "free climbing" massive sections of the tower without any protection. Sometimes, they even film themselves doing that for your enjoyment:
Do not watch this video if you have a heart condition. Seriously.
We can tell by the narrator's disturbingly calm voice that he wasn't actually watching the video while he was talking, because it is impossible to see it and not lose your shit at least a little. The OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) also lost its shit when this video went online, forcing the site that originally posted it to delete it ... even though OSHA guidelines appear to be cool with free climbing as long as it's done under ideal conditions (that is, without a camera recording the whole process to be uploaded on YouTube).
#1. Zip-Lining to School
This one beats all the other commutes on this list simply because it isn't done just by adults -- in fact, it's mostly done by children. Impossibly badass little children who zip-line across mountains to get to school.
Their teacher must be extremely hot.
These kids live in Colombia, in a remote outpost called Los Pinos (pronounced "Lost Penis" according to the following video):
The Colombian government hasn't built a bridge across the ravine separating the village from the nearby town (where the only school is located) because they literally cannot be arsed to -- since they say not enough people live there. Well, maybe that has to do with the fact that there's a huge freaking ravine right in front of them. If they want to get anywhere, the inhabitants have only two options: a two-hour hike across rocky terrain or a one-minute zip-line ride. Sure, the zip-line is much faster, but would you be willing to take that risk, especially if there were children involved? Think about it.
"Eh, fuck it."
While zip-lining is a relatively safe practice and lots of people do it for fun, consider the fact that tourist zip lines are periodically checked by experts, while no one gives a shit about Los Pinos, so the villagers have to perform all the maintenance themselves. Also, we're not talking about bored thrill-seeking dudes here -- we're talking about little children, and they have to do this twice a day, every day. And that's not all: See this adorable little girl carrying a burlap sack with her?
She looks like she could drop-kick six lumberjacks without breaking stride.
What could possibly be in there that's worth adding the extra weight? Books? Food? Some sort of parachute ...?
Nope, that's her little sister. And yes, they make that trip daily. So next time your grandpa starts whining about how he walked uphill to get to school when he was a kid, show him this goddamned article.
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I laughed at that pretty damn loudly.
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I laughed at that pretty damn loudly.
I cannot repeat enough how much I loved Holmes interviewing Camille the Hell Yeah guy in both of those videos.
Pinkie, you sexy naughty prick. Now I have to explain to the whole office why I nearly bathed my computer in water.
I need to stop drinking stuff while I'm reading these forums. It's unhealthy for my PC.
I read he performed in the first ever five person skydive.
Why isn't his season of Road Rules on you tube?
hope this counts as actual appreciation, rather than sexual harassment.
You do that? That's really damn good.
He did a pretty cool big picture version for the Cblogs.
Also, ZP, what is that?! <^ O_o
While a fine piece of art I don't think Holmes will appreciate it. I do like his angel wings though, because clearly he is the most good willed person on destructiod.
Holy fucking shit that hair. How am I only seeing this now?
Embedded because why did you not.
He first appears at 2.20 and later on you can see him more clearly with that hair.
Oh shit! I never realized it was that season. I spent that whole season trying to figure out if I'd fuck that skinny white chick, or if she was just too damn skinny.
Yeah I saw it via Nero on either facebook or twitter. It's a recent upload. A few years ago all they had on youtube was a brief clip.
Me and jonathan made up today after an unfortunate chain of event. I even am helping him secure guests in his sup holmes show.
I've been thinking about that "chain of event" for hours. The universe is broken.
I recently started watching 'sup holmes and I love it. I'm not the type to usually listen to podcasts or watch long videos like this, but it just works so well.
Of course I love Jonathan Holmes, he is my Asian girlfriend.


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Kerry Hits Bumpy Road in World Diplomacy
Secretary of State, Meeting With Russian Counterpart on First Official Foreign Trip, Makes Little Progress on Syria, Iran
PARIS—Secretary of State John Kerry, three days into his inaugural trip as the U.S.'s top diplomat, is confronting the limits of American power in resolving some of the West's most pressing foreign-policy challenges, including Syria, Iran and North Korea.
A widely anticipated meeting Tuesday between the former Massachusetts senator and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, offered few signs of progress between Washington and Moscow over their differences on Syria's civil war. If anything, the meeting dimmed hopes that a united plan will emerge to hasten the departure of President Bashar al-Assad at a conference in Rome with Syria's main opposition leaders later this week.
International negotiations in Kazakhstan aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program, meanwhile, were extended to a second day on Wednesday. But senior U.S. and European officials involved in the diplomacy didn't expect a breakthrough. Mr. Lavrov has opposed punitive sanctions against Tehran.
The challenges Mr. Kerry faces in Syria and Iran, along with threats in North Africa and North Korea, could constrain his ability to reach a primary objective of President Barack Obama's second term: rolling back of the military interventions that have dominated U.S. foreign policy over the past decade.
Mr. Kerry, since taking office this month, has signaled his desire to focus on promoting international trade and economic development as the signature Obama administration policy, but events are forcing it to focus on terrorism and weapons proliferation.
He did so in Europe this week, saying Washington hoped to move beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Mr. Kerry also publicly questioned whether a military retrenchment was possible given the current international outlook.
"Most people who have been to war will come out and tell you they hate war," Mr. Kerry, a veteran of the Vietnam conflict, told a gathering of German students in Berlin on Tuesday. "And yet I've learned, because of the way the world works, that sometimes you have to stand up to fight for and defend something where there's no other alternative."
On Monday, Mr. Kerry told reporters in London that Iran could face "terrible consequences" if it didn't take advantage of the current diplomacy and agree to constrain its nuclear program.
U.S. officials looked to Mr. Kerry's Tuesday meeting with Mr. Lavrov in Berlin as one of the American diplomat's most important encounters during his nine-nation maiden mission.
Ties between Washington and Moscow have deteriorated in recent months with the re-election of Vladimir Putin as president.
The Kremlin's ban on adoptions of Russian babies by Americans has soured relations between the citizenries of the two countries. And Mr. Putin enraged the White House last year by banning the Russian operations of U.S. nongovernmental groups that promote political reform.
Syria has emerged as a flash point between Washington and Moscow, due to the Kremlin's continuing financial and military support for Mr. Assad. Moscow's support has continued despite acknowledgment by some Russian officials that the Syrian dictator is unlikely to survive the rebellion, which has left roughly 70,000 people dead, according to the United Nations.
Messrs. Kerry and Lavrov met for nearly two hours at a Berlin hotel discussing Iran, North Korea and more than half of the time focused on Syria. But following the meeting, neither American nor Russian officials would say if the two diplomats had reached any firm understanding heading into the Rome meetings on Thursday.
"It was a serious and hard-working session," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said about the meeting. "They are committed, both the secretary and Foreign Minister Lavrov, to use their channel to build cooperation on as many issues as possible."
U.S. military force in Africa is expected to be a major part of discussions Mr. Kerry will have Wednesday in Paris with French leaders, including President François Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
The Pentagon has been providing intelligence and logistical support to a French-led military intervention in Mali, where Islamist extremists took over large portions of the North African country. The French operations have been seen as successful in driving al Qaeda-linked militants out of key Malian cities, but some have regrouped in the Sahara, say U.S. officials.
The Obama administration has positioned the U.S. to take a wider military role in Africa by opening a base operating American military drones in Niger, in part, to support the Mali work.
"Go back and read history of the Algerian war and the French," Mr. Kerry told the German students in Berlin on Tuesday. "They also understand that if you don't pay attention to those things up front and early, you pay a bigger price down the road, and that's what we all need to understand and what we're trying to do."
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