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Some spells like Tail Slap and Tail Sweep work by temporarily granting the caster a "tail of force" with which they can attack. (From what I recall, these are from Dragon Magic or Races of the Dragon.) What happens if the caster in question already has a tail? Does the attack get extra damage from the normal tail, or is it just superseded by being encased in the force tail?
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D&D 3.5 does not have general rules to deal with the addition or removal of extremities. This lack is especially glaring when dealing with spells and other effects that grant natural attacks.
In this case, however, the Effect is clear for Tail Slap: "You evoke a dragon's tail". In other words, you create it. Whether you already have a tail is not a factor, the effect of the spell is the creation of a tail.
It is less clear for Tail Sweep, as that spell does not generate an Effect. It could be assumed to work the same, as it also claims to "evoke a dragon's tail", but this is not as well defined.
However, in both cases, the physical appearance of the tail should not be relevant to the spell's mechanics. Should you desire the spell looking like a magical casing around your own tail rather than a new and independent tail, the DM and player could decide just that, without altering the spell's mechanics or balance. This is referred to as "refluffing", and is generally recommended when the description of an ability doesn't match what the player (or DM) desires.
Sadly, no. Because neither spell mentions a bonus for a pre-existing tail, we can assume that whether or not the caster already has a tail is irrelevant. Presumably the force tail simply forms around your current tail.


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1) It was English translated version.
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U.S. Sets Hurdles to Intervention in Syria
Obama Seeks International Consensus on Assad's Alleged Chemical-Weapons Use, Lowering Prospect of Military Action
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama raised the bar for military intervention in the civil war in Syria, saying that not only the U.S. but the international community must first agree that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian regime.
Mr. Obama's comments at a news conference Tuesday made clear that he wasn't poised to act unilaterally and suggested he would look for an international consensus in deciding whether President Bashar al-Assad's regime used chemical weapons before committing military forces. In doing so, Mr. Obama made the prospects of a military response more remote.
But under growing pressure from allies Britain and France, U.S. officials said Tuesday that Mr. Obama would consider options that he previously rebuffed, including providing lethal arms to vetted rebel groups.
A United Nations agreement on the issue would be difficult if not impossible to reach: Russia is a longtime ally of Syria and has used its position on the U.N. Security Council to block tougher measures against Mr. Assad.
Meanwhile, top White House and North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials say there is little appetite in the alliance for military intervention in Syria.
Speaking at the White House, the president said: "If I can establish in a way that not only the United States but also the international community feel confident is the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, then that is a game changer."
Mr. Obama had previously said that the use of chemical weapons would be unacceptable to him, and has said the Assad regime would cross a "red line" were it to begin to move or make use of chemical weapons.
After a U.S. intelligence assessment released last week said the regime had likely used chemical weapons—raising expectations of an imminent U.S. response—Mr. Obama repeated that a more thorough inquiry into the evidence was needed.
The U.S. has some evidence that chemical weapons were used, "but we don't know how they were used, when they were used, who used them," Mr. Obama said. "When I am making decisions about America's national security and the potential for taking additional action in response to chemical-weapon use, I've got to make sure I've got the facts."
Having warned that the U.S. wouldn't tolerate the use of chemical weapons, Mr. Obama is facing mounting pressure to take more aggressive action to end the Syrian conflict and defeat Mr. Assad.
Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, among others, have called for the creation of a no-fly zone over Syria, a step that could require the use of warplanes or ship-based cruise missiles to try to destroy Syria's air defenses or aircraft.
One complexity for the administration is that many of the rebels battling Damascus are allied with Islamic extremists. Another is that Mr. Obama wants to avoid being drawn into one more conflict after winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Involvement in the Syrian civil war would be likely to divert his second-term domestic agenda.
The public doesn't appear to want that, either, according to a CBS-New York Times poll conducted April 24-28 in which 62% of those surveyed said the U.S. had no responsibility to intervene in Syria, versus 24% who said the U.S. should get involved.
Mr. Obama suggested that it would be easier to rally Americans and mobilize other countries to act in Syria if the U.S. establishes that the Syrian regime has used chemicals weapons.
Syria hasn't given access for such an inquiry. The country's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, reiterated Tuesday that Damascus wouldn't let U.N. inspectors into Syria to probe charges that the Syrian government used chemical weapons until it is shown evidence warranting such a move. Damascus says it doesn't have chemical weapons; Mr. Ja'afari accused rebels of using them against Syrian civilians.
So far the evidence has been muddled, with Western powers and American intelligence agencies drawing varying conclusions about what the Assad regime has done. As a result, the calls for action have been more muted and the pressure on Mr. Obama to act has increased only slightly, while the death toll in Syria has grown from 3,000 in 2011 to 70,000 as of February, according to the U.N.
In considering possibilities for international action, Mr. Obama has made clear to his aides that his preference is for U.N. backing against Mr. Assad.
Mr. Obama has been moving toward providing nonlethal military aid such as body armor, night-vision goggles and vehicles to rebel groups.
A senior administration official said Tuesday the White House was also considering "the possibility of lethal aid."
For months, the White House has said it could revisit the option of providing lethal aid after Mr. Obama rejected proposals last year to provide arms to vetted rebel groups.
—Julian E. Barnes and Joe Lauria contributed to this article.
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"I participated in Shred of Hope because I had always wanted to work with the Ali Forney Center and Nasty Pig gave me the perfect opportunity to do so."
Michael Stipe is an artist, producer, and singer-songwriter. He fronted the band R.E.M. for 31 years, selling more than 100 million records and touring the world. As a film producer since 1987, he has made more than 25 feature films, including Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich and Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine. In the past seven years, Stipe has focused on sculpture and cross-medium work, recently including bronze, plastic, cardboard, and digital imagery. His book Fear of the Empty will be released in spring 2014 by Rizzoli. He lives in New York City.
When the show ended, he toured the U.S. with the other Top 10 finalists while working on For Your Entertainment, which debuted at number three on the Billboard Top 200 chart, and earned Lambert a Grammy Award nomination for best male pop vocal performance, in addition to scores of international awards and honors. He graced the covers of Rolling Stone, Details, Entertainment Weekly, The Advocate, and Out, appeared on every major late night and daytime talk show, and became the first openly gay mainstream pop artist to launch a career on a major record label in the United States.
Lambert channeled his newfound fame into raising awareness about issues close to his heart, advocating on behalf of LGBT causes the Trevor Project, Equality California, and GLAAD as well as for charity organizations MusiCares, charity water, and DonorsChoose.org.
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"I'm a firm believer that life doesn't just happen to you," Lambert says. "We are all on a journey that we have the ability to affect and change. Sometimes we have to trespass out of our comfort zone in order to evolve. Trespassing was written about the push and pull that we all go through on our quest for happiness, allowing the listener to find their own balance within my world."
Cumming is beyond eclectic.
Right now, he is the political maverick Eli Gold on CBS's The Good Wife, for which he has received Emmy, SAG, and Satellite award nominations, but over the last couple of years he also sang at venues around the globe, including the Sydney Opera House; appeared in films opposite Helen Mirren, Cher, James Franco, and Christina Aguilera; voiced a Smurf, a goat, and Hitler; entered upside down and suspended by his ankles in a Greek tragedy and sparred with Dianne Wiest in Chekhov; directed and starred in a musical condom commercial; wrote articles for Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, and Out; recorded an award-winning album of songs and a dance remix; made three documentaries; released a second fragrance (naturally named Second Cumming); and hosted PBS's Masterpiece Mystery as well as speaking out for LGBT equality and civil rights, and going to Buckingham Palace to receive an OBE for all of the above. Oh, and Time magazine also called him one of the most fun people in show business. Duh!
He was an award-winning Hamlet and has had his own talk show. He shot a video portrait with Robert Wilson and recorded a duet with Liza Minnelli. He made films back-to-back with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls. He wrote a Sunday Times bestselling novel and has an award-winning signature fragrance. He has played Dionysus, the devil, and the pope, and was shot by Herb Ritts for Vanity Fair as Pan. He was a teleporting superhero, a Lee Jeans model, and hosted Saturday Night Live. He is an Independent Spirit Award-winning producer and National Board of Review-winning director. He has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the London Palladium, and San Francisco's Castro Theatre. He was named Icon of Scotland. He designed wallpaper. He was the voice of Black Beauty. He isn't nearly done yet.
Mould cofounded Blowoff, a D.C.-based DJ event, in 2003. After moving to San Francisco in 2009, Mould was part of the Zoo and Distortion+ parties. Mould was the DJ at Milton Keynes National Bowl outside London for 65,000 Foo Fighters fans. Mould also toured America with the Foos as both a DJ and guest vocalist-guitarist.
Mould's autobiography, See A Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody, was published by Little, Brown in June 2011. In late 2011, Mould's three-decade-plus songbook was honored at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the concert documentary was released in 2012.
September 2012 saw the release of rock album Silver Age, followed by worldwide touring as well as appearances on Late Show With David Letterman, Conan, and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Mould also performed on the world-famous PBS series Austin City Limits.
Mould and his band are currently performing at festivals, theaters, and clubs in Europe and North America.
She is, in short, one of the most engaging and forward-thinking DJ-producer-singer-activists working today. As her influence continues to grow, her music and perspective ripples ever outward.
In 2002 he founded the Ali Forney Center, which has grown to become the nation's largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth, providing emergency and long-term housing, HIV prevention and treatment, medical care, mental health services, and substance abuse services to more than 1,000 homeless LGBT youths per year. Siciliano is nationally recognized as a leading advocate for LGBT youth and has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including being named one of the Out 100 in 2002, receiving the prestigious Brooke Astor Award in 2007, and being named a Champion of Change by the White House in 2012.


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There seems to be a variety of views about Christian use of medicine. I am not looking for answers related to the extreme position that God heals everybody if you only have faith. This seems far removed from the church in which we live. I have assumed that a Christian might need psychiatric medication under some circumstances. I am asking this more along the lines of a real question that a Christian might have if their doctor recommends such drugs. The answer to the question is intended to help such a person in that situation. Any Biblical guidance?
Should they take it? Is it possible to need these drugs for life?


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31 Jul 2012 9:12 PM #1
Sencha sample app generated for Android native fails to start
Hi All,
Trying to compile navigationview example tha tcomes with sencha touch 2...
Using sencha-touch-18.104.22.168, plus patches posted here fixing android API level issues. After some tinkering with classpath, and JAVA_HOME env. variables got the build working. However, 2 issues.
packager.json looks like this:
{ "applicationName":"NView", "applicationId":"com.sample.nview", "versionString":"1.0", "versionCode":"1", "iconName":"resources/icons/icon.png", "inputPath":"C:\\Dev\\Sencha2\\sencha-touch-184.108.40.206\\examples\\navigationview\\build\\package", "outputPath":"C:\\Dev\\Sencha2\\sencha-touch-188.8.131.52\\examples\\navigationview\\build\\native", "configuration":"Release", "platform":"Android", "deviceType":"Universal", "certificatePath":"../../../zst.jks", "certificateAlias":"zst", "certificatePassword":"asd123456", "sdkPath":"c:/dev/androidsdk", "androidAPILevel":"4", "orientations": [ "portrait", "landscapeLeft", "landscapeRight", "portraitUpsideDown" ] }
2) apk is generated and attempted to be executed. I get white screen and the following error on console:
""c:/dev/androidsdk\tools\android" create project --target android-4 --name NView --activity STActivity --path "C:\Dev\Sencha2\sencha-touch-184.108.40.206\deploy\native\navigationview\/" --package com.sample.nview"""c:/dev/androidsdk\platform-tools\adb" install -r "C:\Dev\Sencha2\sencha-touch-18.104.22.168\deploy\native\navigationview\NView.apk"" ""c:/dev/androidsdk\platform-tools\adb" shell am start -n com.sample.nview/.STActivity" [ERROR] 2527 KB/s (647072 bytes in 0.250s)
E/chromium( 5243): external/chromium/net/disk_cache/stat_hub.cc:190: [0731/211201:ERROR:stat_hub.cc(190)] StatHub::Init - App com.sample.nview isn't supported. E/chromium( 5243): external/chromium/net/disk_cache/stat_hub.cc:190: [0731/211201:ERROR:stat_hub.cc(190)] StatHub::Init - App com.sample.nview isn't supported.
I've also tried "tabs" example, same results.
I've tried 2 different android devices with Android versions 2.3 and 4.0, no success.
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I've encountered the same problem, and logger is set to false for me as well. I've Googled extensively, have not found a solution. The one difference for me is I've been packaging the app with PhoneGap
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The 6 Most Insane Crash Diets of All Time
#3. Horace Fletcher and "Fletcherizing"
Horace Fletcher's diet philosophy in the early 1900s centered around "Fletcherizing," which is a new word he invented to describe a concept so novel that the English language had no word to describe it, except "chewing," For the immature giggler, it was called "masticating." He was in fact nicknamed, apparently in all seriousness, "The Great Masticator."
The Theory:
Fletcher reasoned that food needed to be chewed about 32 to 80 times before being swallowed in order to properly mix with saliva. By the time you are ready to swallow your food, he suggested, the food should be in liquid form. If the food was already in liquid form, he insisted people chew it anyway, digging their molars into that stringy apple juice or milk.
Fletcher felt it was very important to know exactly what was going into your body, and that one of the best ways of evaluating this was to examine what was coming out of your body. He advocated teaching kids to inspect their own "product" after defecating to be sure they were eating a healthy diet.
The Reality:
Reasonable experts, today, still suggest you take your time to chew your food, as it's a good idea not to send huge chunks down to the stomach. And, eating slower isn't a bad idea if you're looking to lose weight.
However, the problem with Fletcher's diet was that there are some components of food, like fiber, that don't break down into liquid despite all attempts at frenzied mastication. Fletcher's solution was not to eat fiber. This may explain why people were known for being uptight in the Victorian era.
Extensive scientific studies at the time also concluded that examining your own poop is gross.
The Results:
Fletcher lost a lot of weight, and at age 58 allegedly beat a number of college athletes in physical fitness tests in a staged event that he set up. On the other hand, he died of a heart attack.
Fletcher also had a good friend by the name of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg who was on board with his diet and even made up that stupid "Fletcherizing" term. However, the one thing Kellogg did not buy into was the no-fiber rule, so much so that he was inspired to invent a high-fiber breakfast cereal known as "corn flakes."
Fletcher's only other legacy is chewing, which people would no doubt not be doing today if it hadn't been for his amazing discovery.
#2. The Tapeworm Diet
As humans gained knowledge about tapeworms, parasitic worms that attach themselves to the digestive system of a mammalian host and consume its nutriment, most people observed that this was horrible and disgusting. However, demonstrating that female body image problems are by no means unique to our time, some desperate women skimmed past the words "worm," "parasite," "lay eggs inside your digestive system," "severe health danger" and pictures of this:
... and fixated on the phrase "causes severe weight loss."
The Theory:
The idea is that if tapeworms are digesting your food, you're not. You can eat as much as you want and this will go into the worm's tummy, not yours. The tapeworm will get fat and become an outcast in tapeworm society, but that would be its problem, not yours.
The Reality:
What do you think the worm is doing with all that food? It's not a dimensional portal. That worm is using the food to grow bigger and stronger, and maybe lay some eggs. Although most people with a tapeworm in their guts do not show any symptoms, the tapeworm is probably consuming some vitamins and nutrients you need, and has been known to share with its hosts the gifts of diarrhea, nausea and bloating. But that's not all! If the larvae manage to spread to other tissues in your body, such as the nervous system, they can affect your brain, or cause seizures, meningitis or dementia.
Also, if you are having a good time and forget about the worm for a while, don't worry! It will remind you by shedding segments of itself to show up in your poop.
A tapeworm is kind of like an acquaintance you agree to room with because you don't know them that well. They seem nice, and they will be a good workout buddy for you as you try to lose weight, but after a month, they are using your toothbrush, drinking your milk out of the carton, and following you around on dates saying how nice it would be to wear your skin.
One would think that it's not necessary to point out that there are drawbacks to having a disgusting meter-long parasite embedded in your intestines, but apparently some people need it said.
The Results:
After decades of observing ill-health effects and complications, not to mention the difficulties in removing the tapeworm when all is said and done, people now realize the foolishness of this method and--oh, no, wait, they're still doing it.
#1. The Sleeping Beauty Diet
As most of us are aware, Elvis Presley, late in his life, was a whale. To make himself feel better about it, he would eat six eggs, a pound of bacon, a half-pound of sausage and 12 buttermilk biscuits for breakfast. His staple dinner sandwich was a foot-long baguette containing an entire jar of peanut butter and jelly and a pound of bacon. He would eat two of those, then follow it up later with a midnight snack of five hamburgers. Instead of, for example, cutting down to three hamburgers or half a pound of bacon, which would have been unreasonable, he had himself sedated for two weeks.
The Theory:
Logically, it makes sense that if you're too sedated to move, you can't get yourself food, and if you don't eat, you won't gain weight. Coma patients don't get fat, for instance. Elvis was supervised by celebrity doctor Elias Ghanem during this time and fed a special "liquid diet," and as we all know, drinks aren't food, so you won't gain weight.
The Reality:
Unfortunately, Elvis's body may have outsmarted him. Being a pretty efficient machine, the human body will shut down to a minimal level of energy consumption when asleep or extremely inactive. Even being awake and reading quietly will burn a fair amount more energy, as brain activity consumes a decent amount of calories (see below).
Calorie burn rates for various stationary activities:
- 80 - reading (Dostoevsky)
- 70 - reading (Dean Koontz)
- 70 - watching TV
- 60 - baseline, comatose, asleep
- 55 - posting comments on the Internet
Also, common sense should tell you that it doesn't matter whether something is liquid or solid--calories are calories. A hamburger doesn't become a diet hamburger after you put it in a blender.
The Results:
Elvis left the treatment 10 pounds heavier than when he'd started, and it probably wasn't muscle weight. By 1977, he had become so large that aliens were able to spot him from space, and, as we all remember, abducted him. Depending on which tabloid magazine you read, the aliens either used their advanced technology to restore his youth and figure, or to keep him alive for an eternal torment of anal probing.
Either way, the lesson is that your body is an evolutionarily adapted traitor that can't be trusted to lose weight for you while you nap for two weeks. If only liposuction had been around ...
If you liked this article, check out The 10 Most Insane Medical Practices in History .


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For example, this Wolfram Alpha query shows this graph:
But it does not show the code for plotting it in Mathematica.
Plot[x^x, {x, -1, 1}] only plots the real values. How can I do this in Mathematica?
For example, this Wolfram Alpha query shows this graph:
But it does not show the code for plotting it in Mathematica.
Here's a view that shows how the graph starts to spiral for negative $x$ values, if we take the complex values into account.
In fact, if we write $x^x = e^{x\log(x)}$, this naturally generallizes to $x^x = e^{x\log(x) + 2i\pi k}$; each $2i\pi k$ represents another branch of the complex logarithm. In this context, we see that this graph just forms one spiral of a family of spirals.
In elementary classes, you might see the claim that $(p/q)^{p/q}$ is defined for $p$ negative and $q$ odd and positive. Thus, including these points, the graph might look something like so:
From the complex perspective, the dots arise as spots where one of the spiral threads punctures the $x$-$z$ plane.
As yulinyu has pointed out, something like the following will give you the desired plot.
You might also be interested in this excellent answer by Simon Woods to create a graph of the plot over the complex domain. Using his function and evaluating the following gives you a pretty picture


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The 6 Most Brutal Infections You Could Have Right Now
#3. The Bug That Eats You From the Inside Out
Killer worms that feed on live human flesh (as opposed to rotting flesh, which is usually way tastier for them) seems like the plot of a bad '70s horror movie ... and, in fact, it is. Unlike in that movie, however, the real life version of those worms didn't decide to go after humans because they were mutated by a freak accident, but simply because they are evil. There's no other possible explanation.
Pictured: The more rational option.
It all starts with a wound, any wound, even a small one caused by a tick's bite. That's all the screwworm fly (named "screw" for reasons that will become obvious) needs to plant its eggs in you, as many as 500. Once they've found a cozy spot inside the wound, the maggots will proceed to feed on your live tissue -- if disturbed, they'll drill even deeper into the cavity and probably won't stop until they see daylight on the other side.
"So then I said, 'Screw you, worm!' and punched it straight through my arm. It was badass."
Human deaths from screwworm infections are rare these days, because most people tend to notice when worms are coming out of the gaping holes in their bodies (also it hurts like hell), but the fact that this is still a thing that happens is disturbing enough on its own.
Even when there's no wound at all, sometimes these little fuckers will go for the already existing holes in your body, meaning your mouth, nose, eyes and ears. Aural myiasis (the technical term for "being earfucked by worms") is not as disfiguring as the other varieties, but it comes with the extra risk that, to paraphrase Pink Floyd, "the worms will eat into your brain," slowly making you lose your shit as you die.
And then you start putting tiny Herbie-style numbers on your pet flies.
When the worms have feasted enough, they emerge from your body and mutate into adult flies, flying off to infect others, like a tiny but no less disgusting version of the plot from Alien.
Hey, speaking of aliens ...
#2. The Mold That Hijacks Your Brain
Alien brain-hijacking organisms are a common theme in fiction, from the parasites in Night of the Creeps to the slugs in Futurama. Well, there's a type of fungus right here on Earth that also takes over your brain and thoroughly messes it up, although it doesn't actually control your mind ... yet.
It just makes you bang on windows and throw copies of The Watchtower at your victims.
Molds from the order Mucorales live pretty much anywhere you find plants or dirt, meaning that everyone reading this article is probably covered in them right now, or at least everyone who's been outside recently.
All three of you.
People with lower defenses against these common fungi (like those with diabetes or recent organ transplants) are susceptible to a nasty condition called rhinocerebral mucormycosis. It starts like a sinus infection, and like everyone who has ever had sinusitis, you'll become convinced that there could be nothing worse in the world (but you'll be very, very wrong). This is followed by a swelling of pretty much everything currently in your head, including cranial nerves and eyes (think Arnold in Total Recall), followed by blood clotting and thrombosis. Your face is dying from the inside out, and starts looking that way -- you're slowly becoming covered in black, necrotic tissue.
Sometimes the fun spreads from the sinuses to the mouth, killing your palate. The only way to save you at this point would be to remove all the dead tissue, including the palate, nasal cartilage and portions of the skull, brain and eyes. Unless RoboCop technology is available, survival is little consolation.
"What's really annoying is all these ravens making nests in my eye sockets."
Even if it doesn't come to that, the most mind-fucking part (in more than one sense) is that the killer fungus is actually in your brain, leaving you disoriented, feverish and nearly blind.
Now, here's the thing: Researchers have discovered several types of fungi in Brazil that invade ants' brains, take control of their bodies and force them to move to a place more suitable for their growth before killing them. If fungi can do that, suddenly brain-snatching slugs don't seem so far-fetched. In fact, maybe it's already happening to humans and we don't realize it, and that's why old people move to Miami.
And grow tiny little crowns.
#1. The Bacterium That Turns You into the Walking Dead
Neisseria meningitidis is one of the bacteria that can cause meningitis, a disease that you've almost certainly heard of and does not need to be more horrible (but is about to be anyway).
If you catch it on a bad day, N. meningitidis will go out of its way to smack you with a fulminant combo that leaves you with rotting limbs and a nearly nonexistent pulse and actually makes you dumber -- in other words, you're a lust for brains away from turning into a full zombie.
Andrew Braithwaite
"We prefer the term 'differently alive'."
If you're afflicted with fulminant meningococcemia, it usually means you won't get any of the regular symptoms of meningitis, but that's actually bad news. First you're hit with a strong cocktail of every sick feeling you can imagine, including fever, nausea and headaches, because the bacteria are multiplying in your bloodstream and causing every organ system to fail. Within a few hours, you'll have serious trouble breathing and your blood pressure will drop so drastically that blood stops flowing to your limbs, which will turn all purple and gangrenous. You're basically walking around with dead body parts already.
Like a charley horse, only both rider and horse are necrotic.
Now, remember how we said that if you get this you "usually" won't get meningitis, too? Yeah, there's a reason we didn't say "always" -- in some cases, you'll get both the fulminant and the regular editions, meaning that on top of everything described above, the bacteria will also fill your brain lining with pus, putting you in a hazy, zombielike state of confusion (or, worst case scenario, septic shock and coma). But this doesn't just make you feel like you're becoming dumber: Meningitis actually drops your IQ. If you survive, the purple limbs may go away (literally, because they were just amputated), but we're afraid the learning disability is here to stay.
Oh, and by the way, 10 to 20 percent of the population is carrying a dormant version of this exact same bacteria in their mouths, right now. In other words, we're already infected. We're sorry we didn't tell you that earlier, but it was for your own -- GODDAMMIT, CARL, STAY IN THE HOUSE!
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Seriously, so little challenge that I felt like we were boosting some low level alts through Deadmines and Wailing Caverns.
Low light of the night.
The last ever time we are in Kara, and at chess the Bastard son of an animal burner (and he calls himself a Druid?) took my Squirtle! I always play the Water Elemental at Chess.
Instead I got to play a Pawn… but Chess was pwned never-the-less
High light of the night.
Watching Tree Hugger Dave pull Halazzi <Lynx Avatar>. I mean come on Dave… I know it was easy, but our Main Healer, a Tree Druid tanking the boss… it was never going to happen!
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Every conversation about health care these days is about the skyrocketing cost, and how we're going to pay for it and what the government should do about it. But in the middle of that conversation, we kind of lose track of the fact that downright jaw-dropping advances are being made every day. That's one reason the stuff costs so much, after all.
So let's at least take a moment to marvel at the fact that we're not too far away from having ...
#5. Memory Deletion
The Problem:
It's a compelling enough idea that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind built its entire plot around it: selecting and erasing certain memories from the human brain.
After all, we all have a skeleton or two in our closet, and an idiocy or two thousand in our past that we'd like to just wipe off the record. Wouldn't you, if given the chance, choose to erase from your mind that one time in eighth grade that you got hammered on spiked punch and tried to grope your math teacher on the dance floor?
One boy's drunken error was the greatest night of Mr. Jameson's life.
The Sci-Fi Solution:
Well, soon you can! Science has been tinkering with the memory parts of the human brain for quite some time, for reasons that range from potential military applications to curing Alzheimer's disease to "because they can." In fact, some successful lab tests on memory alteration have already been made.
"We found our car keys! Thank you, science!"
"But Cracked," you say, "surely that means nothing? Some wacky doctors playing with lab rats are light years away from any actual, tangible results on humans." Good thing, then, that one Dr. Merel Kindt and her team from Amsterdam University -- Amsterdam having no shortage of people with memories of the "Oh fuck, what did I do last night?" variety -- have already performed memory drug tests on human subjects.
Their project has dealt exclusively with dampening bad memories. Naturally, scientists being scientists, they first artificially created said memories with a slightly serial killer-y method of electric shocks and pictures of spiders, but still -- they managed to tamper that very specific fear-memory back into obscurity, so it's probably OK.
"What a curious little creat- OH MY GOD, IT'S GOT MY HAND!"
It is, by the way, worth noting that most every scientist with some degree of know-how on the subject says the memory alteration process can be used for both erasing and enhancing memories. And they have been dealing exclusively with shitty memories. Keep that in mind when you place your bets on whether Dr. Kindt is on the receiving end of a Nobel Prize or if we're witnessing the origin story of the real life version of Scarecrow here.
#4. A Gun That Heals You
The Problem:
Skin. The largest organ of the human body, the protective layer that both shelters the raw, sausage-like horror movie monster that lurks within and covers it to be at least somewhat presentable. And rarely are you more screwed than when your skin takes so much damage that it can't heal -- burns induced by fire and chemicals can easily mess us up beyond the point of recovery.
At that point, a patient's only option is usually skin grafting, where they basically take some skin from your thigh or, indeed, ass, and sew it right the hell onto the part of you that got burned. It's a difficult process with a healing time of many weeks, but hey, what can you do? It's not like we have magical healing guns like the medics in Team Fortress 2.
Via Oxcgn.com
He'll heal your whole goddamn face off.
The Sci-Fi Solution:
Oh, wait. We totally do.
Meet the skin gun, a gun that shoots regeneration. Literally -- when you pull the trigger, it shoots liquid skin solution on you, harvested from a sample of your own healthy skin. The process takes a mere 90 minutes -- in a couple of days, the new skin settles in and you're good to go.
The researchers don't consider the gun to be ready yet. It's not a failure or anything -- the skin it makes is just fine -- it's just that they have bigger things in mind. Yes, their goal is to make the gun regrow everything, from hair to muscle tissue to organs. Because after you've managed to build a goddamn gun that heals, reasonable aspirations just cease to be a thing anymore.
#3. The Anti-Depression Magnet
The Problem:
Depression and the various ailments that spring from it are the scourge of modern society. Sure, most of us get the blues every now and again, but when things really go off the rails, that shit goes clinical. Clinical depression is a dead serious thing that goes way beyond listening to shitty country ballads and sulking, deeply affecting the life of the person and likely everyone they're close to.
And here's the problem: Depression is a bitch to treat. Even in fictional universes where they have beams that instantly heal wounds, they'd never depict some kind of invisible depression-curing ray that they could just shoot at your brain.
Depression: Cured.
The Sci-Fi Solution:
Well, here it is:
Via Gajitz.com
Nothing treats depression like a dentist's chair attached to a bewildering array of soulless machines.
The secret is magnets, and we're not talking about the pseudoscience bullshit magnetic bracelets that are intended to cure your arthritis. This is no placebo, this is transcranial magnetic stimulation, where a patient's head is exposed to a powerful electromagnet that stimulates the mood-controlling areas of the brain. The principle isn't that much different from electroshock therapy, only without the electrodes and without so many patients running away screaming at the mention of it.
"You take the treatment or we will beat the fucking depression out of you!"
And experiments show it apparently works. Once they figured out a way to perform tests in a reliable way (which was, for some reason, bombarding everyone's brain with electric shocks to mask the magnet), the magnet proved its effectiveness and is currently getting tweaked for widespread use. And it'll be available pretty damn soon, considering the fact that magnetic therapy devices have already been approved by the FDA.


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Recent meaning the current decade. I had found this post http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/15403/6544 wasnt c++ adopted as the industry standard quite some time back. In what sort of situation does it make sense to go with games written in pure c on established consoles/pc/os
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C is almost as good as assembly language in putting you in touch with the computer. C++ add all kinds of tricky complications that many programmers love, but it moves you away from the CPU. If you want total control at the expense of OO features and neat gimmicks and assembly language is just a little bit too gritty, C is just the thing. I'm not recommending it, but it was a neat languange when it first arrived, being both a higher level language than FORTRAN and a lower level at the same time. All the advantages and none of the disadvantages.
It fills a certain niche better than anything else. Not too many people use that niche any more, but if they do, C's the language for them.


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American Guides Egypt's Goal
Bradley, Squad Pursue Strife-Torn Nation's First World Cup Berth Since 1990
CAIRO—While relations between Cairo and Washington have deteriorated amid violence and diplomatic strife, Egyptians have embraced one American leader: Bob Bradley, the coach of Egypt's national soccer team.
If Egypt's Pharoahs defeat Ghana on Tuesday afternoon, the country will be within striking distance of the World Cup for the first time since 1990. That would make Mr. Bradley the unlikely American hero in a very Egyptian Cinderella story, after a series of Egyptian and foreign coaches failed to secure a tournament berth.
To bring the Pharoahs this far, Mr. Bradley in his two years at the helm has had to navigate a minefield of rising anti-Americanism, allegations of espionage, violence and disorder in a country where politics regularly invades the soccer pitch.
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"Right now, Bradley is the only American who is loved in Egypt," said Alaa Ezzat, a sports columnist for the government-owned Al Ahram newspaper. But, he added, "If he leads the Egyptian team to Brazil in 2014, he will be a great national hero."
Just three months ago, Egyptians were hanging effigies of former U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson in Cairo's Tahrir Square next to posters of President Barack Obama dressed as Osama bin Laden, accusing them of conspiring to support ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Mr. Obama said last week that he would cut annual military aid that has underwritten decades of regional peace.
The game, which begins at 4 p.m. local time on Tuesday in Kumasi, Ghana, looks like a tough matchup. Ghana will be seeking a third consecutive World Cup berth, after reaching the quarterfinals in 2010. Mr. Bradley should know the team's strength: Ghana eliminated the Bradley-led U.S. national team from the tournament in 2010.
The squad's bid marks a swan song for a generation of star players. Among them is Mohammed Abu Treika, by far Egypt's most-celebrated player and a well-known Islamist sympathizer. Mr. Abu Treika raised eyebrows when he stripped off his jersey during a match to reveal a T-shirt that read "Sympathy for Gaza." Mr. Bradley said Mr. Abu Treika's politics have had little effect on the cohesion of a team that largely has stood behind Egypt's hugely popular military.
Mr. Bradley's World Cup pursuit has come amid Egypt's often-bloody transition to democracy. Some of the deadliest incidents over the past three years have unfolded at stadiums, including one of soccer's deadliest riots, and have twice suspended league play.
"I'm an Egyptian, but sometimes I feel bad that everything seems to work against him," said Zaki Abdel-Fattah, an Egyptian-American assistant coach for the Pharoahs who followed Mr. Bradley from the U.S., where Mr. Abdel-Fattah worked with goalkeepers. "But he's a fighter. He works hard. He never whines or complains."
The U.S. national team dropped the now 55-year-old Mr. Bradley in 2011 after six years at its helm. After Mr. Bradley failed to land a European coaching job, Mr. Abdel-Fattah helped ease negotiations with an Egyptian national team that was searching for global glory.
By the time Mr. Bradley arrived in fall 2011, Egypt was beset by the violent aftershocks of a revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak that year. Mr. Bradley immersed himself in Egypt in the same way he did with its team.
"I understood that in order to make this a go and have a real chance, we had to live in Cairo and try to get to know how people think," he said.
Mr. Bradley and his wife made appearances at a local children's cancer charity. Egypt's papparazi snapped photos of the couple eating at Prince Restaurant in the impoverished neighborhood of Imbaba, an area once known for its Islamist militancy.
Organized fans known as Ultras had been on the front lines of protests against Mr. Mubarak and had since clashed with police on an almost-weekly basis. It wasn't long before the violence invaded the pitch.
At a match in the Suez Canal city of Port Said on Feb. 1, 2012, police watched as clashes in the stands left at least 79 fans dead in what became one of soccer's most-lethal riots.
The Ultras accused the police of orchestrating the violence and followed it up with a week of riots that left dozens more dead. In early March, officials canceled the remaining league matches, leaving players on the national team without day jobs or salaries before the first qualifiers in June 2012.
Mr. Bradley's dream of reaching the World Cup seemed impossible, he said. But he was heartened by his players' commitment when he told them he wasn't abandoning them.
"I said over and over again, 'If we're counting on anyone outside this team to help us get to the World Cup, it's not gonna happen'," said Mr. Bradley. "The response of the players to the challenges and the situation has been incredible."
Amid the domestic upheaval, the squad played friendlies and qualifiers abroad. It played home matches to empty stadiums—fearing another riot, police prohibited fans.
Violence flared again in January after a Cairo court handed death sentences for murder to 21 people involved in the Port Said riot. The city erupted in violence that left more than 50 people dead, prompting President Morsi to deploy the army and impose a curfew.
When an ESPN blogger asked Mr. Bradley about the violence, he said Egypt faces "a huge divide" because there was "no trust in the leadership."
He was quickly attacked: A former national team executive accused him of spying for the U.S. and implied that he had rigged a series of losses in order to dent Egypt's confidence. The former national team coach said Mr. Bradley's remarks were out of line.
Mr. Bradley held a news conference to apologize and remains philosophical about the episode.
"Somewhere along the line, someone's gonna say you're an American spy," he said. "Like anything here, the wind blows in your face one day and then the next day it blows in somebody else's face."
Sure enough, bad press was the least of Mr. Bradley's worries. The Egyptian Football Association suspended league matches again after protesters toppled Mr. Morsi on July 3.
The ensuing violence has killed thousands, often during public protests in downtown Cairo. Mr. Bradley recounts such strife in the rousing manner of a locker-room pep talk: Egypt, he says, needs the World Cup now more than ever.
"There are Egyptians killing Egyptians," he said. "But when we step onto the field for 90 minutes, we can show Egyptians what it means when there's a group that's united."
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Ghana eliminated the Bradley-led U.S. national team from the World Cup in 2010. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the elimination was in 2006. Egypt's national soccer team has had both foreign and Egyptian coaches since it last qualified for the World Cup in 1990. The earlier version of this article said that a series of Egyptian coaches failed to secure a tournament berth for the team.


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I am creating a website header in Photoshop CS5, however when I look at it, the text looks very blurry and I have no idea why.
I use the Web preset. What do you recommend for the sharpest and best results?
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By default, Photoshop applies some anti-aliasing to the text layers. Alex has provided a nice comparison in another question:
The anti-aliasing options are available on the toolbar and in the
NB: if you are planning to use the text layers as regular (HTML) text in the final product, the browsers most probably will render the text differently than Photoshop does. More info on this you can find on the same "Font (anti)aliasing in Photoshop" question mentioned.
Make sure the
If you want to make sure that it looks right, keep the pixels 1:1.
I would not display text as an image as that leads to accessibility and search engine problems.
However, if you do want to display a text as an image, png or gif images give better results than jpg images due to the jpeg compression. Even if you don´t compress your image, a browser like Opera mobile or an internet 'accelerator' might.
I would make the text as a transparent PNG file for better resolution. Another alternative is to use sIFR for both the style and SEO. sIFR is basically embedding the font as Flash, but it is 100% search engine friendly. See some examples at e.g. 3d-photomontage.com.
I should point that say there is absolutely no need to use image text in your design. Avoid using non-web fonts for the body copy. -I know they look great on the design but you get more trouble in HTML than what its worth -
Just select 'None' from the anti-aliasing options in PS if you don't want blur in your text. HTML version will always render text differently depending on the OS or Browser so there isn't really a lot that you can do.
Have a look at this as well, it should help you more to solve text rendering issues in your HTML rather than PS
I always design with 'Crisp' antia-aliased option selected and aware of the fact that text in HTML will look different anyway!


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Hot Rods Show at EdelbrockWritten by on May 14, 2014 Cool Cars and Trucks On Display at Vic's Garage
Street rods, muscle cars, drag race cars, classic trucks, and just about anything else you can imagine showed up in Torrance, California, on the first Saturday in May for the 9th Annual Edelbrock Car Show.
More than 300 beautiful show vehicles filled the streets surrounding Edelbrock headquarters. Check out a few of our favorites posted here. In addition to the vehicles, the show included automotive vendors, concessions, entertainment, and gourmet food trucks. The annual event also included the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge. Auto shop students from various Southern California schools competed in disassembling and rebuilding engines. In addition to the outdoor activities, spectators and participants had free access to Vic's Garage, the private Edelbrock collection of cars, and automobilia.
As always, all proceeds from the Edelbrock Car show benefit the Rev'ved Up 4 Kids charity. This organization was founded in 2006, with the help of Christi Edelbrock. The charity's purpose is to support the Center For Learning Unlimited in Torrance.
There's always something for every automotive taste at the Edelbrock car show.
This was the first appearance of Redondo Beach police officer Royce Branch's RX-7 Mazda GTU since it was converted from a land speed racer to a drag racer. Another good reason not to speed in Redondo Beach.
Paul Gommi's stunning 1932 Phaeton is an amazing piece of automotive art. The 221 Flathead is fed by a S.Co.T. supercharger. The jet black tub appeared on the cover and inside Street Rodder's July 2011 issue.
Who doesn't love the looks of the 1961-63 "Bullet 'Birds"? This 1962 Ford Thunderbird looks great with chrome Smoothies rims and paint that looks to be a match for factory Medium Blue Metallic.
There's something about an Edelbrock show that brings out the brightest red paint jobs. There's no way to ignore this '37 Ford sedan, rolling on a set of polished Salt Flat Special wheels.
Traditional flames over glossy black paint, and Cragar five-spoke wheels, provide a Sixties hot rod style to this 1934 Ford 3-window coupe, owned by Alex Carresi .
This newly-finished Model A roadster was a 30-year project for owner Mike Hoy, who built the entire car including the billet suspension. He still has the original concept illustration, drawn by Thom Taylor in 1983. Mileage so far: 100 miles.
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The show was packed with 1932 Fords, including Steve Young's "Gee Bee" highboy roadster. The car is painted to look like the Gee Bee Super Sportster R-1 Racing plane built in 1932. Beneath the hood is a Chevy ZZ4 Fast Burn engine.This full-fendered 1933 Ford 5-window coupe looks like it would be equally at home on the street or on a drag strip. Adding to the race appearance is a window sticker from Southern California's historic and bygone Lions Drag Strip.There's new red paint on the 1957 Chevy truck that Curtis Roberson has owned for 20 years. The Pro Street pickup is powered by a 450 small-block and features tubs, a tilt front end, and a personalized license plate the reads THUNDA.Look familiar? This chopped, slammed, completely modified wild Model A sedan, named "Rod Riguez" is spotted all over California and worldwide. Built by Junichi Shimodaira of Japan, and owned by Chuck and Jeanne Schauwecker, the Old Rocket powered show rod makes the rounds of Southern California shows.out the 1941 Ford grille, reversed 1938 Hudson rear fenders, reshaped side windows, Silverado bed, and Peterbilt exhaust system.They don't get much lower than Denny Katovsich's '40 Dodge half-ton pickup, channeled over Z'ed framerails to ride inches from the pavement. Ford-powered, suede-painted, and rat rodded, it's got to be a blast to drive.Vern Lastimado says he built this 1954 Bel Air hardtop as a recreation of the car he drove in high school in 1962. We forgot to ask him if his high school ride was packed with a 425-horse dual-quad 409 big-block like his current cruiser.Red wire wheels contrast the Subaru gray on the Italian Stallion's Pizza Bat 1938 Ford pickup coupe. The chopped, channeled former-pickup matches a '38 cab with a '36 Chevy humpback deck, modified '35 Ford grille, and '39 Ford grille shell ornament.
We love the metallic blue monochrome finish on Ben von Klein Smid's all-steel 1932 Dearborn Roadster and the 600-horsepower fuel-injected big-block that makes it go. Not to mention the 18- and 20-inch custom rims from Circle Racing.We didn't get to look under the hood of this beautifully restored '56 Dodge Custom Royal sedan, but we like to think it's running a D-500 Hemi with dual four-barrels. The ones that did are considered by many to be early muscle cars.


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Jai Suri, Group Product Manager, Java Platform, at Oracle, with Oracle Embedded Java architect, Noel Poore, gave a session that was both practical and visionary, titled "Internet of Things with Java" that provided a glimpse of the challenges and prospects faced by the coming Internet of Things (IoT). Suri was quick to point out that the session was not a showcase of Oracle solutions for IoT; nor would it provide best practices or design patterns for IoT. "It's too early and we're not there yet," said Suri.
He pointed out that the potential range of IoT applications is vast, from home and industrial automation to improved healthcare. His team has been spending a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how Java fits into the IoT space.
The IoT market is relatively new and evolving, and full of proprietary technologies with, as yet, no standardization. The biggest challenge Java faces is creating a horizontal technology stack that addresses a wide range of needs and challenges. IoT, he pointed out is nothing new – machines connecting with other machines go back to the dawn of computing. But recently, new technologies have made it more accessible than ever before. In the US, Comcast offers XFINITY home automation offering remote monitoring, temperature, lighting and small appliance control, real-time alerts when doors or windows are opened, and more. In Europe, Deutsche Telekom offers a similar system.
In health care, remote patient monitoring is an area of rapid growth. IoT is making a difference in industrial automation and business optimization and efficiency. Other segments of IoT growth include building management, energy, consumer, retail, IT and networks. Research groups are predicting a market of somewhere around $350 Billion by 2017, some of which will be committed to technology.
According to Suri, various factors are driving the growth in IoT. First, connected devices are growing rapidly, with shipments expected to range from $50B to $200B by 2020. Moore's law is allowing devices to become smarter and, as a result, connectivity is cheaper. Extra bandwidth is available to be redeployed for data traffic and channels are being created that allow companies to move data more cheaply.
IoT traffic data is being stored in databases to be analyzed, so data is growing rapidly. Business opportunities are increasing as the number of devices connected to the cloud allowing for the tracking of shipments, cars and other things grows.
Why is this different from a simple client and server? First the number of web, desktop and mobile applications talking to a server is rapidly increasing. Devices may be on batteries, Wifi, Bluetooth or a long range network – the complexity is huge. And most of these devices do not have a human operating them.
IoT lacks any standard protocol for communication among devices. Protocols depend upon the industry. In home automation, Bluetooth is common along with short range radio networks. Ultimately it is about how users get and receive data from devices. Suri pointed out that most developers give little thought to security. When he joined Oracle he received a badge that allows him to access and send protected data; the badge provides his identity, which governs access. But how do we put an identity on a temperature sensor connected to our home gateway? Or on data about our medical condition?
Some companies are building data centers that allow companies to connect their enterprise applications to a data center so they won't have to worry about scaling. But is this the right approach when a company has invested millions of dollars in enterprise infrastructure? Why leverage what you already have?
Suri summarized the critical issues:
--Communication across multiple-protocol networks
--End-to-end security
--Software provisioning & lifecycle management across diverse devices
--Data acquisition from thousands of diverse devices
--Managing large volumes of fast data in a scalable architecture
--Leveraging existing enterprise architectures for evolving IoT needs
With most IoT solutions currently being written from scratch, the need for a horizontal platform seems obvious.
How Java Fits In
Noel Poore then showed how Java is the best fit for IoT, emphasizing that his focus was on the IoT with Java and not the Java Internet of Things. In a situation so fragmented with different device drivers, chip sets, operating systems and so on, the availability of a platform that allows developers to move code around with little worry about which device is running it is ideal.
Managing 50 billion devices sensibly and scalably constitutes a huge challenge. Poore presented a conceptual architecture with the pieces that need to be in place for a horizontal IoT platform to work. This would enable developers to build solutions based on platform rather than rebuilding the solution every time a different IoT problem must be solved. The conceptual architecture begins with wireless and wired sensors feeding into an initial gateway which feeds into a core network; in addition smart sensors may bypass the initial gateway and go directly to the network. The network feeds into an IoT communication gateway, which in turn feeds access management, IoT management and data routing and analysis. The first of these two feed into identity access and management, while data routing and analysis is sent to enterprise business and business intelligence to attempt to gain value from the data.
Suri closed by summarizing the take-home points of the session:
* IoT technologies are a "Wild West" full of proprietary implementations and a highly fragmented vendor ecosystem.
* Java enables an open and standards-based secure IoT platform that seamlessly integrates devices with enterprise applications.
* But significant innovations are needed across the platform and the ecosystem products to make this vision a reality.
* The good news is that Java is ahead of the curve, and very well positioned to become the de facto platform for IoT applications.
Look for podcasts of JavaOne sessions at Parleys.com starting in early October.


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I am a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I have a few tournaments coming up and I am training in my sparring techniques. I am 12 years old with 2 national sparring championships (and on the shorter side) I have moved up in age division so, I will be sparring guys almost 6-12 inches taller than me. I do kicking drills on the bags and practice sparring with other black belts, unfortunately, they are my size and younger. What techniques can I add to get faster, get my hits, while maximizing my reach? I do have a good flexibility but I think I may be to short and slow to get the kicks to the head for points. Thanks E..
I'm going to be very precise with my answer here. Your technique will remain the same, your kicks and punches should still be the same as when you practice them. What does change though is your approach to your opponent so that you can deliver that technique.
Because your opponent is taller, you will have more issues than it just being harder to reach their head and therefore harder to score points. They will also have a longer reach, making it more difficult for you to get close to them. This sort of thing can be easy to remedy or adapt to in real life situations, but because you are participating in tournament Tae Kwon Do you have rules to adhere to (and specific targets that must be hit).
For this particular tournament, change your strategy.
I'm a first dan black belt, and on the taller side. What really is effective on me is getting close, in other words, get past my legs so I can't kick. The problem is, if your tall opponent is fast, getting past is hard. I'd suggest (after having people do this to me numerous times) is let the tall person kick first, then 빠른 발, a kick that (I don't know the word in english) which means, "quick foot", and sounds like baumbai when pronounced in korean. 빠른 발 past there kick. 빠른 발 is basically, sliding over to your opponent, back foot touching front foot, lift your front knee up, and doing a turning kick/round house, what ever you want to call it. After that, follow up and keep kicking. NEVER give the opponent a chance to recover or he will be able to use his height to his advantage.


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I'll send round PM's in the next hour revealing your roles.
I'll send round PM's in the next hour revealing your roles.
Noises could be heard throughout the forest, some sounded like blood curdling screams, others seemed to be noises my microwave would make. Whatever they were our band of brave campers were intrigued.
"What's happening over there? It sounds like someone's raping an arcade machine."
"Or being raped by one, it sounds like people fighting their own VCRs... I'm pretty sure I heard a blender a few minutes ago."
A member of the group returns with firewood
"Hey, those noises are from the guys staying in Cabin 1, they're being attacked by Ghost Robots or something!"
"Attacked by Ghobots?"
"Something like that, I had a quick look and it's fucked up over there, there's explosions, dudes hanging from trees, some poor bastard had a phone jammed into his head..."
"...Well at least we're safe here in Cabin 2, unlike those dicks in 1! Hahahahaha"
"Should we help them, or..."
Everyone laughed, but what they didn't know was that they were far from safe, as their group carried werewolves in it... and they were ghost robot werewolves from the motherfucking future.
You're all more or less familiar with how the classic game works but just to re-establish things here's a quick summary:
The game is divided into night phases and day phases. During the night phase, players with roles related to night time activities communicate with me. The night usually ends with the death of one player at the hands of the Werewolves, discovered at the beginning of the day phase. During the day phase, players on the Villager team communicate publicly with each other in order to find out who the Werewolves are and, ideally, lynch them. Players on the Werewolves team may lie, manipulate others and resist detection as best they can. The wolves win when all the Villager team is killed; the villagers win when all the wolves are exterminated.
Roles are allotted secretly. You can claim to be whatever role you at at any time in the game - I won't stop you from that. The only thing you can't do is quote anything from the pm where you received your role. Bear in mind, the game tends to be more fun when players on the whole remain mysterious about their roles.
The roles you'll be seeing in this game are as follows:
Werewolves: Several players in this game will be werewolves. During the night phase, they secretly communicate with each other via PM on the topic of who they would like to kill.
Prophet: Once a night, PMs me a question about the wolf team that I can answer with either YES or NO. Is on the Villager team.
Guardian Angel: Each night, assigns a player of their choice to serve as the Bodyguard until the following day. Cannot assign him/herself.
Vigilante: Upon death, the Vigilante picks another player to die alongside him/her. Is on the Villager team.
Cupid: At the very beginning of the game, Cupid PMs me with the names of two players he/she chooses to become Lovers. Cupid may choose him/herself to be a Lover, if that is his/her heart's desire. Cupid then reverts to being a perfectly normal player on the Villager team.
Villagers: A normal everyday player with no special powers. Sorry. Is on the Villager team.
Roles attributed during the course of the game:
Lovers: Picked by Cupid, two players are given the Lovers role in addition to their other role. The two players are then informed by me that they are to fall hopelessly in love with each other, which entails that on the death of one Lover, the other Lover also dies. Since their love is shameful, knowledge of the Lovers is secret only to Cupid and the Lovers themselves. Lovers can only win the game if they survive until the end. If the Lovers consist of a Villager and a Werewolf, they can only win by being the last two players alive at the game's end.
Bodyguard: Assigned nightly by the Guardian Angel, this player is granted the ability to defend a player of their choice from a wolf attack. The role expires come the following day phase, as does their protection. The Bodyguard is not able to protect him/herself.
The Sheriff: During the day phase, the village may decide to appoint one of the players as a Sheriff. The Sheriff role stacks with the appointed player's primary role and gives them the advantage of their lynching vote carrying twice the weight. In other words, during the vote to lynch, the Sheriff's vote counts twice. In the event of a tie during lynching, the mob rules in favour of whichever side the Sheriff supported. If the Sheriff dies, that player must immediately deputise another player who then takes up the mantle of Sheriff. And when that Sheriff dies, the badge is passed on again, and so on.
In order to nominate someone for Sheriff, simply post who you nominate in bold. The player with the most votes is the one who gets the Sheriff's badge. If at least half the village wants to abstain nobody becomes Sheriff. If more than half the village tries to nominate for a Sheriff, the one with the most votes gets it. In the case of a tie where all the nominations for a Sheriff are for a single player, and the number equals the total number of abstains, no-one is elected. The process repeats each day until a Sheriff is elected.
During the day phase, players simply put forward their vote on who they want to lynch or if they want to abstain. If more players vote to abstain than vote to lynch any single player, no lynching occurs. If more people want to kill a particular player than want to abstain, however, the player who receives the most votes against them is executed. In the event of a tie where all the votes to lynch are for a single player and equals all the votes to abstain, mob rule rules and lynching occurs.
Players can either voice their nomination in bold publicly, or PM them to me privately. Once all votes are in, I call the phase, reveal how the votes went and enact the appropriate result.
If the day phase is dragging because we're still waiting on players to put in their votes, I'll give a heads up that we're to move on with the game. If necessary (e.g. a good few hours later), I'll simply call an end to the phase with any unresolved votes counting as 'abstain.'
In the event of a tie during lynching, the mob rules in favour of whichever side the Sheriff supported.
I should have PM'd you by now, let me know if I've missed you out.
Rules copied from Byron's game. Let's do this.
Night role PM me.
Are we waiting on PMs?
They should have been sent out. I got mine.
That said, ZZZZ but also I'm going to sleep soon and I work at 8PM tonight so I won't be around. I'll check in before work though.
We're waiting on some of the roles to PM me.
I'll chase them up.
PS - All role PM's have been sent out, if you've not got yours let me know.
There's Byronic pretending like he doesn't already know that he's a bad guy.
I know roles have been sent out, I meant are we waiting on the nighttime roles to do their thing or just waiting for Muckfoot to get around to updating.
That's not to say I'm not a bad guy because lying is wrong.
It IS Dranksgiving, gonna have to bear with a super slow start more than likely.
I just woke up and have to leave for work in a few hours.
The next day everyone awoke and realised someone was missing from their bunk, and outside the cabin was a message written in blood and entrails.
"The Clown is down."
ClownBaby is dead
1) Clown - Dead
2) Flam
4) Byron
6) Dex
7) Lizzy
8 ) Noob
9) Bizarro
Well, first day is slow as shit so imma get my vote in early then go to bed Abstain untill shit gets going.
Nominate Noob.
Interesting choice, CB is pretty active and typecast as a Wolf so he usually attracts attention. Anyway, I'll abstain and vote me for Sheriff, because I'm awesome.
Eh. Off to work.
I'll abstain, nothing to go on yet, yada yada yada bing bong boom.
1) Clown - Dead
2) Flam - Abstain
4) Byron
5) ZP - Noob
6) Dex
7) Lizzy
8 ) Noob - Abstain
9) Bizarro - Abstain
Abstain - 3 votes
Noob - 1 vote
And the sheriff votes:
1) Clown - Dead
2) Flam -
4) Byron
6) Dex
7) Lizzy
8 ) Noob -
9) Bizarro - Bizarro
Bizarro - 1 vote
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Can options volume affect the underlying asset price indirectly? I know that options buying/selling does not directly affect the price of the underlying asset (rather, the asset price contributes most to the option price). I do know of technical studies and alert systems that factor in options volume, and put/call ratios, but outside of some speculation, is there a known school of thought which revalues an asset based on the desirability of its options?
Nearly every options trader - and every options marketmaker - will hedge their derivatives exposure by trading the underlying.
So even if I buy a set of naked calls, my counterparty (e.g. whoever is writing me the options, usually a hedge fund or a bank) will have negative exposure to the stock and buy it to cancel out their risk.
Think of an option as something with a certain probability of turning into a stock and a certain probability of turning into nothingness. The delta is a rough estimate of "how much of a stock is it right now" - a 0.5 delta option behaves 50% like the underlying stock. If I buy a near-delta 1 option (e.g. extremely in the money, short expiry), then I've just bought the stock. In an efficient market that should flow through to affect the price of the stock itself.
It's theoretically possible for this not to be the case - my cousin writes me a call option on MSFT, we treat it as a side bet on the price of the stock, and we never think about it again until the decision/expiry date - but that doesn't happen in the real world.


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spoiler:The ending is actually quite sad, if you look at it from the Joker's point of view too. His death was simple but sweet, and the look of his character made it seem like by the time he died, his body reflected the madness within. I loved how he etched a smile on his face as he died too.
It's a pity, but I hope it's not strictly true, because I'd love another Arkham game with the joker in it.


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My requirements:
- Ctrl+Y acts as redo
- I can launch it from the commandline
- The text is readable
Almost all editors fail at #1 despite this being the standard redo key in every other program I use (FF, Chrome, Eclipse, Open Office, Gimp, etc.)
The KDE editors fail at #2 and print a bunch of garbage to the screen
scribes is the best at #3, but fails at #1. jedit is the only program I've found that meets the first two criteria, but is the absolute worst at #3.
Right now I think I'm going to by UltraEdit since it's the only one that passes all three. I was wondering before I do if there are any free options?