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Ryan Taylor= £1.5M and Palacios= £4M
Ryan Taylor= £1.5M and Palacios= £4M
what about Ashley Young? swap for Park
and Guardado?
Last edited by ridley99; 27-11-2008 at 20:06.
ill swap Park for Young and 2 million
4.5mil - Palacios
Kim Doo-Hyun + 4mil - Guardado ???
Anyone want Benayoun(5m) and dossena(3m)?
Lukaboi you forgot to take lucas and riera of my liverpool squad on 1st page
Guardado for Neville and 8 million
and I bid 4 million for Heiko Westerman of Schalke
6mil - Palacios
Heiko Westerman - 5mil
£8m bid from Leeds for Arteta
fernandinho cost 8m on his own so hes worth a bit more than 6m tbh
Also add that ive signed keko for 1.5m.
Palacios - 7mil
so when will we have the changes file finished so we can play lukaboi???
Well I haven't started it yet The transfer market closes in 2 weeks giving you plenty of time so after that really
I'll try and start the changes file tommorow.
final bid for palacios 9.5 million and shawky
That is a total bid of £10M then
Kim doo-hyeon + 7mil for Guardado
Filipe Teixeria + 4mil for Palacios
Last edited by WBA4LIFE; 27-11-2008 at 21:05.
2m for heskey
For some reason i thought ridley was wigan manager????? edited though now
Teixeria is worth 6.5mil so my bid is worth 10.5mil isn't it?
Also Kim is worth 7.5mil so him plus 7mil is surely worth more than 8mil + 2mil rated Gary Neville
WBA, your right which leaves you top bidder for Palacios and Guardado
Good Good!
Hopefully ill manage to increase my players bought from 1 to 2 or 3
Last edited by WBA4LIFE; 27-11-2008 at 21:23.
he said that wigan value Shawky at 500k so it adds to 10mil
6 million for Westerman
12million plus neville for Guardado
6.5mil Westermann
Also my deal is still worth more for Guardado isn't it?
£5k bid for Luke Garrard
10mil + Filipe Teixeria + Craig Beattie ( 18.3mil ) for Palacios
I guess since the transfer hasnt been done yet, crickie is now the highest bidder for Duff (2,5 mill)
9 million for westerman
and i pull out of Guardado dont need him anymore
3m for duff and did you get my email lukaboi
koumas 2m brown 1m zaki 3m
i doubt youll get Zaki for that when Lukaboi bought him for 5
upps err then 6 m off him
Sashur i bid 4 million for Wilshere
ill pay 24million for benzema
anybody want G.Neville?
i might do i just have 2 wait till lukaboi is on
ha bloody ha! hes available for 3 million!
I was going to bid for neville then but remember liverpool dont like neville lol
let me think, NO
Iain you have yourself a deal at 2.5million.
I bid 2 million for Tosic of Partizan
Iain I didn't get an email off you :confused:
Scott, you are 2 over your squad limit, It's actually not my job to remind you all, so if you get the changes file and some of your players are missing it is because your squad limit was exceeded.
A £26,000,000 bid for benzema from me.
i bid 4 million for Tosic
wasnt i supposed to be handling the cash side of things Luka?
12million for Payluchenko.
Scott you are forgetting one as look at your update squad, remember you can release loaned out players also.
Ridley, oh yeah, if you could do that that would really help, I'll PM you all the bids PM'ed to me or in the thread and you work out money
MJGB how about £15M and Jo
Can i make an offer of 19million for Bojan please.
no probs luka
Bojan bid rejected
I bid Borja Valero for £4.5M
I would but I'm actuallyt eyeing a few others.
Victor Anichebe for sale, £6M
i'll give you 5.5million for Anichebe.
Sherjill MacDonald
Craig Beattie
Filipe Teixeira
Shelton Martis
All up for sale, will listen to any decent offers
Also Luka i've released pele and allsop and did i get Ghaly?
Yes you did WBA, I updated these squads yesterday but some have refused to go so if some are still on your team when they shouldnt be, please excuse me
Nerner, 6M
Oh no problem I just wanted to make sure i didn't exceed squad limits.
Luke Moore for Anichebe?
How about Miller for Anichebe?
erm I'll think about it i'll get back to you soon if thats ok
Yeah, that's fine
well my email was
naldo 8m
matthew upson 9m
patrick helmes 7m
giuseppe rossi 15m
Payluchenko bid rejected
lukaboi how much for vagner love
25.5million for Vagner Love.
and on the 1st post Paul Stalteri needs removing from my team
Lukaboi liverpool release duran and el zhar
10 mill for Anichebe
how much for aguero,forlan and fabiano all separate prices please
I echo that sentiment (how much for aguero).
Aguero- £28M, Forlan=£14M and Fabiano= £17M.
Anybody want vornin for 500k but hes out on loan first season.
Ill take any decent bids for benayoun and dossena.
Yakubu is for sale and so is Eunan O'Kane. Baxter can go for a good price also.
2 million for the Yak.
Are you serious
Selling Zaki for £20M to Sheff Utd
Not for 2M


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Normally my kids spend the weekends with their grandparents but this past weekend they stayed with us. The grandparents also take them to Church, so Saturday evening my daughter asked me if we were going to Church the next day. "Do you want to?" I asked her. "Yes, please!" she squealed excitedly. And so Sunday morning off we went, just the two of us.
When she asked why her brother wasn't coming I told her he didn't want to, and that he should go to Church because he wants to, not because someone else wants him to. Which is why I don't go to Church every week, either.
The funny thing with my Church is when I do go, the Minister's message seems to have been written specifically for me, almost as if it was divine providence that I attended that day (that's if you believe in that sort of thing).
And this day was no exception.
The first time I heard Luther Vandross' "Dance with my father" was in 2005, the year both Vandross and my own father passed away, and this Sunday, by coincidence (or was it?) the Minister used this song as the basis for his sermon. Needless to say I had tears running down my cheeks before he'd finished, and once again I felt as if wasn't there that day by mere chance.
This afternoon while walking from my office to the train station I passed a couple standing on the sidewalk staring forlornly at a parking meter. As I walked by I recalled that morning feeling change in my trouser pocket, and I patted my hip; yes, the coins were still there. I reached into my pocket and pulled out two quarters, looked at them, then turned back and said to the couple, "excuse me, would you folks be needing some change?"
They gratefully accepted the coins, and thanked me as they inserted them into the meter, and I wished them a good day and resumed walking to the train station.
At the last intersection before the station I waited to cross the road and watched as my train pulled into the station. "Guess I'm waiting for the next one," I thought to myself.
The light changed and I walked across the road.
And up the ramp to the platform.
And...the train remained in the station.
Expecting the train to pull out the moment I started to run I casually walked through the gate and swiped my Rail Card.
And then, as if Gandalf himself was urging me to "Run, you fools!" I started running.
And as I slipped into the last carriage and took a seat the doors closed and the train pulled out.
Coincidence? Karma? Providence? You decide.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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3 comments:
- Thallian said...
I don't believe in coincidence. I believe everything happens for more than one reason. Good story, thanks for sharing.
- Crucifer said...
Wouldn't it be nice if the couple phoned one of their relatives to tell them that a stranger had given them some change and then kept them on the phone... and that relative just happened to be a train driver...
- Tomas said...
Way better than the conductor barring the door and shouting "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"
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I hope WinEdt6 is recognised as one of the best LaTeX's friends.
I write my latex stuff, and when a para is considered done, I want to \done{the completed para text} so that it differ from what I type next in say ink and background color. When the next para is done I do \done{another completed para text} and so on. I define \done as "doing nothing" command \newcommand{\done}{} as I do not want any changes to my compiled document - only to ease my writing by visually separating the "done" from "yet to be done". How do I do that with WinEdt 6, perhaps using switches? Any ideas?


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Peyton Pugmire
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Peyton currently serves as the Associate Director of the Theater Division at The Boston Conservatory, where he helps lead the development of new curriculum and programming. He also serves as the artistic leader of TBC's new resident children's theatre company, sponsored by the school's Extension Program. Peyton manages TBC's black box theater, which is used year-round as a classroom and performance venue for student and faculty directed productions.
Prior to TBC, Peyton was the Producing Artistic Director of the award-winning Watertown Children's Theatre since 2008, after two years prior as the company's Program Director. During that period, he also served as President of the Consortium of Boston Area Children's Theatre, with which he helped initiate the organization's first regional, annual Children's Theatre Festival. Peyton is also the Founding Artistic Director of Divine Stage Works, a Boston-based theatre company.
After receiving his Masters Degree in Theater Education from Emerson College in 2004, under the mentorship of the esteemed Robert Colby and Melia Bensussen, Peyton taught middle and high school drama in Winthrop, MA. Teaching theatre to children is still Peyton's number one passion! As a theatre educator, Peyton values an artistic process that fosters the positive development of each child's self-esteem, sense of collaboration, and creative freedom.
Peyton also teaches private acting. His private students have won roles with the following local/national theater companies and schools: Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ), The Huntington Theater Company, New Repertory Theatre, and The Walnut Hill School.
Peyton is also a director, performer, and scenic designer, recognized by critics throughout Boston. Directing credits include The Footlight Club's IRNE nominated And Then There Were None (voted "Best Theatre of 2009" by Edge Boston), Stoops! (a re-imagined staging of She Stoops to Conquer), Crimes of the Heart, Father of the Bride, The Wiz, Into the Woods, The Shadow Box, Singin' in the Rain, and various play readings with Divine Stage Works' site-specific PlaYces Series. Acting credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ("Brick"), The Drowsy Chaperone ("Man in the Chair"), and Forever Plaid ("Frankie") during the international Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC.
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I found this image on Google+
If you shake your head you can see a portrait of a person. Can anyone explain how the image is constructed in the brain?
I found this image on Google+
If you shake your head you can see a portrait of a person. Can anyone explain how the image is constructed in the brain?
If you zoom in on the image, you can see that it is not just composed of black vertical lines, but also has pixels with different gray tones in the white areas. When you move your head sideways, you perceive the gray tones more.
If you were to remove the black lines, you could see the face clearly. Initially I thought that by blurring the gray shapes when your head moved, they became more visible as they seemed larger. On reflection though I think that actually what's happening is that the high contrast between the black lines and the mostly white background causes your perception to adjust so it doesn't easily see the mid tones. This is because we have a low dynamic range in our vision (relative to absolute brightness, but compared to camera CCDs we have a high dynamic range) - we have to adjust the light sensitivity to compensate for the overall brightness of the image. This is called brightness adaptation. There's a good free textbook for further reading about this at Utah U's Webvision.
When you move your head, the black and white lines blur together which makes the overall brightness appear to be the average brightness of the black and white. So against that background your light sensitivity increases and the areas where the pixel tone is different from the average - the gray pixels of the face - start to stand out.
By reducing the brightness you can see the faint image in the background much more clearly...
Thank you for your interest in this question.
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| Bulte, A., Foster Wheeler , Houston, Texas
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Some recipes I see for bread dough recommend a short rest between the mixing (just enough to make the ingredients homogeneous) and kneading stage - often 10 to 30 minutes. The dough seems to be a little easier to work after the rest, but what is going on there in such a short time?
Besides the initial gluten relaxing that mrwienerdog wrote about, another important effect is the absorption of liquid.
It takes time for the flour to fully hydrate with the available liquid. Before it does the dough will be more sticky and there will be less gluten available for kneading. Giving the recently incorporated dough a short rest allows the flour to pull in all the liquid it can and become much easier to work with.
A similar effect can be seen with pastry doughs. Even though often the goal is to minimize gluten development, a short rest gives the flour time to hydrate and can turn pastry dough from difficult to work and crumbly to soft and smooth.
You give the gluten a chance to relax. If you work a bread too soon, the gluten tears. You should always allow your doughs to rest between makeup stages, for this very reason. Of course, if you are careful, you can skip it. However, as you mentioned, the dough will be far more 'bucky' (as my old instructor called it) and harder to work.


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Baltimore police boost St. Patrick's Day patrols
BALTIMORE - Baltimore police are stepping up patrols around the Inner Harbor, Fells Point and Federal Hill for the next two weekends ahead of St. Patrick's Day after violence broke out last year.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the department won't tolerate any individuals acting irresponsibly.
The department plans to add motor and foot patrols in anticipation of crowds.
Last year's St. Patrick's Day included a videotaped beating of a Virginia man in downtown Baltimore, as well as neighborhoods trashed by partiers and fights involving teenagers around the Inner Harbor.
Police are also targeting the Canton neighborhood and say drinking won't be allowed at O'Donnell Square.
Last year's party spilled out of the bars into the square.
The citation for having an open container of alcohol in public costs $250.


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Samuel Richard Janzen, age 91, of Harrisonburg, VA died October 17, 2012 at Oak Lea Skilled Care Facility in Harrisonburg, VA. He was born to J. M. and Margaret Janzen in Newton, KS on October 14, 1921. He graduated from Hesston College, Hesston, KS in 1942 and he was ordained to the ministry the same year in September.
He married Lila Mae King of Yoder, KS on September 19, 1943. Together they enjoyed pastorates in Greensburg, KS, Glenwood Springs, CO, Harrisonburg, VA, and Souderton, PA. After a winter of study at Northwestern University in hospital administration, Sam became the hospital administrator for Kiowa County Memorial Hospital, Greensburg, KS and later for Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs, CO. The Janzens moved to Virginia from Colorado when Sam became the full time pastor of Chicago Avenue Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg. After a brief pastorate in Souderton, PA, Sam and Lila Mae returned to Virginia where Sam served as a district overseer for the Virginia Conference of the Mennonite Church from 1984 to 1996.
He is survived by his wife, Lila Mae, and his eight children and their families: Lois Preheim, Freeman, SD, Ruthanne Heatwole, Harrisonburg, VA, J. Melvin, Waynesboro, VA, J. Milton, Newport News, VA, Carla Jacobs, Linville VA, Rebecca Fullmer, Nampa, ID, Deanna Kauffman, Goshen, IN, and Margaret Abderrahmane, Oakland, CA. He had eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. His sister Amy Hershberger, Hesston, KS, three sisters-in-law, Erma Janzen, Boise, ID, Mona Bebe King, Colorado Springs, CO, and Laura Ann King, Scottdale, PA, and many nieces and nephews also mourn his passing. Condolences to the family may be made by visiting www.kygers.com.
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Actually I'm looking for a word processor with the folllowing features :
- Base Formatting
- Lightweight
- Stable & bugfree
It should work for common office work on quite old machines.
EDIT : It's better to give a more complete description of the situation. Actually I'm working in a press agency. The journalists work on Ubuntu machines, and until a couple of weeks ago they did use Abiword to prepare articles that are loaded into a CMS. OpenOffice was not an option because it's too heavy and slow. The problem is that they keep many documents and browser windows open at the same time, so the amount of RAM avaliable is very little. We upgraded to natty a couple weeks ago and Abiword came out with many strange bugs and crashes, and it has some problems with extra mark-up, so we decided to move from it. Actually the better option IMHO is Google Docs, but they are not really happy sharing their documents in the cloud. So resuming, the problems are : - Openoffice/Libreoffice : too ram consuming - Abiword : strange markup and not so stable


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The 6 Most Despicable Ways People Tried to Raise Money.
If you've spent time on Craigslist, you know that people will do anything short of selling their kidneys to Russian mobsters to make a buck. But while some folks dither around in the shallow end of the lunatic pool, a handful of money grubbers dive head first into the murky waters of Insane Money Making Schemes Bay. These individuals show precisely the sort of can-do pluck and outside-the-box thinking that you'd see in movies that end with a dance off to save the orphanage, if those movies starred sociopaths.
#6. Selling Chicken Pox to Parents
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Getting chicken pox sucks when you're a kid, but contracting it as an adult can be downright dangerous. For this reason, or possibly because they hate their children, some parents opt to intentionally expose their kids to the virus. Seizing the chance to knowingly infect their offspring with a dangerous pathogen and forever ruin the bond of parental trust, soccer moms shuttle their kids to "pox parties." These shindigs are thrown by parents of sick children in the hope that their unwitting biological warfare agent will share germs, thus readying them for an adult life of spreading strange STDs at orgies.
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There's no funner time to have 30 people over than when you're running a 104-degree fever.
Doctors advise against intentionally sharing diseases, because duh, but some parents remain determined to make their children suffer. Tennessee native Wendy Werkit, sensing an opportunity to make some scratch off her sick kid, decided to reach out to parents who couldn't make it to pox parties. Werkit sold infected cotton swabs and lollipops for the bargain price of 50 bucks a germ-ridden pop, because what harm could possibly come from trying to spread a disease far and wide?
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God only knows how she infected them.
Werkit launched her attempt to become the modern Typhoid Mary by posting an ad on the Facebook group Find a Pox Party in Your Area peddling a "fresh batch of pox in Nashville shipping of suckers, spit, and Q-Tips available tomorrow 50 dollars via PayPal." Before you rush to have a stranger mail you spit, you should know that her operation was quickly shut down. It turns out it's illegal to mail viruses, as anyone who follows the news, stops to think for 10 seconds, or doesn't have a raccoon nest where their brain should be knows.
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"Don't look at me, pal; I thought it was dumb, too."
She told the local news that the idea came when she realized that parents were frustrated because "they can't get [chicken pox] the normal way anymore." No shit -- they're called vaccines, Wendy. It's the same reason you can no longer get rich quick selling polio braces and plague carts.
#5. Pretending to Have Breast Cancer to Get Free Implants
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Pop culture has taught us that women with small breasts are living an empty half-life, forever denied the joy of being ogled in public and made the target of sex-starved teenagers' wacky schemes. Fearing she was doomed to this joyless existence, Jami Lynn Toler of Phoenix, Arizona, decided that she really needed breast implants and that she'd really like to not pay for them. Because really, shouldn't getting bigger boobs be considered a public works project?
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All of a sudden, roads and electrical grids don't seem like the best use of tax dollars.
Now, unless you're content with having your breasts stuffed full of shredded newspaper and dog hair in a Tijuana back alley, a new cup size doesn't come cheap. The 27-year-old realized that she'd need some serious cash, so she concocted what could generously be called a plan. Telling friends, family, and her boss that she had breast cancer and needed reconstructive surgery, Toler organized fundraisers and a donation site, raking in eight grand to pay for her "mastectomy" and implants.
It takes a lot to make your "pay for boobs" site dishonest by Internet standards.
Sure, she probably felt a little guilty that the money didn't go to people who actually have cancer, but would those patients even want to live in a world where Jamie Lynn's breasts weren't bigger?
Sadly, things went south when Toler declined a doctor's offer of a free mastectomy, and also when she discovered that it's actually kind of tricky to fake having cancer. Paying the plastic surgeon in cash didn't help, and given what we know of her, she probably handed it over in a sack with a dollar sign on it. Toler was arrested, charged with fraud and theft, and sentenced to a year in jail followed by three years on probation, during which she presumably won't be allowed to use her new breasts.
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"In my defense, Your Honor, check out these ta-tas."
If only she had known that it's much easier to fund your implants by flat-out asking creepy guys on the Internet to give you money.
#4. Going to Jail for Health Care
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North Carolina resident James Verone had no money, no job, and some serious medical problems, including "a growth of some sort on his chest, two ruptured disks, and a problem with his left foot." When your diagnosis is so vague that you could be growing anything from a wart to the stomach monster from Total Recall, you need medical care fast. Verone decided that the best place to get it would be in jail.
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They skipped that part in The Shawshank Redemption.
In 2011, the 59-year-old walked into a bank and handed the teller a note demanding the sum of $1. After establishing that this was a robbery and not a request to borrow money so he could grab a Kit-Kat from the vending machine, the teller called the police. Verone waited patiently for them to arrive, knowing that any villain worth his salt these days gets caught on purpose as part of his evil scheme.
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Telling the cops they've fallen into your scheme, however, seems like an invitation to police brutality.
In this case, going to jail was the lynchpin of Verone's retirement plan -- he needed a way to fix his physical woes and keep a roof over his head for three years before he could start collecting Social Security. Describing himself as a "logical-type person" in the worst self-assessment this side of online dating profiles, Verone even consulted a real estate agent as part of his pre-theft preparations. His dream was to put his Social Security money toward a condo on Myrtle Beach -- all that was standing between him and his little slice of paradise was three years in the clink.
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Then it's time to sit back, enjoy the fruits of your labor, and have flashback panics whenever you drop a bar of soap.
Unfortunately, a problem emerged when Verone was given the lesser charge of larceny instead of bank robbery, because it doesn't count as a bank job if you could have gotten more money from hitting the local lemonade stand. Verone responded by trying to bribe the judge with five bucks and a Quiznos coupon, hopefully.


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The obvious answer is to make less interruption and focus more on a job, but it seems not so easy as it sounds. If you know methods those make your pomodoro technique more effective and allows you to complete more pomodoros in a day , please kindly share them.
Planning is essential.
What I have found that when you create task list - it's important to write specific "next action" not whole project in your todo list. Not like "1.build website" but
And when I make tasks as small and specific as possible it always helps me to pick them up, keep moving and complete more.
An important aspect of the pomdoro technique is planning. I've been working with it for a while now (about almost 500 of them I think) and I mostly just start to do some pomodoro's, without thinking about organisation. But I realise I need more planning and commitment to my work.
Why is it not as easy as it sounds?
Track down what is keeping you back and look into how to decrease interruptions and improve focus.
Other than that, you could change your sleep schedule so you get more hours in a day.
I'm going to write a general answer and then a specific one. I could separate them but I think they make a lot of sense together.
Answer 1
Before applying an external organizational technique or method you should find out what are the reasons you don't have the productivity you wish. This is relevant because there is no point in using a method if it does not attack the real source of your problems. Introspect a little and think what are y*our shortcomings* and the limitations of your work environment. Based on that introspection choose the right strategy and don't be afraid to change it if it doesn't work out.
Answer 2
I use a mix of GTD and Pomodoro. The GTD enables me to know what tasks need my attention in an effective and quick way. The Pomodoro is mainly used as a way to force myself to work ininterruptly in a task and say no to the distractions that surround me.
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(December 21, 2012)—The Texas Department of Transportation declared a moratorium on construction-related lane closures on Interstate 35 from 7 a.m. Friday through 7 p.m. Jan. 2, but that doesn't mean motorists won't encounter backups and delays.
AAA-Texas says most of the 7.7 million Texas it estimates will travel over the holidays will be driving, and that means heavy traffic on the interstate where lane reductions and accidents are bound to cause backups and delays.
TxDOT says drivers should expect to encounter areas of I-35 without shoulders and areas where three lanes narrow to two on both the southbound and northbound sides of the highway.
Those areas typically create backups when traffic is heavy as drivers merge.
In Lampasas, holiday drivers hitting the road Friday said U.S. Highway 281 would be their route of choice.
"It's easier to go through Lampasas and the gas is cheaper so we travel this way a lot and stay on 183 then go to Georgetown hit 29 and go straight on through hit 95 into Elgin," holiday traveler Susan Bridges said.
Kay Ramirez was traveling to Vernon and said she was avoiding I35 because of the added construction delays she recently sat through.
"They had a lot of construction and it was about an hour to get out of the traffic jam and you know 55 or 60 miles an hour it's not fun," Ramirez said.
The added motorists are also bringing in business to local stops in Lampasas.
The owner of the Country Kitchen and Bakery in Lampasas, Scott Mclean, said the holidays are always busy, but this year he's seen more people from out of town than normal.
"Everybody's avoiding I-35 so we've gotten increased business everyday especially weekends, people out Christmas shopping, people traveling long ways to grandma's and staying off 35 and coming on 281," Mclean said.
The weather in Central Texas shouldn't be a problem through the weekend, but showers are in the Christmas Day forecast and to the north frozen precipitation is a possibility.
The National Weather Service says snow is possible with some accumulations along and north of the Interstate 20 corridor while a mix of rain and snow will be possible south of I-20 with little or no accumulations.
Conditions could change, however, and travelers are advised to check current forecasts before hitting the road.
Gas Prices Are Down
Gas prices average just more than $3 a gallon in Texas.
AAA-Texas reports that the average price dropped 6 cents this week to $3.03 while nationally the average price is $3.23 a gallon.
The cheapest gas in the state is in Fort Worth at $2.98 a gallon and the most expensive is in Amarillo at $3.10 per gallon.
Number Of Troopers On The Road Is Up
The Texas Department Safety is increasing the number of troopers on the road over the holiday period from Friday through Jan. 1.
A TxDOT grant is paying for the stepped-up patrols, which will target suspected drunken drivers.
During the holiday period last year, Texas troopers made more than 1,100 DWI arrests and issued more than 15,000 speeding tickets.
(Rachel Cox contributed to this report)


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SASS Config Errors Right Out of Box
I have spent a number of hours trying to get the Sencha Touch SASS setup properly and researching errors herein the forum and elsewhere. But I can't reach the first step in customization because of a sea of errors. And I really want to use SASS. I use it on other projects and it works great.
I would assume that simply downloading Sencha Touch and putting the /resources directory in my project directory would work out of the box. Alas, it does not. I have read Sencha's popular theming blog-post and subsquently changed the config.rb accordingly, yet that also throws errors.
My project directory looks like this:
My config.rb file looks like this:
sass_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) css_path = File.join(sass_path, '..', 'css') images_dir = File.join(sass_path, '..', 'themes', 'images') load File.join(sass_path, '..', 'themes') output_style = :compressed environment = :production
@import 'sencha-touch/default/all'; @include sencha-panel; @include sencha-buttons; @include sencha-sheet; @include sencha-picker; @include sencha-tabs; @include sencha-toolbar; @include sencha-toolbar-forms; @include sencha-carousel; @include sencha-indexbar; @include sencha-list; @include sencha-layout; @include sencha-form; @include sencha-msgbox; @include sencha-loading-spinner;
WARNING: Neither sencha-touch/default/all.sass nor .scss found. Using sencha-touch/default/all.css instead. This behavior is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. If you really need sencha-touch/default/all.css, import it explicitly.
error /path-to-my-project-directory/Site_Sencha/www/resources/sass/sencha-touch.scss (Line 4: Undefined mixin 'sencha-panel'.)
Syntax error: Undefined mixin 'sencha-panel'. on line 4 of /Users/markwyner/Documents/Gigs/PriceBox/Site_Sencha/www/resources/sass/sencha-touch.scss, in `sencha-panel' from line 4 of /Users/markwyner/Documents/Gigs/PriceBox/Site_Sencha/www/resources/sass/sencha-touch.scss … body:before { white-space: pre; font-family: monospace; content: "Syntax error: Undefined mixin 'sencha-panel'.\A on line 4 of /path-to-my-project-directory/Site_Sencha/www/resources/sass/sencha-touch.scss, in `sencha-panel'\A from line 4 of /path-to-my-project-directory/Site_Sencha/www/resources/sass/sencha-touch.scss\A \A 1: $base-color: #333;\A 2: @import 'sencha-touch/default/all';\A 3: \A 4: @include sencha-panel;\A 5: @include sencha-buttons;\A 6: @include sencha-sheet;\A 7: @include sencha-picker;\A 8: @include sencha-tabs;\A 9: @include sencha-toolbar;"; }
Thanks so much in advance.-------------------------------------------
Mark Wyner, Partner, Bunker
12 Mar 2011 6:19 AM #2
bottom you have scss install
hope it's help you
12 Mar 2011 5:29 PM #3
Thanks, tonin10. However, I didn't follow half of what was mentioned in that thread. Also, that doesn't seem like a solution out of the box. You and others listed all kinds of crazy modifications.
There must be a way to download Sencha Touch and have the SASS setup work. There is no real documentation other than the blog post I mentioned, and it doesn't work as suggested.
I'd love it if someone who truly understands the Sencha Touch to weigh in on this. SASS is awesome, as is how Sencha Touch uses it, but there is no usable documentation for setting it up properly.
Having some reliable information about this would greatly benefit the entire Sencha Touch community. I'll even post something comprehensive which can be resourced if I can get some help here. I'd love for a solution to be easily accessible to anyone learning to use SASS within this framework.
Thanks so much in advance!-------------------------------------------
Mark Wyner, Partner, Bunker
12 Mar 2011 11:27 PM #4
I totally agree with you, but not finding how to fix the errors, I use this method
12 Mar 2011 11:52 PM #5
Yeah, but even beyond the errors the Sencha blog examples and even the setup in the 1.0.1a download simply doesn't work. Nothing enables the use of SASS as suggested. The errors are fatal.
There must be a way to make this work. But unfortunately it's not as simple as the documentation leads you to believe.
Sencha Touch developers, this is a weakness in documentation for your otherwise exceptional framework. I'd love to see a solid reply to this thread with some clarification. Without intimate knowledge of Sencha Touch's SASS/CSS resources and Ruby the setup is simply too complex. Even for someone like myself who is using SASS outside of your framework.
Mark Wyner, Partner, Bunker
13 Mar 2011 1:41 PM #6
I 100% agree. I really want to like this framework but issues like these make it difficult. I am looking forward to the next release.
17 Mar 2011 4:20 PM #7
I see replies from Sencha developers all over the place, but I can't seem to get attention on this post. There seems to be a few challenges in getting the SASS setup going for a large number of Sencha users. It would be super helpful if someone from Sencha could offer some insight to what I've outlined in this post. So many people want to use SASS with Sencha and we would all be very grateful for some illumination on this.
Any seasoned Sencha users/developers want to help us?
Thanks in advance!-------------------------------------------
Mark Wyner, Partner, Bunker
21 Mar 2011 4:47 PM #8
Sorry for the delayed response — we've all been working pretty hard around the clock to get Ext JS 4 out. I'm sure the issue you're running into will be an easy one to fix, the key is in the line:
load File.join(sass_path, '..', 'themes');
In your config.rb. This is what's not working. Note that the '..' represents going up a directory in your system. You basically just need to wayfind from your current SCSS directory up (and then potentially down) to the themes folder located at resources/themes.
Ideally, this is usually done from a custom SCSS file, not in sencha-touch.scss. See the Kiva and GeoCongress apps in the download for an example of what I mean (and be sure to check out their config.rbs).
At this point, you may also want to make sure you're up to date with Compass/SASS by running: 'sudo gem install compass' again.
Hope that helps,
21 Mar 2011 11:33 PM #9Sorry for the delayed response…
I'm sure the issue you're running into will be an easy one to fix...
I have posted a full solution in the "examples and showcases" area of the forum in hopes that everyone experiencing this problem will be able to ease their pain in setting up the Compass/SASS/Sencha-Touch system. After all, that's an important part of what makes Sencha Touch awesome:
Mark Wyner, Partner, Bunker
22 Mar 2011 8:49 AM #10
We are working on the docs there, but you've listed a few things in that post that I totally just overlooked for newcomers, so I definitely appreciate the viewpoint. Hopefully you're comfortable with it now, we may have a contest coming soon that will test those skills...
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I want to go on vacation and not think about work at all but they want me to provide them a contact number in the event of an emergency (server goes down, web service malfunctions, etc). I am afraid that it will be abused (they will contact me before trying everything for example) but I also think that if I am on vacation I should not be bothered even if there is an outage. Does anyone have experience with situations like this? What's the tactful approach? Any creative solutions?
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Hand them a phone number and a quadruple overtime rate.
The goal here is not to make lots of money, the goal is to discourage needless annoyance. You're available, but only if you really need me. The database crashed, the users are compromised, you're getting multiple DDOS waves, that's when you pick up a phone. Can't find the username for some non-critical system? Don't bother.
You have to draw a clear line on what is an emergency and what is not. Go over common cases and solutions prior to taking vacation. Make sure everyone is notified ahead of time so that they can run any critical systems / processes through you before you leave.
Vacation is time off. Make sure it stays that way.
Give them a cellphone number, but tell them you might not be available over extended periods, because you don't know how good the coverage is at the place you are going to. Then switch it off whenever you don't want to be disturbed, but in case they called, call back several hours later, or the next day, or whenever you feel like it.
Back in the day we used to get "pager pay" if we were to be on call. You could try "clarifying" whether that's whether what they're offering. Then, assuming they just want you to offer to have your vacation interrupted for free, tell them you will check your voice mail (on your cell, at the hotel message centre, or at home) each night, or once a week, or whatever you feel like offering, and give them that number.
There are times it's handy to go on vacation into the wilderness (no cell signal) or to a country where your cell phone doesn't work.
I have had a few scenarios where I'm on holiday and the boss has called to ask me how to do something on a project I've been working on.
In one case I was the build guy, something broke, and I was out at lunch with my girlfriend, and the boss called. My answer was that I was at lunch and, whatever it was, it could wait until I got back (I didn't actually ask what it was). Any issue can wait up to an hour.
In another case I was off sick for a week, and my boss (different boss) phoned and asked how to run a tool I was in charge of. It was obvious, and I told him that, but I told him how to do it anyway since it was 3 minutes of my time.
And another case a few years back, after about 10 minutes of trying to talk things through over the phone with no progress I said it would have to wait until I got back because there's no way I'm spending all my holiday time on the phone with my boss.
My advice is hand over your details, but if a call lasts more than 5 minutes say "look, is this likely to be resolved in the next 5 minutes? Because if not then I'm working and I want this day back in lieu". Likewise if they call too often. Make it clear that it's an emergency number. To be used in emergencies.
Enough commiserating...
How fortunate you are that you are so vital to the continued success of your organization. They need your contact info because what you do might as well be black magic or voodoo to them, and they are totally afraid that if they can't get to you in the case of an emergency, that everything will come crashing down around their ears..
I won't lie, I originally got into this business solely for the money, and then realized how much I loved it. My first employer in systems realized how much I loved it, and exploited my work ethic for as long as they could. Until of course my quality of life became so bad, that I had to force myself to drive to work every day. Vacations? Bah! No one could take care of the system as well as I could myself! Needless to say, that didn't last very long.
This may be a bitter pill to swallow, but what has worked for me in the past is to train a backup. Depending on where you work, and the kind of people that you work with, that perfect vacation covering helper maybe right around the corner.
At one place where I was a sys admin for several years, I was usually working 10-12 hour days EVERY day because I didn't have backup helper. When I finally gave in and found someone, I was shocked that they were excited to do all of those mundane tasks that I didn't have time to automate. Every single one of those tasks that I thought 'why would anyone that is non-technical want to do this?', they took care of, and asked for more. You probably won't even have to give them any money for it, they will probably do it for the thrill of being needed. Or better yet, probably for just a referral for some other job they really want.
Start hinting around the office that you want to train someone to be able to help you out. A good place to start is usually the head administrative assistant, or an HR manager. Tell them that you want to try to help someone out and 'see if they can rise to the occasion', and that you want to make sure that if anything happens to you that there is a contingency in place. HR people and administrative assistants eat that stuff up, they might even have someone already in mind.
Good luck, your sanity isn't worth a paycheck. It's up to you to have the strength to create the work environment where you can take a vacation when you want, and not have to worry about getting called.
IMO that depends (among many other things) on how much vacation you have per year. Living in Europe I have more than one month of vacation each year. If I was in the US, with, say, two weeks vacation per year, I'd be much less willing to be reachable in those two weeks.
What I usually do is to leave a mobile phone number, indicating that I might not be reachable, but will try to get back ASAP.
I am always willing to give my contact info to people at work. I trust my coworkers to not call me unless it is a truly important matter. And if it is a matter of that gravity I am willing to help. I have even taken time out of vacations to dial into important conference calls. But of course I had a beer in my hand when I did. :-)
I say tough luck!
Your job might not be like the doctor, but even though you don't save lives, some things come attached with your career choice.
IMHO the most ethical thing to do (though I understand it's difficult in many cases) is give the whatever contact number they need, clarify VERY well what they can expect from you in a holiday (availability for a major outage etc), you must manage it carefully and politely but you can avoid any abuse by stating than you are on you vacations and this does not correspond.
I you do this, firm but gently, (normal) people get and won't bother again.
Why not define backup staff that takes over your part when you are on vacation? Then, announce that only the backup people are allowed to call you. This means everybody has to "mess around" with the resources they have before doing that annoying call.
Secondly, I think a phone is a horrible medium for things like that. Be lazy answering calls, but take 5 minutes every day to check and reply to emails, and you will see the quality of the requests skyrock immediately (because a written mail forces the sender to re-think the situation in order to specify it in written form, and because they see they get replies as time allows).
If you crash with your car, and are dead, nobody will reach you on the phone. That's why every organization should have backup staff members that can take over the job of other key players. It's not just the holiday question.
Note that many people running from vacation phone calls LOVE being important. They are not really annoyed, they love being sought after, and they often do their part to manifest this bug as a feature in their career. This is unsincere because when they say "don't call me, I am on vacation" they really say "I love being rare, and I improve that state all the time, because that enables me to be annoyed, and I love that too because it shows how important, and ruling I am!". Bah. The fact that it is rather easy to find backup people for 99% of even the most insane job's tasks underscores this...most "heroes" prefer to whine and run instead of building and living a backup solution.
I used to be that guy... The one who the business absolutely needs to have access to, and I used to enjoy it.
But now, my response would be:
If you feel that it's your company then give your phone number and say when they can call you - what kind of problems you can solve on holidays an what not. If you feel that you just work for someone just give phone number, and turn it off. Because you need get better job.
If you are really the only person who can fix their problem then they really need to rethink a lot of things. What if you quit? What if you died?
The should not need to call you.
At my last job, I never had a single day off work (whether sick, or booked annual leave) without a phonecall to fix something.
You get sick of that.
I give them what they want.
Find a job where they will not abuse the emergency contact and let you relax on your holidays. If you are the only one person, who can help them, something is wrong.
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Announcing the General Availability of PeopleSoft In-Memory Real-Time Bottom Line – Revolutionary Solutions for the CFO
By Marc Weintraub-Oracle on Jan 27, 2014
Oracle has launched a revolutionary new suite of applications to help the CFO drive enterprise profitability with timely well-informed decisions. Say goodbye to spreadsheet extracts and guess work based on highly summarized outdated information. Now you can continuously adapt to changes in the business environment and make decisions with confidence using real time simulation and analysis to inform your decisions. The PeopleSoft In-Memory Real-Time Bottom Line suite is initially focused on PeopleSoft In-Memory Financial Position Analyzer and PeopleSoft In-Memory Financial Allocations Analyzer.
Architected for Oracle Engineered System, this suite is a true example of hardware and software working together to provide superior value.
The Executive Suite and every management level demand constant information on the health of the financial position while expecting Finance to continue tracking daily activities, supporting the period close and automating regulatory and control imperatives. ERP automation has made it possible to provide a more comprehensive view of where the business is at today. In today's economy and global reach, the CFO's office needs much more than this. They need to easily and quickly evaluate the effect of the ever changing market trends, business conditions and organization directives.
What would happen, for example, if the following events occurred?
- Revenue expectations are not materializing in the current period
- Sales revenue mix between product lines shift significantly
- Regulatory changes that bring higher or lower operating expenses
- A re-organization is being contemplated
- A major acquisition is in process
- Expansion of IT Projects
Imagine if all these happened all at once and you have the perfect storm. Finance needs to accurately assess the effect of the perfect storm on the financial position earlier within the current period. Historically, Finance has pulled data out of the production environment and used spreadsheets for simulations. They have also utilized spin-off instances of the production environment to manage simulation of business and organizational changes. With this new suite of applications you can do what could not be done before – real time simulations and analysis of production data. The Finance team puts more focus on forward looking strategic tasks providing highly relevant decision support to the C-Level suite.
PeopleSoft In-Memory Financial Position Analyzer allows Finance to support the CFO in making decisions before the financial close. The office of the CFO can now utilize the actual financial position instead of outdated spreadsheets to support comparative analysis of 'what if' business simulations in memory such as material transactions that may or may not occur, changes to the financial structure or reorganization of specific departments or businesses.
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I participate in a virtual class which the basic software is Adobe Connect. I installed Adobe by software center and then try to connect got this message. and I tried to remove it and installed the Adobe flash player plugin by adobe website, also other websites was Ok but I have same problem in connecting to my V class. When I was using Ubuntu 12.04 I didn't have same problem. What's your suggestion ?
You can go and download Google Chrome from https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
It has built in versions of Adobe products.
Chromium and Firefox still use the Adobe Flash plugin that you install and it doesn't always work right I have found.
If you have Google Chrome installed then just uninstall all the adobe products you installed.
Chrome is shipping with a built-in Flash plugin. Even if you install manually Flash it will always use the version it's shipped with and also Adobe Connect won't open Connect Add-In.
Refer to the official Adobe Connect help site how to solve the problem: http://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-connect/kb/google-chrome-browser-incompatibility-version.html


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I have Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac. Does the upgrade to Parallels Desktop 6 means that I have to reinstall Windows 7 and all the other programs?
No, your Windows VM and all the programs installed on it are stored on a virtual hard drive file. Upgrading Parallels won't affect the VM.
To extend @Kyle's answer, which is correct by the way, you have to consider the fact that after the upgrade, you might have to re-authorize Windows. I really don't know what Windows is thinking or what Parallels is doing, but I've seen two people who had to re-authorize their Windows 7 Home Premium inside a VM after that upgrade from Parallels 5 to 6.
This was not a problem and is generally performed "automatically", but just have your product key handy just in case.
I haven't personally upgraded to 6 yet (and probably won't). Paying 40 dollars a year to Parallels is more expensive than having Windows dedicated machines…
I had not trouble upgrading from 5 to 6 with Win 7 Enterprise.


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With a new mayor and city commission heading into office in January, several city-funded projects in Bowling Green are sure to come under the microscope. Near the top of that list is the controversial proposed relocation of Lifeskills headquarters to the corner of 6th and State St. near the Circus Square area.
The Downtown Redevelopment Authority and Downtown Merchants Association oppose the move, saying the building doesn't fit in with the Downtown Master Plan.
The city government is currently in a disagreement with some state and federal authorities over the use of eminent domain to purchase property for the new building. The city believes it can use eminent domain, while state and federal authorities have expressed reservations.
"I do not believe that they can move forward with the use of eminent domain, I do not believe they have that authority. And I'm hopeful that that is not happening right now," said mayor-elect Elaine Walker.
Lifeskills CEO Dale Bond told WBKO Thursday that has not spoken with city officials since election night, but says he has no reason to believe that the Lifeskills timetable will change. That plan calls for groundbreaking in January of 2005, days or weeks after the new mayor and city commissioners are sworn in on New Year's Eve.
Mayor-elect Walker says she believes there are several unanswered questions about the move, including whether or not the current commission was given all of the proper information before voting on the land deal in June.
"I am hopeful that they will not move forward with this. It has become very clear that the public is concerned about this, and that they will stand back and not push this thing through before January," Walker said. "I think that before we move forward, we need to get hard, fast answers to those questions. And if it involves moving their date back, then I think we need to do that."


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SCC502: Chem Apps (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Science
COURSE TITLE: Chemistry Applications
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
Laboratory Requirement: Students who take this course spend a minimum of 30% of their time engaged in hands-on laboratory exercises. All DoDEA Science courses have a minimum 30% dedicated time period for laboratory exercises. This translates to approximately 54 instructional days or 16 to 27 multi-day laboratories dedicated to student hands on laboratory time. Demonstrations and virtual laboratories, while useful in the classroom, do not count toward the 30% laboratory requirement.
Major Concepts/Content: Chemistry Applications is designed to help students understand the chemistry behind some important societal issues. Information is presented in an integrated approach with science as inquiry, science & technology, science & social perspectives, and the history & nature of science. The course integrates unifying science concepts and processes of systems, order & organization, evidence, models & explanation, change, consistency & equilibrium, and form & function.
Scientific inquiry and understanding about inquiry are emphasized through practical implications and meaningful applications. Students study basic concepts of chemistry, while integrating physical concepts with societal issues.
Major Instructional Activities: Scientific inquiry is defined as the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence derived from their work. Scientific inquiry also refers to the activities through which students develop knowledge and understanding of scientific ideas, as well as an understanding of how scientists study the natural world (NSTA, 2004). Based on the philosophy that scientific knowledge is best acquired through inquiry, the course uses a variety of techniques to promote and inquiry in the classroom (ex. multiple revisions, high quality questioning, synthesis, making conclusions based on evidence, etc).
Instructional activities are staged in appropriate settings. They include laboratories, classrooms, forms of technology, and field studies. Teaching strategies include in depth laboratory investigations, demonstrations, collaborative peer-to-peer discussions, and student hands-on experiences.
Major Evaluative Techniques: All aspects of progress in science are measured using multiple methods such as authentic assessments, performance assessments, formative assessments, observational assessments, projects, research activities, reports, group and individual student work and conventional summative assessments.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of Chemistry Applications, students should be able to:
- Engage in full and partial scientific inquiries to design, conduct, and communicate scientific investigations to explore ideas about the natural world.
- Use scientific inquiry to design and conduct scientific investigations to meet a human need, make a decision, solve a human problem, or develop a product.
- Recognize and describe the interrelationship between science and technology.
- Apply the tools of technology (e.g., computers) in scientific endeavors.
- Identify qualities inherent in scientific behavior (e.g., reasoning, insight, energy, skill, and creativity).
- Discuss contributions of men and women of various social and ethnic backgrounds to science and technology.
- Apply science concepts to make decisions (weighing risks and benefits) about students' personal health and well-being.
- Understand the structure of atoms.
- Understand the interaction of energy and matter.
- Investigate and explain chemical reactions.
- Explain forms of energy found in the earth.
- Investigate geothermal cycles.
- Appreciate the value of environmental quality and understand the importance of conserving natural resources.
- Understand the role of natural and human induced hazards in personal and community health.


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Don't Smoke! Essay 12
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Frances DeMasi Middle School, Marlton, NJ
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Smoking Cigarettes
I think people shouldn't smoke. The reason is, is because it makes your lungs black, your teeth turn yellow, fingers where you hold them get yellow, it also can give cancer, you die sooner, and it makes you very unpleasant to be around. I think people who start smoking are nuts. They should worry about how it will affect them and other people. How it will affect other people is by when they breathe in air they will start breathing smoke air witch is called second-hand smoke, and it also can cause cancer too. I feel sorry for the kids that are young and are smoking. They should know that hundreds of people are dying everyday because they had smoked before. I think that people who don't smoke are protecting their life and the people who do smoke are not protecting andt aking care of their life. That is why I think kids and adults should not even start thinking about smoking but what they should start thinking about is on how they help people who are smoking stop. Even if you just take a little puff, you still can get very ill. That is why you should never start to smoke because once you start you won't be able to stop. That is why you should never smoke. Remember always say No to smoking!!! Smoking, There's No Way Out
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The other day whilst playing betrayal at house on the hill, I died early on and didn't get back on the board as a monster in any way.
What can I do to contribute without 'over doing it'?
The other day whilst playing betrayal at house on the hill, I died early on and didn't get back on the board as a monster in any way.
What can I do to contribute without 'over doing it'?
Some ideas that have worked out alright in games of Betrayal I've played:
Following the haunt, the game tends to become semi-cooperative, with one antagonist. In those cases, while you're not controlling a character, you could certainly offer advice and contribute to group-thinking.
I certainly think that answer, in line with previous ones, is most appropriate, but if you're desperate to house-rule an alternative, how about this "ghost" variant:
Your character remains on the board and has all their stats returned to their starting values, but cannot interact with anyone or anything (they're a ghost) and loses all their items/omens. On your turn, you can move according to your speed as normal, and then nominate a character/creature in your room and an attribute. Reduce that attribute by one on your character coaster and declare that the target character has a +1 bonus or -1 penalty in that stat until your next turn. This represents you messing with monsters by floating candlesticks at them, or the heroes fighting on in your memory, or whatever. If it's that kind of group, you could elaborate by describing in an appropriately thematic way exactly how you're causing the change. You could target a team-mate who really needs to succeed at that Sanity check, or pick the Strength of a monster you're all wailing on. Once a stat of yours hits bottom, you can no longer use it.
I doubt this variant would be over-powering. It doesn't even counter-balance the loss of a full-fledged character if you ask me. Disclaimer: I haven't tried it, but you could give it a go and report back.
In scenarios where it's every man for himself (i.e. it becomes fully competitive with no one traitor), any further interaction you have with the game would just be king-making, so you should probably concede that you've been eliminated and resort to heckling etc.
Before the Haunt happens, you can't die; you just go down to the minimum level on the stat(s) affected.
If you died after the Haunt began, may I suggest spectating, or a game of Solitaire? Or, depending on how strict your group is, you can still kibitz.
You can do whatever you and your friends like.
It's a cooperative game, so you can continue to discuss plans and suggests moves with the remaining players just like you could when you were alive. The line between discussion, suggestion, and actually playing is pretty fuzzy.
How far you can and should go with it depends entirely on your preferences and those of your gaming group, but essentially every group I've ever played with would be okay with a player continuing to participate exactly as they did before. If no one wants your input - they're all silently making their own moves, no discussion - then you're not playing the game in a fun way to begin with.
The suggestions in Dan's and Johno's answers are mostly just specific degrees of suggestion/actually playing. But I honestly don't think it's worth getting bogged down in a specific, regimented way of playing-while-not-playing, and I definitely don't think it's beneficial to modify the game to give you a token role. Cooperative games are the ideal situation - just be yourself, converse like you always do, and let the game keep going.
One extremely satisfying and amusing thing to do that breaks tension and provides comic relief is to provide sound effects for everything that happens, including sneaking up behind people and whispering "I am a ghost, come to haunt you..."