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Focus on Academic Research
ASTM Launches Campaign to Recognize Critical Source of Knowledge
Through the fusion of knowledge, problem-solving and creativity, academic research offers bold ideas and fresh insights for the development of industry standards.
Today, the system of innovation that propels the growth of industries around the world is bolstered by the ongoing relationship between academic research and the standardization process. This mutually beneficial partnership provides the critical knowledge transfer that drives progress throughout the industrial sector in the form of creative solutions to technical challenges, advancement of state-of-the-art technologies, improvements in testing methods and quality processes, commercialization of market-relevant products and services, and much more.
The close cooperative relationship between academic research and standards development is the centerpiece of ASTM International's Focus on Academic Research campaign in 2014. In addition to highlighting the contributions of academic research to the standards process, the campaign will also emphasize how student participation in research can nurture interest in standardization and build the technical and problem-solving skills valued by their future employers.
Academia and Industry: Partnering Under the ASTM Umbrella
The ASTM International standards development process has long been a home for cooperation between the academic community and diverse industry professionals and technical experts. ASTM members from academia work side by side with colleagues from industries and governments around the world on ASTM's standards development committees. Many members from the academic community have often stepped forward to assume important committee leadership roles. The Focus on Academic Research campaign will build on this spirit of cooperation and extend ASTM's ongoing outreach in the academic community.
"Cooperative and sustained interaction between the academic research community and industry has long played a valuable role in the transfer of knowledge and the advancement of new technologies in the marketplace," says John J. Schemmel, Ph.D., P.E., FACI, professor of civil engineering, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind., and an ASTM member since 1989. "Conducting research and examining issues through the lens of ASTM standards can impact the standardization process by not only solving specific, discrete problems but also unlocking the potential for even greater innovation in products, materials, processes and more."
Research Training and Standards Knowledge: The Foundation for Future Leadership
Schemmel also emphasizes that by integrating student research with the use of standards, graduates enter their respective fields better equipped with the technical skills that can truly make a difference. Graduates trained in research and the application of standards not only enter the work force with a broader body of knowledge but also gain abilities that are prized in technical fields: self-motivation, problem-solving, teamwork, the ability to organize material and creative thinking.
Schemmel, a professional civil engineer with interests in construction materials, including concrete and related products, believes that student exposure to standards should go beyond classroom learning to doing practical work that can benefit ASTM committees now. At Valparaiso, his engineering students conduct various laboratory tests using ASTM C143, Test Method for Slump of Hydraulic-Cement Concrete, and collect data that is fed back to ASTM Subcommittee C09.60 on Testing Fresh Concrete, part of Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates.
"Short duration research projects involving the use of ASTM standards are ideal for students," notes Schemmel. "Students gain the real-world learning that comes from the use of ASTM standards, and the research projects help connect them to ASTM committees even before they graduate. It's a win for the committees too, as they gain feedback and potential solutions for issues that may not be on their immediate radar."
Aspects of the Campaign
Through its various components, the Focus on Academic Research campaign will highlight ASTM's avenues for both professors and students to engage in research and apply standards to generate new ideas and knowledge. The initiative will feature both new and ongoing programs, including the following.
Focus on Innovative Research, The ASTM Student Member Paper Competition
The competition provides a vehicle for recognizing the achievements and scholarly work of ASTM's student members at colleges and universities around the world. Through the development of their research papers, students will have a forum to demonstrate their grasp of ASTM standards and offer fresh perspectives to ASTM technical committees. Winners will present their papers at one of the ASTM 2014 fall committee meetings in New Orleans, La. Research papers must be submitted by June 15, 2014.
Graduate or Senior Design Project Grants
Recognizing that students at some universities may need financial assistance in completing their graduate or senior capstone design projects, ASTM International will continue to offer a limited number of $500 project grants in 2014. To be eligible for the grant, student design projects must contain an ASTM International standards component. Grants provide a valuable funding source for student projects, supporting the costs of research-related materials and supplies as well as other miscellaneous expenses. ASTM awarded five project grants in 2013.
ASTM Symposia and Journals
ASTM International offers professors a broad range of forums to present their research findings and exchange information with diverse technical experts and industry professionals. Professors have the opportunity to present research results at ASTM's robust symposia program, which takes in a wide variety of technical subjects, and to publish papers in ASTM's collection of peer-reviewed journals.
Ongoing Tools and Resources
Students and professors are also encouraged to visit the ASTM website section geared specifically toward the academic community. A wealth of resources on standardization is available, including The Professor's Tool Kit, which contains various tools to help educators promote awareness of standards in the classroom. Also on the site, full-time undergraduate or graduate students can sign up for free ASTM membership. Currently, ASTM has nearly 5,000 student members representing 114 countries worldwide.
ILS Program
Another valuable resource that is available to assist academic researchers in developing precision statements for ASTM standards is ASTM International's Interlaboratory Study Program. The ILS Program offers services and resources that can assist researchers with various aspects of their projects, including designing an interlaboratory study, identifying potential samples, soliciting volunteer laboratories, collecting and analyzing data, producing a draft precision statement and more. Many professors find that the ASTM ILS program is an effective way to involve students in their work.
To Learn More
To learn more about ASTM International's 2014 Focus on Academic Research initiative and the various components and offerings of the campaign, visit the ASTM International campus, or contact James Olshefsky, director of external relations, ASTM International (phone: 610-832-9714).Doug Clauson is a freelance writer based in Wynnewood, Pa.


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The 'Raising Kids Catholic' symposium continues
We've just posted the latest piece in our symposium "Raising Kids Catholic." Today's installment is from Liam Callanan. An excerpt:
There are … obtuse dads like me, and families like mine, who face a blizzard of conflicting societal and doctrinal pressures. More plainly: There's the Disney Channel, cell phones, e-books, and a thousand other modern diversions from a straightforward path to faith.
And then there's the church, or rather its leaders, who I find sometimes get in the way of me bringing my family to God. This feels like a new phenomenon, but I know it's not. I think, once again, about Matthew 19: the reason Jesus says "Let the little children come to me" is because moments before, some children had been brought forward "for him to place his hands on them and pray for them," and "the disciples rebuked them." Two thousand years later, some disciples are still at it.
You can read Liam's whole story here. You can also go directly to our special topic page, where we're featuring all of the contributions to the Raising Kids Catholic symposium in one place as they're posted. Commenting is enabled on that page, so feel free to keep the conversation going as new installments go live.
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The current Hedgehog Review is devoted to parenting in the U. S., how its goals have changed over time, and how the concepts of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood have changed radically and are still changing. Not much is said about religion and/or the loss thereof, but ISTM that one of the articles might be useful in analysing the problem. The rather long article ("Holding Them Closer" by Bowman) relies on many, many sociological studies, and there seems to be much agreement among the studies. The picture is extremely complex, but one thing stands out to me -- children and young adults seem to be most influenced in their thinking not by their parents but by peers. My response to the whole problem is, "Poor parents, it looks like they can't win".
Here is something of a summary toward the end of the Bowman article:
" . . . the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman writes of contemporary culture as one in which all things—including understandings of love and the family—have turned liquid. Liquid culture, in his view, continually seduces humans with new possibilities rather than offering set norms. Even as it abandons the Enlightenment ideal of change for a larger purpose, liquid culture replaces it with change for change's sake. As it does so, institutions, habits, and established products are scrapped for no more reason than the lure of the hunt, the passion of pursuit, the thrill of the new. This cultural logic—this kind of fluidity—ripples into all human arrangements, resulting in a diminished faith in institutions of the public sphere and a retreat into the satisfactions of an individualized present. Bauman writes in Culture in a Liquid Modern World (2011), "It is obvious today that you can no longer seriously entertain any real hope of making the world a nicer place to live in, but you might just be tempted to safeguard…that relatively pleasant, private place which you have managed to carve out for yourself in that world.""
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Interesting insights Ann. I think though that the reality of our lived experience particularly in the West in inexorably moving to more "liquid culture". However, this liquidity is due in large part to the presence of the very thing we are using to communicate now; the internet. I think that the need for vital. life giving relationships remains an important part of our human striving. At the same times, bonds of community are created very differently than they are in the past.
Do the commenters and writers here at dot commonweal form what can be described as a community. I think so. The stability of the community is guaranteed by the "institution" of Commonweal just like the stability of any community is guaranteed by the stability of some fixed entity that can gather people together. But those entities themselves are indeed "liquid" but that does not make them ephemeral.
Perhaps we are reverting to a kind of nomadic existence and tribes of people are being bound together by common interests and purposes in this vast cyber-land.
But, I do not think that this reality makes us any more individualized than before. The need to form human collectives has embedded itself into the very fiber of social media.
Afterall, having comments sections following stories is relatively new even for the internet. Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook are all "social media"
And in ever kind of niche community on the internet you will find a stable group of participants not unlike "real" communities.
Social change has also been ushered in my the internet. Consider Egypt's revolution and even Obama's victories. Apparently, team Obama was very adept and good at using social media to draw younger people in.
My daughter, for example, who is 15 never goes out with her friends as I used to for coffee or hanging out. But she is on her computer and cell phone and as connected with her peer group as i was to mine and I am sure you were to yours at that age. Just different form of association; a virtual one.
Do the commenters and writers here at dot commonweal form what can be described as a community. I think so.
I think that this is a very weak style of community.
Bob Nunz used to comment regularly, then he stopped. Do you know why?
Because he died, of cancer. But no one here commented on it, no inkling was given that anyone noticed (although I learned about it by a private email from another person commenting.)
If this is a community, then it's a very shallow one, a "community" where people drift in and out, share a short bit of conversation, then they're off and and you don't know if you will ever see them again. It's a little like those commuters with which you share the morning train and, after you start recognizing them, exchange a nod, then a smile, then a few words. The relationships that are limited to interactions on this blog are about equally shallow.
I agree with what you are saying Claire and it is a fair point. But then again, does that not call for a further development of the community and new conventions based on shared experience? And is it any different in real life?
In my "real" community people die alone in houses and are not found for weeks. And it is not a very big place. We hear a lot how even people in apartment buildings are strangers to one another.
The breakdown in bonds of association began long ago. And I think as a human family, we are always trying to find ways to forge new ones (or at least I like to think so).
And I did not know that about Bob and will stop and say a prayer for him. But, I recall being on another online forum and a family member posted under the name of someone who had been active and shared the news. People sent flowers to funeral, etc. So, I have seen it work the other way.
I think here at least we use real names (although I just use my last initial)
I am not sure, George. Once Jim McCrea went offline for a month, and when he came back I realized that I had not even noticed that he was gone! If this was a conversation with people we see in the flesh, we would notice it when someone goes missing. But there is something ghostly about blog conversations. We don't know when someone is present (reading) but not commenting. It's all very disembodied.
In real life we at least are aware that we ignore people, when we do ignore them. But here, I thought I was on somewhat friendly terms with Jim - paying attention to what he was writing, interacting via comments - yet when he went missing (on vacation) I did not see it. The relationship is an illusion. I think that's different from "real" life in the way in which it is self-deceiving, misleading.
In fact what is the point of commenting on dotCommonweal (or any blog)?
I knew that Bob had passed. After he hadn't posted for a few months, I googled him and learned the sad news. That was when people's e-mail address was linked to their name; so I e-mailed Bob's e-mail address, and his wife very kindly replied. He died of leukemia in September 2012, it was very quick, he was only diagnosed in July.
I enjoyed the things Bob had to say and I still very much miss his comments.
I hadn't heard that about Bob. I had been wondering whatever happened to him. I'll say a prayer for him and for his wife and family.
"Perhaps we are reverting to a kind of nomadic existence and tribes of people are being bound together by common interests and purposes in this vast cyber-land."
George D. --
The Bowman article ays that one of the big differences in culture is that people move so far away from their families. (Of course, the colonials and immigrants started that, I think.) There is no longer the stability of a family with several generations in very close contact. And moving away is an easy way to lose the old values.
Maybe the smart phones are a small way to reduce the familial isolation that is the result of moving far away.
I agree that there are internet communities, but blogs are, I think, very different from a neighborhood or a family. They're more like the communities we find in cities, the groups of people with similar interests we choose to belong to. Families and neighborhoods include folks we'd sometimes like to dump, but we're better, no doubt, for having to learn to come to terms with them.
Ann, your comment that virtual communities are among those we choose because of similar interests rather than "real" communities of kinship. But sometimes those communities do not meet our needs when we grow up That is the reason I read and post on several virtual forums - I had not been able to find people in "real" life with some of my interests and a wish to discuss them with others, so I turned to online communities.
As Claire notes, we don't "know" one another, although we pick up information. From reading comments here, I know that Joseph K and Robert I are priests and that Jim P is a deacon. I know Jim McCrea from "meeting" him on another site. If I'm not mistaken, Ann O is a retired college teacher of philosophy. Claire lives in France (Paris?) but I don't know if she is French or American (or something else!). I lived in Paris many years ago, for a year as a university student. I went to mass at St. Joseph's - the English speaking community at the time I was there. It seems Claire has no children of her own, but has nieces and nephews in France, so I am guessing she is French, but perhaps with an American or English parent. The personal information is of interest because it can provide at least some context for the comments and understandings of others. One does not expect the same kind of relationship with those one "meets" in discussion in a virtual community as in a "real" community, but that does not mean there is no value in these communities.
Anne C. --
I think that online communities are quite real, and some are important to us. I'm very old and don't get out much, and most of my old firends are either in nursing homes, moved away, or dead, so I really appreciate my new communities online. But they're limited in scope. I wish they weren't, but they are. They lack a dimension that non-digital relationships have -- the physical presence of others. To be phyisically present, needless to say, gives us the opportunity to interpet facial expressions, tones of voice and gestures, those thoroughly individualized aspects of communication which are totally lost online. Your writing on the screen looks exactly like everyone else's writing on the screen, so, sadly, much of you is lost because of it.
I wish that the Commonweal system allowed for photograps of individuals to be posted next to names. That would add a bit of individuality. And having a little bio available would also let us distinguish each other better than we do now. That Bob Nunz has left us and few of us noticed the fact (or the absence of a fact) points out the need. May he rest in peace.
Here is Bob's obituary w photo. I'm sure his family would still appreciate donations to the Wildlife Center or the IHM Christian Concerns Committee.
I have had several pleasant exchanges privately with people here, but in recent years, I mostly got a lot of spam and concern trolling. I'm frankly glad no one can see my home e-mail, and I would prefer not to be contacted by contributors, editors, or commenters. If I'm out of line, spreading incorrect info, or generally need to be told off, please do it here.
I do wish "subscriber" appeared next to my name; I do support the publication with a Kindle subscription. I don't like people thinking I'm a freeloader.
I don't like the accusations that occasionally come up from subscribers that those who do not subscribe are lesser beings -- freeloaders. If the editors did not want non-subscribers to read the blog and comment, they could accomplish that easily.
And I agree that pictures would help, although it's just as easy to post a false picture as a false name. I see no more "community" in commenting about a blog than in writing a letter to an editor.
About the topic: I wonder why anyone would enroll their children in an organization that discriminates against 50% of the human race. How do you explain it to your daughters?
The no-woman-priest thing came up with my son. I told him that a) as a former Episcopalian, I did not understand the Catholic ban on women priests (and several other things), but that Catholicism is about as good as it gets in the Christian tradition, b) women might not be able to be priests and popes, but they could be saints, which many priests and popes don't get to be, and c) he might as well give up on life in general if he's going to hold out for perfection in any human endeavor, including religion.
Whether you support the publication is between you and your conscience; I would feel like a freeloader without subscribing, but, yes, the editors have chosen to hose everybody, which I think is very catholic (small c) of them.
BTW, thanks for recommending the "Confessions of a Prairie Bitch" book on a different discussion. I enjoyed it.
No way I'm putting a picture of me on here. My God.
That should be "chosen to HOST everybody." Funny how one letter makes such a difference ...
(My conscience is not involved in my choice of magazines. I don't subscribe to magazines to support them but rather to obtain material that interests or entertains me.)
(I'm not interested in women priests or in men priests. The early church had no priests, just women and men who presided over eucharistic celebrations in their houses. See, e.g., Why Priests? by Garry Wills.)
(Glad you liked Prairie Bitch. Now I'm reading American Mirror by Deborah Solomon and The Men Who United the States by . . . forgot his name.)
Jean: many thanks for recovering Bob's obituary!
I don't know why "subscriber" does not appear next to your name. I never pay attention to those labels.
Re: picture - How do you, in your neck of the woods, manage to prevent people from seeing what you look like when you go on the street?
Anne C.: I put a message for you on the dotCommonweal interface telling you a little bit about me.
Ann O.: I agree that those communities can be important. In online learning (MOOCs) students help one another and those who are from the same region can even meet through the course, to form study groups and maybe to become friends.In a way the people commenting here and who I have not met in person are half way between reality and fiction. They're a little like characters from a book: I know a few things about them, sometimes a lot, but even more things are left to my imagination. I don't mind that, but I do mind that people can disappear without anyone noticing.
Gerelyn: I was asked that question by my 8 year old niece recently. I told her: because it's always been like that. It used to be that many professions were off for women, and the priesthood is one for which that is still the case.
But I have to say that it does not bother me. On the plus side, it saves women from the trouble of asking themselves whether they might have a vocation for the priesthood. On the minus side, we cannot have the Eucharist if a man is not present; but, you know, we really do need men for other things as well - having kids, in particular. They consecrate the host and they fertilize the egg. Isn't that fitting?
No, Claire, it hasn't always been like that.
But as I explained to Jean, I'm not in favor of women priests or of men priests.
(Your plus and minus sides? Coarse.)
My Baptist in-laws claim that they're the heirs of the "early church." So do my Amish in-laws. So do most evangelicals, and, while the latter are a pretty mixed bag, generally I can't think of more sexist religion rackets than these.
No siree. I'm in favor of priests, deacons, bishops, popes, holy tradition, the CDF, and anything else that safeguards the faith from some dim bulb with an 8th grade education and a favorite verse from Revelation in the KJV.
(Claire, people can lookit me when I go out on the street "live" if they can stand it, but the whole notion of putting up pictures of ourselves opens up a lot of cans of worms. Like how often should you change your picture to give an honest account of your true appearance? Plus, I don't want people looking at my photo and thinking, "Oh, God, she's ancient. She knows nothing." I like that respond to your words, not the way you look, how you dress, how old you look, etc. etc. I have to say that one of the things I liked best about RCIA was that for 9 months NOBODY asked me what I did for a living or where I went to college or even IF I did.)
Gerelyn, I didn't see your comment about lack of people called "priests" in the early church until after I had posted mine.
Jean, how about: "Oh, God, she's ancient. She must know everything." But seriously, are you really in favor of the CDF? Why not the Inquisition as long as you're at it? (That's what it used to be called, right?)
Jean, your Baptist in-laws ARE the heirs of the early church, as are ALL Christians. To look down on members of other denominations because they have less education than you is not safeguarding the faith, but undermining it. You liked not being asked if you went to college, but you deride your relatives for their 8th grade educations?
(Take a look at the 1940 census, now available on Ancestry.com. Just pick a random page and notice the highest grade completed by the people on the page. You'll be surprised at the number of those pre-war people who only went to 5th grade. And yet . . . they were the greatest generation and the parents of the greatest generation.)
If you're happy with the all-male priesthood, fine. Paul said in Christ there is no male and no female, no Jew and no Greek, etc. He was well educated. By Gamaliel, no less. No dim bulb there.
Claire, the closest anyone has ever come to saying, "She knows everything" about me is, "She THINKS she knows everything."
Yes, the Inquisition was the precursor of the CDF. The trial by ordeal was also the precursor to the jury trial. Neither of these institutions in their ancient or modern forms were perfect. I'd say they're less imperfect now. And they frighten me less than the guy with the Book of Revelation and his literal understanding of Holy Writ.
I think you want to be careful how much personal info you put up on the internet- identity theft and all.
The discriminatory aspect of our religion is the biggest stumbling block for me in raising my kids Catholic. But that said, having chosen to raise them Catholic despite the discrimination: I think encouraging the most active participation as possible is my best chance of making it stick. The 9 year old is an altar girl, the 13 year old is a lector and sacristan. We volunteer a fair amount for faith-based charities and my older daughter is friendly with some Sisters of Charity who provide terrfic female Catholic role models.
I'm hoping the less they feel like bystanders, the better the odds they'll stay.
"... half way between reality and fiction."
Claire --
Great way to describe the internet. Not that fiction is unreal or unimportant. It too tells us truths about ourselves. But that's a whole other thread.
Very late comment: I would just like to say that when I stopped going to church not a single person reached out to me to ask why, not even the ones that I did volunteer work with. No one noticed or if they did they did not let me know. I think people find virtual communities acceptable because many "actual" communities have already been reduced to the same level of engagement.

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Blackface in Bolshoi's "The Pharaoh's Daughter"
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 06:12 PM
Found this video of Evgenia's Pharaoh's Daughter debut:
I see the controversial little black faced painted kids from Bayadere are back here also.
My experience in Europe (although I haven't been in 20 years but did go regularly from the 80s to the early 90s) was that the race issue is approached very, very differently there. You will see candy bars with black Moor faces on them that make an American gasp. At least 20 years ago you still could see things like that. There is a lot more racial strife that has happened here in the U.S. so that I have a feeling if La Fille du Pharaon were staged at ABT there would be changes to the painted kids. I am pretty sure they would not be painted at ABT, and that is probably a good idea considering the history America has had. But my personal experience with Europe is that there is much less political correctness there. None of my European friends understood at all my shock at seeing stereotypical black faces on candy bars.
Posted 30 July 2012 - 12:24 PM
Posted 30 July 2012 - 12:42 PM
I recall seeing the Bolshoi doing this ballet at the Met Opera around 2003 or 2004 when they visited New York. Does anyone recall whether they used the painted kids during their Met appearance. I don't remember seeing the painted kids, but it's been a long time and memory fades.
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For Russia to stage it like that is not as big of a deal.
If ABT staged it with dancers with black face paint here in the U.S. I think there would be a lot of negative media attention.
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Can we consider the fact that they want dancing kids representing black dancing kids and they just don't have them...? I realize many SB productions use a black guy to portray the black prince-(probably a moor of some sort), but this is easy to get, considering that it is only one character...not a bunch of them. I'm sure that in PD, just as in Bayadere, the Russians used the only option they had; just as in Petipa's times, the use of paint. What happens when a ballet production is in need of portraying boys onstage and they don't have them-(just as in The Nutcracker)-? Do they usually get rid of the idea and change the party scene into an all-girls one..? No. Girls are disguised as boys, and even if we know it, the idea is to keep somehow the story as faithful as in the original. Sex or race, it is all a matter of make-believe, and I doubt many of us don't get this concept.
I agree pretty much with what you say, EXCEPT that black face paint is a controversial topic (probably only in the U.S. due to the way people used to use black face paint). It is not controversial in any other country probably, so it is probably not a problem in Europe. But it is a problem here, and so ABT or any other American company would probably not put a bunch of black face painted kids in a ballet. If we had not had a history of white performers making fun of blacks in black face paint there might not be a reaction like there is in the U.S. It is a unique reaction due to America's history.
A culture's reaction is not always a logical reaction. Other stereotypes are still okay to put on the stage in the U.S., but not black ones. You can't change the way the general population of a culture thinks and feels just because you want them to think and feel the way you do. And vice versa. We can't expect Russians to think and feel the same way about black face paint as we think and feel about it.
Posted 31 July 2012 - 11:00 AM
Apollinaire Scherr wrote about this:
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(And for those wondering whether the Russian empire, Soviet Union or post Soviet Russia has a history of racism regarding people of black-African descent or any other 'non' white populations...I think Google is a pretty helpful tool. Wikipedia too--which also gives sources. Is the U.S. any better? Let's say all racisms are "worse.")
As for Obraztsova...even when I'm watching a ballerina as great as she is...my pleasure is spoiled by what seems to me unnecessary theatrical boorishness. Which I think this is. And I gave up on the video.
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(CBS/AP)-- U.N. ambassador Susan Rice on Thursday officially withdrew her name from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, citing in a letter to President Obama the "lengthy, disruptive and costly" nominating process she was sure to face if tapped for the job -- a disruption she argued the nation "cannot afford."
Rice, who was considered a top contender for the position, has been recently embroiled in ongoing controversy surrounding her account of the September 11 Libya attacks, which she discussed in a series of talk show appearances on September 16.
In her letter to the president today, Rice said she was "saddened" that the position had become so politicized, but argued Congress has more important battles to fight.
"I am highly honored to be considered by you for appointment as Secretary of State. I'm fully confident that I could serve our country ably and effectively in that role," she wrote.
"However, if nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly - to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities. That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country.
It is far more important that we devote precious legislative hours and energy to enacting your core goals, including comprehensive immigration reform, balanced deficit reduction, job creation, and maintaining a robust national defense and effective U.S. global leadership. Therefore, I respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time."
In a statement, President Obama acknowledged that he had "accepted" Rice's decision to remove her name from consideration, and expressed "every confidence" in her ability to "serve our country now and in the years to come."
But the president, who fiercely defended Rice against the recent criticism, expressed deep regret over the attacks, which he called "unfair and misleading."
"Her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first," Mr. Obama said in the statement. "The American people can be proud to have a public servant of her caliber and character representing our country."
On September 16, five days after the attacks in Benghazi that caused the death U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, Rice appeared on a handful of Sunday morning political talk shows to discuss the incident.
Rice's comments on those shows were guided by CIA talking points that, according to a U.S. intelligence official, "were written, upon request, so members of Congress and senior officials could say something preliminary and unclassified about the attacks," and reflected the possibility that the attacks were a result of spontaneous protests spurred by an anti-Muslim video.
As details trickled out contradicting that possibility, Republicans pounced on the discrepancies between Rice's comments and others, and the ambassador ultimately clarified that there had been "no protest or demonstration in Benghazi" and that "the intelligence assessment [had] evolved" since her Sept. 16 comments.
A spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence told CBS News that "the intelligence community assessed from the very beginning that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack," and that Rice would have been privy to that characterization -- which was shared at a classified level -- since she's a member of the president's cabinet.
But CBS also learned that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) cut specific references to "al Qaeda" and "terrorism" from the unclassified talking points given to Ambassador Susan Rice ahead of her television appearances.
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I'm curious what solutions game developers have come up with for serializing the different types of data that they deal with for their games. Do you guys use some monolithic GameObject hierarchy that houses a serialization interface for derived types, use sort of custom RTTI-based solution, perform explicit stream serialization for certain classes, or use some of the open source solutions (boost::serialization, s11n, etc).
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Protocol buffers from Google can be a pretty good approach for serializing c++ objects. You may have to make some intermediated objects as part of the serialization process, but it also works across many platforms and languages.
We in our game simply use boost.serilization, it's easy to use and very fast, but it's in my opinion just useful for savegames. If you try creating characters, i recommend you something XML'ish or JSON based things, because they are easy to read and editable even if you don't have the editor.
I rather like JSON for serialization. It is pretty simple to parse and there are free libraries available such as http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/ I've never been a fan of boost or RTTI in C++. Tinyxml also work well for xml serialization and deserialization. http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/ Ultimately I don't want to have to spend any more time than I have to for serialization.
XDS was designed just for this purpose, it gives you the benefits of XML during development and the benefits of a compact binary representation at distribution time.
Message pack is a great alternative too! (http://msgpack.org)
Both jsonCpp and Protocol buffers are good options. To my knowledge both are only going to allow you to serial tree structures out of the box (please correct me if I am wrong). boost::serialization can handle arbitrary graphs, but doesn't have a nice text format like json (I think there is an xml format)
Personally I think the approach for json serialization that Dojo has taken is the best
I made my own version of it in c++ using jsoncpp, that also will deserialize typed objects (I have sort of big factory for all my types). It allows me to make a scene from a collection of json files that can be referenced anyway I please.
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I thought it should be "Je viens du acheter". Is it because "acheter" has a vowel at the beginning?
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De le becomes du only when le is an article, meaning "the". In this case le is a pronoun, meaning "it" (the book).
This sentence contains the particle de (part of the verb venir de) followed by the personal pronoun l' followed by the verb acheter. The usual form of this pronoun is le when referring to a masculine noun, and la when referring to a feminine noun. However, when the article is followed by a word that begins with a vowel, the pronoun is always elided to l'. The form l' exists for both genders.
This elision is also done when le or la is a definite article: le matin, la nuit, l'après-midi. It is also done when le or la is part of a partitive article: du pain, de la confiture, de l'eau.
Now let's suppose the verb didn't start with a vowel: "je viens de le vendre". Why don't we say "je viens
On the other hand, there is no contraction when de and le happen to be next to each other but they do not form a single unit. Here, de is part of the verbal compound venir de and le is a personal pronoun which forms a complement of this verb. There is no contraction when le is a pronoun: "je viens de le vendre".
You are right about the vowel part, consider these two examples:
However, in your example the words "de" and "l'" are not linked at all, so you can't replace them by "du".
Consider these two examples:
Here "de" isn't quantitative but is used to introduce another subsentence, here "manger".
So they have no relation, and you can't say, for example:
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204 goals, not a bad tally at all. Only 12 assists though?!
204 goals, not a bad tally at all. Only 12 assists though?!
That's only in the league of course, i can go through the history and work out total games, goals and assists in a bit if you want?
That would be great, but don't feel under any pressure if you don't want to!
Nah, no pressure at all, only take about 10 minutes max
Games Played: 502
Goals Scored: 224
Assists Made: 14
That's a pretty solid career really, can't complain. It is strange though that I could score 224 goals but get only 14 assists, clearly I was very greedy!
Just trying to work some stuff out now, like games, goals, assists, avg rating, man of the match, favoured personnel and the longest a player spent at a club, and i'll make some little award things
I need to wait for KPnuts to retire before posting anyway, so don't expect it anytime soon
I might not be able to work out the EXACT amount of most of them, but i'll give it a shot
Awards sound good, although I'll probably still have to wait to win something.
I'll try and make some others too like most expensive, most red cards(not 1 that people might want), i can't even remember if we had more than 1 gk, if there is only Glasser he'll be winning most clean sheets and most conceded
Those biographies are coming in really handy for finding out exact numbers, although if a player transfers, i can't work out the exact number, and when i get to Tardinho, who played in sweden, could be hard getting an exact number as the season was different
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Mauno Berglund transfers from Roma to Man U, staying as a Youth Coach.
Stuart Shaw retires completely.
KPnuts still not retiring yet, only in October though so quite a while to go.
Fatboy and Soviet both retire fully.
Only one more to go then and I can finally claim my victory!!
Not much new for mid January other than Charlton are losing patience with Chopper, will he be sacked by the end of the season?
Oh dear. Am I really that bad, that a BSP team are losing patience with me?
KPnuts - Played 31 games for Badajoz and scored 24 goals, not too bad for 36. Is enjoying playing for the club and still hasnt decided to retire yet. Not sure about the league as it's not loaded.
Ihsaan Ahmed - Leicester city youth coach still and Leicester finished 2nd, getting promoted to the Premier League while the youth team were Champions of Group 2.
Mauno Berglund - At Manchester United now as a youth coach, who we all know have pretty good young players. First team finished 4th and the youth team finished 3rd in Group 7.
Mark Brown - Mark is still assistant for Kidderminster and they finished 5th in Blue Square North, but unfortunately they didnt get promoted via the play-offs.
Chopper - Chopper took his Charlton side to 11th in the Blue Square South, probably not what he was expecting, but promotion may have been bad for him. Signed a new contract until next year, despite the rumours he was leaving.
Glasser - Still with Inverness as they win the Scottish League One and get promoted back to the Scottish Premier League.
Davidus Solo - No job for Davidus yet and could be heading the way of the other few who never got a job.
Tardinho - Is assistant at his old side Sundsvall still, but it's not looking good this season as they are heading towards the Swedish First Division North. Currently without a manager too so could Tardinho get chance to manage them.
Ben Arsenal
Whoopy Dee'e
Walid Farouk
Fatboy -
Tony Hawker
Chris Owen
Stuart Shaw
Soviet Sovietovski
Long Tym Toon
Don't think we need screenshots now really, other than KPnuts
Just got 3 more players full stats to sort out, then we wait for KPnuts to retire before we hand out player awards, will try and do staff awards too, but there probably won't be many to go out, maybe just a longest time as staff one
Also i don't know if Glasser noticed, but he got 3 goals as a keeper
Worked out KPnuts totals up to now as well, and it's unlikely he'll beat some of them, so i reckon i could make a few awards now, and once he does retire, i'll post a table thing for all players
First up we have Appearances - League, Cup, Continental and Inernational. The Winner is......
In 2nd place was Glasser with 706
Almost used this trophy as the Winner one, but they'll get something better hopefully, also expect more cheesy trophies
Nobody else was going to be winning this, a shock if they did, Best Goalkeeper
Hmmmm not sure what is going on there, but we can see who won
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Next up, Most Valuable Player, as in, transferred for the most overall, and the winner is.....
2nd place was Stoni at £21.21m
Next up we have the most red cards, it was a joint win, the trophy clearly showing them having a fight, the winners are.....
2nd place was Tony Hawker with 7
The most Man of the Match's next, it was quite close, but with 4 more, the winner is.....
2nd was Ben Arsenal with 53
Now onto the Most Assists, and with his 2nd trophy, the winner is.....
Soviet comes in 2nd with 122
Only a few more to come, Highest Avg, Most likeable(most favourites) and Goals, it's unlikely KPnuts will score 59 in a season, but he could go on longer, so that has to wait, the other two can be posted i think
What did I win?
Another player with another trophy, this time it's for Highest Average, the winner is..........
2nd place goes to Whoopy Dee'e and Tardinho with 7.18 each
Most Likeable player next, i know it's not a great one, but i wanted to do a few of these. The winner is......
2nd was Soviet and Mauno Berglund with 5
Longest Serving Player now and winning his 3rd trophy, the winner is..........
15 years with Stoke, 2nd place was Mark Brown with 13 years with Cardiff
Another dodgy pic too :S
So just goals and the winning trophy to go, will post them as soon as we find out who wins, pretty sure of the goals one, but i don't want to post, incase KPnuts doesnt retire for ages and scores loads. Also we know 3 players who could win, could be a joint win though.
All 2nd place players as stated above, win signed footballs and EVERYBODY gets an ATD 2.0 tshirt for taking part
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We can hand out the 3rd place Cup, as we know who's getting that, But 2nd and 1st is still to be decided
That's probably it for today, while i holiday to find out the other 3 trophy results
I want my trophy!!!!
You got one, or is it not showing up?
i get the emile hesky football
Wooo Award time! Its been a fun sign up and while its great to see the end results, its a pity that this thing is nearly over
Congratulations to all the winners above! Unfortunately big Walid Farouk isnt among them... yet!
Added the two trophies that couldnt be seen. Will try and do some holidaying today
Just holidaying through month my month to if KPnuts decides to retire.
So far not many changes, Mauno Berglund to Parma as a Coach and Davidus Solo retiring fully without having a staff job.
No award for me but congrats to those who got awards
Suggestion for award-Most trophies won
I was going to do that, i'll have a look through soon and work it out.
Meanwhile i don't think KPnuts is retiring this season haha, but i doubt he'll be stealing any awards, hopefully not anyway, or someone might have their trophy taken from them
A mug .
Thank you for the trophy.
Am I still coaching? I'll probably coach longer than I played. Might give up fewer goals coaching.
Yeah still an assistant at Inverness, hard to write anything about them though unless they are managers or youth coaches really.
Might have the next update tonight
The most trophies won is the next award and it's someone who already has a "cup"
2nd place was KPnuts, but it had youth cups on it too, so we'll say a draw with KPnuts, Mauno Berglund, Whoopy Dee'e and Chris Owen
Still, winner, 2nd place and goals award to go
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhh.
KPnuts - Played quite regularly for Badajoz but is determined to prove his worth to the team and is also transfer listed, not retiring just yet.
Ihsaan Ahmed - Leicester City got relegated from the Premier League while the Youth Team won their group.
Mauno Berglund - At Parma now as a coach and they finished 11th in Serie A
Mark Brown - Kidderminster were promoted via the play-offs in the BSN, so it's BSP for them next season.
Chopper - Almost got Charlton to the play-offs but missed out on the last day in 6th. Not bad though as promotion can usually lead to relegation the season after.
Glasser - Still with Inverness as they finished 5th in the SPL, no Europe though as 6th place won the cup.
Tardinho - Was never appointed manager at Sundsvall so stays as assistant. Sundsvall survived last season and are looking for promotion this season
I didn't win diddly squat, except for that stupid Heskey football.
Quite pleased with a trophy for most red cards (well a joint one anyway)
Brilliant work with the trophies btw Charles, top stuff.
Most red cards? Superb.
Just a hard-working, determined member of the team, whose hard-nosed attitude about winning the ball back served his teams well.
Will there be trophies for international records as well? I seemed to be quite a legend for Wales (undoubtedly because Wales are awful however :{)
I can make most international appearances and most international goals
Meanwhile KPnuts will retire at the end of the season, so the goals award is coming up soon, then we just need to sort out the winner, 2nd place and international awards
Most Goals goes to......
2nd place was Ihsaan Ahmed with 224
2 International Awards, Most Games and Most Goals
Runner up was Chris Owen with 108
Runner up was Mauno Berglund with 29
Yay. I won something.
9 goals off being top goalscorer?! Devastating.
naturally! (shame i don't score like that when i play footy!)
Great sign up CB, it was fun to keep tracking of this
Cheers, there isnt long left with this at all now, as KPnuts is retiring very soon. The main thing now is to find the winner, will try and do some holidaying tomorrow
KPnuts - Had a pretty good last season for Badajoz and will now wait until the end of the month to retire, meaning there will be no more players.
Ihsaan Ahmed - With Leicester as they finish 7th in the league. The youth team win the league again.
Mauno Berglund - Now a First Team Coach with Parma as they finish 8th in Serie A.
Mark Brown - Assistant Manager with Kidderminster, who finished 9th in the league.
Chopper - Reached the play-offs this year but was his side wasnt good enough to get past the semi final.
Glasser - Still in Scotland as Inverness Assistant. Inverness finished 7th in the league.
Tardinho - Sundsvall are back in the Premier League where Tardinho first joined them. 14th at the minute half way through the season.
KPnuts retirement post tomorrow
KPnuts Calls It A Day
Seasons - Start, 10/11, 11/12, 12/13, 13/14, 14/15, 15/16, 16/17, 17/18, 18/19, 19/20, 20/21, 21/22, 22/23, 23/24, 24/25, 25/26, 26/27, 27/28, 28/29, 29/30, 30/31, 31/32
Staff Attributes - Personal
History - Biography
We now have no players anymore, all staff. Will post a table of stuff soon, with goals, games etc.
Code:Player | Games | Goals | Assists | MoM | Red Cards | Avg Rating | Value | Favourites | Time With Club | Trophies | Ihsaan Ahmed 502 224 14 21 11 6.79 £7.63m 1 8 With Birmingham 2 Ben Arsenal 517 18 106 53 3 7.08 £3.67m 1 8 With Aston Villa 0 Mauno Berglund 794 162 136 36 2 7.06 £4.30m 5 15 With Stoke City 3 Mark Brown 484 40 63 11 4 6.75 £2.43m 1 13 With Cardiff City 1 Chopper 460 61 96 31 11 7.10 £0m 1 6 With Swansea/QPR 2 Dami 357 197 32 16 0 7.00 £3.90m 0 5 With AZ/Juaguares 1 Whoopy Dee'e 401 6 48 41 2 7.18 £7.19m 1 5 With Al-Ittihad 3 Walid Farouk 372 148 48 13 3 6.82 £9.32m 4 7 With Auxerre 0 Fatboy 460 13 47 21 2 7.03 £4.25m 0 7 With Celtic/West Ham 6 Tony Hawker 372 74 61 7 7 6.78 £1.29m 2 8 With Cardiff City 0 Jones 430 73 41 3 0 6.82 £1.70m 2 5 With Auxerre 1 KPnuts 466 215 19 27 1 6.86 £240k 2 11 With Chelsea 4 Chris Owen 572 233 23 11 0 6.81 £27.4m 2 6 With Notts Forest 3 Stuart Shaw 460 4 46 25 0 6.92 £300k 1 8 With Millwall 0 Davidus Solo 389 188 52 36 0 7.05 £2.77m 0 5 With West Ham 0 Soviet 488 68 122 57 3 7.31 £2.48m 5 7 With Evian 0 Stoni 394 130 13 8 0 6.76 £21.21m 2 8 With Genoa 1 Tardinho 357 49 90 28 2 7.18 £1.35m 2 6 With Sundsvall 1 Long Tym Toon 285 108 6 11 0 6.71 £0m 4 12 With Las Palmas 0
Code:Player | Games | Goals | Conceded | Clean Sheets | Assists | MoM | Red Cards | Avg Rating | Value | Favourites | Time With Club | Trophies | Glasser 706 2 920 175 0 12 3 6.80 £290k 2 7 With Tecos 1
If only I hadn't been so happy at Tecos. <sigh>
I think we can probably call this finished now and i'm declaring Chopper the winner.
Hopefully we can have ATD 3.0 or ATD 2012 when FM12 is out.
\o/ Hooray.
Now where's my trophy?
2nd place trophy was for 2 players
And the winners trophy
Wehey i get the wooden Spoon
how do i sign up and play this?
Bit late now, you'll have to wait until the new FM is out and i decide to start a new thread
Nice one.
Another great success this one Charles. I'll look forward to it if you decide to do another one when 12 comes out.
Nice trophies lawl.
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Suppose a number of photons with spectrum corresponding to black body spectrum at 293 K with total energy corresponding to 1 kg put in a box with ideal mirror walls with volume of 1/1000 of a cubic meter (1 liter). What pressure this photonic gas will manifest on the walls of the box?
Photons are radiation so their equation of state is $$ p = \frac{\rho}{3} $$ where $\rho$ is the energy density. So we have $$ p = \frac{mc^2}{3V} = \frac{1\times 9\times 10^{16}\,\,{\rm J}}{0.003\,{\rm m}^3} = 3 \times 10^{19}\,\,{\rm Pa}$$ It's a huge pressure. Not a surprising fact because the actual mass of photons we can produce is negligible. One kilogram worth of photons could be obtained by detonating a reasonable number of H-bombs: the mass would be taken from the difference between the helium and hydrogen nuclear masses.
Note that in this parameterization, the result doesn't depend on the frequency/wavelength/temperature of the photons.


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- PIO Number: 01-8-33 Case Number: OP01-07-27114 (UPDATED)
- Date: July 16, 2001
- Time: 0822
- Place of Occurrence: 1861 NW 27 Street, Oakland Park
- Charles "Chuck" Conley, 48, 6/4/53, 1861 NW 27 Street, Oakland Park (DECEASED)
- Anthony Bryan a.k.a Anthony Byrant, 1/6/78, male
- Tenisha L. Cannon, 10/15/82, female
- Tyrone Blash a.k.a Terrance Brown, 8/7/75, male
Description of Incident:
All three suspects, wanted for the murder of an Oakland Park man whose body was found by a co-worker last month, are in custody.
The last suspect, Tenisha Cannon, surrendered to police in New Haven, Connecticut on Tuesday on the advice of her lawyer. Cannon, Anthony Bryan, and Tyrone Blash face one count each of murder for the death of Charles Conley.
Conley's body was discovered Monday, July 16th, when Eric Jenkins arrived at Conley's home, located at 1861 NW 27 Street, shortly after 8 a.m. to check on him. Once inside, Jenkins found Conley deceased inside the house. Jenkins said Conley had not been to work over the weekend, at Florida Rock Industries, where he worked for more than 28 years.
After Broward Sheriff's Office homicide detectives notified other law enforcement agencies to be-on-the-look-out for the three suspects traveling in a stolen Toyota Avalon and stolen Chevrolet Camaro, New York police officers spotted the black 4-door Avalon with Florida tag J9825G and attempted to make a traffic stop. Bryan and Blash were taken into custody Monday evening; the same day Conley's body was discovered. The two remain in New York. They have also been charged with an attempted murder that occurred in New York during a robbery on June 18th.
Cannon had been in hiding before turning herself in earlier this week. Cannon waived extradition during Thursday's court hearing, and she is expected to return to Broward County soon. Bryan, Cannon, and Blash are also wanted for questioning for a June 2001 murder in New Haven, Connecticut.
The motive for this crime remains unclear and detectives continue to investigate. Bryant is a distant cousin of the victim. Bryant, Blash and Cannon had been staying with Conley for about 10 days prior to the July killing.
- INVESTIGATORS: Sgt. J. Carr, Sgt. B. O'Neil, Det. J. Berrena and Det. T. Duggan
- THIS REPORT BY: Veda Coleman-Wright/PIO
Posted At: 08/24/2001 01:31 PM
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Post by: Grant Rodiek
I really love working on Field Marshals. I spent so much time on Frontier Scoundrels, Poor Abby Farnsworth, and other failed designs, so finally landing on something worthwhile is good for the creative soul. I imagine it's somewhat akin to the satisfaction Wellington felt after the battle of Waterloo? That may be a tinge hyperbolic…
Nevertheless, it's fun to watch players thinking about their turns and trying to make the most out of their options. It's fun to watch them pull out powerful tactics only to see their opponent counter them. It's neat that it's becoming a game.
To cut to the chase, here are the new rules for Field Marshals. Below, I'm going to discuss the changes I've made as a result of testing, followed by a quick examination of some of the map development I've done. Note: Map development is REALLY DIFFICULT.
Testing Changes
In the latest test of Field Marshals, I tested a few key things:
- Revised Tactics, especially new options for the defender in a battle. Previously the battles favored the aggressor entirely, which just isn't accurate for the time period OR fun.
- New conscript mechanic, which determined a player's turn order and maximum Units.
Defensive Tactics
The revised tactics were definitely a step in the right direction. However, the value proposition for defenders just wasn't there. Essentially, a defender would need to spend 3 cards (out of a hand of 5) for a marginally useful ability. By spending those 3 cards as a defender, he wouldn't get to use them on his turn, meaning his round was relatively horked. Furthermore, the Ambush mechanic, which wasn't a Tactic, was poorly integrated. It created clunkiness and confusion.
Now, all defensive tactics are activated with one card. For all 3 Tactics, playing the card is a definite trade off, but it won't ruin the defensive player's entire round AND it gives them a chance to turn the tide of the battle. I believe it's the right direction. Ambush is now a tactic, which means it's fully integrated into the system and it's consistent across all defensive tactics.
Conscript Mechanic (Part 1)
The conscript mechanic was also a step in the right direction. Non-random turn order is better, having to decide how to build your Unit pool is good, and in general, the design needed a little breadth to deepen the strategy. However, the mechanic as implemented added a great deal of components and the dynamic turn order was too static for my tastes.
Before I explain my changes for the conscript mechanic, it makes sense for me to discuss the updates to the map first. They are very closely tied together.
The Map
In addition to the two features discussed above, some of the map's current problems really became apparent. Fundamentally, too many map elements encouraged players to separate and spread out instead of fighting over scarce resources. For example, players start from the center and move to the outskirts to accomplish goals. There are too many coal territories, which means they don't need to be fought over.
As a result, I've shifted a few things. The changes weren't difficult to make, but I think they'll have a huge impact on the quality of the game.
- There are no longer Secret Orders that direct players to conquer Seaports. I don't want players rushing to the edge. Seaports are now just a tool to use, a means to an end.
- I've condensed the map slightly so that there are fewer overall territories.
- There are now 3 coal territories instead of 4.
- Coal territories are located in the center of the board. Player Headquarters are located on the outskirts.
Here is the map I just tested:
Here is the update:
Conscript Mechanic (Part 2)
Instead of adding conscript tokens to normal territories on the board for players to obtain, conscripts will now simply be tied to controlling territory. The previous mechanic had a few problems:
- It added 12 new tokens and cluttered the board.
- It encouraged players to sprint around the map to collect tokens. It rewarded mobility, not holding territory (which is fictionally strange and bad for the game).
- It encouraged players to separate instead of competing for scarce resources.
The new mechanic allows players to increase their maximum Unit pool merely by controlling territory. However, there's a twist. For each territory connected to his Headquarters a player controls, he can increase his max Unit pool by a set amount. Note that each individual territory doesn't need to be connected, it's that the set of connected, contiguous territories must ultimately be connected to the Headquarters.
In addition to adding Units, connected territories are worth more points at the end of the game than disconnected stragglers. And, if you notice the map above, there isn't enough space for everyone to have all of the territories to hit the max pool easily. Plus, there are coal territories to conquer, fortresses to build…
Other Changes
- Players will now earn points for Battle Trophies
- Players will now earn points for controlling an opponent's HQ
- I've made slight tweaks to the card distribution in the decks.
- I've modified the cards required to activate Tactics as well as some of the numbers on the tactics (See snapshot of the player reference board below to see what I'm talking about).
- Assorted reference board improvements.
GenCon is quickly approaching, which means I need to polish off these changes and order some prototypes. I also hope to have some blind testing feedback before I pitch, which is also pressing. Deadlines lead to good decision making! We'll see how it rounds out.
As always, questions, comments, and feedback are appreciated.


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I am unsure what the following sentence in bold means
If you are using only the hostname (without the domain information) to connect to a server, the application you're using may not be able to resolve the hostname. This can happen if either the DNS suffix search order in your computer's TCP/IP properties is incorrect, or the DNS table is corrupted. In these cases, entering the host's FQDN will allow DNS to locate the server. --
I know that FQDN means the following in www.mySite.com
- www is the 1st domain
- mySite is the 2nd level domain
- com is the 3rd level domain
I know that DNS stands for Domain Name server. It seems that DNS is the collection of FQDN.
What does the sentence in bold mean exactly?


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Members of the media who wish to reach students, faculty, staff, or a spokesperson of the College, please email Media Relations or call 802-440-4399.
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Maliha Ali '15 has earned a $10,000 grant from the Davis United World Scholars Projects for Peace program to design and implement a public action project in her native Pakistan.
Ali will spend six weeks at a low-income area school in Karachi, Pakistan, conducting a "community action workshop" with students in grades eight through 10. For the first three weeks, Ali will help the students to educate themselves on the various issues facing their community, and to identify one problem in particular that they would like to address. The group will spend the following three weeks identifying causes, designing solutions, and working with local experts and community leaders to implement change.
"The goal is to help students learn that there are ways to think and act that they may not have thought of before, and therefore, enable them to be creative, active and responsible members of their communities who can identify a problem, the process of its solution and then become part of that process."
For more on Ali's project, click here.
The Projects for Peace initiative was started in 2007 by philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, when, in celebration of her 100th birthday, she funded 100 Projects for Peace. She is now 105 years old.


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Santiago Canyon College 2015-16 Lower Division Major RequirementsSantiago Canyon College
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Students may fulfill lower division major requirements before transferring to LMU. You may choose majors leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree, degrees for elementary teacher and preparation, and secondary teacher preparation, the Bachelor of Science degree, the Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree, or to the degrees awarded by the College of Business Administration. Select the major of your interest to view the courses offered by Santiago Canyon College that fulfill its requirements.
Loyola Marymount University offers majors in the following areas:
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The following are the majors offered by the College of Business Administration.
Each may be earned with a concentration in either Business Law or International Business.
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I've really enjoyed the Pyromania Update and Pyrovision in particular. Meanwhile, my game has improved. I used to be slaughtered on public servers and now I'm regularly getting a kill/death ratio around 1. (Both before and after the update I gravitate toward playing as a Pyro.) Maybe that's not the best metric, but I do feel like I'm scoring more points and helping the team better with Pyrovision enabled. I have three theories:
- The simpler graphics of the mode improve my framerate, which improves my game,
- The simpler graphics of the mode make finding enemies and other important game objects easier, which improves my game, and/or
- I've just gotten better/lucky since the change.
I'm looking for answers that either demonstrate objectively the plausibility of #1 or #2. Basically, I'd like to know if there really is a difference or if I'm being fooled by all the balloons, lollipops, rainbows and whatnot.


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7 Video Game Easter Eggs Designed to Screw With Your Head
Video game Easter eggs come in a variety of flavors. Some are meant to amuse the player, some are meant to creep the hell out of the player and some ... some have no discernible purpose other than making the player go what the actual fuck?
These are the latter kind.
#7. Silent Hill 2: The Dog Ending
Via Covergalaxy.com
The Silent Hill franchise is generally recognized as one of the most terrifying game series ever produced. It's all evil gods and twisted limbs and beings with geometric objects for heads.
So these games are pretty freaky to begin with, but somehow, a secret ending for Silent Hill 2 managed to make the entire franchise even weirder. The second game is about James Sunderland, a widower who goes into the haunted town of Silent Hill to look for his dead wife. To see the coveted ending, you need to beat the game at least once and play it over again to find a bone-shaped key, which grants you access to a secret room.
It may take you as many as three playthroughs to get this right, but it's totally worth it, because once you open the door, you'll find ...
... a dog in a headset, mucking around at a control panel. Apparently, everything that happened in Silent Hill was his work -- that isn't us talking, that's the game.
"Now it all makes sense!"
Realizing that the search for his wife has all been for naught and he's been a puppet of a freaking dog all this time, James falls to his knees for the small comfort of said dog licking his face.
"Damn you, evil ... haha ... evil beast ... aw, I can't stay mad at you."
Then the credits roll to circusy organ music, accompanied by yapping dog sounds and random pictures. And we mean random.
This is what a brain stroke looks like.
By the way, this isn't the last we see of the dog -- in Silent Hill: Origins, one of the endings has an alien beaming down to help the protagonist get his missing truck back. Wanna guess who's with him?
Now we know why the fans hated the movie so much: No dog ending.
#6. Gears of War 3: Magic Chickens Everywhere
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Gears of War is a dark, gritty trilogy of shooters where the planet is in ruins at the hands of alien invaders and the only thing between humanity and extinction is a bunch of muscular soldiers pattering on about their missing fathers and wives while shooting said aliens to shit. It's not a game where you'd expect to find a hidden race of chickens with magic powers, but life is full of surprises.
Perhaps we should elaborate. In the first level of the third game, you'll come to a docklike area with pipes. At one point, a chicken jumps out of one of those pipes.
Just a regular ol' pipe-dwelling chicken.
Now, as a video game player, your first instinct upon seeing the harmless little hen will most definitely be to shoot it ...
Did we learn nothing from the Zelda games?
... at which point it will magically transform into a giant golden chicken and come at you with a vengeance.
That's the second largest golden cock we've ever seen.
Wait, make that a giant fire-breathing golden chicken, zipping around, flamethrowering your sorry ass.
And then, if you manage to kill it, it will explode into confetti, of course.
Of course.
Somehow, this isn't even the most baffling of the game's chicken antics. If you're playing on the hardest difficulty setting and don't disturb any of the dead bodies at the beginning of Act 4, you can find a chicken wearing a neon-trimmed pirate hat in a storage room. This one skips the fire-breathing bit and goes straight to the "exploding into confetti when shot" part.
"Seriously? What do I have to do to get some chicken wings?"
However, this is actually the beginning of an optional side quest for a secret weapon called the Cluckshot, which, as you've probably guessed by now, is a rocket launcher that fires exploding chickens. And yeah, you can kill enemies with it, or yourself, if you're not careful.
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#5. Contra: Hard Corps: Beat the Disco Robot, Become a Prehistoric Monkey King
Contra games are usually pretty straightforward: You walk in the same direction, shooting everything that crosses your path until you get to the boss. Contra: Hard Corps for Sega Genesis, however, lets you take a small detour from the main game if you find the hidden man in the top hat, who offers you a chance to partake in something called the Battle Arena.
"All you have to do is put on this thong and ..."
If you accept, you find yourself in a secret room where you have to fight a disco-boots-wearing, Afro-having robot with cool shades who attacks you with a whip and shoots fish pastries at you.
Really should have seen this coming.
When beaten, the Disco Robot will erupt into fish pastries and explode.
This is how all video game bosses should die, always.
Your next opponent is a giant zombie in a dress pushing around her baby slime monster in a carriage with a turret on the front ... but you know what, this still makes more sense than the previous guy.
This is precisely why you say no to men with top hats.
And finally, the third opponent is a robot who warps around the room by ripping holes in the fabric of space, and who manages to look really out of place here by at least resembling a normal Contra enemy. So then you go back to the normal game, right? Nope: Defeating it will cause your character to get sucked into one of its portals ...
... and get sent back to the Cretaceous Period, where he'll find himself surrounded by freaked out monkeys and a really thrilled Apatosaurus.
At this point, we're not even surprised that the monkeys have glasses.
Cut to several years later: Your character is now king of the monkeys, for lack of anything better to do.
Those monkeys are livid that he got the sexiest monkey wife.
The motherfucking end. Credits start rolling, and it's over. Oh, what's that? You wanted to return to the normal game? Then we hope you remembered to save before you walked into this insanity, buddy.
#4. Perfect Dark: The Hidden Cheese Wedges
Perfect Dark was the spiritual successor to GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64, only instead of being James Bond, shooting Russians in the crotch, you're Joanna Dark, fighting an alien conspiracy at Area 51. But, as you go through the game, you may stumble across a different, far more insidious conspiracy: There is a single piece of cheese hidden in every level. For some reason.
Seriously. You can find them behind grates ...
Air vents: Not just for hiding serial killer blood slides.
... on shelves ...
... in the toilet ...
It's that or a really big piece of corn.
... and so on. There are 22 pieces in all, but you can't pick them up or photograph them or even eat them -- the game gives you absolutely nothing for finding them all, other than the depressing feeling that you've wasted a significant portion of your life tracking down and looking at pixelated cheese.
And it's not like they're a piece of cake to find: You have to go through some absurd measures to find some of them. A couple require you to complete little challenges, like not being seen or not taking damage for the first part of the level, while others require you to look through the sniper scope to catch a fleeting glimpse of them.
Who was the first person to find this, and what went wrong in their lives?
We can only speculate on why the game's creators did this. Maybe Area 51 has a mouse problem and the cheese is poisoned. Maybe the pieces of cheese are remnants of a more complex feature that the company scrapped during production. Or maybe they're just fucking with us. We'll never know (but it's definitely the last one).


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The goal is to continue building and strengthening the evidence base for domestic and sexual violence programs. Other key goals include: (a) increasing knowledge sharing between service providers and researchers, (b) informing participants about the latest research and practice happening in the state, and (c) providing a forum for researchers and service providers to engage with each other. This conference is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the UNCG Program to Advance Community Responses to Violence Against Women, and the UNCG Department of Counseling and Educational Development.
© 2016 National Sexual Violence Resource Center – Founded by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
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text: Everyone loves the American-based or British-based authors yet other countries produce great SFF authors who write in their own language. The translations are not often advertised and unfortunately we miss out on some great reads. Here is my contribution: Sergei Lukyanenko, a Russian sci-fi writer, most famous for his Trilogy of the Watch, starting with the "Night Watch" aka "Nochnoi Dozor" which has been made into a movie that is due to hit the international cinemas in July. It is not strictly fantasy or science fiction as it is set and takes place in modern day Moscow. The concepts introduced are amazing and very unique. I recommend to read the translated version and then see the movie. This book won the author the title of the "Best European fantasy author" a little while back. Any other non-English writing authors that people on SFF can recommend?


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my question concerns the definition of the quotient $G/H$ in the sense of category theory. The following definition was obtained from the lecture notes linked to at the end of the question(p.2)
Def. Let G be a group, and let S be a subset. The quotient of G by S is a group homomorphism $$q: G \rightarrow Q$$ such that $S \subset \mathrm{Ker}(q)$ which is universal amongst all such group homomorphism. That is, suppose that $$\phi : G \rightarrow G'$$ is a group homomorphism, such that $S \subset \mathrm{Ker}(\phi)$. Then there is a unique group homomorphism $\Psi: Q \rightarrow G'$ which makes the following diagram commute.
I am having trouble understanding what role $S$ is playing and why this definition makes sense. Thanks in advance.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - U.S. News & World Report has placed SUNY Geneseo at the top of its "Best Undergraduate Teaching" institutions list among north region universities in the publication's 2013 best colleges guidebook. The college also tied for 5th in the region in the "Up-and-Comers" category and 10th in the general north region university rankings.
U.S. News defines a regional university as one that offers a full range of majors and master's programs but few, if any, doctoral programs.
"The U.S. News rankings have been published for many years and Geneseo has consistently appeared among the top dozen or so schools in our category," said Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl. "It doesn't surprise me at all that we have been at the top of the 'Best Undergraduate Teaching' list in our region for two years. It confirms our faculty's commitment to excellent teaching, which is our core mission as a public liberal arts college and the reason we attract very strong students."
The "Best Undergraduate Teaching" colleges in the country were selected from data collected from administrators at peer institutions within their region who identified schools where the faculty demonstrated an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching. Administrators also were asked to nominate "Up-and-Comer" institutions, colleges they think have recently made the most promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, student life, campus or facilities.
In the general north region university rankings, Geneseo was one of three public colleges ranked in the top 20.
All of this year's rankings are available online and will be published in the 2013 edition of the Best Colleges guidebook, available at the U.S. News Store and on newsstands Sept. 28.
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A former Lansing Correctional Facility inmate has been sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison for battering a correctional officer while he was at the local prison.
Keontae D. Peters, who later was moved to the El Dorado Correctional Facility, was convicted last month in Leavenworth County District Court of battery of a state correctional officer. He was sentenced Friday to 130 months. This will run consecutive to the sentence he's already serving.
Peters reportedly punched a correctional officer May 10, 2012, while he was incarcerated at LCF. The officer's nose was fractured.
Peters is already serving a sentence for convictions in Sedgwick County for burglary, theft and aggravated escape, according to a Kansas Department of Corrections website.
Prior to Friday's sentencing in Leavenworth County District Court, Peters had been eligible for release as early as Sept. 2, 2015.
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The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History
These next entries earn their place on the list for the sheer lack of thought the bands later admitted they gave to their names. If the bands had spent any less time coming up with something, they would have ended up calling themselves The Band Name.
22. Stone Temple Pilots
The story: One of the band members thought the logo on the STP car treatment spray bottles was cool. So yes, in case you were wondering: a lot of thought went into this.
Why it's ridiculous: Most of the band members seemed to think titling songs "Kitchenware & Candy Bars" and getting addicted to heroin was a fantastic idea, too. Evidence suggests they might not be the guys to turn to for well-reasoned decisions. The mental image of four guys flying around ancient Aztec temples matches up better with a psychedelic rock band, not a bunch of cock-rockers penning songs like "Meatplow" and "Sex-Type Thing."
21. Matchbox 20
The story: Explanations range from the name being the title of a song from an earlier band to the band's drummer seeing the word "matchbox" and the number 20 on a guy's shirt in a restaurant. Either way, shut the fuck up, Rob Thomas.
Why it's ridiculous: If you're going to pick a band name that doesn't mean shit, there's an unspoken rule it should at least sound cool (Soundgarden, etc). Matchbox 20 manages a triple play of mediocrity: It's incomprehensible, it's boring and it's not even very original, given how many other generic bands showed up at the same time as matchbox with "word-number" combos (Blink-182, Sum 41, 13 Engines, Seven Mary Three, etc.).
20. Smashing Pumpkins
The story: More of a cautionary tale than anything else, bandmates Billy Corgan and co. reportedly dashed the name off quickly so they could get on with their lives, not realizing they'd be fielding lame pumpkin-based jokes about it for the rest of their lives.
Why it's ridiculous: According to a November 1993 Washington Post interview with bass player D'arcy Wretzky, even the band thinks Smashing Pumpkins "is a stupid name, a dumb bad joke and a bad idea," which should tell you something. These days, they claim the name doesn't even have anything to do with pummeling squash fruit, in that "smashing" was meant to imply "great" (as in the British slang), like that somehow makes it less stupid. It'd be like accidentally crapping yourself on a bus, then telling everyone it's okay, because you meant to: Nobody cares why you did it, Shitty Pants.
19. Def Leppard
The story: Singer Joe Elliott thought of the name Deaf Leopard while he was in school (presumably while failing something). The spelling was later changed so the band didn't become confused with punk bands (who are known for their flawless spelling).
Why it's ridiculous: Putting aside '80s metal bands' fascination with animals for a minute (White Tiger, Whitesnake, Great White, Jackyl, Ratt) unless you're a Mozart-level talent, there's simply no excuse for including a word in your band's name that means you can't hear sounds. You might as well just call yourself Terrible Music and save people the energy of mocking you.


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I'm having some trouble mounting shares on 11.10. I've installed pyNeighborhood through which I can mount windows shares as root. I want to be able to mount them as non-root so that I can write to the shares. I did some googling and tried a few things, but none of it helped:
sudo chmod 6755 /sbin/mount.cifs
sudo chmod 6755 /bin/umount
sudo chmod u+s /sbin/mount.cifs
sudo chmod u+s /bin/umount
Any ideas?
Mounting gives this error:
mount.cifs: permission denied: no match for /home/myUser/pyNeighborhood/WORKGROUP/myServer/myShare found in /etc/fstab


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John W. Durdle, a windmill collector form Hopedale, Ill., traveled 500 miles over two days for this afternoon's grand opening of the Kregel Windmill Factory Museum.
Durdle recently discovered an Eli windmill in Illinois for purchase. He has not yet erected the windmill, but says it is intact.
The grand opening is scheduled at 2 p.m. today near Central Avenue and 15th Street. A ribbon cutting is scheduled at 3 p.m.
Durdle, a retired assembler for Caterpillar, currently has about 80 windmills in his collection.
Durdle said the Eli, which was manufactured at the factory, was purchased by a man who was coming through the area. "He had stopped at a farm and the lady said she had an Eli, it had just fallen down," he said.
Durdle remembered visiting the Kregel factory years before and bought the windmill for his collection.
He said he had been in town talking to Sid Suedemeier about anvils when he learned of the factory and was able to take a look. He noticed a sing left by manufacturing expert John Bowditch.
"There were metal shavings laying on the floor. That's what made it seem so authentic, as if the workers had just left one day and never came back," he said.
Durdle said he is interested to see if those details of the factory have been preserved.
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