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The Leavenworth Cancer Support Group announces a venue change effective today.
The group now will be meeting in 2 North Conference Room on the second floor of Saint Luke's Cushing Hospital, 711 Marshall St.
The support group which is for cancer survivors, friends and family meets at 7 p.m. the second Thursday of each month.
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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
I have a question regarding a diagnosis of fibrosarcoma in my 5-year-old Rottweiler. I searched your site on fibrosarcoma, but the only two cases discussed were both in the leg. My dog had a well-defined fibrosarcoma removed from the area of her sternum the report indicated a low-grade malignancy and that the margins were healthy tissue. Given that information, and that it was on the torso and not a limb, would the prognosis be any different for treatment and possible recurrence? I plan to have her seen by a veterinary oncologist within a few days, but would like any statistical or general trends for this type of cancer and its treatment.
I would appreciate any information you can provide; she is a once in a lifetime dog, and I want to give her the best chance possible.
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section, responds:
The treatment of choice for low-grade soft tissue sarcomas, which includes fibrosarcomas, is complete surgical excision with wide margins. The term "wide" is determined by the size and location of the primary tumor and to a lesser extent the number of prior surgeries. If both the surgeon and the pathologist are satisfied with the surgical margins, then surgery alone might be adequate. If there is any question about the adequacy of the surgical margins, either a wider surgical resection or radiation therapy might be recommended. These types of tumors are unlikely to metastasize; so local control of the tumor is the focus of treatment.
One additional comment on recurrence the fact that a soft-tissue sarcoma might appear "well-defined" or "encapsulated" can be deceptive. These tumors can be surrounded by what appears to be a well-defined rim of fibrous tissue. In fact, this rim of tissue is actually composed of compressed tumor cells. Tendrils of the tumor may have extended beyond this rim. An analogy is a weed growing in the yard. The well-defined portion of the tumor can be thought of as the leaves above the ground, but what you can't see or feel is the root system underground. Remove just the leaves, and the weed can regrow from the roots that are left behind.
It is wise for you to discuss this case with a veterinary oncologist.
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I boiled a chicken legs for over 2 hours in low temperature. The soup is yellow and with very soft chicken. It tastes very good after adding some salt. Which part of chicken is the most appropriate for doing a soup? I am looking for the lowest cost option.
The lowest-cost option is definitely bones, assuming you don't actually need or want pieces of meat in the soup.
When I say bones I'm referring to the parts that are normally thrown out as waste products, especially the necks, feet, and carcasses. If you can't find them at a supermarket, talk to a butcher. They are sold for next to nothing - usually less than $1/kg, sometimes as low as $0.50/kg. That is even less than the per-unit cost of a whole chicken. Some butchers (no promises!) will even give them away for free, or at least haggle a little bit, especially if their business is small.
You can roast these and simmer (not boil) them over a period of several hours to produce a very rich stock. Usually you would do this with a mirepoix and/or bouquet garni for flavour. When it's done, you strain it, and then add fresh or frozen vegetables, noodles, etc., to stretch it into a full meal or at least a hearty soup.
If I really wanted meat in the soup, I'd opt for thighs, as they are inexpensive and (once butchered) you can throw the bones in with the rest.
Other than pure bones, the "budget" option for chicken is almost always the whole chicken, if you can use it all. That means doing your own boning and butchering, then using the bones and trimmings for stock/soup and finding ways to use the offal (combs, hearts, livers, etc.) The offal really isn't any good in soup, so if you just want chicken soup, then stick to just bones and one inexpensive cut (over here it's thighs, but this may vary by location).
For a soup, you want slow cooking meat with bones. Legs are very good. The hips and back are also good. Breast (white meat) will become dry and stringy. Wings make good stock, but don't have enough meat to be good for eating. The tail piece has too much fat. The innards are bad for a soup, they are very prone to overcooking.
I don't think there is much cost difference in chicken parts. Steaks from the white meat cost more, but there aren't bones in them, so they are a better value. You can buy legs only, or buy a whole chicken and use its legs and hips in a soup and the breast fried. If you get the innards with it, fry them too. It is your choice where to use the rump meat, but for cooking times of two hours, I'd rather fry it too. But usually, I cook soup shorter.
The tradition in Scotland, my homeland, is to cook the whole chicken in water. That's feet and head and all (if the butcher leaves them on) along with some leek and onion. When the chicken is finished cooking, don't cook it too long, you remove it from the water and cut off the meat. The meat can then go to make your main course meal while the cooking water becomes broth for soup. You can throw some of the little fiddly bits of back and neck meat back into the soup to add flavour.
Once your removed all the edible part, put the bones, head, feet and other bits you didn't consume into another pot and boil again. You'll get a second batch of soup broth from this. You might even get a third batch though this will not be as strong as the first ones and will take more boiling.
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I am writing a paper using documentclass 'article' and using jabref for bibliography. While I was using unsrt as the citation style its giving me the following problem....
for example, i wrote multiple author name like..
Díez-Pascual, A. M. \& Ashrafi, B. \& Naffakh, M. \& González-Domínguez , J. M.
\& Johnston, A. \& Simard, B. and Martínez, M. T. \& Gómez-Fatou, M. A.
but the output is coming like...
B. & Naffakh M. & González-Domínguez J. M. & Johnston A. & Simard B. Díez-Pascual,
A. M. & Ashrafi and M. A. Martínez, M. T. & Gómez-Fatou
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I plan to replace the starter on my Suburban. When I go to BuyAutoParts.com, and fill in the make/model/year http://www.buyautoparts.com/selectpart/1998_GMC/Suburban/Starter/30-0.html
I get two choices for 5.7Liter. Once says SD255 and the other says PMGR. Do you know what these mean? Do you suggest a different way to determine the correct starter for my vehicle?


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I've copied a bunch of large media files to an external hdd connected via USB. When I try to put them back on my notebook hdd (I open nautilus and move the files in F3-mode) I get a lot of hickups and the process can never be finished for any file. Something wrong with the external hdd?
As we discussed in the comments, it is still possible to transfer your files to your device with the terminal (instead of the gui), even when there are spaces in the device name. You can either escape it with
(If you are on 12.10 the new location is
Then use something like
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You could also use
Both methods should transfer your files correctly or give you a good idea of what the issue is, as they give much more useful information than when you transfer files with the gui tools.
If you still cannot transfer your files correctly, then I should consider William Bell's ideas to test the filesystem integrity on your disks.
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I was just looking at a question on SO, something along the lines of "how long does it take to multiply two numbers," and observing how most of the answers were variations on the theme: "It depends on your system. You have to measure it." It occurred to me that there are at least a few questions like this, that get asked in various forms over and over again, and are always met with the same set of answers. Wouldn't it be neat if, when a user submitted such a question, SO itself posted a default answer.
For example, if the question contains the words, "parse", "HTML" and "regex", post an automatic "You can't...regular language...link to insane bobince post..." answer.
It would be a good way to let users know when they've asked a question that's not exactly a duplicate, but that's been answered in principle over and over again. Of course the community could up vote or down vote the default answers.
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All AC maps that I have used have been accurate and helpful. I have not ridden this route yet, but the map appears to look fine.
Vancouver is a relatively easy city in which to bicycle. Then after crossing the border into Washington, you'll be riding on narrow two-lane roads on level terrain. There are no shoulders, and traffic is light. Bellingham is a larger town with moderate traffic and some congested intersections. SR-20 south of Anacortes and Whidbey Island has some rolling to hilly terrain. There are several narrow two-lane sections and congested areas near the island's towns; traffic is generally light away from SR 20. South of Port Townsend the route is rolling to hilly on mostly low-traffic rural roads through farms and forests. From Castle Rock in southern Washington you'll face some steep climbs across low hills to Ocean Beach Rd. along the Columbia River. In Oregon, you'll ride west on US 30, which carries moderate traffic and has wide shoulders most of the way into Astoria, the beginning and end points for the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail and the Lewis & Clark Bicycle Trail.
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All AC maps that I have used have been accurate and helpful. I have not ridden this route yet, but the map appears to look fine.
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The maps were very helpful and a good size. The only problem we had was consistently finding and staying on the designated route without being able to see other roads in the area that intersected the route. A larger perspective would offer the rider greater assistance but would necessitate a larger map. Several times we got on a wrong road and were unable to figure out where we went wrong without the visual help of a larger map.
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A good guide for getting out of Vancouver. We got off the train, got on the bike and made Bellingham, WA by dinnertime. Detoured down 101along the Hood canal rejoining the route in Shelton, WA, then veered off again at Castle Rock and picked up the STP route into Portland for our daughter's wedding. Googled for hotels alng the way. A great trip overall!


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I obviously can't have a job that would require me to deal with coworkers bc one of them is bound to piss me off. I end up going off on them and I get canned. However, if I work at home and I explode, it would be at home and not at a company. The problem is what work at home jobs are out there and how can I get them? I'm not considering self employment. I wanna be tied to a company. Plus, how hard is it to get hired at the company if I were fired for workplace violence against an inanimate object?
What kind of work at home jobs are available?
Nothing like that exist on internet nowadays.
I think anything internet related can become a "work at home" job. Hone your skills in internet marketing, SEO, blogging. Make yourself a resource, and you can work for a great company. Make yourself an even better resource, and you can work for yourself! Educating and growing your knowledge is key.
Hey first of all let me tell you that most of them are just fake...so beware of fake companies while trying this.Home jobs are available in many field it just depends on you what you want to opt.
Yeah. The internet has a wide horizon of job opportunities but you need to be careful about the offers because most of them doesn't pay at all or if they do only 50% of the deal. So I suggest if you really want to work online do your own research on how legit and credible the company is. Okay?


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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
West Virginia: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Welcoming Initiatives in the Mountain State
In West Virginia, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute significantly to the state's economy. Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the state's innovation industries, and to the metropolitan areas within the state, helping to boost local economies. Furthermore, local government, business, and non-profit leaders recognize the importance of immigrants in their communities and support immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute to West Virginia's economy.
- From 2006 to 2010, there were 1,486 new immigrant business owners in West Virginia, and in 2010, 2.7 percent of all business owners in West Virginia were foreign-born.
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had a total net business income of $139 million, which is 5.1 percent of all net business income in the state.
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to West Virginia's innovation industries, which in turn helps lead American innovation and creates jobs.
- Immigrants contribute to West Virginia's economic growth and competitiveness by earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from the state's research universities. In 2009, almost 55 percent of STEM graduates from the state's research-intensive universities were foreign-born, and 76.3 percent of graduates earning PhDs in engineering in West Virginia were not born in the U.S.
- In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 377 H-1B labor certification applications in West Virginia, with an average annual wage of $69,080, which is greater than West Virginia's median household income of $40,400, but higher than its per capita income of $22,482.
- An expansion of the high-skilled visa program would create an estimated 1,300 new jobs in West Virginia by 2020. By 2045, this expansion would add around $537 million to Gross State Product and increase personal income by more than $505 million.
While the numbers are compelling, they don't tell the whole story.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators not only contribute to large innovative companies, but to small business formation in local communities. In cities across West Virginia, immigrant family-owned small businesses contribute to the vitality of their local communities. Although initially aimed at other immigrant customers, many businesses quickly see an expansion of their clientele to include a diverse array of immigrant and native-born customers alike.
- In and around West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, including the town of Martinsburg, Hispanic immigrant-owned businesses dot the landscape. Such businesses include day-care centers, beauty shops, restaurants, caterers, grocery stores, and interpretation and translation services.
- In downtown Charleston, the state's capital, immigrant-owned restaurants cater to a variety of tastes.
- Miguel Aguirre, from Mexico, runs Rio Grande on Court Street, which he and four others opened in 1990.
- Abe Ganim, from Israel, opened Sahara Catering and Restaurant in 2003 on Summer Street.
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Colon will host an International Taste Festival from 5-7 p.m. on Friday.
The public is invited to sample food such as Italian, Mexican, German, Polish, Bohemian and more.
The cost is a free will offering and proceeds will go for the Colon Fire Department for equipment.
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Mission: To decriminalize consensual BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Dominance/submission, sadomasochism) in U.S. law by ensuring that consent will be recognized as a defense to criminal charges brought under assault laws and other statutes.
Unlike most other sexual issues (rape, for example), BDSM activities—a "scene", a dungeon party, a Dominant/submissive or Master/slave relationship—can result in a criminal prosecution and conviction even where the activity is entirely consensual. It's important to remember that most BDSM activities are treated as violence and not sex. This is not speculation; in 2010, NCSF's incident response help line received 204 requests for help concerning criminal prosecutions.
NCSF's research of cases throughout the United States revealed that not a single appellate court decision has allowed consent as a defense to a BDSM-based criminal prosecution for assault, sexual abuse, etc. Even where a state law allows the consent defense in cases that do not involve "serious bodily injury," appellate courts have ruled that the use of nipple clamps or hot wax produces "serious bodily injury".
The realization that our communities are at risk of criminal prosecution led to the launch of the "Consent Counts" initiative in 2006 at a Leather Leadership Roundtable at NGLTF's Creating Change. At this Roundtable and one held subsequently at the Leather Leadership Conference, decriminalization of consensual BDSM was determined to be the number one priority of the BDSM/Leather/Fetish communities. It was subsequently determined that NCSF would take a leadership and coordinating role. This is, with the related initiative to change the way BDSM is viewed by psychiatry in the DSM criteria, NCSF's most important project.
Our "Consent Counts" initiative is multi-faceted. We have researched the statutes, court decisions and relevant law review articles in all 50 states, and the results of that research are available on the NCSF website. We are presenting programs and holding meetings with our communities across the country, to build understanding of the issues and to develop consensus on an effective approach to nationwide activism. A national discussion guide has been created to facilitate local discussions to assist in the drafting of a community-wide statement on consent at LLC at Seattle 2013 with the goal of decriminalization and to promote local and national activism. This aspect of our initiative also includes an EOP focused on Frequently Asked Questions about the criminal law issues and on Best Practices by which individuals and groups can reduce the likelihood of prosecution and—equally important—enable us to argue more effectively that what we do is mutually pleasurable erotic activity (not violence) and
that care is taken to ensure consensuality and avoid excessive stimulation or unintended harm. In addition, NCSF has published primers for both alleged victims and for those accused of consent violations.
The activism aspect of "Consent Counts" will be equally multifaceted. We have already begun reaching out to law enforcement, to legislators and to educators. In the coming year, we will be presenting continuing legal education (CLE) programs to lawyers, working with bar associations and law student groups, and participating selectively with "friend of the court" briefs in legal cases. Further down the road is the development of grass roots activism to change state laws and law enforcement practices.
In all of this, we need your help. You can report BDSM-related criminal investigations and prosecutions to NCSF. Your local groups can host "Consent Counts" presentations and discussions on activism strategies and on community practices that can help avoid criminal problems. As we go forward, we are seeking volunteers for various forms of activism and educational outreach. And, of course, your continuing donations to the NCSF Foundation (tax-deductible) and NCSF are essential for making this project effective.
In 2002, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) once again took the lead in defending the rights of individuals and groups in the SM-leather-fetish, swing and polyamory communities. NCSF's coalition of 29 educational and social groups is committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression.
NCSF's Incident Response team is directed by Leigha Fleming, who instituted new methods for tabulating responses in 2002. In total, nearly 600 contacts were made between NCSF and individuals, groups, attorneys, prosecutors, and businesses who requested assistance. Each incident sometimes required only one or two phone calls, but many evolved into much larger projects such as the series of attacks by religious political extremists against SM conferences in the midwest.
In 41% of the incidents, NCSF assisted individuals. The largest category of incidents involved parents who were engaged in child custody and divorce cases. Parents continue to experience difficulties gaining child custody due to their interest in SM, swing or poly activities. NCSF worked with a number of attorneys representing parents accused of being unfit because of their alternative lifestyle interests. In many cases, because of information we were able to provide, the courts decided that alternative sexual expression alone was not cause to impugn a parent's ability to be a good parent. Individuals also consulted with NCSF on a variety of other issues, including: the legality of obscene materials, guidelines for posting sexually frank information on websites, the law regarding private parties, and dealing with personal media exposure.
In 2002, NCSF also opposed zoning and other local regulatory measures against those who practice some form of alternative sexual expression. NCSF assisted the swing communities in Florida and Phoenix by holding open-forum discussions about how to affect zoning regulations and current litigation against lifestyle clubs. NCSF also worked with the Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance (GLAA) to lobby against the Washington DC's Alcoholic Beverage Control regulation 905, which has been used to prohibit SM play in local establishments with liquor licenses even when liquor isn't being sold or consumed.
From February to May 2002, five SM conventions were targeted by Concerned Women for America, American Family Association, and the American Decency Association. NCSF worked with each event to counter sensationalized attacks in the media as well as resisting action by local authorities who attempted to shut down these SM conferences. The attacks took place in the midwest: My Vicious Valentine and International Mr. Leather in Chicago, Bound by Desire in Michigan, Tribal Fire in Oklahoma, and Beat Me in St. Louis in Missouri.
In April, Missouri State Senator John Loudon introduced a resolution to prohibit SM conferences from being held in that state. NCSF educated the Missouri State Attorney General about the educational benefits of SM conferences, and the state health department sent an observer who confirmed that all activities were safe, sane and consensual. Beat Me in St. Louis was held exactly as planned.
With two of these SM conferences, the host hotels canceled their contracts. However both conferences were able to re-locate to new host hotels. Cendant Corporation, the world's largest hotel franchiser with more than 6,400 hotels, bowed to pressure from religious political extremist groups and threatened its franchisees with reprisal if they booked "controversial" guests or groups that "national interest groups find offensive." NCSF conducted a successful media and write-in campaign that convinced Cendant Corporation to clarify its position, honoring the right of hotel franchisees to host the events of their choice.
In 2002, there were several police raids against alternative sexual expression clubs, including a raid that resulted in the closure of Behind the Scenes, an SM club in Philadelphia, PA. In July, a raid against Club Zinc, a swing club in Atlanta, GA, resulted in the arrest of patrons who consulted with NCSF. Another lifestyle club in Connecticut was raided and closed in June because they were improperly located in a residential neighborhood. In Phoenix, AZ, NCSF worked with several swing clubs that continue to be threatened with closure because of overly-restrictive zoning laws.
Spokesperson Susan Wright gave 81 interviews with the media in 2002 including print, radio and television interviews on national shows such as The O'Reilly Factor. Incidents such as the CWA attacks against SM conferences required extensive media contacts. In addition, the trial and conviction of serial killer John Robinson in Kansas City necessitated media work because Robinson met several of his victims in SM chat rooms. The witness who reported Robinson's theft of her toys to the police, resulting in Robinson's arrest, consulted with NCSF prior to her appearance in the trial.
The SM community rallied when Jack McGeorge's participation as a UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq was questioned by the Washington Post in a series of SM-negative articles. It was suggested that McGeorge should be dismissed from the UN weapons team because, among other things, McGeorge is a former Chairman of NCSF. Community members sent dozens of "Letters to the Editor" to the Washington Post, NY Daily News, CNN, and Fox News protesting the attacks against McGeorge, who received support from Hans Blix and remained on duty as a Weapons Inspector.
Clubs regularly contact NCSF to receive media training for incidents or events. In one media incident, a nonprofit club in Muncie, Indiana, was threatened with closure along with a nearby strip bar until the media was educated about safe, sane and consensual SM. NCSF also gave media assistance to a swing club in Connecticut which was closed because of zoning issues.
Job discrimination continues to be a problem for individuals. NCSF helped more than a dozen people draft and file formal complaints with their employers regarding employment discrimination claims. One Tennessee man lost his job because he belonged to a leather club. NCSF referred a Texas man to the EEOC because of racial discrimination. A California woman contacted NCSF when a job offer was withdrawn when her personal website was discovered. Another woman was dismissed from a private Catholic university because of her private sexual expression.
Discrimination complaints were also made about two Internet companies in 2002. In July, E-bay pulled all of its SM-related material for sale, while Match.com deleted a therapist's ad because it mentioned their poly therapy practice.
NCSF was contacted by individuals, attorneys and prosecutors on a variety of criminal cases, including: an exhibitionist arrested for public exposure, prostitution and obscenity charges against a pro-domme, and one individual cited for carrying SM toys in their car. NCSF also made referrals to resources and the appropriate authorities in several domestic violence incidents. In one case, a protective order was obtained.
In September, NCSF assisted in a behavioral forensic investigation concerning the alleged kidnapping of a Vancouver, Washington, man who was involved in master/slave relationship. NCSF worked with both prosecution and defense. The result was the dismissal of the unfounded charges of kidnapping and assault.
NCSF is here to help you -- the SM, swing and polyamory communities. If you have a problem with discrimination, persecution, or harassment because of your sexual expression, please call NCSF for assistance. You can visit our website on www.ncsfreedom.org or call our office at 410-539-4824.
And please support NCSF in our effort to change the political, legal, and social environment in the United States. We are a grassroots, volunteer organization committed to making a difference. Join NCSF as a member or please hold a fund-raiser and donate to NCSF!
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I don't live there, and my heart hurts for you, because when when I think of Steubenville I always related it to Christ in some form.
I live in Alexandria, La., and we have had the largest Seubenville conferences in the South for the past 25-plus years. I always think of all the good that comes from places and colleges. But we all need prayer, especially our youth. They do make mistakes and we need to guide them, not condemn them. If they need help, give them room. I'm so glad I have two sons who talk to and trust us - it was not always easy but the road got better with work, time and prayer. Help them get jobs, if you can. You can't be a friend - you have to be a parent and say I love you every day and treat it like it is your last. You never know when that time will come.
I just want to learn to get their trust and care, know where they are and set limits. My parents were the best and we all grew up with professional jobs and careers and the wisdom to raise our kids with some sense in this crazy mixed up world. As a registered nurse, I have seen senseless shootings, deaths and trauma as a result of something someone did to another for stupid reasons. I'm just praying for you all. God's peace. (Maybe living in the South has gotten into my system.)
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I write primarily fantasy; recently, it's been brought to my attention that I use the terms "muggle" and "squib" informally fairly often in roleplay. If I were to publish something, I'd not want to use Potterverse terms; "muggle" can be substituted with "mundane" or "normie", I suppose, though they don't have the same ring to them, but is there a better, less verse-specific term I can use instead of "squib" to mean "Someone who was expected to have magic due to magical heritage but who does not?"
Isn't one of the non-Rowling definitions of "squib" "a firecracker which doesn't explode"? So Rowling took something which means "has potential or is expected to do something, and fails to deliver," and used it for slang in a very appropriate way.
As I've said elsewhere, copy the work ethic, not the end result. Find or invent some other term which implies "fails to live up to potential or expectations" and use that instead.
You can cheat around it by just changing the words, but, really, you're still borrowing pretty heavily from someone else's universe just by using the concepts. Are they absolutely necessary? Is there some way you could come up with your own unique (or at least, somewhat less derivative) ideas of magic?
I'm not commenting on the legality or even the morality of borrowing the ideas, just the saleability. If you borrow a lot from Rowling, or from any other runaway success, you're just one of many opportunists trying to capitalize on her popularity. That means that you have to be better than a LOT of people, since there are a lot of people writing similar stuff. I think you'll have better luck at getting well-published if you set yourself apart at the concept stage, and THEN write a kick-ass story using your own set-up.
The word "dud" comes to mind, or perhaps "blank" (like "he's a total blanker").
You could make anything up, though, it doesn't have to be a real word. You might want more than one term, one polite and one pejorative.


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Including the change in gas prices in Nebraska during the past week, prices yesterday were 22.2 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 58.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has increased 42.2 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 16.7 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.
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A Day in America According to a (Baffled) Foreigner
As I cower in my Brooklyn apartment, emaciated and terrified, I can't help but think back to what a friend back in London said to me when I first told him I was getting married and moving to America. "I'll tell you what, old chap," he said as he snapped his braces and leant back on his servant. "I've met an awful lot of foreigners in my time, and most of them couldn't be more peculiar if they painted themselves puce and grew tits on their shoulders. I've lived in Belgium, for Christ's sake. But for all our shared language, Americans are the oddest of the lot. I wouldn't want to be you, my old mucker. Not for all the bumbershoots in Hertfordshire."
"Englishman in New York" has been in my head every day since I got here. God, I hate that prick.
That was three months ago. Now I find myself in a country in which we all speak the same tongue, and yet every tiny task is so fraught with misunderstanding that it's less stressful just to barricade myself indoors and live on a diet of bathroom mold and cockroaches.
Here is a sample day in the life of a foreigner in your charming fucking country.
7:00 AM: Time for tea!
Things don't start well. Staggering from the bedroom, I make a beeline for the kettle; like most Englishmen, my morning tea injection is the only thing that will reduce the shivers to a manageable level.
However, I soon discover there is a technical problem with my wife's electric kettle: The cable is missing. Being an excellent problem solver, I hold the kettle above my head and turn it upside down, causing its cold contents to cascade onto my forehead and thence into my dressing gown, where they venture downwards past the nipples, over the Pudge Hummock and deep into the forbidding copse of pubes where no living soul should ever venture. This is not how a morning cuppa should start.
7:15 AM: Electric kettles are for COMMUNISTS
Eventually I realise that the kettle has no electric power at all. America, futuristic land of wonder and 24-hour drive-thru liquor stores, has never heard of an electric kettle. After some furious Googling, I discover that these arcane steam-devils are the province only of the incurably pretentious or the nauseatingly rich, since they cost around 10 times more than in England. My old 6.99 kettle had clear sides and a blue neon strobe light which turned the preparation of Old Grey into a throbbing epileptic discogasm, and here I am, manhandling an ancient cast-iron cauldron which might be acquainted with the concept of "boiling" but has no intention of trying it this century.
And I really do mean every single bastard day.
Well, I say it's ancient; the handle is nevertheless composed of some kind of futuristic superconductor that wastes no time in relieving me of my fingerprints, causing a pleasant D-Major chord to float from the window as the feeble whistle of the kettle mingles with my piercing, bloodcurdling scream. And when the agony is over, there's the unique pleasure of trying to decode the milk. Half-and-Half? Two percent? One percent? In England, we have Full-fat, Semi-skimmed and Skimmed. You know where you stand with those proportions. American milks sound like members of an underage hip-hop act; except for Heavy Cream, which I still believe is some kind of radioactive lactose isotope.
Even the colours of the cartons are different. This is only a little thing, but believe me, when you are a creature of routine (and who the hell isn't), little things like this can start to pile up quickly.
7:30 AM: Good luck dressing yourself, buddy
But hey, cultural differences aside, clothes are clothes, right? At least I can leave the house with a solid pair of trousers over my pants, dressed in my favourite vest and jumper. But I'd better not ask my wife to bring me any of those things, otherwise she will look at me as if I've just opened my mouth as wide as possible and emitted a continuous high-pitched farting noise.
"You can hear it in my accent when I talk / I'm an agonizingly annoying little piss-copter"
Clothes, you'll be relieved to know, all have the same names in America. The only trouble is that those names refer to different clothes. To make things easier, here is a little table categorising the main differences.
This is assuming I have any clean clothes at all, seeing as there are no washing machines in this entire city. Now, I know not all America is like this, but Jesus. What century are you living in, New York. In England, no one actually uses launderettes any more. They're charming anachronisms inhabited by doddery old perverts who just need a place to masturbate in the warmth. Most of the machines haven't been switched on since 1959 and many are now comfortable nesting places for owls.
8:00 AM: Facing the outside world
But anyway. Clad in my fetching purple jumpsuit and training bra, I am now primed to brave the hooting house of horror that is New York. Unbeknownst to me, I seem to have moved here just when the National Honk Festival is reaching its climax. All around the city, drivers are headbutting their horns for no other reason than the joy of being alive; a joy almost denied me when a truck emits a mind-buggering blast of pure noise from behind, propelling my body straight into the path of an oncoming car.
8:05 AM: Road safety? Where we're going, we won't need... road safety
And here's how I first learn about the American traffic system. Not only does everyone drive on the other side of the road (let's not drag up that old chestnut again) but it's also fine for cars to turn into your lane when the "walk" sign is lit. I cannot convey the sense of impotent moral outrage I felt when I learned of this fact the hard way, nor the clammy sadness as a rapidly-cooling stream of urine emerged from my trouser leg, punctuating my homeward trail with tiny puddles of shame.
Currently Googling for "STING HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT FANFICTION." Note to self: Learn how to filter out results from own website
Maybe you can explain the honking. After all, other countries have a reason for letting off their horns. Greeks do it because they have no traffic "rules" as such, and every journey to work is a thrilling race through carnage and flame. Italians honk because of their wonderful philanthropy, believing that there are no strangers in this life: only prostitutes you haven't picked up yet.
But Americans seem more like the protagonist from Memento, rediscovering every few seconds that their car has a horn and thinking, "Holy shit! What do I do about this? The world must be told!"
Also, it's apparently legal for American cyclists to run you down at any time. I can only assume that there is an amendment in the Constitution that permits murder provided you do it on a Fixie.
8:30 AM to 6PM: Let's go right the hell on to work
Finally, I am out of the Death Zone and into the Zone Of Perpetual Terror. I've been drenched, burned, ridiculed, deafened and ran-over twice, but it's all worth it, because I now get to spend nine hours in constant fear of losing my job. In England, provided you're not in the service industry, it's ludicrously hard to get sacked. Americans, however, have this thing called At-Will Employment, which basically means that an employer can fire you if he's uncomfortable with the size of your eyebrows.
On the flip side, if you manage to become an employer yourself, holy balls can you get rich. This is my plan, which I will put into action as soon as I've found a way of keeping my damn facial hair under control.
6:30 PM: Purchasing things from your fine establishment
After collecting my ulcers and leaving the office, I begin to feel the pangs of hunger. And then, almost immediately, the backwards vomit of dread. You don't realise how dependent you are on brand familiarity until you find yourself plopped in another country where almost all of the brands are alien.
Let's try to make a basic stew, for example. We'll start by buying a cube of Oxo. Except there aren't any. Oh well, move onto the potatoes; a couple of nice floury Maris Pipers should do the trick. Except that there aren't any, and when I ask the nice lady which potatoes are "floury," I can see her silently forming the syllables with her mouth over and over again, as if she finds the word intensely erotic.
Know who isn't intensely erotic? Sting.
Things don't improve when I ask her for the location of the rocket, courgettes and aubergines, although judging by her mouth movements she is now shuddering her way through a full-blown orgasm, so I should probably just leave her to it.
Besides, I just saw this thing called "Hungry Man," and I'm certainly a hungry man right now, so let's just cut the shit.


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Is it simply defined by its short word count? Or are there other accepted conventions in flash fiction? If it's just the word count, how short is too short? How long is too long?
I have written flash fiction as short as 50 words and seen submissions in the range described by OneMonkey.
Flash fiction is largely defined by the word count, but doing flash fiction well is more than just getting the right word count. Imagine telling an entire compelling story in 200 words. That's an extreme compression of the rising action, climax, falling action sequence. Because of the compression, flash fiction often shares characteristics with poetry. In poetry each word often has multiple tasks and each phrase and image has multiple layers of meaning. Flash fiction is the same way. Flash fiction doesn't necessarily carry the same emphasis on the lyrical quality of the writing as poetry, though.
Because of the short nature of flash fiction, it is often very well suited to intriguing revelations close to the end of the work. The most compressed part of the piece is usually the falling action, which often is less and less important to a story as the word count decreases.
Flash fiction is primarily determined by its word count. The max word count I've seen for flash fiction is 1000 words but could be as low as 300 words. For it to "count" as flash fiction it has to be a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end and not just an excerpt.
There are other sub-categories of flash fiction though:
Zoetrope defines flash as a short piece of between 200-1000 words. That's the only restriction they have on submissions to their flash fiction workshop.
I've seen items as short as 50. That seems to be the bottom of the barrel, so to speak. I think there's even a specific contest for pieces of 50 or 51 words. I can't remember the name though.
Flash fiction is really short. That's about it. And, well, not being real, you know. And it has to be complete. A good exercise is to start with short fantastic stories, one or two pages long, to get the gist of ending things in a short written span.


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Did you read Ann Landers or Dear Abby more?
I guess I have read Dear Abby more, but I don't go looking for it in the paper. They both seemed like very classy ladies who actually gave pretty good advice. RIP.
Pauline Phillips, the woman known to the world as "Dear Abby," died Wednesday at age 94. She had Alzheimers and retired in 2002 when her twin sister Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers) died. Pauline's daughter Jeanne took over in 2002 as Dear Abby.
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I used to read Abby more than Ann, though it's been several years ago. Ann was a little soft, but Abby would tell it like it was. Don't get me wrong, she had a compassionate side, but she also pulled no punches and added a little snark as well. Reminds me a little of a couple of DW ladies........you know who I mean. ;)
RIP to Pauline, a very wise lady.
I read them when I came across them, but that wasn't very often lately. Years ago I used to search through the paper for Dear Abby (or her sister in other papers). Loved to read that stuff. I guess they got me hooked on advice columns. Nowadays I read Dear Prudence. She can be stern and she can be funny. Amazing what kind of crazy stories she gets!
RIP Dear Abby.
Yes. Read them both ... but was so sad to learn that the two sisters who gave such sage advice on how to "get along" in life were reported not to get along well with one another. So ironic. So sad. Maybe now they get along better, on the other side of eternity.
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@wilfbrim: Thanks for bringing back memories of my younger days - I haven't heard that song in YEARS! I can remember singing it around a bonfire with friends!
@wilfbrim: nice pull! great song! i linked this song yesterday on facebook in response to someone elses comment about dear abby, so i listened to the song again.
On that listen yesterday, i felt like the song makes fun of 'Dear Abby' because the response (as the chorus) is the same for everyone.
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I picked up some rootbeer extract at my local brewshop, and I've made a few batches in old soda bottles... but is it possible brew it with an alcohol content similar to that of beer?
Making a (good) hard root beer sounds tricky. At least, the traditional method of brewing root beer doesn't seem like it would scale well to the weeks-of-fermentation beer brewing model. I imagine in the end, while you would have higher alcohol content, too much of the sugar will have been fermented, so you'd end up with a few gallons of not very sweet liquid (e.g., not root beer).
One approach might be to start with a base fermentable (maybe some sort of wheat/pale dry malt extract combined with honey) that had a light profile in tandem with traditional root beer extract, replace/enhance traditional hops additions with herbs specific to root beer brewing, reach your target gravity, and add heaps of sugar prior to bottling for desired sweetness. From here, you could bottle and pasteurize to stop the yeast from eating all the added sugar.
With all this said, the easy solution (which might yield tastier results) is to start with your favorite homemade root beer recipe and pour in copious amounts of your favorite distilled beverage!
If you go the route of experimentation, be sure to share any successful recipes!
I went through exactly this about 9 months ago. I couldn't find anything online about it, so I used a basic cider as the inspiration. Here are the exact notes I took while brewing it. Some sections were direct copies from the cider recipe, I added the rest.
1lb Munton's Dry Malt
2Fl Oz Root Beer Concentrate
¾ cup priming sugar
5lbs granulated sugar
Hefeweisen Ale Yeast WLP300
***After 1 day, bubbling stopped. I left it for another week with no change. Beer Nut rep suggested adding more yeast. WLP001 California Ale was added 1/23/10. I also picked up a hydrometer. Readings as follows: 5.5%, 11, 1.045 @ ~65 deg. Root Beer was bitter tasting and ended with .5 grav after adding bottling sugar. I bottled half with only that sugar, then boiled 1/3 cup of sugar and threw that in with the other half. The mixture was very cloudy (looked like mud).
Unfortunately, my hydrometer broke before I could take the first reading, but I'll tell you that it was a very high alcohol content. The resulting drink was a bit like a sarsaparilla without a whole lot of sugar. However, my girlfriend and I drank it like crazy. It was odd, but good.
Changes I would make: 1) Only dissolve about half the original sugar at the start; add the rest when bottling (just have to make sure you let the CO2 work the O2 out of the bottles before capping so you don't get little beer bombs). 2) Wait to add flavor until bottling. 3) Start with California Yeast
I once had a delicious "American Cervesa" that was kegged into an uncleaned root beer keg. It was really freaking delicious. Definitely had a noticeable root beer flavor.
You'll have trouble with the sugars fermenting.
One option, which may or may not work, is to make the 'beer' to your target alcohol percentage, then filter it really good to pull out as much yeast as possible, and then perhaps add a potasium metabisulfite tablet or two to retard any remaining yeast. You could then add your sugar sweeteners without them fermenting, hopefully.
Another option would be to go crazy with some non-fermentable lactose sugar (what's used to sweeten milk stouts).
18# gw base malt, 2# choc., 4oz black or roast barley, 1# oats or flaked barley. Used 2nd runnings for root beer stout. to boil add 1 pt. molasses + 1 c. pale dry extract + 2oz root beer extract. lightly hop with 2 oz cascade. ferment as usual. og 1.065 fg 1.013 . kegged & force carbonated. sweeter than typ. ales, dryer than sodas. many compliments, 34 year old neice said best beer ever.
I just finished making a 5gal batch of natural root beer using danelion root, burdock root and sassafras, along a small amount of wheatgrass and beet juice (for colour).
I used a combination of white sugar, honey and mollasses to ferment and a combination of lactose and stevia to sweeten. I reused an English Ale yeast from an IPA I made a while ago and bottle conditioned
I transferred to secondary and tasted and was good but a little bland. I primed with corn sugar and bottled 2 gallons to see what it tastes like carbonated. To the remaining 3gal I added 1oz of centinnial hops boiled for 30m. It now has more hop bitterness and flavour but think it could still use a little more hop flavour so plan on boiling 1oz cascade for 15 mins to get some more flavour/aroma. Will then re-prime and bottle the rest.
Add sugar and ferment it to completion. Done.
Yes you can make root beer have an alcohol percentage close to beer. You follow the instructions on a root beer kit except add more sugar. Then you let the root beer sit in the bottles with the cap opened, this is to ferment them. Adding the extra sugar gives the yeast more to "eat" to ferment more and to still make it sweet after around 1-2 weeks of fermentation. After the 1-2 weeks put the cap on for a 1-2 days or until the bottle gets pressurized. put the bottles in your fridge and the longer they stay in the better they will taste!


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1946 Ford Pickup Stretched Sheetmetal Repair - Visit To The ShrinkWritten by on October 1, 2009 How To Cure Stretch Marks
After fitting the F-1 fender sections to the F-100 fenders on my '46 roadster pickup last month, and realizing just how badly dented and damaged they were, it seemed like an ideal opportunity to show a couple of ways to repair stretched sheetmetal. Let's face it, owing to their lives as work vehicles, trucks are probably the most abused vehicles out there, and likely require more metal massaging than any other when it comes to bodywork, especially if you want to retain the original fenders and bed.
Repairing dents and how to use a hammer and dolly must have been covered a thousand times in as many magazines, so we'll concentrate on metal shrinking. This is required whenever the metal has been damaged and pushed in too far to repair without a crown or lump forming, or when a flat panel is 'oil-canning' and popping in and out when touched, though shrinking a flat panel is an acquired skill.
The first step is to remove all the old paint, body filler, and underseal from both sides of the panel, the quickest way to do this by sandblasting. I turned to a local company, Orange County Sandblasting, for this, as they're used to dealing with automotive panels, and specialize in antique and classic cars. I only mention this because some sandblasters, especially those used to dealing with industrial blasting, can cause more damage than good. I had a pair of '69 Mustang front fenders blasted years ago that I had to scrap as the blasters managed to put waves an inch deep in the top sections, so locate a blaster that has experience with sheetmetal.
The established way to shrink sheetmetal is to use an oxyacetylene torch and a hammer and dolly, heating an area the size of a nickel to cherry red, and then with a dolly behind it, hammer in a circular motion around the heated area using glancing blows to "push" the metal towards the center. You'll have to work quickly as the area will cool rapidly. Several spots will likely require heating and shrinking to bring the metal back into shape. Experience will tell you where to apply heat. You can also buy "shrinking hammers," which have a serrated face and a head that twists as it hits the metal surface, but these can damage the surface of the metal, putting little serrations in it. Of course this won't matter if you're going to file, grind, or sand on the metal anyway.
Another way to shrink metal is to use an electric shrinker. Much more controllable than using oxyacetylene, it's also much more expensive to purchase the machine, which uses an electric arc to heat a concentrated area and thus shrink it. I used both methods on this fender, my thanks going to Jimmy White at Circle City Hot Rods for lending me his electric shrinker, as well as the use of his workshop for this article.
With the shrinking accomplished where necessary, all that remained was hours of hammer, dolly and vixen file work, before sanding the panel with 80-grit using a DA sander, checking it for fit on the truck, and then applying a skim-coat of body filler. In case you're wondering, the total time invested in fitting the F-1 section in our last installment and getting to the stage you see here, ready for filler, was two full days. It still needs the rusted-out section repaired where it bolts to the running board/step, and the fender brace bolthole welding, so by the time it's in primer I'd allow 3 1/2 days. Just think of the labor costs you'll save by learning to do this yourself!
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With the paint, filler, and underseal removed, I could see how badly dented and stretched the F-1 section really was, and began to wish maybe I'd sourced a better pair of fenders!If you're going to tackle body repairs of any kind, you'll need suitable tools. I've had two of these dollies for over 20 years, with the toe dolly (top middle) being my favorite versatile all-arounder.The first task towards repairing the fender was to straighten the wavy lip. This was done by laying the panel face down on a perfectly flat steel surface (actually the chassis table at Circle City Hot Rods) and hammering the lip until it touched the table all the way around. The F-1 fender has a wire-rolled lip. This job would be slightly more difficult with a regular folded fender lip.With the lip straightened, the fender was flipped over and clamped to the steel table at each end, providing a more rigid structure to work with.We opted to use a couple of different methods for shrinking the steel. Firstly, the old school way using oxyacetylene to heat an area about the size of a nickel until it glows orange. The metal will dome up but don't be alarmed.It helps if you have someone to take the torch from you as you need to move quickly, backing the heated area with a flat dolly and hammering from the front, in a circular movement around the heated area, keeping the hammer face parallel to the metal but striking it at an angle, pushing it towards the center each time as shown by the arrows.It helps if you have someone to take the torch from you as you need to move quickly, backing the heated area with a flat dolly and hammering from the front, in a circular movement around the heated area, keeping the hammer face parallel to the metal but striking it at an angle, pushing it towards the center each time as shown by the arrows.Forcing the metal towards the center of the heated area with each hammer blow will shrink the metal, and repeating the process in the area where the metal is stretched will bring it into shape, removing any crown or domed area that existed where it shouldn't have. Here you can see where the hammer struck the steel around each heated area.
With the shrinking where required now complete, attention turned to working the high and low spots with a hammer and dolly. With easy access to both sides of the panel, as well as having it at a perfect working height, as opposed to being bolted to the car, this was relatively straightforward.Wanting to get the metalwork as straight as possible and not just sling a load of body filler at it, I used a vixen file. Here's a shot of its aggressive and coarse blade. Not recommended for modern cars with thin sheetmetal as these remove a lot of material quickly!It could be better with more time spent on it, but that was one thing I was short of, and seeing as the fender will need filler anyway-specifically to blend the join where the F-1 section was welded to the F-100 fender-this is good enough, and way better than what I started with.Here's another way to shrink steel. Almost like a single-sided spot welder, this machine creates an electric arc to heat a small spot, which in turn shrinks it. The area inside the circle is a high spot.As you can see, the circled area shrunk, a little too much, and now I'm working on high spots on either side of it. This is only for illustration purposes; I would normally work the area with a hammer and dolly first.You can see the area I first worked on at the far end of the panel. The rest of the F-1 section was not much better, but at least it wasn't stretched, just dented.Here's the backside of the area I shrank. It took ten applications of the gas torch, not to mention the number of hits with the electric shrinker just below that, though I'll admit I was experimenting with using it instead of the hammer and dolly at times.
Seeing as the whole purpose of fitting the F-1 fender section was to add the fender swages to match the '46 Ford passenger car front fender, it only made sense to have them as straight as possible! Flipping the fender over on the steel table, I used a cold chisel and hefty hammer to straighten them.Looking along the swage lines like this will reveal any waves that you may miss just by looking at them from above. It should also reveal any large waves or lumps in the sheetmetal.A few more hours spent hammering, filing, and picking saw the fender ready to be sanded using 80-grit discs on a DA sander.


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Hey guys. With GTA V not on PC yet I decided to start playing GTA IV again until it comes out on PC, and also wanted to see what new mods people have come up with in the past few years. I'm really glad I did because I've spent probably the last 3 weeks playing lots of GTA IV and it's pretty fun. One thing that always drove me crazy about it is that most of the mods out there seem to be all about godmodes, spawning cars, trainers etc. Am I the only one that hates those types of mods? They make the game way too easy. Sure I'd like to fly around Liberty City with a cap and shoot lasers out my eyes but only for 20 minutes before boredom sinks in. So I set out to make a gameplay mode adds fun and powerful abilities to Niko but also makes the game more challenging. So I kept adding mods and tweaking settings and what I ended up with I think is pretty cool. The gameplay has cool abilities that make you feel pretty powerful but the gameplay is still pretty challenging. I'll recap the mods that were added. First I'll start with the mods that help you in combat through abilities. They make you more powerful and difficult to kill but they are NOT godmode mods.
Special Ability Mods:
Crysis Nanosuit - You get super armor, super speed, super strength (allows you to jump higher etc), and invisibility. The kick is you can only use one ability at a time and only if there is energy for your abilities. So you get more complex situations where you want to outrun some cops but you also want to use super armor because you're low on health but you're also low on energy.
Dead Eye - You get an energy bar, you kill people to fill it up, once you have enough energy you can enter dead eye slow mo and execute enemies if you have enough energy. It helps you survive in this gameplay mode when the odds are stacked against you or you're about to die. You can still be shot while in this mode which is great!
With abilities like that you are pretty hard to kill so I've added some mods to increase difficulty below to balance it out.
Increased Difficulty Mods:
No Minimap - This is probably the best mod I've ever added. It makes shooting enemies more exciting because you don't know if they are just around the corner or not. Cop chases are interesting because you don't know if they are up the street waiting for you. Also you really do learn the city and experience a lot more areas that you wouldn't otherwise. I never thought getting lost while driving somewhere could be so fun.
No crosshair - Removed the crosshair completely from all views so aiming is difficult. And when you're using a gamepad like me it's extremely difficult to aim.
Reduced Niko Accuracy - Script reduces the accuracy of Niko alone and does not reduce the accuracy of enemies.
Extreme Weapon Damage - I've modified the weapon damage so that weapon damage is very high to everyone. This may not seem like it makes a difference, and at first the higher I made it only decreased the difficulty of combat. But after boosted it up a lot I noticed a point where I don't really kill them any easier but they kill me easier (because of accuracy limitations). If you combine that with no crosshair you can get yourself killed pretty quick especially if you're surrounded (death sentence). Sure about 3 shotgun blasts can destroy a car but 1 shotgun blast will kill me even if I have super armor activated so I have to play smarter and not let them get too close to survive.
Limited Ammo Capacity - I've noticed that in combat i end up choosing 1 gun (the best, usually m4) and running through the map gunning everyone down pretty easily. I've limited the ammo drastically so that when I run out of ammo I'm forced to go collect the enemies weapon and use it. I also use it as a balancer. Since the shotgun and sniper rifles are overpowered I limit their capacity to something around 10 shots total. Uzi/Mp5 are like 120 so that forces me to be more precise in driveby shooting. And I think grenades and rockets are limited to something like 2 or 3 max.
No Ammo Display - This makes gameplay even more challenging. Since max ammo is limited I never really know exactly how much ammo is left on me or in my gun. So I'll end up running out in the middle of 4 goons and as soon as I start shooting I'll run out of ammo and get shot to death as I toss the weapon down.
Smart Cops - Cops will notice when you commit a wider range of crimes, not just murder and crashing their squad car. Cops can arrest you if for driving on the wrong side of the road, hitting other vehicles, pushing peds just to name a few. You can tweak the INI pretty heavily. For me, cops don't pursue me for speeding or running red lights. I felt that would be overkill.
Some Drivers Lock Doors - I have the INI file set to make 40% of people drive with their car doors locked. Since the majority of doors are unlocked I will naturally default to wanting to take the fast way out and open the door to carjack someone instead of hold them at gunpoint. That leaves me desperate situations where I need a car but don't have time to shoot the window out or whatever so I'll gamble with a 60% chance of getting the car or have it speed off dragging me aside.
Lose all money and guns on death - After the bank job mission with the mcrearys in the unmodded GTA money seems useless because you're stinking rich and guns really aren't that expensive (wish I knew how to edit prices). I hate always completing GTA games with millions of dollars left unspent. Now you have a reason to manage your money more carefully.
Bank Account - Obviously this is made to work with the setting above. It adds more complexity to the game. Also using Weapon Storage mod to save weapons and ammo
Other mods:
First Person - First person mode is worth another play through in itself even without other mods. It feels like a new game. Sometimes the view shows you headless during scenes that pan out though, no biggie.
ENB graphics mod - This one requires decent PC hardware but if you have it you should get this mod. Again, like first person mode, it's worth another playthrough in itself.
Hotel shootout
Apartment manhunt
It's not often that I die in GTA games especially with mods that allow me to turn invisible. I was playing last night and got killed on a few missions and cop chases and part of me wanted to rage, but I realized the challenging part was actually fun lol. I wish all script mods were balanced and gave you a reason to play through the main storyline again. I'm curious to hear what all you guys think about the gamemode and I use and about mods in general? Do you like the godmode/car spawn/never wanted stuff or hate it?
BTW if people request that i add the actual mod names or settings I will. :)
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1. Would love to ALSO see consolidated list of information for the page that I visit insted of just individual Link that I need to hyperlink
2. Great tool. Any easy ways I can also get info. about the pages that my friends visit to get their information. I know you DO NOT have to share the info. about who visited which page, but would love to see on a specific day which was the MAX # for all the pages visited within my friend circle
3. Anyway for us to rate the content so that I see the hottest topic at that split moment
In short I would like to see the MOST Important & MOST Valuable information
The examples shown here are consumer-focus, when can we see and IT Pro/Dev focus for this? Are the buckets that the tool looks in fixed or programmable?
Hi Tony,
What do you mean by buckets?
The matching between social network messages and the web pages is open-ended. We use 2 algorithms in our tool to do the matching, and 1 is trained on wikipedia and recognizes the kinds of things talked about in wikipedia pretty smartly; the other technique is a context-free matching algorithm on n-grams. The former gives better results and we rank those matches higher. But neither technique is limited to consumer scenarios.
I think the trick to getting this to work for specialized scenarios will be making sure that you have the data you care about available in the social network.
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I have heard beber and tomar used interchangeably as translations for the English "to drink." Is there any difference between the two, or are they exact synonyms when describing drinking a liquid? Are there regional differences in the use of these verbs?
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I Spain, they are quite different, while "beber" can be used in a transitive or intransitive way, "tomar" can only be used as transitive for that meaning (I know that in America it can be used as a intransitive verb too but it is not used in that way in Spain). So you can say:
They can even used in a pronominal way when they are transitive:
As with "Beber" we can ommit what we are saying it often means that you are drinking alcoholic drinks, but it doesn't always mean that, it depends on the context, but if you use it in an intransitive way, people will likely understand that you're spaking about alcohol.
So as with "tomar" we say what are we drinking, that confusion is not present.
In Mexico, at least, beber has a connotation of to drink alcoholic beverages, where as tomar is to drink anything (as well as to take, in other contexts).
The same sort phenomenon is observed in English in certain contexts...
Is clearly meant to mean "Do you consume alcohol?" not "Do you drink anything?"
I have heard beber, or derivatives of it, used to mean non-alcoholic beverages. The "drinks" section of a menu is often called Bebidas, for instance, and may contain soft drinks, coffee, and tea.
In Argentina I never heard beber, it was always tomar. I could use the word beber but people would look at me a bit weirdly. (No references here, personal experience from living there)
Also if you wanted to ask someone if they drink alcohol, you would ask
When I learned Spanish a long time ago in school, they taught me that beber is more common in Spain but I don't have any references for that.
Random (possibly interesting) side note:
The yogurt I bought in a bag in Argentina is called "yogur bebible" and not "yogur tomable" =P
@Kage, in Spain we know someone comes from America when s/he says "tomar" instead of "beber" (in any context about drinking ;)
There is also, sometimes, the use of "beber" as "drink alcohol" when the drink is not specified.
"Tomar" is often used as "take", while "beber" is the most common verb used for "drink".