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DO YOU KNOW how many people youve killed, whether at the stake or in battle? sneers Salekt. Do you know how many men youve made widowers, and how many women youve made widows? Do you know how many sons and daughters youve made into helpless orphans? He pauses briefly. Yes or no?
Such such is war,
Imperatrix Kiyachi manages to answer, her voice a thick, wet gurgle. She coughs.
Thats your excuse? War against
You claim to have honor, but possess none. You claim to be virtuous, when your conduct proves otherwise. Most of all, you claim to be righteous, but youre wicked! I want to see your face when my comrades come for you at last. Can you hear them hissing, Imperatrix? You should! The only battle youve ever fought is against those who do not believe as you do, and the only cause youve ever championed is that yours is the most powerful invisible ally! Yes, I refer to your god, who you claim is everyones god, or should be. However, I know whom you truly worship - our Great Foe. At this, the Imperatrix clutches the stained bed sheets in her fists like an eagle clutches prey in its talons. I am here to watch you be dragged to the Abyss, and your escorts are near. Prepare yourself! These last two words, to my horror, are loud bursts of the hissing and clicking with which fiends speak
Whats going on? Whats happening to me? Salekt looks frantically toward me, and begins to squirm and writhe. His leech-fiend speech continues, and I can only distinguish two human words:
taking hold.
I float there above the Imperatrixs bed, attached to Salekt and growing more terrified by the second. Both he and his nemesis appear to be in excruciating pain, and theres nothing I can do to stop it. To make matters worse, I hear a shifting and rumbling coming from the rat hole from which we emerged! The three great leeches appear, and meanwhile the poor serving maid Yelina can only stand next to her Imperatrixs sickbed in stupefied dread. She stares at the rat hole intently, but I instinctively know she sees nothing.
They come,
the Imperatrix rasps, and gives a death-rattle. Her now-lifeless head slumps forward limply.
No! Yelina howls and bursts into tears, but Salekt and I are focused upon the monsters before us. The giant fiends sniff the air, sense their prey, and barrel toward the soul emerging from the Imperatrixs body. Without another word, Salekt looks at the Imperatrix, now a shade, and latches onto her. Surprisingly, he keeps a hold of me as well, for a leech has two suckers. He pulls us both down to the floor of the room, and we disappear straight through it. Again, this is no shock, because were all spirit forms and not physical ones, but Im still startled! Through the stone foundation of the barracks and the ground we plunge, until we find ourselves in a winding tunnel that countless numbers of rats and moles have made.
Good, Salekt says as he pulls us along. The fiends arent here. Im relieved I can recognize his words. When we finally come out of the other end of the tunnel, rising through the dirt and roots of the earth to the surface above, we find ourselves in an unfamiliar country field. The gray sky flashes ominously above us.
Oh, no! Lightning! Wed better get Im about to say
but correct myself in time: get going.
The Imperatrix Kiyachi, or rather her shade, gazes up at the slate-colored clouds. Where are we? Are we not bound for the Abyss? She cannot take her eyes from Salekt, still in his glowing orange leech guise.
Nay. With concerted effort, my friend focuses his mind and shifts into his true ethereal form. He appears as a fifteen-year-old lad, with copper hair and soft green eyes. I gasp when I see his face, and then smile. My name is Salekt, he says. I have taken the form of the fiends who pursue you, in order to hide myself among them in plain sight. Ever since the stake, I have been watching and waiting for you to die as well.
So youve sought revenge? Salekt nods gravely. I gathered as much, but why do you help me now?
Ive saved you for salvations sake, and because we both need it. Elysium is where I should be, but I have found the doorway to Thorüsa instead. You may ask: why does someone bound for paradise need rescuing? The truth is that I found myself becoming what I feared, and that is why I must aid you. As for my friend here? He smiles at me. She has the same noble goal, even though I do not know her name
WHERE ARE WE? asks Kiyachi once she looks around, and once the rain begins to fall. I know that were outside the city, but how far? Also, whats that building in the distance? It looks somehow familiar
Salekt wobbles his leech-head noncommittally. If his shade had been in human form, I suspect he would have shrugged. I dont know. I only latched onto you both and crawled as fast as I could, away from the real leeches. We seem to have escaped them, but for how long? Our god only knows, and I dont want to take any chances. He shivers. Even though I cant truly feel the rain, being dead and a spirit, its splashing drops still touch me a little, like faint wisps of the breeze. Upon my leech form, they bead. Look! Indeed: tiny droplets of water begin to glisten on his segmented body, then disappear just as quickly.
I can feel it, too, although not as much as
Not as much as when I was alive.
Kiyachi folds her arms against her ethereal body to protect herself from the rain shower. It immediately becomes a downpour as thunder booms. I never gave much thought to the rain as I marched from place to place, but now I wish we were inside instead of in the middle of this field. She squirms uncomfortably, and so do I. The rain feels almost obscenely cold as it drips right through me without touching one inch of my spirit form. I start to wonder if Im still living and asleep, but then Kiyachi turns to Salekt and speaks:
I suppose I should thank you for saving my life, even though its too late for my mortal frame.
My new friend glares at her. He stays silent, but the heat radiating from his leech body - as another form of camouflage, I suppose - increases greatly. After it subsides, he simply says, Youre welcome. I gape open-mouthed as Kiyachi gives a nod of acknowledgment.
Who do you think you are, condemned one?! Your strength may have saved you when alive, but you were defenseless against the three great fiends!
I want to shout this out loud, or as loudly as I can in my present form, when I notice three marching figures.
Two of them are tall and burly soldiers, a man at the front and a woman in the rear. Both of them are wearing scale mail and white cloaks bearing our churchs symbol: the sign of the Harrow. Between them marches an old man in rags, bound in chains. His head and shoulders are bowed under their great weight, and his feeble steps cannot even come close to matching the cadenced ones of the soldiers. They march in lock-step, while he stumbles. Neither one of the soldiers says anything; they merely push him forward, without helping him to regain his balance. The driving rain tumbles down upon all three, but only the prisoner is helplessly lashed by it. It takes all my self-restraint to keep from floating over to him and shouting:
Galinicus! Ive come to rescue you, as Im already helping to rescue one poor soul!
As it is, Salekt is holding me back, and his caution is well-warranted.
If the soldiers discover me, Ill need saving!
Kiyachi, meanwhile, appraises the two soldiers and gives crisp nods of recognition: Marek. Tyrithica.
You know these two? I ask, my shade-eyes wide.
Of course, lost lass! While I was still alive, they were my subordinates, and served me and our Order.
I decide to take a dire risk and ask her a dire question: Do you also know the prisoner theyve caught?
Aye. A heretic, Galinicus by name, according to the reports from our Inquisitors. Why do you ask?
No matter. Er - Id heard rumors about such people before, but never thought Id actually see one.
Kiyachi eyes me warily, and then turns her transparent head back toward the scene before us. Now I know why the edifice in the distance is still known to me - even to my spirit! It is the ecclesiastical court.
Salekt winces and dares to ask, Why is it so far from the city? I always wondered, at least when I lived.
You yourself should know, apostate! We keep our court secret for the proper administration of justice
SALEKT ONLY SEETHES, and I begin to wonder:
Our civil court is out in the open, right at the center of the city so all will know we live under the rule of Law, and not the sword. That said, whats the connection between secrecy and justice here? Why is the ecclesiastical court hidden from everyone except its judges, our churchs soldiers, and those being tried? Executions, after all, take place in the public square
I tell none of this to Kiyachi, however. She stares straight ahead, watching her soldiers march Galinicus away. When she finally does speak again, she does so after closing her ethereal eyes and opening them slowly.
Has my whole life been a lie? I think not. What could ever disprove the righteousness of my cause?
Perhaps the three fiends who came after you, Imperatrix? Salekt hisses through his leech-teeth. I knew I should have left you for them to collect and drag to the Abyss, but its too late for that now - or is it? He shudders once more, and then clears his throat. Im sorry. If you want to prove your life isnt a lie, repent.
Repent of
I have no wrongs to forsake, at least in the sense of my lifes mission. In fact She pauses a minute, and I sense shes deciding whether or not to finish her sentence. In fact, I wish to find the doorway to Elysium from this missing place, Thorüsa, and stand before our god to plead my case.
That would mean storming paradise. You are marked for eternal damnation, so you cant go there!
So you say, Kiyachi answers Salekt coldly. However, I intend to try. Do either of you intend to help me?
Never! Salekt shouts. However, I can only speak for myself. What about you, friend? What say you?
I stammer and avoid the question by asking, How do you know for certain that Thorusa and Elysium are even connected? Perhaps the celestials and fiends travel not through ethereal doorways, as we have supposed, but through phasing to each realm as powerful spirit forms. Maybe its highly difficult to do so.
Even if it is, will you assist me? Kiyachis tone is no longer imperious. I sense I cannot do this alone.
Of course you wont be able to, Salekt sneers. Youll have the entire army of Elysium against you!
Aye, unless I have someone with me who seeks only to aid a fugitive in finding her way. Her onyx-black eyes peer into my own, even though theyre transparent in her shade form. Do you remember the various callings of our church? Not only are there Imperators such as I, who fight, and Inquisitors who interrogate and convict, but also Intercessors. They pray as proxies for those unworthy to visit our priests. Our priests are called Invokers. It occurs to me that each of these ecclesiastical titles begins with that single, solitary letter
standing like a tower or pillar in the middle of lifes wasteland. For that matter, so does
Agreed. I wont fight in battle against the celestials, if it comes to that, but I will attempt to help you receive an audience with our deity. After all, our holy scriptures say:
Come before the throne of our great god, whoever ye are, that ye may be harrowed and refined. If ye be unworthy, call upon another to intercede on your behalf.
Our god may refuse you, and banish you to the Abyss, but at least well both have tried. I frown after a moment. Still, the matter of getting from Thorüsa to Elysium remains a total mystery to me.
Perhaps not for long. I know this realm, Imperatrix Kiyachi. If you truly are intent on pleading your case before our god, and not overthrowing him, then Ill see what I can do. After all, the reason why were both in Thorüsa is to save the lost. Who could ever be more lost than you? Now its Kiyachis turn to glare.
Enough! I hold up a ghostly hand for silence, because I hear another rumble deep within the earth
Salekt does, too. Quickly! We must hide inside the ecclesiastical court! He latches onto both of us and pulls, one step ahead of the fiends who are once more pouring out of the ground. The three weve seen before are here again, and we pass through the consecrated space of the courts walls just as they lunge for Kiyachi. We made it!
Hide thy soul in a sacred place, our scriptures say, and evil will not seize thee.
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SelectField wont deploy without a store
I have selectFields that I filled in options arrays for. Designer is complaining that "The following components are missing a store: [List of selectFields] These components will cause runtime errors if you do not supply a store for them. Would you like to continue exporting anyways?"
I click "Yes" but the export doesn't happen. There seem to be 2 bugs here. I should get the prompt in the first place since store is not a required field, and when I do get the prompt and click "Yes" the deploy should happen anyway.
PS, the save works and runs the resulting code runs fine with no errors.
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Could you let us know what build this is occurring in? I cannot reproduce in build 276 and/or our current head.Aaron Conran
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I can no longer reproduce this bug either. My current build is 276, but I'm not entirely sure if that was the build that the error originally occurred on.
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Thanks, I believe this was fixed between 266 and 276.Aaron Conran

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5 Battlefield Screw Ups That Were Hilarious (Until People Died)
The history books are full of great military minds who turned the tides of war with their creative genius. This article is not about them.
No, we're here to talk about the embarrassing fuck-ups, the confused incompetence that ensured these men would never have a high school named after them.
#5. Flushing a Toilet Sinks a Submarine
About five minutes after somebody first drew up the plans for an underwater ship called a "submarine," somebody standing over that guy's shoulder said, "so how do you take a shit in one?"
It's not like a regular boat where you can just poop over the side (that's what they do, right?) and the whole physics of a flushing toilet like you have in your bathroom stop working when, instead of a house, you're in a vessel submerged in water exerting massive pressure from every direction. To see what flushing a toilet in that situation would look like, picture the exact opposite of a successful toilet flush.
On April 14, 1945, the German submarine U-1206 found this out the hard way.
Who Fucked Up?
That model of boat had a new, fancy toilet-flushing system that used a complex system of high-pressure valves to allow them to flush the toilets even when running deep under the sea. So complex, that you couldn't operate the system without supervision.
But the captain of the submarine, Karl-Adolph Schlitt, figured he would chance it. After all, it's a damned toilet! How complicated can it be?
One splashing, cursing, Charlie Chaplin-esque slapstick sequence later, and Schlitt found himself wading through the Atlantic seawater that was quickly rushing into the submarine. Unable to pump the water out, Schlitt had no choice but to surface the sub.
Of course, this was in the middle of a war. Oh, and the German submarine just happened to be on a spy mission just 10-miles away from the British coast. It was almost immediately spotted by an English plane, which proceeded to bomb the shit out of the sub. Schlitt found himself unable to escape and gave the order to abandon ship, where every surviving member of the crew was captured.
#4. Indians Take Over Fort During a Game of Lacrosse
In 1761, the British gained a new post in present day Michigan named Fort Michilimackinac. They also gained some new neighbors in the local Indian tribe. If you've spent five minutes reading an American history text book you'd be able to predict that such a living arrangement could only end in tears.
However, the two groups lived in relative peace, at least for a while. It's sort of like The Odd Couple, if you replace the charm of Tony Randall and Jack Klugman with deep-seated racism and impromptu scalpings.
With the threat of battle constantly looming over them, members of the Ojibwa tribe lightened the mood by playing lacrosse near the entrance of the fort, silently hoping to shatter a window a la Dennis the Menace. The British adored observing these games, often watching them from the safety of the fort ramparts.
As the rivalry between the Ojibwa and the Brits waned, the British started to edge further and further out of the safety of their fort, with smiles and beckoning hand gestures from the Ojibwa.
Who Fucked Up?
Eventually, years passed without incident and nearly the whole force of the fort came out to enjoy the games, insulting the "savages" and betting on the outcome of the game with each other. This included Captain Etherington, who was the British commander at the fort and had seemingly forgotten why they had a fort in the first place (hint: it had been attacked multiple times in just the previous few months).
Then, during a game on June 2, 1763, a ball was hit a little too high and sailed over the walls of the fort. The two closest Ojibwa's chased it into the fort. The soldiers, eager to discover the outcome of the match, left the gates open to let them through.
Then more players ran in, then more and, eventually, all the players were inside the gates and the British were still outside wondering when the game was going to resume. Inside, the Ojibwa were handed weapons previously smuggled in before closing the gates and slaughtering almost everyone inside, including Captain Etherington. The game had been postponed on account of vengeance.
The Ojibwa went on to hold the fort for an entire year. We're assuming that the British tried to counterattack by playing soccer outside but their plan was somehow ineffective.
#3. General Somehow Misses the Enormous Battle
The civil war had its fill of frankly embarrassing moves by its Union generals, but some errors can be hand-waved away with excuses such as "misinformation" or "my army is dead." However, "I couldn't find the battlefield of 25,000 men" doesn't really cut it.
Who Fucked Up?
At the battle of Shiloh, General Lew Wallace was given orders from General Grant for his division to serve as the reserves in case things got a little too messy. So he hung back, lit a cigar and relaxed. At 6am the order came for Wallace to move up and help out in the fight against the Confederates. So General Wallace moved his division out... in the wrong direction.
Wallace lead the march, no doubt giving them an inspiring speech all the while. His men were ready to fight the Rebs, for decency, for freedom, for America. A few hours later, noting the distinct lack of blood on their hands, they began to wonder if they were even in America anymore. Wallace's division had been wandering to the point where they were more lost than the cast of Lost on the lost island who had gotten lost in the jungle. Also, they're lost in time.
Seriously, where the fuck are we?
Somehow, not investing in a compass, map or a friend who could read road signs paid off for Wallace when his men found themselves at the rear of the Confederates, who were firing at Grant's men and doing a damn fine job of it. Wallace had unwittingly placed his army at a classic rear flank position and himself on the cusp of victory. All that was left for him to do was sound the charge, put the Rebel balls in the vice-grip known as Yankee Justice and within hours he'd be getting hammered in a tent with General Grant. Hell, he could even claim it was his idea all along, and go down in history as a military genius.
But he wasn't one. Instead, Wallace decided that the much more advantageous position he had accidentally marched to was still wrong, dammit, and a job worth doing was a job worth doing right. So, against all advice, he ordered his troops to turn around and go back to where they were supposed to go. This whole trip took a total of five hours.
The men finally reached their original destination, but by then the battle had moved. Rather than mark it all up to a brain fart, Wallace had his men march onwards to the fight. He finally got to Grant's position at 7pm. That's 13 hours of looking for a battle consisting of nearly 25,000 men, a spectacle that frankly shouldn't be that hard to spot.
"Are you sure that's our battlefield?"
When Wallace finally found Grant's army, he also found a lost battle and a reasonably pissed of General. Wallace, who cost thousands of Union lives and blistered countless Union toes, was removed from command.


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Palladino: Big games, big week
It has arrived. It's tourney time. We play for championships now. The high school basketball season gets extra intense this week. There are titles on the line, tournament seeds, and on Saturday, playoff rounds and elimination games.
Every game was big. This week they get bigger.
A note before we start: The won-lost records are conference records only, and all games start at 7 p.m.
In the Berkshire League it's championship week. The Terryville boys are 14-0. If the Kangaroos go about their business and win at home against Shepaug (Tuesday) and Thomaston (Thursday), then Friday's game at Lewis Mills (11-2) could be the BL clincher.
The BL girls have a monster showdown tonight as 15-2 Nonnewaug plays at 12-3 Thomaston. Do you think The Cave will rock?
The Chiefs clinch at least a share of the BL championship with the win. The Bears stay in the title hunt with a win. Lewis Mills (13-2) plays Litchfield, Housatonic and Terryville this week. Win all three and the Spartans earn at least a share of the title. But these games are played on consecutive nights, tonight through Wednesday. That's a difficult task.
It is possible that the BL could end in an three-way tie. Really, it could.
In the SWC, the Pomperaug girls and boys play key games this week against New Fairfield. The Pomperaug and New Fairfield ladies are both 9-4 in the Colonial, but so are Masuk and Newtown. The game Tuesday at New Fairfield has divisional title implications, and also tourney placement. The SWC girls tourney begins Saturday.
The same goes for the Pomperaug boys. New Fairfield comes to the Pomp-O-Dome Tuesday. Both are in a battle to make the SWC tourney.
One title has been secured in the Naugatuck Valley League girls race. Holy Cross has won the Copper Division with a perfect 12-0 record, and also clinched the top seed in the NVL tourney, which opens Saturday at Cross' McDonald Gymnasium.
And a side note, Cross plays its out-of-league contest Thursday at Lauralton Hall (16-1) in a gem of a matchup.
Back in the NVL, St. Paul Catholic (15-3/10-1) can and probably will clinch the Brass Division title tonight on the road against 0-19 Ansonia.
And here is drama galore as NVL teams jostle to make the tourney. At 9-9 Kennedy is safe as the seventh seed, but the No. 8 spot is wide open.
The scenario: Naugatuck (7-11) hosts Torrington Tuesday. Crosby (6-11) must beat Kennedy on Tuesday, then Wilby on Thursday. And Derby (6-12) is still in the hunt. The Red Raiders host Woodland Tuesday. Naugy, Crosby and Derby could all finish at 7-12 and tied for the final spot.
The lords of the NVL have calculators in hand and aspirin at the ready.
No team has yet clinched an NVL division title, but the boys have some interesting games ahead to see which schools get into the top eight. Six schools still have a shot at the last three tourney spots: Naugatuck (7-8), Torrington (7-8), Watertown (7-9), Woodland (7-10), Holy Cross (6-10), and Wolcott (5-11).
There are many games to play, but here are the most intriguing: Naugatuck plays at Torrington tonight, and Torrington plays at Naugatuck Wednesday.
Must wins? You better believe it, especially for the Raiders, who finish against Sacred Heart and Wilby. Naugy ends with Holy Cross and Crosby. Cross plays Seymour and then the Hearts.
While the Copper teams beat each other up, the Brass teams (Watertown, Woodland, Wolcott, maybe even Derby) have an edge against weaker Brass opponents.
And if you want to be in a hot, loud, intense place this week you must squeeze into the John Reardon Pool at Kennedy High Wednesday for the NVL swim showdown between Torrington and Sacred Heart.
Epic is the word that comes to mind this week in scholastic sports.
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6 Human Character Flaws (That Saved the Species)
#3. Refusing to Grow Up
There are few quicker ways to get under a person's skin than to call them childish. And there aren't many things you can do to annoy strangers more than whining, or throwing tantrums, or wearing nothing but a comically oversized diaper.
But, once again, refusing to grow up turns out to be another cornerstone of human evolution. Take that, Dad!
Human childhoods are unique in that we're born with a massive brain (just ask any woman who's had to birth one of 'em) and wriggling vestigial bodies, that grow slowly and don't really change significantly until puberty. While most animals put all their energy towards quickly growing adult-like bodies, humans instead spend our early years strengthening the pathways in our brains and absorbing information.
Our species' unique ability to pass information and knowledge from one generation to the next is due to the fact that humans essentially spend 20 years (or more) in the nest before being asked to function as an adult--an absurdly long time in the animal kingdom. And even then there is college tuition, weddings and their old room again after the divorce.
That reluctance to go out into the world you see in so many 20-somethings is left over from an instinct that has served us very well. Cracked.com: Validating man-children using science since 2006.
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#2. Gossip
If you could find the guy who invented gossipy office politics, and get him in the same room with the guy who invented celebrity gossip magazines, which one would you shoot first?
Of course, both of those inventions come from the same cause: our terrible, terrible desire to know every awful detail of the people around us. All of us say we hate gossip, but man the moment somebody offers to tell us about how the girl in the next cubicle used to be a dude, we are all ears. And so were our ancestors.
It's a good thing, too. What we now consider the nastiest use of language may be the very thing that caused it to evolve. And here's where it gets weird:
To survive, primates had to form groups (to keep away predators, obviously). Most primate societies today top out at around 50 members, and they have a strict social structure that isn't found elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Humans rose above and beyond those small groups to the point that we can keep track of up to 150 other humans before our brains get overloaded (you may have heard this theory referred to as Dunbar's Number, though Cracked likes to refer to as The Monkeysphere). It was the forming of these bigger groups that set us apart.
How did we manage it? By inventing gossip. The first uses of our more complex language (originally probably developed to coordinate hunting) was to sit around the campfire and exchange information about the ones who weren't there, behind their backs.
That use of language--that sharing of juicy secrets about who was sick, or dying, or who was mating with who--let us gather information about other members of the group who don't happen to be present. This is what the other animals could not do, and it let us create the kind of complex societies other species can barely understand.
Wait, it gets weirder.
Ever wonder why women seem to talk--and gossip--more than men? Some think it's because while the males were out hunting, it was the females who did the gossiping around the campfire.
The Flinstones had it right, AGAIN.
And of course, all of that gossiping leads to...
#1. Social Anxiety and Depression
At the beginning of this article we said obesity was the plague of modern man. But it seems to be neck and neck with depression. But you know by now that it's going to turn out even the sulking goth cavemen served a purpose.
Illustration, constructed from fossil evidence.
The deal is, our brains are about six times too big for an animal our size. Did mankind develop this massive amount of grey matter to help us in our long-standing mission to make mother nature our bitch? Not directly; even animals that aren't particularly brainy still make out OK in the wild.
No, it has to do with all of that "talking around the campfire" stuff we mentioned above. The real purpose of our huge leap in intelligence was to help us figure out those increasingly large, complex social groups. In other words, trying to navigate the perils of the lunchroom at school probably stimulates your mind more than any of your classes ever will.
Studying the skulls of our ancestors, scientists have found disproportionate growth in the parts of our brains used to construct mental simulations. Being able to play out different situations in your mind and predict possible outcomes is not just essential to surviving the social jungle, it's also the basis of all problem solving. Basically every scientific or creative breakthrough in human history can trace its roots to some sweaty palmed caveman sitting alone in his hut fretting about whether the other cavemen think he's cool.
So what does have to do with depression?
Well, some speculate that depression evolved as a way to cope, to make people separate themselves from the group in times of stress, so they could try to simulate a solution to their problems in peace. When all those connections to other members of the tribe overloaded the brain, the brain would shut them off until we could get our act together, while sulking in the corner of the hut.
So yeah, if your teenager's being an angsty little punk, don't worry, they're actually contributing the betterment of the human race. And if he's filthy, drunk and eating an entire bucket of fried chicken, holy shit. He's about to evolve into a new species.
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5 Real World Criminals Who Were Certified Supervillains
#2. Papa Doc
Dr. Francois Duvalier was the former President for Life of Haiti, a title which he gave himself because that's the kind of thing you do when you're a crazy dictator. His father was named Duval Duvalier and was a judge while his mother, Ulyssia Abraham, was insane. The only thing missing was exposure to radiation to help him on his way to perfecting his villainy.
In 1957, he was sort of legitimately elected president. Rather than waste time worrying about things like the economy or environment or whatever the hell non-crazy politicians pretend to care about, Duvalier went about reviving the voodoo religion, modeling himself after Baron Samedi, the Voodoo angel of death.
He wore sunglasses all the time, changed the way he spoke and was referred to as Papa Doc. Propaganda produced at the time feature Jesus standing behind a seated Duvalier saying "I have chosen him." Because if there's one thing Jesus loves, it's that crazy voodoo shit.
Because no voodoo dictator super-villain is complete without a scary secret police force, the Tonton Macoute was formed, stealing their name from the Creole word for Boogeyman and making their living through crime. While Papa Doc went about trying to convince people he was the physical embodiment of Haiti, as well as being a Voodoo spirit and the president, the Tonton Macoute wandered the country side pretending to be voodoo demons and killing people with machetes for no reason other than that's what scary ass voodoo demons would probably do.
In his effort to maintain his position as president for life, it's estimated as many as 30,000 people were murdered and many others were kicked the hell out. Apparently his ultimate, diabolical plan was to rule over a completely empty, shitty island. Unfortunately for him, he died before he could see whatever the hell he was working towards come to fruition.
#1. The Iceman
Somewhat less dorky than the X-men's Iceman and far more godawfully frightening, is Richard Kuklinski, former mob hit man and all around badass crazy son of a bitch. Typically, being a hit man is just regular-style-villainous and not in the realm of super-villainy, but the Iceman really went above and beyond for his craft.
The Iceman claimed to have killed over 200 people in his lifetime, with his first victim coming at age 18. Once he hooked up with the mob and the Gambino crime family, he began killing with a variety of methods from gunshots to stabbings to poisonings. He had a bit of a hard-on for cyanide and would inject it, sprinkle it in food, spray it as an aerosol or just dump it on people.
"What is this about? The murders? It's the murders, isn't it?"
And, because that's not quite crazy enough, he also claims to have fed living people to rats and shot a random person in the head with a crossbow just to see if it worked (after all, imagine his embarrassment if the thing failed during a paid job).
While the Iceman is a cool nickname for anyone who kills people for a living, Kuklinski got his from a period in his life when he tried to be clever about disguising his crimes. Forensic science being a pain in the ass for most murderers, Kuklinski decided to throw it a curveball by using a Mister Softee ice cream truck as a spot to house his victims.
He'd freeze their bodies inside and then toss them out later, one at least two years later, so that the freezing would skew the estimated time of death. The plan fell apart on him when he didn't let one of the victims thaw long enough and the coroner found ice in the body. We suppose this is better than the other way ice cream truck murders could get found out, involving a trail of traumatized children chasing the jingle down the street.
The Iceman was eventually caught and imprisoned, and was set to testify against his mob associates. He died in prison before he got the chance, however, just to be an asshole one last time.
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Specter tells him that a former student and son of his old friend was killed by Muslim extremists known as the Eastern Brotherhood. Their leader is a man named Semian Icoupov, and he must be stopped because his next terrorist target is believed to be right here in America.
While Jason is busy pursuing Icoupov in Russia, he's become a target himself.
Inside CI, a battle is brewing for control over the agency. In order to show the incompetence of its current director, two Pentagon operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could: hunt Bourne down and destroy him.
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"Don't ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day." (Chicago Sun Times)
"He's no Ludlum!"
On top of the disjointed storyline and too many boring, stereotypical characters, the writing is just atrocious! The metaphors rival those of an aspiring junior high writer. I've enjoyed the Bourne stories because they are based on a sensational premise but are/were so well written and well thought out that they were believable. This book requires way too much suspension of disbelief...there's actually a part where the writer can't really explain how the handy cross bows got to the right place at the right time. And the twists and turns are just absurd!! Don't waste your time or money.
"Couldn't wait till it ended"
I didn't think this book would ever end. There was nothing to figure out, all the plot was revealed during conversations often with random people met totally by chance. Bourne was stupid and didn't out flank anyone in this one, just sailed along as people told him stuff. The Americans only worried about their careers fighting between agencies and didn't even know there was a terrorist attack planned. Bourne bounced around working for first one group then another, sometimes two at a time? People trying to kill him for no reason except thier own careers. One agency hires random people off the street with no training? Don't waste your money or time.
"Mr. Lustbader, you are not a Robert Ludlum"
With over 100 audiobooks under my belt (not including many, many books on tape, this has to be the worst. It is awful, slow and tedious. I finished it (I must like pain) but deleted it from my iPod and library. The book started fine, died after 10 minutes, and ended with a climax-less close. Zzzzzzz
"the bourne saction"
if i were ludlum, i would be ashamed to have my name associated with this imitation, cliche ridden story line. at times like this i wish i could get my money back.
I've been an Audible subscriber for almost 8 years and I swear this is the worst audio book I've ever listened to.
Boring writing style, characters that are hard to care about, and a story line that's...well...a "long" stretch.
Sorry, Robert Ludlum, but this is not the kind of tripe you would have lent your name to had you still been alive.
I have been a huge Robert Ludlum fan for many years. I found this book to be somewhat difficult to follow. The writer spent far to much time attempting to communicate his left of center views. I read fiction to be entertained not indoctrinated.
"Wait for the movie"
This was an introductory offer, 'one free download if you sign up for audible'. I still feel as though I paid too much for this, my first selection.
The author has laced the text with self indulgent digressions and social commentary that are genre inappropriate and distracting. Someone should take the thesaurus away from the editor.
On the bright side, I did realize that reading the other reviews posted on the site might have saved me from my mistake. I will always do so from now on.
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"Von what's his name isn't Ludlum"
This was a disappointing book. Too many times the real Jason Borne would have seen it coming. When he gets off a plain and finds three people killed less than 100 yard from the plane and he know they were killed by his nemesis I just can see him getting back on the plane and taking a nap with his new true love and his mentor with him on the plane. The borne I know would search the plane and confront his villain.
"I loved this book!"
Like everyone else, I am a Jason Bourne fan. I received The Bourne Betrayal as a gift so I started with that book first. At first, the beginning seems long and boring. Once the action begins, it difficult to stop listening.
I was sceptical about The Bourne Sanction. Surprising, it is as equally good as The Bourne Betrayal. Sanction starts immediately after Betrayal ends so be sure to read the books in order.
Now, I am reading The Bourne Deception and will backtrack to The Bourne Legacy afterwards. I don't know what I will do afterwards. By the way, Deception begins mediocre. I am still in the beginning but so far, it doesn't seem as good as Betrayal or Sanction.
Happy reading!
"Very disappointing"
This book has a very silly plot and a considerable amount of technically preposterous content.
I would say it is aimed at boys 13-14 years of age. I was only able to get through 3/4's of the book before I had to give up.
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Adam Nathan: and Suzanne Hansen: First Look at Popfly Game Creator Alpha
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Popfly Game Creator Alpha is available today, and it's a brand new tool for building 2D games in Silverlight that requires zero programming to build games.
How easy is it to build games? Well in this interview Adam Nathan builds three games from scratch including
- A Space invaders clone (3:15 - 23:55)
- A 2D car game that plays like "snake" (23:55 - 37:51)
- A 2D side scroller with a Ninja fighting rocket chickens (37:51- 55:04)
- Low res version
- MP4 version
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Bas wrote:The UI suffered a bit performance wise over here. Maybe that's because it's just an alpha, I don't know. But when clicking the 'play' button in the creator, the game's performance is terrible even though the tick counter is at 30ms or something. When I just play the game outside the editor (like when clicking the link above), performance is just fine, though. I assume this is due to all sorts of diagnostics stuff bringing performance down, but it could use some work.
Johannes wrote:I think performance problems are mainly caused by silverlight 1.1.
Bas wrote:I doubt it. If you play the game outside the editor, performance is fine. It's probably the diagnostics stuff and the editor UI slowing things down.
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Simple Definition of knockdown
of a price : greatly reduced from the original price : extremely low
Full Definition of knockdown
1 : having such force as to strike down or overwhelm <a bewildering assortment of knockdown arguments — J. W. Krutch>
2 : that can easily be assembled or disassembled <a knockdown table>
3 chiefly British : extremely low : reduced <knockdown prices>
See knockdown defined for English-language learners
Examples of knockdown in a sentence
Now's your chance to buy these items at knockdown prices!
First Known Use of knockdown
Definition of knockdown
1 : the action of knocking down
2 : something (as a blow) that strikes down or overwhelms
3 : something (as a piece of furniture) that can be easily assembled or disassembled
First Known Use of knockdown
Rhymes with knockdown
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Make links in Stack Overflow answers more obvious?
Maybe this is more for SuperUser website, but as it appears all stack exchange use the same approach I'll ask it globally.
On posts, we can add links to external websites. The link to the various external websites are a light blue with no underline (I mean the HTML a href link). Now, underline in the world of HTML = a link!! Simple as that. Don't get me wrong, I'm a web dev/designer and I rather not use the underline (it's nicer on the eye) but I can't comment now on the amount of time I've replied to a post to only realize I've missed the link in the original question! Well, not only have I waisted the OP time by having to re-alert me I'm repeating his data, I've been marked down (well, it is my fault!) but worse, I may have spent a long time researching the answer!
I also know it could be my screen calibration etc, but, on SuperUser could we either have a darker colour or a rule so links are underlined through out?
As per Frédéric Hamidi response, this has been asked before, but it was asked in 2009 so I'd like this to be a new consideration (if possible).


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Kimberly June 30, 2013
Callenwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, GA
Watters Brides Style 9087B Palm Springs in Oatmeal
From the Bride: It was a wrap for me even before I tried on the Palm Springs gown! I fell in love instantly and I felt like a million dollars in it. The dress was beautiful and fluffy and full of elegance. My husband thought the gown was beautiful and sexy and says that he's glad I chose the Palm Springs gown for our wedding day. I will forever be glad that Watters made our wedding day unforgettable!


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UNTHSC School of Public Health
Education and Administration Building (EAD-601)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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I'm looking for a news site for Mathematics which particularly covers recently solved mathematical problems together with the unsolved ones. Is there a good site MO users can suggest me or is my only bet just to google for them?
As a counter-point to my somewhat flippant previous answer (which only really applies if one is a specialist in the field), if you are looking at a field in which you are not as much a specialist in, I suggest reading the articles from the Bulletin of the AMS. The articles are designed to be fairly up-to-date and expository in nature, and often gives the state of the art in their reviews.
Of course, a similar caveat as that to Helge's answer applies: the "news" maybe several months out of date. But considering the glacial paces at which a lot of mathematical refereeing takes place, I think it is quite okay.
In the spirit of this answer, you may also find Which journals publish expository work? to be useful.
Another suggestion Annals: to appear. Also other top journals. If a big problem gets solved, its solution probably gets submitted to a journal of this type, so its to appear lists are what you are looking for. Of course, you only learn about the solution of the problem a few years late (refereeing takes time), but you can be almost certain that the solution is actually correct.
The Wikipedia page List of unsolved problems in mathematics has a specific (and long) sublist for recently solved problems.
Any paper worth reading should include some background material and a description of general progress in its introduction section. This is especially true of papers that actually solve a problem, rather than chipping away at some small technicality.
There is also a list about group theory open problems here : http://www.grouptheory.info/


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If I create a module
AModule with a typeclass
module AModule where
class Foo a where
bar :: a
and in another module
BModule import
AModule qualified and try to make some type an instance of
Foo, i.e.
module B where
import qualified AModule as A
instance A.Foo Int where
A.bar = 0
GHC tells me "Qualified name in binding position: A.bar".
From what I understand, this is related to GHC ticket 3197, which is labeled as fixed. I'm running GHC 6.12.1 and am still getting the error. Am I just misunderstanding something here?


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I have an ArcSDE error: " *Failed to connect to database. Maximum number of connections to instance exceeded "
Did what ESRI recommended :"
Check the value set for the CONNECTIONS parameter in the SERVER_CONFIG or sde_server_config ArcSDE system table to be sure it is sufficient. If it is not, increase the number of allowed connections using the sdeconfig command with the alter operation"
and still nothing works on my database server. (I can't create features, import, etc).
We use a Microsoft SQL Server. And it's an enterprise geodatabase
Thanks a lot.
Apparently it was a schema lock. I had a map service started which used that geodatabase. So how can I edit the geodatabase and have a started map service in the same time. I've already created several versions and tried to publish just the versions, but they still lock my gdb.


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Law and Judicial Duty
By Philip Hamburger
{Harvard University Press: 2008}
Law and Judicial Duty, Columbia Law School Professor Philip Hamburger's latest book, offers a penetrating look at the history of judicial review. The authority of judges to declare statutes unconstitutional is traditionally thought to have developed from the 1780s through the time of the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803. According to Hamburger, however, that history is largely an illusion.
In his book, Hamburger challenges the view that judges have a distinct power of review to hold statutes unconstitutional. He argues that such authority has almost always belonged with judges, not as a distinct power but as an aspect of their ancient office or duty to decide in accord with the law of the land.
Part of the overriding faith in the reported origins of judicial review, Hamburger suggests, is due to the supposed lack of evidence that it existed prior to the 1780s. Another factor is the tendency to ignore the evidence from English, state, and lower court decisions. Hamburger argues that although there is no evidence of a distinct power of judicial review, there is plentiful evidence of the judges' duty to decide in accord with the law of the land, including any constitution. "A simple shift in focus from judicial review to judicial duty is all that is necessary to bring the evidence into view," Hamburger writes in the book.
In debunking the notion of a distinct power of judicial review, Hamburger reveals the importance of the common law ideals of law and judicial duty, which together require judges to hold unconstitutional acts illegal. Judicial review is not a distinct power, he asserts, but simply part of a judge's job.
"Law and Judicial Duty is legal history on a grand scale," says R. Kent Newmyer, author of John Marshall & the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. "The book will reshape the scholarly debate about the origins and nature of judicial review."


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By enrolling in a curriculum (program of study), you may earn an associate degree, certificate or career studies certificate from Patrick Henry Community College. You may also take classes without enrolling in a curriculum.
Associate Degree Programs: PHCC awards associate degrees in arts and sciences (AA&S) and in applied science (AAS).
- Associate in Arts and Science degrees provide the first two years of instruction in major fields that prepare you for transfer to colleges and universities to complete a baccalaureate degree. If you plan to transfer, you should investigate that college's or university's requirements.
- Associate in Applied Science degrees provide knowledge and skills leading to employment in specialized fields.
Diploma Programs: The college may offer two-year diploma programs designed to prepare the student for employment immediately after completion of the program.
Certificate Programs: Certificate programs are less than two years in length with a major in an occupational area; career studies certificates require less than a full year of study in an occupational area. Certificate programs differ from associate degree programs because they are presented at a different educational level and are developed in response to employment needs identified by local curriculum advisory committees. Several of these programs are offered on a part-time, day or night basis for students who are already employed.
Special Notes: You may be required to take developmental courses if your Placemet Test scores indicate you need to improve basic skills before taking college-level classes.
All students who plan to earn an associate degree, and students enrolled in certain certificate programs, are required to complete courses that teach computer competency.
Computer Competent Requirement: PHCC believes that all students should experience a teaching-learning environment that espouses computer and information literacy in accessing electronic resources and applying knowledge through technology. PHCC endorses the principle of computer competency for all students intent on completing a curriculum in excess of 45 semester credits. A computer competent student will be able to:
1. demonstrate a working knowledge of computing concepts, components, and operations to accomplish educational and career tasks.
2. use appropriate components of an integrated productivity software package involving word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and communication applications.
3. access, retrieve, assess, and apply networked information resources (e.g., on-line catalogs, virtual libraries, the internet and world wide web).
4. use telecommunication software (e.g., electronic mail, listservs, bulletin boards, and newsgroups) to communicate with faculty, students and information providers.


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Burn Down Village Huts – Mafia
Welcome to Burn Down Village Huts, a mafia. I've noticed quite a few Nightless Vanilla type games, but I don't think that I've ever seen a Mountainous. As such, I decided to host one as it's simple to host and relatively balanced. As this is my first time hosting a mafia, feel free to point out any mistakes that I've made in the OP or comment on something.
Peasant x12: Just an ordinary peasant, the Peasant's only abilities are to vote for a lynch during day and hope and pray for survival at night.
Win Condition: Lynch all the Village Idiots.
Lose Condition: Die or allow the Village Idiots to fufill their Win Condition.
Village Idiot x2: Once a simple peasant, the Village Idiot has since discovered the wonders of fire. He retains his ability to vote, but also receives a factional NK. The Village Idiots know each other and may communicate during the night to decide whose home to set on fire, killing the target.
Win Condition: Have a number of Village Idiots equal to the number of Peasants.
Lose Condition: Die.


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I have a large polygon dataset and no time to rebuild it to regoranize the Object IDs. Many polygons are drawing above others, blocking their symbol (for example on one side of the polygon). I tried using the 'advanced' symbol level drawing however this resulted in the polygons drawing at a glacial pace. For my clients & users, this is not cool. Is there any way to force the polygons I don't want up front to the bottom, without compromizing drawing speed?
ArcGIS 10 has a new Sort tool. You can reorder your polygons by Area or on multiple fields. The tool will output a new Feature Class.
There's something in the help file which solves this:
In order to put the polygons in some sort of order you could create a new field in the database and have it hierarchical according to drawing order, then use that to sort.
The default mode for symbol level drawing puts each symbol it a separate level and that can slow down drawing. If you really need just one symbol drawn first and the others in any order, use the "Advanced" mode to hand set the symbol levels so that only the one you need to draw first is on a separate level from the others.
The issue ended up being a result of a mistake on the set-up in the enterprise environment regarding the spatial ordering of the data. Once that was fixed by the enterprise data admins, the symbol level drawing worked and loaded quickly!


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Cross Creek Township
Charged: Timothy Henwood, 53, Apartment A, 133 Reichart Ave., Wintersville, domestic violence warrant, Wednesday.
Charged: Sabrina McCoy, 32, Apartment A, 133 Reichart Ave., Wintersville, driving with a suspended license and operating a vehicle under the influence, Wednesday.
Cited: Frank Forst, 60, Apartment 2, 76 county Road 19, Mingo Junction, stop sign and driving with suspended license; and Brandi N. Reed, 21, Scio, failure to stop in assured clear distance ahead.
Arrested: Jessica Yates, 31, 1109 Cardinal St., felony theft, Thursday.
Arrested: Dylan Collins, 20, Chicago, receiving stolen property, Thursday.
Vandalism: Vehicle window broken in the 500 block of South Fifth Street, Thursday.
Arrested: Myron K. Jones, 44, 131 Bennett Trailer Court, Colliers, possession of crack cocaine, Thursday.
Arrested: James Hawthorne, 27, Cadiz, bench warrant out of municipal court, Thursday.
Jefferson County
Vandalism: Vehicle parked in driveway off state Route 43, Bergholz, damaged by large stone thrown from passing vehicle, Thursday.


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Let $\Omega=(a,b)$ a finite interval, $g\in \mathcal{H}^k(\Omega)$ some integer $k$, with $g(a)=0$ and let $\epsilon>0$. Is there an $\alpha\geq 1+k$ such that:
$ \left\|g\right\|_{L_2(a,a+\epsilon)}\leq C\epsilon^{\alpha}\left\|g\right\|_{\mathcal{H}^k(\Omega)} $ where $C$ and $\alpha$ do not depend on $g$ or $\epsilon>0$?
I am thinking of $\epsilon>0$ small so the bound only has to hold for sufficiently small $\epsilon$.
If the above is not possible are there any extra conditions I can put on $g$ at the end point $a$ or extra smoothness of $g$ in $\Omega$ I can impose?
Poincare's inequality for $k=1$: I get $ \left\|g\right\|_{L_2(a,a+\epsilon)}\leq (1+C)\left\|g\right\|_{\mathcal{H}^1(a,a+\epsilon)}$ How do I continue from here?


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DreamWeaver Basics
Dreamweaver Basics for Bb Learn
Making a web page isn't as bad as it used to be. In the early days (the late '90s), if you wanted to create a web page you had to write it using HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code. This is a programming language that handles the way content is formatted on the web, much like early word processors used to do with control codes for italics, underlining, bold, color, font style and size. For an example of HTML code, go to any web page in your browser and choose View Source. Yikes! Nowadays, a quick and dirty solution is to take a Microsoft Word document and choose Save As HTML, but Word creates really messy code. Although this is ok in a pinch, the files will be bigger and slower to load and they will usually only look good in Internet Explorer. Using an HTML editor like Dreamweaver is a better choice if you need to build standard, clean, and complex web pages. You can still look at the source code if you want to, but you can also work in "design view" and let the program write the code. Because the editor is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), your content in design view looks (mostly) the way it will when you view it through a browser. Much more civilized.
Files and Folders
When you use Microsoft Word, images are embedded in the document and it is all saved as a single file. With a web page, the text is in the .htm file, but the graphic elements are located in separate files. This is because, in the early days of the web, data transfer rates were so slow that the images, which are large, took a long time to load. Therefore, the text of the page was designed to load immediately, giving you something to read while waiting for the images to be drawn. The .htm file has pointers to the image files, which are usually found in an images subfolder. Today things load so much faster that most people wouldn't notice, but the internal architecture of a web page has not changed much.
Naming Conventions
Naming files and folders can get you into trouble. Stick to simple alphanumeric filenames to avoid problems and make the path easier to remember. 1) No "funny" characters (!@#$%^&*();:) in your filenames, 2) It is best to avoid CAPITAL letters, 3) Use_underscore_instead_of_spaces_between_words, 4) HTML files end with the three letter extension .htm and image files end in .gif, .jpg, or .png and that should be the only dot in the filename. 5) All of your web files must be in a single folder for best results (but within that folder, you can create subfolders for organization). 6) By convention, the main page in a folder should be named "index.htm." This will allow the page to be loaded automatically without its name being specified. Just be careful not to overwrite one index file with a different one. This is a quick way to blow away your website! Typically, images are located in an "images" folder at the same level as the .htm page that points to them, or at the top level of the site.
Note: If there is no file named index.htm then a user who types the path to the folder will be presented with a list of the contents of that folder.
Part 1a - Gathering information from Bb Learn
With Dreamweaver, you can directly connect to and edit HTML files in Blackboard's Content Collection without going into Bb Learn through a web browser. To establish this connection between Dreamweaver and your Bb Learn course for the first time, you will need to gather some information.
1. Go to http://bblearn.nau.edu and log in with your NAU username and password.
2. In the My Courses box, select the course you want to connect to Dreamweaver.
3. In the Control Panel area on the lower left, click on the Content Collection to expand it, and select the first item in the list, which should be the class name.
4. In the upper right, click on the yellow button that says Set Up Shared Location (on a Mac) or Set Up Web Folder (on Windows)
5. Copy the Current Web Address information, but ignore the rest of the instructions.
Part 1b - Setting up Dreamweaver
1. Open the Dreamweaver application by double-clicking its icon.
2. In the Site menu, choose New Site... and click the Advanced tab. In the left sidebar, select the Local Info category. Click on the folder icon to the right of the Local Root Folder textbox and browse to the place on your computer where you want to keep a local copy of your course content.
3. Next select the Remote Info category. From the Access pull-down menu, choose WebDAV. Paste the Current Web Address info you copied from Bb Learn into the URL textbox. Enter your NAU username and password. Click the Test button to see if you can make a connection to the server. If it works, you're all set. You can get back to the setup information in the Site/Manage Sites... menu.
4. In Dreamweaver's Window menu, select Files and a new window appears on the right. Use the Get Files button to download current copies of all files from Bb Learn to your local folder. Whenever you make a change to a local file or folder, just highlight it in the list and click the Put Files button to upload it to Bb Learn. To visually compare what is on your local machine with what is on the remote site, click the Expand button. To update your list, click the Refresh button.
Really Important Note: Be careful! When you use Get and Put, you must always start with the most current version of your content or you will accidentally overwrite your latest work. If the most current version of the project is on your local machine, you should start by doing a Put to the server. If the most current version is on the server, you should start by doing a Get of the file(s) you will be editing. If in doubt, Get from the server since this is the published version. Also, be very careful about what folder or file is selected when you initiate a Get or Put, because that's what you'll be getting or putting.
Part 1c - Setting Up Dreamweaver's User Interface
1. From the View menu, select Code and Design, also called the Split view, which lets you simultaneously see the HTML code in the upper window and the page design in the lower window.
2. Finally, from the Window menu, select Properties so that the formatting toolbar appears at the bottom of the screen.
Tip: Viewing the HTML source code of a nicely put together web page is a good way to learn new tricks. In your browser, select View Source. You can also copy and paste the source code into a blank Dreamweaver document and look at it in Design view.
Part 2 - Text
1. Type a title for your web page. (Example: "Welcome to My Web Page!") Highlight the text and then, in the Properties toolbar at the bottom of the screen, choose Format . Use the Headings rather than adjusting text properties individually. For example, titles can be H1, subtitles can be H2, etc.
2. To change the page title that appears in the web page's window bar, edit the name in the title box in the upper toolbar.
3. You can use the alignment buttons in the Properties toolbar to center your text. You can also align text to the left or right.
4. Within paragraphs, use to make it bold, or to italicize it. Additional formatting options are under the Text/Style menu.
5. To change the color of the text, choose the text color box from the Properties toolbar.
6. You can indent or outdent (is that a word?) your text.
7. To add a horizontal divider, select Insert/HTML/Horizontal Rule.
8. To make a list, click for either a bullet list or a numbered list, following each item with a "Return", or simply highlight a list of items you have already typed and click the desired list button.
Part 3 - Tables
1. Tables should be used for the presentation of data but not for page layout because this creates difficulties for screen readers.
2. To make a table, put the cursor where you want the table to appear and select Insert/Table. Specify how many rows and columns you will need. If you're not sure, you can change it later.
3. Adjust Border Thickness, Padding, Spacing as desired. Note that a border thickness of 0 will make the table invisible.
4. Use a Header row and/or column when labels are necessary. Proper headers are also important for screen readers for the visually disabled because they distinguish the labels from the table data. This is something Dreamweaver does well and Word doesn't do.
5. Use the Caption and Summary boxes to describe the content of the table for the visually disabled.
Part 4 - HyperText Links
A hypertext link is a piece of clickable text. When you click on it, you will jump to someplace else. Where? It could be a "mail-to" link that opens your e-mail program, or an "http" (hyper-text transfer protocol) link that takes you to another web page, an ftp (file transfer protocol) link that starts a file download, or a local link to another web page at your site. It could even be an anchor, which jumps you to a different part of the same page.
1. To make a link to a page, highlight the text that will become the link and then type the web address into the Link textbox in the Properties toolbar. If you want the link to open a new window, set the Target to " _blank" using the pulldown menu. By convention, use the "open in a new window" option when you link to pages outside your site.
2. If you want to link to another page within your website, click the point to file icon and drag the arrow to the file you want in the Files window, or click the folder icon to browse to file.
3. A "mailto:" link, when clicked, opens a new message in your email client and addresses the message to the recipient. Highlight the text that will become the link and type "mailto:email@address" in the Link textbox. This link will send me a message. Click to see how it works.
4. Sometimes, you may want to use a Named Anchor link to create a link to a different location on the same page. This is especially useful on long pages to reduce the amount of scrolling. Making an anchor requires two steps:
a) First, position the cursor where you want the user to "land," and select Insert/Named Anchor from the menu. An anchor icon will appear. You will be prompted to give the anchor a name (Note: Names are CaSe SeNsitive).
b) Go to the location where the person will "take off" and highlight some text. In the Link textbox, type the pound sign (#) followed by the AnchorName. In this example, the anchor will jump you to the top of the page. Note that the browser's back button works within a page too!
Part 5 - Graphics
Small images can be inserted inline with text. Larger images can sit on a line all by themselves. Where it gets tricky is when you want to wrap text around graphics or position something so it stays put relative to a block of text. For that you will need to insert a Layout Object such as a DIV tag (see Part 6 below). Images you will use in your web page are usually included in an images folder associated with that page.
1. Position your cursor where you want the image to appear. Select Insert/Image to add a graphic. Browse for the graphic file, select it, and you will be prompted for Accessibility information.
2. At a minimum, provide some Alternate text. The ALT tag provides a brief text caption for an image which tells blind users what the image represents. If the image requires a more detailed description, you can use the LONGDESC attribute.
3. Click on the left, center, or right positioning tool to position the graphic.
Tip: You can grab a picture from the Internet by right-clicking on it and saving it to your images folder.
Part 6 - Layout and CSS
Complex page layout requires the use of layout tags like DIV and SPAN and the use of CSS (cascading style sheets). The Dreamweaver icon at right is coded with a div tag, which allows the text to wrap around it. The following code creates the DIV (called "test"), links to the Adobe Dreamweaver web page (opening the page in a new window), displays the Dreamweaver icon, and then closes the DIV.

Part 7 - Preview in Browser
What will it look like when you're done? Click on the preview/debug in browser button to see what your page will look like to someone using a web browser, since what you see in Dreamweaver may not be exactly what you get in your browser. Things will also look slightly different depending on which browser you are using. It's a good idea to test your pages on both Macs and Windows computers with several browsers.


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Get the sprinkles out: it's time for a holiday cookie party
It started several years ago when we realized we seldom got to see our friends and their kids, what with sports, activities and all. The solution: a holiday cookie party, in which the kids got to decorate and create with abandon while the adults got to catch up. It has become an annual event that the kids ask their parents about weeks ahead: When's the cookie party?