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Doris Pleasant, 75, of Paducah, Ky. and formerly of Norris City, passed away at 2 p.m. Friday, April 5, 2013 at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah. She was born July 23, 1937 in Gossett, the daughter of Carl Thomas and Vada Ruth (Green) Johnson.
Doris was a 1954 graduate of Norris City Omaha High School. She married Richard Earl Pleasant on May 9, 1959 and worked as an office manager for Marcum Engineering. Doris was a member of Lone Oak Baptist Church and a past president for Women In Construction.
She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Richard Pleasant of Paducah; two daughters and sons-in-law, Tracy and Larry Hagood of Ft. Thomas, Ky. and Kim and Chuck Meier of Paducah; a sister, Correne Sempsrott of Lebanon, Tenn.; a brother, Carl Dean Johnson and companion, Melba Ballard of Middletown, Ohio; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by a brother, Earl Curtis Johnson; a sister-in-law, Velma Johnson; and a brother-in-law, Hal Sempsrott.
A memorial visitation for Doris Pleasant, 75, of Paducah, Ky. and formerly of Norris City, will be held from 1 until 4 p.m. Monday, April 8, 2013 at Campbell Funeral Home in Norris City. Private burial will be in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Norris City.
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North vs. South in Williamsburg
The New York Times carried a cover story on its Thursday Styles section that explored the cultural divide in the trendy Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Northside vs. Southside. It is a startling example of how news organizations glorify gentrification by treating the long-time residents of a neighborhood as an afterthought and wallowing in the lifestyle of the newcomers. Here is an excerpt:
Grand Street is more than just the dividing line between streets that are numbered north and those numbered south. The border has become Williamsburg's equivalent of the Mason-Dixon line, cleaving the neighborhood into two: a sleek, moneyed "North Williamsburg" and a gritty, hyper-authentic "South Williamsburg."
To the denizens of South Williamsburg, the north is now a glitzy playground of glassy condos for banker types, chain stores and hordes of tourists from Berlin; Tokyo; Paramus, N.J.; and, worst of all, Manhattan. They've turned the area, especially around the Wythe Hotel, into Brooklyn's answer to the meatpacking district.
The South, they argue, has maintained its bohemian D.I.Y. roots, with its indie boutiques, bearded mixologists, artists' lofts and working-class families: in sum, the "real" Williamsburg.
The problem is that the article dismisses the long-time population of Latinos, Hasidic Jews and Italians in two paragraphs, and gives no real consideration to their impact on the culture of the community. They're nearly invisible. One would never know that Latinos are by far the majority of the Southside. In the 2010 census, the Southside's three census tracts are 53 percent, 65 percent and 72 percent Latino.
Last spring, one of my journalism students at Brooklyn College, Elizabeth Elizalde, explored how Latino groups were taking steps to preserve the Latino culture of the Southside.
To talk about the "real" and "authentic" Southside without considering the Latinos' contributions is ridiculous.
I'd rather see a story on whether the Latinos and the white newcomers are interacting. I checked with Xavier Bosque, director of the Southside Community Mission, a non-profit group that works closely with the area's Catholic parishes. He tells me that little by little, the groups are finally beginning to work together. Just yesterday, a community garden opened - the newcomers are good at getting resources from government that can benefit the whole community, he said. White parents and Latino parents are mixing at schools and daycare centers,he said, and the white parents want their children to be in bilingual classes so that they learn Spanish. This, he said, has lifted the quality of the education overall, "something we never saw before." There are serious barriers -- language, for one, and rising rents that force Latino young people to relocate -- but,he said, the more upbeat developments "are signs that something is happening. It's going to take time to know each other." There will be some mingling of the cultures, and the Latino culture has a lot to offer to the cultural connoisseurs who are arriving.
As for the Italians on the Northside, I am told that although their numbers have diminished, it would be a very big mistake to say they are almost entirely gone. Philip Franco, who grew up in the neighborhood and is now a Catholic school principal in Queens, says the local parishes continue to offer services in Italian, there are still Italian social clubs, and that many Baby Boomers have remained in the neighborhood while renting out apartments to hipsters. And, as the Times article does note, the Hasidim certainly aren't going anywhere.
The Times is home to some writers who have a keen sense for the dynamics of gentrification, so I won't say that what appears in its Style section typifies what's in the entire paper. The larger problem is that the more lifestyle-oriented news media -- covering food, restaurants, real estate, style, culture -- are so bent on celebrating what's trendy that large segments of the public are basically invisible to them. That the overlooked people are often low-income and from minority groups heightens the injustice of this. It creates the atmosphere for public policies that further accelerate gentrification, leading to more displacement.
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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Paul, Without denying your larger and very important point, I just want to point out that as an Upper West Sider in Manhattan, I am relieved to be post-trendy. No NYTimes stories, no restaurant reviews of our neighborhood, no cutsie stories about the playgrounds or the schools. Why do I think that Brooklyn can handle this? I do. You're tough and resillient. Good luck! and Godspeed.
North Side Annunciation parish, known as Apreiskimo to Lithuanians, is now the epicenter of Lithuanian-American worship, culture and community in the tri-state area now that Our Lady of Vilnius (OLV)on Brrome Street is shuttered. While the Archdiocese of New York spun another tale, I believe that OLV would still be there for us if the land under it had not become so valuable. It was not included in the Realignment initiative, making me think that the archdiocese leaped at an offer and wrote up the closure rationale afterwards. As Pope Francis inches towards his poor church for the poor, American diocese are cashing in on real estate and breaking the hearts of parishioners by destroying communities 100 years in the making. The sacred art and music of small ethnicities are ushered toward extinction. Brooklyn Diocese has portrayed Jesus as a hipster. Let us pray that His brothers in hipness attend Mass at Annunciation, groove on the karma of the Latinos and Lithuanians who worship there and spare this church and community the fate of Our Lady of Vilnius.
I think it can be taken for granted that the Times Style Section is best ignored, and second-best laughed at.
I don't think it's fair to criticize an article for being about what it's about instead of being about something else. The NYT pays a LOT of attention to the groups you say it "dismisses" in "two paragraphs."
E.g., a search for "hasids williamsburg" brings up 3760 results.
And "hasidic williamsburg" brings up 4380 results.
This is a little bit of "inside baseball" for you New Yorkers, isn't it?
I had to look up Williamsburg to even know what you are talking about.
It's like me comparing the Inner and Outer Sunset districts of SF, or East and West Oaklands.
Thanks, Paul, for the focus on Williamsburg. I count three Catholic churches south of Grand Street (Sts. Peter and Paul, Epiphany, and Transfiguration) and six north (Our Lady of Consolation, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Annuciation, Holy Ghost, St. Francis of Paola, and St. Nicholas). Several of these are merged parishes. The 2013 Official Catholic Directory lists about 600 CCD students in Williamsburg. Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy uses a renovated school at St. Nicholas. As the exodus to Long Island suburbs began two generations ago, income is low, about $2,500 weekly at Mt. Carmel.
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In Greenpoint, I marvel that a renovation sign at St. Cecilia's five-story school shows a new owner, an investor from Bedford Avenue in.South Williamsburg. Condos? And nearby Msgr. McGolrick Park has a dog run.
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recently i was browsing a site, and i noticed that at the end of the URL it said id=168, which is a common indicator that the site is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack. i did some tests and found that i was right, that the site Was vulnerable and that any hacker that wanted to could do some serious damage. i sent them an email from their "contact us" link, informing them of the problem, and asking them to respond indicating that they received the message. it has been 3 weeks, and i have not received an answer. what is the best way to make sure that these people know about this hole in their site?
First, I'd do it semi-anonymously if possible. Laws against hacking are often broad and your actions could be construed as 'hacking' by a paranoid legal team/business types that are more annoyed with having to spend more on website development than having something secure.
Second, I would not explore the extent of the vulnerability due to legal issues. E.g., can I get password hashes? Can I get user data, etc.?
Third, do not disclose the vulnerability or threaten to do so to anyone not at their company; it may take weeks/months for them to get a designer to sensibly fix their existing code. (E.g., the lone developer is on vacation/incompetent/etc).
Fourth, I'd try and check to see if administrator/developer email addresses exist and contact them directly. The
You could also try some of the standard emails for a domain (e.g.,
Finally, if none of that works, send another message via 'contact us' that links to articles that introduce what SQL injection is, what dangers it likely presents to their organization, why you noticed that their site was likely vulnerable to it (the same reason nefarious types will notice), and what they have to do to make their site protected against this specific attack.
I have sent off emails like the one you did and have rarely received a reply. Think of it from their point of view: some random person told them that they were hacking their site ... How do you respond to them? If I received an email like that, I'd quickly fix the problem and not respond. I wouldn't want to escalate the 'relationship' any further in case the person contacting me wanted more than just to inform.
There is also only so much you can be responsible for. You inform as best you can, then leave it up to them. It's their site, their risk, their costs to remedy.
There is also a legal concern that you might need to address. By announcing that you used the site in a way that the owner did not intend, you could be subject to hacking laws and you could be liable for any damage that the owner found even if you did not cause it. Know the laws of your jurisdiction and that of the target site.
Not all discoveries come from poking around live sites. CMS's can be downloaded and explored, the same with addons/plugins for the various CMS's.
There is often an arrogance amongst web maintainers when it comes to the security or perception of security they may hold to but I have found most authors to be pleasant and thankful for having stuff pointed out to them.
The most curteous way is to give them a warning then move on. If they do something about it they do something about it. I have of late had curtious responses from people I have contacted, only once last year I experienced a negative reaction to raising an issue, and twice I received no reply when I pointed out an error in CMS plugins.
Generally though the accepted no frills approach is: - notify the owner/author/developer of the issue ( not just a application system user ) - if reply within a week and is courteous, then give them time to fix and release an update if it is that sort of system ( CMS, plugins etc ), then release the bug via one of the online exploit db sites if they haven't already done so themselves. - however if no reply ( even an autoresponse does it for me ) after a couple of repeat notifications and a couple of weeks of waiting, or even worse, you receive a berating from the affected system owner, then 0day it to a bugtraq or exploit database site.
If they were intentionally ignoring your notification, the 0day whilst not the most popular method of notification, generally gets the message to them one way or another.


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Fake leak?
As @jsoko mentioned in http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/461188d6-9988-4871-a240-412dfd2f4f9c/who-is-staying-up-to-check-dailysteals-to-see-if-they-have-the-hp-touchpad-for-9#13, dailysteals may have posted the HP touchpad deal to get more traffic on their site. I contacted them through chat and asked about the deal, to which the representative replied, "This is not available for purchase today, it was posted momentarily yesterday as we experienced a glitch with our site." I believe it was an intended mistake, but I also believe that they may get their hands on the HP touchpads in the future because HP is "producing one last run of touchpads to meet unfulfilled demands." So I'm not going to abandon the idea that they actually have them, but I thought it was funny that they had this little "glitch."
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Do you think more traffic to their site translates into more sales for them? I guess if there are ads, they might see a little more ad revenue but I would guess that people that want $99 touchpads aren't going to buy anything else when they go to dailysteals.
Good point! i just thought it was a weird glithc
Well the strange thing is that it was "leaked" earlier that day - hours before roll over (/new deal posting).
But a handful of people reported that it appeared momentarily on the site...which makes absolutely no sense. Did they know their site was going to "glitch" 24hrs in advance?
Or, did I read it wrong and am completely misinterpreting everything?
You be the judge. (<- super obscure reference to an old TV show heh...I was talking to somebody about it earlier.. can't remember who)


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I was wondering if there was a way of using a script or some other option whereby I could automatically have files over a certain date deleted from my server.
I have created an AS3 eCard application whereby a php script writes a *.txt file to a folder with the relevant details of the message etc and would like to know if it's possible to have files over 'n' days old automatically deleted some way to avoid cluttering up the site?
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I'm still learning php and would appreciate if anyone with more experience could look over this to point me in the right direction, if it's the right way to go about deleting files in a folder after 14 days of creation?
If so, my server is windows/Plesk, would I need any special commands to run it and how often would you advise?


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20 Sep 2010 5:31 PM #1
Another Codeigniter Direct implementation
Hi folks, I saw the other thread for a direct codeigniter implementation but I think my approach is a bit different.
You can grab the code from http://github.com/ficeto/direct-igniter
The classes that Direct calls in my case are regular Controller classes, just like those that are in the application/controllers folder but the ones for Direct stay in applications/direct folder.
Going this way lets you use the same models libraries and syntax as in codeigniter.
I'm running this same code in an application that is build on direct and features all kinds of grids, trees, forms and such.
I have a basic test build in, so some of the files are purely for example.
The files that you need to worry are:
application/controllers/direct.php <- you can change the index and deploy login checks if needed
and the application/direct folder for your controller classes
enjoy, I hope you like it.
NOTE: If you are using Codeigniter 2, you will need to change the model class in the example to extend CI_Model (don't forget to also reflect that in the constructor function)
Last edited by ficeto; 5 Oct 2010 at 9:53 AM. Reason: added note about CI2
1 Oct 2010 2:02 AM #2
i try this with codeigniter 2 but everytime i get follwing error:
{"type":"exception","tid":2,"message":"Call to undefined class: Direct_controller","where":"#0 D:\\PhpStorm-Projects\\iknow6\\application\\controllers\\direct.php(105): Direct->_rpc(Object(stdClass))\n#1 D:\\PhpStorm-Projects\\iknow6\\application\\controllers\\direct.php(68): Direct->_dispatch()\n#2 [internal function]: Direct->router()\n#3 D:\\PhpStorm-Projects\\iknow6\\system\\core\\CodeIgniter.php(311): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)\n#4 D:\\PhpStorm-Projects\\iknow6\\index.php(163): require_once('D:\\PhpStorm-Pro...')\n#5 {main}"}
1 Oct 2010 4:13 AM #3
it seems that on windows the following will not work. I don´t know why...
$apiState = $this->session->userdata('ext-direct-state');
2 Oct 2010 1:23 AM #4
it uses codeigniter session to store the API state. Maybe nothing was saved there to begin with... can you check that please?
3 Oct 2010 9:10 PM #5
i debug this with firebug. Inside the api() function the session will be correct set, but is not available inside the router function.
Here runs windows with a local Apache Server . The same behaviour is inside the other codeigniter implementation from goachka. It seems that the router function can not access the original sessions-data an create a new one every direct call.
So, every call the api will be recreated :-(
Currently i have no idea why the sessions will be recreated...
4 Oct 2010 5:57 AM #6
can you otherwise confirm that your codeigniter sessions are working at all?
5 Oct 2010 3:08 AM #7
no i can´t. I test a little bit... PHP-Sessions working well but the CodeIgniter-Sessions will always create a new id on every call.
Can you test your direct implementation against CodeIgniter 2 (http://bitbucket.org/ellislab/codeigniter/)?
That will help me to find the reasion for this strange behaviour. What enviroment you use?
After some debugging i found the reason for this behaviour. It´s a bug inside PHP (perhaps only the Windows-Version) in the unserialize() function.
I found this blog entry (http://www.backwardcompatible.net/ph...nd-codeigniter) and replace the unserialize function().
And now it works like a charm...
Bye, Dumbledore...
Last edited by Dumbledore; 5 Oct 2010 at 3:53 AM. Reason: found Solution
5 Oct 2010 9:49 AM #8
I experience no such issues on OS X or Debian using Codeigniter 2 from the link you posted. Probably you should submit it as a bug to codeigniter?
5 Oct 2010 10:26 PM #9
yes - i will do that...
5 Nov 2010 11:58 PM #10
again, with the same problem
How did you setup your CodeIgniter? Did your store the sessions in a database table? When i store my session data in a database it runs, when i use the following _serialize function()
PHP Code:
function _unserialize($data)
$out = preg_replace('!s:(\d+):"(.*?)";!se',
"'s:'.strlen('$2').':\"$2\";'", $data );
return @unserialize($out);
So it seems, that storing the session in a database is a _must_ for this code.
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Let $X$ be a complex manifold and $D$ a normal crossing divisor. Let $U = X - D$ and $j: U \rightarrow X$ the natural map. Voisen observes that there is a natural inclusion $$\Omega^k_X(\log D) \subset j_*\Omega_U^k$$ Why is this so? Certainly, by adjointness of $j^{-1}, j_*$ we get a natural map $\Omega^k_X(\log D) \rightarrow j_*\Omega_U^k$. It's not obvious to me that this map is injective at the level of stalks. Basically I have two questions:
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2.) Are you able to see in a more obvious way that a map $\Omega^k_X(\log D) \rightarrow j_*\Omega_U^k$ exists, and is an inclusion of sheaves "geometrically", that is, without using adjointness of $j^{-1}, j_*$?


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I've looked for some information on this, but couldn't find anything useful. Has there been any noteworthy attempt to estimate the sum amount of individuals of all species that have ever lived on Earth?
it is impossible to know the exact number so here is my gross ballpark estimate of an upper bound - i.e. the maximum number of organisms that could have lived on earth in the extreme best case scenario. in practice it is probably much less, but this is to get an idea of what kind of numbers we are dealing with.
The earth's volume is about 1.08321 * 10^12 cubic kilometers = 1.08321 * 10^21 cubic meters
The crust of the earth is 4-8km and the radius is about 6,353km giving around 1% of the total volume available for life.
Hence, the volume available, i.e. the volume of the crust is about 1.1 x 10^19 Meters.
An average-size bacterium such as the rod-shaped E-coli is about 2 micrometers long and 0.5 micrometers in diameter. Hence, the volume is roughly:
(2*10^-6)*(0.5*10^-6)*(0.5*10^-6) = 0.5*10^-18 meters
Hence, if the entire volume of the crust of the earth were entirely filled with e-coli bacteria, there would be:
(1.1 x 10^19 meters)/(0.5*10^-18 meters) = 1.3*10^36 bacteria on the earth.
Bacteria take time until they reproduce. If they reproduce faster than they grow, they will become reduced to zero size, so there must be a balance between growth and reproduction.
Under ideal conditions the E-coli bacterium would divide every twenty minutes. source
Let's say we have the maximum number of bacteria on earth dividing every twenty minutes. Somehow, they divide and then one dies so that the population is stable. (hypothetically)
The age of the earth is roughly 4.5 Billion years. Much of that time, it was not colonised, but just to give an upper bound let's assume it was colonized the whole time.
There are 525600 minutes in a year so this give
4.5 ^ 10^9 * 5.3* 10^5 = 2.385 * 10^15 minutes
Dividing by twenty minutes gives 1.1925 * 10^14 total reproductions.
Hence, the number of organisms that ever lived if the entire volume of the crust of the earth were entirely filled with e-coli bacteria reproducing at the maximum of every 20 minutes would be:
(1.2*10^14) * 1.3*10^36 bacteria = 1.56 * 10^50 bacteria
This is an highly exaggerated gross estimate of the maximum number of organisms that ever lived in the extreme best case scenario. In practice it is probably 5-15 orders of magnitude less than this but we get an idea of the kind of numbers we are dealing with.
UPDATE: A more realistic number
The number of bacteria currently on earth is about 5*10^30 forming a biomass which exceeds that of all plants and animals. source.
According to this source cited by the previous wikipedia article:
Hence we have about 1.7 x 10^30 New Cells/year
Multiply this by the estimated 3.5 Billion years (3.5*10^9) when the earth was colonized and we get
For some perspective, the estimated number of atoms comprising all of planet earth is about 1.33 * 10^50 according to this source.
The upper bound for mammals is as follows.
The surface area of the land of the earth is 149 million square kilometers.
Let us consider if the entire land area of the earth was completely covered with mice.
A mouse is typically 10cm from nose to base of tail and about 5 cm wide=0.1*.05=0.005 square meters. So we get 200 mice per square meter.
Hence, if the entire land area of the earth were covered with mice the world population of mice would be:
149*10^12 square meters * 200 mice per square meter = 1.788 * 10^15 mice
Mice typically produce a litter of 6-8 young and a female can have 5-10 litters per year. source
Let's say we have this maximum population reproducing in a stable manner. i.e. for every new mouse, an old one dies.
Hence the total number of new mice per year would be:
1.8 * 10^15 * 8 young * 10 litters = 1.44*10^17 new mice per year.
Mammals appeared around 200 million years ago (source), so that makes
1.44*10^17 new mice per year * 200 million years
= 2.88 * 10^25 total mice.
In practice mice need space and resources and compete with other mammals which take up space and which reproduce less frequently. Likewise, deserts and polar regions are less inhabitable, and sometimes there are periods of droughts, and they don't always reproduce at the maximum rate etc. so the total number is probably about around 4-10 orders of magnitude less than this.
So it is probably something like 10^20 total mammals ever existed.
This is a hard problem - estimates of total living things in an given environment are usually created by looking at the number of species and individuals found in a sample area and extrapolating. As far as estimating the number of living things in the world, there are still lots of species which are not known, making this number still unknown for the world today as it is. Doing a similar survey into past ages adds another layer of problems to the estimate.
EO Wilson has, among others I'm sure, made a serious effort to understand how many species are currently alive on Earth. Its pretty clear that currently we don't know how many species are currently alive - that would make it nearly impossible to answer your question historically.
from "The barometer of Life" Stuart, Wilson, McNeely, Mittermeier & Rodriguez, emphasis mine.
As you can see there are some important technical obstacles to even the question of how many species there are. Bacteria and free living eukaryotes have rules for speciation that are fairly difficult to define, esp since many can transfer just a few genes with many near relatives and do not require sexual reproduction.
Another obstacle is that the animal and plant surveys are not really done yet either. Plants animals and insects are still being discovered in jungles, deep underwater and at rest stops. As far as the microbial record goes, an average glass of water from a pond or river probably has undocumented species.
The encyclopedia of life is a resource worth mentioning here. It is self admittedly only a partial record.
For past speciation records, the geographical sampling is not strong - digging down in selected spots where fossil records remain is bound to miss many of the species which had existed.
In 1990, Peter Dodson wrote this review in PNAS holding forth on the taxonomical difficulties in estimating the number of dinosaur species which included a founding period which was as much circus as science as well as the incredibly sparse sampling of prehistoric surveys over time and history. As recently as this year the count of dinosaurs has continued to vary wildly. A pubmed citation list to Dodson's paper shows 7 citing works, mostly from the past 3 years.
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I've brewed beer with other friends, but never on my own. I'm certain my first batch will have multiple issues. Most of my buddies started their firsts with Porters and Stouts. Any other recommendations for a good beer to start off as a lone-homebrewer?
What's your favorite style of beer?
As long as it's not something involved like a Lambic, or a fruit beer or something with a million adjuncts you should be fine.
Look for a recipe or ingredient kit for a style that you like that has a small amount of ingredients (malt extract, 1 or 2 kinds of hops, maybe an adjunct or two) and you should be good to go, talk to your brewing friends or the staff at your LHBS if you have any concerns.
Relax, don't worry, have a home brew (or maybe in your case a microbrew).
Pretty much all extract recipes have the same steps, just the ingredients are slightly different. The reason to start with a darker beer, like Amber or darker, is that the strength of the brew can cover up any minor mistakes that you made during the brew. (Minor being goofing up the hop schedule, or the boil time, etc.)
Don't worry, as long as you pay close attention to your sanitation, and follow the recipe, you should be fine.
I'd gotten the advice about a stout or a porter for a first-timer. Though I'm still a novice, I think the advice is a bit flawed.
I don't like porters at all. I only like one stout, Guinness, and I was not going to try to replicate that on my first time out. I chose an IPA because it was strongly hopped to hide any missteps, but the IPA did actually have some issues.
That question (about an imperial stout having a banana flavor) also puts the lie to stouts hiding off flavors. Yes, they have dark coloring and strong flavors, but those flavors aren't going to hide major defects, and major defects seem to come not from the fermentables, but from stressed or unhealthy yeast.
Accordingly, I'd put most of my effort not into making sure I pick a beer where my mistakes can hide, but into setting it up so that the yeast have every chance of succeeding. For me, if I had it to do again, an American amber ale, below 1050 OG, and a Wyeast smack-pack to make sure I get a good fermentation, and make sure to slosh it good to get some good aeration. A fast, strong fermentation with great yeast will lower the chance of contamination being an issue, and will produce fewer unintended flavors.
All that said, my brother-in-law did exactly what you're not supposed to do. For his first batch, he brewed an American lager straight off in his cold garage. They say not to try to replicate Bud because the off flavors have nowhere to hide. He said it turned out just fine. Not perfect, but totally drinkable. He's moving on to a pilsener for his second batch, and I expect it'll be okay, too.
My first batch was a Brewer's Best Red Ale kit. It's a simple-but-not-too-simple kit with LME, minimal specialty grains, and a couple kinds of hops. At the time I was only 23 and didn't have the most refined beer palate. I wasn't a Bud drinker; I just hadn't yet really learned what I liked. I knew that the idea of good beer intrigued me. I was also a fan of Good Eats, and the brewing episode got me excited a bouthomebrewing - a hobby I never knew existed until then. My wife (well, fiancee at the time) got me the complete starter kit from our LHBS which included your choice of Brewer's Best kit. She chose the red ale I think because that's what AB brewed. I'd recommend any ale kit like this one - LME, specialty grains, one or two hops - is a great first batch. Pick the kit that matches the kind of beer you like.
I would go for something that isn't too complex. A simple brown ale or amber ale would be good. The reason I suggest that instead of pilsner is because the majority of new homebrewers start out with extract kits. They tend to darken in the boil and brown or amber ales are a nice way for them to get comfortable with brewing without worrying too much about color. If they start out with all grain, a pilsner or simple american ale would work well in this case.
Most ales need pretty much the same steps. I suggest you don't start with a lager or pilsner since there are already too many things to see in practice before you get into lagering. Watch out for sanitation mainly. As Julie said, a stout, porter or other malty ale will be easier because its strong taste will cover up some mistakes. Don't get anxious, your beer will be much better than the once you buy from the market!
I ended up with a recipe package from More Beer... Jim Baumann's Milk Stout. Seems fairly easy, just got to get an adapter and a hose for my kettle's spigot and I should be good to go.
Ales are a lot easier to start with than lagers. You can pick just about any style you like and find a basic recipe that will make good beer. Some ideas, if you like:
hoppier beers, try a simple pale maltier beers, go with a brown or amber ale roasty beers, you can try a stout or porter belgian/wheat, wit beer is the way to go
None of these beers will be outside your abilities on a first try with an extract or extract/steeping recipe. Will it be the best beer you ever tasted? Maybe not, but you'll like it.


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The syntax of a language is not as hard as you think to remember, if you use it daily. Eventually it becomes very easy. Remembering all the various library functions could be much more difficult and I don't think most people can remember more than the most common ones they use, but that's OK if you have access to the Web, or a book, or something else that "remembers" all the other details for you.
It can't be true that people have a "natural" facility with languages, can it?
It can't possibly be true that we have low-level neural hardware just to acquire languages, can it?
Programming uses artificial languages that follow many of the rules of natural languages.
Natural languages have a little more flexibility than programming languages.
grammar of still strict. rules there are very are which But
If you can speak, you can learn to program without memorizing anything more than what you memorized when you learned to speak.
If you are talking about short term memory then yes. a programmer must be able to juggle multiple bits of information simultaneously when programming/solving problems.
If you are talking about long term memory then not really. There are many manuals and references + tools that can aid significantly in recalling information. Certainly memorising these long term information will make you a faster developer (overall), but its not a prerequisite.
A good memory is absolutely essential, but not for the obvious reasons.
Remembering details on specific algorithms, libraries, variable names, and such comes in very handy, but is not super important. You have Google, DuckDuckGo, man pages, language-specific documentation, and smart editors to help with all of the above. It helps if you don't need to rely on these crutches, but you'll get by just fine if you do need them from time to time.
Where memory is essential is in keeping the details of what you're working on in active, short-term memory. Being able to visualize the design, data flow, algorithms, data structures, and how they all interact to do whatever it is your product does separates the OK programmer from the great programmer. When you're actively doing it, it feels like you're successfully juggling a gargantuan number of balls while riding a unicycle.
This is often referred to as being in the zone. Interruptions, stupid questions, bosses needing TPS reports all jolt you from this zone.
The better your memory is, the easier it is to get into the zone, the easier it is to stay there, and the easier it is to get back into it after an interruption.
If you have issues with this kind of memory, I'd suggest learning meditation techniques and memory tricks as the more facile your memory becomes, the greater success you will have as a programmer.
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) is a common reference that notes being smart and getting things done are the important points of programming. Smart does include some memory skills but not necessarily as much as you may think.
Intellisense can help a lot when it comes to syntax if you want some help on that side of things. Knowing how you learn so that you can quickly apply what you learn in a meaningful way is more important than being able to answer trivia questions.
I'm going to go against the flow, and say yes. A good memory is be an awesome asset as a programmer. My memory I've always seen as a programming liability, so I've picked up some tricks to compensate for my handicap:
Hope this helps!
I believe remembering names is a rather different cognitive function from remembering processes which is different from remembering vocabularies. There have been cases of people who have received brain injuries that completely removed the ability to remember names while being able to function perfectly well otherwise.
So I'd say that the ability to remember names in unrelated to learning programming languages.
It'd be helpful to be able to remember logical patterns, rules, and vocabulary, however.
No. The memory depth of tools (Intellisense, Google, compilers, code generators) is infinite comparing to human memory. So programmer with good memory is no much better than one with a hole in the head.
What programmers actually need is "peak speed of focus gaining" when they switch between levels of abstraction. The faster you can, the better you are as a programmer. Some have a heartbeat speed like 500 ms, with arrival of first blood wave to brain you are focused. Some have focusing clock rounded to smoking cycle, about 2 hours. Some need morning shower, so about 24 hours. etc. The difference between good and bad programmer was once declared 1:80 fold years ago, and the gap is only growing.
Nope, you just need to understand how Google works to get what you want
I have a horrible memory, but my Googling skills are awesome ^_^
In all seriousness, as long as you know where to find the syntax, you don't need to remember it. That's what intellisense, help files, reference guides, the internet, etc are for.
First of all, learning to program is difficult for everyone. Having a good memory helps I'm sure. But, dedication and a love of lifelong learning are more valuable. Learning syntax is just like anything else, repetition.
There's nothing magical or superhuman about the skill of programming. Just spend about 10,000 hours on it...and you will be a master like any other skill. Of course, that's 10,000 hours of training, not blindly and mind-numbingly repeating past mistakes.
You wrote this post in English, with proper syntax. Clearly you are able to remember how to use a language. You just need to learn a new language and use it often enough that you get it right all the time. Unlike human-oriented languages, computer programming languages will always let you know when you've used incorrect syntax, so it's actually easier. :-)
I agree that there is a huge variety of things that an average programmer may know to accomplish its tasks, just think on all the words, syntaxes, techniques you should basically control to built a simple web site (on front end: html, css, javascript (you may count also some Js frameworks as jquery), ajax, on the back end: Php or ASP or ASP.Net, and do not forget about data bases, mySql or SqlServer or Oracle or MongoDB, etc). There is a huge list of languages, paradigms, sintaxies, patterns, etc., it is impossible to remember everything of them.
It think that what makes a good programmer is practice, practices with algorithms more than with languages, and with that you eventually will remember the things you most often uses, for the rest, there is always google =P
A great memory can cut both ways.
If you can juggle dozens of bits of information in your head at once, you'll have a much easier time making sense of (and hopefully rewriting) that horrible piece of legacy code that's critical to the project but so complicated that everybody else is afraid to touch it.
On the other hand, that horrible piece of code that's critical to the project but so complicated that everybody else is afraid to touch it was probably written by someone with an awesome ability to juggle dozens of bits of information. If you've got a great memory, work extra hard to cultivate an appreciation for the elegance of simplicity.
Learning the syntax of a programming language doesn't require a great memory. As others have said, syntax is reinforced in your memory so much that it quickly becomes second nature. Do you ever forget which side of the road you're supposed to be driving on? Which arithmetic symbols represent addition and subtraction? If not, you'll master the most common parts of the syntax of your chosen language without too much trouble, and you can look up the less common bits when they come up.
Some libraries have hundreds or thousands of functions, classes, and/or methods. It would seem to an outsider like an impossible task to learn to use all that functionality. But there's almost always some underlying structure to the library. Instead of trying to remember all those functions, a smart programmer tries to understand how the library is organized and what it can do. With that done, it's usually pretty easy to find the function you need when you need it.
In short, memory is far less important than understanding.
It depends. Within Java and .NET the standard libraries are in a sort of hierarchy and are well documented. Therefore, if you know you are dealing with networking, then you go to system.net in C# and from there you can drill down to the specific objects/calls you need. So from that respect you don't need to memorize the details and there.
In your own program, it is all about how you organize/name things. If you are using names like a$, b$, c$ ... or g$ from Basic of old, then good luck. if you name things the way you will think about them like FirstName, LastName it is much easier. A lot of languages have naming standards which help as well. In Java for example there is a convention of setX, getX for getting/setting specific attributes of a class as well as capitalization conventions. So if you know a person has first name, then it is probably called firstName and the getter/setter are probably getFirstName and setFirstName..... So those conventions help a lot...
Also shorter methods/functions help you to keep less in your head at one time. And using proper names helps you to not need to go looking. For example if you name things for what they do, then when reading one procedure that calls getMaximumValue you will probably not need to read getMaximumValue to figure out what it does... But as functions/methods get longer and more nested then a better memory definitely helps.
Memory is not all that important. If you are at all worried about it, I regularly forget my wallet or keys in my house in the morning. I call everyone by the wrong name at least once (including my family and girlfriend). I just plain forget to do things around the house all the time.
At the end of the day the tenets of programming will still be in your head just like "you never forget how to ride a bike". Specific details and implementation details are not all that important. You can always Google those.
From Joel On Software about productivity of a programmer-
So, the short term memory is very important for a programmer given a critical task.
From a quick read through, I didn't see anyone talking about memory in the general sense of programming rather than a singular task of writing a program.
Memory is useful for two things:
IOW, You can be a reasonable programmer with #1 alone, but if you are ever going to be the next Linus, You better have a lot of memory, at least enough to encompass the problem you are solving.
From my observations, I could even say that working memory is almost directly proportional to the worth of the person.
A little disclaimer to wrap up: If you have Eidetic memory but zero/low intellectual power in applying that logic, you will be no good to a project than a camera.
If you have difficulty remembering the names of people you meet, you could still become a great programmer.
I forget people's names all the time. I am a senior programmer with almost a decade of experience. In my case, my terrible auditory memory is compensated for by a great visual memory.
Even so, the essential requirement for a good programmer is the ability to abstract. No matter how much or how little you can remember, if you cannot understand the concept of a variable, and how to use it in a program, you won't become a good programmer.
My suggestion is that you try one short course in programming, or complete the Python tutorial to see how you like it.
That should give you a good idea about whether programming is a career you might be interested in pursuing.
I say an emphatic YES!
At present I am learning JAVA & C#. All the tests are closed book, so for JAVA its all 100% from memory coding all applications in exams.
What's more, it is getting harder & harder. I'm at the point now where I need to start using memory tricks like mnemonics, etc.
I would say High IQ, good general knowledge, good vocabulary, polymathism, higher mathematics knowledge, touch typing & good memory are all assets for a programmer.
I know very clever programmers that can't touch type or do higher math, etc. It they did, they could be much better.


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- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup Sugar Twin or Sprinkle Sweet
- 1 (4-serving) package JELL-O sugar-free instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 teaspoon apple pie spice
- 2/3 cup Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk Powder
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 cup (one 8-ounce can) crushed pineapple packed in fruit juice undrained
- 1 egg or equivalent in egg substitute
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
- 2 cups finely grated carrots
- 1/4 cup (1 ounce) chopped walnuts
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-by-9-inch cake pan with butter-flavored cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, Sugar Twin, dry pudding mix, and apple pie spice.
- In a small bowl, combine dry milk powder, water, and vinegar. Stir in applesauce, undrained pineapple, egg, and coconut extract. Add milk mixture to flour mixture. Mix gently just to combine. Stir in carrots and walnuts.
- Spread batter into prepared cake pan. Evenly sprinkle coconut over top.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
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[cellulose ethanol]
Clariant has inaugurated what is said to be
Germanys biggest pilot plant for producing
climate-friendly cellulose ethanol from agricultural waste.
Located in Straubing, Bavaria, and supported by the Bavarian
government and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research,
the futuristic project will produce up to 1,000
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second-generation cellulose ethanol.
Marquard & Bahls, through its
subsidiary Bomin, and The Linde
Group, will establish a joint-venture (JV) company to
build infrastructure for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Europes maritime sector. The
transaction is subject to the approval of the relevant
antitrust authorities. The 50/50 JV is due to start its
operations in the latter part of 2012, with its headquarters
based in Hamburg, Germany.
The JV will set out to establish an LNG supply chain and to
provide reliable, safe and environmentally friendly fuel to
ship owners and operators. Linde will contribute its vast
experience in cryogenics and its best-in-class engineering
know-how, while Bomin will support the JV with its excellent
track record in maritime bunker-fuel trading and operations.
The new company will establish operations in a number of key
ports throughout the so-called emission control
areas in Northwest Europe.
CB&I has an award from
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butadiene-extraction plant in Antwerp, Belgium. The contract,
which is valued in excess of $50 million, is an essential part
of the total BASF investment amount, which will be in the high
double-digit million euro range. The plant is scheduled to
start up during 2014.
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a
five-year enterprise frame agreement (EFA) from Shell
Global Solutions International B.V. to provide
engineering and project management services to Shells
European downstream assets.
The contract has the options to be renewed for an additional
five years and/or to be extended to other Shell businesses such
as upstream, and beyond Europe to the Middle East and
Africa. Under the EFA, Jacobs will provide services ranging
from feasibility studies and small plant modifications to
discrete projects for Shells major refining and chemical sites in
Pernis, The Netherlands, and in Rhineland, Germany.
UOP LLC, a Honeywell
company, has been selected by Lukoil to
provide technology to produce blending components used to make
high-octane gasoline and petrochemicals at Lukoils
facility in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Lukoil will license an integrated suite of Honeywells
UOP technologies to produce high-quality gasoline-blending
components, propylene and other petrochemicals.
The new units, expected to start up in 2015, will produce
more than 1 million metric tpy of gasoline-blending components
and more than 170,000 metric tpy of propylene. In addition to
technology licensing,
Honeywells UOP and a number of its affiliates will
provide engineering design, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment,
staff training and technical service for the project.
Honeywells UOP technology to be used in this project
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straight-run atmospheric gasoils, vacuum gasoils, certain
atmospheric residues and heavy stocks recovered from other refinery operations into high-octane
gasoline, propylene and light fuel oils; Honeywells UOP
HF Alkylation process to produce a high-quality
gasoline-blending component, typically referred to as alkylate;
Honeywells UOP Caustic Merox process to remove sulfur
from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) streams; Honeywells
UOP Huels Selective Hydrogenation Process (SHP) to minimize
acid consumption in the alkylation unit, produce 2-butene and
maximize alkylate yields; and Honeywells UOP Butamer
process to convert butane to isobutane, a primary feedstock used to produce alkylate
in the HF Alkylation process.
LANXESS has chosen Burckhardt
Compression to deliver one process gas compressor for
its chemical production site in Leverkusen, Germany. The
compressor will be used to compress ethylene from 17 bara to
495 bara. In addition, Burckhardt Compression (Deutschland)
GmbH has been awarded an order from LANXESS to revamp two
existing process gas compressors.
A gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in Uzbekistan was named OLTIN
YOL GTL at a formal ceremony in Tashkent involving
representatives from the three joint-venture (JV) companies:
Uzbekneftegaz, Sasol and
The naming of the JV project followed a ceremony to mark the
start of infrastructure development by the Government
of Uzbekistan at the proposed GTL plant site at
Shurtan in the south of Uzbekistan. It also aimed at supporting
the project schedule to enable a final investment decision,
which is expected during the second half of 2013.
When commissioned, the 38,000-bpd plant will produce a
combination of GTL diesel and GTL naphtha and, in an important
development in the application of GTL fuels, GTL kerosine for
the aviation sector.
Neste Oil has completed the first phase of
its project to build a pilot plant for
producing microbial oil. Plant construction is on schedule and on
budget. The first phase will enable the growth of oil-producing
microorganisms, and the following phases will concentrate on
raw material pretreatment and oil recovery. The goal is to
develop the technology so that it is capable of yielding
commercial volumes of microbial oil for use as a feedstock for NExBTL renewable
diesel. Commercial-scale production is expected by 2015 at the
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second half of 2012, and it represents an investment of
approximately 8 million by Neste Oil.
Microbial oil technology is attractive because of its
efficiency and sustainability. Neste Oil has
carried out pioneering research in the field and has applied
for numerous patents covering its microbial oil technology. A
number of partners have been involved in this work, including
Aalto University.
In May 2012, ThyssenKrupp Uhde won a
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polypropylene (PP) plant based on
LyondellBasells Spheripol process technology for
ZapSibNeftekhim L.L.C, a wholly owned
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The 500,000-tpy plant is planned to be constructed in
Tobolsk, Russian. The plant will produce a wide range of
high-quality PP brands.
Evonik Industries has laid the foundation
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polybutadienes in Marl, Germany. The plant, with a capacity of
several thousand metric tpy, is scheduled for completion in
mid-2013. The investment, in the companys largest
production site worldwide, is in the mid double-digit million
euro range.
The new plant can make optimum use of the existing
infrastructure and raw material supplies, and utilize synergies
with the current polybutadiene plants in the Marl Chemical
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Refining margins will likely stay
firm for South Korean refineries in 2013 as oil products like
diesel will remain in short supply in the key export markets of
Europe and Australia, traders and
analysts said.
European refineries will continue to operate at low
capacities this year, as they are not configured to produce
large volumes of diesel, and aging and economically unviable facilities will continue to close
due to financing difficulties, analyst Yeon-ju Park of Daewoo
Securities said in its 2013 outlook.
In Australia, aging refineries unable to remain competitive
have shut, and the country is a net importer of diesel from
"We expect the supply of petroleum products to remain tight
in 2013," Mr. Park said.
He expects global supply of oil products to increase by
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downturn, supply has been tight due to both permanent and maintenance-related shutdowns in the
US, Europe and Japan.
"As such, the export market for Korean refiners should
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South Korean refineries saw their margins contract in the
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South Korean refiners maintained high output and arbitrage
outflows declined.
However, for the January-March period, Korean refining
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[global] kerosene and diesel oil prices amid expanding demand
for heating oil" and an "upswing in the chemical business,"
Hyundai Securities said in a note.
An ongoing cold spell in South Korea that recently sent
temperatures dropping to their lowest levels in decades and
power shortages, together with similar conditions in Japan, are
expected to boost North Asian demand for kerosene and diesel in
the short term.
As a result, South Korea's refiners -- SK Energy, Hyundai
Oilbank Corp., GS Caltex and S-Oil Corp. -- continue to operate
at almost full refining capacity and may not cut refinery throughput until the spring
maintenance season.
SK Energy plans to shut a 110,000-bpd No. 2 crude distillation unit at its Ulsan refinery from mid-March to mid-April
and the 170,000-bpd No. 3 crude distillation unit from mid-May to
S-Oil will shut the 90,000-bpd No. 1 CDU at Ulsan in July
for 2-3 weeks and the 240,000-bpd No. 3 CDU in April for 2-3
Additionally, Hyundai Oilbank and GS Caltex also plan refinery maintenance in the second quarter,
though the dates are not fixed, traders said.
The four South Korean refiners will process around 2.67
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Newswires survey. They processed around 2.58 million bpd of oil
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A New Year has brought a bunch of new changes to Microsoft Game Studios and Halo steward 343 Industries with writers, producers and directors all shifting around the organisations.
– Joe Staten (Image Source)
The most surprising addition to the Microsoft Game Studios team is that of Joseph Staten, previous lead writer and creative director at Bungie while working on (and helping to create) the Halo series, before wrapping up his work on Destiny and departing the studio in September 2013.
Xbox studio manager Mike Ybarra announced the news on Twitter:
Thrilled to welcome back Joe Staten to the Microsoft Studios family. #XboxOne
— Mike Ybarra (@XboxQwik) January 9, 2014
Speaking to Polygon, Microsoft said that Staten's new role at the company is senior creative director but will not be working directly on the next Halo, instead helping to create "the world's best entertainment on Xbox, as well as help shape our franchise strategy for some Microsoft Studios titles." Staten will additionally be involved as an ambassador to the Xbox game development community, "building on his many years of experience and relationships with developers and fans."
That and More, Brother
While Staten's return may be the most surprising shift at MGS, that's not the least of it because following the departure of Corrinne Yu from 343 last year to join up at Naughty Dog, her husband Kenneth Scott will be transitioning out of his role as art director at the Halo studio to become a design consultant while living in Santa Monica, California. Taking his place will be concept artist titan, Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier, who worked with Scott at id Software on RAGE and has contributed visions to other massive games like the Assassin's Creed franchise, amongst others.
343 Industries producer Kiki Wolfkill, meanwhile, is on a new journey developing "exciting new stories, experiences and technologies that will transform the way that you experience Halo," while industry veteran Tim Longo (formerly of LucasArts) joins on as creative director.
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Despite all of the leadership changes at MGS and 343 Industries, the Halo team is still very much on track to deliver a new Halo game on Xbox One in 2014 – writing on the Halo Waypoint blog, newly appointed executive producer Josh Holmes wrote:
"2014 is here and much is afoot in the Halo universe. This past year has been a time of great transition at 343 as we've moved our engine and team from Xbox 360 to Xbox One and begun building the next chapter in the Halo saga.
"We're proud of what we accomplished with our first release in Halo 4 and now we're focused on something much more transformative as we make the leap to the next generation of Xbox. We showed a hint of what we have in store at E3 last year and we're excited to share more in the not-so-distant future. Please be patient – we can't wait to show you what we have in store."
Where is your excitement level for Halo at now with these changes in leadership? More, less or the same?
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