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Last summer Commonweal published a controversial essay by Joseph Bottum, "The Things We Share: A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage." Bottum, the former editor of First Things, had long publicly opposed same-sex marriage, but in "The Things We Share" he argued that it was no longer prudent for American Catholics to oppose the legal recognition of same-sex civil marriage—because such opposition had likely become a lost cause; because the only good arguments against same-sex marriage were no longer intelligible in an essentially post-Christian culture; and because same-sex civil marriage might end up being good for gay couples, as well as for America's marriage culture more generally. According to Bottum, Catholics should instead concentrate their efforts on the "re-enchantment" of a culture that had forgotten "the essential God-hauntedness" of the world. Because he did not argue for a change in church teaching, many readers of Bottum's essay criticized him for not going far enough. Many conservatives, meanwhile, criticized him for going much too far.
We invited Ross Douthat, a conservative columnist at the New York Times, and Jamie L. Manson of the National Catholic Reporter to comment on Bottum's argument. Manson's piece went live Thursday and appears here; Douthat's, which we posted Wednesday, appears here. Today, we feature Bottum's response to them.
All our discussions of marriage in this country are strange, contorted expeditions—stretching over unmarked chasms, swerving around invisible barriers. We are voyagers adrift in a landscape of unlikeliness, and most of the peculiarity derives, I think, from a very simple fact: We wish to hide from ourselves the truth that contemporary Western culture has generally removed sex from the category of human actions that it believes can be judged in moral terms.
Of course, polls show that Americans still express strong disapproval of adultery, however often they commit it, and rape remains a moral category—an expanding category, in fact, which may itself be confirmation of the broader condition: perhaps the word "rape" is used for an increasing range of crimes simply because we lack any other moral vocabulary for identifying wrongful sex. Still, most sexual behavior, from masturbation to sadomasochism, has come to seem not much more than an amoral bouncing: sex as anaerobic workouts in the gymnasium of our beds.
The Pill is often named as the great enabler of these changes in our cultural understanding, combined with such things as publically acceptable divorce and the antibiotics that brought venereal disease under control in the era before AIDS. But whatever their origin, our altered attitudes about sex would have made for an odd social landscape all by themselves—except, of course, that those attitudes never existed all by themselves. The final piece of strangeness, the last skew, is the peculiar fact that the demoralizing of sex came to us in the twentieth century as itself a moral thing. Whether formulated in terms of physical health or mental stability or social improvement, our attitude to sex reflects an inherited Edwardianism that finds its moral gratifications in rejecting Victorian mores: a stern judgmentalism about anything that resists nonjudgmentalism in sex.
You can hear it still in the admiring tone with which the word "transgressive" is used in the sex-drenched essays of modern academia. You hear it still, for that matter, in the way Jamie L. Manson deploys the word "challenging" in her reply to my essay, even while she describes the social outcomes she wants as so ordinary and unremarkable that the church ought to embrace them immediately. There is, in truth, a key cultural feeling of morality left in sex, but it's the self-righteous joy of knowing that one opposes the evil prudes who think sex still has some morality left in it.
This is the landscape in which same-sex marriage made its dramatic appearance over an incredibly short period of time, a volcano cone suddenly rising and erupting in American society. I've just never been sure where exactly on the map it lies. Sometimes same-sex marriage has been described as a natural outcome of the removal of sex from the realm of morality. Sometimes it has been praised as a wonderful transgressive rebellion, good because it helped undo bad Western norms. Sometimes it has been described as a useful expansion of an old idea, helping preserve the marriage culture. Occasionally it has been promoted as a way of returning ethics to sexual relations, drawing gays and lesbians away from support for the demoralization of sex, to which, it is claimed, they were forced by the repressions of a premodern morality that lasted into the modern world.
In other words, the arrival of legal recognition of same-sex marriage was over-determined in America. And that's why I think it makes a terrible object for the Catholic Church to pick as the synechdoche for all the objectionable things in contemporary society. Our problem as Catholics isn't that same-sex marriage somehow uniquely represents Western society's recent turns; our problem is those turns themselves: the disenchantment of the world, the systematic effort to hunt down and destroy the last vestiges of old metaphysical and spiritual meanings in the world.
As I argue in my latest book, An Anxious Age, the eradication of the old supernatural meanings ended up creating new supernatural meanings in America—and often less benign ones, as strange angels and demons drifted out of the decaying mainline Protestant churches to find their home in social politics. Such a situation is both unhealthy and dangerous. When we suppose our ordinary political opponents are not simply mistaken but actually evil, we live in a world overtaken by misplaced spirituality. A world in which politics has become soteriology.
This is the modern turn that public Catholicism in America needs to oppose. In the current American legal and social climate, there is simply no available solution to the puzzle of human sexual desire. The cathedral of meaningful marriage has collapsed, opening space for advocates of same-sex unions to claim that they are building a small but stable chapel in the rubble. Are they, in fact? I don't know, and neither does anyone else. But I rather imagine they should be left alone to try, just as I demand that the high post-Protestant moralists stop using same-sex marriage as a sledgehammer with which to knock down every Catholic institution in America.
Ross Douthat reads my essay as a retreat from politics—and a self-contradictory one, since the essay also counsels against fleeing modern corruptions aboard small lifeboats of the saved. But the contradiction exists only if one takes a narrow view of politics as somehow existing apart from culture. Among political commentators, Douthat has been one of the most appreciative of culture, but he's still caught by the modern trap in which everything seems politicized, and our cultural understandings, our spiritualized experiences of the world, become political battles. The Catholic work that needs to be done is the work that rebuilds Catholic culture, restoring what in An Anxious Age I call "a room with a view," a spiritually and theologically secure place from which to look out on the world and offer both criticism and praise. The examples of good Catholic work I gave in "The Things We Share" are dismissed by Douthat as Mrs. Jellyby inanities: pretending to care for distant souls as an excuse for the selfish ignoring of souls nearby. But I named those things as possible ways of working toward goals not merely in Asia and the Global South (where, in fact, the future of Christianity lies) but also here at home: extra-political devices by which we try to create and assert Catholic culture among ourselves.
Jamie L. Manson wants to bring the current social regime into the church, and Ross Douthat wants to bring the church into the current social regime. I have enormous sympathy for the motives behind both these views. But they each begin with the late modern premise that the supernatural enchantment of reality is primarily a political thing. For that matter, they both begin with the notion that homosexuality—and the issue of same-sex marriage in particular—ought to be near the center of Catholicism's public moral concern. That's bad politics and bad metaphysics, in just about equal measure. Douthat admits that Catholics shouldn't necessarily begin conversations with same-sex marriage. Amen. But allow me to take a long step beyond that: I think we actually do need to start conversations with a mention of the Blessed Virgin. You want to re-moralize sex? Re-imbue it with beauty and meaning? Then use Catholic culture as your starting point. Say the rosary, and change the world.
With its strawberries and Prosecco in the park, Manson's reply has the class markers and ecclesial feeling of writing by an admirably sensitive Episcopalian of liberal bent. With its rueful here-I-stand politics, Douthat's reply reads like the work of a thoughtful Evangelical culture warrior of conservative impulses. That both authors are Catholics I have no doubt, but hand in hand they walk the unlikely landscape of American post-Protestantism—formed by its struggles, determined by its debates: inseparable companions on a trip I urge them not to take.
About the Author
Joseph Bottum is an Amazon.com-bestselling author whose latest book is An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America (Image/Random House). The former literary editor of the Weekly Standard and chief editor of First Things, he lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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I am genuinely intrigued. What makes you so certain that the future of Christianity lies in the global south? Why won'It go the way of Europe, say? As for re-enchantment, why on earth would it happen in the terms that were once jettisoned. My niece stopped believing in Santa, she now believes in love, who's to say that the latter will hold fast?
I appreciate Bottum's refusal to restrict the reasons that people support same sex marriage. The reasons are as varied as the supporters themselves, and reducing them to whatever serves the writer's argument does not do these people justice.
I confess that when I read Douthat saying "This need not mean starting every conversation with same-sex marriage..." I more or less wondered "So what issue should we start the conversation with?" I imagine this was the question on Douthat's mind when he wrote it as well. Bottums's suggestion that we start the conversation with a mention if the Virgin Mary is a powerful corrective to this kind of thinking.
This is a clever article. I agree with his practical counsel: "they should be left alone to try." Many gay men, who are not dogmatic fans of gay marriage, take the same attitude.
I also find persuasive his account of why the category of "rape" has been so wildly extended (even morphing into the category of "torture" in some prominent recent statements).
Just published online my thoughts on this, adding a memorial of Paul Surlis, an outstanding moral theologian who has just left us. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/05/a-vexed-question-cath...
"We wish to hide from ourselves the truth that contemporary Western culture has generally removed sex from the category of human actions that it believes can be judged in moral terms."
More likely that is a reality with its birth in times Western culture likely has no culture at all.
"There is, in truth, a key cultural feeling of morality left in sex, but it's the self-righteous joy of knowing that one opposes the evil prudes who think sex still has some morality left in it."
If the goal of this remark was to appear pompous you succeeded. Put even more plainly, your opinion is just that and nothing more.
"Sometimes same-sex marriage has been described as a natural outcome of the removal of sex from the realm of morality."
No. From the realm of endlessly crippling obsession by those who reject all sexuality in their own personal lives, yes.
There is no more implicit morality in sex than there is in prayer. It is our motives and how we express them that determines the act's morality.
"...as strange angels and demons drifted out of the decaying mainline Protestant churches..." Holy Moly. Do believe you are knowingly omitted pointing the finger at a group who claim as one of its champions a fellow who participated in the murder of his wife and child. All of Christianity through all of its history has often been misled by the psychotic sociopath or two.
"The cathedral of meaningful marriage has collapsed..." Here's the grandest irony of this entire contortion of reason.
There is now and has been throughout all of recorded history not merely sufficient but pervasive evidence of murder, child abuse, genocide, rape, gluttony, robbery, usury, spousal abuse, adultery, bigamy, etc., etc., all done by those who define themselves as heterosexual. A group all to often unable to see a same-age couple without imaging them in some type of wild orgy. It is the great "as if" conundrum. As if they are defending an absolute written not merely in stone but some type of divine stone when in point of fact the bulk of the conviction lies in their own fears.
It is the seemingly incorrigible hypocrisy that lies at the core of the issue and it is that hypocrisy those who so rightly cherish the best of Christianity must root out.
And finally a big geezzzz. People are trying to be responsible couples and you people are publishing books that do nothing more than add utterly unnecessary but quite eloquent gibberish to their journey as if the most compelling road to the heart was through the thesaurus.
@MightBe: I literally cannot understand about half of what you have written. Like this:
"Do believe you are knowingly omitted pointing the finger at a group who claim as one of its champions a fellow who participated in the murder of his wife and child."
What on Earth are you talking about? What does "knowingly omitted pointing the finger" mean? I'm completely lost.
Interesting speculation about Bonhoeffer's sexuality: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/05/25/was-dietrich-bonhoeffer-gay/
"Years after their exchange of letters, and after Bonhoeffer's death, Bethge fielded a question from a member of an audience who had gathered to hear him speak about his old friend. Surely, the questioner said, "it must [have been] a homosexual partnership" that existed between you and Bonhoeffer—after all, what else could Bonhoeffer's impassioned letters have signaled? Bethge responded by saying, no, he and Bonhoeffer were "quite normal." But perhaps an even better response would have been to query that idea of "normal." Better, perhaps, for Bethge to have explored whether friendship and erotic love might be (in the words of Rowan Williams) "different forms of one passion—the passion for life-giving interconnection." Pursuing this line of thought might not give us a "celibate gay" Bonhoeffer, but it also might not yield a "just-friends-with-no-hint-of-eros" Bonhoeffer."
I think what Bottums is saying is that you are fighting the wrong war with the wrong weapons. We all want to live in a society that embodies our ideals, but there are natural limits to how closely we can make other people conform to our own deeply held beliefs in the name of living our own faith.
I used to participate in a Catholic social justice network where we were asked from time to time to write letters to mostly state legislators on various good or bad ideas percolating through the legislature. The idea (based on exemplar letters) was that we give the Catholic point of view on aspects of legislation. But a lot of the time, from my perspective, the disadvantages or benefits of a given policy were so logical from a practical point of view that it became almost silly to address them from a religious objection (or endorsement). It seems to me that politics has almost become the tail wagging the dog when it comes to issues of normative conduct. That the insistent "jumping in" to each and every debate, including SSM, has put us in the mind that if we "lose" that debate we have somehow lost a much larger debate, such that, we end up using secular policy fights as a means (largely hopeless) of validating norms, for the benefit of the institution, rather than using institutional norms to inform or influence policy.
There is no doubt in my mind that gay men and women are seeking acceptance by the larger society, just as divorced and remarried men and women have, but it also seems that the actual policy debates surrounding same sex marriage (benefits, inheritance rights, legal capacity, and so on) are focused much more on very ordinary practical realities that don't have much bearing on whether one's own marriage embodies a certain spiritual content or value, or whether marriages in general should.
Here is a counterexample to the SSM debate: When "living together" became normal, many states changed their laws on common law marriage because they didn't intend to contravene the wishes of individuals not to be married. That struck me then (and now) as somewhat inconsistent with an underlying assumption that men and women who live together "ought" to be married, and the next best thing was having marriage "imputed" to them after a certain time. I don't remember a lot of church involvement in this debate. It was a straightforward acknowledgment of what individuals wanted and an intention not to become a roadblock to their intentions. In my view, states should not be a roadblock to gay men and women who want to live under the legal protection of "marriage," in the name of validating religious norms.
As a Unitarian whose wife is Catholic, and as the father of a gay son partnered now for more than 20 years, Jamie Manson was the only writer of the three that made sense to me. To me, if not Manson, the central problem is that the church (and not just the Roman church) is indeed wrong about homosexuality. This is the 21st century. Seems to me our knowledge and understanding of human sexuality should be a bit broader than that of the 1st century.
Our sexual orientation is determined during the pregnancy that gave us life. That orientation can run full spectrum from full hetersexuality to full homosexuality and degrees in between. Put another way, we are the way God made us.
Homosexuality occurs, naturally and normally, in most if not all animal species, including homo sapiens, or so my research tells me. Why can't we accept the actuality of our sexuality as human beings and quit using our sexuality as a manipulative form of social control? Why can't we like being human, and thus be joyful that two human beings of whatever gender can join together in mutual respect and sustaining love, and be recognized and accepted, in both law and church. This, to me, would be a culture that is moral.
It seems to me that if we are to live as Jesus taught us, to love our neighbors as ourselves, we have to stop hating ourselves for our innate sexuality — and the church and its philosophers need to stop teaching us to hate.
Thank you, Joddy.
The Manson piece was the only one that made sense to me, as well. The others seemed strangely off target, and preoccupied with SSM being some kind of symptom of some cultural decline looming in the writers' field of preoccupations.
The Manson piece spoke of SSM as WHAT IT IS, in itself, and that is a great good for those who have acces to it, and for society as a whole.
Some of the remarks in the last piece just seemed bizarre, especially the swipe about prosecco and strawberries being dangerously Episcopalian "class markers" (should they have had hotdogs and beer? a fish fry?), and the loony idea that every conversation about SSM should begin with the Virgin Mary. (Hmmmm. Wonder what conclusions he had in mind with THAT suggestion?)
Joddy, that was brilliant!!!
The SANEST comment on here!
I do suggest that every conversation with heterosexual potential spouses should henceforth begin with the VIRGIN MARY.
Please let us be careful how and who we judge. For centuries men and women have lived together in arrangements other than one man, one woman (+children?). For many who live in community even a community of two, the attraction is not sexual intercourse but simply real love and companionship, a sense of caring and being cared for and about. Watch two older ladies living as widows or spinsters, and you will see a gentleness and compassion for others that outshines their neighbors. Watch two talented and gifted men live out a life of passion for arts and environment and causes. We have up to now tolerated and even 'winked' at so many such arrangements. Now that they wish to call it being married, we are scandalized and upset. Why? Who is it that is threatened? May God continue to bless everyone, no exceptions!


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Overview of managed care models, reimbursement methods, and insights on contracting with MCOs.
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Has Dave Mustaine finally lost his mind?
The Megadeath music icon has gone off the deep end.....
I'm all for freedom of speech, but wow....
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what do you mean, "Finally"?
Since when does any intelligent person actually care what musicians or celebrities have to say?
There are far more psychos pushing the belief that the government orchestrated 9/11.
I once had a co-worker who believed that the levees breaking in New Orleans during Katrina was orchestrated by the government to control the African American population. There are people everywhere who believe crazy things and unfortunately for Dave Mustaine, he's in a spotlight... I guess. He's at least getting more attention than regular people are, so when something bat-$h1t insane comes out of his mouth, it's more likely to be seen and heard by many people than if you or I said it. That being said, I think he lost his mind a long long time ago.
To the OP: That is why I try not to listen to the artist and only to the music.
@captainsuperdawg: I had one coworker tell me 9-11 was an inside job.
@mkentosh, @captainsuperdawg: Sounds like the years and years of head banging and oversized sound piercing his skull have final taken their toll.
Didn't he get thrown out of Metallica because he was such a hard core drug user that even they felt uncomfortable with him?
In other words, why should anything he says be taken seriously?
Publicity stunt or Ted Nugent wanna be? I am sure no one thought they were buying a ticket to a political rally so just shut up and play idiot,
Why would he make these comments to a foreign audience anyway?
Being crazy is the only way Ted Nugent is still relevant in society. I mean how many times can he really play Cat Stratch Fever and still be popular? Answer: past 1977, not very many.
Truthfully he is either a very intelligent man knowing that people listen when he says something totally out of this world - or he is truly bat$hit crazy, but I don't buy it. I believe he has an invitation to be a speaker at the RNC, I'm not sure who he is speaking for (or to) but there is money in a gig like that if you play that hand.
Dave Mustaine must either want a piece of the crazy train notoriety or has other asperations, but I hightly doubt he believes what he is saying. You have to be darn near mentally ill to believe in some of these conspiracy theories.
He's never been known as a rocket surgeon. :)
To quote one of my brother's favorite sayings: "He really jumped off the deep end of the shark with that one."


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A client has SQL Server 2008 R2 installed on a Windows 2003 R2 32-bit server.
Under Management in SQL Studio 2008 R2, there is no maintenance plans folder. It is not under Management --> Legacy either, as it would be if there were legacy-mode databases on the server. I am certain this is SQL Server 2008 R2 and not Express. I have checked the version and verified the splash screen when studio starts are not Express. I am logging in as the SQL account sa, and the account does have the sysadmin server role.
Lastly, right clicking on a database in SSMS and navigating to "Tasks" does not show any Maintenance Plan option.
Clearly, I'm missing something, and Google is coming up empty considering the scenario I've outlined. Any ideas? Thanks.
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5 Insane Real Sports They Need to Add to the Olympics
#2. Canine Freestyle Dancing
What We Have Now:
Dressage, which is a type of equestrian sport, which is a fancy word for "making our horses do things while wearing foppish clothing."
As you can see, horses are very capable of feeling shame.
The Sport That Would Make Us Watch:
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This is one tearaway crotch short of being bestiality.
Haha! Look at that shit! That doesn't do it justice, though -- watch the video below. If you can make it through without ending up with a gigantic smile across your face, then you have become a stranger to joy:
What they do is they teach their dog a series of tricks that they incorporate with music, which we guess is what some would simply call "dancing." It's gaining popularity around the world, to the point where it actually has its own worldwide organization. And it should, it's amazing.
If we can have horses walking around in squares and actually call that an event at the Olympics, then it's damn well time to have dogs that really dance. And that probably isn't too impossible in the future either, as many of the big shots in the organization are trying their damnedest to get this into the Olympics.
And we agree. If this was on your television, how in the hell could you justify not watching it?
#1. Calcio Fiorentino and Botaoshi
What We Have Now:
Rugby, or we will as of the 2016 Games. But to us Yanks, rugby is nothing more than American football without the padding, which means all the tackles are 150 percent softer.
The Sport That Would Make Us Watch:
Either calcio fiorentino ...
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"You're going down, bud- mrrph mrrmrrph!"
... or botaoshi:
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Also known as "legalized murder."
Let's start with calcio fiorentino, which is what happens when you take away the whistle-blowing and stoppages from American football and add a bit more shirtless violence to rugby.
The name roughly translates to "Florence kick," and, well, that's all you need to know. The game is so simple: 27 people on each team, no referees, no whistles, no lines and no timeouts. It's the no-holds-barred version of football, where you're allowed to kick, punch, wrestle and probably even insult the fat mother of every single player on the opposing team for 50 minutes straight.
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You don't mock a man who wears those pants. You bow to him.
Started in the 16th century by noble Italian families who would compete with each other to show off their power and prowess, calcio fiorentino is like the Royal Rumble at Wrestlemania, if you add a ball and take away the kayfabe. Italians still hold their annual calcio fiorentino match in front of a giant church, and the entire event is more like a festival than anything. The teams march around the city in a parade beforehand, cannons are fired when the games start and then shirtless men beat the piss out of each other in a gladiatorlike sand pit.
But as manly and violent as calcio fiorentino is, it pales next to botaoshi, which we are declaring the Greatest Game in the World.
In this game, you have 75 people on each team (yes, 75, that's not a typo). They have two rounds, and in each round, each team is either defending or attacking. The defending team has to protect their pole and make sure that it stays up, because once it starts, the attacking team does everything it can to bring the pole down, and whichever team can bring the pole down faster wins.
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That looks perfectly safe and logical in every way.
And this isn't just random chaos. They actually have specific roles, which include the pole support, the barrier, the interference, the scrum disabler and the ninja, who we assume goes around silently slitting the throats of opposing players. They also have guys who stand on the top of the pole to fight off anyone who manages to get past the other 74 people blocking their way. And what happens to these guys? They get pulled off in a giant brawl of 150 people.
You might wonder how the hell Japan ever came up with a game that seems like a roundabout form of economic stimulus for the local emergency rooms. Well, maybe because it didn't actually start out as a sport in the first place, but as a military exercise back in World War II, and they still do it every year to initiate all the new cadets. Why the hell shouldn't they share it with the world?
Find more from XJ here. And, when he finally gets the hang of it, he'd really love it if you followed him on his Twitter.
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Can anyone tell me where to buy the invisibility spell book? I've been to several people, but can't seem to find the right one.
You can only buy it from the illusion trainer in the College of Winterhold, but he won't sell it until your illusion is of sufficient expertise (i.e. expert level).
From what I've experienced, the spell merchants in The College of Winterhold will actually begin selling the spells to you 10 levels before you can buy the perk associated with that particular proficiency level. I saw this when I was training Alteration: Tolfdir sold me Telekinesis when I only had an alteration skill of 40. I also had a similar experience with my Conjuration tomes. So you should be able to purchase that tome once your Illusion reaches 65 and then only from the Illusion trainer at the college.
I don't see why this wouldn't work with other schools of magic as well but haven't had a chance to test it myself yet. If anyone else could confirm, it would be nice.
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SAN ANTONIO (November 27, 2012) – San Antonio Rampage General Manager Mike Santos announced today that the American Hockey League (AHL) club has recalled from loan forwards Jonathan Hazen and David Pacan. In addition, the Rampage have loaned forward John McFarland to their ECHL affiliate, the Cincinnati Cyclones.
Hazen, 22, played in three games for the Rampage early in the season before being reassigned to Cincinnati on Oct. 24. Since then, Hazen played in 12 games for the Cyclones and is currently second on the team in goals scored with six. His ten points puts him third on the team. Prior to turning pro last season, the winger played four years for Val d'Or Foreurs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. In his time with Val d'Or Foreurs, he played in 242 games, recording 106 goals and 121 assists. During the 2010-11 campaign with the club, Hazen led the team with 83 points and his 41 goals were good for fourth most in the league.
Pacan, 21, led the Cyclones with 13 points in 15 games off three goals and 10 assists. His 13 points put him in a tie for fifth in the ECHL in rookie scoring. A sixth round pick (177th overall) of the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, Pacan spent the last two seasons with the Niagara IceDogs of the Ontario Hockey League and played in 133 games, recording 49 goals and 77 assists. During the IceDogs playoff run last year, Pacan averaged 1.00 points per game on eight goals and 12 assists in 20 games as the club made it to the Robertson Cup Finals.
McFarland, 20, has played 12 games with the Rampage this season and has recorded three assists. A second round pick (33rd overall) of the Florida Panthers in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, McFarland has spent the last four seasons in the Ontario Hockey League, recording a total of 190 points on 90 goals and 100 assists in 220 games. Last season, the Richmond Hill, Ont., native split time between the Saginaw Spirit and the Ottawa 67's, combining for 50 points (24 goals, 26 assists) in 49 games.
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A restored World War II troop landing ship that spent two days stuck in a western Kentucky lake has arrived back at its Indiana home port.
The LST-325 pulled into its Ohio River dock at Evansville Thursday evening after being freed a day earlier from Lake Barkley.
Relatives of crew members and others waited for the ship's arrival. Betty Voelker tells WFIE-TV she was disappointed when the ship was stranded with her husband, Jim, on board.
The ship's captain told the Evansville Courier & Press that it wasn't damaged.
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Due to the lack of people who actually stay around and help with subjects, the other moderators and myself have decided to create a form and approval process for people who wish to help other members in various subjects. This is only a volunteer project, which means you will not get special priviledges or an award for helping, besides maybe a pat on the back from us. We are only interested in serious helpers, not kids who want something to do for one night. Below is a step by step process which you must follow if you wish to help, along with a couple of important notes you should read.
Step 1: The Form
This form must be filled out if you are interested in applying to help with subjects.
I must ask that you be a member for at least six months on the forums and in high school(or higher). We will know if you are lying!
If you have recently changed screennames and want to help, you must link to it/give it to us. I will contact you if this is the case for some type of proof that it was your account, probably asking you to change your signature or something along those lines.
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We ask that you be specific when it comes to subjects. Please don't put a general "history", instead put things like "World History", "US History", "European History", etc. The only exception to this rule of specifics is English. If you are interested in helping out in a subject not yet posted here, please contact me and we'll discuss it's possible creation. Available subjects are in the "Submit Forms" thread.
Once you have filled out this form, just post it here:
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After you have posted your form there, you will undergo the approval process. Factors that could contribute to whether or not you are approved are:
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These are not the only factors, but are some of the most important in the approval process. Even if you have only been here for only the required minimum of time, you have just as much chance as the person who has been here for five years as long as you have been a responsible member.
When you are approved or declined, there will be a note left on your form as well as a PM sent to you as to what subjects you were approved for. I ask that you do not question our decisions as they are made in order to help everyone here.
Step 3: I was approved, what now?
Now that you have been approved, what do you do now? That is simple. Your name will be added to the list of approved subject helpers and also to the appropriate subject topic on the forum. You are now allowed to post in the subject topic you are approved for, but only if you are answering a question.
We would like to keep all questions and help for certain subjects in the same area. It is possible, in the future, that outstanding subject helpers may be able to open their own threads, but this is only a tentative idea at the moment.
Now, someone has asked a question in your thread. You and your fellow helpers are free to answer it and give any help that is needed. If a question has been answered, please do not reanswer unless the answer given was incorrect. If someone asks for advice, for you to look over their work, or for criticism, you may reply with it even after a fellow helper has replied, though we ask that you only do so if you have a different response.
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El33t's Question of the Day: Do you chase your friends' leaderboards in games?Written by: / / 7 Comments
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If you have a Question of the Day that you would like to put to the community, mail it to oliver[@]el33tonline.com and we'll send it out, with credit of course!
Chasing scores and racking up the highest number of points you could used to be the ultimate goal when playing games. Other than actually having fun, arcade games and a lot of titles through to the late nineties were score based and challenged players to reach the very top of the leaderboards.
While score based games aren't quite as common as they used to be, there are still plenty of modern games that let you accumulate points for performance, but the question is, do you even take notice of the points?
What motivates you to score as many points in a game as you can? Are you personally motivated to improve on each run through a game or does the sight of your friends' names on the leaderboards above you keep you going back again and again? Any favourite modern day score-based games to recommend?
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Team Fortress 2 is now free to play! Is there an easy way to get a copy working on Ubuntu Natty?
Team Fortress 2 works pretty well for me, as well as a bunch of other games that use Source engine.
I recommend you to use plain Wine without PlayOnLinux. Winetricks is helpful, however.
Steam Games on Linux website has detailed information about which games can be played successfully, and what you have to do for that.
The installation of Team Fortress 2 involves installing Steam and then installing Team Fortress itself. Team Fortress on Wine needs a fairly decent graphics card - NVidia preferably - capable of running DirectX 9/10 etc. I've tried these instructions on my laptop running Intel HD integrated graphics - it does run but the framerate is not brilliant.
Installing Steam
One of the simplest ways to install Steam is to use PlayOnLinux available as a deb which you can download and install from here.
Run PlayOnLinux from menu option Games - PlayOnLinux (or if from Natty, just search for playonlinux from the dash)
Click on the Install button and search for Steam. Follow the instructions on screen to install Steam. When prompted create a desktop icon for Steam
Installing Team Fortress 2
Double click the Steam Icon on the desktop.
Sign in (or create an account).
Click "Add a Game" on the lower left of the Steam Application. Select Team Fortress 2.
Follow on the instructions for the install - create a desktop icon for Team Fortress 2
Sit back and wait for the download
Run the application from Steam and select Team Fortress 2.
Wait until the application has started. Then quit the game.
Final Configuration Re-run PlayOnLinux - Click on the Install Button and this time search for Team Fortress 2. When asked, choose the option "Already Installed".
Follow the wizard and select options most appropriate to you.
Now have fun That's it - launch Steam from your desktop and run Team Fortress 2 from there.
According to this test result it should work fine with Wine on Natty. And here's a tutorial to install Steam in Wine. Haven't tried it myself though...


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or maybe something else?
I am using Redhat OS.
Have a look at your installed applications. If a lot of them start with K - you're on KDE. If a lot of them start with G, you're on Gnome. Seriously. (Not very accurate if you have both installed though).
If you go to the About page of your computers settings panel, that should give you some clues.
Alternatively, look around on Google Images for screenshots of Gnome or KDE. It should be obvious once you have seen the basic look of the desktop environment.
Open a terminal and type:
I'll show you a short selection and description of the most common desktop environments.
Unity is developed by Canonical. It has a bar at the top which contains the clock at the right and a button on the left which will bring up a search/menu window. There's a launcher on the left of the screen.
The default theme colors are purple/orange/brown.
The logo is the same as the Ubuntu logo.
Gnome 3
Gnome 3 is the third iteration in the Gnome desktop environment. It features a bar at the top with a clock and a menu button on the left which will bring up a fullscreen window containing most applications.
The default theme is rather dark with much black in the general elements, but the windows are light gray.
The logo is a foot. with four toes.
MATE (a fork of Gnome 2)
MATE is a fork of Gnome 2. It features two bars, one on the top of the screen, one at the bottom. The top one contains the main menu (dropdown with three items, Applications, Places and System), some starters and the clock on the far right. The lower bar holds the window list and the desktop switcher. Unlike the first three it has icons (Computer, Home, Trash and also removable media) on the desktop in the default configuration. An about dialog might be found in the System menu.
The default theme is a light theme with either green or blue accents.
The logo are two circles with an arrow intersecting them.
XFCE has always been seen as the small brother of Gnome 2, but it shouldn't be called that. It is very similar to MATE/Gnome 2 and might easily be confused with the two. The default configuration is similar to MATE/Gnome 2 except that the menu in the upper bar is only an icon, but is similarly structured.
The logo is a mouse.
KDE is one of the oldest desktop environments. It features a bar at the bottom of the screen which contains the main menu (as icon), the window list and a clock. The main menu is a big dropup menu sorted in categories.
The default theme is very light and looks like polished glass.
The logo is a "K", sometimes a dragon.
Cinnamon is heavily based on Gnome 3. It features a lower bar similar to KDE, as it contains the menu button, the window list and the clock. The main menu is also a dropup with categories.
The default theme is very greenish.
Luckily, there are a lot more desktop environments out there, but this should give you a quick overview over the most commonly used ones.
Quick way #1: if you have a "System" menu entry on the top line, and there's an item in the menu that says "About Gnome", you're probably running Gnome.
Quick way #2:
I've tested the best tools I've found with
My results:
CONCLUSION: A combination of HardInfo and the command
probably will give the desired answer.
I use
Not sure if it's a 100% working solution, but proved to be good enough so far.
This command seems to be useful:
This is a good command to determine your GUI:
A new user may not recognize the differences betwen KDE and Gnome in the screen captures above. Look at the position of the default panels (top with Gnome and bottom with KDE) not the color of the desktop or the apps that are open.
In a terminal or console, you can run:
The item that appears in more lines should be the answer.
You can run HardInfo. It's ready by default at least in Linux Mint; or you could install it (from Synaptic, ...).
You can run it:
Once HardInfo opens you just need to need to click on the "Operating System" item and look to the "Desktop Environment" line.
Nowadays, apart from GNOME and KDE, you could find MATE, Cinnamon, ...
I've been testing also with KDE and my conclusion is:
a) Graphical way, with HardInfo: the answer is normally in "Operating System" > "Desktop Environment", but if not you can look to "Environment variables". HardInfo is ready with all the tested distros, except the one with KDE, but it can be easily and quickly installed (only 2 packages in Linux Mint 13).
b) Command line, with this command:
The item that appears in more lines should be the answer (if there is a draw the item with "session" should be the solution).
To know the version of the installed DE we can open Synaptic and put its name in the "Quick filter" box. Below "Installed Version" we have the answer. Next to it, below "Latest Version", we can see the highest to what we can update it to (at least if we have just clicked on "Reload" and considering only stable software -by default the access to the developing versions is usually disabled-). If instead of Synaptic the considered distro uses PackageKit or other a similar solution shoul be avaiable.
Just open up the System Help guide (usually under the "System" menu) and see what the title is!
The sysinfo package will show you which Gnome / other you're using:
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Illustration of the carrack Mary Rose, which sunk off the coast of England in 1545. It's been remarkably preserved, thanks in part to resting in an anaerobic environment. Original illustration by Anthony Anthony. Reproduction courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Cape Town for pensioners
Cape Town offers pensioners a great deal, and it is no wonder that so many people have moved here from other parts of our country to retire.
Many choose locations close to the sea, which means that they can enjoy the beauty of the ocean, the mountains and invigorating walks at little or no cost. Those close to the City Bowl have the opportunity of walking in the Company's Garden and can also enjoy a visit to the South African National Gallery and the South African Museum.
In the winter months it is worth knowing that there is much to see and do indoors, like a visit to the District Six Museum, as well as the Slave Lodge and the 18th-century Sending Gestig Church in Long Street, which is now a museum – entrance is free.
The city centre contains a number of art galleries, and information about these can be obtained from the tourism offices.
St George's Cathedral is sometimes missed by even the locals, but it is open every day and contains some of the finest stained glass in Africa. The crypt contains the Crypt Memory and Witness Centre, which has a fascinating exhibition of the involvement of the faith communities in the struggle against apartheid, particularly around the 1980s and the time of Archbishop Tutu.
Valuable information can be obtained about the University of the Third Age, U3A. (The U3A are groups of people who come together to share knowledge, skills and experience in an informal association of their own design. Workshops, group outings and general meetings are also popular.) It has a variety of programmes for pensioners in various parts of the city, and this includes monthly concerts at the Baxter Theatre.
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5 Amazing Performances by Actors Who Weren't Acting (Part 3)
Sometimes the acting in a movie feels so genuine that you can't help but think the performer should take home every Oscar that year -- even the ones they're not nominated for. Best Movie? Whatever Daniel Day-Lewis is in. Best Actor? Daniel Day-Lewis. Best Special Effects? Fuck it: Daniel Day-Lewis. But sometimes it turns out that these moments only feel so real because they absolutely are ...
#5. Conan the Barbarian Tried to Murder Arnold Schwarzenegger; Everybody Else
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If you're not familiar with the filmic masterpiece Conan the Barbarian, first things first: Shame on you, Philistine. Second: Imagine watching someone else play a German-language copy of Skyrim with poorly translated English subtitles and lots of titty/gore mods. That's Conan the Barbarian, and it was pretty badass. Especially when you consider that Conan wasn't so much a fictional epic as a Funniest Home Videos compilation of Arnie clumsily falling off things and getting attacked by animals.
In one scene, we see the barbarian, Conan (that's what it says on his license), being chased by vicious wolves. Or, to put it more accurately, in a piece of disturbing candid footage, we see Arnold Schwarzenegger being chased by actual vicious dogs. Here's the "wacky" blooper where one of the dogs catches him before the camera cuts away and tries to tear his face off, but only partially succeeds.
Luckily he was rescued by the dog's trainer and survived to bring us Junior.
It wasn't just Arnold's infamous dog-infuriating musk, either: During the scene where Conan's father is killed by Rottweilers in leather jackets ...
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And tea-bagged for good measure.
... the actor claims that they were actually mauling him pretty bad, and one was trying to get at his throat. Luckily, the director yelled cut just before the dog sank its teeth into his arm and dragged him 50 feet.
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This is the sort of thing the Baha Men were trying to warn us about.
Now, for your amusement, here is the future governor of California awkwardly falling into a cave:
Once again, that's not a stuntman, and there were no hidden pads. Or at least none that helped. As soon as the cameras cut away, Arnold told director John Milius that he was bleeding, to which Milius replied, "The pain is only momentary, but the movie is forever."
Further, the actress playing Valeria had her index finger severed during a fight scene where they inexplicably used a real sword instead of a prop, and then even more inexplicably gave it to an extra instead of a trained stuntman. The random dude parried the actresses' blow, the sword slipped, and off came her finger.
It's less like a movie and more like somebody got permission to enter Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Hunger Games and film the results.
#4. The Director of Kes Traumatizes Children Emotionally and Physically
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Kes is the 1969 British equivalent of Old Yeller, except it's set in a world where the sun never shines, human beings have been replaced by pale wights, and hope has been forgotten from the land forever: Yorkshire, England.
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Young Billy, wondering if one simply walks into Yorkshire.
The story centers on a troubled young boy named Billy Casper, who forges an uplifting friendship with a kestrel called Kes. If you still believe there's magic in the world, you should probably stop reading now. Still here? Good for you, you cynical bastard. Later in the movie, Billy's brother kills Kes and dumps it in the trash after an argument. Here's the scene in which Billy, an emotional wreck, confronts his older brother about the birdicide.
The kid's a good actor, isn't he?
Maybe. Or maybe he had a little awful, soul-crushing help. You see, in order to get an authentic emotional reaction for the scene, director Ken Loach told David Bradley -- the boy playing Billy -- that the actual kestrel he'd been working with and grown attached to had been killed just before filming the scene. Then they handed him its corpse and fired up the cameras. If that sounds like an excessively bleak and cold-hearted move for a kids' film, we would like to once again remind you: Yorkshire.
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They then made him eat the bird with savory pudding.
Of course, the real bird wasn't actually dead -- the world isn't quite that awful. They'd just procured a dead one from an animal sanctuary (don't worry: natural causes). Unfortunately, because the world is very nearly that awful, no one ever told the child actor that. It was a full year after filming before Bradley would travel to Scotland and find his bird friend alive and well.
But that wasn't the worst abuse that Loach subjected his child actors to: In another scene, featuring children being caned by a teacher, the director insisted that the actor actually hit the kids with a cane so their expressions would be genuine.
Of course, this was the 1960s, when men were men, women were objects, and children were an inconvenience. We're pretty sure they have laws against this kind of thing now.
Or do they?
#3. Adam Sandler Really Beat Up Some Kids in Billy Madison
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Billy Madison was a movie in which Adam Sandler played a loud, mentally impaired man-baby. Wait, that may need clarification. OK, Billy Madison was a movie in which Adam Sandler played a character who was loved and cared for despite being dumb, violent, and borderline psychotic. Still needs narrowing down? Fine. Billy Madison was the one where he went back to school.
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A court-mandated course to deal with his ... wait, no, hold on.
In regard to the mannish babyism, one scene has Sandler using his adult strength and unfocused rage to smash a bunch of 6-year-olds with a dodgeball. Now, obviously most of that scene was careful editing, soft foam prop balls, and skillful acting -- nobody is going to let Sandler use his idiot-strength to maul children for our entertainment ...
Wrong! The night before filming, Sandler called the director and suggested that he really bash kids in the face as hard as he could with actual dodgeballs. Contrary to all common sense, he somehow managed to get permission from the director, the kids, and the kids' (almost certainly negligent) parents, all by simply insisting that "hurting kids is funny." Which is technically true, but still ...
According to director Tamra Davis, the reason that there are so many jump cuts in that scene wasn't to cleverly hide the fakeness of the blows behind careful editing, but because the kids would start crying immediately after Sandler pummeled them for real, and they needed to cut away before they accidentally wound up making a snuff film.


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Matcha Chocolate Cake CottageOur Matcha Chocolate Cake Cottage was created with inspiration taken from the 3 Little Pigs story. Each rectangular layer of this cake is reminiscent of the bricks the youngest little pig used to build his c
Makes 6 Pieces
Aiya Cooking Grade Matcha............. 2~3 tbsp
Flour (Cake or All Purpose)............. 2/3 cup
Egg Yolk.......................................... 3 yolk
Sugar................................................ 1/3 cup
Egg White......................................... 3 whites
Sugar................................................ 1/4 cup
Unsalted Butter................................. 1 tbsp
Milk.................................................... 1 tbsp
White Chocolate................................ 3.5 oz
Aiya Cooking Grade Matcha............ 1 tbsp
Heavy Cream................................... 1/4 cup
Heavy Cream................................... 1/2 cup
Sugar................................................. 1 tbsp
Note: This cake highlights the astringent elements of Matcha so some may find it suited to more adult tastes.
Note: If you prefer a less deep Matcha flavor, mix only one tablespoon of Matcha with the white chocolate instead of two.
Tip: If you use tempered chocolate, this recipe is easier to make.
- Sift the flour and Matcha together and set aside.
- Spread some parchment paper out on a baking sheet and preheat your oven to 325~350 F.
- Melt the butter and set aside.
- Mix the egg yolks and 1/3 cup of sugar together until they turn white.
- Beat the egg whites in a separate bowl, adding in the 1/4 cup of sugar half at a time until the egg whites form stiff peaks.
- Gently fold about 1/3 of the egg yolk-sugar mixture into the egg whites. Once it is fully incorporated, gently add in the dry ingredients about half at a time until they are mixed in. Add the remaining egg yolk-sugar mixture followed by the milk and melted butter.
- Pour the batter into the baking sheet, level it, and bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
- Pour the 1/2 cup of heavy cream into a bowl and beat it with the 1 tbsp of sugar until it forms peaks.
- Cut the cake into 3 pieces and layer them, spreading the whipped cream between each layer. Cut into 6 pieces.
- Melt the white chocolate and mix the 1/4 cup of heavy cream and 1 tbsp of Matcha into it.
- Pour some of the chocolate-Matcha mixture over each piece of cake and place in the refrigerator to allow it to set and the chocolate to harden. Before serving, dust each piece with some Matcha.
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As we creep ever closer to the release of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 later this month, those eager to get a taste for Dracula's upcoming destructive and blood-thirsty adventures in the saga's conclusion were given that chance with the recently released demo, but Konami and developer Mercury Steam have also been keen to give us extended glimpses at the game with a look at the Toymaker adversary, as well as Dracula's extremely helpful Void Sword.
The pair has just sent out another trailer to showcase another useful tool, the Chaos Claws, which Dracula will be able to use to pummel enemies and solve puzzles in equal measure – check 'em out:
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 – The Chaos Claws Unleashed
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is out on February 25th in North America and February 28th in Europe across PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC – have you played the demo yet?
Leaf through El33tonline's previous coverage of the action adventure game for more screenshots, videos and details, and read our hands-on and preview impressions of the game for more details should you need them.
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Is it true that for every group $G$ and $f\in \mathbb C[G]$ it holds that $$\dim(\mathbb C[G]*f)\mathop{supp}(f)\geq |G| ?$$
Here, $\mathbb C[G]$ is the group algebra, and by $\mathbb C[G]*f$ I mean left ideal of the group algebra $\mathbb C[G]$ generated by $f$.
Essentially this is uncertainty principle for non-commutative groups. Since $supp \hat {f} = dim C[G]*f$ in case $G$ is abelian.


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We are glad to hear about Dr. Mattfeldt-Beman's most recent accomplishments. She has been rewarded $35,000 from Jefferson Solid Waste Management District to fund "Start to Actively Recycle Today III". START III builds on the START program by increasing the composting goal to 21,590 pounds of solid food waste, paper and landscaping waste through the use of Earth Tubs, NatureMill composters, traditional composting and vermiculture. Due to the recent expansion of their mission, along with the multiple Farm-to-School initiatives the Food Innovation Center houses there is not capacity in the current composting facilities to properly manage the additional hundreds of pounds of food waste produced. The Earth Tub composter is START III's solution to the problem. The Earth Tub composter will result in 13,610 pounds of compost annually.
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The proposed expansion to the current composting program will increase composting efforts and increase awareness. The total estimated impact this program will have on reducing waste is approximately 10.8 tons. Saint Louis University's Department of Nutrition and Dietetics has over 75 years of experience in teaching, research, and service in nutrition. The department has been involved in environmental matters, as evidenced by its commitment to sustainable food systems, organic gardening and compost education.


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How much xp per hour can I expect fishing rocktails at level 90 fishing on RuneScape?
Here is a Rocktail Fishing Guide. The author, with 99 fishing and a granite lobster, was able to catch between 110 and 141 rocktails per hour.
I know you get 380 xp per fish, but I don't know how many you can catch in an hour. If you get one at least every thirty seconds, you get 45,600 xp in that hour. If you can get 3 every minute (or one every 20 seconds), you get 68,400. So, probably between those two numbers.
I get all of my runescape information from Zybez.net, but their fishing guide doesn't say much about fishing rocktails.
At level 99 fishing, with a lob, I can now get 1m an hour. On double xp weekend I get 600k cash and 600k xp an hour. Botting fly fishing is the best if you botted them for a while.
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