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TreeStore: private access to TreeModel class
In the current developer preview 1 the treestore has a private inner class TreeModel.
When trying to extend things you run into the problem that a) TreeModel is not visible to outer classes and b) is not a ModelData (or Map-style) class any more.
Maintaining additional information in other way then applying it to the wrapper directly is possible, but also more complex.
It would be of great use if one could overwrite a delegate creating the TreeModel to be able to create additional data/behavior by subclassing the TreeModel class.
Do you think this makes sense?
27 Jun 2011 6:34 AM #2
ModelData does not exist anymore, nor do any of the basic subclasses, including the TreeModel class. In all cases, any bean-like class is supported, as in GWT's 2.1 editor framework, and instead of string-keyed map lookups, data can be stored any way the developer chooses. For the ListStore, this poses little problem, but providing tree structure is more complex.
The TreeStore needs to be able to support both the case where a service provides the tree structure and where the models provide their own structure. We started with the former, with the idea that a trivial Loader can be implemented to read from the models themselves – see the FullTreeLoader for the first draft of this idea. Both cases will be supported in the final release.
The FullTreeLoader.TreeModel<M> interface is designed to allow a tree of similarly typed object to be loaded. In contrast, the TreeStore.TreeNode<P extends TreeNode<?, ?>, C> interface is intended to allow the type of parents and children to be part of the tree structure. The former allows for simpler type declarations, but only homogeneous trees can be assembled, whereas the latter allows the developer to indicate the special tree hierarchies, with certain types wrapping other types, but would be overkill and possibly confusing if used to provide a homogeneous tree structure, which is why we didn't make it public or provide a way to indicate this structure.
Very likely the FullTreeLoad.TreeModel approach, where a node can describe its children, will be the final approach, but even in a case like that (as in GXT 2), the API can be somewhat confusing, as modifying the list returned by getChildren() has no effect without also calling store.update(M) on the model, and using the TreeStore add methods have no effect on the list in getChildren().
If you have suggestions or feedback for how to keep this as flexible as possible but still have the API make sense to beginners, please share it here. The approach taken so far is to fulfill the service-based use case until we can decide on an approach to use for models. The TreeModel in TreeStore is only there to contain inner tree details, and is not suitable for being extended as a model object, unless you intended this 'delegate' to handle sorting and filtering?
Thanks for your feedback, and looking forward to any thoughts you may have.


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There are lots of EPSG:4326 (lat lon) services out there but if one has to use an
UTM projected map as base layer to display utm scenes, are there any WMS endpoints
publicly available for that?
There are lots of EPSG:4326 (lat lon) services out there but if one has to use an
when you googling you can see some of utm supported wms service... for example Toporama Web Map Service has lots of projections available for service requests.
When you write this to browser, you will see lots of projection as defined NAD83 / UTM zone in Layer section.
i hope it helps you...
Since your question is not specific with regard to an area of interest, I did a quick web search for "wms utm" and came up with 2 almost immediately. They are both based in Canada, and are government data portals.
This was a quick search. I am sure a more detailed search including your area of interest, would provide more relevant results.
The Norwegian Mapping Authority has several free "to use for non-commercial purposes" WMS services for Norway (and, some less detailed of Europe), in UTM Zones 31-35N.
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5 Creepy Ways Humans Are Plunging Into the Uncanny Valley
#2. Photoshop is Filling Magazines With Dead-Eyed Humanoids
On the magazine cover below, what appears to be a department store mannequin is in fact supposed to be 63-year-old TV chef Paula Deen:
What the hell?
Look, as long as there have been photos, there have been tricks to make models look their best. We have no problem with that -- if we're ever stuck on the cover of a magazine, we hope they take the time to edit the red out of our bloodshot eyes and pixelate out the nudity. Photoshop is just one more tool for editors to clear up whatever the hair and makeup team miss.
So what's the problem?
This isn't about how fashion magazines create an unrealistic body image for women to live up to -- simple makeup, lighting and supermodels can accomplish that. It's the fact that they now have to tamper with every photo until it crosses from "real" to "perfect" to "too perfect" to "THIS IS SOMETHING FROM MY NIGHTMARES."
Nobody's head is that big. What's wrong with her?
They aren't just erasing blemishes anymore, or smoothing over wrinkles to take off a few years. They're erasing the humanity. Limbs and torsos are getting pinched and twisted into deformed horrors:
This model's waist is both physically and geometrically impossible.
What makes the Paula Deen example so baffling is that she's not a supermodel. She's an elderly TV cooking show host. Her job doesn't depend on her looks in any way. Which is fortunate, because a sentient doll has apparently ripped off her face, and is wearing it as a mask.
It doesn't matter what your profession is -- it's now so common to manipulate faces into these ageless Madame Tussauds wax museum exhibits that no human-looking face can be allowed on a cover.
This man is made of wax.
#1. CGI Humans Are More Terrifying Than Ever
The entertainment world badly wants to perfect a digital character indistinguishable from a real human. Every failed attempt (see: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within) just encourages them. On the one hand, animators are definitely getting closer to creating images that are so perfect the average viewer can't tell he's looking at someone who doesn't exist. For example, meet Emily:
Pretty, yeah? Wait until you see her talk.
Yikes. According to her creators, she is the first CGI creation to make it across the gap that is the uncanny valley. She's so human-looking you won't be able to accept her as anything but human after seeing her. Except for the fact that it doesn't work, this project was a complete success. At freaking us out.
So what's the problem?
While a still image of Emily looks pretty normal, the video has subtle hints of wrongness. Her eyes and mouth don't quite sit right. There are seconds where her mouth stretches oddly, just enough to tip you off that either something is amiss or you're as high as a kite. That's the thing: Humans have evolved to recognize hundreds and hundreds of little nonverbal cues in the faces of the people we're talking to. Mimicking that nonverbal communication is much harder than simply imitating human speech.
To achieve just this level of reality the creators started out with a real actress talking, then broke down her movements into smaller and smaller movements, and then painstakingly recreated those same movements using a computer, all the while ignoring the nagging feeling that there's probably an easier way to catch a human on video.
"Ya think?"
Dissecting humanness into smaller and smaller pieces works great when you're a cannibal or a pathologist, not so much when you're trying to recreate a human. The eyes are just a little too much on the corpsey side to pull it off. At best, you end up with characters who creep you out in a subtle way, like an uncle touching your knee casually.
Of course, then you have the much more common and more crude examples on your nearest video game console:
Pretend the ball is your leg, and Kobe is "Uncle Kobe."
Or you can look at the "revolutionary" technique that gave us the most horrifying version of Tom Hanks ever put on film ...
And that's including The Da Vinci Code.
We seem to have entered a weird era in which we're many years away from computer hardware powerful enough to perfectly mimic human features, but our movies and video games insist on trying their damndest. The result is that 50 years from now, our grandchildren will dig up our DVDs and game discs and will find this whole era to be as creepy as shit.
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Okay, bear with me on this. I'm using a program called BFGminer, which hopefully you know is a bitcoin mining program. Anyway. It updates every second a few lines that look like this:
DEVICE 0: xxxx
DEVICE 1: xxxx
This is just the basics of what I am concerned about. I need a way to view these few lines from a terminal window if possible. The only issue that I have is that I can not seem to get grep to update the pipe I have coming into it.
I have the command running on another machine, and that machine also has a screen with BFGminer running.
So to access BFGminer's window, I am running a script to
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com screen -R
This gets me to the screen, but I have to press ctrl+A, then D to detach it so it will continue to run.
If I run
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com screen -R | grep "^ DEV"
I can view all devices connected. Good so far. However, it does not update every few seconds like I need it to...
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My current
screen session has 12 open windows on it. It's been running for weeks... I know I executed an ImageMagick
convert command in one of these 12 screen windows sometime last week... is there any way I can easily search through the Bash history of all 12 instances, without closing them or running
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My current
You can run
To solve it more permanently add this to your
Sounds difficult. Here are a couple of methods that may work for you.
If you have process accounting tools installed (on Linux, look for a package called
If this is unavailable or unconclusive, you can execute a
tcsh allows you to share history between sessions through use of the periodic alias.
In your .cshrc (or .tcshrc) file:
This will automatically execute the history command every 60 minutes. This will save history to a common history file in your home directory. To update the history more often, either lower the tperiod number, or simply execute the "periodic" command to manually refresh
Bash only writes the history when it exits, which makes this problematic at best. I've heard that zsh can share history between active sessions.


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Pierre the Penguin, 25, wears his wetsuit at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Thursday, April 17, 2008. Pierre, who was going bald, began wearing a wetsuit six weeks ago and has begun growing back his feathers.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
TOPEKA ZOO -- The long awaited and much anticipated day is almost here. Penguin Plunge will open to the public on May 10, 2012. The temporary exhibit features six African Penguins in a replica of their South African beach habitat. A strong conservation message is incorporated within the exhibit highlighting several educational stations in which visitors can learn about the 17 species of penguins worldwide, overfishing, guano harvesting, oil spills and what role humans can play in conservation efforts.
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With the 10th anniversary of the 2003 bushfires tomorrow there's a lot happening on top of Mount Stromlo.
The Centenary of Canberra in 2013 coincides with the ten year anniversary of the 2003 bushfires that devastated Canberra.
Scope Mount Stromlo is hosting an exhibition from January 18 2013 that will commemorate the destruction, recovery and renewal of [...]
[ 14 January 2013 to 3 April 2013. ] The Centenary team are letting people know about the foundation treasures of the city which are going on display at Parliament House:
Centenary of Canberra History and Heritage Advisor Dr David Headon today unveiled some of the treasures related to Canberra's 1913 foundation stones and naming ceremonies.
Dr Headon acquired the items on loan from the [...]
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An intriguing exhibition up on the War Memorial website:
The small French village of Vignacourt was always behind the front lines. For much of the First World War it was a staging point, casualty clearing station and recreation area for troops of all nationalities moving up to and then back from the battlefields on the [...]
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The National Gallery has announced Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin Rouge is the big summer drawcard coming up.
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This is a horror movie that I can't remember the title of. All I can remember is that the action happens in a castle or mansion. The people of this place get seemingly drunk on blood for some reason. There is this one scene where the guests that are visiting the castle/mansion are trapped in a cellar.
A bald man, a young woman and a young man are there. The bald man gets dragged behind a white curtain and all you can see is blood on the curtain and hear screaming from one of the men. The killer uses a knife. The killer then feeds blood to the young woman which makes her faint. The killer cuts the bald man up so he can have his blood, and I'm not sure what happened next.
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Heimerdinger uses those turrets to have a lot of lane presence and those rockets seem to have infinite range. I play a lot of Annie, Veigar, and Gragas in mid, but heimer always seems to kick my ass. I've tried killing the turrets, instead of poking heimer, but that usually just leads to my losing creeps and heimer poking me down. Help please?
You have a few options,
Just always remember to have at least 3 minions closer to Heimer than you so that his missiles prioritize them over you.
As you said, Heimer pokes you down. The trick is to 100-0 him, or at least get him that low that he will die next time he runs up to you. So what I usually do, and what I believe works best agaisnt heimer, is to pick a brust champ (annie, Brand, LB), play deffensive and farm (avoid gettin hit by ANYTHING) till I reach a lvl where i can simply run at him, if he stays he dies, if he runs away, he looses cs. If I am sure i can kill him (jungler gank?) I tend to flash stun (as Annie for example).
Generally speaking, you can buy a lot of healpotions as well, and running the tripple gp10 strat (Heart of Gold, Philo Stone and Kages instead of Dorans/RoA) and passivly farming works against Heimer as well. A good thing to do is watch out for YOUR minions as well. If there 3 or more minions and you have them stayin between yourself and heimer, you are pretty much immune to his poke. Heimer is strongest when siegeing you under your own turret, so try to keep the lane pushed. If you cant push out (in most cases, since Heimer can push really good), get your jungler to gank him, and deny his blue buff! Heimer without blue is way less scary. You have to realize as well, that Heimerdinger will always be able to farm. Thats just how Heimer works. But a farmed Heimerdinger is not really that scary, just tell your Support (or jungler) to get an early shurelias and engage on them. If you let Heimer poke you, its way harder to win a fight.
Another strat (I personally dont like it tho) is to pick champs with a high range (Karthus, Anivia) and just either poke him back or destroy his turrets all game. This definitly works if the Heimerdinger isn't that good, but a good Heimer will just keep moving (make you miss your skillshots) while poking you with his rockets.
EDIT: I eprsonally play a lot of Gragas and I like him against Heimer, simply cause you poke just as good as him, you farm pretty good and you can engage on him or set up ganks when your jungler is nearby.
You have two great options when laning against Heimerdinger Mid.
He will poke you down, sure, but if you can get a sizeable lead pre-6, its ez mode.
Never pick a champion that is bad under tower without waveclear (Nidalee). Heimer inherantly shoves you to tower, thats what he does.
Heimer also has little roam potential, and is awful at following ganks, so pick someone who can get fed off of other lanes if needed. You will likely lose your tower, but that will happen eventually anyways in a heimer lane.
Anivia, Mordekaiser and karthus do well for example. The trick is to destroy towers and push back and not let heimer onto your turret or have nice jungler who ganks heimer everytime he extends.
There's a few things you could keep in mind.
Never stop farming.
For me personally, the most important thing to focus on against Heimer is getting my cs, and destroying his little turrets.
they will shoot you if you just run up and basic attack them, so you typically want to use whatever ranged ability you have to kill them (Ahri's q, Annie's q, Gragas' barrels).
The reason I focus on keeping his turrets down, is that he is most powerful when he has you pushed up against your turret with 3 of his turrets sitting just outside of it.
Destroying those towers makes him much less scary AND more easy to ganked.
As an AP mid, I typically take an Athene's unholy grail as my first item against him. The MR,CDR, and mana regen it offers are extremely helpful, and allow you to frequently toss out your ranged damage ability to destroy his turrets and harass him.
Play a long range poke. Ziggs, Syndra and Cassiopia do very well against him. You can easily drop his turrets and harass him. ziggs especially. I would just get some early mana regen and harass him out of lane with bombs or whatever harass you have and then kill his turrets and push creep wave back. Also once you kill turrets call your jungler over and you should get a fairly easy kill.


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Ahri's Orb of Deception goes out linearly to hit the foe once as it flies out and once more when it comes back. Is it possible to use Ahri's ult to "flash" back and forth to essentially increase the number of times it hits a foe?
League of Legends has two types of blinks - "true" blinks, like the summoner spell flash, and "Blinkdash"es, skills like Poppy's Heroic Charge, Xin Zhao's Audacious Charge, and Ahri's Spirit Rush.
The big difference is that blinkdashes don't remove the champion from the field. If you Blinkdash through a skillshot, you will still get hit by the skill shot.
In Ahri's case, this means as soon as she tries to dash over her orb, she will simply pick it back up instead.
What you propose would be possible with the summoner spell Flash (similar feats have been done with Sivir's Boomerang Blade), but the paltry damage is probably not worth wasting flash's long cooldown on.


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Gaye LeBaron Collection
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TANNER In Healdsburg . Jul 6, 1961
Edward Charles Tanner loving brother
of Eliza Ann Tanner of Santa Rosa
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Fabricators are increasingly using compressed air in laser cutting, instead of relying on laser assist gases such as oxygen and nitrogen. Recent findings reveal that shop air can be used on more material types and thicknesses, including parts on which the edge quality is visible.
August 8, 2006
Two standard laser assist gases are oxygen and nitrogen. However, a third gas — shop air — has become a viable alternative.


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I need to show the pedigree or lineage of an animal in my wordpress site.
Currently I have the animals set up as custom post types, with data inserted using the amazing Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
I can't really find any good plugins for this that do it well, especially those that can output standards compliant HTML and usable CSS without tables.
Even if it's a list item, that's cool, I can work out the CSS.
But what would be the best way of inputting an animal's lineage / pedigree, up to 4 levels deep (eg: 1)Parents 2)Grand parents 3)Great Grand Parents 4) Great Great Grand parents
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6 'Facts' About Historic Figures (Their Enemies Made Up)
The truth is like Silly Putty: you can stretch it, mold it and use it to destroy someone's life.
Just ask anyone who's ever run a nasty smear campaign; a good, juicy lie or half-truth about someone can not only follow them to the grave, but can echo down through history long after.
Just look at how the following "historical facts"--all complete bullshit--have continued to show up in print for centuries after the subject has passed away.
#6. Napoleon Was Really, Really Short
Quick, let's do word association. When we say "Napoleon" you say the first word that comes to mind.
About 20 percent of you just said, "French!" and the other 80 percent said, "short!"
Yes, in a world where our hazy history education won't let most of us quote even five facts about the guy, what we all know is that he was a tiny, tiny little man.
Now, it's true Bonaparte didn't tower over anyone. For instance, he was shorter than the Imperial Guards he was often seen with (who had a height requirement, since like all such guards through history part of their job was to look intimidating).
But most agree that Bonaparte was almost 5' 7", which was in fact just above average for the early 19th century (and wouldn't exactly make him a freak even now).
The French, however, used a slightly different system that listed the emperor at 5'2". And that appears to be the source of the whole "Napoleon as midget" image. When word got back to England that the terror of France was only a tick taller than five baguettes, the British propaganda machine had a field day. After all, it's much easier to win a battle when you imagine the other guy's Marty McFly and you're Biff Tannen.
"Voulez-vous make like a tree and get outta here?"
As we'll see often on this list, if you repeat a lie often enough, it eventually becomes truth. Fast forward 200 years and a man who at worst was a few inches shorter than average, and at best was exactly as tall any random dude at the time, is portrayed as a laughable cartoonish freak of a man.
The lesson? If you're going to be a world leader, surround yourself with shorter people.
#5. J. Edgar Hoover was a Transvestite
John Edgar Hoover directed the FBI from 1924 to 1972, and based on anything you read about him today, he spent that entire time wearing frilly ladies' undergarments. At this point it's almost as common as the "Napoleon was midget" thing.
Why? Well, as the head of the nation's largest crime-fighting bureaucracy, Hoover spent his days single, secret-filled and surrounded by lawmen. Hoover's acquaintanceship with agents was beyond professional--he dined with feds, went out to nightclubs with feds and even holidayed with feds. And a the time these were all dudes.
This led to gossip that Hoover was gay, which is a possibility historians have yet to reach consensus on. Hoover's raging homophobia didn't help his case (he attempted to out Eleanor Roosevelt and presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson) and made him some enemies, most notably openly-gay Southern playwright Truman Capote.
It was in the early 60s when Susan Rosenstiel, an ex-wife of an alleged mobster, claimed she had seen Hoover at gay orgies, bewigged and bedazzling. No one took Rosenstiel seriously, the least of all Capote. In fact, he found her story so fucking hilarious he told everyone within earshot.
How did Capote get away with it? Well, he was famous and consorted with the movers and shakers of the day. When asked whether he believed the rumors about Hoover's transvestite tendencies, Capote pithily replied, "Who cares?" This is easily the most gangster outlook one can have when casually annihilating another man's reputation.
O.G. with pimp hat.
But the image of the pudgy tough-guy Hoover prancing around in nothing but see-through panties and a feather boa was too ironic, and nightmarish, for the nation to ignore. As usual, when the smear is more hilarious than the truth, we go with the smear.
But it could have been worse, when you consider...
#4. Catherine the Great Fucked a Horse
Go to Google and type in "Catherine the Great" and one of the top recommended searches is "Catherine the Great + Horse." So... was there a horse named Catherine the Great? Was her horse famous for some reason?
No, the reason is that these days half the people who know who Catherine the Great is, know her as "that lady who died fucking a horse." It's the kind of thing that kind of overshadows all your other accomplishments.
In Catherine's case those other accomplishments include being the sole ruler of Russia from 1762 to 1796. Under her rule, Russia expanded its territory and modernized in step with the rest of Europe. But her reign infuriated the other nations, as A) Russia was widely considered the backwoods retard of the continent; and B) she had a vagina. And boy, did those grumpy old monarchs hate her vagina.
"What SHALL we do about this troubling vagina?"
It didn't help that the unmarried Catherine loved her pink parts and put them to good use regularly, something that ladies weren't allowed to be open about in those days. She reportedly "tested" her suitors on one or more of her handmaidens first.
Catherine's fondness for 18th century sex was matched by her love of equestrianism. Seeing as how the empress' favorite mounts were both man and beast, it was easy for pesky French aristocrats to combine her hobbies into a nasty rumor designed to knock Russia's hillbilly queen down a peg.
The rumor culminated in what is today the most well-remembered detail about Catherine: That she perished when a stud crushed her during coitusequus.
In reality she died in her bed, of a stroke, at the age of 67. But the smear gained legitimacy on the continent, being too misogynistic and Russophobic to ignore. And today it's just so much more awesome to remember Catherine as a quasi-mythical creature that ran through multiple species of dicks to prove her might.
Angelina Jolie, ladies and gentlemen!


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Welcome to the Hunter guide of Dragon Soul
Since hunters were quite bad during Dragon Soul, and only with the recent changes, they became somewhat decent, I will be focusing on tips that will make you compensate the poor tuning of the hunter class dps. I have always loved to play my hunter and I don't think that you should give up on the class because of this instance! Together we will reach the top of the damage meter... well lets say top 5 to be more realistic. :)
I believe a lot in having proper UI and keybinds that help you on specific encounters so I will be mentioning (but not going in depth) these matters in this guide. The spec that is generally the best to play on most encounters is Survival, MM and BM are quite decent but usually should be avoided if the buffs that they provide are not necessary.
If you have any questions after reading my guide, feel free to either post it below so more people can see them, or PM me on the forums.
I will tell you how we do this fight which is just a straight up split of the raid in half (there are more ways to kill this boss, I know), which is a pretty easy tactic that doesn't involve a lot of strategy. Hunters aren't particularly good or bad for this encounter, although there are some obvious problems of minimum range involved that make your life a bit harder and can be quite frustrating.
Spec Recommended: Survival
- If you are assigned to dps the fake/twin/wannabe real, Kohcrom, then you should try to keep refreshing your initial serpent sting on the real Morchok with a few cobra shots until the first black phase starts. If the bosses are dragged too far away don't bother with it. You can easily do cobra shots on 2 targets with no hassle without clicking on them. And this is a nice tip for future bosses too, for example it was very good at Valiona+Theralion, and it will be needed in the future for sure so pay attention!
-A focus target macro (put the real Morchok on focus)
-A mouseover macro (mouseover Morchok)
-Or my personal favorite for these fights, either switching it on the keybind list, or if you cba, just make a macro with this:/targetlasttarget, and switch your normal tab keybind with this. Since there are only 2 enemies to target this will make your life SO much easier. Only thing you need to do is target the real Morchok and then target the fake one, then just switch between them with this macro (again it is also in the keybind list if you don't mind searching for it).
- If you are assigned to take the crystal explosions (most likely you are), then you will want to use raptor strike (glyphed) before each stomp that is followed by a crystal (you can skip it the first stomp if your are on Morchok, and skip it for the first 2 times if you are on Kohcrom), and below 25% use deterrence at a crystal explosion for the 30% reduced damage taken that they added to this ability recently.
- When running towards a crystal, try to have enough focus saved up to use only instants instead of having to switch to aspect of fox and do cobras.
- Always check the Black Phase timer and try to squeeze as much dps as possible before it happens, especially if you have BA ready, use it asap, same for LnL procs. After you are sucked in use disengage and while midair switch to aspect of fox and find a spot where you can shoot from with not issue. Obviously don't use any dps cds right before a black phase.
This fight has quite a lot of tactics that are different but again I will give tips depending on what we use, which is everyone gathering in melee and only people with immunities soak the orb on range (cauterize, dispersion etc). That means that you are stuck close to melee, and when the ball hits the raid splits in 4 range groups + 1 melee group on the big tentacle. Kill tentacle twice, then on 3rd orb hitting the boss you gather on top of him and nuke. This means the fight will be <5min fight with proper dps.
Recommended Spec: Survival
- Keep your rapid fire+call of the wild for the last part of the fight, after the 3rd ball hits, to have maximum dmg output (with heroism)
- During the black phase, let your pet stay on boss (no assist stance).
- At the start of the black phase, if you are on the side where the boss is being dragged on top of the big tentacle, throw an explosive trap on the big tentacle which will tick on both the tentacle itself and the boss, thus giving you guaranteed LnL procs to burst down the flails/eyes.
- When standing melee range you should be standing a bit on the sides, to avoid getting hit from the orb's range when its being soaked at the ranged spot. Also helps with being already in a nice position to be dispelled should you get the debuff.
- Always put up serpent sting on the tentacles/eyes, but only use hunter's mark on the eyes (not the flail).
Track: The debuff that zon'ozz applies, called 'Disrupting Shadows'. If your tactic involves dispelling this debuff, then just call for an instant dispel, since you shouldn't be standing together with the rest of the raid due to the deadzone issue. If not, then just search for a lightwell and click it twice while the debuff is on you.
I quite like this fight as a Hunter, it is one of the few where we can actually do really good dps and you can make use of aspect of the fox in a smart way, seperating the bad hunters from the good ones. The thing you need to keep in mind is that while aoe is nice, you should not try to whore dps, but rather keep a decent dps output on the boss as well, since enrage is sort of an issue for some guilds.
Recommended Spec: Survival
- Make a proper macro for switching between aspect of the fox and of the hawk. This is obviously something good for all fights, but this one in particular needs it for sure. I personally use my Caps Lock as my keybind to rotate between these 2 aspects (easy to press).
- When you are about to switch to a blob, keep shooting the boss while running out until you are max range, and if you have Black Arrow almost coming out of cooldown, stay and shoot it before switching to the blob. It will give you a LnL proc which will help you a lot on the blob.
- When going towards the blob that you will kill, use disengage always to reach it faster, after leaving max range of the boss, effectively reducing the deadtime of nothing in range to dps to zero.
- While moving together with the blob, try to be ahead of it and then stand still for 6 seconds to get sniper training back up, then keep moving and go at the base of the boss.
- When there are small adds involved in a normal phase of the fight, always use explosive trap, and spam your multi shots. BUT use your LnL procs on the boss, since as I mentioned above, you shouldn't be ignoring the enrage timer of the boss.
- If shit hits the fan during a phase, and healing is way behind or you have deaths, remember that you can use the combo of raptor strike (glyphed) + deterrence to get ~50% reduced dmg taken.
- You only get to use your 5min cooldowns twice in this fight, and it should be once at the very start of the fight, and once during heroism towards the end, or if raid is falling apart, use them to kill the small black adds asap.
Again another fight where tactics vary (frost phase at least), but generally a pretty straight forward fight, not much that you can do. Generally hunters are mediocre here. Remember to have minor speed on your boots enchanted.
Recommended Spec: Survival
- If you are the only hunter in the raid, sacrifice some of your dps during the frost phase and use aspect of the pack, it will save a lot of lives trust me.
- Since this fight has an 8 minute berzerk time, you should use your dps cds after the first phase (either frost or lightning) is over, so that you will have them back up for the end. Ask for heroism the first time you use cds.
- Save up focus and also an explosive trap for when the tombs spawn, you can do A LOT of damage to them if you are full focus.
- If you are one of the people linking during lightning phase, remember to use aspect of the wild (if no shaman is close to your group - they can't cover all the raid), and also when the lightning is about to hit you, use deterrence for the 30% dmg reduction.
- During the frost phase, if you get the Frostflake debuff (the slow debuff), move inside hagara's bubble and get dispelled in there, since it won't leave a frost patch if you are inside. If you are almost getting reached from the wave, use master's call, or disengage (keep in mind that disengage sometimes can screw you over bigtime, since your position isn't updated in the game until you have landed, and thus you can die midair even though you are not close to the wave, because it reached your initial position when you disengaged).
Track: The debuff that slows you, called 'Frostflake', since sometimes you are not going to notice it instantly due to the other slows in that phase, and tracking it will make you react at least 1-2seconds faster.
A really easy fight for hunters, not much you can fuckup at. The only thing that is for certain is that you need to maximize dps, and that you are definitely going to be used as a soaker of the hour of twilight with deterrence.
Recommended Spec: Survival
- Before the pull: Ask for a 10second countdown before the pull. During that you should use Misdirection, Hunter's Mark, ~7seconds use Call of the Wild while dismissing your pet, summon a new one, you should be ~3seconds then, prepot, and precast a cobra shot at 1.5seconds. This will give you Call of the Wild buff for 'free' the first 15seconds of the fight, and then you use it again right after. So you will have it for the full duration of Heroism.
- Use Rapid Fire on top of heroism since the fight is 6minutes long, and in order to use it twice you need to pop it at the start. If the fight lasts between 5minutes 10seconds and 6minutes, use Rapid Fire at the start of the fight. If the fight lasts less than that, use Rapid Fire after Heroism is down, preferably when your trinkets are up again, and use your 2nd potion on top of that, always trying to do it with the minimum chances of getting fading light, so cast it right after a wave of fading lights get applied, and you should only have the risk of 1 wave hitting you.
- If you still have the Ragnaros trinket, track its inner cooldown with an addon (for example needtoknow), and you will see that around the 5minute mark, it lines up perfectly so you can use Call of the Wild + Rapid fire with the proc, which results in a nice dps boost.
- Make a macro that will remove your deterrence buff when you use it. Since you only need Deterrence to be up for approximately 1second total, there is no reason to have it for the full 5 seconds. Simply use Deterrence 0.5seconds before Hour of Twilight is cast, and after its done, use the cancelaura macro.
/cancelaura Deterrence
- Make another macro if you don't want to bother changing it on the keybind list everytime (i cba), which will teleport you outside when you press it.
/click ExtraActionButton1
- Remember to your pet's dash to autocastoff, since it will waste focus for no reason, and also to put your pet's ability: Rabid on your arcane/cobra shot macro to make sure its being cast on cd.
Track: The debuff that kills you if you don't go outside, called 'Fading Light', and try to go outside at 1second left on the debuff, 0.5second if you have very good ms.
A very interesting fight for sure, although hunters are quite honestly, one of the worst classes for this fight, its actually stressing you out quite a lot to maximize what you need to do. Both survivability, and dps wise, the fight certainly has a lot of movement involved so it is VERY ESSENTIAL that you use a proper macro to swap between aspect of the fox and hawk. Moving into the 'big ones' as we call them, to soak and not bothering to switch to aspect of the fox thus wasting 2-3globals is a big waste. Due to the constant switching involved in this encounter, Marksmanship is the best option for a guild that is still progressing on this boss. Even though Survival will result in overall more dps, in my opinion, phase 2 dps is quite irrelevant. The only hard phase in 25man is phase 1. And as Marksman you will do more damage on the drakes, sappers, and pretty much the same damage on the melee adds.
Recommended Spec: Marksmanship
- Always maximize damage done on the drakes, using your first rapid fire on the 1st wave of drakes, readiness right after it, then use your 2nd rapid fire on the 2nd wave of adds.
- Then use readiness and your 3rd rapid fire on Gariona before she lands, to make sure that she only does 1 black circle, and not 2 (which can be deadly).
- Make use of deterrence when soaking the big ones, and also for the roars in phase 2, when the boss is below 40%.
- If healing is a problem, use raptor strike glyph for the roars, even all of them if you don't mind the dps loss.
- Everytime you soak a 'small one' (barrage), check the ground to see if any charges are incoming at your spot, and be ready to strafe.
- Do NOT disengage to avoid shockwaves. Like I mentioned on Hagara, the disengage mechanic works in a way that your position remains to be your initial one, until you have actually landed. That means that even if you are outside of the shockwave, you will get hit from it unless you have landed. So either be lightning fast with it, or better just move normally out of it, perhaps use aspect of the cheetah if you want.
- Make a macro to easily target the closest twilight assault drake. This will make your life MUCH easier when trying to dps the drakes when they fly above you to drop the melee adds.
/target Twilight Assault Drake
- If your guild wants you to be the one slowing the sappers (or if everyone else is just terrible that you need to do everything youself), this macro will make your life much easier in targeting them.
/tar Twilight Sapper
/cast Concussive Shot
Track: The debuff that increases your shadow damage taken, called 'Twilight Barrage', which you get when you soak a small barrage. In 25man it only lasts 6 seconds, which means its quite irrelevant, but if you have the debuff and go in to soak a big one, you better ask for some shield or use deterrence + raptor strike.
PS: I will post a video of this boss soon!
This fight actually is really easy now after the nerfs. And as a hunter, there isn't anything special to do. I personally prefer playing Beastmaster at this boss. Survival is a good spec for overall dps, but BM does just as much dmg on the tendons, which is whats important in this encounter.
Recommended Spec: Beast Mastery
- If your raid doesn't have enough arcane mages, and you are needed to help break the fiery grips, make sure that you have your pet at the passive stance, because it shouldn't switch away from the amalgamation/tendon to run all the way to the tentacle. Also make sure to put the tentacles on focus target, and track their cast bar. When the last cast is about to finish, precast a cobra shot on it, and do another 2-3arcane shots.
- When the tendon spawns, make sure to use Bestial Wrath before sending in your pet, because if it goes behind the tendon, it goes out of sight and you can't use it (was really annoying).
- Use deterrence when the amalgamations explode, especially save one for the very last amalgamation, because usually at that point everything is so chaotic that there is a high risk you won't get any heals.
- Make sure to renew your stacks of your spine of deathwing trinket even if you are deterrencing the explosions, by hitting something right before or after.
- Make a macro that includes every cooldown you have, which will be really useful to not waste any time when the tendon comes up. Here is an example:
/target boss2
/cast Bestial Wrath
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast Call of the Wild
/use Kiroptyric Sigil
You can include engineering gloves, horde racials, and any other on use trinkets you might have.
- Everytime a tendon phase starts, cast a hunter's mark on the tendon (if you are the hunter's mark bitch), then use the macro which I said above (I named is 'rape macro'), and then cast a kill command, then serpent sting, then spam arcane shots. If you need to hunter's mark you can use this macro too:
/target boss2
/cast Hunter's Mark
- During the tendon phase, make sure that u use kill command twice during bestial wrath, and then when you are about to run out of focus, use fervor. You shouldn't need to cast cobra shot at all, maybe once at the very end.
- Make sure that your pet has the talent Charge, it helps to make it go instantly on the tendon.
Track: The debuff that the tentacles cast and absorbs healing done on you, called 'Searing Plasma'. That will allow you to use the lightwell effectively and also will make you aware to use deterrence if needed to not die during explosions, since having the debuff will mean that you won't get any heals.
Track: The debuff that you get when standing in the holes to not get thrown off deathwing, called 'Grasping Tendrils'. That will make you certain that you are inside and you don't get the random fly offs saying 'but I was inside!!!!'
The last boss. Really easy boss.
Recommended Spec: Survival
- The fight lasts long, but if your concern is killing the boss and not whoring dps, you will use your cds properly. That means using them once at the 2nd platform (Alexstrasza), on the corrupted tentacle. Then use them again on the parasites at the 4th platform (Kalecgos). Call of the Wild on the first (since you will be getting heroism at that point most likely and rapid fire will be an overkill), and rapid fire on the second one to pump those multi shots faster and kill everything.
- When a parasite is about to spawn, don't use black arrow, and instead throw an explosive trap at the spot where the parasite is supposed to spawn, then ask the person who gets the debuff to move on that spot and trigger your trap. This will cause an almost guaranteed LnL proc during the parasites, since the explosive trap should be hitting both the parasites and the corrupted tentacles or deathwing's arms/wings.
- When the blistering tentacles are about to spawn which is at 70% and 40%, save your LnL procs for that to instant kill them.
- Save up focus for when the 2nd parasite is about to spawn, and spam multi shots on the bloods as much as possible.
- The parasite spawning explosion can 1shot your pet if its standing close, so make a macro to use your pet's ability which I am sure most of you don't even know exists, cower. Use it ~3seconds before the explosion when you are watching the big wigs timer of it.
/cast Cower
- Use deterrence when you get the parasite debuff on you, when the timer is at ~4seconds left. This will drastically reduce the damage you take from it and healers will be much grateful for what you did for them. Also save your deterrence on the 4th platform and use it to negate the damage from the meteor explosion.
- Make a macro to target the meteors. This can be especially helpful on the 4th platform if you want to squeeze in an explosive shot before deterrencing the explosion.
/target Elementium Bolt
- In the last phase of the fight, when the boss is at ~17%, 12%, 7% use your trap launcher ability and be ready to throw your slow trap ASAP, don't wait for the animation on the ground to start the process, be 100% ready for it. The bloods not being slowed is the no1 cause of wipes in that phase.
- If you are skipping killing the elementium fragments towards the end of the fight, make sure to use both dream and deterrence on the shrapnels.
Track: The debuff that spawns the parasites, called 'Corrupting Parasite', which will help you both react fast enough, and time properly your deterrence.
Thanks for reading this guide of Dragon Soul. If you have any ideas about the guide feel free to post them below, and I am sorry if I made any typos. :)


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The downward spiral of venture-capital funding seems to have leveled off in the last quarter of 2002.
Investments in startup companies totaled $4.2 billion for the last three months of the year, according to the quarterly Money Tree survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics, and the National Venture Capital Association. In the third quarter, investments were $4.5 billion, a sharp decline from the $6 billion invested in the second quarter.
Reflecting a note of optimism, a total of 692 companies received funding last quarter, compared with 671 companies in the third quarter. That number is more significant, venture capitalists say, because it shows that investors are taking risks on more companies, just not with as much cash up front since exit opportunities--selling a company or having it go public and regaining the investment--aren't immediately attainable. "VCs are giving smaller amounts of money up front to see how a company does in a year, and then would put more money into it," says Bill Elmore, general partner of Foundation Capital. "We are more risk averse and looking deeper for a proof of business model. Don't mistake patience for pessimism."
As usual, software companies received the bulk of the money and investment deals because of low initial investment requirements and sector diversity, though investment levels in the sector continued to decline, according to Tracy Lefteroff, global managing partner of the VC practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. For the fourth quarter, the sector saw $869 million in funding, compared with $1.04 billion in the previous quarter. Telecommunications and networking companies received $562 million and $468 million, respectively, compared with $641 million and $347 million in the third quarter.
For the full year, venture investing totaled $21.2 billion, approximately half of 2001's $41.3 billion and closely matching the $21.6 billion that went to new companies in 1998, before the economic bubble. The software industry saw 799 deals totaling $4.3 billion, or 20% of all venture investing. Telecommunications had 335 deals totaling $2.9 billion, or 14% of the total. Investments in networking fell to $2.2 billion in 209 companies, 11% of the total amount invested.


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The 6 Most Horrific Ways Pop Culture Has Misused Santa Claus
#3. The Santa Comics
You know what modern day "gritty" superhero movies are missing? Fucking Santa Claus, that's what. Tell us you wouldn't have left the The Dark Knight with a smile if it had ended with Santa appearing, then grabbing the Joker off Batman and chucking him from that skyscraper. But Hollywood is too "cool" for that apparently.
Comic writers know better. Check out "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus," the harrowing tale seen in the Christmas issue of the short-lived Sandman comic. In this tale, the Sandman meets Mrs. Claus, who confesses to being "edgy since the Seal Men sneaked down here and kidnapped Santa."
Sandman, who of course is old friends with Santa and to whom that sentence made perfect sense, finds the Jolly One and takes on the dastardly Seal Men:
What did we learn from that page?
A. Sandman thinks Santa is too stupid to remember Christmas is kind of his thing;
B. Santa is apparently a Time Lord, as he claims to be 1600 years old;
C. Everybody, including Seal Men, is a Christian in Kirby's world, because the whole reason they started this throw-down was that their Christmas sucked;
D. Santa evidently is that stupid, since the Seal Men are pissed off due to St. Nick bringing them woolen gloves and scuba equipment;
E. Seal flippers have thumbs.
Of course, as time went on, Santa comics needed their own gritty reboot:
The slaughter above is from Rob Liefeld's Santa the Barbarian comic, though even the corpse pile is somehow nowhere near as disturbing as...
...Santa getting his fucking head chopped off by an alien bounty hunter named Lobo. Though even that won't give us as many nightmares as...
...Santa's deformed shirtless torso as depicted in the Ultimate Warrior Christmas issue.
Next time you see Santa, try not to picture his huge hairy boob-gut.
#2. Santa Ink
Tattoos are a statement. Usually that statement is "I hope this will finally get me laid" or "my friends don't stop me from making foolish decisions with long-term consequences when I am intoxicated."
Which brings us to the ever-popular Santa tattoo.
Tattoos are an art form that has made many men regret permanently commemorating a one-week relationship with a girl they met at a cockfight, so it only makes sense that people would line up to get a holiday tattoo that's only relevant about two weeks out of the year.
But during those two weeks, you are the freaking king of Christmas, dude! After all, nothing says "Holiday Spirit" like luchadores, a spirited group of insane Mexican wrestlers, of which Santa is apparently a member.
But the hands-down, no-holds-barred, spared-no-cliche-for-this-introduction winner has to be...
...Yoda Santa. That's the guy's chest, in case you didn't spot the nipple there. What's not to love? There's something for every discriminating loather of body art and geek alike. Get into a fistfight at a bar, rip your shirt off and that fight is over. Ain't nobody going to punch Yoda Claus.
All right. One left, and you knew this was coming eventually...
#1. Yes Vagina, there is a Santa Claus
No, we couldn't walk away without addressing Santa Porn.
There are really three stages of maturity for a boy in the Western world. There's the stage when you first believe in Santa, the stage when you find out Santa isn't real and the stage when you find out that Ron Jeremy starred as a huge-cocked Santa Claus in a Christmas-themed porno.
"You're a man now, Timmy."
Why do we do this? Why do we constantly search out ways to violate the things that helped make our childhoods great? Why do we feel the need to mix sex with everything that by rights should be left separate, just like how you don't try to put chili and ice cream in the same bowl?
Ooh... hold on. We need to try something.
Ah, OK. No, don't put chili and ice cream in the same bowl. Just as you don't put Santa in the naked bowl. Yet, do a Google Image Search for "Santa Claus" and you get this...
...as THE SECOND RESULT. Do you dare to keep paging through? Because eventually you'll hit this:
And God forbid--and we mean we literally hope God forbids it--you intentionally search for something racy like "Santa sex" because in one second you're going to be looking at page after page of full-on Santa boner and multiple orifice penetration. We're talking images we can't show you here without censoring them so much you'd think you had accidentally turned off your monitor.
Here, this ornament depicting Santa boning Mrs. Claus (?) is about the closest we can get.
Hey, did you know there's a video called Christmas in Summer? And that it stars a girl named Summer? And that "Christmas" is her dog?
Though nothing we found tops this German film:
So... you conservative types out there protesting every time you catch a retail chain failing to wish every customer a Merry Christmas, you who are complaining that commercialization has taken away its religious context... did you know about the bi-sexual strap-on three-way Santa porno?
Because it seems like you should have said something about that.
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For more holiday bastardizations, check out The 35 Most Insane Halloween Costumes from Around the World and 11 Tasteless Holiday Decorations.
And stop by our Top Picks (Updated 12.18.2009) to see Santa Brockway (getting drunk off eggnog).
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"All animals are creatures with beating hearts and to create violence like that on an animal is cruelty," Whiteside says.
The video you are viewing shows 29-year-old Bradley Heard of Rockfield biting the head off a baby bird and throwing the head several feet away.
This is the same video the Warren County Attorney viewed before formally charging heard.
On Tuesday, Heard pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges, and was ordered to pay a $500 fine-- a fine Warren County Sheriff's Office Major Tommy Smith says is the maximum penalty.
"The law is kind of vague as far as birds go, it clearly defines dogs and cats. It's specifically mentioned in the statute but that's why there was some confusion," Major Smith says.
"There's a lot of loopholes when it comes to animal advocacy. And a lot of people that are charged with animal cruelty there's usually no follow-through. Kentucky actually comes dead last when it comes to companion animal advocacy," says Barren River Animal Welfare Association Volunteer, Sara Whiteside says
$500 may be the maximum penalty, but Whiteside says those penalties just aren't enough.
"All animals are creatures with beating hearts and to create violence like that on an animal is cruelty," Whiteside says.
Heard was on a porch when he grabbed a bird he says was chirping too loudly and bit the head off.
He told the Warren County Sheriff's Office he was intoxicated.
"We were notified by the Humane Society that the person who shot the video had put it on YouTube," Major Smith says.
Law enforcement agencies and animal activist agree, animal cruelty laws must be strengthened in Kentucky.
Whiteside says activists all over Kentucky are looking to strengthen the state's animal cruelty laws.


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Alright, so here's the version we'd love to submit to Apple. Which is also the version all our non-MAS customers will get via Sparkle. So please have a go, give it a shot, we've changed quite some bits from the last beta.
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As a reminder: We'll submit to Apple and push the update via Sparkle simultaneously. This means that non-MAS users will get their hands on 2.1 a bit earlier than MAS customers. It also means that in case of App Store rejection (you never know, you know), MAS users will have to wait even longer and we'll have to add another .1 in order to keep both versions in sync.
So, please, if you've purchased Ulysses on the App Sore, don't go out and rate us down (or whatever) just because your version is not the same as what might turn up on MacUpdate or some other site we can't influence. Ok? Deal?
Nice, thanks. :)
Oh, and before we forget: We need some really tough guys and gals to help test with some really cutting edge stuff regarding the Mac App Store version and some super-secret NDA-features. You don't even need to have bought it on the MAS to help, you just need Mac OS X Lion. Anybody?


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Been using an iPad's speech synathesis for a project and we're finding that the volume just isn't loud enought - are there ways of boosting the loudness without just adding external speakers? The iPad is jailbroken, and I'm willing to consider approaches that reduce the lifespan of the device.
There is a neat trick you can do with a book, or other hard surface. (Ideal results are achieved with a concave surface.) Place the iPad speaker facing the book/surface. Some sound will reflect off the book, and join the forwards traveling sound, effectively boosting the volume by a small margin.
Other than that, consider placing the iPad almost touching the microphone of whatever recording device you are using.
(There is probably an app on Cydia to boost volume, but my iPad is not jailbroken, so I am not sure)
Take a look at the SoundJaw. It's a plastic concave clip-on device for the iPad 2 that redirects the sound to the front. It works with the magnetic smart cover. Search for 'soundjaw ipad'. The price is less than $15.
Just heard about "Volume Boost Free" on I think mac weekly, it was one of the guests app of the week. I just installed the app and does seem to increase the volume. The app is in the app store and is free, it is not a universal app but it does work on my iPad 2.
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7 Essential Rules to a Happy Family Life
Here are some basic Rules to help you love your family easier, whether you already have a close-knit family or whether it is full of tricky relationships and resentments.
(Excerpted from "The Rules of Love" by Richard Templar)
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Your Children Come Before You
There's a disturbing trend I've noticed over recent years of parents putting their own well-being before their children's. I'm talking here about children who are still under 18 and living at home. This trend is coupled with a horrid expression: "me time." Don't ever let me catch you using this phrase.
The fact is that when you decide to have children (whether it's a conscious choice or an accidental one), part of the commitment is to put your children before yourself. You've only got to stick it out until the youngest is 18, but until then your hobbies, career, free time, and all the rest takes second place.
Here's a case in point, and one of my particular complaints. Children really look forward to spending time on vacations with their parents. With school, work, and all the rest of it, it's often the best time for getting their parents' undivided attention. What do some parents do? They stay in hotels that will look after the kids for them all week so they can do their own thing. Now one morning is fine, if the kids are happy with it, but not a large proportion of the entire vacation. I know being a parent is exhausting, but that's the nature of the job. That's what you take on when you become a parent.
I'm not saying you can't ever go out for the evening, of course you can. I'm not saying you should only be about your kids. That wouldn't be good for them or you. They need to learn consideration. However, they also need to know that they are the top priority in your life. While you may want or need to work, which is fine, at least one parent needs a job that broadly fits round the kids, rather than jetting off on some fabulous career that takes you away from them for long periods.
If you put yourself before the children, not only are you not giving them the love they deserve, you're also telling them that all through life, looking after number one is more important than anything else. Believe me, that's a philosophy that won't make them happy.
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I just finished a fresh install, started installing apps and signing in again. Every time I login to an app it crashes within a few seconds. Going back in stays there, sometimes crashing again.
I'm new to troubleshooting iOS - what's my next step?
Just bought a new iPad 4 with iOS 6.0.1 and apps crash randomly. But as you said most crashes are network related. Using search in music app crashed it while i had enabled home sharing but never when using offline music. Safari crashed many times using a proxy server but rarely on no proxy connections. Also app store crashed once.
So maybe there is an exception thrown by a network library and not handled correctly in iOS 6.0.1?
While I have had no problems with IOS 6.0.1 installs on the iPhone 4 and 4s in my household some generic troubleshooting steps would include:
NOTE: back up your phone with iTunes before doing any of this!
failing that...
failing that...
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failing that...
I couldn't take the crashes anymore, which totaled 30+ in a day, so I did a fresh Restore again. This somehow cleaned up whatever had occurred. Unfortunately I cannot explain more than this being a fluke.
This has also happened to me. It even got to the point where I went to Apple and they just gave me a new iPhone 4S. But about a week later my new iPhone started to do the same thing again.
I'm pretty sure that if you "Restore as new" it will temporarily fix the problem, but it will eventually come back. Hopefully they have something that can fix this in the next iOS 6 update.
Mine has done this twice now since upgrading to iOS 6.0.1. Even iPod crashes when playing music. I nailed it down to something to do with the network. If I put the thing into "Airplane" mode, everything that isn't a network app will work just fine until I decide to exit.
I really do hope that this is fixed soon, too. Because the full restore is so...time consuming. And temporary.


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Vilma Martinez '67
Breaking Ground
As a member of President Jimmy Carter's advisory board on ambassadorial appointments, civil rights lawyer Vilma Martinez '67 once described her job as working to support qualified Hispanics for U.S. ambassadorships. Things came full circle for Martinez three decades later, when President Barack Obama nominated the longtime activist as U.S. ambassador to Argentina.
Confirmed by the Senate in 2009, Martinez became the first woman ever to serve as U.S. ambassador to the South American nation. She resists the label "pioneer," however, it is a term that has followed her ever since she became the first woman to head the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in the 1970s.
Martinez, who grew up in inner-city San Antonio amid expectations that she would go to vocational school, was awarded the Law School's Medal for Excellence in 1992 for her influential civil rights work, including advancing bilingual education in schools and leading battles against discriminatory hiring practices. Her Law School education, she says, was crucial in preparing her for a career in advocacy and diplomacy. Being simultaneously forceful and polite is particularly important for an ambassador, Martinez adds.
"Diplomats sometimes have to deliver difficult messages," she says. "To be an effective advocate, one must listen carefully, research the issues, articulate the facts, and then present them in a clear and persuasive manner."
Martinez says the Foreign Service officers she works with as ambassador to Argentina epitomize this deft diplomatic touch. "I have come to realize that the Foreign Service is one of the most underappreciated resources in our government, and I am proud to work with these dedicated men and women who serve our country," she says.


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TORONTO - Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chadwick of Toronto celebrated their 60th anniversary on April 19.
Chadwick and the former Rebecca Hughes were married April 19, 1952, at St. Francis Church in Toronto by the Rev. Harris.
She is the daughter of the late Lawrence and Mary Hughes and is a homemaker.
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He is the son of the late Walter and Elizabeth Coleman Chadwick. He is a retiree of Weirton Steel, having worked there 30 years, and a retiree of Gateway College where he worked 11 years.
They have three children: Colleen of Glendale, Calif.; Robert of Leavenworth, Kansas; and Mark of Toronto. Four grandchildren and one great-grandchild complete the family.
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BELLAIRE - Village Administrator Dan Marling and the work crews at the water department have been working toward cutting into the delinquent bill issues within the village.
Council and the mayor directed Marling to get it under control and Marling reported during Thursday's village council meeting that he and his workers are making headway into the problem.
" Our next report, and I believe this will be a correct statement, is that revenues are coming up from the water bills being paid," Marling said.
Within the last month, a total of 28 water customers have either had their service turned off at the curb or had their meters pulled. Marling reported 15 of those have already been turned back on after receiving payment.
"I appreciate the cooperation of our residents," Marling said.
Marling also noted that within the next few weeks, three commercial meters will be installed - two at apartment complexes and one at a bank.
Marling also displayed to council maps that list all the water lines, taps and other important points for the village's water service that were paid for with an RCAP grant .
There are two sets of maps. Another will be in book form that workers can take with them on service calls and the maps will also be accessible by computer in the offices.
Kneisner also sought permission for some volunteers from her group to conduct some landscaping work on the west side of Noble St. between 34th and 36th streets. The mayor gave her the go-ahead.
They owners of these properties will receive a registered letter, informing the owners of a need to clean up the property, as well as a specified expected date of completion. Those not complying will be cited into mayor's court.
Representatives from the Knights of Columbus will be on hand to take any metal items. Home pick-up is available by calling (740) 676-8688.
Volunteers are being sought for a village-wide litter cleanup. Gloves and bags will be provided and and the first 30 volunteers who sign up by May 1 will also receive a free t-shirt. Anyone interested should call (740) 676-7011 or the mayor's office at (740) 676-6539. The second date is Aug. 10.
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Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2400 Product Family: Datasheet, Vol.1
The Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2400 product family datasheet - volume one provides DC specifications, signal integrity, differential signaling specifications, land and signal definitions, and an overview of additional processor feature interfaces.
The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family is the next generation of 64-bit, multi-core enterprise processors built on 32-nanometer process technology. Throughout this document, the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family may be referred to as simply the processor. Based on the low-power, high performance 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family microarchitecture, the processor is designed for a two-chip platform consisting of a processor and a platform controller hub (PCH) enabling higher performance, easier validation, and improved x-y footprint. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family is designed for server-class platforms including those for embedded and storage applications with up to two processor sockets. The processor family features one Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI) point-to-point link capable of up to 8.0 GT/s, up to 24 lanes of PCI Express* 3.0 links capable of 8.0 GT/s, and 4 lanes of DMI2/PCI Express* 2.0 interface with a peak transfer rate of 5.0 GT/s. The processor supports up to 46 bits of physical address space and 48-bit of virtual address space.
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I've heard people using both expressions. Which one is correct, or are they basically the same?
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Both are certainly correct and both basically mean the same thing, but if you want to be precise and analyze them, heading in the right direction may be more specific to the current situation, like saying:
On the other hand, headed in the right direction may have more general meaning expressing a longer time scale, like for example:
Usage of both phrases is head___ in the right direction:
Being headed means that the direction of the vessel points into this direction. Heading means being in the process of moving somewhere.
Being headed + movement = heading somewhere
I think "headed" came to this use because navigational heading is something you must get right in the past in order to be correctly on-course now.
If I was 'headed' the wrong way 2 min ago, and I've been headed the wrong way for the past hour, then even if I change course now, it will take some time before all can confidently say that we are "headed" the right direction.
I seriously doubt most people think this deep about the wording, but I do think it is the cognitive underpinnings of the words work this way.
Reference: George Lakoff
"Headed" is just wrong. Incorrect usage over the years has been cemented as acceptable usage.
They are both correct, but they are used in different instances.
"Heading in the right direction" is a progressive tense usage, and is used to indicate something happening right now. i.e. John is heading in the right direction or John is doing it as I am talking.
They are used to mean different things, as in indicating the time it occurred, so some distinction should be noted here. They are both correct, as long as they are used in the correct situation.


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Favorite Hunting Handgun Cartridge
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Posted 08 October 2005 - 04:49 PM
I got to jump on the bandwagon here. I have tried a number of rounds in contenders and xp's and I think my all around fav for big game is the 30-30 contender . I carry the 221 fireball when I run the shotgun for coyotes but all I ever seem to shoot with it are jackrabbits and ground squirrels. I've shot deer with a number of 7mm's,357 and 44 but always come back to the wifes 30-30...Walt
Mr Grizzly might get me, but I think Mr Pig would be sausage links.
Posted 08 October 2005 - 07:25 PM
Doesn't Count, Not a straight wall Handgun Cartridge.Youv'e jump the curb Although I have considered getting one for my Contender more than a few time's
I think my all around fav for big game is the 30-30 contender
Posted 09 October 2005 - 04:43 AM
Dang, sure pays to read something first doesn't it, Dohhh. I have shot deer with the wifes Dan Wesson 44 mag and it worked pretty good and I've shot one one with my 357 contender and it killed it dead pretty well also. Is that better? Ha, Ha. Dented the rim while jumping the curb dang-it. now it steers funny and wobbles down the road.Walt
Doesn't Count, Not a straight wall Handgun Cartridge.Youv'e jump the curb Although I have considered getting one for my Contender more than a few time's
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John, Those 44 mags are a sweet round. The wife has 2 of them, her Dan Wesson,, which is incredibally accurate and a Ruger SS Silhouette she won at a shooting match. But that gun doesn't even think about being close to accurate compared to the Dan Wesson. It's just a trophey for her and collects dust. Yeah I wobble and shimmy when I walk a lot anymore myself. HaHa LOL..Walt
My all time favorite is the .44 mag, I have six of them. :PWalt, I must have jumped the curb a few times as I wobble and shimmy myself!
Posted 09 October 2005 - 12:16 PM
You know there is more to being faithful to your wife than a lot of people think!!!! LOL Walt
A wife with two 44 Mags, one for each hand?Not a favorable situation I?d like to find myself in. And apparently she?s a good shoot to boot!Do you sleep with one eye open Walt? LOL
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Posted 19 October 2005 - 10:29 AM
Hello Steve,I agree with your statement. It is my 'OMG' option. 10 rounds of 200 grain Hoo-Haa's fly'n out the business end with the stopping power of a 41 mag does make a VERY good 'OMG' option.If, for what ever reason: My Glock is in my hand and is being fired while I am hunting . . . something has gone WAY wrong.I believe that Ken hunts with a 10MM (revolver) from time to time as well. I am not sure what he hunts with it, but I do know he is a fan of the 10MM round.Kevin
I agree with that but people (most people) don't go out hunting with a 10MM as the primary hunting weapon. it's more of a last resort type weapon.
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I did vote 44 mag because of the choices, however if I had to vote over I would pick the 10mm.. I have 2 glock 10mms (model 20 and 29SF) and I love them, it's my back up gun when bow hunting and its one of my CCWs in other states.. And yes, I had mags before the ban! It's the most powerful semi I have ever shot and I reloaded some nasty 185 grain grave diggers that are hotter and more accurate than any factory round..10mm all the way +1
Other...I'll take the 10mm. With Double Tap Ammo the velocities are faster then a 357 and just under 41 magnum. Think about this for a moment. The 10mm bullet has the same velocity at 100yards as a typical .45 round at the muzzle.A Glock 10mm auto is the most powerful 10 round hand cannon you can buy in kali. If you purchased mags for this gun before the ban your carrying 15 rounds. Also, the barrel can be swapped out and you can blast the wimpy .40 cal police round.And thats my fav hunting round.... 10mm
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 11:32 AM
Not actually had the opportunity to hunt anything. My opinions come from alot of research so take what I say with a grain of salt as it were. For self defense call me old fashsion but I like the .357 mag..lately thinking about a Glock Model 32c. For hunting deer I'm split between a .44 mag or a 454 that way I can use .45 for deer , 454 for deer and 454 w/ hard cast ammo from Buffalo Bore for bear either one with a six in. barrel,&matte stainless. That's my two cents worth such as it is. If it comes to carrying a Glock in bear country i'd be split between any caliber starting with a "4" and a 10mm.
I know there are a few other's but these seem the most traditional ones.As for me I will use my .44 Mag 7.5" or .45 Colt 5.5"Someday I may get a .357 Max
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I agree 100%. How many foot pounds of energy your gun can hold in unfired ammo means nothing. If it came down to a life and death experience with a big nasty animal I'd take five or six rounds of heavily loaded .44 mag or .45 Colt over 20 rounds of 9mm any day.
lots of talk about magazine capacity 'theory is a ton of energy downrange, reality is if you're forced to use a backup gun in a life or death situation you will be lucky to get off 2 shots.....
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I've played sax for around 20 years. I recently picked up a cheap student flute from a pawn shop. Can anyone provide tips on proper embouchure? Any other tips on getting a decent sound would be greatly appreciated, as well.
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