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6 Unintentionally Hilarious Glitches Hidden in Video Games
When everything in a game goes right, it's a wonderful experience. You actually feel like you've become an elite assassin, pro race car driver, or caller of duties. But when things go wrong it's ... well actually, sometimes it's way, way better! A good glitch can transfer you from boring, gritty realism into a magical world full of the most physics-defying, madness-inducing randomness this side of a mushroom trip at the bottom of a ball pit.
#6. Bioshock's Dancers
We shall be bold here, for we are bold men and fortune favors us for it: Bioshock was the best game of its generation. It was intense, thoughtful, immersive, and somehow still fun. But one thing it was not was "silly." At least, not when everything went according to plan ...
But the philosophical tone and serious atmosphere just made the few glitches all the more jarring. For example: It's not unheard of for bodies to twitch or shudder after you kill them in a game -- that's just physics trying to reconcile some uppity limbs with an unforgiving floor. Bioshock opted to forgo all that twitching, however, and deliver on an ominous threat that 1987 made to all of us long, long ago: This, friends, is what it looks like when the rhythm finally gets you.
We really dig the way you shake that thing -- by which we of course mean your desiccated chest cavity.
Bioshock 2's multiplayer function apparently carried on the grand tradition of insane genetic mutant corpses suddenly discovering the joys of a sick beat in a philosophical-themed dystopia. One player recorded this bit of unintentional hilarity in an online match:
"Han Solo ain't got shit on me."
Either that's the glitching corpse of a player caught in the aftermath of a cyclone, or else he just overdosed on the Breakdancing Plasmid and everybody thought his moves were too fresh to put the poor bastard down.
#5. Left4Dead: Gatling FUN!
Look, we all love a good gatling gun. The single best part in any first-person shooter, like Valve's excellent Left 4 Dead, is when you pick up that Zombie Mower and get to trimming the undead population a little bit. But the gatling gun is not for the faint of heart. The gatling gun needs to be tamed, for it is a wild and beautiful beast. If you treat the gatling gun rough, it will treat you rough -- by which we mean it will fire you across the map like a gritty Angry Bird.
"So this is what my sperm feel like."
To exploit this glitch, you need to find a gatling gun on the map and bash it with your rifle a bunch of times. Strangely, the amount of force with which it will launch you is proportionate to how many times you hit it. That's right: This glitch operates on the same principle as your childhood BB gun.
As far as an exploit goes, the gatling gun glitch is mostly useless and usually only serves to fire the zombies a big screaming pile of you. But if you get it just right, you can use it to get to a few nominally inaccessible areas of the game. Like this big neon sign:
Where you're free to just sit and wait out the apocalypse from on high while the wave of undead consumes all of your friends -- those same friends who so callously mocked you for beating up a machine gun in the middle of a zombie fight.
It seems to work too perfectly for a mistake -- if it was just a physics error, why would the gun fire you proportional to how many times you've hit it? But it apparently was indeed a glitch, and not an Easter egg, as it has tragically since been fixed. Apparently it breaks the immersion somewhat when every tense undead standoff is interspersed with men frantically punching inanimate objects and then suddenly cartwheeling over the horizon apropos of nothing.
#4. Buckets of Skyrim
The best and worst parts of Skyrim are the glitches. It's the video game version of that beat-up old car that only starts when the radio is tuned to KSFT -- all soft rock, all the time. Or that one deranged uncle who gives you beer at every family reunion because he thinks you're his old 'Nam buddy. They're utterly broken things, sure, but that's also what makes them kind of awesome. For example: These backwards flying dragons look like they're being sucked into a black hole -- all flapping in terror and trying to escape. Witnessing that happen out of the blue is way better than participating in a perfectly functional, perfectly boring ol' dragon battle.
"You've been hanging out with Puff again, haven't you?"
But for the true connoisseur of random hilarity, there is the pure and beautiful simplicity of the bucket glitch.
Exploiting this curious error makes stealing in Skyrim as easy as taking candy from a baby. A very, very stupid baby. Who is also blind. Simply place a bucket, pot, cauldron, or whatever you have on you over any of the local merchants' heads, and you can stroll into their shops and take whatever you want unimpeded.
"Is it dark o'clock already?"
There are no penalties for the theft. In fact, there's no acknowledgement whatsoever -- even if you're getting your discounts from the counter right in front of them. The best part is it's not a physics glitch or anything -- it doesn't kill or immobilize or otherwise take the characters out of the game. Every single character in Skyrim functions on that famous 5-year-old logic: If you can't see it, you can't get mad.
"This is like that secret game I used to play with Uncle Roger!"
The glitch is so noteworthy it's even warranted its own video tribute. Shit, somebody tell Hollywood; they've been looking pretty desperate for content lately, and Grand Theft Auto: Swing of Doom sounds like a pretty good flick.


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The Gruesome Origins of 5 Popular Fairy Tales
We know what's you're thinking. "What the hell is Cracked writing articles about fairy tales for? That's kids stuff! Give us more articles about the Top 10 Transformers Characters, or Worst Dressed Thundercat!" And that's good, because that means our Spyware technology is getting better than ever.
The thing about fairy tales, though, is that they weren't always for kids. Back when these stories were first told around campfires and in taverns in some medieval village there were very few kids present. These were racy, violent parables to distract peasants after a hard day's dirt farming, and some of them made Hostel look like, well, kid's stuff.
#5. Little Red Riding Hood: Inter-Species Sex Play, Cannibalism
The Version You Know
Mention the words "fairy tale" to someone--if they don't think of gingerbread houses, or possibly a certain bar they know, they think of this story. Little Red on her way to grandmother's house meets the Big Bad Wolf and stupidly tells him where she's going. So he gets there first, eats Grandma, puts on her dress and waits for Red.
She gets there, they do the back-and-forth about what big teeth he has, and he eats her. Then, a passing woodsman comes and cuts Red and Grandma out of the wolf, saving the day.
What Got Changed
Most modern versions of fairy tales come from two sources: The Grimm Brothers from Germany, and Frenchman Charles Perrault, the collector of the "Mother Goose" tales. The big change they made to this one was the ending. That woodsman showing up seemed a little like a third act re-write of a movie due to bad test screenings, didn't it? Where the hell did the woodsman come from?
Well, the woodsman was a later addition to the tale. In the early versions of the story, Red and her Grandmother are dead. The. Goddamn. End. Also, in most versions the woodsman cuts the pair out of the wolf's belly, where they're mostly none the worse for wear despite being eaten, which implies to us the wolf in that story world eats like some sort of python, by unhinging its jaw and swallowing prey whole. Suspension of disbelief only goes so far.
Much earlier versions also liked to spice up the sexuality angle of the story, by having Red outwit the wolf by performing a striptease for him while he's lying in bed dressed as her Grandmother, and then running away while he's "distracted" (Note to any young girls out there: if you are ever abducted and menaced by someone, DO NOT DO THIS).
Wait, it gets worse. This is the most horrifying bit that got filtered out before the tale reached both the Grimm's and Perrault (and in fact, only made it into a few written texts). In this version, the Wolf dissects Grandmother, then invites Red in for a meal of her flesh, presumably with a side of fava beans and a nice Chianti. Then he eats her, too.
Story's over! Sweet dreams, little Sally!
#4. Snow White: Prince Pedophile, More Cannibalism
The Version You Know
Well, you've all seen the movie, you know how this goes. Evil step-mom hates that her daughter is prettier than her so she tells one of her men to take out to the woods and kill her, and bring back her heart as proof. He can't follow through, so he tells her to run away and never return.
Snow White flees, and she falls in with seven friendly dwarves. The step-mom finds out and sneaks her a poison apple. Snow goes into a coma until a handsome prince rescues her and they live happily ever after.
What Got Changed
In the Disney film the wicked step-mother winds up dead (she falls off a cliff). So that's pretty hardcore we guess. It's got nothing on the Grimm version, though, where the step-mother is tortured by being forced to wear red-hot iron shoes, and made to dance until she falls down dead (you can picture the puppet thing from Saw spelling this out for her over a closed-circuit monitor).
The issue of Snow's actual age is a point of contention as well. The Grimm's explicitly refer to her as being seven years old when the story starts, and while there's no firm indication of how much time has passed, it's no more than a couple of years. So unless that's an eight-year-old Prince Charming who comes along and rescues Snow, we're backing away from this one before we become the subject of an NBC reality show.
The biggest change, and the bloodiest, is step-mom's ... unusual eating habits. Namely, when she asks her man to bring back the heart of Snow White, she isn't just after proof the girl is dead. She wants to eat it. Depending on the version of the story, the Queen asks for Snow's liver, lungs, intestines and pretty much every other major internal organ, up to and including one gruesome version where she asks for a bottle of Snow's blood stoppered with her toe.
And if you think the fairy tales were gruesome back then, you should have seen the merchandising tie-ins.
#3. Rumpelstiltskin: Dismemberment, Dead Toddlers
The Version You Know
There's never been a Disney version of this one, but you've probably heard it before. A miller has a beautiful daughter who he claims can spin straw into gold. A passing noble decides to call the miller on his shit and takes the girl and locks her in a tower and tells her to get spinning, presumably hoping to cause a collapse in the precious metals market.
Fortunately she's helped by a little gnome who shows up and offers to help in exchange for a small trinket. This goes on three nights, and by the third night the girl is promising the little man her first born child in return for his help. On the third morning, the king decides to marry this pretty girl who can produce gold out of dry grass.
They inevitably have a son, and the little gnome shows up demanding him. Being nothing if not fair, he'll give the girl three days to guess his name. If she can, she keeps the kid. She tries everything but comes up short, until a passing woodsman overhears the gnome bragging about how he's so clever no one will guess his name is Rumpelstiltskin. He immediately tells the queen, who springs it on Rumpelstiltskin, who's so pissed off he throws a tantrum and runs away, presumably to ply his poorly thought-out scam in another town.
What Got Changed
In the Grimm brothers' version, taken from the oral tradition, the little man is so pissed off he stamps the floor in his little hissy fit, and gets stuck. And then, like some insane version of a Will Ferrell skit, he pulls so hard to free himself that he tears himself in half. Now, if our names were Rumpelstiltskin and some dizzy miller's daughter had just told the whole damn room, we'd be pissed too, but we don't think we'd get dismemberment-angry.
Not to mention, in the really early versions of the tale, Rumpelstiltskin launches himself at the girl in a rage and gets stuck ... um ... in her lady parts. Seriously. The palace guards all have to come and pull him out, which must have made for some awkward looks afterwards.
Also, in a depressingly large number of versions, the child is killed anyway, either by Rumpelstiltskin himself, or the guards, or someone. They weren't big on happy endings in the Dark Ages. Plague will do that.

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Thanks guys and congrats to you (MS), DevDiv and the Win7 team on this past week. What a week it was...
I know, so much to play with this weekend
Nice show guys. One thing: the ultimate offer you guys mentioned seems to only be valid if you buy or renew an MSDN description, not when you buy Visual Studio 2008 like you said. At least, that's the only thing I can find about it. If I'm wrong, I'd love a link.
Cool show guys!
Big congratulations to Windows 7 and VS2010 Teams for releasing great products. I've been using W7 since the RC version with no major problems, and VS2010 since CTP. The B2 works a lot faster then B1 but has more crushes
Great to see the C9 Guy in the corner of the video
Hi Bas,
You're right, an MSDN Subscription is required. MSDN Subscriptions are bundled with Visual Studio (e.g. "Visual Studio 2008 <edition> with MSDN") and this is the way that most customers purchase Visual Studio so that they can get all of the MSDN software and updates to Visual Studio when they ship. Sorry for not making this more clear during the show.
Thanks for the explanation Brian. It's too bad, I was looking at getting VS2008/10 at Amazon or something solely for hobbyism purposes (I miss quickwatch), but an MSDN subscription would be overkill for that purpose. Figured I could get away with grabbing the next version extra cheap, but I guess not. Oh well.
Maybe Dan can pull some strings and have conditional breakpoints, quickwatch and the class designer appear in VS 2010 Express editions, though..
If only I could
I think the challenge with adding any additional feature to Express is that there is no end to it, for example, if you add one debugger window, why not add all of them or if you add one designer, someone can make a case for adding all of them, and eventually you go from a 80MB tool to a 400MB tool and it's not exactly "Express" at that point.
That being said, the Class Designer is the one feature that we did want to add to Express given that for CS 101 courses, visually seeing a class and an object model helps developers who are learning to program. That being said, one new feature that's been added is support for Entity data modeling, so you can build your classes as entities visually, then generate plain old C# objects.
hi guys great show i am a big fan of you
and congrats for the wonderful week well win7 vs2010 beta 2 and so microsoft party
anyhow i got question since you speak abt windows media center
well you can answer me here as a reply or you can also mention my question in the next episode and answer it there (well in my opinion as hurry as i am waiting for you to answer me sooner as gald i will be if you mention my question next episode so that i can contribute with you guys and be part of the show ..... well to be honest if it is up to me i want you to do both )
anyway here is the question
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thats the point
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abt the hulu.com the problem is am not in usa so as it is only for us people
i have an s-video on my laptop so can it be instead of the tv-tuner or anything like that
thanks for the reply
The release date (march 22) also includes TFS or is just VS?.
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Is one permitted on Shabbos to use post-it notes or adhesive page flags to mark content in a book for future reference after Shabbos? Would there be an issue with the adhesive or leaving the page flags in the book for an extended period of time (but eventually removing them)?
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After discussing this question with poskim over the years I have found there are those that are matir. They all base their heter on the Magen Avraham in Siman 340 Sif-Katan 18. He writes there that if papers (dafim) were stuck together through shaveh (wax) then they may be "opened" (taken apart I suppose) on Shabbos. See there in the Shulchan Aruch (Sif 14 and the M"A Sif-Katan 18) for the exact context and more on what he writes. Whether the case of the post-it notes or the sticky things used for bookmarks is similar to what the M"A says, this is none the less what I have heard from poskim. Another point added in is usually the sticky things used to keep place in seforim are used for long periods taking away from the "adhesiveness" -- thus perhaps more of a reason to be makil (again what I've heard from poskim.)
Among these poskim is my HaRav Shammai Gross Shlit"a (bal machaber ShuT Shevat HaKahasi and a well known Posek in Eretz Yisrael.)
In Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchatha 16:28 it says:
There is no further information listed, so couldn't say if there was an exception for temporary adhesive.
It makes me wonder about the plastic figures that stick to glass if you wet them - they are not really adhesive, but they do stick.
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In Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchatha 15:87 he writes that diapers where are affixed with adhesive tape ("scotch") are preferable on Shabbos or Yom Tov, because there is no concern about them at all.
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1) Why should I consider joining RHS?
This is a guild formed from veteran players (ages 21+), Council does accept limited members below the age of 21 for membership consideration, with a strong history of gameplay. We pride ourselves as a special teaching guild. We establish friendships with all our guild members.
We keep our membership to a medium / large range for this very purpose. It truly is a unique experience. We offer quality and the ability for your voice to be heard and not lost in a large crowd.
We seek out individuals who have a passion and drive for a complete on-line experience. We develop our own story-line game content along with the scheduled updates. This makes for a very rewarding experience each week of gameplay.
We encourage low levels to join so they can be trained in their profession, and develop new skills. For our veteran players we offer new types of monthly game content. This content is launched through Roleplay, PVP groups and scheduled PVE events.
Both new and veteran players will feel a sense of ownership and contribute to the guild each time they log in.
If you are looking for a complete, mature, and enjoyable game experience, then your search has ended and your adventure is about to begin.
2) Do you have an age limit to join your guild?
Yes. limited membership by age of 21+ but exceptions can be made by Council; we do expect a certain level of maturity and professionalism in all members.
3) What do you look for in new members?
We expect all members to exemplify the values of our guild. We are team-focused (Guild First! is our core rule). We are friend-focused. We never backstab each other. We aren't anti-social players. We are always unified. We are always working in the best interest of the team. We are looking to have a good time. In addition, we expect new members to achieve some level of competence in the game we play. That competency varies from game to game. Personality wise and play style wise, we look for people that match ourselves
4) Do I NEED A Referral To Join Or Are Exceptions Made?
Occasionally, exceptions are made to our requirement to have a referral to join. Requiring a referral gives us a chance to get to know you and you a chance to get to know us. We seek members of similar personalities, values and gaming goals to our own and the referral part of the process aids in finding the right members. So it is possible, if you do not already know members, we can assign a recruiter to you and you can work through them to meet members and get to know us.
5) What about joining and then quitting and then rejoining?
We strongly feel the guild offers far more than most guilds do. That belief is reinforced that roughly 85% of all people who have ever quit us to join another guild have sought to rejoin us at a later date stating their experience here was far superior to those offered in other guilds. Also, roughly 90% of those who quit us for other guilds, end up quitting the game they are playing within 2-3 months. As a result, our policy on rejoins could be strict on repeat offenders. The main exception we make to that is: if a member has to quit online gaming for real life reasons (medical, work, school etc..) and later comes back to online gaming and wishes to rejoin the guild. If they were in good standing before they left, they can rejoin when they return to online gaming.
6) Does you offer total PVE & PVP Content?
We have entire sections of the guild which greatly enjoy PVP and participate in it often. We also have members who dont PVP. We dont force members to PVP, but we do offer support for those who do wish to PVP, in an organized, team-oriented manner.
7) If I join, will you make me an officer? Im a really good leader.
We never recruit someone into a Council Officer role. We always promote from within the guild based on a number of factors including time in guild, demonstrated leadership ability and related qualities.
8) Do you have a public posting forum I can go read?
YES, if you're reading this, you've made it to our site. We do maintain a public posting forum. We do have a comprehensive and extremely active private guild posting forum that all members have access to.
9) Do you use Teamspeak?
Yes. We maintain our own private server for members only. We maintain a private guild Teamspeak server for use in the games that we play. While you do not need to use a mic, you must be able to listen in and reply back either voice or typing: Voice Chat or the Teamspeak Server. Our affiliated guilds also use ventrillo. That is also a useful & free application to download as well.
10) How is the guild organized and led?
We term our guild structure a 'Guiding Democracy'. Said another way, there is a Council composed of senior officers, who are the final decision makers on all things guild related. We encourage all guild members to voice their opinions on any subjects related to the guild.
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PGP Key Workshop
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Every Noisebridger who wants a PGP key should have one!
Thursday, January 29, 2009, starting at 8 PM.
- create your own PGP (gpg) key, securely
- learn how to use PGP to secure email and other digital systems
- learn about the Web of Trust
- sign others' keys, and get your key (new or old) signed
- (optional) create a new GPG key.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuPG is a reasonable overview of GnuPG.
- http://gnupg.org/ is the project homepage, including a
- http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto.html mini-howto.
- http://www.napoletano.net/front/node/352 is a bit long on the libertarian theology, but just scroll to the green-on-black bits.


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The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul (Paperback)
An ordinary man's inspiring journey toward a simpler, more meaningful life.
In 2008, average American family man Dave Bruno decided to unhook himself from the intravenous drip of consumerism that fueled his life by winnowing all his personal possessions down to just 100 things. Little did he realize that he would be igniting a grassroots movement--soon after Dave embarked on his journey, media around the world took notice and others started to follow his lead.
A cause for pause, The 100 Thing Challenge is a response to the culture of materialism in America, one that has filled our lives with the constant and unsatisfactory desire for "more." Dave Bruno offers compelling anecdotes and practical advice to help readers live more meaningfully, simply by casting off the unnecessary "stuff" that clutters their lives. The 100 Thing Challenge is a golden opportunity to experience the positive changes that occur as you defiantly hop off the treadmill of consumerism.
About the Author
Dave Bruno is a successful entrepreneur who cofounded ChristianAudio and helped it become a leading publisher of audiobooks. He has an M.A. in Religion in American Life from Wheaton College. Dave is a native of San Diego, where he lives with his wife and three daughters. He loves every outdoor inch of California that he's ever hiked, biked, surfed, or seen. Dave's favorite of many household pets is his loyal mutt, Piper.
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"Living simply is only an ideal until someone like Bruno gets particular. The way he got particular should make everyone think--hard, which is a very good thing."
-Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
"In a loving, wise, sometimes hilarious manner, Dave Bruno holds a mirror up to us and says to take a closer look at how we're living. Reading this will lead you to a better life."
-Dean Nelson, Author of God Hides in Plain Sight and director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University
"[Bruno's] musings about his slow and steady purge have developed a cult following online, inspiring others [toward] clutter-free living."
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When did ice cream turn into "frozen dairy dessert"?
The other day I was eating what I thought was ice cream with oreos in it but apparently I was mistaken because the package said it was not ice cream, but was, instead, frozen dairy dessert. I wonder if I should still be eating this crap (I can only assume it is crap because why would you call it something ridiculous like that if it wasn't crap?). Maybe I'm out of the loop and ice cream hasn't been ice cream for quite some time. Thoughts? Also, this stuff does taste really good.
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USDA standards. Ice cream must be at least 10% milk fat. Less than that, it can't be called ice cream.
There was a time they got around that by calling it "ice milk" but I don't think that particular marketing ploy worked very well. Now they just put a yummy photo and creative name on the container....it's the old "Look! A puppy!" strategy.
For posterity:
tags: was-ice-cream-but-is-now-constantinople
Just in case the Tag Ninja starts attacking again. :-)
EDIT: Remember, it tastes better when it has a long contrived name.
American Cheese - Processed pasteurized cheese product
You will notice this on a lot of products as the USDA cracks down. Land O Lakes turned into a "cheese product" a little while ago because they started using a ton of powdered milk.
Whatever ingredient the product contains the most of is listed first. So when you're in the market for ice cream the first ingredient should be milk (not carrageenan)
This reminds me of something. Whenever you see an ingredient called "Natural Flavor," is that something they added? Or, are they just saying this is they way it tastes naturally?
@cengland0: It's a catch all phrase basically to describe genetically modified ingredients. For example, autolyzed yeast extract is basically MSG - yet since it's derived from naturally occuring yeast, they can claim "natural ingredient"
@ryanwb: Not referring to natural ingredients but natural flavoring instead. I answered my own question (but cannot understand it fully) by a simple google search:
Title 21, Section 101, part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations is as follows:
"The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional."
@narfcake: So this stuff really is crap and I should probably stop eating it at my earliest convenience? That's going to be my takeaway.
@ohcheri: Puppies! I am easily distracted.
@zuiquan: I think you need to upgrade your ice cream experience and make your own! :)
@cengland0: Watch out for things that say "natural flavor" That's just a ploy to make it sound healthier. Remember, "cat pee" is technically a "natural flavor."
@inkycatz: I've actually got a copy of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream that I really ought to use more often. Salty caramel is ridiculously good. But it's just so much easier to get a box of crap at the store. Laziness is often my downfall. :(
@zuiquan: I absolutely understand. But maybe fun for the weekend! :)
@inkycatz: Word. Nothing going on this weekend. Totally on this.
Yeah, I just noticed that not too long ago as well. All the "fun flavors" seem to be a dairy dessert instead of ice cream. And the long list of ingredients is rather scary. What happened to the days of ice cream being, milk, cream, and sugar?
Ben and Jerry's is about as real as you can get. It beats the he## out of "frozen dairy dessert".
you can thank the food police. REAL ice cream, the good stuff, is being vilified, hence the switch to "frozen dairy product".
@kamikazeken: True... Now we're told that all the real foods are bad for you, and that we should switch to "healthy" foods. How can it be really healthy if it's not real?


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Evolutionary Next-Steps - Technical Keynote JavaOne 2011
By Janice J. Heiss on Oct 03, 2011
Monday morning's Technical Keynote began with Doug Fisher, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Software and Services Group's System Software Division, Intel. Fisher and a number of Intel colleagues reviewed Intel's long association with Java, and their collaborative work with Oracle to optimize the Java platform (for both the JVM and Fusion Middleware) on Intel hardware.
From there, Ashok Joshi, Senior Director of Development NoSQL Database, briefly discussed performance tuning with Intel of the newly announced Oracle NoSQL Database product.
From Evolution to Revolution: Java 7 to Java 8
Following Joshi, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, reviewed the history of Java 7, and its "Plan B" paradigm of including Project Coin (JSR 334), InvokeDynamic (JSR 292), and the Fork/Join Framework in the just-released Java 7, while incorporating Project Jigsaw and Project Lambda in the upcoming Java 8. Reinhold then explored the evolutionary benefits of these key new features of the Java 7 release -- offering both greater ease of development, and significant performance benefits. "Not only are these features available in Java 7 today," noted Reinhold, "but as of last week, they are now supported in all three of the major Java IDEs."
Reinhold next detailed plans for the upcoming Java 8 release, which promises more revolutionary features beyond the evolutionary offerings of Java 7. Project Lambda (JSR 335) will bring closures to the Java programming language. And Project Jigsaw (JSR TBD) aims to define a standard module system -- not just for application code, but for the platform itself.
JavaFX 2.0 is Here!
Richard Bair, Chief Architect, Client Java Platform, Oracle, then dove into the official debut of JavaFX 2.0, along with some stunning demos of the new facility, presented by several colleagues. Java FX 2.0 is Oracle's premier development environment for rich client applications. Bair emphasized that JavaFX 2.0 was designed to offer:
Cross Platform
Leverage Java
Advanced Tooling
Developer Productivity
Amazing User Interfaces.
"We naturally want user interfaces that look good and work well," said Bair. "It used to be just eye candy, but now it's becoming a required feature for the things we write. We're announcing today the general availability of JavaFX 2.0, at JavaFX.com. We think this is going to be a really big deal in the industry."
An important aspect of any UI technology is a good visual development tool, and Bair next announced early access for the JavaFX Scene Builder, which will first be made available to select partners, then expanded to a general beta, and then a full release. But for those at JavaOne, an early build of the tool will be running and available for demo at the DEMOgrounds.
A series of stunning demos -- several of them BSD licensed caused much enthusiasm -- then took JavaFX 2.0 out for a spin, and clearly showed the possibilities and potentials of the new release -- including animated 3D audio EQ mapping, and a navigable 3D virtual room that featured live video of Oracle colleague Jasper Potts displayed on a wall monitor, along with real-time mimicking of Potts' movements by a virtual Java Duke figure.
Bair noted that there are over 50 JavaFX sessions at JavaOne, and said that for anyone who attended all of them -- "I'll buy you dinner!"
Moving Java EE into the Cloud
From there, Linda DeMichiel, Java EE 7 Specification Lead, explored the upcoming Java EE 7 release. "What's new with the Java EE platform?" asked DeMichiel. "We're moving Java EE into the Cloud. Our focus on this release is providing support for Platform as a Service. We want to provide a way for customers and users of the platform to leverage public, private and hybrid clouds. With Java EE 7, our focus is on the platform itself as a service, which can be leveraged in cloud environments."
DeMichiel's colleague, Arun Gupta, then demonstrated deployment of a Java EE application as a PaaS, using Glassfish 4.0. Both the application and instructions on how to replicate the demo are available online.
More Java Cards than People?
Lastly, Hinkmond Wong, of Oracle's Java Embedded group, covered the latest in mobile and embedded Java, noting the three billion Java enabled phones and five billion Java Cards in the world today. "There are about 6.5 billion people in the world," noted Wong, "and five billion Java Cards."
2011 saw the introduction of Near Field Communication (NFC) payment system, including e-Passport in Java ME, allowing for mobile-to-mobile and machine-to-machine transactions with embedded security. Wong detailed the many new Java ME releases for 2011, along with several mobile and embedded technology demos—from cell phones to Blu-ray players.
The overflow crowd left the opening technical keynote energized – a real good start to this JavaOne!
Learn More:
Java 7 Features
Java SE 7 Features and Enhancements
A Look at Java 7's New Features
Contribute to JDK 8
JavaFX Homepage
JavaFX Overview
Java EE at a Glance
Java for Mobile Devices
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I've been tasked with writing an essay extolling the virtues of object oriented programming and creating an accompanying game to demonstrate them.
My initial idea is to find a tutorial for a simple game written in a programming language which does not follow the OOP paradigm (or written in an OOP language but not in an OOP way) and recreate it in an OOP way using either C# or Java (haven't yet decided). This would then allow me to make concrete comparisons between the two.
The game doesn't have to be anything complex; Tetris, Pong, etc. that sort of thing. The problem I've had so far is finding a suitable tutorial, any suggestions?


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Boys roundup: Last-second shot lifts Eagles over Raiders
Wallace Wiggins' layup with a second left gave Kennedy a 65-63 win over host Torrington on Saturday in NVL action.
Wiggins, who finished with eight points, also hit a 3-pointer with 35 seconds left to tie the score at 63.
Isaiah Wright led the Eagles (1-1) with 16 points, and D'Andre Boatwright added 15.
David Canney led Torrington (0-2) with 27 points. John McCarthy added 18 points, and Anthony Davis 10.
St. Paul 59, Sacred Heart 43: Justin Kawiecki scored a team-high 14 points and Nicky Villani added 13 for the visiting Falcons.
Kyle Dube had 10 points for the Falcons.
Malik Petteway scored a game-high 15 points for the Hearts (0-2).
Wolcott 87, Derby 40: Mike Bozzuto scored 13 of his game-high 24 points in the first quarter as the Eagles raced to 30-15 edge in an NVL game in Wolcott.
Nicholas Japs added 14 points for Wolcott (1-1), Manny Cruz contributed 10 rebounds and Ryan Caggiano recorded four steals and strong defense.
Ferris Korenic scored 12 points for Derby and Dillon McMahon added 11.
Ansonia 46, Seymour 29: Vinny Constantino scored a team-high 13 points for the Chargers in an NVL game in Seymour.
Ansonia (1-1) limited the Wildcats (0-2) to nine second-half points. Tyler Stevens had a game-high 16 points for Seymour and Sean Maziuk recorded seven rebounds and Mike Tuscano had four steals.
Chase Collegiate 61, Watkinson 31: Lucas Fedak scored 12 points with seven rebounds to lead the Highlanders in prep action in Waterbury.
Charles McClain added 11 points for Chase (3-3), and A.J. Vasquez chipped in with five assists.
Taft 73, Andover 45: Quinton Dale had a team-high 13 points and eight rebounds for Taft in Exeter, N.H.
Joey Flannery added 13 points for Taft (3-2), and Matt Droney chipped in with 12 points with five assists.
O'Brien Tech 67, Windham Tech 61: Shaquan Jackson scored a game-high 22 points, and Don Morgan added 11 points and seven blocks Saturday as the Condors won their first tournament in 10 years.
Jackson and Morgan were selected to the all-tournament team
Bristol Eastern 53, Brookfield 43: Gabe Ungaro scored 15 pionts and Kevin Love added 12 for the Lancers.
Mike Belton chipped in with 11 points for the Lancers (1-1).
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I am working in a bank as an assistant of one of my seniors. One day one of the bundles of account-opening forms was lost. I became much anxious and was thinking about an way out. I was continuously asking my senior to find an way to solve the problem.
Surprisingly enough I found my senior to be very cool and calm. I was so surprised that I asked him how was he remaining so calm. He told me nothing significant.
Finally, after 4 days, I discovered the bundle behind the cabinet. Most possibly, it slept from the top and remained hidden from our eyes.
My question is, what thought kept my senior so calm? Why was I failing to keep myself calm like he did? What one should actually do to keep him calm at this type of situations?


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Recently I've been working with JS and I'm very enthusiastic about this language. I know that there is node.js for running JS at server side, but is there a shell that uses JS as a scripting language? If such thing exists, how usable & stable is it?
Does this look desirable to you?
If so, ShellJS could be interesting, it's
I'm unsure if this could be used as a full-featured login shell, though. (Maybe with some wrapping?)
You could argue that it's not really a shell, but do you know TermKit? It's made of Node.js + Webkit, you could use JS to extend it (I guess); the shell language is still Bash(-ish).
Mozilla INC offers a
Example of a javascript shell in a system shell :
No problems detected since I use it for testing purpose.
If you're on Ubuntu or any other debian based system, you may install rhino (from Mozilla.org).
It supplies js via alternatives:
So calling either rhino or js will give you a JavaScript shell.
Edit (2014-06-30):
rhino is good to quickly test some javascript code in a file, but it is not an interactive shell, so it doesn't support GNU readline style of editing. For interactive work, you may prefer
In Chrome and Firefox, if you press F12 it brings up developer tools. Over there you could find a tab called console, where you could type and test JavaScript scripts. It has code completion and other features too.


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I have come back to play after a couple of hours and I have lost my colours. I now have red, blue, yellow, green, and black. I did have about 20 different colours I had bought which are now mysteriously gone. Where have they gone and will I ever get them back?
It seems to be a glitch with the game. The developers are aware of it and working on it. It would seem you can't really get them back for now, but the colours you bought are safe. I suppose you will get them back in an upcoming bugfix.
Veronica Belmont asked just about the same question to Joseph Alminawi and Garrett Peek, creators of Draw Something, on Twit.tv's Game On! aired on March 19.
Video: http://twit.tv/show/game-on/10 (approximately at 47:25)
Veronica Belmont: I've been playing for a really long time, and I bought a lot of colour packs with the coins I've been winning, and they go away. I don't have any of my colours. I keep logging in and out, trying to get them back, and now they just won't come back at all and I'm very sad.
Joseph Alminawi: Your colours, your coins, your bombs, they're all safe. What's going on is that the game is just having a little difficulty grabbing and looking at your inventory, but we're on that right now and we should have this solved really soon.
Garrett Peek: All your coins and colours are safe; we have that all saved. It's just making the calls, since we're getting millions and millions of calls per second [it's causing trouble].
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Peas USB Hub 4-Port for $24
Since 1991, Lexon has excelled at adding their own unique design flourishes to any number of office supplies. The company's motto is: "Friendly objects for friendly users." One such object is this 4-port hub for USB plugs, which is doing its part to make sure your computer is a sleek and well-oiled efficiency machine.
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Is this a USB hub or anal beads?
My favorite part is how you can't even view the site/product without signing up
@mschaffer66: I came in here to make a similar comment.
I see lingerie on here all the time but didn't think sex toys would pop up...
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Spelling and Counting at an Early Age
Q: My five-year-old daughter cannot spell her name very well. If you ask her to spell her name or to count, she will change the numbers or letters around, but when she is playing around she can count and recognize letters. Should I be worried about sending her to kindergarten?
A: Relax! Just because your daughter sometimes gets the letters in her name mixed up or some numbers out of place when she is counting is no reason to keep her out of kindergarten this fall. In fact, the things you are worrying about are not even an entry requirement for most kindergartens.
Your daughter's school will expect her to have some basic skills when she enters kindergarten and probably has a checklist naming these skills. You should look at this list as it will help you judge for yourself how well prepared your child really is for kindergarten.
Children have their own learning clocks. When your daughter is ready, she will remember the correct order of the letters in her name and be able to count without a number out of place. Guard against pushing her to acquire skills before she is ready.
As far as numbers go, don't expect your child to count beyond ten. If your child is truly interested in learning to write her name, do the following steps in order, and stay on each step until your daughter has mastered it:
- Teach her how to print the letters in her name. The letters can be taught in any order. Be sure to tell her the names of the letters.
- Teach her to print only the first letter as a capital letter.
- Print your child's name and have her trace over these letters several times with a pencil, crayon, or marking pen. You can even have her trace the letters in sand.
- Use dots to write her name, and then have her connect the dots.
- Print her name, and have her copy it under the letters you have written. She should say each letter as she writes it. If your daughter has a name that can be sounded out, you can teach the sounds of the different letters.
- Ask your child to write her name without looking at a model.
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Hotel Real Residencia is a modern 4-star property located in the heart of Lisbon, part of a block of a 1940s apartment building.
There are 24 rooms available at this Lisbon hotel including double and family room. All apartments have a fully equipped kitchenette.
The restaurant 'As Farpas' is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, serving Portuguese and international cuisine in elegant surroundings of romantic decoration.
Hotel Real Residencia has some spa facilities so the guests can relax and unwind after a hard day exploring Lisbon. Some of the facilities include gym, sauna, Jacuzzi and massage room just to name but a few.
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8 Humans Whose Eating Habits Would Make a Goat Puke
#4. A French Soldier Ate Live Animals
Tarrare was a 17th century French soldier with a literally insatiable appetite. Kicked out of his home when his family couldn't afford to feed him the full body weight of food he demanded each day, he wound up joining the French Revolutionary army, where he found his way into the history books for being some kind of goddamn freak.
The Diet:
Everything that wasn't chained to the floor.
And we're not talking "He ate raw eggs and moldy bread!" here, we're talking "The dude ate live animals."
Give the man a lute and he's an old-timey rock star.
History doesn't record exactly what Tarrare's malfunction was, but he quickly became renowned not just for being unable to satisfy his hunger, but for being able to eat anything that was or wasn't classified as edible. Once, while in a hospital for an unrelated reason, doctors decided to test just what the limits to his appetite were. They failed to find those limits.
This started with the doctors innocently placing a live cat in front of Tarrare. Let's just say that his reaction would have driven PETA to guerrilla-style vigilantism. Rather than saying, "Holy shit, this guy is obviously freaking insane" at Tarrare's terrifying owl impersonation, the doctors decided to place in front of him a veritable pet shop of live cuisine, from lizards and snakes right up to puppies and eels, all of which he ate without question.
"Wow! Quick, someone throw trash at him!"
Hospital employees began to regret their experiment when Tarrare's appetite started to get even more out of control, and he would escape and drink the blood of those in the bloodletting ward, as well as take bites out of the corpses in the morgue. When a 14-month-old child went missing from the hospital, all accusing eyes fell naturally on the puppy-eating mental patient with cold, dead eyes. Tarrare was banished from the hospital and forbidden from returning.
Not that it was all horror and accused cannibalism; his "talent" was such that the French military used him to smuggle secret documents inside his stomach to be pooped out at an opportune time.
"Right, men, we march to Camp Sweetcorn Sweetcorn Bloodclot."
#3. An Italian Soldier Ate Rocks
Francis Battalia was an Italian soldier who is basically unknown to history but for one socially awkward habit.
The Diet:
But only the hardest ones, which come from the East, apparently.
According to eyewitness reports that we admit come from an age when they took dragons seriously, Francis Battalia was a renowned stone eater. We don't mean that as some kind of humorous analogy for his wife's cooking; we mean he was basically that monster from The NeverEnding Story. Local registers from around the time he was alive recorded this behavior with surprisingly few old-timey ways of saying "What the freaking hell?"
And before you call bullshit on this one, keep in mind that eating stones isn't unheard of, and the urge to do so is often related to a lack of certain minerals in the body. It's just that when most people do it, it's not as badass as Mr. Battalia.
Excluding Mr. Rock-Biter, sir.
He was supposedly not only able to eat stones, but also actually seemed to gain nourishment and no doubt rock-based superpowers from them. Apparently he would wash the stones down with a copious amount of beer, and later would shit a bucket of sand like a human cement mixer. We figure he was useful to the military, because eating rocks and shitting sand is a pretty good way to intimidate your enemies.
"I will gravel over your lawns, you sons of bitches!"
#2. Roman Emperor Heliogabalus Ate Bird Brains and Gold
The emperors of Rome aren't exactly remembered for their restraint. Your typical social occasion in a Roman palace involved lavish feasts and orgies, often at the same time. But it all paled in comparison to the feasts of Emperor Heliogabalus, who made the average Roman banquet look like something from a prison cafeteria.
The Diet:
Stuff even the Roman Empire couldn't afford.
And these are the guys who could afford heavily pixelated parties.
Heliogabalus rose to the Roman throne at 14 years old and proceeded to run the palace like, well, a 14-year-old. It's said that his dinner guests would often find whoopee cushions on their chairs as they sat down to eat. As for the meals themselves, Heliogabalus dined with such ridiculous excess that it was enough to make even other Romans go "Whoa, dude, a salad every once in a while wouldn't kill you."
During his four-year rule, he never once spent less than 10,000 sesterces (roughly $1,000) on a single meal. Some examples of a typical menu include conger eels fattened on human slave meat, a whole pig stuffed with live thrushes and sow's breasts with Lybian truffles.
"I miss the days when we only threw up three times a meal."
For some reason, he developed a particular taste for birds' brains. He ate the brains of thrushes, parrots, peacocks and pheasants, and at one point ordered 600 ostrich heads solely for brain consumption, like some kind of eccentric zombie.
In addition, he financed and held private fishing fleets for the sole purpose of obtaining a specific type of caviar, and if he ever had to offer something as mundane as mere rice, he'd artificially upscale it by sprinkling it with pieces of gold.
His anus became the first royal mint.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Heliogabalus' rule came to an abrupt end via assassination after just four years after nearly bankrupting the Roman Empire for the sake of ostrich brains.
#1. William Buckland Ate a Human Heart
Victorian-era scientist William Buckland was the first person to publish a scientific study of the dinosaur. It's about the closest thing to a 10-year-old boy's dream career of studying living dinosaurs and also riding them and making them battle. Buckland also happened to be crazier than a shithouse rat, which he would also have eaten.
The Diet:
One of every animal, also a king's heart.
Those hyenas don't stand a chance.
Buckland was a man on a mission, and that mission was to eat one of every species in existence. His role in the Society for the Acclimatization of Animals meant he was allowed to import species from around the world for study, a fact which he abused immensely in order to get every species imaginable down his gullet. The reports of what he ate cover just about everything, from puppies to panthers.
"The only thing this creature is acclimatizing to is my stomach. Yeah, it's extinct now."
He didn't just stop at the meat of animals, either. While on a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral, a strange mark was found on the floor. A debate broke out as to what the stain could possibly be, at which point Buckland got on his hands and knees, licked the stain and confidently announced it to be bat piss.
But the craziest thing Buckland ever did, at least before he spent the remainder of his days in a lunatic asylum, was at a dinner party hosted by a Lord Harcourt. Rather foolishly, considering his most famous guest's notorious palate, Harcourt spent the night showing off his collection of rare treasures, one of which was the preserved heart of Louis XVI of France.
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"Would you, uh ... turn around for a second?"
Buckland didn't even wait for it to be cooked.
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For more unusual behaviors, check out The 6 Most (Certifiably) Insane Tales of Rock Star Behavior and 6 Artists Whose Weird Fetishes Defined Pop Culture.


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Hi Guys,
This is my first post and I wish it didn't sound so newbie and desparate.
I have a new Nikon D 90 and the newest NN5. I am using the Nikor 10.5 mm fisheye. I am at a place for a day to take garden panoramas and am totally unprepared. I was hoping the data base would have some info on the NNP for the D 90, but I didn't see any. Can anyone tell me if it should be similar to any of the other Nikons? Or if anyone knows what it might be.
Of course I will try and determine it myself, but was hoping for a more educated way of doing it. I am very new at all this and don't have much time to take all these photos. In other words, I may not have time to run test shots.
Any help would be most appreciated.


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I wanted to install winusb from http://congelli.eu/prog_info_winusb.html I downloaded the deb file, the latest was available for precise(I amrunning 12.10) I opened the .deb file(390 kb) in Ubuntu Software Manager and clicked on install. Then I switched to the progress tab and saw this. USC showed that it was downloading data of size 3.9 MB.
Can someone explain? Was USC just downoading the latest updates and just showed that under the current operation?


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I'm finally getting around to processing and posting some video clips to some of our websites. Recently we copied all of our VHS tapes to DVDs, so I can now rip video clips from a DVD instead of a VHS tape, as we've done in the past. It had been a few years since I'd done much video processing, and I couldn't really remember the old reliable apps, so I had to go looking for programs again. I wanted something quick, but powerful, and needed certain features, such as ripping only specific clips from a DVD. After trying several programs and being frustrated with awful interfaces, crippled shareware and missing features, I remembered the program FlasKMPEG.
It's not the cleanest looking program in the world, and some of the interface is arcane, but it does pretty much everything I wanted. It knows how to handle a DVD, allows for selecting a specific clip's start and end points down to each individual frame, provides for cropping and adjusting the video frame, and gives more control over the output codecs than I know what to do with. There are a few interface additions that would come in handy, but with the last software update in 2002, I'm not holding out for much. It's open source, however that means little if no one wants to work on it anymore. All things considered, FlasKMPEG is a very powerful app that will be useful for years to come.


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spoiler:An ithorian on Tattoine that spawns after you talk to drix, called "Do you have the time". When you speak to it, it asks, yep you guessed it, "Excuse me, but do you have the time?" You say no, and then he says look out behind you, and a party of Dark Jedi Masters spawn. You kill them, and talk to the ithorian again, a little bar of text appears: "This ithorian is speechless because of what he just witnessed."


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I've read all topics about this issue, but nothing help me.
I've added "Like" buttons on my http://igor-mironchik.narod.ru/projects.html page. But when I press the "Like" button I always see the "Confirm" link and sometimes after confirmation nothing happens. I mean that button disappears and after refreshing the page I see previous number of likes.
What am I doing wrong? Can you help me?


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Military personnel offered bonuses
June 24, 2013
BELLAIRE – Time is running down for active-duty Ohio military personnel and veterans to claim up to $1,500 in bonus money from the state. The deadline to have your application submitted is De....
"She noted in order for veterans to receive their bonus, they must bring the No. 4 copy of their DD214, proof of current Ohio residency and Ohio residency at the start of service and military records showing dates and locations served". Good luck with the red tape! veterans have to go through more red tape BS then any other segment of our society..I had the honor of serving so keep your hand out to pay for free phones!! Chad Balwanz CW4 US Army (ret)
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The White County Sheriff's Office and White County Coroner's Office investigated the death of 52year-old Stanley D. Hays of rural Carmi Friday afternoon.
White County Sheriff Doug Maier said it appears the death is a suicide.
Deputy Randy Graves was sent to investigate an abandoned vehicle at a remote location in eastern White County near what is known locally as Brown's Pond.
Graves found a maroon GMC minivan at the location. A license plate check revealed the owners were the parents of Hays. They were contacted and, based on the circumstances, Graves requested assistance at the scene. He was joined by other sheriff's office personnel and a search of the area led to the discovery of footprints near a pond. The prints led around the pond and into a wooded area near the Wabash River where Hays' body was discovered.
Maier said the evidence at the scene was indicative of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Illinois State Police crime scene technicians processed the scene.
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