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Mark S. Weiner
Professor of Law and Sidney I. Reitman Scholar
(on leave 2015-2016 academic year)
Professor Weiner holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University, where he was awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, a Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History from New York University School of Law, and a dissertation fellowship from the Whiting Foundation. He received his A.B. from Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Weiner is the author of The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013). The book received the 2015 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. The book also was the subject of a month-long symposium in Cato Unbound, the online magazine of the Cato Institute, and a week-long symposium on the blog Concurring Opinions.
Professor Weiner's first book, Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), was selected a 2005 Silver Gavel Award winner by the American Bar Association for its contribution to the public understanding of law. Professor Weiner also received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Black Trials. His second book, Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (NYU Press, 2006), was awarded the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association.
Professor Weiner was the 2009/2010 Chancellor's Distinguished Research Scholar at Rutgers University–Newark. In the fall of 2009, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Akureyri, Iceland.
Professor Weiner is currently producing an exhibition about illustrated law books with co-curator Mike Widener, the rare book librarian at Yale Law School, for the Grollier Club in New York. The exhibition, "Law's Picture Books," is scheduled to open in February 2018. He also produces video essays about legal history, comparative law, and rare books. His latest video is "On Looking into Coke's Reports."
In the spring of 2015, Professor Weiner was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Can Teach Us About Modern Law and Culture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).
Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (New York University Press, 2006; paperback, 2009).
Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004; Vintage Paperback, 2006).
Academic Articles, Blog Posts, and Other Writings
Love's Empire," review of Paul W. Kahn, Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty and Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation, Telos (Spring 2014), 181-87.
"The Legal Foundations of Individualism," TELOSscope (April 2014).
"Imagining the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Story of the Clan," Erasmus Law Review (The Netherlands) 6 (3-4) (December 2013) (special issue on legal pluralism, eds. Sanne Taekema and Wibo van Rossum), 158-166.
"The Call of the Clan: Why Ancient Kinship Matters in a World of Global Geopolitics," Foreign Policy, 15 May 2013. .
"Individualism's Paradox," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 29, 2013.
"Verbraucherkulture und die Amerikanische Bürgerrechstbewegung: Rasse, Rechstwissenschaft und die bürgerliche Bedeutung der Nahrung" (Consumer Culture and the American Civil Rights Movement: Race, Jurisprudence, and the Civic Meaning of Food) (Johanna Timm, trans.), Verfassungsvoraussetzungen: Gedaechtnisschrift für Winfried Brugger (Prerequisites of Constitutional Law and Constitutional Theory: Commemorative Studies for Winfried Brugger), Heidelberger Rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 9, eds. Michael Anderheiden, Rainer Keil, and Stephan Kirste, and Jan Phillip Schaefer (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr-Siebeck, 2013), 63-85.
"Foreword: The Importance of Historical Sensibility," Rutgers Law Review 64 (3) (2012).
"A History of the Common Law," Rethinking History 16 (1) (2012) (Special Issue: History as Creative Writing 3).
"Die Amerikanische Bürgerrechtsbewegung und die Kulturgeschichte des Rechts" (The American Civil Rights Movement and the Cultural History of Law) (Johanna Timm, trans.), forthcoming in Michael Anderheiden and Stephen Kirste, Interdisziplinarität in den Rechtswissenschaften – Innen- und Außenperspektiven (Interdisciplinary in Legal Studies: Inside and Outside Perspectives). Manuscript available upon request.
"Domingo Sarmiento and the Cultural History of Law in the Americas," Rutgers Law Review 63(3), 101-115 (festschrift volume for Prof. John Payne).
"Constitutional amendments need to solve today's political problems," Star-Ledger, August 5, 2011
"Rule of the Clan a Challenge to Progress in the Middle East, North Africa" (with John J. Farmer, Jr.), Star-Ledger, July 17, 2011
"Religious Freedom and the Rule of the Clan in Muslim Societies," The Review of Faith and International Affairs, Summer 2011, 39-45.
"Liberal History and Historical Style After Virtue," in "Questioning the Assumptions of Academic History: A Forum," in Historically Speaking: Bulletin of the Historical Society 12 (1) (January 2011), 15-17. Other forum participants: Christopher Shannon ("From Histories to Traditions: A New Paradigm for the Study of the Past"), Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Daniel Wickberg.
"Public Memory and the Rule of Law in an Age of Globalization and the Internet: Lessons from Iceland," Lögfræðingur 1 (4) (2010), 59-74 (law journal of the University of Akureyri, Iceland)
"Teachable Trials in the Social Studies Classroom," Social Education 74 (3) (May/June 2010) (flagship journal of National Council for Social Studies) (essay for high school social studies teachers).
"Professor Mark Weiner on Life in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar," Rutgers School of Law web page, February 2010
Legal History Blog, posts about the transformation of Icelandic legal memory, August-September 2009
- Education:
J.D., Yale
Ph.D., Yale
A.B., Stanford
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Constitutional Law, History of the Common Law, Free Speech, Church-State Relations, State Constitutional Law
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5 Seemingly Harmless Things That Are Stressing You Out
Ever fly into a rage for no reason? You think you're calm, but something comes along and pricks your balloon, and suddenly you're screaming at the car in front of you to JUST GO JESUS CHRIST IT'S GOING TO BE YELLOW FOR LIKE THREE MORE SECONDS.
It's almost like you were stressed out and on the verge of snapping for hours before that. But that's strange -- you didn't feel stressed out. There's no life crisis going on at the moment. Well, the hormones that trigger what we call "stress" are affected by all sorts of seemingly harmless things that science is just beginning to understand. Like ...
#5. Open Plan Offices
People spend a lot of time moaning about cubicles, but these days lots of offices have done away with them in favor of an "open plan" where everybody can see everybody else (just think of The Office sans the wacky antics, because, well, that's it). There's a good chance you're reading this article in an office like this right now and, as bad as "cubicle farms" are, these are worse. Stress-wise, at least.
Now scroll down very gradually so the slow reader at the back can keep up.
The Stress Factor:
Technically, it's not about the office per se. It's the people in it, and everything they do -- whether you realize it or not. The sneaky thing about stress is that you can feel it without knowing exactly what's causing it. There's the specific kind of stress you get from a guy chasing you with a chainsaw, and then there's the more subtle form caused by the little things -- like a conversation going on nearby that you can't quite hear, or the squeaky wheel on somebody's chair, or somebody continuously walking back and forth behind you. Open plan offices are full of that kind of stuff. You can't put your finger on it, you just involuntarily feel your hand clenching into a fist and think how nice it would be to just punch a dude through a wall.
Or several easily assembled walls.
In one research project, they made a guy work in an open plan office while wearing a helmet that measured his brain activity throughout the day. They found that, despite the guy getting to spend the day pretending he was Professor X and that his desk was Cerebro, his brain was nervously working on overdrive all the damn time. It was processing all of the disturbances in the office, and we do mean all of them -- the subject wasn't just flipping out at the horsey laugh of the dude at the water cooler. Instead, his subconscious took in every little thing around him and rolled it into one giant ball of "I've had enough of this shit."
Yes, even when he didn't consciously feel that he was being annoyed by those around him, his brain was secretly banging its head on the table.
It may be as simple as the conflict between your brain knowing it needs to concentrate in order to not get fired and the environment not allowing it to. There's always a ringing phone, and the only thing between you and that asshole who won't pick it up is empty space. There's always an office clown practicing pantomime on your right side so that you can just see him from the corner of your eye. And worst of all, there's always that nagging feeling that someone is watching you. You can try to tune all of this out, but that's the point -- it requires you to try. As in exert effort, continuously, all the time. That's stressful. You don't feel it as being all that severe from moment to moment, just as you wouldn't think of it as physically strenuous to give somebody the finger. But try to give somebody the finger for nine straight hours.
"These papers are levitating through the power of my hatred for you."
So it's hardly a surprise that research has found that open plan offices can lead to high blood pressure, stress, high employee turnover and conflict. So why do companies keep making open plan offices? Surely there is some huge, hidden advantage in enclosing their employees in a glorified pen that feeds on their productivity. Why, of course there is: Open plan offices cost 20 percent less than cubicles.
#4. All of the Little Background Noises in the World
We live in such a noisy world that even what you think of as a "quiet" room features the faint hum of passing cars outside, the buzz of fluorescent lights, the fan on your desktop computer, your roommate quietly masturbating in the room, etc. All of it is a part of your world, the soundtrack of the straight-to-DVD movie that is your life.
Hopefully if you make it dull enough someone will eventually mistake it for meaningful and art house.
You don't really mind most of these noises -- you're most likely so used to them that if they vanished, the silence would creep you out. But that doesn't mean they're not conspiring to stress the ever-loving crap out of you.
The Stress Factor:
As with the above entry, the key is that the noises you recognize as stressful (the workmen jackhammering your street open at 7 a.m.) are in fact only a small part of the problem. Loud or shrill noises like that get your attention specifically because they're rare and fairly easy to avoid in the grand scheme of things. But when the jackhammer ends, you're left with the low-level noise. The buzzing. The murmuring.
The screaming.
And it gets to you. You can't avoid it. Meanwhile, it actively plots against you and whispers obscenities in your ear, in the safe knowledge that you'll never, ever notice. A study on Austrian children found that people who live in the vicinity of large roads -- where muffled traffic sounds are always leaking through the walls -- have higher blood pressure. It was the same for kids who live in noisier neighborhoods in general. The kids subjected to low-level noise were also found to be much more prone to stress when faced with a demanding situation such as a test.
"I can't concentrate without my mother telling me how I ruined her life."
And the more severe the background noise, the more drastic the effects: Children living near airports and busy highways score lower on reading tests and are slower to develop language skills. Stress hormones mess with the brain's ability to memorize information because the hormones are telling the brain that there are more important things going on. Remember that, from an evolution standpoint, stress is a response to danger; if you hear a mountain lion coming, you no longer give a shit about your cave-painting hobby. Now, in a world where mountain lion attacks are rare, that stress response is triggered by whatever random bullshit is occurring around us.
And no, this isn't just about kids. For adults who have been exposed to significant background noise all their lives, the symptoms they might get to enjoy include high blood pressure, strokes, ulcers, a weak immune system and even a tendency for suicide.
"Can we get this over with? It's the swooshing that's the worst."
Yes, you should walk away from the apartment that's a great deal "just because it happens to be upstairs from a night club."
#3. All of the Little Lights in Your Bedroom
Just as it's next to impossible to find a completely silent room in the modern world, it's almost as hard to find one that's completely dark. You turn off your light when you go to bed, but you don't turn off all of the lights: the streetlight shining in through your window, the blue LED on the front of your computer, your alarm clock, the TV somebody left on, the night light you keep in the hall so you don't trip over the cat on your way to the bathroom at 2 a.m., whatever.
Close your eyes and shut up, kitty.
And yes, this is a problem.
The Stress Factor:
Researchers at Ohio State University had two things: a box full of hamsters and a strange vendetta against night lights. They divided the hamsters into two groups, with one group given a night light as they slept, and the other group given complete darkness.
After a no doubt thrilling eight-week period of reviewing hamster footage, a pattern emerged: The ones sleeping with the night lights were showing much more depressive qualities than the ones hanging out in pitch black. They were more passive, ate less and ... that's probably it, because they're hamsters. It's not like you can monitor the tone of their poetry.
"Listen to my squeal. I don't want to mate. I just ride on this wheel. Because my children I ate."
The reason behind the depression was chilling -- the night-light hamsters had actually suffered damage to their brains. The hairlike spines on the hippocampus had greatly lessened in density. As these spines help transmit chemical messages throughout the brain, it appears that the hamsters had experienced reduced levels of melatonin, the hormone that tells the body it's nighttime and thus enables proper rest.
Melatonin, incidentally, is secreted only when there's no light.
"I'm not depressed -- I'm actually regulating my melatonin levels. You wouldn't understand."
It's not just a hamster problem, either -- the human brain works in the exact same way. If you sleep with a dim light, you don't get the amount of melatonin you need. On some level, we already know this -- you don't turn out the lights at bedtime to save electricity, you need it dark so you can sleep. Go to sleep during the day and you'll close the curtains to keep the sun out. So if you need darkness to sleep, it makes sense that incomplete darkness equals lower quality sleep. Oh, you are still sleeping, and you might even think you slept well. But your melatonin is still off, and melatonin helps regulate your mood.
"Do you think I'd be strangling you this much if my hands weren't well-rested?!"
Keep it up and it will stress you to the point of full-on depression, not to mention cause a host of other side effects like a weaker immune system, higher blood pressure and increased risk of brain-related health problems. But hey, thanks to the consumer electronics industry for continuing to put blue LED lights on every device in the house.

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The answer is "Yes, it is possible." The follow up question is "Do you really want to?"
I thought it would be fun to see if I could build a plugin to do what you are asking for so I decided to see if it was possible. Of course I was able to make it work but I fear that the plugin code I wrote needs to be so tightly coupled with the existing code in WordPress that it might easily break on a core update.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Early miscues and a stellar performance in the circle by USC Aiken pitcher India Kornegay proved too much to overcome, as the second-seeded Anderson softball team fell, 5-0, to No. 6 seeded USC Aiken in NCAA Southeast Regional Softball Tournament action, Sunday afternoon at Smethers Field.
USC Aiken improved to 34-15 on the season and advanced to meet third-seeded Armstrong Atlantic State later in the afternoon. The Trojans, who were eliminated from the tourney with the setback, ended their campaign with a 43-12 record, which marked the most wins in school history.
Kornegay, a First-Team All-Peach Belt Conference honoree, limited the potent Trojan offense to just one hit on the afternoon, as the senior improved to 23-5 on the season. She recorded 11 strikeouts on the afternoon, while walking four.
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5 Widely Believed Dating Myths (Science Says Aren't True)
#2. Feminism Kills Romance
What We Thought:
The idea that feminists make bad lovers doesn't just persist among the older generation and fratty douchebag types. After all, isn't that one of the tenets of feminism, that women don't need men? Wasn't it the founders of the modern feminist movement who coined the phrase "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle"? And aren't feminists the ones who refuse to shave their legs and shun all sexy clothing as a byproduct of male objectification and oppression?
So even if we're being as progressive and politically correct as possible about feminists, relationships just aren't their thing, right?
But Science Says...
The raw numbers say otherwise. First of all, women who identify themselves as feminists are, at any given moment, more likely to be in a heterosexual romantic relationship than women who don't (yes, "heterosexual," for those of you who secretly assume "feminist" means "lesbian").
But their boyfriends and husbands are surely miserable, right? Having to live with a woman shrieking at them about phallic oppression 24 hours a day?
Well, according to that same study, men who reported their partner was a feminist also reported more satisfaction with their sex lives than those who didn't. So as for the idea that feminists are abrasive, mannish women in flannel, either it's grossly inaccurate, or there are a lot of dudes who are into that kind of thing.
#1. Couples Who Live Together First are Better Prepared for Marriage
What We Thought:
Society has moved on from the old idea that an unmarried couple getting a place together are "living in sin." It just doesn't make sense, right? It's logical to move in with your significant other before making a legal commitment that is likely to end in tears and a hefty divorce settlement.
This way, you can find out before marriage that Mr. Right leaves the door open when he pees and hogs the remote, or that Ms. Perfect lets her dirty dishes fester in the sink for days on end. It's like a practice marriage. And if you're not compatible, well, you can call the thing off with no consequences.
Give it a rest already, Jack.
Surely couples who live together first are better prepared for marriage than those who learn only after the wedding that the love of their life is a slovenly and irritating human being.
But Science Says...
According to researchers at the University of Denver, couples who lived together before they were engaged have a higher divorce rate and lower marital satisfaction than those who waited until they were married, or at least engaged, to shack up.
Couples who play house pre-engagement are especially doomed for failure if, as many people do, they live together before marriage as a means of testing the relationship. Word of advice: if you feel the need to test your relationship, you probably already know something's wrong with it. For instance, if your boyfriend is cheating on you with a short, balding male prostitute named Fernando. Moving in together isn't going to help.
Actually, he's kind of handsome.
But researchers think this is where another factor comes into play. Rather than treating cohabitation as a profound and lifelong commitment, couples treat it as another stage of dating. So they're quicker to agree to do it than they would be to marry. But once they're living together, they find out breaking up can be next to impossible. Financially they adjust to having just one rent and utilities payment, and all of their stuff is there. A sort of inertia sets in.
After a few years of this, everybody in your life starts pressuring them to get married and they do it, because that's just what people do, dammit.
That's right: A whole lot of married couples out there are only together because one of them was too lazy to round up some friends to help them move that heavy-ass sofa and La-Z-Boy. It turns out that's not all that solid a foundation to base a marriage on.
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Sometimes (as a player) I get bored during combat. At times I feel like all my turns are the same (especially when playing lower level characters) and when that is combined with no combat progress (adventurers are just whiffing round after round) things can get dull. What can as a player do to "shake things up" and fight my boredom?
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Do something other than hit-roll-for-damage. Think of it as a movie. First and foremost, just do what you want to do. Worry about the rules second.
As a GM, my NPCs will use fire, explosives or other special weapons to divide the players or remove their protective location. Fleeing may cause the PCs to chase haphazardly, triggering traps. Sometimes they just do something stupid which causes untold chaos (such as using a sonic weapon in a cave, causing a cave-in.) There's no reason PCs couldn't do the same.
The most fun combat characters I've seen are acrobatic melee fighters. I often provided multi-level arenas, and one of the PCs made good use of it. He frequently launched himself off the back of moving vehicles, clung to the underside of platforms, and threw people to their demise. He took down a helicopter in melee for f's sake! There's no rules for half the stuff he does. I make a call, give him a +/- as appropriate, and if he concurs he goes ahead with the manuveur.
Another PC who had a lot of fun was the pacifist. He never broke character. He used stealth a lot and only stuned opponents. He even offered healing once they were subdued. When it came to fighting mechanised opponents, he located weakpoints for the benefit of the team and jury-rigged fuel bombs. It forced him to think creatively about his tactics.
And then one PC was not-quite-Wolverine, built entirely for combat. Sure, he basically played hit-roll-for-damage, but he narated every move and loved every gorey moment of it.
Oh, and we draw all of the blood on the map, especially if there's a chance we'll return to this location.
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Your issue with the "whiffing" part of low-level D&D-ish play¹ is solvable by a different choice of game, or by starting at levels where fighters are competent. More on this below.
Note that D&D isn't really realistic if you describe the failed to-hit as a "miss" - D&D is, at its core, conflating hitting and penetrating the armor into a single roll. It's important to realize that D&D "to-hit" is actually "to penetrate the armor." And that a high damage roll can be one big telling hit, or several smaller penetrating hits. Getting the GM to narrate this type of situation changes the feel considerably for some players. It's also more work.
When playing, you as a player can avoid the mechanical crunch by doing off-the-wall acts of derring-do... rather than simply attacking, try dropping chandeliers on people. Or fighting from cover. Find ways to get the character action into narrative mode rather than simple "minis battle" mode.
And, of course, if the combat looks like it will be too long, encourage the others to join you in evading that encounter, or doing "stupid-player-tricks" to get the bad guys to go away rather than fighting it out. Heck, sometimes surrender is more fun than a long battle. See if there is overhead stuff. Use useful illusions... like having the lead fighter looking like he's under the influence of brain parasites - you know, the ones that live by boring through the skull and leaving spicules outside the skull - or has nasty virulent leprosy, including suppurating wounds.
In other words, Play smarter. Either your GM will to, or he'll attempt to nerf you. Either way, you get a strong read on the GM, and you let the GM know you don't like long fights.
No. 5 may seem a bit radical, but it's important to tell the GM when he's boring you. Just pass him a note - don't publicly call him on it. And for heaven's sake, don't just dive into some other activity between turns.
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You're obviously used to Class and Level based games. Within that framework, there are several that lack the "whiff" factor D&D builds in.
Palladium, much derided for several issues, actually has a decent combat model. The to-hit roll is actually pretty low - 5+ on 1d20, and bonuses to hit from skill apply (tho' a nat 1 always misses). The defender gets to dodge or parry, with a TN of your to hit roll. And the low-tech armor rules mean that the armor absorbs much of the damage - if the attacker's roll was 5+ but still less than the AR, it still hits, but does the damage to the armor. It's no faster than D&D, but you get to roll when it's not your turn, and you don't take all your actions at once.
In general, tho', Class and Level leads to Whiff in many cases. The others are, like Palladium, skill based, but generally, Palladium is the least flexible. Also the fastest playing, in my experience.
Rolemaster has more HP at start than D&D - and they're needed, as lots of minor damage is done. But, the HP go up slightly slower, and the combat is resolved more quickly as damage leads to critical damage, and good crits can kill. Plus the crit tables are fun. Very little whiff. Table heavy, math intensive game, tho'.
Original (little-book) D&D with the minis combat system is actually shockingly fast. The d20-driven "Alternate Combat System" actually reduces the effectiveness of combattants drastically - so return to the original, and see a vast improvement in combat speed... and thus reduction of down time.
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Be certain that you aren't someone else's problem, too.
If combat drags, make certain you're ready when your turn comes. You, as a player, can encourage others to up the pace, too. It can be infectious.
¹: D&D, a retroclone, or d20 or a d20 derived game... which, from the terms used, and the whiffing issue, are pretty clear giveaways of D&D or a close relative. Many other Class & Level systems don't have the whiff factor.
Depending on which game you are playing, combat literally can just be doing the same thing because that's where the bonuses are. Other times, it's because players aren't ambitious with the rules that are present. Taking the AEG games into example (L5R/7th Sea) there is a lot of opening to mix things up by making your attacks more difficult with "Raises". A good 3/4 of the time, my players don't use them even in situations that I think I've made obvious that they should. For example, practically stomping my foot when I say "now's your chance to do damage" and the brute just makes a regular, mundane attack.
Then there's the third category where no matter how exciting the system is, there just simply isn't anything that fits your character's niche and you wind up throwing your dice, probably not even totaling the result beyond a visual check of high/low. To which I might suggest the GM have a couple of NPCs around to let the occluded player use for the fight (whether working for or against the party). Because of a certain level of meta-gaming, all characters tend to be in a vast majority of encounters, which is why something like this happens. Why is the social character in a dungeon? Ex Machina. Why is the brute without manners in the highfalutin' party? Ex Machina.
As a catch-all solution for any given game, I recommend talking to your GM about instituting a time limit, say five seconds or based on their Intelligence/Wits (faster thinking in game, a little more time to think out of game), to start declaring what a given character is doing. Some players (occasionally guilty) like to plot out four moves in advance, count, recount, and that's not combat. They are already being given entire minutes to consider their actions in what is already a Charlie Foxtrot of a situation so if they don't have the answer, they get skipped either by holding the action or whatever the game determines is the default for doing nothing.
This is a question I wished some of my fellow players would ask themselves. They always start playing with their phones when its not their turn in combat, and then extend combat because they have to see what happened and then start making a choice about what to do after all that.
Personally I try to work out what might happen as things progress and try to have different tactical options in my head. I also think about each other character's abilities as their turns come up to try to remind them of feats they may forget. We play on a whiteboard so doodling the battle itself out can be a pastime as well. Lastly, try taking notes but with the approach of a less than truthful/over-enthusiastic chronicler and write it for comedy. It'll give you something to do, but still focus you on whats happening.
Fight boredom in combat by making it more narrative. "I get stabby with +3 sword" invites boredom, however "I make a bold thrust using my favorite sword, Vera" sounds much more interesting, but mechanically you are using the same sword, and making a "general" attack. I once had to do a 1-on-1 combat where we had to pantomime the whole thing. It was very memorable. Look up fencing and other combat terms to help your descriptions.
One rule I've heard about (but haven't tried) is that you have each round go twice. The first part is a very quick and mechanical (rolling normal attack, hit AC2 for 10 damage), then the effects all take place narratively. Either the DM does it all them self, or the players each say their actions in very narrative text (for example, "I took a bold feint to the enemy's head, only to dip my sword at the last minute, catching him in the mid section for a significant wound"). It will slow down combat, but should make it more interesting.
In oWod another trick we used was to take the extra successes in the to-hit roll and apply them as damage. I suppose you could also do the same thing in D&D, but I haven't tried it. This bonus damage can help make combat more interesting since your damage calculation changes every swing (although not recommended if your group drinks enough to make quick math calculations difficult).
Finally, use the tools you have. Let the brute hit in the first round (or 2) of combat, while you are setting up flanking maneuvers. Read the combat section of the rulebook to learn all the unusual maneuvers available to you, write them down and go through each of them. However, if you are going to do this, make sure your list also contains the page number and rulebook (or a very condensed version of the mechanics) so you know what needs to be rolled and the modifiers are at hand for the DM to apply as s/he sees fit. Also study various tactics that the masters have described in their books (Machivelli, Sun Tzu, et al.).
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ia32-libs package is no longer present in Ubuntu 12.04 repositories for a 64bit system.
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You don't have to worry about this for packages in the standard repositories (e.g. the
It seems that ia32-libs still exist, but merely as a convenience package to include common 32-bit libraries. This package now uses Multi Arch to install the 32-bit packages correctly.
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Installing the citrix receiver requires some hacking too. You can find the full installation instructions on the Ubuntu wiki
You can do this with any old .deb package that still depends on ia32-libs.
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You can download the ia32-libs package from the raring repository. Download it and install it manually, then the dependencies should be resolved.
I read that you are supposed to install the
The solution which worked for me was to install the following packages:
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I just did a fresh install of 12.04, that package is still available in the repositories. In fact, I got that error myself before I ran update. Afterwards, it worked fine.
I believe this specific use case was replaced with the packages "lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32asound2", which is probably a more specific and useful answer than saying "you can use multi-arch".
I installed the ia32-libs like this (I run Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail on a 64 bit machine):
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Depending on the results of the two commands above, the following three commands might work (took a long time to process in my case):
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I have a Canadian friend who sometimes helps me improve my English. A few days ago she sent me a list of some words (nouns) which the plural form is the same of the singular. One of these words was "music". I said to her that I didn't know that "music" don't need the "s" at the end to function as a plural word, and that it sounds wrong for me to say something like this: "I played two music". Actually, I was suggesting that, for me, "musics" sounds more "correctly". Then, she said that "I played two music" is indeed wrong and the correct is: "I played two pieces of music" or "I played two musical pieces". Can you explain why, And give some more examples of ways to use the word "music" in the plural form?
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Music is an uncountable noun in most senses: that is a word that refers to a group or an amount of something, or to some broad concept that there cannot be two of.
Music is an art or a human category of sounds; it is not a particular instance of something related to this art. For such an instance, you could use piece of music, song, number, movement, ballad, ouverture, etc., depending on what kind of instance you were thinking of.
The same applies to nouns like water: you can't say "I have two waters for you" (except in special circumstances), but rather "two gallons of water", or "two cups of water". Nor could you say "I have many loves for you", or "could you move a couple of sands closer to the beach". A few instances of common uncountable nouns:
As you see, specific kinds of instances of uncountable nouns can be indicated by different countable nouns, such as piece, grain, patch, etc. Some of these uncountable nouns can be countable if used in a different sense. Note that it is not always obvious from meaning whether a noun is countable or not: to some extent that is something that needs to be learnt word by word, alas.
A short answer: it is not right to say either one music or to say two musics. You can't use a number with it. It's okay to say I played music. This is because music is an "uncountable" noun, which Cerberus gives details about in his answer.


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On Apr 19, 2013, at 17:00 , John Chludzinski <email@example.com> wrote:So the apparent conclusion to this thread is that an (Open)MPI based RTI is very doable - if we allow for the future development of dynamic joining and leaving ofĀthe MPI collective?John,What do you mean by dynamically joining and leaving of the MPI collective?ĀThere are quite a few functions in MPI to dynamically join and disconnect processes (MPI_Spawn, MPI_Connect, MPI_Comm_join). So if your processes __always__ leave cleanly (using the defined MPI pattern of comm_disconnect + comm_free), you might be lucky enough to have this working today. If you want to support processes leaving for reasons outside of your control (such as crash) you do not have an option today in MPI, you need to use some extension (such as ULFM).Ā George.Ā---John_______________________________________________On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Ralph Castain <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
Thanks for the clarification - very interesting indeed! I'll look at it more closely.On Apr 17, 2013, at 9:20 AM, George Bosilca <email@example.com> wrote:_______________________________________________On Apr 16, 2013, at 15:51 , Ralph Castain <email@example.com> wrote:Just curious: I thought ULFM dealt with recovering an MPI job where one or more processes fail. Is this correct?It depends what is the definition of "recovering" you take. ULFM is about leaving the processes that remains (after a fault or a disconnect) in a state that allow them to continue to make progress. It is not about recovering processes, or user data, but it does provide the minimalistic set of functionalities to allow application to do this, if needed (revoke, agreement and shrink).HLA/RTI consists of processes that start at random times, run to completion, and then exit normally. While a failure could occur, most process terminations are normal and there is no need/intent to revive them.As I said above, there is no revival of processes in ULFM, and it was never our intent to have such feature. The dynamic world is to be constructed using MPI-2 constructs (MPI_Spawn or MPI_Connect/Accept or even MPI_Join).So it's mostly a case of massively exercising MPI's dynamic connect/accept/disconnect functions.Do ULFM's structures have some utility for that purpose?Absolutely. If the process that leaves instead of calling MPI_Finalize calls exit() this will be interpreted by the version of the runtime in ULFM as an event triggering a report. All the ensuing mechanisms are then activated and the application can react to this event with the most meaningful approach it can envision.Ā George._______________________________________________On Apr 16, 2013, at 3:20 AM, George Bosilca <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:There is an ongoing effort to address the potential volatility of processes in MPI called ULFM. There is a working version available at http://fault-tolerance.org. It supports TCP, sm and IB (mostly). You will find some examples, and the document explaining the additional constructs needed in MPI to achieve this._______________________________________________Ā George.On Apr 15, 2013, at 17:29 , John Chludzinski <email@example.com> wrote:That would seem to preclude its use for an RTI.Ā Unless you have a card up your sleeve?Ā---John_______________________________________________On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Ralph Castain <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
It isn't the fact that there are multiple programs being used - we support that just fine. The problem with HLA/RTI is that it allows programs to come/go at will - i.e., not every program has to start at the same time, nor complete at the same time. MPI requires that all programs be executing at the beginning, and that all call finalize prior to anyone exiting.On Apr 15, 2013, at 8:14 AM, John Chludzinski <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
I just received an e-mail notifying me that MPI-2 supports MPMD.Ā This would seen to be just what the doctor ordered?Ā---John_______________________________________________On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Ralph Castain <email@example.com> wrote:FWIW: some of us are working on a variant of MPI that would indeed support what you describe - it would support send/recv (i.e., MPI-1), but not collectives, and so would allow communication between arbitrary programs.
Not specifically targeting HLA/RTI, though I suppose a wrapper that conformed to that standard could be created.
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George Barris' Cruisin' Back To The 50's Culver City Car Show - Out On The StreetWritten by on September 2, 2010
Way back when young builders and modifiers and racers were basically inventing the hot rod hobby in Southern California, Culver City was one of the places it was happening. More than half a century later, it still is. In 2004, George Barris-the builder behind some of the best known TV and movie cars and show rods-brought the old days back to town for the inaugural Cruisin' Back to 50's Culver City Car Show.
Every year since then, George has been returning to Culver City, assisted by the Exchange Club of Culver City and accompanied by several hundred hot rods, customs, trucks, bikes, and a few favorites from the Barris corral of show biz kustoms (this year, the Green Hornet's Black Beauty Chrysler Imperial had a prominent spot). In addition to the vehicles, there are vendors, live bands, concessions, and a bunch of well-known personalities from the hot rod world. This year we spotted "Miss Hurst Shifter" Linda Vaughn, custom builder Gene Winfield, Car Crazy host Barry Meguiar, George of course, and probably walked right past a dozen others, too distracted by street after overflowing street of vehicles to notice the celebrities. This Saturday-only show has grown so big and so popular that George might have to persuade Culver City to block off a few more streets in 2011.
As always, trucks were a prominent part of the Cruisin' Back to 50's show. Enjoy this selection of some of our favorites.
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Thanks to show host George Barris for bringing this event to Culver City. Nobody works harder than George at getting the young people interested in the hot rod hobby.The paint on this '64 Dodge A100 pickup features heavy flake and some wild graphics on the inside. "I wanted it to look like something from the early '60s," said owner Paul de Valera. "With a piece of wood for a front bumper, it could be pushing a dragster to the starting line."Smitty Smith's mouth-watering '37 Ford is a genuine custom, with a Dodge Dakota front half, Corvette back half, Chevy 383, '37 cabrio headlights, and '40 Chevy taillights. It also features a leather and tweed bench seat, four-wheel disc brakes, and A/C.Chuck Hoover's father bought this '46 Chevy in 1957. Chuck drove it all through his teenage years back in Oklahoma until his father sold it in 1971. In 2008, Chuck went back to Oklahoma, bought the truck, and limped it home to California, where he completely rebuilt it. This was the first show for the '46.Remember what we told you in the June issue about Bakersfield work trucks? Here's one more. In the eight years he's owned it, Ron Coffman's '53 Chevy went from rusty to off-white to this shade of seafoam green with a low-key tan pinstripe-and bedliner to protect the running boards.Another true custom is Steve Wessells' '55 Cameo, with '54 Buick taillights, '66 Thunderbird buckets, Impala steering wheel, Lancer caps, and shaved sheetmetal covered with great paint. The pickup is powered by a 454ci Chevy big-block.In the 25 years he's owned it, Bobby Zullo has torn apart his '41 Chevy three times. It's got a stock 235, T10, and Posi rearend. Bobby says one more teardown and it'll be time to give the truck to his daughter.A dressed-up 351C Ford powers Richard Flamminio's on-the-ground '56 F-100, which uses airbags to ride so low. Glide seats and rear fender tubs built from Harley fenders are other cool elements.
Fidel Ascencio's gold '51 F-1 is another highly detailed on-the-ground pickup we've spotted all over Southern California. The interior and bed are finished in elaborate white vinyl and the external mods speak for themselves.Cathy Jarel-Girgis' '47 Dodge is another surviving farm truck. This one's from Canada and is loaded with original stuff, including the six-cylinder. Cathy found it five years ago and fell in love with it.Some white paint on the bumper, grille, and headlight housings goes well with the top and looks good against the blue paint on Roscoe Smith's dropped '56 Chevy. Roscoe says the Corvette 327, TH350 automatic, and freeway gears make it a great driver.Moving back into the category of classics, we spotted this well-done '51 Ford F-1. The tomato-soup-red exterior is set off by plenty of brightwork on the outside and tan upholstery on the inside.Ghost flames cover the hood, front fenders, and doors-and leering skulls decorate the firewall of Steve Hernandez' halloween orange '54 F-100. A 305 Chevy powers the pickup, which was a Readers' Truck in CCT's September 2009 issue.On Andy Carrillo's '56 Chevy, it was the blue paint and wide whites that kept catching our eye. Clean, simple, and stock looking goes a long way when you're driving something as nice as this.In person, it's easier to see the nice traditional pinstriping on the hood and fenders of Chris Marsiglia's '49 Chevy 3100, powered by a six-cylinder Chevy. The pickup honors the '50s with wide whitewalls and spots.Rick Erickson's retina-searing '53 Ford is a genuine kustom. The Golden Chariot is the shop truck for Erickson Kustoms in Wildomar, California, with a massive amount of metalwork and amazing paint and phenomenal upholstery.A 71-year-old old farmer in Tehachapi sold his 51K-mile '54 Dodge Job Rated to 19-year-old David Chacon, who was the first person to drive it off the farm. David rebuilt the carb, redid the wiring, and drives it all over. Now he's got to decide whether to keep working on it or keep it original and preserved.
It was going to be Gumby but Dennis Thies chose the Incredible Hulk as a more appropriate theme for his mean green '59 Chevy. No, it's true. He packed his former work truck with a 350 mill and TH700 transmission.We see legendary customizer Gene Winfield at this show every year, usually getting interviewed for another TV show or video. This year Gene came to Culver City with the Jade Idol II '57 Fairlane custom he built a couple years ago as a tribute to the original Jade Idol.Here's one more truck that turns up at a lot of local shows, including the Hot Rod magazine open house one week earlier. John Stone's '40 Ford is another tribute to detail, the most unusual detail being that partial hood.Here's one more farm truck. Robert DiMassa's '68 Ford Ranger was discovered in Washington in 1996. Ten years later, Robert started on the frame-off restoration. Today the 390-powered truck is finished in Rangoon Red and Wimbledon White.Originally an East Coast truck, Steve Monasco's '61 Econoline wore a lot of rust before being rebuilt and painted Pontiac LeMans blue. Nicknamed Muttley, it runs a '67 Mustang 289 with a C4 trans. It was "built to have fun" and gets driven like crazy.


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I would like to say how pleased I am that whenever I am sitting along the side of the road and someone from the Sheriff's Department comes along they usually stop to see if I need help.
I ride my bicycle about 4,000 miles a year and about halfway through my route I stop to eat and drink. I take about 10 or 15 minutes to rest and then I'm on my way again.
It is reassuring to know that if I was sick from the ride or if my tire was to go flat they would stop and ask if I needed help. I have ridden in many other states and rested along the road and very seldom does anyone stop to ask how things are going.
Thanks to the Leavenworth Sheriff Department for being concerned and friendly.
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The Best Western London Highbury is located in Finsbury, London and offers some great accommodation at reasonable prices. The guest rooms are ideal for any type of traveller whether you are visiting for pleasure or travelling on business.
The Best Western London Highbury is a short tube ride from the centre of London and all the attractions that follow including West End theatres and some of the finest restaurants, museums, art galleries and exhibition centres in the world.
The front desk staff members will be more than happy to offer guests tourism advice.
There are 44 guest rooms available to book and each has been designed to offer visitors a bright and comfortable room to base your stay in the English capital.
While there is no restaurant serving dinner at the Best Western London Highbury the concierge will be happy to recommend a local diner for your needs.
Should you need to relax over a cool beer or favourite drink after a long days' sightseeing visit the hotel bar, also a great place to meet with friends before you head out and enjoy the London nightlife.
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It has been in the news that endurance athletes such as cyclists sometimes increase their red blood cell count by blood doping. I don't understand how you can just pump more blood into yourself, there must be some bad side effects to doing this, right?
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Here is an excellent article from Outside Magazine written by a journalist who rode brevets and decided to explore performance enhancing drugs (EPO & HGH) and write about it.
The really sad thing about these drugs is that they appeal to really talented and dedicated athletes who've reached the pinnacle of their abilities and who have only a very limited amount of time before age or injury degrades their physical performance. I am sure that you'll be able to find plenty of references on the physical side effects of these substances (yes, they're dangerous and potentially fatal). But the psychological "side-effect" is significant as well.
People who take these drugs become acutely aware that they are not themselves and that their performance is not entirely their own. That, by itself, let-alone health consequences is a huge burden that must be carried in secret by athletes who've spend a decade or more developing their abilities using only their own talent and hard-work.
Basically, the intended effect is to increase the number of red blood cells in your system, which in turn gives you increased oxygen carrying capacity to the working muscles. This extra oxygen allows your muscles to work longer and harder.
In the early days of "blood packing", circa the 70's and 80's, it was basically taking a couple of pints of blood out of the body, storing it and letting the body naturally replace it, then transfusing it back into the athlete before their events.
Erythropoietin has actually been around since the early 1900's, and in the 60's, they found that it stimulated blood marrow to produce extra red blood cells. In the late 80's, a synthetic EPO agent was created, and this is what led to the EPO use as an athletic enhancing agent, other than its legitimate medical uses (Anemia, and other diseases).
The biggest effect from extra blood cells (Other than the risk factors of homologous blood {Blood from an outside donor}) is that the blood becomes thicker and more viscous. This can lead to blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and pulmonary embolism. This becomes more likely at rest/sleep, as the heart rate slows quite a bit.
Blood doping isn't only pumping more blood into your body. Your body increases hemoglobin (red blood cells) when you are in great altitude. This is caused by lower air presure which doesn't allow the lungs to transport enough oxygen into the bloodstream. Therefore the body can increase the ratio of red blood cells in your blood to compensate for the lower oxygen intake. If you train hard in big height this compensation mechanism really kicks in, raising your hemoglobin level. After doing the traing the high hemoglobin rate only lasts a few days(?)/weeks, therefore you can remove this blood from your body and freeze it for competition.
Before the competition starts you reinject the froozen blood (maybe remove some current blood?). This gives you an higher oxygen binding rate and gives you more power on the bike. You don't need EPO or anything. EPO also increases hemoglobin but without the need of high altitude. I wouldn't really concider that blood doping, but the link from the previous answer differs. I think your question referens to "doping with your own blood" (not a native speaker, don't know the technical term)
If it harms you? People in high altitude maybe live shorter, but that might be caused by missing health care system, poverty and missing education in countries with high mountains. I think other factors such as increased radiation in heights might account for more deaths than some cardio-vascular stuff. Therefore saying more hemogobin equals higher mortality might be a long shot and empirically wrong. Are there any studies? (not that I know of, but might be worth a search). Injecting large amounts of blood may well be a hazzard if the blood starts to clot, or was contaminated during storage, but I guess that's a small risk. Taking other peoples blood may well mess you up, if some unexspected immune reaction kicks in. I don't think enough cyclists died from injecting their own blood to make some profound statement.
From the World Anti-Doping Agency:
While proper use of EPO has an enormous therapeutic benefit in the treatment of anaemia related to kidney disease, its misuse can lead to serious health risks for athletes who use this substance simply to gain a competitive edge. It is well known that EPO, by thickening the blood, leads to an increased risk of several deadly diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, and cerebral or pulmonary embolism. The misuse of recombinant human EPO may also lead to autoimmune diseases with serious health consequences.
If the blood is from other individuals then there are a number of hazards, from AIDS and hepatitis to malaria and Lyme disease. Plus there's always a chance of a sort of allergic reaction to the blood due to mismatched antigens.
If the blood is "autologous" -- from your own body -- then the above risks are avoided (so long as someone doesn't mix up the blood). But there are non-trivial risks of infection, blood clots, and iron overload. On the "donating" side, since you're probably stressing your body in several ways, there are additional risks.
infection with hepatitis or aids. Allergica reaction if incorrect blood type is use. Blood clots. Kidney damage.Strain circulatory system


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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A judge in South Africa says Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, can leave South Africa to compete in international competition, with conditions.
Judge Bert Bam says the Olympic and Paralympic athlete must provide authorities with his travel plans at least a week before he leaves the country. He must also return his passport to the court within 24 hours of returning to South Africa
Pistorius' lawyers said in the North Gauteng High Court on Thursday that he had no immediate plans to compete, but might eventually need to run at track meets again to earn money.
Pistorius' lawyers say that the double-amputee runner, who is charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend on Feb. 14, was being treated as a flight risk even though a magistrate ruled last month that he was not when he released Pistorius on bail.
Pistorius was not present for the appeal.
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Protein is very important to keep your body functioning and is also needed for growth and repair. Protein is found in almost all body cells and has many roles such as:
In general, your diet will provide enough protein. However, during cancer treatment (such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy) your protein requirements may increase. It is important to be aware of food sources of protein and to include these foods at meals and snacks.
To come up with a quick estimate of your protein requirement:
For example: If you weigh 180 pounds, 180 ÷ 2 = 90 grams of protein daily
If you are receiving chemotherapy, radiation or surgery you may need more protein. Your dietitian can help you figure out your protein needs during treatment.
Protein is found in both animal and plant foods. Animal sources of protein include meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products. Plant sources of protein include nuts, seeds, tofu and legumes (dried beans, peas and lentils). Grains (cereals, breads and rice) and vegetables contain a little protein. Fruits and fats do not have any protein.
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To make sure that the protein you eat is used for important body functions you must eat enough calories. If you loose weight, your body will use protein for energy rather than to support important body functions.
If you are not eating enough protein you may need to use protein supplements. The cheapest and easiest protein supplement is dry skim milk powder. Mix the powder with liquid milk to increase the protein content. Also, add dry milk powder to any creamy foods such as mashed potatoes, casseroles, scrambled eggs and creamed soups. You can also add it to pancake and muffin batter. Use pasteurized egg substitute in shakes and recipes as a protein supplement. However, you should never use raw eggs, due to the risk of getting salmonella.
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You can buy protein supplements at drug stores and health food stores. They are available as powder that can be mixed with liquids or foods.


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Sun Cluster 3.2 Aug'07 News: ..Sun is OpenSource#1..
By tjobson on Aug 04, 2007
If you haven't been up to date on the latest news regarding Sun's High Availability offerings with Sun Cluster 3.2 .. (even Open Sourcing it !).. I though this would be the perfect opportunity for a quick recap with a few key articles, WP's, and related links ( many of these are specific to Oracle RAC integration with Sun Cluster ) :
\* Sun Cluster 3.2 Offers the Strongest Integration with Oracle RAC 10gR2..
> Sun Cluster 3.2 Software: Making Oracle Database 10G R2 RAC Even More Unbreakable
\* Sun offers up Solaris Cluster as Open Source Gem : (Network World link)
> Sun will post code to High Availability Clusters community on OpenSolaris.org
In case you didn't know, Sun is actually ranked #1 in terms of SW Contributions to the Open Source community! Even BEFORE the JAVA (OpenJDK) OR Sun Cluster contributions, the European Commission on FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) has reflected that Sun contributes to and participates in more open source projects than any other commercial company, including IBM, RedHat, Novell and HP. See : (page 51) for the breakdown. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf
\*Sun™ Cluster Oracle 10g Grid Reference Architecture Optimizing Scalability and Performance
\*Sun™ Cluster and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) : High Availability, Scalability, and Ease of Management (Oracle's internal use is quoted..)
\*Installation Guide for Solaris Cluster 3.2 Software and Oracle 10g Release 2 RAC
Sun Cluster 3.x is a Best In Class High Availability Suite that offers everything from single node clustering.. all the way up to Global / Geographic Clustering for Disaster Recovery. You can find Sun's external Availability
Suite page at : http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/cluster/index.xml
Give it a test drive for free .. and let me know what you think !
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I�ve been a fan of Brian Posehn for many years. Iparticularly love his work on The SarahSilverman Program, but basically am into whatever he does, as he�sone of the funniest men around. So I was totally excited to hear his new comedyCD, The Fartist. And it�s great. It was recorded last year inSeattle. I love his self-deprecating humor, and his combination of intelligencewith delightful crudity.
Brian starts off talking about how he�s changed thingsabout himself for his wife and their baby. One example: �I no longer go to stripping clubs.� And he goes right into lots ofmaterial about strippers. �If I see astripper in the airport, it�s the same as seeing a dude in the military. It�slike, �Thanks. We�re super fucking proud of you.�� But my favorite line isprobably, �How much money will it cost tomake you stop crying?�
The biggest change he�s made in his life is quitting smokingpot. The audience boos him, which he appreciates. �Remembering things, boo,� he jokes. I had no idea he quit smokingpot � it�s somewhat shocking and oddly discouraging. Another change is that hedoesn�t masturbate as much anymore. �Sonow pot and my wiener are like Buzz and Woody from Toy Story 3. They�re like, �What happened, you used toplay with us all the time.��
While he started his routine by talking about things thathe�s deliberately changed about himself, he later talks about changes his bodyhas undergone or implemented on its own. Now that he�s in his forties, his fartssmell like he�s already dead. He talks about how he used to fart on hisfriends. �If I was to fart on one of myfriends now, there�s an eighty-five percent chance I�m going to shit on myfriend. And that is a true test of friendship.�
He has a lot of great material about his body changing ashe gets older (stuff I completely understand), liking his body to an old car thatyou have to explain and apologize for. He�s so wonderfully candid, and that�sreally what makes this material so good.
He also has plenty of material about being a father. �When my wife told me we were having a kid, Iwas like, �That�s awesome baby, you�re going to make a great single mom.�� Heused to say, as part of his routine, that if he became one of those comediansthat softens and talks about his child, people should punch his baby. Now he�dprefer if people would not punch his baby. Things change.
Brian Posehn ends with a bit about how Star Wars betrayed him. This I totallyget. To hell with the �special� editions. I want to smack George Lucas forruining my childhood memories.
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Though the ice has yet to thaw and snow may be in the future, the Dakota Wesleyan Highlanders are set for their spring tour.
The Highlanders, DWU's premier choral group, will hit the road for a three-day tour schedule Friday-Sunday with a special invitation to perform Friday during the South Dakota chapter of the American Choral Director's Association's Winter Convention in Rapid City. The following concerts during the tour are open to the public.
Kimball High School, 8:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 24
Chamberlain High School, 12:15 p.m., Friday, Jan. 24
United Methodist Church of Belle Fourche, 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 25
Hills View Evangelical Free Church of Piedmont, 10 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 26
The Highlanders were invited to be the featured collegiate choir at the South Dakota chapter of the American Choral Director's Association's Winter Convention in Rapid City on Friday, Jan. 24. They will perform a half-hour set called "All's Fair in Love and War," with themes of love and war by John Rutter, Mathias Werrecore, Matthew Harris, Gwyneth Walker, Philip Glass and Robert Shaw. This concert is not open to the public.
The following DWU students are Highlanders: Ryan Antaya, Plankinton; Jenna Callies, Mitchell; Dyrani Clark, Loveland, Colo.; Nate Collins, Belle Fourche; Sterling Hubbard, Jamestown, N.D.; Elizabeth Morrison, Mitchell; Lacey Reimnitz, Corsica; Kurt Schwarzenbart, Salem; Alex Smith, Kuna, Idaho; Lisa Stanley, Sturgis; Kelby Van Wyk, Alcester; Jasmin Vant, Canton; and Shelby Vosburg, Renner.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Bill H. Raymond will be named City Attorney for the City of Manhattan effective December 17, 2012 to replace Katharine (Katie) Jackson who has resigned as City Attorney effective December 14, 2012. Ron R. Fehr, City Manager, for the City of Manhattan, announced today.
Fehr said, "I am extremely pleased to bring someone with the breadth of legal experience and expertise that Bill will bring to the position of City Attorney. He will be able to contribute immediately to the City's legal workload and will be an asset to the City's management team, to the City Commission, as well as provide effective leadership to meet the current and future demands of our Legal Department."
Raymond will be responsible for providing legal expertise in a broad variety of municipal matters, including legal advice and counsel to City staff, elected officials, contracts and franchises, land use, real estate, employment law, ordinances and code provisions, intergovernmental agreements, as well as directing prosecution, litigation and external counsel. He has served as Chief Assistant County Counselor for Sedgwick, County, Kansas, since 2007, providing a broad range of municipal government experience and legal advice to elected and appointed officials, department heads and staff. Prior to his current position, Mr. Raymond was in private practice in Wichita, Kansas, from 2000 – 2007. He also worked for the law office of Shultz, Lonker & Raymond, Wichita, Kansas, from 1994 - 1999.
Raymond is a member of the International Municipal Lawyers Association, the County Counselor's Association of Kansas, the National Association of District Attorneys, the Wichita Bar Association, and the Kansas Bar Association. He received the 2009 Sedgwick County Board of County Commissioners Chairman's Award as attorney member of Unified Zoning Code Review Committee, was a founding board member of the Sedgwick County Animal Rescue Team, and a volunteer/supporter of Tornado Alley Young Marines. He has also been a presenter at the County Counselor's Association of Kansas, Kansas Association of Planning and Zoning Officials, Wichita-Sedgwick County Law Enforcement Training Center, Sedgwick County Legal Considerations for Supervisors, and Mock Trials for Fire Investigators of Sedgwick County Fire District One. He graduated from the Washburn University School of Law, with honors in 1992. He is married to Christina, and has two children, Rachel, a sophomore at Cleveland Institute of Art, and one son, Zachary, a freshman in high school.
Raymond replaces the vacancy that will be left by Katie Jackson. Jackson started with the City in June 2003 as Assistant City Attorney and was promoted in December 2011 to Deputy City Attorney. She was then promoted to the position of City Attorney in May 2012, after the retirement of long-time City Attorney Bill Frost. Jackson has accepted a position as Associate Graduate Faculty and Academic Advisor for the Department of Political Science at Kansas State University. She will teach courses related to local government, and the part-time position will allow more time with her family.
City Manager Fehr said, "Katie has served the citizens of Manhattan well and has done a tremendous job during her tenure with the City. Her municipal law expertise and dedication as a public servant will be greatly missed. We wish Katie the very best."
"It has been an honor and a pleasure to work for the City of Manhattan for nearly a decade," stated Jackson. "My colleagues at City Hall are exceptional professionals who are dedicated to serving the citizens of Manhattan. Although I will miss being a part of the City, I look forward to working with K-State students, faculty and staff."


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The April issue of FIRE Policy News analyzes the merger of the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange with a German firm, discussing what the merger does – and does not – symbolize.
Also in this issue:
- The Federal Reserve's QE2 policy has raised food prices worldwide, contributing to protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere.
- The Fed's monetary policy has been the target of much criticism as QE2 has produced confusion and uncertainty. These reactions reflect serious errors by the Federal Reserve.
- Financial analyst and Daily Reckoning.com editor Eric Fry says blind monkeys could have done a better job protecting the value of the dollar than the Federal Reserve has managed since its creation nearly 100 years ago.
- Housing market data are notoriously difficult to understand – no two houses are alike, many buyers and sellers are driven by emotion, we don't know the prices of houses that didn't get sold, and we don't have data on allowances used to report a higher price than was actually paid. And since the financial crisis, the federal government has been intervening in the housing market in ways that make the data even more difficult to interpret.
- When state and local governments want to spend more than they collect in revenues, they issue bonds. During the past decade they have spun out of control – since 2000 the total outstanding state and municipal bond debt, adjusted for inflation, has soared from $1.5 trillion to $2.8 trillion. The recession didn't slow the increases in spending.
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Four-to-five servings of vegetables each day will ensure a good supply of essential vitamins and minerals. Try to eat different colored produce and don't overcook vegetables.
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Excerpted from Pregnancy Day by Day.
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