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While in a productive mindset, it is easy to value your time more over social activities, relationships, and friendships. You think more about the work to do rather than the friendships you need to maintain. I have fallen into this disarray where I do not spend any time wondering about other's well-being and maintaining those friendships. What can be done to strengthen the social aspects of your life without breaking too much away from your productivity?
I would rephrase the question to help drive the outcome you're looking for. How about "How do I include developing and maintaining relationships in my productivity system?"
There is a terrific article on this topic at http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/cim/articles_display.php?aid=157 The summary is that everything can be measured, if you create a metric and watch it, you can change your behavior. It is not a long article, well worth reading.
The trick is to figure out what metrics you can use to help you define success in productivity terms. You could set a goal of N minutes on the phone with friends and family a week, or N thank you notes sent, or lunch out with someone every week. Think a little creatively, and you can find something that will make creating and maintaining a healthy social life a part of your productivity system, instead of something else to do.
Going by your description, it seems that you are in fact a very productive individual and follow your system strictly. With this in mind, you could try the following approach.
A simple (but not easy) thing you could do, is to create small intervals in your usual workday lasting about 5-15 minutes each specifically for socializing. In those 5-15 minutes, you could :
All of these activities will activate your empathy and and strengthen your relationships with other people.
Sometimes, having an overly productive mindset may mean that you would look at these intervals as being unproductive. To tackle this, think of this as a part of increasing your social resilience which in turn will help you perform better at in your day to day life. If this line of thought doesn't motivate you to incorporate these sessions into your daily schedule, then just think of these sessions as something you have to do, similar to your work. This way you would (ideally) concentrate on only the person in front of you at the time, similar to the way you would focus strictly on work.
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What's your usual action online in order to browse math journals? Like check Arxiv or MathSciNet. Any other good link directs you to most updated articles in major math journals. Or the traditional way of browsing periodical section of your library is still a better way to get a glimpse of current development in math.
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The AMS Digital Mathematics Registry has a huge list at http://www.ams.org/dmr/JournalList.html
As a slight variation on the "Google" answer, Google Scholar sometimes actually works better. For some searches, the results found by Scholar will be surfaced to the ordinary google.com search results, but this doesn't always work as well as it should so it's best to explicitly try the Scholar version as well.


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Drawn from deep ecology, systems theory, and spiritual traditions, the Work That Reconnects has been empowering activists for global justice and environmental sanity around the world for over three decades. Suggested donation (per evening) $20. No one turned away for lack of funds.
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I know CGI spawns a new process for every HTTP request that it serves, while servlets use one Java process to serve many requests. What do other technologies (rails, WSGI/django, mod_php, asp.net etc.) do so that web servers do not have to spawn a new process new HTTP request?
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Servers generally either
1) Use a thread pool with a thread per client connection request, potentially with a separate pool of separate thread/processes to handle "application" code (as opposed to the basics of handling a HTTP request. A thread handles each request from beginning to end; often thread pooling is used to reduce the amount of startup and teardown required with each connection.
Or, 2) they will use an event-based model which allows a single thread / process to handle many connections. In this case, each of the "events" such as new connection or new received packet will go into a queue of sorts to be worked through by one or a small number of threads. This is a highly efficient way to scale if you can limit the amount of work to be done processing each event (otherwise small quick requests will be queued behind larger requests).
The major difference as far as outcomes are concerned is that both of these models avoid or minimise the overheads of process startup time and inter-process communication and handoffs.
In general, what happens is that servers pool threads to support multiple connections. Once the connection is released, the thread is returned to the pool to be used by the next connection. Now the details of this is different for most things. Thinking about what happens to make this work well, systems will open up a process and reuse it to handle multiple requests once it's returned to the pool.
App Servers bundled inside the web server (ASP.NET, Tomcat) don't have to worry about executing external processes because they built on the assumption that your code will handle threading correctly. When talking about Ruby on Rails for instance, most things are not thread safe. Reuse within in the same process would likely lead to undesirable results. (For rails, at least on JRuby, this likely less of the problem it once was.)


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The first two movies of the rebooted Bond-franchise were at the start of Bond's career (when he was likely in his late twenties/thirties), but when does Skyfall take place in relation to other things going on with Bond?
Timelines and James Bond don't go hand in hand, he's an ageless character and will always continue to be up to date regardless of when the stories are set.
Having said that if you're determined to answer the question, there are a few clues we can divine.
If you put these facts together Bond has most likely completed the missions in all the other films, however as I suggested at the start Bond and chronology questions are always going to be very hard because of the nature of the franchise.
For example in GoldenEye M is the new head of MI6 and meets an experienced 007, in Casino Royale that same M promotes him to the 00 section!
First of all, the James Bond movies (or rather the pre-Craig movies) don't adhere to an actual realistic timeline that goes through all of the movies. Without some small exceptions (Bond's wife and her death) there aren't any major cross-movie story developments and any Bond movie can be seen as rather stand-alone, even if some small comments and allusions to previous movies are made here and there (e.g. at the scale of Brosnan making a small remark about the jet-pack from Thunderball, but nothing serious or story-relevant).
But this is slightly different for the Craig-movies. First of all they're actually a reboot. Whereas all the previous movies didn't really care that much about their respective prequels, Casino Royale was the first to actively reboot the whole franchise and introduce James Bond as a completely new character recently promoted to 00-status. This means that any previous movies, in contrast to merely being ignored, don't actually exist in the world of this rebooted franchise.
On the other hand this new rebooted franchise comes with a much tighter cross-movie development and the individual movies' stories are interweaved much more tightly (especially noticable with Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, though less with Skyfall). So while it is rather pointless to come up with an actual timeline for the pre-Craig movies, the Craig-franchise indeed has a sequential timeline with the movies happening in the order they came out and roughly at the timescales they are released. It has to be seen how far this is kept on with future Craig-movies, but since rather important story developments happened to major characters in Skyfall (especially M), I'm pretty sure the next movie will not just ignore those but rather reference them, be it only slightly.
So to answer your actual question, Skyfall likely takes place a couple of years after Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace and any other Bond adventures known from other movies didn't actually happen in this rebooted universe.
There is some continuity between films. It is best seen in some of the supporting characters.
It is complicated because the early films were made in the roughly reverse order that the books were written. So for example Quarrel is first met in the early book Live and Let Die and then dies in Dr No. For the film Live and Let Die they called him Quarrel Jr.
Felix Leiter's character is similarly distorted but there is some continuity within the books and within the films but never between the books and the films.
The Craig era films are best considered a reboot as they would have had to set Casino Royale in the 1950s to preserve continuity with the older films.
The Craig series takes place before all the other movies. In Casino Royale, Bond first gets his 00 license. At the end of Skyfall, the new MI6 office is identical to the one from the old movies and Moneypenny begins working as M's liaison. It's all in the last 60 seconds of the movie so it's easy to miss.
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Could anyone please tell me if there exists a GPS tracking device that is light, small and safe (e.g., does not cause harmful radiation) and can be tracked back via say an app on a phone?
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You can get a GPS device to be pretty small, but that's not all there is to it. You also need to transmit your GPS location. So that means some sort of communcation spec; Bluetooth, WiFi, or more likely cell phone.
OK, so you get your GPS module, a controller chip, and a cellular module. Now what? Perhaps you could send a text message every 5 minutes with your current location? Or perhaps connect via cellular Internet and ping a website somewhere with your current location. Either way, you need a cell plan, which means paying a monthly fee to your compatible carrier of choice.
Of course, it'd be simpler just to use an old cell phone.
Garmin currently makes a unit called the GTU 10. If you're willing to shell out some dough, you can buy this unit and get the free Garmin Tracker app on your smartphone. The app lets you set up geofences and maintains tracking history.
I've used this combination and found it to be fairly useful, but it can have trouble locating satellites indoors, near tall buildings, or in a dense forest.


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Today is Mark Wahlberg's birthday! Some of you may not be old enough to remember this talented actor who has starred in many popular films such as "Boogie Nights", "Three Kings", and "The Italian Job" got his start in the music business. His brother, Donnie Wahlberg, was part of the boy band New Kids on the Block that rose to fame in the late 80's and early 90's. Donnie, who had production skills and an affinity for hip-hop arrangements, helped Mark get started in the music industry. Mark wasn't incredibly talented, but was easy on the eyes and found his niche as a rap star.
Soon, Mark made a name for himself as "Marky Mark" with his back up dancers "The Funky Bunch", releasing such popular dance titles as "Good Vibrations" and "Wildside". His music career was short-lived, and he soon turned to acting. Thank goodness because he can act. And, he's still easy on the eyes.
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Alison Riske is seeing green.
The 22-year-old American won her second-round match at Wimbledon Friday to run her career grass court record to 13-6. She's so good on it that Wimbledon tournament referee Andrew Jarrett hand-delivered her a wild card when she arrived at Roehampton to prepare for the qualifying tournament before Wimbledon began.
"I was like, 'Oh my gosh, you are the most amazing man ever!'" Riske said. "I hugged him."
Riske has just one problem: She can't seem to win on anything other than grass. All her main draw wins as a pro have come on lawns at Birmingham, where she's 11-4, and at Wimbledon, where she is now 2-2. She has lost every main draw match she has played—all 11 of them—on other surfaces.
"Ultimately it's a mental thing," she said. "If I can play like that here, I feel like I should be able to play like that anywhere."
No matter where she plays, Riske will have a little green keepsake with her: Her security blanket. She takes the childhood remnant—"A rag is being generous," she said—on the road with her. "It's like a very faded musky green, like dirty looking color," she said.
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What's the worst thing you can do at Wimbledon? Beat a seeded player.
As the world's most prestigious tennis tournament staggers toward Middle Sunday, the players who scored the three biggest upsets have crumbled. Sergiy Stakhovsky, who beat Roger Federer, lost to Jurgen Melzer Friday. "I just played stupid," he said.
Michelle Larcher de Brito, who pummeled Maria Sharapova, lost to Karin Knapp.
Steve Darcis, the man who beat Rafael Nadal in the first round, is long gone.
But have no fear, Wimbledon, home country hopefuls Andy Murray and Laura Robson both advanced Friday. Murray said he's trying not to think about the decimated draw and his ever-improving chances. "There are papers in the locker room, so you see some of the headlines," he said. "It's not that helpful." He smiled as he said it.
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Taja-Nia Y. Henderson, Associate Professor at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has been selected to serve on a court-appointed Academic Advisory Council that will seek the input of a broad range of stakeholders to help develop and implement reforms to the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy.
The Council was appointed by the Hon. Shira Scheindlin, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, who in August ruled that the City's stop-and-frisk practices violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution (Floyd v. City of New York). The opinion found that the City "adopted a policy of indirect racial profiling" that resulted in "the disproportionate and discriminatory stopping of blacks and Hispanics."
Judge Scheindlin did not find that stop-and-frisk is unconstitutional but ordered several remedial measures "to ensure that the practice is carried out in a manner that protects the rights and liberties of all New Yorkers, while still providing much needed police protection." Among these measures were the appointments of Peter L. Zimroth, a Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP and former Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, as an independent monitor of the reform process and Nicholas Turner, President and Director of the Vera Institute of Justice, as facilitator of a community-based remedial process to develop "sustainable reforms."
The Academic Advisory Council is comprised of 13 law professors from who will work pro bono to support Zimroth and Turner in overseeing the reform process. Other members hail from Brooklyn Law School, Columbia Law School, CUNY School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, Hofstra University Law School, and Yale Law School.
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Navigation View - Blank Screen shown up after double tap Back button
Kitchen Sink application crashed and shown a blank screen after couple times tap/double tap on the Back button
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- Kitchen Sink crashed and shown a blank screen if you quick tap/double tap on the Back button to go back to the list view.
- Open Kitchen Sink demo on iPhone (iOS 4.3.3)
- Try to select any list item (User Interface, Animation, ..) then quickly tap/double tap the Back button to return the main view.
- Repeat previous step couple times (40 to 60 times)
- The list view should be shown whenever you tap on Back button
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Thank you for the report.
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30 Mar 2012 9:26 AM #3
Root cause of this bug might be the animation effect on the back event.
I tested on the desktop and found the list view was applied style with "-webkit-transform".
I added "back" listener to the navigation view to remove that style and it looked working well.
listeners: { back: function(view) { Ext.defer(function() { view.element.dom.removeAttribute("style"); }, 200); }, scope: this
Looks like it has the same problem and solution with mine.
29 Oct 2012 11:57 AM #4
Thanks @dtnghia. This bug was causing a serious UI issue and your code helped. For my own case, I had to go a level further down in removing the style:
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Is this issue resolved?I'm using sencha touch 2.3.1 and still have this issue in windows phone. My app works fine in android and IOS.
I tried removing the styles for the back button. Now I can see the previous page after clicking the back button twice, but now I can't click on the views to go to another view.
Any way to resolve this?
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I have encountered this bug, too.
My workaround is to set the onBackButtonTap method toCode:
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var nav = Ext.define('MyApp.controller.Navigation', { extend: 'Ext.app.Controller', config: { refs: { nav: 'navigation' }, control: { nav: { pop: 'addBackButtonListener', initialize: 'initialize' } } }, initialize: function() { // HACK: override back button listener this.getNav().getNavigationBar().removeListener('back', nav.onBackButtonTap, nav); this.addBackButtonListener(); }, addBackButtonListener: function() { var nav = this.getNav(); var navBar = nav.getNavigationBar(); navBar.on({ back: nav.onBackButtonTap, scope: nav, single: true }); } });


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February 19, 2013
New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences will host "Abel in New York" on Thurs., Feb. 21, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Warren Weaver Hall, room 109, 251 Mercer St., betw. W. 3rd and W. 4th Sts.).
The event is co-sponsored by the Abel Committee at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
From 2005 through 2009, three Courant faculty were awarded the Abel Prize, which many consider to be the Nobel Prize in mathematics: Peter Lax (2005); Raghu Varadhan (2007); and Mikhail Gromov (2009). The award is accompanied by a prize of approximately $950,000. All three will give presentations at the Feb. 21 event. Other speakers include members of Abel Committee: Stanislav Smirnov of the University of Geneva; Gang Tian of Princeton University and Beijing University, and Noga Alon of Tel Aviv University.
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Quiz: What Does Your Workout Wear Say About You?
Are your yoga pants yawn-inducing? Is your sports bra spent? If the last time you bought new exercise apparel the song "Let's Get Physical" was playing on a radio, it's time for an intervention.
Much like diamonds, the qualities of yoga and fitness wear fall into four categories. Only instead of cut, color, clarity and carat, our four C's of fitness clothing are cut, color, condition and crunchiness.
Cut: How does it fit? Where does the hem fall? Does it ride up or twist?
Color: Is the hue new? Or is it a tired-out trend?
Condition: Did it start out a different color or size? How is your workout wear holding up?
Crunchiness: Is it made of an eco-friendly fiber, like organic cotton or recycled polyester?
If any of the following applies to your wardrobe, you could be in need of a performance wear upgrade:
- If the waistline of your pants reaches the bottom of your sports bra.
- If any of the following describe your pants hem:
- frayed
- larger than your foot
- creeping upward (We called these "high waters" or "floods" — not to be confused with the cuter capri length.)
- stirrups
- Your sports top has a belt.
- You wear a leotard. And you don't dance.
- If you have used the phrase, "But it's comfortable!" to defend your appearance.
- Your top could be described as any kind of a "beater."
- It's in a color palette from the first time it was "in."
- It's considered recycled only because you bought it at a thrift shop.
- Your mother wore it.
- You accessorize like you're in the witness-protection program to avoid being recognized while wearing it.
- A description of your outfit includes the words "back in the day."
- Those aren't pockets. They're just holes.
Let's replace those four C's of exercise clothing with four new Cs:
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Will it get you compliments? When you look good, you feel good, and when you feel good, you get compliments. Working out is a great way to feel better about yourself, inside and out. Now you can feel better about yourself coming and going, too, with cute pieces like the Folded Waist Capri and the slimming Sport Jacket.
What does your workout wear say about you? If your fitness wardrobe is crying out for a change, let some flattering, eco-friendly, fabulous new pieces do the talking!
Funny and accurate. On an aside, how about us guys?
As with everything else, women have far more choices than men. Personally, the last thing I want in class is to feel like the saggy baggy elephant in a t-shirt and shorts. Having a shirt in your face in inversions doesn't help either.
I've gone with a compression-type t-shirt and running tights, which brings me to my point: There have been plenty of people offended by the sight of a guy in just tights for years, and the solution is that no guy should wear them without a dance belt. I have for years, and it seems to go over ok.
So guys, check with a dance supply store or with companies like Capezio to find these. And fitness wear makers, can we have a bit more selection as well?


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I have a general interest in memory techniques and find it relatively simple to memorise information.
I also have a fairly well organised exocortex - it's very easy for me to search for any detail of my digital world from my phone or my computer.
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The "Mean Chicks" Phenomenon
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Dr. Marian K. Underwood, a professor who studies anger, aggression, gender, and children's peer relationships, calls the way children and adolescents can express their anger and contempt toward their peers "social aggression." By resorting to it, kids intend to hurt their peers through lowering their self-esteem and standing in their groups and relationships.
Mean Chick Types
Parents must not forget that the unfriendly or hostile girls your daughter meets all have their reasons for the way they behave. Most often these reasons arise from their home life, from the way they were raised from babyhood on, or from what they have observed in their parents' dealing with relationships. For example, if they see their parents manipulate their friends, they will act similarly. Or if their parents live to gossip about their neighbors, their daughters will indulge in that as well.
Yet no matter how adept some girls become in their negative machinations of others, they rarely feel good about themselves. In truth, most of them feel miserable and—by lashing out at your daughter and her friends, most often verbally—they try to get other girls to feel miserable too. Based purely on their behavior, these mean chicks can be divided into the following categories:
- Snobs. These girls judge the world, your daughter, and other girls only in terms of their "wealth" or their connection, if any, to famous people.
- Gossips. These girls love to spread bits of information around, especially if it is negative, which they tend to embellish.
- Teasers. These girls enjoy finding a weakness or sore spot in other girls, including your daughter, and needling them about it constantly in a mean way.
- Bullies. These girls, though rarer than the others, threaten to, or physically hurt, other girls.
- Traitors. These girls are the most dangerous in the long run. They will gain your daughter's complete confidence and then betray her by word or deed. Therefore, they can leave lasting scars.
It bears repeating: No girl is ever born mean. They are made that way. An unkind girl is the product of her environment, just as your daughter is the product of hers. Sad to say, but some girls come from homes where snobbishness, gossiping, sarcastic teasing, bullying, and betrayal go on every day. These patterns of behavior are shown to them not only by their parents but also by their siblings, while the parents stand by and condone the actions.
Watch how you treat women. If you are nice to their faces but as soon as they leave, criticize them and make disparaging remarks about them to others, you are teaching your daughter to become a backstabbing girl who will then become a backstabbing young woman.
For that reason, you want your daughter to understand that planned acts of unkindness from other girls are rooted in their personal background and she should pity girls whose character training has been neglected, but that does not excuse their behavior.
Mean Chick Tactics
Should some of the different types of mean girls target your daughter, she will need to know how to handle them and defend herself. It is always best to assume that at some point in her school career she will be exposed to rude remarks or other signs of brattiness by other girls. Therefore, a generic approach to run-of-the-mill bad behavior, such as contemptuous glares, expressions of disgust, or abrupt turning away, can come in handy. Here are a few tactics your daughter can use.
- Never take the meanness personally.
- Try to feel sorry for the girl who acts that way.
- Never revert to the same behavior herself.
- Try to take the upper hand by saying, tongue-in-cheek, "Sorry, I didn't realize you are having a bad day."
Also, practice with your daughter how to stand in a powerful way, with her spine straight, her head up, and facing her potential detractors. Tell her she can send any mean chicks scurrying by her stance, attitude, and confident signals. One thing to remember about mean-acting girls is that they usually look for the meekest and quietest girl in the crowd and leave stronger girls alone. To take charge in a negative situation means to be empowered. Empower your girl not to be a doormat. Instead, rehearse with her how to take a stand against unkind girls.
You also want to make sure your daughter has some classmates who will insulate her against being singled out and give her a network for support and for venting her frustrations.
My daughter who is going into seventh grade is neither outgoing nor tall. Will she get picked on by the bigger and tougher girls?
Do not let your fears spill over onto your girl and scare her unnecessarily. Be extra supportive to her during the first few days of school and expect that she will do fine. There are so many different girls in school that she will soon find a few who are friendly.
Long-Term Advantages
What is so heartwarming when you teach your daughter about any mean chicks is that you are giving her another important life skill. In the years to come, she may run into them in various mutations in college, on the job, in her neighborhood, her house of worship, or her workout place—as her superiors, coworkers, or subordinates—in short, wherever there are women who have not experienced the skillful and wise parenting you are dispensing. So there is always a good chance your girl will run across quite a few unhappy women who try to make others feel as bad as they do via their mean-spirited and cat-fighting tendencies.
Counter Catfights
With her insight into mean girls, your daughter will know how to handle any catfights. She will recognize any spiteful females from a mile away. Actually she will welcome their presence because she will have a chance to help them improve their behavior, if possible. If not, she will deal with them to her best advantage, not theirs.
That does not mean your girl will not feel a twinge of hurt when confronted by female rudeness, but the twinge will be just another sign that she is making progress. Physical exercise can make her sore. Exercising her relationship muscles is no different. Your daughter will get better each time she triumphs over the disrespect from other girls. Plus, being empowered, she will be able to help other girls who contribute to her growth and make her life more fun.
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From The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Girls Copyright © 2007, F+W Publications, Inc. Used by permission of Adams Media, an F+W Publications Company. All rights reserved.
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Our Sliverlight application (using V2.4) make a call to custom GP Toool which executes huge process which last for more than 10 min (avg), but before that client gets timed out. After going through all forums. a) Increased executiontime out value b) Increased GP Tool client timeout values but nothing worked. Any best methods to find the root cause. In Fiddler we are getting timeout exception in stack trace.
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The 10 Least Subtle Product Placements in Video Game History
#5. Kool-Aid Man (Atari 2600, 1983)
Right off the bat, you know a game starring the Kool-Aid Man won't be that much fun. Any video game hero who can be disemboweled by a hard shove doesn't scream "instant classic."
As a sentient pitcher of Red Dye #3, it was your job to stop "The Thirsties" from guzzling an entire community swimming pool. Hey, it's not like Super Mario Brothers made an iota of sense either.
"He's bursting through the wall!..Or maybe that's a glitch. This game blows."
What's paradoxical about Kool-Aid Man is that, despite the best intentions of your overzealous spokespitcher, The Thirsties would rather chug community pool water than touch a drop of Kool-Aid. In other words, the game was tacitly admitting that Kool-Aid was less delicious than chlorinated H20 laced with urine. Nice sales pitch, Atari.
125 proofs of purchase? That's enough Kool-Aid powder to mummify those kids.
#4. Yo Noid! (Nintendo, 1992
In the 80s, Domino's Pizza's mascot was The Noid: a claymation humanoid, who, like many corporate mascots of the day, was incensed at being arbitrarily denied an easily accessible foodstuff (in this case, tasteless chain pizza). See? These advergames write themselves!
It's worth noting that Yo Noid! is the second crummy Capcom game on our list inspired by a horrifying claymation ad campaign. Maybe Capcom had a thing for claymation, but we suspect they had more of a thing for sleeping in giant piles of money.
As expected, the game was shitty on an elemental level, but the ending of Yo Noid! was particularly offensive. After you spent an hour or so playing this $50 Domino's advertisement, your spokesabomination celebrates at the neighborhood pizza parlor.
That's right; it's not even freaking Domino's. When your own crappy mascot refuses to eat your pizza, how do you get out of bed in the morning?
#3. Cool Spot (Genesis & Super Nintendo, 1993)
Cool Spot, the suave spokesdisc for 7-Up, got a 16-bit video game treatment that probably sucked the least of all the ad-based games. In fact, the game won Electronic Games Magazine's 1993 award for "Best Sound."
"The sound's okay, I guess."-EGM
Don't laugh. Have you ever won Electronic Games Magazine's Best Sound award? We didn't think so.
Cool Spot was hell-bent on cramming the coolness of 7-Up down your throat. It's beyond us how its plot conveyed said coolness. As Spot, you spent most of the game wandering around a beach shooting carbonation at hermit crabs.
To be fair, the fact that Cool Spot was even mediocre means its developers actually gave a crap about game play. We even have to admire their horrible product integration, since it suggests they didn't even know that 7-Up was a soft drink at the time they made the game.
#2. Budweiser Tapper
In this arcade classic, you play a browbeaten barkeep who must toss beer at wave after wave of angry drunks. If you fail to pass a brew to your delirium tremens-wracked patrons, your bartender is ejected from his bar, Dodge City style.
Tapper was intended for release only in bars, but you have to wonder what Budweiser was thinking when they greenlit the game. Admitting that your product results in assault and battery is like a Joe the Camel game in which the last boss is emphysema.
Whoa. THE street location game of 1984.
We already knew that booze can lead to mob violence, but it's sort of upsetting hearing it straight from the horse's mouth.
#1. Journey Escape (Atari 2600, 1982) & Journey (Arcade, 1983)
Plenty of musical acts have jumped into the video game arena (Aerosmith, KISS, 50 Cent, etc.) but we believe only one has tried a direct album video game tie-in. And that only one was Journey.
The members of Journey were either extreme narcissists or paranoiacs, as a big part of both games was to prevent the band from being murdered by their own fans.
In Journey Escape (to tie in with Journey's 1982 LP Escape), you must guide your faceless polygonal band member through legions of equally geometric groupies, who would like nothing more than to sex you to death. As the game's TV ad ominously warned, only Atari owners and their joystick-jamming skills could allow Journey to "live to rock another day."
As you can see from the commercial, Journey's groupies were either aliens, robots or hamburgers.
Seeing as how Journey Escape was an Atari game about malformed women wanting to fatally bone Neal Schon, the game's graphics and plot are forgivable. Unfortunately, its music is not - the game ironically contained almost no Journey music. For a game designed to sell records, this was a bold strategy.
This problem was rectified by the 1983 Journey arcade game, in which players got tinny, comically bad MIDI versions of Journey songs in every stage.
The exception was the bonus round where you earned a full version of "Separate Ways" courtesy of the futuristic, in-machine cassette player. And, once again, the game included stages where you had to defend the band from its crazed fans, playing a bouncer shoving the lunatics away from the stage. Journey couldn't have made the message any clearer even if they added a "piss on the worthless masses from the hotel balcony" bonus level.
Find out about the more subtle ways they've learned to rob you blind in 5 Innovative Ways the Gaming Industry is Screwing You. Or find out the truth behind those food emails your mom always forwards you, in 7 Retarded Food Myths the Internet Thinks Are True.


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For over a decade, Carolyn Dinshaw, chair of NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, has been studying asynchronies of time and the relation between the past, present, and future compared to the linear measurements of everyday life.
The boundaries and perceptions of time are constantly blurred, changing the value of the present. When Dinshaw witnessed a man in a bathrobe at a Medieval Festival in New York, she realized that this simple garment drew together all aspects of time, challenging our linear view of the present.
In her most recent book, How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time, Dinshaw performs a critique of modernist temporal regimes through its exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. The work is composed of a series of asynchrony stories, literary criticism, argued theory, and autobiography.
Dinshaw, also a professor in NYU's Department of English, questions our interaction with the past, present, and future. In doing so, she contends our linear perception of time prevents us from seeing the more crowded "now" theorists tell us is extant, but that often eludes our temporal grasp.
Her other published works include Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics, and, co-edited with David Wallace, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing.
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Even though Thursday's winter storm dumped seven to eight inches of snow at Nebraska City the worst weather has missed southeast Nebraska.
The Feb. 21 storm caused school closings and Elster American Meter did not require its second or third shifts to come in as a safety precaution.
"We had a couple of cars in the ditch off of the highways, but overall people listened to the forecasts and stayed home," said Mike Holland, chief Otoe County sheriff's deputy. "The traffic was light and the drivers that were out drove at reasonable speeds," he said.
The brunt of the storm went through Kansas, where the National Weather Service reports snow as deep as 15 inches. A 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed.
The storm followed a Feb. 11 blast in the Northeast, which delivered on predictions of record-setting snowfall. Snow depths of 16 inches were reported at Edwards, N.Y.
Nebraska City street crews began clearing Thursday's snow at 11 a.m. and continued through 2:30 a.m. on Friday.
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The parks department was out at 5 a.m. clearing sidewalks in the central business district.
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Nebraska City also had snow events on Dec. 20 and Jan. 30.
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Participants can now enjoy a little more of the El Dorado YMCA as it extends its weekday hours of operation by 30 minutes each evening and opens earlier at 6:30 a.m. on weekends.
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Brutal Legend Radio Play Auditions!
Hey guys! Seeing as how this is one of the more prominent Brutal Legend fan communities on the internet, I thought I would post this here. Me and my co-writer Thyclaine are putting together an unofficial sequel to Brutal Legend in the form of a radio play we've affectionately called Brutal Legend: The Last In Line. Obviously we need a heap of kickass voice talent for this, so we're going to be holding auditions from now until the end of February, possibly longer if we need more people.
If any of you wish to view the details in video form, click
For everyone else, here are the roles that we need filled so far:
Lita Halford Second in command of Ironheade. Strong willed and steel hearted, she fights her battles with a spear about her length in height. Lita cares for her friends and people, but at the same time she is tough, rarely ever letting her guard done and thus coming off as callous to most
- Oh? (Slight pause). Huh. I thought they would have been afraid to show their faces around here, or lack of one in any case. (slightly surprised tone)
- (Slightly disgusted) "Ugh". Contrary to what you both might believe, there's still light overhead. Eddie, you need to take the 3 of us down to talk to him. I've been noticing some strange activity lately, he might be able to tell us something. (slightly irritated tone)
- It seems you're already assuming whatever it is, it's going to be hostile. (casual tone)
- I don't care! She's a traitor, and you're a fool if you actually believe her! (Angry tone.)
The Guardian of Metal The appointed keeper of the secrets of metal charged by The Titans themselves, The Guardian of Metal doesnt get out much, mainly dwelling in his underground domain, only coming into appearance to offer Eddie advice or give him the tools he needs to kick ass. The Guardians personality is well, hes pretty much Ozzy Osbourne. If you know what hes like then youve got Guardian down pat.
- (Irritated grunt). Can't you see I'm trying to clean up here? (annoyed tone)
- 'E took my business! I used to be the only historian around here, the only keeper of ancient secrets, but then he decided to build his own little slice of heaven on a Silver Mountain, and he acts like he has more of 'em. He thinks he's better than me 'cause he's above ground and I'm below it. Psh. (outraged tone)
- Yeah, I have. I'm just a Guardian, not like I have any special powers or anything, but I'm damn good at knowing when **** around here isn't right. And I don't like it one bit, whatever it is. (wary tone)
The Killmaster A mystical, motorcycle riding bass guitarist with the power to heal the sick and wounded with his powerful riffs. He has an aloof personality, unnaturally calm and laid back even in the most dire of circumstances. Seeing as how hes based off of Motorhead lead singer Lemmy Killmister, well be looking for a voice like his; deep, very old sounding and of course, with a British accent.
- I ain't much of a joiner but I'll do anything if it pisses off Lionwhyte. Drag your wounded up here before they die and I'll heal 'em all. (determined tone)
- Alright, whos the bloody idiot who got themselves stabbed up this time? (slightly annoyed tone)
- What exactly do you want me to heal, Riggs? Theres no wounds here. (confused tone)
The Baron The leader of a motorcycle gang called The Fire Barons, The Baron is always willing to help out Eddie, so long as combat and fire is involved. Hes very brash, slightly ruthless and is very eager for fighting and setting things on fire. Based off of Rob Halford, were looking for someone who can be deep but a slightly higher pitch than The Killmaster, gruff, and again, with a British accent.
- Burn the OTHER guys!!!! (battle cry)
- Well, its about time we got some more action! I havent had something to burn in da- I mean er months! (excited tone)
- Oh, come on Eddie! You gotta get a little bit reckless every once in a while! (defensive tone)
Kage the Kannonier A lowly Bouncer who mans the mortar cannon for Ironheades defense systems. Hes smart, but neurotic and is highly sensitive to criticism. Originally voiced by Kyle Gass, were looking for a voice thats nasally, between a medium/high pitch and with an American accent.
- Ready to fire at will, Eddie! Just say the word! (confident tone)
- Oh crap! Eddie I dont think the cannons working on them! (panicked tone)
- Sorry I wasnt much help back there Guess I kinda froze up (apologetic tone)
And of course we have the various units that make up the armies of Ironheade and The Tainted Coil. Now, while these are smaller roles, they will be featured very prominently throughout the radio play, so youll still have a bit to say and do should you get these parts. Well start with Ironheade, since theyre the ones we need more varied voices for. Weve already casted a couple, but who we still need are Thunderhogs, bikers who heal others with their bass rifts, Fire Barons, a biker gang whos obsessed with burning everyone and everything, Bouncers, muscle-bound idiots with an overly violent temper, Roadies, who are stealthy and carry amps to devastate their enemies, and The Zaulia, Amazon-like women who ride fire breathing Metal Beasts into battle. Make of these characters but you will, but just remember to keep an American accent.
Theyll all be sharing these audition lines:
- Hey Eddie! Whats the situation? (greeting)
- You got it Eddie! Theyll go down in no time! (acknowledgment of an order)
- FOR HEAVY METAL!!!!! (battle cry)
And that just leaves The Tainted Coil, who obviously will sound more evil considering theyre an army of demons. For this you can either go for a monstrous voice or one thats more smooth and sexy, but still has a dangerous tone to it. Remember, females can apply for these roles as well, as well be including a demon nun thats kinda sexy in a weird way.
Theyll be sharing these audition lines:
- Lord Doviculus shall be avenged! (battle cry)
- Lets see how well you neanderthals bleed. (sadistic tone)
- This new threat matters not. Well be their demise as well as yours! (threatening tone)
And now that weve got the pre-existing characters out of the way, now comes the fun part; original characters. While we do have some guidelines for each of these characters, you do have a bit more liberty to play around with these guys considering theyve had no previous voice actors, plus the majority of them are villains, and take it from someone who has voice acted for a while, theyre a hell of a blast to play! But lets start out with one of the new good guys first:
The Prophet An enigmatic wizard living atop The Silver Mountain, The Prophet can not only see tidbits of the future, but also cast powerful enchantments, has a horned giant named Murray at his beck and call, and isnt all that bad with his rainbow sheen sword either. But despite all this awesome power, he always makes a point to be kind, courteous, and provide aid when it is most needed. Were basing him off of heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio, were going to need a voice thats deep and aged, but still powerful enough to sound threatening in battle.
- Welcome Edward. Youre right on time. Then again, fate always has a way of making sure of that. (friendly greeting)
- You are here to seek guidance in stopping The Phantom Blade. Yes, thats one of the major disappointments of always knowing the future; theres little room for surprise. (good natured response)
- Do not make the mistake of underestimating me, spirits. In combat you will find that I am far more than just a rainbow in the dark. (threatening tone)
The Ripper A hulking brute of a warrior who used to tear demons apart for the sheer joy of it until said demons caught him and tore him apart themselves. However, now hes returned from the grave and joined the undead army of The Phantom Blade to continue his brutish work on Ironheade. We based this guy off of Tim The Ripper Owens, so well be looking for a medium pitched voice with an American accent thats not overly dumb, but still full of rage and sadism.
- Oho, Ive been waiting years for this. I wonder which part of you I should tear off first. (sadistic tone)
- Mercy? *laughs* I wouldnt even begin to know the meaning of that word! (amused tone)
- So youre Riggs, huh? Ive been looking forward to the day I get to trade blows with you! (excited tone)
The Dualist An intellectual and noble warrior who gave his life to protect Eddies father, The Dualist comes back to join The Phantom Blade for his own motives and purposes. What they are isnt certain yet, but its quite clear that hes not entirely on The Blades side. Based off of Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, The Dualist has a sense of nobility and honor to him, while at the same time remaining fierce. For this one wed like a medium pitch and a proper English accent.
- If you wish to live, run to the hills now and never return. (calm threat)
- So youre Edward, eh? I have to say I was expecting someone a bit taller. (casual commentary)
- Do not test me boy! I shall run you through if youre not careful! (angry warning)
The Lost Voices A group of abandoned soldiers left with nothing to fight with but their own powerful singing voices, The Lost Voices used guerilla tactics to survive wave after wave of demons until finally they fell at the hands of their fellow soldiers, now corrupted by darkness. Now returning as ghosts, their vocal melodies are more haunting than ever as they fight to return to their original state. Now, heres where things get interesting. While The Lost Voices do have speaking roles from time to time, theyll mostly be singing for their duration in the story. So instead of saying lines for these characters, I want you to send in a sample of your singing. The Lost Voices comprise of 5 males and 1 female, so theres plenty of roles here to go around, but youll be more than likely to get in if you can cover multiple vocal ranges so we can give you more than one part.
The Witch of the Pale Mist Once a student of The Prophet, The Witch of the Pale Mist was banished by her old mentor when he learned she had been practicing dark arts. As a result, she was killed by the Zaulia tribe when she was found roaming their lands and performing her evil craft. Now back from the dead, she joins The Phantom Blade in hopes of claiming vengeance upon all who were responsible for her demise. She has a cold and calculating personality, ruthless to anyone who stands in her way. Even her fellow allies. For her wed like a medium pitch. And a German accent would be preferred, but not required for the audition.
- Oh, so you recognize your old pupil. How delightful. It will make tearing out your heart all the more sweeter. (sadistic threat)
- Of course I can do it! You dare to question my powers? Just watch as your requests unfold more vividly than your wildest dreams! (offended tone)
- Burn you fools! As you once made me all those years ago! (enraged tone)
Chucky Death himself, Chucky isnt exactly the grim reaper that everyone really expects him to be. In fact, hes a very nice guy once you get to know him. He believes that positive reinforcement is the best way to handle taking the dead to their respective afterlives. However, now that The Phantom Blade is on the loose, hes on the offensive, helping Ironheade and keeping the secrets of life and death safe. For this one were looking for a voice with an American accent and a light/medium pitch.
- Hi there! My names Chuck, but you can call me Chucky! All my friends do! (cheery greeting)
- You know I wonder what it would be like if I owned my own island Man, I could make a living off of that for years! (fantasizing tone)
- Look, I need that book back and you need your men back. Seems like a fair trade-off for a partnership, right? (reasonable tone)
And finally, we have the Phantom Blade infantry. The only requirement for this one: act ghoulish. This IS an army of ghosts after all, so we want some haunting voices backing the main villains up. Obviously, like Ironheade and The Tainted Coil, there are multiple roles in this category, all using the following lines:
- For The Phantom Blade! For immortality! (battle cry)
- Do you honestly think you can beat us mortals? (amused tone)
- My life is already taken! You have nothing left to harm us with! (violent tone)
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Back in Kamigawa Block, Gifts Ungiven was a very popular card, showing up in a good percentage of blue decks. I don't understand why it's considered useful. What made this card so popular?
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I'm sorry, you don't think that a Diabolic Tutor in blue (for the same cost) that tutors two cards instead of one (giving you card advantage), can be cast at instant speed (on your opponents turn with untapped mana that's a counterspell threat), and puts two cards in your graveyard is useful?
The only drawback is that the opponent gets to choose which two cards you tutor out of four possibilities. If they are all four good, useable cards, (which they naturally should be if you have crafted a good deck) this is hardly a drawback.
Many decks ran this with Psychatog, as those two cards in the graveyard and those two cards in your hand, if nothing else, help power the 'tog.
I've seen other decks run this with "return creature card from graveyard" spells. Gifts up two of these spells and two big beaters. What does the opponent do?
I found this article on Star City Games showing the sort of broken things you could do with Gifts in Kamigawa block.
Also, consider Careful Consideration
It costs the same (one blue mana instead of one colourless), doesn't let you choose which four cards to draw, and you only get to discard two cards if you cast it in your main phase.
Gifts Ungiven is a very undercosted powerful card with the potential to be broken.
The short version
Gifts Ungiven was — and is — popular because it's one of the most powerful and flexible tutor cards in Magic, thanks to its ability to find multiple relevant cards for just 4 mana, at instant speed. In practice, the card is much more powerful than it looks:
The long version
Gifts Ungiven isn't just any tutor card. Sure, it costs the same as Diabolic Tutor, with the following added bonuses:
So, it's at least as good as Mystical Teachings (also an instant-speed tutor with built-in card advantage — one that saw tournament play during Time Spiral Standard and later in Modern). But it's way better than that, too!
Gifts give you four cards. Not two cards, four cards — it's just that two of them will end up in your graveyard. And you get all those cards at the same time, which makes it an amazing combo tutor.
Your opponent gets to control which cards go where, but, with careful deck-building and skillful play, you can get much more power from the card by effectively removing your opponent's meaningful choices.
Functional equivalents
At the least, Gifts allows you to tutor for four cards and get the third and fourth best ones for the current situation into your hand. That's pretty powerful by itself, though it relies on building a deck that even has a third and fourth best card for many situations.
An easy way to get that effect is to run one-ofs of a bunch of very similar cards, so that your "third best" card is basically the same as your "best" card. Here's the classic example:
(I'm using general examples rather than all Kamigawa-block ones because it's much easier to think about what's good in general Magic than in the rather idiosyncratic world of any set's Block Constructed.)
Two of those cards will end up in your hand. Three of them are 4-drop sweepers. So, whatever your opponent picks, you're guaranteed at least one sweeper in your hand. (The fourth card could be anything, in this case — Path to Exile just fits because you can use it to answer a creature your opponent plays after the wrath.)
Regrowth effects
Running lots of functional equivalents takes up a lot of space in your deck. This isn't too bad for the sweepers example above, since decks often run three of four wraths anyway. When you've got one particular, functionally-unique card you really want, though, or a niche case where you'd only run a one-of.
A common solution is to run "Regrowth" effects, forcing your opponent to choose between the card you want and a card that'll fish it out of your graveyard.
An example from the Kamigawa era is Frank Karsten's 2005 Worlds (Standard) deck. Let's say Frank's opponent has an artifact that needs to be removed right away. The deck has one maindeck answer — Putrefy. Here's a way he could tutor it with Gifts:
Recollect gives you Putrefy back in hand. Reclaim can put it on top of your library; you could either cast Reclaim on your upkeep and draw the card naturally, or use the Top to bring the card to your hand. Your opponent can make you spend a couple of cards and some extra mana to cast Putrefy, but, short of graveyard hate, he can't keep you from casting it.
An easy way to get the same effect with more recent cards, without even having to run green mana sources, is to include Snapcaster Mage and Noxious Revival in your Gifts pile.
Card you just want in your graveyard anyway
Hopefully you saw that this is where we were going when I mentioned Snapcaster.
The graveyard is a very active zone in Magic. So much so that some cards are actually at their most powerful in the 'yard. Kenji Tsumura's 2005 Pro Tour Los Angeles (Extended) deck includes Darkblast and Life from the Loam, whose Dredge ability helps power up his Psychatogs; as well as Wonder, whose in-your-graveyard ability is more relevant than the creature itself.
Flashback cards are great to tutor up with Gifts — whether they go in your hand or the graveyard, you can cast 'em either way. In addition, it's important to note that this is a valid Gifts pile:
That's it! Just two cards.
(The "stated quality" in this case is "different names".)
Since your opponent must choose two cards to go in your graveyard, both of these will end up in your 'yard. At which point you can flashback Rites and bring out your big reanimated finisher. It's the best graveyard-filling tutor this side of Entomb!
I believe the first example of using Gifts like this was actually during Kamigawa block. During one of the Pro Tour matches, a player was about to lose the game but had Goryo's Vengeance and Gifts in hand. So he Gifts-ed for just Kokusho and then let him die to drain his opponent.
Combos and engines
You know how Tooth and Nail is so good because you can dig out both pieces of a combo at the same time?
Gifts does that as well. It's especially easy with graveyard-based engines. For example, Patrick Chapins' 2008 Pro Tour Berlin (Extended) deck could set up his win condition using something like this:
Regardless of which card goes where, this sets up an engine that lets you make a bunch of Worm tokens every turn.
Plain old deception
Setting up "no-win scenarios" for your opponent is powerful and consistent, but sometimes you don't even need to do that.
For instance, let's say you have Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, Steam Vents, and two Izzet Signets in play (five mana total, but one land away from completing the UrzaTron).
You show me this Gifts pile:
Now, I do have real, serious choices here.
There are right choices and wrong choices, but they're based on hidden information. If I guess wrong, you're probably won the game. You're taking a chance when you do this, of course, but it's a chance with a big upside.
Another common way to play mind games with your opponent is to use the Regrowth trick detailed above, but then regrow some other card that was already sitting innocuously in your graveyard.
What a truly busted Gifts deck looks like
Did you know that Gifts Ungiven is restricted in Vintage and banned in Commander? Do you ever wonder why?
Look at this deck (more discussion available here).
Gifts gets so much better with a deeper card pool: there are more ways to cast stuff from your graveyard, more functional equivalents to choose from, more powerhouse "silver bullet" singletons, more two-card combos.
In the right deck, Gifts Ungiven is a one-card combo, an obscene card advantage engine, and every kind of disruption you need to win the game.
To add to ghoppe's answer: Over the past years, MtG has become a very mature game. In particular, library and graveyard manipulation have become very popular, getting a lot of love by the designers, and many mechanics as well as cards now involve these zones.
Considering this, Gifts Ungiven is a very powerful card that, if you design your deck right, actually gives you up to four cards of your choice, two of them into your hand, and three (including Gifts) into your graveyard. Since it's an instant, you can play it at the end of your opponent's turn, which further increases its versatility.
Consider you fetch for: Academy Ruins, Life from the Loam, Wasteland and Crucible of Worlds.
Whatever cards your opponent chooses you'll get all parts to your soft lock. This is just an example, I'm sure there are a lot better card combinations to fetch for. Keep in mind this is for the reasonable cost of 4 mana instant.


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When and how did Martin Luther arrive at the justification by faith teaching? Was it something that he came up with as a result of his stance against the indulgences and later against the Pope, or did he arrive at this teaching even prior to those events?
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First to understand the background to the story that Luther recalls, Luther used to hate Romans 1:17. He struggled with this verse in particular, and the phrase 'God's righteousness' in particular, because he always read it in the sense which it was preached by the Catholic theologians at the time. At that time this verse was understood as the "formal or active righteousness" with which "God is righteous and punishes the unrighteous sinner." In other words, Luther while believing in God and having some faith in Christ struggled with Romans 1:17 before his 'confidence burst' and his faith began to posses him more violently. This is why Romans 1:17 is brought up in his recollections but actually plays little part in his explaining his actual beliefs later on. This he did, regarding justification by faith, most fully in his lectures on Galatians, although Romans as a whole still held an important place as well.
His experience or turning point in breaking through on his understanding of Romans 1:17 is referred to as his 'Tower Experience' because it occurred in the tower of the Black Cloister in Wittenberg (later Luther's home) at an undetermined date between 1508 and 1518.
Luther, before overcoming his doubts about Romans 1:17, used to think 'God's righteousness' in the gospel 'was revealed', not in giving perfect righteousness freely to sinners forever apart from the fact they were sinners, but in punishing sinners and rewarding the righteous. Luther, originally as a monk, viewed the gospel as an extension of the law, not a way to find freedom from its curse. Only later did he discover that a person is saved by faith, without works of the law entering into the equation. He always saw that faith produced many works, but not allowing those works to take part in the subject of justification, where we 'passively receive' righteousness as a gift, apart from our own merit, was something he learned later on. I think the Romans 1:17 'tower experience' that he had was probably during his lectures on Romans which began in the year 1516.
Before this experience He says he had faith but it was not clear yet:
In 1545, he describes his own experience at greater length. He seems to take a longer view if it, like a growing faith and struggle that begins by referring to his days as a monk, his weak faith in his earlier days as a Biblical Professor and finally his overwhelming sense of what Romans 1:17 really meant. He recalled these experiences when describing the events that occurred in the year 1519 when he got into trouble with the Pope. To understand at what point in his thinking 1519 occurs it is helpful to know that Luther first lectured on Romans at around the year 1516, he also lectured a preliminary version of Galatians and Hebrews shortly after this time. However, he did not lecture on Galatians, formally, in the format in which they were published, until around 1531. It took around 16 years for his faith to really explode in the form of Galatians, long after he had kicked the hornets nest in Rome.
In fact, this gripping realization of justification by faith made him revisit his old lectures and begin to rewrite them as early as 1519. It is just before this time that he made his breakthrough in the 'tower experience'. Removing his misunderstanding of that verse, his faith seems to have broke into a full confidence and the verse that used to trouble him became an anchor that symbolized his overwhelming conviction that began slowly years before and grew more and more years later. Here we find he began to revise his work on the Psalms in 1519 and his breakthrough over his doubts about Romans Chapter 1:17 that had 'stood in his way' until this point.
He continues to explain the effects of his experience about Romans 1:17 and how he later found additional support through Augustine. He already had his doctorate in theology in October 19, 1512 and may seem strange that he did not encounter Augustine's work on the subject until years later, but it is a very specific one which Luther mentions, called 'The Spirit and the Letter.'
The truth is although Romans was the place where he made his initial breakthrough it was not the place where his faith finally rested on. For this we must turn to Galatians. In fact Luther hardly has any comments at all under Chapter 1:7 in his works on Romans, but in every verse of Galatians, Luther uses as one more opportunity to pound and pound away at the doctrine that changed his life forever. No bible commentary on any book in the Bible since can pretend in any way to have had the same impact on the world.
As a result of the revolutionary changes in Luther and his dramatic growing faith is there is a problem with Luther's Works in that he had to re-write many things and where the need was not urgent he seems to have left them as they were. Romans is a little thin on doctrine compared to Galatians, as he wrote it years before, it is also was not needing much revision, so Luther probably found most of it still acceptable to him even under his enlarged views years later.
His commentary on Galatians was when he was crystal clear in 1531 and he does not seem to have had enough time to fully rewrite everything before to measure up to his final stage of assurance and knowledge. Therefore regarding the timing of his understanding of the doctrine that in many ways resulted in the Protestant church, I would say that his faith was crystallized around 1517 with Romans and from there it grew until it exploded with Galatians in 1531. He seems to have hung his faith not on Romans at all by this point. Galatians was his eventual favorite work and the essential Luther.
For anyone interested in reading Luther, He wrote his works on Genesis after Galatians so they are not in any need up of updating at all and are a good place to start after Galatians. Some of his earlier works however must be viewed and even possibly corrected by comparing them to Galatians.
After all his years Luther clearly favored his writing on Galatians above all else. I am sure he would have instantly agreed to the burning of all his books if he might keep his work on Galatians. It is here where you find Luther's views in the doctrine of salvation by faith, apart from works. One can't understand Luther at all without reading it. Anyone who has read it will understand why. I challenge anyone interested in Luther to read his work on Galatians in order to begin to understand him.
According to Luther's own testimony, it was after an in depth study of Romans. Romans 1:17 in particular (often called Paul's thesis statement for the book of Romans) says:
That last line (from Habakkuk) convinced Luther that no work of man, and hence no religious decree of the Church, trumped Faith.


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I would like to know what is the sense of using st_buffer operation. In PostGIS reference guide there is only the syntax and a short description of this operation.
Could you give some examples to understand the advantages of this operation?
As @Underdark comments ST_Dwithin is the recommended way of finding geometries at a distance. In many other gis-systems the buffer method is the only way but building buffers is quite costly.
But there is other use cases when you need to buffer. One reason can be to visualize a buffer. If you for instance wants to show the area closer than 100 meters from a highway, then you can make a buffer.
Another case is if you want to get the area 100 meters from the highway to be cut out from another map. Say you have a map showing areal usage and you want to analyze how much of the area closer than 100 meters from the highway is forest and how much is agriculture area. Then you make a buffer and creates an intersection with the area usage map.
There is an example on page 8-10 on this tutorial:
OpenGeo provides a pretty good summary of ST_Buffer. Note the ability to pass a negative buffer radius.
The buffer function is also a useful work around at times. By passing a buffer radius of zero, you can build a footprint of a collection of geometries or "repair" an invalid polygon geometry.
ummm to do a buffer? That's all it really does.
I wouldn't really call this a short description http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-svn/ST_Buffer.html
A use case is if you want to select all the objects in one table that are within 20m of each object in another table.


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I'm trying to save all the missions with unique loot for a playthrough 2.5, so that I can get high level uniques. My character is getting pretty severely underleveled in the process and is now too weak to take on higher level enemies. Is there a list of the missions that one can do before playthrough 2.5 that do not give you any unique loot, so I can bring my level up a bit?
Ben Brocka is correct that bosses will respawn, so all that matters is quest rewards that are unique. I've found a list someone else compiled of all missions that give unique loot (source).
Well buddy i don't think you need to save the mission for later. As Feeble said Rewards doesn't level up with you(in same play-through). Let me explain a bit.
you need to finish the game i.e. you need to kill the warrior to open True vault hunter mode, once its open you need to select is from character selection menu. you will get all the side-quest again in second/third play-through (Doesn't matter if you have completed those quest in last playthorugh). I completed all the quests both the times, now looking forward to playthrough 2.5, I have 2 unique (Flame of firehawk lvl 11 and lvl 40. I did Clayton's quest both times, so think you can do it over and no need to worry about missing those unique.) from 1st and True vault hunter mode.
By the way this information is regarding PC version of borderlands, don't if its different in XBOX version.
First and foremost there's no point in waiting until playthrough 2.5 to get unique weapons. The mission rewards don't scale with your level, they stay the same through each playthrough and they'll increase for the next playthrough, when you can do the mission again. There's no reason whatsoever not to do the quests now and reap the benefits. You'll be getting the same things only better on subsequent playthroughs anyway.
Oh, and yeah, every boss you face and almost all minibosses respawn as well. You just have to save and quit, then reload and they'll be there. You can farm them this way in order to get their rare drops.


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