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On July 6, 2010, Stanley Robertson was arrested following a standoff at his apartment complex on Longmire Drive in College Station. Police believe he and his girlfriend, Tammy Toliver, had an argument that led to Robertson threatening Toliver with a knife.
Robertson would be released on bond from Brazos County Jail on August 1, 2010. Days later, authorities say he would admit to stabbing Toliver's mother to death after kidnapping her.
The following story is based on information from authorities. Robertson is innocent until proven guilty in court.
The alleged crimes began on August 13 at around 6:00 p.m. Robertson, along with Tammy's mother, Annie Mae Toliver, and Tammy's brother, Curtis Toliver, had gone to the WalMart on Brothers Boulevard in College Station, reportedly in order for Robertson to get money to pay back Tammy, who at the time was in Giddings at her sister-in-law's home.
According to Curtis Toliver, he and Robertson went into the store while Annie Toliver, 59, waited in Robertson's SUV. Curtis told police Robertson claimed he had left his wallet in his vehicle and left to get it. CSPD says Robertson would later admit to stabbing Annie in the neck when he got to the SUV, then driving away with her.
Elen Burns would tell police she was on the phone with Annie when Robertson got to his SUV, heard Annie yell, then lost the connection. Burns told police she then called Curtis Toliver fearing for Annie's safety.
Curtis returned to the parking lot to find his mother, Robertson and the vehicle gone. At 6:25 p.m., Curtis called police, who responded to the WalMart.
As Curtis and an officer spoke, Curtis reportedly received a call from his mother's cell phone with Robertson as the caller. Robertson said he and Annie were at a liquor store and hung up. An attempt to call Robertson back wasn't answered.
Burns and Charles Johnson were at the scene, according to the police report, which does not elaborate on their relationships to the parties involved. Both would approach the responding officer and tell them they'd received calls from Robertson claiming he had shot Annie Toliver.
"Horn (Toliver's nickname) is dead," Robertson is quoted as saying to Burns. "I shot her. Tell Tammy she is the cause of that."
CSPD would get in contact with Tammy Toliver's sister-in-law, Lisha Rogers, who said Robertson was on the phone (set to speaker and recorded by Rogers) with Tammy claiming he had stabbed Annie multiple times. He reportedly said he was going to kill Annie, then himself. Robertson could be heard threatening Annie, who can be heard claiming she had been cut. Robertson is reportedly heard telling Annie to say she hadn't been cut. She reportedly complies. Robertson also allegedly threatens to kill any officers who come into contact with him.
Robertson was also on the phone at times with College Station City Marshall Chad Harkrider, who tried to get the suspect to take Annie Toliver to a hospital. Robertson reportedly made the same threats against Annie, law enforcement and himself.
Police would successfully ping Robertson's cell phone and locate him traveling north on I-35. Authorities in the area were notified.
Fort Worth Police say they got a call from a person who says they saw an SUV matching the description of Robertson's with a bloodied woman in the front seat. Authorities would find that vehicle and a chase ensued. At around 1:30 a.m. on August 14, Robertson, going the wrong way on US 287 in east Fort Worth, would ram his SUV into a FWPD patrol car, injuring himself and the officer.
From John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Robertson allegedly asked to speak to Harkrider. The city marshall and police went to Robertson, who was reportedly read his Miranda rights but agreed to speak to authorities. Robertson allegedly said Toliver had died after he stabbed her again in the neck on the outskirts of Fort Worth, and he had dumped the body in a parking lot.
Three hours after he rammed his vehicle and ended the police pursuit, authorities found the body of Annie Mae Toliver around the 4000 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard west of downtown Fort Worth near a shopping center. An autopsy would reveal Toliver died of hemorrhaging due to multiple stab wounds. No gunshot wound, as Robertson allegedly claimed in early phone calls, is noted by police in the report.
The FWPD officer injured in the collision was released from the hospital on August 15.
Robertson would be confined in the Brazos County jail on August 26 on a total of $791,500 in bonds, including $750,000 on a charge of capital murder. Following Robertson's indictment, prosecutors later announced they would seek the death penalty.
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I know there is already a question about EV, but it doens't quite answer my question. I understand EV as a relative measurement, 1 EV being one stop (doubling or halving the amount of light), but what is 0 EV? What does it mean when Nikon claims that a camera can autofocus in -2 EV?
The easy part is the absolute answer as usually defined.
LV is related to the the light level falling on the subject.
EV is the light level inside the camera.
EV0 is the light level at the camera to achieve correct exposure with
EV values are logarithmic so light level at EV8 = 2^8 x EV0 level = 256 x EV0 level.
So eg correct exposure at EV8 would be F16 at 1 second with ISO 100
So a given EV at the camera will have various LV levels depending on mean scene reflectance. [That trips off the tongue nicely :-) ].
Below is an EV chart, from this useful page
BUT a level of EV-2 would be correctly exposed at f1.4, 8s, ISO 100 - which is pleasantly surprising if the D800 can do it. (I think I saw that spec in the D800 announcement material few days ago).
Wikipedia is useful on LV & EV but takes some wading through.
Table 2 shows full moonlight as EV-2 to EV-3 which is consistent with the above table.
I attempted to equate the above to illuminance levels in lux (lumen/m^2) - which requires assumptions on reflectance and opens a large pandora's box. The Wikipedia discussion of calibration constants here on the "light meters" page rapidly shows that this is a well trodden battle ground with no one answer.
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It seems about right to say that you get about EV0 at the camera with 1 lux of illumination and a typical subject reflectance mix. Very bright Moonlight is typically around 0.5 lux giving EV -1 by the above assessment which is only one EV off the statement cited previously - which is probably close enough to exact in this sort of area.
Other useful musings:
Ken Rockwell - EV & LV - notes that Ken's definion for LV0 is the same as what I said above for Ev0. I think my reference is the more correct one but, I may be wrong :-). He directly equates LV and EV at ISO 100 which seemeth not right.
Sekonic lux to EV table - they SHOULD know what they are talking about :-). They ay Ev0 is 2.5 Lux or about 1 EV brighter than I said above. They say:
To understand what EV 0 and EV -2 mean, perhaps it is useful to understand what it is not. It is not complete darkness or the absence of light. EV 0 is defined as f/1 @ 1 second. When manufacturers use the term to define an illuminance level, it is usually assumed that the amount of light is what is needed to produce a nominally correct exposure for that EV with a film/sensor sensitivity of ISO 100. Since the EV scale is logarithmic and each step is double or one half depending on which direction you are stepping, it means that each step is an additional power of 2.
Negative values in a exponential expression simply mean the number is the inverse of the same number raised to the same positive power. If 2^3=8, then 2^-3=1/8. Since an EV number is based on EV 0 raised to a power of 2, then negative EV numbers indicate a fraction of the base value, rather than a multiple of the base value as positive numbers indicate. If EV 3 requires 8 times as much light as EV 0 (2³=8) to produce the same exposure, then EV -3 requires 1/8 the light of EV 0 (2^-3=1/2^3=1/8) and EV -2 requires 1/4 the light of EV 0 (2^-2=1/2²=1/4) to produce the same exposure.
According to this EV 0 is defined as f/1.0 at 1 second (@100 ISO - see comment)
EV -2 equates to an exposure with an f/1.4 lens at 8 seconds, or f/5.6 at 2 minutes! Very dim indeed.


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In the depths of the Great Depression, the voice of a radio superhero known as The Green Ray entertained America. Forty years later, the man behind the character--two-bit voice actor Ray Green, known to his family as Reuven Agranovsky--is caught in an all-night blackout in the desert town of Mason, New Mexico, where a chain of events is set in motion that forces The Green Ray out of retirement. But at seventy-three, Ray faces a different--and far more terrifying--world.
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Jon Stephen Fink is the author of the novel Further Adventures, which has just been re-issued by Harper Perennial in an edition newly revised by the author. His poetry has been published in the Chicago Review and The New York Quarterly, among other magazines. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in Great Britain, where he is working on his sixth novel, The Return of The Green Ray.
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Kingsley's assessment was as accurate. The undefeated Hawks soundly defeated Pomperaug, 42-13, on Friday night in the Naugatuck Valley League-South-West Conference Challenge at Edward Arum Athletic Complex.
The Hawks (6-0) did it with a precision offense, led by quarterback Tanner Kingsley, receivers Taylor Tucciarone, Mike Kenney and Joe Poeta, and timely special-team plays featuring Mike Lang, Kenney, Jack Pinho, Will Flormann and Jason Rodrigues.
You also can't overlook the stellar defense, sparked by Coby Vaccarelli (10 tackles), Flormann (eight tackles, a sack), Levi Fancher (six tackles, a sack) and Pat Hale (interception in the end zone).
"We have stars making plays all over the field," said Vaccarelli. "Every day in practice we are focused and working hard, and it is showing."
Against the Panthers, it all started with Lang, a track star who darted down the field on the opening kickoff for a 85-yard score, his second TD return of the season. That occurred just 13 seconds into the game.
"When Mike made that play, that really got us going," said Tucciarone. "We came out with a lot of intensity. Our coaches harp on us about being perfect with all of the little things, and I believe we did that."
The next big play came on the ensuing kickoff when Gonzales hit a pop kick down the field that Pinho secured at the Pomperaug
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On the next play, Kingsley connected with Poeta on a 37-yard TD pass at 11:30 left in the first quarter.
"You can't spot a 14-0 lead in the first 30 seconds of the game and expect to win," said Pomperaug coach David Roach. "We did it last week against Masuk (a 35-32 win), but our kids thought we could do it again. We couldn't against a very good team and a very good quarterback. All of Kingsley's throws were on cue. If you can't get to the quarterback, he will pick you apart."
Tucciarone caught TD passes of 36 and 18 yards from Kingsley (15-of-26, 217 yards, four TDs). Kenney caught seven passes for 52 yards and a TD, but it was his two recoveries of Pomperaug fumbles on punt returns that were even bigger. Both led to scores.
"Getting those turnovers were huge," said Kenney. "Everyone has stepped up this season. To be 6-0 is an awesome feeling. Only we believed it could happen. We are planning on keeping it rolling. We're getting better and better."
So is the left-handed Kingsley, who now has thrown for 25 touchdowns and 1,606 yards with only three interceptions in six games.
"We just have great chemistry, and everyone is contributing and giving it a great team effort," said Kingsley.
Woodland running back Sean McAllen rushed for 110 yards and a TD.
Pomperaug's Matt Silverman and Steven Croce each caught a TD pass from quarterback Wade Prajer, who engineered the last-second win over Masuk last week.
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" Woodland has looked outstanding in all of its 6 wins. I have been to every game now and I think this team will show people that didn't beleive that this team is the real deal. Kingsley has weapons all over the field and the defense continues to fly all over the place to keep other offenses on their toes.
Keep it up Woodland "
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The Brookfield Common Council said "yes" to flashy advertisements Tuesday, approving the use of electronic message boards in freestanding signs, but held off on two other measures pertaining to whether retailers can display merchandise outdoors.
Both issues - electronic signs and outdoor displays - center on balancing business owners' need to draw in customers with the city's need to maintain an appealing atmosphere.
In a 10-2 vote with one abstention, the council agreed to allow static message boards - no flashing or strobe effects - smaller than half the surface area of the sign. It also said the messages on such boards can change no more often than once an hour.
While the message boards can be incorporated into two-sided signs, they cannot be installed on signs attached to a wall or building.
Aldermen Bill Carnell and Renee Lowerr voted against the measure.
Carnell pointed out that the city bans neon signs and said he feels electronic messages are ugly and garish in comparison.
"A neon sign, to me, is a work of art. This (electronic message board) is hideous. I don't think it fits well with Brookfield," Carnell said.
Lowerr said the advertisements would be a distraction, and difficult to regulate.
Aldermen Bob Reddin, Gary Mahkorn and Scott Berg disagreed, saying electronic message boards are evidence of the progress of technology and will increase sales at local businesses.
"I'd be surprised ... if sales didn't double the next day," Berg said.
Alderman Rick Owen abstained from voting, and Alderman Buck Jurken was absent from the meeting.
The council also tabled two related amendments regarding the outdoor sale and display of products at grocery stores and other commercial retailers in the city.
The Plan Commission had recommended an ordinance that would specify that grocery stores and produce stands are allowed to display produce and products outside their stores, but which excluded other retailers from such permission. The proposed amendment would allow these retailers to get a permit to perform "sidewalk sales," which would last for no more than three days at a time and allow stores to display items outside.
Several members of the community spoke in protest.
Paula Moylan, owner of the Urban Upcycle, 2863 N. Brookfield Road, and her landlord, David Marcello, said displaying clothes outside the store attracts a lot of additional business and this practice should be continued to keep the area unique.
"I get a lot of positive feedback," Moylan said. "People come by on their bikes and walk by all the time."
Alderman Daniel Sutton pointed out that the ordinance does not cover certain storefronts, including those such as Moylan's that would display clothing. He felt sidewalk sales, which could be held only three times a year for an owner, were too restrictive as well. As such, he motioned to table the amendments and ordinance until a more complete document could be drafted.
"My concern is all the people doing other things that this doesn't cover," Sutton said. "I'd like to see an all-encompassing ordinance."
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If I understood correctly, both 完 and 了 can be used to indicate a completed action, so what is the difference in use? How do we properly use 完 in a sentence? Which contexts would be valid?
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You can use 完 and 了 together or separately.
完了 can have 3 different meanings/uses.
没完 can be used to describe things left undone, or something never-ending/eternal. E.g., 活儿还没完 (Work is not done/finished yet) or "說話沒完的人" (a motormouth, someone who talks to no end).
The other answers give some good examples, so I'll try to provide an answer from a grammatical perspective.
完 can be used as a resultative complement meaning "to finish doing something". You put it after a verb to mean that you finished doing that verb. 「吃完」 means "finish eating".
了 has many different uses, but the one that I first learned was as a past tense marker. 「吃了」 means "ate".
Now, to talk about something that you finished doing in the past, you combine the two. 「我吃完了」 means, "I finished eating."
There's a ton more detail to learn with these two words. I suggest you look at the Chinese grammar wiki complements page, the completion with 了 page, and maybe the many uses of 了 page. I expect most beginner or early intermediate textbooks will cover these topics as well.
I would translate 完 as "complete," and 了 as "done." 完了 would then be a very emphatic "completely done."
All answers miss an important point: the two words are total two different stuff at all! 完 is a verb while 了 is an auxiliary word.
完 in case of this question is used as a secondary part of a compound verb, it denotes the result of the dominated verb. Such kind of compound verbs are called Resultative Compound Verbs. In most situations, say 写完了报告, 了 is used with the whole compound verb instead of just 完. They are not connected as they seem!
so instead of saying, 没看完了 ... one would say 沒有看完 or沒有吃完 for eating...
没 and 完 can be used together to indicate an action that has yet to be completed in this pattern 没 + V + 完 for example:
To mean I haven't finished watching/reading it or I haven't finished eating (it)
You can also combine the two in this case it would be:
To mean the same as above.
However the following:
This means I haven't seen/read (it) or I haven't eaten (it)
I (still) haven't read this book or He/she hasn't eaten their ice-cream.


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after playing Half Life 1 online for a while and then restarting, this is what my menu looks like:
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28 Dec 2011 5:54 PM #1
creeping context menu
Each time I display a context menu (via right click in my case) the popup menu creeps down the screen. Its shadow displays in the correct place but the menu itself gets further and further down the screen
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What browser are you seeing that in? And is the context menu an Ext.menu.Menu?
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I see. I'm not seeing the creep anomaly, but I am seeing the menu detached from the shadow. The shadow is positioned correctly and the menu is down below it.
Interestingly, when I run the same script below in by filesystem I'm good - no issues in FF9, IE9, or Chrome16. But when I publish and test from my second computer off of the web server in IE8 or FF5 is when I see the disembodied menu issue. I'm posting my test case below and a screenshot.
*maybe it's fixed already after be Beta cutoff? See this post for reference: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...p-shadow-error
But, if not, and you're seeing something different you might post your test case as well.
Ext.onReady(function () { var menu = Ext.widget('menu', { items: [{ text: 'menu item 1' }, { text: 'menu item 2' }] }) Ext.widget('grid', { width: 200 , height: 200 , renderTo: Ext.getBody() , columns: [{ header: 'one' , dataIndex: 'one' }, { header: 'two' , dataIndex: 'two' }] , store: Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', { fields: ['one', 'two'] , data: [{ one: 'first' , two: 'second' }, { one: 'third' , two: 'fourth' }] }) , listeners: { itemcontextmenu: function (view, record, item, i, e, opt) { e.preventDefault() menu.showAt(e.getXY()) } } }) })
29 Dec 2011 10:35 AM #5
it is creeping down. Each time you invoke the menu it is a little further down the screen. I dont mean that it moves of its own accord, just that each display is a little lower
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I have a similar problem with the following simple code:
Ext.onReady(function(){ var win=Ext.create('Ext.window.Window',{ title:'Window', plain:true, items:[{ xtype:'splitbutton', text: 'button', menu: new Ext.menu.Menu({ items: [ {text: 'item1'}, {text: 'item2'}, {text: 'item3'} ]}) }] }); win.show(); });
If I put the config "plain" to false, the problem disappears.
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I am also having the same problem too.
This can be reproduced in the kitchen sink demo too..
To reproduce this, resize the page to smaller window so that panels will have scroll bars, and click on menu and scroll the page.
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I am facing the same issue with 4.2 version and the context menu is placed at the bottom of the screen , any inputs on how it should be resolved ?


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — It could be the muffled sound of singing in the shower or that sing-songy indecipherable voice from the Muppets' Swedish Chef.
Surprisingly, scientists said the audio they captured was a whale imitating people. In fact, the whale song sounded so eerily human that divers initially thought it was a human voice.
Handlers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego heard mumbling in 1984 coming from a tank containing whales and dolphins that sounded like two people chatting far away.
It wasn't until one day, after a diver surfaced from the tank and asked, "Who told me to get out?" did researchers realize the garble came from a captive male Beluga whale. For several years, they recorded its spontaneous sounds while it was underwater and when it surfaced.
An acoustic analysis revealed the human-like sounds were several octaves lower than typical whale calls. The research was published online Monday in Current Biology.
Scientists think the whale's close proximity to people allowed it to listen to and mimic human conversation. It did so by changing the pressure in its nasal cavities. After four years of copying people, it went back to sounding like a whale, emitting high-pitched noises. It died five years ago.
Dolphins and parrots have been taught to mimic the patterns of human speech, but it's rare for an animal to do it spontaneously.
The study is not the first time a whale has sounded human. Scientists who have studied sounds of white whales in the wild sometimes heard what sounded like shouting children. Caretakers at the Vancouver Aquarium in Canada previously said they heard one of the white whales say its name.
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Definition of sympodium in English:
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The apparent main axis or stem of a plant, made up of successive secondary axes due to the death of each season's terminal bud, as in the vine.
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- Since the lateral axes have more or less the same pattern of arrangement of sympodia as the main axis, the number of branch bundles is related to the number of bundles within the leaf vascular supply characteristic for that species.
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Are Dalcrose Eurhythmics concepts appropriate for newly beginning instrumentalists or do they rely on instrumental techniques that are only acquired later? If they are appropriate, what are some of the benefits that have been said to come from beginning Eurhythmics at an early stage?
The preparatory school at one of the music schools I attended offered this for children learning music. I can't point you towards any studies, but there are two things that come to mind why I think that this is a great idea.
I've come across Dalcroze Eurhythmics as part of a class on Kodaly - our teacher gave us a taster of some DE exercises. My impression is that (rather like Alexander Technique) it could be extremely useful to beginner musicians/performers because it embodies good habits before you have a chance to develop the bad ones!
Internalising pulse and rhythm in the body is essential for later playing. Musicians who have trouble with this often exbibit problems such as speeding up, over-intellectualising (e.g. only being able to play rhythms through counting rather than feeling them), or over-controlling the body (a problem I experience in conducting).
As Kyle says, the exercises are also massively fun - so a beginner player struggling with various technical and mental challenges might find these very helpful in keeping the momentum and joy going!
(Your question made me look up DE again, so I might now have talked myself into giving it a go - alas, to fix the bad habits I already have!)


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GURPS RPGGEEK is almost always a great answer. I would suggest it if you want a 'crunchy' Fallout experience. You asked for specifics, so here they are:
In Fallout, you can encounter futuristic robots, WWII firearms, 1980's computer systems, barbarian villages where the pinnacle of technology is the plow, and nomads who's crowning achievement is the pointy stick. GURPS has always had support for multiple Tech Levels. It'll support PCs from any of those tech levels interacting with equipment from any of those tech levels.
As mentioned above, Fallout was designed for GURPS originally, so it's got a lot of meaningful weapon variety. In GURPS, there are many different variables in weapons, so you can have two semi-automatic pistols without them being the same except for their descriptions.
Aside from weapons, GURPS has good rules for computers, armor, vehicles, medicine, and pretty much everything else.
GURPS allows you a lot of freedom to create mutants, a big part of the Fallout appeal. Designing new races is pretty straightforward, so you could have templates to make all those things you encounter in Fallout recognizable, but not all the same. Ghouls (Is that what those irradiated guys are called? Can't remember.), giant animals, supermutants, vampires, murkloks (?), etc..
For a GURPS Fallout campaign, I'd recommend the following books in addition to the core:
There is a Fallout PnP system that uses the exact system in the computer games. Which, luckily you can find in No Mutants Allowed.
Whenever I play Fallout in tabletop environment, I use those rules. It is much more Fallout-ishy than anything else
Fallout the computer game was originally designed using Steve Jackson's GURPS - and an early name was "Vault 13: A GURPS Post-Nuclear Adventure"! Sadly the corporate relationship fell apart, but as you might imagine it is still similar to it in feel and execution. There is a pretty good GURPS fan conversion for GURPS Fallout as a result.
Darwin's World is a d20 Modern game inspired heavily by Fallout. There is a Savage Worlds version of Darwin's World too if you want different mechanics.
Exodus: Post Apocalyptic Roleplaying was originally specifically called "d20 Fallout" before some kind of problem with the licensing.
So if you have a soft spot for GURPS or d20, both are good fits - explicit conversions, large player base, and many other supplements and sources to draw from.
As much as I hate seeing people answer their own question, here's some results from my own research, in case others stumble on this topic...
Deadlands : Hell on Earth - A good, quick system. Rewards player participation, and self-moderation of disadvantages. Supports differing levels of technology, but no concrete rules for a lot of high-tech items, like computers. Some setting-specific rules and character types, but easily adapted.
Twilight:2000 - No support for mutants, but lots of realistic millitary rules, and radiation effects. The first edition was pretty bad, but the second edition was a fairly simplistic system, using d20s. Good support for modern skill sets, but the character generation rules might suffer a little in a true Fallout setting.
Aftermath - a really old-school post-apoc game. The basic set had details of many different apocalypses.
d20 Modern/Future/Post-Apoc - It's d20 3.5. What else needs to be said? Nothing specifically supporting Fallout, but reasonably good generic rules, if you like class-based systems. Can be good for introducing players familliar with d20 mechanics.
Gamma World - A little too fantasy-oriented for Fallout. The high-tech gadgets and mutants are of a different style to Fallout, but at least there is plenty of variety. The latest version is even less crunchy than the previous ones, and would suit Fallout even less.
Honestly surprised this wasn't an answer here already but here's why I think it fits:
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My Experience: Fallout in all but name
While I unfortunately have no experience with playing Apocalypse World to follow the canon Fallout setting, almost all of the Apocalypse World games I've participated in have been rife with mutants, bizarre technology (both 'ancient' and homegrown) and freakish monsters all wrapped up in a dusty post-nuclear wasteland of gangs and cobbled-together settlements in the ruins of civilization.
The only missing thing in my own experiences is that my players were all happy to embrace the Psychic Maelstrom and the weirdery therein. As mentioned above this might clash a little with the Fallout setting. I don't feel like its inclusion would detract from the Fallout 'feel' but it's definitely an addition that doesn't have any precedence in my experience with the setting.
We've played Exodus for a couple of sessions so far and we are really enjoying it. It's Fallout with the serial numbers filed off. (Apparently, they didn't do a very good job on that, due to the lawsuits involving the game.)
Exodus uses the d20 system with a ton of new material that sticks very closely to the source material. Chances are, if you chose a Perk in one of the games, it's now either Trait, Feat, or Talent. Character creation is pretty free-form. You select a Background and Profession, which give you access to class skills and bonus feats. (You also 'tag' three skills, which always gives you access to them and you can advance them above the normal rank cap.) Then you choose either the Offensive or Defensive class.
Cyberpunk 2020, although long out of print, is a skill-driven RPG with an appropriately lethal combat system. The rules on cyberware and the Net might not be appropriate for a Fallout-derived setting, but everything else would be a good fit.
Don't forget the freely available Mutant Future from Goblinoid Games, a retro-clone of Gamma World.
The game supports both old style weaponry as well as mutant humans. Your GM can leave out the spidergoats if he wants.


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Sunrise at Kalk Bay – Flickr pic of the day
"This photograph was taken from the jetty in Kalk Bay capturing a rich golden sun popping up over the mountains across the bay", says our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Tom Hudson1957.
Kalk Bay has beautiful scenic views and it's Main Road ihas a variety of antique stores, galleries, second-hand bookstores and restaurants.
Kalk Bay is still a lively working harbour and one of the best places to buy fresh fish straight off the boat. It's also a great place to take photographs – it's almost impossible to take a bad picture here as this photograph proves!
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The Coalition for Juvenile Justice will host its 2013 Youth Summit on August 2-3, 2013, in Washington, DC. In accordance with the summit theme, "Empowering Young Leaders for Juvenile Justice Reform [1]," sessions will provide youth leaders with information on juvenile justice basics, disproportionate minority contact, the school-to-prison pipeline, and leadership development. (OJJDP)
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MOUNDSVILLE -- Bishop Donahue had been standing a little too close the ledge of the W.Va. Class A playoff field for a couple of weeks.
The Bishops knew there was little room for a misstep.
Perhaps that's why, after allowing a 59-yard touchdown pass on Beallsville's first snap Saturday night, they were all business, scoring six of the game's next seven touchdowns in a 42-13 dismantling of a Blue Devils club that is similarly hanging on for dear life as far as playoff spots go.
Mikey Palmer got Beallsville off to a rousing start, grabbing a 15-yard flip from quarterback Chase Mercer and racing 59 yards to the end zone 18 seconds into the game.
"We had actually worked on (defending) that play," Bishop Donahue coach John Durdines said. "Our guy lined up in the wrong spot."
It was anything but an indication of things to come.
"I loved our kids' characters," Durdines said. "They just put that score behind them and battled on from there."
After Bishop Donahue was flagged on its first snap, most certainly a sign of things to come, it scored on four of its first six drives.
"We came out pretty fired up," Durdines said. "They wanted to play extremely hard. They knew this was going to be a tough, physical game. The kids understand. We've been preaching all week long. They knew Beallsville was a great team. They definitely wanted to come out and make a statement."
That came in many loud, and clear, forms. There was a 9-yard touchdown run by Alex Riedel that capped the first drive, a 15-yard scoring run by Brett Moore on the third, a 21-yard touchdown pass from to Jesse Padlow to Chaice Truex on the fifth drive and a 5-yard scoring run by Riedel to end the first half.
There were penalties sprinkled throughout. Bishop Donahue had seven penalties for 60 yards in the first half and 10 for 85 in the game. One of those brought back a 17-yard touchdown run by Andrew Cunningham in the first half. Another negated a 44-yard scoring run by Lavonte Hampton in the second half.
"We have to make sure we clean up all of those," Durdines said.
Eighteen seconds after Truex's touchdown, Mercer and Palmer hooked up again, turning a screen pass into a 60-yard touchdown. At halftime, Beallsville had 194 yards and Palmer owned 159 of them.
"We thought we could get to the edges a little bit. That's kinda what we geared our offense for this week," Blue Devils coach Paul Kanzigg said.
It worked through the air, but not on the ground. The Bishops defense cut the sweeps off early and often, as Beallsville had 44 yards on 21 carries.
Bishop Donahue put it away with a pair of quick scores in the third quarter, the first a 5-yard scoring rush by Padlow and the second a 6-yard touchdown reception by Riedel.
"They were more physical, they just wore us down," Kanzigg said. "They're a quality ballclub. We knew that. They had some injuries. They're getting everybody back at the right time. When they get in the playoffs, I think they'll make some noise."
Padlow completed 14 of 21 passes for 234 yards and a pair of scores. Truex caught four of those for 98 yards. Leading the Bishops on the ground was Cunningham, with 58 yards on 17 carries.


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I need to clear the local storage for safari on my iPad, what I found by googling says to go to
Settings > Safari > Databases but
databases is no where to be found in my safari settings. The screenshots show it right below
accept cookies but it's not there or anywhere else on the page (or sub pages). Any ideas?
I need to clear the local storage for safari on my iPad, what I found by googling says to go to
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When no database exists, the Database Menu isn't shown ;)
Try log in your google account or other webapp that uses localStorage to see it...
Or create a HTML file with a script tag containing (on same domain obviously) :
I ran into a similar problem myself - I knew that there were databases on my phone, but there was no "Databases" panel under "Settings > Safari". (Which sounds like the exact problem you were having...)
So, I completely powered off my phone (hold down the sleep button for about 15 seconds, until you see the RED "Slide to power off" button. Give the phone about 30 seconds, then power it back on by holding down the sleep button again for about 10 seconds).
When the phone started back up, "Databases" was now visible under "Settings > Safari."
From there, you can "swipe" to delete any databases you don't want.
Good luck!
Its not
PS: All your cookies and session/location storage will be cleared. Unlike desktop version, you don't have to options to select and clear


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I have some RNA-Seq data and I'd like to align it to the physical genome and see which sections of chromatin are geometrically open and being transcribed. The data are already sequence-aligned, and every Google search I do for tools that might help ends up sending me down a rabbit hole. What computational tools have helped you?
Starting out with RNA data is great, since you already have fully spliced entities, despite being in a different dynamic regime.
As the chromatin landscape itself is dynamic and High throughput data exploration has only begun in the last decade, consider the following tools and results with care...
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December 03, 2012
Table Mountain inaugurated as a New7Wonder of Nature, festive lights switched on
The festive season kicked off in fine style this weekend and set the trend for what promises to be an amazing summer in Cape Town. Yesterday was a special day for Cape Town when our beloved Table Mountain was inaugurated as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature before Executive Mayor, Alderman Patricia De Lille switched on the festive lights in the city.
More than 100 000 people descended on the city centre, making their way to the Grand Parade for a free concert and a parade of amazing floats in the build-up to the flicking of the switch.
Turning on the lights along Adderley Street, is traditionally seen as the official start to the festive season in Cape Town.
The video below sums up this year's event.
A holiday in the city would not be complete without making your way up Table Mountain, made all the more special as it is now officially one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature. As De Lille said at the weekend: "Table Mountain's inauguration as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature is a worthy recognition of this symbol that we all own and cherish. While it defines our city, it is much greater than it. It is a natural heritage that belongs to all South Africans and, we believe, the world."
While thousands of people take the quick route up the mountain, via the cableway, many others make use of hiking trails to get to the top, to experience breathtaking views of the city and to enjoy the amazing flora and fauna.
Stay Festive!
The Mother City remains alive, busy and vibey way into the night as people take in the warm summer evenings.
The Company's Garden, a popular lunch-time destination for locals comes alive, this week, a Waste to Art Market gives entrepreneurs an opportunity to sell repurposed "waste" materials. Also this year the city has moved the popular Summer Market from Adderley Street to the Company's Garden. The market is well worth a visit, with scores of stalls, selling arts and crafts, which make perfect stocking fillers, and a range of local entertainers on hand.
The popular Mother City Queer Project will be held at the Cape Town Stadium on December 15. This year's theme is Fairytale Fantasy, with the expectation that thousands of revellers will come dressed as over the top, and uniquely interpreted fairy tale characters.
But it's not just the inner city which knows how to throw a party the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden has for the past 21 years hosted the Summer Sunset Concerts which runs until April. Every Sunday thousands of people, bearing picnic baskets and blankets make themselves comfortable on the lawn in front of a massive stage to see some of the country's and the world's great artists perform.
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What was Finland's position in World War Two? Apparently, they were fighting against the Soviet Union, but not as Nazi Germany's ally. Are there reasons for this, and were they actually on Germany's side?
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The USSR attacked Finland in 1939, which ended in a stalemate (1940). This was an embarrassment to the USSR, but the treaty gave the USSR 10% of Finnish territory.
Finland sought to bolster its military strength with treaties and alliances. Great Britain and the USA were allied with the USSR against Hitler at the time and therefore would not help. Finland turned to Germany (the enemy of my enemy is my friend...), which sent troops to Finland.
In June of 1941 the USSR launched air-raids against Finland, which in turn declared war on the USSR and allowed German troops stationed within Finland to take offensive action. In the south the Finns and Germans re-took their territory. When they started going beyond reclaiming land, the UK demonstrated its support of the USSR with its Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo. In December 1941 Finland took up defensive positions, which resulted in relative calm for several years.
The USSR pushed the Finns back to where the previous truce had occurred (-10% land for Finland).
The USSR was then in a race to Berlin and couldn't be bothered with Finland. In Sept 1944, peace was made and the Moscow armistice signed, which bound Finland to drive German forces from Finland. Finland tried to drive the Germans in a friendly fashion; agreeing to let the Germans leave peaceably. The Soviets refused to accept that, and so Finnish troops attacked the Germans, who proceeded to burn most of the houses in the Northern half of Finland (1-2k casualties on each side, and 100,000 people lost their homes).
Note: Finland protected its Jews against the Nazi's antisemitism.
Finland to an extent played both sides. This article pretty well covers things. The combination of difficult terrain and well trained, well equipped soldiers helped the Finns ensure their independence. They did lose a fair chunk of territory to the Soviets but succeeded in staying masters of their own affairs and allegiances.
Joe Hobbit summarises the bulk of the war, but it is important to note that during the Winter War (1940), the Soviets were collaborating with Germany, and not yet allies with UK or France.
In fact, UK and France tried to send military support to Finland, and many volunteers actually fought alongside the Finns.
Basically, Finland was caught in the middle of events much larger than themselves. They wanted to defend themselves, and allied with whoever was opposed to the Soviets at the time.
Finland had lost "11% of its territory and 30% of its economic power" (e.g. the Petsamo nickel mines to the Soviet Union in the "Winter War" of 1939-1940.
The German invasion of the Soviet Union offered Finland a chance to get these back. Finnish troops advanced to the pre (Winter) war boundary, but no further.
Finland wasn't pro Nazi Germany. But "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Finland had a military treaty with Germany and they commonly prepared operation Barbarossa (invasion in the USSR). German army prepared positions on Finnish territory and Finnish army started mobilization 15 June, a week before the invasion in the USSR had started.
10 July 1941 Finnish army together with German troops stationed in the Finnish territory began offensive in the USSR.
On the occupied territories Finnish administration created concentration camps for Slavic-speaking population and performed ethnic cleanings. On the other hand Permic and Ugic-speaking peoples were respected.
Jewish POWS and Soviet citizens were separated in special camps for Jews with moderate regime. They were planned to be transferred to Germany about which they were informed, although only a minority of POWs were actually transferred to Gestapo (mostly Communists irrespective of ethnicity).
In the Soviet territory Finnish troops also participated in the siege of Leningrad.
In 1944 after the armistice with the USSR Finland declared war on Germany and expelled German troops.


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Located on the Recreation portion of the Wild and Scenic Chetco River, the Nook Bar Campground is less than a short 1/2 hour drive from the coastal town of Brookings. Enjoy summer fun in the crystal clear waters of this outstanding river. Picnicking, sunbathing and all manner of water sports are possible. For overnight camping, use tent, camper or small trailer. A few shaded sites can be found in the tree line. Facilities include toilets, trash collection, and river access.
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