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New Sunset Overdrive details arrive, sounds like Jet Set Radio with gunsWritten by: / / 6 Comments
Sunset Overdrive was first announced during Microsoft' E3 2013 press conference with the game's crazy (and crazy colourful) debut trailer.
The video presented a look at the graffiti-covered, zombie-infested city that players will be wall-running through, with chances to partake in a spot of Bioshock Infinite-esque rail grinding, all while using cannisters of 'OverCharge' energy drinks to power their weapons.
Thanks to an Edge magazine cover-story, we've finally discovered a few new Sunset Overdrive details on the Xbox One exclusive Insomniac Games shooter.
Sunset Overdrive details – The Gameplay
From the sounds of things, gameplay in Sunset Overdrive will look something like Jet Set Radio with guns, combining the speed and graffiti-culture style of SEGA's classic game with the creative weaponry that Insomniac is able to invent game after game.
As seen in the trailer, locomotion is key to the fun and fluidity of Sunset Overdrive so the aforementioned rail grinding and wall-running will be at the core of your movement, while the game itself is set up to facilitate this movement across an open-world comprising a series of islands connected by rails and cables, with buildings of all shapes and sizes to promote vertical movement, too.
Sunset Overdrive details – The Story
Also alluded to in the debut trailer, the world of Sunset City has been overrun by creatures called 'the OD'd,' transformed from regular citizens to something not unlike a zombie by a new drink brought to market by corporate entity 'Fizzco.'
The drink, called 'Overcharge Delirium XT,' soon takes hold of everyone who consumes it, turning them into the OD's in the process, which means it'll be up to you and your friends to form online factions to take them down.
Sunset Overdrive Details – Debut Screenshots
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You can read more about Sunset Overdrive in the latest digital issue of Edge over here if this snippet has caught your interest.
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In a language such as English, where there are no "built-in" (so to say) polite and familiar forms, what are some simple tips or guidelines for when to use the polite or the familiar forms? Are there significant differences in written text, such as letters and e-mails, and conversation?
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How can a native English speaker know when it is appropriate to use the polite (Sie) or the familiar (Du)?
In person-to-person contact the polite "Sie" is the standard way of addressing someone (in written contact even more so). Unless they are the same age as you (or younger) and you are pretty young yourself (say, under 30) - when this is the case and the setting is relaxed (at a party, in a bar, etc) you could venture to use "du" right away.
Switching to the informal "du" from an official/business setting usually requires that you know and like each other well, at some point one will offer the "du" - traditionally, the older one to the younger one. Receiving the "du" from somebody carries some weight and should not be taken too lightly. Also, if in a meeting, the "du" is usually taboo unless every participant is on a "du" basis with everybody else.
Children are addressed with "du" by default. At some point, when they come of age, there is a fuzzy zone where even young people are uncomfortable with being addressed with the now-correct "Sie", as it implies just that - they are getting old.
Exceptions from the rule are the Internet (where the informal "du" is the default form and being addressed with "Sie" is awkward, even mildly insulting when done right), and, of course a big Swedish furniture company, where the "du" is company policy.
This is not actually a grammar question. The usage of the
Unless you know someone well or are addressing a child it is safest to use the polite form. This way you don't risk causing offence.
You can take cues from others too, if they address you in the informal form it is probably safe for you to do so in return.
As a rule of thumb in every day life, you can decide the correct form on how you would call a person in English:
(The first name signature indicates a willingness to switch to a more informal address and a shyness to actually ask.)
Or, in an email to the other participants of your new choir:
(or Liebe Mitsänger! or Liebe Mitsängerinnen und Mitsänger! or Lieber Chor! if you want to avoid this dividing issue)
Note that traditionally there have been strict etiquette rules on who can offer the informal address to whom (e.g. always the older one to the younger or always the woman to the man), but 19th century etiquette is rarely enforced these days. But it is still a matter of power and respect and you should not take the initiative if you are in a clearly subordinate position.
In addition to what has been said there are situations where the informal
In situations where you are not sure if using the
Most likely you may want to use
For conversation (it's almost the same for letters and Emails):
Using "Sie" is appropriate if you have a formal relationship to the other person, if the other person is older, in a higher position (e.g. your boss). It means you respect the other person. If a person tells you only the last name you should use "Sie". (I am a native german speaker and it's much harder for me to insult a person I address formally)
Using "Du" is appropriate if the other person is much younger (you would never say "Sie" to a child), if you are friends, or if you are related. You would also use "du" if you want a personal relationship, so if you are speaking with other students or girls (in your privat time, not in office) you are interested in, you should never use "sie". If a person only tells you the first name, it is the same as offering "du". (Formerly children were used to adress their parents formally, but that's a long time ago.)
"Knigge" is a book which answers many questions to good behaviour with other people. According to them, the person who is higher in hierarchy offers the "du" (source). If you already used "du" and the professor didn't tell you to use "Sie", you should continue to use "du". If a person askes you to use "Sie" or "du", you should definitely do so.
Some of my personal experiences: When I was in school in Bavaria, every teacher used "du" and every pupil "sie". Some of my former teachers offered the "du" after I got my final exam, but it were always the younger teachers. Every teacher asked us if it is still okay if they continue using "du" after we attained full age.
While I was doing community service (every German has to do either community service or military service) I used "sie" for all of my co-workers, as I was 20 and all of them were at least 30 and they had much more experience in the work than I had. All of them offered me to use "du" on my first day, except the boss. She was very young, but her position was higher. I guess she didn't offer me "du" as she had to tell me if I did something wrong and it's easier to do this on a formal basis.
I recently experienced that members of different political parties are used to a different behaviour. If you are on a meeting of the SPD it is very likely that they use "du". If you are on a meeting of the CDU it is very likely that they use "Sie".
A friend of mine who has a very good feeling for beeing politely uses "Sie" when she speaks with other students she works with. I was quite surprised as I would never use "Sie" if I spoke to other students in roughly the same age.
In the Internet (forum, Wikipedia, Social networks): As you don't know the real name of the person you will always use "du".
Good question.
Basically, it depends completely on your conversational partner. But others already gave good answers to that.
I would just want to amend one option: In case of doubt, simply avoid it. Examples:
You can actually stretch this very far. It's a nice trick not to create the distance "Sie" induces, but also not to unappropriatly use "Du".
In my opinion the negotiation process is still missing from the answers so far.
If both persons are adults, usually the older or socially higher ranking person gets to call the shots, for example
If one of the two is a child, it is mostly asymmetrical. Though sometimes children are allowed to say Du to adults that are not family:
I am reporting my personal guidelines, which may repeat something already answered.
I'm English, been with a German for 3 years, been to Germany about 8 times, I've met my boyfriend's family and friends etc. The people I/we tend to hang out with in Germany are in their 20s and 30s. I've read Keeping up with the Germans, Planet Germany, Springtime for Germany, A Year in the Scheisse and various others and, after all that, these are the guidelines I've personally come up with:
A Point that I missed in the previous answers is that you can use "siezen" to mark a line. For instance you are dealing with somebody which you don't want to be friendly with. In business it is used to separate yourself from a supplier for instance even though you work in the same project.
add-on: Take care if you're joining certain types of guilds. Too much respect and politeness would be a good joke if you used "Sie", for example:
As soon as you address somebody by his or her first name, then you would use du:
On the other hand when you call a person by the surname, you would use Sie:
note: always use a capital lettre with Sie.
Edit: What I wrote above is the usual case, meant as a direct answer to the question, there are some exceptions to this rule however.

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Tossing the salad of a midget.
Dude, you totally tossed that midget's salad! Aw yeah, a side salad...
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is getting or giving a tossed salad to a dwarf or midget.
At that bachelor party the dancers gave each other side salads.
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A more covert way of describing a "pop over", which is a bra or top so tight on the breasts that the cleavage puddles and pops over the top of the bra. Enough of the breast to peak interest, like a salad, but it's not the main course.
Look at the side salad on her. Her bra must be tired!
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If Artin's conjecture on primitive roots is true, then 2 generates $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})^\times$ for infinitely many primes $p$. Can one at least show that $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})^\times$ is generated by 2 and 3 for infinitely many primes $p$?
I think the best approximation is due to Heath-Brown (Quart. J. Math. Oxford Ser. 37, 27-38.): for infinitely many primes p, one of 2,3,5 is a primitive root mod p.
Actually Heath-Brown's theorem works for any three primes in place of 2,3,5. You can find his paper online here (praise Google).
This is an interesting question. More generally people have considered the following. Let $\Gamma$ be a subgroup of $\mathbf{Q}^*$ generated by $r$ primes. What can one say about $$ N_\Gamma(X)=|\{p < X : \Gamma \bmod p \textrm{ generates } (\mathbf{Z}/p \mathbf{Z})^{\times}\}|. $$
There is also a natural elliptic analogue. Thus let $E/\mathbf{Q}$ be an elliptic curve and let $\Gamma\subset E(\mathbf{Q})$ be a subgroup of rank $r$. Then we can consider $$ N_\Gamma(X)=|\{p < X : \Gamma \bmod p \textrm{ generates } E(\mathbf{Z}/p \mathbf{Z})\}|. $$ Gupta and Murty give a number of results, both conditional and unconditional, in their paper Primitive points on elliptic curves, Compositio Math. 58 (1986), 13–44. For example, if $r\ge6$ and $E$ has complex multiplication, then they prove unconditionally that $N_\Gamma(X)\gg X/(\log X)^2$. In the non-CM case, assuming the GRH, they prove that if $r\ge18$, then $N_\Gamma(X)\gg X/(\log X)$.
It would be interesting to investigate similar questions on higher dimensional algebraic groups, either abelian varieties of dimension $\ge2$, or even on $(\mathbf{Q})^{\times}\times(\mathbf{Q})^{\times}\times\cdots\times(\mathbf{Q})^{\times}$.
This is just a comment, but I'm unable to do it, so I post it as an answer:
$2^{11} \equiv 3^{11} \equiv 11 \, \mod 23$.
And a similar situation happens with other primes:
$47, 71, 73, 97, 167, 191, 193, 239, 241, 263, 307, 311, 313, ...$
although not always with $ord_{p}(2)=ord_{p}(3)=\frac{p-1}{2}$.


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The 6 Biggest Assholes in the Animal Kingdom
Hippy types will often quote the famous line that "man is the only species that kills its own." Of course, any cursory glance at Animal Planet will tell you this is complete bullshit.
But it's not just that animals are mindless savages--and they are--it's that some of them are just straight-up douchebags. Such as:
#6. Ants
Ants are famous for hard work and being able to lift many times their body weight, making them the perfect heroes of an Ayn Rand novel, or the perfect working drone of communism depending on who's telling the story.
Why Are They Assholes?
Ants are the only species besides humans that carry out wars and enslave their own. And by enslave we mean pulling out the ant whips and putting the other guy to work against his will.
When they're not doing that, they like to tear each other limb from limb.
Less violent ants prefer to fight their battles via choreographed display fights where specially chosen ants have something like a dance-off to decide which side wins. It's basically like the movie Bring It On, except it ends with the losing team in chains or eaten (which would have improved that movie massively).
The victors raid the other nest, capture any survivors and steal all the eggs. Survivors and newborn ants are then forced to work for the victors' nest as long as they live; or at least until their new masters get a craving for some fresh slave ant, and devour them.
#5. Lions
Ah, the lion. The noblest of animals, always sitting majestically on top of some rock, overseeing his dominion and protecting the pride and so on. Lions are even used in reference to Jesus in the Bible, and Aslan is basically a furry Lion Christ in Narnia.
Why Are They Assholes?
In technical terms, lions are what Samuel L. Jackson would call "motherfuckers." If there is one thing lions love to do, it's moms. Unfortunately, female lions don't like to put out when they're raising a kid. So, when the lions want some but the kids are in the way, they walk up to the little brats and maul them to death. Then, to add insult to injury, they bone the mother ten ways till Sunday.
This is how humans see the world.
This is how lions see the world.
#4. Cuckoos
The cuckoo is the only bird famous for living inside Swiss clocks and gently singing every hour to help their human friends tell time. Of course, those are made of wood. The real cuckoo birds are more like Invasion of the Body Snatchers mixed with The Sopranos.
Why Are They Assholes?
Cuckoo bird parents like to use something called Brood Parasitism to raise their kids, which sounds like something involving alien monsters bursting out of their chests. The reality isn't all that much better.
What happens is female cuckoos lay their eggs in some other birds' nest, where the little baby cuckoo, already born in full-asshole-mode, will try to get rid of the nest owners' real chicks and eggs by kicking them out of the nest, sending them plunging to their doom. That way, the nest owner will feed the intruding little psychopath instead of actually raising their own young.
You may be wondering why a bird would raise a cuckoo chick that obviously doesn't look anything like his real chicks. Perhaps you're imagining the male bird suspecting that the female has been having an affair with an old high school flame, never daring to confront her about it as he slowly sinks into alcoholism before blowing his own brains out with his old army pistol.
Okay, honey, I am going to ask you just one more time. Have you been porking the UPS guy?
Well, no. Most birds are just really fucking stupid and they figure that if it's in their nest, it has feathers and it's asking for food, then it's probably theirs.
Some birds, though, are a bit smarter and try to refuse to raise cuckoo chicks by either throwing away cuckoo eggs or even completely abandoning their own nests if all that is left is a cuckoo egg inside. And that's when they get visited by the Cuckoo Mafia. Hey, don't look at us, it's actually called the Mafia Hypothesis.
If a bird refuses to raise a cuckoo, then it gets visited by some adult cuckoos who will beat the crap out of them, trash the nest and possibly kill a few of their young in the process until the other bird wises up and stops asking questions the next time one of his kids look a little bit different. Capisce?


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There's this manga that is called へうげもの. However, this name is romanized as Hyouge Mono. Although I know little Japanese, I think the kana there spell something like Heuge Mono.
Why does this happen, and what does it mean?
This is a difference between historical kana use (歴史的仮名遣) and modern kana use (現代仮名遣い).
The kana orthography has been changed over time to reflect newer pronunciations. In this case, the title is written using an older spelling. Take a look at this official cabinet announcement (from 1986) and scroll down to the bottom half. It contains a rather large chart, and in this chart you can find へう under historic spellings. According to the chart, this spelling corresponds with the modern spelling ひょう and the modern pronunciation ヒョー.
I suppose spelling it the old way gives it a more authentic historical feel, but I don't think it changes the meaning. It's still the same word.
へうげもの is old kana usage (see for example here for some tables of current/old spelling). According to the wikipedia article on this manga, the reading for へうげもの is ひょうげもの, so it is being romanised as it would be pronounced.
It is called the history kana orthography, in Japanese [歴史的]{れきしてき}[仮名]{かな}[遣]{づか}ひ.
Around the time this kana orthography was introduced, Japanese sounded different than today, words were pronounced differently. As the language changed, the old spelling was preserved.
The technical details of the following are taken from "A History of the Japanese Language", Frellesvig, Cambridge 2010, 1st ed. (Look up "historical kana spelling" in the index.)
This kana spelling was established at the beginning of the 13th century. Kana had been introduced earlier, and around that time certain phonological (sound) shifts took place so that the mapping kana:syllable was not 1:1 anymore. For instance, the loss of "w", as in ゐる>居る.
Leaving aside the details, as a result some syllables could be written in multiple ways, eg 川 could be spelled either かわ or かは, and to resolve this and settle upon a unique spelling, the historical spelling principle was introduced, first proposed by Fujiwara no Teika, after whom it was also refered to by the name 定家仮名遣い. In essence, this principle meant that words should be written the way they were pronounced earlier.
The situation is similar to English. A main factor as to why English orthography is not very phonetic (writing the way you speak), is the great vowel shift and that English spelling is based upon how words were pronounced earlier and upon their etymological roots - historical.
Note that the people of that time could only reconstruct from source texts how were pronounced much earlier, andmistakes are bound to happen, eg 遠 was spelled とを, while とほ (as in Old Japanese) would have been correct etymologically.
Also, small kana were not officially introduced until the spelling reforms after WW II, and traditionally, there was no distinction between voiced and unvoiced consonants in writing. Syllables beginning with more than one consonant (きゃ, にょ, くゎ etc.) arose from around 800AD onwards. ん and っ also entered Japanese around that time, and several ways of dealing with them were developed, including (a) leaving it out [もて for 持って, late 9th century; しし for 死んじ); (b) む; (c) つ; as well as some other letters. つ might have been inspired by its use to denote a syllable final -t, used ti transcribe imported Chinese words ending in -t and pronounced without a vowel until well after 1609AD.
Fortunately, the historical kana spelling was abolished in favour of a much more phonological one. Thus, we do not need to possess active knowledge of it anymore, being able to read it suffices.
When given a text with old spelling and/or non-modern grammar, here are a few practical guidelines to convert it into modern Japanese, which is fortunately much easier than the other way around.
As an exception, はは stays 母.
Many vowel changes:


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Suppose Player 1 has a Dragon on the table and Unsummon in hand, while Player 2 has two Spiders on the table.
Player 1 chooses to attack with the Dragon and Player 2 chooses to block with one of the Spiders. Before damage has been put on the stack (Note: as of the 2010 MtG rules update, combat damage is a turn-based action that doesn't use the stack.) Player 1 uses Unsummon on the blocking Spider.
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Bristol Super Chevy Show - Mountain MadnessWritten by Johnny Hunkins on October 18, 2006 Forget NASCAR. Bristol TN, is home to one of the biggest SUper Chevy Shows going - and it's a must-see for Bowtie faithful in the south
Bristol Dragway is one of the few tracks that truly make their fans and racers feel at home. A thoroughly modern facility houses multiple concessions, spotless restrooms, acres of paved pits, world-class night lighting, friendly track workers, air-conditioned suites--even showers for the racers and campers, but it's the dragstrip's outstanding starting-line bite that the racers crave, and get, at Bristol.
We've been coming to Bristol to watch and to race for years, and based on our experience, we can see why the events held here just keep getting bigger and bigger. The promoters of Super Chevy Shows were wise to stake a claim to the late-June weekend, as the place was packed with wall-to-wall Chevys this past June 23-24. We found plenty to gawk at on the starting line, in the car show, in the pit area and at the manufacturer's midway. Our only gripe is we had to work instead of race.
Like a kid with attention deficit disorder, your editor bounced around frantically, fixating on Camaros, Chevelles, Novas--even Impalas. Bristol's pretty much at the juncture of four states--Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina, so there's a great cross section of all these cars from a big area. We're partial to drag racing, so we spent most of our time on the starting line and in the pits, where we talked with racers about their cars. And while Super Chevy has a fine program of exhibition and pro racing in the form of jet cars, wheel-standers and Pro Mod Nitro Coupes, it's the bread-and-butter sportsman racer we sought out in their lairs.
You'd be hard-pressed to find an excuse not to race at Super Chevy, because there is literally a class for everyone. At the ground level, you have the DOT bracket class, which is pretty much drive it in, strap on your helmet, and race. You've got to have a driver's license, valid registration, insurance, and street-legal equipment (including tires). As a bracket class, you make time trials, and then pick a dial-in based on your time runs. The dial-in is your best guess of your ET, the idea being to run as close to it without going quicker. Reaction time also plays a part; you snooze, you lose. In a nutshell, make your best guess of your anticipated ET (that's your dial-in), get off the line as quick as you can (your reaction time), arrive at the finish line first, and don't go quicker than your dial-in. There's $1,000 for the winner and $400 for the runner-up, so it's way better than doing Main Street holeshots on a Friday night.
One rung up the ladder is Bracket 2. This is for the established racer with a dedicated race car, or the street guy with a real jones for speed and the snot to run with the big boys. Full slicks are the order of the day, and as with all bracket racing, your dial-in reflects your best guess of your elapsed time (ET). As with the DOT bracket, the winner is the one with the best "package"--the best combination of reaction time and ET. If B2 doesn't trip your trigger, Bracket 1 may do the trick. These guys run the fastest cars, up to and including dragsters. The cars have the stoutest engines, the most scienced-out suspensions, and the most sophisticated electronics, including trans brakes. A trans brake is a trans mod that uses a system of valves and solenoids (triggered by a button on the steering wheel) to lock an automatic trans into reverse and First gear simultaneously.
Hit the trans brake button, put the throttle on the wood, let the Christmas tree lights come down, and release the button on the last light. Hang on tight, because releasing the trans brake is like getting rear-ended by a Mack truck.And there's another technological twist. With so much on the line, racers want to guarantee that perfect ET "package," so the perfect reaction time is vital. Super-human reaction times in B1 are the norm, and come by way of a device called a delay box. Tied in to the trans brake and the engine's rev limiter, a delay box is a sophisticated timer with an adjustable dial that allows the driver to subtract milliseconds from the 1.5 second delay comprising the three amber countdown lights on the Christmas tree. The amount of adjustment is based on a combination of the car's roll-out, human reaction time and the car's mechanical reaction time. You stage the race car, activate the delay box (and thus the trans brake), then release the button at the exact moment the top bulb lights. If you've set the delay box to the right number, the trans brake releases at the exact moment the green light hits.
Too complicated? Bring the car polish, some rags, a lounge chair and a cooler of beer. You'll find plenty of kindred spirits in the car show area. The Super Chevy Show gives out trophies for practically every year and model of Chevy, including late-models. Your chances of scoring gold are far better in the car show than at the track, but you won't be going quite as fast sitting in that armchair. If any of this sounds like your cup of tea, we suggest you log on to www.superchevyshow.com. You'll find the upcoming schedule of events, previous event results, and other helpful stuff. And if you want to know where PHR will be next, log onto www.popularhotrodding.com and go to the "Events" section of the message board.We'll see you there. PHR would like to extend special thanks to Christopher Perrin, the PR master of Bristol Motor Speedway. When the clouds opened up and washed out our Sunday photo shoot, Christopher came to our rescue and provided dry open space under the stands at the circle track. Thanks, Chris!
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Super Chevy's Bracket 1 class is traditionally filled with NHRA Super Gas cars, many of them like Billy Peach's '67 Chevy II. The B1 bracket allows delay boxes, a device that allows a driver to "leave" off the top bulb, or even a slower competitor's top bulb (in the case of a cross-over delay box). The delay box is wired to the trans brake release circuit, and releases the trans brake--theoretically at least--at the exact moment the tree turns green. The end result is close racing, tight reaction times, and spectacular launches like this."This car is my obsession. I used to drive it all the time before I got pregnant," says Bridget Powers of Kingsport, TN. "My ex-husband said I'd never be able to finish building this car." And whaddaya know, the car was finished before the baby. The 406 small-block under the hood propels the '79 Malibu to 6.80s at 100 mph in the eighth-mile (that's deep into the 10s for the rest of us).Odell Davidson of Morristown, TN, must've always wanted his daughter, Amber, to be a drag racer, because he spent years teaching her in Junior Dragsters. Now at age 17, Amber has her sights set on the big boys, and propelling her there is a 406-inch small-block-powered dragster, which runs 5.40s in the eighth mile. At Bristol, however, it was not to be, as Amber red lighted in the early rounds. Maybe she should change her name to Green.Delay boxes aren't the slightest concern to 18-year-old April Proffitt (left) or 16-year-old Jessica Thompson, both from Mountain City, TN. They were in Bristol to soak up some sun and cheer on Jessica's brother, Brandon Thompson, and his dragster.Travis Cox of Galax, VA, has a solid performer in his '67 Chevy II--it's packing a stout 327 small-block with Edelbrock RPM heads and intake. The combo relies on a built Turbo 350 trans and a 10-bolt rear loaded with an Eaton Detroit Locker Truetrac and 4.10 gears. On all motor and pump gas, Cox has gone a best of 8.22/78 in the eighth-mile (12.90s in the quarter).
You know we're suckers for Colonnade-style mid-'70s A-bodies, so when we met David Ford and his '76 Malibu, we had to stop and chat a while. Turns out, this stock 'bu has 80,000 miles on it and is in absolutely mint condition. David is from Louisville, TN, and tells us he drives it all over.Mark Grace owns his own machine shop--Smoky View Machine Shop in Maryville, TN, to be exact. That made it pretty easy for him to build the killer 13:1 377-cid small-block in his '68 Camaro. Mark tells us he's run a best of 6.75/101 in the eighth-mile, which equates to solid 10.60s in the quarter.Tim Boggs of Fayetteville, OH, is quite possibly the most dedicated Super Chevy Show sportsman racer we've met. He's traveled cross country to several Super Chevy Shows this year and loves racing his street-legal '67 Nova in the DOT class. Tim's Nova is a solid 11.90 performer, thanks to a pump-gas friendly 9.5:1 compression 350 with some old Super Stock "461" heads a friend gave him. Back in the day, Tim tells us Super Stock racers used "461" 283 Power Pack heads on 350s to boost performance while remaining undetected by NHRA officials.The biggest motor in the lightest car usually trumps all comers, a fact that isn't lost on Kelvin Cannon of Elizabethton, TN. Kelvin isn't a huge fan of bracket racing, and prefers the semi-regular "Street Fights" street racing program held at Bristol. At Bristol Super Chevy, Kelvin decided to hang out at the car show with his '70 Nova, which features a Weiand-blown 490-cube big-block making a professed 750 hp."The Punkin'"--that's the family nickname given to Robert Gregory's 383-powered, 10-second, pump-gas '78 Malibu. Gregory runs Midway Transmissions in Woollum, KY, and confidently stated to PHR: "I don't have any problems out of my transmissions." Consider that a recommendation if you live near Woollum, KY.We like how Wes Egan of Hiltons, VA, combined traditional hot rodding motifs with Pro-Touring cues in his '68 Impala, which we found in the car show area. And to set off the whole look, Wes planted a 725hp Weiand-blown 427 big-block front and center. "A big car needs a big motor," Wes told PHR. We couldn't agree more.Brandon Bailey's '97 Camaro marks the end of an era, as it's the last of the LT1-powered F-bodies. As the ex-owner of a '94 Camaro, I had lots to talk about with Brandon. I pointed out that his car had 2.73 gears instead of 3.08 gears because his gear selector didn't have a spot for "1" in the "PRNDL" sequence--that's the dead give-away. Brandon's '97 is mostly stock, save a lower temp T-stat and Flowmaster exhaust. It was running solid 9.40s in the eighth at Bristol.


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NEW CUMBERLAND - Political newcomer Linda McNeil has won the race for mayor in New Cumberland, beating incumbent Mayor Richard Blackwell and longtime city employee Pat Jones.
"I consider it a great honor," McNeil said Tuesday night. "I will try very, very hard to work with the town folk to make things good."
McNeil received 101 votes, while Blackwell and Jones got 65 and 62 votes respectively, according to results released by City Clerk Tammy Jenkins.
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"It's a bit of a disappointment," Blackwell said.
"The people talked, so bless 'em," said Jones, who staked out the polling place at the New Cumberland Volunteer Fire Department after the polls closed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
McNeil's husband, Robert, also was there. When the results were posted, at about 8:45 p.m., he looked them over carefully, then called his wife. "Honey, you won," he said with a smile.
The three-way mayoral race added spice to an otherwise quiet election season in New Cumberland. It pitted McNeil, 71, a retired registered nurse and local historian, against Blackwell, 71, the incumbent, and Jones, 59, whose candidacy generated some controversy among city residents.
Jones was the target of an anonymous letter sent to West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant claiming that he is not a resident of the city - a claim Jones vigorously denied. Blackwell, in turn, questioned Jones' ability to be mayor while also serving as the city's chief water operator.
At the fire department, with some supporters at his side, Jones was sanguine about the loss.
"She won, and I hope she's able to uphold what she says she can do. I'll work with her in any way I can," Jones said. "Whatever's best for the community, and the community spoke out."
In the only contested city council race, Ward 1 incumbent Brian Webster defeated Water-Sewerage Board member Melissa Perkins by a vote of 48 to 37.
Unopposed Ward 2, Seat A Councilman Shawn Marks received 92 votes, and unopposed Ward 2, Seat C Councilwoman Judith Bartley received 95 votes.
Ward 2, Seat B Councilman Arthur "Jack" Watson did not run for re-election, so his vacant seat will have to be filled by mayoral appointment. All elected city officials begin their new term on July 1, the start of the fiscal year.
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Thank you Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, S. Korea, Japan, Germany, Egypt, Libya, Russia, India and scores of other nations for immediately responding with money and material to assist in helping during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. "Obuma," cut the freebees in half we give these friends and give the difference to Sandy's victims. No, better not, don't want to hurt terrorist or foreigners' feelings.
Sincere thanks to Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, Red Cross, hundreds of religious, state and local charities for their donations. Did any atheist organizations respond?
Atheists don't like Christmas. Why? Because they are alone at Christmas and want to be noticed. No one thinks about them so they have to do something to gain their 30 seconds of infamy. They believe if America rejects God then government will be our god. They love the idea of no God. That means there are no personal morals, judgments or accountability. Atheists and secular progressives attack Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah so to use them as vehicles to advance gay, abortion issues. Why don't they attack Ramadan, or the University of Michigan for spending $25,000 for foot baths for Muslims, with the same fervor? They're afraid, they know Christians don't get physical. These people are insecure, miserable and unhappy so they want others to feel their pain. They only believe in tolerance if you agree with them. Christmas is a government holiday, get used to it. You don't want to celebrate it then don't watch football games, parades or take advantage of store sales. Maybe go serve food at a shelter on Christmas, that will be a nonsecular gesture. Go to work or read a book, stop trying to make others as miserable as yourselves. If atheists are correct - there is no God - when we die no one knows they were right. But if there is a God, they'll beg forgiveness. So be gracious just in case there is.
In Obuma's world if you do well, you're his ATM. Higher gasoline tax (he wants to add a punitive carbon tax on consumption), food prices, heating bills, 3.8 percent fee on house sales are here, the new norm. This guy is going on a $14 million vacation on his $400,000 salary. Really looking out for the middle class. Setting a good example, don't you think?
Union thugs in Michigan threaten "blood in the streets" if Michigan becomes a right to work state. So they did beat up several peaceful proponents of the bill who were also demonstrating. Let workers decide if a union is of value. If they think so they'll pay dues, if not it goes out of business. What a concept. AFL-CIO top thug, Richard Trumka, is proud of his bakers for putting Hostess out of business. Merry Christmas to the 18,500 other employees who are now out of work. These union imbeciles are so stupid it's painful. If only they would think for themselves. Another great concept.
Most racist organization in America: Congressional Black Women Caucus. Tune in and watch them work.
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Is there any hope that shirt.woot will use quality blanks again?
Just in the last couple weeks, there have been 2 shirts I've had to pass on because of the lousy Anvil blanks. I cannot spend good money on a shirt that won't last beyond 2 washes (if it lasts that long) and has such a sloppy fit because of the GINORMOUS neck hole. There is a huge thread on the shirt.woot forums that seems to be completely ignored. Shirt.woot hooked me on tshirts, and though I've bought from GoodJoe and others, shirt.woot is my favorite. Is there any hope they will return to what they used to be?
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@studerc: I'm afraid you're right, but since I'm frustrated and feel ignored, I thought I'd bring it up over here again.
@trekmiss: Yea, didn't mean to be blunt about it or anything, but that's just the way things have progressed. If all of the frustration and angry comments and whiny when the switch initially happened didn't change the system then I don't see any going back now.
I haven't purchased a shirt since the change and its definitely a bummer as I have found many shirts worthy of buying. Its just the principle of the matter and I won't be swayed to change my stance. (Like many of us)
@studerc: Seconded to you. I haven't bought one since the change over, as the descriptions of the new blanks suggests they won't fit me well. And I'm not willing to spend cash to find out.
I kept my word that I would give the Anvil blanks a try by getting them in Randoms. The MXL has shrunk ridiculously and caused the design to get all warped and weird. When I emailed firstname.lastname@example.com about it, I got a general cut and paste answer saying I probably dried it on high heat or something, but they would (and did) send me a refund.
Now, I'm a HUGE fan of service@woot! They are amazing! I think it stinks that the lousy cut and paste reply they are having to give about these crappy blanks puts the blame on the customer.
I treated the Anvil shirt as I have all my other woot shirts before. None of them have ever shrunk that much before. The Anvil shirt washed twice is 3 inches shorter than an AA MXL washed countless times.
I was reading on the shirt.woot forums a couple days ago and came across where @ProfHotpants said that the Anvil shirts shrink less than AA. http://shirt.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=4856911 I have one word for that...HOGWASH!
If they could, I think they would have already. I doubt the change was from the shirt staff, but rather by direction from someone higher up - like the bean counters.
To put into perspective, I thought spending $2 at Goodwill for an unworn copy of My Morning Sidekick was questionable because it's on an Anvil blank. Others thought the same too, since it was still there when it got to half-price (which I did purchase at that point; what I'll turn it into, I don't know yet). I've since passed up 3 copies of Read also, all in their unshapely "glory".
At this point I see only two chances that they will switch back: slim and no. :( Also, I have not purchased an Anvil shirt.
I accidentally bought a shirt and forgot about the change, and the shirt ended up being too big. Luckily I had a friend who appreciated the design and took it off my hands.
I bought a shirt for my mother, since it was a design I knew she would like.
Otherwise, I have passed up 7-10 shirts up because of the Anvils.
As for them going back? I'm afraid that it won't happen anytime soon...if it ever happens. I like the suggestion that others have brought up before, which is paying more for AA blanks, but I understand this could complicate things and they already are having quality control problems.
@grimskull89: I gave up counting after I hit 30.
On another note, what's a week here without some shirt pics? So here's the Anvil ML (when it was just washed/dried twice) on top of an AA MS (1/4" difference), on top of an AA 2XL (for neckhole comparison).
For more shrinkage comparison, here's the same Anvil ML over a heavily worn/dryer-dried AA ML (1-7/8" difference) over a lightly worn/line dried AA ML (3" difference).
I wish they would. We gave them a couple tries at our house but no more. The fit is just plain bad for me and my wife. I don't even bother looking at the designs anymore; there's no point.
I wish they'd go back or at least offer the option to pay more for the AA blanks. Now I'm stuck with buying the different types of hoodies and that's it, and the color choices are very limited. This hampers my buying since hoodies start much higher than shirts and I'm digging the Zipups and those are $5 more than the pullovers. :-/ sigh
Just a comparison of the neckhole of various shirts from various sites:
Goodjoe - American Apparel 2001, made in USA. These are what Woot used to use. :(
TeeTurtle - Next Level Apparel 3600, made in Nicaragua. The same blanks are used by DBH too.
Threadless - Canvas 3001u, made in USA. They switched to these after last year's debacle.
Old shirt.woot - American Apparel 2001, made in USA. Size M3XL used for comparison only to ...
New shirt.woot - Anvil 980, made in Honduras. This has been washed/dried 4 now. Note the width, and this is why we dislike them.
As for the length, here's the Anvil 980 on top of the Next Level 3600:
i don' think so..
I love woot, but I'm switching to other sites that print unique shirts off of blanks that I like. Like you said, no matter how good a design, there's no sense in sacrificing quality.
I'm out of the shirt.woot game completely since the switch to anvil blanks. I have a drawer full of well loved AMERICAN APPAREL woot shirts but the collection won't go any further with these crappy anvil blanks. Bring back AA and I'm back.
I'm not too picky, I buy the shirts more for the design than what country the shirts are made in. So I have continued to buy shirts on occasion, though the occasions have been significantly more rare. I have had multiple Anvil shirts that have started to fall apart before even 1 wash, though, including one of the randoms I got just yesterday. So I will not continue to buy them. It is disappointing, for sure
The quality of Woot shirts is complete crap
I'll add my voice to the chorus. The Anvil shirts run smaller and shorter than the AA's, plus have extra-extra large neck holes. I greatly preferred the AA's, and would be willing to spend an extra buck or two to buy them again.
Another singer in the crowd. I've unsubscribed from woot emails and dropped the site from my daily morning coffee list because of the Anvil switch. No sense in looking at cool shirts I refuse to order because I know I'll just be disappointed when they get here and the quality is crap. Have said it before, but I wish woot would have just raised the price a couple more dollars and kept the quality AA shirts than raising the price AND lowering the quality. Such as shame - I really miss the site and the community. Would be back in a heartbeat if they ever switch back to decent shirts. (Only here today cause a friend mentioned the ramyb sale.)


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Any of you who've met me will know I've got the most Home Counties Accent, ever. This affords me a few funny moments, especially during time I've spent in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In fact just anywhere outside of the Home Counties.
I've been in Launceston in Cornwall and people have asked if I'm from there. In Dundee people thought I was from Oxford, and in Wales, pretty much everyone thinks I'm from London. In Belfast people thought I was from Edinburgh. I think the best one was in Dundee: an international student on my course told me my accent was "really difficult to understand compared to [my friend from] Yorkshire". I'm baffled. But it always reminds me that not one section of the UK (or the world) are the same and we can always learn more about somewhere new.


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The 6 Weirdest Cities People Actually Live In
#3. Yellow Fleet: Like That Movie 'The Terminal,' If Tom Hanks Was a City Made of Ships
During the Six Day War, a group of 15 ships hailing from eight different nations were abandoned in the Suez Canal.
Due to military and diplomatic maneuvering, it took an inexplicable eight years to get the ships out of the canal, so the odds of all the old crew members returning to reclaim their boats were pretty low. Luckily, this didn't turn out to be a problem, as the sailors never left. Though some of the crew were permitted to rotate out on a three-month basis, many opted instead to build up an ethnically and politically diverse society located entirely on an armada of marooned trading vessels.
Via Bbc.co.uk
This is only a small part. Consider it the Queens of the Yellow Fleet.
The Yellow Fleet had a regular church service every Sunday, a postal system that delivered mail between vessels and even a sort of economy based on ship-to-ship trading. But as you can imagine, spending most of a decade on a moored ship gets pretty boring, so they also organized entertainment. They had movie theaters and football fields, went water skiing, formed a yachting club, organized dances and even held their own rival Olympics in 1967.
Via Bbc.co.uk
"Setting up the 100-meter dash was a bitch."
Eventually, when the canal did clear, only the West German boats were still seaworthy. And they dutifully went on to deliver what remained of their precious cargo, which cost them eight years of their life to protect.
Yes, they delivered the hell out of those T-shirts.
Via Bbc.co.uk
"Heroes" seems like kind of an understatement.
#2. Dwarf City: If Disney World Characters Really Looked Like That, Actually Lived There
Via NY Times
China hasn't figured out a way to pirate political correctness yet, so being a minority there isn't exactly all break-dance competitions and inspirational after-school specials. It's mostly just good ol' cruelty and discrimination. Well, one man decided to give little people a place where they could join together to escape the bullying they experienced in normal society. By living their entire lives on display in the world's first live-in theme park:
Via Telegraph.co.uk
It's the only city where stepladders outnumber people 4-to-1.
The founder of China's very own Dwarf City is a 44 year-old entrepreneur named Chen Mingjing. He claims that he created the park to help the little people of China, and the park has created hundreds of jobs for dwarfs that didn't exist before. That fact that the job involves dressing up in pink tutus and performing a slapstick version of Swan Lake doesn't seem to bother him.
Roughly 120 little people live in the city sized park in the mountains of Kunming, China. The one requirement for citizenship: You can't be taller than 4'3".
The citizens of Dwarf City live in houses shaped like mushrooms, dress up in fairy tale outfits and make their living off of souvenirs and tourism. While you might find this offensive, Dwarf City citizens find it slightly more offensive to starve to death. Minjing might be exploiting them, but the employees the New York Times spoke with seemed to be happy to finally be the ones reaping the benefits of the exploitation.
Via NY Times
Hey, baby, if you got it, flaunt it.
Whether you agree with human rights groups that call it a callous gimmick, or the fun-sized employees who make it run, it does at least appear to have all of the trappings of a city, complete with a miniature police force, fire brigade and political system.
As much as we know we're going to hell for even thinking it, it's hard to get too mad about something that's just so damn adorable.
Via Sethcoleman.net
Well, just look at it.
#1. Kowloon Walled City: The Wild West Meets Post-Apocalyptic Video Game Level
Via Wikipedia
Located just outside of Hong Kong, Kowloon Walled City is where Chinese laws went to die. It all started toward the tail end of WWII, when China retook Kowloon from the Japanese. Thousands of squatters took advantage of the newfound Chinese protectorate and moved in with complete governmental protection.
Then, in 1948, the British went to clear the area, but failed so spectacularly that everybody, both English and Chinese alike, issued an official decree of "Screw that place." They agreed to let Kowloon be, but cut it off from all government services, which in communist China was pretty much everything: police, water, electricity, road maintenance, postal services and so on.
Via Tofu-magazine.net
Basically, all the dead weight that holds truly great parties back.
They basically Thunderdomed a whole city, and then just walked away.
And to everybody's mutual surprise, Kowloon absolutely thrived on the anarchy.
For 30 years, the city experienced explosive growth in terms of population and square footage: The city was only .01 square miles, yet housed roughly 33,000 people, making it the most densely populated area in world history. Unlicensed 12-story buildings shot up with no planning, untaxed businesses cropped up everywhere and a private legion of often unaccredited doctors tended to the populace. Kowloon citizens even jury-rigged up their own water and electric grids, and though it looked like Tim Burton was their city planner ...
Via Doobybrain.com
"What's this? What's this? There's color everywherrrre ..."
... it mostly worked. Since there was no law to speak of in Kowloon Walled City, opium bars could be found everywhere, prostitution rings operated openly, gambling dens were commonplace and anybody wanting to avoid the cops had a landlocked Tortuga to retreat to whenever they felt like it.
In Kowloon Walled City, everything was handled by the individual, not the government, and astoundingly, the whole thing didn't implode on itself. But after 30 years, the Chinese finally got it in their heads that Crime Fortress might not be a good thing to have right next to Hong Kong, so they tore it down and built a park.
Via Scenery.cultural-china.com
And rumor has it that on some dark and lonely nights, you can still hear the howling of the libertarians.
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I have a serious obsession with making pizza on my BGE. It makes wicked good pizza among other things. However I cannot ever seem to make just one or two. No it just has to be a big variety.
This is a great thing to do if you have leftover bits in the fridge. Not enough to make a meal out of them but enough to make a pizza or 5
Our pizza ingredients were:
- sauteed mushrooms
- rapini with evoo and sliced garlic
- green and black olives
- thinly sliced red onions
- roasted red peppers
- arugula
- parmesan
- Drained seasoned stewed tomatoes
- basil
- oregano
- granulated onion
- steamed acorn squash
- grilled chorizo
- cooked and crumbled hot Italian sausage
- grilled eggplant
- Lots of mozzarella
There is no recipe for this. Just a few general guidelines. I use store bought pizza dough from Highland Farms. I like their pizza dough a lot. It is very reasonably priced. Now you can go all Martha Stewart on this and make your own from scratch – all the best to you. Personally if you you find a reasonably priced very good quality dough its a heck of a lot easier.
Your BGE needs to be at least 600F before you even think of getting a pizza on. I find that I have the best pizzas come out at this temperature. Also don't be using any crappy dollar store pizza stone. Think of it as an investment. Mine came from Ontario Gas BBQ. Its awesome. I have used it many many times over and over again.
Make sure your pizza stone comes up to temperature with your BGE. Do not put a cold pizza stone on a 600F BGE. It was crack and shatter and then you will have a load of stuff to clean up. Not to mention ruined dinner plans.
Use enough flour when stretching your dough that it doesn't stick to your pizza peel. Its a lot easier to slide off dough covered with toppings if you have used enough flour. They make the crust soggy. Of course if you like a soggy crust that's your business but I prefer a nice crispy crust.
Other than that go nuts. You can even make vegans happy. OR gluten free people (just make sure you give them a gluten free crust). Or nut allergy people happy. The choices are endless. These pizzas cook in about 6-8 minutes at the most so you want to make sure your meats are cooked ahead of time if using and you slice your veggies thinly.
After placing your pizza on the stone close the lid. Open it up again at about the 2- 3 minute mark and turn the pizza half way. Close the lid again and leave it closed for 3-4 more minutes until nicely browned and golden. Remove to a cutting board and rest for 5 minutes before cutting.
Repeat with the other pizzas. Seriously it is so easy. Get the kids involved. I have not ever met a kid who didn't like making pizza. Let them decide what toppings they want. Pizza dough is just like play doh for adults so they love stretching it too.
One of my favorites from tonight:
Grilled eggplant, sauteed rapini with sliced garlic and evoo, steamed acorn squash, sauteed mushrooms and mozzarella. When it came off the grill I topped it with a bunch of arugula and some really good quality balsamic vinegar, Parmesan and evoo.
I also enjoyed the meat pizzas….
The kids had their own ideas of what they wanted on their pizza- Chorizo, tomato sauce, basil and lots of mozzarella
Last but not least we made a panzerotti to use up the last bits of all the ingredients. It was stuffed full. By this time my stone was getting pretty black from the flour so I placed the panzerotti on a piece of parchment paper directly on the stone. Worked great and the panzerotti was delicious and crispy full of yummy ingredients.
It was a delicious dinner full of pizza goodness. Plus there is lots for lunches tomorrow!!


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I am looking for an undecidable problem that I could give as an easy example in a presentation to the general public. I mean easy in the sense that the mathematics behind it can be described, well, without mathematics, that is with analogies and intuition, avoiding technicalities.
"Are these two real numbers (or functions, or grammars, or mathematical statements) equivalent?"
"Does this statement follow from these axioms?"
"Does this computer program ever stop?"
"Can this set of domino-like tiles tile the plane?"
"Does this Diophantine equation have an integer solution?"
"Given two lists of strings, is there a list of indices such that the concatenations from both lists are equal?"
There is also a large list on wikipedia.
May be you want to check these:
Alan_Turing_and_Undecidable_Problems_in_Mathematics on fora.tv
what-are-the-most-attractive-turing-undecidable-problems-in-mathematics on mathoverflow
MagicSquare on mathworld.wolfram
I think the Post correspondence problem is a very good example of a simple undecideable problem that is also relatively unknown.
Given a finite set of string tuples
the problem is to determine if there is a finite sequence of these tuples , allowing for repetition, such that the concatenation of the first half is equal to the concatenation of second half
The only big issue I have with this problem is that the only undecideability proof I know of falls back on simulating a Turing machine - it would be nice to find a more elementary alternate version.
"does this computer program ever stop?"
"does this equation have any solutions?" (of course you mean polynomial equation with integer solutions, but for a general public presentation you can probably get away with just "equation" and "solutions").
Maybe consider some Wang Tiles.


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Are they the same game? Or is D&D Minis like an abridged toned down version of D&D 4.0? Or is it a separate rule-set entirely?
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D&D miniatures is an entirely different game. The main similarities are:
Otherwise they have nothing to do with one another.
WotC does a lot of cross over between the two. You will often, for example, see a Mini's power make it into the Character Builder. So mechanically, they are very similar. Also, the mini's sets are designed to be used in 4ed games in addition to the skirmishing game, so they tend to follow similar release formats. For example, Eberron themed mini's came out around the same time as the Eberron CS was released.
It depends.
At their core the Minatures version is a simplified version exclusively devoted to tabletop war-gaming, rather then Roleplaying. And is pretty much a spiritual successor to the war-game series that D&D eventually spawned from.
HOWEVER, depending on the edition, the manuals would often include rules for exclusive items, classes, spells, etc, that could be used in the Roleplaying version as well. And of course playing D&D with miniatures helps keep better spacial awareness when dealing with combat, or other complicated situations when you needed a guide for where people were standing (and using the actual miniatures was more immersive then just using cheap marker-tokens, especially if you didn't know what a particular creature was supposed to look like).
Pretty much it's just an extra thing for you to do to get a little more value out of your D&D investment. Since you get tired of war-gaming you can use your miniatures to help with immersion for a roleplaying session or vice versa.


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Getting Up To Speed With…A.J. Harbaugh
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Fast Four Media)
Despite being only ten years old the McKenzie Bridge pilot A.J. Harbaugh has collected six driving championships in five years at five different racing facilities. The fourth grade student has bested the competition at Albany Motorsports Park, Cottage Grove Speedway, Roseburg's River Arena Speedway, Salem Indoor Speedway, and Willamette Speedway in Lebanon. Of those six championships three have been in the Pee Wee ranks, two in the Box Stock class, and one in 250cc division.
Harbaugh is now in the 250cc Kage Kart classification fulltime and will primarily race at the Cottage Grove Speedway in 2014. This youngster has big dreams which include competing on the ¼-mile clay oval in a Sprint Car in a few years and even hopes to race NASCAR one day. Now let's get up to speed with A.J. Harbaugh.
Driver: A.J. Harbaugh
Home Track: Cottage Grove Speedway
Hometown: McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
Occupation: Student
Years Racing: 5
Classification: 250cc Kage Kart
Team: Harbaugh Racing
Car: 18H
Chassis: Ryan Foster Chassis
Sponsors: RFC Chassis, Rocket Designs, Red Line Racing, Double R Powdercoating
Special Thanks: Lois Carlson (Grandma)
BD: A.J. you have come a long ways since day one in racing. How much fun have you had?
AH: I've had quite a bit of fun racing. I've met more in friends in racing than anywhere else.
BD: How did you get started in Kage Karts?
AH: My mom and dad took me to a race and I thought it was really cool and afterwards I told them that I really wanted to race.
BD: Is there a reason you race the #18H?
AH: At the time my older brother was eighteen years old and I really looked up to him so that's why I decided to choose that number.
BD: Your race team travels a lot. What are some of you favorite places to race outside of Cottage Grove and Willamette Speedways?
AH: I really like River Arena in Roseburg, Red Bluff in California, and Big Sky Kartway in Montana.
BD: Who are some of your racing heroes or people you look up to?
AH: My favorite local driver is Roger Crockett and my favorite NASCAR driver is Dale Earnhardt Jr.
BD: Would you eventually like to be racing a Sprint Car or an IMCA Modified when you grow up?
AH: I want to get into a Sprint Car when I'm fourteen and hopefully go on to something like NASCAR. If NASCAR doesn't work out I'd like to race with the World of Outlaws or ASCS.
Cottage Grove Speedway's Kart season kicks off May 9th and will feature the future talent of not only the state of Oregon but the entire Pacific Northwest region. For the latest news regarding everything CGS log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
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Security is a huge topic in any discussion regarding the public cloud. This session from the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event is led by Distinguished Engineer Yousef Khalidi. It provides a terrific walk thru of how to think thru security considerations in general and for the Windows Azure Platform specifically.
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How can I assure that all existing files (or future files) inside a folder in unix are always world readable ?
I am using email piping to read attachment from the email via php script and store it in some folder which will be viewable by the apache user.
Now, the email pipe is storing the attachment with rights to only user nobody and group nobody ..
How can I change it so that anyone can read the files inside that folder ?
Thanks, Amit


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Curtis Allgier makes surprise guilty plea to murdering corrections officer Stephen Anderson
Laura Seitz, Laura Seitz, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — More than five years after gunning down a Utah Department of Corrections officer during an escape, Curtis Allgier pleaded guilty Wednesday.
In a move that surprised most people in the courtroom during what was expected to be a routine hearing, Allgier, 33, pleaded guilty to killing officer Stephen Anderson in 2007.
The plea came after years of legal delays, including unusual arguments and appeals such as: feeding the inmate more food to increase his weight, lawyer dismissals, attempts by Allgier to act as his own attorney, outbursts in court; fights to have a judge removed from the case; plans to cover his numerous tattoos with makeup during a trial and many others.
Allgier pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, disarming a peace officer, aggravated escape, aggravated robbery and possession of a dangerous weapon. He also pleaded no contest to three counts of attempted aggravated murder.
In exchange for his guilty pleas, the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office took the death penalty off the table. When he is sentenced on Dec. 5, Allgier is expected to receive life without the possibility of parole.
"I just want to make very clear that the reason I'm doing it is so we can correct it. Yes I agree, yes I understand. But I want to make clear, that's the one reason I'm doing it," Allgier told the 3rd District Judge Paul Maughan before pleading guilty.
Many of Anderson's family members were in the courtroom for Wednesday's hearing. District Attorney Sim Gill said plea negotiations began about 3 ½ weeks ago.
Since taking office 18 months ago, Gill said his office had had "long discussions with the (Anderson) family about what their needs and concerns were" regarding the case. While there were others who had interests in the Allgier case, including the Salt Lake Police Department and members of the community who came into contact with Allgier that day on June 25, 2007, the ultimate decision was up to Anderson's widow, Millie Anderson, and her family.
"I volunteered for this job. That family did not volunteer to be victims. We talked about the decision, the difficulty of the decision and that this is a burden that the district attorney's office carries and the decision that we made. But it is a decision that is not inconsistent with their needs and desires to move forward to bring it to a closure," Gill said. "I made the decision that I thought was going to retrieve the measure of justice in this particular case."
Anderson family spokesman Mark Anderson, Stephen Anderson's cousin, said the family was OK with the plea deal if Gill was.
"I don't think that the family was really pushing for anything other than justice to be served. And in fact, there was really no time where we asked for a particular sentence for Mr. Allgier," he said.
While Anderson said the family didn't necessarily have a strong opinion about the death penalty, they were not looking forward to 20 to 25 more years of appeals and court proceedings if the death penalty had been pursued.
"This (plea deal) would allow the family to be able to reconcile their feelings without a long drawn-out trial — and without having it brought up again every time there was a hearing," he said.
Gill said any deal had to include Allgier pleading to all eight counts that he was charged with, rather than dismissing some of the charges as is common with many plea deals.
Allgier's attorney, Dusty Kawai, read a short hand-written letter from his client in which Allgier proclaimed his respect for the Anderson family, as well as certain officers and administrators at the Utah State Prison.
"He will say the rest of what he has to say at sentencing," Kawai said.
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