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Answering a Complaint or Petition
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The plaintiff notifies the defendant about the lawsuit by serving them with the complaint or petition and summons. The defendant must "answer" the complaint within the time deadline. The answer is the defendant's chance to agree or disagree with each of the plaintiff's statements, to make any affirmative defenses, or to raise a counterclaim.
If the defendant is served inside Utah, the defendant must file an answer within 21 calendar days after service. If the defendant is served outside Utah, the defendant must file an answer within 30 calendar days after service URCP 12(a). The time to answer in an eviction case is much shorter. The summons will say how many days the defendant has to respond.
If the defendant does not file an answer or an appropriate motion within that time, the plaintiff may ask the court to enter a default judgment. A default judgment means the plaintiff wins, and the defendant doesn't get the chance to tell their side of the story. For more information and forms, see our page on Default Judgments.
In the answer the defendant must admit or deny the statements from the complaint in simple, short and plain sentences. If the defendant is without information sufficient to form a belief about the truth of a statement from the complaint, the defendant must so state, and this has the effect of a denial. If the defendant denies a statement from the complaint, the denial must fairly meet the substance of the statement. If the defendant's answer fails to deny a statement to which an answer is required, the defendant is deemed to have admitted the statement.
Instead of answering, the defendant may file one of the motions described in URCP 12. If the judge grants the motion, the judge's order will direct what to do next. If the judge denies the motion, the defendant must file an answer within 14 days after the judge's order. For more information and forms, see our page on Motions.
If the defendant wants a jury trial, and no other party has requested one, the defendant must request one and pay the required fee no later than 10 days after service of the last pleading. The request for a jury trial can be made on the coversheet.
Affirmative defenses
An affirmative defense is a reason that the plaintiff should lose even if all of the claims are true. For example, the plaintiff made a procedural mistake, like not serving the defendant properly or the case was filed after the statute of limitations. The defendant might not have any affirmative defenses.
If the defendant includes in the answer any affirmative defenses, the defendant must state the affirmative defense in simple, short and plain sentences describing the affirmative defense and the demand for relief, such as dismissal of the case or judgment for defendant. See URCP 8(b) for the affirmative defenses that must be stated in the answer.
Counterclaims, Cross Claims, and Third-Party Claims
The rules allow the parties to sue each other in a variety of combinations:
- Counterclaim: The defendant sues the plaintiff. URCP 13 about counterclaims.
- Cross claim: One plaintiff sues another plaintiff or one defendant sues another defendant.
- Third-party claim: The defendant sues someone who is not already a party to the case.
The party sued in a counterclaim, cross claim or third-party claim must file a reply to the claim within 21 days after the claim is served. The counterclaim, cross claim or third-party claim must meet all of the requirements of a complaint.
There is no fee for filing an answer, but the party filing a counterclaim, cross claim or third-party claim must pay the required fee, or request that the fee be waived. For more information and forms, see our page on Fees and Fee Waiver. The party must also file a coversheet, but the coversheet does not have to be served on the other parties.
If a party wants a jury trial, and no other party has requested one, that party must request one and pay the required fee no later than 10 days after service of the last pleading. The request for a jury trial can be made on the coversheet.
How do I file an Answer?
Read the papers you received carefully. The summons tells you how many days from the date you were served that you have to file an Answer. You must file the Answer with the court and serve a copy on the plaintiff before that deadline. For more information about calculating time and how to file the Answer, see our page on Filing Procedures.
Removal From District Court Civil Docket to Justice Court Small Claims Docket
If the defendant has been sued in district court for less than the jurisdictional limits of a small claims case, and if the plaintiff agrees, the defendant can have the case removed-or transferred-from the district court to a justice court and tried as a small claims case. If this is to be done, it has to be done within the time that the defendant has to answer the complaint in district court.
- The first step is to see whether the plaintiff agrees to have the case tried as a small claims case. The defendant cannot remove a case unless the plaintiff agrees.
- The second step is to file the notice of removal in the justice court and pay the appropriate filing fee to the justice court. The defendant must pay the filing fee that the plaintiff would have paid for a small claims case. The plaintiff does not get a refund of the district court filing fee, but there is no fee if the plaintiff wants to appeal the small claims decision.
- The third step is to file a notice of removal in the district court. This must be done after the notice of removal in the justice court because the defendant must provide to the district court the case number from the justice court.
All three steps must be completed within the time that the defendant has to answer the complaint in district court: 21 days after service if served in Utah; and 30 days after service if served outside of Utah. When these steps are complete, the district court will send a copy of the court's records to the justice court. The case can be removed to a justice court whose jurisdiction is:
- in the judicial district in which the civil case is pending;
- where the defendant resides; or
- where the events happened.
Once the case is removed to justice court, the court will schedule the case for trial, and the case will proceed as any other small claims case in that court. If the defendant wants to appeal the small claims decision, they will have to pay the appropriate filing fees. If the plaintiff wants to appeal the decision, they do not.
What if I need more time?
If you need more time to file an Answer, contact the other party's attorney, or, if the other party does not have an attorney, contact the other party. Do not delay. If the plaintiff does not agree to give you more time, you must file your Answer within the original time.
- If plaintiff agrees to allow you more time, send plaintiff a letter describing what you agreed to. Keep a copy for yourself.
- If plaintiff does not agree, you must file an Answer within the time allowed or risk a default judgment.
Forms for Filing an Answer in specific case types
- Custody, Support or Paternity - under Domestic Cases (Using OCAP, the Online Court Assistance Program)
- Debt Collection (Utah Legal Services)
- Divorce - under Domestic Cases (Using OCAP, the Online Court Assistance Program)
- Eviction - under Landlords and Tenants (Using OCAP, the Online Court Assistance Program)
Forms for Filing an Answer other cases
Forms for Filing a Counterclaim
Forms for Removing a Case to Justice Court
- Checklist - PDF | Word
- Notice of Removal from District Court (Filed in Justice Court) - PDF | Word
- Notice of Removal to Justice Court (Filed in District Court) - PDF | Word
- Notice of Hearing - PDF | Word


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I am just starting on adopting GTD and while this might be a very naive question, I did not see it get answered on the forum.
The question essentially is, how frequently would you create projects to track sub-tasks. While I started collecting actionable items for my open-loops, I could see that nearly every open-loop required two or more actions to be performed before it could be completed. I therefore started to wonder if it was really possible to have atomic actions that need not also figure in one of the projects?
As an example, if I intended to set up a face-to-face meeting with a colleague, this would essentially translate to
- Email XYZ to schedule a meeting
- Book the conference room to meet with XYZ
- Discuss the meeting's agenda with XYZ
Even simpler things like preparing a status report (which lets assume I myself prepare) will have to be done in multiple steps
- Write the project weekly report
- Email project weekly report to XYZ
For now I am defining a project to track each of the above two open loops. My concern though is that my next actions start to appear both in the next action context list and in the project list.
My questions [x] Would you broadly agree with my approach above? [x] Would you review the project lists only during weekly or with whatever frequency you review your next action list? [x] Would you also define projects to track each of the two open-loops mentioned above?

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Let $F$ be a torsionfree subgroup of a commutative group $G$. Are there nontrivial conditions known under which there exists a torsionfree direct summand of $G$ containing $F$?
I would already be happy with such a condition in case $F$ is free or $G$ is of finite type.
We consider a property $\mathcal{P}$ of graded rings and its behaviour under coarsening. Given an epimorphism of commutative groups $\psi:G\rightarrow H$ and a $G$-graded ring $R$ with $G$-graduation $(R_g)_{g\in G}$, the $\psi$-coarsening $R_{[\psi]}$ of $R$ is the $H$-graded ring with underlying ring the ring underlying $R$ and with $H$-graduation given by $(R_{[\psi]})_h=\bigoplus_{g\in\psi^{-1}(h)}R_g$ for $h\in H$.
Suppose we know that $\mathcal{P}$ is reflected by $\psi$-coarsening for every $\psi$, i.e., if $R_{[\psi]}$ has $\mathcal{P}$ then so does $R$, and that if $\ker(\psi)$ is a torsionfree direct summand of $G$ then $\mathcal{P}$ is respected by $\psi$-coarsening, i.e., if $R$ has $\mathcal{P}$ then so does $R_{[\psi]}$.
Then, we want to know whether $\mathcal{P}$ is also respected by $\psi$-coarsening if $\ker(\psi)$ is torsionfree but not necessarily a direct summand of $G$. And this would follow immediately if $\ker(\psi)$ is contained in a torsionfree direct summand of $G$.


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1963 Chevy Nova - Beauty And A BeastWritten by John McGann on April 13, 2009 Joe Kosiba's Nova Looks Too Good To Be This Fast.
You've seen them before at the dragstrip: a car that looks awesome but is disappointingly slow, or a car that's a rocket ship and is as ugly as sin. In general, cars that look good usually aren't fast, and the fast cars usually aren't the prettiest. Unless you managed a hedge fund or have big sponsorship dollars flowing your way, it's difficult to build a really fast car that is breathtakingly beautiful. The one exception to this rule is time. Guys who have owned their cars forever usually have fast and good-looking cars. Years of building, tinkering, and polishing pay off, and we offer this '63 Nova as proof. It looks so good it should be living a pampered life collecting trophies at shows it was lovingly trailered to. Not so fast, pal. This is actually a street/strip monster that is fully capable of ripping off an 8.9-second quarter-mile pass. Bet you didn't see that coming.
"I paid $1,000 for it. That was a lot of money in 1990," owner Joe Kosiba tells us. As you can imagine, a $1,000 Nova, even in the '90s, wasn't much to look at. But Joe was living in Tucson, Arizona, at the time, so it was clean and rust-free. "I think I drove it around the block once, then I immediately pulled the engine." Inline-sixes have that effect on some people. The shoebox's stock sewing machine six and Powerglide were out of the car within a couple of days of Joe's taking ownership. He dropped in a 327/TH350/9-inch drivetrain and swapped the front drums for discs.
Joe was content to drive the car around in this configuration for a few years, and it kept getting faster as he got more into racing. He moved back to Illinois and became a regular at the test and tune nights at Joliet and Byron. But things really ramped up after Joe scattered the 327 one night. In its place, he dropped in a used 406 with aluminum heads and was suddenly making low-11-second passes. He installed a used nitrous kit and was now collecting 10-second timeslips. Hungry for more, the 406 gave way to a better-built 408 and Joe was into the 10s naturally aspirated and spraying into the 9s.
Along the way, Joe had hastily installed the requisite safety equipment to keep the Nova from getting kicked off the track, and he admits it was a mess. "I got fed up one weekend and just took the whole car apart," he says. "I didn't like the paint job, the original wiring had problems, the 'cage was mild steel and had been MIG-welded in, and the interior was trashed. I stripped the entire car down to a bare shell in my garage. That seemed to be the logical thing to do."
He spent the next two years rebuilding the Nova, doing everything himself except the paint job. He installed a TCI front clip, freshened up the 408, welded in an 8.50-second certified 'cage, and completely restored the interior. He finished the car just in time for the '06 NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois, and has been chipping away at lower e.t.'s since then. His new engine, a smaller but more radical 352, got him into the high 8s last year.
"You don't have the money to pay someone to do the work for you, so you learn how to do it yourself," he says. We think he's being modest. Joe's a Chevrolet dealership mechanic who's probably got mad skills and could work circles around most of us. You don't build this car by yourself otherwise.
Who: Joe Kosiba
Where: Hoffman Estates, Illinois
What: '63 Chevrolet Nova
Engine: A variety of small-blocks have called the Nova's engine compartment home over the years, but it's currently sporting a former NMCA Easy Street 352 built by Jeff D'Agostino of Fast Times in Morton Grove, Illinois. It's a Dart block with a forged GM crankshaft, Pro Action heads, a solid roller cam, and an Edelbrock Super Victor intake manifold. We dig the cool Moroso-fabbed aluminum valve covers. In case you happen to miss all the nitrous plumbing, the Meziere electric water pump and Jesel beltdrive are more subtle clues that this is a serious race engine.
Fuel: A big Pro Systems-prepped 1,000-cfm Dominator sits on top of a Wilson Manifolds carb spacer. Joe didn't want to install a fuel cell, so he sumped and narrowed the stock tank to fit between the relocated leaf springs. A Barry Grant fuel pump keeps the float bowls full.
Sparks: There's an MSD Pro-grammable Digital 7 Plus box mounted in the passenger compartment footwell that controls an MSD distributor.
Exhaust: The exhaust barks through a pair of Hooker Super Competition headers. Four-inch tubing leads to a pair of DynoMax bullet mufflers, then to a pair of turbo mufflers with turndowns that dump just before the rear axle. This interesting combination of mufflers gives the car a unique exhaust note. Joe sums it up more simply: "It sounds like a big-block."
Nitrous: Nitrous Express foggers deliver the laughing gas responsible for the Nova's relatively docile manners around town and blisteringly fast passes at the strip. Joe's got a warm pair of Nitrous Oxide Systems bottles mounted in the trunk.
Transmission: For a fast car, the TH350 is a relatively mild build--no race-only reverse-manual valvebody or rock-hard shift kit. He manually shifts the Hurst Quarter Stick shifter at the track but leaves it in Drive on the street and lets the trans shift itself.
Rearend: That's a Moser 9-inch housing, but it's filled with Strange internals. There are 3.50:1 gears on a Strange spool, and beefy, 35-spline Strange axles turn the wheels.
Suspension: The Total Cost Involved front clip comes complete with upper and lower control arms and adjustable coilover shocks. Joe mini-tubbed the rear of the Nova to get more tire under the car. He still runs the stock leaf springs but relocated them inboard to clear the new wheelhouses. CalTracs bars control spring wrap, which is probably considerable judging by the car's e.t.'s.
Brakes: Wilwood discs are on all four corners.
Wheels/Tires: Those are 15-inch Billet Specialties Street Lite wheels. Joe's got a pair of Mickey Thompson skinnies up front and ET Streets out back.
Interior: Joe totally redid the interior with new panels from Chevy II Only. He made his own instrument cluster and stuffed it full of Auto Meter gauges. He also adapted an '05 GTO gas pedal and C5 Corvette brake pedal to fit the Nova's pedal box.
Paint/Body: All the Nova's original sheetmetal remains intact. Joe helped a bodyman friend of his straighten and realign all the panels. His buddy sprayed the car with a Volkswagen silver.
Cool: A friend of Joe's made a set of LED taillights that fit behind the stock lenses.
Fast: Joe's best run on the current drivetrain is an 8.94 at 155 mph.


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If I have a database that stores the login credentials of 1,000,000 users in PLAINTEXT, how much effort will it take me to md5 hash these passwords?
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Please don't convert it to MD5; it's not considered a secure hashing scheme.
If you're going to convert them to something else; then I'd suggest reading up on Password security. The topic is way too long to go into detail here.
Also, could you tell us the company so we can be sure not to store our credentials there?
Your effort = the same as if it were 10 rows. Just convert one, and put it in a loop.
Computers effort = effort (time) of converting one row * 1000000
The exact execution time of creating a md5 from plain text is a measurable value. The exact execution time of converting them all is predictable from the first result.
I reckon that your own effort would actually mostly be spend to the other parts of your login system and not this one, like forgotten password and similar. E.g. if the previous system used to send exact password to users, you'll have to replace it with a password reset functionality.
After some tinkering I generated for you a quick and dirty solution
The basic concept:
What this essentially does is link the table with the password to itself with an inner join. It uses the aliases (Target and Source) to differentiate between the two copies of the table. Then using the regular Update syntax from sql, the Set statement on lines 7 and 8 causes the password field in the original table to become equal to the MD5 hash of the same password. To make sure that this sql only acts on a per row basis we establish the where statement using the primary key of the table.


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Fire claims a house in Bowling Green this afternoon, and a family is now homeless.
Just before noon, the Bowling Green Fire Department responded to a house on 12th Ave., engulfed in flames.
Neighbors say, this is the second time this week, the house had caught fire.
Firefighters say the first time was an electric stove fire, but say there is no reason to believe the two fires are connected, since the electricity had been shut off.
"I was like, 'Oh my god, that house is on fire, again!' and I immediately called the fire department. And then the windows, you could hear them break, and then the flames come flying out the window," says next-door neighbor Penny Wells.
The fire was put out within an hour.
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Is there any StackExchange/Area51 site where it would be appropriate to ask questions regarding computer programmer salaries and how to negotiate them?
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Is there something about your question that's specific to computer programming? Or could you replace the term "computer programmer" in your question with "chef" or "accountant" or some other job title? If it's specific, Programmers SE; otherwise, no.
There are really two separate topics:
Neither one of these topics are prima facie on-topic for Programmers.SE.
Salary negotiation isn't a programmer-centric topic: nothing about negotiating a salary requires programmer expertise. There might be questions related to negotiating a salary that might have some special programmer-only insight, but it's highly unlikely that a question merely about negotiating a salary requires that.
Similarly, scoping a question with "(as a programmer)" doesn't automatically make it a question that demands uniquely programmer-centric expertise.
And our FAQ even explicitly classifies salary questions as off-topic:
So please don't ask them there. We can't help you.
A larger point to make is that some topics don't fit the Stack Exchange model well, or don't have a home yet. Salaries and salary negotiation are two of those topics.
For a how-to on negotiating programmer's salaries, I would think programmers would be appropriate. A lot of the great questions and answers there are how-tos and this can be asked in a non-localized manner. Just be smart about how you ask your question though. If you mention something along the lines of "How much money should I be making?", that sort would be closed (anywhere).
Before doing so however, you might want to ask on their meta to see if that would be appropriate just to be doubly sure.


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ATHENS – An opportunistic Concord football team played take away and keep away in cruising to a 21-3 victory against West Liberty on Saturday afternoon at Callaghan Stadium.
The Mountain Lions (6-4, 5-2 WVC) forced the Hilltoppers (5-5, 4-4) into five turnovers and held the ball for more than 40 minutes to pick up their fourth victory in the last five games.
Concord set the tone early by taking the opening kickoff and grinding nearly 10 minutes off the clock on a frustrating 18-play, 69-yard scoring drive.
The Mountain Lions converted two fourth downs – one on a Hilltoppers personal foul that wiped out a Concord punt – and also cashed in three third downs to take a 7-0 lead. The final third down conversion came on a third-and-goal from the West Liberty 13 when quarterback Evin Dusold hit wide receiver Tyler Smith on a crossing route over the middle for the score.
The Hilltoppers tried to answer but Dylan Lagarde was intercepted by Mike Carey at the Concord 25 and the Mountain Lions defensive back returned the interception to midfield.
The West Liberty defense stiffened but the WLU offense couldn't move the sticks and a short punt gave the ball back to the hosts in Hilltopper territory as the second quarter got under way.
Concord drove inside the West Liberty 10 and appeared to have been stopped when Dusold fumbled the snap on fourth-and-one from the WLU 8 but an offsides penalty against the Hilltoppers gave the ball back to the Mountain Lions and fullback Ben Nestor scored from four yards out on the next play.
Lagarde was intercepted again on the ensuing possession, setting up a 40-yard field goal by Andy Ellington that made the score 16-0 at halftime.


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I often hear "dann treffen wir uns gegen 8 Uhr irgendwo". How precise is this? Is it ±5 min or ±10 min or does it depend on the situation?
Are there other words which means "approximately at eight", but are either less precise or more precise?
It depends on the persons and situation.
In my opinion it is around ±5 min or ±10 min and it sounds to me if a group is meeting before 8 (maybe somewhere in the city or at an event) and the other person will join them later but without any fixed time
It means around, about or towards the time. It's a rough time with some minutes tolerance, not important after the mentioned time or before it. (as therealmarv has answered) it depends on the person.
Other words which means "approximately at eight" (less to more precise*):
If you mean the precise time you would say:
* : it's hard for the first five or so entries in the list to determine which one is more precise. At least colloquially, they can all mean the same.


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Different drinks get me drunk at different speeds, is there any way of knowing how drunk a drink will make me? How drunk do I need to get before I become fall-down-drunk?
The amount of Drunkeness you can have before becoming completely useless depends on your skills and what kind of run you are doing. For the purposes of normal ascensions, your alcohol tolerance runs at about a baseline 15. At and over that, you're face-down in the gutters. You can increase your tolerance by consuming a steel margarita, received from the Azazel in Hell quest.
Avatars of Boris and Zombie Slayers are lightweights, only having a tolerance of 5, while Avatars of Jarlsberg can handle slightly better at 10. Avatars of Sneaky Pete, on the hand, pretty much have two functional livers and have a base tolerance of 20.
Note that these numbers are the levels of Drunkenness at which you become falling-down drunk. The amount of alcohol you can drink and still actually adventure is the aforementioned appropriate number minus 1. So to more clearly illustrate my point:
The kingdom of loathing wiki has a potency value for most, if not all, drinks, and it is visible in the item description.
For a normal character the maximum drunkenness without being fall-down-drunk is 14. So 15 and above is to much. Getting a Liver of Steel increases your maximum safe inebriety to 19.
You can get up to 14 drunkenness safely by default, and 19 if you get the liver of steel from the Deep Fat Friers side quest.
As a rule of thumb, beers and wines give you 1 or 2 drunkenness, spirits and basic mixed drinks give three, fancy mixed drinks(umbrella, coconut, etc) give 4.
Normally you get the falling-down-drunk state when you have 15 or more drunkenness, but you can upgrade it to 20 by consuming a Steel Margarita which is a reward for an optional quest.
You can see the amount of drunkenness you gain from a drink by looking at the "potency" in the item description. A general rule of thumb is:
When you want to know the details about a specific drink, you can look up on the wiki.
KoL Mafia has a great food and drink menu, where the fullness and drunkenness are listed along with the adv gained for consuming. A great tool for speed runs.
KoL mafia is a java program, that helps with planning and adventuring I the kingdom. It supports all kinds of scripts, to automate the tasks as well as a enhanced browser that displays combat info (think HP, at, def) quest items to collect etc. The link can be found here: mafia
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Dungeons and Dragons has had the concept of a "saving throw" for a long time. What exactly is it supposed to represent in the real world? And why is it called a "saving throw"?
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The concept of saving throws have been in the game since the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and inherited them from wargaming via Chainmail.
The name is a special case of etymological specialisation (where a term becomes so associated with a certain meaning that other meanings are forgotten or diminished in common awareness) combined with some etymological generalisation (where a term loses some of its specificity in order to cover a wider meaning).
So "saving throw" is just some English that was promoted, by accidents of history, to become a technical term in D&D rules.
The meaning of saving throws depends on the edition. In all editions but 4th edition, it is a "hail mary", last-gasp chance to avoid certain death.
Originally, it was not meant to be realistic so much as it was a convenience for making the game more playable. Dragon fire, being ensorcelled, or drinking poison would all normally overcome a person subjected to them. These sort of instant-kill things are potentially fun to play with, and giving adventurers a chance to escape certain death—or worse—means that they could be incorporated more freely. Later editions of D&D used saving throws to model unlikely events that should be easier for more experienced adventurers, making their connection to avoiding certain death less obvious. In these editions, saving throws represent a combination of dumb luck and a measure of preternatural awareness of danger, but they're still more of a player-side mechanic than an "in world" mechanic.
In 4th edition, saving throws are unrelated in game-mechanical terms to saving throws from other editions, since the role previously filled by "saving throws" is modeled instead by a character's various Defense numbers. Term "saving throw" was repurposed for an unrelated mechanical role, which was determining the duration of effects: where other editions determine the number of rounds an effect lasts when it comes into play and the DM or a timekeeper has to keep track of when they will expire, 4e has them last until the player succeeds on a roll to end the effect. Saving throws in this edition represent spells and effects having variable durations combined with the character taking whatever measures are appropriate to rid themselves of the effect.
D&D has had the term "saving throw" back through at least 1e (though I don't have the exact text handy). Supposedly Gygax himself created the term, though I've also heard it was common in miniatures-based wargaming at the time Chainmail was being created (though this may have been referring to the concept rather than the specific term).
It's called a saving throw because it saves your character from bad stuff (a failed save always meant a dead unit in Chainmail; by 3.5 it had expanded to cover relatively minor unpleasantness). While "throw" is the traditional term for rolling dice, D&D has pretty much always used "roll" for everything other than saves; why Gygax chose "throw" over "roll" is unknown (I would personally suggest that it's because people actually threw dice when they failed saves, since a failed save typically represented dead units/characters).
From Chainmail:
From 2nd edition PHB:
From 3.5e PHB1, pg136:
In 3.5e and previous editions, saving throws are your character's chance to resist or avoid unpleasant stuff that doesn't fit in the AC & HP frameworks. It can represent dodging something, or shrugging off its effects through sheer toughness or willpower.
From 4e PHB1, pg279:
In 4e, saving throws are your ability to shake off unpleasant stuff that's already happened to you. It can represent enduring a poison, putting out your burning shirt, shaking your head to get the dirt out of your eyes, or any number of other things.
The concept of "saves" seems to have originated in the wargaming rules of Tony Bath from the late 1950s. Bath's medieval rules have a system such that after a roll is made by the attacker to determine hits, armored defenders make a separate roll to determine if their armor "saved" them from the hit; e.g. "if he has both armor and a shield, a 4, 5 or 6 will save him." The compound "saving throw" was widely popularized in the wargaming community by Don Featherstone's reprinting of Bath's rules in War Games (1962).
Gary Gygax was familiar with Tony Bath's 1966 edition of ancient and medieval rules (Gygax repeatedly credited them in the late 1960s), which use the term "saving throw" freely. From there we see saving throws integrated into Chainmail, where figures roll saves to avoid effects like dragons breath, poison and petrification. Gygax and Arneson's 1972 collaboration Don't Give up the Ship also has saving throws made after ships are hit by guns.
So basically, the original "saving throw" was intended to model the effect of armor, but over time the term drifted to refer to avoiding any sort of effect. From a system perspective, saving throws are used especially to mitigate otherwise unpreventable sources of damage, including area-of-effect damage. See Playing at the World section 3.2.2 for a ton more about this.
I'll take a stab at it. In the real world, in older D&D, it was designed to represent the manner in which your PC endured situations. Fighters used their armor and shield, but they were typically weak to mind magics. Thieves used their perceptions and quickness to remove themselves from harm. Spellcasters used their wills and minds.
The way we typically described it was that a priest had a holy aura that they could evoke that shielded them from damage, or they got Divine Favor. And yes these examples are the way our descriptions tend to be. Makes it better, IMO. Example: PC cleric must make a save versus fiery dragon breath. They make save, my description might be- "You see the gout of flames washing toward you, and you speak words of faith. Your holy symbol flares, and can feel your prayers answered as the brunt of the fire is kept from your body." Example: PC thief must make same save, they succeed, my description might be: "Your keen ears hear the sharp intake of breath and you act without thought, nimbly rolling away. The heat scorches you, but the stones where you stood glow as hot slag." Example" PC fighter, same save, but FAILS: "You steel yourself for the flames, relying on your armor and shied to protect you, but the heat is too great, and you nearly perish. You emerge alive, but severely burned, with smoke flowing from your singed clothing and your armor hot to the touch." Wizards just use their will.
Now, if it was a fighter type who relied on Dex, so be it. You can still apply the same description as a thief/rogue. If they use protection items, then the items can be described as flaring or glowing, etc, and that turns away the flames.


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The Scanned trailer for Halo 4 shows the Chief captured by the Prometheans and being scanned by one of the Promethean Knights. When does this take place? Is it a trailer for Halo 5 since this doesn't actually happen in Halo 4?
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The 6 Strangest Objects People Were Caught Having Sex With
Have you ever walked past a piece of furniture or some other inanimate object and thought, "Hey, that's got a hole in it. I wonder if I can stick my dick in there..."
If you have, you're not alone. Either due to bizarre sexual fetishes or just plain boredom, men have gotten caught screwing anything and everything. Some of which don't even seem possible. Take for instance...
#6. A Picnic Table
It says something about relations between the UK and America when the Telegraph publishes the headline: "American Caught Having Sex With Picnic Table." Seriously, does it matter where the guy was from? So what if one guy's pursuit of happiness took the form of sticking his schlong inside the umbrella hole of a picnic table. Do not such things transcend borders?
After all, isn't this the sort of thing that could happen to anybody? Maybe a girl had been there just moments ago, and rolled away at the last minute. Maybe it was dark.
These would all be reasonable suppositions if the story didn't say that the guy boned the picnic table on four separate occasions, and for hours on end. How do we know that? This would be thanks to the neighbor who secretly taped it each time ... also for hours on end.
Now, filming it the first time is understandable. You just want to have evidence for when the cops say, "There is no way some guy is fucking a table." But somewhere after the second time, the overall impression you givr off goes from "disgusted" to "intrigued" to "DAMMIT IT'S ALMOST MIDNIGHT! WHERE ARE YOU, YOU TABLE DEFILING STALLION! LOOK AT IT, JUST BEGGING FOR YOUR MIGHTY LANCE OF FLESH!"
"If my dick was a carpenter, this is the table it would design."
But eventually the neighbor did turn the tapes over to the police, who arrested the perpetrator and presumably drew straws over which poor bastard was going to watch the hours of evidence. The man was charged with felony counts of public indecency because his frolic with the world's most vulnerable four-legged beast happened near an elementary school.
We're guessing this made for some long, awkward conversations between fourth graders and their parents.
#5. Street Signs
A Sioux Falls, South Dakota man was arrested when a neighbor came home and had the following thought train barrel down the center of his mind, "Hmm, there appears to be a 60-year-old man in my backyard in a trench coat and panty hose, holding a camcorder. Perhaps he's a pervert."
After the man was arrested, police found hours of tape that were kind of like that haunted video from The Ring, only instead of killing you, it just permanently negates the possibility of an erection for the remainder of your adult life. Police say the tapes included two years' worth of the man defiling street signs.
Two goddamn years. And that's just the ones he was taping, who knows how many street signs he fucked and got away with it. This proves once and for all the forensics and crime scene work you see on CSI is a big load of bullshit.
The man's escapades didn't end there, either. His collection included video of himself in an all leather S&M outfit while grinding against a door frame, instantly making it twice as awkward as any other S&M film ever made.
By the way, this is the guy we're talking about.
There was also video of him masturbating in front of traffic while wearing a mask, waving a gun at people while naked and digging a hole to literally fuck the ground. That has to be the pinnacle of messed up boning, right? Screwing the earth itself? Well we can say that he's not the first guy to get caught doing it, so maybe it's a thing. Who are we to judge?
#4. A Bicycle
A man from southwest Scotland apparently decided, while looking at his bike, that he wanted to ride it all night long, and in ways that would make Lance Armstrong weep tears of pure terror.
This, presumably, was not a problem for anyone until the night that two cleaning ladies for a local hostel walked in on a sight far more horrifying than anything Eli Roth could come up with: The 51-year-old Scottish man, with trou fully dropped, was "riding" a bike in a way that God never intended.
It has 10 speeds, all of them are sexy as hell.
Oh, and did we mention that he stopped, knowing he was caught in one of the most awkward situations ever, acknowledged the cleaners in the room, and then continued gettin' it on? Whether that is dedication, determination or retardation, it was probably backed with the thoughts and hopes that today would be the day he would get lucky and finally have that M-F-F-Bike orgy he always longed for.
It didn't take long for them to call the cops, who booked his ass on charges of sexual breach of the peace, which we assume is Europe-speak for making everyone at the station say "What the Fuck?" and "Holy shit eww!" He ended up pulling a page out of the celebrity "I fucked up big time" book and chalked it up to alcohol instead of that funny feeling he got in his pants when he saw a tricycle when he was a child.
In fairness, this bike is totally asking for it.
The man's little Tour de France got him three years probation and placement on the sex offenders list, presumably with the note "fucked bike" next to it.


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Tuesday, April 17.
Sitting in Bogobiri late one afternoon, two friends arrive, pulling their chairs to my table. I had met them over the weekend: architects living in Edinburgh – a Nigerian and an Irishman – who were spending a week in Lagos, conducting a study on something too abstract for me to comprehend through the Star-fuelled haze that surrounded me that night. A few days later Liam sits beside me, his hair matted to his forehead, his shirt stuck to his chest. He is visibly shaken. There was an event, an encounter, a confrontation on the street which he is too distressed to describe. Tolu claps him on the shoulder, laughing gently. They order tall beers and nurse them while Liam repairs his frayed nerves. Finally he starts to explain: he had taken a picture just down the road – of a building? A danfo? A crowd of hawkers? He doesn't say – and suddenly there were loud protestations. Men shouted. A few angry youths gathered, got in his face. They began threatening his driver, who tried to intercede. Somehow Liam and Tolu extricated themselves from the scene before it became a melee; the driver was unharmed. It could have been worse. Now they sat in Bogobiri, licking their psychic wounds.
The beers go down smoothly; they grow philosophical. Tolu, who was born and raised in Lagos, understands the undercurrents that pull beneath the surface of Nigerian society, like a strong riptide. Liam put a distance between himself and the crowd on the street, Tolu explains. He hadn't greeted them or asked their permission; instead, he simply subjugated them to his gaze. Their hostile reaction spoke to the complicated power dynamics that play out in every encounter on the city's streets: the deference for age and authority, the anxieties over social status, and the complex hierarchies of city life. It's as if some sub-primal instinct is encoded into the Lagosian's DNA, so that a man can instinctively perform the social algebra demanded by any occasion to see on which side of the divide he falls: the one who is giving respect, or the one demanding it. Stopped at a red light in a friend's car one afternoon, a traffic cop approached to accost the driver. "How much you wan give me?" he demanded. The fact that she had done nothing wrong was inconsequential; by virtue of his uniform, he felt entitled to demand some small dash before waving us through. Liam's encounter on the street this afternoon was different – this time, it was he who was in the position of power – but the angry response to his camera was triggered by the same nervous system, a reflex action when the group's collective pride had been wounded. How dare he photograph them without even exchanging pleasantries, or introducing himself? It was as if he had tried to colonize their public space, was staking his claim to one of the few places where even a poor man might have sovereignty.
"In Yoruba culture, naiveté can be forgiven if your intentions are noble," said Tolu the night we'd met. "But certain things will not be tolerated. Disrespect will not be tolerated." A few nights later I watched an angry man being restrained by the neighbors outside my guesthouse. There had been some altercation that I was too late to witness; all I saw now was the fallout. The man was irate, the muscles straining in his neck as two overpowered youths struggled to hold him back. "Not even my father can beat me," he said, shouting invectives down the street. "I come from a royal family." In ancient times, in the days of warring clans and epic heroes, perhaps he would have recited that lineage for us in verse. Still, the intensity of his feeling was profound. He was no man to be laughed at: he was his father's son. Whatever slight he felt, whatever grievance was being marshaled by the terrible force of his anger, was an insult that rocked the graves of his father's father, and his father's father's father, and so on down the line. Day after day, who knows what yoke around the neck dragged this man down? But he had his pride and his royal name. Disrespect would not be tolerated.
In Measuring Time, the writer Helon Habila turns this pride on its head; for Habila it becomes a farce when that pride is distorted, reflected in the fun-house mirror of Nigerian politics. In one scene Habila's protagonist, Mamo, is lobbying some functionary from the Ministry of Education on behalf of his uncle's school, which the government is threatening to shut down.
"You don't understand, Mr. Commissioner—"
"You must address me as Honorable Commissioner for Education, or Honorable Commissioner, or simply Honorable, but not Mr. Commissioner. We must respect our public officers." For the first time the voice was raised a pitch higher.
Zara's mouth fell open. Mamo could imagine the exasperation on his uncle's face.
"Honorable Commissioner for Education…"
"Go on."
The school is shut down in the end – a pawn used against Mamo's father in the town's party politics. The Honorable Commissioner's pride, meanwhile, remains intact.
Habila's novel is a sly jab at the many Honorable Commissioners, both real and imagined, whose public service to the country consists of currying favors and clawing their way to the next highest rung on the political ladder: the shrewd social climbers Habila refers to as "career sycophants." No doubt the commissioner's rebuke to Mamo is meant as a reminder of the lowly teacher's place in the town's ecosystem. Somewhere in the Ministry is a man who the commissioner himself will have to address with similar deference: one pictures such characters, who appear frequently in Nigerian fiction, as so many pairs of puckered lips. The protocols they cling to like barnacles are as strictly observed as religious doctrine. Not without reason must a long train of dignitaries parade to the mic at every formal function, receiving adulation and bestowing benedictions according to their rank. (The writer Peter Enahoro, commenting on the tedium of their long-winded speeches, observes that "the power of Nigerian oratory is measured by the strength of the speaker's legs.") It is hardly surprising that the shelves of the local bookstores are stocked with the hagiographies of leaders past and present, or that the newspapers are daily filled with full-page advertisements in praise of a certain centennial, or a silver anniversary, or a lavish memoriam to a dearly departed. Such testimonies, I suspect, have as much to do with the giver of well-wishes as the receiver. The songs of praise don't just elevate the respected elder being showered with tribute; equally implicit is the worth and valor of the signatories whose names appear at the bottom, gilded by association. They are no less deserving of praise and remembrance than their venerated subjects.
"How can a white journalist see it? There are boundaries you just can't cross."
The photographer Mudi Yahaya is giving a private tour of the Signature Gallery, one of Lagos' premier venues for contemporary art. Mudi has helped to curate a new exhibition called "Fresh Vernacular," an attempt by young Nigerian artists to reframe perceptions of Nigerian and African identity. "We don't want you to see things in one way," he says, noting that even the way the paintings are hung in the gallery is meant to encourage visual challenges, difficult narrative juxtapositions. Among the works are his own haunting portraits from the "Masquerade and the City" series, an exploration of the mystical sects – widely believed to possess supernatural powers – which are a deep-rooted part of traditional social structures across Nigeria. Mudi has spent years studying the country's different masquerades, cultivating relationships among them, earning the trust that allowed him to enter into their secretive world. It was this that prompted his question: how can a white man, newly arrived on Nigerian soil, even begin to burrow through all the layers of complexity, to reach some deeper understanding – not only of the masquerades, but of every subtle sign and symbol in the country's daily life? How can he make sense of it? How can he even see what he sees?
It brings me back to Liam's encounter, how he failed to instinctively grasp the situation: though his camera was pointed at a group of men on the street, he didn't even know what he was seeing. The power of his gaze had a profound and unsettling effect on them. In Yoruba culture, says Mudi, "eyeing" another man – looking him up and down – can have disastrous consequences. Fights have occurred on the streets because a man "looked at you up and down and decided you were useless as a person." If a woman were to eye her husband and give a dismissive cluck of her tongue, it would be grounds for divorce. Mudi laughs softly, as if astounded by his own words. He walks us through the gallery, stopping before a series of Victorian-style portraits of Nigerians during the colonial era. The colorful dress depicted in the paintings is ripe with meanings he interprets for us, explaining how "clothes and fabrics play a very big part in the politics of Nigerian identity." He removes his traditional, hand-woven Hausa hat and describes the months of craftsmanship that went into it – work that would be instantly recognizable to a Hausa man or woman. It is like a crown, a symbol which commands respect. "If I wear my cap, and I go into a certain place, he cannot just call me mister," he says. Mudi knows the words, the symbols, the codes. Though we are standing side by side in the gallery, it's as if we inhabit two entirely different spaces.
The air conditioning is feeble, and the afternoon is hot, muggy, relentless. Mudi is sweating through his shirt, his face wildly animated as we travel with him through the world of contemporary Nigerian art, into the dark corners of Lagos Island, across centuries of Yoruba and Igbo mythologies. Fact, myth, rumor: it is impossible to separate the strands. In the Delta, he says, men cover their bodies with palm fronds to protect themselves at river crossings. It is forbidden for whites to board the narrow dugout canoes: sometimes a jealous river spirit will drag the boat down, searching for a husband or wife. Certain masquerades are called by drums made from human skins; though the drummers beat them wildly, the frequency is beyond the range of human hearing. The dogs howl, drawn into the drummers' frenzy. It is known that knowledgeable men possessed of certain dark arts can grip your arm and turn the skin to maggots. Sometimes, a drowned man will reappear six months later, as if reborn.
Years ago, when construction began on a certain bridge in Ikeja, the builders kept encountering problems. Four times the pylons were built and the span was raised; four times it all came tumbling down. It was believed that mischievous water spirits were at work and needed to be appeased. A sacrifice had to be made. Thirty-one cows were slaughtered, but the spirits were still hungry. The lives of five white men were needed. It happened quietly, slowly: a foreman would be crossing the site and suddenly – Mudi pantomimes a swift thrust of the hip – he would be bumped into the dark waters below. The spirits were satisfied. The bridge was raised.
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Thursday, 4 October 2012
Why do humans walk in circles?
Souman's team rejected past theories, including the idea that people have one leg that's stronger or longer than the other. If that were true you'd expect people to systematically veer off in the same direction, but their participants varied in their circling direction.
Now a team in France has made a bold attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery. Emma Bestaven and her colleagues hired out a huge indoor exhibition space in Bordeaux (90m x 150m) and blindfolded their participants, thus ensuring that there was no way any environmental sounds or bumps on the ground could interfere with the results.
Another innovation was that the researchers used EMG to monitor the participants' muscle activity in their legs whilst they walked; they had them stand on a force plate to check how their balance was distributed; and they assessed their subjective sense of the vertical, via their placement of a vertical bar.
Given six attempts to walk in a straight line, the fifteen blindfolded participants (7 women) in fact frequently veered off in one direction or the other, just as expected based on past research. Half the time they deviated off to the left, 39 per cent of the time to the right, and the remainder of the walks they managed to go straight. Six of the participants always veered in the same direction, the others mixed it up. There was no evidence of participants getting straighter with each attempt, but a faster walking speed was associated with a straighter trajectory.
Many past theories for why humans walk in circles were ruled out - walking deviation was unrelated to hand, eye or leg dominance. The recordings of muscle activity drew a blank. But there was one clue. The participants' "centre of pressure" score obtained when they stood on the force plate, which reflects their postural balance, was correlated with how much they deviated from a straight line when they walked. In turn, this "centre of pressure" score was correlated with participants' subjective sense of a straight vertical line.
Taken together, Bestaven's team said this suggests that our propensity to walk in circles is related in some way to slight irregularities in the vestibular system. Located in inner ear, the vestibular system guides our balance and minor disturbances here could skew our sense of the direction of "straight ahead" just enough to make us go around in circles.
Emma Bestaven, Etienne Guillaud, and Jean-René Cazalets (2012). Is "Circling" Behavior in Humans Related to Postural Asymmetry? PLoS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043861
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for the walking-in-circle hypothesis to work, they have to veer off in one direction consistently ieReplyDelete
left, left ... left or
right, right ... right.
fluctuating between left and right might cancel off the effect.
did the researcher show that the degree of consistency is sufficiently large such that the walking-in-circle phenomenon would occur?
It would be very surprising if we could walk for long distances in a nice straight line when blindfolded, as it would imply we have some kind of calibrated biological gps-like system. And it would be pretty extraordinary if our onboard inertial navigation equipment (vestibular system) was accurate enough to work over much more than a few metres. Sooner or later, we're bound to deviate off in one direction or the other.ReplyDelete
By the way, did the researchers test with-chewing gum and without-chewing gum?Replies
If the 'randomness' was truly random then errors would, given time, perfectly cancel out - to result in a straight line path. In the much more likely event that the vestibular system was not perfectly 'balanced' (ahem, sorry!) then the errors would bias it in one direction or the other - resulting in a circular (though wobbly) path. No?Delete
For once, a 'circular analysis' that makes for good science.ReplyDelete
- Cameron M10:18 pm
A link between walking in a straight line and balance certainly seems logically justified... It would explain at least two scenarios that spring to mind, namely an attempt to walk straight whilst on a rolling boat, or whilst excessively drunk.ReplyDelete
Now all that's left to do is attempt to canvas a large enough area with level flooring that these effects can be tested on a larger scale. Australia would make a good site?


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I've been tasked with proofreading an Engineering/Mathematics thesis paper. I was always told that numbers under 10 should be spelled out (one, two, three, ...) but I was wondering if this rule holds in math and science fields as well. This paper understandably uses a lot of numbers in it and switching back and forth between numbers written out in words and numerals seems inconsistent at best and somewhat confusing at worst.
Generally speaking you should try to distinguish between an English number and a mathematical number. As in "Over the next five chapters we will prove that 5 is a prime number." Never spell out a number which is a subject of study, like the "5" in that sentence.
However ordinals like in "Section 4" and "Lemma 2" are always written with digits. "There are three results in Theorem 3."
Also in engineering watch for units... "The two rods had diameter 5 mm." "A 6-volt battery was used."
I believe that the rule here is to spell out numbers used for counting (unless they require three or more words to be spelled out), and use digits otherwise. Just check the examples in the answers above to see that they all fit this rule. As one more example: "There are five theorems in the manuscript labeled Theorem 5".


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Newspaper clippings from Yakima County on Klan activities, from the "Yakima Daily Republic," the "Yakima Morning Herald," and the "Wapato Independent." This album is part of the larger Ku Klux Klan in Washington State project. Digitization made possible by Microfilm and Newspaper Collection, University of Washington Library; and the Washington State Newspaper Collections at the Washington State Archives. Copyright (c) reserved.
Wapato Independent, Oct. 22, 1925, p. 1
"KKK Brings Suit Against Former Kleagle"
Wapato Independent, March 1, 1923, p. 4
"Will Speak on Klan"
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"Frank Sutton, New Director"
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"KKK Meeting is Well Attended'
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"Court Fails to Get List of Klan Members"
Yakima Daily Republic, Feb 13, 1926, pp. 1-10
"Kleagle not Able to Recall Them While Books Still On"
Yakima Daily Republic, Feb. 8, 1926, p. 3
"Names of Klan Members Are Ordered Made Public"
Yakima Daily Republic, March 2, 1923, p. 7
"Ku Klux Klan Asks Members"
Yakima Daily Republic, Aug. 11, 1924, p. 2
"Klan cerremonial Holds Big Crowd"
Yakima Daily Republic, Aug. 8, 1924, p. 6
"Klan Ceremonial Comes Tomorrow"
Yakima Daily Republic, Aug. 9, 1924, p. 1
"Klan Plans for its Ceremonial"
Yakima Morning Herald, March 21, 1923, p. 2
"Church Refused for Klan Meet"
Yakima Morning Herald, March 23, 1923, pp. 1-3
"Klan Lecturer Draws Crowds"
Yakima Morning Herald, March 24, 1923, p. 1
"No Klan Needed to Help Police"
Yakima Morning Herald, March 24, 1923, p. 4
"Yakima has no plans for any secret organization that arrogates itself to the functions of government..."
Yakima Morning Herald, March 27, 1923, p. 2
"Priest Refutes Klan's Charges"
Yakima Morning Herald, July 26, 1924, p. 8
"Klan Denied Use of Fairgrounds"
Yakima Morning Herald, Aug. 10, 1924, pp. 1-10
"40,000 See Klan Give Obligation to Large Class"
Yakima Morning Herald, August 6, 1924, p. 8
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By Matthew Zeltzer 01/03/2013
Go to Los Angeles, walk into any club on the Sunset Strip and tell me what you see. Hair bands. Grown men in tights. This isn't the set of Robin Hood; this is L.A.'s understanding of what it takes to make it in the music business. Or maybe these are the only bands who still think playing the Strip is worth a damn. Thanks to rampant "pay to play" policies, they are wrong. For those who are not familiar with the term, pay to play refers to a specific contract in which a band must sell tickets in order to break even at a show. (Unsold tickets must be bought by the band.)
The fact is, pay to play is drifting north toward our fair county, bringing with it the stench of "exposure." Venues are occasionally using pay-to-play promoters to help fill off nights, and why shouldn't they? Promoters pay the venue to use their stage, and are left to deal with the bands. And why not be guaranteed that Thursday night will pay the bills? Any bar or venue owner will tell you that some bands promote like hell, and others simply show up to play and ask for a check.
The only way for us to avoid this looming catastrophe, which will suck the life out of our working-class music scene, is to focus the conversation. The biggest problem I see is the false paradigm pitting bands against venues. Simply said, if the bar does well, so does the band. We must realize that we are in it together before we get swallowed up by these gyrating poseurs from the City of Angels.
So let me make a proposal: Let's all stop whining and start working together.
There, I said it. Paint a target on my back (or just e-mail me, I'd love to continue the conversation). I believe our goals should be to make Ventura a better place to live, as well as a sought-after destination for people who enjoy real, live music. If we consistently touch on these goals, both venues and bands will make this a reality.
To that end, I have made a short and incomplete list of responsibilities for bands and venues.
Venues The responsibility of a venue is to cultivate an environment that encourages good music and to become known for that. Do this by:
1) Having an appropriate space for music (stage, sound system, lights).
2) Creating clear contracts with bands regarding payment, show time, promotional needs, conduct, etc.
3) Promoting. Make (or demand) a poster. Post on Facebook and Twitter and send show lists to the VCReporter. Advertise in local and non-local newspapers.
4) Building an online presence. This is the digital age. People go on Yelp, Facebook and Twitter to research venues before they show up. Everyone in town might know The Sewer is the best place to end the night, but people coming into town from L.A. and Santa Barbara have no clue. Just throw them a damn bone. It takes less than five minutes a day and it will pay off in dividends.
Bands Become a viable creative and business entity by:
1) Being creative. This means consistently writing new material and learning new covers. No one wants to hear the same set for a year.
2) Not accepting every show you are offered. How can you convince fans to pay $10 to see you if they can see you for free the next night?
3) Promoting your shows (do everything I listed in items No. 2 and No. 3 for venues)
4) Being professional. Show up on time, prepared and with a good attitude. Actively dialogue with the venue's staff before and after the show. Let them know how the show worked for you and what you think could change, but phrase it in a way that is helpful, not demeaning.
While these guidelines do not pose a literal solution to all of our problems, I hope that they will create positive dialogue, making Ventura a better place to play music and a better place to experience music.
Matthew Zeltzer is a wandering musician based out of Ventura. His band Zeltzer and the Tortoise can be found at www.tortoisemusic.com and Facebook.com/tortoisemusic.
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There is nothing wrong with pay to play. Some Bands would give their left nut to play at some of the legendary clubs in L.A. Like the viper room, house of blues, troubadour, and others. If they want to pay they can add to their resume which looks pretty damn impressive. With that said, how many legit venues are there in ventura? I count 2. The Majestic Ventura Theater and zoeys. Do not think zoeys has pay to play, but know for a fact that the ventura theater has been doing this for quite some time. Some local bands want to play on the big stage and are willing to pay. whats wrong with that? Now if one of the dive bars on main street that has no stage, proper sound system or lighting trys this they probably won't have many takers. Don't see this as an issue in ventura at all. Peace!
Briny you are so wrong. Pay to Play isn't healthy for anyone. As a promoter on the Central Coast I can assure you that seeing The Whiskey on someone's "resume" doesn't tell me anything other than that they are willing to be taken for a ride.


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I'd like to take cod liver oil or something similar to boost my vitamin D levels (which are low). I want something totally natural. Is there any way to take cod liver oil without feeling the reported awful taste of it ? If not, what other alternatives are there ?
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Your best 'natural' options will probably be...
Exposure to sunlight with no sunscreen
The more surface area that's exposed the more vitamin D is produced. The darker your skin the less you absorb. Tanning beds will also work but not nearly as well as real sunlight because they primarily output UVA light (UVB is needed for vitamin D synthesis).
Cod liver oil, while having a lot of vitamin D may also come with other risks. Including...
Hypervitaminosis A - Overdose of vitamin A
Environmental toxins such as mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins
If you overdo it, you could be doing more harm than good.


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The accepted answer on How long was Jesus in the tomb? would only have been possible if the Last Supper was not the Passover meal, which I had always thought it was. Was the Last Supper in fact not the Passover meal?
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My new understanding of the Last Supper is mostly based on the information at http://www.therefinersfire.org/celebrating_passover.htm.
The key verses which indicate that Christ was actually crucified on the day before the Passover feast are John 18:28 and John 19:14.
The day of preparation would be when they slaughter the Passover lamb, which would then be eaten that night.
Two things are clear from scripture:
There are a number of possible reconciliations of this. Some speculate that Jesus was a part of a minority Jewish sect that celebrated Passover on a different day. Others that he celebrated Passover a day early because he knew he wouldn't be able to do it on the right day (I don't know what Jewish Law would have said about that, but Jesus was never one to get hung up on legal technicalities).
The Last Supper was not a Passover seder. The Passover seder occurred immediately before the Last Supper during the same evening. This is only evident when we closely examine the Gospel of Luke.
In Luke 22:7, it is written,
This "day of Unleavened Bread" refers to Nisan 14, as the Jews reckoned even this day, although properly "the Passover" (Exo. 12:6), as the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. In fact, they often called the entire "Feast of Unleavened Bread" by the name "Passover."1
Thus, on Nisan 14, the day on which the Passover lamb was to be slaughtered, the Lord Jesus Christ commands the apostles Peter and John to "go prepare the Passover so we may eat" (Luke 22:8). They then went to Jerusalem and found the man Jesus instructed them about (Luke 22:10-12), "and they prepared the Passover" (Luke 22:13).
In Luke 22:14, it is written,
The Lord Jesus Christ and the twelve apostles reclined and began to eat the Passover seder.2 He says to the twelve, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before my suffering" (Luke 22:15). Then he says to the twelve, "I will not eat of it anymore until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God." But, that Jesus ate then and there, it is certain (cp. Matt. 26:21; Mark 14:18).
The Lord Jesus Christ then receives a cup, gives thanks to the Father, and says to the twelve, "Take this [cup] and divide it among yourselves" ([Luke 22:17]]10). Based on these words, it is arguable that the Lord Jesus Christ himself drank from the cup; however, it seems likely that he did.3
Now, at this point, the Lord Jesus Christ had been eating the Passover seder with the twelve, and he drank a cup of wine and distributed to his apostles. After this, note the following:
In Luke 22:19, it is written,
Luke 22:19 is the verse which demonstrates the commencement of the Last Supper.
In Luke 22:20, it is written,
Notice that the Lord Jesus Christ had already distributed a cup to the twelve (Luke 22:17) during a previous meal, and after eating that meal (μετὰ τὸ δειπνῆσαι), he takes bread (Luke 22:19) and then another cup (Luke 22:20)! This is the evidence that two meals are involved. Two cups; two meals. The first meal was the Passover seder; the second meal is the Last Supper. They are not the same meal. The Passover seder was not the Last Supper. The first cup was actually the last of the four cups of the Passover seder, thus completing the Passover seder. The second cup was the cup of the Last Supper.
John Gill on Luke 22:19,
Count the cups...it's only in Luke's Gospel, but it's there.
1 cp. Luke 22:1; Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 2.15.1.
2 It was custom to recline while eating the Passover seder. See Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Pesachim, Chapter 10, Folio 68b, Halakha 1: ולפי שדרך עבדים להיות אוכלין מעומד וכאן להיות אוכלין מסובין להודיע שיצאו מעבדות לחירות, that is, "Because it is the custom of slaves to eat standing, here [it is the custom] to eat reclining to proclaim that they have gone out from slavery to freedom."
3 See Meyer's commentary on Luke 22:17.
4 The phrase μετὰ τὸ δειπνῆσαι is the preposition μετὰ, meaning "after," followed by the substantive infinitive τὸ δειπνῆσαι, meaning "dining" or "eating (a meal)." It simply refers to eating a meal. Although the KJV translates it simply as "supper," as though it was a noun, it should not be assumed that this "supper" is the "Last Supper," as many may erroneously assume. BDAG defines the verb as, "to eat a meal (without ref. to time of day or type of food), eat, dine."


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Does anyone know if ComboBox can be used in the CellEditor or only SimpleComboBox? When I try it it is positioned after the grid and debugging shows that it is skipped as an unsopported type. Instead, SimpleComboBox is correctly operated.
Is it a bug or just not planned at all maybe?
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ComboBox works without any problems inside a CellEditor. Please post a fully working testcase of your problem that implements EntryPoint
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My father told me that there was a theme each year that his school class dressed up as, and that year it had been a song. He'd been the minister in the song and there were many other characters named in the song, and the rest of the class had dressed up as those characters. The song itself was an old Dutch children's song. We both knew a sentence of it, and we could hum it, but for the life of us, the rest of the lines, or the title, escaped us.
With the faint hope that I might find something, I entered the two sentences in Google. And look! It spit out the exact song we couldn't remember! It's called Catootje. If you want to see it performed (with English subtitles!) you can watch it here.
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I love Firefox for its add-ons. I have a lot of them installed, which obviously increases memory use. But it seems that some add-ons are better than others in that department. Does anyone know a way to figure out approximately how much memory each add-on is using? Obviously, I could disable them all and try them one at a time, but I'm hoping for an easier way...
I usually deal with Firefox memory issues by installing two different Firefox'es on my computer. The first one is the default Firefox and the other is portable Firefox.
I install all the addons I am ever going to use on the portable Firefox (FF) I install the addons which are used almost daily on the default Firefox.
This way I can use the addon just by switching over to the portable Firefox.
If this is not the solution you are looking for then try these addons
There's an extension called Leak Monitor that monitors add-ons for a certain type of memory leak...not exactly what you're looking for, but it's a start!
Only slightly less tedious:
Obviously this is probably a non starter if you have lots of plugins.
Searching for more information on those plugins might tell you something as well.
Firefox memory leak detection tool
Mozilla released Firefox 15.0 today which has huge memory management improvements that should hugely reduce the amount of memory Firefox uses, especially after closing tabs.
You can grab it from the main download site: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/


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What is the best tablet?
Assuming a $500-$600ish budget, what tablet would you get? I initially was thinking iPad 4 but now I'm starting to think I should go with something else and the Google Nexus is looking pretty nice. I would like it to have a decent camera. What other's should I be considering?
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Get a Nexus 10 if you want a 10" else get a couple of Nexus 7.
Without knowing what you want/need it to do, it is impossible to answer. Do you want expandable storage? HDMI? USB port? 3G/4G capabilities? Keyboard dock? How much storage do you want? All of these are important considerations in purchasing a tablet. Other considerations include the type of phone you use (Android? iOS?) because you would be at least partially invested in the infrastructure. Do you need to do any kind of artistic work (stylus incorporation)? etc...
Moderage storage, I don't need space for music or tons of movies. I mostly want it to surf the web, play games, take pictures, occasionally read books. HDMI either way, USB would probably be good though. No 3/4G, just WiFi. It would mostly stay home, I'll probably use it to view an IP camera used as a baby monitor.
We have an Android phone. I don't really care either way about it (HTC Sense). I rarely play games or do much with it. The camera is slow.
The pictures are the big thing. I'm starting to think I should just buy a cheaper tablet and get a nice camera. I really want a nice tablet too though (we have a cheap tablet, a Coby Kyros, I hate it) Incorporating them would be ideal, if there is one that has a great camera. Getting decent pictures in low light of fast moving kids is a pain.
Also a good case for whatever tablet I get. My boys are 4 months, 3 and 5 and destroy things. They probably won't be playing it, but that doesn't mean they won't get their hands on it some time.
I was also looking at the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, which seems to have the best camera so far. I'd like a iSomething, probably to see what the hype is about. Forgot to mention it would probably replace most of my PC usage on our laptop/desktop. I usually have multiple things going at once.
Theoretically speaking, there is no such thing as a best tablet. I'd say they're all pretty equal.
It all matters on what tablet interests you the most. (UI, look, feel, weight, etc)
So the best advice I can give you is to go to a brick & motar store and test drive all the tablets you can find, ask questions if you need any from the people working there, and then go from there.
Feature-wise at the $500-ish range, as long as you're going for something from a reputable brand(ie; Samsung, Apple, etc.) and also popular (like a Galaxy, Nexus or iPad) without getting ripped off then you shouldn't have to worry about getting anything crappy.
In my opinion, if you prefer full control on your tablet interface experience.. go with Android. But if you prefer a straight-up minimalist and controlled environment, Apple is pretty good at doing that.
IP-cam wise, I've done the same thing with my iPad 3. Finding the perfect app for that though (especially free ones) is pretty hard to find.
Cameras on tablets (especially tablets) are just a gimmick.
To be honest, my iPad 3 camera really sucks especially indoors (the pictures get noisy). On top of that holding an iPad to take pictures is really awkwardly hard (both to self and others) to take pictures with.
If you're looking for better quality pictures, why not just get a dedicated camera? I would then just hook it up with Eye-Fi to wirelessly transfer pictures to my iPad so I could view and share the pictures.
For a $500 budget I would go with..
Google Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HD 7" ($200)
Find a camera from (this link @ <$300)[http://snapsort.com/recommend#!general=price&price=300&type=digicam,mirrorless,boutique]
I personally would recommend the Nikon V1 @ $300 which is what I use and it's a pretty awesome interchangeable lens camera, but if you require flashes often (I don't).. the V1 doesn't come with one and you'll need to fish an extra $150 for one.
Also more Eye-Fi info here
This is a GREAT resource. http://versusio.com/ You can compare tablets side by side and it will look at all of the permutations.
Here is a buying guide from CNET http://reviews.cnet.com/tablet-buying-guide/
I think you are on the right track with the Asus. The Nexus 10 is having screen bleed issues in the early batch and that would be a shame. If you want USB there are OTG cables that can be used with an APP on Android tablets, but it is an extra that you need to have with you. With the Asus, you can get the dock in your price range that includes the USB (full size) port. The older Acers and the Toshiba Thrive have full size USB ports included, but are definitely a generation or two behind.
I hope you find this helpful, it is definitely not all inclusive, but using the above tools may help.
@joshobra: Whoops. Didn't get to proofread my last one.
Hope I helped!
Edit: You didn't have to go for a Nexus or Kindle. There are other $200-ranged tablets out there that are similar in specs.
Have the newest iPad, a Nexus 7 and a Kindle Fire in the house. For absolute portability, the Nexus 7 is fantastic. I assume the quality of the Nexus 10 is just the same. Snappy and a great amount of apps.
As a previous Android fanboy though, I have to admit, I LOVE my iPad. I use AppPrideDrop to keep me in the know of cheap or free apps. I also have the Logitech keyboard/cover for it. It goes to meetings instead of my laptop.
If you want to tweak, you can on iDevices, but there are a great amount of options on Android and the community support is nuts.
I would recommend going to a store that has both. Some big box type of store. And think about what you will use the device for and putting each option you are considering through its paces there in the store. That is what helped me make my last purchase.
There are some very sturdy cases for iPad as well. My nephew (2 yrs old) has an iPad with a very durable case. Its surviving so far. Camera? Get a dedicated one.
I have an HP touchpad/ The software that came with it was OK but the up graded software like the ice cream sandwich, ICS makes it run better,smother and is more internet friendley
I always liked the Ten Commandments ( 2 tablets ).
I'd say a Nexus tablet will probably be a good bet.
Also, there's no such thing as a good camera on a mobile device. The very nature of how tiny the lenses and sensors and flashes are means they're all just varying degrees of terrible.
I would suggest maybe getting a Nexus 7 and also shelling out for a real camera, maybe a DSLR. That's the only way you're gonna get both a good tablet AND a good camera.
I recently purchased an TF700T Asus Transformer Pad Infinity For $430 at Best Buy, and I love it the apps are plentiful and are easy to download from Google and Amazon. I especially like the one that lets me run my desktop from it Splashtop 2. Its screen is bright and you can connect it to a HD TV with an optional cable, also has a slot for a micro SD card. Keep an eye on prices you should be able to find a similar price.
My main reason for wanting the camera integrated is because I know from experience that I'm more likely to use the cell phone even though the (now broken) Sony point and shoot camera took better pictures. Mostly because of the ease of instantly sending or uploading the pics and not having them in 2 places to sort and delete (and there are a lot when you're taking pics of babies/kids). Also because I'm more likely to have the tablet handy, charged and ready. That being said, I have never looked into the Eye-Fi, so thanks! I'll be checking it out.
I'll try and get my hands on some to play around with and see if I can decide with I think I'll prefer. I do think I'll like an Android or Windows based OS better, but the Apple hype really makes me want one.
I second the Asus Infinity. I had the Prime before but I broke the screen. I liked the Prime better. However, I think I am the only one to like it better; maybe I got the only viable one. The Infinity is the upgrade for the Prime, and I like it very well. Runs tons of apps very smooth. I prefer the Android OS to iOS, but that is a personal preference. If you do not like your phone (Android) try the iPad out. Good Luck!
Well, for me it's quite the opposite.
Reason #1: Finding the camera app.
I usually keep my camera app button in the same place on my iPhone, or use the shortcut on my lockpad.
But what happens when you're on a different page on the phone? Or what if you're using an app? It'll take around 15 (more or less) seconds to find the camera app. Plus the amount of time the camera app takes to load (for my iPhone, the more pictures stored on my phone, the longer it takes to start up).
Reason #2: Picture quality. Already discussed.
Reason #3: Bulkiness. In my opinion, a point and shoot camera (from the $200-300 range) would fit better in a bag, pocket, purse, etc. and would weigh less. Compared to lugging a two-pound iPad (without a case) with all that real estate space it takes up wherever your store it. Plus the fact that you're going to have something extra to take care of and avoid breakage to the tablet.
That's just me, and just go with whatever you're comfortable with.
I think Eye-Fi would be pretty great. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it promises a lot. I just don't have it yet because I would need the Pro X2 for what I do, and the price tag on that is awfully hefty. I think the Mobile X2 is good enough for the casual user.
Plus it pretty much takes out the hassle on having to have a transfer cable (or card reader) to upload pictures, store on computer, upload on Facebook etc.
At least with Eye-Fi (I'm going off the top of my head on this one), it backs up the photos to your phone/tablet automatically or into the cloud (premium service). You can easily share photos from the Eye-Fi app as well which is pretty neat and if you're the type of person that doesn't really need to edit photos much or need to do advanced things like photoshop.
According to DPS, it doesn't even require a router to transfer files using direct mode.
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i dont mind, if the actual contents gts messed up. but want to confirm that the sprintf would not cause a memory corruption / buffer overflow going beyond 20 bytes in this case, when multiple threads are trying to write to
logBuffer ?