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Businesses competewith holiday displays
CADIZ - Cadiz businesses will compete for best holiday decorations during a special contest sponsored by the Cadiz Business Association.
There will be two areas judged in the uptown central business district, located two blocks in each direction of the town square; and outlying business areas, outside the uptown central business district, within a three-mile radius.
Cash prizes will be awarded for first and second place winners for uptown flat window, uptown store front/display and outlying area display.
To ensure being judged, businesses in the outlying area should call the Cadiz/Harrison County Visitors Center at (740) 942-1102 and confirm their participation. Decorations should be in place no later than Nov. Wednesday. Winners will be announced and cash prizes will be awarded in each category during the Cadiz Lighted Christmas Parade on Dec. 1.
City fire October report
The Toronto Fire Department had a total of six calls for the month of October, and they included one structure fire; one brush fire; one carbon monoxide alarm; one odor of natural gas; one citizen complaint; and one stand-by call.
The fire department presented its annual fire prevention program at Karaffa Elementary School. A driver training course for department personnel was conducted by instructor Ryan Boyd. The department also held a basic pump operations class for its members. The fire department hosted the Jefferson County Fire and EMS Association's monthly meeting as well as assisted in Halloween Safety patrol with the Toronto Police Department and the TEMS Joint Ambulance District.
Events at the Toronto library branch
Wednesday - Play and learn at noon for caregiver and children ages birth to age 3.
Activities at First Presbyterian Church
Sunday - Sunday School starts at 9:40 a.m., worship service at 11 a.m. Following worship will be a congregational meeting to elect officers.
Wednesday - Chancel choir practice at 7 p.m.
Thursday -Bible study begins at 6 p.m.
Bible study at Whispering Hills
A nondenominational Bible study meets at 6:30 p.m. every Monday in the Whispering Hills apartment complex community room, 901 Bank St. All are welcome, and no collections are taken. Children's Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday at the community room. All children are welcome.
Riverview United Methodist events
The church office is open from 8 a.m. to noon Mondays through Fridays. For information, call (740) 537-2210. The Toronto Unit of the Salvation Army located in the Riverview Church is available from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. For information, call (740) 537-4737.
North River Avenue Christian events
Sunday - The worship service begins at 9:45 a.m. At 10;45 a.m. the junior church worship service meets in the junior area downstairs. The service is for ages 5 to fourth grade. Sunday school begins at 11 a.m. The youth group meets at 6 p.m. The evening meditation service begins at 7 p.m.
Wednesday - Bible study will begin at 7 p.m. in the overflow room opposite the sanctuary.
Sunday - Members will decorate the church sanctuary for Christmas. Soup and sandwiches will be served. The November sing-for-all will begin at 7 p.m.
Dec. 6 - The all-adult Christmas dinner will be 6 p.m. at Stratton hall. Chairmen Dave and Nancy Miller are taking reservations each Sunday before the morning worship service in the overflow area. The cost is $12.50 per person.
Dec. 16 - The white gift service and youth Christmas musical begins at 9:45 a.m. All-church caroling will be in the evening.
First United Methodist activities
Sunday - Sunday school will begin at 9:30 a.m.; the rise and shine contemporary service will begin at 8:30 a.m.; and the worship service begins at 10:45 a.m.
Monday - Bible study begins at 6 p.m.
Tuesday - Bible study begins at 10 a.m. The Adventure Club meets from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday - The bell choir meets at 6 p.m.; the choir at 7 p.m.; and the charge conference will be at the Carrollton United Methodist Church at 7 p.m.
Thursday- TOPS will meet at 5:30 p.m.
Events at Bible Methodist church
Sunday - Morning Sunday school, 10 a.m.; service, 11 a.m.; evening service, 6 p.m.; weekly Bible study, 5:30 p.m.


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A Substitute's Sacrifice
Sandy Hook Teacher Did Double Duty to Make Ends Meet
DANBURY, Conn.—Customers at a Starbucks off the interstate here had recognized one person in photographs of the 26 victims from Sandy Hook Elementary School. A familiar barista, Lauren Rousseau, had somehow been among the dead.
"I saw her face. I realized that was her," said Erik Granfors, a regular at the location. "She probably served me a hundred cups of coffee."
Ms. Rousseau, 30 years old, was a substitute teacher at the school and kept her part-time coffee job for the steady income and health benefits she lacked. As she was mourned Thursday by loved ones at a church four miles away, Starbucks customers scrawled eulogies on a memorial set up by her co-workers.
"Always looked forward to our talks," said a message left on the poster boards perched in the middle of the store. The makeshift display included hand-written notes, a Mickey Mouse doll and a single electric candle.
Patrick Austin, 44, remembered ordering his cappuccinos from Ms. Rousseau, and finding her among the slain came as a shock. "She just had a great, outgoing personality," he said.
"People are part of your life and you don't realize it until they're gone," agreed Mr. Granfors, 41. "You do have sorrow even if they weren't a close acquaintance."
Those who knew her best described Ms. Rousseau as a devoted educator willing to undertake virtually any hardship in her bid for a classroom of her own. At her funeral, mourners overflowed from the First Congregational Church, where they sang "Jesus Loves the Little Children" as a tribute to her calling.
"She was a sweetheart," said Sumalee Khornsarnoy, a former classmate who came to the service. In high school, Ms. Rousseau worked in the on-campus day care. "She just always loved kids and wanted to teach."
Ms. Khornsarnoy, 30, had trekked to the Starbucks with a friend in the days after the shooting, a sort of pilgrimage to a haunt they associated with Ms. Rousseau.
"We used to visit her at Starbucks," she recalled. "We came to hang out and reminisce." The friends left flowers at the small memorial.
Her father, Gilles Rousseau, said the coffee job was one of many his daughter accepted in her unending search for a permanent slot as a teacher. For years, he said, she catered weddings and made lattes for 20 hours a week—all while wrestling to fit in every school opportunity, including an extended stint for a teacher on maternity leave.
Being a barista was the most comfortable fit. Her step-sister also worked at a Starbucks. Ms. Rousseau would drive to the job from school, changing into her uniform inside her Honda Civic.
"She had certain hours at Starbucks," explained Mr. Rousseau, a photographer from Southbury. "If the school calls and you say, 'No, I can't be there,' after a couple of times, they stop calling back."
The service job also brought benefits his daughter badly needed. She had thyroid surgery two years ago and found her insurance didn't cover the bills, he said, prompting visits to free clinics. The substitute job at Sandy Hook paid just $75 a day with no health insurance.
The Newtown Public School District, where Ms. Rousseau rated as a part-time employee, faced declining student enrollment and rising expenses in a difficult budget climate over the past few years. Life became hard for those hoping to catch on as new hires. The number of students in the town's four elementary schools dropped 17% since the 2008-09 school year, with an estimated 1,643 students this year. Over that span, the schools shed about 10% of their staff.
Ms. Rousseau's struggles weren't evident to her Starbucks customers. "When you came in, it was always a warm greeting," said Leah Vallee, a regular.
"The world isn't really that big," she added. "We're all touched by different ways."
—Lisa Fleisher
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I found these settings for the Nikon D3 with Nikon's full frame 16mm 1:2.8 Fisheye on the NN5 with the Arca style quick release to be: A - 97 and B - 62.
I found these settings for the Nikon D3 with Nikon's full frame 16mm 1:2.8 Fisheye on the NN5 with the Arca style quick release to be: A - 97 and B - 62.
Hi Bob,
Thx for sharing.
My LRS - A = Lower rail setting is 100 and URS - B = Upper rails setting is 68. Tested with these methods:
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Thanks - will double check - looked OK when I tested shooting the Nadir cap, maybe I didn't look close enough or, on the other hand - its a Fisheye which, I understand, can have multilpe points.
I made a copy of John's page some time ago - first I've seen the Easypano page - again, my thanks. Looking at the Smooth's instructions would appear that only one straight down shot capturing the Nadir cap of the head along with the row shot at -15 (which I have been doing anyway) is all that's needed - heading out now to try this and a couple of other things - what you have told me, what I have read and what my logic has stumbled me through.
My conclusion that photography would be fun in retirement, especally since discovering pangoramas is proving correct!
Again - Thanks - MANY! I did double check and my settings were wrong, as you quite tactfully pointed out. Don't know what I did wrong or what I didn't do. I followed Rosario's technique found at http://www.rosaurophotography.com/index.html. The alignment stitching errors were right there and I didn't see them but they hit me in the face with what I shot yesterday! Will go back and do it again using your settings.


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April 16, 2013
New York University College of Nursing's Dr. Sherry Deren, Director of the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR), received a five-year, $6.7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for continued funding (for years 16-20) of the CDUHR. CDUHR has been continually funded since 1998, and it is the first center for the socio-behavioral study of HIV and substance use in the United States.
"We are eager to begin this next phase of our Center," said Deren. "It provides us with the opportunity to continue to assist our affiliated investigators in conducting research on the critical issues in the HIV/substance use epidemic, which continues to take an extraordinary toll on vulnerable populations throughout the world."
CDUHR provides a research infrastructure in support of the work of approximately 50 investigators from four institutions: New York University (NYU), the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI), Beth Israel Medical Center (BIMC) and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (JJCCJ). Center leadership is also provided by its Deputy Director, Dr. Marya Gwadz of the NYU College of Nursing.
While much has been learned about HIV epidemiology, prevention, intervention and treatment among those who use drugs and other vulnerable populations, there is an increasing need to enhance implementation of research findings to impact public health.
CDUHR's theme in this renewal period will be: "Discovery to Implementation and Back: Research Translation for the HIV/Substance Use Epidemic." Center efforts will focus on enhancing the translation and implementation of our investigators' research findings to maximize their public health impact. In addition, the Center will continue to address the emerging challenges of the epidemic.
"Our emphasis on implementation will accelerate the utilization of CDUHR's research findings for public health impact," said Deren. "We are also delighted that our interdisciplinary Core members are drawn from our four affiliated institutions, including several of the schools and colleges at NYU."
CDUHR's multidisciplinary core team provides consultation and training for our affiliated investigators in several areas:
The Center renewal grant allows for the addition of two new areas of focus:
CDUHR has evolved since 1998, due to changes in the epidemic and consequent changes in the research questions regarding the HIV/substance use epidemic in New York City, nationally and globally. The Center started with a focus on individual-level risk behaviors, moved to addressing the study of social/structural-level factors influencing the epidemic , then to an emphasis on interdisciplinary research and in this renewal, to addressing implementation of research findings.
For more information on CDUHR, visit the website www.cduhr.org
About New York University College of Nursing:
NYU College of Nursing is a global leader in nursing education, research, and practice. It offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Master of Arts and Post-Master's Certificate Programs, a Doctor of Philosophy in Research Theory and Development, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. For more information, visit www.nyu.edu/nursing.
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Good point, dirac. In addition, Austen's heroines (and their prospective mates) seem to possess integrity,sincerity, and the ability to see through false pretensions. This inevitably makes them somewhat uncomfortable with and skeptical about conventional social charm, ironic about it, and -- sooner or later -- subversive of it. What conventional society call "charming" all too often turns out to be false, deceptive, superficial, smug, and/or manipulative.
Hmmm....it seems to me that Austens heroes tend to be lacking in the charm department: charm of manner is not a striking quality in Darcy, Knightley, Edmund Bertram, or Wentworth, although they are attractive in other ways. Notable charm in Austen tends to be a sign of villainy or carelessness in men (though not necessarily in women; Elizabeth Bennet is arguably the most charming heroine in literature).
Oscar Wilde was speaking for conventional society when he wrote (more or less): One of the great charms of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties." Austen's value system is quite different. Maybe that's one of the qualities that makes her seem "modern" today.


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5 Oct 2012 9:30 AM #1
Advice for detecting crash
My chart application runs fine on phones but when viewed on a iPad 3 Safari crashes before the console writes anything.
How can I get a stack-trace or a indication of where the bug might be? (So I can give it to Sencha)
5 Oct 2012 10:20 AM #2
Sounds like it may be taking too much memory. I'd try to simplify it down as much as posible.
5 Oct 2012 10:24 AM #3
- The phones I have tested with has les memory than the iPad 3. So is it because the retina display makes it consume more memory? (When it crashes I am about to create my 2nd Chart with only 12 bars, the first one has 2 bars) So it sounds very strange that it should consume a lot memory? Unless there a memory leaks?
- Safari only crashes if it is memory related?
5 Oct 2012 10:37 AM #4
1) Yes, there are a LOT more pixels and canvas is bitmap based. It won't be the number of bars though, just the number and size of canvas elements you have in the DOM at once.
2) Not necessarily, but when dealing with canvas, its usually the case.
5 Oct 2012 11:02 AM #5
5 Oct 2012 11:14 AM #6
I think you can fit two before you need to start managing it more carefully (removing it from the dom). The KitchenSink example has to do this.
7 Oct 2012 11:38 PM #7
Think there maybe another issue we have our app running on an ipad3 with a line graph bar chart and pie chart - bar and line with 20 - 30 data items. No safari crash as yet.
12 Oct 2012 3:50 AM #8
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my line chart is also crashing on an ipad3 ios6. does not crash on iphone5 io6
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How Bewitching! 13 Best Books About Autumn and Halloween
5 of 14
The Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda D. Williams
Recommended age: 4 and up
Halloween — and any dark night for that matter — can be a bit scary for kids. So every child should meet the fearless little old lady who stars in this book. When the signs of a ghost — shoes, pants, and a pumpkin head — appear one by one and chase the old lady, she assures the floating figures "I am not afraid of you!" Kids will love the "CLOMP CLOMP" and "WIGGLE WIGGLE" refrain as the objects move, and are sure to become just as brave as the little old lady.


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5 Old Comic Book Ads That Tried to Get Children Killed
#2. Let Your Child Take on Muggers With THE SHOCKER
Yes! Eat SHOCKER, muggers, bullies and big mouths! So awesome! I'm a little worried that I'd forget I had it on and detonate someone's pinky off when I shook their hand, but with all the big mouths out there, it's worth the risk. SHOCKER!
You don't need to get out a magnifying glass to try to absorb all five thousand words or so the ad uses to try to sell you on SHOCKER, but we do want to call your attention to the dramatic life story of the SHOCKER's inventor, KIYO MI GAWA:
"KIYO MI GAWA'S experience taught him that judo, jiu-jitsu and karate are too difficult for the average person to learn in a short time. Yet some form of self-defense system or technique is necessary as today's streets are dangerous. Because of his, he painstakingly developed, tested and perfected THE SHOCKER so that anyone can have an instantly effective system of self defense with crippling capability."
In other words, he decided karate was too hard, so he developed a way to make all karate chops into fucking electric karate chops. Is there a Nobel Karate Prize?
#1. Any Child Can Begin a Reign of Terror Thanks to Jowett Strong-Man Exercises
In the third panel, why is the word "MUSCLE" in quotes? Is that a 50s marketing way of saying "PADDED NUDE BODY STOCKING"? Either way, holy awesome! I'm going to kick that bully's ass while my mom cheers:
The whole family loves revenge!
Check out more from Seanbaby, in American as #$%# Comics: The Immigration Debate and If 'Family Circus' Didn't Suck.


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In the new iOS game "Hundreds", once you finish each board, you can advance to the next, either by hitting "next board" or by selecting it from the level select screen.
Except when I hit next board on level 31, it takes me... back to level 31.
I'd think it was a glitch, except that the game contains ciphers, and other mysterious artifacts that lead me to believe that there's just a puzzle I need to solve.
There IS a cipher opened on level 31 (which I have not solved), but what's confusing is that I did not have to solve the earlier ciphers to progress past those levels.
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Even though the Republic of China (also known as Taiwan) is not a member of the United Nations, it has been economically successful. What is the secret behind the economic success of it then?
One word - manufacturing. Before China was the country of cheap labor it was Taiwan, just as Japan was before Taiwan. Taiwan built up a lot of manufacturing know-how, and still does so in computer chips and some other respects, it also has many companies that manufacture on the mainland. The capability of Taiwan being able to do this also coincides with its economic system, which as differentiated from the Maoist-Communist system on the mainland, allowed entrepreneurship to blossom as Japanese and US investment came into Taiwan.
For a recent economic overview on Taiwan's GDP Growth:
And for a historical review of Industrial Development in Taiwan you can review Digital Taiwan's overview which puts it better than I can to cover their many areas of Production.
Edited: So I guess if you ask for the Why then you can look up the Taiwan Miracle where although land reform moved labor to Urban Centers, providing for a cheap factory worker group you also have increased US Aid which
Without that industrial infrastructure you could not have the manufacturing take off that the country had, in my opinion. Again the economic system plays a very important role, Capitalist markets on Taiwan allowed it to grow and become a manufacturing/exporter with a cheap, educated labor pool. Since many of these reforms, or a cheap manufacturing workforce, never took place on the Mainland until Deng Xiaoping began reforms that set the stage for the China we have today. As noted on Suite 101's Chinese History page Deng began reforms in 1978 called the
Once the commune system was abolished and the markets began to open then China became a place to invest and manufacture in. There is a good overview of Deng's reforms that note them in detail. But without the market forces that began to operate on the mainland in agriculture and industry, just as they did in Taiwan previously, then China never would have taken over.
Although considering the state of Taiwan for the past 10 years I am not sure you can call them an economic success anymore, considering their marginalization within the UN world body they do pretty well. As to the marginalization in numerous world bodies that is another question in itself that deserves its own answer. And yes I know they still do well as a county, my wife comes from Taiwan so I keep an eye as to what is going on there.


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The attorney for Presley Nash's family says Western Kentucky University needs to supply a detailed list of the coverage that will be provided for the child's medical expenses.
Presley is awaiting a bone marrow transplant in Minnesota. WKU says it has notified the Nashes that full in-network coverage will be provided, but Janice Weiss, the Nash attorney, says more detailed information is needed before the issue can be resolved.
The Nashes filed suit against WKU and it's third party administrator when in-network coverage was initially denied. WKU filed a motion to dismiss, but so far that has not happened.


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WASHINGTON (AP) " Antonin Scalia's body lay in a Texas funeral home Sunday and officials awaited word about whether they would need to perform an autopsy before the late Supreme Court justice could return home to Virginia. In the nation's capital, where flags flew at half-staff at the White House and Supreme Court, the political sniping soared, raising the prospect of a court short-handed for some time.
LONDON (AP) " Irish emigrant saga "Brooklyn" was named best British picture Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, where Leonardo DiCaprio is favored to take the best actor trophy for epic endurance story "The Revenant."
CALVERTON, N.Y. (AP) " Walter Yakoboski scraped together nearly every penny he made as short-order cook in 1979 to begin buying a small collection of rare comic books for $10,000, hoping his boyhood passion could one day pay off as an investment.
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BERLIN (AP) " Hundreds of mourners have gathered at a memorial service for the 11 victims who died in a head-on train crash in southern Germany.
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May's UFC on FX 8 event in Brazil has a new addition: Cezar "Mutant" Ferreira (5-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) vs. fellow middleweight C.B. Dollaway (13-4 MMA, 7-4 UFC).
Tatame.com and Porto de Vale Tudo initially reported the matchup, though UFC officials have made no formal announcement.
UFC on FX 8 takes place May 18 at Arena Jaragua in Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The event's main card airs live on FX following prelims on FUEL TV and Facebook.
It's not clear where Dollaway-Ferreira will be placed on the lineup.
The well-rounded Ferreira recently won "The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil" in 2012 with a decision victory over Sergio Moraes in the tournament final. It moved him to 4-1 over the past three years. The Moraes victory was his first to go to a decision.
Dollaway, a "TUF 7? runner-up, recently earned a split-decision win over Daniel Sarafia in a "Fight of the Night" co-headliner at UFC on FX 7 in January. The NCAA Division I All-American wrestler is now 2-0 since a two-fight skid (to Mark Munoz and Jared Hamman) that had his job in jeopardy.
The latest UFC on FX 8 card now includes:
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For the latest on UFC on FX 8, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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The combination of isometheptene mucate, dichloralphenazone, and acetaminophen will no longer be available in the U.S. after January 2011. If you are currently taking this medication, you should talk to your doctor to discuss switching to another treatment.
[Posted 01/13/2011]ISSUE:FDA notified healthcare professionals that it has asked drug manufacturers to limit the strength of acetaminophen in prescription drug products, predominantly combinations of acetaminophen and opioids, to 325 mg per tablet, capsule, or other dosage unit, making these products safer for patients. This action will help to reduce the risk of severe liver injury and allergic reactions associated with acetaminophen. A Boxed Warning highlighting the potential for severe liver injury and a Warning highlighting the potential for allergic reactions (swelling of the face, mouth, and throat, difficulty breathing, itching, or rash) will be added to the label of all prescription drug products that contain acetaminophen.
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The combination of isometheptene mucate, dichloralphenazone, and acetaminophen comes as a capsule to take by mouth. It usually is taken when a headache first begins and then as needed. Do not take more than 5 capsules in 12 hours or more than 8 capsules per day. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Take isometheptene mucate, dichloralphenazone, and acetaminophen exactly as directed. Do not take more or less of it or take it more often than prescribed by your doctor.
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This medication usually is taken as needed. If your doctor has told you to take isometheptene mucate, dichloralphenazone, and acetaminophen regularly, take the missed dose as soon as you remember it. However, if it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and continue your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one.
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What are forum games?
"A forum game is a text-based multiplayer game played on an Internet forum. Simple examples include word association, hangman, "Count to a Million …" At least that's what Google defines a forum game as.
Forum games are text-based games you play over the forums. While pictures and graphics can be involved, it's fundamentally based off posts made by users.
What are the different types of forum games?
There isn't any official list of forum games out there, but there are certain types of games that you might see popping up in the forum commonly. These include:
Mafia - In a mafia game, there are two teams. The first group is usually the "mafia", while the other group is often called the "townspeople" (Note: many of these games will have different labels for the group). The Mafia is generally a smaller group, but unlike the townspeople who are fundamentally clueless, people in the mafia know who everybody in their group is. Meanwhile, the townspeople only know there are a certain amount of people in the mafia, but not who is in which group.
The game is usually set in days in nights. During the nights, the mafia people choose somebody to kill, while at day the townspeople attempt to figure out who is part of the mafia, who they will ultimately vote to kill.
Werewolf - "Werewolf" forum games are a variant of Mafia games. Instead of their being a team of mafia, there is one werewolf. Like in other mafia games, the "townspeople" try to figure out who the werewolf is, while the werewolf kills off townspeople one by one.
Question/Trivia - Question or Trivia games are what they sound like. The set-up is that a person/people ask questions, and the people answering the questions get points for answering them. There are many ways this can be done; asking about images, certain topics ect.
Role-Playing (RP) - In a role-playing forum games, you do exactly what it says: You play a role. Generally in a role-playing forum games or 'RP' (you'll more commonly see it written this way) you play as a specific character with others, and battle in a made up world that the original poster has created. It also often follows some sort of storyline provided by the thread creator, and moved along by game participants.
King of The Hill - A king of the hill game is generally more simple and casual. Instead of having to follow too many rules, the simple purpose of the game is too think a creative way to get somebody off a fictional hill, so you can claim it your own.
Competition/Tournament - In this game multiple people compete by completing certain challenges to advance to the next game. These games often involve flash games, though not exclusively.
Use common sense and good judgement when making a game. We do close games that aren't much of games such as "Count to a million", "Rate the.....", etc. Remember, the best way to keep your game open is to keep smart when making it.
Keep your games manageable. Over reaching with unrealistic ideas or not organizing your game enough may cause it to fail. This isn't to say that it should be sadly simple, but remember what you're capable of.
Also note that many games in the games in this forum aren't going to fit exclusively into one of these categories. There will be many game that mix these up, and many others that are something new completely. If you aren't clear how a game works, ask the creator on what you're unclear about.
What does ____ mean?
If you're wondering what something in a game means, but you're too embarrassed to ask, this might help you. Here's a list of some popular terms used in forum games:
Godmoding - When somebody has the ability to modify the game a decide the fate of other players. Usually only game creators are allowed to godmode.
Day/Night - When a game title includes something like "Day 1" or "Night 3", it's usually a mafia game. Days and nights are different phases in the game where something happens, depending on the game.
Role - A role is the character you play in a game, usually an RP or mafia. Often the original poster will include the different roles.
Role revealing - This is when somebody reveals the role of themselves or somebody else, usually in a mafia game. This is generally against the rules.
Sign-ups - Threads with a [sign-ups] tag on it are for getting a certain amount of people in their game. If you see one of these, the game is interesting, and you think you can commit to it, go ahead and join!
Replacements - These are people who replace users who sign-up but are inactive.
FGF Short for Forum Games forum, which is where we are right now.
Is there any additional info I should know?
There isn't anything else worth covering at the time, but if you have any suggestion, make sure send one of the forum mods (Marh, Gevock, Frogmanex or arcaneCoder) a whisper and we'll see what we can do.
Here are some additional pages you might want to read:
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While editing a song, I tried to cut out the bass drum by applying a high-pass FFT filter, i.e. filtering out the low pitch of the bass drum. This resulted in the drum sound being severely quieted, rather than removed entirely. I know that higher overtones from the drum would still be present in the audio, but why isn't the lower pitch completely removed?
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First of all, tell us more about the filter. Is it really a brickwall filter, or are you actually using a low roll-off or low cut-off filter? In the latter case, it is perfectly normal, when using a high cut-off filter, the low frequencies decrease with -6dB per octave below the specified frequency, and are not completely gone. Roll-off is the same, but with less dBs per octave. (either 4,5 or 3, can't really remember.)
If you did use a brickwall filter, there is another possible explaination:
A phenomenon in psycho-accoustics is the hearing of a low note where it is not there, but when the harmonics (= overtones) are there. Every base tone has different overtones. (Really, if multiple overtones are there, there is really not much ambiguity.) The human brain actually processes these overtones and adds the base tone.
In general a filter is not something that completely removes a given set of frequencies. Rather, it just attenuates them - cutting some percentage of them out. In extreme cases (kill EQs on DJ mixers come to mind) the attenuation is so much that it may as well be considered getting rid of it entirely.
Wikipedia has a pretty good graph of how a low pass filter cuts out higher frequencies in their article on Low-pass filters. A low-pass filter can be thought of as a "high-reducing" filter if that makes more sense.
This behavior shows up whether the filters are FFT-based, analog, whatever.


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How to multiply this series: $$(\sum_{t=-\infty}^{\infty}a_{t})(\sum_{k=-\infty}^{\infty}b_{k})$$
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It's not a problem to multiply the series: the product is $\sum_{(t,k)\in\mathbb Z^2} a_tb_k$. The question is how to sum the double series that we have.
For series with nonnegative terms summation is not a problem either: we take the supremum of all finite sums. And since any finite sum is contained in a sufficiently large square, it follows that $\sum_{(t,k)\in\mathbb Z^2} |a_tb_k|$ is finite whenever $\sum_{t\in\mathbb Z} |a_t|$ and $\sum_{k\in\mathbb Z} |b_k|$ are.
In general, $\sum_{(t,k)\in\mathbb Z^2} a_tb_k=S$ if for any $\epsilon>0$ there is a finite subset $A\subset \mathbb Z^2$ such that $|\sum_{(t,k)\in B}a_tb_k - S|<\epsilon$ whenever $B$ is finite and $B\supset A$. Now if both given series converge absolutely, then the contribution from outside of a large square is small, and it follows that $S$ is the product of two sums.


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As director of Mingo Social Services, I would like to thank the generous, caring people of the community for making the Thanksgiving distribution a success.
Thank you to Wal-Mart Distribution Center, Tri-State Security, Columbia Gas of Ohio, Mingo High School Class of 1960, Tri-State Charities, Wheeler Funeral Home, Weldon Trucking, Jefferson County Commissioner Tom Gentile, VFW of Mingo Junction, Shanagu Club, St. Agnes Church, Harmony Methodist Church, First United Methodist Church, First United Presbyterian Church, St. Andrew's Orthodox Church, Holy Ressurection, Serbian Orthodox Church, St. Agnes Church Women's Club, St. Francis Society, Indian Creek Juniot High School and Hills Elementary School.
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I am trying to block a specific Wireless Network such as "Router_Home" because everytime I wake up my laptop the first thing that the Network Manager does is to try connecting to this Network.
Can you show me how to do that using the terminal or/and GUI ?
EDIT: I know I can uncheck the "connect automatically" option. But I want to know how to block a wireless network totally.
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wp_nav_menu() , how can I append a value at end of each URL?
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This modifies every item in the navigation menu. So if you have an external link, it will be changed as well.
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It's an exciting one, this...
It's not often that we get involved with Exclusive, Single-Cask bottlings direct from the distilleries themselves, as there's generally much better value to be had from independent bottlings. We do lots of them instead. Lots and lots.
Every now and then though, something comes along that wouldn't usually be available on the independent market.
This is one such bottling. A (very, very rare) Peated Balblair. Well, I say that – it's actually a Balblair that's been stored in a cask previously used to hold Peated Whisky. Sort of Peated through the medium of cheating. A Cheaty-Peaty whisky if you will.
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This morning I mentioned to Ben it was high time we posted something on the blog for this week, his suggestion:
"Something about whisky. We don't do enough of that."
To be fair, he has a point. We've been so caught up in the recent excitement of Christmas, making and launching new stuff, and my imminent emigration, that we've neglected that one little thing we're here to write about first: Whisky!
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Yes, Day two of the Make it 2 Bushmills competition started early. Very early indeed.
As we prepared to roll out to the first event of the day (barrel rolling. See. Told you the jokes would get better) I had a chance to reflect on the competitors, all of whom I had a proper chat to last night, and am once again amazed at how all whisk(e)y competition winners seem to turn out to be the kind of people you'd be delighted to go out for a drink with socially. More...
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Today we're thrilled to announce the launch of Caskstrength.net's first official whisky! Bottled to mark its 3rd Birthday, this is the first time any blog has released its own single malt, and we're very proud to be the exclusive stockist!
Caskstrength.net was founded in 2008 by Neil and Joel, both formerly rival A&R men, working at Warner Bros and Island Records respectively. They formed the blog to share their love of whisky with friends and family, but since More...
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Following our intrepid journey to Islay in May, we were invited back to brave the gale force winds and torrential rain to attend a very special event at the island's youngest distillery.
We left early, and headed to Kilchoman for the launch of their new bottle, as well as a new limited edition, cask strength distillery-only number. More...
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We hope you've had a wonderful Easter! It's been a very eventful past couple of weeks for everyone, and we've certainly had more than our fair share of barbeques, cocktails and general revelry (there was some kind of wedding on at the weekend, apparently).
In other news, we have some new products to announce (for real this time, this isn't another April Fool), and we're sure they'll be the topic of much enjoyment, discussion, and possibly even a little controversy.
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After a busy few days meeting the great and the good from the whisk(e)y world, we were invited up to the London Cocktail Club for an astonishing bourbon tasting, led by Preston Van Winkle. All in all, it was the perfect end to the week.
Before we began the tasting, Preston talked us through the history of Van Winkle...
The company was founded by Preston's great grandfather, Julian "Pappy" Van Winkle Senior. During the late 19th Century, Pappy worked as an itinerant salesman for W.L. Weller & Sons (a whiskey company based in Louisville, Kentucky), selling bourbon from a horse and cart.
In 1910, he bought the A. Ph. Stitzel Distillery (which made the whiskey for W.L. Weller), and with it he gained control of the W.L. Weller, Old Fitzgerald, Rebel Yell and Cabin Still brands – the four horsemen More...
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Last Thursday, a contingent from MoM visited the Hyatt Regency Hotel for a Laphroaig tasting, led by distillery manager, John Campbell.
Laphroaig is one of the world's foremost distilleries, whose ubiquitous whisky's popularity has not suffered one iota for being intensely peaty and utterly distinctive, and John talked us through just what makes such a powerful, muscular malt so well-loved the world over... He also let us in on a few rare treats (some of which have yet to hit shop shelves!). More...
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Earlier this year we flew up to Glengoyne to help select a very special cask for bottling. The cask would be chosen by the great and the good from England's whisky retailers, and we've been very excited to announce it is now in stock!
Sample after sample were tried until the very best cask was found - it's a hard life, that of the whisky merchant ;-). Pleasingly, it's a very, very dark little whisky, thanks mainly to the sherry hoggie it was matured in. The beautiful bottles arrived yesterday, and the packaging is rather handsome – wooden and very smart.
The whisky was distilled on the 17th June 1997, and, of course, it's bottled at cask strength (bottled on the 20th May 2010 at 13 years of age). We uncorked a bottle to recount just how wonderful it is… More...
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I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a delivery driver so amused. Literally the second the new bottling of the Noh Karuizawa Whisky walked through the door, the office broke out into a frenzy – photographers snapping, directors grabbing tasting glasses and falling upon the beautiful decanters like they contained the elixir of eternal life.
Such is the sense of anticipation and wonderment that surround all whiskies bottled by the Number one drinks company. This particular release is a 32yo Karuizawa from 1977 (Karuizawas before 1981 are revered as somewhat special because of their intense Umami-rich flavour), and it's spectacular. It's by no means a gentle giant at 32 years of age – we'd describe it more like being kicked in the face by an angry bosozoku than the peaceful tranquillity brought by Hanami (ed - d'you like that? Bit of Kulcha and that)…Anywhoo, enough rambling, here are our tasting notes:Nose: This dram opens with an olfactory delight of walnuts, chestnuts roasting in New York, pineapple and maple syrup. As it sits in the glass the nose develops stewed fruits in mulled wine, a slight note of autumnal bonfire and orange peel element and finishes on glacé cherries
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I've just started work with a big travel company that is working on redoing their 'self service' page. What would be some intelligent questions to ask the stake holders? How do I understand what issues to tackle first, and how to prioritize elements of the redesign?
I can think of three critical questions to ask upfront.
I suggest a Stakeholder Workshop.
In my experience these workshops can uncover conflicts between different stakeholders and help resolve them and also clarify the business aims as, in past projects, I have found that asking alone can result in a very vague set of business requirements. This is the part of User Experience that overlaps with Business Analysis but can be vital to ensure the project starts on a solid foundation.
This workshop could be half a day / a day and cover, amongst other things such as technology constraints etc:
What are the aims of the project? What prompted the project and what are the key success criteria?
Who is the audience? What information exists about the customers and using the workshop to build up a key user types and attributes of those user types (or personas if you prefer). I also look at what users do before and after the part of the problem being looked at.
There's various other information available if you google "UX stakeholder workshop"
Techniques include collecting and prioritising requirements, building up user journeys and seeing where the pain and pleasure points are and getting the stakeholders to build up stories / sketch out solutions to describe how they perceive the solution.
BoxesandArrow published an excerpt of Kim Goodwins book. This article serie is about requirement gathering. I like the detailed questions and checklists for special positions/stakeholders to ask. Might be worth to read for you.
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Apart from what Jimmy has pointed out, here are some that have helped me in my projects:
You have some great answers already. Here is what I would add to the list


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About one year ago, members of Steubenville Council and the Jefferson County commissioners reached a tentative agreement to abolish the city's inactive port authority and create a new, nine-member county port authority.
The goal at the time was see the Community Improvement Corp. of Jefferson County and the public-private Progress Alliance transition into the new port authority and for the port authority to be become the economic development tool of the county.
It was hoped at the time the transition would be smooth and orderly, but those hopes took a hit Thursday when members of the Community Improvement Corp. of Jefferson County and Progress Alliance became the targets of open criticism during the meeting of the Jefferson County commissioners.
For 16 years, economic development in the county has been under the umbrella of Progress Alliance, a public-private partnership that is operated by the CIC. Its successes have been many, from the establishment of the Wal-Mart Distribution Center on state Route 43 just north of Wintersville to the opening of H&H Screen Printing on Lovers Lane in Steubenville earlier this year.
Time is clearly running out on the organization, however. Already, the county commissioners have pledged $100,000 to the port authority for 2013 - $25,000 more than they contributed to the CIC this year. The loss of the county money, the decisions of Wintersville and Steubenville to not contribute and private investors questioning their involvement have left officials with few options.
Officials with Progress Alliance and the CIC have been seeking answers about what their role would be in the transition to the port authority and if any public funding will be available to them. It was against that backdrop that several members of the CIC attended Thursday's meeting, looking for a definitive answer about what, if any, future funding from the county could be expected.
What they heard was Commissioner Thomas Graham reading from a prepared statement in which he delivered a litany of criticisms and allegations that there had been "unethical decisions" made by Progress Alliance. The commissioner was especially critical of Jim Emmerling, a CIC board member and owner of EM Media who conducted media campaigns on behalf of the CIC.
Commissioner Tom Gentile expressed his concern that the organization had held golf tournaments and conducted a monthly breakfast series, endeavors Gentile said were not directly tied to economic development.
Commissioner Dave Maple, meanwhile, said that the commissioners have - and will continue to be - committed to economic development, pointing out that the county's original $50,000 yearly contribution to Progress Alliance had been increased to $75,000, and reminding those in attendance that the commissioners had pledged $100,000 to the port authority.
By the time Bob Chapman, the CIC chairman had the opportunity to speak, it was clear to him that the only move left for his organization was to meet in January and implement an exit strategy. That plan will include the transition of pending development projects to the port authority, turning over management of the Jefferson County Industrial Park, the management of the county's revolving loan fund, handling of the annual meetings of the Tax Incentive Review Council and the closing of the Progress Alliance office.
The public fighting could not come at a worse time - the area's economy is growing, and all signs indicate it will continue to expand for the foreseeable future, thanks in large part to the expansion of the oil and gas industry. For example, through the end of November, the 25-county Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth has seen investments totaling $1.8 billion and the creation of 1,200 jobs.
Ten of those projects landed in Jefferson County, which speaks to the efforts of Progress Alliance and its outgoing director, Ed Looman, who is leaving for a post with the APEG.
We want that expansion to continue, but for that to happen our region needs to put its best face forward and show potential investors that elected officials and business leaders are willing to put aside their differences and work together for the good of the county's residents. Political grandstanding does nothing to help those efforts.


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The Drunkest Generation: 10 Reasons Your Grandpa Could Drink You Under the Table
Think you drank a lot last night? In the olden days, you'd have a shot of whiskey at lunch, finish out your day at the office, come home and have a martini or two, then drive to a cocktail party, down a couple of highballs with a bourbon chaser, and get behind the wheel to race erratically home to your eager, negligee-clad wife. The Establishment Man was a jovial, booze-powered social animal, and pop culture was ready and willing to encourage his alcoholism at every turn.
#10. Novelty Drinking-Themed Toys
Various versions of the battery-operated animated novelty Bartender toy were marketed in decades past, including one strangely endorsed by kiddie cowboy matinee favorite Roy Rogers. This guy set a great example for the little ones, as he cheerily shook up a cocktail, poured it and sent it "down the hatch" like an 80-proof Teddy Ruxpin.
His face would glow red and (in some models) smoke would puff out of his ears, then the mechanism would reset and he would be ready for another round. The aftermath wasn't neglected either; this closely-related aspect of the wastrel's hobby was covered by the Man In a Barrel liquor dispenser. Press his button and he looks both ways, grabs his "tap," bends over and urinates booze into your cup.
Endless entertainment for drunk children.
#9. Eye-Catching Bar Signage
You know those vintage signs that college students ironically hang on their walls for their surreally earnest endorsement of booze? Well, those signs actually hail from a land before irony called post-Prohibition-era America, where straight-faced enthusiasm for getting blind drunk was matched only by an unwavering belief that tin signs shouldn't pull any punches. Sometimes subtle and sophisticated ("BEER Cooled Correctly"), sometimes not ("BEER," forcefully proffered by the illegitimate son of Plasticman).
Sometimes they were downright bizarre, as in the above "DON'T DRINK WATER - DRINK BEER" ad which appears to be aimed at cows and/or turtles, possibly the only "untapped" alcohol market at the time. Even the then-closeted homosexual community was catered to, using code words ("The GAYEST SPOT in Town") and disguised mainstream imagery. Note the concealed manly bustline, Adam's apple and discreetly bulging shorts of the "QUEEN" -- only his/her hairdresser knows for sure! These beautiful designs made sure everyone drank until they landed in the shiny, pretty gutter.
#8. Jim Beam's Celebrity Buddies
These days, the closest major celebrities get to appearing in endorsing booze is lending their voice to beer ads (ladies, in case you were wondering why you get sexually aroused during Budweiser ads, that's George Clooney talking). But back in the day, Hollywood was Cirrhosis Central, and major entertainment industry players were happy to endorse hard liquor in mainstream magazine ad campaigns.
Here, Elliott Gould looks relaxed, if a little bit tipsy, sipping a snifter of Jim Beam Kentucky Bourbon. And, Dennis Hopper looks suitably hip and up-and-coming next to venerable hard-drinking director John Huston. Honestly, who wouldn't have wanted to be all three of these guys in 1977? Of course, today, Huston is dead, Gould's been reduced to befuddled sitcom dadhood, and Hopper is completely batshit fucking crazy. Thanks for the good times, Jim.
#7. Jackie Gleason's Date'n'Drink Record Albums
In the 1950s and 1960s, the rotund TV comedian and star of The Honeymooners lent his name to a series of "romantic evening" record albums with suggestive covers and names like Music for Lovers Only, A Lover's Portfolio, and Music, Martinis and Memories. Each included seductive jazz music and came complete with a booklet of cocktail and martini recipes, presumably endorsed and thoroughly tested by Mr. Gleason, himself, for all your drunk chick-banging needs.
Of course, vinyl "long-play" records only ran about 20 minutes per side, so foreplay was normally considered optional. This explains why the post-coital cigarettes are already lit and ready to go on the album cover shown, here.
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His loosely structured, largely ad-libbed variety show in the 1970s made it socially acceptable to drink on the job. It also made it downright cool to slur and giggle through your duties with minimal preparation and maximal intoxication. Sure, pop musicians today make the occasional mention of sipping Cristal in the club, but they don't base their entire career around it. Dean Martin helped millions of Americans feel a little more comfortable about drinking on the job and not giving a shit. Thnaks a bnUch, Dean!11!!
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Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocch were beatified by Pope John Paul II. They were the first married couple to be beatified. They lived exemplary lives in Fascist Italy during WWII; but I can't find any information regarding a miracle being attributed to them. For canonization, there must be demonstration of two miracles, one of which must be posthumous. I thought demonstration of one miracle was required for beatification. However, I may be mistaken about that detail.
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That took some digging, but I found it (at the National Catholic Reporter no less)
A miracle is not necessary for beatification if they're martyred, but the couple wasn't Martyred.
There is another couple who has recently been beatified, St. Therese of Lisieux's parents Bl. Louis Martin and Bl. Marie-Azélie Guérin. Apparently in cases of Married Blesseds, which there have not been many, the faithful can pray for their intercession for a join miracle, that's pretty neat.


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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
— Mao Tse-tung, "Problems of War and Strategy" (1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
The United States of America is an anomaly. Born in a violent revolution against a colonial power, the country famously professes to be a nation of laws and not of men (read "persons"). Yet those laws are ultimately backed by guns, as evidenced by the presence of armed sheriff's deputies or federal marshals at every courthouse in the country.
Straightforward logic suggests that rational people in a self-governing republic would never authorize their legal representatives to disarm them, nor design a Constitution to deprive them of their inherent right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
More than two hundred years after the country adopted the Second Amendment, the United States Supreme Court has finally agreed, but many questions remain.
Set forth below are the text of the 2nd Amendment and some of the most pertinent historical and current cases:
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
— United States Constitution, Amendment II, ratified December 15, 1791.
U S v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875)
In Cruikshank, a Reconstruction-era Supreme Court found that the 2nd Amendment applied solely to the federal government and not to the states.
Defendants there were indicted for conspiracy to violate the Enforcement Act, 16 Stat. 140, designed to enforce legal rights for newly-freed slaves, by "banding together, with intent 'unlawfully and feloniously to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate' two citizens of the United States, 'of African descent and persons of color… '," including to "hinder and prevent the exercise by the same persons of the 'right to keep and bear arms for a lawful purpose.'"
In discussing at length the sufficiency of the indictment, the Court distinguished the powers of the states from those of the national government and found that the specified right of "bearing arms for a lawful purpose" was "not a right granted by the Constitution" nor "in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." The Second Amendment, it found, "declares that it shall not be infringed; but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress." 92 U.S. 542 , 553.
Presser v. State of Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886)
The Court in Presser relied upon Cruikshank and found that the right to keep and bear arms did not include anarchists leading a private military parade down a public street without a permit.
In December 1879, 31 year-old Illinois citizen Herman Presser, had led a 400-man company of a German socialists and anarchists group known as the "Lehr und Wehr Verein" ("Education and Defense Association") armed with rifles through the streets of the city of Chicago while on horseback and carrying a cavalry sword. Presser was then indicted, tried, and convicted of violating an Illinois statute that made it unlawful "for any body of men … other than the regular organized volunteer militia of this state, and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to drill or parade with arms in any city or town of this state, without the license of the governor … ." Act May 28, 1879; Laws 1876, 192.
Presser appealed on the grounds that the Illinois statute purported to exercise a legislative power that the Constitution forbade to the states under the militia clause of Article I, Section 8, and that it violated his rights under the 2nd and 14th amendments. The Supreme Court rejected his claims.
The Court found, first, that the two sections of the statute under which Presser had been tried and convicted could be separated from the rest, so whether the rest of the statute purported to exercise powers reserved to the federal government did not defeat the conviction. Second, the Court found, those sections of the statute forbidding "bodies of men to associate together as military organizations, or to drill or parade with arms in cities and towns unless authorized by law" did not infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms. 116 U.S. 265. Finally, relying on U. S. v. Cruikshank, the Court repeated that the Second Amendment limited only the power of Congress and the national government, and not that of the State of Illinois.
Miller v. Texas, 153 U.S. 535 (1894)
In a criminal case arising from an appeal of a Texas murder conviction, the Supreme Court in 1894 refused to consider the Second and Fourth Amendment claims of one Franklin P. Miller because he had not raised those issues in the trial court and because again, according to Cruikshank and other cases, those rights applied only against the federal government.
Mr. Miller claimed that then-existing Texas state law that forbade private citizens from carrying weapons and that authorized the warrantless arrest of any person doing so conflicted with the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. In its own words, the Supreme Court "examined the record in vain, however, to find where the defendant was denied the benefit of any of these provisions, and, even if he were, it is well settled that the restrictions of these amendments operate only upon the federal power, and have no reference whatever to proceedings in state courts. [citing Barron v. Baltimore, 7 Pet. 243; Fox v. Ohio, 5 How. 410; Twitchell v. Com., 7 Wall. 321; The Justices v. Murray, 9 Wall. 274; U. S. v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 , 552; Spies v. Illinois, 123 U.S. 131 , 8 Sup. Ct. 21.]"
The Court also rejected Miller's claim that the 14th Amendment, only recently adopted in 1868, prohibited the states from violating the 2nd and 4th Amendments as well, for Miller had failed to make that argument in the trial court: "And if the fourteenth amendment limited the power of the states as to such rights, as pertaining to citizens of the United States, we think it was fatal to this claim that it was not set up in the trial court."
United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)
In a case arising from a criminal conviction of an unrelated Miller under the 1934 National Firearms Act, the Supreme Court 45 years later upheld a conviction for using a shotgun with a barrel shorter than a specified federal limit, finding no evidence of a "reasonable relationship" of sawed-off shotguns to a militia. The Court interpreted "militia," however, to mean all males physically capable of acting in concert for common defense, with arms they supplied themselves and of the kind in common use.
Both proponents and opponents of 2nd Amendment rights therefore cite this case in their favor.
Heller v. District of Columbia, 554 U.S. 570 (2008)
For the first time in nearly 220 years, the Supreme Court in Heller found in the Second Amendment an individual right, independent of service in the militia, to possess "a firearm" for lawful purposes "such as" self-defense within the home. The Court's decision rested on an historical analysis of common law rights predating the republic.
Although the Court emphasized that the 2nd Amendment did not protect a right to keep and carry "any weapon whatsoever, in any manner whatsoever, for whatever purpose," the Court nonetheless found, 5-4, that the District of Columbia's total ban on operable handguns in the home was unconstitutional. The majority did, however, recognize that long-standing "reasonable prohibitions" such as those against carrying concealed weapons, possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, the carrying of firearms in "sensitive places" such as schools and government buildings, and imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms may be constitutional.
Heller's reference to a reasonable prohibition against carrying firearms in "sensitive places" suggests by negative implication a lawful right to carry firearms elsewhere. But because Mr. Heller's attorneys had conceded at oral argument that Heller sought only an order requiring the District to issue him a permit to keep a working handgun in his home the Court went no further than the requested relief, and because Heller arose in the District of Columbia, a federal enclave, the Court left open whether the Second Amendment also applies against the states.
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 US 3025 (2010)
McDonald explicitly answered one question left open by Heller: that the 2nd Amendment applies against the states and municipal governments as well as against the federal government. (Former Heartland Institute Senior Fellow for Legal Affairs Maureen Martin filed an amicus brief in that case. It was the first brief cited in the majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito.)
Based on historical analysis the Court found that self-defense is a basic right, that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to a scheme of ordered liberty, and that handguns are the most preferred firearm in the nation and therefore fit easily within that basic right.
Still, McDonald left open whether the 2nd Amendment includes a right to carry a handgun outside the home, as well as what other kinds of weapons the 2nd Amendment may protect.
Moore v. Madigan, Nos. 12-1269, 12-1788 (7th Cir. Dec. 11, 2012)
In Moore v. Madigan, writing for a 2-1 panel majority, Judge Richard Posner of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago found in view of Heller that the 2nd Amendment protects a right to carry a firearm outside the home for lawful purposes. Although finding the social science indeterminate, Judge Posner found that Heller had resolved the historical debate, that the right to keep and bear arms was "just about self-defense," and that the need for self-defense was most acute outside the home.
Because the right to self-defense could not rationally be limited to inside the home, he therefore invalidated the contrary provisions of the Illinois unlawful use of weapons statute without determining what level of constitutional scrutiny was required – i.e., "strict scrutiny," "rational relationship," or some undetermined intermediate level.
Open questions
Writing for the minority in a 5-4 decision not to rehear Moore en banc, Judge David Hamilton of the Seventh Circuit pointed out that neither the Supreme Court nor the Moore majority has yet determined (a) who may carry a loaded firearm in public; (b) where qualified persons may carry firearms in public (i.e., what "places" are "sensitive"?); (c) how qualified persons may carry firearms in public places where not prohibited (i.e., open vs. concealed carry); or (d) which arms may be carried in public (other than handguns).
In addition to the open questions Judge Hamilton has identified, other federal Courts of Appeal have reached different conclusions from Moore, upholding, for example, a New York State law that requires a concealed carry gun permit applicant to demonstrate "proper cause" to carry the gun in public, Kachalsky v. County of Westchester, Nos. 11-3642, -3692, 2012 WL 590 5907502 (2d Cir. Nov. 27, 2012), or refusing to opine on whether "there may or may not be a Second Amendment right in some places beyond the home," United States v. Masciandaro, 683 F.3d 458, 475 (4th Cir. 2011).
The Supreme Court may yet resolve some of these questions, including whether Moore is correctly decided, if the State of Illinois files a petition for certiorari in the Moore case or at some future opportunity. In the interim, it may be best to let the states operate as "laboratories of democracy" to pursue their own best policies within the bounds of established case law, as the Moore majority has ordered the State of Illinois to do. (Moore, Slip. Op. at 21.)