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'Arrow' Season 2 Recap, Episode 9: 'Three Ghosts' [Spoilers]
The CW's superhero series Arrow re-imagines Green Arrow for a TV audience as a tough, often ruthless vigilante bent on setting things right in his home of Starling City by punishing the wicked. ComicsAlliance's Matt Wilson will be following along to see how he fares.
This week, Arrow very loosely adapts A Christmas Carol, the dead return to life, and the show starts directly messing with my head.
We left Ollie unconscious on a table in the Arrowcave last week, and that's still where he is now, except suddenly everything is a lot more urgent. It seems like Ollie only has a few moments left to live, even though last week Smoak and Dig had plenty of time to get him back to the Arrowcave, go get Barry and so on. Maybe the mystery drug had a time release.
Anyway, Smoak yells Barry into action. He shines a light around and draws some blood, leading him to the conclusion that Ollie's blood is unnaturally clotting. Lucky for Ollie, Verdant has a rat problem that has never been mentioned before now, so Barry can go grab a box of rat poison and administer it to him, to thin his blood.
Ollie stabilizes, but as soon as he's back to some semblance of health, he sees Shado.
I think that means six more weeks of winter. (I'll be here all week, folks.)
Ollie wakes up and is immediately furious that Smoak brought Barry down to the Arrowcave. "I decide who finds out my identity!" Ollie demands, sounding like he's about four. Smoak rightly says that Barry saved his life and it was an emergency, but Ollie still doesn't trust the kid, what with his untucked dress shirts and murdered mother.
In one last-ditch effort for respect, Barry tells Ollie he has scienced up a way to possibly get Grundy's fingerprint. Ollie kind of nods and heads back to Casa Queen.
There, Ollie notices a Christmas tree and says, surprised, "It's Christmas." (Guess who one of the co-writers of this episode was. Hint: It rhymes with Geoff Johns.) Now, I'm trying to figure out how this could come as a surprise to Ollie. Christmas doesn't really sneak up on you. It's like, a full month of the year. But there weren't any Christmas decorations around in last week's show, so I can only surmise that he's been unconscious for like, three weeks, but it only got serious just now.
My other guess is that the writers don't actually know when Christmas is, but we'll get to that later.
Moira tells Ollie that Thea has locked herself in her room and won't talk to anyone. She's four years old, too!
Ollie goes to talk to his sis (he calls her Speedy for the first time in forever). She opens the door to reveal that she's got Sin and Roy in there, and Roy's still got that arrow Ollie shot him with last week in his leg. Thea says she can't let Moira know about it because she'd kick Roy out if she knew he was "messing around with The Hood," so we're back to that name, I guess.
Ollie saunters over and pulls the arrow out of Roy's leg. He just slides it right out, so clearly someone already broke the tail off. Why hasn't anyone else pulled it out yet? They just love dramatic irony too much?
Ollie tries to be a lot smoother than he is, telling Roy, Thea and Sin to let their crusade to find Sin's friend Max's killer go and that Arrow was just trying to protect them. Ollie leaves and Team Speedy decides to continue their investigation.
Out in the hallway, Ollie once again sees Shado. This time, she's got more to say. She very repetitively tells him to stop being Arrow.
Flashback submarine. Slade's still apparently dead. Ivo and his men hold Ollie, Slade and Sara at gunpoint while the new captain retrieves the super-soldier serum.
Ivo takes the group out to the woods and presents Ollie with a choice straight out of The Walking Dead video game: He has to pick who lives between Shado and Sara. Ollie kind of stands around with his mouth open.
In the Arrowcave, Barry tries to impress Dig and Smoak by basically letting them know he has the Arrow season 1 DVD set. Ollie swings by and asks if there are any side effects to the rat poison. Barry says, "Hallucinations, maybe?" because the season 2 DVD set isn't out yet.
Barry draws some blood while asking Ollie why he wears grease paint instead of a mask. He meant "eye shadow," but he didn't want to seem too forward, I guess. Ollie says a mask would restrict his field of vision, Barry says, "Nuh-uh, science," because that's his deal.
Smoak announces that she has found Cyrus Gold — it really is Solomon Grundy after all — through her cyber magic. Ollie heads out to find him, but Dig insists on taking the lead, given Ollie's hallucinations.
At the DA's office, Laurel's admiring some flowers she received from "an alderman."
Laurel seems to know immediately that it's from Blood, but Starling has to have dozens of aldermen, right? It's a big city. Look, I just think the note is needlessly vague, is all.
Thea pops up and asks about the flowers; Laurel does a terrible job of lying about them, saying they're from her dad. Isn't she supposed to be a lawyer? Anyhoo, Thea asks for help in investigating Max's mysterious death. She passes off the brochure for a Brother Blood Drive that Team Speedy found at Max's place, and Laurel says she'll ask around.
Dig and Ollie arrive at the hotel where Grundy is holed up. Dig goes into a room that isn't No. 52 (whaaaaat) and finds a book turned to the "Solomon Grundy born on a Monday" poem. Ollie helpfully explains the subtext, because who needs it. Grundy pounds in like Jason and takes a few bullets from Dig's pistol before pounding him. Dig manages to escape through the window.
Officer Lance meets Arrow on a rooftop, under the impression he has news about Sara. He doesn't. He just has a file about Grundy. Got to be kind of a letdown for Lance. Arrow gives Lance the spiel on Grundy, but he gets distracted when he sees Slade over Lance's shoulder.
I noticed here that Slade looks a little different — his hair is longer, I think. Continuity error or actual foreshadowing? U-decide!
Arrow does a genuinely super-cool arrow-based rappel down the side of the building and we head back to Flashback Island. Ollie throws himself in front of Ivo's gun after calling him a "fricking psychopath" (sometimes network TV just doesn't work). He specifically runs to protect Sara, which Ivo takes as a decision to save her instead of Shado. So he shoots Shado.
At present-day Casa Queen, Laurel informs Team Speedy that the Blood Drives are totally legit, not that she's biased or anything. She gives some totally off-the-wall information and says they can't get a warrant to investigate anyway, so drop it already, guys.
Police HQ. Lance is reporting to Detective Hilton about how Grundy is responsible for all of last week's break-ins. Blood's man on the inside overhears and weasels his way into the operation. We also learn Hilton has a family, which means he is not long for this fictional coil.
In the Arrowcave, Barry all but passes Smoak a note that asks if she likes him, yes, no, or maybe. Literally every character has acted like a child at least once this episode. Eventually, he asks what plans she has for Christmas. "Lighting my menorah," she says.
OK, so here's that second theory: the Arrow writers don't own a calendar, otherwise they would have known the last day of Hanukkah and Christmas Day were a full 20 days apart this year. Her menorah lighting is long over, folks.
Ollie comes by and basically kicks Smoak and Barry out of the Arrowcave so he can shoot an arrow at a tennis ball. Hallucination Slade (or is he?) shows up again and catches it. He tells Ollie he is nothing, and that he blames Ollie for Shado's death. They start fighting. Ollie gets thrown around pretty good to be fighting a figment of his imagination, like he's Edward Norton in Fight Club.
Lance, Hilton and some other cops show up at a warehouse to take on Grundy. Grundy basically massacres them in an action/stunt sequence that looks about 25 times better than anything from last week's show. His super-strength is actually pretty convincing! Lance takes a beating, but manages to grab a key off Grundy. Old family-having Hilton gets shot with his own gun.
Out on a riverwalk somewhere that doesn't appear to have any stores, Laurel and Blood are on their shopping trip. Laurel asks about his Blood Drives, but before that can go anywhere, she gets a phone call about her dad being in the hospital and tearfully leaves. What an important scene!
Back at the Arrowcave, Barry tells Ollie that his blood doesn't have the rat poison in it anymore, which means he has no physical reason to be seeing Shado and taking beatings from ghost Slade.
Get out your Arrow bingo cards one more time everyone, because it's time for a hospital scene. Laurel breaks the news to her dad that Hilton died. Out in the hallway, Blood meets up with Laurel and asks if she and her dad are OK. Then he gets bad guy eyes.
Back in Lance's room, he and Arrow try to out-guilt each other about Hilton's death. Lance gives Arrow the key he got off Grundy.
In the Arrowcave, Arrow guilts around even more for a while. Dig offers some avuncular Army advice. Smoak tracks the key Lance gave Ollie to a gate somewhere in The Glades.
Elsewhere, Roy breaks into the offices of the firm that did the psychiatric evaluation on Max. He finds Max's file, and discovers "Mirakuru," the Japanese name for the super-soldier serum, stamped on the back of Max's picture.
For a secret army-building operation, it seems to be pretty out in the open. That drawer wasn't even locked or anything.
Blood must have figured that out, too, because one of his goons, a little bearded guy, shows up and starts pouring gas around. Roy makes a run for it, and in the process runs into a clothesline from Grundy.
Roy wakes up in Blood's lair. Blood is all done up in his Scarecrow mask. He injects Roy with the super-soldier stuff, but before he can finish, Arrow shows up and asks where Blood got the Mirakuru, Bale style. Seems like there are other, more pressing questions, like, "Who are you?" and "Are you the Scarecrow?" but Arrow's got his priorities.
Blood says it was a gift. Then Grundy starts tossing Arrow around. Roy's bleeding from his eyes and screaming. Eventually he stops screaming and Blood's goon checks his pulse. "Another failure," he says.
Then Arrow sees another dead guy,
Harry Osborn Tommy Merlyn.
They don't have razors in the afterlife, buddy?
He tells Arrow to get up. Arrow stars wallowing in guilt again, which leads Merlyn to say he's not a murderer (he is), but a hero (debatable). He rallies Arrow to fight Grundy.
Apparently Grundy's just been standing around waiting for an order for a minute or so, because he doesn't attack again until Blood says, "Kill him."
Arrow really takes it to Grundy this time, hitting him with a flurry of punches, then shooting an arrow at a…combustible thing. Grundy gets burned up on his face and the whole place starts coming down. Arrow grabs Roy, administers some CPR, and the dude starts breathing again.
A mysterious figure in a fancy office watches Blood announcing his run for mayor on TV. And let me be totally clear here: I think the show is trolling me. The old Only News Station in Starling City is back.
You might be saying, "Starling has Channel 7 and Channel 52. That's all. Chill out." But that's just it. IT DOESN'T. The reporter/anchor from Channel 7 has been working for Channel 52 all season. It just switched to another number! It was the same channel! But now it's back to the green graphics and the old number.
I swear they're f**king with me.
The broadcast apparently isn't live, because Blood is meeting with the mysterious figure, his boss, who immediately has Slade's very identifiable voice. Slade tells Blood he needs to start mass producing the super-soldier serum, which he synthesized from Slade's blood, again. There are a few threats peppered in there, too. He doesn't want Blood getting entangled with Arrow (who he knows is Ollie) again.
Eventually, the camera pans up, and there's Slade, all Deathstroked out with an eyepatch.
Slade lays out his plan pretty succinctly: He wants to ruin Ollie's life entirely, then put an Arrow in his eye. This is, presumably, because he blames Ollie for Shado's death. It's a little weird that Deathstroke would be motivated by revenge, and they did the whole lose his eye/half his mask is black thing in reverse, but his new supervillain status is a development I can get behind.
Flashback sub. Slade wakes up. The burns are totally gone from his face. That stuff really is a miracle!
He blasts up and starts sprinting across the island, throwing pirates into trees and breaking guns apart. It's pretty fantastic. Eventually, he finds Shado's dead body and promises to make whoever killed her suffer.
In the Arrowcave, Ollie catches everyone up on the events of the episode, including this exchange with Dig about Blood (who he doesn't know is Blood yet):
OLLIE: He's trying to mass-produce the serum to build an army.
DIG: For what?
OLLIE: You're a soldier. What's the primary purpose of an army?
DIG: War.
So what's the purpose here? To make Dig look childish and dumb or to make Ollie look like a condescending jerk? Both are accomplished!
Barry is back in Central City, making a really wordy pass at Smoak on the phone as he enters his lab at the police station. How does he still have a job? His boss threatened to fire him when he wasn't at work more than a day ago. I guess they're just really forgiving in Central City.
As a storm rages outside, that particle accelerator we've been hearing about for nine weeks goes haywire. A huge energy wave goes out across the city, all the chemicals in Barry's lab start going nuts, and then lightning strikes him.
That is definitely the Flash's origin. Like, almost to the letter.
Meanwhile, Arrow puts on the mask Barry left for him. It looks silly, but a sight better than that Robert Smith makeup he was rocking.
Final thoughts
Remember how I said last week's episode was boring? This one was incredibly eventful. The writers really took the completely BS concept of a mid-season finale and ran with it.
In spite of this episode's many flaws–everyone acting like a child at least once, a few completely unnecessary scenes, the weird shoehorning in of Christmas–I ended up really liking it. The hallucination stuff–Ollie's ghosts of past, present and likely future–was all pulled off pretty well. It led into the Deathstroke reveal really nicely.
And let's be real here. This is an episode of a network TV show that had some pretty well choreographed super-power fights featuring Solomon Grundy, a straight-out-of-the-comics Flash origin, and Deathstroke in it. Even a jaded old soul like me has to think that's pretty cool.


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"Who is Freddie's first love? Carly or Sam?" This is the one topic I am fairly certain that Creddiers and Seddiers will never be able to see eye to eye on. A topic of dispute in which people claim that it is only a matter of opinion and your own definition of love. I've seen people claim that it depends on the way you interpret the Seddie/Creddie relationships. But is that really true? Or is it fairly obvious that Sam is the one and only girl who has held Freddie's heart all along? Carly is not Freddie's first love. Sam is. I say that with complete confidence and nothing anyone says could ever change my mind. First love? No, more like first obsession. He has never loved Carly the way he loves Sam.
"Freddie saved Carly's life. How could you not see that he was in love with her?"I believe it said so much that he was willing to risk his life to save hers, that he acted on first instinct the moment that he saw she was in danger. He definitely loves her, but I'm not convinced that it proved that she is his first love. I just don't see why people think you have to be in love to save a friend. I honestly truly believe he would've done the same for Sam in a heartbeat had she been in that situation, even though his romantic feelings for her hadn't been established at that point. He had loved Sam as a friend also. He would not have just stood there and watched Sam get crushed by the taco truck. He loves her and wants the best for her. iReunite with Missy proved that he would put her needs before his. If he saw that she was in danger, he wouldn't have hesitated to push her out of the way.
Freddie is very protective and selfless when it comes to those he cares about. Freddie loves Carly, but that doesn't mean he ever really loved her, not the way he loves Sam. :)
"Sam walked out with a hurt/jealous expression. Why would she be jealous if it wasn't obvious that Freddie loved Carly?" This moment wasn't about Sam realizing that Freddie's feelings for Carly were supposedly growing more serious. As far as Sam had always been concerned, Freddie "loves" Carly, but Carly never returned those feelings. She never doubted that (though she should have ;) ). Now it suddenly seemed to her that the guy of her dreams was finally winning over the "girl of his dreams". So yes. She thought she saw something between her two best friends. Sam didn't realize that the only reason Carly agreed to dance with Freddie in the first place was because her own date turned out to be a douche. She didn't realize that Carly only danced with Freddie because he was safe. Haven't you ever seen the movies where the insecure girl walks in on a friendly moment that she misinterprets as a romantic one? Carly and Freddie both knew that the dance was only friendly, that's why it was never touched upon again. However, an insecure and vulnerable Sam didn't realize that. She thought her worst nightmare was coming true. She thought Creddie was finally happening. And boy was she dead wrong. :)
The iSD dance was more friendly than romantic. Honestly, if Sam hadn't walked in at that moment, I would agree that it was meant to imply that Carly could possibly return Freddie's feelings for her. But Dan chose to focus the moment on Sam's reaction to the possibility of Creddie. Dan chose to use that moment to emphasize that Sam isn't too fond of the idea of Creddie happening. As sweet as the dance was, I really believe that if Dan had wanted to imply that Carly could possibly have feelings for Freddie, he would have put a bigger emphasis on it. The dance would've finished and they would have stared into each other's eyes and awkwardly pulled away. Or something to that extent.
Most of us know that there was a kiss planned in iSYL, but it was taken out. Why?I believe that since Dan didn't have Carly kiss Freddie, he was clearly aware that would make it seem as though her feelings were real, which completely contradicts iSYL and the hero theory. Dan never intended for Carly's feelings for Freddie to be taken seriously, if he had then he would have dismissed the episode iSYL and focused the Creddie dance in iSD more on Creddie rather than Sam's reaction to it. He was using Creddie as a stepping stone for Seddie.
"Freddie has claimed that he loves Carly multiple times." Whenever Freddie made some pathetic attempt to hit on Carly, even Carly herself took it as a joke. Even she was amused by it. You really think that if Carly really believed Freddie was in love with her, she would've turned him down the way she did? The laugh tracks played every time Freddie made a move on Carly. "You just want to be friends and I'm totally cool living with that constant pain." What happens next? Oh right. The laugh track. You know that thing that's supposed to let the audience know that whatever was being said was meant to be considered a joke? ;) His feelings for her were meant to be humorous, just like Sam's "abuse" towards Freddie wasn't meant to be taken seriously.
"Freddie's romantic feelings for Carly have matured into real love" Why? Because (after Sam helped him realize that Carly wasn't really in love with him) he realized it wasn't right to take advantage of a friend? Because he respected himself enough to be aware of the fact that he too deserves a girl who will love him for who he is (and deep down he knew that girl isn't Carly)? He didn't decide on his own that Carly's "love" wasn't as strong as his supposed "love" for her. He didn't know what real love was. The only reason he opened his eyes to the fact that he was nothing more than bacon was because Sam recognized false love. She should know what its like to be in love, she's the one who has been sitting around silently hoping that Freddie would one day realize that she was the girl for him, or that she would one day be able to forget him. She isn't a fantasy girl he put high on a pedestal and practically worshipped. Sam's the real deal . :P I'm not denying that Freddie liked Carly, but he never really loved her. He just thought he did. Even Dan implied it. ;)
I'm not denying that he had romantic interest in her (I'm not oblivious to canon truth ;) ). I'm denying that the fact that he rejected her proved that it was because he knew what it was really like to be in love. He really didn't. Sam was the one who helped him identify Carly's love as false. Freddie knew nothing about love back then. When it comes down to it, he only liked Carly. He didn't understand love and therefore he never really loved her. It just took him a while to realize that. :)
Freddie has never looked into Carly's eyes and professed his love to her. This is simply due to the fact that Dan wanted to save that moment for Seddie. He wanted to establish the fact that Sam is Freddie's first love. :)
As Freddie matured as a person, he was able to distinguish the difference between like and love. He liked Carly, but he loves Sam.


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Release Notes: Tabs are now supported. An initial search can be specified on the command line. A new multi-search interface using ncurses was added. The backend was largely rewritten. There is now less dependence on GtkBuilder. The preferences dialog a bit more minimalistic. Better support for unknown dictionaries was provided.
Release Notes: This is a bug fix release. A few random crashers were fixed. The installation prodecure was fixed when doing --disable-schemas-install.
Release Notes: The results have been worked to have better, easier to skim formatting. New German, French, and Spanish dictionaries have been added. The dictionaries are now user-organizable. The radicals in the Radical search tool now grey out when certain combinations do not return any kanji. There are other general improvements to make the program easier to use and remove bugs.
Release Notes: The main window has a more balanced interface. Bugs have been squashed here and there. Much code has been refactored, including doxygen documentation. This release requires GNOME 2.26 level dependencies, which corresponds approximately to Fedora 11 or Ubuntu 9. There is now an IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/gwaei for helping users with problems.
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Drunkest Cities Daily Beast
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Drunkest Cities Daily Beast, Daily Beast Reviews Alcohol and Partying in America, Which US city holds the title to America's drunkest city? And who decides? For this latest poll it is the Daily Beast who names Milwaukee, Wisconsin as the drunkest US city.
Fargo, ND is number two, while San Francisco, CA is number three.
Rounding out the top five are Austin, Texas and Reno, Nevada.
Number six is Burlington, VT followed by Omaha, NE at number seven and Boston, Mass. at number eight.
Two cities with very different climates round out the top ten of the list of America's drunkest cities with a number nine finish for Anchorage AK and sunny San Diego is at number 10.
How did they decide?
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"To compile the second annual list of the "drunkest" cities in the U.S., The Daily Beast firstanlyzed data from Experian Simmons, a leading market-research firm, which provided data on the average number of alcoholic drinks per month the residents of more than 200 cities across the country reported to have consumed in a survey from earlier this year. As well, we considered the percent of the population that are either binge drinkers or heavy drinkers for each metro area, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control [CDC]. The average number of drinks was given twice the weight of the heavy- and binge-drinking population for the final rank."
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On Feb 26, 2012, at 13:58 , Bob Dionne wrote: > -1 > > R15B on OS X Lion > > I rebuilt OTP with an older SSL and that gets past all the crashes (thanks Filipe). I still see hangs when running make check, though any particular etap that hangs will run ok by itself. The Futon tests never run to completion in Chrome without hanging and the standalone JS tests also have fails. What part of this do you consider the -1? Can you try running the JS tests in Firefox and or Safari? Can you get all tests pass at least once across all browsers? The cli JS suite isn't supposed to work, so that isn't a criterion. I've seen the hang in make check for R15B while individual tests run as well, but I don't consider this blocking. While I understand and support the notion that tests shouldn't fail, period, we gotta work with what we have and master already has significant improvements. What would you like to see changed to not -1 this release? > I tested the performance of view indexing, using a modest 200K doc db with a large complex view and there's a clear regression between 1.1.x and 1.2.x Others report similar results What is a large complex view? The complexity of the map/reduce functions is rarely an indicator of performance, it's usually input doc size and output/emit()/reduce data size. How big are the docs in your test and how big is the returned data? I understand the changes for 1.2.x will improve larger-data scenarios more significantly. Cheers Jan -- > > On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Bob Dionne wrote: > >> sorry Noah, I'm in debug mode today so I don't care to start mucking with my stack, recompiling erlang, etc... >> >> I did try using that build repeatedly and it crashes all the time. I find it very odd and I had seen those before as I said on my older macbook. >> >> I do see the hangs Jan describes in the etaps, they have been there right along, so I'm confident this just the SSL issue. Why it only happens on the build is puzzling, any source build of any branch works just peachy. >> >> So I'd say I'm +1 based on my use of the 1.2.x branch but I'd like to hear from Stefan, who reported the severe performance regression. BobN seems to think we can ignore that, it's something flaky in that fellow's environment. I tend to agree but I'm conservative >> >> On Feb 23, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >> >>> Can someone convince me this bus error stuff and segfaults is not a >>> blocking issue. >>> >>> Bob tells me that he's followed the steps above and he's still experiencing >>> the issues. >>> >>> Bob, you did follow the steps to install your own SSL right? >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jan Lehnardt <email@example.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Feb 23, 2012, at 00:28 , Noah Slater wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> I would like call a vote for the Apache CouchDB 1.2.0 release, second >>>> round. >>>>> >>>>> We encourage the whole community to download and test these >>>>> release artifacts so that any critical issues can be resolved before the >>>>> release is made. Everyone is free to vote on this release, so get stuck >>>> in! >>>>> >>>>> We are voting on the following release artifacts: >>>>> >>>>> http://people.apache.org/~nslater/dist/1.2.0/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> These artifacts have been built from the following tree-ish in Git: >>>>> >>>>> 4cd60f3d1683a3445c3248f48ae064fb573db2a1 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Please follow the test procedure before voting: >>>>> >>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Test_procedure >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> Happy voting, >>>> >>>> Signature and hashes check out. >>>> >>>> Mac OS X 10.7.3, 64bit, SpiderMonkey 1.8.0, Erlang R14B04: make check >>>> works fine, browser tests in Safari work fine. >>>> >>>> Mac OS X 10.7.3, 64bit, SpiderMonkey 1.8.5, Erlang R14B04: make check >>>> works fine, browser tests in Safari work fine. >>>> >>>> FreeBSD 9.0, 64bit, SpiderMonkey 1.7.0, Erlang R14B04: make check works >>>> fine, browser tests in Safari work fine. >>>> >>>> CentOS 6.2, 64bit, SpiderMonkey 1.8.5, Erlang R14B04: make check works >>>> fine, browser tests in Firefox work fine. >>>> >>>> Ubuntu 11.4, 64bit, SpiderMonkey 1.8.5, Erlang R14B02: make check works >>>> fine, browser tests in Firefox work fine. >>>> >>>> Ubuntu 10.4, 32bit, SpiderMonkey 1.8.0, Erlang R13B03: make check fails in >>>> - 076-file-compression.t: https://gist.github.com/1893373 >>>> - 220-compaction-daemon.t: https://gist.github.com/1893387 >>>> This on runs in a VM and is 32bit, so I don't know if there's anything in >>>> the tests that rely on 64bittyness or the R14B03. Filipe, I think you >>>> worked on both features, do you have an idea? >>>> >>>> I tried running it all through Erlang R15B on Mac OS X 1.7.3, but a good >>>> way into `make check` the tests would just stop and hang. The last time, >>>> repeatedly in 160-vhosts.t, but when run alone, that test finished in under >>>> five seconds. I'm not sure what the issue is here. >>>> >>>> Despite the things above, I'm happy to give this a +1 if we put a warning >>>> about R15B on the download page. >>>> >>>> Great work all! >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Jan >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >> >
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App Awe is a WID essay series exploring the transformative potential that lives at the intersection of gaming, science, education and society.
By Allison Salmon, senior software engineer with WID's Games+Learning+Society center
The Power of Three
On Feb. 6, 2014, Threes! made its debut on the iTunes App Store. A charming little puzzle game with a clean, modern, flat aesthetic and charming anthropomorphized numbers. The goal of the game is simple: slide the number tiles around the board and combine them to make the biggest number you possibly can. One will combine with two, but after that, you can only combine matching powers of three. The game had me hooked from the moment I first played. I make a habit of following other indie developers on Twitter, and if there is a game that is being talked about, I can't not take a look. It's my job and my passion. I saw Threes! popping up all over my feed and downloaded it immediately.
It is the perfect game for those spare moments that I had previously been filling with Candy Crush Saga. Developed by Asher Vollmer and Greg Wohlwend, there really couldn't be a better example of how we now have the tools and distribution channels that make it possible for a small team to craft its vision of minimalist beauty and share it with the world. They have posted several places about the prototyping process they went through developing the game, trying on different art styles and tweaking the mechanics until they had exactly the experience that spoke to them. They were making not just a game but expressing a piece of themselves. They spent over a year developing Threes! As a game developer, I am both inspired and a bit jealous. Threes! is a finely crafted and polished experience. So fun, so addictive, lots of depth but such a simple-to-grasp game! Why didn't I think of this?
Three is a Crowd
Threes! popularity spread, through word of mouth, through tweets, through the vast network of information people have woven all over the globe, through fibers and bits. Within weeks or release, it topped the App Store paid apps charts and eventually become the 25th highest grossing app on the App Store. As it worked its way around the Internet, others had the same thought I did: "This is a simple game."
Doubling Down
This is usually where the story ends. Cloning a game is easier than making something all your own, but it still usually takes a fair bit of work even for a game like Threes! Until Gabriele Cirulli came along and decided not only to make a clone, but to make the code available to the world via GitHub. 2048 was pretty much an exact duplicate of 1024 and actually it was even a clone of another clone also named 2048. HTML and Javascript based, it had a new color scheme and none of the quirky character of the original. It was like a blank canvas, a shell of a game. He posted his creation to Hacker News with full links to the repository containing the code. Even more than the cloned game, the code mirrored the minimalism of the original Threes! Easy to jump into and understand, just enough comments, cleanly laid out and organized. Within a few days of being posted to Hacker News, 2048's popularity exploded, not with people playing the game but with people creating and making the game their own version.
"The rapid pace of iteration and creative outpouring was amazing to watch –a community mirroring the process of iteration similar to what the original Threes! developers went through, what all game developers go through when trying to find the heart of their game." — Allison Salmon
For days on end, the clones of 2048 dominated Hacker News and eventually spread out to a subreddit. At first people spent time "fixing" issues they saw with the game. One version added an undo last move; another infinite undos. A few versions with save features popped up including an official version from Dropbox. Other people choose to start twisting the mechanics. Bigger grids, more than one grid, combining numbers in a fibonacci sequence, starting from 2048 and splitting numbers back down to 1 and Roman numerals. Still others decided that games are more fun with friends creating a competitive multiplayer version and a Hacker News Plays 2048, a play off of the Twitch Plays Pokemon phenomenon. The variations started getting wilder and more bizarre, substituting words and images for numbers. There was 2048 for physicists where you combine electrons to make muons and neutrinos. Doctor Who 2048 where you combine pictures of the Doctor to make the next Doctor and a Turkish 2048 where you combine pictures of politicians to make other politicians. Game mashups emerged there was Tetris 2048 and Flappy Bird 2048 that only had the slightest resemblance to the original. For all these variations intrepid programmers also made AI to play and conquer all the games. Some even more dedicated developers took 2048 to other platforms with a Game Boy version, a Pebble version and even a hardware arduino version made to exclusively play 2048. The rapid pace of iteration and creative outpouring was amazing to watch — a community mirroring the process of iteration similar to what the original Threes! developers went through, what all game developers go through when trying to find the heart of their game. Instead of converging to a single honed point though the community iteration seems to be endlessly diverging, spinning off into cyberspace. After a week of iteration the fervor of 2048 seems to have died down but where does that leave Threes! now that it exists in a sea of clones?
One Shines
Despite all the possibilities, I still find myself coming back to playing Threes! Part of what draws me back is a weird sense of loyalty to indie developers who are doing their best to make a living while doing what they love. Cloning of games feels wrong to me, a form of plagiarism and piracy, but I also feel a strong connection with open source and the sharing of ideas and even code. Ideas, especially simple ideas, can not easily be owned or even contained by one person. Copying and building on what we see is part of how humans have grown and how we as a society evolve. As the saying goes "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything." This more then anything sums up why I keep on playing Threes! — execution is everything. The year spent by the developers in careful deliberation was not wasted. When it comes down to it, Threes! is just the better game.


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. I went to a lot of games when I was a
student, and in those days the Patriots also played at Harvard Stadium
on Sundays (yeah, I'm that old.) I saw Joe Namath subjected to the
gentlest sack any NFL quarterback has ever received. They owed him.
But here's the funny thing. I never bought anything that said Harvard on it. I never bought a Harvard tee-shirt, sweatshirt, or class ring. I was so used to the squiggly-eyed look people gave you when they asked you where you went to college and you said "Harvard" that I just never went there. How many times can you hear people say "Hah-vid" and laugh as if it's the first time you heard the joke? Pahk the cah in the Hahvid Yahd? Fine. Go for it. Enjoy yourself.
Then I got married for the final time a few years ago. I introduced my bride to the fun of college football, which she had never cared about and suddenly fell in love with. We got Rutgers season tickets. And, as if by magic, I suddenly started getting all this Harvard stuff as presents from my wife. Tee-shirts advertising their frequent Ivy football championships, an official Harvard sweatshirt (my first one ever, at the age of 57), a long-sleeved gray jersey that felt almost discreet and another bright crimson one that boasted of the team Ryan Fitzpatrick led to the title. And my wife had a tee-shirt that contained the coats of arms of all the Harvard houses on the back. Presents for the female kids and grandkids turned out to be Harvard things, some of them involving glitter.
I was embarrassed. Sometimes I'd change my shirt before a family gathering or a trip to the hardware store. I always disliked people who wanted Harvard to be the first thing strangers knew about them. As if... well, who needs more snobs?
You know what, though? This week, I'm finally proud. Especially of Harvard football. Harvard Stadium has 40,000 seats, usually half-empty except for the Yale game. Franklin Field, Penn's home, has 60,000 seats, usually two-thirds empty when Harvard is playing there, and we've been there twice for that with abysmal results. The last time I actually had to apologize to the guests we'd invited to the dismal performance of Harvard -- it was the single worst, dullest college football game I've ever seen. Why I picked up the whole tab at the fabulous Ralph's Italian restaurant in South Philly.
I'm not apologetic now, though. I'm proud. Finally proud. With one week to go in the season, Harvard has clinched its 14th Ivy football title out of the last 56 years. It doesn't even matter what happens against Yale next week, except that Yale's quarterback should definitely attend his Rhodes Scholarship interview in Atlanta rather than play a meaningless rivalry game.
Which is why I'm proud at this point. Big time football has just exploded in a nuclear firestorm. The Ivy League ("The Ancient Eight" as one of my tee-shirts has it) has been, after all these years, vindicated. Harvard football players aren't physics majors and classics scholars. They tend to live with other jocks in Kirkand House. On the whole, they're dumber than the rest, but some of them still make it to the NFL, which they do NOT turn their noses up at. But, but, but... they are definitely, absolutely amateurs. They do not go to bowl games, there are no challenges or replays at Ivy games, and every one of us roots for Columbia to win at least one game every year, because they are the smallest undergrad population and we don't want them to become hopelessly discouraged.
Yesterday I had to run an errand that encompassed two states. I put on a 2006 Harvard football championship tee-shirt. I was just hoping someone would make a sleighting remark, so I could say we play football cleanly as a sport. Unlike some schools we could mention.
No one did.
I mean, who cares about Ivy League football? Let's be real here.
But we did help invent the game. Does that count for anything...?
uh, No. So be it. And I'm busting my buttons over it, for the first time in 40 years. Go figure.
We win. Or, rather, I win. Who out there has a wife like mine, who always knows what's important way ahead of time? I tell you, it makes me humble.
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today. I concede I'm
getting tired after just three. But the Lady and I have been watching
Dexter Season 5 in our usual fashion -- all at once -- and I have to
confess I
have a confession to make.
Maybe I was burned out by watching the end of the Harry Potter saga. Deadliest Hallows XIX showed up in the queue on Friday, so we watched it. Okay. Best of the whole 45-movie saga. I can admit that. Who among you can say I'm not fair about all matters not pertaining to the Rolling Stones? See?
But then there were the On Demand continuations of CSI New York, NCIS, and Not CSI Somewhere, USA, and I have to tell you there's such a thing as series burnout. Too much of a good thing is still too much of a good thing, and there's no way I wouldn't tell the truth to my faithful readers about such a thing.
Which is why I have to report that Dexter Season 5 is absolutely the best ever. They've changed the show without changing the show. How Michael Anthony Hall doesn't automatically win the Emmy for most killer TV performance every year is far beyond my poor powers of film criticism.
I can't say much without risking spoilers, so I won't say much. Just watch. Especially if you're a Christian. Oops. I said too much. What I meant to say was, watch especially if you're a homicidal heretic with a grudge against the world. Except that...
Something I never ever thought would happen. Dexter making me cry. With him, for him, by him being human.
He does that. Lady Laird left home half an hour early this morning to mail the DVD so we could get the last epsiode ASAP.
I think I can stop writing now. Four posts. All done. Except one thing: Franco Harris? Fuck you. Dexter would know what to do with you, and being an NFL fullback wouldn't make a particle of difference. He's a, well, killer.


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Cheryl Humphreys | Studio Visit
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September 2014
Tell us a little bit about what you're doing in your work now.
I am continuing exploration of my Bring Into Being series where I experiment with surrender vs. control of my mediums; responding to organic ink forms with the meticulous process of blind embossing to create abstract landscapes that transcend the two dimensional.
I have also started a new series: A Collection of Vices, a body of work that explores the tension created when our dark secrets are portrayed in a visually pure way. This series has also lead to using neon as a medium; a new and exciting challenge.
When do you make your best work?
After midnight. This is when I feel the most alone and am free to get weird without interruption
Which is your favorite quote?
"The only rule is work" - Sister Corita
What is your favorite color?
Dusty pink
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What is your happy place?
What would you create for a lover?
A visual love note everyday
Who is your favorite artist?
Helen Frankenthaler
Why do you make art?
It's the way to communicate that comes easiest to me
What inspires you?
My surroundings, my friends, good story tellers, travel, hip hop, disco, old books, new books, my boyfriend & best friend Mike, minimalism, Big Sur, fashion week, afternoon naps
Where are you from and where do you live now?
Born in New York, raised in Baltimore, live & work in LA
What is something people would be surprised to discover about you?
I am kind of messy
What is your hero?
My mom


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Off to Join the Circus : Decor
"Run away and join the circus" was a childhood cliché I never understood. Dirty tents, lousy travel schedules, washed-up acts, animal (and quite possibly human) abuse. How could that EVER be a better alternative to free lodging, nice commodities (I, personally, had a PS2 and a cat so my childhood was A+), and home-cooked food on the table near daily?
Or so I thought.
I recently read The Night Circus (Amazon, $10) and OH MY GOD I GET IT. It's like Harry Potter and the State Fair rolled into one glorious, beautiful, magical festival that creeps out of the night and blossoms into childhood dreams on steroids.
While I'm not feeling so hot on my prospects of finding a circus that is a) actually magical and b) will take me on, I am feeling inspired to bring some magic and mystery into my living room with these Night Circus inspired pieces.
As per M. Le Fèvre's request, a piece of furniture should be predominantly black or white, striking in shape, and luxurious in texture. And all dinner parties should commence at midnight precisely. Consider telling guests to pre-game with coffee so they don't fall asleep in their soup.
The circus often walks a tightrope between classy and kitschy. This chair falls somewhere between Victorian Elegance and Barbie's Dream House, so it's basically perfect.
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To some, the Eiffel Tower is one of the most elegant and sophisticated architectural accomplishments of the modern era. To others, it's "the iron monster." But hey, it makes an iconic foot stool.
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For those nights your guests are less charming than Le Fèvre's. You can even hide it from your guests and your classy bookshelf. Clearly it's all that reading that's making you friendlier.
The flickering light of candles invites whispered ghost stories, tarot card readings, and lurking shadows. Get enough of them in a circle, and you could have yourself a proper séance.*
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I have never seen this whole world, until by chance I read the letters to the editor regarding the Prodigy Puzzle article, bought the article from the NY Times website and followed up into the resources of the Davidson Institute.
I have scanned arouund a bit, and have uncovered lots of leads to follow with ideas and information that will help up with our Gr 2 kid, but not uncovered anything that will help us with one spciific problem area.
Distraction during math work is holding up the teacher's recognition of our daughter's special abilities. Her understanding is fine, although perhaps not yet superior, but she will not sit and finish the work. I believe she is not able to shut out sensory and creative input while she works. I think a kind of self-regulation training is in order, but I need to find a way of applying it to a very young, verbal/creative person. Is there a training manual for teachers and/or parents in helping the very bright buckle down when the situation demands (even if only temporarily)?
The complicating factor is that I too was gifted, started early, skipped a grade, underachieved with pretty good marks. But I have, as the article calls it, the "schoolhouse package" and my daughter does not. We are not on the same page at all in our work habits.
Can someone suggest something? Should this be posted somewhere else for a bigger response?
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Hello –
You bring up some good questions regarding your daughter. We have a couple of ideas and suggestions we thought we would share.
Do you think her distractibility during math may have something to do with the amount of repetition in the homework? If so, perhaps the teacher would be willing to cut back on the number of problems your daughter needs to complete. For example, if your daughter can show she understands the particular math concept by completing 5 problems correctly, perhaps the teacher would be willing to allow the rest of the assigned 30 problems to go by the wayside. Such a compromise in the classroom can appease both parties – the teacher gets the documentation he/she is looking for regarding the child's mastery of the material, and the child is given the opportunity to prove themselves in a reasonable manner. A couple of resource you and the teacher may find useful are:
Developing Mathematical Talent by Assouline, S. and Lupkowski-Shoplik, A.
A review of this book can be read at http://www.gt-cybersource.org/Record.aspx?NavID=2_0&rid=12989
The Survival Guide for Teachers of Gifted Students by Delisle, J.
Is your daughter's distractibility only evident during math? Or, do you see it in other venues as well? If this is a pattern seen across the board, perhaps it would be useful to get further assessment to see if there are other issues going on. If you decide to pursue this avenue, I would suggest seeking out a professional who is well versed in gifted, as many gifted characteristics can look like ADD symptoms when they are not. For more resources on this topic, you may also want to visit GT CyberSource, an online searchable database of resources at http://www.gt-cybersource.org/.
Also, if you are not already aware of the Davidson Institute's Young Scholars program, you may be interested in learning more about this free service for your daughter. The Davidson Institute's mission is to recognize, nurture, and support profoundly intelligent young people and to provide opportunities for them to develop their talents to make a positive difference. The Young Scholars Program is designed to provide personalized assistance with appropriate school placement, assessment information, educational advocacy, and the location of resources for exceptionally bright young people. Applicants are between the ages of 4 and 16, and are served until they are 18. While eligibility and/or goodness of fit for the Young Scholars program cannot be determined outside the context of a completed application, you may want to look into it further. To read more about the program, you can visit the website at http://www.ditdservices.org/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=24&NavID=0_0. The application can be downloaded online and you can access information regarding testing criteria as well.
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