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American Idols Live kicks off in just a few days, and to celebrate, Fancast visited the Idols as they prepared for the upcoming tour.
So you might know everything about Adam Lambert's favorite hair product, or Allison's rocked out style. But how much do these Idols really know about each other?
We asked these baby pop stars to answer questions about their Idol buddies. Which pair knows each other so well they can probably finish each other's sentences, and which ones seem like a couple of perfect strangers?
First up are Matt Giraud and Anoop Desai, who were so full of energy, they were like walking talking Red Bulls. Which Idoler thought the other was a nerd the first time they met and which one spends too much money on clothes? Keep reading for the full scoop.
Anoop, what was your first impression of Matt?
Anoop: The first time I can remember Matt was during Hollywood week when he sang "Georgia on my Mind" and I was like, "shit." (laughs) He went, like, two people before me. I was dead last and I just remember thinking "man, that guy can blow." And then just being in awe as the competition went on about how skilled he is vocally and how much fun he is to hang out with, too. And then I stole his iPod cord by accident once.
That's unforgivable. Matt, what about your first impression of Anoop?
Matt: (To Anoop) You were wearing khaki shirts for "My Prerogative" the first time, right? And a UNC shirt? I was like, who is this nerdy kid up here tearing the house down? He was dressed like he was about to go to class or something! But I was out of my seat and he was just killing it up there. I couldn't believe it because he didn't look like someone who could sing like that. But you know what, he killed it. I remember going, this boy can rock! I ended up getting to know him, and he's really funny and really cool. He's got more swag than he thinks.
What's your biggest pet peeve about Matt?
Anoop: Wow. OK. How much time do I have? Let's see…
Matt: Just pick one!
Anoop: I think he whines a lot. He's like, "show me how to do this." I'm like, "Matt. You turn it on. What do I need to show you?" He's like– [exasperated sigh].
Matt: It's funny that his biggest pet peeve is that, because that's exactly what he does. It's like yesterday, we were told we had to get up at six in the morning today. He's like, "I hate everything." (laughs) And the thing is, he'll whine just as much. But if I whine at all, he will tell me I'm being a baby. He's the same way!
What is Matt most grateful for?
Anoop: I think Matt is most grateful for being able to play music full time and being out and doing that in an environment where people appreciate it. For a long time he was in a place where he was playing music and doing what makes him happy but there wasn't a lot of recognition with it. And I think that getting to showcase what he can do for the entire country, that happened to be what he loves doing.
If Anoop were a cartoon character, who would he be?
Anoop: If I were a Disney character…
Matt: What should I say?
You're going to say Aladdin, aren't you?
Matt: (laughs) No!
Anoop: I would push you off that stool!
Matt: Who's that little scientist kid?
Matt: Yeah, he'd be Dexter! Just because he thinks he's soooo smart.
Anoop: And I want to take over the world.
Matt: With his R&B music.
What is Matt's unhealthiest habit?
Anoop: Uhhh…
Matt: Taco Bell?
Anoop: I'm going to go ahead and say shopping. It's his vice.
Matt: That was once!
Is it clothes, or shoes, or giant watches? (Side note: Matt was wearing a giant watch)
Anoop: Everything. (laughs)
Matt: That was tour related! I had no choice.
Anoop: He spent more money on clothes than I ever have.
Matt: I've got to look good!
What is Anoop most grateful for?
Matt: I think Anoop is most grateful for the learning process of Idol. I think he really appreciates learning more about the business and how to perform because he knows a lot about music and proper singing and stuff. But I think just being around these great musicians in the band and meeting these mentors and stuff has really made an impact on him. I can see he's open to new things so that's good.


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Ezra Klein is in Cleveland at a conference filled with corporate CEOs. He reports back:
Business types really hate Barack Obama. Everybody sort of knows that, but it's hard to get a sense of it if you're not in the room listening to them laugh bitterly at questions like, "Does Obama understand the damage regulations are doing to business?"
....These folks really, really feel persecuted and unappreciated. The common response to this, of course, is that corporate profits have hit record levels in recent years and the top 1 percent has never been richer. But if you need more evidence that money doesn't buy happiness, you should sit with some CEOs for an hour.
The fact that lots of blue-collar workers gave up on Democrats long ago and now vote mostly on cultural issues has been the subject of dozens of books and magazine articles. It's even easy to understand: In FDR's day, Democrats really did do a lot for these kinds of workers. Today, Democrats don't really do that much at all for them. So why shouldn't they just forget about economic issues and vote for the pro-gun guy?
Corporate CEOs are a different story. For decades, Republicans were the pro-business party and it made sense for business executives to vote for them. But what about now? Republicans are formally dedicated to blocking anything that might even remotely have a chance of improving the economy and thereby improve business prospects as well. And yet, CEOs show no sign of wavering loyalties. Just the opposite: they've largely bought the austerity/regulation/deficit fable hook, line, and sinker even though it makes not the slightest sense.
There's nothing really new about that, I guess, but it's still sort of freshly gobsmacking every time I see it in action. These are, supposedly, some of the smartest folks in the country. But they don't have a clue. You can't even say they're slaves of some particular defunct economist, as Keynes suggested. They're just slaves of folk economics at its folksiest and most vacuous — and most damaging. And they have every intention of taking the rest of us down with them.


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Gal Beckerman's first book, When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry, will be available September 23rd. Gal, a staff writer at the Forward, will be blogging for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog series all week.
Writing history that is recently past always carries with it certain challenges. Most obviously, the competing versions of what happened or who did what aren't fought out through yellowed letters in an archive but are argued by living, breathing, often highly invested people. In the five years I spent working on my book,
When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
, I can't count anymore the number of late night phone calls I got or angry emailed screeds claiming that I was clearly not going to give enough credit to so-and-so or put enough emphasis on what some long forgotten activist who was really, truly, the sole person responsible for saving Soviet Jewry had done. For those who had been the protagonists of this story, this was their first – and for some, last – chance to make sure they were remembered the way they wanted to be, or at all.
At first this proved a real challenge to me as a historian – could it be that the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry was really single-handedly responsible for ending the Cold War? But as I gained confidence that I knew the story I was telling, I was also able to better balance these competing narratives and tease out something close to what I thought to be the truth.
But in spite of what was difficult – or even annoying – about this reality, I never once regretted that I was writing about a period with living witnesses. Without them, I would have lost the rich detail you could never get from a document – the color of the Moscow sky above a protest, what it really felt like to fear that any day a conscription notice from the Red Army would come for your son, or how exactly a phone call was made from Cleveland to Leningrad in the 1960?s. Lost would be also the countless hours spent sitting in living rooms in Israel, drinking tea, and watching the "characters" in my book recount their own lives, with both the emotion and subtlety that can only come from oral history.


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Are You Living in a Counterfeit Cosmos?
Whatever we imagine it to be, for the vast majority of human history, it was imagined very differently. Here I don't want to get into the quaintness of those old images and models. Rather, I want to emphasize two things, one, that human beings cannot help creating a wider cosmic context for themselves, and second, that these will always be human projections. Therefore, the premodern, modern, and postmodern cosmoses have much more in common with each other than they do with, say, the cosmos of a cow, which doesn't extend beyond its pasture and its senses (nor can the cow reflect on its cosmos, so it doesn't even really exist as a thing in itself).
Humans imagine there is a cosmos, but what do we really mean by the word? Is the universe the sum of things, or the whole of things? -- for these are two very different ideas. If it is merely the sum of things, there's really no way to understand it, because each part is more or less independent of the other parts. But if it is the whole of things, that must mean that there is an underlying wholeness that somehow transcends and yet participates in each of the parts. Thus, to say "cosmos" is to say "unity" -- which is to say "the One," no matter how you say it. And to say that everything is one is to say that everything is internally related in such a manner that everything is within everything else.
Insofar as the universe is a whole, science cannot speak of it consistently. In other words, science, in order to be science, must treat the universe as a collection of objects, and simply assume their underlying unity -- if only to separate the scientific observer from what he observes. Like the mind itself, wholeness cannot be observed, only inferred. This leads me to believe that there is some hidden relationship between the mysteries of consciousness and wholeness. In short, the one cannot exist without the other. And for the Christian this is, of course, axiomatic, since he lives in a logoistic cosmos in which intelligence and intelligibility are just two sides of the same coin of the realm.
Every sense perception is an act of division within prior wholeness. Only the particular is ever observed, and there is no knowledge at the level of the senses. But every mental act is an act of synthesis and integration -- of bringing particulars together into a wholeness that reveals their meaning. Thus "the cosmos" is the ultimate mental act of material synthesis, analogous to the metaphysical synthesis of conceiving of God -- who also represents an absolute integrity and cohesion that we can never perceive in its a priori fulness with our senses or our mind. You might say that God is to the intellect as cosmos is to the senses.
For this reason, we can say that the physical cosmos is a kind of exteriorization of God, while God is the interiorization of the cosmos (while not limiting God to that). Conceiving of either is only possible because human beings are able to intuit both the wholeness and withinness of things. We are able to conceive the Absolute not because it is a fanciful wish, but because it is the inner reality that subtends everything; in other words, the Absolute is the necessary condition for conceiving of it at all. This is not a tautology, nor is it a repetition of Anselm's ontological argument. It is analogous to saying that without light we couldn't see anything, including light.
All bad philosophers -- which is to say, almost all modern philosophers -- take the cosmos utterly for granted, without getting into the prior question of why they believe there is a thing called "cosmos," that is, the strict totality of interconnected objects and events (much less how we can know that it exists).
The religionist doesn't have this problem. Judeo-Christian traditions affirm that "in beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In other words, there is a prior supra-unity called "God" underlying the apparent division between the celestial and earthly realms -- the vertical and the horizontal, consciousness and matter, whole and part, knower and known, yin and yang, guys and dolls. Religion teaches: where there is apparent duality there is wholeness and unity, whatever the duality. Even life/death. Woo hoo!
The Mundaka Upanishad says something similar, affirming that "Out of the infinite ocean of existence arose Brahma, the first-born and foremost among the gods. From him sprang the universe, and he became its protector." In other words, the creator God -- Yahweh, Brahma, the Father -- is himself an aspect of an even deeper unity, called Brahman, the Ground (by Meister Eckhart) or the Ain Sof (in Judaism), for even God (like the youman beastlings who mirror him) must possess a relative outside but an infinite inside. God turns his face to man, which is the part we may know through revelation. But I think everyone would agree that even if we somehow knew everything of what God has revealed to man, it would be just a drop in his Ocean.
In the absence of revelation -- either explicitly given or implicitly intuited -- there is no way to know about either the cosmos or its "parent," or source. Reduced to natural reason, human beings are like spiders spinning concepts out of their own substance and then living in and crawling about on them, catching the occasional meal. In fact, if the secular black window spider is going to be honest, he will have to admit that the noumenon is a black window, and that all he may ever really know is his own web, which was Kant's point. Kant took profane philosophy as far as it could go, which is why most philosophy since has merely been a footnote on Kant.
For you have a choice that you must make at the outset: either we live our lives in an illusory, phenomenal universe, cut off from the noumenal reality. Or, because we are made in the image of the Creator, we can know the absolute in both its material/natural and immaterial/transnatural modes. The former side of the absolute subtends science, while the latter makes it possible to know transcendentrialities such as love, truth and beauty, being-conscousness-bliss, Father-Son-Holy Spirit, Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva, kether-hokmah-binah, or Tinkers to Evers to Chance.
Thus, secular philosophers create a problem where there is none. First, they exile us from the cosmos, and then they complain that we can never get back in! True, we are exiled in maya. But that is only to warn us that our senses do not disclose ultimate reality. Revelation goes to great lengths and heights and depths to explain this, including how to overcome the temptation to absolutize the relative. Scripture fully anticipated Kant and all of his followers in the allegory of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Yes, you have free will, so you are therefore free to nourish yourself from the tree of duality. Just don't be surprised if you end up with a bad case of spiritual malnourishment.
Of course, this doesn't stop scientists from talking about the universe and making all sorts of absolute claims about it. In fact, science has hijacked the universe concept, and will permit no one else to make statements about it on pain of ridicule, ostracism, and ACLU lawsuits. As the philosopher of science Stanley Jaki writes, it is as if all of the central banks had been taken over by counterfeiters. So much of scientific epistemology and ontology is based on intellectual funny money that is not fungible into any underlying reality. The Raccoon says: bring back the Gold Standard! -- which is to say, the Absolute.
Like leftists who are only concerned with the distribution of wealth rather than its creation, secularists are only concerned with the propagation of "truth" rather than the specific metaphysical principles that make Truth itself knowable.
For example, science assures us that their model of the cosmos truly accounts for the strict totality of interacting objects and events. But how can the model contain the proof of its own claim, since it is part of that totality, not outside of it? The question is, can we take a scientific dollar bill and cash it in for real Truth? We can, but only if we realize that there is indeed a central bank that ensures the value of each of those scientific bank gnotes. Science divorced from God is a classic bubble that must eventually burst, since it is analogous to economic activity divorced from real value.
Yes, there is a cosmos. For the same reason there is a God: you can't half one without the underOne. As a matter of fact, the same thing holds true of biology. Say what you want about natural selection, but it presupposes something that its theory cannot account for: the wholeness of the genome and the organism, which is a reflection of the primordial wholeness of Being. Natural selection operates on entities that are living benefactories of a prior wholeness, without which Life itself could not be.
Knowledge is simply adequacy of subject to object. We can know the Reality because our intelligence is a sonny mirrorcle of the Abba we salute.
The subject as such takes precedence over the object as such: the consciousness of a creature capable of conceiving the starry heavens is more than the space and the stars so conceived.... It is precisely in virtue of the dimension of inwardness, which opens onto the Absolute and therefore the Infinite, that man is quasi-divine. --F. Schuon


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The International Upper Great Study (IUGLS) today announced they have recommended an improved regulation plan for outflows from Lake Superior. The new plan – Lake Superior Regulation Plan 2012 – is more robust than the existing plan and provides important benefits, especially to the environment. Made up of a panel of experts from Canada and the U.S., the recommendation is the highlight of their final, peer-reviewed report to the International Joint Commission (IJC), marking the end of the $14.6 million ($17.6 million Cdn.) five-year study....


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The New York Post's "Page Six" column revealed the romance on Wednesday (June 5), citing a source familiar with the couple. "They are really good for each other," the source reportedly said of Stone and the "down-to-earth" Wudyka. Stone and Wudyka were first noticed together during an April 26 arts-funding event in Washington, DC. Sharon Stone posed for a photo during the event in which she appears standing in between Wudyka and "How I Met Your Mother" star Josh Radnor.
Although single for some time, both Stone and Wudyka have children from previous relationships. Stone was last known (in 2012) to be dating the much younger Martin Mica, a 27-year-old Argentinean model.
Despite this potentially blossoming romance, Wudyka did not attend the Cannes International Film Festival. He apparently had to work — the hotelier owns the Enclave Inn in Bridgehampton and the East Hampton Studio.
There has been no word from Stone or Wudyka on their relationship.


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Steamboat Springs The evolution of Yampa Street into a downtown restaurant district is poised to continue with the news that the new owners of The Boat House at 609 Yampa plan to build a pub on the site.
For many years, the small building has served as a law office.
Designer Steven Eggleston of SCE Studio has submitted an application to transform the building into a two-story restaurant/bar with a dwelling unit on the third floor. Eggleston's clients are Dennis Frank and Howard Ulep of Annapolis, Md. Eggleston said the two men do not have previous experience in the restaurant/bar business.
"The story is that Howard wanted to build a pub that he'd like to spend time in," Eggleston said.
Frank, who is a critical care physician, said he has been looking for years to find the appropriate site in Steamboat where he could create a casual pub.
"I've owned a condo at The Lodge since 1988," Frank said. "We come there two to three times in the winter months and for months in the summer. I consider myself almost a local."
The pub would be built on a small lot - less than one-tenth of an acre - that borders the Yampa River and overlooks the ski slopes of Howelsen Hill. It is zoned for commercial property.
The outlet of Butcherknife Creek is separated from the eastern property boundary by a narrow strip of city property. The neighboring property to the west is occupied by Steamboat Real Estate Inc. The Boat House is just west of the Fifth Street Bridge.
The Boat House was originally approved by the city in 1993. Developer Erick Glanz used the one-story building as his law office. However, the original plan has always carried with it a vested approval to add a second story and complete a Victorian-style structure.
Senior City Planner Jonathan Spence said Frank and Ulep could pursue completion of the original building plan. However, they have something else in mind.
"We're trying to embrace the history of Routt County," Eggleston said. His elevation drawings illustrate a building that resembles a tall barn with a long shed roof. A modest tower is topped with windows and a cupola.
Tentative exterior building materials call for reclaimed, weathered barn wood.
Interior drawings reflect a horseshoe-shaped bar on the main level with a kitchen and restaurant seating on the second level. A second-story deck overlooking the river would also create a covered-seating area on the river level.
Spence confirmed that the building is sited above the 100-year flood plain.
Frank said when he and his wife glimpsed the backyard of the Boat House and the view of Howelsen, they realized they had found the right spot.
"I see the total revitalization of downtown Steamboat and Yampa Street," during the next few years, he said.
The two partners want to create a very casual restaurant that definitely won't emphasize fine dining.
"I don't want to be in competition with Antares," Frank said. "I want it to be a place where you and your co-workers can have a cocktail and a light snack."
Spence said the developers are seeking a variance from the city's water body setback regulations - the second story deck protrudes into the setback. However, planning staff may recommend the city grant the request because the developers are choosing to build something more contemporary than the Victorian building described in the vested approval.
In addition, Spence said, city code calls for the third story to be stepped back from the second-story elevation. But, when Eggleston produced drawings reflecting the change, the building wasn't as attractive, Spence said. Accordingly, he may recommend approval of that variance.
"This is a fun little project," Spence said. "We expect that development patterns will be different when we start talking about the water side."
He expects the city will talk to the Boat House Pub developers about plans to enhance the small city parcel along Butcherknife into a pocket park. The city would also like to see the stream bank behind the Boat House made more attractive, Spence said.
Eggleston said his clients are interested in promoting the idea of a public boardwalk extending along the river.
Spence said the Boathouse, and some other redevelopment projects that could become public soon, will add to the much-needed 8-foot sidewalk along the south side of Yampa Street.
The Boat House Pub has just begun the city planning process. No public hearings have been held.


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Boutique chic in Gaupiles
Often overlooked by travelers, guests who plan a visit to Guapiles on their Costa Rica tours will have the town's wealth of fresh produce and boutique-style shops to themselves.
Located in Costa Rica's banana-growing region, the city's agricultural roots come alive at Guapiles' Saturday market. With fresh bananas always for sale, the market provides a chance for visitors to sample a range of other succulent native fruits and vegetables, giving everyone a literal taste of the Costa Rican tropics.
Guapiles' number of boutique shops provide the perfect opportunity for guests to find a unique souvenir or great new accessory. Businesses here sell everything from furniture to umbrellas, and so accommodate a range of shopping tastes. The town is also known for its number of vintage clothing stores, which provide a great trip down memory lane and affordable prices that are simply too good to pass up.
After a day of shopping, a perfect end to any Guapiles trip is a stop at one of the village sodas, or bars. Serving up both Costa Rican favorites like casados plates and gallo pinto, many eateries also feature American fast food-type meals like classic hamburgers.


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Following on from last year's label debut, London-based Celsius returns to the record label of Jaymo & Andy George, Tom Staar and Toy Tigers to set in motion his studio output for 2013 with a powerful underground endeavor.
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Samurai Jack Intro - Remake Latino
Samurai Jack Opening remake by latin animators
4.39 / 5.00 6,674 ViewsWARNING THIS GAME IS VERY CPU HEAVY
We ask that you please take into account any slow-downs you run in to while playing the game is the likely result of a slow machine, not out game. It runs fine for any fast computer, this has been tested. Use the quality button.
Controls are in game tutorial. Here's a quick overview:
Press A,S,D,Left,Up,Right when prompted in adventure mode to survive the challenge.
In defiance mode, press the direction keys to move, and press the buttons "A" and "S" to do different attacks.Spacebar also jumps. IMPORTANT: To jump up between walls, just press the jump button when next to a wall to rebound, pressing the direction is NOT required.
NOTE: The "Defiance" mode will have high-score opportunities! May the most elite bad-ass win!
A word from Porter:
Hey world, porter here and I did all the programming for this game. Please remember that this game is very CPU heavy so if your computer is not up to date with todays newer computer standards your more then likely going to experience some serious lag, if I was rich I would buy you all sweet computers to avoid that, but I'm not, maybe in a few more games I'll get into the gaming industry and make enough to do so. Lastly I'd personally like to thank the voice actors/actresses for this project, they did an amazing job and they're kind of like me in these kind of things seeing as the public often forgets we contribute to these projects just as much as the animator(s). Anyway, I really hope you guys enjoys this and please leave a review, they mean the world to us.
Damn. I mean, what more can be said? It's been several months since the release of ep.2 ( Carnage ) and we now have this bitchn' sequel. The Stabika series has been with me for years now, and to be making it into a game is mind-blowing.While no game is perfect, especially on a free-flash-game- medium, Matt and I agree we've definetly pushed ourselves to an extent that would clasify this game as our best work to date. Hope you all enjoy it, if so, let us know. If not, let us know that too. Just be nice, ok? Or be a dick, free country, so that's cool to. Just glad to be doing what we love, and love what we're doing. Peace.
Audio credits:
Menu song-- "Terminator Metalized" by Chrizzly
Climbing the tower song-- "The Challenge" by Zenon
Defiance song--"mv107" by Sto0g3
Ending cutscene song-- "Hero's Rest" by XementoXek
Classic Stabika, now with more bad-ass!
You guys have really outdone yourselves this time. Stabika 3 is everything I hoped it would be. The Defiance mode is a perfect addition to the game, a little tough, but, hey, a challenge never hurt anyone. You are my new idols. I hope you two keep teaming up in the future; whenever you do, everything you create together is gold. I'm highly impressed. Keep it up, guys.
Hey man, thanks a million. Serious, in this absolute OCEAN of negative feedback, yours is the greatest review ever. As it so happens, Matt and I are on track for a pretty bad-ass idea on a new game project together, and we hope you will like that as well. We're glad you wern't dissapointed with ep.3, your a rare bread it seems, lol.
Appreciate it man.
It runs a lot better on my pc, than my laptop. Nice job. Sweet game.
it was eh,,
i seen this like OH SHIT STABIKA3!!!!!!!!!!!!
and iw as sad with the side scroller part =[
he cant jump
he has 2 attacks
and theres no indication of which way to actually go
you guys rocked faces with shenmues QTE stuff
id say switch back to that quick =/


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A One-way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM
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Network Working Group G. Almes Request for Comments: 2680 S. Kalidindi Category: Standards Track M. Zekauskas Advanced Network & Services September 1999 A One-way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved. 1. Introduction This memo defines a metric for one-way packet loss across Internet paths. It builds on notions introduced and discussed in the IPPM Framework document, RFC 2330 [1]; the reader is assumed to be familiar with that document. This memo is intended to be parallel in structure to a companion document for One-way Delay ("A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM") [2]; the reader is assumed to be familiar with that document. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [5]. Although RFC 2119 was written with protocols in mind, the key words are used in this document for similar reasons. They are used to ensure the results of measurements from two different implementations are comparable, and to note instances when an implementation could perturb the network. The structure of the memo is as follows: + A 'singleton' analytic metric, called Type-P-One-way-Loss, is introduced to measure a single observation of packet transmission or loss. Almes, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 2680 One Way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM September 1999 + Using this singleton metric, a 'sample', called Type-P-One-way- Loss-Poisson-Stream, is introduced to measure a sequence of singleton transmissions and/or losses measured at times taken from a Poisson process. + Using this sample, several 'statistics' of the sample are defined and discussed. This progression from singleton to sample to statistics, with clear separation among them, is important. Whenever a technical term from the IPPM Framework document is first used in this memo, it will be tagged with a trailing asterisk. For example, "term*" indicates that "term" is defined in the Framework. 1.1. Motivation: Understanding one-way packet loss of Type-P* packets from a source host* to a destination host is useful for several reasons: + Some applications do not perform well (or at all) if end-to-end loss between hosts is large relative to some threshold value. + Excessive packet loss may make it difficult to support certain real-time applications (where the precise threshold of "excessive" depends on the application). + The larger the value of packet loss, the more difficult it is for transport-layer protocols to sustain high bandwidths. + The sensitivity of real-time applications and of transport-layer protocols to loss become especially important when very large delay-bandwidth products must be supported. The measurement of one-way loss instead of round-trip loss is motivated by the following factors: + In today's Internet, the path from a source to a destination may be different than the path from the destination back to the source ("asymmetric paths"), such that different sequences of routers are used for the forward and reverse paths. Therefore round-trip measurements actually measure the performance of two distinct paths together. Measuring each path independently highlights the performance difference between the two paths which may traverse different Internet service providers, and even radically different types of networks (for example, research versus commodity networks, or ATM versus packet-over-SONET). Almes, et al. Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 2680 One Way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM September 1999 + Even when the two paths are symmetric, they may have radicallyShow full document text


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The young ones
Dark Fantasy, Anal, Drug, Male / Female Teens, Non-consensual sex
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Fri 2nd of August 2013
When I meet a young girl outside a liquor store who needs my help It ends up with a wild trip at a seedy motel.
The Young Ones
Hey mister, Can you buy me a beer? She said as I got out of the car. She was maybe 20 and looked tired and a little strung out.
Walking out to the car I hand her the 40oz in a bag, She smiles. Thanks a lot!! She says hugging me. Your kind'a cute, are you looking for a date mister? She asks.
I look her over, A little dirty but still very cute. Sure honey, I bet you'd like to get off the street for a bit too, maybe get cleaned up? I reply.
Oh yes!! You got the money for a room mister? I'll make sure you're happy!! She says, winking at me and shaking her ass just a little.
Ok lets go then. I say, climbing into the car. Oh but wait, she pouts leaning into the car, her tits straining in her T-shirt. See I've got my little cousin waiting for me out back, and I can't just leave her out here alone so She comes too or no deal, I guess. She says batting her lashes at me and trying to look extra cute. Well you had better get her then Honey, While get us a bottle. I tell her, patting her on the ass. They are in the car when I come out, with backpacks & bedrolls in the back with the young cousin and the older girl setting up front. Off we go!!
After we have killed the bottle of 100proof schnapps and Tara {the older one} has told me some of their story. I stop and pick up another, then get a room at a cheap motel nearby and sneak them in with all their stuff. These two are Drunk now and enjoying themselves, laughing & flirting with me. I turn on the T.V. to the porn channel and little Cindy sits on the bed mesmerized watching it. I really need to get High Tara says in a low voice, pulling me toward the bathroom. I'll do whatever you want me to if I can get a hit first she whispers. Pressing her body against me and squeezing my ass.
I smile, lifting her up and setting her on the counter next to me. Now don't you worry young lady, I've got lots of dope and I am going to love having my way with you!!
Does Cindy get high? I ask. As I mix up a big hit on the counter. She does lines but she's only let me hit her for the 1st time, just a few days ago. Tara says OK, I'll see what happens I tell Tara, Handing her a rig with about 60 units in it, You go in there, do your shot and have fun while I get to know Cindy a little better. I say, pushing her wide eyed into the bathroom, Rig in one hand she shuts the door.
Cindy is sitting on the bed looking very cute, Tara s taking a shower! I say moving over to stand above her. How are you, Honey? She looks up, smiling a drunken smile, this is so great!! I can't believe we have a room!! Thank you mister!! She says.
You just relax and enjoy it. I say as I sit down next to her and put my arm around her slim waist. My you sure are a cute little thing, Do you want to get high, Cindy??
Gosh I'm pretty drunk I think, But I've only done that once before Do you think? I mean could I?? Is it OK? Oh yes! It'll be fine honey, you'll love it! I tell her as my hand explores the curves of her lower back and hips.
I stand up and pull off my shirt then walk over to draw up two more hits for Cindy and I.
Are you gonna fuck Tara tonight? She's really hot! Don't ya think? Cindy asks.
She giggles then says your pretty hot too mister, I know Tara wants you to fuck her! I can't believe I said that!! She cries laughing I must be drunk!
Well Cindy lets see what happens after we get High I tell her as I hold her slender arm out and pump the dope into her veins, making her cough and shake, her young nipples turning rock hard under her shirt. Oh my god!! She gasps That's insane.. I feel like I am on fire inside!!
She flops back on the bed, and I enjoy the view as I do my blast!!
Where s Tara?? She asks, trying to sit up again. In the shower, she s all right, you just relax sweetie your going to be fine! I tell her while pulling her shirt over her head and tossing it aside, She flops back on the bed and I move down to remove her shoes then rub her feet. It feels good to be high like this, don't you think? I ask her Oh yes she moans my skin is on fire but the sheets are so cool, and your hands feel so good on me! I want to be touched all over. I run my hands up her slender young legs pushing up her skirt as I go. She moans softly as my hands explore her sweet little body, squeezing her small tits then pinching hard little nipples and making her squirm beneath me.
Oh GOD.. Yessss! That feels so fucking good! She moans as I start to suck on her tits and my hand moves down between her legs. Lets get these off of you I say pulling white panties up over her legs as I lift them up into the air. "But what about Tara??" She says a little worried. She's just fine, she'll be out in a bit don t worry, I'll deal with her, but right now I want to enjoy your sweet little body a bit. I spread open her legs and move up over her, taking her wrists I hold her arms over her head and kiss her mouth deeply.
You are such a good little girl I tell her in a deep whisper, just lay back and relax. Then my mouth is on her hot skin, I kiss her neck, suck on hard little nipples then kiss my way down her flat taunt young belly, making her body tremble and low moans escape her throat. Look at that sweet young pussy I say Do you know how fucking sexy you are Cindy? I ask her as I spread her legs and run my fingers down to her wet cunt lips tracing slow circles around her sex. Oooohhh I feel sexy when you touch me like that She sighs then my mouth is at her pussy, licking and probing her with my tongue.
I hold her legs open wide licking her clit wildly in till she is shrieking with delight and her whole body is shaking beneath me as her orgasm builds inside her tight little body!
I'm Coming!! Oh my god I'm fucking coming!! She cries out as I lift her ass up off the bed and shove my tongue deep into her pussy while her legs lock around my neck pulling me to her.
Pulling her off me I lay her out on the bed, still shaking, and stand up.
Oh Cindy what a hot young slut you are! I am going to love cramming my hard cock into your tight little cunt and fucking you in till you scream for me! But first you need to rest while I check on Tara!
I open the bathroom door to find Tara stepping out of the shower her tight body glistening with water, I hand her a towel, How you doing, sexy? I ask. That was great! I thought I was never going to stop rushing!! She smiles How's Cindy? She asks
She s just fine, Drunk, really fucking high and very, very cute! I tell her.
Now look Tara I whisper, pushing her against the wall and stripping the towel from her hand, you've got high now, real high! I bet. And you two can have this room for the night! But now I m going to fuck little Cindy's brains out and you are going to watch me!! "But she's only 15." She's a hot horny slut just like you are, so shut up and come enjoy the show!
"You're crazy! I told you I'll fuck you, you can do whatever you want with me! But Cindy is just a little girl, you'll hurt her or scare her." Tara says, trying to sound firm. I start to laugh & ask her how old were you when you started fucking? No, never mind.
Now listen to me and listen good! I growl as I grab her by her throat & look in her eyes… I am going to do whatever I want with Cindy & you too! I just finished giving Cindy the best orgasm of her young life & she loved it! What?? No way! You're crazy. Tara mumbles. I release her, saying shut up and stand still then turning her to face the wall I push open her legs with my foot and spank her ass hard several times before shoving my hand between her cheeks to rub her wet cunt. She is sobbing softly when I'm done. Now you do what I ask, ok? And don't worry about Cindy, She's going to love it!! And when I'm done with her I m going to fuck you in your tight little asshole in till you come so many times you think your dieing!!
My fingers pump into her pussy deeper and deeper with each thrust and her sobs turn to moans of pleasure. "Oh that's good, why don't you fuck me right here, right now!!" she begs pushing her ass back against me. Don't you wish!! You slut!! I laugh pulling my hand back from her pulsing twat and grabbing her by the hair. Not yet honey, First I Fuck your sweet little cousin like a whore while you watch then we will see about your hot young asshole, understand!! I tell her, slapping her hard across the ass as I release her.
Leaving the bathroom I find Cindy sitting up on the corner of the bed, God she is cute, curly red hair down around her shoulders, Perfect little firm tits standing off her chest with rock hard nipples, Her skin still flush from the dope & orgasms!!
Where did you go?? ,God It s so hot in here, what s happening to me?? Where is Tara? She babbles out to me as I walk over to her. She's getting dried off honey she'll be out in a second, Now come here!! I say pulling her to her feet.
She giggles and falls towards me and I take her in my arms and kiss her young mouth.
Lets get this skirt off you now so I can see your sweet ass. I say pulling it down over her hips and letting it fall to the floor at her feet. Taking her ass in my hands I lift her up and she wraps her legs around my waist and leans back. Do you like my titties? She asks, shaking them for me.
They are still so tiny, I wish they would grow some more. she pouts. There perfect!! I say sucking half her round breast into my mouth and squeezing her tight ass as I lift her up even higher. Then I drop her back onto the bed making her squeal in surprise.
You are a very hot and sexy young lady Cindy, Did you know that? I ask. Those perfect tits and sweet young ass! Any man would kill for a chance to get his hands on you! Really? She giggles. Yes! But right now you are all mine and I am going to fuck your brains out tonight, do you understand?? I ask, holding her down on the bed.
Oh god, I think so… yes!! She looks worried, but what about Tara? She still wants you to fuck her. Wont she be mad? And I m just a skinny little girl, I don't have a body like Tara, That is why she always keeps me out of sight when she is getting guys to give her stuff. I just laugh & shake my head.
Do you really want to do it with me? She asks, posing a little for me. Am I really sexy? Oh yes, Cindy you are a very sexy young girl & I am going to show you just how much I want you!
Tara! Come here !! I call. She walks naked from the bathroom to stand at my side. Look at your sexy little cousin now Tara! She Knows I want to fuck her & she's already come for me when I licked her pretty pussy. She looks to good not to fuck her, dosen't she? I ask. Tara stands there looking from Cindy to me & shaking her head. I move over to Cindy and start rubbing her young pussy with my hand making her moan & roll her hips. "Oh Cindy, I'm sorry!" Tara sobs, I can't believe he is really going to do this to you! There is nothing I can do but I'll be right here with you! Yes she will be watching me pound your tight little pussy with my hard cock and when I m done with you I'm gonna fuck her in the ass and you can watch. I'm not scared Tara, says Cindy starting to sound a little scared. But I'm not sure what I am supposed to do or what He wants me to do?
Don't worry you'll be fine, now come over here, I say. Tara is going to suck my cock while I play with your hot little body and get you all hot & ready to fuck. Cindy is holding my hard cock and feeding it into Tara's hungry mouth while I am slowly fucking her pussy from behind with one hand and tweaking her nipples with the other. I push Tara off my dick and turn Cindy to stand in front of me facing the mirror, She slowly strokes my rod as I run my hands over her tender young body rubbing her clit and squeezing her small titties and spreading her ass open to press a finger into her tight little asshole. OH yes Cindy, look in the mirror, look at you now you hot little tramp, Feel my fingers inside you and squeeze my fat prick in your hand. Can you see how fucking sexy you are & why I want your hot little body? I am going to do nasty, sexy things to you Cindy and I know you want it! Tell me you want it you little slut, I can feel you shaking and your pussy is dripping wet while I am fucking your ass with my fingers. Cindy moans and shakes her head no but she is staring wide eyed at herself in the mirror while she pushes her ass back into my thrusting fingers.
How can something so dirty, like your fingers in me feel so good? I feel sexy & horny but I'm confused & scared too! Cindy says softly to me.
I lean in and whisper to her. I own you now and I will do whatever I want with you and you will love it all by the time I am done with you.
Now! Get on the bed, Slut!! I say, tossing her onto the bed roughly.
She cries out as my fingers pull from her tight back door and her young body bounces onto the bed! "Oh God… Wait, No!" Shut up and turn over, face down!! I shout and move quickly onto the bed and smack her young ass! Now get your ass up in the air!! Whimpering, face pressed into the bed, She raises up on her knees for me and my hand goes to her pussy. That's better, good girl! I say while fingers stroke her hot little cunt.
What a sweet little ass, don't you think? Tara?? I ask, smacking Cindy hard with my other hand & stuffing two fingers in to her pussy. Cindy cries out from my rough treatment as Tara moves closer. "Yes!! She's sweet!!" "Don't hurt her!"
Moving up behind her I guide my cock to her young pussy & rub the tip slowly up & down her slit causing her to tremble and moan in anticipation of what's next.
Looking down at Cindy's hot young pussy I slowly push my fat cock into her tight little cunt. Holding her tight as I work it in, pull back a bit then push in more while she is moaning & trembling beneath me. Oh God, It's big, she cries.
I pull back then cram it back in even deeper. Oh god, oh god, oh god she is chanting while my cock fills her pussy even more. Please, It's too big, it can't fit! She begs. So I slowly pull out in till only the swollen head is still inside her. Yes , oh thank you she says just before I slam my full length in to her, filling her completely and making her scream. Holding her hips I keep my self pressed deep in her cunt as she sobs, moans and shakes under me.
Now just relax & I am going to fuck you now. Again I pull back till only the tip is inside before I slam back into her but this time there is no stopping!
Over & over I pound my hard cock into Cindy's tight little teen pussy making her cry out with pleasure mixing with fear as I fuck her hard and fast. Hot tight and wet beneath me I can feel her relax and start to move her hips to the rhythm of my fat prick pumping her young cunt. Slowing down now I rub and squeeze her ass, spreading her open to watch my cock sliding in to her sweet young pussy.
She is moaning loudly now and I can feel her building towards her orgasm so I spit on my thumb then press it down to cover her tight little asshole then rub it in circles slowly while I fuck her with slow deep strokes and push my thumb deep into her virgin asshole. "Oh god! Oh fuck, what are you doing to me?" She cries as I slowly fuck her ass with my thumb & her hot young cunt with hard cock. "Come on you sexy little bitch, I want you to come for me!" and I fuck her harder. Now she is crying out with each deep thrust of my cock & pushing her tight ass back to meet my thumb, forcing it deeper into her clenching ass.
" Oh, Oh, Oh my god! Oh yes! Fuck me harder, I'm coming!!" She cries.
I feel her pussy clamp down hard and I shove my cock deep & hold it there while my thumb pumps her ass over & over in till her orgasms fade away and she collapses breathless beneath me!
Slowly I pull my fat prick from her hot, sticky young pussy & she moans softly.
Leaning over I grab Tara by the wrist and pull her close, then pulling my thumb from Cindy's little ass I shove Tara down. Spread her open! Get down there and tongue her asshole so She's nice and wet and maybe it wont hurt her to much when I shove my hard cock in to her ass! "No please, I can't.. You can't do that!" I grab her hair & force her mouth down onto Cindy's exposed asshole, muffling her protest! Lick her ass bitch! Holding Tara by her hair with one hand I proceed to spank her ass good & hard, driving her into Cindy. Suck her ass! Lick it & fuck it with your tongue or I'm going to beat you! I shout at her.
Cindy is moaning and crying loudly now as Tara tongue fucks her young ass harder and faster while I watch. Leaning over I grab Cindy's hair, pulling her head back & turning her to look at me. 'Do you like that, slut?" Do you like to have her tongue fucking your tight young asshole? Tell me! Do you like that you little fucking slut? "YES!! Oh fuck yes, I like it!!" She cries.
Shoving her face back into the bed I let go of her & reach back to grab Tara's hair, I rip her face from between Cindy's cheeks, pulling her over on to her back with a scream of surprise and pain! Yeeeooww! Oh fuck! Wait! Tara cries as she's tossed back on the bed. " What are you doing??" Shut up Tara! I shout.
Moving into place behind Cindy I grab one cheek of her small round ass, squeeze it tight & pull her back towards me. Talk to me Cindy! Tell me that you want me to fuck your young ass you sexy little bitch! I say & smack her ass with my open palm! "Oowww! Shit, oh fuck!" Cindy cries out while I spank her again & again.
Tell me you want me to fuck your ass, Cindy! I shout.
"Wait! You Cant!" Tara screams rising up before I slap her pretty face!
Shut up & watch! See what a slut little Cindy really is! Sit back and enjoy the show, you'll get your turn when I'm done with her! With tears streaming from her eyes Tara moves back sobbing, "I'm sorry Cindy! I'm so sorry!"
With both hands on her ass, rubbing her burning red cheeks I ask Cindy again,
"Tell me & tell Tara what a slut you are Cindy! Tell us how bad you want to get your ass fucked!!" I spread her open & spit on her exposed asshole.
Her voice is filled with fear & desire, shaking with excitement when she moans out to me, "It's true! You were right! I am a fucking slut!! I want to be a dirty little whore for you! Please take me & use me any way you want!" "I'm so fucking horny, my pussy is on fire & my ass is burning! I need you to fuck me!"
"Where do you want me to fuck you, slut??" I ask. "Oh god, please fuck my dirty little asshole Sir!" Cindy replies. "Cindy, NOOO!" Tara cries. "YES TARA! I need it bad!" " Make me your whore Sir, fuck my ass!" Reaching down to take Cindy by her hair I pull her head up to kiss her open mouth deeply then release her to fall back face down. She lifts her ass as my hands grab her hips & pull her back! "Fuck yea, my sweet little slut!" Is all I say before I stuff the swollen head of my cock into her virgin ass. A long low groan escapes from Cindy as I press hard, pushing fat cock slowly into her tight little asshole in till I have about 4 of my 8 inches crammed inside her! Pausing to catch my breath I rub her ass, hips & back while I tell her how good it feels to be inside her!
"Oh daddy! It's so big! I can't believe my little ass is gonna take it!" she groans. "I'm scared but I want it all inside me, You know what a whore I am Sir, so give it to me! Fuck your young sluts ass, shove your fat cock up my ass & make me scream!!" She begs me while she is trying to push her ass back into me.
OK! Little one, here it comes! I grab her hips and spreading her wide I drive the full length of my rock hard prick into her young ass! A wild cry turns to a groan when I stop, holding her close & feeling her tremble under me!
"Fuck yea! You're one hot little nasty bitch! Your ass is so fucking tight!" I groan.
Now I am going to fuck you like a whore Cindy, Pound your ass & make you beg for more like the hot slut you are! And slowly I start to pull my aching prick out of her burning hot ass. "Oh god! Yes, No... Wait!" Cindy cries.
"Please don't hurt her!" I hear Tara behind me.
I stop with only my fat tip still in her ass, "Tell me what you want!"
"Hurt me, Fuck me, break me with your cock! Fuck me any way you want!" Cindy shouts.
And I slam back into her ass hard & fast! "AAArrrgghh!" I cry and start to drive into her over & over with steady deep strokes that rock her tiny body & drive her into the bed forcing low grunts & cries from her while she's split open on my cock!
"Look at her Tara She loves it!" I say as I fuck Cindy's ass with deep, pounding strokes that rock her tiny body & make her cry out each time I fill her tight young asshole with my cock.
Reaching down I wrap my fingers around Cindy's tiny throat and pull her up off the bed to kiss her neck & shoulders while I fuck her ass. Get up here Tara, pinch her nipples & rub her little clit while I pound her ass!
Tara shakes her head no but slowly climbs up beside Cindy & starts to play with her pussy & hard little nipples. "Oh yes! Rub my hot pussy Tara!" She moans.
Are you going to come for me now Cindy? I want to feel my sexy little bitch coming while Tara strokes your hot pussy & I fuck your tight little asshole!
"Oh Yes! Fuck my ass daddy, pound my ass and make me come for you! She cries.
I pull her back into me & fuck her tight young body hard and fast while Tara starts to finger fuck her dripping cunt in till she is shaking and screaming from her orgasm.
"I'm coming! I'm coming!" " Oh Daddy fuck my ass harder!' She cries
I Pound her ass with everything I've got for a dozen more strokes, feeling her ass clenching and gripping at my cock, before I start to come. "Fuck yes!! Take my come in your hot little ass!" I shout as I pump load after load into her tender backside.
Cindy lies limp and breathless beneath me while I slowly pull my spent member from her ass and watch as my come slowly drips out of her ravaged asshole.
Tara leans over and smacks Cindy hard across her ass! "God Cindy, I can't believe what a little slut you turned out to be!!"
Getting up off the bed I watch as Cindy slowly rolls onto her back and with a little mischievous smile says. "Well hell Tara, I was tired of you having all of the fun while I was left to wait!"
To be continued...
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anonymous reader
2013-12-05 01:02:57
It's pretty good :) it just bugged me that the dialogue wasn't in quotations which made it hard to keep track of. But keep up the good work!
anonymous reader
2013-08-26 05:32:03
Where this isnt the best story I have read it is far from the worst. You need to be more descriptive with your actions and putting physical descriptions when a character is introduced helps with visualization. (Height, weight, hair, clothes,etc) It helps give depth to your characters.
anonymous reader
2013-08-04 12:25:09
be more detailed next time and imaginative!!!!!
anonymous reader
2013-08-03 15:14:29
Good story. Fix the damnable spelling,sentence structure, and puncatition
anonymous reader
2013-08-03 03:10:33
This story fucking sucks.
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Today is Thursday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2002 with 96 to follow.
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The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto. The evening stars are Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Uranus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include frontier nurseryman Johnny Appleseed Chapman in 1774; poet T.S. Eliot in 1888; German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1889; actor George Raft in 1895; Pope Paul VI in 1897; composer George Gershwin in 1898; country singers Marty Robbins in 1925 and Lynn Anderson in 1947 (age 55); actress Mary Beth Hurt and singer Olivia Newton-John, both in 1948 (age 54); actresses Linda Hamilton in 1957 (age 45) and Melissa Sue Anderson in 1962 (age 40); and tennis player Serena Williams in 1981 (age 21).
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In 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia.
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EditCommon Hotkeys
Command | Hotkey | Use |
Alert Recall | SPACE | If you get an alert, such as "base is under attack" or "structure complete," press the SPACE bar to quickly move the camera to highlight the event. |
Select All Like Units | Double-Click | Double-click a unit to select all nearby units of the same type. Example: Double-click an SCV unit to automatically select all SCVs in the area. |
Bind Group to Number | CTRL + [#] | Using CTRL + [#] binds all selected units to the number you press, overwriting any existing binding settings to that number. |
Add to Binded Group | SHIFT + [#] | Using SHIFT + [#] adds selected units to an already-binded group. |
Recall Binded Group | [#] | Simply press the number key that you've binded units to in order to automatically select those units. |
Camera to Binded Group | [#]x2 | Double-tap a number key to relocate the camera to the associated numbered group. - Matt |
Idle Worker | F1 | Automatically selects an SCV unit that is doing nothing. Good for finding an SCV to repair a building or machine unit, or to simply make sure no one is being lazy. |
Cycle Between Subgroups | TAB / SHIFT + TAB | If you have a group of mixed units selected, pressing TAB cycles between sub-groups that are automatically determined by similar unit types. Want to command all marines in your large group to use stimpacks? Press TAB to select the marines within the group. |
Town Camera | BACKSPACE | Tapping the BACKSPACE key quickly moves your camera back to your home command center. |
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Patrol | P | With a unit selected, press the P key and you can assign a patrol path by left-clicking a destination. |
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Build Refinery | B, R | With an SCV selected, tap B to access the build menu and then tap R to build a refinery with your next left-click. You'll usually do this quickly at the start of each mission. |
Build Bunker | B, U | With an SCV selected, tap B to access the build menu and then tap U to build a bunker with your next left-click. |
Build Barracks | B, B | With an SCV selected, tap B to access the build menu and then tap B to build new barracks with your next left-click. |
Build Factory | V, F | With an SCV selected, tap V to accss the advanced build menu and tap F to build a new factory with your next left-click. The Factory is a prerequisite for advanced tech units. |
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Not sure if I am allowed to post this question here. I am looking to hire a python dev who is interested of developing an add-on for XBMC. The add-on should create an interface between an homeautomation system and XBMC. I was thinking of having a pop screen in XBMC where you could control your lights etc. in the house.
Please write me for details.
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2012-05-05 19:58
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What home automation system? I've been looking into OpenAMI and considering going with it for my HA system. Of course I couldn't live without xbmc integration lol
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Well the system is a simple and cost efficient brand from the Czech republic. It has all the important actors to control your home and the programming is done based on a PLC. I am actually a programmer from the PLC field and the software is up and running what I would like is to integrate the Interface into XBMC so as to have one control application( Media & Home control). Right now I am switching applications on my IPad to control XBMC and then back to control my HA but this solution is not very elegant and also does not offer me any signal exchange with XBMC. So if any Python Programmer is interested please do let me know, about the budget for this project we can talk as soon as we see the work involved to achieve the target. Regards, |
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2012-05-07 00:30
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What type of communication format is there between the XBMC and the HA system?
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Hi giftie,
There are 3 possibilities of communication. - Via RS232 ( I would not prefer this communication) - Via TCP/IP connecting to the PLC and using Function Blocks from the internal ComLib library with SendTo and RecvFrom functions. - Via TCP/IP connecting to the PLC but using the top layer direct communication via the EPSNET Protocol. |
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2012-05-11 03:37
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Model information would be really helpful.
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I am sorry...I tought i wasn´t allowed to post any products here... You right tough some more info would help ) ...so here is a PDF Link. Here are some Info about the PLC( The one we are using is the Foxtrot CP1014) http://www.tecomat.com/wpimages/other/DO...PLC_en.pdf And here are some Info about the EPSNET protocol. (starting from page 146) http://www.tecomat.com/wpimages/other/DO...l32_en.pdf Hope this helps...
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2012-05-12 20:14
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Well, I've seen worse. Looks like everything can be done by UDP datagrams. The biggest roadblock would be the need for physical access to the hardware. Building UDP packets is easy enough, but testing communication can be a pain
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Here's tow of the easiest ways I can think of...
If you use Windows take a look at EventGhost... it has plugins that might already do what you want so the flow would go: XBMC Python Script for EventGhost --> EventGhost -- > your HA system I think the easiest, and smartest, would be to integrate them at the control point. Building a system inside of XBMC for this one point solution does not seem like an easy thing to support as XBMC changes - and your HA system changes. There are a few apps that already control XBMC and can also be setup to send commands to your HA system... on the iPad. Hopefully your HA system can received HTTP commands (most can, if yours cannot, you might want to consider a different HA system) best of luck. I'm not an expert but I play one at work. |
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No need to involve EventGhost, that needlessly ties things to Windows. According to the datasheets linked above, the thing can be controlled over the LAN with UDP packets. Now it's down to building a python script send those commands. Xbmc is just a gui at this point
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Hi Bstrdsmkr,
Yes that´s what I had in mind… to have XBMC just as the GUI and the script is doing the whole communication and controlling part. So if there is some changes on XBMC or the HA system you could maybe just adopt the py.script later accordingly. I have an Ipad Applications like Iridium already controlling the HA system and for XBMC the constellation app. One of the issues with that is that you have to keep switching between apps if you want to dim the lights when you are watching a movie for example. The other thing is you don't really have any status of any of those systems….like lights are dimmed…movie is playing…movie is stopped…lights are full on etc. I don't want to create a full HA control GUI on XBMC this would overkill the idea, but the basics like Lights, Blinds and some Handshake signal would be perfect. It might sound like a niche project but I think based on the way you integrate this product it could open up a wide range of application possibilities. I believe that the TV is becoming anyway the new central control piece of equipment in the house, away from expensive wall screens, keypads and small touch panels. (Of course nowadays additionally supported by the more and more existing smart-phones/tablets in your home) So why not giving XBMC some extra shoes? so it can run with the possible future development in this area. Anyhow if anybody is interested on developing this project please do let me know. Regards |
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