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Well, if you need to shoot down a satellite, I suppose launching a missile from something that's already going at 13000mph is easier than launching it from the ground.
Why not just put a rocket on top of the something that's travelling 13,000 mph? Keeps the costs down.
but this would be more of a concept testing for the engine, with "making it practical to use" left as work for other people.
This is probably what it is for. Someone probably already has a practical use for it, but doesn't want to reveal what that practical use would be. They just need the engine. DARPA likes to do this, where they say, "Hey design some random crazy piece of equipment that you couldn't ever fathom using. The piece of equipment must be fully functional, and we don't plan on telling you what it is for in the end. Thanks."
The major credit agencies should have cut when major factions of the Republican party started openly advocating a default. In violation of the 14th amendment, Section 4.
"Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void."
Everyone keeps saying this applies, but Section 4 of the 14th Amendment gives a bunch of language about insurrectoin and rebellion which makes it difficult to interpret. Jury is still out on whether or not this applies to our current situation, since our debt has largely been incurred due to domestic stupidity, rather than rebellion.
Where would the Sun get egg whites? If you mean glare, you'd be wrong.
Oops! Haha.
This asteroid, because of its orbit, will rise precisely four hours before the sun. So you've got over 2.5 hours of dark in which it would be visible.
This depends entirely on where you are in the world. And I restress that the asteroid is only 300 meters wide. It would still be difficult to see.
If there are only 5 then why did it take so long to find this rock? Is it becaue the sun is between us an it? If so then there could be some real intersting stuff at that lagrange point.
because the rock is 300 meters wide... space is a lot larger than that. Also the sun makes it difficult to see from the ground
The asteroid orbits one of the two Lagrangian points of stability of the Earth-Sun system
There are 5 Lagrange points. One on the other side of the sun, one on the other side of us, 1 ahead of earth in orbit, one behind earth in orbit, and one in between us and the sun.
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#864 closed defect (duplicate)
Problems with flash plugin with the web activity
Reported by: | joaoboscoapf | Owned by: | bernie |
Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | |
Component: | sugar | Version: | |
Keywords: | relnote | Cc: | joaoboscoapf, jg, dcbw, kfieldho, j5 |
Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
Deployments affected: | Action Needed: | ||
Verified: | yes |
I installed the flash plugin from adobe in the web activity according to the instructions in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Web_Browser#Flash_in_the_default_web_browser.
It works fine but when I right click on an animation, the browser crashs. The ouput I got is:
The program 'sugar-activity-factory' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'. (Details: serial 713 error_code 2 request_code 12 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Segmentation fault
I know that you don't plan to include adobe's flash in the browser but I think some people will do it.
Related to ticket #652.
I used a Q2B43 / 239 build laptop.
ps: To get the output I opened the developer's console and executed the following command:
sugar-activity-factory foobarativity.FooBarActivity /usr/share/activities/FooBar.activity
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comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by joaoboscoapf
The real command to get the output is:
sugar-activity-factory webactivity.WebActivity /usr/share/activities/Web.activity
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by jg
- Component changed from distro to sugar
- Milestone changed from Untriaged to BTest-3
- Owner changed from blizzard to dcbw
The browser should certainly not crash in this situation.
comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by joaoboscoapf
Some people will certainly use adobe's plugin instead of gnash until gnash is not ready. Don't you think this issue should be on trial-1 milestone? I think kids will certainly right click on contents and get really angry with crashes ... =(
comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by jg
- Milestone changed from BTest-3 to Trial-1
- Owner changed from dcbw to marco
- Priority changed from normal to high
joaoboscoapf, is this still crashing?
If it is, please give us links to the sites which crash it.
Our (admittedly minimal) tests here did not crash, and I'm not about to send people on a hunt for pages without better information, and information based on build 368, rather than stuff from February.
clearly, plug in crashes should not take down the browser...
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by joaoboscoapf
It still crashes in build 368. You have to install Adobe's Flash plugin and right click on a flash animation.
All flash animations I tried crashes. Test case: http://www.adobe.com (right click on the first flash animation and it will crash the web browser).
comment:6 Changed 10 years ago by jg
- Cc jg dcbw added
- Keywords relnote added; Flash Web removed
- Milestone changed from Trial-1 to Trial-2
jg to bug Adobe.
marco or dcbw to see if there is something in our plug in infrastructure that needs fixing.
comment:7 Changed 10 years ago by kfieldho
- Cc kfieldho added
comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by tomeu
Backtrace when running on the xo with:
python /usr/bin/sugar-activity --sync web
I breakpointed in gdk_x_error after installing gtk2-debuginfo-2.10.11-2.i386.rpm.
#0 gdk_x_error (display=0x8931ef8, error=0xbfc94038) at gdkmain-x11.c:614 #1 0xb7116cfa in _XError () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 #2 0xb71187c4 in _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 #3 0xb70fa2ac in _XGetWindowAttributes () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 #4 0xb70fa402 in XGetWindowAttributes () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 #5 0xb12adb94 in NP_Shutdown () from /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so #6 0xb12ae005 in NP_Shutdown () from /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so #7 0xb5328301 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 #8 0xb532873e in XtRealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 #9 0xb532ef16 in _XtPopup () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 #10 0xb532f025 in XtPopupSpringLoaded () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 #11 0xb12ad1c3 in NP_Shutdown () from /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so #12 0xb12b1af6 in NP_Shutdown () from /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so #13 0xb12b1df2 in NP_Shutdown () from /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so #14 0xb5320225 in XtDispatchEventToWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 #15 0xb5320cca in _XtSendFocusEvent () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 #16 0xb531fb37 in XtDispatchEvent () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 #17 0xb532c9be in XtAppProcessEvent () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 #18 0xb5ecfbad in gtk_xtbin_set_position () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9a3pre/libxul.so #19 0xb7924442 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #20 0xb792741f in g_main_context_check () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #21 0xb79277c9 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #22 0xb748a6d4 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #23 0xb77ea5b0 in init_gtk () from /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/_gtk.so #24 0xb7e62f28 in PyEval_EvalFrame () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #25 0xb7e641b5 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #26 0xb7e64293 in PyEval_EvalCode () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #27 0xb7e81078 in Py_CompileString () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #28 0xb7e827b8 in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #29 0xb7e82e9a in PyRun_AnyFileExFlags () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #30 0xb7e89825 in Py_Main () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #31 0x08048582 in main ()
comment:9 Changed 10 years ago by marco
The latest sugar rpm does not crash anymore, it will be in the next build.
Now that we don't crash we get a completely white menu. Probably someone at Adobe would be able to figure out what is going on.
comment:10 Changed 10 years ago by jg
Keith Fieldhouse keith at rexmere reports:
I've taken a look at the relevant code in the Flash plugin and it's
certainly the case that things won't end well in the event that the font
for the pop up menu isn't found. On a right click, XLoadQueryFont()
is called for the following strings:
If none of those result in a hit on the XO server, the behavior would be "undefined".
comment:11 Changed 10 years ago by jg
OK, we definitely have a font problem. We only have a very few bitmap fonts present.
[olpc@xo-02-33-45 root]$ xlsfonts -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 6x13 cursor fixed
comment:12 Changed 10 years ago by jg
With the mkfontscale command, you can make a fonts.scale file for all the fonts in a directory; I did this for the deja-vu fonts. I then did a mkfontdir command to create the fonts.dir file. The last step is to get aliases for different sizes, since Flash is so antique as to not deal with scalable fonts (even in the old core font system), and worse, has pixel sizes specified.
With help from the wayback machine (www.archive.org), after extensive googling, I was able to find a script nice enough to generate a fonts.scale file for the deja-vu fonts. Bug 1291 has the more general problem, which is to provide aliases for all the old fonts.
comment:13 Changed 10 years ago by jg
Oh, the final step is to add the deja-vu font directory to the font path using the "xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/deja-vu-lgc" command.
comment:14 Changed 10 years ago by jg
See bug #1291 for a good project for someone to do "the right thing" for all the old bitmap fonts by aliasing.
Here's the scoop:
- Add the following to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Files": FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-lgc" EndSection
Add to the directory the attached fonts.dir,fonts.scale,fonts.alias files.
Note that I only included the encoding for 8859-1, to keep the number of fonts returned by a query small, to keep antique application startup times reasonable. Otherwise, the aliases, for the 20 fonts here, end up exploding to more than 2000!
Also note I doubled the pixel size. The script for generating aliases can be found attached to #1291.
With these changes, adobe flash plug in menus will work, and have decent size bitmap fonts on the menu; the bitmaps will be derived from the fonts used elsewhere on the desktop and look sort of decent (no AA; just bitmaps). I've talked to adobe about their needing to update the flash plug in for I18N.
Coincidentally this should make many antique X applications work using our basic font set, as they may very well match against these fontnames.
comment:15 Changed 10 years ago by J5
- Cc j5 added
comment:16 Changed 10 years ago by dcbw
At some point, possibly soon, we should have a flag day and pull the temporary X bitmap font stuff out again and make people fix the apps. If there's anything we shouldn't be supporting, it's apps that use the old X font APIs, because those apps have already shown they are not maintained enough to update to anything current, let alone take advantage of stuff we're shipping.
comment:17 Changed 10 years ago by jg
I think we can do pull support occasionally in development builds, but the reality is that things like Flash, or Sun's Java, or other old applications exist, and may need the old fonts. Unfortunately, it will be years yet before the last of those bites the dust.
One can do it anyway just by using an "xset" command and removing the font directories, so the tests can be done by anyone at any tiem.
Anyone doing anything new is using modern toolkits anyway; I know of no significant developer activity using Xt/Xaw/Motif at this date.
comment:18 Changed 10 years ago by dcbw
If flash doesn't fix themselves up, that's their problem. We're _not_ doing compatibility with old stuff just for compatibility's sake. If there are really, really good reasons to have the old bitmap font mappings, and I don't mean "so we're compatible with old applications", then maybe we'll keep them. But just so we're somewhat compatible with unnamed specific things that are of varying utility going forward isn't a good reason.
I consider the addition of mappings specifically for Flash in trial 1 an _anomoly_.
Again, just because we _can_ make something work doesn't mean we should. And I don't think in this case there's a good reason to keep this working. If people want their stuff to work on our platform, they should just not be doing some things, and this is one of them.
If you really, really want to keep this, please get a list of _specific_ applications that break, and we'll decided on a case-by-case basis whether or not we care about those applications.
comment:19 Changed 10 years ago by jg
Adobe does plan to fix their player. They now understand that they can't meet the I18N requirements we have that Pango solves.
I consider it an anomaly that we don't support core fonts, at least the usual set. That something as important/common as Adobe Flash would crash is the tip of a much bigger iceberg; I expect old java applications would do likewise (those built against the original java toolkit). It is hard to eliminate the dependencies of 18 years of history, and takes a very long time to do so. Protocols never die, they just fade away....
And unfortunately, Flash is an application that we do care about: the free alternatives are not yet mature enough to deal with some of the educational content out there. I wish they were, and they are making very good progress, but they aren't there (yet).
comment:20 Changed 10 years ago by J5
- Owner changed from marco to J5
- Status changed from new to assigned
This is bringing down X:
Datal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
Removing the FontPath option allows X to start up again. This needs to be figured out soon or I am taking it out of the build. I'm going ot dinner. Be back in a bit.
comment:21 Changed 10 years ago by jg
Ouch. Sorry for the foul up.
Two possible fixes; it may be we need to add a "builtins" line to the xorg.conf file. But I'm not 100% sure that will fix it.
Easier, and safer, (and exactly equivalent to my testing) would be to
say "xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/devjavu-lgc" and take the whole section with the font path definition out of the xorg.conf.
comment:22 Changed 10 years ago by jg
Sufficient aliases for old X11 core fonts have been added that most applications not yet updated to the current X client-side font model should work: specifically, the menus in Adobe Flash 9 for Linux would crash the plug in and browser despite more than 4 years of deployment of the new X Window System font system.
Note that full internationalization is effectively using the old X Window System font system and that any application or library using them needs updating to modern standards. We see support of these fonts as a crutch that must be removed to meet OLPC's long term goals. To remove these aliases while testing, you can use the "xset -fp usr/share/fonts/dejavu-lgc" command.
"Fixed", or rather resolved, in build 385, until really fixed when Adobe Flash no longer relies on the old font system.
comment:23 Changed 10 years ago by jg
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
comment:24 Changed 9 years ago by frankprindle
Since this seems to have been removed from Ship.2 (build 650), and since the latest Adobe flash plugin is not compatible with opera (so I need to use an old one), I tried to reinstate this fix, but alas the command "xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/devjavu-lgc" always fails with "bad font path element (#61)" (I event tried installing the old "misc" fonts, and it doesn't like that path either). The paths are valid, and contain fonts.*, but no-go!
jg (or others)... any clue why xset fp doesn't work?
SIDE NOTE: jg, your fonts.dir should have a 21 on the first line, not 20.
comment:25 Changed 9 years ago by jg
- Milestone changed from Trial-2 to Update.1
- Priority changed from high to blocker
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Ugh. Someone "cleaned up" the font alias definitions the Adobe flash player needs, without thinking.....
Will be fixed in Update.1.
comment:26 Changed 9 years ago by jg
- Owner changed from J5 to bernie
- Status changed from reopened to new
comment:27 Changed 9 years ago by frankprindle
Sounds good... but I'm still perplexed why "xset -fp" does not work the way its man page says it should. Any clue?
comment:28 Changed 9 years ago by frankprindle
Sorry, I meant "xset +fp" (I seem to have a mental block on typing this correctly!)
comment:29 Changed 9 years ago by bernie
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from new to closed
This new font path handling bug is a duplicate of #5775.


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The son of Robert F. Kennedy has been charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly clashing with two nurses who tried to stop him from taking his 2-day-old baby boy from a Westchester maternity unit, NBC New York has learned.
According to a Mount Kisco, N.Y. police report obtained by NBC New York, Douglas Kennedy, 44, took his baby from the newborn unit of Northern Westchester Hospital on Jan. 7, against the instructions of hospital staff who told him the infant needed to stay there. The arrest was on misdemeanor charges.
Kennedy and his wife, Molly, disputed the accusations in a statement to NBC New York, saying "these allegations are absurd."
The nurse in charge of the unit, Anna Margaret Lane, said in a deposition that Kennedy wanted to take the child "to get fresh air" that evening. As he tried to leave, he was accompanied by a doctor from the hospital's emergency room, identified in court papers as "Dr. Haydock," later determined to be Dr. Timothy Haydock, a longtime family friend.
While the nursing staff sought to get Kennedy to return the baby to his bassinet, Haydock reportedly encouraged Kennedy to walk with the baby by telling nurses that he was with him, according to Lane's deposition.
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Haydock said in a statement to NBC New York that Kennedy, whom he has known for more than 40 years, was not putting his healthy baby at risk by seeking to take him for a walk outside.
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A Brown University graduate, Kennedy started his journalism career with The New York Post and most recently worked as a general assignment reporter and bi-monthly news program host for Fox News.
Another Kennedy tragedy!
How is this only a misdemeanor?
I kinda liked him on FNC.
Rules don't apply to the Kennedys.
Kicking a female nurse in the pelvis. NOW is about to release a
statement sharply critical of Kennedy. Any minute now...coming right up...stand by....Zzzzzzzzzzz.
Fresh air? January in NY with a newborn? And this family "doc," how many celebs have had an unfortunate incident with their medico in attendance?
Im more interested in knowing exactly why he couldnt take his child in the first place.Hospitals now refuse to let you take your newborn unless you allow them to administer immunizations.Many peeople think these contribute to autism.Is that the possible reason?Kennedys have never been my favorite people but I want to know more before condeming him.
"How is this only a misdemeanor?"
Because he is a Kennedy.
The rules that apply to ordinary people do not apply to them.
It sounds like he might have been drunk. Who takes a newborn out for fresh air? Of course his wife is going to stand by him. What's she going to say? My husband behaved like buffoon?
Don't know the whole story and will reserve judgement but why was he being prevented from leaving with his child?
"Do you know who I am?"
Was the getaway car an Oldsmobile?
I'm surprised he wasn't charged with assault on the two nurses.
Then again, he's a Kennedy, so he gets away with it.
Just wow. Nurses gone haywire. Dad has every right to take his child out of the hospital. The hospital does not have ownership. We once had a resident physician tell us we could not take our child out of the hospital after 24 hours. We were trying to save ourselves and the hospital $$$$. Hubby was ready to do some violence to someone though I don't suspect a nurse would have been on the receiving end. Another pediatrician stepped in and said, "I'll sign for these parents so they can leave with their child." Some folks are control freaks and just want to assert their Power. We had this happen again with another son. Our pediatrician had cleared us to leave at our earliest convenience. She hates hospitals and wanted us out of there for our own good. The nurses "lost" our pediatrician's paperwork and said they needed to have her fill it out again. Well, let's just say they did not like messin' with her. Then they flubbed a hearing test so that we had to come back a week later and caused us all sorts of stress over it. This was all because the nonAmerican nurse(s) were incompetent. And maybe they wanted paying customers to fill their rooms as opposed to the unpaying. I'm not sure.
By voluntarily entering a hospital- especially in a non-emergency situation, you pretty much agree to the rules of the hospital. It sounds to me like Kennedy experienced what is commonly known as a "nutty episode". I wonder if that doctor was with him to try to calm him down.
The child belongs to the family, not the nurses, hospital, or the state.
Im more interested in knowing exactly why he couldnt take his child in the first place.Hospitals now refuse to let you take your newborn unless you allow them to administer immunizations.Many peeople think these contribute to autism.Is that the possible reason?Kennedys have never been my favorite people but I want to know more before condeming him.
I'm not sure about the immunization thing. We have a 1 year old grandson and he wasn't given immunizations before leaving the hospital.
I think overall it was very odd behavior. Who takes an infant for 'fresh air' at 2 days old in the winter? And to not hold the baby properly so you can attack someone? There's a lot here I don't understand.
44 Years old. This must be the kid born after the assassination. He's probably really screwed up in the head
The hospital didn't want to release us with our third child because we didn't have an infant carrier carseat. We had a convertible carseat that was already strapped in the car. They said policy was that she had to be strapped into her carrier carseat and placed on my lap in the wheelchair to be wheeled out to the car.
I told them I wasn't going to send my husband out to buy a carrier seat just so I could follow their policy and that I was leaving whether they discharged us or not. I carried my baby in my arms out to the car and put her in the carseat. It was ridiculous!
"This was all because the nonAmerican nurse(s) were incompetent."
They used to import nurses from the Phillipines because they could hire them cheaper. Now they hire them from India because they speak better English than the previous imports.
Some hospitals do require the immunizations. Our current pediatrician is opposed to them, so her patients are given a pass. Sometimes the hospital tries to buck the physician. Our pediatrician was told by another parent that she (the other parent) obtained a copy of the hospital bill and that the hospital billed insurance for the hospital administering the immunizations even though they had not given them. Our pediatrician was spittin' about that one and urged us to check our bill though it had been a year since our youngest was born.
They did escort me out when I got pale and face-planted the floor. But if you've ever watched that process... Sheesh. I'm feeling faint just thinking about it.
Been there. ping to my post 24.
We had a Filipino nurse for our oldest son's birth. She named him. She was wonderful. She had been here for 20+ years by that time.
So Dr. Hayduke says he's known the Kennedy over forty
years and the guy is 44 years old. Known him since
he was knee high to an oldsmobile.
Why would anybody want to take a 2 day old baby outside in January??? I don' think Reporters and cameras are allowed on the maternity wards. PHOTO-OPs in the Lobby, good press????
Why would anybody want to take a 2 day old baby outside in January? Really? We took our 2 day old baby HOME from the hospital in January. She was born in January. At the time, that was policy. Two days in the hospital, and you're outta there unless there's something wrong. AND then they made us come back because she had jaundice. Do you know how many times we had to take her out? In January? I'm sure she was scarred for life!
I think it would have been more effective to tell hospital staff that "I'd like to take our baby home than I'd like to take him out for a breath of fresh air."
When was the last time anyone heard of a father entering a maternity ward, removing a newborn from its bassinet....and attempting to take it out into the elements, shoving and pushing the medical personnel all the while.
The nurse's natural instinct was to reach out to protect that tiny infant against what to her was the unknown....weird and reckless behavior on the part of a man who for all she knew could have been drunk....or even in the throes of some kind of domestic fight or retaliation situation.
There's more going on here than meets the eye. Seeing that it involves a Kennedy, it can't be anything good.
Poor bebeh.
The assassination was in June of '68, so a child born after that would still be 43. Not that the reporter couldn't have gotten the age wrong, of course.
He has not figured out that "smart" people of socialist institutions own his child yet. Uncle Teddy would be so proud...of the nurses.
The doctor is siding with him against the hospital staff. Lawyers galore.
How many drinks did he have before he went to the hospital?
Entitlement + Inebriation = Really Really Dumb S**t
It is February here in NY, did he even attempt to dress the child appropriately? Or did he just walk in in a typical drunken Kennedy stupor and do whatever he wanted?
For those of you defending his "right to his child", if he's shaking an infants neck and kicking nurses and falling down with a new born and then attempts to run away, he shouldn't be taking that child anywhere, somethings wrong with him.
The Kennedys do suck, but how can anyone here believe that the hospital staff have the right to tell a father he can't have his own baby? I would do more than just kick a nurse who tried to do that to me, and he/she would deserve it. For God's sake, is everyone in this country ready to surrender themselves to their slave masters so easily?
I'm with you. It's his child; the wife seemed agreeable with it as well. Did you see the part where it claimed that the baby's head was violently shaken during all this? I find the story a bit incredible.
First it was the social security number that was mandatory in a hospital; now it's immunizations. The nazification of the U.S.A. and health care system is almost complete.
The only child born after RFK's death was Rory, a girl.
Douglas was 2 in 1968.
RFK Jr. has been very active campaigning against vaccines.
Im with the Kennedy guy on this. The hospital doesn't own that kid. Give their best advice,, and if he ignores it based on better advice, (say from a doctor),, document it in the chart.
Nurses went beyond their role.
a dem getting persnickety over big govt telling him what's best for the health and welfare of his family?
oh the irony...
Maybe you should read the whole story instead of becoming hysterical like these nurses did.
Sounds to me like they're going to attempt to sue the deep pockets here.
He isn't bad for a Kennedy, in that regard.
"By voluntarily entering a hospital- especially in a non-emergency situation, you pretty much agree to the rules of the hospital. "
NO,, you are buying a service. You can refuse to continue their service at any time. The hospital acquires no special superior rights,, and the hold no say over the parents choices about the child. If a parent is presenting a dire physical danger to the child,,, they could physically intervene, the same as ANYONE could. But a father deciding to stroll outside, carrying hs new child, in the company of his family doctor,,ain't it.
That doctor is also a family friend, and apparently the attending physician.
"It sounds like he might have been drunk."
It does, dear, it does.
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Johnny Sasaki, nicknamed Akiba by his comrades in Rat Patrol Team 01, was a U.S. Army soldier, and sometimes mercenary, who participated in the Shadow Moses Incident, the Big Shell Incident and, more prominently, the events of the Guns of the Patriots Incident. His grandfather, also named Johnny, was encountered by Naked Snake during Operation Snake Eater.
During the Guns of the Patriots Incident, his entire body was often covered with wearable computers. Using a wrist-mounted keyboard and a goggle monitor, he specialized in scouting, patrolling, record keeping, data analysis, explosives, and traps. He became proficient in these areas in an attempt to match the skills of his nanomachine-enhanced teammates, though he would later admit that he never came close to doing so. Johnny suffered from irritable bowel syndrome and, due to his lack of nanomachines, also consumed local water without normal nanomachine filtration. This caused his diarrhea and cramps to become particularly bad during missions, although he seemed to blame the bouts of diarrhea on trying to hold up good-looking women during a mission.
Despite his poor hand-to-hand skills and generally hapless behavior, Johnny exhibited excellent firearms proficiency when he finally engaged in a gunfight with Liquid Ocelot's FROG troops (an earlier incident with the safety left on notwithstanding).
Early career
Circa 2004, Johnny joined the U.S. military.[1]
Shadow Moses Incident
- Main article: Shadow Moses Incident
During the Shadow Moses Incident, Johnny was one of the Genome Soldiers that took part in Liquid Snake's revolt. He was the guard assigned to watch the DARPA Chief and Meryl Silverburgh's cells, during Solid Snake's first infiltration of the facility. Upon seeing Meryl for the first time, Johnny immediately fell in love with her.[2] Later, while in the bathroom, Johnny complained to himself about a cold he had caught and how much he hated Alaska, before commenting on how "built" Meryl was.[3] After hearing Meryl banging on her cell door, Johnny opened it and was immediately knocked unconscious and stripped of his clothes, which Meryl intended to use as a disguise. His Codec was also stolen by Meryl, which later ended up broken when Meryl blew her cover.
After acquiring some more clothes, Johnny was later assigned to guard Solid Snake's cell in the medical room, after the latter was captured by Sniper Wolf. He only opened the cell for Snake whenever Revolver Ocelot requested that he be brought to him for further interrogation. While guarding the cell, Johnny periodically complained about his cold, which he was still suffering from despite having taken medicine,[4][5] and also took frequent bathroom breaks due to his diarrhea. Despite his feelings towards Meryl, he was angered that she had earlier stolen his uniform, referring to her as a "witch."[6] Johnny was later fooled by Snake, when the latter played dead by lying down in a puddle of ketchup, resembling blood. After unlocking the cell to investigate, he was subsequently knocked out again.
The Manhattan Incident
- See also: Tanker Incident and the Big Shell Incident
Unlike the surviving Genome Soldiers who had participated in the rebellion, Johnny somehow managed to avoid being detained at Pease AFB in the aftermath of the Shadow Moses Incident and eventually joined the Gurlukovich Mercenaries. He participated in the takeover of the Big Shell, though he continued to suffer from stomach problems. During a bathroom break in the Shell 1 Core, he briefly talked about his time in Alaska and how much his commanding officer, Olga Gurlukovich, reminded him of Meryl. He also mentioned that "things really started to hit the skids" and "up to that point, [he] was steady cruising on the elite course." Finally, he commented that the "Russian crew [was] a pretty decent bunch", how much "the President's escort guys" annoyed him, and that he just had to hang in there. His monologue ended with him realizing that there was no toilet paper.
Johnny later ran into Emma Emmerich while she was crossing the Strut L Oil Fence. Although he was assigned to watch out for intruders, he lowered his gun when he saw that she was an unarmed woman. Johnny then reflected on the danger of associating with beautiful women during a mission, referring to his past experience with Meryl at Shadow Moses. He told Emma that it would cause diarrhea, right before being hit with a bout. Johnny was then forced to release Emma and run off to find the bathroom, with Emma commenting, "what a weird guy."
Guns of the Patriots Incident
- See also: Liquid Sun, Solid Sun, Third Sun, Twin Suns, Old Sun, and Naked Sin/Naked Son
After the Big Shell Incident, Johnny somehow returned to the U.S. military, despite his checkered history, and joined Meryl's Rat Patrol Team 01,[7] with his teammates calling him by the nickname Akiba due to his love of Tokyo's world famous Akihabara electronics district. The guns he carried were ID guns under the SOP System that he modified into non-ID guns using rare parts acquired through secret channels in Akihabara.[8] During Rat Patrol's undercover PMC investigation in the Middle East in 2014, Akiba hid within a drum barrel, presumably to scout the current situation of the area for Rat Patrol, but he ended up being hit with a bout of diarrhea, and was forced to blow his cover to release his bowels, drawing a Middle Eastern militia soldier to his location and having to run away with his pants partially up. This also inadvertently saved Solid Snake the trouble of hiding from the same militia soldier. He had a brief run-in with Snake, whom he didn't recognize, and attempted to hold him up at gunpoint. However, he kept the safety on apparently due to negligence. When Snake pointed this out and accused him of being a rookie, Johnny denied this and stated that he was a "ten year vet." However, despite his training, Johnny was ultimately unsure as to whether he did leave it on and tried to check, thus resulting in Snake easily disarming Johnny and then holding him up instead, causing Snake to question how he had even survived for ten years. Johnny accidentally attracted a large battalion of FROGS by the reflection of his binoculars. The Rat Patrol and Snake did battle with the FROGS, and Johnny, in typical Sasaki fashion, lost control of his bowels during the battle. After Liquid Ocelot shut off the SOP system present in all active soldiers (PMCs and Rat Patrol alike), Johnny was the only soldier on the battlefield who was not affected. After Snake collapsed in the middle of the warzone, Johnny was able to locate him and drag him to safety.
Snake reconvened with the Rat Patrol in Eastern Europe on his mission to locate Big Mama, with Johnny excitedly greeting Snake before being knocked down by his comrade, and Snake irritably questioning what is wrong with him. Later, Rat Patrol led an army attempting to stop Liquid from escaping with the stolen body of Big Boss. Liquid shut off the SOP system once again, causing the entire U.S. military to fall to shambles. Johnny saved Meryl from drowning after she was knocked into the river, and for the first time, he removed his balaclava and sunglasses to perform CPR on her. After waking up from her near death experience, Meryl was surprised but relieved, as she shared a passionate kiss with him.
After a mission briefing on the USS Missouri, Johnny, along with Meryl and Snake, were launched by catapults onto Liquid's massive warship, Outer Haven. Johnny missed his mark and fell into the ocean. He somehow managed to board the ship and appeared with a Barrett M82-A2 (which he had gotten from Drebin) and his XM8 Compact, saving Meryl and Snake from a troop of FROGS. Johnny was then attacked by Screaming Mantis and knocked unconscious, but Mantis was unable to control him using her Psycho Mantis doll due to his lack of nanomachines; he had skipped out on all mandatory injections of nanomachines because of his fear of needles. Snake defeated Screaming Mantis and left Johnny and Meryl to hold off the relentless waves of FROGS.During their massive fire fight with the FROGS, Johnny revealed to Meryl that he had joined the unit to get close to her, because he had been in love with her since the day that he laid eyes on her on Shadow Moses. Eventually, he proposed to Meryl, while in the heat of battle. At first she rejected him, but Johnny persisted by asking her if they just moved in or that it didn't have to be official. After fending off more FROGS, Meryl decided that she wanted to do things "her way" and demanded Johnny to marry her. Johnny was briefly stunned but accepted saying that it would be a pleasure. They eliminated a few more FROGS then shared a kiss and continued with fighting the countless waves of FROGS. Towards the end of the battle, things were looking grim. Both of them suffered countless gunshot wounds. The FROGS were closing in to deal their finishing strike. Luckily, Snake and Otacon had successfully deactivated the remainder SOP just in time, causing the FROGS to seize up and faint. After the mission had succeeded, and the two of them had healed up, Johnny and Meryl married with fellow Rat Patrol members Ed and Jonathan serving as the priest and best man, respectively.
Johnny's nickname "Akiba" refers to the Akihabara district of Tokyo filled with stores selling electronics, manga, anime merchandise, and other products designed to appeal to the otaku subculture. "Akibakei" is Japanese slang similar in meaning to "otaku."
Unconfirmed history
The following information has been detailed in official Konami-licensed media, written by various external authors. Its status in the Metal Gear canon is unconfirmed.[?] |
Prior to FOXHOUND's revolt on Shadow Moses Island, Johnny served as the head computer technician on the base.[9]
Behind the scenes
Metal Gear Solid, Integral, and The Twin Snakes
Johnny is a recurring comic relief character who first appears as an enemy guard in Metal Gear Solid. Johnny's character is never named in-game and is listed only in the end credits as Johnny Sasaki. His surname comes from the game's character model designer, Hideki Sasaki. According to the developers' commentary in Metal Gear Solid: Integral, Sasaki was known among the staff for his slackoff behavior and the character was included in the game as an in-joke.[10] This surname was only used in the first two Metal Gear Solid games and never actually mentioned in-game. Metal Gear Solid 4 simply refers to the character as "Johnny."
Whenever Johnny is rendered unconscious in Metal Gear Solid, his body always falls to the floor in the same position; face down with his rear in the air. In the Japanese version, Johnny is shown wearing just his boxer shorts after having his uniform stolen by Meryl, whereas the English version (and the Nintendo GameCube remake The Twin Snakes) has him completely naked, with his private parts censored by a blur. The PC port, based on Metal Gear Solid: Integral, and a flashback in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, show him in his boxers. Johnny's character also features as a suspect in the lineup of "Mystery" Level 6 in Integral, in which his tendency to humorously fall in the same aforementioned position when knocked unconscious, can be used to identify him from the other soldiers.[11]
Following the torture sequence in Metal Gear Solid, Johnny can be tricked into unlocking Snake's cell, by either using the Ketchup provided by Otacon, or by hiding under the bed before he returns from the bathroom, though these methods will only work if Johnny has not seen them during a previous failed escape attempt. If Gray Fox ends up cutting down the door, Johnny will immediately run out of the bathroom to confront Snake, though unlike the other attempts, he cannot lock the player back in the cell since the door is damaged.
The player then has three options in dealing with Johnny after escaping the cell:
- The player can knock him unconscious.
- The player can kill him by breaking his neck (non-canon).
- The player can ignore him, resulting in Johnny attempting to give chase, but rushing to the bathroom soon afterwards due to more stomach pains.
Note that if attempting to confront Johnny directly in either of the first two instances, he is significantly more difficult to defeat compared to the other Genome Soldiers.
In the remake The Twin Snakes, Johnny has a dog tag, although the player can't actually procure it from him. Instead, they have to take it from Meryl while she is still disguised as Johnny in the Nuclear Warhead Storage building's first basement. In the sequence after Meryl knocks Johnny out; if the player attempts to shoot the unconscious Johnny, the camera will turn away from from him and thus prevent him from being killed.
The June 2009 issue of Game Informer ranked Johnny #7 in their list of the top 10 most pathetic enemies, based on his appearance in Metal Gear Solid.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Johnny returns for a pair of voice-over cameos in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In an early version of the story, his full name was to be Johnny Sasaki-Slater and he originally had a minor role in the main plot in which his character, a Patriot spy, would die from a pacemaker malfunction after coming in contact with Raiden. The scene was retained in the final version, but Richard Ames took said place.[12]
In Metal Gear Solid 2, Johnny does not make a physical appearance, though the player can listen to his conversations on two occasions. During Raiden's talk with Ames, where he uses the directional microphone to listen in on Solidus and Ocelot's conversation, if the player points the mic at the bathroom door in the corner, he can hear Johnny talking to himself whilst on the toilet. Later, Johnny can be found during Raiden's sniper trial at the bottom of the Big Shell's Struts. When guarding Emma's advance with sniper fire, using the directional microphone while she is behind the second strut will trigger a conversation. In addition, he does have a brief cameo in the Instruction Manga included in the instruction manual, where he was among the soldiers patrolling the USS Discovery, with Snake quickly tranquilizing him with his M9 and aiming for his head. After he passes out, Snake pondered if it was Johnny due to his sleeping position, referring to how he was knocked out in Metal Gear Solid.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
In Metal Gear Solid 4, Johnny's face is revealed for the first time in the series. Concept art indicated that he, like Meryl, was to have originally worn a regular military cap, albeit sideways. During the battle in Advent Palace, Johnny will give Old Snake some ammo if he starts to run low. If Johnny dies, images of his past, including those from Shadow Moses, will flash on-screen, instead of Snake's. In addition, when Snake first encounters Johnny in Act 1, pressing the X button will result in flashbacks to when Meryl held up Snake when he walked out of the DARPA Chief's cell.
Johnny's grandfather, the Soviet jail guard who befriends Naked Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, was originally planned to make a cameo in the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4 as a guest attending his grandson's wedding with Meryl. This would've been the first time in the series that Johnny and his grandfather ever appeared together, but the elderly Johnny's cameo was scrapped and only the concept art was published.[13]
Johnny was also a playable character in Metal Gear Online, and had the M82A2 along with the XM8 Compact as his exclusive weapons. He was unlockable via the GENE expansion, and his skills included displaying all traps on the current map if playing as him and disarming traps and simultaneously turning them into useful items via pressing the Triangle button, and after he killed a certain amount of players he would lose control of his bowels causing a green gas cloud to form behind him, causing every character around him to start coughing. In addition, his eyewear could also be unlocked in the Rewards shop of Metal Gear Online. If he was tranquilized, he'd sometimes say "Pass me...the TP...please?", alluding to his bowel problems.
Game Informer ranked Johnny #7 in their list of the top 10 dorks of 2008.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Johnny's bowel problems are given a brief reference in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, where a random Militaires Sans Frontières soldier will say "Ohhh... my stomach..." on their profile on Mother Base's soldier menu. Additionally, Johnny's likeness is also used for character portraits assigned to random MSF recruits.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Johnny has a voice only cameo in the extra op Déjà Vu. When passing by several port-a-johns near Camp Omega, groans will be heard coming from one of them, alluding to Johnny's diarrhea problems, and Kazuhira Miller will call the player telling him to leave him be as he has his own problems.[14] Calling Miller will have him reiterate his earlier statement to the player,[15][16] as well as briefly wonder if he's Johnny Sasaki before dismissing the thought.[17] In addition, one of the questions on the hard mode post-mission quiz involves what Johnny was wearing when Meryl knocked him out and stole his uniform in the English version (or rather, what was covering him).
Versus Battle
Johnny Sasaki also appeared in Versus Battle.
Skilled Sharpshooter When it Counts
IBS, Usually Klutzy, Not Always Dressed
Unenhanced with nanomachines unlike his Rat Patrol teammates, Johnny nevertheless became a versatile scout, sniper, data, & explosives expert
METAL GEAR SOLID: THE LEGACY COLLECTION" - ―Johnny Sasaki's bio on Versus Battle
- Metal Gear Solid (The Twin Snakes)
- Metal Gear Solid: Integral (VR Missions; non-canon)
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (voice and Instruction Manga)
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (indirectly mentioned)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (mentioned and voice [Déjà Vu mission]; non-canon)
Notes and references
- ^ Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Kojima Productions (2008).
Solid Snake: You haven't even taken the safety off, rookie. // Johnny (Akiba): Careful, I'm no rookie! I'm a 10-year vet!
This exchange occurred in 2014, during Snake's infiltration of Advent Palace in the Middle East. - ^ Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Kojima Productions (2008).
Johnny (Akiba): Meryl... I've always loved you. Ever since Shadow Moses, when I first laid eyes on you. - ^ Metal Gear Solid, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (1998).
Johnny Sasaki: ...Caught a damned cold. I hate Alaska. Boy oh boy that woman [Meryl Silverburgh] is built all right.
This cutscene is unlocked if the player makes a left turn, after entering the air ducts of the Tank Hangar's B1 floor, and looks down a vent. - ^ Metal Gear Solid, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (1998).
Solid Snake: Is there any cold medicine on this base? // Otacon: What's wrong, Snake? You caught a cold? I think there's some in the commander's room. [...] I gave directions to another soldier [Johnny] who had caught a cold. // Snake: Well it looks like he gave the cold to me. - ^ Metal Gear Solid, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (1998).
Genome Soldier (Johnny): That cold medicine knocked me out ...and it doesn't even work! - ^ Metal Gear Solid, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (1998).
Johnny Sasaki: Hachooh!!! Damn! ...I caught a cold... That witch! She took my clothes! - ^ http://mgsdb.com/en/enc/48/2
- ^ http://mgsdb.com/en/enc/484/2
- ^ Metal Gear Solid by Raymond Benson, Del Rey Books (2008).
"I'll live. Is that idiot guard out there?" "Johnny? He used to be the head computer technician here at Shadow Moses. I guess the terrorists brainwashed him or something to work for them." - ^ Metal Gear Solid: Integral (Japanese version), Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (1999).
- ^ YouTube video "MGS VR SPECIAL MISSION 06" [1]
- ^ Metal Gear Solid 2 Grand Game Plan, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (1999).
- ^ Metal Gear Solid 4: Master Art Works, page 176.
- ^ Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Kojima Productions (2014).
Kazuhira Miller: Someone's in the outhouse... Some soldier with stomach trouble? I think he's gonna be a while. Better leave him alone. - ^ Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Kojima Productions (2014).
Kazuhira Miller: I'd say he's having a tough time in there. - ^ Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Kojima Productions (2014).
Kazuhira Miller: Better leave him alone. - ^ Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Kojima Productions (2014).
Kazuhira Miller: Is that... Johnny? ... No, forget I said anything.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty characters |
Solid Snake — Otacon — Revolver Ocelot — Sergei Gurlukovich Olga Gurlukovich — Scott Dolph — Liquid Ocelot — Mei Ling — Colonel Raiden — Vamp — Fortune Fatman — Peter Stillman — Richard Ames — Solidus Snake Cyborg Ninja — Rosemary — Emma Emmerich — James Johnson — Johnny Sasaki |
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots characters |
Old Snake — Otacon — Raiden — Naomi Hunter — Big Mama Liquid Ocelot — Vamp — Drebin — Little Gray — Solidus Snake Roy Campbell — Sunny — Rosemary — Mei Ling — Little John Meryl Silverburgh — Ed — Jonathan — Johnny Laughing Octopus — Raging Raven — Crying Wolf — Screaming Mantis Psycho Mantis — Zero — Big Boss |


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Shameful death; No honour, No glory
A heroic death like his fathers
Survives to continue serving the Horde
Survives to do his own thing
hope he kills uss all and starts a new horde full of sha orcs and takes over the world
In comparison Grom indeed had some realizing about his mistakes, still Grom's mistakes were a bit different. I don't know if Grom would look at Garrosh with shame OR proud about the fact that his son has been able to turn the Horde in a powerful war-machine of conquest and domination without the "slave-factor", in fact without the orcs bargaining or "lowering" their heads with no great big bad for the power they now possess.
Last edited by Zulkhan; 2013-06-19 at 10:27 PM.
Let him go, considering he's a victim in all this. A victim of shitty, out of character writing and character assassination.
Kill Thrall instead.
"I'm a Beaststalker, Giantstalker, Dragonstalker, Cryptstalker, Demonstalker, Riftstalker, Gronnstalker, Scourgestalker, Windrunner, I'm a pwning leet skilled hunter" - I'm a Hunter
Goes super Sha mode completely wrecking Org in the process, kills almost everyone including our raid and a bunch of major lore characters (Thrall, Varian etc), walks off into the sunset to do his own thing.
Someone saves/resurrects the players obviously but he made his point.
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Garrosh's fate could be after he's beaten near to death, he's taken to a hidden location (gnomeregan) strapped to a chair, a gnomish device keeps his eyelibs open all the time well several gnomes dilate his pupils.. and then he's forced to watch a troll in central park, over and over and over and over.


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On a dynojet this M3 posted a baseline of 347 wheel horsepower on 93 octane fuel. At a mild 6.7 psi of boost from the supercharger on that same pump 93 octane with an aftermarket exhaust system output rose to a peak of 553.78 wheel horsepower. Basic arithmetic gives us a gain of 206 horsepower at the wheels. That is well over 600 horsepower at the crank. Repeatable, every day, bolt on performance for your M3. Not to mention an absolutely beautiful torque curve.
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Other amenities include over 100 golf courses and some country-and-western themed museums and entertainment, making Myrtle Beach an emerging Branson. People also come to the area to shop, and a large new mall and outlet mall anchor a diverse shopping scene. The springtime Canadian-American Days festival (or "Can-Am") draws thousands from north of the U.S. border. The vast majority of employment is tied to the tourist, entertainment and retail industries.
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Glad you got back in. I noticed slow operation from a modem line at home, but it is flying from a direct internet connection at work. How were you reaching the site? If it is slow, I will make another move. I've already informed the host that I will not stay with a slow connection and have only agreed to month to month this time around. Keep me informed. |
I am running from home via modem. I have not noticed it being any slower than the previous host.
That's a relief Bob. I have noticed some slow times, but then switched to NetZero (the free ISP) from CompuServe to see if there was a difference. BIG difference - the NetZero stuff was fast, Compuserve s-l-o-w.
In any case, Customer Service followed up on my phone call with an offer to do a packet trace analysis for me. That's good service! I couldn't even get the other guys to reply, and they don't even do email - only the service request form on their members page. Just looked on the service page. If you have continued slow response, send me the ISP IP# and they will do a trace route for us. Also, there are hooks to all kinds of goodies that I will plug in over time. FlyTalk will include chat, free-for-all link page which allows anybody to put their favorite links up on it. That's just the start, I am on a pretty feature-rich eCommerce package in case we want to do a volume discount buying thing later. The best is yet to come! |
Juro and Bob: the slow page loading was from work (direct ethernet connection). I don't even want to think what it would be like from home. Things seem to have normalized now. I'll keep you posted if I detect trouble.
Funning thing right after my last post, things did seem to slow down a bit. But again right now all seems fine.
Looking forward to trying to break some new stuff. |
The new host is service-oriented and their heart is in the right place. Let's hope their networks are too.
We should all focus on content for the rest of the site where possible. I will be putting a follow-up thread and guest book on each topic page to make it more interesting to visit each "room". I invited a larger group to get more feedback and to light a fire under my butt. Any contributions from your experts would be appreciated. We have anonymous ftp, BTW. |
Also, there will be a lot of good stuff cheap coming soon in the publicmarket page.
Bob - OK if I post the discount rod list from BNTC? I think I have a copy from Cher. |
I will email you the updated spread sheet.
It's excel and and the workbook has multiple worksheets containing up to the minute rod inventory. There is one sheet titled Rep Rods. That is the one you can post although there are no prices, but the can be added. |
Well, it all seems to work OK from Australia. No speed or sign-in/log-on problems.
Looks great, I'll spread the word downunder. Regards, Ken |
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Great to hear from you! You are living proof that the web extends the reach of flyfishing freindship as far as the earth's diameter! I have a fabulous scan of fishing out on Brewster Flats... I'll post it tomorrow. Keep in touch, looking forward to tales from down under. Let's do a story about "walkabout fly-fishing" or "flies down under" http://184.108.40.206/images/flytalk/Wilk.gif Talk soon, Juro |
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The explosion that heavily damaged a Tewksbury residence Tuesday night was the result of an illegal lab where someone was using butane to extract THC from marijuana, according to the Tewksbury Fire Department.
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Hazel said that "the buildup of butane vapors within the apartment came in contact with an ignition source and an explosion ensued. The process was being performed on and around an electric stove within the apartment.''
THC, the acronym for tetrahydrocannabinol, is the active constituent of marijuana.
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Finally getting max6 going with the model object.. all good.. working as expected.. but thought matrixoutput was fixed in 6.05 update.. re posts.. but still when matrixoutput is on object disappears.. same thing with gridshape.. have tried Day nine (gen patch a day) with my models.. works except when matrixoutput on there is no animation from model.. thoughts? question I guess is.. can you use model and animations with matrix output.. to for example manipulate geometry with shaders or gen .. was able to do a bit in 4&5 by animating with instances of .obj models.. thanks for all..
actually remember I did not use shaders to manipulate geometry with the.obj models ( was always told not supported).. .. that however is some of what I was hoping would be doable in Max 6 with the dae object files ( and perhaps gen).. as I would like to have a way to break up the solid look of the imagery from time to time..
matrixoutput does not support animations. if you want to manipulate the geometry of an animated model, vertex shaders are the only option.
Thanks Rob.. sorry to hear that.. it is what I suspected.. are there any workarounds.. My experience with the vertex shaders is that although I can manipulate the geometry the texturing with movies and live video on the model, as I have been doing stops working.. I could try again with the dae models but doubt will be different.. any ideas? also any news about jit.gl.ogre for 6 .. I have been making patches in 5 that are finally fairly successful.. but want to move forward.. really appreciate all you do..
vertex shaders should not break texture shaders.
if you want me to take a look (although i'm by no stretch a shader expert), post up a model with shaders and a simple patch and i'll see what i can see.
the ogre external is still max 5 only for the time being. sorry about that.
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I wasn´t sure about attacking the penguins but then I seen them gang up on a Beefolo creature. It actually worked out pretty good for me since I was able to pick up some Beefallo wool and make my 1st winter hat. I had been getting by with just the rabbit earmuffs and a heat stone.Now armed with mighty razor.
Any advice for those fire hounds? I was battling them in my camp and the whole place went up in fire. I got distracted by everything going up in flames and they killed me.
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With the hounds I typically draw them to the nearest buffalo herd and wait for them to fight each other.
Another good idea is to place tooth traps around the perimeter of your base. Hopefully your base isn't too far from some buffalo or a pig village. Pigs will handle the hounds very easily for you.
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May I suggest drawing them to the nearest tentacle monsters (that didn't sit quite right in my head, lol)
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Just got killed around day 150 by some giant works while spelunking! Had no chance!!!
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I've seen guys streaming on "live from PlayStation" that are at almost 600 days!
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You have to be very meticulous to survive in this game. The two main reasons I die in this game: being too greedy or being panic stricken (point in case returning from a long spelunking underground and finding a giant spider by the entrance with me holding my last torch).
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This game is so brutal. I figured I was playing it over and over anyway, so now I have two saves at the Maxwell gate, all kinds of things scattered around, including bee bombs in case of a surprise hound attack. Both saves are at the beginning of the day, with full stomach, heart and brain. If you die on the next set of quests through the Maxwell gate, you just come back to the Maxwell gate. Also, if you are about to die, then hit the PS button really fast before dying, which starts the autosave, it appears you get kicked out to PDM but the game is actually in pause. Just tap the PS button and you will be at this pause screen which has a quit and save. This can get you back to a previous autosave point of that level beyond the Maxwell gate, not all the way back. Penguin eggs can be stolen when they are on the ice pond, and they won't chase you if you do it quick. The eggs don't give a lot of health, even the turkey doesn't give that much health back, especially after chasing it for awhile. I am stuck by the obelisks now and it probably takes making a machine to get by those. Probably going to stop playing this with all the games nearing release. Crazy how far some guys are getting, they are true survivalists.
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Yeah I saw a stream of a guy at day 606 or something. He got bored and made a new character and changed the settings to "Lights Out" which generates a world where it is only night, and last time I watched his stream he was around day 130.
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Last week, with the crash and burn of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:GMCR), investors witnessed how advance knowledge of insider transactions in a stock can be a tip-off for avoiding a large loss, or even provide an opportunity to prosper by trading in the same direction as the insiders.
Insider transactions are made public to level the playing field for all investors — and to prevent insiders from cashing in on upcoming major company announcements. Many of the largest financial websites, such as Yahoo, carry this information routinely.
Given the GMCR debacle, it pays to keep on the lookout for other such potential red flags. So, let's look at two well known companies in which insiders have recently been selling in abundance, just like GMCR insiders were five weeks ago. Unfortunately for those long these stocks, these two companies could find themselves suffering a similar fate, perhaps not to the same extent or as dramatically as Green Mountain, but in the same direction.
Selling Goes HOG Wild
The first stock is Harley-Davidson (NYSE:HOG), the Milwaukee-based company that's the world's leading manufacturer of heavyweight motorcycles and parts. As you can see from the table below, HOG has done very well over the last six months, "driving" its stock up from around $34 to yesterday's close of $53.01.
But are the insiders content to just let their profits "ride" for awhile longer? In a warning to HOG investors, the answer is no. Here's a closer look at the recent insider selling.
On May 1,2012, four different company insiders sold $819,552 of HOG stock at prices ranging from $52.30 to $53.72. The sales were:
Insider, Title | Price Sold | No. of Shares Sold | Total Value |
PAUL JONES, Officer | $52.30 | 10,435 | $545,750 |
SARA LEVINSON, Director | $53.72 | 1,800 | $96,696 |
BARRY ALLEN, Director | $53.25 | 1,800 | $94,320 |
MARK KORNETZKE, Other | $53.33 | 1,582 | $82,786 |
Totals | 15,617 | $819,552 |
But this was chump change, compared to just a few days earlier, when five other company insiders sold approximately $2.6 million worth of HOG:
Insider, Title | Price Sold | No. of Shares | Total Value |
TONIT CALAWAY, Officer | $52.84 | 17,555 | $927,606 |
JOANNE BISCHMANN, Officer | $53.02 | 16,086 | $852,879 |
JOHN BAKER, Officer | $52.82 | 7,555 | $927,606 |
JOHN OLIN, Officer | $53.18 | 5,000 | $265,900 |
MATTHEW LEVATICH, Officer | $52.84 | 3,314 | $175,111 |
Totals | 49,746 | $2,633,016 |
The combined total of all nine insiders was a hefty $3.4 million worth of stock.
The accompanying chart shows the run-up in price of HOG over the past six months. However, you can also see from the relative strength indicator and stochastic oscillators that the stock's momentum has begun to weaken. Declining momentum, along with insider selling, is a huge red flag going forward.
Remember that selling by one corporate insider is meaningless, but when a large group of insiders begins to sell (especially within one or two months of an earnings report), that's much more significant.
Also, these were not automatic, timed sales, but rather discretionary sales on the open market. Since most insiders are well aware of the current valuation of their stock by historical standards, large sales by multiple insiders should be seen as a red flag.
Setting Up for a Drop at Dunkin?
The second stock where recent heavy insider selling took place is Dunkin Brands Group (NASDAQ:DNKN), the operators of the well known Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins stores. In fact, much insider selling has been going on at DNKN since February, but it really accelerated in April.
Director Jon L. Luther initiated the selling near the beginning of the month with over $15.5 million worth of shares, and the other officers followed suit near the end of the month.
Insider, Title | Price Sold | No. of Shares Sold | Total Value |
JON L. LUTHER, Director | $28.47 | 546,646 | $15,563,011 |
PAUL E. TWOHIG, Officer | $32.44 | 21,407 | $694,443 |
KAREN RASKOPF, Officer | $32.35 | 10,250 | $331,587 |
RICHARD J. EMMIT, Officer | $33.19 | 4,486 | $148,890 |
Totals | 582,789 | $16,737,931 |
Interestingly, the chart of DNKN is very similar to HOG's. Like Harley, Dunkin has also run up since December, and it too shows a weakening of the oscillators from overbought levels.
When an overbought stock with weakening technical indicators shows insider sales, alarm bells should go off in the minds of investors. The best course of action for those who are long these stocks is to tighten stops or consider buying protective puts. Investors who aren't long may choose to short the stock, buy puts of six weeks or longer, or simply wait for the inevitable pullback.
So before you go "HOG wild" in buying shares of any stock, always consider the recent activity among the insiders, and make sure you're trading on the same side as them!