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|2013-03-04, 17:35
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2nd origin is plot armor. It was heavily implied that 2nd origin made you powerful passively as stated by gray, lucy, natsu about how they feel stronger and wasn't an activated boost. Erza didn't feel any pain because she Ultear said she already had her second origin(aka she was already crazy strong before hand and didn't need to be powered up.) Basically this opened up in the coming battles for every character who got 2nd origin to go super sayain whenever they want.
Anyways back for the tourney. Someone brought up a good point that Sting takes out juvia, gray, laxus, and gajeel with erza all that is left. Before he takes Erza out he sees lector with milliana and Erza takes him out with FT winning by 1 point.
|2013-03-04, 20:52
|Link #10742
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
...or even if Fairy Tail does win, they are disqualified as a whole for some of their guild members fighting against the Kingdom, which gives SaberTooth the runner-up 'victory'... And a blow to their ego, knowing that they only 'won' on a technicality. Eat that, Minerva.
And as for the entire 2nd Origin...it would be plot armor if only Fairy Tail members had it, but everyone has a 2nd Origin. Whether they use it or not, or if they can or not, that's up to the individual. Yes, Ultear did bring it out of the Fairy Tail gang, but seriously, it's more akin to plot hax than plot armor...
|2013-03-05, 02:18
|Link #10743
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anyway, Elfman and Cana weren't part of FT's merged team so they didn't do anything new
|2013-03-05, 09:22
|Link #10744
Plot armor is when a character is protected from dying due to random, unforeseen circumstances. Second Origin was clearly laid out in earlier chapters, and it was explained that Erza was part of that. This is what we, in Storytelling 101, like to call "Chekov's Gun."
What does Mashima have to do? Rip the second origin chapter out of the volume and beat you over the head with it? If Erza has plot armor, then every good guy in every series, ever, has plot armor. Just because you know the main characters aren't really going to die. Your attempt to recast the definition, would make the term lose all significance.
|2013-03-05, 10:52
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Join Date: May 2012
Age: 40
well this is really tiresome but looks likes some peoples are reading the wrong manga because read just to complain is being some sort of...
about train in FT:
- first FT is not a martial arts, like naruto or DBZ, this means who "traning" is something not really needed or is something off screen right, if you want chapters and chapters of boring traning to see "sweat bodys" and things like that read "MARTIAL ARTS" mangas (specially seinen), FT is like SAO, like Accel World, like Ao no Exorcist where training is something foreshadow.
- makarov already stated who for mages the "training" is doe jobs the best way to a mage become more strong is just keep working, put himself in more risk than just wasting time fighting a dummy
- Real mages rpg "dont train" they "learn" their powers by spending time looking/reading sources of power (like magic books, scrolls) their are more like levi than natsu or laxus
- just because naruto, maybe OP have training this don't means who FT must follow the same pattern
ps: damn i need a break then i gonna finish what i want say late.
|2013-03-05, 11:09
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Arcadia Bay.
Age: 25
I don't get why people are finding it so hard to accept that Erza's second origin doesn't sit right with some fans/readers/whatever.
I have no problem with Erza owning almost every one of her opponents - I stated my reason earlier. But I can see where people who are complaining that this feels like a hax. I mean, why is her second origin an active skill when it was implied (or I thought it was) that it was a passive power boost.
Erza is, for all purposes, as much a lead character in FT as Natsu, if not more. So, things like this powerup are gonna happen. Doesn't mean that it won't seem lame or not look like an ass-pull to some people.
|2013-03-05, 11:40
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Join Date: May 2012
Age: 40
now about nakama powers, feelings and bla bla bla, makarov again already explained about this, "FEELINGS" is something very important for mages, is like their motivation, u having only "pure power" is something good but only power is not enought, in FT verse Feelings(love, hate, anger and others like in green lantern) have the role of boost the power like a fuel( imagine who the power is a engineer and feelings a special fuel like nitro who make the car/bike run much more faster and strong, then if you relly on power then u are not using your "real full power", the only way to you use you true ability is driving your power trough the feelings doents matter what feelings if love, anger, hate, avarice, what matter is you convictions in this
then like others peoples said just because natsu or erza "throw some random speechs about friendship, this not "nakama power" the only time nakama power appeared was erza agains azuma while she used the tenrou arc agains azuma this was nakama power, just speak loud random speechs about friends is not a power up but their release their true power throughtthe "anger"(for the enemy) and love(for friend, family and lover interest).
again makaravo in the little anime arc of daphine makarov clear explained who natstu true power come from his "anger" like "hulk" due to him being a "fire(red)dragonslayer"(who in rpg have a chaotic nature) his true powers appear when he become more anger) this means who most of natsu victorys gonna be aways trough his anger a good exemple on the movie the guy owned natsu many times while he not was enough motivated(angered), when finally after natsu see how crazy the guy was by making the peoples on the city goes in fear and suffer, making eclair suffer and specially LUCY suffer(through eclair suffer) then his anger started to boil and increase his power to him be able to overpower the guy.
the heroes aways wins, this a very classic clich in 80 to 90% of shounens and even in western magazines like batman or superman, why no one complain how overpower batman is for a "normal human"
again for FT tags:
comedy(here is missing comedy)/fantasy/adventure/drama/action/shounen
dont have "tragedy or martial or fighting" then this means who you dont gonna see bad things happen, how many times is needed to say who mashima was clear about the ft theme before start to write:
bonds, family, friendship, heros wins, no tragedy, much more light than his previous RM work who received many bad critics about have too much drama and tragedy.
"but this is not logical" who feelings, bonds, friends, family aways are need for you wins"; you're just being a dumbass indeed shounens manga tend to overdo it however it is still partly true, if not for you then fine you dont have true friends or a good family, for me this partly work, i have true friends and good family who aways helped me when i needed and their are very important for me and aways supported me, if for you this is a "crap" then you like to be "forever alone".
second origin is not a "plot armor" was just a funny way to avoid make one or more bore chapters with training, then was more practice make a funny chapter(the celestial world party) then troll the team in the end for the sake of comedy and after this give then a compensation for the joke who is the second origin.
and finally complain for something who is part of the work since from the beginner and was clear stated by the writer is at minimum being "immature"(not to speak idiocy)
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|2013-03-05, 12:41
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What had people upset, is that they thought they knew how something worked, and they weren't entirely correct. So it is a hate of being incorrect. Erza fooled you, me, Minerva, everyone. To fool your enemies, you must first fool your friends. We should have known something was different with Erza when she didn't writhe in pain during the unlocking.
Would I have handled it differently? Yes. But we were given Chekov's gun. I suppose you don't have to like these valid storytelling techniques, but there is nothing inherently wrong with them. So you might try to understand why the rest of us aren't blowing a gasket.
|2013-03-05, 13:34
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We all might as well not have an opinion if it always has to be on only the positive* side of the scale.
* or for some series, the negative side
|2013-03-05, 13:49
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|2013-03-05, 16:19
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The thing is though, I GUARANTEE that natsu or anybody else who got second origin is going to use it to use it in the upcoming fights as a power up making them bland. It seemed a lot cooler to use it as a passive boost so there was no asspulls but I guess that is too much to ask from shoen manga.
|2013-03-05, 16:51
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Join Date: Feb 2009
But like I said, that won't be happening. Erza's the only one that's been holding back on using it. Her releasing it doesn't mean it's active thing that needs to be turned on like Lightning-Fire mode. Her releasing it is ultimately no different than the way Laxus turned out to have been holding back against Natsu during the Festival arc. Nor is she likely to have cause to hold back in the future.
|2013-03-05, 17:11
|Link #10754
As for criticism, see my title. Criticism is good... but only if it is valid. As I said above, I am critical of the FT movie (not so much of the plot itself, but of the execution in several areas), so don't think I simply give FT a pass on everything.
You wanted people to understand why they disliked Erza activating her second origin like that... we do understand. We just didn't find it to be a major issue. At best, it is minor. So now try to understand where we are coming from: There was nothing technically wrong or bad about what happened. We were given sufficient foreshadowing that Erza was different than the others, where second origin was concerned. Erza is more of a "smart" fighter than the others, so it is understandable that she would deliberately hold back, using only enough power to do what she needs to do. Especially when she knows she's dealing with a crafty individual like Menerva.
Also, this also addresses fan complaints over Kagura being able to match Erza. So we silenced criticism on one angle, only to have fans complain the other way: Mashima can't win. But that's understandable because you can't please everyone all of the time.
So I can understand an opinion disliking the way something happened. But disliking it for following valid storytelling rules is not the right way to go about it. Just say you didn't like it, and leave it at that. I didn't like how short the Laxus/Jura fight was, and wished it had been a bit longer, but I suppose they'll add to it in the anime. I get the sense they are pushing Mashima to get to the end of the arc so they can animate it.
|2013-03-05, 17:13
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...like I said...
|2013-03-05, 23:08
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^The way you put it sounds very cool and entertaining.
However, the way Mashima handles things makes it look horrible even though it is exactly the same thing.
Mashima doesn't seem to know how to properly build things without making them glare at you.
In all honesty a lot of problems I mentioned could've been not problems if Mashima did things differently.
The way you've put it I can see a massive potential with something extremely entertaining. However, what I've actually seen so far was a ruined version of what could be great.
In other words most of the minuses I mentioned could actually be pluses if things were done just a bit differently.
Lately Mashima tends to make everything 10 times worse than it should. That is my biggest complaint.
FT is gradually turning into SAO for me aka lots of lost potential.
|2013-03-06, 08:31
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As I said before, you can't please everyone. But you can please most, and judging by this forum, there are only 1 or 2 people who don't like it. The majority are fine with it. So I guess Mashima has proven why FT is so popular, because he is making something that most like. Glad he isn't listening to the incredibly small minority.
|2013-03-06, 10:02
|Link #10758
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Ugh, did kitten really compare us in a round-about way to the Twilight-ers...? ... And it's usually not a majority, it's just a very vocal minority that stirs up stuff like Twilight with endless hype. Not even gonna go to the whole 'Bronie' thing either...
Going back to it, Mashima can only do so much within the couple of pages he has to do per week. No all the scenes he wants to put in can fit. That's where the anime comes in, to fill in gaps where needed but we know where that's heading... There are some things that have to be left to the readers to figure out or to just draw their own conclusions. At the very least, he's not as 'fly-by-seat-of-pants' like Kubo is ... thank goodness for small miracles.
It's just a different perspective on something - I can go through and make my own 'improvements' onto Fairy Tail but I know others won't like it, saying stuff like, 'oh that's just shounen logic copout to explaining what really happened,' when all I'm doing is just letting the readers form their own ideas. It's boring and tedious to tell something to a person in exact detail (well to me it is), I'd rather let you form your own ideas, even if they are 'wrong' with what I had initially thought. Sure, Mashima could have done some things better, but that's only from our perspective. There's nothing saying that Mashima thinks that his every chapter is the greatest thing he's ever drawn or story lines were resloved perfectly. It's hard to both write and draw your own story, especially large ones - can get lost very easily. Hell, even when I brainstorm for more than 15 minutes, I get lost...
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|2013-03-06, 11:43
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|2013-03-06, 15:32
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Who here is really looking forward to how the story develops? Who here loves this manga, the characters, the action, the humor, and the plot?
Who here thinks Fairy Tail is awesome? Or at least pretty damn awesome?
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A Gallery of Kitchen Tours Best of 2008
Here is a look back at our kitchen tours from 2008.
- Devesh and Tara's Spice Pantry - Beautiful photos and great spice storage solutions.
- Dutch's Renovation Done Right - Walk through a renovation of a tiny New York City kitchen.
- At Home in Paris with David Lebovitz - A visit with a favorite cookbook author and blogger in Paris. (Check out his repurposed Champagne bucket.)
- Swedish Kitchen Tour: Chez Larsson - A light, bright, Swedish kitchen.
- Joanne Weir's Live/Work Laboratory - Another tour from a popular cookbook author, this time in San Francisco. A working fireplace and a beautiful copper pot collection!
- A Visit With Bento Expert Biggie of Lunch In a Box - Bento heaven!
- Robert and Elizabeth's Soulful Sterling Place - A vintage beauty in Brooklyn, equipped with quirky antiques.
- Ragdale House Travels Through Time - A lovingly maintained historic site, now a retreat for artists.
- A Tour of London's Bookshop Café Books for Cooks - A bookshop for cookbook lovers in London, with a marvelous little kitchen.
- Eric Gower's Breakaway Kitchen with Annex - Author and chef Eric Gower's little San Francisco kitchen.
- Eric Haeberli of We Love Jam - Eric makes the apricot jam we adore. Here's his gleaming home kitchen where the magic happens!
- Dan Kluger's Brooklyn "Real Chef" Kitchen - How does a real chef cook at home? Pizza and giant rolls of plastic wrap turn up in this tour.
- Alli's Vintage Hacienda - A vintage kitchen in Los Angeles with a big, beautiful stove and some creative wine storage ideas in the dining room.
- A Lovely 'Before' from Rena and Derek - A new favorite from San Francisco. A small, easy renovation with beautiful results.

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JERUSALEM – Israeli police say an American-Israeli prisoner killed in a shootout with prison guards had fired a weapon that was smuggled into jail.
Police initially said that inmate Samuel Sheinbein stole a gun from one of his guards before special forces shot him dead Sunday. But police spokeswoman Luba Samri said Monday the inmate apparently smuggled the gun into jail. She said the matter was being investigated.
Sheinbein, who was 34, fled from the U.S. to Israel after murdering and dismembering a Maryland man in 1997. His case sparked a high-profile row between the allies after he received refuge from extradition.
It is unclear how Sheinbein obtained the weapon. Israeli media reported he recently was caught trying to steal a weapon on a prison furlough.


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Arch VServer
This article aims to provide all necessary information regarding the creation of a vserver host as well as vserver guests running Arch Linux. This will enable you to setup virtual servers that provide different services as if they were on different machines, with a very little overhead. You can get more information about virtual servers here.
- 1 Preparing the Host
- 2 Paths of Interest
- 3 Preparing the Guests
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 Tips & Trick
- 6 More Resources
Preparing the Host
To prepare the vserver host environment, you will need to install both a vserver patched kernel, the vserver utilities and their dependencies which are located in the AUR. The required packages are dietlibcAUR, beecryptAUR, kernel26-vserverAUR (not found or linux-vserverAUR orphan), and util-vserverAUR
Paths of Interest
/etc/vservers : configuration root ( reference )
- /etc/vservers/.defaults : configuration skeleton used when building new guests
- /etc/vservers/.defaults/vdirbase : symlink to the folder containing vserver guests. This defaults to /vservers.
- /etc/vservers/<guest name> : guest specific configurations
Preparing the Guests
Vserver will launch guests from subfolders of /etc/vservers/.defaults/vdirbase. As such, creating a new guest system is as simple as installing the required packages in a folder of the host. Furthermore, there's nothing stopping you ( and quite a few things encouraging you ) to mount filesystems to the subfolders of vdirbase and installing your guest in there.
If you plan on doing this often, I highly recommend that you write yourself a little batch script since most of these steps can be automated quite easily.
Preparing the guest installation media
NOTE : This is all heavily inspired from Install From Existing Linux and will therefore be quite brief when not mentioning Vserver specific steps.
Optional: Base variables to follow along with the steps
GuestName= # Name of the guest GuestRoot=/etc/vservers/.defaults/vdirbase/$GuestName GuestPackages= # Listing of packages to install via pacman GuestDisk= # Installation target device GuestNetDevice= # ex.: eth0, dummy0, etc... GuestIP= # I think you get it GuestContext= # Unique identifier for the guest, I go with the last part of the IP
Optional: Preparing the guest disk
- Create a LVM Physical Volume, a Volume Group and a Logical Volume ( wiki:LVM )
- Create a filesystem on the lvm volume
- mkdir $GuestRoot
- mount /dev/$GuestDisk $GuestRoot
Optional: Link the host and guest pacman cache
- mkdir $GuestRoot/var/cache/pacman/pkg
- mount -o bind /var/cache/pacman/pkg $GuestRoot/var/cache/pacman/pkg
Prepare Vserver
- vserver $GuestName -m skeleton --context $GuestContext --interface $GuestNetDevice:$GuestIP --flags lock,virt_mem,virt_uptime,virt_cpu,virt_load,sched_hard,hide_netif --initstyle plain
- (optional) cd /etc/vservers/$GuestName/interfaces
- (optional) cp -r 0 1
- (optional) echo 'lo' > dev
- (optional) echo '127.0.0.$GuestContext' > ip
Prepare the guest's filesystem
- Prepare guest filesystem for the pacman db
- mkdir -p /newarch/var/lib/pacman
Install the base system
NOTE : To save some time, it's probably a good idea to create a text file containing all the packages to install and call it via "pacman -S `cat $GuestPackages` -r $GuestRoot" instead of the following :
- pacman -S base -r $GuestRoot
- Optional: If you want to chroot into the newly created guest so as to install new packages, it might be a good idea to mount a few filesystems required by some packages.
- Bind /dev, /proc, /sys to the corresponding directories in $GuestRoot
- Modify guest configuration files to enable a smoother boot process
- Modify /etc/rc.shutdown by removing anything hardware/clock/mount related. This includes most everything under Saving Random Seed'.
- Modify /etc/rc.sysinit by anything hardware/clock/mount related.
- Modify /etc/syslog-ng.conf by removing file("/proc/kmsg")
Viewing output from vserver $GuestName start / stop
NOTE : For me, this only worked in the actual consoles, not in X.
- Make sure that the device /dev/console exists in the guest
- If it does not, cp -a /dev/console $GuestRoot/dev/
SSH will not start
I noticed that /dev/null did not always get created properly in my first experimentations. Therefore I did a quick :
- cp -a /dev/null $GuestRoot/dev
- cp -a /dev/zero $GuestRoot/dev
Furthermore, if you're not using the dummy network driver and are attaching to the host's network interface, you'll want to configure the ListenAddress statement of /etc/ssh/sshd_config so that it binds only to the guest's IP address as opposed to 127.0.0.1.
SSH immediately terminates the connection
On my machine, SSH used to authenticate me correctly and log me in, but then immediately drop the connection without an explanation. Consulting /var/log/auth.log revealed the following:
sshd[17899]: pam_limits(sshd:session): Could not set limit for 'nice': Operation not permitted
This is easily fixed by commenting all nice related lines in /etc/security/limits.conf.
Tips & Trick
Network via dummy adapters
Here, you're either using the dummy module to create virtual network adapters or created interface aliases via /usr/sbin/ip. I went for the former and configured the host as such :
- /etc/sysctl.conf : net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
Modify or add that statement to enable routing on the host
- /etc/rc.local
modprobe dummy numdummies=$NumberOfGuests
ip link set dev dummy$GuestContext name $GuestName
This provides me with dummy interfaces that I can route / firewall that are all named the same as my guests... yay.
More Resources
Problematic Programs
Make BSD style init SYSV compatible
Vserver tutorial
linux-vserver.org's Installation on ArchLinux
linux-verserver.org's networking tutorial


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California veteran's charity that supplies arts and crafts to hospitalized servicemen and women agreed Friday to pay $2.45 million and purge its leadership to settle a lawsuit filed by the state alleging misuse of funds.
State Attorney General Kamala Harris filed the suit in Riverside County last year after Legislative hearings suggested leaders of the Temecula-based Help Hospitalized Veterans were paying executives too much and spending donated funds on golf membership, a condominium and other items, with little or no benefit to the charity's one function of assisting hospitalized veterans.
Harris said the estate of former group President Roger Chapin will pay back the charity $2 million in excessive salary he collected over several years. Chapin died in August.
In addition, a company that insured officers and directors also agreed to pay the charity $450,000.
Furthermore, Harris said the current president, Michael Lynch, and four board members will step down and all have agreed to be banned from ever serving a charity again in an executive capacity.
Lynch didn't return phone calls Friday.
"Veterans face many challenges when they return home — it's unconscionable that Help Hospitalized Veterans officials misused charitable money intended for those who served and have sacrificed for our country," Harris said.
Harris must also approve of all new board of director candidates.
The charity, commonly known as HHV, was launched in 1971 to serve hospitalized Vietnam War veterans.
Lawyers for the charity said they were gratified that the attorney general found fault mostly with Chapin rather than the organization itself.
"The attorney general's complaint and the subsequent litigation damaged HHV's ability to help veterans," lawyer Hugh Quinn said, adding that the charity was now focused on returning to its mission of helping veterans who are patients.
"As long as there's a need, HHV will be there and we're looking forward to reconnecting with veterans and their families and our supporters so that our work continues," he said.


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phydeaux Wrote:Does anyone that actually cares to compile my code feel either way about including these extra libraries? Again, in my opinion it's kind of a pain in the butt to get it to work without them, but 30 megs is also a pain in the butt to download.
My opinion would be that it's worth the extra download size to be able to build your program out-of-the-box. 30 MB does seem like a bit much, but if someone needs to download all of those files anyway to build your program, why not just include them? Downloading them all from different places doesn't make the file sizes any smaller. The only possible benefit I see of not including them is if someone without much bandwidth is interested only in looking at your code, and not building it into a working application.
A possible solution would be to provide two separate downloads: One with everything required to build the program, and one with only the bare minimum.
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sealfin Wrote:Okay, I've prep'd Water Tower 3D; I've uploaded the game plus a short log noting any changes I've made to a temporary sub-domain here; if Carlos and ThemsAllTook can check if what I've done for this source is okay, I'll start on the other sources.
Looks good for the most part. One small oddity: In my shell script build phase, I copy the application bundle to ../Build. Since you've removed this directory, it creates a directory called "Build" there, but rather than copying the bundle into it, it copies the bundle's contents into it. Not quite the desired behavior...
Copying the bundle into that directory doesn't really make sense for the distribution, though. The last part of the shell script probably should just be deleted, changing it to:
mkdir ./build/Water\ Tower\ 3D.app/Contents/Frameworks
cp -R ./Frameworks/OpenAL.framework ./build/Water\ Tower\ 3D.app/Contents/Frameworks/
if test -d ./build/Water\ Tower\ 3D.app/Contents/Resources;
then rm -rf ./build/Water\ Tower\ 3D.app/Contents/Resources;
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sealfin Wrote:Oh, and congrats to ThemsAllTook for coding the first of the no. of projects I tried which compiled out of the box
Thanks. I took special care to make sure it would build out-of-the-box without any trouble. Glad my efforts have paid off.
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had it up a long time ago... was just holding out on you guys
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Sealfin, playables and source code are going to be stored on our new highbandwidth network. It requires me to FTP them myself. So, I will visit your site and upload them to our new network. Just to make sure, the code license (ie MIT License) and the uDevGames readme should be added to all packages. I'd also like for you to include a webloc (link) to the udevgames.com and idevgames.com
Also, I would like for all code to use the same method of compression. There was a thread here where someone did tests to find the optimal compression system. Let's standardize on that, OK?
Anything else we should do for prepping that would be good for our site, contest, and downloader?
p.s. At some point Sealfin, please send me a list of the code broken down my API/IDE.
Also, I would like for all code to use the same method of compression. There was a thread here where someone did tests to find the optimal compression system. Let's standardize on that, OK?
Anything else we should do for prepping that would be good for our site, contest, and downloader?
p.s. At some point Sealfin, please send me a list of the code broken down my API/IDE.
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sealfin Wrote:I've already downloaded the CodeWarrior project you posted (I've dl'd everything posted to this thread so far), but haven't had a look inside it yet (still waiting for the guidelines from Carlos, Johan, whoever...) but an Xcode project would be so much easier; I'll wait for that (and the guidelines) before I try to prep itI've finished the Xcode project for Rescue. You can download it here (3.8MB). It should build straight out of the box, all being well!
If you're using Safari you might need to tell it to save the link to disk because my server isn't co-operating with my attempts to define the .tbz MIME type.
I have removed the CodeWarrior project because I'm a bit short of web space at the moment. If anyone wants it, please ask!
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Carlos, could you email me the URLs the entrants provided to their source code when they entered the contest..? I'm still working through prepping the code (which is perversely being held up by the few SDL projects, the API I should be most a home with ) and have prep'ed all but three of the sources I've got (yes, I'm slow), but I'm missing nearly a third of the sources as I can't find the links.
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Diagramming Sarah
Can Palin's sentences stand up to a grammarian?
There are plenty of people out there—not only English teachers but also amateur language buffs like me—who believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator. The more the diagram is forced to wander around the page, loop back on itself, and generally stretch its capabilities, the more it reveals that the mind that created the sentence is either a richly educated one—with a Proustian grasp of language that pushes the limits of expression—or such an impoverished one that it can produce only hot air, baloney, and twaddle.
I found myself considering this paradox once again when confronted with the sentences of Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee. No one but a Republican denial specialist could argue with the fact that Sarah Palin's recent TV appearances have scaled the heights of inanity. The sentences she uttered in interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and Katie Couric seem to twitter all over the place like mourning doves frightened at the feeder. Which left me wondering: What can we learn from diagramming them?
One thing we can't learn, of course, is whether her words are true or make sense. Part of the appeal of diagramming is the fact that just about any sentence can be diagrammed, even when it is gibberish. Cats chase mice and Mice chase cats present the same kind of entity to the diagrammer. So does Muffins bludgeon bookcases. If it's a string of words containing a certain number of parts of speech arranged in reasonably coherent order, it can be hacked and beaten into a diagram.
Once we start diagramming political sentences, the diagram's indifference to meaning can be especially striking. Stirring words like "I have a dream," the magisterial Declaration of Independence (a staple of diagramming teachers), bald-faced lies ("I am not a crook"), and crafty shadings of the truth ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman") can be diagrammed with equal ease. But some politicians—our current president included—offer meanderings in the higher realms of drivel that leave the diagrammer groping for the Tylenol ("Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream") or the gin bottle ("I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office").
So let's take a crack at a few of Palin's doozies. From the Katie Couric interview:
It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where—where do they go?
A diagrammer doesn't care about who "they" are in that last stuttered question or fuss over the problem of the head-rearing Putin coming into our "air space." A diagrammer simply diagrams. I didn't have a clue about what to do with the question that ends it. Otherwise, in its mice chase cats way, the sentence is perfectly diagrammable.
Other Palinisms are not so tractable. From the Charlie Gibson interview:
I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.
I didn't stop to marvel at the mad thrusting of that pet political watchword "families" into the text. I just rolled up my sleeves and attempted to bring order out of the chaos:
I had to give up. This sentence is not for diagramming lightweights. If there's anyone out there who can kick this sucker into line, I'd be delighted to hear from you. To me, it's not English—it's a collection of words strung together to elicit a reaction, floating ands and prepositional phrases ("with that vote of the American people") be damned. It requires not a diagram but a selection of push buttons.
Granted, diagramming usually deals with written English. We don't expect speech to reach the heights of eloquence or even lucidity that the written word is capable of. In our world, politicians don't do much writing: Their preferred communication is the canned speech. But they're also forced, from time to time, to answer questions, and their answers often resemble the rambling nonsense, obfuscation, and grammatical insanity that many of us would produce when put on the spot.
Yet surely, more than most of us, politicians need to be able to think on their feet, to have a brain that works quickly and rationally under pressure. Do we really want to be led by someone who, when asked a straightforward question, flails around like an undergraduate who stayed up all night boozing instead of studying for the exam?
In a few short weeks, Sarah Palin has produced enough poppycock to keep parsers and diagrammers busy for a long time. In the end, though, out of her mass of verbiage in the Sean Hannity interview, Palin did manage to emit a perfectly lucid diagram-ready statement that sums up, albeit modestly, not the state of the economy that she was (more or less) talking about but the quality of her thinking:


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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Chicken Mole Torta (Mexican Chicken Sloppy Joes)
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- Velva said...
Looks delicious! I have just recently starting to discover mole. My first attempt was using a slow cooker which is perfect for making dishes with mole-
This sandwich rocks.
- May 19, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- FOODalogue said...
That's a mighty tasty looking sandwich. I can just imagine it with all the layers of flavor. I, too, recently made a batch of mole and said to myself "why don't I do this more often?" Fortunately, I made a batch and have pulled out little containers from the freezer to flavor additional dishes.
- May 19, 2012 at 4:34 PM
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I saw an interesting ingredient in your dish. Chili and chocolate? This got me curious. Looks delicious! =)
- May 20, 2012 at 8:51 AM
- MYSAVIOR said...
I LOVE Jeff's show and he is a funny guy. Anything can be a great sandwich and I saw this episode - Yours looks DELISH!!
- May 20, 2012 at 12:28 PM
- Karen said...
It's been a long time since I've had mole. Lots of ingredients to this one. The sandwich looks just yummy! That's a great idea about freezing the chipotles... they are so difficult to chop right out of the can.
- May 20, 2012 at 2:21 PM
- Kate said...
Chicken mole has long been on my list of dishes to make! I love that you made it. Thanks!!
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- Joanne said...
I would say the fact htat you happened to turn on the food network at exactly that time was fate! A mole torta sounds fantastic to me. I love mole however I can get it!
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- Fashion Meets Food said...
What a unique recipe! I have never seen/heard about anything like this before, but sounds amazing. Definitely saving this recipe! xo
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Wow! I can feel my cravings for this sandwich awakening just by looking at these pictures. So glad to have found your blog--and I saw in your About Me that you are a fellow central coastie! :) Great recipes!
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A Geophysicist's View of the 'Rigidity' and 'Ductility' of Human Communities and the Earth
When the geophysicist Xavier Le Pichon was 36, he had a "major crisis" in his life. As his scientific research consumed his time and energy, he found himself alienated from others in the world. He "was not seeing the people in difficulty and suffering," he said, and that led him to resign his academic positions and stop conducting his research. He went to Calcutta, India, "to Mother Teresa's place" and spent six weeks working with people in a home for dying destitutes.
In "Ecce Homo," Dr. Le Pichon writes of the foundational experience:
"How old is the small boy lying on the pallet? Five, eight, ten? Misery and suffering are ageless. Emaciated, coiled up like a fetus, all his life has taken refuge in his eyes, immense eyes that look at me without any blink. He was picked up in the street two weeks ago. The sister thinks that he will soon die. 'Try to give him something to eat.'
This is the only task that I can fill in this home for dying destitutes of mother Teresa of Calcutta. With my children, I have learned how to spoon feed a baby. From the motions of the lips, of the tongue, I detect when it is possible to delicately introduce a tiny bit of food in the mouth. The infants are so fragile that the only food they can accept is one that is given with tenderness. The proximity of death has brought back this child to his infancy.
In the position he has taken, lying on his side, it is not easy to get the grains of rice in his mouth. He would like to help in order to please me. But he does not have this strength any more. The grains of rice fall on the napkin that I have spread below his chin. Small windows through the upper part of the walls diffuse a peaceful translucent light that envelops the rows of bodies from which groans are rising. The street noise that comes from the outside strangely appears to come from far away. Yet this peace islet is in the heart of one of the most life teeming quarters of Calcutta. Above the child, against a pillar, a statue of the Virgin Mary is presiding over the exchange between the child and me, exchange that penetrates in the deepest part of my heart.
Who is this child that the tidal wave of human misery has deposited among the dozens of other 'dying destitutes,' as announced on the board at the entrance: 'Home for dying destitutes.' Why did I have to travel over ten thousand kilometers to meet him so that he would completely reorient my life?
Suffering has suddenly swept my soul: it has washed away everything in me. How so much suffering that I had not even noticed could be present next to me? As I had been standing on the crest of the advancing wave of our scientific and technologic civilization, I did not even glance at the debris left over by its flow. I was looking ahead. And suddenly, among the debris of my civilization, this child becomes for me a person, the most important person in my life.
'My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?' In the eyes of this child, it is Jesus on his cross, in the mystery of his abandonment, who reveals himself to me. I never felt him to be so close. Jesus alive, taking upon himself the pain of the whole world, revealing to me that I had abandoned him. 'For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Mary, his mother, is there, also present. I now understand why she is always there, next to the cross. How is it possible without her to live this suffering without revolt? The peace that comes from this child, in the middle of his pain, I know that it comes from the presence of Mary.'"
After encountering that child in Calcutta in 1973, he realized life as he had lived it would be different:
"I could not go back to my lab and continue to live as before. The "Poor" had knocked at my door. I had opened it. He had entered and was now with me forever. Borrowing the words of Isaiah, I had recognized in this child my own flesh and I could not escape any more. I did not know his name and yet he had given me a new name that I had been expecting for years. Within his suffering, my new friend had a mysterious power of presence that had enlightened my own self. In exchange for the small amount of love that I had been manifesting in my own poor way, I had received the gift of the Spirit of God who was dwelling in him. Through this gift I had been confirmed in the depth of my living being, that is of my loving being, who needs presence and who needs at the same time to give himself and to be received fully within a unique relationship."
Dr. Le Pichon then returned to France and consulted with Father Thomas Philippe. He encouraged him to come live in the L'Arche community, and share his life with suffering people. But the wise priest and friend also urged Dr. Le Pichon to continue his work as a geophysicist. Pursuing these dual passions of science and spiritual community, Xavier Le Pichon continued to ponder the implications of the fragility that marks human life at its beginning, its end, and at places in between.
During the decades Xavier Le Pichon spent working on his scientific theories explaining plate tectonics, he's come to see the analogies between the "rigidity" and what he calls "ductility" of the Earth and human communities he's witnessed from India to France:
"As I knew from my own scientific experience, the weaknesses, the imperfections, the faults facilitate the evolution of a system. A system, which is too perfect, is also too rigid because it does not need to evolve. This is true in politics; it is true within a society, within families, within nature.
A perfectly, smoothly running system, without any default is a close system that can only evolve through a major commotion: the evolution occurs through revolutions. An example from my own geological domain illustrates this very important point: most of the earthquakes occur within the upper fifteen to twenty kilometers of the Earth.
Let us take the example of California. The western portion glides toward the northwest at about four centimeters per year along a major fracture, which is called the San Andreas Fault. Yet during about one hundred years, the two lips of the fault stay in contact and the corresponding four meters of motion are absorbed by elastic deformation over a width of about one hundred kilometers on both sides of the fault.
Then suddenly there is a break: this is the earthquake. The two sides jump back to their equilibrium position with a corresponding quasi-instantaneous relative motion of four meters (100 x 4 cm) of the two lips of the fault. Yet below fifteen to twenty kilometers, instead of these discontinuous, abrupt motions, there is a continuous creep at four centimeters per year without any earthquake. Why? This is because at this depth, the small defaults of the crystals within the rocks have been activated by the increase in temperature and relax the rigidity, allowing a continuous creep to release the plate tectonic forces and thus avoiding the necessity for periodic disasters. Above this depth, on the contrary, the defaults are 'frozen in' because of the colder temperatures. The rocks keep their rigidity until they are fractured, thus producing the earthquake. One moves from rigid and brittle rocks, within the upper layer, to ductile rocks below that can deform in a continuous fashion under the action of tectonic forces.
The same thing is true for all systems that need to evolve. Contrarily to what is often assumed, the weak and imperfect parts are often those that allow the evolution to occur without any revolution. This is true for the evolution of life, which is in great part based on the occurrence of coding errors during the duplication of the genetic information.
One can ask whether it is not also true of our societies. We tend to dissociate the individuals who are well adapted to our social life from those that have difficulties to follow the pace that is imposed on them by our life style. Yet a society that separates the producers from the others considered as dead weight, even as marginal or excluded individuals, is a hard society, characterized by conflicts and often by complete rejection of minorities. It is sad and pessimistic. On the contrary a society where all are well integrated has a much more adaptable structure, with a different, easier and more conciliatory mode of life. It is often happier and more optimistic."


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department said on Thursday the time was not right for Google Inc's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, and New Mexico's former governor, Bill Richardson, to make a planned trip to North Korea.
"We don't think the timing of this is particularly helpful," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters, citing North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket in December, which raised tensions in the region.
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While the Islanders have been a bad team for awhile, they do have a couple of name players worth noting: Former #1 pick John Tavares; former first rounder Kyle Okposo; the impressive Mark Streit; the emerget Matt Moulson.
But one guy you almost never hear about is checking center Frans Nielsen. I know I'd never really given him a second thought until James Mirtle requested I look at his underlying numbers a couple of weeks ago (because his plus/minus was so strangely good). I did and was floored.
Firstly, there's a couple of reasons you've probably never heard of the guy. He was drafted in the third round back in 2002. He's an import from the SEL where he never really put up big numbers. In two and half NHL seasons, his career highs are 10 goals and 24 asissts. There's nothing eye-catching there.
Until you dig under the surface. Nielsen is one of only a few of the Islanders regular skaters in the black in terms of corsi this year (+1.56/60). In fact, only Trent Hunter is ahead of him in that regard. The stat isn't terribly impessive, however, until you realize that Nielsen is the Islanders shut-down center and their primary option against other teams top guns. He sees the toughest level of opposition on the team and starts in the offensive zone just 44% of the time (second worst zone start amongst centers on the club). On top of all that, he scores at a rate of 1.74 ESP/60, which is also fairly healthy. To put that in context, the only Flames currently more efficicent than Nielsen are Hagman, Stajan, Iginla and Bourque.
To have a positive corsi stat in those sorts of circumstances on that team is simply outstanding. In fact, it's Selke-quality work. I had trouble believing the numbers when I saw them, so I contacted Lighthouse Hockey's Dominik to see if the reality matched up with the stats. This is what he had to say about Nielsen:
The numbers do not lie, certainly not in this case.
Nielsen's "hockey smarts" are a joy to watch. He lacks the natural gift of size, but his body positioning and anticipation make him an excellent defensive center. I've been surprised to see him handle bigger opposing centers, but I guess he has a bit of Datsyuk in him, in terms of figuring out how to mitigate size. He actually has a nice bit of offensive skill — good passer, good stickhandler, decent shot, (and I hate to say, a deadly shootout move), but I think his offensive numbers suffer from lesser linemates (Tavares and Josh Bailey get the better goalscoring wingers, while Nielsen draws the tougher assignments and weaker wingers) as well as his nature to prioritize defense first. He also very rarely takes a penalty.
I've been high on him for a few seasons — I keep telling Isles fans he is a hidden gem — so it's been cool to see him slowly get a little more attention this season. The coach has 100% faith in him, which helps, and Snow locked him up two years ago to a long-term, very cheap deal. He's an overlooked example of what Snow has done right.
Indeed. Nielsen won't get the accolades and contracts that (future) scorers like Tavares and Okposo will command, but he'll likely be the guy doing the dirty spade work which helps them achieve those glittering counting numbers. It'll be interesting to see his work this evening.


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The Late Night Tales series of invited-guest's mix-tapes succeeds or fails not just on the compilers' taste, but how they craft a running order of diverse tracks.
Some smart invitees – Trentemoller's spooky collection and Midlake's post-folk theme come to mind – go for an over-arching mood while others – 39 film theme snippets for At the Movies – never identify the plot, let alone lose it.
This excellent left-field nod to subtle hip-hop, soul-funk, disco and tripped-out ambient moods from Britain's 09 Mercury Prize nominees Friendly Fires grasps the concept with assurance and an astute ear for post-midnight horizontal dancing.
They pull together familiar names (although not always familiar songs) such as Renee, Stereolab, Sbtrkt, Cocteau Twins and Slowdive alongside cool cuts by Bibio (the head-nod Don't Summarise My Summer Eyes) and the ethereal One Most Memorable by Sonna with just enough mood changes to keep you from happy slumber.
And Olivia Newton-John understated on Elton John's Love Song.
As always the collection ends with a reading, this time by actor-du-jour Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, War Horse) with Part 1 of Simon Cleary's bleakly funny Flat of Angels.
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Shopping local is about supporting the local economy. A vitalized economy is fed by the spending habits of consumers – enhancing employment, sales tax, property values, salaries and more. To maximize the opportunities for local communities to thrive, local residents must spend their budgeted dollars locally.
The Sycamore Chamber supports the belief that everyone must be a booster for their own community. When a resident shops at his neighborhood store, he is generating jobs for others and sales taxes that build our community. Simply making a decision to buy in your neighborhood can cause a profound change in our economy locally and in our quality of life.
We have a lot of chamber member businesses locally that carry unique items and provide excellent service. We should all make it a point to search out these community gems and help them succeed.
These are the entrepreneurs and families who have put everything into stores that offer what the chains and e-commerce companies don't – something different, something special, genuine friendly service.
The media tend to focus on the Fortune 500 brands everyone knows, but small businesses represent 99 percent of U.S. employers, and they employ about half of the nation's private-sector workforce, according to the latest figures from the federal government.
We can't have a strong economy unless our small businesses are doing well – and right now they need our support more than ever.
According to the National Federation of Independent Business' latest Small-Business Optimism Index, the outlook among small-business owners is still wary. The survey, conducted before the presidential election, found that weak sales are still the No. 1 issue facing small-business owners.
To put it simply, shopping local is a good opportunity for communities to support the establishments that mean so much to our economic well-being.
Small-business owners and their employees know their merchandise and understand their customers. Small-business owners and their employees will do everything they can to keep you satisfied because their livelihoods depend on you coming back.
But beyond all this, there's the value that small businesses bring to the community. Small businesses are usually owned by people who have a vested interest in the community, in its schools, in the quality of life.
That's why we urge you to remember to shop at our small, independent businesses, not only during this holiday season but also on other days of the year.
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L to R: William John Mertena, John Henry Mertena, and Merlene Golda Mertena, c. 1940
Grandma, please feel free to add comments to this post to fill us in with the rest of the details! Love you!
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There was a little white mare on the farm named Rat that I loved. She had the rEPutation of being wild but she let me ride her anyway I wanted, I could not lift a saddle so just pulled my way onto her back by her msne, She probsbly let me dowhatever I wanted because MOTHHER RODE HER WHEN SHGE WAS EXPECTING ME. Grandpa said it was time for me to ride a "proper horse" I said I wanted Rat's next colt but the neighbors fence was down and Rat's next colt was a mule. Tne cutest thing I had ever seen/it was not the proper thing for John Hwnry Mertena's grsnddaughter to ride. He sold it for a good prce,,,,,,,,,,was going to buy me a beautiful ridng horse. I was mad. I always got my way!! the only horse I rode after that was Rat.
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The hour and the stage belong to President Barack Obama.
After basking in the glow from speeches by First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and fired-up delegates, Obama is stepping forward to make his case for a second term. He'll say progress has been slow but tangible, and that he's the one to lead the country to economic recovery.
"We've come too far to turn back now," he's been saying, a theme sure to resonate through Thursday night's acceptance speech.
The two-month road to Nov. 6 will be challenging for both Obama and challenger Mitt Romney, locked for months in a statistical dead heat.
Obama's first hurdle is Friday's August jobs report. With a three-year unemployment rate above 8 percent and recent economic growth below 2 percent, both parties are mindful that no president since the Great Depression has been re-elected with statistics so grim.
Then come three presidential debates beginning Oct. 3. With the race so tight, the debates gain added importance. A strong performance or a slip by either candidate might turn the tide.
Romney shunned the limelight and focused on debate prep this week in Vermont. Obama will soon begin sparring with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., playing Romney's part. Kerry, now the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, has a prominent convention speaking role Thursday expected to challenge Romney's foreign policy.
Vice President Joe Biden, who ceded the traditional day-before vice-presidential slot to Clinton, speaks before Obama. His ability to connect with everyday Americans will be on display.
"He will set the president up nicely," top Obama adviser David Axelrod said.
GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan campaigned in Colorado and California.
Despite present Democratic euphoria, "Don't take anything for granted," Bill Clinton warned in a post-speech fundraising email appeal for Obama.
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USA TODAY Sports' Paul Myerberg counts down to the start of the college football season team by team from No. 128 to No. 1.
The last time Alabama lost a major bowl, it ran off three of the next four national championships, creating a dynasty nearly unmatched in the history of college football. The last time Oklahoma won a major bowl, on the other hand, the Sooners lost at least three games in each of the next two seasons.
In other words: Let's play this thing by ear.
Trevor Knight threw for 348 yards and four scores in OU's victory against Alabama, completing 72.73% of his attempts and creating an under-the-radar national campaign. In every other game, on the other hand, Knight threw for 478 yards and four touchdowns against four interceptions, completing 52.22% of his attempts.
In short: Let's pump the brakes a little bit.
Oklahoma has been nothing if not consistently dominant, owning the Big 12 Conference since its inception unlike any program has owned any league – on or off of the major-conference landscape – for nearly the duration of Bob Stoops' tenure. Yet the Sooners have lost two or more games in every season since 2005, the Sooners' second-longest such streak since Bud Wilkinson stepped on campus in 1947.
Put another way: Let's be cautiously optimistic.
There's something to be said for a single game, just as there's something to be said for our tendency to carve great meaning out of a 60-minute package. Some Alabama players viewed the Sugar Bowl as a "consolation game." Nick Saban told ESPN.com in July. Oklahoma didn't; Oklahoma won. What that means for 2014 remains up for debate.
Here's what's more meaningful: OU returns 22 seniors, eight starters on defense, a five-game starter under center and only the barest sliver of last year's run game; draws Louisiana Tech, Tulsa and Tennessee in September, and this isn't your father's Tennessee; hosts Kansas State and Baylor, its two primary in-conference competitors, along with the annual Dallas-based tilt against Texas; and lost by 29 points to the Bears the last time out.
I'm leaning positive but still not convinced. I think the pieces are here for future success, particularly on offense. But a rough schedule and some in-flux personnel decisions should lead to three losses during the regular season.
In a nutshell: OU closed with the program's happiest three-game stretch in years: Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Alabama. The middle game, in Stillwater, was pure bedlam – and vintage Bedlam. But the year was made in New Orleans, with a victory that served to extinguish the pain and anguish of not just a loss to Texas but a rocky showing at Baylor; the first was miserable, while the second cost the Sooners a conference championship. Those two performances stood out among a season of defensive stinginess, though there were some smoke and mirrors involved with the Sooners' tight-fistedness: OU ranked first in the Big 12 in yards allowed per game but sixth in yards per play, for example, and was among the league's worst in limiting explosive gains. Combine these under-the-radar ailments with off-and-on offensive struggles and you have a team worth more than the sum of its parts, which shines well on Bob Stoops and his staff.
High point: Alabama stands out months later, but let's be honest: Oklahoma State should get the nod.
Low point: Texas and Baylor. Only two options, obviously, but it's hard to gauge where each falls on OU's personalized pain spectrum.
Tidbit: Stoops enters his 16th season at OU as the third-longest-tenured coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Stoops, along with Iowa's Kirk Ferentz, began his turn in 1999; both trail only Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer, who started in 1987, and Troy's Larry Blakeney, who kicked off his tenure in 1991.
Tidbit (winning edition): Oklahoma has posted just 12 losing seasons in its 119-year history, the fewest of any program with roots earlier than 1950. Up next: Notre Dame, Ohio State, Florida State and Texas with 13 losing seasons, Alabama with 14 losing seasons, and Michigan and Penn State with 17 losing seasons.
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Offense: This isn't just Trevor Knight's starting job, his alone after a season of ups and downs, and this isn't just Trevor Knight's offense; it's Trevor Knight's team, period, and with such power comes great responsibility. Let's say one thing with great certainty: If Knight bottles up his performance against Alabama and doles it out against the Sooners' upcoming schedule, this team is going to win the Big 12 and reach the College Football Playoff, while Knight waltzes through Manhattan to collect his Heisman Trophy. The odds of Knight replicating that showing aren't high, obviously, though there's every reason to think he'll provide OU with the sort of consistency sorely lacking for the duration of last season – well, the duration of the regular season, at least.
The ceiling is high. Knight is the most balanced quarterback in the Big 12, given not just his increasingly secure work in the passing game but his ability to move the pocket and chains with his legs. His running skills will be in high demand for an offense lacking trustworthy options in the backfield, as we'll discuss below. It's not about living up to expectations as much as managing expectations: Knight's not an All-American – not yet, and perhaps not ever – but he is an all-conference contender who should, if the puzzle falls into place, throw for in the neighborhood of 3,000 yards, toss 20-plus touchdowns, manage his interceptions and add 600 yards on the ground. There's are many reasons why OU is smack-dab in the middle of the championship conversation, but here's one: Knight is going to do a nice job.
If all five starters remain healthy – likewise with the top three backups – this is the best offensive line in the Big 12. There's that caveat, however, and it's important to remember: Oklahoma's top seven or eight cogs in the rotation are extremely solid, experienced and dependable, but I don't know how far the Sooners can dip into reserve before running out of answers. Let's stay positive and believe the line has no health issues; if so, Knight is going to stay clean, the young receiver corps will have time to operate and the extremely raw backfield ample room to roam. In addition to the three full-time starters back in the fold – Adam Shead at left guard, Daryl Williams at right tackle and Tyrus Thompson at left tackle – center Ty Darlington and right guard Nila Kasitati bring extensive experience to the table; Kasitati made seven starts on the strong side a season ago. As long as the Sooners aren't crippled by injuries, this group is going to get the job done.
While awaiting a ruling on Dorial Green-Beckham's eligibility, OU will move forward with a receiver corps spearheaded by junior Sterling Shepard (51 receptions for 603 yards), the only reliable commodity among a unit long on talent but surprisingly short on proven production. While Shepard's going to deliver – he's an all-conference pick – OU desperately needs assistance from junior Durron Neal (13 for 176), who has yet to near any expectations, and redshirt freshman K.J. Young, the projected starter in the slot. Generally speaking, the Sooners need help from youngsters: Young and true freshman Jordan Smallwood are inside, sophomore Derrick Woods – he of the big grab against Alabama – will be Shepard's backup and rookies Nick Basquine, Dannon Cavil and Jeffery Mead are likely to grab spots in the rotation.
Keep an eye on the tight ends, where Blake Bell is poised to serve as the passing game's most obvious wildcard – and Taylor McNamara, his running mate at the position, a very valuable weapon. If the offseason is any indication, Bell could be one of the great surprises in the Big 12. That might be needed: OU could stand to incorporate its tight ends back into the passing game, something this staff hasn't been able to do since James Hanna's final season in 2011.
Defense: Let's spend a few words praising second-year line coach Jerry Montgomery, who arrived with a touch of fanfare last winter and quickly remade OU's underachieving front into one of the most intimidating in the Big 12. This is why programs make staffing changes on a position level: The hope and prayer is that a newcomer, like a Montgomery, steps into the fold, identifies issues, makes changes and identifies solutions – check, check and check, basically, and the best may yet to come. Along with Montgomery, OU returns the wide majority of last year's strong rotation, creating a scenario where this year's unit makes a similarly impactful stride upon last year's already impressive breakthrough. The line is vintage; the defense as a whole, in fact, might be a classic.
The line will also benefit hugely from the return of tackle Jordan Phillips, who anchored the interior of the Sooners' run defense before suffering a season-ending injury four games into the season. While the defense successfully schemed around Phillips' absence through Big 12 play, his ability to control the point of attack will yield a far stronger down-by-down showing along the front seven. His return also gives OU the flexibility to use Chuka Ndulue inside and out, perhaps moving the senior to the edges in one variation on the 3-4 set. The line's most acclaimed starter is junior end Charles Tapper (49 tackles, 5.5 sacks), a surefire all-conference pick who will bookend the line with the combination of Ndulue, Matt Dimon and D.J. Ward. Add in as many as four solid reserves – counting Quincy Russell, who was a disappointment last fall – and you have the makings of an elite defensive front.
There's enough depth for OU to feel comfortable moving Geneo Grissom (41 tackles, 4.0 sacks) up from end to outside linebacker, giving this defense yet another edge-rushing, havoc-causing weapon on the outside. Let's just play with a hypothetical, if you don't mind: OU puts Grissom, Eric Striker (50 tackles, 6.5 sacks) and Tapper in the same general vicinity on a given passing down, leading various offensive linemen, quarterbacks and coaches to suddenly contract flu-like symptoms. With Grissom in the fold, Striker a potential All-American, sophomore Dominique Alexander (80 tackles) set for a huge step forward, Jordan Evans set for an increased role and JUCO transfer Devonte Bond an impactful addition to the pass rush, OU might have the depth and experience needed to roll without Frank Shannon, who was suspended for the season on Aug. 11. It'll put pressure on Evans to deliver in his spot, but the Sooners can surround the sophomore with some major star power.
Sophomore cornerback Zack Sanchez (46 tackles, 2 interceptions) has, in the span of one year, gone from question mark to sure thing to one of the Big 12's best cornerbacks. His rapid growth makes the specter of replacing Aaron Colvin's impact far less daunting than one could have imagined; Sanchez, though still not at his full potential, is a solid stopper for the Sooners' pass defense. Where the staff goes on the other side will dictate the rest of the secondary: OU could chose senior Julian Wilson, which seems safe, but that'd lead to a hole at nickel back; in turn, that could lead the Sooners to move strong safety Quentin Hayes (75 tackles) to nickel; in turn, that'd leave a few untested underclassmen battling for two open spots along the back end.
Now, nickel back is a huge role in this scheme – OU is essentially a 3-4 defense that leans so heavily on a fifth defensive back as to be a 4-2-5, counting the hybrid outside linebacker, and relies on speed and aggressiveness everywhere outside the three-man front. So you can sense a willingness to roll with the best option opposite of Sanchez, which would be Wilson, and no compunction about shifting Hayes down to nickel back at the expense of using sophomores Ahmad Thomas and Hatari Byrd at safety. At the same time, the unit will have one primary task on its plate: Stop Baylor. Can this group get it done? It might pay to have faith in what Mike Stoops will do with his secondary.
Special teams: Punter Jed Barnett seemed to turn a corner midway through last season, making that position less and less of a concern, and OU has to feel nothing but the most extreme confidence in kicker Michael Hunnicutt's ability to produce at an All-American clip. The looming concern is the return game, which loses a star in Jalen Saunders and a capable option in Roy Finch.
Running back: Joe Mixon won't play for OU as a true freshman, robbing the Sooners of a five-star recruit clearly pegged for a major role in the running game. Josh Heupel and this offense will instead move forward with the least experienced backfield of Stoops' tenure with the program, a heaping mix of youth, talent and utter rawness that stands as the offense's largest question mark. In this case, even slight experience comes in handy: Keith Ford (134 yards) must be viewed as the Sooners' best option thanks to his off-and-on production a season ago, when he flashed terrific ability but struggled with the details of the position – ball security, most notably. He's joined by another sophomore, Alex Ross, who earned a single carry in the opener against Louisiana-Monroe, drew a flag and then spent the rest of his rookie campaign in the doghouse. Another pair of sophomores, David Smith and Daniel Brooks, could take advantage of the wide-open depth chart to move into vastly increased roles; Brooks, the smallest option the roster, seems best fit in a change-of-pace spot. Finally, there's the other rookie: Samaje Perine didn't draw Mixon's acclaim but will be asked to contribute from the start. Oklahoma's lack of backfield experience is concerning.
Baylor: Texas looms, as always, and it's a tone-setting game as the rivalry enters a Mack Brown-less era. But the Big 12 comes down to OU and Baylor, with the Bears traveling to Norman on Nov. 8. Here's the best news of all: OU hosts Kansas State, Baylor and Oklahoma State. You can't ask for a kinder road to the playoff, all things considered.
In a nutshell: The team that beat Alabama will beat every team on this schedule and play its way into the College Football Playoff. Now let's see if Oklahoma can bottle the Sugar Bowl and parcel it out, violently, during the course of the regular season. Here's the question, and it's a big one: What is Oklahoma? Is it the team that weathered Kansas State, shattered Oklahoma State and bullied Alabama? Is it the team that laid an egg against Texas, couldn't sniff Baylor and had issues, for much of the year, with moving the football and stopping the run? It's a new year, yes, but the same issues remain: OU is still searching not just for the perfect game – we've seen that already – but the perfect games.
I doubt this team's ability to be perfect, though I clearly don't question the Sooners' ability to win the Big 12 and challenge for a spot among the top four heading into the postseason. There are four personnel concerns: one, the totally inexperienced backfield; two, the unproven receiver corps, outside of Shepard; three, the return game; and four – and this might be a bit of a stretch – Knight's production at quarterback. The latter, as noted, shouldn't be a major concern. The red flags are those skill players surrounding Knight, and whether or not the youngsters step forward and surround their quarterback with the weapons he needs to be successful at an all-conference clip.
It's all about balance. The offense needs to even out the run and the pass, with Knight perhaps the central figure in both areas. The defense must get tougher from tackle to tackle against the run, a task made easier by Phillips' return from injury. The secondary needs to come together before Baylor, obviously, if not be ready to handle Jake Waters and Kansas State in October. Does this team have what it takes? There's no doubt. But I have my doubts, generally speaking, about whether or not this team truly deserves the preseason acclaim built off a single win in January. The Big 12 championship goes through Baylor.
Dream season: Oklahoma wins every game by two or more scores to earn a spot in the College Football Playoff.
Nightmare season: The Sooners lose to Texas, Kansas State, Baylor and Oklahoma State.
Who's No. 9? The first three letters of this school's primary name – the part that doesn't include university – could double as an acronym for a Middle East campus of a U.S.-based school.


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STEINMANN, Hans G.
As we move through this period of deep sadness, his wife, a large immediate and extended family and a number of loving friends and valued work colleagues deeply mourn the passing into eternal rest by Hans G. Steinmann while at home on February 8, 2014 after a lengthy illness. Throughout his suffering with cancer, Hans endured the illness with the quiet strength, personal perseverance and unfaltering love for his wife of 36 years, Hannelore. Despite the knowledge of his terminal condition, Hans continued to lavish his love and attention on his children and their families. His daughter Heidi and her husband Robert and children Becker and Rylan; sons Gregor and wife Robin and children Bergen and Eric; Lance and wife Lili and children Annaliese and Kaitlyn; and, Kristan and wife Kristen and children Aiden, Hunter and Kaia continued to bring many pleasures into his life. Hans' family, here and in his homeland of Switzerland, brothers Kurt and Heinz and sisters Edith, Isabella and Toni and more than 40 nieces and nephews always enjoyed a long life of sharing mutual pleasures and love. Hans lived a very rich and fulfilling life with many personal and professional achievements that truly marked him as a leader of men and a very successful business in the field of structural engineering for more than 50 years, retiring as the President and principal owner of King, Benioff, Steinmann and King. Although he devoted considerable time and talent to the success of KBSK, Hans also exhibited highly successful leadership skills while participating in the family management of general operations and ski school manager for Holiday Hills resort in Wrightwood, California---where he met, courted and later married Hannelore. Hans' father established Holiday Hills in 1948 and in 1959 relinquished the resort management to his sons Heinz, Kurt and Hans. Although Heinz assumed full operational management in 1962, Hans continued management of the ski school for nearly 30 years until it was sold to a management group that renamed the resort property as Mountain High East. Throughout his management of the ski school, Hans was active and maintained certification in the Professional Ski Instructors of America and the Far West Ski Instructors Association, often presenting seminars and training session for both organizations. Hans also owned and raced a number of thoroughbred horses that competed and won a variety of local track races. In his spare time he focused on golf, recording two lifetime holes-in-one that are documented by the World Golf Hall of Fame. All of these personal and professional achievements were accomplished with the mutual support and undying love of his wife and partner, Hannelore. Hans began his professional development at an early age when he designed the family home in Switzerland at age 13. After reaching age 19, Hans helped his father build a five-story family residence. He then continued to mark his achievements by graduating with a Master's Degree in Structural Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich Switzerland in 1949-one of Europe's most prestigious universities. ETH is well-known for its excellent education, groundbreaking fundamental research and for implementing its results directly into practice. ETH is an important member of the 90-country Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESEAR), a conference of 90 countries. Its successful students come from more than 100 countries of the world. Hans also continued educational endeavors through lifelong learning endeavors at UCLA and USC over a period of more than 40 years, as well as being an active participant in professional organization conferences and workshops. Hans was very proud of his obligatory military service in Switzerland. His success in work endeavors, physical requirements and leadership were evident in his rapid promotion to become one of the youngest military officers of the Swiss Army. Hans served with distinction as a cavalry and artillery officer during his brief military career. After immigrating to the United States, Hans worked for McKeague and Associates in Honolulu, Hawaii and Ammann and Whitney in New York City before joining KBSK in 1954. He was named President and principal owner in 1966. Not only was the firm successful in the construction of many projects with the US Navy; major film studios (Universal, Warner Studios, CBS, Burbank, Columbia and Paramount Studios); banks (Bank of America Headquarters in Los Angeles); churches (Holy Rosary Church in Pacoima, St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Encinitas, and Bethel Lutheran Church in Encino); hospitals (Valley Presbyterian in Van Nuys); and schools (the Administration Building of LA Unified, Alfred Nobel Junior High School, El Camino Real High School, the Engineering Building at the University of California Santa Barbara as well as serving as the prime design professional or structural consultant to schools and facilities design teams for more than 125 projects); but KBSK also created such landmarks as the US Federal Building in Westwood, the Tupperware International Headquarters in Orlando Florida, the unique inverted boat-shaped Henry's Restaurant in Pomona, the Safeway Distribution Center in Santa Fe Springs, the Sheraton Universal Hotel as well as buildings and exterior facilities for the Los Angeles County Fair Association along with many other projects. Hans also dedicated himself to the continued professional development of his colleagues by his selfless service in organizations such as The Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (serving in a variety of leadership positions, including President in 1978-79) and California; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Concrete Institute (President 1990-91); American Consulting Engineers Association; Coalition for Adequate School Housing, and California Association of School Business Officials. Hans was appointed and served with distinction as a member of the Los Angeles County Building and Safety Department Appeals Board beginning in 1985. Hans and Hannelore developed and fervently maintained a bond of mutual respect, love and commitment to one another. Although Hans has preceded us in death, all the members of his immediate, extended family and all of his close friends and respected colleagues will always continue to respect and appreciate Hans as a person and a consummate professional. We will share the fond memories---but we can also contemplate the inner strength of character, the appreciation of quality in all aspects of his life and the respect for quiet confidence. This we can do when we are able to see and appreciate his life work---both as a man of principal and ethics and his professional endeavors that will serve as a physical reminder of his professional achievements. Memorial services for Hans G. Steinmann will be held on March 15, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church, located at 975 Lark Road, Wrightwood, CA 92329. The family respectfully requests that in lieu of flowers, a donation be made in Hans' name to St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation Cancer Services, 1100 W. Stewart Drive, Orange, CA 92868. STEINMANN, Hans G. June 8, 1925 - February 8, 2014
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Holshouser remembered for NC political work, faith
Holshouser remembered for NC political work, faith
The daughter of the late Gov. Jim Holshouser says her father was committed to working with people of all political stripes because he wanted to get things done and make North Carolina the best place to live.
Ginny Holshouser Mills gave one of the two eulogies Friday at a memorial service at a Southern Pines church for the former governor, who died Monday at age 78.
Holshouser was the first Republican elected governor in North Carolina in the 20th century. He served from 1973 to 1977 and ushered in slowly an era of two-party politics after decades of dominance by Democrats.
Church pastor the Rev. Grady Perryman says Holshouser was a deeply committed Christian and that the only label that mattered to him was not "governor," but "child of God."


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Joelle Jones, Steve Lieber, Farel Dalrymple, Joshua Williamson, and more sign at Cosmic Monkey Comics on Saturday May 5, 2012 fo Free Comic Book Day!
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This year on May 5th for Free Comic Book Day we will be open 10-7 and are having all the different free comic book titles offered this year ( limit 3 per person).
We have an exciting, eclectic group of comic creators who will be doing signings with us. Most of them will be here 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., but a few will be arriving later.
Joelle Jones ( You Have Killed Me, Madame Xanadu)
Joshua Williamson ( Voodoo, Sketch Monsters)
Heather Finley ( Zombies VS Cheerleaders)
Zack Soto ( Secret Voice, Study Group)
Jason "JFish" Fisher ( Junque Land, studiojfish)
Celina Hernandez ( Chibi Comics)
Michael Murphy ( Chibi Comics)
Shawn Aldridge ( Vic Boone)
Steve Lieber ( White Out, Shooter)
Tony Morgan ( Chronicles of Van Helsing, Chicken Leg Bone Boy)
Tim Root (Crappy Comics, Study Group)
Farel Dalrymple ( Omega The Unknown, Prophet)
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