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Item Description
Letter, C. K. Holliday to Dear Mary [Holliday]
Author: Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
Date: March 31, 1859
Cyrus K. Holliday wrote from Topeka, Kansas Territory to his wife, Mary Holliday, who had returned to Meadville, Pennsylvania to give birth to their second child, Charles. Cyrus had been joined in Kansas Territory by his mother and two brothers, James T. and George K. Holliday. Cyrus sadly told of his mother's death at George's home in Wakarusa, Kansas Territory. He suggested that Mary wait to return to Topeka until May 1st, when Alfred Huidekoper of Meadville would issue him a loan. Cyrus also mentioned his political aspirations and two upcoming elections, the first at the Osawatomie Republican Convention, the second for delegates to the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Cyrus Kurtz Holliday Collection, #386, Box 1, Folder 4
Item Number: 101552 Number of images: 3
Keywords: Health; Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900; Holliday, Mary; Loans; Shawnee County, Kansas Territory; Topeka, Kansas Territory
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Gloomhaven (Second Printing)
Oh my word, thank you for making this project so awesome!
Please take note: There are no late pledges.
If you missed the Kickstarter, don't worry! The game will be widely available in retail this August/September, so you can pick it up there!
It's time to join the adventure! Whether you are a veteran mercenary or this is your first foray into the wilds of Gloomhaven, I am happy to have you on board.
Through this Kickstarter, you can pledge to receive a copy of the second printing of Gloomhaven, complete with new health and experience trackers and a revised rule book and scenario book. Your game will come with miniatures for all the character classes, but you can also purchase extra sets of miniatures and standees.
If you already own the game, you can pledge to receive just the upgraded trackers and revised books. In addition, there is also an all-new mini expansion of 17 solo scenarios available.
If you want to learn how to play Gloomhaven, these two Gaming Rules! videos are all you need.
Gloomhaven is a series of tactical combat scenarios that are strung together in a persistent, thematic campaign.
Each scenario is played out through rounds of combat against fully automated enemies. In each round, players will play 2 cards to determine the order in which they act and what abilities they perform. Each card has 2 special actions, and on their turn, players can perform the top action of one card and the bottom action of the other.
Card actions are varied and powerful, cutting through the monotony of a basic "move and attack" system. Default actions are available, though, if a player's plans get ruined by an enemy's ability card or even by the actions of their own teammates. Gloomhaven eliminates the alpha player through simultaneous hidden action selection to illustrate the chaos of battle.
There are also no dice in Gloomhaven. Instead, attacks are modified by a player's attack deck. Over time, this attack deck will change as a player begins to add and remove cards by completing battle goals and leveling up, which will also give them access to more powerful, higher level ability cards.
In midst of battle, players will also need to focus on looting money tokens. These can be used to purchase useful items in town, where new stock is always being unlocked by player actions.
As players interact with the town through events and move along the branching story paths of the world, they will always be working towards completing personal quests. By meeting certain objectives, a player's character will retire, unlocking a new character class to play with, new events for parties to encounter, and additional perks for the achieving player. After retirement, a player will create a new character, possibly from the class that was just unlocked, and continue the adventure!
If you'd like to learn more about the game play, you can find a PDF of the rule book here, or you can watch another overview video:
Or a game play video:
Are you ready to start the adventure? Because we have started a community-driven expedition that I would love you to participate in.
Just head on over to the first update to find out what it is all about and join in on the adventure. You won't regret it!
If you don't have the physical game in front of you, that's not a problem. There are still plenty of ways to participate. If you own Tabletop Simulator on Steam, each scenario in the community-driven campaign is available as a separate workshop file. (Scenario 1) (Scenario 2) (Scenario 3) (Scenario 4) (Scenario 5) (Scenario 6) (Scenario 7) (Scenario 8) (Scenario 9)
Or you can follow along and watch as the following groups play through the scenarios every third day.
Mike Bennett's YouTube stream is scheduled for 3pm EDT (19:00 GMT).
Alucard's Twitch stream is scheduled for 7pm EDT (23:00 GMT).
If you're just joining us and want to get caught up on the story, you can find everything you need to know here.
Either way, the important thing is that, when you are ready, I want you to vote on what happens next. This campaign is being run by and for you, and I'm just excited to see where it goes!
But the extra adventures don't end when the Kickstarter ends! Starting in November of this year, after everyone has had time to receive their games and enjoy them for a while, we will starting a brand new community driven expedition.
The number of scenarios in the new expedition will be directly tied to this Kickstarter's funding goal. Every $100,000 past $2 million will add a new scenario to the expedition. It's going to be huge!
New to Kickstarter? No problem! The number people pledging to Kickstarter board game projects seems to be getting larger all the time, and we are happy to have you on board. Becoming a backer is very simple. Just follow these steps: \
Step 1: Look through the banner at the top right of this page and click on the reward level you'd like to receive.
Step 2: Choose the correct shipping location and the pledge amount should automatically adjust to the correct value. This step is important!
Step 3: Click the green "Continue" button and then finish filling out your information on the subsequent page.
Step 4: Click "Pledge" and you're done! Welcome to the adventure!
Immediately after I was finished working on Gloomhaven, I realized I wasn't done with the world. I wanted to make a set of scenarios specifically designed for strategic solo play - scenarios that would highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each class and force players to really get under the hood and learn to play each class masterfully.
PDFs of these scenarios and the accompanying item rewards are already available online, but now you can pledge $10 to receive a printed version. This includes a 24-page scenario book of 17 all-new solo scenarios and a deck of 17 item cards - rewards for completing each of the missions.
The solo scenarios are not included in the base box, but you can add $10 to you pledge to receive them in addition.
Strictly for those who already own the game, we are offering four health and experience trackers and revised rule and scenario books. These are already included in the reprint pledge, but are upgrades from the original version.
You can get the four dials for $7, the upgraded books for $15, and if you'd like the solo scenarios as well, you can bundle all three offers for $25.
PDFs of the new rule book and scenario book are also available online.
And if you are interested, you can order some cool third-party stuff like removable stickers from Sinister Fish Games and a nice wooden insert from Meeple Realty.
The second printing of Gloomhaven comes with a full set of miniatures for each of the 17 character classes. These add-ons are not needed, but if, for whatever reason, you want additional sets of miniatures or standees, you can add $20 to your pledge for additional sets of minis and $5 for additional sets of standees.
Be forewarned that while the miniatures box comes spoiler-free, the standees will be delivered as a single bare punch-board and may ruin the surprise of some of the unlocked character images.
Gloomhaven is a big, heavy game, so you will need to pay shipping on every copy that you order. The good news is that the cost of shipping to the US is already included and subsidized elsewhere. The price for shipping in other regions per game box is listed in the first column.
The second column is the price of shipping when ordering up to six other items (this includes sets of HP/XP dials, the book upgrades, the solo scenarios, sets of miniatures, or sets of standees). The upgrade combo pack is considered three items. If you pledge for more than six items, you will need to pay the second column shipping price again.
There's more good news, though. If you order a copy of Gloomhaven and want to add to your pledge the solo scenarios and/or a set of standees, those items are small enough to fit into the game's shipping box, so you won't have to pay any additional shipping on them - just the one shipping price for the main box itself.
All of these shipping costs are added automatically when you pledge, but if you add more onto you pledge for additional items, you will have to add the additional shipping costs yourself.
Unfortunately, I made some mistakes when setting up the initial pledge levels. If you live in the following countries, please use the alternate pledge levels (labeled DE and SG) to get the correct shipping price: Germany, Singapore, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Sorry for the confusion!
Please note! Shipping is US, Canada, China, and EU-friendly! You will not have to pay customs if you are in these regions.
While pledging $1 won't get your name into every copy of Gloomhaven, it will get you into my personal copy of Gloomhaven.
That's right, I am going to take a sharpie to as many of my components as necessary to commemorate the names of everyone who pledges $1 or adds $1 to their pledge. Not only that, but I'll shoot a video of the whole sordid, game-defacing thing. It will be wonderful.
Isaac is the driving force behind Cephalofair Games, which published its first game, Forge War, three years ago, and its second game, Gloomhaven, was released to much acclaim in February. Isaac also designed and developed these games and is basically a one-man publishing army. He writes a weekly blog about board game publishing, design and whatever else he is thinking about at www.cephalofair.com.
Isaac graduated two years ago with a physics PhD, but now works full-time designing and publishing games. He is very happy.
Josh McDowell started playing board games after his wife encouraged him to find an inexpensive hobby. The joke is on her, as that encouragement turned into an expansive collection and regular schedule of playing games with his friends. He turned to his graphic design prowess to offset the costs and is now completely engrossed in all things board games. He lives in Indiana with his wife and three young children, gamers in the making. You can find his portfolio at www.behance.net/mcscowl.
Alexandr lives in Ukraine, Odessa and works as a freelancer and specializes in several styles: sci-fi, cyberpunk and fantasy. He's looking for hard-core projects in the styles that he likes. Most of all he is proud of his artwork for cards in board games. He dreams to release his comics and develop the indie game with a small group of people In the future. You can see his portfolio at http://kotnonekot.deviantart.com.
James Van Schaik has over 20 years experience as a professional miniature sculptor. He has worked as a freelance sculptor, in-house staff sculptor and on several exclusivity contracts for a range of companies including Megacon Games, Ninja Division, Soda Pop Miniatures, Ral Partha, WizKids, Wyrd, Games Workshop, Pulp City, Battlefront, Gale Force 9, Dust Tactics, Mantic, Reaper, and RAFM.
He has also sculpted for toy companies outside of the gaming industry and produced figures for licensed properties such as Lord of the Rings, Dr. Who, Marvel, DC, and Harry Potter to name a few. You can find him on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/james.schaik?fref=ts or see his portfolio at https://www.flickr.com/photos/24546626@N04.
Risks and challenges
Coming into this reprint Kickstarter, I am in the unique position of knowing exactly what it takes to publish this 21-pound monstrosity.
The experience of the first printing for me, Josh, and the factory will prove incredibly useful. We are proofing files as you read this, and we're hoping to get the printers fired up before the campaign even ends.
Though some components are being updated, and other components are being added, none of that will provide much of a delay at all. Based on the previous run, once the printing starts, we are expecting two months for production and two months for shipping, getting you your game in August if everything goes well.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Funding period
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Cooperstown, as quaint and peaceful as ever
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Welcome to the land that time forgot, a place perfectly preserved from another America. This is Norman Rockwell's canvas, one that is incomprehensibly beautiful. This is different, though. This isn't a movie set.
"We try to stay with the times without being of the times," said Andrew Oberriter, owner of Cooperstown Wine and Spirits. "Does that make sense?"
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Welcome to the land that time forgot, a place perfectly preserved from another America. This is Norman Rockwell's canvas, one that is incomprehensibly beautiful. This is different, though. This isn't a movie set.
"We try to stay with the times without being of the times," said Andrew Oberriter, owner of Cooperstown Wine and Spirits. "Does that make sense?"
Oberriter has lived here almost all of his 39 years, and like virtually all of the town's other 2,000 year-round residents, he prides himself on Cooperstown being the same as it ever was.
No matter how many times visitors have been here, they're almost always struck again by the timelessness. Cooperstown is a village of tree-lined streets and hundred-year-old colonials. It's parks and hiking trails and mountains and the beauty of Lake Otsego.
Main Street is where people shop and stroll and chat. It's the pizza parlor down there, the ice cream place over here. There's a bakery, Schneider's, an absolute treasure. At the hardware store, people browse the aisles and visit with one another and take their sweet old time.
There are pubs and restaurants and bookstores and an assortment of gift shops. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and museum sits at the end of Main Street and is the focal point of the city's tourism industry. The Hall of Fame will attract 300,000 tourists a year, but the complete Cooperstown experience is about coming and soaking in all of it, the restaurants and the inns. It's taking a couple of days to breathe deep.
"We're very proud of what we have," said Kathryn Busse, who owns the Silver Fox Gift Shop with her husband, Richard. They also own a restaurant, a Christmas shop and the ice-cream parlor. They've raised three kids here, and when you ask her what makes Cooperstown special, Kathryn will dab tears from her eyes as she answers.
"This is a place you can leave your doors unlocked," she said. "You just don't have the insecurities you have other places."
I learned that the night before when the night clerk at The Inn at Cooperstown came to check me in. It was after midnight, and she mentioned she'd been reluctant to walk from her home through the dark alley.
Really? Crime?
"Skunks and deer sometimes are in the alley late at night," she said. "That's what we worry about in Cooperstown."
Kathryn Busse's parents moved here in 1948. Both are retired now, still here. No plans to leave.
"We work hard to maintain Cooperstown," she said. "We've been self-employed for 28 years. We're proud of what we have here."
Across the street, Tim and Connie Haney run the Cooperstown Bat Company. They also raised a family here.
"A lot goes into keeping Cooperstown special," Connie said. "It's a place where you know your neighbor, where you help each other."
Still, there's the occasional controversy. For instance, not everyone was thrilled with the addition of parking meters on Main Street. On the other hand, this will be a summer for showing off a brand-new sidewalk.
"It's nice to have that be your biggest controversy," Oberriter said. "You can still walk into the woods and not have to think about anything else."
In high school, Oberriter and his friends would stand in front of the Hall of Fame and play with the tourists who asked them how to get to the Hall of Fame.
"We'd send 'em down the street, have them make a few right turns and bring 'em right back where they started," he said. "When they got back, we'd point to the Hall of Fame."
He laughs retelling the story.
"If that isn't small-town entertainment, I don't know what is," he said. "It's continuity. You know the people next door. Everybody knows each other. It's a small town in the best sense of the word."
Cooperstown's setting and its beauty is striking to visitors. Do the natives understand how spectacular their hometown feels?
"Oh, I think so," Oberriter said. "We appreciate the lakes and hills. Those things don't change."
Just outside town, at the Blue Mingo Grill, summer diners sit on a patio overlooking Lake Otsego and order from the chef's blackboard. Shrimp grits and lobster rolls and crab cakes are among the specialties of the house, but it's the setting that makes the place so instantly appealing.
"If you're driving into Cooperstown for the first time, it's almost as if Cooperstown could be in black and white in a lot of ways," said Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson, who has lived here 20 years. "It's a throwback."
Sasha Gagarin is a relative newcomer. Eight years ago, upon graduating from Mitchell College in Connecticut, her dad offered to help her get a shop started on Main Street. She named the shop Extra Innings and sells an assortment of baseball stuff, including T-shirts and trading cards.
Like plenty of others before her, she has fallen hard for the village, the beauty and the people. She began her adventure as a baseball fan. She has ended up with much more.
"I don't want to say it's a Norman Rockwell painting, but in a way, it is," Gagarin said. "It looks like it. Everyone is friendly. It's just a great area."
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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ONEONTA, N.Y. – No. 3 ranked MIT scored the game's first eight points and led by as many as 25, en route to a 83-63 win over Farmingdale State in the second round of the NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament at Hartwick College on Saturday night. Senior Noel Hollingsworth (Salt Lake City, Utah) scored a game-high 37 points, tying a career high, and grabbed 12 rebounds. With the win, the Engineers (27-1) advance to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the first time in program history, where they will face the College of Staten Island, next Friday night. The location for next weekend's games will be announced by the NCAA on Sunday.
Hollingsworth's scoring explosion came on 16-for-26 shooting, including four-of-six from long range. Junior Will Tashman (Atherton, Calif.) had his second double-double of the NCAA tournament with 16 points and 13 boards while junior Mitchell Kates (Colts Neck, N.J.) also had a double-double with 11 points and a career-high 11 assists. Senior Jamie Karraker (Morgantown, W. Va.), made four three-pointers to set a new MIT single-season record, and finished with 12 points.
Josh Smith (Deer Park, N.Y.) led Farmingdale State with 16 points to go along with 5 caroms. Senior Dyshaun Flournoy (Brentwood, N.Y.) had 14 points, on six-of-15 shooting, for the Rams, who see their season come to an end at 23-6.
Head Coach Larry Anderson was pleased with his team's effort, saying "Today was a good day for us, obviously. We got the monkey off our back [getting into the Sweet 16]. All of the credit goes to the student-athletes, particularly the upperclassmen, and if we're going to go any further it will be because they take us there."
The Engineers came out firing on all cylinders, knocking down their first three shots to take an 8-0 lead in the game's first 63 seconds. Hollingsworth started it off with a three-pointer and a layup before Karraker connected from deep. Farmingdale State got on the board thanks to a traditional three-point play by Smith just over two minutes in but the Cardinal and Gray extended its lead, thanks to back-to-back trifectas by Hollingsworth and Karraker. The Engineers would make five of their first six attempts from long range and lead by as many as 19 in the first half.
Hollingsworth ended the frame with eight straight points, to give the big man 27 for the half, as MIT took a 53-34 lead into the locker room.
The Rams started the second half with six straight points on layups by Ibrahim Johnson (New York, N.Y.), AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Dyshaun Flournoy (Brentwood, N.Y.), to cut the deficit to 13. After the teams traded a pair of buckets, the Engineers went on another spurt, this time outscoring Farmingdale State, 12-2, over a 3:07 span, to push their lead to 23, before closing out the 20-point victory.
The Cardinal and Gray shot 53.0% from the field and made nine three-pointers. The Engineers assisted on 21 of their 35 made baskets and had a 46-32 edge in points in the paint over the Rams.
"If we're going to go any further we're going to have to play better," Anderson remarked after the game. "But I'm going to enjoy this one for a while and then start preparing for next week."
When asked about his big night, Hollingsworth said, "Early on, we saw the big guys were sagging off so we thought we could get some outside looks. [Will] Tashman sucked the big guys in and I was able to make a couple of outside shots. Overall I thought we played really well as a team and I was able to take advantage of the open looks."
With the win, MIT avenged its loss to Farmingdale State in the 2009 NCAA tournament second round, during Tech's first ever postseason appearance.


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What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common?
Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that was compelling in its originality and startling in its usefulness in fields as unrelated as geography, medicine, art and finance.
Mandelbrot, 85, who died of cancer Oct. 14 in Cambridge, Mass., was the father of fractals, a term he coined in 1975 to describe a new branch of geometry that seeks to make sense of irregular shapes and processes, from the infinite zigs and zags of a seacoast to erratic fluctuations on Wall Street.
His death was announced by Yale University, where he became a mathematics professor in 1987 after a long career at IBM in New York.
"He was a person who knew a great deal of mathematics and could see its impact in the world around him in a way no one else had," said Ralph Gomory, the former president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation who for many years headed IBM's research division.
Mandelbrot worked in obscurity for the first few decades of his career, persisting with mathematical explorations that struck other researchers as exceedingly esoteric if not incomprehensible. With the books "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension" (1977) and "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" (1982), he became the math world's equivalent of a rock star — the Carl Sagan of the numbers set — who drew standing-room audiences to lectures in United States and abroad.
His fractal theory entered popular culture, inspiring a song ("Mandelbrot Set" by Jonathan Coulton), novels (by Arthur C. Clarke and David Foster Wallace) and elegant, computer-generated art. It even enthralled a presidential candidate, Al Gore, who said during a 2000 campaign interview with the New York Times that he found fractals "an incredibly important way of looking at the world."
Classical Euclidean geometry describes flat surfaces, but Mandelbrot wondered about the nature of everything that wasn't flat, such as a cumulus cloud, a rock fragment or the craggy surface of the lungs. "Benoit realized that we are surrounded by objects best described as having not one or two or three dimensions but something in between," Gomory, also a mathematician, said in an interview this week.
Mandelbrot's first major insight stemmed from his attempt in the late 1960s to answer the question "How long is the coast of Britain?" He argued that the answer depends on the size of one's ruler. The more he zoomed in on the shoreline, the more indentations became visible. Classical geometry, conceived on the flat paradigm, could not handle this "roughness" or fractional dimension of non-linear shapes in the natural world, so Mandelbrot developed a new tool, which he later called fractal geometry. Instead of ignoring the disorderly twists and turns of the coast, mathematicians and geographers could now more accurately envision its scope and character.
"Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry'? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line," he wrote in what would become the most quoted passage from "The Fractal Geometry of Nature."
He also found that shapes that seem random are actually highly ordered and self-repeating. The cauliflower, for instance, became one of his favorite illustrations of the fractal. "If you cut one of the florets of a cauliflower," he said earlier this year in a talk at the Technology Entertainment and Design conference, "you see the whole cauliflower but smaller."
The mathematical formula describing this phenomenon became known as the Mandelbrot Set. Programmed into a computer, the formula produces images of arresting beauty: infinitely varied amoebic shapes with intricate borders consisting of bumps and swirls that are actually embedded miniatures of the whole. Fractal art, popular on the Internet, T-shirts and posters, became icons of post-modern math.
Harvard mathematician David B. Mumford, speaking to the New York Times in 1985, said Mandelbrot's gift was his ability to "show people that they were making faulty assumptions simply because they didn't have the tools to look beyond them. They had missed a whole range of things. Mandelbrot's idea was that you could draw a thing, and that by drawing it you suddenly became aware of what was really going on. And the things he drew, I don't think that even he anticipated that they would turn out to be so strikingly beautiful."
In recent years, Mandelbrot gained attention for his application of fractals to Wall Street stock charts. In "The (Mis)behavior of Markets" (2005), written with Richard L. Hudson, he showed how investors underestimate the risks in the financial markets by giving more weight to day-to-day price movements and ignoring the effect of the precipitous swings.
Mandelbrot's early life was shaped by catastrophic events. Born in Warsaw on Nov. 20, 1924, in a family of Lithuanian Jews, he experienced the fall of Poland to the Nazis and later lived in occupied France. Partly because of his mother's fears of disease and later because of the exigencies of World War II, he missed years of conventional schooling and learned from books and family tutors. He was strongly influenced by an uncle who was both a mathematician and a gifted painter.
After the liberation of Paris in 1944, Mandelbrot attended the exclusive Ecole Polytechnique Normale. He continued his education in the United States, earning a master's degree in aeronautics at Caltech in 1948. He received a doctorate in math from the University of Paris in 1952.
In 1958 he began a long association with IBM's Watson Research Center. He joined Yale's faculty in 1987 and earned tenure in 1999.
His survivors include his wife, Aliette, two sons and three grandchildren.
Mandelbrot acknowledged that many artists, including Leonardo da Vinci and Katsushika Hokusai, knew about fractals because they incorporated "self-similar" motifs in their works.
"Here was an aspect of shape in the world that had been seen by others but never expressed in words," he told the Economist in 2003. "I overturned a horn of plenty in which all kinds of things humanity has always known were located."


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Nation & World
Obama won't send witness to Senate to explain legality of drone war
The Obama administration does not intend to send a witness to testify at a Senate hearing next week on the legality of the U.S. targeted killing program, the White House said Wednesday.
The decision illustrates the limits of President Barack Obama's pledge in his State of the Union speech on Feb. 12 to provide greater transparency into top-secret drone operations that have killed thousands of suspected terrorists in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution subcommittee was to have held a hearing Tuesday on the legality of targeted killings, those who can be targeted and the creation of a "transparent legal framework for the use of drones." The session, however, was postponed until April 23 to allow more time for the White House to agree to send a witness.
That effort, however, appeared to have fallen through.
"We do not currently plan to send a witness to this hearing and have remained in close contact with the committee about how we can best provide them the information they require," Caitlin Hayden, a National Security Council spokeswoman, wrote in an email to McClatchy.
She added that the White House would continue working with lawmakers "to ensure not only that our targeting, detention and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the American people and the world."
Hayden declined to say why the administration doesn't plan to provide a witness for the hearing.
The office of Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the subcommittee chairman, said it would have no comment. Durbin was expected to proceed with the session next week whether or not an administration witness attends.
Obama's targeted killing program has come under increased examination amid charges by some human and civil rights groups and others that it violates international and U.S. law, has claimed hundreds of civilian lives and has provoked intense popular anger that has helped al Qaida and other violent extremist groups recruit new radicals.
Earlier this month, McClatchy published a review of classified U.S. intelligence reports showing that scores of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified "other militants." That finding contrasts with the administration's contentions that they've only targeted identified senior leaders of al Qaida and associated forces planning imminent violent attacks on the United States.
On Friday, 10 civil and human rights groups wrote a joint letter to Obama urging him to make public the secret Justice Department legal opinions underpinning targeted killings, ensure adequate congressional oversight and create mechanisms for tracking and responding to civilian casualties.
C. Dixon Osburne, director of the law and security program at Human Rights First, one of the letter's signatories, said the administration's decision not to send a witness to the hearing ran counter to Obama's transparency pledge.
"The president made pretty clear in the State of the Union (speech) that the administration owed Congress and the public more transparency about its drone operations. Sending a witness to the hearing would be a good step in that direction. Not sending a witness keeps the targeted killing program cloaked in secrecy," he said.
The administration contends that the strikes comply with domestic and international laws, including the laws of war, and are conducted only after rigorous reviews by top officials. Officials say U.S. drone attacks have crippled al Qaida's core leadership and undermined its ability to conduct complex attacks against U.S. and other targets. It also says that civilian casualties have been "exceedingly rare."
Nearly 4,000 people have been killed in some 420 targeted killing operations since the first U.S. drone strike was conducted under the Bush administration in October 2001.
About 90 percent have been staged by the CIA, the vast majority since Obama took office, against suspected extremists in Pakistan's tribal area bordering Afghanistan, according to Micah Zenko, an expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent policy institute. The rest were launched by the CIA and the military's Joint Special Operations Command in Yemen and by the latter in Somalia.


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By redefining role, interventionist President proves he is no rubber stamp
Is it a constitutional catastrophe or a constitutional crisis? Or is part of the constitutional mechanism, which has accidentally been set in motion to prevent the collapse of democratic institutions? For the first time, the President is seen as the saviour of democratic traditions; sensitive to public emotions in the wake of Cyclone Phailin, he cut short his West Bengal visit during Pujo. On the other hand, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet which advises the President portray themselves as bulldozers of ethical governance. The spotlight has shifted from a non-performing PM to a pro-active President.
For the past few weeks, Pranab Mukherjee, India's 13th President, has been active in restoring a semblance of balance in the age of confrontationist politics. As the countdown for the crucial General Elections begins, he is formulating his role and reactions to various surprises, which elections may throw up. If his recent actions are any indication, Mukherjee is emerging as the President who doesn't confine his role to ceremonial talks, but also speaks forcefully. He nudged the UPA leadership to reconsider the ordinance on criminals in politics. He changed his pre-scheduled Bihar programme to avoid being caught in a conflict between the JD(U) and BJP over Narendra Modi's visit to the state at the same time. Mukherjee's recent weeklong sojourn to Denmark and Turkey left his signature mark on diplomacy, which led to the signing of many agreements pending for over a decade. Before launching the premier visit by an Indian President to Belgium, he told all ministries to prepare a proper agenda so that his visit doesn't turn out to be just another junket. Just before he left, the Rashtrapati sprang a surprise on diplomats by almost blaming Pakistan directly for cross-border terrorism by remarking, "terrorists don't come from heaven". Of late, Congress managers have been sifting through Mukherjee's speeches and comments to decipher his frame of mind. They suspect that he is acquiring the role of both a titular Head of State and an invisible influence on the institution of PM. The buzz in the corridors of power is that President is now doing what he would have done as the Prime Minister of a coalition government.
It is too early to define his definitive identity, but Mukherjee seems to possess massive energy to shake and shape the future contours of Indian politics and governance. If Dr APJ Kalam earned the sobriquet of "People's President", Mukherjee is carving out his own niche of an interpositionist President who wouldn't mind asserting his constitutional rights to correct any impropriety in governance and misuse of Constitution. L K Advani, the National Democratic Alliance chairman, embarrassed the President when he gave full credit to Mukherjee and not Rahul Gandhi for the premature demise of the ordinance. Mukherjee seems to be finding ways and means to provide face-saving devices to ruling establishment at the Centre and in the states to bail out of ugly situations. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was determined to use the President's visit as a ploy to prevent crowds from reaching the venue of Modi's rally on October 27, but Mukherjee understood the trap and decided to return to Rashtrapati Bhavan the same day. Such politically correct moves are indicative of Mukherjee's attempt to redefine the role of the Head of State, since his purpose is not merely to avoid being stereotyped as a rubber stamp or an activist President.
Mukherjee asserts himself with authority and dignity. Since he is the first President who has held all the important portfolios of defence, finance, commerce and external affairs previously, he knows better than most about how decisions and policies are formalised in a Cabinet system. For example, when the PM sent him the file seeking his approval for the ordinance, Mukherjee didn't return it after signing on the dotted line, as most of his predecessors would have done. He summoned three important ministers—Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, Law Minister Kapil Sibal and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde. All of them have been his colleagues in the party for decades. They weren't expecting his probing questions. Never before has a President asked ministers to produce minutes or records of Cabinet discussions or political confabulations. Mukherjee asked them to produce the proceedings of both the Cabinet meeting and the all-party meet where the decision to promulgate the ordinance was taken. He discomfited them by asking for the reason behind their hurry. They did not return with answers. Instead, the Cabinet approached him to withdraw its request for his approval.
It is quite evident that Mukherjee is arming himself with infallible arguments to face any situation. He is marshalling his facts to disarm those who challenge his formulations. As an avid reader of history, the Rashtrapati has already retrieved the files from the archives concerning the formation of various past coalition governments. Three previous Presidents—R Venkataraman, Shankar Dayal Sharma and K R Narayanan—had taken different positions on how to choose a party to form the government. Mukherjee has found inconsistencies in each. According to Rashtrapati Bhavan watchers, the President has been interacting with numerous legal luminaries, including former chief justices, social activists and even sane political leaders to seek their views on many complex issues concerning security, political stability and economic crises. The limitations of the geographical boundaries of Raisina Hill haven't deterred its latest incumbent from reaching out to those whose voice is gagged and who are denied access to India's high and mighty. If Mukherjee continues with his assertive constitutional agenda, he would perhaps earn a place in history as the best prime minister the Congress party failed to choose or spot after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
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RICHMOND — The price for a permit to outfit a home with solar panels just plunged in the city.
The City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to slash permit prices for residential solar panel installations from $615 to $100, a move city leaders said was an effort to jump-start solar investments in local neighborhoods.
"We are trying to make a statement," Councilman Tom Butt said.
At $100, Richmond's price becomes the lowest in the Bay Area, tied with neighboring El Cerrito.
Richmond is one of the leading cities to promote and implement green initiatives in recent years, including moves to halt the use of pesticides, construction of new bike paths and urban farms, and funding youth job training for green energy jobs, including solar installation.
Richmond is one of nine East Bay cities — Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Hayward, Oakland and San Leandro are the others — that have moved to streamline and reduce the cost of the permitting process.
But news reports clued in council members to the fact that Richmond's permits were the highest priced.
"Reducing the fee became clearly a good idea," Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin said.
City Planning Director Richard Mitchell said the city issued 90 permits in the past year, bringing in about $55,000 in revenue. The reduction in price will mean the next 90 permits will bring in about $9,000 in revenue.
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Paul Greengrass and Doug Liman have both enjoyed great success directing "Bourne" films, and this year each has tackled the Bush Administration's run-up to the Iraq War from very different directions.
Where Greengrass' "Green Zone" was a sloppy, curiously fictionalized actioner set in Baghdad, Liman's "Fair Game" is a much more affecting and tense drama set primarily in Washington, D.C., that focuses on former CIA operative Valeria Plame and her husband Joe Wilson.
"Fair Game," stars Naomi Watts as Plame and Sean Penn as Wilson, in the story of how she came to have her cover blown by the Bush Administration. The move was alleged punishment by the administration for her husband having refuted the president's claims about Saddam Hussein's efforts to buy yellow cake uranium for his WMD program. Jez and John-Henry Butterworth adapted the screenplay from Plame and Wilson's memoirs "Fair Game" and "The Politics of Truth."
How you respond to the film will depend almost entirely on your politics and personal recollections of the events recreated here. Lefties will gnash their teeth in gleeful rage, reminiscing about what monsters Bush, Cheney, Rove and Libby were; conservatives will shake their heads in disgust at what traitorous dogs Plame and Wilson were. Regardless, the film is a gripping -- if Plame-centric -- recounting of the events.
"Fair Game" is often at its best when it focuses on how the scandal affected the Plame-Wilson family personally. Lost in the public howling over the politics in play was the fact that a marriage was very nearly torn apart. As in "The Kids Are All Right," part of what makes "Fair Game" work is the fact the family at the heart of the story is so normal. Equally fascinating is the way the film ponders the machinations a spy living among us must go through, lying to everyone they know, even their closest friends, and juggling multiple identities.
The story of their struggle with the Bush Administration is a riveting thriller, but the film never pushes back against the Plame-Wilson line. There are any number of questions brought up by the incidents, but the film doesn't take the time to ask them. There's no question that Wilson acted honorably, that Bush lied, that Rove, Libby and Cheney conspired simply to destroy Plame. If this story were a piece of fiction, it wouldn't be an issue. But these events led to a war we're still fighting today.
As Valerie Plame, Watts does a fantastic job of conveying the strain of being a career public servant who is finally backed into a corner that she can only escape from by going against her superiors. It's runs counter to the values of a former Air Force brat with two decades experience at the CIA. And Penn was born to play Joe Wilson, a man who, like himself, possesses a personality only overshadowed by the size of his ego and convictions.
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This is a lesson about detecting atmospheres of planets. Learners will explore stellar occultation events (by interpreting light curves) to determine if an imaginary dwarf planet "Snorkzat" has an atmosphere.
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Full TitleA Phase II Randomized Study: Outcomes after Secondary Cytoreductive Surgery With or Without Carboplatin Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) Followed By Systemic Combination Chemotherapy for Recurrent Platinum-Sensitive Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, or Primary Peritoneal Cancer
The purpose of this study is to see if giving hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) during surgery, followed by standard postoperative chemotherapy, is more effective than standard postoperative chemotherapy without HIPEC for women with recurrent ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who are having a second surgery to remove cancerous tissue in the abdomen.
HIPEC involves giving heated carboplatin (a standard drug for these cancers) directly into the abdomen at the end of a patient's surgery. It is believed that heating the carboplatin may make it better able to penetrate and kill cancer cells.
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- Patients must have a first recurrence of ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer that initially responded to platinum-based therapy and returned more than 6 and less than 30 months after completing that therapy.
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Hi all, I was thinking of starting a SW Saga game, but not sure if i want to run a pbp or chat game ....... who would like to join and what forum pbp or chat?????....
The game is set in legacy era, (100 years after the vong war) and sightly altered ..... more details will be posted once i get some interest in the game.
I'd be interested, but would only be able to participate in it if it was PbP.
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I'm interested only if it's a chat game, I actually want my character to develop before I grow old ^^
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
I thought I 'd have a quick look in my family history files and see who was born on Christmas Day and I found (all in Scotland):
Margaret Matilda Graham born 25 Dec 1853 in Coupar Angus, Perth
James Liddell born 25 Dec 1858 in New Monkland, Lanark
David Hardie born 25 Dec 1819 in Dunfermline, Fife
Patrick Justice born 25 Dec 1743 in Murroes, Angus
so 0.1568% of my ancestors were born on Christmas Day – quite a surprise that there were so few. I'll try again on Hogmanay and on New Year's Day and see what the percentage comes out at 🙂
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – UMBC sophomore diver Corinna Darelius (Rye, N.Y./Rye) has been named the America East Diver of the Week for the third time this season, the conference office announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Darelius won the 1-meter diving competition this past weekend as UMBC competed against East Carolina and Catawba College in Greenville, N.C. She scored 254.02 to win the event for the third time during the 2013-14 season and bring her overall season win total up to five. In addition, Darelius scored 266.93 in taking fourth-place on the 3-meter board.
Darelius also garnered the weekly conference award on Nov. 26, 2013 and Jan. 14 after winning it twice as a freshman. She has already qualified for the NCAA Zones meet for the second straight season after scoring a career-best 271.85 in a 1-meter competition on Jan. 4 in Coral Springs, Fla.
In total, the UMBC swimming and diving program has gained 14 conference weekly awards this season. Darelius leads the women, owning three America East Diving accolades, and senior Mohamed Hussein (Cairo, Egypt/Victory College) paces the men after collecting three Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) honors so far.
UMBC finished its dual meet season with the competition in North Carolina last Saturday and now prepares for its championships season. The women will compete at the four-day America East meet from Feb. 13-16 while the men will travel to Knoxville, Tenn. for the CCSA meet from Feb. 19-22.


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ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS(Alumni– Do you want your name added to this page? Tell us about your accomplishments. Send updates to our Web Editor. Submissions and photos may be edited for content to fit on page.)
Congratulations to Donna Sollenberger for receiving the 2005 Alumni Achievement Award!
Donna Sollenberger was chosen as the 2005 recipient based on her leadership in health care administration. Sollenberger earned the Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in English in 1971 and 1974 respectively. She currently serves as president and chief executive officer of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, which is ranked among the finest academic medical centers in the United States.
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National Museum of the Marine Corps
October 2006: The newly-created National Museum of the Marine Corps has selected History alumna Lin Ezell to serve as its first Director. The museum, which opens in November 2006 in Quantico, Virginia, is the first of its kind for any branch of the military. Its mission is to offer the public a glimpse into the rich history of the United States Marine Corps.
Ezell, although not a Marine herself, has over 30 years of experience in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Congratulations to Ken Davis, "Technician of the Year" Award Recipient!
October 2006: The Illinois Chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officialshas named Ken Davis for its honorary title of Technician of the Year. A systems and security analyst with the Sangamon County Emergency Telephone System Department, Davis has received the Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and is currently working on a graduate degree.
Chris Britt Presents Exhibition at UIS Visual Arts Gallery
April 2006: Chris Britt, whose editorial cartoons appear in publications locally and across the country, presents an exhibition of abstract paintings at the UIS Visual Arts Gallery. The exhibition, titled "Color Me Skeptic: New Works By Chris Britt", feature brightly-colored works designed to inspire a wide range of emotions.
Britt is a 2003 graduate of the UIS Visual Arts Program.
Linda Murphy: Bringing Mind-Body Medicine to the Midwest
In October 2005, St. John's Hospital in Springfield became one of only 15% of hospitals in the U.S. to offer complimentary mind-body approaches to medicine for patients and the general public through the new Center for Living.
Linda Murphy (formerly Boston) currently serves as the Center's Director and is a registered respiratory therapist, nationally registered yoga teacher and biofeedback practitioner. She has also completed Harvard Medical School's Mind-Body Medicine program and the National Institute of Behavioral Medicine's certification program in Mind-Body Medicine. Murphy completed the Master of Arts in Communication at UIS.
Stephanie Wise, B.S. Biology 2001
I am currently employed in Olympus America's microscopy division in St. Louis. My degree in Biology has been extremely helpful on the job as I work with microscopes on an everyday basis. I really enjoyed going to school at UIS and I'd love to hear from any classmates who might remember me!
AOL IM: wisewmn77


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Jack Trice Stadium has proven to be one of the most outstanding football venues in the country in its 40-year existence. With its remarkable sight lines and numerous renovations throughout the years to enhance the game day atmosphere, Jack Trice Stadium ranks as one of the nation's best football venues.
Jack Trice Stadium set all-time attendance marks from 2011-13. The former 56,800-seat stadium produced the highest attendance in its history in 2013 with an average of 55,361 fans per contest. The historic 2011 home season was capped off by a 37-31 double-overtime win over No. 2 Oklahoma State, the biggest win in school history.
Construction on Jack Trice Stadium started on Oct. 26, 1973. The first game in the facility was played on Sept. 20, 1975, an Iowa State victory over Air Force.
It was officially dedicated as Jack Trice Stadium in 1997 in honor of Jack Trice, Iowa State's first African-American student-athlete.
When first constructed, the stadium had a maximum capacity of 42,500. Over the years, a number of additions have helped expand the fan capacity and maintain Jack Trice Stadium's tradition of excellence.
A natural grass playing field was installed in 1996 and a $6.2 million three-level press tower was introduced in 1997. In 2002, a video/scoreboard, permanent lighting and additional seating in the south end zone improved its game day experience.
The stadium went through a $19.5 million first-phase remodeling project in 2008. The overhaul included the renovation/construction of suites and the addition of restrooms and concession buildings on the west concourse. The club section on the east side of the stadium was also entirely renovated.
In 2009, the second phase of the Jack Trice Stadium renovation began. The $11.5 million project included the addition of restrooms, concession stands and merchandise posts as well as widening the concourse to double its previous width on the east side of the stadium. The phase included the creation of the Jacobson Plaza, a large patio/entertainment space at mid-field on the stadium's east side exterior, and the replacement of the exterior fencing with a decorative iron fence.
Another major facelift occurred in 2011 when the massive, state-of-the-art video scoreboard on the north side of the stadium was introduced. The high-definition video screen, which measures approximately 36 feet high and 79.5 feet wide, features unparalleled picture clarity and acoustics.
Three years after upgrades were made to the stadium's north end zone, work began on a $60 million overhaul of the south end zone in the summer of 2014. The Jack Trice Stadium South End Zone Project enclosed the facility with permanent seating in the upper and lower bowls, a two-story club space and another massive video board. The renovation will also bring together the previously disconnected east and west concourses.
The added seating increased the stadium's capacity to 61,000, making it the third-largest in the Big 12. End Zone Club seating features 3,000 outdoor chair-back sets with access to the climate-controlled, two-level lounge that not only overlooks the action on the field, but the award-winning Reiman Gardens by the school's University Boulevard entrance as well.
Mirroring the scoreboard/video board atop the Jacobson Building on the stadium's north end will be an even larger video board measuring 36 feet tall and 150 feet wide, making Jack Trice Stadium one of the few venues in the country to sport such large video boards on both ends of the field.
From US Highway 30, take the University Boulevard Exit (exit 146) and turn right off the exit. Follow University Boulevard around to Jack Trice Stadium. It will be on your left.


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This is the Summer of Tech here at the C. E. Weldon Public Library. We will be offering several classes to help our patrons better understand and use the computers. As a part of this initiative we will be offering classes on Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. For those interested in e-books I will have a class on mondays and assist with any devices you bring in. On fridays I will host a technology related AMA(ask me anything). During this time I will offer one on one help and advice on all things technology related.
This particular class will focus on the fundamentals of using Microsoft Powerpoint 2010. We will go over concepts such as:
- Understanding the interface
- Formatting slides
- Creating transitions
- Inserting images
- Creating notes
- Presenting
The class does assume that you are comfortable using the mouse, keyboard, and other basic functions of windows. The class will last for 7-10 weeks depending on how much ground we cover each lesson. We will be using the Tennessee Learning Express Library during this course. If you miss a week you can make it up by watching the videos online but you will not have the benefit of having me at hand to answer questions. I hope to see you all there.


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Burn rubber on the streets of Shanghai in Turbo Racing 3!
Customize your ride and race real players in this colorful and happy multiplayer game.
Take the wheel and make your getaway! The cops are on your tail - get to the next checkpoint before time runs out!
Leave the other racers in a trail of dust!
Speed to the centre of Earth to save mankind from doom!
No-holds-barred rally racing for speed demons!
Patrol the town and pursue the criminals before the time's up.
Challenging motocross racing at its best!
Show off your speed and clever use of physics!
Become the Sportbike Champion!
Drift downhill and speed past the other trikes!
Race to collect all the members of the rock band before the final showdown on stage!
You are on the run in Vegas, you must lose the cops and deliver the documents!
Compete and win races to upgrade your car and become Sprint Club Nitro Champion!
Master the futuristic race tracks in Space as you tackle crazy loop the loops!
High speeds, dangerous yet beautiful environments, crazy jumps and water hazards make Jet Ski Racer something you have never played before.
Race through the city with awesome supercars!
Turbo Racing 2 hits the streets at high speed with a license to burn rubber
Use the drift to build up boost and speed ahead of your opponent in this arctic race.
Crash your way through a demolition derby!
Reach the finish line before the time runs out!
Experience the thrills and adrenaline of driving a monster truck!
Park the cars in the shopping mall car park.
Master the race tracks of the future as you tackle huge jumps.
Race your Quad Bike through extreme terrain!
Zombie kart racing at its best!
Do not let the classified documents get in the wrong hands!
Race the streets in the Zoo.
Race your motorcycle across the countryside dirt tracks & barns.
Escape the criminal headquarters using hi-tech gadgets.
Power your way past the opposition over 3 challenging courses.
Finish the Miniclip Circuits as quick as possible!
Perform awesome stunts and race your motorcycle to victory.
Strive to be the best as you ride the mountains.
Be the best to reach the top!
Perform air tricks and race to win!
Qualify in the races to reach the final! Choose your pit stop wisely, to replace tyres and fuel.
Race around the woodland track in the quickest possible time.
High speed, 3D superbike racing, take your bike to the MAX!
Attack enemy convoys and destroy them before it's too late!
Get on your sports bike and race flat out to win!
Race to the finish line before your opponent to win.
Finish 8 laps in first place to progress to the next level.
Pull the most extreme moves and score the most points.
Bandits have taken over and it is your job to sort it out.
CarJack.io - Boost fast, race hard in 60 seconds ... High-speed drag car racing with loot rewards & customizable cars!


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Fixed the line following code.
Now works with new unitsFixed a bug with reading the line location, correctly centering the line between -3.5 and 3.5 rather than -4 and 3.Also fixed a bug caused by overflow in absolute speeds sent to motor control, which fixed bouncing in line following.
Changes so that scout1 automatically spawns upon creation of thesimulator environment, and that line follow just continuously followslines instead of prior line-following-capability testing code.
better warehouse image (corresponds with lines now) and demo. Now only thing left is to implement home behavior.
Ok Scheduler warehouse behaviour working! and linefollowing works better now! Onto better demo.
Trying to make the warehouse robot drive around
Renaming to line follow and getting rid of old linefollowing files.
Committing some clean ups done in the linefollowing behaviours