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- The ultimate kit for your Nintendo Switch!
- Includes USB dongle, tool (use once to install OS) and OS software license.
- Compatible with all regions.
- Real time game switching.
- The product comes with NO packing.
******The SX pro works on software versions 9.0.1 and below. But there is a NEW vesion of the Switch that is not currenty compatible with the SX pro. If you have bought your console after the middle of 2018 please check this guide BEFORE buying. We do not accept returns for incompatible consoles ******
Yes, it is normal for the SX Pro to make a buzz or a high pitched sound while it is plugged in. This is NORMAL! Do NOT use any other cable to charge the device except the one that comes WITH the SX Pro.
SX PRO now supports USB harddrives!!!
Please use a Y-split cable for more power if your 2.5" portable HDD does not get enough power.
Lots of info on the TX website
Please find below a brief Q&A that will answers the most commons questions that our technical support has received so far. Xecuter SX OS and products are fully updatable. This is reflected in some of the Q&A below.
We will support this product through the lifetime of the Switch with regular updates that will bring more features, ease of use and functionality to SX OS and the SX hardware product range. But lucky day 1 users will be delighted with the initial software features.
- Q: Can I update my Nintendo Switch to the latest firmware?
A: Up to 7.0.1 FIrmware
- Q: How are game ROMs launched? What format do they need to be in?
A: Games ROMs available right now compatible as-is.
Copy the XCI files to the root of your Nintendo Switch microSD card so SX OS will be able to find them.
- Q: How does the tool (jig) and dongle operate? Are they needed everytime you turn on the console?
A: If you don't want to make any (software) modifications to your Switch Console, both the Tool (jig) and dongle are needed every boot.
SX OS has an optional "AutoRCM" feature that can be installed to your Switch Console such that the jig tool is not needed anymore on boot.
- Q: How does the AutoRCM feature work?
A: The AutoRCM feature makes a tiny modification to your system's on-board storage via software, and from there on you will ONLY need the dongle (and won't have to press the volume key) when booting your console.
Please note: With the AutoRCM feature installed, your Switch will only boot up with the SX Pro Dongle inserted or by any other USB-C launching method currently available. Once booted, you can always uninstall AutoRCM through SX OS.
- Q: Is the license for life and updates included?
A: Yes, it is! All updates are free and for the lifetime of your console.
- Q: Is SX OS tied to my console/dongle?
A: Yes. In case of SX Pro the license is tied to your dongle and console. In case of SX Lite the license is tied to your license code and console.
- Q: Can we play eshop games?
A: The current version of SX OS only allows to play cartridge based games. But we're working hard to bring game titles that originate from different distribution media to SX OS as well! It is on our list of features to add in upcoming updates.
- Q: How will SX OS work?
A: The SX OS boot file and licenses can soon be retrieved from our easy to use website that will launch shortly. Simply follow instructions and you will be set up in a few minutes.
- Q: What do I need if I only buy SX OS?
A: We strongly recommend buying SX Pro for the ease of use and safely streamlined procedure. That being said, SX OS standalone can be launched from Windows using TegraRcmGUI (TegraRcmSmash) or from NXLoader on android (with a USB-otg adapter).
We offer support & warranty on your devices, please note any issues you face by errors/misuse of other methods will not be covered by our warranty.
- Q: Will SX Pro work with Switch Linux?
A: We will release a method of (chain)loading Linux using your SX Pro dongle soon.
- Q: Do we need to use the L/R buttons on the Joy-Con to switch game ROMs?
A: We are working on a more user-friendly menu that can be launched from the home menu.
We already have a working menu prototype that is fully functional but we are still improving it for our audiences.
- Q: Can SX products run homebrew software as well?
A: The initial release of SX OS will not have support yet for running homebrew software for all firmware versions. Currently only the standard method for installing homebrew is supported, which means limited to the specific firmware version 3.0.0.
We are in the final stages on adding support for running homebrew software regardless of firmware version and we expect to have this included with one of the first SX OS updates.
- Q: Can SX products run homebrew software as well?
A: The initial release of SX OS will have support for running homebrew software for all firmware versions.
In the initial release, launching the homebrew menu can be done by starting the photoviewer application while holding the R button on the Joy-Con. A file called "hbmenu.nro" needs to be on the root of the microSD card and a folder "switch" needs to contain all the homebrew applications.
We will naturally continue to improve homebrew support and easy of use in future update.
- Q: When you put your Switch into Sleep mode, do I need to insert dongle again upon waking up?
A: No, you don't. Just resume playing where you left it
- Q: Is it possible to install Game Updates (and does it requires to be on the latest firmware)?
A: Yes, you can install game and system updates. The game updates can be applied following Nintendo's usual rules, which sometimes requires you to be on the latest or a higher firmware than your console's current firmware.
- Q: If a game runs natively on an OFW x.yy and above, can SX OS run the game even if the console has a lower firmware?
A: Currently no. We have added that request to our list of features to look into.
- Q: Does SX OS supports online gaming?
A: SX OS supports playing online. However, we can't guarantee Nintendo is not able to detect you are using SX OS.
So playing online is at your own risk.
- Q: Can I buy one SX Pro and one SX OS license separately, and use the dongle and tool with two switches?
A: Yes, you can buy additional SX OS Licenses and use one dongle and tool for all your Switch consoles.
- Q: Which file format does SX OS support? What about split files?
A: We support both FAT32 and exFAT.
SX OS will also try to look for split files in the form of "filename.xc0" "filename.xc1" "filename.xc2" and so on to support ROMs larger than 4GB on FAT32.
- Q: Does SX OS support Emunand?
A: Currently it doesn't. This is a feature we can add in the future, but it is low in the priority list because of the small interest to the general public. But because Xecuter SX is also used by advanced users, we will add Emunand support at some point.
- Q: Can I backup my games with SX OS and create my own game ROMs?
A: Currently there's no easy way to backup games with SX OS. We will add support for this in an update.
- Q: Will you allow the use of different payloads?
A: We will allow it. Custom payload can be put on the microsd card. Details will follow.
- Q: How much space is used up on microSD for SX OS?
A: Only 16MB. To clarify, our OS will not alter in any way your microSD game & homebrew capacity.
- Q: Will Switch data such as savegames and updates be shared between the OFW and SX OS? Or are both systems separated?
A: Yes, SX OS and the original Switch OS share savegames and update data.
- Q: Does SX OS support trimmed XCI files or do they need to remain unaltered?
A: Yes, an app like https://github.com/Destiny1984/XCI-Cutter is supported.
- Q: Is it possible to play games from a External Harddrive?
Does SX allow us to use an external disk using the docking station or USB-C port?
A: This is a possibility in the future, we've added it to our to do list. (thanks to all users for making it already a few pages long
- Q: Can we expect cheat codes some day?
A: Cheats has always been a priority for our us. And we've already started looking into it.
It takes a while to make a decent and usable cheat system, your patience will be rewarded!
- Q: There has been a wave of bans happening lately. Does that confirm we won't be able to play online with SX OS?
A: There have indeed been a number of isolated ban incidents happening lately among some homebrew developers. The exact cause of these bans is not known as of yet.
But be cautious and use online functionality at your own risk!
- Q: Is it possible to play games from a External Harddrive?
The SX Pro once activated is locked to the console. I.e. Once you activated SX OS on that console you cannot transfer it to another console even if your cat poops on your console, you break it, etc etc. You can use the SX Pro to BOOT a console into SXOS, but you cannot unlock all the features of SX OS on more than one console ever. We don't control the database, Team X do.


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Following on from the Market Led Proposal Guidance announced last month, the government has today invited proposals for southern and western rail access to Heathrow.
It has estimated the cost of separate western the southern links at up to £0.9 billion and £1.4 billion respectively, making a total of £2.3 billion for the construction only (excluding operation, planning and financing costs).
Funding for the construction of both schemes is yet to be committed. The proposed western scheme has funding for the 'Develop' stage and the southern scheme is inviting proposals at the 'Pre-Determine' stage of the process for market-led proposals.
The Windsor Link Railway provides a solution to both western and southern access to Heathrow at potentially no cost to government, saving taxpayers an estimated £3 billion pounds as well as greater improvements to air quality in the vicinity of Heathrow. This also fits with Network Rail's advice to government, which is to consider rail access to Heathrow 'holistically'.

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Now it is being read, studied, commented on and examined for possible consequences. The Motu proprio of Pope Benedict XVI. which is supposed to revive the Latin Rite, which was last promulgated by Pope John XXIII. in 1962 in the official Missale Romanum and whose basics were defined by the Council of Trent (1545-1563), is making its way through the global Church. Especially through those parts in which the Tridentine Mass is a topic because they have religious institutes with an indult for the use of the old Missal or because the faithful are asking for Masses according to the old Missal.
In the Vatican it is well known where the champions of the "old" Mass are. The commission Ecclesia Dei takes care of that. It is supposed to build bridges to priests and religious who are sticking to the Tridentine Rite but, as opposed to the Lefebvrite SSPX, want to remain in full communion with Rome. To facilitate this, John Paul II. established Ecclesia Dei almost immediately after the illicit ordinations by Lefebvre. In the time since, the commission has acquired a very good idea of the "map" of traditionalists faithful to Rome.
A group of bishops from bishops conferences and dioceses that are on this "map" had been invited to the Apostolic Palace by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Bertone, to get more detailed information on the Motu proprio. Germany has friends of the "old" Mass, too, so Cardinal Lehmann, head of the German bishops conference, was there as well on Wednesday afternoon.
The Vatican hasn't published a list of the participants, but from within the Curia it has been said that among the participants were the president of the French bishops conference and Archbishop of Bordeaux, Cardinal Ricard and the Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Barbarin. Especially bishops from France and Germany had, in recent months, let the Pope know that they thought this liberalization of the Tridentine Mass was a step prone to sow confussion and possible splits among the faithful.
Further present were the vicar general of Rome, Cardinal Ruini, the president of the Italian bishops conference and archbishop of Genua, Bagnasco; the archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Cardinal O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston and Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis. Cardinal Pell of Sydney, Australia, Archbishop Toppo from India. Archbishop Engone of Gabon, Africa.
... That Pope Benedict spent an hour talking to the bishops about the Motu proprio shows that it is an issue very dear to his heart, that he wants it to be received positively and that it shouldn't be misunderstood. The Motu proprio is three pages long, the Pope's accompanying letter even a page longer.
As soon as all bishops of the global Church have received the documents, it can go into effect and will be published. Most observers think this will happen in a week (July 7th). The path taken by the Vatican in the publication of this Papal text is unusual. The danger is great that it will fall into journalists' hands before the official publication - it would then depend on the good faith and knowledge of the journalists, whether it will be quoted and described accurately.
Pope Benedict does not want to undo the liturgical reforms after the Second Vatican Council. He also does not want to kick out so-called people's altars and re-install communion rails. With the Motu proprio he simply wants to free a Rite which should not have been abolished with the stroke of a pen. As a cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger continually advocated the return of the Latin language to the Mass, that Gregorian Chant be sung and that the congregation does not stand around the altar fixated on the priest but rather face, together with the priest, towards East, looking towards God. Above all he wants that this liturgy, that was celebrated for centuries, expressing the holiest that the Church possesses, the Eucharistic sacrifice, lives again and continues to develop, accompanying the life of the faithful through time.
The greates point of criticism of the change of the Missals almost forty years ago for Pope Benedict: That an organically grown Rite was struck like some paragraphs in a law and that it was replaced by a new one that, although it included elements of the old one, was a construct, a fabrication that came in force by an act of ecclesial legislation. The old Rite was frozen. Now it is supposed to thaw. The return of the Tridentine Mass into the life of the Church is to him an enrichment, not a curtailment. It is a liberalization in the best meaning of the word, also with the goal to let new things grow. The Pope explicitly states the unity of the Roman Rite. But, this rite can from now on be celebrated in ordinary and in extraordinary form, whereas both are supposed to inspire one another.
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Wall Street recap: Dow Jones surges 2.6%, snapping a 4-day losing streak
The Dow Jones leapt 291 points or 2.6% to 11523, erasing more than half of last week's 4.8% steep losses. Sentiment was lifted following robust retail sales over the Thanksgiving weekend providing a strong start to the holiday shopping season and hopes that European leaders will boost efforts to end the debt crisis.
Euro-area finance ministers meet in Brussels today as governments bid to regain the confidence of financial markets, as Germany and France were exploring radical actions of securing deeper and more rapid fiscal integration among euro zone countries, before a European Union summit on 9 December.
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Many thanks to teacher Debbie Eernisse for putting on a great travel adventure, yoga-style for about 10 people on Sunday afternoon. We hope to have her back soon. The afternoon's favorite pose was "dead bug." Debbie works at Bo Tree and has her own yoga clients through FitDeb.
This event was part of Children's International Storytelling program that takes place monthly except for December. On Aug. 19, we will welcome Cara Patton back to I-House for her program.


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Location: 141 Diamond Ave. SE, Grand Rapids,MI 49506
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Hours: Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
For almost two decades Clothing Matters has been providing sustainably manufactured apparel to the public.
Marta Swain, owner of Clothing Matters, says everything about the store is environmentally conscious and over the last 19 years it has laid a foundation for conscious commerce. The eco-apparel store has received the 2013 101 Best and Brightest Sustainable Companies award, 2010 Townie award and the 2011 Green Champion award.
"The inspiration for Clothing Matters was reading the book Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken and learning that cotton was the most heavily treated crop in the world with carcinogenic chemicals and pesticides. I started researching apparel manufacturing and investing in 'clean' clothes that were manufactured with reduced pollution and promote social justice," Swain says.
Clothing Matters offers apparel manufactured by over 100 local, regional, domestic and international designers. Swain says all of their partners are committed to practices that pay fair wages and provide a healthy working environment for their employees. Some designers include Mary King, Rose Phillips and Yana Dee.
A few of the sustainable materials found at the store include organic cotton, soy, recycled fibers, bamboo, hemp and silk. According to the Clothing Matters website, these materials are grown without harmful chemicals and pesticides and are also durable, adaptable and have low impact on the environment. Products include clothing, shoes and accessories for women, men and children.
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Friendship Day sales has finally arrived , and all the Librarians were as busy as bees helping out. With a lot of effort put into preparing the wares (they are all hand-made, you know), we were all set to sell and make money! The sales had gone on for three days, that is from Wednesday unil Friday, and I must say, we did quite well ... I mean very well. Loads of people stop by at our makeshift stall to check out the stuff we were selling, as we try to capture their attention to buy our trinkets. I daresay we were neck-at-neck with the Young Enterpreneurs, who regularly monopolise this event's sales.
Basically these were what we sold:
Basically these were what we sold:
Tissue flowers (okay, this is not the actual picture, but they do resemble these): RM 1.00
Pleated wristband: RM 4.00
Basically, we had brisk sales, especially with the cookies (it virtually disappeared into thin air, and turned into money before anyone realised it :P)
I don't know how much money we made but I know that we Librarians had great fun selling! Pictures will be uploaded soon. That's all for now, so yeah.
If you missed the sales, don't worry, because Library Week is coming soon, so get ready your shopping money, and stay tuned!
P.S: To those who bought our wares, thank you for supporting us! Your money will be used to maintain the Library and keep it running.
P.S: To those who bought our wares, thank you for supporting us! Your money will be used to maintain the Library and keep it running.
P.P.S: To all the librarians that helped out, thank you for your efforts, because without you, our sales wouldn't be such a success!
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Light emitting diodes commonly known as LED lighting is the latest and the most exciting advancement in the lighting industry. They are small, solid light bulbs that are long lasting and extremely energy efficient. Their mode of operation is also different from traditional incandescent light bulbs, a factor that makes them more durable and rugged than traditional incandescent light bulbs. The quality of light that LED emits is neither too bright nor too dull, a factor that makes them perfect for both indoor and outdoor lighting. Recent advancement in LED lighting technology has given them solid advantages over traditional incandescent bulbs when it comes to saving energy as well as improving safety and security. Continue reading


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Reflections of a former underground disc jockey
The talk in sprawling Fulton 511 was billed as "Let's Twist Again: The Traumatic Saga of Russian Rock Music," a title no doubt meant to attract the attention of American college students. But only a handful of listeners turned out on that unseasonably cold April day. Elena Lapitsky, a lecturer in Russian language, brought several students from her "Practice of Russian Speech" class, hoping to share with them some of the music she remembered from her youth in Latvia. Most of the rest of the 11-strong audience spoke to one another in Russian.
The guest lecturer, a trim man with close-cropped graying hair and fashionable salt-and-pepper stubble, was the veteran rock DJ and critic Artemy Troitsky, one of Russia's first and best-known pop-culture writers. "Troitsky's a living legend where I come from," said Timur Zyapparov later. A student at the Graduate School of Social Work and a native of Kazan, Russia, Zyapparov had come for the chance to see the celebrity in person. "I just could not believe my eyes," he said. "He's been covering Russian rock music since it began."
Troitsky made his name in the early 1970s when he became the first rock DJ in Russia, spinning records for an audience at a Moscow State University café. Over the next three decades, he promoted and chronicled rock and roll (his 1975 story for Rovesnik, the official Soviet youth journal, on the British group Deep Purple is considered a landmark), even as the Soviet government forbade rock concerts, prohibited the music's distribution, and, through censorship, denied the existence of Russian offshoots.
"I remember his articles from when I was in high school in Moscow, when Russian rock was an underground scene," said Maxim D. Shrayer, professor of Russian and English and the chair of Boston College's Slavic and Eastern languages department, which sponsored the lecture. Shrayer, who left Moscow in 1987 at the age of 20, introduced Troitsky and later spoke about his critical role in capturing the movement's history. "Russian rock during the Soviet years was a power tool of subversion and resistance and the government literally wanted no record of it," he said.
Troitsky's talk was the second in what the department plans will be a series of visits by distinguished figures of post-Soviet culture and media. In October 2006 the political analyst Evgeny Kiselev, former chief correspondent of NTV, Russia's once-independent TV station, spoke about the political war in Chechnya and the corruption of the press in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
"There is a certain serious stereotype of Russia and its high culture that people carry in the West, and it doesn't include things like pop culture," Shrayer said a few days after Troitsky's visit. "We hope the [lecture series] will show students that Russia is not just about great novels."
Troitsky, 52, belongs to the first generation to grow up with Russian rock. Young Russians fell in love with rock music in the early 1960s with the emergence of the Beatles, he told the audience. Beatles songs, "a hybrid of American electric music with rock and roll drive and a European music very melodic with beautiful harmonic vocals," were more appealing to Russians than rhythm-centric American rock.
Russian bands started off covering Western rock songs, and by the mid-1960s were writing their own material. But according to Troitsky, Russian rock, with its minimalist mix of acoustic guitars and soft beats paired with impassioned lyrics, is not really rock in the Western sense of the word. "It has never been especially sexy, nor funky, nor energetic," he said. Rather, it reflects a traditional cultural taste for poetry and "schmaltzy . . . melodic [songs] you can sing along to, especially if you're drunk and [sitting] around the table."
In the United States, rock and roll was rebellious—it was black music introduced to a white culture in a segregated society and it emerged alongside new ideas about sex and race. But in Russia, Troitsky said, the rebellion was more basic, driven by a thirst for cultural freedom and an urge to stray from the strict dictates of Soviet society. In the 1950s and early 1960s in America, "the official dogma had been, 'sex is sinful.' In the Soviet Union, the common understanding was that 'sex doesn't exist,'" he said to a swell of laughter.
Although Russian rock rarely criticized the establishment overtly, the Soviet government frowned upon its Western roots and "negative" subject matter: the problems of everyday life, drugs, alcohol, loneliness, betrayal, alienation. The music was never outlawed, but authorities kept a tight rein: Only musicians approved and registered by the state—classical musicians, opera singers, jazz and folk musicians who sang about love and vitality—could perform in concert halls or record on the state-owned record label. And so, Russian bands released their songs on magnitizdat recordings—reel-to-reel dubs of bootleg quality. Western rock records, sold only on the black market, were sometimes distributed on discarded X-ray plates—plastic photographs of bones imprinted with record grooves.
Through the early 1980s, bands performed in scattered canteens, small bars, clubs, and student dorms—concerts the government tolerated, but made difficult. The musicians could not publicize their performances; singers were required to submit their lyrics beforehand to censors.
For Elena Lapitsky, Troitsky's recollections opened a door back into life in the U.S.S.R. Occasionally, if bands ignored local censors, or if the crowd numbers swelled, she said later, their electricity was pulled midsong. "When I was in high school in the 1970s, there were huge illegal rock concerts in the woods," she said. "Sometimes, police would shut [the concerts] down or take people into custody."
Troitsky described how by the early 1980s rock and roll had nonetheless swept the country. Soviet authorities tried to take control by opening a state-run rock club in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). All live performances in the rest of the country—and any articles written about rock—were banned. Troitsky's writings reached their audience through underground samizdat publications—magazines typed on carbon paper and passed from hand to hand.
Troitsky peppered his talk with music video clips of rock bands from each of the decades he described—though the videos themselves, he reminded the audience, weren't made until the post-Soviet era, when Gorbachev's perestroika loosened the strictures on Russian rock along with the rest of Soviet culture. The hushed acoustics and steady beats of Machina Vremeni (Time Machine) filled the room, and later the crooning of Akvarium (Aquarium)—famous artists in Russia who have little name recognition elsewhere. Some audience members nodded or cheered softly when favorite bands appeared.
At the end of the lecture, Troitsky took questions. Zyapparov asked about the current state of Russian rock. "Technically it's still alive," Troitsky told him, but with the old establishment brought down, "the original meaning of Russian rock is lost now."
Alexei Colin, a Harvard freshman and native of Moldova who had taken two buses in the rain to hear the lecture, asked Troitsky about his experience working and playing music in his current job with a Russian radio network. "I listen to him at least an hour a week on the Web and I extremely love him," Colin said while waiting in line to speak one-on-one with Troitsky. He paused, trying to overhear the journalist's conversation in Russian with the students in front of him. "I didn't recognize Troitsky's voice until I heard him say some words in Russian. Now, it's amazing—the voice of Russian rock music is right here in the room."
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I will start an SPSS Modeler Stream with an TI Process (IBM TM1). In the TI process I use the command "EexecuteCommand". This command is able to execute an command who is working in the console (cmd).
So now the problem: I can start with this command " C:\Program Files\ibm\SPSS\ModelerBatch\18.0\bin\clemb -server -hostname 184.108.40.206 -port 28053 -username user -password * -stream C:\Share\TM1_Script.str -excecute " the SPSS Stream automatically in the background UNTIL I have to enter the password for the TM1 Connection. The reason why I have to enter this TM1 Connection password is, that I use in the SPSS Modeler Stream the TM1 Import and Export knot. (The "clemb" command is used to start the Stream in the SPSS Modeler Batch 18.0 version.)
So now the question: How can I add this TM1 connection in this command: " C:\Program Files\ibm\SPSS\ModelerBatch\18.0\bin\clemb -server -hostname 184.108.40.206 -port 28053 -username user -password * -stream C:\Share\TM1_Script.str -excecute" to execute the Stream completely automatially? (If it works completely automatically, it should work with an TI process.)
In the SPSS Modeler Batch 18.0 User Guide stand, that you should have to use this parameter
" -P:tm1import.tm1_connection={\"TM1-Server-name\",\"\",\"admin\",\"\"} " , BUT this parameter doesn't work.
Programs wihch I use: -SPSS Modeler Server 18.0 -SPSS Modeler Batch 18.0 -IBM TM1
I hope someone can help me.
Answer by Kenneth Jensen (IBM) (2577) | Dec 15, 2016 at 11:18 AM
Unfortunately, the example that is shown on page 13 of the IBM SPSS Modeler 18.0 Batch User's Guide is using a node that is deprecated in SPSS Modeler 18.0. The example illustrates how to escape quotes in a structured parameter, but it is using a deprecated node type for the example.
In SPSS Modeler 18.0 you should be using the tm1odataimport node, which is the one that is available in the "Sources" palette.
the name of the node type is different and each of the connection details is listed in separate properties. Please review the tm1odataimport page to find the details, but your command should be something like:
You would have to include additional properties to supply the credentials themselves and if needed the views, columns, and rows to select from the server.
Answer by P.P.W. (1) | Dec 19, 2016 at 04:25 AM
@Kenneth Jensen Thank you for the answer. But how is the right syntax of this parameter: input_credential
Please, can you make me an example?
Answer by Kenneth Jensen (IBM) (2577) | Dec 19, 2016 at 07:59 AM
An example for this would have been very useful like they have for most of the other properties, but the data type for the property is "List" and lists are usually enclosed in square brackets and the elements are separated by commas.
I think it would look like the example below:
-P:tm1odataimport.input_credential=["Arcidia", "Doctor", "d0nnaNob1e"]
Where the domain is "Arcadia", the username is "Doctor", and the password is "d0nnaNob1e".
Answer by P.P.W. (1) | Dec 19, 2016 at 10:21 AM
@Kenneth Jensen First thanks, for the example.
BUT I have a problem with the domain statement. I am not sure which domain have to stand there?
Need I the domain, from the TM1 Server or is it enough to write here the TM1 server name or something else? Because the username and the password have to be from the TM1 server or ?
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Brit banker Rurik Jutting kept a prostitute captive for three days 'so he could experiment with torture and death'
Court hears he gave his victim a chance to stab him in the neck but she handed back the knife
TWISTED killer Rurik Jutting kept a prostitute captive for three days so he could ''experiment'' with torture and death, a court has heard.
Cambridge Uni graduate Jutting, 31, wrapped a towel around her neck and threatened her with a knife, during a cocaine and booze-fuelled binge as he acted out his sick fantasies.
Grim details emerged on day seven of his trial at Hong Kong's High Court in a psychiatric report prepared for the prosecution by Dr Kavin Chow Kit-wan.
Quoting from Dr Chow's report prosecutor John Reading, said:''He wanted to experiment on her and see if she accepted death.
''He wrapped a towel around her throat as a symbol. She did not struggle or cry out and he eventually picked up a large knife from the kitchen and slit her throat.''
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'A FRAGILE SHELL'Brit prostitute killer suffered from 'sexual sadism disorder' after he was 'abused at Winchester College'
LAUGH OF A KILLERBrit psycho banker 'chuckled as he calmly told cops how he slit sex worker's throat in coke-fuelled spree'
KILLER'S BLOODY RAMPAGEBanker Rurik Jutting 'used both hands to hack through prostitute's neck with knife'
'I MURDERED her... I've done a lot of coke'Jury in trial of 'psycho' banker Rurik Jutting shown horrific footage of him torturing prostitute for three days
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The court heard how at one stage Jutting had given first victim Sumarti Ningsih, 23, a knife and made her point it at his throat to see what she would do but she gave it back to him.
It also emerged he left his 31st floor apartment several times during her three day ordeal to buy alcohol and cocaine only loosely tying the door, giving her the opportunity to escape.
Dr Chow also highlighted how he described himself as ''96 per cent heterosexual'' after a series of homosexual experiences at school, university and in his 20s.
Jurors heard earlier this week that Jutting had been forced to perform oral sex on an older pupil when he was 13 and attending prestigious £34,000 a year Winchester School.
Dr Chow said he told her he had a gay relationship while studying history and law at Cambridge and afterwards with a black Canadian and a pre-op trans gender Filipino.
Jutting also told her he had nine serious relationships with women since he was 16 years old and they had lasted between ten months and two and a half years.
Dr Chow said he had started to enjoy rough sex with his girlfriends from 2007 onwards just after he left Cambridge and started using prostitutes regularly two years later.
Prosecutor John Reading read another extract from Dr Chow's report about one unidentified British girlfriend.
He said: ''He would choke and slap her with her consent but with limitations as he didn't want to hurt her.''
But after starting to use prostitutes more regularly he began ''to enjoy sex workers who liked to be controlled'' as his interest in violent porn soared.
Jutting told Dr Chow another fantasy that sexually aroused him was ''kidnapping a young mother with her baby and taking her to a remote area of the UK as she would be easier to tie up''.
She also revealed how after killing second victim Seneng Mujiasih, 26, five days after the first murder he had called The Guardian newspaper, mum Helen and his boss at work.
Jutting denies two charges of murder but admits manslaughter due to diminished responsibility but the prosecution are fighting his defence and pushing for a life sentence.
Earlier his legal team told the court Jutting suffered from narcissistic personality disorder, sadistic sexual disorder and cocaine and alcohol abuse.
Dr Chow said she felt he was ''calm and cooperative'' and added:''He suffered from traits of narcissistic but it was not the level of a disorder.''
She added she felt he ''should'' have been able to control himself despite taking drugs and alcohol before and after the killings.
Dr Chow said: ''He was calm and rational just before and just after the killings. He was making rational calm decisions.
''Despite the presence of an abnormality of the mind it didn't substantially impair his mental responsibility.''
During cross examination by Tim Owen QC in which he labelled her theory "absurd and contradictory'' Jutting, dressed in a light blue shirt could be seen smiling.
Forensic psychiatrist Oliver Chan, another prosecution witness, told the court of his interviews with Jutting.
Dr Chan said:"He preferred diminutive, small Asian women, so he could relate to his sadistic sexual sadism, they were submissive and easier to handle."
Describing Jutting's attitude to his first victim Dr Chan said: "He was annoyed that initially she was not scared of him.
"So he told her had tried to kill people before to make her feel scared, he wanted to exercise control over her."
He agreed with Dr Chow that Jutting "should" have been able to control himself and this was highlighted by Mr Owen in his cross examination.
He asked him:"Is it a coincidence you have used the same language in your reports ? Have you discussed this case with her ?"
Dr Chan said he had not although he admitted this was his first sex murder case since he qualified in 2014.
Jutting, originally from Cobham, Surrey, admits preventing lawful burial of Sumarti's body and the trial continues.
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The gaze!
I see both wisdom and innocense in each of your gazes.
Both lioness and cub
Both wisdom and innocense
Both curiosity and knowing
Naomi and Tanya
North Shore, Oahu
Remembering the warrior of past
She stepped to the edge and slowly exposed her strength!
Proud and Confident was she!
DON'T FUCK WITH ME came shouting out of her without a noise or flicker. Solid and ready to defend!
I see a warrior of past...
North Shore, Oahu
a protective instinct is rooted from lives lived
The watcher, the looker, the one who signals when the wave is near.
Wisdom evolves as she watches
She knows the risks and lives her life anyway..without fear!
She is strategic, but her plan is simple...PROTECT!


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Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma vetoed a bill on Friday that would have eliminated the need for training and permits to carry a gun in public, dealing a blow to gun-rights activists in one of the most firearm-friendly states.
The bill, which had broad support in the state's Republican-controlled Legislature but had troubled some law enforcement officials, "would have eliminated the requirement to complete a short firearms safety and training course from a certified instructor and demonstrate competency with a pistol before carrying a gun in public," according to the governor's office.
"I believe the firearms laws we currently have in place are effective, appropriate and minimal, and serve to reassure our citizens that people who are carrying handguns in this state are qualified to do so," Ms. Fallin, a Republican, said in a statement.
As do most states, Oklahoma currently requires adults to have a license to carry a handgun, whether openly or concealed. The bill, which was written by State Senator Nathan Dahm, would have created a much simpler route to legally carrying a gun in public: turning 21 years old.
Had the bill, S.B. 1212, been signed into law, Oklahoma would have kept its licensing provisions on the books, but no longer mandated them for those wishing to carry a firearm in public. Rather, the bill would have opened up the right to bear a firearm "concealed or unconcealed, loaded or unloaded," to anyone at least 21 years old who hadn't been convicted of assault and battery, domestic abuse, stalking or other violations.
Mr. Dahm said that under current law, Oklahomans are subject to greater restrictions while on Oklahoma soil than visiting gun owners from so-called "constitutional carry" states, which are broadly permissive. About a dozen states currently allow citizens to carry firearms without a permit.
Lawmakers who supported the bill did not hesitate to challenge the pro-gun bona fides of Ms. Fallin, a two-term governor who cannot seek re-election when Oklahomans go to vote in November because of term limits.
"I think Governor Fallin, quite frankly, is anti-Second Amendment," said Anthony Sykes, a Republican state senator who described himself as "disappointed but not surprised" by the veto. Like Mr. Dahm, he said he took issue with the costs and inconveniences currently required to obtain gun licenses.
"I don't think you should have to pay the government to exercise your constitutional rights," he said.
Chris W. Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, emphasized that the cause of constitutional carry would live on in Oklahoma.
"Make no mistake, this temporary setback will be rectified when Oklahoma residents elect a new, and genuinely pro-Second Amendment governor," he said in a statement.
In her statement, Ms. Fallin emphasized her past support for the expansion of gun rights. "As governor, I have signed both concealed-carry and open-carry legislation," she said. "I support the right to bear arms and own a pistol, a rifle and a shotgun."


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There are no concrete rules to guarantee Facebook marketing success. Make sure that you develop a strategy related to your business. The article below will give you some powerful guidelines you can use to benefit from this great marketing tool.
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Since you now understand the topic, you should now use the knowledge acquired from this article. Use this knowledge to improve your business marketing. Get started now, and soon you'll be seeing success.


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ST. CHARLES, MO – A St. Charles man faced with a life-changing diagnosis will embark on a challenge that will push his body to the limit. As the sun rises over the Colorado mountains Saturday morning (Aug. 18), Matthew Porter will begin running and will not stop for nearly 30 hours.
For two years, Porter has been training for the Leadville Trail 100, an annual ultramarathon that will take him on trails and dirt roads near Leadville, CO through the heart of the Rocky Mountains.
Three and a half years ago, a doctor ordered an MRI to look into some tension Porter was feeling in his back. That is when the doctor first noticed signs of Multiple Sclerosis.
On a scale from one to ten, Porter says most days his pain is at a two or three. On the bad days, it is closer to a seven or eight. Sometimes he experiences uncontrollable tingling from his fingertips to the back of his skull. Other times, his chest muscles contract intensely into what he says people in the M.S. community call the "M.S. hug."
Good luck to Matthew Porter who is going to be running in the Leadville 100 Ultramarathon. It will be quite a challenge for him going from elevation of 577 feet in St. Charles, Missouri to an elevation of 10,152 feet in Leadville Colorado. Leadville has the highest elevation of an incorporated city in the United States. Leadville's elevation is so high that you can't boil water there.
According to the National MS Society as of October of 2016, there were 14,420 people in Colorado living with Multiple Sclerosis and 11,101 living with the disease in Missouri.


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TMNT Cover Swipes
Last week I went to my first live auction. There were 2 estates that had comics being auctioned one of which was an old comic store's stock. 49 different copies of New Mutants 98 were auctioned off so I was hoping to get a few to resell. Each and every copy went for over $300! One guy kept bidding them up to $325 or $350 which didn't even include 7% sales tax plus a 15% buyer's premium! I'm not sure how much money he thought he was going to make but he kept buying. I managed to snag a few decent lots including 3 copies of Amazing Spider-Man 361 plus a few of the early Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles books including a third printing of the first issue. All in all it was a very fun but tiring day that I think everyone should try at least once. The exhilaration of actually winning a live auction is quite the rush! Why the long auction story you ask? I figured I would use this article to highlight some TMNT cover swipes!
TMNT 2 Fred Hembeck Variant
Daredevil 189
|This one was tough to track down but I knew I had seen it before. Tricky ol' Freddy Hembeck!
TMNT 3 Fred Hembeck Variant
|Daredevil 181
|A few of these, as is the case with many of my articles have been highlighted in previous cover swipe articles. I have no original ideas…why do you think I write about cover swipes! Not much to say about this one other than it's a perfect example of what a cover swipe should be.
|TMNT 4 Fred Hembeck Variant
|Daredevil 175
|I'm not a huge fan of Fred Hembeck's work in general but these cover swipes are great! I wonder if artists have to get permission to swipe covers like they do.
|TMNT 6 Rob Guillory Variant
Enter The Dragon Movie Poster
|This movie blew my mind the first time I saw it. Where else would you find Bruce Lee, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Chuck Norris together in a movie??? Incredible!
|Issue 12 of the IDW was a modernized swipe of the first issue of the original Mirage series.
|TMNT 18 Torres Variant
Nirvana: Nevermind
|I know I covered the Nirvana cover in the article I did on the Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth article but here is another swipe of that album cover. Mikey loves his pizza!
|TMNT 22 Phantom Variant
Incredible Hulk 340
|This swipe is incredible! I need one of these!
TMNT 48 Subscription Cover
|Weird Science 19
|I don't know the significance of Weird Science 19 but I'm sure Ben C has 20 copies of it in his house. We really need to get an article on this website that shows people's collections in all their glory. Where they keep them, how they display them, etc. Make it happen Iñigo!
(Iñigo replies: We already tried but we didn't get many submissions, if anyone out there wants to feature your collection, send us an email!)


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There's been a bit of a shave on the asking price of Cummeen, a comfortable bungalow and lifestyle option, on a very comfortable three-acre site 18 miles from the city.
Size: 1,300sq ft, 3 acres
Bathrooms: 1 + 1
Bedrooms: 3 + 1
The mix includes a private home with conservatory, big front garden, an even bigger 2.5 acre field, plus the bonus of a relatively self-contained one-bed chalet, suitable for office/therapy uses, or guests; it even has a sauna in its bathroom.
Selling agent is John O'Mahony, of O'Mahony Walsh in Ballincollig, and he's just this week dropped the asking price from €260,000 to €249,000, describing the home as being in immaculate order, on manicured grounds which include a large shed with a lean-to, polytunnel, veg beds, shrubs and more.
It's an easy commute to and from Cork city, he suggests, and overlooks a rural valley, while the field behind allows for even more horticultural activity, or keeping pigs, ponies or poultry. The residence has two reception rooms, sunroom, kitchen, three bedrooms with built-ins, and a bathroom. The chalet alongside is well insulated with services, with a living room, bedroom and bathroom.
Meanwhile, hoping to counter the summer market lull, the same agent, Mr O'Mahony, has also reduced the price on 55 Earlwood Estate by Cork city's Lough from €310,000 to €298,000.
It's a three-bed semi-d, with garage and good back garden, but with an F BER and a dated look, it needs further spending.
VERDICT: Price drops make these two worth examining
© Irish Examiner Ltd. All rights reserved


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Waffles is a 24-hour breakfast diner, a step down from just about any other resteraunt you've ever eaten at and it is attached to the Waffle Bar. The two places share the same owner, but the Waffle Bar is not, as you might suspect, a place to get more waffles. The Waffle Bar had illusions of being a sports bar, like cats had illusions of being Lions. It's hard to say which establishment was dragging the other deeper into the muck faster. The bar part of the place opens at 7 am, the earliest a hard liquor joint can open in the state, it closes every night at 3 am and is not closed for any holidays. Consistency, that's what the owner, Mel, said he strived for. Cops loved the place. Cops ate free; this was a courtesy Mel had extended even to me, as I was a 'friend of the officers'. Once the free grub started being served up the robberies and trouble went way down. Mel reinvested his non-stolen profits into God knows what; the money certainly didn't make its way back into either business. Despite the sketchy legality of such gifts, Mel was also known to serve liquor up to the off duty police too. I didn't get that benefit, probably because Mel knows a losing bet when he sees one.
Clarence was already there when I arrived. In Waffles, not the bar. He looked too damned refreshed and rested for my taste; it wasn't natural. At least I had clean clothes and a few hours of sleep under my belt. I nodded at Shirley for coffee and sat down in the booth across from Clarence.
"What happened?" I asked.
"About nine-thirty somebody got into Dog's house and cut him apart. Like Mister Three Piece, same m.o. as before."
"Anyone check on Slice?"
Clarence nodded and took a sip of coffee, judging by the empty sugar packets he was on his third or fourth one. "Slice is gone. Not in lock up. There was a lot of blood at the scene, not all of it was Dogs'. We are having it tested against what we have on file for Slice."
"It'll match." I sighed heavy, "So we got a teleporter, someone was getting him in and out."
"The prison checked the cameras. Most of the shiners are under 24-hour camera surveillance because he was due on parole, Slice was in the general population, they didn't have a camera trained on him at all times. His roomie, also being released in a few weeks, swears he didn't see anything."
"Great. Slice is out and already wanted for capital murder, probably two counts. How'd the fight go down?" What I meant was how did Dog even have a chance to fight back. Slice could have cut his head off first unless he was playing. Mister Three Piece hadn't been tortured, as far as I could tell whoever killed him had done it quickly and humanely.
"I don't know. There are no signs of forced entry. Dog's kids were in school, his wife was at her job, he was there alone. He was…" Clarence paused while Shirley set down my coffee. He waited until she was out of earshot and continued, "His right arm was off, at the shoulder, his left hand was gone at the wrist, then there was a lateral cut, left shoulder to right hip that finished him off. He had a gun handy, behind the headboard and it looks like he got the gun out before he lost his arm, the gun fell on the floor, clutched in his left hand, he got off three shots. 410 buckshot, won't go through walls, but it's plenty good at point blank range. He hit was he was aiming at, there was plenty of blood and splatter where we know the perp had to be standing. Then, well, that last cut finished him off."
"Geezus." I took a gulp of black coffee, lucky for me it wasn't boiling, only warm and I was able to get it down.
"Yeah. Two kids and a young wife. You knew Slice, didn't you? Back in the day?"
I nodded, "I knew him."
"Before you straightened out?"
"We were associated with the Vitellos, yeah, couriers and stuff. He was destined for greater things, his shine had already come out, and I was still finding mine."
"You saw his handiwork?"
I nodded, not wanting to relive this part of my past.
"So you recognized it last night?"
"Which is why I said what I did. Look, Clarence, you were a rookie back then too, I know you saw what he could do as well. So why are you asking me this?"
"You didn't turn him in, Billy. And you didn't testify against him either."
"He was my wake up call. The district attorney never contacted me, I wasn't involved in the killing he went down for. I thought he got life for murder one, so by the time sentencing rolled around, we were splits. Then the gang war started, and I was out. Took a vacation. For a year. Went and lived with my mom and dad back in Cheyenne, got my head on straight, figured out what I was good at."
"Why'd you come back?"
"Cheyenne doesn't have a real call for my kind of talent. What's with the questions, Clarence? You think I was involved with this?"
"Here is what I think." His expression grew grim, "I think if some young punk would have stepped forward thirteen years ago, maybe Slice would have went down for murder one, maybe he would have got the needle, and I wouldn't have two more bodies on my hands."
I thought about that for a moment and nodded, "Could be. Three, though, don't forget Hawk."
Clarence shrugged, "Yeah, well maybe Hawk wouldn't have been killed either, maybe he would have. We matched the blood from Mister Three Piece to what we found at Hawk's place. We're running the DNA, and we should know for certain in a day."
"I know for certain now. Dog knew for certain too. Mister Three Piece was out of town talent, probably from way out of town."
"C'mon Clarence, investigation 101, the kid was tan. He wasn't from around here, we'd have heard of him. So some other warm climate, did he look Hispanic to you?"
"This time of year…yeah, I can see that he came from somewhere warm. Not sure on the race thing, he looked more…Greek to me. Italian?"
"The Vitellos?" I shook my head, "I doubt they have a horse in this race, they are fine for your common extortion or larceny, but they don't do murder these days, and this is super high profile. Assuming whoever did this didn't teleport him around you might keep an eye out for a rental car collecting dust in the next few days."
"I can do that part of my job." Clarence said.
"Oh? I'm not so sure you can, Detective. Coming in here, trying to associate three present day murders with something I didn't do thirteen years ago? We're supposed to be on the same side." I drained my coffee and stood up. "Call me when the funerals are arranged would you?"
"Don't go away mad, Billy…" Clarence called after me.
I turned, "Mad? I'm not mad, Clarence. Just tired. Maybe I could have changed things back then. Maybe I could have made a difference, it's water under the bridge. Going back and bringing it up doesn't do anyone any good."
He didn't say anything else, and I turned and moved towards the door. I slapped a one on the counter and called out to Shirley, "Thanks for the coffee." Before I left.
I could have gone back to Ruby's but decided to head for my office. It was lunch time, so I didn't bother calling her. Instead, I sent her one of those text messages that she hates so much, to let her know I wouldn't be around when she finished after the lunch shift.
My office was downtown and came with a parking permit. After I had pulled in I decided I had better do something with all that money Hawk had given me, I gathered it up and filled my inside pockets, peeling off three hundreds, which I wedged back into the seat. I was surprised to find a twenty already there that I had forgotten about. The Bank of Billy paid no dividends, but at least I didn't have to worry about losing my ATM card.
My office was dark, dank and looked like it came right out of the 1930's. A look I fostered with great care. It was rented space in a much larger building, I was on the third floor overlooking the parking lot, not the ocean. The space was split into three rooms, a reception area with a massive desk, sporting a typewriter and a phone, a galley kitchen with a small fridge, coffee maker and a hot plate and my actual office, closed off from the other two rooms by a frosted glass door. The bathrooms were down the hall, which was unfortunate, or I could have lived in the place. I hadn't had a receptionist in years, these days with the rise of modern technology; I could make my own coffee and take my own calls. As I approached, I noticed blood drops on the floor and that the front door to the reception area was open.
There was blood on the doorknob and in splotches on the floor. The smart thing to do would be to call the police. I knew it was Slice. I didn't call the police. We had history, and I thought it would save me.
I pushed the door open, nothing in reception, the blood trail led to the kitchen and to my office. I closed the door loudly behind me. "Slice? I'm alone."
"Back here." Came the muffled reply from my office.
"Fuck." I whispered under my breath, more loudly I asked, "What are you doing here?
"C'mon back, Compass."
'Compass,' there's a name I hadn't heard in over a decade. Shiner names come and go out of style every few years, with some insisting on being called, 'Ralph Jones' and others picking up a moniker from the media or their peers that they slowly start to use. I'd been called 'Compass' a time or two, but it only really stuck with the people I used to run with. I also used it for my company name; Compass Investigations, but that's as far as it ever went.
Gun drawn I pushed my office door open with my off hand. Slice was there and even in the dim light I could see he wasn't long for the world. He was lying on my leather divan, a piece salvaged from the trash 8 years ago, also where I had intended to do my afternoon's work. My inner office had a desk even larger than the reception area; the boss should always have the biggest desk. I kept a filing cabinet too, though it was mostly for show; unlike Hawk's system, I embraced electronic documents. There was an upright fav with bare metal blades sitting behind the desk, a trash can, my laptop and a stapler for office related items. For décor, I had a huge picture of dogs playing pool on the back wall, picked up around the same time and from the same place as my divan.
"Geezus, Slice, what the hell happened to you? I thought you were in prison."
He looked at me with bleary eyes, "You never were a good liar. Let's get down to brass tacks."
I nodded, watching his hands. One was pressed against his stomach, holding a roll's worth of blood soaked paper towels to his gut, the other was casually pointed my direction. That's the one I watched.
"You never sold me out."
I nodded, "Is that going to save me today?"
"I'm thinking about it."
"Why are you here?"
"We had some good times, me and you, back in the day. Didn't we?" Slice said.
"Some and some not so good ones too. I remember them."
"I…we...made some bad choices."
"We could have made better ones, I admit. Drink?" I edged towards my desk not letting my gun barrel waver from him.
"Ah, hell, Compass. Let's not be like this, not now." He slowly clenched his free hand and grimaced as he shoved it under his leg.
I let the barrel of my gun drop and turned my back on him to pull out the whiskey from the bottom drawer of my desk. I only had one glass, so I filled it and then took two steps to the divan to sit the bottle on the floor beside him. I returned to my worn chair and sat down, spinning to face him.
"Fuck it, Slice." I set the gun down on the desktop and picked up the glass of amber liquid with my right hand. "If you're gonna cut me, now's your chance."
He struggled to pull his hand out from beneath him, but only reached for the bottle. I raised my glass in salute, and he returned the gesture.
"Why are you here?" I asked him again.
"To kill you."


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fragrance and hand cream. The design was to create a basic mortar and pestle set, which is described by the student as a 'spoon and cup'. The set needs to be big enough for the student to use it to manufacture/mix the hand cream.
Background: The student is working with learning support with a teacher aide to produce the product. The teacher aide has not used the 3D Printer previously to produce a product, the student requires learning assistance from other students to complete set tasks. This was both (the teacher and students) first 3D Printed project. The student was a Y5 (nine year old) who typically works at curriculum level 1 (Y1 - five years old).
Timeframe: Both objects in the matching set were completed in ten hours - they could have been resized slightly given the brief, and adjustments made, but given the scale and the first print ever nature of the project this was
Size: Both prints were combined on a single run. The 'spoon' was 16cm long, 2cm high and 3cm wide. Conceivable it could have been thinner or smaller however given the student concerned the bigger item was more desirable.
What we would do differently: Our class typically personalises items such as this. Clearly it would have been easy to insert the students name into the spoon and cup, or both. This didn't happen as the skill set wasn't there yet but once this print is discussed and the student spoken with (and the staff member) then other students will assist in getting it completed.
Next Steps for Students: We are anticipating other students come on board to assist with the more detailed aspects of design. There is the obvious step of personalising the cup and spoon with either the name of the student or the business by dropping it into the cup, and then to remove rafting, as has been done on previous prints/projects.


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"Mullah Hashim, a well-known field commander, is among the bodies of the militants," the ministry said.
The Taliban carried out more than 140 suicide missions in Afghanistan last year. More than 6,000 people were killed in violence in the country in 2007, nearly 2,000 of them civilians, according to official sources.
Taliban militants are especially active in the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan, which border on Pakistan.