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Press hardening steel answers several challenges within the automotive industry by successfully meeting the requirements of increased safety whilst at the same time contributing to lighter, more eco-friendly materials.
Strength levels can be up as high as 1500MPa meaning application in passive safety systems such as side impact beams works very effectively.
Today's car bodies have to meet various different and partly contrary requirements in the automotive industry. Higher demands on passive safety tend to result in weight increase while ecological aspects like reduction of fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emission call for light weight constructions. The application of high strength steels was the first answer to ensure the required safety directives in a light weight car body construction. Although high strength steels have superior mechanical properties, stamping operations become more difficult. High strength goes parallel with reduced formability, increased spring back behavior and excessive tool wear in cold forming applications.
Press hardening steel has become a much used material in car body manufacturing due to its excellent safety and lightweight potential. In some recent car models press hardening steel has reached already a weight share by more than 20% in the body structure while it is estimated that it could reach even around 40% in the future. However conventional press hardening steel based on the alloying concept 22MnB5 was designed originally not for automotive application. In spite of the high strength level, press hardening steel has generally low toughness due to the relatively high carbon content and its martensitic microstructure.
Particularly important is the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature at low temperature, which might lead to unexpected failure in cold climate regions. Furthermore, hydrogen embrittlement is a major concern in press hardening steel as previous results indicated that only a few ppm of hydrogen could induce delayed cracking. Generally it is important that impact energy should be absorbed by the material to avoid unexpected disintegration of the structure. This material capability is usually characterized by the toughness. All these characteristics have not yet been systematically investigated in press hardening steel. Consequently, no attempts have been made to optimize conventional press hardening steel for obtaining better toughness, lower ductile-to-brittle transition temperature and reduced sensitivity to hydrogen induced cracking.
As mentioned above, press hardening is an effective technique to fulfil the contradicting requirements of very high strength levels (1500 MPa) in combination with a high complexity of geometry. Hardenable boron steel (between 0.002% and 0.005% boron) is austenitised at a temperature above 850°C and then quenched between cold tools with cooling rates greater than 25 K s-1 to attain martensitic transformation.
The utilization of hardenable steel in combination with press hardening applications began in the 1990s and is mainly used for producing passive safety components such as side impact beams, bumper beams and different types of reinforcement components. Besides passive safety and weight reduction, corrosion protection is another major aspect for materials in the automotive industry. Systems of particular interest are those which are able to act as a sacrificial anode for the base material like the zinc coating of galvanized steel. The use of continuously galvanized steel sheet as feedstock material for indirect press hardening leads to components of very high strength with classical cathodic corrosion protection.
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Planet Comicon 2014 will have more programming than ever before, with five rooms of events stretching over three days. This schedule is presented for your convenience. All events, panelists, and other details are subject to change.
Friday, March 14
Margot Kidder: Superman's Lois Lane! Margot Kidder is most famous for her acclaimed performance as Lois Lane in four Superman films. ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
Webcomics: Inside Out Who needs ink on paper? Join a discussion of what it takes to create comics magic on the web. ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Comics without Capes: Leading comics creators discuss crafting successful series outside the superhero genre. Explore the worlds of cowboys, comedic teen soap opera, and even biographical comics. Moderated by Jai Nitz. ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
Michael Dorn & Marina Sirtis: ST:TNG's Klingon and Betazoid stars take the stage to take you behind the scenes of one of the greatest science fiction series in history.ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
Craft Your Fandom: Cosplay from Concept to Completion: Join leading cosplay and prop-builder experts in a look at where to start making your favorite prop or costume. Featuring Abby DarkStar, Zen Dragon, and more to be announced. ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Vampires Don't Sparkle: That's right…we said it! We want our meat eating, sunlight obliterating, butt-ugly vampires back! Bram Stoker would be doing cartwheels in his grave is he saw what vampires have become. We are taking it back, today!!! ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
Visual Storytelling Success: Artists discuss their approach to creating comics that tells the story and engages the reader. ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
Kansas City Comics Creators: Kansas City has one of the most vibrant communities of comics creators. Jason Aaron and Ande Parks lead a panel of the local talent. ROOM 2505 (Lower level)
Saturday, March 15
Wil Wheaton: He's back! One of Planet Comicon's favorite guests has returned. You know him from ST:TNG, The Big Bang Theory, Stand By Me, and much more. – ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
Bad Karma: Bad Karma is a creative collective, whose members include Alex Grecian, Jeremy Haun, B. Clay Moore, and Seth Peck. Their first joint project was Bad Karma Volume One featuring five original, creator owned concepts in self-contained stories. Meet the creators and listen as they answer questions about the Kickstarter process, the concept behind the book and what's next for Bad Karma. ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Khemia Creations: The Art of Stage Combat: Come join Khemia Creations as we display a series of stage combat sketches that can be easily adapted into stage or video skits! After each showcase fight, a thorough dissection of the combat choreography will be given so that you can learn how it's done. ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Fandom – Destination: 221B Baker Street – Sherlock Holmes fandom has never been more popular. Join an interactive Q&A covering the Holmes and Watson in every media, from novels to television, movies to comics. The panel includes Rob Davis (Illustrator of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective), Tammy Lynn Garrison (Editor of Investigating Sherlock Holmes), and Ellie Ann Soderstrum (Producer of Steampunk Holmes). ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
Star Wars Costuming: Meet and Greet – Get to know the local Star Wars Costuming Group Chapters: 501st Legion, Rebel Legion, Mandalorian Mercs, and The Dark Empire. ROOM 2505 (Lower level)
Noon – 12:50 PM
Jewel Staite: Everything's Shiny! Jewel Staite portrayed Kaylee Frye in Firefly and Serenity, and Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate: Atlantis. –ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
Sexuality in Cosplay: A frank discussion of the role of sexuality in cosplay featuring prominent cosplay personalities. May not be suitable for all audiences. Parental guidance suggested. ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Comic Geeks – A Web Series – A screening of the Comic Geeks pilot, a new series debuting in 2014. The story follows three friends at various stages of comic geekery: Dan, the die-hard weekly shopper, Jeff, the indie-only cartoonist, and Brian, who struggles with reading comics and acting like an adult. Together, the three try to figure out what makes a comic geek, and how to be an adult doing it. ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
Crowdfunding – Kickstarter. Indygogo. Rockethub. What's crowdfunding all about? How can creators like you use it to feed their creativity – any maybe event their families? ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
Marvel: Your Universe – What's happening now and next from Mighty Marvel? Leading Marvel creators take the stage. Featuring a roster of Marvel creators including Jason Aaron. Moderated by Marvel's V.P. of Creator Development, C.B. Cebulski. ROOM 2505 (Lower level)
Brent Spiner & LeVar Burton: Two of Star Trek's most memorable performers tag-team on the Planet Comicon stage. Ask your questions of the actors who brought android Data and Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge to life. – ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
The Last Ride of Lee Salem, Editor of Calvin and Hobbes – Enjoy a Q & A with Lee Salem, the man who edited Calvin and Hobbes, For Better or For Worse, Doonesbury, The Far Side, Cathy, FoxTrot, The Boondocks, Cul De Sac, Lio and dozens of other comics. The industry icon is transitioning to the role of President Emeritus of Universal Uclick as of March 2014. He has a wealth of experience and stories that any comics fan and creator will find enlightening. Joining him will be those influenced by his work in the comics industry including Bill Amend, creator of Foxtrot. Plus, a there will be a reading of statements regarding his work provided by Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse), Jan Eliot (Stone Soup), Richard Thompson (Cul De Sac) and Mark Tatulli (Lio). ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Zero Budget Filmmaking – The internationally awarded Brass Engine Productions team will give you tips and tricks to make your film or series without spending a lot of cash. Come and get a Q&A with Director Ben Watkins, and watch clips from the production's web series and other projects done on a shoestring budget. – ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
Pencil, Brush, and Stylus: Comics Art Today – A panel of comics most popular artists discuss their projetcs, techniques, and inspirations. – ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
Sylvester McCoy: The Tardis has landed… in Middle Earth? He's Radagast the Brown fromThe Hobbit movies! He's also Doctor Who's seventh Doctor! He's one of the biggest fandom mash-ups ever! Moderated by theTraveling the Vortex podcast crew – ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
Researching Comics with the Grand Comics Database – Dive deep into comics and comics history! Leading members of the Grand Comics Database community will be discussing a bit of the history of the GCD and its roots in the early days of internet comics fandom, along with its current status and abilities in helping people research various comic books and comic book creators. – ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Charlton Arrow – From the 40s thru the 80s, Charlton was the "other" comics publisher of mystery, romance, and superhero titles. Join Paul Kupperberg and Rick Stasi, two of the creators of Charlton Arrow, for a trip down memory lane and an introduction to their new comics zine that celebrate some of Charlton's lesser known creations. – ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
Deadpool Double Dare -Deadpool creators display a dynamic dose of Deadpool discussion. – ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
Kids' Costume Contest: It's a cavalcade of cute! A special costume contest just for the younger set. – ROOM 2505 (Lower Level)
Making of Archer – Discover the animation secrets behind FX's hit series Archer. Featuring storyboard artist Kevin Mellon and the team from Kansas City's own Trinity Animation. – ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Breaking into Comics – How do you become a professional comic book or comic strip creator? Join a panel of editors who specialize in spotting new talent: C.B. Cebulski (VP of Creator Development at Marvel), Shena Wolf (Acquisitions Editor and Universal Uclick), and Joe Rybandt (Editor at Dynamite Entertaintment). – ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
John Ratzenberger: He may be most famous as Cliff Clavin from Cheers, but John Ratzenberger's nerd movie cred is truly amazing. "It's a little known fact" that his filmography includes Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Superman: The Movie, Superman II, and every single Pixar movie ever made! – ROOM 2505 (Lower Level)
Heroic Prose: Genre Fiction – Kings of the Keyboard and Princesses of Prose! A panel of prodigious purveyors of thrilling novels and short fiction reveal the stories behind their stories. – ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Pros and Cons of the Shared Universe – SciFi4Me Radio's H20 podcast tackles explore the ups, downs, ins, and outs of consuming and creating tales in shared universes. Hosts Jason P. Hunt and Tim Harvey interview Star Trek novelist Kevin Dilmore. – ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
Announcement coming soon – ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
Zoie Palmer: A lively Q&A with one of the stars of the Syfy series Lost Girl. – ROOM 2505 (Lower Level)
5:00 PM until who knows when!
Adult Costume Contest: Captivated by cosplay creativity? This is your event! – ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
Sunday, March 16th
Femi Taylor: The delightful Femi Taylor is best known for playing Jabba the Hutt's Twi'lek slave dancer Oola in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. She is a Nigerian-born British dancer and actress who spent years training with the London Contemporary Dance Company and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. In addition to RotJ, she appeared in the original London cast of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical Cats! – ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
DC Universe: Best of the Best – A celebration of the best of DC Comics through the years, from the Golden Age to today. Join leading creators for a discussion of the DC Comics that inspired them! Moderated by long-time DC editor and writer Paul Kupperberg. – ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Karate Chopping Robots & Killer Carnies: The Art and Science of Digital Comics and Games – Mobile-based comics and games are transforming the entertainment industry. Indie game and comic developers have more opportunity than ever before to make their mark and create some major waves. Join Kung Fu Robot creator Jason Bays and Burn the Lot co-creator Cameron Calder as they share their experiences in mobile-based interactive comic and game development. From concept to development to launch and beyond, these Kansas City-area veterans will offer their unique perspective to this exciting and ever-changing scene. – ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
Noon – 12:50 PM
David Yost – The Blue Power Ranger has arrived! David Yost played Billy Cranston, the Blue Ranger, on the international television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, and the film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: the Movie. – ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
Timey Wimey Puppet Show – Direct from the YouTube web series and packed appearances at DragonCon and Gallifrey One, we're pleased to present this family-friend Punch-and-Judy-inspired Doctor Who comedy puppet show. The show is for all ages! – ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Khemia Creations: Cosplay Photography and Modeling – Whether you're in front of behind the camera, this is the panel for you! We will be discussing techniques on how to make your cosplay photography go from a snapshot to a work of art! For those with camera in hand, we'll tell you how to make the most of your environments, angles, and lighting to ensure you can capture the best images at every convention. For those wanting to show off their costume creations, we'll give beginner modeling tips to offer your best side to camera every time! – ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
So you want to build an R2 Unit – Come join us for the in's and out's of building your own R2D2 or other Astromech droid. We will give you an idea of what it skills are needed, and the resources available to help you on your journey. – ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
Eddie McClintock: Eddie McClintock is best-known for his role as Secret Service agent Pete Lattimer on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. But, the actor is also an artist, who was inspired to purse his passion by comic books. He says, "It all started with Herb Trimpe andThe Incredible Hulk." Now is your chance to meet Pete Lattimer and learn the answers to your Eddie McClintock questions. – ROOM 2505 (Lower Level)
Lee Majors: The Six Million Dollar Man – An actor of international importance, Lee Majors has continually proven himself to be a favorite of audiences worldwide. Lee Majors' performances and personas have made an indelible impact on television programs. From his initial role of Heath Barkley on The Big Valley to the Men From Shilo to Owen Marshall Counselor at Law to The Fall Guy and Raven. It was his starring role as Steve Austin on the overwhelmingly popular The Six Million Dollar Man that Lee became an icon and part of the American culture. – ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
How To Market Comic Strips Today – In previous decades, comic strips were the delicious and funny center of a reader's daily dose of communication, placed in the middle of their newspapers and hearts. Today, comic strips and webcomics have enjoyed a strong renaissance in pop culture. How has this happened; how are cartoonists sharing their art and stories today? This panel will share the wide experiences of print, syndicated and web cartoonists alike. From viral marketing, presences at events such as San Diego Comic Con and Planet ComiCon, social media outreach, tours and more, we'll hear from some of the engaging storytellers that are creating today. – ROOM 2502 (Lower level)
Star Wars in American Culture – Explore the influences and impact of the single most important film of the twentieth century. We will take a look at the many ways this pop culture phenomenon connects to our everyday lives. Presented by Dr. Bradley Will, Dr. Stephen Schleicher, and Dr. Scott Robson of Fort Hays State University. – ROOM 2503 (Lower level)
Dynamic Cover Design – Top artists reveal the tips and tricks that produce covers with a powerful pop. – ROOM 2504 (Lower level)
For the Love of Comics – What do you love about comics? Today's top creators, including Jason Aaron, discuss the comics they love the most. Moderated by C.B. Cebulski. – ROOM 2505 (Lower level)
Concept Design for Comic Books – Comic and concept artist Steven Sanders has designed a number of characters and locations for Marvel Entertainment, among other companies. Using examples from Marvel, he'll explain how concept design in comics is different than concept design in video games or film, and will show what is needed to make good designs for comics. – ROOM 2502 (Lower Level)
50 Years of GI Joe – the first action figure – A history of GI Joe, the world's first action figure, from its beginnings 50 years ago in 1964, to the present day. We will discuss the evolution of the brand from a 12 inch everyman solider to a modern team of hundreds of small action figures, as well as several odd and interesting detours and off-shoots along the way. We also will cover the brand's current fandom, including online resources and fan projects. – ROOM 2503 (Lower Level)
DMC: Comics and Hip Hop – As a founder of Run-D.M.C., Darryl "DMC" McDaniels is a pioneer of hip hop culture. Now he's turned his creative passion to comics! Already a hero to his millions of fans around the world, DMC's accomplishments read like a laundry list of musical and cultural accolades: Grammy nominated musician, multi-platinum recording artist, Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and rap/rock pioneer who's influenced music since the first time he's ever touched a mic. Adding to his long lists of firsts, DMC is teaming up with some prominent fixtures in the comic book and music world to craft the first 100% authentic, unapologetic, indie, hip hop comic book. – ROOM 2505 (Lower level)
TREKtacular ST:TNG Cast Reunion: This is a separately ticketed event. Seating is extremely limited! See this page to order tickets. – ROOM 3501 (Upper level)
Planet Comicon is Kansas City's largest comic book and pop culture convention. Now in its thirteenth year! The convention will be held at the Kansas City Convention Center on March 14-16th. Please visit their website for the full guestlist, ticket information, and more!

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Sound Bath Healing Meditation
June 3, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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A Sound Healing Meditation Guided by Sekhem Sound Healer, Marissa Dinki. Come Experience The Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls and Songs of All Love
"When vibrations travel through the body, they promote circulation, energy flow, & rejuvenation. The frequency of the sound synchronizes with the brainwaves and activates distress responses
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2010-11 Men's Swimming and Diving Team Guide
Creators:Ohio State Athletics Communications
Issue Date:2010
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POPLARVILLE Janessa Dedeaux cracked an RBI-double to deep left field in the bottom of the seventh inning here Tuesday to propel the Pearl River Lady Wildcats to their first win of the 2012 season with an 8-7 decision over Faulkner State (Ala.). Dedeaux, a sophomore catcher who prepped at Poplarville High School who went three-for-five in the home opener, also helped the winning cause with a solo home run in the fifth. The visiting Lady Sun Chiefs, on the other hand, rebounded in the nightcap game to take a 5-0 shutout and improve to 8-2 overall. PRCC is now 1-4. After FSCC went three up, three down to kick off the first game, The River left runners at first and second in the bottom of the opening frame before the Lady Sun Chiefs managed a solo run in the top of the second. Pearl River starter Neely McCrary of Petal High walked two straight to open the frame before Taylor Felts reached on a fielder choice. Ericka Williams then reached on an error an ground out later to push in a run before McCrary struck out Emily Holly for the third out. Faulkner padded its lead in the top of the third when Laney Nichols cracked a two-out single and Kayla Messer followed with a walk. The base runners advanced to second and third off passed ball, setting the stage for Bailey Cincotta two-run double to center to make it 3-0. McCrary Kd Katy Payne for the final out. PRCC commenced catch up in the bottom of the inning when ETrareo Warren of Meridian High led off with a double to right center and Whitney Waits of Oak Grove High followed with a base on balls. After McCrary struck out, Dedeaux doubled in Warren and Waits was thrown out at home before Brittany LeBlanc out of North Vermillion High in Lafayette, La., grounded to the pitcher to end the inning. Heather Hester relieved McCrary to kick off the fourth and the sophomore out of Hancock County High immediately gave up a lead off single to Felts before Williams reached on an error. With runners a first and third, Felts scored on a double steal then Emily Holley smacked an RBI single to make it 5-1. After Anna Meitzler hit into a double play, Jasmine Wells singled to third, moved to second on a passed ball, and scored off Nichols single before Messer flew to center for the final out. The Lady Wildcats loaded the bases in the bottom of the frame, but couldnt cash in. Alyssa Graeter of Poplarville High led off with a double to left center, Morghan Cuevas of Purvis High walked, and Amanda Emerson of Sumrall High was belted by a pitch. Christina Hart out of Northshore High in Slidell, La., then struck out, Warren popped out to third, and Waits foul out ended the inning. In the top of the fifth, Faulkner left runners at first and third off a one-out double by Payne and a walk, but Adrianna Booth hit into a double play to squash the threat. In the bottom of the inning, Dedeaux got The River rolling with a one-out solo homer over the left field fence before LeBlanc was hit by a pitch, Graeter singled, and Cuevas followed with an RBI double to left. After starter Felts walked Emerson to load the bases, she exited the mound for Paige Caraway who immediately saw Hart reach on an error to make it 6-4. Cuevas was thrown out at third before Warren walked to reload the corners, but Waits grounded to the pitcher to end the inning. In the top of the sixth, Holley led off with a walk and moved to third on back-to-back sacrifices before scoring the Lady Sun Chiefs final run off Nichols single. Hester struck out Messer for the final out. LeBlanc managed a two-out double in the bottom of the frame and Faulkner went three up three down in the top of the final inning, which set the stage for Pearl River dramatic, game-winning rally. Lead off Cuevas struck out then Emerson walked. Hillary Dickens of Picayune High followed with a two-run homer off the center field scoreboard, then Warren walked and Waits was belted by a pitch. Hester then crushed an up-the-middle double to knot it up at 7-7 before Dedeaux followed with the game-winning double to the left field fence. Hester (1-0) picked up the win, giving up five hits, striking out two, and walking two; while McCrary gave up two hits, struck out four, and walked two in her three innings on the mound. Caraway got the loss, giving up four hits, striking out one, walking two, and hitting a batter; while Felts went four-and-a-third, giving up seven hits, striking out two, walking one, and hitting a batter. Nichols paced FSCC seven-hit effort with two singles (two RBIs), while Cincotta (two RBIs) and Payne both doubled. Felts and Wells both singled, while Holley and Williams had RBIs for the Lady Sun Chiefs. Graeter led Pearl River 12-hit attack with a double and two singles, while Dedeaux homered and belted two doubles (three RBIs), Dickens homered (two RBIs), and Cuevas (one RBI), Hester (one RBI), LeBlanc, McCrary, and Warren all doubled. Hart had an RBI for the Lady Wildcats. PRCC committed two errors in the contes to FSCC one. In the nightcap, Faulkner State scored solo runs in the top of the first and third innings and three in the sixth to take the shutout victory. Starter Katy Messick got the win in going the distance, giving up four hits, striking out four, and walking one; while River starter LeBlanc (0-2) got the loss. She gave up seven hits and struck out four in going the distance. Melissa Walker led FSCC at the plate with a double and a single (two RBIs), while Erica Davis, Chanae Lyles (one RBI), Messer, Hali Sclafini, and Wells (one RBI) all had base hits. Leblanc doubled for the Lady Wildcats, while Dedeaux, Shalyn Stevens of Picayune High, and Warren all singled. Pearl River returns to action Friday when MACJC non-division rival Holmes CC visits for a 2 p.m. twin bill, then enters the Meridian CC Tournament in Meridian Saturday (opponents, game times TBA) before traveling to Baton Rouge CC in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Feb. 23, for a 3 p.m. doubleheader.
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This was the reject comic for this year's holiday cards (which ended up being this instead). This one suffers from a little too much derp - I don't care for it enough to do anything with it next year, but the art was far enough along, so I figured I'd share.
Happy New Year. Don't forget to enjoy some wassail and old fashioned murder pie (like grandma used to make).


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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Manhattan Liberty Machine
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Welcome to the land of Lady Liberty , please watch your thoughts, nothing here is free.
Can you hear me now?
Recently my 13-year-old daughter and I flew the friendly skies. I don't believe in whitewashing life for my children, they need to know just how bad things really are. So for the record I felt I should spell out for her what not to talk about in the airport or in the air. Don't say the words 'bomb, explosion, box cutter, kill, kidnap, hostage, hi-jack, gun, weapon, knife, or terrorist.' Sadly, she knew enough not to say the word 'Muslim.' We don't even think these dangerous words within government sniffing distance, lest one should accidentally come out of our mouth. It may prevent us from getting where we need to go and possibly get us into a whole lot of trouble. Our names could wind up on a secret list that could prevent us from ever flying. I took secret pride and delight with my daughter's outrage at the insanity and injustice of it all.
Knowing you can distract a group of security personnel by saying a 'bad' word does not make us safe. In fact, it makes everyone else less secure. The morons would probably miss a real threat because they're so busy swinging at windmills, or because they're human, or they're tired that day, or whatever. GOVERNMENT CANNOT KEEP ANYONE SAFE . In fact, our security is inversely proportional to bureaucratic intervention. If our right to bear arms had not been infringed, I doubt anyone on any flight would attempt piracy, and the heroes of 9/11 would not be dead.
I've learned the hard way that the person who has the most to lose takes the most responsibility. For instance, my husband and I used to take turns painting and cleaning up. At first I was a messy painter. After cleaning up I realized the importance of minimizing the drips. I became a better painter. If someone else is always willing to take responsibility for my carelessness, I have no need to take responsibility.
This is the problem with the nanny state. People are put to sleep through learned irresponsibility. Government interferes with the natural learning process of making mistakes and correcting them, feeling pain about the choices you've made and making different ones. No artificial government induced environment can actually help anyone. Only real life with real experiences and cleaning up your own messes can mature you.
But government doesn't want a mature you. It wants power over you and it gets it by offering to take responsibility for you. And we accept en masse, even though we know somewhere deep down it can't work and comes at unimaginable cost. It starts with the offer of 'free' schooling for your child and builds it through safety nets of every stripe ' college scholarships, bad credit mortgages, free healthcare, free prescriptions, free food, free housing, free retirement. (But they'll tell you freedom isn't free! It's because they don't have it to give and they wouldn't recognize it if it hit them on the nose. They'd call that terrorism.) Each safety net interferes with a vital learning process.
No bureaucrat can ever be as interested in my health, safety and well-being as I am, so just get out of the way and let me pursue life, liberty and happiness, or fail trying. (Where have I heard that before?)
How about now?
We visited, of all places, New York , the city where opposites meet, we are told. It was once the center of the anti-slavery movement as well as the center of the pro-slavery forces. Finance meets fashion, concrete meets water, wealth meets abject poverty, chaotic traffic meets mind-numbing bureaucracy.
While we stayed in Manhattan , we were told that a terrorist plot to bomb a tunnel and flood Wall Street was averted, thanks to the bumbling buffoons of Homeland Security. (Even if there is a grain of truth to the story, and knowing nothing of civil engineering, I have to ask: Wouldn't a collapsed tunnel obstruct, rather than expedite, the flow of water?) We heard constant entreaties by disembodied voices announcing over the subway system to watch for suspicious behavior and not to keep our suspicions to ourselves. Okay, then! Who could ride a subway in New York and not see suspicious behavior? They need to narrow that down, but how could they without using a dangerous word? The announcements seemed suspect to us and, as requested, we're not keeping it to ourselves.
Also, while we were there, we heard that a three-story building had somehow exploded. Now I'm convinced the government has dirty hands from the destruction of the World Trade Center, so if there had been any way to use this explosion to their advantage, it's clear to me that the whores in Washington would not hesitate to do so. Either the general feeling of terror it engendered was enough, or they just couldn't get the spin to spin on this one ' the lazy days of summer and all that. Maybe it just happened too fast ' they can get better spin on a disaster if they know about it in advance. Government has a lousy post-disaster track record, even for lying, and that's their specialty.
Speaking of the WTC, visiting Ground Zero was quite an experience. My daughter and I were among many other wet-eyed visitors. It was shocking to see, where once stood a Mecca of business and commerce, nothing, nothing at all. I wondered aloud why, with this horrifying amputation still in its midst, New Yorkers don't demand the truth about 9/11. But then, they could very well have been demanding the truth for years without anyone ever hearing about it. The watchdog media certainly wouldn't tell us.
Hillary Clinton getting booed off the stage by police and fireman after 9/11 seems like good headline news to me, but we heard not a whisper of it in the mainstream press of New York or anywhere else. I don't think it's because reporters had not witnessed it. The mantra of the 'watchdog' media seems to be 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.' My Dad would say they've taken the bait and swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Through the miracle of modern technology, my son called me while I was atop the Empire State Building . We've often debated the merits of the urban legend that claims you'd die if you were hit by a penny tossed from the top of it. He asked me if I had tested the theory. Actually, no, I don't want to hurt anybody and I certainly don't want to get arrested and enter the dark world of the 'justice' system. I have a palpable fear of disappearing in the night as an enemy combatant. A forgotten tube of lipstick in my pocket had already brought me under enough screening scrutiny for one day. Note to Homeland Security: terrorists don't wear pink.
How about now?
In Battery Park, across the shores from Liberty Island , we watched as patriotic Americans posed for photos. They literally draped themselves in a flag and sported a spongy, green crown on their heads and hoisted a fake, plastic light in their hands; that'll be five dollars. It struck me that I was witnessing our nation in microcosm. Our proud leader and his cohorts are posturing as patriots and defenders of liberty for the great unwashed, ignorant masses, the flag draped around them as a colorful but meaningless prop, the artificial light held high, not a harbinger of liberty but a symbol of government intrusion into our privacy, exposing the intimate details of our lives to the highest bidder. (And you thought free markets were a thing of the past!) The artificial light of the police state is hoisted higher and higher up our backsides every day, much like the most unpleasant aspect of an annual physical.
All this, with the promise of liberty juuuuust over there, just out of reach. Sorry, tickets are sold out for a glimpse of liberty today, but don't step out of line and keep waiting for your chance. Don't forget to buy some souvenirs for the kids! After all, you came awfully close to freedom, America .
Like our ancestors who landed at Ellis Island full of hope for a better, freer life, we find ourselves still searching for liberty. If you squint, you can almost make out the shape of it from here. Liberty won't be found in a hollow statue or a politician's hollow promises. It is to be found in the beat of your heart and mine.
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I was trying to make an elevator in single player mode but it looks like it requires commands and the chat is not available in single player.
What's the best way to go?
I've tried the waterfall / boat elevator but the boat stays at the bottom of the waterfall (the way it should x)


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This edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, hosted by Tim at Winecast has settled upon the theme of New World Shiraz.
Living in a country full of well known "new world" Shiraz meant another excuse to raid the cellar and blow the dust off some bottles.
I thought it might be interesting to open up one of the older bottles and see how the Shiraz has fared.
The choice - a Majella 1996 Shiraz from the Coonawarra region of South Australia an area famed for it's "terra rossa" soils.
The wine was fermented in small oak barrels and then aged for 2 years in French and American Oak hogsheads.
Even after 11 years the first thing that hits you is the fruit, as ripe and rich as the day it was bottled. There's that intense dense colour that you come to expect in our Shiraz. To drink there is wonderful balance, fruit and spice with a touch of white pepper melded with time. The finish, long and lingering, something that does seem to go missing with time. It leaves you sated and satisfied and happy that there's a few more bottles waiting for in the cellar.
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Wine Blogging Wednesday #30
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Thanks for posting such a well cellared bottle and for including such excellent pictures.ReplyDelete
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Haalo, I just discovered your blog. With such gorgeous photos and tempting recipes, I'll be back soon!ReplyDelete
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Thanks Tim - it was a pleasure to savour such a lovely wine.ReplyDelete
Thanks Susan and welcome - look forward to your company!
Hi Haalo, good to see another 96, and even better to hear it was truly enjoyed. Now I have to make some time to go back and keep reading!!ReplyDelete
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1955 Ford Sunliner - Street Rod of the Year
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After picking 10 cars at 10 different car shows from across the country, the staff of STREET RODDER gathered photos of each one and spent an afternoon pouring over all of them in the effort to narrow down the group of 100 to only one that would receive the honor of being named STREET RODDER's Street Rod of the Year.
The Top 100 program has been around (in various forms) for about 18 years, and each year it seems to get harder and harder to be able to pick one vehicle as a winner because there are so many that could have been considered real contenders. But if we have to pick one (and we do), STREET RODDER picked Frank Tetro's '55 Ford Sunliner as "the one".
Frank, who is 55 years old, has been around cars all his life (his dad owned gas stations when he was a kid) and he bought his first hot rod, a '56 F-100, back in 1976. But it's funny how cars end up in someone's garage, and sometimes the path they take to get there is quite interesting, which is certainly the case with this ride.
The story on this car begins with a gentleman who lived near Louisville, Kentucky, who bought a new Ford Sunliner in 1955 that had a black top and a red 'n' white interior. He had a garage where he parked the car, but folks passing by could see in and were always bugging him and asking if it was for sale. By 1966, he got tired of the attention and walled up the garage, entombing the car. The car sat there until 1986, by which time the gentleman was in the middle of a divorce and needed to sell the car.
Randy Moats knew of the car and ended up buying it, and then stored it in his garage until hot rodder Bobby Alloway bought it 10 years ago and stored it in his own garage. A few years ago Alloway sold the Sunliner to one of his customers: Ken Nester. Nester owns a black Dodge Challenger that Alloway built, and work had begun on the Sunliner, but Nester decided to sell it before it was completed, which is when Frank Tetro entered the picture. Frank bought the Sunliner and asked Alloway to get it "roughed out" before taking to his home in Melbourne, Florida, for paint, final assembly, and interior.
By the time Tetro picked the car up from Alloway, it was sitting on an Art Morrison chassis with the Winters quick-change installed. Strange Engineering coilovers were on each corner, as were 13-inch Wilwood disc brakes. The rack-and-pinion connected to a shortened ididit column, and Kugel Komponents products made up the brake master cylinder and pedal assembly. Out back a gas tank from Tanks Inc. was also set in place.
Stance is everything with a hot rod, and Alloway knows how to dial in the profile on a car, so a set of his 17x7 and 20x10 wheels were wrapped in BFGoodrich 205/70-17 and 275/55-20 rubber to help achieve the correct stance.
Also already installed was the motor—a 427 SOHC bored 0.020 over and assembled by Keisler Racing in Marysville, Tennessee. Crower rods and CP/Carrillo pistons were used before the big single-overhead cam heads (equipped with Holmon Moody rockers and Crower springs and reground cams) went on. Backed up to the SOHC is a five-speed Keisler transmission operated by a Hurst shifter.
Alloway also turned to former owner Randy Moats to get all of the trim parts and pieces needed to convert the convertible to a '56 by changing out the grille, turn signals (both front and rear), and headlight rings, though the side trim remained '55. The bumpers were also shaved, tucked into the body, and then chromed by Finishing Touch in Chicago. Alloway also learned something interesting after having the body acid dipped: the quarter-panels on Fords of that era are thinner than what you would think they should be, and suspects that's why Ford covered everything extensively with deadener. He believes it wasn't so much to deaden sound, but rather to make the panels and metalwork framework a bit stiffer, and says he'll blast those bodies in the future, leaving the factory deadener intact.
Alloway was able to give Frank a great start on the project, and Frank was more than capable to pick up the ball and run with it. Back in 1983 Frank and his brother, Bill, along with their dad, William, opened Harbor Auto Restoration (HAR) in Rockledge, Florida, a company devoted to the restoration of classic automobiles. Over the past 30 years, the Tetro team has worked on cars up to 100 years old and end up being shown at fine concourses around the country, but they also know their way around street rods, too.
The body was prepped for paint by Jason Mangum before HAR's Josh Kelly sprayed the black RM paint over everything. HAR also took 3/4 inch out of the center bow of the convertible top to give the car a lower appearance (Frank Tetro Jr. and Clay Deen did the install and adjust on the top), and had Fusco's Upholstery in Fort Lauderdale stitch up the black top. A.J. Gisonda from Street Seats in New Port Richey got the call to then add a bit of color to the interior by using lipstick red leather throughout. The design from the front seats, out of a '64 Thunderbird, was carried through to the rear bench/buckets, and red loop carpet was laid out below. Danny Cheeks was in charge of repairing all of the stainless steel molding and trim pieces, and Bear McAlpine fabbed some of the car's small fasteners.
Jesse Greening of Greening Auto Supply used a sketch supplied by illustrator Eric Brockmeyer to create a one-off steering wheel for the car, capping it with a custom HAR-inscribed horn button. Will Tetro worked on the dash, which was outfitted with a stock-appearing Classic Instruments gauge cluster, and the car's wiring was handled by a Ron Francis Wiring harness installed by Rodney Hadwinger.
The overall appearance of the car certainly says "hot rod", but in a subtle way. The interior is as simple as it gets, but very well planned and laid out. The engine is impressive, but there is only enough there to get the point across without it being in your face. Black is as understated as you can get when it comes to a paint choice, but on this car it's done so well and so flawlessly fits the car's theme, you can't imagine it in another hue.
Frank's Sunliner is one of those rare examples when the sum of the parts is greater than its individual pieces: a perfect hot rod. And it obviously has had a great impact on folks—that's why it received a STREET RODDER Top 100 award at the NSRA's Nats in Louisville, a Best in Show at the most recent Shades of the Past event, a Builder's Choice award at the Goodguys Nashville show, and why it was ultimately named STREET RODDER's Street Rod of the Year.
Just the Facts
Year: 1955
Make: Ford
Model: Sunliner
Owner: Frank Tetro
State: Florida


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(visited by Fanny Leduc, G, N, S and S2)
10-Mar-2012 -- As with the previous two documented visits to this confluence, Geocaching was the first reason for visiting. The geocache page provided a link to the Degree Confluence Project website. After a bit of investigation on the project website I found out that the previous logged visits were over a decade ago, in winter, and didn't provide the full array of photos that is possible to log on the website. Since I visited in early autumn and nearly 12 years later, I decided to log this confluence visit on top of my geocache find.
The confluence is located approximately 30 km NW of the town of Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. The name of the immediate area is called the Mamaku Plateau. This area is dedicated to agriculture and plantation forest (mostly Radiata Pine), with also large expanses of unspoilt native forest. It is in the latter that the confluence is located, in the southernmost area of the Department of Conservation's (DOC) Kaimai-Mamaku Forest Park.
Research for accessing the site was made easy by the geocache owner, who provided a series of waypoints indicating turnoffs and track entrances. The turnoff to the site is on State Highway 5 and through a plantation forest, for which an access permit is needed.
It's with this permit in hand that I set off, along with two very brave young geocachers, aged 8 and 10, and their parents who are work colleagues of mine. We knew that approximately 2 km in there was a locked gate, so we brought our mountain bikes to make the rest of the journey easier. The day was calm, mild and overcast: perfect weather for an adventure in the bush! Once we reached the Forest Park's boundary, the scenery changed from cut-off pine forest to native. The track became narrow and its earthen and stone surface very uneven. At the end of the track was supposed to be the start of a disused DOC walking trail, but the entrance was so overgrown that we couldn't find it.
Never mind, thought the experienced hunter in the group (and topo and compass backup in case of GPS malfunction), we just enter the bush nearby and walk until we stumble on the trail. Which we did... about 2 km later! Still the children seemed undeterred with the difficult "bush bashing" up and down ridges and gullies, over logs, around giant tree ferns, and endless tangles in a local invasive vine called supplejack. The kids were identifying native trees of all shapes and sizes on the way: rimu, matai, miro, wheki ponga, bush lawyer... and some non-natives, like the painful stinging nettle. We also saw deer, pig, possum, and bird tracks in mud puddles.
Once we'd caught up with the trail, it was only 50 m later that we arrived at our next step: lake Hiwiroa. There we stopped for lunch, as we contemplated the steep banks all around. We only had 350 m to go in a westerly direction, but had a good 40-50 m ascent, and struggled to find a place where we could do this. In the end we employed a Straight Up approach, which was very difficult and scary for the little ones who had to be pushed and hoisted, eventually to safety. The forest on the plateau was even more dense than before, but we were used to the bush-bashing by then and made good progress of the next 200 m. When we got within 40 m of the geocache/confluence, things got very tricky: it is situated in inclined terrain and rife with young supplejack. The accuracy on the GPS varied from 15-40 m, but we finally found what we came for. It was difficult to move around in such dense bush to find all the zeroes displayed, but even by standing still the numbers kept scrolling on the device and I managed a snapshot of 998/999.
The bush bash back to the lake and the trail seemed easier (we found another way to get down) and the return trip was twice as fast by following the trail (an overgrown trail with windfalls is still easier to navigate than the full-on bush). We found our bikes where we'd left them, and we finally made it back to the car, 6 h after setting off.
I was very impressed and proud of the young ones to have managed this marathon effort with only minimal amounts of complaints. Towards the end I asked them if this had put them off coming geocaching with me, and the answer was "no, but as long as there's a trail"!


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For years, downtown development projects have stalled. As the train system modernizes and expands, no one seems to know what to do with the tracks.
Yet change is inevitable on both fronts. With property values climbing and rents soaring, Menlo Park faces continuing pressure to build more housing, and the shopping, parking and general infrastructure that go with it. Meanwhile, trains through downtown will increase in frequency and speed.
Why not accept these changes ? and get ahead of the curve?
Surely there is a way to eliminate Menlo Park's lethal level train crossings -- without putting one part of town on the "other side of the tracks."
As for development, isn't a more dense El Camino corridor more or less what one sees in popular European cities? Our growth has to be upward. That means some denser development with shops on the street and a couple of floors of housing above.
Growth and transportation are inextricably linked. Neither can occur without the other. Changes in both are inevitable. And by managing those changes, our community can thrive in ways that benefit us all.
That means encouraging denser, transit-oriented development. And investing in rail improvements that enhance downtown. While Palo Alto studies trenching Caltrain, surely we can come up with our own creative, aesthetically pleasing alternatives.
These are enduringly fractious issues in Menlo Park. But I am ignoring the political history. We do have a future.


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By Charles Hutzler The Associated Press BEIJING, China (AP) — China is trying to punish ally North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests, stepping up inspections of North Korean-bound cargo. It's a calibrated effort to send a message without further provoking a testy Pyongyang government.
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FORT MEADE, Md. – A military judge rejected defense motions Thursday to consolidate some of the 22 charges against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history.
Col. Denise Lind said she would rule late in the afternoon on a defense motion to dismiss the most serious charge against Pfc. Bradley Manning — aiding the enemy — which carries a maximum life sentence.
Lind opened Thursday's session of pretrial proceedings by rejecting the defense's argument that the government had piled on duplicative charges to increase Manning's potential punishment. For example, the defense had argued that Manning's alleged theft of 380,000 Iraq war logs from a military database and his alleged transmission of those files to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks should have been charged as one offense, not two.
Lind said a theft can occur whether or not the stolen material is transmitted. She said the 10-year penalty for each of those offenses wasn't unreasonable given the "voluminous government records" involved. And she said that if the government had truly wanted to pile on charges, it could have alleged numerous aiding-the-enemy violations.
Lind said the defense could raise the consolidation motion again for sentencing purposes if Manning is convicted.
She denied another defense motion seeking to dismiss a count on the grounds that it was improperly charged. That count alleges that Manning wrongfully and wantonly caused intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing it would be accessible to the enemy.
Lind also heard arguments on a government motion to bar any discussion at trial of whether the leaked material harmed U.S. interests. Prosecutor Maj. Ashden Fein argued that the government must prove only that Manning leaked the material knowing it could cause harm, regardless of whether it did.
The motion appeared to be aimed at blocking the defense's attempts to obtain classified reports compiled by the departments of Defense, State and Justice assessing the damage done by the WikiLeaks disclosures. Defense attorney David Coombs said the reports probably say the leaks did little or no damage; otherwise, the prosecution would be eager to discuss them.
Fein said that since the government doesn't have to prove damage, any courtroom discussion of damage assessments would waste the court's time.
"Just because a damage assessment might say damage did occur or didn't occur, it's completely irrelevant" to the charges, Fein said.
In seeking dismissal of the "aiding the enemy" count, the defense argued Manning had no "evil intent" to help al-Qaida when he allegedly sent hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war reports and State Department diplomatic cables to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning stated in an online chat with a confidant-turned-informant that he leaked the information because,"I want people to see the truth."
Prosecutors said they would need only to prove that Manning knew that the enemy would see the material and that he sent it without authorization.
Manning hasn't entered a plea to any of the charges. He also hasn't yet decided whether he will be tried by a judge or a jury. His trial is set for Sept. 21 through Oct. 12.
The 24-year-old Oklahoma native was ordered court-martialed after he was accused of downloading the documents, diplomatic cables and video clips, then sending them to WikiLeaks. He was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad when authorities say he copied classified material from government computers in late 2009 and early 2010.
The material WikiLeaks published included cockpit video of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack that killed a number of civilians, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. The U.S. government says the civilian deaths were accidental.
Prosecutors acknowledged in court Wednesday that the helicopter video was not classified, although Manning allegedly got it from a Defense Department computer network intended for classified material. He is charged with "having unauthorized possession" of the video clip.
Manning has been in pretrial confinement since he was charged in May 2010. He has been held since last April at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
His earlier treatment at a Marine Corps base caused support for him to swell. The Quantico, Va., brig commander kept Manning confined 23 hours a day in a single-bed cell, citing safety and security concerns. For several days in March 2011, he was forced to sleep naked, purportedly for injury prevention, before he was issued a suicide-prevention smock.
Manning's supporters have raised funds to place posters in the Washington Metro subway system this week portraying him as a whistleblower, patriot and hero.


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Unfortunately, there is no pay at this time, but it's a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor as in the future I hope to be heating and lighting ever-bigger houses. It's also a great chance to showcase your work to the sorts of demi-celebrities I spend much of my life with.
You'd be boiling the tea for Darren Strange who was in Parents on Sky1. You'd be powering the phone calls I make to all sorts of household name comedians, all of whom would be exposed to your work that way. You'd be powering tweets that are occasionally retweeted by Josie Long and Mark Thomas!
While I understand the remuneration might not be quite what you're hoping for, I hope you'll be excited by the opportunity to be a part of the incredible project that is my household. It's going to be huge!
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Ukrainian prez, opposition sign deal
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine's opposition leaders have signed a deal with the president and European mediators for early elections and a new government in hopes of ending a deadly political crisis.
It could be a major breakthrough in a months-long crisis over Ukraine's future and identity that worsened sharply this week and left scores dead. A key question is whether the thousands of protesters camped out in Kiev will heed it.
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Bloody Road To Damascus: This Is No Civil War – OpEd
By James Petras
There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilians, partisans of the government and its peaceful opposition.
The outrage expressed by politicians in the West and Gulf State and in the mass media, about the 'killing of peaceful Syrian citizens protesting injustice' is cynically designed to cover up the documented reports of violent seizure of neighborhoods, villages and towns by armed bands, brandishing machine guns and planting road-side bombs.
The assault on Syria is backed by foreign funds, arms and training. Due to a lack of domestic support, however, to be successful, direct foreign military intervention will be necessary. For this reason a huge propaganda and diplomatic campaign has been mounted to demonize the legitimate Syrian government. The goal is to impose a puppet regime and strengthen Western imperial control in the Middle East. In the short run, this will further isolate Iran in preparation for a military attack by Israel and the US and, in the long run, it eliminates another independent secular regime friendly to China and Russia.
The Larger Context: Serial Aggression
The current Western campaign against the independent Assad regime in Syria is part of a series of attacks against pro-democracy movements and independent regimes from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. The imperial-militarist response to the Egyptian democracy movement that overthrew the Mubarak dictatorship was to back the military junta's seizure of power and murderous campaign to jail, torture and assassinate over 10,000 pro-democracy protestors.
Faced with similar mass democratic movements in the Arab world, the Western-backed Gulf autocratic dictators crushed their respective uprisings in Bahrain, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The assaults extended to the secular government in Libya where NATO powers launched a massive air and sea bombardment in support of armed bands of mercenaries thereby destroying Libya's economy and civil society. The unleashing of armed gangster-mercenaries led to the savaging of urban life in Libya and devastation in the countryside. The NATO powers eliminated the secular regime of Colonel Gadhafi and along with having him murdered and mutilated by its mercenaries. Nato oversaw the wounding, imprisonment, torture and elimination of tens of thousands of civilian Gadhafi supporters and government workers. NATO backed the puppet regime as it embarked on a bloody pogrom against Libyan citizens of sub-Saharan African ancestry as well a sub-Sahara African immigrant workers – groups who had benefited from Gadhafi's generous social programs. The imperial policy of ruin and rule in Libya serves as "the model" for Syria: Creating the conditions for a mass uprising led by Muslim fundamentalists, funded and trained by Western and Gulf State mercenaries.
The Bloody Road from Damascus to Teheran
According to the State Department 'The road to Teheran passes through Damascus': The strategic goal of NATO is to destroy Iran's principal ally in the Middle East; for the Gulf absolutist monarchies the purpose is to replace a secular republic with a vassal theocratic dictatorship; for the Turkish government the purpose is to foster a regime amenable to the dictates of Ankara's version of Islamic capitalism; for Al Qaeda and allied Salafi and Wahabi fundamentalists a theocratic Sunni regime, cleansed of secular Syrians, Alevis and Christians, will serve as a trampoline for projecting power in the Islamic world; and for Israel a blood-drenched divided Syria will further ensure its regional hegemony. It was not without prophetic foresight that the Zionist US Senator Joseph Lieberman demanded days after the attack of September 11, 2001: "First we must go after Iran, Iraq and Syria" before considering the actual authors of the deed.
The Road to Damascus is Paved with Lies
An objective analysis of the political and social composition of the principle armed combatants in Syria refutes any claim that the uprising is in pursuit of democracy for the people of that country. Authoritarian fundamentalist fighters form the backbone of the uprising. The Gulf States financing these brutal thugs are themselves absolutist monarchies. The West, after having foisted a brutal gangster regime on the people of Libya, can make no claim of 'humanitarian intervention'.
The armed groups infiltrate towns and use population centers as shields from which they launch their attacks on government forces. In the process they force thousands of citizens from their homes, stores and offices which they use as military outposts. The destruction of the neighborhood of Baba Amr in Homs is a classic case of armed gangs using civilians as shields and as propaganda fodder in demonizing the government.
These armed mercenaries have no national credibility with the mass of Syrian people. One of their main propaganda mills is located in the heart of London, the so-called "Syrian Human Rights Observatory" where it coordinates closely with British intelligence turning out lurid atrocity stories to whip up sentiment in favor of a NATO intervention. The kings and emirs of the Gulf States bankroll these fighters. Turkey provides military bases and controls the cross-border flow of arms and the movement of the leaders of the so-called "Free Syrian Army". The US, France and England provide the arms, training and diplomatic cover. Foreign jihadist-fundamentalists, including Al Qaeda fighters from Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, have entered the conflict.
This is No 'Civil War'
This is an international conflict pitting an unholy triple alliance of NATO imperialists, Gulf State despots and Muslim fundamentalists against an independent secular nationalist regime. The foreign origin of the weapons, propaganda machinery and mercenary fighters reveals the sinister imperial, 'multi-national' character of the conflict. Ultimately the violent uprising against the Syrian state represents a systematic imperialist campaign to overthrow an ally of Iran, Russia and China, even at the cost of destroying Syria's economy and civil society, fragmenting the country and unleashing enduring sectarian wars of extermination against the Alevi and Christian minorities, as well as secular government supporters.
The killings and mass flight of refugees is not the result of gratuitous violence committed by a blood thirsty Syrian state. The Western backed militias have seized neighborhoods by force of arms, destroyed oil pipelines, sabotaged transportation and bombed government buildings. In the course of their attacks they have disrupted basic services critical to the Syrian people including education, access to medical care, security, water, electricity and transportation. As such, they bear most of the responsibility for this "humanitarian disaster", (which their imperial allies and UN officials blame on Syrian security and armed forces). The Syrian security forces are fighting to preserve the national independence of a secular state, while the armed opposition commits violence on behalf of their foreign pay-masters – in Washington, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Ankara and London.
The Assad regime's referendum last month drew millions of Syrian voters in defiance of Western imperialist threats and terrorist calls for a boycott. This clearly indicated that a majority of Syrians prefer a peaceful, negotiated settlement and reject mercenary violence. The Western-backed Syrian National Council and the Turkish and Gulf States-armed "Free Syrian Army" flatly rejected Russian and Chinese calls for an open dialogue and negotiations which the Assad regime has accepted. NATO and Gulf State dictatorships are pushing their proxies to pursue violent "regime change", a policy which already has caused the death of thousands of Syrians. US and European economic sanctions are designed to wreck the Syrian economy, in the expectation that acute deprivation will drive an impoverished population into the arms of their violent proxies. In a repeat of the Libya scenario, NATO proposes to "liberate" the Syrian people by destroying their economy, civil society and secular state.
A Western military victory in Syria will merely feed the rising frenzy of militarism. It will encourage the West, Riyadh and Israel to provoke a new civil war in Lebanon. After demolishing Syria, the Washington-EU-Riyadh-Tel Aviv axes will move on to a far bloodier confrontation with Iran.
The horrific destruction of Iraq, followed by Libya's post-war collapse provides a terrifying template of what is in store for the people of Syria: A precipitous collapse of their living standards, the fragmentation of their country, ethnic cleansing, rule by sectarian and fundamentalist gangs, and total insecurity of life and property.
Just as the "left" and "progressives" declared the brutal savaging of Libya to be the "revolutionary struggle of insurgent democrats" and then walked away, washing their hands of the bloody aftermath of ethnic violence against black Libyans, they repeat the same calls for military intervention against Syria. The same liberals, progressives, socialists and Marxists who are calling on the West to intervene in Syria's "humanitarian crises" from their cafes and offices in Manhattan and Paris, will lose all interest in the bloody orgy of their victorious mercenaries after Damascus, Aleppo and other Syrian cities have been bombed by NATO into submission.


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A long time ago, before this blog kept a (irregular) chronicle of the book club's opinions and activities we read Turing Test by Chris Beckett. A collection of short stories with a great cover which went on to win the Edge Hill Prize for short fiction. We all loved the book and ate up the stories.
This is what one of the judges of the prize said:
'I suspect Chris Beckett winning the Edge Hill Prize will be seen as a surprise in the world of books. In fact, though, it was also a bit of surprise to the judges, none of whom knew they were science fiction fans beforehand. Yet, once the judging process started, it soon became clear that The Turing Test was the book that we'd all been impressed by, and enjoyed, the most - and one by one we admitted it.
'This was a very strong shortlist, including one Booker Prize winner in Anne Enright, and two authors who've been Booker shortlisted in Ali Smith and Shena Mackay. Even so, it was Beckett who seemed to us to have written the most imaginative and endlessly inventive stories, fizzing with ideas and complete with strong characters and big contemporary themes. We also appreciated the sheer zest of his story-telling and the obvious pleasure he had taken in creating his fiction.'
Now, I'm happy to announce that Chris Beckett will be coming to Liverpool to promote his newest novel, the dystopian Dark Eden. He will be reading from his work and signing copies of the book which has already received rave reviews in The Guardian and Sunday Telegraph amongst others.
Don't miss this opportunity to meet the author being described as a "latter-day Orwell", and of course get your copy of Turing Test signed. We will also be discussing Chris's The Holy Machine in the bookclub, although not until May, so you might want to buy your copy early and get that signed too - as well as a copy of Dark Eden of course...(Facebook link for event)
FRIDAY 2nd MARCH, 6pm


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Paul was the metropolitan bishop of Mérida in the mid sixth century (fl. 540s/550s). He was a Greek physician who had travelled to Mérida, where there may have been a Greek expatriate community. Certainly enough Greek clergy were travelling to Spain in the early sixth century that Pope Hormisdas wrote to the Spanish bishops in 518 explaining what to do if Greeks still adhering to the Acacian heresy desired to enter communion with the local church.
At some point in his episcopate, he performed a Caesarian section to save a woman's life. In gratitude, her husband, the richest senator in Lusitania, left all his possessions as a legacy to Paul, as well as immediately giving him one half. Though canon law dictated that all gifts to bishops passed to the Church, Paul kept the legacy as his private possession.
Paul's sister's son, Fidelis, was hired out as a boy to a trading vessel on its way to Spain. When the merchants arrived in Mérida, they approached the bishop for an audience, as was customary, and Paul discovered his nephew. Paul immediately took Fidelis under his wing. Contrary to canon law, he consecrated Fidelis as his successor in the bishopric and tried to force the clergy to accept his decision by threatening to withhold his vast private wealth which technically belonged to the Church. Paul offered to leave the wealth to Fidelis and after Fidelis' death to the Church, but the bishops initially refused. They were forced to relent when he threatened to remove all his wealth and dispose of otherwise; the riches made Mérida by far the richest see in Spain. Fidelis, in accordance with Paul's wishes, left the wealth to the Church at his death. Paul's later biographer, the author of the Vitas Patrum Emeritensium justified the bishop's transgressions of canon law by saying that the ideas had been relevante sibi Spiritu sancto: "revealed to him by the Holy Spirit." The VPE, as it is abbreviated, refers to Paul as a saint.
Debil ("Moronic") is the first full-length studio album by Die Ärzte, released in 1984, following the EPs Zu schön, um wahr zu sein! and Uns geht's prima.... The songs "Paul" and "Zu spät" were released as singles, without being successful initially. However, a live version of "Zu spät" was released as a single from the live album Nach uns die Sintflut in 1989 and became a moderate hit in Germany.
In 1987, the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons) put the songs "Claudia hat 'nen Schäferhund" and "Schlaflied" on the List of Media Harmful to Young People, with the effect that they could not be sold to minors, nor publicly advertised or displayed. This ban was lifted in 2004, which led to the subsequent reissue of the album (see below).
Following a reevaluation of the record by the BPjM, Debil was reissued on 21 October 2005 as Devil with slightly altered cover art and additional tracks.
Paul Clarke is a fictional character from the Henderson's Boys Series by Robert Muchamore. His mother died before the Second World War and his father died whilst carrying valuable radio blueprints for the British Secret Service.
Paul Clarke's mother died from cancer shortly before the second world war, leaving him in the care of his father, a wireless salesman.
Paul is described by his sister as 'weedy'. He doesn't enjoy sport and finds the physical training of CHERUB hard.
Paul enjoys his own company and spends all of his personal time reading and drawing. His area of the dormitory is adorned by copies of some of Picasso's paintings.
Paul is an introvert and enjoys being on his own. He spends a lot of his time drawing and reading and drew for a German officer in Eagle Day.
In The Escape,Paul and his sister Rosie are being hunted by German Agents. They are being hunted because their father, who died in an air-raid, was working for The British Secret Service and had valuable radio blueprints that the English needed to operate their Radios. British spy, Charles Henderson reaches them first with the help of Marc Kilgour.
Fears is an American surname, and may refer to:
Fear is an emotion that arises from the perception of danger.
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"Wounds from a friend can be trusted ..." Proverbs 27:6a (NIV)
When my wife, Barbi, and I were first married, we had conflicts about conflict. Looking back, it's kind of funny because I later went on to write a Christian relationship book called Boundaries in Marriage. Imagine watching us have boundary conversations about how bad our marriage boundaries were.
Barbi's approach to conflict was to avoid it. My approach tended to be more blunt. We'd talk about a problem, and it wouldn't go well. One of us would misunderstand, we would pull away from each other and the problem wouldn't get solved.
One day I asked Barbi, "When we argue, I never stop loving you. Is there anything I can do to make this better for you?"
She thought a minute and said, "Maybe if you let me know you love me before you confront me, that might help."
That was a good idea, so I agreed. The next time I wanted to have a talk with her about a concern, I walked in the room and said something like, "Honey, I just want to let you know I really care about you, and I hope you feel safe with me." Then when I brought up the problem, things went better for her and for us.
This method of having successful conversations went on for a while. As time passed, however, something changed. I needed to bring up an issue, so I began with, "Honey, I just want you to know..." Barbi said, "Stop! It's okay. I know you love me; just get to the problem."
We had a good laugh about it. Over time, she began feeling safe enough not to need reassurance before each conversation. She realized I loved her even in the midst of confrontation, and she was ready to go straight to problem solving.
When God created marriage, He gave us one of His best gifts. He provided a permanent and safe connection for a man and a woman to experience love, joy, meaning and purpose together. Genesis 2:24 says, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh" (NASB). God designed marriage to be a whole-person connection. This means that, more than in any other human relationship, every part of you ideally is to connect and cleave to every part of your spouse. The love you share should be complete as you intertwine your lives and emotions around each other.
Because marriage is such a wonderful type of relationship, confrontation within the marital relationship is very important. Who is better qualified to understand and speak to someone about a problem than the person living life right next to him? You are intimately involved with him. You see the real person, imperfections and all. More than anyone, a spouse should be able to see what her partner's true problems are.
Marriage is not about making each other happy; it is about growing and helping one's spouse to grow. Happiness can and does come to a good marriage. However, it is a byproduct of growth and life — not the goal.
Confrontation brings empowerment, which is the ability to make choices and changes in your relationship. God created all of us to be change agents for each other. We have a responsibility to influence the people in our lives to be the best possible people they can be. For instance, 1 Thessalonians 5:11a says, "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up" (NIV).
As Barbi and I have learned to confront each other lovingly, directly and effectively, we are often pleased in the change not only in our marriage but also in ourselves. We feel a sense of power that we can make changes and that we have choices. God designed all of us to connect and act, and confrontation helps put the "act" into the connection.
Lord, thank You for the blessing of earthly marriage to display Your heavenly love for me. May I value marriage as all that You designed it to be. Help me move past seeking personal happiness and strive to develop growth in myself and my spouse. I trust You to guide my words and actions when conflict arises so that it can be an opportunity to connect in a deeper way. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
If your marriage is struggling, or you want to make a great marriage even better,Boundaries in Marriage provides the answers. Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend explain how you and your spouse can experience marriage at its best.
© 2014 by Dr. John Townsend. All rights reserved.
Culled from http://proverbs31.org/devotions/devo/page/2/


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President Obama pledged Monday to cut the nation's $1.3 trillion deficit in half by the end of his first term.
He identified exploding health-care costs as the chief culprit behind rising federal deficits during a bipartisan "fiscal responsibility summit" convened to discuss ways to restore fiscal stability without deepening the recession. Meeting with the congressional leadership of both parties, as well as a range of business, academic, financial and labor leaders, Obama warned that the country cannot continue its current rate of deficit spending without facing dire economic consequences. "I refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay," he said in remarks opening the one-day summit at the White House. "We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. … We cannot simply spend as we please." Watch more about the summit and the deficit » The country, Obama argued, is already starting to face the consequences of greater deficit spending, noting that roughly one in 10 taxpayer dollars in 2008 went toward paying $250 billion in interest on the national debt. The president pledged to take the first step toward fiscal responsibility by, among other things, ending "accounting tricks" such as refusing to include money for expenses such as the Iraq war or natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in the regular budget. Such practices, Obama argued, only serve to mask the real size of the deficit.
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He also pledged to end no-bid contracts in Iraq, root out waste and abuse in entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, require every Cabinet member to scrub department budgets "line by line," and reinstate a "pay as you go" rule from the 1990s. "This is the rule that families across this country follow every single day, and there's no reason their government shouldn't do the same," he said. "You don't pay what you don't have." But the biggest challenge, he said, would be controlling spiraling health-care costs — "the single most pressing fiscal challenge we face by far." The projected increase in the deficit is largely due to anticipated growth in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which in turn is driven by rising health-care costs, budget analyst Bob Greenstein noted shortly before Obama spoke. Greenstein minimized the effect of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan on the budget shortfall, saying that it amounts to only one-tenth of 1 percent of the gross domestic product. Obama later added that, without a stimulus package, the recession would deepen, tax revenues would decline and long-term deficit projections would ultimately be worse. "I have no interest in making government bigger for the sake of it," he said. But if health care is not reformed, Greenstein warned, the national debt could soar to 300 percent of the gross domestic product by 2050. "We are [currently] on the path to the very debt explosion we must avoid," he declared. "Health care is the key" to getting the nation off an unsustainable fiscal course, added Peter Orszag, head of the Office of Management and Budget. After Obama's remarks Monday, the fiscal responsibility summit participants separated into small working groups to discuss the specific fiscal challenges facing the country, including taxes, health care, Social Security and the budget process. The administration is planning to issue a final "fiscal sustainability project" list of recommendations based on the conclusions of those working groups in 30 days. After the working groups met, Obama stood at a podium and called on participants to share what the groups had discussed. Sen. John McCain, Obama's Republican opponent in November's presidential election, told Obama that a proposal to order new helicopters to transport the president was a prime example of government waste. The price tag for a proposed new fleet of 28 Marine One helicopters has virtually doubled to more than $11 billion over the past six years. Each helicopter in the fleet, which would have several security upgrades, would reportedly cost around $400 million. McCain's group at the summit had discussed procurement. Obama said he has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review the helicopter proposal. "The helicopter I have now seems perfectly adequate to me," a smiling Obama said, drawing laughter from the audience. Rep. Joe L. Barton, R-Texas, told Obama that if he is interested in bipartisanship, then he should encourage House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "have a true, open process" in crafting legislation. The stimulus bill passed this month with no GOP votes in the House and only three in the Senate. "I think the House Republicans have shown that, when we're not included in the decision-making, we're disinclined to sign off on the solution," Barton said. Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night is expected to be dominated by economic and budgetary issues. The president is slated to officially unveil his fiscal year 2010 budget Thursday. Obama intends to cut the federal deficit in half primarily by spending less on the war in Iraq, raising taxes on those who make more than $250,000 a year and streamlining government, an administration official told CNN Saturday. The president's budget proposal will project that the estimated $1.3 trillion deficit inherited from the Bush administration will be halved to $533 billion by 2013, or from 9.2 percent of the gross domestic product to 3 percent, the official said. Obama's plans to cut the deficit might be complicated by the continuing economic downturn, which threatens to reduce tax revenues. A group of leading economists is now forecasting a far deeper and more painful recession ahead in the first half of the year, with a solid recovery not taking hold until 2010.
The economy is likely to decline at a 5 percent rate in the first quarter, even sharper than the 3.8 percent drop recorded in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a survey of 47 top forecasters from the National Association for Business Economics. And according to estimates by economists Alan Auerbach of the University of California at Berkeley and William Gale of the Brookings Institution, the deficit — largely because of the recession and the new economic stimulus effort — will average at least $1 trillion per year for the next 10 years, even if the stimulus is limited to two years and the jobs picture improves dramatically.


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Here is the hoary old game of Hearts, written for UNIX systems by Bob Ankeney sometime in the '80's, revised in 1992 by Mike Yang, and currently maintained by Jonathan Badger. Its predecessor was an even older Pascal program by Don Backus of Oregon Software, later updated by Jeff Hemmerling. Originally intended as a multiplayer client, it also works well in single-player mode against computer opponents. The graphics are nice, though the game lacks sophisticated features and the computer players are not particularly strong. All the same, it seems to be the only decent Hearts game available for UNIX and Linux machines even at this late date.
Due to its age and lineage, this package is particularly difficult to build on a Linux system. It requires solving a long and perplexing series of puzzles. It is an exercise in patience and determination.
Before beginning, make certain that you have either the
motif or
lesstif libraries installed.
client.c: In function `read_card':
client.c:430: `_tty' undeclared (first use in this function)
client.c:430: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
client.c:430: for each function it appears in.)
client.c: In function `scan':
client.c:685: `_tty' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [client.o] Error 1
These are the culprits in the file
#ifndef SYSV
(buf[2] != _tty.sg_erase) && (buf[2] != _tty.sg_kill)) {
(buf[2] != CERASE) && (buf[2] != CKILL)) {
client.c, add
at line 39. This will bypass the reference to _tty.
#define SYSV
client.c:41: sys/termio.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [client.o] Error 1
The include file
termio.h is in the
directory on a Linux system, rather than the
one, as was the case on older UNIX machines. Therefore, change line 41
client.c from
#include <sys/termio.h>
#include <termio.h>
gcc -o hearts -g -L/usr/X11R6/lib client.o hearts.o select.o connect.o
sockio.o start_dist.o -lcurses -ltermlib
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -ltermlib: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [hearts] Error 1
Modern Linux distributions use the terminfo and/or termcap database, rather than the obsolete termlib one.
Edit the
Line 655:
CURSES_LIBRARIES = -lcurses -ltermlib
changes to:
CURSES_LIBRARIES = -lcurses -ltermcap
gcc -o xmhearts -g -L/usr/X11R6/lib xmclient.o hearts.o select.o
connect.o sockio.o start_dist.o gfx.o -lXm_s -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXm_s: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The main lesstif library is
libXm, rather than
libXm_s. Therefore, edit the
In line 653:
XMLIB = -lXm_s $(XTOOLLIB) $(XLIB) -lPW
changes to:
XMLIB = -lXm $(XTOOLLIB) $(XLIB) -lPW
gcc -o xmhearts -g -L/usr/X11R6/lib xmclient.o hearts.o select.o
connect.o sockio.o start_dist.o gfx.o -lXm -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lPW
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lPW: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [xmhearts] Error 1
Round up the usual suspects.
There is no
PW library. Edit the
Line 653:
XMLIB = -lXm $(XTOOLLIB) $(XLIB) -lPW
changes to:
XMLIB = -lXm $(XTOOLLIB) $(XLIB) -lPEX5
PEX5 lib comes closest to
rm -f xmhearts
gcc -o xmhearts -g -L/usr/X11R6/lib xmclient.o hearts.o select.o
connect.o sockio.o start_dist.o gfx.o -lXm -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lPEX5
make finally works (hurray!).
As root,
[root@localhost hearts]# make install
install -c -s hearts /usr/X11R6/bin/hearts
install -c -s xmhearts /usr/X11R6/bin/xmhearts
install -c -s xawhearts /usr/X11R6/bin/xawhearts
install in . done
Test run:
(We're running the
tcsh shell.)
localhost:~/% xmhearts
Can't invoke distributor!
README file in the
hearts package:
Put heartsd, hearts_dist, and hearts.instr in the HEARTSLIB
directory defined in local.h and make them world-accessible.
From the file
/* where the distributor, dealer and instructions live */
#define HEARTSLIB "/usr/local/lib/hearts"
This is a classic case of RTFM.
As root,
cd /usr/local/lib
mkdir hearts
cd !$
Copy the
distributor files to this directory.
cp /home/username/hearts/heartsd .
cp /home/username/hearts/hearts_dist .
cp /home/username/hearts/hearts.instr .
Try another test run.
It works some of the time, but more often than not crashes with a
dealer died! message.
The "distributor" and "dealer" scan the hardware ports. We should thus suspect that those programs need root user privileges.
Try, as root,
chmod u+s /usr/local/lib/heartsd
chmod u+s /usr/local/lib/hearts_dist
(Note that, as previously discussed, suid binaries may create security holes.)
It finally works!
Hearts is available from


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Cromarite High School [TV]
Plot Summary
Kamiyama Enrolled at Cromartie High, where everybody is a delinquent, Kamiyama is apparently the only non-delinquent in the school. Logically, therefore, he must be the toughest in his class – by the rather twisted logic that only a really tough rabbit would lie down with lions. Thus begins a story that parodies every cliché of tough-guy anime that you've ever heard of, and some you haven't. Oh, and Freddie Mercury is in it, too.
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