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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 01:45
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What is the Timebomb icon at the top used for. (Solved)
1.What does the Timebomb icon in the URH corner represent?
2.When I click on a program the arrow cursor changes to a Skull & Crossbones - what does this mean?
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Puppy Master
Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 01:48
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when you click a window with the skull and crossbones cursor, it will kill the window ... don't do it unless you need to kill the window
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Bruce B
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 03:24
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I though the reason for the time bomb was because the Linux community forgot to put the Blue Screen of Death in Linux.
If anyone is interested, I think I can make a BSD emulator as a dotpup. It might make the transition from Windows easier and more comfortable for some.
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Official Crustacean
Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Paradox Realm
Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 03:28
Post subject: Puppy Templars
One of the myths of Linux is how reliable it is . . .
True - for servers - put it in a corner and away it trundles for years.
Not so for desktops (in my experience).
I am pleased to say that Puppy is very stable and if you just use it for simple tasks, it is a great workhorse (Puppys are too frisky to work - they play hard and work hard at play) but some of us . . .
. . . well a lot of us are happily fiddling and loading and trying and experirimenting . . .
so sometimes programs sieze up, freeze or refuse to respond - hence the need to close them and the use of the bomb. Much quicker than rebooting.
The good news is Linux is getting ever better on the desktop. It evolves at an astonishing rate . . .
Well that is one explanation - also the bomb is an anarchist symbol (not used by anarchists) and the skull and crossbones is a symbol of the Knights Templers - just thought I would throw that in as a red herring - (yum!)
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 04:38
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>One of the myths of Linux is how reliable it is . . .
I have to agree with you...
After playing around with about 8 different distro's - I was quite surprised to find my computer -
[Athlon XP 1.6 GHz
64 MB Video
- crashing and hanging quite a lot. I'm a longtime heavy Win XP Pro user, and there are stretches when I have gone for *months* without XP crashing or even freezing. I'm slowly flirting with Linux with a view to migrate there eventually, but, I'm not sure Linux is quite there yet as a desktop solution for Joe Average. For what it's worth, Win XP is pretty good as a desktop tool for my needs.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 06:32
Post subject: Realism
I like XP and WIn 98SE and Ubuntu and Mac OS - what is it Tiger now?
(I am using XP on a borrowed machine - earlier I was using Puppy here too)
Here is my report on the current situation (constantly updateable as it is a wiki)
That is Puppy on the top . . .
I am very pleased that we (hopefully) will soon be able to develop Puppy in Puppy (with a dotpup or pupget and a C compiler)
Most of the time I (as a seasoned Windows user) am in Puppy - through choice and preference. I still recognise the strengths and weaknesses of many approaches. Not everyone likes, needs or will use Puppy. More and more people do. They love it..
An OS you Love? That will be the Puppy!
YinYana AI Buddhism
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 11:29
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>One of the myths of Linux is how reliable it is . . .
>>I have to agree with you...
But what is 'reliability'. If your computer crashes, and you make a successful recovery - with no data loss - then you might consider that 'reliable'. If you lose the data after a crash, then the OS is 'unreliable'. In this case, when it crashes, Windows tends to be unreliable. I haven't used Linux for long enough to compare its reliability vs Windows XP. From my limited experience, they seem about equal.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 12:24
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Personally, I consider Linux to be more reliable.
Why? When a program crashes, it doesn't take the OS down with it.
With Windows XP, the OS tends to go down with the program. Or at least in my experience.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 13:00
Post subject: Just in case
Let's say your whole screen freezes up in Linux
Just press ctr+alt+backspace
and when prompted type startx
for newbies
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Bruce B
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 15:40
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I think Linux is very reliable, if one defines Linux as the kernel and the base file systems.
Unrelability is usually application related and not actually "Linux", rather applications written or compiled to run in the Linux environment.
With very little effort I could write a buggy application, but it's buggyness would be a reflection on the author(s) of the app and not Linux.
Most Linux applications are numbered according to conventional protocols and one can see at what level of develpment they are at. Also there is often a list available of known bugs.
I am partial and have bias in favor of GNU/Linux, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 23:49
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Bruce B wrote:
Unrelability is usually application related and not actually "Linux", rather applications written or compiled to run in the Linux environment.
Yes you are right (if a little pedantic
This is also the sort of talk that belittles the experience of real users who do not differentiate. Many distros include these non-working programs out of what? Hope that they will work with a following wind?
tee hee.
Puppy works well and I prefer to use it.
I was looking at DSL 1.3 which now has Ganeesha (elephants) as its default backdrop.
It has some nice features including comprehensive downloads. It uses the knoppix hardware recognition. After about an hour (I went to their built in IRC channel) I lost interest. Mostly because I know it does not have the stability I require and rely on.
I know and understand what you are saying Bruce but to say Linux is stable but some programs are not . . .
is like saying Windows is good unless you use it (which is all too often the case)
However I also have Ubuntu and that works. It is easy to install and the programs and whole experience is one of working software and a model that will develop.
Linux has been bewildering to me. Puppy is the first distro that realistically has allowed me to immerse myself in Linux.
Linux is fun. So is Puppy. Windows is a continually discontinued distro. You might say I have been Tuxed. I blame it on penguins like you Bruce.
The reason non-working software is often included is because it has potential. So Linux is very much (even now) a development and developing environment. It takes a while to understand that. When you get involved you become geekified.
What fun.
Thanks for all your recent posts which are very good and I hope some kind penguin will move relevant ones to the wiki.
YinYana AI Buddhism
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 23:53
Post subject: Lobster you need help
Lobster your crazy LOL But I hear you dsl has a lot of glitches always has
and yes they are waiting for the tradewinds
But with puppy you got a good support group to back your move
and that is why puppy's come in litters!!!
or pack?
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McGarel told the paper how the black-faced Lanark ewe is refusing to leave the spot in a County Antrim hedge where she was buried under a thick blanket of snow since March.
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On-track handle at Gulfstream Park Saturday was $1,254,814, a 20.75% increase from the previous year's Donn Day mark.
There were 10 races Donn Day this year, as there was Donn Day last year, which fell on Feb. 2.
Overall handle on the Gulfstream card, combining on-track handle with interstate and intertrack wagering, reached $13,816,476.54, up 14.54% from last year's mark of $12,063,021.78.
Marc Keller's turf star Grand Couturier skipped the day of scheduled workouts on the Gulfstream Park grass Sunday morning while trainer Bob Ribaudo hopes rain arrives in South Florida soon.
The 6-year-old English-bred son of Grand Lodge remains on target for the $150,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes (G2) on Feb. 21 in what would be one of the earliest starts to the season for the three-time Grade 1 winner.
"This is the first time in the last couple of years he's been doing this good, this early in the year," said Ribaudo Sunday morning. "It's a long year and we want to get him cranked up for the summer and fall, but he's just doing so well, we want to get him started."
Ribaudo said Grand Couturier would work Monday morning on dirt at Gulfstream in what would be the horse's third drill this winter following an 11th-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Turf (G1) on Oct. 25 at Santa Anita won by Conduit.
Training on the grass was under consideration, but Ribaudo will hold off until the dry spell in South Florida breaks.
"I want to wait on some rain before putting him out there," he said. "It's been so dry that I want to keep training on the dirt until we can get a couple days of some nice rain. He runs well on any type of ground, but I don't want to train over it until it softens a little bit."
Grand Couturier earned his second consecutive victory in the Sword Dancer Invitational (G1) at Saratoga last summer and rolled to an impressive win in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (G1) on 'yielding' ground at Belmont Park in September prior to the Breeders' Cup.
Beethoven's Team Resigned but Satisfied with Seasonal Debut
Trainer John Ward correctly handicapped the results of Saturday's $150,000 Holy Bull Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park, but he's disappointed that Beethoven, the 3-year-old colt he conditions for John Oxley, would be hard-pressed to finish in the money after drawing the far outside post 10.
Despite the son of Sky Mesa's fourth-place finish behind Saratoga Sinner in the 1 1/8 miles contest, beaten 4¼ lengths, Ward was satisfied Sunday morning with his colt's effort and is looking forward to the horse's next race.
"He's bright and happy this morning," said Ward. "He lost by exactly the amount of lengths you would expect when you start in the outside post while giving up weight to the winner (eight pounds). It was a learning experience. Considering that, I'd have to say I'm satisfied with his performance."
Beethoven had won his previous two races, including the Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 29 in his final race of 2008. As a graded-stakes winner, he carried 122 pounds from post 10 at a distance with a relatively short run into the first turn.
Ward is convinced that, at level weights in a race with a hypothetically staggered start, his horse would have contested Saratoga Sinner for the win, and he's looking forward to a rematch. He just isn't sure where that rematch might take place.
Ward could bring him back in the $250,000 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth (G2) here on Feb. 28 at one mile, and would not have a problem cutting back to a one-turn race. He will be looking for specific things before deciding to make that race.
"I have no desire to take him out of town," said Ward. "The main thing I want to see will be my horse's muscle development. I've built up his stamina. Now, I need to put more muscle on him and I need to see if I can do that through training, or if I have to go in another race before the Florida Derby (G1)."
Dr. Pleasure & Alaazo Bid to Get Back on Track in Wednesday Feature
Owners John Oxley and Zayata Stables each had reason for high hopes for their respective horses, the 6-year-old Dr. Pleasure and the 4-year-old Alaazo, at some point earlier in their careers.
Dr. Pleasure and Alaazo are entered to make their 2009 season debuts in Wednesday's 1 1/8 miles allowance feature at Gulfstream Park with Edgar Prado to ride Dr. Pleasure for trainer John Ward and Jose Lezcano in the saddle on Alaazo for trainer Todd Pletcher in a field of 10.
Dr. Pleasure is a regally bred son of Thunder Gulch out of Oxley's Eclipse champion mare Beautiful Pleasure and was a bit player as a 3-year-old in 2006, finishing third to Eclipse champion Bernardini in the Travers Stakes (G1), but has still won only two of 17 career starts. He makes his first appearance since losing his rider after clipping heels during the running of the Fayette Stakes (G3) at Keeneland on Oct. 25.
Alaazo is an A.P. Indy colt purchased for $350,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sales. He won his first two career starts for trainer Bill Mott – a maiden score at Monmouth Park as a 2-year-old and a nine-furlong allowance here early last year by 3 ½ lengths – but hasn't won in five starts since then.
Alaazo finished eighth in a Keeneland allowance last out in October in his first start for Pletcher.
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The Indiana Manufactured Housing Association-Recreation Vehicle Indiana Council (IMHA-RVIC) is readying for the 2011 Elkhart County Supplier Expo, set to run June 23 at the RV/MH Hall of Fame.
According to a press release, the event will feature 35 exhibit booths from 27 suppliers at the facility, situated along the Indiana Toll Road on the north side of Elkhart.
Geared toward purchasing agents and engineers for manufacturing companies, the exhibitors are largely from the Elkhart County area, but IMHA-RVIC noted that "some come from as far away as Canada to market their products."
The expo runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., followed by a reception sponsored by the Economic Development Corp. of Elkhart County from 5-7 pm. Admission to the event is free and no RSVP is necessary.
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What�s $2.3 million worth? About 71 years in prison � and that�s if you cooperate.
What�s $2.3 million worth? About 71 years in prison � and that�s if you cooperate.
From January 2005 to October 2011, Edward Earl Waters allegedly conspired with Roland Edward Steed, of Swansboro, to defraud Kinston�s Discovery Insurance Company of more than $2.3 million dollars. Tuesday, Waters entered into a deal with state prosecutors, pleading guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting obtaining property by means of false pretense and two counts of conspiracy.
The 62-year-old Kinston resident could receive a maximum sentence of 71 years and six months in prison.
Steed, 67 and the alleged ringleader; Marvin Lyle Quinn, 55 of Goldsboro; and Franklin Ronald Steed, 62 of Denton, all received a continuance until the administrative Superior Court hearing on Jan. 7. Quinn and Franklin Steed made their $1 million bond and remain free until the next hearing. Roland Edward Steed made his $2.5 million bond. Russell S. Ward, who the indictment says deposited $2.15 million in fraudulent checks, died Nov. 9, 2011.
Waters remains incarcerated on a $1 million bond.
�Mr. Waters has acknowledged his guilt, and wanted to move forward and accept responsibility as soon as possible,� said Waters� defense attorney, Rudy Ashton of New Bern firm McCotter Ashton, P.A.
Ashton said Waters will testify should any of the other cases go to trial.
In a conversation with investigators, Waters said Roland Steed approached him about the embezzlement scheme at an ECU baseball game in 1996. Roland Steed was vice president of claims for Discovery from 1996 to November 2011.
According to information given by Assistant District Attorney Imelda Pate during the plea hearing, Waters said Roland Steed devised and implemented the scheme, running the operation with his co-conspirators for 15 years. Pate said prosecutors believe Roland Steed acted as a hub, and his co-conspirators were not aware of each other�s involvement in the scheme.
Pate said the state was only able to obtain bank records back to 2005, so there weren�t records to back Waters� claim. However, Waters maintained an account at BB&T under the name Horizon Services since the late �90s. From 2005-2011, the only deposits came from checks handed to him by Steed. Waters admitted he would deposit the money in the BB&T account, and once the check cleared, take the cash amount out and split it with Steed.
With his share of the cash, Waters said he bought jewels and used most of it for gambling. He would go on trips to places like Atlantic City and the Bahamas, taking with him between $6,000 and $7,000. The money also provided his only source of income for six to seven years. At times, he used it to pay for one daughter�s living expenses when she was in college, and another daughter�s bills.
However, according to the plea, he kept his wife out of the loop. Waters said he kept the Horizon Services rubber stamp � for use on the checks � in the trunk of his car, then threw it away when he began to sense trouble.
Waters� sentencing hearing will likely come once the other three cases are disposed.


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Maybe it's the ongoing success of "Lee Daniels' The Butler," or perhaps just the start of soulful autumnal nights, but something has put us in a jazzy, Louis Armstrong kind of mood.
All of which is enough to make one wonder if "Something Wonderful," a long-gestating movie about Louis Armstrong from "Butler" star Forest Whitaker, still has a shot of getting off the ground.
The man at the controls says it does.
PHOTOS: Forest Whitaker: Career retrospective
Whitaker tells The Times that he'd still like to direct and act in the independent production, and that he's been working to develop the script with the veteran screenwriter Ron Bass ("Rain Man," "The Joy Luck Club").
Fittingly for a man who has played in some unconventional biopics — "The Butler," after all, is less a narrow depiction of its title character as it is a chronicling of racial politics — the film won't follow the traditional cradle-to-grave path.
"I'm not telling the story like a biopic," Whitaker said. "I'm telling it more like a myth, where it's several points of view at the same time, the point of view of Louis and the point of view of a kid."
Armstrong, Whitaker noted, had a mentally challenged adoptive son, and Whitaker says the movie could use his point of view to illuminate the jazz legend. "It will be through each of their eyes, and then it will kind of merge," said Whitaker, who in addition to his prolific acting career has made forays into directing with movies such as "Waiting to Exhale" and "Hope Floats," the former also with Bass.
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Whitaker will have a busy few months ahead. He has plenty of campaigning to do on "The Butler," for which his Cecil Gaines role has generated best actor Oscar talk. And early in the new year he's hoping to star as Desmond Tutu in Roland Joffé's "The Archbishop and the Antichrist," a movie about the unlikely relationship between the Nobel Peace Prize winner and a mass murderer.
Whitaker, who is known for playing real-life characters — early in his career he played Charlie Parker, and he of course won an Oscar for playing Idi Amin — says he thinks there is something inspirational about the Armstrong-inspired tale.
"I want to see the spirit of him in this movie," Whitaker said. "I want you to walk out of the theater singing, having just seen that Louis went to the store and 5-year olds start singing 'It's a Wonderful World,' and everyone in the whole community started singing with him, even the horses."
Whitaker added, "It's about him bringing a family together, the family of man."
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World Reacts to Death of Kim Jong Il
BERLIN – World governments are viewing the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with wary optimism -- a possibly destabilizing moment for the region as power passes to his son but also an opportunity for a new diplomatic start.
North Korea's past behavior has been notoriously erratic, making it difficult to predict the course it will choose. Japan and South Korea quickly held emergency meetings, and world leaders tried to convince the isolated country to open up more to the rest of the world about its nuclear intentions.
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed his condolences but added "this could be a turning point for North Korea" as Kim Jong Un takes over as supreme leader.
"We hope that their new leadership will recognize that engagement with the international community offers the best prospect of improving the lives of ordinary North Korean people," Hague said in a statement, encouraging the country to resume international talks on its nuclear capabilities.
Germany's Foreign Ministry said it has "clear expectations" of North Korea's new leadership.
"It is, of course, an opportunity that things there will change," spokesman Dirk Augustin told reporters. "We have clear demands to North Korea: It must abandon its nuclear program; the catastrophic situation of the people must improve; and political and economical reforms must be implemented."
Kim's death was announced Monday by North Korean state television, two days after he died at age 69 of a heart attack.
During his 17 years in power, Kim's pursuit of nuclear weapons and his military's repeated threats to South Korea and the U.S. stoked fears that war might again break out or that North Korea might provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorist movements.
South Korea put its military on "high alert" and President Lee Myung-bak convened a national security council meeting. The Korean peninsula remains technically in a state of war more than 50 years after the Cold War-era armed conflict ended in a cease-fire.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda held an emergency national security council with top Cabinet members soon after hearing the news.
He "instructed us to be best prepared in case of any unexpected development" while top officials meet to discuss the situation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told journalists in Tokyo.
Fujimura expressed condolences and said Japan hoped Kim's death would not affect the region adversely.
"First of all we hope that this sudden development would not give adverse impact on the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula," he said.
The White House said it was in constant contact with South Korea and Japan, but offered no substantive comment on the implications of Kim's death, saying only that President Barack Obama "reaffirmed the United States' strong commitment to the stability of the Korean peninsula and the security of our close ally, the Republic of Korea."
The news jolted financial markets, raising the specter of more instability. European stock markets fell slightly in early trading and Wall Street was set to open lower while South Korea's Kospi index dived nearly 5 percent but later recouped some losses to close 3.4 percent lower. Other Asian stock markets also fell.
Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said Kim's death brings the situation to "one of those critical junctures" and "an exceptionally difficult period of transition."
"It is critical that everybody exercises appropriate calm and restraint in what is a important development in terms of the overall stability of the region and the security of us all," Rudd said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency had no immediate comment on how nuclear talks might proceed under a new government.
In China, a key North Korean ally, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu called Kim a "great leader" and said China believes the North Korean people will "turn their grief into strength, unite as one, and continue to advance the cause of North Korean socialism."
But he also added that Beijing would continue to offer its support and make "active contributions to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in this region."
China has long sought to convince North Korea of the need for economic reform, and Kim's death raises hopes that Pyongyang might now take heed of such advice, said Korea expert Lu Chao at China's Academy of Social Sciences in Liaoning province, which borders North Korea.
"There will definitely be change, good and positive change," Lu said. "North Korea will work more closely with the global community toward the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula."
China is also expected to take a strong behind-the-scenes role to help retain its influence, which is seen as important no matter which direction North Korea takes, said U.S. Naval Academy China scholar Yu Maochun.
"If North Korea continues to be an international pariah, China will continue to benefit from its current leverage," Yu said. "If North Korea becomes less intransigent and slightly more open, then China will be greatly worried about the possible warming-up, or even reunification, between North and South Koreas."
Moscow said it hoped for continued good relations with Pyongyang.
"We have friendly relations with North Korea," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. "We hope that this loss that the Korean people have suffered will not have a negative impact on the development of our relations."
With so many questions in the air at the moment, most countries are waiting to see what comes next.
"The death of a dictator is always a period of uncertainty for a dictatorship," said Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Twitter. "And North Korea is the hardest dictatorship in our time."


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The warm weather is finally here, which means many kids will be spending more time outside. Playgrounds are a great way for children to get exercise, but while there they should be watched closely to make sure the running and climbing doesn't end in injury. To keep kids safe while playing outside:
- Make sure an adult is always watching.
- When possible, visit playgrounds built on a soft surface like rubber, bark chips or sand.
- Dress them in safe play clothes. Scarves, hood draw-stings, necklaces and other dangling accessories can get caught on play equipment. Also, helmets should only be worn during the activity it was designed for. Playing and running with a helmet could cause an accident because it could limit the child's range of vision.
Riding a bike, skateboard or scooter is another great summer activity, but only when done safely. Most accidents involving children and bicycles, in-line skates and skateboards happen because the child broke a traffic or safety rule. If your child uses a wheeled toy be sure he or she:
Knows the rules of the road:
- Always ride on the right side of the road, going the same direction as traffic.
- Use hand signals to let others know which way he is turning.
- Stop at all stop signs and red lights.
- Look both ways before crossing a street or sidewalk.
Anytime your child uses a wheeled toy he should wear a helmet. Ideally the helmet should be bought new (new helmets are more effective than an old helmet that has been in a crash) and meet all safety standards. Look for ones approved by American National Standards Institute, the American Society for Testing Materials or the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
And did you know there are different helmets for different activities? A bike helmet should only be worn while bicycling, but a multi-purpose helmet can be worn when skateboarding, roller-skating or riding scooters. Falls off bikes are different than falls off skateboards or in-line skates, so the helmets are designed differently to better protect the rider. Regardless of the activity, the right helmet should:
- Have the proper straps. Front straps should go under the chin and make a 'V' just under the ears. Rear straps should be flat behind the head.
- Fit well. Straps should be snug so the helmet doesn't move around on the head. As a rule, one finger should fit between the chin and the chinstrap when the child's mouth is closed.
- Sit just right. To make sure the helmet doesn't get in the way of seeing, there should be enough room for two fingers to fit between the child's eyebrows and the helmet.
When the weather gets warm it's tempting to open your windows to let fresh air in. But windows that are open just five inches could be dangerous for children under the age of 10. Falling out of windows can cause very serious injuries. To avoid them:
- Put store-bought window guards on all windows above the first floor. Screens aren't strong enough to stop a child from falling through a window.
- Make sure your child cannot reach any open windows.
- Set rules with your child about playing near windows.
- Move furniture away from windows, open or closed. If a child falls off a chair or table into glass, it could cause him to break through the window.
Even if they are good swimmers, children need to be watched closely anytime they're in, or around, water. Small children can drown in as little as one inch of water so they need adult supervision around pools, lakes, oceans, wading pools, "kiddie pools," bathtubs, buckets, toilets and hot tubs.
Always keep kids in your direct line of sight when around water. Reading, listening to music or having long talks with other people can limit your ability to pay attention. Children can drown silently and quickly, so adults need to be focused and alert when watching them swim.
If you own a pool, make sure it has a fence with a gate that locks. It needs to be at least four feet high and surrounding all four sides of the pool — the house should not be used as one of the sides.
Teach your child to swim. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children begin swimming lessons at 4 years old.
Use safety equipment. When boating, both you and your child should wear a life vest at all times.
Falls and accidents aren't the only safety hazard kids face outdoors. Sunburns, animal bites and dehydration are common during the warmer months, but they can be easily avoided. Make sure your child:
- Has sunscreen covering all showing skin. Sunburns can happen even on cloudy days, so it's a good idea to have your child wear it anytime she is outside for more than a half hour. Sunglasses, hats and long sleeves keep UV rays from burning kids' skin and should be worn when appropriate.
- Takes water breaks when playing in the heat, even if he's not thirsty. If a child complains about dizziness, headache, nausea or muscle cramps he could be overheated or at risk for heat illness. If your child has of any of these symptoms, have him lie down in a cool, shaded area with his feet slightly raised, with drinking water and a cool cloth on hand.
- Bug bites can sting or be itchy, but if your child is allergic to them, it can be much more serious. Inspect repellant and bug spray can be helpful for keeping bugs away, especially in the early evening when many insects are most active.
- If the child is playing in the woods, have him wear long sleeves and pants to avoid tick bites.
Like kids, dogs and other animals spend more time outside during the spring and summer. To avoid animal bites, teach your child these safety tips:
- Always asking the owner if it's OK to pet the dog.
- Let the dog see and sniff you before petting it.
- Do not run toward or away from a dog.
- If a dog you don't know comes up to you, stay still and look at the ground until it goes away.
- If a dog attacks you and knocks you over, roll into a ball and cover your face with your arms.
By Tripp Underwood, used with permission from Childrens Hospital Boston.


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Geeks are some of the easiest, yet toughest people to buy gifts for. While we are open about our interests, gift givers often have a hard time finding something we'll love that we don't already have.
If the geek in your life also happens to be a car lover, things get a little bit easier. That is, unless they ask you to buy a new car online for them. In that case, you're not buying for an easy-going car lover and should run for the hills!


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Cespedes' HR puts weary Red Sox past Angels
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Cespedes' HR puts weary Red Sox past Angels
Red Sox 3, Angels 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. —
Yoenis Cespedes hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning, Rubby De La Rosa pitched five-hit ball into the eighth and the Boston Red Sox bounced back from a 19-inning loss with a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.
The teams returned just 12 hours after the longest game in the majors this season, a 6 1/2-hour epic won 5-4 by the Angels on Albert Pujols' homer well after midnight.
Mike Trout homered in the eighth for the Angels (68-49), who still have the majors' second-best record despite losing five of six.
Cespedes broke open a scoreless game with his first homer for the defending World Series champions, driving a pitch from Joe Smith (4-1) into the Boston bullpen in left.


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Wallabies... of the rucking, mauling kind
A couple of walking, talking Wallabies (aka Australian Rugby Union players) visited the Museum...
Kids, rugby fans, Museum visitors and a surprising number of staff members (see above) calmly stood in line today to get an autograph and a photo with a couple of Wallabies.
Nathan Sharpe, the longest serving member of the Australian team and Scott Higginbotham, one of the newest members of the Qantas Wallabies squad, happily spent half an hour signing and posing next to our foyer display celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the famous gold jersey.
The Qantas Wallabies team will take on Samoa this Sunday at ANZ Stadium. Let's hope they're as agile as their namesakes but as fierce as these guys.
The Australian Museum wishes you well, Nathan and Scott!


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Tools: Lightwave 7.5 RealFlow, Flash 8, Fireworks 8, Dreamweaver 8, Poser 5.5 ect....
I am a single, livng with my two boys, 12 and 15, and my main employment is take care of boys. When they are in school, I start my computer and make my ideas come true. I have also a 3D Database of Finland, where is nearly all Companies, 3d makers ect..... in Finland. http://www.jessnet.fi/3df.html


text: New Kuhn SR 100 GII SpeedRake September 6, 2013 07:24 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email The best just got better with the Kuhn SR 100 GII SpeedRake®. Refined styling, higher strength materials and improved options deliver the most value for your equipment dollars. Exclusive in this machine class, the patent pending windrow adjustment feature allows independent adjustment of the windrow width and raking width to best match specific crop and pickup needs. A built-in mechanical rake arm flotation slot provides superior terrain following without the need for a tractor with hydraulic float. The simple selector valve provides fast, easy switching between transport and field positions to save time and maximize productivity. Improved options include tandem axles and a larger kicker wheel. Kuhn North America, Inc., of Brodhead, Wisconsin, is a leading innovator in agricultural and industrial equipment, specializing in spreaders, mixers, hay tools and tillage tools. Kuhn- and Kuhn Knight-brand products are sold by farm equipment dealers throughout the United States, Canada and many other countries. Learn more at www.KuhnNorthAmerica.com. Back to news


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Choose a five-speed manual and continuously variable transmission and enjoy excellent maneuverability as you zip through city traffic with ease. Don't worry about getting going after a full stop on an incline, Spark is equipped with Hill Start Assist to get you up to speed in an instant.
To keep you safe in the event of a crash, frontal air bags are deployed to protect the driver and front passenger.


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Like a lot of folks, I've got a bucket list of things I want to do and see before I head to the big mall in the sky.
Mine's a little different than most. I call it "999 places to shop before I die."
The list includes the world's most iconic, exotic, eccentric and elegant shops, stores, sales and marketplaces. The Kasbah of Marrakech. Gum of Moscow. The flower market in San Remo. Egypt's camel auction. Bangkok's Floating Market. The Ginza in Tokyo. Vienna's Christmas Markets. Paris' historic trio of grand department stores: Le Bon Marche, Le Printemps and Les Galeries Lafayette.
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Rockets, Blazers square off in the Rose City
The Houston Rockets have won three in a row, but still haven't clinched a playoff berth. They will try to inch closer to the postseason Friday night when they visit the Portland Trail Blazers.
Houston is seventh in the Western Conference, one game behind the Golden State Warriors for sixth. The Rockets are three games ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers to stay in seventh.
The Rockets started a three-game road trip with a win Wednesday night in Sacramento. Houston prevailed 112-102 thanks to three double-doubles.
Omer Asik had 19 points and 10 rebounds, while seldom-used Kentucky rookie Terrance Jones added 14 points and 12 boards off the bench.
"He had a great practice yesterday," said Houston head coach Kevin McHale when asked about giving Jones minutes. "I told our staff, 'We've given everybody a shot at that spot, we might as well give Terrence a shot.'"
Jeremy Lin had the third double-double on Wednesday with 15 points and 10 assists. Chandler Parsons led all scorers with 29 points on 12-for-18 shooting and James Harden had 21 points, nine assists and seven rebounds.
The Blazers limp into Friday's game losers of six straight. They have been without All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge (right ankle) and Nicolas Batum (right shoulder). Both are listed as questionable for Friday.
Aldridge sounded adamant that he would play on Friday.
"I'm doing my job," Aldridge said after practice on Thursday. "I was hurt and now I feel healthy again, so I'm going to play."
Portland dropped three straight at home and its most recent setback came on Wednesday when the Memphis Grizzlies came to Rose City and squashed the Blazers 94-76.
Memphis put the clamps on Portland in the second half, holding the Blazers to 30 points over the final 24 minutes.
"We kept battling. We didn't shoot the ball well in the second half and we were 1-for-18 on threes, so obviously that affected whatever run that we were trying to make in the second half," said Portland coach Terry Stotts.
The Blazers started three rookies - Damian Lillard, Meyers Leonard and Victor Claver. Lillard and J.J. Hickson led the team in scoring with 17 points apiece. Leonard netted 10 points and Claver managed only seven.
The Blazers won the first two matchups this season with the Rockets, but Houston captured the most recent decision, a 118-103 victory at home on Feb. 8. Houston is 3-5 in its last eight games in the Pacific Northwest.


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Web Scraping and Data Parsing
Budżet $30-250 USD
This project is to scrape 34-37mm records from a public website and provide me the data set and to parse the data into individual fields. The payment will be for the delivery of scraped and parsed data, we will not pay for the scraping script. You must scrape the data yourself and you have to scrape all the data.
Here is the website we need scraped:[url removed, login to view]
The URLs are sequential, so just start at 1 and go up to about 37,000,000. When you deliver the data the fields have to be separated into first name, middle name, last name (there may be as many as six names associated with each record), amount or cash reported, type of property, city, state, 5 digit zip code, 4 digit zip code addition, street address, property number, reported by, type of property.
In your bid please state the total cost for the project and the total amount of time it will take. In addition please tell me when you can deliver the first 5mm records. We will set this up so you deliver the records in batches of 5mm as your scrape them. You must scrape all the records to complete the project.
15 freelancerów złożyło ofertę na kwotę $191 do tego projektu
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senior python developer. this might take some time, but not longer than a few days i think. i'll need to ask a few things as we go.
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OJS Roadmap
Development Roadmap
You will find the OJS development roadmap for 2009 below. Please note that these dates are not fixed. OJS development is currently following two development branches: a 'stable' 2.2.x line which includes mainly bugfixes and will be an easy upgrade for users of the current 2.2.2 release (and who do not need much in the way of new features); and a 'devel' 2.3 line, which includes large-scale changes in the underlying codebase as well as many new features.
While we do attempt to list all bugs tracked against a given release, quite often a bug report against one release will be ported to another (this is especially the case with 2.2.x bugfixes into the devel branch; less so with 2.3 enhancements into the stable branch). This is also the case with some bugs tracked against other applications such as Open Conference Systems. You are encouraged to browse our Bugzilla database fully.
Milestone 2.2.3 (Q1 2009)
This is a planned stability/bugfix release of the 2.2.x line, roughly scheduled for April 2009. Very few new features will be included with this release.
Milestone 2.3 (Q2 2009)
OJS 2.3 is a substantial upgrade from the 2.2.x line, including many new enhancements as well as all relevant bug fixes against 2.2.x., and is loosely scheduled for release around June 2009. This will be the first OJS release that will make use of the new abstracted PKP WAL common codebase. The User Interface will remain largely the same as the 2.2.x line. You can view all bug reports by type:
Major Areas of Development
This list isn't all-inclusive, but should give a good snapshot of current areas of interest.
User Interface Development
- Better Notifications of actionable workflow items
- Support for jQuery
XML Support
- Enhanced XML->HTML/PDF rendering support through the XML Galleys plugin
Networking and Communications Development
- Implementation of social networking/communications tools for Facebook, Citeulike, Slashdot, etc.
- More robust notification options (email and rss)
- Enhanced comments system
Milestone 3.0 (Not yet slated)
This proposed release will represent a large-scale revamping of the PKP codebase, including the completion of abstracting common code from all applications into the PKP WAL; modularization of the remaining OJS codebase (so that components can be mixed and matched as necessary); substantial and comprehensive User Interface refinements; and further overall code refinements. The release date is largely hypothetical at this point, and no bugs have yet been filed against 3.0.
- See Modularization of PKP Systems for details on the proposed modularization of PKP applications.


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CoreFab101: An Introduction to Laser Cutting
The Build Shop
Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PST)
Event Details
An Introduction to Laser Cutting
Prereq: None
Cost: $30
[Bring an image with you to class for laser cutting!]
Learn the fundamentals of laser cutting on The Build Shop's 100 Watt ULS X2-660! This CNC cutting machine can cut through practically anything and engrave onto everything else using a high powered CO2 laser, and we're going to teach you everything you need to know to use it!
This hands on class will cover the basics of what a laser cutter is, what it can do, the incredible projects you can create, safety precautions to take when operating the machine, and step by step operation for you to use the machine yourself in the shop. Training in this class will clear you to come in and operate the laser cutter yourself during our normal operating hours under the assisted rates.
Makers taking this class will get a chance to operate the machine themselves and will walk away with a acrylic token etched with an image of your choice!
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Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PST)
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Founded in late 2011, The Build Shop was the first walk-in 3D printing shop in Los Angeles. With over five distinct brands of 3D printers using Fused Filament Fabrication, Stereolithography, and Granular Materials Binding Technologies we have the capabilities to 3D print nearly any project you want to build. If you want to do it yourself we also have a host of classes to get you up to speed to run the machines yourself!
Whether you're a small business owner looking to build a part, an artist creating their next masterpiece, student learning the cutting edge of personal prototyping, or maker looking to create their next cool gadget, if you can dream it up we can help you build it!


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Traina gets 100th win as Tide beats Auburn in SEC Tourney
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Senior Jaclyn Traina earned her 100th career win in Friday's SEC Tournament quarterfinal victory over Auburn, as the 8-4 win advances the Crimson Tide to tomorrow's semifinal round.
Alabama (45-10) was the only higher-seeded team to win on Thursday, as the Tide bucked the day's trend with a convincing offensive showcase, including a two-run homer by Jaclyn Traina (20-3), who helped her own cause in the complete-game victory in the circle. The win makes Traina just the third pitcher at Alabama and the ninth in SEC history to earn 100 career wins. She only trails Shelly Laird (115, 1999-02) and Kelsi Dunne (113, 2008-11) in the Alabama career rankings.
Kallie Case had a 2-3 day at the plate, as the sophomore outfielder has earned two-hit performances in three of her last four games and Marisa Runyon hit her fourth home run of the season, a second-inning solo shot. Auburn (38-17-1) took the early lead in the game but was held scoreless after the second inning. Marcy Harper (17-5) took the loss as the Tigers' starter, throwing the opening 3.0 innings with seven runs allowed, though only four were earned.
Auburn took the first lead of the game, as Jade Rhodes knocked a single into left field to score Morgan Estell from third, advancing to second on the throw to put a pair in scoring position with two away in the first. A groundout to second limited the damage, as the Tide escaped the half-inning facing a 1-0 deficit.
With two out in the bottom of the first, the Auburn shortstop booted a grounder by Molly Fichtner, which allowed Kaila Hunt to score from second and tie the game at 1-1. Jadyn Spencer was caught in a rundown in between second and third on the play however, as she was tagged out sliding in to third for the final out of the inning.
With two outs and runner at second in the top of the second, Emily Carosone gave Auburn back the lead with a two-run homer to straightaway center and Kasey Cooper padded the lead with a solo home run in the next at-bat. A lineout to third ended the half-inning but Alabama was now trailing, 4-1.
Runyon drew Alabama within two to lead off the bottom-half of the second, launching a huge home run over the right-field fence to make it a 4-2 ballgame. Later in the inning with two out and runners at the corners, Case poked a single through the left side to score another, drawing the Tide within one, down 4-3. A passed ball allowed both runners to move into scoring position and a grounder rolled right between the legs of the Tiger third baseman, allowing two unearned runs to score as Alabama moved up 5-4.
Traina padded the Tide's lead in the bottom of the third, launching a line-drive home run to center field to score two and give Alabama a 7-4 lead. In the bottom of the fourth with one away, a hard bases-loaded grounder to third went for one out but allowed a run to cross the plate, putting Alabama up 8-4.
Alabama failed to tack on any insurance in the closing innings, heading to the seventh inning still leading 8-4. A quick fly out and popup brought the Tigers down to their final out. Branndi Melero made a bid at a late rally with a two-out single and Morgan Estell followed with a walk. The Tigers could not bring the potential tying run to the plate however, as Traina struck out Rhodes to end the game and advance Alabama to the SEC Tournament semifinals.
Alabama will continue play at the SEC Tournament on Friday, May 9 against Georgia (43-12), scheduled for a 4:30 p.m. CT start. The game will be aired live on ESPNU.


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posted by Eugenia Loli on Thu 19th Apr 2007 18:13 UTC
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce version 7.04 of the Ubuntu family of distributions (more info here and here). Ubuntu 7.04 is also the basis for new 7.04 releases of Kubuntu (screenshots) and Edubuntu. Ubuntu 7.04 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers. Here is a review of Feisty Fawn, and it also seems that Michael Dell has it installed too. Get it while it's hot.


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It's the summer of projects! With my newfound free time, I've decided to devote 100 days to make a minimum of 100 creative, culinary concoctions. Pretty straightforward, right?
100 Days of Homemade on Get Sconed!
- Each and every day, for a period of 100 days beginning June 25th, I aim to make one meal as from-scratch-as-possible in my kitchen.
- These creations will be shared in small, group updates on Get Sconed! I will photograph as much as possible.
- I'll be identifying my photos with the "100dayshomemade" tag on this site, as well as twitter and Instagram.
- As always, my dishes will be entirely vegan and incorporate local, organic seasonal produce as much as obsessively possible. Dishes will also be free of almonds, cashews, bananas and pineapple. Go figure.
- Some days, more than one dish will likely be created. This may mean an entirely different course, or simply an accompanying cocktail or dessert. As long as it's homemade and creative, it's in.
- Being newly (and for now, gloriously) unemployed, the dishes will be pretty budget-friendly. Thank you, crazy supply of dried beans, exotic spices and grains! I'll do my best to make notes and share worthwhile tips as I go along.
- Dishes will be described and recipes will be referenced when used, or ideas given. Basically, some dishes may be winged, some may be test recipes for the upcoming Isa Does It, some may be from cookbooks, some may simply be special requests from my girlfriend. Nearly everything will be inspired by farmers market hauls or television episodes, etc.
- Processed goods, such as vegan cheese and packaged slices, will be used as little as possible, if ever.
From the first few days:
My new style also welcomes legitimate time to devote to Vida Vegan Con, and speaking of, early bird tickets open today, July 1st!


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American Nature Writing and Japan
Masami Yuki
Although largely disregarded since the humanistic turn of ecocriticism at the beginning of the 21st century, nature writing has continued to play an important role in nurturing trans-Pacific, and transnational, literary environmentalism. Euro-American traditions dominate this literary genre, but it nevertheless involves cross-cultural traffic of ideas and thoughts. Its trans-Pacific presence, mostly through American influences on works in Japan, demonstrates in three ways how American nature writing has been cultivating Japanese literary soil and has in turn been nurtured by it, albeit less conspicuously. First, Henry David Thoreau's influence on Japanese literary environmentalism, especially his philosophy of plain living and high thinking, helped engender a tradition of nature writing in Japan that began with Nozawa Hajime—often called the "Japanese Thoreau"—and has been developed by those who followed, including Ashizawa Kazuhiro and Takada Hiroshi. Second, interactions between pastoralism and a new mode of environmental awareness show that the seemingly American notion of "wild awareness" and the Japanese concept of aware have materialized as a new environmental sensitivity in Japan and in the United States, respectively, reflecting cross-cultural nurturing of environmental ideas, thoughts, and practices. Finally, there has been a subtle yet radical impact of American counterculture on Japanese nature writing, exemplified by Nashiki Kaho's literary hybridity, based on her integration of the traditional with the radical.
American Nuclear Literature on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Shoko Itoh
Literature on Hiroshima and Nagasaki cannot be limited to works on the atomic bomb or fiction referring specifically to these locations. Rather, in the nuclear age, it must include a variety of literary works that are conscious of the destiny of the earth, given the danger of nuclear pollution, and engage with the terrible fantasy of the end of the world. As John W. Treat states in his influential critical work, Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb, "The concept of hibakusha now has to extend to everyone alive today in any region of the planet" (x–xi).
The range of nuclear-themed works that symbolically invoke Hiroshima or Nagasaki is enormous. Nuclear literature as a creation of survivors, or spiritual survivors, focuses on an awareness of the planetary catastrophe concerning Los Alamos, Trinity Site, the ground zeroes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other global nuclear zones. The two nuclear sites in Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and in the United States (Los Alamos and Trinity Site) are historically connected. The authors and protagonists of nuclear literature have literal and affective transpacific and cross-cultural experiences that when considered together seek to overcome the tragic experience of the first nuclear bomb and bombing, including the Japanese acceptance of American nuclear fictions during the Cold War.
Animal Studies and the Contemporary Novel
Elisha Cohn
Animals have prowled literature from its beginnings in the ancient world through medieval bestiaries and out from the margins of the novel in the modern era. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, animals' literary presence has generated increasing critical interest. Animal studies, a relatively new interdisciplinary field, calls attention to the accelerating exploitation of animals in the period of industrial modernity and questions what it is possible to know about animals' own experiences. Foundational theoretical approaches to understanding the historical and philosophical condition of thinking about animals—John Berger's "Why Look at Animals?" (1972), Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), and Jacques Derrida's "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)" (2002)—propose a fundamental aporia or gap between human and animal experiences, and they caution against the projection of anthropocentric categories onto animal lives. Many novels from this recent period likewise treat animals as charismatic strangers. Yet other contemporary literature sometimes reimagines human-animal relationships to insist on affinity and continuity. In such novels, animals prompt diverse and often experimental stylistic choices that put pressure on the novel's traditional association with everyday life, the individual self, the boundaries of the nation, and empirical observation more broadly. Still, many recent novels remain essentially committed to a realist tradition. Some of these—most notably by J. M. Coetzee—depict relations of care between humans and often vulnerable or dependent animals that prompt reflection on the meaning of ethical action. In novels that purport to narrate from animals' own perspective, writers likewise meditate on the ethics of interspecies relations as they use language innovatively in an effort to realistically evoke the sensorium of another species. Pushing the boundaries of realism, other novels reinvent the animal fable, using varying degrees of fantasy to imagine wild or domesticated animals as tropes that reflect upon human embodiment, community, and politics. Whether realist or fabulist, the novels of contemporary postcolonial and world literature particularly explore the power and limits of mapping histories of human belonging and domination onto animal figures, even as they often highlight the limitations of these comparisons. Not all of these approaches are equally invested in creating a literature that could materially impact the lives of animals in an era of diminishing biodiversity. However, uniting this varied and ever-growing array of novels is a question of how literature can represent the lives of intimately entangled bodies in a globalizing world.
Apocalyptic Fiction, 1950–2015
Heather J. Hicks
From 1950 to the 2010s, the genre known as apocalyptic fiction has grown in prominence, moving from the mass-market domain of science fiction to a more central position in the contemporary literary scene. The term "apocalyptic fiction" can be understood to encompass both depictions of cataclysms that destroy the Earth and texts that portray the aftermath of a disaster that annihilates a nation, civilization, or all but a few survivors of the human population. The term itself finds its roots in the book of Revelation, and while contemporary apocalyptic fiction tends to be largely secular in its worldview, important traces of the Christian tradition linger in these texts. Indeed, while apocalyptic fiction has evolved over the past sixty-five years in response to historical transformations in Western societies, much of it remains wedded to Revelation's representation of women as the cause of apocalyptic destruction. The material of the 1950s reflects Cold War anxieties about nuclear war while presenting sexually liberated women as implicated in the same modernity that has created the atomic bomb. People of color are also depicted as threats that must be contained. The apocalyptic fiction of the 1960s registers a fascination with genetic, social, and literary mutation, ambivalently treating a variety of "others" as both toxic and potentially useful ambassadors to some new, postmodern condition. The 1970s see the emergence of feminist apocalypses, works that react against the sexist tendency to conflate female power and sexuality with apocalyptic menace. The 1980s introduce the "American apocalypse," a subgenre that imagines a disaster befalling America in specifically economic terms. The 1990s, meanwhile, find combinations of the feminist and American apocalypse, while also beginning to bring environmental peril into focus. From 2000 forward, there is a renewed interest in broader, more global disasters, in part informed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Formally, this is the era of the "metapocalypse"—apocalyptic fictions that are self-reflexive about the conventions of the genre, including those involving gender and race. Nonetheless, several of the novels in this period still unapologetically introduce figures that recall Jezebel and Babylon from Revelation. Finally, the period since 2010 has seen a revived emphasis on economic collapse precipitated by neoliberal capitalism as well as the anthropocene.
Asian North American Adoption Narratives
Jenny Heijun Wills
Transnational adoption from Asia began in the 1950s as an institutionalized practice. Since, hundreds of thousands of young people from countries such as South Korea, China, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines have been adopted and raised primarily in white families in places like the United States, Canada, and Australia but also Scandinavian countries and countries in western Europe. What began as a relief program for multiracial "war orphans" in South Korea has blossomed considerably and affects countries and people around the world; transnational adoption has become a popular industry that targets young people in countries including Guatemala, Brazil, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Haiti, and Russia. Today, transnational adoption continues to be a lucrative industry, though the practice seems to be dwindling in popularity and certain "sending nations" have recently declared its abolition (i.e., Ethiopia in 2017). The United States is by far the most prolific "receiving nation," and is implicated as one of the greatest instigators, given that nation's military presence in places such as South Korea and Vietnam in and around the years that transnational adoption expanded from those countries. While not nearly as many Canadians (in comparison to Americans) adopt from countries in Asia, adoptees raised in that country have unique experiences mainly due to vastly distinctive regionalism, that makes, for instance, the identities of Asian/Québécois adoptees uniquely precarious. Mexico is considered a "sending nation," and since race and class factors rarely see young people both immigrating and migrating from the same nation under the auspices of transnational adoption (though it is not always the case; see, e.g., the United States' history of sending black children for adoption to various European nations), it is mostly not included in conversations about transnational Asian/North American adoption.
For decades, literature about transnational Asian/American adoption centered on adoptive parents, social workers, and pro-adoption activists. In the 1990s, Asian adoptees around the world began to recount their experiences of racial and cultural alienation, among other things, in life writing and poetry. Adoptees in North America were no exception. Asian/North American authors (as well as non-Asian writers) began exploring these subjectivities, too, usually in the context of examining racial, cultural, and national issues related to other Asian/North American subjects who were not subjects experienced. Across most of these representations—by adoptees and non-adoptees alike—the theme of personal and collective history is a notable focus, and adoptees are imagined as another meaningful example of the paradoxical and complex ways Asian/North Americans' paper histories, immigration rights, and so-called model minorityhood have been levied. Transnational Asian/North American adoption continues to be a topic of fascination for so many writers and audiences and these representations cross genres, aesthetic modes, and narrative styles.
Australian Fiction, the 1980s, and the U.S. Trade Paperback
Nicholas Birns
The emergence of the trade paperback in the 1980s crucially transformed the way in which Australian literature was received in North America. The publication history of Patrick White on the one hand and Glenda Adams and Peter Carey on the other shows how younger writers actually made more of a cultural impact, despite White's Nobel Prize, because the form in which they met the reading public was one freed from the modernist binary between high and low culture. The 1980s saw the emergence of a more globalized and more culturally pluralistic world—though also one much more pervaded by multinational capital—in which Australian writers flourished.
Australian Travel Writing, 1900–1960
Anna Johnston
Travel writing has been an important form through which Australians learned about their own culture and their place in the world. Indigenous cultures of place and travel, geographic distance from the imperial metropole, and a long history of immigration have each made travel a particularly influential cultural practice. Nonfictional prose narratives, based on actual journeys, have enabled travelers in Australia and from Australia abroad to explore what was distinctive and what was shared with other cultures. These are accessible texts that were widely read, and that sought to educate and entertain their audience. The period from the inauguration of the Australian nation in 1901 to 1960, when distance shrank because of technological innovation and new forms of identity gained ascendance, shows the complex ways in which Australians defined their country and its global contribution. Writing about travel to Britain and other European locations helped authors to refine the Anglophone inheritance and a sense that Britain was Home. Northern-hemisphere travels also made some writers intensely feel their national identity. Participation in global conflicts during this period shifted Australian allegiances, both personal and governmental. At the same time, a new tourist industry encouraged Australians to travel at home, in order to learn more about remote areas and the Asia-Pacific region. Travel writing both abroad and at home reveals how particular forms of emotional allegiance and national identity were forged, reinforced, and maintained. This has been a particularly influential genre for a nation based on colonial migration and indigenous displacement, in which travel and mobility have been crucial.
Australian Women's Poetry and Feminism
Ann Vickery
"Women's poetry" as a marketing and pedagogic category emerged in the 1970s alongside second-wave feminism. To map the emergence of women's poetry in and of Australia requires exploring the role of gender in poetic authorship and how the field of Australian poetry has changed in light of feminist movements and theories. Women have used poetry to cross between public and private spheres, to assert an individual and often collective voice, and to critique gender's intersection with other constitutive identities such as nation and race. While poetry has provided a highly significant means of linguistic transformation and social activism, it has sometimes been viewed as too limiting for feminist writers. Similarly, while the category of "women's poetry" was strategically empowering in particular periods, it has also been viewed as generating exclusions and marginalization. Feminism has developed both historically and culturally, with the valency of various feminisms in Australia being tested through processes of institutionalization and social change at both a local and global level.
Australian Women's Writing in Mid-Century Modernity
Susan Sheridan
Women seem barely visible in the lively Australian literary scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Popular wisdom has it that after the war women were sent home and imprisoned in domesticity, but this was not entirely true. Significant numbers earned a living, and gained popular success, writing historical fiction, children's stories, feature journalism, and radio and television scripts, but the growing separation of literary from popular writing meant that their work lacked serious critical attention, and still does. Others did not achieve publication for years, while those who did were rarely recognized as significant artists. As a writing generation, these women, in particular the novelists, were eclipsed from view, both at the time and in subsequent histories. One reason for this is that they tended to be detached from prevailing debates about national identity and from traditional Left-Right oppositions. Their sense of the social responsibility of writers led them to explore topics and ideas that were outside the postwar political mainstream, such as conservation, peace, civil liberties, and Indigenous rights. Four case studies offer some illustration of the range of literary activities undertaken by these women writers, and allow a consideration of the ways in which they engaged with their social and cultural milieux: Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), Nancy Cato (1917–2000), Judith Wright (1915–2000), and Kath Walker/Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993).
Building Asian Canadian Literary Studies
Eleanor Ty
Asian Canadian Literary Studies is a relatively new field of study which began in the mid to late 1990s. Even though literature written by Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian Canadians had been published in literary magazines and anthologies since the 1970s, the identification of a distinct body of works called "Asian Canadian literature," as Donald Goellnicht has noted (in "A Long Labour"), began only when there was a sociopolitical movement focused on identity politics. The literature includes early experiences of Chinese in Gum San or "gold mountain"; Japanese Canadian internment during the Second World War; South Asian Canadians diasporic writing from former British colonies like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Trinidad, Guyana, Tanzania, and Kenya; feminist experimental and genre writing; and writing from the post-1975 wave of first- and 1.5-generation immigrants and refugees. Early 21st-century works have moved from mainly autoethnographic stories to those that include larger sociocultural concerns, such as poverty, domestic violence, the environment, lesbian, queer, and transgender issues, and other intersectional systems of oppression that face Asian Canadians and other marginalized groups. Genres include memoirs, films, short stories, autobiographies, realist novels, science fiction, graphic novels, poetry, plays, and historical novels.
In the past, without naming the field "Asian Canadians," many critics have engaged with Asian Canadian literary texts. For example, articles and chapters about Joy Kogawa's Obasan can be found in journals and books on Canadian, postcolonial, ethnic, and Asian American literature. South Asian Canadian literature also has strong links with postcolonial studies and institutions, such as the book publisher TSAR Publications, which began as the literary journal, The Toronto South Asian Review. In Canadian English usage, Asian usually refers to people from East and Southeast Asian while the term South Asian Canadian is a subgroup of Asian Canadian, according to Statistics Canada. In literary studies, it has only been in the past ten or fifteen years that the term "Asian Canadian" is used as a pan-ethnic term for all peoples who are originally from or have roots in Asia.


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For nearly a decade, neither snow nor sleet — not to mention having to get out of bed early on a Saturday morning — could keep us from our appointment with modern dance classes at the Howard County Center for the Arts.
With an average age teetering on the edge of 55, the core group of 10 to 12 regulars referred to ourselves as the "goddesses," and we ruled — at least among other similarly seasoned generations of terpsichores.
From time to time, one of the younger ballerinas from Kathi Ferguson's 9 a.m. dance class would check in. Few stayed for the entire session, but those who did were treated to a string of master teachers from area colleges offering a variety of modern techniques.
Goucher College professor Juliet Forrest was one of our revered teachers. Juliet specializes in lifts and swings and is a strong believer in the value of rolling around on the floor.
Another of our special guest teachers was Maryland therapist Carol Orth, who incorporates dynamic choreography for all types of bodies. Then there was Towson University's Jaye Knutson, a knockout dancer who worked our brains as much as our bodies.
We also benefited from modern dance maven Barbara Supolvitz, who always ended her classes with a session of Israeli folk dancing; and from African-influenced Kim Vetter, an energetic younger teacher specializing in conga dancing and drumming.
Over the past few months, things have been slowing down, though. Kathi Ferguson, director of the Howard County Ballet, continues to support our program, in spite of setbacks and falling enrollment.
We're always looking for interested new teachers and younger dancers to keep the goddess spirit alive! For information on dance classes, call the Howard County Ballet at 410-465-9414, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Master dance class at Peabody
Word of a "Day of Master Classes" at Peabody's studios in Downtown Baltimore this Sunday, Oct. 30, spread fast across the dance grapevine. Of course, this program, directed by Carol Bartlett under the guidance of Barbara Weisberger, is opened to all dancers, including those much younger than my gang.
The tuition is reasonable, too, starting at $30 for the intermediate and advanced level classes, and only $15 for seminar participants. Here's a short lift of teachers who will be taking part:
• Marcia Dale Weary, revered teacher and artistic director of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet;
• Laszlo Berdo, former Boston Ballet principal dancer, now working locally;
• Ballet luminary Rhodie Jorgenson; and
• Other distinguished faculty.
There are group discounts available for five or more students from a school. For details call 410-234-4626 or go to www.peabody.jhu.edu/dancemc.


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OnlySP writes:
"Hark! A new dawn rises moving us closer to January and with it 2013. The year is shaping up to be an absolute blockbuster with a promising new game coming out almost every week of the first three months, plenty lined up to provide satisfaction later in the year and the widespread expectation of the earnest beginning of the next generation with Ouya, the Steambox and the next consoles from Sony and Microsoft all being released. It's an exciting time to be a gamer indeed, but it's always best to keep a reign on how much you're looking forward to at any given time. With that in mind, we're focussing on the first month of the year and listing for you the three biggest single player games for your consideration."
I cannot wait for ni no kuni. I think its that game i have been waiting for since dragons dogma. i loved the demo
I've been waiting for a game like Ni No Kuni since Dragon Quest VIII...
I'll be getting both except DmC, that game looks like it'll give my PS3 herpes.
Hitman HD Collection - No brainer, def buy
Ni No Kuni - I've avoided as much of this games gameplay, screenshots etc as I physically can. It's Level 5 I love every RPG they've made (except WKC) so day one :)
DMC - I'll wait and see


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wasteroftime Titan Open Casket Monday 05/11/2012, 11:25
In the coming weeks (hopefully starting this week) I will be running a little test. In the previous week Kalindra was in play and I noticed a ridiculous amounts of games where I knew I had the game won or lost after the 1st round.
I will be be tracking the following stats from my games:
Games played
number of games decided prior to playing a single round
number of games decided after the 1st round
number of games decided after 2 rounds
number of games that was determined on the outcome of round 3
KitsuneKatsumi Imperator XiongDang Wednesday 14/11/2012, 14:19
Since ELO has gone to 14 life and most matches play out all 4 rounds, if you have enough of an early lead in pills and damage due to your opponents' pilling mistake, it's pretty consistent to have a situation where you can put your opponent in a no-win situation turn 3 or even turn 2. Junkz and Sentinels are especially great at this, which is why they are so popular.
Grudj and Baldovino can really, really blow you out of the match. I've had matches where I no pill bluffed with Grudj, and my opponent decided to toss a 2*. So I began round 2 with 14 pills and up 10 life- immediate concession. These characters nullify SOA, SOB and DR, as SOA, SOB and DR only kick in on losing the round. So you have to fight them or concede and hope your opponent has grossly overpilled. And if you choose to counter them with a combat/ combat character, you still can be far behind if it was just a bluff- you've basically wasted both your best fighter and pills. You've given up a severe strategic advantage as your best fighters are most important on turn 3 and least important on turn 1.
0_The_Oracle Imperator Open Casket Wednesday 14/11/2012, 16:08
On a side note its ridiculous 90% of matches are filled with freaks and first round decides most games.
also freaks vs freaks is so stupid
ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 14/11/2012, 20:39
I feel like ELO is at least partially about exploiting the meta. A good deck can stand up to the flavor-of-the week decks, and the decks designed specifically to counter them. With that in mind, IMO you are at a disadvantage this week if you're not running at least a little bit of SoB.
wasteroftime Titan Open Casket Wednesday 14/11/2012, 22:55
0 round wins are exactly what i am saying they are
they are not projections, gut feelings, etc. zero round wins are unstoppable wins if the player plays it right
games decided in round 0 and round 1 are bad for gameplay in my opinion. deck construction and skill and luck are all factors in this game. games being decided based on the result of round 1 is an increase in the importance of luck.
cards that were round 1 game deciders in the past...
now we have more card combinations that can be round 1 game deciders...
neither are actually conducive to good quality game play in my opinion.
wasteroftime Titan Open Casket Saturday 17/11/2012, 09:14
Tally for the week
0 -
1 - 11
2 - 25
3 - 15
undetermined (timeout, disconnect, whatver i couldnt tell) - 2
made a real effort to play conservatively and not go for game deciding moves in round 2 even though opportunities are there but are too high risk
my assessment of the meta is basically this:
there are is an abundance of amazing cards out there that can decide games or more often, pairings of cards that can decide games (ie. greem or karrion with some strong DR, high powered nukes with good support). Because of the amount of game changing cards -- playing super risky will actually net you quite a few wins (for the sake of argument lets say about 50% of your matches if you play like a risky maniac with your hand). winning about 50%, or less, of your games is good enough to get to 1300 elo if you play enough.
These hands are extremely dangerous vs good players. In the past, weak players rarely had hands that could threaten more skilled opponents. not the case now... luck of the draw a far bigger factor now
thats my two cents. im sure some of the veteran ELO players that are still active now can make a better assessment than i can
subclavianHoA Imperator Saturday 17/11/2012, 09:43
After playing 50+ elo games each week, I can safely say that nowadays, there are only three ways to start a game in elo:
1. double old
2. nuke with your highest-damaged card in the first round
3. 1-pill (to beat old...such a nuanced tactic is only used by skilled pros!)
So doing well in elo comes down to correctly guessing what some 14-yo kid on the other side of the world is thinking
wats_happenin Titan Casual Grind Saturday 17/11/2012, 14:20
Love this test waster!!!
Perfectly shows what is currently wrong with ELO...it isn't necessarily just the 'big gappers' that are the issue...it's the very strong low star support and backup that goes with it
Easiest example follows....Rescue are all but nullified thanks to Lea/Elvira being banned....they got two of their strongest high stars back yet they are rather underpowered (avid rescue fans will disagree with me here)
Other examples....Jungo was nowhere near as strong as they are now before Jean's release. Without Sasha/Chiara/Dr Falkenstein or Sandro's help would Greem be as good? Would Muze be as scary without Clover and Lucy?
Obvious NO! answers here....the simple fact is nukes by themselves are controllable, but not when you chuck in super strong backup as well.
Is there a 'fix' for this? Not really...and that's the problem...banning nukes does little as countless bans on Rescue and Sentinel showed...Cliff was banned every other week now he's hardly seen...but on the flipside banning 2 and 3* support really hurts the clan too much....i actually wouldn't mind seeing Lea back in ELO and I hate Lea!!
As Waster has said...seemingly 'good players' are getting tromped by noob tactics and it's really that simple. 6 pilling used to be scoffed at, now it's an actual problematic threat alot of the time...certain clans can't afford to let any poison in...and some draws have lost simply due to 30ld + fury nuke
ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Saturday 17/11/2012, 18:29
While I feel that this is a good test and a lot of good points have been made, I still can't help but feel that the picture you guys are painting is simply not accurate.
Any time you make a move, there are only three ways your opponent can respond to it. 1: Your opponent "passes," or 1-pills something. 2: Your opponent tries to read, playing enough pills to beat what he thinks your move was. 3: Your opponent tries to win the round, pilling hard to try to secure a pivotal win. Those are the three options; pass, read, or beat. That is a fundamental part of UR gameplay, and yes, it means that some parts of the game are reduced to guesswork. It is NOT dependent on the meta.
A very good point that has been made is that strong low-star cards allow decks that are stacked with more big nukes. However, has that really contributed to the game being more "unfair?" Was it fair in the past when one player would draw 4 strong cards, and the other would draw 3 strong cards and one "throw-away" card?
I have enjoyed ELO the whole time I've been here, and felt that it has maintained a pretty good balance. There are a couple of strong players with a tactical style of play that I keep in touch with on a regular basis, and they feel the same way. We discuss fine aspects of deck composition, and we run big winning streaks multiple times per week. Obviously we've all had those games where we're defeated by "noob tactics," but that seems to be the exception rather than the norm.
wasteroftime Titan Open Casket Saturday 17/11/2012, 18:58
Those who only play the current cannot possibly have an informed opinion on how the two compare.
todays elo is different. can it be fun, sure. is it as enjoyable as before. in my view, no. do some old players prefer the new one? im sure some do.
edited by wasteroftime saturday 17/11/2012, 18:58
ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Saturday 17/11/2012, 19:17
It's not about whether the old or the new is better, though. That's an opinion question -- there's no right or wrong answer.
The questions I'm interested in is whether most of UR feels that ELO is a strategic mode or not... And if it is not strategic enough, what can be done to better it?