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Devotees are inspired to do the maximum number of recitations or Japa of the Navarna Mantra and fast on all the nine days by taking milk and fruits only. Many devotees worship the nine planets to achieve success and maximum power is generated from a particular planet to get it fully energized.
Many devotees perform pujas only at midnight to remove ego and negativity that hampers spiritual and material growth. Also, during the festival, some rituals are performed for general happiness, health, wealth, and peace of humanity.
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Can't open file '/opt/bitnami/repository/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied
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I am using the ubuntu with subversion virtual appliance. I can open the repository in TortoiseSVn, but have been unable to write (commit) anything and receive this error.
- changing ownership of the repository
Please excuse my ignorance, but what am I missing? Any help would be appreciated.
|Beltrán Rueda Administrator 3,714 post(s)
Could you check the subversion server process? Who is the user that is running that process?
Try to modify the "/opt/bitnami/repository/" folder and its sub-folders permissions.
|jpsignups 4 post(s)
That command yielded:
root 659 0.0 0.1 4928 924 ? Ss 13:48 0:00 /opt/bitnami/subversion/bin/.svnserve.bin -d -r /opt/bitnami/repository —listen-port=3690 —pid-file=/opt/bitnami/subversion/tmp/svnserve.pid
so I assume it is running as root.
The /opt/bitnami/repository folders have the following permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-07 18:49 conf
|Beltrán Rueda Administrator 3,714 post(s)
Are you configuring the users/password in the "conf/svnserce.conf" file or you are using SSH authentication? If you use the SSH authentication it is necessary configure the repository permissions. This quick guide could be help you http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2004-03/0253.shtml
|jpsignups 4 post(s)
I am trying to use http from tortoise svn to access it and basically just trying to create a folder so that I can test adding to the repository.
My problem is that I have previously set up collabnet's subversion 1.4 on a windows server, so configuring it was easier for me, but I want to set this up in this stack provided by bitnami. The entires stack comes ready to go, but it doesn't seem to want to behave. Perhaps the problem is that I need to actually create a repository, set up users and not assume one was created, although the impression I got was that it was ready to go. Unfortuantely I am very green to the linux world and lightweight with subversion. I am not altering the svnserve.conf file at all (this is the way I did it on Windows, but that may change).
I will attempt to create subversion users and set up project repositories if need be.
Thanks for all your help.
|Beltrán Rueda Administrator 3,714 post(s)
In the link that I sent you you can find the info to configure the Subversion server with SSH. If you prefer a basic authentication you can use the basic configuration that you find in the README file https://bitnami.com/files/stacks/subversion/1.6….
|jpsignups 4 post(s)
Thank you for all your help. I ended up using SVN:// and adjusting the svnserve.conf file.
|jofil 2 post(s)
the following command worked for me
chown -R root:root /opt/bitnami/repository

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Beautiful instrumental arrangements of wedding hymns for prelude, processional, ceremony, or recessional music. Find the most meaningful hymns for your wedding day – albums include lyrics to each song.
We'll help you find or bring to your remembrance some of the most loved wedding hymns. Though we're calling the hymns we've listed "wedding hymns", almost any hymn you choose is appropriate for a wedding. We've listed some favorites at the top of the list, followed by hymns from various faith traditions.
WEDDING HYMN LIST Favorites:
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Orchestra, Harpsichord, & Guitar
Simple Gifts – sprightly Appalachian wedding tune
For The Beauty Of The Earth
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Abide With Me
All Creatures Of Our God and King
All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Amazing Grace
Be Still My Soul
Be Thou My Vision
Be Thou My Vision
Before The Throne Of God Above
Blessed Be Your Name
Come Christians Join To Sing
Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy
Crown Him With Many Crowns
Eternal Father Strong To Save
Fairest Lord Jesus
Faith Of Our Fathers
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Hark, Ten Thousand Harps and Voices
Holy Holy Holy
How Deep The Father's Love For Us
How Great Thou Art
I Have Decided To Follow Jesus
I Need Thee Every Hour
I Sing The Mighty Power Of God
Immortal, Invisible
In Christ Alone (Townend, Getty)
It Is Well With My Soul
I Will Be Here
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee
Let Us Break Bread Together
Like A River Glorious
Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
More Love To Thee
Morning Has Broken
Morning Has Broken Karaoke Instrumental Track
My Faith Has Found A Resting Place
My Jesus I Love Thee
O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing
O God Our Hope In Ages Past
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
O Sacred Head Now Wounded
O The Deep Deep Love Of Jesus
On Christ The Solid Rock
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow
Praise To The Lord, The Almighty
Security (More Secure Is No One Ever)
Spirit Of God Descend On My Heart
Sun Of My Soul
Sweet Hour of Prayer
The King Of Love My Shepherd Is
The Lord Is My Shepherd
The Lord's Prayer
The Love Of God
To God Be The Glory
We Plow The Fields Together
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
What Wondrous Love Is This
When I Survey The Wondrous Cross
When Morning Gilds The Skies
All Creatures Of Our God And King 2
All People That On Earth Do Dwell
All Things Bright And Beautiful
Be Our Chief Guest Lord
Bless His Holy Name
Day By Day
Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind
Gentle Shepherd
God Leads Us Along
Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer
Happy The Home When God Is There
How Beautiful (Twila Paris)
May Jesus Christ Be Praised
Now Thank We All Our God
O Perfect Love
Panis Angelicus
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow
Praise The Lord! Ye Heavens, Adore Him
Praise To The Lord The Almighty
Rejoice Ye Pure In Heart
Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us
Simple Gifts 2
The Bond Of Love
The Doxology
The Lord's Prayer
The Love Of God
They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love
This Is My Father's World
We Are So Blessed
We Will Glorify
When Morning Gilds The Skies
At Wedding Music Project we're quite fond of great hymns, and see them as an integral part of a wedding ceremony. We've published a lengthy article on wedding hymns, how to choose them, and how to integrate them into your ceremony:


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Fiji Time: 4:15 PM on Saturday 24 March
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Members of the Jittu Land Trust committee take a break after dismantling a home at Jittu Estate in Suva yesterday. Picture: ATU RASEA
MEMBERS of the Jittu Land Trust are concerned for the welfare of six families that reside on a piece of land earmarked for the development of Lagilagi Project Phase 2.
Group president Vilikesa Koroi said the group was worried for the safety of the six families who still occupied the land they claiedm to be rightfully theirs.
Mr Koroi said the concerns came about after they learnt through the media that the People's Community Network (PCN), which is the project developer, told families they had until next week to relocate or face eviction.
However, PCN director Semiti Qalowasa said families living in the area should know they were obstructing a development which was tailored to suit them and would benefit them.
Mr Qalowasa said the court order the residents were demanding would be provided in due course but because of earthwork in the area, water and electricity disconnections would be carried out. Mr Koroi said all they wanted was for the PCN to produce a court order to state that families needed to relocate to allow development work in the area.
"That piece of land is rightfully ours, we have all the documents here with us," he said
"But these people are here forcing us to give up something that belongs to us.
"They (PCN) wrote a letter to the Water Authority to disconnect the water meters of the families so we went to PM's Office to seek help and by 5pm on the same day water meters were reconnected."
Mr Koroi said the group from the PCN threatened to involve police and the military to remove them from the piece of land which was at the centre of controversy between PCN and the Jittu Land Trust committee.
"All we want is for them to get us a court order and we will move from there because that is our land, we had paid for it," he said.
"We struggled to earn money to buy that land."
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- The definition of de facto is something real, but not formally accepted.
- An example of something de facto is a rule that people always follow even though it is not an official procedure, a defacto procedure.
- An example of something de facto is a person who functions as a parent even though they are not related to the child, a defactor parent.
- De facto is defined as actually.
An example of de facto used as an adverb is in the phrase "de facto listening" which means actually listening.
de facto
existing or being such in actual fact or for all practical purposes, though not by legal establishment, official recognition, etc.: a de facto government
Origin of de factoClassical Latin
de facto
Existing in actuality, especially when contrary to or not established by law: de facto segregation; a de facto government.
Origin of de factoLatin dē factō dē from, according to factō ablative of factum fact
Related Forms:
- de facto
(not comparable)
- (modal) In practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.
(not comparable)
- In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. (Often opposed to de jure.)
- Although the United States currently has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language.
(plural de factos)
- (Australia, New Zealand) A legally undeclared spouse.
- (legally undeclared spouse): common law wife
de facto - Computer Definition
From Latin, literally from what is done, meaning in fact. See also standard.
de facto - Legal Definition
In fact. Description of a person or action that exists for all intentions and purposes, but which lacks official legitimacy.


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One shoe...three different ways of making it yours, and truly unique. All you need to start is a white canvas shoe. This one I found at Kmart, but there are many other places you can find a perfect shoe for this project. Have fun!
ONE: HOMBRE OMBRE Supplies:
- watercolors
- 2 paintbrushes
- water
- shoes
Step 1: Moisten your entire shoe with water using a clean paintbrush.
Step 2: Choose your color from your watercolor paints and start at the toe of the shoe, using a different paintbrush.
Step 3: Really saturate the toe of the shoe with paint. Be generous. I went about halfway up the toe and stopped.
Step 4: Take your clean water brush, dip it in water, place it at the toe of the shoe and "pull" the paint toward the back of the shoe. Repeat this process until shoe is covered. I wanted the emphasis on the ombre to be noticeable only at the toe of the shoe, so most of the shoe is one color. If you want the entire shoe to really have the ombre effect, keep adding water and diluting the paint.
To adjust the color of your shoe—or if you did not put enough paint on the toe to really stretch out over the whole shoe—make a diluted solution on the side and add that to your shoe, then follow with the water paintbrush to smooth it out.
Done. Perfection.
This is a really easy project. I highly recommend it. The result is gorgeous!
- desired stencil design
- acrylic paint
- textile medium fabric solution
- sponge brush
- small brush
- towel
- shoes
Step 1: Start with the acrylic paint color of your choice and mix it with the textile medium.
Half paint/half medium. Mix. Done.
Step 2: Stuff your shoes with a towel to help the shoe stay firm for your stenciling.
Step 3: Affix the stencil to the desired area of your shoe. You can use tape, but I found if you have a friend around to hold it for you, that is best.
Step 4: Take your sponge brush dip in paint and go for it. The technique I recommend is dabbing at the design, instead of actually brushing.
Step 5: Go over any noticeable imperfections with a small brush and fix them up.
There she is. Beauty.
The stenciling was a bit harder to do, and it really helps to have another set of hands to help you. If you look closely, you can notice some imperfections and unevenness, so perfectionists....beware!
THREE: POLKA-DOT PRINCESS Supplies:
- paint pens (make sure they can be used on fabric—you don't want the ones that will bleed!)
- shoes
Step 1: Choose your color paint pen, and polka-dot away. I decided to make a lot and vary them in size. I just free-handed them, but it would also look nice if you were to use a stencil.
Step 2: REPEAT.
This project was by FAR the easiest in supply needs and in effort. I was thinking this would be a super-fun project for young girls....or 30-year-olds. ;)
Finished products one more time....
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Two long-time residents of Westfield with extensive community service have been nominated for Village Trustee at the Westfield Republican Caucus held on January 26th. Alan Holbrook and Dennis Lutes will appear on the Republican line for Trustee at the March 21, 2017 Village of Westfield election.
Alan Holbrook will be seeking his second term as a trustee for the Village of Westfield. Holbrook is a lifelong resident of Westfield. He is a graduate of Westfield Academy and Central School and the State University of New York at Fredonia. Holbrook was the Business Administrator for the Westfield Academy and Central School for the past 30 years. Holbrook has been an active member of the Fire Department of Westfield for the past 41 years. He is currently treasurer of the Hook and Ladder Company. Holbrook is an active member of the Westfield Exempt Firemen's Association where he was recently elected to his second term as President. Holbrook has served as a member of the YWCA Board of Trustees for the past 13 years, and has been a member of the Westfield Development Corporation for the past 18 years, where he has previously served as secretary and currently as treasurer. Holbrook has previously served on the Westfield Memorial Hospital Board of Directors and Hospital Foundation Board. Holbrook is a former member of the Youth Recreation Department Commission, and has previously served as a coach, official, and board member for Little League softball, Babe Ruth baseball, and Babe Ruth softball. Holbrook founded the girl's division of Westfield Recreation Department Youth basketball and directed the program for 10 years. Holbrook is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church Altar Guild. Holbrook is a registered Republican.
Dennis Lutes is a long-time resident of the Village of Westfield where he lives on Grove Street with his wife Sandy. Lutes enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1962, and is a Vietnam War Veteran. Lutes earned an Associate of Arts degree from Southwestern Michigan College, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Western Michigan University. Lutes entered the Oil and Gas energy field, a career which has spanned nearly 30 years. During this time Lutes has worked for many domestic and international companies in management, administration, permits, environmental oversight and compliance, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation regulatory rules and regulations and New York State Administrative Law hearing areas. In 1993, Lutes and his family purchased the Westfield Main Diner which they operated for 13 years. Lutes is a past member, board member, and President of the Westfield-Mayville Rotary Club. Lutes is also a past member, board member, and President of the Westfield-Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, as well as a past member and board member of the Westfield Development Corporation. Lutes and his wife have been long time supporters and volunteers for the Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue in Westfield. Lutes is a registered Republican. This is the first-time Lutes will be seeking public office.
During the next two months until the March 21st election, Holbrook and Lutes will be going throughout the Village introducing themselves and discussing their goals as Village trustee. All registered voters in Westfield are encouraged to vote on March 21st at Eason Hall.
If you will be out of town on the day of the election and cannot come to the polls, you are encouraged to go to the Chautauqua County Board of Elections website (votechautauqua.com), and download an absentee ballot application. Complete the form and mail it to the Board of Elections at the address on the bottom of the application. The Board of Elections will then mail you an absentee ballot. If you do not have access to a computer, or are unable to print the absentee ballot application, you can call the Board of Elections at 753-4580 and they will mail you an application.


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You, too, can look like a video game character. Maybe not the Adonis-alike that many come across as, but something more delightful. If you're fed up with the same tired old guides that boil down to the same tired old conclusions like "get more exercise" or "just eat well", why not try mimicking a body some artist designed to be interesting? Why not shirk the bonds of what society has deemed excellent and chase an image that tickles a different fancy?
It's in you—that spark of motivation. Whether you should seize it is debatable, but those curious about the demands one might face in turning yourself into a video game character can get started with these easy steps.
This flagship non-personality can be seen sprinting through toxic aqueducts, leaping across infested sands, and lugging futuristic equipment around for days on end in the Half-Life games. Casual glances may deem his hazard suit unimpressive, but a critical eye will recognize how gosh-darned impressive Freeman's feats are. In the face of exertion that would drive lesser men to exhausted ruin, he sports consistently whip-quick head swivels and finesse with arms. And he appears to not need sleep.
Chasing Freeman will require more than elevated heart rates. To develop precision in fine phalangeal articulation and decision-making under duress, these skills must be taxed. As it happens, there are few finer outlets for them than modern competitive video games. Play your demanding games of Dota 2 and Unreal Tournament. Leading experts recommend a minimum of 30 minutes of dominance assertion per day for the layman and up to two hours for those hoping to trounce extradimensional weirdos like Gordon.
Cardio will become half your life. Work a combination of aerobic endurance training and high intensity anaerobics. You have to be ready for the long haul: to trot the miles when it counts, you've got to devour those miles while they're not swarming with mutants. For intense bouts of movement such as warding off turncoat scientists, hill sprints or burpees will be your poison.
'Don't Starve'
Cultivating that essential combination of derangement and emaciation is a long and tangled road. Luckily they foster each other. Spend enough time casting sideways glances at shadows and convincing yourself that your dinner bares inky fangs, and thoughts of nutrition will fall to the wayside. And starved minds don't spare energy for superfluous things like sanity.
Unplug your fridge. If you didn't build it you're not using it. Achieving the ideal malnourished look will be easier if your meals carry a funk, anyway.
Wilson's defining characteristic is his eyes. They're not just the saggy bags of sleep deprivation. They carry with them the craze of nightmares that should disappear with morning's light but inexplicably do not and the fear that visions may spring from your head and steal fingerfuls of fire. Unfortunately, replicating the conditions that bred his mental state is infeasible, so you'll need to settle for intense imagination. Regularly meditate on monsters being real on top of a broken two hours of sleep.
'Team Fortress 2'
Hungry? You'll come to miss that feeling. The Heavy has a reputation for stuffing his face, but his storied appetite is a thing of necessity when it comes to building the sheer mass and power of a man who suplexes Siberian bears. He's the top half of Mariusz Pudzianowski swathed in a couple dozen pounds of insulation and crammed on top of an ordinary man's legs.
Here's what you do. Find one doting grandmother (Russian nationality optional) and tell her you're hungry. Accept everything, and train like you eat. Grab something huge and don't set it down until everything's been chewed through. Dive into activities like flipping over objects of progressively greater size, ferrying shoulderfuls of sandbags around your lawn, and offering rickshaw services without the wheels. Find a heavy thing to move to a different spot and do so frequently.
Be careful to lift entirely with your back to avoid placing undue strain on your quadriceps and gluteus: ferrying that torso around will be exercise enough for them.
'Deus Ex: Human Revolution'
Jensen's routine likely lurks in his cave, well removed from the sauna and smoothie bar. It's home training for the asocial shut-in. Splurge on free weights or settle with just a pull up bar, backpack, and creative leveraging to garner similar results.
With the difficult part out of the way, we turn to the matter of mangling your new body beyond natural healing. A back alley chop shop is far too voluntary. Jensen's persona requires that particular edge of weary bereavement only accidental damage can bestow. Consequently, surrendering your arms and organs is best undergone while unconsciously suffering the windfall of risk-seeking behavior.
Go skydiving. Get wrapped up with the wrong crowd. Show the true depth of your commitment by playing with farming combines or handicapping yourself for a Pamplona bull run. Give yourself a chance. And then hope that a secret mega-corporation takes up your cause and replaces all your mangled innards and outards with high-tech prosthetics.
'Super Mario Bros.'
Salted water is the most-often overlooked detail of delicious pasta. Enough to taste, but not enough to turn the noodles brackish. Simmer it in until the pasta has approached but not yet reached ideal tenderness. For most, this means the moment after it no longer leaves residue on a tester's tooth.
Fresh herbs next—the undervalued key to an exquisite sauce. A coarse mince of bulbs browned in butter is unequivocally more decadent than garlic salt. Parsley still crisp in its vibrancy is a far greater complement to earthy fungus than powder from a bottle. It sounds like a simple caveat, but shakers of dried can be awful tempting. How much worse could they be? Much worse.
Invite your brother over. Toss the butter mushroom sauce and pasta; serve plumping portions to the two of you. Eat. Sink into a post-meal bliss. Let the rich, mellow flavor sink you away into dreams of lizard kings and distressed damsels. You're always the hero here.
Kris Goorhuis is a freelance writer, nerd, and pathologically shy fish in a sea of eyes. Leer at him on Twitter @krisgoorhuis.
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AUSTIN (NEWS10) – A Texas lawmaker is facing criticism over a bill that would require public school employees to out LGBT students to parents.
Texas State Representative Konni Burton (R) filed the bill on Thursday.
According to the bill, any teacher or school employee that failed to disclose information about a student, even if the student didn't wish to have information about them disclosed, could be disciplined.
Burton says she filed the bill after parents and community members had concerns over new guidelines by the Fort Worth School District regarding transgender students. Those guidelines would allow teachers and staff to withhold personal information about a student from their parents.
"A parent has the right to full and total information on their child's academic performance, physical, mental, and emotional health, and more. My legislation will make it expressly against state law for a district to adopt policies designed to undermine a parent's right to know," Burton said.
Burton says the focus of the bill has nothing to do with issues of sexuality and gender, and everything to do with how parents are treated by the government entities they fund.


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Rock 'n' rail: Indietracks festival, Derbyshire
On 24-26 July, the incongruous pairing of heritage trains and indie music gives rise to Indietracks, with bands including Camera Obscura, Emmy The Great, Au Revoir Simone, plus London's influential How Does It Feel To Be Loved? club night, performing on various stages including a converted engine shed, church and a platform at the Midland Railway Centre in Swanwick. Free rides on a 1950s steam train through the Derbyshire countryside are included - so make sure you check into the "disco carriage."
• 01773 747674, indietracks.co.uk. £55 the weekend, £30 per day. Camping extra.
Tracks of your beers: The Watercress Line
Two Saturdays a month, the heritage steam engine that runs along the Watercress Line (also called the Mid Hants Railway) between Alton and Arlesford becomes the "Real Ale Train", for a beery tour of Hampshire. The whole train effectively turns into a bar, but the passengers wouldn't be seen dead sipping warm chardonnay from plastic glasses; real local ales (at a bargain £2 a pint) are the order of the day. On other dates, the train also hosts dinners, called the Watercress Belle (a table for two costs £110 for five courses) and kids' events. There are plans to open some holiday chalets at Ropley, one of the stops on the line.
• Real Ale Train from Alton at 19.20, return after two trips to Arlesford and back, in time to connect to the 22.44 from Alton to London Waterloo. Next available departures: 22 August and 26 September. £10 per person. Book three days ahead to get your first pint free. 01962 733 810, watercressline.co.uk.
Soul trains: Cheshire
There's no cheesy music on this party train; passengers riding the Mid Cheshire Line on certain summer dates will be treated to folk, jazz, honky-tonk, country and blues, with live local musicians playing on departures from Chester to Plumley (where there are gigs in the Golden Pheasant Inn, too), and Altrincham to Delamere (plus music in the Delamere Forest Visitor Centre). There's the Mid Cheshire Line festival tomorrow (no need to buy a ticket in advance), a Midsummer Music Train on 17 June featuring the Root Chords doing acoustic rock'n'roll;
Gus Glynn and Friends stomping out blues and sweet ballads on 8 July; plus other music train dates on 1 and 22 July, 19 August, 23 September.
See midcheshirerail.org.uk/music-trains.
Steam to water
Poppy Line, Norfolk
Sheringham station, where you board a cute steam train for the 10½-mile round trip on the Poppy Line, has been transformed into a museum with piles of old luggage chests on the platform. It's also within walking distance of the seaside. The ride takes you to the Georgian market town of Holt, full of unusual shops, but halfway there you can disembark at Weybourne, a preserved 1900 station which appeared in Hi-de-Hi and Dad's Army, from where you can walk to Kelling Heath Park with its nature trails. The train has a cheese and wine event on 6 June and Saturday evening dinner on 13 June, 4 July and 8 August.
• 01263 820 800, nnrailway.co.uk. Tickets from £10.50 for unlimited rover ticket.
Cattle class Bolton Abbey Steam Train, Yorkshire Dales
You can build a great summer's day trip around a ride on this line - there are loads of brilliant things to do nearby, from hiking up to the Cow and Calf rock outcrop near Ilkley (and going for lunch at the pub of the same name at the bottom), to swimming and jumping from the cliffs where the river Wharfe bends around the abbey. It only takes 15 minutes to shunt along from Embsay station - which was built in 1888 and has a famous bookshop - to the abbey, but the journey takes you through some classic Dales scenery.
• 01756 710 614, embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk. Steam trains run every Sunday and daily in the summer holidays; historic carriages from the grand Stately Collection, operate on certain weekends in the summer.


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"I think of the many nights of running receiver routes on the parking lot, and it paid off," Greer told The Jackson Sun. "This opportunity of going into the hall is something my children and family will be proud of, and hopefully, will serve as an inspiration for the youth in Jackson."
Click here to read the full story. His induction will be April 7.


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The start and finish of Martin Amis's sold-out session at Hay arguably said it all. To begin, he read from a chapter of his recently-published collection The Second Plane, in which he follows Tony Blair around a handful of continents: a portrait of high-level diplomacy in which Amis's inevitably elegant language cannot disguise his lack of political insight. At the end, the Guardian's Sarfraz Manzoor coolly asked him if he actually knew any Muslims, and drew the best part of a blank: "Where would I come across them?" he asked, before admitting that though he knows no "devout" followers of Islam, he counts Salman Rushdie and Ed Husain among his friends, and has slept with women from Iran and Pakistan.
Amis, it seems, has a problem. The events of September 11, he said, gave him the feeling that just about everything he'd written in the past now looked like "self-indulgent rubbish", and so he began frantically trying to deal with what had happened through his writing. The book proves that at first, he did not quite find his gear (the people of Afghanistan, he wrote in 2001, "should not be bombarded with cruise missiles; they should be bombarded with consignments of food, firmly marked LENDLEASE USA"), though he eventually settled on the terrified, apocalyptic, Manichean approach to geopolitics that is now his calling card, and remained busy.
Ergo his coining of the term "horrorism", his fascinated enquiries into the theology of suicide bombing, and the notorious interview in the Times in which he admitted to very nasty thoughts about Muslims and collective punishment. On top of that, he soaked up the belief of his good friend Christopher Hitchens that the time had come to berate large swathes of the European left for their supposed sympathies with an enemy on a par with fascism, a riff he returned to today, rehashing the passage from the book in which he claims that "given the choice between George Bush and Osama bin Laden, the liberal relativist, it seems, is obliged to plump for the Saudi". This, to repeat the point for 365th time, is straw man sophistry of the most risible kind: if there are parts of the ultra-ultra left who'd cleave to that view, they ain't liberal relativists.
To be fair, Amis's prevailing critique is developing, in its own way. Today, he admiringly quoted from such sources as diverse as John Gray and Robert Fisk. Whereas some of his compadres in the belligerati would have you believe that jihadism was, is and will always be sui generis, he made the not-exactly-revelatory point (in very vague terms) that something within the Arab psyche was profoundly shaken by the Israeli military victories of 1948 and 1967. And he remains of the opinion that 1) the invasion of Iraq was a terrible blunder, and 2) by way of muddying the West's moral waters, the election of George Bush ("a dry drunk from West Texas") at the outset of the 21st century represented one of history's more unfortunate coincidences.
These, you may have noticed, are hardly penetrating lines of argument. Worse still, Amis's ideas about the West's response to Islamist terrorism are shot through with the most howling of contradictions: he bemoans the "infantilisation" of intellectual discourse and the ramping-up of rhetoric for the fact that it's impossible to talk about any number of subjects in calm, level-headed terms, and then claims that millions of Europeans are "thirsty for a bloody fiasco in Iraq" - and are effectively pro-al Qaeda. Infantilised? Ramped-up? Hello?
This piece could stretch into the distance, but I'll be brief. At one point, Amis claimed "the USA has never been an imperially-minded country". At another, he made the political naif's current mistake du jour by talking about Barack Obama winning the US presidency as if it was a given (a line currently bouncing around bourgeois dining rooms like nobody's business). He then wildly speculated about how the Islamic aspects of Obama's family background might make him the subject of a fatwa, and render dealings with the Saudis difficult - a point which points up the fact that his hyped-up, almost romantic view of things rather understimates the imperatives of pragmatic realpolitik. By the end, for all his ornate verbal flourishes and occasional flashes of insight, he was starting to look slightly embarrassing.
This newspaper's review of The Second Plane concluded that it "added nothing to his reputation." Quite so - and on this evidence, his detour into political commentary is now detracting from it. Far be it from me, but one can surely adapt Denis Healey's advice to people in holes, and advise him to get back to fiction-writing, and quick - but first, to stop digging.
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Sharks equipment manager Vinnie Ferraiuolo had to dig around this year and find one more letter to use on his jerseys.
After not going with one last year, Worcester has a captain this season � Graham Mink � and three alternates, even though teams are allowed only a captain and two alternates per game. The deal this year is that Mink, who was voted into the job, is the permanent captain and Patrick Traverse is a permanent alternate.
Brennan Evans will be the other alternate captain at home and Craig Valette will be the other alternate on the road.
Last year, the Sharks went with Valette, Mink, Scott Ferguson and Dan Spang as alternate captains, depending on who was injured.
The league has amended its rules on �veteran� players for this season, allowing one more veteran who falls into the category of having played between 260 and 320 games at the start of the year.
Each team can dress five players who, going into the season, have played more than 260 games combined in the high minors, NHL and European Elite leagues. That�s the same number as last season, but the AHL has added the new �in between� player.
The rule does not affect the Sharks. Worcester has just two veterans in Mink and Traverse, and nobody who would be a �tweener.� Traverse began the year with 690 games under his belt, Mink 367. Evans was right on the line at 260 and Valette had 259. Other Sharks players approaching veteran status are defenseman Marc Busenburg (229), Riley Armstrong (207) and Josh Prudden (205).
In terms of previous NHL experience, Worcester has one of the least-experienced rosters in the AHL. Only Traverse, with 279 NHL games, and Mink, with five, have played in the NHL.
The Sharks play the Philadelphia Phantoms for the first time ever at 7:05 tonight at the DCU Center. Philadelphia has an 8-1-1 record, its only loss coming to Providence, which has lost only one game this year � to Worcester.
It will be the second game on a three-game New England road trip for the Phantoms. They lost in overtime at Portland last night, 3-2, and will play at Lowell tomorrow afternoon.
With Lukas Kaspar and Devon Setoguchi in San Jose � Sandis Ozolinsh also was signed yesterday by the NHL�s Sharks � a couple of forwards who had not played much to date were in the lineup. Prudden got into his first game since opening night in Springfield, and Jonathan Tremblay played in his second game of the season as well.
The only healthy scratch was Busenburg, who has yet to play this season.
Last night�s referee was Conrad Hache, who will do tonight�s game at the DCU Center as well, and that will probably be it for him. Hache is leaving the AHL to become director of officiating for the junior Ontario Hockey League.
Hache has been a frequent visitor to Worcester through the years and has been doing games at the DCU Center � IceCats and Sharks � since 1998.
Ashton Rome was called for the game�s first penalty at 6:43 of the first period, and it was pretty hard for anyone to argue the call. Rome went behind the Hartford net with WolfPack goalie Chris Holt, and as Rome went to make a poke-check, his stick got stuck in the blade of Holt�s skate and stayed there as Rome kept skating.
The call, as Holt went down, was tripping.
Last night was Worcester�s seventh game of the season. The Sharks and Hershey have played the fewest games so far, half as many as Rochester, which already has played 14 games. � With an assist last night, Brad Staubitz has three points in seven games. He didn�t get his third point last year until his 19th game. � Worcester has been outshot in five of seven games so far. � With the loss, the Sharks are 3-3-0 all-time here.


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The importance of an event manager can be seen from the fact that there has been a sharp rise in their demand to take care of any event in the past few years. This person is able to handle and monitor the entire event or function and in this way the person who is behind the idea of that event does not have worry how to organize it. The busy life of several people has increased the demand for event managers because even though a person might be able to afford a luxurious event, but they might not be able to lose their time planning one. There is a lot of hard work required in order to plan an event and even though a person might think that it is not important to use the services of an event manager, it sometimes is almost impossible to avoid them to create a successful event.
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Matt Riddell, a Deering High assistant football coach, was named as the interim head coach for Friday night's home game against Lewiston at Memorial Field.
Riddell will be filling in for Scott Parsons, the head coach who is serving a one-game suspension for an ejection after the final play of Friday night's 13-12 loss to Massabesic.
An ejection carries an automatic one-game suspension, according to Maine Principals' Association rules.
"(Riddell) is the interim head coach for the game while Parsons serves his MPA suspension," said Deering Athletic Director Melanie Craig in an email.
Parsons was ejected for making an inappropriate comment to an official.
The loss dropped Deering to 0-4.
Parsons is in his first season as the head coach of the Rams.
He has been an assistant coach at Fordham University in New York, Becker College in Worcester, Mass., and St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y.
Parsons graduated from Kennebunk High (2001) and Central Connecticut State (2005), where he played football.
Parsons has not returned phone messages seeking comment.
Riddell, who is in his first season on the Deering staff as a line coach, has coached in the Bonny Eagle High program in Standish as an assistant freshman coach and also as a longtime coach in the Little Scots youth program.
Riddell also has been a coach with the Maine Sabers semipro football team and currently is the team's offensive line coach.
Riddell didn't return a request for a phone call seeking comment. Deering Principal Ira Waltz also didn't return a phone message seeking comment.
Deering's other assistant coaches are Rob Kierstead, Rocco Severino and Bill Presby.
Kierstead, a former standout linebacker at South Portland and the University of Maine, and Severino are also in their first seasons with Deering.
Presby has been a longtime varsity assistant and freshman coach at the school.
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Part I Introduction to Message Queue Administration
1. Administrative Tasks and Tools
3. Starting Brokers and Clients
6. Configuring and Managing Connection Services
Configuring Connection Services
Pausing and Resuming a Connection Service
Updating Connection Service Properties
8. Configuring Persistence Services
9. Configuring and Managing Security Services
10. Configuring and Managing Broker Clusters
11. Managing Administered Objects
12. Configuring and Managing Bridge Services
13. Monitoring Broker Operations
14. Analyzing and Tuning a Message Service
17. Broker Properties Reference
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19. Administered Object Attribute Reference
20. JMS Resource Adapter Property Reference
21. Metrics Information Reference
22. JES Monitoring Framework Reference
A. Distribution-Specific Locations of Message Queue Data
B. Stability of Message Queue Interfaces
E. Frequently Used Command Utility Commands
Message Queue brokers support connections from both application clients and administrative clients. See Configuring Connection Services for a description of the available connection services. The Command utility provides subcommands that you can use for managing both connection services as a whole and individual services; to apply a subcommand to a particular service, use the -n option to specify one of the names listed in the "Service Name" column of Table 6-1. Subcommands are available for the following connection service management tasks:
Pausing a connection service has the following effects:
The broker stops accepting new client connections on the paused service. If a Message Queue client attempts to open a new connection, it will get an exception.
All existing connections on the paused service are kept alive, but the broker suspends all message processing on such connections until the service is resumed. (For example, if a client attempts to send a message, the send method will block until the service is resumed.)
The message delivery state of any messages already received by the broker is maintained. (For example, transactions are not disrupted and message delivery will resume when the service is resumed.)
The admin connection service can never be paused; to pause and resume any other service, use the subcommands imqcmd pause svc and imqcmd resume svc. The syntax of the imqcmd pause svc subcommand is as follows:imqcmd pause svc -n serviceName [-b hostName:portNumber]
For example, the following command pauses the httpjms service running on the default broker (host localhost at port 7676):imqcmd pause svc -n httpjms -u admin
The imqcmd resume svc subcommand resumes operation of a connection service following a pause:imqcmd resume svc -n serviceName [-b hostName:portNumber]
You can use the imqcmd update svc subcommand to change the value of one or more of the service properties listed in Table 6-2. See Connection Properties for a description of these properties.
Table 6-2 Connection Service Properties Updated by Command Utility
The imqcmd update svc subcommand has the following syntax:imqcmd update svc -n serviceName [-b hostName:portNumber] -o property1=value1 [[-o property2=value2]…]
For example, the following command changes the minimum number of threads assigned to the jms connection service on the default broker (host localhost at port 7676) to 20:imqcmd update svc -o minThreads=20 -u admin
To list the connection services available on a broker, use the imqcmd list svc subcommand:imqcmd list svc [-b hostName:portNumber]
For example, the following command lists all services on the default broker (host localhost at port 7676):imqcmd list svc -u admin
Example 6-1 shows an example of the resulting output.
Example 6-1 Connection Services Listing
The imqcmd query svc subcommand displays information about a single connection service:imqcmd query svc -n serviceName [-b hostName:portNumber]
For example, the following command displays information about the jms connection service on the default broker (host localhost at port 7676):imqcmd query svc -n jms -u admin
Example 6-2 shows an example of the resulting output.
Example 6-2 Connection Service Information Listing
To display metrics information about a connection service, use the imqcmd metrics svc subcommand:imqcmd metrics svc -n serviceName [-b hostName:portNumber] [-m metricType] [-int interval] [-msp numSamples]
The -m option specifies the type of metric information to display:
ttl (default): Messages and packets flowing into and out of the broker by way of the specified connection service
rts: Rate of flow of messages and packets into and out of the broker per second by way of the specified connection service
cxn: Connections, virtual memory heap, and threads
The -int and -msp options specify, respectively, the interval (in seconds) at which to display the metrics and the number of samples to display in the output. The default values are 5 seconds and an unlimited number of samples.
For example, the following command displays cumulative totals for messages and packets handled by the default broker (host localhost at port 7676) by way of the jms connection service:imqcmd metrics svc -n jms -m ttl -u admin
Example 6-3 shows an example of the resulting output.
Example 6-3 Connection Service Metrics Listing
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Vieli, A. and Funk, M. and Blatter, H. (2001) 'Flow dynamics of tidewater glaciers : a numerical modelling approach.', Journal of glaciology., 47 (159). pp. 595-606.
The dynamics of grounded tidewater glaciers is investigated with a time-dependent numerical flow model, which solves the full equations for the stress and velocity fields and includes a water-pressure-dependent sliding law. The calving criterion implemented in the model shifts the calving front at each time-step to the position where the frontal ice thickness exceeds flotation height by a prescribed value. With this model, the linear relation between calving rate and water depth proposed on empirical grounds is qualitatively reproduced for the situation of a slowly retreating or advancing terminus, but not for situations of rapid changes. Length changes of tidewater glaciers, i.e.especially rapid changes, are dominantly controlled by the bed topography and are to a minor degree a direct reaction to a mass-balance change. Thus, accurate information on the near-terminus bed topography is required for reliable prediction of the terminus changes due to climate changes. The results also confirm the suggested cycles of slow advance and rapid retreat through a basal depression. Rapid changes in terminus positions preferably occur in places where the bed slopes upwards in the ice-flow direction.
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Phoenix would be an awesome add, STFU people
I don't think so
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I'd never know
Can someone just please say acts that either are or are not playing
I don't trust you post avatar change.
David Bowie either is playing or is not playing.
Now can someone list tour dates for a band touring in 2013 and then after that go "What do you guys think?"
Have I missed part 3 of William Hurt/Heal's origin?
Phew. That's only part 2
I heard what I believe to be a serious rumor, but I have no idea how to present it in a way that would not be ridiculed.
Like, just now?
Earlier today, yes.
For what credence do you find in it?
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Here's what I heard: Mumford & Sons was going to headline on Friday but that fell through so now fun. is headlining one night.
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FROM: Mike Hagburg
DATE: January 9, 2009
RE: Rule 21, N.D.R.Crim.P., Transfer from the County for Trial
The Trial Court Unit staff has requested that the Committee consider amendments to N.D.R.Crim.P. 21 on transfers for trial. The unit staff proposes that a specific transfer procedure be added to the rule.
The unit staff indicate that amendment of Rule 21 is necessary to ensure that proper security and courtroom space can be provided at the transfer site. According to Donna Wunderlich, administrator for Unit 3, transfers have been made in the past without coordinating with the receiving unit. Wunderlich said prior coordination should be required by rule. A copy of a unit staff memo explaining the rationale for the proposed amendments is attached.
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600 KAR 5:010. Transportation of nonpublic school students.
RELATES TO: KRS 158.115, 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 615, Part I, subpart 87,d.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 615, Part I, subpart 87,d.
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: In 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 615, Part I, subpart 87,d., funds were appropriated for nonpublic school transportation for each fiscal year. This administrative regulation establishes conditions and procedures for the reimbursement to fiscal courts of financial support for the transportation of nonpublic school students.
Section 1. Application for Funds. (1) A fiscal court that provided financial support for the transportation of nonpublic school students in a school year pursuant to the provisions of KRS 158.115 may apply to the Transportation Cabinet for reimbursement of that financial support.
(2) By May 1 of a school year for which a fiscal court has authorized the expenditure of county funds pursuant to KRS 158.115, the fiscal court shall in writing notify the Transportation Cabinet, Office of the Secretary of its intention to apply for reimbursement. The notification shall include:
(a) The name of the person in the county who will serve as liaison on the application;
(b) A resolution from the fiscal court stating that the county provided funds in the school year for the transportation of nonpublic school students;
(c) A detailed statement of the method by which the funds were made available for the transportation of the nonpublic school students;
(d)1. A copy of each contract the fiscal court entered into to provide the transportation services; or
2. If the fiscal court does not contract for the provision of transportation services with a bus company or a board of education, a copy of the legal notice requesting applications for supplementary funds from providers of transportation of nonpublic school students; and
(e) An estimate of the total amount of funds to be provided.
(3) The final application to the Transportation Cabinet shall:
(a) Be received by the Office of the Secretary by June 30 of the applicable school year;
(b) Include the amount of funds provided by the county for the transportation of nonpublic school students; and
(c) Include proof of payment of the amount requested for reimbursement; and
(d) Include a copy of each application or invoice for payment and the supporting documentation from the transportation provider.
(4)(a) The Transportation Cabinet shall:
1. Evaluate the applications received for compliance with the requirements established by this section; and
2. Divide the funds available in each fiscal year between applicants who comply with the requirements established by this section as provided by paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subsection.
(b) If the application amounts spent by the counties equal or total less than the amount appropriated by the General Assembly for that school year, the Transportation Cabinet shall authorize payment for each requested reimbursement amount.
(c) If the application amounts spent by the counties exceed the amount, the Transportation Cabinet shall prorate the amount appropriated by the General Assembly among the applicants as provided by Section 2 of this administrative regulation.
Section 2. Proration of Appropriated Funds. Funds shall be prorated, as required in Section 1(4)(c) of this administrative regulation, in the following method:
(1) The cabinet shall obtain the most recent figures at the time the application is received, and determine the total number of:
(a) Public school students transported; and
(b) Nonpublic school students who are eligible for transportation.
(2) The number of nonpublic school students in subsection (1) of this section, shall not include a student who:
(a) Attends a:
1. School on a military reservation; or
2. School that is fully federally funded; or
(b) Is taught at home.
(3) The cabinet shall determine the:
(a) State-wide average for the annual cost of the transportation of an individual student; and
(b) Amount of local funds expended or budgeted for the transportation of nonpublic school students.
(4) The maximum amount for which a county shall be eligible to apply shall be the lesser of the following:
(a) The sum of the total number of students established pursuant to subsections (1) and (2) of this section, multiplied by the sum established in subsection (3)(a) of this section; or
(b) The total funds actually expended by the county for transportation of nonpublic school students during the applicable school year.
(5) If it is necessary to prorate the appropriation for a specific fiscal year, the funds for each eligible applicant county shall be the sum of the funds appropriated by the General Assembly for that school year, multiplied by the county's application amount established by subsection (4) of this section, divided by the total number of eligible applications received. (21 Ky.R. 3098; Am. 22 Ky.R. 302; eff. 10-3-95; 23 Ky.R. 3411; 3819; 4115; eff. 6-2-97; 25 Ky.R. 615; 1038; eff. 11-20-98.)


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"It doesn't happen suddenly, as it does with women, it gradually creeps up on men as their natural testosterone levels decline.
"The problem we face is that it has very common symptoms which could be attributed to almost anything – such as tiredness, lowering libido, loss of concentration and reduced exercise tolerance. These symptoms are so common that they are almost considered part of normal day to day life and are often ignored.
"However, with a simple test we can measure the testosterone level to see if it is low and, if it is, testosterone gels can help to restore the balance. As testosterone levels begin to normalise, energy, sex-drive, tolerance and concentration all increase and we see that many men begin to feel much better."
Dr Webberley believes that it is the responsibility of doctors to offer these tests to men.
"We, as doctors, should be offering more tests, and men should be asking for them," she says. "If two samples taken two weeks apart show a low testosterone level then treatment should be trialled. If this helps symptoms improve, fantastic, if not then we should dig deeper to make sure there is nothing else wrong.
"Many men are too proud to get tested, so work needs to be done to normalise this condition and make it acceptable for men to get their levels checked."


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Dear person who brought back Ella,
Thank you. My kitten Ella has gray and black stripes and green eyes. She is eight months old and very small. You brought her to the shelter Wednesday, Jan. 30. She was missing for three weeks and three days. I prayed for her to come home for a long, long time. We were very happy to have her back. Ella is happy to be back, too. So, thank you very, very much.
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If you are doing the right rotations and managing your cooldowns correctly you can't really do much more.
Using simulations to find out the correct enchants etc is on the other hand more or less the only way to do it.
It's not elitist to want to be good. It is elitist to point casual raiders towards a simulation and tell them: Here's how you should play.
Retired World's Best Warlock.
Being a good raider is not about numbers. Its about being flexible and generally like-able and quick to adapt change. seems like 9/10ths of the raid is doing everything they can to progress, you are the minority. Simply lolnormals i can be bad and do bad and its np, is a terrible attitude and not a good fit for a TEAM thing, casual progression or not if 9/10 people are willing to adapt and your not, you just arent a good fit.
I play many games. WoW, Rift, D3, PoE, SC2 I will not criticize your game choice if you don't mine.
If the simulations points to a dps discrepancy between specs for whatever x number, why is it so wrong to give some basis as to why they want him to change spec ?
Wouldn't it be worse to just say, "Play this or we'll kick you" without offering any facts as to why (sims) ?
1. Your guild's hunter is probably bad. An MM hunter who knows their class in blue Heroic gear should be able to pull at least 40k in a raid environment, not to mention now when they should have access to LFR and VP gear.
2. Regardless of player skill, in normal mode fights this tier hunter will always have comparably low dps assuming your other DPS know what they are doing. I've had a couple of rare occasions where tanks pulled ahead of me (Brewmaster is super OP atm and our warrior tank has had some attacks hit harder than my Kill Shot when it crits, but that was when vengeance was stupidly broken).
if you were in a hardcore/progressing guild yes i would understand it.
but casual? pfftt
best advice is, find a new guild tbh.
my hunter is and was and in only ever played MM and i know in current content is sucks.
its just when i change and i practise for an hour on a dummy. i would still have it wrong. and i really really cba to do that for that 1 raid i do for like 1 in the 2 weeks perhaps? i would just never learn the spec. reason i am staying MM
edit: i just read the post above above about a MM hunter doing 35k with 474 gear.
yes he is just bad dps. he should do like 10k more at least.
some ppl just forgetting that we all started this game mostly for 1 reason.
to have fun, entertainment.
ok some things ingame arent fun to do, but needed. but as being casual and mostly having fun. ye sure go your own way.
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I play Demonology and still top the meters in our raid, if I learned Affliction I could increase my damage even further but I feel that Demonology does a lot more than necessary and that's the spec I'm comfortable with.
To hear that some people would not invite me simply because I'm not playing the current highest damage dealing spec, is just ridiculous. Damn I'm glad I'm playing with a guild because I actually like them and enjoy their company, rather than to take part of some silly competition trying to min-max everything. Sounds incredibly dull and boring.
I really need to go to sleep. So I'll just agree to disagree. I think people pay too much attention to simcrafts. Since they don't really offer you anything. Yeah, if you are one the very tip top end of raiding, sure. But if you are where 95% if the raiders are simcrafts doesn't really bring that much to the table. Other than rotations, gems etc.
You also have, dungeons, looking for raid, scenarios, for a somewhat realistic "raid" scenario for you to practice in.
Compare 1 hour to the hours you spent playin MM, does it seem like a fair time investment to base it on ?
Last, you also have dual spec, you dont have to quit MM but being able to play 2/3 specs as a pure dps, isn't that much to ask imo.
But 99% of the players just read the perfect Patchwerk single target results on Simulationcraft and take them for granted, so yeah, his opinion is rather true.No. It's nothing to do with perfect conditions - you just don't know how to use it properly. You can simulate movement, multiple targets, latency, human error, even a level of skill. You have to carry some basic intelligence about what might not be appropriate for a specific encounter, but many top Warlocks swear by simcraft. It also presents an acceptable "range" of dps that non perfect play should present.
Wow, getting kicked from a raid for bad performance while raiding with a guild of casuals. I'd consider that the ultimate insult for a pve-er.
I don't know if you've seen the collection the internet has to offer ^^; Simcraft for one is quite powerful and calculates on situations, including an array of other options.
But I think you should understand the word "estimate" it's not meant to be taken as a gospel-truth that your class can do that, you know some people can under perform and others go way overboard! So I think you're slightly misinterpreting the reasoning of why it's been spoken ^_^, it's just a bar to aim for and I don't see that as being a bad thing because we all set goals to achieve... It's down to choice of course but generally, you don't play world of warcraft without wanting to achieve something even small things like max level.
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If every DPS showed up to a raid and said "fuck it I'm going to play X spec and pick all these sub-optimal talent choices" you would honestly be hurting the overall raid. If your class is capable of pulling more numbers but >YOU< decide to simply ignore that, you should still be given a spot over an equally skilled player, who is willing to play the top spec and chose the proper talents? Why exactly?
Every single enrage timer wipe is PURELY the fault of your DPS team. If they all showed a little respect for the rest of the raid and specced the proper way, gemmed the proper way, chose the proper enchants and flat out just "cared", every guild who isn't top, say, 250 would go so much smoother in raids.
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Note: When I say "real" raiding community, I don't mean people who equal casual to being a baddie when in essence they are a casual by their own definition.
If you chose to play a spec which is low on the DPS totem poll, you damn well better play it well or else you'll soon find that nobody wants you to raid with them and you've painted yourself in to a corner for being 'bad'. Classes such as Hunters have no reason or excuse to cry foul about being benched because they have BM which is a damn fine raiding spec where even an average player can pull out equal or better dps than a good MM hunter.
But, again, players who strive for mediocrity would rather put a burden on the others and get carried than do well.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
If more people actually "cared" (and that doesn't mean you have to spend 2 hours every-time before logging in studying or something) about the other people in the raid, there would be so much more enjoyment from everyone in raids.
Now this is just taking the top 100 logs from each spec. U can un-click everyone and just look at the warlock specs. As you can plainly see that affliction is in a better spot than the other specs. Now this does not say that demonology has its spot on some fights. Its kind of like this guy in my guild who does play demonology pretty much but he has to switch to affliction for a few fights because demonology just does not come close in that fight.
This is where the op fails. He does not do whats best for the team/guild.
Hell who knows what spec will be nerfed or buffed next. Demonology might get nerfed down to shit one day.
The thing is though that the three specs of Warlocks are quite close together in terms of how much damage they can put out, and the boss fights are designed to be doable even in Destruction which is the worst of the three. If you're hitting enrage timers chances are far more likely that the raid as a whole is screwing up.
So yes I'm definitely going to choose Demonology over Affliction even though I know that it deals less damage, and no I'm not going to look up every single tip and secret to maximize my damage fully. Why? Because I can't be arsed, I don't care that much about it to look up everything and I'm topping the meters anyways so.
You want to know a little secret? I don't even pre-pot before each encounter, nor precast! Not a single one in our raid does yet we still down the bosses! *Shocked*
Unless you're highly competitive and progressive your raid really, really doesn't need to maximize damage that much.


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Nice shot of the Chihuly glass, Chris. Lucas and I both took pictures of his stuff when the exhibit was here in San Francisco:
Faux Lomo + Lightroom + D300 + not much else to do at the moment.
Thanks Adam, I'm pretty sure I read that post when i first started here. That glass is awesome huh?
Another Faux Lomo. I think I'll go do something else now.
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The Air Force ROTC unit at Oregon State University was established in 1949. Detachment 685 is known as the Flying Beavs.
The Arnold Air Society is a national honorary community service organization for Air Force ROTC cadets. Silver Wings serves a similar purpose of community service and is composed of cadets who are not active members of the Arnold Air Society as well as civilian college students.
The Air Force ROTC Photographs document the ROTC unit's training and activities at Oregon State University. The images depict cadets in their squadron units, formal cadet inspections, physical training exercises, participation in the Arnold Air Society/Silver Wings National Conclave, and a wedding in the Memorial Union. Photographs of a football game half-time show featuring the Silver Wings Drill Team and Color Guard are also included.
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This year, for the first time in many, I have the opportunity to stay up and watch the Oscars. Whoopee-doooo. Am I going to? Naaah.
There would have been a time when I would have been pretty excited about doing so. (Having had jobs in entertainment coverage, the Oscar nominations were one of the highlights of the year. Sad, sad, sad I know, but the only thing that causes more of a buzz on an Ents Desk is a celebrity death...)
This year though, all the accusations the Academy have faced over years (sentimentalism, conservatism, muddled judgement) seem hard to deny. Yeah, I know that the awards have always thrown up some strange statistics - Marilyn Monroe: never nominated, Forrest Gump: 13 nominations (and beating Pulp Fiction for Best Pic - which is like when Shuddup A Your Face was number one ahead of Vienna etc...
Crivens - have you seen what's up this year? Now I know why there's never anything on I want to see at the cinema if this is the best of the crop.
Ray: Biopic. Apparently a great performance/impersonation in the central role. A tale of succeeding against all odds. But accoring to reviewers, not as good as other other junkie-muso studies, Lady Sings The Blues and Bird. Good, not great films livened up by great music.
Million Dollar Baby: Rocky in a sports bra. Voters like Clint Eastwood's longevity (and the fact that he missed out for Mystic River last year) as much as this slow,say the reviewers, tale of succeeding against all odds. Yawn.
Finding Neverland: Biopic. This time it's JM Barrie, corsets, audacious accent changing, a whiff of fairy tales and nothing new.
Sideways: This one I've seen, encouranged by hysterically positive reviews and it's...ok, pretty good. It's at least about people now rather than famous people living in a time when the clothes 'looked funny', or about asteroid threats to the earth . There's not much more to say about it, except I really wanted a glass of wine by the end of it.
The Aviator: Deep breath. Biopic - yes, again and a blockbuster one at that. I have not seen this and have intention of doing so, because it looks APPALLING. Also, I sat through the 3+hours of Gangs Of New York out of a mistaken faith in Scorsese. Sadly, he has lost his touch. The last bloated film lacked cohesion and credibility. To 'make up' for this, it had Daniel Day Lewis doing a spot-on (latter day) impersonation of De Niro and a quest/revenge plot straightoutta daytime soaps.
Both films star Di Caprio, which is further evidence of Scorsese's fading powers. I have no beef with Leo, but his expressions are limited and his charisma beam dips drastically if you don't find him attractive - which I don't.
Worse still on the casting front
1. Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow. It seems that they thought "Who's famous with platinum hair? Ah her, she'll do" and cast her with no further thought (I suppose it could have been worse - Madonna in the Who's That Girl era, aaarrghhh). Here's a tip Marty. Wigs don't cost much...
2. Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. Kate is rather lovely to look at and would make an okay mini-series Natalie Wood. Why not Ava? She was a famous spitfire who could drink all the men around her under the table (and she knew some famous drinkers) and Kate, despite her Hollywoodisationstill glows with the free school milk complexion of her English Rose childhood.
Everyone seems to think Cate Blanchett has done a great job as Katharine Hepburn - from the clips I've seen it's a brittle, strident, glamorous enactment of a women who was certainly brittle, strident and glamorous - but also, thoughtful, complex and fiercely loyal to all the men she was involved with.
Last year, the Academy paid effusive tribute to Hepburn, this year they will lavish praise on a film that I'm sure she would have been disappointed in, if not, offended by.
In short (and blogs are supposed to short!) - cinema today, to judge from this, is tired and uninspiring.
PS - Enternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is exellent however - Charlie Kaufman - the saviour...


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Reclassification: (Center) Program Specialist I
This is to document the reclassification of (CENTER) Administrative Support Assistant I (administrative Assistant) to Program Specialist I as of DATE.
Following the sudden resignation of Old employee on June 24th, 2005, her job responsibilities were primarily re-assigned to the (CENTER)s Administrative Assistant, Ms. Villanelle. Over the last six months, Ms. Villanelle has taken on new and expanded responsibilities and demonstrated both initiative and flexibility. As a new assistant has recently been hired, we are requesting reclassification in order to enable Ms. Villanelle to continue on in her new role as the (CENTER)s Programs and Events Coordinator. Her performance in these duties has been exemplary.
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In the context of her new position, Ms. Villanelles duties now include:
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coordinating student recruiting;
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- Rural China has undergone a slow but steady transformation, says academic Tao Xie
- But beneath the rising wealth is a looming crisis of rural governance
- Healthcare, education and other public goods are in "woeful state"
- It's not mega-cities that make a country modern, but the quality of life in rural areas
I grew up in a rural area in northeast Sichuan province, famous at home and abroad for its hot and spicy food. My childhood memories, like many of those born in the early 1970s, are filled with muddy roads, shabby houses, poorly dressed and fed people, backbreaking hard labor, desperate faces, and sighs of resignation.
Over the past three decades, that area—like most parts of rural China—has undergone a slow but steady transformation, thanks to China's extraordinary economic development.
Most villages are connected with paved roads; almost every household has a motorcycle -- the most convenient means of transportation on hilly, narrow lanes -- and a telephone line, in addition to modern household appliances such as color TV and washing machine.
Cell phones are ubiquitous, and private cars are no longer an unheard of luxury. Newly built or refurbished houses, against the background of forest-covered hills and green fields, create a pastoral beauty.
By most indicators, life has become much better for residents in that area. But beneath the apparently rising wealth is a looming crisis of rural governance. I got a full taste of this crisis when I visited my parents during the past Lunar New Year holiday.
My parents live in a town that is the economic, educational, and political center of that area. Since it was Spring Festival, the otherwise quiet town became unusually crowded with pedestrians, motorcycles, and cars.
A day before the Lunar New Year's Eve, I tried to drive through the major street in the town. I was stuck in the traffic for nearly one hour, though it takes less than ten minutes to walk through the entire street.
During the ordeal, I did not see any local government official or police come out to direct the traffic. Later, I learned that a police car with a non-local license was stuck in the traffic too, and that after sitting in the car for a while, a police finally came out, directed the traffic, and drove away.
Traffic jams like the one I experienced do not happen every day, but there are routine aspects of daily life that also seem to have fallen out of the purview of the local government.
The tap water at my parents' home is one good example. When I boiled the water and poured it into a glass, I could see white particles floating around and gradually settling down to the bottom. There is so much scale in the kettle that my parents have to clean it every week.
One day, I took a walk along the river that winds its way through the town. Actually, it is no longer a river, but a narrow strip of water, dark brown, squeezed by landfill from construction sites along the banks. As I walked on the newly built bridge over the river, I noticed a huge pile of garbage that seemed to have been there for some time.
Healthcare and education, arguably the two most important public services, are in a woeful state too. There is a hospital, but its facilities are outdated and its doctors are inadequately trained. The student body of the high school is dwindling each year, because an increasing number of parents have chosen to send their children to county or municipal high schools. Last year, the school has around one hundred graduates, but less than 10% of them went on to college.
My hometown may not be a representative cross-section of rural China, but it certainly illustrates some aspects of the current state of a rural governance crisis.
In its rush for urbanization—partly driven by the massive migration of farmers into cities— I believe the Chinese government has largely neglected the welfare of rural residents. (When contacted by CNN, the Ministry of Civil Affairs declined to comment.)
To be sure, agriculture taxes have been abolished, and nearly every rural resident is enrolled in a government-subsidized medical insurance plan. But when it comes to public goods, such as law and order, education, healthcare, public works, and environmental protection, rural governments have neither the money nor the power to do much at all.
In the early years of the Chinese communist revolution, Mao Zedong and his colleagues followed the Soviet model by attempting to take over urban centers.
The strategy failed disastrously, and Mao invented instead the Chinese model of "encircling cities from the countryside." Once the revolution was won, however, the Chinese government implemented a series of policies that actually impoverished and discriminated against farmers, the most important source of support for the Communist revolution.
One such policy is the "hukou" or household registration system, although last year the government proposed relaxing some of the restrictions that prevent rural migrants accessing the same benefits as urban residents.
Urbanization has been one of the driving forces of China's economic development, but it should not come at the expense of rural residents, who still account for just under half the Chinese population.
It is not the number of mega-cities that makes a country modern, but the quality of life in its rural areas.
The Chinese government neglects rural governance at its own risk.


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Germany wary over Afghanistan mission
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BERLIN - German Tornado jets and about 200 troops are headed for Afghanistan and there's a concern their mission will be misunderstood.
It has been well publicized that the Germens' is a surveillance role. But, as Deutche Welle reports, the German government is wary that the Taliban will see no difference between combat and support.
German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung said the mission was designed to bring assistance and not fear to the Afghan people. He said the expected reconnaissance will bring more stability and security to the country.
But, there are still government and military concerns that the Tornado mission, just did reconstruction efforts on the ground, will become embroiled in the growing conflict in the expected Taliban spring offensive.
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