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Wow, this is cool Mcindus, thanks for your work. We'll soon have a fully upscaled FF8 so... better to improve Tonberry ASAP xD
Hellfire Pack (80% complete) - but until animations work, I probably won't release a pack.
I love these. I can't wait to try them out!I'm still trying to remain patient and will play once everything gets overhauled more or less, but seeing this makes me want to cheat a bit
WOWThank you so much, I'm so glad to see all the things you guys are doing for this game, this is awesome!
Man, it looks like I'm going to have to hand Valve my $5 one of these days. Too many good graphical mods are coming out and I only have the original release
Well this is my first post but never the less I just wanted to report the issue I had!(Sidenote: I am planning to start working on mods and join in on the fun of remaking pieces of FFVIII!)@Mcindus, Everything you have done for this game thus far has made me super excited, I have already put in about 15 hours in the past two day!Anyhow I have run into a graphical error, I will edit and post a photo asap.The error is with Carbuncle, instead of green he/she becomes red and has texture tearing. <<This only happened after installing Lunar Cry.Edit:
Do you have collisions.csv and hash2map.csv in the tonberry folder? Find them on the tonberry 2.0 post under the main post (in my post) or in the original Tonberry 1.5 download
No, it's a texture mod, not a gameplay mod.
Make sure you're using an updated version of Rebirth Flame, if you're using it. If you're using the old rebirth flame objmap codes, this will most likely happen due to minor collisions. Let me know if that helped!
I'm using version 1.1 of Rebirth Flame, which is the newest version listed there. I tried reinstalling it and the problem persists.
Hey, no I haven't, where can I download that mod? I only see the hashmap on the Tonberry Enhanced post.EDIT: So I put the Project Hellfire hashmap file into Tonberry and the problem is fixed. I thought there would also need to be texture files, but maybe I am wrong? At any rate, Carbuncle once again has skin! Thank you guys so much for the help, I really appreciate it!EDIT EDIT: Dug through some posts and found that the Project Hellfire textures appear to be work in progress. The textures I could find were here http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=15668.msg223269#msg223269 (make sure you get the replacement texture from the 2nd post down unless you want shiva to be nude)Hopefully if there is a next guy this will help him.
Have you tried using Project Hellfire? Using the hashmap from that and the upscaled GF textures might fix your problems.Edit: Actually, if you do use it it will probably work. Just disabled mine for a test, had the problem happen. With it in use, it goes away.
stumbled across a youtube video from mcindus earlier today while having a nostalgic look at some ff8 videos. it was the video that explained how to install the mods. just wanted to register to say thanks, was very simple to follow and all is up and running and I must say it looks AMAZING. I now have no choice but to play through the game again. thanks for all your hard work, the difference really is incredible. how fantastic that a game can be kept alive and improved by its fans like this. keep it up!cheers
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Deadly Lucidity by Julie Achterhoff
Caught in a tangled web of dreams and nightmares, Marie Reilly is being
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nightmarish world he has called home as far back as he can remember?
What have you learned about being an author since you started writing
professionally, Julie?
Gosh, I've learned so much! I started out reading a couple of books on
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college. That was ten years ago. I started writing professionally three
years ago, starting with a novella titled Native Vengeance, which was
published on the Demon Minds website for their Halloween edition that year.
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I had some idea because I got an "A" on my class final, which was to
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Making a glitter signature is really easy. It only takes a few minutes, once you get the hang of it.
First you need to find a glitter to use. If you dont have one already, you can right click and save this one that I made:
This is what you will end up with, but with your text:
Step 1.
Find your glitter that you saved, right click on it, open with Ulead GIF Animator.
Step 2.
You will have three frames of glitter. Click on frame 3 and add new frame.
Step 3.
Click on the T and add your text. It should be in your fourth frame. The text entry box will pop up, and you will be able to choose font type, color, size, etc. It does not matter which color you choose. Try to pick a font with thick letters, because the glitter shows up better that way.
You may need to center your text. With your text highlighted, click the pick tool.
Under Alignment, click center both.
Step 4.
Click on the magic wand.
Highlight frame 4. Click anywhere in frame 4, as long as it is outside of your text. You should have a black and teal colored dotted line around your text.
Step 5.
Now click on frame 1. Go to the right and highlight the object in frame 1 (your glitter).
Step 6.
Click Edit, and choose the option "make selection area transparent." Your first frame should now contain your text as glitter, exactly as you typed it in frame 4.
Step 7.
Click on frame 2, then highlight as you did frame 1, and choose make selection area transparent again. Repeat for frame 3.
Step 8.
Right click and Delete frame 4.
Step 9.
To get rid of the big background, highlight one of your objects. It doesnt matter which one. Click outside of the canvas area to unhighlight with your magic wand. The black and teal outline will be gone. Go to edit, crop canvas.
Step 10.
Go to file, save as GIF.
That's all there is to making a glitter signature. Enjoy!
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Heading into the 26th edition of Survivor Series on Sunday night, it was the little things rather than the big picture that seemed a little fuzzy. Despite the odds seemingly being stacked against CM Punk as he faced off against both perennial main eventer John Cena and the nigh invulnerable Ryback, conventional wisdom said he wasn't losing his WWE Championship one day before his title reign turned a year old.
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Cena also got Shell Shocked, but three men in black ran in and assaulted Ryback, wearing him down with numbers until they could power bomb him through the Spanish announce table. As Michael Cole explained to the uninitiated, the attackers turned out to be NXT developmental talents Seth Rollins (known for his indy work as Tyler Black), Dean Ambrose (a former Dragon Gate USA and CZW standout as Jon Moxley)and Roman Reigns.
With Cena still down, Punk was able to crawl back in and make the easy cover, assuring he'd hold the WWE Championship for at least 365 days.
The next WWE pay-per-view is TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs on December 16.
No exposition needed here, just Nick's comments in plain type and Dale's thoughts in italics. And here… we… go!
Brodus Clay, Justin Gabriel, Tyson Kidd, Sin Cara, and Rey Mysterio vs. Tensai, Primo, Epico, and The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neill) – Traditional Survivor Series Match
Gotta love these "bonus" matches that get added at the last minute. I mean this match could have been used to sell the show, right? Hey, Sin Cara actually hit a cool spot without botching it! He then becomes the whipping boy until he tags in Clay with the hot tag. All the faces hit the ring, knocking the Prime Time Players, Epico and Primo out of the ring. Rey and Cara hold the ropes open as Gabriel and Kidd connect on suicide dives on the PTPers. Then Rey and Sin Cara follow with moonsaults off the ropes onto Primo and Epico. Back in the ring, Tensai connects with the running senton to pin Clay. Gabriel hits the ring, avoids the senton and is able to pin Tensai. Tyson Kidd pins Titus after kicking him in the head on the apron. Kidd then gets Epico to tap out to the Sharpshooter. Kidd gets the tag to Rey, who gets a near fall with a kick to the head. Rey tries to go up top but is cut off by Primo. Rey sends him back to the mat with a head butt and nails a seated senton. Primo avoids the 619 but can't hit the Backstabber. Rey rolls him up to get the pin. Darren Young jumps in and is immediately dropped into the ropes. Rey hits the 619, allowing Gabriel to hit a springboard moonsault, and the gets the pin after dropping a dime on Young.
Winners and Survivors… Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara, Justin Gabriel, and Tyson Kidd at 18 minutes and 24 seconds.
Match Rating: 7.5/10
Once again on a PPV, Kaitlyn is attacked by a mysterious blonde, but this time Kaitlyn fights her off, rips off the wig, and it's AKSANA! You know what? I don't care. I just don't care.
Taking nothing away from the efforts of these women to entertain us, has there ever been a time in the last 15 years or so that there has been such a nondescript crop of Divas? I swear that most of them are interchangeable.
Eve (champion) vs. Kaitlyn (challenger) – WWE Divas Championship Match
Winners… and still Divas Champion… Eve at 6 minutes and 59 seconds.
Match Rating: 3/10
I demand a recount in the Twitter vote! I find it hard to believe that The Miz beat out Zack Ryder for the final spot on Team Foley.
During the pre-show, Alberto Del Rio gave a less than inspiring speech to his squad. Things aren't exactly harmonious in the Team Foley locker room either, so Mick decides to step in and try to pull everyone together. Let's have a "Bang bang!" on three. Everybody but Randy Orton participates. He tells Foley, "I hate you!" Mick just smiles and tells Kingston that simply means Orton is ready.
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Winner… and still United States Champion… Antonio Cesaro at 6 minutes and 55 seconds.
Match Rating: 4/10
I mean, I guess Cesaro can work, but that match was just BAH: Boring As Hell.
Because there hasn't been enough screen time devoted to it on Raw, we get a short recap of the "AJ scandal." Then AJ and Vickie Guerrero hit the ring so that things can really take a turn for the stupid. AJ shows "evidence" of Vickie with Ricardo Rodriguez, Jim Ross, and, in a picture I can't un-see, Brodus Clay. Since Guerrero can't lay a finger on Lee without losing her job, she sits back and watches as Tamina Snuka rushes in and works her over, ending with her somewhat substandard version of her dad's Superfly Splash. #whatever
Sheamus (challenger) vs. The Big Show (champion) – World Heavyweight Championship Match
Winner… Sheamus at 14 minutes and 44 seconds (Big Show retains the World Heavyweight Championship).
Match Rating: 6/10
After everything is sorted out, Sheamus attacks Show with a chair and goes to town. Show begs for him to stop, but Sheamus keeps the pressure on, beating him all the way up the ramp. Sheamus finishes him off with a Brogue Kick.
Dolph Ziggler, Damien Sandow, David Otunga, Wade Barrett, and Alberto Del Rio vs. Kane, Daniel Bryan, Kofi Kingston, The Miz and Randy Orton – Traditional Survivor Series Match
Winner and sole survivor… Dolph Ziggler at 23 minute and 41 seconds.
Match Rating: 7.5/10
Because you demanded it (yes you!), we see some Touts before the main event. People, keep your Touts to yourself.
CM Punk(Champion) vs. John Cena (Challenger) vs. Ryback (Challenger) – Triple Threat WWE Title Match
Winner… and still WWE Champion… CM Punk at 17 minutes and 57 seconds
Match Rating: 5/10
Total Event Time: 2 hours and 46 minutes
Event Rating: 5.5/10
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Whether it is houses, cars, luxury clothing or sports equipment, more consumers are opting to rent, borrow or lease than buy, and a range of new apps are helping them do it online.
In the last two years, more than half of Americans surveyed said they had rented items they would have purchased in the past, according to a poll about buying habits commissioned by solar panel rental company Sunrun.
The trend toward renting was highest in people 55 years and older, the poll of 2,252 Americans found.
"There's a return to simplicity, a return to cutting down on waste and being a little bit smarter about how you spend your money and what you buy," Sunrun co-founder Lynn Jurich said.
Getaround, which is available for iPhone users and on the web, is a free car-sharing app that allows users to rent vehicles from other people. Users can find nearby cars, reserve them and unlock them with the app. Another free app called RelayRides provides a similar service.
For consumers interested in ride-sharing, SideCar and Lyft, both available for iPhone and Android, help people hitch rides for a fee. The service can be less expensive than taxis and gives riders an opportunity to meet new people.
The apps use social networks, such as Facebook, to show the identity of the user and provider, and any mutual associations, to make people feel more comfortable doing business with strangers online, said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and an expert on digital economics.
"Relationships and ties that exist in the real world are now available to marketplaces to take advantage of. They don't have to build trust from scratch to get people to participate," he said.
On DogVacay, an iPhone and web app that helps vacationing pet owners find temporary care for their dog, identities are verified via Facebook and telephone interviews.
Car-sharing apps such as Getaround provide insurance coverage for both the car owner and driver for liability, collision and theft. Airbnb, an app for private rental accommodations, offers property owners up to a $1 million insurance guarantee.
While a downturn in the economy and a return to simplicity may be fueling the trend and the apps that support it, Sundararajan believes demand will continue, even if the economy bounces back strongly.
"In many ways, it's just as much about getting access to greater variety and quality," he said.


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It has only been a week since the Associated Press learned that its reporters' privacy and the confidentiality of their relationships with sources were violated on a massive and unprecedented scale by Eric Holder's Justice Department in April and May of last year. DOJ has admitted that it secretly obtained the call records for 20 personal and business lines used by over 100 AP reporters and editors. Despite its insistence that they were looking for the person who leaked information about a foiled terrorist plot, there is reason to believe the DOJ's fishing expedition was a childish response to the wire service's refusal to let the government crow about the foiled operation before anyone reported on it.
In the wake of all of this, the AP, appears determined to soldier on as the wire service more appropriately described as the Administration's Press. That's about the only way one can view the Saturday afternoon dispatch from the AP's David Espo and its accompanying headline:
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office.
Translation: Nyah-nyah, nyah-nyah nyah.
As to the claim that there is no "evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office," you can't get any closer than one step away. All five major "controversies," better known as "scandals," are only one step away:
- On Benghazi, then-State Department Secretary Hillary Clinton, then-Department of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and then-CIA Director David Petraeus all reported directly to the President. There is still a two-day gap in what the administration has disclosed about what happened before and after the death of Libyan ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans who tried to save him.
- On the AP phone-record snooping, DOJ's Eric Holder reports directly to Obama.
- The IRS's then-alleged, now-admitted harassment of Tea Party and conservative groups was reported to the Treasury Department Director's counsel and at least one Deputy Treasury Secretary, who was duty-bound to inform then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who reports to Obama.
- HHS's ongoing efforts to shake down private insurance companies to fund efforts to promote the wonders of signing up for ObamaCare and its work incentive-killing subsidies are being led by Kathleen Sebelius, who reports to Obama.
- Finally, in the horrific gun-running Operation Fast and Furious, "documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings ... as far back as July 2010." Holder, as noted, reports to Obama.
Espo's execrable exercise shows that the AP we have known and despised has at a minimum been unaffected by DOJ's arguably illegal dragnet. Either that, or it may, as a result of government intimidation, be in the early stages of becoming even worse.
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Before I ask for some advice, please don't assume I'm a script kiddie or such. This is for one of my wireless security class (CSS 1015).
It's a Saturday class and only 6 students are in the class since it starts at 8:30 AM until 10 AM. Next week we are doing a lab where we bring in switches and routers and set up AP in the classroom (we are naming it CSS1015_1 and so on). The professor said one team will be the attack team and the other is the defense team. The defense team will have a small
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I want to be ahead of the game when it comes to class next week. What are some tips/tricks that I should be doing with my attack team? Since it's our first time the WEP will be only 6 characters long.


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Wayland plans Big Weekend college preview event
Wayland Baptist University will host its annual college preview event, Big Weekend, on March 22-23 for high school juniors, seniors or college transfer students.
With plenty of activities, a concert and audition opportunities, Big Weekend offers prospective students a chance to get an up-close look at college life and, specifically, life at Wayland.
The weekend begins with registration on Friday, March 22, beginning at noon. "Marsh Madness," featuring games and activities in the grassy area in the center of the campus, will take place from noon to 6 p.m. Campus tours will be given regularly during the afternoon, followed by dinner at 5:30 p.m.
Friday's big event is the 7:30 p.m. concert featuring Mercy Me, Ten Shekel Shirt and The Normals. Admission to the concert, held in Harral Auditorium, is free for Big Weekend participants and $10 per person for others.
Following the concert, the traditional Late Night Breakfast will be held, with serving and cooking by Wayland's own faculty. Other late night activities are planned from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Saturday's slate of activities begins with late registration and breakfast, both at 8 a.m., with a special breakfast for parents planned. From then on, information abounds as students attend "All About WBU" and learn more about the college application and financial aid process. An academic fair follows, with professors from each academic division on hand to discuss their programs and offerings.
Lunch follows, with an organization fair offered to show off opportunities for involvement outside the classroom. The afternoon features mock classes, and admissions and financial aid offices will be open for further information. The weekend wraps up with a praise service sponsored by Baptist Student Ministries from 6 - 7 p.m. following dinner.
During the weekend, a cheerleader workshop will be held, with one session on Friday evening before the concert and one on Saturday afternoon. Tryouts will also be available for cheerleaders as well as athletics including men's and women's JV basketball, women's soccer and volleyball and men's golf. Students may also register for auditions for choral, band, art and theatre scholarships.
Cost for the weekend for prospective students is $20, which includes all meals, lodging and tickets for events. Students will stay in dormitories with current Wayland students and will need to bring sleeping bags and toiletries.
Parents or sponsors may attend the weekend for $15, which includes their meals and event tickets. Lodging is available at special Big Weekend rates at local hotels.
Transportation can be arranged from the Lubbock airport or the Plainview bus station with prior notice.
For more information or to register for Big Weekend, contact the office of admissions at (800) 588-1928 or locally at 291-3500.


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Best Adventure Books for Kids
September 14, 2009
by Carol Politi
Outside Magazine does not typically focus on kids. However, their recent blog does a great job of profiling adventure classics for kids. The blog was spurred by the recent New York Times article on a teacher that allowed the kids in her 7th and 8th grade classroom to choose their own books.
The Outside picks? Below and on the Outside Blog:
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer– Mark Twain
- Redwall series – Brian Jacques
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
- Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
- The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
- Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
- White Fang – Jack London
- The Call of the Wild – Jack London
- A River Runs Through It – Norman Maclean's story collection
- My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
- Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- The Black Stallion – Walter Farley
- Misty of Chincoteague – Marguerite Henry
- Into the Wild – by Jon Krakauer
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Brighty of the Grand Canyon – Marguerite Henry and Wesley Dennis
- Following the Equator – Mark Twain
- Young Men and Fire – Norman Maclean
- Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- Walden and Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
As you might expect, not every book is appropriate for every family or every age range. Check out the book descriptions to determine which books on the list might be most appropriate for your family and your child.
Do you have feedback on the books above or recommendations on great adventure books for tweens? Please comment and let us know! We can get the word out to kids on the phone.


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(LOC) has published a finding resource listing 71 links to the 50 states, online digital collections. That is found here .
The PA State Library — Has a digital collections, very similar to the digital collections found at seekingmichigan.org [Editor: also in LOC list for MI].
From Abe Lincoln, to Ben Franklin, to Coal Mining History, to WWI there are many PA treasures here:
I chose to start in their WWI Collection, which had a few choices to pick from, so I chose the top pick (Mahanoy City):
American Red Cross. Pennsylvania Chapter. Mahanoy City. In Memoriam Of Those Who, Coming from the District within the Limits of the Mahanoy City, Red Cross Chapter, Quakake to Girardville [inclusive] Made the Supreme Sacrifice in the Great War for Democracy, known as "The World War" 1917-1919. Mahanoy City, Pa., [1920]
This is a six page memorial to the fallen veterans who lived in Mahanoy City in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania.
In truth the PA State Library's digital collection is large enough that this jester will need to spend some time exploring, but I thought I would share my initial impression.
So LOC, a tip of the jester's hat to you for compiling a very useful resource of state libraries who have online digital collections. These are historical in nature, but the obvious application to genealogy make these valuable resources to the genealogical researcher too.


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'Suicide takes the lives of more young men in Ireland than road accidents.'
Join Adam for Walk in My Shoes day on April 26th and support mental health services for young adults in Ireland. Find out how you can get involved.
Join Adam for Walk in My Shoes day on April 26th and support mental health services for young adults in Ireland. Find out how you can get involved.
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26 April, 2012
walked and prayedi walked and prayed today in the shoes i took my final fransican vows in...shoes only worn for special occasions...i walked from 11 11 am to 7 11 pm and prayed for everything you can think of...singing u2 songs of hope...i started to rain during walk on and it felt good and then the sun came out at the lyrics leave it behind..it was a special moment...this walk was a special day...hope for all shattered dreams worldwide
24 April, 2012
CALL TO U2 FANSMental Health and suicide seems to be a topic that people don't want to talk. Yet I thinki many of us have some story relating to either of these very important issues. I call on U2 fans to support Adam and the Walk In My Shoes day on April 26th. Let's take that passion we have for our beloved U2 and make a difference in an amazing campaign.
22 April, 2012
Thanks for your commitmentIt is always very sad when promising young lives get lost due to suicide. Some personal tragedies, loss and despair can lead to a depression where some people do not see any way out anymore. This is a disease that needs some professional treatment. It is great that Adam raises so much awareness to a serious cause that can concern everybody.
20 April, 2012
A Dark RoadAdam, this issue is, in my opinion, the greatest kept secret. Until people feel they can begin to speak freely about it, it will continue to be a 'taboo' subject. My husband committed suicide May 2009. They go down a very dark path, and unfortunately they feel they cannot come out of it. I applaude this effort and your support behind it. It happens far too often (more then we know as I quickly found out when I joined a support group). Good luck...
20 April, 2012
maggieThank you for raising this issue. Mental illness is still a very big taboo and needs to be more in the open. It is devastating to those who suffer and also for those who care for someone suffering with a mental health problem.
19 April, 2012
Good for you, Adam!!Thank you, thank you for doing this. As one who has lost people I've known to suicide, and as one who has come awfully close to the brink myself, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your willingness to speak about about this issue.
19 April, 2012
A Dark RoadAdam, this issue is, in my opinion, the greatest kept secret. Until people feel they can begin to speak freely about it, it will continue to be a 'taboo' subject. My husband committed suicide May 2009. They go down a very dark path, and unfortunately they feel they cannot come out of it. I applaude this effort and your support behind it. It happens far too often (more then we know as I quickly found out when I joined a support group). Good luck...
19 April, 2012
Adam God bless youAdam!!! Thank you very much for being so generous and kind !!!
18 April, 2012
MorganI wish I could be there to walk for my sister I am so proud of Adam for coming forth and raising awareness
17 April, 2012
Thank you Adam...for bringing this issue into the limelight. Depression is a disease just like, say, diabetes is a disease, but because you can't x-ray it or see it in a microscope people too often misunderstand it. In fact it is not just a disease but a potentially deadly one not just in Ireland but here and all over, and it's claimed at least one of my family members. So thank you for doing this and giving me yet another reason to love U2!
17 April, 2012
For my friend Anna O'tooleThank you Adam, my friend Anna from Malahide has made a few heart wrenching calls to me about the loss of very good men in Ireland taking thier own lives. All I could say is "I am sorry Love". You have given me the words to share with her to console her and bring her some relief in times of trouble that surpass an offer of a cup of tea. Your lifes work continues to add layers upon layers giving us all comfort in times of sadness. Thank you....Grace
17 April, 2012
Thanks for caringHopefully millions would follow your example. If in Ireland the rate is high, imagine in places like third world countries in America?
16 April, 2012
From One Who Has Been ThereI applaud you for your passion on this issue. The numbers for Ireland are indeed staggering, but it affects a lot of people elsewhere too. Last year, right before the concert in Denver, I had the pleasant surprise of seeing you, Larry, and Paul McGuinness go by in your vehicles, then meeting Bono and Edge. The moment Bono looked at me (and answered me), my mind flashed back to one harrowing morning in 2006 when I was walking across a bridge. It was the day I declared bankruptcy, one final admission of failure in a string of "tests". Thankfully, something told me I could survive, even though it meant facing years of hardship. The bankruptcy was finally discharged on May 4, right before I went to Denver. Now what if I chose to jump?? Think of the blessing I would have missed! That day on the bridge was not the first time. I have been dealing with depression on and off since I was a young teen. I begged for help at that age but no one would take me seriously. I am now 45 and have had time to figure a lot of things out. I also advocate on behalf of people suffering from this problem. We need to raise awareness, and people need to understand that there is ALWAYS hope. Thanks again!
15 April, 2012
With a little help fom....Adam ClaytonGood for you and for people thats need it!!
15 April, 2012
Cool and fun initiative Adam!Thanks for caring, it is so nice
14 April, 2012
Thank you Adam!As a psychiatrist in the USA, I'm very appreciative that you have given your support to this important cause. Whether it's Ireland, America, or anywhere else in the world, too many people with mental illness are suffering (and sadly dying) due to limited and delayed access to treatment. Thank you!!!
14 April, 2012
To cause a stir !Good idea, Adam ! Thank you a lot. I work with young people with a mental healt, it's very difficult... because of society ! and people in general : they couldn't care less. Why ???? The situation can to arrive everybody...
13 April, 2012
Suicide doesnt have to be final answer tAs sum1 who once went down that road, i can relate completely and have tried reaching ppl where i knew they wanted to take their life. A close and personal friend still thanks me for being there for him last december to give him the support he so needed , as not to follow through. Anything I can do within my power to support and prevent another life lost, I will do. Thank you for speaking out and going extra step Adam, for those that have given up and need you and everyone willing to be there. Sadly, society seems to have gotten so self involved, less ppl are steppin up. Good to see you using your voice and getting more of us involved . God will bless u and ur family for it, and ur already blessing so many other ppls. Well done my special friend!!! With Great Apprecaition Alta
13 April, 2012
i will be doing many prayer walksi have been doing and will continue long four hour prayer walks for all things especially for the poor and those in great despair and for the suicidal
All I Want Is You 2
13 April, 2012
Walk In My ShoesVery well done Adam. Cheers to you!
13 April, 2012
love you adam u2thanks for this adam..we never forget you..simply perfect bass guitar..portugal loves u2 thanks adam
13 April, 2012
JamiePadstowThank you Adam for raising awareness of mental health issues and challenging the taboo of suicide. Sadly, my 22 year old cousin committed suicide in 2008 and his loss is just a great tragedy to us all! I know as a family we have never really felt comfortable discussing his death. Even more frightening is the statistic that 1 in 4 people at some point in their life will suffer with a mental health issue. Adam, Thank you!
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Jerry Brown is 72, so a failure to recall recent events may be understandable. What's Meg Whitman's excuse?
Whatever the reason, both candidates for governor are criticizing the current governor and legislature for failure to pass a budget -- now more than two months past the deadline. And each candidate claims he or she would fix thing simply by starting work on the budget earlier.
They seem to be forgetting something: California's elected officials have passed early budgets before. In fact, they once passed a budget more than four months early, but perhaps it's hard for these two remember that because it was so long ago... ALL THE WAY BACK TO FEBRUARY 2009.
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Remember that budget? It was a tough, hard-fought compromise that included temporary tax increases that Republicans detested (so much so that Republican legislative leaders lost their jobs, and one of the GOP lawmakers who voted for it was targeted for a recall) and cuts that people hated. And you remember who else hated this early budget? The people of California, who voted down five of its key components, blowing their own $6 billion hole in the budget in the process.
So why would Brown and Whitman promise us another early budget? Well, there are three possible answers. The first is they don't remember, which is probably unlikely. The second is that they're terribly ill-informed by their campaign teams. Also unlikely. So the real reason is this: Brown and Whitman see a lot of polling, and they probably think, with some data to support themselves, that Californians either don't know or don't remember these particulars. And since passing a budget early sounds good, they say something they know not to be true because Californians will believe it.
The hard truth is that while on-time budgets are nice, the real challenge is not the timing of passing a budget but passing a budget that balances. A balanced budget is nearly impossible to achieve in California's one-of-a-kind budget process, which is full of so many spending mandates and restrictions and limitations that elected officials struggle to understand it, much less manage it.
Which is why it's much easier to promise an on-time budget than a balanced one.


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Science Keywords>PALEOCLIMATE>ICE CORE RECORDS
Ice core paleoclimatologyEntry ID: ASAC_757
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Abstract: Prediction of future climate change requires knowledge of past changes. Polar snow forms an archive of environmental conditions that is accessible by drilling and analysing ice cores. This project uses ice core data to reconstruct records, including past temperature and atmospheric composition, to improve understanding of the climate system.
Report from the 2007/2008 season
This proposal ... encompasses the laboratory-based component of ice core research at the Australian Antarctic Division. The project is principally focused on analysis of currently archived ice core material but will include analysis of new cores (to be collected in future field activities that will be the subject of separate research proposals through the duration of the project). This work is conducted as part of the ACE-CRC (Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre).
The overall general aim for this AAS project is to understand past climate variability and change, through the study of Antarctic ice cores. More specifically, this research explores the role of Antarctica in hemispheric and global climate, with particular emphasis on climate variability and change in the Southern Ocean, mid-latitudes, and the Australian sector. To effectively achieve this aim, we have defined four research questions, broadly based on a separation at different temporal and spatial scales:
1. What do high resolution comparisons of instrumental climate data and ice cores reveal about calibration of ice core signals and underlying mechanisms?
2. What is the spatial and temporal variability in climate across the wider East Antarctic region in the last few centuries, particularly spanning the onset of anthropogenic influence? How is this connected with overall variability in the Antarctic, and the Southern Ocean, particularly the Australian sector?
3. What changes and modes of variability are seen in Holocene Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate from high resolution ice cores?
4. What climate changes were seen in coastal Antarctica through the last glacial and deglaciation, and how does the timing compare with other records, especially the Northern Hemisphere records?
Feeding into these research questions are a number of specific scientific objectives (listed below, with clearly identified methodology to achieve outcomes). These objectives address issues essential to a number of research fields across the Australian Antarctic program (see 3.1.3), and have been identified through knowledge gained from the earlier AAS project 757 and the scientific literature (discussed in more detail in section 3.1.2). Research will use high-resolution ice core studies as a tool to probe climate variability on timescales from seasonal through to millennial. This ability to access very high resolution climate records through ice cores is of major importance because it is the only means of calibrating the ice core recorder against observed meteorology. Also, the seasonal- to interannual-timescales capture climate variability that is not readily probed in other records. The high snow accumulation on Law Dome, combined with a 1.2km thick ice sheet, provides a unique high resolution record of the Holocene and access to the last Glacial-interglacial cycle.
The main objectives are listed below, with a brief explanation of the methodology employed to achieve these objectives:
- Extend the time-series of ice core chemical and physical measurements
- Focussed on East Antarctic sites, (particularly Law Dome). The length and resolution of records so far obtained will be increased and the range of measured parameters increased. This includes from the DSS core: completion of a full 90 thousand year record of trace ion data to accompany the completed d18O isotope series; high-resolution (subannual) series for trace ions and d18O over the last 2000 years; new measurements including d13CH4 (and potentially dCH3D) in collaboration with University of Colorado, NIWA and CSIRO and deuterium excess measurements using new mass-spectrometry facilities.
- Calibrate ice core measurements against instrumental records
- Calibrate ice core measurements against meteorological, and other proxy series, in order to better understand the climate signals in ice cores and to provide new proxies. This work will use ultra-high resolution data, especially through the period of instrumental overlap (for Antarctic records, this period covers the nearly 50 years since the first IGY). The study is expected to draw data from a field activity in 2008/09 summer in conjunction with IPY, which has a 'special observing period' for tracking airmasses arriving at ice core sites.
- Investigate modes of climate variability
- Investigate the strength, variability and alteration in modes of variability for specific climate processes, especially to examine any recent changes in these from Holocene background. In particular, processes or indices that will be explored include ENSO, the Southern Annular Mode, sea-ice extent, decadal variability in coupled ocean-atmosphere modes such as the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (White and Peterson, 1996), atmospheric circulation indices (e.g. stratospheric markers such as nitrate or beryllium-10 and dust or trace-metal variations).
- Examine response and sensitivity to forcing variations and explore mechanisms
- This includes studies of: insolation links to climate variability, the timing and magnitude of major volcanic events, and variations associated with atmospheric composition changes (the '8200 BP' event, deglacial interhemispheric climate variations and abrupt changes in the last glacial).
- Improve the understanding of the Antarctic climate system using multiple records
- Explore relationships between the high resolution ice core records and other ice cores including the Antarctic interior to better understand both the spatial structure of the Antarctic climate system (including teleconnections), and the interpretation of the ice cores themselves.
- Contribute to Antarctic mass-balance and sea-level rise
- Derive records of accumulation input and variability for the last 100-200 years at sites in eastern Wilkes Land and for the last 90 thousand years at Law Dome. These records contribute to understanding Antarctic mass-balance and sea-level impacts.
- Develop and maintain facilities and expertise for analysis of ice cores
- Continue to develop and maintain facilities and expertise for analysis of ice cores and related climate studies. The facilities supported by this project provide a core capacity for downstream analysis and interpretation of Australian field studies, by the AAD, and also by collaborative partners in CSIRO, University of Newcastle, Curtin University of Technology as well as several important international partnerships.
In the last 12 months, the project has predominantly been in a laboratory/measurement phase and so progress is predominantly against the first and last objectives at 1.1 (Extend time series, Develop facilities). The isotope and trace chemistry records for the Law Dome cores are being extended and in-filled where gaps occur. The time series have been extended. Most measurements have been undertaken using recently drilled new core material (DSS0506 from AAS2384), as this is providing an opportunity to derive new series (deuterium) and check existing data for inter-core fidelity. New core material which brings records up to January 2008 has been analysed and the data are being combined with other cores to provide continuous series.
For the interpretive objectives, progress consists predominantly of results that have so far been presented at various meetings. We now have new data that strongly mitigate against the "EPICA hypothesis" that posits that sea-salts in ice cores (particularly inland cores) are specifically connected with sea-ice extent. We are able to quantify the degree of influence of sea-ice surface as a source of salt and demonstrate that it decreases with distance from the coast. We have further investigated the snowfall accumulation at Law Dome and are probing links seen to rainfall in Southwest Western Australia. We have also investigated subannual variations in snowfall accumulation and find that winter accumulation variability dominates the annual signal. We have new results from very high resolution studies of beryllium-10 which demonstrate a shorter atmospheric residence time for this cosmogenically produced species than has been accepted. This work has potential to improve the use of beryllium-10 as a proxy for solar variability and has implications for understanding of atmospheric transport.
Taken from the 2008-2009 Progress Report:
Progress against objectives:
This year's activities have been focused upon data generation and also with associated fieldwork for AAS 3025 (Aurora Basin North Ice Core Drilling). A deliberate slowing of progress on AAS 757 this year was planned because of a large investment of personnel time toward AAS 3025, however good progress has nevertheless been made.
While the intention of AAS 3025 was to generate data within an independent project, field constraints forced a change to theatre of operations - providing core material that now fits within the scope of this project. This fieldwork produced ~130m of core from a new site on Law Dome (DSSW10k), extensions of the record at Law Dome Summit South (10m), new cores on the lower Totten Glacier (~17m) and Totten-Law Dome Trench (~15m) and Mill Is (~17m). Analysis of these cores within AAS 757 has already commenced.
The DSSW10k core provides a new ~250 year record from Law Dome that will be useful in its own right, but will provide an opportunity to test both deposition processes and ice core proxy fidelity. The core comes from a location only 10km from the main coring site, but it has only half the snow accumulation rate. Comparison of the records will allow testing of the influence of snowfall rate on preservation of ice core signals. The shallow cores at Totten Glacier and Mill Is are the first records from these locations and will permit assessment of the suitability of these sites for deeper drilling. The Totten cores may also shed light on recent accumulation changes in a location where substantial surface lowering is occurring.
Most of the non-field activities are directed at the first and last objectives at 1.1 (Extend time series, develop facilities), although some significant work has also been conducted towards the second and third objectives (calibration of ice core records against instrumental records, and investigating modes of variability). This has been through further investigation of the modes of variability the linking Law Dome snow accumulation with rainfall in southwest Western Australia. Calibration with both ERA-40 and NCEP reanalysis data sets and investigation of links with meridional circulation have brought this work to the point where a manuscript has been submitted on the topic.
Emerging work from a recently commenced PhD student is expanding the record of water isotopes from Law Dome cores, in particular providing a time series of deuterium excess. Early results are suggestive of a new finding in which major volcanic eruptions leave a differential signal in isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen, possibly due to stratospheric oxidation processes. Work is underway to test this.
Other new work toward synthesis objectives includes an interdisciplinary study tying the ice core record of methanesulphonic acid into a larger consideration of seasonal phytoplankton stress and solar irradiance. A manuscript reporting this has also been submitted.
This project wound up in 2012, and was replaced by other ice-coring projects.
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Taken from the 2007-2008 Progress Report:
Progress with analysis of portions of the mid-holocene trace chemistry has stalled with the premature departure of a PhD student in 2007. Also, the combined retirement of a Principal Research Scientist and the commencement of a new scientist has had some impact on progress through ... this year. Cleaning and sampling of this core is labour intensive and complicated by interactions between sample-resolution/averaging and the physical constraints of the flow-thinned annual layers at this depth in the Law Dome record. We are looking at options to sample the record in a coarser or possibly discontinuous fashion in order to accelerate analysis of this section. Progress is also temporarily slowed on the chemical analysis of some cores. We have some indications that core cleaning using a continuous melt-head may degrade the important methane sulphonic acid record and are undertaking tests to check this before we resume use of the continuous melt system (or find alternative methods). If this phenomenon is confirmed it affects almost all international ice core groups and may be an important, albeit unwelcome, finding.
Taken from the 2008-2009 Progress Report:
Difficulties affecting project:
As noted last year, there remain some bottlenecks in analysis of mid-holocene chemistry samples and in methodology for analysis of MSA. Both these issues are being dealt with as noted above. In the longer term we do not expect a major impact on the main project outcomes as a result.
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Marcel Foster was busted for speeding in Spartanburg, South Carolina. During the traffic stop police found two bags of a "leafy green" substance in the car and "a large white crack rock inside a clear bag between Foster's buttocks."
The curious part of this story is the 23-year-old Foster admitted he didn't have a driver's license, gave permission to the police to search his vehicle, and also let them search his person.
This gave them permission to easily find the "leafy green" substance, the $1,757 in cash he said he got "from his girlfriend" and, of course, the crack rock nestled between his butt cheeks. He's facing charges of drug trafficking and driving with a license that suspend for, not surprisingly, a drug violation.
At least he didn't try swallow it. (H/T Keith!)


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I need to run to work soon, so this will be brief.
I've only been with the company for a couple weeks. It is a good company, this is a contractor who just happens to be twice my age. I am new to the professional programming field.
This database does exactly what Wikipedia says not to do for 1NF. It repeats telephone columns in various tables. That is one strike.
Strike two: Some data is duplicated across tables. Flat out duplicated.
Strike three: Not vital, but he turned all the keys into bigints. All the "FK_" are also nullable. Wtf?
We have not started using this database YET, but there has been a big time crunch to meet the client's needs and timeline since I joined and the current timeline will put it into use, say, tomorrow.
It was okay for me to sit back while he made a mess since I did not have deal with it directly, but it sounds like I'm going to be taking over this section of the code while he's needed to architecture something else.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. My boss is a great man, but is also very, very busy and more stress is the last thing he needs.
Sorry this came off as a rant and less of a proper question. I really do appreciate all of the responses and they've helped me start viewing the "problem" more analytically. There's also some benefit to them being generalized in that the same advice will still apply to future "problems."
Thank you.
Second Update:
So I kindly tried to figure out why he did what he did and for the most part he even admitted he didn't have a very good reason. We ended up spending some time and cutting almost all of the duplicated columns. For the rest of the oddities, I can bite my cheek well enough since they're just annoying and won't potentially wreak havoc if every duplicated field isn't updated. All in all a good day.
PS I'm having a hard time choosing a best answer since there are so many good ones.
Update: October 2015 Just for fun since it's great seeing what I wrote four years ago... I'm leaving the rest unchanged to preserve its youthful qualities :)
The senior guy in question was fired within a couple months and we ended up re-writing the product from scratch keeping almost nothing of the guy's code or database. Him being "needed elsewhere" was the start of that transition. (Sometimes you're right...)
Answers and advice given here are still really good: Learn why somebody else did something before you criticize. (... and sometimes you're not.)


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PERFORMANCE OF MEMORY AND RITUAL: SELECTED WORKS BY ANA MENDIETA AND TANIA BRUGUERA by Rhonda Rechelle Barbour A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree MASTER OF ARTS ART CURATORIAL PRACTICES IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE May 17, 2013
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|Perfomance of memory and ritual: selected works by Ana Mendieta and Tania Bruguera
|Barbour, Rhonda ReChelle
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|Anastas, Rhea
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Butler, Connie
Wedell, Noura
Halberstam, Jack
|This thesis argues that Cuban born artists Ana Mendieta and Tania Bruguera use ritual and body-based performance art to explore memories of their homeland and their respective relationships to Cuba's political history. Included in this study are Mendieta's Siluetas, 1973-80 and Bruguera's performance, The Burden of Guilt, 1997. In these works the artists speak to Cuba's social and political history through personal narratives and lived experiences in relation to exile and political repression. Their use of memory as a subject can be understood through the operation of "prosthetic memory." (Footnote) Theorist Allison Landsberg has argued that "prosthetic memories" are those that circulate publicly and exist outside of the body, or anywhere the social "body" is present. Individual works such as Mendieta's Imagen de Yagul, 1973, communicate alienation, repression, sacrifice, identity and gender. The thesis Mendieta's influential Silueta Series, which explored the relationship between the earth and the artist's body as a symbolic form, and Bruguera's politically infused performative works that emerged in the early 1990s. ❧ The methodology of this paper is grounded in feminist theory and takes into account the context of the post-socialist period beginning in the late 1980's and early 1990's after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. These events caused the greatest cultural and ideological shift in Cuba since the Revolution in 1959. The government introduced capitalism as a way to regain its solvency by commercializing tourism and the Havana Biennial. The biennial also catapulted the works of many contemporary artists including Tania Bruguera from Cuban art institutions into the international art world.
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|PERFORMANCE OF MEMORY AND RITUAL: SELECTED WORKS BY ANA MENDIETA AND TANIA BRUGUERA by Rhonda Rechelle Barbour A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree MASTER OF ARTS ART CURATORIAL PRACTICES IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE May 17, 2013