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Kae and RPGs
I have a love/hate relationship with single-player RPGs. I absolutely love the stories, the character interactions, exploring the new fantasy worlds, and the comic relief often thrown in (GO FOR THE EYES, BOO!)... but I have a dirty secret:
I rarely finish those games.
Three major things meld together to eventually cause me to loose interest in a single-player RPG:
- Bad camera/control system
- Forced use of party-wide tactics and constant pausing to do so
- Lack of real person-to-person interaction
Me, I'd rather have my one character, do what I will with her, and let the others figure things out for themselves. If they do something stupid, I'll yell at them (briefly take control) for a few seconds, then continue on my merry way.
Some games I never finished include:
- Neverwinter Nights (and expansions). I absolutely loved the story, but the camera controls were very unweildy, and constant pausing was forced to survive. Playing the game eventually became too much of a hassle to complete the story.
- Baldur's Gate: same issue.
- Morrowind: this one just became too repetitive in the grinding of skills, and the lack of having "friends" in the game eventually got to me. I didn't have anyone but myself and a bunch of strangers to care about.
- Disgaea: as a tactical puzzle game, having to control all of the characters is a MUST. As the maps got longer and longer, I just lost interest.
- Kingdom Hearts: the grind and the gummi-ship racing got to me. The pressure of finding everything as maps got longer and more complex, tied to a weak camera system and a ever-shifting party of buddies just made me bored with it.
- The .Hack// series of the first 4 games, but it was close: the grind got to me, and I put the last game on hold for a year before I picked it up and finished it again. The grinding of dungeon mobs just got too dull.
- Star Wars: Rebellion. Shocking, isn't it? A tactics game that I not only finished, but played through again a few times. Difference being, it wasn't so much an RPG as just a straight tactics game, my "character" being just the pointer of my mouse as I clicked around maps and issued commands across a galaxy.
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight. Unlike Morrowind, I had "friends" in other Jedi who kept me interested and feeling like I was a part of something fighting for a cause, rather than the "outlander" who is completely out of place and unwanted in the world. Plus, I had a lightsaber and thermal detonators, and a lack of stable internet at the time.
Dragon Age
Knowing how I never finished the games it was built off of (Neverwinter and BG), I was reasonably certain that Dragon Age would be the same way: something I'd enjoy the story of, but grow bored with and/or frustrated with the camera system, and never finish.
My current save-game is heading up the stairs to what is likely the final confrontation/battle.
Dragon Age has, honestly, surprised me. It has kept me going and interested, because it gave me the option of not HAVING to take control of the other characters by putting it on easy-mode. Easy mode has given me a chance to just fight things out without the constant pausing and party-takeover tactics that the other games required. The camera system is also able to be viewed "classically" or from a more WoW-style camera, which makes the camera more fluid and controllable. I like. I have the PC version, by the way; I've heard the console version is not as easy to navigate.
I wish my tree-form looked that cool.
The only time I really felt "the grind" was when going through the mines, but then mines just bore me. If it had been in a forest, I probably would've felt differently, and that's just a personal preference of space and greenery (are you surprised? This *is* a druid blog!). The pacing of the story is slow enough to let me explore side-quests, but not so slow that I feel lost about what I need to do or grow bored.
I do have one big complaint about the game, though: the races and their backgrounds are "standard fantasy." This bugs me, because as fantasy, having a "standard" just seems wrong and pretty cheap. Having ale-drinking, stout dwarves living in the mines and loving the stone while elves (who were once a more populous race but are on decline) wander the forests communing with nature while all the humans go about their farming/city-filth lives swarming over the rest of the world feels like a cop-out. It's become the "standard" thanks to D&D and, before it, Tolkien. While the story is fresh and it's a new world, the races in it are "familiar" and what you'd see stepping into the majority of other fantasy settings as they have become the norm. I would like to see a game of this caliber that offers more fresh, new fantasy ideas. I can understand wanting to have some of the textbook-fantasy anchors simply for marketing and making it familiar enough of a story to make it appeal to a wide audience, but too much of the race/society felt copy-pasted with some place renaming.
There is one single race/class combo starting story that felt at all new and "different," breaking the mold, and it is the one I chose: the city elf, living in the slums of the human cities and treated as 2nd-class citizens. The ones who whisper of the wild-living forest elves as though they're myths, legends, and extinct. The ones who see and feel the worst aspects of humanity, the former slaves, yet the ones who can still find joy. They feel real and new and different compared to the other selections. They don't feel textbook.
Overall, I applaud Bioware for creating such an amazing game and offering the option of difficulty levels to tailor the tactics/pause usage vs. letting the AI handle things. The story is engaging, the character interactions keep me feeling like I'm a part of the world, the camera system is familiar and fluid, the world is open enough that I don't feel claustrophobic in spite of the lack of a jump button, the graphics are beautiful (if a bit blood-splattered, ha), and there are puppies.
I like puppies.
Good game. I highly recommend this game to others, if they are mature enough to handle it :)


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But I was Promised a "Shovel-Ready" Job!
Government leaders talk about creating jobs … but their actions just hurt the average American.
Mr. Self-Sufficient Job Creator Mittens Romney's Bain Capital destroyed jobs left and right.
Romney launched Bain Capital with money from the leaders of El Salvador's death squads.
And a federal bailout saved Bain from ruin.
But surely Mr. Liberal Help-the-Little-Guy Barack Obummer is fighting for the worker?
Unfortunately not … Obama thinks that unemployment is a good thing, because it shows that the economy is productive.
Despite the partisan rhetoric, Obama and Romney both support policies which help the ultra-rich – and politicos in D.C. – at the expense of everyone else.
They both support terrible government policies, the off-shoring of American jobs, never-ending bailouts and ruthless behavior by the big banks … and so we will continue to have Depression-level unemployment under either a second Obama term or a president Romney.
- The politicos and lobbyists are doing great – D.C. has the highest income in the country – and yet Main Street is suffering
In case we weren't clear about how unhelpful government policies are in relation to job creation, let us give some example:
- The government has intentionally squashed lending by the big banks in an idiotic attempt to give the banks never-ending bailouts, without causing runaway inflation. (And see this)
- An economics professor says we'll have "a never-ending depression unless we repudiate the debt, which never should have been extended in the first place" … but the government refuses to ask big banks to write down their debts
- Fraud was one of the main causes of the Depression, but nothing has been done to rein in fraud today. But the only action the government is taking is to help cover up fraud
- All leading independent economists have said that the economy cannot recover until the big, insolvent banks are broken up, but the government has just helped them to get bigger
- Excessive leverage helped cause the Great Depression and the current crisis, but the government has encouraged more leverage
- The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression and the current crisis, and has done nothing but help the fatcats at the expense of the little guy. And yet the government has given the Fed more power than ever
- Government policies send manufacturing jobs and dollars abroad
- The government's monetary policy is only making things worse

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Robert LeBlanc Keynote Session at Red Hat Summit
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The Widget Construction Kit
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Update 2006-12-04: The Tkinter WCK 1.1.1 maintenance release fixes a couple of critical issues when running under Python 2.5.
The Widget Construction Kit (WCK) is an extension API that allows you to implement all sorts of custom widgets, in pure Python.
The WCK provides true widgets written in Python, not "megawidgets" built from existing Tkinter widgets. This has a number of advantages:
- A WCK widget is a single widget (window). You don't need to delegate option settings, method calls, or events to subwidgets.
- The drawing API takes Python objects, not Tcl objects. You don't have to wait for the Tkinter layer to convert your data for you — just draw directly from the Python data structures.
- Things like double buffering and lazy redrawing (though idletasks) are optional. If speed and responsiveness is important, you can draw directly to the window.
- The WCK uses ordinary Python classes, and inheritance and object composition work as usual. No need to learn another object model.
The Tkinter 3000 implementation of the WCK is designed to work with the existing Tkinter layer.
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The Tkinter 3000 WCK can be downloaded from the effbot.org downloads site (look for tkinter3000).
The Writing Widgets in Python tutorial:
- Your First Widget (Writing Widgets in Python, Part 1)
- Creating a Button Widget (Writing Widgets in Python, Part 2)
- The Drawing Interface (Writing Widgets in Python, Part 3)
- Displaying Large Amounts of Data (Writing Widgets in Python, Part 4)
- In Progress: Displaying Formatted Text (Writing Widgets in Python, Part 5) (In Progress)
Reference material:
- The WCK Module (API reference)
- The Widget Construction Kit (old overview)
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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday said the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has continued to try to sully her and her party's image because the government has no achievements to boast about.
"In the presidential and vice presidential candidates' debates held in the past two weeks, the [KMT] had no achievement to talk about and was also unable to offer solutions to the difficulties Taiwan is facing at present," Tsai told a campaign rally in Greater Taichung.
"As such, it only has smear tactics left for the campaign," she said. "It has tried to pass off all responsibilities to the former DPP government."
"If [this] government is still living in 2008, let it stay in the past, while society moves forward into 2012 with the DPP," she said.
The government has shown itself incapable of dealing with the global economic situation, Tsai said, adding that international markets and economies were changing every second, while the government has not adopted appropriate measures to deal with those situations, leaving many of Taiwan's industries mired in crisis.
In a changing international situation, Taiwan needs a government that can effectively respond to international crises, she said.
The DPP chairperson said a growing number of Taiwanese feel they are becoming poorer.
In the past, the lower class was the poor class, but now those in the middle class feel they are becoming poor as well, she said.
The DPP's piggy bank campaign reflects unfairness and injustice in society and many people joined the movement to call for fairness and justice, Tsai said.
On accusations by the KMT that she had improperly benefited from Yu Chang Biotechnology, Tsai said the government was using the state to engage in political persecution.
Describing President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) as a "lagging competitor" and a "drowning person," Tsai said her rival was resorting to inappropriate tactics.
Tsai also promised she would establish a religious affairs department if she was elected next month, vowing to solve problems related to religion.
Tsai said she had visited many temples during her recent trips around Taiwan and realized that religion was the best form of spiritual support for Taiwanese who have experienced many changes, sufferings and hardships.
Tsai's running mate, Su Jia-chyuan (蘇嘉全), pledged the DPP would help promote religious development with reasonable regulations and services rather than money and he said the proposed religious affairs department would help tackle issues involving religious groups, such as land, temples and columbariums.
Currently, religious affairs are supervised by the Department of Civil Affairs under the Ministry of the Interior.
Meanwhile, DPP spokesman Chuang Ruei-hsiung (莊瑞雄) said the Ma administration should explain why, given its investment of NT$137 million (US$4.5 million) in Yu Chang last year, it was now making accusations against Tsai and her role as a one-time -chairperson at the company.
The government should also explain why in 2009 it invested NT$5 billion into China Airlines, only for the company to report a deficit of NT$3.8 billion that year.
Chuang also asked the government to reveal all government documents relating to its investments with Yu Chang.
The KMT claims Tsai received NT$100 million when she sold her shares in the company in 2009. Tsai says the case has been thoroughly scrutinized in the past three years and no inappropriate practices have been found, adding that while she promoted the biotech industry when she was vice premier, she was never involved with Yu Chang.


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You will set sail on Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America from Honolulu, spend two days in Maui, two days on the big island and two days on Kaua'i.
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From the tony South Fork to its rustic northerly counterpart, Long Island is both a playpen for the well-to-do and a calming, cozy respite.
Author Sarah Horne
THE TWIN FORKS OF LONG ISLAND ARE QUITE THE ODD COUPLE, jutting into the Atlantic Ocean like a crocodile about to swallow Shelter Island. The bottom jaw of the beast, the South Fork, is a playground for the international jet set, featuring swank resort villages such as East Hampton and Amagansett, and even the occasional polo field. The North Fork, once a briny haven for shipbuilders and farmers, has recently come into its own as a winsome, off-the-beaten-path destination for foodies and oenophiles (with some good, salty dive bars thrown in).
What they share are a regal, quiet beauty and a slant of light that can make even the most jaded world travelers stop in their tracks, awestruck. It's no wonder, then, that hundreds upon hundreds of famous names have made the East End their summer home and that thousands still willingly brave the traffic on Route 27 on humid weekends.
Not to be petty, but I would hope that the writer of an article about a place as iconic as Long Island referencing a novel as iconic as The Great Gatsby would know the basic fact that the light was at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock. It was from his own house that Jay Gatsby would stare at the green light emanating from Daisy's dock, a light that served to symbolize his romantic, and unachievable, dream of reuniting with Daisy.
How do you fly there through United? I can't seem to find a United flight to ISLIP
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Why math is useful in data science.
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Basics of hypothesis testing.
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A Custom Bar Necklace by Bare and Me
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These are perfect for a bar initial necklace with style. WE take what is in trend and made it prettier, better and more personalized. These lovely handcrafted bar discs have been hand-cut, hand-stamped and hammered to make the perfect personalized pendant. Perfect for everyday but these make the best gifts for Mama's or your best friends. This pendant comes with 2 lower case initials in script or block font with the heart option and a AAA 3mm white topaz stone.
Pendant- Rectangle 1.25 by .35
Lightly Hammered
Styles to choose from at checkout
Heart with white topaz in the center w/2 letter
Double strand of chain
All handmade and comes with our perfectly packaged Bare and Me wrap which is also all handmade.
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A Dainty Minimal Initial Necklace Moment
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One of our top selling necklaces here at Bare and Me (the button initial necklace). This is slightly different, it comes with the ball and chain, chain. This is a lovers necklace, a mama's necklace or BFF necklace. (Pictured is initials in Script font, sterling silver and the ❤ in gold) WE love the heart of gold thing around here...
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Sling Carry
Hang the firearm from one shoulder by the sling, keeping the muzzle pointed upward. Hook your thumb under the sling while walking or standing.
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As most of you know, one of the reasons I've been largely absent from the blog recently is that I was planning my wedding reception — for 6 months after the actual wedding. In another state. WHILE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING BOOK TOUR. Boy, am I ever not going to repeat that mistake with my next wedding.
Anyway, the party was a total blast — I honestly didn't expect to have as much fun at my own reception as I did. For your enjoyment (and to get a post up without my actually having to write anything intelligent), I present the following pictures. I tried to include the best available shots of my dress, which was a custom Jane BonBon — essentially this plus this plus a boatneck, with all the detail tone-on-tone. I cropped Al out of the last one, since he doesn't like me posting pics of him (even though I have before, oh well), and I left three of my grad school besties in the group shot, because I'm pretty sure they've all authorized me to post photos of them in the past, but, uh, HI GUYS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE HERE E-MAIL ME.
So. Friday night, everyone who was already there met up at a pub, and then a group of the most accomplished drinkers continued on to the fucking ridiculous penthouse suite we got free for a night as part of the hotel's Please, Please Have Your Wedding Here Even Though There's a Recession package. Four of the most accomplished drinkers, of course, were Fillyjonk, Sweet Machine, Marianne and me:
The next afternoon, I went out to get my hair and make-up done. Here is the kind of responsible, organized person I am: I made sure to arrange in advance to have my friend Chris show up with champagne for me to sip during this process (see below), yet I completely forgot to get SOMETHING TO PUT IN MY HAIR, which was kind of a crucial part of the planned 'do.
Fortunately, one of the nice things about throwing a big party is that the morning of, everyone you know asks if you need anything. Naturally, none of them expect you to say yes, but when my friend Jo asked, I was all, "Yeah, could you swing by Target and find me ANYTHING to stick in my hair? Bobby pins with pearls on the end, or the least tacky fake flower available or something?" She accepted the mission — and recruited her husband and our friend Meg to join her — but the poor things got more than they bargained for. Target had squat. Macy's had squat. Much furious texting ensued, and finally, I was like, "Can you find me a live flower?" Please note that Jo, her husband and Meg were all very much from out of town, so I was sending them running all over a strange city because I was too scatterbrained to remember a hair accessory. That is love, man. And eventually, they came through with something way better than I would have gotten for myself:
Here I am with the three aforementioned grad school friends, illustrating why women with huge boobs are often advised to avoid boatnecks. (On the up side, I was able to wear a full-coverage grandma bra and never had to worry about my boobs falling out of the dress — or about the traditional Beginning of Summer Heat Rash I had all over my chest. Woo hoo!)
Here are Sweet Machine and Fillyjonk, all gussied up and minus heads. (FJ 'shopped the other one for me, but my skills are limited to inelegant cropping.) Fillyjonk scored that dress at Marshall's a few hours before the reception, and I cannot believe it fit her that perfectly off the rack. NOT THAT I'M BITTER OR ANYTHING. She was shedding glitter everywhere all night, but she looked amazing — as did Sweet Machine, who is wearing a dress she got at Vive la Femme, in case any in-betweenies are wondering if it's worth a trip. (Also, when I did the reading there, the friend at the far right of the pic above — who I think wears about a size 4 or 6, usually — managed to find a 0x top that looks great on her. So the bad news is, some "plus-size" designers are fucking looped in terms of sizing, which we already knew, but the good news is, if you're a smaller fat or even a non-fat, you might be able to find something at Vive.)
The dome thingy where we did cocktails and dancing (at the Millennium Hotel Minneapolis, if anyone's looking for a venue) looked awesome once the sun went down, as did Marianne. Well, she looked awesome in daylight, too, but I love this picture. Her dress is from Torrid — I believe it's this one.
Al and I both brought comfy shoes to change into, but holy shit, I waited too long. I mean, my original shoes were fairly sensible, all things considered — Naturalizers with only about a two and a half inch heel. Problem is, I have plantar fasciitis in my right foot (or at least, I'm 99% sure I do — have never gone to a doctor about it), which almost never bothers me because I wear flats with ridiculous arch support 99% of the time. But when I wear heels? It always bothers me for a day or two afterwards. When I dance in heels for two straight hours before remembering I brought flats to change into? Turns out I wake up the next morning, take one step, scream in pain, and seriously consider sending Al to CVS to buy me a cane. (I managed without one — it's always worst right upon waking, and the pain soon downgraded itself to a non-screaming level — but I was limping for a day and a half. Definitely the worst foot pain I've ever had, which probably means I really should go to the doctor and get custom orthotics instead of relying on Danskos and Mephistos to keep it at bay.) Anyway, these (Borns) would have been great, if I'd put them on sooner:
And finally, we arrive at the end of the evening, where I am soaked with sweat from dancing all night — turns out when the playlist is almost all songs you picked, you're not as motivated to take a break as you might be — looking both happy and slightly evil, which kind of sums up my relationship with Al.
There you go, Shapelings. I wish you all could have been there, except that would have been really expensive.
Now that I'm done with the planning process, I'd like to say I'll be around more often, but honestly, I just started working on another book proposal, so don't hold your breath. In the meantime, FJ, SM, and AS will be doing what they can, and you can use this thread to talk about whatever you feel like talking about.


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The Spirit of Giving
In what has become an annual tradition, Hamilton Association for Volunteering Outreach and Charity (HAVOC) and Community Opportunity and Outreach Project (COOP) collected food, gifts and other items to make the holidays a bit happier for some local families in need.
HAVOC sponsored a holiday Mitten Tree bearing gift requests from children in need and collected 84 gifts that included toys, teddy bears and hats and mittens.
COOP held an employee drive and collected 26 bags of food, 6-8 gifts each for 10 children at United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), 30 items for House of Good Shepherd residential cottages, and more than $700 in monetary donations that will be used to buy gifts for UCP, House of the Good Shepherd, Johnson Park Center and Hope House.


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'Black Widow' narrowly wins women's hot dog title
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Black Widow of competitive eating has narrowly defended her title.
Sonya Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., devoured 36 and three-quarters hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to win the women's competition at the annual Fourth of July Coney Island event.
The 100-pound Thomas went toe-to-toe with Juliet Lee with a second to spare. Lee ate 36 dogs.
The count was much lower than last year, when Thomas broke her own record by eating 45 hot dogs and buns.
The Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest has been a city tradition for 97 years.
Joey Chestnut is vying for his seventh straight title in the men's competition. His personal best and the record is 68 hot dogs and buns.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
It's a dogfight, a roast, a frank encounter, a contest to win in the wurst way. In short, it's an event that devours puns. With relish.
The annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest was set to, well, roll Thursday in Coney Island, with chomp champs Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas defending their respective men's and women's titles.
Chestnut, 29, is a six-time winner who set the record -- 68 weiners and buns in 10 minutes -- in 2009 and tied it last year. Thomas, 45, powered through 45 dogs to take the women's championship last year and also won in 2011, the first year women competed separately.
They likely will be tough to beat. But this competition can never rule out an upset -- stomach, at least.
"Tomorrow's strategy: just find my rhythm really quickly," Chestnut, the 210-pounder nicknamed "Jaws" from San Jose, Calif., said after the ceremonial weigh-in near City Hall on Wednesday as he munched on a frank, the only thing he'd eaten that day amid a preparatory fast.
Chestnut said his pace has been uneven in the past, but "this year I'm trying to eat a little more gracefully, conserve my energy."
Thomas, a 100-pound dynamo known as the "Black Widow" of competitive eating, says the challenge of shoveling down dozens of franks is actually "more mental than physical."
"I have to fight with myself, so I'm going to try to really focus," said Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., where she manages a fast-food restaurant. And no, it doesn't serve hot dogs.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaking at the weigh-in for his 12th and final year in office, aimed to set a record of his own by stuffing more than a dozen hot-dog-related puns into an elaborate sentence that started with "let's be frank" and ended by looking forward to congratulating the "weiner of the contest."
Now in its 98th year, the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest generally draws a crowd of thousands to marvel at contestants cramming frankfurters down their throats.
The chow down showdown is on this year despite concerns about a swaying, shuttered observation tower that spurred the closure of parts of the nearby amusement park this week. The shutdown didn't affect Nathan's.


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Syrian general who led military police defects to rebels
[FOXNEWS] The general who heads Syria's military police has defected and joined the uprising against
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's regime, one of the highest walkouts by a serving security chief during the country's 21-month uprising, a pan Arab TV station has reported.
Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal appeared in a video aired on Al Arabiya TV late Tuesday saying he is joining "the people's revolution."
Al-Shallal's defection comes as military pressure builds on the regime, with government bases falling to rebel assault near the capital
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-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government shelling in the northeastern province of Raqqa killed at least 20 people, including
women and kiddies
Dozens of generals have defected since Syria's crisis began in March 2011. In July, Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass was the first member of Assad's inner circle to break ranks and join the opposition.
Al-Shallal is one of the most senior and held a top post at the time that he left. He said in the video that the "army has derailed from its basic mission of protecting the people and it has become a gang for killing and destruction." He accused the military of "destroying cities and villages and committing massacres against our innocent people who came out to demand freedom."
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Blanche Bertha Lewis (1870-1962) was the daughter of Albert Garrison and Ermina (Petry) Lewis. Her marriage to William Stevenson Ashcraft on November 8, 1887 in Jay County, Indiana was found in the database. Prior to this find, I only had the date of their marriage in my database.
|"Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V6R5-MHP : accessed 06 Aug 2013), William S Ashcraft and Blanche B Lewis, 1887.


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Manager says Ronda Rousey meant no disrespect on Twitter
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- She removed tweets hours after posting video link
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Ronda Rousey's manager said Wednesday that the UFC women's bantamweight champ meant no disrespect when she tweeted a link to a controversial video about the shootings in Newtown, Conn.
The YouTube video says the Sandy Hook tragedy was part of a government conspiracy. The video had nearly nine million page views Wednesday and was created as part of the "Sandy Hook Truther" movement.
Rousey's tweet on Tuesday called it "extremely interesting must watch video." She later tweeted, "asking questions and doing research is more patriotic than blindly accepting what you're told."
"Ronda's the kind of person that doesn't take everything at face value, and doesn't have 100 percent faith in all the news that's put out there by the mainstream press," said Darin Harvey, Rousey's manager.
Rousey could not be reached for comment. The UFC declined comment.
Harvey said that he and Rousey were horrified by the shootings. He said he hadn't recently spoken to Rousey (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC), who's in training camp to defend her belt against Liz Carmouche (7-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) next month at UFC 157. But he speculated that she didn't realize the extent of the controversy surrounding the video when she tweeted about it.
Before deleting the tweets, Rousey told a fan on Twitter that "criticism is expected" when she was informed she had kicked a hornet's nest.
"She probably felt that if it caused anybody any grief or any sorrow, especially something related to the death of children, that it wasn't worth the fight," Harvey said.
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My Nana, my mother's mother, Helen (Coyle) Gardner, moved from New York City to a little house in the country. I have a couple little items from that house.
This heavy metal key was one of her door keys. When I was little it was larger than my hand. I didn't know anyone else who had such an interesting key. I can picture her standing on her front stoop, head bent as she turned the key in the lock and then dropped it into her handbag. Then my mother would steady her mother's arm as we all stepped off the stoop and climbed into our station wagon to take Nana to her doctor's appointment or shopping.
Nana's house had no close neighbors. There was a farm up the road and beyond that was the cemetery. Because she was rather isolated she had a string of bells attached to her front door. They jingled prettily when we opened the door. This brass bell was one of those bells and it reminds me of many happy visits to my Nana.
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by Gabriel Furshong
More so than any other landscape in Big Sky Country, Montana's Rocky Mountain Front derives its wonder from a violent juxtaposition of geological forms. The Front is the convergence of two mega-ecosystems that together cover roughly a quarter of our country — the Northern Plains and the Northern Rockies.
This is where each seemingly limitless region reaches its limit. Within this thin strip roams the second-largest elk herd in the Lower 48, as well as 13 species of raptor and a third of all plant species known in Montana. It's the only place south of the Canadian border where grizzlies still den between the peaks and the prairie.
For 100 years, this landscape has been the subject of vigorous debate over the limits of acceptable change. Montanans along the Front have fought back wave after wave of oil and gas exploration. It is a measure of their success that the battle cry of each generation has gradually shifted from our grandparents and great-grandparents, who wanted to "return it to the way it was," to our parents and ourselves, who now want to "keep it the way it is."
This last phrase — keep it the way it is — has for 10 years been the unofficial motto of the Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front, a loose affiliation of outfitters, ranchers, farmers, community organizers, business owners and outdoor enthusiasts. Thanks to this coalition, the debate over change on the Front is now closer to resolution than ever before.
Last October, Montana Sen. Max Baucus introduced the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, which would designate 67,000 acres of wilderness and prohibit road building or any expansion of motorized use on an additional 210,000 acres. That's big news. Yet, the relative calm with which the news was received has been surprising. Only five or six years ago, the most common bumper sticker on pickup trucks nosed up to the curb at John Henry's bar and restaurant in Choteau, read: "Drill It!" But when I asked a veteran writer and former journalist for the Missoulian newspaper what he thought about the media coverage of Baucus' announcement, all he could say was, "I just don't understand why it hasn't gotten more attention."
His words followed me to the Front where I retreated for a hunting trip just a week after the announcement. While waiting on white-tailed deer that seemed wiser and a bit more cautious than they did last year, I found myself reflecting on the twists and turns of our local debate over change. I wondered why this pending resolution has been received so quietly after so much time and such a lot of fuss.
The coalition's many predecessors fought seemingly endless battles for the better part of a century, from the near-extinction of the buffalo and other species to agency road building and aggressive oil and gas exploration. Our first victory finally came in 2006, when Republican Sen. Conrad Burns and Democratic Sen. Max Baucus banned all leasing of federal minerals along the Front. Forest Service travel plan decisions that followed in 2007 and 2009 emphasized traditional use over motorized recreation, and suddenly, a once-complicated landscape was largely cleared of competing interests. We had a chance to catch our breath long enough to view the landscape with an eye for opportunities rather than obstacles.
It was then that farmers and ranchers affiliated with the coalition raised an important question: Would we have the restraint to avoid becoming agents of change ourselves? Over the next four years, we interviewed grazing permittees, argued with county commissioners, developed alliances, held meetings of 100 people and meetings of 10 people, and sought out hundreds of kitchen-table conversations, one person at a time.
We drew boundaries in pencil, then with a pen, then with pencil again, and eventually with a marker. We nearly fell out with each other several times, but we hung onto the ideal of restraint. In the end, it was not just the landscape that we chose to the keep the way it was. We chose to maintain all existing uses as well, including motorized and bicycle use alongside traditional horse and hiker travel.
So after going through so much, it's understandable that this final stage in the fight is underwhelming. Indeed, the only evident opposition to the Heritage Act so far came in the form of an indignant email from a small western Montana environmental group decrying the legislation as containing far too few wilderness acres. I mentioned this to a Vietnam veteran and local lawyer from Choteau, Mont., when I ran into him on my hunting trip. As he trailed his horse around me, he just shook his head and said, "Well, we've had that debate a million times before."
Yes, we have, and with any luck it won't change a thing.
Gabriel Furshong is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He worked to preserve the Rocky Mountain Front from 2006-2009 while living in Choteau; he now lives in Missoula.


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We Belive "Nature is the Healer!"
"Libongga" it is called in Lani Language of West Papua. This leaf has been commonly used by the highlands tribe in New Guinea to neutralize fat and cholesterol in the body.
All highlanders of New Guinea mainly eat pork, but most of the people do not suffer from cholesterol or other fat-related diseases.
We traditionally use this leaf to naturally neutralize the effect of the fat.
Commonly called in Lani Language as "Tawy", in Malay as "Buah Merah", in Tok Pisin (Melanesia) as Morita, this fruit has been proven useful for neutralizing various deadly diseases.
There is a need to conduct in depth research but we cannot wait until everything is perfect when we can do something with this organic, natural fruit food.
Well, we do not call it fruit, neither we call it "herb", but we call it food.
Out of curiosity of one scientist at Cenderawasih University in West Papua that brought about revelations that "Tawy" has many beneficial elements that can potentially cure many deadly modern diseases.
Many people call it "Daun Gatal" in Malay, and "itchy leaf" in English. But we people in New Guinea do not call it that way.
Yes it is titchy when you touch it, but what it does open airflow in the body so that energy can flow though the parts we apply the leaf.
With very tiny "thorn", it goes into the body, warms up the body and thus, draws the energy to flow.
This New Guinea "Nggame" (or Bad Spirit Neutralizer has been commonly used by all people on the Island. The main purpose is to get rid of bad spirits from the environment and particularly from the body.
As you know, Melanesian spirituality and Melanesian physicality are inseparable. What is spiritual is also physical at the same time at the same spot. This is why "Nggame" has been useful to get rid of any bad spirit.
Melaensians do not believe in killing the spirits, but we are aware and we do practice organizing and managing the spirits, from black to white, from white to black, from "enemies" into "allies". And Nggame can help in this without needing any mantra, knowledge, intention, at all.
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In physics, positives attract negatives and vice versa, but in human relationships the opposite is true. Negative people attract only other negative people, while positive thinkers attract like-minded individuals. You will find that when you begin to achieve success more successes will follow. This is the law of harmonious attraction. When riches begin to come […]
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We Believe "We are the Nature!"
We have been fooling ourselves, we thought we are lengthened being so we know that we can manage, control, utilize "the nature" for our benefits. We thought that cutting down the trees, changing mountains into valleys, transforming valleys into concrete mountains are all good for us, no matter "the nature" is destroyed.
Human beings thought "he/she" became enlightened and therefore the centre of the universe, he can do anything, he has the potential of bring the "heavens" down to the earth
He thought he is doing is good for him and therefore, anything that hurts and kills other beings is necessary for human development and progress
2. Considering Human Beings as the Master of the Earth is the Second Fatal Mistake Humankind Ever made
Wisest human beings will not consider himself/ herself as the centre of the universe.
Wisest humankind will never consider himself/ herself as the master on Earth
Human beings with body, spirit and mind should be the most humble, the most enlightened, the wisest among other beings, knowing clearly that humans are the nature ourselves, not more, not less, therefore, all things we do against what human calls "nature" is actually degrading the human dignity and dehumanizing our own


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Drought costs Nebraska corn crop nearly a quarter billion dollars
Story and photo by Michael Sholes, NewsNetNebraska
This past summer, the heat arrived and the rain went away. All of Nebraska and about two-thirds of the United States was left in a crippling drought. The drought caused corn, Nebraska's biggest cash-crop, to take a serious hit. Despite higher prices, the Nebraska Corn Board's latest estimates are that Nebraska's corn crop will be worth about $240 million less this year than last year's.
"You look overall and where we should be on a trendline yield and we are down 18 to 22 percent," said Kelly Brunkhorst, Director of Research for the Nebraska Corn Board.
Drought hardest on dryland farmers
Sixty-five percent of Nebraska's corn crop is irrigated. But farmers who rely solely on rain to water their crops had a difficult time this year.
Don Hutchens is one of those farmers.
Hutchens owns farm ground in the southwest part of the state. His 1,600 acres of irrigated corn produced its normal amount of 200-220 bushels per acre. His 400 acres of dryland corn, however, was considered a total loss. It yielded just one bushel per acre.
"The loss on dry land was terrible but I had crop insurance that will cover my cost of production, but not make land payments or interest payments," Hutchens said.
Hutchens said that the drought isn't only hard on him, however.
"One of every 3 jobs depends on agriculture, and drought is hard on the land, the people and the economic strength of the state."
Nebraska farmer Dave Nielsen owns ground in northeast Lancaster County. He said his dryland corn produced just over half of its normal yield at 90 bushels per acre.
Supply, demand, prices
Brunkhorst says Hutchens and Nielsen aren't alone.
"Normally we harvest 97 percent of acres planted, this year it was 91 to 92 percent. Others will be abandoned or cut for silage."
Economics 101 suggests when supply goes down and demand remains the same, prices go up. That's been the story with corn prices this fall.
According to Brunkhorst, cash prices right now are between $7 and $7.50. Over the last several years, prices have been in the $4.50 to $5 range.
While corn farmers can ease the pressure on their bottom line by cashing in on crop insurance and selling corn at high prices, beef producers may expect to take a hit.
"Corn prices increase the price of food that goes into rations," Brunkhorst said.
Your pocketbook
According to a Nov. 27 article in the Lincoln Journal Star, those extra costs are already being passed off to consumers, who can expect to see higher beef prices through 2013.
Consumers could see higher prices at the grocery store as well.
Take your breakfast, for example. According to Corns Talk magazine, assuming that corn is priced at $8 per bushel, a dairy cow eats 25 cents worth of corn to produce a gallon of milk. An 18-ounce box of corn flakes contains 11 cents worth of corn. And there's roughly 37 cents worth of corn in every pound of hamburger.
When will it end?
Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center on East Campus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says the answer lies in the oceans.
Winters with warmer ocean temperatures are known as El Niño winters and generally mean more moisture makes its way into the jet stream. On the contrary, winters with colder ocean temps are known as La Niña winters, and don't send as much moisture into the air.
According to Svoboda, the last two winters have been La Niña events. But as of now, water temperatures are stuck in neutral, leaving forecasters scratching their heads.
"There won't be any major change that they could predict because they don't have a strong oceanic signal to help drive the forecast," Svoboda said. "It's not likely you'll see a major change in the extent of the drought, but you may see a little bit of a reduction in intensity."
The odds
The odds simply don't appear to be in the favor of farmers. Svoboda said that moisture levels are down anywhere from 25 to 50 percent or nine to 12 inches statewide. What's worse is that it takes nearly a foot of snow to equal one inch of rain. And that is assuming the ground is thawed enough to absorb the moisture.
Svoboda said we are now in the middle of a critical period, between when crops are planted and harvested, when the moisture in the soil needs to be recharged.
"Keep it in mind that three month period between now and say the end of February before spring rolls around, you just don't see a great percent of your annual (moisture) total, less than twenty percent," he said.
While it may seem like only farmers and ranchers are the only ones who should be looking hopefully towards the skies, Hutchens says the drought is a more universal problem.
"In America we have the most abundant, safest and most economical, food supply. But a drought will mean higher food costs and less economic strength of our communities and our state."


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THE AMAZING RACE AUSTRALIA is looking for ordinary people ready for the most extraordinary adventure of their lives.Seven has announced the return of the hugely popular reality series, which has seen previous winners walk away with $250,000 prize money.Teams of two will crisscross the globe in a fast-paced and unrelenting race around the world, unsure of what challenges lie ahead. Along the way theyll confront fears, experience new cultures and make lifelong friends.For further information and to apply, visit yahoo7.com.au/amazingrace from midday today.Applications close on Wednesday, December 18, 2013.THE AMAZING RACE AUSTRALIA is a Disney format and will be produced in-house by Seven.The previous two series have been a huge hit with audiences and critics alike with the most recent awarded an International Emmy.
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Its great to see Seven is returning to The Amazing Race Australia, something many readers have been campaigning for over an extensive period.Both Aussie seasons were as good as anything the US has served up -a rarity in local adaptations.But there will be some subtle changes to the new season with Seven producing the series in-house.That means activeTV, which won the International Emmy Award for the second season, is not on board. Thats a shame given they have produced a Philippine version, a Ukrainian version, an Israeli version, helped out on two American series, consulted on a Vietnamese version and is planning another in Asia.Rights holders Disney and co-creator Bertram van Munster are loyal to Seven given the networks long association with the brand, so presumably they have faith in Sevens own team. No doubt Grant Bowler will be high on the host wishlist if he is available.There will also be a twist this season, which Mediaweek reports is a race within a race -Australia vs. NZ competitors. If you remember back to earlier seasons of MKR, weve previously seen Kiwis brought in to take on Aussies in Seven shows.Applications for teams of two open from midday today if you wish to apply: yahoo7.com.au/amazingraceThey close on Wednesday, December 18, 2013.
Ew. It's going to be crap now. (Not your fault Kiwis) I truly believe 7 is going to spend no money at all on this
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I'll only be 20. Darn it, what is the deal with 21 age limit? Is it because of restrictions overseas or what?
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Cheese fries: been there, eaten that. But pastrami cheese fries? It's hard not to notice them under the "Sides & a la Carte" section of the Kenny & Zuke's menu. The words are practically yelling at you, highlighted in a special yellow box with curly font and "ONLY $8.50." Once you spot them, you really don't read anything else.
Noodle kugel, mhmm, Sabrett hot dog, fine sure. "PASTRAMI CHEESE FRIES." ORDER ME, they say. So we did.
Kenny & Zuke's claims to have some of the best pastrami in the world. Well, the world, if you don't count New York. Ken Gordon and Nick Zukin opened the deli in 2007 and have been reinterpreting Jewish deli fare, still applying rigorous standards to classic preparations (like pastrami) in a Portland-hip, modern diner space.
How can you eat pastrami here? Oh, let us count the ways. Classic sandwich on rye, pastrami burger, reuben, reuben salad (salad in name only: pastrami, swiss, sauerkraut, rye croutons, and Russian dressing) and, what we're here to tell you about today, the cheese fries.
At first, you stare at it. Which angle do you..where does one..reach for...fork? Is this a fork's job?
No. And just go for it.
There's about as many strands of lusciously fall-aparty pastrami trimmings as there are fries. The pastrami-to-fries ratio is actually kind of frightening. How much gets in there? "As much as we can fit!" said co-owner Nick Zukin. You could easily make a sandwich or two with all that meat.
The smokey, crusty-edged bits are piled on top, underneath, and in between the giant mass of melted Swiss-smothered fries. And the fries: though they get overshadowed by the 'strami, they are perfect: McDonald's caliber of crisp, golden, and salted.
The genius idea came to Zukin one late (like after all the bars closed late) weekend night when he wanted to use all the fatty, meaty, super-intensely-flavored pastrami scraps.
We tried really hard to finish the plate. Really, really hard. But even three very serious eaters had to request a take-home box—and the remains were still popping out of that. Pastrami cheese fries: you win this time. Alright, so maybe you win every time.
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2014: Played and started 24 games before being sidelined with an injury for the rest of the season. ...Batting .350 at the time of her injury. ...Her batting average was second highest on the team. ...28 hits with five doubles, one triple and two home runs. ...Stole three bases in six attempts.
2013: Second Team All-Atlantic Sun. …A-Sun All-Tournament Team. …A-Sun Player of the Week (5/6/13). …Third overall in A-Sun in doubles with 14. …Ranked 14th in A-Sun with a .327 batting average. …Second on the team with .327 batting average. …Posted 14 multi-hit games. …Led team with 12 games with two hits. …Ended season with an eight-game hitting streak.
2012: Named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman team. ...Made 40 starts out of 46 appearances, hitting .256 with two home runs, 16 RBI and 15 runs scored. ...Drove in the game-winning run on four occasions. ...Tripled and drove in two runs against top-ranked Alabama (Feb. 11). ...Went 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI against Alabama State (March 11). ...Hit first career home run in a March 19 win over Marshall. ...Also homered against Jacksonville (April 1). ...Went 3-for-3 with a double, two runs scored and a career-high four runs batted in, including the game-winner, against FGCU (April 6). ...Named A-Sun Hitter of the Week for April 16 after hitting .636 (7-for-11) with four doubles, four runs scored and four RBI in four Lady Bisons wins. ...Went 3-for-3 with a double, two runs scored and two more batted in game two against Belmont (April 14); scored the game-winning run in the first game.
Prep: Played for Carrie Austgen at Deer Park High School, where she wall all-district in 2008 and 2009. ... Also played basketball and participated in band during high school. ... Member of Student Council, National Honor Society and was sophomore class president.
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The Science of Forming
The Call for Fresh Steel
Fifty years ago, "old steel" could have been blamed for a steel coil or blank failing to make an adequate stretch-formed stamped part. Back then, rimmed steel was common, processed by pouring molten steel from an open-hearth furnace into large, thick-walled iron molds (Fig. 1). Each mold produced an ingot that then was rolled into a slab and further processed to become coils. Steelmakers called this "rimmed steel" because its high quantity of internal oxygen and other gasses that caused an eruption of excess gas on solidification, forming a clean edge surface or "rim" on the ingot.
Unfortunately, most of the gasses remained trapped in the atomic structure of the steel. Rolling or temper-rolling the steel activated strain aging and, with time, the oxygen and nitrogen segregated to different atomic zones. This increased the steel's strength and reduced its stretchability; the yield-point elongation returned. The coils should have been labeled, "Best Used Within 90 Days."
Schematic shows molten steel being transferred to a mold for solidification into an ingot. Each ingot is hot- and/or cold-rolled to different dimensions to form a master coil. Courtesy of AISI- Sheet Metal Formability, Washington D.C., 1984.
To return some of the steel's stretchability and eliminate yield-point elongation, the rimmed steel coils were again temper- or flex-rolled. This retriggered more strain aging and an increase in yield strength. As a result, metalformers used "old" rimmed steel for easier stampings and specified "fresh" steel for more difficult stampings.
Aluminum a Strain-Aging Cure
More recently, steel-mill metallurgists discovered that adding aluminum to the melt causes the gasses to be tied up as aluminum oxides and nitrides. This prevents the eruption of gasses when pouring the molten steel into the mold, and avoids the strain-aging problem. Since aluminum shot causes the steel to become dead in the mold, the steel is called aluminum-killed—it essentially has an infinite shelf life without change of mechanical properties.
Today, most steel is made by the continuous-casting process. Here, molten steel fills an oscillating, water-chilled mold high on top of the casting machine. As the steel exits downward from the mold, a thin shell of solid steel forms and enters a series of rollers. Water spray solidifies the continuous slab as it curves through a 90-deg. curve to exit the casting machine on a horizontal runout table.
Obviously, the eruption of excess gasses of rimmed steel would form holes in the thin shell of molten steel and cause a disaster, as molten steel would pour all over the equipment and floor. Therefore, only aluminum-killed steel can be used in the continuous-casting process, eventually eliminating the production of rimmed steels.
Too often, accurate explanations of why old rimmed steel will not make difficult stampings are difficult to find in press shops. More likely some creative story has been generated and passed from one generation to another. Even today a given coil of steel can be called flawed because it aged too long in the back storeroom, generating a call for fresh steel. The demise of rimmed steel and the changeover to aluminum-killed draw-quality (AK-DQ) steel is an untold story. Even worse, AK-DQ steels now are divided into drawing steel and forming steel—another level of confusion. For reference, the steel world calls these mild steels.
Bake Hardenable, for Dent Resistance
As another example of only half of the information being explained, consider bake-hardenable (BH) steels. Introduced in the late 1980s, these steels offer maximum stretchability to form difficult parts, and then exhibit an increase in yield strength after forming. Automakers like these properties for dent resistance. BH steels are made with extra carbon—a yield strengthener—in solution. After parts are formed, they receive a coating of paint and an approximate 20-min. paint bake. The heat from the baking furnace causes the carbon to exit the solution and enter the atomic structure, increasing strength.
Unfortunately, the paint-baking information was only half of the required knowledge. Some press shops would make a basket or even multiple racks of parts once the first die was completed and successfully tried out. However, several weeks later, when the line dies were complete and the store of parts was used for final tune of the entire line, a stamper might come to find that the line dies made parts that did not meet print specs. Why? During the weeks that passed after forming, the parts increased in yield strength equal to that of the paint-bake cycle.In the last two or three decades, several new steels have been developed, particularly in the advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) category. Prior maximum yield strengths of 80 ksi have been superseded by yield strengths greater than 150 ksi. Acceptance of virtual forming, servo presses, very low-coefficient lubricants, hydroforming, strain-measuring cameras and other technological advances can be stymied by continued use of outdated information and old press-shop rules. When press shops still follow maximum forming speeds for different materials based on data printed decades ago, and still found in current tool and die manuals, technology will not save them. Training is needed that presents presses, dies, materials, friction and data collection as a single interactive system. MF
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Quickies: Kinkatta-Lite, Linux Expo Birmingham, Ivan Retires
Benjamin C. Meyer wrote in with the news that Kinkatta has been ported to Qt/Embedded. Kinkatta-Lite has been tested on Sharp's new Zaurus as well as the iPAQ. Ben will be demo'ing Kinkatta-Lite on the Zaurus at CES Las Vegas, courtesy of Sharp, and will release source and binaries when he gets back. Until then we will have to content ourselves with the screenshots. Jono Bacon is currently organising the KDE presence for Linux Expo Birmingham, UK on May 29th + 30th. Jono is scheduled to talk on KDE in business, while Richard Moore will be giving a talk on XMLGUI. Get involved.
About Ivan...
I just wanted to say thanks to Ivan for the years of hard work that he put into the debian packages. I worked with him several times, over the last year or so, and each time he was great. Ivan, you'll be missed!
By David Bishop at Wed, 2002/01/09 - 6:00am
I'm here at CES, too !! `
Hi guys and gals,
greetings from the Sharp booth at CES from me, too !! :)) I'm sharing the booth with Ben to demo KDE, synchronizing the iPaq and the Zaurus with KDE/Qtopia Desktop and developing Qtopia apps using KDevelop. So far, people liked the show :) - there's lots of more people here now than there were at Comdex in November, so it's really worth showing off a real operating system with a real user interface :))
Have fun,
By Ralf Nolden at Wed, 2002/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: I'm here at CES, too !! `
What's CES? Comdex? I wanted to link the event but wasn't sure what it was...
By Navindra Umanee at Wed, 2002/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: I'm here at CES, too !! `
By reihal at Wed, 2002/01/09 - 6:00am
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CES= Consumer Electronics Show... It is not COMDEX.. despite what my computer teacher says... ;-p
By Ill Logik at Wed, 2002/01/09 - 6:00am
A few quick links from the article (Score: 5, Informative)
A nasty thread which recently erupted on debian-devel. A new libpng version broke many KDE packages and Ivan was flames. Link:
But that was apparently only the last straw. Ivan explained himself later, after having orphaned the packages. Link:
Now watch as my karma goes through the roof! Oh, wait...
By Jérôme Loisel at Wed, 2002/01/09 - 6:00am
Debian KDE Live!
If anyone feels like talking to the new maintainers, they hang out regularly on OPN #debian-kde as calc and daniels (iirc).
By Carbon at Wed, 2002/01/09 - 6:00am
Damn, sorry to see Ivan go. I've used his (high quality) packages in Debian for so long now. Oh well, everyone must move on at some point.
By syn at Thu, 2002/01/10 - 6:00am
Zaurus network connection
How is the Sharp Zaurus connected to the 'net? Does it have some kind of connectivity built in or are they using an expansion card? Thanks.
By al at Thu, 2002/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: Zaurus network connection
the cradle for the zaurus uses what is called tcp/ip over usb. This is a way to form a network between both systems. The host computer will use the cradle as a network device. The host computer would then need to be set up as a gateway to forward http, ftp, etc. between the two networks. There are also network interface devices (wirless and non) that can be used to connect directly to a LAN or cable modem.
By Jon at Sat, 2002/08/03 - 5:00am


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|Olive oil
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|Beef steaks, 180g pieces
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|Red wine
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|Garlic cloves
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|Fresh rosemary
|400 g
|Green beans, shredded
- Bring the potatoes to the boil in a large pot of water. Cook until the skins start to peel and the centre feels tender when tested with a sharp knife - about 30 minutes. Drain the potatoes and let them cool. Do not run them under cold water or they will go soggy! When they're cool enough to handle, peel and dice into 3cm cubes. The potatoes can be done days ahead and kept in the refrigerator.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan and fry the steaks until they are browned. Add the butter, then turn the steaks over and finish cooking to suit your preference, basting with the juices as they cook. Season with salt and pepper. Remove the steaks to a plate to rest and keep it warm.
- Pour the wine into the pan and bring to the boil. Stir to loosen any bits of meat that may have stuck to the pan and reduce the juices by half - about 3 minutes. In a deep frying pan heat the 300ml of olive oil. Add the potatoes and cook for 5 minutes or until they begin to develop a golden crust. Add the garlic and rosemary and cook for a further 5 minutes. Carefully lift the potatoes out onto paper towels, then season with salt and pepper. Bring a pot of salted water to the boil and blanch the beans for 2 minutes. Drain and toss in a bowl with the remaining tablespoon of oil and some salt and pepper.


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5 X-Events That Can Collapse The World As You Know It
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My latest PJ Media column is called, 5 X-Events That Can Collapse The World As You Know It. Here's an excerpt from the column.
X-Events: The Collapse Of Everything is not a cheery book. In essence, it argues that the complexity required to underpin modern living is making it increasingly unsustainable.
The crunch comes when we recognize that societies must continually solve problems in order to keep growing. But the solution to these problems requires ever more complex structures. Ultimately, a point is reached where all the resources of the society are consumed just in maintaining the system at its current level. At this point, the society is experiencing a complexity overload; no further degrees of freedom exist for coping with new problems. When the next problem appears, the system cannot accommodate it by adding more complexity. So it collapses quickly through an X-event that rapidly reduces the complexity overload.
You're probably wondering what sort of "X-Event" could create so much havoc that our society would have trouble coping with it for months or years at a time — if ever. Here are a few possibilities.
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This is an unlikely yet fun one, if your idea of fun is seeing the entire earth destroyed.
Did you know that when American scientists were first developing a nuclear bomb, there were genuine concerns that the temperatures created by the explosion of a nuclear weapon might be hot enough to set the earth's atmosphere on fire? That would have quickly baked all of humankind like a giant pot pie. There was enough worry about this possibility that Robert Oppenheimer called for a study on the matter, which concluded that, "a nuclear fireball cools down far too rapidly to set the atmosphere aflame." Since you're still alive to read this column, happily that was one government report that turned out to be right.
That brings us to the Large Hadron Collider where scientists are creating mini "Big Bangs" and temperatures a million times hotter than the center of the sun. On the one hand, this has the potential to teach us a lot about physics and the creation of the universe. On the other, we're toying with powerful forces we don't understand. Some people even think it has the potential to destroy the planet by creating a black hole. Others fear it could set off a chain reaction caused by strangelets that could wipe out all life on earth. The good news is that it's probably safe. Probably — and if it isn't, all of us will be dead before we can yell at the scientists who killed us anyway; so why worry?
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Leeds manager Brian McDermott returned to the club's training ground this morning just days after it appeared he had been sacked.
McDermott, who will speak to the media at 1.15pm this afternoon, arrived at the club's Thorp Arch base this morning.
On Friday it appeared he had been fired by prospective new owner Massimo Cellino, but current owners Gulf Finance House (GFH) Capital were forced to release a statement the following day to insist he remained in situ.
McDermott has been given certain assurances by GFH about his continued role at the Sky Bet Championship club, but plenty more questions remain unanswered as the owners seek to sell a controlling stake in the club to controversial Italian businessman Cellino, who owns Serie A club Cagliari.
Cellino, 57, has owned Cagliari for 20 years and has two previous convictions for fraud and, crucially, has yet to have his Leeds takeover approved by the Football League.
There are doubts that Cellino, who has a further charge of alleged embezzlement - which he denies – hanging over him, will pass the League's strict 'fit and proper person' test.
Cellino wanted to install friend Gianluca Festa, the former Middlesbrough and Watford defender, as the club's new head coach.
But after GFH Capital's statement Cellino attempted to distance himself from what had happened to McDermott and later revealed he had tried to telephone the former Reading boss in a bid to 'reinstate' him.
In the meantime, McDermott, 52, sought advice from the League Managers Association and after speaking to the club's current managing director David Haigh on Saturday decided not to attend the derby clash with Huddersfield.
McDermott's assistant Nigel Gibbs took charge at Elland Road, where most in a crowd of over 31,000 chanted in support of their manager and made clear their opposition to a Cellino takeover.
Main club sponsors Enterprise Insurance and academy sponsors Flamingo Land had both already announced they would be reviewing their financial support in protest at Cellino's handling of the situation, while the club's players, officials and fans wondered whether McDermott still wanted the job.
Cellino's company, Eleonora Sport Ltd, became the leading candidate to buy the club after the collapse of a deal GFH Capital had agreed with Sport Capital - headed by Haigh and businessman Andrew Flowers, the owner of Enterprise Insurance – after a two-month period of exclusivity.
GFH Capital, a Bahrain-based investment firm, bought Leeds from Ken Bates in December 2012 and favoured Cellino's bid, despite interest from a Yorkshire-based consortium called Together Leeds. That group includes former Manchester United director Mike Farnan and former Hull chairman Adam Pearson, who left his position as commercial director at Elland Road in 2001.
Together Leeds claims to have been unable to get to the negotiating table with GFH Capital, but said on Friday it was still willing to enter into talks.