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I installed a freeform fiberglass pool last summer.But the concrete contractor was possibly the worst in North America.So now I have the job of removing the concrete deck that is surrounding the pool now and replacing it.Luckly he did not pour the concrete right and it is not connected to the pool.So after I finsh breaking it up I would like to put tile down.Here lies my first question what steps do i need to take as far as prep under the edge of the pool lip and from their can I lay the tile to the outer edge of the pool or will I have to do coping? |
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Selfies are taking over the world, or so it seems. We've all seen the up close and personal smiling faces of people snapping their own picture with their cameras and using the hashtag #selfie.
A great way to show off your graduates personality is to capture those Selfies on a graduation invitations [1]. We've picked out the top 5 designs that would work perfect for your Selfie happy graduate.
Colors Of The Year Graduation Invitation [2]
Fabulously Frosted Graduation Invitation [3]
Flashy Filmstrip Graduation Invitation [4]
Grand Snapshots Graduation Invitation [5]
Highlighted Grad Graduation Invitation [6]
Which one is your favorite?
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[6] Highlighted Grad Graduation Invitation: http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/graduation-invitations/highlighted-grad-graduation-invitation-5x7-flat?productCode=1103026&categoryCode=60434&skuCode=1103027
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The film is a series of powerful scenes, first depicting the murder of a pretty, man-hungry larcenous young model, and then detailing the efforts of the cops to sniff out her killers. Eventually, they unravel the case culminating with a thrilling chase sequence across the Williamsburg Bridge from Manhattan's Lower East Side into Brooklyn.
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WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE Compiled by Dave "The Bridge Man" Frieder
Construction Commenced -- Nov. 7th 1896 Construction of Main Cables Commenced-- Aug. 11th 1901 Opened To Traffic-- Dec. 19th 1903 6:00 a.m. Bridge Commissioner at the Time-- Gustav Lindenthal * * same person who built Hell Gate Bridge and Queensborough Bridge [originally known as Blackwells Island Bridge.] Total length of Bridge-- 7308 feet Length of Suspended Span-- 1600 feet . 4 feet 6 inches longer than the Brooklyn Bridge. Side Spans length each-- 596' 6" Height of Steel Towers above Mean Water Height-- 332' 9" Towers sunk to Bedrock by Pneumatic Caisson Method, same as Brooklyn Bridge Center of Roadway above Mean Water Height 135 feet Stiffening Truss-- 40 feet high, Lattice "Town Type" Truss. Main Cables-- 4. Wires per cable 8112. Strands per Cable 39. Wires per Strand 208. All wires in Main Cables are of the Non-Galvanized Type. Cable Diameter-- 18 6/10 inches including wrapping. Length of each of the four cables--3224 feet. Total length of wire in the four cables--23,132 Miles. Total Weight of Steel in Bridge and Approaches 47,800 Tons. Approximate cost of construction, in 1903-- $24,188,090.00
When first opened in 1903, Williamsburg Bridge had four surface or trolley tracks(Streetcars) and two elevated, or regular train tracks. Regular train service did not cross bridge until 1908. Now, the bridge, has two inner and two outer vehicular roadways and two subway tracks. Also two 17' wide foot walks. The Williamsburg was the first all steel, large scale, suspension bridge. Leffert Lefferts Buck, chief engineer. Born in Canton, New York. Buck felt it was not necessary to galvanize main cable wires. Side spans not suspended, rather supported by steel viaducts. Originally one support per side span, in 1913 two extra supports per span were added due to increased traffic loads. Total of three supports per side span.
Williamsburg Brooklyn was named after Colonel Jonathan Williams a U.S. engineer and a a grand nephew to Ben Franklin. Area was incorporated as a village in 1827. In 1998 Brooklyn will 100 years as a borough of the City of New York. The original Dutch spelling of Brooklyn is BREUKELEN.
The Williamsburg Bridge is one of three bridges to use Non-flexible type of towers. The other two bridges are, the Brooklyn Bridge and the George Washington Bridge. The main cables of the Williamsburg bridge were spun by John A. Roebling Sons inc. Same company spun cables for the magnificent Manhattan Bridge and the great George Washington Bridge. Since the wires in the main cables in the Williamsburg Bridge are not galvanized the bridge engineers have had a problem in terms of protecting them from corrosion. Recent modern methods have been used to repair and protect the cables.
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On December 19, 1903, New Yorkers celebrated the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge, the second of three steel-frame suspension bridges to span the East River. Designed by Leffert L. Buck and Henry Hornbostel, it had taken over seven years to complete. Built to alleviate traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and to provide a link between Manhattan and the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the 1,600 foot Williamsburg Bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge until the 1920s.
Originally open to horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, and pedestrians, the Williamsburg Bridge soon became a vital transportation route for trolleys and trains, spurring the growth of Brooklyn's working-class neighborhoods. In the 1920s, the bridge was reconfigured to accommodate eight lanes of traffic. Today, it carries over 140,000 vehicles per day and some 100,000 subway riders.
On hand to film the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge were cameramen James Blair Smith and G.W. "Billy" Bitzer. Their films, Opening of New East River Bridge, produced by the Thomas Edison Company, and Opening the Williamsburg Bridge, produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, contain footage of the bridge and close-ups of the dignitaries and press in attendance. Note the large wooden "box" cameras carried by the press photographers.


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We doubt there are many Apple TV 2 owners that haven't got FireCore's Apple TV 2 supercharger aTV Flash (black) yet, but if you happen to be one of them, here's your chance: Cult of Mac Deals is offering aTV Flash (black) for just $19.99 (33% off). It's limited time offer, so go and grab your copy now.
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Seas0nPass, the popular Apple TV jailbreak tool, has been recently updated by FireCore and now allows for an untethered jailbreak of Apple TV 5.3 (Apple TV 2 only). Released in June last year, Apple TV software version 5.3 added HBO GO, WatchESPN, Sky News, Crunchyroll and Qello to our little black boxes.
You probably already heard of Infuse, a beautifully designed video player for iPhone and iPad, developed by FireCore, the maker of aTV flash and aTV Flash (black). If you somehow missed this great app, you can check out the review of Infuse made by our friends at What's On iPhone or read our own full review of recently released version 1.3 of the app.
We all love watching videos, movies and clips in our AppleTV. But what happens when you are away from home? Should you stop watching all those MKV or FLV files? Hell, no. Get a good app to watch videos away from home: get Infuse for iOS.
FireCore has released aTV Flash (black) 2.3 for Apple TV 2, which includes a bunch of new features, stability improvements and support for the recently released Apple TV 5.3 firmware. According to FireCore, the new version of aTV Flash (black) is also the first step to bring a number of the new features of Infuse to the Apple TV.
It was not long ago that we shared the news regarding Apple officially activating its Bluetooth hardware, via the 5.2 update, on their Apple TV 2 and Apple TV 3 devices. Though it seems that support is limited to Bluetooth keyboards, not Bluetooth remotes, only time will tell if Apple has a line of new peripherals on the way for us all. As exciting as the news is, having Bluetooth capabilities does no good if users are unsure/unable to utilize these features.


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Renaissance High School is one of Detroit's premier high schools, offering a rigorous college preparatory curriculum within a unique college-like setting. The population of slightly more than 1100 students, in grades 9-12, represents a cross section of socio-economic backgrounds.
Renaissance has been recognized consistently by the State of Michigan as well as nationally as a "Blue-Ribbon School of Excellence." Other honors include: 3-time Silver-Medal Rated School, according to U.S. News and World Report; one of America's Best High Schools; Skillman Foundation's "High Performing High School"; Gates Millennium Scholarship Winners (2010 & 2011); over $20,000,000.00 in scholarships awarded in 2010 & 2011; Perennial Academic Games Winner; World-Traveled Vocal & Instrumental Music Department.
New Student Orientation: Wednesday, May 28 4-7 p.m.
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School of the Week: Renaissance High School
Posted on May 12, 2014
A 'Renaissance State of Mind'
Confidence. Balance. Intellectual superiority. Exposure. And above all others: Prepared.
According to three talented students who attend Renaissance High School on the city's west side, if the 'Renaissance State of Mind' had to be summed up in five phrases, these may suffice.
Notably ranked as the No. 1 high school academically within Detroit Public Schools; the No. 1 high school in the City of Detroit, according to U.S. News and World Report; and the No. 35 ranked high school overall in the state — Renaissance is "a pretty big deal."
"When you come to Renaissance High School, you will be prepared for college," said Treasure Roberts, a senior who has secured more than $60,000 in scholarships and plans to attend Michigan State University in the fall to double major in finance and broadcast journalism. "I will go into college like, 'ahhh this is nothing really' because Renaissance has given me the amount of work (comparable) to college. At Renaissance, you have homework every day. And you have to learn how to balance that with afterschool activities. So I'm prepared. I'm really prepared for college and my career because of Renaissance."
After transferring from a charter school to attend Renaissance in the ninth grade, Roberts said she immediately noticed "Renaissance did things differently."
"Everyone is very open and helpful. The small population allows for one-on-one interaction, and I feel like my teachers and counselors have made it their mission to make sure I succeed," Roberts said. "This is why I'm going to a wonderful college and why I've been able to receive scholarships—because of the help I've had in mentors here at Renaissance."
In 2013, Renaissance students earned more than $24 million in scholarships adding to the district's overall total of $146 million in scholarships and grants. This year's total hasn't been finalized, but Principal Anita Williams is confident it will exceed last year's amount.
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After an exhaustive search, both nationally and locally, Anita Williams was selected as Renaissance High School's principal. As a former assistant principal at Cass Technical High School, another premier Detroit public school, her skill-set as well as her vision for exceptional student achievement, were just what Renaissance needs to continue to provide a structured and nurturing learning and teaching environment that will produce exceptional student scholars for years to come.
Our Vision
To preserve a premier high school and to nurture students with a mind for the future; to facilitate growth, change, and intellect; to create superior student achievers and lifelong learners who exceed expectations.
Our Mission
As a city-wide college preparatory school, our mission is to create a community designed to develop future citizens who will lead from a foundation of integrity in a highly technological, multicultural and global society.
The Phoenix
Just like the mythical bird, Renaissance High School has the uncanny ability to be reborn from its own ashes. Year after year, despite graduating an outstanding senior class, it keeps developing another outstanding contingent of student scholars whose futures abound with unbridled potential. The school consistently meets its goals and sets academic standards that reflect the commitment of past and current students, parents and staff.


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In just a few weeks, the annual Spring Craft Beer Festival will kick off in Uniondale, NY., where more than 50 craft brewers from around the country will be on hand to pour samples. This is always a great chance to taste both regional and national beers, everything from Brooklyn Brewery and Dogfish Head to Stone Brewing and Goose Island. Admission includes a 6 oz. tasting glass and 2 oz. samples from any exhibiting brewery. There will be two tasting sessions, one from 12:30 p.m.-4 p.m. and one from 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Tickets for each session cost $45 plus tax or only $12 plus tax for designated drivers. Check out the festival's website for more details.
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Is This the Start of a War?
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January 07 2012 07:23AM
When Donald Fehr took over as the executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association, he offered an olive branch to commissioner Gary Bettman.
In a far-reaching interview in early 2011, Fehr said he wasn't taking over the position to create any problems or have a fight with anyone. He was there to do what's best for his members. Sounded good, but anyone who knew Fehr, knew that he was jerking Bettman's chain.
Friday night, Fehr yanked Bettman's chain again.
Outstanding! Another Year in Florida (With NHLPA Update)
Scott Taylor
January 06 2012 08:11PM
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This one is personal. I am in love with the National Hockey League Players Association tonight. Even though I still believe that the NHLPA and the league's owners will eventually agree on realignment for next season, I'm in heaven on this beautiful Friday night.
Now, as I said, this one is personal. Later this month, I will once again head to Tampa and Sunrise to follow the Winnipeg Jets through sunny Florida. My daughter -- suddenly a huge Jets fan again -- lives in Orlando, about 57 minutes down Hwy. 4 from the front door of the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. When I'm in Florida, I feel at home. I'm in love with the beaches, the restaurants, the smooth jazz, the Orlando Airport, the warm breezes, the ballparks, the three NFL teams, the House of Blues, the occasional hurricane and even ol' Mickey Mouse himself.
I was in heaven this year when the Atlanta Thrashers moved to Winnipeg, not just because Winnipeg got an NHL team back, but because the league said it would keep the Jets in the Southeast Division for one more season.
Jets Lose 4-0 to Leafs. Is it Time to Go After a Scorer?
Nation World HQ
January 05 2012 08:36PM
The Winnipeg Jets had a wonderful December. The team went 10-3-1 and got as high as sixth place in the East.
Last night, however, the Jets were beaten 4-0 by the Toronto Maple Leafs at Air Canada Centre and now Winnipeg has lost two straight on the road, fallen behind Toronto into 10th place in the East and watched their road record fall to 5-10-4 on the season.
It's January. It's the time in an 82-game National Hockey League season when the good teams start to make some noise and the mediocre teams fall by the wayside. Winnipeg head coach Claude Noel knows that now is the time for his players to step up.
Unfortunately for the Jets, all the things that coach Noel, the Winnipeg media and the Jets' staunchest supporters feared before the start of a very difficult January have already come to pass in just two road games.
Vintage Flame
January 05 2012 08:58AM
The other night undoubtedly registered a wide range of emotions amongst fans. From the shock at the Russian start; the anger of the Canadian's undisciplined play; the dismay of a five goal deficit; the elation of a four goal comeback; the heartbreak of a one goal loss and finally to the agony that for the first time in eleven years, we will not be watching Canada play in the Gold medal game.
However, it's not over just yet for the Canadian Juniors. They can still come out of the tournament with a medal. It may not be Gold, but there is something to be said about the fact that you have to lose the game to get the silver; you have to win the bronze. Canada can still end this tournament on their terms and walk away with their heads held high.
Eller Scores Four... Who? What?
Nation World HQ
January 04 2012 10:44PM
Claude Noel refused to blame his goaltender or the fact his team doesn't play very well on the road. Instead, the head coach of the Winnipeg Jets simply said his defense was shaky and his team "didn't check very well."
Well, that's certainly one way to look at it.
Wednesday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Lars Eller (that's right, Lars Eller) scored four goals including one on a penalty shot and dished out an assist as the Montreal Canadiens scored four times in the third period and whipped Noel's Jets 7-3. Eller had four goals going in and he doubled that output against the Jets. Ouch.


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Today, I am the Managing Director of Freedom a la Cart, a social enterprise that offers employment, workforce development, and supportive services to local, adult survivors of human trafficking. The women that I work with are victims of unimaginable trauma and abuse. They are also the strongest, most resilient women I know. Through their words and actions they continue to teach me the power of loving oneself.
Because here is my deepest, darkest secret—the one that I never speak about. The one that I shove deep down and hope that no one ever learns about.
I struggle to love myself.
I am the boss, the director, a caretaker, an advocate for social justice. But I don't love myself, and I struggle with self-worth daily. I am a perfectionist and constantly feel that I am "not enough."
It wasn't until my 30th year of life that I realized how broken and human I was. Jesus tells us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. I was doing a terrible job of loving myself and realized I could not truly love these survivors until I loved myself.
All too often, advocates and activists present themselves as superheroes, rescuing the poor and defenseless. We hide our fear, our guilt, our shame, our self-loathing, because we are supposed to be the strong ones. We are supposed to have all the answers. And yet what is demanded of us isn't perfection, but rather our faithfulness and willingness to be vulnerable.
I've become a big fan of author Anne Lamott. How can you not love someone who says her thoughts about others are sometimes so awful "they would make Jesus "want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish?"
And when she screws something up — which would be often, of course — she has a "Bad Mind" that starts telling her she's such a loser. Always has been, always will be.
I know that voice. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about that voice at church. Our reading was the story about Jesus getting baptized in a muddy river and how he heard a distinct and unmistakable voice talking to him as he stood there dripping. The voice called him beloved. Reassured him that he was loved, deeply and passionately. In our discussion after the reflection, I mentioned Anne's "Bad Mind" and how it's often my mind too, screaming to be heard and believed. Our pastor — who also likes Anne — asked if anyone else hears that Bad Mind voice. Everyone raised their hand. Nodded, too.
Yep. We all seem to be on a first-name basis with that voice. At least I'm not the only one.
I loved Paddington, the new movie based on the Michael Bonds books about an immigrant bear who arrives in London from darkest Peru. Paddington has no resources other than his faith that he will be welcomed with open arms. Sadly, his experience begins like that of most undocumented immigrants to the European or American shores – he is rejected and ignored. But this is a playful movie with a happy ending that celebrates what wonderful things happen to the Brown family when they allow Paddington into their hearts and home.
Admittedly, Paddington is a handful – a wild animal unfamiliar with modern conveniences, whose commitment to being polite does not prevent unfortunate accidents that fulfill the nervous Mr. Brown's worst fears. As the family learns to love this accident-prone bear, however, their love for each other is renewed. The villain (yes, of course, there's a villain!) is defeated, Paddington finds a home, and the Brown's problems are cured by loving the alien in their midst.
Does this fictional account of immigration with a happy ending have any bearing (pun intended!) on our real world immigration crisis? This movie invites us to wonder whether our fears of the changes that immigration brings are unfounded. After all, many European and American citizens fear the waves of legal and illegal immigration in Europe and the United States. We know all too well that these uninvited guests are radically changing racial, religious, and cultural demographics. Immigrants disrupt labor patterns, burden welfare systems, and tax the criminal justice system. And unlike the movie's cartoon explosions, floods, and fires, the violence in our world that seems fomented in and among immigrant communities is all too real a threat.
Or so the story goes that stokes our fears. But is the story true?
Most Americans who know about the deadly attack on the Paris headquarters of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine say it's OK that the weekly featured cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows 76 percent of Americans know of the Jan. 7 attack, and among this group 60 percent of Americans support the magazine's right to publish these controversial images, while 28 percent disapprove.
However, one in four Americans overall offered no opinion because, they said, they had not heard about the violent attack where 10 artists and writers and two policemen were murdered.
The survey of 1,003 U.S. adults was conducted Jan. 22-25, two weeks after the attack. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percentage points in the portion of the report that deals only with those who said they had heard about the incident.
The survey looked more closely to see how members of this group explained their views.
The Vatican will offer homeless people in Rome not only showers but also haircuts and shaves when new facilities open next month, the head of Pope Francis' charity office said.
The Vatican announced last year that it would provide shower facilities in St Peter's Square for homeless people.
Bishop Konrad Krajewski told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire on Jan. 29 that it would also offer haircuts and shaves when the services start on Feb. 16 in an area under the colonnade of the square.
Krajewski, whose official title is the pope's almoner, said barbers and hairdressers would volunteer their services on Mondays, the day their shops are traditionally closed in Italy.
Being "right" is exhausting.
You know what I mean. A controversy blows up over social media and the faith must be defended. A conversation about church practices becomes a nitpicky theological debate. A news story catches our eye and we are filled with outrage and take to our laptops to be the first to comment.
I feel as though I live in a world in which I'm constantly tempted — and encouraged — to major in details and minutiae and miss the very real and beautiful and incomprehensible presence of God.
Which is why being "right" is exhausting.
I thought of this the other day while visiting a different church from the one in which I am a member. My first — and wrong — reaction was to tense up. It seemed that everything about church that I had tried to escape was on display. I've learned to pay attention to those reactions. I have found that whenever something bothers me and makes me speak in absolutes, it's because there's a part of my heart I want to hoard for myself instead of allowing God's light to shine on it. I hate to admit it, but so much of my identity as a Christian is defined by what I'm not.
1. WATCH: The NFL's Chilling New Anti-Domestic Violence Ad Will Make You Stop and Listen
The ad, which is set to air during Sunday's Super Bowl and depicts a real-life 911 call, comes after a media storm uncovering high-profile domestic violence cases involving NFL players this past year.
2. The Problem with Immodest Pastors
Kaetlyn Beatypens this brilliant response to the #ChristianCleavage "debate," the latest in the occasional flare-up of "ladies, let's not cause our brothers in Christ to stumble by wearing _______." (Insert: yoga pants, v-necks, makeup, high heels … y'know, clothes in general.) From the piece: "I truly care for the young men and women tasked with leading our churches. And my hope is to help them find their worth in Christ, and not succumb to what ads for Urban Outfitters' new line of moto jackets portray as right."
3. Let's Talk About Millennial Poverty
"In the United States, approximately 15 [percent] of residents live below the poverty line and another 10.4 million are considered 'the working poor.' And yet, we have very, very concrete — and very incorrect — perceptions about how poverty actually looks. And it does not look like Millennial college grads. So we kind of keep ignoring it."
4. Hundreds of Thousands of Children in Gaza Suffering from 'Shell Shock'
"Children who saw their siblings or parents killed, often gruesomely, have been left stricken and around 35 per cent to 40 per cent of Gaza's million children are suffering from shell-shock according to Hasan Zeyada, a psychologist with the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme."
A group of Christians protesting detention for asylum-seeking children stripped off their clothes on the steps of the magistrate's court in Perth, Australia on Wednesday.
The group, Love Makes a Way, had just pleaded guilty to trespassing in Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's electorate office in December, where they had staged an eight-hour peaceful sit-in and several members were reportedly strip-searched.
From the court steps, National Director of Common Grace and Sojourners contributor Jarrod McKenna quoted from the book of Matthew before he and others in the group began stripping off their garments — this time, willingly.
Closer to home, one of the messages that many of us often hear is that there is slavery in the supply chains of the products that we buy every day: cotton, chocolate, produce. This can be paralyzing when we go to the mall or the grocery store. None of us want to purchase something that originates in an extreme human rights violation. But the solution cannot be simply to buy a different product. When we talk about labor trafficking, we must keep the focus on the worker who is enslaved rather than the product we consume.
As a rabbi, I know that is not my tomato or banana that is created in the image of God—it is the person who picked that product. Fighting for food justice means ensuring the human rights and wages of workers, and doing so in a way that places the needs, dignity, and expertise of the workers at the head of the table. This last piece is crucial: no one can tell us how best to solve human rights abuses in supply chains, including modern slavery, more than the workers who have the most at stake...
We must raise up the leadership of those most affected by forced labor and support their efforts to create new futures for themselves. Since 2011, T'ruah has taken more than 50 rabbis to Immokalee to learn from the CIW. The stories they hear—and the transformation they see—inspire them to go home and turn their congregations into more than just educated consumers. They become activists: they write letters to corporations urging them to join the Fair Food Program, stage protests, take Hebrew school students to meet with managers, write op-eds, and deliver sermons. Our #TomatoRabbis have become part of the larger movement of Fair Food activists, urging corporations to live up to their professed values and join the new day dawning in the Florida tomato industry that is the only proven slavery-prevention program in the U.S.
Augustine's principle of avoiding revictimization and providing care can be applied to those who are sexually exploited. As my colleague Lani Prunés points out, the federal government and most states have Safe Harbor Laws which treat trafficked minors as victims rather than criminals.
These victims didn't violate their own chastity and, therfore, are not guilty. But an unfortunate number of states don't provide trafficking victims immunity from prosecution or adequately fund reintegration services. In so doing, we continue to maintain the shame-based morality of Greco-Roman culture in which the victim of exploitation is responsible for the sin and crime of human trafficking.
Legal protections are essential to aid reintegration, but moral protections are also necessary to support trafficking survivors. By funding recovery programs, we can learn from Augustine the value of not blaming the victim. Victims should be given the help they need to reintegrate into society (as organizations such as FAIR girls, Courtney's House, or End Trafficking are doing), rather than leaving them vulnerable to returning to a dangerous and degrading form of life.
If we allow people to be shamed or forced into crime through a lack of viable alternatives, we are morally culpable like the Greco-Roman society which taught women that their life was only worth as much as their physical purity.


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This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of My Ántonia is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and it presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information on the novel. The selection of W. T. Benda's illustrations and the historical photography and maps also illuminate the fiction of a writer who drew so extensively on actual experience.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak


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09.Jan.2013 by JT KenneyPro Tips Weekly: JT Kenney
A lot of people don't use an umbrella rig in the prespawn, but maybe they should. To me it's a great follow-up lure to a lipless crankbait or square-bill when you're fishing shallow flats or gravel banks.
Generally, I don't use an umbrella rig in place of a lipless crankbait, unless it's to target a fish that I might have missed in the first pass. If I go down a bank and don't get any hits on the crankbait, I'll just keep on going. But if I go down a bank and catch a fish or two on the lipless crankbait, or miss some, I'll likely turn around and go back through there with an umbrella rig. I've found that you might squeeze another keeper or two off a bank fishing one like that.
In those clean-up situations, I prefer to fish a five-hook umbrella rig with really light jig heads and smaller swimbaits in the 4-inch range. I've found that any of the shad colors work best for me, and I'll swim the rig just under the surface with a steady retrieve.
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Ask WoW Insider: Why are you overpowered? {WoW}
Mar 24th 2007 11:43AM Rogues are overpowered in 1v1 duels. If we use all our cooldowns, there's nobody we can't beat. Personally I try to avoid cooldowns when dueling because of this, and it's better to get used to using them sparingly anyway, because when group PVP comes along we get toasted pretty quick without them.
Also Cloak of Shadows is an extremely powerful (but not overpowered IMO) new tool that everyone loves to whine about, but if you don't see the reason for it, you've never played a rogue.
Breakfast Topic: Is WoW a shameful thing? {WoW}
Feb 16th 2007 9:29AM It depends a lot on the situation. If I'm skipping a social outing because I have a raid scheduled, I usually won't admit that, but I have no problem telling people I play. I think as long as you acknowledge to people that you know it's a nerdy thing to do (nothing wrong with that), then nobody can give you crap. I've had people who knew nothing about the game make fun of me at first, then they actually ask questions about it and usually end up realizing that it's not a withdrawn, anti-social experience (not for everyone anyway). They don't know about things like Ventrilo, raiding, and group PVP, and that you can actually have meaningful social interaction through the game. I wouldn't go around bragging about my /played time, but I have no problem admitting I'm a WoW player to people.
Drysc: Rogue 41-point talents are getting buffed {WoW}
Feb 15th 2007 3:18PM This is great news, I don't mind the poison thing on Mutilate much (except for poison immunity), but Surprise Attacks is just a downright awful 41-point talent. Hopefully they can use this opportunity to give us more raid viability.
14 gaming myths exposed... sorta {Joystiq}
Feb 14th 2007 4:38PM @Jake:
After re-reading the mouse vs analog part of the linked article, I agree that I misinterpreted what they were saying. They aren't claiming them to be equal, they are saying that FPS games made for consoles are perfectly playable with console controllers, and they are.
However, there are still plenty of people out there in denial about which one is really more suited to the genre, and personally I think anyone claiming you can be just as good with analog sticks is a fool, but to each his own I guess. I'll just have to pick up this Shadowrun game and show these console people how you really play an FPS =)
14 gaming myths exposed... sorta {Joystiq}
Feb 14th 2007 3:18PM I can't believe there is still an argument about mouse/keyboard versus analog sticks. It is no contest: the mouse/keyboard is 100% better.
The reason why is because of the type of movement required to use them. A mouse uses absolute adjustments - if I move my hand 3 inches to the left, my character will swing his view around a known number of degrees. It doesn't matter how fast I do it, one movement on the mouse corresponds to one movement in the game, it is a direct translation.
With a controller on the other hand, the movement is not a translation, it is a function of how far you tilt the stick, and how long you hold it there. Not only are you relying on the accuracy of your thumb (I believe the wrist is far more accurate, though I can't support that) but also on your ability to get the timing correct.
For precise aiming, the direct translation will always beat having to combing slight movements with timing. This doesn't even mention the fact that the analog stick can only move your view as fast as a full tilt of the stick will allow, where a mouse can move as fast as your wrist.
Have you ever tried to use one of those little red nipples that come on IBM laptops? Those are bad pointing devices compared to mice for the exact same reason.
Blizzard announces global arena tournament {WoW}
Feb 13th 2007 4:06PM Wow thanks for waiting until everyone hits 70, assholes.
Roguetastic: Imp Sap and being useful {WoW}
Feb 7th 2007 3:56PM Just to qualify what I said above, I'm talking mainly about raiding. Granted, I haven't raided in BC yet, but unless the encounters are vastly different (and I'm sure some will be), we'll have the same problems we did pre-BC, except now we're nerfed and everyone else is buffed. We don't have utility, and our damage doesn't rank where it used to be. Those facts aren't debatable.
As far as 5-mans go though, I definitely feel alright in those. We still don't get group buffs, but we have a nice Imp Sap now, silence/interrupts, stuns, evasion for the occasional offtank, and nice single target DPS. In a 5-man I'm usually at least moving around, keeping an eye out for loose mobs, looking for opportune targets to stun or interrupt. However, most things are immune to these abilities in raids, and therein lies the problem. Give us something else to do in raids and I'll be happy.
Roguetastic: Imp Sap and being useful {WoW}
Feb 7th 2007 3:04PM We need a group buff or we need more damage, probably both. Right now we're so useless in PVE it hurts, compared to other classes. It seems like Bliz decided to give other classes the abilities that rogues desperately needed.
For example, the already overpowered druid feral tree has LotP and Imp LotP, which for 1 and 2 (total 3) points respectively, will give your entire group 5% crit and heal 2% health on a crit. This is as much crit as our dagger spec and malice, which take 5 points each, and it's shared with the whole group! This would have been an amazing ability to give rogues, perhaps in the lackluster combat tree, but no.
Another example is the hunter's Misdirection. It would have been great if a rogue could pop this when a mob got away from the tank, and hit it with a nice burst of damage to send it right back. This would give us more utility and give us something to do other than stabby stab until something dies. But instead, hunters, the class with arguably the best aggro management already, were given this ability.
It's a damn shame how sad the rogue class has become in PVE, thanks to the weapon skill nerf and buffs to every other class' damage or aggro management. We need something done badly, right now it's just a button-mashing DPS contest that we can't even win any more.
Getting to know escorts {WoW}
Feb 1st 2007 4:48PM Escorts usually result in cursing and screaming "WALK FASTER DAMMIT!!" at the computer. I find them as annoying as ever, why can't the escortee just put a little hustle in their step?
Hellfire Ramparts, ninja paradise (or is it?) {WoW}
Feb 1st 2007 2:34PM If someone wants to try to ninja something at this stage in the game and completely ruin their reputation on the server, I really don't have a problem with it. The ensuing forum drama will be well worth the loss of a blue item you'll replace in the next dungeon.


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After a successful 2012 festival, the Pitchfork Music Festival will be back for round two in July 2013.
The three-day music festival will take place in Chicago Union Park from July 19th-23rd. Although there is no line-up to speak of yet, if you are certain about this festival, tickets are already available for purchase. Currently, three-day passes are a mere $95, however, there are only a limited of tickets set aside for this exclusive deal. After that, three-day passes will be $120 and one-day passes will be $90. To get a jumpstart on tickets, they can be purchased here. If you're still on the fence about this festival or want to learn, look back to this mxdwn article for a full 2012 line-up. Though Pitchfork will surely mix it up, 2013 will probably have the same flavor and excitement.
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Last November this section featured whilom, one of three words, I said then, with closely related meanings of formerly or previously, the others being erstwhile and quondam. There is a fourth, as correspondent Mark Harvey instantly pointed out: umquhile. As you can tell from its alternative spelling of umwhile, the q is silent. It's a nice word for Scrabble, but not one to be found in everyday prose.
It's from the Old English ymb hwíle, which progressively changed to umbewhitle and hence to umwhile or umquhile. The last of these is the Scots spelling, which is why it so often turns up in the works of Sir Walter Scott. One appearance was in The Heart of Midlothian of 1818: "Above the inner entrance hung, and had hung, for many years, the mouldering hatchment, which announced that umquhile Laurence Dumbie of Dumbiedikes had been gathered to his fathers in Newbattle kirkyard". Another was in The Fair Maid of Perth (1828): "The Lady of the umquhile Walter de Avenel was in very weak health in the Tower of Glendearg".
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Pakistan Buys Military Jets
January 21, 2010 by TMO · 2 Comments
The roll-out of Pakistan's JF 17 Thunder aircraft at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Kamra–manufactured in Pakistan with Chinese cooperation. |
Not many modern armed forces unite in their inventory, and particularly among their key assets, technology from two – in political terms – entirely opposite origins. It is more common in the countries of the former Soviet bloc where, since the fall of the iron curtain, Western technology slowly but ever increasingly found its way into countries primarily equipped with Russian weapon systems. In the past two decades the Middle East and southern countries of the Asian continent have become areas in which Western state-of-the- art weapon systems competed next to weapon systems from Russia or other former antagonists to lead these countries' armed forces into a new age – globalization in the political and industrial defense world.
These countries – not only geographically in between history's current major players – slowly revolve the old political and economic structures in a natural process and, with their growing political self-confidence, create a new link between the cumbersome super powers which, mostly from behind the scenes, will shape the next decades.
Pakistan is one of these interesting examples, however, with a very unique character. Just as its neighbor and long-lasting political antagonist, India, it develops an increasingly emancipated character in its choice of new weapon systems as well as in its desire to further develop its domestic R&D as well as production capabilities. India currently is in the process of extensive trials for its future fighter aircraft program (MMRCA) in which aircraft from the US compete against European as well as Russian solutions of the latest generations (see http://www.defpro. com/daily/ details/380/). The final choice in this particular race will be a forward-looking one for the face of the Indian Air Force.
On the other side of the Thar Desert, the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) brings together an interesting mix of aircraft from all over the world and, in particular, from the US and China. Due to its historical development, the first aircraft to be used by the Pakistani Air Force were US- and UK-built aircraft. However, in 1965 Pakistan received its first fighter aircraft of Chinese origin: the Shenyang J-6. Since, fighter aircraft of the US as well as from France (the PAF still strongly relies on its French Dassault Mirage IIIs and Mirage Vs) have been operating next to Chinese fighter aircraft. A clear political development can be deduced from the history of fighter aircraft of the PAF: from the post-colonial influences to a regional power at the mercy of the political gravities to a growing national identity and self-determination.
Today, Pakistan is expecting to take delivery of its first of 18 ordered Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Block 52+ very soon (older versions of the F-16 have already been operating in Pakistan since 1982), bringing the total number of Pakistani F-16s to 54 when the last aircraft will be delivered as scheduled in December 2010. Furthermore, as various press sources have reported mid-November 2009, Pakistan has signed an agreement with China for the procurement of 36 Chengdu FC-20 (J-10 export version) to be delivered by 2015. Finally, Pakistan is also in the process of introducing a growing number of FC-1/JF-17 fighter aircraft, jointly developed by China's Chengdu and the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra. With the first two small batch production aircraft having been delivered in 2007, Pakistan has since received a good dozen of these aircraft and, as reports Flight International, is expecting to introduce at least 150 domestically produced fighters into service (the number has increased to an estimated 200-250 aircraft).
This development would not only provide Pakistan with a significant number of state-of-the- art air combat assets but also brings together technology from the Far East and the West in an interesting unity. Many eyes of these two political and industrial camps will be glued to the PAF to gather information on this process and the other's craftsmanship.
As outlined above the PAF has been combining Western and Chinese aircraft since the 1960s, including bombers and trainer aircraft and is, furthermore, expecting to receive four Chinese Shaanxi Y-8W airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) aircraft equipped with AESA radar by 2011 that will be operating next to Pakistan's brand-new Saab 2000 Erieye AEW&C aircraft. But let's take a look at the three state-of-the- art fighter aircraft that will be racing Pakistan's skies in the near future.
Pakistan's newest member of the F-16 family, a two seat F-16D Block 52, has been unveiled on October 2009 at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas, facility. The ceremony was attended by the PAF Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Quamar Suleman. The current order, dubbed "Peace Drive I", is for 12 F-16Cs and six F-16Ds, powered by the Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 engine, with an option for another 18 aircraft.
"The Pakistani and U.S. leadership has worked very hard to develop a strategic partnership between the two countries in order to achieve our common strategic interests," said Rao Qamar. "If this relationship is to succeed, it has to be built on a solid foundation of trust between the two allies. This F-16 is not just an aircraft, but a capability for Pakistan. It is a symbol of trust and the relationship between Pakistan and the U.S."
As the PAF explains on its homepage, "the PAF had originally planned its force structure to include than a hundred F-16s by the end of the century, but these plans could not be implemented because of the US embargo [of the 1990s due to Pakistan's testing of a nuclear bomb]. The service is, thus, currently in the process of evaluating other high-tech fighter aircraft for procurement. "
The outcome of this process is quite clear: a stronger co-operation with China which obviously offers Pakistan not only to possibility to acquire new combat aircraft but also of jointly improving its domestic industrial capabilities. The Chengdu FC-20s to enter service in 2015 will replace the aging fleet of combat aircraft such as the Chinese F-7s (a version of the MiG-21 which has been recently upgraded) as well as the extensive fleet of Mirage IIIs and Vs. As the PAF explains, "Chinese systems such as the F-7s provide the staying power to absorb losses and to take punishment in the face of a much bigger adversary. Planned upgrades to equip these less capable fighters with modern radars, better missiles and ECM equipment will help enhance the PAF's combat capability."
The FC-20 is not among these less capable fighters. It is the export version, modified to Pakistan's requirements, of one of China's most capable multi-role fighter aircraft with a delta-wing and canard design. It was introduced into the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) in 2005 and in April 2006 the Pakistani cabinet approved the procurement of 36 of these aircraft which can be compared to the aircraft generation of the F-16, the Gripen or the Rafale.
Although a greater challenge for the Pakistani Air Force than the mere purchase of new assets, the development and introduction of the JF-17 (Pakistani designation for "Joint Fighter") has continuously and obviously successfully proceeded. The first aircraft of this type took to the skies in 2003. The first small batch of pre-production aircraft was delivered to Pakistan for operational evaluation purposes in March 2007. The first Pakistani-manufactured JF-17 was rolled out and handed over to the PAF on 23 November 2009. On the occasion of the hand-over ceremony Rao Qamar said that 40 JF-17 would be produced by PAC Kamra within next three years and would be inducted in PAF replacing the existing aircraft. Furthermore, he confirmed that the first JF 17 Squadron would be established shortly. The JF-17 is a lightweight and low-cost multi-role fighter aircraft with a high maneuverability and beyond visual range (BVR) capability. It has advanced aerodynamics configuration and high thrust.
The Hui People and the Earthquake
May 29, 2008 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Geoffrey Cook, MMNS
Alameda (Calif.)–May 26, 2008–The recent tragedies that have overtaken Southeast Asia and the Far East have impacted Muslim communities — although in a minority there; i.e., Burma (see my recent article on the subject in this paper a few weeks ago), and Sichuan (China). Today I shall spend my time on that huge Chinese Province devastated by the massive earthquake of mid-month (May).
We in the West do not think of Islam as a major force outside the Middle East, but the People's Republic of China has 56 officially recognized minorities. Ten of those are from the Muslim ummah. The estimates of the Muslim population in Chinga vary from 10 to 100 million — making that country one of the twenty most populous Muslim countries upon our globe.
The Muslim people there are divided into those ten recognized groups plus smaller grouping – all based on ethnicity. The Hui are the largest of the ten distinct Muslim ethnic groups. Some say the Hui Muslims are the descendants of Arab, Persian and Turkish Muslim immigrants who intermarried with the local Han (majority) Chinese people. Others say they are descended from Companions who emigrated in the early days of Islam to mainland China. There are approximately ten million Hui Muslims in China. Their culture is the same as that of the majority Han Chinese with the difference that the Hui practice Islam and do not eat pork or drink alcohol. Much of the Hui homeland is in the region of the epicenter of the devastating earthquake in Sichan Province.
Historically speaking — other than the practice of Islam — there is not much difference from the Han (majority Chinese). For the Huis, being a Muslim means belonging to an (independent) subethnic group, and thus their ["academic" or formal] knowledge of Islam is practically non-existent to the point that they do not even know the basic pillars of Islam, and yet they consider themselves Hui. On the other hand, there are recent Han Chinese converts who follow Islam much more stringently than the Hui, but they do not like to be called Hui because they are purely Han Chinese. Like Christianity, Islam crosses the boundaries of race and ethnicity. For the Musim, all that is necessary is the simple (paraphrased) Credo (in Engish): "I bear witness that there is no god except God (Allah), and Muhammad is the messenger of God!" (s).
Back to China's disaster and her peoples (the traditional Hui Musims and the newer Han converts), in terms of lifestyles, the two groups are almost identical – to the point of speaking the same language. Even amongst the Hui one will find people who eat pork, though, and even drink alcohol; so it is difficult to tell where the Hui begins or the Han ends.
Unfortunately, with the immensity of the destruction, I could not locate articles that addressed directly — with hard facts and figures — the impact of the earthquake upon the Hui and other Chinese Musims and their immediate needs. Therefore, because of their populace's concentration, it is unfortunately fair to assume that the Hui have been unevenly affected by the tragedy.
Even before the devastation, Islamic Charities had been active in China improving the lives of poorer Chinese citizens irrespective of religion. Beijing has recently expressed their gratitude to all the Musim charities working towards the humanitarian relief of their citizens – most especially to the Muslim relief workers, for with their geographical closeness to the disaster, they were some of the first to arrive into the interior with relief.


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Game Preview – Game 2: Hurricanes @ Your New Jersey Devils
Those were quotes I heard upon leaving Prudential Center this past Saturday night after the New Jersey Devils lost their home opener by being shut out against Atlantic Division Rival, the Philadelphia Flyers.
My response: It's only one game. Chill out. There are 81 more games, and 81 more chances to win. This is not the same team as last season. We just weren't the best team Saturday night. All will be well.
Personally, despite the loss, I was impressed with the playing of some of the newcomers. Adam Larsson looked calm and collected, and it was his first NHL game. The kid will only get better. I was also happy with the play of Brad Mills. In a way he's reminding me of a John Madden. Only time will tell.
The Devils (0-1-0) have the chance to put critics to rest today as they take on the Carolina Hurricanes (0-1-1) at a special holiday start time of 1:00 PM.
As Coach DeBoer told the media Sunday after practice, "They haven't been off to a great start with one point (0-1-1) in their first (two games) and we obviously weren't happy with our (first game). So, I think you're going to see two desperate teams going at it tomorrow."
DeBoer also said the team needs to cutdown on turnovers and up their game speed. He stated he believes the Devils were playing at a practice speed, Saturday night, while the Flyers played at a NHL level speed.
At Sunday's practice offensives lines were switched around, and are projected to look as follows, as per Tom Gulitti:
Defensive pairings are the same as Saturday's home opener:
The Devils, in hopes of a win, are desperate enough that they are starting Johan Hedberg, in only the second game of the season in a game that's not the second of a back-to-back series. Last year Hedberg didn't get his first start until the eighth game of the season.
As I said earlier, it's only one game. This team will only get better. Just remember last season. We have to take this one game at a time.
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Patch 3.2 PTR: Finding the Raptor Pets {WoW}
Jul 3rd 2009 9:36PM Its kind of funny, because i checked the wowpets site recently, and it said that 8 new pets will be comming out......why dont they say it as it is; ONE new pet with 8 color schemes (and one custom action/sound)
I think they should take this a step further, and have a vote for the coolest mobs in the wow, and make them have a 5-25% chance to drop a mini-version of themselves.
To me it seems like a win-win situation, collectors have way more to collect, it will be much easier to get the vanity pet related achievements, and blizz gets more subscription money because people are farming that much more.
New Spirit Beast pet found {WoW}
Jul 3rd 2009 9:17PM @ black tiger that's why i said "THIS ONE should be a constant spawn" kinda like a "base model" if you will, and for the hardcore wow farmers/collectios (ie. you) keep the spawn timers on loque and gondria the same, seeing as how they look way more detailed.
New Spirit Beast pet found {WoW}
Jul 2nd 2009 7:08PM I agree that this skin is kinda weaker than gondria, actually a little more plain than loque.
That said i think they should make this mob a constant spawn, that is there will allways be one roaming the peaks.
I have been hunting for Loque, and Gondria for several weeks, and i havent even seen them :(
I am an engineer, so it helps that im not totally wasting my time, by farming that is, but all then same i think something needs to be done about the spawn timer.
Forum post of the day: Pick up groups to pick up points {WoW}
Dec 16th 2008 9:49PM -arena point requirement is retarded, i dont know why they decided to "fix" something that wasnt broken
- epic flight IMHO should cost no more than 1.5K-1.8K gold at most
-"I can't get this or that achievement because it involves something I don't want to do!" wow, thats an actual complaint? well then the simple answer is NO YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET THAT ACHIEVEMENT, NOT YOURS
- all the rest lumped in with first point, the system worked before, why was it screwed with?
The great hunter nerf of 2008 {WoW}
Dec 9th 2008 6:41PM Thats one thing that has really pissed me off about WoW for a long time now.....people thing that just because they arent specced a certain way, that they should totally ignore the abilities that they arent specced into....im not saying everyone does it, but a lot do....
Secondly, I am BM and my pet never dies, i just make sure my HoT is up, and with the new minor gliph that makes my Hot make my pet happier, its a double bonus.......im not too concerned about the hunter nerfs, you still get a lot of bonuses from BM spec, and you still get to tame the coolest pets in the game (Chimera FTW)
Another thing, this whole "your class if for retards" has got to stop, if someone wants to play a class its their own choice, and they did pay for the game right, so to all those saying that "to include a hunter in a raid is charity" or " the less interested of a couple who plays wow, plays a hunter" STFU and GTFO, dont get me wrong, i know our fighting style is cruise controll, mark, sick pet, auto fire, hell id love to do more, but i would burn up all of my mana, and have to drink twice as often......
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Dec 1st 2008 5:41PM i dont know what people have against metamorphosis, yeah it can be longer, but otherwise i am pretty happy with it.
I find it is deff an oh crap button, but it makes aoe grinding a snap, heres what i have been doing with it.
- sick FG
- pick up 10+ mobs
-SoC 2 mobs
-rain of fire to proc the seeds, and do some decent damage
- morph, activate immolate aura, and charge into the mass of mobs, then cleave
- drop more seeds, and rain of fire from point blank with the armor bonus u arent taking much damage anyways
While yes this is in PVE, which the warlock allready is good at, all im saying is that i have found a use for all the spells they have....the only not-so-usefull one is the aoe taunt, because if you drop out of morph before the mobs are dead, you might have a situation on your hands


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I am batching through files and purfging reg apps.
Some files at our office, usually from 2006 and below, give the error dialog "error during saver, recommend recover...".
I have no problem with a file being skipped because it had an error, but that nag screen is stopping the batch process.
I am reading the drawings in through dbx, not operating on an open drawing in the editor.
Is there some way to keep the db.saveas method from showing this dialog?
I am on version 2012.
internal protected virtual unsafe Human()
ever tried to run wblock/clone/xxxx instead of saveas?
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wblock method would not be a good approach, as its far too agressive a cleaning mechanism.
I am running on thousands of drawings and do not want to change anything but the excess app ids.
I cannot touch handles or grouping.
Do you have ideas in mind that accomplish this?
internal protected virtual unsafe Human()
then another method could be not to open the defect database, but to use insert-like functionality into a new database and then run the saveas with the new database.
You also may run the audit-function on each of the database resident objects, maybe this cleans up some defects that makes "saveas" available without interrupting dialog.
Good luck, - alfred -
well, the problem is the "realdwg" exe that adesk made for me in the past, did not show these messages.
It just failed or ran.
I do not want to do any extraction and making new drawings, you are making a ton of assumptions about how well that matches the original drawing.
I have watched adesk mess this up with its civil batch converter, it takes a while to encounter and notice all the little problems that come up.
The dumb thing is, I believe its saving the drawing successfully. One of the reasons I use the tool is simply to save drawings to current version, so its all working except for the wonderful message.
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Hi James,
Can you please try the sample code from a Devnote that Stephen posted in his recent reply ?
Thanks for the reply Balaji,
I am not a C++ guy, though I can read and understand what he is doing. I just have never even done a hello world prog in VS with C++ so maybe time to start.
In the past, I did not run into this because autodesk compiled an exe for me that cleaned regapps. I even have the code, but no realdwg license to compile for 2010+, and no skills currently to make sure I am compiling correctly.
Is there a chance I could get autodesk to compile the exe for me?
If not, I essentially have to either hire someone to help me or live with the nag screens.
Can you help?
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Hi James,
If you can please share the source code and let me know who in Autodesk built the earlier version of the exe, I can get in touch to find if an updated version of it is available for 2010+.
If not, I will enquire with my colleagues to find out if we can build it from the source and give it you.
Since ADN usually do not distribute binaries other than a few OCX controls, I am not sure if I am permitted to build the code and give it to you. But I will surely find out and try.
I will email you the full source code, in the mean time, the portion that cleaned things was this:
// This is command 'PURGEAPP' bool asdkRemoveApp(CString csArgFile) { Acad::ErrorStatus es; AcDbDatabase *pDb=new AcDbDatabase(false,true); acdbHostApplicationServices()->setWorkingDatabase(pDb); if(Acad::eOk!=pDb->readDwgFile(csArgFile)) { //AfxMessageBox("Could not Read "+csArgFile); return false; } pDb->setRetainOriginalThumbnailBitmap(true); // Get the RegAppTable AcDbRegAppTable* pRegTable; pDb->getRegAppTable(pRegTable,AcDb::kForRead); // Create an iterator of the RegAppTable AcDbRegAppTableIterator* it; if((es = pRegTable->newIterator(it,Adesk::kTrue,Adesk::kTru e)) != Acad::eOk) { pRegTable->close(); return false; } pRegTable->close(); AcDbObjectIdArray idArray; // iterate through the RegAppTable while(!it->done() ) { // get a RegAppRecord AcDbObjectId recId; //if((es = it->getRecord(rec,AcDb::kForRead)) != Acad::eOk) if((es = it->getRecordId(recId)) != Acad::eOk) { delete it; return false; } if(recId.isValid()) idArray.append(recId); it->step(); } delete it; // Now through the Layer Filters...this will simply remove them all. AcDbLayerTable *pLT=NULL; if(Acad::eOk==pDb->getLayerTable(pLT,AcDb::kForRea d)) { AcDbObjectId ltExtDictId=pLT->extensionDictionary(); pLT->close(); AcDbDictionary *pLTExtDict=NULL; if(Acad::eOk==acdbOpenObject(pLTExtDict,ltExtDictI d,AcDb::kForRead)) { AcDbDictionary *pLFDict=NULL; if(Acad::eOk==pLTExtDict->getAt(_T("ACAD_LAYERFILT ERS"),(AcDbObject*&)pLFDict,AcDb::kForWrite)) { pLFDict->setTreatElementsAsHard(false); AcDbDictionaryIterator *pDictItr=pLFDict->newIterator(); pLFDict->close(); for(;!pDictItr->done();pDictItr->next()) { AcDbObjectId ltFilterId=pDictItr->objectId(); if(ltFilterId.isValid()) idArray.append(ltFilterId); } delete pDictItr; } pLTExtDict->close(); } } else return false; pDb->purge(idArray); for(int i=0;i<idArray.length();i++) { AcDbObject *pObj=NULL; if(Acad::eOk==acdbOpenObject(pObj,idArray[i],AcDb: :kForWrite)) { if(Acad::eOk!=pObj->erase()) { pObj->close(); return false; } pObj->close(); } else return false; } pDb->saveAs(csArgFile); acdbHostApplicationServices()->setWorkingDatabase( NULL); delete pDb; return true; }
I would have asked specific permission from Stephen Preston to post the code, but Kean's post in C# does exactly the same thing so this is just the C++ version.
He was the one who did the last compile for me, though Calyton Hotson did the original.
thanks for considering the realdwg compile.
internal protected virtual unsafe Human()
Hi James,
Here are the steps that I tried, but havent got the recover dialog. Can you see if I am missing some step ?
The attachment is ~3MB recording so I am sharing it using dropbox. Here is the link :
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