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This mod is getting more and more deep and immersive every update. I eargerly await the release.
Galactic Armory is a total conversion/expansion mod for Blind Mind Studio's 4X hit Star Ruler. Featuring more than 100 subsystems and structures, upgraded graphics and sound effects as well as more refined and complex game mechanics, Galactic Armory takes the already deep and engaging gameplay of Star Ruler to a whole new level. Are you ready to face a galaxy full of challenges?
This post explains the ideas behind our concept for exploration in Galactic Armory 2.0 and how it will impact the game as a whole.
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I've got good news and good news for you: First off, we have been busy working on Galactic Armory 2.0 and added a few small things here and there. Compared to the grand scope these are baby steps, but remember kids, rome wasn't built in a day - it took at least two!
Secondly, Azalrion wrote a great and in-depth explanation about our general concept of exploration and what our planned changes will ultimately mean for the gameplay of the mod. So with that out of the way, I'll let him have the floor!
So I've been hinting at this for a while, what is exploration in Galactic Armory 2.0 and how do we do it? I must say first off that this is still in flux even in the process of writing this blog I've come across things that were missing and concepts that needed some revision. Now with all that over let's crack on.
As most of you will be aware in previous versions of GA and vanilla Star Ruler exploration is the simple act of building a lot of tiny scouts and pressing "X" or giving them an explore command and as soon as they reach a new system you know everything about that system and what's inside it. This we are aiming to change. There are certain limitations in what we can achieve and due to this our concept of exploration is directly related to planets and the gaining of information on their conditions and attributes. This has led there to being two stages of exploration:
1. Scouting of a system.
2. Exploration of a planet.
Scouting will be very much like the current implementation in which a ship has to be sent to the system to be able to see what objects that system holds as in the original method but limited information will be provided when hovering your mouse over the planet and in the System Window (most likely its Classification and Number of Moons).
Exploration of a planet will be the new mechanic and will be a process that takes time that when fully completed will reveal all the information relating to the planet it is performed on when hovering your mouse over that planet and in the System Window.
Many suggestions in the thread discussing this were for modules based in orbit that gradually explored a planet however I wanted to try and avoid this, I didn't want to force the need to keep a ship in orbital at all times especially with planets moving and the occasional problems that can cause with keeping that ship in position and so I took a different route.
Exploration as with all endeavors starts with a few good men and women, being introduced is a new resource known as Troops that will be generated on any planet with a specific structure and will provide the core of your exploration efforts. A ship can be equipped with Troop Quarters and a Survey Shuttle (working name) and be used the same way as any tool via Orders or Context Menu to start a new Exploration Mission on the target un-owned planet.
There is one last thing that should be mentioned before we go into the details of the Exploration Missions and that is the state of your Empire's exploration attempt on a planet will impact your ability to colonize that planet successfully. I'll explain this in more detail later on.
An Exploration Mission starts when a Survey Shuttle is used on an un-owned planet. Troops are taken from the original ship (the amount depends on the size of the shuttle, the number of troops available and the max number of troops allowed on an Exploration Mission) then deployed to the planet. The exploration process then begins.
The exploration process is that each planet will have a set number of successful expeditions that need to be completed by the survey party before that planet can be counted as explored and this will range between 90 and 120 with an expedition happening no more than once a second meaning that the quickest a planet can be explored is a minute and a half to two minutes which would require no failed expeditions at all.
An expedition is an attempt by the survey party to gain information about the planet and its success chance is based on a number of factors; Tech Levels, Planet Type, Planet Conditions and Expedition Type, all these aspects will affect the chance of success.
If a mission is successful, then the planet's exploration percentage is increased moving towards the state of being fully explored. However if a mission is failed there is a chance that some of the survey party may be lost reducing the amount of Troops available on the planet and if all Troops are lost then the Exploration Mission ends and the planet is fixed at the percentage explored until a new mission is launched or the planet is colonized (not necessarily by you).
To help counter this gradual loss of troops if a Survey Shuttle is used on a planet with an active Exploration Mission from your Empire then instead of a new Exploration Mission beginning the Troops are added to the existing one up to the Exploration Mission cap for Troops.
It should be mentioned that unlike how Boarding Parties currently work Troops will not be generated on the ship and will need to be collected from a planet if more are required and so the original ship can only support the mission as long as it has Troops available and will need to return to a planet for more if required.
I mentioned earlier the exploration percentage and the number of expeditions to achieve 100% exploration and because it may take a long time to reach that (might not even be possible for certain planets without extremely good Tech) it was decided that instead of revealing everything at 100% it would be a gradual process with certain information being reveal at certain percentages and this percentage complete will directly affect the colonization interactions.
So how exactly does this percentage affect colonization? Well at the moment your chance of succeeding in a colonization attempt is affected by the percentage of the planet explored, the lower that percentage the more likely your attempt is to fail or lose so many colonists that it will take a lot of support or an extreme amount of time to evolve into a beneficial planet (there are aspects of our reworked economic and planet gameplay which affect this more than it would seem like from previous releases). You can of course attempt a brute force approach to colonization but this will be extremely risky to the health and ability of your Empire (again due to economic changes I will explain soon).
This means that it's going to be easier to colonize more suitable planets than hazardous ones first making the expansion phase slower and more tactical than before.
What happens then if an Empire you're at war with attempts an Exploration Mission or to colonize the planet your survey party is on? Well they are troops so we decided that their standing orders would be to sabotage and stop them at all costs.
For Exploration Missions once a second while both Empires have Troops available a skirmish will happen in which Troops from both sides are lost at a random percentage of the available troops affected by your Troop Tech Levels. This of course is again supportable by reinforcing your Troops, making control of the system in space extremely important to the survival of your Exploration Mission.
For colonization it is a bit trickier as we need to consider the number of civilians, what they might be able to arm themselves with, how well they could defend themselves, whether any Troops were deployed with the colonization mission. It is in flux at the moment but the basic mechanic is that unless there is sufficient strength in the colonization attempt it might fail outright or be captured by the Troops of the Exploration Mission for their Empire.
With hostile Exploration Missions having this affect there needs to be a way to tell if one is present on the planet, this is done simply by having a ship with an Analyzer present in the system and for human players this will then be visible when hovering your mouse over the planet or in the System Window.
Your Troops have performed beyond expectation and you have reached 100% explored on a planet, so what happens then? Well one major thing is that expeditions stop but your Troops remain on the planet deployed as an outpost.
Several things can happen in this state, they will still fight hostile colonization and Exploration Mission attempts until they are victorious or all lost (they can still be reinforced), they can be retrieved by a ship with Troop Quarters (as many as there is space for on the ship) until all Troops are removed from the planet or the planet may be colonized. If colonized by you they join the colony's Troops, if a neutral empire they are returned to your nearest planet and if an enemy they are either defend against the attempt or are lost as mentioned previously.
That's it for today, everyone! Stay tuned for more!
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You guys are creating a game ppl want to play)))
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Just about everything seems cheesy when the styles change dramatically in 5-10 years, especially to anyone under 20 when the time hits. Wait a decade for people to shake their heads at all the interest in a show like "Lost."
Yes, very true. It's only a matter of being able to look past the anachronistic appearance of a television series and enjoy the story at its core. If it is a
story, it will be a timeless one.
That's the thing.
What's funny is it wasn't too long ago that I recall people on this very site complaining that nobody would ever take the costumes on TOS seriously today because they were ridiculous in color and design . . . and here we are with virtual copies of those costumes in the latest film, and I don't hear anyone complaining about them being "cheesy." All it takes is for something to be popular and no matter how ridiculous it might have seemed before or will after, people will get on the bandwagon and celebrate or adopt it.
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Bryniarski, who was the perennial football madman (in "Necessary Roughness," "The Program" and "Any Given Sunday") before jumping to horror, said he signed on for the prequel after meeting with Gunnar Hansen, who played Leatherface in the 1974 original.
"He gave me his approval and said I did a great job and I'll always be number one with him," Bryniarski said. "I thanked him for being my hero and for letting me play his villain. And I mean it."
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Im dreaming of a white Halloween
Im dreaming of a white Halloween. Well, it is a nightmare for those who took the brunt of the early snowfall in the northeast.
Trick-or-treating was cancelled in Lexington this year because of the snowstorm. I first heard of this on Sunday afternoon when a FaceBook friend mentioned it. Schools were closed for Monday, so Halloween was cancelled, too.
Is this good public safety? Does trick-or-treating create more cars on the roads? Should families without power be exempt from candy-giving?
My first impression was that cancelling trick-or-treating was overkill, but then I drove around Lexington. I was working in Lexington on Monday and was detoured off a main road (Pleasant Street) because trees or tree-removal equipment was still blocking the road. I passed several clusters of tree-removal trucks. There were branches all along the roadways on many streets.
The house I went to in Lexington was without power until about noon. There were branches laying across the front walkway. Both this house and the one next door both lost a tree. The one that fell from this house missed the neighbors three-season room by about two feet. The neighbors tree fell in a wooded area of this houses lot. It was a fair trade, with no damage to anything but the trees. Had there been damage to either house, it would get complicated. Just after Irene, our Attorney Vetstein reviewed the tree damage laws.
My client is mid-transaction on this house, so the seller is still responsible for removing the fallen trees before closing. The trees need to be cleared before the final walk-though. In this case, we have lots of time. When a storm like this blows through the weekend before closing, things can get sticky.
I hope that all my readers are doing all right during and after the storm. Some of you are still without power (and heat) as of Monday night (when I wrote this.) Do you want to share your stories? I am particularly interested in finding out what people with young children did about Halloween in places where electricity was still out or where the road was still blocked by fallen trees.
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[quote]A gunman with a military-grade assault rifle opened fire on a pickup basketball game in the Back of the Yards neighborhood late Thursday, injuring 13 people and dragging the city back into the international spotlight for its violent crime problem. At least 16 bullets were fired into Cornell Square Park around 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, wounding a 3-year-old boy and a dozen other people. All are expected to survive, many with wounds to their arms and legs. Shell casings found around the blood-soaked basketball courts were 7.62 mm rounds, which are traditionally used in AK-47 assault rifles and rarely found in gang attacks on Chicago's South Side. Though gun violence has long plagued the city's impoverished neighborhoods, offenders almost never use military-style weapons. "It's a miracle there has been no fatality," Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said at a news conference this morning. "Illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence....A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable." The park is in a heavily gang-infested area, but it is not in a so-called impact zone flooded by officers to deter crime, McCarthy said. The nearest zones are three blocks to the north and three blocks to the south, leaving the Cornell Square as a no man's land protected only by occasional patrols and an 11 p.m. curfew. About 45 minutes before the park's closing time, at least one gunman walked to the basketball court in the 1800 block of West 51st Street and opened fire, police said. The 13 people hit included both the pick-up game's players and spectators such as 3-year-old Deonta Howard. Deonta, who was standing near the court, was shot near the ear and the bullet exited through his cheek, according to police and relatives. His family said the boy is expected to recover but will need plastic surgery. After visiting Deonta at Mount Sinai Hospital Friday, his grandmother Semehca Nunn called for an end to the violence that has terrorized her historically working-class neighborhood in recent years. "They need to stop, they need to stop," Nunn said, before collapsing in tears. Police believe the shooting stemmed from an ongoing dispute between the Black P. Stones and Gangster Disciples. It was not known if any of the victims were the intended targets, authorities said. "There were members of gangs on the scene and there were gang members among the victims," McCarthy said. Authorities do not have anyone in custody and are currently reviewing police cameras mounted nearby. There could be as many as three offenders, officials said. The first paramedics on scene found more than a dozen people lying across the rust-colored court. One person lay near a bicycle that was on its side. A pair of white gym shoes were left near an out-of-bounds line. Ambulances continued to arrive a half hour after the shootings as wounded people – including a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl – were carried out on stretchers. About 60 police officers converged on the park and crime lab investigators combed the scene. Witnesses say Deonta was the first to be carried away. The images again captured the world's attention as international media organizations ran stories about the shooting and foreign reporters attended a Friday morning press conference at police headquarters. McCarthy repeatedly refused to address the incident's toll on the city's reputation or his department's effort to curb gun violence. "Every time somebody is shot in this city, it's a setback," McCarthy said. "But this is not just a Chicago problem." The incident appeared problematic enough for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to cancel a meeting with Obama administration cabinet secretaries today on city issues and return to Chicago, his spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton said. Emanuel flew to D.C. Thursday to raise money for his campaign fund. His East Coast swing also was supposed to include a political fundraiser for Democratic New Jersey U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker. Upon his return, Emanuel spent 40 minutes at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he spoke with Deonta's mother. The boy, who remains in critical condition, was sedated and being prepared for surgery during the visit. The mayor did not speak with reporters, but released a statement asking the community to cooperate with the investigation.[/quote] Thank God no one died.
GHOST2709/23/2013 4:19:07 PM PermalinkThey can't do that, Chicago has laws that say that's illegal?!! I thought them there laws were going to stop this mess... oh wait.... nope.. How the balls do they know it was a 'military grade scary black rifle' when the weapon wasn't even recovered? The American Media Circus at its finest, folks.
Blackbird9/22/2013 11:08:57 PM PermalinkHere come the people who think an AR-15 is an assault rifle. Here come the people who say no-gun zones work Here come the gun-grabbers who are unaffected by weather or not I have guns but think I shouldn't be able to have any. Here come people who say that guns kill people.
Funkbrotha109/23/2013 6:01:16 PM PermalinkThis wasn't a "shooting" like the past ones. this was an act of gang violence.
A Good Troll9/23/2013 12:00:35 AM PermalinkSad that it has to take an "assault rifle" for Chicago's gun crime to make news.
ShotgunTroll9/22/2013 11:42:26 PM Permalinkgangbangers gonna bang until gangbangers can't bang... it would take a literal war against gangs to stop bangers.
Fridge Gnome9/23/2013 2:42:09 PM PermalinkThey can't do that though! It's Illegal to have an AK-47 there!
Y SO REACH BETA9/23/2013 9:50:32 AM PermalinkThankfully they're okay. That's incredibly lucky that no one was killed.
Elrond HubbardEdited by Elrond Hubbard: 9/22/2013 10:54:51 PM PermalinkLet's ban video games. That is [i]clearly[/i] the issue here.
Sam9/23/2013 1:14:35 AM Permalink[quote]A gunman with a military-grade assault rifle[/quote] *facepalm* These dipshits should not be able to write news articles until they actually get an education.
Mystical9/23/2013 1:01:28 AM Permalinktime to ban basketball, clearly that was the reason for the killings.
Shadfan9/22/2013 11:16:27 PM PermalinkThis is really sad. I hope america works out their issue with guns
Suppressor9/22/2013 8:45:48 AM PermalinkHow do they know if was an assault rifle if they didn't recover the weapon?
IchEsseKinderEdited by IchEsseKinder: 9/22/2013 11:05:20 PM PermalinkWhat's that, gun crime happening in a heavily gun-controlled city? I thought gun control was supposed to lower crime
SonOfTheShire9/21/2013 11:14:54 PM PermalinkI was hoping this was going to be a joke about shooting hoops or something.
Frnksnbns9/21/2013 11:04:19 PM PermalinkcOLD Nobody cares anymore because it was a bunch of retarded black bangers. Other teenagers have already been shot and killed since that happened in Chicago.
Ninjabird9/21/2013 11:25:50 PM PermalinkPeople wake up in the morning and say to themselves "You know I think I'm gonna go out and shoot people" cause it's sooo much fun.


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Henderson County Board of Commissioners are holding a quasi-judicial hearing at 7 p.m. Monday in the commissioners' meeting room, 100 N. King St., on the application for vested rights of Fox Glen Planned Residential Development, Glade Land Fund.
Blue Ridge Community College Board of Trustees Capital Needs Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Monday in the President's Dining Room, Killian Building.
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Merry Christmas Underground
Christmas is the greatest celebration of love and friendship each year. Does it makes sense to talk about love and friendship on a fighting forum?
Best selling MMA author Sam Sheridan explains, based on research from 1973 Nobel Laureate Conrad Lorenz.
"Those that fight each other harder do better. Lorenz takes interspecies aggression several steps further. He talks about geese and says that two furiously aggressive animals must bond and live together in a small space, all without weakening intra-species aggression. They have evolved inhibitors, behavior-changing devices, that turns the aggression they normally feel toward others of their species into something else when they mate. The same thing, although in a more complex way takes place among men and women of the same tribe of family, bound together for increased success against the outside world. Lorenz writes that friendship is found only in animals with "highly developed intra-species aggression," and goes on to say that the more aggressive the animal, the deeper the friendship. The ability to love and form bonds has evolved as a way to temper aggression, to turn it into something more powerful when defending hearth and home. Friendship and love are essentially evolutionary by-products of aggression. Men and women who form these deep bonds - who evolved ways to mitigate interspecies aggression - have great success in passing along their genes.
"That's the secret, it's all about love."
In short, beings develop bonds within their species to balance aggression. No aggression, no love.
Today I want to send love to the fight world.
Merry Christmas to all, from those of us in the comfortable Western world, to shootfighter Eddie Gombye in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , who has so many countrymen about who it can be lamented "Do they know its Christmas time at all?"
Merry Christmas UG, from the foobiest newbs to the Oeeiest Gees.
And a Bah freakin Humbug to all the injuries plaguing our sport in 2012.
Merry Christmas Ronda Rousey - you are the star on the MMA tree this year, and just getting started.
Bah Humbug to the UFC 151 cancellation.
Merry Christmas Flyweights, Uncle Creepy especially.
A simultaneous Merry Christmas and a Bah Humbug to Hollywood. It is cool you gave Gina Carano a great job and all, but it would be really neat if we could have her back for a fight.
Merry Christmas Fox, FX, and Fuel - thanks for all the free tv.
Merry Christmas and welcome back GSP.
Merry Christmas Junior dos Santos. You seem wicked friendly.
Above all, from those of us so far from danger, to my countrymen and women who served or are serving in theaters of combat so far from home, Merry Christmas.
What do you have to be merry for this Christmas? If there is a lot, share the joy. I want to know.
If this year you have not so much to be merry for, let me know too. MMA is real, and so is sadness and loss - they are one side of this life's coin, and I'd like to hear that, too.
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HOUSTON - Having successfully led the way to the University of Houston-Victoria's downward expansion that begins this fall with the admission of freshmen and sophomores, UHV President Tim Hudson has accepted a new challenge. He is stepping down as president to become Special Assistant to the Chancellor for International Programs and Initiatives.
Hudson will report directly to UH System Chancellor Renu Khator, who will be appointing an interim president to take the helm of UHV.
"Tim Hudson is a proven leader who has helped UH-Victoria grow from its beginnings in 1973 with 350 students into an ambitious, productive institution that has become a full-fledged four-year 'Destination University' that now attracts 4,000 students," Khator said.
"I am enthusiastic about his accomplishments at UHV, but I look forward to the important contributions he will make in this next phase of his career," she said. "His broad range of experience in international education makes him an ideal choice to work with our presidents throughout the UH System to expand and enhance our existing programs and initiatives."
Having achieved the recent expansion of UHV into a full, four-year institution with student housing and intercollegiate teams in baseball and softball, Hudson said he is ready for a new challenge. The appointment offers him a "unique opportunity to expand our international partnerships throughout the UH System, a demanding and rewarding responsibility I am passionate about," Hudson said.
A fellow for the Royal Geographical Society, Hudson holds the 2002 International Association of Continuing Higher Education Distinguished Credit Programming Award (Vietnam Studies), a Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award from the National Council for Geographic Education and a certificate of excellence from the U.S. Department of State. The recipient of an ITT International Fellowship to study in Colombia and two Fulbright Scholarships to study in Germany and Mexico, Hudson was awarded an honorary doctorate by London Guildhall University in 1996 for his lifelong contributions to global understanding and economic development.
In 2001, Hudson was invited to serve as the sole U.S. representative on the European Commission''s Spain-based "Millennium Committee," which was charged with producing a strategic plan for European higher education for the decade ahead. Hudson wrote large sections of the committee''s final report (in Spanish), including chapters on community-university relations and the utilization of higher education as a platform for economic development.
Hudson has initiated more than 40 study-abroad programs worldwide. Among these are the British Studies Program, the largest credit abroad program operated by any U.S. university in London; the Abbey Program in Pontlevoy, France; thriving Spanish-language programs in Mexico and Spain; the pioneering Cuban Studies Program and the award-winning Vietnam Studies Program.
His professional memberships include the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Texas International Education Council, Texas Council of Public University Chancellors and Presidents, and the International Economic Development Council. He is a member of the International Affairs Committee of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and on the Advisory Board for AASCU''s New Presidents Academy.
Previously, Hudson served as provost and founding dean of the College of International and Continuing Education at the University of Southern Mississippi and as an analyst for the U. S. Department of State. He received his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
For more information, contact Richard Bonnin, director of media relations for the University of Houston, at 713-743-8155.
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Bernanke's renomination eases markets
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Analyst Juli Niemann talks with Steve Chiotakis about how Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's reappointment nomination will impact the jittery economy, and reporter Steve Henn gauges how likely it is he will be confirmed.
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Two of my favorites, Chris Blattman and Megan McArdle , recently had a great dialogue on "is aid depressing?" I don't have anything to add–read them! However, their dialogue does remind me of The Big Question that I and many others get whenever we give lectures on economic development. Inevitably, after every single lecture I have ever given,[…..]
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Actually, we don't need to give each other gifts on VD, because we have everything we need, and we have each other. No need to spend money on a day that is designed by Madison Avenue to get you to spend money.
Exactly!!! In fact, I buy my wife a dozen rose at least a few times per year -- NOT around Valentine's day -- I love to surprise her, and she absolutely ADORES red long-stemmed American Beauty roses! When Momma is happy, then everybody is happy!
Yeah, usually whatever I get him he complains about...
Is that why they stop caring?
try asking him why they care less, maybe they expected something else more exciting or fun. caring less is also a warning sign or unless they were brought up that way. gone idea to find out why?
no.. we do not give each other gifts on this made-up, artificial, commercial holiday..
About Valentine's Day or about you?
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This cake us actually a wedding shower cake. The invite is next to the cake. I make the flowers by coloring piping gel ans painting/swirling the colors together to give it a water color effect
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This project is about female corporeal agency, but it is also about identity, sexuality, desire and gender. It is about balancing feminist theory alongside the filmic text in a way that is not reductive to either medium. What I have learned as I embarked upon this study was that studying corporeality through the filmic medium would and should mean so much more than simply outlining how the female body enters the filmic text. If I were to study the latter it would simply imply indicating that the female body does indeed play a central role. What I have wanted to study and outline is how the female body becomes an agent of change in the filmic medium I have selected. As a result, each of my chapters is thematically oriented so that films are not grouped with respect to their countries of origin but often oriented towards the creative expression of the body such as embroidery, singing and or dance. In engaging the question of the female body it became tantamount to survey feminist theories from around the world so that the theories from the so-called First World and Third World would be part of the dialogue. Therefore, Chapter 1 offers readings and interpretations of those feminist theories from both the Western world and the "Third World" that have informed my understanding of critical points of inquiry in my study and my own development as a feminist. These comprise of sex, gender, desire, sexuality, culture, tradition and custom. The theoreticians whose works I analyze and with whom I enter into dialogue include but are not limited to: Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, Judith Butler, Uma Narayan and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Additionally, in Chapter 2, in my development of The Nomad, conceived from Rosi Braidotti and her theoretical musings, I also involve the theories, amongst others, of Judith Butler and Gloria Anzaldua. The Nomadic Impulse and the Nomadic project are thus praxis-minded initiatives derived from the figuration of the Nomad. The impulse and project are thus generated within the viewer, in the need to effect change, and in the realms of future possibility.
The control of the wetting properties of aqueous solutions on surfaces is critical to the implementation of many industrial technologies. Aqueous solutions are often required to rapidly wet hydrophobic solid and liquid (oil) surfaces. Surfactants, dissolved above the critical micelle concentration, are useful in quickly reducing aqueous/solid and aqueous/oil tensions to facilitate spreading. In other applications, aqueous droplets are required to roll over surfaces, and surfaces engineered with textures which trap air between grooves as the drop moves over the surface retain large droplet contact angles and reduced friction, which causes rolling. The first part of this dissertation studies the transport of surfactant from an aqueous micellar solution to an oil phase, initially without surfactant, which is placed in contact with the water. Surfactant monomer diffuses and adsorbs from the aqueous phase onto the interface, and subsequently desorbs into the oil. The decrease in the surfactant monomer concentration in the vicinity of the surface disturbs the monomer-micelle equilibrium causing the micelles to break down to replenish the sublayer with monomer. The increase results in a more rapid reduction in interfacial tension. However, when the micellar concentration is too low, the micelle diffusion flux required to replenish the monomer underneath the surface cannot be achieved, and a zone is formed (just underneath the oil-water interface) from which micelles completely disappear. This micelle-free zone, which retreats from the surface, represents a barrier to the enhanced surfactant flux to the surface. A fluorescing dye is trapped in the micelles to provide a fluorescence contrast so that the micelle-free zone can be located. A Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope is used to spatially resolve the micelle-free zone, and measure the movement of the zone from the interface. A diffusion limited transport model is also developed which predicts the location of the micelle-free zone as a function of time, and compares well with the experiments. Part two of the dissertation focuses on studying the (superhydrophobic) non-wetting behavior demonstrated by aqueous droplets on surfaces consisting of a periodic array of micron-sized posts. Boundary integral hydrodynamic solutions for the two dimensional, inertialess, gravity-driven movement of a droplet over this microtexture are obtained to understand the flow on the length scale of the topography. Two regimes are identified: In one, the advancing line spreads relatively easily over the top of a post, sticks to the back of the post, develops increasing curvature and finally jumps to the next post. This cycle repeats until the drop becomes tethered to the back of a post and achieves equilibrium. In the second, the advancing line again cycles between wetting, sticking and jumping, but penetrates the grove between the posts before jumping. This behavior, which precedes the full wetting regime, occurs when the contact angle of the post material is reduced or, the pitch between posts becomes large.
Abstract Synthesis, speciation, and application of Polyoxometalates: Redox Molecular Information Storage Device Pre-research and Rhenium Chemistry By Fang Bian Adviser: Professor Lynn C. Francesconi Polyoxometalates (abbreviated as POMs) are metal-oxide clusters with frameworks built from group 5 or 6 transition metals linked by shared oxide ions. The Keggin structure is one of the most famous structural forms of POMs. Keggin anions have a general formula of [XM12O40]n-, where X is a p-block atom and M is a transition metal atom such as W or Mo. Upon removal of one MO4+ unit from the Keggin anion, the monovacant structure [XM11O39]n- is formed. Those POMs that have lost one or more metal center are called lacunary POMs, which are very nice building blocks for the fabrication of coordination polymers. My research focuses on two facets of POM chemistry: 1) Lanthanide chemistry of aluminum tungstate monovacant Keggin and 2) Rhenium chemistry of aluminum tungstate Keggin and Wells-Dawson POM a1-P2W17O61. In lanthanide POM research area, we obtained the following results: 1) The starting material aluminum tungstate monovacant Keggin α-K9AlW12O39 was synthesized. Its single crystal was firstly identified by multinuclear NMR and X-ray crystallography. Its redox properties on the nano-scale solid state were determined by Conducting Electrostatic Force Mode (EFM) probes. It is well known that for POMs, a number of varies redox states are normally stable and reversible. Thus we estimated that POMs can potentially be used in molecular information storage applications, which we refer to as "redox disk drives". 2) Eight lanthanide aluminum tungstate Keggin complexes were synthesized. In their molecular structures (identified by multinuclear NMR and X-ray crystallography), each α-AlW11O39 is connected by lanthanide (III) cations to form 1D and 2D networks. All AlW11O39 Keggin POMs are regularly aligning on a flat plane. Microscopic data also verified that there is layer-by-layer morphology in this series of compounds. Overall, we postulate that aluminum tungstate Keggin POMs are a very promising materials for making future information storage device because they have several stable redox states and can be reduced by adding voltage in solid state, The Keggin POMs can be regularly aligned on a flat plane, 3) In rhenium chemistry research area, we successfully synthesized rhenium complexes of the [a1-P2W17O61]10- and α-K9AlW13O39. The structure info of [ReVO(a1-P2W17O61)]7- was identified by multinuclear NMR and X-ray crystallography. The cyclic-voltammetry of [ReVO(a1-P2W17O61)]7- has also been measured and compared to the [ReVO(a2-P2W17O61)]7- isomer. A rhenium derivative of α-K9AlW11O39 also has been synthesized. Multinuclear NMR gives structure information. After oxidation in air, this compound can aggregate to form insoluble nanoparticles.
This dissertation has two protagonists. One is John Milton. The other is Ellen Gould White, prophetess of Seventh-day Adventism and among the most overlooked, by ratio to her scope and impact, of American nineteenth-century theological writers. Their relationship, White's to Milton, Milton's to White, is not untroubled. It includes moments of uncertainty, of evasion, of occasional deception, moments when the record of their rapport disappears and threatens not to reappear. Yet the curve of this relationship, because broken, indicates something not only of Milton's surfacing in America but, to adopt a term from Henry James, the "abysses" from which he surfaces - and into which at times he recedes. I will demonstrate that Seventh-day Adventism comprises not only one of the most extensive absorptions of Milton into American religious, political, and literary life, but also one of the most important - which is to say, White's encounter with Milton instantiated more than a garden-variety literary appropriation, but an appropriation with ripples, ripples amplifying to waves. If we are to believe Carlos Martyn's suggestion in the first American book-length biography of Milton that "it may, in some sense, be said that religious and political America sprang from Milton's brain," we must then understand White's prophetic writings to be a crucial platform for the acrobatics of that event. The platform is ever more crucial, moreover, as Adventism continues to expand in membership at an enormous rate and as that expansion acquires an international emphasis: America, having sprung from Milton, then springs a distinctively American version of Milton into a global milieu. I hope to describe why White's Miltonic appropriation matters, hence to open within Milton studies as well as American studies an expansive new field of application and significance for Milton's avowed ambition that "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die."
In this thesis, we consider two significant problems that occur within active connections in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). These are: (A) degradation of path optimality in terms of hop count, and (B) failures on the constituents links of a path. Both phenomena occur over time because of node movement. Our investigation considers what can be done to minimize their occurrence of both, after the problem of initial route selection has been resolved by standard MANET routing protocols. In developing solutions to the aforementioned problems, we identified two broad and complementary approaches: (i) Variable topology, fixed power: These approaches assume that the transmission power of the nodes is kept fixed, but the topology of the connections is modifiable during their lifetimes. (ii) Variable power, fixed topology: These approaches assume that the topological structure of the connection must be kept fixed, but the transmission power levels used by constituent nodes is adjustable. Within approach (i), we developed (A) two new route optimization schemes that seek to shorten path lengths by eliminating inessential hops "on-the-fly", without relying on promiscuous mode of wireless cards, and (B) two new route maintenance schemes that circumvent impending link failures and heal broken links in an efficient way. We implemented our schemes in the ns2 packet level network simulator, as extension to the Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol. Through extensive simulations, we show that our schemes are able to optimize path lengths, increase connection lifetime, reduce overall control traffic overhead, decrease end-to-end delay, and provide energy savings in packet transmissions. Within approach (ii), we developed (B) several new dynamic power budget distribution schemes. These were evaluated using a new model in which each connection is assigned a fixed power budget, and seeks to distribute this budget among its constituent nodes so as to increase the connection's lifetime. We implemented our schemes as a discrete event simulation. Through extensive simulation experiments, we showed that our schemes are able to consistently improve connection lifetimes without excessive additional control traffic overhead. The conclusions of both studies are seen to hold scalably as one varies situational parameters such as network size, number of connections, and node mobility levels.
In a global context of rapidly expanding security practices, those cast as social threats are themselves often most risk of harm. In this dissertation, I develop the concept surveillance threat (ST) to describe the perception or experience of impending or actual harm faced by targeted civilians when they are stopped or screened by law enforcement. Singled out by race and other lines of sociocultural force, those stopped risk physical, legal, sexual, and spatial consequences. Yet focusing solely on the risk of harm limits the full meaning of this encounter. As I show in my research, civilians persistently struggle against these threats. Using the police practice of "stop and frisk" in New York City as a case study, I analyze ST and civilian response from the civilian perspective. In my mixed methods approach, I bring together survey and narrative data on stop and frisk, widening the unit of analysis from unidirectional harm to multidirectional struggle. Shifting attention to the interaction as a dynamic reframes these relations of power as more than a simple, imbalanced opposition. Instead, based on my findings, I theorize an embodied civilian psychology of responsiveness to threat that enables those targeted to engage the encounter as an active site of conflict. I find civilians consistently claim their rights, protect themselves and others, assert social power, construct critical knowledge, and pursue justice. Applying Abu Lughod's (1990) insight <">where there is resistance, there is power,<"> I then study how civilians enact urban civil life through their interactions with police, recognizing a collective imaginary civilians draw on to influence the conditions of their daily lives. With concern for the ways police practice is restructuring urban environments by enforcing particular raced sexualities and genders, I bring a special focus to civilian constructions of racialized, sexual, and gender-infused space.
The protests in Brazil in June 2013 which gained attention after a proposal to raise bus fares or what have come to be referred to as the `June Uprising' and those that have since continued, far exceed the issue of bus fare in their significance. These events are only part of a series of movements and trends that are united by a common desire to create alternatives based on ideas of autonomy, solidarity, and horizontalism. This paper focuses on groups who are at the center of this struggle such as The Free Fare Movement, The Popular Committees for the World Cup and Olympics, Midia NINJA and others to show how they are collectively realizing another world by focusing on their practices, their relations with one another and the various spaces they are creating. At the heart of their struggle is not simply a wish to have a flat bus fare or to make demands upon the state but rather a desire to create another world themselves, free of oppression and exclusion. In fact, through their practices and in working together, they are building the foundations for another society while simultaneously breaking with and disrupting relationships and practices that reproduce the very problems they are fighting against.
This dissertation examined the effect of organizational bureaucracy on fraud hotline performance. Fraud hotlines are used to receive anonymous fraud tips from employees in all sectors to prevent and detect fraud. This work contributes to the research on fraud hotlines, which today is very light. This work also examined individual hotline performance against organization theory, which is absent in the literature. The literature also doesn't include studies using social media data to determine organizational climate. This work contributes to that literature by providing a collective case study examination of the fraud hotlines in six organizations. Their hotline performance was examined in light of the Theory of Bureaucracy. According to the literature, the condition of organizational bureaupathology can result in crime concealment, reduced fraud reporting, and/or reduced hotline performance. To determine the presence and level of dysfunctional organizational bureaucracy and bureaupathology with respect to employees, the primary audience of fraud hotlines, this study qualitatively measured employee perception of specific bureaucracy and bureaupathology indicators in their workplace by examining their company review submissions in social media. Hotlines were evaluated using their individual level hotline metrics/statistics and also by examining their specifications, metrics, functionality, and adherence to best practices. Interviews with hotline administrators, an evaluation of the level of reported organizational fraud, and consideration of the historical context was also considered in evaluating the overall performance of the hotlines. This study ultimately determined there is no consistent relationship between organizational bureaupathology and hotline performance. At times, where an organization had more bureaupathology, the hotline tended to perform better, in terms of its metrics, functionality and adherence to best practices. At other times, hotlines with lower levels of bureaupathology tended to perform worse than their counterparts. These organizations were in the private sector, so the sector where a given hotline is operated may be a factor. This study further found better functioning hotlines didn't have less internal fraud. Organizations where employees perceived a high presence of the bureaucracy indicators "Insistence on the Rights of Office" and "Impersonal Treatment" tended to have a better adherence to hotline best practices, yet had a higher instance of internal fraud in comparison to organizations. In other words, the conditions that contribute to a successful hotline may also give rise to fraud, and or inhibit fraud reporting, in the same organizations. This study further determined fraud hotlines might not prevent fraud. Regardless of hotline performance, including the number of calls received, all of the subject organizations experienced employee crime. These results are contrary to expectations but consistent with bureaupathology theory, which says that employees in excessive bureaucracies adhere strongly to organizational rules and procedures and may be incapable of responding to unpredictable events. As a result of the aforementioned findings, organizational hotline assessment methodology should consider external factors, such as the historical context, presence of internal fraud and employee sentiment as factors in assessing organizational fraud, in assessing hotline performance.
This study sought to examine the effect of Theory of Mind (ToM) performance as measured by a norm-referenced assessment on the social skills of a multicultural group of preschool students. This study extends the current research in this area. Most previous studies examined the relationship among ToM, other social cognitive skills and social skills using participants from predominately Caucasian middle class families (Slaughter et al., 2015). Additionally, earlier research relied primarily on homemade measures of such skills (Cassidy et al., 2003; Disendruck & Ben-Eliyahu, 2006; McAlister & Peterson, 2013; Watson et al., 1999; Walker, 2005). Participants included 67 children between 39 and 50 months of age enrolled in publicly funded preschool programs. Assessment using the NEPSY-II (Korkman, Kirk & Kemp, 2007) determined participants ToM and AR skills. Social skills were assessed through behavior observation and teacher report. Study findings indicate that demographic variables play a role in how teachers rate student both pro-social and anti-social behaviors. NEPSY-II reliability coefficients this sample were extremely low and the validity of the measure is discussed (van de Vijver & Leung, 1997). Qualitative analysis of the NEPSY-II ToM scale is presented and possible explanations for low Coefficient alpha are discussed.
This dissertation concerns the study of gender (in)equality in Poland as it is experienced by the young Polish feminists themselves. Through in depth interviews, an ethnographic study of young Polish feminists belonging to the most active feminist organization in Poznan, Poland, supplemented by works of contemporary Eastern European as well as Western feminists I have tried to show how feminism is experienced, explained, lived through, fought for and talked about in contemporary European Union belonging Poland. I argue that feminism, although known on a large scale in Poland, still has a status of a problematic word on which a spell of suspicion had been set due to particulars of Polish history, including the treatment of gender issues by the Communist government, the Solidarity Trade Movement and the understated power of the Polish Catholic Church in this matter. Because each of these institutions created their own meaning of gender rights and feminism overall, these confusing messages have for years entangled and problematized the meaning of feminism, creating unflattering stereotypes of what feminism is as a movement, who feminists are, what they are fighting for and in what manners. Feminism became associated with images of burly women who burn bras, don't shave their legs and hate men. Although feminism in Poland is still largely relegated to the academic sphere, the actions these young active feminists take, such as their growing presence on the local scale through organizing, sponsoring and coordinating feminist events, cooperation with other women's organizations in organizing, conferences and publications on the issues of women's presence on the local and national levels in the media, have been slowly paying off. Because of the efforts of women from KONSOLA, feminism is becoming a less problematic word in the contemporary Poland.


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Yup, I'm pretty sure I still have it!
Changes have happened tbh. The group consists of just Hemi and Sonny Bam. Ness works very closely with them though lol
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Hey thank you guys for watching! ALOT of work went into making this video and pulling it off. Most of the Dragon House dancers are my roommates and...
Deep. I wonder who he shot in the leg tho lol
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Outside of WD3, J Pro killed the ciphers. It was dope. Wish it was on camera tho
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Okay, my mil will be watching the baby three days a week. So when she went out and bought a crib for her house, cleaned out a room and started making a nursery, I originally was thinking okay, she will have a spot for him to nap. Now she has a high chair, an entire wardrobe of clothes, and the latest thing they got was a jogging stroller.
They promised to buy us our crib and we have yet to see it happen, though they are promising in next two weeks it will happen.
I was doing almost okay until the stroller came along. They honestly have more for my baby than I do and we were informed that none of these things will be coming to my house, that they are "their" things only. The WARDROBE? Really? Am I crazy to picture this getting worse when he is born? Am I over reacting that I think they are crazy?
I cannot picture trying to remember which clothes are to go back to their house. And refuse to do so. Is there a way to say something nicely to stop the wierdness?


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