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A man in Pontiac, Michigan thought of a pretty clever way to keep his home from getting DEMOLISHED by the city last week. I mean, it was totally shortsighted and might land him in prison, but still. For a fleeting moment, there was brilliance. The guy's house was scheduled to be demolished on Thursday. It's not clear why the city was destroying it.
So he swapped the address number on HIS house with the address of his next door NEIGHBOR'S house. And when the demolition crew got there, they actually DID destroy his neighbor's house.
Luckily it was vacant, and pretty rundown. Apparently some SQUATTERS were living there . . . possibly CRACKHEADS. And the neighbors were HAPPY to see the wrong house go.
So the guy's plan worked . . . at least briefly. But it turns out the CITY wasn't happy. They found out almost immediately, and the crew went back to destroy the RIGHT house later that day. The police are now investigating the guy who swapped the address numbers, and he could be looking at criminal charges.
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text: Thats real nice and interesting layout. When you say presentation - do you mean how to display on a computer or are you thinking of making something physical to show the world ? You could go for a KMZ and show it on google earth, or I would think you could do a sphere in several sphere mapped apps out there. For a physical one, aside from getting a real earth globe and recovering the art with your map, you can get some other spheres like an exercise ball and cover that. From a 2D point of view there are a number of options.

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beautiful work Eric!
It;s AWESOME!!!!!!
Spectacular!! ;)
Really nice work!
wonderful work as always Eric :)
Beautiful Eric!
Nice work!
looks fab Eric!
Great one Eric!
Your pieces always transport me to a magical mysterious world where somehow anything seems possible.
Thanks so much Viviana, Joseph, bri.buckley, HLMM, Terry, Sofia, ingz, Bianca, ElleEmDee, Garima, Alex, and Lidija! :)
Beautiful :)
Beautiful work, I want a telescope like that!
Fantastic work!
Such a beautiful piece and I love the planned sketch too that you uploaded on Facebook.
awesome work
Magical piece Eric. Love it!
gorgeous work, Eric... love it!
Thanks so much Shane, morgaen, Judi, StevenARTify, maggs326, Seamless, Monica, and Klara!
i can see UFO ... passing the moon... lol
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thumbs up! :)
I am always suprised by your imagination!* Brilliant and inspiring!*
very nice work
Beautiful Eric!
ilove it
really nice!!!
Nicely done illustration. Has a classic illustration style about it.
Thanks so much PAUL, Manu, gwenola, Joe, Morten, Georgiath, Robert, and Conceptualized!
Such a beautiful piece! Congrats!
Great style
So beautiful!
Thank you kindly Amelia, Julia, Proyecto, Inksider, and Tummeow!
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - There's a new danger on our roadways that drivers are completely unaware of. Construction signs used to warn motorists about lane closures and detours are being targeted by metal thieves.
They're stealing the batteries that allow a message to be displayed to keep drivers from going the wrong way. They are especially critical at night to warn drivers of what's ahead. The companies that own these signs say it's only a matter of time before the theft leads to a death on the road.
Police say the lead in one battery that lights a construction sign can be sold for scrap for $10 to $15. It takes eight batteries to light one sign, so investigators say thieves can pocket $80 to $120, while leaving the message boards in the dark.
It's a new and growing problem in our area. Police reports reveal 70 batteries stolen in just 10 days, another 63 batteries in a different string of sign thefts and then 30 batteries in another local case. ACME Barricades tells Channel 4 that around Florida, it's had as many as 500 batteries stolen from road signs in the last six months.
"This is when a theft can lead to not only a death, but multiple deaths," said Happy Alter, owner of Bob's Barricades.
Alter spoke with us from his office in South Florida. He says it is just a matter of time when a theft to one of his signs, is going to end in tragedy on the highway.
"When you drive down the highway and see an arrow flashing to get over into the other lane…and if you don't get right over into it, if the battery is stolen from that sign, then a theft turns into a death," he warned.
"Drivers would get confused if the signs aren't there," said Michael Goldman with the Florida Department of Transportation. "And if they're not working, they will cause accidents."
Goldman says he's worried, too, to hear these signs are being sabotaged for their batteries.
"Particularly when drivers get used to certain behaviors over the years and they have to change their driving habits from one lane to another," Goldman added.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says battery thefts have become such a problem, they're working undercover to catch thieves in the act. One of the detectives we spoke with, who we aren't identifying since he's currently working undercover, has a warning for would-be crooks who may being thinking about committing the same crime.
"We're out there 24-7. You never know where we're at, you can just ask the people we've already arrested. They are very surprised when we knock on the door and they have no idea how we got to them," the detective said.
JSO is one of just a handful of departments around the state that has a Metal Task Force, with officers who are specifically assigned to investigate scrap metal thefts. They are doing all sorts of clever things to catch battery thieves.
The reason batteries are suddenly being stolen in large quantities is because crooks are stealing what they can sell. Batteries are not regulated by the state. Last July, a list of 20 items containing metal was added to the state law that regulates what recyclers are allowed to buy off the street. From the 2012 law, here is the list of 20 regulated metals:
- A manhole cover.
- An electric light pole or other utility structure and its fixtures, wires, and hardware that are readily identifiable as connected to the utility structure.
- A guard rail.
- A street sign, traffic sign, or traffic signal and its fixtures and hardware.
- Communication, transmission, distribution, and service wire from a utility, including copper or aluminum bus bars, connectors, grounding plates, or grounding wire.
- A funeral marker or funeral vase.
- A historical marker.
- Railroad equipment, including, but not limited to, a tie plate, signal house, control box, switch plate, E clip, or rail tie junction.
- Any metal item that is observably marked upon reasonable inspection with any form of the name, initials, or logo of a governmental entity, utility company, cemetery, or railroad.
- A copper, aluminum, or aluminum-copper condensing or evaporator coil, including its tubing or rods, from an air-conditioning or heating unit, excluding coils from window air-conditioning or heating units and motor vehicle air-conditioning or heating units.
- An aluminum or stainless steel container or bottle designed to hold propane for fueling forklifts.
- A stainless steel beer keg.
- A catalytic converter or any nonferrous part of a catalytic converter unless purchased as part of a motor vehicle.
- Metallic wire that has been burned in whole or in part to remove insulation.
- A brass or bronze commercial valve or fitting, referred to as a "fire department connection and control valve" or an "FDC valve," that is commonly used on structures for access to water for the purpose of extinguishing fires.
- A brass or bronze commercial potable water backflow preventer valve that is commonly used to prevent backflow of potable water from commercial structures into municipal domestic water service systems.
- A shopping cart.
- A brass water meter.
- A storm grate.
- A brass sprinkler head used in commercial agriculture.
Items from the above list used to get stolen all the time. But since they were added in July, the National Recyclers Association tells us thefts of these items have dropped 30 to 47 percent. So, the law is definitely helping. Channel 4 was told that while this law was being drafted, some wanted to add batteries to the list. But at the time, batteries weren't being stolen.
All batteries are a target, including the batteries in our personal vehicles. But for thieves, the batteries powering construction signs are easier targets. They can get them quickly, often times without being noticed.
The owner of Bob's Barricades, tells us thieves will pretend to be construction workers, pull over on the side of the highway and break into the signs without any drivers giving them a second glance. He says they often work in teams, using two way radios to alert the team stealing the batteries when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper is approaching. A crime that can happen in broad daylight, which is why local police encourage you to always report anything that looks out of the ordinary when it comes to the large message board signs along our roadways.
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The hardest time of the year for senior student-athletes is the last game of their college career. This, after the five years of investing their hearts, souls, minds and countless hours into the University of Minnesota through its football program. Yesterday, when these matriculating seniors ran out onto the field amid smiling parents, faculty and fans, cheering for them for the last time at TCF Stadium, they did so with full knowledge that they would never again don the Gophers' maroon and gold against an opponent. This past Saturday, nine African Americans — Gary Tinsley, Da'Jon McKnight, Troy Stoudermire, Shady Salamon, Kim Royston, Eric Lair, Johnny Johnson, Anthony Jacobs and Duane Bennett — completed their journey through the University of Minnesota, one of the most elite universities in the Midwest region.
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The third deity, Landorus, was summoned and has awoken by Ash and co. as he goes up to stop the battle between Tornadus and Thundurus in the skies. Little do Ash and co. know that it was Team Rocket's plan all along: to force the trio out of hiding and capture them. Can Ash and co. save the three deities and restore the delicate balance of nature as well? Yes, after successfully destroying the laser container keeping the Kami Trio trapped are free now as Team Rocket escapes.
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Although YouTube and others have streamed plenty of other live events, last weekend's Webcast of more than 60 acts on three separate channels was the biggest example yet of a trend that is radically democratizing the music world.
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text: Mary Willingham has received death threats from social media users. She's looked at by some with disdain. All because she decided to step forward and help bring to light what was going on at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Willingham, then a school's academic tutor for UNC players, finally let it be known that she was the "unnamed source" for a local reporter's investigative reporting on the school having set up fake classes, changed grades and awarded worthless degrees for football and basketball players — too many of them were Black — for at least a couple of decades. "I want to do right by them because I was part of the problem," says Willingham during an MSR phone interview on the "hundreds" of UNC players she worked with during her seven years as a tutor. Continue Reading →


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Abby became part of the WSBT 22 First Alert weather team in March 2010. She delivers the forecast on WSBT 22 News First at 4 and WSBT 22 News at 5 and 5:30 Monday through Friday.
In addition to Abby's daily responsibilities to the WSBT 22 weather department, she's also a part of the area's most successful morning radio show on Sunny 101.5. Five days a week, listeners start their day with Abby's wit, humor, entertainment updates and spontaneous jabs at Jack and Bruce. When you jump in the car, don't miss the opportunity to catch the Jack, Bruce and Abby Show from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Abby grew up in Akron, Ohio, with her parents and three older sisters. She obtained her Geoscience degree with a focus in Meteorology from Mississippi State University. Prior to becoming a Bulldog, Abby graduated cum laude from Miami University of Ohio with a major in Mass Communications and a minor in Political Science.
Before joining WSBT 22, Abby was a weather anchor and co-anchor for four years at WTAP-TV which covers the Mid-Ohio Valley. During her four years there, Abby was honored as "best weathercaster" by the West Virginia Broadcasters Association as well as being named "best anchor" and "best weathercast" by the Associated Press.
In her spare time, Abby and her husband, Jason, love hanging out with their son, Brayden and pug, Phillip. She loves following sports, politics and the all the crazy weather that comes with living near Lake Michigan!


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May 5, 2016
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- While North Carolina's public schools have shown improvements in graduation rates and other indicators, teacher pay dropped to among the lowest in the country as the state struggled through the recession.
A report Wednesday to the State Board of Education says teacher pay in North Carolina ranks 46th in the country, above only Mississippi and West Virginia among 12 Southeastern states.
One out of nine teachers earn the lowest salary of about $31,000 because there are few meaningful raises until the fifth year on the job.
The report says public schools have lost more than 4,000 teachers within the first three years of their careers since 2008. Losing newcomers is especially a problem in North Carolina, which has a strategy of coaching up rookies rather than bringing in veteran teachers.
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Awesome. Reminds me of an old Traveller RPG book. Shipbuilder's Guide or something like that. Also a little like the diagrams in WEG's book about the Death Star. Nice work.
Hey guys,
After getting some good feedback on my last deckplan, I figured I might as well post some of the parts I've got done on my newest, insanely overambitious project here for feedback as well.
The first two decks are posted here. The third one is too big for the upload; until I can get a smaller one made up, you'll have to go offsite.
Awesome. Reminds me of an old Traveller RPG book. Shipbuilder's Guide or something like that. Also a little like the diagrams in WEG's book about the Death Star. Nice work.
I like it. The design is well thought through, even the heads for the crew are there. And I absulutely dig the idea with the moduls.
That's pretty cool.
One question: on the large deck plan (the one you've got linked to DA), there's what looks like a small hallway behind the isolation chambers, but it looks as though there's no access to it apart from through the chambers themselves. Just wondering what the purpose of that was.
Oh, and repped!
There's a short hallway along the inside of the module which allows access back there. It's not the best setup, I admit, but it's the most efficient space-wise.
And thanks for the rep!
Here's the fourth deck. Of seven. Plus the five-view. WHEE...
Given you a good clubbing with my rep stick - very nice deck plans going on there.
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Yeah, that's pretty nifty alright!
Thanks a bunch guys.
Here's a modified deck 4. I was able to finagle some parts of deck 5, and the officer's lounge now has a dumb waiter.
...And I forgot to put in the windows. XD
Dude! This is cool stuff.
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May 6, 2016
New technology has the Greenville Police Department excited about the potential to crack down on burglaries and thefts.
The technology is called "Cop Dots", and the company that makes them says they'll make stolen items, even ones like copper and car parts, easy to trace.
The company "Data Dot Services" makes the Cop Dots, which are basically tiny specs in adhesive that you can mark your property with.
But at a microscopic view, the dots are actually traceable data, which could bring stolen items back to their rightful owners.
James Mounce from Data Dot Services says the dots come out of what looks like a pen, each with its own individual data.
He says, "This pen's going to be dots 1234. Another pen's going to be 1235, another pen 1236. So each individual pen is going to be registered to you."
When police put the items marked with the dots under a black light, they become visible.
The pens will be available at Lowe's for $29.98. The code is registered to you when you buy the pen.
Mounce says there are around 3,000 dots per pen, enough to mark around 50 items.
He also says once the adhesive dries, it's virtually impossible to remove.
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ALBION, Ind. (www.incnow.tv) – The Noble County Board of Zoning Appeals approved dog breeding kennels at their meeting Wednesday night, making animal advocates concerned.
Still up and running. Two of six dog breeding kennels up for review Wednesday night were approved by the Noble County ZBA.
Despite concerns from animal advocates, the board approved the kennel operations saying the board's concern is whether the breeders are following land use ordinances, not how they're running their operations.
Some ordinance regulations include noise levels, setback distances from other properties, fencing, and overall appearance.
Advocates say they've some of the kennels are breeding and housing anywhere from 14 to 200 dogs for wholesale operations. Although they're not thrilled with how some of the animals are being treated, advocates are concerned with how the kennels will impact their community.
"Taking care of that many animals is a public safety concern from a health standpoint. Proper septic systems, disease control, pest control--those are all things that can directly effect the quality of life here. The quality of care and the conditions these animals live in can directly affect property values," said Lori Gagen, Executive Director of Black Pine Animal Sanctuary in Albion.
Gagen says some of the kennels approved were commercial operations, meaning they breed and sell large quantities of dogs to pet stores and retailers.
As of 10:30 Wednesday night, the ZBA was still discussing decisions on the other four kennel breeding operations. This story will be updated as more details become available.
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ActorFx Basics
Actors in computer science literature respond to messages, store state internally to change future responses, and have the ability to launch other actors. We support these, as well as a publish-subscribe mechanism where an actor can publish changes to any
& all subscribed clients. This push-based model allows for actors to notify clients in a natural way for their UI stack. For example, if an actor representing a data structure is changed, the updates to that data structure can be shared with all interested
clients easily. For instance, we've built an ObservableCloudList<T> type that works with data binding in .NET GUI applications.
Our intention is that actors run in an Actor Runtime, a cluster of machines that host actors on multiple replicas. An actor's state will be duplicated on a number of replicas. There is a primary replica that services all incoming requests and handles replicating
any state changes to secondary replicas. If a primary replica crashes, a secondary is promoted and takes over. Clients reconnect to the new replica and continue executing. Here's a high level usage of actors, focusing on usage from client apps.[1]
An additional property of actors is that they only process one message/request at a time, so that the logic for each message/request has exclusive access to the actor's state. An additional property of
our actors is that, for any one client request, either all state changes (i.e., writes) associated with that request happen or none of them happen (in which case we report an error to the client). This relieves some of the burden around consistency from
an actor author.
The essence of the ActorFx model is captured in two interfaces: IActor and IActorState.
IActorState is the interface through which actor logic accesses the persistent data associated with an actor.
public interface IActorState
void Set(string key, object value);
object Get(string key);
bool TryGet(string key, out object value);
void Remove(string key);
Task Flush(); // "Commit"
By design, the interface is an abstract key-value store. The Set, Get, TryGet and Remove methods are all similar to what you might find in any Dictionary-type class. The Flush() method allows for transaction-like semantics in the actor logic; by convention,
all side-effecting IActorState operations (i.e., Set and Remove) are stored in a local side-effect buffer until Flush() is called, at which time they are committed to the durable store.
An ActorFx actor can be thought of as a highly available service, and IActor serves as the interface for that service. In its purest form, IActor would have a single method:
public interface IActor
object Eval(Func<IActorState, object[], object> function, object[] parameters);
Those familiar with object-oriented programming should be able to see a parallel here. In OOP, an instance method call is equivalent to a static method call into which you pass the "this" pointer. In the C# sample below, for example, Method1 and Method2
are equivalent in terms of functionality:
class SomeClass
int _someMemberField;
public void Method1(int num)
_someMemberField += num;
public static void Method2(SomeClass thisPtr, int num)
thisPtr._someMemberField += num;
In practice, passing delegates to actors can be tedious and error-prone, and would require all clients to have the most recent version of those delegates. Therefore, the IActor interface was changed to look like this[2] :
public interface IActor
string CallMethod(string methodName, string[] parameters );
bool AddAssembly(string assemblyName, byte[] assemblyBytes);
Note that by splitting Eval into these two different methods, an actor's implementation can be patched independently of the client application.
There are two ways to define actor methods:
(1) Define the methods directly in the actor service, "baking them in" to the service.
(Func<IActorState, object[], object>)
delegate(IActorState astate, object[] parameters)
return "Hello!";
public static object SayHello(IActorState state, object[] parameters)
return "Hello!";
You would then transport them to the actor "on-the-fly" via the actor's AddAssembly call.
All actor methods must have identical signatures (except for the method name):
Additionally, actor methods defined on the client side and transported to the actor via AddAssembly must be decorated with the ActorMethodAttribute, and must be declared as public and static.
In any client-server scenario, there exists the possibility of some confusion between the client and the server as to the final disposition of a request in the face of a server or network failure. For example, consider the following two similar situations:
In both of the above situations, R1 has successfully been processed before it is resent by the client. If R1 has side-effects, then processing R1 again could result in inconsistent data. Consider, for example, an Increment request; you would not want to
re-process such a request in these situations because the internally maintained counter would be inaccurate.
In order to support correctness in the face of such failures, we added these parameters to the IActor.CallMethod method:
public interface IActor
string CallMethod(string clientId, int clientSequenceNumber,
string methodName, string[] parameters);
bool AddAssembly(string assemblyName, byte[] assemblyBytes);
In this fashion, the actor avoids re-processing identical requests that can occur in response to network or service failures. We call this "Auto-Idempotence" because it makes all CallMethod requests essentially idempotent[3].
We wanted to be able to provide subscription and publication support for actors, so we added
these methods to the IActor interface:
public interface IActor
string CallMethod(string clientId, int clientSequenceNumber, string methodName, string[] parameters);
bool AddAssembly(string assemblyName, byte[] assemblyBytes);
void Subscribe(string eventType);
void Unsubscribe(string eventType);
void UnsubscribeAll();
Each actor can define its own events, event names and event payload formats. And note that the pub/sub feature is opt-in; it is perfectly fine for an actor to not support any events, or for clients to choose to not listen to updates.
An actor publishes notifications to its subscribers by two Publish methods added to IActorState:
public interface IActorState
// Pub/sub support
void Subscribe(IPublicationCallbackContract callerProxy, string eventType);
void Unsubscribe(IPublicationCallbackContract callerProxy, string eventType);
void UnsubscribeAll(IPublicationCallbackContract callerProxy);
void Publish(string eventType, string eventValue);
void Publish(string eventType, params object[] eventValues);
void Set(string key, object value);
object Get(string key);
bool TryGet(string key, out object value);
void Remove(string key);
Task Flush(); // "Commit"
bool ChangesPendingForCurrentOperation();
void ClearChangesForCurrentOperation(); // "Rollback"
IEnumerable<string> GetAllKeysWithPrefix(string keyPrefix);
object CallMethod(string methodName, object[] args);
If you wanted your actor to support counter semantics, you could implement an actor method as follows:
public static object IncrementCounter(IActorState state, object[] parameters)
// Grab the parameter
var amountToIncrement = (int)parameters[0];
// Grab the current counter value
int count = 0; // default on first call
object temp;
if (state.TryGet("_count", out temp)) count = (int)temp;
// Increment the counter
count += amountToIncrement;
// Store the new value
state.Set("_count", count);
// Publish new value to all subscribers
state.Publish("Counter.Value", count);
return count;
Initially, the state for the actor would be empty. After an IncrementCounter call with a parameter of 5, the actor's state would look like this:
After another IncrementCounter call with a parameter of -2, the actor's state would look like this:
Note that the result of incrementing the counter is also published to all clients that subscribed to an event named "Counter.Value" on this instance of the actor. Any applications that subscribed to this event will be pushed a notification that the counter
value has changed, and can update themselves appropriately.
Pretty simple, right? Let's try something a little more complicated.
For a slightly more complicated example, let's consider how we would implement a stack in terms of actor methods. The code would be as follows:
public static object Push(IActorState state, object[] parameters)
// Grab the object to push
var pushObj = parameters[0];
// Grab the current size of the stack
int stackSize = 0; // default on first call
object temp;
if (state.TryGet("_stackSize", out temp)) stackSize = (int)temp;
// Store the newly pushed value
var newKeyName = "_item" + stackSize;
var newStackSize = stackSize + 1;
state.Set(newKeyName, pushObj);
state.Set("_stackSize", newStackSize );
// Return the new stack size
return newStackSize;
public static object Pop(IActorState state, object[] parameters)
// No parameters to grab
// Grab the current size of the stack
int stackSize = 0; // default on first call
object temp;
if (state.TryGet("_stackSize", out temp)) stackSize = (int)temp;
// Throw on attempt to pop from empty stack
if (stackSize == 0) throw new InvalidOperationException("Attempted to pop from an empty stack");
// Remove the popped value, update the stack size
int newStackSize = stackSize - 1;
var targetKeyName = "_item" + newStackSize;
var retrievedObject = state.Get(targetKeyName);
state.Set("_stackSize", newStackSize);
// Return the popped object
return retrievedObject;
public static object Size(IActorState state, object[] parameters)
// Grab the current size of the stack, return it
int stackSize = 0; // default on first call
object temp;
if (state.TryGet("_stackSize", out temp)) stackSize = (int)temp;
return stackSize;
[Remember when examining these actor methods that each actor message is processed sequentially, so all actor methods are effectively called under lock. Thus there is no need to worry about thread-safety in the method logic.]
To summarize, the actor would contain the following items in its state:
After the items "foo", "bar" and "spam" had been pushed onto the stack, in that order, the actor's state would look like this:
A pop operation would yield the string "spam", and leave the actor's state looking like this:
Once you have actors up and running in the Actor Runtime, you can connect to those actors and manipulate them via use of the FabricActorClient. This is the FabricActorClient's interface[5]:
public class FabricActorClient
public FabricActorClient(Uri fabricUri, Uri actorUri, bool useGateway);
public bool AddAssembly(string assemblyName, byte[] assemblyBytes, bool replaceAllVersions[6] = true);
public Object CallMethod(string methodName, object[] parameters);
public IDisposable Subscribe(string eventType, IObserver<string> eventObserver);
When constructing a FabricActorClient, you need to provide three parameters:
The AddAssembly method allows you to transport an assembly to the actor. Typically that assembly would contain actor methods, effectively add behavior to or changing the existing behavior of the actor.
The CallMethod method allows you to call the method of that name on the actor. It returns the result returned by the actor.
The Subscribe method allows you to subscribe to actor events. They will be published to the provided IObserver<string> object.
[1] While our goal is to target the cloud, or initial Actor Runtime release only runs on development machines in an Azure development cluster.
[2] Note that we also changed the parameters from .NET Objects to JSON strings, to accommodate non-.NET clients. However, we still have more work to do in this area; our actor logic still expects .NET-specific decorations inside
of the JSON string in order to deserialize the passed parameters. We will work to remove this .NET dependency.
[3] Of course this simple scheme only works for synchronous requests from clients, where each client has at most one request outstanding. We would need to beef up the logic on the actor side if we were to support asynchronous
requests where each client could have several outstanding requests.
[5] There's actually more to it, but these are the important parts that one needs to know in order to begin experimenting with actors.
[6] Note that the replaceAllVersions parameter is ignored for this release, and will probably be removed in a future release.
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Anthony Rizzo's Stats from the World Baseball Classic
Anthony Rizzo's strong performance in the World Baseball Classic eased my concerns he might suffer a sophomore slump in 2013.
It's not that I expect Rizzo to struggle. He was poised and focused from the moment he arrived in late June last summer. And nothing about his 15 HRs, 48 RBI or .285/.342/.463 slash line in 87 games suggest the numbers are phony.
But sophomore slumps do happen: Jerome Walton, Geovany Soto, Randy Wells, et al.
So when Rizzo decided to join team Italy in favor of training with the Cubs this spring (and which the Cubs gave Rizzo their blessing to do so), I wasn't sold the tourney was in his best interest while entering his first full season in the bigs.
Rizzo, however, played well in his 5 WBC games, and most importantly, avoided injury. At the plate he went 4-for-17, including a couple of doubles, scored 4 runs, drove in some clutch RBI (6) and walked 5 times vs. 3 strikeouts.
Rizzo's 5 walks led the team. His 6 RBI and .409 on-base percentage ranked second-best on the squad. He added Gold Glove defense at first base.
Not to mention, the underdog Italians won their first two games in round 1 defeating Mexico 6-5 and Canada 14-4.
And they nearly won both their games in round 2, but eventually fell in thrilling one-run losses to the Dominican 5-4 and Puerto Rico 4-3.
The experience of learning from different coaches and playing in meaningful games (let's be honest, that wasn't happening with Chicago) appears to have left a positive impression on Rizzo. "It was a great experience for him," said Dale Sveum.
Is it a sign Rizzo's on track for another standout season? Let's hope so. He's the biggest bat in the lineup, aside from Soriano, and that could change in a hurry if Sori is traded or declines in production from last year.
For the Cubs to have even the slightest chance to compete this season they'll need all their top guns performing up to standards. Rizzo will obviously play a huge part, assuming he can fend off the dreaded sophomore jinx.
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Rich men do not settle for second best so either they pick up a Superleague club like Leeds, Wire or Wigan...
Or they pick up a CC club like Hull.K.R, or Widnes and make it into a Superkeague club.
Thing is HKR and Widnes are big clubs in my lifetime who had big potential to get back to the top.
Rich men would not touch actual CC/small clubs like keighley and Hunslet.
We have to live with this my friend
Never won nowt much York were once in the top division did that make them a big club? In your mind yes
Won dozens of trophies Wigan were once a CC club for a year- were they a small club that year? In your mind yes
Rich men want to invest in big clubs and do.
Small clubs dont get rich men investing.
Focus on this carefully and stop focusing on me.
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First Lady Salma Kikwete took trouble to pay courtesy visit at the national netball team's camp currently training at the Filbert Bayi Secondary School in Kibaha yesterday.
The team is gearing up for this month's international championship that has been sanctioned by the International Federation of Netball Associations, IFNA.
During her visit she was accompanied by Prime Minister's wife Tunu Pinda who has taken a crucial role in the entire campaign to set up the team ahead of the showdown later this month.
The First Lady having scrutinized a training session has been satisfied by the standard attained by the players.
She said the team stands a chance to excel in the tourney basing on the quality of its players and the gravity of their preparations.
She insisted on the players of the team to adhere to the training programme while maintaining discipline to build up team sprit and cooperation between them, coach and officials.
The team might improve its IFNA rank basing on how best they perform during the tourney.
"We have a good team comprising formidable players who stand a chance to send the rest of the visiting teams back to their homes empty handed," she said.
The Premier's wife who is also the chairperson of the tournament's organising committee the said the Netball Association (CHANETA) has in excess of seventy seven million shillings raised to cater for expenditure of staging the championship.
She said the budget projections to stage the event in the smoothest way hits at 160m/-.
She said of the total budget 82m/- will be used for camping and other preparations while 75m/- is for hosting the event.
She went on to say that the association has used 53,550,000/- for maintaining the training pitch at the school and purchase of sports equipments.
The organizing chairperson said the money was raised from companies and other well wishers, namely CRDB Bank, Serengeti Breweries, Vodacom and others.
So far eight countries have confirmed to participate at the event and these are Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and hosts Tanzania.
CHANETA acting secretary general Rose Mkisi said the national team coach Marry Protas and her technical staff have agreed to maintain the 16 players currently at the camp.
She named the players as Pili Peter, Irene Elias, Beth Kazinja, Jacqueline Skozi, Restituta Boniface, Dorothy Mbuta, and Lillian Sylidion.
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The El Paso County Sheriff's Office released a portion of the personnel file for a female deputy it claims provided information to the Gazette for a story published Wednesday night about meetings ordered by Sheriff Terry Maketa to discuss morale.
A news release, which was posted and subsequently removed Thursday afternoon on the Sheriff's Office website, included a link to Kerry Linfoot's internal affairs file and claimed she "spoke of a meeting she was in" and "offered her own comments" to the Gazette.
The Gazette does not identify sources that it grants anonymity.
When reached by phone Thursday, Linfoot said she wanted to discuss the Sheriff's Office release with her attorney before speaking with the Gazette. She did not return subsequent calls for comment.
While the release was taken down from its website, Linfoot's internal affairs file remained available online. A link to the release also was posted on the Sheriff's Office Facebook page and was later removed; the Sheriff's Office also sent the link out on twitter.
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Gifted humans
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Throughout the Twilight series, gifted humans are humans who manifest special abilities, qualities, personality traits or strong desires before they are turned into vampires. After they are turned, that ability or desire will likely magnify into a supernatural talent. Depending on the clarity of its human manifestation, the level of that talent varies after the change.
The Quileute tribal members descended from Taha Aki all manifested magical powers that allowed them to transform into giant wolves. This and the telepathic link between them in wolf form identifies them as "gifted".
Notable gifted humans
Such humans have made numerous appearances.
- Bella Swan is capable of shielding herself from all sorts of psychic powers. As a vampire, she becomes able to extend her shield to protect others other than herself. Her power was seemingly inherited from her father.
- Charlie Swan manifests a mental defense that reduces the effects of a psychic influence on his mind. This trait was later passed down to his much more powerful daughter Bella. Though he is gifted, he does not become a vampire.
- Edward Cullen had been able to read people very accurately as a human. As a vampire, it evolved into an ability to read other people's minds, both human and vampire.
- Alice Cullen was gifted with weak but predictable visions of the future. Her predictions weren't always certain and mostly manifested as feelings, but at times she could see them in visions when the future was set. This ability brought to her names and bad reputation as a human. After becoming a vampire, her visions were heightened and allowed her to see the future much more clearly, though it still had flaws.
- Jasper Hale was very charismatic as a human and he was able to persuade others to think his way. After Maria changed him, his charismatic nature became a supernatural talent that allowed him to feel and influence the feelings of those around him.
- Jane and Alec manifested unclear powers to the people around them while they were children. They were able to bring fortune to those who treated them nicely and misfortune to those who treated them otherwise. Aro was told of the twins' latent potential and hoped to change them when they were older. He was forced to change them sooner than expected, when their village accused them of witchcraft and condemned them to burn at the stake. By experiencing the burning pain, the twins' powers took manifested form - Alec focused on escaping the pain while Jane wanted others to feel it. After they became vampires, their powers made them the most valuable members of the Volturi guard.
- James was a skilled and powerful hunter as a human - he was trained to hunt and trap by his father. This skill earned him title and fame in the nearby areas. After he was transformed, this skill manifested a powerful sensory that allowed him to detect his prey's movements and track them down.
- Victoria led an abusive human life: her employers often assaulted her for any fault or just by being visible. To survive, she learned to sneak and hide from her pursuers, and then survive on her own by stealing food without notice. After she became a vampire, this self-preservation turned into a power that allowed her to sense and evade danger. Unlike most gifted vampires, her power wasn't naturally born with. Instead, her abusive life perfected her ability to survive.
- Didyme, Marcus's deceased wife, had as a human the dormant ability to induce happiness in others, which prompted her with many suitors. After she changed, it manifested much more strongly. Whoever was with her was always influenced by her happy aura.
- Kate was trained to be a bodyguard loyal to whomever she is assigned to protect. As a vampire, her protective instinct allowed her to mentally shock people.
- Benjamin was known to have been an extraordinarily gifted human since he was a child, due to his power to control the natural elements. His distant uncle used his gift for street performance, which prompted Amun to change him. As a human, he only controlled fire, but he began to manifest the other elements after becoming a vampire.
- Maggie was born with the ability to sense whether someone was lying, which manifested much more sharply after she was changed by Siobhan.
- Alistair was a skilled hunter as a human and enjoyed the company of falcons more than people. By becoming a vampire, his skill turned into a power to feel an elusive gravitational pull to whatever he seeks.
- Fred shunned all social contact and became emotionally and physically distant from people. As a vampire, his withdrawal turned into a power that allowed him to drive away pursuers by inflicting them with a sense of repulsion.
- Raoul was a gang leader as a human. When he became a vampire, his sense of superiority became a power to draw weak-minded people to him and make them view him as their leader.
Quileute tribal members
- Kaheleha was a spirit chief of the tribe in ancient times, before the tribe's magic was altered to transforming into giant wolves. At that time, he and the other chiefs possessed the power of astral projection, which they used to protect their tribe from enemies.
- Taha Aki was a spirit chief in the 12th century. He was the first tribal member to shapeshift into a wolf.
- Taha Wi was Taha Aki's son, who naturally inherited the power to phase into a wolf.
- Utlapa was Taha Aki's spirit warrior before betraying him by possessing his body to take over the tribe. At that time, his tribal power was astral projection.
- Yaha Uta was Taha Aki's son who inherited the power to phase into a wolf.
- Yut was Taha Aki's spirit warrior with the power of astral projection.
- Ephraim Black was an Alpha of the wolf pack in the 1930s. As the Alpha, he had control over his followers.
- Levi Uley was the "Beta" of Ephraim Black's pack in the 1930s.
- Quil Ateara II was the third member of Ephraim Black's pack in the 1930s.
- Sam Uley was the first person of the latest generation to inherit the power to shapeshift. As he took care of the other members, he naturally assumed the role of Alpha in the Uley pack, which became important when Jacob refused the role.
- Jared Cameron was the second Quileute of the latest generation to phase, after Sam Uley. He was known to have the best sight of the pack, and was later promoted to his pack's "Beta".
- Paul Lahote was the third person to join the Uley pack. He had the hardest time controlling his phasing, since it was mainly triggered by anger. Furthermore, Paul's temperamental behavior was heightened by the change.
- Embry Call was the fourth Quileute to phase and join the Uley pack.
- Jacob Black was the fifth Quileute to join the Uley pack; with his rightful place to Alpha, Jacob broke away from the pack and formed one of his own. As the Alpha, he had a supernatural command over his followers.
- Quil Ateara V was the sixth person to join the Uley pack, later joining the Black pack to be with his friends.
- Leah Clearwater was the seventh Quileute (and the first female in history) to join the Uley pack, later becoming "Beta" of the Black pack. Despite being the smallest in size, she was known as the fastest in both packs.
- Seth Clearwater was the eighth Quileute to join the Uley pack, and later disbanded to join the Black pack. He was known to have the best sense of hearing in both packs.
- Brady Fuller and Collin Littlesea were among a number of the youngest Quileute to join the Uley pack.
It is questionable whether or not Edward's birth mother, Elizabeth Masen, was gifted. This is supported by her conversation with Carlisle, when she told him to do what everyone else could not do to save her son; in addition, it has been noted that certain gifts are hereditary, similar to Bella and Charlie.


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Welcome to the Columbia River Gorge Blog
Welcome to the Skamania Lodge Blog. We wanted to give you a place to share your favorite Columbia River Gorge hotel memory or experience. Read, post, and share.
Summer Fun Group Ideas in The Columbia River Gorge
There seems to be a common thread with the upcoming Insurance or Finance group events coming to Skamania Lodge this summer; teambuilding and recreation time. Anywhere from an hour to ½ the day, these groups are putting up the expense and effort of bringing people together for personal experiences and fun, especially in a setting as lovely as Skamania Lodge located in the Columbia River Gorge!


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Triad Fish Van
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The Triad Fish Van, also known as the Belly in Grand Theft Auto Advance, is a large truck featured in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto Advance and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. It is the gang car of the Triads.
GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories
Despite Mule looking like it, the Triad Fish Van is essentially a box truck distinguishable only by it's Belly-Up Fish & Seafood Processing Plant name visible on the sides and front of the truck's cargo compartment. The Fish Vans also earn the distinction as the earliest gang cars to appear with multiple body colors (shared with the Mule), when other gangs cars in GTA III and GTA 2 were only using single color schemes making the only gang car that has multiple colors in GTA III Era.
The Triad Fish Van has better acceleration than Mule, with a lighter body and improved speed, and it is all wheel drive. It's size also makes the Triad Fish Van one of the largest gang cars in the series, alongside the Karma Bus in GTA 2.
Since the Triad Fish Van is a gang car driven by the Liberty City Triads, it is native to the Chinatown district of Portland Island, Liberty City, but may also be found within the Belly-Up Fish & Seafood Processing Plant compound in Callahan Point, Portland Island.
GTA Advance
GTA Advance's rendition of the fish van, known as the "Belly", received substantial changes, modifying its role and design.
In comparison to the similarly designed Wong, the Belly in GTA Advance is slightly smaller in size. The truck is also driven by civilians instead of the Triads, and because of this can be found in every district of Liberty City. The Wong effectively takes over the role of the Belly as the Triads' gang car.
The Belly is always yellow, unlike the Wong, which has multiple colors. Interestingly, if you look closely while flipping over the Belly, you can make out the words "TOYZ IN DA HOOD" on the van's side, which appeared on GTA III's TOYZ van.
Grand Theft Auto III
- Raffles Fish Factory, Chinatown, Portland
- Belly-Up Fish & Seafood Processing Plant, Callahan Point, Portland (never appears after the mission)
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Thursday, April 3, four experts on technology in higher education share their ideas about the intersection of liberal arts with teaching and learning technologies.
Speakers' bios, the schedule, and descriptions of presentations are available online.
Also included are several short videos of Grinnell professors discussing how they use technology in their teaching:
- Erik Simpson, professor of English, discusses his students' development of electronic resources for reading and analyzing James Joyce's "Ulysses."
- Elaine Marzluff, professor of chemistry, describes how her students use iPads to collaborate and share their work in class.
- Todd Armstrong, professor of Russian, explains how his beginning language students use various technologies such as online scrapbooks and VoiceThread to create personal narratives, and Skype to talk with their peers in Russia.
- Chris Ralston, professor of psychology, describes how he uses Classroom Salon, a document annotation application that allows students to share questions and comments. The program also allows Ralston to review their annotations and to guide discussion accordingly.
- Cynthia Hansen, professor of anthropology, describes her use of smart pens and video conferencing to assist her students' study of linguistics and phonology.
- Catherine Rod, special collections librarian and archivist, and Sam Dunnington '14 share new venues for publication of student work and greater access to primary materials through the college library.
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The Wall Street Journal profiled Qihoo 360 Technologies (NYSE: QIHU) founder Zhou Hongyi.
Williams Financial Group analyst Cody Acree said that Advanced Micro Devices' (NYSE: AMD) largest shareholder Mubadala Development would most likely extend a loan to the company if necessary.
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Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) vice president Roy Sehgal and general manager Steve Schreck have left the online social gaming company.
SunCoke Energy (NYSE: SXE) postponed the initial public offering of a limited partnership.
Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Graham downgraded Bankrate (NYSE: RATE) to a Hold rating and lowered his price target from $16 to $14.
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|Literal English
|Decapitating Carving Knife
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|Executioner's Blade
|English anime
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|Seversword (断刀, Dantō)
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The Kubikiribōchō (首斬り包丁, Literally meaning: Decapitating Carving Knife) is a massive broadsword shaped like a giant butcher knife, earning it the title of "seversword" (断刀, dantō). Like the other weapons belonging to the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, the sword is passed down from generation to generation amongst the group's members.
Although this giant blade was said to have been used by Mangetsu Hōzuki, it became the trademark weapon of Zabuza during his time as one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. After defecting from Kirigakure, he continued to use it up until his death, where it was left beside his grave until Suigetsu took it for himself three years later.
During Taka's fight with Killer B, not only did the Kumogakure jinchūriki wield the blade momentarily,[1] he managed to slice into a portion of the blade, weakening it considerably.[2] When later confronting the Fourth Raikage, A struck the blade along the same cut that B had created, splitting it into two.[3]
Despite being halved, Suigetsu continued to use the blade, which now resembled a cleaver, knowing it has regenerative capabilities, but the sword was taken from him when he was captured and imprisoned by the Land of Iron's samurai. However, in spite of trying to locate the sword after his escape, he was unable to find it anywhere.[4] Shortly afterwards, during the clash between Kabuto Yakushi's troops and the Third Division of the Allied Shinobi Forces, the sword is shown having been returned to a reincarnated Zabuza, who starts striking down numerous enemies with it in order to reform the broken blade.
Nevertheless, the sword is only fully restored after Zabuza wounds Kakashi Hatake, who had been immobilised by Haku.[5] Later, with Zabuza's defeat, Kakashi took the blade into his possession and has shown great skill in using it in battle. While doing so, he flowed lightning-natured chakra through the sword to enhance its cutting power, similar to the Sword of Kusanagi: Chidori Katana technique of his former student.[6] When Kakashi saves Naruto Uzumaki from Tobi, the sword is not seen in his possession.
The blade itself has two cut outs, a circle close to the top and a semi-circular one nearer the handle, that aptly fit the sword's purpose of decapitation, as demonstrated through Suigetsu Hōzuki's use.[7] The latter notch allows a strap to be wrapped around the weapon, making it easier for the user to carry. Its extremely long handle is also detachable to further aid transportation and then reattached when required for combat.[8] However, despite being well-trained, Suigetsu noted that the heaviness of the blade could still tire him out easily; a problem Zabuza Momochi didn't have.
Like the other weapons employed by the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, the sword possesses a unique power, this being its ability to reform itself using the iron harvested from the blood of its victims. This regenerative process takes place almost instantaneously and is capable of bringing the weapon back to its original condition no matter how severe the damage is, from a simple chip or nick to a complete separation of over half the blade.
- In the manga, Suigetsu simply retrieves the blade from Zabuza's grave. In the anime, however, some time after Zabuza's death, the sword was stolen by Tenzen Daikoku: a crime boss who lost many men to the blade. It was kept as a trophy and was used by one of his bodyguards until Suigetsu forcefully took it.[9]


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I would assume the Imperial Plaza is located in the capital of Cardassia Prime (Lakat), but I couldn't find it for certain.--VDukat 00:02, June 2, 2012 (UTC)
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