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This is a proposed implementation to add cycle reference support to Avro. It basically introduce a new type named Cycle. Cycles contains a string representing the path to the other reference.
For example if we have an object of type Message that have a member named previous with type Message too. If we have have this hierarchy:
previous : message2
previous : message2
When serializing the cycle path for "message2.previous" will be "previous".
The implementation depend on ANTLR to evaluate those cycle at read time to resolve them. I used ANTLR 3.2. This dependency is not mandated; I just used ANTLR to speed thing up. I kept in this implementation the generated code from ANTLR though this should not be the case as this should be generated during the build. I only updated the Java code.
I did not make full unit testing but you can find "avrotest.Main" class that can be used a preliminary test.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for further clarification if this seems interresting.
Best regards,
Moustapha Cherri
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implementation patch from version 1.4.1
Our project need cycle reference support. Thanks for submitting the patch. When trying to use it, I noticed a bug in GenericData.Array. It needs to override AbstractList.set(int, T) as below section of GenericDatumReader.interpretCycles() uses set call. Currently, it throws UnsupportedOperationException at line 175
if (record instanceof List){ ((List) record).set(Integer.parseInt(field), result); // line 175 }
else{ Array.set(record, Integer.parseInt(field), result); }
Dear Xiaolu,
Please find the fix to the issue you mentioned. I fixed more issues related to GenericDatumReader too.
Thanks for your reply and interest in this.
Best regards,
Moustapha Cherri
The current patch is a specification change, since it adds a new schema type, "cycle". It is back-compatible, but not forward-compatible: implementations that do not implement cycles would be unable to read data that contains cycle schemas.
Instead, a schema for a cycle reference might be defined. For example, one could define a org.apache.avro.cycles.CycleReference record containing a single integer field. CycleReference would only be used in unions with types that it may refer to. The DatumWriter would keep a IdentityHashMap<Object,Integer> of records, maps and arrays written, adding an entry the first time an instance is seen, and writing a CycleReference for subsequent occurrences in appropriate unions. The DatumReader would then keep an array of all records, maps and arrays that have been read and, when it reads a CycleReference in a union, return a pointer to the indicated element of that array.
Adding cycles should not slow applications that do not require this feature. They could be implemented in newly defined CycleDatumReader/Writer, or perhaps GenericDatumReader and GenericDatumWriter could be modified to optionally handle such cycles.
Dear Doug,
Thanks for your valuable comments. I agree with you. I will implement them soon. I will build a wrapper around GenericDatumReader and GenericDatumWriter so that applications can inject this aspect as needed. Wrapping will allow application using for example ReflectDatumReader/ ReflectDatumWriter to use this feature without implementing a new special class for them.
Best regards,
Moustapha Cherri
Support for circular references without modifying the grammar.
Doug Cutting, this patch takes above recommendations into account.
Example of a simple circular reference (very common in Java and Hibernate world):
class Parent
class Child{ Parent parent; String city; }
Without this fix, Avro correctly generates schema for the above but fails with StackOverflow error when trying to serialize actual objects with circular reference.
This fix requires following steps for using it:
1) Allow clients to choose name of the extra-field which every entity can use to store its ID.
ReflectData rdata = ReflectData.AllowNull.get();
2) One must pass the same rdata when serializing objects.
DatumWriter<T> datumWriter = new ReflectDatumWriter (T.class, rdata);
3) MUST use the same field-name when reading circular-reference objects.
GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> datumReader = new GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> ();
GenericData gdata = datumReader.getData();
If field-name is different, there may be no error but circular references will not be resolved.
4) Choose if the circular references should be fully resolved or not.
datumReader.setResolveCircularRefs (false);
If this is set to true, circular references will point to actual objects forming a cycle.
If this is set to false, circular references will point to dummy objects having only the circular-reference-ID. This option allows Avro to work everywhere else without running into infinite loops (like GenericRecord.toString()) while providing users enough information to
form true circular references themselves if required.
Test-case provided for circular references in List and Maps as well.
Happy to make modifications if any.
For designs with no circular reference, the above options need not be used and those clients would not be affected thus.
This does not appear to write data that other implementations can read. Am I missing something? It also appears to require that, to support circularity, the first field in a record must be a string.
Rather, I think we must explicitly add the reference to the schema, e.g.:
{"type":"record", "name":"CircularListOfStrings", "fields":[ {"name":"value", "type":"string"}, {"name":"next", "type":["CircularListOfStrings","int"]} ]}
A circular instance would appear to existing Avro implementations as a non-circular list of strings terminating with an integer.
For other applications to read, they must set in the field-name used for circular reference:
GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> datumReader = new GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> (); GenericData gdata = datumReader.getData(); gdata.setCircularRefIdPrefix("__crefId");
If they use the above for the reader, then the output would be:
{ "__crefId":"0", "name":"John Sr", "child":{ "__crefId":"1", "name":"John Jr", "parent":{ "__crefId":"__crefId0", "name":null, "child":null } } }
And if they set the flag:
datumReader.setResolveCircularRefs (true);
Then the reference to parent is actually replaced with the reference to the actual parent.
The reason I have made the actual reference optional is because some tools might not be prepared to handle circular reference yet.
For example, GenericRecord.toString() fails with StackOverflow if the reference is replaced with an actual one.
Default value for datumReader.setResolveCircularRefs is false, so the output record's type is consistent with the schema and it has enough information for clients to help them deduce circular reference.
As per this fix, the first field in a record must be a string to support circularity.
Doug Cutting, I could not get why other applications would not be able to read it.
Could you provide an example?
If they use the following, Avro reader can read the data and so other applications can also.
GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> datumReader = new GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> (); GenericData gdata = datumReader.getData(); gdata.setCircularRefIdPrefix("<id>");
I am actually trying to follow the Jackson way of doing it (We have used this approach for Jackson in several places and it worked well).
By other implementations I mean C, C++, Python, Perl, C#, Ruby, & PHP. Existing versions of these should be able to read a data file that contains circular references written by Java.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it looks like once the reference ID is read the rest of the schema is skipped. If that's correct, then, in order for an existing implementation to be able to read such data it must declare a union of the id type and the record type, to accurately describe what's written.
Doug Cutting, excellent suggestion.
I have made the suggested changes in the new patch:
1) If
is set, Avro converts each RECORD schema into a UNION schema such that it can either be a record or a string. This should make circular references readable by other implementations of Avro like c, c++, php, ruby etc.
(AllowNull also works with this).
2) Added some thread-safe constructs like ThreadLocal for hash-maps used in circular reference code.
3) Enhanced the test-case (with detailed comments) to test regular deserialization and circular deserialization for a circular-ref serialized Avro.
Circular References
Extra API required (not optional):
If the above is set, following happens:
- During serialization, each record contains the extra field specified above. The value for this field is just a monotonically increasing number meant to uniquely identify each record in one particular serialization.
- While writing schema, each RECORD schema is converted into a UNION schema such that it can either be a record or a string. During object serialization, if a record is seen before, it is not written as a record. Rather it is written as a string in the format: "some-field-name" + "ID-generated-in #1 above". With this structure, reading applications have enough information to restore the circular reference if they want. This structure is also usable by languages not supporting circular reference because they will read that circular-reference as a normal string.
(AllowNull also works with this).
- Above field-name is included in each record as a property. This allows the readers to become aware of this field-name so that the clients do not have to specify this just to populate the circular references. Basically it makes the schema self-sufficient.
Extra API required (optional):
Based on #3 above, GenericDatumReader becomes circular-reference-aware.
But since all GenericDatumReaders share a common GenericData instance, they are provided with another flag "resolveCircularRefs" to control whether they want to resolve circular references or not.
If this flag is set and the serialized schema has non-null value for circular-reference-field, GenericDatumReader does the following:
- If any record has circular-ref-field, store its value and the corresponding record in a map.
- Look for unions which can be serialized as a record as well as a string. On finding such a record serialized as a string, replace the string with the record retreived from the map created in #1
Non-string map-keys
No extra API required.
Without this patch, Avro throws an exception for non-string map-keys.
This patch converts such maps into an array of records where each record has two fields: key and value. Example:
Map<ObjX, ObjY> is converted to [{"key":
, "value":{ObjY}}]
To do this, following is done:
- In ReflectData.java, create schema for key as well as value in the non-string hash-map.
Encapsulate these two schemas into a record schema and create an array schema of such records.
Set property NS_MAP_FLAG to "1" and store the actual class of the map as a CLASS_PROP
- While writing out a non-string map field, if NS_MAP_FLAG is set, convert map to array of records using map.entrySet()
No extra API required.
Deserialization for non-string map-keys is pretty simple since data and the schema match exactly.
So it just deserializes automatically.
To create an actual map (like when using ReflectDatumReader with actual-class type-parameter), map is instantiated using CLASS_PROP if the property NS_MAP_FLAG is set to "1"
Testcases included
The unit tests cover the following:
- Circular references at multiple levels of hierarchy
- Circular references within Collections and Maps.
- Circular and non-circular deserialization of circularly serialized objects.
- Non-string map-keys having circular references.
- Non-string map-keys with nested maps.
For some reason I cannot apply the patch file you've generated, so it's hard for me to analyze it in detail. What tool are you using to generate this patch?
I'd prefer we use an explicit type rather than overload string for this purpose. A union with a record like:
{"type":"record","name":"org.apache.avro.CircularRef", "fields":[{"name":"ref", "type":int}]}
We don't ever have to create or define such a record. Rather, a CustomEncoding can be used to directly resolve such references at read time. (If circular references are not enabled then a GenericRecord would be read.) No string prefixing, etc. would then be required.
Rather than modifying ReflectData to support this, might we instead create a subclass of ReflectData that supports circular references?
Non-string map key support in reflection should be addressed in a separate issue.
Thanks Doug.
I created the patch using diff -r and it can be patched using patch -i <patch-file>
For non-string map-keys, I have submitted a separate patch at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-680
Could you please explain your comment regarding circular references in more detail?
I will change my patch accordingly.
For example, here is a circular reference schema generated using Avro:
{ "type" : "record", "name" : "SimpleParent", "namespace" : "org.apache.avro.generic", "fields" : [ { "name" : "parentName", "type" : [ "null", "string" ], "default" : null }, { "name" : "child", "type" : [ "null", { "type" : "record", "name" : "SimpleChild", "fields" : [ { "name" : "childName", "type" : [ "null", "string" ], "default" : null }, { "name" : "parent", "type" : [ "null", "SimpleParent"], "default" : null } ] }, "string" ], "default" : null } ] }
The current code converts it to the following:
{ "type" : "record", "name" : "SimpleParent", "namespace" : "org.apache.avro.generic", "fields" : [ { "name" : "__crefId", "type" : "string" }, { "name" : "parentName", "type" : [ "null", "string" ], "default" : null }, { "name" : "child", "type" : [ "null", { "type" : "record", "name" : "SimpleChild", "fields" : [ { "name" : "__crefId", "type" : "string" }, { "name" : "childName", "type" : [ "null", "string" ], "default" : null }, { "name" : "parent", "type" : [ "null", "SimpleParent", "string" ], "default" : null } ], "circularRefIdPrefix" : "__crefId" }, "string" ], "default" : null } ], "circularRefIdPrefix" : "__crefId" }
Can you please apply your comments above to this example?
It will help me in understanding how it would be different from the above solution.
As per my understanding, circular references can come in any record-type element.
So CustomeEncoder approach would need to write it as a record sometimes or a string/int sometimes.
Can a CustomEncoder pass the control to regular Avro Encoder to write a record normally?
I don't mean to be grouchy, but I'm not convinced this is a feature that Avro really needs to have. It adds complexity to all the language implementations of Avro that need to support it, and it creates difficulties for anyone who needs to map between Avro's data model and another data model (e.g. representing Avro data in JSON format, or accessing Avro data in Pig through Pig's type system).
For an application that needs to model an arbitrary graph of references between objects in Avro, I would argue that it's actually better for the object IDs to be explicitly visible in the data model, rather than being automatically resolved and thus hidden.
If there's some really awesome use case for circular references that I'm missing, I'm open to being convinced. But I don't currently see it.
I imagine a schema like the following, to permit potentially circular linked lists:
{"type":"record", "name":"List", "fields":[ {"name":"nodeName", "type":"string"}, {"name":"next", "type": ["null", "List", {"type":"record","name":"org.apache.avro.CircularRef","fields":[{"name":"id","type":"int"}] }] }] }
The writer would add an entry to an IdentityHashMap<Object,Integer> for every sub-record it writes. Whenever it encounters a previously-written record, it writes a ref instead. Similarly, the reader would add each records it reads to an array, and when a ref is read, return the corresponding element of the array.
Such functionality should entirely be contained in CircularData (subclass of ReflectData) and CircularDatumReader and CircularDatumWriter, with no alterations to existing classes (except perhaps to expose functionality to subclasses if needed).
The writer would add an entry to an IdentityHashMap<Object,Integer> for every sub-record it writes. Whenever it encounters a previously-written record, it writes a ref instead. Similarly, the reader would add each records it reads to an array, and when a ref is read, return the corresponding element of the array.
The current fix does use an IdentityHashMap to do this. Reference code in patch:
- GenericDatumWriter.java, line 40 and
- GenericDatumReader.java, line 46
Please correct me if I am wrong, but it appears the schema generated for a circular list should look somewhat like this:
{ "type" : "record", "name" : "CircularList", "namespace" : "org.apache.avro.generic", "fields" : [ { "name" : "__crefId", "type" : "string" }, { "name" : "nodeData", "type" : [ "null", "string" ], "default" : null }, { "name" : "next", "type" : [ "null", "CircularList", "string" ], "default" : null } ], "circularRefIdPrefix" : "__crefId" }
(This is generated using current patch)
Circular references could be just anywhere in the code.
For example, in a family-tree involving grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, children, grandchildren etc. circular references could be encountered for many branches outgoing from a single node.
Since we do not know which outgoing link would reveal itself as an already-traversed-node, the __crefId field needs to be written in advance for each and every record. Hence the need for a separate field in each record.
"fields" : [ { "name" : "__crefId", "type" : "string" }, ....
Now, when we do encounter an already-traversed-node, the node must be written as an ID. Hence every record's type must be a union with string:
"type" : [ "null", "CircularList", "string" ]
I would be happy to consider other options if the above seems incorrect.
If it seems correct, .
Martin Kleppmann, Currently Avro supports circular references in schema.
So supporting circular references in data should be a natural extension of the same.
Also, circular references are very common in ORM (like Hibernate/JPA) and Java based programs in general.
And parsers like Gson and Jackson support this feature too.
The serialized data from the above patch should work with all language implementations and also with Hive/Pig (because we are breaking the circular reference by changing it to an ID).
Please share if you think otherwise.
I realize this is what you've implemented, however I think the implementation can be improved.
I would prefer that the circular reference not be a string, but rather be a unique type, e.g., a record named CircularRef that contains an integer id field.
I agree that all object references in a schema need to be changed to unions containing possible circular references. However I don't see that a target id field needs to be added to all records. Rather the target id can be implicit, based on the order that sub-objects are written, as follows.
In each call to DatumWriter#write, an IdentityHashMap<Object,Integer> table is created. In #resolveUnion, when a union containing a record and a CircularRef is passed a record, it looks for the record in the table. If the record already exists in the table, then the CircularRef branch is returned, writing a reference containing the integer value from the table. If the record does not exist in the table, then an entry for it is added to the table whose value is the current size of the table, and the record branch of the union is returned and written.
Then, each call to DatumReader#read creates a Vector<Object>. If #readRecord reads a CircularRef, then it returns the item indicated by its id in the vector, otherwise it adds a reference to each record read to the vector.
I believe this can work, is more strongly-typed, and avoids adding new fields to schemas, only inserting unions for record references.
Thanks Doug Cutting.
I agree that this will eliminate the need for another field in each record.
Will make this change and submit another patch shortly.
avro_circular_refs6.patch is created using
lang/java/avro% svn diff src/
It eliminates the need to add an extra field per record and relies on the order of record-writing and reading.
In this patch, there is an equals check at 3 places of the form:
I think this could be improved by adding a boolean-property in the schema for CircularRef or somehow comparing the class.
Comments are welcome.
Some comments on the latest patch:
- the CircularRef class is not used in generic. in fact, it probably doesn't need to exist at all, we could always use a GenericData.Record. instead we perhaps need constants with the CircularRef schema, it's name, etc.
- it might be more efficient to use IndexedRecord#get(int) to access the circular ref id.
- we should benchmark performance with and without this change with circular references disabled using Perf.java, to make sure that changes to read & write methods, clearing state etc., don't significantly affect performance.
avro_circular_refs7.patch fixes the above.
Performance has been checked by running Perf.java for 8k cycles (PERF_8000_cycles.zip contains a small Tcl utility to compare two outputs of Perf.java)
% tclsh perf_processor.tcl all/orig.txt all/circular.txt Finding tests where time is 1.05 times more than the original orig.txt circular.txt GenericWrite: 34552 ms 37010 ms ReflectNestedObjectArrayWrite: 51701 ms 54562 ms LongRead: 12508 ms 16907 ms % tclsh perf_processor.tcl reduced/orig.txt reduced/circular.txt Finding tests where time is 1.05 times more than the original orig.txt circular.txt GenericWrite: 33359 ms 35552 ms % tclsh perf_processor.tcl reduced_further/orig.txt reduced_further/circular.txt Finding tests where time is 1.05 times more than the original
So the Perf.java shows irregular performance degradation and that too varies only in small numbers.
Here's a modified version of the patch. It moves all significant changes to reflect. Since reflect is the only implementation that can generate an appropriate schema, changes should be confined to there.
The tests need to be updated, as they still assume generic.
Here is a patch with the updated test-cases.
I also confirm that all my changes are there in the patch.
On a related note, Hive AvroSerDe will also be supporting circular references from now on.
Associated JIRA: HIVE-7653
Pull request: Hive code changes
GitHub user sachingsachin opened a pull request:
AVRO-695: Support for circular references.
All objects are put into a temporary thread-local hash-map whose key is the object and value is an integer ID.
If any object is seen again while serializaing, its ID is taken from the hash-map, wrapped into 'CircularRef' class and the CircularRef wrapper is serialized instead.
On deserializing, if the CircularRef is encountered, we know that it has to be the ID of a previously seen object.
And so we restore the same.
On the schema side, we create unions of all classes with CircularRef if the user suspects circular references in his code. This union makes sure the above writers are able to write a CircularRef instead of the actual object.
Note that this strategy is perfectly safe in other languages' deserialization of a circularly referenced data.
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/sachingsachin/avro
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #23
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Author: Sachin Goyal <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: 2015-03-09T22:18:01Z
AVRO-695: Support for circular references.
All objects are put into a temporary thread-local hash-map whose key is the object and value is an integer ID.
If any object is seen again while serializaing, its ID is taken from the hash-map,
wrapped into 'CircularRef' class and the CircularRef wrapper is serialized instead.
On deserializing, if the CircularRef is encountered, we know that it has to be the ID of a previously seen object.
And so we restore the same.
On the schema side, we create unions of all classes with CircularRef if the user suspects circular references in his code.
This union makes sure the above writers are able to write a CircularRef instead of the actual object.
Note that this strategy is perfectly safe in other languages' deserialziation of a circularly referenced data.
Ryan Blue, Doug Cutting, Circular references are very common in Hibernate related code and in Java.
So I would really appreciate your help in getting this one merged.
Updated the pull request with the merged
AVRO-680 changes in trunk.
Also, added a test for circular references in the keys and values of a non-string map.
Map <Foo, Bar> abc;
The above code can now be a non-string map with circular references for Foo as well as Bar.
This can help support very complex Java objects with ease.
Sachin Goyal, on the Avro list I sent an example of using logical types to implement circular references. Did that work for your use case? The code I sent is now a unit test for logical types. If that satisfies you, then maybe we can close out this issue.
We can also look at adding the referencable and reference logical types so you can use them without adding them yourself.
Closing this since it is available using logical types and is used as a test case.
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A number of computers have issues when they awake from Sleep/Hibernate/Standby or even ScreenSaver.. Test it by disabling all of those items and leave the screen and computer active.. If it fixes the issues, then it's a toss-up as to the fix.. Sometimes, installing an updated motherboard/chipset drivers will take care of it.. Sometimes, updating the BIOS fixes the problem, and sometimes, you need to tinker with the "Power Options" in the BIOS and computer settings.
You might even try a different microphone.. The drivers for a different brand might be more compatible and work fine with your system.
On a few computers here, because we needed immediate access after long periods of idle, we simply disabled all the power-saving stuff and left them running all the time.
Hope this helps.
So I have a Xonar Essence STX with a turtle beach X12 headset hooked up all in the back. It seems that the microphone stops working after the computer has been on for some time. It seems pretty random. If I leave my computer and come back a few hours later. I can only seem to get it to work if I restart my PC! I can still hear that the microphone works, because I hear myself through the headset, but I can't record and nobody can hear me. I've tried multiple things, but the only thing that works is a fresh restart. Plz any ideas? I've updated to the latest drivers, messed with control panel settings. Went into the Xonar menu and tried switching the front panel microphone. Still Nothing. It's like something gets shut off and the only thing to turn it back on is the restart.


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Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.
Last week, we touched on some heavy issues concerning life, loss, and the general hurdles that life puts in front of all of us. Speaking for myself, it was good to get it out of my system. I hope it was for all of you who commented, too. It's time now to move on. It is Loaded time, after all.
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.
After a sort of long downtime of not much public activity with my band Loaded, things are finally starting to go public.
On Tuesday, three of our new songs and the cover-art from our upcoming record, The Taking, were leaked on BLABBERMOUTH. A few years ago, digital streams as leaks spelled doom for a band's future record sales; now they are looked at as almost a good thing, something that can get a prospective audience pumped and talking about the upcoming release of the full-length. It is almost like it is free advertising, like "Here, check out some of THIS. It is so good and precious, that someone figured out how to hack into the label's mainframe computer and unleash this new kick-ass music." Hey, for me, and everything that I have seen over the years in this business, who cares? As long as people are talking.
I'm on a flight right now back up to Seattle where we are going to do a few more segments of "RADIO LOADED" on KISW. Sean Kinney will be joining in again . . . and who knows? Maybe he and I will actually one day have a radio hour of our own--an everyday thing. But that would be way off in the future.
Loaded is making a movie, too. What? A film? Some people who know about it think that perhaps somehow we have suddenly become "actors," and hence, the film will be a shoddy attempt at scripted dialogue. Really, it is nothing like that.
I tried acting one time back in the late '90s. I got a call from a show called Sliders starring Jerry O'Connell on the Sci-Fi Channel. They needed a punk-rock vampire who could play drums (I sort of do that), who could go around killing people, and generally be a badass. Roger Daltrey had been the guest star the week before, so I thought, "Fuck it! Why not?" I was newly sober and open to try anything new at least once for the life-experience factor. I was trying to face fears. There were a bunch of speaking lines, and, long story short, I sucked (pun intended).
No, the Loaded movie will be more in line with a very twisted A Hard Day's Night, a movie where the songs on the record did all the "talking," and the band was just trying to make its way through a bunch of insane circumstances to get from point A to point B. If you like male prostitution, killing a child predator, ferries, motorcycles, hang-gliders, bi-planes, and Mary Kay Letourneau, this Loaded flick may just be for you.
Filmmaker and general visionary Jamie Chamberlin is helming this project, and I must say he may be West Seattle's best kept secret, artist-wise.
While Motorhead is in town this Friday at the Showbox, the great Lemmy Kilmister has agreed to play a cameo role in the movie, which I am psyched about.
It is very likely too, that we may be playing some surprise and unannounced acoustic shows around town for the filming: "Flash gigs," if you will.
Rumor has it that we may be recording a song for an upcoming ZZ Top tribute record this weekend too. If it doesn't happen this week, it will happen soon, I am told. Other acts include Queens of the Stone Age, Mastodon, Wolfmother, Stone Sour, and more. Either way, the record should be pretty interesting.
Next week, the band starts gearing up the press machine. Interview after interview after interview. It is actually one of the most rigorous things that I have to do in my professional life. It can get exhausting answering the same question over and over, without seeming like a jerk. I do realize, after all this time, that the interviewer you are talking to currently did not in fact know the questions the last guy asked me. None of them are trying to be repetitive.
All this stuff comes at the exact right time for me personally, as I just got done writing and doing a first full edit of my book. It was 14 months of huge ups and downs for me, to a level I did not expect. I can see why people get ghostwriters. I can get real, real painful and uneasy digging up skeletons and re-examining the whole sludge and effluvia of your wreckage.
So onward and forward we trudge: The fine gentlemen of The Loaded Group. Taking no names and no prisoners. Hide your daughters (and sons?), and sharpen up on your Scrabble game, because ready or not, here we come.


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Forgot that a lot of the B&W drawings I did for the book aren't on Deviant. So I'll start posting. First, here is Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn.
One of the best caricatures of Liam Neeson!
good work
Man you are the shizzle! Awesome work. the expression is ditto!
haha. This one looks great. The nose and eyes are dead on.
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Grand Jury Clears Detective In Killing of Unarmed Guard
Published: July 28, 2000
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Mr. Morgenthau's remarks yesterday, and a summary of the case for Police Commissioner Howard Safir that prosecutors released to news organizations, provided the most vivid picture to date of what happened shortly after midnight on March 16.
According to the prosecutors' report, the commander of the Midtown South Precinct had requested the help of narcotics detectives after reviewing mounting evidence that the Bloods gang was selling crack cocaine on Eighth Avenue between West 34th and West 43rd Streets. And so for two nights, a team -- consisting of Detectives Vasquez, Anderson Moran, and Julio Cruz -- was assigned to the area. Detective Moran posed as a drug buyer. His two peers served as ''ghosts,'' or backups.
Mr. Morgenthau said Detective Moran saw Mr. Dorismond and a companion, Kevin Kaiser, standing in front of the Wakamba Cocktail Lounge at 543 Eighth Avenue. Mr. Kaiser has said that Mr. Dorismond was waiting for a taxi. With his ghosts watching, the detective approached Mr. Dorismond and asked him if he had any ''krills,'' street slang for crack cocaine.
The encounter immediately turned hostile. Mr. Morgenthau said witnesses testified that Mr. Dorismond argued with Detective Moran, using foul language, and advanced on him as the detective backed away. The other two detectives came to Detective Moran's side, Mr. Morgenthau said, and the three men began to walk backward as Mr. Dorismond continued to approach and his friend, Mr. Kaiser, tried to restrain him.
Mr. Morgenthau described a flash point: Mr. Dorismond broke free from his friend and punched Officer Moran, he said, and the dispute descended into chaos. ''Everyone was swinging fists, pushing and grabbing at each other in a general melee or brawl,'' he said.
Mr. Morgenthau said Detective Vasquez told investigators that he heard either Mr. Dorismond or Mr. Kaiser yell ''gun'' or ''get the gun,'' and, believing that the brawl was about to turn into a gunfight, the detective yelled ''police,'' stepped forward and reached into his pants to withdraw a concealed pistol.
As he did so, Mr. Morgenthau said, Mr. Dorismond grabbed the detective's right hand and the weapon and began twisting. The gun fired, blasting a bullet into the left side of Mr. Dorismond's chest, perforating his aorta and killing him within minutes.
Detective Vasquez, Mr. Morgethau said, ''did not intentionally pull the trigger, and in fact does not know how the discharge came about.''
Although yesterday's announcement means that Detective Vasquez will not face state criminal charges, the examination of the shooting is not over, and he remains on modified duty, without a weapon, performing police clerical work. Patrick E. Kelleher, the Police Department's first deputy commissioner, said internal affairs officers would review the evidence to see if he should face administrative charges. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are also investigating the case for possible violations of federal criminal civil rights laws.
Photos: Patrick M. Dorismond, above. His mother, Marie Rose Dorismond, right, yesterday denounced the grand jury's decision not to indict the detective who killed him. (Librado Romero/The New York Times)(pg. B6)


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Sonic lost world in minutes by RogerregorrogerWatch
But probably the only one people were actually waiting for.
So enjoy! I assume you don't need to know my opinion about the game anymore.
Also, will no longer tell the amount of minutes it's long, since I'm tired of getting into discussions about how I'm 3 seconds off. If you must know, it's ROUGHLY 7 minutes long, but PLEASE FORGIVE ME if I'm a couple seconds off on that. I assume you prefer me to make more movies instead of becoming master of time.
But very funny.
Let's not judge him for the seconds off he is.
Keep in mind, it's about discovering why something doesn't work for you, not causing your brain to reject more work.
But yeah, same writers.
Really got me with the fart pack bit as well.
Sonic and Tails are constantly detached and making lame jokes, the deadly Six have no impact other then superficial jokes, Eggman's revenge plot goes nowhere, Tails's personality and motivation changes every cutscene. But there's a great build up and it starts becoming more exciting near the end, but then it falls apart and 90% of the plotlines get no resolution.
Is that how you laugh in Portugal? Kekekekekekeke. ...or shout "Booo!"
Alrighty then. I see you continue to do the thing where there's a whole sentence written at the subtitles while the character only says a few words before interupted. Neato, the attention to detail. And now I finally know what Mc Nosehair is in Portugese, hooray.
Reason I don't credit the writers for it is because they immediatly push other characters in the spotlight to fill the joke spots, like Orbott and Cubott. Sonic's struggle is mostly in the background.
Yeah yeah, we don't want it to become mopey like 06.
And yes, Sonic being a Jesus figure in previous games is also annoying, no arguiing that.
To those games credit, at least their consistent in their moral, even if it's a stupid and annoying moral.
Sonic Lost world's Sonic struggle goes from "Acting too fast causes disasters" to "Sonic never paid attention to Tails?" to "Eggman was behind it all, dun dun dun", none of em having a proper set up or pay off.
Sonic is never in a situation where he "Finally" respects Tails (Then again, there was never a scene he didn't, so that plotpoint came out of nowhere anyway). He treats Tails the exact same way he does in all games from start to finish.
He goes to save Tails by contuiing to do the same things he was already doing, Tails saves himself and the actual conflict is never spoken off.
Then considering Cyborg Tails instantly evaporates after his dramatic introduction, and you can write Tails entirely out of the story without any problem, safe for one joke...dramatic scene...something with Cubott's face. I love the irony that in a story 40% about overcoming a character feeling neglected, you can actually completely throw him out without changing a single iota of what happens in the rest of the plot. Ouch.
Yeah yeah, he has more to do here then in Sonic Unleashed/ 06/ etcetera. True, tough at least thsoe games didn't put so much emphesis on non existant character arcs.
Again, definitly not saying the other game stories were good.
Sonic is never in a situation where he finally learns to stop and thinkm in fact he makes the same mistake later again and the only lesson he learns is that "I should have been quicker", the exact wrong lesson to take from it.
Tails feels neglected and betrayed by Sonic, and that plotthread is solved by him saving himself...Which has nothing to do with his relation to Sonic.
That's what I mean with concept story telling, I see a lot of parts of character development, but they don't connect. Characters learn lessons or fix problems that were never there. It's really weird.
These are not little details that don't work out, like most plotholes in other Sonic games are, like the typical "Why don't people see the diffrence between Shadow and Sonic. These are big, giant, vital pieces of the entire structure that don't connect.
And that's not even mentioning the Deadly Six "We want revenge on Eggman, so let's continue the mission he gave us and kill Sonic!!" or Eggman's utterly meaningless tirade against the Deadly Six, he never even interacts with them again.
No, I agree and respect your feelings that this game makes Sonic and Tails deeper characters, they are indeed more human then before and it's clear the writers were trying to tell an actual story with them.
But I still stand by my point, those moments of character development only happen in one scene, and one scene only and then it's ignored or mutated into something compeltely different.
Every scene has an entirely new concept and it never glues together like a proper narrative.
And yeah, most sonic stories are stupid and have flaws. Hey, that's where I make my carreer from.
in the end, the only thing that matters is what can you tolerate more, bad stupid melo drama or obnoxious sarcastic detachment?
I prefer stupid melo drama because it's funny and at least creates a nifty set piece here and there.
Of course a GOOD story would be the best, but yeah.
I knew, RIGHT from the beginning, there would be nothing substantial in this games story. That, and that this game would be proof that Sonic team doesn't know what the crap to do with this franchise anymore.
To think people thought those color coded clichés, honestly only par with the nonsense of Solaris/Mephiles in terms of stupid villians, would actually make this shit dark and edgy because made references to death and dying.
They have absolutely no hints of a background other then wanting revenge on Eggman, and they do that by trying to kill Sonic, which was the mission Eggman gave to them..?? Err...
Mephiles was badly written and had shakey motivations, but at least was a threat and a nice foil for Shadow, pushing his buttons.
Deadly six have nothing other then 1 dimensional jokes.
That is fantastic.
Almost makes me want to explore that yeah.
Eggman and Knuckles and Amy and the planet where all his previous adventures took place are dead.
Now nothing but Sonic versus the Deadly Six in candy land for all eternity.
it turns the title into an exciting mystery detective puzzle.
It adds so much depth and complexity to the dumb cartoon.
The deadly six were pretty one note.
They have one theme and everything they said is in that one note.
The fat one is always hungry and talking about sandwiches, the girl is a girl so she constnatly needs compliments andm ake up, the goth is emo so likes things that are depressing, etcetera.
Zavok the leader is the only one with depth, if extremely generic "I will destroy the world beause I'm angry" is depth to you. He's the only one at least interacting with others instead of just spouting catchphrases.


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Laura Stewart and Craig Bell announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Carl Jr. and Lola Stewart of Millwood. She is a certified surgical technologist and first assistant at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.
The prospective groom is the son of Tommy and Frankie Bell of Hodgenville. He is the owner of Craig Bell Electric in Hodgenville.
The wedding is May 31, 2013, at Pleasant Valley United Baptist Church.
Irene Dodson, 862-3808
The stork was kept busy last week, delivering a sweet little girl to Elizabethtown on May 8 to the College Heights United Methodist Church Youth Minister Joe and Andrea Bennett. Sydney was welcomed home by her 2-year-old brother, William.
On May 9, he took a precious little boy to Bowling Green to my grandson, Brock and Ashley Barnes. Blake was welcomed home by his big brother, 3-year-old Brody.
Congratulations to both families and wishing them the best in all things.
The children of Talina Lee Patterson and Tommy Gordon Tedder, both of Buffalo, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their parents.
The wedding is at 4 p.m. June 1, 2013, behind Tedder's barn with a reception to follow in the backyard of the home of Allison and Keith Blair.
All friends and relatives are invited. No invitations will be sent. RSVP to 734-6552 or 765-9305.
On May 2, The Garden Club of Elizabethtown set its focus on creativity as members gathered to enjoy Linda Hancock's presentation, "The Fun of Fairy Gardens." Best described as whimsical miniature gardens, fairy gardens are a popular favorite among creative gardeners with an eye for detail.
PETERSON. Col. Erik C. Peterson, deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Cadet Command and Fort Knox, became Brig. Gen. Erik C. Peterson in a ceremony on historic Brooks Field on May 15.
An Army Aviation officer, Peterson, received his master of science in geography and cartography from the University of Idaho in 1986. He received his commission through the University of Idaho's Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program.
MACK. Air Force Technical Sgt. Antonio A. Mack has been named Warrior of the Week.
Mack is a console operations noncommissioned officer-in-charge assigned to the 96th Test Wing/Command Post at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
The technical sergeant has served in the military for 15 years.
He is the son of Tony A.J. Mack of Columbia, S.C.
Mack graduated in 1996 from Fort Knox High School.
The Stitchers Quilt Guild held a showcase of mini quilts during the April meeting. Members brought miniature quilts they made for show and tell. The Stitchers also have a mini group that meets every other month and works on a different miniature pattern each time.
Mini quilts will be on display at the annual Heart of Kentucky Quilt Show on Sept. 20 and 21 at Pritchard Community Center.
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That group would make one heck of a football team all on their own. Yep, that is one stacked deck to have to go up against.
1.25) Artie Burns - CB, Miami (Mackensie Aleander)
2.58 ) Sean Davis - S/CB, Maryland (Deion Jones)
3.89) Javon Hargrave - DT, S. Carolina St. (Nick Vannett)
4.123) Jerald Hawkins - OT, LSU (Deandre Houston-Carson)
6.220) Travis Feeny - OLB, Wash (Darius Jackson)
7.227) Demarcus Ayers - WR, Hou (Graham Glasgow)
7.246) Tyler Matakevich - OLB, Temple (Travis Feeney)
The referee said that you hit Brian Sipe too hard. Did you hit him too hard?
I hit him as hard as I could - Jack Lambert
Really? NFL's double standard again.Ed DeBartolo, Jr.
Steel City Mafia
So Cal Boss (Ret)
My son's first Kansas Turkey!
Jerry Rice at 39 and 40 had 1100 yard seasons with the Raiders.
In his last 4 seasons Bettis topped 900 yards ONCE, and in his last 8 seasons only averaged 4+ yards per carry ONCE.
Silly comparison.
The anti-Steelers bias will have Bettis and eventually Hines and Ben waiting as long as Demotti Dawson had to wait. It will always be harder for a Steeler to get in and therefore they will wait longer.
1.25 DT Vernon Butler, La Tech, 64 323
2.58 CB Artie Burns, Miami, 511 189
3.89 OLB, Alex McCalister, Florida, 66 240-Jarvis Jones replacement
4.123 S Jayron Kearse, Clemson, 64 216-hybrid type we could use in 3-3-5 defense
6.220 OT Stephane Nembot, 67 322-raw talent with ton of upside
7.229 CB Brian Poole, Florida, 510 210
7.246 WR/KR Ed Eagan, Northwestern State, 5 10 185-need WR depth and returner
@ Former Steelers Jerome Bettis and Kevin Greene made the cut to be among the finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year.
The guess here is that Bettis gets in and Greene does not.
When Bettis became eligible for the Hall of Fame, he did so in the same year as Marshall Faulk and Curtis Martin.
At that time, the pecking order among those backs ranked them Faulk, Martin, Bettis.
Faulk got in the first year, Martin the next. Now, it's Bettis' turn.


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Will maintain only chance PoPs late in the day, as limited instability should keep areal coverage low. Severe threat appears minimal at this time, and should be focused further southwest across central/southern Missouri where better destabilization is likely late this afternoon and evening. && .SHORT TERM...(Today) ISSUED AT 249 AM CDT Sat Apr 30 2016 An active weather day is setting up across central and southeast Illinois for today. A vigorous, but weakening, upper-level low is slowly approaching the Midwest from the central High Plains. To the east of this circulation, a tropical moisture plume is surging toward the area in deep southerly flow. Strong WAA/isentropic ascent will work on this moisture plume and produce an area of showers with embedded thunder across the forecast area, primarily this morning. Rainfall coverage should diminish across the area this afternoon, with additional development at least partially dictated by how far north the surface warm front pushes. The afternoon position of this warm front will help determine how much destabilization can occur during peak diurnal heating. Model agreement in this regard is still not great, although the forecast afternoon position of the front has trended north in the past 24 hours in the latest consensus. The main severe storm threat this afternoon still appears to be south of I-70 where modest instability (1000-2000 j/kg) and bulk shear (30-35 kts) appear most likely to co-exist. A large N-S spread in high temperatures appears likely today given the expected afternoon position of the warm front. Expect daytime highs to range from the mid 50s north around Galesburg & Lacon, to around 70 south of I-70. .LONG TERM...(Tonight through Friday) ISSUED AT 249 AM CDT Sat Apr 30 2016 Most of the forecast focus will be on the period through Sunday night, as the current storm system works its way through the region. Surface low expected to track northeast across the region this evening, reaching northeast Indiana by midnight, although the GFS is quite a bit slower with this scenario. General thought is that the steadier showers will be quickly diminishing by this evening, with a good portion of the overnight hours dry. However, the remnants of the upper low currently along the Colorado/Kansas border will move across southern Iowa Sunday morning and across Illinois in the afternoon, bringing another period of scattered showers to the area by midday. Have included isolated thunder mention in the afternoon most areas, as the trough moves overhead. Any lingering showers should be out of the area around sunset. Highly amplified pattern expected next week, as upper level ridging over the western U.S. builds well into British Columbia and Alberta. Longer range models showing some differences with the extent of the corresponding upper trough over the eastern half of the CONUS, with the ECMWF on the deeper side. This would trend toward significantly cooler conditions over the Midwest during the second half of the work week. By the end of the week, the upper pattern on both the GFS and ECMWF models trends toward an omega block type configuration which would linger the cooler air even longer. Have trended downward on the temperatures for late in the week, although not as low as the blended raw model guidance at this point. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Sunday afternoon) Issued at 118 PM CDT Sat Apr 30 2016 Area of rain continues to lift steadily northward early this afternoon, with latest radar imagery now showing it along/north of the I-74 corridor. Despite an end to the steady rain, IFR ceilings will persist for the next few hours before ceilings slowly rise later this afternoon. As winds become more southerly rather than easterly, HRRR shows ceilings rising into the MVFR category at KSPI/KDEC/KCMI late this afternoon into the early evening. As low pressure moves across central Illinois, the IFR ceilings are expected to advect/develop back southward later this evening through the overnight hours. In addition, with plenty of low-level moisture in place and winds becoming light/variable in the vicinity of the low, fog will be a good bet. Have included visbys down to around 1/2sm at all sites accordingly. May see scattered showers/thunder re-develop late this afternoon/evening as per latest HRRR/NAM guidance, so have included VCTS at all terminals between 22z and 04z. && .ILX Watches/Warnings/Advisories... NONE. && $$ UPDATE...Barnes SHORT TERM...BAK LONG TERM...Geelhart AVIATION...Barnes


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Re: K-30/K-50's [AF-FA] effects both with results are great different of the K-5/K-5II !
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1、K-5/K-5II could not using [Apply All] and [Apply One] together, yet the K-30/K-50 are no problem!
Thanks for sharing your efforts in AF-Fine-Adjustment (AF-FA).
Please allow for questions/remarks:
- Do you have access to a K-5 or K-5 II or is the difference in the manuals the only source of your statement in the subject line?
- A difference in the manuals doesn't prove that the cameras behave differently.
- In the EXIF data of each image file you find the AF-FA value which has been applied to the shot (at least this is true for the K-5 and K.5 II). This is an easy way to verify the AF-FA logic independent of manual wordings.
Enjoy your K-50.
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Guppies die after giving birth??
I have a problem. I have about 12 female guppies in my 75 G livebearer tank. Read my tank water measurements today- all is normal. PH is about 7.6
Why do the females die after delivering? Its been 3 in the last month.
I cant find a reason.
The first thing that comes to mind is I have never had a female survive giving birth that was obviously pregnant when I got her, not live bearers period. I think it has to do with the stress of transport, overcrowding in the LFS and just plain stress.
Another thing is they could be older.
One other could be the male to female ratio. If there are too many males, then the pregnant females could be harrassed so much it stresses them out so bad that giving birth results in their demise.
3:1 female to male is a good ratio with 8:1 in a breeder tank being even better. Even at that ration you will have plenty of babies from only 3 males with 30 females.
females dying
Thanks. Makes me feel better. There is only 1 adult male, and one Juvie. I figured most of the females would give birth, and why waste space on males... :twisted:
Are they common or fancy guppies?
Livebearers die
They are fancy guppies.
My black tails are fine, but the half black/blue tails and the round tail reds dont make it.
At least I have lots of fry :^)
Fish 4 all has it right, IMO another thing is it's just the blood line of todays guppies. They have all been in breed so much til the spices isn't as strong as it use to be. Back in the day guppies would live throw almost anything. I mean they'd live in a inch of water in the bottom of a tank with no heater of anything even setting on a shelve in your garge for months and now you have to drip fill there bag before you release them into your tank. It take 3 times as long to get them ready to go into the new tank then any other fish. It's almost like the german blue rams you have to drip adjust there bag water with tank water for a hour before you can release them.
Unhardy guppies
Then I guess I know what I'll be working on with my guppies. Survival of the fittest will rule.
Lets see what comes out of it color wise.
Actually, I've found discus to be a very hardy fish lately. Mine are in 7.4 Ph and hard water. Go figure.
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I had good control in my third trimester my HBA1C was 46, and my daughter was born with borderline low sugars, she never went actually low though. Due to other factors from pre-term delivery she spent her first 23 hours in NICU so I don't know how closely your LO would be monitored, I know they do heel prick tests and once you get three normal sugar readings they can stop monitoring.Another thing is Im from New Zealand but I assume America would have same or similar practices.
My best advice is to express as much colostrum as you can before you deliver I had managed a couple expressions and had these stored in freezer. She was given her first dose as soon as she was stabilized. She also had a tube fitted down her nose (it sounds horrible but its really tiny!) and if she had suffered low sugars then they could have administered glucose syrup through this tube.
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My LO had low sugar and he was taken to the NICU for a few hours. They put a tube down his nose to give him some formula to stabilize his sugar. After that he was fine, and I was able to nurse him in my room. Other than that he was perfectly healthy and still is. Good luck!
my first didn't go to the NICU at all. I had pre eclampsia with her, but she made it to 37w3d. They monitored her bg levels in the nursery in the maternity ward every 8 hours. She came home with us after my 5 days of recovery.
my second went to NICU for 12 days. She was pre term for severe pre eclampsia, though. 35w3d. Her bg was 55 at birth (normal) and she never went below 70 or above 87 for the whole two weeks they kept her there. We had to fight the NICU doctors to release her because the doctors never closely read her chart and assumed she had uncontrolled bg numbers due to my diabetes.
My A1c for my first pregnancy was 5.8% and 6.1% for my second pregnancy
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"She was going to be burdened with a large monthly payment that would prohibit her from buying a house, maybe even a car. So her option was to go to a large state university and graduate with about $30,000 in debt versus $80,000," he says.
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The best way to borrow for college is through the federal government via loan programs that are backed by the U.S. Treasury.
Stafford loans are available through one of two programs, chosen by the schools. One is the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program, in which students borrow money directly from the U.S. Department of Education.
The other is called the Federal Family Education Loan program or the FFEL, in which commercial lenders participate. "But that commercial lender has to follow all of the terms and conditions that are outlined in the law. So these are almost identical," Carpenter says.
The main difference between FFEL and the direct loan program concerns the Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students, also known as PLUS loans. The fixed interest rate for PLUS loans obtained through the direct loan program is 7.9 percent, but it's 8.5 percent through FFEL. "It is a quirk that happened in the law about two years ago, and they have not changed it since," says Carpenter.
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Paranormal experts say the Old Hardy Hotel Antique Mall isn't haunted by one ghost -- it's haunted by many.
Investigator Alan Silva, founder of Arkansas Paranormal Investigations, traveled back to Hardy Sept. 8 to reveal his findings of the Aug. 25 investigation inside the old hotel.
"We're not out to call everything haunted, but with the evidence we collected we're pretty sure this building is," he said. "We allow the evidence we capture to speak for itself. I really think that with the proof we got there, that there is some paranormal activity going on."
During the seven-hour investigation, team members from API and Paranormal Studies of Arkansas set up the building with video cameras and sound recording devices. Team members also took 694 photos.
"We got a lot more than we expected to get," Silva said."
Some of it's still being analyzed."
The most sensitive members of the team sensed four to five spirits in the building. They were all playful and nonthreatening, Silva said. The strongest impression was from a young woman in her 20s.
"We even got the impression that some were happy to be there," he said.
Although some strange occurrences took place while the team was conducting the investigation at the building, nothing prepared them for what they would find while reviewing their equipment.
While reviewing the sound recordings, investigators heard something they didn't hear while they were actually conducting the investigation. They heard a woman call "Amy," one of the investigators names, Silva said.
The team also took photographs in which unexplained shadows appeared. Also a reddish haze was photographed in another room of the building, but the highlight of the investigation was found in video footage. An image of a human like figure appeared in the upstairs hallway of the building, Silva said.
"We're still not able to explain what that image is," he said. "It's definitely not normal, so it's paranormal. It has all the makings of being some type of apparition. It has all the makings of it, but we can't clean it up enough to say for sure that it is a ghost."
The building is owned by Steve and Marcia Weaver who contacted API after experiencing strange activity in the old building they have owned since April 2005.
The couple has often left lights on at night and when they return in the morning some of the lights have been turned off while others are turned on,?Marcia said. Also, the open and closed sign has been changed. They often hear footsteps upstairs after they close for the evening.
The Weavers thought they knew the reason for the strange occurrences -- the hotel was haunted.
Before they purchased the building, the couple learned it had been a hotel, a boarding house, a bordello and the site of a murder.
The Weavers heard stories that a soldier arrived in Hardy by bus and stayed overnight at the hotel in the early 1940s. During his brief stay, the soldier went to a nearby bar and got into an argument with some of the patrons. After he had returned to the hotel for the night, two men came into his room. The two men then beat him to death, Marcia said.
During the API investigation, the sound equipment picked up on heavy breathing while one investigator tried to speak to the spirits in the soldiers' room. Despite the heavy breathing, Silva said the team thinks the soldier's spirit has moved on.
Although the Weavers found out their unusual happenings weren't caused by the soldier's ghost, they say they couldn't be more pleased with the results of the investigation.
"It's unbelievable," Marcia said. "They said there are at least five spirits here. I still can't believe it."
Marcia said she and the investigators think the female spirits are likely those of young women who worked in the building when it served as a bordello. Spirits aren't always detected where a person was born or died, Marcia said. Spirits may attach themselves to places and things they loved in their lives, she said.
For almost two weeks after the investigation, something new happened at the hotel. A chandelier left on 24 hours a day began turning off sometime between when the store closed in the evenings and opened the next morning. That has since stopped.
"We think they were just letting us know they were there and that things are cool," Marcia said.
Marcia said she doesn't feel threatened or scared because of what may or may not be in her building. Instead, she is proud of the outcome.
"It's just too weird," she said. "The investigation gave it (all of the claims) some legitimacy. I'm glad of that."
Since word spread about the investigation, Marcia said more locals have stopped by her shop -- not necessarily to shop but to look around the old hotel.
Another visitor found more than just antiques and collectibles inside the building. One woman turned "white as a ghost" as she crossed the threshold into the building, Marcia said. After entering the store and getting her bearing, she said, 'I can't believe how many spirits are in here,' Marcia said.
The woman then entered a back room on the ground floor of the building and said spirits were playing cards inside and one of the players was going to get hurt, Marcia said. It just so happens, one of the reasons for the murder of the soldier is thought to be a card game; however, the game was thought to have taken place across the street at an old saloon.
Natives of Hardy have since told the Weavers that the windowless room was often the site for illegal card games, Marcia said. Because no one could see inside the room and it was accessible by a back door, it made for the perfect spot.
Silva said he is pleased with the outcome of the investigation. In fact the team wants to come back to the building in February or March for a follow up investigation.
"It was a very interesting investigation and we thoroughly enjoyed it," he said."This investigation yielded a lot more anomalies than most of the investigations that we've been on."
To see more information about the investigation visit the API Web site at www.paranormalbeliever.com. A video and additional photos are available at this site.


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I am ttc for a year now and my periods are not regular anymore, it's prob been 6 months again since I had my period. I was told to get a pap smear but then others say that doesn't check for PCOS. I was going to go to planned parenthood since it is close to me. What do I ask for? Do I go for a regular check up and let them know I haven't had my period? How much will everything be?
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its def worth going to you doctor, a simple blood test that will check your hormone level will help rule pcos out. I have pcos and have done since i was 15 back then i was an 8st netball player with bad acne on my back and no periods, but no other symptoms it was a blood test that flagged the concern and an ultra soun confirmed it. i went on birth control until 3 years ago and since then my weight has gone up by 30lbs ive hair on my chin and cheeks and my periods doont come without medication. I wouldnt want to scare or upset you but you should have it ruled out asap, esp with ttc, losing weight clomid and metformin will all hopefully help with the ttc.posted 05/21/2013 by mccaoimhe
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Glausser begins each chapter by sketching a biographical connection between the two men, which in turn leads to a broader discussion of textual as well as cultural significance. From their shared experience of having had paintings stolen by a friend, for instance, Glausser details the two men's angry responses and then explores the larger social issue of private property at each end of the 18th century. Other points of correspondence include mothers and lovers, charges of sedition, medicine and the body, slavery, and printing.
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'The clock is ticking. I think it is time for senators to vote on the bill, move it to committee where it would be studied and get it back quickly for a final vote'
The findings of the Senate's own auditors that its expense rules are unclear could be 'crucial' for the defence of former senator Mac Harb, his lawyer said Tuesday
The RCMP has formally charged suspended Sen. Patrick Brazeau and retired senator Mac Harb with one count each of breach of trust and fraud over their spending of taxpayers' dollars.
Cpl. Greg Horton says he is now investigating the former Liberal senator and MP for fraud related to mortgages on two properties that Harb owned
The 'other' travel category — which excludes travel between Ottawa and a senator's province — saw spending decline to about $859,000 in 2013 from $1.46M in 2012
If you liked the scandal, you'll love the election
The Senate spent about $1 for every $1 it found in misspending from four senators
The RCMP says it has reasonable grounds to believe former Liberal MP and senator Mac Harb committed fraud and breach of trust in filing living expense claims in the Senate dating back to 2003.
Senate reform has not become a mass movement because the issue is abstract and complex. What voters do understand, though, is the difference between genuinely public-spirited folks, and the Senate hacks whose names have been dominating the headlines
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OSU men's basketball: Cowboys open season with rout of Mississippi Valley State
STILLWATER — Travis Ford insisted that Oklahoma State's stiff 3-point shooting through two exhibition games was no concern, even with perimeter percentage ranking among the team's "To Do List" priorities.
Friday night, Ford found confirmation, as his team got real when the games turned real.
In the season opener before an estimated 6,000 fans at Gallagher-Iba Arena, the No. 8-ranked Cowboys rolled past Mississippi Valley State, 117-62, doing anything and everything well — including hitting their 3s.
Phil Forte fired in four shots from the arc, and the Cowboys connected on 12 of 21 overall, contributing to good feelings all the way around.
Forte finished with a game-high 22 points, while Le'Bryan Nash added 21 — two of five OSU players in double-figure scoring. Nash also grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds for his first career double-double.
"I guess we were just saving it for the game that actually mattered," said Forte, who had made only 4 of 13 tries from the arc against Campbellsville and Emporia State. "No, that's not what we worry about. We all know we can shoot. We work on it every day.
"Sometimes shots aren't going to fall. And some nights they will fall."
In the exhibition wins, the Cowboys made just 8 of 39 shots from 3-point territory, including a 2-for-18 performance the last time out against Emporia State.
Still, Ford shrugged off any worries, with proof of improved shooting, he said, more than evident in practices.
Now, there's game proof.
"I've never been a coach who gets overly concerned about that," Ford said. "This basketball team, we've shown in practice that on a pretty consistent basis we've shot the ball well. You never know. I'm more about the things you can control. You can't control whether the ball goes in or not.
"You've got every intention. And sometimes it's a reflection of maybe not being focused, not being locked in. We made a few shots tonight."
OSU made more 3s against the Delta Devils than it did in the two exhibitions combined. Beyond Forte, four other Cowboys made good from the arc. Markel Brown added three, Leyton Hammonds had two and Marcus Smart and Stevie Clark each made one.
It wasn't just the 3-balls going down, OSU's 117 points were the program's most against a Division foe since getting 122 in a win over Northwestern State (La.) in 2009, which is also the last time the Cowboys reached 100.
The 55-point romp ties for the 10th-best margin of victory in school history.
"I was proud of our effort, our focus," Ford said. "I thought we showed some maturity out there, as far as when we got up, we kept executing, which was good to see. We kept challenging our guys at halftime and in timeouts to give them different goals and different things to work on and achieve.
"And I thought we did that. I thought we executed pretty well, even with the lead. We did what we were supposed to do tonight. That's probably the biggest positive."
After two easy exhibitions over lower-division squads, the Cowboys said they were ready to get the regular season started. And it showed.
"It's a real game, so everybody was excited," Nash said. "It's the start to the Final Four to us — that's what we say — it's the road to the Final Four."


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Record: 4-7-0, Finished 3rd in NFL East Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 61 points (5.5/g), 9th of 11 in the NFL.
Allowed 153 points (13.9/g), 8th.
Differential of -92 points (-8.4/g), 8th.
Expected W-L: 1.1-9.9.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential -9 (-0.8/g), 9th.
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- April 17, 2012
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SXSW 2012 Review: 'Bernie,' The Nicest Murderer You'll Ever Meet
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- March 21, 2012
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- November 21, 2011
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- @landonspeak
- July 12, 2011
Last week, as I watched Quentin Dupieux's Rubber, I noticed that the trailers on the rental Blu-Ray were all of titles sharing space at the top of my queue: titles like Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins, Kim Ji-woon's I Saw the Devil, and Jason Eisener's Hobo with a Shotgun. All, I...
Criterion Files #336: 'Dazed and Confused' Wipes That Face Off Your Head, Bitch
- By Landon Palmer
- @landonspeak
- June 15, 2011
When I write this column, I typically don't get the opportunity to write about movies from my teen years. I, like many, came into a cinephilic love for art and foreign cinema during college, and in that process grew to appreciate The Criterion Collection. Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993),...
'Great Directors' Trailer Gets Deep With Film Icons
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- April 28, 2010
Attention film geeks: Angela Ismailos's new documentary sits ten directing icons down and gets dirty with them, their inspirations and their processes....
Review: Me and Orson Welles
- By Robert Levin
- @rlevin85
- November 25, 2009
Richard Linklater returns to the big screen with an entertaining backstage period piece that's pretty insubstantial, save for Christian McKay's remarkable performance as Orson Welles....
Exclusive: We Shoot the Sh*t with Kevin Smith
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- October 18, 2009
On the 16th anniversary of the first public screening of Clerks, we get personal with the man, the myth, the lunchbox as he rips his heart off his sleeve and slams it down on the table....


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College of Charleston vs Furman Final: 74-50 - Recap
College of Charleston cruised to victory on Saturday, running Furman out of the gym and running up a 74-50 score at Timmons Arena.
College of Charleston was a favorite by 12 points and came through with an ATS victory for bettors.
Anthony Stitt had 15 points for College of Charleston and Trent Wiedeman chipped in with 13 points. Anthony Stitt had 5 assists for them, while Willis Hall was the team's top rebounder, grabbing 15 boards.
Furman got 16 points from Colin Reddick in a losing cause and another 12 points from Larry Wideman. Stephen Croone contributed 3 assists for them, while Kendrec Ferrara had 7 rebounds.
First-half bettors who backed Furman were victorious, as the score was 27-23 at the break.
College of Charleston won the battle of the boards, outrebounding their counterparts 48-28.