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Chronos Stops Transmitting After 20 Minutes (self.ChronosHacks)
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Does anyone know why it stops and how to keep it transmitting data to the PC indefinitely?
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Look inside the source code for for sRFsmpl.timeout (and SIMPLICITI_TIMEOUT) - but I believe that is normally set to 3600 seconds.
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Thank you! I will try that if I get a chance - I don't have a watch. :(
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Vaginal contractions can be done consciously, though it would take a pretty skilled woman to be able to mimic those of an orgasm convincingly.
The cold tongue thing is how I always tell.
Thanks again, Science!
Have to agree on behind the knees sweat.
"Lesbians appear to be the population for female orgasms, with both the largest prevalence as well as the most high risk behaviors." Um, what? Did someone steal some of the words out of that sentence?
If you need a scientist to figure out if your girlfriend is having an orgasm maybe an honest open talk is long over due!
Women can fake orgasm and unless youre checking her heart rate after sex which would be really weird youre not going to know. Actually her heart can really get going and you still dont know if she did or not ,maybe she just got excited but did not orgasm.
Sweat behind the knees, cold tongues and vaginal contractions DO NOT happen after every orgasm and every orgasm can be very different. It's all a bunch of baloney.
Just ask and if she says no that is her problem for not being honest.
The bummer is that for some bizarre reason women can feel guilty for not having an orgasm so it's easier to lie than to tell the truth.
I can tell by the way she says "God, you are a fucking FREAK, get away from me, I'm calling the cops".
"sex flush," the chest turning red, although not for everyone.
toes wrinkling up, although that's pretty easy to fake
Fnarf, don't you know anything about women? Haven't you read ANY Louie Lamour books? When a women says " Get the Fuck away from me" she is really saying " Baby, come get me I'm all yours!!
I suggest the next time a woman says that to you just grab her real close to you and hold her real tight. Maybe she will just fall into your arms.
Of course you could always get arrested too but I will help with the bail if need be!
Oh, great, I'm already in trouble for all these dead puppies, and now you want me up on rape charges too?
My college roommate's boyfriend always checked her chest to see if it turned red after they had sex.
@8, 11 - yes, that is also a sign.
The best sign is this...
That was great with a big smile on her face!
Otherwise you just don't know!
Come on guys we used to joke about curling toes in high school and if you are that interested in the mysterious signs why don't you just ask her? You don't ask because you're afraid of the answer so you look for all these silly signs and sit back and think " I'm Good"
It kind of cracks me up that all these guys are letting us know what all telling signs are too.
Oh God... I'm late for church... gotta run!
Last weekend I was in bed with a friend and her ex (completely innocent - we were taking a nap), and the ex started telling stories about when they were together and this night they had sex in a friend's house, and realized afterwards that the door has been open and the friend's young brothers were "asleep" across the hall. He kept referring to her "three o's," as if it was the crowning achievement of his life. He said it enough times that I finally whispered to her, "Three? Really?" and she made a face and shook her head no. Years later, he's still totally psyched about something that never happened.
I'm noisy during sex, and sometimes people may think it happened when it didn't, but I will never "fake" it or lie if asked. If a person needs to be lied to about something like that, are they really someone you should be sleeping with?
Goosebumps are irrelevant: Here's why.
You posit that goosebumps are perhaps necessary. I don't get goosebumps, so therefore it's not necessary.
Are they sufficient? My gf gets goosebumps sometimes, but it's not always at the moment of importance; furthermore, a draft of cold air can easily induce goosebumps, which do not then lead to orgasm.
Therefore they are not sufficient.
From this we can deduce that goosebumps are not strongly linked to orgasm in the general case.
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*Plant Structure
The primary function of the vine of a pumpkin is to enhance it's growth. The vine of a pumpkin plant will primarily consist of three major components- the main vines, which are attached to the pumpkins themselves and contain the leaves which help sustain the pumpkins growth, as well as the secondary vines, which grow off of the main vines, and the tertiary vines, which then sprout from the secondaries. A pumpkin plant will usually produce two to three main vines, each of which should provide you with one suitable pumpkin, provided it's growth is encouraged by not allowing more than one pumpkin plant to grow per vine. That said, it is wise to let each pumpkin sprouting from the vine grow a but before selecting the one you are going to keep, to ensure that your chosen pumpkin is best fit to survive. All secondary vines of the pumpkin should be maintained and kept trimmed to about 10 feet to encourage growth and success. Pumpkin vines also have the ability to send down excess roots wherever they have little soil around the base of the leaves. This aids in supporting the health and stability of the pumpkin plant, and therefore should be encouraged as much as possible by heaping a bit of soil around the bases of as many leaves as you can.
|Pumpkin vines post-harvest.
|A young pumpkin sprouting from the vine.
|Close up on the pumpkin stem, as it connects to the vine.
|Close up image of some main and secondary vines.
|A detailed illustration of the various elemens of the pumpkin vine
|Close up on the end of the vine.
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The tendrils on a pumpkin are crucial for growth. They areand hairlike. While growing, the tendrils have a greenish color on the vine. These tendrils twist around objects on the ground which helps to anchor the vine and protect it from the wind. After the pumpkins are harvested, these tendrils appear to be dried and brown on the stem.
The leaves of a pumpkin absorb sun for the plant and help fruit growth. The pumpkin and it's stem do not have leaves, but the vine does. When these leaves are healthy, they are green and have a lobbed shape. When the first 'true leaves' appear on the seedling, it is a tell-tale sign that roots have begun growing and you should transport your pumpkin from its peat pot to the garden. If the leaves ever do not appear green and lush in color, your pumpkin leaves could easily have a disease or bugs. If the leaves appear brown, it could be bacterial wilt. This is simply wilting on the leaves. The leaves can become like this due to lack of watering or high temperatures. There are however, no known remedies for bacterial wilt so its best to remove the diseased plant.
*Flower Structure
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(Above) These are thre basic parts of a flower.
- Both the Receptacle and the Peduncle are the flower stem, but the receptacle is also the base of the flower
- The Sepal is located at the base of the flower and are leaf like structures. The sepals function is to protect the flower bud while it is still growing. The collection of sepal is called the Calyx.
- The Pedal is located above the calyx. The pedals are both colorful and large. The function of the pedals is to attract pollinators to the plant. All of the pedals together are called the Corolla.
- The male part of the flower is called the Stamen. The function of the stamen is to produce pollen grains. The stamen consists of the anther and the filament.
- The Anther is the pollen bearing portion of the stamen, and the Filament is the stem of the stamen.
- Pollen are grains which contain the male gametes. More specifically they are the immature male gamete with a protective outer layer.
- The female part of the flower is the Carpel. The carpel (Pistil) consists of the stigma, style, and ovary.
- The Stigmas function as the open surface for pollen grains and are the sticky and on top of the carpel.
- The Style is the stem of the carpel and is located between the stigma and the ovary.
- The Ovary is large and at the base of the carpel. The ovary contains the ovules, and when the ovary matures it becomes the fruit. (pumpkin)
- The Ovules are located inside the ovaries. The ovules become seeds on fertilization.
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(Above)These are female pumpkin flowers because they have short stems and an ovary.
(Above) These are male flowers because they grow father from the vine.
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*Seed Structure
Seeds are mature, fertilized ovules of the pumpkin. The ovules are the structures of the pumpkin which contain the female gametophyte with the egg cell, which is surrounded by 1-2 integuments and the nucleus. In the angiosperm, double fertilization caused formation of the dibloid embryo as well as the triploid endosperm. The pumpkin is the "fruit" of the plant is an are mature ripened ovaries which contain the seed. The cpat pf the pumpkin is dipload maternal tissue. The mature seeds of a pumpkin commonly have an abundant endosperm layer.
Functions of the seed structures:
- Hilum and funiculus: A funicular scar on the coat that marks the point where the seed was attached to the ovary tissue by the funiculus.
- Micropyle: A canal or hole in the seed coat of the nucellus where the pollen tube passes during fertilization. When the seed matures and starts to germinate, the micropyle serves as a pore through where water can enter.
- Chalaza: The non-micropylar end of the seed. The base of an ovule, it bears an embryo sac which is surrounded by integuments.
- Raphe: The ridge on the seed coat formed from adnate funiculus.
- Strophiole: Outgrowth of the hilum region which restricts water movement into and out of some seeds.
- Operculum: A little seed lid. It refers to a dehiscent cap of a seed or a fruit that opens during germination.
- Carunculate: Seed with an excrescent outgrowth from integuments near the hilum.
- Fibrous: Seed with stringy or cord-like seed coat.
- Funicular: Seed with a persistent elongate funiculus attached to seed coat.
- Fruit: The ripened ovary of a plant and its contents. A;sp known as the ripened ovary and seeds together with any structure with they are combined.
- Elaiosomes: A specialty in the dispersal through animals is that through ants. Such seeds or fruits bear attachments, the elaiosomes that contain lures and nutriments. Myrmecochory is common with plants that live at the forest soil.
- Caruncle: A reduced aril, in the form of a fleshy, often waxy or oily, outgrowth near the hilum of some seeds. Usually it is brightly colored. It acts as an aid to dispersal.
- Mucilage: A layer of polysaccharide slime produced by some seeds upon imbibition. Serves in water uptake during imbibition and germination.


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I have a CIFS share mounted on my Linux machine (Fedora 11). This share contains a Subversion working copy that I work with locally on the remote machine. The remote machine is a Linux box running Samba.
I now want to work with the repository on my machine, so I don't have to login to the remote machine to do checkins and updates. However,
svn seems to run into permissions problems when trying to perform file operations on the share.
e.g. (on my machine)
$ svn update
svn: Can't open file '.svn/tempfile.tmp': Permission denied
However, when I try to edit the same file on the command line (e.g. with
vi) it works fine, and I seem to have full read/write permissions to that file.
I also tried doing a new checkout on my machine on the share:
$ svn co svn://10.212.52.226/project/trunk project
svn: Can't create directory 'project/.svn': Permission denied
But I can do it manually:
$ mkdir project/.svn
...and it works.
I mount the share like this:
mount.cifs //10.212.52.240/myname /mnt/mdev -o "uid=myname,gid=myname,password=mypass
So I am the owner of all the files on the mounted share.
For the time being, I can continue using subversion on the remote system, which continues to work fine. But I'd like to get this working. I appreciate any ideas you may have.
Thanks to JohnnyLambada for the suggestion to use
strace. Here is the relevant bit of the
strace output for attempting a subversion checkout:
open("test/.svn/entries", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64("test", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mkdir("test/.svn", 0777) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
write(2, "svn: Can't create directory 'test"..., 59svn: Can't create directory 'test/.svn': Permission denied
It's still confusing, as I can create the directories (with the same modes) on the commandline.
I did notice, however, that using
touch to create a temp file causes an error:
$ touch foo
touch: setting times of `foo': Permission denied
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B. J. and I wanted to get the New Year started right so on Sunday evening we donned some warm clothes and B. J. threw together a fundelicious picnic dinner consisting of BBQ pork loin and chicken sandwiches, potato salad, chips and hot chocolate and we saddled Big Red and reined him to our friend's deck right smack dab on St. Simons Beach. Although it was still one night away from being full, the moon was awesome. The nice cozy deck is an ideal place to spread a meal and enjoy an unobstructed view of the glorious moon over the Atlantic. Big Red was nickering happily.
We had missed the splendid moonrise. Nevertheless, when we arrived at the deck, the brilliant moon was bathing the sea with amazing grandeur.
The deck extends over the rocks and onto the beach. The only way one can be any closer to the beach is to actually be on the sand. It is a great place to kick back, have a sandwich, relax and enjoy the seaside allure. We tethered Big Red in the moonlight a few feet from the deck. He was calm, like the smoothly rolling surf; however, like the sea that has the potential to quickly turn into a tempest, Big Red harbors the same likelihood.
There in the glow of the moon, we unpacked our goodies and spread them on the table. We were excited. The moon was catching us up in its spell. The food would be better eaten by the light of the beautiful moon.
The tide was in. We munched quietly on our sandwiches and listened to the waves lapping gently on the rocks beneath the deck. The placid rhythmic wash of the waves on the rocks a few feet below us together with the reflections of the glowing moonbeams on the glimmering sea like millions of tiny dancing water fairies lulled us into the fantasy of St. Simons Island under the January full moon.
This stretch of St. Simon's beach is steeped in folklore that goes back to colonial times and adds to its enchantment. On a bright moonlight night sometimes it seems that you can hear whispers coming from the tenderly rolling tide.
We lounged on the deck munching on our goodies and basking happily in the beaming glow of the moon. We remembered when we walked on this beach together for the first time on our honeymoon. We were caught up in a world of entrancing excitement.
Then a ghostly phenomenon appeared offshore; it was huge and moving in our direction. The chill of the night penetrated deeper as we huddled closer to the deck's rail and watched the approaching spectacle; it had eyes and gave off a barely audible moaning as it moved toward us. B. J. grasped my hand tightly. We recalled the stories we had heard and read of the ghost ships that ply the sound.
Then the bright moonlight illuminated the "monster"; it was an enormous seagoing auto transport headed to the Brunswick Port to disgorge its cargo of imported vehicles. The gray vessel irradiated by the shining moon indeed appeared ghostlike. We snuggled closer.
Hitched near the deck, Big Red blazed his red body lustrously and proudly in the ray of the moon.
A few yards away, another St. Simons icon, the renowned and fabulous St. Simons Lighthouse added to the charm of the night as it sent its bright shaft of light twenty-three miles across the waves to signal any ships that might be searching for refuge in the harbor.
Captivated by the magic of the night, we hated to leave. We could have stayed all night. Nonetheless, since the full moon was still a night away, we promised ourselves that we would return and experience it in its full splendor.
We have experienced full moon ecstasy in a lot of places but the full moon over St. Simons ranks high on our list of full moon special places.
The full moon will return in February and we will be here to lounge in it.
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KASSEL, Germany— In a dingy passageway here, a French artist, Suzanne Lafont, has plastered a series of posters tracing the immigrants' route from Turkey to Germany, through Belgrade, Budapest and Vienna. The posters show photographs of anonymous buildings, interchangeable modern boxes on city margins, where poor immigrants live. Elsewhere, an Austrian artist, Martin Walde, is displaying pictures with texts, like film storyboards, skittishly drawn, of the sort of brief, freakish encounters that punctuate city life: one of them involved the sudden appearance of a naked man on a subway car, mop in hand, scrubbing the floor.
At the least, what can be said for Documenta X, the pre-eminent international mega-survey of new art, which has just opened, is that it is more ambitious in concept than any other show of its kind in memory. By now it is old news, endlessly repeated by the art experts who nonetheless are only too happy to attend them anyway, that events like the Venice Biennale and Documenta are anachronisms from the days before widespread traveling shows and the Internet. They have come to seem doomed to gargantuan incoherence. I suspect that this show may be greeted with the usual, automatic disdain, but it seemed to me a serious effort to give some thought to the event. It's tough to love, certainly, easier to respect.
Documenta is held here every five years, this time at a cost of about $11.5 million. Through Sept. 28, its works by 120 or so artists are dispersed through several buildings and in various public spaces, from shop windows to parks to the downtown railroad terminal, where one artist has even planted some sturdy greens among the tracks. Most of these works touch on linked themes, which, boiled down, have to do with urbanism, cross-cultural relations and what might be termed the space between art and the rest of the world.
Among the more unusual examples, Matthew Ngui of Singapore cooks poh-piah, a rice dish. Dorothee Golz, a German, revives 60's kitsch, enclosing rubbery white furniture in a clear plastic bubble. Carsten Holler and Rosemarie Trockel, who live in Cologne, Germany, have built a pigsty amid the trimmed shrubs at the elegant Orangerie, with a glassed-in concrete shed, like a bird blind, where people can watch the pigs without disturbing them. Seven piglets have already been the show's stars.
And an American artist named Christine Hill has set up a small shop to sell secondhand clothing, declaring her store a ''social space'' and the interactions between customers and herself to be a ''social project.''
Mr. Ngui's work is more elaborate than just the wok he uses to cook: people order by speaking into a tube, like a narrow air-conditioning duct, a kind of industrial sculpture, which he has constructed to zigzag through an entire building. He responds via computer, a difference of technological means that, like his cuisine, is supposed to highlight the various ways people of different cultures may connect with one another. It's a simple, playful, if not quite original metaphor, which is at least more than can be said for Ms. Hill's shop, a poor rehash of 60's performance art.
But it's significant that this Documenta, unlike others before it, doesn't put a premium on newness. Many of the works, some of the best, in fact, have been shown elsewhere. Gerhard Richter's ''Atlas,'' for example, a kind of diary of 5,000 images related to his art and life, has been a continuing project for decades, exhibited before. The connection between Mr. Richter and the artists who build pigsties or run clothing shops is not obvious, but in the context of this Documenta it seems roughly to be that they all explore the mechanics of art. They all self-consciously deal with how art functions in society. In short, they are post-modern.
If all this is beginning to make Documenta X sound more like work than fun, that is not altogether wrong. There are almost no paintings or sculptures in it, and the few painters here are included not because of how they paint, but because of what they paint: the American Kerry James Marshall, who happens to be a gifted artist, because he paints housing projects, and the Israeli David Reeb because he paints black-and-white reproductions of newspaper photographs showing clashes between Palestinians and Jews.
It doesn't seem to matter that Mr. Reeb paints with no distinction. The description of his work in the show's handbook reveals what Documenta X values: ''The very fact that he permits himself to be provoked by current events prevents him from falling into a fetishistic fixation on the medium as an autonomous and self-sufficient reality.''
Put more simply: Pleasure without pain is verboten at this show.
To understand why, it's useful to recall that the Documenta of five years ago was a kind of Bacchanalian free-for-all, widely panned. It was organized by a Belgian curator, Jan Hoet. Catherine David, the curator this time, determined at all costs not to repeat his errors.
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Vian Dakheel grabbed the world's attention with her urgent appeals at Iraq's parliament to prevent a genocide of her people. From a hospital bed in Istanbul, she's now pleading for countries to open their doors to Yezidis who she says will be killed should they return home.
The Yezidis face a "decree of death" at the hands of the Islamic State, Dakheel said in an interview in Istanbul today. "My people have survived 72 firmans throughout history and this is the 73rd," she said, referring to orders Islamic rulers historically used to govern their territories. "They are afraid to return to their homes. European Union members and other countries should open their borders to us."
The advance of the Islamic State in northern Iraq sent thousands of ethnic Yezidis and Christians fleeing onto the exposed slopes of Mount Sinjar. The humanitarian crisis that ensued triggered U.S. air strikes against Islamic State positions in the region, while France and Britain started supplying Kurdish forces with weapons on Aug. 13.
The U.S. "broke the siege of Mount Sinjar" with air strikes, President Barack Obama told reporters in Edgartown, Massachusetts on Aug. 14. A team of about 20 U.S. troops, including special forces, spent 24 hours on the mountain and found about 3,500 to 4,000 Yezidis there. The U.S. doesn't "expect there to be an additional operation to evacuate," Obama said.
Dakheel was brought to Istanbul's American Hospital for treatment after she was wounded on Aug. 12, when an Iraqi military helicopter she was in crashed near Sinjar. The pilot was killed, and two journalists were also wounded.
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Yezidis are ethnic Kurds spread across northern Iraq, Syria and Turkey who have a history of persecution. They follow an unorthodox blend of Islam, Christianity and ancient Zoroastrianism, one reason they're being targeted by militants from the Islamic State, a Sunni extremist offshoot of al-Qaeda that controls territory in Syria and Iraq.
Dakheel, a member of the Iraqi parliament, is known for an Aug. 5 speech to fellow lawmakers in which she said her people were being "slaughtered under the banner of Allah" and Yezidi women were being taken as concubines. She collapsed at the end of the speech, calling for action to stop a genocide, as her mostly male colleagues stood stone-faced. Videos of the speech have been viewed more than 200,000 times on YouTube.
Eedo Khalaf, a 40-year-old Yezidi, described how his family of 10 fled their home in Sinjar town on Aug. 6, in fear of the Islamic State advance.
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"I took my Kalashnikov to defend my family in case we got caught on the road," he said from the safety of a camp in the Kurdish-run city of Erbil, where he said at least 3,500 people were sheltering. "We heard the fighting from a distance." Khalaf said he drove toward Sinjar Mountain before leaving his car and trekking higher with tens of other families.
Next to his eight children and two wives, Khalaf described how he had heard accounts of mass killings and abductions of Yezidi men and women during the week he spent in the mountains, surviving on the little food they had brought with them and water from a spring.
The Islamic State "robbed and detonated our houses," he said. Those caught were given the choice of adopting the Islamic State's extreme brand of Islam or being killed, he said. "Either way they kill us in the end."
Both Khalaf and other Yezidis said Kurdish and Iraqi forces fled in the face of the insurgent offensive.
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Dakheel said she hoped that Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Haidar al-Abadi, who today vowed to halt Iraq's descent into chaos through more inclusive governance, "will hopefully try to bring change."
She also requested that the Turkish government help fleeing Yezidis settle at "the villages of their kin" in Turkey. About 2,000 Yezidis are already in Turkey, and the country is taking care of another 20,000 inside Iraq, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday in Ankara, without giving additional details.
Estimates of the Yezidis' numbers vary from 50,000 to 700,000, with several focusing on the range between 200,000 and 300,000, according to John Esposito, director of the center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington. Most of them are in northern Iraq, inhabiting areas now surrounded by territory controlled by the Islamic State.
"We don't want to leave our land, but the right to live comes before all," Dakheel said. "The U.S. and the European Union have been very slow in acting."
EU governments cleared the way for arming Kurdish forces to help them fight Islamic State militants at an emergency meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels today.
"The aim must be to halt the murderous actions and the military advance," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters after the meeting. "Individual countries will respond positively to requests for support by security forces in the Kurdistan region," he said.


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Often when comic creators are asked about their dream job, most expect them to respond with a specific character they want to tackle, some fondly remembered superhero on which they hope to leave their mark. Of course, not all comic creators think that way.
Writer and artist Sean Murphy has made a name for himself working on almost everything but superheroes. Instead, he's made readers take notice with the likes of Punk Rock Jesus and Joe the Barbarian. When he's done work-for-hire, he's mostly stayed clear of the usual suspects, with stints on former Vertigo stalwart Hellblazer and a spinoff book for Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque's American Vampire. His actual superhero output is few and far between, but well worth looking out for — from his Batman/Scarecrow: Year One miniseries to the delayed-but-finally released Teen Titans one-shot.
Following Joe the Barbarian and American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest, artist Sean Murphy is priming himself for his biggest work yet: writing and drawing his own series. Although he's done it in the past with the graphic novel Off Road, the upcoming limited series Punk Rock Jesus from Vertigo is by far more ambitious in terms of plot and potential. DC/Vertigo has yet to "officially announce" the book, but Murphy has already penciled the first issue and is working up some standalone art to accompany the project… and he needs your help.
Murphy's created this dynamic piece of art and he's looking for fan input on whether to sell the print in color or black-and-white. What do you think?
Murphy talked with CBR about Punk Rock Jesus way back in 2009, and according to his DeviantArt postings has turned down a number of high-profile projects at Marvel and DC to finally get the chance to pursue more of his own material like this.
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Strap yourself in, kids, because this is going to be a big one, as we run through the lengthy and considerable career of one of mainstream comics' biggest stars, Grant Morrison.
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a "Splurge" item.
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Graeme McMillan
It's a slow week, this week; if I had $15, I'd use it to catch up on some recent enjoyments like Action Comics #3 (DC, $3.99) and OMAC #3 (DC, $2.99), two of my favorite titles from the New 52 relaunch–OMAC in particular has been a really weird and wonderful joy–as well as the final issue of Marvel's great and sadly underrated Mystic revival (#4, $2.99). I'd also see if the parody-tastic Shame Itself #1 (Marvel, $3.99) lives up to its potential, because "Wyatt Cenac + Colleen Coover" sounds pretty promising to these ears.
Artist Sean Murphy has been tearing up the fringes of mainstream comics. Although he's yet to make a big splash in the super-hero genre, he's found his own path with a string of projects at Dark Horse, Oni and IDW. For the past few years he's called Vertigo home, and his first major series for the DC imprint, Grant Morrison's Joe the Barbarian, just finished.
But for people who have followed him over the course of his career, or just followed his active DeviantArt account, you can easily tell he's got a lot on his mind and an itch to get it out. Right now Murphy's prepping to begin a spinoff miniseries for Vertigo's American Vampire as well as writing and drawing his long-gestating series Punk Rock Jesus (which he talked about with Comic Book Resources in December). But besides that, he's been prone to just draw whatever's on the top of his head — like the amazing pin-up to your right. Murphy's got a lot more, from a stellar Carl Sagan pin-up (who ever thought you'd see those three words together?), as well as an exclusive early look at Punk Rock Jesus, which isn't due out until 2012.
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy on Wednesday based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on what we call our "Splurge" item.
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Chris Arrant
This week's a big week for me, so with only $15 I'd have to leave a lot of things back and make some hard choices. My five under $15 would start with Joe The Barbarian #8 (DC/Vertigo, $3.99) by Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy. I'm a big fan of both guys, but I have to admit the story went over my head the same way The Filth did in serialization. Be that as it may, I've kept buying the issues just to amaze myself with Murphy's art. Now that the complete series is out, I'll re-read it all in one sitting and hope for the best. Second would be the fourth issue of Incognito: Bad Influences (Marvel/Icon, $3.50) because, well, Brubaker and Phillips can do no wrong. After that I'd get Secret Warriors #25 (Marvel, $3.99) because Hickman's writing here plays up to all the things I like — espionage, secrets, and overly-complicated story arcs. Over on the DC side I would pick up Brightest Day #21 (DC, $2.99). This series has ebbed and flowed for me, depending on which story arcs are brought to the fore in each issue… but I'm excited to see what happens and that's what it should be about, right? My last pick is a cheat — I only have some change left, but thankfully the Fear Itself Sketchbook (Marvel) coming out is a free promotional item. I'll take Stuart Immonen sketches any day!
Is Grant Morrison overworked?
That's the question going through my mind with the recent news that Batman: The Return of Bruce #5 was confirmed as being postponed for two months. Originally scheduled for Aug. 5, the DC Comics website now has it coming out on Oct. 6. Blogger David Uzumeri brought this to my attention with a Twitter poster on Friday, and the realization of the delay dovetailed in with two other pieces of stray information from weeks ago.
The first was the news of a sudden artistic change-up to Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #4 from Cameron Stewart to Georges Jeanty; originally solicited for July 21, the book only came out one week late, but the artwork looks a tad rushed. Stewart wrote on his blog that "conditions were such that I felt that my work would be drastically compromised and subpar should I stay on board, and so I felt that it was best that I walked away." It has proven to be amicable, with pages already filtering out online of a future collaboration with Stewart, Morrison and DC on the 16th issue of Batman & Robin.
The second is from the blog of Sean Murphy, artist of the Morrison-penned Joe the Barbarian. According to his post, he's waiting on the script for the final two issues of the series. Joe the Barbarian #7 was originally scheduled for release on July 21, while DC's website now has a release of Sept. 15.
Checking with the solicitations for the past three months, Morrison is working on four series: Batman, Batman & Robin, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne and Joe The Barbarian. He's also been announced to work on two miniseries, Batman: The Return and Multiversity, a new series titled Batman Inc., as well as a prose book titled Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero.
Delays are to be expected on comics at some point, but these news tidbits add up to a possible trend. What do you think?
Grab your sword and check your blood sugar: Writer Grant Morrison has informed Robot 6 exclusively that a feature film version of Joe the Barbarian is now in development with Thunder Road Pictures, producers of this year's Clash of the Titans remake. "Thunder Road just called me today and said we can officially announce it, so I'm quite happy about that," Morrison says, though he himself won't be writing the screenplay.
Launched in January, Joe the Barbarian is an eight-issue DC/Vertigo miniseries written by Morrison and illustrated by Sean Murphy. In its pages, a diabetic teenager named Joe is drawn into a fantasy world populated in part by his toys and his pet rat, where he discovers he is the long-prophesied "Dying Boy" who must save the world from the sinister King Death — while in the real world, home alone and delirious from diabetic shock, he struggles to stay alive. A hardcover collection of the acclaimed series is slated for a February 2011 release.
This is the third Morrison movie project announced in as many days: Morrison is writing the independent film Sinatoro for director Adam Egypt Mortimer, while Warner Bros. is planning an animated adaptation of Morrison and Frank Quitely's Eisner Award-winning series All-Star Superman, written by Justice League Unlimited's Dwayne McDuffie.
Welcome once again to What Are You Reading?, where you'll hopefully find something to add to your summer reading list. Our guest this week is Chris Arrant, who you may know from his comic book journalism work for Newsarama, Comic Book Resources and various print magazines for Marvel Comics, or from his comic book writing, which includes Female Force: Princess Diana, Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo and 24Seven Vol. 2.
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For several months, there's been a great amount of interest in Sean Murphy's work on Joe the Barbarian (the artist's latest project/eight-issue miniseries with writer Grant Morrison, the first issue of which goes on sale this Wednesday, January 20). I was looking forward to meeting Murphy at the late October 2009 SCAD event (covered here). After talking about his craft with him (and seeing his work first hand), I am genuinely enthused to see the release of the first issue. I truly relish Murphy's candor, as evidenced in this interview, and appreciate him giving me the opportunity to discuss Joe the Barbarian (as well as other topics).
Tim O'Shea: How did you come to be involved with Joe the Barbarian?
Sean Murphy: I've had a rough ride with DC for many years it seems. After Batman/Scarecrow: Year One I couldn't get work there. My editor apparently pushed hard for me but the people in charge didn't like my stuff and blacklisted me from the DCU. I've got a Teen Titans story that was never published because of how I reinvented Cyborg (shame on me for bringing him out of the 90s).
Then one day Karen Berger calls from Vertigo. She wanted me to work on this book they were doing with Neil Young called Greendale. Needing cash, I of course agreed. But there were a lot of delays for about a year. At one point I passed on Spider Man 1602 because I thought Greendale was almost ready. In the end Neil opted to go with another artist, so I started talking to Marvel about working there. When they offered me Dr. Strange, Karen countered with a Morrison book called Warcop. Soon they were both talking exclusives.
It was a rush. I remember thinking that I must have given the lord of comics a hand job in a past life or something.
Back on October 23-25, the Sequential Art Department at the Atlanta campus of Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD Atlanta) hosted a comics art forum with Sean Murphy (2003 SCAD Savannah graduate and artist on the upcoming Grant Morrison-written Joe the Barbarian for Vertigo) and Matthew Bernier (School of Visual Arts in Manhattan graduate and currently at work on a book for First Second). Since I'm a Georgia-based member of the Robot 6 crew, Chris Schweizer, a SCAD Atlanta professor and creator of Crogan's Vengeance, invited me to the forum.
According to Shawn Crystal, SCAD Professor (as well as one of the artists on last month's Deadpool 900 [Marvel]), SCAD's Comics Art Forum tradition started in Savannah years ago. Crystal selects the guests that are invited to the forum. "Every year, when I pick guests, I look to pick progressive/passionate artists. Artists who are doing new and exciting things, helping to move the medium forward," he said. "Our Atlanta Faculty throw names around until we settle on the best choice for that year."
Schweizer echoed Crystal's thinking. "When we arrange these events, we try hard to pick guests whose work (and approaches to their work) varies from ours, because it opens our eyes to new ideas, and it does the same for our students," he said.


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Northern Resolution Group attempted to call me in June of 2011 claiming I owe debt for a cash advance. I said I don't know if that debt is mine and if they can validate it but they threaten me with legal action and hung up. I never hear from them again but than I check my credit report and I see them on my Transunion report. I disputed it with Transunion but they said they verified the debt. I know they use an automated system to see if the debt is yours so that doesnt mean much.
Im wondering if anyone knows how to contact them and what there address is? I followed the link and tried calling 716-317-3077 but it only rings and I get a voicemail of a guy named Doug. I tried calling the phone # listed in my report of 877-847-6680 but that phone # is disconnected. I live in Florida and I checked my states website to see if they are an registered agent and I don't even see them as that. If anyone can help, my question is:
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I began by examining the world of elite sports, at a time when the human genome project was just reaching its height. Back in 1998, New Scientist magazine wrote about the possibility of identifying performance genes and this set me on a course of exploring new forms of human enhancement, which grew quickly into an entire PhD looking at the bioethical issues associated with genetics and lifestyle modifications.
Alongside this, I was focusing also on the emerging world of the Internet, curious about how it was changing the way we relate to each other and the world around us. One of the early courses I wrote focused on 'cyberculture' and how identity was transformed by digital environments.
As time went on, these areas grew closer and the work I do on the biodigital interface is core to how I think about our future and what we need to consider to ensure we are able to build a vision for the future that addresses some crucial social inequalities.
where I was influenced by all kinds of expertise - psychnology, biomechanics, anatomy, sociology, cultural studies, and philosophy. The latter became the focus for my work and I began on a path which examined fundamental philosophical questions about what it is to be human, what is a good life, and how science, medicine, and techology provoke new questions about our place in the world.
It seems to me that the single most important issue of our time is how we utilize technology for the better or worse of humanity. As we enter a world of autonomous vehicles, artificially intelligent machines, genetically enhanced lives, and digitally mediated relationships, so many of the things we take for granted are now up for debate. Everything I do focuses on addressing those uncertainties and trying to unravel complex questions that challenge who we think we are and our place in the world.
Every day, my work asks questions about what kinds of things we should be doing, given the range of values we hold. As the world becomes more globalized, it gets harder to focus ethics and morality on just our narrow circles of solidarity within our geographical locale. We need smart solutions that allow the world to function as a whole and this alone makes it much harder to identify values, codes, and policies which can allow all societies can get behind. This is why sport remains a core interest for me, as it is perhaps the one aspect of human life which relies completely on that shared set of rules. Were it not for this, the whole foundation of sport collapses and, applying this to broader bioethical technologies, I think we face a similar imperative on a global scale to figure out what to permit and what to prohibit.
Back in 2003, I launched an undergraduate course titled 'Becoming Posthuman' within which students studied how artists - live, performance, visual - engage with concepts of life and the living within their work, often using biotechnology as their medium.
From 2005, my work started to attract the interest of art schools and, over the years, I have given talks for many, including the Royal College of Art, the Glasgow School of Art, the Edinburgh School of Art, Central St Martins, and various international schools.
I've spent a considerable amount of my career studying media change, particularly in how it affects our sense of identity, community, or professional conduct. The Olympic Games provides a regular outlet through which to glimpse into the state of the art in media culture and, over the years, I have nurtured my own creative practice first as a writer, then as a photographer, and more recently as a film maker.
Often, my route into a topic is through imagining the changes to our culture that are beginning to emerge as a result of some new set of circumstances, whether it is the possibility of cryonics, or the rise of social media.


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March 3 UIL Holdings Corp said it would buy Philadelphia Gas Works, the largest municipally owned natural gas utility in the United States, for $1.86 billion in cash to expand its natural gas distribution operations.
City officials will use the proceeds to prop up Philadelphia's grossly underfunded pension system, they said on Monday. The sale, which is the biggest transaction the city has ever conducted, must still be approved by the City Council and Pennsylvania utility regulators.
Philadelphia Gas Works, founded in 1836, manages a distribution system of about 6,000 miles of gas mains and service pipes supplying nearly 500,000 customers in Philadelphia.
The deal, which includes some liabilities of Philadelphia Gas Works, brings Connecticut-based UIL close to the gas-rich Marcellus and Utica shales.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter had been pushing for the sale of the 177-year-old utility since 2010, saying a sale would help the company discharge its liabilities and exploit its natural gas business.
After paying off PGW's bond obligations and putting aside funds for other liabilities, including reserve funds and PGW's own pension plan, Philadelphia will have between $424 million and $631 million to put into the city's retirement system.
The city's pension fund for firefighters, police and other public employees had $5 billion of unfunded liabilities as of July 1, 2012, and was funded at a paltry 48 percent. Eighty percent funded is considered healthy.
"UIL submitted the highest bid for PGW and agreed to contract terms that were important to the city," Nutter said in a statement.
Among those terms, the deal keeps rates frozen for three years and maintains discount programs for seniors and low-income families.
UIL said on Monday that it had secured a $1.9 billion loan from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc to fund the deal. UIL anticipates closing by the first quarter of 2015.
Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co was the lead financial adviser to UIL and Morgan Stanley was the financial adviser. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP served as UIL's legal counsel. Ballard Spahr LLP represented the city of Philadelphia in the transaction.
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The Avon Park Red Devils basketball team won Thursday's home non-conference game against rival school Sebring by a score of 78-67.
(December 17, 2009: Avon Park, FL 33825) The Sebring Blue Streaks basketball team (Sebring, FL), was toppled 78-67 in Thursday's non-league battle with the host Avon Park Red Devils (Avon Park, FL)
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makemessages shouldn't translate applications already translated
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When creating a django project, that I want to translate at project level (not application by application). Then, in my project I want to add a reusable/external application that is already translated (for example django-registration). The result is that in my project .po file I have all strings that are already translated in the external application.
I think that it should be avoided, and could be easily achieved by omitting applications with a locale directory.
Also if I want to copy django inside the project (that could be useful for version specific/patched installations), all django strings are included in my django.po file.
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Changed 8 years ago by garcia_marc
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by garcia_marc
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It could be better to make it language specific. So imagine that an application is translated in language A, but not B, but our project is translated to A and B. Then we should include all literals from that application in .po file for language B, but no A.
Attaching new patch for it.
Changed 8 years ago by garcia_marc
Patch that fixes problem in a language specific way.
comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by garcia_marc
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comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by ramiro
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Duplicate of #7050. There, Malcolm also describes another related possible requirement to handle this multiple-app scenario in a consistent way.
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Colleen E. O'Leary, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, has been elected president of the Onondaga County Medical Society, a 1,264 member organization.
O'Leary received her medical degree from the SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse in 1978 and completed her residency training at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center.
Since joining the Health Science Center in 1991, O'Leary has served in a number of positions; she is currently chief medical officer of the perioperative division.
O'Leary is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Anesthesiology and a fellow of the American College of Anesthesiologists.
A native of Oswego, O'Leary is a graduate of the SUNY College at Oswego. She earned her medical degree from the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse in 1978 and completed her residency at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse.
O'Leary and her husband, Michael O'Leary, reside in Manlius.
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