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Rioku163 Apr 09, 2011 at 23:43 UTC - 0 likes
Just thought I'd let you know that whenever a player leaves in the middle of a spawn the spawn just stops and then the game cant go to the next level because those creep are unaccounted for. You might want to fix that.
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Caterpillar10 Nov 28, 2010 at 21:36 UTC - 0 likes
I just played this game with about 8 other people. Suggestions:
Get rid of the intro scene, its lame and confusing and too long. About 3 people left during the intro scene.
Make the dialogue box use words and not pictures. Its kinda nifty, but it looks unprofessional because they are not the best pics.
Fix the terrain, it looks really sloppy and thrown together like you didn't care.
Fix the creep paths, they also look sloppy and they're really uneven.
Make more towers [i realize this is in progress but i was zerg and there was seriously only 2 towers]
Light needs alittle adjustment.
- Stick to fixing the things above before you add special waves.
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Since the game is so far into development I figure this kinda of suggestion is okay. - Since its called 'infinite td' you should have the creeps run in a looped path and every time they cross a certain spot on the path the team loses a life. - Make waves constant, no wait time between waves. [i cant remember the name for this td in wc but i hope you know what im talking about]
wallofchaos Sep 22, 2010 at 23:25 UTC - 0 likes
Download Link to test it in editor please?
wallofchaos Sep 22, 2010 at 22:34 UTC - 0 likes
Ok. 1st off. its ok. but this needs A LOT of work. No one likes to play this, everygame ppl leave within the 1st 4 waves.
- 1 Problem, WAY WAY too slow. The mobs are so slow its like watching paint dry. Now to offset that you would have to increase the speed of the towers.
- 2. If player at the 1st position slays all mobs the rest of the players are stuck sitting doing nothing. Which is another reason no one plays.
I played it for 3 hours last night solo. income was fine and seemed to be enough to get a good maze going.
I see what you plan on adding. But for flying units you'll need no fly zones. and of coarse more towers.
I like the openness of the map but this is one major flaw. each person needs their own lane or you have to figure out a way for every player to get as many kills as everyone else.
Change tile set I hope. The night effect is ok. but It's a tad too dark with no towers to light it up.
I would be very happy to try and help with this if you need it. I'm not great at maps but I have a little knowledge.
Also make it a 4 player map. The random spawn and trigger points are kinda neat but as it is now does not work.
Thanks for letting us test it.
PinkyBlue Sep 17, 2010 at 14:08 UTC - 0 likes
Where is the file man ? :) I am player from russian server. And your map wasn't published there. Common, upload it with mark "free to publishing at blizzard servers".
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hey man. I just played your map. Not bad at all. But honestly within 10 seconds of the game people started leaving the game.
I assume it's because of these things.
1. There really is nothing for people to do but fight for position to build at the start of the spawner. 2. One player who gets kill gets to keep building while other people sit around idle. 3. Since people are fighting for spots, it will take one idiot/assh*le to ruin a game on purpose if people worked together to build a maze.
I think this is a good concept for a maze TD map. But as it stands now, I dont' think it'll be a huge hit.
1. Make multiple spawn points. Determined by how many players are in the game. 2. Make this into a solo survival map. Give each player a (isolated) section to build/maze. 3. I know its in development, but would love to see more towers/upgrades.
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At the beginning of every year, Cindy Lipke's 4th/5th multi-age classroom writes a class constitution and hold elections.
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If ever there was a time when people needed to keep an eye on their federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, this is it.
Like never before, "the authorities" have the right to intrude in people's private lives in previously unimagined ways; personally, electronically, digitally and now biologically, thanks to a recent ruling by a deeply divided US Supreme Court allowing officers to extract DNA from anyone they arrest.
In the same vein, the tools used by local agents of the state have never been more powerful and frightening. To say nothing of handguns and other high-powered weaponry, and not to mention access to computer information of millions of people secretly mined by government spy agencies, just at the local level those rather substantial arsenals include: stealth helicopters equipped with powerful infrared cameras and other high-tech spy equipment; fortified emergency vehicles that can knock down buildings; high-speed motorcycles; state-of-the-art communications capabilities; top-of-the-line laptops for instant information access in the field; and now perhaps even drones, which may or may not be used to kill, but could certainly be used for secret surveillance purposes. Think that's not going to happen? They make those things right here in Monrovia, and domestic use of drones is reportedly the next potential gold mine for investors in new-age security gadgetry.
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Nothing personal against the police, who normally do a good job of keeping us safe, but that's an awful lot of power to put into so few hands. So much power, in fact, that we believe there should be some oversight, in addition to the City Council, of its use.
This is not the first call for the formation of a city police commission. For those too young to remember, back in 1992 Los Angeles was under siege. The four LAPD officers who had beaten the daylights out of Altadena's Rodney King on videotape had just beaten the rap as well in a courtroom in lily-white Simi Valley, far away from the human volcano erupting in Los Angeles with news of the verdicts.
The LAPD already had a citizens' Police Commission overseeing it, but after the riots, following reforms spelled out in the scathing Christopher Commission critique of the LAPD, that board took on a much greater role in terms of the hiring of chiefs and the overall administration of the department. Pasadena was affected by the rioting as well, only to a much smaller extent. Nonetheless, there was justifiable worry here about police-related violence involving members of minority groups, worries which remain at the forefront of concern for many people.
Back in '92, Pasadena didn't go down the same path as neighboring LA, which seems somewhat odd because for years the joke about this supposedly politically progressive city has been its people tackle problems by forming committees to hash things out in public. While that may be true of other things, like political redistricting or charter reform or imposing taxes to save local libraries, for instance, that was not the case with the local Police Department. Instead, over the objections of some members of the Human Relations Commission, who first proposed formation of a citizen police commission, then-Chief Jerry Oliver came up with the idea of forming a police academy for civilians, one in which people could learn what it's like to be a cop. Walk a mile in their shoes, as it were. And, along with implementation of a number of then-popular community policing programs, that seemed to be good enough for most.
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The Associated Press | November 11,2012SAN FRANCISCO Theyre called super seniors, and they can be found on nearly every college campus in America.
These veteran undergraduates have amassed many more units and taken many more classes than they need to earn a degree, with college careers that can stretch well beyond the traditional four years.
At California State University, the nations largest four-year college system, school administrators say enough is enough. They say the 23-campus system can no longer afford to let students linger so long without collecting their diplomas.
After gentler efforts to prod super seniors toward graduation, Cal State officials want to start charging hefty fees that could almost triple the cost for students who have completed five years of full-time undergraduate work.
The CSU Board of Trustees is expected to vote on the graduation incentive fee when it meets in Long Beach on Tuesday. The board tabled the proposal in September after students complained and trustees raised questions.
The proposed fee like those adopted in several other states is aimed at encouraging students to finish their degrees faster and make room for new undergrads in an era of scarce resources. Deep budget cuts over the past four years have forced CSU to sharply raise tuition, cut academic programs and turn away tens of thousands of qualified students.
If we can graduate more students, we can create more capacity to enroll more students, said Eric Forbes, the systems assistant vice chancellor for student academic services. Its about access and creating more efficiency in the system.
But the idea doesnt sit well with students who say they would be punished for switching majors, adding a major or minor or getting bad academic advice. They complain that budget cuts have made it harder to get classes they need, so many students take courses they dont need just to keep their financial aid.
Sometimes through no fault of their own, students are forced into being super seniors, said David Allison, president of the California State Student Association. It could harm individuals who change their majors as they figure out what they want to do with their lives.
The super-senior charge is one of three proposed fees that are projected to generate $30 million in annual revenue and create space for up to 18,000 additional students. The board is also expected to vote this week on imposing new fees on students who repeat a course or take 18 or more units in one semester.
The proposed fee would be phased in over two years. It would apply to students with 160 or more semester units in fall 2013 before the threshold falls to 150 units in fall 2014. Most majors require 120 units.
Super seniors would be charged $372 per semester unit in addition to in-state tuition of $2,985 per semester. For a full 15-unit course load, they would pay around $8,500, about what out-of-state students pay. The charge per unit would have been higher if Gov. Jerry Brown tax measure Proposition 30 had not passed on Tuesday.
The proposed fee would hit students like Danielle Parsons, a fifth-year senior at Sacramento State University. She has already surpassed 150 units and expects to exceed 180 when she graduates next spring with two majors and a minor.
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In NetBSD, the
wscons console driver can emulate either a VT100 or a Sun display. I was recently asked by a novice user why there was no VT220 offered, and what the difference was between the terminal type emulated by
wscons and the terminal type set in
/etc/tty. I realized that a discussion of the history of terminal emulation would likely be useful to other BSD developers.
First, I'll describe the type of hardware the Unix operating system was designed for. Then I'll discuss its support for applications that talk to other types of hardware, and how information on this hardware is determined and set. Then I'll jump to the modern world to explain how the X Window System works in comparison to the terminal-based I/O of traditional Unix systems. After that, we'll look at today's common terminal emulation applications to show that the ancient Unix terminal system is still in use today.
Examples in this text use the NetBSD multiplatform operating system, but the concepts are common to all Unix systems -- from older versions such as PDS/Cadmus, to modern Unix versions such as BSD, Solaris, and Linux.
Back in the Stone Age of Unix, computer systems were usually mainframes -- big boxes of blinking lights with memory, mass storage, and computing units that ran processes started by users or operators. As the hardware was very expensive, the systems were true multiuser systems, with many people interacting with the system at the same time. What it usually didn't have -- unlike today's Unix workstations -- was a fixed monitor and keyboard. Instead, issuing commands to the machine and retrieving output was done over serial lines, using teletypewriters first, and CRT (cathode ray tube) terminals later.
Teletypewriters -- the "ttys" in Unix -- are old electronic typewriters that send keys pressed over a serial line to a host. Replies are sent back to the teletypewriter character by character over the serial line, with a built-in printer putting the reply on paper. For a picture of a teletypewriter, see the lower left corner of the image at the Unix User Group homepage.
Some typewriters only used capital letters, while others were able to input and print both cases. Rarely found in today's Unix flavors is the traditional way to tell the system to use, or not use, mixed case: If you entered your login name in all lowercase characters, the system assumed your terminal was capable of doing both uppercase and lowercase. But if you entered your login name in all uppercase characters (or your teletypewriter sent everything you typed in uppercase), the system assumed your terminal could only do uppercase, and printed (real) uppercase characters preceded with a backslash in its reply.
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This behavior is still described in chapter 11 of 4.4BSD's Unix User's Supplementary Documents -- the "edit" tutorial (see
More advanced typewriters offered the ability to change from black to red ribbon, and boldface was available everywhere by overstriking -- printing a character, moving the printer head back (by printing a "backspace" character), and then printing the same letter again on the same spot, resulting in a bold look. Not too long after that, the "printer" part of the teletypewriter was replaced with a CRT. The CRT displayed characters by moving an electron beam on a fluorescent screen of glass with a phosphorous coating, giving them a greenish look. The combination of a CRT and keyboard is now widely known as a "terminal."
The functionality is the same as for the teletypewriter -- keystrokes get sent to a processing host over a serial line, and replies are sent back character by character, and the terminal displays them. The terminal itself has no processing capabilities, and is therefore often described as a "dumb" terminal. When the host sends an "f", an "o" and another "o", the screen will say "foo", with the cursor blinking after the second "o", waiting for further output from the host. The character set was 7-bit ASCII, which is still in widespread use in the Unix world today, and which is only slowly being superceded by various competing standards like ISO 8859-1 and Unicode.
Staying at the blinking cursor after our "foo" a bit longer, the host has to send a command character that says "move to the next line," often even followed by another command character asking it to "move to the start of line," depending on the terminal's setting. These control characters are usually known as "carriage return" (CR) and "line feed" (LF). Command characters were originally encoded as ASCII values below 32 (see
man 7 ascii for your nearest ASCII table).
As other control characters for flow control were used, it quickly became obvious that 32 characters were not enough. Command sets that consisted of several characters were used next. These often had a control sequence introducer (CSI), followed by one or more command bytes (for example, "move cursor") and data bytes (row and column). What made this worse was that manufacturers of terminals started to invent their own command sets that were not compatible with other vendors. Representatives of the more prominent command sets are the DEC (now Compaq) VT100/VT220 escape sequences (named so because they had an "escape" character, ASCII 27, as the first character), ANSI codes, and many others.
As Unix machines were used as real multiuser machines, terminals from different vendors were hooked up using the standard serial protocol. However, applications that wanted to use the different terminals' special capabilities had to handle these differences in some way. Compiling hard-coded support for a certain terminal type was not an option as it meant adding a number of programs for each new terminal type -- a maintenance nightmare.
A different approach was made by putting a "translation table" that defined common operations in between, and a mapping to the vendor-specific command sets. The translation table is part of the host's operating system. When an application running on the Unix host wanted to clear a terminal's screen or move the cursor, it looked up the terminal-specific command via a system or library call, and then sent that string to the terminal. There's no need in the application to keep terminal-specific code, and if a new terminal gets added, only the translation table needs to be adjusted. A big win!
In today's world there are two libraries available for mapping terminal attributes. One is the
terminfo library found on many System V and Linux systems, the other is the BSD-originated
termcap library which stores all the translation information all in a single file, usually
/usr/share/misc/termcap. Be sure to have a look!
There's one question left: If a user logs in from one terminal, and starts an application, how does the system know what terminal type to emulate and what command sequences are needed? The answer is that each terminal is hooked up to a certain serial port (
/dev/ttySomething), and the
/etc/ttys file tells the terminal type. (Note: This is for the BSD world; the System V world uses
/etc/inittab for a similar purpose.)
This is from a NetBSD 1.5/SPARC64 system, with
ttya and
ttyb being the machine's two built-in serial ports, and the "console" line being used for all system input and output. The first column specifies the terminal line, and third column, "type", tells the type of the terminal -- "VT220" for everything but the system console here. Have a look at your
ttys(5) man page for all the details.
The terminal type from column 3 is passed through the login process to the user's login shell, and by that to any applications the user starts. The application then uses
termcap to look up the specific command sequences they may need. When someone logs in from a terminal hooked up to
ttya, it is assumed a VT220 (or compatible) terminal is used.
The information on the terminal type is kept in the
TERM environment variable, which can be set to a different value, if necessary. In addition, the login terminal line can be determined with the
tty(1) command:
In the above example, I'm logged in on the
ttya serial port. I do not have a (hardware) terminal, but use another computer that's connected to
ttya via a serial line, and that has a terminal emulation program running. The terminal program talks to the Sun over the serial interface, displays the characters it sends, and interprets any special command sequences. As I know from my terminal program's handbook, it does not emulate a VT220 properly but works fine for VT100 commands. The
TERM variable is set here to reflect this in order to make applications behave properly.
Modern workstations don't have separate hardware for the computer itself and one or more terminals. Instead, a CRT is usually directly attached to a graphics board, and input is done with keyboard and mouse, which relieves the necessity to do user input and output over a slow serial line.
The model described above -- where the terminal is able to handle a certain set of commands -- still applies to modern console drivers. The console driver is a part of the kernel that handles input from the keyboard and output to the display. It passes data via a software terminal device, using the same interface inside the kernel as a serial device would, and that of course needs to be configured in
/etc/ttys. Output to the console is interpreted, and just as ancient terminals, today's consoles handle a wide range of character sets, among them various VT100/VT220 variants, ANSI, or more specialized ones like the FreeBSD
cons25 console.
Most popular PC operating systems offer another mechanism called a virtual console which allows a user sitting in front of a terminal to view more than one "virtual" console, usually by pressing CTRL+Alt and a function key (F1, F2, etc.). The system handles these as separate lines, and each must be configured in
The NetBSD operating system, which uses
wscons as the console driver on many ports, offers a way to configure which terminal type it should emulate, with
vt100 being used on most ports, and the Sun3, SPARC and SPARC64 port using
We have talked about text/console data being passed between computer and terminal, and displayed on the console. However, the question about how graphics work still stands unanswered.
Let's go back in time a bit for this. When terminal vendors added new capabilities to their hardware, one of the new features was to not only display 80x24 text information, but also bitmap data. Of course the command sequences for this were as non-standard as they could be. There was no application-level standard like
terminfo or
termcap that applications could use to make device-independent use of the capabilities of these graphic terminals.
Eventually, machines were built that had the main unit and graphics hardware connected with a faster connection than a serial line. At the same time, networking several main computer units to local area networks for data exchange and communication became common.
A group of researchers at MIT were exploring modern computer capabilities, and came up with a graphical user interface based on modular parts, just like the classic setup between a computer and terminals. It included an application process that issued commands like "clear screen" or "open window." The commands were sent to a "presentation server" that decoded the commands, and did whatever steps were necessary to clear a bitmap or draw a rectangular area with a border. The "presentation server" usually got its commands from a local or remote computer system, and it knew how to talk to the graphics board for output and keyboard and mouse for input. Events generated by the user operating the mouse and keyboard were sent back to the application process for interpretation and action.
Are you familiar with the scheme described so far? No? Maybe you will be when we call the components by their names:
The window system described above is the X Window System. The application process is usually known as "X client," and the "presentation server" handling access to devices is the "X server." Communication between X client and X server is done using the X Window System Protocol, which is based on the TCP/IP stack.
Using Unix's capability to run multiple processes, one machine running X clients can issue display requests to one or more X servers running either on the local machine using the local graphics board, the keyboard and mouse, or using an X server that's running on a remote machine.
And just as vendors started to sell VT220-compatible ASCII terminals when that was mostly a standard, there were other terminals called "X terminals." They were equivalent to their text-only cousins which only knew how to handle input and output, without any capabilities to run actual application code themselves. Usually, X terminals consisted of a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse, and a small box that ran only the X server process. The X terminal's X server knew how to talk to keyboard mouse and graphics card, and passed all input and output to an X client.
An alternative to X terminals are today's Unix workstations, which have the processor, graphics card, and I/O-hardware all built into a PC or a traditional workstation machine. The workstation then runs its local instance of Unix, including the X server process to talk to the hardware and a number of X client applications, all in one case.
So far, we have talked about the classic terminal concept of Unix, and about the X Window System, which follows similar principles. Now that we have the X Window System, anyone can turn a PC into a workstation -- the base for modern user interfaces like GNOME and KDE is there. We can forget about all that old cruft about terminals that pass single characters back and forth, escape sequences, and more!
But... Can we really? Let's see how communication with the Unix system works today.
Most interaction with the operating system today still happens via a command-line interface, which is used to type commands, start processes, and view their output, either via X or on the command-line environment that the command was started from. That "command-line environment" is usually a shell running either on the system's console, one of its virtual consoles as described above, or a terminal window on the X desktop.
If the system console or virtual consoles are used, it's quite obvious that the traditional terminal handling is still needed, as it is the base for input and output done by all commands. This applies to both line-oriented programs like
ls(1) or
cat(1) as well as so-called "screen-oriented" programs like the "vi"sual editor
vi(1) and the
top(1) process monitor, which still use system libraries like
termcap or
terminfo to address the console's capabilities.
But we just agreed that no one needs consoles anymore, and that we have the X Window System to interact with the system. There, we open up a terminal window, using programs like
xterm, or one of its newer cousins like the KDE "konsole" or GNOME's "gnome-terminal." The programs' names make it quite obvious what they do, and if we take a closer look at how things work, it will be even more obvious where they got their names from.
In the following example, we will use
xterm, but others do about the same. When you are using the X Window System and start
xterm, a rectangular window opens, with a "shell" command-line interpreter running. You can type commands into the shell window, and output from the shell commands will be displayed in the
xterm window. What's happening in more detail is, that the X server takes the keyboard events, and sends them to the
xterm process.
xterm process has a shell process connected to it. The ASCII presentation of the keys pressed are sent from the xterm process to the shell process -- just like virtual consoles and ancient, dumb serial hardware terminals. The shell process reads its standard input, processes the commands given, and output is sent back to the
xterm via the standard output channel.
What happens if you run a program that needs to clear the screen or move the cursor to a certain position? Just as in the cases described above, the application knows which terminal type it's connected to, it uses the
termcap or
terminfo libraries to query that terminal's capabilities, and then sends the necessary escape sequences to the
xterm. The
xterm process recognizes the command sequences and interprets them, but does not send character-generating events to the X server for display. Instead it does what the command sequence says -- a "clear screen" sequence is sent to the X server as a command to draw a plain white rectangle, and another small black rectangle in the upper-left corner, representing the cursor.
Two details are worth having another look here. First, communication between the
xterm and shell process. This is done via Unix's ordinary terminal input/output routines -- no special mechanism was invented in the X Window System for user interaction between the X server and an application running in a command-line environment, with the
xterm program "translating" between the two environments. This means that the terminal handling that the Unix operating system has had for more than 30 years now is still useful even in modern environments.
The other detail that's interesting here is the interaction between the
xterm process and the X server. The
xterm process is just like any graphical application, it sends drawing requests to the X server -- a big white-filled rectangle, a small black-filled rectangle, commands to move parts of the on-screen image around (such as scrolling), of course use the X font mechanism to use a certain font and display characters from it on the X "presentation" server. Although the
xterm terminal program does not provide special command sequences, xterm allows you to change the font the X server to use, and a number of other things. To try this, hold down the control-key and press one of the three mouse buttons at the same time -- you'll see that the pop-up-menu of CTRL+left mouse allows selecting the font that the
xterm process asks the X server for.
As you see from the previous discussion, graphical user interfaces did not supersede the traditional concepts of the Unix operating system, but interact with them so that existing applications can be used in window environments without any migration effort. The concept of terminals once used as hardware and now mostly as software continues to live on, and the circle closes, giving both "old" and "new" technology an equal right to exist. They do not compete but play together perfectly well.
The simplicity and usefulness of Unix has allowed the system to grow and gain maturity over all these years.
Recommended Reading
Richard Stevens: Advanced Programming the Unix Environment; Addison Wesley, 1992. ISBN 0-201-56317-7.
I'd like to close this overview by mentioning that I left some things like networking out deliberately -- the (pseudo) terminals that are used in communication between
xterm processes and their shells are also involved in network communication for things like
rsh and
ssh, and to pass data between different machines as if the data source and destination are processes on the same machine. Also, the description of the X Window System left out many of the concepts of the window system. Window managers and session management are only two of many things that come to mind, but I'll leave these subjects for another time. I hope you had as much fun reading this as I had writing it. Enjoy!
Hubert Feyrer works on operating systems, databases, and artificial intelligence at the Fachhochschule Regensburg.
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I-157 allows nonprofit corporations established for the purpose of acquiring or enhancing access to land and wildlife or habitat to conduct lotteries. A nonprofit corporation conducting a lottery under I-157 must obtain a permit from the Department of Justice. The nonprofit corporation cannot spend more than 18.5% of the funds raised on administrative expenses.
I-157 will cost $10,000 of state funds annually for issuing lottery permits, overseeing permittees, and enforcing permit requirements. Permit fee revenues may offset these costs.
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NEW SECTION. Section 1. Lotteries by nonprofit corporations allowed – requirements – rulemaking. (1) A nonprofit corporation that complies with the requirements of this section may conduct a lottery for the purpose of acquiring or enhancing access to land and wildlife. The provisions of 23-5-413 do not apply to nonprofit corporations conducting a lottery under this section.
(2) A nonprofit corporation may not conduct a lottery without first obtaining a permit from the department. The nonprofit corporation shall submit an application for a permit on a form provided by the department. Permits to conduct lotteries shall be issued for 7 year time periods. Permits for lotteries shall allow nonprofits to conduct lotteries on an annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly or bi-weekly basis.
(3) In order to obtain a permit, the nonprofit corporation:
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(4) The nonprofit corporation may not spend more than 18.5% of the funds raised by the lottery on administrative expenses that are not directly related to acquiring or enhancing access to land and wildlife.
(5) The nonprofit corporation shall submit an accounting of each lottery conducted within 30 days after the grand prize of each lottery has been won.
(6) The department shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section. The rules must include, but are not limited to, developing application forms and accounting and reporting requirements.
(7) The drawing must be held in a public location.
(8) No employee or officer of the nonprofit may play the nonprofit lottery.
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Beauty and the beastsSeptember 03,2013During an August vacation with my family, I enjoyed lodgings so spectacular that not even Bill Gates or Warren Buffett could ever buy or rent them.
The scenery was some of Americas finest: snowcapped mountains, alpine lakes, babbling brooks. The cost? It was free.
We were enjoying some of Americas public lands, backpacking through our national patrimony. No billionaire can acquire these lands because they remain even in a nation where economic disparities have soared a rare democratic space. The only one who could pull rank on you at a camping spot is a grizzly bear.
This is the most beautiful place in the world, my 15-year-old daughter mused beside a turquoise lake framed by towering fir trees. She and I were hiking 200-plus miles on the Pacific Crest Trail, joined for shorter bits by my wife and sons.
We imbibed from glacier-fed creeks, startled elk and dallied beside alpine meadows so dazzling that they constitute an argument for the existence of God. At night, if rain didnt threaten, we spread our sleeping bags under the open sky miles from any other human and fell asleep counting shooting stars.
You want to understand the concept of a public good? Its exemplified by our nations wilderness trails.
In some ways, this wilderness is thriving. Cheryl Strayeds best-selling book Wild, about her long backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail, has inspired hordes of young women to try the trails. Reese Witherspoon is starring in a movie of Wild, made by her production company, and that will undoubtedly send even more out to feed the mosquitoes.
The talk of the trail this year was of a woman named Heather Anderson who shattered a record by backpacking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail, without support, in 61 days. Thats nearly 44 miles a day over tough terrain. She says she graduated from high school at 200 pounds and found purpose and lost 70 pounds on the trails. On this trek, she had encounters with five rattlesnakes, eight bears and four mountain lions. (For more on Heather Andersons extraordinary journey, visit my blog at kristof.blogs.nytimes.com.)
Yet Americas public goods, from our parks to Sesame Street, are besieged today by budget-cutters, and its painful to hike some trails now. You see lovingly constructed old bridges that have collapsed. Trails disturbed by avalanches have not been rebuilt, and signs are missing.
Infrastructure is really crumbling, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, herself a backpacker, told me. She notes that foreign tourists come to visit Americas crown jewels like Yosemite and are staggered by the beauty and flummoxed by the broken toilets.
Its even worse at the U.S. Forest Service, which is starved of funds partly because firefighting is eating up its budgets. The Forest Service has estimated that only one-quarter of its 158,000 miles of trails meet its own standards.
About once a year, my family hikes the spectacular Timberline Trail, constructed in the Great Depression around Mount Hood in Oregon as a public works project. But one section washed out in 2006, and it still hasnt officially reopened.
What our ancestors were able to create when we were a poor country, we are unable to sustain even now that we are rich. Thats not because of resources. Its because they were visionaries, and we are blind.
Wallace Stegner called our national parks Americas best idea. The sequester, which I would call Americas worst idea, was supposed to save money, but when sloping trails arent maintained every year or two, they erode and require major repairs that cost even more.
Republicans praise the idea of citizen volunteers and public-private partnerships. But our agencies are so impoverished that they cant take full advantage of charity.
Mike Dawson of the Pacific Crest Trail Association says that volunteers could provide about 250,000 hours repairing the trail each year. But the Forest Service doesnt have the resources to organize and equip all the volunteers available, so it will be able to use only one-third of that free labor this year, he says. Thats crazy.
All this is symptomatic of a deeper disdain in some circles for the very idea of a public good: Who needs a national forest? Just buy your own Wyoming ranch!
This fall will probably see a no-holds-barred battle in Washington over fiscal issues, and especially the debt limit. But, in a larger sense, its a dispute over public goods. So, considering how ineffective Congress is, perhaps we should encourage all 535 members to take a sabbatical and backpack the Pacific Crest Trail. Im not sure wed miss them for five months. And what an entertaining reality show that would make!
It would also have a serious side. Maybe when dwarfed by giant redwoods, recalcitrant politicians would absorb a lesson of nature: We are all part of something larger than ourselves. Perhaps they would gain perspective and appreciate the grandeur of our public lands of which they are such wretched stewards.
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In the very near future, China, now the world's largest industrial producer and consumer of Mideast Oil, passes a law that all new cars manufactured in that nation will be operated on natural gas. Beneath the floor of the South China Sea, around the contested Spratly Islands, billions of gallons of natural gas wait to be mined. But at the center of the Spratlys, the remote but strategic island of Itu Aba is occupied by China's historic enemy, Taiwan.
When the new, power-hungry Chinese President, Tang Qhichen, orders Chinese Naval forces to attack Taiwanese forces on Itu Aba, U.S. President Douglas Surber responds, ordering the U.S. Seventh Fleet to try and quell a burgeoning naval showdown between the two Chinas.
Aboard the submarine tender U.S.S. Emory S. Land, one of the first ships in the naval war zone, is Ensign Stephanie Surber, a recent Naval Academy graduate who is also the First Daughter of the United States. As the Emory S. Land steams into harm's way, Ensign Surber's life is gravely threatened. The President must make a decision. Will he take a stand against evil? Or will he save the life of his daughter?
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I guess I can try that. I WAS pumping after feeding for the first 6 weeks but stopped that too, because I was feeling like when DD wanted to eat I was too empty and she'd get mad and end up with a bottle anyway. When I try to pump after feeding I only get a trace of milk, like a few drops to a MAXIMUM of 0.25 oz. So I tried keeping my 5 am pump session on off days, but somehow LO figured out I'm up at that hour and now wants to nurse from 430-530am every day (whether I'm at work or not).
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Written by Angelic Storm on 22.12.2012 at 08:12
This is a very modern sounding album, and 3 of the songs have no solos in them at all, so an old school sounding album this one certainly isn't. "To Be Free" is the one exception, which is a storming thrash number that could have been written in the 80's! Other songs like "Carry On" and "Gitty Up" do rattle along at a high velocity, but they are more modern thrash numbers. Especially the latter song, which sounds like a stoner-type track injected with a heavy dose of adrenalin. The former song has a bit of an old school vibe about it, so it's like a hybrid. The power ballad "Rabbit's Foot" is wonderful, whilst the title track and the closing track "Machine Gun" are great songs too.
As long as you don't mind grunge/groove inspired thrash (and I don't), then there is a lot to enjoy on this album. Those looking for an 80's throwback will likely be disappointed though.
Written by EspeciallyEspe on 22.12.2012 at 18:34How would you say this compares with their previous album?
I really enjoyed "The Cold"... it was different and took a while for me to get used to, because I was expecting more of a Thrash-Metal sound, but after a few listens I was hooked, and I absolutely love that album now.
Written by Angelic Storm on 22.12.2012 at 20:41
I also didn't like "The Cold" much at first, but I love it now.
Written by Rulatore on 29.12.2012 at 00:30
Don't know, but it sounds a bit lazy for me. They can do much better than this.


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Written by Susan on 19.07.2012 at 08:37
When a band does something that feels kind of overdone, yet does it slightly better than many - is that good or bad?
Hmm... good question! I'm going to say it's a good thing. Usually once stuff is overdone that's saying something about the genre as a whole. When a band comes along and pumps some energy into a tiring genre then good for them.
I was just thinking today that I hadn't heard any good viking metal yet this year. And while this sounds more like melodeath than folk/viking, I think I'll take it in the meantime.
Quote:Also, this claim that they are "just improving on other people's work" is wrong because this band features Karl Beckmann and Karsten Larsson, who made Viking Metal in Mithotyn even before Amon Amarth released their first album.


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Entergy outlines low-level waste disposal plans
MANCHESTER Vermont and Texas officials were told Thursday that Entergy Nuclear expects to have its plans in place later this year for shipping low-level radioactive waste from Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to a Texas facility.
At its annual Vermont meeting, the Texas-Vermont Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission heard Entergys update and signed off on several agreements to take waste from several other nuclear waste generators that are not part of the two-state compact.
Entergy has already shipped about 30 loads of low-level radioactive waste since 2012, said David Tkatch, radiation protection manager at Vermont Yankee.
And while low-level shipments will actually decline for a while after Yankee shuts down later this year, the bulk of the nuclear plant as it stands in Vernon could end up in the Texas facility.
Texas has taken the lead in the bi-state organization, which was formed more than 20 years ago. The waste facility owned by Waste Control Specialists in western Texas was built as part of the bi-state compacts mission.
Robert Wilson, chairman of the panel, said he was preparing for the upcoming Texas legislative session, which determines the funding of the commission. The funding is based on the revenue generated at the WCS facility.
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The Andrews County facility has proved to be so popular and in such high demand that WCS has an application pending before Texas environmental regulators to triple the size of the waste facility. Company president Rodney Baltzer told the gathering Thursday that his firm is interested in hosting a potential high-level radioactive waste facility.
The New York Times last week reported that a lightly inhabited west Texas county on the Mexican border is interested in hosting a high-level waste facility, as long as Texas and the local community support it.
Baltzer said the WCS facility accepts modular steel and concrete canisters for disposal, which the company can stack up like Legos.
David Tkatch, radiation protection manager at Vermont Yankee, told the gathering at the Equinox Hotel that Entergy was working to finalize its plans and timetable for shipping low-level waste to the Andrews County site owned by Waste Control Specialists.
Tkatch said Entergy has already made 25 to 30 deliveries to the west Texas site. Tkatch said Entergy has a favorable six-year contract with WCS because Vermont is part of the compact, which originally included Maine.
But Tkatch said after the meeting that Entergy remains confident there will be adequate capacity at the Texas site for the Vermont Yankee demolition and decommissioning debris, even if the demolition and cleanup of Yankee doesnt occur for another 60 years, as currently outlined.
Our volumes are guaranteed, said Tkatch, who added that medical radioactive waste from Fletcher Allen Health Care was the very first shipment to the WCS facility.
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Well this sucks. We're shooting the 3 bad enough and to lose Sheed ain't going to help, I like KMart but he's no 3 pt shooter.
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Rasheed Wallace will have foot surgery and will likely be done for the season.
5:44 PM - 27 Feb 13
Dam really wanted him back. Kenyon hopefully will give us those 10-15minutes.
Now we have to pick up a pg. whose available? Delmonte West? Or motherf***in Chinabury?!
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"That is one of the reasons why I wanted to come here to New York, just so I could take on those pressures and those challenges." -Carmelo Anthony
Well this sucks. We're shooting the 3 bad enough and to lose Sheed ain't going to help, I like KMart but he's no 3 pt shooter.
It seems we traded Brewer for nothing, we could as well cut Sheed and sign K-Mart. Well done Greenfield, well done. At this point our options to sign anyone able to contribute anything to this team are more than limited. Delonte is pretty much worthless, Marbury [or Iverson] shouldn't even be considered. They'd ruin the chemistry during their first practice.
even when Kidd stats went extremely down his 3pts % went to 12
but now Knicks r oldest team
He's been out since freakin December and NOW 10 weeks later they finally find out he needs surgery?
Disgraceful. What a mockery of an organization the Knicks are.
Woodson is a good coach but never a great coach.........We are stuck in this crappy situation.
Kidd cant start anymore he will have zero in the tank for the playoffs.....
We lost Brewer for zero reason....so if Shump cant play D we dont have a replacement.....
Lets just go for broke and bring back Starbury,,,,,,,,,,
Marbury, Smith and Novak should share a room.
Allen Iverson time.
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I would say he's done for the season but it's reported Sheed may be out for 8 weeks.
Also KMart admits he's not in game shape, says he's in treadmill shape. WTF, why sign him if he's not in shape. He'll get this 10 day and another one without even playing a game.
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It's time for The Answer...
Correction, just saw on Twitter KMart saying he's excited and ready for tonights game and Woody says he might play. So the Knicks play an out of shape KMart, I guess to see if he can show enough to sign him to another 10 day.
Prigs may be out with back problems for tonights game and Melo is probable with an upset stomach.
Camby may be back Friday.
So instead of trading one of our best perimeter defenders, we could've just cut a big man who hasn't played in 3 months and isn't going to play for the rest of the season in order to sign K-Mart?
Wonderful, Knicks. How the hell did they not know he needed surgery until this point? He has a sore foot and you never thought it'd make sense to x-ray him, or something? Damn, our medical staff sucks.
So now that Sheed is out we need to find another player to fill the roster. I still think trading Brewer was an extremely stupid move since we could've just cut James White instead...at least Brewer plays defense, all James White does is dunk on an unguarded basket.
...is Gilbert Arenas available?


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The origins of holiday traditions
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Have you ever wondered where the tradition of putting up a tree for Christmas came from? Or why we light a menorah for Chanukah? Find out about the interesting origins of many holiday traditions right here.