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The potential move toward background-check legislation arose Wednesday as Senate Judiciary Committee took its first testimony on gun violence since the shooting spree at a Connecticut elementary school last month. The hearing featured an emotional statement from former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, who was almost killed in a 2011 mass shooting.
"Violence is a big problem," Ms. Giffords told the Senate Judiciary Committee, reading haltingly from a statement as her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, sat beside her at the witness table. "We must do something. It will be hard, but the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you."
Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), himself a gun owner, declined to endorse a ban on certain semiautomatic weapons, but said he supports improving background checks, calling it "common sense" to expand checks to include purchases at gun shows. Currently, only guns bought from a federally licensed dealer are subject to background checks.
Two Republican senators, John Cornyn of Texas and Jeff Flake of Arizona, said they favored beefing up the national database for background checks with more mental-health records. "Perhaps it's time to consider our background-check laws to see if they need to be updated to screen out the growing number of people who are subjected to court-ordered outpatient mental-health treatment," Mr. Cornyn said. Neither embraced the idea of expanding background checks to include private transactions and purchases at gun shows.
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Top photo: Bill Lende (left) signs agreement as Robert Gracy observes
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(Oct. 10, 2008)--The University of Texas at San Antonio and Cibolo Preserve, a nonprofit private operating foundation, entered into a memorandum of agreement this month giving UTSA faculty and students access to the preserve's 500-acre outdoor laboratory in Boerne.
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Cibolo Preserve was created by San Antonio philanthropist Bill Lende, the longtime proprietor of Herff Falls Ranch. The property, adjacent in part to Cibolo Nature Center, includes a Great Blue Heron rookery, a fern bank, a fossilized rudist reef and a waterfall within the 1.5 miles of Cibolo Creek that traverse the acreage.
UTSA Vice President for Research Robert Gracy and Lende officiated at a signing ceremony that confirmed a newfound research relationship in areas of environmental sustainability, in particular water resource management, archeology, biology, geology and climate change.
Lende has been a supporter of UTSA for many years, and said it has always been his intention to retain the most sensitive environmental portion of the former Herff Falls Ranch in its natural state.
"I've watched UTSA grow and blossom to the point of now aspiring to be a research university," he said. "I saw this as a preservation, research and education partnership and a perfect fit for UTSA to address issues we are all concerned about."
The memorandum of agreement grants UTSA access to the land for five years with renewable terms.
"UTSA is immensely grateful for this exceptional research opportunity," said Gracy. "The possibilities for study in the sciences, engineering, and across other areas are absolutely staggering."
"To have an outdoor laboratory for field work just 20 minutes from the 1604 Campus is an ideal situation for bridging classroom learning and applied knowledge," said Gracy. "We truly look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Cibolo Preserve, as together, we work towards becoming the next great Texas university."
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Before '04, our 1st round picks (for a long time) were busts or just not worthy of 1st round material -- William Joseph, Cedric Jones, Thomas Lewis, Petitgout, Wheatley, Allen, Dayne, Bunch, Derek Brown. There is no way that I'm going to complain about the players that we've been picking in the 1st RD over the past 8 or 9 years.
We get a really good LB that falls to us in the 1st round and is BPA, then great. But our FO has put a premium on D-line and secondary because their D philosophy is getting to the QB to sack/or at least make him hurry and make mistakes.
JR and the FO SAY, I believe, that they take BPA in the later rounds as well, but I don't believe that. I believe that's when they start reaching and filling "need" holes and that's when they start making bad picks.
Yes, get a MLB (draft or FA), but our LB starters may not be that bad next year. Kiwi needs to be a DE again -- he's not a LB. Williams should be a good LB for us, and Boley may have a better year next year. Get a new MLB, but I wouldn't go crazy on the LB corp. Hopefully we'll find a steal in the middle rounds of this year's draft.
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Clowney is an absolute beast. Antonio Richardson is a first round OT and he has help on every play and they are still getting whipped by Clowney. Clowney is winning every one on one and he is beating the double teams. Don't let the stat sheet fool you. The ignorant and uninformed will look at Tenn rushing total and say what did Clowney do? Tenn has run away from Clowney every play! Tenn has one of the top OLines in the nation. They are dominating the SCar DL and LB's, but that is because they are obviously running/scheming away from Clowney. The tape will not lie. That was one of the most impressive halves of football you will see by a defender.
Another thing. Don't listen to the media hype machine about Clowney's lack of commitment. That is the media making something out of nothing. That is their job. Spurrier completely screwed that situation up. Clowney had a muscle and cartilage issue. Incredibly painful.
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Soggy aubergines
Hello all
I have tried many a time to cook with aubergines, in pasta, curries and so on, including in the Pasta alla Norma recipe from Jamie's Italian cookbook, but I can never get the aubergine to taste right, or have a nice texture. It's always a bit soggy and unappetising (no offence to Jamie's recipe -I'm sure it's me!).
Any tips would be greatly appreciated...
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Re: Soggy aubergines
Hi Peggy....
Sounds as if you are using too much oil. Aubergines are like sponges and really soak up oil.
I use a pastry brush and coat the slices of aubergine with a little oil, then put them into a really hot griddle pan and cook on both sides. Just brush on a little more if you think it is necessary.
Hope this works for you.
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It helps if you salt the aubergines first todrain off the juice.
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Yeah of course shes come alive it doesnt happen all the time that a woman gets a man like Rob ,cheats on him ,with a disastrous man like ruppie (because he is married and an old man and had two small children ) and then have her fans and her ppl force feed her second hand a$$ back to rob and he accepts it back (if he has and i trully hope he hasnt) wouldnt you look like a happy stripper too .Everyone knows she K screws around for fame and cheer her on by making her the highest paid actress in hollywood. I LOVE HOLLYWOOD.
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@jesse Are you mad that Robert and Kristen are together ? I am not going to say back together Because these two love bird have never been a part. And the story about this married man it never happen . I do not get it that so meny fans belive this lie so easy. It is a problem with me to I do not understand how you can believe that a girl like Kristen will stand in the having affair with married man. This girl would not let you know that she is dating Robert Pattinson And she was living with him. If you would had ask Google if the photos was fake .Youwould that the photos was all fake.No don`t ask Kristen was seen on a live video saying that she want to apologize to Robert. She was home with Robert . It was the media that readind these words , Go Googl e and ask if the photos are fake.
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Transformational Diversity presents a new vision of diversity that seeks to revise and transform current diversity programs through a strong infusion of an intercultural perspective with intercultural business competencies training. This new brand of diversity is taking the "old" diversity beyond race and gender, proposing the shift of focus from traditional race-gender to minorities-integration-synergy-performance issues. Many business professionals already understand that different demographic groups think and communicate differently, and these cultural differences need to be understood by all stakeholders — so that the newcomers to the workplace can be integrated sooner rather than later. Integration is not easy to achieve, but the expectant prize of an enhanced bottom line resulting from an inclusive, harmonious, and collegial organizational culture is well worth the effort.
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"Transformational Diversity turns the kaleidoscope to bring another way to view and address diversity in corporations. It presents an approach that focuses on inclusion rather than the more traditional differences and applies the paradigm and methodology of intercultural competency to help organizations leverage diversity as an asset. The premise of the book is that by emphasizing intercultural competencies, organizations can transform their cultures and capitalize on diversity as a business advantage . . . Aimed at a corporate audience, their focus is a pragmatic, business-oriented one that uses corporate examples, language and statistics to demonstrate the strategic case for inclusion, including contemporary issues such as social responsibility and downsizing/layoffs. For readers looking for answers to why regarding diversity and inclusion, this aspect is particularly helpful. . . .Transformational Diversity's approach also has much relevance for organizations in other sectors of the economy such as education, health care, government and non-profit. It gives HR and Diversity professionals as well as other leaders, valuable information for strategizing about how to transform their cultures to leverage diversity for the benefit of their organizations." -- Anita Rowe, Ph.D., Partner, Gardenswartz & Rowe and Emotional Intelligence and Diversity Institute and coauthor of Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference & Planning Guide, third edition
"Transformational Diversity: Why and How Intercultural Competencies can Help Organizations to Survive and Thrive had me at the title. We all work with people who are different from us in gender, age, function, ethnicity, nationality, intellectual orientation or religious tradition. Many of us have also been involved in mergers and acquisitions that join two or more organizational cultures. We have a wealth of diverse human talent to draw upon to penetrate new markets and creatively solve problems, but how do we do so? Books like this one, a compendium of the latest thinking along with sample designs and resources, are gifts. Such compendia guide the responsible practitioner through the maze of information available on the topic, highlight for the reader what is most accurate or valuable, and ideally teach us where to turn for further learning. They help us take stock of where we are as a field, where we should be going, and the latest best practice for how to get there. This book does that in a no-nonsense, practical, and brief manner . . . This book is a rich resource, and I highly recommend it." -- Dianne Hofner Saphiere, founder and principal, Nipporica Associates LLC, and creator of the Cultural Detective® series. The full review can be found at the Cultural Detective blog here.
"As institutions and companies struggle with global growth and cultural issues in the workplace, we have learned that our strategy for diversity and understanding needs to be changed. Transformational Diversity is both a strategy and an implementation road map of a new brand of diversity, on that is inclusive of employee populations and contributing to an organizations global preparedness. The book is not just a tool for Human Resources (HR) professionals, but should be a tool for all managers and senior managers. Management, as a whole, should have an understanding of working with an increasingly diverse workforce population and be able to use the road map, with the guidance of HR, to better manage their teams. Transformational Diversity is a must have for any company that does or wants to have a global workforce." -- Connextions Magazine
"As companies pay increasingly more attention to how they operate globally, more perspective is needed regarding the cross cultural dimension. Transformational Diversity adds greatly to the discussion concerning how those interested in diversity and inclusiveness on a global level can maximize their efficacy. It would be remiss for D & I professionals not to read this important work." — Philip Berry, President, Philip Berry Associates LLC; former Senior Vice President, Global Workplace Initiatives, Colgate Palmolive
"Diversity and intercultural expertise have been uneasy bedfellows for many years now: diversity running from the passion for fairness and justice to being marketed as good for corporate ROI; the intercultural flip-flopping from research and ivory tower model building to tip sheets on dealing with 'foreigners.' Transformational Diversity not only brings underlying causes of this discomfiting relationship into the light of day, but demands that we look at how we do both disciplines if they are to enter a mutually enriching relationship rather than a liaison of convenience." — Dr. George F. Simons, Creator of Diversophy® and Member, Board of Directors, Society for Diversity Executives & Professionals
"This book is a required 'booster shot' for any company officer, manager, or consultant who believes their bottom line can be improved through greater productivity. The writers have developed both a 40,000 foot view of the strategic and conceptual issues concerning diversity and productivity and an on-the-ground practical and experientially based view of the issues concerned with implementing diversity concepts and productivity enhancement." — Robert S. Nadel, former President of The Human Resources Association of NY
"Citkin and Spielman address the issue of diversity as it is today. Focusing on the evolving issues surrounding diversity, the authors help the reader to understand how the issue of diversity has changed — how globalization and a more international workforce comprised of a variety of cultures, talents, and work pedagogies have raised our understanding of diversity to a higher level, and that the way we need to address diversity has to change in order for companies to continue operating at peak effectiveness and efficiency." — Peter W. Hayward, founder and Senior Partner of Expanding Horizons International
"We want to congratulate Lynda and Fiona for an important book that resonates with the latest thinking in the global diversity and inclusion arena. Intercultural competence allows us to bridge differences in thinking styles, viewpoints, and behaviors to act as one team and leverage the diverse strengths everyone brings to the table locally or globally. With this book, the authors introduce concepts that combine the intercultural field and diversity insights for learning and development professionals who want to create a globally inclusive organization. Transformational Diversity is a door opener for transformation." – Jim Wall, Global Managing Director, Talent, and Chief Diversity Officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
"Transformational Diversity extends traditional diversity efforts shifting the focus to inclusive leadership, putting interpersonal and intercultural business competencies on center stage—and maintaining that when tolerance-development and workplace relationships are taken care of, the results are improvements in productivity and performance—and then ROI takes care of itself." – Ci Ci Holloway, Managing Director, Diversity and Inclusion, Americas, UBS Investment Bank
About the Authors:
Fiona Citkin, Ph.D., is a founder and Managing Director of Expert MS Inc., an international consulting firm specializing in business-aligned Intercultural Business Competencies and Transformational Diversity setup and implementation. Along with other prominent business leaders, Dr. Citkin was selected as one of the 2012 "Champions of Diversity" by DiversityBusiness.com.
Lynda Spielman, Ph.D., GPHR, is a global HR consultant and educator on many global workforce issues and is especially experienced in implementing cultural diversity in business practices. She is retired from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, where she directed both global mobility programs and the organization's global strategy on Multiculturalism and Inclusion. Dr. Spielman is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Intercultural Education at New York University and in International Human Resources at NYIT.
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|Transformational Diversity: Why and How Intercultural Competencies Can Help Organizations to Survive and Thrive
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Professor Charles Wilkinson of the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law has been named the 1996-97 Teaching Excellence Award winner by a vote of law school students.
The award, which has been given to top teaching faculty for the past eight years, carries a $1,000 stipend from the Student Bar Association and the Deans Fund for Excellence.
Law students cast votes April 11, 14 and 15 for the faculty member they believe had most enhanced their educational experience inside and outside the classroom. The other top vote getters were Professors Dale Oesterle, Dennis Hynes and Curtis Bradley.
Nomination statements collected by the Student Bar Association before the voting called Wilkinson the most passionate, inspirational person I have ever known, and the best teacher at CU law. Another said, He is extremely dedicated to ensuring that his students understand the material thoroughly and beyond what the casebook provides. Although he is very busy, he is still very accessible.
One student described how Wilkinson organized an evening session at the Native American Rights Fund so that the Indian students could share their unique perspectives with the rest of the class and everyone could exchange ideas and sentiments. It was a remarkable night that added a personal touch to the class.
Wilkinson teaches natural resources, water, public lands and Indian law and has written several books on natural resources issues.
The teaching award was presented in a law school ceremony April 18 honoring Wilkinson and recipients of other law school awards. Previous teaching award winners include Professors Clifford Calhoun, Mimi Wesson and Bill Pizzi.


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Service Saturdays
Explore Your Passion.
Share Your Energy.
Be the Change.
Every year the Service Saturdays Program offers Ithaca College students a unique opportunity to serve Ithaca and Tompkins County with passion and energy. Through partnerships with more than twenty different service-based organizations, IC students consistently offer more than 1,700 total hours of service annually on a variety of projects, from working in organic gardens to assisting with prisoner education programs. By developing new, "place-based" knowledge through service experience, Ithaca College students can more thoroughly scrutinize their academic foundation, and grow as community-minded scholars. At the end of each academic year, one volunteer is honored as the Service Saturday Volunteer of the Year. The recipient of the award must participate in at least 50% of the events while displaying team-based leadership skills and enthusiasm for community service.
For each service date, we:
1. Provide all necessary transportation
2. Provide on-site supervision
3. Do giveaways and raffles
4. Do volunteer placement
Learning Outcomes
By participating in Service Saturdays, volunteers will identify and articulate at least one challenge or need existing in Tompkins County. In addition, through their participation in the program, volunteers will articulate the goals of at least one community organization in Tompkins County.
2016 - 2017 Dates:
February 18
April 22 (Volunteer Recognition Event)
*Service Saturday sign ups open 10 days prior to the event*


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Start out with
- American National Biography (ANB Online)
Type of Resource: Full text
Coverage: Limited to deceased persons; updated quarterly
"Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation." Based on the American National Biography (ANB, 24 volumes, 1999) and its supplements, American National Biography (ANB Online) is "updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities."
- Biography in Context
Type of Resource: Full text
Provides biographical information on over 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 427,000 biographies from over 960 volumes of more than 135 reference sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Writers Directory, and many more. Also provides access to more than 538,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines as well as more than 24,700 images.
- Oxford African American Studies Center
Type of Resource: Full text
Wide-ranging collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events that have shaped African American and African history and culture. Features biographies and other articles from Oxford's reference works; primary sources; images; maps; timelines; and charts and tables. The core content includes: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience; the Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895; Black Women in America; the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature; and the ongoing project African American National Biography.
Other Significant Resources
- African American Biographical Database: AABD
Type of Resource: Full text
Contains biographies and narratives of thousands of African Americans, spanning the years 1790-1950. Draws its initial content from the Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. publication: Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950.
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Type of Resource: Index
Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. The total number of biographical sketches indexed by BGMI is now more than 16.6 million.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography complete online
Type of Resource: Full text
Provides literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics, for more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works. Additionally, you can search for essays on publishing houses and literary topics. Illustrations included.
- The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. [Permanent series] (New York : J.T. White, 1891-1984)
Location: Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R041 N21
Location Has: v.1-14,v.15a-N63
The National Cyclopaedia aimed to include "biographical sketches of all persons prominently connected with the history of the nation," and to be "the biographical authority of the century" (Introduction). It includes biographies of persons living, as well as of persons deceased, at the time individual volumes were published. Noteworthy for providing coverage of many individuals who may not be found in the American National Biography or other sources. Entries are not in alphabetical order. Consult either the INDEX volume (shelved after vol. N63) or Biography and Genealogy Master Index, each of which indexes the full set.
- World Biographical Information System and
American Biographical Archive &
American Biographical Archive, Series II
Location: Butler Reference Room 310, Alcove 1
Call Numbers: MICFICHE FX3 6491 & MICFICHE FX3 6911
World Biographical Information System is a database that contains citations to biographical profiles of people from all centuries as well as all countries and regions worldwide. American Biographical Archive and American Biographical Archive, Series II, are two of the microfiche sets that are indexed by World Biographical Information System. Together, these two microfiche sets provide biographical entries regarding more than 488,000 Americans as drawn from 502 reference works. World Biographical Information System will enable you to locate biographical entries within the American Biographical Archive microfiche sets. The World Biographical Information System can also be used independently of the microfiche, since it provides basic biographical information, such as birth date, death date, and profession. The American Biographical Archive microfiche sets can be complex to use. You may want to ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.


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Mexican Chili Cheese Bake
Prep time: 10 minutes
Brown turkey in a large skillet until cooked through. Stir in salsa, beans, tomato sauce, chiles, taco seasoning and corn and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Top with chips and cheese; cover and cook for 5 minutes more to melt cheese. Serve with desired toppings and remaining nut chips. Makes 8 servings.
*All brands are different. Check package to make sure it's gluten-free.
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Good source of Selenium
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Good source of Selenium
I loved the idea of adding Selenium to my water. Also, it meant less additives and capsules, etc. I was so excited about using this that I then ordered the respective liquid Selenium from Trace Minerals. Surprisingly, I wasn't happy with it. I like Eidon's supplement better.
Won't buy again - recommend organic selenium or sodium selenite instead
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I picked this one because it allowed me to adjust serving size to suit - it's not a megadose, has no added junk and can be tailored to need, offering more flexibility than caps/tabs. However - for whatever reason, even less than suggested dose caused collagen issues for me and I had to stop using it. I've also tried a non-yeast L-selenomethionine (Solgar) - unfortunately the tablet fillers caused me similar issues. I've recently tried a different brand, and aside from dose, it's perfect. Of particular interest to me - selenium has been shown to regulate: 1) lipoxygenases (e.g. arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase, which transforms EFAs into inflammatory mediators); and 2) circadian rhythm. I notice when I don't get enough selenium, I start turning into a night owl. I've found it doesn't take much to reset, and because (as with everything) there's a fine balance between not enough/too much, I'd prefer a selenium supplement I can increase in smaller increments than the majority of supplements allow, to save me having to cut tablets all the time. I've since read asthma studies that used sodium selenite (not selenate), so am tempted to try it. Vit E inhibits 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) - so both are beneficial. Magnesium is a selenium (and vit E) antagonist - making many vege sources of selenium (such as nuts, brown rice, etc), a catch-22 if selenium intake is inadequate. This one's tasteless in water and yeast free - but I don't recommend it. If this review was helpful to you, please click YES below - thank you. For reviews of all the products I have purchased from iHerb, please click my username above.
Good source of Selenium
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I loved the idea of adding Selenium to my water. Also, it meant less additives and capsules, etc. I was so excited about using this that I then ordered the respective liquid Selenium from Trace Minerals. Surprisingly, I wasn't happy with it. I like Eidon's supplement better.
great product
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Ionic selenium is very readily absorbed.
Not pure Selenium !
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I asked for pure selenium - this product is obviously watered down in spite of the bottle saying " liquid concentrate"
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Cruz wins Nisswa Citizen of Year honor
When Jim Dullum called Martin's Sport Shop in Nisswa on Monday, Aug. 26, he was told to go to Adirondack Coffee for a Nisswa Citizen of the Year meeting.
Unable to attend, he called the store's owner — his daughter, Deb Cruz — and told her to vote for anyone she wanted.
That's when a crying and laughing Cruz told her dad that the voting was done, and she was the 2013 Nisswa Citizen of the Year, marking the first time a second family member has won the honor. Dullum was the city's second Citizen of the Year, in 1989.
An unsuspecting Cruz thought she was meeting Shawn Hansen, Nisswa Chamber of Commerce executive director, at Adirondack for a City of Lights meeting Monday morning. Instead — in the midst of tourists and area residents having coffee — she found herself receiving flowers and hugs from past Citizens of the Year Cindy and John Terwilliger and Teresa Faust, along with several Nisswa Chamber board members.
A nomination letter read: "Chairperson for Nisswa City of Lights event, the largest, most popular event in Nisswa. Deb has taken this on for several years and has done a wonderful job. Even when she was running her business and taking classes for her accounting degree, she still led this event.
"She has worked in all aspects of the event — holding planning committee meetings, putting up lights, arranging to bring in extra trees last year for the tree decorating competition, donating cocoa for the Polar Express event, etc."
That letter also noted Cruz has been generous in donations to various fundraisers, including the Nisswa Women's Club silent auction to raise money for local scholarships.
Cruz also frequently donates coffee and pastries to various events, including last weekend's Camp Lincoln and Camp Lake Hubert alumni run to raise money for kids who otherwise couldn't attend camp.
"What an honor, given what some of the other people have done," Cruz said of the award. "I feel my part is so small.
"But what a beautiful community to grow up in and to raise my kids," she said. "Any part I can do, I'm happy to do it."
Cruz said she fell in love with the City of Lights event in November 2007, when the fireworks started and big snowflakes started falling. She became involved in the event in 2008 and then became co-chair.
Cruz had lived in Seattle, Wash., for 19 years before returning to Nisswa with her family — husband, Bill; daughter, Marina; and son, Dario.
"One of the biggest joys being back here is being able to be around them and see them every day," Cruz said of her parents, Jim and Shirley Dullum.


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Well, a week or so ago I did my second harvest from my hive. At the time, I figures my bees were pretty much done for the season (this was before Michael Bush explained about waiting for a hard frost, etc.), so I didn't replace all the frames I removed. I think I left 6 or so.
This was the bad thing.
Last night, I went to collect the frames I had left under the outer cover for the bees to clean. I noticed that they had not only cleaned them, but started building up the cells again. (They had only been there for about 3 days!). Out of curiousity, and because of the unexpectedly high level of activity, I decided to peak under the inner cover.
It seems my bees have been busy indeed. They have much more honey. Plus, they even started building a sort of freestanding comb hanging fromt the inner cover.
So, now I don't know what to do. I figure the best thin is to wait until the frost then basically go in, remove the upper super, or whatever its called (leaving of course the two already there), taking off the queen excluder, and chase or brush the bees away from the honey chamber.
Then I can uncap the honey and try harvest even the freestanding comb, and clean the super, etc, and everything else up for next season.
Does this sound like a plan?


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Pre-General Availability Draft: 2017-05-29
You can store a value in a user-defined variable in one statement and refer to it later in another statement. This enables you to pass values from one statement to another.
User variables are written as
@, where the
variable name
var_name consists of
alphanumeric characters,
_, and
$. A user variable
name can contain other characters if you quote it as a string or
identifier (for example,
@"my-var", or
User-defined variables are session specific. A user variable
defined by one client cannot be seen or used by other clients.
(Exception: A user with access to the Performance Schema
user_variables_by_thread table can
see all user variables for all sessions.) All variables for a
given client session are automatically freed when that client
User variable names are not case sensitive. Names have a maximum length of 64 characters.
One way to set a user-defined variable is by issuing a
expr[, @
expr] ...
= or
:= can be
used as the assignment operator.
You can also assign a value to a user variable in statements other
In this case, the assignment operator must be
:= and not
= because
the latter is treated as the comparison operator
= in
SET @t1=1, @t2=2, @t3:=4;mysql>
SELECT @t1, @t2, @t3, @t4 := @t1+@t2+@t3;+------+------+------+--------------------+ | @t1 | @t2 | @t3 | @t4 := @t1+@t2+@t3 | +------+------+------+--------------------+ | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | +------+------+------+--------------------+
User variables can be assigned a value from a limited set of data
types: integer, decimal, floating-point, binary or nonbinary
string, or
NULL value. Assignment of decimal
and real values does not preserve the precision or scale of the
value. A value of a type other than one of the permissible types
is converted to a permissible type. For example, a value having a
temporal or spatial data type is converted to a binary string. A
value having the
JSON data type is
converted to a string with a character set of
utf8mb4 and a collation of
If a user variable is assigned a nonbinary (character) string value, it has the same character set and collation as the string. The coercibility of user variables is implicit. (This is the same coercibility as for table column values.)
Hexadcimal or bit values assigned to user variables are treated as
binary strings. To assign a hexadecimal or bit value as a number
to a user variable, use it in numeric context. For example, add 0
or use
SET @v1 = X'41';mysql>
SET @v2 = X'41'+0;mysql>
SET @v3 = CAST(X'41' AS UNSIGNED);mysql>
SELECT @v1, @v2, @v3;+------+------+------+ | @v1 | @v2 | @v3 | +------+------+------+ | A | 65 | 65 | +------+------+------+ mysql>
SET @v1 = b'1000001';mysql>
SET @v2 = b'1000001'+0;mysql>
SET @v3 = CAST(b'1000001' AS UNSIGNED);mysql>
SELECT @v1, @v2, @v3;+------+------+------+ | @v1 | @v2 | @v3 | +------+------+------+ | A | 65 | 65 | +------+------+------+
If the value of a user variable is selected in a result set, it is returned to the client as a string.
If you refer to a variable that has not been initialized, it has a
value of
NULL and a type of string.
User variables may be used in most contexts where expressions are
permitted. This does not currently include contexts that
explicitly require a literal value, such as in the
LIMIT clause of a
SELECT statement, or the
clause of a
LOAD DATA statement.
As a general rule, other than in
statements, you should never assign a value to a user variable and
read the value within the same statement. For example, to
increment a variable, this is okay:
SET @a = @a + 1;
For other statements, such as
SELECT, you might get the results
you expect, but this is not guaranteed. In the following
statement, you might think that MySQL will evaluate
@a first and then do an assignment second:
SELECT @a, @a:=@a+1, ...;
However, the order of evaluation for expressions involving user variables is undefined.
Another issue with assigning a value to a variable and reading the
value within the same
statement is that the default result type of a variable is based
on its type at the start of the statement. The following example
illustrates this:
SET @a='test';mysql>
SELECT @a,(@a:=20) FROM
For this
SELECT statement, MySQL
reports to the client that column one is a string and converts all
accesses of
@a to strings, even though @a is
set to a number for the second row. After the
SELECT statement executes,
@a is regarded as a number for the next
To avoid problems with this behavior, either do not assign a value
to and read the value of the same variable within a single
statement, or else set the variable to
0.0, or
'' to define its
type before you use it.
In a
SELECT statement, each select
expression is evaluated only when sent to the client. This means
that in a
ORDER BY clause, referring to a variable
that is assigned a value in the select expression list does
not work as expected:
SELECT (@aa:=id) AS a, (@aa+3) AS b FROM
tbl_name HAVING b=5;
The reference to
b in the
HAVING clause refers to an alias for an
expression in the select list that uses
This does not work as expected:
@aa contains
the value of
id from the previous selected row,
not from the current row.
User variables are intended to provide data values. They cannot be
used directly in an SQL statement as an identifier or as part of
an identifier, such as in contexts where a table or database name
is expected, or as a reserved word such as
SELECT. This is true even if the
variable is quoted, as shown in the following example:
SELECT c1 FROM t;+----+ | c1 | +----+ | 0 | +----+ | 1 | +----+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql>
SET @col = "c1";Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>
SELECT @col FROM t;+------+ | @col | +------+ | c1 | +------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql>
SELECT `@col` FROM t;ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column '@col' in 'field list' mysql> SET @col = "`c1`"; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>
SELECT @col FROM t;+------+ | @col | +------+ | `c1` | +------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
An exception to this principle that user variables cannot be used to provide identifiers, is when you are constructing a string for use as a prepared statement to execute later. In this case, user variables can be used to provide any part of the statement. The following example illustrates how this can be done:
SET @c = "c1";Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>
SET @s = CONCAT("SELECT ", @c, " FROM t");Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>
PREPARE stmt FROM @s;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec) Statement prepared mysql>
EXECUTE stmt;+----+ | c1 | +----+ | 0 | +----+ | 1 | +----+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql>
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
See Section 14.5, "Prepared SQL Statement Syntax", for more information.
A similar technique can be used in application programs to construct SQL statements using program variables, as shown here using PHP 5:
<?php $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "user", "pass", "test"); if( mysqli_connect_errno() ) die("Connection failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()); $col = "c1"; $query = "SELECT $col FROM t"; $result = $mysqli->query($query); while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) { echo "<p>" . $row["$col"] . "</p>\n"; } $result->close(); $mysqli->close(); ?>
Assembling an SQL statement in this fashion is sometimes known as "Dynamic SQL".
SET @pos=0;
SELECT @pos:=@pos+1,name FROM players ORDER BY score DESC;
It is still possible in a single SQL.
SELECT @rownum:=@rownum+1 rownum, t.*
FROM (SELECT @rownum:=0) r, mytable t;
SELECT if(@a, @a:=@a+1, @a:=1)-1 as rownum
It will of course only work as expected when @a hasn't already been set.
@running:=if(@previous=t.ID,@running,0)+t.NUM as TOTAL,
@previous:=t.ID from (
count(*) as NUM
from HISTORY
group by ID, TIMESTAMP
order by ID, TIMESTAMP
as t;
Note: You have to do this as a subquery because "order by" only orders the output, it doesn't change the order in which the rows are processed.
SET @rownum = 0;
SET @startRow = 0;
SET @maxRows = 20;
SELECT @rownum:=@rownum+1 as rownum, t.*
FROM (SELECT @rownum:=0) r, MYTABLE t
) t
WHERE rownum BETWEEN @startRow and @startRow + @maxRows;
set @counter=0;
select *, @counter rownum from tbl having (@counter:=@counter+1)%100=0 order by id;
set @a:=0;
update my_table set rand_column=@a:=@a+1 order by rand();
set @n := "foo";
SELECT name
FROM tbl
WHERE tbl.name LIKE CONCAT("%",@n,"%"); # not LIKE "%@n%"
SET @running = @previous = NULL;
after your running total query, or you can keep it within one query and NULL it out in the outermost SELECT:
from (
@running:=if(@previous=t.ID,@running,0)+1 as TOTAL,
@previous:=t.ID from (
from HISTORY
order by ID, TIMESTAMP
)as t
)as f;
This is Nicholas Bernstein's original example of keeping a running total (on each record) of how many duplicate timestamps per id. You'll notice I also removed the COUNT and GROUP BY that creates a column of 1's, and just added a number 1 instead. The original example only really works if there are no duplicates in the ID field.
select t. ID, t. TIMESTAMP, @total:=@total+t.c as TOTAL from (select @total:=0) a, (select ID, TIMESTAMP,count(*) as c from HISTORY group by ID, TIMESTAMP) t ;
1. I have used only one user-defined variable.
2. I have initialized the user-defined variable in the same query
3. There is no need for the ORDER BY clause as GROUP BY returning ordered results
You can learn more MySQL User Defined Variables examples at
Thank you all.
create table trashme (pk int not null primary key, fk varchar(1) not null, seq int not null)
insert into trashme values (1, 'A', 1)
insert into trashme values (2, 'A', 2)
insert into trashme values (3, 'B', 2)
insert into trashme values (4, 'B', 3)
insert into trashme values (5, 'B', 5)
set @previous := null
set @counter := 0
start transaction
update trashme
set seq = case when @previous = fk then @counter := @counter + 1 else case when @previous := fk then @counter := 0 else @counter := 0 end end
order by fk, seq
select * from trashme order by fk, seq
You'll see that the sequence has been renumbered (starting at zero and closing any previous gaps) for each group.
Note the "trick" to set @previous := fk using a 2nd case statement. Interestingly, the @counter := 0 used is the one in the else clause. Also note that I couldn't nest an if function inside of an if function (v5.0.37), and that's why I used the case statement.
the numbering doesn't restart every time ID changes.
set seq = case when @previous = fk then @counter := @counter + 1 else concat( left(@previous := fk, 0), @counter := 0) end
order by fk, seq
More generally, each time you want to assign user variables in an update, you can do
update table set col = concat ( left(@var1='val1', 0), left(@var2='val2', 0), .... , 'newcolvalue')
So I've got TABLE stuff
(name VARCHAR(255), type INT(11))
with VALUES like
('Jimbo Jones',1)
('Blues Baby',2)
('Homburg Harry',1)
('Charlie Chaps',1)
('Ike Igneous',2)
I needed output that had all the rows grouped together by `type` (not just a GROUP BY summary) AND -- the peculiar part, related to a pagination-related thing on the client side -- needed a "countdown" indicator telling me how many more rows remained in the group after the current row.
Desired output:
Name Type Number_Remaining_in_Group
Jimbo Jones 1 2
Homburg Harry 1 1
Charlie Chaps 1 0
Blues Baby 2 1
Ike Igneous 2 0
So I came up with this:
WHEN COALESCE(@grpremain,0) = 0
THEN @grpremain:=sorted.cnt-1
from stuff
inner join
select type,count(*) cnt from stuff
group by type
) grouped
on stuff.type=grouped.type
order by stuff.type
) sorted
Basically, innermost query gets the count by group, next one out does the sorting (otherwise, row order passed to the outermost one is undefined). Then the outermost query ticks down the expected remaining rows, resetting group-by-group.
There may be a more optimized way to do this -- I haven't rolled it out as yet because I have to make sure it uses the right indexes and is happy with a production-size dataset. But it does the trick on the functional level and would be a starting point for anybody with this exact need, which I couldn't find around the net. Cheers!
update table set col = col + (@var1 := 'val1')*0 + (@var2 := 'var2')*0 + ...
@running:=if(@previous=t.ID,@running,0)+t.NUM as TOTAL,
@previous:=t.ID from (
count(*) as NUM
from HISTORY
group by ID, TIMESTAMP
order by ID, TIMESTAMP
as t;
In my opinion, contradict this general rule:
"As a general rule, other than in SET statements, you should never assign a value to a user variable and read the value within the same statement....
... Such as SELECT, you might get the results you expect, but this is not guaranteed. In the following statement, you might think that MySQL will evaluate @a first and then do an assignment second:
SELECT @a, @a:=@a+1, ...;
However, the order of evaluation for expressions involving user variables is undefined."
Because, there is no guarantee that the variable @previous first will be checked and then assigned new value t.ID
Am I wrong?


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Why You Shouldn't Be Making an MMO
MMO MMORPG ArenaNet Guild Wars 2 career
Get some unsolicited advice from a guy working on a real MMORPG.
It's nothing new, this trend, but it also doesn't seem to be going away as quickly as most fads; perhaps we can accuse World of Warcraft for making this such a huge deal, or maybe it all goes back to Ultima Online and Everquest. We may never know for sure.
One thing is definitely clear, though, and that's that a significant contingent of people show up here at GDNet wanting to make their own MMO games. There have been many words bandied about in the past over this subject, and plenty of advice warning newbies not to get their hopes up when it comes to shipping a true MMO.
Sure, not everyone is committed to the RPG genre; some people want to make an FPS, or maybe even an RTS. Others might have even more creative and unique ideas for how their game should play. But the real issue here is not the gameplay itself: it's the MMO part. More than that, it isn't even the "multiplayer" or "online" that is really an issue - it's the "massive."
MMOs are expected to host dozens of servers running thousands of players apiece. Successful games may be played by over a million people; some notable ones are played by far more than that. Even a low-grade MMO serves a few hundred thousand players.
The Real Issue
This is the root of the problem, here, this "massively" multiplayer business. Because going from just "online" and "multiplayer" all the way up to "massive" is a huge deal. Serving a pair of co-op players is fairly easy; most off-the-shelf engines these days include at least rudimentary networking support, and it doesn't take a huge amount of network kung fu to get a co-op experience running smoothly for most game designs. Half a dozen players isn't a big deal, either, using existing networking solutions.
But it's a far cry from 16 people playing Halo on a home-rigged LAN to the kind of stuff a real MMO must cope with. Even throwing in something like Xbox Live Matchmaking is incredibly resource-intensive. Companies like Bungie have people whose full time jobs involve doing very little but making sure the matchmaking experience runs smoothly. When a major company has to employ people to do nothing but run their multiplayer system, you can bet it's a good sign that Little Old Joe in his garage or basement isn't going to be up to doing something similar.
But wait! Even running a matchmaking system for a few hundred thousand players pales in comparison to what an MMO must do. After all, a matchmaker simply needs to join up different players and get them running on a separate system (usually hosted by one of the players themselves, or maybe a dedicated server for PC games). If dedicated servers are involved, the matchmaker is often really just a catalog of what severs are running. This is the kind of thing that a lone wolf coder could easily accomplish on his own; something like Xbox Live matchmaking, however, is getting past the realm of stuff that one guy (or gal) could ever do alone.
So if a solo developer can't really hope to build, deploy, and run a large-scale matchmaking service, what about an MMO?
Well, let's take the demands of the matchmaking service and chuck in some complications:
- Persistent worlds. You're no longer hosting a game for a few rounds tops; you're storing data on players and their every action in the game. This introduces all manner of data warehousing issues which don't affect non-persistent games. Even semi-persistent shard/instancing systems (say, like that used in Guild Wars) are pretty complex.
- Active role in simulation. A matchmaker can often get away with having a player host the game, which is the typical approach used in console games these days. Matchmaking servers don't have to have any code besides the stuff that links people together, making the actual multiplayer portion fairly straightforward by comparison. Again, remember that for up to about a dozen players, off-the-shelf network code is often sufficient to get a decent game experience. It does require some skill to make it happen, but it's at least plausible that a single person (or a small team of people) could get away with building a good low-scale multiplayer game.
- Massiveness. We're not talking about sorting through a few thousand people to create a 10-man match; we're talking about having thousands of people connected to a single server, all constantly doing things. Combine this with persistence and active simulation, and stuff just got a lot more painful.
Some Magic Tricks, For Your Amusement
Here's an educational homework exercise for you. Even better, it has a magic trick twist to it. Pick your favorite MMO, and go look up the game credits, either in-game or on the web or wherever. Count the number of people involved.
Now, don't tell me your number. Keep it secret.
Without talking to you in any way - hell, before you even do this exercise - I will know more about your number than you might be comfortable admitting.
In fact, I'm so sure about this number, that I'll even make you a bet.
I will bet you a beer (or suitable beverage of your choice) that you can't find an MMO with over a million players with a development team of less than 100 people.
Here's another magic trick. Go find the lead developers and senior-level programmers, artists, producers, musicians, and other high-ranking folks from your MMO's team. Now go find out what other games those people worked on before the MMO. Do the same thing for the less-senior guys as well; average up how many titles everyone has worked on in their past.
I will bet you a second tasty beverage that the average developer working on an MMO has shipped at least 2 games prior to shipping a successful MMO. Many successful MMO titles are even the results of collaborative efforts from dozens of people with prior MMO experience.
The Uncomfortable Questions That Must Be Asked
If a typical heavy-hitter MMO needs more than 100 people to make it, how is it in any way feasible for one person to do it alone? What about 5 people? 20? At what point do we "break even" and hit a level of team size that might possibly tackle one of these suckers?
In a similar vein, if the average developer is already experienced with at least a game or two, and maybe even a prior MMO, what makes you think that a total newcomer to game development has any shot at accomplishing such a gargantuan task?
And these are just the obvious, logical questions. I haven't gotten to the heavy stuff yet.
A Case Study in Real MMOs
Let's look at my current employer, ArenaNet, producer of Guild Wars and the upcoming Guild Wars 2.
The GW2 juggernaut employs over 250 people. The GW2 codebase is several million lines of code (I don't have an exact count yet; I might get around to running a full scan of the code and put together a snapshot of how big the codebase is later on). There are hundreds of gigabytes of assets, ranging from artwork to music to design documents to configuration files.
If that scale alone isn't enough to convince you that MMOs are out of reach for the Five Amigos, then let's talk business.
MMOs are fiercely competitive, and a cutthroat business. People are doing all manner of wildly innovative and devious things to make money in the MMO space, and most of them are failing. There are some fascinating studies of how people move between MMOs, and they tend to suggest that many people are constantly on the hunt for the next great big thing - meaning that they'll bail on a mediocre MMO in a heartbeat to go play something cooler.
Running an MMO is immensely expensive. Internet hosting and server costs alone can be in the tens of thousands of dollars a month range. Buying all the hardware you need to run the game up-front can be well into the millions. You need a dedicated datacenter for the endeavor, with redundant power, fire safety systems, industrial cooling, and hundreds of miles of both copper cabling and fiber optics. A single network switch capable of running an MMO backbone can cost ten grand by itself. And if you want a global reach, you'd better roll out a datacenter on every major continent, at the very least. Three or four per continent is more like it.
What about technology?
Graphics are amazingly critical. If you don't have a great looking game, don't expect to attract too many players. The MMO space more than any other genre is dominated by players who are into aesthetics and first impressions. A great game with bad graphics might still get some hardcore fans, but it'll never compete with a great game with great graphics.
If you're just a mediocre game, though, the prettiest pictures in the world won't save you, so don't skimp on other stuff. Physics is becoming increasingly relevant. Audio must be immersive and high-quality. UI must be seamless, well-polished, and intuitive.
And we haven't gotten to the networking side of things yet.
The client side is pretty easy; it just has to connect to a server and spam some packets back and forth. But the server itself is a place of truly dark voodoo.
I've spent a grand total of two days with my head buried in the guts of the Guild Wars 2 server code, and I can say this much: there's more going on here than any one brain can keep track of. The GW legacy includes some truly brilliant, genius-level programmers, and even they didn't pretend to know all about the entire system. Sure, most of the veterans on the team have a good high-level picture of how it all fits together, but the details? Forget it.
At this level, everything becomes important.
The difference between allocating space for a buffer on the stack versus the heap is a crucial design decision. Calling conventions must be selected with great care. Exception handling is nearly verboten, because it has too much runtime overhead and can create unpredictable execution flows in code that must run continuously for years at a time. One-byte memory leaks are show-stopper, can't-ship-the-game-like-this bugs - because that one byte will kill you when it leaks constantly for eight months. Microseconds of sloppily implemented code turn into milliseconds of delay when scaled across thousands of players, which adds up to lag - the number one evil of an MMO.
You'd better be a sheer wizard at lock-based concurrency, because the order in which you lock things might spell the difference between a happy server and a worldwide outage. For that matter, you'd better be a wizard at lockless concurrency too, because locks are often too expensive and too exclusive to scale to thousands of active connections. Memorize those atomic operations, folks, and if you still think "volatile" means anything useful, go back to Go and do not collect $200.
You'd better understand how operating system kernels work, because you'll be taxing the living hell out of yours. Your job will bank on you knowing things like pre-emptive multitasking architectures, monolithic versus micro-kernels, how kernel-versus-user-mode code works, and how schedulers are implemented.
Better brush up on your compiler theory, too, because you'll need to know exactly how your code gets converted to machine language. For that matter, you'd better know your assembly language and your computer architecture, too. Two or three clock cycles here and there will add up in a damned impressive hurry. Don't know what a superscalar CPU architecture is? Pipelining? L1, L2, and L3 caching? Don't know how a memory bus is implemented? Don't know the difference between a northbridge and a southbridge? Don't know the role of device drivers and how they work? Don't know where the network stack of your OS of choice lives and under what context it runs? Pack your bags and don't sell the bike shop, 'cuz you aren't cut out to be writing an MMO server.
It takes half a dozen dedicated programmers just to write the servers for Guild Wars 2 - and that doesn't include the people who wrote some of the legacy code we inherited and modified from GW1, or the people working on auxiliary support features like web sites, forums, wikis, and so on. It doesn't even include the network admins who build the hardware and maintain it, or the community managers who take care of ensuring that the experience is enjoyable for all the players.
The guys I work with are, to a man, incredibly good programmers. I'm still not entirely convinced that I'm cut out to be working with them, or on a project of this magnitude. It's without question an extreme challenge - but one that I'm tackling with gusto, because I love a good challenge. There's more brilliance packed into the room I sit in every day than I've seen in years in the industry, and I've worked with some damn good people in the past.
The Last Straw
I haven't even started to touch on content production, or quality assurance, or game design in general, or balancing, or audio, or art creation, or anything relating to administration and running a business. Those things are all major tasks, outside the already-mammoth enterprise of programming. I've focused on code because that's what I do, but it's by no means the largest, most difficult, or most important aspect of making an MMO.
So, hopefully, that gives you some idea of what you're up against when you waltz into For Beginners and say, "hey, me and my three friends from high school want to make the next World of Warcraft."
Sure, with enough time, dedication, and discipline, you might wind up on a team that does produce the next smash-hit MMO. But you'll probably make up around one percent of the workforce on that team. And you'd better be fucking good - and I mean that.
Please, in all seriousness, start with Pong. Make a good Pong game. Make a killer Pong game. But scheming to produce an MMO from your basement is a surefire recipe for harsh lessons in reality, and for failure. It would be a damnable shame to waste your enthusiasm and talent on a doomed foregone conclusion of a project.
Instead, go make something small. Make something cool. Make something fun. Then, perhaps, you'll see that the important thing isn't massive numbers of players, or huge server farms, or millions of dollars. The important thing is that you do something you really enjoy with your life and your time.
And if you're sick in the head enough to enjoy something like working on an MMO, come apply to ArenaNet. I hear we're still looking for a few good senior programmers.
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HOLLAND -- The MIAA champion Flying Dutchmen are headed to Ohio to compete in the NCAA Division III men's soccer championships.
Coach Steve Smith's Dutchmen (14-4-1) will meet host Ohio Wesleyan (13-0-4) Friday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in a first round game in Delaware, Ohio. The winner of the Hope/Ohio Wesleyan game will meet the winner of another Friday game(5 p.m.) between Transylvania, Ky. (14-2-1) and Ohio Northern (15-2-5) on Saturday, Nov. 11. There will be 57 teams competing in the national tournament.
The Flying Dutchmen will be competing in the tournament for the second consecutive year and for the 10th time in school history. This will be the fourth time that Hope will travel to Delaware, Ohio for NCAA play. It will also be the fourth time that Hope and Ohio Wesleyan will meet in the post-season. In 1982 the Battling Bishops defeated the Dutchmen in their very first NCAA appearance 4-0. In 1994 Hope defeated Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware in a shootout after the teams tied 2-2. In 1997 Ohio Wesleyan defeated the Flying Dutchmen 2-0 on Hope's field. Hope is 7-9 alltime in NCAA play.


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I have read through Advanced2D development by J Harbour in which you create a 2D directX 9.0 game engine. The engine is based around a single window.
I was planning on doing it the following way but im not sure its the correct approach:
- Write a window class that has all the parameters to allow creation of different types and styles of window
- Each window will have its own D3D device
- Each window will be registered with windows
- Each window will have its own rendering portion, so each sprite on its draw command will pass in it's D3D device (like a GC in openGL)
This is what I plan to do but im not sure about handling the rendering properly. I also can never know how many windows a user could create so I am going to add them to a vector and then iterate over each whilst processing. I haven't really thought about sound yet.
My question is, is there anything blindingly I have missed out or really need to think about before I start this.
Thanks guys,
All the best,


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Beautifully done---love it!
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Beautifully done---love it!
You did a great job!
"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to."
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I love your quilt. I makes me happy :-)
Upstate South Carolina
dizzy is good!! Nice colorful quilt
It is so pretty..bright and cheery.
When it seems like the world is falling to pieces remember that the pieces are falling into place. We are nearing closer to the End Times.
I love this.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.
I think it's fantastic! I love it!
Love it; really colorful and cheerful; the way it's suppose to look.
I doooooo like it. and I agree with DH, it makes one dizzy if you let it. I love it.


text: I know this is probably a very beaten subject but I need some help. I've been searching numerous forums about this and really can't find a solid answer. It seems to be split 50/50 on go or no go. I'm currently running a 7" Full Throttle Suspension lift & bought a 2" Rough Country leveling kit. Question is, would it be a bad idea to have the leveling kit thrown on? I know the suspension kit has a strut spacer, and the leveling kit is a spacer for the lower control arm. I've seen tons of rigs online running suspension lifts with leveling kits, but I just don't want to get into a bind and end up messing anything up. If anyone has any experience with this kind of setup please let me know your input! Thanks guys!


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The Underbelly franchise has been a phenomenal success since first hitting TV screens in Australia in 2008.
And five series have not been enough to dampen the enthusiasm for looking into the lives of some of the most notorious criminals from across the ditch.
Underbelly: Badness continues a winning theme with Anthony "Rooster" Perish as the man taking centre stage. For a decade, Perish ruled his empire and a sizeable chunk of the drug world without the police even knowing of his existence.
He was the invisible man.
His big mistake was to attract the attention of Detective Sergeant Gary Jubelin (Matt Nable) by killing and disposing of the body of the man he thought had killed his grandparents.
Jubelin was a gritty cop who never gave up on a case.
Hunting a killer, he eventually stumbled on to the ghost who was the underworld figure Rooster Perish.
He soon knew he had his man, but could he stay the distance and catch him?
Putting his personal life on the line, Jubelin sacrificed everything in his relentless hunt for a man who was becoming increasingly paranoid about what the police were up to and who was "dogging" him to the cops.
Underbelly: Badness serves the franchise well. A good crim is the basis for any series and they have found another special one.
Underbelly: Badness
(R16), Roadshow Entertainment
Rating: 4 / 5 Stars


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Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
It's not going to be another 17 years lol....Coughlin needs to trim fat better on the roster. We are only a few draft picks away from being in the playoff mix again.
I like this topic, different kind of conversations stimulating from it.
Giants will be playing at home in the SB next year..
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