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[[folder: Fridge Brilliance ]]
* Unmodded Tenno/Orokin weapons provides balanced stats against everything, which destroy Grineer and Infested alike. [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration The Corpus know this from studying Orokin technology]], and so they came up with their counter : lots and lots of energy shields. No wonder Ospreys are so annoying.
* Early-tier Grineer weapons tend to be effective against Corpus: they were fighting them for years before you showed up.
* High-tier or clan tech Tenno weapons usually focus on slash damage which strong against Infested, just like how the Orokin intended them to be used.
* On the whole, the ugly Grineer weapons compare very favorably to the sleek Corpus weapons. Why? Because Corpus are a megacorp and so their weapons are designed by marketing execs for ''sale''. The Grineer are soldiers, and so their weapons are designed by soldiers for ''combat.''
* Excalibur's Radial Blind. In Arthurian Legend, the first time Arthur's reign is challenged, he drew Excalibur and it blinded his enemies, sound familiar?
* Magnetic damage is amazingly effective against Corpus. But then, the Corpus are a faction that consists heavily of robotic and mechanized forces. And we all know what ''magnets'' do to computers.
* Valkyr (TheBerserker warframe) has a skill called "Hysteria" that darkens your vision, forces you into melee-only combat and grants NighInvulnerability for it's duration. [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShownTheirWork Actual Norse berserkers fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, and some theories suggest they did so by eating drugged food before battle (which also resulted in altered sensorial perception)]]. the Valkyr warframe isn't just emulating how a real berserker would fight, it's also using InterfaceScrew to (partially) give the player a sense of how a real berserker would '' perceive things''.
* All of (Classic) Stalker's weapon are designed specially to kill warframes. His bow ''Dread'' and his scythe ''Hate'', the two weapons you're likely to face in combat against him, focus on slash damage whose status effect is [[NoKillLikeOverkill Bleeding]]. His Despair are advertised as SharpenedToASingleAtom, which is in turn advertised as an anti-Warframe weapon. A Nikana stance mod Stalker can drop upon his defeat is called ''Blind Justice''. The name probably refers to [[KnightTemplar what Tenno think of the Stalker.]]
** A fairly easy connection to make, but beyond having him in its picture stance Vengeful Revenant is especially descriptive of the Stalker. A revenant is someone who has returned from the dead. The Stalker is yet another shadow of the Orokin Empire that was thought to have been completely wiped out.
* Hek's namesake shotgun deals primarily Puncture damage, making it good against... other Grineer. Not unreasonable to suspect he uses it primarily to dispose of any other Grineer who might try to get in the way of his plans.
* Ordis is a [[MeaningfulName Cephalon]] in charge of operating your Liset. In biology, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalon_%28arthropod_head%29 cephalon refers to the head section of arthropods]]. Now look at your Liset again.
* About Ordis... Digital Extreme is a Canadian studio. And in French, computer is said "Ordinateur", and often abbreviated "Ordi". In plural, it's "Ordinateurs", abbreviated "Ordis" (though the s is silent). Ordis is an AI. I believe we have a {{pun}} here.
* Why was Alad V, a ''massive'' racist against the Grineer who openly insults them to their face, ever appointed Head of Grineer Relations? That was the Corpus telling the Grineer exactly what the Board thinks of them.
* The placement of the different syndicates' rooms in the Relay seems arbitrary at first, but they're actually divided up to show which syndicates best synergize with each other. The East Wing contains Cephalon Suda, Steel Meridian, and the Arbiters of Hexis, all of which a player can progress in at the same time without having to worry about losing standing with one of them while building up another. Likewise, the same can be done with the Perrin Sequence, Red Veil, and New Loka, which are all in the West Wing. The Conclave and Cephalon Simaris are both neutral and have no impact on standing with other syndicates, and as such, can be found to the north.
* It might not be too far of a stretch to think that every time you joined a Defense mission to protect Warframe Cyropod, [[https://youtu.be/r2RR6KBlcs8 you are protecting other 'sleeping' Tenno]], [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration just like you in the very beginning]].
* Archwing in underwater maps moves slower than in space, because of the friction involved.
* When ''The Second Dream'' was released, a player in official forum made an interesting observation. ([[https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/569558-u18megaspoiler-do-not-read-if-you-havent-done-the-second-dream-vor/ SPOILER here]]) : [[spoiler: If the Warframe and the Operator are seperate entity,]] then why should Lotus worried when Vor put Ascaris Device on the player. The answer is [[spoiler: Vor just basically recreated Transferance by tapping into YOUR head and gotten too darn close to the truth in the process.]] Had Lotus not helped, Vor might be able to create his own Warframe army.
* It's repeatedly hinted that the Sentients can subvert technology. [[spoiler: Of course they can convert The Stalker.]]
* The name Tenno; [[spoiler: Update 18 reveals the Tenno human operators are the children survivors of the Zarimen ''Ten Zero'' Void accident. 'Zero' is also said as 'O'. 'Tenno' is another way of saying 'Ten Zero'.]]
* The missions on [[spoiler: the Orokin Moon]] saw Corpus and Grineer fighting each other. The game never explains why, but we can safely assume that both of them are going after Orokin technologies stashed inside.
* If you are defeated by the Corpus Harvester assassin, your Warframe is taken into Alad V's custody and you must escape through a special mission to regain access. However, you can just swap to a different Warframe and never worry about completing that mission, which almost seems like GameplayAndStorySegregation... [[spoiler:until the Second Dream reveals that the Operator really is just switching to a different remote interface.]]
* With the recent revelations [[spoiler: within the Second Dream questline]] Kubrows make perfect sense. Why would you engineer a combat dog that is also such a sweetheart to it's partner off mission? Dogs are noted to have therapeutic effects on their partners [[spoiler: so maybe Margulis made the first Kubrows as her means to heal the Tenno, but after her death they were turned into weapons of war]].
* [[spoiler: Hunhow the Sentient,]] was torn apart into thousands of pieces, each still conscious and connected to a central mind. So it's rather fitting that he was buried [[Myth/ClassicalMythology on Uranus.]]
* Ordis sometimes says a particular quote while you're on the Liset.
--> '''Ordis:''' Operator were you visualizing a bloody battle? '' '''M-m-me too''' ''.
** [[spoiler: Turns out there's a reason for that bloodlust. Ordis used to be a human mercenary well known for wanton slaughter.]]
* Why are [[spoiler: Sentient scouts]] so damn [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheesy]]? They're explicitly the last nail in the Orokin coffin. They aren't cyborg wage slaves, zombies or brain-dead clones. They're monsters [[spoiler: (probably technically not)]] from another star, and you were bred to fight them in the last desperate act of a dying race. And the specimens in the game ([[NightmareFuel so far]]) are just scouts and skirmishers. Start training, Tenno.
* According to [[WordOfGod Cephalon Cordylon]], the reason foundry blueprints charge credits is Ordis siphoning off funds to maintain the ship. Otherwise Tenno would just blow their money on more and more weapon blueprints until they starve. Taking [[LateArrivalSpoiler certain recent revelations]][[labelnote:spoiler]]Specifically that the Tenno are psychic child soldiers[[/labelnote]] into account, it makes perfect sense that the Lotus wouldn't trust the Tenno to handle their own mundane expenses.
* For several of the Restores that you can make, like health and energy, it requires the resource Nanospores which is dropped mostly from the Infested and in-game says it's Infested tissue to be handled with caution. Why would the Tenno use them as components for items to heal and empower themselves? [[spoiler: Because the Warframes are made from Infested flesh.]]
* Argon crystals decay when out of the Void. It's not that inconceivable, considering that Argon is a noble gas, and they're generally known for not being very chemically active, and as such they wouldn't be able to sustain themselves, let alone generate, outside its extradimensional home.
** Which begs the question as to how they are used in components?
** Maybe as an energy source to fuel the production of some weapons?
* Frohd Bek is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive highly influential Corpus member.]] His first name is pronounced a lot like "fraud". You can now do your own LamePunReaction.
* Titania's Spellbind not only stuns enemies but removes and protects against debuffs. She is also the only Warframe to have an integrated Archwing. Every time you cast Spellbind on a squadmate, you're activating and extending your life support bubble!
[[folder: Fridge Horror ]]
* The Corpus, whose name is derived from a common word depicted in Orokin history. Now becomes a ProudMerchantRace that worships Orokin greed and history [[ExactWords from its corpse]][[note]]Since ''Corpus'' written in Latin, means ''body''[[/note]].
* Ever wonder why you see very few female Corpus mooks outside of the rare elite Comba and Scrambus? The Cephalon fragment for the Corpus says the Corpus crewmen are ''[[BabyFactory purpose-bred]]''.
* Here in the real world, Ceres has no atmosphere. The Ceres of Warframe has a thick atmosphere choked with sickly green clouds weeping perpetual acid rain onto the surface. When you consider it's one of the largest Grineer factory worlds, it's entirely possible that it obtained this atmosphere entirely from its industrial output. The Grineer basically enacted HostileTerraforming solely through industrial output.
* Survival missions were full of this:
** During the event that first introduced Survival missions, there was ''no extraction.'' You fought until you died. How many brave Tenno did the Lotus abandon to their doom?
** The Corpus could somehow turn off the oxygen generation for their frozen planetside outposts. Excavation has since replaced planetside Survival missions however.
* The Valkyr:
** The Valkyr is a Warframe that was a survivor of the Gradivus Dilemma, an event where Corpus exec Alad V disassembled several frozen Tenno to create his own special proxy, Zanuka, and the design of her Warframe reflects that. What appears to be some sort of mask is clearly the true form of her helmet, the inside plating quite visible in contrast to the flowing exterior, and a similar section along her spine shows the fine armor beneath the suit. In other places, what used to be the aforementioned organic exterior of the suit has been put back together with makeshift repairs, giving Valkyr's armor a very flayed and raw appearance. Furthermore, the rest of her suit is studded with pins, some of which seem to go through her arm, which could potentially be holding what's left of her exterior together. Combined with the obvious restraints that she now uses as weapons, and the constant anger and rage she barely keeps control of, and one can only imagine what horrors the Corpus did to her...
** Adding to this, take a good look at the color of the Valkyr Gersemi Armor (which is, according to the description, how Valkyr used to look like before Alad got his hands on her) and now look what color Zanuka has, both are turquoise, which implies that Alad literally ''Ripped Valkyr's Skin off!''
* Rescue 2.0 (introduced in Update 13.2.0) has Infested in prison cells. It's possible that the technocyte virus works so quickly that some random civilian, insubordinate Grineer, Corpus POW, Red Veil member, etc. was thrown in just 1 minute ago, and transformed into an Infested in as much time. It's equally possible (and potentially proven, by a recent Infested-themed questline) that the Infested are in the cells as captives for research purposes. The lengths they must have had to go through to take one of things ''alive''...
* The only indication that "synthesis scanners" you get from Cephalon Simaris are lethal is when he randomly starts talking about the ethics of murder and UnwillingRoboticisation out of nowhere, without anyone prompting him to. Considering nonlethal scanning/teleportation devices already exist, for Capture missions, that's a pretty big thing to leave out of the briefing document.
* Ancient Healer synthesis codex describe the Orokin Lorists during Infested attack. Ancient ''Healer'' who can restore health and boost armor for its allies. Does that sound like any Warframe you have?
* It's heavily implied that are still a few human colonies left. Take a good look at an unhelmeted Corpus again. And, also remember, the Grineer, during the Gradivus Dilemma, would've released the human colonies on Mars, if anyone actually fought for them. In other words, the only life a human in Warframe's universe is to either be subjugated by the Grineer, or join the Corpus as cannon fodder.
** According to [[WordOfGod Cephalon Cordylon]], there are many peaceful human settlements throughout the solar system that never encounter either faction. The Tenno never see these because they're not required to intervene in anything there. Additionally, the syndicates (notably Steel Meridian) are known to defend independent communities from Grineer and Corpus threats. The moral here is: If you're a regular human, the farther away you are from Warframe's in-game content, the better.
* Clem can only say three word sentences at most, and he's immune to the Twin Queen's brainwashing. Why? He must have been born with a birth defect.
* "Fight poison with poison." Ballas [[spoiler: created the original Saryn Prime, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters meaning that he's sending innocent children to work as a proxy in his own revenge scheme despite knowing damn well what happened.]]]]
* In the Sands of Inaros quest, one of the enemies the Sacred Vessels can send you to fight are Denial Bursas. While it's possible that the other eight possible targets existed in the Orokin Era (blue [=MOAs=], Detron gunmen, various Grineer laborers, Infested units) this one provably did not. Inaros had to have picked this target himself using data from the outside world, meaning ''[[AndIMustScream he's still alive after being torn to shreds and stuffed in three different burial urns]]''.
* The Red Veil blatantly torture Grineer, and utilize infested runners as hit squads. [[WasOnceAMan Chargers are made from horrifyingly warped Grineer bodies]]. Put two and two together. The Grineer being tortured ''right next to the Charger Pen'' already has.
* Cephalons are created [[spoiler: through [[BrainUploading Brain Upload]]]]. And, as seen with Jordas, their use is, at the least in the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corpus]], still at large.
* During the Eyes of Blight, the Grineer find the extremely well-hidden Tenno relays, and will attempt to destroy them with Fomorians. The reason how they could randomly find them is simple- [[spoiler: the Twin Queens can command Teshin, who knows the coordinates of the relays, to tell them.]]
* The War Within reveals that [[spoiler: the Orokin, in order to stay young, are [[GrandTheftMe stealing bodies]]. That is horrific enough. However, both times Orokin were mentioned or shown to have died of physical causes, the reaction from others was more in line with illness than actual death. Then there is the Yuvan theater, a place where Orokin can buy slaves to possess, and all the pieces fall into place. They do not need to switch bodies to survive. Those people they [[MindRape mindrape]]? [[BodySurf Nothing more than clothing to them]].]]
** Even better, [[spoiler: the floors with the Golden Maws leading up to the theater are covered in bones. This means the Orokin used the Golden Maws as a 'selection process' for their new bodies.]]
* During the Chains of Harrow [[spoiler: Palladino states the Red Veil was formed by Rell's teachings to combat The Man in the Wall. At the time of the game, the Red Veil is devoted to guerilla warfare against their enemies. This is because, as their leader states, their doctrines call for a violent purge to purify the Origin System. This either means that ''Rell'' commanded them to be TheUnfettered and perform a purge [[GodzillaThreshold to fight]] against the Man in the Wall, or Rell's commands were hijacked by a later member of the Veil, and turned them into the Syndicate today.]]
[[folder: Fridge Logic ]]
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Occidental College
Take a Bow
Paralympian archer Ashlee Sheppard '11 raises her game to the world stage
By George McIntire '11 | Photos by Jim Block
In a secluded patch of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park a couple of arrow shots from the ocean, Ashlee Sheppard '11 is sizing up her target with her instrument of choice, a Hoyt Pro Comp Elite 2013. Her first two shots land millimeters to the right of the bull's-eye. She's about to wind up for the third time when a fellow archer remarks, "Wow, that's a really nice bow you got there. You must be some kind of pro, huh?"
With a full-time job in asset management at Stifel Financial in her native San Francisco, Sheppard isn't paying the bills with a quiver of arrows. But what she's accomplished is something more. Representing the United States at the World Para Archery Championships in Bangkok in November, Sheppard placed ninth individually and won the silver medal in the team rounds. "She shot stellar for a rookie," says archery national team captain Jeff Fabry, a gold medalist at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. "Ashlee improved a lot in a short period of time. I see huge things in her horizon"—including a shot at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.
Sheppard has a hereditary affliction called peripheral neuropathy, which causes weakness, numbness, and pain, usually in the hands and feet. She describes her main symptom as "limited sensory feeling in my feet, which means my balance is poor and my feet constantly hurt—often unbearably by the end of the day." For a sport that measures success by the ability to hit a miniscule target from long distances, "It has affected my archery in many small ways," Sheppard admits. At outdoor tournaments, "Sometimes I will be in full draw, ready to shoot, and I will lose my balance, either randomly based on how I shifted my weight or maybe because there was a light breeze." She adapted to her condition by using lighter weights to balance her bow and taking on average five seconds from set-up to shot, which is significantly shorter than most professional archers.
Compared to a Tiger Woods or Serena Williams, who were hitting their respective balls well before the age of kindergarten, Sheppard came to archery relatively late in life. In high school, she swam and played water polo but had to quit due to the physical toll on her body. With her mother's help, she researched alternative sports and happened upon the centuries-old sport. "We stumbled upon an archery ad in a magazine during a road trip and decided to give it a shot," she recalls. "Soon after, I bought my first compound bow and was shooting every Saturday morning."
Even though her newfound hobby was sidelined due to her workload as a high school senior, "Ashlee showed natural talent from the start," says her father, Howard Sheppard. She got back into the game as a sophomore at Oxy, when she discovered a nearby archery range. She competed in about six college tournaments a year, including the U.S. Archery Intercollegiate Championships, all of which she traveled to by herself.
An epiphany came in summer 2010, when Sheppard was invited to compete at the European Grand Prix with the U.S. para archery team. "I lost my first match in the elimination round, and that didn't sit well with me," she recalls. "I came home from that event determined to be a better shooter. I am still nowhere close to where I want to be, but I'm definitely closer than I was that summer."
Perhaps Sheppard's biggest obstacle to getting to Rio is finding time to practice and compete in tournaments while also working a 7-to-5 schedule in San Francisco's financial district. She practices twice a week at an indoor venue in Daly City and once every weekend at an outdoor site in Pacifica. At the start of 2013, she sat down with a tournament schedule and allocated the vacation days she had to those events she thought she could make. She had to scratch several competitions that fell during a busy time at work, and there also was the biannual World Para Archery Championships to consider. "I didn't shoot many of the events around the United States in hope that I would make the team," Sheppard says, and she now has a silver medal to show for it.
"Ashlee would not be where she is now if it was not for her constant improvement on the field," says Tiffany Hsu, a member of the Cal State Long Beach archery team from 2008-2011, whom Sheppard met through competitions. "There's still a lot to learn, but that's the thing with archery: You're constantly learning and hopefully improving."
"I knew nothing about archery before I met Ashlee, but her passion for her sport is infectious," says her boyfriend, Ian Boehme '11, a fellow economics major at Oxy. "I enjoy going to her competitions and talking about it with her, and I can see how archery has evolved her personality. I believe she has gained a lot from archery and uses the discipline and work ethic honed from her competitions and practice in everyday life."
Less than 1,000 days away from the Rio games, Sheppard has her bow squarely focused on Paralympic gold. She'd better start saving those vacation days now.
San Francisco-based freelancer George McIntire '11 wrote "Day of the Dead" in the Fall 2013 issue.
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This year has definitely started off a with a bang and it looks like 2011 will be filled with opportunity for wireless access providers!
On the flip-side, part of the excitement of being in wireless is also that it is an ever-changing space. This means that new opportunities arise, but unfortunately also that old revenue streams can dry up.
If you were a large, monopoly or duopoly corporation, you could ask the state to help you protect these revenue streams (80c SMS, anyone?)
As small operators, our only choice is to provide better service, be more efficient and to work together to make sure that basic rules are followed and to lobby government and prove to them that our goals are very much in line with government's broadband policies.
WAPA members are making a significant difference to broadband penetration in South Africa. The WAPA executive committee has formed various working groups to address the areas that are most important for realising WAPA's goals and a lot of activity is happening in the fields of Spectrum lobbying, Marketing, Business Enablement, Regulatory assistance and more!
Spectrum Lobbying
For the past few years, WAPA has slowly but surely started to become a voice for better spectrum management. In SA we have prime sub-900 MHz spectrum that has less than 1% utilization.
In the past, WAPA, as part of the Open Spectrum Alliance, suggested a few models that could be used for spectrum management (e.g. light licensing), but something BIG happened in September last year: The FCC made between 400 – 800 MHz of TV White Spaces available as UNLICENSED spectrum! The FCC chairman himself calls this Super Wi-Fi!
WAPA immediately sprang into gear, as now we have a model that is being rolled out in the US (and soon in the UK) upon which we could base our future spectrum lobbying efforts.
WAPA Chairperson Henk Kleynhans wrote an Open Letter to ICASA and a commentary on TechCentral
Brainstorm Magazine picked up the Open Letter and wrote a commentary called "Now unleash our spectrum"
Getting our ducks in a row…
Of course, for WAPA to be respected at a national & international level, it is crucially important that our actions remain "above board" at all times. One of the means of achieving this is to only give membership status to companies that possess ECS & ECNS licences and comply with our Code of Conduct.
At the Digital Africa Innovation Summit in Uganda last year, the Telkom's regulatory attorney "had words" with the WAPA chairperson because of WAPA members and their "illegal" tactics. He was somewhat taken aback when told that all our members are indeed licensed by ICASA. That fact alone changed him from being a wireless "enemy" into being a WAPA "friend".
However, we cannot ask for self-regulation in a new, "Super Wi-Fi" unlicenced band if we cannot prove that we are able to make proper & legal use of the existing unlicenced bands.
This is not too difficult. In the 5.x GHz unlicenced bands, we now have EIRPs of 200W (point-to-point) and 4W (point-to-multipoint). Yet, there are still radios abound running multi-KM links using 2.4 GHz radios. It is nigh-impossible to do this and still adhere to the 100mW limit of the 2.4GHz band.
So if this is you, simply change your radios to 5.x GHz! Benefits:
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2. Your customers will be happier
3. You'll have less interference
4. You'll do less callouts
5. You won't cause interference to legitimate users of 2.4 GHz.
6. You won't risk being excluded from using sub-900MHz spectrum in the future because of prior illegal spectrum usage!
Getting Active!
To help grow WAPA as an organization, all members are invited to join one of our working groups. Contact us for more information on the working groups or to indicate your area of interest.
As with EXCO members, you will be helping the working groups in your personal capacity and be doing work that will benefit all WAPA members, including your own company.
With Henk Kleynhans chairing WAPA again this year along with a very strong & experienced team serving on the Executive Committee, we are working hard to achieve clearly defined goals…
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|Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|Re: TAKE 968767 - Ensure file size updates have been completed before writing inode to disk.
|David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
|Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:05:56 +1000
|Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, sgi.bugs.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:20:46PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This has never been out for review, has it? > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:30:16PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote: > > fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c - 1.720 - changed http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.4-xfs/> > xfs_vnodeops.c.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.720&r2=text&tr2=1.719&f=h > http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.4-xfs/> > xfs_vnodeops.c.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.720&r2=text&tr2=1.719&f=h > > http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xfs-linux/xfs_vnodeops.c.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.720&r2=text&tr2=1.719&f=h > > - Ensure file size updates have been completed before writing inode to > > disk. > > I think you want to at least add a comment above the filemap_fdatawait > call why we have it that early compared to where the generic code calls > it (again). true - obvious to lachlan and myself, maybe not others. :/ > But hopefully I'll push changes to the core code soon > to move the filemap_datawrite/wait into fs domain completely. What timeframe are we looking at there? > I also don't like idioms like vn_to_inode(XFS_ITOV(ip)) at all. Just > doing a direct ip->i_vnode deference sounds perfectly fine. Sounds like another cleanup patch for Eric ;) > Why is removing the ipincount check in xfs_inode_flush okay? Trying > to flush pinned inodes doesn't seem that much of a good idea. The code is .... convoluted. In the case where we are doing an async flush, we check the pin count once we've got the locks so the pin count check is not really needed here. In the case of a sync flush, we'd return EAGAIN, which would then call use again with the FLUSH_LOG flag and so we'd do a log force to unpin the inode. If we then race with something to else, the inode could end up pinned again before we go to flush the inode and hence we'd end up not flushing the inode because the pin count was set again. Anyway, if we are doing a sync flush, it's a blocking operation and we want to push the log, which is exactly what will happen in xfs_iflush() when it calls xfs_iunpin_wait() if the inode is pinned. hence the check for xfs_ipincount() in the higher level is pretty much redundant as the correct log force will occur just by allowing the inode flush to continue. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group
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We always knew the arrival of Kate Moss for Topshop would be one big party, but nothing quite prepared us for the sheer greatness of yesterday's launch. Hoards of fashion fans headed down to our London flagship, invading every square inch of Oxford Street to wait for the chance to shop the collection. At 6pm the time came for Kate herself to greet the crowds, stepping out into the store window with her pal Grimmy to cheers of everyone on the street, as well as shocked commuters on the passing buses! But the party didn't stop there – here's five things we learnt at the launch.
1. Kate has the best friends
There's nothing like celebrating a big moment with your bessies, so Kate invited all her nearest and dearest down to enjoy the fun. Suki Waterhouse, Cara Delevingne, Sienna Miller and Naomi Campbell all came to show their support, partying the night away and looking a million dollars in Kate's designs. Don't you think they'd make the BEST girl band?
2. Queueing can be seriously fun
With many arriving a good six hours before kick off, we thought it was only fair to keep up everyone's strength with foodie treats in the queue. Honest Burger were on hand with yummy mini burgers, plus frozen yogurt from FRAE and beautiful sweet treats from Lola's cupcakes. Our stylish queuers were too excited to be bored, chatting about their shared love for Ms Moss and taking queue selfies – now totally a thing.
3. Kate's got a new favourite band
As part of the party Kate introduced us to the latest sound she's loving. Duke Dumont and Kelli-Leigh got the crowds going with their feel-good track 'I Got U' and we even spied a certain Mr Philip Green and his daughter Chloe having a dance together in the front row!
4. You lot would probably win an Olympic sprint
As the doors opened and our patient fashion fans were finally allowed to shop the collection, you couldn't see them for dust! Everyone rushed down the escalators to snap up their favourite pieces, all leaving happy customers with huge smiles on their faces.
5. The collection has Stella's seal of approval
Kate's swanky after party at The Connaught hotel saw a starry guest list of everyone from Jaime Winstone and Aluna Francis to David Bailey and Tallulah Harlech. But we were most star struck to see Stella McCartney mingling at the do. When one of Britain's greatest fashion designers comes along to support your collection you know you must have done something right! Check out all the party pics right here.
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NOT SO long ago Arsenal's trophy misery was inflicted by the likes of Barcelona. Now it has its ambitions shattered by Bradford City.
Once-mighty Arsenal will look on when League Two Bradford prepares for its League Cup semi-final next month after bundling out the Premier League club on penalties.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said the Gunners have no reason to be embarrassed by their exit, despite the defeat being inflicted by a team lying 64 places below it in the fourth tier.
''You feel embarrassed when you don't give everything, but I felt the team did fight and they will be more disappointed and frustrated,'' Wenger said.
''All we do now is focus on the next game. When you go out it's never good enough at Arsenal. But congratulations to Bradford, they had a good start and they defended well.''
When asked if it was a humiliating loss, Wenger added: ''I think we lost on penalties to a team who defended well. I cannot fault the effort we gave for 120 minutes. You have to give credit to Bradford on the night. That's part of the game.''
While clearly attempting not to blame his players, Wenger criticised his team's failure to convert chances, particularly in extra-time, when Jack Wilshere, Marouane Chamakh and Santi Cazorla all had opportunities to win the game.
''Overall we had many chances,'' Wenger said. ''When it goes to penalties you know you can lose and when you miss the first penalty, it is difficult … I know people will say it is division four, but you always have a chance in cup games if you give everything and that's what Bradford did.''
For the ninth successive time, Bradford emerged victorious from a penalty shoot-out after Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen's spot-kick crashed against goalkeeper Matt Duke's left-hand post.
Vermaelen, whose 87th-minute equaliser appeared to have spared the club from ignominy, was not the only villain for Wenger's team.
Gervinho was hopeless, Arsenal's back four wobbled throughout and both Cazorla and Chamakh were found wanting when they took their penalties in the shoot-out.
But it would be churlish to ignore Bradford's achievement.
Phil Parkinson's team attacked from the outset and, in captain Gary Jones, winger Nakhi Wells and goalkeeper Duke, possessed three of the game's outstanding players.
Australian defender James Meredith, who was born in Albury, had a night to remember as he played a full match at left back.
Bradford's 16th-minute goal came as a result of a clumsy challenge by Vermaelen on Wells.


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Urban fantasy novel about a mysterious Change that renders technology inoperable and magical beings to appear.
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Bone Dance
SF novel, subtitled "A Fantasy for Technophiles", about Sparrow, a trader in pre-nuke artifacts in post-apocalypose America, who becomes involved in a battle between two of the 'Horsemen' who triggered the apocalypse.
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The Early Work of Philip K. Dick: The Variable Man and Other Stories
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SF novel about an Amerindian WWII bomber pilot who lands in a parallel world where North and South America don't exist.
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Anthology of 19 stories selected to represent an "alternative vision of sf from the early 1970s to the present, one in which it becomes evident that the literary potential of sf was not squandered", according to the editors' introduction.
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A Sense of Infinity
Collection of 10 stories, including the short novel "Cloud Chamber", published from 1968 to 1977, mostly in Analog magazine and some under the pseudonym Verge Foray. It's edited by Eric Flint.
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Exile and Glory
Omnibus of two early Pournelle books, collection High Justice (first published 1974) and novel Exiles to Glory (1977), with a new introduction by the author.
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SF novel about the aftermath of a physics experiment that shifts the consciousness of humanity ahead by 20 years.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) Prince Fielder and Mike Cameron hit back-to-back homers, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3 on Sunday to split their four-game series.
The Brewers squandered a three-run lead by giving up three homers in the seventh inning, but they regrouped. Chris Duffy hit an RBI groundout in the eighth, and Trevor Hoffman closed it out.
GAME REPORT: Brewers 4, Diamondbacks 3
Fielder and Cameron connected early, and Corey Hart added an RBI single in the fifth off Diamondbacks starter Yusmeiro Petit to build a 3-0 cushion.
Mark Reynolds, Justin Upton and Miguel Montero each hit a solo shot in the seventh off Brewers starter Dave Bush.
J.J. Hardy, who had been in a 1-for-23 slump, singled to start the eighth against reliever Juan Gutierrez. Fielder walked with one out, and Gutierrez (1-2) was yanked for Tony Pena. Cameron hit a flare that Upton misread in right field and the ball bounced in front of him for a single that loaded the bases.
Duffy, who came in as a defensive replacement in the seventh, grounded out hard to second baseman Felipe Lopez, who needed to dive and could only make a play at first as Hardy scored.
Mitch Stetter (1-0) pitched a perfect eighth and Hoffman earned his third save this season with a clean ninth.
Arizona rallied in the seventh against Bush, who had allowed three baserunners over his first six innings. The Diamondbacks, hitting a major league-low .232 entering Sunday's game, tied it on back-to-back homers by Reynolds and Upton, and Montero's two-out shot.
It was Upton's second homer in two games. The 21-year-old former No. 1 overall draft pick has hit in 10 straight games with four homers and 11 RBI during that stretch.
The Brewers had gone three games without a homer, their longest drought since September 2005, before Fielder hit one leading off the second against Petit.
Cameron took Petit's next pitch over the wall in left field for his 1,500th career hit.
The Brewers made it 3-0 in the fifth on Hart's RBI single off Petit, who has replaced injured Diamondbacks ace Brandon Webb (shoulder) in the rotation and hasn't won yet in four starts.
But Milwaukee couldn't tack onto the lead with runners on the corners and no outs in the sixth after Arizona reliever Tom Gordon made an out at the plate and left with an injury to his left leg.
Gordon's pitch to Cameron went to the backstop, but he got the relay throw from Montero and made the tag, falling to the ground after Weeks slid into him. The out proved important as Arizona rallied in the seventh, but it wasn't enough.
Notes: Brewers LF Ryan Braun (back) missed his second straight game despite it being his bobblehead day, celebrating the two-run homer he hit on the final day last season to lift Milwaukee to its first postseason appearance in 26 years. ... Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin said he's not concerned with Conor Jackson's slow start. Jackson, who went 0 for 4, came in hitting .213 with one homer and a team-high 13 RBI.
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"Open source code advocates often slam Windows. But they really would like the source code to be open to all."
"'Let's be clear: We'd be ecstatic if [Microsoft Corp.] did open up the source code to Windows and other software,' said Larry Augustin, president and chief executive of VA Research Linux Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif. 'People can talk about Microsoft-bashing, but [open Windows] is what we want.'"
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Chorus grows for Mr Robinson, graduate of Crewe
Victory recruit James Robinson rests during training at Olympic Park yesterday. He gets his chance after the suspension of Archie Thompson.
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MELBOURNE Victory's vociferous fans have long had a song based on the Simon and Garfunkel number Mrs Robinson from coming-of-age movie The Graduate for striker James Robinson, but rarely have had the chance to sing it.
They will get the chance on Sunday, but it will be only a small chorus as the number of supporters who travel to Perth to see the diminutive forward make his first start of the season will be counted in hundreds rather than thousands.
Not that it will matter to the 24-year-old Liverpudlian, who signed for Victory this season as the club's 20th player and has waited patiently for a chance, which he gets after the suspension Archie Thompson incurred against Central Coast last weekend.
While his name may be unfamiliar to casual followers of the Australian game, the slim striker or attacking midfielder has come through the ranks as a graduate of the most highly regarded development school in English soccer.
No, he was not a junior at Old Trafford, Anfield, Highbury or Stamford Bridge. Robinson's alma mater was Crewe Alexandra.
The Alex may be a less-than-fashionable club that habitually competes at either Championship (one division below the Premier League) or League One level, and the town itself may be better known as a railway junction than for its contribution to the world game.
But thanks to coaching systems put in place over the past two decades by long-serving boss Dario Gradi, it is regarded as the top soccer academy in the country, at least among the sport's cognoscenti.
Well-known graduates include former England captain David Platt, Blackburn Rovers' Welsh international Robbie Savage and Tottenham's former England international Danny Murphy.
Battling his way through the juniors, he was eventually offered a professional contract when Crewe was in the Championship, and spent four years there trying to establish a career..
He didn't quite make it, a knee injury hampering his progress in the 2004-05 season. Trying to get a start up front against players such as Dean Ashton (later sold in multimillion-dollar deals to Premier League clubs Norwich and West Ham) and Sheffield United striker Rob Hulse didn't make life easy.
Robinson opted not to take up a new offer to remain with Crewe at the end of the 2005 season, starting a journey that took him to Iceland, the Victorian Premier League (with Richmond) and now to Victory.
"I was at Crewe for 13 years, from when I was nine until I was 22," he said. "I managed 15 first-team games in the Championship when I was there.
"The coach, Dario Gradi, is renowned for bringing on talent. I walked away from a contract. I had sit-down talks with the gaffer. He told me I wasn't in his plans but he wanted me there as a squad player.
"I didn't want to spend my time on the bench and thought it was time for my career to kick off a bit, so I decided to walk away.
"I went and played in Iceland for four months because I needed game time. The plan was to get four months there and then come back (to England) and play. Then the chance to come to Australia came up and I thought, 'Why not?'
"I thought the best way was to come out and prove yourself, that that would be better than sending a CV."
He is full of praise for the Crewe philosophy, which is aimed at turning out players who will be successful seniors, not necessarily championship-winning juniors.
"It's more about playing football and getting the ball on the ground," he said. "It's not about getting results. From a young age, we were taught to get the ball down and play football, and you were not set to one position.
"You had to be comfortable playing right-back, centre-half, centre-forward all the way through. It wasn't all about speed and height; it was about if you could get the ball down and play. That's what Dario focuses on.
"It's about producing players, getting them further on in their career. Crewe are a selling club, a feeder club for the big teams, but they give you the chance to make it."
Robinson is keen to stay in Melbourne: "I love the place and the team. It's brilliant to be around so many good players and it's basically the best team in Australia. You always want to play and compete with the best. Even though I am not in the starting XI, that's my target and I don't see anywhere else I would rather be."
As a veteran of the Championship and England's League One, Robinson rates the A-League as much closer to the former. Nor, surprisingly, does he think the pace of the English game is much greater.
"I would say the Championship is about right," he said. "The heat is the major point of difference for me here it's a massive thing. But I wouldn't say the Championship is much quicker.
"It's a decent pace here, it's a decent standard. There are a lot of technically gifted players in the A-League just as much as at home."
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Project Description and Purpose
The North County Corridor Project (SR-99 to SR-120) is a high-priority project for Stanislaus County, its communities and the growing urbanized cities of Modesto, Oakdale, and Riverbank. The purpose of the project is to ultimately build a west-east roadway that would improve regional network circulation, relieve existing traffic congestion, reduce traffic delay, accommodate future traffic, benefit commerce and enhance safety.
The purpose of this project phase is to identify a roadway alignment for a west-east facility from SR-99 north of the City of Modesto to SR-120 approximately six miles east of the City of Oakdale. This new roadway would be approximately 25 miles in length from a location on State Route 99 in the vicinity of Kiernan Avenue/Salida community to a location on State Route 120 approximately six miles east of the City of Oakdale. The project may be an entirely new roadway or incorporated into the existing roadway network and would serve as a bypass for the cities of Riverbank, Oakdale and Modesto. The roadway segment from SR-99 to McHenry Avenue near SR-219 is approximately six miles in length and will be studied as a local facility and also as a state freeway/ expressway. The North County Corridor Transportation Expressway Authority anticipates that the ultimate facility would be planned as a multi-lane, access-controlled expressway/freeway, with interchanges, at-grade intersections, grade-separated railroad crossings, irrigation district crossings, frontage roads, and local street alignments.
Existing SR-108 functions as a "main street" passing through the congested downtown areas of Modesto, Oakdale, and Riverbank, in which the current transportation facility does not provide for efficient, reliable and continuous interregional travel. The trucks, recreational vehicles, and commuter traffic using SR-108 during peak travel times add to the congestion in these urban areas; and a significant increase in local and interregional traffic demand is expected in the coming years.
To plan for the freeway/expressway, the North County Corridor Transportation Expressway Authority was formed. The Authority consists of the cities of Modesto, Oakdale, and Riverbank; the County of Stanislaus; and ex-officio members Stanislaus Council of Governments (StanCOG) and the California Department of Transportation.
The North County Corridor (NCC) SR-108 East Route Adoption was approved by the California Transportation Commission in May 2010. The adopted corridor provides for approximately 18 miles of freeway/expressway on new alignment from near SR-219 north of the City of Modesto and west of the City of Riverbank to SR-120 approximately six miles east of the City of Oakdale.
Various roadway alignment alternatives will be considered along with the "No Action" alternative during this project study. The proposed roadway would be built in existing unincorporated Stanislaus County and the "No Action" alternative would leave SR-108 in its existing condition.
Public Scoping Meetings were conducted on September 8, 2010, and September 13, 2010. The project team received input from the public on the various alignments to be considered. An initial screening of the alternatives resulted in the alignment alternatives shown in the above map. These final set of alternatives that will be studied in the environmental document was presented to the public at a project information meeting conducted on June 16, 2011. As the project progresses, there will be many opportunities for members of the public to be involved and provide comments or concerns.
Funding for this phase of the project is being provided by regional transportation impact fees. The Authority is also asking for state funding that was once part of the cancelled state Oakdale Bypass project.
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When Ontario's first Ultimate Fighting Championship event is held this spring in Toronto, there will be plenty of blood inside the ring.
But considering the number of Liberals biting their tongues, there might be a little bloodshed already.
Although there was nary a dissenting peep from Dalton McGuinty's Liberals when the event was recently announced, that was a far cry from what happened when the question of allowing mixed-martial arts into the province was first presented to Mr. McGuinty's cabinet.
What happened behind the scenes then, and since, offers an intriguing study in gender politics – a party with a predominantly female support base grappling with an issue that caused deep discomfort among the women in its most senior ranks.
Although Mr. McGuinty himself was seen as the main obstacle to the controversial sport's expansion, his reluctance held up by Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak as the latest evidence of overbearing nannyism, the Premier was ready more than a year ago to give it the green light. But his ministers were a different story, with an instinctive reaction against mixed martial arts' perceived barbarism trumping arguments that the popular sport would bring millions of dollars in revenues.
The divide was not purely along gender lines; Jim Bradley, a veteran minister known for playing a dissenting role in cabinet, was among those vocally opposed. But according to multiple sources, it was female ministers – among them Kathleen Wynne, the Transportation Minister and co-chair of the Liberals' 2011 re-election campaign, and Health Minister Deb Matthews – who led the charge against MMA.
So Mr. McGuinty temporarily abandoned the issue. In late 2009, he'd said publicly he had an "open mind" about letting in UFC; by February of 2010, he was dismissing it as "not a priority." In March, he said he was "tapping out on this one."
Although polls showed overall support for allowing MMA, many Liberals were happy with the party's position. Aligning Mr. McGuinty with such a bloody spectacle, they argued, would undermine his family-friendly brand. And for the sort of female voters who make up the strongest part of their party's support base, it would be a major turnoff.
Those Liberals were startled, then, by the surprise news last August that UFC would be coming to Ontario after all.
The official story is that the cause was successfully championed by then-Consumer Affairs minister Sophia Aggelonitis. The rookie cabinet member, who wasn't at the table when the issue first came up, is said to have made a strong case to caucus that it was time to move forward. And to some extent, she no doubt helped bridge the divide.
But since the decision was not brought back to cabinet for approval before it was announced, it was in effect a unilateral decision made in the Premier's office.
Why exactly that happened has been the cause of some speculation in provincial circles, with ominous rumblings about the role of lobbyists. But the about-face likely had more to do with simple political calculations.
Through the second half of 2010, the Liberals were in the mode of "taking out the trash" – trying to remove potential irritants before this year's campaign. And MMA was deemed to fit the bill.
Not many votes, strategists reason, will be cast against them because of a decision more than a year before the election to allow a sport already permitted most other places. But not allowing it would have bolstered, in some small part, Mr. Hudak's message that "Premier Dad" thinks he knows better than Ontarians what's good for them.
Gender politics cutting both ways, that message might have resonated with the Tories' predominantly male base – conceivably helping motivate some of its younger members to get out and vote. An Ipsos poll, conducted last summer, suggested that among men under the age of 55 – a demographic pivotal to Mr. Hudak's success – support for allowing MMA was about 70 per cent. That was stronger opinion than among women aged 35-54, probably the Liberals' best demographic, who were almost evenly divided.
The fact remains that some of the most powerful women in the province felt very strongly indeed. But if they could get past it, or at least bite their tongues, the Liberals will be hoping that others offended by the spectacle in the Rogers Centre this April will be able to do likewise.Report Typo/Error
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In my house i have two storage locations (mine and my brothers) of tv shows. Some of them are shows we both like and are duplicated in both places. Other shows are not duplicated. Is there any way to have XBMC make a desicion on which one to load into the library based on location?
I have NCIS on a local drive, my brother has it on his remote drive. XBMC looks at the paths and chooses to load mine into the library and ignores his. Alternatively, On his remote drive is Warehouse 13. I don't have it on my local drive so it will load his into the library.
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(CNSNews.com) - The Americans for Tax Reform has declared today as 'Cost of Government Day'. According to ATR, this means that the average American worker has earned enough in gross income to pay off his or her federal, state and local government-imposed financial obligations.
"This year people worked till May 3rd just to pay their taxes on average. But you have to also add the cost of regulations to get the real cost of government. This year, it takes us till June 16th to work and to pay the taxes for the true cost of government, federal, state and local," according to Grover Norquist, President of ATR.
But the news on the 'Cost of Government Day' front is getting better, Norquist said.
"The Cost of Government day has been moving over the last several years. The good news is it's been getting a little bit better because the economy has been growing faster than the federal, state and local governments have been spending," Norquist told a Capitol Hill news conference.
In its report on the 'Cost of Government Day', ATR said the total cost of government in 2000 is estimated at $3.86 trillion, up from $3.72 trillion in 1999. That equates to a cost of $14,400 for the average American.
ATR also estimates that the average American will work 167 days to pay for his or her share of the government. That means the average American worker spends 46 percent of the calendar year working for the government.
Total government regulatory costs will take $1.1 trillion from taxpayers in 2000. That's $4,105 for every man, woman and child in America. Besides that, the average American will work 38 days to pay for the cost of federal regulations and 59 days to pay for their share of state and local spending and regulations.
Adding further to the cost of government, ATR says, "The federal government employs nearly 130 workers to issue and enforce federal regulations through more than 50 departments and agencies. This regulatory army costs taxpayers almost $20 billion per year."
'Cost of Government Day' last year fell on June 22. In 1998, it fell on June 21.
House Republican Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) told the news conference, "It is a disgrace that the cost of government eats up every penny that the American people earn for the first 167 days out of each year."
However, Armey says things are improving.
"When we (Republicans) became the majority in 1995, the 'Cost of Government Day' was July 2nd, now its June 16th. Why?: Because we Republicans are eliminating government waste. Maybe not enough soon enough, but at least enough so it's starting to show up in our lives as working Americans," Armey said.
Armey went on to say, "We (House Republicans) believe that if we continue to eliminate government waste, we will reduce the burden of bloated, wasteful and inefficient government on working Americans."
Peter Sperry, an economist with the Heritage Foundation, had some "bad news" for the American people on this 'Cost of Government Day'.
"Unfortunately, I'm sad to report that your tax overpayments are coming in even faster than the federal government can spend them. We did a study of the buildup in the cash accounts at the Treasury Department and found that they've reached record levels because they can't pay off the national debt as fast as the surplus revenue is coming in the door," Sperry told the news conference.
"They (the Treasury Department) are reaching the point," Sperry continued, "where they're going to have $60 billion in cash on hand. Now, most people, when the tub is overflowing, turn down the faucet. Nevertheless, Congress has tried their best, but the President continues to say that tax relief is "risky." But what we recognize as risky is leaving this amount of cash on the table, unobligated in a fashion where it's going to sooner or later get spent on something frivolous that will do the American people no good."
Sperry called on Congress to reform the nation's tax code so that people "would not be sending too much money to Washington to build up in these accounts which basically just sit there and don't even gather interest."
Steve Moore of the conservative political action group, "Club For Growth," thinks the figures that ATR found for 'Cost of Government Day' are grounds for the impeachment of both President Clinton and Vice President Gore.
"You look at these numbers, and you realize that Bill Clinton and Al Gore should be impeached. Impeached not because of obstruction of justice or perjury but because of violating the constitution. The role of the government and the constitution is supposed to be very small and defined, and yet, if you look at the Clinton-Gore budget proposal that came out in January, Bill Clinton and Al Gore proposed $10 trillion of new spending over the next five years," Moore said.
Moore went on to say, "We all know the television show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'. If you were on the show and won a million dollars every night, you'd have to be on that show for over 300 years before you accumulated $10 trillion."
Moore said, in order to move 'Cost of Government Day' earlier than June 16th in the future, Congress should eliminate the death tax (the bill is now before the Senate), reduce the capital gains tax and allow workers to put their payroll tax money into individual accounts.


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New Braunfels family proud of park at old homestead
Updated 7:07 am, Tuesday, October 15, 2013
NEW BRAUNFELS — When the Fischer family decided to sell their hilltop homestead, they chose a second use for it that would meet a community need over reaping the biggest profit.
"We really couldn't be prouder of having a park named in our name," Maurice Fischer said Monday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the park, which will open in one year just east of Interstate 35.
Gone were Dewey and Milda Fischer's old house and barn, where Maurice recalled doing homework as a lad to the light of an oil lantern in 1946.
The structures were demolished to make way for a nature center, amphitheater, pavilions, 2 miles of trails, playgrounds and other amenities at what will be the city's largest park.
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Although the five Fischer siblings had mixed emotions returning to the now-barren spot where they were raised, Maurice, 73, said, "This is the best use we could have thought of for our old home place."
He said the family passed up higher offers from developers. The city paid $2.28 million in 2007 to acquire the 58-acre Fischer tract and $265,000 for 4 acres next door, officials said, and last month the City Council approved two contracts, totaling $8.77 million, for park infrastructure and improvements.
"It's taken us some time to get here," Mayor Gale Pospisil said, noting the City Council adopted a master plan for Fischer Park in 2008.
Montye and Carol Hayes brought their dog, Biscuit, to the ceremony Monday to get an update on the long-discussed park project near their home.
"We've been really looking forward to it, but we thought, 'It will never happen,'" said Carol Hayes, 67, a resident of North Park Ridge subdivision. "We're just tickled to death. My grandkids can come visit and we can walk there from our house."
The purchase of the Fischer property, off County Line Road and Old McQueeney Road, is the city's largest parkland acquisition since 1973, Pospisil said.
Stacey Dicke, city parks & recreation director, said Fischer Park will relieve pressure on Landa Park, currently the city's largest, while providing a badly needed recreation area for residents east of Interstate 35.
Fishing piers will be built in the old stock ponds, and trails in the pastures where cattle long grazed.
"It's sad, but that's progress," said Dean Fischer, 67. "It's a once in a lifetime thing to be involved in something that's going to be a family legacy. We've very proud to be part of it."


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This is another view of the outer ditch of the old fort. As far as is known, this is the only surviving part of Tallahassee's Civil War defenses. The fort was never attacked, thanks to the Confederate victory at Natural Bridge south of Tallahassee on March 6, 1865
This is a view of the southeast corner of the fort, giving a pretty good idea of the state in which the earthwork is preserved
This is a view looking across the interior of the fort from the northwest corner to the southeast corner. Although at the time of the Civil War, the fort was on the southeastern edge of town, today it is in a quiet city park in a residential neighborhood
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The Hon. John Moore, MP
Media Release
The Minister for Defence,
John Moore, today attended the Singapore meeting of Ministers in the Five Power
Defence Arrangements.
The Ministers reaffirmed
their commitment to the FPDA and its ongoing relevance to member countries and
regional security. They ratified the trend towards more joint exercises of the
air, naval and land forces, which has already been occurring by consensus among
the five members. The Ministers also called on the Malaysian Prime Minister
Mahatir and Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.
They also agreed on the
importance of taking further steps to improve the operational capability and
interoperability of member nations' forces.
"These outcomes are
seen as positive by Australia," Mr Moore said. "The FPDA has succeeded
for almost 30 years, because of its proven flexibility and ability to adapt
to changes in regional and national circumstances. Today, it has shown that
it continues to be a vigorous and evolving organisation.
"As an established
multilateral security framework, the FPDA has a unique role in Asia. It is of
strategic benefit to all member nations and, in Australia's view, to the wider
Asia Pacific region," said Mr Moore.
"Australia commits
considerable resources to the FPDA's activities. Our involvement is a practical
demonstration of our commitment to the security of Singapore and Malaysia. The
FPDA is a key element of our very close bilateral defence ties with both those
The Five Power Defence Arrangements
were adopted in 1971. The member nations (Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, the
United Kingdom and New Zealand) agreed to consult on what steps to take in the
event of any external threat to Malaysia or Singapore. In peacetime, the parties
exercise their forces together and undertake other training activities. Since
1991, the Defence Ministers have met every three years.
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A while back I was fascinated with photographing miniature figurines. This is an ivory razor and a small watering can.
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KamilWaheed said
How about creating 3 divs with absolute position and only making visible the one that is in focus instead of changing the content within a single div?
Thanks for the idea. If you view the source of the link I posted initially, that's exactly what I have created. My question is how do I do this? (making it visible and invisible)
I am looking for a way to get the content in a div to change when a particular button is pressed.
I've put together a simple HTML page with the elements, can someone help me get this to work please?http://smbnetworks.com.au/testdiv.html
Thanks heaps
I have prepared this flash file http://smbnetworks.com.au/wp-content/themes/infocus-theme/logoScroller/logoScrollerV2.swf which I want to include in a in my header.php file.
I works fine if I view the file in a browser window, but not when its in the site. Code below, can anyone help?
Code snapshot from footer.php

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 And below is the XML file
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As we are changing our target customer base to the corporate level, I require a logo refresh, new business cards and a new letterhead for MS Word documents.
Current logo is at smbnetworks.com.au, (higher resolution version available)
I am looking for someone that can do this good and quick. Can pay up to AUD $300.
We are looking for a talented and creative graphic/web designer who is very meticulous about their quality of work and loves graphic and web design in general.
To be successful in this position you must:
be a current tertiary student or have recently graduated
must have outstanding Photoshop and InDesign skills
very good CSS/HTML and PHP/Jscript skills
be up to date with all new technologies and trends
have a designer's vision over a website rather than a coder
be willing to work on a casual basis
be very very creative
Hourly rate is negotiable depending if you want to work from home or come in here to do work.
Projects are:
Improve and continuously refresh, or add/remove certain features or offers on the website.
Liaise with internal SEO staff to create and edit Adwords landing pages
Liaise with management to create and edit e-mail marketing campaigns
Needs to start ASAP (even as soon as today/tomorrow working from home).
Email your expression of interest to email@example.com and I will promptly reply.
Any ideas?
We are a small IT Services company looking to re-design our current Wordpress website.
The main purpose of our website is informational, and we use it to list our services and products. We also have an about us section, testimonials and contact page.
We are a premier member on ThemeForest.com and we own several customizable WordPress templates and artwork ready to be used (e.g. inFocus, StudioBox, Sansation).
Our main source of traffic to the website will be from Google pay per click and later from Google organic listings. An SEO friendly approach must be taken when building the website. (note: we do not require SEO optimization)
We are looking to achieve a clean corporate look, with little to no flash.
To succeed, you must: - have experience in customizing WordPress templates - have an eye for creative design in Photoshop - have excellent knowledge with CSS , Java Script, PHP and HTML - be honest
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to receive further work such as (newsletter design, eBay listings design and business referrals to our existing customer base).
Example of website look we're trying to achieve: http://www.iprimus.com.au/PrimusWeb/BusinessSolutions/
Note: Content, Photos, Icons and most graphics will be provided in high resolution .psd and .png formats
Thanks, Cristian firstname.lastname@example.com
Looking for someone to design a flash animation for me. The base picture is an office space seen from the top (3d view) and when you point the mouse on certain areas such as desk, table, etc, a popup comment appears with some wording and a readmore button.
I am looking for a designer to use a Wordpress template off this website. I do not want a custom built website. If you are not interested in taking up the project and earning the money on offer, please go hijack another thread.
About the project: ECO friendly computing solutions company looking for a very creative web designer / web developer to complete creative, unique and modern website with the Green/ECO friendly theme.
Skills needed:
- Outstanding Adobe Creative Suite knowledge
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Pay Rate: Approx. 1,000.00 depending on proven skills and experience
Please email@example.com some examples of your "cool" and creative work, as well as your location, availability through the day/night, method of contact.
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Blackhawks 4, Sharks 1: Marcus Kruger and defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson each recorded a goal and an assist as host Chicago continued its remarkable start to the season while extending San Jose's winless streak.
Dave Bolland and Andrew Shaw also scored while Ray Emery made 27 saves for the Blackhawks, who improved to 11-0-3 overall and 1-0-1 on their seven-game homestand. Chicago is three away from setting the NHL record for most games without a regulation loss to start a season - a mark currently owned by the 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks, who opened the campaign 12-0-4.
Tim Kennedy tallied and Antti Niemi stopped 33 shots for the Sharks, who fell to 0-4-3 this month after winning all seven of their games in January. San Jose is 0-2-1 halfway through its six-game road trip.
Bolland gave Chicago the lead with less than a minute remaining in the first period. After Niemi stopped his initial shot from the right faceoff circle, Bolland continued skating to the net, grabbed his own rebound and slid the puck around the goaltender with 44 seconds left for his fifth goal.
Niemi had an adventure with the puck early in the second, and Kruger capitalized for a 2-0 advantage.
From the blue line, Kruger flipped the puck on net and it bounced past Niemi before hitting the right post. The puck then skipped into the crease, and Kruger knocked it in at 3:05.
Kennedy halved the deficit less than two minutes later, converting a 2-on-1 down low for his first goal. But Shaw cashed in during a power play later in the period and Hjalmarsson scored from the point 6 1/2 minutes into the third to cap the scoring.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Chicago G Corey Crawford missed the game with an upper-body injury and is listed as day-to-day. Crawford, who is among the top five in the league in wins, goals-against average and save percentage, may have been injured when he was kneed in the head by Anaheim's Bobby Ryan on Tuesday. Henrik Karlsson, who was acquired from Calgary on Jan. 21, was recalled from Rockford of the American Hockey League and dressed as Emery's backup. ... San Jose went 0-for-5 on the power play and is just 2-for-39 over its last nine games. ... Blackhawks RW Patrick Kane notched an assist to extend his point streak to eight contests. Kane has failed to get on the scoresheet only once in 14 games this season. ... Chicago is 2-0-0 against San Jose this season and hosts the Sharks again next Friday.


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God in the Age of Kali
Effulgent Light of the Radiant Sun
It is easy these days to be dismissive of the lessons—practical and spiritual—imparted by sages in the hoary past. The dismissive attitude toward Hindu traditions, not just by foreigners but by India's own, is a result of a variety of factors: colonialism, proselytism, scientism, and blind westernization. It is not surprising therefore that even some of the Indian teachers who traveled west to teach yoga and meditation ignored the disciplined practice of Hindu modes of prayer, worship, and belief. "Just focus on breathing and meditating with eyes closed," seems to be the gist of their advice to Western students.
And in the public pronouncements and in their writings, the well-known marketers of yoga and meditation seem too eager to ignore the sacred language of Sanskrit, and the disciplined meditative utterance of sacred sounds and words that can transform the leaden mind into the bright vehicle for reaching the transcendent. As we read more about some of the celebrated Indian gurus who came to the U.S. to show and tell, we realize how much they sacrificed in their attempts to reach and teach their new students, who had difficulty tucking their legs under them, and getting their ears and tongues attuned to the sounds of Sanskrit.
But the fault is ours too. After I went through the sacred ceremony of Upanayanam or Munji—rather late in my youth, instead of at the age of seven as recommended in the scriptures—I did not practice performing the Sandhyavandanam, the daily dawn and dusk oblation to the Sun. I am not the only lapsed Brahmin around—the "higher caste" men and boys (Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vysyas) who, after the sacred thread investiture ceremony, are supposed to perform the Sandhyavandanam daily—who does not perform this duty daily, I believe. But that was not the case a generation or two ago, and I remember my paternal grandfather sitting every morning and evening to perform what I thought was a truly mesmerizing ritual of prayer.
Luckily, there are still some in my family—cousins, their children, and friends—who diligently and thoughtfully perform the Sandhavandanam daily even now, and there is a new interest in these sacred rituals, which are truly necessary if one wants to discipline one's mind to perform serious meditation and yoga. These days there are attempts to enable girls to undergo the sacred thread ceremony so that they too can perform the Sandhyavandanam. I mention all this to bring to your attention, in a roundabout way, the chanting of the Gayatri mantra, which the seven-year-olds, who undergo the Upanayanam, are taught and which then they are supposed to chant regularly during their daily Sandhyavandanam.
No one has written a more eloquent and erudite explanation of the Gayatri mantra than I.K. Taimni (1898-1978), who served as a professor of chemistry at the University of Allahabad in India. A distinguished member of the Theosophical Society, Iqbal Kishen Taimni (his parents were so accepting of all religions that they gave their son a Muslim first name) has written in his inimitable style commentaries on and translations of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as well as the Shiva Sutra. Taimni begins his introduction to the Gayatri mantra by reminding us that the path to enlightenment rests on three pillars—character building, worship or upasana, and yoga—and without the careful shaping of the mind through worship and self-discipline the path of yoga becomes too difficult to traverse, and our attempts to walk that path end in failure.
Ramesh Rao, Professor and Chair, DN3 Program, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, is the author of two books on Indian politics and society and has written numerous op-eds for newspapers and magazines in India, the U.S., and the U.K. Ramesh served as Human Rights Coordinator and Executive Council member at the Hindu American Foundation between 2004-2013. He spent the first twenty-eight years of his life in India where he worked as a bank officer, a school teacher, and a copy editor. He received his MS in Mass Communication from the University of Southern Mississippi, and his PhD in Communication from Michigan State University. He taught at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO, and Longwood University in Farmville, VA, before he joined Columbus State University. He lives with wife Sujaya, and son Sudhanva in Columbus, GA.
Rao's column, "God in the Age of Kali," is published every Monday on the Hindu portal. Subscribe via email or RSS.


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Baby With Pants Down Video Bombs NBA Postgame Show
The NBA playoffs is no time for child's play. Or is it?
The NBA playoffs is no time for child's play. Or is it?
The urge to chop something in half can be hard to resist, but your hand will probably thank you if do.
Seriously, what did this guy think was going to happen when he had a truck drag him by the feet down a Slip 'N Slide peppered with flaming obstacles...
We figured athletes were good with the ladies but apparently this reporter knows more than we do.
Modeling is tougher than it looks. Do you see the shoes these women have to walk around in?
Everyone stumbles now and again, and sometimes it happens to be near a pool and SPLASH! Good times for all.
They said the 'Harlem Shake' was hot, but this is ridiculous.
Over the weekend A.J. Clemente had possibly the worst first day at a new job ever when he introduced himself as KFYR's weekend news anchor by dropping the "F-bomb" and then following it with a "S-bomb."
A.J. Clemente's first day at his new job couldn't have gone any worse. The new weekend news anchor for KFYR, the NBC affiliate in Bismarck, North Dakota, managed to kick off his on-air career with a live mic gaffe consisting of two of the seven dirty words which George Carlin famously explained you can never say on television.
It's not just our dogs who have trouble on these agility courses, we humans do too.
We would feel bad for Ryan Lochte, except, you know, he won all those Olympic medals. These news anchors are so astounded by his amazing stupidity while promoting his E...
As the weather starts warming up and summer approaches, it's time to dust off those Slip-n-Slides that have been sitting in the closet the past several months.
Seems like every kid has a backyard trampoline these days, which is great news for trampoline bloopers.
Ah, the piñata. A marvelous party item, until everything goes wrong.
We recently pointed out how our feline friends sometimes have issues with confusing human inventions, but perhaps we shouldn't laugh.