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Harper Government Appoints Coordinator to Lead Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Efforts in and Around Riding Mountain National Park
Ottawa: Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) Minister Ron Kostyshyn today announced the appointment of Dr. Allan Preston to help coordinate enhanced bovine tuberculosis (TB) eradication efforts in and around Manitobas Riding Mountain National Park.
Our Government is committed to protecting livestock health and to providing Canadian producers with opportunities to market their animals and products, said Minister Ritz. The appointment of Dr. Preston to lead Riding Mountain TB eradication underscores our commitment to animal health and will facilitate market access, leading to greater exports and increased profits for producers.
Dr. Preston will guide a multi-stakeholder working group to enhance ongoing TB eradication efforts in the area. The working group will include senior officials from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Parks Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Manitoba Conservation, provincial cattle industry associations, conservation groups and First Nations.
Our goal as a province is to continue our work with stakeholders in managing TB in livestock herds, said MAFRI Minister Kostyshyn. Dr. Preston is well known to Manitoba farmers for his extensive experience and he will be a valuable addition to our efforts to detect, eliminate and prevent the spread of this bovine disease.
We are pleased that governments have taken this important, coordinated step towards the eradication of bovine TB in Manitoba because they recognize the impact the disease is having on both cattle herds and wildlife, said Ray Armbruster, Manitoba Beef Producers president. We welcome Dr. Preston as Coordinator.
Although progress has been made in managing bovine TB in Riding Mountain in recent years, the disease continues to be endemic in wild deer and elk, posing significant challenges for livestock producers in the area. Many producers are required to have their herds tested for TB periodically, in order to protect animal health and maintain market access.
Dr. Preston is a Manitoba veterinarian, and was formerly the Assistant Deputy Minister of Agri-Industry Development and Innovation Division for Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. He has extensive experience with bovine TB, having represented the Province of Manitoba on previous working groups and task forces.
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LEMPSTER — Sullivan County Superior Court found James Bonia in violation of a prior consent decree related to his operation of Tri-State Car Crushing, a motor vehicle salvage yard in Lempster, state officials said Friday.
After a hearing, the court prohibited Bonia from ever again owning or operating a motor vehicle salvage yard in the state without prior approval and imposed $84,000 in civil penalties that had previously been suspended, according to a news release issued by Attorney General Joseph A. Foster and the state Department of Environmental Services.
At the hearing, the state offered testimony showing Bonia had not only failed to operate Tri-State Car Crushing in compliance with the prior consent decree, but also had committed new violations of environmental regulations. The state introduced evidence that buried solid waste was discovered on Bonia's property and that he brought solid waste onto the property when he lacked the necessary permit to do so.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - If one is the loneliest number, then Denver Broncos kicker Matt Prater and his Seattle Seahawks counterpart, Steven Hauschka, can certainly count themselves in singular company as they prepare for the Super Bowl.
With five of the last six Super Bowls having been decided by less than a touchdown, Sunday's title clash at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey could well come down to a kicking contest between Prater and Hauschka.
The two men perform the loneliest roles in the National Football League. When they succeed and kick field goals between the uprights from 40 yards to win games, their contribution is often no more than a footnote as the story is told.
Conversely, when they succumb to the agony of a miss with the glory of a championship or even a regular-season game on the line, their role is widely analyzed and criticized.
The kicker becomes a major talking point in defeat; in victory he is often barely acknowledged.
Statistics indicate that field goals are being made from increasingly longer distances, and that makes misses all the more striking - especially in the rarefied atmosphere of a Super Bowl.
Though the pressure of making a precision kick with very little time left on the clock is always intense, Prater said he would embrace the chance to earn the winning points for the Broncos on Sunday.
"I'm hoping it doesn't come to that and we're 10 points in front," the 29-year-old told reporters. "But if it does, I'm ready for it. I just have to treat it like any other kick.
"This is what all the practice is for. It's not something I ever dreamt about as a kid, but if I'm in that situation, I'll be ready. I expect to make any kick that they send me out for."
Last month, Prater set a National Football League record with a 64-yard field goal during his team's 51-28 rout of the Tennessee Titans in mile-high Denver, a feat he says owes everything to game conditions.
"Obviously with the altitude, I've made some long kicks in Denver but I've made some long ones in Florida as well," said Prater, before adding that he was unframed by the frigid temperatures forecast for Sunday at MetLife Stadium.
"It depends on a lot of things, and obviously the wind. If you hit the ball well, it's going to go straight and it's going to go far. I don't think it's going to be too windy (on Sunday), if anything the winds affects it more than the cold."
Prater comes into Sunday's game having connected on 25-of-26 field goal attempts in the regular season and set a league touchback record with 81. He has converted five of his six field goal tries in the postseason.
Asked whether he felt any added pressure heading into his first Super Bowl, he replied: "I'm not nervous, I'm excited. I just have to treat it like any other game and make sure I execute everything right."
Signed by the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent in May 2006 and released just three months later, Prater bounced around between several teams before playing his first two NFL games for the Atlanta Falcons in 2007 and then being cut.
He took over as starting kicker for the Broncos in 2008, replacing Jason Elam who signed with Falcons, and has since played six full seasons in Denver.
Hauschka's journey to the Super Bowl has also followed a twisting route, the 28-year-old kicker having been with five different teams in the league since he was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Minnesota Vikings in 2008.
"I've dreamed about kicking a game-winning field goal ever since I saw (Patriot kicker Adam) Vinatieri do it in the Snow Bowl," Hauschka said about Vinatieri's overtime effort through driving snow for a playoff win over the Raiders on New England's way to their first Super Bowl title in 2002.
"He was my idol growing up. I had a signed photo picture of him up on my wall. I looked forward to that chance as soon as I started kicking. Never thought I'd be an NFL kicker until seven, eight years ago."
Hauschka, a former soccer player at college, spent two seasons with the Baltimore Ravens and a year with the Broncos, where he became friends with Prater, before he was claimed off waivers by Seattle in September 2011.
"Kicking is kind of like a brotherhood," Hauschka, who converted 33-of-35 field goal attempts during the 2013 regular season and all six of his tries in the postseason, said of his relationship with Prater.
"We stay in touch. I sent him texts throughout the season and texted him last night."
Asked how he felt about the chance to hit a game-winning kick in the Super Bowl, Hauschka replied: "It heightens your awareness, but at the same time you have to treat it the same as any kick in practice."
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Remiremont Abbey
A Benedictine abbey near Remiremont, Vosges, France. It was founded c.620 by Saint Romaric, a lord at the court of Clotaire II who became a monk at Luxeuil. It comprised a monastery of monks and a monastery of nuns. Later the Benedictine nuns were replaced by a chapter of ninety-eight canonesses who had to prove 200 years of nobility. In 910, nuns threatened by invading Hungarians, took refuge at Remiremont and stayed on. Enriched by dukes of Lorraine, kings of France and emperors of Germany, the ladies of Remiremont attained great power. The abbess was a princess of the empire, and received consecration at the hands of the pope. The fifty canonesses were selected from those who could give proof of noble descent. On Whit-Monday the neighbouring parishes paid homage to the chapter in a ceremony called the Kyrioles, and the dukes of Lorraine had to come to Remiremont to swear to continue their protection. The War of the Scutcheons in 1566 between the duke and the abbess ended in favour of the duke, and the abbess never recovered her former position. In the 17th century the women of Remiremont fell away from their Rule; they assumed their titles of nobility, renounced their vows, married, and returned to the world. The last abbess was a Bourbon princess, the daughter of Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé; she was prioress of the Monastery of the Temple at her death in 1824.


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Ingredients for 6-8 people: 6 bananas 2 spoonfuls of sugar 2 eggs 2 spoonfuls of flour 1 glass of anis 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon Honey and oil
Peel the bananas and place them in a saucepan. Next, pour boiling water over them. Leave them like this for about 2 or 3 minutes, then drain. Afterwards, place in a bowl, grind and add the sugar, flour, cinnamon, anis and the beaten eggs. Mix together well and add spoonfuls to the hot oil and fry until golden.
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Imagine if you will that your character in a game could never die. "What would be the point?" you ask? Well, gaming developers REBELLION SOFTWARE and gaming innovator SHINTA NOJIRI, have come up with just that concept, the all-out kill fest which is NEVERDEAD, released by KONAMI.
The star of this third person shooter/RPG . . . → Read More: Neverdead – Is Konami Going Out On A Limb With This One?


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Users are already aware with the mid range handsets of Motorola. Previously the company was launched the handset called Moto E which was the budget friendly device come with well balanced features and now its time for the successor. Recently Motorola released the modest version of the handset known as Motorola Mote E 2015. Like the predecessor the handset also stand in the line of low budget handsets but comes with a many good and notable changes. The handset is packed with more advance technology that does not mean the technology makes the device high end but this is the reasonable smartphone.
Design and Display
Build and design is the basic thing for attracting the users towards the smartphone. The new generation Mote E 2015 is quite similar with previously revealed handset. The handset has the same plastic body with the same round edges. The button placement of the handset is same like the original one with the volume controls buttons. Motorola embossed their company logo on the back side of the handset and the rear camera less placed just above the logo and the camera less is wrapped from the side with the silver rim which gives the pretty look to the handset. The handset has 145 grams of weight and it measures 129.9 x 66.8 x 12.3 mm which is easy to manage from single hand.
The new version of Moto E is come with a slightly large display. The Motorola Mote E 2015 has 4.5 inches large display having 540 x 960 pixels resolution which provides 245ppi density. The display of the handset is protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 which increases the endurance of the screen and keeps the screen away from unwanted marks and scratches. The change in display size is not much but it considered the good positive change by the company in budget friendly handsets line.
Operating system
Moto E 2015 are belongs to the new generation so the handset runs the latest operating system. This is the typical Android based handset and run Android 5.0 Lollipop OS. The new version of the operating system is more convenient, light in weight and easy in use. Due to its light weight the operating system consumes very less power for running the handset smoothly and with its easy use everyone can use the handset operating system easily. The interface of operating system is Google's own Android interface which is colorful in use and easy in understand.
Processor and Memory
The new Mote E 2015 is come with the upgrade system on chip and processor. The new handset is come in a two version 3G and 4G LTE and according that company combined different chipset and processors together. The 3G model has Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 processor which is combined with Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 and Adreno 302 GPU for handling the graphical task and the 4G LTE model is packed with Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 combined with Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 paired with Adreno 306 GPU. These are the fabulous combination of processor, chipset and GPU for smooth working of handset. Both the versions have the same capacity of RAM, ROM and on-board memory. The handset has 1GB RAM along with 8GB ROM which can be extended up to 32 GB externally via microSD card. Users can save their data in memory card but they are unable to over load the handset because if they try to store too much data inside the handset they get to faced slow working speed of the mobile.
The rear facing camera in Moto E 2015 is same as the original version. The rear camera is 5 megapixel with 2592 Ñ… 1944 pixels density, autofocus, Geo-tagging, panorama and HDR. The features of the rear is even same as the original Moto E but the notable change found in the new model is the placement of front facing camera which is the really important improvement in low range handset. However company did not placed very high resolution front-facing camera and only placed VGA but the change is positive especially for those who are addict for taking selfies.
The great change found in the new model besides the other changes is battery which is more powerful than the previous model. The new Moto E 2015 is energized by Li-Ion 2390 mAh battery which is quite enough for this type of mid range handset.
Price and Availability
Motorola announced the handset recently with the smart price of $150 and with this price the mobile stand in the line of low budget mobiles category. The handset available in two colors; black and white and available globally.
Bottom Line
Motorola Moto E 2015 is the cheapest handset comes with the Android Lollipop 5.0 operating system. There is no doubt that the handset offers the impressive features to the users and the biggest benefit is LTE connectivity. The camera wise the handset also upgrade with front-facing camera for taking the better selfies. Battery capacity of the handset is also increased. Motorola is giving the best users and budget friendly device to the consumers.


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Today we were pleased to inaugurate a new (and experimental) feature on "Good and Country"—"Co-Host For A Day". Our special guest was Bruce Krohn. He is with a local band (The Dakota Ramblers) and shared music and stories with us. It was a real pleasure to have him as a guest. If YOU would like to be a co-host for a day, no radio experience is necessary. You can bring country music if you wish, or you can just come in, hang out and help me spin and announce the tunes.
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15 Hostess Gifts Under $15
Welcome to November! We are on the cusp of travel and dinner party season, so we thought we'd kick this month off with a look a a few favorite gifts for a host or hostess. My view is that hostess gifts don't have to be expensive, but they should be something that feels extra special, something that your friend is likely to enjoy but probably wouldn't buy themselves. A bottle of elderflower soda, for example, or a tin of wild harvested tea. Really nice dish soap made with essential oils is always nice, or a set of measuring spoons for tiny amounts (for when you need a "pinch" or a "dash"). Here are a 15 favorites:
• 1 Basil Hand Soap, $10 from Saipua
• 2 Elderflower Presse Natural Soda, $8 from Terrain
• 3 Juniper Spread, $10 from Canoe
• 4 Wild Sage and Wild Mint Tea, $12 from Juniper Ridge
• 5 Bamboo Kitchen Utensils, $6 from West Elm
• 6 2.5L Classic Weck Jar, $9.15 from Heath Ceramics (here's why we love it!)
• 7 Hanging Garden Recipe Cards, $12 from Rifle Paper Co.
• 8 Porcelain Tealight Candle Holders, $10.50 - $13.50 from Harabu House
• 9 Cardamom Clove Syrup, $11 from Royal Rose
• 10 Take-n-Bake Molten Chocolate Cake in a Mason Jar, $8 from Hot Cakes
• 11 NW Elixirs Hott Sauce #1, $8 from NW Elixirs
• 12 Gingham Tea Towel, $9 from West Elm
• 13 Small Amount Measuring Spoons, $6 from Mignon Kitchen Co.
• 14 Essentials Oil Dish Soap in Fleur de Sel, $9.95 from Williams-Sonoma
• 15 Hermetus Bottle Opener and Resealer, $8.70 from Kaufmann Mercantile
What are your favorite hostess gifts to give (and receive)?
Related: What's Your Choice for a Universal Hostess Gift?
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Astronomers have discovered an ancient star a few thousand light-years from Earth whose composition is opening a window on the life and times of its immediate ancestors: the universe's first stars.
A team led by Australian National University astronomer Stefan Keller found the star as part of a dedicated search for these second-generation stars. The hope is that by studying the composition of second-generation stars, researchers will be able to learn more about their predecessors – the first population of stars to emerge after the big bang, the enormous release of energy that gave rise to the universe.
These first stars are thought to have appeared some 1 million to 10 million years after the big bang. They would have formed as part of small galaxy wannabes. These protogalaxies ultimately would merge to form larger galaxies whose ionizing radiation would lift a fog of molecular hydrogen that had prevented light from traveling across the cosmos.
Known as Population III stars, the first-generation stars were nothing but burning balls of hydrogen with small amounts of helium. They lacked any trace of heavier elements, such as carbon, oxygen, or calcium. Because of their mass, they burned hot, bright, and only for about 10 million years before they exhausted their fuel and exploded as supernovae.
These stars are long gone. In their stead, they have left astrophysicists with nagging questions about the stars' purported role in an infant universe. Did they re-ionize the cosmos? How many Population III stars does it take to make a Population II star? And what is their life history?
The newly discovered star, with the ungainly label SMSS J031300.36-670839.3, appears to be a second-generation star. And it's hinting at possible answers to some of those questions, suggests Anna Frebel, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and a member of the team reporting the discovery in the current issue of the journal Nature.
The team discovered the star using a telescope specially designed for the survey and for hunting old stars at the Siding Spring Observatory, about 300 miles northwest of Sydney, Australia.
When the team followed up by collecting the star's chemical fingerprints, or spectra, the results were stunning, Dr. Frebel recalls.
She called her colleagues at Siding Spring and said, "Hey, you've got to look at this!" she recalls. The elements heavier than hydrogen or helium that she expected to see in a second-generation star were hardly present. This is unexpected, she says, because the supernovae that appear in today's universe form heavier elements, up to iron, as the progenitor stars burn through the last of their fuel. The star collapses, then explodes, shedding these elements into the cosmos, where they are free to become incorporated into a new generation of stars.
The star that the team discovered had relatively small amounts of these elements, and it had iron in amounts so small that the team wasn't sure the star had any.
The low abundances for elements heavier than hydrogen and helium gave away the star's age in general terms – putting it among the second-generation stars. The team estimates that the supernova seeding it was triggered by the collapse of a star 60 times more massive than the sun.
The low abundances also provided clues about the intensity of the death throes of Population III stars.
In essence, the low abundances suggest an explosion less energetic than those of later populations of massive, more metal-rich stars. The lack of iron suggests that the explosion culminated in a black hole.
As a star burns through its fuel and forms successively heavier elements, these arrange in layers that are blown away from the core in the explosion. Since iron is the final element formed, it's the last element to escape – unless the star's collapse instantly forms a black hole. In that case, the iron wouldn't have traveled far enough to escape the black hole's gravitational grip.
If this scenario for supernovae less energetic than previously expected holds up, it would suggest that Population III stars may have played a weaker role in bringing the universe out of the dark ages than previously thought.
And it suggests that these first very massive stars as a group may have persisted in the early universe longer than previously thought, the team posits. Lower-energy explosions would have been less disruptive to the enormous clouds of gas that serve as the nurseries and raw material for new stars.


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Famed painter and printmaker, Edvard Munch is best known for his free-flowing and emotionally fraught, expressionist paintings.
Born in Norway in 1863, Munch grew up in Oslo but much of his early life was overshadowed by personal tragedies, illness and failures. From this though, creativity was born: "without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder....My sufferings are part of my self and my art," wrote Munch.
His works are intensely evocative, in particular his Frieze of Life series which encompass themes of love, death and jealousy - including one of the most famous paintings in art history, 'The Scream'. While his emotions lay bare to the world, Munch's works are some of the most powerful examples of 19th Century Symbolism, and he remains a pioneer of expressionism in painting to this day.


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Skype dial-in: martin.oberhuber, ddykstal (or david_dykstal), david-k-mcknight, kevin.j.doyle, xuan.chen886, rupen.mardirossian, javier.montalvoorus, eugenetarassov, michael_scharf, uwe.stieber, radoslav.gerganov, wrsfburton.
Invited Attendees
- IBM - Xuan Chen, Dave McKnight, Dave Dykstal, Rupen Mardirossian, Kevin Doyle
- Wind River - Martin Oberhuber, Michael Scharf, Uwe Stieber, Eugene Tarassov, Felix Burton
- Symbian - Javier Montalvo Orus
- ProSyst - Radoslav Gerganov
This is an Open call, so anyone else can join (though we expect the talk to be interesting for committers only).
- Last meeting: DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 21-May-2008
- Skype Call Quality
New Stuff
- Release Review next Wed June 4 at 8am PST (our usual committer meeting time)
- Want to move next committer meeting to Thursday Jun 5 at 8am PST (same time), ok? Or do it after/at our Monthly Meeting Jun4 at 9am PST?
- Our slides: Minideck (PPT | PDF, All slides (PPT | PDF)
- Full Ganymede Slides - We are #22ff on the Overview deck, alphabetically pretty soon
- Project Plan: Development Resources/Project Plan Status
- Ours is XML now, on http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/development/tm_plan_3_0.xml -- also in your www-tm-development project
- Bjorn's tooling renders it to PHP - bottom has a link for raw XML
- Everybody can edit the plan at any time to fix typos etc
- Due to bugzilla queries it's a very live document anyways
- How to separate "plan" kind of bugs from "normal work uninteresting" bugs
- Ganymede Promotions
- Will do a 15-minute Screencast of TM for EMO Marketing - Ideas for things to show?
- Listing New&Noteworthy for ZX
- BugDay/May 2008 on May 30, who will be on IRC?
- Late API Changes / Additions
- Must decide how we want to handle Apidoc bugs
- Take the time now to review and improve unclear API descriptions
- All open API bugs
- bug 234215 bug 234030: AbstractSystemViewElementAdapter#doDelete*(): Treat Exception same as SystemMessageException? Treat "cancelled" same as Exception?
- bug 165171 Should the File Permissions Property Page be extendable? Close bug, file a new one?
- bug 190231 Subsystem UI->non-UI: Go for it?
- bug 230298 (api)(breaking) ISystemPropertyConstants should not extend IBasicPropertyConstants
- bug 185348, bug 204796 Terminal non-API
Steps Towards Ganymede
- DSDP/TM/3.0 Ramp down Plan for Ganymede
- We have RC2, so from now on EVERY checkin must get a +1 by a reviewer BEFORE (except emergencies, documentation-only or unittest-only things). Also applies to "incubation". Rules do not apply to TCF
- Please do NOT only ask me for reviewing, it doesn't scale
- TM 3.0 RC2 Testing Status
- Committers step up with good example to draw community members to it!
- Somebody must test our integration with the JEE EPP Package
- Bug Triage
- AI Everyone must review your assigned bugs and move to 3.0.1 where possible
- All "3.0" assigned bugs must be triaged now and either assigned a proper RC milestone or 3.0.1 (with the exception of Documentation-only fixes)
- Work on remaining ones by priority
- Open RC2 Assigned bugs, open 3.0 Assigned bugs
- Severity Major, Hi-Priority
- Current Statistics: 1 blocker (Martin), 1 critical (Martin), 8 major (DaveD, Kevin, Martin, Michael), 23 other P2's -- was 10 major / 20 P2's last week
- Community contributions: Only few unapplied patches right now, last chance to apply now before 3.0 (see also the Bug Process Page for a query)
- Martin's new Build System for Dave
- In the works
- New and Noteworthy
- I'll need a list of new features for a New&Noteworthy, and for the Release Review. Release Review material is due next week.
- See CDT/User/NewIn50 for example; for TM, I put most news into our Build Notes already, so it should be possible to compile the N&N out of the build notes
- For the N&N, please make screenshots and work on "your" new features, e.g.
- Useractions
- Cleanup Work
- Besides the hi-priority issues, there is a LOT of cleanup to do. What do we consider must-have's?
- Unittests, unittests, unittests!
- New releng scripts on dsdp.eclipse.org (Martin: must-have before his vacation)
- Copyright Year Updates (Run the releng Copyrights Tool)
- Migration Notes (for 2.0 / for 1.0?)
- API Tooling Javadocs(@noextend and friends) - bug 227368, bug 225529 comment 4 and bug 225529 comment 6 - DSDP/TM/Code Ownership
- Review and improve Userdocs; we have several open bugs here
- Review and improve Javadocs; lots still missing, unclear, duplicated
- Fix broken hyperlinks in the docs, fix HTML/XML errors (which can make the indexer not work)
- Get rid of compiler warnings wherever possible
- Add more Unittests -- ideally write an accompanying unittest for every bugfix
- Run Findbugs -- Update site on http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse, Quickdocs by Rado in tm-dev E-Mail
- Question about filtering false positives posted on fb-discuss link
- TM Website: revamp should really be complete for Ganymede! Kevin and Martin won't have time. DaveD will try to get to it, but cannot promise.
- Besides the hi-priority issues, there is a LOT of cleanup to do. What do we consider must-have's?
What will happen after Ganymede?
- Going for 3.1 next year?
- Not breaking API in 3.1 means that we may introduce new concepts as duplicated new API at places, and deprecate the old one so I cannot see anything against 3.1
- Create a bugzilla 3.1 target milestone to start the planning process / reassign bugs on review
- TM Future Planning Wiki for collecting ideas. Some first thoughts on Priorities?
- Connection Grouping - be Multicore aware
- Rewrite the Tableview to be really aware of Properties
- More dynamic subsystem enablement and configuration (e.g. detect UNIX vs Windows automatically at runtime)
- Hi-Performance, caching EFS provider
- Bring TCF to Maturity
- Quality: Add unittest coverage, reduce bloat, improve performance, streamline APIs
- Java1.4 on the Server, Java5 on the Client
- DaveD context menu on SystemView / TeamView: something going on with the way how items are being added. Bringing up the context menu immediately after startup shows some debugger related stuff. Martin: bug 208062
Committer Status and Report
- Javier - New Employer in Barcelona
- DaveD -
- bug 189274 Import/export connections
- DaveM: -
- JUnit should autotest dstore against old servers as well - an IBM thing
- Kevin: -
- Xuan: -
- Martin: - bug 215301 New project plan format -- Need to put Project Plan on the Web; AI Martin Update Releng scripts to automatically run unit tests at night
- Commons.Net 1.5.0 not yet released - AI Martin create placeholder CQ
- Next tasks - Move SubsystemConfiguration implementation into non-UI; Lazy loading of SubsystemConfiguration (use the Proxy more); Lazy loading of UI adapters; some exceptions observed by Uwe (Wind River) in our nightly wheels
- bug 221190 EFS getChild() with relative path - perhaps need to check whether our impl still works properly
- GSoC student Takuya Miyamoto for bug 185925
- Uwe: -
- Rupen: -
- Michael: -
- Eugene: -
- Rado: -
- Felix: -
- Questions
Old Stuff
- Unit Tests - next priority after API
- Migrating to new Releng on dsdp.eclipse.org (adopt P2, nightly tests, signing etc)
- bug 221211 MultiStatus for IFileService batch operations - exception on first failure for modifying operations. No exceptions/multistatus on non-modifying operations. AI DaveD/DaveM update Javadocs when it's clear what we want
- bug 220379 Make DStoreFileService API - encodingHandler - wait on reporter - is this fixed now that IService is IAdaptable as per bug 226262? AI DaveM ask reporters
- bug 220547 SimpleSystemMessage message ID - globally unique message id vs. plugin-local status - Dialog Title: MessageID if globally unique / generic title based on severity if plugin-local - AI DaveM think about
- Bugzilla:
- Quality, Backlog and Unit Tests
- Remember our 2-fix-per-week / 3 unittests-per-milestone plan
- Since our DSDP/TM/Face-to-face Meeting Toronto 17-Sep-2007 it's now 31 weeks / 5 milestones, so each committer is due 62 fixes / 10 unittests
- Current situation is on this bugzilla report
- Unittests: when adding a test, please add the tag //-test-author:YourName in front of it
- DaveM - 5
- DaveD - 22
- KevinD - 11
- MartinO - 3
- TobiasS - 3
- UweS - 7
- XuanC - 51
- Total - 101
- Javier - 0
Vacation, away
- Martin vacation June 11 - 22 -- AI Martin finish and test the new Build scripts on dsdp.eclipse.org till then
- DaveM vacation June 16 - 20
- DaveD in July
Action Items
- Last Meeting Action Items
- Everyone: Add @noextend etc according to DSDP/TM/Code Ownership table;
- Triage 3.0 and earlier assigned bugs and move to 3.0.1 what we can
- Bug fixes, cleanup, unittests
- DaveD:
- DaveM: Fix bug 231209 IRemoteFile.getSystemConnection()
- Kevin: -
- Rupen: -
- Xuan: -
- Martin: New Project Plan; Critical EFS bugs; UI/Non-UI Splitting; Finish new Releng and tell DaveD;
- Javier: Hi-PRI FTP BUGS
- Michael: Terminal improvements
- Uwe: -
- Rado: Fix bug 230919 IFileService.delete()
- Felix: -
- Eugene: -


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have you got the sector arms off?
they have to come off
the adjusters are studs in a slip fitting on the sector
the sector gear and cover exit out the same path.. which is why the sector arms must be off the other side.
i've marked up a drawing of the steering box on a 640
the side covers have a lip inside .. it may be siezed a pit. tap on the ears to rotate them and get themmoving.
penetrant will help.. just pull them and the adjusters togeter dragging the secrtor gear out. if they are seized it will be the easiest way..
"the seals on the sector shafts do not appear to be leaking any"
Hate to tell ya this but they are not leaking cause there wasn't any lube in there!Those seals are what goes first. Then the lube comes out. Then the bearings go!! A few wash jobs and any trace of the old lube is long gone.HTHKeith
i thik your course of action will turn a routine rebuild job into a hard one..
your call.
I've rebuilt many of these boxes.... generally not difficult.. about the biggest issue is sometimes cheap chinese bearing cages that crumble.. OE.. ballnut assy that are soo worn the ballut cocks to the side.. or sector gear teeth profiles that wear to a point.. etc. broken adjuster stud holder ears.. etc.. stuff like that.
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I own an Internet business consulting company. The company is 'Pullerits Group'. My name is Matthew Pullerits, and I operate a creative team of engineers, computer programmers, and artists.
I am looking for a logo designed and business cards for my company.
My clients include large medical websites, live video streaming and broadcasting websites, and on-demand internet printing. Our work is quite innovative, and we offer a complete solution from business plan brainstorming to implementation and maintenance.
I would like a very "clean", yet elegant and bold logo and business card template designed.
A note: This logo should print well in black and white (i.e. over faxes, etc). It will not only be used online and on the business card.
I personally prefer a lot of whites, and "open space". However, I am not an artist! My clients are all in the "alternative" realm – some in alternative medicine for example, and would not respond well to something too "out there" – nothing futuristic, lightning bolts, etc.. you get what I mean.
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Skip to comments.Freecycle Web site helps turn trash into treasure
Posted on 08/11/2005 10:23:39 PM PDT by beaversmom
What do you do with that old couch you no longer have use for? How about the TV you just replaced? Instead of filling a trash dump, turn your trash into another person's treasure.
The worldwide Freecycle Network is a nonprofit Internet group where members can give and receive "gifts."
If a usable item that the owner does not want or need any more, that person can post it on the Freecycle network in their area, said North Port's Freecycle moderator Mike Romer.
Members send and receive e-mails, through Yahoo accounts, about items offered for free. Essentially the two types of messages are "Offer" and "Wanted" posts, giving and asking for couches, lamps, even some Freecycle groups have pets listed.
Moderators, like Romer, help make sure the different branches of the network are kept safe and clean.
"We make sure no spam, porn, or anything like that gets to the members," Romer said. "It's all 'G-rated.'"
While Romer is a moderator of the North Port group, there are about 2,981 "Freecycle Communities" around the world, including a chapter in Arcadia.
Arcadia, a relatively new member of the Freecycle group, is proud to have around 176 members.
Run by local volunteer moderators from around the world, they facilitate each local Freecycle group, stated information from the Freecycle Web site.
"It is a place to environmentally save things, as opposed to putting them on the curbs or in dumps," Romer said. He added that he has seen so many usable items go to the trash dumps, or lay on the side of the road.
Because of the Freecycle Network, about 50 tons a day out of landfills.
"There is a better way." Romer said. "We (Freecycle groups) recycle items as opposed to disposing."
The Freecycle Network was set up in May 2003 by Deron Beal in Tucson, Ariz. According to the Freecycle Web site, Beal wanted to "build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills."
Membership into Freecycle is free, though they ask that you not only get, but also give.
"It makes you feel good," Romer said. "I like it."
For more information, or to join a Freecycle group, visit www.freecycle.org.
You can e-mail Teddi Thosath at email@example.com.
Who pays for shipping?
There are regional groups...local groups. You join your locality. I'm part of one in my locality. It's really remarkable how well it works.
The misuse of the language is gifting me a headarc.
Participants in any barter exchange should know that the IRS does require barter "income" to be reported, and gets real nasty if they find out after the fact. A few years ago when I was active on a barter exchange I did declare everything and it was a pain; but not nearly the pain it was for some people who didn't and received bills for tens of thousands of dollars of extra income. Barter exchanges in the U.S. are supposed to file forms with the IRS with each member's transaction totals. Hint: the IRS does not accept barter to pay tax bills.
This isn't barter. You give it away or you get something someone else wants to give away. No trade, no exchange.
I've got a "Dem-o-crat party" here, anyone give me anything for it? (I'll even pay shipping.)
Any wealthy people who do their finances on computer and don't understand the word "encryption" are asked to send their unneeded hard drives to me.
I'll give them a good home.
I'll give you 5 bucks. But once it's mine, I can do to Howard Dean what I wish...
*rattles a dog collar, wood chipper and bungee cord threateningly*
OK, but that's ALL I can afford to pay you to take it! ;)
W00t! *becomes the legal proprietor of the democratic party*
Alright, Howard Dean, you can MoveOn right into the wood chipper. Conyers? Dance for me, biznitch. Wait, wait. Put this on. *tosses Conyers a donkey suit* And in retrospect, Hillary, you can join him in there. You can be the head, and he'll be the ass end.
The rest of you, welcome to the wide and wonderful world of salt mining. Lunch is at 1.
Zell, I am transferring you to the Republican party.
Lieberman, if you promise to drop your ridiculous vendetta against video games, you can be in charge of the saltminers. Otherwise, grab a pickaxe.
But like the man sez, you bought it, you paid for it, it's yours!
This really does work well ... AND you can get rid of a lot of junk... and get some pretty nifty stuff too!!
I've given some - but have gotten a Broyhill dresser that is in beautiful shape, a cool desk I'm using as a sort of buffet, various books for homeschooling, a palm tree that would be about 200.00 at the nursery... and tonight we just picked up 17 old 6 pane windows that we're going to incorporate into a greenhouse of sorts.. :)
I really like it.. my husband and son first thought it was a "hippy" thing.. I just pointed out that other peoples trash is sometimes out treasure... hahahaha.
I remember years ago I had an old, broken TV that I didn't want to put out with the trash - didn't know if it would be hauled away or not, so I put a ad in the local 'Buy and Sell' paper for a free TV.
I got about 12 calls the first few hours the paper came out. This is a real good idea.
I TOTALLY applaud the concept, but let me offer another point of view...
I haven't used them because I'm one of those penny-pinchers that itemize everything, so my small amount of consumer "junque" goes to Goodwill or St. Vincent's for the tax deduction, plus, they pick up if I have a big item. (Up to $500 a year, with no itemizing; over that, you need an extra form. Why give away a tax deduction?) Goodwill & St. Vincent's (or any charitable organization) do a good job of dispersing the goods over again, plus turn a profit at it to keep their good works going.
Just more gullible taxpayers/consumers out there, spending money on stuff, tiring of it and then giving it away with no tax hedging whatsoever. To me, that's just money down a rathole, and I DO keep my fiscal house in order so I CAN have the right to b*tch about what government does with our money, LOL! ;)
I am, however, glad to see items getting one or more round of use out of them prior to them going to the landfill. I know, I'm no fun, but thwarting taxes is my hobby, and I don't mind sharing the knowledge with others. :)
As far as taking free items from Freecycle just to donate them for the tax deduction or to sell it? I couldn't morally justify that for myself though sadly, I know of a person who does this. :(
Not really, it's one of the lousy websites I've ever been too, and you have to sign up on Yahoo to get to it...it's a joke...
They need to setup the same thing in a Vbulletin board..
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Yes! I have finally done it! I have usurped control of the Gardens from the Baron. And now to put my evil plans into motion! Mwhahahaha!
Actually, don't believe a word of it. The Baron has been kind enough to let one of his lowly henchmen take over moderation of the Gardens in his absence and I was fortunate to be the one chosen for this honor. So, I will do my best to maintain the high standards that the Baron brought to this group when he first formed it and continue on with his work.
Now, as my good friend Tamerath has recently stated we intend to try and keep the ball rolling as far as the online Ravenloft game idea is concerned. While Tamerath is busy exploring the real-time game possibilities, something that I hope to help him with and be a part of (of which I will say more in his thread on the online game) I am still interested in doing a play by post. I believe both forms have merits of their own and I don't want to give up on the play by post idea before ever really giving it a chance. With that in mind I will be exploring what I can and can't do over the next couple of weeks. But as Tamerath has also stated, it may take a while as time is not in over abundance with me as well. So anybody who is interested, please bear with me and keep and eye out for further updates on this thread concerning the play by post.


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Bishop Guertin Cardinals are Green and golden in win over Pinkerton girls
By JIM FENNELL
New Hampshire Union Leader
NASHUA - There's more than 1,000 reasons why Bishop Guertin's Meghan Green will be playing Division I basketball in college next year. She gave us 18 of them Tuesday.
The 6-foot senior was a dominating force inside, grabbing 18 rebounds - and going over 1,000 for her career in the process - to lead the Cardinals to a 57-42 win over previously undefeated Pinkerton Academy of Derry.
Green also scored 15 points, eight in the third quarter when the Cardinals (14-1) finally shook off the Astros (14-1).
And, here's the thing: BG coach Scott Hazleton wasn't particularly pleased with the way his Boston University-bound star was playing.
"I don't think she played well," Hazleton said. "We want her to be more of a vocal leader and make her presence felt physically. I got on her at halftime."
Green, who went over 1,000 points last year, responded.
She scored eight points, six on offensive rebounds, during a 14-5 run that put BG ahead 45-30 with 1:12 left in the third quarter.
"We had a hard time guarding Green inside," Pinkerton coach John Barry. "We're too short. She was in the paint too long and they allowed it."
Nikki Hayner, who knocked down three 3s and finished with a game-high 17 points, had all 10 of BG's points in the fourth quarter. Pinkerton's Sam Breslin had 10 of her team-high 13 points in the third quarter.
BG, the defending Division I champion, jumped out to an 11-0 lead over the surprising Astros, but credit Pinkerton for sticking around and managing to cut the deficit to four points late in the second quarter.
The air from the Astros' unbeaten bubble was gushing out in the opening quarter as they came up empty on their first 13 possessions. They were 0-for-10 from the field and committed two turnovers in the fruitless span of nearly seven minutes.
"We started rushing our offense," Barry said. "We're usually more in control."
Corina Moore (11 points) finally got Pinkerton on the board with a 3-pointer with 1:04 left in the quarter.
The Cardinals attacked the basket, controlled the boards and forced Pinkerton into settling for outside shots as they went up 11-3 after one quarter. In a matchup of the two top defensive teams in the division, the Cardinals came out on top.
"We've been doing that all year," Hazleton said.
Moore, a junior who came off the bench, added seven points in the second quarter, including two more 3s, to help the Astros get back in the game.
Pinkerton made a concerted effort to drive more to the basket in the second quarter and it paid dividends as the Astros got to within four points, 22-18, late in the quarter. The Astros had chances to make it closer, but were 4-for-10 from the foul line and went into the half trailing 25-18.
While Hazelton said it was just another game for his team - he said they never scouted the Astros or watched any film of them - Green said the Cardinals were well aware of Pinkerton's record.
"We wanted to say we are the best team in the state," Green said. "We wanted to go out and make a statement."


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Dr. Steven W. Day holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia as well as a diploma from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium. He joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at RIT in 2005. Dr. Day also teaches for the Biomedical Engineering program and is active in guiding multidisciplinary senior design teams and advising master's thesis projects. He strives to promote critical thinking in his students and involves both undergraduates and graduate students in his research.
Dr. Day has expertise in application methods in experimental and computation fluid mechanics and biological flows. Past studies have included the analysis of naturally occurring biomechanical systems (multiple lung bifurcations), engineered systems (supersonic combustion engines), and the design and testing of biomedical devices (artificial heart pumps). During his first year of postgraduate research in Belgium, Dr. Day used a laser based system to study the flow through lung bifurcations. At the University of Virginia, his research focused on the development of a state-of-the-art implantable blood pump. On this project, he worked with a team of faculty and students from the Engineering and Medical Departments at UVa, as well as collaborators at the Utah Artificial Heart Institute at the University of Utah and industry partner MedQuest, Inc. His dissertation focused on experimental measurements of the pump performance and internal fluid dynamics and he contributed to published research on the computational modeling, electro/mechanical design, and physiological modeling of the device. Most recently, Dr. Day collaborated with a group of Evolutionary Biologists and experts in Biomechanics at the University of California, Davis on a series of studies involving the complex application of fluid dynamics to suction feeding in fish. All of these novel collaborative efforts effectively cross the traditional boundaries between the basic, medical, and applied sciences. For more about Dr. Day see his personal website.
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- Tchantchaleishvili, Vakhtang, Bryan S. Bush, Michael Swartz, Steven W. Day, and H. Todd Massey. 2012. "Plutonium-238: An ideal power source for intracorporeal ventricular assist devices?" ASAIO Journal In Press (anticipated Nov/Dec).
- Stewart, Sandy F. C., Eric G. Paterson, Greg W. Burgreen, Prasanna Hariharan, Matthew Giarra, Varun Reddy, Steven W. Day, et al. 2012. "Assessment of CFD Performance in Simulations of an Idealized Medical Device: Results of FDA's First Computational Interlaboratory Study." Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology 3 (2) (February 28): 139-160. doi:10.1007/s13239-012-0087-5. http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s13239-012-0087-5.
- Cheng, S., M.W. Olles, A.F. Burger, and S.W. Day. 2011. "Optimization of a hybrid magnetic bearing for a magnetically levitated blood pump via 3-D FEA." Mechatronics 21 (7): 1163-1169. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957415811001188.
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- Mercedes news
Hamilton feels for fans amid Vettel dominance
Lewis Hamilton says he feels sorry for fans as Sebastian Vettel marches, seemingly unrivalled, to a fourth consecutive world championship.
Vettel is now 77 points clear of second-place Fernando Alonso in the drivers' championship and has won the last four races with relative ease. His success has drawn parallels with Michael Schumacher's period of domination in the early 2000s, when he won five consecutive titles between 2000 and 2004, and induced a degree of apathy among fans.
"He has won already unless he doesn't finish the rest of the races, and even if he doesn't he has probably still won it," Hamilton said of Vettel while speaking to British newspapers in Korea. "Personally I feel for the fans because I remember the period of time when Michael Schumacher was winning.
"I remember waking up in the morning to watch the start of the race and then going to sleep, and then waking up when it ended because I already knew what would happen. I am pretty sure a lot of people were doing that today."
Vettel can wrap the title up this weekend in Japan if he wins the race and Fernando Alonso finishes ninth or lower.


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The Arrested Legacy
"Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the heirs and heiresses who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's…'
Arrested Legacy
Arrested Legacy
So, you've done it all. Ten, if not more or a little less, generations of happy, successful sims. They've had their dramas, their lives play out, but more or less, things went fairly well. Now they're sitting pretty in their mansion or estate, looking out at the rest of SimNation feeling like nothing could stop them.
Let's change that, shall we? A scandal erupts, true or false, and in short, your family ends up with nothing but the clothes on their back and a now empty home they have to pay for. On top of that, a lot of underlying neuroses begin to show themselves, and your family ends up becoming a favorite of local tabloids for centuries to come.
It's up to you, the Simmer, to fix this. Take this now infamous family, and restore them to their former glory.
The SetupThis is intended to be done in the middle of an ordinary legacy challenge. The writing will assume no handicaps were chosen, although they may be accounted for by the player. As always with any challenge, use your discretion.
- Begin by selling off everything of non-sentimental value you own in the house. Photos, for instance, may remain, as could portraits OF sims, but a still-life worth $600 of some fruit may not. Career rewards and aspiration rewards must go as well.
- Everything sold? Excellent. Now familyfunds every single cent you own away. You'll be playing with nada, zip, zero, zilch, intentionally leaving you with to cover your architecture taxes.
- You'll be using a fresh generation to begin with. You may keep Sims from the generation before the challenge began around, and they won't suffer from any of the negatives of the challenge, but they will be forbidden from interacting with anyone outside of the family or taking jobs, or even leaving the house what soever (Consider it house arrest).
The Rules
Your fresh generation will be the first to suffer from the infamy their family now has. This infamy has led to some...quirks presenting themselves, that will need to be dealt with, if you have any hope of restoring their good name.
Every Aspiration will suffer from its own problems, and must be dealt with so long as a Sim is present with said Aspiration, but only if a alive with that Aspiration. After the Aspiration major goal is cleared, the problems will fade with the next generation. The Sim that cleared said final goal and anybody still alive from previous generations will still suffer from their neuroses.
Fortune Or; The Embezzler: "Look, my family used to sleep on piles of Simoleons and now they have nothing. You're gonna tell me it's wrong to take from them to make sure I'm safe?"
Sims with the Fortune Aspiration will suffer from a chronic case of kleptomania. They will find themselves embezzling or outright stealing from work whenever possible. And, they don't stop at just work. They will also siphon from your family, ensuring they have money if another scandal erupts. Worst yet the siphon goes into an offshore bank account, untouchable by your family.
- Every week they're employed, roll a die. If the number is even, subtract three days of wages from the family funds. If the number is odd, roll the die again. If it comes even, proceed to subtract the three day's wages. If it's odd, they must quit their job due to their embezzlement being discovered. They are allowed to rejoin the same career.
- However: At the cost of 100k, or 50% of the household funds, whichever is less, they may keep their job.
- Fortune Sims must be employed. The longest they may go as adults without a career is two days. Career hopping is allowed.
Pleasure Or; The Narcissist: "I tell you what; you stop embarrassing this family, and I'll stop drinking. See, the difference is one of us can actually stop."
Sims with the Pleasure Aspiration will have to deal with their own narcissism. This leads to them ostracizing the family from society due to their rather cold and self serving attitudes, as well as causing fights within the family due to their manipulation.
- This Sim will not be allowed to have more than three friendships at a given time, including within the family. They must also have at least five enemies at a given time, with at least two within the family.
- As long as a Narcissist is within the family, each family member must remain enemies with at least one other family member. This does not scale if there is more Narcissists within the family.
- Every Wednesday, roll a die. If the number is even, ignore this. If it is odd, the Narcissist will cause a scandal to erupt. This will cause the family to lose 10% of their funds, or 20k, whichever is less. The Narcissist will also be obligated to make and keep one more enemy.
Knowledge Or; The Holier-Than-Thou: "Ugh, yes I belong to that family. No, I don't have anything to do with *that*. Believe me, I wish I wasn't even related to them."
Sims with the Knowledge Aspiration will suffer from the belief that they're better than their family, despite their own faults. This causes them to isolate themselves, and not realize their own issues.
- Knowledge Sims cannot take jobs as Teens or Elders, seeing such part-time work as below them.
- Knowledge Sims can only be friends with their parents and spouses, within the family. If a parent is a Narcissist, they must be the required enemy.
- Knowledge Sims may only take jobs in their desired career path (LTW). If they do not have one, it must be Science, Oceanography, Medical, or Gaming.
- Knowledge Sims may not refuse chance cards, and may not take 'Business Instinct'
- You must flip a coin for each chance card, including Freetime chance cards. If the card causes them to be fired or demoted, a minor scandal will occur. Subtract 5% of family funds.
- Only Knowledge Sims may build skills as Children, and the only skills Teens may learn is for their career track. Yes, this applies to scholarship earning.
Romance Or; The Lothario: "Hey, my family name used to mean anybody I looked at would get in bed with me. Why should that change just because nobody likes us?"
Romance Sims will find themselves completely unable to control their tongues, constantly acting out in public.
- Aside from the family, Lotharios may only interact positively with Sims they have at least two attraction bolts with.
- Any Sim with negative attraction can only be negatively interacted with.
- Any sim with three attraction bolts must be flirted with by the Lothario at least twice per interaction session, regardless of success rates. This persists even after the Lothario is married, and regardless of location.
- If your Sim brings a co-worker home of their preferred gender, flip a coin. If it is heads, nothing occurs. If it is tails, a sexual harassment case will ensue, causing a scandal. The Lothario must either quit their job or pay 10% of family funds/25k, whichever is less.
- Lotharios must go on public dates once a week.
- The Lothario may only marry a spouse with three attraction bolts.
- If at any point the Lothario is caught cheating by their spouse, roll a die. If the number is even, they must get a divorce, with the spouse taking 50% of family funds as a settlement.
Any children will remain part of the legacy family, as will any restriction progress the spouse has made. The Lothario is allowed, and encouraged, to remarry.
Family Sims are a relative bastion of sanity in the family, their caringness outshining any negative qualities. However, they do have one issue in that they care too much, making them quite clingy.
- A family gathering (outing) must be held weekly, and reach a max score.
- All major events (Weddings, birthdays, funerals, e.t.c.) must have parties.
- If a Loving Sim has a child, they must quit their job to become a homemaker. If two Loving Sims are parents, only one must quit.
- No Occults may exist if a Loving Sim is around.
- If any scandal occurs, add 10k if it is a flat amount, or 5% if a percentage due to the Loving Sim acting out in court.
Popularity Or; The Socialite: "God, do you know just how hard it is to get into any parties around here with our reputation for being lazy mooches? How am I supposed to think about working when I can't even relax?"
Popularity Sims suffer from a craving to spend all their time around other people, attempting to do their best to avoid any work and distance themselves from the family.
- A party must be hosted by The Socialite weekly. Birthday parties, wedding parties, and anniversaries count. If the party is a Dud, a scandal will occur. Subtract 20% of family funds.
- Popularity Sims may not join any career track.
- A Socialite must make one new friend per week, and is obligated to keep them. They must also invite any new friends to that week's party, cycling old friends out as needed.
- A Socialite must go on one perfect outing per week. Any objects gained as a reward for the outing may be kept, and sold. (Consider it the Socialite receiving free gifts from companies for sponsoring them.)
Misc. Restrictions: "We're sorry, sir. Landgraab Industries only provides The Elixir of Life to our...exclusive clients."
As a direct result of your families infamy, getting certain special objects is now impossible. Magical talents also seem to have been bled out, amongst other problems.
- The only Aspiration reward you may purchase from the start is the Mint, on the condition you have had at least one Counterfeiter in the family. However, if you suffer a failure while using it, (I.E. the cops show up) you must pay 50% of family funds, and may not purchase anymore machines until a new Counterfeiter arises.
- All other Aspiration Rewards, as well as Career Rewards, may not be redeemed.
- HOWEVER: Every aspiration you clear allows the purchasing of one type of reward, or a career reward that you have unlocked. The Elixir of Life, Jumbok, Goontagen, Fame Star, Skill Vac, and Money Tree however may not be redeemed under any circumstances.
- You may only have one occult per generation, and it must not be the same type as the previous generation.
- Vampires must die with their spouses and witches may not use Thrones.
- Genie Lamps may not be used, nor may Wishing Wells.
- Sims may not sell any items they create (Novels, crafts, e.t.c.) or play/entertain for tips. Paintings may be hung, but not sold.
- Chefs are allowed to use the Chocolate Machine.
- Lawyers are not allowed to use the podium
- The ONLY exception is failing a bill payment in College.
Lifting Restrictions
With all this in mind, there comes the problem of how to restore the family's good name in these spheres of life. Each Aspiration will have its own set of lifting requirements, that may or may not be fulfilled by multiple generations.
- The family must amass at least 1,000,000 in bank while a Fortune Sim is present. (If the 1,000,000 is present before, as long as the Embezzler is around before it dips below 1,000,000, it counts.)
- An Embezzler must reach the top of Business or Criminal.
- The family must own three rank ten businesses, each created and leveled by a Embezzler
- One must be a restaurant, another a store, and another a venue.
- The family must have a total value of at least 2,000,000 (Taking into account property and business values as well as bank account)
- The family's house must have an art gallery, or vault, constructed while a Embezzler is alive.
"Alright, maybe I overreacted with the whole 'I'm going to fly to SimValley the next time a scandal happens.' The money is still mine though, besides, we got plenty now to our name. Our family is finally rich again!"
Fortune restrictions are lifted.
- A Narcissist must reach the top of Law and Politics. Only one Narcissist may lift each one.
- A Narcissist and their spouse must also max their career and every skill.
- The family must spend 500,000 on a lifetime country club fee for the family once a Narcissist is an Elder.
- The family house must have a bar-room, constructed while a Narcissist is alive.
- Once the bar room is constructed, they must host a roof raiser, with the three Narcissist's friends invited.
"Fine, I admit it. Maybe this family isn't as pathetic as I thought it was. Don't think for a second though that I'm changing anything."
Pleasure restrictions are lifted.
- A Holier-Than-Thou must reach the top of their desired career track.
- A Holier-Than-Thou must max all 10 skills.
- These must not be the same Sim. If a Sim's LTW is to max all 10 skills, that is the restriction they have to lift. If you have a Sim with another 'Max all 10' LTW, you must re-roll their LTW using Batbox or the Aspiration Re-Roller.
- This does not mean a Sim may not max all 10 skills, just that it will not count towards the restriction.
- A Holier-Than-Thou must be abducted by aliens once per Life Stage, including Young Adult if they go to College. They must not use the Knowledge Reward to do so.
- A Holier-Than-Thou must graduate with a 4.0 without using any influence or befriending/romancing a professor.
- You must spend 750,000 at any point a Holier-Than-Thou is alive to establish a Scholarship in the family's name.
- You must construct a library in the house while a Holier-Than-Thou is alive.
"So I guess maybe my family isn't all that bad. We've had some pretty smart people in it. I still think some of them are pretty stupid but, well, I think we're finally starting to make a comeback."
Knowledge restrictions are lifted.
- A Lothario must have a single spouse from Adult to Elder, and celebrate a Golden Anniversary.
- A Lothario must keep at least two lovers outside of their marriage, and never be caught.
- A Loathrio must reach the top of Slacker, Show Business, Entertainer, or Adventurer.
- A Lothario must WooHoo with a new Sim once a week. (This begins in YA-hood if he/she attends college)
- You must spend 400,000 at any point a Lothario is alive to create a settlement fund for any children conceived out of wedlock.
- You must construct a pool house or romantic lounge while a Lothario is alive. (Think a relaxing area for a date, with multiple WooHoo spots.)
"Wow, I uh, I didn't realize just how uncontrollable we'd gotten there for a while. Who knew losing everything would also set your hormones out of whack, huh?"
Romance restrictions are lifted.
- A Socialite must have a Roof Raiser of every type of party.
- Toga and New Year's Bash are excluded.
- A Socialite must make and keep 20 Best Friends (This does not need to be their LTW)
- A Socialite must throw a party every other day in college and still graduate.
- A Socialite must start a Greek House and become a Big (Wo)man on Campus. They do not need to raise the rank of the House.
- A spouse of a Socialite must be a maxed Politician or Slacker.
- You must contribute 350,000 to a family party fund while a Socialite is alive.
- You must build a party room while a Socialite is alive.
"I think I'm actually partied out. But hey, I did my part didn't I? Everybody loves us again! Or, well, they know we throw great parties at least."
Popularity Restrictions are lifted.
- A Loving Sim must teach their child every toddler skill, studying, and said Sim must never drop below an A+ in school for any reason, and graduate with a 4.0.
- A Loving Sim must reach the top of Education after their child has grown up to an Adult or left for College.
- A Loving Sim must start a home business and reach level 10 within their lifetime, and then shut it down.
- A Loving Sim must have a 'sane' spouse.
- You must spend 400,000 to start a charity foundation in your family's name while a Loving Sim is alive.
- You must construct a play-area in your house while a Loving Sim is alive.
"I told you my family wasn't so bad. May not be great but, well, I still love them to death. And we will make it through this."
Family restrictions are lifted.
The End
The fog over your family clears. No more neuroses. No more paranoia. The family realizes, after a point, that at last they're all….normal. The idea seems like such a foreign concept, but it's true. They step forward, back into the history of SimNation, this time a brighter smile on their face from what they've overcome.
Other Stuff
Hey! Name's Jad. So, this is my first attempt creating a challenge. My goal was to create something quite difficult that could be done with virtually any family, and especially an established Legacy family, to keep playing the Sims fresh. I've been play testing for a while and I think I'm finally ready to see what other people have to say! If anyone gives it a shot, let me know how it is, difficulty wise and such, or even just any suggestions, so I know if there's any tweaks I have to make. Otherwise, if you take a spin on this, good luck!


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A stray bullet struck and injured a man selling food at the opening of a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Charlotte over the weekend, and police said appears to have come from celebratory Fourth of July gunfire.
Brandon Yam, 47, was hit on the top of the head, paralyzing him, on Independence Day as the festival at the temple ended, according to The Charlotte Observer (bit.ly/1oDZUKp).
Yam had started packing his food and drinks when he was struck, family members told the newspaper.
Police spokeswoman Jessica Wallin said it doesn't appear Yam was targeted. Investigators think he was hit by someone firing a celebratory shot into the air, Wallin said.
No charges had been filed by Tuesday.
The bullet was still in his head as doctors waited for the swelling to subside, his sister, Chenda Yam Wilson said.
"He has a headache. Memories are down, movement is down. They really don't know what's going on," Wilson said. "He's in stable condition but instead of going forward, he's kind of taking a step back."
Wilson told That Atlanta Journal Constitution (http://on-ajc.com/U1a3Ww), that the family, most of whom live in Atlanta, is working to get him transferred to the Shepherd Center there, where she and her sister work.
"That is where we want him to go," Wilson said. "As a family we are really trying to get him over there because we have all the family, brothers and sisters, over there."
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When director James Mangold was selected to direct The Wolverine, I was admittedly surprised. Sure, he had action movies like Knight and Day and 3:10 to Yuma on his résumé, but he's also the director of the bubbly rom-com Kate & Leopold and the quintessential coming-of-age drama Girl, Interrupted. He'd made gritty action movies typically targeted at men…as well as heartfelt films clearly aimed at women. It was a filmography that made it hard to predict what he might have in store for his take on the superhero genre.
After taking a close look at the summer's women in action movies, I used a recent press conference for The Wolverine as a chance to ask Mangold about his approach to representing women in the film. His answer was thoughtful and direct:
"I didn't think about representing women per say. I just thought about strong female characters, as I have in all my movies. I didn't want women to be objects just of jeopardy, but actually full-blooded characters. And I think that each one of these ladies is actually hugely different from another. I think that was hugely important as well."
Then again, at the same press event, Hugh Jackman said that women were Wolverine's "Achille's heel." Either way, it means that in The Wolverine women are as crucial to defining the titular character as his adamantium claws. But does that mean they're as "full-blooded" as Mangold claimed. Are the women of Wolverine more than the objects of jeopardy or objects of lust that female characters in comics so often are? Yes! But also no.
Let's begin by considering the character Wolverine fans are most familiar with. Jean Grey (played by Famke Janssen) has appeared in three previous X-Men movies, and here the long-dead heroine returns to Logan in his dreams, sometimes as a comfort, sometimes as a curse. It's left up to the viewer to determine whether she's a ghost or a figment of Logan's guilt-ridden imagination. But whether or not she's "real" doesn't matter, as Mangold rejects the tempting trope to make her a two-dimensional anchor around the hero's neck. Instead, Jean is presented as a complex character made up of love and some understandable resentment. Whether she's a ghost or his guilt, she feels like a full-blooded ex-lover, torn between her devotion to the Logan she knew yet repulsed by the way they ended things. (You know, by him stabbing her in the heart to save the world.) Theirs may not be a typical break up, but it is one to which we can relate on some level as both characters were carefully crafted here and in their previous movies.
But Wolverine's new love interest is less well defined. Without three past films to pull from, elegant heiress Mariko Yashida (Tao Okamoto) falls flat onscreen. She tells us she's a prize-winning sword fighter, and we get to witness her battle Yakuza killers a bit. Still, her main function in the film is as Wolverine's mellow romance object/damsel in distress. Mariko's defining characteristic is her traditional obedience to the wishes of her father (like an arranged marriage to a sleazy political figure) and her grandfather (who bequeaths her with a company she never wanted). Despite her fighting skills, she mostly comes off as a blushing flower who needs protecting from the big bad world. While she's not solely an object of jeopardy, it is undeniably her primary function in the film with whole sequences dedicated to Wolverine keeping her away from killers.
More complex and intriguing is another new Japanese character, Yukio (Rila Fukushima). While Mariko projects elegance and submissiveness with her soft-colored clothes and demure attitude, Yukio exudes rebellion with her no-nonsense demeanor, and funky fashion. She quickly establishes herself as Logan's equal by showing off her cryptic mutant ability—being able to predict peoples' deaths—and proving a stupendous fight partner in a bloody bar brawl. Later, she tells Logan with a straight face she will be his bodyguard. The movie backs up her bold claim not only with a string of jaw-dropping fight scenes that have Yukio taking down foes that are bigger, brawnier and male, but also by having Logan react with surprise but not scorn to her declaration. (After all, Logan knows better than to judge someone by their appearance.) Later, after she's saved his life, he fights for hers, screaming at a murderous enemy, "Don't hit my friend!"
This partner dynamic mirrored that seen in countless action duos made of up males. You save my life; I save yours—because we are partners. But more striking is Logan's use of the gender-neutral word "friend" to describe Yukio. If he had said, "Don't hit the girl" the implication would have been Yukio was less than him. Here, it's clear that Logan doesn't see Yukio as some precious thing that needs protecting (like Mariko) but as an equal whose well-being he cares for. Yukio is definitely no object of jeopardy. And as her character is suggested to be similar to Logan's—a mutant loner who was taken in by a family she grew to care for—her characterization grows with his.
But the most groundbreaking element of Yukio's character might be that she is allowed to be portrayed as physically strong, an intimidating fighter, while still being shown as feminine, even girly. She sports thigh high striped socks, pleated skirts, bold colors and a funky dye job. It's a look I expect will be making regular cosplay appearances at Comic Con for years to come. But her girliness is never aligned with weakness. Moreover, it's never exploited to make her a sex object—more remarkable considering the oh-so-prevalent Japanese schoolgirl fetish.


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Combine the flour, sugar and a pinch of salt in a large bowl. Mix in the cold butter with a pastry blender or your hands until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Work in egg yolks and 1 to 2 tablespoons ice water until the dough holds together without being too sticky. If it's still crumbly, add more ice water, 1 teaspoon at a time. Form into a ball, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
On a floured surface, roll the dough into an 11 to 12-inch circle with a floured rolling pin. Ease the dough into a 9-inch pie pan, pressing firmly into the bottom and sides. Trim the excess dough, then pinch the edges. Refrigerate until ready to fill.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Split the pumpkins down the middle and scoop out the seeds. Arrange on a roasting tray, cut side up, and roast for 20 minutes. Remove the pumpkins from the oven and lay bananas (in their skins) around and between the pumpkin halves. Return to the oven and roast for another 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool slightly before handling, about 5 minutes.
Scoop out the pumpkin flesh and add to a food processor. Peel the bananas and add the flesh to food processor as well. Add the 3 eggs, sugar, cinnamon, 2 tablespoons butter, nutmeg, heavy cream and salt. Puree until smooth.
Put a baking sheet on the bottom oven rack and preheat to 375 degrees F.
Pour the filing into the prepared pie shell. Lightly beat the egg white. Brush the pastry edges with the egg white and sprinkle with a bit of sugar. Carefully arrange the pie on the preheated baking sheet, lower the oven temperature to 325 degrees F and bake it until the pie is set but still jiggles slightly, about 50 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
Beat the egg whites, powdered sugar, cream of tartar, and a pinch salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer until glossy medium peaks form, being careful not to over beat.
Spread the meringue mixture over the top of the pie, covering right to the edges. Using the back of a spoon press lightly into the meringue and pull up on the spoon to form peaks all over the surface of the meringue (alternatively you can use a piping bag with a large star tip if you choose).
To cook the meringue, preheat the broiler with the rack in the highest position. Put the pie under the broiler and broil until the meringue is set and golden brown, about 7 minutes, watching carefully to avoid burning, as it cooks quickly. Remove from the broiler and cool before serving.
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