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Day 11 - Linus Time!
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Jan 10, 2013
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Talking of baby time I finally got my little man Linus today, aka the cutest baby sloth ever. Sara nicely took tons of photos for us, which were great! Especially as they were on Missy's lovely Nikon camera. At one point he was licking me so much that when he pulled away there was a lovely spit trail ala Cruel Intentions! Funny but gross. Missy got to take out Oprah, who is literally the biggest ball of fluff ever. She didn't really want to climb but she did bite Missy when she wasn't looking and even nipped me when I was playing with her. She gets away with it though because she's so darn cute. We had to do baby time later as it rained for most of the morning, more mosquitoes yay!
During the mid morning hours a couple of things happened, Marcelo rocked up with a two finger skeleton that also had a whip tail scorpion in the box (which is actually a spider). It's amazing how similar so many sloth bones are to human bones, I can thank digging up skeletons at Pava over the summer for that knowledge! Another exciting thing was we got internet back! After all of the palaver over it and no one knowing what was wrong I sought out David who said it might need to be unplugged and plugged back in. Apparently this hadn't been done yet, d'oh! Ha. Nick and I went upstairs and did just that and tada! It was working. A day and a half without internet for something soooo simple. It's always the way.
I spent most of my afternoon running around like a crazy woman, mostly because my sloths like to make an absolute mess which takes forever to clean up, or won't move from the door for ages so I can't in, or today it was the aforementioned and the fact that three of my sloths had poo'd/wee'd which, as it was in the afternoon, meant that I had to clean it up. Not only that but one of the wild Bradypus' went on their platform that had reached across and impressive 3 cages and the other wild Brady had gone over the floor which had spread across 4 cages. Thanks guys! So yeah that took me a while to clean up.
As we were doing feeding time the lorry that delivers the veg etc came. It not only bought vegetables but 3 small children with it, we definitely didn't order them. Two of the boys just started wandering around the back, sticking there fingers in the cages and just wandering around all of the aisles where the enclosures are. I told them off half a dozen times as did Missy. I asked someone if they were meant to be here, and obviously they were it van but they certainly shouldn't have been swanning round the place unsupervised. Eventually their mother came with her daughter and they vanished off into the other sections, Sara asked them why they were there and apparently the mother just went 'ssh'! Sara also told them to leave and finally Claire came round the back, unfortunately on a tour and I sent her after them. Despite being told again, an older boy just took one of the others and started walking around the back despite me shouting at them! They eventually came back and started looking at the sloths but Claire saw and shouted them again. They were literally walking about like the owned the place even after they were told not to. It was so rude! I tried to get Steven, Ursula's son, to help me as I obviously don't speak tons of Spanish but he basically didn't see any problem with it. Claire obviously minded!
After work I did some stuff in the office upstairs, trying to send all the videos for the project and eventually just put them on Judy's computer manually. It was taking way too long. I spent the rest of the evening watching ridiculous YouTube videos with Jeff before giving up due to hellish mosquitoes. On the way home I randomly decided to look up into a tree and I saw a freaking wild two finger sloth! Yes I know I work with these everyday but I've never seen one in the wild before! I was so excited! That and the fact that the bitey, wild, machete sloth licked me today have been my absolute highlights. And time with Linus, of course :)


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Doing it on my iPad, with the Apple wireless keyboard. This
is the way I will travel in future. Not take my MacBook, but take
the iPad instead. It does everything, it's lighter, more compact,
and it has all of my movies on it, plus all of my music. So, if I
publish a poat then want to change or add to it, does it work as
simple as this?
Okay, this is the new way to blog.
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27 12 2010This is a test to see how easy it is to post from the iPad using the WordPress App, and the Apple wireless keyboard.
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20 11 2010Yes, pissed.
You may think this is no big deal, but I disagree. You may think I am overreacting, but again, I disagree.
When someone does something "weapons grade" stupid, and it is bigoted, it deserves to get called out. Right? Right.
Okay, so you all know that HotBride owns and runs an inn in northern Michigan. It's a great place, and she does an excellent job.
Now, there is a magazine up there called Grand Traverse Woman, which is devoted to…well, women. Here is what they say about themselves:
Grand Traverse Woman is the only magazine that serves women who live, work and play in Northern Michigan. Published by twin sisters, Kandace Chapple and Kerry Winkler, the magazine features articles on health, family, career, education and more. Every other month, 10,000+ copies are distributed woman-to-woman – you'll find GTWoman at women's organizations and clinics, ob/gyn and pediatrician offices, grocery stores, beauty salons and other locations in the five-county region. Anywhere women are!
Fair enough.
So HotBride purchased a listing in their 2011 GTWoman Guide, and asked me to send them her listing information along with a photograph. (I take care of all of her advertising.)
She really loves this photograph, as do I, so I sent it in with the listing information.
Here's where I get pissed:
Hi, there!
Unfortunately since this is a 'woman' in business guide, we just need a picture of your wife : )
Can you resubmit a photo please?!
Thanks so much!
To which I replied:
Ummm…. You have to be shitting me.
That is not only sexist, but also totally discounts that women in business have partners that they love.
Just crop me out.
This was the reply:
I am so sorry you feel that way : ( We don't mean any harm, but this has been our standing guideline since we started the business guide several years back. We strive to maintain our strong women's niche that is important to our advertisers.
I for one am happy to hear that you are such a loving couple that work so well together!!
I will have the ad design team see if they can crop the picture for you.
Have a good night : )
Isn't it cute that they "don't mean any harm"? Isn't it nice that they rationalize discrimination? Isn't it great that they excuse themselves from being sexists?
I wonder if these same women believe that women should be allowed to play at Augusta National Golf Club. Or I wonder if they think women should be assigned to combat units in the Army.
As a society, why have we become comfortable with discrimination when it is directed at certain classes of people, or in this case against men?
Their policy is wrong. If you disagree with me, you're wrong.
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20 04 2010What I am about to reveal is yet another fundamental difference between the sexes.
Women don't know this, but men are not all that fond of hugging. Oh, the three second "Hi/Bye" hug is okay with us, but what women really want are the minimum twenty second "I just want to be held" hugs.
Men constantly forget that women like to be "held." Instead, they give them the little quickie hug – it's over so fast the woman wonders if that was an actual embrace, or an inadvertent collision. You see, guys respond to different stimuli – a firm punch in the arm, a solid slap on the back, or heck, even a pretend knee to the crotch, these are the things that guys understand and enjoy. They are endearments, exchanged amongst buddies.
Unfortunately these do not work at all well with women. Give a woman a noogie, whip around and fart, or stick a wet finger in her ear and you might just as well watch Sex in the City in bed, for all of the action you're about to get.
Now men, if you are smart (like I am), heed these words, and focus your attention on how women want to be hugged. You can still catch the replay of that last homer if you just angle her around a little so that you line up the screen over her left shoulder. With your head next to hers she hasn't a clue where you are looking. She probably thinks you have your eyes closed too, just like she does. Remember though, twenty seconds minimum, or she won't consider it a hug.
And ladies, please don't hold this against us. It's not our fault. Our grandmothers and aunts nigh-on suffocated us when we were just boys, and we're scarred for life.
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30 03 2010Contrast the events of this past week, with the "victim" game the liberals were playing after the health care vote.
On March 25, Rep. Eric Cantor's (R-VA) campaign office was fired upon during the middle of the night.
He also received serious death threats against himself and his family from Norman Leboon, who is now in FBI custody. Leboon is an Obama donor, and has numerous hateful youtube videos to his credit.
On March 29, windows in the Republican Party offices in Howell, MI were smashed by a brick.
On February 12, college professor Amy Bishop killed three of her colleagues on the Huntsville campus of the University of Alabama. Ms. Bishop was an Obama supporter.
Last October, after writing his communist manifesto, registered democrat Joe Stack flew his private plane into the IRS offices in Austin Texas.
Last week, police in Ottawa had to cancel a speech scheduled that evening to be given by Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa. Unruly students were beginning to get out of control in protest of a speech that hadn't yet occurred. I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that the students were of the liberal persuasion.
Of all of the allegations of anger and violence at Tea Party gathering, the only incident on record was the beating of Kenneth Gladney last summer – by SEIU union thugs. What was Gladney's crime? Selling Don't Tread On Me flags at the Party. Oh, did I mention that Gladney is black? Gladney is black.
And what about the New Black Panther Party thug wielding a night stick and intimidating voters on Election Day 2008 in Philadelphia. He probably isn't your garden variety conservative.
Here's one of my favorite buffoons suggesting Dick Cheney have his heart ripped out.
This has been all over the web, but I want it in my blog because it illustrates just how loony Ed is. I don't know who Ed hires to do his show prep for him, but when your guests can come on and turn you in to a spittle flinging raving lunatic, I think it's time you hired some competent people.
Sorry, I can't figure out how to embed it. Just click here.
Ed, I hope you'll come back this week and acknowledge that you were wrong and that Ernest Istook was correct. It happens on both sides. When are you going to publicly condemn the examples above?
PS: Andrew Breitbart has announced a reward of $10,000 for anyone who can come forward with video proof of just one instance of "nigger" being shouted last week at the Congressional Black Caucus stunt at the Capitol. So far – nothing.
Important Update! 04/01/2010
Andrew Breitbart has increased the amount of his reward to $100,000. The money is to be donated to the United Negro College Fund. Still no proof. (And no, this is not an April Fool's joke.)
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27 03 2010Health Care Reform – now the law of the land. The democrats are victorious. Why then, have they adopted the role of victim?
Rep. Bart Stupak (Welfare – MI-UP) led the charge. He got his fifteen minutes of fame when he pretended he would vote "no" on the bill. In the end, of course, he voted "yes," just like we knew he would. He immediately ran for cover then began trotting out "threatening" phone calls, as though his life were in danger. Note to readers: can someone please get their hands on his voice-mail records when he was pretending to vote "no"?
Then we have that vile stunt from the Congressional Black Caucus – walking Selma-style through the Capitol spoiling (and praying) for an incident. Afterwards, they claimed fifteen shouts of "nigger." One CBC member even claimed he was spat upon. Of course the media leapt on these stories and reported them as fact without any "fact-checking" – a little habit they've formed, particularly when it comes to democrats, and most particularly when it comes to this administration.
I watched the videos. There were countless people in the crowd filming. Heck, two of the CBC "victims" were continuously filming for themselves. To date, not one instance of "nigger" has surfaced, and the spitting incident turned out to be an impassioned protester obviously guilty of the fourth grade crime of "say it don't spray it" – not spitting. One woman I was talking to recently claimed she could tell the crowd were racists because it "looked" like they could be yelling racist slurs.
Then we have the claim by Rep. Russ Carnahan (Clown-Missouri) of a coffin being left on his lawn, reported by the same old incurious media. But hey, what difference does it make that the coffin was used in a prayer vigil, on the sidewalk, not on his lawn, as a symbol for the abortions that these people believe the Health Care Bill will pay for? Whether they are correct or not, the fact is that the coffin wasn't a symbol to incite violence against Carnahan. And what is Carnahan's reaction to it all? He's playing victim – using it as a vehicle to implore constituents to send him money. Poor Russ.
Here's a well balanced example of calmness from a liberal:
No violent overtones there.
Here's a bit of commentary from liberal Ed Schultz:
Ed wants full out socialism and restrictions on free speech. Funny thing is, Ed has a talk show of his own (about six people listen to it) and he even has a TV slot (that the same six people watch.) Essentially, he wants to destroy our form of government and abolish the First Amendment. Nothing to get worked up about there folks, but it's Limbaugh and Beck's fault for whipping people into a frenzy. Ed you're too big to pull the victim card. Lose some weight and then we'll talk.
Then there was the story of a rock being thrown through the window of Rep. Steve Driehaus's (D-Ohio) Cincinnati office. Nevermind that it's easily confirmed to be on the thirtieth floor of Carew Tower. As Glenn Reynolds said "…the Reds could use a guy with an arm like that."
Here's a gem left for Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio). Give the guy credit though, at least he knows how to pronounce Rep. John Boehner's (R-Ohio) name, unlike Mike Malloy above who seems obsessed with Boehner's junk. I suppose Malloy is also fascinated with the homosexual act of tea-bagging. (The audio is NSFW, so be careful clicking on it, or just read the transcript.)
Anyway, this is getting long, so I'll wrap up.
Democrats won this battle. But in addition to playing victor they can't help playing victim – it's what they do best. It's hard wired into their brain. It's how they portray their constituents, and apparently now it's how they intend to govern.
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10 03 2010I'm disgusted and appalled at what is going on in Washington D.C. with regard to the attempted takeover of health insurance by this President and his fellow thugs in the legislature. So many of the other blogs and news sources that I follow are doing such an excellent job of exposing the arrogance, hypocrisy and corruption of these liberals, that I can't add much that hasn't been said.
What I do find ironic though is Obama's continual blaming of the Republicans – labeling them as obstructionists. Does he think that the American people are that stupid? (Actually, he probably does. They were certainly stupid enough to elect his empty resume on the basis of some feel good slogans in November, 2008.) But the fact is, that he began his reign with bullet-proof majorities in both houses of the legislature. He did not need a single Republican vote to move every little piece of socialist legislation in his evil little mind to his desk for his autograph. His own party members are the ONES who were not willing to die on his hill. He still doesn't need a single Republican in the House, yet Nancy Pelosi thus far has been unable to deliver from her own caucus the votes needed to jam this shit sandwich down the throats of the American people.
Polls show that the majority of Americans do.not.want.this. And as Republican Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts proved, they will make their will known. Brown won a seat that has been owned by the Kennedy family since 1953, notwithstanding the two years that Ben Smith kept the seat warm until Ted Kennedy turned thirty. The Swimmer then went on to hold that seat for a few months shy of 47 years. Brown flipped this seat because he vowed to vote no on health reform legislation thereby delivering the filibuster back to the Republicans.
What was the take from the left and the main stream media (…but I repeat myself) on this historic election? "The people are in an anti-incumbent sentiment." Yeah, you just keep fucking that chicken all the way 'til November. The Democrats in the House and Senate are scared, and reasonably so. Polls show that district after district that Obama flipped to blue in November, 2008, have been flipped back to red.
There is already going to be a blood bath this November, and if the President and the Democrats break every rule and use every trick they can think of to thwart the will of the people, including reconciliation, and today's latest threat to pass a rule allowing amendments to the Senate's bill in the House without actually voting on it, the blood bath will become epic.
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CHASKA, Minn. (WCCO) — A 14-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minn. was killed in a crash in Carver County Monday evening.
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Mastering Python 3 I/OCopyright (C) 2011David M. Beazley http://www.dabeaz.com Presented at PyCon'11, March 10, 2011, Atlanta, Georgia. Note: Click here for the 2010 version of this tutorial. IntroductionAs most Python programmers know, Python 3 breaks backwards compatibility with Python 2 both in syntax and new semantics of built-in operations. One of the most radical changes concerns the ground-up redesign of the I/O system. This tutorial aims to take a tour of the new I/O system and issues that are critical to know about if you're going to port existing code. Topics include text processing, binary data handling, system interfaces, io library module, and porting advice.
Support FilesThe following file contains some supporting data files that are used in some of the code samples. There are also some code fragments to experiment with things. This download also includes all of the code samples that follow below.Code SamplesHere are a few code samples that you can use to try things things out during the course. The course doesn't rely heavily upon these examples, but I'll try a few out here and there. Preliminaries:
Part 1 : Introducting Python 3
Part 2 : Working with Text
Part 3 : Printing and Formatting
These files have a few simple performance tests for comparing different file modes, encodings, etc. You should try these under both Python 2 and 3.
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This book considers the policy of the George W. Bush administration towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-sex marriage. It suggests that, although accounts have often emphasised the ties between George W. Bush and the Christian right, the administration's strategy was, at least until early 2005, largely directed towards the courting of middle-ground opinion. The study offers a detailed and comprehensive survey of policy making; assesses the political significance of moral concerns; evaluates the role of the Christian Right; and throws new light on George W. Bush's ... More
Keywords: George W. Bush, abortion, sex education, obscenity, same-sex marriage, Christian right, policy making, Bush presidency, Bush administration, middle-ground opinion
Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719072765 |
Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719072765.001.0001 |


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Sunday, January 29
SUNDAY FUNNIES - A Sissy Girl's Guide to Enjoying Sporting Events
I wrote the following {tongue-in-cheek} tips
just in case there are any other "Sissy Girls"
· Team
Colors - FIRST AND FOREMOST – For
heaven's sake, if you're looking for somebody to root for, pick a team with
pretty colors. You will probably have to wear some sort of clothing to blend in
with the other "fans". Use the utmost caution! Some of those hideous team colors
were obviously chosen by colorblind men! If you're going to be attending games,
you might as well look good, right? Choose a team with snappy hues that look nice on you.
· Mascots! I love these guys. Now that's
athleticism. They're always doing something entertaining. Don't
miss it by paying too much attention to the game. And bring your camera. They look so
cute in pictures.
· Suites! Make friends with people who have box
seats. Cozy suites provide non-game
activities to make the time go faster – like watching television. Score!
· How
to cheer without any pom-poms. If
you do get roped into watching a game & you want to make a good impression,
just watch the other fans. Copy their responses. You don't want to say, "Yeah,
ba-by!" if everyone else around you seems sad. It also helps to know which way
on the field, court, etc. your team is supposed to be taking the ball. DON'T ASK ANYONE – just notice which way the
little guys down there seem to be running most of the time. CAUTION – they
change directions in the middle of the game just to make it confusing!
· Be
prepared to talk about sports. If
asked a question about sports or the game, the best way to avoid getting in
trouble is to keep your responses general. Something like, "Well, they just
gotta get out there & play the game" usually gets you off the hook. I mean,
who could disagree with that?
· FOOD makes everything better. When watching a
game at home, make sure to plan some fun little football desserts or get some
festive napkins & plates. If you're attending a sports event & you get
bored, just take a walk to get some tasty treats. This can kill a lot of time!
However, take note of the next point.
· Half-time
shows! They're usually way more
entertaining that the actual sports event. Make sure to take your potty break before
they begin. I've seen some fun magic tricks, cute little kids, etc. TIP: be prepared with a deep question to ask
your guy in case you need to divert his attention away from those cute dancing
cheerleaders. (Sometimes they are allowed to perform if any magic trick guys
aren't available.)
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Lot 3001: Italian School, painting
Millea Bros "SELECT" (Day 3 of 3)
by Millea Bros. Ltd.
November 5, 2016
Boonton, NJ, USA
Live AuctionSold
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Description: Italian School (19th century), Odalisque with parrot, oil on canvas, illegibly signed "Par....s?", 33.5"l x 45"w (sight), giltwood frame
Condition Report: Good, restorations left edge, probable cleaning and further restorations, some craquelure
Provenance: Property from the Estate of a Texas Oil Heiress - This Texas Oil Heiress' and socialite garnered her cultivated collection of 20th century and antique decorative arts from both local and international sources. Her annual global sojourns and keen visual taste are evident in this diverse yet harmonious collection.


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Greenhouse & The Roosevelt Rubicon, Redux
Linda Greenhouse has a compelling Opinionator column today at the New York Times that concludes that Chief Justice Roberts, not Justice Kennedy, may be the key vote in the individual mandate cases that will ultimately come before the Court. Thus continues the Great 2010 F1@1F-Greenhouse Mind-Meld.
Reminding readers that Roberts's mentor and predecessor, Chief Justice Rehnquist, aborted his own "federalism revolution" in 2003's Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, Greenhouse goes on to examine Roberts's own role as the fifth vote to last year's broad, Breyer-written federalism case, United States v. Comstock. She concludes:
In his decision this week, Judge Hudson also mentioned the Comstock case, endeavoring to show why it didn't save the statute. In my view, his effort to wish the case away was unpersuasive, but my view is not the one that matters. The view that ultimately may count the most is that of Chief Justice Roberts. As everyone knows, he was once William Rehnquist's law clerk. So my question, as the health care debate continues on its path to the Supreme Court, is this: When John Roberts thinks about his former boss and mentor, which Rehnquist does he see? The one who started the federalism revolution, or the one who ended it?
Without my gunning for her attention (a/k/a "the Greenhouse Effect) and surely without her looking to F1@1F, Greenhouse and I have been on the same wavelength, absent reference to Rehnquist's ghost, for nearly a year now.
For any challenge to the health care legislation, at least one of the current Court's conservatives–my guess is Roberts himself–will recognize that the political moment, at least in terms of an individual mandate for all Americans to have health insurance, is not ripe for restoring the reign of the Constitution in Exile.
John Roberts is an acutely image-conscious chief justice, as watchful and protective of the Supreme Court's image as he is of his own. I find it almost impossible to believe that this careful student of history would place his court in the same position as the court that has been rewarded with history's negative judgment for thwarting the early New Deal.
F1@1F in May, post-Comstock:
Of course, Roberts may have simply agreed from the start with Breyer and the liberals. But even if such a thought was ideologically plausible prior to the announcement of Comstock, it just doesn't make strategic sense for the Chief to entrust the opinion to Breyer. However, if the Chief was in the majority and did assign the opinion to Breyer, it could have been to send a message to those hoping the Court will strike down Obamacare: abandon all hope ye who enter here, for the Roberts Court will not cross the Roosevelt Rubicon.
After Schwarzenegger v. EMA, I'm no longer as confident in Comstock as dispositive of the Chief's vote on the individual mandate. Before oral argument in EMA, no one could see any daylight between Roberts's robust First Amendment opinion for the Court in Stevens and the similar violence-as-obscenity facts in EMA, but Roberts made clear from the bench that he believed that Stevens, however sweeping in its language striking down Congress's ban on depictions of animal cruelty, did not touch the constitutionality of California's ban on the sale of violent video games to minors. Accordingly, in the health care cases, Roberts already has a blueprint in Judge Hudson's decision for distinguishing Comstock away, however apposite Comstock might seem.
Still, history and politics will be sitting like massive gorillas in the room–indeed, every room: chambers, conference, court–when this case finally reaches the Court. Not only would a decision against the mandate mark the Court's deepest incursion into pre-1937 territory since, well, 1936, but it would also come during a Presidential Election year. A conservative majority ruling against the liberal incumbent's signature first-term legislation will be an inter-branch collision not seen since, you guessed it, 1936. The decision itself will fast become campaign fodder for Obama to cast the Court as unprincipled political actors hell-bent in their conservative activism to collide with the elected branches and stand athwart the forward march of history screaming "NO!"
How unseemly it all could be.
And let's not forget that unlike Citizens United, which sat alone on last term's docket among a bunch of less-than-massive cases, the health care cases may very well reside on the same docket as the Prop 8 case, the University of Texas affirmative action case, the Arizona immigration case, and maybe a Nebraska abortion case. The Court will have to pick its hot button to push in a deeply political moment, and I can't see the Chief selecting the one that reduces to rubble a cornerstone of modern American jurisprudence.
Graham, Comstock, and the Chief Justice
F1@1F has from its inception been animated by my hypothesis that the Roberts Court's docket and decisions have been shaped the Chief Justice's sensitivity to the Court's surrounding political climate. As such, Citizens United represented less an act of war against the Democratic-controlled White House and Congress, and more a picked battle strategically placed to cause minimal institutional harm to a conservative Court with diminished political capital. Now that oral arguments are over and the politically salient cases are finally being decided, F1@1F will focus more fully on whether this term's opinions support or disprove the hypothesis.
Last week's opinions in Graham v. Florida and United States v. Comstock found Chief Justice Roberts unexpectedly siding with the Court's liberal wing on ideologically divisive questions of law and politics.
In Graham, six members of the Court voted to vacate a juvenile's sentence of life without parole for a non-homicide crime. Justice Kennedy's five-member majority opinion, joined by the Court's liberal bloc, declared that all such sentences categorically violate the Eighth Amendment.
Concurring in the judgment, Chief Justice Roberts hedged with an as-applied analysis rather than categorically endorse Kennedy's expansive Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. Yet Roberts also refused to sign onto Thomas's categorical denial of relief, despite his joining the dissent in Kennedy v. Louisiana, which outlawed the death penalty for child rape.
In a way, the Chief's vote seems to recognize the public ambivalence towards life without parole (LWOP) for juveniles convicted of non-homicide crimes. As he saw it, people are either confortable enough in theory with the laws as written that allow LWOP, but are loath in practice to trust trial judges to fairly wield such awesome power; or they are uncomfortable in theory with LWOP for juveniles, but wish the death penalty still applied when confronted with particularly heinous crimes committed by almost-adults. It was for the latter type who, like the majority, reject even the theory of LWOP for juveniles, that Roberts juxtaposed Graham, who received LWOP for armed robbery with assault or battery, with a 17-year-old who "beat and raped an 8-year-old girl before leaving her to die under 197 pounds of rock in a recycling bin in a remote landfill" and two juveniles "who together with their friends gang-raped a woman and forced her to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son."
Judging by his Graham concurrence and his joining the Kennedy dissent, Roberts's own Eighth Amendment jurisprudence is more pragmatic and politically responsive than that of his eight colleagues. In undertaking a proportionality analysis, Roberts's views are apparently guided by the shock of the crime rather than the severity of the punishment. Particular punishments are never categorically beyond the pale; only certain crimes are.
In Comstock, Roberts joined Justice Breyer's opinion without any hedging whatsoever, thereby restoring a seemingly more expansive view of Congress's Article I power than the Rehnquist Court would have allowed, at least before Raich. He could have joined Kennedy's or Alito's narrower concurrences in the judgment and thwarted a majority. Instead, he gave a fifth vote to a mode of reasoning that may dim the hopes of those challenging the Affordable Care Act.
The Chief Justice may have felt compelled to join Breyer's opinion, which also included the rest of the liberal bloc, so to secure for the parties and future litigants a clear holding. I have difficulty believing that if the votes at conference were the same as they were at decision–7-2 to uphold as within Congress's power a federal statute allowing for the civil commitment of sex offenders after their federal prison sentences have ended–the Chief would have delegated the majority opinion to Justice Breyer. This case had serious federalism implications, after all, and Breyer's penchant for multi-factor balancing tests and general hostility to narrower readings of Congress's Article I powers promised an opinion that would not sit well with the Court's conservatives.
Two scenarios, then, come to mind. Roberts may have originally been with Thomas and Scalia in dissent, believing that Congress's legislative powers go no further than those specifically enumerated in Article I of the Constitution. Justice Stevens, as the senior justice in the majority, could have assigned the opinion to Breyer as a reward for Breyer's fever-pitch dissent in Lopez protesting the start of the Rehnquist Court's ultimately incomplete federalism revolution. When Breyer's opinion failed to attract five votes, Roberts may have switched his own, finding the opinion's mushy language eminently manipulable to more conservative results in more important future cases.
The same pattern holds for a second scenario in which Roberts, unable to countenance freed sex offenders for the sake of federalism principles, may have voted at conference with Kennedy or, more likely, Alito. If the conference counted the votes based on reasoning rather than results, then Stevens still would have been the assigning justice.
Of course, Roberts may have simply agreed from the start with Breyer and the liberals. But even if such a thought was ideologically plausible prior to the announcement of Comstock, it just doesn't make strategic sense for the Chief to entrust the opinion to Breyer. However, if the Chief was in the majority and did assign the opinion to Breyer, it could have been to send a message to those hoping the Court will strike down Obamacare: abandon all hope ye who enter here, for the Roberts Court will not cross the Roosevelt Rubicon.
Together, Graham and Comstock reveal a Chief Justice acutely aware of the country's political climate and unwilling to sacrifice the Court's institutional legitimacy for across-the-board conservative gain. There remain a handful of major cases yet to be decided, however, that could reveal a Chief Justice ready to gamble what remains of his Court's post-Citizens United political capital on a few more battles.
Regular Posting to Resume Next Week
I've just emerged from finals and am now enjoying my recovery period. I've got some thoughts on this past week's Graham and Comstock decisions, and how they relate to the Roberts Court and our political climate. Those, as well as analysis on the Court's forthcoming opinions on Monday, will be up next week.
Thank you for your patience!
Vox Populi – 1/12/10
"I think it says something positive about American democracy that people are out here to see the Court and how it works," said Ryan Lirette. Mr. Lirette is a recent graduate of Boston University School of Law. He is taking his law firm's deferral year to work as a research associate at the American Enterprise Institute here in DC. Sixth in line, Lirette arrived before 6am to see Comstock.
Last week Mr. Lirette wrote an op/ed, crossposted at the National Review Online's "Bench Memos" blog and AEI's own blog, urging the Court to strike down the federal statute authorizing indefinite civil commitment of convicted sex offenders after their prison sentences have run. "The Court", he wrote, "should take this opportunity to rebuke Congress's gluttony by preventing it from meddling in areas that lawfully belong to the states." Yet when I asked Mr. Lirette for his thoughts this morning, he left his partisan bona fides on the web in favor of a civic pride that all of us standing in the dark could agree upon.
Brandon Bartels, a political science professor at George Washington University, has made his career out of studying how the Court works. A judicial politics scholar, Professor Bartels just moved to DC in June and this was his "maiden voyage" to a Supreme Court oral argument. He came out for Comstock primarily because he wanted to "see a case where the United States was a party," and believed that the Court would uphold the civil commitment law, in contrast to Mr. Lirette's argument to the contrary.
Although Prof. Bartels, a young political scientist, calls the Court a "political institution," he does not mean it in the rawest, most cynical sense promoted by other scholars of judicial politics. Instead, he frames the Court as an institution, rather than nine policy-driven judges, that is "forced to make decisions on political issues" by virtue of the political nature of some legal controversies. For example, "when a court strikes down a law as unconstitutional, [the decision] has clear policy implications," whether or not judges sought to implement their own policy preferences.
Still, he maintained that on the day-to-day basis, the Court simply doesn't "give a crap" about politics–at least since Justice O'Connor retired. For Prof. Bartels, this distance preserves the Court's independence and grants it the institutional legitimacy to be the "final arbiter of what the law means," even as the Court does follow "long waves," or general trends, in public opinion over time.
Further down the line stood four forensic psychologists who belong to the American Psychology-Law Society. As opposed to Mr. Lirette and Prof. Bartels, who had more academic and theoretical interests in Comstock, these women came up from Richmond because the outcome of the case would impact their field. Civil commitments, they said, have become "huge" in their area and Comstock's "trickle-down effects," however the case will be decided, will "make a difference" in their work.
Blair and Erin Miles, two years married and soon to move to Southern California, stood in front of the forensic psychologists. The Miles's have assembled a DC "bucket list" before they abandon their winter parkas for summer sandals out West. Mr. Miles had been "DC born and raised," but had "never been to a case" despite having lived in DC his whole life. Ms. Miles, who met her husband while they were in law school at University of the District of Columbia, had "tried once before [to get into an oral argument], but didn't make it in." This time, however, they arrived early enough to catch one more bitterly cold morning and their first oral argument. To make matters sweeter, Ms. Miles works at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, where she "does a lot of work with the Adam Walsh Act," which contains the civil commitment law at issue in Comstock.
Of course, no morning line would be complete without the law students. Several, including Timothy Ziese, a Georgetown 2L who arrived with his out-of-town twin brother Jonathan to claim the third and fourth spots in line, had a zeal for constitutional law in general. Others, such as Allison Segal of Widener Law School in Delaware, came to see the oral argument after spending months on a law review article that contributed to her near-expert understanding of the issues at play in Comstock. Indeed, Ms. Segal went so far as to lay out her justice-by-justice predictions to conclude that Chief Justice Roberts would be the swing vote to affirm the 4th Circuit's ruling the civil commitment statute unconstitutional.
In Comstock, a Congressional statute lay at the mercy of the Court. But those of us who witnessed night turn to day on First Street this morning saw the same sun rise over the Court and the Capitol. And so did it rise over us, whether right or wrong in our predictions, or right or left in our politics, as we stood united, waiting to watch American democracy in action.
Conservative principles of law-and-order and limited government clashed this morning in United States v. Comstock. At issue was the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 4248, which provides for the federal government's civil commitment of sex offenders after they have served out their full sentences in federal prisons.
On the one hand, section 4248 keeps off the streets convicted sex offenders deemed by federal authorities to be a continuing threat when they otherwise would be released back into the state where they committed their offense. This much seems wise: if a state is unwilling to exercise its police and public welfare powers by rehabilitating its violent sexual offenders upon their release from federal prisons, the federal government surely shouldn't just let those deemed a continuing danger to society roam free among, well, society. This is the United States' position in Comstock.
On the other hand, section 4248 relies on provisions of the constitution that may not authorize such federal action, however wise or well-intentioned. Specifically, Comstock argues that the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, both relied upon by Congress in creating section 4248, do not cover civil commitment of criminals when the federal government's power, through the prison sentence has been exhausted.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan rested her argument for the United States largely on the Necessary and Proper Clause, with barely a nod to the Commerce Clause. That much in itself was a victory for the late Chief Justice Rehnquist's "federalism revolution," which, to varying degrees of success, sought to limit the expansive reach of the Commerce Clause to issues more closely connected to interstate commerce than the permissive post-1937 Courts often allowed.
But only Justice Scalia truly seemed to believe that 4248 also strained the bounds of the Necessary and Proper Clause to maintain law and order. Justice Scalia looked to the text of the Necessary and Proper Clause, finding nowhere that it authorizes the federal government to act according to what is "necessary and proper for the good of society." Rather, he maintained that the clause enabled the federal government's actions that were necessary and proper to execute another power given to the federal government by the constitution itself. As such, he agreed with what would be the defendant's argument that the states and states alone are responsible federal prisoners whose sentences have run.
Kagan countered that indefinite civil commitment of sexual offenders under 4248 was necessary and proper to the "responsible exercise of operating the criminal justice system." On this point–that the federal government needed its own civil commitment regime as a "backstop" for when the state governments refused responsibility for released federal prisoners–Justices Alito and Breyer seemed sympathetic. They peppered G. Alan DuBois, a veteran federal public defender and counsel for Comstock, with hypotheticals about the constitutionality of the federal government's ability to deal with prisoners who grows more violent while in prison or, in the opposite instance, is injured in jail in an attack by another prisoner as his sentence ends. Per these and several other hypotheticals, Alito and Breyer both seemed to believe that the federal government does have the power to retain custody over prisoners that it deems dangerous to public health and safety, or to themselves, upon their scheduled release from federal custody.
As Justice Breyer persisted in exploring the federal government's power to set up, for example, national mental hospitals, Justice Scalia clutched his head in frustration: "No, No, No! The Issue is not setting up hospitals, it's detaining and committing people!" Scalia simply could not believe that any governor or state attorney general, upon receiving a note or a call from the federal government, would deny his or her obligation to civilly commit a sexual offender and rather face the electoral consequences of letting such a criminal roam the state without rehabilitation. Justice Stevens then took the opportunity to look at the statute from the opposite end of Scalia's looking glass, suggesting that the Court look to the wisdom of the statute and "assume there are cases out there that there is no solution" like Scalia's belief that all states would naturally accept responsibility for rehabilitating federal prisoners released within their borders.
But DuBois stood firm against Stevens', as well as Justice Ginsburg's, apparent approval of the federal "backstop" when states refuse to cooperate. Chief Justice Roberts tested DuBois's position, asking that "if a state says no" to receiving a released, but still dangerous, federal prisoner, "then the federal government says, 'you have to'?" DuBois dug in: "Yes, the Constitution requires it."
Scalia remained astonished that the other justices even entertained the federal government's claims of responsibility. Noting that states have involuntary commitment procedures, he wondered why the federal government could not simply fund an office that brings state proceedings for involuntary commitment. "They should do that!" Dubois actually shouted in reply. When Stevens tried to get the Court back to assessing whether 4248 itself was constitutional, Scalia shot back that the statute "isn't even necessary!"
Towards the end of the argument, Justice Sotomayor interjected with a compromise, asking DuBois if it would be constitutional for a judge to mandate civil commitment for a sexual offender during his trial's sentencing phase. If such a mandate contained protections to avoid turning indefinite commitment into interminable detention, then it would be constitutional, replied DuBois.
Sotomayor's trial-judge pragmatism may persuade all but Scalia (and possibly the ever-silent Justice Thomas) to side with public safety over rock-ribbed federalism and uphold 4248 as constitutional. If this happens, then Scalia, confronted with Sotomayor's aggressive questioning this term and her possible coup over his Melendez-Diaz decision in yesterday's Briscoe v. Virginia, may finally be meeting his match.
UPDATE: Read the official transcript here and use the comments section to call me out on my own transcription errors.
Back home now to defrost my toes and shed my hobo skin. A few thoughts before heading back to One First:
The quality of interviews from line this morning more than made up for my missing out at first in line by a single swipe at my snooze bar.
The line started building up around 5:30am. Economists, actors, political science professors, forensic psychologists, out-of-town tourists, and yes, more law students.
United States v. Comstock, which will be heard at 10am, was the biggest draw, although my usurper–one Shannon Salembier from Vermont Law School–snagged the official F1@1F title in order to see 11am's Abbott v. Abbott. In contrast to yesterday, however, far fewer people in line today came "just because." For details, come back tonight for my Vox Populi report.
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Episcia and Alsobia are closely related genera. At one point, the Alsobia group was considered to be part of the Episcias. The two genera share a stoloniferous habit, in that rapidly growing stems are produced, at the tip of which is a plantlet. These plantlets root readily, and in nature can result in a large mat of plants, each of which may have originated from a single plant. However, the two genera are sufficiently different that most botanists have accepted their separation into separate genera.
Episcias are most often grown for their highly attractive, variably coloured foliage. Many hybrids have been created, with foliage ranging from pale pink, white and green, to dark chocolate brown, with many variations of silver, red and pink in between. Some have attractive veining. Flowers are usually bright reddish orange, although some species and cultivars have lavender or pink flowers.
There are two commonly grown Alsobia species, as well as hybrids of the two species. Alsobia dianthiflora is a small-leaved compact plant that produces large white frilled flowers. A. punctata is a much larger and coarser species, with similar large frilled flowers, which are white with purple spots. More commonly grown than either of these is A. Cygnet', and the similar A. 'San Miguel'. Both are primary hybrids of the two species, and are intermediate between the parents in terms of leaf size and overall appearance. The flowers are heavily frilled and have the purple spots of the punctata parent.
Episcias require warmth and humidity to do well. They do not tolerate cool temperatures or dry conditions, and must be kept moist. Some cultivars require a protected growing environment, although many growers do well with most cultivars in windows or on open shelves under lights. Alsobias are more forgiving, and can do well with less humid air and cooler temperatures.
Both Episicas and Alsobias are primarily terrestrial in nature, where they function as ground covers in tropical rainforests. They seem to perform best in a medium that is both reasonably well-drained, and somewhat moisture retentive. Many growers report good success using standard African Violet soil mixes.


text: What Other Wacky Control Schemes Could Apple Dream Up?Adam Frucci3/13/09 1:20pmFiled to: Photoshop ContestPhotoshopContestsAppleiPodiPod Shuffle38EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Apple's new iPod Shuffle features a questionable design choice that removes all buttons from the player. It's a bold move, but I can't help but think it's not the boldest Apple has up its sleeves. For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want you to create an even more ridiculous and impractical control scheme for Apple's next round of portable music players. No buttons? Way more buttons? Who knows! It's up to you to figure that out. Advertisement Advertisement Send your entries to me at firstname.lastname@example.com with "Apple Controls" in the subject line by next Tuesday morning. Save your files as JPGs, GIFs or PNGs with a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention. Now get to it!Reply38 repliesLeave a reply


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Course reserves are materials that your professor has requested be made available to your class for limited circulation periods.
Items are put on reserve at each library location. In Dimond Library they can be checked out from the Circulation Desk on Level 3.
Reserves lists can be viewed by searching for your class or professor in Course Reserves. Your course page will list the items that are on reserve for the course, including information about location and availability. Please tell the desk assistant that you need an item from Reserves and provide them with the title.
At the bottom of the list there may be links to electronic resources such as past exams or e-books. Any additional electronic reserves requested by your professor would be available through your MyCourses page.
- Course reserves have loan periods between 2 hours and 7 days depending on location and what your professor requests.
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Little Known Lovelies--WINNERS!!!!
08:45After many hours making shortlists and looking through lots of lovely new blogs Eri has announced the WINNERS of the Little Known Lovelies Awards. An award to support and showcase new bloggers.
In the end there were 133 entries and lots of new blogs to uncover. But there could only be 3 winners so here they are, in no particular order....
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written by Michelle a Wedding and Portrait photographer based in Vancouver, BC.
Honorable mentions also go to aliiiiiive & Young and Wild
Thanks everyone for getting involved in the award and nominating either your own blog or a new blog love it wouldn't of been a success without your help. Now I'm off to browse the winning blogs with my morning coffee...
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Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA Self-organization in human, biological, and articial systems.
I will discuss recent work on self-organization in complex systems with a focus on human and biological models as well as articial systems. Specific case studies include (a) the formation of crime hotspots in urban settings and the mechanisms that lead to such behavior (b) collective motion of swarms, flocks, and schools in animal populations and (c) cooperative control of robotic vehicles using models motivated by biological examples. Such research problems have led to interesting work and open problems for the mathematics community, bringing together different research areas including dynamical systems, stochastic processes, statistical sampling, bifurcation theory, graph theory, and differential equations.
Helen Byrne, University of Oxford Discrete and continuous approaches to modelling vascular tumour growth
By the time that they are clinically detectable, most solid tumours meet the abnormally high metabolic demands of their proliferating cells by stimulating the formation of a new blood supply from their host. This network of blood vessels typically forms over a short time period and is usually abnormal, comprising vessels that are highly tortuous, leaky and more compliant than their normal counterparts. To exacerbate matters further, the distribution of blood vessels within vascular tumours is often extremely heterogeneous with respect to both space and time. For example, cells in regions that are, at a given time, well-perfused will be nutrient-rich and proliferate rapidly. The associated increase in cell number increases the mechanical load on the compliant vessels which will collapse, halting the blood supply to the region and starving the cells of vital nutrients unless they can stimulate the ingrowth of new blood vessels before they die. The complexity of vascular tumours creates significant therapeutic challenges, including deliver cytotoxic drugs to the tumour cells. When faced with such complexity, it is difficult to know what mathematical approach should be used to model vascular tumour growth. Continuum models, based on mixture theory, provide a coarse-grained description of the tumour's size and composition that is consistent with imaging modalities such as MRI. By contrast, multiscale models permit investigation of the interplay between subcellular, cellular and tissue scale process. In this talk I will introduce each approach, explain the complementary insight that they can provide and discuss techniques for investigating their inter-relationships. I will also explain the approaches we are using to validate the models against experimental data.
Theodore Kim, Media Arts and Technology Program, University of California, Santa Barbara Subspace Simulation of Non-linear Materials
Everyday materials such as biological tissue exhibit geometric and constitutive non-linearities which are crucial in applications such as surgical simulation and realistic human animation. However, these same non-linearities also make efficient finite element simulation difficult, as computing non-linear forces and their Jacobians can be computationally intensive. Reduced order methods, which limit simulations to a low-dimensional subspace, have the potential to accelerate these simulations by orders of magnitude. In this talk, I will describe a subspace method we have developed that efficiently computes all the necessary non-linear quantities by evaluating them at a discrete set of "cubature" points, an online integration method that can accelerate simulations even when the subspace is not known a priori, and a domain decomposition method that efficiently adds deformations to discretely partitioned, articulated simulations. Using our methods, we have observed speedups of one to four orders of magnitude.
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland
Jointly modeling three option surfaces, for an ADR, its local underlying stock and the exchange rate. We apply the quadratic skew normal model with an underlying Bhattacharyya Density to jointly model the local stock and the exchange rate for the US dollar quoted in the local currency. Arbitrage free considerations are shown to imply a model for options on the stock's ADR. All three surfaces are simultaneously calibrated. Applications include the design of trades illustrated for VALE- BRL, UBS-CHF, BARCLAY-GBP, and SANTANDER-EUR.
Edriss S. Titi, University of California and Weizmann Institute Recent Progress Regarding the Navier-Stokes, Euler and Related Geophysical Equations
In this talk I will survey the status of, and the most recent advances concerning, the questions of global regularity of solutions to the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes and Euler equations of incompressible fluids. Furthermore, I will also present recent global regularity results concerning certain three-dimensional geophysical flows, including the three-dimensional viscous primitive equations of oceanic and atmospheric dynamics.
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ARE you a sugar addict? Do you crave sweet treats, bread, pasta and sauce-laden food? Do you experience lethargy and mood swings as a result of blood glucose spikes and dips? Does your weight seesaw unmanageably?
If your answer is yes to any of these questions, your health could be a ticking time bomb. Where fat used to be the enemy, scientists now point to the huge amount of sugar we consume as making us unhealthy.
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The authors Karen Thomson and Kerry Hammerton, both living in recovery from sugar and carb addiction, have been there and understand exactly what you need to know about breaking the cycle of addiction through their guided eight-week programme.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Dead Island - PC - MOD Pack Download - Enhanced Character Regen, Jump, Combat, Healing, Money, Zombies, Environment and Better Graphics
This MOD Pack Improves Character Health & Stamina Regen, Jump, Run/Swim/Crouch/Carry Speeds, All Combat types Improved, More Money, Zombie Levels Increased to compensate ease of Gameplay, Off and On Rainy Weather & Cloudy Skies, Better Graphics with SSAO at 4x @ 1280x720 Resolution (looks great full-screened on a 1920x1080 Display), & More...
Join the Steam Group for the Community MOD Pack & receive Updates!
NOTICE: Single Player only. Likely not VAC friendly.
DEAD ISLAND - PC Modifications
I've incorporated many mods found at the following forum,
Included in this MOD:
"more money, more ammo, more guns" MOD by Akumos,
"Increased Loot Payout" MOD by Jano Ris,
"Zombies Don't Drown" MOD by Zprime/t13,
"Disabled Weapon Refraction, Bloom, Dust & Less Fog & Auto-Equip Fix" by fabrock,
"(tweaked) Improved Keyboard / Mouse Responsiveness" by NinjaNerdBGM,
"Increased Effectiveness on Opening Doors" by Hunterbrute,
"George Romero Zombies MOD" by Beseron
(I only borrowed from this MOD by increasing Zombie's damage resistance in their limbs & torso, needing a propper shot in the head to take them down!)
"Ghastly User Interface MOD" by Marvyra,
"Upgraded Inventory Stacks MOD" by lapdragon,
"Dynamic day / night cycle in morseby city mod " by dead-deadisland,
"Day & Night Cycle The Resort ( Final Version & unlimited flashlight mod)" by dead-deadisland,
* Denotes Updates!
My edits:
*Fixed Negative damage on weapons at higher levels!
*Act01 Shops now have better weapons for sale!
*Improved Regeneration! Just purchase skills as normal to unlock!
*Zombies no longer grab you!
Tweaked zombies for realism and added difficulty
Increased Zombie Spawns, their attention spans & Speed!
It's gonna take headshots to take these zombies down! Zombies still come at you even with no arms!
Tweaked Punching to have a little more reach & damage,
Raised Zombie Levels for for a slight boost to challenge,
Tweaked FireArm Aim for better headshot-action,
Revamped All elements of combat weapon types; increasing critical chances,
Removed Stamina cost on most everything including Sprint,
Fine-tuned Mouse Aim Sensitivity, Fixed issue with XBox360 Controller,
FOV is 82.5, Graphics Increased beyond normal in-game max settings
(If you wish to keep your video settings DO NOT COPY my \Settings folder),
Increased distance before DOF Blur takes effect,
Increased Regeneration & Stamina amount/activation moderately,
Increased Blunt/Cut/Gun weapon type Durabilities by 500%,
Increased Jump Height, Sprint & Swim Speeds, Can carry more weight,
Increased Damage and Range of Punches & Kicks,
Increased Weapon Throw Range,
Increased Explosion Damage Radius for most explosives.
!! Download the MOD (Day/Night version in Act1 & Act2 Only) !!
!! Download the MOD (Rainy Weather version in all Acts!) !!
Install contents to Documents\DeadIsland\out folder! -- If you do not want my Video settings do not copy over the "Settings" folder.
-- Return to the modding thread on steam forum --
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In the /out Directory, just delete Vessel_data :-)
OR, edit the following entries to your liking...
ParamFloat("left_arm_health_influence", 0.1) //Default 1
ParamFloat("right_arm_health_influence", 0.1) //Default 1
ParamFloat("left_leg_health_influence", 0.01) //Default 1
ParamFloat("right_leg_health_influence", 0.01) //Default 1
ParamFloat("torso_front_health_influence", 0.0) //Default 1
ParamFloat("torso_back_health_influence", 0.0) //Default 1Hey, thanks for the feedback. I was contemplating using the "Horror Weather" MOD instead, for that constant gloomy feel.. If you wanted to try that, it would replace the weather files in the current mod pack. http://www.deadislandforums.com/showthread.php/1893-My-personal-Dead-Island-mod(s)-amp-Testings
If you just want the normal default weather, go to \%user%\Documents\DeadIsland\Out\Data
Delete the following file: weathers.scr
Then in this directory, \%user%\Documents\DeadIsland\Out\Data\Scripts
Delete the following files: weathers.scr & weather_none.scrso i dont have any files in my Documents folder i just installed it to my program files.... and i tried to paste it in there but theres no effect..help please
ReplyDeleteThis is REALLY great. It was too easy once I took out the headshots, but I used your fix to put things back to one, and now it's good. Is the default head damage 1, 5, or 10?
Also, I use a mod to unlock skills, but that conflicts with a bigger backpack. Any way you could combine those two? *Hope*
Thanks for all your work.@Saulius: Hey! Thanks for the responses. I did not create the Day/Night cycle mod, however I now offer a 2nd version of the mod pack you can download (up above in the post) that has rainy weather randomly throughout all the Acts!
@Zachary: If you do not want the health regeneration (invincibility), simply go to where you installed the mod, in the data/skills/ folder, delete all the files except default_levels. Regarding Xian.. That's strange. Have you purchased any skills yet? The health regeneration is unlockable with the purchase of any skill.I really love this game , i appreiate to share with us Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 thank's a lot


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Average Hole Difficulty jlanning - 6/22/11 Leslie Park was Golf Digest's top muni in Michigan and a 4.5 star place to play in 2009. This is a very well maintained course (esp. for a muni), with true and moderately fast greens. It is a very fair course that can be challenging if attacked. Overall, a very nice course, and a really good value. bkuehn1952 - 4/4/11 Maintenance is always good. Various specials (GAM Discount, Early Bird, etc...) make the course very affordable. Staff is great and goes out of their way to assist. ikeberry - 6/2/11 golfingnutmi72 - 5/2/11 kjb - 9/18/10 minicven - 5/12/10 dbain - 5/3/10 treated - 9/27/09 RED141 - 11/10/08 Gleighton - 6/6/08
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Where is the best place to get DVD screens in a X3 headrest in the GTA or north
The Invision headrest system for the X5 and X3 is great. In my last Jeep I had an aftermarket installer install the system and while it was nice, nothing beats a true factory matched system. I have there headrest dvd installed in my X5. Each headrest has it's own DVD player and the colour match is perfect, even for my truffle brown interior. You can get it at Parkview and they did a great job at installing mine.
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Ghost Racing Stripes
Hi all....I think this is my first post. Awesome site. Im going to attempt ghost racing stripes and have read posts non-stop for a day or 2. Here is my plan and I have 2 questions after that. Thanks! Much appreciated!
Im going to base then intercoat over the base then mask for the stripes shoot intercoat w/pear where the stripes will be then pull masking then clear (urethane) everthing My questions are : 1. Is the pearl clear or do you use a tinted pearl to get the ghost effect? 2. Do you pull the masking and start clearing all over as soon as you shoot the pearled intercoat on the area that is to be the stripes?
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he is right but i highly highly recomend doing it on a test panel the first, not so much that your going to mess is up the the effect that your looking for you will not have to put much on to get what your looking for and most people put it on to heavy the first time. your also going to know what peral (spelling ya i know but i do body work not teach eng) your going to use there are lots of different colors and effects out there. so can even change your color to make it look like piss so test it out do it once and do it rigth..... good luck
Thanks, awesome. As far as pulling the masking after shooting the pearl, or the over all clear for that matter, Ive read to pull it anytime from when it flashes off, til 4-6 hours later....Thats the last thing Im unsure of. Thanks again.
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