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Genesis 3:(1-7)8-21
2 Corinthians 4:13-18
Mark 3:20-35
Psalm 130
O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
[Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, `You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said, `You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.'" But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.]
They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" He said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate." Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate." The LORD God said to the serpent,
To the woman he said,
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the LORD God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them.
Just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture-- "I believed, and so I spoke" -- we also believe, and so we speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence. Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
The crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, "He has gone out of his mind." And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons." And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.
"Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" -- for they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you." And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" And looking at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."
The Bible texts of the Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel lessons are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
The Collects, Psalms and Canticles are from the Book of Common Prayer, 1979.
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Senator Bonacic Breaks Ground On More Housing For Senior Citizens
Wurtsboro - NYS Senator John Bonacic broke ground yesterday on a 48 unit senior housing development in Wurtsboro. The development is named Horizons at Wurtsboro.
"The need for affordable housing is insatiable. This will provide quality housing for our seniors - allowing them to stay close to their families," Senator Bonacic said.
Senator Bonacic is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Housing and in that capacity has helped secure funds to build more than $20 million worth of housing for Sullivan County's seniors and working families.
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How to Get to Zero: Faster. Smarter. Better. That's the title of a new report issued today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to update the status of the epidemic in preparation for World AIDS Day on 1 December. "We are on the verge of a significant breakthrough in the AIDS response," writes UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé in the foreword, which urges the world to "step on the accelerator" to meet prevention and treatment targets that together can bring the epidemic to a halt.
According to the latest UNAIDS analyses, the world now has an estimated 34 million HIV-infected people—700,000 more than in 2010. On the upside, 6.6 million infected people in low- and middle-income countries now receive antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, an increase of 1.3 million over the past year. "I think it's remarkable that despite the massive pressures of the national and international budgets we have seen a tremendous scale up and at the end of 2010, about half of all those people living with HIV who are eligible for treatment do have access," said Bernhard Schwartländer, UNAIDS's director of evidence, strategy, and results.
Schwartländer, who discussed the report on a press teleconference today, noted that there were an estimated 2.7 million new infections last year, the lowest since the epidemic peaked in 2001. In keeping with a landmark study this year that showed how treatment reduced viral load in infected people and made them less likely to transmit the virus, he said there is "emerging evidence" that the scale up of ARVs has had an impact on new infections in Botswana. This small, relatively prosperous country in southern Africa now has 90% of eligible HIV-infected on treatment, and the report says there are "early signs" that because of this, new HIV infections are 30% to 50% lower than they would have been in the absence of the drugs.
UNAIDS updates are typically a mix of good and bad news, and this one has its fair share of alarming findings. Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which is discussed as a region because most of the countries were formerly part of the Soviet Union, has suffered a 250% increase in the number of people living with HIV over the last decade. "There is little indication that the epidemic has stabilized in the region," the report states. The hardest hit countries in that region, Russia and Ukraine, have epidemics driven by injecting drug use, but the report notes that both of those countries fail to invest enough money into programs that can help the most at risk populations.
Paul De Lay, a deputy executive director at UNAIDS, told ScienceInsider that given the global financial crisis, he's particularly concerned about both donor countries cutting back on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention investments and hard-hit countries not pulling more of their own weight. "We're worried about that and recognize how fragile all these systems are," said De Lay. "If we don't see investments keep up, we'll see all of this improvement fall apart."


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Pity those humorless souls who deride state fairs as carnivals for the overweight and undercultured, the simple and the soft. • Weep for them, for they will never know the exquisite joys of chocolate-dipped bacon. • Yes, the Florida State Fair returned to Tampa on Thursday, and with it came a new slate of exotic food fare on sticks, in bags and deep-fried. Here are three of this year's best. — Jay Cridlin email@example.com
Chocolate-dipped bacon
If, for some strange reason, the thought of pig meat slathered in fudge doesn't give your stomach a tingle, then get with the times, man. In January, Time wrote about the proliferation of bacony delights on dessert menus in fine restaurants nationwide. Bacon ice cream has even popped up on Top Chef. Mark Boggs of Plant City saw chocolate-dipped bacon at another fair up north and tinkered in the kitchen with some recipes. He decided that freshly grilled Hormel applewood-smoked bacon worked best; for $5, you get four slabs with a cup of syrupy chocolate dipping sauce. Don't let the concept scare you — there is no meaty aftertaste, only a salty-meets-sweet flavor delivered via the peerless crisp-yet-chewy texture of bacon. Find it at Mavric's Chocolate Barn near Gate 2.
The Tornado Potato
It has hands-down the best name of any new fair food, but what exactly is it? Picture spiral-cut potato chips on a stick, and you'll get an idea. One of the few fair foods you can buy in bulk — they cost $3 apiece, 2 for $5 or 5 for $10 — they're hand-ground in a newfangled potato slicer, carefully speared on a stick and dropped into the fryer. Dust 'em with seasoning (barbecue, jalepeno, cajun or sour cream and chives) or drench 'em in ketchup or nacho cheese, and you've got yourself a crisp little snack. Words of the wise: The Tornado Potato can get messy, so it's best to eat yours sitting down, or at least with two hands. This is, after all, the state fair. Try to show a little class. You can get them in a booth near the paintball tent near Gate 4.
Deep-fried green beans
Another big-city export, deep-fried green beans come to the Florida State Fair thanks to Bill Lauther of Brandon, who encountered them on a menu in New York. His mind started clicking, and as soon as he returned home, he bought a bag of frozen green beans from Wal-Mart and started experimenting. His stand, Griff's Catering, already sold fried cauliflower, fried broccoli and fried pickle slices, but he decided that with a little ranch dressing, the beans ($5 per basket) are just as good. "The thing is getting people to try 'em," Lauther said. "They taste like French fries to me." Indeed they do — warm, crisp, unmistakably Southern and, while not exactly health food, certainly better for you than a deep-fried Twinkie. Griff's Catering is along the lake, near Kiddie Land.


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Proposed Act Would Reverse Supreme Court Decision in Gross v. FBL Fin. Servs Inc.
Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act would shift burden of proof back to employers in age discrimination cases.
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Georgia Pacific Paper Towel Litigation Remanded; Patient-Preference Law Creates Hostile Environment; Court Rules on Contingency Fees for Public Claims; Interference Enough for FMLA Claim to Proceed
Barring Flagrant Misconduct, Courts Should Let Arbitration Decisions Stand
Disagreeing with the outcome of arbitration is not grounds for courts to overturn an arbitrator's decision.
Supreme Court Decision Narrows Courts' Ability to Overturn Arbitration Agreements
On June 21, the Supreme Court reached a 5-4 decision in Rent-A-Center, West, Inc. v. Jackson.
Court Quashes Subpoena for Facebook Messages
Courts treats social networking sites the same way it treats e-mail services.
Roundup: 6th, 9th, 11th and D.C. Circuits
Right-to-Sue Waiver Must be Clear; Movie Theaters Fall Under ADA; Post-Leave Demotion Didn't Violate FMLA; Employers Liable for Each Employee
Labor: The Peril of Systemic Discrimination Claims
Novartis demonstrates how costly litigation of this nature can be for employers.
Supreme Court Rules in Precedent-Setting Electronic Privacy Case
Employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy on employer provided devices.
Zicam Maker Investor Lawsuit Headed to Supreme Court
The drug company's challenge to a 2004 investor lawsuit will be heard this fall.
9th Circuit: Judge, Not Jury, Must Determine Front Pay in FMLA Cases
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Tinie Tempah and Robin Thicke are among the latest acts to be added to the line-up for the Wireless Festival.
The festival, which will this year become a twin-site event with performances in London and Birmingham, has also added Naughty Boy and Sean Paul to the big names on the bill.
It is staged over the weekend of July 4-6 at London's Finsbury Park and Birmingham's Perry Park, with previously announced headliners including Outkast, Bruno Mars, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West.
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Last week, I attended at Stanford University a fascinating event hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF). WEF had invited me to join some of the world's foremost innovation experts to address crucial questions surrounding three key topics: geographical innovation clusters, innovation talent, and collaborative innovation. WEF plans to use our suggestions to help structure the discussion among global CEOs who will attend their annual Davos meeting in 2009.
Participants were asked to debate how high-tech clusters like Silicon Valley, Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, and Bangalore will evolve in coming decades. Two teams (for this post, I will name them "Pollyanna" and "Cassandra") were formed to envision the future of Bangalore by unfolding two contrasting scenarios: a positive scenario and a gloomier one. By projecting ourselves into 2025, both teams were asked to look back and identify the driving forces – i.e., crucial business/policy decisions (or lack thereof!) made over the past 17 years (2008-2025) – behind our respective scenarios.
I led the Pollyanna team. We envisioned Bangalore in 2025 as a global innovation hub not only in IT, but also in clean energy, bioengineering and medical devices (e.g., next-gen pacemakers), and even space technology. We credited this superstardom enjoyed by Bangalore in 2025 to the diversification strategy of Bangalore's policy-makers who, in 2009, smartly decided to place big bets on emerging non-IT technologies like clean tech.
My optimistic team "recalled" the rise of a new-generation of pragmatic politicians during the 2010s who massively invested in education and infrastructure, thus swelling Bangalore's talent pool and making high-tech manufacturing finally viable in the region for multinationals. In addition to aggressively promoting India's "tech brand" abroad, these visionary politicians also partnered with MIT and Stanford to set up new multi-disciplinary research universities in Bangalore. These R&D institutions were allowed to spin off their cutting-edge technologies into startups.
We also gave much credit to the "returnees" – thousands of US-resident Indians with PhDs and MBAs who, from 2012 onward, returned en masse to Bangalore to launch startups and run research institutions. These New Argonauts, as Berkeley Professor AnnaLee Saxenian designates them, were instrumental in accelerating the inflow of scientific knowledge, business acumen, and VC capital from the US to Bangalore. These entrepreneurial professionals helped forge strong social networks both within India, as well as with their Western partners. By 2020, many of these returnees became billionaires in India by scaling up their clean tech and bioengineering startups into multinationals. By 2025, they had become India's Bill Gates and serve as new role models for the Indian youth.
After my team's dream session was over, we were asked to mingle with the Cassandra team and hear their version of Bangalore's future. They described a gloomier scenario whereby by 2025, Bangalore would become the backwater of the global innovation markets. How come? Having placed all its development eggs in the IT basket, the city had become an IT services sweatshop that peddles its white-collar services to the highest Western bidder. There is no real innovation happening in Bangalore as high cost of housing combined with nightmarish traffic congestions had kept both prospective investors and PhD-armed scientists at bay. Starting in 2008, political leaders who formed the successive coalition governments spent more time jockeying for power than investing in vocational education and reforming universities to promote industry-academy cooperation. The result? By 2020, Indian IT vendors like Infosys and multinationals like IBM and Cisco had relocated their headquarters and R&D operations to business-friendly Indian cities like Chennai and Hyderabad.
Now, let's return to September 2008. As Yogi Berra put it well: "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future." I personally can't forecast which scenario is more likely to play out for Bangalore in coming decades. Irrespective of what scenario unfolds, here are three hard truths that policy-makers in Bangalore must face (and hopefully react to):
1) Human infrastructure will become more critical than physical infrastructure. While building a world-class airport in Bangalore is important, it won't be frequented by investors if they can't find enough qualified talent in the city! And multi-lane highways and efficient ports are useless if they interconnect biotech campuses and clean tech factories that remain empty due to an acute skills shortage. To paraphrase Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission, who also attended the WEF event, Bangalore's future success hinges on much it invests in blackboards as much as in roads.
2) Competition from Chennai and Hyderabad will heat up. While Bangalore steals the limelight as India's IT hub, other South Indian cities like Chennai and Hyderabad are quietly upping the ante by multiplying incentives for domestic and foreign tech investors. Take Chennai, for instance. Dubbed as the "intellectual capital" of India, Chennai boasts the largest number of engineering colleges in the country. Its progressive politicians exploit the region's above-par infrastructure to attract huge manufacturing investments from tech giants like Nokia. Watch out Bangalore: now Chennai aims to become India's nanotech R&D and manufacturing capital.
3) The software industry alone won't create enough employment. The Bangalore cluster is way too skewed towards the software and services sector, which can't absorb fast-enough the millions of young workers entering the labor market each year (the entire Indian software industry is expected to directly employ only 2.3 million workers by 2010). Bangalore has got to diversify and place bets on new technologies like clean tech and bioengineering, and beef up its manufacturing infrastructure. Otherwise, it will not only lose its innovation crown but will also face social unrest fueled by massive unemployment.
All right, enough with me. I want to hear your opinion:
- How do you gauge Bangalore innovation potential when compared to other global tech hubs?
- What do you envision the city to be like in 2025?
- If you were a politician, what are the three critical policy decisions you would enact in 2008 to secure Bangalore's innovation-led future growth?


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The Spurs won the title last year in 2014 after defeating the Miami Heat convincingly, four games to one, to take their tally to five NBA titles. This win was sweet revenge for the Spurs, as they had lost the NBA finals against the Heat in 2013, in a hard fought seven game contest. The Spurs hard work and consistency paid off, and that too in spectacular fashion as they tipped the scales in their favor in just five games.
The Spurs have six conference titles to their name as well. Their conversion rate has been extraordinary; they have lost out on the NBA title only once (in 2013), after winning the Conference. The team also boasts of an amazing twenty division titles in their NBA history. The Spurs have dominated their division in the past four years, winning the division title from 2011 to 2014. Get San Antonio Spurs Dallas tickets and watch the team give another competitive performance against the Dallas Mavericks.
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glibc.so.6 issue on RH Enterprise Linux 4 :(
I'm trying to install MatlabMCR on a redhat EL 4 machine to deploy a matlab compiled app.
problem is I get an error saying glibc.so.6 does not have the GLIBC_2.4 definition in it.
providing my own glibc.so.6 gives a strange error regarding ld-linux.so.2 - it says:
"relocation error libc.so.6: symbol _dl_tls_get_addr_soft, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2"
so I figured maybe I should find a better way to update the libc.so.6 rather than just putting a new one in my deployment path.
The main problem is - the machine is not connected to the internet so I can't use up2date. Any RPMs / Updates I need to do I need to download off the internet and provide the files myself.
Can anyone help me with this please? are there RPMs to update the required libraries on RH EL 4?
Thanks in advance,
The libc.so.6 file is provided by the glibc rpm package, for examples;
$ rpm -qlip glibc-2.3.4-2.25.i386.rpm | grep libc.so.6
warning: glibc-2.3.4-2.25.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 443e1821
$ rpm -qlip glibc-2.3.4-2.25.i686.rpm | grep libc.so.6
warning: glibc-2.3.4-2.25.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 443e1821
The glibc packages should be installed by default already check;
rpm -qa 'glibc*'
If yes the you need to fix the system. Please contact Red Hat support for this in either case.
Only one should be installed, use the output from the typed command for help in choosing which one to install; uname -a
If you get i686 across the board hen install the i686 version if not then install the i386 version. Warning installing the wrong version (i686 instead of i386) will kill your system.
the rpm packages are on the RHEL4 installation media or available from RHN (sorry Red Hat does not supply built installable rpm packages any other way). One can copy the binary rpm files from another like system if need be.
Thanks for the quick reply Lenard,
Is it possible to download a 'general linux' RPM package (or say - one for Fedora Core) and install on the RHEL4 machine? I don't have an RHN subscription and the RH cds used for installation contains an older version of glibc (2.3 when I really need 2.4)
Much better to download and install packages from CentOS; http://www.centos.org/
If fact the wiki has instructions on to use yum and the repos on RHEL. Also CentOS5 is available, it is 100% binary compatible with RHEL5 ES/AS.
Replacing the glib and associated packages is tricky, one false step and the system is junk. Please be extremely careful.
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Sure, it is not great news that Apple has posted a profit fall for the first time in a decade, but let's not be too quick to condemn this pioneering tech powerhouse, writes Alex Kidman.
When Apple announced its most recent quarter financial results, the news focus was squarely on the fact that for the first time in a decade, Apple's profits weren't up.
Instead, with revenue of $43.6 billion, it managed $9.5 billion in profit, down from $11.6 billion in profit for the same quarter last year.
One theory suggests that Apple's profitability has has dropped due to worsening market share - most notably to Samsung and other Android manufacturers - because it's failed to innovate as it once did.
That argument suggests that Apple's shifted into being a "mature" company in the company of names such as Sony and Microsoft; not exciting but solid, and not worthy of a $700+ share price tag. Mature and complex companies move like sloths, or at least that's the prevailing theory. Having had a revolutionary product in the iPhone - and the spinoff iPads - Apple's rested on its fantastically profitable laurels for too long.
Equally, there's a very popular viewpoint that says that all of Apple's design genius came courtesy of the late Steve Jobs, and that when he passed, Apple lost its innovative edge once and for all.
So with the double charge of no longer being helmed by the often-divisive Jobs and a lack of innovation, combined with falling profits, is it really game over for Apple?
No, it's not - or at the very worst, at least not yet. Predicting anything Apple-related is a dangerous game, if only because the company's insistence on secrecy is legendary.
In many ways it's a marketing tactic to generate hype, but at the same time it's given rise to countless Apple-centric rumour sites, such as Macrumors and AppleInsider, and plenty of blogs that'll breathlessly report every single rumour as solid fact despite the fact that the hit-to-miss ratio is massive.
As an example, Apple's long-rumoured television set has been debated for years now.
Really, years. And years. And 2013 has been no different.
Television is just one area where Apple could innovate and make some serious money, especially with the long tail of iTunes movie and TV sales kicking in to generate extra profits.
Sifting through the rumour noise for reality is enough to send you bald - believe me - so quite what Apple will do next is a little on the unfathomable side.
With Apple's war chest, the company could also buy up any number of big name industry leaders, although Apple has traditionally favoured buying out small developers and technology outfits. Siri, for example, came out of just such an acquisition.
Apple's spend on research and development has historically been lower than the industry average, but it has risen over recent years; it's on track to spend more on R&D in 2013 than it did in all of 2011 or 2012.
If it keeps to the ideal of only working on a few product lines at any one time, that's more money for development of each product, meaning more scope for innovation.
The smartphone space is a mature one in itself - I've argued that point elsewhere - but innovation can upset the prevailing model, something Apple itself proved with the iPhone and its unseating of Nokia from its feature phone throne.
On the charge of being a company that was only ever about Steve Jobs, I've got to say that this line of thinking isn't just misinformed; it's grossly stupid.
It appeals to the violently anti-Apple crowd because it feeds their prejudices, but it ignores some simple truths.
'Jobs-as-Apple' only works if the entire design of Apple's product lines came only from the sweat off Steve's brow from 1998 onwards with no other input whatsoever. That's insane thinking by any definition, even if Jobs was as much of a workaholic as reports suggest he was.
Apple in 2012 had some 80,000 employees worldwide.
Sure, some of those numbers include store staff, warehouse staff and even the people who shine the glass at Apple stores. Still, there's also a large number of engineers, designers and creative types working on the company's core lines from Jonathan Ive downwards.
Suggesting that they had no input into Apple's designs and products would suggest that Apple likes wasting money; instead the reality is that it's a company that watches the bottom line with an almost pathological drive.
Many of Apple's competitors in the tablet and smartphone spaces have dozens of phones and tablets at different price points; this is also a clear factor in Android overtaking iOS in market share.
That's not a single Android phone, but hundreds of product lines, many of which sell for a fraction of the iPhone's asking price, and critically, the iPhone's profit margin. The same is true in tablets, where it's still clearly iPads and then everybody else.
Apple isn't bulletproof here by any margin, but at the same time it's got scope to innovate while keeping its premium brand, pricing and profit margins intact.
If in four months time it's clear that following the release of the iPad Mini and iPhone 5 Apple's fortunes have continued to tumble then there's more cause for concern, but Apple's war chest is considerable and its focus on simplicity makes it a formidable target.
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple's share price did dip a little in the meantime, but saying that Apple's on a downwards spiral is wishful thinking from the anti-Apple crowd, and nothing else.
Alex Kidman is a tech journalist and former editor of both Gizmodo Australia and CNET. View his full profile here.
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Can't seem to get it to work either. Did all the steps, but now it just loads for a long time and then I get a blank page.
I've got a execution time error twice, when the loading took more than 30 seconds. Once on line 289 in /sapphire/core/ManifestBuilder.php and once in line 336. Both lines do a scandir, so there's something wrong there... can't for the life of me figure out what.


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THQ, the people who brought you Darksiders, Saint's Row and a myriad (not quite that many) of other IPs has, as of January 22nd 2013, the company sold off all but one of its studios and related properties at an auction to other video game developers and laid off the majority of its work force with only a few key staff members remaining.
While this is all very sad to hear, I think, whatever vision CEO Brian Farrell has for the company, I will support them in future ventures. It seems almost the norm these days for developers to kick people to the curb after a new game has been released to the general public. It's almost as if they're expecting to take a hit. Just last year, 38 studios ( Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning ) went under because of a bum deal with Rhode Island.
I can only hope that in the months and years to come, the Video Game industry starts seeing a positive outlook in how long one can expect to keep their job around. Perhaps Game Stop has a third-party hand in the reason why? I mean, the only people that make money from used game sales when you buy (used) games from Game Stop is Game Stop. Don't get me wrong, I love cheap games just as much as the next guy, but if I had a choice to buy cheap or support a developer and publisher, I would in fact buy new.


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Discussion in 'Cigar Reviews' started by Kingantz, Nov 5, 2008.
Is this the sign up thread for your pass? I'm in!!
Great stuff Greg, keep 'em coming.
Pin it?? Just a thought...
Uh uh. Greg is the undisputed KING of cigar reviews here at CP. This is a man who truly loves cigars and the process of reviewing and writing. This thread and the body of work it represents is most sticky-worthy!
Well done, sir. Your dedication to the craft and to CigarPass is greatly appreciated.
This is fantastic! I am really enjoying these reviews. The pics are great! An asset to CP for sure! :thumbs:
As a newb to CP I'd like to say thank you for the wonderful reviews. You've done an excellent job and provided me with a giant list of "must try" cigars!! You've even got me thinking about sending you a couple that are in my humi that I didn't see on your list.
Thanks for this Greg. I have always enjoyed reading your reviews. Sometime soon, I will be sending you my personal blend to get your take on it.
Thank you sir! I've still got a few that's missing, but working on it!
Thanks for the kind words! Looking forward to it Israel!
Last April you bought a five-pack Cuban sampler from me. Before the end of that month you were selling Cuban fivers yourself! In extremely short order you accumulated a large and diverse cigar collection. With a digital camera, you then proceeded to develop a very nice review system that has informed and delighted many fellow cigar enthusiasts.
All in ONE YEAR!! :laugh:
Congrats on one HELL of a year of acquisition and discovery, Greg! :thumbs: Keep up the good work!
I would like to thank you for all the hard work and effort that you have put into these reviews. I don't visit CP as much as I did in the past but, when I do I visit this thread. :thumbs:
Thank you for all the great reviews!
Now you can see the quandary. If you drink better stuff you can't smoke all those cigars. If you smoke all those cigars you can drink better stuff. Greg is at one end and I'm at the other
Y'all need to get together and have a Cigar/Scotch HERF sometime then Ray. That way you can have the best of both worlds!How 'bout somewhere around Charlotte? :whistling:
Charlotte, NJ...??
Yeah, this grape Mad Dog doesn't go all too well with the Cohiba Esplendido. Pretty sure a grape White Owl prolly wouldn't go all too well with a dram of MaCallan 25 either. How 'bout a Boli RC and Aberlour 12?
You need an Antonio Y Cleopatra to go with Macallan.
I love the reviews, but a lot of the links are broken and send me back to the forum page.
Holy cow...tons of 'em going back to the forum. No idea what happened.
OH OH I know I know! Pick me Pick me!
All the links that look like this will work
All the ones that look like this won't work any more. It has to do with the change Rod made in indexing a few months ago.
I can express just how much I love this thread! thank you again for putting it together man! :love:


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Review by Psycho Penguin
"It has a track editor, great gameplay, and did I mention the track editor?"
Man, few times in my life have I had more fun playing a game than I did when I played Excitebike. And it really wasn't because of the game itself, no, it was mainly because of the addicting and very unique create-a-track mode. My brother and I used to spend hours on end creating unique tracks which would cause the other sibling to lose. We made everything from oil spills everywhere to 6 level 5 ramps in a row. it was really great fun. And the game wasn't that bad, either. featuring great gameplay and good graphics, Excitebike had it all. Now on with the review!
The racing game genre has never been one of my favorite video game genres, although a lot of good games that I have enjoyed have come from it. While I have not exactly loved the genre, I do enjoy playing some racing games. Some of the racing games I enjoy have been your average racing game type, I have always taken a liking to the racing games that have tried some new and innovative ideas.
One of the examples of this is an old NES game called Excitebike. Simply put, Excitebike is, was, and always will be one of my favorite NES games of all time. It may have pretty basic graphics and music/sound effects, but the control itself is top notch and the game itself is extremely fun to play. I really had a blast playing through the game, and it will probably remain one of my favorite NES games of all time, considering how fun the game is.
I really had a blast playing through the game, as it is one of the most unique and fun video games I have ever had the pleasure of playing through. The basic gameplay of the game itself is awesome, and I had a very enjoyable time playing through Excitebike. I first played through the game about six years back, as my dad bought a whole bunch of cool NES games from this local video game store. I was completely enamored by the game six years ago, and I still like it, even to this day.
Okay, so these graphics aren't that good when compared to the more recent games on Playstation 2 or Dreamcast. Well, I say to that, SO WHAT? I mean, who cares if these graphics don't look very good, back then they looked very good (and I still say that Im happy with these kind of graphics.) First off, the bike riders themselves looked pretty good. So what if it was the basic design with different colors, they still looked very well designed. Also, the backgrounds were definetly well done, especially the backgrounds featured in some of the later stages. Overall, Excitebike has nice graphics and I am perfectly happy with them.
The graphics in the game were pretty basic, as there was no great graphical special effects featured in the game. However, I do not have a problem with basic graphics in a video game. If a game is fun, the graphics in the game will usually not matter to me, unless they make the game completely unplayable. Like I have already mentioned a few times, the graphics in the game are rather plain, as the miniature motorcycle riders ride normal motorcycles, and the backgrounds are basic green grass with a brown track and blue stands with people (dots) in it.
Excitebike really does not feature much music in the game at all, and has very limited sound effects. Still, the limited music featured in the game is actually pretty good, and makes me wonder if it could have been better, had it featured more music during the races. There is no background music featured during the actual gameplay (racing the tracks) but there are some rather interesting sound effects. Also, while I stated that there was no background music during actual gameplay, there is a title screen and track finish music that sounds kiddy yet is still effective.
Sound effect wise, Excitebike isn't perfect, but it has all the basic sounds you've come to expect. The main sound effects in the game consist of an engine-like sound roaring through the stages, and your car wiping out after a major crash. You also get to hear the obligatory crowd noise, you especially hear it after major crashes. Overall, Excitebike for NES has decent music and sound effects.
The control in the game was actually pretty solid, because it was easy enough to do most of the basic stuff in the game. I liked how you had to manuever the control when landing some of the more difficult jumps in the game, for instance to land a triple jump on three different ramps you have to tap A at the last second each time you land on the ramp. You have to angle your motorcycle and rider so they don't actually crash, and it is awesome.
Excitebike. Ahh, the memories. First off, the create a track option was the first of its kind, and was very well implemented into the game. Basically, you move the screen left to right and choose from 26 basic things to put on that particular section. Everything from ramps to oil spills are right there, waiting for you to add them to the track. Definitely a very cool aspect of the game which I will now talk about even more.
One of the most unique (and best, in my opinion) features of Excitebike is the unique track editor. In this mode, you can actually build tracks and stage courses. You can use all of the neccessary obstacles, like ramps, etc. What do you do with the courses you design? Well, you can either race them yourself, or you can challenge a friend into completing the track. Either way you do it, the mode is still very fun to play, and is one of the better video game ideas of all time.
The game isn't that bad itself, as it has a lot of modes, including a challenging mode which pits you against a lot of other racers at the same time. Or you can do it solo, without having to worry about other racers. I like doing the racer mode better, because it is fun to watch them crash into each other. You would think that the game would be more challenging with the other racers included, but you'd be surprised. Overall, the game features great gameplay and control.
The game is pretty fun to play, and therefore it does have some decent replay value. It is not one of the games that features replay value in which you will want to pkay the game nonstop until you beat it, but certain aspects of the game definitely makes this game have great replay value. Especially stuff like the track editor, that just adds to the replay value even more.
This is one of the more challenging racing games I have ever played on the NES, although it is still not that chalenging. I was placing first and second in the races for a little while, after I got basic practice done. I still do fairly good in the game after a while, even if I don't play it for a few weeks. The game is actually a little easier with racers on the track because they crash into each other a lot. The game is kind of short, as it really only features 15 stages total.
Excitebike is definitely one of the premiere games on a console known for premiere games, the Nintendo Enterainment System. The game is simply so much fun to play, and it will remain one of my favorite NES games forever and ever. I will not go as far as to say that the game is perfect, because it does have some minor faults, but overall the game is very fun to play. This game is well worth a purchase if you have the time and money to invest in it.
''I will plant an oil slick next to a level 3 ramp, and I will defeat you!''
Good Points
-The game is so much fun to play, and I mean it, too.
-The track editor is unique, fun, and addictive.
-The graphics are simple yet effective.
-The sound effects never got too annoying.
Not So Good Points
-The music could have been done better and more frequent.
-The graphics could have used a boost in certain areas.
-The game just screams 1987.
-The game is kind of on the short side.
I Run Down the Ratings... DaLadiesMan style!
Storyline - Not Available
Graphics - 8.3/10
Music - 6.1/10
Sound Effects - 6.7/10
Control - 9.2/10
Gameplay - 9.3/10
Replay Value - Above Average
Challenge - Average
Worth a Purchase? - Yes, under 3 bucks.
Overall - 9.2/10
The Last Line: This is a great NES game and a great racing game, in a genre I have never really liked too much. I think this game is worth a purchase based on the track editor alone.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
Originally Posted: 11/06/00, Updated 07/16/01
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More On Endowments
Late last week Crooked Timber had a lively discussion about university endowments, prompted by my recent post here and Larry Solum's response to it. Those who are interested in the topic should take a look at the discussion, as it partially mirrors the debate that is taking place more generally. I've been following Crooked Timber with interest, and here's several points that have struck me:
* I'll start with the observation I found most interesting: that some elite institutions have a mission that is as much (or even more) about research than about education. I agree that I need to emphasize this distinction more than I have to date. My proposal that an endowment per full-time student of $300,000 or more trigger less favorable tax treatment could penalize institutions whose primary output is research rather than education. Recall, however, that the most frequently proposed trigger is an absolute endowment value of $1 billion or more. Elite research universities tend to have endowments of this magnitude, so my proposal is not tougher on these institutions than the oft-suggested alternative. In fact, my proposed trigger would exempt some research-oriented universities that would otherwise be subject to new tax rules, such as Cornell and Columbia. The institutions most "negatively" affected by the $300,000 trigger are liberal arts colleges with endowments less than $1 billion and small student populations.
More important, however, is that a research-oriented mission actually strengthens calls for increased endowment spending. The sort of research taking place at America's premier universities is designed to eventually lead to much social good: the easing of the global food crunch, the elimination of certain diseases, and so on, as well as the creation of knowledge more generally. Few science departments, for instance, are likely to argue that a dollar is better spent in the stock market than in their labs. The ability of researchers and scholars to make productive use of endowment funds seems almost endless, as do the potential gains from their work. This strikes me as a strong argument for elite research universities spending more of their endowments than they currently do.
* Any talk of a $300,000 trigger, however, presupposes that at least some universities and colleges should spend more. On this point, some of the comments over at Crooked Timber tipped up what can be characterized as a disagreement about who bears the burden of proof: Congress or universities with mega-endowments. That is, if Congress is considering changing the way it taxes these institutions, do universities bear the burden of convincing us about the wisdom of their endowment spending policies, or does Congress have to convince us that the social good produced by these policies is inadequate given the tax code's treatment of these institutions and their donors? Because current tax policy so favors universities and colleges (they are exempt from the corporate tax and are not subject to some of the rules that govern other non-profits such as foundations), I tend to think that universities bear the responsibility for demonstrating the wisdom of their spending policies and the relative good created by them.
Regardless of who carries the burden, however, mega-endowments are starting to come under fire for a couple of reasons. One is the cost of tuition, which has skyrocketed. This concern is only partially about tuition at mega-endowment universities and colleges; some of these institutions have been aggressive about controlling tuition and reducing or eliminating it for lower and middle class students. The larger concern, however, is that mega-endowments enable expenditures that are only loosely associated with education or research, such as the construction of student amenities. These sorts of expenditures affect the priorities of less-prosperous institutions, which engage in this sort of spending at the cost of initiatives more directly related to education, including those that reduce tuition. Above all, however, is a belief raised by groups like the Harvard Alumni for Social Action mentioned in my initial post: institutions with mega-endowments could broaden their missions in ways that would require more spending and also produce additional social good.
* As Solum's post alluded, universities defend large endowments by citing the need for a stable and predictable funding source ("saving for a rainy day") and by invoking concerns about intergenerational equity. I am sympathetic to the threat of rain, which is why my proposed $300,000 trigger is most likely to affect schools who have 5 years or more worth of reserves, not including the value of their real estate and physical plant. This is also why I would likely oppose Congressional spending requirements aimed at all universities, regardless of endowment size.
Intergenerational equity is the notion that a university needs to spend less so that the endowment can support the same activities in the future as it does in the present. The work challenging the logic of intergenerational equity is not mine; it was done by Henry Hansmann almost 20 years ago. Solum has said that he finds the arguments against intergenerational equity unpersuasive (or at least my recounting of them); I disagree. But don't take either of our words for it. Instead, check out Hansmann's work for yourself. The best place to do so is here , although shorter versions have appeared in The Chronicle for Higher Education.
As I studied endowments, I was surprised by how little academic work exists on the subject. I've had several people suggest to me that this is because academics fear reprisal from their own institutions. While this may be true in isolated incidences, it doesn't sound right to me, especially given the politically-charged issues that academics routinely tackle. But I do think that academics need to think seriously about mega-endowments; that's one of the reasons I urge you to look at Hansmann's work.
None of what I have written above or in my previous post discusses how institutions might be made or encouraged to increase spending. More on that later.


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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah leaders are among those in Western states who say a Forest Service proposal needs to be doused before it gains any momentum because it usurps states' dominion over water rights and is akin to a water grab by the federal agency.
Members of the Utah Water Development Commission unanimously penned a letter earlier this summer emphasizing their concern over the proposed Forest Service directive on groundwater management and are meeting again Tuesday to discuss the issue.
The Forest Service, in response, said the proposal is a planning document for employees that is intended to make clear that groundwater as a resource should be managed like any other resource when it comes to the issuance of special use permits.
Chris Iverson, deputy regional supervisor over the Intermountain region that includes Utah, emphasized that the proposed directive unveiled in May and open for comment until Oct. 3 is not an attempt by the agency to trump state purview of water rights.
"The language expressly acknowledges the authority of the states to manage and adjudicate water rights," Iverson told the commission in July. "The fundamental purpose of this to provide a policy as we evaluate groundwater resources."
Iverson added that the idea is for the agency to formalize consideration of groundwater and its role in watersheds as it weighs special use permits — which are issued for a wide array of uses on Forest Service land such as ski resorts and grazing.
The rule, which is still in draft and likely will not be acted on until next year at the earliest, does not grant the Forest Service any new authority or upend state water law, he stressed.
But critics of the proposal remain unconvinced the directive is benign, which is one of the reasons Utah commission Senate Chairwoman Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, wanted a renewed discussion Tuesday. The commission is meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Room 30 of the House Building at the state Capitol complex.
"We want to keep this foremost in the public's mind," she said. "We want to convey we have not heard anything back from the Forest Service with our letter, that there has been no response, and we want to make a report from the other groups that are involved in this."
Dayton said the proposed Forest Service directive on groundwater evaluation in a state as dry as Utah that has so much federal land should give every resident pause.
"It is a regulatory taking of our water with no accountability or no authority," she said. "Here in our desert state we have got to have water. We have to have water for our food, fiber and for our faucets."
The Western Governors' Association has voiced concern over the directive, indicating it believes any formalized policy shift would have "significant implications for our states and our groundwater resources."
In its letter to Tom Vilsack, U.S. secretary of Agriculture (the department that oversees the Forest Service), the association asked that a number of its concerns and questions be addressed, including the legal basis for the directive, if it would invoke new regulatory requirements for states or obligations for water right holders and what scientific assumptions are being made about the resource itself.
The proposal also raised the ire of the 40 members of the Congressional Western Caucus, the American Farm Bureau and the Western States Water Council.
Kent Jones, Utah's state water engineer, said he's concerned the proposal, if enacted, would interfere with existing water right approvals.
Dayton asked Steve Clyde, one of Utah's foremost experts on state water law, to render his analysis of the directive at July's meeting of the water commission.
Clyde said the directive — despite what agency leaders may say — is a way for the Forest Service to do an end run out around a congressional act which gave jurisdiction and allocation of water management to the states.
Because the agency has been unsuccessful at winning that control through litigation, Clyde said it is trying to get dominion over water via policy and regulation.
"It is very problematic, it is very insidious and I think it is a very, very real issue," he said. "I think this is one more clever attempts by those in Washington who are dictating the policy of the Forest Service to take our private water rights."
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Rainn Wilson, Mike O'Malley & More Set for Hollywood Wilshire YMCA's COMEDY FOR A CAUSE, 10/22
The Hollywood Wilshire YMCA will celebrate its 10th annual Comedy For A Cause fundraiser. Comedy For A Cause brings together acclaimed comedians who volunteer their time and talent to showcase a line-up of stand-up comedy in support of the Hollywood Y's youth programs, which are dedicated to instilling leadership qualities in its community's children. The event will take place at the Sunset Strip's world-famous Laugh Factory in Hollywood from 8 - 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22.
Emceed by comedic actor Rainn Wilson and hosted by sitcom star Mike O'Malley, the star-studded benefit will provide an entertaining evening of stand-up comedy by Hollywood's top entertainers to benefit the Hollywood Y. Celebrity performers include Kate Flannery and The Lampshades, BJ Novak, Pardis Parker and Lowell Sanders.
"What better way to celebrate kids and families within the Hollywood community than with a night of great comedy at the Laugh Factory," says Rainn Wilson, star of NBC's The Office. "I used to be a member of the Hollywood Y when I first came to Los Angeles so to be able to spend the evening supporting its programs is of great personal pride for me - it's going to be a lot of fun."
The evening will begin with a VIP reception at 6:30 p.m. during which guests will mingle with the performers and take delight in pass-tray hors d'oeuvres and specialty drinks provided by local event sponsors. With an introduction by host Mike O'Malley, the program will begin promptly at 8 p.m. and will end at 10:00 p.m. Only 250 tickets will be sold for this exclusive fundraising event and can be purchased for $250 each. For more information visit http://hollywood.ymcala.org/comedyforacause.
"The support we're getting from the Hollywood community, including from those in front of the camera and those behind the scenes, is amazing," says Laurie Goganzer, Executive Director and Group Vice President of the Downtown-Ketchum and Hollywood Wilshire branches of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. "We're so grateful to be able to bring L.A. community members and TV's funniest people in the same room for the purpose of supporting kids and our youth programs," added Goganzer.
A limited number of sponsorship opportunities are still available for this event. To sponsor Comedy For A Cause, contact Natasha Radojcic, Associate Director of Development for the Hollywood Wilshire YMCA at (323) 762-8749.
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What's So Bad About Having Two Separate Brands?
by, 02-27-2012 at 10:57 AM (3291 Views)
Hey guys, Renevious here. I'd like to talk about a topic that has been bugging me for a while now. Lots of people on here and all over the internet have been talking about how WWE needs to unify the titles. That way we wouldn't technically have 2 world champions, and there wouldn't be so many belts floating around, which takes away from the prestige of each title. Now I totally respect that viewpoint, and I'm not here to really argue against it. That's definitely one way to go. What I would like to do, however, is talk about what it would be like and the potential if we went in the opposite direction. That would be where we keep all titles and keep the superstars of each roster on their own respective shows. It's just something to think about.
Let's first start by talking about what would happen with the talent pool. Most fans don't quite realize this, but as long as superstars can appear on either show just the same, we'll never get a chance to see all these talented young guys that the IWC is just crazy about. If WWE can market guys like CM Punk, Randy Orton, and Sheamus to boost ticket sales on both RAW and Smackdown anytime, what do you think the likelihood would be of seeing matches between Trent Beretta and Tyler Reks anywhere besides Superstars? The answer is not too damn likely. I, for one, would be more than content if they dialed back the appearances of the mega superstars to give the lower guys a chance to show us what they've got. Not only would that give these lower card guys a chance to show off, but it would also make PPV matches all that much more meaningful. Who wants to pay $55 to watch a match that has happened 5 weeks in a row already on RAW and Smackdown?
Here's what I propose. Let's bring back the brand extension with the two separate rosters and STICK TO IT! I know WWE is hurting for ratings, and that's why they started the RAW Supershow to get all the top stars from both shows all the time. Now, if we need to have a whole new draft, fine. Let's do that, just as long as when it's done we'll have two solid rosters. Every single active superstar needs to be a part of this too. I don't care if they don't air all the results on TV. They never have in the past. It just needs to be made clear that everyone who wrestles for WWE belongs to either RAW or Smackdown and not both.
Once that is accomplished, we can have a specific set of titles for each show. For that, I suggest RAW to have the WWE and IC title and for Smackdown to have the WHC and US title. This would make it more like it was back in the WWF vs WCW days. Also, as much as I would like to see a set of tag champions for each show, we just don't have enough teams for that. Hell, we hardly have enough teams to even have tag champions. But, be that as it may, I think the tag titles should be defended on both shows. This would encourage superstars to be put in tag teams and stay there, just to be able to be on both shows. Plus, the Divas title can be defended on both shows because, honestly I could care less what they do. I just fast forward all that crap anyway.
All in all, I'm not saying this would be the end all answer of how to fix what's wrong with WWE, but it's just an option that I think is worth exploring. I think the superstars would appreciate it, because it would lighten their work schedule not having to appear on both shows all the time. The titles would mean more because each show would have its own title hierarchy. There would be no more duplicate belts of equal importance. We would all get a chance to see how deep the talent pool really is. The tag team scene would get more action. And lastly, we could still use Superstars as a platform for interpromotional matches for strictly non-title and exhibition purposes. That might even get people watching Superstars for once.
Whether you agree or totally disagree with this, I respect everyone's opinion, and I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks so much for reading. Make sure to check me out later this week in the WBC #3 blog war, and show your support by voting for me to be champion.
God Bless.