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One of the things that motivated us to develop PowerShell was the belief that we (Microsoft) had been doing a poor job supporting the Admin Development Model. All the effort seemed to have gone into treating Admins as GUI-only users or as though they were developers that couldn't handle the complexity of parenthesis. I never quite understood… Read more


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UK Pensioner Could Face Arrest For Atheist Poster
from the best-use-of-police-time? dept
Along with ridiculous libel cases, the UK is also infamous for laws that are designed to stop people hurting the feelings of others. Maybe that's a laudable aim, but the end-result is that they can cast a chill over freedom of speech. Here's a classic case from the English town of Boston in Lincolnshire:
A Boston OAP [Old Age Pensioner] who vowed to defy police advice and display an atheist poster has attracted national interest -- and an offer of support from the National Secular Society.
Following the outcry that greeted this story, the Lincolnshire police naturally responded by issuing a press release:
John Richards was advised that putting up a poster at his Vauxhall Road home denouncing religions as 'fairy stories' could be an offence under the Public Order Act.
LincolnshirePolice have not advised Mr Richards that he faces arrest for the specific posters he is displaying and he is not committing any offences by doing so.
So the good news is that the police haven't told Mr Richards that he faces arrest for his atheist poster -- yet; the bad news is that if someone says they are offended by his poster, and the police decide that a reasonable person would agree with them, then he will indeed face arrest unless he takes it down.
The 1986 Public Order Act states that a person is guilty of an offence if they display a sign which is threatening or abusive or insulting with the intent to provoke violence or which may cause another person harassment, alarm or distress. This is balanced with a right to free speech and the key point is that the offence is committed if it is deemed that a reasonable person would find the content insulting.
If a complaint is received by the police in relation to a sign displayed in a person's window, an officer would attend and make a reasoned judgement about whether an offence had been committed under the Act. In the majority of cases where it was considered that an offence had been committed, the action taken by the officer would be to issue words of advice and request that the sign be removed. Only if this request were refused might an arrest be necessary.
Since the UK government claims that the current threat level from terrorism is "substantial", you can't help feeling that one way of tackling that would be to free up the police from having to worry about posters in a pensioner's window.
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White Oak�s two goalkeepers had a huge hand and foot in the Vikings� advancing past rival Jacksonville in a penalty kick shootout Friday night.
White Oak�s two goalkeepers had a huge hand and foot in the Vikings� advancing past rival Jacksonville in a penalty kick shootout Friday night.
MaryKate Helms scored the final penalty kick and Alexis Jones saved two PKs as White Oak defeated Jacksonville 1-0 (4-3 penalty kicks) in the East Regional semifinal of the NCHSAA 3-A girls� soccer playoffs.
�They make a great combination,� said White Oak coach Buddy Carroll of the two players who have taken turns this season playing in the goal. �They are both tremendous competitors.�
And as a result of the win, the defending state champions advance to the regional final for the ninth time in 11 years. The Vikings (20-4) will travel to Cardinal Gibbons (20-2-1) on Wednesday. Cardinal Gibbons beat Northern Guilford 3-1 on Friday.
Jacksonville, which was hoping to advance to the regional final for the third time since 2010, finishes 19-4-2.
�It�s a tough way to lose,� coach Dave Miller said. �We just couldn�t find the net tonight. We had numerous opportunities and Alexis came up huge for them in goal.�
Jones especially was big in the penalty kick session. So was Helms, who overcame a late second-half head injury � she collided with Jacksonville�s Cassie Padilla � to score the winning PK.
The overtime was tied 3-3 when Helms, a sophomore, kicked the ball with her right foot and sent the ball into the left part of the goal.
�I was nervous,� Helms said. �I didn�t know which way to go to be honest. We�ve been practicing PKs lately. I didn�t look at the keeper. I just went with my gut and just kicked it.�
Moments before Helms� goal, Jones made the second of two saves in PKs. The junior�s second save came after she went to her right side to get her body in front of the ball and save it with her hands.
�Before I was just thinking I got to do everything I can to make this save,� Jones said. �I just tried to read what she was going to do and kind of based it off that. Afterwards, I was just so happy to come up with the ball.�
Jones had made a save on the Cardinals� first PK to give the Vikings the edge, but Jacksonville senior goalie Krysten Stenclik made a save later in PKs to even the score.
�Alexis is our hero tonight,� Helms said. �She saves us four, five times. I play with her in club season and I just look up to her as a goalkeeper. She�s awesome and I love her.�
The game would likely not have extended into PKs if not for Jones� save on a 1v1 with three minutes left in the first 5-minute sudden-death overtime.
Jacksonville�s Stacey Scott got behind the Vikings� defense and appeared headed for a goal, but her shot was blocked by Jones at the last second.
�She just came running,� Jones said. �I was waiting for her to make a bad touch and then I would go out and get the ball.�
Perhaps Jones� save there gave the Vikings more confidence. Carroll was certainly feeling good.
�We train at the beginning of the year for us to be able to go extra time,� he said. �The adrenaline rush got into them and they kept working.�
But while the events in PKs and in the 30 minutes of overtime stood out in White Oak�s win, the Vikings and Cardinals extended the game past regulation thanks to solid defense.
Jacksonville had more scoring chances in 80 minutes of regulation, but White Oak used a bend-but-don�t-break defense to prevent the Cardinals from scoring.
It was a similar approach the Vikings took in their 1-0 win over JHS earlier this season. The Cardinals won the second match 2-0 to win the Coastal Conference title, relegating White Oak to second place.
�They attacked us both times we played them on the edges a lot,� Carroll said. �Today, we just really wanted to slow them down and make them have to do something a little different. Rachel Krueger did a great job back there, Della Futral was humongous and Joy Freeman did a great job. Speed-wise, we can match them and I feel like we can stop anybody.�
And of course Jones, who finished with nine saves.
Stenclik ended with five saves. She managed to get on the ball inside the 6-yard box during the last minute of sudden-death OT following a WOHS corner kick to prevent a goal.
Jacksonville allowed just five shots with most of them coming from outside the 18.
Given his team�s defense, Miller could only ponder what might have been if the Cardinals found the net.
�It put more pressure on ourselves,� he said. �It kind of showed there late. We had chances. We just couldn�t tuck one home.�
And in the end, White Oak took home a win.
�Unbelievable. I�ve never had this feeling before,� Helms said. �It feels so good to overcome all the adversity we�ve had this season. With a new team, basically, and all the seniors leaving � we bring our school so much pride.�
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Cranes are extremely valuable assets in the construction industry as they simplify working with construction materials and heavy equipments. A crane is basically a lifting machine, which works with the help of cables and pulleys. Cranes have drastically made things easy for workers on the construction site since without these machines, lifting, unloading and loading […]Read more


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LUHANSK, Ukraine — Hundreds of pro-Russia insurgents mounted a daylong assault on a border guard base in eastern Ukraine on Monday, with some firing rocket-propelled grenades from the roof of a nearby residential building and prompting the deployment of air support by government forces.
At least five rebels were killed when the guards returned fire, a border guard service spokesman said.
Some 10 kilometers (6 miles) away, a blast at an administrative building held by insurgents claimed more lives. A health official for the Luhansk region told Interfax news agency that at least seven people had been confirmed dead in the incident, which rebels described as a government airstrike.
Authorities denied carrying out a strike and said the blast was caused by misdirected rebel fire from a portable surface-to-air missile launcher.
Russia's Foreign Ministry swiftly condemned what it described as a government attack on the rebel-held building and urged U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Derek Chollet, who was visiting Kiev on Monday, to help calm unrest in Ukraine.
"We urge our Western partners to use their influence on Kiev, to stop Ukraine from descending into a national catastrophe," the ministry said in a statement.
On the edge of Luhansk, in the Mirny district, rebels in camouflage promised safety for troops at a border guard service base if they surrendered and laid down their arms. The pro-Russian insurgents, who have seized government and police buildings across eastern Ukraine, have waged increasingly aggressive attacks on government-held checkpoints and garrisons in an attempt to seize weapons and ammunition from Ukrainian forces.
Serhiy Astakhov, the spokesman for the border guard service, told The Associated Press by telephone that a preliminary assessment indicated that five rebels were killed and eight wounded in the attack on the walled compound on the western fringes of Luhansk, a major city not far from the Russian border. He also said seven servicemen were wounded, three seriously.
The initial attack by about 100 insurgents was met by gunfire from the border guards, and the number of attackers swelled to around 400 a few hours later. Astakhov said the Ukrainian armed forces had sent aircraft to the area, but had been unable to quell the attack. At least one fighter jet was seen flying overhead.
An AP reporter saw at least one dead rebel soldier about a kilometer (half-mile) away from the base. Fellow fighters approached and broke into tears as they viewed the body. One insurgent said the dead man was a leading rebel commander.
The fighting stopped around 1 p.m. local time but resumed a short while later with heavy gunfire heard in the area. Rebels shot at least six rocket-propelled grenades at the base compound from the rooftop of a residential building.
One insurgent fighter in uniform, who gave his name as Vlad Sevastopolsky, said pro-Russian militants have surrounded the base but offered Ukrainian troops a safe corridor out, as long as they surrender their weapons. Sevastopolsky is from a rebel group based in Antratsyt, another town in the Luhansk region.
Vladislav Seleznyov, press secretary for Ukraine's operation against the rebels in the east, described the base as an important coordinating node for the border guards, and told The Associated Press that the attack may have been an attempt to disrupt communications.
Fighting was still reportedly ongoing as darkness fell Monday.
Seleznyov also said there was another rebel attack Monday on a government checkpoint in Slovyansk, a city in the Donetsk region that has been an epicenter of the pro-Russian movement. He said rebels had set mines at a number of power plants in Slovyansk, which he claimed would be detonated if the government were to move on the city.
In the regional capital of Donetsk, gunmen from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic on Monday entered the office of the local newspaper and took away its editor, Leonid Lapa, his deputy Valery Lapshin told AP.
The gunmen told the journalists said they were taking the Vecherny Donetsk editor in for questioning. Lapshin said his editor was released several hours later.
For weeks, Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine has been the scene of deadly clashes between government troops and pro-Russian insurgents.
Many in Ukraine's east are suspicious of the new pro-Western government in Kiev, which came to power when pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country in February after months of street protests in Kiev. Protests in the east demanding greater freedom from the Ukrainian capital soon turned into a separatist movement, as the Luhansk and Donetsk regions declared independence following hastily called referendums.
The conflict between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian insurgents escalated markedly in the past week, with rebels attempting to seize a major airport and the shooting-down of a Ukrainian military helicopter.
In Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry announced Monday a military exercise involving the launch of high-precision missiles. The ministry said the maneuvers of the western military district will continue through Thursday and will involve the deployment of Iskander surface-to-surface missiles.
Moscow didn't specify the areas where the exercise will be held and made no mention of the situation in Ukraine.
Leonard reported from Donetsk, Ukraine. Laura Mills in Kiev, Ukraine, and Vladimir Isachenkov and Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed to this report.


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Hi All:
I have been trying to get three of the 'debug' versions
of UniAud to function with eCS 2.0 rc6a without success.
22 seconds after the desktop comes up I get a Trap 0008
and the system crashes and burns.
I have also noticed that the process halts, in all three,
at the same place.
The people at eCS suggested that I contact the UniAud
people but so far I haven't gotten an answer.
Am I the only one who has come up against this problem,
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For four decades, the Gold Wing® has done much more than merely survive: This remarkable machine has continued to create and define an entire segment of the motorcycling experience, raising standards and expectations time and time again.
American Honda Powersports Dealers, Tucker Rocky and Speed and Strength have joined forces in a fundraiser for the Warrior Dog Foundation that will take place at powersports dealerships on June 7, 2014 across the country. The Warrior Dog Foundation serves the special operations community, families, and Special Operation Forces (SOF) working K-9 military dogs. The SOF K-9s are elite warriors who work in environments and face conditions that most human beings cannot survive, and are vital in ensuring the success of every mission and operate in all conditions.
Some months ago MotoUSA was able to get a short first ride on the 2013 Honda CB1100, and it left us wanting more time in the saddle to really get a feel for the bike. We praised it for its throwback looks paired with modern brakes, tires and electronics, but would the nostalgia wear off? To find out we spent several long days in the saddle with the CB getting to know the retro Honda in just about every situation that Southern California has to offer.
It's time for the MotoGP at Laguna Seca! Think you remember Honda GP riders past and present? Take a look through this collection and see how many you remember and the GPs they rode.
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Temperatures up but bills still low
The average temperature in Kinston may have gone up in the last three years, but electric usage has gone down, thanks in part to the city�s education of residents on how to conserve power.
High power bills and ways to cut costs have been an ongoing concern in Kinston for years, but recent records from Kinston Public Services are proving the city is making more of an effort to conserve.
Last year, Kinston used 418,092 megawatt hours, its lowest total in almost a decade, and more than 48,000 fewer hours than its high in 2007.
�Over the last two years, we�ve seen the amount of usage decrease,� Sears said. �Part of that can be attributed to mild winters.�
KPS also looked at its last three full years of electrical usage amongst customers, along with temperatures for the year.
In 2010, the average temperature was 61.8 degrees, with nearly 140 million kilowatt hours being used. The temperature rose to 62.3 degrees in 2011, resulting in 131.8 million kilowatt hours being used and just 119.4 million with 62.5 degree temperatures last year.
Rhonda Barwick, director of KPS, said education efforts and weather have helped residents conserve, but an improving economy has the city�s corporations using more power.
�It�s important to note that during this same three-year period, our large industrial customers have increased their consumption. Their usage is impacted more by the economy or demand for their products than simply weather conditions,� Barwick said.
Information and Resource Specialist Sheri Williams said the city has made an effort to be available in the community to educate residents.
�We do energy fairs twice a year, and also do public speaking,� Williams said. �I�m available to go anywhere, speaking at meetings, schools or other events. We always have links on our website, kinstonpublicservices.com, to education people about energy saving tips, our energy efficiency credit program and free energy audits.�
Customer Service Supervisor Justin Boyette said customers also receive information from employees when they have issues with their bills.
�We give them papers with instructions on how to conserve energy,� Boyette said. �The sheets have topics on things such as efficient heating and cooling, weatherproofing your home, effective appliance use and lighting wisely.�
There are specific guidelines for thermostat use that can cut power bills, Boyette said.
�When it comes to using less energy, the thermostat plays a huge role,� he said. �We tell people to keep them no higher than 68 in the winter and 78 in the summer. As a result, the bills aren�t as high and neither is consumption.�
Brantley Uzzell moved to Kinston in February after living in Snow Hill. He said he had heard horror stories about electric rates in the city, but he hasn�t been affected due to his planning.
�I�m actually paying only $10 or $15 more a month for utilities here than in Snow Hill, and I live in a house with 1,000 more square feet,� Uzzell said. �I got a 16-seer heating system, new appliances and a water heater. The heating system has helped the most. The guy who installed it said I�d save 20 to 30 percent on my bill, and even though I paid $800 more, it will pay for itself in a few months.�
Uzzell said he also looked at tips the city was providing.
�I usually keep the temperature around 70 in the winter,� Uzzell said. �I looked around for energy credits and ways to be efficient, because it�s a big concern here.�
Kinston resident Layton Edmondson said he has paid attention to the energy saving tactics the city is informing people with, but has also incorporated a few of his own.
�I�ve purchased 13-watt LED light bulbs, and have seen a significant decrease in my bill,� Edmondson said. �I�ve also bought devices from Lowes to cut off lights in a room after a certain amount of time, so if I�m away for 10, 20 or 30 minutes, the lights will shut off. It�s all powered with a remote control.�
Edmondson said he enjoys being able to conserve energy.
�There�s a thrill of trying to figure out what I can get my bill down to,� Edmondson said. �I have family members who have $400, $500 bills, and mine might be $80, $90 a month.�
Although temperatures have been milder in years past, the upcoming winter is projected to produce colder weather, which could increase energy usage amongst residents.
WCTI Channel 12 meteorologist Skip Waters said the unpredictability in weather makes it harder for him to make his projections.
�In the past 12 hours, the models flipped flopped so much,� Waters said. �There were projections for a big snowstorm Saturday in North Carolina and Virginia. Twelve hours later, it shifted westward toward the mountains of North Carolina and we�ll get cold rain. If there are fluctuations in a l2-hour span, imagine how difficult it is to monitor a long period of time.�
Waters said he believes there will be a cold and wet winter though.
�Based on the trend, I think the rest of December leading into January will tend to be cold with shots of rain and near misses of snow every five to six days,� Waters said. �This month looks to be colder than normal, with a couple of days at average or above normal temperatures. It�s still too early to tell until we can get a consistent pattern going for several days in a row.�
Even if the temperatures fall, Sears said there�s no way an assessment can be made on consumption rising.
�It�s a false assumption for the city to make,� Sears said. �It�s up to each independent user. It may be colder, but we can�t make an assumption on a significant increase.�
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Here are some tips on how to reduce electric bills
n If you�re going away for a few days, lower the thermostat, but don�t turn the heat off. A cold snap could freeze your pipes
n To keep air circulating freely, check filters at least once a month and change them when needed
n Weatherstrip your doors, caulk cracks in the door frames, and replace worn or ill-fitting thresholds
n Keep lamps and fixtures clean. You may save as much as 20 percent on lighting costs
n Take advantage of the windows throughout your home and use natural light whenever possible
n When running your dishwasher, use the energy-saving cycle and run only when full
n When it�s time to buy new appliances, buy the most energy-efficient models


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Hospitals flex lobbying muscle
For all the hits the hospital industry took in the final fiscal cliff deal, it managed to persuade Congress to avoid some of the biggest cuts that had been looming over it for years: cuts to outpatient payments, graduate medical education and "bad debt" payments.
The hospitals aren't celebrating — Congress still cut the industry elsewhere, and hospital lobbyists insist those savings will be painful. But the fact that hospitals escaped the most widely expected cuts shows that the industry still holds real power with lawmakers.
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A month ago, most health insiders expected any fiscal cliff — and Medicare physician payments — plan to include at least one or even all three of those proposals. Each cut had been blessed by MedPAC or Obama administration deficit plans.
But when legislative text of the fiscal cliff plan began circulating in Washington just as the calendar turned to 2013 early on New Year's Day, cuts to those three areas were not in the bill.
It's the second time that the evaluation and management, or E/M cuts — which would result in hospitals and physician offices getting the same payment for outpatient treatments — have been at the top of the list of hospital savings options, only to disappear amid aggressive lobbying from the hospital groups, including the American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals and the Association of American Medical Colleges, among others.
It even made it into the House's 2011 payroll tax bill, only to be deleted by the time the Senate bill came out.
And it's the latest deficit plan that doesn't hit graduate medical education money or bad debt payments — two very tempting proposals that have appeared in just about every Washington deficit-reduction white paper.
It's partly a reflection of the strength of the hospital sector in Washington. Hospitals have some of the strongest lobbying muscle because every member of Congress has at least one in their district. They don't just provide needed health care but are typically one of the largest employers, too.
"They're just pretty powerful," said a health lobbyist outside of the hospital sector. "Outside of the [Washington trade associations], individual hospitals talk to their members and say, 'This is a BFD. This will hurt us.' They're winning the local grass roots."
In the weeks leading up to a fiscal cliff deal, several hospitals in states with prominent lawmakers — Montana, Utah, Michigan, Texas, Ohio and New York, to name a few — sent notes to their representatives in Washington, explaining why the E/M cuts would be such a disaster if Congress were to pass them.
"Having our local university teaching hospitals weigh in really all over — including to leadership and Finance — was probably the key," said Atul Grover, chief public policy officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges.


text: In the early 1960s, two very different New Jersey high schoolers share their first love in this bittersweet romantic drama, an early feature by writer/director John Sayles. Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is a sweet, overachieving Jewish girl heading for college to become an actor; "Sheik" Capodilupo (Vincent Spano) is a mysterious, confident Italian guy who pushes his way into Jill's already busy life. Sheik successfully woos Jill, and the story follows their ups and downs as teenage romantics. While that introduction is lighter fare than most Sayles material, the film trails off into some unexpected plot developments, providing an original take on the "different sides of the track" genre. Sayles directs the high school scenes with a combination of reminiscence and reality, balancing the excitement of cars and the prom with the heartache, anxiety, and classwork that goes along with it. The movie is injected with a mostly 1960s soundtrack, yet the videocassette lists that "some music has been changed" for home video -- the note apparently refers to four Bruce Springsteen cuts. Matthew Modine and Tracy Pollan appear in small parts, and Robert Downey Jr. also has a tiny role. This was the fiercely independent Sayles' first film to be made with a major studio (Paramount), and he claims it will be his last, as he lost final editing control. Norm Schrager, Rovi


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*UPDATED* - ICS it is -- hit the break.
We've known for a while now Motorola has been prepping a 'project' not only for the WiFi Motorola Xoom but the 4G LTE equipped Motorola Xoom as well. However, there was no mention of when it may be rolling out to users and Motorola themselves claimed that due to it being a GED (Google Experience Device) they had no idea as to when either. Looks as though that time has come according to some info we just recieved. The following email was sent out to folks:
Thanks for your patience as we've waited for this project to begin. Because we are dealing with a Google Experience Device (GED) we have less insight to timing than we would usually have.
However, I'm happy to announce that we will start the update this evening. Because it was delayed a few days, we will also have additional time to test; we will let it run through the weekend.
Could it be Android 4.0 ICS? Likely, but don't be insanely disappointed if it's not. Either way, we'll soon find out what it is and we'll be sure to let you all know as well.
Thanks, Anon!


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"Everybody got a pistol. This must really please the NRA" – from "Gun" by Gil Scott-Heron
So maybe the National Rifle Association is about to get its wish.
Here we are, a little more than three weeks after the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., a little more than two weeks after the NRA said there should henceforth be armed guards at every school, and at least one school system, Marlboro Township in New Jersey, is taking its advice. Under a 90-day pilot program in partnership with local police, students who returned to school last week found their campuses patrolled by armed officers.
But here's the thing. If this is truly a good idea – "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre in a news conference – then why stop there? After all, it is not just our schools that are being shot up. So let us follow this advice to its logical end.
• Four firefighters in upstate New York were shot, two of them killed, on Christmas Eve when they responded to a call and were ambushed by a man with a semiautomatic rifle. So we should have armed guards on all of our firetrucks.
• Two customers were killed two days before Christmas when armed men opened fire with semiautomatic handguns inside a grocery store in Delray Beach, Fla. So we should have armed guards at all our grocery stores.
• Two people were killed and two others injured Nov. 6 when an employee started shooting inside a chicken-processing plant in Fresno, Calif. So we should have armed guards at all of our chicken-processing plants.
• One man was killed and five others wounded in a shooting at a New Year's Eve party in a private residence in Lakewood, Calif. So we should have armed guards at all of our private residences.
That list, by the way, represents only a random sampling of recent shootings, most so run of the mill, so plain vanilla ordinary, they didn't even make news outside their local areas, which should give you an idea how common gunfire in this country is. According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, nearly 98,000 of us are shot each year, a figure that includes law enforcement activity. That's nearly 268 a day, 11 every hour.
By the reasoning of the NRA, you do not address that sad state of affairs by crafting laws that strive to balance the rights of responsible gun owners with the need to block the irresponsible, the dangerous, the criminal minded, the unhinged, from access to these WMDs. No, by the NRA's reasoning, the solution to too many guns is more guns.
The organization frames this as a defense of freedom. To which the best rejoinder is provided by Gil Scott-Heron in the song quoted above: "Freedom to be afraid is all you won."
It is a trenchant observation. Just the other day, two seventh-graders in Tillamook, Ore., found a handgun, with a round in the chamber and the safety off, on the floor in a movie theater. It had apparently slipped out of the holster of Gary Warren Quackenbush, 61, who felt the need for protection as he watched "The Hobbit."
Quackenbush reportedly feared someone might shoot up the place – as happened in Aurora, Colo., in July during a Batman movie. So add movie theaters to the list of places we should have armed guards. We are a people shot through with fear, a nation under the gun.
And one wonders how much more of this "freedom" we can take.
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Object Registration
The ball is now in the hands of the plugin itself (inside the PF_initPlugin code). If the version negotiation went well, the plugin should register all the object types it supports with the plugin manager. The purpose of the registration is to provide to the application functions like PF_CreateFunc and PF_DestroyFunc that it can use later on to create and destroy plugin objects. This arrangements allows the plugin to control the actual creation and destruction of objects including any resources they manage (like memory), but lets the application control the number of objects and their lifetime. Of course, a plugin may implement singletons by always returning the same object instance.
The registration is done by preparing for each object type registration record (PF_RegisterParams) and calling the registerObject() function pointer provided in the PF_PlatformServices struct (that was passed as argument to PF_initPlugin). The registerOBject() function accepts a string that uniquely identifies the object type or a wildcard "*" and the PF_RegisterParams struct. I'll explain the purpose of the type string and how it is used in the next section. The reason a type string is necessary is because different plugins may support multiple types of objects.
You can see in Listing Two that the C++ plugin registers two monster types -- "KillerBunny" and "StationarySatan".
Now, the shoe is on the other foot. Once the plugin calls registerObject() control goes back to the PluginManager. The PF_RegisterParams contains also a version and a programming language fields. The version field lets the PluginManager make sure it can work with this object type. If there is a version mismatch it will not register the object. It is not a fatal error. This allows fairly flexible negotiations, where the plugin tries to register multiple versions of the same object type in order to take advantage of newer interfaces if they exist and fallback to older interfaces. The programming language field will be explained soon. If the plugin manager is happy with the PF_RegisterParams struct, it just stores it in an internal data structure that maps the object type to the PF_RegisterParams struct.
After the plugin registered all its object types, it returns a function pointer to a PF_ExitFunc. This function is called before the plugin is unloaded and lets the plugin clean up any global resources it acquired during its life time.
If the plugin decides that it can't function properly (can't allocate some resource, crucial object type registration failed, version mismatch) it should cleanup after itself and return NULL. This signals the PluginManager that the plugin initialization failed. The PluginManager will also remove all registrations performed by the failed plugin.
Plugin Object Creation by the Application
At this point all the dynamic plugins have been loaded and both static and dynamic plugins have been initialized and registered all the object types they support. The application can now create object instances by calling the PluginManager's createObject() method. This method accepts an object type string and an IObjectAdapter interface. I'll discuss object adaptation in the next section, so let's focus on the object type string. The application needs to know what object types are supported. This knowledge can be hard-coded into the application or it can query the plugin's manager registration map and find out at runtime what object types are currently registered.
If you recall, the type string can be either a unique type identifier or a wildcard "*". When the application calls createBbject() with a type string ("*" is an invalid type string) the PluginManager looks for an exact match in its registration map. If it find a match it will invoked the registered PF_CreateFunc and return the result to the application (possibly after adaptation). If it can't find a match it will go over all the wild card registrations (plugins that registered with "*" type string) and let them try by invoking their registered PF_CreateFunc. If any plugin returns a non-NULL result it is returned to the application.
What is the purpose of the wildcard registration? It lets plugins create objects they don't know about at registration time. What? Yes. In Numenta, we used it to allow Python plugins. A single C++ plugin registered with a "*" type string. If the application requested a Python class (the type was the actual qualified import path of a Python class) then the C++ plugin who had an embedded Python interpreter created a special object that held an instance of the Python class and forwarded plugin requests to its internal Python object (via the Python C API). To the application it appeared as a standard C++ object. This allows great flexibility because it is possible to just drop a Python class in the right place even while the system is running and the Python object is immediately available.


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Noodles can be a powerful weapon when done right. But can noodles help a young man exact revenge on those who have wronged him?
Moo Myung (Chun Jung Myung) lives through a traumatic event as a child that left him all alone and grows up in an orphanage. He works cleaning noodles but is devastated when his beloved noodle master suffers a major tragedy. Moo Myung finds a new goal in life when he decides to become a master noodle chef to get revenge on all those who have caused him pain. Will he succeed in his revenge plan?
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The 330-unit Miller Creek at Germantown apartment complex in Southeast Shelby County has sold for $43.8 million.
TS Miller Creek LLC, an affiliate of Aventura, Fla.-based real estate investment trust Trade Street Residential, bought the relatively new apartment complex in a Jan. 21 special warranty deed from the developer, Miller Creek Residences LLC.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property lists the multifamily complex's address as 8747 Winchester Road, while the Shelby County Register of Deeds lists it as 3769 Skipping Stone Trace.
The complex occupies 20 acres at the southwest corner of Winchester and Forest Hill-Irene roads. The assessor, which doesn't have dwelling details for the recently completed complex, shows a 2013 appraisal as $3.1 million.
In conjunction with the purchase, the buyer filed a 26.3 million loan through New York Life Insurance Co. Trade Street Residential chief financial officer Richard Ross signed the trust deed. Trade Street Residential also owns Arbors River Oaks, according to the company's website.
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Investment firm KKR is acquiring a majority ownership stake in Memphis-based Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc., a provider of technology-enabled claims and productivity management solutions.
The agreement announced Monday, Jan. 27, calls for KKR buying the stake for about $2.4 billion from the current group of investors. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter.
Sedgwick handles more than 2.1 million claims each year and has fiduciary responsibility for claim payments totaling more than $11 billion. Sedgwick and its affiliated companies deliver services to clients in 200 offices throughout the U.S. and Canada.
– Andy Meek
The Monday, Jan. 27, meeting of the Shelby County Commission was the last for a while in the commission chambers on the ground floor of the Vasco Smith County Administration Building.
The lobby entrance on the Main Street Mall and the commission chambers are about to undergo a renovation that began last year to modernize the government building.
The lobby renovation work begins Feb. 3 with the closing of the mall entrance and a new temporary entrance on the Second Street side of the building.
The commission will hold its twice-monthly voting meetings in the fourth floor committee room with a fifth floor overflow room where the meeting can be seen via closed-circuit television.
The renovation work on the lobby and commission chambers is expected to be complete in early August.
The chambers were last renovated in the early 1990s, when the commission expanded from 11 to 13 members. The commission moved its meetings to City Hall in the City Council chambers at that time.
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Memphis attorney and architect Josh Flowers has been honored with the American Institute of Architects' Young Architects Award.
Flowers, the in-house legal counsel for Hnedak Bobo Group, served as AIA Memphis chapter president in 2012. He founded and currently hosts the Emerging Professionals Leadership program, which connects young architects with AIA Fellows. As the knowledge director for the AIA National Young Architects Forum, Flowers launched "YAF Fireside Chats" at the 2013 national convention.
The Young Architects award is given to members who display leadership on the field early in their careers. The 2014 recipients included 18 architects, the largest group to be awarded the honor.
– Amos Maki
Opposing sides to a school voucher program in Tennessee are holding a series of events this week as Republican lawmakers and the governor try to reach a compromise on voucher legislation.
Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence, a grassroots organization opposed to vouchers, held a news conference on Monday in the Legislative Plaza across from the state Capitol. And the Beacon Center of Tennessee, a free market think tank that is advocating for a broader voucher program, has an event scheduled for Tuesday.
Last week, Republican state lawmakers filed a school voucher bill they hope will be acceptable to Gov. Bill Haslam, who has repeatedly said he favors a more limited version of the program that gives parents another option for educating their children.
TREE president Lyn Hoyt says more resources should go toward public schools rather than vouchers.
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An audit of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services finds that the state child-welfare agency is plagued with numerous problems, including its failure to report the deaths of children in its custody.
The audit also found that DCS conducted sloppy child-abuse investigations and was not adequately tracking juvenile delinquents put on probation.
The audit, which was conducted by the state comptroller's office, was released on Monday.
It found that the agency needed to do a better job of investigating child abuse and neglect complaints. It also found that the agency had violated a state law requiring it to report the deaths of children in its custody to the legislature.
DCS has come under fire for a series of failures. A commissioner appointed last year has vowed to reform the agency.
The state Senate was scheduled to take up a measure Monday that seeks to change the way Tennessee's attorney general gains office.
Under a proposed constitutional amendment, the attorney general would stand for popular election rather than being appointed by the state Supreme Court.
Critics say making the attorney general an elected position would require them to seek heavy campaign contributions and threaten the nonpartisan and independent nature of the office.
They also question the need for the resolution when the full chamber voted 22-9 last year in favor of a proposal to have the attorney general appointed by a joint convention of the General Assembly.
The current system has withstood legal challenges, but opponents argue it conflicts with language in the state constitution that says justices "shall be elected by the qualified voters of the state."
Southwest Airlines Co. is expanding beyond the continental United States with flights beginning in July to the Caribbean.
The airline began selling tickets on Monday for flights to Aruba, the Bahamas and Jamaica. The Southwest flights will start July 1 and operate from Atlanta, Baltimore and Orlando.
Southwest has been talking about going international for several years.
Businesses expect their companies to perform better this year but that optimism still isn't translating into a push to hire more workers, according to a new survey from the National Association for Business Economics.
Of the 64 members who responded to NABE's January survey, most said they saw stronger sales in the final months of 2013, and 43 percent expect their companies to modestly hike selling prices this year. That's the highest percentage in more than 12 months. Most respondents don't expect the new health care law or the Federal Reserve's easing of its stimulus policies to have a major impact on business, either. However only 37 percent expect to create jobs in the next six months, the same as in NABE's October survey.
For the fourth quarter, only about a quarter of respondents said their companies expanded payrolls. Those most likely to report increased hiring were from the manufacturing, finance, insurance and real estate sectors.
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No one views the CIA as anything resembling impotent. The drone strikes it operates are the most important counterterrorism tool the Obama administration uses, battering a Pakistan so intensely, in 2010 they struck an average of once every three days.
Osama bin Laden is dead as the result of a military operation the CIA commanded, highlighting the unprecedented coordination between CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). In the words of the head of CIA's Counterterrorism Center, its central nervous system for counterterrorism: "We are killing these sons of bitches faster than they can grow them now."
9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean judged Tenet's admission "one of the most appalling comments we heard." But as it turned out, Tenet's timetable was prescient. A remarkable Washington Post story explores the rejuvenated CIA, which one veteran calls "one hell of a killing machine".
CIA's fleet of 30 Predators and Reapers - the Post gives the total — get the most attention, and understandably so. But it's easy to forget that the drones are a lagging indicator. Every intelligence operation, even the ones that go wrong and kill civilians, is the result of the CIA's cultivation of a network of spies it didn't possess back during Tenet's testimony. Drone strikes need spotters; the CIA has them in a group of Pashtun informants who cross the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with news of militant activity.
It's never been publicly acknowledged. But without that network, it's impossible to understand the massive and sustained rise in drone strikes. The Post reports that the program "has killed more than 2000 militants and civilians since 2001." That's not really the whole story. The vast majority of those kills have come since 2008, according to data collected by the New America Foundation, with only 112 estimated deaths maximum occurring between 2004 and 2007. Last year, the drones killed as many as 993 people; the body count is as high as 453 so far in 2011.
Why? Two reasons. First, President George W. Bush relaxed secret restrictions on special operations and intelligence activities in Pakistan. And second, the spy network that Tenet didn't have came to fruition. Waziristan tribesmen described getting money to plant homing beacons for drones in the houses of targeted militants. al-Qaida and Pakistani Taliban mouthpieces started sounding paranoid about infrared devices powered by 9-volt batteries and tattletale chips planted in SIM cards. Unlike earlier in the decade, the CIA had data about where the terrorists were and their "patterns of life" — or, at least, data about people it thought were terrorists.
Touring the Counterterrorism Center's Pakistan-Afghanistan Department — note the listed order of those countries — the Post observes, "Every paid informant is given a unique crypt' that starts with a two-letter digraph designating spies who are paid sources of the CTC." It's replicating that bureau's work with an "equivalent department for Yemen and Somalia", the major centres of the US' expanding shadow wars — which have already featured drone strikes.
Then comes the tight collaboration with JSOC. So-called "Omega" or "Cross Matrix" teams comprised of CIA and JSOC operators travel Afghanistan and Iraq in civilian clothes and cars. Mostly they meet with their local sources of information. But on "at least five occasions," the Post reports, they've tested their ability to sneak into Pakistan undetected to execute raids — "early rehearsals" of the bin Laden hit.
They're also not so into apprehending terrorists. While the CIA still maintains secret prisons like the one Danger Room pal Jeremy Scahill exposed in Somalia, President Obama ordered most of the "black sites" closed in 2009. As former JSOC commander William McRaven recently testified, there aren't any long-term detention facilities for terrorists anymore, leading to improvised solutions like the brigs of US warships. When the CIA's Pashtun snitches get used for attacking terrorists, they're "'more kill-capture' than capture-kill," the Post reports.
That raises the biggest question of all surrounding the new post-9/11 CIA. If it's acting like a military organisation, shouldn't it have the (relative) transparency and accountability of a military organisation? Most members of Congress don't have the security clearances necessary to know anything at all about CIA operations, preempting effective oversight. Congress is basically reliant on the CIA to check its own work, content to believe the CIA director when he says that the drones kill terrorists, not innocent people. Meanwhile, the Post reports that CIA proxies have "used more indiscriminate means, including land mines, to disrupt insurgent networks."
Two analysts who've closely studied the drone program, Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, recently argued in Foreign Affairs that the military should take over the drones in order to introduce accountability into their operations. It wouldn't impact the drone operations at all: Air Force pilots fly them for the CIA, the Post confirms. But it would bring the shadow wars at least marginally out of the shadows.
At the same time, the 2011-era CIA is the direct descendent of the CIA that existed on April 14, 2004. It was a moment of abject humiliation for the agency, called to account for 9/11 even after warning the Bush White House in the spring and summer of 2001 that it was perceiving an imminent, unspecified terrorist attack. The 9/11 Commission accurately channelled a sense of outrage around the country over the fact that the CIA lacked - to strip it of euphemism - a killing machine. Now the agency has built one. Will new director David Petraeus be willing to give it up?
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Umineko FanFiction Discussion
Welcome to the Umineko FanFiction Discussion thread.
This thread is meant for Umineko fanfiction and its discussion. Fanfiction works can be either posted in this thread or in the Fan Creations Forum and linked to in this thread. You may also link to Fanfiction works posted on other sites and discuss it here.
General rules of our forum still apply:
Please respect the authors, fanfictions are written in their free time, they have have no gain and owe you nothing; if they like a particular character and/or a particular pattern for their story, it's a personal choice and can't be blamed. In general, you are free to post constructive criticisms but not insults which (as in any other part of the forums) won't be tolerated. Remember that writers post here to get help and not to get troubles.
Please note that, due to the very nature of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, it is highly possible that some fictions might be based on the original games of the franchise, therefore potentially spoil some people. In order to avoid such issues, please use spoiler tags on your fiction with a clear indication of which Episode (game format, not anime format) it might relates (example: spoiler - End of Episode 5).
You are free to base your fictions to the backstory of the franchise and/or certain characters, but please avoid making fictions that are basically theories/interpretations of the events of the series. Please stick strictly to the concept of fanfiction. Any speculation etc. should be posted in the theory/spoiler thread instead.
Thanks and have fun
|2012-01-08, 12:58
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Who else here thinks that Jan-Poo's "Witches & Woodlands" is truly a piece of art?
In short, it's a tale where Battler, his cousins, Erika, and (for some reason) Dlanor gather to play a simple D&D-esque RPG. Then Beatrice comes along and makes it a not-so-simple D&D-esque RPG. The rest of the story cannot be described in detail on how mind-blowingly awesome it is.
Not only is the whole thing well-crafted and planned (even considering how the first chapter was intended to be a one-shot, meaning they expanded it brilliantly), but it's funny as hell. I mean, if you replaced the epic of the original story with funny, replaced everything else with epic, and condensed everything into the span of a seven hour read or so, you would probably get a story on the scale of "Witches & Woodlands." It should be expected, considering it was made by the same person who made those classic "USO DA!!" 4-koma images. In fact, they just recently expanded it to give the characters unique sprites that would be fitting for a fantasy adventure of epic proportions (save Dlanor, who gets a mousy "every-girl" look in the "real world"). It must be seen to be believed.
I loved it so much that I've been trying to put together a fandub/voice patch in an effort to not only honor it, but to get it more known. I've yet to see much results as of late, so I've put it on hiatus until I can find time to manage it, and maybe even some assistance in making it. I just hope that it will, one day, see the light of day, and I will work to see that happen.
|2012-01-08, 13:09
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I love Jan-Poo's "Witches & Woodlands". It was funny as hell. I couldn't stop laughing in some parts. Erika was really awesome. I loved it from the beginning to the end.I have decided to add some voice parts in Jap like marias "kihihihihi. You fools" or "this level of reasoning is possible for Furudo Erika" and " die to death" . You get the point. I also added an HD BG patch for "Witches & Woodlands". (From ps3). Sprite patch however is impossible.
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|2012-01-08, 13:42
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Howdy. First time here, but I've been reading the forums for a bit ever since I finished Ep8. Saw this topic being brand new and figured I might as well share what I have.
- I stumbled across mention of Witches and Woodlands just the other day and it looked interesting, but the authors website was done blog style and I couldn't really get a good summary of the project as a whole. I guess it's basically just a patch you replace over the game folders, right? I'll definitely check that out.
As for my own contribution, I recently finished a story of my own, "The Turn of Haruhi Suzumiya." http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7583784/...aruhi_Suzumiya
It is (probably obvious but) a crossover of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" and Umineko.
A basic summary: "For the second summer vacation trip, the SOS Brigade visits the island of Rokkenjima. Expecting a simple trip of camping, hiking, and pretend mystery solving on a long deserted island, Kyon and Haruhi instead find themselves pulled into the game board, intruding into the Ushiromiya family conference of October 4th, 1986. Knowing full well the ultimate fate about to fall upon the island's inhabitants, Kyon must race to solve the mystery and find the truth; before they end up as just another mysterious death in Rokkenjima's endless cat-box."
It is ultimately a Haruhi story before an Umineko one - Kyon is the main character and Narrator, and everything that happens is seen through his eyes. But I've tried to keep the feel and spirit of Umineko there as well, so if anyone happens to be a fan of both stories than I can offer that much.
As for Umineko spoilers, there's nothing really too specific spoiled, but I used ideas and themes from pretty much every episode. Without context it might not really count as spoilers anyway, so.
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If you haven't read it already do it, you're in for some serious laughter sessions.
|2012-01-08, 16:01
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All right, first and foremost I want to give my thanks to Kashikari for making this thread and to everyone that played and enjoyed Witches & Woodlands.
But there's a lot I want to discuss in this thread.
Before I forget I'll put here a link to Kinjo's guide on how to make your own fangame using onscripter and the umineko script. I received a lot of requests about that, so I think it would be useful to put all the necessary resources in the first page, so if anyone asks, redirect them to the first page of the fanfic thread:
Kinjo's latest onscripter guide:
Onscripter-en resources:
Onscriper command reference:
If you plan to start your own project I suggest you to use the script from Episode8, do not use mine, since I have removed a lot of script lines that weren't used in my story (you can still extract it to use as reference).
A lot of people prefer to use the most popular Ren'py
The pro of Ren'py is that it's a lot easier to use, the con is that you need to start from scratch and need to convert all the graphic you need.
I'm not familiar with the program, but maybe Renall can fill in the details, since he's using that for his "Witch Hunters Abroad".
And since I'm on the subject, I really enjoyed the first part of Renall's fan game, I want to read how it ends, and I want to see the fable sprites of the witch hunters, when will you finish it, Renall?!
Also you might want to check Kinjo's fangames as well, he created a specific thread here:
As for the rest... well it's just easier to give the link to a list on TVTropes:
There are a few that are missing though...
Now I'll take this chance to talk about the secret riddle hidden in the latest patch of witches & woodlands.
For those who haven't noticed there is an "extra.rar" file included in the patch and you get the password as soon as you finish the Tea party
for the lazy and forgetful the password is:
Spoiler for Password:
lower case.
however once you extract this file, you can see there's another rar named "treasure chest.rar". In order to open it you need to solve my riddle!
There is a hint included among the images in the extra.rar, you can start from that.
Kinjo and Anon-kun (and another anon) are trying to solve it but they are stuck.
If you wish to know how much they progressed:
Spoiler for W&W riddle:
Let me hear your reasonings! But don't forget to put use spoiler tags for those who wish to solve it by themselves.
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|2012-01-08, 16:17
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So THAT's what that .rar was for! (sorry, I'm still re-reading the third part didn't get to the Tea Party yet).
Props to Kinjo and Anon-kun! Well, being italian myself, I can at least give you a translation.
Spoiler for riddle translation:
Edit: whops, seems battle22 beat me to it
|2012-01-08, 16:45
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Hopefully now it will be clearer.
But if you haven't finished the Tea Party you have no chance of solving this.
Whops that was a hint!
|2012-01-08, 16:51
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ep8 pardoy or the second?....time to reread teaparty....
|2012-01-08, 17:18
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|2012-01-08, 17:41
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Awesome. I loved your fanfic, Oroboro, and now I can't wait for you to finish it!
As for Janpoo's Treasure-Chest, shit I didn't even notice it! Now I feel like an ass! Lol, um...
Yea, I got nothin'. I reread the Tea Party and I didn't notice jack shit. I suck at riddles. XD
|2012-01-08, 18:14
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For a long time the Japanese fanbase was editing ONscripter too, and many fangames were uploaded to the 07th Expansion site. But recently all the uploads were removed for some reason (see http://rena07.com/Cgi/uploader/upload.html). Videos of other fangames can be seen on the Niconico video website. It's nice to see that fangames and fanfiction aren't just limited to the Japanese fanbase anymore.
But yes, thanks for creating this thread Klashikari. I'm glad that people can now discuss their Umineko fanfictions in a single place, in the Umineko subforum, where people will see it.
And like Jan-Poo said, I also enjoy hearing feedback about my creations, so please comment. But keep it spoiler-tagged too!
|2012-01-08, 18:17
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Well, as Kinjo already knows I think his creations are frickin' God-Tier.
This has nothing to do with the fact that I am the villain of the 4th Episode. It's actually kind of my least favorite episode since it requires being associated with an obscure fraction of the fandom, but it's still pretty neato.
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I think by the nature of the series, this is a great thread to have around.
I've also been blown away by Witches & Woodlands so far. I'm only at the end the Stakes' trials, but it really feels like it could be another side arc added in. I can tell there's a lot of love for the characters throughout and they all feel completely consitent with the canon. It's really awesome. I'm sure Ryuukishi would be pleased if he had a chance to see it. I look forward to seeing where it goes.
That being said, I'm also looking forward the Renall's Redacted. I don't have a link right now, but it's in his signature. Looks interesting.
Wasn't there also a 'what-if', 'behind-the-scenes' parody arc being worked on by a couple people around here? Ayone have any info of that? I think this was the secret project Renall has mentioned a couple of times in the Spoilers thread?
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A Tea Party broke out today on Union Square in San Francisco. Here is an overview of the crowd, which likely numbered one to two thousand:
Here is the crowd from a different angle:
There were some good signs such as "Socialism works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it, and Hell where they already have it":
Everyone in this family had a message for the President. "I'll keep my guns, my money, and my religion, you keep the change":
Below a physician explains the difference between his care and Obamacare: "When I shove something down your throat, I get consent and I give anesthetic: NObamacare":
This man hopes for a change:
The Democratic party seems to be motivated by envy and this woman explains the problem with that:
Democrats do not seem to understand how prosperity is created: "Spread my work ethic, not my wealth":
Unlike previous tea parties, this one had some legacy media coverage. Here you can see two somewhat hostile-looking reporters interviewing a tea partier:
Two liberal infiltrators (below) thought of themselves as smart but their signs portray the vacuousness of their thoughts:
As usual at a Tea Party, the LaRouche Democrats showed up with their Obama-with-Hitler-mustache signs:
LaRouche has run seven times for the Democratic nomination for President. Although his supporters freely describe his philosophy as FDR-inspired, the "unbiased" media is happy to pretend that they are tea partiers.
This Tea Party was organized by the San Francisco Bay Area Patriots. As you can see, they planned ahead to deal with infiltrators.
Michelle Malkin has a round-up on tea party infiltrators.
There were tea parties today all over the San Francisco Bay Area. Photos of the one in San Mateo on the San Francisco Peninsula are here.
WELCOME to readers of GatewayPundit, BigGovernment [updated link], Uncoverage, Lone Star Times and Waggle Room.
UPDATE: Fund47 has more photos.
UPDATE II: Over at PajamasMedia, Zombie has a fascinating look at the infiltrators.
PREVIOUSLY on tea parties in the San Francisco bay area:
•A tax day Tea Party breaks out on the San Francisco Peninsula
•3 in 10 Californians identify with tea party protests
•To protest Obamacare, San Francisco holds a sick-in (Nov. 15)
•A Tea Party greets Obama in San Francisco (Oct. 15)
• Videos of the October 15 San Francisco Tea Party
•San Franciscans speak to Nancy Pelosi (Aug. 14)
•The San Francisco Tax Day Tea Party Protest in Pictures (Apr. 15)
•Farmers protest in San Jose (Nov. 21).
•Tea Party breaks out in Palo Alto (Nov. 21)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
A tax day Tea Party breaks out in San Francisco
3 comments:
- Ride Fast said...
Good job, thanks for covering this. I seemed to have missed it in the legacy media somehow.
- JJ said...
Thanks so much for your coverage and your pictures---re-posting!
- manray said...
The Pleasdanton TEA party "rally" yesterday had tens of people. This crowd is not a thousand people. A few hundred maybe. What a divisive stupid organization. Nice claiming the ones with the Obama with Hitler moustaches were "LaRouche democrats" That's dishonest - everyone has already seen these signs at your rallies.
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I also wanted to let you all know that I will be doing my first CSN Stores review! I've done a couple giveaways for them but I am very excited to be doing a review in the coming weeks. Now I just have decided what I am going to get and boy is it going to be a hard choice. They have so many wonderful stores and incredible products to choose from, it's going to be tough!! Be sure to keep a lookout for it!


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When: Friday, January 11, 2019 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
This is a free casual drop-in information session where patients, families and caregivers can chat with a registered nurse about cancer related symptoms and side-effects. The nurse can share tips and strategies to help patients better manage their symptoms. The nurse can also help connect patients to the information they need.
June 6 and 20 sessions feature questions around palliative care.
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Prostate cancer, when caught early, is highly treatable and studies show the most effective treatment for prostate cancer is surgery. To help educate patients about the most innovative surgical option available, Methodist North Hospital will present a live surgical webcast featuring a robotic prostatectomy surgery, a minimally invasive treatment for prostate cancer, Tuesday, May 13, at 2 p.m. Viewers can watch Ravi D. Chauhan, M.D., a urologist and surgeon, and Robert A. Donato, M.D., perform a prostatectomy and learn more about the procedure from Richard M. Pearson, M.D.
"Robotic surgery has really revolutionized prostatectomy," said Richard Pearson, M.D., a urologist and surgeon with The Conrad/Pearson Clinic. "The principles of robotic surgery are based on surgeons' experiences with open surgery so the robot-assisted movements are very natural and it is absolutely fantastic to have an extremely clear, three-dimensional image that allows you to really see the distances between anatomical structures."
A robotic prostatectomy involves five tiny incisions about the size of a dime. The robot's arms are passed through these openings called ports and hold a camera and surgical instruments. The surgeon sits at a console a couple of feet away from the operating table and looks into a viewfinder at a three-dimensional image sent from the camera inside the patient. Using joystick controls just below the screen, the surgeon moves them to manipulate the surgical instruments to perform the surgery.
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"The dirt-to-dish concept was out there; I dropped that," says ConAgra CEO Bruce Rhode. "I've tried to drop the teachings of the past that I don't think are going to push us to the future."
ConAgra is the nation's second largest retail food supplier and the largest food service manufacturer. It had $27 billion in sales last year.
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The former Rapid City resident served in the South Dakota House from 1985-1996. A memorial service is scheduled Tuesday in Reno.
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Stress is something we all experience. At work, home and in relationships—life is a balancing act. For people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), stress can also come from managing major transitions and other emotional changes.
How we respond to stress that determines how it affects our lives. Luckily, we have some control. Learned relaxation techniques can help us manage how we respond to stress and lower its affects before we become overwhelmed.
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Weekly classes will focus on breathing and mindfulness techniques that you can practice daily to manage your stress and help your mind and body relax. Participants will learn how the body responds to stress and how deep breathing can stop the stress response, and practice relaxation techniques like diaphragmatic breathing.
Participants will learn several different techniques, including mindfulness meditation, progressive muscle relaxation and visualization. It is a beginner-level class, and patients and/or caregivers living with MS can drop-in anytime without missing a beat.
Not only is Alex leading the relaxation and stress reduction classes, she is also a new member of the Multiple Sclerosis Center care team. Alex provides psychology services to patients as part of her practicum for earning her doctoral degree.
Meet her and join the group every Monday, beginning September 9, 2013, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Alex is also available to speak and share demonstrations with support groups.
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I do not presume to be the mouthpiece or leader of the 21st century American Tea Party movement, so the following is a summary of my personal vision for the modern American Tea Party, a list of objectives I believe it should seek to accomplish, and a set of principles I believe it should strive to embody. I am writing this because the Tea Party movement will fail to create real change unless it finds direction in sound principles and takes specific, practical steps to ensure the implementation of those principles in public policy.
I. Principles
Any political movement is doomed to failure so long as it is merely fighting for a particular, isolated policy preference or even a set of such preferences, absent of any context and underived from or related to a unified framework for viewing reality, humankind's role in reality, and government's role in humanity. The following (originally published in the Dec. 2008 article "Six Reasons Not To Bailout The 'Big Three' Auto Companies") is a perfect summary of government's proper role, the political principle for which we should be fighting and the banner under which we should be uniting, we who abhor its recent abuses of our liberty:
The proper role of a government is to maintain a civil society, meaning a society free from aggression, a society in which no human being can threaten any other by aggressing against them to destroy, diminish, or expropriate their lives, or their liberty or property- which are necessary preconditions of and corollaries to a human being's right to his or her own life. When government forcibly takes from some in the form of exorbitant taxes (or inflation) to give to others, it does the very thing it exists to safeguard against happening. When it takes such an action, it becomes an aggressor. It ceases to be an impartial arbiter between free and equal citizens to ensure their liberty, and it becomes a biased, partisan advocate for some people, using the legal power and force of its laws to favor them at the expense of the lives, liberty, and property of others without their consent and voluntary cooperation, which is morally outrageous.
If we as champions of liberty can fully comprehend, logically extrapolate from, and effectively articulate this one principle, and if we carry this message to the people of the world in a spirit of humility, love, and benevolence, we will move in leaps and bounds towards creating a truly civil and free society.
II. Purposes
Our protests and other activities cannot be limited by our outrage at the US Federal government's recent passage of the Stimulus Bill. The 2009 American Tea Party movement must do more than simply complain that we don't like what's happening- we have to offer viable alternatives and defend these alternatives as superior to the direction that the current establishment is taking us. We have to set specific goals and actively work to see their attainment in government policy.
The following are suggested goals that I envision the 2009 Tea Party rallying to attain:
- Voting out each and every single incumbent up for re-election in 2010 who voted for the Stimulus Package and/or the 2008 Wall Street Bailout.
- Electing to office only candidates who promise to support a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (without any exceptions -e.g. in the case of war, emergency, or a 3/5ths vote in Congress) in an act that also requires spending reductions only (no raising taxes) for the first four years to balance the budget, as well as:
- The transition of Social Security from a mandatory pay-as-you go system to an optional system of private pensions.
- A permanent repeal of the payroll tax.
III. Tactics
To enshrine in law the principle explicated earlier by accomplishing the goals listed above, we must take action. It's easy to be the one who says, "This is too hard, I'm too busy, I'll let someone else do the work." It takes spirit to say, "Whatever the cost, whatever the discomfort, whatever the outcome- I am duty and conscience bound to do what is right." Good thing we Americans have a lot of spirit.
The following are specific actions to take to help make the goals listed above a reality:
- Subscribe to this blog. I will keep you updated on action you can take to advance liberty as well as provide news and commentary from a libertarian perspective to deepen your understanding of politics and improve your talent as an articulator and defender of freedom.
- Subscribe to ReTeaParty.com, the website of a grassroots, independently-funded political action committee dedicated to coordinating action against government excess and waste as well as campaigning for candidates that will advance a political program of limited government.
- Learn who your Congressman and Senators are, how they voted on the Bailout and Stimulus bills, and whether they are up for reelection in 2010.
- If they are up for reelection and have a clean record ("No" to the Stimulus AND Bailout bills), then support their campaign and contact them to ask for their pledge to pass a balanced budget amendment, Federal spending reductions, privatization of Social Security, and a permanent repeal of the payroll tax. Encourage your friends, family, colleagues, and people you meet in coffee shops to do the same.
- If a Congressman in your district or Senator from your state is up for reelection and voted for the Stimulus OR the Bailout bill, find an alternative candidate to support who believes in limited government and is willing to pledge to some or all of the policies listed above.
- BE ACTIVE in these campaigns! Work hard to enlist others, get donations, and spread the word about your candidate.
And so long as these aren't the only things you're doing, you can still have fun participating in the following:
- Send a letter, write an e-mail, and make a phone call on March 10th to State officials reminding them that we still believe in the 10th Amendment and encouraging them to defend it.
- Send bags of tea to our Congressman and the White House to let them know that enough is enough on April 1st. (Purchase the tea from the Amazon widget above and you help support the Humble Libertarian).
- A Tea Party Protest on July 4th (if there's not one in your area, set one up!) If you don't even know where to begin, e-mail me and I will be glad to personally help you organize one from the ground up.
IV. Guidelines
When our Founding Fathers fought for their Independence, they rebelled against their government to create a new one. Our purpose is different: we want to call America back to its duly-constituted government, not to subvert it or incite rebellion.
- There should be no calls for open revolution against the government. It is the corrupt politicians in Washington that have revolted against our Constitution, not us. We advocate a return to the Constitution. We are not the subversives and we want no other government than that happy one which begins with "We the People..."
- There should be no calls for or acts of violence under any circumstances. Remember that "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
- Be cheerful, happy, and beaming with love, benevolence, and good-will for all of humanity.


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Crrrack. The ball whistles through the air landing far over the fence, and the crowd goes wild… Well, it didn't happen exactly like that, but I think a couple people at least clapped. Last Thursday, I successfully pitched three months worth of brainstorming and work on Fantom 'fit to a panel of entrepreneurs and investors as the final piece of the entrepreneurial journalism course. It was intimidating to sit up in front of strangers (especially ones who have all been very successful) and present to them an idea, my baby, delicately placed on the chopping block.
I knew my material well, so that part didn't scare me. But these presentations are about so much more than your concept. They want you know know the market size, your target customer, and exactly how you plan to launch your product. In my case that meant answering questions like: Where am I going to get an initial stock of photos for people to tag and identify? How am I going to build an app? What will it look like and how will it be used? And maybe most importantly, how much will it cost?
I tackled these problems one by one and kept hearing the wise words of Gauri Manglik, the intelligent young co-founder behind Fondu, in my head: "the reason I succeeded was probably because I didn't realize how much I didn't know". The more I plotted out exactly what I needed to do, the more I thought, "sure, I could do this!" Ignorance really is bliss.
When the time came to do the presentation, I really did find myself asking what I had been so worried about. It came together, I got some really good pointers and ideas on where to take Fantom 'fit from here. The key thing I learned is that you don't have to have all the answers, having the right questions can be just as valuable.


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Red Diamond Regiment: The 17th Maine Infantry, 1862-1865
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The 17th Maine Infantry served with the Army of the Potomac from Fredericksburg to Appomattox, suffering more casualties than any other Maine regiment, even though other regiments garnered more contemporary fame. After first serving in the defences of Washington, the regiment fought at Fredericksburg and wintered in Virginia. The army again turned south towards Chancellorsville, where Stonewall Jackson's attack on the XI Corps cut the regiment off. After heavy combat, forty members of the 17th received the Kearny Medal, described as a "cross of valor", recognizing the regiment's bravery there. Marching rapidly northward, the 17th withstood Hood's onslaught at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and the struggle for Petersburg followed. This comprehensive history goes beyond that combat to show the soldiers' everyday life, their relationships to their home front state, and how their bravery and suffering related to the larger Civil War. Indeed, this history is a good introduction to the Civil War soldier.
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