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PISCATAWAY, NJ – Nearly 100 area residents and visitors came together to stand against bigotry and prejudice at a vigil held at Perrine Park on Rivercrest Drive in Piscataway Monday night. The "Vigil against Racism and Hate" event was one of many organized in communities around New Jersey and the nation in the aftermath of last weekend's domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, VA.
Participants held candles and flashlights through the hour-long event with some also displaying homemade signs with messages reading "Stop Racism Now," "Silence is Complicity" and "Hate Has No Home Here."
The vigil opened with a prayer from Elder Jerry Brooks of the Zion Hill Baptist Church who said, "We hope God will intervene on behalf of, and heal our country." At the conclusion of his remarks he led the crowd in a recitation of the end section of the Pledge of Allegiance, with the words "We are one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" echoing through the quiet park as the sun set.
Joanne Rutherford-Pastras said she came to the rally because of how much she loves the Piscataway community, which rallied behind her husband when he suffered a stroke and a brain injury a few years ago. "We are here because of the power of Piscataway," she said. "We believe that every single person has the right to live on this earth in peace and without fear."
Vicar Serena Rice, of the Abiding Peace Lutheran Church, said she attended the vigil in two capacities, as an American and as a faith leader. "America is a country that stands for justice and liberty for all," said Rice. "I want that for my country. My heart is grieved that we are ripped apart by hatred. I cannot stand by as a white American and let hatred have the loudest voice."
Piscataway resident Staci Berger, who helped organize the event with the Central Jersey Progressive Democrats, encouraged the attendees to register to vote and to sign a petition urging Piscataway's municipal leaders to adopt fair and welcoming policies in response to the Trump Administration's policies affecting immigrant communities. She said she invited Mayor Brian Wahler and members of the Township Council to attend, but had not yet received response.
Mindy Walsh, another resident led a moment of silence to remember the life of Heather Heyer who was the victim of what Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said was an act of domestic terrorism in Charlottesville on Saturday. Heyer was killed while peacefully protesting the presence of Nazis, KKK and other white supremacists in the streets of her hometown when a car driven by Jason Kessler plowed into a crowd, injuring at least 35 others.
Bill Irwin, president of the Piscataway Township Board of Education, spoke about the need to resist KKK, Nazis and other fascist forces "not only with words, but with action and policy, and not only nationally, but locally."
"That is why, for starters, communities, and counties need to adopt fair and welcoming policies that make it clear that we will not voluntarily cooperate with ICE, that our resources, and our police, will not be used to further a profoundly immoral agenda," said Irwin. "These policies are a test. The fascists are trying to find out what measure of injustice we will accept, what measure of goodness and decency we will give up when threatened with reprisal. The answer must be not one bit."
In response to the Trump Administration's changes to policies targeted towards immigrants, Piscataway's Board of Education was the first in the state to adopt a resolution affirming the district's commitment to educate all students. Last fall, the Board also adopted a policy to protect the rights of transgender students. Other municipalities in the state, including Highland Park, and Middlesex County Freeholders have since adopted similar versions of fair and welcoming policies.
However, Franklin resident Brian Lee said that there are daily raids against immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in New Brunswick which he said are terrifying residents there. He urged participants to defend DACA, an Obama-era program that allows people who were brought to the United States as children to access a pathway to citizenship.
Republican State Senate candidate Daryl Kipnis led the crowd in the NJ Interfaith Coalition's Pledge to Stand Up for the Other, and said that "As a Jewish American, I condemn Nazism in the strongest possible terms. It has no place in our society."
Other participants spoke about the need to defend of the rights of LGBTQ residents, immigrants, members of the Muslim community and others targeted by racism and hatred.
Koon Javaid, of Piscataway, who described herself as a hospice nurse, a Muslim and a new American citizen, said she came to say thank you to the community. "I wanted to represent our community and to say thank you to the town for standing up."
Elena Matthews, a young Piscataway woman told the gathering that no one should be judged for where they come from. "People have died to make America what they wanted it to be, like Martin Luther King and Harriet Beecher Stowe," said Matthews.
Piscataway resident Kamuela Tillman closed the vigil by singing "Amazing Grace" and the crowd joined her for "We Shall Overcome."
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St Ann mayor has plans for facility
MAYOR of St Ann's Bay Desmond Gilmore said he is in the process of submitting a proposal to the National Land Agency for the use of the property which once housed the Windsor Girls' Home in St Ann, to establish a half-way house for persons who have been abandoned by relatives at the St Ann's Bay Regional Hospital.
With several persons living on wards at the St Ann's Bay Regional Hospital, years after being discharged, and with the hospital experiencing a shortage of beds in recent times, the mayor said he is looking to see how the Council can assist.
Gilmore, who is also the councillor for the Lime Hall division, said the Child Development Agency, which had oversight for the Windsor Girls' Home, has no further interest in the property.
The mayor said some persons have been living on the wards for up to two years, however, his colleague councillor for the Alexandria division Gilbert McLeod said others have been there for up to 12 years.
Gilmore also expressed plans to establish a drop-in centre at the property, where street people can get a meal and other necessities.
Noting that many persons, especially in the tourism areas, complain about the large number of persons on the streets, Gilmore said he hopes to address the problem if allowed to operate the property in Windsor Heights.
"We as a parish are not doing enough for our street people," he said, adding that there needs to be a place to which these people can go to reduce the number of them on the streets.
Gilmore hopes to accomplish this through funds expected to be raised at the Mayor's Ball to be hosted next month.
Proceeds from the ball are also expected to go towards the Council's Scholarship Fund which started last year. The Council awarded a scholarship to a student entering Marcus Garvey Technical last year, and the mayor said the Council "has every intention to continue awarding a scholarship yearly."
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The Hunter by Richard Stark (1962): I'm Goin' Back to New York City, I Do Believe I've Had Enough
This all might seem unbelievable but the writing is so simple and events move almost as if predestined you will believe. And if Parker doesn't kill you right away don't think you're safe. It's only that he needs more info from you so you're dead later rather than sooner. Then he took Mal's neck in his hands again, and this time he didn't let go till Mal stopped breathing.
flick (in which Parker is renamed Walker but I think that is fine). Terrific cover painting illustrating Parker's confrontation with his wife. "I was never a whore, Parker," she said. "You know that." "No. You sold my body instead."
You can't go wrong with Parker. You'd better not go wrong with Parker.
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The Big Fix by Roger L. Simon (1973): Playing Clue Solitaire
Roger L. Simon has written several novels with Wine over the years in which his detective seems to be mapping out a chart of contemporary history. I spent months looking for a copy of The Big Fix in bookstores and had no luck till I was browsing in a Hollywood bookstore. I wasn't blown away by The Big Fix or anything, found it good in places and confusing in others; even, at times, unbelievably violent, in the sense that characters seemed more brutal than I found credible. If anything, I recommend the delightful 1978 film version with Richard Dreyfuss, who's perfectly cast as Wine, trying to hang onto ideals long since forgotten by everybody but him, it seems (too bad he didn't play the character again). It cuts down on some of the book's more outre plot (satanic cults) and captures a laid-back LA of the time filled with uptight political wranglers, as well as Wine's tough-comic-cynical nature and his concerns for the impact his odd lifestyle will have on his sons. I've been digging on LA noir lately so if that's your thing too, you should see if The Big Fix will fix you right.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
The Outfit by Richard Stark (1963): To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest
The titular organization is basically the mob or Mafia but it doesn't go by that name. The Outfit wants Parker dead for past deeds they think were wrong but Parker knows were right. The guy they send to do the job louses it up and now it's Parker who's hunting the Outfit. In fact through a letter-writing campaign he encourages his fellow professionals - not friends, not for Parker, but men he's worked with - to knock over various illicit "businesses" run by the Outfit. This works extremely well, like clockwork even, and soon the Outfit's out nearly a million and the head, Bronson, wants Parker... you guessed it, dead. But Parker's got other plans.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy (1988): Nightmare Movies
Oh, yes, this is a James Ellroy novel. This is The Big Nowhere. I can't imagine anyone familiar with contemporary crime literature not knowing his name, for James Ellroy single-handedly resuscitated the mystery-noir novel in the late-80s (and continues to astonish with his work today). With his penchant for hipster-cop slang, clipped, vivid prose, extreme violence and gore, complicated and lengthy novels, and dozens upon dozens of characters, Ellroy upped the ante for what mystery novels could do and be. This is not escapist fiction--you will probably never encounter a world as dark and unrelenting, or as morally repugnant, as the one depicted in his so-called L. A. Quartet, of which The Big Nowhere is second.
While not as gripping as White Jazz, nor as masterful as L. A. Confidential, this novel still manages to astound, shock, and satisfy the serious reader. With his spot-on recreation of 1950s Hollywood, Ellroy provides a unique glimpse into the evils of a period we still imagine to be fairly innocent. Ellroy spares no expense here, kicking ass all over PC historical revisionism, going places with language, character and story that Chandler, Hammett, Cain, etc. would scarcely have dreamed.
Along with Det. Upshaw, there is Mal Considine, a DA assistant, still tortured by the fact the woman he once loved was a Nazi whore; her son means more to him than anything. To adopt this boy, he will join forces with paranoid, violent men with hard-ons for busting Commies in Hollywood. One of the most harrowing scenes in the novel is when he and Irish LAPD Lieutenant Dudley Smith--oh, evil, evil Dudley Smith, who appears in more than one Ellroy novel--interrogate a screenwriter and, in the end, force him to name his friends as Communist conspirators. Ellroy shades scenes like this not in a phony tone of black and white, but in those hellish, inescapable greys that damn us all.
Then there's Buzz Meeks, an ex-cop who pimps underage girls to the infamous Howard Hughes, buys off judges, and does strong-arm work for Jewish mobster Mickey Cohen. Buzz is the hero of the novel, and that should give you another idea of what Ellroy's vision of conventional cops'n'robbers morality is. He'll eventually work with Considine and Smith, trying to uproot the perverted Communists at work in the movie industry--but he'll only do it for money.
You'll take a tour through black jazz joints, through junkie flophouses, medical examiner labs, through murder sites sprayed with blood, sit in on a special screening of a harrowing art-snuff movie, rub shoulders with incestuous men, femme fatales, and meet a killer who wears animal teeth. There are ugly secrets, double-crosses, set-ups; Upshaw goes deep undercover as a Leftist hep-cat and almost gets caught in a love-nest--but he's so tormented by his own sexual identity, he can't go through with what his job requires...
But by the last third of the book, things get really complex and confusing, and I found myself drifting. The explanation for everything comes in the final pages, and there is a very good climax, so stick with it. The Big Nowhere isn't necessarily Ellroy's best, but it's still miles ahead of virtually every other crime writer out there.


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My day job is extremely low paying and yet I get to fly off to locations and photograph world class athletes. Last month I was gone twice and did some of the most amazing work I've ever done.
I'm fortunate to be in a position where my house will be mine in less than two years. What I'm getting at, is that if you truly love what you do, it doesn't matter how much you get paid.
I took a slew of amazing photographs in Atlanta of the chap who was just given the Madden cover.
Today I saw what the cover is going to look like and I thought I would hurl. Apparently just because you HAVE a zillion great images, you SHOULD in fact, try and cram every one, reduced to microsize on the cover. Drats. Disgusto.
What I'm hoping for is that my work catches someone's eye and I am wooed away with an offer of real money so I can take care of Snowflake for reals. I keep on trucking. My goal is to create cool, high end work for a bargain basement price and build my portfolio until it is bursting at the seams with eye popping goodness.
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In the Dream League, every player bats every inning, batters swing until they get a hit (with or without assistance), players are safe on the bases, there are no outs and every player scores a run each inning. Safety balls are used and the ball is pitched by an adult coach or hit off a tee. Players are assisted by "buddies" who provide encouragement and assistance as needed. Every team and each player win every game.
Last year, the Dream League grew to over 50 players and 4 teams and we'd love to have you join us. The Dream League plays on Saturday mornings at Creek Road Park in Elma starting in May through approximately the end of June, depending on weather. All players get team uniforms and an award at the end of the season. Our players have fun, make lasting memories and make great friends.
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By Bill ArmstrongApril 22, 2009
FORT RILEY, Kan. - Floyd Hansford just can't help himself when it comes to adding his special touch to artwork. The visual information specialist at Fort Riley's Directorate of Information Management recently was working on a large sign that featured the Installation Management Command logo.
"I decided to spruce it up a little bit," Hansford said. "It's basically the same logo, but instead of being flat and dull it's now got some sparkle and a little bit of pizzazz."
Hansford also added some text around the logo to make it specific to Fort Riley garrison. Arching across the top of the logo are the words "U.S. Army Garrison," while "Fort Riley, Kansas" completes an arc across the bottom.
Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Ian Mann took one look at Hansford's recreation of the IMCOM patch and latched onto it, Hansford said.
Hansford's artistic technique involved creating his freehand logo through the use of Adobe Illustrator software.
"I didn't really have the idea in my mind," he said. "I just started drawing and then when I got there, I said that's what I want."
Unlike the original IMCOM logo, Hansford's logo has a three-dimensional look to give it some depth.
"I think it made it more of a real thing instead of just a one-dimensional object," Hansford said.
The new logo is quickly spreading across Fort Riley. Hansford's artwork graces the top of the new garrison command boards.
The garrison also wasted no time in getting the new logo available to Soldiers and employees on a variety of clothing items, said Curtis Blanke, DOIM's visual information management officer.
"People have pride in their units, and IMCOM is no different than any other organization," Blanke said.
Illustration has been Hansford's passion for decades.
"I think the first paying job I got was in 1970," he said.
After serving as an illustrator in the U.S. Navy, he decided to do it for his own business as a civilian. Hansford later worked in the corporate world in that same capacity for 12 years. He's worked on Fort Riley for the past eight years.


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Current and Non-Current Assets Paper
ACC/400: Accounting for Decision Making
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Current and Non-Current Assets Paper
Assets are "resources owned by a business" (Kimmel, Weygandt & Kieso, 2007, p. 10) which are expected "to increase the value of a firm or benefit the firms operations" (Investopedia, 2010, para. 3). Assets are necessary because they are used to fund operations and expenses of a business. Assets are divided into two categories, current and non-current, which will be compared and contrasted in the paper. Also discussed in the paper will be the order of liquidity and how the order of liquidity applies to the balance sheet.
Assets hold value for a company and can be converted to cash or used up by a company.
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Current Assets
Current assets are "assets that a company expects to convert to cash or use up within one year" (Kimmel, Weygandt & Kieso, 2007, p. 49). Current assets are also referred to as short-term assets. Examples of current assets are: cash, accounts receivable, notes receivables, marketable securities, prepaid assets, and other liquid assets that can be readily converted to cash (Investopedia, 2010).
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The difference between current assets and non-current assets is the time in which the asset will be converted...


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New "green" TransCanada Centre opens to serve Manitoba community of Île-des-Chênes.
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"It complements our good-neighbour policy."
"This is a very strategic community for us," says Steve Loney, TransCanada's Aboriginal and Community liaison, Central Region. "Île-des-Chênes is next to TransCanada's compressor station 41, our largest facility in the Central region. The new community centre is beside our right-of-way for the Canadian Mainline natural gas pipeline."
"This community has been growing with TransCanada for some 50 years and many of our employees live in the area," says Steve. "When the community approached us in the planning stages of this project, we realized immediately that it complements our good-neighbour policy of helping build sustainable communities."
The Central Region provided a $50,000 community investment grant which was matched by a $50,000 TransCanada Partnership Grant. The region also committed to help with another $50,000 in fundraising. Through this level of funding TransCanada received naming rights for the facility.
"We insisted the signage be bilingual since the community is bilingual," says Steve. "The TransCanada Centre sign gets great exposure on the highway."
Geothermal system won a 2012 National Sustainable Communities Award.
The facility garnered the LEED® designation for its many environmentally sustainable features that range from bike racks and showers to encourage alternative transportation to the use of high performance windows and increased insulation.
The TransCanada Centre energy savings are expected to be about 60 per cent, compared to similar non-green facilities. The building is tied to the district's geothermal system, which also heats and cools the local arena and fire hall. The system has a geothermal earth energy field consisting of 504 boreholes, two lines per hole, 18 meters (60 feet) deep. The geothermal system won a 2012 National Sustainable Communities Award from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
Almost the entire community turned out to celebrate opening.
Almost the entire community turned out for the grand opening that included a dinner and dance with a live band. The ribbon cutting was attended by Federal MP Vic Toews and Provincial MLA Ron Lemieux. TransCanada's representatives included Randy Schmidgall, director Central Region; Barry Adamson, area manager, Agassiz, and Steve Loney.


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That one out of the 7 days of the week that I come home, I love having time to myself. Normally Sunday's, I like doing some solo training or doing some specific strength work at home. Home is where the heart is and I love seeing my family, my dog and my friends when I come home. I couldn't be any luckier that my home is only 40 mins away from Wollongong and I can drop by anytime I like to say hello and catch up with Mum and Dad.
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The article started out with autocannons:
The autocannon brought rate of fire and a good medium strength combination - this allowed for easier suppression against vehicles. ...Have things changed?
Yes and no. Autocannons are still an excellent choice, especially in they can be twin-linked like... Space Marine Dreadnoughts. They were suppression machines before, now they are hull point eating machines. They're going to struggle against the higher AVs but they still take a hull point off 33% of the time - not bad considering you get two shots per weapon. For comparison, a missile launcher only takes a hull point off 50% of the time - and has half the rate of fire. Chuck in the twin-linking options and they're not bad at dropping flyers either - takes a lot of them to do so but lots of shots and re-rolling all dice for 6's is about the best you can do without flyers of your own. Autocannons also get the most out of snap firing due to their increased rate of fire...
Unfortunately, there are only two places to get autocannons in the Blood Angels codex- the Predator tank and the Dreadnought entry. Also, you need to either make the Dreadnought autocannon arms from Aegis Defense Line parts, other re-purposed from other gaming systems or drop some hard earned cash on ForgeWorld. However, both of these options are efficient codex choices which is always nice.
The Predator is a fast vehicle which is a positive and a negative. Although it has a 13AV front, it is only 11 on the sides and 10 rear armour. Its best place could be just sitting in the board corners of your deployment zone. Since you have paid the points for the fast vehicle, you should probably try to enhance its use as best you can. If the mission is Big Guns Never Tire, your Predators are scoring. Keep in mind that you can move 12" in the movement phase and then still move Flat Out another 12" which might come in really handy at the end of the game when your opponent thinks you are safely out of range of that objective. In two turns, you could be 48" across the board if you needed it. The real benefit is being able to move and keep up your rate of fire. You can move 12" and fire two weapons. You have your autocannon shot and use one of your side sponsons at full ballistic skill. Choosing heavy bolters or lascannons is up to what you want to use your Predator for. Are you going to be going for infantry / heavy infantry or vehicle hunting? That will give you the answer to which option to choose. Keep in mind that there is a blind spot where the sponsons cannot shoot that is directly in front of the tank. Before dismissing the heavy bolters, remember that they could help out in knocking out light armour in addition to infantry.
Heavy bolters have seen improvement in being more capable of destroying vehicles thanks to hull points but they still aren't a heavy weapon of choice. Just the occasional times you have heavy bolters (i.e. Dakka Preds, hullmounts, Typhoons, etc.) they are more useful.
There are many places in the codex to choose heavy bolters: Servitors, Tactical Squad, Scout Squad, Razorback, Land Raider, Land Speeder, Baal Predator, Attack Bike, Dreadnought, Stormraven Gunship, Predator and Devastator Squad. Heavy bolters suffer from not having a low enough AP or a high enough strength. It's benefit is that it is cheap and often just comes standard with the unit. Lead vehicles expected to be focus fired on probably are not worth upgrading with the amount of points necessary to make it more effective. It will definitely be a matter of refining your list to decide where to invest your points if you want to make it more competitive and should be made to fit in with your overall strategy. You also have to decide if the enemy will accept your sacrificial or bait unit, but zooming that Razorback out in front will be a tempting target and would at least provide a cover save to vehicles hiding behind it. Your opponent now has poorer choices to decide upon.
Missile Launchers are still the jack of all trades with their small blast and high strength single shot but with the changes to the vehicle damage chart and missile launchers being a single shot, AP3 weapon, they are no longer as effective at destroying vehicles. They are still decent at suppression due to their higher strength and when push comes to shove, they can pack some wounds on infantry as well but their general utility as an anti-vehicle weapon has gone down. However, if in the future an FAQ comes to play allowing some (or all) missile launchers across armies having Flakk missiles (a missile which has Skyfire), missiles will re-emphasis their jack of all trades card and still be a good middle ground choice which can do a little bit of everything.
Actually, they are more effective at destroying vehicles than ever before. Lascannons and plasma just had larger increases. There are hull points and the damage chart is not the all protecting force it was before either and decreased cover saves. Missile launchers are also fantastic because of their range. Shooting and neutralizing opponent shooting is so important now, so 48" is a huge consideration. More competitive lists just cannot afford to have many lascannons in it, so missile launchers are a nice compromise that let's you also deal death to hordes. Missile launchers are available with: Terminator Squads, Sternguard Veteran Squad, Tactical Squad, Scout Squad, Rhino, Razorback, Land Raider(+ Crusader and Redeemer), Land Speeder Squadron, Baal Predator, Dreadnought, Stormraven Gunship, Predator, Devastator Squad, Vindicator and Whirlwind. Some of these are hunter-killer missiles but have the same S8 AP3 stat line.
The lascannon is the next obvious choice - generally maligned in the past for being too expensive and not gaining anything of particular note against vehicles, Lascannons are now an improved option RELATIVELY speaking compared to other weapons thanks to AP2. This basically keeps the lascannon on par with what its damage capacity was before but with reduced cover saves it becomes slightly more effective.
This also ignores the importance of having that 48" range. The most advanced strategists generally agree that this is mostly a shooting game at this point. You need to be able to neutralize the opponent's glass cannon. You can get lascannons on Sternguard, Tactical Squad, Razorback, Land Raider, Dreadnought, Stormraven Gunship, Predator and Devastator Squad.
Plasma cannons like-wise got a two-fold buff, they are better at dropping vehicles than before (blasts always count as full strength) and taking off hull points whilst the AP2 blast has to contend with lower cover in general.
Plasma cannons (and anything scattering with the small blast marker) are usually an all or nothing situation. Everything can go wrong with that Gets Hot! roll. Then you have to roll for scatter. When things go right, they can be devastating though. You can get Plasma Cannons on Servitors, Sternguard, Tactical Squad, Dreadnought, Stormraven Gunship and Devastator Squad.
Multi-meltas are still the star of the show when it comes to taking down tanks and have really lost nothing in their application - when on vehicles or relentless platforms (i.e. Attack Bikes, Speeders, etc.). Multi-meltas on infantry models are far less an appetising proposal and really only fit in certain units (i.e. MM Rhino Bunkers) and snap fire helps them be a little more useful on the turns they need to move. Still a fantastic weapon on other platforms though.
That says it all about Multi-Meltas above. You can get them with Servitors, Sternguard Veteran Squad, Tactical Squad, Land Raider (+ Crusader and Redeemer), Land Speeder, Attack Bike, Dreadnought, Stormraven Gunship and Devastator Squad.
I should also throw in the Heavy Flamer.
S5 AP4 and it is an assault weapon! It might come in handy some time. It is not going to be terribly effective against marines, but it should be good fun. You can get it on the Furioso Dreadnought, Terminator Squad, Sternguard Veteran Squad, Death Company Dreadnought, Razorback, Land Speeder, Baal Predator and Dreadnought. If you really like it, you will probably love the Flamestorm Cannon.
Flamestorm Cannons are only on vehicles and are S6 AP3 that will create some carnage on the battlefield. It would be nice if Dreadnoughts could take them as a primary weapon too. You can find them only on the Land Raider Reedemer and Baal Predator, unfortunately.
The three major heavy weapons (autocannon, missile launcher, lascannon) are all still decent choices though I'd say if you had the option for an autocannon, I'd be leaning to them every day of the week over missile launchers. Unless missile launchers do get that skyfire option for an additional cost, well then each of those three heavy weapons does something a little better than the other but neither one is completely over-shadowing the other when compared to their points cost and options where they can be taken.
Why not try out some of the other options and see what works best for you rather than just use Autocannons because they are perhaps the best choice for general all around use. Also, you need to consider the twin-linked opportunities that are presented in various options. Twin-linked weapons are so valuable because of their reliability. If you can't get the weapon you want twin-linked on a certain weapons platform, consider one of the less usual options to add variety to your list and even surprise your heretical opponent.


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Belt, Joy Reed, THE JOURNAL RECORD
For at least the past 20 years, there have been experimental management styles. When a new management style is introduced, it can be difficult for managers to adjust. Often they resist it. If the experiment fails, it's difficult to tell whether the reason is weakness in the innovation or sabotage by reluctant personnel.
Recently, for example, there has been much discussion of People Express. While most airlines have specialized personnel categories, People Express cut overhead by having employees perform many jobs. In addition, employees have been divided into 11 "operating groups" of about 300 members.
Criticisms in print probably reflect statements by employees who are used to the way things were done in the airlines they came from and don't like the new system.
People's recent well-publicized problems may or may not result from its management style. Whatever mistakes were made might have been made under any system, but doubtless the personnel who leaked criticisms to the press are saying, "I told you so."
Such employees damage themselves. Their survival depends on the survival of the company. Sabotaging the management style isn't likely to effect change; all it does is weaken the company and make itmore likely that the worker will find himself in the unemployment line.
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His fingers moving rapidly over the computer keyboard, Musa Mustafa "sketched" a hat on the screen and maneuvered it onto Gumby's head as a visiting Soviet animator shook his head in delight.
Fedor Khitruk, president of the Union of Soviet Animators, was tickled again when Mustafa, selecting from a computer display of colors, created green eyes for a cartoon alien.
"I would like to take this toy," Khitruk said finally.
Despite the glare of movie lights and the high-tech wizardry of the video, sound and film-editing equipment surrounding him recently, Khitruk wasn't touring a Hollywood studio. Instead, he was in a high school classroom in Rowland Heights.
Not that the teen-agers' productions are anything to dismiss lightly.
Within the last decade, animation students at Rowland High School have produced more than 1,000 films and won about 50 international prizes.


text: Ok, I've been clinging to this trusty PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0Ghz machine for a while now. This puppy has three 19" LCDs hooked up to it, 8GB of RAM, and I'm now used to the nice amount of screen real estate. It's rock solid, just a bit clunky and slow for certain tasks. This is the PowerMac7,2 model with a geekbench score of a whopping 1460. I've been starting to use Xcode for iPhone app development on my laptop and I'm running into the need for snow leopard more and more, like CS5. Enough is enough, I need a new computer. I use my current PowerMac G5 as my primary machine for my home business. Use it like 8-10 hrs a day. It's mostly graphics/logo/dtp work in Illustrator/InDesign, with occasional Photoshop work and very rarely Quark (thankfully!). This also includes other non-hardware intensive apps like xcode, Filemaker (with LARGE databases), Dreamweaver, Word, Web apps, etc. I don't play games, and only occasionally do some light video stuff. I've been using Macs since my first mac IIcx in 1991 and I've always been a "power" user geek. The thought of having an all-in-one scares me from a longevity point as well as lacking the upgradability of a tower. So the iMac is not really something I'd lean toward. I have no problem buying a used 2008 Mac Pro, or any other option like the 2010 base model Mac Pro, etc. Just wanted some advice since I feel the top-of-the-line Mac Pro would be total overkill for a user like me, but I don't want to miss out on anything. Any help is appreciated, thanks.


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How to Wear a Cycling Cap: Louison Bobet
While working on your bike, even in the middle of the Tour de France.
The year is 1953, stage 7 during the Tour de France. Bobet is not only receiving some assistance from teammate, Bernard Gauthier, but judging by the intent expressions on the faces of the nearby spectators, I image there is quite a bit of unsolicited advice being given as well. Bobet failed to win on that day, but did capture two stages later in the race, and finished up in grand style by wearing Yellow for the final five stages and winning his first (of three) Tours de France.


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Other than the obvious speed and performance issues of the elite website, here are a few things I feel that should be considered for future updates.
Stat Tracking:
As someone who really likes to look at numbers and analyze things, it would be nice to be able to export the recent match data in some text of excel format. So I can have some e-bragging rights, or at least look at how I've improved month to month, week to week, etc etc. The data is there, but I just can't easily get it out of the site and into a format that I can work with. It would be nice to be able to see how well I perform on a map level. So I can see which maps I do better on versus others, and determine if I need to change my gameplan around for those maps.
A few things can be improved here which in my opinion will make it appeal to more people and make it a bit easier to police.
1) Specific competition playlists. this way you can seperate things, and have set rules. For example, the Free For All competitive playlist would not allow for "join in progress". Thus reducing, if not eliminating any chance of team work or boosting. With a specific playlist, you can also limit people joining late. Give a 30 minute window for people to join in the playlist, and thats it. If people quit early, they leave the competition. I tried out a domination competition, and found it hard to deal with "randoms" who just give up, or just plain leave. It makes it really strange how the winners can even get consistant lobbies, and also get groups of people who don't give up and actually keep going for the objective.
Also, you can also set certain conditions, like ending the match early if too many people quit, and make the wait time between matches shorter like an express lobby. You can also make it so that the people in the lobby change after every match. So a 6 man group will get a new group of people to play against after each match. This might not work so well with the current winning conditions (i.e. most captures, most defends), but that can change with my next point.
2) Change the winning conditions, instead of a simple number of total captures or defends in domination, it should just be total scoreboard points after a set amount of time. This way, you are not penalized by entire teams backing out when they are losing, thus wasting time of the people involved in the competition. Another competition which may be added would be using the score difference between the two sides as your score for the competition, and you have to accumulate as much as possible of X amount of games or within a certain time period, with potentially a cap on games. This way, you are not relying on the efforts of the other team to get you to the top of the leaderboard. You can go out and get points on your own. Bonus points can be offered for winning, versus losing, to put more emphasis on that.
3) Limit the number of prizes won by a single player. TV and Radio shows do this, they limit you to winning 1 prize from them every 30 days, 60 days or whatever. This would help open up the competition to more people as its already well known that there are a few "clans" that are specifically playing for these competitions only. The idea with elite is to get more people involved, and not give a select few who put in the extra effort to win everything all the time. Its in the best interest in the community that we spread things out, and get more people winning, and spreading the word to non-premium members to join up. I would even go as far as saying there should be some secondary prizes given out to the top X amount of players, or even pick a random player from the gold teir to win something, not just a digital badge.
These competitions are supposed to add to the fun of the game, but right now, it seems to have bred a different monster. You have boosters, who somehow think they can actually get away with cheating a system that tracks your every kill and position. Some people are just too stupid I guess, but the consequences should be much harsher in my opinion to get through these people. Then you have the super teams who do nothing but play the competitions and kill it for the regular people who want to try to take part, but have no hope in winning because they are either on their own, or just get into bad lobbies, or in my case, can't even get a match for 10-15 minutes at certain times.
Elite as a platform has lots of potential, hopefully it gets more functionality in it to take it further.


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I had previously lost my first Budgie, Tilly, on Easter. Obviously, this was very very upsetting for me but didn't want to get a new Budgie straight away feeling it would be disrespectful.
Tilly would of been four in September/August time of this year. She hated being handled bless her. :)
---------------Hello there, I think I'll start off by telling you my name. Apparently I'm now called 'Beanie,'
at least that's what my new people have been saying to me. I used to live in South Wales on the top of a mountain with a lady, her husband and a lot of other budgies and cockatoos, even a grumpy parrot up until I was 7 weeks old where I went to live with my new Mum all the way near Gloucester. They had travelled a very long way just to get little me.
I must be very special.
It was a long drive and I had to be put into a box, I could hear people talking and I didn't make much fuss on the box but I did try my hand at chewing a way out through the holes … that didn't prove very successful.
Once we got to my new home, I was released out into the room I believe I am now going to be staying in. I got onto my new Mum's finger to see I was being stared at by 4 other people. It felt very strange and I didn't want to say anything and I wasn't too keen on moving either. I sat with new Mum for awhile before she put me into my new cage. It was very quiet with out my last budgie cage friend so I decided to by my millet, with my back to the new people obviously.
Apparently no one is sure what gender I am at the moment, sometimes they call me He and sometimes they call me She. I wish they'd hurry up and find out, even I want to know now.
This is a picture of me taken my new Mum. Don't I look sweet. :)
New Mum is going to keep this diary up for lots of people to have a read, see my progress and for her self to keep a track on how I do over my time with her.
She also may use this blog for her University work too!


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Triple redundancyLast weekend I learned how to change the hydraulic fluid on Herman's tractor. It was of course a learning experience- I still haven't made it to the laundromat to try to get the oil out of the clothes that I was wearing. :/
We went to Cathaus for a lovely Ethiopian dinner with old friends last night. It was lovely.
I still have nasty chronic foot pain and I still look forward to starting or moving to a farm.
I'm on facebook now...


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I just played a game online and want to tell you what happened (can also be seen in this replay):
So, I wanted to level my SU-101 and started a game in it. That's how I got this Encounter game on Mountain Pass.
One of the first players to die is an E-100. He got shot by an T-30 and he thinks the T-30 used gold to kill him. Now the flaming starts.
He tells the T-30 driver to "get cancer, gold noob". And this is what got me. I'm used to the normal flaming and don't start a topic on the forums for that. But I don't think it's normal to tell someone to get cancer. So I tell the E-100 driver that he shouldn't tell others to get cancer. My father got diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago, so I know how bad a desease it is. After that the E-100 driver tells me to get cancer too (and the rest of my family). So he clearly doesn't seem to care.
That's why I want to ask your attention. Please help me to get a ban for these kind of players, starting with the player in question (who's name I won't mention over here, but it can be found in the link).
I hope this will be a sign to other players, so that they don't tell others the just get cancer (over a f*cking game).
Thanks in advance!
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Google Code In is an annual coding competition for high school aged 13-17 around the world. Various organizations (called mentoring organizations) publish bite-sized tasks which they feel students can complete within a given time span. I chose to work with the Wikimedia Foundation for this competition (and I have not regretted my decision in the least!).
FOSS development is a universe in itself, and had I not discovered the super-awesome and helpful Wikimedia manuals, I definitely would have gotten lost during my intergalactic travels! 🙂 It may seem trivial to "hard core coders", but I'm telling you: it's not.
I had been selected as a finalist in the previous edition (GCI 2014), so this year, I was determined to step it up a notch. Last year, I completed about 18 "clonable" tasks (tasks which, ideally, each student should claim once or maybe twice, just to get the hang of it), so it might not be such a good idea to consider my performance from last year as a model! The intimidating manuals for setting up a development environment, submitting my first patch, etc, also kept me away from coding tasks.
This year, I made sure to read up on every aspect of the Wikimedia Foundation before joining the competition, and I have to say, it's been a truly remarkable journey for me! The mere fact that I'm creating something which is being used by millions around the world sends my mind into a tizzy!
A (normal) conversation between two people:
Person A: Hey, do you know the answer to this?
Person B: Oh, I don't know, but it's probably on Wikipedia.
Person A: Oh yeah, thanks!
Wikipedia, along with countless other projects, is run by the Wikimedia Foundation. I had been one of those people who thought Wikipedia was just… meant to be there. I had no idea about the hours and months and years of hard work which was put into creating it. Each page we view has innumerable scripts running in the background, each one working on making our experience better.
For GCI 2015, I started off with a few simple tasks, which just involved editing a couple of lines of code, in order to learn the entire workflow better. As I completed more tasks, they progressed in difficulty and complexity too. My repertoire of programming languages only included a tad bit of PHP (he basic syntax). However, that wasn't the case a few weeks later. There I was, incorporating SQL into the PHP code of Mediawiki core, creating lines and lines of my own code! (I have to say, the most challenging task I have completed so far has to be this one. 45 patches!!!). My parents aren't surprised anymore when I stay up late into the night, and wake up early in the mornings to get some coding in before school!I can guarantee that without the helpful mentors and the Wikimedia organization in general, I would not have been able to complete most of my tasks. Day or night, someone would always be available to answer my never-ending stream of doubts on how to go about a certain process! They would take time out of their busy schedules, just to help me fix an error in my code, coaching me through the entire process! I have never faced the issue of a mentor being unhelpful, or leaving me out on my own.
And finally, for the cherry on top: the prizes. Two grand prize winners, selected for each organization, receive a 4 day trip to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California!
Overall, my main takeaways from this competition would be:
- Realizing that open source development is not as easy as it sounds
- Interactions with various Wikimedia mentors, and their shared knowledge
- Finding out that PHP doesn't support dynamic instantiation and function calling
- Understanding the epicness of Wikimedia
So what are you waiting for? Get coding!
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