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GBPUSD has been drifting up following yesterday's US data and Mrs. Yellen's testimony. On the 1 hour chart GBPUSD broke the 200-period moving average during the last 2 hours, while a breakout of the upper Bollinger bands pattern occurred during the last hour. In a higher timeframe, the 30 and 50 period moving averages have been breached and broken during the last candle. Cable support is at 1.2448-50 zone, on the 200-period moving average, since Tuesday (14th February). In the 1 hour chart, the 14 period ADX and RSI (i.e. at 68 is strong) are both positive. Furthermore, the short term MACD has crossed positively the zero-line suggesting further strength.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
What I've smurfed in the past
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Oh yes..the sarubobo is cute and now cutely sitting in my sewing table..thanks a ton:). And what a xstitching you've done!! It's marvelous. I will never ever finish such a big xstitch project, let alone the small one. The only one xstitch project I ever finished is a baby duck & teddy bear of 5 x 5 inches..LOL...I guess you should do more of it:D and quit the farming things...hahaha we both should quit actually..:DReplyDelete
Thank you for the many compliments :) About xstitching? Well I dunno since I have a sewing machine that's more fun for me than counting the xstitch :)) but I will try to make that Jesus one for my MIL, you know right what I meant? hihihih...Farming? Ummm take time to stop the addiction honey :))ReplyDelete
You have made so many wonderful crafts. I love the ball a lots, even my hubby gives more compliments for it!ReplyDelete
The purse is soooo cute.. Adorable!!
well, It's never crossed in my mind to make xstitch project, I am not that kind of people with a lots of patients to do this things....LOL
Happy Crafting Dear..^_^
Thank you Jeng Wulan ... the purse? actually it's not fotogenic :D wakkaka in reality it looks better :D ... Forget about xstitch, it drives me mad :(ReplyDelete
Your work is wonderful. I love the little purse you made for your niece. She is so cute to want to be like her mama. The Mary and Jesus you stitched is fantastic. WOW.ReplyDelete
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Easy Steps to Help Your Company Succeed in the AI Business World
Artificial intelligence is revolutionising the world of business. The more industries AI manages to infiltrate, the more important it is for businesses of any size to integrate and prepare for an AI business driven environment.
The past 10 years has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of people relying on AI-powered chatbots for online navigation and AI-powered cars for safety on the road. Whilst Cortana, Siri, and other virtual assistants help organise millions of personal and professional lives across the globe.
AI has transformed into a lucrative market for the business world. According to recent reports, it is predicted that the AI industry will be worth over $14 billion by 2023, which is up from the $525 million recorded in 2015.
AI applications can give many small businesses a competitive edge in a saturated market. They can enhance customer engagement on CRM platforms, organise social data and strengthen supply chain efficiency and other business processes.
Whilst AI does have many benefits, small business owners that only have a basic understanding of AI technology might find installing these new applications incredibly difficult. However, if you take time to plan and strategise, any small business can successfully integrate AI, making everyday life much easier.
Below are some top tips to help you successfully install AI systems into your business:
1. Become the Expert.
If you own a small business, taking the time to fully understand the benefits and limitations of AI is essential. There are loads of online resources, courses and workshops that you can use to learn about AI. Have a look online to see if you can find a local workshop or course near you.
2. Can your IT infrastructure Handle It?
Unfortunately, many small businesses don't have the solid IT infrastructure that can handle the data-hungry and superfast calculations that AI needs to function properly. So before you install any AI applications, you should replace the legacy devices on your business premises with up-to-date, cloud-based solutions. These will integrate with any AI technology you decide you use.
3. Focus on the Areas Within Your Business That Would Benefit From AI.
Any business big or small should formulate a solid plan before integrating AI into their business structure. It will be useful to, at first, identify and prioritise the areas that would benefit from AI. You should also try and find ways you can integrate AI into existing services or products, which will add additional value and help solve complex business problems. For example, restaurant business owners may consider using self-driving cars as part of their food delivery service.
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Just when most of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills were having a lovely, drama-free time in Las Vegas, someone had to go and mention Adrienne Maloof. Then it was round 3 billion and something of the same fight that has been raging ever since Brandi Glanville dropped that big bombshell about Adrienne. And somehow it managed to get uglier even though Adrienne wasn't there.
Camille Grammer, who has flown low on the drama radar for a long time now, was suddenly drawn into the whole fray. She was the one who pointed out how she missed Adrienne being there in Vegas, but when Brandi brought up last year's reunion and how Adrienne was trying to get her and Camille to "go against" Lisa Vanderpump, Camille got all sorts of defensive.
Camille confirmed that Adrienne was mad at Lisa about calling her shoe the "Maloof Hoof" (it was a joke!), and that they didn't stay at The Palms for Pandora's bachelor party. Brandi took that opportunity to drop another bombshell -- Adrienne only owns 2 percent of The Palms.
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While no one denied it was true, Kyle told her that was mean. Camille concurred and then threw out that Lisa doesn't own all of SUR. Lisa said she owns 51 percent of the restaurant, which is a lot different than owning 2 percent, but I'm not sure why Camille felt the need to attack Lisa like she did.
While Camille admitted that Brandi had called her in Hawaii to talk about how nervous she was about the reunion, she wouldn't admit that she knew about a meeting Adrienne wanted to have to talk strategy against Lisa. She accused Brandi of twisting her words and lying. "I can handle it, but I won't stand for it," she said (twice) before storming out.
She finally came back in and they rehashed everything AGAIN. Kyle accused Brandi of lying about having a nose job, and Yolanda just got fed up with them all. Camille still wouldn't own up to knowing about the meeting with Adrienne and was miffed that Brandi put her on the spot. I don't know, but I think she acted a bit too defensive to be telling the truth. And what reason would Brandi have to make that up? I think Camille just doesn't want to be on Lisa's bad side, but she may have blown that anyway tonight.
As for Kyle Richards, she once again didn't stand up for Lisa, and Lisa was hurt. I'm not sure their friendship is salvageable at this point. I'm totally on team Lisa on that one. Kyle is a huge hypocrite for complaining that Lisa always defends Brandi when she and her husband have done nothing but defend Adrienne -- and for likely less noble (i.e., business) reasons. Kyle pretends to want to play nice and in the middle when she's anywhere but. As for Kim Richards, her nose job, and electric cigarettes -- it was all just too bizarre to even wrap my brain around, especially with previews that show Adrienne denying that she sued Brandi. Say what?!!
Do you think Camille was telling the truth? Do you think Lisa and Kyle's friendship can be saved at this point?
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How can you one-up "Step Up 2: The Streets" and its rainy finale? How about 3-D?
Although we're loathe to see yet another film jump onto the 3-D bandwagon, we'll make an exception for the "Step Up" films.
Not only is the franchise our one of our favorite guilty pleasures, but have you seen the dancing? It's totally sick. The 3-D will just be an enhancement to the already amazing moves.
What's up with the "Tron"-like sequence? Huh.
Director Jon Chu is back, and Rick Malambri and Sharni Vinson play the romantic protagonists. Also returning is Adam G. Sevani who had appeared in the previous film as Moose, along with Harry Shum Jr. ("Glee") as Cable. "So You Think You Can Dance" fans will also be happy to catch Twitch in the trailer. In case you missed them:
"Step Up 3-D" is scheduled to dance into theaters on Aug. 6.
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text: MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-251 STATION CREW SET TO LAUNCH TO A NEW HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS HOUSTON -- Just in time for the holidays, the residents of the International Space Station will welcome three new crew members. NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands are set to launch in their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:16 a.m. CST on Wednesday, Dec. 21 (7:16 p.m. local time). NASA Television will air video of prelaunch activities at 5:45 a.m. and provide live coverage of the launch beginning at 6:30 a.m. On Friday, Dec. 23, the trio will dock to the Rassvet module of the station at 9:22 a.m. The new crew will join station Commander Dan Burbank of NASA and Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, who have been aboard the orbital laboratory since mid-November. NASA TV will provide live coverage beginning at 8:45 a.m. Hatch opening and the holiday welcoming ceremony will occur about three hours later. Burbank has discussed what it will be like to spend the holidays in his home away from home, 240 miles above the Earth. Video is available online at: http://go.usa.gov/NjD Space station sighting opportunities are available across the United States this week, mostly in the northern third of North America, including Alaska. To find sighting details by city, visit: http://go.usa.gov/81R NASA TV's scheduled coverage for launch includes (all times Central): Wednesday, Dec. 21 5:45 a.m. -- Video file feed of the crew prelaunch launch day activities in Baikonur 6:30 a.m. -- Launch coverage (launch at 7:16 a.m.), including launch replays 9:30 a.m. -- Video file of prelaunch and launch video b-roll and postlaunch interviews Friday, Dec. 23 8:45 a.m. -- Docking coverage (docking at 9:22 a.m.) followed by the post-docking news conference from Mission Control in Korolev, Russia 11:45 a.m. -- Hatch opening and welcoming ceremony (hatch opening scheduled at 12:20 p.m.) 2 p.m. -- Video file of docking, hatch opening and welcoming ceremony For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For International Space Station information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station -end- Clint Bradford clintbradford at mac.com


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Why work at FCC?
If you're considering a career in waste management and environmental services, there's never been a better time to join us. The pressures on local authorities and businesses to reduce waste, recycle more, and increase re-use and recovery have never been greater, and we need people who can help us meet the challenge of turning waste into resource.
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We offer a comprehensive reward package backed by structured training and development, designed to give you hands-on experience and real responsibility at the earliest opportunity. We also have a well-established graduate programme for developing the managers of tomorrow.
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If you're an enthusiastic, friendly and hard-working individual who's keen to make a difference, you could be just what we're looking for. So why not check out our current vacancies and see if we have the right opportunity for you?
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The Land of Fig
Today I wanted to share with you some super awesome work by designer/crafter Nicole, aka The Land of FIg. She makes the most stunning greeting cards and art prints, combining illustration and embroidery - hand-stitched papery goodness as nicole puts it. I highly recommend checking her work out here, and as luck would have it, she'll be at the Finders Keepers market in Sydney this weekend!!
The Bag Tube
This morning as Leo, Ella and Ferris were playing a game of hide and seek, they came across a serious problem - the kitchen cupboard (prime hiding spot!) was so full of plastic bags there wasn't enough space to hide!
Leo said passingly that he'd once seen a tube that you could store plastic bags in so they were out of the way. Suddenly, the answer was staring them in the face, they were going to have to make a plastic bag tube!
Ella and Ferris did some research.
While Leo chose the fabric and collected the necessary materials.
As you can probably imagine, using scissors isn't easy when you're only 23cm tall and have no thumbs, so cutting the fabric became a two critter job for Ella and Leo.
Once the cutting was done, Ferris took on the ironing (also not so easy for a small turtle, but pushing the iron from behind did the job). He then pinned the top and bottom seams, as well as the piece of fabric that would become the hanging loop. He thought it could make a rather nice belt, but after trying it on he had second thoughts.
Next on the list was choosing the best thread and threading the sewing machine.
Figuring out how the machine worked was a bit of an ordeal, but they got there in the end.
Ferris fed the fabric through as Ella guided it from the back and Leo stood on the foot pedal.
Once the seams had been sewn it was time to feed the elastic through the top and bottom of the fabric.
Ferris, now the expert pinner, pinned the fabric in preparation of arguable the most important seam, the one that joins the two fabric edges together. Once it had been sewn Ella turned it inside out.
Now the end was in sight! They just had to sew on the loop.
Taddah! Pastic bag tube complete!!!
Time to free the cupboard from plastic bags, which was actually funner than expected!
The cupboard is now the hiding place it was always meant to be, and they could all fit at the same time!
They were very proud of the day's achievements, they feel that appart from reclaiming an awesome hiding spot, they've also contributed to the aesthetic pleasingness of the kitchen.
Leo, Ferris and Ella are all available in my Etsy shop.
Leo the Raccoon
Ferris the Turlte
Ella the Red Panda
Markit @ Fed Square
Tomorrow we're heading down to Melbourne again for our first ever Markit @ Fed Square. I hear it's great so if you're around come by and say hi!
In other news, a new stockist of Herbert & Friends, Fine and Sunny in Mildura, have done a super cute blog post about the new critters that arrived this week, check it out here!
Fruit rattles
Some of you might remember I made a few fruit baby rattles late last year. Here are some more I've been working on.
The fruit are based on patterns from this book below. The whole thing, including the patterns, are in Japanese so there's some guessing involved and some altering. it's a super cute book and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in felt making fruit!
Yesterday the creatures decided it was Cake Day! Cake Day is a day where you eat as much cake as you like even though it isn't anyone's birthday. But first they needed to make a cake, so they all got together and decided that carrot cake would be the cake of the day.
The owls took on the role of recipe readers and general cake directors, while everyone else ran around and busied themselves in the kitchen.
Once the boring-but-essential buttering of the cake tin and lighting the oven was completed, it was time for the proper cake making to begin! The raccoons decided the flour and dry ingredients would be their thing.
While the red pandas dealt with the eggs and other liquidy ingredients (the hardest and most important job according to them).
And the Brian the wombat fastidiously took on the role of carrot-grater (an exhausting job!) and walnut-chopper (actually funner than it looks).
When it came time to combine the mixtures, the excitement in the room was palpable, they could just about see the finished cake in front of them!
While the cake was happily baking in the oven, a decision had to be made about who would take on the all important job of icing-maker. At that moment, as if out of nowhere, the yetis appeared and insisted they would definitely be best for the job. Everyone agreed they probably would be best, and despite the fact that they ate several spoonfuls of the icing before it made it to the cake, they did an exceptional job!
Team Carrot Cake were all very proud once it was finished, and rightly so. Cake Day was a huge success!
Perfect picnic
Here's some weekend inspiration from Etsy...
1. Yellow, red, orange and white twin airport coffee and tea server, by Hobart Collectables
2. Yellow picnic basket, by Gina's Boutique
3. Tin picnic basket with an assortment of utensils, by Looking for Yesterday
4. Picnic blanket / handmade with vintage 1970's scandinavian fruit fabric, by Sewn Natural
5. Retro picnic in the park vintage decoware metal cake plate, by Claudette's Vintage
6. 4 cloth picnic napkins, by Peppermint Pinwheels
An Autumn Day
Frida woke up this morning feeling a little under the weather. There was nothing for it but to rug up on the couch and watch an episode of Adventure Time!
While Frida was getting her dose of Adventure Time, Rufus and Rosa made her some lemon and honey tea.
By mid-morning there was no doubt about it - it was definitely time for Burt's Family Feud the boardgame!!
Followed by a round of Pick-Up Sticks.
Pick-Up Sticks is never a quick game with Yetis because they're not particularly dexterous and are notoriously clumsy. Nearing the end of the game it was clear that Rosa would be the winner (she felt a little bad that she hadn't let Frida win but not so bad that she didn't enjoy her win at least a bit!).
These three furry friends are available in my Etsy shop!
Colourful kitchen
I had a trawl through Etsy today and got stuck looking at kitchen things so I thought I'd share some with you...
1. Vintage kitchen tools sunny yellow by 4th Street Market
2. Vintage 1970s avocado green Chadwick kitchen scale by Turner Vintage
3. Danish aqua pot by Box of Hollyhocks
4. Orange you glad 70s butter dish and napkin holder by Oopsy Girl
5. Vintage orange coffee kettle pot by Euro Vintage
6. Set of vintage enamel mugs by Dairy Farm Antiques
Sam's half-birthday
Today it was agreed that Sam the squirrel could choose the activities for the morning, it was after all her half-birthday (if you're unfamiliar with half-birthdays, it's the exact day you become something-and-a-half). It isn't often Sam gets to choose the activities because her friends feel they've outgrown most of the 'childish' games she likes to play. As it happens just about everyone involved had a great time (Flint the wombat was a bit overtired because it was way past his bedtime)!
There was hopscotch to start the day off.
Followed by skipping (only Sam had a go because she insisted she had to skip for an hour!)
After a full hour of skipping, the only thing Sam could manage was naughts and crosses. She lost pretty much every game - she blames the exhaustion.
Sam is a custom order so unfortunately not up for grabs, but if you're pining after a squirrel send me an email!
Marcella the cat
Marcella spent the morning stalking a snail and trying to conceal herself behind a slightly-too-small lemon tree. She eventually lost interest because the snail was super slow and she came to realise it knew she was there all along, and didn't actually mind her being there!
Marcella then positioned herself on the doorstep and waited for something really exciting to happen... she's still waiting...
Marcella is a custom order so unfortunately she's not for sale. She's also the first cat I've made in softie form! It took a few goes but I got there in the end and I reckon she's pretty cute.
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Measuring Smart Grid Benefits – Here's EPRI's Approach
The Electric Power Research Institute has just released a protocol for measuring the highly touted benefits of applications that make the operation of power grids more effective and efficient. It's a survey developed with the Galvin Electricity Initiative to assess the development and deployment of Smart Grid projects worldwide.
The survey identifies leaders in Smart Grid advancement, key applications, drivers in developing a Smart Grid project, and lessons learned from Smart Grid initiatives, with emphasis on the integration of distributed energy resources with grid operation. Anyone interested in learning lessons, not jumping the 'starting' gun and helping ensure consumers empowerment should keep one eye on what this survey can produce. It's free and only 2+ megabyte download so there is no excuse for vendors, utilities, consumer advocates and consultants not knowing what this community can digest together.


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I want to especially thank our host this week, Patrice, who chose this completely wonderful theme. I can barely wait to go view all of the art from the different players who joined in for this challenge. To see a selection of great offerings with this theme, pop by to visit Patrice where you will be linked to the blogs.Thanks for dropping by; see you soon I hope! Norma, x
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Moon Watcher
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Dear Norma,ReplyDelete
your rufous-necked stint is delicate like the paper! Watching the moon it is so peaceful... connected... to nature.
I love even how you have painted the sky... and leave blank the space for the moon... no, it is the moon, great!
I can feel that you adore it and you are right.
what a handsome devil! your rufus-necked stint! I love the texture created in this piece- and it feels so summery when the moon feels softer in the night sky :)ReplyDelete
Summery stint, I think so! xxoo, susReplyDelete
What a lovely little stint watching the summer moon!ReplyDelete
Each piece of artwork we create leads to more learning and exploring.......
and that's a good thing! Enjoy.
xo Carole
so beautiful, dear norma! when I stay by sea in holidays I always look to the little stints, they are so funny and I love the cheaping of the young birds. your summery stint is a fav! :)) manoReplyDelete
very nice! just a bird and a moon and it´s enough... to give good feelings!ReplyDelete
x Stefanie
rufous-necked stint? ? What a name for such a cute little bird! I like this delicate and light watercolour painting and with the heavier pastel it adds contrast and texture and I agree with Kristen it looks very summery full of light and joy! Great work, dear Norma!ReplyDelete
oh!! ***love this*** ~JenReplyDelete
I love the painting! Seeing and hearing birds always makes life happier.ReplyDelete
stint, I had to look that up!ReplyDelete
but it is a beauty indeed
like your full moon
your words gave me a smile
I can almost see you work this paper
thank you!
Patrice A.
i appreciate your explanations, i might have trouble with soft paper... not you! you make it sound eeeeeeeeeeeasy!ReplyDelete
that bird is expectant with that moon, you know!
Hi again, Norma. I'm hosting this week's Drawing Challenge: Willow. You can sign up at my blog in you'd like. xo CReplyDelete
Norma - what beauty you bring to this lovely paper --- beautiful bird, beautiful sky, beautiful moon Perhaps not what you were planning..but it turned out beautifully.ReplyDelete
Norma, that paper is beautiful and with your sweet bird and adventurous moon, even more beautiful!ReplyDelete
My moon is up!
oh Norma how did i miss your moon watcher, what a beauty, i love how you left the background of the bird blanco, it gives a certain depth and a lovely connection to that big white moon, your love for paper makes me smile, xxReplyDelete


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John Homer's Odyssey
Claude Rawson
- Customs in Common by E.P. Thompson
Merlin, 547 pp, £25.00, October 1991, ISBN 0 85036 411 6
Edward Thompson's Customs in Common is described as a 'companion volume' to his The Making of the English Working Class, and rises to the occasion. It has the wide range of reference, the densely-textured documentation, a special quality of charged impressionism (sometimes tendentious, more often honourably concerned with generous perspectives and panoramic insight), the embattled moral fervour, which established the earlier book as a classic of historical scholarship and indeed of English letters. It has some occasional irritants, an overheated self-concern, a raw sense of personal slight, a dogged self-indulgence which, as at pp. 302-303, will make a bad joke, apologise for it in a note, thank a reader of the manuscript for pointing it out, keep it in for the sake of the reader's comment, and tell you he's doing all this and why. These are a small price to pay.
The book was 'intended as a single closely-related argument' but comes over as some-what more miscellaneous than this suggests, partly because it was interrupted by other activity, both scholarly and political. But there's also a quality of abundance, shared by the earlier book, which resists the constrictions of 'closely-related argument', though Thompson is sometimes given to accesses of strenuous simplification, designed to bring things to an order his evidence doesn't allow them to have. A conspicuous example is his study of 'The Moral Economy of the English Crowd' (1971), reprinted here with a sequel which takes account of the ensuing debate: the readiness to refine or revise is the generous obverse of some reductive impulses.
The studies collected here are concerned both with specific popular customs and with a 'customary consciousness' which Thompson sees as characteristic of an 18th-century outlook, and more largely of the English popular mind at a formative stage. He thinks of custom 'as ambience, mentalité, and as a whole vocabulary of discourse, of legitimation and of expectation'. You could in this sense have new customs, or appeal to custom to claim new 'rights' or assert ancient liberties. A paradoxical phenomenon of 'a rebellious traditional culture' is identified in this period, though 'tradition' implies 'steady permanence' whereas 'custom was a field of change and of contest.' In a familiar scenario, this 'customary consciousness' was shattered by the Industrial Revolution and its demographic consequences, a contested issue among historians which lies outside my competence. Another such issue is whether 18th-century England may properly be called, as in the title of Paul Langford's recent book, 'a polite and commercial people': a title which draws from Thompson the observation that 'historical conferences on 18th-century questions tend to be places where the bland lead the bland.'
It's hard nowadays to think of 'bland' as having a favourable sense, but the 18th century is as it happens a time when it did. By an odd irony, it appears in just such a sense in what is perhaps the century's most famous declaration of the sanctity of custom, Burke's lament over the maltreatment of the French Queen in the Reflections on the Revolution in France. 'All the pleasing illusions … which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society' were threatened, in Burke's view, by the rude violence of the mob and the new philosophy 'of light and reason'. This is not, it would be safe to say, Thompson's favourite text, but it brings home the extent to which the attachment to 'custom', the idea of it as 'second nature', also dominated the outlook of the 'patrician' culture of the old regime, and of its great canonical authors, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Reynolds, Burke (most of them, incidentally, non-patrician by birth or social rank). Thompson long ago remarked, in The Making of the English Working Class, how 'in the name of freedom Burke denounced, and Paine championed, the French Revolution,' and conservative as well as radical ideologues saw themselves as maintaining ancient 'rights' and deploring constitutional slippages or infringements.
The idea of the naturalness of custom, of acculturation as simultaneously a process of deliberate instruction and spontaneous flowering, is especially strongly embedded in Burke's rhetoric of 'bland assimilation', where 'incorporated … sentiments' and 'superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination', are seen not only as mutually reinforcing but as more or less synonymous. This blend, in its high patrician aspiration, achieves what is perhaps its culminating expression in English in the poetry of Yeats, where it derives directly from Burke (and is, like his, an out-sider's or quasi-outsider's aspiration). Such organicised conceptions of culture as second nature extended to the constitution of states, as well as to the socialising of persons and the evolution of social customs. Yeats said Burke 'proved the State a tree', and Burke's great evocation of the British oak was matched on the revolutionary side by the image of the Tree of Liberty, also often an oak: an irony compounded by the fact, recently pointed out by J.G.A. Pocock, that the cover of some editions of Burke's Reflections, including Conor Cruise O'Brien's Penguin, show the planting of the Liberty Tree and not Burke's ancient oak.
Thompson's account of 'customary consciousness' shows the living social reality which underlies these conceptual patterns and the formal iconography, especially on the demotic or 'plebeian' rather than the 'patrician' side. (The terms, not in every way satisfactory, are his.) What remains as an important subject for exploration are the interactions between the two, and their expression in both high literature and popular culture. One may hope that he will turn his attention to this. He is exceptional among historians in the breadth and responsiveness of his reading, his willingness to study the evidence of literary texts, and his awareness of the different registers of imaginative and discursive utterance. Few historians I have read can be more confidently trusted not to mistake a satirical sarcasm, a lyrical modulation, or a fictional character's speech, for a statement of fact or a direct expression of an author's opinions. There is no attempt, in the present book, to take on a systematic enquiry of this sort. There are, however, some significant encounters with literary or fictional texts, most of them deeply enlightening. A small number invite debate.
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getyear which will return 1975 from the kernel always. the Unix version 6 was released in that year. Even though this system call does not do any useful thing, it shows us the necessary places in the source code of xv6 which we have to touch in this kind of business.
We start this work from syscall.h file where a number is assigned to every system call in this xv6 system. As you can see, there are 21 system calls already defined in this file. Let's go ahead and add the following line to reserver a system call number for our own system call.
#define SYS_getyear 22
Now we have to do some additional work in syscall.c file related to the line we added in the header file above. So, open the C file. There's an array of function pointers inside this file with the function prototype static int (*syscalls[])(void). It uses the numbers of system calls defined above as indexes for a pointer to each system call function defined elsewhere. At the end of this function pointer array, let's add the following line.
[SYS_getyear] sys_getyear,
This means, when a system call occurred with the system call number 22, the function pointed by the function pointer sys_getyear will be called. So, we have to implement this function. However, this file is not the place we are going to implement it. We will just put the function prototype here inside this file. So, find the suitable place inside this file and add the following line. You can see that all the other 21 system call functions are defined similarly.
extern int sys_getyear(void);
Now, let's implement this actual system call function. There are two files inside xv6 system where system calls are defined. sysproc.c and sysfile.c are those two places. If you open and check, you will see that many system calls related to file system are located in sysfile.c while the rest is in sysproc.c. So, to implement our system call, we use the file sysproc.c. Open it and add the following function implementation at the end of the file.
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// return the year of which the Unix version 6 was released int sys_getyear(void) { return 1975; }
Now we have just two little files to edit and these files will contain the interface for our user program to access the system call. Open the file called usys.S and add a line line the below at the end.
Then, open the file called user.h and add the following line. This is the function that the user program will be calling. As you know now, there's no such a function implemented in the system. Instead, a call to the below function from a user program will be simply mapped to the system call number 22 which is defined as SYS_getyear preprocessor directive. The system knows what exactly is this system call and how to handle it.
int getyear(void);
Having done all the above stuff, our xv6 operating system now contains a new system call. Let's write a user program which will try to make that new system call to see whether the xv6 kernel respond to it. I have previously written about how to add a user program to xv6. Refer this blog post to achieve it. Following those steps, add a user program but the content of the program should be as follows.
int getyear(void);
Having done all the above stuff, our xv6 operating system now contains a new system call. Let's write a user program which will try to make that new system call to see whether the xv6 kernel respond to it. I have previously written about how to add a user program to xv6. Refer this blog post to achieve it. Following those steps, add a user program but the content of the program should be as follows.
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// #Asanka: // A simple program which just print something on screen #include "types.h" #include "stat.h" #include "user.h" int main(void) { printf(1, "Unix V6 was released in the year %d\n", getyear()); exit(); }
After adding this user program properly into the xv6 source code directly and making the necessary changes in Makefile, we can attempt to compile and run it. So, issue the following commands inside the source code directory of xv6.
make clean
Now, start the xv6 system on QEMU and wait till it boots up to the shell prompt. There you can issue ls command to see whether your user program is available. If yes, just go ahead and run the program. It should give you an output like the one shown in the above picture if everything went smoothly.
[1] http://www.fotiskoutoulakis.com/2014/04/28/introduction-to-xv6-adding-a-new-system-call.html
[2] http://moss.cs.iit.edu/cs450/assign01-xv6-syscall.html


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New Sony S-Series coming to Japam
As with previous S-Series Walkmans, there will be a speaker model as well, in 8/16GB, and in the same colour options as above and will cost around 18,000 and 21,000 yen)
Rest of information after the break.
There is bluetooth but unlike the A-Series, aptX has not been included and there is no micro-sd expansion either. I have no idea what this brings over the previous S-Series. Noise cancellation is also on board like with the A-Series but Hi-Res audio support is not included. This new S-Series is most likely a less expensive alternative to users who do not wish to spend so much on the A-Series.
I am curious if Sony Europe will replace the current E-Series in Europe with this, but there is no evidence that they will anytime soon.
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Oil Rig Life: How to Keep the Home Fire Burning
How to Keep Your Wife Happy without Sacrificing your Life on an Oil Rig
"Oil rig life" Sounds great doesn't it? Life on the road, eating out every night and of course, who can complain about the pay cheques!! Wow it all sounds wonderful doesn't it? Rig life does have huge benefits but it also has its down sides.
Just like any job on the road, life on an oil rig, can make relationships difficult. Wives are left at home while men are out working. This can put an awful lot of strain on a marriage.
For some couples this type of lifestyle is easy, but for others it can be unbearable. I know alot of the advice that is given to people that work away on an oil rig is to just quit. People will tell you the money is not worth the hardship it is causing in your marriage. Can you just quit rig life? Maybe.
Maybe you are finacially stable enough to just give up working on the rigs and go home to your family. Then again, maybe you are just an average family trying to keep food on the table, roof over your head and bills paid. If so oil rig life might be all you have right now.
So how do you make relationships work if you are working on the rigs?
- Call home every day. If it is possible call home everyday and let your wife know you are thinking about her. A short call can often go along ways to easing the loneliness.
- Head for home as soon as you have time off. Make your wife feel important by coming straight home when your hitch is over. By doing this you are showing your wife that although you have to work away you can't wait to get home to her.
- Stay out of the bar and away from lounges. It can sometimes be hard to avoid the bar when you are on the road, but it is very important to stay out of them as much as possible. If you are sitting the bar every night your wife will begin to feel like you would rather be at work enjoying yourself then at home with her.
- Invite your wife out for a visit. When you have been gone for an extra long time invite your wife up. If you have kids I am sure your wife would love it if you arranged for a babysitter for the kids for a few days while she came up to see you.
- When you are headed home stop and pick something up for your wife. You don't have to buy her anything huge just something that you know she will appreciate. This will show her you are always thinking about her.
If you follow these tips it will really help keep your relationship healthy and alive.
Oil Rigs..Work?
What To Do If Your Wife Leaves You
If your wife is having a hard time dealing with rig life she may decide to leave you. First of all, don't panic...She married you because she loves you. Sometimes oil rig life is overwhelming but when there is love in a relationship you can over come just about anything. Here is a simple strategy that will almost always help.
Give your wife some space and take sometime for yourself. Don't do anything stupid..but do leave her be. Use this time apart to make a few changes in your life.
What this will do is allow you to gradually make some changes in your life and help you to have a new outlook on your relationship. This will also give your wife a chance to miss you and a chance to reflect on what it was she loves about you.
Once you have taken a step back and really had a chance to think things through you will then need to address getting back together. You need to have a strategy in place for how you will do this.
Here are a few tips
- Do not beg her to take you back. Instead play it cool. Remember she is probably missing you as much as you are missing her.
- Play hard to get, just don't over do it, Show her that you can make it without her, this will inspire her to really rethink her actions
- Be careful not to analyze things too much, because over analyzing may prevent you from acting the right way.
- Take things slow and play them cool and you should be fine.
Rig Wife
Just as it takes a certian type of person to work on an oil rig, it also takes a certain type of person to love a rig hand. With any relationship you are bound to eventually run in to some type of disagreement. When it comes to love you can always work through the rough spots.
Oil rig life takes its toll on not only the men out there doing the work but also on the families anxiuosly waiting for the to return. It is a workable situation and you will find that most rig wives love oil rig life as much as their partners. Given the chance many would not want to change their lifstyle. Yes there are times when you just wish you could be together all the time, but you know that life in the patch is part of who you are.
Understand that although your wife may get upset and need to vent her frustrations she still loves you. Be smart and be prepared for where oil rig life is going to take you and you will have a happy marriage.
me and my bf broke up..it was too hard and sad
I'm just sad...
Hey you sound like you would fit in fine in our forum! Come by and check us out! rigwives.org
My husband is in the navy well in the brig now and they are about to give him a dishonorable discharge.He has to find a job and was considering trying to work on an oil rig. I'm used to him being gone all the time so him being away isn't that bad but would the oil rigs even hire him because of his dishonorable discharge? Also does it depend on what state your in? we'er in California right now but want to move to Washington. the navy told him Washington would be a better place to find a job.
Thanks Becca *smiles*. I use to be able to talk to my hubby but now his arrogance has took over. We have began counselling but as he is hardly here, things have just got worse. I don't know what the guys talk about on the rig but I have noticed his respect towards me begin to diminish very quickly. I know that two of his rig colleagues are getting divorced but he says its the wives fault for being awful. So they clearly make their wives out to be 'nags' and their male ego's do all the rest, claiming what victims they are.
You're right about the ups and downs…..we have too many of them. And it's not nice when they are more married to their job than they are to you. I suffer when he is away, and when he is home too…..arrogance, cockiness and control, Sunshine atcha! x
To Angel I agree, the rig does give the men a cocky attitude if ur not working and they are supplying all the income. My hubby does that sometimes. You have to learn how to talk it out. Here in west Texas is a lot of cursing, and yelling, so when my hubby comes home he does tend to be high strung. There are also a lot of drugs out here not legally of corse. If hes starts being really mean sometimes that's a sign of something going on. My hubby just had to fire his bff on his crew cuz he caught him doing steroids. But, for the most part oil field life goes in cycles. Ups and downs. Love some of ur info on here and will definatly have to drop some hints to my hubby about ur advice on here. Thank you for the post.
Yes they can. They get 10 mins on the phones unless he works the offices too. I think it depends on the rig but if he wanted to call you he would. x
can they really call everyday if they are offshore? my bf has not called me at all, only email. ;(
Thanks Brook will take a look. Had I have known my husband would go for a job like this in the future, I would have got out before hand! I appreciate it may work for some women, but I'm not one if them.
The oilfield isn't just a job, its a lifestyle. To help ease the rough patches ladies come join us. Wives of the Oilfield. https://www.facebook.com/index.php?lh=Ac_GBB9Y6sEa.../groups/wivesoftheoilfield/
Married nearly one year and on our way to divorce already. Been together 9 years but since the rig job (he started 18 months ago) the strain has been unbelievable. I gave up my full time professional career so I could have quality time when he was home. I still live in a place I'm miserable in the UK (I moved to be with him when he was in the army before the rigs). When he comes home he does courses (he wants to progress) which take up at least 2 weeks of his time home. I go with him like a lapdog, being alone all day) He shows no motivation in us moving house so I can be closer to family and keeps his earnings a secret. I receive a small allowance every month. The rest of his earnings…I dont have a clue of, despite arguments over this. I feel he has He has become addicted to Power, materialistic gain and is now very controlling. He talks to me in a 'cocky' attiude because he knows he has full control with his money and I financially rely on him now. I never in a million years thought he would become so corrupted, but he has. Sorry to share my negative experience but all I can say is that the rig job cleared his debts but at a big expense.
This is just life in ours anyway! This is very imformative and true! We have a site we just started in October....you should come check us out!
Hi I'm totally sad about my bf being gone 6am-8pm
It makes it hard for me to see him since I work nights. I feel like he and I are losing our bond. I'm depressed. Are there any girls groups in long beach Ca that help Gf and wives who are lonely and confused about how to manage?
Thank you so much for this post! I am all new to being the significant other to a roughneck and I'm finding it hard specially since there is no phone service in the middle of no where in North Dakota. I'm a mother to a toddler under 2 and a preschooler and really miss my mommy brakes specially when I just don't feel well. I really liked the idea of When you are headed home stop and pick something up for your wife! I plan to show my significant other this post once he come back home. He will have been gone 3 and half weeks too long!
Thank you again for posting this great post!
I agree with most of the things that you stated in the post.
I'm a VERY PROUD wife in the oil/gas industry.
I'm also the mother of 5 children.
I had a hard time when my husband went back to the patch but I found a great website for the wives/girlfriends to get together and support each other in the forum.
I agree 2jaded!
The best advice is to stop sleeping with the women you meet in the bars. Then maybe your wife wouldn't have left you!


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Lenovo may have not got their first when it comes to squeezing a projector inside a smartphone. That accolade belongs to Samsung for its Samsung Galaxy Beam range. All two of them. But with the Lenovo Smart Cast smartphone, Lenovo at least looks to be doing something a little more innovative with the technology.
Rather than just letting you fire out mini (and likely dull) projections of movies onto your walls, the Smart Cast instead can shoot out a touchscreen or virtual keyboard onto whichever surface it's placed next to. A world first in that it's using an integrated focus-free laser projector, it's a step away from the DLP tech that sits in more conventional pico projectors.
That detail aside, there's not much more to share on the Lenovo handset yet. It's running Android, that much is known, but whether or not it'll get a UK release, and whether the rest of its spec sheet is intriguing enough to justify what is sure to be a steep price tag remains to be seen. What we do have though is the video below, showing off that projection system in all its glory, so give it a look and see if you can ever picture yourself ditching your clackety-clack mechanical keyboard for one made of pure light instead.


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I just want to start by saying that Jeremy Scott is such an inspiration to me. He takes images that most people day dream (or hallucinate about, let's be real) and turns them into tangible pieces of art. When I saw the latest Moschino runway I was absolutely awestruck when I saw the first couple of looks. It looked very Coco Chanel meets Ronald McDonald and needless to say I was smitten. My two loves, fast food and fashion, together at last. I must have watched the first couple of looks upwards of twenty times on repeat and I'm currently day dreaming of the day when I can hold the Happy Meal-esque bag in my arms. Now, if only theses fast food style pieces could be available at fast fashion prices, I would definitely die happy.
I of course loved the other American snack food and pop culture related pieces but the McDonald's ones stood out to me the most due to the reasons stated above. I'm so curious to know what everyone's thoughts are on these looks; I know I can't be the only one who is in love with them.
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Personality is the major factor that influences individual behavior in an organization. To understand the behavior of an individual or a person, first, it must be familiar about personality. By understanding the personality, behavior can be directed and controlled. Personality does not mean handsome and ugliness of human being. But it is the aggregate form of traits, qualities and features of an individual. It is concerned with reaction and interaction of individual and situation. Thus, personality represents personal characteristics that lead to consistent patterns of behaviors.
Major Personality Attributes Influencing OB
The major personality attributes or traits that influence OB are:
Major Personality Attributes Influencing OB
The major personality attributes or traits that influence OB are:
- Locus of control: This concept denotes whether people believe that they are in control of events or events control them. Those who have an internal locus of control (internals) believe that they control and shape the course of events in their livers, while those who have an external locus of control (externals) believe that events occur purely by chance or because of factors beyond their own control. Internal, as compared to externals, seek more job related information, try to influence, other at work more activity seek opportunities for advancement and rely more on their own abilities and judgment at work.
- Machiavellians: Manipulation of others as primary way of achieving one's goals is what Machiavellians is all about. Individuals high on the Mach scale, a scale developed to measure the extent to which an individual tends to be Machiavellian tend to be cool, logical in assessing the system around them, willing to twist and turn facts to influence other and try to gain control of people, events and situations by of manipulation the system to their advantage. Machiavellian may fool a few people all the time and all the people for a very short time, but in the long run, they tend to be distrusted and disliked by many in the system and hence may become ineffective.
- Self-esteem and self-concept: Self-esteem denoted the extent to which individuals consistently regard themselves as capable, successful, important and worthy individuals. This is an important personality factor that determines how managers perceive themselves and their role in the organization. Self-esteem is important to self-concept, that is, the way individuals define themselves as to who they are and derive their sense of identify. High self-esteem provides a high sense of self-concept; high self-concept in turn, reinforces high self-esteem. Thus, the two are mutually reinforcing. Individuals high in self-esteem will try to take on more challenging assignments and be successful, thus enhancing their self-concept, that is they would tend to define themselves as highly valuable and valued individuals in organization system. The higher the self-concept and self-esteem, the greater will be their contributions to the goals of the organization; especially when the system rewards them for their contributions.
- Tolerance for ambiguity: This personality characteristics indicate the level of uncertainty that people can tolerate without experiencing undue stress and can still function effectively. Managers have to work well under conditions of extreme uncertainty and insufficient information, especially when things are rapidly changing in the organization's external environment. Managers who have a high tolerance for ambiguity can cope well under these conditions.
- Risk taking: People differ in their willingness to take risks. Individuals can be high risk taking and low-risk taking. High-risk taking managers tend to make quick decision with less information. However, demands of the job determine the degree of risk taking.
- Personality type: Individuals can have type A personality or type B personality. Type A persons feel a chronic sense of time urgency are high achievement oriented, exhibit a competitive drive and are impatient when their work is slowed down for any reason. Type B persons are easy going individuals who do not experience the competitive drive. Type A individuals are significantly more prone to heart attack than type B persons. While type A persons help the organization to move ahead in a relatively short period of time they may also suffer health problems, which might be detrimental to both themselves and the organization in the long run.


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Our dream home. Well not yet, exactly.
We put an offer on this little house set on about 2 acres of lovely peace and quiet.
Theres a chicken coop and garden shed...
a greenhouse ( be still my heart )
and a three car garage ( be still Mike's heart )
What we love about it? The yard is like a park and we're close to town, but not on main street.
Most of all, it's a fresh start that we can call ours.
Not Mike's house or my house. Our home.
I'm optimistic.
<3 Karen


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Each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences go about the task of awarding the achievements of filmmakers and performers. The culmination of the tireless work put into a production is the ultimate recognition that comes with this night. Nominees and the Academy are often dissected for their diversity, range, and the overall merit of their selections. Passionate moviegoers and critics alike both take turns in putting the most beloved and questionable films and performances of the year under the microscope. Here's a list of who could potentially be grasping the shimmering golden statues next month in major categories:
Academy Award for Best picture:
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Academy Award for an Actress in a Leading Role:
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Academy Award for an Actor in a Leading Role:
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences
Academy Award for an Actress in a Supporting Role:
Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Academy Award for an Actor in a Supporting Role:
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel, Lion
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Academy Award for Best Director:
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
La La Lost
La La Land officially tied the Oscars record for the most nominations for a feature with fourteen. The last and only film to achieve this was Titanic. As a person who's seen almost every film nominated this year, the love this film gets simply remains a mystery to me. Obviously the films whimsical nature did enough to mask its true lack of depth and overall basicness to the voters. When the winners attached to the project repeatedly stated at the Golden Globes "I can't believe we made a musical," I squinted and thought "because it's never been done before?" Those awards were a La La Land harvest so today was not surprising in the least. It appears Hollywood is prepared make this average boy-meets-girl, while doing basic tap, and singing poorly its crowning jewel. Moonlight's, Manchester By the Sea's , Fences', and Hacksaw Ridge's successful award seasons carried through to the Oscars. These projects produced multiple nominations in wide spectrum of categories.
Meryl Reigns Again
The lead actor, supporting actor, and supporting actress categories held true to form. There was relatively not switch from previous nominations and media predictions. In the best actress category, Florence Foster Jenkins landed Meryl Streep her 20th Academy Awards nomination. This is a shakeup from the Golden Globes that placed Streep in the Musical or Comedy category. Her surge onto the list seemingly ousted talented hopefuls Amy Adams and Taraji P. Henson. If only the duo could dance on top of cars and get dumped by Ryan Gosling. Tom Ford got no love for his direction in the edgy and fantastic thriller Nocturnal Animals. Tom Hanks' gem and miraculous tale Sully received no nominations, Trolls and Finding Dory deserved better, and it's still multiple orange shaded angry emojis to the lost cause Birth Of a Nation.
What to Watch For
There's plenty to look forward to in the Documentary Feature category with strong and thought-provoking productions 13th, Fire at Sea, I Am Not Your Negro, Life, Animated, and O.J.: Made in America all nominated. The supporting actor and actress categories are the tightest they've been in years. I predict almost every category to go the way of previous awards shows, including awarding problematic nominee Casey Affleck the award for best Best Actor. Isabelle Huppert will most likely continue here best actress winning ways for her role in the jaw-dropping drama Elle.
The Academy Awards will air on February 26th at 8:00 P.M. Jimmy Kimmel will host the ABC network live broadcast for the first time. Be sure to catch the ceremony and mute it when the music for "City of Stars" hits.
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THE BUZZ: Blizzard has deployed a brand new patch for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty taking the game up to version 1.4.0.
The patch contains a number of balance changes, bug fixes, interface changes and editor improvements. The general patch notes can be found below:
- A new Career page displaying placement in past seasons has been added to the League & Ladders section of the Profile.
- A new ?View Ladder? button has been added to the league display at the bottom of the Quick Match screen. Clicking this button will take you directly to your ladder page.
- The post-game score screen for ranked ladder games will now show icons next to each player?s name indicating his or her league.
- The upload timeout period for publishing custom maps has been increased significantly.
- SLI performance has been improved.
- When file corruption is detected in un-repairable files (replays, saved games, or downloaded maps), a prompt to run the Repair Tool will no longer occur.
Game Options
- Added three privacy settings to the Options menu under the Battle.net section.
- Only allow friends to send me invites.
- Only allow friends to send me chat messages.
- Set status to Busy when playing a game.
- Added the FPS Toggle hotkey to the hotkey dialog.
- Added Display Game Tooltips setting to the Options under Gameplay that can be turned off to prevent tooltips from appearing when playing a game.
- Added a new setting to the Options under Controls which allows a player to enable or disable the ability to adjust in-game mouse sensitivity.
UI and Display
- A Launch PTR button will now appear on the login screen when the PTR is available. Clicking this button will close the retail client and launch the PTR client.
- Improved error messages when a unit is required but none is targeted to provide required target information.
- UI Frame used in .SC2Layout files has more anchoring flexibility.
- Loading an old saved game will now give an option to restart the mission in the new version of StarCraft II instead of loading it in the old version without access to achievements.
- Player names in the Name Panel in observer or replay mode will now be based off the player?s locations on the minimap. For example the player closer to the left side of the minimap will appear on the left side of the name panel.
- When a building is canceled or salvaged the minerals returned will be displayed at the building location for the owner, for enemy players a floating text will be displayed.
- Toggle Team Colors in 1v1 and Free-for-All when observing and during a replay will not change player colors.
- An error notification sound is now played if a placement location cannot be found when unit training completes
- Most existing alert sounds are now reduced in volume when a new alert sound plays.
- Transmissions without a valid sound file will now display a subtitle during cinematics even if the player has turned off subtitles.
- Added a new Alert Fade option to control how much existing alert sounds fade when new alert sounds are played.
The full patch notes can be found here.
EGM's TAKE: This is a huge patch which shows Blizzard's commitment to their fans and the game.
What else would you like to see changed or improved in the game?
Please comment below.
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Welcome one and all! I'm a little late to the party, but here is the Roundtable. I thought I would have no access to the internet, only to discover that I do if I wait until later in the evening.
Today, the Bamasphere of Blogs brings you the 2nd ever Crimson & White Roundtable. This week's edition of the roundtable is hosted by the one and only Memphis Tider, who asks:
"Do you put any stock into the superstition that an Alabama coach won't turn out well if he wins his first game? Bryant lost his first game, Stallings lost his first, and Franchione lost his first. Shula, DuBose, Perkins, and Curry all won their first games as Alabama's head coach. If this is the case, since Coach Saban is playing Western Carolina to start off the season, is this a sign of bad things to come?
If you don't put a lot of stock in this, give us a couple of your gameday superstitions, if you have any."
Similar to last week, we Bama bloggers all submitted our answers to Memphis Tider, who then types everything up and presents it for the fans to read. I hope everyone gets a chance to read this edition. I imagine the superstition section will provide the most entertainment. Memphis Tider is busyblogging away at his humble Memphis manor:


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I need some design advice
Creating a paid subscriber site. Ecart wizard created confirm page with store summary and detail behaviors and that works as expected.
My goal is to automatically add the subscriber to a subscriber file with a temporary password and with a flag set regarding the subscription he/she just bought.
should I add the new subscriber record when user lands in the checkout_success page?
should I move the store to database behaviors from the confirm page to the checkout_success page?


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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,
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Laurel, MD 20723e-mail: email@example.com
Applied Research Laboratory,
Pennsylvania State University,
College Park, PA 16802
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company,
Littleton, CO 80127
Contributed by the Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING. Manuscript received July 5, 2014; final manuscript received March 20, 2015; published online April 17, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Solomon Yim. The United States Government retains, and by accepting the article for publication, the publisher acknowledges that the United States Government retains, a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.
A scale-model blunt-cone capsule intended for ocean splashdown was projected into a water pool to evaluate impact loads and postimpact behavior. In a small region of the speed/angle parameter space, the capsule would reproducibly capsize, flipping forward (pitch-down), despite a pitch-up motion induced at impact. Inspection of high-speed video shows that the resurging central jet of the impact cavity is responsible. Capsize occurs when this jet is energetic enough (for which we develop a simple criterion), and is timed to lift the trailing edge of the vehicle. The same phenomenon was observed on the Apollo capsules, and may be relevant for lifeboat deployment from ships and offshore platforms.
Cross section of the test article. The center of mass (black dot) is 48 mm below the deck, somewhat above the waterline which roughly coincides with the lip. The attachment fitting and transparent lid are seen at top; instrumentation boxes indicated by shading.
Scenes from the test campaign. (a) Installing the model on the carriage that allowed adjustment of the vehicle pitch at release. (b) The carriage is hoisted to the top of the launch rail that could be tilted to impart a horizontal as well as vertical velocity at impact (c) at the bottom of the launch rail, the pin holding the model is retracted by a cam, releasing the model for a brief free-flight before impact on the water surface (d).
Screengrabs from a high-speed video camera. In free flight the capsule has a slightly pitch-down attitude (a). At impact (b), an impulsive pitch-up acceleration is introduced such that in frames ((c) and (d)) the capsule has positive pitch–the ejecta ring around the transient cavity is clearly seen here. In (e) the vehicle has dramatically pitched down and a jet of water behind the capsule is seen. In (f), (g), (h), and (i), the capsule continues, now more slowly, to pitch-down and forward, becoming inverted ((j)–(l)).
High-speed side view of the test in Fig. 2. Frames are ∼0.03 s apart. The upper surface of the vehicle is not in fact submerged, even though the vehicle penetrates below the undisturbed waterline in frames ((d)–(h)). Note that the vehicle pitches up (anticlockwise in this view) at the instant of impact, but subsequently pitches down (or forward, clockwise in this view) later in the event due to the resurging central jet of the transient cavity–this interaction on the underside of the capsule is seen in frames ((j)–(n)). The interaction flips the vehicle onto its side, from which it slowly topples forward and becomes inverted (outside the frame).
Pitch rate history for a capsizing impact at 7.13 m/s, recorded by a solid-state gyro on the model, sampled at 512 samples/s. Despite the impulsive pitch-up at impact, a pitch-down rate builds up over the next 0.5 s, causing the capsule to tip forward.
Summary plot of results from the three test series (points randomly displaced ∼0.1 m/s to show duplicates.) The vertical line is the resurge timing criterion from Ref. [2], namely VH > R/t (see text): the horizontal solid line shows the energy criterion developed in Eq. (1) with parameter γ empirically determined to be 0.85.
Schematic of capsize conditions by the mechanism discussed in this paper
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Tameka and Usher Getting Married This Weekend????
Posted by Bossip Staff
Usher is may be getting ready to end his career this weekend according to New York Daily News:
Are Usher and Tameka Foster ready to make it legal? The buzz is that the two, who are expecting a baby this fall, may wed as soon as this weekend. An insider says they're personally calling friends like Jay-Z and Beyoncé and Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri to attend the nuptials, which could take place at music honcho L.A. Reid's Hamptons spread. Big question: is Usher's mom, Jonetta Patton, invited? Sources say Patton, who's also Usher's ex-manager and isn't on the best of terms with Tameka, may be traveling this week.
Who wants to hear Usher sing about that old woman and all his new kids on the new album? He probably won't be hot again until the divorce album drops.
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According to Iranian media, Abu Mehdi Muhandis briefed Grand Ayatollah Bashir Hussain Najafi and the head of his office in the holy city of Najaf yesterday on ongoing Fallujah operations. Muhandis is the commander of the Iranian-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, a US designated global terrorist and a deputy to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani. Najafi was born to a prominent clerical family in British India and is one of the five Grand Ayatollahs in Iraq.
The senior cleric praised the ongoing successes of Iraqi forces against the Islamic State and proclaimed, "all of Iraq must be cleansed from DAISH (pejorative for Islamic State) terrorists." He also stressed the necessity of protecting public and private property during the Fallujah operation and said, "Members of the security forces and popular mobilization are the pride of the clergy."
Najafi then announced: "Iraqi holy warriors and fighters must have serious will to liberate the remaining areas under the occupation of terrorism and not to give an opportunity for the invasion of this country's soil."
The head of the senior cleric's office and his son, Hojjat al Eslam Sheikh Ali Najafi, also called for the protection of civilians in Fallujah "so they are free the clutches of terrorism with the least harm." He likewise praised "members of popular mobilization who with faith and courage have once again demonstrated to the world and proved that they stand against the enemies with strength and treat innocent humans with kindness and gentleness."
The militias backed by Tehran have often acted outside the law in Iraq as they battle Islamic State militants. The UN human rights chief warned this week that there were "extremely distressing, credible reports" that Iraqis fleeing Fallujah are facing physical abuse and even summary executions as they escape Fallujah. According to The New York Times, on the other hand, "for the most part, civilians who have fled the areas around Fallujah have said they had tired of the grim life under the Islamic State and had been treated well by the militias and Iraqi soldiers."