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In-Rel Management Inc., working under the name 6555 Quince Building Owner LLC, has financed the nearly 124,000-square-foot office building at 6555 Quince Road through UBS Real Estate Securities Inc. for $8.6 million.
The five-story, 123,924-square-foot, Class A office building was constructed in 1989. It is on 5.9 acres at the southwest corner of Quince Road and Kirby Parkway, near Interstate 385 in Koger Center II. The Shelby County Register of Deeds' 2011 appraisal was $3.8 million.
In-Rel bought the property in 2009 for $5 million. Formerly the Comcast building, In-Rel renamed it Quince Centre.
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The Medtronic Foundation has awarded $260,000 in grants to more than a dozen nonprofit organizations. The awards are a portion of the company's nearly $1 million in philanthropic and volunteer efforts in the Memphis region focused on health, education and community.
The Minneapolis-based medical device maker's Spinal and Biologics Business is located at 1800 Pyramid Place in Memphis.
The 2012 Medtronic Foundation grant recipients are Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association; Mid-South Food Bank; Exchange Club Family Center; The Pink Palace; Down Syndrome Association of Memphis & the Mid-South; Memphis Oral School for the Deaf; Shelby Farms Park Conservancy; Junior Achievement of Memphis & the Mid-South; Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Memphis; Germantown Community Theatre; University of Memphis Foundation; Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis; and Porter-Leath Children's Center.
– Aisling Maki
Emmy-nominated Simon Cantlon and Memphis-based production company Paper Moon Films are partnering for a new documentary film and book called "The Motels of Route 66."
The project will explore the stories of the motel owners, the architecture, the travelers and the road itself. Community fundraising via Kickstarter will begin next month, and the film is projected to shoot this summer, when the filmmaker and crew embark on a month-long journey along the 2,448 miles of Route 66 between Chicago and Los Angeles.
The project will portray the vintage motels in both film and photography and show day-in-the-life glimpses of some of the unique people who run the establishments and the travelers who stay the night.
The project also will be heavily interactive with a social media presence. An online community and network dedicated to "The Motels of Route 66" has already been established at www.TheMotelsOfRoute66.com.
Fans of the route are encouraged to submit their own photography, videos and stories Some user-submitted content will be integrated into the final film and book.
– Andy Meek
Evolve Bank & Trust has named Joe Jenkins president of its Arkansas markets. A member of Evolve Bank & Trust's board of directors since 2009, Jenkins has more than 40 years of banking experience and was chairman and president of the former Citizens Bank in Marion, Ark.
Evolve Financial Group Inc. is the Memphis-based holding company of Evolve Bank & Trust.
Jenkins is a graduate of Arkansas State University and The Stonier Graduate School of Banking of Rutgers University. He served as an instructor and board chairman of The Mid-South School of Banking in Memphis.
During his banking career, Jenkins served on the Arkansas Bank Holding Co. board and was a member of the committee that rewrote the banking laws for the state of Arkansas.
– Sarah Baker
Wings Cancer Foundation has been selected as a candidate for the Livestrong Community Impact Project, which was created to bring proven cancer support programs to communities in the United States.
Wings Cancer Foundation is in the running for The Creative Center: Hospital Artist in Residence Program.
If selected, the foundation will use the funds to expand its Healing Arts Program to include patients receiving chemotherapy and those waiting to see their doctors.
Finalists will be determined through an online voting campaign that runs Wednesday, March 7, through March 23.
Applicants with the top votes per region will receive a financial award to replicate and implement a sustainable program to support families fighting cancer. Finalists also will receive tools and resources from the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
– Taylor Shoptaw
A Shelby County grand jury has replaced felony criminal charges against former Millington Mayor Richard Hodges with new corruption counts and included Marlin Roberts, the owner of a Millington transmission shop, with Hodges in the new charges.
The Shelby County grand jury charges were announced Monday, March 5, by Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn.
Hodges, who had been charged with two counts of bribery for soliciting money in exchange for political favors is now charged with three counts of bribery.
Roberts is charged with two counts of bribery, two counts of possession with intent to sell the prescription drug Vicodin and one count of simple drug possession.
The first indictment against Hodges was returned by the grand jury in October following a set of raids by TBI agents and the Shelby County Sheriff's Office that summer that included Millington city hall and Roberts' transmission shop. An affidavit filed with the search warrants alleged Roberts was operating an illegal gambling operation out of his business and that Hodges frequented it and did favors for Roberts because he owed Roberts gambling debts. The affidavit also identified the informant in the case as Roberts.
Weirich and Gwyn said in a written statement Monday that the investigation of Hodges and Roberts continued after the first set of indictments and resulted in the charges announced Monday.
Hodges resigned as mayor in January and is awaiting trial. He has pleaded not guilty to the first set of charges. Former Millington alderwoman Linda Carter was appointed interim mayor to serve the remaining year in Hodges' four-year term of office.
Since then, the aldermen have discussed changing Millington's form of government to a city manager-type government.
– Bill Dries
B.B. King's Restaurant & Blues Club is collecting funds this week for server Gerald Jones, who is battling stage four T-cell lymphoma, and his family.
Since Jones is an avid basketball fan, the staff deemed it appropriate to raise funds for him during the Conference USA tournament. The restaurant will accept donations Wednesday, March 7, through Saturday, March 10, at 143 Beale St. Donation buckets will be set up on the stage, at the front door and at all three bars. Donors can also contribute by writing it in on the tip line when they pay their bills.
Jones is expected to be out for several months, so if donors are unable to make it to B.B. King's this week, they can drop off or send in contributions at any time.
President Barack Obama is announcing new mortgage relief for members of the military and veterans as well as homeowners with government-insured loans.
Obama spelled out the plan Tuesday, March 6, at the start of his first news conference of the year.
Borrowers with mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration would be able to refinance at half the fee that the FHA currently charges. The administration says a typical FHA borrower who refinances could save more than $1,000 a year from the changes.
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I'd love a Cairo Thugs 2-pack, but unfortunately there aren't any here. Was hoping to make some "bad guys" for my modern military figures to basically shoot at. They're looking lonely on the shelf here. I did, however, get about $70 worth of fodder tonight... I would love to find that 2-pack and Cemetary Warriors, and some Russians... Unfortunately though, those aren't common here. They're all great fodder, and none around. Also not many TLC figures at all here... Wouldn't mind finding some of those too.
Went to WalMart tonight to get some soda and other items. I stopped by the toy aisle of course and found a treasure trove of clearanced IJ figures!I picked up: Cairo Swordsman, Monkey Man, Elsa Schneider, Colonel Vogel, TLC Indy and Grail Knight all for $3 and I also grabbed a Cairo Thugs 2-pack for $7. Since this purchase netted me six more stickers, I'm going to get my butt over to the post office tomorow morning and send out one more Crystal Skeleton certificate, bringing my grand total on those up to 12. How many were in the chamber at the end of the movie, 12 or 13?
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Are you full yet? Italians seem to enjoy eating more food even after their stomachs might want a break, so it's no wonder the Italian Festival was just a week after the Taste of Buffalo! There were four more full days (Thursday, July 12–Sunday, July 15) of food to go around in North Buffalo's Little Italy for the 25th Anniversary of the event on Hertel Avenue. Walking around was a good idea after just "taste-testing" some of the food that was available.
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This is what happens when I put off updates for too long: THINGS. SO MANY OF THE THINGS.
A gaggle of notable rogue players are now running around willy-nilly in the Warlords of Draenor Alpha and learning all sorts of odds and ends about how our class appears to be playing so far. A couple of them — Rzn and Haileaus — are even streaming their Alpha bits all over the Twitchesphere. But for the purposes of this post, I will now pretend that this momentous occasion has not yet occurred, so that we can focus here on the same stuff we focused on in my earlier updates: "official" statements, clarifications on Twitter and datamining.
I realize this is all getting awfully unwieldy: Five separate update posts in addition to my initial rundown of class changes does not make for a neat, pretty picture. At the moment, the best all-in-one recap by far is over at Wowhead, where Perculia and Olivia Grace have teamed up to take most of the bits and pieces we've learned about Warlords rogues and tie them up into a neat package.
If you just want a look at what we've learned in the past two weeks (not including player observations from within the Alpha), here's what went down specifically in relation to rogues in Warlords:
Datamining Teases Possible Raid Set Bonuses
Although we've been warned by WoW's designers not to take these remotely seriously, the first datamined glimpse of possible set bonuses for Tier 17 raid gear and PvP gear — spotted by Wowhead and MMO-Champion on June 10 — range from dull (Combat/Subtlety two-piece) to interesting (Subtlety four-piece) and perplexing-because-it's-likely-a-typo (Assassination's two-piece appears to buff a hunter ability, which is about as insulting as you can get.)
Quoting Wowhead — and again, remember, this is datamining that WoW's designers have warned us are almost entirely just placeholders right now:
- Item – Rogue T17 Combat 2P Bonus: Increases the damage of Eviscerate by 10%.
- Item – Rogue T17 Combat 4P Bonus: Increases the chance for Revealing Strike to generate an extra Combo Point by 10%.
- Item – Rogue T17 Subtlety 4P Bonus: While Shadow Dance is active, you gain the Quick Blades effect.Quick Blades generates 10 Energy every 1 sec for 10 sec.
- Item – Rogue T17 Subtlety 2P Bonus: Increases the damage of Eviscerate by 10%.
- Item – Rogue T17 Assassination 2P Bonus: Increases the damage of Kill Shot by 10%.
- Item – Rogue WoD PvP 2P Bonus: Successfully interrupting a spell with Kick generates 3 combo points.
- Item – Rogue WoD PvP Combat 4P Bonus: Increases the duration of Killing Spree by 1 sec.
No Assassination PvE four-piece bonus appears to have been datamined.
Spec "Attunements" Datamined
Another noteworthy rogue-specific tidbit from the June 10 datamining (the rest of which appear to mostly be tooltip corrections, typos and in-progress adjustments that aren't worth trying to analyze) is this set of "Attunements" that passively boost the value of one of our secondary stats when we hit Level 90.
Again quoting Wowhead, our Attunements currently appear to be:
- Mastery Attunement [Assassination]: You gain 5% more of the Mastery stat from all sources.
- Haste Attunement [Combat]: You gain 5% more of the Haste stat from all sources.
- Multistrike Attunement [Subtlety]: You gain 5% more of the Multistrike stat from all sources.
Don't be surprised to see these change significantly as the WoD Alpha (and Beta) progresses. Something feels odd about a passive buff being granted to a single secondary stat, which feels like it would inherently increase that stat's value relative to the others — something that goes directly against designers' repeatedly stated goal for Warlords that they wished to keep secondary stats close to one another in value.
There has also been no official comment regarding whether we need to have first obtained a Shadowforge Key in order to unlock these attunements. (HYUK!)
On Combat Swapping Autoattack Buffs
In the last update, I noted that the Ambidexterity passive was being removed from Combat, which — as stated within the official patch notes — "was done to reduce the amount of damage coming from auto attacks." Which is a lovely sentiment, but one that gets muddied a bit given that Combat is also getting a perk called Improved Dual Wield, which removes the 19% reduced hit chance we suffer by default for using a pair of one-handed weapons — and thus increases our autoattack damage. Rogue theorycrafter Fierydemise took to Twitter to call attention to this; technical game designer Chadd "Celtictron" Nervig parried the debate.
Sap Stays Sappy
PvP honcho Brian "Holinka" Holinka affirms that, despite upcoming adjustments to other forms of crowd control, Sap's duration is not likely to change.
Band-Aids vs. Knives
Holinka also rebuffed a request to combine Slice and Dice with Recuperate, saying it's a good choice to force players to choose between offense and defense. (Nevermind Leeching Poison. Speaking of which…)
Versatility Won't Uber-Boost Leeching Poison
Lead game designer Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas noted that Versatility, the newly announced secondary stat that will enhance our healing and damage absorption in addition to our damage output, won't allow Leeching Poison to "double dip." (Because Leeching is a self-heal that is based off of the amount of damage we deal, it could theoretically benefit from Versatility twice unless the designers do something to stop it — which they apparently plan to do.)
Main Gauche Still Combat's Main Man
Even though the Multistrike stat will give our attacks a chance to proc for additional damage, Nervig says the designers have no plans to change Combat's mastery, Main Gauche — which also gives some of our attacks a chance to proc for additional damage. He notes that they're open to revisiting the issue, however.
Pre-Potting Won't Break Stealth
Nervig gave a straightforward answer to a request that drinking a potion would no longer break a rogue's stealth: "Yes."


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San José State University Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Complaint Procedure for Students and Applicants for Admission
The purpose of this revised Presidential Directive is to assure that San José State University continues to comply with all Federal and State legislation and California State University policies regarding unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation. San José State University is committed to creating an atmosphere in which all students can study free of unlawful discrimination. These revised procedures are developed in compliance with new CSU Executive Order 1074.
This revised directive supersedes all prior complaint procedures for SJSU students and applicants for admission.
These procedures provide students and applicants for admission the right to request and receive a fair and impartial investigation of any on-campus perceived discriminatory act by an SJSU employee, fellow student, or student organization, or any on-campus incident that is believed to be harassment or discriminatory on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, disability, medical condition, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, religion, marital status and genetic information.
These procedures were adopted to encourage students and applicants for admission to seek redress of perceived discrimination through an SJSU internal process that is readily available, prompt, and meets high standards of fairness. However, no student or applicant for admission is precluded by these procedures from filing a complaint, at any time, with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
A student or applicant for admission may submit a complaint form within 20 Working Days after the end of the academic term (semester/quarter) in which the most recent alleged act of Discrimination, Harassment or Retaliation occurred. If a student or applicant for admission engages in the Informal Resolution Process, the complaint deadline may be extended for a period of up to 20 Working Days, meaning, in this instance, a complaint may be filed up to 40 Working Days after the end of the academic term in which the alleged act occurred.
All student and applicant for admission complaints of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation shall be directed to the Title IX Coordinator in the Human Resources Office for Equal Opportunity (OEO), UPD Building, 3rd Floor for investigation and resolution.This includes allegations of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation by employees or other students against a student. A student or applicant for admission may file a complaint by submitting a completed CSU Student Discrimination/Harassment/Retailiation Complaint Form to the Office for Equal Opportunity, San José State University, One Washington Square, San José, CA 95192-0046. The form is available at http://www.calstate.edu/eo/EO-1045-Attachment1.pdf. In lieu of the complaint form, students may submit a written statement in accordance with the requirements of CSU Executive Order 1074. Complaints of discrimination against a member of the University Police Department (UPD) shall be brought to the attention of the Title IX Coordinator in the Office for Equal Opportunity. The OEO will work with UPD to ensure the complaint is fully investigated and resolved in accordance with this Directive. When the Campus has knowledge of an act of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation, the OEO will investigate with or without a formal complaint.
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The student and accused may be accompanied by an advisor of his or her choosing to any meeting or interview. The student or accused should identify this person to the Title IX Coordinator in writing. The advisor may not speak on behalf of the student or accused, but may observe and consult with the individual.
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Documentation gathered and produced in final form by SJSU officials as part of the processing of a complaint shall be maintained by the OEO for three (3) years from the date of resolution of the complaint. Such documentation shall be maintained on a confidential basis.
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March 24, 2010
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The Schedule
Saturday, March 27, 2010
No. 12 UC Santa Barbara (11-8) vs. No. 17 Pacific (17-6), 10:30 a.m.
No. 12 UC Santa Barbara vs. No. 13 UC Irvine (8-10), 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
No. 12 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (11-8, 0-0) vs. USA 18U S, 11:00 a.m.
No. 12 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (11-8, 0-0) vs. USA 18U C, 3:30 p.m.
The Week Ahead
After grabbing two victories at home and resting for a week, the Gauchos are set to host the UCSB Invite at Campus Pool this weekend. On Saturday, the Gauchos will play Pacific at 10:30 am before facing UC Irvine at 2:00 pm. On Sunday, UCSB will participate in two exhibition games matches against the USA 18U National Teams at 11:00 am and 3:30 pm.
For The Record
UCSB currently holds a record of 11-8. After, capturing two more home wins, the Gauchos are 5-1 at Campus Pool. UCSB ranks as No. 12 in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Top-20 Poll, maintaining its ranking from last week.
Eye on the Tiger
UCSB will open up tournament play this Saturday against No. 17 Pacific at 10:30 am. Pacific carries a record of 17-6, but is coming off of an 11-4 loss to No. 3 Cal. Pacific is also 1-6 this season against teams currently ranked in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Top-20 Poll. The Gauchos are 6-1 in their last seven games against Pacific and have eliminated the Tigers in the conference tournament the last three years in a row. In the teams' most recent meeting, UCSB defeated Pacific, 14-8, in the 2009 Big West Tournament First Round.
Attacking the Anteaters
Saturday afternoon the Gauchos will take on No. 13 UC Irvine at 2:00 pm. UC Irvine comes into the game with a record of 8-10, having just registered an 11-7 victory over Bucknell. UC Irvine is 4-8 this season against teams currently ranked in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Top-20 Poll. The Gauchos have already split two games with Anteaters this season, winning the most recent, 11-3, on Feb. 28 at the UC Irvine Invitational.
Gaucho Goals
After scoring an amazing eight goals in the Gauchos' past two games, senior Lizzie Rouleau became UCSB's leading scorer for the season. Rouleau has put away a total of 22 goals this season, including five games with multiple scores. Christie Clark is now second on the team for scoring with 20 goals, including three two-goal games. Freshman Shelby Haroldson now sits at third for goals. After recording a hat-trick against Cal State San Bernardino, she brings her total count to 17, including five multiple-goal performances. Next on the list is junior Katie Kepner, who has recorded 13 total goals and also leads the Gauchos with 21 assists.
Defensive Domination
Throughout the season, junior Kathryn Nelson has led the UCSB on the defensive end of the pool. To this date, Nelson has racked up an impressive 30 steals and eight field blocks. Proving her versatility, Nelson has also recorded 11 goals this season and ranks second on the team for assists with seven. Second for steals is freshman Shelby Haroldson with 23, followed by Christie Clark with 17 and Nancy Ruano with 14. Lizzie Rouleau and Claire Buchanan rank second on the team in field blocks with six each.
We're Going Streaking
Three Gauchos have recently started new scoring streaks. Lizzie Rouleau began a powerful two-game streak, by scoring four goals in each of the Gaucho's last two matches. Claire Buchanan and Nancy Ruano also started streaks in UCSB's most recent games, after each picked up a goal against Cal State San Bernardino and Bucknell.
Goalie Gossip
Ruth Milne has recorded a total of 167 saves this season, including a 15-save game against UC Davis (2/7) and multiple games in which she recorded a dozen saves. After starting 16 of the Gauchos' 19 games, Milne is averaging 10.8 saves per game, and 7.4 goals against per game.
Big West Here We Come
The Gauchos will begin Big West Conference play next weekend, with a pair of important home games. On Friday, April 2, UCSB will play Long Beach State. The following day, the Gauchos will face UC Irvine yet again. Both games will start at 12:00 pm at UCSB's Campus Pool.


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Reading Warren H. Phillips's new autobiography, "Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal," I was reminded of the expression commonly mistaken for an ancient Chinese curse — "May you live in interesting times." Once one comes to understand that these words are neither ancient, Chinese, nor a curse, it becomes easy to appreciate them as a good wish, something to be made the most of. That is exactly what Mr. Phillips does.
The son of an immigrant father of modest means, he was single-minded, from childhood on, in his ambition for a career in newspapers. In his first job, as a copyboy for The New York Herald Tribune, he earned $16 a week. Most of his career was spent at The Wall Street Journal, from which he retired in 1991 as publisher and C.E.O. of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The parallel rises of Mr. Phillips and The Wall Street Journal itself were a heady experience that certainly made for "interesting times." These Mr. Phillips chronicles in this very well-written volume.
Following his graduation from Queens College in 1947, Mr. Phillips sought jobs at several New York City newspapers, with no success. "Last on my list of New York newspapers . . . was The Wall Street Journal, " he writes. "It was then a thin, one-hundred-thousand-circulation financial paper downtown at 44 Broad Street . . . just south of Wall Street. There my luck changed."
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And there, also, his career began. By the time he became the paper's managing editor nine years later, the author had served as a foreign correspondent in several world capitals, its foreign editor, and its regional editor in Chicago. Along the way, he became imbued with The Journal's uncompromising standards of honesty, integrity, and high-quality writing. (He quotes a Journal colleague as saying, "There is no such thing as bad writing. Only bad thinking.") Indeed, a 1969 Harris Poll called The Journal "the most trusted newspaper" in America.
When, at the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. pressed Mr. Phillips to allow it to place bona fide journalists in the paper's Moscow bureau who would also be spying for the agency, he categorically refused. Not that he was unsympathetic to the request or unwilling to help his country. Rather, "I rejected their overtures for completely different reasons of conscience and practicality," he states, elaborating that if the Soviets learned that even a single Journal correspondent was also a C.I.A. agent, it would jeopardize the safety of every other Journal correspondent in Eastern Europe. "This I was not prepared to do."
The major portion of Mr. Phillips's story is the story of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones themselves for the 44 years he worked there. From his privileged vantage point, we witness exactly how his newspaper grew into a major international journalistic presence and how — toward the end of his career there — the signals were clear that the supremacy of print journalism was coming to an end. Though ultimately loyal to The Journal and to Dow Jones, Mr. Phillips is not unwilling to reveal their faults and blemishes, along with their strengths and successes. In a thoughtful epilogue, he shares his wisdom on The Wall Street Journal's 2007 sale to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
Spending virtually all of one's career under one corporate roof causes one to feel like a member of a closed universe, knowing all the other members of that universe in person or as part of the corporate lore. While the author's apparently encyclopedic knowledge of The Journal and Dow Jones will make this book most appealing to the other members of that particular universe, that is by no means to say that it lacks universal appeal to anyone interested in news and the news media of the last 60 years.
Moreover, spending virtually all of one's career under one corporate roof and reaching the top of the corporate ladder — that's what turns someone into what used to be called "a company man." And that is what Mr. Phillips is, though I don't intend this as a criticism. By so artfully combining the story of his life with the story of the enterprise he served well for so long, he maintains an admirable personal modesty in the light of such impressive professional accomplishment.
Warren H. Phillips lives in Bridgehampton.
A weekend resident of East Hampton, James I. Lader regularly contributes book reviews to The Star.


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Maybe the big WrestleMania match between The Rock and John Cena didn't need to be set up almost a year ago, because the feud has really only kicked into high gear over the past few weeks with both men exchanging barbs on every show. Expect more of the same tonight on Cena's home turf in Boston, plus an appearance by Shawn Michaels. The TD Garden hosts Raw, live on USA.
To the delight of the fans, Michaels comes to the ring to kick off the show. Believe it or not, Shawn caused some trouble a few weeks ago trying to convince Triple H to end The Undertaker's streak. Since The Game not only changed his mind but upped the ante and made the WrestleMania match Hell in a Cell, HBK is here tonight to find out what made his buddy change his mind. Michaels admits that he tested the limits of their friendship, even called Hunter a coward, but it didn't work. But someone made Triple H change his mind, made him have a revelation, and HBK is dying to know what it was. Before an answer comes, Michaels interrupts and asks for the footage from two weeks ago to be rolled so he can see it for himself. Of course, it was Undertaker's taunt that HBK was always better than him that made Triple H change his mind (#awkward). The worst thing that someone can say to Triple H is that Michaels is better than him? Hunter tries to make it about something else, saying that he's tired of Undertaker and other people talk behind Shawn's back about not being able to get the job done, because he believes that Michaels was the greatest in-ring performer of all time. It pains Trips to look at his buddy as a loser, so he wants to end The Streak, and he'll do it for both of them. Michaels sarcastically says he's glad they have no problem, and that Triple H has everything under control. Saying that it pained him to be right about The Game not being able to win last year, he at least take comfort in the fact that he'll be right again this year � and he knows that because he's been named the special referee.
Match 1 � Santino Marella (challenger) vs. Jack Swagger (champion) � United States Championship Match
John Laurinaitis comes down to ringside (with David Otunga, naturally) even though he's not in charge of the show tonight thanks to the GM swap. Swagger looks like he's going to wrap this up quickly thanks to help from Dolph Ziggler, but Santino kicks out. Teddy Long comes down and immediately gets into it with Johnny Ace. Aksana and Kofi Kingston are also on hand to help him even the odds. After a commercial break, Marella takes advantage of the chaos to pin Swagger. Laurinaitis is livid, saying Long can't do that on his show. But it's Teddy's show tonight, and he's going to give the WWE Universe a present by telling security to have Laurinaitis and Otunga escorted out of the building.
The Rock shot a video earlier today in Boston to teach Cena some history lessons. Let's watch it, shall we? Mr. Johnson talks about the Boston Tea Party, when the American colonists dumped tea into the harbor, and figures he may as well put his own spin on it by dumping a bunch of Cena's merchandise into the water. Among the items are Cena wristbands, cologne and... a garden gnome? The Rock asks some jabroni to get in a rowboat and clean all of Cena's trash out of the harbor.
Match 2 � Eve Torres vs. Alicia Fox
Kelly Kelly joins Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler on commentary for this one. At least it doesn't take up too much of her time, with Eve winning in about 90 seconds. Zack Ryder hobbles out to tell Eve that he's glad they never hooked up, because you know what they say: Broskis before hoeskis.
Eve catches up with Ryder backstage and plants a big kiss on him. Yeah, tongue action and all. And unless my eyes deceive me, Zack looks like he may be wavering on that whole �broskis before hoeskis� thing from before the break.
Earlier today, Cena sat in an empty arena and recorded some thoughts on his WrestleMania meeting with The Rock. Despite his personal feelings, Cena calls Johnson the most successful WWE superstar of all time, both in and out of the ring. He goes on to talk about Boston since he grew up nearby, and how the 18-0 New England Patriots that lost in the Super Bowl reminded him that no one looks back fondly on second place. Cena feels this year's WrestleMania will be the biggest WWE event of all time, which is why he desperately needs to win.
Match 3 � CM Punk and Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan and Chris Jericho
It's pretty awesome how Cole has changed his tune on Bryan now that the World Heavyweight Champion has turned heel. That may be the lone good thing about Cole's character. All four men get in on the action as they look to build up the two WrestleMania title matches. The announcers are selling the damage that Jericho did to Punk's back last week, and the WWE Champion sells it too as he looks like he's in pain while dropping the big elbow on Bryan. Sheamus has Bryan up for the Irish Cross but is interrupted by Jericho. With Bryan and Sheamus out on the floor, Jericho tries for the Walls of Jericho. Punk tries to roll him up, but Jericho manages to get one shoulder off the ground and pin his rival instead.
Time for another history lesson from The Rock. He asks what would have happened if it was Cena instead of Paul Revere who made the famous warning ride. Apparently we'd all be sipping tea and playing crickets. The Rock tells a confusing story about time travel but does drop a nice line calling himself �25 percent black, 25 percent Samoan and 50 percent Clydesdale.� He also fits the word jabroni into �Yankee Doodle.� Well played sir.
Match 4 � The Miz vs. The Big Show
Before this one can get underway, Cody Rhodes wants to show another video to embarrass Show. At WrestleMania X8, Show wasn't even in Toronto, but was hanging out with guests at WWE New York. Yikes. Miz gets jobbed out quickly here, pinned after a big right hand.
The Rock has one more lesson for everyone, touting the Rock Revolution that will overthrow Cena. Rocky says he has the charisma of George Washington, the brilliance of Ben Franklin and the you-know-what of John Hancock. On April 1, Cena will fall to The Rock, but the Great One says he is coming to the TD Garden tonight.
Main Event � R-Truth vs. Kane
With The Rock and Cena still due to face off again in the ring, I suppose the term �main event� is relative here. As if to prove my point, Kane finishes off Truth in a matter of minutes with a choke slam. But we're not done here, because Randy Orton would still like to get involved � and he does, hitting Kane with an RKO. He tells the Big Red Machine that it's good to be back. Your move Kane.
Cena comes to the ring, addressing The Rock and his history lessons. Perhaps sarcastically, he gets a �Rocky� chant going. But what is The Rock really saying? He's obsessed with breakfast cereal, he makes fun of the way Cena looks, he talks about his �Stonewall Jackson� and how many girls he's had sex with. Cena wonders if Rocky is having a mid-life crisis and claims he left him shook up last Monday. Poking some fun at himself, Cena says he's unsure if Johnson should come to the ring even with his University of Miami swagger back, because lately his best stuff has been either pre-recorded or via satellite. He wants the real Rock out there in the ring and is quickly obliged. The Rock says he sees fear in Cena's eyes. The fans give it to Rocky a bit by chanting �Tooth Fairy.� The Rock says if you strip all of the Hollywood away, he's still 6-foot-4, 220 pounds of man who will rip your throat out, while Cena will always be a little boy who is The Rock's bitch. He leaves, but Cena stays to talk about how he's not afraid, even though he'll lose everything if The Rock wins. Cena plans on making history by whipping The Rock's ass at WrestleMania. And that's a wrap. See you in seven!
Nick Tylwalk also thinks most of his best stuff is done via satellite, or rather, via internet, but that's okay in his line of work. Touch base with him on Twitter, on Google+ or by email.


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WorldFest-Houston features a world of films
As regular as bluebonnets and the Easter bunny, WorldFest-Houston International Film/Video Festival pops up every April.
The 45th annual edition of founder Hunter Todd's independent movie festival runs April 13-22, and once again, all films screen at the AMC Studio 30 theater, 2949 Dunvale in west Houston. This year, the public portion of the festival will offer 53 feature-length films and 107 short films.
The festival's opening night offering is a family film. "Smitty" is a boy-and-his-dog tale, about a youth so messed up he doesn't even like dogs. At first, anyway. The film, playing at 8 p.m. Friday stars Louis Gossett Jr., Peter Fonda and Mira Sorvino.
Gossett Jr., this year's winner of the Remi Lifetime Achievement Award, is scheduled to attend the screening.
WorldFest truly is international; this year 31 feature films from 22 countries join almost two dozen from the U.S., including at least four from Texas.
Canada and Italy lead the foreign contingent, with five films from both countries. Other nations represented are Russia, Eritrea, France, Slovakia, Croatia, Iran, Germany, Japan, Israel, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Switzerland, Argentina, Austria, Ukraine, Indonesia, Chile, Poland and Vietnam.
None of the films will have familiar titles, though many hope to, and a few may get a theatrical release somewhere down the road.
A few have recognizable directors or actors in leading or support roles. For example, "America," (7 p.m. April 22), a drama that is the official closing-night film from Puerto Rico, stars Lymari Nadal supported by her husband, Edward James Olmos (playing her father).
"Bucksville" (5 p.m. April 21), a psychological drama about a young man wanting out of the vigilante/anti-government militia started by his father in their small rural town, features Tom Berenger as the mysterious "patron" with his own agenda, secretly funding similar organizations nationwide.
The always-argued-about director Henry Jaglom will again be represented, this time by the world premiere (one of 15 feature world premieres on the schedule) of his latest effort, "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," (7 p.m. April 20) starring, as usual, Tanna Frederick, with Judd Nelson in a support role.
Val Kilmer and D.B. Sweeney appear in support roles in "Deep in the Heart" (9 p.m. Saturday), a drama about businessman and former alcoholic Dick Wallrath, who turns his life around and helps put kids through college with scholarship donations.
Michael Biehn of "Aliens" and "The Abyss" fame, has a supporting role in the Houston-made horror thriller, "Jacob," which is a festival Midnight Madness movie at 11 p.m. on April 20.
"Garbage," (7 p.m. April 19 and 21) an unusual comedy about two semi-charming, all nerdish "waste-management engineers" who work the Beverly Hills beat and find Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Oscar for "Jerry Maguire," has cameos from Billy Baldwin, Daryl Hannah and Michael Madsen (but not Gooding).
A full schedule of all festival feature films and times and links to trailers for most are at www.worldfest.org. Ticket and event information and a printable one-page schedule of all features and shorts are also available on the website.
While checking the schedule, don't overlook the groupings of short films, at 1 and 3 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday of the festival. There are usually some gems among those shorts.
The festival's Remi Awards for the films and performers will be announced at the end of the event. The Houston Film Critics Society also will be announcing some awards.
Directors for about 50 of the 53 feature films, along with some cast and crew, will attend their movies. Among the actors expected, in addition to Gossett Jr., are Sally Kirkland (starring in the drama, "Archeology of a Woman," which has its world premiere at 3 p.m. April 21) and Frederick.
Todd started his festival in Atlanta in 1968. That makes WorldFest, by his figuring, the third oldest festival in the United States, after San Francisco and New York. Todd is also confident he's the "longest-running film festival director in the whole wide world.
"It's what I do," he says.
The festival came to Houston in 1978 after a five-year detour in the Virgin Islands. Being able to open or close with whatever film suits him represents the fact that - after four and half decades - Todd is comfortable running the show the way he wants. His concentration is on indie and international films.
"True," he says, with characteristic glee. "It's kind of nice. We don't work with the studios, so we are out there looking at the newest indie films."
Kathleen Haney, Todd's wife, serves as program director of feature films, while Todd acts as program director of short films.
"In features, we get 400-600 entries," says Todd. "There are around 1,400-1,500 short entries. Half of them should never have been made. Since the advent of the video camera, the (overall) quality has dropped dramatically. There is a lot of stuff we call home movies."
But WorldFest is happy to separate the wheat from the chaff. "The good ones are still great," Todd says.
Former Chronicle film critic Louis B. Parks is a freelance writer.
More Information
The film festival includes screenings, master classes with film industry professionals and an April 21 awards banquet at the Marriott Westchase. The fest runs Friday-April 21.
Tickets: Single tickets are available at the AMC Studio Dunvale 30 box office, 2949 Dunvale.
Packages: VIP passes, master class tickets and the awards dinner tickets can be purchased at www.worldfest.org.


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Facebook, Twitter, and the Middle East
Too few service providers, network latency, and not enough smartphones limit the effectiveness of the Middle East's social networks
Steven Cherry: Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's "This Week in Technology." Take a moment and think of all the things you love about Facebook. It introduces you to new friends. It lets you reconnect with old ones. Your news feed keeps you up to date. It's fast. It's reliable.
Of course, if you're a Facebook listener in Egypt or Iran or South Africa, that list is probably a bit shorter. It may not be reliable, and it may not be fast. In fact, the social network's performance in those countries can actually be pretty horrible. Ditto for Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Russia. Is the problem in all these countries the quality of the Internet there? My guest today says no. The problem is the nature of centralized networks like Facebook.
Ben Zhao is an associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and he's the author of a number of studies on social networking performance. He's also just returned from visiting the Qatar Computing Research Center in Doha, where he participated in a roundtable discussion on the challenges of social networking and social media particular to the Middle East. He joins us by phone from Santa Barbara. Ben, welcome to the podcast.
Ben Zhao: Thanks, Steven. How are you doing?
Steven Cherry: Ben, let's start by asking, How important is social networking in the Middle East? There's been some disagreement about the role played by Facebook and Twitter in the protests and reform movements there. Some people say they were completely essential, and some other people say just the opposite. You just got back from there. What's your impression?
Ben Zhao: I think in general it has been very impactful in the sense that when something does happen, information can spread very quickly, especially with Twitter. So talking to folks from Al-Jazeera and other news medias local to the region, you get a sense that social media is one of their main outlets for how to gain access to information, and the real-time aspect of it makes their job much easier. And they can then send out sort of traditional reporters and get local contacts on site where the action is happening at a much faster rate than they can perhaps traditionally.
Steven Cherry: Do you think Twitter is especially important because it's so easy to use on a cellphone?
Ben Zhao: I think yes, in some ways. I think in the U.S. and in other parts of the world where smartphones are very much sort of nearly being commoditized, I think that is a big factor. I'm not sure about the Middle East, though. Right now, most of the folks that I've talked to, they talk about phones in the Middle East as not having nearly the capacity, not the intelligence, the type of advanced circuitry that we have elsewhere. And so the phones are everywhere in fact, but most of the phones in the Middle East as I understand it are typically older-style cellphones that don't have the full Android or iOS capacities that, you know, standard normal Americans might think of. So in that sense they're not really hooked on Twitter because of their phones. Twitter, I think, is being used by news media people with computer connections, through those kind of means. Of course when Twitter was blocked, Google and Twitter did get together and they did in fact do a phone-tweet thing which was very interesting, where you could call into a phone line and actually speak and someone would either automatically transcribe it at the other end or do it by hand and have the result be tied into a Twitter stream.
Steven Cherry: So I guess let's just step back and tell us, you know, what is the experience of the Internet in the Middle East and Facebook in particular? I guess it's different in Egypt versus Tunisia versus Qatar versus Libya versus wherever, so maybe you could just take us on a little tour of the Middle East Internet.
Ben Zhao: Because of where traditional servers are placed—you know, Twitter and Facebook and some of the other social networks—they're mainly based in the U.S. And so most of their data centers, most of their servers that process actions from the users do reside in the U.S., and what that means is that many typical user actions—like posting a comment, or sending a "poke," or adding an entry to a photo—most of these kinds of things do have to go through data centers in the U.S. And that means multiple potential round trips between the local user, who might be in the Middle East or elsewhere and the data center in the U.S. So there are certain things—there's a lot of things that people can do to speed up the process, but ultimately, signals do have to traverse an extremely long distance. So if you are in Egypt, in the Middle East and contacting Facebook, there's only so much you can do to optimize the experience—the signals do have to go, you know, back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean several times potentially before the user sees their actions take place. One of the other properties of the Middle East Internet is that it is much less redundant, much less complex, if you will, more sparse than Internet elsewhere. So it is possible for things like censorship to happen by simply shutting down a small number of ISPs. Whereas I think that same type of action, if you were to try to enforce that in the U.S. or Canada or Europe, would be very difficult simply because of so many ISPs having a redundant path around the Internet. Shutting them down and doing a full partition would be much, much more difficult.
Steven Cherry: Yeah. So I guess in Egypt where the Internet was shut off for about four or five key days during the protests there, there were only really five big Internet service providers, and it wasn't that hard for the government to basically order them all to shut down or ask them to voluntarily shut down. So you think with a lot more ISPs it would be a lot harder to do that. What would it take to bring about more ISPs there?
Ben Zhao: That's a difficult question. I think there's a lot of issues local to the region, and some of it's economic, a lot of it's political, and so, you know, I don't understand what some of the challenges might be for an ISP trying to grow into that space. I do know that there are European ISPs that have local access points in the Middle East, so potentially, Egyptians could use a phone line, make a long-distance call, dial up to a European ISP and get access that way. Of course the downside is that the cost of doing such a thing is much higher and probably not practical for a traditional citizen in the region; long-distance phone calls or dial-up is relatively expensive.
Steven Cherry: And also dial-up would have a pretty poor network performance on top of all of that latency that you were talking about traveling across the ocean a couple of times.
Ben Zhao: And locally, as I understand it, the capacity of local network links is not quite the same as, for example, what we might expect in Europe or even in South Korea, especially South Korea actually or in the U.S., and so capacity-wise, you know, a large volume of traffic would cause a lot of congestion, which in turn would cause a lot of delays. So that would also dampen the experience for users in social media.
Steven Cherry: Now I think in a recent paper you've argued that that latency issue at least could be addressed by partitioning a network like Facebook. Is that right? And how would that work?
Ben Zhao: Well, so we're not actually quite proposing partitioning—actually we've tried partitioning social graphs like Facebook in the past, and it's actually proved to be very difficult. The social graph is resilient unlike anything else we've seen. I or what we did try to argue was that by placing certain servers—augmented servers, if you will—locally in a particular region, you could speed up some user interactions. What we found was that even though the world is very much a small place, and most social users have lots of international friends, there are still quite a fair bit of local interactions, you know, between users in the same town, between users in the same city or the same country. So it would make sense, for example, to locate some local servers, place some local servers in a particular region and to have them target those type of "local" interactions. And in that sense they wouldn't necessarily have to change the entirety of how Facebook or Twitter might work, but it would basically target specific local communication and make that faster. And then essentially there would be some potentially small sacrifices in terms of consistency, but ultimately I think as Facebook and other social networks, as their users grow to be more and more international, those kind of sacrifices will probably have to be made sooner or later.
Steven Cherry: So let me see if I understand this correctly; the argument against partitioning is basically that you can't separate links between friends by geography because people have friends all over the world or at least want to communicate with friends all over the world, and so I guess what you're suggesting is to add a certain amount of redundancy. Let me just make a comparison and see if this is what you have in mind: It used to be that—we at Spectrum are in New York City and if I were to send a FedEx envelope across town, in the early days of FedEx it would go all the way to Memphis, Tennessee and then back to New York again. And then finally FedEx developed like a New York hub, and they would look at an envelope and say, "Oh, this stays in the New York area; we'll just keep it here." And Facebook could do the same thing with packets, I guess.
Ben Zhao: Exactly. I mean, that's a very appropriate comparison. It's a little bit different in the sense that in your example, the envelope is targeted only for a single destination, whereas in social networks, typically every single thing that you type or say gets broadcasted out to a number of friends. So there is that respect, but like you said, yes, so if there were local hubs, then that would greatly improve the performance of local users who at least are interacting locally. And obviously, in recent we've seen how important local interactions in the region can be. So performance between a friend in Egypt and someone in the U.S. might still take a while, but local interactions would be much faster.
Steven Cherry: Very good. Well then, whatever the role of social networking has been in the Middle East so far, it's pretty clear that the Internet and communications are becoming synonymous, and the work of researchers like yourself is absolutely essential in promoting democracy and freedom. So thanks for your work, and thanks for joining us.
Ben Zhao: Oh, thanks very much. It's been my pleasure.
Steven Cherry: We've been speaking with computer science professor Ben Zhao about the particular challenges for social networking in the Middle East. For IEEE Spectrum's "This Week in Technology," I'm Steven Cherry.
This interview was recorded 19 April 2011.
Segment producer: Ariel Bleicher; audio engineer: Francesco Ferorelli
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The latest reports, due this week, cover activity between Jan. 1 to March 31.
Here's a breakdown:
- In Manatee County Commission District 2, incumbent Democrat Michael Gallen reported collecting almost $8,100 in the first quarter of 2014, bringing his total haul so far to more than $13,300. Combined, his three Democratic challengers -- former commissioner Gwen Brown, Corie Holmes and Charles B. Smith -- have raised a total of about $2,900.
- In Manatee County Commission District 4, incumbent Republican Robin DiSabatino reported raising only $1,725 in the first quarter of this year -- but that was on top of the $31,000 she had raised in earlier reporting periods. Her GOP challenger, Tim Norwood, reported receiving no contributions in the most recent reporting period. Earlier, he had reported raising a total of $11,475 -- most of which came in the form of money he loaned to his campaign.
- In Manatee County Commission District 6, which covers the entire county, incumbent Republican Carol Whitmore reported raising $2,600 in the first quarter of 2014, adding to the more than $49,000 she had reported earlier. Democratic challenger Terri Wonder reported raising $1,180 in the most recent reporting period, adding to the more than $5,300 she had collected earlier.
- In Manatee County School Board District 2, Rodney Jones reported collecting $220 in contributions, bringing his total take to $1,710. He currently is the only candidate for the seat now held by Barbara Harvey.
- In Manatee County School Board District 5, Julie Aranibar raised more than $4,200 in contributions in the first quarter of 2014, bringing her total haul to more than $5,700. Challenger Carlton "Les" Nichols reported $150 in contributions this past quarter, bringing his total to more than $2,300.
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Becoming A Master Student, by Ellis, Dave
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- Copyright: 1/4/2010
The thirteenth edition of the bestselling BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT continues to lead the way in meeting the changing needs of today's first-year students. Through interactive journaling, a motivational writing style, and hands-on activities that students can apply right away, this text helps students succeed in college and in life. The thirteenth edition's clean, sophisticated interior design appeals to both traditional students and adult learners.
Tools like the Discovery Wheel, Discovery and Intention Journal, Power Process articles, Master Student Profiles, and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) deepen students' knowledge of themselves and the world around them. In this latest edition, students will find even more ways to connect to the content with the new Master Students in Action feature and end-of-chapter Skills Snapshot exercise.
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Some car manufacturers have a watershed moment where they spring from mediocrity to credibility either with one landmark car or a generation of models. Hyundai haven't really worked like that. For the Koreans, respect has been hard-earned and has come through many incremental improvements to its wares. As a result, there will be many who may not have realised quite how good Hyundai cars have become if they haven't sampled one within the last decade. The i40 medium range saloon and estate line-up is a case in point. If the last big Hyundai you remember was the almost appealingly inept XG30, the i40 is going to seem like something from a different planet. Still, it didn't get an easy start in the UK, where it was launched into a sector that was on its knees. The medium range Mondeo-class market is showing signs of a pulse these days and Hyundai is sitting pretty with its latest updated i40 range.
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|Exterior Body Features
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This dice rolling simulator was designed as a digital aid for playing
roleplaying games, and named "droll" as an abbreviation for "die roll" or "dice
roller". The term "droll" also seemed apt as a reference to its beginnings as
an amusing little toy program, though it now offers reasonably sophisticated
support for different dice-rolling techniques used in various RPGs. It is a
Ruby library with included command line interface (
droll) and IRC dicebot
At present, droll provides a number of different die rolling techniques, including simplistic roll-and-sum, various exploding roll schemes, counting dice that meet a threshhold, and rolling several dice then discarding some by threshhold before summing. Threshholds are typically the highest possible number for the die type, or the maximum possible for the sum in some cases, or even the lowest possible number for the die type, though alternate threshholds can be used.
Use NdN as the pattern for normal die rolls (where N stands in for a number), and NxN for exploding die rolls, for instance. Modifiers can be included as well: NdN+N or NdN-N. Die codes, at this time, do not work if they have spaces in them. Certain die codes are rejected (i.e. 0x0). Exploding is limited to an unreasonably high number (1000), to prevent crashing. Specifying alternate threshholds uses a .N syntax (NxN.N). Die values are chosen (pseudo)randomly from numbers between 1 and N (the number following the x or d), or between 0 and N if the N is preceded by a 0 character. An example of the full sophistication of die code parsing is:
This would roll four virtual dice numbered 0-5, and each die would explode on any 4 or 5 result. All die results are added together, and 7 added to the total to yield a final number.
The first number following each 4 or 5 in this example is the result of a die immediately rolled to handle exploding die values.
Installing the Ruby programming language's runtime is a relatively simple operation, and a prerequisite for running droll (because it is a Ruby project). The "standard" reference implementation, often called MRI/YARV (for Matz' Ruby Implementation + Yet Another Ruby VM) is available in the default software management system of most open source Unix-like operating systems as well as Apple MacOS X, though you should make sure your system uses the 1.9 version of ruby instead of the older 1.8 version (see below). For users of Microsoft Windows, the RubyInstaller for Windows makes Ruby easy to install there, as well.
The normal way to install Ruby on most operating systems will also install the gems tool, which is a sort of software management system specific to Ruby tools, and is the way most Ruby libraries and applications are distributed, including droll.
Once you have Ruby installed with rubygems, installing droll should be easy. Just use the gem command:
$ gem install droll
You can also download the gem package from the Bitbucket project and use the gem command to install it:
$ gem install droll-<version>.gem
In this example, replace
<version> with the version number in the name of the
gemfile you downloaded. For version 1.0.0, for instance, the command might
look like this (though as of this writing it is not yet at version 1.0.0):
$ gem install droll-1.0.0.gem
Note that the
$ character indicates your shell prompt, and is not part of the
command. Depending on your setup, you may need to use
sudo, log in as root,
or engage in some other additional activities to ensure the gem is installed
correctly. If you know of different requirements for installation on other
systems, please feel free to submit patches to this README file via one of the
approaches detailed in the contributions section at the bottom of this
Ruby 1.8
Droll assumes Ruby 1.9.x, and some die code validation (for zero-based die
codes, e.g. 1d05) does not work properly with older Ruby versions. Normally,
it will not install on a system using a version of Ruby older than 1.9, but
this can be overridden if you wish by using the
-f option with the
install command:
$ gem install -f droll
The following sections explain how to use the executable tools that come with
the droll library: a
droll command line interface and a
drollbot IRC
droll command line
Using the basic droll program from the command line is pretty simple:
$ droll d20 d20: [15] + 0 = 15 $ droll 2d4+3 2d4+3: [1, 2] + 3 = 6 $ droll 1d10 2d03 1d10: [1] + 0 = 1 2d03: [3, 2] + 0 = 5 $ droll 4x05.4+7 4x05.4+7: [5, 2, 0, 4, 0, 1] + 7 = 19
In each example, the numbers between
[brackets], separated by commas, are the
numberic results for each of the individual dice rolled. As shown by the third
example of using the command line droll program above, multiple die codes can
be listed on a single line, with the results of each roll being shown on a
separate line of output. In the last example, the first number following each
4 or 5 in this example is the result of a die immediately rolled to handle
exploding die values.
drollbot IRC dicebot
The drollbot interface to the functionality of the droll library does some
things a little differently. For instance, any input to a channel monitored by
drollbot will be checked to see if it starts with a die code that drollbot
understands. If so, it will parse that line as a command to produce die roll
output. Starting a line with
droll or
drollbot will not have the same
effect. As such, this may occur:
12:38 < apotheon> 1d20+3 12:38 < drollbot> <apotheon> rolls 1d20+3: [10] + 3 = 13
The output from drollbot is a touch more verbose; this is an example of how it works within a standard IRC channel. Private messages may be sent to drollbot, with slightly differently formatted output:
12:40 <apotheon> /msg drollbot 1d20+3 12:40 <drollbot> result of 1d20+3: [13] + 3 = 16
Note that this example is not perfectly representative. The
/msg command is
sent from an IRC channel where the drollbot instance is logged in, and the
result message appears in a PM that is not visible to anyone else in the IRC
channel where the dicebot was invoked.
In either case, a comment may be appended to the end of the line. Within an IRC channel:
12:42 < apotheon> 1d20+3 crappy save 12:42 < drollbot> <apotheon> rolls 1d20+3: [17] + 3 = 20 (crappy save)
Drollbot will echo any text following your die code back to you as a
parenthetical note. This applies to die codes as well as other text so that,
unlike with the command line
droll utility, multiple rolls cannot be
specified in a single command:
12:43 < apotheon> 2x05 d20+3 2d4 many 12:43 < drollbot> <apotheon> rolls 2x05: [4, 2] + 0 = 6 (d20+3 2d4 many)
To start drollbot, all you need to do is ensure that it is configured with an
IRC network to which it should connect, and some channel names it should join,
then run the program. An example configuration file is included with the
installed gem. After installing the droll gem, you can find the example
configuration file in the directory hierarchy where the gem was installed,
under the
etc subdirectory. The example configuration file is called
drollbot.conf.sample. Use the
drollbot -c or
drollbot --config command
to see more information about configuring drollbot.
Droll project files may be redistributed under the terms of the Open Works License. The OWL was chosen with a conscious adherence to copyfree policies. See the Copyfree Initiative site for more details about the copyfree philosophy of licensing.
See the COPYING file in the project repository for more information about copyright and licensing for droll and the code associated with it.
If you wish to contribute to the project, please feel free to do so.
Mercurial (in the form of the hg tool) offers a simple way to produce a patch,
using the
export command. To produce a patch based on the most recent
commits in your local clone of the project, this command should suffice to
produce a usable patch for an update from the immediately previous commit:
$ hg export tip
- Patches may be submitted via the issue tracker, as a comment with attachment in response to whatever issue it fixes.
- Patches can also be submitted to Chad Perrin via email, using the code at apotheon dot net address.
- Another way to submit contributions is to clone the project on Bitbucket and send a "pull request" from the clone when changes have been made. The process of submitting contributions via fork and pull request is described in a TechRepublic article: Contribute to Bitbucket Projects Using Forks and Pull Requests.