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1860 Earworm.
I seriously hated in store music. There's a reason the army and that use loud music to torture people.
I went ahead and bought that Curse Of The Moon game for the Switch. It's Castlevania 3. That's all you need for a review of it.
There's more to it than that, obviously. There's 4 characters you unlock. The guy you start with uses a sword, like Simon Belmont, except you have to get way too close to enemies to hit them. The next is a girl Simon Belmont. Then there's the wizard who whacks people up close with a stick. Finally we have Alucard. Anyway, it's good. You can jump on to stairs, but you can't jump off of them. It's a weird thing to notice, but I did. Also the boss battles are clever. When you win they all do some kind of cheap attack to try and take you with them. The enemy placement is dickish as fuck. If you need to make a tricky jump something WILL be there to fuck you over.
It has a casual mode that turns off the knockback, which makes it feel really weird, since my brain is wired to expect it. It's well worth the ten bucks they're asking for. If the 16 bit looking game the same people are making is as good as this one it'll be a classic.
Fairportfan on 2018/06/11 @ 9:03 am Reply
About thirty or forty years ago, the union that represents retail workers in Austria filed a lawsuit that, indeed, claimed that continuous Christmas music constituted hostile working conditions.
Too fucking right it does.
Ghost on 2018/06/11 @ 2:48 pm Reply
too true
T-Ray on 2018/06/11 @ 11:29 pm Reply
What? I like listening to Christmas music year-round. It's a celebration of life and cheer.
Unless you have a problem with life and cheer…
Chameon on 2018/06/12 @ 2:11 am Reply
Everything in moderation T-Ray. Cheer and life are pleasant experiences in brief intervals, but constantly and oppressively repeating the same four tracks, over and over and over again, changes it into a mockery of the concept. Life is variety, new experiences, and constantly pulling forward in spite of yourself. Cheer is the pleasant parts of those experiences.
I have a few Christmas songs I downloaded onto my Ipod, at the time, they were the only songs on my Ipod, I managed to get through a workweek with them in the background, but after that, in spite of the detail that I do enjoy Christmas music, I was done enough with those songs that I was not listening to more.
And for store workers, it's four times as bad. They have to listen to the music enough that usually they probably know where it cycles to the point they can tell you the next song after their first few months, or, if it's a short list, their first few weeks.
T-Ray on 2018/06/12 @ 9:47 pm Reply
Oh, yes, just a few tracks *would* be annoying. My Christmas playlist is nearly 6 hours long — a very different experience.
Me on 2018/06/12 @ 3:11 pm Reply
It'd be one thing if it was even relatable. But it's all some music from 1950 written by some insane yankee about chestnuts and sleigh bells, laced with a bizarre fantasy of watery dandruff falling out of clouds.
I've spent my whole life in Texas, and I'm dreaming of a white christmas because SNOW ISN'T REAL.
Isn't the term "insane Yankee" a redundancy?
Personally, I tend to think that Texas isn't real :->
Morriy on 2018/06/12 @ 10:58 pm Reply
What does the forced acknowledgement of the birth of Christ, the pressure to express 'good will towards all men' and the bastardization of Nicholas of Myra have honestly anything to do with life and cheer?
Nothing. It's a gimmick!
If you really wanna mess people up-
Give your family + friends a medium amount of gifts at Christmas, + [give them each] a BIG amount of gifts, [or a big gift], at Halloween!
It will mess up their thinking.
Him or her- "Um, you're giving me a bike + equipment,…at Halloween??"
You- "Yeah! Some dudes give their big gifts at Xmas, I do it, at Halloween!
Me on 2018/06/11 @ 10:06 am Reply
Did they win, like they should have?
Morriy on 2018/06/11 @ 11:45 am Reply
It's pure propaganda anyway. "Tis the season" my ass!
No offense to those who like this kind of music, but- in my town's area, in [about 2015], it seemed like ALL of the car radio stations, played holiday-type music, all of the TIME.
You couldn't escape it!
Luckily, I think the c.r. music fans complained very, very much about it, and the stations haven't done it since then.
MLBlue on 2018/06/11 @ 5:11 pm Reply
But its to put every one in the Christmas spirit! Buy more things! Serve the customer until you die! Money is more important than people! *Evil capitalist laughter*
N0083rp00F on 2018/06/12 @ 1:07 am Reply
You know that is redundant or are there really non-evil or even good capitalists?
Who am I kidding there aren't any Capitalists just like there are no Communists.
Note: Communist Dictatorship is an oxymoron
You don't get a nice cut of meat because of the benevolence of the butcher. If you're not driving a Trabant or eating bread (if you have bread) with grains you could crack a tooth on, you're benefitting from capitalism. Eliminate incentive and you eliminate free will.
In ENGLISH please?
The butcher works because he's paid, not because he's interested in your welfare. The Trabant was a terrible communist car produced long after it's obsolescence, and you were often lucky to have bread of any kind at times in various communist/socialist countries. Capitalism basically means being paid for your effort/time/investment, and being paid more for more of same. When most people decry capitalism, they're thinking of crony capitalism and sweetheart deals w/ government. This is in some ways more akin to nationalism or socialism. A garage sale is capitalism.
Which is how capitalism ought to be but it doesn't hurt to have charity every now and then when it counts.
While "Socialist Dictatorship" is a redundancy.
Ray Dannelly on 2018/06/12 @ 5:36 am Reply
I'm fairly okay with having seasonal music played. The problem is the selection, or distinct lack. Nothing overtly religious can be played, nor anything with an expensive copyright. So you get 'Santa Baby' on a loop of covers by different artists, none of them very good.
Wonder if we could get a version of ," Baby It's Cold Outside" sung by Bill Cosby?
"What's in this drink?"
David browie on 2018/06/12 @ 9:25 am Reply
Everybody talk about pop music.
May the great band, named "M", rule forever! ;D
Jon Fox on 2018/06/11 @ 9:08 am Reply
So when I worked at Walmart back in the early turn of the decade (2010) Walmart had music. And it wasn't terrible. It was largely ignorable in the mind dampening existence of retail labor. However, at 10pm on the dot the satellite radio would abruptly cut and a DJ would take over. I remember because he was heralded by a sort of civil war era war flute. He would play music exclusively for the overnight crew who would start their shift around that time, even taking calls and requests from the employees.
I remember when I couldn't hear the music anymore. Walmart had terminated all music in favor of a "Distraction free shopping environment". It was terminated in favor of the customers, not the employees. As far as I was concerned, Walmart had a pretty decent music selection and it was gone because some corporate think-tank decided that no one liked that music would play in stores like theirs. Work became very hard after that. I often wonder what happened to that DJ.
jmcscore on 2018/06/11 @ 9:10 am Reply
Brought that game when it came out as well. Best $10 ever spent. The other looks more 32-bit to me (check out some 2d Sega saturn game on youtube to see my point).
What ever it is I wants it.
"It's my Birthday Present! Myyy pre…ciousssss!" :)
2nd panel, first balloon should be "constantly", and last panel 3rd bubble is missing a word, J-man :)
also, waffles are good.
I don't like them.
That is a bald-faced lie, because everyone loves waffles.
David browie on 2018/06/11 @ 10:57 am Reply
Do you like waffles?
WAFFLE, WAFFLE, WAFFLE !!!
Telepath on 2018/06/14 @ 12:14 am Reply
Mmm, I'm not sure … / STOP WAFFLING!
Somebody needs to watch Invader Zim again!
That, and- Mystery Science Theater 3000.
As in, [this] thing, about waffles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOArkrjVoiw
Kurt Caylor on 2018/06/11 @ 10:37 am Reply
Back in 2014 I worked at sears. Not only did I learn all 8 songs they played on a loop. When they "promoted" me to electronics I learned every line to Tron Legacy because it played on a loop on the 85 inch tv. It was however their undoing to promote me. I convinced the store manager we needed a sound system area like all the electronic super stores that allowed someone to walk up, plug in their phone, and select the speaker system they wanted to listen to. I did not tell them however, that I wired it so that I could select ALL of the speakers at once to play. I drowned out any music played on their first floor of our store, had employees yelling at each other to communicate, and ultimately made it so they wouldnt take away my set up in the store because it increased sells in audio devices.
Oh man. Looped films! :(
In a toy store that I worked in, I sometimes staffed the info booth.
Near me, they repeatedly played the Disney film, "A Goofy Movie".
I really, really, like the film,…but- after hearing it, 8 hrs a day, for untold weeks, I can probably say all the words to the film, while it plays. [ Freakin' retail stores!] ;)
wavewright62 on 2018/06/12 @ 3:57 am Reply
*slow clap* We're not worthy.
FUN FACT: It was used as a real strategy against the Branch Dividians in Waco.
They didn't budge though.
But they did die.
From the fire, not the music.
The rumor was- that the US Army used loud, rock music, to bother the Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega, and to drive him to surrender.
Anyone else think of some innuendoes, when she asks- [what else gets stuck in Reggie's head?] Hmm.
M. Mitchell Marmel on 2018/06/11 @ 4:23 pm Reply
Is it odd that, despite the bangs, I can visualize Alex's merry blue eyes? :D
I draw them under her hair.
Dan on 2018/06/11 @ 5:22 pm Reply
In store music is designed to slow people down and encourage them to shop more. That's why it's either top 40 background noise, or the top whatever of the 50s. And then there's the Christmas music. You know, it's not Christmas music itself that gets me; it's the same 6 songs played over…and over…and over…
There are days where I miss the simplicity of retail. Then I'm reminded of the nonsense that comes with it. I suppose that's most jobs for you, though.
As far as the new pseudo-Vania goes, it seems like a mix of the Castlevania 3 and the old Ninja Gaiden series. I hear it's tough, but not nearly as obnoxious as those two.
Pufnstuff on 2018/06/11 @ 7:20 pm Reply
Speaking of earworms…
I used to work in a video store. Helped during setup, then stayed to actually work the store. It was right around the time that absolutely dumb film "The Stupids" with Tom Arnold came out. Our store ran than damn trailer in a loop of about a dozen others constantly for about three weeks, and Arnold's theme song from that movie, "I'm my own Grandpa" became my personal horror show.
Still today, the moment I hear part of it, or think about it, it will pop back into my head and start it's earworm torture. Like right now, telling this.
OTOH, it's absolutely incredible for driving out other earworms. I just have to put up with it a few days until it finally goes away.
I use "Ninja Rap" to force other songs out. I don't rightly know WHY it is so damn catchy, but it is.
GO NINJA GO NINJA GO!
I LOVE Ninja Rap! Say what you want about Vanilla Ice but this is honestly to me one of his better pieces!
EmCeeKhan on 2018/06/11 @ 7:23 pm Reply
Christmas music doesn't bug me. What bugs me is that they start playing it BEFORE Thanksgiving now. That's what drives me bonkers – the pre-holiday BS that happens way too soon.
When I stocked and faced shelves in a grocery store during the days of my youth, they played a loop of 80′s rock and country music. I knew all 20 songs by heart, including all the in-store commercials. I can still remember the one that starts the loop very well:
"Thank you for shopping at Bag and Save. Everything we do, we do for you, our favorite customers. Remember to check out our savings in the local newspaper. We hope you have a wonderful shopping experience."
Typeminer on 2018/06/11 @ 8:27 pm Reply
Never served time in retail, but I did short time (less than a year) in a 24-hour diner. They had a jukebox system. Customers would mostly select the same 3 or 4 cheesy pop songs all shift long.
I only had to hear it while mopping the front, but the table servers were stuck.
In my (extremely limited) experience, the music loop eventually becomes like any other constant background noise, and the workers don't even hear it anymore.
I worked on the production side in the toy bizz ages ago, so Christmas rush was August-September. So hot factory floor, lots of students on afternoon shift with a few daytimers taking extra hours. I got stuck since I was Jr QC and nobody else wanted the extra time.
So anyways, a student brought in their boombox and it was fine for the first week, keept eveyones mood up buit week two was different – Like a Virgin on continuous loop – Production managers son's fave song of the day – it was hell – almost as bad as that year of Stairway to Heaven – I get PTSD like reactions to those songs.
Pockets on 2018/06/12 @ 1:27 am Reply
I so hate the music they play at work. Even more so the holiday stuff, which starts the day after thanksgiving. Worse yet are the commercials that various companies, or our company, have on there. Many are exceedingly irritating and if you work there you are stuck hearing them at least once or twice and hour.
Mazed on 2018/06/12 @ 3:33 am Reply
In the convenience store I worked they let us play our music on our phones whenever there was empty, I loved to go refill the freezers with The Offspring in the background
I lived through a changeover. I worked at Kinko's mid-80s through mid-90s. In the beginning, we played what we wanted on the radio or tape player, my male coworker wore black nail polish and bare feet, and I wore whatever I wanted. Later, we had some semblance of a dress code (plain T-shirts were okay, closed-toe shoes), we couldn't play personal music choice but could still play the radio tuned to a mass-market station.
Right after the Kinko's vs Basic Books decision in 1990 and all the fallout about copyright surrounding that, we had to install Musak, and worse yet, it had Kinko's ads in it. We couldn't NOT play it, either, but we did keep it low enough for the copy machines to mostly drown it out. (It may be my dodgy memory, but I think the ads ignored the volume setting.) Over the new few years, a more rigid uniform code and in-store branding were rolled out. Thank my lucky stars I was gone-burger before Fedex bought them out.
Currently work grocery over night. Most of the music selection is pretty awful, the cheep end of the top 40 so the store doesn't have to pay anyone for copyrights. Double annoying in that we aren't allowed to wear headphones any more because the bitch who works up front complained no one was responding to her announcements over the intercom. So we can't listen to our own music, and she still gets no responce. We can hear her just fine, we just ignore her.
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I thought this would persist a dataframe with only 1K rows.
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A Seoul court sentenced Friday the former President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak to 15 years in prison for abuse of power and embezzlement, making the 76-year-old the fourth of his country's leaders to be convicted, the Korea Herald reported.
A Georgian court sentenced former president Mikheil Saakashvili in absentia to three years in prison for abusing his pardon powers in a high-profile murder case, The New York Times reported Friday.
Lithuania has granted refugee status to one of the fugitive brothers-in-law of Kazakh billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov, reported Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
He cursed and openly threatened people. He beat them up in front of the whole world. Just out of view he bedded beautiful, young wannabe celebrities. This, he said, was his job and to continue doing this important work he wanted a Serbian court to keep him out of jail even though he had been convicted and sentenced for heroin trafficking.
A US federal court sentenced Vadim Mikerin to 48 months in prison this week for facilitating a US$ 2.1 million bribery scheme as the middleman between American companies and Russian nuclear officials exporting uranium to the US, reported Reuters.
Zsolt Hernádi, chairman-CEO of Hungarian oil and gas group MOL, could still face trial for bribery in Croatia according to Hungarian investigative site Atlatszo, an OCCRP partner.
Serbia's Supreme court in May found that a lower appeals court had improperly rejected potentially incriminating evidence against businessman Stanko Subotic – an act that helped lead to his acquittal last December on charges including smuggling, OCCRP partner the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) reported.
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it could be that you have other food intolerances like dairy or soy that have reared their ugly head after going gluten free. Apparently this is fairly common among celiacs. Try taking your diet down to the most basic foods like rice, bananas, apples and plain baked chicken, and see if that makes a difference. If it does, slowly add one food at a time back into your diet and watch yourself for any kind of reaction.
I'm still having fatigue and pain, so I'm going to have to do this myself, so we can do this together!
I had similar problems when I first went gluten-free. At the very beginning, things got really bad. Then, they leveled off. I got into a mode where I'd be fine for awhile and then would unexpectedly get sick. It was so unpredictable that I never left the house without some Immodium caplets in my pocket. If I was going to be in a situation where I could not afford any problems, I would take some caplets in a prevention mode, just to be safe. This was dangerous because it is easy to exceed maximum doses.
When things did suddenly get bad, I invariably found something that contained gluten and was the culprit. It was just part of a learning process that took me 1 to 2 years to master. A couple of things I learned stand out. However, I mention them with the caveat that they are just my experience and most other celiacs do not have similar experiences to some of these.
First, I discovered that I react to some food products that other celiacs eat with impunity. For instance, both La Choy Soy Sauce and Fruit Punch Gatorade are universally accepted as gluten-free. Nonetheless, I consistently react to them with symptoms that I recognize as my own particular gluten reaction. Interestingly, they both contain caramel coloring. I have the same reaction to maple syrups that are universally accepted as gluten-free but which also contain caramel coloring. gluten-free colas, such as Coke and Pepsi, are not a problem, although they contain caramel coloring. As a result, I use gluten-free lists with a certain amount of trepidation. When I pick something on the list and use it for the first time, I do so in such a way that I can gauge the effect. Depending on what happens, I sometimes decide to stay away from the product even though other celiacs consume it without problems. As other people have pointed out, there is always the possibility of other sensitivities. I also seem to be a hypersentive celiac. I once reacted to a gluten-free product and contacted the manufacturer. They reaffirmed that it was gluten-free but were nice enough to send it out for testing. The testing indicated it contained 0.006% gluten.
Second, I discovered the hard way that it is not just what goes in my mouth that can cause a problem. Far and away the worst gluten accidents I had after going gluten-free were caused by really weird, unexpected sources. I had a really bad stretch of a couple weeks where I was sick as a dog. I eventually traced that to Preparation H. My doctor had recommended it during a physical. Another time, I got sick while taking some time off from work to remodel a room in my house. It turned out that wallpaper paste can contain wheat. When I peeled off the old wallpaper, I inhaled paste dust that got into the air.
Third, I also notice that I have a sick feeling in my stomach walking through the bread and bakery aisle in the local grocery. I know this is absolutely an mental condition and not real. However, the sick feeling nonetheless is real.
Bottom line, coping with celiac disease is a hard road to travel and there are lots and lots of bumps and potholes. If you can hang in there, eventually things will get better.
Have you had your gall bladder checked?? I have had some gall bladder problems in the past, the pain is much as you describe. The first time, they thought I was having a heart attack as I had crushing chest pain, I had the total MI workup in Emerg! I have not had an attack in awhile, but when I do have gall bladder pain, it is up under the ribs and can best be described as a heavy feeling in my chest. When it goes all out, it is a crushing/squeezing pain around my chest, right where my bra goes around, basically. Luckily, this kind of attack has only happened once, and if I experience it again, I have no choice but to get medical help just in case it really is a heart attack! I guess I am saying that although it could be your celiac disease acting up, it could also be other stuff, especially if you are sure you are gluten-free. I do hope you feel better and find some answers.
Have you thought of trying the SCD Diet to see if you can get your itestines happy again? Mine seem to be reacting badly to lots of things. I'm hoping SCD will give things a chance to heal, then I can try to add back Dairy and perhaps rice and maybe corn.
My husband has been gluten free for about 3 months. He has good days and bad. He also gets the pain like you described in his chest. He has had his gallbladder out so I know for him its not the gallbladder but that is a very simple test that can be done to rule it out. He has also eliminated soy and casein from his diet. Hope your feeling better soon.
hey everyone, thanks for repyling, i really appreciate it. I think maybe I should try the elimantion diet too, like the idea of doing it together lol..so hard not to eat other foods , i don't eat meat but thankyou nancym for the suggestion of SCD diet. How long do you eat certain foods before introducing more food in the elimantion diet? Maybe i should ask to get my gall bladder checked to rule it out, but i never like going to the dr, i always feel like i'm wasting their time I do the same as you did codetalker, i take Immodium in situations in case or incase my stomach feels dodgy, but i don't no what else to do to. I don't have anyone to kiss after they eat gluten hehe i'll remember it for the future though..thankyou Mum told to me to try soya milk but i don't no, maybe i should try the elimination diet first? she said i couldn't tolerate milk until i was 4 and then she gradually introduced it to me, but maybe that is the same with a lot of children.
I had a neg celiac blood test. But my body tells me otherwise. I just lost my insurance, so I will have to wait for the biopsy. I did make it to the allergist b4 I lost my insurance & he said tomato was my highest food allergy followed by soy, rye, pork & mold foods (cheese,anything w/vinegar, smoked meats,baked goods with large amounts of yeast and many more items.
I am trying the elimination diet with none of theses foods,then you add them back one at a time. I just started today & I can tell this is going to be hard vegatable oil is (soy oil) so watch your margarines. If you have any tips I would really appreciate them.


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SUNOL IS THE SORT OF PLACE where you just might see a fellow out for a stroll with his Macaw. And when you stopped and rolled down your car window to ask about the big, colorful bird on the fellow's shoulder, he might stick his hand in your car window to shake yours and introduce himself. Such moments are the making of our wonderful Sunol animal tales.
The fellow with the macaw is Frank Anderson, and the bird is Max, who, by rights, should probably be Maxine, given that she's a she, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Although they look like a man and pet that have been together for years, Frank adopted Max only three months ago. She is a 23-year-old Blue and Gold Macaw and was imported - when it was still legal to do so - from the Amazon as a baby.
When Frank and Max met, she had been living in a very traumatic situation, locked in a cage and never let out for 22 years. A full-grown Macaw usually weighs about 2-1/2 pounds and Max weighed in at barely a pound. Her owners didn't know Max was female until she suddenly produced an egg four years ago. "When I took her to the doctor," Frank said, "He told me that kind of incarceration will make a bird psychotic, and that, yes, she was crazy. But he said that she would recover from traumatic stress much faster than a person can."
Max's resilience is evident. In just three months with Frank, she's gained half a pound, developed trust and affection for her rescuer, and become a major fan of a nice walk on a pretty day. Her best friend is Tyson, a cat with one eye belonging to Frank's son, Josiah, 17. When Frank begins talking about his pride and affection throw a big grin across his face. "He's a wonderful kid," Frank said. "He's doing great in school, he's got a job in a print shop and he takes extra classes at community college."
Frank is a Sr. Process Maintenance Technician for LifeScan, Inc. of Milpitas, a company that makes diabetes meters and strips. He talked enthusiastically about the importance of the development of products that help people with diabetes. Max may have had some terrible luck in her past, but it looks like she is one lucky Macaw to have been rescued by Frank Anderson. Kudos to a man with a lot of nurturing, caring energy to give at home, at work, and on a stroll with his beautiful, happy Macaw.
ALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE NEWS: ACA had its March meeting in Sunol Tuesday, and ACA Director Jeff Miller reported that four adult steelhead trout were documented recently in the Alameda Creek flood control channel below the Fremont BART weir. A male and female were seen together exhibiting spawning behavior in a pool just downstream of the BART tracks. ACA volunteers seined the pool and captured three adult males, all about 28 inches in length, but were unable to capture the female. "Two of the fish appeared to have clipped adipose fins - indicating likely hatchery origin - and one had adipose intact," Jeff explained. "The male fish that appeared to be wild was not moved upstream since we did not get the female fish."
If you are interested in volunteering, ACA needs help in April distributing information brochures and talk to creekside residents about the Alameda Creek watershed and the steelhead restoration. "We will be distributing the brochures for two to four hours each weekend in April," Jeff said. Please contact him at 510-845-2233 if you can help.

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Flat Earth Q&A
phaseshifter
Quote from: "Cheech6"
Quote from: "GeoGuy"
so you think directv, sirius, xm, hughesnet, directway, GPS are all ran by airplane satellites ?
Possibly.
i have seen the damm satellites with my telescope for directv.
No no, no. Engineer just told you, they're from Lighter than air platforms. Which includes lighter than air broadcasting equipment that no one ever saw. No one ever saw those platforms because they're too high to bee seen (unlike "satellites", which are higher but can still be seen because of an optical illusion) and no airplane has ever flown anywhere near them either. You can't see them with telescopes either because the material they're made with is telescope proof. Engineer will explain how that works.
There is a lot of material on earth that you can use to make lighter than air broadcasting stations, you've just never seen it by some coincidence.
Of course, we don't just pretend that lighter than air broadcasting platforms exists. We can prove and demonstrate that they do, Engineer will show you evidence of this shortly.
The fact that people can see satellites but not those stations is irrelevant, so don't bother pointing that out. Besides, you probably didn't see what you think you saw. I mean, you were there and we weren't, so we we know what it was better than you.
atttttttup was right when he said joseph bloom is right, The Engineer is a douchebag.
Cheech6
i was at a university with my astrological professor and he verified it along with 5 people who believe the earth to be flat.
You mean they verified that it looked like what a satellite is generally presumed to look like through a telescope, not that they could actually make out any detail. The fact is that it is virtually impossible to verify with any degree of accuracy that what you saw was, in fact, a satellite.
IT had a logo like this
so i think it was the right one.
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GeoGuy
You must have been using a bloody huge telescope, as you can't even make out that much detail on a low-flying airplane with mine.
like i said this was at the university. uf to be exact. (go gators)
What was the magnification on the telescope you were using?
Because if it was anything near what you say it was, the satellite would have been in your field of view for less that half a second- hardly enough time to make out any logos on the side.
And a bloody steady one too.
Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
TheEngineer
GPS does not require satellites.
Quote from: "phaseshifter"
No no, no. Engineer just told you, they're from Lighter than air platforms. Which includes lighter than air broadcasting equipment that no one ever saw. No one ever saw those platforms because they're too high to bee seen (unlike "satellites", which are higher but can still be seen because of an optical illusion) and no airplane has ever flown anywhere near them either.
People have seen them. The government has been working on this technology since WWII. Recently, the private sector has started research into doing the same thing. They normally operate at 180,000 ft, which is way to high for an airplane to go.
You can't see them with telescopes either because the material they're made with is telescope proof. Engineer will explain how that works.
The material is telescope proof? Uh, yea, don't know how that would work.
You've never seen metal, composites, plastics and textiles? Where do you live?
Unfortunately, I can't find the link the article about the 'next gen' version, which is undergoing testing. I will link it when I find it. In the mean time, here's the basic idea:
A group of researchers in Sweden have completed a successful trial this week, launching a 12,000 cubic meter weather balloon at an altitude of 24 kilometers. The balloon transmitted a steady data link at a transmission speed of 11Mbps.
This test is the latest in a series of efforts to prove that transmitting broadband Internet via lighter-than-air craft is not only technically feasible but economically practical. Ultimately, the goal is to launch balloons that can transmit at speeds that are much higher. Dr. David Grace, the projects' lead scientific officer, explained:
Proving the ability to operate a high data rate link from a moving stratospheric balloon is a critical step in moving towards the longer term aim of providing data rates of 120Mbps.
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7string
bite my boner flatty
hy are people so stupid? i guess years of satelite evidence can't prove that the earth is round? satelites are a conspiracy? yea that's why we have cell phones and xm radio.
Connor.
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Are any of the members of the flat earth society actually scientists? Or Ivy League graduates?
I'm an engineer, does that count?
Why are there no satellite photos of this "flat earth"?
Satellites don't exist.
How come there are "ice barriers" surrounding the earth, yet we have seasons.
The ice wall is the furthest point on the FE from the sun. That's why it's cold there and it is warm somewhere else.
In Australia, it is always warm, while here in Ohio, the temperature changes with the seasons. Explain that. If the earth was flat, the weather would be equivalent throughout the world.
Change in the sun's 'orbit'.
We're a planet, not a fucking pancake.
There's no such thing as a government conspiracy...
It wouldn't be much of a conspiracy if everyone knew about it.
Show me a VIDEO or a REAL PICTURE of the flat earth rather than arguing with negations. Haven't you guys ever downloaded Google Earth? Do it, put in and put in any address and there you'll find ACTUAL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE that will prove to you what every preschooler knows.
It will prove to me what? That pictures can be taken from above my house?
Oh yeah, and gravity. If gravity is in the center of the earth, than there would be less of it the further you go away from it.
It's a good thing the FE doesn't have any.
Oh my, your a fucking engineer and you dont think Satellites exist, you should be fired and shot.
A 'fucking' engineer? Well only in my spare time! In my professional life, I'm a mechanical engineer.
Benjamin1986
Engineer, you know as well as I do that anything in the atmosphere at that height would need a good sized fuel expenditure to maintain steady location. Fuel is heavy, especially for lighter than air equipment. Textiles and plastics are one thing, but keeping that much helium within a balloon like structure is not pheasable. Not to mention the size those things would have to be to support massive broadcasting equipment.
180,000 ft. Nice, round number, and utterly impossible. Remember freshman physics? It's coming back to bite you. There's this little thing called density, and you cannot have something float above a certain height due to the lack of air to push up. You are looking at less than a single kPa at that height. That means that your baloon's density must be below (PV = NRT, M/V = MM * P/R/T (.01 atm* 29 g / T/ .0826) .03 grams/Liter. That's impossibly small. The size of the balloon would have to be fantasticly large to stay airborne. No matter the color, it would be noticeable above the clouds and from its shadow. Now you are talking dozens, hundreds of them, with no photographic proof or even suspicion. This isn't even laughable anymore it's getting annoying.
Why would it need to expend fuel to maintain constant position? It could have solar-powered propellers.
the cake is a lie
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utterly impossible.
Maybe you should read your referenced site a little better.
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That would make it too heavy.
I apologize for my poor wording, though I fail to see what I was mistaken about in my reference.
It is utterly impossible to have massive broadcasting equipment. The maximum balloon height ever was 140,000 feet, and that was an extraordinary feat.
You know that density I calculated (.03 grams/Liter). Refute that while I explain how big this baloon of yours would have to be.
Broadcasting equipment with range of >30 miles straight down, plus a minimum 100 mile radius on the ground. That's not light, at least 50 kg. Propellers to keep it stationary and solar panels to power it are at a bare minimum (and this is very, very generous), 10 kg, not that it matters.
That's 60 kg. To keep that amount up, you need a size of 2,000 cubic meters. Assuming a perfect sphere, that's 7 meters in radius, or 14 meters in diameter.
But, that's not all. You also need the balloon. Nylon isn't heavy, but you need a lot of it. Say, 1 mm thickness. I know that most balloons aren't that thick, but most baloons don't stay up for decades at a time. The density of nylon is 1150 kg/cubic m
.03 = (60 kg+ 1150*.001*4*Pi*r^2)/(4/3 Pi r^3)
The solution is that the radius is almost 12 meters. Therefore, the balloon is At MINIMUM 20 meters across. That is supported by A METRIC TON of nylon. Even if there is no additional load, you need 11.5 meters of radius for the balloon to keep itself airborne. Did I forget to mention that I'm not counting the weight of the 1500 of cubic meters of helium in the baloon? Now, tell me how dozens or hundreds of 60 foot wide balls aren't showing up in everyone's telescopes and binoculars. Heck, you might even be able to see those with the naked eye. They should be observable everywhere, but they aren't.
Need I go on about how ludicrous your balloon concept is?
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/NewsReleases/2002/02-44_pf.html
It would be ludicrous if I had made it up. However, this is a very real concept.
However, I can not locate my source of the 180,000ft operational ceiling (I think it was in a trade publication). This altitude is attainable by what is called an orbital airship, which is a two or three stage system. Until the source can be located, I will recind the 180,000ft claim and generalize the service ceiling to be 'the stratosphere' (The max ceiling for a conventional airship is about 130,000ft).
Now, the private sector has been working on this concept in this and simpler forms with much success. For example:
A spherical broadcasting system, tested right here in Arizona.
A larger unmanned version for national security.
Here is a plan to carry telescopes into the stratosphere.
This is a Stratellite, which the company says will stay aloft for 18 months at a time.
Boeing and another company are looking at a lighter than air cargo craft, for those of you who think they can't lift a payload.
This is a Korean company giving it a try.
An abstract of a larger write up about a Japaneese company using a 'stratellite' for navigation/postioning service.
Here is a patent for one of the technologies needed. Here is another one.
This is just from the private sector. Imagine what the military has achieved since it began work on them during WWII!
So why make up the satellites? It makes no sense to make up satelites when you have no need for them and just publically use balloons.
There is a simple explanation where the satelites we see are shot up into space and orbit the Earth doing what everyone claims they do, and a complex explanation, where the satelites are shot up nowhere (there is no way that a standard satelite rocket could hold a balloon of that size, they don't save much fuel by not going into space), are taken care of by explosives or whatever in the upper stratosphere so they don't fall back to Earth (which is impossible since there are amature astronomers who track those things from launch pad to orbit). Then, in secret, giant balloon-based broadcasting equipment is launched (also impossible, nothing that big can be kept secret when so many people have to know and could give the story of the century to the media), and are somehow not dectected as they maintain geosynchronous orbit (also impossible, as shown above).
So, according to Occam's razor, you have two choices, a rational one that assumes the Earth is round, or an impossible one which the government and businesses have no real reason to enact while keeping up the satelite facade. It costs tens of millions to launch something into orbit, a cost that is impossible to hide due to all the people recieving money (money has to come from somewhere), and probably a million or more to create one of your arial platforms. Why didn't they just say "Satellites are too expensive, our arial platforms can do the work for a fraction of the price"? Why don't they do that now? Maintaining satellites is not necessary for your flat-Earth conspiracy, and it makes a whole lot of holes and opportunities for people to look into.
Rational or irrational, impossible, and ludicrous.
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Almost there are some scientists who are members of the forums, and are even arguing that the earth is flat. We definitely have engineers and graduate students. I would be very surprised if any of them actually believe that the earth is flat.
Why are there no satellite photos of this "flat earth"? How come there are "ice barriers" surrounding the earth, yet we have seasons. In Australia, it is always warm, while here in Ohio, the temperature changes with the seasons. Explain that. If the earth was flat, the weather would be equivalent throughout the world.
Answered elsewhere, mostly in the FAQ
Is this an angry rant? This sounds like an angry rant.
There's no such thing as a government conspiracy.
Excuse me? Ever hear of Iran-Contra? The weapons of mass destruction we were supposed to find in Iraq (e.g. the yellowcake forgery)? Watergate?
What's the point of this society?
To give us a break from all that internet porn.
E pur si muove!
Money. Operating a stratellite costs a fraction of operating a satellite. You simply launch a rocket with a dummy payload and pocket the money you saved by using a lighter than air broadcasting system.
also impossible, nothing that big can be kept secret when so many people have to know and could give the story of the century to the media
You didn't know about it. You thought I was making it all up.
and are somehow not dectected as they maintain geosynchronous orbit (also impossible, as shown above).
Who is to say they havn't been detected? How do you know you have not seen one and assumed it was a satellite, since that is what you expected to see?
a cost that is impossible to hide due to all the people recieving money (money has to come from somewhere)
Do you know where all your tax dollars go?
The cost to launch a satellite is on the order of 10s to 100s of millions of dollars. This is paid to everyone making the satellites, rockets, launchpads, insurance companies, and hundreds of other people involved. Unless you believe the IRS is in on the conspiracy as well, there's nothing to pocket, and no single part is nearly enough for hush money.
You never answered a couple of impossibles there. People claim to track the satellites from ground to orbit. Wait, of course they're in on the conspiracy.
And there's a big difference between missing some minor headlines about balloon research and missing hundreds of orbital balloon launches. You dismissed the question instead of answering it.
Why haven't corporations just go out and say how their balloons can perform the functions of satellites at a fraction of the price, therefore ignoring billions of dollars in expenses bribing everyone at NASA?
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That's not exactly a baloon is it?
being stationary above Hawai is not exactly the same as beinf in orbit around the earth either is it? How would someone that doesn't live in Hawai ever see it?
In Australia, it is always warm, while here in Ohio, the temperature changes with the seasons.
This is pretty good evidence of 7string's intelligence. I'm sure Rick James got a good laugh at that (Canberra can get extremely cold in winter) and probably Beast too (not sure though - I've never been to Tasmania). The funny thing is that the whole sentence implies that Australia doesn't have seasons, which would go against a round earth.


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The fishing report is beginning to sound like a broken record. We couldn't be happier. The fishing is incredible. Kings are biting in 100-350 feet of water on just about anything you present to them – spoons, flies, meat. The only thing to remember is the fleas are starting to show rather heavily. So get your rods ready to make the trip more enjoyable.
It is July and the salmon bite is extremely good. It really can't get any better. I can talk all day but the bottom line is if you want in on the hot action now is the time.
The flow was under 1,000cfs briefly yesterday but is up to 2,320cfs this afternoon. Look for walleye with large stickbaits the suggested bait. Bass are biting on crayfish and live minnows and sheepshead are taking crayfish and night crawlers.
The lake fishing continues to be very good. Look for trout in 15-20 feet of water with spoons being the choice of bait. Salmon are very active in 120-160 feet of water taking spoons, flies and flashers. There is also a bass bite with live minnows and crawfish working well.
There have been no anglers on the Run the last couple of days. The release at the dam remains at 185 CFS with a reported flow of 220 CFS at the Pineville gauge. We have a couple more days of high temperatures and humidity with a break coming on Friday and beautiful weather for the weekend. Anglers who do venture out will likely find some smallmouth bass along the Run.


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Auditioning long form musical works take time and with the many modern distractions it's often difficult to dedicate an extended period to focused listening, but for Not Knowing I think you'll want to make the time (especially if you are familiar with Nicholas Szczepanik's previous work such as Please Stop Loving Me). In fact, if one is in the right frame of mind (like in a state of meditation, self-hypnosis or deep relaxation) the sense of time is often compressed, and one wonders ultimately where the time has gone.
This piece was originally available in a shorter version on the limited 12 part release CD3 series Ante Algo Azul from 2011, and it was a favorite of mine back then. So, I was delighted to hear that an extended version would be released by Desire Path Recordings as part of their new Tangent series.
I liken Not Knowing, which is different in form and sound from PSLM, to a dream sequence in roughly four parts, although there are threads of sound that keep the piece connected throughout. The first 12 minutes or so is a deeply pulsed and hypnotic mediation that brings one to where memories and dreams might become lucid, but still out of tangible reach. It's at this point where an imagined orchestra appears from the ether and it flows. Is it a literal sample of another piece or is it combined with electronics? It appears like unresolved memories in a dream. I can hear chords of Elgar…wait, then Dvorak…but wait, there's the flow of Debussy, a sleight of hand used by other composers, hiding themes from elsewhere, leaving the brain to search for a source, and the sound is ethereal and uplifting (dare I say even heavenly for the non-believers?).
Then the music and perceived vision seems to drift out of reach and almost dissolves. At the point in a dream when one loses touch, but wants to return to the visions, and then the melodies and harmonies arrive again, but in a shrouded form with layers of choral vocals. And within this new realm the piece moves into a less recognizable and deeper unknown territory before gently returning to the original sonic thread, albeit in an altered and transitional chordal-tone state and ultimately the arrival back into the warmth of the visceral pulses.
Although quite different in presentation and instrumentation, I compare the journey in this album to that of some other favorites of mine like Vangelis Papathanasiou's Rêve from the album Opéra Sauvage and Tangerine Dream's Desert Dream from their double live album Encore. The development and sound architecture of the piece is clearly influenced by the works of French electronic composer Éliane Radigue, to whom Szczepanik dedicates the album.
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There was a time when NFDC, Films Division and Doordarshan used to make documentary films. Many filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Ritwik Ghatak, Girish Karnad, Gulzar, Tapan Bose, Prakash Jha, and many other directors kept making non feature films and manage to make their mark. The National awards also started felicitating these films right since the 50's era. With the arrival of Multiplex era, these films started developing in a different style and after few years managed to give us some good work in the form of docudrama based films. In the recent times, we have witness films like 'Smile Pinky' winning Oscar and at the same time films like 'Superman of Malegaon' and 'Celluloid Man' doing well at the box office. In between many international film makers made such documentary type of films, including 'Follow That Star', which was based on the super stardom of Amitabh Bachchan in the late 80s era. This documentary was made by Indian born – internationally renowned director Nasreen Munni Kabir. Nasreen managed to showcase the superstardom of India's biggest superstar, which released on the home video. This documentary was loved and cherished by everyone who was a Bachchan fan and had access to view it on home video. She later went ahead to document the stardom of Shah Rukh Khan. Decades later, another internationally renowned director James Erskine has come up with a documentary film based on the life and stardom of legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. So, let's find out whether 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams' will manage to do proper justice to the humungous caliber of Sachin Tendulkar or it might end up being yet another project trying to cash in over the popularity factor associated with it.
'Sachin: A Billion Dreams' is a real life happenings related to the cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. It starts with his childhood track followed by his introduction into the world of cricket. Right since the first match till all the ups and downs in his professional life are displayed in the film. It, also showcases the personal life of this ace cricketer and tries to touch all the important aspects of Sachin's life in a cinematic way.
As we all know that this is a documentary type of film, but kudos to the technical team for making it look like a full length feature film. The real life happenings have been presented in the form of real life footages from Sachin's personal as well as professional life. These real life footages have been brilliantly placed in the film and forms a good screenplay. The narrative by Sachin Tendulkar is real and keeps you glued to the silver screen. Though, the dramatized version of Sachin's childhood track could have been better as well as engaging. But, after that there is not even a single dry spell in the entire film. The opening sequence itself, featuring real life footage of the birth of Sachin's son Arjun along with Sachin sharing about his father's teachings to become a better human being, sets the right mood for the film. There are plenty of scenes where either yours eyes will get moist or will have multiple goose bumps. The entire film is like a nostalgic ride featuring India's first world cup victory, Sachin's first test match against Pakistan, all the world cup's played by Sachin, injury part, match-fixing track, Sachin as India's captain part and many such scenes which are totally connectable. These connectable scenes make you feel and experience the life and the happenings in the film. The film also takes you inside the private world of Sachin's life where he shares about his family, first bat, coach, friends, romance with Anjali, marriage, kids, father's death and a few more. There are some sensitive topics related which have been handled in a dignified manner. All these scenes are brilliantly placed in the form of a beautiful screenplay with Sachin's narrative, making it as a never seen before type of experience. The whole film reflects the identity of Sachin Tendulkar. The dialogues or narrative by Sachin is totally real and instantly touches your heart. People who are not associated with cricket might not experience the same magic, but still will like the film. The documentary styling might not highly appeal to the masses. Also, for the young kids who have missed out on Sachin phenomena, well heres a movie which will make you witness something unimaginable. The cinematography is of top notch and editing by Avdhesh Mohla is outstanding.
The background music by A.R Rahman works as an additional screenplay in the film. Every music piece has been rightly placed in the film. Rahman's vocals gel beautifully with the expressive voice of Sachin and keeps you fascinated throughout the film. The usage of 'Vande Matram' is one of the finest in our Hindi cinema. 'Hind Mere Jind' and 'Sachin Sachin' will stay for a long time in your life. The placement of 'Sachin Sachin' chanting is totally apt in every scene.
Director James Erskine displays a fantastic style in the world of documentary films. He highly succeeds in treating 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams' like a full length feature film. The blend of Sachin's narrative along with real life footages is like a masterstroke from this talented filmmaker. His contribution to Indian documentary films is quite similar to what Richard Attenborough did with 'Gandhi' to our bio-pics. The entire film is highly engaging, entertaining as well as emotionally connecting.
The audio-video narrative by Sachin Tendulkar is amazing. He is so real, genuine and true to his words. One can see the spark in his eyes in many scenes, making you connect with his feelings and emotions. Sachin's presence in this film makes you feel like he is personally narrating his life happenings. Remove him from the film and there will be a huge vacuum, which I feel no one else could fill. The additional narratives by Anjali and others lend fantastic support.
So on an overall basis, 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams' is, not a movie, but an emotion which should be experienced by everyone who has grown up and lived along with India's pride Sachin Tendulkar. This docudrama is like a first class cricket which deserves a huge round of applause at every shot and every scene. Do yourself a favour and watch this classic only on the big screen.


Okama (御釜) is a crater lake located on the top of Mt. Zao. It is the main feature of Mt. Zao. It is also known as Five colors pond because the color of the lake changes by the weather and seasons. Mostly, the color of the lake is a beautiful green. It has very strong acid water lake in the world. Therefore, there is no living organism in this lake. You can walk around the east side of the lake to see from different angle. It is still active volcano, so its water sometimes boils by the ground heat.
There is parking, restroom and gift shop.
Parking near the lake is 520 yen per car.
You can't go near the lake.
1. at Shiraishi Zao station.
2. use local bus to Okama.
You can also come from Yamagata prefecture.


Potential new approaches to illegal fireworks and a possible breakthrough on Whoville � two hot topics in Eugene � captured the attention of the City Council on Monday night.
On fireworks, the council agreed that it wants to crack down on deafening M-80s, bottle rockets and other illegal fireworks that are set off at various times throughout the year.
�I basically have to leave my neighborhood for the Fourth of July, and leave town,� said Councilor Claire Syrett, who has a dog that she said is so terrified by fireworks that it has injured itself during explosion-induced frenzies.
But after a wide-ranging discussion, councilors agreed that more work needs to be done on possible responses to the illegal fireworks problem.
State law prohibits residents from having, using or selling fireworks that fly, explode or travel more than 6 feet on the ground or 12 inches into the air.
Fireworks in Eugene can only be sold from June 23 to July 6 each year, but there are no state or local restrictions on when they can be discharged. That means residents can shoot off legal fireworks on any day. Many take the opportunity to shoot off ear-splitting illegal fireworks, too.
Councilors were initially reluctant to embrace a fire department and police proposal to limit the discharge of legal fireworks to just four days a year � July 4, July 5, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
But councilors asked city officials to come back with proposals for a multi-pronged approach to illegal fireworks, including increased fines, public education and more enforcement of existing laws. The council should not pass new regulations that it can�t enforce, said Council President Chris Pryor.
On Whoville, councilors learned of a proposal that will be brought to them on Wednesday by Syrett that�s intended to give some of the homeless occupants of the Whoville camp at Broadway and Hilyard Street another place to go.
�There are ideas in play,� Pryor said.
In place for the last four months, Whoville is an unauthorized homeless camp with 40 to 50 people on city property.
With the approval of the council, the nonprofit Community Supported Shelters in December opened a city-sanctioned �rest stop� tent camping area for 15 people at Roosevelt Boulevard and Garfield Street. That area is full.
The group last week agreed to open a second 15-person �rest stop� camp on city land at Chambers Street and Northwest Expressway.
Tensions arose last week after the city had a fence with openings erected around Whoville. Police said the fence is a step toward the eventual clearing of the camp.
On Monday, Syrett told her colleagues that on Wednesday she will bring them a proposal to authorize a new camp on a city lot at East Eighth Avenue and Mill Street, or at other locations suggested by City Manager Jon Ruiz.
Homeless advocates said the Eighth and Mill site would be better for a dozen or so Whoville occupants with physical and mental health needs because it�s located closer to social service agencies in and around downtown.
Michael Carrigan, of Community Alliance of Lane County, urged the council to approve the Eighth and Mill site on Wednesday.
Several Whoville supporters spoke during the public forum portion of Monday�s council meeting, urging councilors not to allow the closure of the camp until other places are found for occupants to go.
If the 15 people in most need of help were moved to the city lot at Eighth and Mill, other Whoville occupants could move to the second rest stop at Chambers Street and Northwest Expressway.
A third, yet-to-be identified rest stop could accommodate the remaining Whoville occupants, homeless activists said.
The council approved the two rest stop sites last fall, but attached an ending date of March 31. On Monday, the council indicated it might extend the operating dates until Oct. 31.
Councilors in favor of an extension said more time is needed because it took longer than expected to get the first rest stop open, and that the second rest stop has yet to open.
The proposed extension requires a public hearing, which will be scheduled for mid-February. Also, the council directed Ruiz to start talks with Lane County on potential regional measures to address homelessness.
In another matter, several south Eugene residents urged the council to use proceeds from a 2006 parks and open space bond measure to buy more land at the southern end of West Amazon Drive to keep land near the Amazon Creek headwaters from being developed with houses.
The property in question is owned by Martin and Leslie Beverly, who have been involved in a long dispute with residents who oppose the Beverlys� plans to develop 47 lots as a planned unit development on a portion of the land.
Last fall, the Oregon Court of Appeals sided with the Beverlys on their proposal to put housing lots on 18 acres, but the property is for sale.


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Chinese restaurant TKO to open in East Nashville
Chef from Margot, general manager from City House team up.
Chinese restaurant TKO to open in East Nashville Chef from Margot, general manager from City House team up. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: http://tnne.ws/28LvSvL
Jim Myers, jtmyers@tennessean.com Published 5:46 p.m. CT June 17, 2016 | Updated 10:48 a.m. CT June 22, 2016
Ryan and Anne Bernhardt plan to open their new restaurant TKO in East Nashville later this summer or early fall.(Photo: Jim Myers / The Tennessean)
Something tells me this one's going to stick.
When a culinary dream-team couple decides to open their own place, ears and taste buds perk up.
Meet Ryan and Ann Bernhardt, who plan to open their East Nashville restaurant TKO sometime late summer or early fall.
He's the chef, who kept his knives sharp at Margot Cafe, most recently as chef de cuisine before leaving at the end of last year to start planning this new venture. She's the front-of-the-house maven who will stay on as the general manager of City House but will somehow find a way to get TKO humming on all cylinders.
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And the baby, TKO, will be their local southern take on Chinese food. The name is a play on the boxing term and the chef abbreviation for take-out, something they hope to sell a lot of.
"The idea started when I would do Chinese New Year dinners at Margot's," says Ryan Bernhardt. Some dishes he's been playing around with are a lamb mapo dofu with leeks, doubanjiang (fermented chili-bean paste), fried tofu and Szechuan pepper. More southern inspired are the succotash fried rice and sweet and sour chicken livers.
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The couple also plans to push the hospitality boundaries in town by not having gratuities on the check but building tips into the base price of the meal. "We really want to be able to pay everyone, including the dishwashers, a living wage," he says. The price point for entrees will be in the $16 to $19 range.
TKO is located at 4204 Gallatin Pike and will be open Wednesdays through Sundays 6-11 p.m.
Reach Jim Myers at 615-259-8367 on Instagram @culinarity and on Twitter @ReadJimMyers.
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Fact-checkers wandered into false equivalency territory Tuesday night after President Trump's Oval Office address on immigration and Democrats' response to it.
The Associated Press was clobbered on Twitter after it anointed the Democratic claim that Trump was at fault for the shutdown "false," saying that the Democrats are at fault too. As the AP put it on Twitter: it takes "two to tango."
The New York Times, meanwhile, attempted to fact-check a "should" claim made by Democrat Chuck Schumer — the kind of statement that doesn't really lend itself to a fact check at all.
Fact-checking has evolved during Trump's time in office — mainstream news outlets are far more likely to call a lie a lie than they used to. Even on Tuesday night, big outlets relied on policy expertise to clearly dispute Trump's false claims.
But the night also revealed that outlets still feel the urge to find fault on both sides or assign neutral blame for political problems. The political press has long wanted to cover politics like a sport, to cover the plays of each party as if they are morally and ethically the same. On a night when the president looked the public in the eye and lied about why the government has been shut down for weeks, the press needs to not fall into the false equivalency trap.
The Associated Press tried to fact-check who is to blame
Following Trump's speech, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer delivered a rebuttal in which they placed blame for the shutdown squarely at Trump's feet.
"The fact is, on the very first day of this Congress, House Democrats passed Senate Republican legislation to reopen government and fund smart, effective border security solutions," Pelosi said. "But the president is rejecting these bipartisan bills, which would reopen government over his obsession with forcing American taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on an expensive and ineffective wall — a wall he always promised Mexico would pay for."
Blaming Trump is entirely reasonable. The shutdown began last month, when Republicans still controlled both the House and Senate, and after the Senate unanimously passed a funding bill that would've kept the government open but didn't fund Trump's wall.
But in response to criticism from his far-right supporters, Trump at the last minute decided not to support the Senate bill. During an Oval Office event with Pelosi and Schumer, Trump even said he was "proud to shut down the government" and vowed he wouldn't blame Democrats for it.
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package com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.Abilities.Prayers;
import java.util.Vector;

import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.Abilities.interfaces.Ability;
import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.Common.interfaces.CMMsg;
import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.Common.interfaces.PhyStats;
import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.Locales.interfaces.Room;
import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.MOBS.interfaces.MOB;
import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.core.CMClass;
import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.core.CMLib;
import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.core.interfaces.Physical;
import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.core.interfaces.Tickable;

@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public class Prayer_EarthMud extends Prayer
{
	@Override public String ID() { return "Prayer_EarthMud"; }
	private final static String localizedName = CMLib.lang().L("Earth to Mud");
	@Override public String name() { return localizedName; }
	@Override protected int canTargetCode(){return 0;}
	@Override protected int canAffectCode(){return Ability.CAN_ROOMS;}
	@Override public int abstractQuality(){ return Ability.QUALITY_MALICIOUS;}
	@Override public int classificationCode(){return Ability.ACODE_PRAYER|Ability.DOMAIN_CREATION;}
	@Override public long flags(){return Ability.FLAG_HOLY|Ability.FLAG_UNHOLY;}

	@Override
	public void unInvoke()
	{
		if((canBeUninvoked())&&(affected!=null)&&(affected instanceof Room))
			((Room)affected).showHappens(CMMsg.MSG_OK_VISUAL,L("The mud in '@x1' dries up.",((Room)affected).displayText()));
		super.unInvoke();
	}

	@Override
	public void affectPhyStats(Physical affected, PhyStats affectableStats)
	{
		if((affected!=null)&&(affected instanceof Room))
			affectableStats.setWeight((affectableStats.weight()*2)+1);
	}

	@Override
	public boolean tick(Tickable ticking, int tickID)
	{
		if((affected!=null)&&(affected instanceof Room))
		{
			final Room R=(Room)affected;
			for(int m=0;m<R.numInhabitants();m++)
			{
				final MOB M=R.fetchInhabitant(m);
				if((M!=null)&&(M.isInCombat()))
				   M.curState().adjMovement(-1,M.maxState());
			}
		}
		return super.tick(ticking,tickID);

	}

	@Override
	public int castingQuality(MOB mob, Physical target)
	{
		if(mob!=null)
		{
			final Room R=mob.location();
			if(R!=null)
			{
				final int type=mob.location().domainType();
				if(((type&Room.INDOORS)>0)
					||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_AIR)
					||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_CITY)
					||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_SPACEPORT)
					||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_UNDERWATER)
					||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_WATERSURFACE))
						return Ability.QUALITY_INDIFFERENT;
			}
		}
		return super.castingQuality(mob,target);
	}

	@Override
	public boolean invoke(MOB mob, Vector commands, Physical givenTarget, boolean auto, int asLevel)
	{

		final int type=mob.location().domainType();
		if(((type&Room.INDOORS)>0)
			||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_AIR)
			||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_CITY)
			||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_SPACEPORT)
			||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_UNDERWATER)
			||(type==Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOORS_WATERSURFACE))
		{
			mob.tell(L("That magic won't work here."));
			return false;
		}
		if(!super.invoke(mob,commands,givenTarget,auto,asLevel))
			return false;

		final boolean success=proficiencyCheck(mob,0,auto);

		if(success)
		{
			final CMMsg msg=CMClass.getMsg(mob,mob.location(),this,verbalCastCode(mob,mob.location(),auto),auto?"":L("^S<S-NAME> @x1.^?",prayWord(mob)));
			if(mob.location().okMessage(mob,msg))
			{
				mob.location().send(mob,msg);
				mob.location().showHappens(CMMsg.MSG_OK_VISUAL,L("The ground here turns to MUD!"));
				beneficialAffect(mob,mob.location(),asLevel,0);
			}

		}
		else
			beneficialWordsFizzle(mob,null,L("<S-NAME> @x1, but nothing happens.",prayWord(mob)));

		// return whether it worked
		return success;
	}
}

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Q: Git deploy in autoscaling environment (Google Cloud Instance Group) I'm looking to use something like git hooks or webhooks to cleanly deploy new code (pushed to a BitBucket Repo) to multiple machines in an autoscaling environment (specifically a Google Cloud Instance Group).
Currently I'm using cron to run the following task every minute on my virtual machines:
cd /var/www/mywebsite.com && git pull -q origin master && sudo composer update
Clearly this is not an efficient method.
What is the most efficient way to deploy code to multiple machines?

A: There are lots of ways you could solve this problem. Here are two possibilities:
Using a message broker
One possibility would me to have all your instances subscribe to some sort of message broker (etcd? rabbitmq? zmq pub socket? redis?), and have a web service that will receive the notification from github, then broadcast a message on your local message bus that will be received by all of your running instances, which can then run the necessary git pull locally.
Using ssh
Another solution would be to have a web service that receives a notification from github and then uses ssh to log into all your instances and run the git command. You could use a tool like Ansible to help automate this process.

Both of these solutions obviously require a stable address at which you run the web service that receives notifications from github.  This could be a dedicated machine, or it could be a floating ip address that could be serviced by any one of your instances.  These are all implementation details.
Other possibilities
GitHub can directly integrate with a number of third-party services.  Possibly some of those services are designed to help solve exactly this problem; I haven't looked at them in any detail but that's probably worth a little research.


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Taveau Church is a small frame African American church about a mile north of Strawberry Chapel on Highway 44 today. The State highway map of 1961 calls it "Tabo Church." It was built by the Taveau family, white plantation owners, for the use of their slaves in the early 1800's, and until recently there were white men on the vestry. It is probably the oldest African American church in Berkeley County. (Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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City Directories and History: Taveau Church is an unusual example of early nineteenth century church architecture. It is a small clapboard Classical Revival structure (Built in 1835), on a low brick pier foundation and has a gable roof with boxed cornice. The front façade is located on the gable side of the roof and features a small pedimented portico supported by four slender wooden Doric columns. A wooden bell tower with a hipped roof rises at the front of the gable roof. The foundations and steps of the portico are brick, although the area between the brick has been filled with concrete block. Both side facades feature a central double-door entrance flanked by two windows on each side. These entrances also feature a 12-light double row transom. All windows are 16/16 with paneled shutters. Taveau Church was constructed ca. 1835 for Martha Caroline Swinton Taveau, on lands of the former Clermont Plantation. After her death in 1847, a black Methodist congregation used the church. In the 1930s Clermont Plantation became part of the larger Mepkin Plantation and the owners of Mepkin, the Luce family, donated the church to the Taveau Methodist Church congregation. A cemetery is included within the acreage of Taveau Church. Listed in the National Register February 14, 1978.
The Cooper River Historic District, which is a 30,020-acre section of the region centered along both branches of the Cooper River, is a remarkably intact historic and cultural landscape. In the mid-eighteenth century, the Cooper River served not only as a principal transportation route for plantation goods, services and people, but also played a vital role in the successful production of rice. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most of the plantations in the district were acquired by wealthy Northerners looking for a warmer climate in which they could create hunting preserves for their own pleasure and leisure-time activities. These new owners left their mark on the landscape by building stately new residences but they also played an important role in preserving the earlier landscape. Many historic buildings, structures, and objects from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are still standing, and archaeological remains of settlements, machines, barns, and other structures that supported agricultural activity are generally intact. In addition, landscape features such as rice fields, banks, canals, dams, reservoirs or reserves, causeways, roads, avenues, upland fields, fence lines, and cemeteries – many of them present on eighteenth and early nineteenth century plats and maps – can be seen on the ground today. Numerous outbuildings are also included with several of the properties. Listed in the National Register February 5, 2003. [Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History]
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This is the biggest Christmas market in Finland. Red wooden stalls selling crafts, baked goods and other Christmas specialities. On weekends, Santa Claus visits the market, which is open throughout December.
Over 160 vendors offering handicrafts and other unique products including candles, knitted goods, ceramics, cards, clothes.
A lovely Pre-Christmas event for families with children. It gives children and adults a possibility to have a look into the world of fairy tales and to learn old Finnish Christmas traditions. Plenty of activites will entertain you and your kids.
The traditional Christmas market contains about 50 stalls along the pathways of Tivoli selling gifts, decorations, hot drinks to keep you warm, sweets and food.
Along the water in Nyhavn, this market focuses more on jazz music, traditional Christmas brews and entertainment. Of course, there is plenty of lovely Danish designer crafts on sale.
Right in the centre of Oslo you will find a cosy Christmas market for adults and children - with food and drinks, presents, Christmas delicacies, Christmas decorations and arts and crafts.
Spikersuppa: 20 Nov - 22 Dec (11am - 7pm), located between the Parliament and the National Theatre.
This market is incredibly beautiful, set among the traditional Folk houses at Oslo's Folk Museum. Local children dress up and dance & sing traditional songs.
In the Old Town Christmas Market you will find Swedish Christmas sweets smoked sausages, reindeer, elkmeat and other delicacies. There is also Glögg (mulled wine), a range of Swedish handicrafts and decorative arts of high-quality workmanship.
Historic and very traditional, see how a Christmas market looked in Sweden during the 1800's. Skansen is an outdoor cultural museum (as well as zoo) and has, in fact, had a Christmas market since 1903. Plenty of homemade mustards, jams, sausages, marzipan, breads and cakes as well as traditional handicrafts. Very family-friendly with song & dance and activities for children.
NOTE: As well as these traditional Christmas Markets, most Nordic Capitals have ice-skating rings in the centre of town to enjoy and in many city suburbs, people will hold their own markets or traditional events such as dancing around Christmas trees. Carol singing is also common to hear around town.


Johannesburg – South African Airways and TAM Airlines, one of the largest carriers in South America, have implemented a code share agreement.
SAA will place its designator code "SA" on flights operated by TAM from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Brasília, Salvador, Florianopolis, Iguaçu Falls, Recife, Belo Horizonte.
Likewise, TAM will place its designator code "JJ" on flights operated by SAA between Sao Paulo and Johannesburg, and to other cities within South Africa, namely, Cape Town, Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth. SAA currently has eleven (11) flights per week between Johannesburg and Sao Paulo and has an extensive schedule from Johannesburg to these coastal South African cities.
"Alliances and partnerships of this nature forms a crucial part of modern airline management, which is about providing convenient connection for customers to as many destinations as possible without necessarily using your own resources. Moreover, this code share provides a platform to tap into the potential that lies in both carriers' respective markets in a manner that would significantly enhance benefits for passengers of both airlines," said Manoj Papa, SAA's acting General Manager: Commercial.
The collaboration by the two airlines will not only offer leisure travellers a bouquet of holiday options, but also access to multiple business centres.
"This code share operation is vital in that customers travelling to and from various parts of Africa, South America and countries in the east are able to use SAA's Johannesburg hub as a convenient connection point to various parts of the world," elaborated Papa.
"We are seeking partnerships like this to offer our customers flights to all over the world," explained Soledad Berrios, LATAM Airlines Group Senior Vice President Strategic Alliances. "Together with South African Airways we will make travelling between Brazil and South Africa easier, and the countries will be the gateway of the South American and African continents," said Berrios.
Customers who are members of SAA's loyalty programme, Voyager, will continue to earn miles and obtain tier status when travelling on TAM flights. Likewise, members of the TAM Fidelidade programme will also continue to earn and redeem points when they travel on SAA flights. This provides an opportunity for customers to spend miles exploring the various destinations offered by the two carriers.
Tickets went on sale on 28 August 2013 with travel set to commence on 02 September 2013.
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Vermilion Remains
Oil on panel, letterpress, found objects, etched glass, steel
Vermilion Remains—named after the Vermilion Sea, an earlier name for the Sea of Cortez—is a project that uses scientific and cultural archives from the mid- century to document the disappearing biodiversity and fishing camp culture of La Cholla, a headland in Mexico along the Sea of Cortez. The installation consists of thirty paintings of various sizes and dimensions, fifteen glass and steel vitrines that display objects of the same era mined from an old dumping site on the headland, and an oversized spool of forty-six different letterpress take-away cards that record fish specimens, fishing shack locations and historical anecdotes.
The interplay of mediums—painting, letterpress, and artifact—is allegorical: each element attempts to preserve a fleeting era using outdated technology while inscribing a lost world. This inventory of collected history invites the audience to participate in discovering these stories and lost objects, and by taking a card—partake in their disappearance, even while extending proof of their existence outside the gallery.
The paintings depict fish specimens collected from the Upper Sea of Cortez and ephemeral remains of La Cholla's fishing shacks. Both specimens and fishing shacks date between 1940 and 1970, the latter period overlapping with my childhood exploring a much more bounteous and underdeveloped La Cholla at my grandparent's small cabin. The fish are painted from photographs I took of jarred specimens from the University of Arizona's Fish & Invertebrate Collection. Included are a baby hammerhead shark, porcupine fish, sea horses, and a bat ray. Today many of these species, although not extinct, are endangered or rarely seen due largely to unsustainable fishing and development practices.
The vitrines display an assortment of weathered and deteriorating remains of the quotidian culture of the mid-century. Sardine cans and keys, green milk glass, pharmaceutical bottles, doll limbs, rusted cutlery, fishing tackle, broken china, and radio tubes are among the collected artifacts. The objects are arranged as specimens themselves and treated with the care of a museum conservator—grouped into categories based on theme, color, or shape.
The letterpress cards have multiple classifications: some name
the actual specimens and include the date and the name of the scientist who collected them; others show the location of each painted fishing shack on a map of the headland; and others document historical anecdotes compiled from interviews or research I conducted. These details provide narrative for the paintings and objects while propagating their stories.
Vermilion Remains is at once personal, aesthetic, environmental and cultural, and delves deeply into issues of over-fishing and the erasure of cultural memory. "Untold land is unknown land," states Lucy Lippard—names, maps and photographs are how we imagine communal history and identity.
The project pays homage to a vanishing culture, its modest and idiosyncratic settlement and vast natural abundance—both fading—while simultaneously honoring the species themselves and scientists who have been deeply committed to their study and preservation, even as they document their decline.
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John Boehner says Ted Cruz is "Lucifer in the flesh" and a "miserable son of a bitch"
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By Hanna Kozlowska
Investigative reporter
Published April 28, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.
Former Republican House speaker John Boehner is retired, but he clearly misses a good Capitol Hill brawl.
Speaking at Stanford University yesterday (April 27), Boehner called Ted Cruz "Lucifer in the flesh," The Stanford Daily reports. He added: "I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."
Boehner said he would not vote for Cruz, even if he somehow wins the nomination, but would back frontrunner Donald Trump, a frequent golf partner and tanning "texting buddy."
Boehner called Bernie Sanders "the most honest politician in the race." He mocked Hillary Clinton—saying "Oh I'm a woman, vote for me"—echoing Trump's recent "woman card" comments, while saying he finds her to be "very accomplished and smart."
Boehner also summed up his record in Congress: "I think my proudest accomplishment is walking out of there the same jackass I was 25 years before."


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The US National Cyber Strategy
Last month the White House released the "National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America. I generally don't have much to say about these sorts of documents. They're filled with broad generalities. Who can argue with:
Defend the homeland by protecting networks, systems, functions, and data;
Promote American prosperity by nurturing a secure, thriving digital economy and fostering strong domestic innovation;
Preserve peace and security by strengthening the ability of the United States in concert with allies and partners  to deter and, if necessary, punish those who use cyber tools for malicious purposes; and
Expand American influence abroad to extend the key tenets of an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure Internet.
The devil is in the details, of course. And the strategy includes no details.
In a New York Times op ed, Josephine Wolff argues that this new strategy, together with the more-detailed Department of Defense cyber strategy and the classified National Security Presidential Memorandum 13, represent a dangerous shift of US cybersecurity posture from defensive to offensive:
…the National Cyber Strategy represents an abrupt and reckless shift in how the United States government engages with adversaries online. Instead of continuing to focus on strengthening defensive technologies and minimizing the impact of security breaches, the Trump administration plans to ramp up offensive cyberoperations. The new goal: deter adversaries through pre-emptive cyberattacks and make other nations fear our retaliatory powers.
The Trump administration's shift to an offensive approach is designed to escalate cyber conflicts, and that escalation could be dangerous. Not only will it detract resources and attention from the more pressing issues of defense and risk management, but it will also encourage the government to act recklessly in directing cyberattacks at targets before they can be certain of who those targets are and what they are doing.
There is no evidence that pre-emptive cyberattacks will serve as effective deterrents to our adversaries in cyberspace. In fact, every time a country has initiated an unprompted cyberattack, it has invariably led to more conflict and has encouraged retaliatory breaches rather than deterring them. Nearly every major publicly known online intrusion that Russia or North Korea has perpetrated against the United States has had significant and unpleasant consequences.
Wolff is right; this is reckless. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, I argue for a "defense dominant" strategy: that while offense is essential for defense, when the two are in conflict it should take a back seat to defense. It's more complicated than that, of course, and I devote a whole chapter to its implications. But as computers and the Internet become more critical to our lives and society, keeping it secure becomes more important than using it to attack others.
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Hufft designed a specialty fabrication center for high-end aerial acrobatics planes in Bentonville, Arkansas. The new construction facility merges pre-fabricated components with custom elements. The building includes a display wall, private offices, sales center, and assembly hangar. The custom-fabricated front canopy references the internal structure of an airplane wing.