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Real Madrid less effective without Ronaldo, says Messi
Barcelona captain Lionel Messi was surprised by Cristiano Ronaldo's decision to quit Real Madrid and sign for Italian champions Juventus.
Ronaldo joined Juventus in July for £105m, a move that left many in shock.
Speaking to Catalunya Radio, Messi said that Cristiano's sudden move surprised him and that he did not imagine the Portuguese star leaving Madrid. "It surprised me (when he left). I didn't imagine him leaving Madrid or joining Juventus."
The Argentine added that Ronaldo has joined a good team in Juventus and his inclusion in the club makes it one of the favourites to win the UEFA Champions League.
Messi also shared his opinion regarding arch-rivals Real Madrid saying that they will be 'less good' without Ronaldo and that Juventus' chances to win the UCL will soar.
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Speaking about Barcelona's UCL run during the past few years, Messi said that the club has been knocked-out in the quarter-finals for the past three years, but the squad is good-enough to win the competition.
"We have been eliminated for the past three UCL seasons in the quarter-finals. The Roma defeat hurt the most, but we have a good squad and we're looking forward."
He also lauded newly-signed Brazilian midfielder Arthur saying that he is similar to club legend Xavi Hernandez. "I did not know about Arthur before we signed him, but having seen him play, I can say he's similar to Xavi."
Spanish champions Barcelona wreaked havoc against newly-promoted Huesca on Sunday with a 8-2 win. Captain Messi and forward Luis Suarez scored a brace each, while Ivan Rakitic, Ousmanne Dembele and Jordi Alba also contributed.


I enjoy providing a high level of comprehensive care for women during all phases of life. I treat my patients with the care I would expect for my own family.
Dr. Staley is originally from Idaho but has now been in Wisconsin for 6 years and considers it his second home. He is married and has two daughters. His time outside of work is spent enjoying his family.


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Wife's First Big One
This story really began a long time ago, when I was only 19 years old. Something happened to me one night that would end up having a much larger impact on my life than I ever imagined at the time.
I was sitting in my car with my girlfriend Ann, listening closely as she confessed her infidelities to me. That was when I first discovered that much to my surprise and confusion, I was becoming sexually aroused by what she was telling me.
She told me that while I was out of town, she went to a party, gotten drunk, and let 3 guys fuck her. I can't really explain it, but there was a deep, sort of trembling arousal that I felt inside as she gave me the details of her experience.
The combination of finding out that the girl I was in love with had fucked 3 guys and the feelings of arousal from hearing it made me very confused.
I didn't understand it and I never confessed my feelings about this to her or anyone else until much later.
Ann and I split up soon after. I told myself that I could never trust her and therefore we could never have a future together, but the truth was that I just couldn't deal with the conflicting feelings of jealousy and arousal that I continued to feel.
I eventually married a woman named Tracy. Tracy was a wonderful, sexy woman who was full of life. Tracy had one small problem however, she had difficulty achieving orgasm. She and I had sex often, and as much as I tried, she could achieve orgasm only on rare occasion. One night we were watching a porno movie and playing with a new toy that I bought for her. It was a latex dildo that measured 9" in length and was proportionally thick. I thought it would be fun for Tracy, and I knew she would enjoy something different.
I started playing with her pussy using only the head of her new toy. After awhile her pussy became wet and started to loosen up.
I began to work the dildo slowly into her a little at a time making sure that it stayed well lubricated by her pussy juices at all times. This was a new experience for her and I didn't want to rush things and possibly hurt or do anything to turn her off to the experience.
I really enjoyed the sight of the dildo going into her, and I was very curious to see how much of it she could take inside of her.
Tracy is pretty tight even for me. She would often comment to me that she had the pussy of a 14 year old. It took some time for me to get the dildo even half way in. I slid it into her and then slowly backed it out an inch or so to make sure it stayed well lubricated.
Tracy really enjoyed the feeling of her new toy inching it's way into her tight little hole.
As I worked it deeper into her pussy, Tracy became more and more aroused.
When I got the dildo about three quarters the way into her, I hit the jackpot. Tracy had a huge orgasm. I was caught off guard by it at first. It happened so fast it was as if a switch was suddenly turned on, the "O" switch so to speak.
I watched as a wave of pleasure washed over her for about a minute. I was astonished to see her cum so hard with this new toy. I didn't expect it to work as well as it did.
I was so excited that I was able to make her cum so easily, that I wanted to make her cum again.
After she returned from her little trip to heaven, I asked her how she liked the new toy. She said it was good, but she had enough for the moment.
Tracy played with her new toy often, but it was mostly when I was not around. She said that sometimes she would cum so hard that it would become stuck inside of her. She had to relax and wait for her pussy to loosen up enough to be able to pull it back out.
She didn't allow me to use it on her very often. Of the times I did, she would always stop me after one orgasm.
After we were married for about three years, I started wanting more experimentation and variety in our sex life.
Tracy and I talked about the possibility of trying a threesome with another man. She told me that it would be too weird to have sex with another man while I was watching. She suggested that she try having sex with another man while I was not around, and work up to him and I together.
I agreed to her idea but she got cold feet and backed out at the last moment.
We tried fantasizing about it several times while we had sex and it really added a lot to our excitement, but Tracy still didn't want to try it in real life. Some time had passed and I stopped asking her to try other men. I just figured that she was never going to do it.
One Saturday night Marla, a friend and CO-worker of Tracy's invited us to a housewarming party. At the party Tracy and I were talking to Marla and her husband Ken, in the kitchen. We were talking about the difficulties of moving and home ownership, when Marla mentioned that their water heater made a strange sound. Tracy told them that I was very handy around the house and that I might be able to discover the cause. I agreed to take a quick look, so Marla showed me to the garage where the water heater was located. Ken offered to show Tracy the rest of the house while I was checking out the water heater.
The water heater problem was not difficult to diagnose. I turned the thermostat up so the burner would turn on and waited for several minutes as the burner heated the water.
We heard a hissing sound coming from the burner. I knew immediately what was causing the hissing sound, it was condensation from the tank dripping down into the fire. I explained the situation to Marla and told her that it was not a problem.
Marla's eyes lit up and a smile emerged across her face. She told me that she was very relieved. She and Ken had spent a lot of money moving into their new house and was not looking forward to spending more for a new water heater.
She kissed me as a way of thanks. When we went back to the kitchen she rewarded me further with a cold beer and another thank you kiss.
Tracy and Ken returned shortly and I explained the situation with the water heater.
The party turned out to be pretty unremarkable. It was the same old thing, a bunch of strangers standing around not having too much to say. Tracy and I went home at around midnight and went to bed.
Tracy cuddled up to me under the covers and kissed me. She then reached down and started fondling my cock while she kissed me some more. Before long I was on my back and Tracy was on top, riding me slowly and grinding me deep into her.
In the middle of our fuck secession, Tracy dropped a bomb on me. She confessed that she had been "naughty" at the party. I asked her what she did and she made me promise that I wouldn't get mad if she told me. I promised, and she told me the story.
"Naughty? What do mean?" I asked.
"First I want you to promise me that you will not get mad or do anything crazy".
My first thought was oh God what could it be that she is so afraid how I might react. By this time I was really worried about what it could be that was so terrible, but I realized that if I didn't promise, she would never tell me.
I replied to her in a calm and relaxed voice.
"OK sweetheart, I promise I won't be mad. Tell me what happened".
Tracy stopped moving her hips, but remained on top of me with my cock still deep inside of her.
" I was a little bit naughty tonight".
"Yes, you already told me that. What did you do?".
"Well, do you remember when you were looking at the water heater tonight and Ken showed me around the house?".
"Yes" I replied calmly.
"Well, when he showed me the master bedroom, he closed the door and started fondling me".
"What? He started grabbing you?".
"You said that you wouldn't get mad". Tracy cautioned.
I wasn't mad, actually I was starting to become aroused at the thought of another man fondling my wife, just as long as he didn't hurt her.
"I am not mad, I promise. Tell me exactly what happened".
"Well we went into the master bedroom and he closed the door behind me. When I turned to see what he was doing, he just walked up to me and put his arms around me and said "I have been waiting a long time to do this".
He kissed me and then his hands started moving over my body, grabbing my ass, and feeling my tits".
"What did you do when this happened" I asked.
"Well, I kind of kissed him back, and I let him play with my tits some more. After awhile he slid his hand down my pants and stuck his finger into my pussy".
"Did it feel good when he did that?"
"Yes, it felt great. You are not mad?"
"No sweetheart, I am not mad I promise". I was starting to feel more and more turned on by what she was telling me. The sensation was a curious mixture of jealousy and very powerful feelings of lust.
Tracy sensed this and started to move her hips again in a slow gentle grinding motion.
"Are you OK with this?" she asked.
"I am OK with it if you are. What else did he do?"
"He mostly played with my tits and fingered my pussy. I reached down his pants and played with him for a little bit and then he undid his pants and let it out".
"He pulled it out? What did you do? Did you suck it?"
"You sucked him? Man, you were a very naughty girl indeed. Did you make him cum?".
"I sucked him for about five minutes before he shot his load. And yes, I swallowed it. I didn't have anyplace else to put it. I was on my knees in the middle of the room sucking his huge dick."
"Huge dick? How huge was it?"
"That was the other thing. He was huge. I have never seen a cock that long and fat before." Tracy's voice quivered when she spoke about Ken's cock.
"How big was it? Did you do anything else?"
"We didn't do anything else. After I swallowed his cum we got ourselves back together and went back to the kitchen."
"How big was it?" I asked again.
"I don't know. It was very big, that's all I can tell you."
"Oh come on, you had it in your mouth and you can't tell me how big it was?"
"It was about this long" she held her index fingers about ten inches apart."
"Shit, that's a big dick. How thick was it." I asked.
Tracy shyly formed a "C" with her thumb and forefinger that indicated that his cock was about twice as thick as mine.
"How did you manage to suck that?"
"It wasn't very comfortable, but I was so turned by how big it was that I didn't mind it at all. I just wanted to suck that big thing."
"I still can't believe you did something like that. Have you ever done something like this before? Have you played with any other men?"
"NO! this was the first time I ever touched another man since you and I met."
"I was a little drunk when all of this was happening. I probably wouldn't have done anything more than let him fondle me except that I was so turned on by how big his cock was."
Tracy picked up the pace of grinding her hips and gradually rode me harder and harder until she exploded in a huge orgasm. I don't think I ever saw her cum so powerfully. It was clear to me that she very turned on by the night's events. It was also clear to me that I too was very turned on by what she did.
I coaxed her into riding some more until I exploded into her. We were both so turned on that I lay her on her back and fucked her until I shot a second load into her.
After our magnificent sex secession we lay together. I held Tracy next to me in my arms. Just before I drifted off to sleep Tracy looked up at me and said:
" I guess you are not mad at me after all."
"I guess not" I replied, as I drifted off to sleep.
The next night while we were having sex, I asked again about what happened between her and Ken. This time she gave more detail about how he fondled her tits, and fingered her pussy. I pressed her for more details about Ken's cock and she remained evasive.
Tracy told me that playing with Ken's cock was a huge turn on for her not only because of it's size, but because it was someone new and different, and that made it feel a very naughty.
I finally asked her if she would like to fuck Ken. She hesitated for a moment, then told me she would like to very much but she wasn't sure how I would take it if she did.
I told her to please go ahead, but she had to tell me all about it when she returned from being with him.
Tracy said that she would think about it and then let the subject drop. I decided it would be best not to push any harder about the situation.
A week went by without a word on the subject, then one night Tracy came home from her weekly craft classes and told me that she needed to talk with me and motioned for me to follow her.
I followed her into the bedroom and asked her what was up. Tracy sat on the edge of the bed and asked.
"Remember when you told me it would be OK if I fucked Ken?"
"Yes", I answered.
"Do you still feel the same way?"
"Yes, of course", I replied.
"Are you sure you still want me to do it?"
"Sure, if you want to try it go ahead", I replied.
A grin emerged from her face as she lifted up her skirt and showed me her panties. They were wet with her juices and I could smell the unmistakable scent of a freshly fucked pussy. Her pubic hair was soaked with a combination of cum and her juices. Tracy took her panties off and slid farther up onto the bed.
"What happened?" I asked.
"I fucked him, that's what happened".
I instantly felt aroused by seeing my wife's pussy with another man's cum dripping out of it.
"Yes I can see that, tell me about it", I told her.
Tracy seemed to relax after seeing my reaction and started to tell me the story. She told me that she arraigned to met with Ken in a supermarket parking lot. From there they rode in his van to a secluded spot and parked. Ken had the back of his van made into a large bed.
Tracy made a point of telling me how Ken's big cock felt so good inside of her. She said it gave her more intense feelings than with a smaller cock.
"You mean with my cock don't you?"
"Well, do you want me to lie to you?"
"No, of course not."
"It was very different. The pleasure was more intense. It felt like it was touching more things inside of me that made me feel good. It reminded me of that dildo you bought me, but Ken's cock was better because it was real. I don't know how else to describe it. It was just more intense."
Tracy stopped for a moment.
"I want to show you something. Turn on the light next to the bed", she said.
I walked over and turned on the light.
"Look at this", she said.
Tracy reached down to her pussy and used her fingers to spread her pussy lips apart. What I saw turned me on immediately. Tracy's pussy was still open from having Ken's cock in her. As she spread her lips apart I could see that her pussy was full of his cum. It was thick and sticky. It stuck to her pussy lips. A thin string of it stretched between her lips as she spread them apart.
"He cums a lot. I tried to hold as much of it in as possible, but a bunch of it leaked out while I was driving home."
Tracy described to me how it felt when Ken shot his load of cum into her. She said she could feel the throbbing of his cock as he pumped his load of cum into her.
"The feeling of his cock throbbing inside of my pussy, and knowing that this huge cock was squirting it's cum into me just put me over the top. That made me cum over and over again. It felt like he was a machine pumping his cum into me. I loved the feeling", Tracy told me.
"He made you cum?" I asked.
"Four times. It just felt so good. He filled me up so much with that huge cock of his", she replied.
I reached down and felt my cock. It was hard as a rock. Another man had just fucked my wife and I was extremely excited by it.
I was looking at Ken's load of cum in her pussy and I was trembling with excitement. I couldn't stop looking at her freshly fucked pussy. Tracy's pussy hole was still open from the fucking she received.
I bent down to get a closer look at my wife's pussy. I felt a little inferior because when Tracy and I had sex, her pussy would close up as soon as I pulled out of her. Ken had stretched her pussy and now it remained open with his cum slowly dripping out like a very slow, milky white waterfall.
Tracy looked at me.
"Want to have a taste?" she asked playfully.
"Come on don't be afraid. I want you to eat me. I think I can cum again if you do it. My pussy is still tingling".
I lay down on the bed and positioned myself between her legs. Tracy spread her legs further apart and urged me to go down on her. I first started licking and sucking her clit. This made her gasp.
"Oh yes, keep that up…Lick my hole too. I want you to lick it all out of me".
I did as she asked and Tracy became more and more turned on.
I realized that my wife had just asked me to lick her lover's cum from her pussy and I didn't even hesitate. As soon as she asked me to do it I just crawled up onto the bed and started licking.
I told myself that I was only doing it to please my wife. The sensation of licking her pussy, I mean licking her pussy with another man's cum inside was overwhelming.
I was trying to rationalize it to myself but here I was eating my wife's pussy after another man, a man with a cock far superior to mine had just given her the fucking of her life.
I suddenly felt very insecure.
"Can I fuck you?" I asked.
"No, not right now, I just want you to eat me", Tracy replied.
I reached down and started jerking my cock as I licked her pussy clean. Ken's cum was thick and salty, but it was mixed well with Tracy's juices. It was an odd sensation at first, but I soon forgot about everything but making Tracy feel good.
Tracy's orgasm built quickly. This was very different from her normal response to being eaten. Her body went rigid for a few moments and then began to spasm.
"Oh damn, keep going! Keep going, don't stop!" she yelled.
A few minutes after her orgasm subsided, I stopped licking her pussy. Tracy just lay there still breathing hard from her experience.
"Thank you", she said.
"Tell me more", I told her.
Tracy told me about the feeling of Ken's cock pumping in and out of her pussy. She told me that "it felt like more switches were being turned on inside of her pussy" when Ken's big cock was inside her.
Ken fucked her twice that night and Tracy loved every minute of it.
A few days went by and Tracy had another unannounced fuck secession with Ken. She
came home with her pussy full of cum and wanted me to eat her again. She told me that Ken had fucked her for 45 minutes straight with out stopping except the two times when he would pause to cum in her. Tracy told me again how much she loved the feeling of Ken's cock throbbing as it pumped it's thick cum into her.
I licked her pussy for about ten minutes much to her delight. After that Tracy asked me to fuck her. I immediately positioned myself on top of her and slid my rock hard cock into her very ready pussy. I immediately noticed that her pussy was stretched considerably from the fucking that Ken gave her that evening and that felt small when I was inside of her. Tracy noticed it too but to her credit she didn't say anything. I know she didn't feel much but she let me go until I shot my load into her well used pussy.
After I was done I slid down and licked her pussy as a way of apologizing for not being able to satisfy her.
"I just fucked a guy with a big cock, of course it's going to feel different." Tracy explained.
The next night I tried again and was relieved to find that her pussy was back to normal.
Tracy started meeting Ken at least 3 times a week. After two weeks of this I asked her how long this would go on. She told me not to worry that this was a "temporary thing" and that she was just fascinated by the novelty of this new cock in her life.
One night I was fucking Tracy after she returned from one of her fuck secessions with Ken. Tracy started explaining to me about how she felt like Ken had taken part of her virginity from her. She theorized that the biggest cock she ever before Ken was only 7 inches. Ken can reach a full 10 inches into her and his girth fills her up much more than any man before.
She said it was only fitting that Ken have ownership of that part of her pussy that nobody else could reach.
I asked her if she was kidding and she told me, "Ken owns that part of my pussy because only he can reach it."
After we were finished, Tracy went to the bathroom and showered. I was still horny so I continued to stroke my cock. I looked down at my cock and wondered what it would be like to have a 10-inch cock. I wanted to see what it was like when Tracy was getting fucked by Ken.
When Tracy came back to bed, I asked her how she would feel if I secretly videotaped her and Ken when they had sex. Tracy thought about it for a few moments and then said she liked the idea.
I set up our video camera in the bedroom and showed Tracy how to start the recording. I hid it in a basket full of clothes. In front of the camera I placed a plastic bag that was tinted, but still transparent. Even if you looked right at it, you couldn't see the camera.
With everything set, I kissed Tracy and left. Ken was due to show up in 15 minutes.
I went to a bar for a couple of hours and tried to relax. This was the first time that I knew beforehand that Tracy was going to have sex with Ken and I was shaking with excitement and a few other emotions that I couldn't begin to describe.
I was a little tipsy when I returned home. Ken's van was not in sight, so I knew the coast was clear. Tracy told me that she wanted to take a shower and invited me to watch the video and see how it came out.
I put the tape in our VCR in the living room, pressed play on the remote and quickly got undressed and sat on the couch. I watched Ken come in and get undressed. Tracy was already nude. She must have taken her clothes off before he arrived and met him at the door like that. The first thing she did is position Ken so that the camera got a good view of her sucking his cock. As she did, she told Ken how much she liked his cock, and how good it felt inside of her.
I loved every minute of it. I started stroking my cock as I watched. The action progressed and Tracy did an excellent job of making sure that all the action was in full view of the camera. Tracy mounted Ken with her back to the camera so that I got a great view of his thick cock pushing it's way into her pussy.
One of the things that I noticed was that Tracy's pussy was very wet. So wet that her juices were smeared all over the outside of her pussy. I remember thinking to myself "does a big cock turn her on that much?" I knew the answer, but I was afraid to think about it.
I liked what I saw so much that I started stroking my cock faster. I watched her ride Ken for a long time and then Ken wanted to change positions. He got on top of her and started out by sliding his fat cock slowly into Tracy's soaking wet pussy and then pulling it almost all of the way out again. He repeated this over and over again while Tracy moaned loudly with delight. His pace slowly got faster and I watched with amazement as Tracy had a series of several powerful orgasms over the period of about thirty minutes. I never saw her cum so much in all the time we were together.
I couldn't believe it. I was watching my wife fuck another man enjoying it. I couldn't stop watching and was getting more and more turned as I watched him cum inside of her pussy. I shot my load as he got on top of her and started fucking her doggy style . I continued stroking my cock as she started to orgasm again and again.
After it was over Ken dressed and left. Tracy stayed on the bed and spread her legs for the camera to see. She started fingering her pussy and talking to me through the camera.
Well dear, I hope you enjoyed this, I sure did. Look at how much cum he left in me."
Her pussy hole was open and Ken's thick cum was ever so slowly oozing out of her. I was very turned on by the sight.
I remember thinking to myself "man my wife is so naughty".
"I was thinking about it", she continued as she fingered her pussy for the camera.
"I was thinking about all the cum Ken leaves in me, and as deep as his cock is in me when he cums, there is a strong chance he might get me pregnant. If it was a boy, I bet he would be hung like his father. We could just say he took after you. What do you think?"
Tracy continued fingering herself and grew more and more excited as she spoke.
"I really could get pregnant with all the cum he has pumped so deep into me. You wouldn't mind it so much, would you?"
I stopped stroking my cock and watched as I shot my second load.
Tracy finished the tape by saying,
"I guess you should be careful what you ask for sweetheart, you might just get it, and a little bit more".
A few of months later, I noticed Tracy's belly was starting to swell…

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Something I have talked about extensively recently has been my passion to see opportunistic developers served well on the Linux desktop. These kinds of programmers are people who want to write small, focused, fun little applications that scratch an itch, even if that itch is to have fun. These kinds of developers are having a whale of a time filling the iPhone App Store with scratch-your-itch type of applications, and I am really keen to see more of these kinds of applications on the Linux desktop, and making Ubuntu the perfect platform to develop them on.
We have been seeing a growing movement inside the Ubuntu community in helping to make Ubuntu a rocking platform for opportunistic developers. While all the components are Open Source and can be shipped on any distribution, I am really keen for Ubuntu to really optimize and integrate around the needs of opportunistic programmers and I just wanted to highlight some of the work that has happened here.
Python – a simple, easy to learn, flexible and efficient high-level language.
GTK – a simple, comprehensive and powerful graphical toolkit for creating applications.
GNOME – the desktop environment that ships with Ubuntu, offering many integration facilities.
GStreamer – a powerful but deliciously simple framework for playing back and creating audio, video and other multimedia content.
Glade – an application for creating user interfaces quickly and easily, which can then be loaded right into your Python programs.
DesktopCouch – a framework for saving content in a database that is fast and efficient, hooks neatly into Ubuntu One and is awesome for replication.
In Ubuntu land we love this framwork. Many of our applications are written using them and this helped make it simple for others to get involved and contribute patches and bug fixes. It has been interesting seeing many folks settle on the same set of tools.
There are of course may other tools and facilities that can augment this list, but this is a common foundation in many applications. Fortunately, all of these ship with an Ubuntu system except Glade, but you can install Glade 3 by using Applications->Ubuntu Software Center.
Many of you will have heard of Quickly which provides a devilishly simple way of generating a new application, hacking on the code, changing the GUI and saving it to bazaar. Quickly also provides some awesome features for uploading the code to Launchpad and releasing your program to others in a Personal Package Archive.
What I like about Quickly is that it automates much of repetition surrounding software development and it ultimately allows you to deploy software to a PPA which people can then download and use. Now, PPAs are a little more complicated to install right now: you need to know what a PPA is, know where to find it, and click a few things or enter some commands to switch it on. Fortunately, the rather awesome Ubuntu Software Center which everyone's favourite Vogt…Michael Vogt…is developing, is going to be extended with functionality to better support PPAs. This, combined with the ratings and review features coming to the Ubuntu Software Center is pretty rocking. I am not sure of the specifics of how PPAs will be supported, but I believe they will first begin on visibility and then follow up with integration features later. If you want to get started with quickly take a look at this entry.
With Quickly able to get folks up and running with development, I wanted to make it easier for opportunistic developers to get their hands on code snippets and examples to learn from. As such, I created the Acire and Python Snippets projects. These projects provide a simple means in which you get access to a freely available regularly updated library of examples, across a range of different areas. With Acire you will always have a growing knowledge base of real code that you can read, run and share, and the community works together to regularly add to and support that knowledge base. The response so far has been great and you can read more about this in my previous blog post.
So, at this point we have all the tools needed to build applications, learn from code examples, and publish packages that ultimately will be visible in the Ubuntu Software Center. The one area that neither Quickly nor Acire has particularly served well is improving on how we collaborate together on software. Few Open Source projects have one sole developer, so we really want developers work well together, in conjunction with translators, documentation writers, bug triagers and more.
To do this we have the rather awesome Launchpad and Bazaar which are a doddle to use. Launchpad provides everything you need to work together on a software project and I have become a bit of a Launchpad fan as I have got used to using it. In my earlier days I tried Sourceforge, Trac and other systems, but Launchpad is rocking it for me.
You download some code from the Launchpad project with bzr.
You branch the code: this effectively means making a duplicate directory of the code.
In that duplicate directory you add a feature, fix a bug or make some other kind of improvement.
You then commit your changes to your local branch: this effectively tells Bazaar of the changes you have made.
You then upload your branch to Launchpad (this is called pushing a branch).
The final step is to propose a merge. This is when you offer your branch and it's changes to the project maintainer to merge into the main codebase. Launchpad ties together nicely with bzr to handle this process and has a web front end for doing code review.
You create a Projects directory in your home directory.
Click Places->Home Folder and go to the new Projects folder.
In there you can see a button to login to Launchpad. Click the button, enter your username and password. Job done.
You now see a a button where you can select a project to work on. Click on it, enter a project name, select it and it creates a new folder.
Now go into the folder and there is a button to download the code. Click it, select a branch and the code is downloaded.
You can now hack on your feature and a button will appear to commit your changes.
Finally, you will then see a button to propose a merge. You enter some text to describe your change, and it is uploaded.
No commands. None. What I love about Ground Control is that it is highly contextual: it is built into the file manager and it only ever shows you a button for what you can do at that time. It is simple, quick and Martin has done a wonderful job with it. Go and see a video demo of Martin showing Ground Control here.
Ground Control is still very very new so expect bugs, but do give it a go, report bugs, and importantly, he is looking for help to make sure it has full translations support. If you have done this before, drop him a line. The Ground Control Launchpad project is here.
Awesome, this will help a lot getting more Devs interested into building for Ubuntu.
Great post and really cool effort.
One thing that might be a cool addition would be cool bzr frontend like gitorious or github. It would make branches etc. more social.
IMHO, you'd make a great contribution if Canonical can put some (modest) resources into Glade. It's underdeveloped due to lack of people working on it, and some features are really close to being little revolutions but need some work.
These are really close to being complete, but sometimes need adding the gtkbuildable interface to some gtk+ widgets or some additional thinking (pygobject support, as other bindings may want native object support too, and just adding new types may be worse than using introspection or other nice tricks).
With some of this changes most of the code tinkering with widgets wouldn't be needed at all, just some callback code or very specific things.
Anyhow, good to know that you see big value in the development stack. Casual programmers and hobbyists make make a difference regarding avaliable software, diversity and value of the OS, but work that's not oriented to the professional developer is being neglected, IMHO, and that makes sense for MS, but not for a FLOSS ecosystem.
I can not agree more with what pachi said. This is one thing I realized several months ago but never got time to elaborate and publish it somewhere.
Microsft tries really hard to give devs awesome tools and frameworks. Why? Because devs (and their CTO, etc.) have an immense power in choosing which languages, tools, frameworks and OSs to use and support when developing software. Specially when their clients have no formed opinion on the matter.
Compared to the designer view of Visual Studio, for example, Glade (which is a project I use and admire) is simply not on the same level.
Another thing professional developers find lacking when looking to linux development are more powerful and diverse widget sets. Something in the lines of DevExpress for dotNet.
The good news is that both the KDE and Gnome side of FOSS plataforms have noticed this and are stepping up to the issue. And on this field, Nokia is doing an amazing job with the Qt framework and QtCreator.
On our side (Gnome) we are still a little behind them due to lack of integration between our tools but I'm sure we will get there. Looking through all of this awesome tools you talked about, Jone, made me really happy. We just need to bring all of them to a powerful IDE (Eclipse, anyone?), write a great documentation guide on how to use them and we are set.
I'm glad that I'm a web developer on my day job (Python and some PHP or Java from time to time) and I can use FOSS all day long because when it comes to web development, we are the leaders. But if I was a desktop developer problably I would bton the other side of the fence.
However I don't think that will be enough to attract casual programmer. While these tools could really help, I think Ubuntu is really missing an official SDK and a centralized documentation (or at least a big hub that points in the good direction). Also it must be easier for these developers to distribute their software. Apt + PPA is great but I don't think new users understand well the concept and have trouble adding PPAs (as it is not really easy). The Software center really needs a category that list all applications, even if you don't have the ppa. When choosing to install one, the ppa would be added and the application installed.
But this is definitely the good direction!
I would love to see Quickly pick up Vala at some point for higher performance applications (eg: ANYTHING that runs at login or in the background). It's a really beautiful language, it's easy to learn and it reminds me of Quickly itself in places: VERY opinionated.
The language itself is modelled directly on GObject, so it fits perfectly on this platform and talks to libraries like dbus-glib in an incredibly native feeling way. The compiler, as well, has very few switches or fiddly bits. It does a lot of thinking for the user, choosing sane defaults, abstracting away the complexity of gcc and friends. It does a great job with that.
As far as development stack is concerned, I think we still are being blocked kind of heavily by GTK+. I like the design of the toolkit, but I think developers expect to be able to implement animations, effects and the like and simply can't with GTK. The day when that animation support lands in a stable release will be a very, very happy one.
Hopefully when it does, somebody can arrange a good library with common effects, to keep things consistent and fun.
Don't forget about projects like http://launchpad.net/quidgets, that strive to make Gtk programming even easier. There is also kiwiw, gthkhelpers, and a few others around, we should combine resources to create an easy and fun widget library built on top of Gtk as well.
Thank you for this post, it should be very helpful for me.
Part of the problem with learning how to program and contribute is making an environment in which you can examine, modify, and otherwise poke at code to see what is going on. These tools should help me get in the loop.
What about Qt? Works in a lot more environments, and you can use several bindings and languages. It is clearly superior, and a tool and in terms of deployment.
So, that idea I had a few years ago for Ubuntu Developers Edition with all this stuff preinstalled instead of f-spot, pitivi, and OpenOffice… Does it have a better chance now?
Ubuntu is not the only GNU/Linux distributive. It is not very reasonable to say GTK/Python/Gnome is the only platfoms to develop GUI apps. Your neighbours from Kubuntu can approve it. Also, there is KDE desktop environment with very powerful Qt framework(also have good python bindings). What about it? I know, there is Gnome3 coming soon, and maybe you need more PR for it, but let's back to the real world. Or may be this message intend to some people using suspicious Mono framework?
by the way, can I install Lernid on Jaunty?


Barbara "Bobo" Delaney of Chatham, New Jersey, has been voted into the Platform Tennis Hall of Fame by the APTA.
Delaney, who has won 19 national titles in her distinguished four-decade career, will join Chris Gambino and Mike Gillespie as this year's honorees. The daughter of APTA Hall of Famer Nancy Mangan, Delaney will be inducted on Feb. 5 during the Short Hills Invitational – in the town in which she first made her mark as a star junior player.
Delaney started collecting national championships as a teenager, winning the 18-and-under Junior Nationals in 1976 and 1978. She then won the Women's Nationals in 1989, followed by five Mixed Nationals titles between 2002 and 2011 – tying her with Hall of Famers Hilary Hilton Marold and Charlotte Lee for the most mixed titles of all time.
Delaney has also had outstanding success in senior play, capturing six titles in the 40s division and five more in the 50s division.
When she's not competing, Delaney supports the game by spreading her knowledge, experience, and passion throughout New Jersey as a teaching professional. She is a Professional Platform Tennis Association (PPTA) certified pro and a former PPTA Tester.
Gambino and Gillespie will be inducted in a separate ceremony at this year's Nationals in Darien, Connecticut, on March 4.


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Q: Action mode is not applied to toolbar (being used as action bar), when using with ListView CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE_MODAL In my project I'm replacing the Action Bar with a Tool Bar. I inherited my theme from Theme.Material.Light.NoActionBar and called setActionBar from my Activity's onCreate to pass the toolbar. So far so good. The problem is when I use a ListView with CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE_MODAL. The action mode appears on top of the Too Bar, where the actual Action Bar would've reside, had I not removed it with NoActionBar theme.

Is there something I need to configure in the ListView? Or the MultiChoiceModeListener?
Here is my super trivial code for activity
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements ActionMode.Callback, AbsListView.MultiChoiceModeListener {

static final ArrayList<String> values = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("Apple", "Ball", "Cat", "Dog", "Elephant", "Flower"));
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;
ListView lv;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    setActionBar(findViewById(R.id.toolbar));

    lv = findViewById(R.id.wordList);
    adapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_activated_1, values);
    lv.setAdapter(adapter);
    lv.setMultiChoiceModeListener(this);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_normal, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "This is a test", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_active, menu);
    mode.setTitle("Go CAPS!");
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
    return false;
}

@Override
public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) {
    turnWordsToUppercase();
    mode.finish();

    return true;
}

@Override
public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {
    lv.clearChoices();
    lv.requestLayout();
}

@Override
public void onItemCheckedStateChanged(ActionMode mode, int position, long id, boolean checked) {
}

void turnWordsToUppercase() {
    //Logic for turning words to uppercase
}

}
Here is my theme
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="android:colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
</style>

A: you need to add <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item> to your app theme

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Lane Community College runners Leah Twombly, Lukas Fenley and Travis Stevens were named all-Americans after finishing in the top seven at the NWAACC Cross Country Championship.
In addition, Twombly, a sophomore from Siuslaw High School, and Gukas Fenley, a sophomore from Thurston, received the Titans ' most outstanding runner awards.
Stevens is a freshman from Siuslaw High School.


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Emmitsburg, MD December 30, 2010- Bigelow Motorsports driver and owner Doug Bigelow announced today it would have the full support of Bulldog Winch as the title sponsor for the teams race effort in Johnson Valley, CA for the February 2011 King of the Hammers race. "I am very excited to have Bulldog Winch and Bob and Christine Horn back as the title sponsor for our 2011 King of the Hammers race effort. The last time Bigelow Motorsports and Bulldog Winch got together for a title sponsorship opportunity we did great things together," announced driver Doug Bigelow. "Our team and Bulldog Winch have had the opportunity to work together for going on 4 years now. From pit logistics, product testing to last minute details to cooking for the team at the big race, Bulldog Winch and more importantly Bob Horn, has come through for our team when we needed it. I'm looking for a very successful 2011 King of the Hammers race and with Bulldog Winch in our corner once again and signed on as the title sponsor I do not see why we cannot make that happen," Bigelow also noted.
Bulldog Winch offers an extensive line of Truck, Mid-Range and ATV winches with a broad assortment of accessories designed for the off-road and racing enthusiast. Located in Phoenix, Arizona the company was founded on the principles of Quality, Innovation and Value. Bulldog Winch has been a supporter of Rock Sports supporting various teams over the years and has been a strong supporter of the King of the Hammers racing series and Bigelow Motorsports.
Bigelow Motorsports is a professional Rock Sports race team located in Emmitsburg, MD and was formed in 2003. Competing in various rock crawls, short course races and now Ultra 4 races through out the country Bigelow Motorsports competes in venues from California to Pennsylvannia. Doug Bigelow, the primary driver, drives the #4413 Ultra 4 single seat moonbuggy and the 2011 King of the Hammers race will be Bigelow's 4th large race in Johnson Valley and 6th overall in the King of the Hammers racing series.
The King of the Hammers racing series has fastly become one the top offroad racing series in the United States. Since 2007 HammerKing Productions has hosted the annual King of the Hammers desert/rock race in Johnson Valley, CA in February. The annual race has attracted the largest race teams in all of Rock Sports to include Shannon Campbell, Lovell Racing, Loren Healy, Jason Scherer, Derek West and John Reynolds and desert racing teams to include Roger Norman, Brian Deegan, Pete Sohern and Rob MacCachren.


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KAITLYN GREENIDGE's debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, was one of the New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Greenidge is a contributing writer for the New York Times, and her work has also appeared in Vogue, Glamour, the Wall Street Journal and other publications. She has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Kaitlyn Greenidge lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Field peas are a cool-season legume crop that are grown on over 25 million acres worldwide. Field pea or "dry pea" is marketed as a dry, shelled product for either human or livestock food. Field pea differs from fresh or succulent pea, which is marketed as a fresh or canned vegetable. Field pea also may be grown as a green manure or green fallow crop. With either option, soil and future crop productivity will be maintained or improved. Use of field pea for green fallow instead of black fallow protects the soil from erosion, improves soil quality, substitutes water loss by evaporation or leaching from black fallow with transpiration through plant growth and exploits rotational benefits. Costs of tillage and idled land in black fallow are substituted with costs of field pea establishment and termination (at early flowering) in green fallow. Field pea in a green fallow system yielded 3,425 pounds per acre of biomass and 103 pounds per acre of accumulated nitrogen in above-ground biomass at the Carrington Research Extension Center during 1990-1992. Spring wheat averaged 39 bushels per acre over a two-year period at Carrington when grown without additional N fertilizer following green fallow as field pea or following black fallow. This demonstrates that wheat following pea green fallow can be as productive as wheat grown on black fallow, plus the numerous rotational benefits of the legume can be utilized.


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Q: Multiple Build definitions in VSTS 2008 help needed I was wondering if the following can be done in VSTS 2008.
I have a main branch and several branches where many code change will be going on. Is there a way to build a required branch on demand?
Also I have many labeled versions of code and a main branch, is there a way to build a labeled version of the code on demand?

A: TFS doesn't support this out of the box.
I've done something similar where I created a build definition that read an XML file for what it was to build and deploy and then it perfomred the necessary actions to complete that. It sounds like you would need a similar thing.


Tom Cherry's Old Time Radio Show celebrates the dog days of summer with The Damon Runyon Theatre this Saturday! Plus a new episode of Those Funky Idiots will debut! The talented cast includes Sean Orlosky, Sean Heline, Bob Green, Katy Wolfe, Jeff Shull, soundman and soundwoman, Jerry and Judy Cole, and special guest star, Debby Girtman!
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Teofil Hárosy summarised the importance of the fortifications in his article "Permanent fortification in the present war". He writes as follows:
"If we want to safeguard the possession of a garden, a ground-plot, or any other valuable part of land permanently we put up a fence around it. However, the fence itself never means complete safety. Thieves, robbers and vandals can cross it at will, but even so, the fence will never be indifferent to them. Merely its existence commands some respect in the eyes of the stranger, and it is an obstacle against any illegal entry. If it stands between us and our invader, its defence is relatively easy, and even if the enemy is stronger we are inaccessible to him! The more massive and impenetrable the obstacle is, the more this statement applies.
Fortification was always a type of obstacle in its ancient form. Irrespective of whether it was a fence, a mound, or a cave with impenetrable walls in all directions but at the entrance, it offered perfect safety. It could also be a larger water surface, or a construction in the middle of a forest or on the top of a high mountain which the enemy could not approach, or if they could, at least only with difficulty." 4
However, Teofil Hárosy noted that man had never created any insurmountable obstacles. Invaders usually found methods to pierce through the walls and get their prey. Defenders were searching for more and more perfect systems. The modest mounds of early times rose to become high castle walls, and later they sank to become deep ditches. Defenders drilled huge caves which were able to offer resistance even against the most powerful offensive arms. The fortifications became extensive obstacles, then finally thin bulkheads, but all this was in vain. In the end the besieger overcame the defenders, nearly always and nearly everywhere.
Fortification was an important addition and in many cases an essential requirement of defensive fights. It could also be applied for offensive operations, but only when invaders were forced into temporary defence. Fortification is emphatically a defensive measure, its essence is that it is limited to one place. Basically it is nothing other than a profound utilisation of terrain and defensive equipment for the sake of success in the foreseeable combat. All those who expect more from fortifications make the same mistake as those who believed that the huge Stalin line or the Maginot-line was impregnable, together with its offsprings; the Belgian-Dutch fortification system; the Czech and Serb fortifications and the Metaxas-line. These proved efficient for a long time, but later were torn to pieces with surprising speed. A storm-proof fortress – concluded the writer wisely – does not exist and never existed, but it is possible to supply well-selected terrain with such engineering equipment that increases to an almost infinite degree the fighting ability of the occupying human forces. In the first place, the value of the fortification depends on strategic and tactical factors, and only in the second place on engineering and financial possibilities.
"With regard to strategy, the final purpose of fortification is to hold with minimal manpower certain territories which are considered important for future operations. The concept that manpower should be reduced is possible and necessary. It is necessary so that more resources should remain free for crucial operations. And it is possible because the material force of the small staff is supplemented by effective engineering equipment.
On the other hand, a reduced staff precludes the possibility that we could construct fortification on lines with large geographic dimensions or in extensive deep zones because, apart from limited financial means, even the great powers who had a very favourable geopolitical position did not have enough occupation forces for such fortifications. But it is not even necessary.
In the course of history it often happened that larger battles on strategic key points settled the fate of whole geographic areas: Stalingrad, Leningrad, Orel, the Cuban bridgehead, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Tunis and the Dardanelles were such key points, but any point can get into the same situation if we are able to paralyse the enemy's operations from it either immediately or by gradually thinning out the strong point's forces until it can become the basis of our own offensive operations.
Those who recognise well and with great foresight these strategic key points, and who equip them - reinforce them - with combat equipment, thereby satisfying the requirements of modern defence battles, those people will obtain advantages which cannot be underestimated by any military leadership. So, in essence history repeats itself; the "detached fortress" of the World War I returns, even if in a different form.
As they are currently, modern strongholds must be constructed in such a way that they can resist attack from any direction even if the enemy has already partly broken through or even if the larger part of them has been overrun by the enemy, because all their individual parts are independent, separate and stand-alone. The modern principle of territorial fortification, or strong point-like fortification, has taken over the role of the old fortification line. The occupation plan of territorial fortification is a system of defensive block set up from cell-like parts. Its basic cell is capable of and obligated to perpendicular defence in itself.
The arrangement of each strong point is irregular. They are only effective for their defined task and terrain. At the same time, they must be positioned economically. Three tactical points of view are decisive: command, fire and movement."
Apart from all the tactical concepts and engineering work, the morale of the unit defending the fortification is the third crucial factor. The defender's forces must not be kept closed in and left to their own devices because their spirit would break very quickly.
"Even if it sounds strange, the defending troop must be inspired by an offensive spirit in order to fulfil its defensive task. The defender who simply closes himself in his defensive constructions is irretrievably lost. Besides, the most effective means of stout defence is to nip the preparations of the attacking forces in the bud. This goal can only be attained by our will to attack. For all these reasons - air efforts, heavy artillery fire, false attacks from stronger units, lighter but well-placed fire concentration while developing combat sectors, and, in the end, the destructive activity of our patrols - all are indispensable conditions of any successful defence.
Regardless of how large the enemy's preponderance of forces is, from time to time his units must have a break in combat, if only to protect, re-group and fill his human resources. These occasions must always be used by the defenders for enormous counter-strikes in order to frustrate the decisive offensive of the enemy.
In doing so the defender attracts resources to himself and the enemy will not have these forces at its disposal in other places. Of course, because of such attacks troops will then assault with overwhelming force and the defence will have to contract, but in this case the fortified territory of the defensive troops which they are able to hold - and which they are obliged to hold - will be very useful for them".
In contrast with the fairly disadvantageous position of the attacking force on the fortified territory, the defender can always establish a large local preponderance of forces there. The defender is able to harmonise the three basic conditions of battle: command, fire system, and movement. These means are not at the disposal of the offender. He may only obtain information on the operational mechanism of the defender by a series of long lasting attacks, causing heavy losses.
"The attacker will certainly stop before the fortified area, because in order to be able to start his decisive assault he has to make many kinds of time-consuming preparations not only to equal the above mentioned local superiority of the defender but also to suppress it: initially only some times and in some places; but when the moment of truth comes, then all the time and everywhere.
Considering all this, while the defender must be equally prepared for all possibilities, the great advantage of the initiative is always on the side of the attacker. So the defender should always attack, in contracted positions too; he has to attack, even if only with short lasting sorties, because only this way can he avoid surprises".
The most important task is to hinder the reconnaissance of the besieger in any way. To reach this goal, the development of the enemy must be delayed however possible in the foreground, on the approaching roads. The enemy should not be allowed to get close to the valley block from its march column. Even if the besieger were already able to get close, the storm must not be awaited passively: the enemy must be drawn by fire and movement to such places where the defender might even annihilate him.
"So the fortress is not only the shield of the defender. The shield may protect temporarily against the heaviest blows of the enemy, but it has to be left immediately when the combattant knows it is necessaey. On the other hand, the defender is not allowed to leave his fortified zone without the superior's command; he must not even do it with offensive intention, because in doing so he would deprive himself of ways to offer defence. So the defended position must be occupied, even if by few soldiers and even if it is not exposed to attack.
If some part of the defended position were lost, reoccupation must be attempted immediately. However, the other parts of the position must be held, even if already endangered by the enemy from the flanks or even from the rear. The aim is that the offender should only be able to chip at the unshakeable block of the position, and even then only with time-consuming and small, bloody attacks.
The defender just contracts still more in these cases in order to try to expand again at a favourable time, just until the counter-offensive of our own forces begins or until the end comes to seal the fate of even the last position.
This is the basic condition of successful defence throughout time, now. It is a difficult type of fight, much more difficult than a well based offensive, but it is still easier and above all more glorious and more successful than a forced retreat."
The most important task of fortification is to establish the most favourable conditions for a defensive fight, which can only be successful if we afford much time, work and financial means. Teofil Hárosy was not only a theorist, he also knew the practice of fortification construction. The most up-to-date concept of the theory of fortification is connected with his name. He worked out his theory, adopting it to Hungarian conditions, for the fortification of the Eastern Carpathians. The lack of time, the necessity for quick action, can be felt behind his thoughts. Besides describing his theory, he gave lots of practical advice to the experts, based on his own military engineer experiences.
"If leadership wishes to increase the fighting abilities of its human resources by fortification it should declare its intention in time, sooner rather than later, because an equal amount of thought and material preparation is necessary for the establishment of a substantial fortification. If leadership still wishes to keep its intentions secret, at least some measures should be taken for alternatives in the preparation. Ad hoc work cannot be successful. The basis of good and quick work must be a specially elaborate and thorough fortification plan. To prepare such a plan one must take account of the local features of the particular area as extensively as possible.
So spend enough time on field surveys. The adaptation to the terrain is also important both from a tactical and an engineering point of view, because only this way can we minimise the set-up work for the terrain in the most efficient way. The existing roads, the larger natural obstacles, and other favourable features must be used in accordance with the defensive plan.
The geological features of the field of work might also be worthy of note. We need totally different types of equipment and skilled labour for different types of construction. We may work in rock or in sand, not to mention swamps. Water or flooding of the defensive work is even more unpleasant than the enemy's artillery fire.
Consider thoroughly the local building materials when making detailed plans of a defensive position. Otherwise huge transit requirements can only be decreased this way. However, this kind of economy must not degrade so much that the fortification is not useable for its purpose. If not enough suitable material is found on the spot take care of the supply in good time. Always create the best possible construction efficiently, economically, and within time constraints. This is the art of the engineer construction commander.
Hárosy described in detail the selection of staff to be employed according to their professions. But his most important idea for us is that the engineering staff must build only the concrete constructions, the most important blockades. The open battery emplacements, the connecting trenches, the interchanging battery positions, must be constructed by the defending troops themselves, or at least they must participate in that work, in order to become totally familiar with the fortifications they had to defend. The more the defender knows his defending sector, the better he will trust it.
"The border-line between easier and more difficult work changes according to the particular situation. At times the fighter must also grasp the nettle, realising that his work is necessary for no one else but himself. Once the siege begins, the difference between a soldier and the combat engineer becomes irrelevant in practice. They have to endure the heaviest strikes of the enemy together. Of course, real armed combat is the soldier's duty, but there are known cases when workers, or even prisoners of war, repulsed the storming units, armed to their teeth with only their axes and spades."
The author summarised his thoughts at the end of his study. I am convinced that his thoughts merit consideration even now, at the dawn of the 21st century.
"We have summarised briefly the most important factors of modern fortification. We did it not as a plea for the defence; much rather to direct the attention to a branch of war science which has suffered quite a harsh fate up to now. Storm clouds are building up all over the sky of Europe. Maybe we shall be need all this soon!"
43 Teofil Hárosy: Állandó erősítés a jelen háborúban (Permanent fortification in the present war). MKSZ, 1941. 11. 281-289.


Picardy Gardens, a French idyll in an Australian landscape, was created by Marian and Bryce Somes to complement two French provincial style buildings. Join Marian on a French-inspired morning tea as she shares stories from her book Picardy: An Australian garden inspired by a passion for all things French.
Presented by the Melbourne Friends.


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This is in response to tankengine888 re George Foster. I have some information for you. If you already have this info, that's excellent.
George Foster lived at Unley, South Australia, where his sister and parents resided in the 1940s. His fellow South Australian,David Taylor, who took part in the raid on Meiktila on April 5, 1943 as a wireless operator/air gunner in Lionel Hudson's Blenheim, previously flew with George Foster in another crew. David provided the following information:
"I knew George Foster well as he and I flew with another pilot, David Nightingale, before we split up. I have been unable to trace his family except that he had an elder sister, Isabel. He attended Unley High School, then joined the Savings Bank of South Australia in 1937, aged 16. He was also a member, as I was, of the 27th Scottish Battalian of Militia in 1938.
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In October, 1940, he was inducted into the RAAF as a Course 7 pilot. His official number 407418, indicates that he was an early South Australian member.
In January 1941 following initial training as a pilot, he was transferred to undertake training as a navigator on 10 Course at Cootamundra. After completing bombing and gunnery training at Evans Head, he embarked on the Queen Elizabeth for the Middle East Pool to 70 Operational Training Unit at Nakuru, Kenya, where he crewed up with me and David Nightingale on Blenheims -three South Australians together.
We flew to India early in March 1942 and joined X1 Squadron in Ceylon on 13 April of that year. When David Nightingale fell ill in mid 1942, I joined Lionel Hudson's crew and George teamed up with Harvey Besley. I regret I have been unable to locate George Foster's sister. "
From David Taylor's letter to my father, E.P. (Ted) Wixted who is Tommy Wixted's youngest brother.
To all of you who have researched this crash, well done. You have managed to have captured most of the information about it. With your indulgence, I would like to add a little more information and am happy to do this for you collectively. It will probably take up a fair amount of time, so I'll do it in chunks. Firstly, let me explain where this information came from. My late father, E.P. (Ted) Wixted was Tommy and Bobby Wixted's youngest brother. He talked directly to Bill Matheson in 1945, as well as over the phone and via letters. He directly spoke to Harvey Besley as well as over the phone and by correspondence. He spoke with Hudson, Graham, Anderson, Ewing, Proudfoot, and corresponded with Harley Stumm in 1943. He spoke to Cartledge's wife and she sent a photocopy of her late
husband's flight log. Also corresponded with David Taylor, Bob Huie and GED Moore. The formation of that op. Consisted of the following.
Stumm, F/L R.J. Ingram. (d. 1.6.1943), F/Lt B. Burnley (d. 1.6. 1943)
Hudson. David Taylor, GED Moore
Graham. P/O Stump. Sgt Huie
Ewing P. R.Ewing, Bob Malcolm (d. 18.4.1943)
Proudfoot. F/Sgt A.C. Hunt, F/Sgt. J.P. Hicks
Cartledge. Sgt. E.H. Proett, R.A.F. Observer
Matheson E. Appleton, T.J. Wixted
Besley. G. Foster, D. Andrew
Anderson Unknown, Unknown
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Jagan (28th October 2020)
5April, 1943
At 0830, the formation took off from Feni in India, flew south-south west to Ramu, then east-south- east to Yenangyaung on the Irrawaddy. The target was Meiktila airfield. There is a large lake at Meiktila.
*The formation initially comprised 12 Blenheim aircraft apparently, but 2 aircraft were forced to return to base with engine trouble, and another with defective guns.
*While flying to the target, the formation consisted of four Vics in line astern. This was gradually reduced to three Vics.
*A lake near Thazi was mistaken for the lake near Meiktila.
*The formation twice spread for a bombing run before the mistake was realised, then the aircraft regrouped.
*As it approached Meiktila, the formation spread for its bombing run for the third time.
*It was at this point, 2 hours and 47 minutes after takeoff, that the collision occurred. The rest of the formation continued on, bombed the target and returned to base. A Japanese fighter was shot down by accompanying R.A.F. Hurricanes without loss.
As told to Ted Wixted by Bill Matheson in 1945.
Jagan
Robinmargaret,
Thank you very much for your additions to this thread. Having a contemporary account from that time on record after so many years is remarkable.
The formation was as follows:
Stumm 1
Vic1 Hudson 2. Graham 3
Proudfoot 4
Vic 2. Ewing 5. Besley 6
Matheson 7
Vic 3 Cartledge8. Anderson9
In 1945, Matheson used numbers 1 to 9 to explain how the accident happened. Research at a later date, led to the pilots names.
As the formation approached the target, No 2 Vic went out to the left, and number 3 Vic went out to the right. Each Vic flies about 20 feet above the one which is to the rear. They were close together for greater protection against enemy fighters. This meant that No2 plane, passed over No. 4 and No.6 passed over No.7 ie Besley passed over Matheson.
Thank you Jagan for your kind reply. There is so much more to the twist and turns of this accident. I hope it is ok to keep posting. Cheers Robin
From Bill Matheson 1945. "As that move was taking place,Tommy Wixted warned me of the danger by suddenly calling 'Lookout'. In almost the same instant there was a massive impact on the machine.I thought we had been hit by flak or perhaps a fighter, and it was only then I realised that there had been a collision.It seemed to me that my navigator/ bomb aimer, Ted Appleton, became a victim of the collision immediately it occurred. His only warning would have been Tommy's sudden call but he had no chance of acting on it."
"The engine exhausts of the upper aircraft were directly above my head and the heat was burning my face.I looked towards the tail of the aircraft and saw it had broken away, but whether in front or behind Tommy's position as gunner I had no idea. There was no sign of Tommy.
The one chance of escape for me would occur only if the engine and wing of the other aircraft above my head were to fall away. I waited and waited, the heat burning my face. Suddenly it was gone. On the instant, I was out, and jumped. My parachute barely opened before the wreckage struck the earth below. Once on the ground, I watched the other parachutist coming down some distance away. "
Later, it appeared that for an unknown reason, the lower plane lifted into the bottom of the upper plane. The right hand engine of Besley's plane struck Matheson's plane in the cabin, and Matheson's left hand engine struck the other plane in its cabin, thus"locking the planes together. ".
Bill Matheson in 1945.
"Resistance to being made a prisoner was pointless. The radio that had been behind Tommy was brought in from the wreckage by the Japanese, so it appears the tail section broke away further along the fuselage behind him and he remained in the main section of the aircraft. The Japanese said they buried four airmen who were found in the wreckage. They seemed to treat the dead with a respect they never showed to the living."
"I came down probably within a mile of both the wreckage and the nearest village. The country was flat and bare; during the wet season it would be cultivated for rice. Within 10 to 15 minutes I was surrounded by screaming children and their parents- some armed with shotguns and others with short swords. Robbed of boots and wristwatch I was taken to a minor village and handed over to the Japanese who tied me up hand and foot. I was tossed into a bullock cart and taken to the township of Pyawbwe which has a sizeable army garrison. After some delay, a truck took me to Meiktila."
Bill Matheson 1991 continued
"At Meiktila I was put in a cell next to Harvey Besley. This was a stone or brick outbuilding divided into two cells by a timber wall and with about 4 inch hardwood bars. You entered on hands and knees through a trapdoor- this was used to pass in food. A guard faced the cells 24 hours a day. A two-story villa outside was occupied by Japanese Military Police.
After a month, Harvey Besley and I were taken to Rangoon by truck and put into separate cells in what was the large local civilian prison. This was the 3rd of May."
"On Sunday 30 May, I was one of a party of nine, flown to Bangkok and next day to Singapore in a Japanese bomber. I've no idea the reason for the separation. After a month's isolation in a house, we were transferred to the main Changi POW camp which by Japanese standards was well organised."
Last edited by Jagan; 30th October 2020 at 01:05.
31st October 2020, 21:38 #30
Thanks Jagan for organising the post into a better format. Unfortunately my log in logs out after a very short time. Cheers
Harvey Besley 1986.
A very full account of life in Rangoon prison appears in two books, one by Harvey himself and one by Lionel Hudson. In May 1945 the Japanese in Burma seemed on the verge of defeat. Only the Monsoon, due on 15 May, could delay the inevitable. Some prisoners were left in Rangoon prison, and some were taken by Japanese forces as they retreated from Rangoon, apparently as hostages. Harvey Besley was in the latter group. Unaware of the intentions of his captors he decided to escape and did so with five companions.
Eventually they met a British unit and their predicament was at an end. For his work in Rangoon prison, capped off by his escape, Harvey received the Military Medal. (Ted Wixted)
Besley, Harvey. "Pilot, Prisoner, Survivor" 1986 Darling Downs Institute Press, Darling Heights, Toowoomba, Q, 4350. ISBN 0 949414 11 5
Hudson,Lionel, "Rats of Rangoon", 1987. Leo Cooper Imprint, Heinemann Group of Publishers, 10 Upper Grosvenor Street, London. W1X 9PA. ISBN
0-85052-2838.
The Military Medal was a unique medal in more ways than one. At the time of the awardHarvey was a serving Air Force Officer; the medal is normally awarded to army personnel below the rank of officer.It is a totally fitting reward for Harvey and one might say, an appropriately unique finale for everything else that had begun at 11:17 on the morning of April 5, 1943.
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Jagan (1st November 2020)


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Mech games that aren't Armored Core.
It's produced by Kenichiro Tsukuda, who produced Armored Core 2 through Nexus, or as we old fogeys know them, "The best ones". Also on board is classic AC designer Shoji Kawamori. So yeah, it's not an AC game, but it definitely has its DNA.
We may not have gotten a trailer for Armored Core 6 this year, but dare I say, we just may have gotten something even better. Considering how many of us here at The Garage haven't taken too well to many of the new AC games, this could be the game we've been waiting for.
It's no longer about recreation, originality or ability. It's an endless series of xeroxed metabuilds, made by copycats and sheep. Armored Core, and its consumption of time, has become a hackneyed ruse. Armored Core has changed. Unoriginal players pilot unoriginal ACs, use unoriginal setups. Overpowered weapons on their mech atrophy and degenerate their abilities. Design copying. Weapon copying. Player copying. Tactic copying. Everything is observed, and then copied. Armored Core has changed.
They showed off a little bit of early gameplay as well. So we've got a customizable pilot, and a hangar bay that displays weapons in your inventory (Looking at 3:25 you can see what it almost certainly this games KARASAWA). You can pick up weapons and parts from fallen enemies, as well as environmental items like cars and structural supports to use as improvised weapons. I believe you can keep enemy weapons and parts, but I doubt you'll be able to hang on to a broken I-beam after the mission. Admittedly some of the animations look a little unpolished, but hopefully they're still working on that.
Nintendo is helping publish the game, so yeah it is exclusive to the Switch, to the disappointment of many I'm sure. Happy and I don't have one just yet, but with the upcoming releases of this, Bayonetta 3, Metroid Prime 4, Smash Ultimate, and My Friend Pedro, we're gonna pick one up eventually. That's kind of the nice thing about Switch, while it may lack the sheer power the PS4/XBOne have, it helps keep the price down so it's pretty easy to justify picking one up for just a handful of games.
Polygon.com wrote: The music is also influenced by Tsukuda and the team's personal taste, as the game's soundtrack is driven entirely by rock and metal — the trailer's song is also featured in the game. Tsukuda said that metal goes beyond the soundtrack though, underscoring the action and sound effects as well.
Oh yeah,Metroid Prime 4. Two reasons for me to get a Switch. I am a shameless Metroid fanboy. I have been trying to get the Dolphin emulator to link with VBA-M all afternoon,to get the Fusion suit in Prime 1. Such a pain,can't figure it out. Anyways,if I can find a nice deal on a Switch I will surely get one,once these are out. Mario Oddesy and BotW are also enticing.
New trailer showing some new footage. Not seeing the variety of leg types AC is known for, but it's early yet.
Also took a look at some new gameplay. Multiplayer hangars, reverse-engineering boss weapons, and H+ is a freakin' gameplay mechanic now.
Not something super new, but found a video with some decent unedited gameplay. Digging the music, but I'm also taking a look at the games quick boost. QB ended up hurting the gameplay in the last few AC games, IMO, so I'm hoping it'll act a little different in this game, leaving some dodging ability up to skill rather than just mashing the "dodge everything" button. So far it looks like there might be different levels, like rapid but small boosts, or a large QB with a longer recovery time. That would be nice if that's the case, but we'll see.
For anyone that currently owns a Switch, there is a demo out today. Reportedly only for a limited time though, so better get on it.
My impression of the demo, it was fun. It's modernized, as I don't like the downgrade with infinite flight, acquiring ammunition if you carelessly run out, or HP recovery, however. My advice for the Colossal AI, you can best it in a couple minutes if you go back in previous order missions and get stronger weapons, because I had the misfortune of rushing through missions barely getting parts and weapons, which cause me to spend 12 minutes on besting the Boss. You would have to hit it in certain spots for critical damage. At first, I didn't know what to do.
Anyway, enjoy the demo for the rest of you.
I don't feel like those are downgrades and are relatively well balanced additions. It really is kind of a nice blend between ACVD and AC4A with a hint of classic. The giant AI is pretty easy once you get a handle on maneuvering and attacking it's weak spot for massive damage. I've seen a lot of complaints about difficulty but so far I've ran through every mission with almost every variety of parts that it offers and I've found super lightweight dual blade and machine gun/rifle to be my favorite set up. AC4A gave us infinite energy, and ammunition trucks and health recovery have been here since ~AC2 ish. Also human plus or OP-I have always been a thing except for a handful of PS2 titles. I'm super hyped for this to hit a full release though.
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