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30 September 2012 - Sunday
I'm really not sure what to think about Ghirardelli and Marmalade's relationship. It seems like G tussles M excessively, but this morning I found them sitting perfectly calmly side by side on the folded blanket that is one of Marmalade's spots (sometimes shared with Aspen). So I guess they don't hate each other? Maybe?
Today, I accomplished nothing useful!
We did successfully have anime night, but I didn't get home until almost 22:30, which is not generally going to work on nights when I have to get up in the morning.
Shrine of the Morning Mist 19-22: Looks like evil is hard on the villains too. Probably next week there will be a mass defection to the side of not getting cored out.
Nodame Cantabile 20: Nodame is such a loon.
Mouretsu Pirates 4-5: I withdraw my objection about the solar sails; apparently the umbrella things are just projectors of some kind. And that's like a heat track, but they have ansibles (and probably hyperdrive, based on the preview) so it might be wrong to use Diaspora.
Welcome to the NHK 13: Is that a win or a loss for Sato?
29 September 2012 - Saturday
Today was a day of plans that did not entirely succeed. Ayse's plan to roast a Michaelmas goose was thwarted by the lack of goose availability, but a roasting chicken was deemed suitable. However, the chicken took much longer than expected to finish roasting (as determined by internal temperature) and ended up quite tough. The apples and onions it was roasted with were yummy, though!
Having anime on the same day that we make our weekly visit to Ayse and Ken and Dave and Ja Baby and the same day that Austrians come over for Ayse's dinner party is not a good plan, so it's not surprising that it didn't succeed. Maybe tomorrow, or maybe the space penguins will come.
We did successfully view the last episode of Lucifer, which has an entirely fanficcable ending. Also, doom. And additional doom.
28 September 2012 - Friday
Hurray, it's Friday!
Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan individually write pretty swell books, so Team Human must be at least √2 times as swell, and in fact it is! The protagonist is full of character (the kind that builds character in her friends) and gets into trouble in the best tradition of teenage protagonists.
Not on call!
27 September 2012 - Thursday
Hurray, the thing finally finished! I only had to stay two hours late, while Cow Orker A skived off.
The future of Metagame (Sam Landstrom) is just like the Internet of 2010, only all over. With bonus Fractale system depravity, genetically-engineered slaves, and exposition.
Slow Apocalypse (John Varley) is a disaster/California road trip book, which reminded me a little of Devil's Wake but with no zombies. Humans are bad enough, especially when deprived of their oil.
There is a strong element of being glad for the return of the Good Old Days when people made their living by sweating and their entertainment by harvest festivals, but it's not like you could have anything except a bummer ending without that.
26 September 2012 - Wednesday
Workingu workingu la la la.
Timeless (Gail Carriger) is the fifth and probably last of the somewhat silly steampunk "Parasol Protectorate" series. Carriger's next series looks like it will be modern with vampires rather than Victorian with vampires.
Hurray! There's new Yotsuba&! (Kiyohiko Azuma)!
25 September 2012 - Tuesday
Wow, this thing at Big Customer X is even more hosed than we thought. Go O(N²) behavior!
As Gary Larson wouldn't have said, "Welcome to Hell. Before we can issue you an accordion, we must perform a complete accordion inventory."
The King's Blood (Daniel Abraham) is the second book of "The Dagger and the Coin", so it has a relative shortage of new elements being introduced and old elements being resolved, but plenty still happens.
An expectation for what will happen to Kit and Marcus has been set, but I expect it will be completely subverted.
No more anime on Tuesdays. Only sitting at home. With my twelve paws.
24 September 2012 - Monday
Back to the answer mines.
Out of the Dark (David Weber) is just dumb. Even if you normally like Weber, don't read it.
Hm, the apartment management seems to have put a note on my door, dated April, informing me that my rent will increase as of June, and demanding that I pay the difference between what they say they wanted to have billed me for the past few monthes and what they actually billed me.
The cats don't like the management anyway, ever since they took away the balcony. I wonder if this means I should move to San Jose.
Diaspora Effect!
Despite Earl's offer of many other exotic locations full of violent lunatics adventure, the PCs implemented their plan to visit Omega Station. After discovering a geth infiltrator[1], they quickly found Bie, the one known survivor of the Carlsson expedition, who was being hunted by old pirate buddies of Siless for having stolen a valuable artifact from them, and persuaded her to tell the story of the expedition in which no one actually died[2]. However, Carlsson was brain-fried by repeated exposure to some kind of rotating datastore of the Old Machines[3] that a drell by the name of Mimi tempted him with, so Bie dragged him out and stashed him on Omega station and has been trying to get money for his medical care. Fortunately, Harnu Ers has some of that.
[1] Disguised as a volus who sold information about the nearby geth system, and full of exposition about the civil war between the orthodox and heretical geth and the heretics' alliance with the squid-spider ship.
[2] The story included an interlude involving the expedition being shown to an ancient spaceship on the batarian homeworld and a two-eyed batarian being plugged into the command throne while Carlsson's asari friend melded with it[4], which may all have been a batarian scam.
[3] For obvious reasons, Bie did not want to examine it closely, but it seemed to show densorans making unsavory deals with the Old Machines. This was not unexpected to the PCs.
[4] Non-volus are gross.
There was some excitement when Siless's pirate buddies decided that not handing over Bie for bloody vengeance constituted betrayal, but the elcor-style martial artists (even the ones who were actually elcor) were no match for Norbert's computation fist style.
The ship fingered by the dead reporter, Dark Mistress, was in port, captained by the archaeologist Carlsson had hired to lend an air of legitimacy and allegedly gotten eaten by feral drell. The team snuck on board via EVA to investigate, which led directly to them being carried off in the direction of the nearby geth system, where her scurvy crew had previously had their hearts replaced with creepy alien cyberware.
Earl spilled the dark secret behind the campaign, which is that it's Masks of Nyarlathotep in disguise. Fortunately I only know that work by reputation.
I let the boy cats out on the balcony for a while, which they seemed to enjoy, but eventually I had to send Ghirardelli in because he kept trying to jump onto the railing. (I would have let Aspen go out too, but she knew I was just trying to lure her to someplace with no cover so I could scoop her up and eat her.)
I finally reached volume 14 in my reread of Kurohime (Masanori * Ookamigumi * Katakura), which is still a wacky mix of Western, European mythology, Asian mythology, and more cheesecake than you can shake a stick at. However, since I last read it, I have become aware of the possibilities of scanlations, and indeed the rest of it appears to be available online (unless the chapter titled "THE END" is fibbing to me).
The Restoration Game (Ken MacLeod) appears to be mostly political intrigue and multiplayer games, like This is Not a Game by Williams or Halting State by Stross, but it has a framing story that makes it quite different.
When I look at Ken MacLeod books, I often think they don't seem very interesting, but I almost always enjoy them when I do finally get around to reading them. I think the cover blurb writers are failing me.
Dave's new place is finally unpacked enough to make watching TV possible, although not before Ja Baby o'clock. We tried to arrive early so that we could get the socializing out of the way and still start at a reasonable time, but were foiled by Marith having to sleep all day and then queue for Ayse-socialization behind the Austrians. (But she entertained Ja Baby and Jo Baby immensely!)
Shrine of the Morning Mist 17-18: When someone has a secret ID, it's important to bond with the enemy in one ID and fight them in the other.
Nodame Cantabile 18-19: That was unanticipatedly competent of Nodame, but she is still Nodame.
Mouretsu Pirates 3: Sounds like ships have a data track, so we can totally run this in Diaspora. But, although this future may have highly advanced miniskirt technology, there is no way to change into a skinsuit without fan service. Ah well.
Welcome to the NHK 11-12: That's a bit socially awkward.
Potential Big Customer X finally decided that they wanted us to do a bunch more stuff than we had signed on for, none of which Cow Orker A was qualified to handle, so he went to lunch in NYC while the rest of us did the work via Webex. Then he decided not to do the work we had actually sent him there to do, so we ended up doing that too. (Boo RHEL 6.2 ssh keys!)
At least it's done now. And I'm not on call this weekend.
The Uncertain Places (Lisa Goldstein) is a story of what a bad idea it is to deal with the fey, and why people would do it anyway, even in North California in the 1970s. These fey are pretty obnoxious, but they don't quite make it into the horror genre.
12 fuzzy paws!
Cow Orker A is still trapped in NYC while Potential Big Customer X tries to figure out what they want. Boss G had so many meetings today he never had a chance to drive in to the office. Cow Orker M did not actually explode, but it was a near thing. Future Cow Orker D (coming next week!) was invaluable.
I tried to write up some of the last Diaspora Effect session before the next one, but Marmalade was too friendly for me to get very far.
It never rains but it rains fish and frogs. Probably because Cow Orker A has been sent to NYC to do the work of another department.
Never Knew Another and When We Were Executioners (JM McDermott) are about the life of a cursed demonspawn, as recalled by the werewolf priestess who took his memories from his corpse in order to burn down every building he ever slept in. The second book suffers from middle-itis, but the third book (not out yet) could redeem it.
Range of Ghosts (Elizabeth Bear) is fantasy based on Western Asia, with conquering horse nomads, monotheist killers in impregnable mountain fortresses, martial artist monks, etc. It does not stretch the boundaries of the genre much, except maybe by being non-honky-tastic, but it is good. Also, I don't think I have ever seen a fantasy setting where what you see in the sky depends on who rules the ground you're observing from.
Bonus points also awarded for the tiger-people and the <rot13>Zbatbyvna Qrngu Jbez</rot13>.
Office Despot had several types of backpacks, some of them fairly nice, but the one that was nice and big didn't have a large enough laptop compartment for my work laptop. My laptop is supposedly going to be replaced in the next month or so; maybe I should just suck it up until then?
I attached the food dish to the food tree with duct tape again, but I did it more cleverly. I'm not sure the cats approve, but if they don't seem to be eating from it I can change it again.
I meant to go to bed early, but I was foiled by sudoko and work.
Despite all that, the upgrade went okay. There was one bit where even the engineer who wrote the code couldn't figure out why it did what it did, but we got around it.
Dave has moved all his stuff, including the TV, to San Jose. No anime for us.
I read several short stories by Harry Connolly ( Child of Fire , etc) and they were all pretty swell. Hopefully he will continue to write despite the despicable failure of the world to appreciate his earlier works.
Spray-on olive oil worked to get rid of the duct tape residue on the food dish, but I think I will try to find another way to attach it to the food tree. And maybe move the food tree, although it's kind of messy so I probably don't want to put it on carpet. I must consider.
Hm, my backpack seems to have lost the strap that keeps the shoulder straps together. I guess it's time for a new backpack. I wonder where a good place to get one is?
"We have to upgrade today! Everything depends on it!"
"Okay, do we have access to the system?"
"Uh, kinda."
"Okay, close enough. Do you have a recent backup in case something goes horribly wrong?"
"Uh, maybe? It's after business hours here, all the customer people who would know have gone home."
Twelve opaque paws!
Today, I accomplished the things meant to accomplish yesterday.
Laundry is done to Marmalade's satisfaction (although it will be even more satisfactory when the weather cools off a bit more).
Grocery shopping is complete.
My stupid python project has part of the easiest section working in a basic test mode.
My Angband character has obtained one of the non-basic spell books (although it's the resistances one which overlaps with the cloak that can be activated for the five basic resists).
However, my leftover sushi is unappetizing.
Good Luck, Yukikaze (Chouhei Kambayashi) is the sequel to Yukikaze , in which the aliens appear on-screen a bit more but are not any less mysterious or alien or philosophical.
Devil's Wake (Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due) is a zombie book, but although the zombies are interesting, they aren't explored much. Really it's a post-apocalypse road trip story, with romance.
I meant to do things today but was too slow getting and started and got derailed by going to visit Ayse and Ken and Ja Baby in their new house in San Jose. It is still a very nice house, although it is kind of old and also full of boxes, but it is in San Jose.
No one was able to make a decision, so I made people get sushi for dinner. It turns out this was the second sushi in two days, but no one was able to decide to object, so it worked out.
So much sushi!
I took pictures of Aspen sitting on the back of the couch, so I can prove to other people that she does come out from under the front library futon.
Yay Friday! Yay not on call!
JF Lewis apparently got kicked out of his church for writing books full of vampiric sex and violence, and Crossed does not deviate from that course. Many people die in a variety of ways, some of them permanently, some of them deservedly.
Virtual Virgin (Carole Nelson Douglas) is the fifth book in the series, and is getting more epic than may be interesting. Also, doom.
Thursday the 13th is more alliterative but less scary.
No gathering to watch Lucifer because Dave is still out of town. Also I haven't heard from Monkeycats in days. Probably they're exploding from moving stress.
I forgot to lock the cats up for the last fire alarm inspection, but I thought it didn't matter. It turns out it did matter, because when Apartment Manager Hope tried to do the inspection, Ghirardelli attacked (or at least threatened) her. WTF, cat? Anyway, I have to lock him up tomorrow.
Meetings at 13:30 put me to sleep even if it's not hot and I haven't had lunch. Bleah.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi defines Flow as being completely wrapped up in what you're doing, which requires challenges appropriate to your skills where you can constantly take action and get immediate feedback as to whether that action helped. He also calls this "optimal experience", on the grounds that such experiences might not be ecstatic or joyous at the time, but according to his research people find them satisfying and fulfilling and want to do more of them.
This seems reasonable, but I'm a bit dubious about C14i's ideas for living a more flow-filled existence. He seems to be pretty much in favor of the "simple life" over modernity, anti-leisure, especially anti-television (okay, can't argue too much with that), and definitely pro-religion. The book is from 1990, so I can only imagine what he would have to say about the Internet. (Or I suppose I could find one of his more recent books.)
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk (ed Sean Wallace) is what it says on the tin: thirty short stories that can be classified as steampunk by some standard. Each story is by a different author, so some have more punk, some have more steam, some are weird and only qualify based on including at least one of the essential steampunk tropes (judging by this collection, those are airships, gears, airships, and girl-smooches).
Not all of the stories were to my taste, but none of them were actively bad, which is pretty good for a sample this large.
Duh. To make a 1-bit change in the input string change multiple bits in the output string, all I have to do is take all the bitstrings of length N and put them antisortedly into an array, so that bitstring[N] and bitstring[N+1] don't particularly resemble each other. I can't do this with the entire 72-bit input string, but 12-bit blocks should be entirely doable and I can interleave them so changes appear throughout the string.
This is entirely trivial, and probably won't even be noticed in the end result, but at least it kind of works.
Customers remain fairly quiet, but cow orkers are succumbing to the plague in droves! (Relative to the number of people in the team, anyway.)
Apparently I'm reading a lot of steampunk these days. Some of it even doesn't involve zombies, if you can believe it!
All Men of Genius (Lev AC Rosen) might allude to zombies, but mostly it's romance, killer robots, girls disguised as boys, romance, technodictators, spaceships, and more romance. Bonus points for the girl suddenly deciding to diguise herself as a boy practicing a little but still not being all that great at it. Additional bonus points for the cool Jewish chick.
A kind person on Logrus pointed me to the bitstring package on code.google.com, which lets me remix and mutilate my three 24-bit coordinates into a 72-bit string, but a 1-bit change (incrementing or decrementing one coordinate) still only results in a 1-bit change in the output. If I'm willing to let the output string be a bit longer, maybe I could do something with ECC?
Twelve fliffy paws of opacity!
No customers called in over the weekend! And hardly any customers called in today! Hurray!
Possibly for the first time in the series, Ashes of Honor (Seanan McGuire) does not end with the main character obviously more doomed than when she started (unless you count realizing she has yet another hostage to fortune).
Marmalade burrowed in among the plush animals and reclined cozily, occasionally kittybreading Violetta. I am ded of teh cute.
I have pictures.
9 September 2012 - Sunday
Dave is still in Workville, but we played Diaspora Effect anyway!
The ancient alien we dug up in the last session was taken away to be studied by Top Sophonts (which includes some of us, so if they decide to mulch him, we'll probably know) but will probably cause more trouble later. In the meantime, trouble is afoot on Citadel! Our brain-sucking tree squid asari was contacted by a reporter looking to meet up, but when we showed up to the seedy hotel, the reporter had been burned to death by crazies in flaming holomasks. This lead by simple and obvious steps to the discovery of the reporter's mysterious journey to the batarian homeworld and the borders of geth space, her faked mental breakdown, smugglers, more burned corpses, a nest of Enkindler fanatics, and the tower of faces they kept in their basement with a single comm line out to let it hack the station's network.
Next session, we will no doubt end up going to the horrible space station on the borders of geth space to get turned into zombies.
8 September 2012 - Saturday
All Ja Baby all the time! Well, maybe not all the time, but her mom brought her over to visit my kitties and plush animals, then we collected Marith and all went to the library to return books and to Ja Baby's House for brunch!
In the evening, Marith remained dormant, but I went with Ja Baby and her mom and dad to the street fair to look at many different things and eat crepes until they ran out of crepe batter and had to stop feeding us.
I don't know why I'm working on this thing when no one will ever want it, but at least I'm practicing writing Python with three-space indentation.
7 September 2012 - Friday
More Hadoop training! I still get work email (I haven't changed the email configuration on my company-issued laptop, so presumably the company is okay with my receiving and sending work email while not on the VPN) and it looks my my cow orkers are not dead. Yet.
Hadoop administration seems very primitive. There are only commands to perform the most basic functions, so to do something on multiple nodes, you have to log in to each node, su to an appropriate user, and manually type some commands. Also, all config files are in XML, which is just wrong.
People better not come to us with questions about Hadoop clients/ecosystem, because we only had time to glance at that.
We missed the company barbecue for Hadoop training. Oh well.
Nobody likes on-call, not even other on-calls.
The Constantine Affliction (T Aaron Payton) is rollicking steampunk adventure with sex-changing plagues, zombies, sexbots, intrepid detectives, intrepid reporters, crime bosses, mad inventors, and Things That Should Not Be.
6 September 2012 - Thursday
Hadoop training! I failed to escape the bus quickly enough and ended up having to walk from a stop much further away, but it worked out okay. (The Hortonworks place is just down the street from where I get my eyestalks checked, so I had some idea where I was going.)
In the past I have not been favorably impressed with corporate training, possibly because of the extremely common belief that reading directly from the slides is in any way useful, but this course is pretty good. I definitely know more about Hadoop architecture than I did, and some about Hadoop administration. The lab exercises are a little canned, but there's only so much you can do with a two-day course and they definitely build confidence.
Silver Zombie (Carole Nelson Douglas) is the fourth book of the series, in which the main character finally confronts her traumatic past (which is in fact legitimately traumatic, although not what any of the preceding three books might have lead one to believe), and her squeeze's traumatic past catches up with him.
After a long hiatus, we managed to gather everyone for the penultimate episode of Lucifer. The collision and subsequent explosion are now inevitable.
Oreimo (Tsukasa Fushimi, Sakura Ikeda, Hiro Kanzaki) is an entry in the "otaku life" (or "Laughing with otaku for dummies") subgenre. Its gimmick is that it's not the high school student but his beautiful, talented, popular, athletic, cute little sister who's the secret otaku freak with a hidden stash of little-sister eroge. The big brother is still more competent at some things, or maybe just feels an obligation to not have his sister disowned, so hilarity ensues.
5 September 2012 - Wednesday
Oh yah, tomorrow and Friday Cow Orker A and I have to go to Hadoop training. Our remaining coworkers will be fine without us, right?
I didn't like The Space Between (Brenna Yovanoff) quite as much as The Replacement , possibly because faerie mythology is more interesting than Christian mythology, but it was still pretty swell.
4 September 2012 - Tuesday
A mere three straight hours of meetings made me zone out. Clearly I am not cut out for management.
People who don't suck use Link+ to get old and/or scholarly books, not generic paranormal romance ( Vampire Sunrise , Carole Nelson Douglas).
Shrine of the Morning Mist 13-16: I don't know what she's complaining about. They totally would have put out.
Nodame Cantabile 17: No one is so obviously crazy that you can't find someone to hold romantic delusions about them.
Mouretsu Pirates 1-2: As advertised, miniskirt + microgravity = 0 fanservice. But, space pirates! Cute space pirates! With lasers!
Welcome to the NHK 10: Does voluntarily leaving one's apartment to stalk people count against being hikikomori?
No anime next week. No idea what happens after that, since at some point probably before the end of the month, Dave and his TV and his anime will be in Willow Glen. (His no cats will not be in Willow Glen, but hopefully Jinian and Aime are not too much for Marith.)
Hey, look, I'm finally caught up!
3 September 2012 - Monday
Back from Roseville! Ja Baby was cantankerous about our failure to teleport the car to the windmills, but not too much.
Cats are still fuzzy.
Trader Joe's and Milk Pail are both open on Labor Day, so I will not die from lack of groceries. Yay!
Braining is hard.
Measuring tape suggests that my apartment is about 800 square feet (maybe a little more), so I cleaned at most 0.25% of it today. However, it was a bit that I use pretty often, so having it clean does make me feel better.
Continued Roseville visit! There is a new couch, which is plenty comfy, so I did not die while trying to sleep (although I may have traumatized others by being present in their living space).
More D&D! This time, the undead came up on the boat so we could clobber them properly, although Dave's character still could not make a save if our lives depended on it. We might have crushed the monsters more efficiently if I had remembered to use Elven Accuracy and maybe not miss with the big radiant attack.
More swimming! Ja Baby likes splashing people in the pool, but not being splashed. Even though she is human, she will probably grasp the connection between them.
Ja Baby performed "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and accompanied herself on the piano. I took video, but the iPhone doesn't seem to record sound.
Marith reports that the paw count is within expected variation.
We saw a big black cat wandering along the edge of the pool, but it wandered away before we could find out if it was friendly.
Outdoors cats seem pretty happy, but I want my cats to live to a ripe old age full of pettins. :(
Cats by Al (Mon Oct 8 21:40:19 2012)
I approve of your preference for indoorscats. But I am pleased to report that there are at least three neighborhood cats that frequent our backyard, one of which is the black cat you mention, and all three of whom can be convinced that we will not fling them into the pool or otherwise cause bodily harm.
Re: Cats by Trip (Tue Oct 9 08:21:15 2012)
Obviously they have not been reading Aspen's newsletter about the perfidy of the grabby-handed bipeds!
Roseville visit! We didn't set off until late in the morning and arrived too late for Ja Baby to sleep in the afternoon, but no one actually died (except maybe Marith, who was too dead from work to come at all).
It's a little late in the year for swimming, but the pool being in shade from the time Ja Baby got up didn't stop us. Flies didn't stop us (although they annoyed us during barbecue dinner). Ja Baby has a new swimsuit that includes floatation units, but they aren't quite floaty enough to keep her head entirely out of the water.
We played one game of Small World Underground, which Sherilyn won by one point, probably because we all kept saying Ken and Dave and Al were threats (which Dave thinks is poor behavior, so maybe I should just always say I'm the threat if anyone asks). Then, shockingly, we played D&D! The PCs from the previous Infinite Archipelago adventure, now in possession of a bona fide treasure map, managed to scam a moderately-seaworthy ship with about half a crew and sail off to the back end of nowhere, further from civilization than their crew found at all reasonable when they actually got there, and almost got their ship stolen by fish-faced merfolk and their giant draft octopus. Fortunately the hijackers had low morale, because even with Kate and Josh joining in the PCs had a severe shortage of ranged attackers. Maybe they should have just jumped in and sucked up the -2.
Marith reports that the cats are still fuzzy, and also that she has eaten my snacks.
The young grey-and-white cat who visited us after dinner was sleek instead of fuzzy, but quite friendly.


Police say that a female pedestrian who suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a minivan in Milton died from her injuries after being taken to a local hospital.
According to Sgt. Russ Hume of the Milton Police Department, the woman was walking northbound in the roadway with her back to traffic that was also moving north. Witnesses reportedly told police the pedestrian was in the inside lane and was singing as she walked, according to KIRO News.
Hume says that the driver who struck the woman was likely unable to see the pedestrian because that area of the roadway is poorly lit.
A woman who lives near the accident scene told reporters that the poorly-lit area forces pedestrians to walk in the roadway because there are no sidewalks and visibility is difficult on the shoulder.
Washington state's joint and several liability laws dictate that two or more persons may be potentially held liable for damages, even if the plaintiff is one of the parties found to be partially at fault.
For example, if a pedestrian is found to be 50% at fault for an accident that injured them, they may still be able to recover the remaining 50% of the damages that they suffered. Of course, determining the potential liable parties and their share of liability is often much more complex than it may seem.


Week 17 – What price are you paying for not trusting your gut?
This week I'm sharing a story about the power of persistence and the importance of trusting your gut in spite of the obstacles placed in your path.
When my friend, Carla, purchased a new computer, she installed a battery back up to ensure that her work would be safe in the event of a power outage (a common problem in her hometown). She also added a device that would monitor the electrical power coming into the computer from the wall outlet in her office. Once installed, the device would beep when the power was too low.
As soon as Carla installed the devices, she noticed a persistent beep.
After a few days of listening to the sound, she contacted her power company to inform them of the problem. The service was checked and the woman at the electric company assured Carla that she had sufficient power coming into her home. She suggested that the additional devices connected to the outlet might be defective. But, after performing tests on both devices, Carla knew they were both working just fine.
Over the next week the beeping continued and Carla grew frustrated. She called the electric company three more times without a positive outcome. Each time she was told that the cause of the problem was something other than the electrical current running into her home. In fact, during one call, she was transferred to a supervisor who inferred that Carla might be a little nuts.
Fortunately, her inner voice was extremely persistent.
Carla knew something wasn't right. So, one afternoon, while working in her office and hearing the beep once again, she called the power company and insisted they send someone to her home.
The next day, when their repairman arrived, he asked to be directed to the closest transformer on the street. An hour later, he reappeared at Carla's front door and informed her that she was, in fact, experiencing significant, random dips in her home's electrical power.
After doing a little research, Carla discovered that dips in power often cause damage to electrical motors in a home. Turns out Carla and her husband had replaced their refrigerator, washer, dryer, and dishwasher all within the prior year because of motor malfunctions.
Carla's willingness to trust her instincts and be persistent in spite of appearing foolish or being perceived as a pest, paid off. She reported their loss to the electric company and was reimbursed nearly $20,000 in damages!
As I listened to Carla's story I was so impressed by her persistence and her ability to trust what she knew to be true in spite of the resistance of others. I thought about how a power sensor is a beautiful metaphor for the part of us that's plugged into our intuition. When we listen carefully, we receive clear and persistent signals, alerting us to what needs attention in our lives.
Her story inspires me to think carefully about the signals I receive in my own daily life. What feelings, thoughts, or experiences keep showing up, trying to get my attention?
It's worth thinking about. What's beeping in your life?
This week's video is a collection of gorgeous photos of a white swan and her babies. It's spring here in my neck of the woods, and I'm looking forward to seeing new life. I had no idea, however, how mother swans care for their young. It's beautiful. You can watch it here.


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GEN3 discounts all of its in-stock e-bikes to $899 in latest sale (Save $300), more in New Green Deals
Patrick Campanale | Jun 21 2022 - 11:12 am PT
Have you been holding out on picking up an e-bike for the right deal? Well, today's discount marks one of the best we've seen all year long. GEN3 is marking all of its in-stock e-bikes down to $899 regardless of original price. One of the best ways to save here is with the Stride that features a 40-mile range and can travel up to 20 MPH, coming down from its normal $1,199 price and marking a new all-time low at $899. We also have a wide selection of Tesla, Greenworks, and other e-bike discounts in today's New Green Deals, so you won't want to miss that either.
Head below for other New Green Deals that we've found today and of course Electrek's best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.
Ride around on GEN3's step-thru Stride e-bike with 40 mile range this summer
GEN3 is currently marking all of its in-stock e-bikes down to $899 with free shipping when you use the code SUMMER at checkout. Our favorite sale is the Stride which falls to the aforementioned $899 from its normal going rate of $1,199 direct from GEN3 and $1,500 going rate at Best Buy, beating our previous mention of $1,100 to mark a new all-time low that we've tracked. Ready to take you on trips all over the city this summer, the GEN3 Stride e-bike features a 500W motor and five different levels of pedal assist that can bring you up to speeds of 20 MPH. On top of that, it can go as far as 40 miles on a single charge, which means you can head to work, stop by the store, and ride home all without plugging in. Of course, no gas or oil is required for using this e-bike, making it more economical than driving an ICE car around.
Add a 200W solar panel to your home for $133 at Amazon
ACOPOWER (97% positive lifetime feedback) via Amazon is offering its 200W/12V Solar Panel for $132.99 once you clip the on-page coupon and use the code 15Y2OLI5 at checkout. Down from $180, this discount marks one of the best prices that we've seen all-time for a similar 200W solar panel. As a #1 best-seller at Amazon, this solar panel is sure to deliver a great way to run your home without relying on traditional electricity sources. Each panel in your array will net up to 100W of power on a 12V rail. The glass is anti-reflective, highly transparent, and low iron-tempered. Plus, these solar panels come with pre-drilled holes and 12AWG cables that have PV male/female quick connectors and includes a weatherproof IP65-rated junction box.
Snapper's 82V electric mower falls to best price in years at $479
Amazon is offering the Snapper 21-inch 82V Self Propelled Electric Lawn Mower for $479 shipped. Normally $600, today's deal marks the lowest price that we've seen since mid-2020 when it hit $440. Designed to deliver up to 45 minutes of runtime with the included 2Ah batteries, this is the perfect way to take care of your lawn chores without gas or oil this year. It has a 21-inch steel mowing deck and even delivers a 3-in-1 design, which allows you to mulch, bag, or discharge depending on what's needed at the time. There's also load sensing technology which allows the mower to adjust the power delivered to ensure the blades sustain a proper speed when mowing. You'll find that it starts with the push of a button, has seven height sizes, and the self-propelled 10-inch wheels mean that Snapper's mower itself can move throughout the yard with ease.
ONYX RCR 60 MPH e-bike with 75-mile range hits $3,999
Wellbots has partnered with Electrek to offers our readers the ONYX RCR 72V Electric Motorbike on sale from $3,999 shippedwith the code MAC350 at checkout. Part of the sale also waives tax in all states outside of NY, TX, and CA, delivering quite a bit of extra savings here. Normally, you'd pay $4,549 for this electric motorbike, though it's on sale for $4,349 direct right now. Today's deal saves an additional $100 over our last mention from May and marks a new all-time low that we've tracked.
The ONYX RCR e-bike is made to be both on-road and off-road, depending on how you choose to ride it. While normal e-bikes max out at around 25 MPH, this one can travel at up to 60 MPH. That's pretty impressive for an e-bike, and it'll allow you to get to and from work quickly, easily, and most importantly, without a single drop of gas or oil. Do keep in mind certain states require e-bikes to travel at slower speeds on the road, so ONYX has built an eco mode that lets you max out at 20 MPH if that's the case where you live. The 23Ah battery allows for up to 75 miles of riding per charge, as well, which should be more than enough to travel to and from work. Take a deeper dive in our hands-on review.
New Tesla deals
After checking out the GEN3 e-bike deal above, if you keep read, you'll find a selection of new green deals that will make your Tesla experience better in multiple areas. From storage to keep recordings on to phone mounts, car chargers, and anything else we can find, it'll be listed below. Each day we'll do our best to find new and exciting deals and ways for you to save on fun accessories for your Tesla, making each trip unique. For more gift ideas and deals, check out the best Tesla shop. Keep reading on for e-bike, Greenworks, and other great deals.
SimpleTire offers up to 20% off thousands of tires
Discount Tire offers up to $100 off or more on Cooper, Bridgestone, and other tires
Model 3 CupHolderHero: $12 (Reg. $14)
Spigen OneTap MagSafe car mounts now up to 38% off starting at $27 via Amazon
Bring MagSafe to your ride with iOttie's premium Velox car mount at $42.50
New e-bike deals + electric scooter discounts
If you're looking to get out and enjoy the sunshine still after using your new electric mower, than we recommend you experience it than on another e-bike or electric scooter you just got at a fantastic price through one of our deals and sale below. You can use it for fun, exercise, or even transportation to and from work or the coffee shop. We have several people here that will regularly commute to coffee shops or offices on their e-bike, as it cuts down on fossil fuel usage as well as allows them to enjoy some time outdoors on nice sunny days. Below, you'll find a wide selection of new e-bike deals and electric scooter deal in all price ranges, so give it a look if that's something you'd be interested in picking up. As always, the newest e-bike deal and electric scooter discounts and sales will be at the top, so shop quick as the discounts are bound to go away soon.
Juiced e-bikes 0% APR financing available
RUNDEER 750W E-Bike: $1,100 (Reg. $1,400) | Amazon
Micah Toll's favorite low-cost folding electric bike, the Lectric XP 2.0: $999 (Reg. $1,099)
Kent Electric Pedal Assist Mountain Bike: $698 (Reg. $998)
Gotrax's just-released G MAX electric scooter sees first discount at $100 off, more
Additional New Green Deals – smart thermostats, more
After shopping the GEN3 e-bike deals above, be sure to check out the other discounts we found today. These new green deals are wide-ranging from outdoor lawn equipment to anything else we find that could save you money in various ways, be that cutting gas and oil out of your life or just enjoying other amenities that energy-saving gear can bring. As always, the newest deals will be at the top, so shop quick as the discounts are bound to go away soon.
Amazon's new Smart Thermostat joins in on Father's Day savings with 20% discount to $48
SKIL's 22-inch cordless hedge trimmer sees first discount to $99
Patrick Campanale @pcamp96
With a love of phones, drones, and computers (couldn't make that last one rhyme), I'm always looking for the best deals around! If you've got a tip to an awesome deal, go ahead and drop me a line at patrick@9to5mac.com!

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Avions Voisin was a French luxury automobile brand established by Gabriel Voisin in 1919 which traded until 1939.

History
Gabriel B. Voisin was an aviation pioneer and manufacturer who in 1919 started producing cars using Knight-type sleeve valve engines at Issy-les-Moulineaux, an industrial suburb to the southwest of Paris.
Former student of the Fine Arts School of Lyon and enthusiast for all things mechanical since his childhood, Voisin's uncompromisingly individual designs made extensive use of light alloys, especially aluminum. One of the company's most striking early designs was the Voisin Laboratoire Grand Prix car of 1923; one of the first cars ever to use monocoque chassis construction, and utilising small radiator-mounted propeller to drive the cooling pump. The characteristic Voisin style of 'rational' coachwork he developed in conjunction with his collaborator André Noel. Noel prioritized lightness, central weight distribution, capacious luggage boxes and distinctively angular lines. The 1930s models with underslung chassis were strikingly low.

In the early 1930s, Gabriel Voisin could not pay all of his draughtsmen any more and a young creative engineer named André Lefèbvre quit, recommended by Gabriel to Louis Renault. Lefèbvre finally entered Citroën where he led three particularly significant car projects: the Traction Avant, the 2CV and the DS, using a lot of Gabriel's lessons.

Engines
Sleeve valve (Knight) engines were used exclusively until some later models switched to Graham 3.5 litre engines. The Knight engines included: inline four; inline six; V8 (prototype); V12 - 7.2 liter, 1921 (prototype); inline twelve and a seven-cylinder radial (prototype).

After the Second World War
After the war the business was nationalised in the political turmoil and the Government installed directors who did not continue the original engineering traditions. The Voisin business was integrated into that of its principal creditor, engine supplier Gnome & Rhône which was in turn nationalised in 1945 to form the basis for what now became the state-directed SNECMA business.

Voisin presented a "Biscooter Voisin" at the 1950 Paris Motorcycle and Bicycle Show, a voiturette intended for the impoverished age, with a front-mounted 125 cc engine from Gnome & Rhône. The aluminium-bodied vehicle had a three-speed transmission with a secondary gear and did not require a driver's license. The company failed to proceed with the Biscooter and instead mandated a Mr. Moglia, previously employed by Hotchkiss to develop an alternative voiturette. Moglia's design appeared at the 1952 Paris Motor Show fitted with the same Gnome & Rhône engine, but on Moglia's design the engine was moved to the rear of the little vehicle. The braking and suspension systems were also quite different. The Moglia design was presented as the new "Biscooter Voisin", a nomenclature which at least one commentator found "abusive".

The vehicle, renamed Biscúter, was adapted for Spanish conditions and about 12,000 were produced in Catalonia between 1953 and 1960.

Modern life

 A 1925 Avions Voisin C3 Cabriolet which won best in class at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance for 2001 and Best in Show at the Motor Cars of Radnor Hunt in Pennsylvania in 2002, sold at auction for EUR€212,800 in 2015
 A 1934 C-15 Ets. Saliot Roadster won best of show at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance for 2002
 A 1931 Voisin C20 Mylord Demi-Berline won Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance Best of Show for 2009 and subsequently sold in 2010 Amelia Island sale for $2,750,000
 A 1934 C-25 Aérodyne owned by Peter and Merle Mullin won best of show at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance for 2011
 A 1935 Avions Voisin C25 Aérodyne was auctioned in Pebble Beach, California on 18 August 2013 for a price tag of $1,925,000.
 A 1934 Voisin C-27 Aérosport won the Concours d'Elegance at Hampton Court Palace in London for 2021

Popular culture
In the 1933 Universal Pictures film adaptation of H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man, Dr Kemp drives a Voisin C-3 touring car.

In the 1938 film Three Comrades, a 1923 Voisin C5 is owned by one of the main characters and is seen frequently.

In the 2005 movie Sahara, the car stolen from the dictator is a 1936 Avions Voisin C-28. Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt recognizes the car and says "It's a 1936 Avions Voisin. Six-cylinder sleeve valve engine, you know there was only six of these ever made." In actuality, the movie car is a fiberglass replica of a 1936 C-28 Avions Voisin with a 4.2 Jaguar engine and Rover automatic gear box on a 4WD chassis built by D Tessier (a well known restorer of Avions Voisin automobiles) in Tours, France. Clive Cussler (author of the novel the movie was based on) had a genuine 1936 Avions Voisin, similar to the C-28 that inspired the replica, in his Colorado museum. The movie vehicle was designed by well-known British special effects expert and stunt vehicles coordinator, Steve Lamonby and completed in four months. To make the actors more visible, the roof was removed giving it the appearance of a mid-1930s four-door cabriolet. "GV" letters on the registration plate are an insider tribute to the original C-28's legendary manufacturer, Gabriel Voisin. The Voisin C-28 Sahara, as it has become known, sold at auction for US$23,400 in 2008.

The 2011 video game L.A. Noire features a driveable 1938 Voisin C30 (not C7) hidden at the corner of La Brea and Sunset Boulevard, in an Alaco gas station.

References

External links

 Website (english/french) about the Avions Voisin automobiles
 "Driving a 1935 Avions Voisin C25 Aérodyne"

Car brands
French brands
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France
Cars powered by Knight engines
Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers
Motor vehicle manufacturers of France
Car manufacturers of France
Sports car manufacturers
French racecar constructors

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Standardized concussion assessment forms have been developed for initial evaluation of the concussed athlete. While standardized assessment is not a substitute for a physician evaluation or a formal neurologic or neuropsychological examination, it does help to detect and quantify initial cognitive deficits, and it provides an objective and standardized mental status examination directed toward the concussed athlete.
The utility of a standardized concussive assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data are available. These types of forms have allowed longitudinal and multicenter studies to better define the significance of postconcussion symptomatology. Using these types of standardized assessment instruments, it was shown that amnesia is up to 10-fold more predictive of outcome following sports concussion relative to brief loss of consciousness in high school and college athletes.


Pay Per Click Advertising commonly referred to as PPC management is the process of bidding against your competition through the Google Ad's online. You will see the Google Ad's in the highlighted box either on the right hand side or at the top of the search. PPC is a essential part in diversifying your online traffic so you are not beholden to Google's algorithm. To make sure that you generate a positive ROI from Pay Per Click (PPC) it requires a deep understanding of the bidding process and how the PPC model works. The reason why Orange County Companies outsource their Pay Per Click Management to Noxster is because we have managed over 7 million dollars worth of revenue with 3.5% ROI on the web. Our team of experienced professionals in the Orange County, CA community allows you a local partner that you can trust. This is one of the key principles to your Internet advertising campaign.


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import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInvocation;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
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Bobby Brow Wiki, Child, Children, Wife, Net Worth, Brother, Sister, Daughter
1 Bobby Brown Bio He Launched off
2 So Lo Songs Career
3 Bobby Brown Daughter, Dating Together With Whitney Houston
4 Profession Decline
5 Bobby Brown Net Worth
Together particular elite artists whose livelihood started from the really tender age, Bobby Brown was only was when he first was his first taste of the spotlight while certainly one of his own childhood idols, James Brown, played in Boston. The operation ignited his fantasy to become a singer, causing Brown to join with the church choir, where he even comprehended and acquired his own singing abilities. Now he's celebrated being a American singer, song writer, dancer, along with rapper.
Bobby Brown Bio He Launched off
He combined a church choir band which helped him to enhance his own singing abilities. Back in 1978, at age 9, he began his music career with all the pop band "Brand New Edition" he set along together with his pals. After acting several talent shows, the band obtained a recording cope with Maurice Starr's tag. They published their debut record "Sweet Girl" at 1983 which instantly sold hundreds of copies. Their selftitled sophomore record was more powerful. Hits from the record comprised "Mr Telephone Man" along with "Cool it Today ". After a series of controversies and debate over the bunch, Bobby abandoned them 1985 and moved . But he has reconciled with New Editionand has played a range of shows with his band mates.
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So Lo Songs Career
Being a solo performer, he also signed with MCA and released his first debut solo record "King of Stage" at 1986. Although one "girl-friend " performed well on the graphs, exactly the exact identical couldn't be said for that record itself. 5 songs by the record caused it to the very top of Billboard 100. It produced singles including as for example "Every Small Step"," "Don't be Cruel", along with his trademark struck "My Prerogative". The record sold 12 million copies worldwide. It had been certified gold 7 days by the RIAA. Back in 1990, he also received his first Grammy award for its ideal R&B outspoken performance. Bobby proceeded to produce three additional records — "Bobby" (1992), sold roughly 3 million copies, a far cry from the good results of itspredecessor.His fourth record "Permanently " (1997) performed worse than the last without a prosperous single. He received features by a number of different musicians before publishing his fifth record "master piece " (2012) which debuted at#4 1 in the R&B record graph. Back in 1992 Bobby tied the knot together with all mythical pop superstar Whitney Houstonand along the song birds published a duet "One Thing In Shared " whichtopped that the UK graphs. Throughout his busy audio career, Bobby also starred in lots of movies. His debut behaving was first at the 1989 picture "Ghostbusters II" which he provided the sound track.
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Bobby Brown Daughter, Dating Together With Whitney Houston
Besides his famous musical art, Bobby Brown can be famed because of his troubled marriage to Whitney Houston that caused his name to hog the news for the wrong reasons previously. Bobby Brown was wed into the Whitney Houston. Their divorce has been finalized. Violence, infidelity, and medication misuse characterized image origin His union to Houston. He's been accused severally to be the origin of Houston's departure as much speculate he introduced to medication. Together, they seemed from the reality television series "Being Bobby Brown", which then made their union an interest of comedy and ridicule by the press. He's also emerged in other reality shows such as for example "Actual Husbands of both Hollywood" along with "Gone Nation. " Their union produced a daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown that was created in 1993. Back in 2015, she had been found unconscious in her bath tub. She expired at a medical facility as a consequence of low brain activity. Especially, she followed exactly the exact course of chemical abuse which shattered her mum 's livelihood and life. After 3 decades, he wed her at Hawaii.
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Profession Decline
Over the very long term, his marriage to Whitney couldn't match his livelihood. Brown's inferior performance has been exacerbated byunending issues with regulations, in addition to an alleged emotional disease. He's been detained severally for offenses for example, driving while impaired, drug ownership, greed and battery to pay for child care. Right now, the artist is fighting to grab the items of his lifetime, since he proceeds to work with his audio.
Bobby Brown Net Worth
Amid massive and challenges livelihood reduction, the entertainer still gets money from his previous glory. For the large part, he also has allegedly made quite a lot of money anticipated to be approximately 400,000 dollars annually since 2013. The majority portion of the income stems in New Edition exemptions, Royal livelihood exemptions, and assorted acting tasks. At the time of 20 17, Bobby Brown's riches is projected to be 2 million.
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Following last week's release of Phoronix Test Suite 0.3.0 and the 0.3.1 hot-fix, a surprising amount of changes have wound up in this week's development release known as version 0.4.0. In fact, there are 21 major changes in this new release not counting general development work and minor bug fixes. Among the changes are new test profiles, a number of new PTS options, PTS External Dependencies support for new Linux distributions, reworking how results are saved, and the graphs are now rendered locally when saving the results.
Also how about a .deb package? and maybe .rpm, but it would be cool to have this product in the debian repo's! also it would help so people would be able to upgrade version easily... maybe your own apt repo?
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With more being added soon.
Very minor issue, but is there a way to have the graphs generated on a saved result (I had one universe run without PHP GD installed)?
On some tests (e.g. audio-encoding) the first run really suffers from disk activity and counting it into average seems a bit odd to me.
I don't know if it is possible to detect the driver settings of nvidia-glx or fglrx, but it would be nice to have AA and AF settings displayed in the results.
At least 1600x1200 would be nice, 1280x960 also seems to make sense.
I would love to have an initial run of the game tests (maybe optional) with the lowest possible quality settings at 640x480 to determine the CPU limit of a game test. This should be displayed along with the final result (the "real" benchmark run).
I mean are you trying to get to 1.0 as quickly as possible?
There will be a .deb package of the Phoronix Test Suite in Ubuntu's Universe repository for 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, but a Debian package may be available from Phoronix-Test-Suite.com starting with v0.5 or v0.6. There will be packages available too in the next version of Mandriva and likely many other distributions to come.
There is no feature for that right now. Though one way to see it would be by just running phoronix-test-suite UPLOAD saved-result and then viewing it on PTS Global where you can see a graph generated there.
PTS really improves very fast and I think you are working hard to stabilize the main features in the first place.
I've been meaning to add an option where a test maintainer can add this option in the XML profile for a test and it will ignore the first run. I'll try to get this done before the next release.
With NVIDIA, yes, that information can be easily polled. On the fglrx driver, I don't know of a clean method.
Yep, another minor item that will be addressed shortly.
Thanks for replying to all of our questions so quickly!
I have to say i'm very impressed with how quick you are dealing with all these issues.
That's just the rate at which I take care of business.


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RPS Exclusive: Raph Koster on The MMO
Jim Rossignol
16th January 2008 / 9:07AM
In this interview we talk to Raph Koster, the founder and president of Areae, about why MMOs must be free to play, how he wanted to make an Ultima Online expansion where the players made their own shards, and whether games have reached the end of graphics. Areae is the company with an unusual vision for PC gaming: the DIY MMO. They're calling the project Metaplace, but it's just the latest instance of Raph Koster's contributions to the MMO genre.
Yep, Raph Koster knows a thing or two about MMOs. He started out in the realm of text-based MUDS, graduated to the class of Ultima Online, where he was well-known for creating features that many modern MMOs still lack, and then he had a good crack at creating a Star Wars MMO with the first incarnation of Galaxies. Since then Koster has written a book about game design, A Theory Of Fun, and has now started work on his build-your-own-MMO project, Metaplace. With the browser-based game-toolkit now close to its beta stages we thought we'd have a chat with one of MMO gaming's finest beards and see where his head is at.
RPS: Developers that I talk to mid-project seem to to fall into two categories: the ones who are trying to avoid playing any games other than the one their working on, and the those who trying to play everything that might be relevant. Which one are you?
Koster: Interesting question… I swing back and forth. I tend to do both. In the midst of a project I tend to not have time, and I do something else it won't be games at all. But you have to look around and see what you might want to include in games, and I'll see what I want to take from systems and what I want to put into a project. I'm inconsistent.
RPS: Not having enough time to play games is a problem for everyone in the field generally, but do you think not having enough time to play games is a particular problem for MMO developers, whose field of games includes titles with hundred, if not thousands, of hours of material? Do you have trouble seeing everything that's out there?
Koster: I do, but I think with the particular case of MMOs so much of what they do is shown to you in the first five minutes that it's not such a problem. There are plenty of things hidden away that only a high level gamer will see, you look at WoW and realise that you're not going to get to see raiding, and you're not going to get to Battlegrounds any time soon, but you're going to see everything else in the newbie zone. I think the same is true of most MMOs right now: they put their cards on the table at the beginning, and you really see what they have to offer in the newbie zone. Not all their cards, usually, but most. From that you can extrapolate, you can say "it's going to play like this in ten levels time", and usually be right. Part of the problem is the genre similarity. You might not be able to extrapolate Eve or Tabula Rasa from World Of Warcraft, but you can certainly see how much of Lord Of The Rings Online might play. Play each of these for a couple of hours and you can see how they all differ or are similar.
RPS: You've been saying for a while that you think the games industry isn't using the web well, and that the influences for new online gaming will have to come from outside the industry. Why do you think that?
Koster: I wish I had a good, sound-bitey answer to that. One of the things is that our influences in the game industry are fairly narrow. Bioshock is one of the big hits of the year, and everyone is impressed by its core narrative influences. It's a critique of Ayn Rand and Objectivism and all of that stuff. But if you think about it, Objectivism is common currency for game developers, it's a nerd kind of thing. So we're not referencing anything too far afield there, a little further afield, but not a lot. A lot of the common cultural currency is not all that diverse, and that was really hammered home for me by watching the Xbox Live trailers for the new year. I sat with my wife and she said that if she hadn't been told that they were all different games, she would not have been able to tell them apart. They were all so similar.
RPS: The men with guns, see how they strut…
Koster: Yeah, there's this broad commonality across all the games. The one that stuck out the most was a racing game, Burnout, but even in that you could see that the car could sit in the same world as the monsters and the giant robot from the other trailers, and it would all fit together just fine. So what is it about the net that's different? Well, I think people who look elsewhere find new sources of inspiration, and find other ways of doing things. In the indie games scene and web games scene we're seeing a wider range of resources being drawn upon by developers.
RPS: So the problem with games, or at least MMOs, from your perspective, is that they're being made by the people who want to make MMOs? The people whose influences come from the Dungeon & Dragons culture…
Koster: It's a factor. But they're /played/ by that group of people, despite WoW having expanded that by getting so many people playing it. There's a heritage there that's hard to get away from. There are gameplay reasons why the elves and fantasy stuff seems to work – and it's part of this self-fulfilling prophecy – if you look at what we have now it's all based on Lord Of The Rings. You have a good and a bad side, and a party-based story. Lord Of The Rings is a classed-based narrative, with a party structure, fighter, elf wizard. If you started making games within a different tradition, even a different fantasy tradition, would you really end up with the same kind of game? Where are the Hindu mythologies, the old Celtic mythologies? Would these traditions lead to a class-based system? I think maybe they wouldn't.
RPS: But even when the stylistic approach is different (Lineage, Tabula Rasa) there's still this hand-me-down conceptual skeleton that says that level-based structures are the best way to deliver this stuff.
Koster: It's a good way, it's held up for many years, but I don't know if it's the best way to actually do MMOs. It has so many artefacts of keeping people apart, or setting up characters that aren't necessarily the point of the game. It drives us towards obtaining levels rather than enjoying the game, it drives us to rush through it. And this makes the designers make quests simpler, remove puzzles, and so on, because we start catering to the desire we created in this big feedback loop…
RPS: Okay, let's move on from the MMO rants and talk a bit about Metaplace, your current project. You're proposing a system where gamers can basically build their own mini MMOs using a toolset provided by your company, and access it through a web browser, any browser, on any system. But how did you come to the conclusion that this is what you wanted to do? When did you decide that gamers needed to be able to make this stuff themselves?
Koster: Well, back in 1998 we were thinking about what should be in the expansion for Ultima Online. Back then there were a bunch of players who were trying to reverse engineer the code to create their own servers with their own quests and dialogue. And the game was already do a lot to empower games, with content like player housing. It was back then that I said "hey, why don't we just release the tools for making all this stuff, let gamers build up their own shards and then link it all together". So the idea is basically that old, for me. Also it goes back to the way we used to do it in MUDs. Players graduated to being content creators, and the boundary was highly permeable: there was never the stance about being the big media corporation who had control. I've /always/ pushed user-input in my games.
But then there was the Web 2.0 stuff. When that started becoming common currency for everybody what we saw happening with everything from literature to video was that it became democratised. But it wasn't happening for games. I was attending all these "how the web works" conferences and seeing how these things worked, and it all clicked into place. Here was this opportunity to harness this energy and get the same kind of results from the web that we've seen with thriving indie musicians, or all these other creative people who were previously gated by infrastructure. It's all been coming out. It made me want to do that for games. I'd been developing a bunch of small games at the weekend, and said to myself "this is easy for me because I'm a game developer, but for most people it's hard". I want to fix that. For most people the tools aren't there, the infrastructure isn't there, and in particular for MMOs. I mean, if you want to make your own MMO, just forget it. It's an insurmountable barrier. It it was.
RPS: How are the gamers who have contributed to the alpha testing of Metaplace reacting to what you've provided?
Koster: Well they seem to really, really like it. We're still alpha so there's loads of work to do. We've built quite an open system for experimentation, so we're finding that many people are interested in just modding code, or modding worlds. We have quite a lot of people who just want to create art, and people who want to create games from scratch, but the biggest lesson for me is the number of people who can mod, but can't create from scratch. That requires a higher level of knowledge. Giving people stuff to start modding from turned out to be incredibly important.
RPS: Over the past couple of years the discussions on your blog regarding Second Life have taken on quite a lively quality. How much has this kind of debate about the status of users and worlds informed what you're doing now?
Koster: Oh, quite a lot. I've always been one of the devs who just hangs out on the player forums, and it all goes into the pot. When you hear the Second Life people talking about the forms of player government or advisory council or whatever it is, it seems like something /so/ esoteric. But people nevertheless get passionate about it. It reminds you that people really do get invested in these places and they don't want to just have a token say about what happens. Some of them trust us to do everything and have faith in us until we mess up, and some of them have a healthy distrust, and want their point of view to be represented from the start. It cuts across game design, community management, all that stuff. Even when the discussions aren't relevant to what you're making in a direct way, you learn about what motivates a user, and what they want to accomplish.
RPS: And what a lot of them seem to want is to make money. How will money work in Metaplace?
Koster: Well the current plan (subject to whether we immediately start haemorrhaging cash or not) is to allow you to build a small place for free, but if it's starts getting large and intensive, then we're going to need to bill you for bandwidth and hosting costs. It's standard hosting, as we might model any other web business. However, if you use our virtual currency system in Metaplace you'll be able to cash-out as well. You'll be able to bill your users to mediate your costs to us and make money that way.
RPS: Do you see the Metaplace locations as being something like tourist locations then, where people visit, may or may not spend money, allowing the owners make a profit, of which you take a slice?
Koster: Perhaps. You could use Metaplace to make an MMO, to charge a simple monthly fee and that would be fine. When you join Metaplace you have a user ID which is tied to your wallet. You can be Snickersnack The Swordslayer in an MMO, and someone else in another place. There's an over-arching central identity that is tied to your currency. Of course in the games the currency can be doubloons or whatever, and the network level currency is just a billing mechanism.
RPS: You said a while back that all MMOs should be free to play, and Metaplace will be, at least in part, free to use. So do do you see the MMO market actually looking like that in five or ten years time?
Koster: We're seeing a split. There are already more free to play MMOs in the world than there are subscription MMOs, and the free to play ones make their money from digital assets sales, that sort of thing. The subscription model is an incredibly good model, it makes a lot of money. But there's a kind of expected level of polish, service, maintenance and so on. So we're seeing a split between high end MMOs choosing subscription, and lower end choosing free-to-play models. That's kind of interesting because it's backwards compared to how it works in other industries. Usually it's the niche, elite product that charges a subscription and the mass market project does tiered services. More and more MMOs will be providing free client downloads, trials and so on. Way back you couldn't even try MMOs without paying for them. Eventually everyone will have to give their game away for free and the question will become: what are they selling? Access to tiers of service, items, what? Project that ten years on and the landscape is going to be really different. We're all asking: who other than MMO can afford to make a Blizzard level MMO? Who else can lay out the kind of money required to make that high-end hit?
RPS: It does seem that the market is oversubscribed, Vanguard's failure probably demonstrates that. But perhaps the subs model needs to be moderated, and the development moderated too. We need mid-level MMOs that are designed anticipating 100,000 players rather than a million. MMOs probably need to do less like, say Empire Of Sports. Have you seen Empire of Sports?
Koster: No, not yet. Which one is that?
RPS: It's the French/Swiss sports MMO, which has a kind of central player hub where you hang out, deck out your flat form up teams to play the sports events which are the real 'game' of the piece. F4, the developers, are saying they want to deliver a really cheap sub, or even make it free, by introducing advertising. So there's a potential for a third route in MMOs, so you're don't have to pay a huge sub, but maybe you pay a couple of dollars, and have an option for advertising and micropayments, and all these other systems to support the game financially. Models like these could be used to support more esoteric development. And I think the problem right now for gamers like me is that MMOs don't actually cater to my tastes. I'm stuck playing Eve because I don't want to play the free games like Maple Story and the browser games, nor the high end fantasy romps like WoW. I want a third way for the MMO.
Koster: That's the thing that is most interesting to me. It's the question of whether gamers like you will be satisfied by the changes in the market. The thing that's driving the cost at the top end is a bunch of presuppositions about the level of presentation and the progress into high end graphics, and 3D card support. Of course if Blizzard had tried to do top-end graphics with WoW they'd probably have failed and been sold by now. They chose to spend on art direction, rather than technology. Blizzard was on the block when WoW shipped, and it saved them. They were for sale and the game was a huge risk…. Anyway, I think the browser games will get better and better and the high end games will get more and more expensive. I think you'll hit a point where these free browser games are good enough that gamers like you say "okay, they're good enough now, we can give them a chance".
RPS: The progress towards high-end, realist graphics is just going to have to stop though, isn't it? I mean 2007 showed us that the relatively abstractly presented games like Mario Galaxy, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 were far more interesting, and far more successful, than the graphical muscle of Unreal Tournament 3 or Crysis. Aren't developers going to have to back down on their graphical ambitions?
Koster: Perhaps. You look at triple-A games on the consoles now and they're at the margin of what is actually affordable. We've got a long life-cycle for these consoles and how much will it cost to make the games in 2012? Who will actually get to make them when they cost this much more? The PC is on a gradual upward curve, but the consoles are on a wratchet up, so you really see the step up in costs.
RPS: Designers need to look at some other stylistic options, rather than rely on technology.
Koster: And there are harbingers of that in games like, say, Okami. Nintendo does this well: look at the way that Zelda was reinvented. Mario Galaxy would not be significantly improved with displacement maps…
RPS: Anyway, we're way off topic here. When can we expect to get our hands on some of what you're working on with Metaplace? Are we going to be logging into the beta soon?
Koster: Well the plan is that we'll be letting people as players, not having the full building tools, but just allowing people to play with what the alpha testers have created, in February. Then hopefully by April anyone will be able to come to the Metaplace site and make a world.
RPS: We might just do that. Thanks for talking to us, Raph.
Koster: Thankyou!
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Use a #0 Phillips head screwdriver to remove the four small black screws from the back of the device.
To ensure you don't lose any tiny parts during the replacement process, place parts on the white magnetic sheet.
Once the screws have been removed, proceed to take off back cover.
Now, proceed to lift the battery out and remove it.
Use a #0 Phillips screwdriver to remove the four small silver screws from the outside corners of the battery housing.
Now gently pry the front cover off. A Black Spudger can be used to assist in the removal of the cover.
Gently separate the mainboard from the battery housing. This may be difficult around the headphone jack. Use a spudger if necessary.
Pull the motherboard out and down away from the top of the phone.
Peel off the small foam rectangle on the back of the mainboard and set to the side.
Peel off the black tape and set off to the side.
Gently pry up the memory chip and replace it with the new one.


The good news is that most companies (89% globally) have written values statements. Read on for the not-so-good news.
I'm a fan of including employees' input in the selection of the core values. The following quote from Benjamin Franklin is so fitting here: "Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I learn." It's even more fitting when you see the statistics about how many employees don't know their company's core values.
Research from late 2016 shows that only 53 percent of employees know their employer's core values. In a more recent webinar poll, only 11 percent of HR professionals reported that 80 percent or more of their employees know the core values. With a little convoluted math, you can figure out that it's not an impressive response. Those numbers should be 100 percent. But they aren't.
What's a brand to do? If you are one of the 11 percent of companies that doesn't have core values, make it a priority to establish them this year. Let's just say you've got core values, but employees don't know them or live them. Now what?
Well, let's think about this for a minute. And let's not put all the onus on employees. Did the core values just show up on a wall one day without any communication or explanation to employees? Yes, this happens more times than I care to count. Just in the last month alone, I heard two examples of this!
And do the values actually resonate with your employees? According to Gallup, only 23 percent of U.S. employees believe that they can apply the core values to their work, while only 27 percent believe in the values.
When employees believe in the values, align with them, and live them, they are more likely to stay with the company. So let's get on the right track here.
• Involve employees in selecting and defining your core values and the associated behaviors.
• Once you've established what those core values are, you've got to communicate them. It's not too late to do this. If you can't remember the last time there was any communication about the core values, or if they just showed up on posters one day without explanation, it's time to outline your communication plan. And then stick to it.
• It's so important for executives and leaders to model the behaviors that they wish to see, the behaviors that align with the core values. Actions speak louder than words. Words on the wall are a start, but behavior is where the rubber hits the road. Executives, how are decisions made? How are resources allocated? What are your priorities? Do they jive with the core values?
• Recognize behaviors that align with the core values, and reinforce with incentives, promotions, metrics, and more. Reinforcing the values and the corresponding behaviors makes them real.
In a Booz Allen Hamilton/Aspen Institute survey, 85 percent of respondents stated that their companies rely on explicit CEO support to reinforce values, while 77 percent say CEO support is one of the most effective practices for reinforcing values. It starts at the top. Maybe it's time for a chat with your CEO.
First published March 27, 2019, on the CX Journey blog.


As the summer months begin to dwindle down you may be wondering how will I make this school year better than the previous one? The answer isn't straightforward. And cannot simply be found by changing your apple for lunch from a granny smith to a honey crisp.
MicroK12 believes the first step into making sure this school year is the best one yet is by having the latest and greatest technology within the classroom.
Not only does new technology enhance student's willingness to learn but can also open-up teachers' abilities to making more of an interactive and effective classroom.
Get tech in your students' hands: Whether that's through a laptop, tablet or interactive whiteboard, they'll feel much more interested in working on a lesson requiring the use of touch-screen capabilities and the exploration of online tools and apps.
Scope out the essential tools to make sure your tech is running smoothly: No one likes to begin the day with their devices not performing to the best of their ability. Almost all technology nowadays offers helpful tools to allow for little to no error, so you'll feel ready as ever to begin each day.
Use new tools to do new things: If last school years technology wasn't driving results – switch it up and see what else is out there. Summer is a great opportunity to see new features for classroom devices and how teachers can incorporate them for their own unique learning style.
Allow for students voices to be heard: This doesn't mean students should be shouting from every angle of the classroom. Have them feel comfortable using technology as resource for communication. Not only will this open-up students' ways to converse with teachers but could also make them feel more confident as writers.
Hop on the STEM bandwagon: Everyone is doing it, so why not join them. STEM is vital for our young students to learn. Who knows, the future could be controlled by robots. MicroK12 offers a wide variety of STEM Solutions that will meet your futuristic classroom needs.
Be organized: There are plenty of organization tools on the market that can enhance classroom management.
Always have a backup plan: We cannot predict when technology will fail us, and there isn't always an easy fix. Be prepared by having a backup plan when the time comes. We'd suggest having extra paper copies of assignments/lessons available and all items stored to a cloud-based software, so students can access items later if need be.
Be prepared for the school year ahead, with tips from MicroK12 you'll feel confident and ready to mold your students minds with amazing new technology.
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Protect Your Rights: No Forced Arbitration
At Leopold & Associates, we represent families fighting for their rights against insurance companies and other corporations who have caused injury or other harm. The cornerstone of our American system of civil justice is the idea that any person who feels that have been wronged can file a lawsuit in a court of law and have that suit heard by a jury of their peers. However, over the last decade, billion-dollar corporations have been making it harder for consumers to have their day in Court through a process known as arbitration.
A recent study by the University of California Davis Law School found that 81 of the largest 100 corporations in America stick legal clauses in the fine print of their customer agreements that bar customers from suing the company in Court if a dispute arises. Instead, consumers are forced into out of court arbitration where a single arbitrator, often picked by the company, can decide everything from whether a consumer can be compensated for a terrible injury caused by a defective product to whether an employee can seek relief for unpaid wages or discrimination. Last month, the United States House of Representatives took the first step in banning this practice and ensuring people's rights to allow their disputes to be heard before a court and a jury.
What is Arbitration? Arbitration happens outside of the court system. The process is often secretive meaning there is no public court file and no judge to enforce rules of discovery or document production that is often vital to a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit. As Vox analyzes, instead of public hearings and the ability to compel witnesses to testify, Plaintiffs "likely have a few weeks to gather evidence and will be limited to one or two witnesses and one or two depositions." There is no subpoena power to require the corporation to turn over documents or produce witnesses and oftentimes, the arbitrator, who is generally picked and paid for by the company, decides what burden of proof the Plaintiff must meet.
The results are big victories for corporate America. A Vox's analysis found that in employment dispute cases before the American Arbitration Association, workers received a monetary award in only 1.8% of cases. A study by Alexander Colvin at Cornell University found that employees who were able to litigate their disputes before a jury received ten times more compensation than employees forced to use arbitration. In arbitrated cases where a company was found to have wronged an employee, through discrimination, wage theft or sexual harassment, the public often has no idea of the company's behavior because the arbitration proceedings are not public. And in mandatory arbitration, the arbitrator's decision is final and not appealable. The justice system is shut out of the process.
Unfortunately, this unfair process is expanding. Many common disputes are now being ushered into mandatory arbitration. A large number of credit card agreements, mortgage companies, health insurance providers, student loan lenders, home protection service contracts and automobile purchases all require mandatory arbitration as a condition of the business agreement. As Congressman Jerry Nadler, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee told the Associated Press, arbitration is "a legal nightmare for millions of consumers… By burying a forced arbitration clause deep in the fine print of take-it-or-leave-it consumer and employment contracts, companies can evade the court system, where plaintiffs have far greater legal protections, and hide behind a one-sided process that is tilted in their favor,"
What is the FAIR Act? The Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal ("FAIR") Act attempts to reverse this trend. The Act prohibits "predispute arbitration agreements that force arbitration of future employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights disputes." Instead, it makes arbitration a purely voluntary process by which all parties must agree to bring their suits before an arbitrator. Without this mutual agreement, a plaintiff can bring a lawsuit in a civil court. Congressman Hank Johnson, who sponsored the bill hopes that this law will level the playing field for workers and consumers. In essence, everyone, regardless of income, class, or position of power can once again bring a case in a court of law if the person feels they have been wronged and have all of the important protections of the justice system applicable to them as they attempt to resolve their dispute.
The FAIR Act passed the House of Representatives on September 20, 2019 by a vote of 224-186. It now heads to the Republican controlled Senate where it is expected that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel will refuse to bring the bill to the floor for a vote. President Donald Trump has also signaled his fierce opposition to the bill. As the elections in 2020 approach, consider which candidates are fighting for workers and consumers and the kind of justice system that allows everyone to have a say. That is one of the most important ways we can make the justice system fair for all.


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Father of little Beniah who has multiple holes in his heart, has denied absconding with the N70m Nigerians raised for him.
Earlier today, there were reports that Mr Agoboye Monday might have absconded with the donations.
KBK who was amongst the many Nigerians that helped raised the money, had earlier today shared a post on his Instagram page, alleging that Mr Monday had cut him off since the N70m donations.This fueled specualtions he had absconded.
However, DaddyFreeze, who also helped raise funds for Beniah's surgery, had a video call with Mr Monday to clarify the issues.
Mr Monday and he denied absconding with the donations made. He said he chose to go lowkey for security reasons and that they are set to travel out of Nigeria as soon as possible. He also showed the passports he has procured for himself and his son. Mr Monday also said he had been busy with his wife who just gave birth on January 31st.


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Q: Can not execute CL Command (AS400 command) in PHP script I login to AS400 and go to QSHELL(STRQSH). After that I pasted the following command and run it in QSHELL
system "IVIEW/PRTDISTL APPNAME(MYJOBLOG) STMF(TEST_89.PDF) HOLD(*NO)"

It works. But when I execute the above command using PHP script as the follow
$cmd = "IVIEW/PRTDISTL APPNAME(MYJOBLOG) STMF(TEST_89.PDF) HOLD(*NO)";
$cmd = 'system "' . $cmd . '"';

$output = array();
exec ($cmd, $output , $retVal);

echo "return value code: " . $retVal;

It returns error code of 255. Please help me how to fix this issue. Thanks

A: Try the PHP Toolkit for i5/OS.  There is a older Redbook that describes it: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247327.pdf
An example from there:

<?php
/* Connect to server */
$conn = i5_connect("localhost", "PHPUSER", "MYPASSWORD");
if (!$conn)
die("
Connection using \"localhost\" with USERID and PASSWORD failed. Error
number =".i5_errno()." msg=".i5_errormsg())."
";
else
echo "
Connection using \"localhost\" with USERID and PASSWORD OK!
\n";
/* Call Retrieve Network Attributes command */
$ret = i5_command("rtvneta", array(), array("sysname" => "sysn", "lclnetid"=>"lclnet"));
if (!$ret) die("
rtvneta command failed. errno=".i5_errno()."
msg=".i5_errormsg());
print "
Results of \"rtvneta\" command

" ;
print "System Name : $sysn
" ;
print "Local Net ID : $lclnet
" ;
/* Close connection */
i5_close($conn);
?>

A: I see two pontential problems:

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*PHP runs in PASE, not in QShell. Try to manually run your call from QP2TERM.

*User rights. Make sure QTMHHTTP (or whatever user runs PHP) has the apropriate rights to the program you try to call.

You can check for further information in stdout, which you should have in $output, and your PHP-server joblog as mentioned at IBM i information center (possibly needing the flag 'system -K').

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About Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, Tourism, Monuments, Attractions, Travel Tips, Shopping!
Shopping: Rameswaram silk sarees, decorative masterpieces and seashell-beads-palm leaf showpieces.
Agnitheertham is about 100 metres away from the temple of Ranganathaswamy. This is the place where Lord Rama worshipped Lord Shiva, to cleanse away the sins after killing the Ravana.
The ancient town of Ramanathapuram is the district headquarters of Rameshwaram. The Ram Vilas Palace of the Sethupati Rajas is a worth visiting place in Ramanathapuram. The oil portraits of the Rajas of the past centuries and the articulately designed ceilings and walls embellished with eighteenth century murals can be seen in this place. The meetings with the English to battle with the Marathas were also held at this place.
The Christian pilgrim centre, 60kms. From Ramnathpuram is the site of martyrdom of St. John De Britto, a Portuguese Jesuit better Known as 'Arul Anandar'. A fine church here enshrines a statue of Arul Anandar.
An ancient Shiva temple here enshrines the image of the presiding deity carved in emerald. Arudhra festival celebrated there in February – March every year attracts a large number of devotees.
Lord Rama is said to have worshipped the 'Navagrahas' at this coastal village. Hindus perform religious rites for their ancestors over here.
It lies to the west of Pamban Bridge, about 4 kms. from Mandapa. The Marine Biosphere here is a 'paradise' for the marine biologists and nature lovers.
Rameshwaram Setu is located about 5 km south of the Ranganathaswamy temple. This is the place where the Lord Rama built the bridge across the sea to bring his consort, Sita back from Ravana, the king of Lanka. There is also a temple of Sri Anjaneya. In Devipatnam, or Navapashanam, also by the sea, there are nine stones visible at low tide. It is believed that they were set up by Sri Rama to represent the nine planets, the Navagrahas.
The nearest airport is located at Madurai, about 173 kms away.


As the sheriff of Hamilton County, I take my responsibility to impartially protect and serve all the citizens of our nine municipalities as well as the unincorporated areas very seriously. Also, I respect the good work and service of the NAACP and all the leaders of our multicultural community in their efforts to achieve equality and dignity for all our citizens. Indeed, we are a diverse community with great opportunities for all of us in the years to come. To achieve the proper empathy and relationship between us, we need each other. To feel secure, challenged and encouraged by these opportunities, we need each other.
Safety and security is the chief aim of all law enforcement with regard to providing a healthy and wholesome environment where each individual might prosper and excel. As sheriff, I am committed to protecting the lives of those who wear both the star and shield and to all the citizens under my jurisdiction. With a population of over 333,000 and more than 1,500 law enforcement officers in Hamilton County, this is no small task. In 2011, 164 law enforcement officers in the United States lost their lives in the line of duty, including one of our own here in Chattanooga, Sergeant Tim Chapin. A good number of those deaths were caused by young people.
Gangs have become a scourge to our own county as well, and while the bulk of the problem lies within the city of Chattanooga, it is becoming a regional problem as gang members try to spread into the areas surrounding the city. We must take a hard-line approach to this problem. One way to approach this is with the new gang task force, the Chattanooga Area Gang Enforcement (C.A.G.E.), which is comprised of personnel from local law enforcement and lead by Boyd Patterson from our D.A.'s office. He is the right man for the job.
I would like to clearly state that I am for a sensible and unbiased approach to assisting our youth to becoming productive citizens. An example of this is my new law enforcement approach to reaching at-risk, inner-city youth in the second to fourth grades, before they are recruited into the gang and delinquent culture. These types of programs require working not only with these young people but with their parents as well. Also, faith-based initiatives and some current ongoing programs can provide positive opportunities to help secure a bright future for our next generation of young people. I am calling on these group's leadership and involvement-now.
Let there be no misunderstanding, however; I am committed to a no-nonsense, no lip-service, and non-political rhetoric approach to peace and security for our officers and for all our citizens. To that end, law enforcement officers WILL stand in the gap between good and evil and protect the good citizens of Hamilton County. To that end, the good citizens of Hamilton County MUST take a strong stand against the gang problem- now.