I am new to CZ and shooting my SP 01 in a match for the second time.
I am using the factory rubber grips and I have oversized hands/fingers.
I can bust through the fingers of 2XL thin leather gloves. I am not able to put any support hand touching the grip frame as my primary fingers cover the majority of the grip and so my support hands grips the top of my primary hand.
In a match today (100 degree temp), when I went to do my first mag change......my fingers felt stuck to the rubber panel when I tried to reposition the grip to depress the mag release.
I like the way the rubber panels grip but it slowed me down as it took extra second(s) to get my hand unstuck.
Is there any big hand CZ SP 01 (or similar) shooters out there and your preference on grip.
I don't want to start spending $75+ on a guess.
I like Pachmyers on my 1911 but the CZ rubber has a lot more stickiness than Pacs.
I like the read on LOK palm swells but know nothing about them.
The plaque for the alternates is in the ladies room.
I can't say what will work for your hand size, but the LOK Bogies with the palm swell are not "sticky" in out 100+ degree weather in South Texas. I had to switch back to the LOK flat grips with my short finger reach. The texture is aggressive and actually feels almost soft to me. There is notch cut for the mag release. I shot a match today and was soaking wet with sweat.
Wait for someone with big hands to reply, but I like them after years of using thin aluminum grips with grip tape. No tape is needed with these---for me.
thanks 1SOW, I will wait but just to confirm the grips you use..
I have long fingers but they are skinny. For a quick fix put some of the plastic ones that come on a regular 75 model. I don't have mine out of the safe right now but I imagine that would work for the hot day issue. If they do fit I bet someone on here has a bunch of them from when they put on custom grips.
I had a very solid grip and it may have caught me off guard because I shift the gun in my hand on mag changes (whether 19.. or Gl... or whatever) and I did the same here, but it felt stuck to my hand.
It did not happen again after that first time and since this is only my third time shooting CZ (twice with my SP01)....it may be something I will get used to using factory rubber.
My gun came with VZs, while they felt ok......the rubbers felt better to me and I sold them to a CZ co-worker.
I still want to know preference grips for BIG HANDS.
if I see a set of plastics.....I may grab them just to try!
For me, the plastics that came with my 75B were slippery. It' what started my search for grips a long time back.
Bought a set of the LOK, palm swell G-10's last week. $75 but worth it.
I have large hands, I wore size 12 flight gloves in the Military and I'd push my middle finger through them in a few months. The LOK grips fit me very well on my 75B. I'd suggest giving them a try. You could always sell them here pretty easily.
I have seen Hogue wrap around grips that have the finger groves along the front strap. They don't cost that much and that will make the frame feel thicker.
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
I had the wrap around grips on my SP-01 but I was doing hand transitions and sure enough my hand would get stuck on occasion when doing hand switching and when doing reloads (I do social finger reloads because I'm a lefty). I switched to LOK Palm Swell Bogies and love them. I have XL hands and grip the pistol hard.
Email LOK. They will make a set of Bogies up to 1/16" oversized. No additional charge either.


In the last few years, prescription drug abuse has been a growing trend among celebrities, young adults and teens. Many think that these drugs are safer because they are from a doctor, but that is not always the case.
When prescription drugs are taken in improper doses, combined with other medications or alcohol or used by someone to whom they were not prescribed, it qualifies as prescription drug abuse.
Prescription drug abuse can cause addiction and sometimes even death.
What are the most commonly used over-the-couter and prescription drugs?
Pain relievers, also known as opioids, central nervous system depressants and stimulants are the most commonly abused prescription drugs. Some of these include OxyContin, Vicodin, Xanax, Valium, Concerta and Adderall.
OTC, drugs you can by at the store, can also be abused. DXM (dextromethorphan), the active cough suppressant found in many OTC cough and cold medications, is one example. It is sometimes abused to get high, which requires larger does than recommended on the package that can be dangerous.
NIDA for teens has a great page that shows the most commonly used prescription and OTC drugs and their street names.
Prescription drugs are abused differently and to different extremes. Some people take other people's medications and use them to relieve pain, fall asleep or to focus. Others take them to get high by taking larger doses than prescribed or by snorting or injecting them.
This poses a problem because taking others medication or using your own inappropriately can cause problems.
Form and dose: Doctors know how long it takes for a pill or capsule to dissolve in the stomach, release drugs into the bloodstream and reach the brain. They also take into account other factors like a person's weight and the length of time they have been taking the drug. When people take prescription drugs they often take inappropriate amounts, or they take them through inappropriate forms, risking overdose and death.
Side effects: Most people know that medications come with side effects. What people forget is how these side effects can harm the body when the drug is used inappropriately or in conjunction with other drugs. These drugs can be especially dangerous when mixed with alcohol. For example, many people mix alcohol with drugs like Valium. Both of these slow breathing. When taken together, they could cause a person to stop breathing all together, possibly resulting in death.
Addiction: Medications that affect the brain can change the way it functions, especially when taken in improper doses. The reason it does not affect those it is prescribed to is because it is being given in regulated doses in order to compensate for a problem, which makes the person feel better. For someone abusing the drug, that is not the case. Abusing prescription drugs can alter the brain's reward system, making it hard to resist cravings for the drug. This is the same thing that happens to illicit drug users.
Withdrawal: Taking drugs repeatedly over time can cause changes in the brain and in the body, resulting in physical dependence. This is different from addiction because your body shows physical symptoms. Withdrawal sometimes happens to people who are prescribed drugs, so that is why it is important to have doctor supervision when you start or stop taking prescription drugs. Withdrawal symptoms depend on the drug itself.


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Kaze: To (and from) His Coy Mistress
by Kaze | Nov 23, 2009
Today, from our Department of Unsung Treasures, a new discovery.
Just how tickled you'll be to hear about it will depend on your familiarity with the English poet Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," which has been bringing saucy smiles to readers' faces for the past, oh, 300 years. It's the poem that begins:
"Had we but world
enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady,
were no crime . . . "
. . . followed by a young man's attempt to persuade a young woman, by way of logic mainly, to seize the day. Since youth is fleeting, he argues, and since we're all going to be dead someday, let's you and I go to bed while we can. After all:
"The grave's a fine and quiet place
But none, I think, do there embrace."
Maybe you remember all his metaphysical palaver, the quicksilver couplets, deployed in service of what is, let's face it, a pretty commonplace male objective. Here's the full text, and here's a set of 11 recordings. (My favorite is #7, by Kara Shallenberg.)
"To His Coy Mistress" is brilliant and as charming as all get-out, and by the time it's over we're thinking: maybe this guy's got a shot. Some women go for smarts. But since we don't get to hear the lady's answer, we never find out.
So what's today's discovery? Just this: A poem exists in which she replies! It's called "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell," by A. D. Hope, who assumes the lady's point of view and, with wit to match Marvell's, takes the would-be suitor down a peg. Listen to it here.
Is she impressed by his argument?
"Since you have world enough and time
Sir, to admonish me in rhyme,
Pray Mr Marvell, can it be
You think to have persuaded me?
Then let me say: you want the art
To woo, much less to win my heart.
The verse was splendid, all admit,
And, sir, you have a pretty wit.
All that indeed your poem lacked
Was logic, modesty, and tact,
Slight faults and ones to which I own,
Your sex is generally prone;
But though you lose your labour, I
Shall not refuse you a reply."
I like A. D. Hope's audacious idea for this poem and I like his wit, as well as the fact that he's taken Marvell's poem and created a story with two live characters, not just one. Yet I confess I'm a little disappointed that the young lady turns out to be rather prim:
"May I suggest, before we part,
The best way to a woman's heart
Is to be modest, candid, true;
Tell her you love and show you do."
Had Andrew Marvell been born a few centuries later, he might have roared up in front of her porch and sung:
" . . . I'm no hero, that's understood -
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this
dirty hood -
With a chance to make it good somehow,
Hey, what else can we do now
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow
back your hair -
Well, the night's bustin' open, these two lanes will
take us anywhere.
We got one last chance to make it real,
To trade in these wings on some wheels -
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the
track . . . "
But A.D. Hope gives us a lass who's inclined not to fall for this seize the day stuff, whether it's Andrew Marvell or the Boss who's making the case. Can't help it, but I kind of wish it had gone otherwise.
Alec Derwent Hope (1907-2000) was a notable Australian poet and essayist who made a mark here in the States but today is all but forgotten. Just try fi
nding a copy of his A Book of Answers, in which "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell" first appeared. I found mine online at a book shop in Eaglemont, VIC, Australia, called–rather appropriately–the Grisly Wife.
The painting is the Comtesse d'Haussonville, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, in the Frick collection. The portrait of Andrew Marvell is from the Granger Collection, New York. The shot of the Boss is uncredited.
Department: Views & Reviews
tags: a.d. hope, andrew marvell, bruce springsteen, department of unsung treasures, his mistress to mr. marvell, kaze, poetry, steve altman, the boss, to his coy mistress
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3 Responses to Kaze: To (and from) His Coy Mistress
Washington Buckeye Nov 24, 2009 at 10:17 am
Bravo, A.D. Hope. I noticed a subtle difference between the text as written ("stampede us into bed") and as read ("stampede us to your bed"). Am inclined to treat the latter as authoritative.
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Listed below are the dates and locations when free portrait sessions will be available to new Eagle Scouts and their parents. Pick the date and location you want by clicking on the appropriate blue button. Then on the displayed pop-up pages enter your email address, copy the code word, and click on the "register" button. An email will be sent to you with a secure link. Click on the link in the email and a web page will be displayed where you can enter the appropriate information and pick your session time. The regular cost for these portrait sessions is covered by our studio as a gift to Scouts who have earned their Eagle rank. Photo print packages will be available for purchase but no purchase is required. Eagle Scout portrait sessions must be scheduled on-line through this scheduling system. Eagle Scout sessions are not scheduled via telephone or email. Reservation cut-off for all Eagle Scout Portrait Session days is 5:00 p.m. on the day before the session. Any changes after that point will have to be done by sending a message via email or using the "Contact Us" webpage.
We were recently notified at the first of the year that our landlord will be doing construction on the building that houses our studio. We are currently looking for a new studio location. Currently we are still in our old space until the reconstruction starts.
If you wish to schedule a private portrait session either in a studio or at a specific location, please contact us for available times and session costs.
If you are a unit or district that wishes to schedule a session at a location, day, or time other than those listed above, arrangements can be made. These additional sessions would require both a minimum of 20 Eagle Scouts to be photographed and a print package to be purchased for each Eagle photographed.
If you have to change the time or date you have scheduled, that is understandable. Just go back to the session confirmation page and indicate that you will not be attending this date and then choose another. Or send a message through the "Contact Us" page of this site. However, if you miss a session without prior notice, you will be charged a normal portrait session sitting fee when you do later come in for your Eagle Scout Portrait session.


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import os, sys
# from armchair biology blog (now implemented in biopython)
from KGML_parser import read
from KGML_vis import KGMLCanvas
from KGML_scrape import retrieve_kgml_to_file, retrieve_KEGG_pathway
import argparse
import pandas as pd
############################
psr = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Color KEGG maps with the Kegg Orthology entries that exist in your annotated transcriptome. Optional: color up/down-regulated genes red/blue")
# kegg pathway name
psr.add_argument('--path',help='Kegg Pathway Name', dest="path")
# folder for map output
psr.add_argument('--output',help='name of output folder', default = './', dest="outDir")
# transcriptome KO (for just presence/absence)
psr.add_argument('--transcriptomeKO', help='Transcriptome Kegg Orthology', dest='transKO')
# upregulated KO
psr.add_argument('--upReg', help='OPTIONAL: upregulated KO', nargs='?', default=None, dest= 'upKO')
# downregulated KO
psr.add_argument('--downReg', help='OPTIONAL: downregulated KO', nargs='?', default=None, dest= 'downKO')
##############################
args = psr.parse_args()
##############################
if not os.path.exists(args.outDir):
    os.makedirs(args.outDir)

pathway = retrieve_KEGG_pathway(args.path) #pathway of interest

def readKOFile(koFile, keggPath):
    pd_annot_table = pd.io.parsers.read_table(koFile, header=0, sep='\t')
    koList = pd_annot_table['Kegg_Orthology']
    koList = ['ko:' + s for s in koList]
#    import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
    '''
    with open(koFile, 'r') as koF:
        for line in koF:
            path = 'ko:' + line.rstrip()
            koList.append(path)
    koF.close()
    '''
    entryList = [e for e in keggPath.entries.values() if len(set(e.name.split()).intersection(koList))]
    return set(entryList)

def colorMapItems(geneSet, color, width):
    for e in geneSet:
        for g in e.graphics:
            if g.type == 'line':
                g.fgcolor = color
                g.width = width
                g.bgcolor = color

#main
knownKOSet = readKOFile(args.transKO, pathway)
enhanceSet = knownKOSet
if args.upKO != None:
    upKOSet = readKOFile(args.upKO, pathway)
    enhanceSet.update(upKOSet)
if args.downKO != None:
    downKOSet = readKOFile(args.downKO, pathway)
    enhanceSet.update(downKOSet)

notDE = set([e for e in pathway.orthologs if not len(set(e.name.split()).intersection(enhanceSet))])
#non_de_list = [e for e in pathway.entries.values() if not len(set(e.name.split()).intersection(enhanceSet)) and e.type != 'map']
#notDE = set(non_de_list)

kgml_map = KGMLCanvas(pathway, show_maps=True)
kgml_map.import_imagemap = True  # turn this off to allow all elements to go gray!
kgml_map.show_maps = False
kgml_map.show_orthologs = False
kgml_map.draw_relations = False
kgml_map.show_compounds = False
kgml_map.show_genes = False

os.chdir(args.outDir)

colorMapItems(notDE,'#D3D3D3', 1)
colorMapItems(knownKOSet,'#666666', 10)
koInMap = open(args.path + '_KO.txt', 'w')

for k in knownKOSet:
    koInMap.write(k.name + '\t' + 'present' + '\n')

if args.upKO != None:
    colorMapItems(upKOSet,'#FF0000', 10)
    for k in upKOSet:
        koInMap.write(k.name + '\t' + 'upregulated' + '\n')
if args.downKO != None:
    colorMapItems(downKOSet,'#0000FF', 10)
    for k in downKOSet:
        koInMap.write(k.name + '\t' + 'downregulated' + '\n')

koInMap.close()

# And rendering elements as an overlay
kgml_map.show_compounds = True
kgml_map.show_genes = True
kgml_map.show_orthologs = True
#kgml_map.draw_relations = True

kgml_map.draw(args.path + '.pdf')

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It'll make you nostalgic for lost love, even if you've always been a single cat lady.
The All Ireland Scarecrow Championship and Fleet Foxes in Co Waterford, your weekend plans sorted.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been accused of mass murder.
Liverpool take on the German side in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final tomorrow night.
The country made its latest loan repayment today – but more trouble lies ahead.
They will develop tourist trails, build wind farms and explore using green energy to power electricity stations.


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Latin America News Dispatch
Mexican Federal Police in Ciudad Juárez. Photo by Jesús Villaseca Pérez
Mexico, News Briefs
Ciudad Juárez Needs College Grads To Clean Up Police Force, Chihuahua Governor Says
May 11, 2011 By Andrew OReilly
The governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua put out a call Monday to young professionals and college graduates to join the police forces of Ciudad Juárez and other towns in the state that have been riddled with corruption and drug cartel influence in the past few years.
Chihuahua governor César Duarte, along with Federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro García Luna, established a strategy to draw more young professionals into the law enforcement and criminal investigation ranks. One part of the strategy is upping the pay grade for university students from 12,000 to 15,000 pesos.
Police work open to the new recruits encompasses everything from "preventative police, investigative, public ministers or forensic specialists, " Duarte said.
The new strategy hopes to draw in 2,100 college students into Ciudad Juárez's police force alone, according to García Luna.
Monday's announcement coincided with a statement by Duarte denying that there was friction between federal and local governments. He said that during Monday's meetings the state and federal governments agreed on plans to help the Juárez's administration and would supply 100 patrol cars for police use.
It was also agreed to in the meetings that the federal government would take over control of Chihuahua's state run rehab center in Ciudad Juárez.
Drug violence continues to plague Juárez, which lays directly across the border from El Paso, Texas where U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on Tuesday. Between 2007 and 2010 the Juárez and Sinaloa Cartels battled for control of the city, with the Associated Press reporting that in April of 2010 the Sinaloa Cartel took control of the city.
However, the continuing violence in the city and testimony's from from local residents – who claim to pay monthly extortion fees to the Juárez Cartel – suggest that the war is still on.
Gunmen killed seven people in Juárez on Tuesday in separate incidents.
Photo: Jesús Villaseca Pérez @ Flickr.
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William Jolly joined Savings.com.au as a Financial Journalist in 2018, after spending two years at financial research firm Canstar. In William's articles, you're likely to find complex financial topics and products broken down into everyday language. He is deeply passionate about improving the financial literacy of Australians and providing them with resources on how to save money in their everyday lives.
RAMS the latest casualty of savings account rate cuts
RAMS' high-interest Saver Account is the latest in a growing line of savings accounts to have its interest rate cut, following the Reserve Bank's decision to cut the cash rate earlier in June.
Banks vs credit unions vs non-banks: what's the difference?
Not all banks are created equal. There can be a distinct difference between banking with a big four behemoth like CommBank compared to, say, an online-only non-bank lender, or a not-for-profit community bank in a surfing village.
Qantas announces major changes to its frequent flyer program
Qantas has just announced the "biggest overhaul to the airline's loyalty program in its 32-year history", adding a million more seats and slashing the number of points needed for select flights.
How much is stamp duty when buying a car?
Also known as motor vehicle duty, or registration duty, stamp duty is payable on all new and used cars. Here we'll explain what it is and how much it can cost.
ME Bank, Loans.com.au, UBank and others cut fixed home loan rates
In addition to the many variable home loan rate cuts seen in the wake of the Reserve Bank's decision to lower the cash rate, a number of lenders have also made big rate reductions to fixed home loan rates.
ING cuts max interest rate on its Savings Maximiser account to 2.55%
The ING Savings Maximiser savings account – popular among readers of the Barefoot Investor – has had its maximum interest rate lowered by 25 basis points to 2.55% per annum.
Loans.com.au offering its lowest ever car loan interest rate
Following the Reserve Bank's cash rate cut last week, online lender loans.com.au has lowered car loan interest rates by 45 basis points, taking one of its car loans down to its lowest ever rate.
Aussies not abandoning their credit and debit cards just yet
The number of purchases made on both credit cards and debit cards has increased in recent months, according to data from Australia's central bank.
Vast majority of Australians still think housing affordability is a big issue
Nearly nine in 10 Australians still think housing affordability is a big issue in Australia despite recent falls in median house prices.
Who's passed on the RBA rate cut to term deposits?
With Australia's central bank cutting interest rates this week, much of the focus has been on home loan rates – but plenty of institutions have been quietly moving term deposit rates too, and not all of them have been cuts either.


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Hopkinton Today
Hopkinton Today: Wednesday, Dec. 2
Good morning, Hopkinton! Welcome to the daily update we call Hopkinton Today — a quick recap of yesterday's news, highlights of what's on tap, and a video or two to brighten your morning.
During the continuation of its debate about whether or not to adopt the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) pledge to address systemic racism, the Select Board on Tuesday agreed that members of the town's public safety departments — most notably the Police Department — should first be invited to share their views. "I have heard directly from members of our police force: 'If you sign that thing, that's BS,' " Select Board member Brian Herr said. "I've heard that. So let's not go there."
Hopkinton health director Shaun McAuliffe, during his COVID-19 update at Tuesday night's Select Board meeting, said the town is up to 47 active cases, as the number continues to rise dramatically. "I don't think it's any surprise that we've seen an incredible surge over the last two months," he said. "We're seeing significant increases every day. … We've seen 23 new cases since last Wednesday."
Monday's storm left its mark on Hopkinton, and on Tuesday crews were busy starting the cleanup process. We have photos of the damage around town.
Town committee meetings today include the Council on Aging (1 p.m.), Growth Study Committee (7) and Youth Commission (7). And the School Committee will have office hours from 7-8 p.m.
Photo of the Day: A Christmas display on Hayden Rowe Street shows the effects of Monday's storm.
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Princess V55
Home / Yachts For Sale / New Yachts For Sale / Princess Yachts / V55
Heart of the V-Class
The all-new Princess V55 nestles in the heart of the V Class, recently expanded with four new models as well as the existing V40. Delivering on a clear brief for the modern sports yacht owner, the new V55 is dynamic, athletic and luxurious.
The striking all-new V55 features a sleek and dynamic exterior profile coupled with intelligent use of space and all the exceptional performance qualities synonymous with our V Class range. Her main deck has been purposely designed for those who enjoy true open-boating.
The V55 will appeal to V Class loyalists potentially looking for a step up in size and performance, as well as new Princess customers searching for elegance and purity of purpose. The all-new Princess deep-V resin-infused hull of the V55 not only provides a smoother, more efficient ride but also creates more space below deck, with design features making use of every remote corner. Complementing this, there are two powerful Volvo D13 engines that deliver up to 2,000mhp with a top speed of up to 37 knots, ensuring a thrilling ride.
Clearly, distinct of the V Class range is the clear sweeping lines, accentuated by the panoramic knife-shaped hull windows drawing in natural light and opening the interior out to the world around. The dynamic profile of the V55 reveals a spacious interior, perfect for relaxing or making longer journeys in ultimate comfort. Access to the interior is via the hydraulic bathing platform, leading to a teak deck that runs throughout the living area.
The cockpit connects to the main saloon through a cleverly concealed drop-down sliding patio door, seamlessly integrating both living areas. Plus, with the electric opening sunroof over the main deck, you can truly open yourself up to the elements. The expansive cockpit features a large L-shaped seating area with additional seating aft around a substantial folding teak table served by a wetbar opposite with electric barbecue. Her main deck also boasts a large sunpad located aft of the cockpit and a further foredeck seating and sunbathing area.
Below deck, there is spacious accommodation for up to six guests across three beautifully appointed cabins, including an impressive full-beam master stateroom with a large double bed. All thanks to the space created within the resin-infused deep-V hull of this craft.
The V55 has been designed for owners who wish to spend more of their time above deck, getting in touch with the world around them and truly experiencing what a sports yacht has to offer. Combining the similar meticulous and luxurious design details we have seen in previous Princess models with new technology, design features, and engineering, the all-new Princess V55 holds its own as the heart and soul of the V Class.
V55 specifications
4' 7" (1.40m)
581 Gal 2,200 L
15' 3" (4.65m)


no more sleeping on a bag filled with hay and twigs!
I just want to remember my last sleepless night on this lumpy sad excuse for a bed.
This has been a long week waiting. We bought the mattress on Monday, and couldn't have delivery until Saturday. Not entirely Jordan's fault, but they do TELL you when they will come, and then they GIVE you the 4 hour window, so since we couldn't pick, Saturday it is. The 4 hour window that Barry gave us through his recorded message is 7am - 11am...so we are getting up EARLY!!! It's okay tho, cause chances are we won't be sleeping too well anyway.
Tomorrow is a big day for us!
I bought new sheets...QUEENSIZE sheets....and new curtains for the windows that match...heeheee, I am giddy. I even got a bedskirt.
jealous, jealous, jealous.... but i think i told you that already!
We'll have to have you over for a nap on the new mattress...heehee.


Riding up to Grissel, Horthol scowled as he gave his message to her from Madrak, "He asks to you take your force as quickly as you can to the other side of the plains. If we can get there quickly we can secure a cache of supplies and weapons deposited there by some Circle of Orbos folk as they moved on. It is rumored there are some relics of great power among them..." Grissel frowned, "You know that means we will likely encounter many groups of Warcasters and Warlocks looking for them as well right?" Horthol knew the truth as well as she did, this would be a dangerous mission.
I went into the shop an hour before the tournament started and showed the shop owner my three escalation lists, rMadrak to eMadrak, Grissel and Grim. I just could not decide which to bring and so the shop owner rolled a D3 and came up with Grissel.
He gambled on his list and it nearly paid off.
Our Terrain was a small forest on the left side of each of our deployment areas and a huge fargin rough terrain hill that got up to 3" high in the middle. I rolled highest and opted to deploy and go first.
Trolls - I decided on the left side of the hill and deployed there.
Khador - He deployed almost right in the middle of his side.
As Horthol rode off to gather up some reinforcements Grissel, a Slag Troll, her favorite Pyre Troll, and the Mauler that was indeed smart for a Dire went off to claim this 'cache' for Madrak. It didn't take long for them to encounter a dimiutive Warcaster from Khador with a Particularly battle work jack by her side.
Trolls - Everything moved up 10"
Khador - He advanced forward with Beast and left Sorscha moving forward a hair but staying behind Beast in his Deployment zone.
Trolls - I feated and ran everything and made a huge mistake. I got the Mauler and the Pyre into Melee range of Beast. My Slag went straight towards the forest on the edge closest to Beast. and Grissel went for the forest left behind the slag barely putting my other two beasts in her control.
Khador - He moves Sorscha up to the hill base in between the Pyre and Slag and feats, also casting the spell that makes her def a ton against ranged. Beast moves back on the Mauler and Pyre to get out of thier melee and threshers hurting them both.
Sorscha was indeed suprised at the speed in which the Troll woman and he beasts set upon her, she had no doubt at all that Beast-09 could handle the two that were on him. She sneered at Grissel, "you will feel the bite of cold steel, or run for you life when I am through with you."
Trolls - Since Grissel can still use her calls while stationary I use cacophony taking away all of Sorschas spells. I try to zing a spell at Sorscha (he says I can still cast them while stationary) but cannot hit her high def.
Khador - Beast takes the Mauler and Pyre apart then Sorscha goes after the Slag for the win. She manages to make him stationary with a crit but cannot finish him off.
Still angry and even a little despondant from going on this mission in the first place, Grissel had little patience left for the cocky human in front of her. The woman looked suprised first that she couldn't focus enough to freeze her again, then more suprised again that the Slag Troll was able to brush off her attack. Grissel rushed into the Khadorian weilding her hammer and with a battle cry bashed in her head.
Trolls - Grissel charges Sorscha hitting the charge and the last attack ending her.
I found myself facing Menite Jon from Lost Hemisphere and his Harby list.
My Grissel list I decided to add only five more model to bring me to 500 keeping her feat and my mobility in mind.
The Harbringer was a little afraid to face this Troll woman that had caused so much trouble for the PKA. She was confident in her ability to destry her though, and set out to pin her army between the lone farmhouse and one of the walls near it.
Our Terrain was a 4x6" farm right in the middle with a low wall on the right side and a few inches up from each of our deployment zones. I rolled highest and once again opted to go first.
Trolls - I Spread the Longriders out from the middle to the right with Horthol going up the table edge. The Mauler took the gap between the farm and the Wall with my two lights and Grissel right behind the wall.
Menoth - H&A deploy across from Horthol. The Paladins directly across form my wall and a wrack on the empty side of the farm house to prevent me from circling around it with my LR and flanking him. His jacks deployed across from the Mauler with Harby behind them with Doc and the Heirophant behind her.
Trolls - Each LR went forward 7", the Mauler ran straight up 10" and the lights and Grissel hit the left edge of the wall in front of me and I was done.
Khador - His wholy army pretty much did the same moving up about 4".
Horthol rejoined the fight with Grissel along with a few Longriders, "More is on its way but I fear they will not be here to help us in this fight." Horthol reported. Grissel shook off her weariness and sang to her Trolls wathching them all sprint accross the field catching the young floating woman and her army before they could prepare a charge of their own.
Trolls - Grissel Advanced 6" forward and feated. Mauler runs and hoofs it to engage the Reckoner. The LR run up and hoof it two of them get around and behind to engage harby, one gets behind the Paladins and engages them and the Leader puts himself behind A&H, Horthol runs with them and puts himself behind the Paladins and the Reckoner. The two light beasts take up positions in front of Grissel by about 1".
Her suprise at the speed in which the nomally slow Trolls caught up to her was short lived. She reacted by blowing apart the ones nearest to her with a cataclysm of holy fire. She then used her connection to her jacks to have them mop up what she had not finished already.
Khador - So I didn't know about Harby's Spell cataclysm, it friggin rocks. He takes out the two closest Longriders with it. A paladin turns to hit Horthol and dies to a Free Strike from a LR now behind him, but the other pally hits him for a litte. The FoS finishes off Horthol, the Reckoner takes down another LR and Holt pins the leader down.
Trolls - Aiyana dies a horrible death and that LR is done. Grissel Rages the Mauler and the Slag Troll then takes away the spells via Cacophony from Harby. The Mauler then throws the Reckoner into Harby knocking the Reckoner down and getting a PS15 off on the Harbster, the Mauler proceeds to beat up the Reckoner leaving it with a coule points in movent and cortex. Slaggy beats the FoS pretty good too leaving it armless as well. The Pyre Troll then burns the Paladin to Ash.
Power flowing through her she reacted instantly to each new threat and dealt with it, but for some reason the Troll witch's song made it to hard for her to concentrate on spell casting. Unable to rely on spellcasting she moved in on the big troll to deal with it herself, which she did easily, slicing it to piecies with a grace and power that defied her size and age.
Khador - Holt tried again to pin down the LR who could have a lane to Harby but acutally misses one attack. Harby moves around to take out the Mauler which she easily does, with no spells though she is finished with her activation. He bashes the Slag for some damage and is done.
Though the small female's performance against her Mauler was impressive Grissel's fuse had grown shorter still. Leaning over to the Pyre Troll she held out her mace. The Troll grinned and spit on it covering it with burning pitch. Grissel once again let out a warcry that split the ears of those remaining on the battle field as she sent yet another human woman home with a headache they would remember each time they fought against her Kith and Kriel.
Trolls - Grissel once again takes matters into her own hands, the Pyre Troll gives her his animus and she charges Harby, hitting on the charge then missing a couple. One last attack to see if I can get her and Grissel rolls just enought to hit and then again just enough damage to box her.
Synopsis - Against Sorscha I really screwed up running both my beasts to base Beast09 when the Pyre Troll could have done the job himself hopefully giving the Mauler one more round of survivability.
Against Harby was a fun game, I almost lost it because I didn't know her very well, but once again getting up into their face with my feat finds my opponent in melee and makes it to hard for them to get the position they want allowing me to caster kill.
Round 3 and the last tourney finds me fighting to first place against Cryx and eDenny I think. That should be interesting for sure. I will take the camera for this game and have at least one pic per Troll turn for you.
Grissel found herself to be grouchy and angry at... she supposed it was the Hero that had showed off for her soo long. Why was he with Marak anyway? More importantly why did she care, though she longed for companionship, she knew in her heart she could not replace what she had lost. As she glowered looking for someone to take out her anger on one of Horthol's riders moved towards her, "We have found a gathering of Cryxian Witches worshipping, do we go around them?" Grissel almost smiled as she snapped at the rider, "Today we crush anyone who gets in our way."
Grissel vs The CoveN at 500 points, yet another prep game while our wives were off doing what they do. I rolled the highest and opted to go first. Our map looked something like this one.
Trolls - I spread my Longriders between the forest and hill with my beasts and Grissel behind the forest and Horthol on my far right.
Coven - He evenly spaced his nodes across the middle with Bile Thralls and the combine mixed in evenly behind them. He put his Coven on my left, with Orin and the Skarloc on my right. He Advance Deployed the Cankerworm up in the forest on his side.
Trolls - I moved up and to the left putting the four Longriders spread out diagonally in front of the forest using Hoof it to get where I wanted them. Grissel and the two lights went behind forest to my right while the Mauler did the same to my left. Horthol moved his normal movement straight up the right side.
Coven - He positioned his whole army similar to mine diagonally by his forest leaving them all about how he deployed them putting his prison right in front of my LR. He moved Orin out to flank on my right side. We pretty much positioned across from each other diagonally not doing much on Turn 1.
Their minds linked they acted as one, and had the same thought nearly at the same time, "She is ugly isn't she!" Cackling they began to prepare to sacrifice the ugly Troll woman and any of her companions they did not kill on accident.
Trolls - Grissel moves up to the right of the forest and feats hoofing it onto the hill. The Slag and Pyre move up in front of her. The Longriders run, then Hoof It engaging all of his nodes but the one on my far left. Horthol runs up to engage Orin. Mauler runs up the right wedging himself between two Longriders.
Coven - His puts Ghostwalk on the Biles and moves a them all out of melee and purges about half of them, putting corrosion on everything except the Mauler Horthol and my Far right LR. Then Sprays a few into the my left two LR. He moves the Cankerworm up to finish the one on the far left then scuttles back towards the forest. He then uses his node to blast the one next to it with a Sygian Abyss. He kinda messed up here moving all three witches but forgetting to finish spell casting. The Skarloc and Combine hurt the Mauler a little along with nearly killing the far right Longrider. Orin Zaps Grissel and my two light beasts for a few damage each.
Feeling the burn of the small human's lightning bolt only stung a little as Grissel took her rage out in the mind of the Pyre Troll. The beast really did seem to want to please Grissel in any way it could. Not even caring that Horthol was right next to him it moved up and belched fire right onto the human burning him to ash immediately. Horthol unhurt glared at the beast and then over to Grissel, who glared right back at him so hard that Horthol decided he would rather face the deadly Cryxian's than be caught in her gaze again.
Trolls - Pyre Troll moves up and shoots Orin. Grissel Heroic ballads the last two LR casts rage on the Mauler and +2 from the Pyre on the LR leader next to the Mauler. Slag Troll moves up and beans a bonejack taking out its node. The LR leader does the same thing to the bonejack in front of him while the other LR moves around his flank to try and hit a Wich, whom he misses. Horthol Charges in killing a combine member with a slam and uses followup to get in range of the Skarloc killing it as well. The Mauler Tramples a few Bile Thralls and ends up basing one of the Witches who he promptly eats.
Coven - He decides it time to go all or none for my caster who is sitting on two fury and has three beasts with roughly 50% or better health. He hits her with the last two combine members, then again with a few ranged attacks but cannot get the Cankerworm in close enough. He tosses a few Stygian Abysses at her with his last arcnode but misses one, that miss probably kept her alive as she had five wounds left and has just transferred to the Pyre leaving her with one fury. He then feats killing my los. After looking the board over instead of ending his turn he conceeds seeing that Grissel will take away the spells and that Horthol the Slag and the Mauler all have lanes to his two remaining witches.
Having to take solace in seeing the boils and burns all over the Troll wench would have to suffice as the remaining Witches retreated. Losing one of their sisters always seemed to give them headaches... of course there was always another willing to take their place when they fell. Training new Witches was nevertheless time consuming and frankly boring, they wondered how many would die before they found a suitable replacement. Killing that Troll wench would happen eventually, she might even make an excellent Thrall. Dispassionately they left with the Cankerworm leaving the rest of their army to perish, it mattered not, they would begin restoring what they had lost in short order.
Tournament practice for our Escalation tourney coming this Wednesday. We played saturday to make some last minute adjustments. Which is to say, which caster am I going to bring, Madrak or Grissel.
He rolled highest and opted to go first.
"Grand Exemplar," the Scenshal reported, "We have indeed found a large contingent of Trolls moving thorugh the lower marshes... Madrak himself is with them, I suggest we move to attack immediately while our presence in unkown to him."
PKA - He put one KE on each flank with the EE towards his left flank and Bastions towards his right flank with the rest of his army right in the middle.
TROLLS - Mulg Left, Mauler Right, and umm... you guys know the brick right? Eveything bunched up right in the middle with Champs up front.
PKA - His EE spread out towards my left and the KE run wide up each flank. Bastions move up towards my middle right and the Rocket jacks toss a few errant shots the rest of the main group heads up the middle. He puts upkeeps on everything, damage back to me on the fires and activation loss for killing crossbow dudes.
TROLLS - Champs run just to my right of the closest wall some even covering with it. Mulg takes the left Mauler take the right, Chronicler uses the first chapter of the left unit of Champs closest to the crossbow dudes. Everything else bunches up behind the wall of Champs. Maddy casts his upkeep and I finish by using the you can't move me and I am immune to bast damage aura then gobber smoke between crossbow dudes.
PKA - He shoots with is rocket jacks doing piddily, but his crossbow dudes manage to kill one Champ. His KE move to flank even more taking advantage of my grouping up and heading up the middle. His Bastions and Fires of Salavation end just outside of charge range and he is done. Rocket jacks shoot to no avail as the blast damage is useless against me. Admittedly some armies would just get destroyed by that barrage with rof3 each.
Madrak underestimated how much unrest his forces were, they were edgy and seemed to be reacting just a hair too slow. This was uncommon as he had the best of his Kriel with him today. With the grimness of death around him he began to issue orders, "Blood group go get those rockets, Death group core out the middle, we will leave the big Warjack to Mulg..."
TROLLS - My front line charges he Bastions and his Fires jack with one unit of Champs killing a bastion, the other unit running around the Fires to engage the shooty jacks. Madrak heads over and uses ricochet to plink a KE and the unit leader on the right side and uses a token to move 1" back into the brick. Mauler uses one kill to move 3" so he can now charge the rest of them. Hero moves up to absorb the counter attack from that side. Mulg also used the 3" movement to get a clear lane to the Fires and moves in hitting the first two attacks, whiffing the third and rolling under 4 on the last three leaving the Fires with his cortex and mace. Hero on the left Charges the Senschal and KE flanking to tie them up and gets the Scenschal good. KSB you can't move me aura and gobber smoke on the Bastions.
"They have taken the bait and are almost completely surrounded my lord though our left flank is collapsing," reported the runner from the Exemplar Errants. "Excute the manuever and destroy them," Kross smiled, he knew how tough Trolls were, but he had no doubt he could clease even their best from the world of the living today.
PKA - He feats, and the proceeds to kick the poop outta me. Seven Champions die the last one to Kreoss himself. There was even eight tough rolls in there but it didnt keep them alive at all. Mulg dies, the Mauler gets reduced to four wounds. Thats pretty much it, I have Stone Scribes two Heros way out of position, some gobbers and my Mauler left. He is still largely unhurt.
TROLLS - It's time to go for it, since it is clear I am done on the next turn, so I do. KSB pops the +2 Str aura, Mauler rages Madrak then Tramples his whole choir eating them all, healing up all but two wounds. Chronicler charges the Fires and finishes it off (yeah how about that, he actually did something). Madrak moves up as far as he can and throws at Kreoss with a PS20, boosting to hit and nailing him for nine or so damage, he then ricochets into the Heirophant killing him and getting a blood token. Madrak then feats, and proceeds to throw at Kreoss again killing him. (As I type this I am unsure of if his feat affects himself or not, I didn't think about it untill just now).
Seeing his units execute their ambush perfectly made Kreoss nod approvingly as he moved in to finish a Troll himself. These Trolls had gained a large repuation against his countrymen recently and he was happy to put them down for once.
Synopsis - He kicked my tail, and I got lucky pure and simple. This game reminded me why Madrak likes to bring an Impaler. Mulg is out, and Axer and Impaler are in.
Horthol rode into the small clearing to report to Grissel, "My patrol ran into one of the biggest denizon's of Everblight I have ever seen, it picked up one of the riders and ate him and his bison whole while we tried to escape. It is dangerous Grissel and the three headed beast comes right for us."
Last night I faced off against Typhon and Lylth. Needless to say, Typhon is a pig and scares my shorts off. We played 500pts, and the armies looked something like this.
Our Terrain had a large forest on the left side of the table closer to him. On my right side of the table there was a large rough terrain hill. I rolled highest and opted to deply and go first.
Trolls - I spread my LR about 4" apart in the middle left of the table with Grissel in between the right two, the Mauler and Slag spread in between the LR in the middle, Horthol back and left a little and the Pyre Troll behind Grissel.
Legion - His Seraph lined up behind the forest on his right side with the Carni in the middle and Typhon on his left middle side, the Shredders, Lylth and Shepard were behind the Carni.
Grissel thought she was even scared a little looking at what shew knew to be a Carnivean, those were bad enough until she looked over at the three headed monster with it. To make matters even worse a diminutive looking woman seemed to be in control of them meaning they had a Warlock to guide them. She found herself wishing for that Hero that had taking a liking to her, though she wasn't sure about his motives, he seemed to have a knack for taking out enemy leaders.
Trolls - I move my LR 7" straight forward keeping them spread out with Horthol 1 " behind the left two, my Mauler and Slag run 10", Grissel moves up regularly with the Pyre Troll right in front of her.
Legion - His Seraph hits the forest where I can't get to it, the shepard goes over to play with Typhon and the rest of his army walks up the middle waaaay out of range for me to charge him.
Trolls - Pyre Troll moves up to screen for Grissel, Grissel moves up behind him and Hoof Its the LR. LR run 14", then use Hoof it to move around him Putting one in melee with the shepard and just out of Typhons melee, another in melee with the shredders, one based with Lylth and the Leader back in counter charge range. Horthol runs up towards the forest and the Mauler and Slag move over closer to Grissel.
Legion - Typhon proceeds to throw the LR engaging his shredders but only rolls 1" so it doesn't hurt me, then proceeds to destroy the now KDed LR with spray attacks. All three shredders move around and paste the LR engaging Lylth putting their back to Grissel. His Carni charges Horthol making short work of him mounted, then does the same unmounted. Lylth hurts the LR engaging the Shepard a little and the Seraph wiffs his attack.
Lylth sneered over to the young Shepard, "Witness the might of Typhon and pray you do not get in the way or I allow him to do the things to you that are in his mind." The Shepard swallowed hard but steeled her resolve and stayed with the three headed beast to lend support to it when needed.
Trolls - Grissel moves up a little a feats, then casts rage on the Mauler and the LR leader, she shoots at the Shepard with her gun boosting to hit and gets her dead. The Pyre shoots at the shredders, misses and hits nothing on the deviation, so he runs crying back to Grissel. The Mauler moves up to the Carni and after pushing him to 4 fury kills him, he then hoofs it back towards Grissel. the last two LR slam Typhon using followup to lay down some pain, with rage on one of them they have just enough in them to paste Typhon. They then hoof it to engage the shredders and Lylth. The Slag runs into the forest and hoofs it towards the Seraph nearly getting to him.
Shepard, Carni, and Typhon all dead in one turn... "That'll do donkey, that'll do"
Legion - His shredders gang up on my LR, killing one but he tough rolls, they hurt the leader a little. Lylth feats moves away taking a free strike for 11 damage, hurts the LR leader for it but can't kill him. Seraph moves in on the Slag leaving one box in his spirit and body and his mind is unhurt. So here is where I noticed that Legion beasts are tough, but they don't have as many attacks as Trolls beasts, with 5 fury and two open fists my Dire Trolls really hurt enemy bigs.
Trolls - Pyre frenzies into a shredder pasting it. Grissel moves up to Heroic Ballard the LR. The Mauler rages the Slag and moves to block los to Grissel. The LR kill a shredder and leave the last one hurting. The Slag tries in vain to hurt the Seraph but only lands one good hit in for about 11 damage.
Legion - Seraph turns the Slag into goo. His Shredder kills the near dead LR twice, but he tough rolls twice. Lylth kills the LR leader but he toughs, she moves away towards the middle back.
Trolls - Grissel moves up to hit Lylth with Calamity but misses, she does Cacophony her though. Mauler and Pyre do some defensive posturing to keep Lylth from getting to Grissel and the LR try to take Lylth down... they don't.
"I have had enough of this Troll wench," Lylth muttered under her breath. "I will personally present her head to Everblight" She hefted her bow and let fly a deadly barrage of arrows watching them un-erringly catch the Troll Whore in the shoulder, and another buried itself in her ribs. Un-cannily the Troll turned to look at her with a look that made her shiver... for the first time this fight Lylth though she might have underestimated that Troll.
Legion - Lylth moves around to shoot a Grissel and gets her twice reducing her to three wounds. The Seraph moves in on the LR Leader killing him but he again tough rolls. Not sure I got them all in there right, but that is two tough rolls on the LR leader and four tough rolls on the other LR.
Watching Grissel snap the arrow hafts off, spit and then glower at the enemy caster, the Longrider felt a sense of Pride. He knew that from this day on he was Grissels man as he turned to charge into the ugly woman of Everblight.
Trolls - Grissel Heroic Ballads the LR, Pyre Troll uses his animus on the reg LR. The LR then Bull Rushes Lylth beating her face in.
Synopsis - Horthol's Cohort abilities are friggin awesome.
So the Trollblood forums of at Privateer Press regualarly post stats for models they wish would be released including a trio of Pygmy Troll Grim Angus Wanna Be's and a Light Troll Beast that can call down lightning.
I have always wanted a focus/fury caster, so I came up with one. Here is what I posted on the Privateer Press Forums a few days ago.
Old Champion Kithkar who lost his unit long ago do a particularly nasty Black Troll. As the Troll feasted on the remains of his comrades his mind connected with an old Dire Troll in the hills. Shortly before he lost conciousness he saw the form of an Earthborn carry him away. When he awoke he was alone and will never know why the Dire Troll saved him, but since then his Warlock potential was released. For a time he traveled kithless from clan to clan as a Hero performing what good deeds he could, but the nightmares of the Black Troll kept him on the move. As time passed he became absorbed with ridding the Iron Kingdoms of every evil menace he could, hopefully ending with the Troll responsible for killing his Troll Brothers. Early in his wanderings he hired on as Pirate mercenary and proved to be quite adept and ridding merchants of undesireables. As he sailed he immediately took an interest in the steamjacks that the merchants used. After years of picking up knowledge here and there he became Adept and fixing the jacks, being able to lift parts of them back into place with one hand to fix them he left his fellow human mercenarys in awe of his strength, though he never noticed how strong he had become. His devotion to his comrades always left them wanting to fight by his side. After the Skorne invasion he felt the tug to return to help the Trollbloods find peace but resisted for a time not wanting to leave the mercenary life and the jacks he had fixed over time. His mind was made up for him when the boat he was on was attacked by a Cryxian warship, he fought bravely but they were overrun and would all soon die when he stared at a Mule he had spent many hours working with and willed it to attack, it did by blowing up half the ship taking the Cryx with it. When the battle was over the ship was his but at a great cost, him and a small number of the humans with him, with that he took the ship to dock used all his savings to repair it and headed to his kith with everything in the cargo hold... it happened to be a delivery of steamjacks.
Celena Reyfall and her Nyss Hunters.
Fearsome - Enemy models in melee range must make a command check or flee.
Get em Boys - On a successful charge attack enemy Trollblood models in his command range gain +2 to Hit with melee or ranged attacks.
Mental Shift - Harmek may spend one Focus or Fury to make all remaining Focus or Fury become the same. Harmek can only do this once per round during the maintainance phase directly after leeching fury or gaining focus but before allocating focus.
*Note: Harmek cannot use Focus to Heal Warbeasts or Use Fury to Boost his jacks.
Courage of Friends Range 8 Cost 3 Upkeep - Target Unit gains +2 Def and Cannot be knocked down as long as they are in formation with each other. Effect lasts for one round.
Gale Force Range CNTRL Cost 3 - Harmek throws himself at his enemies with unnatural speed and vigor and gains boundless charge, The Ferocity of his attack gain him boosted attack dice for his first melee attack.
Tune-up Range 8 Cost FOCUS 1 - Harmek can repair d3 damage from any friendly warjack.
Beatial Protection Range 8 Cost Fury 2 - Target Warbeast gains counter-charge for one round against target enemy model that ends its movement within 6" of it or Harmek. Each model affected my Beastial Protection May only Counter-charge once per round.
FEAT: Return the Favor - Once per game Harmek may completely restore any Warjack in his battlegroup or Completely restore a Warbeast that began the game with him. Warjack or Beast must be placed within 3" of Harmek and cannot performs actions this turn.
So for winning the T&C/MM tourney I got a discounted paint job on Mulg from the shop owners wife. We talked about colors, and being a fan of the non-traditional paint jobs here is what we came up with and she painted.
Stryker Suggests Wargames To Madrak In Preparation For The PKA.
Madrak was still very unsure about this recent alliance with Cygnar. In light of what was happening to Grissel he could not understand why one part of Cygnar would fight them while the other part would help him. Either Leto did not have control over all its army or he gave each group more latitude then they should. Of course who was he to talk, his kith were sometimes just as likely to attack each other as they would an enemy.
We played a 500pt Duel in preparation for our upcoming Escalation Tournament. Our terrain looked something like this. Only rough terrain are the rocks in the middle.
We rolled off and he won and so decided to go first.
Cygnar - He deployed on the top of the map with his B13 behind the Trees, Stormguard, Rowdy, Stryker, Squire in the middle and journeyman on the far left.
Trolls - Its Madrak so I bricked up middle right, Hero on the left flank, Fel Caller on the right, Slag and Imp in back, Mauler left of the Hero and Madrak in the middle.
Cygnar - He Snipes the B13, they move up into the trees and hit my middle Champ for 4 damage. Yeap shooting 25" or some such nonsense. Stormguard advance up the middle with Rowdy behind them and Stryker behind him with the Squire. Journeyman and Thorn go left.
Trolls - So without gobbers and the KSB I am feeling a little exposed and screwed. I run to my right a little towards the B13 but only about 8", Champs go V-formation Maddy surefooted in the middle with the two lights bringin up the rear. The Mauler stays left runs his full 10" twowards the rocks.
"Let them taste our range boys," Stryker said over his comm to the Black 13th, "they are tougher than most humans, but even they cannot withstand our barrage for long". Without hesitation they moved up and unloaded on Madrak's front lines.
Cygnar - He kills my point Champ, and nails Madrak with the B13, I take 10 damage with one hit and opt to scroll the 14 damage from the next hit instead of pushing it off. His SG run over in front of the trees and Rowdy moves up to countercharge position. Thorn runs up Mauler gets Eartquaked down and he gets hurt decent.
Trolls - Champs run to engage the SG, Mauler does the same to Rowdy after the Fel Caller stands him up. Madrak Surefoots while the Hero blocks the lane to him on the left. Farstrike the Slag and end up with no fury. Slag moves up and hurts Rowdy boosting damage, good hit but Rowdy chooses where it goes. Impaler goes for a slam and misses but the two have Maddy's left flank covered.
Cygnar - Mauler dies a Horrible death to Rowdy and Slag gets near killed as well. He does some CMA on Champs do little. My Slag gets hurt a little. Not much else since he put most his effort into killing the Mauler. He feats giving all his crap +5 armor add in arcane shield to Rowdy and he is ARM 18. The SG are ARM 23.
Trolls - My Fel Caller Tries to charge the far right SG and misses on both hits. The Champs hit alot but only get through the armor on a couple of them. Hero decides to sacrifice himself and charges up to Rowdy's base going after Stryker but misses and can't damage on the backswing. Slag does no damage to Thorn and the Impaler hits for no damage as well. I'd say his feat worked great. Madrak actually tries stonefall in an attempt for a critical, yeah its a pretty good critical against WM... He doesn't get it.
Madrak was impressed by Strykers command of his army, they did not leave him many openings and forced him to react to their movements. Seings his beasts nearly out of the fight he knew he was about about to lose and decided to go for broke. "Champions ready your blades and slice through their lines," Madrak bellowed as he turned to the Hero, "Grissel sends you to me with high praise, show me why she thinks so highly of you and she will hear of your glory directly from me!" The Hero gritted his teeth and set to work on yet another human Warlock.
Cygnar - He CMA's the Champs again nearly killing the one blocking los to Madrak. Rowdy the Journeyman and Thorn kill the Slag and leave the Imp with 1 wound left. The B13 have to move and end up missing a few on Madrak leaving him with 5 health. Stryker tries to kill the Hero along with one of the B13 but the only do 5 damage. What good is retalitory strike when the dude hitting you can use ranged attacks in melee?
Trolls - Knowing I am dead I decide to go for it, Madrak moves up to the Champs uses Guided Hand on the Champs and the Hero then feats, the Champs Crusher all remaining stormguard, the last Champ gets the B13 dude engaging the Hero and takes a couple swings at Stryker doing a little damage. The Fel Caller WarCrys the Hero then Hero then takes a shot at Stryker hitting him for 10 damage, his backswing also hits delivering the killing blow. Gooo Hero.
As much as it pained Stryker to see his army lose even when his opponent seemed to be ready to fall apart he had to give Madrak praise. It appeared that this Troll was indeed worthy of Leto's friendship, pity it had gone they way it did for a full fledge alliance with the Trolls could strike fear into the hearts of their enemies and bring peace to the Trollbloods and Cygnar. It was wishful thinking of course but hopefully the good they did here would count for something against Cygnar's current relationship with the Trolls. His voice crackled accross the comm to his army, "well fought, luck is on thier side today, with them the PKA stands no chance... now reset we go again at 1800 hours," Stryker smiled to himself as he planned to take on Madrak again.
Synopsis - He had me on the ropes right from the start and did a great job of taking out my crap without me being able to do much about it. Surefoot and Champs in Melee will always be amazing unless MKII kills it. One more turn would have had me dead no matter what so I went for the kill and got lucky. I almost always forget how good Crusher is until I use it, and no I don't use it every game, the oppotunity doesn't always present itself.
For all you Pheonix Gamers out there, here is the lowdown from our local Shop Owner.
30 Minute Match, 5 Minute Turns, One 2 Minute Extension Allowed.
Victory Condition: Caster Kill or All Warjacks/Warbeasts killed.
Everything from your 350pts. list must be included.
All Eligible, Released, Models allowed.
60 Minute Match, 12 Minute Turns, One 5 Minute Extension Allowed.
Victory Condition: Caster Kill, Army Annihilation, or VP if time is called.
Everything from your 500pts. list must be included.
If you Caster has and Epic Form You Must bring it.
90 Minute Match, 15 Minute Turns, One 5 Minute Extension Allowed.
Each Pairing game size will be determine by a d6 roll right before game starts.
Match Rules will follow the rules for the game size of previous rounds.
So our local LGS has decided to start an escalation tournament. Since my Trolls have never played in one of those it was time to figure out what an escalation tournament is exactly.
intransitive verb : to increase in extent, volume, number, amount, intensity, or scope.
Escalation is the phenomenon of something getting more intense step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, military presence and nuclear armament during the Cold War.
So our local leagues rules are going to be as such.
List 2 - 500 Points - Everything from the 350pt list must be included.
Can add any eligible beast/jack, units, and solos.
List 3 - 750 Points - Everything from the 500pt list must be included.
Epic form of the Caster may substituted.
Next post will be a rating system for each Troll caster for each level of play and which ones I think are best suited for this tournament. The rating system will be based on three criteria.


to the first, it will be done within this week. Don't worry, we will do it!
I know KK mentioned that the proposed subsection reorganization of the topics might be done after all the transferring is complete, but I am just wondering if it will make sense to create the subsections before the main sections are re-opened. It shouldn't even be too big of a hassle with the already open sections, because they are still quite empty, but I'm just thinking: better while they are empty than afterwards, when a multitude of topics might have to be moved about.
^ Problem is, we haven't yet decided how to reorganize it, exactly.
What if I want to make a post in an old topic?
^ To my knowledge...You can't.
New question: when will the changes be complete? It doesn't look like anything has been done with the the last three sections for a week now.
There are those who complain about the wind, there are those who hope the wind will change, --though the wise-- the wise adjust their sails.
Its finally done and the archives should be open for all to see! It is sitting at the bottom of The Lounge.


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Adaptive clinical trials (in progress)
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COVID-19New publicationNews
Paper on COVID-19 hospital capacity planning published in Machine Learning
Zhaozhi Qian Ahmed Alaa Mihaela van der Schaar Nick Maxfield
A paper authored by Zhaozhi Qian, Ahmed Alaa, and Mihaela van der Schaar has been accepted for publication in Machine Learning (editor-in-chief: Hendrik Blockeel).
The paper, entitled "CPAS: the UK's National Machine Learning-based Hospital Capacity Planning System for COVID-19," was accepted for publication on September 24.
The authors introduce a capacity planning and analysis system (CPAS) developed to enable clinicians to predict utilization of scarce resources, such as ventilators and ICU beds, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The system is the result of a partnership (announced in April) between the van der Schaar Lab, NHS Digital, and Public Health England, and was built around Cambridge Adjutorium, a prediction system created by the van der Schaar Lab.
CPAS is one of the first machine learning-based systems to be deployed in hospitals on a national scale to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
CPAS: the UK's National Machine Learning-based Hospital Capacity Planning System for COVID-19
Zhaozhi Qian, Ahmed Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic poses the threat of overwhelming healthcare systems with unprecedented demands for intensive care resources. Managing these demands cannot be effectively conducted without a nationwide collective effort that relies on data to forecast hospital demands on the national, regional, hospital and individual levels.
To this end, we developed the COVID-19 Capacity Planning and Analysis System (CPAS) — a machine learning-based system for hospital resource planning that we have successfully deployed at individual hospitals and across regions in the UK in coordination with NHS Digital.
In this paper, we discuss the main challenges of deploying a machine learning-based decision support system at national scale, and explain how CPAS addresses these challenges by (1) defining the appropriate learning problem, (2) combining bottom-up and top-down analytical approaches, (3) using state-of-theart machine learning algorithms, (4) integrating heterogeneous data sources, and (5) presenting the result with an interactive and transparent interface.
CPAS is one of the first machine learning-based systems to be deployed in hospitals on a national scale to address the COVID-19 pandemic — we conclude the paper with a summary of the lessons learned from this experience.
Find the full paper here
For a full list of the van der Schaar Lab's publications, click here.
To find out more about the van der Schaar Lab's work related to the COVID-19 pandemic, visit our dedicated page here.
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Zhaozhi Qian
After obtaining a MSc in Machine Learning at UCL, Zhaozhi Qian started his career as a data scientist in the largest mobile gaming company in Europe. Three years later, he found it might be more fulfilling to apply AI to cure cancer than to make the gamers hit the purchase button 1% more often.
He thus joined the group in 2019 as a PhD student focusing on robust and interpretable learning for longitudinal data. So far, his work has included inferring latent disease interaction networks from Electronic Health Records, uncovering the causal structure between events that unfold over time, and calibrating the predictive uncertainty under domain shift.
Zhaozhi also worked as a contractor in the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic contributing his analytical skills to the national response to the pandemic.
Ahmed Alaa
Ahmed M. Alaa is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the ECE Department, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and an affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.
His primary research focus has been on causal inference, automated machine learning, uncertainty quantification and time-series analysis.
He has published papers in several leading machine learning conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR and AISTATS.
Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London, and a Chancellor's Professor at UCLA.
Mihaela has received numerous awards, including the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), 3 IBM Faculty Awards, the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the Philips Make a Difference Award and several best paper awards, including the IEEE Darlington Award.
In 2019, she was identified by National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts as the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK. She was also elected as a 2019 "Star in Computer Networking and Communications" by N²Women. Her research expertise span signal and image processing, communication networks, network science, multimedia, game theory, distributed systems, machine learning and AI.
Mihaela's research focus is on machine learning, AI and operations research for healthcare and medicine.
Nick Maxfield
Nick oversees the van der Schaar Lab's communications, including media relations, content creation, and maintenance of the lab's online presence.
Nick studied Japanese (BA Hons.) at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2012. Nick previously worked in HQ communications roles at Toyota (2013-2016) and Nissan (2016-2020).
Given his humanities/languages background and experience in communications, Nick is well-positioned to highlight and explain the real-world impact of research that can often be quite esoteric. Thankfully, he is comfortable asking almost endless questions in order to understand a topic.
van der Schaar Lab welcomes 6 new researchers
How machine learning is changing the response to COVID-19
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van der Schaar Lab at ICLR 2021: 5 papers accepted
The van der Schaar Lab's researchers will present a total of 5 papers at ICLR 2021—one of the largest conferences in machine learning. This is a record level of representation for the lab at ICLR, following a previous...
Paper on AI and ML in the response to COVID-19 published in Machine Learning
A paper by Mihaela van der Schaar, Ahmed Alaa, and Dan Jarrett has been accepted for publication in Machine Learning.
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Lab's pioneering projects on show at NeurIPS 2020
The van der Schaar Lab's research leadership and very latest projects will be highly visible at NeurIPS 2020.
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Nutritional value, likely just carbs, still a nice treat once in a while! Good luck!


AN ASTEROID eight-times longer than a London double-decker bus will skim past Earth today as experts warn of an increase in asteroids striking the planet.
Asteroids colliding with Earth have increased by up to three times over the past 290 million years, according to a major new study with the University of Southampton. The reason for the increase is not known but is thought to be related to larger collisions occurring that took place more than 290 million years ago in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. William Bottke, the paper co-author and Director of Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute, discussed the scale of damage an asteroid strike could have on Earth.
Mr Bottke told RT: "One could imagine slightly larger ones exploding over cities.
"The devastation could actually be quite enormous.
The study comes as an asteroid, dubbed by NASA Asteroid 2019 BW1, is headed on a so-called "Earth Close Approach".
The asteroid will speed past the planet in the afternoon on Saturday when it reaches its closest distance to Earth.
NASA's asteroid trackers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have narrowed this down to 4.22pm GMT (UTC) on Saturday, February 2. The JPL first observed the asteroid on January 25, 2019.
But the risk of Asteroid BW1 striking the Earth at more than 21,400mph is pretty slim.
Even at its closest, Asteroid BW1 will miss the Earth by more than three million miles (4.98 million km).
NASA's JPL estimates the BW1 to be somewhere in the range of 98.4ft to 219.8ft (30m to 67m) in diameter – an asteroid this big is eight-times longer than a London double-decker bus and is 30-times the length of a Queen Size bed.
Much smaller asteroids have caused enormous damage in the past when they stuck the Earth.
The most notable example of this is the 2013 Chelyabinsk Meteor, which exploded over Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia six years ago.
The 65.6ft-wide (20m) space rock remained undetected as it hurled directly at Earth from the direction of the Sun.
The Chelyabinsk Meteor exploded in the air over Russia with 30-times the force of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.
More than 1,500 people were injured and more than 7,000 buildings were damaged by the resulting airblast.
But Asteroid BW1 is not set to come as close to Earth – instead being dubbed as a "Near-Earth Object" (NEOs).
NEOs are comets and asteroids on orbital trajectories, which bring them incredibly close to the Earth.


ELU-Ko is a module to find entities in Koren text.
Based on the labels of the Dbpedia entities, the ELU-Ko module finds entity candidates in the given text.
Then, it chooses entities among the candidates based on the scores of them.
ELU-Ko finds Korean Dbpedia entities in the given natural langauge text. For instance, suppose sentence "대한민국의 지방법원의 수는 총 18개이다." is given as input.
We can find out that '대한민국' correspond to the entity http://ko.dbpedia.org/page/대한민국, that '지방법원' corresponds to http://ko.dbpedia.org/page/지방법원, and so on.
The found entitie are returned as list for the output of the module.
ELU-Ko uses entities' disambiguation, redirection, and labels candidate choice.
Therefore, those that is not mentioned in the Dbpedia cannot be found using the ELU-Ko. In addition, although ELU-Ko makes use of confidential score of label as well as neighboring entity candidates, there still exists several errors.
It only supports Korean text. (January 13, 2016, OKBQA3.5).
You may use AGDIST for English entity detecton.


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javax.management
提供 Java Management Extensions 的核心类。

javax.management 中 AttributeValueExp 的使用

返回 AttributeValueExp 的 javax.management 中的方法

static AttributeValueExp
Query.attr(String name)

          返回新的属性表达式。

static AttributeValueExp
Query.attr(String className,
     String name)

          返回新的限定属性表达式。

static AttributeValueExp
Query.classattr()

          返回一个新的类属性表达式,该表达式可用于任何希望获得 ValueExp 的 Query 调用中。

参数类型为 AttributeValueExp 的 javax.management 中的方法

static QueryExp
Query.anySubString(AttributeValueExp a,
             StringValueExp s)

          返回一个查询表达式,表示基于字符串参数的约束条件。

static QueryExp
Query.finalSubString(AttributeValueExp a,
               StringValueExp s)

          返回一个查询表达式,表示基于字符串参数的约束条件。

static QueryExp
Query.initialSubString(AttributeValueExp a,
                 StringValueExp s)

          返回一个查询表达式,表示基于字符串参数的约束条件。

static QueryExp
Query.match(AttributeValueExp a,
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          返回一个查询表达式,表示基于字符串参数的匹配约束条件。

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"Pacific Coast Highway by Richard Sigmund"
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Pacific Coast Highway by Richard Sigmund, along with two recent paintings: Hudson Street Candle (1999) and Diamond (2000). �Pacific Coast Highway, made in Los Angeles in 1984, is being shown for the first time in almost twenty years, and for the first time outside of California. Composed of eleven panels and fifty-three feet in length, the work gives physical sense and actual scale to its subject: the Pacific Coast Highway.
To walk past the painting is to cross almost the entire width of the highway, and hanging the work on the wall creates the sensation of an overhead view. As an image/object, it hovers between painting, photography, and relief sculpture, and between realism and abstraction. The painting implies a particularly West Coast sensibility, and expands on the work of artists such as Vija Celmins, Allen Ruppersberg, and Ed Ruscha. Pacific Coast Highway is a painting in life-size.
Richard Sigmund was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1951 and currently lives and works in New York City. Among Sigmund�s solo exhibitions were those at Eighth Street Gallery (1984), Los Angeles; Koplin Gallery (1987), Los Angeles; Ananda Ashram (1999), Monroe, New York; and Crozier Fine Arts (1999), Warehouse, Alternative Space, New York. He has also been included in group exhibitions at, among others, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1984), California; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California (1983); The Drawing Center, New York (1993); R Town, Brooklyn, New York (1996); I-20 Gallery, New York (2003), and Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (2004).
This exhibition is curated by P.S.1 Curatorial Advisor Bob Nickas.


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Infosecurity Magazine Home » News » Infosecurity Europe 2013: Technology Strategy Board offers money to small businesses
Infosecurity Europe 2013: Technology Strategy Board offers money to small businesses
Small and medium sized business breaches (a medium business is 50 to 250 employees) have increased by 10% over the last year – and they can cost companies up to 6% of their turnover, "when they could protect themselves for far less," suggests the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
The Technology Strategy Board, an agency sponsored by BIS and with a total pot of £500,000, is extending its Innovation Vouchers scheme to both small and medium businesses for grants of up to £5000. The purpose is to fund external help and consultancy in security. "Companies are more at risk than ever of having their cyber security compromised, in particular small businesses, and no sector is immune from attack," said David Willetts, the minister for universities and science. "But there are simple steps that can be taken to prevent the majority of incidents."
Apart from the grants for outside advice, BIS will be publishing security guidance for small businesses. Mike Cherry, the national policy chairman for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) welcomes the move. "The FSB is very pleased to see the Government announce a package of measures including specific guidance for small firms, helping them take steps towards more effective cyber security," he said. Information security should be part and parcel of good business practice. We need to cut through the jargon to give straightforward and practical advice, to help businesses put in place protections in their business."
In terms of numbers, SMEs comprise almost 99.9% of all UK businesses. There are more than 4.5 million individual SMEs in the UK (BIS figures). If the total pot was distributed evenly, each SME would receive £9 towards improving its security. Andrew Beckett from Cassidian (one of the four companies taking part in CESG's Cyber Incident Response Scheme) believes the government could do more to prevent small businesses being targeted by cyber crime. "This scheme will help SMEs to kick start their own cyber defenses," he said. But he added, "It is clear that the cyber threat is now affecting SMEs who are simply not prepared or given enough support to deal with such a serious problem."
Cyber crime costs UK small businesses £785 million per year
Symantec Scales Down with Launch of Norton Small Business
UK Home Office kicks off £4 million cyber-awareness campaign
Small firms have fewer resources to deal with more cyberthreats, House panel told
Comment: Secure Everything, Everywhere


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London university where alleged airline attacker studied denies he was radicalized there
UK university says it didn't radicalize bomber
LONDON — A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up an international flight above the United States did not become radicalized during his years as an undergraduate in London, the university where he studied said Thursday.
The University of London said an extensive investigation found no evidence that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly tried to bomb a U.S. airliner last Christmas Day using explosives hidden in his underwear, was recruited by terrorist groups while he lived and studied in London.
Abdulmutallab, 24, was an undergraduate student at UCL from 2005 to 2008. He served in 2007 as president of the student Islamic Society, which some media and security experts suggest has a hardline reputation.
The Nigerian is charged by the U.S. federal court with attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with 278 passengers and 11 crew members aboard. Abdulmutallab is representing himself, but a judge has appointed a standby lawyer to assist him.
U.S. investigators have said Abdulmutallab told them he received training and instructions from al-Qaida operatives in Yemen.
UCL said it found no conditions on campus during Abdulmutallabl's time there that led to his engaging in terrorist acts. Nor is there evidence that there are any conditions that will encourage its students to take up extremist views today, the university said.
The inquiry, led by Fiona Caldicott, the principal of Oxford University's Somerville College, interviewed UCL students and staff and looked at a range of documents.
Caldicott recommended that the university strengthen procedures in screening prospective visiting speakers and report issues of concern about students.
Tags: England, Europe, London, North America, United Kingdom, United States, Western Europe
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US Marshals join FBI full time in hunt for fugitive Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger
Officials link German Islamic militant behind Europe terror alert to Sept. 11 plotters
New UK opposition chief finalizes team, hands key posts to high flying husband and wife duo
Chemical tanker in difficulty off western French coast
Correction: Turkey-Emergency Landing story
Excerpts from previously unseen Ted Hughes poem detailing his wife Sylvia Plath's suicide
Rare Roman helmet found in open field auctioned in London for more than $3 million
France's Constitutional Council endorses ban on Islamic face veils


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Wanted: a Schuman Peace Plan to prevent War for the Moon
What is behind President Donald Trump's creation of a Space Force? Should Europe have a Space Force to defend its interests in space, its communications and its claim to the moon? Russia, China and now the USA are already involved in the militarisation of space. Russia has its AeroSpace Forces, created in 2015. China formed… » read more
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New von der Leyen Commission flags the Old Deceit
The Old Guard departs. European Council President Donald Tusk leaves and is replaced by former Belgian PM Charles Michel. Jean-Claude Juncker leaves the European Commission and is replaced by former German Minister Ursula von der Leyen. December 2019 brings new faces to the European Commission, Council, Parliament and Central Bank. Old problems remain. Europe… » read more
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The European Commission treats UK as an Island of Lepers. Why?
This century long, European Commission chiefs have been trying to stop Europeans asking the most vital, existential question! Brexit, says EU Commission President Juncker, is Europe's biggest issue! But he won't come to Britain. The Commission tactic: No debates on EU's fundamental faults with Britain! In the last two decades amidst the greatest political crises… » read more
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The Dictated Democracy of the von der Leyen Commission
22, September, 2019
Where is the Democracy, Ursula? Is it behind you? The truth is: Democracy is Dictated behind closed doors. No public debate. Secretive Politburo-like manoeuvres in the European Council. Reducing the most important European institution of democracy to a Secretariat. What lay hidden when Frau Ursula von der Leyen introduced her team of 26… » read more
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Expect the Brexit crisis to last decades!
Not serious! The European Commission have announced extra measures and emergency subsidies in the case of a No Deal Brexit scheduled for 31 October 2019. But neither the EU, the Irish or the British government are taking seriously the date of 31 October as the definitive date of Leave. What do they know that they… » read more
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Why the Mutual Recognition Solution for the Irish Backstop won't work and what will
Three eminent, self-confessed Remainers have published a legal plan to avoid Prime Minister Johnson's cliff-edge of No Deal on 31 October. Law Professors Joseph Weiler, NYU and lately of Florence EUI, Daniel Sarmiento of Complutense University of Madrid and Sir Jonathan Faull, formerly head of the European Commission Legal Service, published their plan called 'An… » read more
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Brexit: What will happen on 1 November?
26, July, 2019
Will BREXIT happen? Yesterday UK's new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, reaffirmed the date for leaving the "European Union" as 31 October. The next day the new European Commission will take office. Will UK still be a Member State? He gave a very upbeat speech in the Commons about how UK was going to be Great… » read more
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Rascals in and Brexit out: #TopJobs is #TopFraud
3, July, 2019
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The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is pleased to announce the long awaited release of the WASC Threat Classification v2.0.
This entry was posted in Normal Posts, Security Posts and tagged WASC Threat Classification v2.0, Web Application Security Consortium Threat Classification on January 4, 2010 by Soroush Dalili.
First of all, Microsoft is one of the best companies which leads us to the better world. But, nothing is free of fault except God!
I'm writing this post as a response to the Microsoft security response in: "http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/12/29/results-of-investigation-into-holiday-iis-claim.aspx".
They said that "We've completed our investigation into the claims that came up over the holiday of a possible vulnerability in IIS and found that there is no vulnerability in IIS.". Therefore, I realized that this is not a Microsoft IIS hole. So, it should be a feature of IIS 6.0! In my opinion it's a good feature for the attackers to bypass the web uploaders protection. Now my question is: why have they removed this feature from IIS version 7 and 7.5 then? And why are the others so concerned about this feature and some people added it to their exploits collection?
I think it's not even a critical bug for IIS, but it is highly critical for most of the web applications.
Besides, Microsoft is so wrong about the default configurations since they said "customers who are using IIS 6.0 in the default don't need to worry about this issue". I think they should look at the shared servers default configurations as well as the dedicated ones.
Finally, I think Microsoft should fix this feature as soon as possible to eliminate its risks! And, it is up to the web security researchers and the web penetration testers to decide about the impact of this vulnerability on the web applications.
This entry was posted in Security Posts and tagged Microsoft IIS Vulnerability on January 3, 2010 by Soroush Dalili.


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