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Barn Stories Ep. 18: The Runaway Pony
By Barn Stories | February 6, 2021 | 0 minutes read
Even on vacation, equestrians manage to find a way to involve horses. In this episode, a rogue pony, a busy Irish motorway and a shady looking bakery van give two horsewomen a vacation story for the ages.
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[Christine] A rogue pony, a busy Irish motorway, and a shady-looking bakery van give two horsewomen a vacation story for the ages. We'll hear their wild tale in this episode of Barn Stories.
[Laurie] Welcome to the Barn Stories podcast. I'm Laurie Prinz, editor EQUUS magazine.
[Christine] And I'm managing editor, Christine Barakat.
[Laurie] This podcast features our favorite essays and articles published in EQUUS over the past 40 years. Although EQUUS is known for articles on horse care and veterinary research, our editorial mission has always been guided by the bond that exists between horses and people. And each issue has featured a real-life story that celebrates how horses enrich our lives and touch our hearts.
[Christine] We've searched our archives, chosen the stories that resonated with our readers and given them new life in this audio format. Longtime subscribers may recognize some of their favorite pieces. And if you're new to the EQUUS community, these stories will confirm that no matter what sort of saddle you sit in, a deep emotional connection to horses is something we all share.
[Christine] A horsey Irish vacation is something many of us dream of taking. Those dreams usually feature galloping a Connemara along a wind-whipped coastline or soaring over stone walls on a solid, steady Irish draught. What they don't usually include is chasing an escaped pony you don't even know along a busy motorway. But that's exactly the situation the two friends featured in this episode found themselves in.
[Laurie] As its name suggests, The Runaway Pony is an exciting story, and it has more than its share of colorful characters and plot twists. That alone makes it worth a listen. But what I like best about this story is that it illustrates how horse people are willing to drop everything—even their vacations plans—to pitch in and help when they see a horse in trouble. And that's something worth sharing.
[Christine] Another reason to like this story is how well our narrator nails the Irish accent. So let's listen to The Runaway Pony written by Sarah Hughes and read by Taylor Autumn.
[soft music]
[Taylor Autumn, story reader] In Ireland, there are two types of people: those who have horses, and those who see them every day. Horses are as common in Ireland as germs in preschool—fields of them line every motorway and country road. Whether you're a horseperson or not, chances are, if you visit Ireland you will have some encounters with horses.
Ours was far different from anything we might have expected.
The weather was gray and drizzly as my friend Glynis and I made our way from County Kildare back to Dublin. We were scheduled to fly out early the next morning, so we'd booked a room at an airport hotel just outside the city. Our window overlooked the round-
about at the intersection of two busy motorways as well as a field of horses. We were thankful that our room was on the 7th floor and provided both distance from the relentless hum of the traffic and an excellent view of the "ponies."
Glynis and I had just finished our lunch at the hotel and were heading back up to our room when it happened. Glancing out as we passed the window at the end of the corridor, we caught an alarming sight: A raggedy-looking brown pony was outside of the fence and heading toward the busy roundabout at a fairly determined pace, with a boy on a pedal bike halfheartedly giving chase some yards behind him. We watched for a few moments, then decided we had to get involved. We headed downstairs and out the doors to offer our horse-savvy experience.
By the time we reached the road, the pony was headed straight at us, trotting proudly up the street, a rope knotted loosely around his neck. Tethering horses along a roadside is an all-too-common practice—and it's something animal-rights groups are determined to outlaw, for this exact reason: Instances of horses breaking free are shockingly high, and they endanger themselves as well as people in the frequent road accidents they cause.
But the moment the pony saw us he changed course, beelining across the three-lane roundabout and down the side of a four-lane motorway, brakes screeching in his wake. Committed now to our ridiculous quest, we started after him.
We hadn't gotten far when the boy on the bicycle caught up to us and called out, "OY! Is that you's pony?"
"Pardon?" We both turned to look at him, momentarily confused by his thick Irish brogue.
"Is that YOU'S pony?" He asked again, gesturing toward the runaway.
"Oh God, NO!" We replied in unison."We just saw him from our hotel, running down the road, and thought we might be able to help!" I said.
"We have horses back home," I added, completely out of breath.
"Oh, Americans, are ye?" He asked, and biked off nodding his head, before we could tell him we're actually Canadians.
The pony continued his frenzied pace up the motorway, and Glynis and I quickly fell pathetically behind, each step he took pulling him farther away from us and closer to (we feared) certain death.
"Everyone thinks he's ours," Glynis turned to me mid-stride.
"Huh?" I gasped. "Who thinks he's ours?"
"All the people on this motorway," she replied. "They think we are the jerks who tied a rope around our pony's neck and tethered him beside a road. I bet they're all rooting for him." She had a point. Traffic had slowed, and every commuter passing us seemed to be looking at us with judgment and condemnation.
"Should we turn back?" I asked.
"No!" replied Glynis.
By now the pony had put some serious distance between us, and just as all hope of catching him seemed futile, a nondescript white van pulled over. Two men leaned over and yelled, "Hey! Do you need a ride?"
We leaped instantly into the back of the van, our normal sense of self-preservation perhaps skewed by excitement as well as the lack of oxygen from overexertion. The back of the van was filled with buns and entirely devoid of windows, a fact that fully dawned on us only after one of the "helpful" men reached around and slammed the door behind us. It did not open from the inside.
Glynis and I looked at each other with the same simultaneous thought: Leaping into the back of a van with a couple of strange men and no way out was definitely not the brightest thing we'd ever done. I mentally calculated how long it would take for anyone to realize we were missing—I figured about seven days, since we were bound for a week in Sardinia by ourselves the next day. It was possible that our blind love for any and all horses had just caused us to do something really, really stupid.
Fortunately, the two men were not, in fact, serial killers, but just a couple of nice bun-delivery men who tried to help a couple of girls catch a dodgy runaway pony. They stopped a bit farther down the motorway, and we leapt out with renewed determination. A Good Samaritan had stopped his car and was blocking the pony's path. But our quarry was not about to be caught.
Glynis and I positioned ourselves to help keep him off the road and pulled out our best techniques for calming and approaching excited horses, but the pony was much more wily than we'd given him credit for. He, too, seemed perfectly calm, but he ducked and dodged away the moment anyone got near. Then suddenly he spun toward the Samaritan, slipped on the macadam and crashed to the ground.
"Grab the rope!" Glynis and I both yelled. But the man wasn't able to reach the lead before the pony was up and away. He celebrated his victory by getting around us all and flying once again down the side of the motorway.
We were offered another ride—from a fellow horse owner this time, in a normal car equipped with windows and interior door handles. This time, when we caught up to the pony, all the cars were stopped in both directions. For several agonizing moments, the renegade pony continued to dodge everyone in his growing crowd of pursuers.
Finally he saw his chance and charged past everyone, but this time instead of heading back up the roadway, he bolted through a seemingly impossible gap in a metal fence. Glynis and I peered through the opening—and watched him settling down to graze, safely enclosed in a grassy field full of horses.
With nothing else left to do, we patched the gap in the fence with sticks and began trudging back toward the hotel, by now a tiny speck in the distance. We'd never even touched the pony, but we like to think that, just maybe, we'd prevented what might have been a horrific crash and perhaps we'd even saved some lives. Either way, it was an Irish horsy experience neither of us is likely to forget.
[Christine] Thanks for listening to Barn Stories. We hope you enjoyed this episode. If you have a favorite article or essay from the EQUUS archives that you'd like us to feature in a future podcast, let us know. You can reach us at [email protected]
Did you enjoy this episode of Barn Stories? Head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate and leave us a review. Thanks for listening.
The Barn Stories podcast is a production of the Equine Podcast Network, an entity of The Equine Network.
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LSU's Tiger Stadium $100M Expansion Plan Approved
Tue May 15, 2012 - Southeast Edition
Only Tennessee and Alabama in the SEC will have larger stadiums. LSU is expected to have the seventh-largest university stadium in the nation.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) LSU will add new seats to Tiger Stadium, in a south end zone expansion that will near the football stadium's capacity to 100,000 people and make it among the largest university stadiums in its conference and across the nation.
The Board of Supervisors backed the proposal April 27 without objection, approving a $100 million construction plan that includes the stadium enlargement and other athletic facility projects.
The plans include adding 60 suites, approximately 3,000 club seats and general seating for up to another 1,500 people above the existing south end zone seats for Death Valley, where the LSU Tigers regularly play to sold-out crowds.
"It satisfies a demand. We have a demand out there for more suites and clubs and for more tickets," said Athletics Director Joe Alleva. "It will provide for a better fan experience."
Tiger Stadium has a listed seating capacity 92,542. The expansion will give LSU one of the largest stadiums in the Southeastern Conference, he said.
"It hasn't been exactly defined yet, but it will approach 100,000, and that will put us in the top three of the conference," he added.
Only Tennessee and Alabama in the SEC will have larger stadiums. And if the seat projections are met, LSU is expected to have the seventh-largest university stadium in the nation.
Construction is set to begin this fall with completion scheduled for the summer of 2014. Along with the expansion, the scoreboard and video board currently atop the south end zone seats will be removed and replaced with two new video boards.
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The stadium enlargement is expected to cost around $80 million. Alleva said he expects any remaining money from the borrowing to be directed to pay for new tennis courts, a new gymnastics practice center and locker rooms for the track and field teams.


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Dozens gather in Morristown for one-year anniversary of U.S. Capitol riot
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MORRISTOWN — Bierce Riley was still feeling emotional at Thursday night's vigil to mark the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.
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"What happened at the Capitol last year was so horrendous. It still brings tears to my eyes," Riley said.
The League of Women Voters of the Morristown Area and the Elected Officials Caucus of the Morris County Democratic Committee sponsored the vigil to commemorate the one year anniversary since rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol and the lives lost on that day. Nearly 140 Capitol police officers were injured during the riot. The vigil called on Americans to "protect the vote and democracy," said vice president for the League of Women Voters Deborah McComber,
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"The January 6th insurrection marked the start of ongoing attacks on our basic freedom to vote. Since then, we have seen the passing of laws making it harder to vote and redistricting measures that sabotage free and fair elections," McComber added.
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"The promise of democracy is not a partisan issue but a calling that unites us as Americans," Duarte said.
The evening ended with a prayer by the Rev. Allison Miller from the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship as residents lit candles outside town hall.
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A rainy summer and early fall, combined with an early October snowstorm, have caused many roads, like this one south of Windson, N.D., to go underwater. That could make harvesting crops more difficult. (Jenny Schlecht/Agweek)
Snow increases harvest worries as ND considers disaster declarations
By Jenny Schlecht / Agweek Staff Writer on Oct 16, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.
WINDSOR, N.D. — Terry Wanzek was away on vacation when a historic snowstorm struck central North Dakota. Flying over the state on Monday, Oct. 14, he got his first glimpse of what the storm really had done.
"It was shocking," he said the next day.
Back at his farm headquarters near Windsor in Stutsman County, Wanzek said he's uncertain when farmers in his area will be able to get back in the field. Even with ideal conditions, it could be weeks.
"The snow wouldn't have been such a big issue. We've seen snow in October before, maybe not to the extent we did, but we've seen it before," he said. "But it comes on top of 30 inches of rain this summer, unbelievable amounts of rain that I've never seen."
Wanzek farms with his brother, son and nephew in a large area of south-central North Dakota, where some areas received about 18 inches of snow. They've combined all of their wheat and rye and about two-thirds of their pinto beans.
"We haven't harvested one acre of soybeans or one acre of corn," Wanzek said, noting that makes up half to two-thirds of their total acres unharvested.
Along with farming, Wanzek also serves as a state senator, and his phone had been ringing constantly with constituents and farmers who serve on township boards calling about the state of their roads.
"Everybody is beginning to see a road here or there that is nearly, if not going, underwater," he said.
That includes Wanzek himself. Heading south from Interstate 94 to his farm office, sloughs have filled with rain and melted snow and nearly covered the road. Those types of situations will make harvesting all the more difficult as roads become unusable or at least unusable for the heavy loads required during harvest.
Mike Nowatzki, spokesman for Gov. Doug Burgum, on Tuesday, Oct. 15, said a disaster declaration is under consideration at the state level. Several local jurisdictions have declared disasters for their areas, and Nowatzki said Department of Emergency Services recovery staff will be assessing damage to public infrastructure from the snowstorm and resulting flooding for a possible presidential disaster declaration request.
Along with the situation on the roads, Wanzek said there also are concerns about cash flow as farmers can't get paid until they harvest their crops.
"I'm concerned for all of us farmers, but especially some of the younger ones or the ones who maybe aren't as well capitalized as some of us are," he said.
There may be additional resources made available to farmers and ranchers. Nowatzki said the state departments of Emergency Services and Agriculture are compiling agriculture impacts from the snowstorm and the heavy September rains that preceded it. That list will be used to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to issue a secretarial disaster declaration. If that happens, producers in any included counties would be eligible for the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus program. Under WHIP+, USDA will provide assistance to producers affected by natural disasters in 2018 and 2019. Payments from the program will take into account a producer's crop insurance coverage and size of the loss. No one will receive more than 100% the value of their crop.
Producers are encouraged to contact their county North Dakota State University Extension agents to report damage, losses and conditions they are dealing with now. Days after the storm, agents began working on a survey to provide a snapshot of the situation.
"It's critical for producers to share information with Extension so that we can assess the current condition across the state," said Doug Goehring, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner. "Once that is determined, we will provide information to the governor to assist in consideration for a secretarial disaster declaration."
Wanzek said there are some bright points to the situation. He has heard of some price increases, including for pinto beans, as supplies are tight due to the weather. But overall, the situation is stressful as farmers and others in agriculture try to find ways to occupy their time, he said.
"You can only grease the combine so many times when it's not being used," he said.
Wanzek has seen the weather turn around in other years, and he's optimistic that will happen again. At 62, he's never left a crop in the field over the winter.
"You've just got to have a lot of faith and pray and hope for the best," he said. "Some things are out of our control."
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A: You need to enable user interaction for imgView:
imgView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;

Unlike a UIView, a UIImageView's userInteractionEnabled property is set to NO by default, so you need to explicitly set it to YES to have it receive touches.

A: Set tap.delegate =self.
UIGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
                                    initWithTarget:self action:@selector(newRound)];
tap.delegate=self;
[imgView addGestureRecognizer:tap];

A: Also I would be sure the class is delegate for  in the .h header file:
@interface View : UIView <UIGestureRecognizerDelegate>

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Radio Shack Posts Profits Despite Competition While other retailers are struggling and even going out of business, Radio Shack is posting profits. The electronics retailer has been around for years, but isn't the first place many consumers think of when it comes to the latest greatest gadget.
While other retailers are struggling and even going out of business, Radio Shack is posting profits. The electronics retailer has been around for years, but isn't the first place many consumers think of when it comes to the latest greatest gadget.
If you take a stroll through the mall, you're bound to past stores that make you think, huh, I wonder how they stay in business. Well, here's a story about how one chain does it. Radio Shack reported a drop in sales this week, but it consistently posts profits even in these hard times. And it does so facing stiff competition from the likes of Best Buy and Target, as NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.
WADE GOODWYN: In a spoof article written a couple of years ago for America's finest fake news source, The Onion, Radio Shack CEO Julian Day professed bewilderment at how his company was making a profit. You wouldn't think that people still buy enough strobe lights and extension cords to support an entire nationwide chain, Day supposedly said. But I guess they must or I wouldn't have this desk to sit behind all day.
Back in the real world, Julian Day has done anything but sit behind his desk since taking over the company three years ago. Instead he has cut and cut some more, slashing cost, paring away underperforming stores, getting Radio Shack prepared for a recession nobody seemed to know was coming.
Mr. MICHAEL BAKER (Analyst, Deutsche Bank): There's no doubt that they've done a good job in mind of lowering their expenses. So, yeah, I think Julian Day has done a very commendable job.
GOODWYN: Michael Baker is an analyst with Deutsche Bank. Baker says the Radio Shacks CEO went so far as to sell all the green plants to employees for $5 each, so the company wouldn't have to spend any more money on maintenance. With good cash flow, Radio Shack has accumulated nearly $900 million and that's allowing some home improvement of the non-vegetative variety.
Mr. BAKER: They're also spending some money in trying to spruce up their existing stores. They're certainly spending a little bit more money to try to make them more attractive.
GOODWYN: Radio Shack has gotten the big profit bump from the sale of digital converter boxes for analog televisions. But that market is drying up. GPS unit sales are also in decline. Radio Shack has shown nimbleness in moving from one hot gadget to the next, catching a sales wave for a quick profitable ride.
Unidentified Woman: Okay. And, sir, just enter your telephone number on this device.
GOODWYN: On a rainy weekday, the Radio Shack in east Dallas has only a few customers after lunch. A family pops in to buy a digital converter box and are out the door in under five minutes.
Unidentified Woman: Okay. And just verify your information right here.
GOODWYN: Instead of row after row of flat screen TVs, there are five on display. Radio Shack has some other qualities of your local auto parts store or perhaps an Ace Hardware. If you need something and don't necessarily know exactly what you should buy, a sales associate will tell you and go get it for you. Mita Sujan is a professor of marketing and consumer behavior at Tulane University.
Professor MITA SUJAN (Marketing and Consumer Behavior, Tulane University): The stores are relatively small and so, again, it's not an overwhelming environment to be in. And I think there's still enough people who aren't that tech savvy, the older consumer.
GOODWYN: And Radio Shack sells merchandise that has relatively high profit margins. Batteries, accessories, chargers, high end cables, the list goes on. Last week, the company signaled it intends to Livestrong by announcing it would sponsor Lance Armstrong's team next year. The idea is that in 2010, the great Texas cyclist will be standing on the top of the Tour de France podium with Radio Shack executives nearby clapping, cheering and telling each other, he's our man.


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Q: cocos2dx getChildByTag function ,declaring the tag I am trying to update score in an app using the method from this website
http://fabiosistemas.com.br/show-strings-using-numbers-in-cocos2d-x/
CCLabelBMFont *label2 = CCLabelBMFont::create( "Score: 0″, "Arial.fnt" );
addChild(label2, 100, kTagSprite2);
CCLabelBMFont* label2 = (CCLabelBMFont*) getChildByTag(kTagSprite2);
label2->setString(stringPontos);
compiler gives error: of the kTagSprite2 not declared in this scope
 how do i declare the KTagSprite2 , as in what type?

A: You have to declare kTagSprite2 before using it, because it is not a keyword or any constant declared by cocos2d-x. So here you go..
We can assign an integer value as a tag to any CCNode in cocos2d.
//Global declaration
#define kTagSprite2 1234

//Here you are setting kTagSprite2 or 1234 as tag value of label2

addChild(label2, 100, kTagSprite2);

//Here you are getting the child to which kTagSprite2 or 1234 is assigned as tag value
//i.e your label. This will return a child which has 1234 as its tag value

CCLabelBMFont* label2 = (CCLabelBMFont*) getChildByTag(kTagSprite2);
label2->setString(stringPontos);

Hope this helps you.


It's the 24th Egham Beer Festival this weekend - it's not 24 years old, mind you, they get the number by holding it three times a year. If you're in the London area I thoroughly recommend it. It's held in the Egham United Services Club, which is just a short walk from Egham BR, and it's all real ale (there's a discount on entrance for CAMRA members). There's eight ales on handpump in the club itself, with dozens more on handpump and a gravity stillage in the yard out back.
One of the things I like about it is that it usually features an excellent variety of beer, including several rarities or festival specials - this year there were two or three breweries I'd never even heard of before! The other thing that marks it out, but I hadn't quite put my finger on until now, is just how well kept the beers are. Even the stuff outside is usually in tip-top condition. Sure, there's the occasional duffer, but they're a tiny minority.
My favourite beers of the festival were all London or Thames Valley brews, as it happens. Husk Pale, from Silvertown in East London, was peachy-malty with hints of white wine and an astringent bitterness. Shadow of the Beast from Elusive Brewing, a very recent start-up located near Siren Craft Brew in Finchamstead, was a gorgeously rich Black IPA, burnt-bitter with treacle and pine notes, and Dove Tree was a fascinating collaboration brew from two of my 'locals', Park Brewery in Kingston, and Kew Brewery - badged as a White IPA, it had aromas of peach and bergamot over a dry-bitter yet creamy-textured and fruity body.
The only regret was that some of the most intriguing beers in the festival programme had not yet been broached when I was there on Friday afternoon. The festival runs until Sunday though, so you may still have a chance to catch them!
I was hoping to get down to this one but it's work, work, work for me at the moment. I'm even start to worry I won't make it to the GBBF trade day!


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This full day tour takes you back in South African History. It starts with a visit to the oldest building in South Africa, the Castle of Good Hope but also shows you the buildings of Parliament, St Georges Cathedral associated with Bishop Tutu and the colourful Malay Quarters. The centre of the city is explored and a stop at Green Market Square will give you the opportunity to visit a number of craft markets.
An afternoon Table Mountain visit follows from where you will get an aerial view of the city bowl of the Mother City as well as of Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated). Lunch stop will be on the mountain where after a circular scenic circular walk follows. On our way back we stop at Jewel Africa to see the beautiful diamonds and Tanzanite Cape Town has to offer. Return to you hotel for drop off at 17h00.
Depart at 9:30am for a Mother City Tour. The drive takes us to the Main Street-Adderley Street and we relive the experiences of the Portuguese explorers Bartholomeus Diaz and Vasco da Gama when their discoveries led to the southern point of Africa. We carry on to the Castle of Good Hope, the oldest building in South Africa. A visit to the Castle will give you the opportunity to experience the "Key Ceremony" (weekdays) or the "Changing of the Guards" at noon. Visit the Military Museum and take a look at the William Fehr Collection of paintings and other beautiful masterpieces of furniture.
The next interesting experience is a visit to District Six and the District Six Museum (Open Mondays to Fridays) associated with the eviction of 60 000 people due to the Apartheid system. The museum displays a miniature reconstruction of the old District Six. We then drive along buildings of Parliament, St Georges Cathedral where Bishop Desmond Tutu had his parish, Greenmarket Square and the old Townhouse. The "Company Gardens" follows. This is the place where the Dutch East Company established a vegetable garden to address the high rate of casualties due to scurvy. A visit to Green Market Square follows to do craft market Shopping. We then head to Table Mountain where we take the revolving Cable Car to the top of the mountain. Lunch stop will be on the mountain (own expense).
After Table Mountain, the opportunity will be there to stop at a Jewel Factory or Diamond Works and see how diamonds, tanzanite and gold are moulded into fine pieces of jewellery. The very interesting Malay Quarter will not only give you an insight in the Malay Culture in the country, but would allow the keen photographer to take beautiful pictures. Hotel drop off follows around 17h00.
Included: Guiding by accredited tourist driver-guide in luxury sedan or minibus, guided circular walk on top of the mountain, mineral water, entrance fees Castle of Good Hope & District Six Museum (Mondays to Fridays): Table Mountain cable car Fee.


When migrating the Generic Shooter marketplace asset to 4.13, I am encountering a very weird network issue which renders the game unplayable. I have zero idea what the problem is.
When moving from 4.12 to 4.13, there are some deprecated warnings about input nodes that can be ignored, however I've fixed these in my local copy but does not resolve the issue.
When moving from 4.12 to 4.13, due to a shader being hardcoded, Generic Shooter will fail to load after package because Generic Shooter has disabled the VR plugins as it doesn't need them. While disabling these plugins is finr in 4.12, in 4.13, you can not package and run a BP Only project from the launcher version of the engine with the Oculus plugin disabled, otherwise you will get an FPixelShaderDeclaration error. If you are trying to reproduce/fix this, be sure to enable the Oculus plugin in Generic Shooter to avoid this run-time error. Alternatively you can use the engine built from source code it seems.
There are also some FText initialized from FString warnings on cook I can't seem to get rid of, but they appear to be safely ignorable.
Once Generic Shooter is packaged with 4.13, load two clients. It is easier if you set one client to 1280x720p window mode in the in-game settings before loading the second, so all clients will load in 720p window mode instead of full screen.
Host a game with one client, then use the server browser on the second client and join the hosted game.
You'll immediately see weird behavior as if the client is no longer receiving proper network data... or something.
This issue does not happen in 4.13.0 uncooked. Only 4.13.0 cooked. 4.12.5 uncooked and cooked work 100% as expected. This also worked as expected on 4.13 p1, maybe 4.13p2 but I'm not 100% sure on that.
I'm willing to pay $200 via PayPal + a retroactive free copy of Generic Shooter (get you a refund but you still keep it) for a fix. If multiple people are responsible for a fix I'll split up the bounty accordingly.
The fix should allow Generic Shooter to play as a networked game as intended. For reference, you can package and run Generic Shooter on 4.12.
Could you tell in your .uproject file which plugins you have disabled exactly?
4.12 release had 4 plugins disabled, all the VR plugins that are normally enabled by default. These were only disabled so people didn't accidentally go into VR mode when they full screen the game.
You have to enable them in order for Generic Shooter to package and run on 4.13 due to a shader issue though.
4.12 packaged build runs the same regardless of the state of these plugins.
Just wanted to let you know I am actively trying to recreate this issue so I can enter a report. I will also try to figure out a work around for your project.
I made a build (with the Oculus plugin enabled to avoid the shader issue) and have been testing for a bit now. I tried on my machine only as well as using two machines and I cannot see anything about, "no longer receiving proper network data".
Can you give me more information about what you mean by this?
When the client joins the host, it fails to spawn the lobby most of the time, and when it is in the lobby, it appears the lobby is updated maybe once every 20 seconds. When the round starts and players spawn, the client is unable to do anything and is unable to see the host when the host moves infront of the client. Its as if the client's world is frozen, however its still rendering real time and its still connected and pinging. Its idea of its player state is either wrong or invalid. The client does appear to be assigned to a team / able to die / etc on the host however. Will take a video when I get home.
I have tested creating a new game 10 times and the only thing I have noticed is sometimes when the client joins they don't get the first "spectator" camera and instead get a black / dark blue screen. But, as soon as the countdown is over, they load in and everything appears the be normal. As in, the client and host are able to see each other in a normal way. Each can shoot weapons, pickup weapons, kill each other, die, respawn, etc..
I am not able to recreate the issue on my end.
Is this with 4.13 launcher version? I'm about to spin in a circle yelling WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
I guess it could be something local to my machines... Even tried on a fresh installed Windows rig though :0.
I have been testing with the 4.13 binary (launcher) version.
Out of curiosity, have you ever enabled the simulated network packet loss / ping adjustments?
I have, but I have made sure these have been cleared. I've also reverted all configs and delete Saved so that they are definitely cleared. Same thing happens on a clean project with no network adjustments.
I have the same issue with a project from 4.12 that I converted to 4.13. Client is able to join the server but gets stuck loading and has constant packet loss.
4.13 preview 1 worked fine with my project, 4.13 preview 2 and up were broken.
Problem only appears for me when using steam, local servers work fine. All of the subsystems were moved over to plugins in 4.13, maybe it has something to do with old references?
So I've found a solution, but I can't explain it.
Closing / Restarting the Epic Launcher fixes it temporarily. Seems like the launcher can somehow get in a state that affects my local lan games? Doesn't make sense to me, but solution is reliable.


Editor's Note: We often get asked about the best options for selling your work online and Big Cartel is always top-of-mind. Instructors like Megan Auman have offered insights on building a Big Cartel website during their classes, but we wanted to make that information super-easy to access. So we went right to the source.
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Nearly a million makers, designers, musicians and other artists use Big Cartel to build a unique online store and run their business. For over a decade, creative people from around the world have used Big Cartel's intuitive tools and resources to build their online store, manage and sell their work, and run their business their own way.
Big Cartel focuses on meeting the needs of independent artists. Their goal is to help artists when they need it, and get out of their way when they don't. They provide the storefront and shopping cart software, taking care of as much of the technical stuff as possible, so the artists can get back to doing what they love.
If you're curious about setting up a Big Cartel shop, here's how to get started.
Pick a store name, enter a reliable email address, and you're off to the races. You can try out the tools as much as you want with the Gold plan – it's free forever and they won't ask you to enter your credit card details (really). If you want to upgrade, they offer three plans with a monthly fee, no matter how much you sell. The premium plans each have the same upgraded features, with one simple difference: the number of products you can list in your shop.
The bottom line is this – you only pay Big Cartel if you've upgraded to a paid plan. And there's absolutely no long-term commitment, listing charge, or per transaction fees.
Next, get your settings right.
They have walkthroughs here to help you set up your shop in no time. You'll need to setup things like your checkout options – you can use Stripe, PayPal, or both to process payments in your shop – time zone, and a store description. For paid plans, you can add a custom domain so your URL carries your own unique brand.
Big Cartel integrates with third-party apps which can make your shop even more efficient. Use Printful to create on-demand products, ShipStation to simplify your shipping process, and Zapier to connect hundreds of apps to your shop such as MailChimp and QuickBooks. They're always adding new apps to keep your process simple and fun as your business grows and your needs evolve.
After that, add a product (or 10) with great photography and detailed descriptions.
Remember to add interesting names, sizes, prices, shipping costs, sharp product photography, and compelling descriptions that your shoppers won't soon forget. If they don't buy now, you want them thinking about your product so they return later. Check out Big Cartel's tips on product photography to step up your game when showing off your work.
If you're more of a visual learner, everything you need to know to add a product is in this video tutorial.
Big Cartel is all about each individual artist, and they give you the keys to your own store. Think of it as having your own boutique shop in SOHO. Keep in mind that it can take a little longer to build your traffic than in a marketplace, but once you do you won't be sharing your customers with your competition.
The perks don't stop there. Your customers don't need to create an account to purchase from you. They see what they like, add it to their cart, pay, and they're done. There's less standing between a brand new business and potential customers, and their purchase history and card details remain private. That's important.
The Big Cartel team is right there with you as you craft your marketing plan. Need some pointers for sharing your work on Instagram? They've got you covered. No idea where to start with pricing? No sweat. They're constantly sharing ways to help your shop be a success on their blog, so you can focus on your art.
Ready to show off your goods? Share your shop with your networks.
If you're not sure where to start, create some social media profiles, make a video to promote your new product line, and consider selling your items in a pop-up shop. Interacting with your current and potential customers and getting out in the real word will help build some buzz.
Don't forget to let them know about your new shop. Tag @bigcartel on Instagram or Twitter and use the hashtag #shopindie so they can find you. The Community team loves to feature their favorites – you can see handpicked collections of products at http://www.shopindie.com.
Big Cartel's mobile-friendly site makes it easy to manage your shop from any phone or tablet. And their iOS app goes a step further to handle in-person sales at craft fairs, concerts, and other live events.
Need help? They're here for you.
Big Cartel has thorough help resources and you'll get hands-on care from a world-class support team (if they can brag about 'em for a minute). They offer guides, help videos, and more to walk you through all the important steps. They promise you won't be left to fend for yourself.
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November 5, 2018: NASA Green-Lights Team to Continue Opportunity Recovery Plan into 2019: October came and went without a beep from Opportunity, silence that was still no surprise for some, but a little discouraging for other members of the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) team.
"We're still waiting," said MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres, of Cornell University, summing up the month.
But as ghosts and goblins prepared to haunt the streets around the world, NASA Headquarters delivered good news. The MER team now has the green light to continue "for the foreseeable future" its two-pronged strategy of actively listening and commanding to find Opportunity's signal and passively listening on the Deep Space Network's (DSN's) most sensitive radio receivers to try and make contact with the rover.
The announcement, which appeared on the MER mission's home page October 29th, was the best "treat" the MER team could have hoped for Halloween, and it alleviates a huge amount of pressure. It means that the operations engineers will be able to continue searching for Opportunity through the dust-cleaning season when the Martian winds historically have cleaned the rover's solar arrays.
The atmosphere and the sky above Opportunity have cleared to almost normal, hazy summer levels. Even so, the rover continues to take on dust. "When you're outside of the dust-cleaning season on Mars, then dust accumulates on the rover," said MER Project Manager John Callas, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), original home to all of NASA's Mars spacecraft.
There is no way of knowing unequivocally, but MER atmospheric scientists and members of the Power team are pretty certain that Opportunity is laden with dust, perhaps more so than ever before, and that the rover seriously needs some dust cleaning, as reported in previous MER Updates. If that is the case, the solar-powered rover would not be getting enough sunlight to produce the energy she needs to recharge her batteries, wake up, and phone home.
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Brownlee brothers Alistair and Jonathan both have reason to celebrate after securing the top two spots in the World Championship Series after the grand final in Beijing.
Alistair Brownlee broke away from younger brother to take victory in the final race of the seven-event series, and secure his second world title.
Jonathan says he is happy to take silver overall, after finishing third in China, behind Switzerland's Sven Riederer.


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PIMCO Managing Director Bhansali Quits, Opens LongTail Alpha
by John Gittelsohn, Bloomberg News
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Vineer Bhansali is leaving Pacific Investment Management Co., where he was a managing director specializing in quantitative portfolios, to start his own investment firm.
Bhansali, who said he co-managed separate accounts and 28 funds with assets of about $50 billion at Pimco, is launching LongTail Alpha a week after the Federal Reserve raised the Fed Funds rate for the first time since 2006, one of several factors setting the stage for his venture.
"Considering where the market is in terms of implied volatility and risk, this is very much an optimal time," Bhansali, 49, said in an interview Tuesday. "Tail-risk hedging by definition pays off when there's big bear events. That's when the strategy that we've used, which is an active management of the hedging portfolio, pays off."
He said his exit is unrelated to Pimco's two years of withdrawals and management turmoil. Investors have pulled about $500 billion from the firm, a unit of Allianz SE, since 2013, amid concerns about Pimco's ability to navigate rising interest rates and the 2014 ouster of Bill Gross, who built the Pimco Total Return Fund into the world's largest bond fund.
This year, Wendy Cupps, a managing director who oversaw Pimco's product management, is retiring at age 53. Virginie Maisonneuve, Pimco's chief investment officer for equities, resigned in May after the firm shrank its stock-picking unit.
"Pimco's a great firm and has had a rough time," Bhansali said. "But this business area and my timing is not related to that."
Bhansali notified Pimco of his resignation Tuesday, according to the company.
"We thank him for his service to our clients and firm and wish him well in his future endeavors," Pimco spokeswoman Agnes Crane said in an e-mail.
Bhansali, whose expertise includes options pricing and portfolio construction, managed the $1.9 billion PIMCO 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund, which is down 6.2 percent in 2015, and the $1.1 billion PIMCO 1-5 Year U.S. TIPS Index ETF, which is down 0.6 percent this year.
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He designed the algorithm behind the $414.5 million Pimco Trends Managed Futures Strategy Fund. Established in 2013, the fund invests in derivatives linked to interest rates, currencies, mortgages, credit, commodities and equity indices. It is down 8.8 percent this year.
The funds' returns were negative because they were benchmarked to indexes that didn't do well, he said.
LongTail Alpha is named after its strategy that "sustained portfolio performance comes from expecting the unexpected, and positioning portfolios to earn yield while maintaining convexity," according to a statement he issued. Bhansali said he is initially funding the firm himself.
He earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 1992 after receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in physics at the California Institute of Technology. He has worked at Pimco for 16 years following stints at trading desks at Citibank, Salomon Brothers and Credit Suisse First Boston.
"There were a lot of physicists and mathematicians building models for exotic options, which is kind of what I've dealt with the last 25 years," he said. "It became so interesting that I postponed my post doc."
(A previous version corrected the name of Pacific Investment Management Co. in first paragraph.)


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Q: Play Framework intermittently respects JAVA_HOME? java6 is the default java on our ubuntu box, and I have java7 in another directory with JAVA_HOME pointing at java7.
Using sudo -E to maintain the JAVA_HOME env variable in a non-Play project folder:
$ sudo -E /usr/share/play/play
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| '_ \| |/ _' | || |_|
|  __/|_|\____|\__ (_)
|_|            |__/

play! 2.1.1 (using Java 1.7.0_17 and Scala 2.10.0), http://www.playframework.org

This is not a play application!

Ok great, play is using java 7! But if you switch to the directory of an actual Play app and run the same command...
$ sudo -E /usr/share/play/play
[info] Loading project definition from /var/playtest/project

[info] Set current project to playtest (in build file:/var/playtest/)
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| '_ \| |/ _' | || |_|
|  __/|_|\____|\__ (_)
|_|            |__/

play! 2.1.1 (using Java 1.6.0_26 and Scala 2.10.0), http://www.playframework.org

> Type "help play" or "license" for more information.

Now play is starting up with java6. What gives, is play starting more shells or something and not maintaining the appropriate JAVA_HOME? How would you configure using non-default jdk installations with sudo for Play?
Edit: I added an 'echo $JAVA_HOME' to the /usr/share/play/play script and it spits out the correct JDK path in both app and non-app folders: '/usr/share/jdk7/bin/java', however java6 still starts up instead of java7 for actual Play projects.
Maybe this is an actual bug I should open a ticket for? Play knows the correct path at the start of execution, but forgets it and starts using default at some point...

A: There's a ticket for this, though it seems to be resolved in March 2012, and Play 2.1.1 has been released this year. Based on your description it would look like it's not.

A: This issue was just marked as fixed at GitHub, woot
https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/985