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Q: Windows 7 Samba issue We have a strange samba issue affecting only one user. Our samba setup is as follow :
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)     - Samba Server
Samba version 3.0.33-3.14.el5                             - Samba version
Domain Controller WIN2008R2 Standard                      - Windows DC
Windows 7 64 bit                                          - Client PCs
User mentioned that he faced this problem after he force shutdown his PC few weeks ago. By right, for all users when we access \\sambaservername in windows it will show all the shares in the samba server but for this user once he startup his PC he will not be able to access \\sambaservername, Error message

Windows cannot access \\sambaservername

Current workaround to solve the problem :
Try to access one share in \\sambaservername for instance \\sambaservername\sharedfolder1. But even when doing so, it will first prompt an error in the beginning, error message is as follows

Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.

user need to enter the credentials again and he can access the share. Thereafter, he will be able to access \\sambaservername without any issues. But once he reboots his computer the problem will persists.
Troubleshooting done so far:

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*Ensure the following settings:
Go to: Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Local Security Policy
Select: Local Policies → Security Options
"Network security: LAN Manager authentication level" → Send LM & NTLM responses
"Minimum session security for NTLM SSP" → uncheck: Require 128-bit encryption

*Advise user to reset his password and try again but problem still persists

*Tried my account on users' PC, there is no issues. Tried user account on serveral other Windows 7 PC including mine but problem still persists. Windows XP does not have this problem.

*Ensure that there is no stored crendentials on the windows 7 PC. Checked the credentials manager in Control Panel as well as typing this command rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

*Restart winbindd daemon on samba server but to no avail.
I suspect this is due to some caching issue but not sure where is the issue. Whenever the user has error accessing \\sambaservername, the following errors will be logged in the samba server :
[2012/10/10 17:10:26, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!
[2012/10/10 17:10:27, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(316)
  Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE!

But after workaround, there will be no more errors. I suspect after reading the article listed below some amendments need to be made to the \var\samba\cache directory :

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*http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/getent-passwd-dont-show-ad-groups-and-users-745829/

*http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/tdb.html

*http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-May/155521.html

*http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2011-March/161912.html

*http://lzeit.blogspot.sg/2009/10/samba-shares-inaccessible-after-power.html
There are several users using the samba server and i would like to solve this problem without any impacts.
I saw the following article :

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*http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WINBINDCACHETIME
"winbind offline logon (G)
This parameter is designed to control whether Winbind should allow to login with the    pam_winbind module using Cached Credentials. If enabled, winbindd will store user credentials from successful logins encrypted in a local cache.
Default: winbind offline logon = false
Example: winbind offline logon = true "
Any idea on how to delete the entry for one user in the local cache ?

A: I'm not sure if the nbtstat -R command (which "purges and reloads the remote cache name table.") or the nbtstat -RR one (which "sends name release packets to WINs and then starts Refresh.") can do anything to enforce the kind of refresh you are looking for...
If you want to check out the manual, look here..

A: Check to make sure that ntpd is synched with the domain controller.  I had the same problem until today I noticed a 45 min time difference between the offending server and the domain controller.  Once I ran ntpdate it worked fine.

A: In my experience this is usually the result of time drift on either the domain controller, or in your case with only one client having an issue, the connecting client machine. Because Kerberos includes time related parameters in both the authentication server request and the authentication server reply (AS_Req and AS_rep) a wide discrepancy will cause the session token to be rejected.
AS_Req include the Lifetime for the requested token:
AS_REQ = ( PrincipalClient , PrincipalService , IP_list , Lifetime )
AS_Rep includes the DC timestamp and the applied lifetime:
AS_REP = { PrincipalService , Timestamp , Lifetime , SKTGS }
So, if the time variance is outside of the Lifetime, the connection is rejected.
CONJECTURE: I haven't been able to confirm with documentation that lifetime is specified in minutes, but I think it is because I have had a machine that would intermittently work and the only reason I could think of was that it was right on the border of the lifetime.  So for about 30 seconds it would work and then the minute would flip and connections would be rejected.

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Why are Christian fundamental institutions dying? The answer lies within.
Dear readers of "Heart of a Shepherd",
I am reposting one of the first blogs I wrote for my blog 2.5 years ago (September 28, 2012). Having followed the decline of the once great Tennessee Temple University and its predictable demise (its closing was announced this March 2015), I was observing the same signs of failure in other once great fundamental institutions of higher learning. Since that writing, Northland Baptist Bible College [also known as Northland International University] has completed its departure from its historic fundamental Baptist roots when its current president announced it would merge with Boyce College and become the northern campus of that Southern Baptist institution.
I am observing the same change of direction and decline in other fundamental institutions and churches. It grieves me that Board of Directors of once fundamental institutions are either oblivious or unconcerned that the leadership of their institutions have betrayed their founders' separatist vision and departed from their conservative, fundamental legacy. The betrayal of the trust of those who sent their young people and gave financially (many leaving their life estates) is grievous. Lacking integrity in leadership and betraying their fundamental heritage, the continued demise of those institutions and churches is sadly, predictable. Having betrayed their legacy and deceived their constituents, the demise is inevitable.
The following is my September 28, 2012 article and it is my prayer it is a lesson of inevitability for those who steer fundamental churches and institutions from their godly heritage.
A lot is being said today regarding the essentials [once called the fundamentals] of Christianity; many suggesting that the Gospel is the only thing that is important [although the Scriptures make it abundantly clear that what is essential is that God be glorified and His people sanctified].
I remember visiting Tennessee Temple in the early '80's when it was excelling as one of the great, Biblically fundamental institutions; today it is barely a shadow of what it was.
Tennessee Temple and its leadership pursued a path of "relevance", accommodated carnality, and today even secular media can't help but notice that there is a parallel between the institution's decline and its accommodation of the world at the sacrifice of Biblical, Christian distinctives.
Let those pastors, churches and institutions who abandon their fundamental heritage, have disdain for those who have gone before, and pursue a path towards "Conservative Evangelicalism" be forewarned…their end is tragically predictable.
Pastor Smith
Article from The Times Free Press…
Tennessee Temple carries on despite steady decline in enrollment
By Joan Garrett
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/sep/17/temple-carries-on-but-bears-little-resemblance-to/?print
A SLOW DECLINE
News reports of the day show that Tennessee Temple had more than 5,000 students in the 1970s. Then began a slow but precipitous decline.
YEAR – ENROLLMENT
1980 – 3,527
2012 – 300*
*On campus, 885 counting online students
Sources: Newspaper reports, American Association of Bible Colleges, Tennessee Temple
For nearly 35 years, this university tucked inside the struggling Highland Park neighborhood knew exactly what it was.
Tennessee Temple — first a Bible school, then a swelling college and seminary — was the child of the largest Baptist church in the country and the flagship of the staunchly conservative Independent Baptist movement.
At Temple's peak in the 1970s, more than 5,000 young men and women intent on winning souls crowded the 55-acre campus.
Outsiders saw the campus as a strange place, where people still were buttoned up and strict rules set them apart from a growing youth culture of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
But it was that separatism that drew the believers.
Lee Roberson, the founder of the school and renowned evangelist, called Temple "distinctively Christian," an idea given to him in a vision. While the world was changing, while even Southern Baptist seminaries were softening, the school would be a place where God's rules didn't waver.
So Temple kept watch over its students. Professors and dorm mothers made sure the men wore their ties and the girls wore their skirts. They checked for heads in chapel, prayer meetings and evangelism outings. They told students to stay away from the movies, to keep their ears from rock music — the devil drums — and to keep their hands and lips to themselves.
"We called it 'living the list,'" said Dell Hamilton, who was a Temple student in the 1970s and later was a trustee for 13 years.
But those deeply rooted in the school's past know that Tennessee Temple is only that in name now.
In the 27 years since Roberson retired from running the school — some say he left, others say he was pushed out — the line between Temple and the outside world has thinned.
Today, there are only 300 students on campus, and fewer of them are drawn by the school's conservative heritage. Some don't even know who Roberson was.
"I've seen people kiss, right in front of the lobby," said Kiara Govan, an 18-year-old freshman recruited from Houston to play volleyball at Temple.
There are still rules. No guys in girls dorms. No alcohol. No tobacco. No lip rings. No cursing. No basketball shorts in class. No tight clothing. But the school doesn't emphasize perfection.
As Govan waited for lunch, her denim shirt was tied up to show a little of her stomach, her black leggings skin tight.
"We are rebels," said Shatoya Medford, a 20-year-old volleyball player who wore a lip stud and sweat pants.
All they know about Temple is that they like the athletics. They received scholarship money to come, they said.
They find less to like elsewhere. Some of the buildings are unusable. The dorms don't have elevators, and the pair live on the fourth floor. At times, the campus feels empty.
They are Christians, they said, but the residential assistants and the professors talk a lot about God.
"Everything is … I mean … It's good to be all about God, but some things are forced down your throat," Medford said. "It scares some people."
Some say the school's numbers collapsed because of softening rules.
Newspaper reports of the day documented when a baby was found dead in a freshman girl's dorm room, when the school started sponsoring Christian rock concerts, when pastors with more liberal theology were invited to speak, when the dress code relaxed.
Donors weren't forgiving. Large Independent Baptist congregations stopped sending their children.
And the alumni, the missionaries and pastors molded at the school didn't have the money to send back to support it.
Others blame the school's tumbling enrollment on poor leadership. A number of presidents have come and gone, some with controversial and short tenures.
Others blame the school's stature on the decline of the Independent Baptist movement, which in 2008 numbered just 2.5 percent of U.S. adults, according to the Pew U.S. Religion Landscape Survey.
Highland Park Baptist Church, the Independent Baptist one-time mega-church associated with Temple, has been folded back into the Southern Baptist Convention. Southern Baptists represent 6.7 percent of U.S. adults, the Pew survey showed.
Highland Park Baptist-selected trustees, who still hire and fire the Temple president, recently hired a Southern Baptist educator and pastor, Steve Echols, to lead the school and strengthen its ties with the denomination.
They hope the link will influence large Southern Baptist churches to steer their students — and money — to Temple.
"I'm a Southern Baptist from my toenail to the little bit of hair on my head," Echols said.
When 122-year-old Highland Park Baptist announced recently that it will move away from Temple in January and change its name to Church of the Highlands, some people wondered if that would be the death of Temple.
The church, too, has fallen hard — from 57,000 members when Roberson left to just an average of 300 attending weekly.
Echols said he answered dozen of calls from people worried about Temple's future.
Temple isn't done, he said.
Online enrollment is growing and the student body is diversifying — total numbers are up 17 percent from last year and 29 percent of students are minorities, said Echols. Plans call for tearing down the old dilapidated dorms and creating green-space. The school's academic accreditation is current.
Echols wants to bring students to Temple who wouldn't excel elsewhere. He said he is more focused on developing students' character than keeping score of their rule-following.
Today, "we have different views about how to manifest Christ," he said. "But we are here."
When Roberson gave his final sermon at Highland Park Baptist in 1983 — he was 73 at the time — the church gave him a car and a double-breasted suit.
The crowd hung on every word.
"Fight for your fundamentals," he said. "Never change."
He had been the most serious and literal kind of Christian. A mirror hung in his office so his secretary could always see what he was doing, his biographer, James H. Wigton, wrote. Roberson didn't answer the critics who called him a legalistic tyrant.
There are still churches and schools where Roberson's principles live on, places where Christians can be in the world but not of it.
But other hearts did change.
Christian schools all over the country allow piercing, pants and kissing.
"I can remember the day that my wife and my daughter said, 'We are the only [women] in the church that won't wear pants," said Hamilton, who was a member at Highland Park and a trustee at Temple. "I said 'OK, let's change.'"
He went on to encourage the school to allow women to wear pants on campus.
"We were riding a fence that we couldn't ride," he said. "The overall image was changing."
Roberson died five years ago, and his children have nothing to do with the school that started in 1946. His son, John Roberson, said he was removed from the Temple board years ago when he resisted changes.
He said he'll never understand why his father left Temple when he did.
"If my father saw Temple now, it would disturb him," said Roberson, who lives in Kentucky and runs his father's memorial foundation. "But I am not going to dig up the dead. I am going to let it go."
Maybe, he said, only his father could have saved what he started.
This entry was posted in Fundamentalism, In the News and tagged Tennessee Temple, TTU on March 25, 2015 by PastorTravisDSmith.
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Picture was with tablet camera, not the best focus.
They're finished. Pics in the appropriate places. Even updated my signature.
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Texture has been added to the bases. Just need to paint the lips of the bases gloss black tomorrow, then pictures.
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Really need to figure out better lighting.
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The Quest for the Legends
Spoiler Warnings
Plot Recap
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The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter 7: Charmeleon's Trainer
Mark was stunned by Charmander's evolution itself, but no less the fact that even though they had decided to postpone the evolution to a better time, neither of them had been able to do anything to stop it. It also wouldn't stop bothering him what Charmander was like just before the evolution; he had looked so sickly, sweating like that, and had a headache. And how he acted when he battled Raikou – it wasn't normal. Not like him.
Nevertheless, as he reminded himself, he was still in a battle, and two out of the three Pokémon he could use for the battle had fainted, one of the possibilities left being really young, and the other one extremely vulnerable to the opponent's attacks. He tried to think, but felt he was absolutely unable to concentrate while still worrying about whether Charmeleon was still the same person as before or not.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then opened them again.
"I forfeit."
"What?" the junior trainer questioned, apparently finding this absolutely unheard of.
"I give up," said Mark a bit louder. "I'm going to lose the battle anyway."
"You'll have to battle both of us again," the junior trainer pointed out.
"Can I just have a quick one-on-one with the guy before you or something?" Mark called back. The junior trainer, not really disliking the idea, shrugged and picked up a car key thing like the other junior trainer had possessed, pointing it at the door Mark came through so that it opened.
"Thanks," he said, before jerking around and running through the door.
The junior trainer in the first room noticed him and apparently had had cases of people rushing through his arena in the wrong direction before, because without words he picked up a key and opened the front door for Mark. He threw a yell of "thanks" over his shoulder before exiting. He was in such a hurry that he didn't notice the girl he crashed into in the doorway.
Both of them fell over, landing harshly on the ground.
"Ow," Mark groaned, standing heavily up. So did the girl. He was about to say sorry for running into her, but then recognized her as the blue-haired girl whose Skarmory had given Charmander a beating at the Lake of Purity.
She was still wearing the same clothes, but three other things were different about her. Firstly, her hair was done differently; now two locks fell down on either side of her face outside the ponytails, which also no longer stuck into the air like that, but rather just a little to the sides. Secondly, she had a necklace. Thirdly, her Pokéballs were missing.
Mark stared at her waist for a few seconds, seeing no trace of the battered Pokéball belt that used to be there. He saw her right eyebrow rise higher on her forehead, before she realized what he was staring at, or rather what he was not staring at. She gave a faint smile.
"My Pokéball belt was getting old, and in the mart this morning I saw these Pokéball necklaces and couldn't resist buying one," she explained, pointing at what Mark had taken for red orbs on the necklace when they were actually real, minimized Pokéballs. "It's more convenient against thieves, anyway," the girl added.
"New hairdo?" Mark asked. The girl blushed.
"Look, whatever first impression might be forming in your head, I swear, I don't usually change random things in my appearance like that. Normally people have a hard time convincing me to change my clothes." She sighed. "My name's May, by the way. Yours?"
"Mark," he said. Apologetically, he added: "Sorry for bumping into you like that."
"Nah, it's okay, I have plenty of time. How is your Charmander doing, anyway?"
"He… just evolved," said Mark faintly.
"Oh. I see." May looked at him for a second, then asked in a different tone: "How did you get him, anyway? You from Kanto?"
"No, Sailance," Mark answered.
"Sailance? Sorry, I'm not into Ouen place names – I'm from Johto, you see. Originally came here to get myself a low-leveled Skarmory, my favorite Pokémon."
Mark nodded; the next city to the south, Alumine, was famous for having the biggest Skarmory nesting ground in the world just outside it. Then his brain told him there was something wrong with this statement combined with what he already knew.
"Wait – did you get a Caterpie as your first Pokémon?"
May sighed deeply. "No," she said. "Professor Elm gave me a Cyndaquil. I actually picked her just because she was female, and females are so valuable – I seriously have no idea what I was thinking, because I hate Cyndaquil. She didn't exactly like me that much either. Then, while I was training just north of Cleanwater, I found this guy and battled him. He had a funny-looking Pikachu, and I used Cyndaquil against him. Basically, she was losing, but then suddenly she evolved in the middle of the battle and beat his weird Pikachu. Well, I like Quilava – don't ask me why I like Quilava but hate Cyndaquil – but as a person, I don't think she will ever like me. Then, completely unexpectedly, the boy wanted to trade his Charmander for my Quilava, said it was level 15. So I thought, yeah, why not? And I actually gave that stupid little git my Quilava," she spat the words 'stupid little git' very pronouncedly, "for a Charmander I had never seen that then turned out to be level five. And I got so angry (and stupid, mind you) that I actually tossed Charmander's ball away and went to try and find that boy, who had of course just gone away with my Quilava. That's actually the reason why I'm still here in Ouen, I'm trying to find that guy and get my Quilava back but I think I'm taking part in the league too since I'm here anyway. But I'm a bit worried about the Charmander, because either he's there somewhere in his Pokéball, or he got out of it and…" Her eyes darted around as if she was wondering how to word what she was going to say, but finally just finished it with three words: "Well, it rained."
She suddenly looked at Mark. "What's wrong? You're so pale."
"Wha… er, no, it's nothing," said Mark quickly. "Sorry."
May's right eyebrow ascended again, indicating that she didn't really believe him, but she said nothing. There was an awkward silence
"Well, I sorta need to challenge Rick, so… see you around," she finally said, turning back to the Gym. Mark's eyes flicked to the Pokémon center further down the street, and he nodded. "Yeah, I have to go too."
May shot a quick look at him. "Well, bye then, Mark."
"Bye," he replied. As May stepped into the gym, Mark broke into a run again, hurrying even more to the Pokémon Center.
Charmander belonged to May. There was no question about that; she had received him in a trade. But then again, she had thrown him away like a piece of garbage, just because he wasn't high-leveled enough for her almightiness, and she had agreed to a trade which opposed the Agreement – trades were never supposed to happen without consulting the Pokémon first.
Although she did seem to regret having thrown Charmander away.
All the same, thought Mark, calming a bit down, I'm his trainer now. Now that part of the Agreement protects me, not her.
He slowed down as he reached the automatic door to the Pokémon Center. It opened, and he walked hastily inside.
"Nurse Joy…" he panted, ringing the bell and experiencing a déjà vu flashback from last night. A few seconds passed, Mark's heart pounding against his chest; then the nurse came out of the back room.
"What can I do for you this time?" she asked warmly.
"It's… it's my Charmander… I mean Charmeleon…"
"What about him?" she questioned.
"He evolved, and he seems so different, he couldn't stop it because he was so weak when it happened, I'm worried, oh please…" Mark took a deep breath while Nurse Joy's face turned grave; he just handed her Charmeleon's Pokéball.
"Come with me," said Nurse Joy, taking the ball and gesturing for him to follow her into the blue back room.
"Before I start treating him, I'd like to talk to you," said the nurse, looking deep into his eyes. "No matter how different he might seem after the evolution, he's still the same Pokémon. Pokémon evolution is like growing up; when you're a kid you have certain ideas about the world, but when you become a teenager they might change a bit – or a lot. For Pokémon who just evolved, it's the exact same thing except that it happened all of a sudden rather than gradually as it would in a human's case. If he had enough respect for you as a Charmander, he will still be ready to battle for you no matter what happens. He could be very different, or he could be pretty much the same – but there will definitely be a change. Your Pokémon is no longer a child, and you need to realize that. Treat him with care, and don't give him a reason to dislike you. A reason for him to dislike you is not necessarily what would be a reason for you to dislike him; he's basically a moody teenager whose limits should not be pushed. Do you understand?"
Mark felt sick, but nodded.
"Good. This might take some time, so please wait in the waiting room."
Mark walked into the fluffy waiting room with a knot in his stomach. He wondered who had the stupid idea of making the waiting room pink and red; these colors were absolutely inappropriate and way too happy. The gloom of the back room would've been much better.
He was also not too fond of this Nurse Joy. Mark didn't want a moody teenager whose limits should not be pushed; he wanted his friend back. The last thing he'd ever care about would be whether he would still obey.
He flung himself into one of the sofas and for half an hour or so, he sat there with a blank expression, staring at an ad for Kantonian Airways. A red-haired boy who seemed to fit very well with all the fluffy pinkness decided to try to be funny by waving his hand in front of Mark's face. He hated himself for smiling at it; it wasn't funny at all.
Finally, Nurse Joy came out of the back room, holding Charmeleon's Pokéball. Mark immediately sprang up, running towards the desk.
"He seems fine physically," said the red-headed nurse. "You judge the mental part."
With a small bow, she handed Mark the Pokéball. He accepted it and walked out of the Pokémon Center.
He stopped beside the building, hesitated, but then dropped the Pokéball to the ground. Charmeleon materialized from red energy as Mark caught the ball again.
For a few seconds, they just looked into each other's eyes. Mark had never noticed how awkwardly small Charmeleon had been as a Charmander; even now, evolved, he was smaller than an average Charmeleon.
"Hi," said Charmeleon finally in a low voice. Mark suddenly felt a lot better.
"Hi." Mark paused, leaning against the wall and staring into the air. "Sorry we didn't get to postpone your evolution as we intended."
"It's okay," said Charmeleon, leaning up to the wall too and likewise not looking at Mark. "It felt quite amazing, actually."
"What was it like?" Mark asked, this being one of the things he had often wondered about although his voice wasn't up to showing interest of any kind at the moment.
"Everything just disappeared in a bright white light, first I thought I was dying… then I felt the power that was always hidden somewhere in my body burst out, I felt like… like I was melting. I had a kind of a vision of a Charmeleon walking towards me, pulling me away and taking my place… a twinge of pain at this point for some reason, I think... but immediately afterwards, I felt so much wiser and older. Then the white light faded, I saw you, but I was very weak after the evolution and lost consciousness…"
He hesitated.
"You know, it's weird – when I think back at my Charmanderhood, it feels so… childish."
Suddenly he looked straight at Mark, meeting his eyes.
"It's strange… why did I just want you to train me back there? Why wasn't I suspicious of you for a single moment? Not that I am now," he added quickly, "but… I mean, what if you had been a bad trainer and abused me or something? It was a stupid thing to do, just accepting you as my trainer immediately because you told me you saved my life. Don't take me wrong, I mean… of course you are trustworthy, but what did I know then? You could've been somebody… bad."
Mark had no answer to that. Charmeleon didn't appear to be expecting one, either; it was more like he was thinking out loud.
"Well, I was lucky. Really lucky." Charmeleon smiled faintly at Mark and then turned away again.
"Do you feel like doing some more junior trainer wiping?"
They grinned at each other; both knew the answer.
"Come on," Mark said, holding Charmeleon's Pokéball forward. The red beam shot out of it, dissolving the Pokémon.
Mark hesitated for a moment. He had been in a rather hopeless situation earlier, mainly because his Pokémon's attacks were kind of weak compared to the ones the Legendaries knew. The only one with a halfway decent attack was Gyarados.
He remembered when he had seen the TMs and HMs at the Pokémart. He thought for a bit. Flamethrower was a TM. Earthquake was a TM. Return was a TM.
One good TM for each of his Pokémon except Gyarados would probably give him the edge.
Mark walked decisively towards the market. He went back to the shelf he remembered as containing the Technical and Hidden Machines. Ten years ago, Hidden Machines were really rare items. Now, you could buy them at Pokémon markets for around the same price as a TM – admittedly one-use only versions.
He browsed through the selection of CD covers. Each of them had a photo of a Pokémon performing the attack it contained, the TM or HM number, and the attack's name. He found TM35 for Flamethrower, TM26 for Earthquake and TM27 for Return; they were more expensive than the Potions and Pokéballs, but still relatively cheap. He made carefully sure to himself that these attacks would definitely work well; then he went to the counter to pay the punk dude.
After he got outside again, he let Charmeleon out.
"Charmeleon," he said in a formal tone, "are you willing to accept this Flamethrower as your first Technical Machine move?"
The Pokémon grinned. "I do," he then said seriously.
"Good," said Mark. He opened the CD cover carefully; even though he thought he knew how to use a TM, he checked the instructions with the disc carefully just to make sure. He then took it, and touched Charmeleon's head gently with it.
The CD's vibrant red slowly drained away from it, leaving it dull gray and useless and enveloping the Pokémon with a fiery glow. Charmeleon closed his eyes; the glow slowly sank into his skin.
It was done.
"Do you feel any wiser?" Mark questioned, not sure how exactly it was supposed to work.
"Sure do," said the Pokémon with a smile.
"Great. You can go back into your ball, then."
Mark held forward the Pokéball; Charmeleon was drained into it as a beam of red light from the button hit him. He took out the second ball.
"Sandshrew, go!"
Mark's Ground Pokémon appeared, curling into a scaly ball before even seeing whether he was in battle or not. Mark laughed.
"Oh, come on, you aren't going to get hurt, I'm just going to teach you a TM."
Sandshrew uncurled in an instant, looking unsurely up at his trainer. Mark felt a twinge of guilt; Sandshrew didn't trust him. Of course he didn't. Mark wouldn't trust somebody who kept letting him get injured, either.
"I'm… sorry about it all, you know," he said in a low voice. "I didn't mean to get you hurt so much."
"Shrew," the Pokémon said unhappily.
"Well… would you forgive me if I made sure you never lost a battle again?"
Sandshrew didn't answer.
"At least, I've got a TM for you. You know what that is, right?"
The armadillo Pokémon nodded faintly.
"Yeah, and it's Earthquake. That's a very, very powerful attack. You're going to do great with it."
Sandshrew had apparently heard of this devastating attack sometime among the Sandshrew he grew up with; he just nodded, quite a bit more confidently than he had ever looked before.
"So…" Mark took out the second CD cover, opened it and picked up the disc, "stand still and concentrate."
Sandshrew closed his eyes; Mark touched him with the CD, orangeish brown this time, and like before, the color faded from the disc and instead started circling Sandshrew in the form of energy. It then seeped through his hide. The armadillo shook himself powerfully, then looked back up at Mark with his beady black eyes, perhaps a bit less hopelessly than before.
"We'll beat those junior trainers now, right?" Mark said meaningfully.
"Sand," said the Pokémon, nodding.
"Good," said Mark, smiling, as he recalled the armadillo Pokémon.
Next off, it was Eevee. Mark took a deep breath.
"Go." The small brown furball emerged, looking curiously around and eying Mark intensely.
"Eevee, you don't know what a TM is, do you?"
Eevee shook his head.
"Well…" Mark found it so awkward to be explaining so many things to Eevee; why did he have to go through all this but not anybody else?
"See," he finally began, "Pokémon know moves. You know that, right?"
The Pokémon nodded.
"Yeah… and TMs… or Technical Machines… can be used to teach a Pokémon a move that it couldn't learn otherwise."
"Vi?" the small Pokémon questioned.
"Well, see – I take this disc," he removed the Return TM from the cover, "and when I touch you with it, your cells will react to it and then a complicated process starts, and basically, after it you'll be able to focus your power in a – er – new way."
Eevee nodded nervously.
"OK, then…" Mark took the disc and lightly made it touch Eevee's head. The Pokémon let out a small sound, but didn't move. His eyes closed; white orbs of energy drained from the disc and started circling Eevee slowly. They went faster and faster, and finally faded into Eevee's fur. He shivered, opened his eyes and moaned a little.
"Are you okay?" asked Mark concernedly. Eevee nodded a bit, shook himself vigorously and appeared to feel better afterwards.
"Now, uh… do you trust me?"
Eevee nodded.
"Then focus on it very carefully," Mark said, not sure how to explain the attack. Eevee screwed his eyes carefully shut, concentrating.
Slowly, a pinkish aura started emitting from Eevee. He let out a soft squeal of curiosity, probably feeling energy building up in his body.
"Great!" Mark cheered. "This attack is called Return. You basically do that, and then tackle the opponent. Okay?"
Eevee nodded nervously, the pink glow fading.
"Ready to go to the Gym?" Mark asked carefully.
"Vee," said Eevee decisively, nodding.
Mark was still not sure whether it would be right to use Eevee in battle.
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Casting Call for Ten Feet to the West (SCRAPPED)
Ten Feet to the West (SCRAPPED)
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About Ten Feet to the West (SCRAPPED)
Ten Feet to the West is an animated series created by...Me! Written and (hopefully) animated by Steel-Pineapples (Or on this website, gwalton5789).
Ten Feet to the West is about wolves and standing up for what is right. It's about three powerful sisters and their many friends on a journey towards equality in the pack. The sisters must face powerful obstacles- whether it be their enemies or their own minds, they will fight through thick and thin to become greatness. They will make unexpected friendships with a deer herd, cause an uprising, and eventually achieve glory.
Currently, the series is 26 episodes long. I have only written 26, but I plan on merging some episodes and making it about a total of 30. It is a dialogue-heavy series so I'm searching for some good ol' voice actors to help me out.
Currently, this casting call is only for the FIRST EPISODE. I am not casting any lead roles currently since those roles do not appear until episode 3. MOST of the roles posted below will re-appear in the series at later times, but, they are not main/lead roles by any means. This is simply a test run for me! I want to see how much attention the series attracts and how many auditions I receive. If I don't get enough, I will scrap the story. If it's getting a lot of attention, I will cast the episode and begin coloring and finishing up the episode's storyboard.
These roles are all unpaid roles and they are simply resume boosters and for fun. If you want to professionally voice act, look elsewhere. I am looking for talented (but not professional) individuals who are excited and dedicated to voicing my characters. Listed below are the roles for the episode.
Feel free to audition as many times as you'd like for any and every role! I also am that kind of director that double-casts roles, so it is in your best interest to audition for multiple roles.
Some pointers from me to you:
- Have a clear microphone please. A little bit of background noise will not kill you! But a lot can cost you a role. Just keep the noise to a minimum!
- Be dramatic, PLAY with the roles! I want someone who can experiment and enjoy the roles, not just read off lines like a robot. Even if you don't convey an emotion correctly, I LOVE to see the effort of emotion in auditions.
ROLES (In order of appearance):
- Narrator
- Ensemble
- Kiara
- Matt (Alpha)
- Floodfur
- Alphas (Ensemble)
- Rosalind (Alpha)
- The Sirens (Females 1, 2, and 3)
*Images will be added later, I am still working on official character reference sheets and designs. After all, my priority was on the lead roles first!
About the Creator: gwalton5789
Narrator can be any age, any gender, anything. But, the Narrator has a lot of class and sass to them. They almost act as comic relief during parts of the story, but, they also have to be serious at points. Ten Feet to the West is a tragedy of a story (Perhaps not on that level, but still sad), and the narrator must be able to show emotion and be serious at points.
Overall, they are peppy, firm, and confident, but have moments of sorrow and sympathy.
Welcome to the tragedy of Ten Feet to the West. Wait. I'm not doing a welcoming speech. Ugh.
Let's continue our scene...AND NO I AM NOT A DICTIONARY.
Well, this white wolf that you're seeing here is named Swan...The best hunter in all of the land...And her mother…
Alpha Ensemble
These wolves will not appear in later episodes. The alpha ensemble are voice actors voicing background alphas who have little choppy lines during the climax of the episode. They can have any voice type or range.
Thou has sinned and thou shall pay in due time. I dismiss my pack!
Excuse me, but I was just going to do my announcement.
These females represent Greek sirens who once lured sailors to their doom. At the end of the episode, they do just that with Floodfur. They are beautiful and have sweet, silky voices. They are charismatic and smooth and a bit lusty. They are downright evil however, so they need to have very sweet, beautiful voices with evil hidden inside.
I will be casting 3 separate people as the sirens, since there are 3 of them in the episode.
Yeah, come closer, so we can check out your...Muscles…
So...This is the mighty Floodfur?
Closer!
Rosalind (Alpha)
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She is the very first antagonist we will encounter. She is rude and will try to kill Alpha Matt, and declares war on the other packs. Rosalind is evil and will die, but, she will return as a spirit to reek havoc yet again. Rosalind should have a deeper voice with preferably a British accent. She sounds evil all the time- so break out your stereotypical villain voice, because that's what I want for Rosalind.
None of you have ever showed my pack nor I proper respect! We could be ruling you all!
Well, I will see you all on the battlefield.
Welcome to the Assembly of the Packs, wolves.
Swan is the mother to the lead-role sisters. Swan is a sweet, kind, and gullible wolf. She's young, foolish, and falls in love quickly (She is similar to Romeo from Romeo and Juliet). Swan is very gentle however, and has a smooth voice that is very mother-like and feminine. She's very shy but also determined throughout the series, and needs an actor who can convey lots of feelings.
Every respectable wolf knows to never kill a white stag. They are graceful spirits and it will bring incredibly bad luck to any pack that kills one.
I have to go. Goodbye, Floodfur...I hope to see you soon…
I think my pups are coming...And of course, he is nowhere to be seen. Ah!
Kiara is Swan's aunt and a senior of a wolf. She's old and tells a lot of stories, and will act as an ancestral guide in later episodes of the series. Kiara is funny, and has no boundaries. She curses quite a bit and says some falsehoods, but means well and loves Swan and her family very much.
She should have a raspy, breathy, elder voice, but she should still sound feminine and sweet. She's like a nice grandmother that just feeds you constantly. Kiara reminds me of the Nurse from Romeo and Juliet.
Oh, Swan! Did you bring that brother- that...Uh...My memory's fadin'. What's his name?
Well, a long time ago, these humans, who also lived in packs and dens, lived near us and the packs. They were so friendly to us, they even gave us massages and fed us their leftover deer meat.
I can't truly explain the imprinting feeling *Yawns* but you'll know when it happens.
I need one or two ensemble voice actors to voice background wolves in the series. In every episode, there is one wolf who has lines, but not enough for me to name them a character, and so they are ensemble. I preferably want a male and female ensemble voice actor to voice those background wolves. Any accents or voice types are acceptable!
What? Swan, aren't you going to catch that?
I'll get used to eating tree bark.
Matt (Alpha)
Matt only appears in this episode. He is the alpha of Swan's pack and gives information about upcoming topics for future episodes- he's basically a foreshadowing character. Matt has a strong, leader-like, loud voice and loves to talk a big game.
Attention, Sharp Mountain wolves. Some of you may have heard the rumors of the upcoming biennial Assembly of the Packs. I've come to stop those rumors in their pawsteps. And, it's true.
Floodfur
Floodfur is the father to the lead-role sisters and the mate to Swan. He's a talented fighter and a strong wolf, and WILL appear in later episodes. Floodfur is like a gentleman, but he has a raspy sort of voice and is very hardworking. He's confident and pretty quiet generally, and dreams big. He's also a bit sappy and has a lovey-dovey voice near the end of the episode when he is with Swan.
But I-I don't want to go to war. I want...I want to be with you, Swan.
I told you that I didn't want to go to battle. When I first became a fighter, I was so eager to fight and ready to be the best, when in reality, I just wanted to be loved…Then I met you.


By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com WAKEFIELD – Members of the Wakefield Township board voted Tuesday to back a resolution in support of Michigan townships having the option to present their board openings as nonpartisan on election ballots. The resolution is being distributed and collected by the Michigan Townships Association, in which Gogebic County has a branch. Township clerk Mandy Lake explained that persons seeking positions on the Wakefield Township board now run as a Democrat or a Republican, whereas if the system changed, there would be no need to declare any political affiliation. Lake was running the meeting in the absence of township supervisor John Cox. In other news, Lake also shared a written report by Cox on an area strategic planning meeting that he attended on March 18 at Gogebic Community College. Cox reported that he was the only township representative among 30 or so persons attending the meeting, which included folks from local businesses and city governments and from Aspirus Ironwood Hospital. The supervisor added that attendees broke into five groups to identify local concerns and then shared them with the room at large. According to Cox's report, his group identified the following five areas in need of attention: 1. Collaborating more effectively with townships, cities and schools 2. Tapping people with experience to train our workforce 3. Harnessing people with economic resources to help our schools and businesses 4. Hiring an economic development director 5. Improving internet and technology services A previous Globe story summarized a general meeting consensus that this region is challenged by poverty, a declining population, a lack of collaboration, and mismatched workforce skills. Cox's report stated that another strategic planning meeting will occur soon. The board also: –Voted to authorize Cox to sign contracts up to $50,000 for the Gogebic County Road Commission, as he has done in the past. –Voted to authorize Cox to re-hire Austin Ahonen and to hire Niko Hewitt as summer laborers at a cost of $10 per hour. The labor to be done will include grounds maintenance, brushing, spring clean-up and general cleanup. The boys also may participate in miscellaneous assignments, including a community survey for the township's pending new master plan. –Heard treasurer Joan Dalman report that the Michigan Townships Association seeks a fair distribution of potential funds to be garnered from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's proposed higher gas tax. Regarding taxes targeted for roads, Dalman said of MTA members, "They want more of the money to go to the local levels." The board's next regular meeting will be on May 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the Wakefield Township Hall at 414 N. County Road 519. The public is welcome.


The treatment of Aboriginal people by European settlers is the darkest chapter in Australia's history. And it remains a stain on our young nation: The far reaching consequences continue to be a defining factor in the relationship between black and white Australia. Over the last ten years, I photographed the lives of Kunwinjku and Yolgnu people in the Northern Territory. 'On Country in Arnhem Land' is the story of the first people of this land. It's about an everyday reality, where American rap music competes with the didgeridoo, the seductive pull of town life contends with the traditional homelands, and white man's law undermines respect for the elders and their ancient land.


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Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Publisher: Codemasters
Developer: Blue Omega
Release Date: May 26, 2009 (US), May 22, 2009 (EU)
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Codemasters Signs 'Damnation' (PS3/X360/PC)
by Rainier on March 3, 2008 @ 2:59 a.m. PST
Damnation features open environments, frenetic combat, daredevil acrobatics and high-octane vehicle-based stunts. Presenting players with an intense test of reflexes, quick thinking and rapid-fire conflict, Damnation will feature vast landscapes, each covering miles of distance and thousands of vertical feet.
Evolving the shooter genre with its unique and exhilarating combination of fluid action and combat, Damnation will feature huge, open environments, frenetic combat, daredevil acrobatics and high-octane vehicle-based stunts. Presenting players with an intense test of reflexes, quick thinking and rapid-fire conflict, Damnation will feature vast, breathtaking landscapes, each covering miles of distance and thousands of vertical feet.
Billed as a 'shooter gone vertical' and visually inspired by iconic elements of American history, these massive streaming landscapes will form the battlegrounds for a post-industrial conflict between humanity and an unstoppable arms dealer hell-bent on total world domination.
"We really wanted to do a Western game that leveraged the power of Epic's Unreal 3 technology," says Executive Producer Richard Gilbert, "but we found the purely historical setting far too limiting for the design we had in mind. By allowing technology to advance in some areas, but remain more primitive in others due to the ravages of a protracted war, we were able to create a fantastic Steampunk-style industrialized Old West worthy of Jules Verne. Throw in some American Indian mysticism in the form of Spirit Powers (for instance you can possess other people with the Spirit Vision ability), martial arts acrobatics learned from the Chinese Laborers who laid railroad tracks across the West, a really diverse band of Outlaws as the central characters, and a kick-ass story arc to propel the action forward, and even Artemus Gordon would be singing 'Can't Touch This.'"
Players will be able to choose their own paths and navigate the world by performing daredevil feats on the edge of human ability. However players aren't the only ones with mind-blowing acrobatic skills; intelligent enemies will give chase and engage players in frantic gun fights and attacks that can come from any direction – in Damnation's world there's no safe place to hide.
With up to three hours of actual gameplay stretching out in front of them per level, players will need more than just muscle power to get across each level safely. Damnation will offer players a selection of awe-inspiring vehicles, from motorbikes capable of launching across seemingly infinite chasms, to huge, armour-piercing marvels that will induce mayhem with every huge shell.
The high action will be supported with an epic and in-depth story which, while focusing on the exploits of the hero character Rourke, is truly an ensemble piece. Players will meet and become involved in intricate story plots that reveal much more than the obvious.
In addition to the single player experience, Damnation comes complete with a unique set of multiplayer options that take full advantage of the game's expansive levels.
"With such a rich and uniquely diverse visual environment to create for next generation graphics hardware," Gilbert continued, "we knew we would need a top partner to manage art direction. We are thrilled to have signed industry leading art and animation studio Liquid Development to that role." Liquid Development's work has been featured in blockbusters like Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Mass Effect, and Rock Band, amongst many more.
Blue Omega Entertainment, awarded second place in 2005's Make Something Unreal Contest Grand Finals, secured the services of veteran development studio Demiurge as the lead programming group for Damnation. Demiurge Studios team members have worked on over 40 shipped titles over the past 10 years, and its repeat customers include among others, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Majesco, Gearbox, Secret Level, Foundation 9 and Harmonix.
Damnation is currently scheduled for Winter 2008.
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Passion Pit: The Personal and the Political
The personal is political. That's the type of mantra one becomes aware of when studying performance art. In it's original...
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Is the novel dead?
In the wake of postmodernism, especially in America, from Don DeLilo to David Foster Wallace to Mark Z. Danielewski, the traditional novel appears to be dying. The question is, has it died? If not, why not, and what makes the novel the novel and what keeps it alive?
I would not have said that the novel was even close to dead. I haven't seen any sort of sign that novels are on their way out, but that's my perspective. I'm curious: What makes you say that the novel is dead? What do you even mean by dead? – OddballGentleman 5 years ago
I agree with OddballGentleman. If you were to write this topic, I'd suggest maybe talking about the reasons why you think novels are dying/dead. Does it have to do with other forms of entertainment (ex: film, tv)? What have you read/seen that makes you ask this question? – kcutler 5 years ago
I definitely don't think the novel is, or ever will be, dead. What is probably on the way out is the printed word which could be just as sad. – Catherine Conte 5 years ago
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The idea of viewers being desensitized to sexual violence is an interesting one, especially with HBO shows that often use violence and sex both for plot and thematic exploration, but even more so with Game of Thrones. To my mind, GoT is a show that relies on shock value, and the structure of its seasons like "episode nine has a major character death" or "episode 10 uses magic" and the problem to my mind seems to be that they're running out of characters to kill and so sexual violence becomes the way to shock viewers now that they're running out of potential for character deaths.
Sexual Assault in HBO's Game of Thrones
Nonfictions books on writing are always tough for me to stomach, often because it seems people that write them have rarely written anything else. One thing that might be interesting is a list of fiction books that reflect stages of the writing process.
Essential Books for Writers
I agree with some of this, and given the abstraction of writer's block, the actual finding of inspiration is a strange thing to quantify, and the time being now seems difficult given that inspiration is quite fleeting more often than not. More often than not for me it tends to be that I either have the inspiration for the idea, but no motivation to write it, or motivation to write something but no inspiration for any ideas I'm currently working on. Anybody else deal with that sort of strange writing pendulum?
Attention Writers: The Myth of Writer's Block


Washington DC - The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is announcing it will open the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Examination to interested applicants in the near future by posting a job opportunity announcement on USAJOBS.
ALJs serve as impartial arbiters at regulatory and benefits-granting agencies. Individuals who are interested in applying are urged to monitor the USAJOBS website in the coming weeks. A notice will also be posted on the OPM ALJ website.
The ALJ examination involves a full review of applicant qualifications, including specific legal experience and bar status, and a multi-part assessment of relevant competencies, through the use of online, proctored and in-person assessments. Applicants who pass the preliminary qualification screening and proceed past an online assessment process will then be scheduled to participate in the proctored and in-person assessments in the Washington, DC, area.
By applying for the ALJ examination, applicants are essentially applying to be placed on a register (i.e., a list of eligibles), not for a specific job at a specific agency. The ALJ register is a list of applicants who are eligible for selection as an entry-level ALJ. It is used to make referrals, based on final scores and location choices, to agencies for employment consideration when they have entry level ALJ vacancies to fill. In order to be placed on the register, an applicant must meet the qualification requirements, successfully complete all components of the ALJ examination and receive a final numerical rating.


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Inside Germany's biggest refugee camp in disused Tempelhof Airport developed by Nazis and housing 13,000 migrants which cops raided in hunt for Berlin terror suspect
Developed by the Nazis, Tempelhof Airport is now home to around 13,000 refugees who live in cramped conditions
By MARK HODGE
THE disused airport which was home to the Pakistani migrant arrested - who has now been cleared- after the deadly Berlin lorry attack is now Germany's biggest refugee camp.
Tempelhof Airport has been raided by German cops following the Christmas market assault which killed 12 people.
The former Tempelhof airport in Berlin is now accommodation for refugees. File pictureCredit: Getty Images
The airport was adapted to house 7,000 migrants. File pictureCredit: Getty Images
Adolf Hitler arrives at Tempelhof Airport, which was built in 1923 and developed by the NazisCredit: AP:Associated Press
Cops swooped on a refugee camp at a defunct airport, it has been reportedCredit: AP:Associated Press
The former travel hub, which was built in 1923 and developed by the Nazis, houses around 13,000 migrants waiting for permanent accommodation.
Rows and rows of temporary box rooms line the corridors with as many as 12 people sharing a 270 square foot cabin.
While Tempelhof's occupants are only meant to stay for around six weeks, many refugees have been there for over six months due to a lack of housing.
TERROR IN GERMANY
Who was driving the Berlin Christmas market attack lorry and why was Breitscheidplatz targeted?
UK on LOCKDOWN
SAS troops in major Brit cities as security is stepped up across country with terror attack 'highly likely'
'WE SAW A CHILD UNDER THE TRUCK'
Tourists describe seeing 'rivers of blood' as the truck atrocity unfolded
WORLD'S MOST WANTED
Manhunt for truck terrorist amid fears of more attacks as bungling cops wrongly arrested suspect
What caused the Berlin Xmas crash, where is Breitscheidplatz and what do we know so far?
Earlier this year, Vice visited the facility and spoke to the migrants living in the crammed conditions.
Sayed, 37, from Afghanistan, revealed that living in Tempelhof was affecting his mental health.
He said: "I've been here for just over four months. I have no idea what will happen next, or how long I'll be living here. Living here isn't good – especially for my mental state.
"We're having issues with integrating too – there has been no news about an integration course we were supposed to have.
"I'm living with two other families in my cubicle, 12 people in total."
An aerial view of the box cabins which house up to 12 people eachCredit: Getty Images
A woman is pictured walking among cabins which are covered in graffitiCredit: Getty Images
Wooden bunk beds are pictured in the cramped box roomsCredit: Getty Images
Some people living in the former airport complain that the conditions are affecting their mental healthCredit: Getty Images
Two brothers, Hamza, 28 and Akram, 16, from Syria had been living in the camp for over six months.
They told Vice that they are not treated like human beings since coming to Germany.
The siblings also complained about not being able to bring their own food or milk into the former airport.
An Afghan mother named Nadia spoke about the difficulties of raising her four children in the camp.
She admitted that her young daughter has a mental illness and the noisy conditions are making her condition worse.
She said: "My children aren't able to study here when they get out of school, but they are learning German and I'm really happy for them."
Nadia also said her young son finds it hard to make friends in the camp and is struggling to integrate.
Asylum seekers from Afghanistan sit in a cubicle they share with other family members in Hangar 7 at the former airportCredit: Getty Images
Children are pictured walking among the facility's cabinsCredit: Getty Images
Now used as a refugee camp, Tempelhof Airport was developed by the Nazis in the 1930sCredit: Getty Images
Hitler speaks to propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels at Tempelhof AirportCredit: Getty Images
Goebbels boards a plane at the airport in 1936Credit: Getty Images
Tempelhof Aiport closed amid controversy in 2008 before being made into an emergency refugee camp in 2015Credit: Reuters
The airport closed down several years ago but the buildings sprawl over a vast area and parts of it were turned over to house refugees in the capital.
Media reports said the man, named only as Navid B, who was initially suspected of carrying out the truck attack, was living there.
However it has since been reported that cops have arrested the wrong man and the suspect is still at large.
On Monday, a lorry ploughed through shoppers at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least 12 people and injuring over fifty.
The rampage took place in Breitscheidplatz, a major public square in the West of the city, and is thought to be the first full-scale jihadi attack to hit Germany.
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We are on the threshold of a new world in which it will no longer be possible to understand or address the educational needs of any society within the narrow context of an inherited or fixed national identity and culture. The global movement toward democracy, free market economies, and multicultural societies could potentially reshape the character of communities and lives of people worldwide. Transformative events from every area of the world—Chernobyl, the fall of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the enactments of NAFTA and GATT, the transition to post-apartheid South Africa, the rise of the World Wide Web connecting humanity, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the fierce competition for oil among a growing number of nations—remind us that the world is quickly becoming a smaller and smaller place in which to live. This new globalism makes it imperative for all nations to expand the intercultural-international dimensions of their educational institutions, businesses, government agencies, and communities—with an eye toward preparing their citizens and communities for more integrated and interdependent economies and societies of the future.
It is significant, therefore, that GIBBS is designed to embrace diversity in education within a global context—with the aim of building better schools by preparing a new and more diverse generation of teachers and educational leaders who possess the international and cross-cultural perspective that is essential to build, steward, and serve the educational systems and institutions of the future, both at home and abroad.
Because the global village has come of age, the youth of all countries must now acquire the intercultural skills and competencies to function effectively—and they must, therefore, also be afforded a chance to recreate their society and their relationships with the rest of the world. More than ever, primary and secondary schools throughout the world must cultivate in their students a deep-rooted understanding of, and appreciation for, other languages, diverse cultures and value systems, and issues that are domestic as well as global—poverty, human rights, child welfare, economic growth and competition, environmental pollution, climate change, natural resources preservation, terrorism, nuclear weapons, and social justice and peace.
In the U.S., for example, so much of our success depends on events taking place elsewhere in the world—or in the isolated realities of our nation's diverse intercultural communities—that it is now impossible to attend to our domestic needs without an understanding of their intercultural and international context. At a minimum, then, we must encourage and enable American youth to bring about greater intercultural harmony throughout the U.S. by acquiring a greater understanding of different cultures both at home and abroad. This requires us to rethink and ultimately to change what is taught in our nation's primary and secondary schools, how it is taught, and who teaches it. All the nations of the world confront similar challenges for their own youth, and they must therefore be active participants in the unique and urgently needed work of GIBBS, which is to build better schools for the increasingly diverse societies of the future.


WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is assessing the damage after a partial dry-dock collapse at General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard sent seawater through the hull cuts into the expeditionary sea base Miguel Keith that is under construction there, according to a statement from Naval Sea Systems Command provided to Defense News.
The July 11 incident occured after the barrier that keeps the water out of the dry dock collapsed, San Diego fire officials told ABC 10 News. There were no injuries.
The full extent of the damage caused is unknown, said NAVSEA spokeswoman Colleen O'Rourke, but the ship is stable.
"On July 11, General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD-NASSCO) reported a flooding incident in its graving dock where Miguel Keith (ESB 5) is currently under construction," the statement read. "The ship floated off the docking blocks and took on water through hull cuts that were made to support the ship's construction and outfitting.
The ESB ships are designed to support foward forces carrying cargo, fuel, vehicles and other heavy equipment.


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Developer uses Google Cloud to calculate 31 trillion digits of pi, a world record
Kyle Wiggers@Kyle_L_Wiggers	 March 14, 2019 12:00 AM
Above: Emma Haruka Iwao
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It's March 14 (3/14), also known as Pi Day, an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π, first approximated by Babylonians and Egyptians about 4,000 years ago and later more precisely by Greek mathematicians. It's coincidentally Albert Einstein's birthday (1879) and the day of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking's death (2018). And this year it marks the first time someone's calculated more than 31 trillion digits of pi — 31,415,926,535,897, to be exact — with cloud computing.
That's quite a step up from the approximately 500 digits known around the start of the 20th century and the 17.5 million digits American mathematician and programmer Bill Gosper reached in 1985. And compared with the previous record — 22.4 trillion digits, set by Peter Trueb in 2016 — it's an increase of almost 10 trillion digits.
Google Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao accomplished the feat with Compute Engine on Google Cloud, according to Google, which detailed her work in a blog post this morning. Under the tutelage of Daisuke Takahashi, associate professor at the University of Tsukuba's Center for Computational Sciences, Iwao and colleagues set a multithreaded pi benchmarking app y-cruncher loose on a 170-terabyte calculation across 25 Google Cloud virtual machines for a total of 121 days. (Fun fact: The data set was roughly equivalent in size to the entire Library of Congress' print collections.) Her effort was a success — the final result was correct — and she's published the computed digits on disk snapshots for anyone to copy.
"When I was a kid, I didn't have access to supercomputers. But even if you don't work for Google, you can apply for various scholarships and programs to access computing resources," Iwao said. "I was very fortunate that there were Japanese world record holders that I could relate to myself. I'm really happy to be one of the few women in computer science holding the record, and I hope I can show more people who want to work in the industry what's possible."


It is that time of year again – all the blog posts, radio stories, and articles about "Meeting your Goals in 2018!" and "Be Your Best You in 2018!" – and we have opinions. Many, many opinions. We also talk about strategies for doing a yearly review, celebrating your successes as they happen, and not feeling like a failure in February. After all that, we interview friend of the show Bertha Tang, and talk about how she stays organized.


India's stock markets are most likely to open in negative territory on Wednesday following the declines in the American stock markets with Dow Jones Industrial Average erasing all the gains added in the current year 2018.
India's stock markets are most likely to open in negative territory on Wednesday following the declines in the American stock markets with Dow Jones Industrial Average erasing all the gains added in the current year 2018. According to a Reuters report, most of the stocks in Asia rebounded from recent losses on Wednesday as investors sought bargains, a day after the spectre of a U.S.-China trade war drove down bond yields, and share and commodity prices. The early indicator of NSE Nifty, SGX Nifty Futures was trading little changed, down 0.01% at 10,725.5 on the Singapore Exchange on Wednesday.
Oberoi Realty: Oberoi Realty has raised Rs 1,200 crore by sale of shares to institutional investors.
Cipla: Cipla has received approval from the US health regulator to market Efavirenz tablets, used to treat HIV-1 infections in adults.
SAIL: SAIL (Steel Authority of India Ltd) has supplied 60,000 tonnes steel for 111 km long Jiribam-Imphal broad gauge railway project in Manipur.
RIL, Infosys, Vedanta, Maruti Suzuki and SBI: Earlier yesterday, following the market-wide sell-off on the back of trade war jitters, industry heavyweight stocks such as Reliance Industries (RIL), Infosys, IndusInd Bank, State Bank of India (SBI), Maruti Suzuki, M&M, Vedanta, Sun Pharma and L&T plunged more than 1% and contributed heavily to Sensex losses. On a collective basis, these nine stocks alone wiped off about 199 points out of the 261.52- point drop in BSE Sensex.


The Pohnpei State Historic Preservation Office and NGO Pasifika Renaissance launched a new radio program, "Nahlikend En Leng," in Pohnpei on 25 April. This is the second collaborative project of the two organizations, as we began to film Pohnpeian elders' stories together to share on YouTube (https://goo.gl/gmoiEo) from last year.
This weekly program is aired on V6AH at 8 PM every day. We read aloud Pohnpeian legends, tales, and historical accounts in the Pohnpeian language and broadcast Pohnpeian elders' stories recorded during our video documentation project. The name of the program, "Nahlikend En Leng," is the honorific title of paret (in Pohnpeian) or brown noddy tern (Anous stolidus). The bird bears news, both good and bad, such as the loss of a loved one or other important happenings.
Many older Pohnpeians have fond childhood memories of listening to stories told by elderly relatives before bed. This practice, however, has been largely lost in Pohnpei due to the spread of new media, such as videos and games and the decline of the younger generation's interest in traditional culture.
In Pohnpei, the radio (V6AH) is currently the only media covering the whole island of Pohnpei and its outer islands. This program aims to pass down important Pohnpeian stories to the younger generation and promote the importance of cultural heritage. We hope the program will spark conversations about their culture and history during family gatherings and sakau sessions.
If you are not in Pohnpei, you can listen our programs on YouTube (https://goo.gl/ykK9CZ). We would like to thank the Pohnpeian elders, COM-FSM Library, Department of Education, and Pohnpei Public Broadcasting Corporation (V6AH) for their assistance. If you like to contribute stories to our radio program and video documentation project, please phone us at +691-320-2652.


Antigo notched another road win on Thursday night, rounding out its schedule against GNC opponent Tomahawk for the year with a 5-1 win as part of new one-and-done conference matchups of the Red Robins against smaller program opponents.
The new scheduling, which has seen Antigo play both Medford and Tomahawk for the first and last times now this season, came into effect this year.
"A few of the teams agreed at the conference meeting in February of 2016 to drop to a one game schedule based on that option that was implemented into the GNC in February of 2015. A couple of other teams I reached out to personally this past spring/summer. At the end of the day the main reason agreements where collaboratively made was for the best interest of both teams. This allows both teams the opportunity to go out and schedule games that are in the best interest of the players development, while also maintaining conference rivalries," Coach Matt Borneman explained.
Adam Schmidt and CJ Levis picked up a pair of goals each while Tyler Husnick recorded three assists and the opening score for Antigo.
The Robins pounded Hatchets goaltender Shawn Dirkx with 63 total shots, of which he made 58 saves. Jordan Tomaszewski picked up Tomahawk's lone goal in third period unassisted.
"You have to give it to Tomahawk for playing hard for a full 51 minutes and also to their goalie for playing an outstanding game," Borneman said about the Hatchets.
After playing the likes of storied programs such as Stevens Point and Superior in the past two weeks, the win over Tomahawk comes at a time when the Robins' coaching stuff wishes to develop its players early in the hopes for a push at the end of regular season and going into the postseason.
"I feel we are struggling to learn from the lessons we encountered in earlier games. If we want to be in a position to make a run come playoffs we can't afford to take step backwards. And unfortunately last night was a giant step in the wrong direction," Borneman also added.
Antigo travels to Lakeland, another one-game GNC opponent, next Thursday, Dec. 15 at 7 pm.


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