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The Role of Tribe in EVE
Gwailar
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New Eden is a brutal place.
Scamming, theft, betrayal – a whole world of bad behavior – are part of the very fabric of this game, and because at each end of every transaction there are real people, the line between simulated bad behavior and actual sin can at least feel pretty thin some time. The loss (of time, money, or effort) is real enough.
What results is a moral tension in this game of ours, the tension between being a bad person in game while presumably trying to remain a good person outside of it. How can we hurt, and exploit, and take advantage of people inside the game without having our real life character outside the game tainted in some way?
I believe the answer lies in the concept of Tribe.
When I first arrived in EVE in 2008, as a long-time white knight RPGer, I brought my white-knight perspective with me. I wanted to be play EVE the "right" way – to be honorable, noble, and just. At the same time (perhaps because MMOs were newer to me then), I was extremely conscious that on the other end of every interaction was an actual human being who was working just as hard for his ISK and ships as I was. I wouldn't scam a person out of their ISK any more than I would steal their real-life money. The thought horrified me. I sneered at rules of engagement like NBSI as unethical and beneath me. I dreamed of being part of a successful NRDS nullsec community and proving to myself and everyone else that that was the best way to play the game.
Then, in 2016, I was ganked by a Goon while minding my own business in my little Condor. It left me broke and furious, ready to unsub once again and quit this game I could never quite figure out. I fired off an angry EVE mail directly to The Mittani – which he promptly forwarded to his entire alliance, publicly sharing my bitter tears with thousands of players.
That was the moment in which my understanding of ethics in EVE began to turn, and my mailbox begin to fill with letters. Some were of the HTFU variety, but many more were like this: "If you join KarmaFleet hit me up and I will send you 100 Million to start. Enjoy the game we are all about fun." Through those letters I came to understand that killing me wasn't personal; it was simply a function of the Sararen hellcamp I knew nothing about. The Imperium was fighting for survival, and I was a neutral near Saranen station. NBSI.
The reality of EVE is this: Despite it's high-tech, sci-fi veneer, EVE is actually a ruthless simulation of a world before civilization – a world in which there are no laws, no safety nets, no societies. There is only the land and the weather – nature red in tooth and claw – and you will either survive, or you won't. In such an environment, survival becomes the only goal, and the key to survival is friends around you. The Tribe is the inevitable structural unit.
The moral law of the Tribe is simple and elegant: loyalty within, ruthlessness without. In a ruthless environment where weakness is always a liability, ruthlessness is the surest path to survival. The surest path to ensuring the Tribe stays strong is to ensure others stay weaker. We will scam, cheat, steal, kill; whatever helps us to survive. But, under no circumstances will we permit these things to be done to each other. A crime against the Tribe is a crime against your own survival. "Goonfucking" is (for Goons) the one unpardonable sin.
This law of the Tribe explains why I have found within the Imperium absolute warmth, camaraderie, and professionalism, and at the same time an organization that is known for scamming and ganking any and all outsiders. It's simply the law of the Tribe. If you're blue, you're blue. If you're not, you're dirt. We're here to survive, and if you're not with us, you're nothing more than competition for limited resources. (Karmafleet is recruiting!)
But there's still that moral tension between the real world and the game. We don't actually live in a pre-civilized world. The actual people who play the game are all part of a civilized world that attempts to operate on humane principles. What's more, every EVE player is part of another Tribe – the Tribe of EVE players. Together, we all – regardless of which alliance, or coalition, or region in which we play – depend upon a not-invincible organism called EVE Online, the preservation of which in large part falls to us.
And the same law of the Tribe applies: "A crime against the Tribe is a crime against your own survival."
Navigating the line between the two Tribes (the in-game Tribe and the out-of-game Tribe) is not always straightforward and simple. Not long ago, I wrote a pro-Imperium propaganda rant on Reddit. An experienced PAPI propagandist replied with good wishes and an offer of assistance. "Chart your own path, I will be your #1 cheerleader." My reply – written in an out-of-game forum to another human being – overflowed with the loyalties of my in-game Tribe:
"Your locusts are in my house. Pardon me, but your jolly cheerleading doesn't mean shit to me."
Imperium to PAPI, that's exactly how I feel. But one EVE player who likes to write to another? My message would be completely different. As we go forward with this #hellwar, my fondest wish is to see PAPI fail and Legacy, in particular, crumble in ashes. Your locusts are in my house. Survival is all that matters. But then . . . not TOO much . . .
We're all the same Tribe after all, and a crime against you is a crime against my own survival.
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Gwailar first tried EVE in 2008. In 2016 during the Saranen hellcamp he joined Karmafleet. An analyst by nature, he focused on the strategic and metagame aspects of EVE. He permanently quit the game in May 2022.
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Yes, you hit upon the very important point of dual loyalty. Loyalty to the "Tribe-Alliance" often requires ruthlessness which can conflict with loyalty to the "Tribe-EVE Online." This particular war has, I think, seen a shift in that duality. If this were an old-fashioned scales, the Tribe-Alliance loyalty now seems much more heavily weighted and Tribe-EVE loyalty is so lightly weighted that I was prompted to write my own article awhile back about the point of no return–the turning point where our Tribe-Alliance loyalty so outweighs our Tribe-EVE loyalty that we would gladly ruin the game to maintain the Tribe. I read one comment somewhere that went like this: "I would gladly ruin the game if I was still standing five minutes after Vily crashed and burned." I think what has happened in EVE since last July will have ripples for many years and it may take a very long time to see the scales of loyalty rebalanced, if they ever are.
Seir Luciel
I would also argue that people contain a social instinct inseparable from the instinct to survive. "No man is an island" as they say; people congregate into communities not only for the sake of defense and protection but also because community is a human need.
The following passage is by the biologist Peter Kropotkin in his text Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution:
"In the animal world we have seen that the vast majority of species live in societies, and that they find in association the best arms for the struggle for life . . .The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay. . . . In the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support — not mutual struggle — has the leading part. In its wide extension, even at the present time, we also see the best guarantee of a still loftier evolution of our race."
I think the concepts of mutual aid and an inherent social instinct is vastly overlooked in discussions of EVE, and should supplement our discussion of EVE tribe formation along with the need for survival. The need to survive isn't the only reason Goons don't scam other Goons: they also need to feel they belong.
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Rethinking Judaism in the Ancient World
March 22, 2014 /in Christian Historiography, Early Christians /by Cassandra J. Farrin
Judaism was both more diverse and more deeply connected with surrounding cultures than we might think. Jodi Magness, the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, challenged attendees of Westar's Spring 2014 national meeting to make some common-sense connections between what we know about how ancient empires worked and what we know about Jewish history. She brought several important insights to life through sharing recent discoveries from her excavation work in a small village called Huqoq in Galilee (read summaries on Jodi's website about important finds from 2011 and 2012, and how you can support the project).
Ancient political and religious leaders may have said an awful lot about how things ought to be—but that doesn't mean the rest of the community listened. Sometimes we rely so heavily on ancient literature to understand the past that we fail to take into account the stories told by the fragments left behind by daily life. Archaeological finds in the past century have cracked open our view beyond rabbinical and other writings to a larger world.
In the fourth to sixth centuries CE in Galilee and other parts of Palestine, Jews and Christians lived in separate villages. Villages had either a church or synagogue but not both, along with other less dramatic but no less important evidence, such as the presence of mikvaot (ritual baths) in the Jewish villages. This has been documented in multiple sites across the region, including in Huqoq. Urban areas, by contrast, had mixed populations. Yet we shouldn't jump to conclusions about inhabitants' relative access to the larger world. In fact, the evidence at Huqoq demonstrates that the village traded successfully and lucratively, so much so that the inhabitants were able to commission exquisite mosaics on the floor of their synagogue.
The content of the mosaics is also fascinating, and exemplifies how one community used their material resources to say something about who they were and what they hoped for the future. To share just one example, at least two mosaics in the Huqoq synagogue depict scenes of Samson. But why Samson? Was he a local hero? No. What else, then? Christians had a generally positive view of Samson because of Hebrews 11:32–33, 39–40. In fact, Augustine even compared Samson to Christ. But what about Jewish communities?
As it turns out, not all Jewish communities thought alike. Rabbinic literature in this period generally portrayed Samson in a negative light because he fooled around with non-Israelite women, but other rabbinic literature played up the similarity of Samson's name to the word "sun," a common metaphor for the messiah. The Samson mosaic in Huqoq also plays with messianic imagery, but not at all in the way the Christians were doing it. In the mosaic Samson is a giant who towers over his enemies, even though the Bible never describes him that way. He is also dressed like a Roman soldier. What we have, then, is an image of a warrior messiah of gigantic proportions triumphing over his enemies.
If we were to rely solely on rabbinic literature from this era, we might be tempted to think the Samson-messiah motif is a fringe notion without much support. Discoveries like this one at Huqoq and another Samson mosaic a few miles away in Khirbet Wadi Hamam call that into question. Importantly, they remind us of the diversity of early Jewish communities and also of the fragmentary nature of our access to the past.
Last but not least, we can also see that the images of Huqoq's desired messiah and the Christian proclamation of messiah are interrelated, and we can remember that these are communities that touch one another. These are communities that jostle for meaning, authority, and authenticity. As Jodi observed in a separate lecture about burial practices in an earlier historical period, Jewish communities did not necessarily reject the fashions and trends of the broader culture, even of colonizing powers. Around the time of Jesus, for example, Jews were readily adopting Roman household decorations and burial practices, and integrating them into their own daily life. There is no need to claim Judaism as a stark category, a definite "other" against which we define all other cultural groups who shared their world. There was no monopoly on Jewishness in the ancient world, anymore than there is today.
We want to express our gratitude to Jodi Magness for sharing her work at the national meeting, and encourage you to continue to follow her project in Huqoq, which promises to be an important contribution to our knowledge of the ancient world.
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Q: how to simulate turns between players using while loops in Python So I am making a simple tic tac toe game and I am having difficulty trying to figure out how to make sure that each player's moves alternate. I tried using two while loops with a boolean value which is supposed to change once each loop is executed. I'm not sure why but this doesn't work, only resulting in one iteration of each while loop and then it stopping. Below is my code. Can anyone help tell me how to fix this so they alternate and if there is a simpler way to do this?
moves = 0
first_player_move = True

while first_player_move is True:
    print("It's the first player's move")
    if ask_for_move("O") is True:
        if 3 <= moves <= 5:
            if check_if_won("O") is True:
                print("The first player won. Congrats! Game over")
                return
            elif moves ==5:
                print("The game ended in a tie.")
                return
            else:
                first_player_move = False
        else:
            moves +=1
            first_player_move = False

    elif ask_for_move("O") is False:
        continue

while first_player_move is False:
    print("It's the second player's move")
    if ask_for_move("X") is True:
        if check_if_won("X") is True:
            print("The second player won. Congrats! Game over")
            return
        else:
            first_player_move = True

    elif ask_for_move("X") is False:
        continue

For context, ask_for_move() is a function that takes in the player's symbol as the argument and returns True if they make a valid move and False if they don't.

A: Try putting both while loops in another loop like this
while True:
   while first_player_move is True:
       # Your stuff here
   while first_player_move is False:
       # More of your stuff

Code is sequential, so the program will execute the first while loop, then exit, execute the second while loop, exit, and then since there is no other code it is exiting the whole program. This will force it so reevaluate the while statements indefinitely

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Луцій Еквіцій (; помер 10 грудня 100 року до н. е.) — давньоримський політичний діяч, обраний народним трибуном на 99 рік до н. е. Був союзником Луція Аппулея Сатурніна і загинув разом з ним.

Походження
У античних авторів немає єдиної думки про походження Луція Еквіція. За словами Цицерона, він вирвався з колодок та ергастула; рабом-втікачем називає його Аппіан. Ця версія явно сходить до чуток, що розповсюджували політичні супротивники Еквіція. Більш пізні автори воліють говорити про темне походження. Так, Луцій Анней Флор називає Луція «людиною, яка не належала до якої-небудь триби, нікому не відома, без родового імені».

Життєпис
У 102 році до н. е. Луцій Еквіцій оголосив, що насправді він — син Тіберія Семпронія Гракха, і отримав підтримку політика-демагога Луція Аппулея Сатурніна. Автор твору «Про знаменитих людей» стверджує навіть, що Сатурнін і намовив Еквіція стати самозванцем, щоб надалі використовувати його для залучення симпатій плебсу.

Ворог Луція Аппулея Квінт Цецилій Метелл Нумідійський, який тоді обіймав посаду цензора, відмовився включати новоявленого Гракха до списку римських громадян. Тоді на народні збори, що підтримували Еквіція, була викликана передбачувана тітка претендента на громадянство — вдова Сципіона Еміліана Семпронія. Вона не підкорилася кричущому натовпу, який вимагав, щоб Семпронія поцілувала самозваного племінника, і «відштовхнула це чудовисько». З усім тим вже в 100 році до н. е. Луцій Еквіцій завдяки підтримці Сатурніна та доброї пам'яті, яку плебс зберіг про Тіберія Гракха, домігся свого обрання народним трибуном. Незадовго до цього він був заарештований за наказом Гая Марія, але його звільнив натовп.

Незабаром сталося загострення конфлікту між сенатом і Сатурніном. Останній, оголошений вбивцею одного з кандидатів в консули Гая Меммія і бунтівником, очолив відкритий виступ, зазнав поразки у вуличних боях і втік на Капітолій. Еквіцій був разом з ним. Прихильники сенату перерізали водопровід, так що обложеним довелося здатися. Командувач переможців Гай Марій дав їм гарантії безпеки і помістив під охороною до Гостілієвої курії. Але натовп представників аристократії, які не довіряли Марію, увірвався в будівлю і перебив бранців дубинами. Згідно з Флором, це був «народ», згідно з Павлом Оросієм — вершники. Інші джерела стверджують, що вбивці залізли на дах і закидали Сатурніна та інших черепицею, але версії Оросія і Флора дослідники вважають більш вірогідними.

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Apple Discounts Dongles as Pros Lament USB-C
by Nate Swanner Nov 7, 2016 3 min read
[caption id="attachment_138142" align="aligncenter" width="3317"] Apple MacBook Pro Dongles[/caption] Apple's move toward an all-Thunderbolt MacBook Pro has been polarizing. Some don't care, while others hate the idea of having to reconfigure their own desktop setups. With its latest move, Apple is at least meeting everyone halfway. Depending on which new MacBook Pro you buy, you're left with either two or four Thunderbolt 3 ports. The 13-inch models (both Touch Bar and traditional) have two Thunderbolt ports on the left side, while the larger 15-inch model has two on either side of the machine. Another oddity is the disparity of the port count. Legacy MacBooks have the same ports regardless of screen size, but the newest devices force you to upgrade to the 15-inch model to get the full compliment of ports. It's akin to Apple's move with the iPhone 7, when it dropped the audio jack in favor of a Lightning port. That has led to many users moving to Android or seeking legacy handsets such as the iPhone 6S. In a similar fashion, some MacBook Pro users are wondering whether they should move to a PC or hang onto their older MacBook Pro until the latter really kicks the bucket. Apple has summarily created a consumer-base that is openly questioning its loyalty... or at least the 'pro' users are. The reason behind all of this consternation? Dongles. Fun to say but fussy to use, dongles are the Band-Aid on a problem Apple created for itself and its users. Though they add a level of extensibility (more on that in a minute), the knee-jerk reaction is that dongles are just more stuff to keep track of, and that Apple is playing the nickel-and-dime game for additional revenue:
Apple Makes concession for MacBook Pro
Apparently in response to the outcry surrounding Thunderbolt 3/USB-C, Apple has discounted its lineup of dongles for a short time. If you buy a dongle before the end of the year, they're between 20 and 50 percent off. Not bad. The company's stated goal with the move is to "help" us move into the future:
We recognize that many users, especially pros, rely on legacy connectors to get work done today and they face a transition. We want to help them move to the latest technology and peripherals, as well as accelerate the growth of this new ecosystem. Through the end of the year, we are reducing prices on all USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 peripherals we sell, as well as the prices on Apple's USB-C adapters and cables.
It's a strong gesture, especially since the MacBooks Pro don't come with any dongles or hubs included. USB-C/Thunderbolt is possibly a bit more advantageous for users. With it, you can use the ports as you need to, not adhering to a predetermined set of ports. If you have four USB peripherals, you have four ports to use — so long as you have a USB-C dongle, adapter or a new cable that links to your MacBook Pro. And therein lies the rub for many users. While the discount is great, it's another out-of-pocket expense. We can use the same sleeves or packs (though the footprint is a touch smaller, so your new MacBook will be swimming in there) for our new computers, but the chances that those users had USB-C dongles ahead of the new MacBook Pro's unveiling is really slim. Most will be sourcing dongles and hubs posthaste. The issue Apple now has to address is whether or not users will really, truly move on from macOS or if all the complaining via Twitter and Facebook is just hand-wringing and blustery egos. It's bad enough we're losing MagSafe; going all-in on USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 may be more than many can handle.
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#ifndef OSD_D3D11L_DRAW_CONTEXT_H
#define OSD_D3D11L_DRAW_CONTEXT_H

#include "../version.h"

#include "../far/patchTables.h"
#include "../osd/drawContext.h"
#include "../osd/vertex.h"

#include <map>

struct ID3D11VertexShader;
struct ID3D11HullShader;
struct ID3D11DomainShader;
struct ID3D11GeometryShader;
struct ID3D11PixelShader;

struct ID3D11Buffer;
struct ID3D11ShaderResourceView;
struct ID3D11Device;
struct ID3D11DeviceContext;

namespace OpenSubdiv {
namespace OPENSUBDIV_VERSION {

/// \brief D3D11 specialized DrawContext class
///
/// OsdD3D11DrawContext implements the OSD drawing interface with Microsoft(c)
/// DirectX D3D11 API.
/// Some functionality may be disabled depending on compile and run-time driver
/// support.
///
/// Contexts interface the serialized topological data pertaining to the
/// geometric primitives with the capabilities of the selected discrete
/// compute device.
///
class OsdD3D11DrawContext : public OsdDrawContext {
public:
    typedef ID3D11Buffer * VertexBufferBinding;

    virtual ~OsdD3D11DrawContext();

    /// \brief Create an OsdD3D11DrawContext from FarPatchTables
    ///
    /// @param patchTables          a valid set of FarPatchTables
    ///
    /// @param pd3d11DeviceContext  a device context
    ///
    /// @param numVertexElements    the number of vertex elements
    ///
    /// @param requireFVarData      set to true to enable face-varying data to be
    ///                             carried over from the Far data structures.
    ///
    ///
    static OsdD3D11DrawContext *Create(FarPatchTables const *patchTables,
                                       ID3D11DeviceContext *pd3d11DeviceContext,
                                       int numVertexElements,
                                       bool requireFVarData=false);

    /// Set vbo as a vertex texture (for gregory patch drawing)
    ///
    /// @param vbo                  the vertex buffer object to update
    ///
    /// @param pd3d11DeviceContext  a device context
    ///
    template<class VERTEX_BUFFER>
    void UpdateVertexTexture(VERTEX_BUFFER *vbo, ID3D11DeviceContext *pd3d11DeviceContext) {
        if (vbo)
            updateVertexTexture(vbo->BindD3D11Buffer(pd3d11DeviceContext),
                                pd3d11DeviceContext,
                                vbo->GetNumVertices(),
                                vbo->GetNumElements());
    }

    ID3D11Buffer             *patchIndexBuffer;

    ID3D11Buffer             *ptexCoordinateBuffer;
    ID3D11ShaderResourceView *ptexCoordinateBufferSRV;
    ID3D11Buffer             *fvarDataBuffer;
    ID3D11Buffer             *fvarDataBufferSRV;

    ID3D11ShaderResourceView *vertexBufferSRV;
    ID3D11Buffer             *vertexValenceBuffer;
    ID3D11ShaderResourceView *vertexValenceBufferSRV;
    ID3D11Buffer             *quadOffsetBuffer;
    ID3D11ShaderResourceView *quadOffsetBufferSRV;

private:
    OsdD3D11DrawContext();

    // allocate buffers from patchTables
    bool create(FarPatchTables const *patchTables,
                ID3D11DeviceContext *pd3d11DeviceContext,
                int numVertexElements,
                bool requireFVarData);

    void updateVertexTexture(ID3D11Buffer *vbo,
                             ID3D11DeviceContext *pd3d11DeviceContext,
                             int numVertices,
                             int numVertexElements);

    int _numVertices;
};

} // end namespace OPENSUBDIV_VERSION
using namespace OPENSUBDIV_VERSION;

} // end namespace OpenSubdiv

#endif /* OSD_D3D11L_DRAW_CONTEXT_H */

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Neil Young Quotes
Birth Date: 1945-11-12 (Monday, November 12th, 1945)
'Where the eagle glides ascending / There's an ancient river bending / Through the timeless gorge of changes / Where sleeplessness awaits' - ''Thrasher' (Rust Never Sleeps, 1978)
'Old man, look at my life, 24 and there's so much more, live alone in a paradise that makes me think of 2.' Old Man
'What is the color when black is burned?' - 'I Am a Child'
'If you guarantee the postage, I'll mail you back the key.' - 'The Last Trip to Tulsa'
'I guess I'll call it sickness gone' - 'Ambulance Blues', referring to the drug related death of bandmate Danny Whitten
'I have seen you in the movies, and in those magazines at night. I saw you on the barstool, when you held that glass so tight.' - 'Barstool Blues'
'Well, I see you give more than I can take / Will I only harvest some? / As the days fly past will we lose our grasp / Or fuse it in the sun? / Did she wake you up to tell you that / It was only a change of plan? /Dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup / With the promise of a man.' - 'Harvest'
'I never believed in much, but I believed in you.' - 'From Hank to Hendrix'
'The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.' - 'From Hank to Hendrix'
'It's better to burn out than to fade away.' - 'My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)', quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note.
'Shelter me from the powder and the finger / Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger.' - 'Powderfinger'
'There is a town in north Ontario / With dream comfort memory to spare / And in my mind, I still need a place to go / All my changes were there.' - 'Helpless'
'In my little box / At the top of the stair / With my Indian rug / And a pipe to share.' - 'Pocahontas'
'A sparkle was in his eye, but his life was in his hand' - 'Tonights the Night'
'It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down' - 'Saddle Up the Palomino'
'Need distraction / Need romance and candlelight / Need random violence / Need entertainment tonight / Need the evidence / Want the testimony of / Expert witnesses / On the brutal crimes of love' - 'I'm the Ocean'
'The economy was getting so bad, I had to lay myself off.' - Old Ways (1986)
'And we'll be watching you / No matter what you do / And you can do your part / By watchin' others too.' - 'Leave the Driving'
'You're all just pissin' in the wind / You don't know it but you are.' - 'Ambulance Blues'
'Don't feel like Satan but I am to them.' - 'Rockin' in the Free World'
'We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man, we got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand.' - 'Rockin' in the Free World'
'Welfare mothers make better lovers.' - 'Welfare Mothers'
'Live music is better! Bumper stickers should be issued!' - 'Union Man'
'Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book said.' - 'Southern Man'
'Man, that's my style!' -- When asked by the producer of 'Tears Are Not Enough' (the Canadian counterpart to 'We Are The World') to sing his line again because it sounded 'a little flat'.
'You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.'
'It's all one song.' -- Replying to a man in the audience, who said 'It all sounds the same!'
'Smell the horse on this one <sniff><sniff>' -- While performing with Crazy Horse
'Getting sued by your record company for making 'uncommercial records' after twenty years in the business, that's even better than receiving a Grammy' -- After Geffen Records had accused him of making 'albums impossible to promote'.
'Heart of Gold put me in the middle of the road. Travelling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride, but I saw more interesting people there.' -- Expressing his disdain for the fame that he received from his song Heart of Gold
'I can't play that without the band... Don't worry, I came prepared. This is a big gig for me.' -- Replying to a request from the audience during a February 27, 1971 solo show at Royal Festival Hall, London.
'As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.' -- Interview for Rolling Stone magazine.
'I am Stephen Stills.' -- Replying to a audience member who yelled for his fellow CSNY member at a show in 1978.
'Shut up white boy!' -- Replying to a loud heckler at United Palace Theatre in New York City, December 18, 2007.
'You better see a doctor.' -- Replying to a fan who said 'Neil Young makes the pain go away' at United Palace Theatre in New York City, December 18, 2007.
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Minor Defect: Something that the user may receive some level of dissatisfaction from, but would likely not "return the item to the store for".
Major Defect: Something for which the user may "return the item to the store for".
Critical Defect: Any defect that represents a critical or dangerous lapse in quality.


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Posted on February 13, 2013 by Jessica Ernst
Briny water flows into area streams by Natasha Khan, Fbruary 13, 2013, Observer-reporter.Com
When Marcellus Shale drilling started to boom in Greene and Washington counties, the two retired outdoorsmen began conducting weekly water tests of local streams and tributaries. Dufalla, 66, a retired park ranger and deputy fish and game warden, runs the citizen water testing program for the local chapter of The Izaak Walton League, a conservation group. Members test every headwater stream in Greene County and many in Washington and Fayette counties. And they've teamed up with West Virginia University's Water Research Institute to check their methods and test some of the same water as the group. …
Recently, Dufalla's group has found there's something unexpected in mine waste – bromide. On its own, bromide is a salt found in many places. But when it's mixed with chlorine at a water treatment plant, it can create cancer-causing agents called trihalomethanes. Dufalla wants to know where the bromide is coming from, since it isn't usually found at high levels in mine discharge. He has repeatedly asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the state Department of Environmental Protection, the governor and energy industry officials, he said. But he receives no answer or he's brushed off. Dufalla just wants someone to pay attention and investigate. Without an answer from officials, Dufalla said he and members of his group are left to form their own conclusions. Somebody, they believe, must be dumping wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, into coal mines. When asked what safeguards are in place for disposing of frack wastewater, a spokesman for the Marcellus Shale Coalition cited the state's "robust" regulatory system. It "ensures a truly cradle-to-grave approach to the overall management of water," Travis Windle wrote in an email.
In recent years, numerous water treatment plants in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia have found dangerously high levels of THMs in water they then had to treat for drinkability. Jeff Kovach, general manager of the Tri-County Joint Municipal Authority in Washington County, said his plant didn't have problems with THM levels before the drilling boom started. He said he believes the natural gas industry was initially causing the higher levels. "In my own opinion, absolutely, because they are everywhere around here," said Kovach. The discharge from Clyde Mine, an abandoned mine overseen by the DEP, is "pretty scary," he said. The Tri-County plant is downstream on the Monongahela. … It's been widely reported that an increase in bromide in Pennsylvania's rivers came when the drilling industry dropped off its wastewater from fracking – the horizontal drilling process used in the Marcellus Shale – at sewage treatment plants.
In early 2011, DEP Secretary Michael Krancer called on the industry to stop taking wastewater to treatment plants. The industry voluntarily complied, and bromide levels on the Monongahela decreased, according to a recent study from Carnegie Mellon University. But Dufalla's water testing from 2012 shows higher levels of bromide in the creeks and streams funneling into the Monongahela River. "Every one of them happens to be in mine discharges," he said. A U.S. Geological Survey study looked at tests conducted in 1999 to determine the hydrochemical makeup of 140 abandoned mines in Pennsylvania. The study found bromide showed up in all the mine discharges that were sampled at less than .6 milligrams per liter. The WRI sampled the same locations as Dufalla's group in Greene and Washington counties in November. They showed bromide coming out of mine discharges at levels as much as 10 times higher than the 1999 study. "My guess is, if bromides are turning up in mine water, it's probably because someone has dumped it there," said Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the WRI.
Dufalla said he informs the DEP when he finds an anomaly and the agency has been good about testing the water over the past two years. However, "the responses we get back are not acceptable," he said. "We were told, 'Well, it's only minimal pollution from these things.' We were told we don't have the money to correct these problems." John Poister, DEP spokesman in Pittsburgh, said the agency sometimes conducts bromide tests on some rivers and streams, but isn't required to. … "There is no EPA standard for bromides, therefore we do not track them in streams and creeks," Poister said. That's where the problem comes in, Dufalla said. "The EPA must set a standard for bromide," he said, and if they don't, the DEP should. …
To understand their perspective, it's important to know something about recent Greene County history and a man named Allan Shipman. Shipman operated Allan's Waste Water, which hauled Marcellus Shale wastewater. He was convicted last year of dumping millions of gallons of wastewater, sludge, restaurant grease and other sewage into mine shafts, streams and onto roadsides for six years in Southwestern Pennsylvania. "I just think that there were a lot more people doing what he was doing, but he was the only one that got caught," said Greene County Sheriff Richard Ketchem. "And then all of a sudden when he got caught you don't see that anymore." After a two-year investigation by the state attorney general's office, Shipman was sentenced to seven years of probation, 1,750 hours of community service and nearly $400,000 in fines and restitution. … Terri Davin, president of the Greene County Watershed Alliance, said the industry has an "out of sight, out of mind" policy. "My theory is, whenever there's a hole, you can use it," Davin said of the dumping that takes place. "It's open season down here." Davin partially blames the residents of Greene County for not speaking up about Shipman. "The guilty people here are us," she said about Greene County residents. "We saw this happening and we didn't come together and question enough." She said that with the amount of natural gas drilling and coal mining going on in Greene County, it's better to question things than to turn a blind eye. [Emphasis added]
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NEWS ALERT: Water Supply for Hamlet of Rosebud Contaminated September 15, 2006 ROSEBUD: Last night representatives from Alberta Environment, Wheatland County and the Calgary Health Region issued a "water usage advisory" to the residents of Rosebud, located one hour east of Calgary. The advisory warns residents to use bottled or filtered water due to the presence of a carcinogen in their local water supply: bromodichloromethane. Bromodichloromethane is toxic compound formed as a byproduct of adding chlorine to drinking water. According the US Environmental Protection Agency it is also a common byproduct of coal bed methane production
Water usage advisory issued for Rosebud September 21, 2006 ….the hamlet's water treatment plan is currently unable to maintain low levels of a disinfectant byproduct called bromodichloromethane…. ]


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Understanding Minor Piece Endgames
This book is the second volume in the authors' acclaimed Understanding Endgames series. It follows a dual philosophy, like their previous work, Understanding Rook Endgames. It deals with seven-piece minor-piece endings in some detail.
Challenging Human Supremacy in Chess
The man versus machine battle in chess is a landmark in the history of technology. There are numerous books that document the technical aspects of this epic story. The human side is not often told. Few chess players are inclined to write about their man-machine encounters, other than annotating the games played. This book brings the two sides together. It tells the stories of many of the key scientists and chess players that participated in a 50-year research project to advance the understanding of computing technology. "
A Complete Guide to Queen's Gambit Play
Brought together in one volume as part of Everyman Chess's series of compilation books: Starting Out: Queen's Gambit Accepted, Starting Out: Queen's Gambit Declined and Starting Out: Slav and Semi Slav. These three classic titles from the Everyman Chess Starting Out Series provide a complete repertoire with the Queen's Gambit.
SHOPWORN - The Magic of Chess Tactics - Vol. 2
Intuition, Imagination & Precision
Complicated tactics – the kind that separate tournament winners from the pack – require intuition, imagination and precision. The focus in this book is on attacking techniques and transformations. The contents include: Attacking with the Queen and Knight; The Knight on the Attack; Attacking with Bishops of Opposite Colors; Pins; Learn from the World Champions; and Exchanges & Transformations. The reader will find the analysis comprehensive and challenging.
The Magic of Chess Tactics - Vol. 2
Winning with the Slow - But Venomous - Italian
An Easy-To-Grasp Chess Opening for White
The Slow Italian may look innocent, but is actually full of venom, because White has a lot of options to create aggressive play by making natural looking moves with his pieces. Müller and Souleidis have created a solid weapon that every amateur chess player will delight in playing. With a foreword by Anish Giri.
Chess Endgames for Kids
Featuring 50 Endgame Lessons
Starting with the basic mates and the simplest pawn endings, this book provides all the endgame knowledge that players need to take them through to club level and beyond. Müller carefully guides us step-by-step through a fascinating range of endgame tactics and manoeuvres, helping us understand the underlying logic.
The Chess Players
A Novel of New Orleans and Paris
The Chess Players is a historical novel based on the life of Paul Morphy, who is considered to have been the first world chess champion and possibly the strongest chess player in the history of the game. Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans Louisiana. His father was Alonzo Morphy. His mother was Louise Thérèse Felicite Thelcide Le Carpentier. He learned the moves of chess simply by watching his uncle and father play. Nobody taught him the rules. By age 9 he was regarded as the best player in New Orleans. By age 21 he was regarded as the best chess player in the world.
CLEARANCE - Chess Movies 2
The Means and Ends
'Chess Movies'' represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions. It's almost as if one is sitting in a movie theater, watching the film roll by, with the narrative carried along by subtitles.
SHOPWORN - Chess Movies 2
Quick Tricks
Chess MoviesTM represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library Series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions, even though the present volume, Quick Tricks, contains games of ten full moves or more.
Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
Now, for the first time, every one of his 736 tournament and match games is presented with insightful explanations and analysis. Best-selling chess author, German International Grandmaster Karsten Muller, annotates each game of the player many believe to be the greatest of all time.
Analyse du je des d'echecs - FRENCH EDITION
>Francois-Andre Danican Philidor (1726-1795) is widely regarded as the strongest chess player ever in history prior to the modern era. He was so much better than any of his contemporaries that it is impossible for us to know how good he really was. The edition of the book that is reprinted here was published in 1871 by C. Sanson. This shows that the original Philidor book was still the standard work on the subject one hundred years after it was first written.
SHOPWORN - Let's Play Chess
In this updated and revised second edition of Pandolfini's acclaimed "Let's Play Chess, you will find the rules, the logic, some of the culture and history, and the basic principles of good chess play. Chess is by far the most popular board game in the world. There are millions of players of all ages and the number keeps growing.
The Best Chess-Drill Book For Beginners of All Ages
Catalog Code: B0002SS
From ever popular instructor Bruce Pandolfini comes this entertaining, interactive and effective book for teaching young Chess players and other newcomers to the game.
Beginning Chess
Over 300 Elementary Problems For Players New to the Game
Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed teaching system. Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to the moves of various chessmen to sophisticated strategies. 300 line drawings.
More Chess Openings - Traps and Zaps - VOLUME 2
200 Brand-New Openings for Players of All Levels
The opening is one of the most important parts of the chess game. Weaken your pawns by mistake, and they're taken. Attack wildly and haphazzardly, and your pieces are picked off. Misuse your queen and she's trapped. Carelessly neglect development and you're mated. You've scarely begun, and the game is over. Fortunately, National Master Bruce Pandolfin's More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2, offers drills and skills to help players of all levels avoid these perils and pitfalls.
Chessercizes
New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels
National Master Bruce Pandolfini has created a unique and challenging Chess exercise book for players of all levels. Faced with actual positions from recent tournaments and match play, readers are asked to make the winning move for some of the world's best players, including World Champions Kasparov and Karpov.
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The Assam Government on Wednesday night decided to change office timings from 9:30 am to 5pm with half-an-hour lunch break from January 1 next year. The prevalent working hours are from 10 am to 5pm.
This was decided at a Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday evening in Guwahati.
Earlier on December 21, State Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, during a function of the Sadou Asom Karmachari Parishad (SAKP), the premier conglomeration of state government employees, had proposed that working hours in government offices be advanced by at least 30 minutes as the state witnesses early sunrise than other parts of mainstream India.
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The Cabinet also decided to generate 590 mw of solar power.
The meeting also decided to increase the monthly salary of casual workers from Rs 6,500 to Rs 9,000 and of village headmen from Rs 4,200 to Rs 6,500.
The cabinet also passed the notification for state GST.


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Munich, 03 March 2017 – Over 1250 have been received for the Call for Papers of the 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 25 - 29 September 2017.
The European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC), has appointed Prof. Dr. Arno H.M. Smets General Chairman for its 33rd edition, which will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 25 - 29 September 2017.
"I am honored and proud to chair the world's largest international scientific photovoltaics conference in my home country," says Smets. "Research has played a crucial role in making solar energy the lowest cost power generation technology in many regions already today. Now it's about quickly proceeding on this path to make sure solar power takes a much larger role in our fight against climate change as soon as possible," he adds.
The experts of the PV solar community will meet in Amsterdam to discuss new concepts, trends and developments in science and industry. The EU PVSEC provides the most inspiring platform for dialogue and information exchange across the world. The next European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2017), the leading international conference in photovoltaics, will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 25 - 29 September 2017.
The next European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2017), the leading international Conference in photovoltaics, will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 25 - 29 September 2017.
Munich, 20 June, 2016 – The EU PVSEC 2016 – the 32nd edition of the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition opened its doors on Monday, 20 June 2016 in Munich, and is ready to welcome the global PV business and research community. EU PVSEC 2016, taking place from 20 to 24 June 2016 at ICM – International Congress Center, in Munich, Germany, in co-location with Intersolar Europe at Venue Messe München. The EU PVSEC 2016 offers the opportunity to join the world's top-ranking PV scientists, engineers and industry leaders to present and discuss the future PV technologies and applications.
Munich, 05 February 2016 –EU PVSEC 2016, taking place from 20 to 24 June 2016 at ICM – International Congress Center, in Munich, Germany, will be chaired by Professor Marko Topič, Head of the Laboratory of Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Professor Topič is appointed as EU PVSEC 2016 Conference General Chairman following nomination and voting process by the EU PVSEC ISAC - International Scientific Advisory Committee.
Munich/Orlando/Hanau, 25 January 2016 – SOLARUNITED (formally known as International Photovoltaic Equipment Association, IPVEA) and the 32nd EU PVSEC (32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition) present the PV Production, Quality, and Innovation Forum 2016, which will be held in the frame of the EU PVSEC 2016 in Munich, Germany on Wednesday, June 22, 2016.
Munich, 16 December 2015 – Next year's EU PVSEC 2016 will take place from Monday to Friday, 20 to 24 June 2016 at ICM - International Congress Center, in Munich, Germany, in co-location with Intersolar Europe Exhibition (22-24 June 2016) at Venue Messe München.
Munich/Hamburg, 18 September 2015 – The 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2015) closed its doors on Friday, 18 September. The global PV community met in Hamburg, to discuss the latest developments and innovations in Photovoltaics. More than 50 % of the participants at the EU PVSEC 2015 had been represented by R & D specialists and about 40 % from the segment industry and engineering. The EU PVSEC is regarded as the world's leading platform for exchanges between the worlds of PV research and industry in the global PV solar industry sector.
PV is the most important energy source in the future.
Munich/Hamburg, 15 September 2015 – The 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2015) opened its doors on Monday, 14 September 2015 and welcomes photovoltaics (PV) experts to the CCH Congress Center in Hamburg, Germany. The scientific conference takes place from 14 to 18 September 2015, with a three-day industry exhibition taking place in parallel from 15 September 2015. The EU PVSEC is regarded as the world's leading platform for exchanges between the worlds of PV research and industry in the global PV solar industry sector.
Munich, 2 September 2015 - Solar PV technology has already exceeded its deployment goals under the European Union's renewable energy targets for 2020. The 13th five-year plan of China's National Energy Administration (NEA) aimed a 100GW target for solar PV by 2020. Now it is widely speculated, that Chinas goal will be raised to an optimistic 200GW. The US solar PV market is growing almost by 40% every year. Solar PV energy is on the advance worldwide!
These very positive indications for a bright future of PV energy are no reason for the PV experts to sit back and relax. Quite the contrary: The world´s brightest minds of the sector meet at EU PVSEC annually, to work out ways to enhance the competiveness and implementation of PV and strengthen its position in the global energy mix of the future.
Munich, August 11th, 2015 – The 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2015) will take place from 14 – 18 September 2015 at the Congress Centre (CCH) Hamburg, Germany. With more than 1,300 presentations from 6,500 authors and co-authors from 86 countries covering the entire PV value chain, the EU PVSEC 2015 takes up the challenge and outlines the opportunities.
The EU PVSEC, the world's largest international photovoltaics conference, will be held at the same time and in the same location as the world's leading exhibition for the solar industry, Intersolar Europe, in Munich. Both events remain independent. By forming a collocation agreement, they are creating the international solar energy sector's top event.


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DeKalb COVID-19 April 9 town hall to address racial disparities in infection rates and deaths
A panel of medical and psychiatric experts are prepared to tackle tough questions and issues during DeKalb County's third COVID-19 virtual town hall meeting on Thursday, April 9, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
One key topic of discussion will focus on recent reporting highlighting disproportionate rates of COVID-19 infections in black Americans.
The virtual town hall will be hosted by DeKalb's COVID-19 Strategic Task Force. DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond formed the task force to provide professional, technical and strategic counsel related to protecting the health, safety and economic well-being of DeKalb's 750,000 residents.
"Doctors and healthcare professionals should lead America's response to this deadly pandemic," said DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond. "They know what needs to be done to fight this insidious enemy. When lives are literally hanging in the balance, we must reject mindless partisan bickering and political one-upmanship."
The town hall will be moderated by radio and television personality Frank Ski. The host of a morning show on V103, Ski has worked in radio, music and acting for more than three decades.
Experts participating in the virtual town hall include:
S. Elizabeth Ford, the district health director and chief executive officer of the DeKalb County Board of Health since February 2005. She is also serving as the interim district health director of Fulton County Board of Health.
David Ross, the president and CEO ofThe Task Force for Global Health, oversees 13 programs focused on disease elimination, prevention, and protection. For more than 35 years, Dr. Ross has led collaborative programs to strengthen information capacity of public health systems around the world.
Anastasia Brown Alvarado, a board-certified adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist, at Viewpoint Health and Family Ties Inc. Dr. Alvarado graduated from Morehouse School of Medicine in 2006.
Patrick O'Carroll, head of the health systems strengthening sectorof The Task Force for Global Health's. Dr. O'Carroll has served as a regional health administrator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist.
Demaree Trammel, a psychiatry specialist with the DeKalb Community Service Board. Dr. Trammel graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1997 and has been practicing for 23 years.
Panelists will provide residents with practical, apolitical advice related to COVID-19 and will answer questions such as:
How can parents protect the mental health of their children during this pandemic?
How do you cope with not being allowed to visit the dying or attend a memorial service or funeral?
What does it mean to "flatten the curve" and how can residents help?
Can information overload about COVID-19 lead to post-traumatic stress disorder?
What medications and supplies should residents have during a quarantine?
Are certain racial or demographic groups less susceptible to contracting the COVID-19 virus?
The virtual town hall can be accessed via:
www.dekalbcountyga.gov
Comcast Cable Channel 23 in DeKalb County
Facebook live: www.facebook.com/ItsInDeKalbGa
Questions also are being accepted now and during the town hall via:
Email at townhall@dekalbcountyga.gov.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ItsInDeKalbGa
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ItsInDeKalb.
Questions also will be accepted during the town hall at 404-371-2400.
For additional COVID-19 information, visit www.dekalbcountyga.gov/coronavirus
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