A low-res version of the same map has been previewed and played on stream for weeks now, but this is our first look at the high-res version. It also differs from the release of the last new map, "High-rise," in that only the high-res version is being included in the build, as opposed to the low-res version being released and tested beforehand.
Lately I've been thinking a lot about the future of SpyParty, as both a game and as a community. I obviously want it to be successful: to stand on its own and make a real mark Chris Hecker can be proud of. A game that will be played for a long time. However, I'm increasingly worried about a few converging factors that I think could put our game in a bad position.
On Steam, SpyParty would be available to potentially any one, and Steam access was our #1 request at PAX last year. I'm excited about the huge increase in players this may bring. Steam connects a lot of players, and having access to that will be instrumental to the growth of SpyParty, financially and communally. And although I am worried about the integrity of the community as much as anyone else, that's not the source of my worry.
As things are, the game is sorely lacking in several ways. Without a tutorial, a real way to practice on your own, a matchmaking system, a redesigned UI, and other issues that are too numerous to name specifically, it is scary to imagine people buying the game when it releases on Steam, and then just dropping it because it lacks several features many people consider basic. It is for this reason I want to focus on community based ways to alleviate this problem as best we can. Chris is working hard on the game, it's his baby and he wants it to be great even more than I do, but if it does go on Steam this year I worry people will just pass it up.
Thinking on this, having a command with such a wordy explanation is probably a bad idea. It has potentially driven people away due to its length and resulting intimidation factor, which is definitely not something to be proud of. However, explaining the game with any amount of brevity is not an easy task, and to compound onto that factor is the fact that it's easier than ever to ignore in-game instructions and just hop into any given game at a moment's notice.
I worry about our ability to gain and retain new players as they learn about the game. Whether it is someone who has played 200 games, or someone who sees the game on Twitch for the first time and decides to watch some tournament games being cast, I feel it is of the upmost importance to figure out how we, as a community, can teach and grow new players to ensure that SpyParty can compete with the big hitters out there. Games like CS:GO, League of Legends, and even StarCraft 2 are generally more grokkable than most SpyParty games, which can end instantly (and seemingly randomly, to someone not paying full attention to what's going on).
I've said recently that the most important resource to getting people interested in the game is our casters, as they are our first line of contact with many new players. If they do a good job (read: showing people the game is deeper than some weird 3D Guess Who? variant), our chances of creating a new player go way up. I think we need more casters, to diversify, and to help prepare for a potential surge of interest in the game.
We need more people casting, because Toboshi and WarningTrack can't do it all on their own. Having competition, even just when it's friendly, spurs people to improve, not to mention develop and discover new casting technology, and sharing that to make all casts better. It will also give viewers a choice on who to watch so they can develop favorites, and even watch as different casting styles evolve over time.
Giving people a reason to care about the contestants in a tournament is a huge deal. Sports networks love to follow along as people go through dramatic comeback stories, or generally enjoy making their players seem human so we can relate to them. I believe that a similar lesson is to be had here, in the humanizing our players can give the average viewer a reason to care past the basic gameplay they might learn from tournament games. It can make rivalries come alive, and help people understand why it's so shocking that Virifaux and KrazyCaley might both agree on some sniping principle.
On the same train of thought as the above point, letting viewers into the head of these players is very helpful to let them know they are real people, with goals, who get excited and nervous like anyone else. This also allows for smack-talk, and discussion of strategies the player might use during the match, which can give the audience a real sense of excitement, as they will be expecting a specific play to happen. Lastly, in this format people can sense just how much this means to the players, and it gives it a level of seriousness that's hard to find elsewhere.
Every moment wasted, every second that is silent or not important to the tournament should be used to help people grasp what is going on in the games. In a game this deep, we need all the time we can get. This can go into a lot of different areas, but my first idea was cute animated clips of how the missions work, and maybe how each role wins or loses.
Viewers love seeing large prizes being offered for gaming events. Seeing a player or team's reaction to winning a new car, or an all-expense paid trip to somewhere exotic, is exciting, and let's the audience get excited for that player or team, and potentially proud to support them. This makes people want to see the cast through to the end, which also gives us a sense of wrapping up, a feeling of closure if you will, and a feeling there will be a next time that people shouldn't want to miss.
This is kind of a tag-a-long on the Player Profiles and Interviews portion, in that people often pick a team or group to root for. It doesn't always take much research, or any, but it gives them some familiarity with the community, and gives them a reason to watch these big events. I don't know much, if anything, of real value about the CS:GO crowd, but I have a favorite team because I've watched a few large events, and I liked how they played or how their players acted during the tournament. The primary purpose of this part is to give any given viewer a sense of identity, something they can get excited about while they are super interested in the game, and something they can hold onto and come back if they decide to leave for a period of time.
My reasoning for focusing on high level matches of SpyParty are for several reasons. They will be cast if they are for a serious event or tournament, which means it'll be much easier for random people who stop by the stream to grasp what's going on. With an event, you can work on things like production values, and make things look nice, not to mention setup interviews and profile overviews that can garner interest in the audience by talking about who these people are and why this matters to them. Tournaments get people interested with something on the line; reputation, prize money, large singular prizes – they all let the audience get excited when the winner is announced.
Right now, SpyParty is hard to get into. The tools that makes games inviting aren't implemented yet, and even our casters admit that the game doesn't lend itself well it traditional casting methods because it isn't "generally visually interesting… [or] easy to follow". This puts us on a precarious path, with Steam access sometime this year, the new art remains unfinished, and the most recent update as of this writing will not (to my understanding) aid in any of these endeavors in a serious, tangible way.
To put it bluntly, with the combination of little to no tools to help teach new players in a practical manner, and the possibility of a large influx of people, I feel like our best shot of keeping people interested lays in community-based efforts until we get features like tutorials fully implemented.
Do you feel like I'm making a big deal out of nothing? Or perhaps that these solutions are misguided, and a different approach is needed? Please feel free to leave any feedback on this particular piece by commenting below, tossing me a line on Twitter, or by PMing me in the beta forums.
Balcony is one of the most common maps to see at high levels of play. Some players love it, some hate it. I am not here to write about how much I like or dislike Balcony, but rather to discuss some core strategy regarding the map that I have been using a lot lately, and feel like other high-level players are using as well.
I've begun to, after about five thousand games of Balcony (link accessible for SpyParty beta users only), form what I call The Average Game of Balcony. I say "form" because this is, at the moment, a theory. And before I continue, I want to note that this will not win you every game of Balcony; it'll only work a certain amount of the time, and there are plenty of counters to it. But, on average, this should work more often than not. And when it works, it should work quite convincingly once you have the core ideas well formed and are ready to look out for them. It is also assumed that the game-mode is Any 2/3, with Purloin the Guest List and Fingerprint Ambassador turned off, as that is by far the most commonly played game-mode for Balcony.
First lets get a few things out of the way: Many players don't want to play a fancy game of SpyParty, they aren't interested in getting a lowlight for their sweet pathing, they just want to win that specific game and move on to the next one. This theory preys on that mindset, and can be particularly brutal if they keep at it. Most players will switch it up if you keep winning on a given map, so this will not work 100% of the time, but if it does keep working I'd suggest you send them here.
"Drawn," you might be asking yourself, "that's really obvious! How can that help anyone get better at sniping on Balcony?" Well the basic answer is that there are telltale signs of characters who only do these specific actions, and people who do not. Let's start by looking at common actions of the Spies who play The Average Game of Balcony. I can't tell you exactly how I would take advantage of any of this knowledge, as I want you to learn, adapt, and play however you want to. All I want to do is give a gentle nudge in what I believe to be the proper direction and see where it takes other players.
Spies will ignore their turn to talk in Conversation Circles quite commonly, and they especially do not talk constantly unless they need to (which is basically never). They do need to talk, however, to flirt, and to Contact the Double Agent on a White Action Test, which averages to every 45 or so seconds. How you deal with this is entirely up to you, but in The Average Game of Balcony this is very easy for Spies to do, but there are definitely ways to punish more relaxed players who don't bother with watching when they need to talk (although be careful for false-positives with no talks in the Conversation Circle).
Spies tend to stay in the same spot for as long as they possibly can, rarely, if ever, moving. They also don't like to attempt hard or interesting pathing choices, although this probably already nets most people reading this some Lowlights. Although there is no clear-cut way to watch for people not moving, there are ways to deal with those who consistently hang about in the Conversation Circle and never walk around the actual map. One example of this is to simply Lowlight people who briefcase during chaotic times, although do remember that players with adequate experience can emulate this, which then makes it an Un-Average Game of Balcony so the advice here becomes obsolete.
Spies do not wait when they have the win in reach, with rare exception. Many fear their Seduction Target or Double Agent leaving the Conversation Circle so they do their Action Test as soon as possible. You can watch for flirts at certain timings (first 15 seconds, around 1:10-0:55 mark, and 0:20-0:00 respectively), especially if no real movement happens, and eventually catch the Spy flirting at the proper time. Characters who do not talk ~45 seconds after their previous one are unlikely to be our Spy, and if they are the Spy odds are that you are not playing The Average Game of Balcony. I would also like to remind our Sniper friends to use Overtime to their advantage when possible, because that can 100% confirm a shot or let the Spy lose due to Timeout, something a shot at 0:05 can't do.
I would say these are the defining characteristics of Spies that play The Average Game of Balcony. But I want to stress that I am not making fun of or belittling Spies who play this way. In fact, this whole theory works on the premise that most games of Balcony function in a very similar, almost mechanical, manner. So don't feel bad if you win using The Average Game of Balcony while Spying: It's a solid game plan, and because it's a solid game plan it's used often, which is why I can devise an entire theory (this one, that you're currently reading!) to deal with it.
Before moving onto the Spy side of things, I want to address the one mission I have barely touched on this entire article: Bug the Ambassador. Watching for Bugs is a huge deal on Balcony, and if you can't guard Bug you may want to be careful using The Average Game of Balcony as a strategy guide, because when you lose to a Bug it feels pretty awful. My best advice on watching for Bugs is fairly simple, watch for the arm and the lean. You can find more info in this video.
Onto how to counter Sniper's using The Average Game of Balcony as a guideline for Sniping on the map: Throw curveballs at them. Make their Lights useless by acting useless, talk a ton, move around a lot, or attempt Bugs while they are trying to watch the party. It actually isn't that hard, although watch out for Snipers who can watch for The Average Game of Balcony and the other, weirder games of Balcony all at once, as those Snipers are way scarier than anyone just using this as a guide.
As a final note, I want to remind players that this is not the only way to look at Balcony. Don't feel like you need to bother changing your playstyle if it has worked perfectly fine for you in the past. Do not forget that this is a rough guideline for what to look for and how to play against and with The Average Game of Balcony. I left a few things out of how I would do things with this information intentionally, hoping other players will learn the vital information and come to their own conclusions as opposed to copying and pasting a "How to Win at Balcony" strategy guide, if anything of the sort could even exist.
That should be about all I need to cover for this particular topic, but if you feel I missed something, or maybe you disagree with the article, feel free to let me know via twitter, a PM in the forums, ask about it on my ask.fm, mention it while I am streaming, or in the comments section down below. Thanks for reading!
Avoid hard tells. If the setup gives you the option to cut missions, cut as many hard tells as you can.
Complete soft tells quickly. I do not guard soft tells especially closely, and while I can detect overactivity, it is not a strong suit. You can usually rush through flirts. Be careful when inspecting or fingerprinting, as these soft tells are relatively easy for me to track, especially on a smaller map with fewer partygoers. Double Agent and Flirt are the easiest missions to complete against me. Note that toing to statues with inspecting turned on is an automatic highlight.
Use the time gained from completing soft tells quickly to set up a quality hard tell attempt.
You can tell at a glance the people who don't know what SpyParty is about. The ones who do eagerly rush to get in line to play, or else stand at a distance feverishly narrating the action to their friends. But then there are the ones who have never seen this before, or perhaps who have heard the name "SpyParty" vaguely associated with something cool, but have no other knowledge.
My favorite part of working SpyParty's PAX booth is talking to these people. I walk casually up to them with a slight grin on my face, feeling every bit like a lion stalking its unsuspecting prey on the savannah, or maybe a drug pusher with something extremely addictive to sell. I just need to get them to TASTE this game. My partner tells me that she thinks I am unrivaled as a persuader and/or salesman if I'm talking about something that I love or care about, and I love and care about SpyParty.
"Hi, how's it going, enjoying your PAX?" is how I typically start. Usually I get some kind of half-response, like "Yeah…." as they don't look at me, their eyes straining to understand what is happening at the cocktail party they're watching on the screen. Maybe this is some kind of sniper game, like Silent Scope, they are perhaps thinking. That's when it's important to intrude on their train of thought.


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The man known as Atatürk was the founder and first president of the modern country of Turkey. He helped bring an end to the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled for more than 500 years.
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CC Outtake: Stag Party
James Pembroke Tenneson
Sunshine in England means one thing – taking the Stag out for a spin.
Then fixing the electrics.
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83 LeBaron
Reminds me of a time several years ago where I saw someone driving an MG with a temp tag. Hmmm I thought, he just got and it runs. Of course, about three miles down the road, he was on the side with the hood up. Lucas IS consistant.
Posted May 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Sushine in England?
See, thats the problem right there….points to terrible Triumph V8, I never understood why they didn't just stick the Buick-Rover V8 in there and call it a day.
splateagle
Posted May 16, 2012 at 7:41 AM
Because that would have been the sane thing to do.
If our British car manufacturers made sane decisions about developing their cars, they wouldn't be where they are… uh… today.
It never fails to amaze me that there are Stags still used as daily dungers here but there are 3 I see regularly around town, they were never the most reliable beast out there mostly due to engine overheating problems rather than electrical issues.
If you're lucky, the electrics. If not, the cam chain.
As to why not the Rover V8: This car was designed in the early days of British Leyland, and Triumph was hanging desperately on to it's own identity. I've read in some sources (although there's a fair bit of argument on the point) that the designers deliberately set the engine bay up so the Rover V8 couldn't fit. Then again, at that point nobody was expecting the engine to turn out to be such a turkey
Triumph had good reason to be paranoid about brand identity. This was, I believe, the last automobile to actually be designed as a Triumph. The TR7/TR8 was actually the "British Leyland sports car" which was given the Triumph badge shortly before introduction (I believe the car was essentially an Austin design), and the final Triumph was nothing more than a rebadged Honda Ballade/Civic.
The marque realized early on that the B-L amalgamation wasn't going to do it any good whatsoever.
Ate Up With Motor
This isn't exactly how it went down, but it is a complicated subject.
The Triumph V8 and slant four (which are closely related) were conceived in the early sixties and in development well before Leyland (which owned Standard-Triumph from late 1960) bought out Rover in 1966. The merger of BMC and Leyland didn't come about until the spring of 1968, at which point development of the Stag and its engine was well under way. (The Stag was originally slated to bow in 1969.)
Right after the merger, BLMC promoted Triumph's Harry Webster to technical director of Austin-Morris and moved Spen King from Rover to Triumph. King said he inquired about using the Rover V8 in the Stag (and presumably by extension the 2000/2.5 saloon on which the Stag was based), but the Triumph people insisted it wouldn't fit. That wasn't true — I've seen Rover-powered Stags, and the owners have indicated it isn't a terribly difficult swap — but at the time, King had other fish to fry, so he took no for an answer and moved on.
Even if the Triumph people had been more open to abandoning an engine they had designed and in which they'd already invested a lot of money, BLMC might well have decided it didn't make sense to do so, at least in the short term. BLMC was definitely interested in consolidation, but it wasn't going to happen overnight. Rover had a finite amount of capacity, which was about enough for the P6 3500 and the Range Rover. (They had the problem in the seventies that they couldn't build enough V8s for everyone who wanted to use them.)
If you'd asked BLMC officials in 1969, they might well have said that the Triumph V8 would be the better choice. It was a newer and in some ways more modern design (it had better breathing and greater specific output), plus it had commonality with the slant four. BLMC had hoped to use the Triumph engine more widely, particularly in the 2000/2.5 saloons, and I don't think they dropped those plans until after the V8 went on sale turned out to be a big warranty headache.
As for why they didn't swap the Rover engine in later, I think it was partly a capacity issue and partly that by the time it became obvious how problematic the Stag V8 was becoming, BLMC was having serious money issues. The corporation had had big plans for Triumph, but the money just wasn't there, so the Stag just stumbled along with almost no changes.
Rover V8s fit Stags and 2000/2500 sedans easily in fact the horrible Leyland P76 was an amalgamation of Triumph front end and bored out Rover V8 in fact those were the good bits the rest was from the borgwarner dumpster
Saw a Triumph 2000 sedan for sale in Napier a year or 3 ago; looked like a nanna car in the factory light blue paint with skinny tyres and cream vinyl interior. I wondered why the dealer had $8K on it, then discovered it had a 350 Chev V8 and Ford 9 inch diff in it. Engine fitted like a dream, made for a total sleeper…!
John H
It is definitely true that the Jag XJ40 was designed for an inline motor only, as they were paranoid about being forced to use the Rover V8. Caused a lot of trouble when they finally decided to put the V12 in later.
Another transplant candidate seen out here in Stags is the Holden 253 V8. They are compact but not especially so, I think it is more the relatively close capacity being the reason they are chosen. Mind you I think these days the Triumph engine can be made to work properly so it is feasible to retain it and still be able to drive the car!
Properly flushing the casting sand out will cure the overheating in a Stag V8. Triumph used 2 slant 4s joined to create this engine the same slant 4 they sold to Saab
Regarding Lucas: Admittedly, my experience is on the Triumph motorcycle side, but over the last 25 years the only complaint I've had about Lucas has been original components failing. And those original components were anywhere from 25-40 years old. No, their not as good as Nippon-Denso. However, any broken down English vehicle with electrical problems can probably trace it back to still having original parts under the hood/tank.
At the same time, the reputation is such that back in 1988 when the Hinckley factory was speccing out components for the upcoming 1991 Triumphs, Lucas attempted to bid. They were immediately shown the door, told that under no conditions were the manufacturer interested in listening to their presentation and quite frankly, "We cannot afford to carry your parts on these bikes." Told to me years ago by one of the Hinckley personnel who was there at the time.
A few years later when Triumph started using fuel injection (from Sagem, a French company either tied in with or owned by Lucas, as it turned out), some early components arrived with "Lucas" imbedded in the castings. It was promptly ground off, and a rather sharp memo was sent out to the necessary parties at Sagem.
I have a collection of Lucas components outside in my 59 Hillman and they all work and comoared to the electrical nightmares from Germany that VW beetles were I dont complain to much about Lucas
Edit took my Hillman for a spin the alternater failed yep its Lucas from a Ford Cortina
Millmech
Lucas used to make some good stuff- bakelite & brass & really good quality. In the middle 60s, they went to the Melt-O-Matic plastics (don't leave them out in the sun) & were pretty horrible.
The Stag, though, managed to be pretty horrible mechanically, enough that they would cause trouble before the Lucas electrics.
Lucas made what buyers asked for – designs cut to the bone for cheapness. The fault lies not with the builder, but the supplier of the specs.
Alexander of Hollywood
By an odd coincidence, I re-watched "Straw Dogs" (1971) last night, in which Dustin Hoffman drives a white Stag just like the one above… except of course that Hoffman's actually runs. But then, that's the magic of the movies, isn't it? A fantabulous world where Superman can fly, a giant gorilla can climb the Empire State, and British-Leyland products start up on the first crank:
http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/film-locations/84088-straw-dogs-2.html
Scroll about halfway down for several fuzzy screen-grabs of Hoffman's H-registration Stag (and a delightfully braless Susan George).
Director:Cue the jokes on how bad Lucas Electrics are! Places everyone! Places!


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A GaAs planar airbridged Schottky (PAS) diode process has been developed for insertion in high performance circuits at millimeter-wave frequencies and beyond. The PAS diodes have shown a very low resistance, accompanied by low capacitance values resulting from the small anode geometry and optimization of the diode resistance. The process is developed on 4" GaAs wafers and show diode yield of >95% per wafer. The reliability of the junction is also discussed with an elevated 200 degrees thermal cycle test over a period of 24 hours showing no change in diode parameters such as ideality factor and breakdown voltage.


Several readers alerted us to a forum thread at Survivalist Boards from a while back that centered around an individual named Selco who spent several years in a city setting during the complete collapse of Bosnia circa 1992. Selco describes the experiences and the survival strategies that he, his family and his community used to stay alive. Many forum members chimed in on the conversation and asked questions of Selco, who took the time to provide vivid details to an interested survival community.
The story will emphasize the importance of weapons, ammo, barter items, networking with neighbors and friends for mutual defense, and basic meds, like diarrhea control and antiseptics. And, the critically essential need to lay low, blend into the background, and not let folks know what you have.
The following compendium of the most popular questions and answers from the forum thread has been provided by Chris Kitze of well known alternative media web site Before It's News. It's a long read, but well worth your time.
When it hit the fan in Bosnia in the 1990's the electrical grid and water utilities went down, thus there was no heat in the winter and no potable water available for drinking. The currency and banking system were non-existent and commerce in its traditional form came to a standstill leaving only barter as a way to acquire goods. The food supply and transportation systems fell apart. Police, fire, and medical services disappeared. Violence, disease and death spread throughout the region. Few were prepared for what would follow. This is Selco's story. Pay attention, it may save your life one day.
"Nobody wins, we just survived, with a lot of bad dreams."
I am from Bosnia, and as some of you may know it was hell here from 92-95, anyway, for 1 whole year i lived and survived in a city of 50 000- 60 000 residents WITHOUT: electricity, fuel,running water,real food distribution, or distribution of any goods, or any kind of organized law or government.The city was surrounded for 1 year and in that city actually it was SHTF situation.
We did not have organized army or police force, there was groups of defenders, actually anybody who had a gun, fight for his own house and his own family.
Some of us was better prepared, but most of families had food for couple of days, some of us had pistol, few owned AK-47 when all started.
Anyway, after one month or two, gangs started with their nasty job, hospital looked like butchery, police force vanished, 80 percent of hospital staff gone home.
I was lucky, my family was big in that time (15 members in one big house, 5-6 pistols, 3 Kalashnikovs) so we lived and survived, most of us.
I remember US Air force dropped MRE every 10 days (god bless USA for that) as help for surrounded city, it just was not enough.Some of houses had little gardens with some vegetables, most did not.
After three months rumors started abouth first deaths from starvation,deaths from low temperatures, we stripped every door , window frame from abandoned houses for heating, i burned all my own furniture for heating, lot of people died from diseases, mostly from bad water (two of my family members), we used rain water for drink, several times i ate pigeons, once i ate rat.
Money did not worth sh.. we traded things, black market worked, few examples: for 1 corned beef can you could have woman for couple of hours(sounds bad, but it was reality) i remember, most of that womans were just desperate mothers, candles, lighters, antibiotics, fuel, batteries, rifle ammo and of course food, we fight like animals for that.
In situation like that lot of things change, most of people turned to monsters, it was ugly.
Strength was in the numbers, if you were alone in the house, you ve been probably robbed and killed, no matter how well armed.
It is not important witch side had right in that war.
It was almost 20 years ago, but believe me, for me it was just like yesterday, i remember everything, and i think i learned a lot.
Me and my family are prepared now, i am well armed, stocked and educated.
It is not important what going to happen, earthquake, war, tsunami,aliens terrorists, important thing is that something gonna be.
And from my expirience, you can not survive alone, strength is in the numbers, be close with your family, prepare with them, choose your friends wisely and prepare with them too.
And at the end, this is my first post, and my English is not so good, so don t judge me too hard.
Q: How did you get around safely?
Actually city was broken in something like lot of street communities, in my street (15 or 20 houses) we organized patrols (5 armed man every night) to watch on gangs or enemies.
We traded things between people in that street, 5 miles from my street there was one street with something like organized traders, but it was to dangerous to go there, it worked only during the nighttime (during the day it was sniper alley) and you had more chance to be robed there than to trade, i used that street only 2 times, and belive me, only when i am really need something bad.
Q: What about wood? It looked like there are many forests around your city, why did you have to burn doors and furniture?
First, thank you for your questions, i did not expect this amount of interest for my post.
I ll be glad to share lot of things with you guys beecause i want to learn lot of things from you.
Bosnia have lot of woods and forests when you check map, but i lived in city closer to the croatian border, more to the south, i don t want to mention name of the city, but if you check map, south part of my country closer to croatia is all in rock.
There was almost no car use in town because: most of the roads jammed with ruins, abandoned cars, destroyed houses stuff like that, and petrol was like gold.
If i needed to go somewhere i almost always used night time, never go alone but also never go in big group (2-3 man maybe), always armed, very fast, always in shadows, trough ruins, rarely openly on the street, actually always hiding.
We did not have suburbs and farmers, in suburbs were enemy army, we were surrounded with enemy army, and inside town you did not know who is your enemy.
And yes, there were organized groops of gangs, 10-15 people, sometimes even 50, but also there were normal people like you and me, fathers, granddads, decent folks, who robed and killed, there was not too much good and bad guys, most of us was gray, ready for everything.
Q: Did you prep and what kind of skills did you need?
Of course you can ask.
We use what we had, we was not prepared for that situation,we did not know for prepping.
So you can imagine in some aspects we go back in stone age, actually in most of.
We just used everything what we had, one example, i had in my propan(or butan i am not sure) stowe big bottle, cylinder (i am not sure is that right word), and i did not use it for cooking or heating, it was to valuable, i manage to built (fix) that bottle with my friend so i can attach a hose on some kind of ventil (sorry my english is going down here) so i can fill those disposable lighters,(they are not disposable if you knowhow to) those lighter worth a small fortune.
To make story short, somebody bring me empty lighter to me and i fill that lighter with gas, usually i took one can for that or one candle or whatewer he can offer me.
I hope you understand my example, my english is poor on some things.
one more example, i am a registered nurse, in time like that, my knowledge was my thing for trade.
And yes, be trained and educated, in times like that it worth a fortune if you know how to fix things, all your goods is going to be exhausted one day, but your specific knowledge can be your food.
i belive he use some tree behind his house and small amount of disel, i don t know.
My point is learn things, people always need somebody who know to fix things.
It was not survival movie, it was ugly, we did what we have to do to survive.
Nobody wins, we just survived, with a lot of bad dreams.
Q: Wasn¡¯t it religious, the war?
Sorry man wrong info, that was not Cristian vs Muslim war, it was civil war, with lot of switching between sides.
And sorry i am not to go in to the politics, i dont care to much for that, i am not going into religious stories, i mean i believe in God as higher power, and I am trying to live by his laws, i am not belong to any dogma, Muslim or Christian.
Q: Who was your support group?
My group was only my family, my blood (relatives like uncles, grandmother¡), in my street and in my town trips i had some close friends, but my best friends was my family. I never take stranger in my close group.
Q: If you had three months to prepare today, what would you do?
If i have extra three months to prepare?
OK, Now i am very well aware how things can go very bad in very short time so i have food, hygiene, energy etc. supply for 6 months, i live in apartment with some improved security, i have house with shelter in a village some 5 miles from my apartment, in that house also supply for 6 months, that village small community, most of them are my relatives,most of them are prepared (they learned that from war), i have four kind of fire weapons with 2000 bullets for each (sorry, can not go in details, laws are different here for rifles).
I have big garden with that house and some good knowledge about gardening and farming.
I think i have knowledge now to smell trouble, you know when everybody is saying that everything is going to be fine you somehow know that is everything going to fall apart.
I think i have strength to do everything what it takes to keep me and my family alive, because when everything is going to sh.., be sure, you are going to do some bad things to save your kid. You don t want to be hero, you want to survive with your family.
And i am willing to learn from all of you.
One man survivor, no chance ( OK it is my opinion) no matter how well armed and prepared, at the end you gonna die, i ve seen that, many times. Family groups or closest friend with lot of preparing and lots of different knowledge, i believe that is best.
Q: What items should we stockpile?
Well depends, i quess if you stock only one thing you are not going to survive, unless you want to survive like robber, then you need only gun and lot od ammo.
I believe besides ammo food hygiene and energy things (batteries etc.) you need to focus on small things for trade, pocket knives, lighters, flints.
Also LOT of alcohol, kind that can stay long, i mean stuff like whiskey and that, does not important what kind, you can have cheapest kind, it is very good thing for trade in desperate time.
Also lack of hygiene things killed a lot of people, i ve seen that.
You gonna need to have some simple things, like for example lot of garbage bags, i mean a lot, many uses for that, and a LOT of duct tape, many many uses for that.
In case of weapon keep it simple, i mean now i always carry Glock 45 with me, because i like that gun, but it is not usual gun and usual caliber here, so i also have two 7,62 mm TT russian pistols hidden, because almost everybody have that gun here and a lot ammunition.
I don t think i am expert, i am here to learn.
I quess it depends how far you going to go to survive with your actions, you need to be prepared to do some ugly things.
Oh yes it changed my perspective on life, i know now that bad things can happens, and on more important thing, actually i believe it is most important: I don¡¯t anymore believe government and authority, not at all. When they really doing their best to assure you that everything going to be fine, you can be sure that something bad is happening.
Do not just believe, research.
Q: What about the civil war¡ and the religious fighting? Did gold and silver help much and how did you get the alcohol and other supplies?
Well in my family there are people with different religious beliefs so what do you mean with that?
I ll try to explain you simple; it was an attackers and defenders, lot of switching sides, civil war. War ended without winners, it ended with truce, thanks mostly to USA. It was the wrong war, wrong reasons. I did not fight for religion or ethnicity, i fought to keep my family and myself alive.
For last 15 years we have peace, we live with people who use to be our enemies, i do not to want to have war and enemy again because ethnicity or religion or any other reason.
Please do not try to generalize anything about that war, there was not good and bad side, we all suffered and we all try to live together again.
And yes every side did bad things, and every side had booth good and bad guys.
I am here for one and only reason- survival, i want to learn, and i can share some useful stuff with you.I don t think about your religious beliefs, your ethnicity or your politic opinion.
Few words about my city before war, it was a usual Bosnian town, normal life, decent people, schools, theaters, parks, college, airport, crime rate very low, town like most of the smaller towns in USA (i think). I was a young man, just like any of you maybe.
Now very important think: i am not here to discuss about war reasons, or sides, religion or anything similar.
Thanks to the war, in my town was REAL SHTF situation, and we can discuss only about that, only that is important.
You have a lot internet pages, you can learn everything about that war, and you can choose side if you want. OK that s it.
I don t know about other people on this forum, but i have lot of alcohol stacked now.
It was great stuff for trading, people used alcohol a lot, desperate times i think, we also use it for disinfection.
About hygiene, cups and plates, paper or plastic, you gonna need a LOT, i know, we did not have it at all.
Water purifying pills, all kind of cleaning stuff, sanitizers, lot of soap, bleach, gloves, masks, all disposable, take very good care about first aid training, learn how to treat smaller cuts, burns or even gunshot wound, there is not hospital, even if you found doctor somewhere he probably do not have any meds, or you do not have stuff to pay him.
Learn how and when to use antibiotics and have it a lot.
Belive me with good knowledge and good amount of meds you are gonna be rich.
About gold and silver, yes, me personally gave all my gold for ammunition in that time, but it did not worth too much.
About pets, i did not have it, i did not notice a lot pets in that time, did somebody ate it? I don t know, probably.
Small family or single man, not good for survive in town SHTF, maybe in wilderness (i don t have expirience in that) Even if you stay low profile, hidden in your house with lot of food etc, sooner or later mob will come, and you have maybe have one or two guns, very hard. I agree with low profile policy, it is very important not to attract people with anything, but when they come, you need to have numbers, people and guns, best people is your family.
About moving trough the city: always night time as i mentioned, never alone, 2-3 man, very fast, never attract with anything, look like everybody else, if most folks look desperate, poor, dirty you need to look same, there is no need that everybody know you have good amount of food, ammo , clean cloths and everything else back at home. Look and act like everybody else.
When somebody attack you or your family then you need to show that you are very ready.
I never walked in big groups,in that time and that situation big group is gang.
Now, this is all my experience, it was then, i did a lot of mistakes, i am not expert, i am here just like any of you, to learn and share.
For example i don t know too much about wilderness survival, i am here to check it.
Oh yes, few things to the Sedoy: my wife is different ethnicity, and she is also a Catholic, i am not, and to answer you : no i am not going to shoot her.
Q: What happened to those who died? Where did people get firewood?
Well, who ever died or get killed in that period, did not get proper funeral.
Folks used used every peace of free land, close to house for burial, sometimes even in the garden, 2-3 city parks turned to graveyards,after war most of them are exhumed and properly buried.
There was not noting like burning bodies or anything similar, as far as i know.
It was valuable yes, but not too much, for example coffee or cigarettes worth-ed much more.
Hm, i had a lot of alcohol as i mentioned before, i traded almost everything without any problem, let me say it like this: consumption of alcohol was probably 10 times more than in normal time.Not to mention cleaning and disinfection.
On the other side you made a very good point, if you have money and time and you have a storage it is probably better to store cigarettes or candles and batteries for trade, or food.
I was not preparer at that time, we did not have time to prepare, few days before SHTF politicians on TV stated that everything is fine, when sky fell down we just take what you can.
Q: Tell us more about cooking and the foods you were able to prepare. Were you concerned about the smell getting around and alerting people that there was food over there?
About cooking, before the SHTF i used in my house electricity for booth, cooking and heating, so when everything started i traded some stuff for some kind of old wood stove, i put it in kitchen ad fix exhaust pipe (right word?) trough hole in wall, i use that for cooking and heating.
Concerning the smell of the food, hm, i ll try to picture situation: no electricity, no running water, sewage off for months, dead bodies in ruined houses, grime and mess, believe me it was very hard to smell something nice.
It was not like in movies, it was ugly,dirty, and smelly.
Yes i had few problems because of cooking, only few, but as i sad before, enough people, properly armed and with will to defend and you can manage most of the problems with that.
Probably situation would be different in wilderness.
I ate mostly some kind of pancakes with local herbs (does not require cooking oil and too much firewood), and of course everything what i could get and trade, rice was good to eat, not too much firewood for that.
I always had something to trade, i guess that saved me, and guns of course.
Q: 1. Why would the night be safer than daytime? Outside of the obvious of being easier to hide at night, but were the gangs more out during the days? Also, why only small groups of 2-3? What happened to larger groups?
2. Why would you have to go out at night? For instance, where were you going and why?
3. How did you handle the mob situation when they came for you, or your family?
4. You mentioned trading for bullets, etc. How much shooting were you doing during that time and how much ammo did you have, or would like to have had?
5. How were you able to determine who was an enemy and who wasn¡¯t? How did you manage to get out there trade with people and when/where?
6. What fortifications did you do to your home and what kind of guard, or protections did you have in place?
7. Finally, how did you avoid snipers? What precautions did people take against them?
First almost nobody were out during the day because of snipers, line of defence was very close, so whatever you have to do, you do it during the night, trade something, look for firewood (i can express how much this was important in town, and hard), looking for anything, check somebody, go to hear news (very very important, lot of people get killed because they go somewhere just to see what happening, or what s new) remember, no news, no radio ,no tv, nothing, rumors fed lot of people.
I did have situations concerning my house only, it is no need for too much details, we had more fire power, and brick wall.
Also we had something like street watch, people from my street were good organized, in case of gangs, now there were a lot shootings.
There was pretty much shooting in town, i did not have enough weapon at the beginning, one rifle and one pistol (ww2), maybe 100 bullets, later i trade some things for more rifles and ammo, remember i gave car battery for 2 rifles.
A LOT, as more as you can.
Most of the time you are not able to determine who is enemy or friend, expect my family and few real friend, everybody else is potential enemy. When your friend must choose between his child s death and your death quess who is going to choose.
Rumors, somebody tells you that some old guy few block away have some cans and he is looking for ammo or whatever, you go there, as i say you are always looking for something. Same some people would came in my street as traders, with some goods.
There was something like trade street during the night, actualy it was a big ruins of sport center, you can go overthere and look for something or offer something, but it was not controlled by anyone so it was too dangerous.
It was primitive pretty much, brick wall around house,bags of sand on windows and doors, over that bags we used whatever you can, big pieces of metal, stones, inside house we put all kind of stuff on windows, only small openning left for rifle, always 5 members of family ready for fight, one always outside on street hidden.
To avoid snipers, we stay home at day, it was not so much night snipers, even during the night we never walked openly on the streets if we can avoid that, always shortcuts, trough ruins, fast and quiet.
Q: What was your bathroom situation? Where did you go? Did you have anything to wipe with? Sorry ask such personal questions, but this is something that I¡¯ve wondered about in this type of situation.
we used shovel and any piece of land close to house, sounds dirty, and it is dirty, washing with collected rainwater, sometimes go to river (most of the time that was too dangerous) Most of the time we did not have toilet paper, even if i had it, i trade it.
It was a bad situation all the time.
If i can give some advice: first to prep is a weapon and ammo, then everything else, i mean everything, depends how much money and space you have, if you forget something no problem there is always somebody ready for trade, but if you forget guns and ammo then you may not be able to get to trading places.
I do not see big family or group of really( i mean really) good friends as more mouth to feed, i see them as more guns and strength, it is in people nature to adapt.
And keep it simple and use common sense, in the first period weak people vanished, other fight.
Go with small thing, lighters, candles, flints. It is great idea to have fuel generator( electrical generating unit?) but i think is better idea to have 1000 bic lighters. Fuel generator is great, but in shtf scenario in town it is going to attract whole army,1000 bic lighters don t take too much space, cheap, you can always trade it for something.
Real SHTF scenario demands completely change of normal mindset, hard to explain, i ll try through examples.
(I remember you saying a car battery for a rifle) and where would I go to find the people who trade in weapons?
Hm, you re right, after the war every house here had a weapon from war, and yes police did some actions to take illegal weapon from population, depends from man to man i quess, lot of people find ways to hide their weapon somewhere, just in case.
I also have legal weapon (license), and authority here have some thing they call it ¡°temporary collecting¡±, it is says something like : in a case of unusual event (riots, unrest, etc) government have right to temporary collect all legal weapon, so i keep always in mind that, and i acted like some people.
It is not hard to get weapon in SHTF if you have good stuff for trade, but other thing is important, first days of SHTF is worst in terms of chaos and panic, maybe you not gonna have time to get gun. And to be unarmed in chaos panic and riots is bad.
In my case man needed car battery for radio i think, and he had some extra rifles, so we trade.
Q: What about medical care for people who were shot or became injured?
Wounds was mostly gunshot wounds of course, without specialists and everything else, if wounded manage to find doctor somewhere he had like 30% chances to live, again it is not movie, mostly they died, lot of died even from minor cuts infections, i had antibiotics maybe for 3-4 treatment. Of course for my family only.
Simple things killed people, diarrhea can kill you in a few days without meds and rehidratation, (fluid therapy, IV) especially small kids. Lot of fungal skin deseases,and food poisoning, we could not do too much. Basically we treated diseases mostly with local herbs, and if you had wound, put rakia on it and try to find antibiotics somewhere.
So i was good at fixing wounds in term of emergency help, but longer procedure-bad prognosis.
What i learned? Hygiene again, and a lot of meds, especially antibiotics. You need to learn to treat lot of stuff, go online, finish some training, EMT maybe, first aid etc.
In SHTF things are different, learn how to open IV, when to use certain drug, or antibiotics.
Get in your prepper storage some reanimation kit (simple one) like small oxygen cylinder, BVM mask etc. It is not really hard to learn to use all of these.
OK let s clear something, of course you can not use anything of this in real world unless you are certified and trained for that ( EMT, nurse, physician ).
But in SHTF nobody ask you for license, just learn and have in your storage big part for medical things.
So to answer question how did i help and treat, most of the time very poor,i help some with resources that i have, i took food or something else for exchange, i was badly prepared for that, now i am what do i need to have.
Q: Did your local currency/money still hold value? Were you still able to use money to purchase items from other people?
No, not really, i mean sometimes you can use foreign money if you had it to buy something, (dollars or German marks) but even in that rare occasion rate was unbelievable for examples 1 can of beans for 30-40 dollars (normal value was maybe 0,50) i quess somebody had connections with outside world, black market you know, so he can earn lot of money.But it was very rare. Trade was main thing to get something.
Local currency crashed very fast, in few weeks or month maybe.
Q: How much space should I keep for alcohol storage? What was security like?
About alcohol first, you right but you are right in booth ways, people need alcohohol more in desperte times then usual, so it is kind of gambling i guess , it is very good item for trading, i never had problems with alcohol trading and having than problems with trading other things.
Also i am thinking about something else, maybe it is better to fill my storage with something less space consuming but still interesting for trade, like batteries, antibiotics etc.
Thing is i had all that alcohol for free, i did not buy it.I don t know about this.
In most of the situations people attack me because they think they are stronger, they did not know for sure what i really had.
About ammunition trade, it depends how much ammo you are going to have, sometimes i trade ammo for food, and in few weeks again food for ammo, but i never never do trade at my home, and never bigger amounts, very few people knowed how much of anything i had in my house.
The point is store as much of anything as you can store (space , money) later during the situation you ll see what is most popular, correcti ammo and guns always gonna had 1 place for me, but who knows maybe number 2 for trading gonna be for example masks with filters.
Defence were very primitive, again we were not prepared, we use what ever we could, windows were broken, roofs mostly damaged from shelling, all windows were blocked with something, sand bags and rocks,every night i blocked my yard gate with junk- rubble from the street and i use old alluminium ladder to get over the wall, when i come back i called somebody from house to get me that ladders so i can move in.
Guy from my street barricaded his house completely, if he go out at night he use a hole that he maded in one room that is connected with neighbor s house, and go trough his (ruined and destroyed) house out, actually he had secret entrance.
It may look weird to say but most secured houses are gone first, of course we had some very nice houses in neighborhood, with walls, dogs, alarms, steel bars on windows, alarms. And you can quess what happened, mob attacked those houses first, some were defended other not, depend how many guns and hands thea have inside.
So i think security is great, but be sure that you keep it low profile, forget about alarm, if you live in town and SHTF you gonna need simple looking non interesting secured house, with lot of guns and ammunitions.
Just keep it low profile and not interesting.
Well in my case migration did not happen because it happen very fast, other army just closed city in ring and that s it, if you ask me where was that army and how we did not seen them coming, the answer is simple, that army was an ally of army of my side and people, and one day we woke up and figured they are enemy now and they are closing all ways out. Politics . It is true, one more side of civil war.
But i heard from others parts of country, and my frends who stayed in villages in the other parts in state, that they have much better situations,countryside had land,corn,wheat, fruit trees, farms etc they had enough food, it was bad, but much better than in city.
I know one thing if we had some way out from the town, we would use it, we did not have it.
Q: What was the situation with banks and stores?
About banks, loans, credit cards. Complete monetary system died for about one year, so nothing works.
So i ll try to describe that in separate post.
On the other side during the worst period, people just moved in empty house, and that s it.
I mention rural areas in other post. As far as i remember it was better there.
For let me call it ¡°civilian population¡± there was no moving with vehicles, streets were mostly under rubble and unusable and fuel was too expensive.
Not to draw attention was a big thing, about clothing, there use to be some sort of town defense, it was not like real military,mostly mixed civilian clothes with part of uniforms, different weapon, so no rules.
But as soon as go in to that things and try to talk about two armies, their strength, war crimes, politics i am not gonna like it any more, because people gonna start to choose sides, and i think it is not important for us here.
As i said before there was not organized army, but we all been like soldiers, we had to, most of us carry weapon and try to protect from enemy army and robbers.
Inside the town you did not want to look fancy because somebody shoot you and took your good stuff, you did not want to have fancy rifle, because probably you not gonna find ammo in that caliber and also you are drawing attention.
So let s me try to put it this way: if SHTF tomorrow, i will try to look like most of the people outside, scared, desperate, confused and i ll scream maybe, no fancy looking stuff, i ll not go out in fancy new uniform and yell ¡°I am here, you are finished now looters and robbers¡± I ll stay low profile, heavily armed and well prepared waiting to see my options, even if i have to go out with all my gear to do things i ll go in night, with best friend or brother. Maybe sounds ridiculous, but from my expirience it works, be wery well prepared, but let nobody outside your house know or see that.
No matter how good is your house security, how good is your weapon, if people see that they have good reason to rob you they probably rob you in town SHTF, it is only matter of time and number of guns.Don t ever give them reason to be interesting for robbing. Stay uninteresting. Now this is my opinion, maybe is not working in different situation.
About robbing grocery store and gas stations, it happened very very fast, as soon as shooting started all valuable things was emptied, there vas some effort of authority to keep it together but everything fall apart in first weeks.


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A long history of nautical timekeeping inspires three new Ulysse Nardin watches.
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A small Minnesota company that sells replacement parts for cars and ATVs filed more than 10,000 requests for exemptions from tariffs on imported Chinese goods
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Poop-testing startup uBiome was once valued at $600 million by Silicon Valley's top VCs. It just filed for bankruptcy.
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The strange tale of how a battle between 2 healthcare companies morphed into a viral Twitter backlash against CVS
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Business Insider's reporting highlighted families fighting for access to the treatment, Zolgensma, which is the most expensive drug in the world.


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NOTE: This is a great way to get your beginners used to a rolling count dance. I am often asked what the &a refers too and I find this the easiest description. You will hear a Viennese waltz beat 1,2,3 4,5,6. Rolling count works with those same beats however replace with 1&a, 2&a.
Thank you Jan for the music and PLEASE NOTE this dance can also be used with the Calum Scott version as a split floor to any harder dance using that version.


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Q: Connecting an Ubuntu laptop to network through Raspberry Pi I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Lite and a Toshiba laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The Pi is connected to my home WiFi network. How can I connect them (for instance through an Ethernet cable) so that the laptop uses the Pi's network connection?
Thanks.

A: You'll have to make your Raspberry wifi router. There is one howto:
https://raspberrypihq.com/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-wifi-router/

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Study Finds School Sex Ed Programs Like Planned Parenthood's Just Make Kids Have More Sex
National | Mary Margaret Olohan | Feb 21, 2020 | 10:09AM | Washington, DC
A global research review of school based comprehensive sex education programs found very little effectiveness from these programs and instead found increased sexual activity.
The review, conducted by the Institute for Research & Evaluation and published in the Institute of Law and Medicine in January, examined 60 studies of 40 school based comprehensive sex education programs in the U.S. as well as 43 studies of 39 programs in other countries.
The review found "little evidence that [comprehensive sex education] programs are effective at producing positive impact on their participants" and questioned the efficacy of school based comprehensive sex education, according to a press release from the Institute for Research and Evaluation.
"Perhaps of greatest concern, this new analysis found harmful effects on children and youth for roughly one in six school-based comprehensive sex education programs worldwide," lead author Irene Erickson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Of the 103 school based comprehensive sex education studies, six studies found evidence of "real effectiveness" at least 12 months after the program without producing other negative effects, the review found. But the review also found no evidence that these six programs increased consistent condom usage or teen abstinence or reduced sexually transmitted diseases. It found one out of six of these studies was effective at reducing teen pregnancy.
Conversely, the review found that 16 of the studies showed negative effects on teen sexual behavior and sexual health. This includes 18 increases in teen sexual activity and other risky behaviors.
Negative effects listed in the review include increased pregnancy, increased STDs, increased sexual activity (initiation, frequent or recent sex), decreased condom use, increased oral sex, increased sex partners, an increase in forced or coerced sex, or an increase in paid sex.
"It should also be noted that many factors outside the classroom influence adolescent sexual behavior — factors related to the home, peer, social media, and cultural environments," the review adds. "Significant and lasting increases in sexual risk avoidance may be amplified by a multi-pronged prevention strategy that addresses these various factors directly."
The review emphasizes the need for more evidence of effectiveness of school based comprehensive sex education programs, as well as the need for more studies on abstinence only sex education programs.
Comprehensive sex education, according to Planned Parenthood, is a term that refers to K-12 programs covering human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behavior, sexual health, and society and culture — as opposed to sex education that only focuses on abstinence. Comprehensive sex education examines both sexuality and gender and has come under fire from families nationwide, including in California, Texas, Colorado and Maryland.
"In Virginia, sex education is disguised under the parent-friendly label 'Family Life Education,'" Family Research Council Director of Human Dignity Cathy Ruse told the DCNF. "As part of the education of eighth graders, one county gives lessons with multiple references to 'anal sex' and 'oral sex.'"
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As the review points out, a wide variety of American medical organizations support comprehensive sex education. These organizations include the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and many more, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an institute dedicated to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
The Guttmacher Institute notes that critics of abstinence-only sex education describe it as both scientifically and ethically problematic. Guttmacher also notes that abstinence-only sex education ignores or stigmatizes the needs of some young people and that "strong evidence suggests" that comprehensive sex education helps "to delay sex, and also to have healthy relationships and avoid STDs and unintended pregnancies when they do become sexually active."
"High school students get lessons promoting a daily sex drug designed for use by people with multiple sex partners of unknown HIV status," Ruse said. She was referring to "pre-exposure prophylaxis" (PrEP), a course of drugs taken by HIV-negative people to protect them against HIV infection.
"High school students are also told repeatedly about their right to abortion and about how to get a secret abortion without telling their parents," Ruse continued.
Video footage posted in June 2019 shows the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) instructing teachers on progressive sexual education and gender theory in collaboration with California school districts and Planned Parenthood. The video, released by conservative organization Our Watch and published on June 26, 2019, allegedly depicts ACLU staff attorney Ruth Dawson instructing teachers on how to help students obtain abortions without parental knowledge or consent.
An ACLU spokeswoman confirmed to the DCNF in June 2019 that the ACLU was present at the meeting shown in the video, but maintained that the video was doctored. She did not elaborate on how the video was doctored.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found in October 2019 that sexually transmitted diseases are at an all-time high. Primary and secondary syphilis cases are up by 14% in the U.S., while gonorrhea increased by 5% to more than 580,000 cases, the highest number reported since 1991. Chlamydia rose to more than 1.7 million cases, the most chlamydia cases ever reported by the CDC.
"If the nation's comprehensive sex education programs were really working, these disease numbers should be trending down," the president of Family Watch International, a nonprofit pro-family international educational organization, Sharon Slater, told the DCNF.
Slater said that the recent study confirms that President Donald Trump's administration has "been on the right track" as the administration seeks to decrease funding for sex education programs such as the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, a national program that funds organizations working to prevent teen pregnancy.
"They've attempted to cut funding for comprehensive sex education programs that don't work and to instead allocate more funding to sexual risk avoidance abstinence programs that do," Slater said. "Unfortunately, the courts have overruled the administration and Congress just recently also voted to continue funding for [comprehensive sex education]."
"The evidence is in," Slater said, adding:
"The numbers are in. The science is in. This newly released analysis shows that the taxpayers have wasted over a billion dollars over the past 10 years funding failed programs. Hopefully this study will help convince Congress that it's time to pull the funding."
The Institute for Research & Evaluation is a Utah-based nonprofit research organization that focuses on sex education research, particularly on abstinence education interventions.


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Q: A simple app to secure coldfusion pages - Running into an issue with Session I am testing out how to protect pages in coldfusion and have run into an issue when attempting to create a process by which users can log out.
Essentially, I have three pages:

*

*Page A - The form that submits to
Page B

*Page B - That checks the
form.username and form.password
against a database (works fine)

*Page
C - Logout page (Which is where I am
having an issue).

Page C throws a "variable Session is undefined" error
Here is the code on Page C:
<cfset StructClear(Session)>
<cflocation url="index.cfm">

Here is the code on Page B:
<cfif NOT IsDefined ("form.username")>
<cflocation url="index.cfm" addtoken="No">
</cfif>

<cfquery name="test" datasource="cfdb">
SELECT * FROM USERS
WHERE USERNAME = '#FORM.username#'
AND PASSWORD = '#FORM.password#'
</cfquery>

<CFIF test.RecordCount IS 0>
<cflocation url="index.cfm" addtoken="No">
<CFSET StructClear(Session)>
<cfelse>
<CFSET Session.LoggedIn = "1">

</cfif>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

Log Out

  This content is protected.

As you can see, nothing fancy :)
Now, I thought that the Session variable could be accessed by any page within a given browser instance, but I am obviously wrong.
What do I need to do for Page C (my logout page to be able to access the session variable).
Any guidance is greatly appreciated!

A: The Adobe docs reccommend against using structclear on the entire session, a better approach would be to make a sub element of the session named something like session.data and then structclear that. If you do want to make your code work try saving the key session internals then restoring them like this...
<cflock timeout="15" throwontimeout="No" scope="SESSION" type="EXCLUSIVE">
   <cftry>
   <cfscript>
   variables.HoldCFID = session.CFID;
   variables.HoldCFT  = session.CFToken;
   variables.HoldSID  = session.SessionID;
   variables.HoldURLT = session.URLToken;
   structClear(session);
   session.CFID      = HoldCFID;
   session.CFToken   = HoldCFT;
   session.SessionID = HoldSID;
   session.URLToken  = HoldURLT;
   </cfscript>
  <cfcatch type="Any">

   <cfset rc = structClear(session)>
   Session Cleared in Catch

  </cfcatch>
  </cftry>
</cflock>

Here is a good writeup with some background on stuctclearing the session structClear and Sessions - Still bad? from Ray Camden's blog.
Also your sample shows the classic attack vector for SQL injection, be sure to CFQueryParam your FORM.username and FORM.pasword :)