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There were perhaps no two men more different in the early days of the Civil War than Jefferson Davis and William Lloyd Garrison. Davis, a Mississippi planter and slaveholder, was Provisional President of the Confederacy, dedicated to slavery's preservation. William Lloyd Garrison, an activist and newspaper editor based in Massachusetts, had since the early 1830s advocated the immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery. To Garrison, slavery was an egregious sin and moral stain on the nation which could not be tolerated. To Davis, slavery was a benign institution, beneficial to all parties concerned (including the slave), integral to southern identity, and worth preserving at all costs.
So it is surprising in late April 1861 that Jefferson Davis and William Lloyd Garrison would agree on anything, most especially the cause of the war that had just broken out between the North and the South. Hence, it is highly significant that in fact they did agree on this point. Garrison writing privately and Davis writing publicly both acknowledged slavery was the cause of the Civil War.
On April 28, 1861, William Lloyd Garrison penned a letter to James Sloan Gibbons, a New York City businessman and longtime financial supporter of the abolitionist cause. Garrison wrote Gibbons:
The civil war now raging in the land is, on the part of the Administration, technically and ostensibly to defend the "stars and stripes," and maintain the government against conspirators and traitors; but it is really a struggle between the free states and the slave States–i.e., between freedom and slavery–between free institutions and slave institutions–between the ideas of the nineteenth and those of the twelfth century.
The following day, April 29, 1861, Jefferson Davis sent a message to the Confederate Congress, delivering the good news that their new constitution had been ratified by its states. In it, Davis reiterated the grievances of the South that had led to secession, at their heart having to do with slavery. His message, in part, read:
When the several States delegated certain powers to the United States Congress, a large portion of the laboring population consisted of African slaves imported into the colonies by the mother country. In twelve out of the thirteen States negro slavery existed, and the right of property in slaves was protected by law. This property was recognized in the Constitution, and provision was made against its loss by the escape of the slave. The increase in the number of slaves by further importation from Africa was also secured by a clause forbidding Congress to prohibit the slave trade anterior to a certain date, and in no clause can there be found any delegation of power to the Congress authorizing it in any manner to legislate to the prejudice, detriment, or discouragement owners of that species of property, or excluding it from the protection of the Government.
The climate and soil of the Northern States soon proved unpropitious to the continuance of slave labor, whilst the converse was the case at the South. Under the unrestricted free intercourse between the two sections, the Northern States consulted their own interests by selling their slaves to the South and prohibiting slavery within their limits. The South were willing purchasers of a property suitable to their wants, and paid the price of the acquisition without harboring a suspicion that their quiet possession was to be disturbed by those who were inhibited not only by want of constitutional authority, but by good faith as vendors, from disquieting a title emanating from themselves. As soon, how ever, as the Northern States that prohibited African slavery within their limits had reached a number sufficient to give their representation a controlling voice in the Congress, a persistent and organized system of hostile measures against the rights of the owners of slaves in the Southern States was inaugurated and gradually extended. A continuous series of measures was devised and prosecuted for the purpose of rendering insecure the tenure of property in slaves. Fanatical organizations, supplied with money by voluntary subscriptions, were assiduously engaged in exciting amongst the slaves a spirit of discontent and revolt; means were furnished for their escape from their owners, and agents secretly employed to entice them to abscond; the constitutional provision for their rendition to their owners was first evaded, then openly denounced as a violation of conscientious obligation and religious duty; men were taught that it was a merit to elude, disobey, and violently oppose the execution of the laws enacted to secure the performance of the promise contained in the constitutional compact; owners of slaves were mobbed and even murdered in open day solely for applying to a magistrate for the arrest of a fugitive slave; the dogmas of these voluntary organizations soon obtained control of the Legislatures of many of the Northern States, and laws were passed providing for the punishment, by ruinous fines and long-continued imprisonment in jails and penitentiaries, of citizens of the Southern States who should dare to ask aid of the officers of the law for the recovery of their property. Emboldened by success, the theater of agitation and aggression against the clearly expressed constitutional rights of the Southern States was transferred to the Congress; Senators and Representatives were sent to the common councils of the nation, whose chief title to this distinction consisted in the display of a spirit of ultra fanaticism, and whose business was not "to promote the general welfare or insure domestic tranquillity," but to awaken the bitterest hatred against the citizens of sister States by violent denunciation of their institutions; the transaction of public affairs was impeded by repeated efforts to usurp powers not delegated by the Constitution, for the purpose of impairing the security of property in slaves, and reducing those States which held slaves to a condition of inferiority. Finally a great party was organized for the purpose of obtaining the administration of the Government, with the avowed object of using its power for the total exclusion of the slave States from all participation in the benefits of the public domain acquired by all the States in common, whether by conquest or purchase; of surrounding them entirely by States in which slavery should be prohibited; of thus rendering the property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless, and thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars. This party, thus organized, succeeded in the month of November last in the election of its candidate for the Presidency of the United States.
In the meantime, under the mild and genial climate of the Southern States and the increasing care and attention for the wellbeing and comfort of the laboring class, dictated alike by interest and humanity, the African slaves had augmented in number from about 600,000, at the date of the adoption of the constitutional compact, to upward of 4,000,000. In moral and social condition they had been elevated from brutal savages into docile, intelligent, and civilized agricultural laborers, and supplied not only with bodily comforts but with careful religious instruction. Under the supervision of a superior race their labor had been so directed as not only to allow a gradual and marked amelioration of their own condition, but to convert hundreds of thousands of square miles of the wilderness into cultivated lands covered with a prosperous people; towns and cities had sprung into existence, and had rapidly increased in wealth and population under the social system of the South; the white population of the Southern slaveholding States had augmented from about 1,250,000 at the date of the adoption of the Constitution to more than 8,500,000 in 1860; and the productions of the South in cotton, rice, sugar, and tobacco, for the full development and continuance of which the labor of African slaves was and is indispensable, had swollen to an amount which formed nearly three-fourths of the exports of the whole United States and had become absolutely necessary to the wants of civilized man. With interests of such overwhelming magnitude imperiled, the people of the Southern States were driven by the conduct of the North to the adoption of some course of action to avert the danger with which they were openly menaced. With this view the legislatures of the several States invited the people to select delegates to conventions to be held for the purpose of determining for themselves what measures were best adapted to meet so alarming a crisis in their history.
So although the editor William Lloyd Garrison quickly got to the point and the politician Jefferson Davis carried on at length, they both essentially made the same point–the war then breaking out was about slavery. That these two men, the bitterest of enemies, concurred on this point at this moment is very important. Certainly, Davis wanted slavery preserved while Garrison wanted it destroyed, but they both agreed in the waning days of April 1861 it was at the heart of the war then gaining momentum, as subsequent events would soon confirm.
Source of Garrison letter of April 28, 1861: Walter M. Merrill, ed. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume V: Let the Oppressed Go Free (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979), 28.
Source of Davis message of April 29, 1861: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_m042961.asp


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Adopting wild animals just isn't a good idea
"Adopting" wild animals almost never is a good idea. Most people get that.
But sometimes they break the rule because they believe it is a matter of life and death to an animal.
A Knox County woman felt that way about two deer and four raccoons she raised on her small farm. A former veterinary technician, Carol Deyo, now is in trouble with the law.
The deer were fawns when Deyo got them. One had been hit by a car and was having a seizure when two men took it to her. The other had been hit by a hay mower in a field. Its right leg was cut off.
Without help, both animals would have died.
But Deyo has been charged with two counts of breaking state law against possessing wild animals. She is less worried about the fines than the creatures themselves. They probably would not survive long in the wild. The alternative is to have them killed by a veterinarian.
There has to be a better way.
State wildlife officials are right. People have to be deterred from adopting wild animals. Again, however, the creatures themselves should not pay with their lives because humans broke the law by saving them in the first place.


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I came across one such file (Best Magazine Covers of 2008) and tried to figure out how to download the PDF file from Scribd. Tried the tried and tested browser cache trick, but it gave me only a .scb file - which I think contains all the relevant data - but was unable to convert it to a friendlier format.
So what do you do? Google. I did but that didn't help. Thought for a while and then Eureka!
You will only need to install and extra bit of software, that is if you don't already have it (any way such software are usually handy to have on your PC) - a PDF creator. There are quite a number of free PDF creators available online that do a decent job. Two of my preferred choices are: PDFCreator (Open Source) and PrimoPDF (it needs .Net Framework 2.0 to work).
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One of the first pieces of advice our upperclassmen gave us when we reported to The Citadel was, "Don't think about Recognition Day. Think about tomorrow. Think about the weekend. Think about Parent's Day weekend." At the time, Recognition Day was shortly before graduation, meaning 9 long months in a plebe system, a military system in addition to the rigors of attending college.
Our upperclassmen had been there. They knew that classmates that continually looked to the end of the 9 months didn't make it. There was a transition point, when you get close enough to Recognition Day, that holding out for it keeps you motivated to continue in the Fourth Class System. However, that transition point is well into second semester and we were still in the midst of the two week training period before classes for the year began. Until then, you needed to focus on something else. Their suggestion was to set milestones around events that we were nearer to. Just making it to the weekend meant having survived another week at The Citadel. That was one more week than many others had done. That was one more week to add to your accomplishments. And adding that week meant that once again, you had proven you could make it. That was often enough motivation to take on the week to come.
Life is the same way. Most of us have big goals that are a long way off. I am far away from my ideal running weight. However, if I look at that big number, I'll get discouraged and I'll quit. That number is my final goal. In between I have set a number of milestones to remind me that I'm making progress, that I'm getting to where I want to be. Case in point: this weekend I had a certain set of goals in mind for my running. I accomplished them fairly easily. I am ahead of where I planned. That's a good thing. Knowing that I passed my "test" easily has brought additional motivation to see my goal through to the final number. This is the power of a little victory.
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Fortune's Child
Out now on the Hyperion website, Fortune's Child is the most recent recording of Machaut's works from the Orlando Consort. As Fabrice Fitch of Gramophone notes, "five volumes in, Hyperion's Machaut series shows no sign of running out of puff." Complimenting their performance, Fitch says "the Orlandos project and enunciate Machaut's French so well that one rarely reaches for the printed text" and he is particularly impressed by Angus Smith's interpretation of 'Dou mal qui m'a longuement'. He further remarks, "as with previous volumes, the programming of this series is deeply impressive."
A Burning Heart
Available now from the Hyperion website, the Orlando Consort's latest CD, A Burning Heart, is already receiving critical acclaim. Blair Sanderson, writing for AllMusic.com, describes the Consort's singing as "wonderfully evocative and full of medieval atmosphere." While Brian Wilson, for MusicWeb International, declares: "I doubt...if either Chaucer or Chrétien could have imagined anything better than the singing on this and the other Orlando Consort Machaut recordings."
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The Dart of Love
Available now from the Hyperion website, The Dart of Love is second in a series of recordings by the Orlando Consort of Machaut's music. It has already received critical acclaim:
The Orlando Consort perform these works with matchless purity of tone and clarity of diction. (Limelight, Australia)
The programme is nicely varied in mood and scoring, ranging from four-voice ballades and motets to a single-voice virelai, and every combination in between … a thoughtful essay by Anne Stone makes audible sense of the many connections between the pieces on this valuable, impressive recording. (Gramophone)
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Full colour facsimile with introductory study by Lawrence Earp, Domenic Leo and Carla Shapreau. Preface by Christopher de Hamel
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New Voir Dit CD
Available now from the Hyperion website.
This new CD from the acclaimed Orlando Consort showcases songs from Machaut's Livre dou Voir Dit ('Book of the True Tale'). The recording was inspired by collaborative work between our project team and the Orlando Consort who have been trialling the new edition being produced. You can watch a video of the consort discussing their recording on YouTube.
It has already received critical acclaim: David Fallows for Gramophone writes:
To my ears, this is a dream team, with the enormously experienced Donald Greig and Angus Smith alongside ...Matthew Venner and Mark Dobell, who display the most magnificent articulation of the texts alongside the understanding of the lines gained from their senior colleagues...always dead in tune, always beautifully balanced...the unforgettable track here is Angus Smith performing the 'Lay de Bon Esperance', over 20 minutes of unaccompanied solo singing...He's terrific.


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Michigan's congressional delegation met Monday with Gov. Rick Snyder, asking him to veto or at least delay a vote on a "right to work" law moving through the state's legislature.
Democrats and organized labor groups have launched an all-out blitz they are hoping might halt legislation that would establish workers' rights to employment in a workplace without having to join a union. The Republican-held state legislature passed versions of the legislation last week, and are set to bring it up for final consideration as soon as Tuesday.
NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss the fiscal cliff deadline and President Obama's motives behind his trip to Michigan on Monday.
Snyder, a first-term Republican governor who's fashioned himself as a more pragmatic leader, has said he would sign the bill if it came to his desk.
"We strongly urged the governor to veto the so-called right to work bill, or at a minimum, ask the legislature to delay the vote on it," Sen. Carl Levin said in a conference call to describe Democrats' meeting with the governor. "The governor listened, and he told us that he would 'seriously,' in his words, consider our concerns."
Former Michigan Republican Governor John Engler, who is the president of the business roundtable, joins The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd to talk about President Barack Obama's trip the Michigan, the fiscal cliff, and Michigan's 'right to work' law.
Snyder's office had no immediate reaction to Democrats' characterization of the meeting.
Michigan has become the latest Midwestern epicenter over labor rights as a result of this fight, following Ohio and Wisconsin. The Republican governors of those states led efforts to curb or eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees' unions.
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin
National Democrats have begun to wade into the fight as well, issuing blistering statements warning against the Michigan proposal. The fight could be elevated further this afternoon, when President Barack Obama visits the Detroit area in a previously-scheduled trip.
Democrats are particularly incensed by a procedural move used by Republican authors of the bill which would prevent the law from being challenged by a statewide referendum. The Democrats who met Monday with Snyder said they had also urged the governor to change that provision, so that the right to work proposal could be brought to a popular vote.


text: Dan Goods has a pretty cool day job designing art installations for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, but he's got a really cool hobby: The Pasadena brainiac makes data sculptures on an epic scale. In collaboration with designer Nik Hafermaas and programmer Jamie Barlow, Goods' latest piece, airFIELD, installed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, runs flight data through an app that spits out "on" or "off" signals to Frisbee-sized discs of liquid crystal suspended from the ceiling. Each time a jet takes off or lands, passengers are treated to a cascade of overhead lights synced to the flight's trajectory. "We're not working with major data sets," Goods says. "It's basically: Have the planes landed? Have they taken off? And how far have they gone?' But it's interesting information and we're trying to show it in a poetic fashion. If you're sitting there waiting for two hours for your flight to Switzerland, then it gives you a sense of the heartbeat of the airport." Prior to airFIELD, Goods curated Pasadena Museum of California Art's 2009 Data + Art exhibition, then joined Hafermaas and Google's Aaron Koblin to complete a San Jose International Airport installation in 2010. Titled eCLOUD, the piece uses weather data to activate thousands of hanging "smart glass" tiles that shift appearance every 20 seconds to reflect changing weather conditions. Citing an MIT experiment that used solar wind activity to spin pinwheels, Goods says, "I liked the idea of taking arcane, weird data and making it into something physical. That kind of ambient data I think is really interesting because there's only so much you can see on a screen. I like the idea of experiencing data as something that's all-encompassing. How can you listen to data? How can you sense the physicality of data?" Check out gallery for images, video and text deconstructing airFLIGHT, eCLOUD and other data-driven projects. Images courtesy Dan Goods except where noted Above: Arrivals and Departures Activate Atlanta Airport's airFIELD Produced by UEBERSEE, the installation runs data provided by FlightAware tracking service through Dan Massey's custom C++ program. The application transmits electrical charges that instructs each single-pixel disc to become either opaque or translucent. "We were thinking about fluid dynamics, like grass blowing in the wind, and it had to work in three dimensions. It took a while to get the piece to feel like the airplane has just flown over your head, because that's what we wanted. We wanted it to feel as if you were standing at the end of the runway and these flights are flying over you and you're physically seeing the fluid dynamics of the aircraft as they go by."Night Flight This composite photograph documents about 15 nighttime flights as represented by the trail of lights. Goods says, "By setting the camera at a long exposure and taking photographs of all these flights at night, we could look at the way airplanes land and take off. Like birds, they both have this swooping feel to them."Like a Bird in Flight Nik Hafermaas, Graphic Design Department Chair at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, used the jet trajectory photographs as the foundation for this concept art. Goods says, "Nik drew the sketch to lay out this idea where you marry this idea of swooping up and swooping down. One shape represents the taking off, the other shape represents the landing. If you put them together, from the side, it looks like a bird in flight. That was serendipitous but it brought an interesting aspect to the sculpture."A Public Hanging In order to function, airFIELD relies on 1,500 10-inch discs connected to 3,000 wires and 81 circuit boards. Finding a sleek form for all that hardware posed a major challenge, Goods says. "We wanted airFIELD to be ethereal, as if it were hanging in the sky. That was really difficult because we had thousands of pieces of plastic to hang from the ceiling and we didn't want to show all this stuff hanging up there." To streamline the infrastructure, Goods explains, "The wires come through this meshed ceiling and get enfolded by V-shaped pieces of aluminum. Inside these V channels are the wire and circuit board and all the crap we don't want anyone to see."Shape-Shifting eCLOUD Hovers Over San Jose Airport Goods, Hafermaas and Aaron Koblin devised eCLOUD as a piece that would change appearance every 20 seconds in response to a live feed from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supplemented with some Google weather information. Produced by UBERSEE, the sculpture features polycarbonate tiles of liquid crystal, made from the same material used on computer screens. Goods explains, "The tile's normal state is opaque but when a little electricity is added, it goes transparent. Through the use of custom software and circuitry, we were able to simulate the look and behavior of weather patterns from around the world."Passengers' POV Seen from the airline traveler's perspective, eCLOUD hovers from San Jose Airport's ceiling.Algorithms in Action Aaron Koblin, who leads the Data Arts Team at Google's Creative Lab, coded the software parameters that drive eCLOUD's behavior. Goods explains, "Aaron wrote an algorithm that looks at about 100 different cities and organizes the information to find the top 20 most interesting weather conditions in the world, then rearranges it so you'll get rain, then cloudy, then clear weather for example. We basically want to get the most contrast between 'shows.'"Flight Pattern Takes Off eCLOUDS co-creator Aaron Koblin anticipated airFIELD with his more modestly scaled Flight Patterns piece. The animation is based on 24 hours' worth of airplane tracking data provided by the Federal Aviation Administration. Koblin, who earned an MFA from UCLA's Design: Media Arts program, interpolated values based on locations of flight routes to create an animation showing where each plane was flying. Image courtesy Aaron KoblinHidden Light, Exposed Planets Goods designed Hidden Light to illustrate the difficulty of seeing dim planets. "It's extremely difficult to discover Earth-like planets around other stars because stars are billions of times bigger and brighter than planets," Goods says. "For Hidden Light, I projected a movie onto a large wall, and at the same time projected a brighter pixelated movie reminiscent of the sun, which is so bright it washes out the movie from the other projector. As soon as you walk in front of the light, the person's shadow hits the screen and reveals the video inside their shadow. The more people inside, the more of the video they can see."Hand Jive: Finger-Activated Solid Smoke Illuminates Aerogel Light Show "Any space geek drools at aerogel," says Goods. The ultra-light substance, made of 99.8 percent air, boasts remarkable protective qualities. "A one-inch thick piece would protect your hand from a blow torch," Goods notes. "It's been used to catch dust from a comet and insulate the rovers on Mars. But its effect on light is what I find stunning." Displayed at Technorama Museum in Switzerland, Solid Smoke features thin wafers of aerogel that change color when a visitor waves his or her fingers through a nearby slot.China, Say Hello to Kansas: The Wishing Well SIAS University, an international university in Henan Province, China, has a sister college in Kansas called Fort Hays State University. Approached by SIAS to figure out a piece that would illustrate the connection between the two schools, Goods worked with JLP colleague David Delgado to design The Wishing Well, pictured as concept art above. When completed in about two years, the Well will be embedded with an LCD screen at the base and a hidden video web camera, enabling visitors on opposite sides of the globe to hobnob virtually. Goods says, "This will allow us to 'dig a hole to China,' like our mothers always said we could do when digging in the yard."


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When using a cursor to loop through an attribute table, is it possible to iteratively select each row?
I want to clip a line to a polygon grid (see previous question); due to the size of the grid the split function fails. Hence I'm interested in selecting each polygon, and clipping the line to the selected cell by using the shapefile with only that cell selected.
I'm familiar with looping through the attribute table and performing calculations - but I don't know how to
select a row.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Saying a strike now appears likely, the union representing Boeing Co's (BA.N) 23,000 engineers held picket-line training this week to prepare for a work stoppage that could disrupt billions of dollars worth of plane deliveries and help Airbus catch up to Boeing on jet designs.
The preparations come after federal mediators suspended talks between Boeing and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace on Wednesday, after two days.
"I think the likelihood of a strike is very high," Ray Goforth, executive director of SPEEA, said Friday.
The union has not called for a vote to authorize a strike and said it would not stage a walkout until January at the earliest because Boeing closes its factories for the last week of December.
Bargaining began in April to replace contracts for engineers and technical workers, mostly at Boeing's factories near Seattle.
There is scope for the sides to reach a deal, since talks with the mediator are due to resume in January.
But the friction is rising between Boeing and its white-collar engineers, who design the jets and work closely with machinists to build them.
Last week, Boeing said the sides remain far apart on terms and called in the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, a Washington, D.C., agency that facilitate labor talks.
That process ended abruptly Wednesday when the two mediators who attended the meetings in Seattle suspended the talks.
"My guess is that after spending two days with us, they realized that no deal was going to be possible and that we were about to plunge into crisis," Goforth said.
He said that if Boeing had made another offer and left the table, the union would have responded by calling for a strike vote.
"FMCS pushed the pause button to stop that from happening," he said.
Boeing spokesman Doug Alder said the company "remains committed to reaching an agreement as soon as possible."
Boeing upped its offer last month but was surprised when SPEEA did not move toward compromise, he said. Instead of cutting its proposal, SPEEA asked for higher raises.
Boeing has offered a four-year contract with raises of 4 percent to 4.5 percent each year for SPEEA engineers and 3 percent to 3.5 percent for technicians. The workers got 5 percent raises in the contract that expired last month, and they have since asked for 6 percent annual.
"We're trying to keep our employees at the top of the market, but not so far above it that we can't attract work," Boeing spokesman Alder said. "We need SPEEA's team engaged in the process starting from the first day we're back at the table."
The union says Boeing's current offer would cut retirement benefits 40 percent and salary growth 22 percent while raising medical costs 12 percent.
SPEEA has struck twice before: a one-day walkout in 1993, and a 40-day stoppage in 2000. Both actions occurred early in the year and after talks with a mediator had failed to produce a labor agreement.
If they walked out, SPEEA's engineers and technical workers could stop production of 52 jets a month, worth nearly $8 billion at list prices.
The standoff has the potential to affect Boeing's production even if the union doesn't call a strike, as engineers could work more slowly and refuse overtime. The union has asked them to do so, but Boeing said there is no sign of slowdown.
Earlier this month, SPEEA said some workers had sought to hold a wildcat strike on Wednesday, and the union urged them not to. Boeing said there was no sign of increased absence.
Analysts say any shutdown in Boeing jet deliveries would help rival Airbus catch up on competing jets. Airlines are clamoring for the new planes because the fuel savings they offer is crucial as oil prices rise.
An engineer walkout also could affect design work on next-generation jets. Boeing has design projects in the works for the 737 MAX, the 767 Tanker and 787-9, and is planning two more, for the 777-X and 787-10X.
Goforth said SPEEA held training on Wednesday and Thursday for about 150 "captains" who would coordinate several dozen picket lines blocking entrances to Boeing facilities in Washington, Oregon, Utah and California.
Picket captains schedule workers to staff the sites, and also arrange for food, port a-potties, safety and security, he said. He also said the union had drawn up a budget and has money to support a 60-day strike.
Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Kenneth Barry


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Welcome to the Miles Morales appreciation thread, the thread to discuss all things Miles Morales.
No character bashing and remember to keep discussions civil please.
2018 was a great year for Miles so here's hoping 2019 brings even greater things
"A hero isn't the one who always wins...it's the one who always tries."
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K-State plays final tune-up before start of Big 12 play
Manhattan, KS – The 15th-ranked Kansas State Wildcats close out the non-conference portion of their schedule on Saturday night when the North Texas Mean Green pay a visit to Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
The Wildcats appear to be in midseason form, having outscored Missouri State and Miami-Florida by a combined score of 103-22. They led from start to finish in last Saturday's 52-13 thrashing of the Hurricanes. This week's contest wraps up a three-game homestand to start the season, as the team will visit fifth-ranked Oklahoma next weekend to open Big 12 play.
Meanwhile, North Texas rebounded from a season-opening loss at third-ranked LSU by knocking off Texas Southern last weekend, 34-7. This tilt kicks off a crucial three-game road swing for the Mean Green, who have hopes of playing in a bowl game under second-year head coach Dan McCarney.
Wildcats senior quarterback Collin Klein was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week after accounting for four touchdowns against Miami. Three of those scores came on the ground, his 10th career multi-touchdown rushing game which ranks second nationally among active quarterbacks. He also inflicted plenty of damage through the air, averaging a robust 23.3 yards on nine completions for a near-perfect 254.0 pass efficiency rating.
Head coach Bill Snyder praised the way Klein has gone about working to improve his craft.
"(Klein) improves at everything because he works diligently to get better," Snyder said. "He has improved in the passing game and he is making an improvement in leadership. He is also making improvements in the management and running game. He is just a guy who works diligently to get better, and he just keeps getting better across the board."
Still, Klein was far from a one-man show. John Hubert ran for 106 yards and a TD -- his second 100-yard game in as many weeks -- while Daniel Sams added another two rushing scores. All told, the Wildcats racked up 498 total yards for the game.
K-State's defense also put forth a strong showing as Miami's only touchdown came in the waning moments with the game out of hand. The defense bottled up Miami's offense to the tune of 262 total yards and put plenty of pressure on Hurricanes quarterback Stephen Morris, who was sacked five times. The Wildcats recovered three fumbles on the day and held the Hurricanes to just 40 yards on the ground, an average of 1.4 per rush. Linebacker Arthur Brown made his presence felt, as he set up a short TD drive with a first-quarter fumble recovery and later helped force a turnover on downs with a third-quarter sack.
The ground game is the preferred mode of attack for the Mean Green, who after two weeks rank 32nd nationally in rushing offense (214 ypg) and 111th in passing offense (144 ypg). Despite nearly matching last week's total offensive output by halftime, coach McCarney saw plenty of areas for improvement.
"It was a good win," coach McCarney said following the team's first win in a home opener since 2006. "There's not a great feeling of satisfaction. We were inconsistent running the ball, and we have to execute our passing game better."
Running backs Brandon Byrd and Antoine Jimmerson combined for 281 yards on the ground, although McCarney was not pleased that TSU was still within two scores entering the final quarter.
The North Texas defense did a fine job against a Tigers squad that racked up 544 yards of offense a week earlier. At halftime, the Mean Green had allowed just 16 yards of total offense, and the only first downs they yielded in the first half came by way of penalties. By game's end, UNT had held the Tigers to a mere 31 yards rushing, the lowest total by a Mean Green opponent since 1992. TSU finished with just 185 yards of total offense. A fourth-quarter interception by Marcus Trice and later a pass deflection on fourth down helped thwart TSU's comeback hopes.
The scary thing about K-State is that after last Saturday's rout of Miami, Klein downplayed his progress with the offense, pointing out some plays he would have liked to have back.
"Coach is rubbing off on me because what I am thinking about right now is the two field goals we kicked inside the ten," Klein said. "That is what I am thinking about right now. Again, we did a lot of good things, we made some progress, but there are some things we need to sure up."


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By Larry Frum, Special to CNN
(CNN) -- The new iPhone 5S's performance upgrades and 64-bit processing chip will make the smartphone more responsive and faster. And mobile game developers are excited about the possibilities they see opening up with that newfound power.
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for marketing, said the new A7 chip has tested up to twice as fast as the iPhone 5's processor. It is also the first 64-bit chip in a smartphone -- an announcement that caused some developers to smile.
Perhaps it was no coincidence that during the Cupertino event on Tuesday, a mobile game was the first demonstration after the iPhone 5S was announced.
"Infinity Blade III," developed by ChAIR Entertainment and the final entry in the series, will launch on September 18 and was designed with the new A7 chip in mind.
Technical director Geremy Mustard said the new power in the iPhone 5S has allowed his team to craft the ultimate "Infinity Blade" experience.
"With the unmatched power of the iPhone 5S and its A7 chip, we can now combine full-screen rendering effects, tons of polygons, and advanced gameplay processing in one smooth package," he said. "And we are able to do all that with almost instantaneous load times, keeping gamers immersed in the experience instead of staring at a loading screen."
Creative director Donald Mustard believes mobile gaming will get another giant push forward with the phone's new technology, calling it "true next-gen gaming" on a device that fits in your pocket.
"The iPhone 5S allows us to have a huge, extremely detailed dragon spewing billowing flames that engulf the entire screen, while the hero, clad in armor that reflects the environment, swipes to defeat the beast," he explained.
"We're rendering a full depth of field blur and bloom pass, a color adjust pass, a vignette pass, and a distortion pass ... while maintaining a blazing frame rate."
"It sounds like voodoo magic -- but it's not."
The new chip with 64-bit capabilities and improved graphics has developers salivating. But other features could open the door for different types of mobile gaming.
"The 64-bit architecture, combined with the improved processor specs, has the potential to offer supercharged graphic performance that will enable more immersive experiences," said Ross Dixon, executive producer at XMG. "Combined with the A7 chip, and the upgraded camera, the motion coprocessor may also open up new opportunities for innovative gameplay that makes use of augmented reality and geolocation information."
Both Donald and Geremy said they did not have early access to iOS 7 or the new iPhone 5S when they were building "Infinity Blade III," but they design their games with future tech in mind. So when they were presented with the new operating system and device, they were blown away by how many features they could turn on and still have a great game.
But all that comes at a power cost, right?
"We are constantly pushing the devices to the limits," Donald said. "The Apple team historically has used 'Infinity Blade' as their internal benchmark. We don't know how long you'll be able to play on the new phone, but on the iPhone 5, I could game on a flight from Salt Lake to New York ... about 5 or 6 hours."
Schiller said during the Apple reveal event that the battery life would be "the same or better" than the iPhone 5.
Changes to the interface will also present opportunities for mobile game developers. The new "parallax effect" included in iOS 7 will create depth on what has traditionally been a flat display for the iPhone and game controller support will offer a new way to play games on the go with the smartphone.
"Important to gamers and game developers, the new interface provides a better game-playing experience," said Kabam CEO Kevin Chou. "The new controller puts Apple at the forefront of bridging the ever-shrinking gap between consoles and iOS devices."
Expect game controller makers to roll out a cornucopia of controllers after the iPhones are released later this year, but it may take some time. Developers are looking at all aspects of the new operating system.
"iOS 7 opens up some great opportunities for us," said Justin Swan, lead designer of "Trials Frontier." "Of course native controller support is really interesting for the types of games we are making, but new features like Airdrop and more ways to compete through Game Center could really pump up the highly competitive aspect of our games."
Mobile gaming will definitely get a boost from the new technology available to developers. Games should be deeper, richer and more interactive -- something only seen before on console platforms.
With 700 million iPhones in the gaming marketplace and the addition of the new hardware inside, developers think this very well could be mobile gaming's time to make a dent with the noncasual gaming audience.
"For the first time we can imagine adapting our console game development knowledge for mobile devices without sacrificing a lot in the process." Brice Ramard, mobile technical director for Ubisoft, said.
"With the (motion-sensing) M7 chip, we'll have the opportunity to look into bringing more movement-based games to iOS users," added Cyril Derouineau, CCO & CTO of Mobile for Ubisoft.
Donald Mustard said the younger generation is growing up with mobile devices and they are the ones who are going to spur the mobile gaming proliferation in terms of quality and power.
"I really think it is going to be hard for (home) consoles to compete with the console (smartphone) I've got in my pocket especially as we move forward."


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Depending on the day, the source or the direction the wind blows, Martinez or Cleveland Indians bench coach Sandy Alomar Jr. is the favorite to land Guillen's old job. Terry Francona's sudden availability adds a high-profile wrinkle to the mix, and there's some talk of a surprise off-the-radar candidate.
Jim Thome is coming back!
Other White Sox links:
- James posted his playoff primer. And it took him 2 posts.
- The Sox minor league teams went 351-354 in 2011.
- John Sickels on Brent Morel: "Capable of better, could sneak up on us in a year or two." More .271/.400/.671 please!
- Coop is pushing Terry Francona for manager and says the 'Chris Sale to the rotation move' hasn't been decided yet.


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Like many other people, journalists breathe a sigh of relief when the Arkansas General Assembly adjourns. Lawmakers may take offense at such statements, and yet they often complain, when a major legislative error comes to light, that they never have time enough to read the bills they're voting on.
Like many other people, journalists breathe a sigh of relief when the Arkansas General Assembly adjourns. Lawmakers may take offense at such statements, and yet they often complain, when a major legislative error comes to light, that they never have time enough to read the bills they�re voting on.
In some cases that�s exactly what the sponsors intend.
For example, on the day of the deadline for filing proposed legislation during a general session, hundreds of bills are thrown into the mix, many of them known as �shell bills.� They have no content but leave open the prospect for amendment.
One such bill this year was House Bill 2100, sponsored by Rep. John K. Hutchison, R-Harrisburg, titled �An Act to Amend the Freedom of Information Act of 1967; and for Other Purposes.� Its entire content: �SECTION 1. The purpose of this act is to amend the Freedom of 19 Information Act of 1967, Arkansas Code � 25-19-101 et seq.�
Fortunately, that �shell� never got anywhere, dying in the House State Agencies Committee on a 9-1 vote.
We�re not always so fortunate. Sometimes bad bills sneak through the process with hardly any notice.
The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act is important to journalists and other citizens. It guarantees access to public records and meetings of public bodies. Journalists understand that we�ve got to defend the law, or it will be amended to death by public officials who don�t like to operate in the sunshine.
The Arkansas Press Association, through Executive Director Tom Larimer and Communications Director Tres Williams, does the heavy lifting when it comes to monitoring efforts to weaken the FOIA. During a session they spend countless hours talking with legislators, attending committee meetings and legislative sessions, and communicating with APA members.
They build a database of bills of special interest to those interested in open government. This year the database included 38 bills potentially damaging to FOIA and-or other related laws. Occasionally, the APA representatives also call upon members of a loose-knit organization called the FOIA Coalition to help in contacting legislators and in testifying for or against a certain bill.
Legislators sponsor such bills sometimes because they are asked to do so by other special interest groups and are surprised when opposition arises. Three bills were introduced this year by Rep. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, which would have likely ended the practice of publishing in newspapers public notices, such as new city ordinances, in favor of posting them online.
But when shown the ramifications of such action, the House State Agencies Committee wisely referred the bills to an interim study committee.
However, the fight for public information lost some ground this year.
The most high-profile bill for secrecy was Act 145, signed by acting Gov. Mark Darr early in the session. It prohibits releasing the names and ZIP codes of applicants for and holders of concealed handgun licenses. The previous law had been the result of a compromise during the 2009 legislative session, exempting addresses from disclosure.
Act 1229, signed by Gov. Mike Beebe, is an example of bad legislation resulting from bad behavior of a few. It prohibits the release of the names and addresses of minor passengers that appear in motor vehicle accident reports. The reason: Some chiropractors were contacting the families of accident victims soliciting their business.
The legislation appears to exempt from disclosure even the name of a person under 18 who is seriously injured or killed in a traffic accident.
Act 411 exempts personal contact information such as telephone numbers, home addresses and e-mail addresses of non-elected school employees from disclosure in public documents. The law already exempted non-elected state, county and municipal employees.
So if you want to send your child�s principal an e-mail message, you�ll have to get the address some other way.
Act 235 extends the FOIA exemption for water system records by removing its 2013 sunset clause. The intent is to prohibit security measures designed to protect water systems from terrorists, but it also prevents citizens from knowing whether the measures taken are reasonable or effective.
FOIA advocates won more battles than we lost, though.
In one case objections to an unnecessary FOIA exemption may have helped sink an otherwise good bill. That would be legislation to establish criminal background check procedures for candidates for public office and to automatically disqualify candidates with prior felonies. Two companion bills also would have exempted the results of background checks from disclosure.
For whatever reason, the bills failed in committee and were referred to interim study.
One of the most potentially damaging bills was HB 1327, sponsored by Rep. Marshall Wright, D-Forrest City. It would have exempted the records of schools and institutions of higher education, as well as their board meetings, from FOIA when the records and meetings were related to security policies and procedures.
On the surface that�s a good idea since in theory such information could be useful to someone with evil intent. But this over-broad bill would also have kept the public from knowing whether our representatives are paying proper attention to security.
In a free and open society an informed citizenry is the best weapon against those with intent to cause harm.
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Roy Ockert is editor emeritus of The Jonesboro Sun. He may be reached by e-mail at royosuddenlink.net.


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1957 GMC 1 Ton Pickup - Soul Survivor
Three Generations Of GMC Spirit
In 1957, Kevin's grandfather became the proud owner of a brand-new GMC pickup. It eventually made its way to Kevin's aunt and uncle, and then to his father. When Kevin was 28, he was passed the proverbial torch. He drove the pickup periodically over the next few years until the generator froze up and the truck began a 10-year sabbatical. It was during this hiatus that Kevin began pondering how he would restore the truck. The answer came when a friend of Kevin's was customizing his '56 Chevy by putting it on a 1-ton chassis and making it an extended cab. Kevin realized turning his truck into a dually (but making it look as if it came from the factory that way) would be the perfect direction.
No matter what they are, family heirlooms always hit close to home when they come into your possession. When it comes to vehicles, many of us hear stories about a car or truck a relative owned at one point only to say to ourselves, "Man, if only they'd held onto it." Once in a great while, some people are lucky enough to say one of their family members did exactly that ... and now that old classic is theirs. Kevin Balaam is one of the fortunate few.
For the platform, Kevin got his hands on an '82 Grumman Olson bread truck with a GM chassis, which just happened to be the same width as the '57's chassis. The most staggering feat of engineering, however, is the bed. In order to stretch it from the original 71/2-foot length, Kevin purchased a '56 Chevy and '65 Fleetside bed as donors. The bed was lengthened 11 inches (to a total of 100 inches), widened 10 inches, and the Fleetside fenders were used to provide 5 inches of clearance for the extra rear wheels. The oak bed wood is courtesy of Horkey's and Kevin gave it a satin finish. A GMC tailgate was also tracked down to graft into the stock one to account for the extra width and the back sports a '58-59 Chevy bumper. The rear sits on airbags and the entire chassis (which sat pretty high originally) has been lowered 7 inches. One coil was cut from the front springs and 2-inch drop spindles help bring everything down further for a more eye-appealing stance. It rolls on six-lug, 16-inch Alcoa Hot Shots with low-profile tires for the quintessential dually look.
In the front, practically everything you see is stock with the exception being that the windwings were ditched for one-piece windows. One thing that tickles the fancy of many enthusiasts is how nicely the body panels line up. That didn't come without its fair share of adjustments. As many have come to discover, most of these trucks were engineered for practicality rather than aesthetics and the bodies didn't line up well with the chassis. The new frame Kevin was using dipped down too low for the bumpers to line up appropriately so Kevin fabbed brackets to get everything in sync. Since the hood was bolted to the firewall instead of the fenders, it poses an interesting dilemma in a stock restoration ... the fenders have to line up with the hood. With some finessing, the fenders on Kevin's truck are lined up with the chassis, and had to be moved 1/2-inch from center to allow the hood to shut. Kevin had the body shot in Victory Red, which was slightly different than original, but kept the accent color as the stock Artic Beige. It's easy to see in the finished product why so many people are convinced the truck rolled off the production line this way.
Inside the cab, not much has changed. The instrument cluster was restored by United Speedometer and the only non-OEM changes were switching the gen light to a voltmeter and fitting a stock-looking tach where there was a place in the cluster for it. A shortened '67-72 tilt column has been upgraded with cruise control and sits opposite a Scottish leather-upholstered Glide Seat. The new sound system resides under the seat and Vintage Air A/C is ducted beneath the dash so no holes had to be cut to accommodate the plumbing.
Powering the dually is a '70s GMC 454 with a Technostalgia Caddy-style air cleaner, Sanderson headers, and stock valve covers sporting period-correct GMC logos. A Turbo 400 trans handles torque duties down to the stock '82 rearend with 3.42:1 gears (the highest available). The square fan shroud was custom made to keep with the old-school theme. A filler door was also added to the fender above where the '82 Blazer fuel tank now resides.
Just before she passed away, Kevin's aunt, Jean, got to see the truck all finished and said it looked better than it did brand new. It just so happens she was with Kevin's grandfather on the day he bought it. With a fourth-generation Balaam already showing interest in this truck, it's safe to say this GMC is going to be in the family for a while and is giving the word "inheritance" a whole new appeal.


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New Content [FREE]New Map: We are welcoming Angel City to Titanfall 2 with a 24/7 playlist, meaning if you just want to play Angel City all day and night you can!Playlist will be a mix of Attrition / Bounty Hunt / Amped Hardpoint.We will keep it up as long as it remains popular.Angel City will also be added to the map rotation for other playlists.New Titan Kits:RONIN: Phase ReflexWhen doomed, Ronin phases out of danger.NORTHSTAR: Threat OpticsEnemies are highlighted while zooming in.SCORCH: Scorched EarthFlame Core ignites the ground, leaving thermite in its wake.LEGION: Hidden CompartmentPower Shot has two chargesTONE: Burst LoaderAiming allows the 40mm to store up to 3 shots to burst fire.ION: Refraction LensSplitter Rifle splits 5 ways.New Weapon "Wingman Elite" pistolA modified version of the classic Wingman pistol.New Pilot Execution "Inner Pieces"Phase Shift into an enemy and
it doesnt go well for them.New Content [Things you can buy]Scorch and Ion Prime Titans:Stand out with fresh new looks and executions!Titan Art Packs:Customize your Titan with five new Nose Arts and an exclusive Warpaint skin. Each of the 6 Multiplayer Titans have their own art pack available.Callsign Pack:Includes instant access to 20 new and exclusive Callsigns Banners and 10 Callsign Patches.Camo Pack:Includes 20 new and exclusive Camos that can be applied to every Titan, Titan Weapon, Pilot, and Pilot Weapon.New FeaturesAdded FOV slider to console, increased FOV maximum to 110 on all platforms.Added Film Grain slider.You can now toggle between having a 2D or 3D style damage indicator in the HUD options.Added a new in-game store to purchase Prime Titans, Titan Art Packs, Callsign Pack, and Camo Pack. Please note, all purchasable items are cosmetic only and do not effect game balance.New setting to adjust aiming/ADS sensitivity separate from hipfire sensitivity.A new set of advanced & optional gamepad settings for fine adjustment of turn speeds, deadzones, response curves, and more.Added Support for EA Access, Origin Access, and free Multiplayer Trials.FAQ added to Multiplayer lobby. Your one-stop shop to learn the basics of Titanfall 2 multiplayer - includes in-game patch notes!Modified matchmaking status display to fit longer text needed for some languages.PC Only - Removed "Insane" texture quality and replaced with "Max". No reduction in visual quality for those with enough VRAM, but will reduce hitches when streaming in textures.Display Callsigns for the top 3 players per match during post match scoreboard.Increased likelihood of finding Nessie easter egg in [redacted] mission that no one has found yet. Or did we?Multiplayer Stats menu added to view player stats history. Please note that stats have been tracked since day 1.Balance ChangesKilling Auto Titans will now count towards killing sprees and contribute to towards Camo unlocks.Fixed Bounty Titan scoring in Bounty Hunt.Grapple will now detach after melee hit even if person melee'ed lives.Adjustments to Northstar's Flight Core.Overcore now starts your Titan Core meter at 30%.Adjusted Viper Thrusters so that in addition to moving faster during Flight Core and Northstar now moves faster during Hover as well.Adjusted Scorchs Tempered Plating damage reduction, and fixed issue with protecting against Fire Wall.Adjusted weighting on map rotations.Adjusted visibility of Cloak.Firing your weapon will now also disable Cloak.Additional balancing to Tone.Titan kills properly award weapon assist stats to assisting players.Tweaked parameters to reduce immediate reuse of spawn zones, but allow reusing them later in the match.Connected a couple of spawn zone pairs in Crashsite.Reduced chances of getting spawn camped.Spawn zones are more fair in Bounty Hunt (equalizes distance to AI camps).Bounty Hunt changes:-When an AI kills a player, that AI now receives half of that player's bonus.-Center bonus popup now shows bonus gained rather than total bonus-Rebalanced point distribution among waves so that second wave has a larger impact on the game overall.-Boss titans are now worth 500 points (was 600).-Reapers are now worth 100 points (was 50).-Stalkers are now worth 30 points (was 25).-Score bar now shows team's total unbanked bonus as a yellow portion of the score bar.-Modes that do not have Titans (such as Pilots vs Pilots, and Coliseum) no longer display the team titan status bar below their score bars.WEAPONSFlatline - increased far and very far pilot damageVolt - reduced pilot damageR97 - increased pilot damageSpitfire - increased pilot damageL-Star - increased pilot damageDouble Take - increased damageEPG - slight increase in splash damage; increased titan damageThunderbolt - increased pilot and titan direct hit damageBug FixesDisabled the ability to earn Double XP during Private Matches.PC Only - Fixed issue with Win10 users who were stuck with "Connecting to Respawn Servers
"Fixed issue where assists were being counted as kills for weapons. Weapons will now also properly receive assist stats when assisting in killing Titans.Fixed issue with bad spawns for Last Titan Standing on Exoplanet.Fixed bug where game completion achievements were not being rewarded when playing the missions out of order.Fixed bug where folks were crashing after grappling evac ship just before it's destroyed. Swing away!Fixed issue on Blood and Rust where players were getting stuck in a death loop.Fixed bug where players would appear to be stuck in ground during executions.Fixed issues with collision for hardpoints and banks as well as mantling when jumping on staircases.Fixed issue of not being able to tap and shoot Softball with Autosprint.Fixed issue of Kraber shooting through bubble shields.Fixed incorrect Pilot character sometimes showing in lobby on first game launch.Fixed HUD ammo counter occasionally showing an incorrect amount when using the Devotion.Fixed grapple not detaching if it was unsuccessfully trying to pull you downwards.Fixed skin and camo arms not matching player camo when rodeoingVarious localization issues fixed.Fixed Genned Factions not receiving Advocate Gifts - retroactively send any missed Advocate Gifts to affected users.Fixed New indicator incorrectly staying on for the Banner and Patch menus.PC Only - Various D3D bug and crash fixesFix melee hit detection to be more reliable.Fixed issue with Titans not displaying loadout information properly.Fixed bug where players could suicide with a cooked grenade and kill opponent without taking damage in Coliseum.Fixed the grappling hook floating in the air if the grappled player dies. This also fixes some weird forward lunging after grapple melee.Fixed grapple failing to detach from some objects the cord touched while you were grappling.
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The PC community is close to being a ghost town. There were only like 4k people playing last night.
Quote from: fistfulofmetal on December 06, 2016, 07:16:04 PMThe PC community is close to being a ghost town. There were only like 4k people playing last night.Did anything else multiplayer focused recently launch, or is this just the way of things?I was stunned how many people were still playing multi in Watch_Dogs this summer.
Also, it doesn't matter but the faces in this game look jank as fuck.
Just a couple more MP maps?
great game, my xbox got stolen but imma cop it on pc again bless up
i played the first game for a couple hours after i accidentally ran it instead and said hey, i'm almost ready to prestige lets see if i can find some games and it's sorta crazy that i thought it had way more movement flexibility than it does, it's still more than everything but THIS but losing the grapple especially and the more limited boosting capabilities instantly stood out to me, so did the low level of weapons/loadouts/etc. even with me having everything unlocked, everything seems just a pace or two sloweralso, i've harped on about the lacking verticality of 2's maps, but i played a few matches in a row where i forgot how many of the first games maps have these huge flat open areas for the titans to play around in, it's weird being able to move all about and not get blocked off by the map because it's just some huge valley or pit or something that said all the good maps are closer to 2's tighter confines in this regard i think, i also forgot just how many maps they added to the first onesurprised they didn't bring over the training grounds though after that popped upthe AI killed me three times, i don't think i've ever outright died to it in 2, it did do a lot less standing in doorways and yelling A PILOT NOW THE ODDS ARE IN OUR FAVOR that i noticedthe skill that lets you constantly spam the batman vision is hilarious though, glad they put some clamps on that, though i still miss my combo of auto ejecting from a titan going nuke so i just recklessly charge into as many as possibledon't mind less of the smart pistols being around tho still managed to drop a titan on the same guy's twice in a row, a favorite move also, it has the better menu music, that space-western twang ala firefly


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Sociologist Megan Comfort Studies How Mass Incarceration Affects Families
Here's a podcast with sociologist Megan Comfort on her book, Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of Prison (UChicago Press, 2007). Here's what the book's about:
Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison's intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into "quasi-inmates," eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives.


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We are looking to spruce up our existing website http://RAcapitalmanagement.com with a new cutting edge look. What does this mean? Content and pages will stay the same, but color and look we would like completely changed.
1) navigation will consist of following pages: Our Services, Investment Strategy, Financial Planning, Private Equity, and Contact Us. Would would like for this to be horizontal in display.
2) The width of the layout should be either 900px, 960px or 980px, whichever you think works best. We're leaning towards 960px.
3) the homepage should be very similar to UBS.com, with a center block pointing to 5 different sections on the website. Instead of using the animation that they have, we'll probably use a fisheye javascript effect similar to this, with much bigger icons/blocks: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/demo/…-dock.html
4) we want to change the logo, but don't need an icon, meaning the logo should just be a strong, unique fonts (like Trajan for example or similar) and match the overall look of the site.
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I recently read an amusing, but instructive article, entitle "PSA: Don't Let Salami and Google Images Get You In Hot Water." While amusing, it also highlights a rising concern for educators and students, as well as creators of content, about copyright and copyright infringement on the web. What can you use freely for education and what requires a fee? How do you cite material? How can you use it?
In my class, we do a lot of image based content. Most recently, my students are working on a Digital Storytelling project (you can see a highilight of the project in this article: "My First Attempt at Employing Digital Storytelling in the Classroom"). I work every year to teach my students about copyright and proper use of content. However, I know that it's a learning experience for me as well. What I have learned is a consistent for use in an educational setting is material with a Creative Commons License.
A Creative Commons license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work that they have created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, you might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of their own work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an authors work, so they don't have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions the author has specified. – Wikipedia
This year, I have gathered (sometimes with the help of students) some ways to search for License-Free or Creative Commons Licensed content and am listing a few below:
CreativeCommons.org – Just what the site says, it focuses on purely Creative Commons Licensed products. You can use CreativeCommons.org to license your own material. You can use their website to search for material on a myriad of sites.
Google Advanced Search – Google's Advanced Search allows users to search via license content.
Fotopedia – Great for humanities, Fotopedia has a repository of images from around the world. What makes it so amazing is that it is entirely user built. So those photos from a vacation you took to Rome years ago? Make sure that you upload those to the site and build their library!
YouTube Creative Commons – While searching YouTube videos specifically for creative commons content is best done via Google Advanced Search or CreativeCommons.org, it does merit mention here that YouTube has a strong video collection of Creative Commons content. Even more so, I greatly encourage that when you upload your own videos to YouTube, you check that "Creative Commons" License box!
Wikimedia Commons – Wikimedia is similar to Wikipedia except it is a database of Creative Commons and Open Source Licensed images, videos, and sounds. If you are a creator of content, this is a great place for you to show off your work!
Flickr – One of the most popular online tools for storing and sharing images, Flickr also expressly has a Creative Commons" element in their advanced search feature. Again, upload those vacation photos or drawings of your own and be sure to check that "Creative Commons" box to support education and creativity!
I'm sure that there are several other places to find Creative Common or Open Source material, but these sites are a great place for educators and students to get started. And, even with Creative Commons, be sure to always cite the original piece! Even if you are allowed to use, distribute, and modify someone else's work, you should always give them credit!


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MetroSonus wrote:that is pretty cool... you had a sledge?
Yeah it was before they came out withy the sexy black one. I sometimes wonder if I would have kept it if it didn't look like a school bus. And if people didn't come over and call it a school bus.
It definitely sounded great and the knobs felt good. They were large and has space around them, but it was a little strange. They tried to be different, and I don't think it was a great idea. They put the connections on the left side and I'm not sure why they thought that would be cool. The color wasa dumb choice, and I'll always go back to that menu dive-arp latch thing. Overall the construction was a little cheeep and it was quite HUGE.
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Despite taking a 1-0 advantage with the doubles point, the Liberty women's tennis team fell to UMBC, 5-2 on Wednesday. The Retrievers won five of the six singles matches at the UMBC Tennis Complex.
Liberty falls to 1-8 with the loss, and UMBC improves to 6-5 with its third straight victory.
The Lady Flames earned the early advantage by taking the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches. Cameron Richard and Brittany Yang notched their second win as a duo this spring, taking down Shalini Sahoo and Josefin Stange-Jonsson, 8-5, in the No. 2 slot. Rebekah Jenkins and Jessie Boda claimed the No. 3 match in extra games, 9-7, defeating Heidi Danielsson and Kyri Hadji.
The Retrievers then rallied in singles play, earning wins in five of the six singles matches, including two of the three matches which were pushed to a third set.
The Lady Flames' sole singles point came from senior Carol Lobel, who knocked off Danielsson in three sets in the No. 5 contest. Lobel took the first set, 6-2, before her opponent squared the match in the second, 7-5. Lobel then claimed the slight edge in the third set, 7-5.
Freshmen Yang and Nicola Wellman both fought back to square their respective matches in the No. 3 and No. 4 positions, by taking the second set. However, their Retriever opponents both claimed the third sets.
Liberty's next match comes on Friday, with the Lady Flames hosting Big South foe, Gardner-Webb at 1 p.m. The contest is slated as the team's first outdoor home match of 2012, at Liberty's Hershey Tennis Courts. Fans will be able to track the match with live stats.
UMBC 5, Liberty 2
1. Berghaus/Jackman (UMBC) def. Sheeran/Wellman (LU), 8-3
2. Richard/Yang (LU) def. Sahoo/Stange-Jonsson (UMBC), 8-5
3. Jenkins/Boda (LU) def. Danielsson/Hadji (UMBC), 9-7
1. Berghaus (UMBC) def. Sheeran (LU, 6-3, 6-1
2. Sahoo (UMBC) def. Richard (LU), 6-4, 6-2
3. Jackman (UMBC) def. Yang (LU), 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
4. Aldunate (UMBC) def. Wellman (LU), 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
5. Lobel (LU) def. Danielsson (UMBC), 6-2, 5-7, 7-5
6. Stange-Jonsson (UMBC) def. Domenech (LU), 6-4, 6-3


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What You Need to Know About Mac Flashback Malware
If you have a Mac computer, you may have heard about the Mac Flashback malware that's affected some 600,000 machines.
So what is it, how can you tell if you have it, and — most importantly — how can you get rid of it?
First, it's important to note it isn't a virus in that it can't infect other computers. It's a Trojan horse, meaning you have to install something to activate it — in this case, most experts think the Flashback malware first appeared in September of last year, masquerading as an innocent Adobe Flash Player plug-in.
Once a Trojan horse is installed, it then goes about its dirty work of stealing data (like your website passwords), and you may never know a thing.
To see if your machine has the Flashback malware, CNET and other sites recommend using Dr. Web's online utility. If you have the trojan, CNET has also posted a step-by-step removal guide.
After you've cleared it off your computer, it's a good idea to change your website passwords for financial institutions and other secure services that you may have used while your machine was compromised. And in the future, only download add-ons and plug-ins from trusted sources.


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