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Ain't Nobody's Business If Jobs Is or Isn't
So, I have been standing by, trying to make sense of the debate that has swirled around Apple CEO, Co-Founder and font-of-all, Steve Jobs, with regard to his health or, more specifically, the lack thereof.
And after listening to all of the debate about it–mostly indignant declarations by the media, making their case mostly by wheedling milder indignant declarations from stock analysts and corporate tsk-tsk outfits–I have concluded that what is ailing Jobs is exactly no one's business.
Even if his every breath is critical to the ongoing operations of Apple, the reason most use as their main argument for Jobs to tell all, it goes double.
Well, any Apple (AAPL) investor has to know by now that Jobs suffered from a rather serious bout with a curable version of pancreatic cancer some years ago and that recovery includes inevitable complications.
That was on display when he took to the stage of Apple's most recent Worldwide Developers Conference in mid-June and looked really gaunt and unhealthy. It was obviously hard to look away.
People immediately reacted like it was the end of the world–which is no surprise given Apple's rabid following–and began to suddenly acquire instant medical degrees and diagnose Jobs on the spot.
In its typically secretive style, Apple did not help matters by throwing out a thin gruel of information and noting it was only a common bug.
Of course, that felt like a bigger whopper than usual–even if he did, in fact, also have a cold, it kind of begged the question of what accounted for the rest of his haggard appearance.
In any case, the chatter went on and on, right up until the most recent quarterly earnings call when Apple's CFO said, when asked that Jobs's health, that it was a "private matter."
Immediately, that sent the debate into a frenzy, as armchair word detectives went into overdrive about exactly what that meant. (Personally, I think it meant that Apple was saying Jobs's health was a private matter.)
This weekend, the noise level reached a quantum level after Jobs made a can't-make-this-up statement to New York Times columnist Joe Nocera, who was inquiring as to Jobs's well-being:
"This is Steve Jobs. You think I'm an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he's above the law, and I think you're a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong."
Now that just cracked me up, given all that had gone on before, although some were once again indignant over the gall of a major company CEO making such a statement.
Obviously, they have never met or heard Jobs, who is well known for doing such things pretty much all the time.
And that's the problem here and my main argument for leaving him be:
1) As I said, Apple investors who have not figured Jobs's precarious health–after a round with any kind of cancer–into their investment strategies about Apple going forward need some serious reality medication themselves.
Guess what? Jobs has been really sick and it means he is going to have a harder time with any kind of infection or complication for the rest of his life, and he will likely be more delicate than someone who has not had cancer.
By the way, the take-away from the Nocera article and an earlier one last week in the New York Times was that Jobs had been quite ill, but not life-threateningly ill. Which was Jobs's way of getting out the news.
2) Jobs is one of the most important CEOs, in relation to his company, around. (Warren Buffett, who did choose to reveal all when he was sick, is the other.) And that's another thing investors should be figuring into their calculations on the worth of the stock.
As Jobs himself said in a famous commencement speech to Stanford University: "No one wants to die. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it."
You don't have to get as dramatic as all that to know that when you are talking about such a charismatic and critical CEO as Jobs, any lack of involvement by him–like say going on a year-long yoga retreat–is going to be a problem that investors are buying when they buy the stock.
Of course, there are other Apple employees making things work at the company, although it sometimes feels as if Jobs is crafting every iPhone that goes out.
But it's obviously the Steve Jobs Show, and investors risk that when they buy such a ticket–kind of like anyone who bought a ticket to Celine Dion's recent show in Las Vegas and hoped she would not get, like, a common cold!
3) And, of course, we get to the secretive Apple culture story line in every single story, which is trotted out like it is a surprise and we should all be so angry about it and demand change.
Again, have we not been paying attention all these many years? When has Apple not been secretive, except when it suits itself?
Here are a few more shockers for those still stewing about Apple's secretiveness: Sen. Barack Obama is African-American and Sen. John McCain is old and some people in the country are racist and ageist and may hold those things against them in the upcoming Presidential election!
All kidding aside, it's the same media that wait in eager anticipation when Jobs doles out the often-disingenuous tidbits about various Apple products coming and then hype them to the high heavens for him when he deigns to unveil them.
In other words, the Steve Jobs you are getting right now is the Steve Jobs you have always gotten–on his terms, what he wants to say and when and how.
So don't be surprised when he does just that.
Meanwhile, Jobs has come to our D: All Things Digital conference many times and chatted up a storm. Here he is in a highlights reel of the historic joint interview with Microsoft CEO and Founder Bill Gates in 2007.
In it, Jobs is quite voluble about their longtime rivalry and also reveals their secret relationship that dares not speak its name (he is kidding):


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BURNSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The death of a three-legged black bear in western North Carolina is becoming a flashpoint for outraged wildlife advocates who say the state needs to find non-lethal ways to handle nuisance bears.
Millie Bowling says the state's policy is to shoot bears who have too much contact with humans — and that has to change.
About 5,000 bears live in the western North Carolina mountains, and bear complaints have doubled in the last decade to 671 in 2011.
The three-legged bear had become a fixture in an upscale community north of Asheville. But after he kept breaking into homes, the community decided something had to be done.
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The class of 1943 graduated during World War II, and chose to serve their country instead holding a senior prom. Seven decades later, they reunited for the dance they never got to have. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.
It took seven decades, but the Hillhouse High School Class of 1943 finally had its senior prom.
Prom for the members of the Greatest Generation was cancelled 70 years ago when the young men in the Connecticut school — and across the country — were called on to go defend the United States during World War II. But as of Sunday, May 19, the high school rite of passage was no longer something these former high schoolers had to live without.
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Grace Duffy dances with her stand-in date Dave Lenahan at the Hillhouse High School class of 1943 reunion and prom.
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Many were dropped off not by their parents, but by their children.
And with attendees now in their late 80s, dancing was left to only the most adventurous souls.
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Honey Pegnataro, right, shares a toast with some of her classmates at the Hillhouse High School class of 1943 reunion and prom.
Members of the Class of '43 say they did not feel cheated when school administrators told them to stop planning their prom so many years ago. Rather, they felt it was they were fulfilling their responsibility as Americans.
"Our country had been attacked, and we felt very strongly that whatever we did to support our country, we would do," said 87-year-old Marilyn White Unger. "So we didn't feel any sense of personal loss, because the boys were fighting."
Unger helped plan the reunion/prom, along with Anthony Pegnataro, 87, then class president who served in Guam and Okinawa during the war. Some of their classmates never came back from the war, and even more have perished in the years since.
"I open the paper every morning, I look at the obituary page and I see two or three more classmates that have gone up to their maker," said Pegnataro.
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Marilyn Unger pins on her corsage at the Hillhouse High School class of 1943 reunion and prom.
He estimates that of the 1,250 members of their graduating class, prom organizers have only been able to get ahold of about 10 percent of them. The group has been getting together every five years since 1946.
And like nearly everything else about this prom, he did it the old fashioned way -- no Facebook, just phone calls.
Just as if the prom had been held during the 1940s, on Sunday the group danced to the likes of the Glen Miller band. Though the music may have been the same, but the moves were different -- with some prom goers in wheelchairs.
"Time's running out on all of us. Ya know, how many more years do we have?" said Pegnataro. "And we want to enjoy every year we got."
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Honey and Tony Pegnataro
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Demi Lovato is in the news again, but it has nothing to do with her recently confirmed (to Access Hollywood's own Billy Bush on his radio program "The Billy Bush Show") romance with Jonas Brothers frontman, Joe Jonas.
The star of Disney's "Sonny with a Chance" just revealed she is heading to Seattle Grace for a cameo on "Grey's Anatomy" on sister network ABC.
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New to v0.91:Wildcard support (tispack *.tis, tisunpack
*.tiz)Official Mac OS X binary included in package
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TISpack is already in use in such mods as Glory of Istar, BGT, Getting Rid of
Anomen, and Hessa NPC.(and Per Olofsson is a swell guy who doesn't even
play the Infinity Engine games.)
This tool, written by japheth, will import animations from IWD into ToB (both
are required). The included WeiDU installer will even update your
animate.ids file for you.
The animations that the tool will convert are as follows:
Tired of the ugly green overlays that occur when you port a BG1 area into
BG2? Do you want to use an IWD2 area, but don't know how to get around the
differences in the file versions? It's simple. These two area
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ActiveRecord's Callbacks Ruined My Life
07 May 2010 by Mathias Meyer
Recently I've been having a foul taste in my mouth, or just a bad feeling, if you will. Whenever I started adding validations and callbacks to a model in a Rails application. It just felt wrong. It felt like I'm adding code that shouldn't be there, that makes everything a lot more complicated, and turns explicit into implicit code. Code that is only being run depending on the persistence state of an object. Code that is being hard to test, because you need to save an object to test parts of your business logic. Don't get me started on observers, I never was a fan of them. Putting stuff that should be run when an object was saved elsewhere is the worst kind of hiding business logic.
The two are somewhat bound together: Create an object, run a callback and validations. Update an object, check if an attribute is set, run a different callback. I started to loathe the lack of implicitness that callbacks gave my code, and I started to loathe that libraries everywhere copied that behaviour from ActiveRecord, and that you involve testing your database in your unit tests, though implicitly, and that noone had a better answer for how that stuff should work. Sure, it's not big news that involving your database in your unit tests is not a recommended practice, hence the overuse of mocking and stubbing fostered by RSpec, but it took a while for me to really feel the pain.
Ingredients: REST, Rails, Resources
The root problem (in a very philosophical way and in my very own opinion) lies in Rails' understanding of RESTful resources. The path to a resource is supposed to be thin, and a resource is mostly represented by something that's stored in a database. So far, so good. That thin layer however, the controller, implies that running any logic on a resource somehow ends up in simply updating the resource, setting some attribute signaling that an action needs to be taken. That's how tools like resource_controller, make_resourceful and inherited_resources came about, to get rid of the thin-layered controller tier, the boiler plate code. And I loved them, because I hated writing the same code over and over again.
But over time I realized that controllers aren't the problem, it's the way Rails treats resources that lead us to this mess where everything's declared in a model's class body, where you have to look at callbacks to find out what's going on when you create a new object, and where you clutter your models with code that just doesn't need to be there (sending mails, for example, or doing custom validations that are bound to specific state). It all started to lack explicitness for me. There's no clear path of entry, no list of method calls you can follow along.
I'm not sure how other people see this, obviously a lot of people don't realize it's a problem, or they're simply fine with how things work, I was for a long time too, almost five years now, to be exact. I know I'm not alone in this though, talking to others made me realize they're on a similar page, but given that it's the way Rails works, what can you do?
What about validations? I can live with validations being part of the model, but they're still part of the problem generated by callbacks, simply because validations are callbacks themselves. I always found myself ending up writing custom validations in before_validation et. al. hooks, and it just felt wrong, because the list of callbacks grew noticably. Validations are not always the same depending on your object's state. They can even be quite useless when you're handling a lot of backend code that's asynchronous and decoupled from the web interface.
What do we do to work around it? We resort to using
save(false), whose lack of explicitness I cannot even begin to
fully explain in a peaceful manner. Validations tend to depend on the object's state, at least more complex ones. They're not universal,
they can be different when creating and saving objects. Yes, I know that in ActiveRecord you can say
:on => :create, but for me that just
emphasizes my point. Persistent state determines callbacks and therefore business logic, decreasing expressiveness.
Forms? Presenters?
I've looked into how Django is dealing with this, and it sort of struck a chord with me. Their approach is to define form objects that do the validations for you. They're somewhat decoupled from your business logic and are your intermediate layer between the web interface and the business model. Good lord, did I just recommend we all use presenter objects, even though Jay Fields said they don't work? I think I did, Bob!
It's not the way, but it's one way, and there's been work on bringing this to Rails, have a look at Bureaucrat for example. Again, it's one way to try solving the problem, it doesn't come without any downsides too. Tying the idea of explicit services to form data may or may not make unit testing harder, or at least mix two different concerns (forms and creating/manipulating objects). What I like about it though is that it decouples validation from the business logic, and ties it to the layer it's really necessary, the view.
Not without irony, I've started using something similar to handle embedded objects on a project using CouchDB. I wanted to extract out the stuff handling with embedded objects, because I was simply to lazy to add support for that to CouchPotato. The result felt amazingly good, almost like the above forms mixed with a *gasp\* service.
I'm still seeking for the answer to that one. Pat Maddox and James Golick suggest services as one way to make callbacks explicit, be sure to read through the comments on James' post. Now, I don't know about your history, but coming from a Java background that struck a bad cord with me. I laughed off the idea, to be frank.
One thing still bugs me about the approach James is laying out in his post, it's the extensive use of mocking. It sure does make for fast unit tests, and I'm starting to see the sense in it when using a service model, but I've grown fond of the fakes approach, which is why we wrote Rocking Chair, and why people came up with things like SuperModel, in-memory database implementations you can easily switch on and off, not exactly decoupling your unit tests from the persistence layer, but decoupling them from having a database running, making it easier to e.g. split batches of tests across several cores and processors, and simply making them faster.
However, the more I thought about it, the more sense the services approach made. You don't have to necessarily make it a separate class, depending on how much you like having all of your business logic in the model. I'm not sure which approach I'd prefer, because honestly, I haven't tried it yet, but I'm willing to give in. I'm willing to try things that let me ditch callbacks and validations, because I simply loathe them, they just don't feel right to me anymore when used in the way ActiveRecord does.
With Rails 3 for example, you can put your validations anywhere, they're not just bound to ActiveRecord anymore, they leave a lot more room for you to use them in different ways. I'm not suggesting you should get rid of validations, they're just a part of the callbacks madness, and they tend to not always be the same depending on what you're doing in a particular use case. Using save(false) just started to feel like a bad workaround to me to avoid having callbacks run. I want to save an object no matter what, and run whatever code I require in that course of action, in an explicit fashion.
Are Fine-grained Resources the Future?
The question that's left for me, and this is where I'm starting to gasp question Rails' approach to resources. I'm starting to think
they're wrong, and that for the service or the forms model to work, the idea of a single resource you update whenever you want your model to
do something needs to change. Having very specific services and their methods would mean a switch to more lightweight and finer-grained
resources, specific resources where you e.g. accept an invitation not by PUTting to
/invitation/12345, but instead to
But, and here's the kicker, to me this leaves the question of how RESTful that approach is. This is where I'd like to get input. How do people using services already solve this problem? Have lots of tiny methods in your controllers? Maybe it's time to work more with Sinatra to get different ideas in my head, to rethink resources. I'm still not certain what a good and RESTful way to approach this would be. Whatever it is, it'd leave my business logic in a way that's a lot more approachable both for people reading it, and for my tests. That's something pretty dear to me, and more important than fully conforming to a REST model. There must be something better, because the current status quo of handling business logic with Rails' resources just doesn't work for me anymore, it doesn't make me a happy programmer.
The answers have yet to be found. My intention is not to rant, but rather to start a discussion around it. In my opinion the way Rails recommends handling resources doesn't have a future, if only for me, and even if that means using other frameworks in the future. I don't think we wasted time with Rails' current way, instead we're going to see an evolution, and I find that pretty exciting, because the future has yet to be written in this regard, and we can be a part of that.


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Seeing that they've served under three Kage, can we make the name a bit more (I can't find the word) "inclusive"? to something like just "Hokage Special Guard"?--Cerez365™ 13:48, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
- I don't think so. Genma said "Fourth Hokage's" not "Hokage's". geohound (talk) my ideas 13:56, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, but that seemed more like it was in reference to them using the Flying Thunder God technique as opposed to their official name. It can still be mentioned that they called themselves that explicitly.--Cerez365™ 13:57, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
- The problem, as I see it, with just "Hokage Special Guard" is that it's actually too inclusive, after all there were two Kage prior to the group's formation. Also, it isn't that clearly identified what capacity they work in for either the Third or Fifth Hokage, especially the former, so "Special Guard" may only be appropriate for when they served under Minato. Blackstar1 (talk) 14:04, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
Iwashi Tatami
Is Iwashi Tatami the 3rd member of the team? He was seen at least once with Genma and Raido on a mission (fighting Sound Four). geohound (talk) my ideas
- So was Shizune though. The person shown in the last panel doesn't look like Iwashi at all.--Cerez365™ 14:02, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
- Well we don't see a closeup. But you're probobly right. geohound (talk) my ideas
Those two images are unnecessary, there's a link to the article with his image in the first sentence of this section, people can simply go look there. I am convinced it's Iwashi. All others? Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:12, November 9, 2011 (UTC)
- We should then note that Iwashi Hiraishin use and that it is part of the Time Guard Kage? Samemaru (talk) 23:32, November 9, 2011 (UTC)
- The marks under his eyes make me say not the same character. SimAnt 23:36, November 9, 2011 (UTC)
- I'd like to say that we know who the third member is as much as the next guy, but doesn't Iwashi's age hint that he isn't one of them. Iwashi was about 11 years old when Minato died. Unless Kishimoto changes his age (like Iruka), I don't see how he could possibly be one of Minato's bodyguards. Ryne 91 (talk) 00:15, November 10, 2011 (UTC)
Uhm, I don't think it's Iwashi either. Why would he be a chūnin while the others are Tokubetsu Jōnin for probably their skills in 'bodyguarding' :s I'm getting a Sarutobi vibe from this dude for some reason, he kinda looks like Asuma/young Hiruzen.--Cerez365™ 01:12, November 10, 2011 (UTC)
- Unless Kishimoto-sensei has really been screwing up the timeline, the third member being Iwashi is nearly impossible. he would have been 11 years old at the time of the Fourth Hokage's death. —ShounenSuki (talk | contribs | translations) 01:24, November 10, 2011 (UTC)
Shounen, and Kakashi was a Jounin as of 13 thus being able to be a Team leader. Not to say Hiruzen became a Hokage as a teen. the same with Gaara. I dont think age is important, but talent. --Elveonora (talk) 01:13, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
The third team member is a Konoha shinobi unknown. Look at this picture I edited it. Beside it is the Mizukage. See the colors and people.--—This unsigned comment was made by Samemaru (talk • contribs) .
- Yeah, he would be a Konoha shinobi what's your point O.o?--Cerez365™ 18:25, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
I'm not convinced that this article is necessary. Any number of people could have acted as Hokage body guards. This isn't known to be a select team, just a position. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 17:22, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
Well, at least in Stream's translation, they said that they were his "special" guards. In any case, he taught them how to use Hiraishin which he probably wouldn't just teach to any old guards of his. I've no idea whether this should be considered a team though, but my previous sentence could indicate that they were. Skitts (talk) 17:28, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
- I think it can stay. It's not as bad as some of the groups we have on here and it's possible mayhaps that this has a long history in the leaf and may even be one of those uhm, "revered" positions. --Cerez365™ 21:42, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
Third Member
Now that we can see the third member, i think i recall seeing someone like him somewhere before, just not sure where :<. SimAnt 18:01, November 9, 2011 (UTC)
Mark on Tsunade?
As i understood it, it wasnt Tsunade that was marked, it was Katsuyu? Am i wrong here? --Cosmikaze (talk) 18:52, November 9, 2011 (UTC)
- Katsuyu isn't as far as we know on the battlefield. They said Tsunade had the mark before they teleported. Shikaku simply said that they could place the mark on Katsuyu and send transfer her to the battlefield.--Deva 27 18:54, November 9, 2011 (UTC)
You seem to be right, my bad --Cosmikaze (talk) 21:44, November 9, 2011 (UTC)
Iwashi Tatami Pt.2
Comparing the image with this, Iwashi Tatami, it really does look like him, beard and hairstyle(or lack of), headband style, and face.Umishiru (talk) 04:40, November 10, 2011 (UTC)
- The only thing that makes him even remotely look like Iwashi is the goatee. Shounensuki also pointed out that Iwashi would've been a child at the time of Minato's reign, so it's probably not him.--Cerez365™ 19:15, November 11, 2011 (UTC)
- Whats wrong with him being a child. After all Kakashi was a chunin at age 6.The only thing going against him is the fact that he is a chunin and of course that he didn't speak out his name while doing this tech.Umishiru (talk) 00:31, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
- Well, there's that and he looks too old right there to be Iwashi and they really don't look that much alike. But then again you never know, Iwashi might have an interesting back story after all.--Cerez365™ 01:22, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
- To point on the age, Genma and Raidou were 14 when they were Minato's bodyguards, which pretty much means they were kids as well.--VolteMetalic (talk) 12:33, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
- Well, there's that and he looks too old right there to be Iwashi and they really don't look that much alike. But then again you never know, Iwashi might have an interesting back story after all.--Cerez365™ 01:22, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
- Whats wrong with him being a child. After all Kakashi was a chunin at age 6.The only thing going against him is the fact that he is a chunin and of course that he didn't speak out his name while doing this tech.Umishiru (talk) 00:31, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
If I did the math correctly, Genma and Raidō would be in their 20's when Minato was Hokage. Iwashi's a couple years their junior. Still I won't say no outright because prodigies are very uncommon in Konohagakure. I still do think however, that it's unlikely.--Cerez365™ 13:21, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
- Raidō was 19 and Genma was 17. Both were young, but their ages are relatively believable. If Iwashi really was such a prodigy that he would have been chosen together with those two, why was he still only a chūnin twelve years later?
- Then again, I'm not saying it wasn't Iwashi, I'm just saying the ages are too improbable to simply assume it was based on a goatee. —ShounenSuki (talk | contribs | translations) 14:15, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
- Hmm... my calculations were little incorrect. Still, Genma was 17, and Raidou 20. Still its pretty young age. --VolteMetalic (talk) 10:29, November 19, 2011 (UTC)
I don't think it is Iwashi. The eye shape is different and also the image on this page doesn't show the rips that Iwashi has on his bandanna on his page. Now before you say it could be the angle, no. From the angle this pages image has, you should be able to see the rips on it but you can't. Just because the guy has a goatee and is from Konoha, doesn't mean it is him. SusanooUnleashed (talk) 11:05, November 19, 2011 (UTC)
- Iwashi is the third member of the Hokage Guard Platoon, because according to the anime it is the Daimyō Protection Squad. What do you think?--人間のサメ 20:12, May 4, 2012 (UTC)
- #Iwashi and #Iwashi Tatami Pt.2. We're holding off on that decision. Ages don't add up or something like that. Also person doesn't look like him to some but does to others.--Cerez365™(talk) 20:41, May 4, 2012 (UTC)
- Iwashi is the third member of the Hokage Guard Platoon, because according to the anime it is the Daimyō Protection Squad. What do you think?--人間のサメ 20:12, May 4, 2012 (UTC)
ShounenSuki and some others say: NO! Just pointing out that Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Lee, Choji, Shikamaru (meh) and as a bonus Konohamaru are/were power or intelligence-wise Chunin level as 12 years old. Kakashi, Jounin as 13 years old.
So why it can't be Iwashi ? Cause he is just Chunin and the other two Tokebetsu Jounin ? The strongest characters in the series are genin, just saying --Elveonora (talk) 01:16, May 5, 2012 (UTC)
How is Genma old enough to have been a guard for the fourth? Kakashi became a Chunin at 6, which is when he fought Genma. Genma became a genin at 10, so he is about 4-5 years older than Kakashi (which makes the picture where they apply to the Chunin exams together make no sense). Kakashi was about 13 when the demon fox attacked, so Genma would be 17-18. So Genma served under the 4th hokage when he was 16-17???
In general, would it be possible to create a page which had all the characters' ages at the time of the demon fox attack? That would make lookups like this a lot less confusing. —This unsigned comment was made by 184.108.40.206 (talk • contribs) .
Genma is the same age as Kakashi, age doesn't matter but skills 0_o--Elveonora (talk) 12:26, September 26, 2012 (UTC)
Chapter 599 essentially goes against all of the ages included on the databooks. As of now, it appears that Kakashi did not become chunin until around the same time that his teammates did. Hopefully, the next databook will reflect those changes.--BeyondRed (talk) 14:23, September 26, 2012 (UTC)
Chapter 599 does go against the ages in the databooks, but it's more than that. Check out page 9 of chapter 503. Genma should be in that group (even though you can't see him), but how is that possible if he is part of the 4th hokage's guard? Also Kakashi's amazing academy graduation age was quoted in the manga somewhere, I think. 22.214.171.124 (talk) 18:05, September 26, 2012 (UTC)
I don't see any contradiction, it's possible he was in Minato's Guard Platoon just for a year--Elveonora (talk) 19:46, September 26, 2012 (UTC)
3rd Element
Isn't the 3rd element of this guard Tatami Iwashi? In chapter 184 and 185 he is seen on a mission together with both Genma and Raidou and also Shizune, so it's not like it's the first time they are seen together! Is it safe or not to assume it is Iwashi because of this fact and also because of his resemblance? --Musemaniac11 (talk) 17:55, December 5, 2012 (UTC)
- Read the previous discussions. Because we're not 100% on his identity, we're holding off on adding him as the third person. To me, I've only seen Iwashi possibly in chapter 611 when the Third Division arrived, not before.--Cerez365™(talk) 18:04, December 5, 2012 (UTC)
- Biggest issue really was the age if I recall. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 20:50, December 5, 2012 (UTC)
Why is it that hard to believe? As of calculations, Kakashi is a Jounin since 9 and Itachi became an ANBU at 11 and pwned Oro. That dude looks exactly like Iwashi, no other similarly looking Konoha Shinobi has ever been shown, and what are the chances of such a coincidentally identical guy being in team with those Iwashi has had as partners before?--Elveonora (talk) 01:22, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
- I thought it was Iwashi as well, but most people wanted to play safe. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 01:32, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
- We believe those stuff because they're skilled prodigies you're all mentioning who hav all been openly praised. It's not our fault we know nothing of Iwashi. I just recently learned that Raidō is a master assassin... Though if you look at it, it would make sense, they're Tokubetsu which means they trained and more than likely specialise in this area, and were seen with Shizune, Tsunade's right hand but still, precaution is necessary and such I guess.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:19, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
So you simply choose which information to include and which to completely ignore? Either we make a new article for "Iwashi look-alike" or "risk" it indeed being Iwashi... I mean, my god, this is a minor case, if we are wrong, then we will simply change it if Kishi reveals the guy to be a Bob instead. Chances of it being someone else are low by the way... then another issue is gonna arise once the animators either make him one or the other option and Kishi does later opposite of that--Elveonora (talk) 22:31, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, exactly. As far as I know when the community isn't sure about something we hold off on adding it until confirmation information is given out not say "hey it's a 50% chance it's him so lets just ignore the other 50% and put potentially false information in the article". No one is suffering for the lack of update on Iwashi's page but this wikia could lose credibility for having that info there should it ever turn out to be false.--Cerez365™(talk) 08:35, December 7, 2012 (UTC)
Genma Squad
In the video games, this platoon is called the Genma Squad. Should we mention it in the trivia, infobox, or whatever?
- English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGA9PZXoZsI @11:10
- Japanese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTo04w9Qkr8 @3:47Umishiru (talk) 08:20, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
Did they perhaps also serve under hiruzen Sarutobi (3. Hokage), Raido was the hokages guard at the chunin exam. Shouldn't that be written, at least in trivia? --Kasan94 (talk) 21:15, July 22, 2013 (UTC)
- They did since Minato died and everything. However, one person doesn't make up the team that's why it's mentioned in Raidō's article and while Genma was there as a proctor, there was no sign of the third member so it's pointless to speculate there.--Cerez365™(talk) 06:48, July 23, 2013 (UTC)
Third member - anime update
Apparently the third person is credited as Iwashi in the anime. How do we proceed with this though? Personally I think we should mention him as anime only for the time being because we still have a pretty solid base as to why that person can't be Iwashi even though his timeline might have been altered.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:09, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- I have no problem with listing him as "anime only", but I would have no problem with listing him as a canon member either. In my eyes, the two characters (if they are two that is) always looked way too much alike...Norleon (talk) 16:19, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- He is to be mentioned I agree with that. However, we need a bit more to go off. It's not a case where it's just databook info like ages conflict (he's too young to have ever guarded Minato going off that) and on top of that, he's only a chūnin. Elite yeah, but he works in the Intelligence Division. If it's Iwashi, the whole character's been retconned(?). The only thing that ties him to them is that he went on a mission with them and Shizune.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:37, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- I agree Cerez I still don't think that's him welol it says its him but I cant find any solid proof that it could be him, yes they look alike but he's chunin and im sure to be in a special hokage guard platoon you'd have to be Jonin level or have Jonin experience(Tokubetsu Jōnin) buit when Genma says that they guarded minato he could of maybe just meant him and Raido but again that's speculation, I would add this but it just doesn't fit in properly --ROOT根 18:53, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- It's been confirmed in the latest episode cast list that this guy is Iwashi, so I'd conditionally agree with Cerez to be added to this platoon. It's better to write on his article as a trivia point and add the info normally. Oh well, when will the fourth databook be released to stop these conflicts?! http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a553/anaspet06/Shakhmootssign_zps2a261e68.png(Contact) 19:02, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- For the rank part, maybe he got promoted, during the time-skip, So that he now is like Genma and Raido. Can't remember when we heard what rank they where. --Kasan94 (talk) 19:46, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- They are Tokubetsu Jōnin but we know that in part 1 Iwashi was chunin --ROOT根 19:53, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- Add him, make note of the anime only. As of now the unnamed nobody in the platoon is meaningless, he's an unnamed nobody. At least now the third member has a face.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 21:18, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- They are Tokubetsu Jōnin but we know that in part 1 Iwashi was chunin --ROOT根 19:53, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- I agree Cerez I still don't think that's him welol it says its him but I cant find any solid proof that it could be him, yes they look alike but he's chunin and im sure to be in a special hokage guard platoon you'd have to be Jonin level or have Jonin experience(Tokubetsu Jōnin) buit when Genma says that they guarded minato he could of maybe just meant him and Raido but again that's speculation, I would add this but it just doesn't fit in properly --ROOT根 18:53, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- He is to be mentioned I agree with that. However, we need a bit more to go off. It's not a case where it's just databook info like ages conflict (he's too young to have ever guarded Minato going off that) and on top of that, he's only a chūnin. Elite yeah, but he works in the Intelligence Division. If it's Iwashi, the whole character's been retconned(?). The only thing that ties him to them is that he went on a mission with them and Shizune.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:37, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
Excuse me Cerez... why exactly "it can't be Iwashi because of reasons" ??? There's no solid base. He might be 27 by now (considering his birthday is in January), what's weirder, 10 years old bodyguard with FTG or 11 years old kid entering criminal organization as a double spy and defeating Lord Voldemort in an instant? Again, also look at Madara, he was noted to have killed most skilled Senju ADULTS before awakening Sharingan even. Why don't you find this case believable? Oh yeah, 10 years old guy spying all over the world as well is needed to mention. See? Age is irrelevant.--Elveonora (talk) 23:44, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- There is no likelihood of being only two members of the old guard, and they taught the technique to Iwashi? He may only have been taught as there are needed three persons to perform the technique. There isn't any concrete statement that they all had to participate in the past war to be part of the time even the time being formed in that war. Dan.Faulkner (talk) 00:03, August 2, 2013 (UTC)
- 10 is a believable age to accomplish anything in Naruto. What would have been more believable was if Iwashi was a Special Jonin instead of an "elite" chunin working for Ibiki. His storyline doesn't match this character nor his team mates. I really wish Kishimoto would get into the habit of naming his characters upon introduction...--Cerez365™(talk) 15:04, August 2, 2013 (UTC)
Let me check:
- have we seen Iwashi on a mission with the other two more than once? Yes, we did.
- does he look alike? Yes.
- what are the odds of introducing a new Konoha Shinobi from nowhere later in plot and not naming him or anything?
Also you assume a rank plays any role in being a bodyguard. He could have decided to stay a Chunin by his own admission. For example, we don't know how strong Iruka is or isn't, perhaps he is a Jounin material but since he loves teaching at Academy, it wouldn't fit him.--Elveonora (talk) 23:27, August 2, 2013 (UTC)
- And Kosuke Maruboshi. Not to mention a genin creating multiple shadow clones and essentially leading the Fourth Shinobi World War on all fronts. So I totally agree with you Elveonora. And lol on your first post. Although I didn't understand a couple of things:
The bearded guy
Sorry I have to beat a dead and decayed horse here, but what really is the difference between the guy from chs.184-185 and the guy on ch.563 page 6 (you know, the same panel as the anime image depicted on this article)? Except looking a little older - you know, time-skip and all?
Age during Minato's reign is OK - as long as he's old enough to be able to hold a spoon - as Elveonora and several others have pointed out above.--Karunyan (talk) 03:57, October 11, 2013 (UTC)
- The whole "only in anime" thing is ridiculous imo, but oh well... if it's clear to studio pierrot that the guy is Iwashi then I think it's about time some cease being ignorant. If he turns out not to be Iwashi, we will do changes accordingly, at this point it's pretending that two identically looking people both of which were seen along the other two a few times aren't the same because some find him too young, lol.--Elveonora (talk) 11:20, October 11, 2013 (UTC)
- Your first instinct to not beat the corpse was correct. The matter has been discussed a hundred times and we've reached the consensus that we wait. Simply learn patience and wait. In the same manner that we can say it's him and then change it if we're wrong, we can change the ambiguity to "it's definitely him" and be done with it.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:07, October 11, 2013 (UTC)
- You did not asnswer my question Cerez. What is the difference between the guy from chs.184-185 and the guy on ch.563 page 6, except looking a little older?
- In another post (about the same topic) you said the anime writers don't work with Kishimoto. Says who? Ringo Ameyuri's swords were first introduced in the anime and Kishimoto later adapted them into the manga. It's not like the anime is some third party interpretation of the manga. Sure there are contradictions. But most of them are not deliberate. It's not like Kishimoto's gonna come out one day and give the third member a new name just because you think he needs to be older!--Karunyan (talk) 03:50, October 25, 2013 (UTC)


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Well, I'm up to a 15 mile run now. Egads! I feel like I am starting over although I know that I really am not. My body doesn't ache .. my mind just worries!
Thankfully I really didn't have too much scheduled for today. Troy had to be at the baseball fields at 10 AM so I wasn't going to be able to make it to Afton. Steve and Tyler are both gone for the weekend so I had to get him there. No problem. I'd run with Topaz for 5 miles on the trail and then head over to the baseball fields, running in town during the two hour practice.
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After our not very fun run I arrived home to an email that baseball was postponed to 12 because of the rain. Oh yeah, it was raining pretty hard. We were soaked and very muddy. That doesn't bother us.
I didn't want to wait around for three more hours to finish my run so I decided I'd eat breakfast with Troy..oatmeal and eggs.. and get in two hours before he had to be at the field.
I headed off with my iPod and new Garmin 310XT. The downpour of rain didn't bother me, my run was nice and easy. Relaxing, not much traffic. I mostly worried about getting in miles before Bighorn 100. I'll have to create a schedule for long runs. I'll take myself as a client and train as I would a client. Five miles into Big Lake, turn around, 5 miles back to Orrock. I ran slow. I was slower than I thought I would be. 1.5 hours later I was back home.
Thankfully I didn't have to work today or my run could have been messed up with the rescheduled practice. My second job may get in the way of my training. I didn't put in for the Superior races off in May and now it is too late to. I need a 5 week notice. If by chance I have the date off I'll be running the 50K race and an additional 18 for a 50Mile. I don't enjoy running 50 mile training runs by myself. I hope I have the day off. If not I'll be running one solo.
And yes, that will be OK, too :)
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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George Robinson
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About the Author
George Robinson is the author of Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals. He is the film critic for the New York Jewish Week and is a contributor to the forthcoming revised edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. His writing appears frequently in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Newsday. He has received the Simon Rockower Award for excellence in Jewish journalism from the American Jewish Press Association. He lives in New York City.


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Some of you might remember a side-project of mine that I announced here which I called Facebook Desktop. In short, it was a small application that I initially wrote for myself to help me stay in touch with my friends and family through Facebook. It would sit in my system tray or dock and quietly push messenger-style toast notifications to my screen whenever something happened in my Facebook stream. Neat, huh? I thought so. So, I built it out and eventually released it as a free app for everyone to use! Since then, it's actually picked up quite a bit of steam and now enjoys thousands of users from all over the world!
Pleasantly Surprised
I've had a couple of releases since I first announced it, but this latest release is special and so I wanted to mention it here. The popularity of the app, especially overseas, took me by surprise. Considering this started out as a small utility I built for myself over a weekend, I didn't anticipate it being used overseas. But now, it's actually used in over 20 countries all around the globe! In fact, the bulk of our users are overseas! After noticing this, I made the decision to devote the entire next release into adding language support for all of our international users.
Technically, localizing the application wasn't a problem (I've had some experience in the area). The bigger problem was actually getting all of the text I use in the app translated to all of the various languages I wanted to support. Then, someone posted a beautiful message on our Facebook application page.
"Are you adding support for German? If so, I volunteer to translate!"
Shortly after, a comment: "Me too, for Italian!". And another: "I can do Hindi". That's when it hit me…crowdsourcing!
The Power of the Community
I've never done it before, and there are plenty of ways that it can blow up in my face, but it was obvious to me that our users wanted it, but more importantly, were willing to help make it happen! So, I took advantage of it! The next day, I posted a message to our page asking if there is anyone willing to help translate Facebook Desktop in their native language. The response was amazing! At the end of the day, we had over 30 responses with people volunteering to translate in over a dozen languages!
I couldn't ignore this, and so I took everyone up on their offer and started getting all of the text translated. A couple of months later, a bit of coding, and a lot testing, it's released! Facebook Desktop v0.84 went live last night at midnight with support for a whopping SIXTEEN languages.
Together is Better
This version of Facebook Desktop could not have been accomplished without the help of the community. Plain and simple. On top of that, engaging with the users in this way made this release that much more fun too! In the future, I'll definitely be looking to involve our users more. It's better for them, it's better for me, and it's better for the app! To infinity, and beyond!


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Gatwick South has started using an iris recognition system - it is the ninth UK airport terminal to roll out the system.
Project IRIS(Iris Recognition Immigration System) is designed to give travellers resident in the UK, who have no black marks against their name on the immigration database, a means of avoiding normal immigration checks by having their eyes scanned instead.
The project has suffered a couple of delays - it was originally due to go live in 2005 and then pushed back to December 2006.
The UK plan is a trimmed down version of a broader European venture that will involve doing complete background checks and then giving preference to people with squeaky-clean life histories. The Home Office maintains, however, that the UK's IRIS system does not do complete background checks.
But the principle is much the same. Immigration Minister Liam Byrne said in a statement that IRIS "let positively vetted passengers travel faster".
And Liam Byrne should know. On 5 February he visited the iris recognition system in Birmingham and: "He took the opportunity to enrol in the system and use the automated arrival gate." And yesterday Liam Byrne went to Gatwick and, the Government News Network tells us: "He took the opportunity to enrol in the system and use the automated arrival gate."
The Home Office said in a statement that 82,000 people had registered for IRIS since it was installed at Heathrow last January. Those travellers had used the system in 360,000 border crossings at Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 and 4, Manchester Terminals 1 and 2, Birmingham Terminal 1, and Gatwick North. 12.2 million travellers passed through the UK's main airports in April alone. ®


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The Fiscal Cliff Debacle: American Exceptionalism Under Attack
Posted on January 2, 2013. Filed under: Debt Ceiling, Economy, Financial Crisis, Fiscal Cliff | Tags: Adrian Vermeule, Alexis de Tocqueville, amendments, American exceptionalism, American people, bill, budget policy, Condoleezza Rice, Congress, constitution, constitutional law, constitutional order, credit rating, deadline, debt ceiling, default, deficit-reduction, Democrats, downgrade, economic crisis, Edgar Perez, entitlement programs, Eric Cantor, Eric Posner, fiscal cliff, fourteenth amendment, grand bargain, Great Recession, Harvard University, House of Representatives, households, Jeffrey Rosen, John Boehner, legal system, Madeleine Albright, Medicaid, Medicare, President Bush, President Clinton, President Obama, President Roosevelt, re-election, Republicans, Senate, spending cuts, Supreme Court, tax increases, The New Republic, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Secretary of State, unilateral authority, United States Constitution, University of Chicago, White House |
Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill undoing tax increases for more than 99% of households, providing a temporary victory to President Obama and Democrats as Republicans vowed to fight them in the upcoming months for spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. The 257-167 vote just before midnight topped a drama-filled day as Republicans initially balked at a bipartisan Senate measure. Ultimately 151 of 236 Republicans voted no. Obama said he'd sign the bill into law.
The final days of the tension surrounding the fiscal cliff of scheduled tax increases and spending cuts illustrated once again the partisan struggle that has made U.S. budget policy unpredictable and prone to crises as deadlines loom. Obama wielded the leverage he gained in his November 6 re-election, securing most of the tax increases he sought without sacrificing the spending cuts he had offered to Republicans in hopes of a larger deficit-reduction grand bargain.
Republicans immediately turned to their next battle, a bid to use the need to raise the nation's $16.4 trillion debt ceiling to force Obama to accept cuts in entitlement programs such as Medicare. Congress must act as early as mid-February to prevent a default and the dispute may reprise a similar August 2011 episode that led to a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.
Is the U.S. able to continue giving lessons in American exceptionalism to a world that still respects and admire its past and present? How to explain to the world that current representatives of the American people are able to drive the country so close to a fiscal cliff, potentially dragging the rest of the world? No doubt the majority of Americans have stared at this show with disbelief and puzzlement. Until not so long ago, Americans believed politicians wouldn't make things so difficult and would reach instead a measured and timely deal. Things didn't have to go this far to technically miss the deadline.
The answer can be found inside our legal system through the constitution and its twenty seven amendments. In this particular case, section 4 of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution gives the President unilateral authority to raise or ignore the national debt ceiling, and that if challenged the Supreme Court would likely rule in favor of expanded executive power or dismiss the case altogether for lack of standing, as argued by Jeffrey Rosen, legal affairs editor of The New Republic. Furthermore, the president's role as the ultimate guardian of the constitutional order, charged with taking care that the laws be faithfully executed, provides him with the authority to raise the debt ceiling, as argued by Eric Posner, professor of law at the University of Chicago, and Adrian Vermeule, professor of law at Harvard University.
After the Great Recession of the 1920s, as President Franklin Roosevelt was moving ahead with his plans to confront the economic crisis, he hinted darkly that "it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly equal, wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure." After this admonition, Congress gave Roosevelt the authorities he sought and he did have to follow through on his threat.
Last night Obama said he won't "have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills they've already racked up." Let's just hope that President Obama, a former constitutional law professor himself, has the insight and courage to execute the agenda he was elected for leveraging all the tools provided within our constitutional framework. If he is successful, God bless him. If he fails, the American people will kick his party out of the White House in 2016. There is no excuse for inaction; there is no need for more drama; there is no time for more posturing; ultimately, there is no reason to hold America from displaying the exceptionalism Alexis de Tocqueville recognized centuries ago and the world expects for centuries to come.Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
MBTI: 730 Playstyle Breakdown
Breakdown on Playstyle:
Playstyle is a mix of schedule (Casual vs Hardcore in time raiding) and strictness (the more traditional casual vs hardcore). Non-raiders (those who focus on questing and just run instances or pvp or roleplay for fun) and the Hardcore PvPers were also included as options.
C/C = Casual Schedule, Casual Play
C/H = Casual Schedule, Hardcore Play
H/C = Hardcore Schedule, Casual Play
H/H = Hardcore Schedule, Hardcore Play
Slightly fewer extroverts are seen among the traditional non-raiders than among any of the other choices. It would seem that most of the non-raider extroverts instead choose to spend their time as "hardcore PvP!"
There are slightly more Sensors than Intuitives who put lots of time into raiding each week: sensors work at a steady pace using instructions and guides, while intuitives tend to work in bursts of energy. I suspect that the higher number of casual-schedule intuitives allows these players to spend time outside of raiding to figure out how to overcome something before returning to it in an instance. However, it is noticeable that sensors are just as likely to be non-raiders as they are to raid 4+ nights a week; sensors just seem to be in fewer numbers when it comes to raiding only a couple nights each week, likely again due to wanting to work on their projects (be it raiding or otherwise) at a steady pace. The other personality traits don't seem to have much impact on whether a person raids 3 nights or 6 nights a week!
There are noticeable, though small, bumps in the charts regarding Casual vs Hardcore raiders. Casual raiding is preferred a bit more by extroverts (and the socialization that would entail), sensors (steady pace, follow others' instructions, literal), feelers (emotional, keeping the peace and harmony by not being mean to that rogue who keeps dpsing from the front of the mob), and perceivers (dislike rules, get bored with repitition).
Those who have higher expectations of skill among their fellow raiders tend to be the introverts, intuitives (rely on instinct, like to figure things out, theoretical), thinkers (rational arguements, analytical), and judgers (organized, prompt to raids, decisive): the popular INTJ embodies this. Of course, not all INTJs are hardcore in their expectations of play skill, but most of them are.
Hardcore PvP:
There were relatively few of these in the overall survey (15 total out of 730), but among them, they were heavily EN's, and many of them also Feelers (more personal and emotional) rather than Thinkers (rational, achievement-driven). These hardcore pvpers tend to act before they think, and rely on reflex, creativity, and instinct to guide them. Knowing that each of their enemies and allies is controlled by another person is likely a strong source of why there are so many extroverts in this field.
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- Mark said...
We talked a bit about Richard Bartle's model for player types in multiplayer environments a bit in class this week (Achiever, Socializer, Killer, Explorer). I'd be somewhat curious to see what (if any) relation there is between MBTI and Bartle type.
This is a pretty cool Bartle Test:
- October 1, 2009 at 2:32 PM
- Mark said...
For what it's worth, I ended up as AESK for Bartle and my MBTI type is INTJ.
- October 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM
- Kae said...
Hmmm... I was ESAK, but wasn't comfortable with a lot of the questions, they felt too limited. I was looking for option C's. I think the problem with that quiz is that there is little split between pvp games and pve games... most of the questions were "hey, want to use this to kill another player?" and little was pointed to those who prefer support classes and helping others. I felt most awkward with the "do you want to socialize in a tavern, or go hunt orcs by yourself?" and I wanted to say, "well can't I go with one or two close friends and hunt the orcs? And are these bad orcs who slaughtered my village, or peaceful ones who just live next door?"
....nothing against orcs, of course ;)
- October 1, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- Aertimus said...
S.A.E.K. (thats for an ESTJ) E = S? No, I'm not even REMOTELY surprised.
- October 1, 2009 at 9:03 PM


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Lufthansa German Airlines will offer direct flights between Frankfurt and Cape Town from December 2' 2016.
Flights will depart from Frankfurt every Wednesday' Friday' and Sunday.
This follows the announcement last week by British Airways that it was increasing its flights to the Mother City.
"This connection extends the Lufthansa Group's flight offering to Cape Town' complementing the seasonal services of Lufthansa German Airlines from Munich and Zurich with SWISS leisure carrier Edelweiss'" said Dr André Schulz' Lufthansa General Manager for Southern Africa.
During the European winter season' Lufthansa operates up to seven weekly flights between the carrier's Bavarian Hub in Munich and Cape Town' while Edelweiss serves the city with two weekly flights.
Lufthansa currently operates a year-round daily flight between Frankfurt and Johannesburg with the Boeing 747-8' the next generation of the iconic Jumbo jet' the longest passenger aircraft in the world. In addition' Swiss International Airlines serves Johannesburg from its Zurich base' offering a daily service with an Airbus A340-300.
"After Johannesburg' Cape Town is one of the most important markets for the Lufthansa Group in Southern Africa and the new gateway will offer our customers access to some 200 destinations from the Frankfurt hub. It also unlocks new tourism opportunities for those coming in from Germany by offering attractive combination options to other destinations in Southern Africa through our Star Alliance partners'" added Schulz.
The Cape Town route will be served by a newly retrofitted Airbus A340-300' which boasts over 279 seats and offers the new Intercontinental Business Class (30)' new Premium Economy (28) Class and Economy Class (221).
Flight LH576 leaves Lufthansa's Frankfurt hub at 22:10 and arrives in Cape Town the following morning at 11:00. The return journey departs from Cape Town in the early evening at 18:30 and touches down in Frankfurt the following morning at 05:30' where passengers can access Lufthansa's entire flight program from its main hub. In total the Lufthansa Group serves 316 destinations in 101 countries from its hubs in Germany' Switzerland and Austria.
According to Schulz' Lufthansa has chosen departure and arrival times carefully to offer travellers the best possible options to access connections to the entire Lufthansa route network."
"South Africa remains one of our most important markets in sub-Saharan Africa and a key destination for German as well as other European visitors. We are thrilled to continue building bridges between the Lufthansa Group and the South African tourist industry' says Claus Becker' Director of Sales' sub Saharan Africa.
"Germany's central position in Europe makes it an excellent point of departure for business or leisure trips' from the largest Star Alliance hub in Europe'" he added.
Locally' the Western Cape area's tourism industry is ecstatic about Lufthansa's additional frequencies into the region.
"This new Lufthansa route will have a positive impact on business and tourism in the Cape'" says Tim Harris' CEO of Wesgro' the official tourism' trade and investment promotion agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape. "Germany is a priority market as our third-largest source of foreign direct investment' and the third biggest buyer of our products outside of Africa."
Cape Town Air Access' a division of Wesgro' is actively working on making the direct Frankfurt – Cape Town route a success through publicity' market awareness' and networking opportunities.
"German tourist arrivals are growing rapidly' so we are very pleased that Lufthansa added Frankfurt to their existing seasonal direct daily Munich service. With this additional capacity we expect that Cape Town International Airport will easily reach the 10 million passenger milestone this year".
Deon Cloete' the General Manager of Cape Town International Airport' also welcomed the announcement. "This additional service from Lufthansa is not only good news for the airport or the region' but particularly for those who need a directly flight to Frankfurt. We value the partnership and the ongoing commitment Lufthansa has made in growing their service and thereby providing connectivity to the rest of the world. This is a huge vote of confidence in our city and we look forward to the continued partnership."
Western Cape Minister of Economic Opportunities Alan Winde thanked the airline for its business confidence in the province.
"Increased air access has a direct impact on jobs and growth. Through Project Khulisa' we are making it easier for visitors to travel to our region. This is why we launched the Cape Town Air Access initiative' which is a partnership between government' Airports Company South Africa' Wesgro and airline industries.
"The tourism sector continues to reinvest in itself and this is why the world's biggest airlines have the confidence to invest in our region. We see new hotels are being built; the private sector is developing conferencing centres' such as the facility in Century City. In addition' our tourism sector offers great service' which is an important factor in repeat visits.
"We're seeing these investments pay off. Our 2015/16 season was one of the best yet and we achieved strong growth in international arrivals from strategic markets'" Winde said


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A U.S. Navy veteran is suing after the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery refused to allow her to be buried with the ashes of her late wife.
Seventy-four-year-old Madelynn Taylor tried to make advance arrangements last year to have her ashes interred with Jean Mixner at the cemetery.
The couple was legally married in California in 2008, but cemetery employees refused her request because Idaho state law doesn't recognize their marriage.
Taylor is represented in the case filed Monday in federal court by the National Center of Lesbian Rights and Boise attorneys Deborah Ferguson and Craig Durham.
The legal team successfully sued to overturn Idaho's gay marriage ban earlier this year. That case is currently on appeal before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.


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Say Hello to Gamma Rabbit!
Now, as some background, out there in the stupider parts of the Internet, there are dudes who think of themselves as 'alpha males.' My experience with these fellows is that they tend to be ignorant, status-anxious and undersocialized; they tend to mask their various panic attacks about race, gender and sexuality by maintaining those panic attacks are in fact a sign of their superiority. They disdain those who are comfortable with a world in which diversity is respected and encouraged — especially those who are men — and call them 'beta' or 'gamma' males and/or describe them as 'rabbits' or some other species which they presume to be frightened or prey.
With that in mind, for those of us who are comfortable with diversity, who try not to be racist, or sexist, or homophobic, who don't see the world as an apocalyptic zero-sum battle to the death between ourselves and whomever we try to hide our confused fear of by considering them as lesser beings, who aren't in fact appallingly ignorant bigoted shitballs every single waking hour of the day, may I present to you an avatar — an icon, if you will, of who we are and how we choose to live our lives:
EDITED TO ADD: Yes, Gamma Rabbit, who likes people as they are, fears no one no matter how they live their lives, and who is comfortable with himself and his own personal values of kindness, tolerance and diversity. Sure, there are some who look down on him and his ways, but you know what? Gamma Rabbit knows that those people are kooky, silly, wacky racist sexist homophobic dipshits, and aside from looking forward to the day when they might pull their heads out and join the rest of the human race, lets them alone to do their own thing. Because Gamma Rabbit has other, better people and things to think about.
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