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Seems like just yesterday we here at Born on Third were getting ready to cover Opening Day, and just like that it's over. Crazy how time flies, and I didn't expect it to go so fast given how bad the Cubs were this year. I was expecting just the opposite, for it to drag on and on, and I guess it did towards the end there but the reality of no Cubs baseball for four months is starting to sink in. Let's take a look back at some of the surprises and disappointments that we all barely lived through, this season.
Let's start with the disappointments, there were plenty of them, I mean the team lost 101 games, you know how hard it was to write about 101 losses!? Sure the record was disappointing, but one could argue that it was expected, maybe 101 losses wasn't expected, but the Cubs were going to be one of the worst teams in the league, we knew that. Let's dig a little deeper into that futility, we should probably put on a Haz-Mat suit before doing so. The one thing we heard all offseason was this new "Cubs Way" – well that was thrown out there to mean a lot of things, one being patience, no not by the fans (we do need that though), but by the Cubs as a whole at the plate. So how did that go, you ask? Not very good, the Cubs drew 447 walks this season, that comes out to less than three a game, and was good for the fourth fewest in all of baseball. You could probably guess that the Cubs OBP was terrible as well, it was, the Cubs as a team had a .302 OBP this year, 2nd worst in baseball. This is something that has to change, and it will on Theo's watch, I believe that it will. It's hard to see that vision come to fruition however when the team on the field in "year one" was so terribly bad at it, or just refused to do it.
Let's take a look at some poor individual performances…
Chris Volstad
Volstad, acquired in the Carlos Zambrano trade was a disaster, I can't even say that he showed flashes of brilliance, maybe a flash, but not flashes. Volstad finished the season 3-12 with a 6.31 ERA, I can't even spin that into anything positive. Volstad had a huge opportunity this year and took a step back, but all is not lost on the gigantic right hander. He will have every opportunity to pitch for this team next year, that is squarely on his shoulders, his huge shoulders, seriously, look at a picture of the guy pitching, it's cartoonish.
Rafael Dolis
For the first month or so of the season it looked as if Dolis' name was going to end up on the surprise portion of the year-end recap, then things went bad. Dolis lost the strike zone, in doing so his confidence disappeared and his ERA sky rocketed. Dolis went from being the closer of the Cubs after taking over for Carlos Marmol to pitching and struggling at Triple-A. Dolis was called back up to finish off the season but the numbers were not good. He finished the year 2-4 with a 6.39 ERA and four saves. He does have one thing the Cubs need in the pen, a power arm, so he will have a shot to pitch for this team next year at 25 years old. If he wants to do so he has to clean up the walks, as he issued 23 in just 38 innings at the big league level this year.
Ian Stewart
I debated singling him out here, only because he was clearly hurt since last year in Colorado so I'm not sure how much we can really take from his season. But a lot more was expected from Ian Stewart, on the plus side he did play above average defense at third base. His season was shortened by much-needed wrist surgery, he finished the year hitting 5 home runs and 17 RBI's. He did show the ability to work the count and take a walk, but at third base he was and will be expected to be a source of production. It remains to be seen if the Cubs will keep Stewart in their plans moving forward, I would like to see what a healthy Ian Stewart could do.
Other guys that I would say had disappointing years would be Darwin Barney's bat, a sub .300 OBP from him is not acceptable. Lendy Castillo had a 7+ ERA, but Castillo is so young and could be a huge part of this teams bullpen when they are contending. Steve Clevenger took a nose dive after a very strong start, Starlin Castro's mental lapses and subsequent errors. I think Castro improved greatly defensively, I think the errors were a result of focus or lack thereof. Should I mention the 12 game losing streak? I just did.
Now onto the positives, sure there were some.
Anthony Rizzo
He lived up to the hype, and there was plenty of it heading into the season and that hype only grew as he tore the cover off the ball in Iowa. He finally was called up to the Cubs on 6/26/2012, he had two hits in that game and never really looked back. Rizzo finished the campaign hitting .285 with 15 home runs, and 48 RBI's in 87 games, so just over half a Major League season. The biggest thing here is that Rizzo showed the ability to adjust to major league pitchers. I'm not just talking about rebounding from last years dud with the Padres, this year he had a few skids but came out of those before they became too overwhelming. He is the Cubs 2013 starting first baseman, and will be for many years to come.
Alfonso Soriano
Wow. There really is no other word to describe his 2012 season, I guess shocked would apply to me. I was just that, shocked at what Soriano was able to accomplish not only with the bat, but with the glove. Soriano made one error all season, think about that for a second. This is the same guy that made 11 in 2009, 7 in 2010, and 7 in 2011, he worked his butt off and showed real improvement. Offensively he set a career high in RBI's with 108, folks the Cubs only scored 613 runs as a team this season. Soriano also found the long ball again hitting 32 home runs, the most in one season since he hit 33 in 2007. There's no telling he has earned the right to be back here next year, and that is somewhat up to him, but we will see how the Cubs deal with him in the coming months.
Starlin Castro
I really don't care what other people think of him, but Starlin Castro had a fantastic year, and a couple of mental lapses got in the way of making it something really special. Castro became the first Cubs shortstop to play in all 162 games, ever. That shows me that he wants to be out there, mental errors can come with that kind of workload, he probably needed a day off here or there to avoid some of that but he just kept going out there. Castro hit .283 with 14 home runs (a career high), and 78 RBI's (a career high), he also had 29 doubles and 12 triples for good measure. Castro inked a 7 year extension during the season, he will be a Cub for a long time, and that is a good thing.
There are a number of other guys that deserve to be mentioned as bright spots this year. Darwin Barney's glove, Barney tied a major league record for consecutive error-less games at 141, and got to everything on the infield it seemed. Carlos Marmol's second half, after a terrible first half Marmol finished the season strong and looked to be back to his un-hittable self late in the year. Travis Wood stepped into the rotation and did an adequate job for this team, if he can replicate those numbers or even improve upon them he can be a serviceable back of the rotation guy for the Cubs. Bryan LaHair's first half was fun while it lasted, and earned him a trip to the all-star game, no reason to ignore that. Welington Castillo played his way into the 2013 starting lineup behind the plate as
It was a trying year for many, Dale Sveum included, and as I said around the all-star break I think Dale Sveum gets an incomplete for this season. There was not enough talent on this team to win baseball games, not matter how he managed them. What I did like seeing was the compete level of this team on most nights, sure over the course of a 162 game season there are going to be lackluster efforts. For the most part this team really never gave up, I will be interested to see how Sveum does when he starts getting pieces he can use to compete in games on a consistent basis, that's when he can accurately be judged as a manager. I could have written about so much more but I think that sums up enough of what happened this season without going on forever, I'm really excited about the direction of this team, most of that excitement stems from the minor league system which we will continue to profile all offseason. Patience is still something fans will have to have as the Cubs are not going to have a team ready to be a contender next year. Sure, they should improve, and that's what we need to look for, and it's important we see that, one step at a time, thankfully for all of us I think the worst part just ended.
Thanks for reading all season long, we don't take breaks so we will have great Cubs coverage all offseason for you. Go Cubs!
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A classmate mixer will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 and a dinner and dance will be held 7 p.m. Sept. 20.
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The only one who published any of their point results (partially) was Poland, and from that one can draw conclusions that other than hitting what they're aiming for 3-out-of-4 times they did not perform particularly great. With their relatively good results in comparison to the others in the firing parts - Germany was the only one on par - one can also draw a conclusion that gunnery ain't all that great in general nowadays.
Slovenia kinda was semi-out-of-the-running btw since they did not do live fire (no training ammo available for their M-84/T-72). All placed teams used Leopard 2 in localized current versions.


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Striped playsuit: Dressin || Embroidered velvet jacket: Zara || Silver & gold western belt: Vintage || Necklace: Topshop || Cowboy Boots: Gamloong
For this Wednesday here's a boho chic outfit I really love. It's not only wearable at daytime, you can easily rock this combination at a night out, too. Probably my favorite kind of outfits for Fridays when you don't have time to change your clothes before heading to clubs, parties etc. When I saw this embroidered velvet jacket on the Zara website a couple of weeks ago it was love at first sight. It immediately reminded me of the vintage trophy jackets you can get at thrift stores, but way more beautiful. It's very 70s indian inspired and can be worn in so many different ways. It's also pretty cozy because of its velvet fabric! Boho trophy jackets are my favorites and I even wear them when I go to town and do some shopping. I usually go for a more casual combo like wearing it with some denim cut offs, skinny jeans and a band tee etc. Here I combined it with my striped playsuit I received from Dressin, I think it looks great with the golden/red embroidery without distracting attention away from the gorgeous jacket. I'm also wearing my latest secondhand find! It's my gold/silver studded western belt which was a real bargain. I was so happy when I found it, I had been searching for a golden/silver studded belt for a very long time, but couldn't find the perfect one in any stores. Then I found it in a second hand shop by chance, so good!
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Rihanna Reveals New Album Will Be Released This Fall
Rihanna used her Twitter account last week to announce she's working on her sixth studio album, set to drop this fall.
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This is one of those productions that makes you wish the show's composer and writer would make a quick trip to Chicago to see their work in what might just be its ideal incarnation.
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Update: Here is Lifetime's press release:
Network Renews MARC CHERRY and EVA LONGORIA'S Hit Drama DEVIOUS MAIDS for Second Season with 13 Episode Order
LOS ANGELES (August 13, 2013) – Lifetime and its viewers are going to get even more Devious next year. The network has renewed for a second season its hit drama Devious Maids (#DeviousMaids), starring Ana Ortiz, Dania Ramírez, Roselyn Sánchez, Edy Ganem and Judy Reyes, with a 13 episode order, it was announced today by Rob Sharenow, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lifetime. Devious Maids is produced by ABC Studios.
Since its premiere on June 23, nearly 23 million viewers have watched Devious Maids on Lifetime. It is the network's fastest-growing drama ever, and has catapulted Lifetime to cable's number one network in the Sunday 10:00pm ET/PT time slot among Women. Its 18% Hispanic composition nearly doubles Lifetime's primetime average.
"One of the most daring series on television, Devious Maids has quickly become a hit. We are very proud of the show and are delighted to continue our partnership with Marc Cherry, Eva Longoria, Sabrina Wind, ABC Studios and Televisa USA. I am thrilled we are bringing Devious Maids back for a second season to lead our scripted slate in 2014," said Sharenow.
"ABC Studios has had a great partnership with Lifetime and Televisa and we're looking forward to another terrific season with Marc Cherry and his talented cast and crew," said Stephanie Leifer, Senior Vice President, Current Programming, ABC Studios.
Devious Maids centers on a close-knit group of maids (Ortiz, Ramírez, Sánchez, Ganem and Reyes), bonded together by their jobs, life struggles and boss' melodramatic "upstairs-downstairs" universe, that turns to one another for support after a fellow maid Flora (Paula Garcés) is brutally murdered at the home of her employers. Devious Maids also stars Susan Lucci, Rebecca Wisocky, Tom Irwin, Mariana Klaveno, Grant Show, Matt Cedeño, Melinda Page Hamilton, Drew Van Acker, Brianna Brown and Brett Cullen.
Inspired by the hit telenovela, Ellas son la Alegría del Hogar, Devious Maids is produced by ABC Studios. The series was created by Marc Cherry and is executive produced by Cherry, Sabrina Wind, Eva Longoria, Paul McGuigan, Larry Shuman, David Lonner, John Mass and Televisa USA's Paul Presburger and Michael Garcia.
ABC Studios is a leader in the development, production and strategic distribution of entertainment content across broadcast and emerging digital platforms. The studio is the key content provider for the ABC Entertainment Group, having produced multiple seasons of hit series, including "Scandal," "Once Upon A Time," "Grey's Anatomy," "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "Castle" and "Revenge"; as well as "Army Wives" for Lifetime and "Criminal Minds" for CBS. These hit series have supplied the company's distribution pipelines worldwide with programming and related product lines. ABC Studios will continue to produce memorable television programming for the 2013-14 television season, including eight new series for ABC, the summer series "Mistresses"; along with "Perception" on TNT, "Cougar Town" on TBS, "Devious Maids" on Lifetime, and "Intelligence," premiering on CBS next season.
Lifetime is a premier female-focused entertainment destination dedicated to offering the highest quality original programming spanning scripted series, non-fiction series and movies. In 2012, as a result of its aggressive programming strategy that doubled the hours of original programming, Lifetime posted its strongest year-on-year growth among the key demographics in 10+ years, while also reaching its youngest median age in 16 years. Lifetime Television®, LMN®, Lifetime Real Women® and Lifetime Digital™ are part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of A+E Networks. A+E Networks is a joint venture of the Disney-ABC Television Group and Hearst Corporation.
Lifetime has renewed Marc Cherry's dramedy Devious Maids for a 13 episode second season, per the Hollywood Reporter. The series has grown since it premiered with a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating, with its most recent episode earning a 0.9 adults 18-49 and 2.663 million viewers. "One of the most daring series on television, Devious Maids has quickly become a hit," said Lifetime executive vice president and General Manager Rob Sharenow.
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In a rare break from the Saints related subject matter, I was delighted to catch up with newly promoted Sheffield Wednesday star Lewis Buxton. I am lucky enough to have known Lewis and his family for many years and have watched his career with interest.
Having learnt his trade on the Isle of Wight, a place where not many young kids make the grade Lewis is now enjoying a fruitful career with one of the countries biggest clubs in Sheffield Wednesday. Sealing promotion to the Championship under new boss Dave Jones, Lewis is looking forward to another spell at the higher level, but it hasn't always been plain sailing for the Islander….
As one of the few pros to come out of the game on the Island, do you feel that it is a disadvantage for kids here?
LB "It's a disadvantage, everyones knows that the Island has a low population so competition isn't as intense as the big cities. To get the best out of anyone in sport you need to be competing against the best opposition, every week from an early age, the last thing you want is a team winning 14-0 for most of the season. I don't know what the kids leagues are like now but if they don't already then it would give the kids a better chance with a structure that has all the current sides feeding one team playing in the Southampton league and one in the Portsmouth league which take all the best players from the existing teams. Kids develop at different rates so some would be dropped out of the teams playing in the mainland leagues and others promoted to them. This would progress the talented kids quicker and give them the best chance to get scouted for professional clubs at a young age. They would then receive the top quality coaching which they need to move onto the next level .
There was however a very good bunch of players in my age group in the Island league at the top 3 or 4 teams. We also played regularly in tournaments against mainland sides at school level, and for East Cowes from an early age we played in the national indoor final at Aston Villa. We won a Hampshire tournament at the Dell, and played at Fratton Park in a similar tournament. We were one game away from Wembley in another. We were entered into these school tournament's by a very good P.E teacher Mr. McArther so he gave us the opportunity to progress against top opposition as young players.
The stretch of water does make even the the most dedicated kids doubt if it's all worth it. Travelling over the water from the age of 14 three times a week leaving home at half 4 and getting in 6 hours later for an hour/hour and a half of training straight after school is not much fun. I personally did not enjoy the travelling and the waiting around for hours and contemplated giving up on numerous occasions. You go from playing in your local team with all your best mates and really enjoying it, to joining a new team that all know each other because they play in the top 2 or 3 local sides in Pompey. That is difficult as a young kid and my football struggled at this stage but again I was lucky we had a strong group from the Island that would go over to play for Portsmouth schoolboys together. On top of that, Portsmouth didn't pay for your travel and the majority of the time you were not getting picked up as the coaches had to train the younger age groups before our age group. It was a joint taxi or the bus, and If the lads you travelled with were ill it would mean getting the bus on your own."
How did you get involved with Pompey?
LB "I got scouted by Roger North playing for the school. He invited me and my best mate Adam Howarth to train at his soccer school in Sandown where we progressed to his side at Portsmouth's centre of Excellence. Without the work of Roger, Andrew and Shaun North I wouldn't have become a professional footballer."
How big was the skill gap between playing in the Island youth teams and then being amongst the young lads at a pro club?
LB "There was a slight gap but we had a good bunch of players on the Island at that age. The best players on the Island at that time competed with Portsmouth's best but there were just a lot of good players at Pompey."
Having been a regular at Fratton Park, you found yourself loaned out to Exeter and Bournemouth once Harry Redknapp came in? Do you think this enhanced your career or held you back?
LB "It held me back, I had played 30 games for Pompey in the Championship, and before one game Ted Buxton (not my uncle, as I've been told he must have been when telling this story) told me he was trying to get me into the England youth set up and was feeling I could do anything, then I was being farmed out to Exeter a team near the bottom of the football league and low on confidence.
Bournemouth was a good grounding for me though and I had a lot to thank then manager Sean O'Driscoll for. It gave me a good platform for my career in a strong passing side. It was a great club with great staff. Portsmouth had moved on too quickly for me and Harry had turned a struggling Championship side into a Premiership side in no time. Playing in a reserve team and not training with the first team for long periods I lost my way and my focus, I lacked guidance and developed a bad attitude because I felt hard done by."
After a decent spell with Stoke City, you now find yourself settled with Sheffield Wednesday. It must be brilliant to play for such a big club?
LB "Sheffield Wednesday is a massive club and after a bit of a struggle initially, I worked extremely hard and I've played well this season. We came with a strong late run to beat our local rivals to the 2nd spot. We beat them in the derby at Hillsborough in front of around 35,000, the atmosphere was electric, for players playing in the third tier of English football it's unbelievable and all the players should be proud to play in such a game that means the world to both sets of supporters. In the last game of this season we beat Wycombe in front of nearly 40,000 fans, it was a great feeling but the club belongs in the next league up and in the next few years I hope we'll get there."
Who influenced your career in Island Football?
LB "I would say initially my mum and dad and the friends in East Cowes who I hung around with. Mike Parkman who gave up a lot of his time to manage our East Cowes side which was no easy task. Then obviously Roger, Sean and Andrew North for bringing me through at Portsmouth. As a kid I knew Lee Bradbury had become a pro footballer and so had Gary Rowett. Our PE teacher Mr. Reynolds would always go on about them and how Gary had won the Hampshire Cup (we made it to the final and lostl). They both went to my school so although I didn't know them I knew it was possible to make it."
You played for a successful East Cowes youth side. Did you expect others from that team to make it?
LB "We had a very talented group of players who were all good friends at East Cowes, we then brought in better players from Sandown such as Sam Dye and Micky Sherry who had the talent, but again were at a disadvantage being from the Island. The main one though would be one of my best mates, Adam Howarth, we were both from East Cowes and in the Isle of Wight schools sides, Hampshire and Portsmouth kids sides together, always battling to be better than each other so he could have made it given a chance at YTS level. Shaun Cooper another of my best mates who plays for Bournemouth was in the same Pompey kids team as us and was another we played against at school."
You've played under a few different managers, who have you enjoyed playing for the most?
LB "I enjoyed playing for Graham Rix, as a 17 year old, he and my youth team coach Mark O'Connor gave me great confidence, I was gutted when he got sacked.
What advice would you give a young Island footballer with hopes of going pro?
LB "I would say:-
1. Move to Southampton or Portsmouth, the Island is a nice and safe place to live but if you want to be a professional footballer you are up against it. If you can't move I would say the kids that are the best at a young age need to play for the year above to begin with. This is something Shaun Cooper and I did.
2. Work as hard as possible, if someone says your not good enough then work harder. One of the lads at Wednesday (Jose Semedo) was in the same year of the Sporting Lisbon Academy as Ronaldo and is good friends with him still. He said that the hardest working player he ever played with was Ronaldo, it is no coincidence he is the best. Well second best behind the greatest of all time (Messi). I was told the same thing about Ronaldo by the former fitness coach of Manchester United too.
3. Start sprint training early you can make it with less quality if your faster than everyone else.
4. Watch the best players in the world as much as possible.
5. Learn to be comfortable using every part of your body to control and manipulate the ball."
Thanks to Lewis for his time.
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:28 am
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the simple forcing loop, A.K.A xy-loop
very very importantly... not all xy-loops are going to be nice and rectangular like the one in the image above. xy-loops can take on different shapes and involve many cells. I like to call them "pools" or "ponds" since most big patterns involved fish names.
in the image is a puzzle that was discussed in the forum.
Normally, the circled candidates would represent your average, run of the mill, xy-chain. However, this particular xy-chain has a potency for damage beyond what a normal xy-chain can do.
#1... a particular xy-chain which has its pincer ends sharing the same house can be considered a simple forcing loop, xy-loop.
#2... the green arrows show that the direction of the chain is indeed valid in both directions. what this means is that regardless of the cell you start in and which ever candidate you substitute in for that cell, the loop stays true in either direction you travel. keep this in mind...
#3...Imagine this as a multi-sided polygon. each two cells represent a "side" of the polygon. the row, column, or box that the "side" is in is where the eliminations take place. the eliminations come from the candidate that the "side" has in common.
in other words, each side contains two cells. Those two cells automatically become pincer cells (using the rules of a xy-chain). The cells that form the "side" of the loop share one candidate and can therefore eliminate any other candidates they see.
(this will sound sort of like describing a xy-chain)
consider the cells, r6c2{8,9} and r6c4 {4,8}, these cells share the number 8. the rules of a xy-chain says that the 8 either goes in r6c2 or r6c4. since the 8 has to go in either of the two ends of the chain, you can eliminate 8 from r6c3.
This applies to all sides of the loop and makes eliminations as shown by the red boxes in the image.
it might be best to get a handle on what a xy-chain is first.
this next example is alternative logic to the forcing loop. BUT!! it is highly specialized. how specialized you ask??
#1... it can only be a 4 cell xy-loop
#2... it only involves eliminations on two sides of the xy-loop
#3... the "roof" and "floor" candidates must be conjugate to the row, column, or box they reside in.
I'd say that is pretty special.
now before I go any further, I have to site the source of my research.
in the link is two examples, and both are exactly 4 cell xy-loops.
in the image above is an example of a simple forcing loop. it eliminates the 4 in r6c3.
this particular and very specialized pattern is what Andrew Stuart calls a
multivalue x-wing.
consider rows 3 and 5... candidates 5 and 8 are conjugate to those rows respectively. focus on column 5. what if both the 5 and the 8 are true? this would force 4 into two cells in column 3. Can't have that.
It also elminates the 7's in col 5. can't have that either.
this forces a 4 to exist either in r3c3 or r5c3 and eliminates the 4 in r6c3
edit: to change some of the wording. thank you to Steve R who has suggested changing some of the wording in the second example.
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I welcome and encourage any thoughts on how to clean up the wording.
I probably tried a little too hard in making the connection between multivalue x-wings and xy-loops and made some wording errors that, I hope, can be stated clear enough for the readers of the forum to understand.
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 12:21 am
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Do I understand correctly that those eliminations of 8 in rows 68 only occur in an XY-Loop? I'm no theoretician, but if the answer is yes, then why? Why wouldn't they occur in an ordinary XY-Chain where the pincer ends aren't in the same house? For example, if the 34 were in r6c7 rather than r6c8, the 8s are still there.
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Marty, hello there...
ignore for a moment that we are discussing xy-loops and form the xy-chain from r8c2 going clockwise around to r8c8. this chain says you can eliminate the 8's in row 8.
However, if you move the (3,4) cell to r6c7, this breaks that chain. now the (3,4) cell is no long connected to the (3,
cell in r8c8 and then doesn't eliminate the 8's in row 8.
the same can be said about the 8 in r6c3
except this time you are starting your xy-chain in r6c4 and going around connecting to r8c2... again, moving the (3,7) cell would break the ordinary xy-chain that this forms.
a side of a loop is comprised of two adjacent cells of the loop. any two adjacent cells of the loop can act as pincer cells.
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:02 am
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Marty wrote:
Why wouldn't they occur in an ordinary XY-Chain where the pincer ends aren't in the same house?
I too pondered this question when I first met XY-loops. My answer to myself was as follows:
Take an open chain (3,4)- (4,8) - (8,9) - (9,8) - (8,3). I.e. where the 3s aren't in the same house. Now ordinary XY-chain logic essentially says: "If either 3 is NOT true, then the other must BE true." What it DOESN'T say anything about is the possibility that BOTH 3s are true - and that wouldn't tell us anything about the intermediate numbers.
However, in an XY-loop, this doesn't apply: no two successive numbers can both be true. So we can guarantee that all round the loop one is true & one is false, which kills any other occurrence of that number in that house. (I particularly like it when successive cells occur diagonally within a box, so that you can do an elimination(s) within the box.)
(Perhaps another way to look at it is to say that an XY-loop is a locked set: find one number and you've found them all. But finding one number in an ordinary chain doesn't solve them all. E.g. if you found the first (3,4) cell to be 3, well, that doesn't say that the next is 4.)
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I guess I just assumed the 8s would still be true since the XY-Chain is still valid if one of the pincer cells is moved, but after looking at Norm's answer and studying it, I realize I was wrong.
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A memo sent Monday by Commissioner Roger Goodell to ownership, front-office personnel and coaches says: "Please ensure that this document is made available to all players and staff."
It includes a section on questions teams cannot ask prospective draft picks and free agents. After the NFL combine in February, three players said officials posed questions relating to their sexual orientation.
Examples given of prohibited queries include: "Do you like women or men? How well do you do with the ladies? Do you have a girlfriend?"
The document also says "any jokes, comments or pranks" about an employee's sexual orientation constitute harassment. Examples are "giving someone a sexual gag gift" or hiring a stripper for an employee's birthday party. "Offensive or degrading words or phrases" and posters or screen savers of a sexual nature are also harassment.
The timing of the memo proved appropriate. Later Monday, veteran NBA center Jason Collins became the first active male professional athlete in the four major North American sports leagues to come out as gay.
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When I saw this photo on The Feminist Breeder's Facebook page with TFB Gina Crosley-Corcoran's comment, "And now you've seen everything, Jolene swiped bacon off my plate and tried to nurse and eat at the same time. When I got bit, I told her she had to choose. She chose bacon", I liked it. If there was a "love" button, I would have loved it. I'm in tune with much of what Gina writes on her blog and Facebook page, and even if I wasn't a natural parenting type who breastfeeds and gets excited when Ina May Gaskin makes a movie, I'm certain I would have giggled at this photo. Sweet baby girl chooses bacon over mama's milk. Hilarious. But one of TFB's readers didn't think so. A mom I'll just call Liz commented, "I never liked the photo, I reported the photo. And those are the kids that end up growing to be sex offenders."
ALL RIGHTY, Liz. You just took it one step too far.
It's one thing to not like the photo. Maybe this woman has some sort of weird breastfeeding hang-up and finds it repulsive and that is very unfortunate for her. But to report it AND MOST HEINOUSLY say children who are breastfed grow up to be sex offenders just shows how completely off her rocker she is.
You'll never believe what happened next in this story. Facebook deleted the photo, and suspended The Feminist Breeder Facebook page for three days. Breastfeeding photos are supposed to be allowed as long as there isn't any nipple exposed. No nipple can be seen in Gina's photo. All I see is her adorable 18-month-old daughter Jolene nom nom noming on some bacon. Sure, there is a part of Gina's breast there. But I see more cleavage when trolling the Facebook pages of single 20-somethings. (I really don't do that, I swear.) And, I repeat, there is no nipple.
Did Facebook delete it just because someone reported it? What is the protocol for them removing an image? I ask because this one just doesn't break their rules. Maybe it was a vegan Facebook worker who was offended by the bacon?
Facebook likes to delete breastfeeding images -- even fake ones of crochet hats that look like breasts or little kids pretending to breastfeed. Sadly, when they do this, they perpetuate the false claim that breastfeeding is obscene. Even still, I can respect that some people don't want to see certain photos because there are plenty of photos I would rather not see that people post. But things we personally don't want to see are everywhere and we have this incredible power to look away. Which is what Liz should have done. Liz shouldn't have even been a fan of The Feminist Breeder to begin with, which makes this whole thing even more absurd. It's like she purposefully liked a page that is the opposite of her beliefs (with the thought she not only hates breastfeeding and thinks it makes kids become sex offenders, but she's also offended by bacon ... and probably feminism). And I can't help but question Facebook for the deletion of the photo and the suspension of the page for no concrete reason.
If you agree with me, let's get the word out and share this -- Gina wants us to. This is just wrong. Let's roar loudly so Facebook hears and makes some very needed changes and not just removes a photo because someone reported it ... for no good reason, and that doesn't even violate any rules.
Do you think Facebook has some explaining to do? You don't see anything obscene in this image, right?
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Irony culture is polluting the internet. Everywhere you go you see its tentacles, taking every good thing and getting ironic over it. As if saying something ironically is automatically a joke. Anyone remember those eyes when everyone was sarcastic all the time, as if that meant they were 'tough' or you were stupid for not reading between the lines? The internet's irony culture of 'shitposting' is its heir. Like any major event, the terror attack on Ariana Grande's concert became a canvas for these people to launch their jokes from. Actually, events like these – horrible, traumatic, death-filled – tend to be their favorite events.
Now, gallows humor is fine and all. Humor is important. It helps us keep a distance from things and break the ring of sacredness. If we can laugh at something, it's not holy and we can criticize it and improve on it. Nothing should be beyond humor, but nothing is also beyond criticism. So now I'm about to explain why all these jokes about the terror attack are bad. Some people from the Irony Culture will call me 'oversensitive'. I will call them 'oversensitive' for not being able to present a claim of their own.
I don't know how to make this any clearer. A terror attack is traumatic. Many people will never be the same after this. It changed their lives forever. The songs and the artist will forever be connected in their heads to an attack whose purpose is to install fear and dread in them. 22 people have died, and that means at least 88 – and I'm being extremely minimal here – will live with a permanent loss nothing can replace.
Just to show you how trauma works, I live in Israel. Many here live under constant thread of rockets and are always afraid of the sound of the alarm. Some time ago there was a Post-Apoc LARP (Live-Action Roleplaying) called Sunburn. The organizers didn't tell the players that there will be alarms. Not only the fictional alarms triggered these people, many also thought they were real. It wrecked their whole experience.
If you still don't get what 'trauma' means, just ask someone to violently beat you up.
As I said, humor about anything is fine. However, we need to be careful when and where we post our gallows humor. Right now, when we're still suffering from the fallout of that attack is not the time. That attack is fresh in people's minds. They still need to truly realize that, yes, this happened and they are mortal and someone can blow them.
The internet is an unregulated mass communication tool that must not be censored, but that's not a reason to spread it all over. We control the content we see only halfway. If I enter a meme site with hoping to manage my stress thanks to surviving a terror attack and I see memes about a terror attack and all the trauma rises up – who's to blame? Why must it be this way?
Some did get that perhaps it's nicer to wait a bit before making fun of other people's trauma, so even that became a joke:
Another important element of gallows humor is that you need a joke. Without saying something actually funny about the subject, all you do is make fun of dark topics which cause pain and suffering to everyone – including you. There is no joke in this picture, unless the joke is about how memesters don't have anything else to do but produce worthless memes. Then again, I think they're too sensitive to actually joke about themselves.
I don't know. I get it that you don't like Pop music. Some of us are still stuck in the days of 'real music' where only Foo Fighters were considered good. Still, where's the joke here? You found a pseudo-clever way of telling people you dislike Ariana Grande by making fun of a terrible event. I'm not sure how else to classify this behavior other than being an asshole and inconsiderate.
Oh man, I can't help it. This is Dr. Strangelove-level of funny. Get it? The joke is, Grande is a horrible singer (Pop music isn't real music, remember) and people dying – especially in terror attacks – is funny! Death is so funny, in fact, that we make sure everyone can experience it if they want to using assisted suicide! Aren't funerals only second to the Holocaust in their funny-ness?
It's kind of odd. Someone would actively take an image and write a semi-ironic text about how someone not dying is a bad thing. I'm trying to understand the psyche of doing this, of finding the bummer over someone not-dying a sentiment worth showing the world. Better yet, contextualize it in a meme so you could laugh about it and be ironic. There are so many layers of irony here I'm not sure what the joke is. Yes, some memes' source of funny is only because they reference a pattern. Lord knows I find the 'cracking open a cold one' meme hilarious, but that's only because I really like beer. Besides, the joke is rarely something cruel. Since there is no funny here, what is the joke?
"Oh, lighten up!" they say and I wish I could – or I wish I wouldn't, since my ways of having include more than finding terror attacks funny. Every act of communication has a purpose. The nature of being is communicative. We communicate humor, emotions and ideas. By understanding what and why we communicate we can communicate better and face the communication of others better.
So I'm trying to get underneath all this humor. Since its surface is incredibly unfunny, maybe by getting down to it I can find insight into an alien culture. Sadly I face an empty well devoid of funny and full of laughter at the theatre of tragedy and the carnival of carnage that is terror and violence. If terror and violence were that funny, they wouldn't be staples in horror films. Moreover, if you didn't view this post as an attack – and this post claims you're insensitive, unethical and that your sense of humor is dead like Nietzsche's horse – you wouldn't get all defensive over it.
The funeral of the irony culture will be a celebration. Bring your own stereo.


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Thought I'd share my daughters science project as we keep missing the video chat for whatever reason, but she is proud of what she made. We purchased the Makey MAkey, all the wires we used and the copper tape from Adafruit. We even used the Occidentalis 0.2 image to make this work. It would not work on the official Raspbian image at all for some reason, but your versions worked great!
She did all the work herself, imaged the SD card, programmed the sounds in Scratch, virtually everything was her work with dad supplying the needed parts and advise. This is her first ever science project like this, and her first ever youtube video. She is home schooled, but she attends an online k-12 program with teachers and such every day also. The teachers loved it, so she is hoping to move on to a actual science fair here in the state for all the students that had good projects get to go to. We'll find out in a few days!
Wanted to share and to say thanks, we have watched several videos from Adafruit on youtube and it was one of the things that really got my daughter excited about this. I love to see this as a dad, I wanted to say thanks to Adafruit for a great site and doing all the work to encourage young people to do great things and to stay thinking all the time.


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They come in 6 flavours:
- ATTACK - bonus event on striking an enemy. eg: critical damage, exploding attack
DEFEND - bonus event on being hit. eg: shield stops damage, retribution attack against enemy
TEMPORARY - boost to attributes for x seconds. eg: for 8 seconds speed x2, increased healing
PERMANENT - attribute increments. eg: increment health, speed, healing
PASSIVE - works passively. eg: cause damage on touch, enemies drop more loot
ITEM - Items are single use and player can use any item that they have collected when they wish. Can be good for getting out of trouble when your back is to the wall.
Bonus offensive machine-gun and grenade spam attacks.
Super Orbital Laser (anyone guessing the source of the name wins a free internet)
The Zone of Brass Monkies - slows all enemy who enter it.
Napalm Strike (need to work on those particles, not entirely satisfied with those flames)
And a quick test of shields in various colours.
I also spent some time reading through the code (this is why it's important to leave comments people!) and found a few things I didn't previously know about explosions - such as you can tie animated meshes to them. This help save a bit of overhead on things as in Airship Dragoon I had spawned "concussion blast spheres" seperately. So I decided to make the basic impact attack a little more interesting.
With the swag collectables coded if not modeled, next up is to test my ideas on how to actually model the environment and levels. And it looks something a little bit like this:


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Garth Brooks Adds Fourth Show to Comeback Special Event in Ireland
Garth Brooks is high in demand all over the world. After selling out his Garth Brooks Comeback Special Event in Dublin, Ireland in 90 minutes, he's added a fourth concert!
The event just keeps getting bigger. When it was first announced in January, the icon had two shows booked for July 25 and 26, 2014 before his 2014 world tour kicks off this fall. However, a third show was quickly organized after the first concerts were filled to capacity.
Now, a fourth show has been added for July 28, because fans just can't get enough of the legendary Brooks. This marks the first time an artist has sold out three dates booked at Croke Park in a single day -- and we expect the fourth slew of tickets to be snatched up at a rapid pace.
Concert promoter Peter Aiken is astounded by the huge response to tickets. "It is hard to believe that an artist could play 4 nights in a row at Croke Park," he says. "But thanks to the cooperation of Croke Park and the huge support of the fans, we are delighted to be announcing today this fourth date for the Garth Brooks Comeback Special Event."
The 'Friends in Low Places' clearly has plenty of friends in high and low places who would love nothing more than spend an evening with the superstar, soaking in his smash hits in his first appearance at Croke Park in seventeen years.
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Artemis Racing, the Challenger of Record for the 34th America's Cup, have lost an appeal to the International Jury over their earlier daggerboard/hydrofoil measurement decision.
On October 7, the International Jury ruled on an application from Emirates Team New Zealand, that the Measurement Committee had exceeded its jurisdiction in issuing an interpretation that changed a Class Rule governing the AC72 catamarans to be used in the America's Cup Regatta starting in July 2013.
The key to that decision was whether or not the daggerboards used by the catamarans should be either raised or lowered when calculating the displacement of the canoe body of each hull of the catamarans.
The rule said that the canoe body could not be less then 45% of the total displacement. (Class Rule 1K states: <i>hull means a canoe body, part of which displaces 45% or more of the AC72 Yachts displaced volume when floating in measurement condition;</i>)
The Measurement Committee had made the ruling that the canoe body (normally the plain hull of a boat, without keel or rudder attached) should have its displacement measured with the dagger boards down.
Because the dagger boards have positive buoyancy, this ruling would have had the effect of reducing the size of the dagger boards, and possibly limiting the ability of the AC72 to sail in a hydrofoiled mode.
In the original decision Emirates Team NZ and Luna Rossa argued against the Challenger of Record and Defender Oracle Team USA, claiming that the Measurement Committee had effectively changed a class rule, which they were not permitted to do.
Surprisingly, regatta organisers America's Cup Regatta Management lodged a submission in support of the New Zealand and Italian teams - an unprecedented move which is understood to have displeased both the Challenger of Record and Defender. ACRM for the first time in America's Cup history, has been established as a body independent of the competitors and made a submission as it saw fit, rather than in bygone days when it, or its equivalent would have taken a position on such matters which would always have been solidly behind the Defender.
With a 3-2 majority in favour of the Emirates Team New Zealand position, it was possibly not surprising that the International Jury sided with the majority view, and ruled that the daggerboards could be in the raised position to calculate the canoe body displacement. (Such a rule is necessary as being the only real way to determine that a boat is a catamaran type (two equal hulls) and not a trimaran or proa or some other sort of multihull.)
The original Jury Decision was greeted with dismay by both the Challenger of Record and Defender.
Not surprisingly the Challenger of Record, who would normally speak for all, or a majority of the Challenger, decided to lodge an appeal to the same International Jury, claiming that they had committed the same error they accused the measurement Committee of doing - namely to effectively change a class rule, and had exceeded their authority.
The Jury Decision summarised the Artemis Racing claim thus:
6. AR (Artemis Racing) claimed that the Jury amended the CR (Class Rule) by noting in paragraph 56 of its Decision in AC16 (original decision #) that the Decision would have the effect of removing the '45%' limitation in CR 1.4(k) which was to allow a maximum of 10% for displacement of foils.
7. AR also submitted that neither the CR nor the Protocol give the Jury the right to remove or amend a CR. They submitted that the MC (Measurement Committee) in issuing PI (Public Interpretation) 22 had interpreted CR 1.4(k) without changing any of its words. To amend a CR requires the unanimous consent of all the Competitors.
8. AR further submitted they have spent two years researching and designing their AC72 Yacht based on the volume limits depicted in CR 1.4(k) and the removal of such limits 'renders much of that work meaningless, and sways the balance of foiling vs non-foiling in the favor of the foiling solution.' AR also claimed 'this Amendment unnecessarily favors the interest of on competitor.'
However the International Jury was not persuaded by the arguments advanced by Artemis Racing and supported by Oracle Team USA, and dismissed the claim that it had erred in its original Decision.
In the Discussion section of its decision on the appeal the International Jury noted that it had the right to make a determination under the Protocol, and that all it had done in its original decision was to remove
the additional conditions prescribed by the Measurement Committee, including the need for the daggerboards to be fully lowered.
The International Jury rules that all it had done was to reinstate the Class Rule as it had originally been written, and therefore the Jurys Decision did not change a Class Rule as Artemis Racing had alleged.
The appeal by Artemis Racing was dismissed.
http://noticeboard.americascup.com/w...1/08/JN054.pdf - To read the latest Decision and http://noticeboard.americascup.com/w...1/08/JN051.pdf - Here to read the original Decision of October 7, 2012
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A hot stone massage, where heated river rocks are worked against the knolls and ravines of your stress-addled muscles, is the signature service of the little oasis just off Ridge Pike called Hand and Stone Massage and Facial Spa.
If you think indulging in a little pampering is still the domain of the idle rich, Denise and Jim Vizzini have come all the way from Mullica Hill, N.J., to launch the area's debut H&S in the Court at Upper Providence for the express purpose of changing your mind.
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The Delaware County native first stumbled on the Hand & Stone concept in a Glen Mills shopping center and went 'undercover' to put the franchised outpost to the test.
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'I didn't expect much and I was really surprised that they proved me wrong,' she recalled. 'And I'm really picky, being in the business. I got a real quality service and it was affordable.'
Before the couple, who now live in Gilbertsville, plunked down their hard-earned money on their own franchise, they sniffed around to see what the competition was up to, Denise admitted.
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Needless to say, Denise didn't, uh, envy the massages-for-the-multitudes approach of the other chain operation.
'There was no comparison,' she said. 'The corporate people at Hand & Stone were far more knowledgeable and they truly cared about the people they were dealing with. Because I have a massage therapy background, my 'MO' is it's all about the client and that's what made my business in New Jersey so successful. I had more than 500 clients and I really cared about them.'
With a staff of 17 therapists and aestheticians, Hand & Stone offers clients a menu of services to enhance their walk-in or by-appointment mini vacations, including Deep Tissue and Swedish massage, as well as facials, microdermabrasion and waxing.
With dim lighting, meditative New Age music and prevailing quietude, a full 10 rooms are reserved for massage and three are for facials, forming the soothing decompression tunnel that cuts off the outside world in the back of this former Schuylkill Valley Sporting Goods location.
The price of a regular massage is $49.95. Add $20 for the hot stone treatment.
First timers are welcome to sample three services - a regular massage, hot stone and facial - at a special price.
Following this serious introduction to pampering, H&S-style, memberships are the way to go, Denise said.
As the facility approaches the 200-member mark, time is running out on a $10 discount off the regular price of $59.95 for monthly memberships.
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More than perhaps any other branch of the Social Sciences, and certainly more than any other approach to psychology, evolutionary psychology (lower caps) and even more so Evolutionary Psychology (upper caps) is frequently attacked on moral grounds. Charges range from such things as encouraging immoral behaviour, to justifying racism, or even just for "looking at the world in an ugly way". Why should evolutionary psychology in particular, ellicit such empassioned responses from its critics? What is the root of these kind of criticisms, are they at all reasonable? Should we be concerned that a certain way of stating what is (i.e. from an evolutionary perspective) may lead some to draw undesirable conclusions about what ought to be? Or are these just symptoms of arrogant anthropocentrism and confusion about the nature of science and the is/ought distinction? Orgone 23:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- Good questions. I think part of the problem stems from the abuses of biology historically, (i.e., Social Darwinism & eugenics). Some people also associate evolution with "genetic determinism". Even when evolutionary psychologists counter with the concept of "mental modularity", I suspect some feel that evolutionary psychologists are just making a shift from "genetic determinism" to some sort of "mental determinism". However, in my experience, I get the impression that criticisms against EP tend to be just as much epistemological (if not more so) than ethical. The ethical arguments against EP tend to be rather weak in my opinion. You may like the following papers:
- Krebs, D. L. & Denton, K. (2005). Toward a more pragmatic approach to morality: A critical evaluation of Kohlberg's model. Psychological Review, 112, 629-649. Full text
- Krebs, D. L. (2005). An evolutionary reconceptualization of Kohlberg's model of moral development. In R. Burgess & K. MacDonald (Eds.) Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development, (pp. 243-274). CA: Sage Publications. Full text
- Wilson, D. S., E. Dietrich, et al. (2003). "On the inappropriate use of the naturalistic fallacy in evolutionary psychology." Biology and Philosophy 18: 669-682. Full text
- Wilson, D. S. (2002). Evolution, morality and human potential. Evolutionary Psychology: alternative approaches. S. J. Scher and F. Rauscher, Kluwer Press: 55-70 Full text
- Ive just read the Wilson, D. S., E. Dietrich, et al. (2003) paper, wonderful! Thanks for posting the links! Orgone 19:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Orgone, let me try to answer some of the above which has not been. Interestingly, the passionate attacks are due to our evolved psychology. Humans evolved to define our groups by cultural means instead of kinship and this means that threats to our cultural beliefs trigger the same emotions as physical attacks. Evolutionary Psychology threatens the cultural foundations of Sociology, Geography, Women's Studies, and various sub-disciplines of Psychology. One can profitably think of these disciplines as tribal groups and they respond with the psychology that evolved for tribal living.
Humans have evolved psychological mechanisms that cause us, starting at the subconscious level, to have positive bias towards our own in-group; we see our group as the group of "good." Out-groups that are a threat, such as Evolutionary Psychology, are seen as the opposite of us, as having the opposite attributes. Sociology especially defines itself as the "good" tribe seeking to right all wrongs in the world, and therefore their evolved psychology tells them that Evolutionary Psychology is the opposite of good, we are "evil." This gets filtered through the academic mind and comes out as questions about our "morality," but it is the same psychological process that humans have used to prepare to go to war with an out-group for hundreds of thousands of years.
Compounding the above is their common misunderstanding of evolutionary psychology, really their assumption, that it says we are ultimately selfish and violent. This seems a personal attack on their self-image as altruistic peaceful "good." In fact evolutionary psychology does not at all come to the above conclusions so this is simply a misunderstanding. Our genes are selfish, but still we evolved to have altruism as an ultimate motive. We are predisposed to war, but most go to war as an altruistic act to help their group, not because they are "evil" or "aggressive."
What is certain is that denial of "what is," which is the preference of those attacking Evolutionary Psychology, is a very poor method for making progress. Alcoholics never become sober while denying that they are drunks and humans will never become peaceful as long as we claim we already are. Whatever objections one has based on worries that describing "what is" may make some feel we are excusing it pale before the alternative of simply letting "what is" continue to happen forever due to willful ignorance of it.
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I found another paper you might like:
Richerson, P.J. & Boyd, R. (2004). Darwinian Evolutionary Ethics: Between Patriotism and Sympathy. In Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, (Eds.), Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective, Pp. 50-77. Full text ISBN: 0802826954 Jason Bessey - Jaywin (talk) 23:32, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


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One 4-inch cinnamon stick, broken into small pieces
6 Mediterranean bay leaves, torn into small pieces
6 small dried hot peppers, such as japonés or de árbol, cut into small pieces
1 Tbsp. whole black peppercorns
1 Tbsp. whole yellow mustard seeds
1 tsp. whole fennel seeds
2 tsp. whole allspice berries
1 tsp. whole cloves
2 tsp. whole coriander seeds
½ tsp. blade (unground) mace
1 Tbsp. dill seeds
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The majority of servers supporting the Fedora Linux distribution were back online on Tuesday following a mystery disruption.
Last Thursday (14 August) Fedora project leader Paul Frields took the unusual step of advising users not to download or update their software, as a precaution while the Fedora team responded to an unspecified issue. He warned ahead of time that service outages were likely.
"The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in the infrastructure systems," Frields wrote in a posting to the Fedora announcement mailing list. "That process may result in service outages, for which we apologize in advance. We're still assessing the end-user impact of the situation, but as a precaution, we recommend you not download or update any additional packages on your Fedora systems."
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