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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

NetHack: Five Adventurers, Five Fates

Getting killed by a dead foe takes a special kind of talent.

Well, you were all right: NetHack is incredibly fun and addictive. It keeps revealing new facets to me, even on the early levels, every time I start a new character. And the character classes really do matter, unlike Mission: Mainframe or many other CRPGs--roguelike and non-roguelike--of the era. Are their abilities meant to be so mysterious, though? I suspect that resistances and attributes and such vary from class to class, but the guidebook doesn't have much to say about them.

Anyway, I thought I'd embed some of the gameplay features among stories about five adventurers and their experiences in the Dungeons of Doom.

1. Victoria the Vakyrie

Victoria was the brashest member of a brash race--charging through dungeons and actively engaging dangers. She blew through Level 1 so fast that she left her dog behind. In the first room on Level 2, she swiped a scroll from the dungeon floor. If there was a part of her mind--even in the deepest recesses--that exercised caution, she didn't hear it. She boldly read the words on the scroll and was rewarded for her risk with the absolute coolest spell ever--the ability to eliminate any monster from the game [permanently, on all levels, I assume]. She thought briefly about dragons and basilisks before glancing at her sword and noting the scarring and pitting that had been done only moments before by an acid slug [they had reduced it from a +1 to a 0]. With a brief word, the slimy menaces existed no more.

She would soon wish she had said "orcs."

On Level 3, she encountered legions of orcs, but she pushed through their incessant darts and hacked them up one by one. On the other side, she found the most glorious sight ever seen in a roguelike game:

A store! If only shopkeepers would identify items, I'd be in heaven.

She was momentarily baffled by the interface: you "pick up" objects to add them to your shopping list and then "pay bill" when you're ready to check out; until then, the shopkeeper blocks the door. You "drop" items to sell them. She was also baffled by the willingness of the owner to purchase corpses of slain orcs, but she wasn't complaining.

Seriously, what is he going to do with this?

She purchased some food rations and a mysterious brass ring (to go with the Ring of Protection +1 she'd found earlier and identified with a scroll). Among the piles of orc bodies, she had discovered a suit of ring mail +8--not bad for Level 3.

Alas, her brashness was her undoing. Coming across another scroll, she read it aloud and was told by a mysterious voice that she was being punished for misbehavior. She found an iron ball shackled to her leg; she could pick it up but otherwise not get rid of it [seriously: is there any way?].

If the game would let you name the ball "Irene," NetHack would be awfully true to life.

Her despondence grew to annoyance when her stomach started growling for the umpteenth time. Eying her rations--which included pizza and an egg--she decided to save her food and defy the universe with the unthinkable. She stripped the armor and clothing off a slain hobgoblin, roasted it over an open flame, and sank her teeth into its flesh. It did not agree with her. She died clutching her stomach and cursing the names of her Norse gods.

That's putting it mildly.

2. Grey Star the Wizard

Grey Star began with a pile of magic items: spellbooks with create familiar, force bolt, and sleep; scrolls of teleportation, light, and remove curse; a potion of invisiblity; rings of conflict and stealth; and wands of polymorph and "nothing." Only the "Ring of Conflict" and the "Wand of Nothing" were real mysteries. In the first room, he found a second Scroll of Remove Curse and a pile of rocks for throwing. He quickly transcribed the spells in the spellbooks to his memory. Encountering a floating eye upon leaving the room, he tested out force bolt but was told he "goofed up" and then his measly 2 magic points were gone. He had to defeat the floating eye with his dagger like a common warrior. [At least the spell points regenerate fast.] The spell served him well in the next room, though, on a hobgoblin, and he kept using it on other foes until a message warned him that the spell "was starting to look well-used" [do spells run out in this game?] Things were nonetheless looking good for Grey Star until his stomach began to growl and he realized he didn't have any food. In desperation, he ate the corpse of an acid blob, but it just made him sick. Growing weaker by the moment, he fainted in front of a jackal and died at the wild canine's canines.

3. Kurosawa the Ninja

Kurosawa left his distant clan and journeyed thousands of miles to the Dungeons of Doom, which explains why he didn't have any food when he got there [thanks, NetHack--most of my deaths are turning out to be food-related.] He did have a katana, 39 shurikens, leather armor, and a blindfold [??] along with, of course, his dog. On Level 1, he found some magic items that he dared not identify, and a fountain which, upon drinking the waters, dried up and revealed a gem. Unfortunately, an acid slug corroded his katana to the point of near unusability, and on Level 2 he was slain by an orc.

4. Malory the Knight

Sir Malory heard about the deaths of the ninja, valkyrie, and wizard and couldn't help but laugh. Exploring the depths of dungeons was knight's work (and, incidentally, he thought, man's work). Equipped with a spear, long sword, ring mail, helmet, gloves, and shield, he vowed to hack and slash his way through any enemy the dungeon dared throw at him. He bullied his way through Level 1 and on Level 2 found a message written in the dust that read "ad ae?a? um" [seriously: what?]. On Level 3, he encountered narrow passages that his bulk of armor would not allow him to traverse. Not to be defeated by such annoyances, he stripped his armor and left it in a pile so as to wiggle his way through a tight crevice. On the other side, he found a giant ant and, having no protection, was slain.

Is it a cryptogram?

5. Paul the Priest

Paul descended into the Dungeons of Doom convinced that his predecessors had lacked something crucial: faith. Armed with a blessed mace, chain mail, a shield, four vials of holy water, and spells of healing and detect food, he found himself in a dungeon room with an oddity: a kitchen sink. After quite a bit of fumbling about, he couldn't figure out what to do with it and moved on. True to his class, his foray into the dungeons did seem unusually blessed: he found a plethora of food, gold, and gems on the first two levels and defeated most enemies easily, rising quickly to Level 5. On Level 3, he found an armor shop and bought an Elven cloak.
Yea, my god is a merciful god.

Nonetheless, even the priest began to feel the ravages of hunger over time--hunger that was not sated by two of his rations, which turned out to be spoiled. On Level 4, he grew weak and started to faint. Clued by the game manual, he PRAYED and was rewarded by a full stomach! On Level 5, he found the same weird message that Malory had found along with a nymph who kept seducing him and stealing his armor before he finally tracked her down and killed her with some darts he had picked up from dead orcs.

Hello? Fourth Amendment?

Then something utterly weird happened. Paul was running out of inventory room, so he took a chance reading a scroll. It turned out to be a mapping scroll and showed him a room in the upper-right corner of the map that he couldn't reach. Wandering around to try to get to it, he found himself suddenly teleported there from a dead-end passage. The room was full of gold! More than 1,400. Momentarily forgetting his vows, Paul scooped it up greedily. But he couldn't get out of the vault. As he futilely searched for an exit, a guard appeared and claimed that probably all his gold (including the 750 he already had) had been stolen from the vault and he'd best turn it over. Paul dropped the gold and the guard led him out. As he contemplated his empty pockets, he thanked his gods for teaching him a valuable lesson about greed.

This is exactly how Mickey Mouse got into trouble.

But Paul had another lesson to learn. On Level 6, he began to feel the weight of his inventory, so he thought he'd try a few potions and scrolls to lighten the load. One potion "confused" him, and he probably should have stopped messing around until his head cleared. Instead, he read a scroll that turned out to be a "scroll of create monster." Because he was confused, he "mispronounced the words" and found himself surrounded by homunculuses. But when the battle cleared, he had two new rings and a potion, so everything turned out better than expected.

As I head to bed for the night, Paul the Priest is on Level 6, is Level 7 himself, and has a big complement of unidentified magic items. He is doubtless my most successful hero so far. It's going to be painful when I (inevitably) lose him.

I'll have to try to force myself to play a little Le Maitre des Ames tomorrow, or I'll just end up with this all day.

  1. Trying to answer questions without being too much of a spoiler:

    Yes, scrolls of genocide will remove all monsters of that type from the game, on all levels, forever. You can't even summon them later.

    There are multiple ways to remove curses in NetHack, and they will usually deal with the ball & chain.

    Your memorization of a spell can go hazy, if you re-read the spellbook you can re-memorize it.

    "ad ae?a? um" -- you'll find a bunch of different things written on the floor, some of which indicate places in the dungeon where you can do certain things. This is one of them.

    Food: some monster corpses are edible, some are poisonous. Many will have interesting effects on your character when eaten, in addition to satiating hunger. Most monster corpses go bad in short order, so if you're going to eat one you need to be quick about it.

    There are a few uses for blindfolds, either because there are things you don't want to look at, or because your mind can be more clear if you can't see.

    All scrolls do something slightly different if you read them while confused. Sometimes this is really useful.

  2. Have you ever used a cursed item?
    Cursed thing usually give a screwed-up version of their original function,but some of them can be exploited.

    Corpses can be dangerous to eat - and a small number of them can be *very* rewarding if you are willing to take the extremely *large* risk.

    As for that strange room with gold,if you have a certain name and you tell the guard about it,something cool happens.

  3. I'm happy to see you enjoying even such an early release of Nethack. Seems very full-featured!

  4. I'll have to give Nethack another try as it sounds like a lot of fun (with the exception of the food issue). One of the great things about the long running rougelikes are all the little unique details or "specials" that are there to discover.

    I wonder if the programmers of Alternate Reality: The Dungeon were Nethack fans or vice versa as that game had a Lodestone just like the ball and chain you mention and also Homunculus.

    If you are having to force yourself to play Le Maitre des Ames maybe it's time to give it a GIMLET rating?

  5. You do so many posts and play games so densely- do you read every comment? And since you do so many posts, should we even bother commenting on a post even two posts ago? I'd like to comment on mopre, but I'm sort of afraid everything'll fall into a black hole at the pace you work at.

  6. Hey, you've inspired me to install Nethack once again.

    I was wondering if anybody on the forum knew what a system shock is?

    I never saw it and apparently it killed my wizard in one hit, any ideas?

  7. Aw. It's a pity that these comments exist: to my knowledge, there has never been a confirmed case of winning NetHack without any outside knowledge. You could've been the first.

    Of course, this might have posed some practical difficulties.

    One thing to note is that everyone else here is probably familiar with the latest version of NetHack. In-dated advice is going to cause some wacky hijinks before we're done. I don't think that this version even has monsters that pick up and use items. Alas -- the Gnome With the Wand of Death is iconic. (Does this version have cursed items yet? They would probably have come up by now.) One thing I can tell you about early versions is that you're going to want fire resistance. Intensely.

    Get into the habit of eating corpses. You'll learn to avoid the blatantly stupid choices with tolerable losses.

    "System shock" is a D&D term for abusing your body in ways most people would not even come up with. Here it does a lot of damage but should not be automatically fatal. Be careful with that Wand of Polymorph!

  8. Started playing Nethack cos of this (v3.4.3) and have probably died about twenty times today.

    My best attempt was with an archeologist, pick axes are now my favourite tool/weapon.

    Will be interested to see how far you can get!

  9. I'm no Roguelike expert, so maybe this isn't the best advice, but I tend to wait till I've cleared out a level and then try the unidentified items, potions and scrolls that I've picked up before I descend. Partly this is in the belief that I'm less likely to have to deal with monsters, should there be ill-effects, and partly it's in the hope that I'll be toughening myself up for the next level.

    Doesn't always work out, of course...

    I wish there was a Nethack port (or any other decent Roguelike) for Android that worked with a touchscreen, rather than requiring a keyboard. I played the Windows Mobile version a lot, back in the day.

  10. Thanks again for all the tips, particularly Codrus and Laytonia. Maybe I'll find that name for the guard on another play-through.

    Acrin1, you're probably right about Maitre. Some people went through a lot of trouble to help me, so I hate to give up on it, but playing it is a bit of a chore.

    William, I do read every comment--they get e-mailed to me, in fact--even if I don't always respond to every one. Readers frequently comment on postings that are months and months old, and I very much appreciate it and often respond, so don't worry about commenting on "old" postings.

    Alan, I'm finding that using unidentified magic items AT ALL is a bad idea; too many horrible things can go wrong. As much as I don't like to abandon unknown items, I can't take a chance on a potion of poison or a ring of hunger or any other game-ending things.

  11. Safely identifying magic items is one of the key tactics for winning NetHack, and there are a bunch of techniques for doing it. Different classes of item are amenable to different techniques, and once you play it enough to get a sense of what the various subtypes are, you'll find some that are relatively safe for blind experimentation with the proper preparation. Most magic items aren't instadeath when you use them, so if you have the proper countermeasures worked out and lined up ready to go, you can risk the bad effects without destroying the game.

    If you're going to win NetHack without major spoilers, you're going to need to invest a lot of games in experimenting on different ways of doing things. Many of those experiments are going to kill the little @.

  12. "If you're going to win NetHack without major spoilers, you're going to need to invest a lot of games in experimenting on different ways of doing things. Many of those experiments are going to kill the little @. "

    It tickles me how you phrased this. Poor little @s :)

  13. So I'm discovering, Codrus. I think I will content myself with the spoilers that my readers offer and do the best I can with experimentation. I don't need to win the game this first time out; after all, I will be returning to it (version 3) in 1989.

  14. Nethack is the best. My closest to winning run so far is an archeologist that "Escaped the dungeon in celestial disgrace" :)

    Hint on identifying: shopkeepers know what stuff is, even if they don't tell you directly.

  15. If, like me, the concept of NetHack intrigues you more than its actual implementation (frankly, I've never had a character last more than five minutes) then you can watch people who actually KNOW what they are doing by telnetting to nethack.alt.org or using the Java client at http://alt.org/nethack/

    DON'T do this if you want to avoid spoilers. Since I know I'm NEVER going to ascend a NetHack character (sans a desert island scenario) it doesn't bother me.

  16. This makes me want to play Nethack. I've only played Zangband, but I liked that so it may be time to delve into its roots.

    By the way, it's homunculi.

  17. Best LOL! I've had today:

    "If the game would let you name the ball "Irene," NetHack would be awfully true to life."

  18. I thought the message "ad ae?a? um" looked a bit like Latin, so I tried replacing the question marks with a few different letters and was able to figure out what it was supposed to say and determined that it was in fact a clue. Just thought I'd mention that in case you decide to come back to it.

  19. *SPOILERS*

    Kick the kitchen sinks. Sometimes, a succubus will emerge; when you interact with her, you get bonuses. Unless, of course, she turns on you, and then you get troubles.

    Black puddings also come out of the sinks when you kick them. You can also wash your hands at the sinks.

    Every character can pray, and if they are hungry, and their god isn't mad at them, praying can eliminate hunger. You can only pray once every 300 moves or so without your god getting angry at you. If you find an altar, look to see if it's your god's. If not, sacrifice stuff on it until it turns to your god's. Then sacrifice things you killed to please your god.

    Knights, once they reach a certain level (5, I think), can #dip their longsword into fountains, and have the sword turn into Excalibur, which gives a bonus to search, never rusts or corrodes, in addition to the to-hit and damage bonuses.

  20. Cavalier, thanks for the tips. I didn't read past "Spoilers!" for now, but I'll think about looking at these when I get to NH3.

    Keir, your comment intrigues me. The only Latin word I can figure from ae?a?, though, is "aetas," which means "age." I don't think "um" is a Latin word, is it?

  21. Ah yes, I think there must be a question mark missing. It should say "ad ae?a??um".

  22. Ad aerarium? To the money? Does this have something to do with that vault? Or is that a different character? Either way, thanks for the hint.

  23. Regarding Ad aerarium- you just might be on the right track. Try searching a little closer whenever you see that message.

  24. A couple of weeks back I started reading through your posts from the very beginning. I love CRPGs and I love this blog. I'm currently going through all (well, most) of the Might and Magic universe games, which means I'm also playing the HoMM series. I'm on HoMM2 right now. Next up is M&M6

    Anyway, two things I LOVED about this post.

    First, even though I find the racist-sexist-bigot-homophobe-white-male thing to be a tiresome trope/cliche, I laughed really hard at your little comment about Malory thinking that dungeoneering was man's work. It was well-timed and hilarious role-playing. Kudos for treating the topic with the absurdity it deserves and not the after-school-special preachiness. Awesome.

    Second, way to go, Paul! I'm a Christian and training to be a pastor so I suppose I'm biased, but I love how Paul the Priest leans on his faith and has received numerous undeserved blessings. You can't help but root for the guy!

    This was a great read! Thanks so much!

  25. Glad you like the blog, GammaLeak. Sorry that Paul kicked it so quickly in the next posting.

  26. This is your best post to date. Loved it.

    As another poster mentioned, identification techniques are key to ascending in Nethack.

    And not to frighten you, but even if you fully understand potion/item identification techniques, you can still die an untimely death.

    I am very excited to read your continued musings on this game -- playing through Nethack is, as I said in a previous post, my most cherished gaming experience.

    I hope you ascend one day. You deserve it.

  27. just going to necro comment here..that message in the dust, it appears a little messed up because something has trodden on it. The more creatures that pass that square the more garbled the message will get.

  28. Query: Why did you not play Hack for Dos (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/hack)

    1. Probably didn't have it on his list at the time.

    2. I can't remember precisely. My best recollection is that I couldn't find a copy and moved on, and NetHack came along so quickly afterwards it seemed silly to regress at that point.

  29. Hilarious and riveting post!

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“It’s all about the theater of the store,” says Kizer. “Especially in a dance store that customers visit over and over again, you’ve got to give people a reason to stick around.” It can’t just be about a transaction, he explains. “You need to create an experience where they’re discovering new things, where you’re entertaining them and absorbing them into the culture of your store.” The longer customers stay in your store, the more chance you have to expose them to all your merchandise and develop a lasting relationship.

1. Use displays to surprise and delight.

Half of the merchandise in a store is never seen by most customers, says Bender. Shoppers, especially when they know your store layout, tend to make a beeline for what they want. The retailer’s job is to disrupt this “desire path,” as Kizer and Bender call it.

Speed bumps—displays near the front of the store that make a customer pause—expose shoppers to more of what you have to sell, says Bender. Their interest piqued, they’ll spend more time in the store. “We make sure to strategically put basics and ‘must-haves’ past beautiful displays of the latest fashion and unique finds,” says Amy Manning, co-owner of Gabie’s Boutique in Newmarket, ON, Canada. “It doesn’t always result in an immediate sale, but it’s in their head, and they usually come back to pick it up or know where they can find all those pretty and unique items when it’s time to buy.”

2. Scatter impulse and add-on items throughout the store, not just at checkout.

With each unplanned purchase, it’s more likely that a customer will make other unplanned purchases as the shopping trip progresses, the American Marketing Association has found. So why wait until checkout?

Customers tell Mary Ann Hanlon that her store is a dangerous place to bring their kids—there’s always something new they want to buy. Hanlon changes the displays at Mary Ann’s Dance and More, in Easthampton, MA, as often as every two weeks. “When customers look around for what they want, they always discover new things,” she says.

To make sure you’re cross-merchandising with add-ons as much as you can, do this brainstorming exercise with your staff, Bender suggests. Hold up an item and ask, “What would you buy with this?” “Staff love giving input,” she says. “Now, are you showing those items together? If you’re missing an item, could you add it to your stock?”

If your checkout has a wall behind it, put high-profit items there, in the customer’s sightline, she says. These aren’t necessarily expensive, and “they don’t even have to all be directly dance-related, as long as they appeal to yourcustomer.” It could be a selection of scented gift candles, for instance. The idea is to present as many incentives as possible for the customer to linger—and buy.

3. Give shoppers a basket.

Or, at the very least, make sure sales staff offer to hold on to what they’ve selected while they continue to shop. “Once a customer’s arms are full, she’ll stop shopping,” says Bender.

4. Acknowledge customers, don’t ambush them.

Shoppers like to feel that if they have a question, there’ll be someone right there to help them, but they don’t necessarily want to get a lecture on fabric and construction every time they hold something up to look at it. Kizer is not big on “Can I help you?,” which can make for an awkward moment for a customer who just wants to be left alone to shop. Instead, he suggests greeting customers with a simple hello. Then, for when customers progress through the store, Bender and Kizer have a trademarked “7-Tile Rule.” Every time a customer gets within seven feet of a salesperson, acknowledge them with eye contact or a smile. That way, when the customer does need you, they know you are ready to help. Meanwhile, they can just relax and shop, no pressure to converse.

5. Make customers comfortable.

Offer to take heavy packages or coats from customers while they shop. For pointe shoe fittings, many storeowners provide a bench or seats for parents and siblings. Use that downtime as yet another opportunity to engage and educate your customer: For instance, one travel agency Kizer and Bender worked with installed half a dozen $65 refurbished iPads at stations, with information on cruises and resorts customers could browse while they waited.

6. Use events and demos to encourage longer store visits.

Apple has its Genius Bar, kitchen stores have their cooking demos. People may come to shop, but they stay to learn, too. In its store renovation, Gabie’s Boutique is adding several TV screens throughout the store to showcase products, dancers, studios and dance movies. Sales staff are trained to do bun demos and eyelash demos, which they do routinely on weekends, especially during competition and recital seasons.

Bender recommends running one major and two to three minor events each month. “A major event is one that builds traffic and packs your store with customers,” she says. This might be something like having professional dancers from a local company visit at Nutcracker time.

7. Merchandise to all five senses.

Scent is powerful at evoking memory, says Bender, and can put people in the right mood for shopping. Scentair.com has information about the science of smell in retail and how you can use it in your store. Free tastings aren’t just for food stores, according to Kizer and Bender. “Place a pitcher of cold lemonade near the front door to welcome shoppers on a hot day,” says Bender, or offer free bottles of water with your own customized label. Upbeat music energizes both customers and staff, says Bender, but familiarize yourself with ASCAP rights issues. Check out legal website Nolo.com’s tips on how you may be able to avoid paying to play music.

The Bottom Line

Physical retail still matters to consumers of all ages. That’s why even e-commerce merchants are opening brick-and-mortar stores. Make the most of the advantage you have as a local brick-and-mortar dance retailer by creating an immersive store experience that compels customers to linger—and want to return again and again.

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Brazilian Butt Lift, Zumba, and all other canned exercise didn’t exist in the age before marketing gimmicks. If our ancestors weren’t strong and athletic, they got run over by the beast they were hoping to kill. Your uncle Fred died as prey, unable to fight back. Was his training functional and complete?

The fight-or-flee response is innate. You develop it from birth. Today our reactive instincts are asleep. How many of us are military, first-responders, or athletes? These folks have the best chance of reviving the beast inside. For the rest of us, anesthetized by today’s sedentary, desk-bound, activity -killing lifestyle, we can only hope to roll back our athletic age with legacy exercise programs. Or, more typically, no program at all. Gyms aren’t gyms today. They’re recreation centers. And recreation comes after training.

Develop your willpower muscle. Dial up your self-control. Kill the procrastination. It’s time you kick yourself out of the cubicle and push the ON button to your anatomical machinery. Dynamic change launches with “WHY.” Apply polished skills to your rotting life routines. Add an outspoken coach’s view of strength and conditioning to your stagnant relationship with exercise. Trade in your “I should do that…” mentality for a “punch-me-in-the-gut-if-I-give-up” battle cry. Go general in form and function. Go big on goals. Just go!

Get creative. The “training culture” is simplicity, skill, and consistency. The world’s your stage. It’s our stage. We learn and work together. We don’t settle for routines. We learn the skills of movement. Successful professionals brew up an awareness that they function in a sphere of correct architectural angles. Let’s develop physical adaptations to stimulus. The power players strive to understand muscle mechanics, and when they succeed, they perform better. You can be a non-scientist and still learn about complex metabolic processes.

You are an athlete by design. Your endocrine system begs to be understood. Your brain craves the heightened experience of competitive athletic activity. If you train and adapt, you will survive. Science is on your side. If you slack, you will bend to grim statistics.

Become a realist. If you can, two can. Engage a buddy. The fervor we create indicates real competition. You are your team. You take flight when you invest in becoming your own best friend.

Test your mental waters. Give a speech. Talk to a stranger. Go skiing on the live-or-die hill. Stimulate the animal switchboard in your communications uplink. Your croc brain actively responds with feedback to drown out fear even before your mammalian brain has a chance to find the correct words. Taking even the smallest of chances tests your performance. Physical and mental training tame the internal and external forces that impact your behavior before your cerebral cortex can download a response.

Keep training simple. It’s faster and more efficient when exercise shows progress. Less is more. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athletes will tell you that skills trump strength. That means we must train both mind and body. Train for the game.

Are you motivated to pursue your life’s goals? Are you tactical about the path? Do you train for the outcome you envision? The point is the “training culture” is preparation for mind and body. It’s a living hell to separate the two. You are a complete physiological machine. Train for the possibilities. Train fast. Train directly, Train for a reason.

There was a time when we believed that if we merely got outdoors and played we would get in shape. That was true. Then life happened. College, graduate school, relationships, work, kids, and other demands intervened, and our vision of a healthy life changed radically. Add late nights in front of a computer, moving to new locations, and the daily rigors of getting to work with 12 million other players, and we can see how things might begin to go awry. We are busy, stressed, and becoming older in a young work world. There is a horrible vision in our heads of quickly becoming a version of Homer Simpson on a couch with a remote control. What kind of a path is that for a stable career person with kids and a mortgage? It just doesn’t work.

Physical abilities are the gift of any living creature. We exist to develop a functional level of conditioning for any person who is willing to put their skills to highest and best use.

Here are 3 activities you can use to activate your brain and get moving better:
1) Why do you train? Play the “5-Whys.” Have someone ask you. Keep the answers honest and straightforward. Simplicity is important. Get to a meaningful bottom line.
2) Do a morning 5-minute warm-up first thing – not a full exercise. Warm up your joints, move in every way you can imagine. At the end do push-ups or squats. If hip-mobility is difficult for you, then concentrate on the squats or a few plyometric jumps. Just move.
3) Hydrate – It’s a good habit to have. Start your morning off with eight ounces of water. Then get on with your day. Don’t forget to continue throughout the day.

The key to success is activation. Functional activities are the foundation for healthy habits. Pursue new and better behaviors.

If you liked this article and want more information please contact me at coach@danraabetraininig.com or call/text to (303) 880-4641. We focus on the 40’s + professional because it’s important to stay in motion, build a solid foundation for health, and hone the skills of self-control. Don’t look for a reason to train, Train for a Reason.

You are always moving, aren’t you? Yes, you are. And if the quality of your movement is contingent on strength and flexibility it will become more dynamic with training. You must understand you cannot move well unless you are strong, and until you get strong, you cannot move well.

Put movement in the spotlight. It projects who you are and how you feel about yourself. It’s the outward physical expression of a body, and mind, well developed.

When you watch ballet, track and field athletes, or gymnastics what do you see? Is it evident that there is incredible strength powering the movement? You would have to be blind not to notice. You were born with the neurology to assure graceful motion. The ability to move well requires training.

In the vernacular of today’ modern training, we are striving to build strength over a range of motion. Do you feel you have strength during every degree of extension and flexion of the muscles of your arms, chest, back, hips, legs? If you feel the deficit, it’s time to consider how this situation may affect your life. Are you over 40? Do you have a sense that you are leading a sedentary existence? Lifestyle and neglect of your physical health will preclude the ability to move.

You may not be a ballerina or a gymnast. You are a person who can learn to move better. You can train athletically and not be an athlete. You can learn the physiology of movement, even if you are relatively sedentary. If you are the kind of person, who goes to the gym multiple times during the week, learning to move correctly will propel your progress forward exponentially.

If you train well, build strength and learn to move well, you will undoubtedly become aware of your limitations. An invaluable benefit of proper training is the awareness of a “weakness” and solutions to mitigate through focused training modalities.

An example might be the pull-up. Few of us can do one full pull-up. It might take a right amount of time to do three, or ten in a row. If you cannot accomplish your first full pull-up, there are a few ways to build up the supporting muscles – negatives, pushups with variations, bar work, and stretching. Think of this as a cocktail of upper body work focused on arms, chest, back and core muscles. Once you enlarge the picture of the training moment, the benefits become evident. You are training, and you are now moving better.

What’s in it for you? Why would you do all this work for a pull-up? The physical goal of your training investment should be to strengthen the mid-line, so you are graceful and powerful about all three planes of movement. But there is a second benefit. Your brain loves action. It flourishes in a high-energy situation. Activity is your best shot at higher brain function.

In all conversations about fitness or conditioning, if a quality athletic movement is missing, pick up your gym bag and run. You will be wasting your time. Learn how to move first. How you look and feel will take care of themselves.

We must learn to move better. There cannot be any higher purpose to training than excellent human movement.


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Matsumoto (Los Angeles, CA)

8385 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Dining date: 12/13/18

Naruki Matsumoto was the longtime chef of Hirozen which served sushi on this mid-city corner for two decades. In 2016 the ownership of the restaurant changed hands to Matsumoto, who renamed the restaurant. The restaurant is small with just a few tables and a sushi bar seating about ten.

We went with a sushi omakase offering.

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The Ponte (Los Angeles, CA)

The Ponte
8265 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Dining date: 2/25/17

The Ponte marks Scott Conant’s return to the Los Angeles dining scene after Scarpetta’s closure last year. Partnering up with LA restaurateur Stephane Bombet, The Ponte is a different concept from Scarpetta although there are a lot of familiar dishes. The famous spaghetti is here, as well as a take on the Scarpetta truffled mushroom polenta and tuna/yellowtail tartare. Ex-Scarpetta and Georgie chef Freddy Vargas has returned here to lead the kitchen.

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Kali Restaurant (Los Angeles, CA)

Kali Restaurant
5722 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Dining date: 7/6/16

Chef Kevin Meehan has been in the Los Angeles dining scene for quite a while, most recently at Patina, Cafe Pinot, and his roving underground dining concept Kali Dining. After developing his version of Californian cuisine for a few years, Kali Restaurant opened last year. Here, Meehan partners up with friend Drew Langley, who came over from Providence where he was wine director.

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Osteria Mozza (Los Angeles, CA) [2]

Osteria Mozza
6602 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Dining date: 11/5/15

I’ve been to the Mozzaplex a bunch of times over the years, but this meal was a unique one. It was part of the Chase Private Dinner Series open to Chase Sapphire cardholders. A $175 ticket included everything from food, wine, tax, gratuity and valet, as well as some time with the chef (Nancy Silverton) and sommelier. It was my first time trying a dinner in this series and I wanted to see what it was all about.

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Michael Tusk & Marc Vetri @ Providence (Los Angeles, CA)

5955 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Dining date: 9/14/15

This year, Providence is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, the restaurant held a three-part guest chef series. The first one was last month featuring Dominique Crenn (Atelier Crenn in San Francisco) and Suzanne Goin (Lucques), while this one brought chefs Michael Tusk (Quince in San Francisco) and Marc Vetri (Vetri in Philadelphia) into the restaurant. Rounding out the series will be a dinner next month featuring David Kinch (Manresa in Los Gatos) and Mauro Colagreco (Mirazur in France).

I’ve been to Michelin two-starred Quince once and casual sister restaurant Cotogna a few times. This would be my first time having Vetri’s food, though. Tusk, Vetri and Providence’s Michael Cimarusti and pastry chef Jessi Liu collaborated on the evening’s menu, eight courses, for $225.
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Angelini Osteria (Los Angeles, CA) [2]

Angelini Osteria
7313 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Dining date: 8/7/15

Gino Angelini has been cooking his popular Italian fare in this small spot on Beverly for almost 15 years now. It’s been a crowd favorite ever since opening and certainly was a full house on this Friday evening. It’s hard to pinpoint why it took me three and a half years to return here since my first visit in 2012. I think part of it is due to the restaurant’s lack of OpenTable accessibility (it’s a real thing!) and part of it is due to the emergence of Bestia downtown. Whatever the reasons, I really enjoyed the meal (especially the pastas) during that first visit so a return trip was way overdue.

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Welcome to our class of January 2020. I’m excited about this year–this is my second time teaching this class and I have fresh material and fresh ideas. In my first year I tried to avoid family stories and memories for various reasons. I learned that that’s what my class members enjoy the most and so I’ve decided on a blended approach. I was surprise to find how well the two approaches complement each other. I also will ask for class input–is there a topic I’m overlooking? How about the WAVES? the importance of amateur radio? Feel free to speak up. And there is no required reading, although I will provide a copy of the documentary and ask you to view it.

The first week I plan to narrate how I got there–growing up in the Desch household, knowing there’s something unusual going on but now beginning to understand the mystery until I was in my 40s. Then I’ll introduce Joe Desch and his story as we know it today (I continue to learn new things about his career).

From Week 2 on the class will aim to balance between my personal knowledge of he story as only child of Joseph Desch and with historical facts, figures and stories I’ve learned in books, conferences and the National Archives. We’ll examine the growth of German militarism in both the fatherland and in the US, and how that affected the Desches. We’ll examine the growth of interest in the US Navy in more modern methods of communication analysis and how that played into NCR’s Research Laboratory. We’ll spend most of a class examining the interplay of the Enigma, the British Bombe and the Desch bombe. I have found a new (2019) analysis of how the bombe worked which is much more detailed than any I’ve encountered. With the help of my class we’ll tackle an Enigma message ourselves. We’ll cover the war with Japan, the myriad of machines built in Dayton for the Japanese code and how that affected Joe Desch.

Finally, the argument I’ve been building all year, we study the debate and exactly how successful the bombe program was–some have called it too little, too late. Can that be disputed by the many ways bombe output was used besides just U-Boat warfare? Let’s look at Postwar reports about the U-Boat war, the Pacific war and the European theatre.

I’m looking forward to this a lot. Debbie Anderson

Week 1: My Search, Joe Desch
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Our DMP Factory 500 metal 3D printer with a build size of 500 x 500 x 500 mm being showcased at Formnext 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany. This mammoth machine has three lasers placed in a line. The left and right laser can cover 80% of the build plate and the center laser can cover the entire build plate. The benefit is higher productivity due to faster simultaneous melting but without compromising surface finish. This is accomplished with the left and right lasers printing the interiors of the part while the center laser printing the boundaries. This is crucial in large critical moving aerospace parts where seams on the surface could lead to lesser fatigue strength. If you want to control things even further you can set up the printing strategy such that a particular section of the part is built with only a single laser, the interior as well as the boundary, so that the part is completely uniform even from the inside. This is accomplished by a feature in 3DXpert, our metal additive part preparation software, called 3D zoning. For example the part with the four cones seen at the end of the video was printed such that a single laser printed each cone completely from start to finish.


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FA Cup: Brighton stage great escape to reach semi-finals on penalties | football

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Brighton’s Matthew Ryan celebrates winning in the penalty shootout during the during the FA Cup quarterfinal match against Millwall.(AP)

Brighton came from 2-0 down and were then behind in a shoot-out before they beat Millwall 5-4 on penalties to reach an FA Cup semi-final with quadruple-chasing Manchester City on Sunday.

It seemed Championship strugglers Millwall were on the brink of delighting their home crowd at the Den at 2-0 up with just two minutes of normal time left after second-half goals by Alex Pearce and Aiden O’Brien.

But Brighton pulled one back through Jurgen Locadia and then, in the fifth minute of added on time and the last act of regulation play, Solly March’s seemingly harmless free-kick into the box left Millwall goalkeeper David Martin flapping at the ball before it settled in the top corner to send the tie into extra-time.

Millwall were reduced to 10 men a minute from the end of extra time when likely penalty-taker Shane Ferguson was sent off for a petulant stamp on Lewis Dunk.

At the very end of extra time, Brighton thought they had a winner only for Martin Montoya, in a match without VAR, to be incorrectly flagged for offside as the tie headed to spot-kicks.

Further drama followed when Brighton’s Glenn Murray struck the opening penalty of the shoot-out onto the crossbar.

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Both sides then found the back of the net until Brighton’s Australian goalkeeper Mat Ryan blocked Mahlon Romeo’s effort with his legs to leave the shoot-out level at 3-3 before ‘sudden death’ came into play at 4-4.

Brighton skipper Dunk then powered a penalty low to Martin’s right before, with Millwall needing to score to keep the tie alive, Jake Cooper saw his shot clear the goal.

“It’s about character,” Brighton manager Chris Hughton told the BBC. “I think at 2-0 down with the thought of going out of the competition, we had a group of players that decided they desperately wanted to stay in the Cup.”

Turning to March’s bizarre equaliser, Hughton added: “A little bit of fortune (went) our way. But you have to give our lads credit.”

Hughton made no secret of the fact he’d rather the Seagulls faced either top-flight rivals Watford or Wolves, the other semi-finalists, in the last four at Wembley next month.

“I don’t think it is any surprise that all three teams didn’t want to draw Man City but at this moment we’re so pleased to go through,” he said.

“If in any way we don’t think we can win the semi-final there’s almost no point going into it.”

Millwall manager Neil Harris tried to console his goalkeeper.

“David Martin is one of the best pros I have come across.

“He was outstanding for the whole game barring one moment. That is football.”

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Harris had no sympathy for Ferguson, though. “Shane Ferguson is our best penalty-taker and wasn’t on the pitch because of a moment of stupidity,” he said. “Missing the chance to lead the team in an FA Cup semi-final is a huge frustration for myself, staff, players and fans.”

Brighton, beaten FA Cup finalists in 1983, had the best chance of a lacklustre first half, with Beram Kayal volleying straight at Martin.

South London side Millwall, defeated in the 2004 FA Cup final by Manchester United – Brighton’s conquerors in 1983 – were rewarded for a strong second-half showing with two goals in nine minutes.

They opened the scoring in the 70th minute when Pearce headed in at the back post and doubled their lead when O’Brien nodded in Jed Wallace’s cross.

Brighton substitute Locadia’s left-footed shot appeared a consolation goal before March broke Millwall hearts.

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I talk with my friends about Demon sometimes, and once I mentioned Mordecai and his reputation as a top killer of players who dare challenge him.

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Wish I could have managed to make it a little more different from Gorgon, but there are other sprites to do. :D

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Ingredients You'll Need

1 boneless beef top sirloin steak, cut 1 inch thick (about 1 pound)

6 teaspoons olive oil, divided

3 cups cubed yellow potatoes (1/2-inch cubes)

1 container (16 ounces) refrigerated salsa

1 red bell pepper, cut into 1/2-inch pieces

1 teaspoon garlic salt

1 cup frozen whole kernel corn, thawed

1 Fresh California Avocado, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces

1/2 cup light (50% less fat) sour cream

1/2 cup fresh chopped cilantro

1. Cut beef steak lengthwise in half, then crosswise into 1/4-inch thick strips.

2. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add half of beef; stir-fry 1 to 2 minutes or until outside surface of beef is no longer pink. Remove from skillet. Repeat with 1 teaspoon oil and remaining beef. Remove from skillet; keep warm.

3. Heat remaining 4 teaspoons oil in same skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add potatoes. Cook 7 to 8 minutes or until browned and crisp-tender, stirring occasionally. Carefully stir in salsa, red pepper and garlic salt. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cook, covered, 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Return beef to skillet. Add corn; cook 2 minutes. Remove from heat.

4. Stir in avocado. Serve with sour cream and cilantro.

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Stuffography Terrarium: Pentagonal Sin

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Terrarium: Pentagonal Sin

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Or call it, perhaps, Hexagonal Sin, because what we have here, believe it or not, is precisely Triangle squared, right down to the throw-away choral track, the haphazard lurching among seemingly incompatible musical genres, and the far-out versification of Anatoli "George" Gunitskii—Boris' original partner-in-crime dating all the way back to The Temptation of St. Aquarium in 1973, but last heard from in an Akvarim context ca. 1984. We also have bird chirps, barbershop harmonizing, Radio Africa-esque synth effects, and some singing that sounds remarkably like Gaelic—though for all I know it could be Udmurt—among other unlikelihoods and inconsistencies too numerous to mention.

But this album is such a tongue-in-cheek party, I find it hard to be a pooper. If kitsch is, as Clement Greenburg defined it long ago, "a failed seriousness," then this is precisely anti-kitsch: a successful frivolousness. It's Benny Hill, with a wink and leer, in love with his own snarkiness. It's a bubble, a gas, a snigger, a fart. It's musical co-ed naked Jello-wrestling: if you're going to turn up your nose, well who the hell invited you, anyway? No need to get your knickers in a knot.

Let it be noted, lest there be any mistake, that this is not an Akvarium project per se, but a wacky Boris and friends effort calling itself "Terrarium," even though it includes a passel of Akvarium types backing up the famous-in-their-own-right threesome of Leonidov, Chizh and Butsov. (Butsov and Leonidov are credited along with BG and A. Vasil'ev for all the music.) By the same token, however, BG is clearly the guiding spirit of the project: he's featured on all but two tracks (one of which is the 28-second eponymous "Pentagonal Sin" choral track; "Labrador/Gibralter" is the other), while the others are featured on only one, or at the most two, tracks apiece.

So sit down folks, fasten your black safety harness, and prepare yourselves for a wild ride. This attraction is not recommended for seniors, children under 12, or those inclined to motion sickness. The ride will begin with the sound of the gurgling baby...

Some notes to help you adjust to Zero-G:

January Romance: Steel-guitar, flute, a string section, a bunch of grown men going "Ooo-la-la," and Queen-ish synth noodling for an overall impression of Lawrence Welk conducting the musical program for the Luau in Limbo. Given these parameters it's perhaps not surprising that my overriding impression should be a shoulder-shrugging "Eyhhhh."

Out of Synch: Heeeeeey Bungalow Boris...Turn on that groovy lava lamp and get ready to air-guitar up a storm because this could be right off side 3 of the Beatles' The White Album: all those weeping guitars, Ringo-beats on the drum kit, George Martin production values, the key change halfway through, and lyrics that tell a little tale that's spritely if basically unfathomable. I like this one.

Molloy Arrived: Or, Molloy gets on his horse and rides clippity-clop into a Pelmeni Western. Round 'em up, move 'em out, Borya the Kid! If this were a movie, though, I'd pay to see it in the theater.

Bringing from the Garden-plot: A Fanfare for the Common Garden. This sounds like it's right off of Hyerborea: You either think that's a good thing or you don't. I've come to the point where I think и так, и так...

Zoya and Sonya: Far and away the straightest, most radio-friendly thing on the album (ergo, it's inclusion on the single). An upbeat, power-pop toe-tapper that sounds a whole lot like the Tom Petty of Full Moon Fever.

Electirc Bird: Yikes! Tribal drums. Gregorian chant. The "rubab." The "zurna." Weird monkey-chant-like stuff. And then it's everybody ragga, baby! "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to shoot you." All that and the stampeding horse you came in on. Unlike that intellectual doggy from Piter, this electrical wildlife is pure kinetic madness. You'd have to be mad to like this. Comment? No comment...except my straight-jacket needs to be the same size as my bowling shoes.

Geography: And now for something completely Monty Python-esque...

Labrador/Gibralter: The other track from the single. Rubekin's beepy-boopy-beepy-boopy Russian two-step keyboard figures very heavily. I find that I like it more or less entirely despite myself, like one of those Russian candies that looks like chocolate-covered earwax but tastes pretty good anyway. I heard this blasting out of grainy speakers the other night as I ate shashlik and watched the sun set lingeringly into the Volga and thought to myself "Вот так."

(This song was later to gain a certain popularity from its inclusion on the best-selling soundtrack to the Russian gangsta film Brother 2.)

Creole: The barbershop dirge. Organ, weird harmonizing and that's about it folks. For me, it suggests Tom Waits starring in a remake of The Music Man. Again, I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.

The Chinese Don't Want: The lyrics tell us that the Chinese don't want war. And what do they want? Apparently, to tango! With one of those trilly little Mexican trumpet solos, whattyacallem? Mexicali, that's it. Which, by the end, has morphed into "Penny Lane" anyway. And then there are the cowbells. You just never know with those Chinese. Хитрые такие!

At Least: Postmodernism ahoy! Starts all lovely and gentle floating by on clouds of strings, but deconstructs itself into what sounds like one of those irritating kids on those Soviet "Ералаш" shorts they always run on ОРТ.

All in all, this Terrarium is a garden of unearthly delights: recommended for those with an interest in bugs, ferns, hot-house flowers, and other things, delicate and strange.


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How to automatically terminate hung program in Windows 7 / Vista / XP

How to automatically terminate hung program in Windows 7 / Vista / XP Many a times, programs like Office, Winamp and others, in Windows , get hung / Not Responding and clicking on close button just doesn’t work. Even the task manager “End program” feature fails or takes too much of time. Here is a small trick which you can use to Auto Kill the programs which it gets hung or goes into status of “Not Responding”. Steps to set auto kill not responding programs

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Windows 7  / Windows Vista

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  • HungAppTimeout=1000

  • LowLevelHooksTimeout =1000

To add a value follow the steps below :

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  Windows XP

  • Here you will find a string called as “Auto End Task“, set its value to “1” by double clicking it. This means any hung program will be killed instantaneously.
  • Now suppose if you want to give some time, as some programs come back to normal in few minutes, Find a key called as “WaitToKillAppTimeout“, change the value to the value you want. You have to enter value in milliseconds though.

See the image for a clear view of what you are going to do. If anything goes wrong, use your backed up registry to get back to normal.!!!