Quick question here: is it Dustin speaking on that first track on Divisions? I know the answer might be obvious but still... 'Cause I REALLY like that voice.

After churning out television touchstones like Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, and Dynasty, producer Aaron Spelling decided he and his family deserved to upgrade from their cozy 10,000 square foot home to something a little roomier. So in 1988, he razed Bing Crosby’s old estate and built a colossal monument to abject excess.

At 56,500 square feet, Spelling’s megamansion, quaintly dubbed “The Manor,” is 1,500 square feet larger than the White House. Modeled after the chateaus of France, The Manor doesn’t float across scenic countryside but sits instead on six acres smack in the middle of Los Angeles. With 123 rooms, including a flower cutting room, multiple gift-wrapping rooms, a barbershop, and a room solely to house his wife Candy’s doll collection, Spelling made sure his mansion had space for whatever whims he could conjure. A room specifically for French wine and cheese was furnished with café tables and chairs, and the one-lane bowling alley came complete with a closet just for bowling shoes. Naturally, there was an entire wing to accommodate the 30-plus staff members needed to keep the estate running.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdvzv/a-brief-and-garish-history-of-megamansions

Hi I’m a UK based Celtics fan I only really got into the NBA and the Celtics about a year and a half ago. We’d just lost 4-1 to the bucks and Kyrie was already half way to Brooklyn. It seemed a bit of a mistake picking the Celtics at the time but over the past year and a half I’ve been really getting into basketball and am learning more and more about the league and the sport by the day falling in love with smart, Tatum and brown. I’m constantly reading and listening to the athletic podcast and articles but I can’t really find any good info or videos about the Celtics brief history. I know about the teams of the 60s, 80s and 2008 Celtics but am more interested about the recent team and franchise dynamics like why did Kyrie leave on such bad terms. The fact that we can’t resign free agents and also what was so special about the 2018 play off run like we reached the conference finals this year but I’ve heard more talk about the 2018 run over last seasons also why did it take so long to win a championship from 1986 till 2008 I know Jordan, Spurs and the lake’s were pretty dominant during that time but it still seems a long stretch to not win a championship for one of the most decorated teams in the NBA.

In short basically could you give me some links to some videos or information on the recent history of the Celtics just so I can understand and know more about this team recent past and failures thanks.

With all the buzz about the go plus lately, just wanted to remind people of what a journey it’s been with the go plus. I’m an avid player and have been playing for 3 years religiously, roughly two of those as a full time go plus user. Unfortunately I own an S7 active, so these devices have been particularly vulnerable to connection issues for some reason. I realize many of you have had no issues even with long term use, but that’s certainly hasn’t been true for all of us.

Over the years, I had learned to dread app updates or OS updates as they could dramatically affect the success rate of go plus connections. I have like 20 posts about this as I look back thru my history, spanning numerous app versions. It was demoralizing, and it was easy for niantic to avoid responsibility since connection success varied so widely between devices, OS and app updates. To add to the confusion, bizarre tricks like the one recently posted do, and did, sometimes work. But these were very device dependent and many of us maintained that it was the app itself at issue.

Then, about a year ago someone noticed new code in the game master related to Bluetooth telemetry. It was interpreted as an effort by niantic to collect data on connection problems, and lo and behold, a little while later all my issues disappeared. I wrote this post at that time, and I was happy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/9d78o1/go_plus_issues_were_because_of_niantics_app_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

For a long time after, the device worked as intended regardless of app updates or android updates and not just for me (go plus thread basically died since it was almost entirely dedicated to finding connection tricks). It was amazing. Now, it’s broken again.

I for one am not surprised, but am a little surprised at how long it’s taken to address and how widespread the issue was. At least we clearly know it’s the app and niantic has acknowledged it, but I really hope they continue to stand behind their product and address go plus issues in a timely manner (particularly before forcing updates!) I presume they are still collecting data regarding Bluetooth problems, so it seems they likely know what’s wrong and how to fix it. So please, do not return to the bad old days of neglecting the product you sold us. Show us that you value our purchase by making sure it works as advertised. I don’t think that’s asking too much, especially given how patient we have b

Sometime in early April, the Browns will be getting new uniforms. We all know this and for most of us, we are moderately hopeful they won't be as ugly as the set we were given in 2015.

With another uniform change inbound, I think it is a good time to look at all the uniform changes in the history of our favorite team. Full credit to the gridiron uniform database for the information

1946: While very similar to the "classic set, the browns inaugural set started with drop shadow numbers. The brown jersey had orange numbers with a white shadow, and the white jerseys had brown numbers with an orange shadow. The brown jersey with orange numbers would be replaced in week 7 with the classic brown jersey with white numbers that were last seen in 2014. A white helmet and white pants with a thin orange-brown-orange stripe were used both home and away, and the socks had a matching pattern to the sleeves of the Brown and white jersey respectively

1947. The orange shadow on the white jersey was removed. The two jerseys look nearly identical to the ones that were worn until 2014.

1950: Orange leather helmets appeared in weeks 1-4, then disappeared.

1952. The orange helmet takes over and remains there. A white stripe down the middle of the helmet occurs.

1953 The Orange jersey first appears, as the primary! Matching orange socks come with the orange jersey, which had a brown outline. The orange jersey would be relegated to an alternate for 1954-1955, but the number became solid brown.

1955. Grey facemasks first appear.

1957: The Helmet numbers first appear. The numbers were solid brown.

[1960](http://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/controller/controller.php?action=team

I'd like to display the full cover layout for my book. If you've never done one, note how the back is on the left. Space needs to be left for barcode on the back, lower right corner. This book cover is scaled for Amazon's bleed rules, because I didn't want a border. Most POD (print on demand) sites will give you helpful (sort of!) layouts to work with.

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Hello r/nba, tomorrow is the day we have all been waiting for: The NBA Trade Deadline. It’s such an exciting time for almost every team and every fan base, as some teams load up for a playoff run and others dump bad contracts and prepare their franchise for the future and embrace the tank. Either way, you gotta love last minute trades!

With that in mind, I decided to look at all the trades made at the trade deadline from every season since 1986-87, and try to determine the most impactful trades, as well as other notable trades that may have been made on that day. Hope you guys enjoy!

#2018-19 NBA Season (February 7, 2019)

Biggest Impact: The Toronto Raptors acquire Marc Gasol from the Mepmhis Grizzlies to fuel their NBA championship push

Other Notable Trades: The Sacramento Kings land Harrison Barnes from the Dallas Mavericks to fuel their second half playoff push

Other Notable Trades: The Philadelphia 76ers deal former #1 overall pick Markelle Fultz to the Orlando Magic

#2017-18 NBA Season (February 8, 2018)

Biggest Impact: The Cavaliers acquire Rodney Hood and George Hill in a 3-team trade in a major mid-season roster overhaul

**Other Notable Trades: The Cavaliers acquire Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. from the Lakers in exchange for Isaiah Thomas

With Ohio State potentially dropping from #2 in week 8 to unranked next week in week 11, I thought it would be interesting to see which teams fell from Top 5 to unranked since the AP poll expanded to ranking 25 teams in 1989:

In his second year, Gronk had 17 touchdowns, 1,327 receiving yards, and 90 catches

In his second year, Hernandez had 7 touchdowns, 910 receiving yards, and 79 catches

They would have been the greatest tight ends duo that the NFL has ever seen in their Primes.

On Monday the nominations for the 2020 Academy Awards will be announced, and it's safe to assume Joker will get some attention. Before then, let's take a look at DC's history at the Oscars. Links for acceptance speeches and the short.

At the 1942 Academy Awards, The Fleischer short Superman (later called The Mad Scientist) was nominated for Best Animated Short. If you haven't seen it, check it out here.

In 1979 Superman: The Movie was nominated for 3 Awards; Best Original Score, Best Sound, and Best Editing. It lost these categories but the film did receive a Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects. You can check that out here

In 1990 Batman was nominated for and won the award for Best Art Direction.

Batman Returns was nominated for 2 Oscars; Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup.

Batman Forever got 3 nominations, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound.

Ten years later, Batman Begins was nominated for Best Visual Effects.

The following year, Superman Returns also got a nomination for Best Visual Effects.

In 2009, The Dark Knight won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Sound Mixing. It was also nominated for 6 other awards- Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Makeup, Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography.

And finally, in 2018 Suicide Squad was nominated for and won Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

To sum up, that's a total of 22 nominations and 6 wins across 8 films and an animated short.

Earth was the cradle, the first.

Luna was second. With the same self-healing glass we made our communication devices, we shielded our domes to the hostile bullets of space. Oxygen had to be imported. Soil as well. But the solar grew the plants, and powered our infrastructure. The sun provided what the lunar rock refused to give us.

Mars was the third. So close, our brother planet. Unlike the moon, we needed little to establish a permanent presence. In those early days, we harvested as much oxygen from the soil as we did the other, rarer elements.

Ceres was the fourth, and final, human home. When we were done draining the asteroid belt, however, it's fate joined theirs.

To Venus and Mercury... we took a planet-cracker. It was easier to gather and refine their vast wealth of resources when we did not have to deal with atmospheric re-entry or the call of gravity. Their cores built the hulls of our starships, and their atmospheres fueled them.

Jupiter we turned into a sun. "Just because we could." A waste. The fuel of Jupiter could have taken us Alpha Centauri, all of us. There was talk of turning it's moons into habitable green zones, or of feeding the outer solar system with a enough light to make Pluto and Charon not so bitterly frozen. But In the end, like the two inner planets of our solar family, Jupiter's moons and the colder dwarfs of the outer rim were better served as raw building materials.

By the time we made it to the Kuiper, we had perfected the extraction of asteroids and moons. Pluto, like Ceres, was a merely a temporary settlement. But unlike Ceres, we knew what it would become the day we landed. No government was set up, no population settled. No charter was written. It was refinery, and nothing more.

We siphoned Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus until they were nothing but metal pits, the cores of an overripe fruit who had already had its flesh devoured. When we had stolen the last of the Giants' gases, We took the planet-cracker to them, too.

We were vastly short of the material for a ringworld, let alone a dyson sphere. At least for Sol. With the wealth of the inner planets and outer giants, we constructed a mighty shield around Jupiter. Like a cage to hide our biggest mistake. We didn't need the energy. We needed the atoms… but we finished the ring anyway. We dismantled Mars for the last steps of its construction. Another choice, another decision. It was more efficient than what we were using it for, anyway. More surface area when st

This excerpt is from the book "Chan and Enlightenment" by Master Sheng Yen (Wikipedia). It's in the first talk titled "Chan and Enlightenment". The Chan Buddhism Wikipedia entry has a section titled Periodization which has two additional ways of dividing periods of Chan history. Where possible, I included links to more information on people and texts. Anything in parentheses without links was originally in the text, the links are my additions (with the exception of the Chinese title for "The Gate of Essential Expediencies for Entering the Path and Calming the Mind").

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The Chan School of China

The Chan School in China can be seen as Chan prior to the coming of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng (Wikipedia | Terebess), when he became the Sixth Patriarch, and after his passing.

Prior to the Sixth Patriarch, Master Huineng

Prior to the Sixth Patriarch Master Huineng, the Chan School took shape in two directions, one of them being passed down from Bodhidharma (Wikipedia | Terebess), and the other being transmitted by the lineage masters of other schools. When the lineage of Bodhidharma was passed down to the Fourth Patriarch, Master Daoxin (580-651) (Wikipedia | Terebess), it branched into two lines of Niutou Farong (594-657) (Wikipedia | Terebess) and Dongshan Hongren (601-674) (Wikipedia | Terebess). Generally, Hongren is taken to be the Fifth Patriarch of the Chan school because he was the teacher of Huineng. In fact, Farong was also the disciple of the Fourth Patriarch, and his line was carried on for seven generations, and gradually disappeared after Niake Daolin (741-824). As for Chan masters outside the lineage of Bodhidharma, they include Zhu Daoshen (355-434), Sengchou (480-560) (Chinese Wikipedia | [Terebess](https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/

If anyone has read this book, did you find the read tough? I'm aware of most of the concepts which are present in the book and yet my comprehension of his explanations are dysmal. It's like he intentionally made sentences more complex. Else, he wrote this book in layman's language and I'm really dumb.

It's okay to admit it /r/NBA, you don't really know anything about the Denver Nuggets. We might be the most anonymous team in the NBA. Well, you're in luck, I'm going to tell you all about us by focusing on specific years in Nuggets history. The first is 1976

##Some Early History

The Nuggets were a charter franchise of the ABA in 1967, but were originally supposed to play in Kansas City. They couldn't find an arena, so chose to base the team in Denver instead. The original owner sold it to a new guy who named the team the Denver Rockets after his trucks. That's right, for their first seven seasons, the Nuggets were named the Rockets. They were named the same time as the NBA's San Diego Rockets also starting in 1967. Once the ABA merger was put in place, there couldn't be two teams named the Rockets, so they changed their name to the Nuggets, after the original Nuggets team that played one season in the NBA in 1950. The Denver Rockets were about a .500 team, not terrible, nothing special, but stable in an era the ABA burned through teams. (I could have written about rookie Spencer Haywood averaging 30/19.5/2.3, winning ABA MVP, then bouncing to begin a Hall of Fame career in Seattle, but decided not to) Then, 1975 happened.

The 1975 season was the Nuggets' first under that name. Taking over coaching was Larry Brown, yes that Larry Brown. Also, the Nuggets added a rookie from North Carolina, future Hall of Famer Bobby Jones. Jones put up 14.8/8.2/3.6 in his rookie season, and the Nuggets went from 37-47 in 1974 to 65-19 in 1975, still the best winning percentage in franchise history. Unfortunately they fell to the Indiana Pacers in a dramatic seven game series in the Western Conference Finals, losing Game 7 at home thanks to future Hall of Famer George McGinnis dropping 40 for Indiana in that game. 1976 was due to be the last season of the ABA, so there was one more shot to make the ABA Finals...

##The 1976 Season The Nuggets still had future Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown, and brought back Bobby Jones for his second season. They still had original Nugget Byron Beck as the veteran leader of the team. Ralph Simpson after averaging 20 points a game in 1975 still put up 18 points a game. But if the Nuggets were going to win the ABA's last championship they needed a spark, and they got it: David Thompson. David Thompson kicked ass. He was called Skywalker because of his incredible dunks, and was an easy Hall of Fame selection. Thompson was so revered

I need to educate myself on what happened throughout the history of the Soviet Union. It was really never covered in any history class I took in school (American, natch).

I'm afraid of delving into some 800-page detailed work, because I know I'd get bored and give up. Are there any shortish (preferably < 300 page) books anyone can recommend, that synopsize it and are compelling reads?

From 2008-2017 we made the playoffs every year but only got past the 2nd round once. The best Hawks of all time (in no particular order) are Dominique Wilkins, Joe Johnson, Dikembe Mutombo, Bob Pettit, Lou Hudson, Pete Maravich, Al Horford, and Paul Milsap.

I'll also do an era by era breakdown because I find this shit interesting:

1950s: We were one of like 12 teams, but we played in St Louis at the time. Because there were so few teams we actually made it to the championship 4 times, and won 1 in 1956. Every one of our finals appearances was against the Bill Russell Celtics. Bob Pettit was our star player of the decade, and he won the first MVP award in NBA history and also won two MVP's in the decade.

1960s and 1970s: The Hawks made the playoffs nearly every season in this span, and by 1968 they moved to Atlanta. By 1970 we had really weird but kinda cool blue and green uniforms, and for a four year span we the deadly combo of Lou Hudson and Pete Maravich. Even though they were competitive in this time period there was no real face of the franchise or any real playoff runs. In 1975 we ended up with the 1st and 3rd overall picks, and both of our picks decided to go to the ABA instead so we got nothing out of one of the best draft pick lineups in sports history.

1980s: This is where the fun begins. In 1982 we got Dominique Wilkins, and for most of the 80s we were a 50+ win team. We constantly lost in the 2nd round of the playoffs to the Celtics and Pistons, but in 1987 we had one of the most legendary playoff matchups of all time. We took the Celtics to game 7 and in game 7 Larry Bird and Dominique Wilkins played so well the game was nicknamed "the duel". Wilkins had like 45 points and Bird 30 (each had 20+ in the 4th quarter) but we ultimately lost as we tend to do. In this period we had fun players like Spudd Webb, who was 5'7'' and could dunk, and also household names like Doc Rivers running the point. Wilkins in this period averaged something like 30 points a game, and won scoring champion once as well as 2 slam dunk contest victories. Spudd Webb also won a dunk contest. Players from the decade that were badass were Spudd Webb (shortest dunk contest winner ever), Doc Rivers, Eddie Jones (2x all-star), Tree Rollins (1x all-star), Kevin Willis (1x all-star), and Dominique Wilkins (9x all-star).

1990s: We still had Wilkins for most of the early 90s, and until 1998 were a constant 50 win team. In 1994 we had the best record going into the all-star

Hi, Donne here once again.

So it's been roughly a week since I started in this daunting, self-imposed journey of AutoSplitting every dungeon in ffxiv. This post won't be about that though (mostly). What I'd like to share instead is how i think the developers optimized the dungeons in ARR, and how the last few dungeons shaped the dungeons that we have today's.

So, after roughly 60-80 hours of looking at decoded logs of what happens in a dungeon as you go through it, I've uncovered quite a bit of interesting things. It's mostly interesting to me cause of how screwed i was after SE devs started using actual tables to combine a bunch of simple data which were only server-side accessible, in which then I had to find fun ways to figure out a way to find something that was not actually logged but you see happening in game. This last sentence is a doozy and your probably confused right? So was I, so let me explain.

At the beginning, I'd have to assume level 30-something was the hard lock before the game ever got any public beta. Dungeons were designed with simplicity in mind. I'd assume this was because it let all of the developers just look at the code easily by having the logs right there for player tracking. There would be "keys" you'd need to get and "lock" you'd need the "right" key for in order to move through the dungeon. Let's take toto-rak for example as that doesn't have "keys". I'd argue based on how the code was spat out in memory, the photocells you had to collect served as keys. You might of had to get 4 to open the "lock", but still. it's a key/lock situation. Every dungeon up until stone vigil had logged the appropriate "checks" you needed to do before you could move on on both sides.

With this in mind, it was really easy to figure out how to set up triggers to hit a button at specified points. With it being this easy, and with my meager skills in anything coding, i'm sure someone with more skill could of probably had make a bot. In fact, this probably happened. in 1.0?. Probably. I would daresay SE had to have seen this and had to do something about it to prevent leveling bots. Enter (what i'm calling) "hidden checks". around the time i got to stone vigil, I had realized a major turning point in how the dungeons were relayed out into memory. As an end-user without looking at any code or logs, you would of noticed that this dungeon was pretty straight forward. And then so was the next one. And the one after that as well. Well friend, here's w