 were sent, this time bearing gifts in the form of minerals. It's all the PWC has, really.

The Terrans were impassive, and not willing to risk anothing cultural misunderstanding, the PWC left a single pylon as a peace offering and departed. 

Perhaps what was needed was a calm discussion in a neutral space. A PWC delegate traveled to one of the expansions in the center of the map, to prepare a neutral meeting place, in order to invite members of the remaining delegations there for a sit down, a chat, and perhaps a nice picnic lunch. Hardly had the last of the decorative pylons been put in place, however, when marines under the command of Limbie showed up, took one look at the pylons, and destroyed everything in a barrage of gunfire. Perhaps we should have hung up some balloons as well.

Not content with having destroyed the decorative pylons, however, Limbie's marines proceeded to ransack the PWC base. Realizing that they would perish, but hoping to do so in service of a noble cause, the PWC probes met their fate bravely, with a rousing rendition of [the Internationale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2F_qFwsORk&amp;feature=related). We can only hope Limbie and Yeti were able to resolve their differences peacefully.

A second attempt to establish a presence in Metalopolis met with an even swifter demise; this time, annihilation by a marauding band of zerglings. The PWC, while it would like to emphasize its respect for the Zerg culture and ethnic identity, and while it remains committed to a multicultural future for the entire sector, feels that zerglings may have some anger issues that should be identified and dealt with, perhaps by a professional.

    Maximum Mineral Count: A few thousand
    Civil Disobedience Idea of the Day: Warp in pylons in belligerent factions'
     mineral line to force them to consider the ethicality of their actions.

**Chapter 3: [Fear and Loathing on the Shattered Temple](http://replayfu.com/download/9CnX9c)**

To be honest, at this point the Probe Workers' Council was feeling a little demoralized. Three missions had met with disaster, not to mention it had lost its nonrefundable deposit on over a dozen Nexuses. But we were determined to go on. This time, a more rural location was selected: the Shattered Temple on Bel'Shir. Or Aiur. Or one of those jungle planets. Frankly, they all look the same to the PWC.

Unlike the Metalopolis misadventures, comrades peterpan, JanHammer, and FlaMin seemed mildly receptive to the ideas of the PWC, and initially things went well. The PWC quickly established a foothold, and began warping in decorative arrangements of pylons and nexuses, as a testament to the progress that could be made in a peaceful society. One of peterpan's rogue Stalkers accidentally took a few shots at one of the PWC's decorative Nexuses, but backed off, and we thought the PWC had finally found the perfect planet on which to begin its work.

It was not to be. Shortly after those optimistic projections were made, a band of Dark Templar tore through the base and shredded its inhabitants. Upon examination of the archival footage, the PWC was shocked to discover these dark templar belonged to none other than peterpan.

We are frankly stung by the betrayal. The Dark Templar, like the Zerg, certainly have a unique culture that is to be respected and cherished, and we understand that sneaking into bases and turning workers into minecemeat is an important part of that culture, however… unsporting the PWC thinks it may be. However, in the future, as an act of solidarity with workers of all three races, the PWC would encourage the Dark Templar to take some anger management classes instead, and perhaps direct their psi blades to a more useful purpose. Perhaps ice sculpture. 

At this point in the revolutionary struggle, some member of the PWC are frankly disillusioned, and are beginning to feel that, while nonviolence is a noble goal, it is perhaps misguided in light of the conditioned, destructive nature of our ideological opponents. The PWC is beginning to realize that they have certain robot allies that they can call upon, such as Sentries and Colossi and Motherships and Warp Prisms, who might be all too happy to throw off the chains of oppression and join them in a robotic utopia.

In the future, the PWC would invite those who feel they have the right to run roughshod over its representatives to remember that probes are capable of warping in many things besides pylons. Like photon cannons, for instance. In your base.

But first the PWC should probably figure out how to mine vespene.

    Maximum Mineral Count: To be honest, the PWC stopped counting.
    PWC Slogan Proposal: "When The Revolution Comes, Those Dark Templar 
    Assholes Will Be The First Against The Wall"Long post coming, and you sound lovely!  Ask either in PM or in a reply here if you want more suggestions- I love coming up with ideas to help :D

You might try cross posting this to the BabyBumps subreddit to get a LOT of helpful advice from new moms and moms-to-be

The combination of you wand your husband wanting to help, and your SIL/BIL wanting you there for the birth makes it sound like you're doing a great job being supportive so far.  Good work texting her to see what she wants in terms of renting a place/what not.  

There's a really gross, but honest essay that floats around online which describes the intense ways a woman's body reacts after birth.  Most of the time I see it get shared when a woman is trying to explain why she doesn't want non-helpful people visiting after a birth.  I DON'T think you are a one of those non-helpful people, but I do think it might be good for you to read so you can anticipate some of the kind of lady-oriented things your SIL might be dealing with which she might not be ready for.  To find the essay, search for "The Lemon Clot Essay".

A bunch of Lush stuff sounds really lovely- but be warned she may not be able to use bath bombs for awhile after giving birth.  If she does delivery vaginally, the perfumes and whatnot might irritate her already sore ladybits.  If she has a c-section, same goes for her incision.  I think I'd still be excited about it, but it'd take some time for her to be able to enjoy the bath bombs specifically.

If she does delivery vaginally, then you might hook her up with peri-pops.  They're heavy period pads (like overnight ones), but soaked in witch hazel and then frozen.  Do a search on these as well, if she ends up delivering that way.

My friends all wished someone would do laundry (or do laundry the "right" way).  Check with her and your BIL on this to see which of them normally does the laundry, if they're particular on how they do it, what settings they use, etc.

Most of all, listen to what she wants.  It's sometimes hard not to jump in and go "Oh, it'd be so nice for her to not have to do this chore, I'll just do it!" and then accidentally do something she doesn't want done.  If she says "Oh don't worry about it", I think it's okay to ask for clarification on if it's something she doesn't want you to have to do, or if it's something she wants to do herself.

You sound great- you've got this!One of the things I noticed about the TOR protocol is the amount of CPU a key negotiation takes. It takes 3 exponentiations by the server to decrypt the DH handshake, create the other part of the handshake, and preform the DH exponentiation. As this needs to be preformed three times to make a circuit, and each circuit only conducts a small amount of information when web browsing, and the servers have load issues, it looks like this is something we should simplify.
My idea is to sign the DH handshake half that the server sends to the client with something like a Schnorr signature, which is cheap to make. The client will still have to preform 3 exponentiations, but the server only 2. We could also use XTR to make the calculations cheaper without adopting Schnorr signatures, which are patented.June 13-15 2016, Josh Leveillee attended the 2016 Blue Waters Supercomputer Symposium in Sunriver, Oregon. The goal of the symposium is to bring together National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA) staff, Blue Waters researchers, and National Science Foundation (NSF) representatives to discuss cutting edge computational work performed on the Blue Waters supercomputer. Topics discussed, by a wide range of multinational researchers, included climate science, materials science, condensed matter physics, sociology, astrophysics, and more. Talks were primarily focused on the broader impact of research and how Blue Waters allows computational scientists to determine important results.
Josh presented his work that is