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I am a Senior PHP/Web Engineer working for HitBiz.Net projects. If I can be of any help to you, I will feel glad so please do let me know if I can help you somehow. Helping people is what makes me really happy.
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daniel_mckleinfeld 12. jun 2013 kl. 9:10pm
Documentation? Allies? What's going on?
I'm totally loving the visual/audio style of the experience, and shooting enemies is totally fun, but looking at the scores to the left, it seems like there's a whole "saving allies" thing I should be doing. And meeting ghosts and flowers, I think?
I think the allies are the manta-ray-looking things– shooting them gets me red/bad "allies shot" points. But how to save them?
Does anyone have any idea what... that is? Or how to do it? Or if there's documentation on this crazy game anywhere?
Because I'm really digging it, but feel like there's a lot more to explore.
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dmytryl [udvikler] 13. jun 2013 kl. 10:25am
Just shoot an enemy while it is eating one of ray looking things. Explained in the text in level 0.
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Choosing LINQ to Entities vs Entity SQL vs. EntityClient
The title is a bit of a misnomer and not comparing apples to apples. To do it right would have been longer. The real comparison is
“Choosing LINQ to Entities vs. Entity SQL+Object Services vs. Entity SQL+EntityClient”
When doing an intro session on entity Framework last night for GUVSM in Montreal, even though it’s something like the 7th time I’ve done this session (and every single presentation has been totally unique from any of the others I have done - shaped by the questions asked), I think I finally figured out how I want to express this option of which query method you want to use. Even within those three options, there are more variations happening because they return different payloads and this can additionally be affected by whether or not you do projections (e.g. select firstname, lastname, age instead of just select the whole object).
1) For me, Linq to Entities will always be the first query method I go for. I’m getting more and more comfy with LINQ since I’ve been using it with objects, SQL, DataSets and XML. Having all of that intellisense support is dreamy. Whether I use operators (From c in context.Customers Where c.CompanyName=”Acme Builders” Select c) or method operators (context.Customers.Where(Function(c) c.CompanyName=”Acme Builders”) it just makes my life easy! I’ve been using LINQ to Entities almost exclusively unless I have a reason to go to the next level.
LINQ to Entities still depends on an ObjectContext (and therefore uses Object Services) so you get all of the goodies that go along with that such as ChangeTracking, etc.
LINQ to Entities returns objects.
2) The next level is using EntitySQL with Object Services. That would be:
objectcontext.CreateQuery(Of Customer)(“Select VALUE c from Customer as c WHERE c.CompanyName=’Acme Builders’”)
The main reason I would want to use this is because Entity SQL is a very robust query syntax and I can express queries that LINQ (which is strongly typed) may not enable me to write. I want to be clear about my use of the word “dynamic” since I just mean that I can build the strings. You can also use parameters and as in most cases, should be careful about where and when you use dynamic queries (“select value c from customer where c.CompanName=” & myvariable).
As an aside, I’ve discovered that writing custom operators in Astoria, while possible with LINQ to Entities, is better in teh long run if you write them with EntitySQL. That is a conclusion made using the prototype so this may change down the road.
This method can return objects or dbDataRecords, depending on the query.
3) The method I see myself using most infrequently is EntitySQL with EntityClient. EntityClient is a db provider, similar to SQLClient or OLEDBClient. You create connections (EntityConnections) and commands (EntityCommands), set the command’s string (an Entity SQL query) and execute as you would other clients. The big difference between this and the other Client Providers is that you are connecting to your entity data model, not to a database.
There are two reasons to use EntityClient.
The first is if you do not want to return objects, but just streamed data, because EntityClient always returns a dbDataReader. This also means it’s a great candidate for helping you use an Entity Data Model in existing applications.
The other scenario (which is currently theoretical in my mind and has not be tested yet) where I can see myself wanting entityClient is if I have a data layer that needs to implement the Provider Factory class so that I can select my provider at runtime.
I’m ignoring another possible reason which is that EntityClient provides a familiar way of accessing data because it feels similar to using the other client providers. But because you lose your objects and all of the benefits of the objectContext, I don’t think the benefit of “smaller learning curve” is a worthy trade-off.
“The proof is in the pudding,” as they say and we saw the pudding last night at the GUVSM presentation because I have already gotten out of the swing of composing Entity SQL queries, while I’m getting to be a champ with LINQ to Entities.
3 thoughts on “Choosing LINQ to Entities vs Entity SQL vs. EntityClient
1. Thanks. I’ve only discovered Entity SQL today but immediately I asked myself "what’s the point?". This clarifies things for me.
2. I too found this useful. Am reading the book (1st Edition.)
When will the second edition be available?
3. Hi Julie,
This post is dated Oct 2007 when EF V 1.0 was in beta. Now we have the next version the EF V4.0, how much of this is still true/applicable with respect to using "Linq To Entities" vs "Entity SQL"
Thanks for the post, it clarified lot of questions.
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In response to:
Budget Farce Suggests Term Limits Needed
Don664 Wrote: Dec 11, 2012 7:13 AM
1. Term limits does not address how to control the vast bureaucracy that is accountable to no one and is still there, no matter who is in power. 2. The Republican party is not a conservative party, if it ever was. It has betrayed conservative principles to the point of destroying this country along with the democrats. It's time for conservatives to form their own party.
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How the Media Distorts a Romney Quote
ppmstudios Wrote: Sep 15, 2012 11:10 AM
Here's an example of how the MSM completely distorts the truth and reality of events. We hear from the MSM that the majority of Americans now embrace same-sex marriage. They say it all the time. Really? Then why have two of the most liberal states, Oregon and California voted against it? Don't forget, California voted it down TWICE. Isn't it convenient how the MSM seems to forget the truth and reality when they form their narrative?
Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave an interview on Good Morning America in which he defended his tax plan from conjecture that it would force him to raise taxes on middle-income Americans. In responding to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Romney said,
"No one can say my plan is going to raise taxes on middle-income people, because principle number one is (to) keep the burden down on middle-income taxpayers... No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less."
The left-wing media sniffed out a storyline: by dropping the last two words from that statement, it looks like Mitt Romney thinks that...
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Gabriela8 Wrote:
Nov 23, 2012 2:34 AM
I blame the republican voters and right-of-center independents that sat out the election. And the Republican party did not do enough to get out the vote. More should have been spent getting people to the polls and less on advertising. How many votes were fraudulent? We will never know, because the current administration fought tooth and nail to prevent voter id laws from taking effect. Also, a lot of these voting machines don't produce an auditable paper trail, which is asking for voter fraud. I believe the unbelievable turnout figures in certain districts (eg, Philly) were the product of poll workers voting for no shows. God only knows how many illegals and dead Democrats voted.
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How Do Rabbits Sleep?
Some rabbits sleep with their eyes open. You will only know they are asleep by the lack of nose twitching, or the twitching of the body. Others sleep with their eyes closed, in an almost comatose state.
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Lagomorpha Family: Leporidae
Rabbits are herbivorous mammals of the Family Leporidae, which also includes hares. There are about 20 different rabbit species, in 7 genera. They live on nearly all continents, except Antarctica.
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Kill the Messenger
LA traffic.
Rush hour.
Rush hour at four hours and counting. Every Angelino busting it to
get home before the heavens opened up like a bursting bladder and
the rains came in a gush. The city had been pressed down beneath
the weight of an anvil sky all day. Endless, ominous twilight in
the concrete canyons between the downtown skyscrapers. The air
heavy with expectation.
Legs pumping. Fingers tight on the handlebars. Fingertips numb.
Eyes on the gap between a Jag and a FedEx truck. Quads burning.
Calves like rocks. The taste of exhaust. Eyes dry and stinging
behind a pair of swim goggles. A bag full of blueprints in
cardboard cylinders riding his back.
The two-way strapped to his thigh like a six-gun barked
out bursts of static and the rock-crusted voice of Eta Fitzgerald,
the base dispatcher. He didn't know her real name. They called her
Eta because that was what they heard out of her all day, every day:
ETA? ETA sixteen? Base to Jace. ETA? What's your twenty,
He had three minutes to make it to the developer's
office on the seventeenth floor of a building still blocks away.
The guard at the front desk was a jerk. He locked the doors at six
on the dot and had no sympathy for anyone standing on the street
trying to get in. The guy would have turned his back on his own
mother, if he had one, which Jace doubted. He looked like something
that had sprouted up out of the ground. A human toadstool.
Shift his weight to the right. Cut around the Jag.
He caught the blast of its horn as he ran on his pedals
to put a few inches between his back wheel and the car's front
bumper. Just ahead of him the traffic light had turned yellow, but
the FedEx truck was running the intersection. Coming up on the
right side of the truck, Jace reached out and caught hold above the
wheel, letting the truck carry him through the intersection and
down the block.
He was a master at riding the blind spot. If the person behind the
wheel saw him and didn't want him there, a messenger could become a
bug on a windshield in a hurry. The FedEx drivers were usually
cool. Simpatico. Messenger to messenger. They were both connections
between people who didn't give a rat's ass who they were unless
they were late with a delivery.
The building was in sight. Jace checked over his shoulder, let go
of the truck, and dipped right again, cutting across another lane,
drawing another blaring horn. He angled to jump the curb in front
of a fire hydrant and behind a Cadillac idling in a red zone. The
car's passenger door swung open as the bike went airborne.
Jace turned the wheel hard right and twisted his hips left as the
bike came down. The old lady getting out of the car screamed and
fell back into the Cadillac. The bike's front tire hit the sidewalk
Jace held his position as tight as a tick on the back of a dog. He
touched the brakes with little more than his imagination. Just
enough to break the chaos.
Don't panic. Panic kills. Ice water, J.C. Steel. Focus.
He kept his eyes on his target. He could see the security
jerk walking toward the front doors, keys in hand.
Panic. Not at threat of injury, but at threat of being
locked out. The customer wouldn't care that he had sent the
delivery impossibly late or that the messenger had nearly been
killed by the door of a Cadillac. If the package didn't make it,
there would be hell to pay.
He dropped the bike ten feet from the door, sick at the thought it
might be gone by the time he got out of the building, but there was
no time to lock it. He bolted for the door, tripped himself, fell
like a boulder, and tumbled and skidded, arms and legs bouncing
like pickup sticks. Cardboard blueprint tubes shot out of his bag
and rolled down the sidewalk.
No time to assess damage or recognize and catalog pains.
He forced himself to his feet, tripping, stumbling,
trying to scoop up the tubes even as his momentum carried him
forward. The security jerk stared at him through the glass. A lumpy
gray face, twisted with sour disapproval. He turned the key in the
lock and walked away.
"Hey!" Jace shouted, slamming into the glass. "Hey, come on!"
The guard pretended not to hear him. Son of a bitch. One minute to
six and this guy had nothing more on his mind than getting on the
freeway and creeping out to Pomona or to the Valley or to whatever
nondescript shithole suburb he squatted in every night. He wasn't
staying three extra minutes to log in a delivery. Having the power
to walk away was probably the only power he had in his miserable
"Asshole!" Jace shouted. He would have kicked the door, but with
his luck the damn thing would shatter and he'd be hauled off to
jail. Not that he couldn't have used the rest and three squares a
day. In Jace Damon's life, rest was not an option.
Juggling the cardboard tubes in one arm, he yanked his bike up off
the sidewalk and climbed back on. The entrance to the underground
parking garage for the building was on the side street. The chain
gate would be down, but as soon as a car rolled out, he could slip
in. If there was a God in heaven-which he doubted, except in times
of dire need-someone would still be in the developer's office on
the seventeenth floor. Hopefully it would be Lori, the
receptionist, who was blond and bouncy and would give him a
Snickers bar from the stash in her bottom drawer. He hadn't eaten
since breakfast-a day-old bagel and a shoplifted PowerBar.
He parked himself to the right of the garage entrance, back just
far enough so as not to be noticed by anyone coming up the ramp. He
had learned a long time ago to fly below the radar, to be invisible
and furtive and resourceful. Survival skills of the street
His radio made a sound like Velcro tearing free. "Sixteen? You out
there? Base to Jace. Base to Jace. Hey, Lone Ranger, where you at?
I got Money chewing my ass."
Money was Eta's word for a customer. The developer was on the phone
screaming at her.
"I'm in the elevator," Jace answered. He keyed the radio on and
off, on and off. "You're breaking up, Base."
The chain gate rattled to life and began to rise. A nasty-looking
snot-green Chrysler nosed its way up out of the garage. The
security jerk was behind the wheel. Jace gave him the finger as he
turned into the drive and shot the bike down the ramp.
The Korean guy in the ticket booth barely looked at him as Jace
darted around the lowered arm that prevented cars from simply
rolling in. He rode the bike straight to the elevator, jumped off
as the doors opened and an assortment of well-dressed professional
people stepped out, freed from their cubicles for the day. A woman
with a helmet of blond hair and a leopard-print raincoat gave him a
look like he was dog shit, and clutched her designer bag to her as
she stepped around him.
Jace forced a grin. "How's it going?"
She sniffed and hurried away. People in suits and offices tended to
look at bike messengers with wary suspicion. They were rebels, road
warriors, fringe citizens in strange costumes invading the orderly,
respectable world of business. Most of the messengers Jace knew had
tattoos all over their bodies, and more piercings than a colander.
They were walking billboards for life on the edge, their
individuality screaming from their very pores.
Jace made no such statements. He wore what he could get for little
or nothing at Goodwill-baggy shorts and sweatshirts with the
sleeves cut off, worn over bike shorts and a long-sleeved T-shirt.
His hair stuck up in spikes through the openings in his helmet. The
swim goggles made him look like an alien.
He pulled the goggles down and rubbed at the grit in his eyes as he
rolled the bike into the elevator and punched 17. He could smell
himself-stale sweat and exhaust fumes. He had run twenty-three
packages that day and could feel the filth of the city clinging to
him like a film. He had skinned his knee on the sidewalk out front.
Blood was running in a slow, thick trickle down his dirty bare shin
to soak into the top of his baggy gray sock.
When he finally got home and could take a shower, the day would
come off him like a mud slide and he would become a blond white kid
again. He would spend a couple of hours with his little brother,
Tyler, then hit the books until he fell asleep on them. Too soon it
would be five-thirty and another day would begin with him shoveling
ice into the coolers at the fish market they lived over in
My life sucks.
He allowed himself to acknowledge that fact only once in
a while. What was the point in dwelling on it? He didn't plan on
staying where he was in the grand scheme of things. That was the
thought to focus on: change, improvement, the future.
He had a future. Tyler had a future-Jace had made sure of that, and
would continue to make sure of it. And their futures would be a
thousand times better than anything life had given them so far. It
was only a matter of time and focus and will.
The elevator dinged and the doors pulled open. The developer's
office was down the hall on the left. Suite 1701. Major
Development. Lori the cute receptionist was gone, along with the
chance for a free Snickers. Mr. Major Development was standing at
her desk, shouting into the phone. He stopped abruptly and slammed
the receiver down as Jace walked in with the blueprint tubes.
"Well, it's about fucking time!" Major shouted. "My eighty-year-old
mother could have gotten here faster with her walker!"
"Sorry." Jace said, handing over the manifest. He offered no excuse
or explanation. He knew from experience it wouldn't matter. What
mattered to Mr. Major Development was that he now had his
blueprints and could get on with his life.
Major snatched the manifest away from him, scribbled a signature,
and shoved it back at him. No thanks, no tip, no nothing. Lori the
receptionist might have noticed the scrape on his knee and given
him a Band-Aid and sympathy along with the Snickers bar. All he got
was the fantasy. At least in his imaginary social life he could
afford to take a girl out someplace decent.
Back out on the street, he radioed Base to confirm the delivery. He
would make it back to the base office in fifteen and spend half an
hour matching his delivery receipts with Eta's floaters-the notes
she made assigning jobs to messengers. By seven-fifteen he could be
standing in the shower.
"Sixteen to Base. Jace to Base. Got POD on Major Pain In The
"Ten-four, angel. You'll go to heaven yet."
"I don't believe in heaven."
"Darlin', you got to believe in a better world than this."
"Sure. It's called Malibu. I'm gonna get a house there when I'm
rich and famous."
"And I'll come be your kept woman. Give you a big ole' dose a brown
sugar, baby boy."
Eta weighed two hundred pounds, had three-inch purple fingernails,
and a Medusa's head of braids.
"You'll have to get in line behind Claire Danes and Liv
"Honey, I'll eat them skinny white girls for lunch and pick my
teeth with their bones."
"Eta, you're scaring me."
"That's good. How else can I boss you around and tell you you got
one more run?"
The groan came from the deepest part of his soul. "No way. Not
tonight. Call someone else."
"Ain't no one else left. You're it, Lone Ranger, and baby, you're
the best."
She gave him the address for the pickup and delivery and told him
he could use the tip he would get to buy her a diamond ring.
Jace sat on his bike under the security light beside the garage
entrance and stared at the note he'd written with the name and
address, and he thought of the only tip anyone had ever given him
that was of any real value: It's better to be lucky than
As he folded the note, it began to rain.
The television was playing in the overflowing bookcase across the
room as Lenny Lowell prepared the packet for pickup. His office was
an oasis of amber light in an otherwise dark strip of low-end
storefronts --- a yoga place, a psychic, a nail salon frequented by
hookers. Across the street and down the block, the
bailbonds/check-cashing place was open, and farther down a 76
station lit up the night with more lights than a prison yard.
The gas-station attendant would already be locked in his booth like
a veal calf behind a couple of inches of bulletproof Plexiglas. But
there wouldn't be much crime tonight for either the station
attendant or the bail bondsman to worry about. It was raining. In
LA even the criminals don't do rain.
On the TV, a hot brunette was reporting on the latest crime of the
century. Jury selection continued for the upcoming trial of actor
Rob Cole, accused in the brutal murder of his wife, Tricia.
Lenny watched with one eye, listened with one ear. Only his
jealousy was fully committed. Cole had retained the services of
Martin Gorman, whose client list read like a Who's Who of
Hollywood's most famous screwups. Lenny's client list read like a
Who's Who of LAPD's best-known dirtbags.
Not that he hadn't done well for himself. The world was full of
recidivists too flush for a public defender and too stupid to keep
from getting caught. Lenny had a thriving practice. And his
extracurricular activities of late had netted him a new Cadillac
and a ticket to Tahiti. Still, he had always coveted the spotlight
claimed by lawyers like Martin Gorman and Johnnie Cochran and
Robert Shapiro. He had just never found a way to get there that
didn't involve talent and social connections.
A photograph of Tricia Crowne-Cole filled the television screen.
She wasn't especially attractive, kind of pudgy and mousy with
brown hair too long for a woman her age. (She had to be
fiftysomething --- significantly older than Cole, provided he was
the forty-something he claimed to be.) She wore glasses that made
her look like a spinster librarian.
You would've thought the daughter of a bazillionaire would have
used some of that money to jazz herself up a little. Especially in
this town, where women kept the numbers of their plastic surgeons
and their favorite designers on speed dial. A bazillion dollars
could make plain look pretty damn gorgeous.
It was hard for the average person to imagine why anyone would have
wanted her dead. She had devoted her life to overseeing her
father's philanthropic trust. There wasn't a disease Norman Crowne
wasn't trying to cure, a liberal social cause he didn't champion, a
highfalutin art he didn't support --- via Tricia. She was her
father's social conscience.
It was impossible for the average person to imagine how anyone
could have killed her so brutally, strangling her, then smashing
her face in with a piece of sculpture the size of a bowling
Lenny was not the average person. He had heard it all a thousand
times and knew full well what people were capable of, what jealousy
and hate could drive them to.
Word around town was that Tricia, fed up with Cole's infidelities
and endless dramas, had been about to dump Rob Cole off the gravy
train at long last. Cole had tanked his career with sulkiness,
stupidity, and a shallow store of talent. He had run through all of
his money and plenty of hers. A lot of it had gone up his nose. A
lot had gone to rehab clinics --- charitable donations, as it
turned out. Rob Cole didn't have the character to pull himself out
of the train wreck, or sense enough to keep his weaknesses
The tailor-made Leonard Lowell client, Lenny lamented. He could
have made a big name for himself getting Rob Cole off the hook ---
a name that would be recognized even by people who didn't have rap
sheets. But Rob Cole was Martin Gorman's headache. Lenny had other
fish to fry.
The front buzzer sounded, announcing the arrival of the messenger.
As he rounded the desk, Lenny glanced at the brochures he had
gotten from the redhead at the travel agency on the second floor
and wondered if he could sweet-talk her into going with him. The
Cayman Islands and a hot broad. Paradise.
Jace leaned on the buzzer a second time, even though he could see
Lenny Lowell coming out of the office and into the dark cubicle
occupied in daylight hours by Lowell's secretary --- a woman with
cotton-candy blond hair and cat-eye glasses, known only as "Doll."
Lenny was like a character out of an old movie where all the men
wore hats and baggy suits, and everybody smoked cigarettes and
talked fast.
Jace had been to Lowell's office many times. A lot of a messenger's
runs were to or from lawyers of one kind or another --- much to the
displeasure of the messengers. Lawyers were notoriously cheap and
impossible to please. At the annual Thanksgiving bash ---
Cranksgiving --- the messengers always had a piñata in the
image of their least favorite attorney of the year. They made the
thing extra tough so everyone could get their chance to beat on it
Jace played along with the game and kept to himself the fact that
he intended to join the ranks of the loathed someday. Growing up
the way he had, he had seen the law work against a lot of people,
especially kids. He meant to turn it in his favor --- turn his life
around, and hopefully some others' too. But he was taking only two
college courses a semester, so most of his messenger cohorts would
be dead or gone by the time he passed the bar. If Jace was ever to
be immortalized as a piñata, it would be strangers beating the
stuffing out of him.
In the meantime, he always made an effort to chat up any lawyers he
could, trying to make a good impression, trying to pick up whatever
he could about the profession and the people in it. Networking.
Working toward the day when he might be looking for a job, a
recommendation, career advice.
Lowell pulled the door open, an unnaturally white smile splitting
his long, horsey face.
"Neither rain, nor smog, nor gloom of night," he boomed. He'd been
drinking. Jace could smell the bourbon hanging over the bad
"Hey, Lenny," he said, pushing his way inside. "It's raining,
"That's why they pay you the big bucks, kid."
"Yeah, right. I'm rolling in it," Jace said, resisting the urge to
shake himself like a wet dog. "I just do this gig for the
"You got a simple life," the lawyer said, weaving his way back to
his office.
"There's a lot to be said for that."
"Yeah, like it sucks. Believe me, Lenny, I'd rather be driving your
new Cadillac than my bike. Especially tonight. Man, I hate the
Lowell waved a big bony hand at him. "Nah. It never rains in
Southern California. Unless you're some poor stiff like Rob Cole.
Then you get a shitstorm on your head."
Jace glanced around the office piled with books and papers and file
folders. Next to a bowling trophy dated 1974, two framed
photographs sat on the desk --- one of a racehorse in the winner's
circle with a bunch of flowers around its neck, and one of a pretty
young woman with long dark hair and a confident smile --- Lenny's
daughter, Abby. A law student, Lenny had told him.
"Gorman will get him off," Jace said, picking up the bowling trophy
to read the inscription: 2nd place team, Hollywood bowl, 1974. It
wasn't difficult to picture Lenny in one of those bowling shirts
from the fifties, his hair greased back. "Gorman is good. Better
than good."
"It's better to be lucky than good, kid," Lowell returned.
"Martin's betting against the house in a rigged game. Money talks.
Remember that."
"I would if I had any." Jace put the trophy back and scratched his
arm under the sleeve of his cheap plastic rain jacket. He had
bought half a dozen at the 99 Cent Store because they came folded
to the size of a wallet and didn't take up any space in his
messenger bag. One seldom lasted more than a single storm, but the
odds were good that six would last him the winter.
"Here," Lowell said, thrusting a twenty at him. "For your trouble,
kid. Don't let it shoot its mouth off all in one place."
Jace wanted to hold it up to the light.
Lowell snorted. "It's real. Jesus. The last paperhanger I defended
went to San Quentin in 1987. Counterfeiting is all Russian mob now.
I don't want any part of that. Those bastards make Hannibal Lecter
look like a moody guy with an eating disorder." He raised his glass
in a toast to himself. "To long life. Mine. You want a toot,
"No, thanks, I don't drink."
"Designated driver?"
"Something like that."
Designated adult, as long as he could remember, but he didn't tell
Leonard Lowell that. He never told anyone anything about his life.
Below the radar. The less people knew, the less curious they would
be, the less apt to want to "help." An extra twenty bucks was the
only kind of help Jace wanted.
"Thanks, Lenny. I appreciate it."
"I know you do, kid. Tell your mother she raised a good one."
"I will."
He wouldn't. His mother had been dead six years. He had mostly
raised himself, and Tyler too.
Lowell handed him a five-by-seven-inch padded manila envelope. He
hung a cigarette on his lip and it bobbed up and down as he spoke
while he fished in his baggy pants pocket for a lighter. "I
appreciate you dropping this off for me, kid. You've got the
Jace repeated it from memory.
"Keep it dry," Lowell said, blowing smoke at the dingy
"Like my life depends on it."
Famous last words, Jace would think later when he looked back on
this night. But he didn't think anything as he went out into the
rain and pulled the U-lock off his bike.
Instead of putting the package in his bag, he slipped it up under
his T-shirt and tucked the shirt and the package inside the
waistband of his bike shorts. Warm and dry.
He climbed on the bike under the blue neon of the psychic readings
sign and started to pedal, legs heavy, back aching, fingers cold
and slipping on the wet handlebars. His weight shifted from pedal
to pedal, the bike tilting side to side, the lateral motion
gradually becoming forward motion as he picked up speed, the aches
gradually melding into a familiar numbness.
One last run.
He would leave his paperwork 'til morning. Drop this package, go
home, and crawl into that hot shower. He tried to imagine it: hot
water pounding on his shoulders, massaging out the knots in the
muscles, warm steam cleansing the stink of the city from his
nostrils and soothing lungs that had spent the day sucking in car
exhaust. He imagined Madame Chen's hot and sour soup, and clean
sheets on the futon, and did his best to ignore the cold rain
pelting his face and deglazing the oil on the surface of the
His mind distracted, he rode on autopilot. Past the 76 station,
take a right. Down two blocks, take a left. The side streets were
empty, dark. Nobody hung around in this part of town at this time
of night for any good reason. The businesses --- a glass shop, an
air-conditioning place, a furniture-stripping place, an auto-body
shop --- in the dirty, low, flat-roofed buildings closed up at
He might have thought it was a strange destination for a package
from a lawyer, except that the lawyer was Lenny, and Lenny's
clients were low-end career criminals.
He checked address numbers as lighting allowed. The drop would be
the first place on the right on the next block. Except that the
first place on the right on the next block was a vacant lot.
Jace cruised past, checked the number on the next available
building, which was dark, save for the security light hanging over
the front door.
Apprehension scratched like a fingernail on the back of his neck.
He swung around in the street and rode slowly past the vacant lot
Headlights flashed on, blinding him for a second.
What the hell kind of drop was this? Drugs? A payoff? Whatever it
was, Jace wasn't making it. Only a fool would ride into this and
ask for a signature on a manifest.
Now he was pissed. Pissed and scared. Sent to a vacant lot in the
dead of fucking night. Fuck that. Fuck Lenny Lowell. He could take
his package and shove it up his ass.
Jace stood on his pedals and started to go.
The car lurched forward, engine roaring like a charging beast as it
made straight for him.
For a split second it seemed Jace didn't --- couldn't --- move.
Then he was going, legs pumping like pistons, the bike's tires
slipping on the wet street. If he ran straight, the car would be on
him like a cat on a mouse. He turned hard left instead. The bike's
back end skated sideways on the slick pavement. He stuck a foot
down to keep from falling, pulled the bike back under himself. Then
he was charging the car.
Heart in his throat, he juked right, nearly too late, jumped the
curb back into the vacant lot, shooting past the car --- big, dark,
domestic. He heard the grind of metal on pavement as the car went
off the curb and bottomed out. Tires squealed on the wet street as
it swung a wide, awkward, skidding turn.
Jace made for the alley as hard as he could go, praying it wouldn't
dead-end. In the heart of downtown he was like a street rat that
knew every sewer pipe, every Dumpster, every crack in a wall that
could offer a shortcut, escape, shelter, a hiding place. Here he
was vulnerable, a rabbit caught in the open. Prey.
The car was coming after him. The predator. The headlights bucked
up and down in the gloom as the car banged back up over the
Jace had had cars come after him in traffic --- kids screwing
around, men with rage disorders pissed off that he had cut in front
of them or skitched a ride up a hill or knocked a side mirror.
Assholes trying to make a point, trying to give him a scare. He had
never been set up. He had never been hunted.
If he could get to the end of the alley before the car turned down
it and spotlit him, he had a fifty-fifty shot at ditching it. The
end of the alley looked nine miles away.
And it was already too late.
The high beams slapped at his back like a paw reaching out to tag
him. The car came, as loud as a train, sending trash cans
scattering like bowling pins.
Shit, shit, shit.
luck was running out faster than the alley was. He couldn't outrun
the car. He couldn't turn and ditch the car. To his left: buildings
shoulder to shoulder, backed with Dumpsters and boxes and discarded
junk --- an obstacle course. To his right: a chain-link fence
crowned with razor wire. On his ass: the angel of death.
Jace reached back with one hand and jerked his U-lock out of his
messenger bag. The bumper kissed his back tire. He nearly fell onto
the hood of the car. Moving as close as he could against the fence,
Jace touched his brakes, dropped just behind Predator's
Jace swung the heavy U-lock left-handed into the windshield. A
spiderweb of cracks exploded across the span of glass. The car
swerved into him, drove him sideways into the fence. Jace turned
and grabbed hold of the chain-link fence with both hands, hanging
on hard as the bike was yanked out from under him. The toe of his
right shoe hung up in the pedal clip and his body jerked wildly
sideways as the car pushed the bike forward.
The fence bit into his fingers as the bike tried to drag him. It
felt like his arms were tearing out of their sockets, that his foot
was being wrenched off at the ankle, then suddenly he was free and
He landed on his back on the cracked asphalt, rolled, and scrambled
up onto his knees, his eyes on the car as his bike went under the
back tire and died a terrible death.
His only transportation. His livelihood. Gone.
He was on his own. On foot. And one foot was missing a shoe. Pain
burned through his wrenched ankle as Jace pushed himself to his
feet and ran for the buildings before the car could come to a
complete stop.
The voice of his survival instinct screamed through his brain.
Go, go, go!!!
was young, he was fast, he was highly motivated. He set his sights
on a half wall blocking the space between two buildings. He would
hit it running, vault over the side, and be gone. Bum ankle or no,
he could damn well outrun the asshole driving that car.
But he couldn't outrun a bullet.
The shot hit the Dumpster a foot to Jace's left almost
simultaneously as he heard the report.
had to get over that wall. He had to get over it. Get over it and
run like hell.
Footfalls were coming hard behind him.
The second shot went wide right and hit another Dumpster.
A man shouted, "Fuck!"
Too close. Too close.
Footfalls coming hard behind him.
Jace launched himself at the wall and was summarily yanked backward
as his pursuer grabbed hold of the messenger bag he wore strapped
across his back.
He fell into the man, and momentum carried them both backward,
their feet tangling. Predator's body cushioned the fall as they
went down. Jace scrambled to get his feet under him, to wriggle
away. Predator hung tight to the messenger bag.
"Fucking little shit!"
Jace swung an elbow back, connected hard with some part of the
guy's face. A bone cracked nearly as loudly as the gunshot had, and
for a split second the bastard's hold let loose and he cursed a
blue streak. Jace ducked down and twisted out of the bag's strap
and lunged toward the wall again.
Predator grabbed hold of the back of Jace's rain slicker with one
hand and swung at him with the other. The cheap poncho tore away
like wet tissue. The butt of the gun glanced off the back of Jace's
helmet. Stars burst bright before his eyes, but he kept
Over the wall! Over the wall!
hit it running, scrambled up and over, and tumbled
ass-over-teakettle as he landed, rolling through mud and muck and
garbage and water.
The canyon between the buildings was pitch-black, the only light at
the end of the tunnel the dim silver glow of a distant sodium vapor
light. He ran toward it, never expecting to reach it, expecting to
feel the thump and burn of a bullet passing through his back,
tearing through his body, ripping apart organs and blood vessels.
He would probably be dead before he hit the ground.
But still he ran.
The bullet didn't come.
He broke out of the alley, turned left, and raced past the fronts
of dark buildings, jumping shrubbery and low walls of tired
landscaping. As he landed on the other side of a row of bushes, his
bad ankle buckled beneath him and he fell, gravel tearing at his
hands as he tried to break the impact. He expected to hear
footfalls behind him, another shot aimed at his back, but no one
was coming yet.
Panting, dizzy, Jace rose and stumbled down the narrow corridor
between two buildings. He stopped and fell against the rough
concrete wall, wanting to puke, afraid the sound would draw his
predator and get him killed.
Doubled over, he cupped his hands over his mouth and tried to slow
his breathing. His heart felt like it would burst through his chest
wall and flop out onto the ground, bouncing and twitching like a
beached fish. His head was spinning. His brain felt like it was
swirling around in a toilet bowl, ready to be sucked down the
Oh, God. Oh, my God.The
God he didn't believe in.
Someone's trying to kill me.
Jesus H.
was shaking violently, suddenly cold, suddenly aware of the winter
rain pouring down on him, soaking his clothes. Pain throbbed and
burned in his ankle. A sharper pain pierced his foot. He felt along
the bottom of his wet sock and pulled out a sliver of broken glass.
He sank down into a squat, hugged his arms around his legs as he
leaned against the wall.
The two-way was still strapped to his thigh. He could try to call
Base, but Eta was long gone home to her kids by now. If he had a
cell phone, he could call the cops. But he couldn't afford a cell
phone, and he had no faith in the police. He had no real faith in
anyone but himself. He never had.
The dizziness was swept away by a wave of weakness, the wake of the
initial adrenaline rush. He strained to hear past his own
breathing, past the sound of his pulse pounding in his ears. He
tried to listen for the sounds of pursuit. He tried to think what
to do next.
Best to stay where he was. He was out of sight and had an escape
route if his assailant did flush him out. Unless there were two of
them --- assailants, plural. One on either end of this tunnel and
he was cooked.
He thought of Tyler, who would by now be wondering where he was.
Not that the kid was sitting alone somewhere, waiting. Tyler was
never alone. A brainiac little white kid living in Chinatown and
speaking fluent Mandarin sort of stood out. Tyler was a novelty.
People liked him and were bemused by him at the same time. The
Chens treated him like some kind of golden child sent to them for
good fortune.
Still, the only true family the Damon brothers had was each other.
And that bond of family with Tyler was the strongest thing Jace had
ever known. It was the thing he lived for, the motivation behind
everything he did, every goal he had.
Gotta get out of here.
Footfalls slapped on pavement. Jace couldn't tell from where.
The alley? The street? He made himself as small as he could, a
tight human ball tucked against the side of the building, and
counted his heartbeats as he waited.
A dark figure stopped at the end of the building, street side, and
stood there, arms slightly out to his sides, his movements hesitant
as he turned one way and then the other. There wasn't enough light
to make out more than the vague shape of him. He had no face. He
had no color.
Jace pressed his hand against his belly, against the envelope he
had tucked inside his shirt for safekeeping. What the hell had
Lenny gotten him into?
The dark figure at the end of the tunnel turned and went back the
way he had come.
Jace waited, counting silently until he decided Predator wasn't
coming back. Then he crept along the wall through scraps of trash
and puddles and broken glass, and cautiously peered out. A Dumpster
blocked his view. He could see only one section of taillight,
glowing like an evil red eye in the dark some distance down the
His bike lay crumpled on the ground somewhere behind the car. Jace
hoped against hope that the frame wasn't shot, that maybe only a
wheel had been mangled. He could fix that. He could fix a lot of
damage. If the frame was bent, that was something else.
He could hear Mojo now, telling him the bike was cursed. Mojo, the
tall, skinny Jamaican who had dreads down to his ass and wore the
kind of black wraparound shades meant for blind people. Mojo was
maybe thirty, an ancient among the messengers. A shaman to some. He
would have plenty to say about that bike.
Jace had inherited the thing, in a manner of speaking. That was to
say no one else would touch it when it had suddenly become
available two years before. Its previous owner, a guy who called
himself King and worked nights as an Elvis-impersonating stripper,
had lost control dodging street traffic and ended up under the
wheels of a garbage truck. The bike had survived. King had
Messengers were a superstitious bunch. King died in the line.
Nobody wanted a dead guy's bike if he died in the line. It sat in
the back hall at Base for a week, waiting to be claimed by King's
next of kin, only it turned out he didn't have any, at least none
that gave a shit about him.
Jace didn't believe in superstition. He believed you made your own
luck. King went under the wheels because he was cranked up on speed
most of the time and had poor judgment. Jace believed in focus and
hustle. He had looked at the bike and seen a strong Cannondale
frame, two good wheels, and a gel-cushioned seat. He saw himself
cutting his delivery times, making more runs, making more money. He
waved off all warnings, left the piece of shit he'd been riding
leaning against an LA Times box for anyone who wanted to steal it,
and rode home on the Cannondale. He named it The Beast.
The car's engine revved and the taillight disappeared from view.
Predator was going home, calling it after a hard day of trying to
kill people, Jace thought. Chills shook his body, from the rain and
from relief. This time when he thought he was going to puke, he
Headlights flashed past on the street. Predator passed by, the big
car growling like a panther as sirens whined in the distance.
Jace went back to the scene where his fallen mount lay, the rear
wheel mangled beyond saving. If it were a horse, someone would
shoot it, put it out of its misery. But it was a bike, and the
frame was still intact. A miracle from God, Preacher John would
have said. In his downtime between runs, Preacher John stood on the
corner of Fourth and Flower in front of the upscale Bonaventure
Hotel and recited the Bible for all those unfortunate enough to
have to pass by him.
Jace didn't believe in miracles. He'd caught a break. Two,
considering he was still alive.
He looked around for his bag, but it was gone. Taken as a trophy by
Predator, a consolation prize. Or maybe he thought he'd
accomplished his true mission. Someone wanted whatever the hell was
in Lenny Lowell's packet, held tight against Jace's belly by his
bike shorts.
Whatever it was, Jace was going to find out. Lenny had a lot to
answer for.
He picked up the bike, tilted it up onto the front wheel only, and
started walking.
Excerpted from KILL THE MESSENGER © Copyright 2004 by Tami
Hoag. Reprinted with permission by Bantam, a division of Random
House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Kill the Messenger
by by Tami Hoag
• Genres: Fiction, Suspense
• hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Bantam
• ISBN-10: 0553801953
• ISBN-13: 9780553801958
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Comment: I have to agree here.
(See in situ)
I have to agree here.
Thanks for sticking your neck out here. It's unfortunate that's not very popular as shown by your downvotes on the post. We do not have the luxury of trying to figure out a way to sugarcoat this information for sheeple - we just hope they can think for themselves and get it... by doing their own research and seeing a troll for what it really is... a troll.
There's no guarantee of "freedom of speech" at the Daily Paul. Freedom of Speech means you can start up your own website and say whatever you want. However that is now starting to be taken away as the DHS in the last year has taken down something like 1,000 websites.
The dis-information campaign when someone posts some real truth with actual documented evidence - is absolute lunacy and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out these tools are paid trolls to come in here and try to scare people off the information.
If I was running this site I would give the trolls a chance to have their say and if they offer nothing of substance - ban their arses so we can start investigating truthful, evidence-backed information.
The trolls are only pandering to the herd mentality. Those of us who are not part of the herd have enough work on our hands doing actual research then to have to sit there and defend against completely baseless attacks on character - wild presumptions... etc...
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OTTER CREST, OR — I was scrambling alone over the boulders just past the short beach when I sensed something out of place.
There. A rock moved.
Only it wasn't a rock. It was a baby sea lion, its fluffy, mottled fur and lumpish little body blending almost seamlessly with the sea-tumbled stones.
I froze. I tried to remember the distance people are supposed to keep between themselves and wildlife. Fifty feet? Fifty yards? Or 100?
The silent little sea lion was maybe five feet from me. I retreated. I looked around for an adult sea lion. Nope, nobody hope. I clicked a photo with my phone, and retreated a bit more.
At Otter Crest, the sea lions usually hang out on the long flats exposed by low tide, at least 100 yards from where this little one hunkererd down.
Why was it so close to the rocks where people walked? Was the mother new and inexperienced, thinking the rocks would be a good hidey-hole for her infant? Was the pup recently weaned and learning to forage on its own? Was its mother the victim of one of the orcas that patrol the Oregon coast?
I've visited this stretch of shore for more than 30 years, and never seen a living wild sea lion so far inland.
So, I did the responsible thing, after succumbling to the temptation to film a few seconds of video. I called the state wildlife officials and reported it to someone who sounded indifferent.
In a few hours, the tide rose and covered the boulders. When the sea retreated again, I went back down to the boulders. No baby sea lion.
I climbed back up the stairs and looked out over the tidal flats. About a half-dozen sea lions lolled on the rocks. One of them was smaller than the others. Was it the little one I'd seen that morning?
I would like to think so.
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Slam DanceSynopsis
In this off-beat and stylish mystery by director Wayne Wang, C.C. Drood (Tom Hulce) is an underground cartoonist who is separated from his wife Helen (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and daughter Bean (Judith Barsi). When his lover Yolanda (Virginia Madsen) is found murdered, Drood is the main focus of the police investigation. When Drood uncovers a sex scandal involving police chief Gilbert (John Doe) and Detective Smiley (Harry Dean Stanton), he realizes he is being made the fall guy for the crime. Singer Adam Ant plays Drood's buddy Jim. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
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Sugar Cookies
By tasb on November 07, 2007
25 Characters Max
Enter Time:
You can create up to five timers
1. 1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine
2. 1/3 cup shortening
3. 3/4 cup sugar
4. 1 teaspoon baking powder
5. 1 dash salt
6. 1 egg
7. 1 teaspoon vanilla
8. 2 cups all-purpose flour
1. Beat butter and shortening on medium to high speed 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, and salt. Beat till combined, scraping bowl.
3. Divide dough in half. If necessary, cover and chill dough for 3 hours or till easy to handle.
4. On a lightly floured surface, roll half at a time to 1/8 inch thick. Using a 2 1/2 inch cookie or biscuit cutter, cut into desired shapes.
5. Place on un-greased cookie sheet. Bake in a 375 F oven 7-8 minutes or till edges are firm and bottoms are very lightly browned. Cool on a rack.
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Is Meganium undisputedly the worst starter ever?
#61TheZuperHeroPosted 4/24/2013 6:25:33 AM
Shadow Flare13 posted...
Why do people even bother mentioning Emboar as the worst? He absolutely stomps faces in-game. Great movepool and variety and yeah, he sucks competitively, but so do a couple of the other starters and at least Emboar can say he is good in-game. Are there better Fire options? Yeah, but Volcarona and Darmanitan aren't the easiest to raise in-game either.
I was going to cite Emboar in this topic merely as a defense against the claim that Meganium has the worst design - Emboar looks terrible. Just . . just awful.
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#62NeoFalconHavokPosted 4/24/2013 6:26:28 AM
Torterra is too slow to be useful.
"If this guy has a problem with GameFaqs users that like Nintendo games, he can kiss my ass."
#63Grammar_manPosted 4/24/2013 6:47:16 AM
Rook_the_Ranger posted...
Just because Meganium doesn't get picked because he has good competition doesn't mean he's bad.
1. Gen II starters are the overall worst in competitive play.
2. Gen II's other starters were worse than the in-game than other gens.
So no.
As for being the worst, it may arguably still be better than serperior(though they do fill different functions- fast support mon vs ScreenCleric), though the very moment Serperior gets contrary available, only Torterra will hang out with Megs in NU.
#64HejiruPosted 4/24/2013 6:51:46 AM
Hell no. It's a dinosaur with a flower around its neck. You don't get any better than that.
I know they're not good competitively, but the Chikorita family is one of my favorites design-wise.
#65mehmetskiPosted 4/24/2013 6:53:31 AM
i love meganium, its one of my all time favorite pokemon
i love all the johto starters!
meganiums typing is not that bad, it hast many weaknesses,
but some of those types have very few strong attacks (bug, poison, flying)
so its not all that bad.
the moves are really cool, i love synthesis, petal dance, body slam...
in-game, meganium is really cool, and only in-game counts to me
#66pokemonfreak97Posted 4/24/2013 7:00:35 AM
I need to clarify; about Serperior, of course I meant sans Contrary, which all legitimate Serperior now are.
#67Capitan_KidPosted 4/24/2013 7:03:17 AM
Hydra_Gundam_ posted...
I thought people said Blastoise was useless.
Lmao. It's the best
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#68Grammar_manPosted 4/24/2013 7:15:32 AM
Best Starter for BW in-game is Samurott, if simply for easy HM access and good offensive stats. Darmanitan makes Emboar pointless after the third gym while it is outdone by Sawk for the second, and Timburr->Gurdurr handles both those early gyms better, and Serperior is fighting uphill.
BW2... Really, all of the starters are dumpworthy out of the bag due to the ridiculously good other early mons.
Azumarill is available with Aqua Tail at L21.
Riolu takes care of fighting needs.
Magnemite takes care of all things Azumarill doesn't that Serperior would want to do.
Magby, while not great, beats out Emboar as far as early fire is needed(essentially for Burgh, but not really) until you get Darmy again.
#69CharizardFirePosted 4/24/2013 7:17:48 AM
From: Grammar_man | #063
That would be Gen V starters.
#70D_BartPosted 4/24/2013 9:24:02 AM
Grammar_man posted...
That would be Gen V, in both cases. Especially in-game.
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#1 Posted by TobiasParker (32 posts) -
Except how many times a year do you think Microsoft is going to run 90% off sales like Steam does 3-4 times. If your answer is anything other than zero you are fooling yourself.
@extreme_popcorn said:
@wizeguy said:
If I have to pay a fee to play a used game I have bought from a store or anyone, then maybe xbox one isn't for me. Who are they to tell me I can't even give my game to a friend and let them play it? So if it going to be true, if I was to lend my mate a game he would have to pay to play it on his system. That would be madness.
Steam doesn't allow me to lend my games or even buy second hand games. I hear nothing but praise for Valve and Steam.
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Murder okay. Boobs not okay. In what world does that make sense?
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Publication numberUS4676656 A
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 06/694,713
Publication dateJun 30, 1987
Filing dateJan 25, 1985
Priority dateJan 25, 1985
Fee statusPaid
Also published asCA1259065A1, DE3684620D1, EP0190019A2, EP0190019A3, EP0190019B1
Publication number06694713, 694713, US 4676656 A, US 4676656A, US-A-4676656, US4676656 A, US4676656A
InventorsDonald M. Besemer, Robert D. Cook
Original AssigneeSyntex (U.S.A.) Inc.
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Fluid handling apparatus and method
US 4676656 A
A fluid handling system is described wherein a small fluid volume is placed on a reversibly-deformable support, which can be deformed to form a cavity. As the fluid clings to the surface of the support, it is physically agitated and mixed as the support is deformed. The deformable support can be utilized to provide fluid containers of varying sizes, to accommodate different fluid volumes and as a transport mechanism to move fluid from one location to another.
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What is claimed is:
1. A method of reducing parameter gradients throughout a fluid volume which comprises:
placing said fluid volume on a portion of a reversibly-deformable, substantially planar support sheet, optionally formed with non-deformable means thereon to partially contain said fluid volume, said support sheet being the sole containment means for said fluid volume; and
deforming said reversibly-deformable portion of said support sheet.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said deformation is effected by applying and removing a deformation force to said support at least once.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein said deformation force is applied and removed a plurality of times.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said deformation is effected by the application of a deformation force to said support and the magnitude of said deformation force is caused to vary during its application.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said support is deformed to form partial containment means for said fluid volume.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein said support is deformed by applying a pressure differential across said support.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein said pressure differential is created by the application of at least a partial vacuum.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein said support is maintained substantially planar and the deformation of said support occurs perpendicular to the plane of said support.
9. An apparatus for mixing a fluid which comprises:
a reversibly-deformable first support for receiving a fluid sample;
means for dispensing a portion of said fluid onto said first support;
a rigid second support located beneath a portion of said first support for supporting said first support portion at a first location; and
means for applying a force to deform said first support and effect mixing of said fluid portion on said first support.
10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said second support is adapted to support said first support portion at a second location different than said first location.
11. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said force application means are at least partially included within said second support.
12. The apparatus of claim 9 including means for moving said first support substantially horizontally over at least a portion of said second support.
13. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said first support is formed from an elastomeric sheet.
14. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein said first support incldues a semi-rigid third support adapted to support a portion of said elastomeric sheet.
15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein said first support is a continuous elastomeric sheet and said third support has discrete openings thereon.
16. A fluid handling apparatus comprising:
a liquid-impervious, reversibly-deformable flexible sheet having a first contour;
a substantially rigid support for said sheet; said support defining at least one well adjacent said sheet and having a second contour, and
means for deforming said sheet to conform to said second contour and for releasing said sheet to conform to said first contour.
17. The apparatus of claim 16 including means for moving said sheet relative to said support.
18. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein said conforming means is operable to conform and release said sheet a plurality of times.
19. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein said rigid support defines a plurality of wells adjacent said sheet.
20. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein at least two of said plurality of wells have different volumes.
21. A support for a selected fluid volume which comprises a reversibly-deformable flexible, elastomeric sheet having surface characteristics operable to maintain said selected fluid volume without mechanical means of containment at a specific location on a portion of said sheet when said portion is substantially, horizontally planar, said sheet being of sufficient thickness to deform upon application of an external force, to form partial containment means for said fluid volume, and to return to said substantially, horizontally planar configuration when application of said force ceases.
22. The support of claim 21 which includes a first rotatable means for dispensing said sheet.
23. The support of claim 22 which includes a second rotatable means for receiving said sheet.
24. An apparatus for determining the presence of an element in a fluid sample suspected of containing said element, said apparatus comprising:
a liquid-impervious, flexible sheet;
a substantially rigid support for said sheet, said support defining at least one well adjacent to said sheet and having a selected contour;
means associated with said rigid support for reversibly conforming said sheet to said selected contour;
fluid dispensing means positioned to dispense a fluid sample onto said sheet; and
means to detect the presence of said element within said sample.
25. The apparatus of claim 24 including means for dispensing a reagent into said fluid sample to enhance the detection of said element.
26. The apparatus of claim 25 wherein said reagent is a fluorescer.
27. The apparatus of claim 25 wherein said detection means includes an optical probe.
28. A method of mixing a fluid which comprises:
depositing a portion of a fluid volume on a substantially flat, liquid-impervious, reversibly-deformable support without additional mechanical means of fluid containment; and
applying and releasing a deformation force perpendicular to said support sufficient to cause agitation and mixing of said deposited fluid portion without rupturing said support.
29. A method of mixing a fluid which comprises:
positioning a reversibly-deformable support without additional mechanical means of fluid containment to receive a portion of the fluid to be mixed;
depositing said portion of said fluid on said support to define a first interfacial area between said fluid portion and said support; and
deforming said support to define a second interfacial area between said fluid portion and said support which is different than said first interfacial area.
30. A method of mixing a fluid which comprises:
locating a reversibly-deformable support having a fluid volume support thereon without additional mechanical means of fluid containment at a site adapted to effect deformation of said support; and
applying a deformation force to said support at said site.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for handling small fluid volumes. (As used herein and throughout the description and claims directed to this invention, the term "fluid" encompasses liquids alone and liquids containing particulate matter of whatever kind but excludes gases.) In particular, the invention relates to an apparatus and method which are utilized to mix small fluid volumes by applying a deformation force to a deformable support for the fluid and causing agitation and mixing of the fluid as it clings to the support during deformation.
The apparatus and method of the present invention have particular application to situations where small sample volumes are utilized and processed. One such example is the clinical laboratory, in which chemical analyzers are used with fluid samples which are added to reagents and mixed in discrete reaction cups. These reaction cups are typically molded plastic about the size and shape of a sewing thimble. Sometimes they are of a special shape to include multiple compartments, viewing windows for optics, or shaped for centrifugation. They are usually loaded by hand into some form of automated mechanism although automatic loaders have been built. Complicated mechanisms have been built to move the cups between different locations so that various operations can be performed as required by the analysis method. At the end of the analysis, they must be carefully removed to prvent spilling of materials which may constitute a biohazard. The volumes of the cups are usually quite large, consisting of hundreds of microliters. Mixing of sample and reagents can be done in several ways: employment of centrifugal forces, turbulence due to hydraulic discharge, magnetic stir bars or mixing blades or paddles which require cleaning between successive samples. Discrete plastic cups have moderately thick walls and have poor thermal conductivity, making rapid temperature equilibration difficult even with waterbaths. Additionally, discrete cups can be relatively expensive costing from one to several cents each.
As will be seen more fully from the description of the invention which follows, the present invention affords a fluid handling system which minimizes, obviates or totally overcomes problems presented by the prior art devices. For example, it is possible to handle very small volumes of fluid, even sample volumes below 50 microliters. The apparatus promotes mixing of the fluid sample within itself or, if mixed with a reagent, without using any external mixer which is in contact with the reaction mixture. Additionally, the system yields an apparatus which promotes good thermal conductivity such that temperature gradients throughout the mixed system are minimized. The system additionally exhibits simple and safe disposal of used materials and facilitates lower costs through the use of disposables and reduced labor costs or machine costs due to the absence of discrete reaction cups.
2. State of the Art
Numerous devices and apparatus have been suggested for fluid handling of relatively small fluid volumes. Those apparatus and methods have utilized various mechanisms for transporting and mixing the fluids. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,650,698 described the dispensing of fluid samples and/or reagents onto a film strip containing quantities or spots of dried suspension of reaction intensifying agent, which may contain magnetic particles to promote mixing when subjected to an alternating magnetic field. U.S. Pat. No. 3,854,703 describes a system in which a jet of gas is directed onto a fluid volume resting on a support to cause relative movement between the fluid and the support, thus promoting mixing of the fluid. U.S. Pat. No. 4,265,544 describes a rotary solenoid coupled to a shaft and sample holder to reciprocally move the sample holder and thus promote mixing of the fluid contained therein. U.S. Pat. No. 4,390,499 describes a test package adapted for use with a spinning rotor to increase mixing which includes a sample compartment, and integral cuvette and compartments for prepackaged reagents. The reagents are adapted to be introduced via breakable seals into the sample compartment which contains the sample to be analyzed. The sample and reagents are introduced via another breakable seal into a cuvette. There the mixture is agitated by mechanical means such as a rotating bar or a pulsating diaphragm.
The present invention relates to a method of reducing fluid parameter gradients, such as material gradients or temperature gradients, throughout a fluid volume which comprises placing a portion of a fluid volume on a deformable support and deforming the support. In one aspect of the invention, the deformable support is reversibly-deformable and the mixing of the fluid portion is caused by the alternate application and release of the deformation force applied to the support. The magnitude of the deformation force can be varied either discontinuously or continuously depending on the particular application.
The invention is also directed to apparatus for containing and/or mixing small fluid volumes. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises a reversibly-deformable support for receiving a fluid sample, means for dispensing a portion of the fluid onto the reversibly-deformable support and means for applying a force to deform the support and cause mixing of the fluid portion on the support. In another aspect, the apparatus comprises a liquid-impervious, flexible sheet, a substantially rigid support for the sheet which defines a well having a selected contour adjacent the sheet and means for reversibly conforming the sheet to the selected contour of the well. Wells of various sizes can be utilized in the apparatus to define fluid containers having varying sample volumes and means can be supplied for moving the sheet relative to the support, thus transporting fluid volumes to various locations in the fluid handling system in which the apparatus of the present invention is utilized.
FIG. 1 is a top view of an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2A is a side view, in section, of the apparatus of FIG. 1 along line 2--2, at a first point in time;
FIG. 2B is a side view, in section, of the apparatus of FIG. 1 along line 2--2 at a second point in time, illustrating container formation;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a fluid handling system for analysis in which the apparatus of this invention is utilized.
FIG. 4 is a top view of an alternate embodiment of the fluid support of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a sectional side veiw of the embodiment of FIG. 4.
With initial reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, a particular embodiment of the present invention is illustrated which comprises a fluid handling apparatus generally designated 10 which includes a first support for a fluid sample such as sheet 12. Sheet 12 is reversibly-deformable and generally liquid imprevious. It can be manufactured conveniently from a thin elastomeric film. Thicknesses of approximately 0.002 to 0.04 inches have been found suitable, with a thickness of approximately 0.004-0.006 inches being presently preferred when the sheet is made from latex or from silicone rubber. The exact thickness employed will depend on the strength of the material chosen and may also depend on the material's thermal conductivity and the particular application. An important characteristic is that sheet 12 not rupture under the deformation forces typically applied to it as described below since the fluid volume is directly applied to and supported by sheet 12. Alternatively, the first support can be provided as a flexible strip or tape which may be wound into a roll, or provided as a cassette, for ease in dispensing.
Sheet 12 is supported on a substantially rigid support 14 which defines at least one well 20. Well 20 can be present either singly or as a plurality of units, and may be of the same size or of differing sizes. A typical total volume for a single well is on the order of 250-2500 microliters in diagnostic applications, but may differ for other applications. Additionally, each well 20 may include various sections or compartments such as illustrated by first compartment 22 and a second compartment 24, which define differing contours within a single well 20 and also create, in conjunction with sheet 12, fluid containers or receptacles of varying size.
In order to promote mixing of the fluid volume or to form a fluid receptacle from sheet 12, support 14 and well 20, it is necessary to apply a deformation force to sheet 12. One convenient means is illustrated in FIG. 2, but other means which accomplish similar results could be used as well. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the bottom portion of well 20 is connected to a vacuum source (not shown) for applying a deformation force to sheet 12. Typically, the vacuum source is connected via a conduit 26 to the bottom of well 20. It is clear that although FIG. 2 illustrates each well 20 being served by the same conduit 26, each well could be served separately by its own vacuum source or various combinations of wells 20 can be interconnected for any particular application. Accordingly, it is contemplated that in certain applications, certain portions of sheet 12 may be made to conform to the contours of some of wells 20, while at the same time other portions of sheet 12 may be free of the application of a deformation force over other of wells 20 and thus remain in a flat configuration.
Sheet 12 can include a semi-rigid or rigid portion 18, which is adapted to facilitate transport of sheet 12 relative to support 14, but yet expose limited areas of sheet 12. The exposed areas of sheet 12 are adapted to receive portions of fluid samples 16 which can be transported and positioned over wells 20. When the fluid sample 16 is present on sheet 12 and positioned over a well 20, the vacuum source can be actuated to reduce the pressure within well 20, thus creating a pressure differential across the sheet and deforming sheet 12. As can be seen most clearly in FIG. 2B, actuation of the vacuum source reduces the pressure beneath sheet 12 and causes it to deform and extend into and conform to the contour of wells 20. By varying the magnitude of the vacuum (i.e. the deformation force) the interfacial area between the fluid sample 16 and sheet 12 is also varied and physical agitation and mixing of the fluid is caused to occur.
Physical mixing not only reduces material concentration gradients throughout the fluid but additionally promotes thermal equilibration because of the mixing of the fluid and the contact of sheet 12 with the walls of support 14. Support 14 can be provided with conventional temperature controls, such as water channels or electric heaters, to afford and maintain the fluid volumes at a particular, desired temperature. By eliminating any air space between sheet 12 and support 14 and by minimizing the thickness of sheet 12, within structural limitations, very efficient heat transfer between support 14 and fluid sample 16 occurs. Thus, rapid thermal equilibration can be achieved within the fluid sample which is necessary for the accuracy of many chemical analyses. The stretching of sheet 12 over the surface contour of well 20 causes the thickness of sheet 12 to decrease and increases the rate of heat transfer between the fluid sample 16 and support 14. The magnitude of the pressure can be modulated with time as desired for a particular application to vary the elongation of sheet 12 within wells 20 to provide a thorough mixing action.
Typically, fluid volumes of less than 100 microliters for conventional fluid samples and reagents utilized for analysis in clinical laboratories can be accommodated and can be supported on sheet 12 without the need for additional containment. The actual amount of fluid volume which can be supported without additional containment will depend on the area that can be conveniently wet by the fluid. The particular surface characteristics of both the fluid and the support surface will be factors. It is possible, however, that in certain applications it may be desirable to provide some mechanical means on sheet 12 to provide partial containment of the fluid sample at particular locations on the sheet. Continuous rib formations consisting of thickened portions 36 on sheet 12, as illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5, can be utilized. Ribs 36 typically are not deformable and define enclosed surface areas on which the fluid sample can be deposited. The sheet material enclosed is made thin such that it can be deformed as described previously to form fluid receptacles. Thus, the fluid may be wholly contained on sheet 12 by surface tension or partially contained on sheet 12 by mechanical means or a combination of mechanical and non-mechanical means, but not wholly contained on sheet 12 by mechanical means. By the term "not wholly contained" is meant that the fluid is not totally enclosed by mechanical means such as a wall or walls. For example, in FIG. 4, the fluid is partially contained by sheet 12 and continuous rib 36 forming bottom and side walls; however there is no top wall to wholly contain the fluid.
When there is no separate containment means provided on sheet 12, it has been found, for example, that body fluids such as urine, blood and the like can be used in fluid volumes of between about 5-200 microliters. With typical fluids utilized in reagent testing and analysis, droplet sizes of between about 20 to 100 microliters are satisfactorily handled. Fluid volumes can be moved from one station or set of wells 20 to another by an appropriate support moving mechanism (not shown) where additional reactions or processing of the fluid volume can occur.
Support 12 can be provided as a strip, tape or sheet which is wound on a dispenser roll and taken up by a roll at the exit of the apparatus. Conventional mechanisms for driving the rolls can be employed. Additionally, control of such drive mechanisms using microprocessor units and techniques can be conveniently applied to provide automated systems. Upon completion of the operation being performed on the fluid sample, the fluid volumes can be moved through the system through a disposal station to remove the fluid from the sheet by suction or otherwise. If desired, that portion of the sheet which has been used can then be cut off and disposed of in an appropriate container for safe disposal.
Various types of elastomers to provide a flexible, liquid-impervious sheet 12 for the fluid support can be utilized. For example latex, silicone rubber, styrene butadiene, polyurethane and the like have been found useful. Rigid support 14 can be manufactured from conventionally suitable materials such as metals and plastics.
Wells 20 may be provided of varying sizes and it will be readily realized that a single fluid volume can be accommodated in wells of differing sizes. If the fluid support was a rigid container or the like, it would not be possible to automatically move the fluid containers across the support mechanism without individually or collectively removing the containers from the wells and then transferring them to new positions. Because sheet 12 is reversibly-deformable, relaxation of the deformation forces applied causes sheet 12 to resume substantially its original orientation, which permits sheet 12 and fluid droplets 16 to be moved to other locations.
While sheet 12 has been illustrated in combination with a separate support or substrate 18, that substrate structure could be formed directly into sheet 12 in the form of rolled edges, beads, ribs or thickened sections. Alternatively, sheet 12 can be utilized without any additional support whatsoever. However, the latter configuration may require a more complicated feeding mechanism in an automated setting because of the elastomeric nature of sheet 12.
With reference to FIG. 3, a schematic diagram of a system utilizing the apparatus of the present invention is illustrated. The first support is conveniently provided as a tape 12 in a rolled configuration which is adapted to move across the surface of support 14 by an automatic, controlled moving mechanism (not shown). Support 14 defines a well 20. The system provides a fluid dispenser 28, a reagent dispenser 30, an analyzer 32 and a disposal unit 34. Those units are located at a position above the top surface of sheet 12. Additionally, a tape take-up means is provided to take up the used tape as it comes off the system. The tape or sheet can include indexing means coupled to the fluid dispenser 28 and reagent dispenser 30, individually or jointly, such that fluid and reagent dispensing is responsive to the position of the tape or sheet as indicated by the indexing means. A vacuum source 38 is provided and interconnected with well 20 through conduit 26 and controlled by means of C1, C2, and C3.
In a typical fashion, a fluid droplet is dispensed from fluid dispensing means 28 onto sheet 12. That droplet is then moved horizontally and linearly across the top of rigid support 14 to a location above well 20 where the vacuum source can be actuated. A reagent dispensing means 30 is provided to dispense reagent if required. Actuation of the vacuum source causes sheet 12 to spread into well 20 along the surface contours defined and form a container suitable for receipt of additional fluid. If appropriate, reagent is dispensed from dispenser 30 and the vacuum source pressure is modulated in order to promote mixing between the reagent and the sample volume. At that position or possibly at another position in the system if appropriate, analysis of the mixed fluid sample can take place by conventional analytical means 32. This may include, for example, sample removal from the well by pipetting or other suction mechanisms with analysis conducted at a remote site or direct analysis of the sample in the well by using appropriate detection probes and the like. After that analysis is completed the application of vacuum is removed and the flexible tape resumes its original configuration. Then the tape strip is moved along rigid support 14 to a position beneath disposal unit 34 which evacuates the fluid remaining on the flexible sheet. Thereafter the sheet is taken up and can either cut off, retained or dispensed in a safe manner. While separate fluid sample dispensing means, reagent dispensing means and fluid removal means have been described, those functions can be variously combined in conventional ways depending on the particular application. For example, a single pipetting mechanism could be utilized to dispense both fluid sample and reagent, as necessary, and also to evacuate the mixed fluid sample upon completion of the analytical test. Various modifications of this illustrative system will be apparent for particular applications and instrumentation, which can include a variety of particle or substance detection systems for the detection and/or measurement of materials in fluids.
One such application is in the medical diagnostic area for the detection and/or measurement of substances in human body fluids. For example, the invention may be utilized with an optical fiber probe and instrumentation to detect different signal intensities transmitted by the probe. The optical probe can consist of an input fiber and an output or detector fiber which are joined at a junction, typically by a Y-coupler. The optical fiber has a probe tip which can be extended into a fluid sample contained in the fluid receptacle formed in accordance with this invention. Fluorescent dyes or particles are conventionally added to the fluid sample such that the fluorescence of the sample produced upon irradiation by an incident beam of electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the optical probe will depend on the amount of analyte in the sample. The emitted signal from the fluid sample is transmitted through the tip of the probe into the detector fiber to produce an output signal which is picked up by a detector. The detector is a device capable of receiving photons and converting them to a form which permits differentiation between signals of different intensities. A photomultiplier is a typical example.
The volume from which the fluorescent light is obtained is determined by the construction of the optical fiber. The shape of the volume will normally be conical. The optical fibers are typically constructed of a core region and one cladding region, whose diameters and relative refractive indices determine both the half angle of the cone and the cone's smallest diameter (at the tip of the fiber). The effective axial length is determined by the intensity of the excitation beam and the rate of drop in intensity of the excitation light with increasing axial distance from the fiber tip. This rate depends upon the half angle of the cone (i.e. fiber acceptance angle), with larger half angles causing greater rates of intensity drop and hence shorter effective cone lengths. The effective axial length is also determined by the rate of drop of efficiency by which the fiber collects signals from sources further from the fiber. This rate also depends on the fiber acceptance angles. With larger angles the drop of collection efficiency begins at short axial distances. Also affecting the intensity drop will be light scattering and absorption properties of the medium.
Typical optical fibers employed will generally have a diameter of about 5 microns to about 500 microns, more usually from about 10 microns to 100 microns. The cone half angle of the effective sample volume will generally range from about 8 10 vary significantly generally ranging from about 0.5 to about 10 fiber diameters, more usually from about 1 to about 5 fiber diameters.
A particularly useful optical fiber device is the commercially available device known as a coupler, consisting of three optical fibers joined at a junction with three terminal ports, conveniently referred to as an input port (into which excitation light is fed), a probe port (which is submerged in the sample) and a detector port. In a form convenient for use in the present invention, the fibers are joined in such a manner that substantially all light entering the input port is transmitted to the probe port. Light entering the probe port (as from the fluorescent emission) may be split at the conduit juncture so that a portion will travel to the input port and a second portion to the detector port. Alternatively, a dichroic mirror can be utilized at the juncture directing substantially all of the fluorescent light to the detector port. Such devices are available from commercial suppliers, for example: Kaptron Incorporated, Palo Alto, Calif.
The excitation light may be provided by irradiating the entire sample or a major portion of the sample with excitation light. Alternatively and preferably the excitation light may be provided by the optical fiber, so that the sample volume observed will be proportional to the volume irradiated.
The subject invention can be utilized for determining an analyte in a sample, where the amount of analyte affects the total fluorescence or an observed pattern of fluorescence fluctuations. The analyte is a member of a specific binding pair consisting of ligand and its homologous receptor. The optical fiber is employed to receive fluorescent light from the sample volume. To observe fluorescence fluctuations one observes a plurality of such volumes, either by observing a single volume over an extended period of time, where particles move in and out of the volume, or scanning a plurality of volumes either simultaneously or successively, or combinations thereof. Thus, the percentage of volumes observed which have a predetermined difference in fluorescence from a defined level can be related to the amount of analyte in the medium.
The fluctuations in fluorescence can be achieved by various combinations of particles and continuous media. For example, the combinations can include particles which fluoresce at constant intensity in a non-fluorescing solution, particles which fluoresce at varying intensity in a non-fluorescing solution, particles which are non-fluorescent in a fluorescent solution and fluorescent particles in a fluorescent solution. Furthermore, the fluorescent fluctuation may be a result of aggregation of particles, non-fluorescent particles becoming fluorescent, or fluorescent particles becoming non-fluorescent. The particles may be comprised of polymers, both naturally occurring or synthetic, natural particles, such as virions and cells, e.g., blood cells and bacteria, or the like. Particle sizes will vary from 0.05 to 100μ, where synthetic particles will generally be from about to 10μ diameter.
The above-described apparatus and method can be employed in fluorescent assays with a large number of protocols and reagents. One group of protocols will involve measuring the total fluorescence from the liquid sample. Another will involve measuring fluorescent particles. This group can be further divided into particles which remain uniformly fluorescent, that is, there are basically two particle populations, fluorescent or non-fluorescent, where fluorescence above a certain level is defined as a positive or negative result. Another group includes protocols in which a fluorescing molecule is conjugated directly to an antibody (Ab), which then binds directly to a cell. See, for example, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 397,285, filed July 12, 1982 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,564,598.
In one approach, the particles may be uniformly fluorescent. As a result of binding of a quencher label to a particles, the particle becomes non-fluorescent. For example, fluorescent particles can be prepared having a ligand bound to the particles, which ligand is an analog of the analyte. Charcoal particles can be conjugated with anti-ligand (a receptor which specifically binds to a ligand). By combining in an assay medium, the sample containing the analyte, the ligand conjugated fluorescent particle and the anti-ligand conjugated charcoal particles, the number of charcoal particles which bind to the fluorescent particles over a predetermined time period will be determined by the amount of analyte in the medium. Thus, at time t.sub.1 one examines a number of sample volumes and determines what percentage of these sample volumes results in the fluorescence being greater than the threshold value. After an interval of time, at time t.sub.2, one repeats the same measurement. The rate of change in the percentage of sample volumes being greater than the threshold value will be related to the amount of analyte in the medium. This analysis has assumed that the binding of a charcoal particle to a fluorescent particle through the intermediacy of non-convalent binding of the ligand and the anti-ligand results in complete or substantially complete quenching of the fluorescent particles. Where only a small percentage of the total fluorescence is quenched by a charcoal particle, then the analysis will be basically the same as a heterogeneous population of particles having varying fluorescence.
A heterogenous population of fluorescent particles can come about in a number of ways. For example, one can have aggregation or agglutination of particles. The analyte could be a receptor or antibody, which is polyvalent in binding sites. Fluroescent particles could be conjugated with ligand, so that the polyvalent receptor would act as a bridge between particles. In this way, the greater the amount of analyte present in the medium. the larger the number of aggregates which will result. The particles of interest could then be chosen as a particle which is an aggregation of two or more or three or more particles. Furthermore, by appropriate electronic means, one could determine the size of the aggregation, counting not only the total number of particles, but the number of members of each population. As the aggregation increases in size, the fluorescence of the aggregate particle will also increase, but not linearly with the increase in the number of particles in the aggregation.
A second way for having a heterogeneous population has in part already been considered, where binding of quencher to a fluorescent particle only partially diminishes fluorescence. Alternatively, one could have a non-fluorescent particle, where fluorescent molecules become bound to the particle in proportion to the amount of analyte in the medium or to the number of binding sites on the particle. For example, one could have fluorescent molecules bound to an anti-ligand. Ligand could be bound to a non-fluorescent particle. The fluorescer conjugated anti-ligand would be combined with the analyte containing sample, so that the analyte could fill the binding sites of the anti-ligand, with the remaining binding sites being related to the amount of analyte in the sample. Upon addition of the ligand conjugated particles to the medium, the remaining fluorescent conjugated receptor would bind to the particles, providing for a distribution of particles of varying fluorescence.
Another technique may also be illustrated by employing an aggregation. In this technique, non-fluroresent particles are employed, and the continuous phase is made fluorescent. Thus, when the aggregation is present in the sample volume, there will be a substantial diminution in the observed fluorescence. These particles, while non-fluorescent should also be substantially opaque to excitation of fluorescent light. Thus, they will create a substantial shadow, inhibiting the detection of fluoresce in a volume substantially greater than the volume of the aggregation.
Still another way of obtaining a heterogeneous population of fluorescent particles is to allow a fluorescent tag to label non-fluorescent particles. For example, non-fluorescent particles may be cells which have a plurality of antigens on the cell surface, there being a number of each antigen present. By employing fluorescer-labeled-antibodies to specific surface antigens, a specific set of non-fluorescent cells will become fluorescent. The detection of the presence of such cells is a preferred method of cell identification, e.g. red blood cell (RBC) grouping and typing. For example, in the A, B, O system, if the fluorescent tag were conjugated to anti-A antibody, binding would occur and there would be a greater increase in cell fluorescence if the sample contained the A antigen of type A or type AB blood than if the analyte contained blood types B or O.
In addition to antibodies, certain lectins are known to bind in varying degrees to RBC surface antigens, and are convenient receptors for use in fluorometric assays.
Usually, there will be a distribution of levels of fluorescence, although in some situations it will be feasible to substantially saturate the available binding sites on the cell surface, so as to approximate only two populations, non-fluorescent cells and cells of substantially uniform fluorescence.
While not presently preferred, typing red blood cells (RBCs) or identifying red blood cell (RBC) antigens or the antibodies thereto can be effective by using the RBCs as fluorescence quenchers in an assay employing fluorescent particles to provide a detectable signal. Substances which bind to RBC antigens, normally antibodies or lectins (hereinafter "receptors") are conjugated to fluorescent particles. A solution of particle-conjugates is combined with red blood cells, e.g., whole blood, with an appropriate buffer. If an antigen is present on the RBCs that has a binding or determinate site specific for the receptor, the conjugated particles will bind to the RBCs which act as fluorescence quenchers.
Also, the determination of the presence of antibodies to a RBC antigen can be made. Three different techniques may be used. In one, fluorescently labeled antibodies compete with antibodies in the plasma or serum sample for antigen sites on test RBCs of a known group, with the observed cellular fluorescence decreasing with increasing amounts of antibodies against the specific antigen in the sample. Alternatively, the test RBCs may be fluorescently stained and, when combined with serum, the specific antibodies, if present, will agglutinate the fluorescent cells. In a third method, the fluorescent bead may be conjugated with the surface antigen of interest and antibodies present in the sample act as a bridge between RBCs of known type and the antigen conjugated fluorescent particles. In this situation, decreasing fluorescence would indicate the presence of the antibodies.
High extinction coefficients for the fluorescer are desirable and should be greatly in excess of 10,000 cm.sup.-1 M.sup.-1 and preferably in excess of 100,000 cm.sup.-1 M.sup.-1. The fluorescer should also have a high quantum yield, preferably between 0.3 and 1
In addition, it is desirable that the fluorescer have a large Stokes shift, preferably greater than 20 nm, more preferably greater than 30 nm. That is, it is preferred that the fluorescer have a substantial spread or difference in wavelengths between the absorption and emission maxima.
One group of fluorescers having a number of the desirable properties are the xanthene dyes, which include the fluoresceins derived from 3,6-dihydroxy-9-phenylxanthhydrol and rosamines and rhodamines, derived from 3,6-diamino-9-phenylxanthene. The rhodamines and fluoresceins have a 9-O-carboxyphenyl group, and are derivatives of 9-O-carboxy-phenylxanthene.
These compounds are commercially available with or without substituents on the phenyl group.
Another group of fluorescent compounds are the naphthylamines, having an amino group in the alpha or beta position, usually alpha position. Included among the naphthylamino compounds are 1-dimethylaminonaphthyl-5-sulfonate, 1-anilino-8-naphthalene sulfonate and 2-p-toluidinyl-6-naphthalene sulfonate. Other fluorescers of interest include coumarins, e.g., umbelliferone, and rare earth chelates, e.g., Tb, Eu, etc. Descriptions of fluorescers can be found in Brand, et al., Ann. Rev. Biochem., 41, 843-868 (1972) and Stryer, Science, 162, 526 (1968).
Appropriate particles are combined with the fluorescer using standard techniques to provide fluorescent beads or microspheres. Fluorescent particles are commercially available. The fluorescent beads may be varied widely as to size and composition. The beads will normally be made of an inert material and include a plurality of fluorescent chromophoric functionalities. The beads will have a sufficient concentration of fluorescent funtionalities to provide for a large signal per bead. Various organic polymers may be employed for the bead, e.g., polystyrene, polymethacrylate or the like or inorganic polymers, e.g., glass or combinations thereof. The particular choice of the polymeric composition is primarily one of convenience.
Conjugated to the fluorescent beads either covalently or non-covalently are receptors which may be antibodies, including monoclonal antibodies, or lectins, that bind either specifically or differentially to specific RBC surface antigens or antigens having the determinant site(s) of such RBC surface antigens or other antigens of interest.
The receptors are adsorbed to the fluorescent bead using standard techniques extensively described in the literature, which need not be repeated here. Alternatively, the receptors may be covalently bound by conventional techniques.
In one example of an assay, an RBC sample in a buffered aqueous solution comprising from 1-50% RBCs by volume is mixed with an approximately equal volume of the conjugated fluorescent receptor solution. As a control, an identical volume of fluorescent-Ab solution may be mixed with an equal volume of RBCs that lack specificity to the Ab. The mixed solutions are allowed to stand for up to 120 min. preferably 1-10 minutes at mild temperatures from above 0 about 15 antibody could be added as an example, or the result could be compared with standard preparations of Type A, B or O blood or serum.
The foregoing invention has been described with particular reference to the drawings. However, while the invention has been described with respect to the specific embodiments thereof, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes can be made in equivalence substituted without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention. All such modifications are intended to be within the scope of the claims appended hereto.
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Sultry Salvador , the heartland of Afro-Brazilian culture, was the main entry point for slaves from the African continent. Their legacy lives on in capoeira and spicy cuisine. If you do only one thing Take a walking tour of the Pelourinho, a Unesco World Heritage Site (the neighbourhood still has an edge though). Here you'll find capoeira and drumming schools, many offering classes to tourists. On Tuesday nights there's a massive street party, including drumming group Olodum. Where to hang out Rio Vermelho is an up-and-coming area for nightlife with a bohemian flavour. Look out for the barracas do acaraje - stalls selling street foods. Escape the crowds Most people head north by bus to Bahia's golden beaches dotted with laid-back resorts. In the rainy season, which coincides with the World Cup, head to the wild Chapada Diamantina. Fly from Salvador to Lencois, where agencies provide walking guides and camping gear.
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Review: 'Scream 4' should delight fans, marks return to first film
Neve Campbell's performance anchors this resurrected franchise
<p>Alison Brie, Marley Shelton, Adam Brody, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Anthony Anderson are just part of the sprawling ensemble in 'Scream 4'</p>
Alison Brie, Marley Shelton, Adam Brody, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Anthony Anderson are just part of the sprawling ensemble in 'Scream 4'
Credit: Dimension Films
Your reaction to "Scream 4" will depend largely on your reaction to the "Scream" series as a whole.
When the original "Scream" came out, I was not among the people who went nuts for it. I don't hate the film or anything, but it doesn't do much for me. As a horror film, I think it's flat, and as a mystery, I don't think it plays fair. I'm not the sort of person who enjoys being nudged in the ribs by references to other movies and pop culture, and much of the charge the film enjoyed came from the way it riffed on the rules of horror films.
What I've come to realize in the years since the film's release is that it was an important gateway drug for an entire generation of people who had never seen a horror film of any sort. And for those people, the last ten years has probably seemed like a very long time to wait between movies. For them, I think the wait will end up being worth it, because "Scream 4" feels to me like the most direct sequel to the first film, both thematically and stylistically, and I think it's one of the most confident films in Wes Craven's filmography.
That brings me to my next point, and I want to tread lightly here. Wes Craven's got a big reputation, and I'm not sure I understand why. I quite like the original "Nightmare On Elm Street," and I'm pretty fond of "The Serpent And The Rainbow," but aside from that, I am sort of mystified by Craven overall. He is, at best, a wildly uneven filmmaker. It's almost unfathomable to me to that same person who directed last year's "My Soul To Take" was also the director of this film. It doesn't even seem technically possible. Then again, "Scream" is only half-Craven. The other half is Kevin Williamson, and while there was some work done by Ehren Kruger on the script, you can feel Williamson's fingerprints all over it.
Take the opening scene, for example. My favorite thing about the first movie is that opening sequence. I'm half-convinced that without that one scene, the entire franchise wouldn't have happened, and both Williamson and Craven seem to attack the opening of this movie with a renewed energy. By the end of the opening, you'll have a pretty good idea of just what game they're playing this time, and whether or not you're up for it with them.
It's strange to be of such a mixed mind on this film. I didn't personally care for it much, but I can respect the way it does what it does. It inverts many of the ideas of the first film, playing off expectation in some smart ways, and it does ultimately have something to say about the very nature of franchise filmmaking and how sequels and reboots and prequels feed off the originals. My own reaction is tempered by my lack of affection for the series as a whole. A skillful sequel to a film I don't like is still going to bear many of the characteristics I don't like, and that's "Scream 4."
The good things I can say about the film have to do largely with the cast. By now, "Scream" is something of an institution, and without Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette, it's not really a "Scream" film. All three of them slip back into their characters easily, and Neve in particular does a nice job of playing Sidney Prescott with a decade of growth and healing under her belt. She's an author now of a self-help book about surviving and not being a victim, and Neve manages to play both her new strength and her old wounds in a very solid and even subtle way. In what had to be an uncomfortable coincidence, Dewey and Gale are having marriage troubles, and there is real tension between Arquette and Cox in the film. If anyone's got to have a complicated relationship with the films, it's those two. They apparently had totally different relationships on each film in real life and in terms of where the characters are. Complicating things is Deputy Judy, played with pop-eyed zeal by Marley Shelton, who strikes just the right note in her pursuit of Dewey and her naked distaste for Gale.
The younger cast members, including Emma Roberts, Marielle Jaffe, Rory Culkin, and Hayden Panettiere, seem to be relishing everything they get to do, which makes sense. They're the right age to view this as this tradition they're stepping into. Alison Brie, so good on "Community," plays the publicist for Sidney's book, thrilled when the murders start just after they arrive in Woodsboro, and she's appropriately venal. It seems like this is very much the same world as the first film.
Peter Deming has been shooting these films since "Scream 2," and this movie gets both "Stab" and "Scream" right, cleverly differentiating between the two in very funny ways. I think Deming is a great photographer, and he is a big part of the overall feeling that is "Scream" at this point, just like Marco Beltrami's score.
The movie plays out as a murder mystery, not a horror film, and that's fitting. I don't think the "Scream" movies have ever been particularly scary. The films are so self-aware, so carefully deconstructionist, that there's no hint of peril or suspense. The place where the film really falls down is when it lays out its big ending, which it doesn't really earn. I like what it says thematically when they reveal who-done-what, but it's not played right. It's jarringly sudden. Still, my complaints are almost pointless, since I feel like other people will get more out of the film than I did. if it's never bothered you before that these are essentially "Scooby-Doo" movies in terms of structure, then it shouldn't bother you now.
Here's the bottom line. I'd much rather see a good slasher movie that plays both by and against the rules of the genre than something that is constantly telling me that it is an observation on the genre. That's me. I know how to read a room when an audience is watching a movie, and the audience I saw it with thought "Scream 4" was scream-worthy, laughing in all the right places.
"Scream 4"" opens everywhere this Friday.
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Apple Raisin Rice Pudding
Preheat oven to 350°. Butter an ovenproof baking dish. In a medium bowl, combine the rice, apple-raisin mixture, ricotta cheese, and cinnamon. Scoop into the prepared dish. Pour the milk into a saucepan, add sugar substitute, and scald. Do not boil. Set... - 39.7611
Chantilly Raisin Rice Pudding
Combine raisins, milk, and cream in a saucepan; place over low heat. Beat the eggs with the sugar, nutmeg, salt, and extract until thoroughly blended. Mix with the cooked rice. Stir the hot liquid with raisins into the rice mixture and turn into a 1 quart... - 41.8701
Rice Pudding With Raisins
1 Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl; stir well. Pour into eight 6 oz. custard cups, filling each 3/4 full. 2 Microwave 24 to 28 minutes on 5 (MEDIUM), or until almost set in center. If necessary, remove individual cups as they finish cooking and... - 34.043
Custard Rice Pudding
GETTING READY 1. Preheat an oven to 325° F. 2. Wash raisins, strain and set aside. 3. Grease a 2 quarter casserole dish with oil or unsalted butter. MAKING 4. Use a large sauce pan. 5. Heat the milk to below scalding point. 6. Stir in washed raisins. 7.... - 44.89
Custard Rice Pudding
MAKING 1) Follow the instructions on the package to cook the rice. 2) Beat the sugar, eggs, salt, vanilla and milk properly together and add the rice and raisins. Stir well. 3) Pour the mixture into a 1-quart baking dish that would fit into the slow cooker to... - 42.5091
Custard Rice Pudding
GETTING READY 1) Preheat the oven to 300°F. MAKING 2) In a shallow baking dish, combine all the ingredients, except nutmeg. 3) Sprinkle evenly with the nutmeg and set in a pan of hot water. 4) Bake in the preheated oven for about 1 1/2 hours. SERVING 5)... - 44.4294
Brown Rice Custard Pudding
Preheat oven to 325°. Beat eggs well, stir in vanilla and nutmeg. In a large, separate bowl, beat milks together until smooth. Add honey. Stir in the rest of the ingredients, mixing well. Stir in the eggs gently but thoroughly Pour into a well-greased,... - 45.2356
Rice Custard Pudding
Preheat oven to 300°F. Cook rice as label directs. Into 2-quart casserole, break eggs; beat slightly with fork. Stir in sugar, vanilla, raisins, lemon peel. Stir milk into rice; stir into egg mixture; sprinkle with nutmeg; dot with butter. Set casserole in... - 45.2299
Rice Custard Pudding
Rice Custard Pudding is a very easy to prepare delicious recipe. Enjoy this amazingly mouth watering Rice Custard Pudding dish; I am sure you would love to share your experience with me. - 44.1379
Easy Rice Custard Pudding
1. Cook rice as package label directs. Stir in sugar and vanilla. Set aside, covered. 2. Meanwhile, in medium saucepan, combine dessert mix with milk. Bring to boiling, stirring occasionally. 3. Stir in rice and raisins. Let cool, uncovered, stirring... - 34.7828
Classic Custard Rice Pudding
GETTING READY 1. In a saucepan, pour in the milk 2. Heat the milk in the saucepan until it’s hot. Stir continuously as the milk cooks 3. Add the custard mix to the milk and cook the mixture till it’s dissolved 4. Allow to cool for 3-5... - 41.4289
Custard Rice Pudding
Heat oven to 350°. Heat water to boiling in small saucepan. Remove from heat; stir in rice. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Blend eggs, sugar, vanilla and salt. Slowly stir in milk. Stir in rice and raisins. Pour into ungreased 1 1/2 quart casserole; sprinkle... - 42.8944
Cranberry Raisin Rice And Cereal Pudding
Preheat oven to 350°. Butter or oil spray an 8 x 8 x 2-inch baking dish or use a nonstick baking pan. In a large bowl, mix together the cooked rice and cereal. Stir in the raisins and cranberries. Set aside. In a bowl, mix together the milk, fructose, egg... - 40.7895
Vanilla Rice Custard
GETTING READY 1) Preheat oven hot to 325°. MAKING 2) In a bowl mix all ingredients together. 3) Sprinkle cinnamon over it. 4) Bake for about one hour. SERVING 5) Serve sliced. - 36.9277
Cherries & Cream Rice Pudding
This Cherries & Cream Rice Pudding tastes incredible ! Try this creamy boiled rice and fruit chilled dessert. Your suggestions for this Cherries & Cream Rice Pudding are welcome ! - 44.2928
Rice Padding
Combine custard mix and milk in a 1-quart baking dish. Stir to dissolve. Add rice and raisins; sprinkle with nutmeg. Bake as directed on package. Serve hot or cold. - 28.7831
Apple Rice Pudding
In saucepan combine cream, applesauce, raisins, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice, and salt. Bring to boiling; stir in rice. Cover; simmer 10 minutes or till water is absorbed, stirring occasionally. Spoon into dessert dishes. Dot with butter or... - 38.2496
Creamy Pumpkin Custard
GETTING READY 1) Preheat oven hot to 450 F. MAKING 2) In a blender add raisins, rice, soy milk, eggs, honey, molasses, pumpkin, spices, sea salt, and soy flour. 3) Whiz the blender until all ingredients are combined. 4) In a Pyrex pie pan add oil and pour... - 49.2866
Firni Dessert
Firini is a favourite dessert of Muslims,it is a form of plain Custard prepared from Milk and Rice Meal, made from crushed or ground soft Rice, soaked for 12 hours before cooking. - 33.5719
Pumpkin Rice Pudding
Pumpkin Rice Pudding are delicious and easy to make. Here is a brilliant recipe for Pumpkin Rice Puddingthat you shoiuldnt miss! Try it! - 45.0735
Old Fashioned Rice Pudding
GETTING READY 1) Preheat oven to 325 degree. MAKING 2) In a bowl, combine milk, honey, egg whites, cinnamon, and vanilla. 3) Beat until smooth and then stir in rice, raisin, and dates. 4) In custard cups, spoon the mixture and sprinkle nutmegs on top. 5)... - 47.8452
Rice Pudding Ice Cream
1. Preheat the oven to 300°. In a buttered 2-quart baking dish or souffle dish, combine 1 quart of the milk, 1/4 cup of the sugar, the ground cinnamon and the rice; mix thoroughly. Bake uncovered for about 2 hours, or until the pudding is creamy, the rice is... - 36.7094
Rice Pudding
Combine all ingredients in a casserole. Cook, uncovered, 6 minutes or until mixture boils, stirring occasionally. Serve warm or cool with chocolate sauce or whipped cream, if desired. If custard mix is used, pudding must be cooled before it will set. - 30.4659
Rice Pudding
Blend all ingredients. Turn into oiled custard cups. Bake at 350° F. until set, about 30 minutes. Serve hot or cold, topped with yoghurt. - 31.8612
Old Time Rice Pudding
GETTING READY 1) Preheat the oven to 325°F. MAKING 2) In a shallow 2 1/2-quart baking dish, combine the rice, sugar, salt and nutmeg together. 3) Pour in 1 quart milk, place the dish in the oven, then pour in 1 quart of milk. 4) Bake in the preheated oven... - 41.9231
Baked Wild Rice Pudding Brulee
This baked wild rice pudding brulle makes for a hearty and filing dessert. Made with rasins, dried apricots and cherries along with wild rice, the wild rice pudding brulee is baked in a water bath and broiled with a brown sugar topping before serving. - 44.9425
Baked Rice Pudding
GETTING READY 1) Preheat oven to 350°F. MAKING 2) In a small saucepan, cook the rice, milk and raisins over a medium heat, stir continuously and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat. 3) In a small bowl, beat the eggs, vanilla, nutmeg and sugar substitute... - 41.4644
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First he lost his studio and station home. Then some public radio stations dumped him after he criticized President Barack Obama. Earlier this year, Arsenio Hall swept in and poached his executive producer and other key staffers. Oh, and the tendons in his ankles needed surgery.
Life isn't always easy for Tavis Smiley.
No need for a pity party: The 49-year-old veteran broadcaster last month signed a new two-year deal with PBS for his self-titled late-night talk show, where VIPs from general-turned-statesman Colin Powell to dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov to author Amy Tan have turned up for in-depth discussions. He also co-hosts, with the scholar Cornel West, the public radio show "Smiley & West."
As one of the most recognizable black media personalities in America, he's sufficiently well-known that next year he's due for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But as Smiley recounted from his south Los Angeles offices one morning recently, the PBS deal was hardly a foregone conclusion, given some of the hurdles he's faced in this, his 10th year on the network.
"This year was supposed to be a celebration of all the stuff we had done together," he said, his briefcase crammed with dog-eared folders containing documents related to his various current projects.
That includes notes for "Death of a King," the book he's co-authoring about the last year of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. His right foot was sheathed in an orthotic boot because of nagging tendon trouble; he was due for surgery the next day, then weeks of physical therapy.
"It's getting harder and harder to make this stuff work," he said. "Every week, I'm beating my head against a wall, trying to raise money."
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The sluggish economy and reduced corporate spending have threatened the show's viability. But luckily for Smiley, Wal-Mart, a longtime sponsor, stepped up again, this time with a three-year commitment. But Wal-Mart covers only about a quarter of the costs.
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Is This It? - The Strokes
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• Summary: This is the debut album from New York indie-rockers The Strokes, who have been hyped by the British music press following the release of "The Modern Age" EP in early 2001. It almost goes without saying, but the group is frequently compared to the Velvet Underground, among others, thanks in part to singer-songwriter Julian Casablancas' Lou Reed-esque vocals. Expand
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1. 100
Simply put, Strokes have every quality rock'n'roll requires from its finest exponents and Is This It is where they come together.
2. The Strokes are not deities. Nor are they "brilliant," "awe-inspiring," or "genius." They're a rock band, plain and simple. And if you go into this record expecting nothing more than that, you'll probably be pretty pleased.
3. Delivers the goods in spades. [Nov 2001, p.94]
4. Hype for the Strokes is well deserved--it's hard to imagine a more vital American rock band.
5. Casablancas is all old-school rocker in the Mick Jagger/Chris Robinson mold -- an ugly/pretty boy out to beg, borrow and bleed for even prettier women while acting like nothing ever satisfies.
6. The album is certainly one of 2001's finest, most memorable releases. It just shouldn't be billed beyond what it is: a deliciously fun romp that draws heavily upon influences like the Velvet Underground, Television, and the Stooges.
7. A dandy little 36-minute album of simple pop tunes with all the right moves and no real motion.
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1. SiA.
Sep 27, 2001
This has to be the best album of the year, by lightyears
2. Mar 3, 2011
"is this it?" is fantastic. truly a landmark album of our generation. its so nonchalant but somehow through the apathy true brilliance is found. yes each song has a similar sound, but they are not the same. additionally, why would you change up the sound when it is good to begin with Expand
3. Ashley
Oct 25, 2002
The Strokes are fucking awesome. Thats all I have to say. Oh, and if you don't like The Strokes, then you don't deserve to go on living. Oh, and Julian Casablanca is incredibly sexy. And so are all the other guys in the band. Oh, and I saw them in concert in Chicago and they were SO GOOD! ok, really, thats it. Expand
4. nasnou
Jun 22, 2009
The strokes neither started nor flaunted the hype, so why would it be their fault if they were hyped by the press? it still doesn't change that this album is solid, powerful and one of the greatest albums of the 2000's. Expand
5. Jul 13, 2011
Yes, The Strokes are impressive and superb. Great quality rock is here, the voice is outstanding . Marked the history and changed and improved the classic genre . Expand
6. davem
Jun 6, 2003
This album gets better with each listening, unlike the ridiculously overhyped White Stripes album. The first few times you hear it may not be overly impressive but it will grow on you. Expand
7. [Anonymous]
Jun 30, 2002
worst retro shit ever. perfect for nme readers
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• Summary: The San Francisco Bay Area native recorded his latest album in seven days after a tour in Europe.
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1. Lifeline thankfully favors songs over jamming, but there's a casual profundity to tunes like 'Fight Outta You' and 'Say You Will' that a more complicated process might've squelched. Just add applause.
2. An album which on occasion fails to inspire ends with a sense of unbridled pleasure.
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Lifeline is a classy record that never outstays its welcome. [Sep 2008, p.98]
6. His most impressive feat is that the whole thing never once descends into Kravitz-sytle pastiche. [Dec 2007, p.116]
7. There isn't a bad song on the record, but neither is there a particularly good one.
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Sep 13, 2007
Weak effort. The songs are flat and often insipid. Does anyone consider the phrase "Happiness is having wings" inspired writing? Please. Major disappointment from a man and band who had been on fire with their last two releases. Expand
7. Jun 27, 2011
Boring album where all the songs sound exactly the same and none of them are inspired or go anywhere at all.
Barely passable for background
the production using old equipment is fine but doesn't really put any meat on the songs.
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• Series Premiere Date: Mar 20, 2009
• Season #: 1 , 2
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1. Reviewed by: Matt Roush
While things invariably and hilariously go wrong, Party Down’s appeal comes from the interplay of these endearingly delusional wannabes—now including Megan Mullally, replacing the irreplaceable Jane Lynch as a perky single-mom new recruit.
2. 75
The comedy never quite lifts into giddiness, but there are lots of solid, unexpected laughs. And isn't that cause for celebration? [26 Apr 2010, p.40]
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4. It's at once a simple, R-rated office comedy about a bunch of people who would have nothing to do with each other if they didn't work together, and a pretty wicked satire of the quest for fame at all costs.
5. Party Down, about a group of aspiring Hollywood types working as caterers, returns for a second season of stale jokes.
6. Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
7. Reviewed by: Diane Werts
8. Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
Party Down, which is funny, would seem even funnier if it were not so heavily indebted to the funniest TV shows of recent years. It's also problematic that the show is so highly inconsistent.
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Even though Party Down features a steady flow of absurd jokes and funny situations, it still offers more of a consistent, realistic, lively story than dramedies like "Weeds," "The United States of Tara" or "Glee."
10. Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
The rest of the original crew is back, in varying degrees of denial, cluelessness, incompetence and narcissism. They have been missed.
11. Reviewed by: Adam Keleman
The storytelling gifts of writer-producer Rob Thomas, the creator of another under-seen show, Veronica Mars, prove innumerous, as these wholly original, vital characters practically bleed insecurities, coming off as tenderly funny and human.
12. Reviewed by: Archana Ram
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Cosmically depressing and absurd, this "Catering for Godot" drips with despair even as you are crying with laughter. "Party Down" makes "Office" and "Parks & Recreation" settings look like dream workplaces for the shiny happy people. Full Review »
2. Sep 30, 2013
The writing remains strong, the cast still the lovable outcasts we grew to know. In season 2, everything jells so smoothly it's unfortunate and surprising this was the end. 8.8/10 Full Review »
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Class 335/288 - Rotary-type magnetic chuck (permanent or electromagnet type)
Subclass of Class 335 - Electricity: magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets
Definition: Subject matter wherein the holding magnet is a magnetic
No. of patents: 47
Last issue date: 07/10/2012
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8217743Magnetic locking system
Preferred embodiments of the present magnetic locking system can be used for releasably locking a first component to a second component. In one embodiment, the locking system includes a ferro-magnetic member associated with the first component, where the ferro-magne...
8183965Switchable core element-based permanent magnet apparatus
A method and device for a switchable core element-based permanent magnet apparatus, for holding and lifting a target, comprised of two or more carrier platters containing core elements. The core elements are magnetically matched soft steel pole conduits attached to ...
7396057Lifting magnet
A lifting magnet having a housing, a rotary magnet unit, and a stationary magnet unit. The lifting magnet also includes a pinion, a socket moving up and down, a slider rotating the pinion to set the magnetization and demagnetization states at top and bottom dead poi...
7354360Method and apparatus for teaching a user how to hit a ball with a bat
Disclosed is an apparatus for teaching a user how to hit a ball with a bat. The apparatus includes a telescopically adjustable tee assembly that is magnetically secured to an underlying base. A user can easily make adjustments to both the vertical height of the tee ...
7328630End effector inspection apparatus and method
A method for using an end effector for inspecting a structure is provided. An end effector includes a magnetically coupled attachment member for connecting the end effector to a control system bridge. An end effector also includes a telescoping arm at least partiall...
7224251Magnetic retaining device for machine tool
A magnetic retaining device for attaching a work piece to a machine tool includes a magnetic housing having two housing members secured together and having different magnetic poles, and a magnetic core rotatably received in the magnetic housing and having two core m...
7049919Magnetic adsorption device and production method thereof and magnetic apparatus
A magnetic adsorption device comprises: a magnetic circuit block having a cavity extending in one direction and divided into a plurality of magnetic pole members at intervals in the circumferential direction of the cavity by a plurality of spacers; and a permanent m...
7038566Magnetic pallet for anchorage of ferromagnetic parts for machining by machine tools with horizontal tool axis
A magnetic pallet (1) for anchorage of a ferromagnetic part to be taken for machining to a machine tool with horizontal tool axis, the magnetic pallet (1) including a base plate (3), a vertical parallelepiped shoulder (5) extending from t...
7012495Switchable permanent magnetic device
A switchable magnetic device includes a first magnet and a second magnet, both of which are essentially cylindrical. Magnets are housed in a housing made from pole pieces. Pole pieces are ferromagnetic. Lower magnet is fixedly mounted in the housing while upper magn...
7009480Semi-releasable magnetic tool
A semi-releasable magnetic tool is disclosed. The tool comprises two magnetizable pole plates. Each of said pole plates is bounded by peripheral edges. The pole plates are spaced apart and preferably disposed in substantial registry with one another. A generally non...
6975057Rotary electric machine having a stator made up of sectors assembled together
The invention relates to a rotary electric machine including a stator, powered by a polyphase current, having a magnetic circuit with teeth forming intervening slots for receiving electrical conductors. The magnetic circuit is made up of an assembly of sectors defin...
6963261Magnetic anchoring module with a system for enabling/disabling and adjusting the magnetic anchoring force and related assemblies
Magnetic module for the magnetic anchorage to a ferromagnetic surface of another magnetic, or ferromagnetic module, whose head includes: a first multipolar magnetic stator that in turn defines a multipolar magnetic anchoring surface, and a multipolar magnetic rotor ...
6949854Method and apparatus for a continuously variable-ratio transmission
A method and apparatus for providing a continuously variable transmission (CVT) is described. The CVT comprises permanent magnets to couple power, a coefficient of coupling controlled by an electronic servo control loop. Wherein torque multiplication is achieved by ...
6854777Magnetic lifting machine using neodymium magnets
A magnetic lifting machine according to the present invention is to prevent an antioxidant film on the surface of neodymium magnets from exfoliation, by having the neodymium magnets not be in direct contact with a pair of polarity plates of the machine but via anti-...
6707360Switchable permanent magnetic device
A switchable magnetic device includes a first magnet (10) and a second magnet (11), both of which are essentially cylindrical. Magnets (10,11) are housed in a housing made from pole pieces (12,13). Pole pieces (12, 13) are ferromag...
6663154Servocontrolled magnetic gripping device
A magnetic gripping device having a magnetic assembly in turn having an outer magnetic core, and an inner magnetic core mounted inside the outer magnetic core so as to rotate, about a given axis of rotation, between a first operating position, in which th...
6630878Magnetic rotating apparatus
A magnetic rotating apparatus is used for connecting a body portion and a rotating portion of a foldable product. The body portion has an assembling portion while the rotating portion has a pivot portion. The rotating portion is secured to the body portio...
6331810Magnetic lifting apparatus
A magnetic lifting apparatus by using neodymium magnets, incorporating a plurality of polarity plates (10) disposed with a predetermined interval and having non-magnetic medium (11) in the longitudinal center; a plurality of interval members (20) disposed...
6292078Manually controlled magnetic anchoring device
A manual magnetic anchoring device includes a monolithic ferromagnetic block, whereon a housing for stator magnets, a housing for a rotor core, a ferromagnetic crown for short circuiting of the magnetic flux during deactivation of the anchoring device, an...
6288684Antenna mounting apparatus
A mounting apparatus (100) suitable for retaining an antenna (112) includes a base (102) having magnetic sources (104) and (106) capable of providing varying magnetic forces. Magnet (104) retains the base against a metal surface (410), while an electronic...
6106682Thin-film processing electromagnet for low-skew magnetic orientation
An electromagnet having one or more coils wrapped around a plate-shaped core produces a uniaxial magnetic filed in the vicinity of a substrate surface for orienting a magnetic film deposited onto the substrate surface. Variations in the magnetic mass of t...
6076873Magnetic lifting apparatus
A magnetic lifting apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic substances, a plurality of rotor seat members, magnetic rotors, and permanent magnets alternately aligned with the plurality of magnetic substances. The apparatus includes stopping members for ...
5853521Multi-cathode electron beam plasma etcher
A multi-cathode electron beam plasma etcher is disclosed. The multi-cathode electron beam plasma etcher is comprised of: a vacuum chamber; several cathodes which are installed in the upper end of the upper part of the chamber and generates an electron bea...
5525950Magnetic base
A magnetic base including a rotary magnetic element, two symmetrical magnetic plate assemblies covered around the rotary magnetic element, and two non-magnetic blocks connected between the magnetic plate assemblies at different elevations; in which, each ...
5435613Magnetic lifting apparatus
A magnetic lifting apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic substances, a plurality of pairs of first permanent magnets, a plurality of rotors having a pair of second permanent magnets, respectively, and an on/off switch handle connected to the rotors w...
5382935Permanent-magnet grab
A magnetic grab has a pair of vertically elongated magnetic pole pieces each having an upper end and a lower end. The pole pieces diverge downward symmetrically with respect to a vertical symmetry plane with the upper ends substantially more closely space...
5266914Magnetic chuck assembly
A magnetic chuck assembly comprises top and bottom plates separated by a layer of non-magnetizable material, each plate having magnetizable sections separated by strips of non-magnetic material. A rotor mounted between the top and bottom plates carries a ...
5219050Eddy current braking apparatus
An eddy-current braking apparatus including a brake drum; an annular support disposed within the brake drum; a plurality of shafts mounted for rotation on the support and each disposed substantially parallel to the axis of the drum the shafts being spaced...
5166654Permanent-magnet grab
A magnetic grab has a pair of pole pieces each forming a downwardly directed pole and formed adjacent the respective poles with horizontally extending semicylindrical seats having approximately the same center of curvature and open concavely inward toward...
5044460Downhole seismic exploration device and apparatus
A downhole seismic exploration device comprises a seismic detector such as a geophone and a magnetic clamp, supported by O-rings in an open cradle carrier which can be secured to a cable linking several such devices into an array. The array is lowered int...
4974512Magnetic rotary locking and tensioning mechanism
A magnetic rotary locking mechanism for locking a plate or sheet-like member by placing it in tension which may be adapted to provide a self-tensioning locking device for securing a printing plate to a printing cylinder in a rotary printing press. The bas...
4953136Downhole seismic exploration device and apparatus
A downhole seismic exploration device comprises a seismic detector such as a geophone and a magnetic clamp, supported by Q-rings in an open cradle carrier which can be secured to a cable linking several such devices into an array. The array is lowered int...
4880949Switch drive for a rotary switch
A switch drive for a rotary switch includes a driven shaft at its input and a switch drive shaft at its output. The input shaft supports a lever for transmitting the movement of the input shaft to a pinion fixedly connected to the lever. The pinion rolls ...
4684911Wide angle control of permanent magnet rotors
Apparatus for holding a series of permanent magnet rotors having parallel transversely spaced coplanar rotational angles firmly at any of a wide range of desired angles without consumption of energy, the angles being linearly adjustable independently of r...
4664572Chip disposer
An improved chip disposer which removes chips or iron chips produced from a machine tool by using magnetic force is disclosed. The chip disposer includes an extension shaft which is detachably mounted to a main shaft of the machine tool, an outer tube whi...
4625928Method of magnetic cylinder assembly
A magnetic cylinder and plate for offset printing. The cylinder has annular magnets and pole pieces. The magnetic circuit is completed through a printing plate. The magnetic flux substantially saturates the pole pieces and plates. The area ratio of the po...
4575702Permanent magnetic chuck
A permanent magnetic chuck in which a workpiece holding plate comprises a plurality of permanent magnets each with a magnetic isolator which are alternatively laminated, said magnetic pole pieces and said magnetic isolator are respectively constructed as ...
4536732Magnetic coupling for parts of an optical instrument
A magnetic coupling comprises two parts of an optical instrument, for example, of a microscope, which are to be releasably coupled together. A locating surface is formed on one part, this surface comprising one or more areas defined by bodies composed of ...
4470032Magnetic chuck
A magnetic chuck for use in grinding optical lenses consisting of a means for increasing or decreasing the magnetic force exerted by a magnetic attachment surface contained in a housing sized for use in a lens grinding machine, wherein the means for incre...
Continuous demagnetizing for a dial feeder grinder. The grinder has a rotating table, and a plurality of grinding heads for successively grinding workpieces put on the table and carried therepast. The workpieces are held on the table by a magnetic chuck, ...
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Method for determining primary static corrections to be applied to seismic traces
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Differential delay-time refraction tomography
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Issued on: 07/23/2002
Inventor: Osypov
Static correction method for exploration seismic data using first arrivals of seismic waves
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Issued on: 12/31/2002
Inventor: Zhou, et al.
Model-free refraction statics solution
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Dynamic water velocity correction Patent #: 6799118
Issued on: 09/28/2004
Inventor: MacKay
No. 10417090 filed on 04/17/2003
US Classes:
702/14, Seismology703/5, Of physical phenomenon (e.g., heat, wave, geophysics)367/53, For dip367/52, Normal moveout367/38, Signal analysis and/or correction700/90, SPECIFIC APPLICATION, APPARATUS OR PROCESS702/17, Filtering or noise reduction/removal702/18, Velocity of seismic wave702/16Specific display system (e.g., mapping, profiling)
Primary: Barlow, John
Assistant: Taylor, Victor J.
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• 2 798 737 FR 09/01/2000
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The present invention relates to a method for calculating the primary static corrections to be applied to sets of seismic traces after seismic prospecting operations in an underground zone, by applying a velocity model of the seismic waves in a formation zone close to the surface (including the weathered zone or WZ).
It is generally the case, that the formations close to the surface are poorly consolidated and weathered, and that their compaction increases with the depth of burial. The velocity of propagation of the seismic waves therefore increases with the depth.
Furthermore, the velocity or propagation varies not only in stages at the interfaces between the various layers successively encountered by the waves, but also increases continuously within each one. It is also assumed that the velocity does not vary laterally as long as the distribution of the source-receiver offsets remains below an interval corresponding to a reasonable offset (typically less than or equal to 2000 m) meeting this 1D hypothesis.
In 1930, Blondeau proposed a method of calculating static corrections from the refraction pick, in the case of a single layer, and he showed that the increase of velocity V with depth Z in superficial media follows a law of the form as follows ##EQU1##
n tending to 6 for consolidated media.
Gassmann, F. (1951), in "Elastic Waves Through a Packing of Spheres", Geophysics, Vol.16, 673-685, showed that the velocity of propagation of P waves is expressed in power ⅙ of the depth in consolidated media, attributing this characteristic to a description of the medium considered as a packing of spheres where the interstitial space is minimal for consolidated media (see FIG. 2): ##EQU2##
with, ##EQU3##
where E is Young's modulus and σ Poisson's ratio for the medium.
Musgrave, A. W. et al. (1967), in, "Practical Application of Blondeau Weathering Solution" taken from "Seismic Refraction Prospecting", Ed. Tulsa, Soc. Expl. Geophys., dealt with the control and the position of the interfaces of a medium having several layers, given by the interpretation of the time-distance curves in refraction shooting, and established curves showing that, in relation (1), constant n is directly related to the compaction rate and ranges from 0 to 6. Value n=6 corresponds to well compacted media.
These authors have provided a methodology for calculating the static corrections to be applied to the traces, based on the mathematical formalism described by Blondeau which allows going from a picked time to the depth of the markers. Interpretation of the slopes of the time-distance curve, plotted in a log-log diagram, allows isolation of each geologic level and the calculation of two quantities F and β connected to each other by a mathematical relation.
The method has to be calibrated (in order to initialize calculation) and requires a large part of interpretation for determination of the various levels. Since nothing in the method allows determination of the values of F and P for the first level, the velocity has to be set thereof so as to be able to start calculations from the next level.
The calibration point results from data obtained from well-velocity surveys, a technique that will be discussed hereafter, or from prior knowledge. In any case, relatively precise knowledge is required of the zone studied. In so doing, the time-depth curve obtained from the well-velocity survey can best agree with the curve resulting from calculation.
The measuring technique known as velocity survey or well-velocity survey allows estimation of the variation of the propagation velocity in the first rocks of a formation. This technique consists in measuring the times of vertical propagation of the waves successively emitted, between a seismic source triggered at points located at various depths of a borehole and a surface seismic receiver. It allows obtaining, on the drilling site, a (time-depth) curve of the formation portion drilled and consequently to give a calibration point for calculation of the static corrections, except for measuring errors.
For economic reasons, there often are not enough well-velocity surveys, which in addition are not deep enough. The weathered zone (WZ) thus has only a very small number of calibration points, so much so that it is not unusual in practice to have only one well-velocity survey for several seismic profiles. Furthermore, it will not be entirely determined if the survey does not reach the first compacted rocks. The calibration point will be of poor quality or at least contain a measuring bias.
The method according to the invention allows determination of the primary static corrections to be applied to sets of seismic traces resulting from seismic prospecting operations in an underground zone, obtained according to the multiple coverage technique and arranged in common midpoint collections.
In accordance with the invention a model representative of the velocities of propagation of the seismic waves in a formation zone relatively close to the surface is directly determined by carrying out, for each position of the common midpoint, a continuous and progressive inversion of the first arrival times, from short offsets to longer offsets, so as to be able to go from a sequence of pairs connecting the offsets to the arrival times picked for a sequence of vertical data connecting the depth to the velocity of propagation of the waves, and the velocity model obtained is applied to the sets of seismic traces.
The first seismic arrivals used can be obtained from any 2D or 3D seismic traces collection (whether corresponding to a common shotpoint or to a common receiver, a common midpoint, a common offset, etc.) and the picking of the arrivals can be manual or automatic.
According to a preferred embodiment, the method comprises, for each given common midpoint collection, an iterative process involving a number r of levels of the velocity model (corresponding each to a pair of picked time and collection offset values as explained in the description hereafter) and comprising A) an initialization stage involving a first level and a second level of the model wherein: a) for the second level, the value of a ratio (β) between the mean velocity and the velocity in the interval between the two levels is determined and the value, for the second level, of a function (F) depending on the value of the ratio is deduced therefrom, b) the value of function (F) is calculated for the first level by inversion thereof, c) the depth and the vertical propagation time are determined for the first level, and d) the depth of the second level is calculated; B) a stage wherein ratio β and the value of function (F) are successively calculated for each one of the (r-2) levels of higher order so as to deduce therefrom the vertical time and the depth of each corresponding level of the model and a velocity is deduced therefrom, C) reiteration of stages A) and B) for each collection so as to determine the vertical propagation time and the depth of each corresponding level of the model and to deduce therefrom the corresponding velocities, and D) calculation of the static corrections to be applied to the sets of seismic traces.
The method according to the invention allows correct carrying out the initial calibration of the first level without requiring (costly) well-velocity surveys or a priori knowledge. It also allows automation of all of the actions which so far were manual and interpretative (slopes exploitation). Furthermore, the method is applied to 2D or 3D seismic data.
Other features and advantages of the method according to the invention will be clear from reading the description hereafter of an embodiment given by way of non limitative example, with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIGS. 1A, 1B1, 1B2, 1B3 diagrammatically show refracted raypaths between a source point and various receivers (FIG. 1A) and how these rays are organized in CMP (FIGS. 1B1, 1B2, 1B3),
FIG. 1c is a zoom view at a given depth Z of the angle of emergence showing the relation between the local slope of the angle and the depth,
FIG. 2 illustrates the way the formation compaction is modelled by a variation as a function of the depth of the spheres density,
FIGS. 3A and 3B, for a given CMP, show the refracted raypaths (FIG. 3A) and the distribution of the picked first arrival times as a function of the distance h of the seismic shot (FIG. 3B),
FIG. 4 shows the result of the inversion in form of velocity-depth pairs in a log-log representation,
FIG. 5 shows the curve of function F as a function of β, whose validity range is between 0.2<β<0.98 (Musgrave et al.),
FIG. 6 allows to compare, for the same position, the measurements of a well-velocity survey (triangle) with the result obtained by the method (square),
FIG. 7 shows the static correction curve obtained by the method (dashed which can be directly compared with the curve obtained by means of a proven tool working from the method known as delay method to specialists, such as the Green Mountain Geophysics "Fathom" tool (solid curve),
FIG. 8 shows the velocity model obtained by applying the method, and
FIG. 9 illustrates, by way of example, the map of the static corrections obtained for a 3D seismic survey.
The seismic data to which the method of the invention is applied are sets of traces obtained in the field according to the conventional technique allowing coverage (CMP).
The conventional data conditioning operations before applying the method according to the invention to the seismic traces comprise for example: picking the first arrivals and obtaining an ASCII file in which each pick is referenced with geographic data for the seismic source and the receiver, editing the pick, quality control: checking the geometry, the altimetry, etc., arranging the traces referred to as upstream traces (traces before the shotpoint) and the traces referred to as downstream traces (traces behind the shotpoint) in common midpoint (CMP) collections and in different files, so as to bring to the same point all the (Tij,Xij) pairs and thus to better stabilize the total refraction point at the vertical of this location. It can be noted that this separation between upstream and downstream traces is not mandatory but only recommended. It affords the significant advantage of allowing control of the acquisition geometry, application of different thresholds: a) according to the degree of coverage, the CMP collections whose degree is below three, i.e. having less than three (Tij,Xij) pairs, are not processed, b) on the minimum and maximum offsets, which are given by the user, c) with rejection of the offsets of a pair N that would be less than the offsets of pair (N-1), d) with the same rejection as in c) which is carried out for the picked times.
These prior operations being carried out on the trace sets, the specific "pseudo-well-velocity survey" method according to the invention is applied, which is essentially a continuous and progressive inversion of the first arrival times, that is the refracted waves, from short offsets to longer offsets, so as to be able to go from a sequence of offset/picked arrival time pairs (FIG. 3) to a sequence of vertical depth/velocity data (FIG. 4). By carrying out this inversion, a "pseudo-well-velocity survey" is calculated for each position of the common midpoint. In the end, without having to perform a well-velocity survey, a velocity model characteristic of the superficial rocks is delivered and, from this "geologic" model of the weathered layers, it is possible to calculate primary static corrections. The operations for implementing the method can be readily automated under UNIX or LINUX for example) and rapidly executed.
A model representative of the variation of the propagation velocities in the first rocks of the underground formation is determined by means of seismic traces conventionally formed during a succession of exploration cycles comprising application in or on the ground by means of a triggered source S (referred to as shot hereafter), generating seismic waves, recording the wavetrain reflected by the underground formation discontinuities in response to the seismic waves transmitted, picked up by a set of seismic receivers R coupled with the formation, and combination of the sets of seismic traces obtained (multiple coverage technique or CDP).
The initial data reorganization stages are illustrated by FIGS. 1A-1C.
The starting point is the data acquired at the shotpoint (FIG. 1A) so as to form, for each one, a set of pairs (picked time, Tij/source-receiver distance, Xij). Each one of these pairs, from the same shotpoint, does not belong to the same CMP collection. Before initializing the calculations, all of the (Tij,Xij) pairs therefore have to be reorganized into CMP collections (FIGS. 1B1, 1B2, 1B3). Thus, in the example, the first pair associated with the shotpoint (FIG. 1A) becomes the first pair of the CMPp collection (FIG. 1B2), the second pair associated with the shotpoint becomes the second pair of the CMPq collection (FIG. 1B3), etc.
Once this essential preliminary stage has been carried out, the well-velocity survey calculation proper can start.
The mathematical procedure used for implementing the method is first described hereafter.
The velocity in the media is considered to vary according to relation (1). Let Xij be the distance between source i and receiver j, then if replacement occurs in the expression of the sine of the critical angle θ (Snell-Descartes formula) of the velocity by relation (1), depth Z at any point of the ray is expressed by the relation:
where Zm is the maximum penetration of the ray, and θ the angle between the vertical and the ray at depth Z.
Differentiation of relation (3) and replacement, in this relation, of dx by (tanθdZ) (FIG. 1c), then Zm is expressed as a function of Xij such that:
with ##EQU4##
It may be shown that a substantially equivalent expression for the previous integral is: ##EQU5##
Similarly, the traveltime (FIG. 1c) is written as follows:
Thus, if integration of relation (6) occurs: ##EQU6##
By substitution of the velocity for expression (1) and Zm for relation (4), the relation as follows is obtained: ##EQU7##
from which β is expressed and tv is deduced, as follows: ##EQU8##
For each trace, the initial data are: Tij (picked time between shot i and trace j), Xij (distance between source i and receiver j).
For each midpoint position, the application itends to define, for all of the (Tij,Xij) pairs picked: Vint or Vm, the interval or mean velocity of the medium, Z, the depth of the interface.
Parameter β thus appears as the ratio between the mean velocity ##EQU9##
Relation (1) is used to determine the velocity and the curve established by Musgrave et al. (such as the curve of FIG. 5) giving the variation of F as a function of β.
The calculation process essentially consists, for each given "pseudo-well-velocity survey" (or, in other words, for each CMP collection processed), and for each (picked time/offset) pair, starting from the short offsets up to the longer offsets selected, in obtaining a new pair: velocity and depth.
The process being iterative, a velocity model is obtained with as many "layers" or "levels" as there are (picked time/offset) pairs to be processed in the CMP collection.
Thus, for all of the midpoint collections ( . . . , CMPn, . . . CMPp . . . , CMPq, . . . ), the calculation algorithm (illustrated in FIG. 1) is as follows: A) In an initialization stage involving the first two levels of the model level [1] and level [2], a) the value of function β is determined for level [2], for the second picked time/offset pair of the CMP collection (application of relation (7)), b) by means of the approximate expression of function F, the value of F is deduced for this level [2], c) function F is inverted (see curve FIG. 5) in order to determine the value of F for level [1], d) depth Z1 (=X1/F1) and vertical time tv (=T1/F1) are determined for level [1], and e) depth Z2 of the second level (Z2-;Z1=(X2-;X1)/F2) is calculated by applying relation (4); B) In a second stage, calculation is iterated for all the levels of higher order (level [3] . . . [r]) in order to determine β and F for each level or pair and the vertical time and the depth of each layer are determined by applying relations (8) and (4) from which the corresponding velocities are deduced; C) Stages A and B are repeated for each CMP collection so as to determine the corresponding velocities, and D) The static corrections to be applied to the static seismic traces are calculated.
The velocities are thereafter preferably smoothed.
FIG. 6 shows a comparison between the measurements of a well-velocity survey (triangles) and the results obtained with the method (squares).
The high density of points at the start of the curve for the well-velocity survey (measured every 3 m), which agrees with the pseudo-well-velocity survey results, can be noted. The much greater depth of investigation allowed by the pseudo-well-velocity survey can also be underlined. To obtain such deep measurements with a well-velocity survey, the drilling depth should have been doubled or tripled, which is economically unrealistic.
FIG. 8 shows a velocity model obtained by means of the method on Paris Basin data. The vertical dimension is the depth expressed in meters (starting from the real altimetry, black curve at the top), the horizontal dimension represents the seismic profile expressed in common midpoint position CMP. In the present case, with 5 m between two CMPs, the profile is approximately 12 km long.
The different velocities are coded with different shades of grey from 500 m/s to 2100 m/s. The black line at the bottom of the drawing represents the entry in the compacted grounds, that can be very clearly located and by an objective criterion by applying the method. The white line (below) determines the penetration limit (last calculated value that is directly a function of the maximum offset used); below this line, the results shown are an extrapolation of the last value found.
It may be emphasized that the sampling of a "pseudo-well-velocity survey" is clearly looser than that of a well-velocity survey carried out in the field without altering the results of the former. In fact, for the former, the measuring points are obtained from a seismic survey, thus conventionally with a 25-m spatial sampling, whereas for the latter the vertical time is measured every 3 m or 5 m in depth. Despite this significant constraint, the results obtained by means of a "pseudo-well-velocity survey" are remarkably similar to the results obtained by means of a well-velocity survey (see FIG. 6).
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Duke Nukem Forever PS3 Interview with Gearbox Software
Right now there's a team based in Vancouver called Piranha and they're working on some amazing optimisations for PlayStation 3. It was almost inconceivable, when we first received the code, that we could bring it to PS3 but we refused to accept that and have put in a huge amount of work to ensure that the software comes to that audience.
The nature of the project and the level of goodwill that surrounds it in the industry mean that we've had plenty of people willing to jump in and help.
Have you removed or adding anything?
In terms of the story, the design and the experience, it's a 3D Realms game through and through.
I don't know yet. With Borderlands, the challenge was getting everyone's attention. With Duke, we have the opposite problem.
Not justice at all - I was with Duke for a few years and there are so many people involved for longer than me. One thing I am pleased about is that Allen [Blum] is still involved. Allen created Duke; I feel honoured and privileged to be carrying the Duke Nukem torch but only because I'm carrying it with Allen and he is involved every day.
Are you including multiplayer?
Sure, games have evolved in some ways but there are some areas where they've stagnated. For example, Duke Nukem 3D was really innovative, at the time, with its mix of combat and environmental puzzle solving. It was rich with interactive environments and plenty of secrets to discover if you veered off the natural path.
When's the sequel coming out?
I have spent zero mind share on anything beyond Duke Nukem Forever!
It's looking great! We've been radio silent but we're very excited. It's funny you should mention it because if you go back and look at Duke Nukem 3D, we included facehuggers and there's Aliens stuff up on the walls. I've been stealing from Aliens my entire career so it feels great to finally be involved in the canon.
Truthfully, the game was announced too early - the ink wasn't dry on the contract and we hadn't even written the first line of code, but we're really committed and so is SEGA, and I'm sure that pretty soon we'll be in a position to start talking again.
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2013 NFL combine results: Who is slower than FSU kicker Dustin Hopkins?
Dustin Hopkins is a kicker, but he took part in a good percentage of the drills at the NFL Combine. He might be faster than the guy your team will draft at running back.
One of the time-honored traditions of the NFL Combine is guys being timed doing random tasks which don't translate to their position. Case in point: fat guy 40-yard dashes. It might be pointless, but it allows us to do one thing: see which skill position players are slower than Florida State kicker Dustin Hopkins.
There's no real need for kickers to do combine drills. Sure, they have to run down kickoffs, but they'll generally only have to make a play in that department if the other ten guys on the unit don't do their jobs. For the most part, they could show their worth to NFL teams in Indianapolis just by lining up on the field and showing how many field goals they could hit. For the most part, we think of kickers and punters as the weak weirdo who sort of chills on his own for most of the game and then has to come out and nail high-pressure kicks, not on the same physical level as his freakishly athletic teammates.
But some guys take pride in their speed and ability to contribute in non-kicking departments. Former Cowboys kickoff specialist David Buehler - a linebacker in high school and sometimes fullback in college - made a point of going through all the combine drills and challenged teammates to races - and won. This year, of the six kickers and seven punters, at the combine, only a few decided to go through with drills: Hopkins, the kicker with the most points in NCAA history, Arizona State punter Josh Hubner, and Arkansas punter Dylan Breeding. They're either going through the drills just for the hell of it, to prove their work ethic or because they genuinely believe their physical attributes put them ahead of the competition. Watch Hopkins run and decide amongst yourselves:
(Note: only one long snapper was invited to the combine. Congratulations to Hawaii's Luke Ingram, apparently the best long snapper in the country and the loneliest man in Indianapolis.)
Their combine numbers are in, which means that without further ado, we present SKILL POSITION PLAYERS WHO ARE WORSE AT PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES THAN KICKERS AND PUNTERS. You'd be surprised - there's some elite names in there.
People as slow or slower than Florida State kicker Dustin Hopkins (4.74 40)
Missouri WR T.J. Moe (4.74)
Cincinnati RB George Winn (4.75)
Stanford RB Stepfan Taylor (4.76)
SMU RB Zach Line (4.77)
Kansas State QB Collin Klein (4.78) (actually, every quarterback except for Geno Smith, Matt Scott, EJ Manuel, and MarQuies Gray was slower than Hopkins - Klein's particularly noteworthy among the slowpokes since he's considered a dual-threat guy.)
Fresno State RB Robbie Rouse (4.80)
Pittsburgh RB Ray Graham (4.80)
People as weak or weaker than Arizona State kicker Josh Hubner (13 reps of 225 pounds on bench press)
USC OL Khaled Holmes (13)
Texas A&M DL Damontre Moore (12)
Kent State OL Brian Winters (11)
Rutgers TE D.C. Jefferson (3) (Jefferson suffered an injury during the bench press, so maybe let's cut him some slack.)
People who can't jump higher than Florida State kicker Dustin Hopkins (33.5 inch vertical jump)
USC WR Robert Woods (33.5)
Jacksonville State WR Alan Bonner (33.0)
Louisiana Tech WR Quinton Patton (33.0)
Duke WR Connor Vernon (32.5)
Baylor WR Terrance Williams (32.5)
West Virginia WR Tavon Austin (32.0)
SMU WR Darius Johnson (32.0)
Syracuses WR Alec Lemon (32.0)
South Carolina WR Ace Sanders (32.0)
Virginia Tech WR Corey Fuller (31.5)
Arkansas WR Cobi Hamilton (29.5)
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Northridge High team manager Kirby Christensen (left) embraces his younger brother Preston Christensen prior to the start of a game against Layton High at Northridge High in Layton last week.
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LAYTON -- During a timeout, Kirby Christensen edges into the Northridge High School boys basketball huddle offering drinks to the players.
With a pat on the back or a gentle touch of an arm, Kirby passes out the cups and then returns to his seat behind the bench as team manager for the Knights.
Whether dressed nattily in slacks, loafers, a white shirt and cardinal tie or Black Plague T-shirt, jeans and moon boots, he is a noticeable figure on the Northridge sidelines.
"I wear whatever (coach Chad) Sims tells me to wear, which is how the team dresses up on game day," Kirby says.
As team manager, Kirby dispenses Gatorade, gathers the basketballs before the game and at halftime, keeps track of the warm-up jerseys and has the board that Sims uses to diagram plays during timeouts.
He also attends all practices where he runs the clock, always encourages the players and is constantly looking for places to help the team.
Kirby, age 25, does all these things and more, while dealing with Down's syndrome, which is a genetic disorder present at birth.
Kirby graduated from Northridge in 2006, where "he was the most popular kid in the school," his father Kirby Christensen Sr. said. "Classmates would go out of their way to say 'hi' to him in the halls; he loved high school. It was the best time of his life."
"He is the entire family's hero; the glue that keeps us tight," said his dad. "He has always been very active in sports and still plays basketball in the Special Olympics."
Kirby Sr. approached Sims in 2011 and asked if he would be interested in his son as team manager. Sims had been named head coach in May of that year, after a stint as an assistant under Jay Welk at Davis High.
"We had a boy with Down's syndrome associated with the team at Davis and I saw what a great experience it was, so this was a no-brainer," Sims said.
Close with all the players, including Jake Bigler, Davy Adams and Dallas Bond, Kirby is hailed by the Knights as the "best team manager in the state."
Kirby's younger brother Preston is also on the team and is co-captain this year in his senior season.
As a 6-foot 1 guard, Preston averaged 10 points, three rebounds, three assists and one steal last year and was named first team All-Region 1 and second team All-State.
This year he has moved to forward, through the miracle of the measuring tape has become 6-foot 2, and is averaging 16 points per game, eight rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals.
"He's an enigma; he didn't get it (his athletic abilities) from me," Kirby Sr. said. "If he didn't look like me, I couldn't claim him."
"When he was a year-and-a-half old, we got him a Little Tikes Basketball Hoop and he would go out, shoot for hours and his mother (Melinda) would rebound for him," his father said.
"I have known Preston his whole life since he was a little baby," Kirby Jr. says. "We do lots of stuff. Me and him have fun, drive around, go shopping and we play basketball."
"We joke with each other a lot; whenever we're down, we can go to each other and pick each other up," Preston said. "He always tells me if I'm down, get back up, life goes on."
"We'll always be there for each other. Kirby has taught me more than anyone else. He has never been malicious with anyone; he's always willing to give someone a chance," Preston added.
Whenever Preston needs help on the basketball court, he turns to his other brother Chester, 26, a computer technician.
Chester played one year at Northridge as a sophomore, but learned his basketball acumen by applying the techniques that make him good at his job.
"Preston was athletically talented at a young age; he learned to run before he could walk," Chester said. "When other kids would watch cartoons, he would watch sports."
"He would come to me when he was seven or eight and ask me things that showed me he was serious about getting better. I would study timing and cadence of the great players like Steve Nash and Ray Allen; how they shoot and do things they don't realize. Then I would design drills that were outside the box to help distance Preston from other kids," Chester said.
"One of the things he always stressed to me was don't be praised by talent, but be recognized by hard work and adaptability," Preston said. "His favorite quote to me is hard work beats talent, when talent fails to work hard."
Chester calls Kirby and Preston his best friends.
"He (Kirby) looks out for me and I look out for him," Chester said.
Kirby started playing basketball in Special Olympics at age 8 and Chester was an assistant coach when he was 13 or 14. The volunteer coaches were frustrating to him and the players, so Chester became a head coach when he became eligible at age 16.
Chester coached for six years and had "a most enjoyable good time. Kids with special needs want to be respected and get the experiences that others get. Players and coaches learn compassion and love; these kids have challenges and embrace it at a young age. I'm glad and fortunate to be exposed to it."
When work got in the way last year, Chester turned over the coaching reins to Preston, who had been helping teach skills competitions the previous two years.
In his first year as a head coach, Preston guided his team to the gold Medal in the Utah Special Olympics Games at the University of Utah.
(Coincidently, Sims led the Knights to the Region 1 championship last year in his first year at the helm), with Kirby staring at point guard, but playing any position one through four on the floor. He has a deft left-hand set shot that often finds the center of the net.
By the way, Kirby looks stylin' in a tank top, gym shorts and tenny runners.
As far as continuing on as team manager next year when Preston graduates, Kirby says "I'll think about it, but if not, coach, you're just going to have to do it without me."
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People like her are the reason why I'm going into social services.
She needs her children taken away from her ASAP.
1857 days ago
Donations???? No. Can we say ADOPTION???? I have friends who cannot have kids and they are married and BOTH have jobs. How fair is that? There is NO WAY all those kids can ever get the attention they need. It is very SELFISH of the mother to do this. No pennies from me, but I will give her the name of my friend who really deserves a child and can provide for it.
1857 days ago
This woman cares only about herself. There is no way she can support 14 children to become productive grownups. She has endangered their lives, given them health care problems, and is stealing from the tax payers of California. She is not fit to be a mother. All of her children should be removed from her selfish lack of care for there happiness and she should never be allowed to give birth to another child.
The media comparing her to Jolie is bull. Angelena and Brad can afford their children and have their own money to give them productive upbringings. They, also have not endangered the lives of their children by having 8 at once for self promotion.
Octo-mom is not a mom.
1857 days ago
This woman is addicted to the attention she gets from being pregnant and having children. She has now figured out a way to get a ton of attention by having an additional 8. Who the hell has a baby let alone 8 and so soon after agrees to go on national television on an interview. Any rational Mom would be concentrating on the wellbeing of these premature little ones and making sure they growing and getting better. Instead she allows cameras to come into the hospital so they can be plastered all over tv. Oh and to top it off she than puts up a website w/their pictures and asks for money to support them . She is using those children like she is using her poor parents. She is living w/her 6 kids in a 3 bedroom home owned by her parents who are the ones currently supporting her and her 6 kids. Her Mom was quoted as saying they tried to stop her from getting pregnant as they couldn't take care of all of them anymore. Her parents can't be that young and probably had dreams of retiring instead of forever supporting their self serving, ungrateful and unstable daughter and her ever growing brood...shamefull...
1857 days ago
Miss E
Everyone who pays taxes has a right to be mad! She will not be using this donated money to cover the 1.3 million that taxpers will be paying that hospital for the 8 babies care. Her neighbors told the press that she DID have her lips done... so if you donate money to this woman then she will only spend it on herself. Her older children, including the autistic one, will be neglected from her attention for sure once these babies come home. I sent her this comment: Why are you buying acrylic nails and video games if you are so poor?
1857 days ago
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1857 days ago
If she can afford to pay for her IVF to get pregnant, she shouldn't be asking people for donation! She's dumb and STUPID!
1857 days ago
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Yes other countries do have large families howver, they don" mooch off of the government and then spend extra money on themselves. She could have bought three packs of diapers for the cost of thosse fake nails she was sporting. What I am saying is that this women is a clear case of welfare fraud. I don't think that the "people in India" are behaving like she is
1857 days ago
Liberal Bob
Get her sterilized, and if she can't afford to take care of the kids herself without welfare or public assistance, take them away from her. She is obsessed with having kids, no matter who gets hurt.
1857 days ago
Urszula Reed
I cannot believe how naive this woman appears to be - how could she possibly have thought about being a good mother to 14 children - it will be an impossible task for her to accomplish not working and not having a home of her own, no husband to help -- and she is relying on friends, family and the church!!? She has her head in the clouds. These poor children will not be able to live productive lives and go to college and enjoy one-on-one time with their mother. It is with great despair that I see this being reality as I couldn't have children of my own and I would have been ecstatic to have been blessed with one!! How could the doctor even have agreed to provide her with in-vitro knowing that she already had six children at home. It's just something so unbelievably insane for her to have brought all of these children into the world without knowing how she will provide for them - and who is covering the hospital bills? Me and everyone else - why should my dollars go towards her selfish indulgence of children when all i wanted was to care and hold one of my own. All I can say is Nadya needs to wake up and really think about the future welfare of each of her little ones and then feel guilt about what she has taken away from them. Also, I totally agree that this OB/GYN Doc should be held responsible for paying for some of the needs of these 8 babies - hospital and ICU care - seems to me that he is just as ignorant about responsibility as Nadya is!! I hope these babies will be OK - if they stay with her, i dread to think of the life they will be subjected to. A very concerned and "somewhat angry" person.
1857 days ago
On Larry King, her publicist said she is NOT on public assistance.
Please double check for accuracy.
1857 days ago
Any person who pays taxes in the USA is supporting this media whore!
She will get state and federal assistance!!!!
1857 days ago
What a joke... she clearly did this because she thought ( in her sick mind) she would get all kinds of rewards, presents, money etc... just like all the other moms who have more than triplets who get endorsments from stroller companies and diaper companies... she did to exploit herself and her kids.... what a friggin LOSER... why in the world else would you have more kids knowing you have no spousal support and you live with yo momma..... AND on top of that, what really ticks me off is the fact that she rec's food stamps and WIC.... what a CON ARTIST!!! she got prego so she could have a show on TLC, or like John and Kate plus 8..... and all these ppl that are goin goo-goo gaa-gaa over this, youre enableing her to the fullest.... she is feeding off it.... turn the page america!!!!!
1857 days ago
Normally when you are pregnant your mothering instincks kick in and you start buying things you will need deciding where they will sleep etc. She did nothing burt have her nails done.
When they were born she anounced she was going to nurse all of them, right then it was obvious she was not dealing with a full deck. it is sad the children have a mother that is mentally ill.
1857 days ago
Cherylann88 (#548),
You are terribly naive, dear child. What people here are saying is NOT that she had 14 children, but rather that she DID have them with an incredible lack of resourcest.
This is compounded by the fact that there are FOURTEEN ADDITIONAL lives that will be directly affected by this woman's choices. And this sounds fine to you??? This seems like a well-planned adventure by Suleman ... gone TERRIBLY bad.
1857 days ago
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Uncle Sam's Medical Pot Project Is Light on Research, Heavy on Compassion
Convinced that using small amounts of pot daily helped ease his discomfort better and without life-threatening side effects, McMahon smoked marijuana illegally for 20 years. Finally, he found a doctor in Iowa, where he lived at the time, who took a special interest in helping him get marijuana legally. He put McMahon through an investigation protocol and a spastic pain evaluation. Then McMahon contacted the people in Iowa senator Charles Grassley's office, and was pleased at their willingness to help.
McMahon keeps his monthly supply with him at all times. As a general rule, he tries to be discreet, in hopes of not offending people or appearing to kids as a recreational pothead. "I cope with the pain," he says. "Some days are better than others, but if I go more than a few hours without my medicine, I can get myself in trouble."
"He called me a motherfucker, called my wife a fucking bitch, and told me to shut my fucking mouth," he says. "They tried to get us to leave by intimidating us. They treated me like a criminal. I am not a criminal. It was one of the worst feelings I've ever had."
Despite the intensity of his daily struggles, McMahon describes himself as a "regular family man who has had to make wide adjustments." His voice and appearance are rugged, the heavy toll of years spent at manual labor, for mining companies and large farming operations. Today, he lives quietly on disability insurance at his modest home in an East Texas gated community, and enjoys spending time with his three adult children and seven grandchildren.
He has a certificate of heroism for participating in the President's Drug Awareness Program in 1990, signed by former first lady and prohibition advocate Nancy Reagan. McMahon is a reluctant hero, and he expresses gratitude to his family, particularly his wife, who has seen the difference cannabis makes. "If he did not receive the marijuana," Margaret says, "George would probably be dead by now from all the other narcotics he would be taking for pain."
In addition to struggling for survival, McMahon is fighting for the decriminalization of medical marijuana. Since government weed contains only a moderate level of the intoxicant THC, McMahon remains lucid and eloquent. He has traveled the country, speaking with university students and faculty, legislators, physicians, and law enforcement officials—all while smoking 10 joints a day.
The recent Supreme Court decision to ban the Oakland (California) Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative from distributing medical pot set the campaign back, even as it exposed the government's hypocrisy. According to legal documents, the compassionate program that helps George McMahon was a cornerstone of the cooperative's cause.
NORML's Armentano says the ruling shows the limits of a state-by-state approach toward legalizing marijuana. "The Supreme Court's decision shows that there are no shortcuts in the game, so efforts should be directed toward Congress," he says. "While the decision is unexpected, it is definitely no shock."
Few expect the federal government to start zealously enforcing the law. Consider the ramifications if officials began arresting and incarcerating tens of thousands of patients, breaking apart the families of sick and dying people, and using our tax dollars to prosecute, imprison, and provide medical services to these patients. Politicians want to avoid front-page photos of MS patients with spasmodic arms handcuffed to wheelchairs while relatives sob in the background.
Recent polls indicate 70 to 80 percent of the public approves of medical marijuana being used by the general population. Yet when decriminalization advocates push for reform, the government counters that there simply isn't enough research to warrant the reclassification of a potentially dangerous drug. This call for evidence operates in a circular fashion, as the drug laws themselves have prevented the accumulation of much data. Legitimate scientists who seek to perform controlled studies on cannabis face a daunting bureaucratic gauntlet. Additionally, officials have repeatedly ignored the findings of their own commissioned research panels, which argue that marijuana is a relatively safe substance and has medical applications.
George extinguishes his government roach as a blazing sun descends behind him on the lake. It seems unreasonable to him that our nation locks patients in prison, strips them of their voting rights, confiscates their property, and destroys their families, all because it seeks to eradicate a natural herb that has no fatal side effects, was used medically for thousands of years, and is less harmful and addictive than tobacco or alcohol. "I want people to know that I am just a normal guy," he says. "I'm not an activist, but I do believe that every sick patient in America should be able to make these personal choices without going to jail."
The writer is George McMahon's longtime friend and a fellow advocate for medical marijuana. The two plan to put a portion of the proceeds from this article toward promoting the cause through Patients Out of Time (, an organization McMahon helped found.
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LYNDHURST,Va. (WHSV) -- One local animal shelter battles over-crowding while another has empty cages.
It's a perpetual problem this year for the Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center.
"We have to keep the animals moving out of our door, in order to continue to be able to take them in and keep our euthanasia numbers low," said Lauren Maddox, with the Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center.
The center is open admissions which means it has to take any animal at any time for any reason, and it's full.
Meanwhile, the Augusta Regional SPCA has space.
Empty cages from when it operated as the area's open admissions pound.
The SPCA's director, Debbie Caywood, said they may have the space, but they don't have the budget to fill it.
"You can fill it up with dogs, but you've got to be able to have the money to pay staff to clean it, and you've got to work within a boundary. There's only so many adoptable homes in an area," said Caywood.
Records show in 2012, the SPCA pulled 83 dogs from the animal services center and so far this year, 29.
According to numbers supplied by Caywood about 15 percent of the SPCA's animals from other shelters last year came from the local pound in Lyndhurst.
"Even though we may not pull a lot of animals directly from the pound, we still service our community, and owner-release animals come here instead of going to the pound," said Caywood.
She said requirements from their "Rescue Waggin" program with PetSmart limits them as to what animals they can pull from the shelter bringing animals in and sending them out around the state and even North Carolina.
"If we want to adopt as many animals as we can, we have to look at what animals we can place outside the community, because the community can only absorb so many animals into their household, " said Caywood
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Firefox OS puts a good $50 smartphone within reach
The GeeksPhone "Keon" Firefox OS phone sitting on the box it came in, sitting on the desk I sit at. (Image: Matt Baxter-Reynolds)
I liked it.
However, go ahead and Google "no brand Android phones", and see what you can find. Click through to Alibaba.com, and you can buy a 4-inch Android phone with an ex-factory price of $40.
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• Start manning the pumps
Nokia is losing the low end and is still nowhere in the high end. They are up against entrenched leaders (iOS and Android) in the high end and apparently have nothing to compete with Android, and soon Ubuntu and Firefox in the low end.
Nokia gambled on the wrong horse. As I see it, MS/Windows is in a sense a damaged brand, which people are not clamoring for in mobile. You could call it karma, and MS is doing nothing to fix it with Ballmer at the helm; witness the Windows 8 debacle and the apparent on-going finger pointing and strong arming of competitors and partners.
The world does not need MS to succeed in mobile, and a decline in their desktop dominance would also be helpful.
I feel for Nokia, but in this fast changing world, falling asleep at the switch for even a few moments can prove fatal.
• you have too much
Bitterness inside of you. Eat a cake, it'll be better.
Throw All The Things
• He can't eat the cake.
He's lactose intolerant.
That's why he's always so bitter.
• Firefox OS will dance on Nokia's grave.
Nokia is dead. Nokia has an appalling strategy.
Guided by the two biggest fools in the business. The person who killed Nokia is CEO Stephen Elop, but he is just a proxy for the next biggest fool, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer.
Ballmer comes from the Microsoft old-school, and is utterly unsuited to manage today's technology. Ballmer hates open-source software. He once described Linux as "a cancer".
Now look what's happening. Open-source software, be it Android, Firefox OS or Webkit, is eating Microsoft's lunch. Despite the collapse of Windows 8 and Windows Phone, Ballmer is set in his old ways and can't change his attitude.
This isn't rocket science. A simple and effective operating system like Firefox OS will be immensely popular in developing nations, and possibly in developed nations too, where people want value for money and/or long battery life.
After Firefox OS becomes established in phones, there's no doubt it will then be applied to larger form factors, like tablets and laptops.
• Must be the year of Linux again.
It's the year of Linux every year, after all.
• Have you been living in a cave?
Even if you add up the sales of all forms of Windows, desktop + tablet + phone, it's still considerably less than sales of Android now.
You do know Android has a Linux kernel, right?
• I like Android, I really do.
But it isn't a "true" Linux operating.
A true Linux OS would be something like Ubuntu, or DSL.
There are a couple of articles about it somewhere around the internet, so you can search it up yourself.
• Oh android is Linux now?
I guess we can stop telling people how secure Linux is then right? Or is it only Linux when you want to inflate sales numbers?
• Re: Must be the year of Linux again.
Considering Linux is now outshipping Windows about 2:1, the "year of Linux" happened a long time ago.
• Yes. Yes it is, afterall.
It has been the year of Linux for quite some time now. Success is not merely measured by units sold or profit margins alone. Survivability and sustainability is the true, ultimate measure of success. The dinosaurs were the most successful species on the planet for quite a while. I'm sure no one at ZDnet would have given the mammals much credit for being a successful up and coming species if it had been around to put out useless predictions at the time.
• the dinosaurs are not dead
the birds are still flying after all.
• Didn't you claim at once that you are platform agnostic
and never hated Microsoft? Ok, I got it you were just pretending that time, but you just showed your real jealousy and hatred now. So as per your words, you are a paid shill to spew hatred towards Microsoft. Moving on.
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• Re: and never hated Microsoft?
Strange how a legitimate comment about the state of the mobile industry is automatically (mis)construed by some as "hating" the company that happens to be on the losing end.
• Hating, it is...
D.T.Long stated "The world does not need MS to succeed in mobile, and a decline in their desktop dominance would also be helpful." This sure sounds like anti-ms to me. If he said something like "The more competition and choices, the better for the consumer", that would sound neutral to me, but he basically hopes ms fails, but feels sorry for Nokia.
• Interesting that only after MS started it'sTE program
hiring shills to bad mouth competing products and began bribing bloggers to write favorable reviews about MS products that no one can say anything negative about MS and not be accused of being a shill for the other side.
"What other side?" is the question here. Who has the money to pay people to point out MS problems/failures and why would they bother when people will gladly do so for free?
• "What other side?"
I'm sorry, since when do you have to get paid to root for "the other side"? Someone better tell all those sports fans to check the mailbox for their check.
• How about virus agnostic?
Ever read a post here by a Linux user complaining about getting infected?
There are many valid reasons for hating Microsoft and their abuse of humanity.
• Isn't this article about a Phone OS?
I don't recall ever reading about an infected windows phone. Android on the other hand...
• How about virus agnostic?
Start educate, first read about How about Linux/Chapro.A
:::Apache is being used to carry out these attacks, injecting malicious content into web pages served by an infected Linux server, without the knowledge of the website owner. Although the malware can serve practically any type of content, in this specific case it installs a variant of Win32/Zbot, malware designed to steal information from online banking customers:::::
In short linux servers are infected by Linux viruses which infect other systems and steal data. Following your words: There are many valid reasons for hating Linux and their abuse of humanity.
• I'm not sure I would put Ubuntu
in the low end category because the devices required to run Ubuntu Touch and the potential app ecosystem that will be available upon public launch. Don't for get that Canonical is targeting enterprise first and consumers second with Ubuntu Touch.
I do agree that Nokia bet on the wrong pony in this race. If Nokia can not score a big hit very soon they may as well just let Microsoft absorb them into the abyss.
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I have created a URL alias (/admin/config/search/path/patterns) using different tokens, including also location tokens. When saving a new node, the alias is correctly created, using all the tokens defined in the pattern. Only the location token is missing in the alias.
The correct alias with the location token can only be created by bulk deleting the aliases and bulk updating them again.
Since all the tokens but the locations tokens are correctly seen, it seems that it's a location related issue.
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Não foi possível encontrar o iTunes no seu computador. Para ouvir uma prévia e comprar música Twelve Times Romance de @artistName[?]
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Twelve Times Romance
Kelly Harland
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Opinião do álbum
Kelly Harland has a career-full of backup singing and foreign releases under her belt, and this album is her solo U.S. debut. A dozen love songs make the lineup; she covers everyone from Hammerstein to Bacharach. While the vocals are always pretty good, Harland goes through the lower-tempo patches and tends to either go under-emotional, or over the top. Twelve Times Romance holds a little bit of a cabaret feel, but is really more of a straightforward studio output in those cases. The treat is when she gets hold of an up-tempo piece. Her voice has less time to wander, and she hits the parts perfectly. Her rhythm here is what wins it for her. As such, the album is an on-again, off-again affair. When she's in her element, Harland does a bang-up job of delivering the songs. When she's not, it's relatively mundane. Pick it up for a quick look at some local Seattle vocal jazz, but hit the bigger, older names first if you're early in your jazz years.
Gênero: Jazz
Anos em atividade: '90s, '00s
Although she has flown most of it under the commercial radar, jazz vocalist and songwriter Kelly Harland has had a long and versatile career as a singer. Harland's father was a jazz drummer and she grew up in L.A. listening to his favorite vocalists, a list that included Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Frank Sinatra, among others, while her mother was a collector of Broadway and movie musical soundtracks, so Harland received a good grounding in the vocal...
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We are unable to find iTunes on your computer. To buy and download by Drawlive Ltd, get iTunes now.
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The urban walking route planner for 60+ towns and cities† in England and Scotland († *** N.B. see list below for full details of coverage***). can help you find your way on foot around London and 60 other English and Scottish towns and cities.
With you can generate optimised A to B as well as circular walking routes. Each route includes a map, a set of written turn-by-turn directions, an estimated walking time (according to a slow, medium or fast pace), a journey distance (miles and kilometres), a Calorie burn and a carbon saving.
Taking advantage of your phone's location-awareness, the map can be set to follow you as you walk, and can even be rotated to always show the way you are facing with your phone. Following walking directions has never been easier!
For A to B routes you can chose between a direct (i.e. the quickest) route or a 'less busy' one that will try and avoid major roads and favour off-road paths through parks and by waterways. In London and Cambridge you can even chose a 'low pollution' route.
You are now offered up to 4 via destinations for your A-B routes.
Can easily find your way back with a convenient reverse route button, found on the map of any route.
With our circular routes you can choose between a range of times (between 30 mins and 4 hours) and walking speeds, helping you find health or leisure routes right from your front door.
If you are a mywalkit member you can also benefit from the personalised settings (e.g. walking speeds) that you have entered in your profile. currently finds walking routes for 60+ cities and towns in England and Scotland, with support for more planned. This app will stay current with all cities we support, which at the time of writing include:
* Aberdeen
* Aylesbury
* Birmingham
* Blackburn with Darwen
* Bolton
* Bradford
* Bristol
* Burntwood
* Burton-upon-Trent
* Bury
* Bury St Edmunds
* Cambridge
* Cannock
* Coventry
* Derby
* Dudley
* Edinburgh
* Glasgow
* High Wycombe
* Ipswich
* Kenilworth
* Leamington Spa & Warwick
* Leeds
* Leek
* Leicester
* Lichfield
* Liverpool
* London
* Lowestoft
* Luton & Dunstable
* Manchester
* Middlesbrough
* Newcastle & Gateshead
* Norwich
* Nottingham
* Nuneaton & Bedworth
* Oldham
* Perth
* Portsmouth
* Rochdale
* Rugby
* Rugeley
* Salford
* Sandwell
* Sheffield
* Solihull
* Stafford
* Stockport
* Stoke on Trent & Newcastle
* Stratford-upon-Avon
* Sunderland
* Swindon
* Tameside
* Tamworth
* Trafford
* Wakefield District
* Walsall
* Warrington
* Wigan Borough
* Wolverhampton
* York
The app currently only supports routes in the cities and towns listed above, and is only available with English language support.
What's New in Version 1.5.2
This version of the app fixes a number of bugs, brings full screen capability to iPhone 5 and focuses on iOS 7 compatibility. It also improves a speed of walking journey load times.
Major changes in this release:
* Fix a problem with feedback pages where for some users it was impossible to return to any other screen once the feedback message window had been displayed
* Fix a problem where the app would switch to the feedback page when the user switched to another app, or an incoming call put the app in the background.
* Fix a crash when the app has been put in the background.
* Change handling of calibration display so that it only displays when there is interference with the phone's internal compass and the compass is actually needed i.e. on the map view where tracking of user location is selected. Previously the app would display this dialog at any time that interference was detected, even if the compass was not needed at that time.
* Improve the speed of loading routes and displaying them on the map.
* Maximise the viewable map area - a single short touch on the map will hide the toolbar and navigation bar, and another single short touch will bring them back. This allows for more of the screen to be dedicated to the actual map, if desired.
The app's interface has been reworked to fit better with the new styling of iOS 7.
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• Updated: 06 January 2014
• Version: 1.5.2
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Beaked Monkey
Beaked Monkey (Psittarhynchus fructophagii) or Beakers (as they are sometimes called) are common on many worlds, both in the wild and in captivity. In addition, they are found on many starships as pets. Their planet of origin is not known, but the animals can be documented as far back as far as 300 years pre-lmperial, with a range almost as widespread as at the present.
Beaked monkeys typically weigh from 2 to 3 kilograms, and measure 60 to 75 cm in length, half of which is generally taken up by the tail. Tails are sometimes bobbed on animals kept aboard spacecraft. Beakers are covered by a short fur, most commonly brown or gray. Black is rare, and white extremely so. The skeleton and musculature follow typical terran vertebrate norms. Respiration is accomplished by the usual paired lung arrangement, the circulatory system is closed and the heart four chambered, making the animal very similar to certain small Terran mammals such as the squirrel monkey.
The animal’s most notable feature, the beak, is formed of two bony projections from the palate and mandible, covered by a horny substance resembling keratin. The lower third of the esophagus is extremely heavily muscled and lined with a number of toothlike grinding structures, which break swallowed food into fragments small enough to be digested readily. In the wild, the beaker is arboreal, and is thought to have originally subsisted on a diet of hard-shelled nuts and seeds, although specimens have been observed eating insects and other small animals. In captivity, beakers thrive on almost any available type of human food.
The animals are quite popular as pets on starships because of their gregarious affection to almost all humans, their intelligence and their scrupulous cleanliness. Some individuals are rumored to act as a booster for certain psionic activities, but this last ability has not been proven to the satisfaction of most authorities.
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DotNetNuke Manager
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We are looking for someone who is experienced with DotNetNuke 6.0+ and can complete the following tasks:
- install and configure modules
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In order for your application to be considered please answer this skill testing (English comprehension) question:
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Angola: Independence Regarded As Turning Point - Says Ambassador
Lisbon — The Angolan ambassador to Portugal, José Marcos Barrica, considered on Sunday in Lisbon the national independence (11 November) turning point of the history of Angola, with the conquest of its sovereignty.
The diplomat said so to Angop on Sunday at the end of the football tournament "Angola Avante".
Marcos Barrica highlighted that the self determination and freedom achieved by the Angolan people, which have enabled the country to materialize several deeds, despite the difficulties.
Speaking about the current moment of the country, the ambassador said that Angola is experiencing a turning point of its history with the political and constitutional stability.
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Grid penalties for Kobayashi, Vergne
June 24, 2012|Reuters
VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi and Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne were handed grid penalties for next month's British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone after causing collisions on Sunday.
Japanese Kobayashi was given a five-place penalty for tangling with Ferrari's Felipe Massa at the European Grand Prix in Valencia won by the Brazilian's Spanish team mate Fernando Alonso.
French rookie Vergne will take a 10-place demotion on the starting grid at the next race and was also fined 25,000 euros ($31,300) for banging into the Caterham of Finnish driver Heikki Kovalainen.
Both cars suffered punctures in that incident, with Vergne nursing the Toro Rosso back to the pits with the damaged rear tyre flailing around and spreading debris across the track.
The safety car then had to be deployed to enable marshals to clear the track.
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How do I get back the Netflix instant queue?
posted by madcaptenor on May 28, 2013 - 5 answers
Is there a service like ReadItLater/Instapaper for videos?
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How to add movies automatically to my Netflix queue?
Automatically add newly released movies to my Netflix queue? [more inside]
posted by joseywales on Sep 2, 2008 - 1 answer
Why can't I get the movie "Quiet man" from Netflix?
Why can't I get the movie "Quiet man" from Netflix? For a while now it has shown availability "Unknown" and just shows up in the "Saved" section. A couple of months ago, it was in my queue but it always had "Very Long Wait".
posted by fx3000 on Oct 16, 2007 - 14 answers
Netflix queue without Netflix?
I've recently canceled my Netflix account because I wasn't going through enough DVDs with them to make it worthwhile. However, I'm thinking of re-signing up (at the $4.99/mo rate) just to continue to use their site as a way to keep track of movies I've seen, movies I want to see, and my ratings. Is there some other software or website that can perform those functions without a monthly fee? Bonus points if I can import my Netflix history/ratings/queue somehow.
posted by SampleSize on Aug 8, 2007 - 12 answers
What do I do in the Wimbledon queue?
What do I need to know about the queue at Wimbledon? In particular, what kind of tent should I bring? [more inside]
posted by hoverboards don't work on water on Jun 28, 2007 - 3 answers
Netflix HELP!!
Netflix Filter: My Netflix acct/Netflix tech. support is driving me crazy! HELP!! [more inside]
posted by dpcoffin on Mar 24, 2006 - 12 answers
Standing in line...
When did humans first have the idea to stand in a queue? And what were they waiting in line for?
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Always Be Hustlin'
What Happens The Day After You Get Funded?
tawheed What Happens The Day After You Get Funded?
Post-funding grin?
On his Tumblr, at 2am, TK sketched a rough outline of what the-day-after actually looks liked, including terribly glamorous tasks like answering 52 customer service emails, posting job listings, making sure your iPhone developer has his priorities straight, crossing your T’s on Apple’s enrollment process, and fretting over your backlog of work.
What’s the point? The point is that the day after you get funded is like any other day that you are running your business. Getting funded is not some magical event where all your worries go away. It is not some big party to pop the champagne over. Its the time where you buckle down even more so that you can make it rain.
The day after you get funded, you still have to deal with the real fundamentals of your business. You still have to build your actual business, and you have to actually plan and execute so that you can actually deliver all those things you promised your Investors when you took their money.
Somebody bring this man a 16-olive martini. It sounds he’ll be at the office for awhile.
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1. Mingusahum says:
I’ll take three (martinis) while you’re at it.
1. Nitasha Tiku says:
And I’ll have all of Mings’ olives!
1. Mingus Ah Um says:
oooo you’re dirty!
2. steve liu says:
TK is a true grinder
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Why College Football Players Should Not Get Paid To Play
We've heard the arguments a million times. Football players make schools a ton of money and should be able to reap some of the rewards. Players are risking permanent injury by playing for free. Players are being used.
Blah blah blah.
Apparently, the gift of a free education is not considered enough anymore. Fine. But it's not just that five-year full ride the players get. It's all of the other stuff.
Free food. Any of you naysayers want to pony up the dough to feed an offensive lineman for a week? And it has to be healthy too. That's at least 500 bucks a month.
Free insurance. It costs approximately 400 bucks a month per person for decent insurance. Multiply that by 85 scholarshipped players...per month. Gulp.
Free publicity. Just how much is it worth to have ESPN talk about your team every week? To show your mug? Your stats? Think an agent can do better? For free?
Parental mentoring. Some of these players come from single-mom households, with no paternal influence in their life. How much is finally having a father-figure in your life worth?
Housing allowance. I know a few hundred thousand families who foreclosed on their homes might be thinking you got it pretty sweet. Live in a dorm and it's free. Act spoiled and want to live on your own? You still get a monthly stipend/allowance for that.
Free travel. I wonder how many kids who live in a small town ever will have the chance again to travel to California, Florida, Hawai'i or other beautiful spots. For free.
Travel costs. Ding, ding, ding. This is a killer, even for big programs. The cost for buying food, hotel rooms and such is a nightmare for teams on the road. The players never have to look at a bill. The school eats it all up.
The bill for Ohio State's trip to Los Angeles was $346,000. Over 24k was due to fuel surcharges. With most commercial airlines dinging you for a second bag and excessive weight, can anyone even imagine what those charges were? All that equipment? All that excess weight? Ohio State had to charter two planes. One was not enough.
The cost for NCAA football teams to travel for the '07-'08 season was 42.6 million dollars. Grasp that. Just for travel.
Universities and colleges spent over 42 mil to pay for players who, except for an elite couple hundred, will never set foot on the gridiron again. And they want to get paid???
Don't they get enough already? Can we stop future Divas-in-the-making now?
Only a small percentage of all active players actually make it in the NFL. Why should a perennial third stringer get paid to sit on a bench? Should Matt Cassel have been paid while at USC? He never started a game but is now starting QB for the Pats.
Maybe, just maybe, these student-athletes could cut down their expenses a bit. Maybe stop buying iphones, ipods, laptops, diamond studs, Sirius radio, GPS devices and expensive cars.
Stop paying for $5 beers at nightclubs and then getting into trouble which may require the school to hire you a $350 dollar an hour lawyer to defend you in a civil suit.
Study, instead of paying tutors to do your work for you.
Last time I checked, the student came before athlete. Student-athlete.
Respect that. And get that degree. Ask Gino Torretta or Jason White how important that is—two Heisman winners who actually had to go out into the real world and get real jobs.
Players need to start showing up and playing and instead of thinking they can coast through the games and land an NFL gig. The odds are against you.
Whether you make it there or not, make sure and send a thank you note to the school who gave you unlimited opportunities. A school that spent at least a million on you, the bench warmer, to represent the school. They are already paying you.
Don't stare a gift horse in the mouth. Just keep your mouth shut, study, and play.
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John Hodge (29 October 1855 – 10 August 1937) was a Coalition Labour party politician in the United Kingdom, and was the first Minister of Labour and the second Minister of Pensions.
Early life[edit]
Hodge was born in Linkeyburn, Ayrshire and attended Ironworks School and Hutcheonstown Grammar School. When he was thirteen Hodge left school to become a solicitor's clerk and then worked a grocer's shop before joining the local iron works as a puddler—the same job as his father.
Hodge first became involved with trade unionism while at the local iron works. Hodge helped form the British Steel Smelters' Association in 1885, of which he would be elected secretary, because their bosses at Colville. They were informed by works in Motherwell that their wages would be twenty per cent lower than before. The BSSA was a success and by the summer of 1886 practically every smelter in Scotland had become a member and by 1888 the BSSA had members joining from England and Wales and become affiliated with the TUC. The BSSA rarely organised strikes, but Hodge was successful at negotiating increases in wages.
Political career[edit]
Hodge was a member of the Manchester City Council from 1897 to 1901. After failed attempts to get elected,
General Election 1900 Gower District of Boroughs[1]
Electorate 12,267
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Aeron Thomas 4,276 52.6
Independent Labour John Hodge 3,853 47.4
Majority 423 5.2
Turnout 66.3
Liberal hold Swing
Hodge was elected at the 1906 general election as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton. When the United Kingdom declared war and entered World War I in 1914, Hodge took a very patriotic stance and criticised other Labour politicians for opposing it. From 1915 to 1916 Hodge was Acting Chairman of the Labour Party.
In 1916 he was part of the Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry. He was also elected as president of the British Iron, Steel & Kindred Trades Association which he had helped to form with other iron and steel unions. From December 1916 to August 1917, Hodge was the first Minister of Labour and had a seat in the Cabinet. At this job Hodge claimed that all strikes during war-time were acts of treason and Hodge successfully made striking boilermakers to go back to work by threatening to charge them with the Defence of the Realm Act.
From August 1917 to January 1919, Hodge was Minister of Pensions in the Lloyd George Coalition Government. In 1919 he appeared in the film Broken in the Wars directed by Cecil Hepworth to advertise a fund set up for ex-servicemen.
The Labour Party was not pleased with Hodge's anti-strike and patriotic actions and therefore put up a candidate against him in the general election of 1918 but failed to unseat Hodge. Hodge kept his seat in the general election of 1922 but retired from Parliament at the general election of 1923. Hodge continued to argue against strikes during the General Strike of 1926 and retired from the presidency of the British Iron, Steel & Kindred Trades Association in 1931.
Hodge was turned down for military service because he was too old. Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, who served under Hodge, called him a "fat, rampaging and most patriotic Tory working man".[2]
1. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
2. ^ Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, Memoirs (1925), p. 207.
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My problem is that I keep unlocking new weapons and I really don't understand a great way to compare the guns. I understand that if I start with a new weapon I need to spend a lot of time to unlock the good unlocks for that weapon, but there must be some general consensus as to some top guns and attachments.
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What I find in most of these "realistic shooter" games is that the guns are all pretty similar - in real life, if you point an assault rifle and someone else and fire it, they die. Who made it, the specific type of round that it fires, or what factory line it came off of tend not to make that much of a difference ;) – agent86 Jan 20 '12 at 17:51
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Weapon comparison charts:
Each site has forums with more discussions on the subject.
There really isn't a "best gun", it depends on your play style, your class and in the end what you are comfortable playing with.
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CollectionIndexerMethodClientName := "GetByUrl", CollectionChildItemType := GetType(SPFile), _
SampleUrl := "{apiroot}/web/folders/getbyurl({folderrelativeurl})/files")> _
PublicClassSPFileCollection _
Use the Files property of either the SPWeb or SPFolder class to return the collection of files for the site or folder. To create a new file, use one of the Add methods of SPFileCollection.
Use an indexer to return a single file from the collection. For example, assuming the collection is assigned to a variable named collFiles, use collFiles[index] in C#, or collFiles(index) in Visual Basic, where index is either the index number of the file in the collection or the display name of the file.
The following code example checks every file in the top-level folder of a specified document library for the last time that it was modified and, if the time is less than a certain value, copies the file to another document library.
Dim SiteCollection As New SPSite("http://MySiteCollection")
Dim srcFolder As SPFolder = siteCollection.AllWebs("SourceWebSite").GetFolder("SourceDocLib")
Dim destFiles As SPFileCollection = siteCollection.AllWebs("DestWebSite").GetFolder("DestDocLib").Files
Dim srcFile As SPFile
For Each srcFile In srcFolder.Files
If srcFile.TimeLastModified < Convert.ToDateTime("12/5/2002 12:00:00 AM") Then
Dim destURL As String = destFiles.Folder.Url + "/" + srcFile.Name
Dim binFile As Byte() = srcFile.OpenBinary()
destFiles.Add(destURL, binFile, True)
End If
Next srcFile
End Try
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REVIEW of ''WRATH of the TITANS" (2012)
If you applauded the larger-than-life heroics in "Clash of the Titans," you'll probably embrace the derivative exploits "Wrath of the Titans" (**1/2 out of ****) delivers in less time than the original. Greek mythology tales have never really gone out of fashion. The spectacle of warriors wielding weapons forged by the gods against supernatural monsters reached its zenith during the early 1960s when the Italians produced a plethora of sword and sandal sagas about Hercules, Goliath, Maciste, and Samson. These epic adventures didn't take themselves as seriously as their contemporary counterparts have. Most recently, "Troy" (2004), "Alexander," (2004), "300" (2006), "Clash of the Titans" (2010), and "Immortals" (2011) have been released. "Wrath of the Titans" qualifies as an above-average entry in the CGI special effects laden genre where gods, men, and monsters scrimmage. Don't confuse "Wrath of the Titans" with last year's similarly themed "Immortals." Comparatively, the two PG-13 rated "Titans" spectacles are considerably less savage and sadistic than "Immortals." While "Clash of the Titans" served as an origins epic, "Wrath" concerns most of the same characters about ten years later.
In "Clash of the Titans," the infant demigod Perseus was condemned to die with his mother in a casket plunged into the sea. Miraculously, Perseus survived. A humble fisherman, Spyros (Pete Postlethwaite), rescued Perseus and adopted him. As he grew up, Perseus shunned the gods until Zeus recruited him to save the city of Argos. Hades, the cruel god of the Tartarus, loosened the legendary sea monster the Kraken with Zeus' blessing to destroy the city of Argo if the citizens didn't sacrifice Andromeda. Defiantly, Perseus and several Argos soldiers embarked on a quest for anything which would enable them to kill the Kraken. Ultimately, our resourceful hero tangled with the malevolent Medusa. Half-woman and half-snake, this deadly dame had scores of vipers sprouting from her head rather than curls. A mere glance at Medusa's face would petrify any mortal. Ingeniously, Perseus found a way to decapitate Medusa without eyeballing her. Perseus saved Princess Andromeda from a fate worse than death and defeated the enormous creature with Medusa's head.
"Battle Los Angeles" director Jonathan Liebesman's "Wrath of the Titans" emerges as a polished but predictable fantasy that imitates its predecessor. Everybody who made "Clash" doesn't show up for "Wrath." Happily, Sam Worthington returns as Zeus' rebellious son Perseus who wants little to do with his all-powerful patriarch. Instead of a boot camp cut, Perseus has a perm that makes him look like Gordon Scott of "Goliath" fame. Perseus prefers to fish on the seas instead of parade around Mount Olympus. Despite the tragic death of his wife Io (Gemma Arterton) in "Clash of the Titans," Perseus has a son, ten-year old Helius (John Bell of "Battleship"), to raise alone. Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Danny Huston reappear respectively as Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon. Rosamund Pike replaces Alexa Davalos as Andromeda. This time around Andromeda is more pugnacious. Decked out in combat regalia, she leads her army into battle against the Titans. The biggest difference now is that the gods are losing their power because humans aren't praying to them. Places of worship lay in ruins. When humanity doesn't offer prayers to the gods, the power of gods wane, and "Wrath of the Titans" marks a turning point in the franchise.
If the third entry in the "Titans" franchise-"Revenge of the Titans"--materializes, Zeus and company may appear only as memories. Presumably, Hades won't be able to summon another colossal beast from the bowels of the Underworld. Like its predecessor, "Wrath of the Titans" concerns father and son issues as well as brother versus brother scores. We learn that Zeus and company endured quite a family feud that ended with them imprisoning their evil father Kronos in Tartarus. Essentially, Kronos constitutes the equivalent of the Kraken. Since all blockbusters struggle to top each other, "Wrath of the Titans" pits Perseus against Kronos. Kronos doesn't want to demolish a single city. He wants to wipe out mankind. Whereas the Kraken was a giant sea beast, Kronos is a towering fire god. Scenarists Dan Mazeau, David Leslie Johnson, and Greg Berlanti make Kronos the equivalent of a lava-spewing volcano. Earlier, the Kraken made a pretty formidable foe. One glance at Kronos, however, is enough to make you change your underwear . Imagine what Hellboy would look like if he were the size of Optimus Prime in the "Transformers" movies, and you'll have a good idea how this immense fiend stacks up to ordinary mortals.
Perseus sets out with Poseidon's illegitimate offspring, Agenor (Toby Kebbell of "RocknRolla"), and Queen Andromeda (Pike) to not only rescue Zeus but also to destroy Kronos. Earlier, the treacherous Hades and Ares (Édgar Ramírez of "Domino") double-crossed Zeus and imprisoned him in the Underworld. Our heroes embark on a scavenger hunt for items. Along the way, they confront a couple of angry Cyclops and take a beating from them until they befriend them as they did with the giant scorpions named Scorpiochs. Agenor helps Perseus find the fallen god Hephaestus (Bill Nighy of " Valkyrie "), and Hephaestus shows them the best way to enter Tartarus since he designed it. Eventually, Perseus learns that he must synthesize Zeus' Thunderbolt, Hades' Pitchfork, and Poseidon's Trident as a weapon to vanquish Kronos. In "Star Wars" fashion, our protagonist must take a fiery ride on Pegasus down Kronos' gullet to dispense the fatal blow.
"Wrath of the Titans" is amusing hokum. The stupendous CGI special effects make this 99-minute opus worth watching. Perseus cuts his teeth on the Chimera. This two-headed, airborne beast with a snake head on its tail attacks him first and then he tackles a couple of towering Cyclops. The maze that our indestructible hero blunders through is more interesting than the Minotaur which he dehorns. Liebesman stages these audacious battles with vim and vigor. Perseus looks woebegone by the time he delivers the death blow to his adversary. "Wrath of the Titans" tops "Clash of the Titans."
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Journal: New Jagism!
Journal by TuckerEstron
Jag said this one last night. He asked if he should go to bed, and I replied, "No, stay up, drink a lot, and act goofy!"
To this, Jag said: "I am coming off of a low biorhythm, so I do not think I should abuse my body as such; therefore, I am going to bed."
That "as such" is particularly funny, but I'm not sure why.
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Journal: The Latest New, Fresh Jagisms! (Mixed Metaphors Edition)
Journal by TuckerEstron
Since I need to think about something other than how tight things are financially right now and how sucky working the "extended hours" is going to be (I'll get off work at 12:30 am--which means by the time I get home no one will be awake), I'll post some funny new things Jag has said.
"It's just a punctuation on the road to insanity."
"You're on the right track, but you've got the wrong voltage."
"You make an ad lib shelter for the night..."
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Journal: New Jagism
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Jag was really tired and he couldn't access the word for "apron." So he called it a "kitchen robe!"
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Journal: Matrix , Armpit Hotdogs, and a Bad Dream 1
Journal by TuckerEstron
Today started out sucky, as I had a nightmare and woke up with a ton of bad chem in my system. You can read my nightmare and my other dreams here. I had overslept, and had only a fewminutes to get ready for work!
After work we went to the late showing of Matrix: Revolutions. It had a lot of weird parallels with our game-universe! Jag bought three hotdogs but only ate two. He put the third in his armpit (to keep it warm, apparently), a fact which came up in a hilarious conversation on the way home.
Journal: Cephalopod News Network (incomplete) 2
Journal by TuckerEstron
Chapter One
Karen is sleeping restlessly in her rocky cave. Slow, sinuous waves of green roll over her exquisite body. Every so often a flurry of red flashes and a twitch of her eight shapely arms show that her dreams have become troubled; then the green pulsing returns to her smooth grey skin.
Karen is not enthused about tomorrow. Back when she was just beginning her newscasting career she would have grabbed at the chance to interview the President, but not any more. The current President, besides being from the party Karen despises, is widely known to be a complete boob. In Karen's other interviews with him, she had discovered to her horror that he couldn't cope with even simple questions unless one of his aides supplied him with an answer. And this one was going to be live--what on earth were his handlers thinking, sending him onto a live show?
Karen wakes from a dream in which the entire country hates her for asking the President a question that he can't answer, something like, "What did you have for breakfast?" That's the thing, he's the most popular President in twenty years and the public won't stand for anyone being harsh on him. I should have just refused to do it, Karen thinks--but no, that would leave the opportunity open for that bitchy Lispeth Emerson.
Karen can't get back to sleep, so she decides to do something she hasn't done since her college days. She is going to a bar.
Pi-R-Squared is a small, rather upscale bar across town from Karen's condo. It's been getting good reviews and she really could use the exercise. Karen flows out of her cave and jets through the dark water. When she enters the bar, it's almost empty. Only a few late-night types are still here, drunk on intoxicating jellyfish. Karen orders a couple of by-the-wind sailors and sits at the bar.
While Karen is waiting for her jellies, she idly scans the room with her beautiful dinnerplate-sized eyes. The décor is tasteful, relying heavily on opulent anemones and even live coral. Small alcoves allow privacy for patrons there on dates. Karen notices that each alcove has one real live-coral wall; that has to be expensive to maintain. A flash of orange catches her eye from deep inside an alcove. Two guys are in there talking. "...so we can't tell him," the older, larger one says with an irritated puff of ink.
"Why not? The voters deserve--"
"The voters? Get real! They didn't elect him, they elected his ad campaign. He couldn't wipe his own ass without a script," the older male flashes rather loudly.
They're talking about the President, Karen realizes. They must be off-duty staffers! She pays more attention. You never know what you might learn in passing.
"Look, we tell him, he won't be able to keep his skin blank about it. Remember the fiasco at West Point? And what about the Summit? We can't have him doing that with the cameras rolling," the older male says. "This is just the kind of B-movie crap he loves. He'd be all over it and when it turns out to be nothing but volcano gas bubbles he'll look like an idiot. Again."
Gas bubbles? Karen wonders. What the heck?
"Sir, more than fifty percent of the public already accepts--"
Karen's eavesdropping is interrupted by the bartender arriving with her jellies. They're very high-quality. Karen isn't a connoisseur, but even she can tell these jellyfish are primo. Imported, probably from Guam. She bites through the outer membrane and starts to eat the strong pulp inside.
After a few minutes, the President's staffers get ready to leave. Karen waits until they are on their way, then quietly slips out of the bar to follow them.
Maybe this is crazy, but Karen senses there's a story in the current. Damping the glowing spots above her eyes and using her ability to blend with the surrounding rocks, Karen follows the President's aides. She can catch a word or two of their conversation as they make their way through the darkness, but what they're saying makes no sense. They keep talking about the volcanoes in the Deep Rift like there's something important about them. But sheesh, the Rift volcanoes are always grumbling, sending up gas and stuff, and besides the protective barrier this gives the country against the Soviets, they're of interest only to science geeks.
Unless...Karen almost flashes out in surprise. Have the Soviets come up with some weapon that can shoot across the Rift? Maybe that above-water torpedo there have been rumors about? Holy shit, that would be the biggest story she's ever seen.
Karen jets ahead to keep up with the Presidential aides.
Chapter Two
On the northern edge of the Deep Rift, mussels are opening. Fish begin to sing, scallops fan their way through the water. It's morning; the tide's coming in strong, and for the tiny town of Parker, that means good business. Parker's a little, old-fashioned town, founded on the rift-combing industry, and that is still the town's main source of income. It's tough, dirty, dangerous work; the men perch on the edge of the rift bank to grab whatever comes up with the tide. Problem is, sometimes what comes up is a cloud of dangerous gases, and the alert system doesn't always work. Every year a few rift-combers die in accidents, but for the ones who manage to snag something really valuable it can be a decent living, and this is what keeps Parker and the surrounding scattered towns in business.
Inside a small room in a run-down neighborhood in Parker, Faith is lying in bed. She shimmers green in the slow rhythm of someone enjoying very restful, deep sleep; between the pulses her skin is pearly gray, and you would have to look very closely to notice that it isn't exactly blank. Undertones of pink and yellow chase each other just under the featureless gray, displaying the secret: she isn't asleep at all.
Faith has done this so many times that she's mastered the art of appearing. Deep in the hidden part of her mind, she is aware of everything going on around her, her sister's genuine sleep-rhythms, the clatter of the alarm, her mother awakening to get her ready for school, and the fading scent of the night's adventure still hanging around her arm. She breathes it in again, the summery, fresh-bloom smell of distant warm places, and nearly yellows with delight. This had been one of the best nights yet.
Chapter Three
Karen shuffles through the stack of approved questions the President's aides have given her. All nice, scripted questions sure to be met with scripted answers. They certainly aren't taking any chances today, she thinks as the President enters the studio accompanied by some of his many handlers.
"Here?" he asks, pointing at a chair.
"Yes, Mr. President, that one's your seat," Karen says. "Welcome to American Morning. The cameras will be on us in a few minutes, so you have a chance to get comfortable."
The President arranges himself in his chair facing the cameras. One of his aides, a tired-looking guy, hands him his answers--today's script. The make-up guy dusts the President's glow-spots and applies concealer to a tiny colorless patch of skin near his beak.
The Courts
Journal: Postscript to "Hunting Rabbit" 3
Journal by TuckerEstron
"Rabbit," aka Edward Manuel, pled guilty to attempted homicide and was given ten years' probation.
To date, no one knows whether his claim of having killed twelve women was true, but this much is known: he did intend to kill me. I have no doubt that he would've killed somebody eventually if it hadn't been for his amazingly bad choice in victim-selection.
And now I find myself wondering how many other killers are out there unsuspected, looking just like ordinary people, quietly pursuing their "hobby."
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Journal: Hunting Rabbit (Part Five) 3
Journal by TuckerEstron
Through the next few weeks, I led Rabbit to believe he was manipulating me further and further into suicidal depression, until finally I told him I'd had a huge fight with my parents and had finally decided it was time to "be done."
Rabbit delighted in the news. Almost immediately he started giving me security advice--how to make it look like I had just gone for a trip so that no one would suspect suicide or murder.
We agreed on a tentative date in early January. I told Rabbit I wanted to meet him at a bus station. Jeff cautioned me that Rabbit might try to change the plan at some point in an attempt to regain control; but he never did. I suggested to Rabbit that I wanted him to bring me yellow roses to welcome me to Texas. He thought that was a nice touch.
Finally January arrived. Jeff sent me plane tickets, and I was on my way to the Special Crimes unit to help with the bust. In the very last IM conversation, Rabbit asked me to tell him if this was a sting. I assured him it was not.
Once in Texas, I got a crash-course in the procedure we'd be using for the meeting and arrest. There was a police officer assigned to keep me safe, another assigned to intercept Rabbit if he tried anything aggressive, and a bunch of others with various tasks. I was given a digital tape recorder to capture any conversation with Rabbit. We went over the plan for the next day several times.
That night, I had a hard time sleeping. I was nervous--what if I did something wrong? What if Rabbit just didn't show up? I tossed and turned until daybreak, when our plan went into action.
Two undercover officers and I boarded the bus to Houston. We carefully avoided giving any sign that we were together, in case Rabbit had an accomplice on the bus. I listened to my headphones and tried to look casual.
At the Houston bus station, I stepped slowly down the bus's stairs. I was watching for Rabbit and simultaneously wondering how many of the people milling around were officers assigned to the case. I had only gotten a short distance when a white-bearded man approached. "Little one?" he said.
"Rabbit!" I exclaimed. "It's really you!"
Rabbit put his arm around me and hugged me. "Welcome to the big city," he said. I'm told I looked like a deer in the headlights when he touched me. All I could think was, This man wants to kill me. This man wants to kill me.
"So, lucky 13?" I said, trying to get him to say something incriminating on tape before the arrest. "Twelve before me?"
"We'll talk in the car," Rabbit hissed as he tried to hustle me down the hallway and out. I noticed he was keeping his head down, trying to avoid security cameras.
Just then there was a voice behind us. "Excuse me, sir." Someone touched Rabbit's shoulder, and we both turned.
A badge flashed, and an officer quickly pulled me out of the way. I saw the look on Rabbit's face: incredulous, shocked, terrified.
And it was over.
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Journal: Hunting Rabbit (Part Four)
Journal by TuckerEstron
Now it was only a matter of going through the appropriate contacts in Texas's state Department of Public Safety. After a few emails, I was communicating with Jeff, the sergeant I'd be working with on this case.
Jeff liked the way I was chatting and gathering information without being obvious about it. "You sound like you've been doing undercover work for twenty years," he said at one point--a compliment I still hold dear. He agreed that I should keep talking with Rabbit, getting as much information as possible. I suggested that I'd be willing to come down and act as bait in a sting, but Jeff cautioned me that such civilian involvement was almost unheard-of.
It wasn't long before Rabbit let slip a disturbing piece of information: he was planning a killing for January. The investigation got a little more urgent; there was now a deadline. I stepped up the depressed tone of my conversations with Rabbit, and he responded by pointing out even more reasons to feel down on life. I let Rabbit think he was beginning to manipulate me toward becoming his willing victim. "Just don't do anyone before me," I told him, "I want to be Lucky Thirteen."
Jeff contacted me with excellent news. Based on some of the clues Rabbit had given me about his personal life, the investigators were relatively sure they knew who he was. Now they just had to catch him...and that was where I would come in. My job for the next few weeks would be to get Rabbit to tell me, in detail, how and when he intended to kill me, and to get him to suggest arrangements so we could meet.
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Journal: Hunting Rabbit (Part Three)
Journal by TuckerEstron
My interest in detective work goes all the way back to when I was a kid reading Agatha Christie novels. Sometimes this fascination with all things forensic leads me to learn things that are a bit less-than-savory--like what happens to a person's body during the death process. Just to be sure I had my facts right, I did a little extra research before asking Rabbit my next set of questions. I'd already told him I was a fan of Law and Order and Forensic Files, so I hoped my questions would not make him suspicious.
"What happens when your clients die?" I asked.
Rabbit accurately described the appearance of a woman's face during strangulation. "What about the eyes?" I asked.
"Their eyes stay open," he replied, "and right at death, the pupils open all the way, and stop moving."
Fixed and dilated, I thought. "Is it true that the vaginal muscles spasm?"
"They flutter," he typed back. "It's the ultimate thrill to feel that."
I now had enough detailed information to be certain that Rabbit had seen this happen first-hand. Now...where was he? "It sounds like an ultimate sexual thrill for the woman, too," I remarked.
"You should try it sometime," Rabbit replied.
"Maybe I will," I said. "How far away from me are you?"
"Where are you?" Rabbit asked.
"The northern Midwest. How about you?"
"I'm in Texas," Rabbit typed.
I had him.
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Journal: Hunting Rabbit (Part Two)
Journal by TuckerEstron
"Aren't you afraid of getting caught?" I asked.
"It's all part of the thrill," Rabbit replied.
"Well, it's not like I could get you in trouble," I said, "I'm just a crazy lady who doesn't even have custody of her own kids. Nobody would believe me."
"That is true," Rabbit typed.
Over time, I convinced Rabbit that I was no threat to him or his--as he put it--"unusual hobby." I mentioned that I watched a lot of detective shows and that I read about serial killers and was interested in them. "Do you mind being called a serial killer?" I asked him one night.
"If the shoe fits," he replied drily.
It wasn't long before Rabbit was giving me details of the murders he claimed to have committed. He preferred to strangle women with his bare hands, but he'd also helped one woman mix a cyanide drink for herself, and he had done a couple of hangings. All his "clients," he said, were suicidal, and consented to their killings, and to what came after. "The body goes so soft and erotic after asphyxiation," Rabbit said.
"Did any change their mind?" I asked, imagining that at least one prospective victim might not have been entirely willing.
Rabbit told me of one woman, whom he said he had met at a hotel. At the last minute, she decided she wanted to live. "But she had seen my face," Rabbit said. "So I waited until she was asleep, and my little black cord did her."
I asked a few very detailed questions about the death process, and Rabbit gave answers that convinced me he had either been there while someone died of strangulation, or he had read as much about the process as I had. (I'd been doing some homework in a quest to figure out if this guy was for real or not.)
Still, the question remained: Where was Rabbit, and was he just some relatively-harmless role-player pretending to be a serial killer to impress people?
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Journal: Hunting Rabbit (Part One)
Journal by TuckerEstron
Now that the case has come and gone, with the suspect pleading guilty to attempted murder, I can finally write about the way this year began with a Great Adventure.
The story really starts with serotonin, the neurotransmitter that some people lack. When I don't have enough serotonin in my brain, I start believing that the world is a lousy place, people will never like me, I am worthless and just a drain on everyone else's life, and that there is no hope of anything ever improving. That's depression. Naturally, and with perfect logic given these basic first premises, I start thinking about how much better it would be if I were dead. That's suicidal ideation.
Last fall, after I had partly recovered from the radiation but before I was well enough to resume an active lifestyle, I sunk deeply into depression. My serotonin level must have been very low, since I hadn't been able to take my antidepressants while my mouth was too sore to swallow them. Besides that, I'd just lost my husband and kids and my home in the Pacific Northwest, and I was facing a terrible future of pain as my teeth and jaw, decalcified from radiation, disintegrated.
I was deep into suicidal ideation. Mostly, I was sure I'd never do it; but out of fear of the future's impending pain I wanted to be sure I could if things ever got too awful. So I joined a mailing list for similarly suicidal people, and posted a couple of questions.
Not long after that, an email showed up in my inbox. It was from another member, a lurker who went by the name Roger Rabbit. After exchanging emails with him for a while, I started talking to him on Yahoo's Instant Messenger. And then the fun began.
In one of our first IM conversations, "Rabbit" asked me why I felt suicidal. I explained the situation to him, including my long-term, chronic depression. Rabbit replied that he, too, had a mental illness.
"Which one?" I asked. He replied that he was emotionless and homicidal.
"Have you ever killed anyone?" I asked.
"I won't answer that," he typed...
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Comment: Re:Two approaches to improving things (Score 1) 362
by jsepeta (#46381849) Attached to: Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor
Gentrification in Chicago made the crappy neighborhoods of Bucktown and Wicker Park more liveable in the 90's, and helped improve real estate values for Ukrainian Village in the 2000's. More tax revenues from real estate = better funding for schools, fire & police departments. What's not to like about gentrification? Poor people have to move? So fucking what. Shitty neighborhoods are now better places to live. Cabrini Green is now gone, but in place Chicago has a new high school that's very highly-ranked (Walter Payton High). I'm ok with that trade-off.
Comment: CITIES NEED TO GENTRIFY! (Score 1) 362
by jsepeta (#46381815) Attached to: Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor
Forking idiots in SF don't understand that if a city allows crappy neighborhoods to sit without investment, they're dooming their children to shitty schools and poor emergency response from fire and police departments. It is through gentrification that cities rebuild and thus rebuild their tax base. San Francisco is a very expensive city in which to live. What they should be doing from the government's side is accepting donations from successful businesses to fund more affordable housing -- that helps businesses AND city revenues as well as the citizens whom they both serve.
Comment: Re:First blacks, (Score 1) 917
by jsepeta (#46344903) Attached to: Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation
religions have changed over time. i no longer have to sacrifice a goat on a mountain to show praise for god. if so-called-Christians can't accept Gays as being normal human beings, they need to ignore the old testament and reread the new testament with feeling. There are ZERO reports of Christ saying anything about gays; but he sure liked to hang out with prostitutes.
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An anonymous reader writes "My employer rejected the initial contractor agreement I offered, and suggested I sign this one that he's worked very hard on. It's so terrible I thought I would ask for advice from the folks here. I know most of you are NOT lawyers, but how have you reacted to badly-worded contracts? The IRS says my work duties define me as an employee, but obviously my employer has written this such that he won't have to pay taxes, and I take on all liabilities. As I was out of work for 380 days, I'd hate to lose this job, which pays a middling amount if I have to pay taxes from it — but I took the role because I've been desperate to find a job. I'm 46 and it's difficult to find anyone who is interested in an experienced IT professional in my hometown.
This Independent Contractor Agreement (this "Agreement") is made effective as of October 01, 2014, by and between EMPLOYER, and or affiliate companies of 4404 Technology Drive, South Bend, Indiana 46628, and ______________ of______________, ______________, ______________ ______________. In this Agreement, the party who is contracting to receive the services shall be referred to as "CP" or owner, and the party who will be providing the services shall be referred to as ''IC'' for independent contractor.
1. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES. Beginning on _____________________ will provide the following services (collectively, the "Services"): IT Consulting services [DON'T YOU THINK THIS IS OVERLY BROAD?]
2. PAYMENT FOR SERVICES. CP will pay compensation to IC for the Services at a rate of $30 per hour. IC will receive payment for services within two weeks of completing the required services. Should IC assistance be required for an extended period of time, the Company will remit payment for services completed at least every two weeks as necessary to deliver full compensation. If applicable, any other compensation arrangements or bonuses would be attached as exhibit ''a''. IC will advise CP each Friday when IC is available to render services for the following week to include which days they can work and what hours each day so CP can properly plan for the next week. IC warrants to take a 60 minute unpaid lunch break for each day when they have chosen to work more than 4 hours. IC will report hours of consulting services with an online method or service for time tracking acceptable to both parties. If either party terminates this agreement, CP sole responsibility would be to compensate IC for hours worked as referenced and detailed herein. If applicable, no additional bonus compensation, not yet due, would be required to be paid in the event of termination. [FROM 1991-1996 EMPLOYERS BILLED ME OUT AT $135/HOUR. NOBODY HAS SO TIGHTLY DEFINED WHETHER OR NOT I COULD TAKE A LUNCH. SOME DAYS I WORK FROM 10AM-9PM, NO OVERTIME. I HAD BEEN GETTING PAID EACH MONDAY OR TUESDAY. MOVING TO BI-WEEKLY CHECKS IS A BIG DEAL FOR THE EMPLOYER.]
3. TERM/TERMINATION. This Agreement may be terminated by either party for any reason, upon 3 days written notice to the other party or immediately by CP, if IC has violated any of the policies and procedures of CP. IC warrants that they will not conduct personal business during the time they are charging CP a consulting fee, except in the case of documented emergency. This includes, but is not limited to personal email, viewing of others email, texting, phone calls, social networking, web surfing and any other activity that CP would consider not related to the consulting services they are rendering. CP is not required to give a warning to IC as it relates to this policy and could be ground for immediate termination of this agreement. [AS A CONTRACTOR, I AGREE TO FINISH WORK IN A SPECIFIED PERIOD OF TIME — BUT TO DISALLOW ME TO USE MY PHONE MEANS I CANNOT RESPOND TO OTHER OPPORTUNITIES. THE FACT THAT THERE'S NO 1-2-3 WARNING SYSTEM IS SUSPICIOUS.]
4. RELATIONSHIP OF PARTIES. It is understood by the parties that IC is an independent contractor with respect to CP, and not an employee of CP. CP will not provide fringe benefits, including health insurance benefits, paid vacation, or any other employee benefit, for the benefit of IC. IC acknowledges and accepts that CP will not withhold or pay any FICA taxes and that IC would be responsible for the payments of any and all government taxes themselves. Contractor will be treated in all respects as a "Statutory Non-Employee" for federal tax purposes and as an independent contractor for state, county, and local taxes. IC hereby waives any claims IC has or may have against CP now or in the future respecting such taxes and the right of CP not to withhold, not to pay, and not to contribute to such taxes on behalf of IC. IC indemnifies CP as it relates to this paragraph.
5. WORK PRODUCT OWNERSHIP. Any copyrightable works, ideas, discoveries, inventions, patents, products, or other information (collectively, the "Work Product") developed in whole or in part by IC in connection with the Services shall be the exclusive property of CP. Upon request, IC shall sign all documents necessary to confirm or perfect the exclusive ownership of CP to the Work Product.
6. OWNERSHIP OF SOCIAL MEDIA CONTACTS. Any social media contacts, including "followers" or "friends," that are acquired through accounts (including, but not limited to email addresses, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or other social media networks) used or created on behalf of Cooreman Properties are the property of Cooreman Properties. IC personal accounts that not used or created on behalf of CP would not apply.
7. CONFIDENTIALITY. IC will not at any time or in any manner, either directly or indirectly, use for the personal benefit of IC, or divulge, disclose, or communicate in any manner any information that is proprietary to CP. IC will protect such information and treat it as strictly confidential. This provision shall continue to be effective after the termination of this Agreement. Upon termination of this Agreement, IC will return to CP all records, notes, documentation and other items that were used, created, or controlled by IC during the term of this Agreement. Should these items not be returned, IC may be responsible for a $275. fee to cover costs of recovery.
8. INJURIES. IC acknowledges IC's obligation to obtain appropriate insurance coverage for the benefit of IC (and IC's employees, if any). IC waives any rights to recovery from CP for any injuries that IC (and/or IC's employees) may sustain while performing services under this Agreement and that are a result of the negligence of IC or IC's employees. IC hereby rejects workman’s compensation coverage and gives CP notice that IC elects not to be covered by the policy, and hereby waives claim to all rights of action in common law or under any statute or other law to recover from CP damages for any injuries sustained in the course of the independent contractor relationship. IC shall acquire on IC's own behalf as a self-employed person such worker's compensation and disability insurance as IC deems appropriate and consistent with IC's status as an independent contractor and with the mutual intent of CP and IC not to create an employer/employee relationship. IC hereby agrees not to claim or assert, or to support any third party assertion of, the existence of an employer/employee relationship between CP and IC. [THIS PART MAY BE ILLEGAL IN SOME STATES, BUT PROBABLY NOT INDIANA, A WORKER-HOSTILE STATE. I SHOULDN'T BE ON THE HOOK IF HIS ROOF CAVES IN ON ME, ETC.]
9. INDEMNIFICATION. IC shall be solely and exclusively responsible for any fines, taxes, penalties, interest, costs, expenses, damages, loss or liability, of any kind or nature, arising out of any demands, suits, actions, proceedings or claims (collectively "Claims") relating to or arising out of IC's negligence in his or her business endeavors on behalf of owner or IC's other conduct or activities even if such Claims are brought or filed after termination or expiration of this Agreement or any Renewal of this Agreement. IC agrees to indemnify, defend and hold owner and each of their officers, directors, shareholders, partners, employees and agents, harmless from and against, and to reimburse them for, all fines, taxes, penalties, interest, costs, expenses, damages, loss or liability for which any of them are held liable or which they reasonably incur in connection with any Claims including, without limitation, the full amount of any errors and omissions insurance deductible, actual and consequential damages, reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs, expert witness fees and litigation expenses to enforce the terms and conditions of this agreement.
10. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties, and there are no other promises or conditions in any other agreement whether oral or written. Owner reserves the right to revise this agreement in anyway with a written three day notice.
11. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remaining provisions shall continue to be valid and enforceable. If a court finds that any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, but that by limiting such provision it would become valid and enforceable, then such provision shall be deemed to be written, construed, and enforced as so limited. This agreement supersedes any prior agreements as it relates to the terms and conditions herein. [INDIANA IS A FREE-TO-WORK STATE, AND THE BOSS COULD FIRE ME WITHOUT ANY NOTICE]
12. APPLICABLE LAW, POLICIES, PROCEDURES. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Indiana. IC shall at all times abide by the safety rules, regulations and working conditions of the Company and maintain the highest standard of professionalism and workmanship in accordance with Company Policy. Any and all disputes or claims between CP and the IC arising out of this contract shall be resolved by submission of the same to a private mediation council of the CP choice for resolution. This agreement is subject to check of references, background, credit checks, etc. which IC hereby agrees and grants their consent before or during the time of this agreement. IC warrants she/he has a valid drivers license and will notify CP if this is no longer true. IC reserves the right to monitor any or all of IC work product or communications, or devices during their consulting time at CP.
13. WORK SPACE AND EXPENSES. CP agrees that in consideration of IC’s services in support of CP’s real estate business, CP shall, while this Agreement remains in force, make available to IC for IC's non-exclusive use, an office or desk space, together with access to copy machine, fax machine, telephone, high speed internet. IC shall be responsible for all of IC personal expenses, including but not limited to automobile, phone, travel, workers' compensation, disability and other insurance, education classes, entertainment, food, lodging, license fees, , and all other fees, dues and taxes and any expense not specifically addressed in this agreement. CP shall not be liable to the IC for any expenses incurred by the IC, or for any of the IC acts. The IC shall have no authority to bind CP by any promise or representation, unless specifically authorized in a particular transaction. IC warrants to only use computer provided by CP. IC will provide immediately, all passwords to access all equipment used during relationship with CP. [PC PROVIDED IS A MIDDLING SPEED DELL LAPTOP WITH POOR EXTERNAL VIDEO SUPPORT, SO I'VE BEEN RUNNING MY SAMSUNG I5 LAPTOP AS A PRIMARY COMPUTER INSTEAD.]
14. Good Business Practices. IC shall abide by all applicable laws, ordinances and regulations including, without limitation, local, state, and federal laws and regulations relating to real estate transactions and real estate service businesses. IC shall also abide by the rules of ethical conduct established by the National Association of REALTORS® and property manager’s trade groups. In all dealings with clients, customers, suppliers, public officials, real estate agents and brokers and the general public, IC must adhere to the highest standards of business behavior, honesty, integrity, fair dealing, and ethical conduct. IC agrees to refrain from any business or advertising practice that may expose owner to legal action or liability or adversely affect the reputation or image of owner. IC shall not engage in any acts or activities that disrupt the CP's office or are likely to adversely affect the image of the owner.
15. Binding Nature. This Agreement shall become binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties, and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns.
16. SIGNATORIES. IC further indicates this Contract has been read in its entirety and clearly understands the expectations and responsibilities of this service contract.
This Agreement shall be signed by BOSSMAN, Owner on behalf of EMPLOYER and by ________________on behalf of _______________. This Agreement is effective as of the date first above written.
By: ____________________________________________________
BOSSMAN, Owner
By: ____________________________________________________
Independent Contractor"
Comment: Re:Because that is how the rest of the world works (Score 1) 465
by jsepeta (#45553519) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific?
but say the job requires you know a certain Watchguard Firewall. When the license for that box is up, it may be better to replace it with a Cisco or Fortinet device. If you have a smart generalist, they'll be able to move from brand and model to brand and model. The way HR & IT mgrs are handling it, is they'd rather hire a person who knows a specific device/interface, and only that device/interface, rather than someone who can handle the technology as it changes - which it surely will.
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I have 6 required field validators and 1 custom validator. ErrorMsg is common for required fields so I have set that msg to validation summery headertext but the problem is that error message is coming with custom validator too. In case of custom validator I want only customValidator error messsage not Header text. How can I do that> Do I have to add new validation summer for custom validator with no header text OR there is any smart solution?
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document.getElementById('<%= vsPlaceOrder.ClientID %>').headertext = "";
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I have a Member model that belongs to User
class Member < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :name
belongs_to :user
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :name
has_many :members, :dependent => :destroy
In my Members controller I have
class MembersController < ApplicationController
def create
@user = User.find(params[:user_id])
@member = @user.members.build(params[:member])
if @member.save
flash[:success] = "Member created!"
redirect_to root_path
render 'pages/home'
In /app/views/users/show.html.erb I have
<%= form_for @member do |f| %>
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<%= f.text_area :name %>
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit "Submit" %>
<% end %>
But I get the following error: undefined method `model_name' for NilClass:Class
Extracted source (around line #18):
16: <h1 class="member">What's up?</h1>
18: <%= form_for @member do |f| %>
My show action in the Users controller is
def show
@user = User.find(params[:id])
@members = Member.new
@title = @user.name
Which also contains the 'new' method
I have tried changing :user_id to :id in the MembersController but this does not work either. What am I doing wrong here?
thanks in advance
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show your SHOW action – fl00r May 9 '11 at 18:50
Is there a new action defined in the controller? Is your form located at /members/new? – Fareesh Vijayarangam May 9 '11 at 18:51
The Member.new is defined in the show action in the Users controller. The form is located at app/views/users/show.html.erb thanks – Zakoff May 9 '11 at 19:20
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Try to replace @members = Member.new by @member = Member.new ;-) !
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Do I still need the Member.new line if I am using the build method in the Members controller? @member = @user.members.build(params[:member]) – Zakoff May 9 '11 at 20:38
You must glade at nested model if you want to create members in the user class. weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/1/26/nested-model-forms – Hartator May 9 '11 at 21:16
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I needed to pass the @user.id as a hidden field in the form, for the association to work!
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First post and first iPhone app in the making here, so please excuse the any n00b mistakes. I'm having trouble activating the alarm. I have a Datepicker and a button as the crux of the code. Here's the .h file
@interface Alarm : UIViewController
@property (retain, nonatomic) NSDate *alarm;
@property (retain, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *sleepButton;
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I also have no idea how to make sound and make it repeat itself, so if I can get some guidance on how to do that, that would be great. Thanks!
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Isn't this functionality built into the iOS clock app? – Richard J. Ross III Dec 6 '11 at 16:33
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The problem is here:
if ([NSDate date] == self.alarm)
Dates have millisecond resolution, and your timer only fires once per second - the chances that they align perfectly is rather slim.
Instead you should check:
if ([[NSDate date] compare: self.alarm] == NSOrderedDescending)
to check if the alarm date was passed.
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I just finished building my custom PC, and I have two 80mm fans that have molex connectors, but not the three pin cables that connect to the motherboard (mine is a MSI H55M-E33). So, I just connect the fans directly to the PSU, and that works fine except that when I put the computer to sleep, the case fans continue to spin. I do have 2 fan ports on my motherboard, but I was wondering if there was a setting in BIOS or something that could shut the fans off even if they are connected to the PSU directly, or if I should just buy a cable to connect the fans to the motherboard.
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If fans connect directly to the PSU, there will be no BIOS setting to disable them directly. Still, when computer is sleeping, I think (but could be wrong) that it should cut power to peripherals. On my PC, that's what happens, so no fan problems when sleeping for me. Check if you have correctly installed chipset drivers. It could be something related to them. – AndrejaKo Aug 18 '10 at 15:25
Take a look at this question: superuser.com/questions/82190/… It seems that if you can switch BIOS settings for sleep from S1 power state to S3 power state, fans should turn off. – AndrejaKo Aug 18 '10 at 18:06
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If you want the fans to sleep with the board, plug them in with the board. If you want them to run even when the CPU sleeps, plug them into the PSU. That's why you have different connectors.
Note: You can plug two pin cables into a three pin slot. All you have to do is to disable the fan monitoring since the board will notice "oh, there is a fan that's stuck".
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That's what I figured. Is there an easy way to plug the molex connector into the mobo or should I buy a cable? – Brian515 Aug 18 '10 at 16:07
@Brian515 You can modify molex connector to be connected to motherboard, but I'd recommend against it. It's simply too much work and too big risk to replace a cheap adapter. It is much easier to buy a converter cable for the fan. – AndrejaKo Aug 18 '10 at 18:04
@Brian515: Since you ask, there probably isn't. With all the fans I had so far, I could simply plug the two-pin female cable onto the three-pin male on the board. The third pin will be tight or bent just a little. If you get it wrong, the fan won't work but it won't short-circuit either. – Aaron Digulla Aug 19 '10 at 7:12
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Kurt Gödel was a Plutonian logician, mathematician, philosopher of mathematics, mathematician of philosophy, professor of logician, and Olympic middle-distance athlete.
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Hi folks - I've done a lot of reading, researching and forum browsing, but I find the best bet is real feedback from people that know and have experience with the machine....in this case, the BenQ W7000.
First, I'll try give you the basic data:
Standard spare bedroom, light walls, light carpet, 8' ceiling, large windows.
Ability to block light
Very good, but not 100%. On an otherwise bright sunny day: The room is definitely dark, you can navigate without falling over stuff, you can see most objects in the room but cannot make out colors. You wont be able to read anything, though there is enough light that some objects cast a barely detectable shadow. Smaller objects (like remote controls) will be impossible to find. If I hold the remote close enough, I can make out the buttons fairly well, but otherwise detail and texture are pretty much undetectable on objects. If standing at the end of the room, you wont be able to make out objects at the other end.
Viewing & seating distances
I technically have some flexibility here, but the desired set up provides me with:
- 13.8 feet from screen to opposing wall
- 10.5 feet from seats to screen (measured from the face of the seated viewer, not the chair itself)
- 12.3 feet throw distance from BenQ lens to screen. (164 inches total distance minus 12.5 inches for the BenQ and another 4 inches factoring in space behind the machine for cables, etc)
So here is what I'm planning....
- Looking at a gray 1.0 - 0.9 gain, fixed 100" diagonal 16.9 screen. From what I've read, the gray screen should A) help with the fact the the room is not 100% dark, B) help reduce the impact of light reflected from the white walls back onto the screen C) give the perception of deeper black levels and D) help reduce the brightness of the image overall since the BenQ w7000 seems to be a bit over bright, especially for smaller screens (seems odd to call a 100" screen small).
BenQ W7000. I'll be shelf-mounting, which I've read means I need lens shift capability. I also think I'll like the DLP look versus 3LCD and I'm not in the price range of the higher end LCD machines (I want to be sub $2000). So If I'm in the DLP market, there are very few DLP machines with lens shift in my price range - BenQ w7000 current listed for $1,850 +/-. I can't say if RBE is a problem for me, can't say I've ever noticed it, but that may just mean I've never watched a DLP projector long enough.
Planned Use
Movies - blu-ray and standard DVD. Some gaming via PS3 - FPS, Gran Turismo and Skyrim, as examples.
- I think I'm right on the edge (perhaps under) in terms of recommended viewing distance.
- The projector will be only a few feet above and behind my head - I've read its a noisy sucker - particularly the iris.
- I already have a 60" plasma TV in there - do I really need a projector?
So sanity check - am I looking at the right equipment for the circumstances? Is there another option I should consider - I've looked at competitor products to the BenQ, but it seems to come out on top except when up against more expensive equipment - i.e Epson 5010, Epson 8700UB (but both machines are + $800 over the BenQ).
Appreciate feedback / Advice. Thanks
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From 10.5', a 60" TV is a good size, but with a PJ you can, obviously, go considerably bigger. Whether or not you "need" that is entirely up to you. smile.gif
A gray screen will help with contrast but usually at a cost to brightness. While I think your room is dark enough that you don't need to worry about contrast, taming the W7000's brightness can't hurt as it does put out a lot of light.
When I demo'd a W7000 against my JVC DLA-HD250, I did notice RBE (which I also used to notice with my older InFocus SP7210), but it wasn't too bad. YMMV.
The W7000 is pretty loud, but that's just how it is with that unit and with DLP PJs in general. Having had a DLP before, I'm really appreciating the whisper-quiet operation of my JVC. smile.gif
The other thing I found with the W7000 - which confirmed what I'd read on-line - is that out-of-the-box PQ settings aren't very good. But they're not so bad that a little bit of tweaking can't fix 'em.
Just my 2¢. smile.gif
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Yea - its sort of a guilty feeling. I bought the 60" plasma about a year or two ago and expected that within that time I'd move it downstairs to replace my 56" rear projection set. Unfortunately (or fortunately) my rear projection set is still going strong and perhaps more to the point, we have two young kids and its become clear that they'd destroy a plasma TV. The advantage of the rear projection set is that its almost indestructible and the screen has some give to it - which works nice when someone throws a stuffed animal at it.
So, long story short, if I get the projector, the plasma will end up in the bedroom and since we typically don't watch TV in there, its seems of wasteful........yet the projector idea is calling my name...
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By GeekWithFire on 3/23/2011 11:22:22 AM , Rating: 3
And I hope they keep making too much. They hire employees and ARE the economy.
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By TheRealArdrid on 3/23/11, Rating: 0
By woofersus on 3/23/2011 12:52:44 PM , Rating: 2
You realize "corporations" just refers to a type of business organization, right? Are you simply advocating less business in general? How would that make us better off? Maybe they should all close and fire everybody in order to benefit the country. After all, the EU has shown us that governments can just hire everybody with no adverse affect on their tax base. (sarcasm)
Layoffs suck, but it's a reality of a free job market. While I don't condone executives who make selfish decisions at the expense of the company and its employees, a company seeking to maximize profit is the only healthy way to operate. Profits mean growth, which means more jobs. Cost savings mean lower prices, which is economically the same as higher income for customers. It's time to recognize the difference between profit seeking activities and "greed" in an immoral sense.
RE: I'm tired of corporations...
By Solandri on 3/23/2011 1:02:39 PM , Rating: 2
And then lay those same employees off in order to squeeze out more and more profit, not because they need to but because they're greedy and simply want more.
And employees switch jobs not because they need to but because they're greedy and simply want more.
The combination of the above two is what drives the market and technology forward. If you're unable to keep up, then you're either too lazy or too stupid to improve yourself at the same rate that everyone else is. (you = employees and corporations) The company doesn't exist for the employee, and the employee doesn't exist for the company. They both have something the other wants, and are simply temporarily partnering with each other for their mutual benefit. When either party feels the arrangement is no longer beneficial, they are free to terminate the partnership.
I'm all for social safety nets like unemployment and a few years of welfare, because sometimes you do get unlucky and end up on hard times through no or little fault of your own. I have no problems with providing assistance to give people time to pick themselves up off the floor when that happens. Heck, even if it was entirely your fault, I have no problem helping you get back on your feet - presumably you learned something and won't make that mistake again. But it's ludicrous to suggest that we could improve things by dismantling the engine which has propelled mankind to more technological progress in the last 100 years than in the previous 5,000+.
This country would be better off with less corporations or, at the very least, a significant curtailing of the amount of influence they possess.
A corporation is simply a group of people agreeing to work together. As a group of people, they should have more influence than a single individual.
Where the problem has crept in is that influence now comes from money, instead of from votes. The problem is not corporations per se; it's money. We need to diminish the importance of money in politics.
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By FITCamaro on 3/23/2011 1:55:13 PM , Rating: 2
I guess wanting to be happy with what they're doing or work too much for too little pay don't ever factor into it.
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Google is looking to one-up that iPad's Retina display
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By teng029 on 10/21/2012 2:09:21 PM , Rating: 4
what abou actual apps that are optimized for that type of a display? as it stands, most Android tablet apps are just stretched phone apps. the hardware specs can only do so much unless Google's developers start optimizing apps for large screens.
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By TakinYourPoints on 10/21/2012 4:52:20 PM , Rating: 3
It'll happen once people start buying Android tablets. Developers have little reason to design tablet apps for Android since so few are out there. The Android app market isn't that profitable even on the smartphone side, so there's even less incentive to put resources into tablets. If sales pick up and it starts making money then you'll see more tablet apps, its that simple. Chicken and the egg issue here.
RE: That's great and all, but...
By NellyFromMA on 10/22/2012 1:02:49 PM , Rating: 1
Stop making points. All valid points cease to exist in the face of Android
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By StevoLincolnite on 10/22/2012 7:33:17 AM , Rating: 2
I would love a 24" screen (Or 3) with double that Resolution... WHY hasn't it happened yet!? Obviously the Technology is readily available.
RE: That's great and all, but...
By mcnabney on 10/22/2012 10:29:30 AM , Rating: 2
4K displays have been out for over a decade.
The industry just wants to milk every generation for as long as it can.
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By someguy123 on 10/22/2012 5:38:14 PM , Rating: 2
Where did this insane conspiracy come from anyway? Why are people on a PPI bandwagon these days?
Try actually running gpu demanding (or even a web browser) software on something like a T220 back when it was released. Hell if 4k became the standard on desktop PCs right at this moment I'm sure we'd see endless complaints from people trying to play video games at 4K, who will inevitably point the finger at developers for not "optimizing" enough on a 8 million pixel screen.
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By icrf on 10/23/2012 12:47:35 PM , Rating: 2
Higher PPI means more clarity (to a point, as Apple's "retina" marketing makes clear). Yes, current commodity hardware is lacking to do realtime 3D rendering or video decoding at resolutions that high, but the vast majority of what people stare at on their phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops is text, not movies or games. We have plenty computing power to drive extremely high resolution text.
RE: That's great and all, but...
By someguy123 on 10/23/2012 6:07:26 PM , Rating: 2
Significantly higher density means more clarity better text rendering, but the difference is greatly exaggerated, with the exception of moving from very low density for phones to the current standard of around 200ppi or so. At that point pixel edges become significantly less clear and you get decent text rendering.
Having a relatively low PPI standard is not arbitrary. try running apple's macbook retina and watch as it struggles to even browse youtube, dropping to 15~30fps frequently. that macbook actually has superior hardware to the "average" computer spent staring at text and charts. It's going to be a long time before your average computer has something comparable to an i7. The response times would also likely be worse overall considering more pixels for the panel to handle. We started seeing HD adoption in the late 90s for broadcast and nowadays hardware is still mostly just good enough for 1080p.
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By FormulaRedline on 10/22/2012 10:59:08 AM , Rating: 2
I'm with you on wanting the higher res monitors, but there's a couple of issues here. First is likely the yield, or the amount of screens you can actually use out of the screens you attempt to make (i.e. all the elements are mechanically aligned, all electrical connections are sound, no dead pixels, etc).
If you have a screen with 4x the number of pixels as your old screen, it also about 4x as likely to fail. Imagine you have a 99% yield for the original screen (or 1% failure). If you simplify the equation and say that all you have to to do is make 4 screens and these will magically join together, then the chance any large screen will be good is 99% to the fourth power. So 99%^4 is approximately 96%, or a 4% failure rate. Not only have you quadrupled your failure rate, but you've quadrupled the amount of materials lost when you do fail. This makes increasing resolution exponential more difficult and expensive.
That being said, the industry is obviously making progress and we'll get there eventually.
Second, even if you were willing to pay the high prices that low yield would currently drive, you still don't have any easy way to drive the display. Current cabling standards don't have the bandwidth. Though this is again not really a technological limitation. We can obviously do it...we just need a standard so people can manufacture the new cables.
In other words, it's a commercial issue rather than a technological one, but advancements in manufacturing technology would help drive the prices down and make it more commercially viable. While you and I would pay for these displays today, the potential market will have to expand past us early adopters to make it a profitable decision.
Kudos to Apple and Google for working with the display manufacturers to help drive the market toward this end!
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By Moishe on 10/23/2012 11:31:07 AM , Rating: 1
It is fairly annoying that screens are 1920x1080 until you get to the 30".
1080 is reasonable about up to 20". Now we have cheap 23", 24", and 27" screens, but if you want a decent resolution, the cost triples.
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Running Time: 93 minutes
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There was a time, back in the ’80′s, when it seemed like the “Friday the 13th” series would never stop. Every year, Paramount would deny the existence of a new film and every year, on schedule, with little publicity, one would arrive. The series stopped in 1989, then reappeared in 1993 with the unspeakably awful “Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday.” Now, after almost a decade, we get “Jason X,” which is a marginally better film than the last one, but that’s not saying much.
Actually, there’s a few, a very few reasons to see “Jason X” which are: 1)David Cronenberg, the great director, has a cameo in the film as a slimy doctor who wants to keep Jason alive to “experiment” on him 2)There’s lots of good looking girls, including a Kung Fu fighting heroine, and 3)It’s only ninety minutes long. It’s still pretty bad though.
“Jason X” opens in the year 2455 where a group of students stumble upon a bunch of cryogenically frozen bodies on “old earth.” One of them is a girl(played by Lexa Doig), and the other is Camp Crystal Lake’s most unwelcome resident, Jason Voorhees, his body all mangled up. They’re both transported onto a spaceship and when the girl thaws out, she warns the crew members, who are straight out of the “Aliens” reject pile(the military hardass, the tough chick, the “company” man who wants to use the creature for research). In logic so impenetrable it’s beyond explanation, Jason is transported to another facility where he thaws out, escapes and kills off the crew members one by one. I can understand why the creatures in “Aliens” would be of interest to the military, but what about Jason?
“He’s too evil and dangerous,” pleads the would be victim to the rest of the crew. No kidding, and since we’ve seen the other nine films, we know even better than they do. The makers of “Jason X” have gone overboard to make Jason look as disgusting and ravaged as possible and why not? In parts four, six and seven, he had different parts of his head sliced away, so it only makes sense that in “Jason X,” he has more than the usual amount of orifices. It’s fun to look at his face in the film and try to figure out which opening is his nose, his mouth, everything. Jason seems a lot more angry in this one too.
Seriously though, “Jason X” is low rent from frame one. What is the point of putting Jason in space anyway, since it limits the number of weapons he can choose from? Oh, there’s plenty of exotic kills in the film(I like it when a character gets “screwed” for lack of a better word), but there’s nothing interesting to do with Jason on a ship, and this is not, after all, a character we’re going to identify with very much.
“Jason X” is kind of a moron movie, which is built to be watched by people who haven’t even seen the other nine, not that there’ll be many all night “Friday the 13th” film festivals on the eve of the release of “Jason X.” The special effects are mostly shoddy, the actors are straight out of the Identikit factory and the movie pays no respect to the original “Friday the 13th” film which is still the best of the summer camp horror movies and immeasurably better than the nine sequels that followed it.
It’s always interesting in films like this to watch the guy who plays the killer. Kane Hodder, who has played Jason in several of the films, must be a great sport. What must he be thinking inside that hockey mask anyway? I guess if “Jason X” makes a lot of money and interest in the series is reinvigorated, Mr. Hodder will be spending a whole lot of time at Fangoria conventions and shopping malls, posing as Jason and answering the same questions over and over again. Same with the “Jason X” director James Isaac. If the film’s a hit, he’ll be asked to do more slasher films and any dreams he had prior to working in the genre will be washed away as he lives a nightmare very similar to the characters in the films.
Honestly, there was one moment in “Jason X” when I smiled. There’s a girl in the film who’s an absolute dead ringer for Adrienne King, the gutsy star of the original classic. Maybe if they brought her back for the next film, the filmmaker’s would be onto something. She was killed off(with an icepick in the head), but that’s never stopped anyone before.
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Gas going up and that's no April 1st joke
Obama’s stirring speech and clear direction on energy policy caused prices for oil and gas to plummet! Whoops! April fool! Oil Prices did not fall and the President is hoping that by some twist of fate oil prices could fall faster than his approval ratings. Of course that has about as much chance of happening as his March Madness Picks had of making it to the final four. In the meantime in the real world, oil continues to rise jolted by a weak dollar and rising concerns not only surrounding Libya but Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria and Yemen. In what is being called the Arab spring the market focused on where we might lose oil next.
In Bahrain reports of more arrests and the government going door to door is raising anger not only in Bahrain but in Kuwait and Iran. This is now becoming more of a religious struggle with tensions between the Shiite majority wanting to get rid of the Sunni leadership. The crackdown and the fact that Saudi Arabia sent in forces to help with the crackdown, is inflaming Shiite anger throughout the region. In Kuwait, three Shiite cabinet members resigned after being refused the right to question members of the ruling family surrounding ties of corruption regarding Bahrain. Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah accepted the resignation of the cabinet yet asked them to stay on until they could find replacements. Kuwait tried to lower tensions by offering to mediate the dispute in Bahrain, an offer that was flatly rejected.
In Libya advances by Gaddafi forces seem to suggest that the hopes of a quick return to normal Libyan oil production are out of the question. As expected Libya has had a negative impact on OPEC production. A survey by Bloomberg News showed that OPEC production fell to a 49-year low as OPEC failed to make up for a decline in Libyan oil production. Bloomberg estimated that OPEC production fell 1.2% or 363,000 barrels to an average 29.022 million barrels a day, the lowest level since September, according to the survey of oil companies, producers and analysts. Daily output by members with quotas, all except Iraq, decreased 353,000 barrels to 26.437 million, 1.592 million above their target. The Saudi’s did boost production by 300,000 barrels sending their production to the highest level since March of 2008 which was about the same time oil prices were that high. Well pretty close anyway as prices are at their highest since the month of September of 2008 when we saw prices hit a high of approximately $130 a barrel, a number that oil traders may want to keep in mind! Got it? Good.
Saudi Arabia is spending big money to keep a lid on discontent and according to estimates by the Institute of International Finance, Saudi Arabia is going to need $100 barrel oil by the year 2015 to meet its growing budget just to break even. In fact now the Saudi’s will need $88 a barrel this year that just a few years ago was a number that the Saudi’s thought would damage the global economy. Now they need it to keep the family in power.
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So, what were you doing at the border?
#71TyrannosaurusPosted 1/30/2013 7:02:42 PM
I barely escaped Ostagar. The battle was a blood bath. What I witnessed out there... I am a Grey Warden and I have an oath, but the horrors got the best of me. When I saw Duncan... I fled into the wilds. Out there I begged the maker for another chance to prove myself and avenge my fallen comrads. That is when Flemeth came. She offered me a chance for redemption, another land that I must go. She said I must slay a powerful dragon there, and I would be returned to her in exactly 10 years.
I accepted her offer. She led me to a large mirror, it was a portal of some kind. I had to leave all my equipment behind.
Shortly after I appeared in this (freezing cold) new land, I was arrested and nearly executed. I met the dragon though...
I eat humans.
#72Dark_MagikarpPosted 1/30/2013 7:06:10 PM
Fapping furiously
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#73nfl89Posted 1/30/2013 7:06:56 PM
95_Eclipse posted...
I was battling Alduin on the south side of the border near the old blades base. The battle got rough and I told my son and daughter to retreat while I held him off, once they were safely away I retreated as well, my injuries were grave but I managed to slip away into the mountains, after a few months of downtime and recovery, I had lost much of my strength, I decided to head North back to my homeland of Skyrim.
There I was mistaken for a rebellion member and arrested on sight. Ironically, the very enemy that had injured me and drove me north, was the one who saved me and led to his own defeat later on.
good except, how do you know you were dragonborn back them?
#74FalletarisPosted 1/30/2013 7:08:44 PM
Singing too much, Imperials can't stand my style
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#75SabramPosted 1/30/2013 7:29:37 PM
Had wandered the lands for the last couple hundred years after the oblivion crisis, just happened to try to get into skyrim on the wrong road. These things can happen even to an immortal
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#76TwoBladesOneBowPosted 1/30/2013 8:06:20 PM
I was a mercenary before the Great War, and a soilder during it. After the Great War I helped my fellow Redguards take control of Southern Hammerfell. While I was in service a group of assassins sent by the dominion killed my family. When I returned I was informed of this. So I began a hunt for each of the assassins. I caught the wood elf while he was tracking a deer. I took down the groups torturer while he was planning his next target. Sadly their leader J'datharr was already making his next attack.
The next target was a veteran that I had served with. I had never seen one like him. He used no spells or weapons. He said only his body was trustworthy enough to use in combat. But, his oddest quality was his face. He had strange colored eyes, and made uncomfortable faces while in sunlight. His name was Movarth. I got there after he had been shot by a fire enchanted bow. He was going to die, and J'datharr was going to escape. I had to choose one. Death of a murderer or an old ally.
I dropped the lifeless body of Movarth off at a nearby healer, and continued my search. Found information leading me to Skyrim. I noticed a group of men in blue and one in black walking. I was going to ask if they had seen the assassin. We were ambushed and taken hostage.
#77SolKarellenPosted 1/30/2013 8:31:32 PM(edited)
I was supposed to be captured.
Bosmer Agent who reported directly to the Emperor; only a select few in the Oculatus knew of my service. I was to serve the Emperor's interests independently in Skyrim. Tasks included assessing the Foresworn situation, infiltrate the Dark Brotherhood, undermine the Aldmeri Dominion in anyway I saw fit, and possibly end the Stormcloak conflict. My capture at the border was supposed to be a ruse to get me in the country without raising any eyebrows.
Unfortunately, that damn Redguard Captain missed the memo as something went awry in the command structure.
Unbeknownst to me, my infiltration of the Dark Brotherhood was a scheme by the Emperor to insure his own assassination--thereby galvanizing the Imperials into actively returning to war against the Dominion.
When I was set up by a gang of thieves as a child in a audacious plan to steal from the Emperor's bedchambers, he caught me and saw through their plan--I was simply a distraction so my "comrades" could pilfer the storehouses. He told me I was being deceived, and pointed my out comrades deceit. He told me,
"A pawn--that is what you are. But would you like to see the true rewards of service? Come, you have quite some potential. Now, may I humbly ask that you serve me?"
The reward for my service was the unification of the Empire, and my own freedom. The Oculatus set ablaze the ship, and I escaped unbound. My reward was now my own freedom; I lived in Skyrim for the rest of my life as a new man.
#78EddMarioPosted 1/30/2013 10:41:50 PM
The_Katarn posted...
Regaining my sense after I was sucked through a time portal, along with my olds 88 and most of the cabin I was occupying at the time the portal was formed.
Are you gonna go see the remake of the first movie from that series that comes out in a few months?
#79DougymcPosted 1/30/2013 11:18:17 PM
I was looking for the legion with a group of my friends. We had... unfinished business. Instead, we were attacked by the rebels and both sides suffered heavy losses. Only the 7 (ignoring Lokir) people on the carts survived the fight and then the Imperials showed up and you know the rest.
#80Ajd_KingPosted 1/30/2013 11:25:27 PM
Redguard on a horse.
"Stannis... in spite of everything, he is a righteous man."
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#1Kid MazePosted 2/4/2013 10:27:18 AM
Or did they fix that?
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#2MrImpatient35Posted 2/4/2013 10:33:30 AM
My last dupe was the Twister shotgun. I'm guessing 2/3 days after the Hammerlock DLC was released.
#3skaggzPosted 2/4/2013 10:34:58 AM
Just did this morning for a dude. Seems like you can still
#4killbot357Posted 2/4/2013 11:55:19 AM
Gearbox isn't going to fix duping.
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#1Dinger16Posted 3/2/2013 10:38:25 AM
* Infinity Pistol
* Horse Hammer
* Nuke em
* Emperor
* Shreddifier
* Hellfire
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#3Dinger16(Topic Creator)Posted 3/2/2013 10:44:26 AM
Yea that'd be awesome. My gamertag is Copenhagenman16.
#4KaBoom1322Posted 3/2/2013 11:02:33 AM
lol.You've tried for the hellfire 1000s of times.
You are not entitled to anything in this game.
#5Dinger16(Topic Creator)Posted 3/2/2013 11:07:27 AM
Yea. I know
#6killbot357Posted 3/2/2013 11:28:06 AM
Horse Hammer huh
That sounds pretty good!
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What's your discipline style?
By Evonne Lack
Where the discipline theories differ
One expert suggests that time-outs last a minute for each year of your child's age, while another says your child should decide how long the time-out lasts. One book instructs you to firmly tell your child, "No hitting," and another book cautions against using negative words like "no" and "don't." One author promotes the use of rewards, whereas another says rewards are nothing more than bribes.
The wide variety of advice can be frustrating and confusing, but it also proves that there's no one right way to discipline. You are the true expert on what works for you and for your children. While professional advice is helpful, it needs to match your own intuition and ideals.
Five basic discipline philosophies
Take a look at these categories of discipline approaches and see what appeals to you:
1. Boundary-based discipline: Children need boundaries to feel safe. If they don't know where the boundaries are, they'll "test" until they find them. "What happens if I throw my spoon?" a toddler wonders, clanging his spoon noisily onto the floor. "Hmm ... not much of a reaction. How about if I throw my entire plate?" An older child might test limits by leaving her colored pencils in a glorious mess on the rug, or by taking several decades to get ready in the mornings.
Clearly communicate your boundaries (for example, "Please put my things back in my purse when you're done looking at them"). If this doesn't do the trick, follow through with a consequence. Try to make the consequence a logical fit for the behavior. For example, if your child leaves your wallet, hairbrush, and car keys strewn around the living room floor, she loses purse-inspection privileges for a while.
Use "natural consequences," too. For example, if your child forgets his lunch box, don't rush it to school. Instead, let him experience the consequences.
Provide "limited choices" to give your child some wiggle room. Suppose your 5-year-old is loudly banging on her electronic toy piano, with the volume on maximum. Through your migraine, you respectfully ask her to turn it down. She ignores you. Offer a choice: "You can either turn the volume down now, or I'll put the piano away until tomorrow." This puts the responsibility in her hands.
2. Gentle discipline: A child can't learn much about behavior when she's screaming and crying. She (and you) can benefit greatly from daily preventive techniques — strategies that reduce opportunities for misbehavior.
For example, create routines so that your child feels grounded. Offer choices to give her a sense of control, such as, "Would you like to wear the red pajamas or the blue?" Give warnings before transitions, as in, "We need to leave the playground in five minutes."
Frame your requests positively. For example, say, "Please use your big girl voice," instead of, "Don't whine." When possible, use "when, then" statements instead of outright no's, as in, "When we're done with dinner, then we can go outside."
When misbehavior occurs, turn to diffusion. First see if there's an underlying problem, such as tiredness, boredom, or hunger. Once you address this need, the misbehavior may magically disappear.
If not, turn to what author Elizabeth Pantley calls a "laundry bag" of tricks. This is a large collection, including silly games, distraction, redirection, validation, and self-soothing. You can pull a trick out of your hat — er, laundry bag — whenever it's time to derail your child from the misbehavior train.
For example, if he refuses to take a bath, try making the washcloth "talk" to him in a playful voice. If this doesn't work, you can try something else, such as validation and redirection ("It's hard when you have to do something you don't want to do. How about if we see how quickly we can get it done? I'll get a clock.")
3. Positive discipline: Children behave well when they feel encouraged and have a sense of belonging. Misbehavior happens when children are feeling discouraged.
Talk with your child and try to find out what the underlying cause is for her misbehavior. For example, suppose your 3-year-old refuses to bring her plate to the sink. Is she afraid she'll break the plate? Is she trying to get attention? Perhaps it gives her a sense of power. Or maybe she's hurt about something else and is trying to "get you back."
Once you know the reason, you give her the right kind of encouragement and work out a solution. For example, if she's struggling with powerlessness, you could encourage her by saying, "We need to get the table clean. Can you help me figure out how to do it?"
In positive discipline, misbehavior is seen as an opportunity for learning, and children are actively engaged in coming up with a solution. It's okay for a child to enjoy the solution — in fact, it's preferable.
For example, if your 8-year-old spills soda on the couch and the two of you decide that the solution is for him to steam-clean the stain (using his allowance to pay for the steamer rental), he might enjoy this task. This doesn't mean he'll continue to spill soda on the couch in order to get to use the steamer. It means he's learning how to take responsibility for a mistake — and better yet, he's invested in his own learning.
4. Emotion-coaching: When children can recognize and understand their own feelings, they make better choices. You can teach your child to do this, and it will help strengthen the connection between the two of you.
Know your own standards for what is and is not acceptable behavior. Make sure you're up front with your child about these, and talk with him about some of the feelings he might experience in certain situations.
For example, if he's been known to hit other kids and several friends are coming over, you might explain that it could get overwhelming for him. Suggest to him that if he starts to feel frustrated, he can spend some quiet time in his room — but hitting the other children is not acceptable.
Learn the skill of empathy. This means putting yourself in your child's shoes: What are the "real feelings" behind her misbehavior? Reflect these back to her, as in, "It's hard when we really want something and we can't have it. I bet you're feeling really disappointed right now."
When your child feels that you understand her, she'll trust you. Within this context of trust, she'll be open to you when you teach her about responsible choices. ("We can't buy candy every time we see it. Too much candy isn't good for our bodies.")
5. Behavior modification: Positive reinforcement helps children increase good behavior and negative reinforcement helps them decrease misbehavior. This approach is similar to boundary-based discipline in that it emphasizes clear limits and backing them up with consequences. But in behavior modification, there's more emphasis on warnings and rewards.
Use warnings to help your child take responsibility for stopping the misbehavior on his own. For example, if your child is arguing with you because you told him he can't have a cookie before dinner, don't get caught up in the skirmish. Tell him to stop arguing about it, and that this is his first "warning." If he persists, give him a second warning, and if he doesn't stop, calmly tell him to take a time-out (these should be brief — just a few minutes long).
For more "serious offenses," come up with a consequence other than time-out. For example, if your child persistently teases the dog and is old enough to know better, you might take away her television privileges for a couple of days.
Rewards motivate your child to do well. This could be as simple as parental praise. In some cases you might want to set up a charting system with more tangible rewards. For example, for every morning that your child is ready on time to go to daycare, she gets a star in her chart. When she racks up five stars, she gets a treat.
These brief descriptions don't tell the whole story, of course. It's not as if boundary-based discipline doesn't include preventive techniques — it does. And gentle discipline includes the use of consequences.
In fact, all of these styles overlap. The differences are more a matter of what they emphasize. Think about the primary colors — red, blue, and yellow. They contain no common elements. Discipline philosophies are more like secondary colors (orange, purple, green), which contain blends of more than one hue. Some may have a dash more red, and others may pour on the blue. What color will your discipline style be?
Comments from readers
"--negative words like "no" and "don't." I thought it would be OK to say NO sometimes to my children. The children need to learn how to say NO as well. (example...NO to DRUGS). "
"These stratagies work wonderfully. One other that i would like to see added is when children act up in public. They need to be taught that thier behavior affects others. I explain to my children that if they are too loud at a restaurant than they could ruin the meal for the people next to us and they dont deserve that. I also point out how proud i am of them when we see other kids misbehave. I let them know how helpful it is to me that they do not do that, and it shows other people how they are good kids and i am a good mommy. They appreciate the praise and dont want other people to feel bad so they like to behave and share thier smile with others instead of their tantrums. I have a 7 and 9 year old and have never had an issue with them in a public place due to this philosophy. "
"This has been very helpful, its very frustating trying to discipline but this has giving me better idea of what to do. The reward with stars for a 3 and 5 year old are really paying off. Thanks"
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Parametric polymorphism is when a function's type signature allows various arguments to take on arbitrary types, but the types most be ''related'' to each other in some way.
#REDIRECT [[Polymorphism#Parametric polymorphism]]
which means that the function well accept ''any'' type of list and ''any'' type of function, '''provided''' the types match up. This makes <hask>map</hask> highly polymorphic, yet there is still no risk of a runtime type mismatch.
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Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at
Mon Jun 20 22:11:11 CEST 2011
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 19:08 +0100, Paterson, Ross wrote:
> but it seems harmless.
It's true, though I don't think it's a trivial limitation. The required
analysis and transform is described by Andy Gill in his thesis (where
it's needed so that you can fuse foldl-defined-in-terms-of-foldr using
foldr/build fusion) and it's not been implemented in the 15 years since.
Though GHC HEAD does currently have a "simple" implementation of the
arity raising transformation but I don't think anyone has yet seriously
investigated if it'd cover these kinds of cases.
I was about to say that direct implementations of foldl' and foldr' can
be improved compared to foldl and foldr because types like arrays and
Data.Sequence can implement some of them as reverse traversals, but
actually that'd work already since foldl' is a foldr and foldr' is a
foldl, so an implementation of foldl as a reverse traversal would give a
reasonable foldr' (apart from the higher order vs accumulator business).
> Looks like you'll want strict versions of all 5 methods, though.
Mm, the '1' variants are obvious. The fold and foldMap are more
interesting. I'd have to think harder about what their default
definition would be, or what specialised implementations might look like
(e.g. tree folds starting from the leaves and working towards the root).
Are there any obvious use cases for strict monoid folds?
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Couple questions.
Discussion in 'DAoC General' started by Skrigg, Jun 2, 2013.
1. Skrigg
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Returned to the game a while back and my friends and I are getting back into things and I have a couple questions.
1. What is the best place to farm bounty points outside of BG quests?
2. For master levels do you need to buy all of them in order for a total of 30k points/glass and you are set then? Or do you need to do some sort of pve for them still.
More questions might follow, thanks a bunch.
2. Belkiolle
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1. BG and Frontier Quests are the only place to "farm" bounty points.
2. Just buy them, turn them in, and talk to the Arbiter.
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• Clint Eastwood is a mysterious preacher who comes to a gold mining camp near a small town in the mountains. The miners are in grave danger as a ruthless landowner decides to take their land, with the support of the sheriff. The only one who seems brave enough to save them is this preacher who came from nowhere and nobody knows his past or his real name. Why is the sheriff afraid of him? Why is he such a good shooter? Is he really a preacher?
- Written by Chris Makrozahopoulos <[email protected]>
Somewhere in California, at the end of the Gold Rush, several horsemen come riding down from the nearby mountains...
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Bel Iblis, Garm
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Qualifier: Corellian
Affiliation: New Republic
Planet of Origin: Corellia
a legendary Corellian who sat on the Old Republic's Senate, Garm Bel Iblis was as charismatic as Senator Palpatine, but not as devious. As Bel Iblis watched, Palaptine quickly took over the Senate and the Old Republic. It was then-Senator Bel Iblis who announced that Corellia and the Corellian System would close its borders to the Old Republic, shortly before the onset of the Clone Wars, in an effort to avoid the turmoil surrounding the separtist movement of the day. He was quick to point out that Corellia was not seceding, but rather going into a period of Contemplanys Hermi, which literally meant "meditative solitude." When the New Order was established, Palpatine sought out Iblis on Anchoron and murdered his family, although Iblis found a way to escape before they could kil him. He made contact with Bail Organa and Mon Mothma, and was influential in organizing the Rebellion and creating the Corellian Treaty. However, when Mon Mothma's charismatic personality began to take over the growing Alliance, Bel Iblis felt she was becoming too strong, and left the Alliance to fight the Empire on his own. He led a group of freedom fighters, striking against the Empire from a number of hidden bases. Among his compatriots, he was known as the Commander. Bel Iblis continued to stab at the Empire following the Battle of Endor, although he turned his attention to the New Republic. His prejudice against Mon Mothma told him that she would soon make the Republic a dictatorship. Following a successful attack on a Ubiqtorate base on Tangrene, Bel Iblis met up with Borsk Fey'lya, who set him up with a covert supply line in hopes that he could sway Bel Iblis to rejoin the New Republic as one of his supporters. He was later discovered by Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, and he was drawn into the New Republic. He reluctantly decided to help the Republic recover the Katana fleet, and later made a peace with Mon Mothma and joined the New Republic. This relationship failed when the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy, however, as Bel Iblis saw the same petty bickering and in-fighting that led to the fall of the Old Republic. Rather than be caught up in the machinations of Borsk Fey'lya, Bel Iblis again resigned his commission and set out on his own. He continued to command at the Republic's base on Fondor, but had split from acting directly for the New Republic. He established a personal base on Talaan, from which he commanded three distinct fleets. As before, Bel Iblis gathered to him a crack team of soldiers and officers, and began attacking the Yuuzhan Vong from hidden locations. He was again convinced to rejoin the Republic, this time by Luke Skywalker, and brought his fleets to Ebaq 9 as part of the Republic's ambush of Yuuzhan Vong forces during the Battle of Ebaq.
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Dark Force Rising, by Timothy Zahn, copyright 1992, from Bantam Spectra Books
Dark Force Rising Sourcebook, by Bill Slavicsek, copyright 1992, from West End Games
Destiny's Way, by Walter Jon Williams, copyright 2002, from Del Rey Books, Issues 45 through 49, by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens, copyright 2002, from LucasFilm Limited
so the answer is: Dark force rising.
Q: Name the smartest Gamorean in the Galaxy.
(sorry i cant think of most other Q's then for W squadron ) - Try some chocolate Gnorts
Fear attracts the fearfull.
The strong
The weak
The innocent
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Hey guys,
I can see on the other thread that some are recommending applying iodine to skin and checking for absorption. There appears to be quite a bit of confusion on this test and it seems like the test itself is meaningless.
Basically speaking, most of the iodine simply evaporates.
This really leaves a more simple question, how does one actually test for iodine content?
Here is an article on the matter:
The bioavailability of iodine applied to the skin
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 2 out of 24
2. Negative: 6 out of 24
1. 50
A feeling of hopelessness pervades Sleepwalking.
2. A soporific dud, which should have been tossed out of Sundance.
3. 38
Relentlessly depressing.
4. 63
Stanford's script is painfully obvious, right down to the line of dialogue spelling out the title's significance.
5. But the regularly overlooked Stahl burrows honestly into this unpleasant place, adding another worthy portrait to his indie gallery of interesting losers. He's still an actor worth keeping your eyes on. Assuming you can keep them open.
6. As Mr. Maher, in his feature directing debut, brings in surreal touches and puts on literary airs, the film’s grip loosens, and its vernacular turns increasingly wooden.
7. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
8. 50
The movie seems terrified of true psychological complexity or perversity. It's less a family tragedy than a lousy country dirge.
9. 50
10. Despite its deficiencies, and the inadequate screen time allotted to Theron (who's quite good), Sleepwalking has a core of feeling. It's about a do-gooder who, lacking all skills for it, does good anyway. His emotional odyssey has real poignancy.
12. The whole picture plays like a pop-up book in a welfare agency.
13. 30
An inert, sloppily written melodrama as grim and featureless as its frozen Midwestern setting.
14. 40
There's loads of suffering in Sleepwalking, piled on until the picture almost becomes an unintentional comedy.
15. 50
Well-intentioned to a fault, Sleepwalking blurs the line between dramatizing free-floating misery and spreading it.
16. Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
It's because of AnnaSophia Robb's performance...I don't think you'll see a more fascinating and nuanced performance at the movies this year.
17. Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
18. A slow-moving family drama guaranteed to induce a nap if not somnambulism.
19. 50
Terrific performances and a bleak, riveting look at life on the economic fringes eventually gives way to an overly familiar tale of abuse, denial and catharsis that feels like warmed over Sam Shepard minus the poetry.
20. Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
Even if the movie takes you to some dark places you would rather not visit, at least you will remember the actors who navigate the tortured journey.
21. Reviewed by: Zack Haddad
It’s a shame that this film’s star-studded cast wasn’t able to save the mediocre storyline.
22. Reviewed by: Josh Rosenblatt
Unfortunately, Sleepwalking isn’t content being a character study of damaged adult siblings (if it were, it would have made a nice companion piece to Kenneth Lonergan’s "You Can Count on Me," which is a far less sobering, but far more effective, movie).
23. Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
Theron and Woody Harrelson provide vitality against the film's heavy load, but they aren't around long enough to keep it from collapsing under its own portentous weight.
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Reddit apologizes for Boston bombing ‘witch hunt’
Reddit apologized for its Boston bombing 'witch hunt'
Reddit apologized for its Boston bombing “witch hunt.”
The social news website Reddit has apologized for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, which it admitted had turned into an online “witch hunt.”
Its subreddit, Find Boston Bombers, named several innocent people as users pieced together information and images in an attempt to identify suspects. Those wrongly named included 17-year-old Salah Barhoun and Sunil Tripathi, 22, who has been missing from home for several weeks.
In a blog posting Reddit said some of its users’ activity sparked “witch hunts and dangerous speculation.”
Tripathi’s family had to suspend a Facebook page they started in an effort to find him, after his name was wrongly posted on a variety of social media websites.
Reddit said it invoked a policy, several years ago, banning the use of personal information on the site, specifically to avoid “online witch hunts.” It said it thought crowdsourcing in the hunt for the Boston bombers would not deteriorate into such a witch hunt. Reddit added: “We were wrong.”
At the peak of the hunt, more than 270,000 users were on Reddit, the site said.
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Madden NFL 2000 (Windows)
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
5 point score based on user ratings.
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MADDEN NFL 2000
Gnadenlose Action mit EA SPORTS legendärem American-Football-Spiel. Pünktlich zur neuen Meisterschaftssaison kehrt MAdden zurück und liefert tolle Grafiken, spannende Zweikämpfe und einen Kommentator, der kein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt.
Madden NFL 2000 für PC-CD und Sony Playstation.
Contributed by Sicarius (61036) on Aug 20, 2006. – Nintendo 64:
No major breakthroughs, but plenty of refinements peg the next Madden as a serious competitor for the crown of football sims.
With two earlier N64 Maddens under its belt, EA Sports has steadily increased its mastery of the world's most potent console. Framerates and player movements are both markedly improved from Madden '99, while the number of player animations has doubled.
In FIFA '99, EA Sports inaugurated player models with different heights. Madden 2000 continues this trend, with sleek wideouts, tall quarterbacks and stocky tackles all having appropriate body shapes. Because football is a full contact sport, it makes sense that the developers have put a lot of thought into collision detection. Brawny running backs can gain extra yards by driving through diminutive defensive backs, while looming linebackers can stop svelte wideouts dead in their tracks.
EA Sports is going all-out to simulate that TV feel. New details include nets behind the goalposts to stop kicked balls and TV-style first-down markers. After a big play, the camera cuts to player celebrations and sideline reaction shots. John Madden's commentary is typically exuberant, but somnolent broadcast buddy Pat Summerall sounds like he still hasn't recovered from January's Super Bowl shindigs.
Aspiring Randall Cunninghams will welcome new route-based passing that allows a QB to lead his receiver. Ball carriers now have an expanded repertoire of jukes and moves. This being a Madden game, though, you'll have to wade through a mind-boggling array of options before you reach the point of taking a snap.
Virtually every aspect of game play is configureable, including game speed, fatigue, injuries, momentum, weather effects and quarter lengths. You can set the refs' aggressiveness in calling 12 different categories of penalties. You can tweak the CPU-controlled team's AI to your heart's content in such arcane categories as conservative or aggressive play-calling, run/pass ratio, QB accuracy, defenders' ability to shed blocks and kicking teams' accuracy. Whew!
Eight basic offensive formations and six defensive formations undergird each team's unique -- and mammoth -- playbook. Offensive and defensive teams can audible and set players in motion. Mix in the seemingly endless variations on the basic formations (How does the Bears' Singleback-Big formation strike you?) and you're inching into brain-meltdown territory. Still not satisfied, you gridiron wonk, you? Then chart your own destiny with Madden 2000's terrific play-editor.
Madden 99's franchise mode, which allowed you to build a multiseason dynasty, has been enhanced with support for long-term salary caps and trades involving multiple players.
Madden and his broadcast brethren love to natter on about mental preparation, the psychology of momentum and being "in the zone." At long last, a developer has finally factored this New Age mumbo-jumbo into game design. Madden 2000's Hot and Cold streaks enable a sizzling star to make one great play after another, while an ice-bound athlete will keep dropping passes, bungling handoffs and doing just about anything else to gum up the works.
Madden fans will be licking their chops when they feast their eyes on the All-Madden Millennium Team, made up of the announcer's favorite players to ever don a pair of cleats. Given that the NFL is less than a century old, that "All-Millennium" moniker sounds a mite overblown. But what else would you expect from John Madden?
Contributed by Evil Ryu (51758) on Aug 16, 2005.
Press Release - Nintendo 64 and Windows.:
Electronic Arts Ships MADDEN NFL 2000 For The PC And NINTENDO 64
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., August 31, 1999 - Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world s largest interactive entertainment software company, today announced that it has shipped Madden NFL 2000 for the PC and Nintendo 64. The PC version features the ability to play a robust and responsive game over the Internet for the first time in the history of the franchise. Madden NFL 2000's multiplayer Internet capabilities eliminate the necessity for users to have a dedicated phone line to connect with a fellow Madden player anywhere in the world.
A simple Internet connection, along with the EA SPORTS matchmaker service at is all a football fan will need to play the PC game via the Net. It is also possible to launch the Internet connection directly from within the game. Madden NFL 2000 shipped on the PlayStation earlier this month, and will ship on the Game Boy Color later this fall.
John Madden, Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and former Super Bowl -winning coach, explains why the Internet feature will enhance Madden NFL 2000: "When I do my football broadcasts I try and explain things so that it's easy for people to understand what is happening on the field. I don't want to exclude anybody by talking over their heads. I like to include people by opening up the NFL to them. That's why I love the Internet feature in my game this year. It brings people together. If you are a football fan and you want to play my game with somebody from another city, or even another country, you can do it. It's great! You can even talk to your opponent and tell him why your team is better than his team. And after you get done telling him your team is better, you can prove it by playing him over the Internet and knocking the stuffing out of him!"
Madden NFL 2000 marks the ten-year anniversary for the John Madden Football franchise. The first Madden football game from Electronic Arts shipped in 1989. Ten years of experience has helped Madden and the team at Electronic Arts create the best playing and best looking game in the history of the franchise.
"We've been working with John Madden on this game for twice as long as any of our competitors have even been around," said John Schappert, executive in charge of production, Electronic Arts. "The depth of gameplay shows that it is a well tuned game. A newcomer to this market can come in with a flashy looking game that turns heads, but it takes time to get the artificial intelligence correct. We work with John every year to improve how the defense moves as a unit, and to make sure each player carries out the correct assignment. The offensive lineman hold their blocks so the running game can work, and the skill position players show incredible athletic ability due to motion capture work with All-Pro football players. This game looks the best, but more importantly it plays the best."
New route-based passing helps a quarterback lead a receiver and throw the ball to the spot a receiver will be in, before the receiver makes his cut on the covering defensive back. The new "Madden Challenge" enables the user to gain access to secret teams, stadiums and other treats if statistical goals are met. An enhanced play editor lets the user design custom plays with new receiver routes, and more control over motion and play-action passes. An expanded franchise mode allows multiple users to trade players and juggle the salary cap over multiple seasons.
For those new to PC and video games that want a quick, easy, fun game with a short learning curve, Madden NFL 2000 delivers. The game's revolutionary One-Button Mode enables a user to hike the ball, hand off to a running back, throw the ball to the open receiver, make a big tackle, spin the ball carrier, throw a stiff-arm or hurdle to avoid a tackle by simply hitting the "X" or "action" button.
New dynamically enhanced audio and play-by-play help bring the game to life. Improved on-field graphics include more detailed playing fields, nets behind goalposts for kicks, TV-style first down markers, and players, coaches and other personnel on the sideline.
New player taunts to get under your opponent's skin and rattle his nerves bring the "in-your-face" aspect of the game to new heights. Cutting edge player models feature high-resolution graphics so that hefty lineman, sleek wide receivers and stocky linebackers now have body types proportionate to their real life counterparts. The weight and height of each player is now factored into collisions to help determine how much ground a ball carrier gains as the tackle is made, so that a small defensive back will have a tough time knocking a big bruising fullback down. New Player Hot and Cold streaks enables a player to get "in the zone" and stay hot to make great plays, or get cold to keep dropping passes, fumbling and hurting his team.
The PC version of Madden NFL 2000 is optimized for use with the 3dfx Voodoo3 family of cards using enhanced Glide programming and supports other major Direct3D accelerator cards. The 3dfx technology allows the game to achieve faster, smoother gameplay and detailed player and field texturing, Helping to convey accurate, real football sounds is the Creative Labs' Environmental Audio technology. The quality of this technology can be heard throughout the game, such as when stadium noise echoes around the stadium or when the quarterback calls an audible.
The suggested retail price is (U.S.) $39.95 for the PC version, and $49.95 for the Nintendo 64 version. Consumers may purchase the game directly at the EA Store ( or by calling EA Direct Sales at 1.800.245.4525. The game carries an ESRB rating of "E" (Everyone).
EA SPORTS is the leading interactive sports software brand in the world. Its top-selling titles and franchises include FIFA 99, John Madden Football , NHL Hockey, Knockout Kings , NBA Live Basketball, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Golf, Triple Play Baseball and NASCAR 99.
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I have an 18 month old daughter who does wonderfully with older children but I've recently started watching another little girl similar in age during the day and all hell breaks loose. My daughter kicks and screams and cries and tries to push and hit the other little girl. I don't know what to do. It's been three weeks and it hasn't gotten any better. Is there anything I can do to help them get along?!
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I didn't want your question to go unanswered. There's really no great answer. You know the old saying, "In a toddlers world, what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine." And, when you get 2 mini-humans together with this same mentality there's bound to be problems. Plus, everyone's got a personality and some times 2 personalities just don't mesh, even at the age of 1.
There's just a good chance that these 2 won't be able to play together at this age. Maybe the best way (if it's important that they be together) is just focus on parallel play. 2 sets of crayons and 2 coloring books at opposite ends of the table.
Good luck.
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Kids that age don't play together, they do parallel play, as the PP said. Also, whatever someone else is touching is the most interesting thing in the room and what they want. Until they get a little older, they'll need lots of oversight, because they'll want to take things from each other. You can start using terminology like taking turns and that, but it will take a while before they'll understand it.
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I have twins, and at that age, we did not leave them alone together for 30 seconds. If we did, someone would get hit, bitten, toys stolen, or a block thrown at his head. DH and I literally "tagged off", so we knew who was in charge of supervision. When I was home alone with them, I would bring one of them to the bathroom with me.
It eventually did get better, but for several months - after they became mobile and before they figured out how to play together - it simply required constant vigilance to keep everyone safe. Parallel play is the key - and a few feet of distance between them!
Two of everything helped, but often they still wanted the item the other baby had - even if they looked exactly the same to me.
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what quick, healthy lunches do you send to school with your kids? Ds wants to pack his lunch and I am drawing a blank other than cold cut sandwiches, veggies and fruit. Please spell it out for me, I am new to this!
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When I had to pack my dd lunch I did peanut butter and honey tortillas, cheese and meat rolled together and crackers on the side, boiled eggs, trail mix and a muffin, cold chicken strips, and cold pasta salads. I would switch up the bread and do traditional sandwich toppings on mini pitas, mini bagels, rolls, hotdog buns, etc... I always sent fruit and veggies of some sort to and typically sent milk. Cookie cutters liven up sandwiches a lot and there are some beautiful cutters that work on fruit and vegetables that might also work. I suggest that you save these things for when lunch starts seeming boring though.
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That is the traditional sack lunch, what do you eat for lunch? What will your kid eat? You can also do veggie sticks and dip with cheese and crackers, bagels and cream cheese, thermos soups, boiled eggs, pasta salad, anything that you can eat cold. Salads will work too. But yes, sandwiches are the go to thing.
It doesn't have to be cold cuts, could be pb&j, hummus and apple, peanut butter and apple, cream cheese and olive, cream cheese and raisins. (For the record, these are things I grab for my lunch now, based on what I scrounged for myself on the weekends and as needed as a kid. Make sure your kid has a say about what they eat (within reason, for example grape over strawberry jelly, but not a say that overpowers good nutrition like a nutella and fluff sandwich.)
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My dad used to pack me margarine and peanut butter sandwiches (ick) because "you don't like jelly." So I argued with him about how I could make my own lunch right after dinner, and mom stepped in and vetoed that idea, but yelled at him about the margarine. After that, he used to use moldy bread for my sandwiches, until the school stepped in. Sorry for going sideways with this, I don't have a normal frame of reference for this type of thing, and since I also got the same type of food for weeks on end, I'm not sure if that's a bad thing?
The general rule for food safety for cheeses and meats and dips are pack an re-freezable ice pack or frozen water bottle or juice box to make sure that cold things stay cold. If you eat processed food, gogurt tubes freeze nicely, and frozen yogurt is a nice treat, and isn't any less healthy for having been frozen.
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My kids like to eat the same basic foods over and over. It makes them happy. We do little thing to liven them up, like homemade granola bars, and we have small reusable dishes for thing like apple sauce and canned fruit. One of my dd's like hummus with pita for lunch, and more other dd like cold (whole grain) pasta and sauce for lunch. Sometimes they take something like cold, boneless chicken. But our go to's are sandwhiches - turkey and cheese for dd#1, pb&j for dd2.
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How old is he? Can he manage containers and thermos lids etc.?
My kids liked taking left-overs from dinner. Re-heated pasta, stew, and that sort of thing. The kid has to be able to manage the containers independently though.
They also liked wraps rather than regular sandwiches on bread. Buns or bagel sandwiches were also preferred.
Muffins also make a nice change. A couple of muffins, some fruit and cheese is a good lunch. If they are slow eaters and don't finish lunch, I find they are more likely to eat the second muffin at afternoon recess than a half-eaten sandwich.
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A foogo or other small thermos is a game-changer. As long as you follow the instructions, it really will keep food safely and a good temperature. The kids love "real food" i.e leftovers plus any assortment of thick bean soups with some ham and little whole wheat pasta, or quinoa etc. 1,000 options.
They get leftovers or we make big batches of favorites and store them in small freezer containers so that we can whip them out morning off.
If found the sandwich construction was important too, that a very thin bread worked best.
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I think I will just choose 5 or so main dishes and different sides and just serve the same things each week. It will make my menu planning easier.
Thanks for the ideas. I am uncertain if peanut butter is banned at his school but will look into it.
So here is my menu:
cold cut sandwich veggie and fruit with milk and water
pb and j veggie and fruit and milk and water
cheese and crackers with veggie and fruit, yogurt and milk and water
turkey wrap with veggie and yogurt and fruit water and juice
bread sticks with pizza dipping sauce with salad and fruit and milk and water
may through in some other items on occasion, but i know kids like predictability
Simple and sweet. something like that..
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Our lunch break through came when I realized I was putting too many different things in DC's lunch. Frustrated that she wasn't finishing her lunch, I realized that she had too many choices for a relatively short time to eat. Now we do three things - one "main dish" (which is a sandwich, pasta, sometimes chips with salsa) one fruit (mostly) or vegetable and a snack (goldfish, nuts, pretzels). We just do water to drink, though last year DC started buying milk.
If you use plastic containers in the home I recommend the shape that is a rectangle about 4" long x 2.5" wide and about 2.5" deep. They make the perfect container for a serving of fruit or snack and they fit a cut sandwich perfectly. They're all we use so we don't have to sift through various container sizes. They also fit in the lunchbox nicely.
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I've made what one might call an "enemy" on here.
That appears to be a fairly common belief. I see it claimed rather regularly, and for nearly exactly the reasons that you have presented. You may well have made one or more "enemies". However, as usual, the evidence that you based this conclusion on doesn't actually support your conclusion. If you have enemies here, they aren't systematically downvoting your nodes right after you post them. (When I see complaints of potential abuse, I often investigate in part to make sure that I understand what problems there might be and if there are ways to improve things.)
Human brains are great at seeing patterns. So good that they can often see patterns where there are none, which leads many humans to see conspiracies where there are none. It is also human nature to blame others before blaming oneself. So it is pretty natural to see yet another downvote and eventually come to the conclusion that some other single person is responsible and thus that they have some personal grudge against you.
When (rarely but still too frequently) someone forms a grudge and starts systematically downvoting another monk, claims start approaching a real conspiracy, inventing an army of downvoting robots. (:
The downvotes against you have been cast by a wide variety of monks. I did see that the frequency of downvotes against you was higher a while back, but they were being cast by a wide variety monks both then and now. So it seems more likely that your nodes have changed over that time (or perhaps your extra-node presence has changed, as you suspect).
It is still true that (thankfully) most monks rarely downvote. But when someone downvotes a node, it is rare to contemplate the node and then come back and cast the downvote later. A downvote is more likely to be a snap decision or at least a fast reaction while upvotes often take longer. So nodes getting an initial downvote or few and then moving to a positive rep appears to rarely have much to do with who wrote the node.
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Thank you.
I like computer programming because it's like Legos for the mind.
Your signature reminded me of something I had been thinking when I was recently looking a bit deeper into forth than I had before. It very much reminds me of "lego for the mind". C on the other hand doesn't make me think of lego in the least, and Perl is kinda in the middle. Sometimes its like lego, sometimes its more like tuning a very complex machine.
... a very complex machine made out of lego!
by apotheon (Deacon) on Dec 22, 2006 at 09:31 UTC
I know there must be instances where vindictive downvoting occurs, however -- and I know this for two reasons. One, human nature just makes it too unlikely that everyone in an online community is too benevolent for that. Two, it has happened to me on a temporary basis.
I don't know that I'd use the word "enemy", but there have been a couple discussions here at PerlMonks wherein I clearly upset some people (the hazards of having controversial opinions, being willing to share them, and being reasonably good at defending them, I guess) after which I received too many downvotes and XP losses to be a coincidence. One case in particular that comes to mind is a discussion on a root node I posted that went wildly off-topic with gun control debate. For a couple days, I actually lost XP faster than my nodes in that discussion were downvoted, as I recall.
I pretty much shrugged it off -- no biggie. I'm not saying that something should necessarily be done, especially since the downvotes on other nodes of mine were probably cast by a number of people who were just looking for reasons to disagree with me, and who quickly lost interest. It's not like it affected my livelihood. My only point is that it's not always just "conspiracy theories". Sometimes, even if the "victim" exaggerates circumstances in his/her own mind, there is a definite kernel of truth to the vindictiveness (s)he senses.
Overall, I think the XP/voting system works well enough as is, as long as someone like you is dealing with anything like bots that might crop up from time to time. I don't know how common that might be, but it's good to know you have a way of dealing with it. It's not perfect, but I don't expect it to be.
All that having been said, I think I've rambled more than necessary and said less of worth than I intended. Back to doing actual Perlish stuff for me.
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The sight of Lebanon's youth in Beirut's Martyr Square stunned many in the West and emboldened many more in the Arab world. The revolution was deeply rooted in the country's long traditions of pluralism and democratic expressions, despite past wars.
There is no doubt about it, the Arab world and its surroundings are feeling the shock of Afghanistan and Iraq's elections. Without hope, the peoples of the region won't be able to sustain change and progress on the road to freedom. The Middle East needs a project for democracy, established in its own midst, by its own cultures and aimed at its own future.
This launching pad has to speak its languages and understand its problems. It must have an experience in democracy and a capability of exporting it within the region. The basis for Mideast and Arab democracy has to be able to teach it, broadcast it, model it into art, technology and culture. It has to be a bridge with the rest of the world, and it has to be able to extend around the world as well. It must be from the East but relate to the West. It needs to have understood the dangers of terrorism, but yet capable of renaissance after being liberated.
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So it goes without saying misusing extract is dangerous. What's it good for? Personally, I use it for templating, to form a hard barrier between the variables visible to the template and those which aren't. Consider this rudimentary template function
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This function allows you to create a template who's variables have their own "scope" separate from the rest of the code. This sort of separation is vital to design patterns. We separate code in this manner in order to reduce the number of interactions in the code we have to test - in so doing we make the code more easily tested. If a template is free to reference any variable in the program then changing any variable has to be tested against that template. With this approach though we can reduce what the template touches.
By itself the function above isn't that useful. Within a class though the advantages increase. But that's outside the scope of function of the day.
I'm nearing the end of my initial list of functions to cover. PM me with suggestions. Otherwise, in a week or two I'm going to start overviewing classes with each method of the class being the function of the day, starting with PDO.
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The April 18 news article, "WSU psychology professors address gay marriage pros and cons" spoke volumes about the paper's position on this subject.
This article did nothing to explain or justify the feelings behind peoples' opposition to gay marriage, but rather, treated the cons as a mere after thought. After taking three short paragraphs to list the cons, the writers and editors then spent an entire newspaper column explaining the pros for gay marriage and reasons why everyone should embrace it. This article was most blatantly unbalanced, and as such should have appeared in the opinion section of your paper. It was hardly qualified for the front page. Is the Standard-Examiner a newspaper or a venue for propaganda?
One more thought on this subject: Let's give the paper the benefit of the doubt and assume that the event was reported as it played out on the WSU campus. If this is the case, then Azenett Garza and Maria Parrilla de Kokal, failed to attain their stated goal of "promoting understanding of diverse communities". If this article accurately reported the event, then the event itself effectively silenced the voice of those who oppose gay marriage, all in the name of diversity.
To all parties involved in the printing of this article, and in the event I ask: Just exactly how does that promote understanding?
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there are many countries in the world and they have a different degree of developemnt .would you like to divide into small countries to have a much more development or you think big countries can develope fast .why .
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• Oct 9 2012: I don't think there is an effective relation between the size of a country and its development. There are many advantages and disadvantages to being a big country and they seem to more or less cancel each other out in the real world.
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Oct 9 2012: what is the real motivite of development
• Oct 9 2012: National unity, natural resources, effective government, economic and social equality, modernity, having friendly neighbors and/or having natural borders (rivers, mountain ridges, deserts).
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Oct 11 2012: Education and economic stability are pretty big factors.
Social conflicts can also escalate change/revolution.
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Oct 9 2012: you know there are different countries .each of them have a different development .take japan for example .after the wwg 2 .tey have a super develope.their companies strech all over the world and they create many famous companies like sony,fengtian ,and so on .while you know japan is a very small country .is there a relatation between them .while china is a big country .while we even do not develop until the reform and open ,if so ,and under the same policy .which of the country develope faster small or big one .
• Oct 9 2012: Japan is a big country, it has 125 million inhabitants. Out of the ~200 countries on Earth it's the 10th most populous.
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Oct 9 2012: what about it size of land
• Oct 9 2012: I think the advantages and disadvantages of that cancel each other out: you have lots of space for farming and probably more natural resources but it also costs more money to distribute goods and build roads between all those spread out towns.
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Oct 9 2012: you know farming is a lower labor .so you are saying that a small country can have a much faster development with some industries like ,commerial and making and service ?
and what is a big countries .its population or land or impact in the world ?
• Oct 9 2012: A big country can choose to invest in farming or not, small countries don't have that option and since you can't employ 100% of working age people in what you call "higher labors" because of natural resource constraints, so the big country with all its farmland can have all the same services as a small country, the extra farming will just lower the unemployment rate, not steal potential employees away from the services sector.
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Oct 9 2012: Everyone in the city would starve if there were not farmers... I'd refrain from calling them lower. America built it's wealth on farming, then invested it in technology... Not the other way around.
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#25 Men don't rape because it's the only way for them to get sex. They rape because they like the power of the act. They like taking from a woman what she doesn't want to give him. And just because a woman flirts with a man doesn't mean she wants to have sex with him. At least 4 women, who don't know each other, have come forward. Where there's smoke, there's a fire.
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He was not on Dancing with the Stars. He and his wife were on SYTYCD this season and previous seasons. I don't believe a word of what is being said. After he was arrested back in April, he still appeared on SYTYCD. If he did what they say, WHY now are the 2002 people coming forward? I would have went to the police the first time it happened to me. Don't believe everything you read. You know the saying "innocent until proven quilty".
1671 days ago
I have known Alex for a long time..overall he is a cool guy..a little arrogant but i don't see a rapist. I've been to his house, hung out with him, he tried to hit on me but i told him was END OF STORY. He didn't try to force/rape me. S#$% it would have been a good fight if he did try cause he is about as petite as me. I think these girls better be for real with their allegations cause accusing someone of something of this magnitude is life changing. Sounds to me like a case of "Regret" on the females part. They made a decision..even if they felt a little pressured and now they wanna call rape. If he is guilty he needs punished and deserves jail. But if these females are just pissed off at the regretable choice they made and wanna punish him..that's F'd up! I just hope that the truth comes out, whatever that may be!
1671 days ago
MOST of you are a bunch of hater, probably ignorant, Republicans or Conservatives... what ever happened with the so called "innocent until proven quilty" some times I wish I can Move out of this planet and if I could I would.
Lest just see what comes out of this, then and only then YOU HATERS can go at it if he is indeed guity, until then put a BURRITO in your mouths..............
1671 days ago
It's about time an intelligent District Attorney was put on this case. Â Former lacking DAs is the reason for the case being dragged on for so long. Â Alex is a criminal and deserves everything that is to come - life in prison. Â Rapists don't show their dark side to the public. Â Their own families don't even know it! Â May justice be served. Â
1671 days ago
#35 What happened was that they didn't feel that they had enough evidence to convict him, and they weren't going to file charges unless they knew they could go to trial and win. In the interim, 3 other women stepped up with the same story -- 3 women who did not know each other. They discovered a pattern and felt that they could now prove their case against Da Silva. You are innocent until proven guilty, but where there is smoke, there is fire. It's one thing to have 1 woman make a claim, but it's a whole other thing to have 4! This guy is going down.
1670 days ago
Antonio T.V
I have known Alex for 7 years now.For those of you who dont know him, He is one of the nicest guys around. In all this time that I have known him, I have seen a lot of girls come up to him and flirt and then I would see them leave together,from a club or from a studio.No doubt about it, Alex is a player, and He loves women. I just do not think that he is the kind of person who would rape a woman. I know that rape is about power and about taking something from someone by force. I just do not think that He is capable of that. there are a lot of ignorant jokes and comments that I read here. Put yourself in his situation: would you like to have ignorant people who do not know anything about the matter believe everything they hear and post horrible comments about YOU? I think that if He did these horrible things, He should pay for the crime--even though I just hang out with Alex about one week ago, and He is a friend. I just hope that you all can give him the benefit of the doubt until he is proved guilty--that is the right thing to do, at least in this country of ours that believes in "innocent until proven guilty" --not the other way around.
1669 days ago
This is utterly ridiculous. I've known him for over 12 years. People are so quick to judge. A bunch of easy to believe the bad...jealous idiots...
1657 days ago
Do they have enough charges now to "move forward"? If people weren't so incredibly stupid, this wouldn't be happening. We have a great justice system. Ruin as many lives as possible, and then, just maybe, you can get caught, do it again, get caught, and then, finally, have to meet bail to go out and do it all over again. Sad situation all around.
1632 days ago
i agree with the person who said you guys are a bundle of idiots who are believing this crap about alex. this is all a bunch of crap. of course alex would never rape anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1299 days ago
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