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Gate of Mordor
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The Gate of Mordor (also the gates of Mordor and once the Black Gate of Mordor)was a term for the defended pass in the northwest of Mordor, and great Black Gate - the Morannon - that protected it. The Gates opened onto a narrow valley, Udûn, and were highly defensible. Indeed, they were only successfully assaulted once in their history, by the armies of the Last Alliance.
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House of the Stewards
Revision as of 18:29, 13 June 2012 by KingAragorn Bot (Talk | contribs)
The House of the Stewards was a house in Minas Tirith. It housed the tombs of the Stewards.
Situated near the House of the Kings on Rath Dínen, this house was the location where Denethor II immolated himself on March 15, T.A. 3019.
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Parrot: Ticket #1279: Parrot prefers libraries in build tree to installed tree or current directory. <p> When executing load_bytecode 'foo.pbc', if foo.pbc exists in runtime/parrot/library of Parrot's build location, then that library is loaded in preference to <i>any</i> other copy of the library that may exist. This is true even for installed parrots -- the build tree version gets prioritized over any installed library of the same name, or any same-named library in the current working directory. </p> <p> IMO, an installed Parrot (parrot executable created via "make install") should look only in the current directory and in the installed library path (in that order), and never search the build tree path. </p> <p> Pm </p> en-us Parrot Trac 0.11.7 chromatic Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:21:30 GMT comment added; resolution set; status changed <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> Agreed. I believe r42590 fixes this. If not, feel free to reopen. </p> Ticket fperrad Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:34:27 GMT comment added <pre class="wiki">$ perl tools/dev/ SomeLang $ cd somelang $ parrot Configure.pir Hello, I'm Configure. My job is to poke and prod your system to figure out how to build Xyz. Could not find non-existent sub genfile </pre><p> that fails because in somelang/Configure.pir, the instruction </p> <pre class="wiki">load_bytecode 'Configure.pbc' </pre><p> reload somelang/Configure.pir itself instead of runtime/library/Configure.pbc. </p> Ticket fperrad Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:16:22 GMT comment added <p> #parrot </p> <pre class="wiki">[23:05] <fperrad> chromatic, could you look at my comment in TT #1279 and confirm if it's a bug or not. [23:05] <fperrad> If not a bug, I just rename my library. [23:05] <chromatic> Will do. [23:06] <chromatic> It's working as designed right now, but it's easy to argue that it's surprising. [23:06] <chromatic> The easiest solution is to rename your library. </pre> Ticket fperrad Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:25:00 GMT comment added <p> renamed in r42833 </p> Ticket
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1. Negotiation is not coercion and USADA has no coercive powers.
2. There is no 8 year limitation, as I've already pointed out. If you can document this myth then I'll reconsider my position.
3. They don't want perjured testimony in exchange for 'easing off' and these riders were punished, although less severely than if they had not agreed to give truthful testimony.
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Analysis: Pokemon Storm Clouds
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Funny: Epic Games
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Heartwarming: Holy Musical B@man!
• Robin and Batman's first meeting and subsequent night on patrol switches between this and Crowning Moment of Funny more times than one could count.
• The song "Dynamic Duet" is cheesy, but in the most heartwarming way possible. Seeing Batman finally happy is enough to bring a tear to one's eye.
• Batman checking the results of the Facebook poll... and it's a unanimous vote to save Robin. Even after he was the Scrappy to the people of Gotham, they decided that if Batman liked him, he couldn't be that bad.
• Superman and Batman (and Robin) deciding that they should be... Super Friends.
• Batman's pep talk to Superman, which pretty quickly turns in an Author Filibuster about how awesome Superman and all superheroes are. Why is Team StarKid so good at those?
• The conversation with Penguin in Act 1.
Penguin: What's the matter, Batman? Not a bird lover?
Batman: On the contrary. There is one bird that I love. Very much.
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Heartwarming: Kite
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Heartwarming: Zyll
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''Symphony of Ages'' is a series of fantasy novels by Elizabeth Haydon. It blends HeroicFantasy with RomanceNovel tropes to produce an effect that you likely think [[LoveItOrHateIt is the most awsome thing ever or is absolutely ridiculous.]]
Rhapsody (formerly known as Emily, but she changed her name after running away from home as a child) is a former prostitute living in Elizabeth Haydon's ConstructedWorld of Serendair. During the sordid career, she attracted the attention of a minor warlord named Michael, who is the biggest pervert ever and has [[SingleTargetSexuality a strange fixation with her.]] She is trying to start a new life for herself when Michael shows up intending to kidnap and [[RapeAsDrama do really, really bad things to her.]] She escapes and ends up haphazardly under the protection of two traveling warriors, Achmed and Grunthor. They listen to her story and take enough pity on her to let her travel with them, safe from Michael (besides she just accidentally helped Achmed by renaming him). They do not tell her, however, that they are demon-hunters and that they are fleeing from a demon [[BeneathTheEarth through the center of the planet.]]
Also, when Emily was a child, she had a curious run in with a guy who called himself Sam. She did not know where he came from, but it was LoveAtFirstSight, or so she thought. They had sex (TheirFirstTime) and then he disappeared. She was naturallly quite upset, but all was not as it seemed: Sam was actually Gwidion, a [[PrinceCharming prince]] from the future who had all of a sudden been [[TimeTravel pushed backwards into Emily's era without knowing why.]] When Achmed, Grunthor, and Rhrapsody finally make it out from BeneathTheEarth and arrive on the far end of the world, he is there--although neither of them recognize each other.
As the title suggests, music is a constant theme in ''Symphony of Ages.'' The metaphysics of Serendair are mostly explained in musical terms, and Rhapsody frequently employs MagicMusic during her adventures.
Also, several characters have ElementalPowers that lend themselves well to PowerPerversionPotential. Whereas most authors would shy away from this fact or not even notice, Hayden exploits them to their [[FetishFuel fullest potential.]]
'''This series provides examples of:'''
* AGodAmI: Non-villianous example. Achmed convinces the Firbolg that he is a god in order to unite them into a great nation.
* AfterTheEnd: Meridion's future.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The F'dor, beings of elemental fire that want to burn the world.
* ApocalypseHow: Planetary Extinction. In Meridion's future the F'dor have reduced the planet to molten slag.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The magical language of the Cymrians is really just Welsh.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: The God of Time wants Rhapsody and Gwidion to hook up. This is SeriousBusiness! [[spoiler:More to the point, it's their son who wants them to hook up, and goes to great lengths to make their partnership a good one.]]
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Achmed to Rhapsody.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most prominently, Achmed and Ashe.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: If the Wyrm at the center of the world wakes up, this is what will happen.
* FantasyContraception:
** Ashe [[spoiler:can use his water powers to hold back his own semen.]]
** [[spoiler:He is part dragon, and that all dragons can do that. Check book 4 or 5, when they finally decide to get going on the children. Still an example, though.]]
** In Book 2 or 3 Ashe sayd that all 1st generation Cymrians can control their fertility (dont want kids means no kids).
* FramingDevice: The efforts of Meridion in an apocalyptic future as he attempts to stop the destruction of the world and unite Gwidion and Rhapsody.
* HelloNurse: Rhapsody
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: The cwellan, a sort of crossbow-like-thing invented by Achmed which fires razor-edged discs at a distance of ''up to two miles.''
** Both Rhapsody and Ashe's sword qualify.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Rhapsody and Achmed and Rhapsody and Grunthor. Though the former might be [[FanPreferredCouple debatable.]]
* MadLibFantasyTitle: Not the title of the series itself, but the individual novels very much so.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: The Cymrians live shorter lives with each generation, starting with immortality at generation one. This presumably causes true mayfly romances, but the most visible case is Tristan Steward and his consort Prudence. While they grew up at about the same rate, she starts showing her age and he remains youthful. [[spoiler:A much more complicated version arises among Rhapsody, Ashe, and Achmed. Rhapsody, a first-generation Cymrian and lirin, will live forever. So will Achmed. Ashe, however, is part dragon and a third generation Cymrian, granting him a lifetime that will probably last a few thousand years more before he either dies or reincarnates as a full dragon (somehow presumed to end their romance, although other dragons have loved humans before). Achmed loves Rhapsody, or at least believes she is the only possible suitable mate for him, but is content to wait millennia for Ashe's eventual removal.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: The second and third book run on this.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The FramingDevice for the original trilogy takes place in an alternate timeline where the F'dor was successful and they have transformed the world into a lifeless, molten ruin. Meridion is trying to prevent that from occurring.
* [[spoiler:StableTimeLoop]]: [[spoiler: The entire story is brought about through the time-manipulating machinations of Merydion, which ultimately brought Emily/Rhapsody and Gwydion together; Merydion is the child of this union, meaning he would never have been born if not for the ways he personally altered history.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: Gwydion and Rhapsody in the original timeline. Meridion manipulated history specifically so they could avert this trope.
* PowerPerversionPotential:
** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Gwidion has control over water. 70% of the human body is made of water. He knows this. And there's the time when Rhapsody was taking a bath and he got frisky...
** Also, F'dor's fire magic. Yes, ma'am, you did just get screwed by the fireplace.
* SlapSlapKiss: Rhapsody and Ashe have this relationship for the first two novels.
* TheirFirstTime: Turns out to be just like IdealizedSex.
* {{Tsundere}}: Rhapsody shows signs of this, especially in regards to Ashe.
* WorldTree: Many of them, and their roots are all intertwined.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: Ashe's wound from when the F'dor attacked, until later in the first trilogy.
* ScheduleSlip: ''The Assassin King'', Book 6 overall and the first book of the second trilogy, (following two intermediate books) was released in 2006. After seven years without even a hint of the follow-up in sight, Book 7 was ''finally'' released in June, 2014.
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Quotes: Magic Pants
"I'm as fascinated as you about that. Obviously it's got to do with the fact that otherwise we'd have a large green penis flopping around that diminish the chances of us opening in 4,000 cinemas across the country."
Eric Bana, when asked about the magic pants in Hulk
"Nanomachines break them down and store them until he returns to human form. I call it the "Broadcast Standards and Practices Modesty and Y-7 Rating Preserver.""
Dwayne McDuffie, Ben 10: Alien Force, on Ben's magic clothes.
"Did his pants just grow thirty times their normal size?"
Dragon Ball Z Abridged, "Dead Zone" (pre-Team Four Star)
Reader: I've been thinking about a great topic for about five years now. And that topic is, "Why is it that in battle manga, the bottom half of people's clothes never get destroyed?"
One Piece Volume 13 SBS
"Thank God his pants stayed on."
Bart Simpson, The Simpsons, upon witnessing his father Homer hulking out.
I have no idea. I'm just glad it doesn't rip.
Allen Walker, D.Gray-Man, when asked what happens to his sleeve when he does this.
"Heh, I'd like to meet his tailor."
Warren Zevon, "Werewolves Of London" (song)
"Contrary to hulk's belief, his pants are the strongest thing there is."
Youtube Comment
Across this vision of early 21st Century technopia strode a dark-haired, dusky female of gargantuan yet well-favoured proportions, swiping at the gyrocopters that buzzed about her like angry gnats. Clothing made of stitched bedsheets barely covered her breasts and loins, and thousands flocked to her path despite the danger, drawn by the chance of seeing the world's largest crotch shot.
Attack of the 50-Ft Half-Klingon
"Don't worry, these boxers are made of the latest heavy-duty materials. They won't break just like that!"
Kevin Murphy, RiffTrax of The Avengers
...his sleeves became mere rags, his body turned dark green and swelled enormously yet his underpants stayed intact, exerting a terrible pressure on his privates that only fueled his excessive rage.
Man of Wood
Those pants sure know when to stop ripping.
— Yusuke to Gouki, Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged
Werewolves that rip out of their clothes but always seem to get their shorts back. Seriously, do they keep stashes of jean shorts hidden around the forest?
Honest Trailers re Twilight 2: New Moon
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Recap: Mystery Science Theater 3000 S 01 E 11 Moon Zero Two
Film watched: Moon Zero Two
This MST3K episode contains examples of:
• Colour Coded Characters: Lampshaded with the three astronaut goons who attack the heroes on the moon, who are given the nicknames "Lemon Yellow", "Raspberry Red", and "Lime Green" by Tom Servo.
• Space Is Slow Motion: The low gravity bar fight in the movie, parodied in one of the host segments.
• Visual Gag: After the movie shows the antagonists playing "Moonopoly", Servo shows his disapproval by "mooning" the screen with his hoverskirt.
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Use one-on-one meetings to build a buzz with your team
A quick 15-minute talk can keep you informed and keep your team members motivated.
Apr 01, 2010
By staff
Do you know what your team members are working on? Have you asked? Helen Moll, practice manager at East Side Animal Hospital in Evansville, Ind., holds 15-minute one-on-one "buzz" meetings with each team member once a month to stay up to date. During these meetings, she asks four questions:
1. What have you been working on this month?
2. What are your goals this month?
3. What are you planning to do differently?
4. How can I help?
"I log each response to help employees stay accountable," Moll says. "We also review any recommendations from their annual review and update the status of vacation and sick time and their personal pet care compliance."
At staff meetings Moll presents summaries of what everyone has accomplished and the things they're working on. This keeps the team's work transparent and helps promote cooperation among employees.
"I sell the benefit of these meetings to team members by explaining it's like an inventory of skills and accomplishments throughout the year," Moll says. "I log all of the information they provide and encourage them to reflect on it during their annual self-evaluations. The buzz meetings help us monitor performance monthly rather than annually."
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27 December 2009 @ 08:51 pm
Lest I forget, I recorded a new drum 'n' bass mix the other day. It's only about 35 minutes long, but it's got some hot new tunes for you.
Download link is here.
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09 June 2009 @ 06:25 am
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17 May 2009 @ 05:15 pm
I am baking this right now.
Try it. It's good.
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08 May 2009 @ 06:14 pm
Today my advisor called me and offered me an assistanceship.
I'd be teaching undergrads for 20 hours a week. In exchange they would pay about half of my tuition and a stipend of $4000 a semester.
I'll still have to borrow some money -- but a hell of a lot less than I expected to.
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04 May 2009 @ 09:31 pm
This past weekend was the annual Derby party at John and Jen's. Oh man, it was epic. We got there around 1:30 and I had my first mint julep soon after. Much fun was had. I played fetch with pugs and caught up with old friends. Had a blast screaming my lungs out watching the race. Unfortunately I got a screaming headache shortly thereafter which pretty much killed the rest of the evening for me. But it was still a total success.
I still haven't figured out yet how to pay for two years of graduate school, but I'm workin' on it.
One of the biggest developments that I hadn't written about yet is that I now finally have something like a proper studio space. Pathetic that it took this long, I know. But now the small blue bedroom on the top floor of the house is mine all mine. I'm in it right now. I've got my meager studio setup here. I did some basic acoustic treatment with mattress pads on the walls and a bunch of crap crammed into the corners to handle bass. My speakers sound pretty nice in here, and I'm getting used to listening a lot of music in here so I ought to be able to do some halfway decent mixes in here before long. Additionally, the walls are a lovely deep blue, I've got a closet for my stuff in here, and I set up my little altar in the corner. So when I'm in here I'm usually doing either music or zazen. It's a nice space.
On that note, I have actually gotten back into devoting serious time to music-making. It's been far too long for that. When you don't have a dedicated space it always seems like a lot of trouble to plug everything up just to twiddle around on the keyboard for a few minutes. But when you do have a space, that wiggly little melody that popped into your head on the way home can be preserved in digital glory in the space of a few short minutes.
Anyway, I got a couple of tunes coming down the pipeline and I think they'll be worth playing for people. It's been a long time since I did anything like that. I've got two mixes of one track I've written evolving in parallel, plus a skankin' dub remix of a track by Annunaki, the greatest neo-Goa band you've never heard. I'm leaving that one until the first two tracks are done, but that'll be soon, but I already have a killer riddim and I'm gonna play some melodica on it. Oh yes.
Current Music: Ishvara - Nomad (Arabian rmx)
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25 October 2006 @ 01:31 pm
From dailykos, which I heard about from somenotes:
The following list of Republican candidates and links to their dirty business is part of a campaign of Google bombing, which the Republicans used to great success against John Kerry. The idea is that by posting this stuff, Google searches on the Republican candidates' names are more likely to turn up links to articles on controversies and other bad deeds they've committed. (For example, if you search for Virginia's own George Allen, you're more likely to get the article on some of his racist adventures.)
Is this fighting dirty? Yeah, probably so. But the other side's doing it, and information never hurt anybody.
If you'd like to participate, just click on that dailykos link above. Have fun!
--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
--AZ-01: Rick Renzi
--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth
--CA-04: John Doolittle
--CA-11: Richard Pombo
--CA-50: Brian Bilbray
--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave
--CO-05: Doug Lamborn
--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell
--CT-04: Christopher Shays
--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan
--FL-16: Joe Negron
--FL-22: Clay Shaw
--ID-01: Bill Sali
--IL-06: Peter Roskam
--IL-10: Mark Kirk
--IL-14: Dennis Hastert
--IN-02: Chris Chocola
--IN-08: John Hostettler
--IA-01: Mike Whalen
--KS-02: Jim Ryun
--KY-03: Anne Northup
--KY-04: Geoff Davis
--MD-Sen: Michael Steele
--MN-01: Gil Gutknecht
--MN-06: Michele Bachmann
--MO-Sen: Jim Talent
--MT-Sen: Conrad Burns
--NV-03: Jon Porter
--NH-02: Charlie Bass
--NJ-07: Mike Ferguson
--NM-01: Heather Wilson
--NY-03: Peter King
--NY-20: John Sweeney
--NY-26: Tom Reynolds
--NY-29: Randy Kuhl
--NC-08: Robin Hayes
--NC-11: Charles Taylor
--OH-01: Steve Chabot
--OH-02: Jean Schmidt
--OH-15: Deborah Pryce
--OH-18: Joy Padgett
--PA-04: Melissa Hart
--PA-07: Curt Weldon
--PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick
--PA-10: Don Sherwood
--RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee
--TN-Sen: Bob Corker
--VA-Sen: George Allen
--VA-10: Frank Wolf
--WA-Sen: Mike McGavick
--WA-08: Dave Reichert
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01 May 2004 @ 04:25 pm
this website allows you to make goofy avatars, fully customizable, that you could easily make into a livejournal icon. i can't really get one i'm thrilled with that looks like me, but i've made a few that look like friends which are really amusing.
Current Mood: bouncybouncy
Current Music: ben harper - with my two hands
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Fireguard Shoulders
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Fireguard Shoulders are leather shoulder armor with a large amount of stamina and fire resistance. These are geared towards rogues and druids but will benefit any class that can wear leather and needs the fire resistance.
Fireguard Shoulders are found in the Cache of the Firelord. The chest spawns when Majordomo Executus is defeated in the Molten Core.
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IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender enables organizations to integrate industry based customer, supplier and business partner transactions across their enterprise.
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ATLANTA -- The giant M&M joining the Peach Drop for 2013 isn't the only unusual New Year's Eve celebration in Georgia this year. From possums to Cherry Blossoms, Georgians will ring in 2014 with some unusual celebrations.
Tallapoosa continues its Possum Drop. According to the event website, local taxidermist and historian Bud Jones found a dead Virginia Possum lying on the road. He preserved the possum and named it "Spencer" after one of the town's founders. Besides being the center of New Year's Eve celebrations, the stuffed possum attends other big events around town.
McDonough's Geranium Drop is relatively new to the "unusual New Year's Eve" celebration list. The 3rd annual event includes a huge lighted ball of geraniums dropping at midnight.
Macon's Cherry Blossom Drop is made of recycled metal cherry blossoms and pick lights. They call it an "unofficial countdown to the Cherry Blossom Festival". The annual festival runs from March 21-30 in 2014.
New this year is the Buzzard drop in Perry, Georgia, just south of Macon. First spotted in mid-September, hundreds of Buzzards begin to make roost in high points throughout the City, where they stay throughout the winter months. Early in the morning, you see them-lighting in trees and on radio towers, standing guard as the day breaks, flying off for a busy day's work, and circling back, high in the sky in the afternoon-you can almost set your clock by them when they're here. Their favorite haunt, well known to locals, is the water tower. So to honor the birds Perry will drop "Bob the Buzzard"
Unusual New Year's Eve drops aren't that unusual as every town and city fights to keep crowds closer to home. Other notable drops in the U.S. include the Walleye Drop in Port Clinton, the PEEP drop in Bethlehem, the Beaver Drop in Beavertown, the Drag Queen drop in Keywest, the Mount Olive Pickle Drop in Mount Olive, and the Indy Car Drop in Carlisle.
Looking for a New Year's Eve celebration in your Metro Atlanta town? CHECK OUT our full list of activities.
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Flatline and defibrillator (Part II)
Last time, I started talking about how on TV shows, defibrillating the heart with the wired-up paddles always works beautifully, after the heart monitor has gone flat, emitting only a mournful beeeeeep.
When you're resuscitating people, heart problems are harder than breathing problems - both to fix, or even just to diagnose. It took until the 1st Century AD, for Pliny to describe his fellow Romans dying suddenly from heart problems.
The next big jump in knowledge happened in 1775, when Abildgaard (the Dutch Veterinarian and Physician) experimented with chickens. He showed that, by using electric shocks from a Leyden Jar, he could first stun the chickens, and then revive them. In 1850, Drs. Hoffa and Ludwig showed that they could excite the heart of a mammal into Ventricular Fibrillation (VF), and the animal would die. I'll explain VF shortly.
In 1911, Hoffman recorded the first ECG of a human as he suffered VF. In 1947, a Dr. Beck corrected Ventricular Fibrillation in a 14-year-old boy with Alternating Current (AC) directly to the heart muscle - which involved cutting open the chest.
In 1956, Dr. Zoll was able to correct VF with Direct Current (DC) electricity to the chest wall. Defibrillation for VF had finally arrived. The first advantage was that DC was much easier to deal with than AC. Second, it was much better, now that they did not have to cut open the chest wall.
But VF (Ventricular Fibrillation) is just one of several electrical heart problems that can happen.
Sometimes the electrical signals in the heart stop entirely. This is called "asystole". The ventricles stop contracting, and (of course) the heart stops pumping blood. The ECG shows a flat line. This is the close-up you usually see on TV.
Sometimes the electrical signals become uncoordinated. This is called ventricular fibrillation (VF). In VF, the individual tiny muscles in the ventricles keep beating, but they are not coordinated. If you cut open the chest and look at the heart, it's just like a bag full of wriggling worms. When one tiny muscle contracts, the one next to it might relax, so the blood just shifts around inside the ventricle, and doesn't leave the heart. I guess that it's like a car with a powerful engine, spinning the wheels on a slippery surface. There's lots of energy being used up, but it's all wasted internally. The ECG now shows a very chaotic rhythm, and again the heart stops pumping blood.
Another kind of electrical heart problem is that sometimes the heart beats very quickly. This is called ventricular tachycardia (VT). Again, the heart doesn't pump any significant blood into the arteries. This is because the blood doesn't have time to get into the ventricles - the filling time is too short. In VT, the ECG shows a very fast rhythm.
VF (Ventricular Fibrillation) and VT (Ventricular Tachycardia) are grouped together, because the treatments are very similar.
Now here's the important part. In both VF/VT and asystole, the heart stops pumping blood. But the treatments are very different.
In VF/VT, the remedy is the famous jumper cables and paddles - the defibrillator (though some ambos call it a "Packer Whacker", after Kerry Packer donated defibrillators to the NSW Ambulance Service). The paddles are really just electrodes. They are placed so that the heart is roughly between them. So when you hit the Go Button, the paddles deliver about 300 joules of electrical energy in a very short period of time - about 4-12 ms. The electricity passes in through one electrode, the skin, the heart and then out through the skin to the other electrode. The electrical shock delivered to the heart inside is similar to gently slapping a hysterical person on the face to bring them back to their senses. The electrical shock stops the rapid chaotic electrical activity - the VF/VT. Then, hopefully, a natural pacemaker, the Sino Atrial node in the heart restarts in its regular rhythm, and 80 ml of blood squirt out every second.
Defibrillation works only if there is already electrical activity going on in the heart.
In asystole, the ECG shows a flat line because there is no electrical activity going on, and the treatments are not very effective. They involve the full gamut of life support, including CPR and drugs. Blasting the heart with electricity is one treatment that definitely does not work.
One 1990 study in Sydney analysed some 1,300 cardiac arrests (heart attacks). In about 40% of the cases, the patients had VF or VT. In about 30% of cases, they had asystole. Only 97 left the hospital alive, and of these, all except 3 had VF - that is, some kind of electrical activity in the heart, when the doctors saw the patient.
So the treatment for asystole (flat line ECG) is not the defibrillator - and no matter what you see on TV, if it's asystole, it ain't good.
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Food Forensics: A Case of Mistaken Identity
By Michael Grupe
This lesson is a summary of a mini-unit put together by myself and five other St. Louis area teachers during a summer internship in immunology. The entire packet with complete preparation instructions and student sheets can be obtained from the St. Louis Mathematics and Science Education Center, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121.
This lesson is designed to serve as an introduction to the immune system. It can stand alone or it can lead into further studies of the immune system. The primary focus of this inquiry-based lesson is antigen-antibody specificity. After focusing the students' attention on allergic reactions, two hands-on experiments allow students to explore the specific reaction between an antigen and the antibody that recognizes it. Students carry out an exploratory experiment leading to the concept of specificity. A second experiment allows students to apply the techniques and concepts learned in the first activity and subsequent discussion to solve a mystery. Follow-up discussion and problems apply the concept of specificity to related topics.
This lesson can be used with high school students and can be adapted to any level (biology or advanced biology) in association with the study of biochemistry, cell biology, health, or physiology. It can be used in association with topics such as allergies, food safety, or antigen-antibody precipitation. As a result of completing this lesson, students will be able to answer questions like these: "Why am I allergic to some things but not to others?" or "Why does clotting occur when incompatible blood types are mixed?"
Notes for the Teacher:
The major concept of this lesson is the specificity of the reaction between an antibody and an antigen. Antibodies are proteins produced by cells of the immune system in response to the exposure of an individual to a foreign substance (an antigen). This concept will be illustrated through the use of an experimental procedure called a double diffusion assay.
This assay is based on the formation of a precipitate (precipitin line) when an antibody reacts with its specific antigen. In this test, often called the Ouchterlony test, antibody and possible antigens are placed in wells in agar plates and allowed to diffuse toward one another. The antibody is placed in a center well and antigens (specific or nonspecific) are placed in surrounding wells. When an antibody and its specific antigen meet one another and are at the proper concentrations, the precipitate will form a visible white line between the two wells. This line is called a precipitin line.
In the diagram below, a precipitin line can be seen between the center well and wells 2 and 3. The fact that the line is continuous indicates that both wells contain the same antigen. Antibodies and antigens that are not complementary will diffuse past one another in the agar and will not form a precipitate.
The scenario for this lesson is centered around hypersensitivity to environmental antigens that are generally not particularly harmful (e.g., pollen, dust mite excrement, mold, drugs, food, etc.). In these situations the immune system reacts to these antigens by producing a type of antibody known as immunoglobulin E (IgE). IgE antibodies trigger the release of histamine by mast cells which then leads to typical allergic symptoms. An extreme response is called an anaphylactic response.
Materials for experiments 1 and 2 (per class and per team of students):
• Anti-chicken egg albumin (Sigma Chemical Co.)
• 2 - 1.5% agar plates
• 6 mm diameter soda straw
• Toothpick
• Glass marking pen
• Small quantities of:
• Raw egg white (diluted 1:625)
• Uncooked egg-enriched pasta (1:40)
• Uncooked egg-free pasta (1:40)
• Samples of various foods:
• some positives (egg-containing) like mayonnaise (1:10), custard (1:10), pasta (1:40), baked items (1:10), egg white
• some negatives (without egg) like sugar, salt, milk, beef broth, molasses, etc.
The dilution is not critical on negatives.
(Note: I clean out leftovers from my refrigerator)
(For dilutions use 1gm of solid foods or 1 ml of liquids in .85% saline. For egg white dilution, start with a 1:25 dilution and dilute first dilution again 1:25. For dilutions of solids, use only the supernatent. Sterile technique is not necessary and some inaccuracy in dilutions is allowable.)
• fine-tipped dropping pipettes (plastic)
• test tubes or flasks for food solutions
Most of these materials are cheap and easily obtainable. Dilutions can be made up days in advance and stored until needed. Plates should be made several days prior to use to allow proper drying. Antibody is the biggest expense but a little bit goes a long way. (2 ml supplies 50 teams of 2) Out-of-date antibody would be cheaper and would still work for these experiments. Antibody (Anti-Chicken Egg Albumin) from Sigma Chemical Co., P.O. Box 14508, St. Louis, MO 63178 Stock # C-6534 2 ml is about $50. Total prep time is about 2 hours.
Class Time Needed:
This lesson is designed for four 50-minute periods. Activities can be reorganized to fit your schedule.
Day 1:
• Introduction and exploration
• Class discussion of allergies
• Exploratory activity
Day 2:
• Gather/discuss data
• Observe, record, discuss results of experiment 1
• Concepts presented
• Mystery read by students
Day 3:
• Design experiment to solve mystery and set-up of experiment 2
Day 4:
• Gather/discuss data
• Follow-up
• Observe, record, discuss results of experiment
• Form conclusion (solve mystery)
• Return to day 1 questions
• Solve application problems
Day 1:
A quick discussion during which students are questioned about their allergies and symptoms and how their allergies compare to the allergies of family members or friends. This discussion is not intended to result in answers, but rather to stimulate interest. Highlight that different people are allergic to different and specific substances. This will be explained later by antigen-antibody specificity.
Experiment 1:
Fooling with Food is a chance for students to explore the interaction between various foods (some negative and some positive) and Reagent A (the antibody). The figure below shows the relative position of wells to be cut in the agar plates with the straws. Toothpicks are good for removing the plugs from the wells. Extra plates and colored water can be used first for students to practice loading the wells. Only 1-2 drops with a fine-tipped pipettes is needed per well.
1. Cut wells in agar using a template (teacher prepared) under the plate as a guide.
2. Remove plugs and label wells and plate.
3. Students select six different foods to load in the six outer wells. Give students about 10 foods to choose from so there is variation in selections. Different pipettes should be used for each food and foods should not spill over edge of wells.
4. Reagent A is placed in the center well. (I suggest teacher does this because of expense.)
5. Plates can be stored overnight in a flat position at room temperature.
Day 2:
1. Let students find precipitin lines. Tell them only that they may have to hold plates up to a light or toward a window. Faint white lines will be seen by someone. Then others will see.
2. Compile a list of positive foods and students will quickly see that all are egg-containing.
3. Teacher can now discuss specific interaction between antibody (reagent A) and antigen (albumin in egg). Terms can be presented at this time. Basic (forked) structure of antibodies that allows for cross-linkage and formation of precipitate can also be discussed.
Stan's Salad Saga
(Let students read this or assign)
As Stan lay in his hospital bed, red, swollen and gasping for breath, he agonized over the cause of the near life-threatening reaction he had suffered. All of his adult life he had known of his allergy to eggs. His physician had made abundantly clear to him the severity of the reaction that he could expect if he included eggs in his diet. Now he was suffering from the very symptoms that had been predicted. He wasn't allergic to lots of different things. Eggs were the only substance that could have brought him to this extreme condition. Now he faced a multi-thousand dollar hospital bill and his insurance agent was placing the blame on him. The company would refuse to pay if Stan was shown to have been negligent. He had been far too careful to have made a mistake on his own. He had to somehow convince his agent that he was not at fault. Someone else was responsible for his being here! For the benefit of both his insurance agent, Carl, and his allergist, Judy, he recapped the activities prior to this onset of anaphylactic shock.
It had been a typical day with the exception of his departure time for work. Running late, he had not had time to eat breakfast or make his lunch. He grabbed an apple on his way out the door. When the lunch hour came, he went to the nearest branch of a local grocery chain to get a salad bar. The pasta salad looked particularly appealing that day. Conscientiously, Stan asked the salad technician whether any eggs were used in the salad. He was assured that the salad was egg-free. Stan's decision was made. His wife would be pleased that he was avoiding his usual high cholesterol diet. Stan had walked to the park to eat his lunch and that was when the crisis began. After eating only three or four bites of lunch, he began to experience a burning sensation in his ears and had trouble breathing. A police officer who happened to be nearby noticed his difficulty and made a 911 emergency call. That is how Stan ended up in the hospital.
Knowing that Stan was not allergic to anything else that he had eaten, the contents of the pasta salad became the immediate focus of the allergist's attention. A sample had been brought into the hospital by an alert paramedic. In addition to the pasta, it had contained tomatoes, onions, black olives and an oil and vinegar dressing. Since all the other ingredients clearly did not contain egg, the only possible source of egg was the pasta itself. The salad technician had told Stan there was no egg in the salad. Had a mistake been made? Had egg-enriched pasta been used? Or had Stan eaten something else?
You are the lab technician asked to test for the presence of egg in the pasta. Your evidence might place responsibility on the grocery store, in which case the insurance company will pay Stan's medical bills. Or you will show no evidence of egg in the pasta and Stan will be handed the blame and will be forced to pay for his negligence.
Day 3:
Experiment 2:
Students (or teacher) can design a test to answer the question posed in the mystery. Make sure both positive and negative controls are included. With six wells you could test the unknown (egg-enriched pasta), egg-enriched pasta (+ control), egg-free pasta (- control), egg white - 1:625 dilution and 1:3125 dilution (+ controls that show a range of concentrations that will result in formation of a precipitin line), saline solution (- control that is used for all dilutions).
Experiment 2 is also a double-diffusion test as was experiment 1. Now, however, students know that they are putting different antigens in the outer wells and antibody in the center well. They know why there will be positive results and why there will be negative results so they can predict which wells will have precipitin lines. Again, store plates at room temperature until the following day.
Day 4:
Results are observed and compared to predictions. A conclusion is formed about Stan's Salad Saga (of course, Stan is innocent).
Now you can refer back to your original discussion about allergies and answer some of the unanswered questions from day 1. Other uses of specificity can also be discussed at this time. Many home pregnancy tests use an antibody to detect the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) that is present in a woman's urine during pregnancy. The test for HIV also involves formation of an antibody-antigen complex.
Challenge Problems:
I have not included these but they are reviews and extensions of the terms and concepts presented in this lesson. They are part of the entire packet, should you decide to decide to get the activity packet from the Mathematics and Science Education Center of St. Louis.
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Mint to Produce 24-Karat Gold Coin
With demand for gold coins on the rise globally, the U.S. Mint announced plans this week to begin offering a new 24-karat gold bullion coin early next year, the Associated Press reported.
The Mint currently offers a 22-karat American Eagle gold bullion coin, which contains 91.67 percent gold and the rest is made up of other alloys. To achieve the 24-karat tag, the new coin must contain 99.99 percent gold, the AP reported.
The new coin will be the Mint's first 24-karat gold coin and is being made in response to investors demand for the purer gold coin. The American Eagle coin is the best selling gold coin in North America, but the Mint estimates the possible global market for the 24-karat coin at $2.4 billion annually, the AP reported.
"There is a demand, both here and abroad, for 24-karat gold coins," Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore told the AP. "We want to meet this demand by producing the highest quality and most beautiful coins in the world."
In December 1985, after then-President Ronald Reagan banned import of the South African gold Kruggerand, Congress authorized the sale of American Eagle coins. Before then, the U.S. last had a gold coin in general circulation in 1933. The American Eagle coin was made available in 1986.
The 22-karat American Eagle coins are available in face values of $5, $10, $25 and $50-the amounts of gold in each correspond to the face value-but sell for much more than that, with the $50 American Eagle coin selling for about $445 on Monday, the AP reported.
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The Only Game to Ever Take the #1 Position of Free Cell
By Steve Delahoyde Comment
Please allow this writer to geek-out for a minute. Back in, geez, probably more than a decade and a half now, this writer didn’t play too-too many video games, except for his wild obsession with anything Lucasarts put out. They were amazing games, these whole complex stories, with rich animation, incredibly clever writing, and a level of intelligence that you really weren’t getting anywhere else in that gaming climate. The best, greatest, of all time was Sam and Max, this weird game about a dog and rabbit detective squad. Just riddled with absurd, non-sequitors, it spoke to every sensibility this writer needed speaking to, and is likely one of the reasons for who he has developed into today (someone people don’t like to be around). So, with that sort of introduction, it goes without saying that we were super happy to read this interview with Dave Grossman, the Senior Designer on the upcoming, very long-awaited sequel, Sam & Max: Season One. It’s terrific and, if you’re at all a fan, will likely make you drool with anticipation.
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People, Places, and Things 2
People, Places, and Things 2 - Lougheed, Lin
This three-level reading and vocabulary development series features twenty-four reading passages on high-interest topics ranging from the Harry Potter phenomenon to fortune telling. Activities include pre-reading discussions, comprehension questions and a wide variety of vocabulary activities and quizzes. Answer keys available at: ...
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Transmitting Culture - Debray, Regis, and Debray, Rigis, Professor, and Debray, Rgis, Professor
An examination of the difference between communication and transmission that stresses technologies and institutions long overlooked in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations.
Transmitting Culture 2004, Columbia University Press, New York
ISBN-13: 9780231113458
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A new live wallpaper (LWP) app has been released on the Market. LWPs may be a dime a dozen, but this one is definitely worth a look:
From what I can tell, there is no actual relation to NVIDIA/Ageia's PhysX engine, other than a focus on physics (who would’ve guessed?). The effect is quite cool though - the particles move based on how you’re holding the phone, and can be set to act in various manners.
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Cromartie Creator's Double-J Moe Manga Gets TV Anime
posted on 2011-05-16 10:28 EDT
Eiji Nonaka, Maru Asakura's story of "life in a high school full of cute girls"
The wraparound jacket band on the fourth volume of Eiji Nonaka and Maru Asakura's Double-J manga is announcing this month that a television anime adaptation of the manga has been green-lit. The anime will run in NTV's Yuruani? program, which currently runs Flash-animated shorts of several manga. Nonoka, who also created Cromartie High School (Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou), wrote this moe manga about the surreal, strange "life in a high school full of cute girls" with art by Asakura (090 - Eko to Issho, Pochi).
The manga launched in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2009.
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This claims to work..... But I can't test it 'cos I don't have the worm...... ;)
alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET 135 (msg:"DCE RPC Interface Buffer Overflow exploit"; content:"|00 5C 00 5C|"; content:!"|5C|"; within:32; flow:to_server,established; reference: bugtraq,8205; rev: 1; )
This alerts on an infected PC attempting to infect other PC's. You might want to change the $EXTERNAL_NET to any in case a machine works on the internal network.
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6 There is a place where someone has given witness to it. He said, "What is a human being that you think about him? What is the son of man that you take care of him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels. You placed on him a crown of glory and honor.
8 You have put everything under his control." (Psalm 8:4-6) So God has put everything under him. Everything is under his control. We do not now see everything under his control.
10 God has made everything. He has acted in exactly the right way. He is bringing his many sons and daughters to share in his glory. To do so, he has made the One who saved them perfect because of his sufferings.
11 The One who makes people holy and the people he makes holy belong to the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.
12 He says, "I will announce your name to my brothers and sisters. I will sing your praises among those who worship you." (Psalm 22:22)
13 Again he says, "I will put my trust in him." (Isaiah 8:17) And again he says, "Here I am. Here are the children God has given me." (Isaiah 8:18)
14 Those children have bodies made out of flesh and blood. So Jesus became human like them in order to die for them. By doing that, he could destroy the one who rules over the kingdom of death. I'm talking about the devil.
15 Jesus could set people free who were afraid of death. All their lives they were held as slaves by that fear.
16 It is certainly Abraham's children that he helps. He doesn't help angels.
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Parallel Bible results for 1 Corinthians 7:9
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BBE 9 But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire. NIV 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
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HNV 8 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it. NIV 8 I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.
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Parallel Bible results for Proverbs 16:1
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HNV 1 The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. NIV 1 To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.
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The Bible tells us that God gave some Pastors, teachers, evangelist, etc. to edify the Body of Christ, to build up the Church, to bring Christians to maturity until Chist's return. God called these people 'Gifts.'
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Box Concept
The Box Concept describes the requirements for a box type. All algorithms in Boost.Geometry will check any geometry arguments against the concept requirements.
A box is a geometry with (usually) two or three dimensions, having its axis aligned to the coordinate system.
The box is not one of the basic types in Boost.Geometry (point, linestring, polygon) but it is a helper type. The main reasons for the box existance are its usefulness for indexing (a spatial index, or splitting a geometry into monotonic sections) and it is the output of the envelope algorithm.
Therefore, a box is axis aligned (the envelope is also called aabb, axis aligned bounding box).
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Phil has the classic, mature beard. Jase's is kind of red - it's weird, like him! Jep grooms his the most: He's got all these special lotions and perfumes that he puts on.
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Song dynasty (960–1279)
Given the archaizing fashion of the Song, jades of this period are often difficult to detect. Tombs of the Five Dynasties (907–960) and Song (960–1279) have yielded jades that tend to confirm the view that adaptation of the form of ancient vessels, ritual objects, plaques, belt hooks, and ornaments was particularly common, as well as the view that the styles of the Warring States and Han (206 bce–220 ce) were much admired. As the technique of jade carving had changed little in the interval, these are hard to distinguish from genuine archaic jades except by a somewhat playful elegance and a tendency to combine shapes and decoration not found together on ancient pieces. Jades in archaic styles thereafter were often inspired by illustrations in catalogs rather than by a study of genuine antiques.
Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12)
China directly controlled the Central Asian jade-yielding regions of Hotan and Yarkand between about 1760 and 1820, during which time much fine nephrite was sent to Beijing for carving. Jadeite from Myanmar (Burma) reached the capital from the second quarter of the 18th century, and chromite- or graphite-flecked “spinach jade” from the Baikal region of Siberia was imported in the 19th century. The finest Qing dynasty jade carving is often assigned to the reign of Qianlong, but carved jade is difficult to date, and some high-quality pieces in the Qianlong style have been made since 1950 in the Handicraft Research Institute in Beijing. Typical of what is considered of Qianlong date are vases with lids and chains carved from a single block, vessels in antique bronze shapes with pseudo-archaic decoration, fairy mountains, and brush pots for the scholar’s desk.
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Goole, town (parish), unitary authority of East Riding of Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. Situated at the confluence of the Rivers Don and Ouse, it is the most westerly port of the Humber estuary and the eastern terminus of the Aire and Calder navigation system.
Although Goole is in the present unitary authority of East Riding of Yorkshire, it is part of the West Riding division of the historic county. The port, located about 47 miles (75 km) from the open sea, can accommodate only small vessels, but its trade is varied because it serves a rich agricultural hinterland and the industrial areas of South and West Yorkshire. The port, shipping, and transport are major sources of employment. Other industries include food processing and the manufacture of fertilizers. Pop. (2001) 17,600; (2011) 19,518.
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Masbate town, located on the northeastern coast of the island, is the commercial centre, with trade in copra, corn, fish, and cattle; the town has an airport. Cataingan, Placer, Milagros, and Dimasalang are other important towns. Area 1,262 square miles (3,269 square km). Pop. (2000) island, 707,668; mun., 71,441; (2010) island, 834,650; mun., 85,227.
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positronium, short-lived hydrogen-like atom composed of an electron and a positron (rather than an electron and a proton) arising as a positron is slowed down in matter and captured by an electron. Two forms are known. Parapositronium, in which the spins of the positron and electron are oppositely directed, decays by annihilation into two photons, with a mean life of about one-tenth of a nanosecond (or 10-10 second; a nanosecond is 10−9 second); and orthopositronium, in which the spins are in the same direction, annihilates into three photons with a mean life of about 100 nanoseconds (10-7 second). The properties of positronium corroborate the quantum theory of electrodynamics for a two-particle system.
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Nyoro, also called Banyoro, Bunyoro, or Kitara, an Interlacustrine Bantu people living just east of Lake Albert (also called Lake Mobutu Sese Seko), west of the Victoria Nile, in west central Uganda.
In precolonial times, the Nyoro formed one of the most powerful of a number of kingdoms in the area. Until the 18th century the Bunyoro kingdom, as it is called, dominated the surrounding peoples, holding an empire over much of what is now Uganda. In the 18th and 19th centuries, however, the kingdom declined owing to several wars of succession and other internal conflicts, and it surrendered its preeminence to the neighbouring Ganda (Buganda) kingdom.
The ethnic heritage of the Nyoro is complex and includes the descendants of several peoples. Among them are the short, dark-skinned, agricultural Iru, who are in the vast majority; the tall, slender, lighter skinned, pastoral Hima, who historically dominated the Iru in the southern part of the Bunyoro area; and the Bito, a Luo-speaking Nilotic people who held a similarly privileged position in the north and also provided the ruler of the state, the mukama.
In the 1890s, after the defeat of the Nyoro king Mukama Kabarega, British troops subdued the Bunyoro (or Banyoro) kingdom and brought it into the Uganda Protectorate. Bito kings then continued to reign in the Bunyoro kingdom until it was abolished in 1966 by the Ugandan government.
The Nyoro live in scattered settlements on a well-watered, fertile plateau. Their population density is considerably less than that of neighbouring peoples, in part because the Murchison Falls (now Kabarega) National Park that was created in the north of their land is an area of large numbers of tsetse flies—hence, the incidence of sleeping sickness is much higher. Nyoro observe patrilineal descent and are divided into a number of exogamous clans.
Many Nyoro are small-scale rural farmers whose crops include millet, sorghum, plantains, yams, squash, cassava, and peanuts (groundnuts). Cotton and tobacco are also grown in lower areas as cash crops, and property rights for land have been a significant local issue since late colonial years. The waters of Lake Albert are fished, and prior to the colonial period Nyoro were great hunters of elephant and other game and used a complex system of pits, nets, and snares. Hunting was restricted by the British, and the large herds of game were decimated during Uganda’s political instability of the 1970s and ’80s. Early Nyoro blacksmiths fashioned a variety of tools and weapons from locally obtained iron ore smelted in pit furnaces. Cowry shells and other currency items were used by the Nyoro in an elaborate exchange system. Many of these skills and organizational forms have now been lost.
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Jean Paul
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(1763-1825). The works of German novelist and humorist Johann Paul Friedrich Richter were immensely popular in the early 19th century. Because of his somewhat baffling, formless style, however, his books are now little read. His pen name,Jean Paul, reflected his admiration for the French writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Robert Boyle
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(1627-91), British scientist, seventh son of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, born in Lismore Castle at Lismore, Ireland, in present county of Waterford; settled at Oxford 1654 and did much of his work there; to London 1668; elected president of Royal Society 1680 but declined honor because of scruple against taking oaths.
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Botrytis cinerea Database
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The Botrytis cinerea (B05.10) genome sequence project was initiated by Syngenta AG. Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequence reads from four plasmid libraries (2, 3, 10, and 14 kb) were provided by Syngenta to the Broad for assembly and submission of all data to GenBank.
Our specific aims are as follows:
1. Assemble sequence reads of the B. cinerea genome through whole genome shotgun sequencing.
2. Perform automated annotation of the sequence assembly.
3. Distribute the sequence assembly and results of our annotation and analysis through a freely accessible, public web server at the Broad and by deposition of the sequence assembly in GenBank.
Data Releases
• 5/2005- Release of shotgun sequencing reads provided by Syngenta
• 8/2005- Release of whole-genome shotgun assembly generated by the Broad from the Syngenta reads
• 10/2005- Release of automated annotations generated by the Broad
• 6/2012- Release of updated assemblies and annotations generated by Martijn Staats and Jan van Kan
Questions about the project should be directed to
What is Botrytis cinerea?
Botrytis cinerea is a widespread phytopathogenic fungus which causes Gray-mold rot or Botrytis blight and affects most vegetable and fruit crops, as well as a large number of shrubs, trees, flowers, and weeds. It also has a beneficial role in the production of rare dessert wines, thus another name for Botrytis is "Noble Rot." This ascomycete's complex developmental lifecycle adds to the complexity in the classification and naming of this fungus.
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Entrepreneurs spend millions of dollars and waste time building products people would never ever want.
However, Google's Alberto Savoia thinks there's a better way to start a company and avoid this nightmare.
He calls this pretotyping, a quick and dirty way to see if people would even want your idea to begin with. He describes it in his book, The Pretotyping Manifesto, available through Google Docs.
Savoia led the launch of Google AdWords, but is now Google's Innovation Agitator and Engineering Director. We spoke to him about how he thinks collecting data about the product before the prototype is built can pick up the pace of innovation -- and even increase the startups' chance at success.
Business Insider: Last year in a room full of businessmen, I was the only person to guess "Elon Musk" to your "Spot the Innovator" question. Why were you so surprised I knew who Elon Musk was? I thought everyone knew who he was.
Albert Savoia: ....Since we've met last year, I've given over 30 presentations on pretotyping (totaling about 2,000 people in the audience) and I've kept a tally on how many people could correctly identify Elon Musk. Shockingly, less than 5% of people in any audience could name him. When presenting to European or Asian audiences, the recognition usually went down to 0%.
Tesla Motors is a great example of pretotyping.
BI: Tell me what pretotyping is. What are the steps you practice?
On the surface, pretotyping may sound a lot like prototyping, but it's very different in terms of its objectives and its scope. The objectives of prototyping include answering questions related to the actual building the product: "Can we build it?", "Will it work as expected?", "How cheaply can we build it?", "How fast can we make it?"
The main objective of pretotyping, on the other hand, is to answer questions about the product's appeal and usage: "Would people be interested in it?", "Would they buy it if we build it?", "Will they use it as expected?", "Will they continue to use it?"
Pretotyping does not replace the need for prototyping at some point. But since the building of a proper prototype can take months or years and millions of investment, if it's possible to answer the latter set of questions with something simpler and cheaper, it makes a lot of sense to do that. The best way to explain pretotyping is with examples, so let's look at one.
Below is a photo of Jeff Hawkins' pretotype for the Palm Pilot:
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The founder of Palm Computing mocked up a Palm Pilot with wood and paper; then carried it with him for weeks pretending it was a working device. His objective was to learn if he would actually use such a device before going to the next, very expensive and time-consuming step, of building an actual working prototype.
Even though Hawkins did not use the term pretotyping (I hadn't made it up yet) that's exactly what he was doing. He was simulating the core experience of having and using a Palm Pilot with the smallest possible investment of time and money to see if he would actually carry and use it.
BI: How does a person use your technique?
AS: When I practice pretotyping, or help other people do it, the first question I ask is this: "What's the cheapest, quickest way to validate the idea? What's the equivalent of Jeff Hawkins' wooden Palm Pilot?"
Nine times out of ten, I come up with something that is at least an order of magnitude simpler, quicker, and cheaper than a proper prototype. After I build the initial pretotype, I use it to collect actual usage data.
In the case of the Palm Pilot pretotype, for example, I would record how often I would use it, what functionality I would use it for.
A lot of innovators and entrepreneurs experience what I call "The Innovator's Nightmare."
They spend years and millions building and perfecting a product that people don't want.
They fall in love with their idea, convince other people that it's the right idea, and commit to it before validating their assumptions and beliefs about its actual appeal and usefulness.
This impacts innovation and creativity it because, more often than not, it often leads to slow and expensive failures.
If you prematurely invest all your time and money on the wrong idea, you have nothing left to try new ideas.
Since most innovations fail in the market, it's important to fail fast and cheaply so you have the time and resources to try something else – or pivot, as the say these days.
BI: So who are you helping out with pretotyping?
AS: I have the opportunity (and luxury) to help teams at Google and major Google customers with pretotyping workshops and demos. But I also help aspiring entrepreneurs that are just starting out. I get at least a dozen requests for presentations or specific pretotyping help a week. I started pretotyping as a Google 20% project 2-3 years ago, but it quickly ballooned into something that I could do full time based on the demand.
The interesting, and somewhat surprising, thing is that large companies seem to be at least as interested in, and enthusiastic about, pretotyping as startups since all of them have had several experiences where they made big bets on something that turned out not to be "the right it." Even government agencies and our armed forces have been very interested. In a couple of weeks I am giving a "command performance" pretotyping workshop to 22 Navy Admirals. They all know that fail-fast is important, but they are not quite sure how to go about it and pretotyping points them in the right direction.
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Just some people flying around New York City like superheroes
(CBS) - We've previously shown you a fun prank using a remote-controlled flying shark. That was funny, but the video we have today is so much more. With the scenic New York City skyline as a backdrop, this clip ups the ante of remote-controlled creatures with the only animal higher than sharks on the food chain: humans!
I can't even begin to imagine the reactions of people who saw these superhero-like spectacles flying around the city. The fun-filled (and expertly edited) video was posted by YouTube user ChronicleNYC who writes:
Three human shaped RC planes were flown around New York City to create the illusion of people flying. Lots of fun.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... very cool video! Okay, and a viral advertisement for the upcoming movie "Chronicle", but still some sweet viral gold and a pretty creative idea.
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Chegg Textbook Solutions for Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Classroom Manual 5th Edition: Chapter 8
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Alternators induce voltage by rotating a magnetic field inside a static conductor.
The maximum current output is shaped when the rotor is parallel to the stator with its magnetic field perpendicular to the stator.
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Generators induce voltage by rotating conductors inside a static magnetic field.
Therefore option ‘b’ is incorrect.
Also, option ‘c’ and ‘d’ are not the methods of inducing voltage in an alternators.
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An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java 5th Edition
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(Reference – Exercise 10) Modify the ComputeGrades sample program to input the data from a text file using the Scanner class instead of the FileReader and BufferedReader classes. Use the tab character (\t) as the delimiter. You create one Scanner object for the whole file. Assume the data in the file is correct.
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A skateboarder shoots off a ramp with a velocity of 6.1 m/s, directed at an angle of 58degrees above the horizontal. The end of the ramp is 1.1 m above the ground. Let the x axis be parallel to the ground, the +y direction be vertically upward, and take as the origin the point on the ground directly below the top of the ramp. When the skateboarder reaches the highest point, how far is this point horizontally from the end of the ramp?
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The spinning swings are an amusement park classic: the passenger (mass m) sits in a seat (mass M) suspended with chains of length L from the edge of a rotating structure of radius R and height h (see figure). When the system rotates with constant speed w, the chains make a certain angle with the horizontal (see the figure).
(a) Draw the acceleration vector for the passenger and for the seat.
(b) Find an expression for the net force on the passenger; on the seat; and on the passenger+seat system,
in terms of the given data.
(c) Draw the free-body diagram for the passenger+seat system.
(d) Use Newtons second law to determine the relation between the angular speed of the system and the
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Two submarines are underwater and approaching each other head-on.Sub A has a speed of 4 m/s and sub Bhas a speed of 13 m/s. Sub A sends outa 1910 Hz sonar wave that travels at aspeed of 1522 m/s.
(a) What is the frequency of the sound detected by subB (to the nearest Hz)?
(b) Part of the sonar wave is reflected from B and returns to A.What frequency does A detect for this reflected wave (to thenearest Hz)?
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You want to visit your friend Ford Prefect, who lives in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, 425 light-years from Earth (that is, light takes 425 years to arrive from Betelgeuse). You hitch a ride on a passing starcruiser, and as measured by Earth observers, you travel so fast that the trip only takes 426 years. (a) How long was the trip according to you? (b) What is the distance between Betelgeuse and Earth, according to you?
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Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences 3rd Edition
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Reconsider Prob. 18-83. Using EES (or other) l^agi software, investigate the effect of the initial temperature of the ice block on the time period before the ice block starts melting. Let the initial temperature vary from -26°C to -4°C. Plot the time versus the initial temperature, and discuss the results.
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Elders and Leaders 1st edition
God's Plan for Leading the Church - A Biblical, Historical and Cultural Perspective
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Strong leadership in the church is exactly what God had in mind. However, very few people, Gene Getz believes, understand the biblical pattern for church leadership. He has written Elders and Leaders to unravel the mystery and alleviate the confusion surrounding this critical topic. In the first part of the book, Getz lays the historical and biblical groundwork for the position of elder. In the second part, he shares how he has applied or has seen these principles applied over the years.
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International Steam Tables 2nd edition
Properties of Water and Steam Based on the Industrial Formulation IAPWS-IF97 - Tables, Algorithms, Diagrams, and CD-ROM Electronic Steam Tables - All of the Equations of IAPWS-IF97 Including a Complete Set of Supplementary Backward Equations for Fast Calculations of Heat Cycles, Boilers, and Steam T
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An article on how to implement compile time lists of types, typelist. Typelists are useful for generic and meta programming.
My standard warning. Don't try to compile this project with MSVC v6.0/v7.0. This project requires a conforming compiler. MSVC v7.1 or GCC v3.2.3 will work just fine.
In my previous article, I described how the Tiny Template Library (TTL) implements generic functors.
In this article, I originally wanted to talk about variant. variant is a very powerful template that allows you to create union-like data types that can contain C++ classes. As you all know in C++, it is not legal to have non-POD data types in union. For example the following code won't compile.
struct my_type
int x;
my_type() : x(0) {}
virtual ~my_type();
union my_union
my_type a;
double b;
The variant template solves this problem and adds a lot of other cool features. One application of variant is heterogenous containers.
typedef variant< my_type, double > mv;
my_type a;
std::vector<mv> v;
v.push_back(2.3); //add double
v.push_back(a); //add my_type
Cool! Is not it.
As I was writing about variant, I realized that it won't be complete without a description of typelists. So I decided to talk about typelists first. A great introduction to typelists could be found in the excellent book by A. Alexandrescu "Modern C++ Design". However our implementation of typelist is quite different from that described in the book. I believe that the suggested implementation is more efficient and easier to understand and debug.
Also please note that the code extracts in this article are to demonstrate the basic ideas only. The complete implementation could be found in TTL
What is typelist? Typelists are a compile time structures that are extremely important for generic and meta programming. Typelists provide a COMPILE TIME management of data types. They don't hold any user data nor do they have any run-time methods. ttl::meta::typelist in TTL is a foundation for ttl::var::variant.
The simplest typelist allows you to list your data types and have a compile-time access to its elements and other typelist properties such as the list length.
struct my_type {};
typedef typelist<int, doulble, my_type> my_types;
get<my_types, 0>::type n = 1; //instantiate int variable
get<my_types, 1>::type x = 2.3; //instantiate double variable
get<my_types, 2>::type s = {0}; //instantiate my_struct variable
get<my_types, 3>::type //compile time error
int l = length<my_types>::value; //get the typelist length
As follows from this example, our objective is to
implement following templates:
The typelist implementation suggested in "Modern C++ Design" uses nested templates. Our implementation uses recursive types. According to "C++ Templates: Complete Guide" by David Vandevoorde and Nicolai Josuttis, recursive types put less stress on the compiler and from my experience, are easier for debugging.
typelist can contain a variable number of data types. Unfortunately C++ standard doesn't allow us to define a variable number of template parameters. We'll have to find a way to work around it. It is obvious that we'll need to put a hard limit on the maximal number of types in typelist. In TTL, the limit is defined in the config.h file the macro name is TTL_MAX_TEMPLATE_PARAMS. For the simplicity sake, we put the limit to 5. So the basic typelist definition will be as follows.
struct empty {};
typename T1=empty,
typename T2=empty,
typename T3=empty,
typename T4=empty,
typename T5=empty
> struct typelist;
Note: by using the the default template parameter type empty, we can actually use typelist as a template with a variable number of template parameters up to 5.
typelist< int >,
typelist< int, double >
It is convenient to process lists recursively. A well known method is to use the head/tail idiom. First we want to find the length of the list. To do that we insert the length value in the typelist itself and define the first parameters as head and the rest as another typelist that is tail. In this case the typelist length is the tail length plus 1.
struct empty {};
typename T1=empty,
typename T2=empty,
typename T3=empty,
typename T4=empty,
typename T5=empty
> struct typelist;
typename T1,
typename T2,
typename T3,
typename T4,
typename T5
struct typelist
typedef T1 head;
typedef typelist< T2, T3, T4, T5 > tail;
length = tail::length+1
Now all we have to do is to stop the recursion. It is obvious that the recursion has to stop when all template parameters are 'empty'. So we just need to specialize this particular case.
struct typelist< empty, empty, empty, empty >
length = 0;
The length<> implementation is straightforwad.
template< typename Typelist >
struct length
enum { value = Typelist::length };
get<> is more interesting. It is obvious that it will have to be recursive. The recursion should stop when the index of the requested element is equal to the recursion step. If the index is bigger than the typelist's length, get<> should generate a compile-time error. First, let's make the basic definition.
typename Typelist,
int Index, //requested element index
int Step = 0, //current recusion step
bool Stop=(Index==Step), //stop recusion flag
bool OutOfRange = length<Typelist>::value==0 //out of range flag
struct get
typedef typename get<typename Typelist::tail, Index, Step+1>::type type;
We recursively instantiating get<> while increasing the Step value. Now we specialize the above definition to stop the recursion and to handle out of range condition.
//"out of range" specialization
typename Typelist,
int Index,
int Step,
bool Stop
struct get< Typelist, Index, Step, Stop, true >
//if OutOfRange is 'true' the 'type' is undefined
//so we'll get a compile-time error
//"element found" specialization
typename Typelist,
int Index,
int Step,
bool OutOfRange
struct get<Typelist, Index, Step, true, OutOfRange >
//the index is equal to the recursion step
//so the result type is the head of the Typlist and stop!
typedef typename Typelist::head type;
The access time during compilation is O(N). TTL suggests an implementation that has a constant access time independent of the number of elements in the list. However it is not as elegant as this one.
Using the Code
The whole library resides in header files only. There is nothing to be built or installed, just copy the TTL files into one of you folders and and make sure that this folder is in the list of include folders in your compiler. You can then include TTL headers as in the following example.
#include "ttl/meta/typelist.hpp"
The source contains a simple sample in the samples/test folder. The code has been tested with MSVC v7.1 and GCC v3.2.3
C++ templates is a powerful mechanism for compile-time calculations and meta programming. The recursive instantiation and partial specialization are the corner stones of such methods. What I especially like about compile-time programming is that if the code compiles it usually runs right away. Well, almost...Smile | :)
If there is enough interest, in my next article, I'll describe how to implement and use variant. If you are interested, please vote.
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I have to admit that my head is still spinning after trying to digest this stuff (my experience with templates is mostly around using std::string and std::vector).
I really encourage you to write more articles on this.
I haven't been this excited about new programming concepts since Turbo Pascal 3.0 came out.
You got my 5 and the article of the month.
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[sword-devel] sword.chm at thelinuxshop
DeMeulenaere, Darren [email protected]
Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:28:53 -0700
The Sword.chm at thelinuxshop seems to being doing the same thing as the one
Jerry did. Brook, the test.chm worked fine, is it possible it is the index.
Anyway thought I would through that out to you guys.
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TV programme reveals the REAL Frankensteins
Last updated at 22:00 05 January 2007
Hidden deep in a Russian forest, and guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot intruders on sight, the medical research laboratories on the outskirts of Moscow were one of the Soviet Union's best-kept secrets.
So the carefully-vetted journalists who were allowed past the forbidding perimeter fence on a cold February morning in 1954 were both apprehensive and curious about what lay ahead. Led to a courtyard outside an austere brick building, they waited in the bright winter sunshine to find out why they had been summoned. For a few minutes, only the sound of birdsong and the rustling of leaves filled the air but then a door slowly opened to reveal experimental surgeon Vladimir Demikhov - accompanied by the strangest looking animal they had ever seen.
Blinking unhappily in the daylight as Demikhov paraded it on its lead, this unfortunate beast had been created by grafting the head and upper body of a small puppy on to the head and body of a fully-grown mastiff, to form one grotesque creature with two heads. The visitors watched in horror and fascination as both of the beast's mouths lapped greedily at a bowl of milk proffered by Demikhov's assistants.
Resembling something dreamed up by Mary Shelley's Dr Frankenstein, it seemed literally incredible. But as the Soviet propaganda machine informed the world, this canine curiosity was both very real - and a scientific triumph.
Whichever view you take, they cannot simply be dismissed as gruesome fantasists for, as the programme warns, the obstacles which held them back from their ultimate goal are fast being eroded by modern science, and we may have to confront the reality of the first human head transplant much sooner than we care to think.
Although the world's first face transplant has already taken place, the notion of taking the head of one person and transferring it to the body of another still seems far-fetched. But back in the Fifties, despite being utterly incredible to many, it was a branch of science pursued by some of the most respected doctors of the day.
A Soviet hero, Vladimir Demikhov was renowned for his work in the Red Army hospitals during World War II. When peace came, he joined an elite team of Russian doctors ordered by Stalin to beat the West in the field of medicine at any cost. Labouring far from inquisitive eyes in a secret research complex outside Moscow and experimenting freely in his search for new ways of prolonging life, Demikhov was prepared to go where others did not dare.
He believed for example that it was possible to transplant organs like hearts and lungs in human beings. In those days, such a procedure seemed scarcely credible - but Demikhov proved it could be done. Often preferring to work in the dead of night, he showed that the heart and lungs could be taken from one dog and survive in the chest of another.
This laid the groundwork for such landmark operations as the first heart transplant, conducted by South African surgeon Dr Christiaan Barnard, nearly 20 years later. But Demikhov didn't stop there.
He was determined to prove that any human organ could be successfully transplanted, even the brain. To that end, he set about the challenge to create a two-headed dog.
The lights of his laboratory shone into the small hours of that February morning in 1954 as he and his team set about the intricate task of stitching the upper half of the puppy to the larger animal and connecting their blood vessels and windpipes.
As dawn approached, they waited to see if their creation would regain consciousness. Their first sign of success came when the puppy's head woke up and yawned. It was quickly joined by the larger 'natural' head of the mastiff, which gave its new addition a puzzled look and tried to shake it off.
The composite dog was ready to be revealed to the world. Though it had no body of its own, the smaller animal's head was reported to have kept its own personality, remaining as playful as any other puppy, according to Soviet propaganda.
Even the American magazine Time reported the experiment with grudging admiration, describing how the puppy's head alternately growled and snarled with mock ferocity, or licked the hand that caressed it.
"The host-dog was bored by all this but soon became reconciled to the unaccountable puppy that had sprouted out of its neck," their correspondent wrote. "When it got thirsty, the puppy also got thirsty. When the laboratory grew hot, both host-dog and puppy panted to cool off."
After six days, the bizarre hybrid died. But it had survived long enough to worry America, which was desperate to outdo the Soviets in all aspects of science and technology.
Soon the U.S. had a radical transplant programme of its own, led by Robert White, a brilliant and ambitious brain surgeon who, like Demikhov, had seen active service in World War II. In the South Pacific, he had see many men paralysed from the neck down and he was fired with a determination to help these paraplegics live more productive lives. Following Demikhov's triumph with the two-headed dog, the American government helped Dr White establish a brain research centre at the county hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. By day, he performed surgery on people with all kinds of brain injuries and illnesses, but away from his clinics, animals were the focus of his attention.
One key experiment Dr White carried out in 1964 involved removing the brain - though not the head - from one dog and sewing it under the neck skin of another dog.
With its blood vessels connected to those of the host-dog, Dr White managed to keep the isolated brain alive for days, proving not only that the brain could survive away from its own body but that it was immunologically sound - meaning that, unlike a kidney, it could be transplanted without the likelihood of the new 'body' rejecting it.
This was a great breakthrough, but it posed much bigger questions. Did a brain isolated in this way still have the power of thought? Could it in any way be described as 'conscious'?
Since the transplanted brain had no means of expressing itself, Dr White could not answer this question and he seemed to have reached an impasse. But in 1966 he received help from a most unexpected direction.
With Stalin long dead, and the USSR creeping towards economic and technological collaboration with the West, Soviet scientists invited him to visit their laboratories and operating theatres.
During his trip, White learned of new Soviet experiments, in which a severed dog's head had been kept 'alive', not by stitching it onto another dog's body, but using special life-support machinery. Most remarkable of all, the isolated head had continued to show signs of consciousness - its eyes blinking in response to light, and ears pricking at the tap of a hammer on the cases it was in.
This inspired White to take Demikhov's original two-headed dog experiment a stage further: not merely grafting one animal's head on to another's body, but completely replacing one animal's head with another.
This highly complicated operation took White three years to plan and he knew many people would find it morally repugnant. But in the late afternoon of March 14, 1970, he went ahead with the world's first true head transplant, using two rhesus monkeys.
Decapitating both animals, the surgeon successfully managed to stitch the head of one monkey on to the body of the other. He and his team then faced a nervous wait until finally the 'hybrid' monkey regained consciousness, opened its eyes and tried to bite a surgeon who put a finger in its mouth.
The team clapped and cheered as their creation moved its facial muscles, followed their movements with its eyes and even drank from a pipette. But though White regarded the operation as a major success, he knew it had one major limitation.
Because its spinal cord had been severed as part of the operation, the monkey was paralysed from the neck down and it was impossible for the surgeons to reconnect the hundreds of millions of nerve threads necessary for it to regain any bodily movement.
Still, White insisted that such surgery might help a very particular kind of human patient - those paraplegics who faced imminent death because their heads were trapped on bodies failing due to the long-term medical complications which often accompany extensive paralysis.
With a head transplant, these people, he reasoned, would remain paraplegic but their new bodies, 'donated' by patients who were brain dead but otherwise physically healthy, would give them a new chance of life. White never got a chance to pursue this idea. When he went public with the results of his monkey head transplants two years after the event, it earned him only universal condemnation.
Shunned by the scientific establishment and threatened by anti-vivisectionists, he was forced to seek police protection for himself and his family and was denied funding for his work. He went from pioneer to pariah.
Despite the controversy caused by his research, he remains convinced to this day that head transplants for humans may one day be viable. And only now, 35 years after his first experiments on monkeys, does it seem that science may be about to prove him right.
Last year, researchers at University College, London, announced plans to inject the spinal cords of paralysed patients with stem cells taken from the human nose.
These are cells capable of regenerating themselves and adapting to many different purposes within the body and it is hoped they might create a 'bridge' between the disconnected ends of the spinal nerves, enabling paralysed patients to regain full control of their bodies.
If severed spinal cords can be restored in this way, perhaps head transplants might eventually become a scientific possibility - without leaving the unfortunate 'patient' permanently paralysed. Whether such operations would ever be deemed ethical is another matter - and the psychological and emotional implications simply beggar belief.
But we live in an age when French surgeons have already carried out a partial face transplant, and in which British surgeon Dr Peter Butler has been granted permission by the Royal Free Hospital in North London to perform the first complete face transplant in the near future.
Will a full head transplant be the next question for medical ethicists to consider? It's a prospect that raises many disquieting questions, not least whether our souls reside in our minds or in our bodies, and whether a person's head, living on another body, would still be the same person.
One thing's for certain. With surgical techniques improving at such a rapid rate, the issue will shortly be not whether we could carry out a human head transplant, but, much more importantly, whether we should.
• The First Head Transplant: National Geographic Channel, Sunday, January 28, 9pm.
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"Why not vote for the
"Why not vote for the candidate who has shown the best track record of accomplishments, both in office and in the debates? That is Newt Gingrich. "
Uh, because he's an authoritarian douche who's already talking about jailing judges who interpret laws different than he thinks they should? Because he wants endless war and a police state at home? Because he's the intelletual influence behind Obamacare-force everyone to go out an buy insurance?
Why don't republicans just admit it-they don't want freedom anymore.
I'm very disappointed in Sowell.
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It shocks me that anyone could NOT see it that way. We're having a blast taking over our state GOP. It's rather gratifying after all they did to us.
There are those who think change will come from typing on their computers. Then there's the rest of us.
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Give up the website and call it a day. Move all of your code to another domain and give THE MAN what he has worked so hard for. You had this thing up on behalf of his name for what, a few years? He's been working on behalf of the country for decades! Stop whining, do the right thing and give up the domain to the Champion of Liberty!
Pshhhh Over this "legal" battle. Back to fighting the good fight and waking people up, not hearing your slanderish remarks of a remarkable human being.
For Liberty!
Viva la R3VOLution!!!
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Phone is months from launch, but bragging match has already started
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RE: Rough around the edges
By NellyFromMA on 7/28/2010 1:43:59 PM , Rating: 2
Evidentally, most people don't even seem to care if there phone functions very well at all i.e. the iPhone antenna gaffe. If that's not a big deal, it's hard to imagine what is..
RE: Rough around the edges
By QueBert on 7/30/2010 3:26:33 AM , Rating: 1
It might not be a big deal to most, because most aren't effected by this "problem" I now have 8 friends with iPhone 4's. I bring this "problem" up to them whenever I happen to see or talk to them. Not a single one has had a dropped call. Perhaps they should care because there is a problem, even thought they're not effected by it? I'm not saying people aren't having problems are, many are, but the overwhelming majority of iPhone 4 owners are not. I'm sure it's a big deal to those who are getting dropped calls, but to my 8 friends they could give a shit less.
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By GotThumbs on 8/30/2012 5:03:28 PM , Rating: 1
He seems be more interested with being on talk shows....spending time chatting on social networks and......
I'm sure He's a nice guy....but I don't care about being nice.....His job is supposed to be "Leader of the free world".
You aren't really a leader if all you do is follow and pine for the affection of others.
A real leader would have brought the two parties together.
Blame Game Obama is an easier path. He just continues to blame our current troubles on the last administration...well its been almost 4 years....time to grow up and start taking responsibility for ones own troubles.
I'd be tempted to log-in but it's not worth my time.
By woody1 on 8/30/2012 5:23:55 PM , Rating: 2
What job do you want him to do? The Teavangelicals want to make government irrelevant. In other words/Teapublicans think that the US government should do nothing and they're doing everything they can to make that happen. How can you blame Obama for things that he's not doing when that's the situation that the opposition wants and is making happen?
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They suspect cost is the driving force
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camera helpfulness
By Khenglish on 12/28/2012 10:40:36 AM , Rating: 2
I was a hotel valet for a while, and I parked cars with and without backup cameras. They are helpful for things like figuring out how much room you have, but they do nothing for safety. My opinion of them is that they are like side view mirrors. They can be helpful, but just like when changing lanes, you need to turn your head and look too. I see the same people who change lanes by only looking at the side mirror, backing up by only looking at the backup cam.
Backup cams only give you a decent view of what is directly behind you, but not what is directly behind the corners of the bumper, or incoming traffic. Although a backup cam does add viewing in addition to the rear window, it does not give a better view than personally checking behind the car before getting in.
A good driver will always look behind their car before getting in it to back up. While backing up, a good driver will constantly be looking behind, and will be able to see if something comes in from the side into the low blind area. I can only see the camera being helping by showing you something that may have moved behind the car quickly, but was missed because you were checking the other side.
As for bad drivers, or drivers who are usually good but rushed or distracted, I see backup cams encouraging unsafe driving behavior. Some people are too lazy and inconsiderate to ever look behind, so I suppose that the cam will help make these people safer. I think this will be offset though by the people who without a camera usually check behind, but will do so less often since they do have a camera.
I see people just using the backup cam so that they can be lazy and not turn their heads. I drive around an hour on a 6 lane (3 each side) highway every weekday, and probably twice per month I have to get out of the way of someone moving into my lane because they did not check their blind spot. Why didn't they check their blind spot? It's because they were lazy and considered the side view mirror to be "good enough", even though it isn't. People will be the same way with backup cams. They'll think the camera is "good enough", and not look properly.
There is no reason to legally require backup cams. The government should only legally require something when it is obvious that it will help, and that is certainly not the case with backup cameras.
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If I want to post a link but I dont want it to actually look like the link but have the name of my store instead. How do I do that?
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Re: Preparing to Avoid Vaxes and Other Procedures
We had both a birth plan that we wrote on file, plus the hospital had their own "birth plan" paper that you checked off/filled out. Yeah. Everything was ignored. My only advice is to have the birth plan in triplicate copies, one left at home so one doesn't get lost (we didn't do this and really should have because all copies of ours at the hospital, including their copy, were "lost"). Also, have somebody awake and with your baby the entire time. Don't let them touch your baby without you there and demand to know what they are doing every.single.time.
Our little one was promptly rushed to the nursery the moment hubby and I fell asleep, then given eye drops, Vit K, and a Hep B vaccination. We found out when the nurse brought the paper work to us the next morning to sign off on...when I said "ummm...we weren't doing these, it says so on our birth plan" She replied with "oooooops. We already did it...everybody does it, it won't hurt her, don't worry. But I still need you to sign the papers" I signed them and wrote in capital letters in very dark ink -We did NOT APPROVE these procedures before they were admninstered to our child and will be seeking legal action" Hospital got huffy and multiple lawyers turned down the case because "no harm" was done to our child from "standard procedures". True, she didn't get "hurt" and is fine...but our specific wishes for OUR child were ignored because of what everybody else does.
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Flow of day- EscapeWP??? (really too many questions!)
Discussion in 'Disney Weddings and Honeymoons' started by Tink&PirateMama, Feb 9, 2009.
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Jan 25, 2009
Hi again:)
I'm really trying to sort out how the day is going to go. I know in my experience with two children my best bet to happiness at disney is to pick the things we really, really want, and skip the rest- if I try to do everything we'll all be crazy and miserable instead of relaxed and enjoying ourselves. And, I'm trying to figure out how the day actually works, so I can decide what would be the best time for us to have the ceremony, and what seems reasonable for us all to be able to experience (which right now seems our best bet would be to skip those early photo shoots!).
So, I'm wondering if I don't do park shoots in the morning, how soon would I need to have hair/makeup come for a 10am or a 12 noon wedding? And to have randy take pics? I was going to have randy for four hours for our escape vow renewal, which he said would be plenty for all the shots I wanted, but I'm not sure how long it really takes to get ready. It would be my hair (which is long) and makeup, and my daughter's (will be age six) hair (that should be pretty simple). What time do they show up to pick you up (I'm REALLY leaning toward doing the cindy carriage- one of those things I would like a lot!) in it (ie, when do I have to be ready by). Any experiences with cindy's coach are helpful too!
And- for those of you who did an escape WP wedding/vr- how long is the cake cutting at commanders terrace? If we get characters are we there a full half hour atleast then? I'd like to dance a little, and enjoy it all. I wonder if the coach takes you there and that's it, or do they take you back to where they got you in the first place? I guess I just don't really understand how it's all going to play out. If anyone could explain to me their experience as an escape bride there that'd be great!
The timing impacts when/where we will eat lunch and or dinner, how much downtime they will have before we do the dessert party (which I also don't know what time they pick you up for that either or how long it goes to!)...
Any experiences on this would be super helpful!! Then I will be able to decide if 10 or 12 is the time I'd like to have for the ceremony!!
Thank you!!
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This product scores high for its reliability and is dependable for recording television programmes. When recording make sure you select SEP format or else you will soon use up the memory. There is very little difference in picture and sound quality between the different recording mode so use the one that uses the least memory. The integration between the freeview and the recording facilities do provide good integration rather than having to set up timings which can get a bit complicated.If the tv is running behind schedule it can mean the recording is slightly misplaced. If you record to the hard drive do be aware that if you wish to dub the programme onto a DVD it takes as long as the recorded programme which is not very handy in certain situations. When switching between a recording format and the DVD the toggle button changes automatically, you can change this manually either on the machine or with the remote. There is nothing out of the ordinary in regard to playing a DVD. Do be beware that is does not play all types of CD's. The remote control has an interesting set up with all to do with recording in a slide down pouch at the bottom of the remote and playing at the top.
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Ringtone app question
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I've been looking for an app For my Droid X that allows me to record any type of sounds and turn the sounds into ringtones. I found two apps here both of which were suppose to take music on my phone and create ringtones from whatever parts of the songs I choose. Neither one of the apps recognized any music on the phone and one of the apps was supposed to have the ability to record random sounds and make them custom ringtones, but after recording something a message popped up stating that the recording isn't recognized (cpp files). I downloaded Ringdroid this morning and had the same results. Question (finally): has anyone come across an app that will record any sound of my choosing and edit it so it will become a ringtone? If there is another thread on here with this information, I was unable to locate and am grateful for the direction to the information. Thank you
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@techreport{Wagner2006Satisfaction, abstract = {We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3) certain environmental regulations like packaging rules are in place, and (4) where the government puts in place environmental offices or other official bodies charged with addressing environmental concerns. We also find that, on the environmental quality side, (5) more cars on the roads, (6) less unleaded fuel, and (7) higher pesticide use intensity all decrease SWD.}, address = {Bonn}, author = {Alexander F. Wagner and Friedrich G. Schneider}, copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen}, keywords = {K32; P16; Q21; Q28; 330; satisfaction with democracy; environment}, language = {eng}, number = {1929}, publisher = {Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)}, title = {Satisfaction with democracy and the environment in Western Europe: a panel analysis}, type = {IZA Discussion Papers}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33572}, year = {2006} }
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Rock And Roll Star Lyrics
Hail, hail, rock 'n roll
Come here, son, and let me help you sell your soul
Sit right down and everything will be just fine
Won't you sign right here and it will all work out in time
So sit right down and I'll tell you about the plan
I'm gonna make you fifty thousand dollars and I'll only take ten million
But did I mention I got a new Mercedes Benz
Smile pretty, be witty, come meet your brand new friends
Everybody thinks that you'll go far
You're gonna be a rock 'n roll star
Now you got a banker and a lawyer down on 16th Avenue
That's the funny things they call you
If you spend a couple extra years in school
And they got big black cars and dollar signs in their eyes too
What is a boy like me to do
I got this guitar that I play a little out of tune
But it don't make no difference if I get all the right tattoos
Hey, get a look at these cheekbones
Who cares if Mick Taylor was ever even in the Rolling Stones
Besides, he didn't even get that far
But me, I'm gonna be a rock 'n roll star, yes, I am
So now we're livin' happy underneath the Sony tree
And I got my big top ten record on WKD
Something or other, bartender, could I have another
And another and another, oh
You're lucky we're even slinking in this bar
'Cause I'm gonna be a rock 'n roll star, yes, I am, yes, I am
Gonna be a rock 'n roll star, hey
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Hey, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be enjoying the holiday weekend? (Also known as plain ol' "Saturday" to our friends in Europe.) Our Michael Jackson-related coverage has been -- for better or worse -- rather lacking. For those of you who haven't tired of the media surrounding the late pop star, you may want to entertain yourself with this rather creative recreation of the singer's classic "Smooth Criminal." This time, the action is recreated in PSN game Rag-Doll Kung Fu.
Check it out after the break and enjoy the holiday!
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Sony Handycam PJ790V and PJ650V get brighter projectors with HDMI input, we go handson
In the past, we may have considered a projector-equipped camcorder if the price was right, but with dim output (typically less than 20 lumens) and content options limited to footage you've shot, the available functionality often didn't justify a premium of several hundred dollars. Sony, for its part, is working to make that secondary display massively more appealing -- the company's latest generation of high-end camcorders adds an HDMI input, with an option to display content from any compatible source (a full-size adapter ships in the box). Two such models, the Handycam PJ650V and PJ790V, will retail for $1,100 and $1,600, respectively. As their price tags imply, these are Sony's top-of-the-line consumer offerings for 2013, and they've got the features to match.
Both include Balanced Optical SteadyShot, which moves the entire lens module (not just specific elements) for much more effective stabilization, especially when zoomed in. There are Exmor R sensors on board, with a 20.4-megapixel chip on the 650 and a 24.1-megapixel imager on the 790. The lower-end model includes a 26.8mm wide-angle 20/12x G lens, 32GB of flash storage and a 20-lumen projector. The 790 ships with a 26mm wide-angle 17/10x Carl Zeiss lens, a whopping 96 gigs of memory and a 30-lumen projector on the side. Both also include 921k-dot 3-inch LCDs and electronic viewfinders, along with 5.1-channel mics (the 790's is raised to accommodate wind screens and isolate mechanical noises), an option for AVCHD or MP4 recording and a new Multi Interface Shoe that can be used with accessories like an external mic or the $75 ADP-WL1M WiFi module.
We had an opportunity to check out both camcorders, and were quite impressed, especially when it came to the Balanced Optical SteadyShot and (relatively) powerful built-in projectors. The HDMI input worked as advertised, accepting content from a laptop and an Android smartphone without issue. The 790's projector was bright enough to see detail even in a sun-lit room, but we could even see using it to watch a movie (with an external speaker), assuming that we're able to set up shop in a pitch-black environment with a suitable surface. Both Handycams felt like premium devices, and while they were significantly heavier than Sony's entry-level offerings, they're light enough to be comfortably used to capture handheld footage. This premium duo is set to hit stores in February, but you can take a look right now in the hands-on gallery below.
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The iconic asymmetrical multiplayer mode Spies vs. Mercs will return to the Splinter Cell series in Splinter Cell: Blacklist. From the announcement trailer, we can surmise that spies are still dead-set on hacking those terminals, while the mercenaries still have an insatiable bloodlust for sneaky dudes wearing tights.
Light and shadow seem to remain prominent tools in Splinter Cell: Blacklist's Spies vs. Mercs mode. The mercenary flashlight and motion tracker are both featured, and there's one sequence where we even see a mercenary employ an explodable drone to take out a spy lurking in the dark. Another sequence shows four spies decloaking, so presumably both sides have some new abilities in Splinter Cell: Blacklist's take on Spies vs. Mercs and the mode is no longer limited to two-on-two.
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'Tis Synopsis
Synopsis (Masterpieces of American Literature)
’Tis begins where Angela’s Ashes ends, with the arrival of McCourt in New York in September, 1949. He knew almost no one other than a pedophile priest who had befriended him on the ship, and who arranged a job for McCourt through his contacts with the local Democratic Party, sweeping and mopping at the Biltmore Hotel. McCourt felt isolated and alienated in the land of his birth. The upper-class college students who frequented the Biltmore stood in contrast to his own lack of education, and, compounded by his continuing eye problems, his Irish brogue, and general poverty, gave him feelings of inferiority.
It is the Korean War that McCourt credits for his escape. Drafted into the Army in spite of his bad eyes, he was sent to Germany, where he eventually became a battalion clerk. After his discharge, with the aid of the G.I. Bill, he enrolled in New York University, in spite of lacking a high school education. While there, he met his first of three wives, Alberta, called Mike, a middle-class Episcopalian from Rhode Island. She is the only one of McCourt’s wives mentioned in ’Tis. Theirs was a contentious relationship even before marriage, which produced McCourt’s only child, his daughter, Maggie.
After graduation, McCourt found a teaching position in a working-class high school on Staten Island, and his comments about the lack of preparation and interest of his students and the cynical and pessimistic attitude of his...
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Mrs. Janelle
When I was 5 years old I had a babysitter Mrs. Janelle. She wasn't very good to begin with. (She wouldn't let us eat or play or use the bathroom all day and beat us if we wet our pants) Anyway, one day this white kid comes to the daycare center. I don't know why she even agreed to watch him. She wouldn't even call him by his name. She was much nicer to us when he was there b/c she wanted him to feel jealous. She would make him stay in the corner all day because she didn't want us talking to him--said he was evil. When we went to the grocery store she made him carry everything all by himself (he couldn't have been older than 6 or 7) One day I offered to help cuz he seemed really bogged down by all the stuff and she said I wasn't allowed to help him. This was his payback for slavery. I was I thought slavery ended a LONG time ago. She said I didn't understand because I was a child. When we drove home he wasn't even allowed to sit in the seat of the car. She said he wasn't good enough and made him sit on the floor. Finally, one day I asked her if it was really necessary to be so mean to him. What did he ever do? She said not to be fooled. He may be a child now but one day he will grow up to be an awful man. I was like "Don't you think your making it worse by the way you treat him?" She said shes knows its hard for a 5year old like me to understand. I don't know why he didn't tell his mother. I wasn't allowed to talk to him so I couldn't tell him. I told my mom and she talked it over with my dad. He decided we should mind our own business. That lady is so lucky I was only 5. I'd call the cops on her sorry ***. What kind of a person treats children that way?
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An awful person, that's for sure.
I wish there were more people with your kind of outlook out there! That poor child! :(
Isn't it amazing. At 5 you knew it was wrong. Takes a while for adults to beat their prejudices into us.
lol I know, right?
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Crosscounsel International Ministries in Madison, Wisconsin (WI)
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Employer Identification Number (EIN)262498306
Name of OrganizationCrosscounsel International Ministries
In Care of NameSteven M Freitag
Address469o Cottage Grove Rd, Madison, WI 53716
SubsectionCharitable Organization, Educational Organization, Religious Organization
Ruling Date12/2008
DeductibilityContributions are deductible
Exempt Organization StatusUnconditional Exemption
Tax Period12/2013
Assets$25,000 to $99,999
Income$100,000 to $499,999
Filing Requirement990 (all other) or 990EZ return
Asset Amount$27,203
Amount of Income$110,428
Form 990 Revenue Amount$101,026
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Assets in 2013: $27,203 (it was $25,246 in 2012)
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Expenses in 2013: $98,927
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Income to expenses ratio in 2013: 1.1
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Grants share in income in 2013: 95.8%
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Total revenue$108,172$111,551$101,026
Contributions, gifts, grants, and similar amounts received$108,172$111,551$96,814
Membership dues and assessments$0$0$0
Investment income$0$0$0
Net income/loss from gaming and fundraising events$0$0$4,212
Gross income from gaming$0$0$0
Gross income from fundraising events$0$0$13,614
Less: direct expenses from gaming and fundraising events$0$0$9,402
Other revenue$0$0$0
Total expenses$114,060$99,645$98,927
Total net assets$16,295$24,654$26,753
Excess/Deficit for the year$-5,888$11,906$2,099
Net assets or fund balances at beginning of year$22,183$12,448$24,654
Other changes in net assets or fund balances$0$300$0
Net assets or fund balances at end of year$28,501$26,753
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10National Christian Foundation Wisconsin Inc18650 W Corporate Dr Ste 105, Brookfield, WI 53045-6344WI2001-01$301,537
11Cathedral Center Inc845 N Van Buren St, Milwaukee, WI 53202-3918WI2002-05$981,242
12Northern Lakes Partners Inc, Crescent Lake Bible Camp2750 Bible Camp Rd, Rhinelander, WI 54501-9471WI2007-05$714,339
13Christian Life Communications Incorporated4111 Schofield Ave Ste 10, Schofield, WI 54476-2742WI2000-11$464,683
14Our Home Christian Ministries IncPO BOX 700065, Oostburg, WI 53070-0065WI1999-05$410,554
15One Church Ministries Inc6102 39th Ave, Kenosha, WI 53142-7012WI2013-06$399,840
16New Holy Ghost Tabernacle Day Care140 W Garfield Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53212-3229WI2008-07$343,108
17Pipeline To Jesus International Inc, Pipeline To Jesus Church IncW170 S6751 Timber Ct, Muskego, WI 53150WI1994-11$263,002
18Broom Tree Ministries IncPO BOX 180681, Delafield, WI 53018-0681WI2002-07$254,712
19Campus Way Ltd, The Campus308 E Oak Crest Dr, Wales, WI 53183-9421WI2007-02$217,193
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February 15th, 2012
Notes for samples in this pack:
VLP = Very Low Pitch
LP = Low Pitch
MLP = Medium-Low Pitch
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MHP = Medium-High Pitch
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HdC = Head-Center Strike
HdE = Head-Edge Strike
RS = Rimshot (Simultaneous head and rim) Strike
Rm = Rim Strike
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0Sn = Snares off
LSn = Loose Snares
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man, these drum multisample packs you've uploaded are astounding! I can't thank you enough. You have done an impeccable job capturing the subtle nuances of each drum and cymbal. These kits are AT LEAST as good as the best commercial sample sets I've heard, if not better. There is a sense of painstaking love and attention to detail that I am hearing and feeling in these recordings that many commercial kits lack. For you to have taken the time and energy to record and upload these all for free for freesound users is so commendable. Thank you so much.
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User avatar #8 - firnen (10/16/2013) [-]
I love living in England not having to be bombed by half the world except Scotland but what are they going to do.
User avatar #70 to #8 - rhiaanor ONLINE (10/17/2013) [-]
Do you not know that everyone hates England because at one point or another you've tried to take over like every other country.
User avatar #73 to #70 - snowshark (10/17/2013) [-]
As opposed to America who has just picked up the habit.
User avatar #74 to #73 - rhiaanor ONLINE (10/17/2013) [-]
yes because we invade and conquer people other than native Americans and Mexicans. And we don't really go around shoving our fist up other countries asses for gold, just to clear out a bit of leftover poo.
User avatar #83 to #74 - snowshark (10/17/2013) [-]
Wow, you took a joke and turned it into that. Well done, I think you're taking this a little too personally, dude.
And honestly I was referring to the attempts at crippling growing economies through unfair internet agreements and spying and y'know, all the other stuff. America's a ******** full of contemptible cunts. So is the UK. Frankly speaking if you're not living in Canada you're getting kind of a bum deal in terms of life these days.
User avatar #52 to #8 - SirFail (10/16/2013) [-]
Please dont give them anymore ideas. Our goverment isnt suitable to go to war at the moment.
User avatar #35 to #8 - darkgems (10/16/2013) [-]
are you forgetting 7/7 or arent you old enough to remember that?
#27 to #8 - Jameshaich (10/16/2013) [-]
Fear us.
User avatar #10 to #8 - Cookiez ONLINE (10/16/2013) [-]
Bomb you.
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Solo Ramza Challenge Guide by SBishop
Version: 1.0 | Updated: 05/05/03 | Printable Version
Solo Ramza Challenge Guide
By: Stewart Bishop
Document Created: May 05, 2003
Last Revision: May 05, 2003
(version 1.0)
Don't steal my work, that's all I have to say. Not that you would really
want to rip this guide off, since it's intended to be a very brief,
skeleton-esque sort of guide, so...just don't steal it and sell it for money
and all that other fine jazz. You can reproduce this document electronically
for personal use, but that's about it. If you see this documented on any
website other than my own (Stewart Bishop) personal website or GameFAQs
(, it has been placed there without my permission.
Thank you.
This is a very simple guide that explains exactly what you need to do to clear
a 'Solo Ramza' game in Final Fantasy Tactics. It has no level-caps, no
restrictions other than only having only Ramza in the formation screen. This
game assumes that you've cleared Final Fantasy Tactics at least once, and that
you are familiar with intermediate-advanced mechanics of the game. If you
have to ask 'why' I have MP-Switch/Move-MP-Up or Excalibur/MathSkillHoly
combos, then you probably shouldn't be attempting this challenge right now.
It is far from being the most difficult thing in the world, but it does get
very tedious (though the first time I tried it I managed to beat the game in
12.5 hours, which isn't that bad considering how long some of the battles are)
So, I give you this simple outline of how to beat Final Fantasy Tactics using
Ramza as the only character on the formation screen (and being the only
controllable character as well).
The basic steps on clearing this sort of game are as follows:
Getting all Math Skill parameters as soon as humanly possible.
Obtaining the spells 'Flare', 'Holy', and *possibly* Fire3 and/or Ice3.
Learning Blade Grasp and MP Switch.
Do not enter any random battles. Random battle = reset.
The challenge is *not* difficult at all, but it is very tedious. I say tedious
and not time-consuming because in my first Solo Ramza game I managed to get to
the end and beat Altima's final form at a clocktime of around 12 hours and 30
minutes. So, clearly, if you are more prepared than I was, you should have a
much easier time doing so.
All non-guest party members must either be dismissed, or allowed to join and
dismissed directly afterwards. You may strip these characters of their
equipment (i.e. Meliadoul's Save the Queen, Cid's Excalibur, etc). I believe
there is one fight where you may have to have two parties if you allow
Mustadio to join, so I would suggest dismissing him instead allowing him
to join up when given the chance.
** Battle Two -- Gariland Magic City **
Your first real battle is probably the most 'difficult' battle, not because
it's actually hard, but because it's all based on dumb luck. On the formation
screen, stick Ramza all the way to the right, as far as you can, and you'll be
good to go.
I will summarize this battle in a few short lines: The Squire that attacks
Delita on the second turn is your first and most important target. You will
attack him and Delita will do the same. If Delita does not kill the Squire ---
Reset your game. The Squire *must* be killed by Delita's attack,
otherwise the Chemist will come, heal the Squire, and you'll be swarmed.
After the Squire dies, the battle heats up. Follow Delita's lead and attack
whoever he attacks, and you should kill that particular enemy before the
Chemist gets a chance to heal him/her. If you must choose your own target
after the first Squire (sometimes dead bodies and Delita's own self blocks
your way to reaching other enemies), choose the enemy the furthest from
the Chemist and swing. The Chemist will usually ignore your victim and focus
on healing Delita's target, which will allow you to kill your own target
undaunted. Not much else to say about this fight ... It's all luck, really,
and it's what discourages most players from doing the Solo Ramza Challenge---
They assume this fight is impossible. Not at all. Once you clear this, the
game becomes infinitely easier.
After Battle One is over, check Ramza's skills and pick up, in this order of
importance: YELL, POTION, GAINED JP UP. If you began with Yell, then more
power to you, swipe the Potion skill if you don't have it. Gained JP Up
isn't always possible at this point, so don't worry if you don't have it.
Just make sure you have Yell and Potion skills. If you don't, it may be a good
time to reset (very unlikely). Purchase a couple of potions at Gariland if you
must (I'd say you want about 5 in your inventory for the next fight). Now,
equip Ramza with the Item secondary command and go meet Algus...
** Battle Three -- Mandalia Plains **
Okay, first things first, choose option 1 when you get into battle: "Destroy
the Death Corps" or whatever the exact option is. It'll give you a Brave
increase. Afterwards, check the field and the corners... To the very right of
Ramza is a corner blocked off by a large rock... If you stand in this corner,
there is only one square that an enemy can hit you from. Go there. Now YELL.
Have Algus and Delita go off and get themselves killed and whatnot, but keep
using YELL. Delita and Algus will eventually die and the enemies will start
rushing you... But only one can attack you at a time. So keep YELLing until
an enemy is adjacent to you and attacks. Kill this enemy with your own
physical attacks (by this point you should have 4 or 5 turns for every 1 of
theirs). You'll probably be hurting, so use a potion on yourself then continue
to Yell. The enemy corpse will block any other enemies from standing on the
square and harming you, so enjoy the EXP and JP. When the enemy you killed
crystalizes or drops a box, swipe it, head back to the corner, then repeat.
When you have 50 speed, kill the last enemy and claim a victory.
After the battle, grab ACCUMULATE followed by GAINED JP UP and MOVE+1. You
should have more than enough JP to do so. Any other skills are optional,
though Throw Stone has its uses for the beginning parts of the game. Change
your class to a Chemist, give yourself GUTS secondary skill, COUNTER TACKLE
reaction ability if you have it, GAINED JP UP, and MOVE+1. Ramza should have
the Battle Boots equipped.
** Battle Four -- Sweegy Woods **
Another doozy of a battle. Yeah, the rest of the game is a cinch, I'm telling
you, but no one seems to believe me, so I'll keep going on...
Your goal in this fight is to obtain enough JP for the Chemist skills
Auto-Potion and Maintenance. That's it, really, and it shouldn't be a
problem. Follow the same guidelines as before; run around and use YELL. By the
time Delita and Algus are dead, your speed should be high enough (coupled with
Battle Boots' increased movement bonus) to be able to elude all enemies. They
shouldn't be able to touch you. Keep using Yell until it's either maxed out or
you get bored, then Accumulate till you have about 10 PA (or up to 99 like I
did), then totally waste the enemies. You shouldn't have to break out a single
When all is said and done, learn Maintenance, Auto-Potion and change Ramza's
class to Wizard. Make sure you learn BOLT, stop by Gariland and pick up a Rod
for your Ramza, along with a few more potions (I'd say 30 tops). Give your
Mage GUTS, AUTO-POTION, GAINED JP UP and MOVE+1. Now run along to Dorter...
** Battle Five -- Dorter Trade City **
::yawns:: Are you guys getting the picture on how to beat this game yet? Hehe.
Use YELL and boost your speed up... Let Algus and Delita stall for you while
you do so. When they've finally gone the way of the dodo, kill all enemies
on-screen except the lone Knight (use Bolt, since it gets a bonus due to the
rain). When all that's done, just keep using YELL/ACCUMULATE and run away from
the Knight (he'll never be able to catch you) until you have maxed out stats
(50 Speed and 99 PA), then nuke him with a final Bolt.
After the fight, make sure you pick up FLARE and MAGICATTACKUP. If you want,
go ahead and grab FIRE3, ICE3 and BOLT3 as well (though BOLT3 would be the
worst out of the three). Change your class to TIME MAGE and give Ramza GUTS,
AUTO-POTION, GAINED JP UP and MOVE+1. Head off to 'Sand Mouse' ... Heh!
** Battle Six -- Sand Rat Cellar **
Begin the round by Hasting yourself. Now yell like no tomorrow and run around
like an idiot. When either Delita or Algus dies, stop Yelling and start
Accumulating. When the second guest character falls, your PA should be high
enough to kill any enemy in one or two hits, so do so. Auto-Potion will
protect you if it has to. Kill all except one Knight. Now run around and keep
YELLING until you have enough JP for TELEPORT and MP SWITCH. Then kill the
stupid Knight.
Done? Go learn said skills and change class to Priest. Pick up a Staff and
other equips if you need them at Gariland. Might be a good time to stock up on
a few more potions (50 is good). Give your Priest GUTS, AUTO-POTION, GAINED JP
UP and TELEPORT. Now go see Miluda.
** Battle Seven -- Thieves' Fort **
You know how it goes. YELL and use ACCUMULATE till your eyes fall out... Or
just do it until you have enough JP for Holy and MagicDefenseUP, then kill
Miluda. Auto-Potion will protect you.
Learn Holy and MagicDefenseUP after the fight, etc. etc. then change class to
Knight. GUTS, AUTO-POTION, GAINED JP UP, MOVE+1. Make sure you've got Battle
Boots on, cause Knights aren't exactly the most mobile units out there.
** Battle Eight -- Lenalia Plateau **
It's Miluda again. Delita'll run up and throw stones and get himself killed,
so use that opportunity to accumulate. The Knight isn't exactly a class you
need to speed up to be effective... So just accumulate and let the enemies
come to you. Kill them ALL so you at least get some EXP and JP (although you
don't need to learn any Knight skills), then finish Miluda.
Afterwards, switch to Monk (the only reason we trained Knight in the first
place). Give Ramza your best equipment (obviously) and Battle Boots... GUTS,
** Battle Nine -- Windmill Shed **
Look out, it's Wiegraf, and he has Holy Sword! The basic aim of the game is to
take out Wiegraf ASAP. Since your levels are significantly higher than your
opponents', you'll have a much higher PA than normal, so we choose the Monk
since its attack power isn't limited by the weapon. Just run up blindly to
Wiegraf and attack him (or throw stones if you feel like it, they'll actually
hurt him with your PA) until he's critical. An alternate method is to run
BEHIND the windmill and let the nemies come to you. If you get pinned, just
teleport around the Shed and repeat.
You probably won't have the JP for it, but if you can, try and get CHAKRA.
With Wiegraf defeated, head on to the next fight, still as a Monk. This time,
though, give yourself Auto-Potion and Move+1.
** Battle Ten -- Fort Zeakden **
Not a problem. Algus is a little wussy, and you can dance circles around
him... But take the time to slaughter all the other enemies too. If you still
don't have enough JP at that point to get CHAKRA, just run around and YELL or
ACCUMULATE until you have the necessary JP... Then go punch Algus' lights out.
Yaddayadda, sequence stuff and then...
Before you do anything, be sure to strip Rad, Lavian and Alicia of their stuff
before giving them the boot. Then give Gaff's items to Agrias (they're better)
and give Gaff your weakest items (he'll stay alive no matter what thanks to
Night Sword).
Make Ramza an Archer and give him whatever bow you have (you should have one
from Chapter One, but even if you don't, don't worry too much about it, we're
just training Archer to advance the job-tree). Ramza needs GUTS, Auto-Potion
and TELEPORT. Get into the next fight.
** Battle Eleven -- Dorter Trade City **
This is a really easy battle. Gaff and Agrias will tear these opponents up.
As for Ramza, teleport on top of the chimneys and start firing arrows at
everyone. You'll gain enough EXP/JP to advance the job tree. After the simple
battle, switch to Thief. Give yourself whatever equipment you need, GUTS,
** Battle Twelve -- Araguay Woods **
Another easy battle thanks to Gaff and Agrias. Don't bother trying to save the
Chocobo, it'll just cause a minor headache. Just sit tight and use YELL and
ACCUMULATE until you have enough JP to learn Move+2. Then go ahead and join
the fight and kill everything.
At the formation screen, learn Move+2 then switch jobs to Lancer. You probably
won't have a weapon, but it won't really matter; you'll have the help of two
Holy Knights in your next fight ... Change Gafgarion's class to Chemist, strip
him of his equipment and remove all abilities except his primary. Head for the
falls. Give Ramza GUTS, Auto-Potion and Teleport.
** Battle Thirteen -- Zirekile Falls **
Gafgarion turns on you in this battle, but since he's a chemist with no
equipment, he's all bark and no bite. Finish him off in one hit. You might not
have a weapon, but since Delita and Agrias are helping you out, the fight'll
be a snap. JUMP if you feel lucky; it'll do a LOT of damage, otherwise just
attack or Throw Stones and whatnot. Stay around Princess Ovelia so she doesn't
get swarmed by enemies. In the unlikely event that she's going to die, use
Wish to bring her HP back, then continue slaughtering enemies. The aim is to
get Lancer lv. 2, which is a simple task.
After the fight, change your job to Samurai. You need GUTS, AUTO-POTION,
** Battle Fourteen -- Zaland Fort City **
Don't try to save Mustadio. He'll get eaten alive by the Wizards. Just sit
tight by the entrance with Agrias and keep using YELL/ACCUMULATE. You want to
learn BLADE GRASP, and that's it. When you've got enough JP for Blade Grasp,
show them all who's boss, barefist-style.
Learn Blade Grasp and switch to Oracle at the end of the fight. Give Agrias
all your best Knight Equipment (and Battle Boots). Ramza should have his best
equipment (plus Battle Boots), GUTS, Auto-Potion, MagicDefenseUP and Move+2.
** Battle Fifteen -- Bariaus Hill **
This fight is somewhat irritating, but only because Ramza's an oracle. Trust\
me, though, in two fights all will reveal itself. Take out the Summoners as
soon as humanly possible. I can't stress it enough. If you don't, they'll kill
Agrias and Mustadio, and you need them to distract enemies while you poke them
with your rods. MagicDefenseUP will lighten the damage if something hits you,
and hopefully Auto-Potion will kick in. When the Summoners are gone, the rest
will fall like dominos. Play around with your enemies when the Summoners are
gone until you have enough JP for Move-MP-Up, then continue.
After the fight, learn Move-MP-Up. Remove all of Agrias' equipment. Have
Mustadio learn Seal Evil, and Phoenix Down abilities. Change his class to
Chemist and re-equip him. Give him SNIPE skill. Ramza should be changed to
Calculator (!) and given GUTS, MP-Switch, Gained JP Up and Move-MP-Up.
** Battle Sixteen -- Zagolis Swamp **
This fight won't be that difficult. Since Mustadio's a Chemist, he'll be able
to throw Phoenix Downs at enemies to kill them. If not, then he'll snipe them
from afar with Seal Evil. Get as much JP as you can this fight. If anything,
you should try to MASTER calculator in this fight... But if you can't, just
make sure you have enough JP for all of the CT skills.
After the fight, learn the skills you need (CT skills). Remove Mustadio's
equipment, and keep Ramza's class as Calculator. He needs GUTS, MP Switch,
MagicAttackUp and Move-MP-Up.
** Battle Seventeen -- Slums in Goug **
Mustadio at most will be able to snipe someone's arms or legs before he
expires. It doesn't really matter, though. Check the CT of all your opponents
and maximize your Calculator effect to cast HOLY, FLARE or BOLT3. If
maximizing effect means hitting yourself, then just make sure its a spell
that won't kill you. At any rate, you also have MP Switch protecting you, but
it's not a sure thing, so be careful. End the fight with your Calculator
skillz, and make sure you have enough JP to learn every Calc. skill there is.
Learn them all, then switch class to Squire. Congratulations, you now have the
ability to destroy most everything in a single turn.
Here's a few tips right now:
+ Make sure you dedicate all your equipment to increases MA (unless otherwise
+ Always have MP Switch/Move MP-Up on (unless otherwise noted) so you can
target everyone (including yourself) and not get killed by it.
+ Alternatively, you can use a Flame Shield, Ice Shield of Rubber Boots in
conjunction with Fire3/Ice3/Bolt3 to the same effect (Fire3/Ice3 will heal
you, Bolt3 will be nullified).
----- The rest of the fights will be an absolute breeze, but here are a few
that might require some preparations beforehand so you don't embarrass
yourself -----
... Ramza vs. Wiegraf (Battle 31 in Riovanes Castle)
Ah yes, the 'most difficult' fight of the game... Or something. Easy pickins:
Ramza (Monk)
Punch Art
Move-MP Up
EQ: Make sure you have JUDO OUTFIT and JADE ARMLET to counter Velius' status
effects (including SEAL's petrification)
Run around and accumulate; it's simple as that. If Wiegraf hits you, MP Switch
kicks in. Then move, MP is restored, and continue to Accumulate. If MP Switch
fails to go off, simply use CHAKRA and repeat until your PA is around 50.
Finish Wiegraf in one blow, and do the same to Velius (he might get a turn
before you, which is why you want to be immune to the petrify that SEAL
... Ramza vs. Celia/Lede/Elmdor (Battle 32 in Riovanes Castle Rooftop)
Be whatever class you need to be, just make sure you have JADE ARMLET equipped
so that Celia or Lede doesn't Shadow-Stitch you and kill Rafa if they somehow
end up going first.
... Ramza vs. Chocobos (Battle 35 in Finath River)
This fight can be irritating if you the Red/Black Chocobos are close to you.
Just in case, use...
Ramza (Wizard)
Wizard Rod
Holy Miter
Wizard Robe
Magic Gauntlet
Black Magic
Math Skill
MP Switch
Magic AttackUP
Move-MP Up
Use CT (whatever their CT is, it's usually the same) --- Holy or your
strongest attack. If you get hit, MP Switch will kick in.
... Ramza vs. Celia/Lede/Apandas (Battle 42 in Outside of Limberry Castle)
Ramza (Squire)
Aegis Shield
Flash Hat
Judo Outfit
Jade Armlet
Judo Outfit prevents Stop Bracelet. Jade Armlet prevents Shadow Stich/Seal.
Finish them off with Holy.
... Ramza vs. Celia/Lede/Elmdor (Battle 43 in Limberry Castle)
Ramza (Squire)
Aegis Shield
Flash Hat
Judo Outfit
108 Gems
Judo Outfit prevents Stop Bracelet. 108 Gems prevents Blood Suck and
strengthens Holy ... Excalibur will absorb Holy. Go win.
... Ramza & Zalbag vs. Dycedarg (Battle 45 in Igros Castle)
Ramza (Squire)
Aegis Shield
Flash Hat
Judo Outfit
Jade Armlet
Judo Outfit stops Crush Punch. Jade Armlet prevents Stop from Stasis Sword and
Petrify from Adramelk's SEAL.
Math Skill
MP Switch
Maintenance stops Dyce from breaking equipment.
... Ramza vs. Vormav & Kletian (Battle 47 in Murond Temple)
Ramza (Squire)
Math Skill
MP Switch
Don't want those fools breaking your Excalibur, do you?
... Ramza vs. Zalbag (Battle 48 in Murond Temple)
Ramza (Squire)
Aegis Shield
Flash Hat
Wizard Robe
108 Gems
You don't wanna get bloodsucked, so wear 108 gems.
... Ramza vs. Rofel (Battle 66 in Orbonne Monastery)
Ramza (Squire)
Math Skill
MP Switch
Move-MP Up
Maintenance = No breaking Excalibur.
... Ramza vs. Balk (Battle 68 in Murond Death City)
Ramza (Squire)
Aegis Shield
Flash Hat
Wizard Robe
Defense Armlet
Defense Armlet stops Balk from sniping legs and arms.
... Ramza vs. Hashmalum (Battle 69 in Graveyard of Airships)
Just make sure Ramza has Jade Armlet so SPELL doesn't put him to Sleep. Cause
if that happens, Hash wins, cause he'll use
Slow/Meteor/Spell/Slow/Melt/Spell/Slow/Quake/etc. till you're dead. Altima's a
I told you it would be pretty straightforward. Contact me if you have
further questions or suggestions.
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A netbook, laptop or desktop is a PRODUCIVITY device. One could say the same thing with the iPhone.
The iTouch is practiacally a 100% LEISURE device; there is practically nothing productive you can do with it. The device’s soul purpose is recreation based.
The iPad, IMHO is 75% LEISURE and 25% PRODUCTIVITY. How did I arrive at that? Well, Kindle means that reading technical manuals is a potential, as well as Apps that allow remote access to a centralized database (such as your MD accessing your medical history, writing a Rx, and submitting orders via the iPad), as well as the business based E-mail, these all point to a new market niche’ (which I believe to be larger than the press has acknowledged).
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Bought the Xbox version and tried it by myself for an hour. Quite mediocre game in the first glance but maybe fun co-op with a kid or something. Gonna try it with a friend tomorrow as soon as I can and hopefully she'll like it.
Oh well. Worst case scenario is to trade it in for a Steam coupons at GameStop. Glad I paid a third less for it online compared to the local retail price.
#2 Posted by kmg90 (464 posts) -
I rented to play with with my nephew last night, I thought it would be better too... The game suffers from having no direction or guidence on where to go or how to do something, spent an hour stuck in one of the hub levels because a simple line of dialog was missed saying "Here is where that D.A.C is...." it only tells you once then you are on your own....
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Substantially improved support for the power management features of modern Radeon graphics cores is among the major new additions of the now available first release candidate of Linux 3.11. For this release, Linus Torvalds changed the code name from "Unicycling Gorilla" to "Linux for Workgroups" and modified the logo that some systems display when booting: it now depicts a Tux holding a flag with a symbol that is reminiscent of the logo of Windows for Workgroups 3.11, which was released in 1993. After the Tuz interlude in Linux 2.6.29, this is the second time that Torvalds has changed the logo since the introduction of Git.
Meanwhile, Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the Linux 3.4.53 and Linux 3.0.86 Long-term kernels as well as the Linux 3.10.1 and Linux 3.9.10 Stable kernels; the release of Linux 3.9.10 will probably conclude the maintenance period of Linux kernel version 3.9. As usual, these versions mainly offer bug fixes and minor improvements that are unlikely to introduce any new bugs. For Linux 3.10.1, Greg Kroah-Hartman temporarily excluded many code submissions because it was unclear whether they actually fulfil the inclusion criteria for Stable and Longterm kernels; this sparked a prolonged and still ongoing discussion about which changes are acceptable when and for which kernel development branch.
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Even when the prime minister comes out looking like a plumber, who prefers to get paid in cash rather than by check, the public should avoid rash conclusions. Payment via envelopes full of cash might be a local custom; there might be justifiable reasons; and it is also possible that Morris Talansky's testimony yesterday was inaccurate or too eager to paint the prime suspect in shades of black. Still, it is justified to use this testimony to enlighten us about Ehud Olmert's contribution to the hygiene of public life in Israel.
Both according to Talansky's deposition and to Olmert's admission on the evening after Independence Day, he and Talansky maintained at best a one-way relationship: Talansky gave and Olmert took. Olmert does not deny this, and when his lawyers cross-examine Talansky, on whatever date they eventually choose, they are not expected to try to undermine this conclusion.
For 15 years, the elderly Jewish man from New York passed envelopes filled with cash to the individual who was mayor of Jerusalem, then health minister, then industry, trade and employment minister, and now prime minister. There is a disagreement between the witness and the individual under investigation as to what this money was used for - solely to run Olmert's election campaigns, or also to fund his private pleasures. But they agree that quite a bit of money moved from one pocket to another. There is also no dispute over the fact that the path these tens of thousands of dollars took was concealed: Olmert did not volunteer to report it to the public, nor to the state authorities whose business it should have been to know about it, and Talansky held his tongue until he landed in Israel about a month ago and was kept from leaving so that he could be questioned.
In other words, whether the investigation now under way against Olmert turns into an indictment or not, whether Talansky's testimony becomes evidence in legal proceedings against the prime minister or whether it remains merely an anecdote in the annals of the darker corners of Israeli politics, what we are seeing now is enough to shame the country and rouse disgust against its leaders, who are willing to continue suffering his presence in public life.
In Argentina, it would probably not faze anyone to hear descriptions like this. And surely not in Italy either. In Israel, however, the public has never before been exposed to the depths of government corruption revealed by the prime minister's investigation and Talansky's testimony. Regardless of whether or not the prime minister's behavior was formally criminal, and of whether or not the investigation indeed morphs into an indictment, his very decision to accept money secretly is enough to morally disqualify him from being one of the country's leaders.
Israel's citizens, in the main, want their elected officials to have clean hands, opinion polls attest. Olmert's conduct vis-a-vis Talansky reeks of deceit, evasion and false pretenses, which were called upon not to serve the national interest, but to further embellish the good life that he leads in any case leads. Olmert is a particularly crude example of a type of hedonistic public figure who, the higher he climbs in Israel's leadership, the haughtier he becomes, the more boastful and the less able to distinguish between appropriate and unacceptable.
From a young politician of modest means, Olmert grew into a well-off leader who evidently knew how to use his public position in order to promote his personal affairs. Until now, it had seemed that he was wise enough not to cross the red line into the realm of criminality, but his relationship with Talansky has begun to crack this assumption. Even if he is not put on trial in this case, his behavior vis-a-vis the fundraiser from the United States proves an age-old truth: When greed awakens, wisdom goes to sleep.
One blessing might come out of Olmert: Just as the revelation of how former president Moshe Katsav behaved toward his female subordinates led to a decline in sexual harassment in the public service, so too, a peek at Olmert's behavior with regard to Talansky may well generate a real turning point in the pattern of relationships between the country's leaders and wealthy Jews from abroad. So far, this seems to be Olmert's only salient contribution during his term as prime minister.
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"These articles of equipment had to be prepared, and one day some man from the SS or the SD — the name is on the official diary of the War Department — fetched them."
The war erupted and the Waffen-SS again took its place in the van of the attacking forces.
During the war great use was made of the peculiar qualities possessed by the SS, qualities not only of its combat forces but of its other components as well. I turn now to a consideration of some of the tasks in which the SS was engaged during the war — tasks which embraced the commission of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity described in the Indictment.
The Tribunal has already received in evidence our Document 447-PS as Exhibit Number USA-135. It is a directive issued by the Defendant Keitel, on the 13th of March 1941, covering some of the preparations made 3 months in advance for the attack on Russia. Paragraph 2b of that directive, which was read into the record, provided that in the area of operations the Reichsführer SS was entrusted with special tasks for the preparation of the political administration, tasks which would result from the struggle about to commence between two opposing political systems.
One of the steps taken by the Reichsführer SS to carry out those special tasks" was the formation and use of so-called "anti-partisan" units. They were discussed by Himmler in his Posen speech, our Document 1919-PS, at Page 3 of the translation, Paragraph 5, Page 57 of the original, last paragraph. I read those two paragraphs in which he discusses the anti-partisan units:
"In the meantime, I have also set up the office of the chief of the anti-partisan units. Our comrade SS Obergruppenführer Von dem Bach is chief of the anti-partisan units. I considered it necessary for the Reichsführer SS to be in authoritative command in all these battles, for I am convinced that we are best in position to take action against this enemy struggle, which is decidedly a political one. Except where units which had been supplied and which we had formed for this purpose were taken from us to fill in gaps at the front, we have been very successful.
"It is notable that by setting up this agency by division, corps, army in turn, we have gained for the SS the next higher step-which is the High Command of an army or even a group, if you wish to call it that."
What the SS did with its divisions, corps, and army out of which the anti-partisan units were formed, is illustrated in the reports rendered as to the activities of such units. I offer in evidence the Activity and Situation Report 6 of the task forces of the Security Police and SD in the U.S.S.R., covering the period from the 1st to
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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban all medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, which is bad news for the people who rely on the pot for their health, but great for comedians who love stoner humor.
Luckily, Jimmy Kimmel swooped in and saved the day on Wednesday night's "Live!".
It turns out that the ban doesn't include home growing, meaning that as long as Angelinos can find an affordable way to grow the stuff at home they're not going to be living completely weed-free. So Kimmel designed the Chia Pot -- a cheap, terra cotta marijuana plant that you can grow right in your own kitchen.
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They just kept going around and around on an endless loop, the same red knapsack, green duffel bag, and bungee-corded brown box circling the room like refugees stuck on a Ferris wheel. My husband Karl's suitcase appeared immediately, loaded with Etro striped shirts,
Ferragamo loafers and his prized Dries Van Noten sports coat. But after two hours of waiting, frantically jumping from one baggage carousel to another as a smattering of arriving flights touched down, it became painfully clear that I would be spending the next ten days in
Italy stuck with the clothes I had on my back: a BO-infused green T-shirt with a pink heart silk- screened across the front, a pair of jeans that were decorated with various in-flight meal mishaps and highlighter-yellow slipper-sneakers. Not even my carry-on bag could save me -- all it contained, besides my wallet and passport, was a handful of Dramamine, a horseshoe- shaped neck pillow and a dogeared copy of Thomas Mann's appropriately titled "Death in Venice. "
It wasn't like this the last time Karl and I were in Italy. Two years earlier, I had an entourage of luggage when we made our way from Rome to the Amalfi coast to attend the wedding of Karl's good friends, Eric and Shana. Back then, my multiple bags were jammed with everything from the filmy peignoir set I had planned to pull out on our first night in Rome to the full-length judge's robe I had volunteered to transport to Positano, a favor to the Officiant (who later admitted he wanted the extra space in his own suitcase for a postwedding shopping spree in Milan). Instead of asking myself, 'Do I really need all those shoes?' I told myself as I demolished my apartment in a state of packing frenzy, 'You'll be ready for anything' -- from a freak snowstorm to the sweltering heat that this new love held for me.
Of course, all this overzealous preparedness was probably a way of managing my anxiety, a belief that as long as I packed that pair of silk cargo pants, those fourteen tubes of lipstick, and, I'm embarrassed to admit now, a spare roll of toilet paper, I'd somehow manage
to avoid another kind of travel emergency, one where my new boyfriend decided he didn't really care for my company after spending five consecutive days with his plus-one wedding date. Karl and I had been seeing each other for only a few months, and up until our Italian
getaway, we had spent only a handful of weekends together, lolling around in bed or on one of our respective couches watching reruns of "Family Guy." This trip required putting on actual clothing and remaining upright for an extended period of time, negotiating territory beyond our regular haunts in D. C., and sharing a bathroom with a handheld showerhead and a door that did not lock or do much to block out certain, er, noises. It could be, as a friend so helpfully noted the night before my departure, "a make-it-or-break-it test of our relationship."
The full version of this essay was originally published in "Wedding Cake for Breakfast: Essays on the Unforgettable First Year of Marriage."
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Sivan 15, 5775
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"They looked, spoke and ate -- even sang -- like the rest of the people around them," he wrote, adding that the creation of Israel jump-started a most unfortunate schism between Jews and Muslims, who had previously experienced "a deeply intimate kinship with each other."
Rauf would have us imagine that life in the Middle East was Woodstock until the creation of the nasty little Israel, which came to ruin everyone's good time. We might rightly wonder aloud whether the historic dhimmi status of the Jew in Muslim cultures actually implies the deep intimacy that Rauf imagines. And a subtle but telling point: Is the nation-state as a concept to be condemned (an arguable point), or only if that nation-state happens to be Jewish?
Rauf acknowledges that a number of conflicts exist today in the Muslim world, but he drastically understates those numbers. And he clearly believes that America is at the root of the problem in the Mideast -- and not, for example, the fact that Arab leaders themselves cheated the Palestinians out of their land, as Ephraim Karsh argues in his book, Palestine Betrayed.
For the record: I believe that a Palestinian state is necessary -- not out of any sentimental admiration of Palestinian nationalism, but because of a belief in Zionism, the idea that we might truly be "a free people in our land," a people free to continue to craft our own national narrative, complete with our national values.
Is there room for that narrative in Rauf's worldview?
On Sept. 12, 2001, I heard the baristas at the Starbucks in Manhasset, N.Y., whispering about the cars that remained overnight in the railroad-station parking lot -- cars that would never be claimed because their drivers had disappeared. Since that moment, I have worked at combating Islamophobia and criticizing those who are ready to brand all manifestations of Islam as a dangerous religion and a terrorist operation. Maimonides, a victim of Muslim radicalism, had every reason to hate Islam -- and yet didn't.
But we should not expect a "kumbaya-fest" with this gentleman. I would rejoice at the possibility that I am wrong. I would rejoice in hearing, from his lips, an affirmation of the right of the Jewish state to exist, even in what he believes to be his Middle Eastern 'hood.
Now that would be a grand gesture that would help many Jews -- and many Americans -- sleep better at night.
Jeffrey K. Salkin is the rabbi of Temple Israel in Columbus, Ga., and the president of Kol Echad: Making Judaism Matter. He is also the editor of A Dream of Zion: American Jews Reflect on Why Israel Matters to Them.
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